Benjamin Franklin Fargo

• Name	Benjamin Franklin Fargo  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I5802	Cecilie Family
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2005

  
  

  Father	David Fargo,   b. 31 Oct 1786, Montville, Conn. d. 16 May 1855, Warsaw, NY. (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Phebe Mason   d. 21 Jan 1850, Warsaw, NY.
  Marriage	9 Oct 1864
  Family ID	F1841	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Benjamin F. FARGO left the district school at eighteen, and studied for two terms at the Wyoming Academy, after which he learned the trade of wool-carding and cloth-dressing under his brother-in-law, Mr.. Chauncey Kimball. In 1839 he went to Springville, Erie County, where he was employed in the cloth factory owned by E.W. COOK, in which firm he became a partner two years later.   He came to Warsaw from Springville in 1849, and engaged in mercantile business with his brother Francis F. Fargo, under the firm name of F. F. Fargo and Co., which in 1851 was changed to B. F. Fargo & Co., Francis F. FARGO leaving the business, and his father David Fargo, and his uncle, Allen Fargo, entering the firm. When the father died, in 1855, Benjamin F. FARGO became sole owner of the business and added thereto trade in country produce, which he bought in the neighborhood and shipped to new York City.   In 1870 he built the brick block at No. 21 Main Street which has been occupied by the printing offices of the Democratic Organ of Warsaw. After using part of this building for a year, Mr.. Fargo leased it for a term of five years to James E. BISHOP at five hundred dollars per year, retaining the upper floor for offices. In 1876 he again used this building as a grocery store, which he conducted for ten years, finally giving it up to the management of his son, Charles H. Fargo, who had been his salesman and book-keeper. Mr. FARGO now devotes himself to collecting, and besides holding the office of School Collector is very successful in urging claims for the merchants of the vicinity.   He was married in Springville, September 11, 1841, to Miss Maria L. BLOOMFIELD For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site

  
  

• Sources

  [S909] Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties, New, Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties, New York,, (Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1895). [S986] Young, Andrew W.. Buffalo N.Y.., History of the town of Warsaw, New York, (Press of Sage, Sons & Co.. 1869.).