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P. J. Daggett, Grocer, Great Valley (Cattaraugus County), NY

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P. J. Daggett, Grocer, Great Valley (Cattaraugus Co), NY taken between 1905-1910 [courtesy Great Valley Town Historian 2015] Pliny or Plinn J. Daggett was born 21 September 1863 in the town of Eagle (Wyoming County), New York to Charles Daggett and his wife Lucy Dennis. [1] Charles S. Daggett (1825-1899) and his wife Lucy E. (1833-1921) are buried in the Grace Cemetery in Castile, Wyoming County, New York. [2] Pliny was enumerated as a 6-year-old and a 16-year-old respectively with his parents during the 1870 [3] and 1880 [4] federal censuses in the town of Pike, Wyoming County, New York. His father was listed as a farmer. These census records show that he had siblings Nelson, Allen, Edwin and Mary E. Daggett (born about 1870). Neither Pliny nor his father could readily be found in the 1892 state census. In 1900, Pliny was listed as a grocer in the village of Castile, Wyoming County, New York. His wife was Mary E. born February 1866 in New York. They had been married ele