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Nelson Otis Tiffany

Born 1 Feb 1842 in Lancaster, Erie County, New York, USA

Ancestors

Son of Nelson Arnold Tiffany and Martha (Whitney) Tiffany

Brother of Byron Lafayette Tiffany, Oscar Fitzallen Tiffany, Emily J. (Tiffany) Whitney [half], Albert O. Tiffany [half], William H. Tiffany [half] and Harriet Tiffany [half]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died [date unknown] [location unknown]

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Biography

Married, in Buffalo, N. Y., January 23, 1868, Julia Charlotte Chase (b. Buffalo, N. Y., September 28, 1843 ; d. there February 20, 1891), dau. of Wesley Chase and Dolly Ann Bush. After his mother's death, Mr. Tiffany was assigned to her brother, for whom he worked until he was seventeen, when he started out for himself, having a hard time for a number of years. Appreciating the value of an education, he studied by himself. He went to Buffalo and worked for Wesley Chase & Son, furniture dealers. He soon became superintendent, and finally married the daughter of his employer. Mr. Tiffany then went to Chicago as superintendent for A. H. Andrews & Co., extensive manufacturers of school and church furniture. His strength gave way, and he returned to Buffalo, where he went into the sewing machine business, later managing an office in New York City. He then returned to Buffalo and took a scholarship in the medical department of the University of Buffalo. After a year of study, he was urged to take the secretaryship and general management of the Masonic Life Association of Western New York, which he has built up most successfully. He retains this position at the present time, 1900, having served in this capacity for more than sixteen years. He took a deep interest in the publication of this work, and, after several interviews with Mr. Charles L. Tiffany, who proposed and started the genealogy, he agreed to carry the work forward, so that the data gathered, on which so much labor and money had been spent, should not be lost to the family, leaving its elaboration and completion to a future generation. In view of his connection with this work, his portrait appears therein.

CHILDREN.

OTIS Whitney, b. Chicago, 111., November 13, 1868. A compositor, and later in the plumbing business.

Martha Eliza, b. Buffalo, N. Y., August 13, 1870.

Nelson Otis, b. Buffalo, N. Y., April 2, 1877. A student at Cornell University, civil engineering course, class of 1901 ; appointed inspector on Government breakwater, Buffalo harbor, for summer of 1900.