He was a Tanner and Shoemaker. At some point between 1830 & 1840 he went to Tunkhannock, PA where, in partnership with Albert Newell, he established a tannery, which after a few years they sold out and went into the lumber business at Rummerfield Creek, PA, where he married Wealthy Gordon. In 1839 at the request of his father, he returned to the old homestead in Cincinnatus, NY where he conducted a large dairy business until 1849, when finding the climate uncongenial there, he sold the farm and in 1850 moved to Ulster, PA and bought a half interest in a lumber business consisting of 2 tracks of land, 2 mills and a store. 1 of the Mills and the store was at Burlington, PA, about 8 miles from Ulster PA. This firm of Rockwell & Co. was dissolved, Chauncey Rockwell taking as part consideration for his interest a farm at Ulster, PA, where he donated the land upon which the 1st church edifice was built in Ulster, PA by the M.E. Church Society. He also gave a plot for a town hall, a graded school and a cemetery. And a large square for a town park, which after his death his heirs beautified by planting 75 trees of various kinds. In early 1862 e went to Philadelphia, where he had sent 2 of his boats loaded with lumber, disposed of the same and returned home , soon after was taken sick and died in Ulster, PA.
Born 1 MAY 1807. Solon, Cortland, New York.
Died 19 MAR 1862. Ulster, Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Census: 1860 Ulster, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
FamilySearch ID Note: LZ6W-L8X.
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