Cutters - Rufus Lasher Sisson

(VIII) Rufus Lasher Sisson, son of George Wing Sisson, was born in Coxsackie, N.Y. April 30, 1860. He came to Potsdam, N.Y. in 1867 with his parents and was educated there in the public schools and at the State Normal School, which he entered with the first class of 1869. At the age of eighteen he became associated with his father in the lumber business and he has continued in the same line for more than thirty-five years. When the business was incorporated under the name of A. Sherman Lumber Company, Mr. Sisson was made vice-president and treasurer, and he has continued in these offices to the present (1910) time. He is also vice-president and trasurer of the Racquette River Paper Company, director of the People's National Bank of Potsdam, President of the Empire State Forest Product Association, and prominent member and elder of the Presbyterian church of Potsdam; a member of Potsdam Grange, No. 39, Patrons of Husbandry.

In politics he is a Republican.

He married, Sept. 1, 1886, Mary Edith, born at Lisbon, N.Y., daughter of Julius Augustus and Jane Ann (Partridge) Coffin (see Coffin, XII).

Children:

Lewis Hamilton, born Oct. 14, 1887.
Rufus Lasher Jr., Sept. 11, 1890.
Ruth Coffin, Aug. 22, 1892.
Walter Coffin, Sept. 5, 1894.

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