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- Azariah was educated in the common schools, Franklin Academy, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and Starkey Seminary, and has always been a farmer by occupation. April 25, 1861, he enlisted in the 34th Regt. N.Y. Inf., and was corporal of Co. I, and served with this regiment until the battle of Fair Oaks, where he was wounded by receiving a bullet in the neck, in consequence of which he was discharged July 30, 1862. His title of Major comes from his being in that office with the National Guard after the war. Politically, he was a Republican and was elected to the State Legislature in the fall of 1877, serving the session of 1878, and re-elected and served the session of 1879. In the fall of 1883 he was again a candidate but was defeated, and in 1886 was elected to the same position, and re-elected in the fall of 1887, having been five times nominated by acclamation. He has been prominently identified with the management of the Steuben County Agricultural Society, was two years president, four years vice-president, and is serving his sixth consecutive year as secretary. He is also president of the New York State Association of County Agricultural Society. He has been a member of the Grange nineteen years, and was one of the promoters of Pleasant Valley Grange. He helped to organize the Patrons' Fire Relief Association, of which he has been president eighteen years, which was effected in 1881, and in 1887 he was made president of the State Association, which office he held seven years. He has been master of the Grange several times. He is a member of Custer Post, No.8, G.A.R., and has been its commander and quatermaster, passing the subordinate chairs. He has always been a warm supporter of church and school work.
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