[Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1855 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Census of the state of New York, for 1855. Microfilm. New York State Archives, Albany, New York.]
Five years later his occupation is given as "Pedlar" and I wonder if he was still selling books. (His family had grown and his house was still worth $700.)
[Year: 1860; Census Place: Mexico, Oswego, New York; Roll: M653_838; Page: 525; Family History Library Film: 803838. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.]
Chauncey lives in Mexico in Oswego County, New York, for the rest of his life and in later census records he was called a farmer. He's buried in Mexico Village Cemetery.
I worked in bookstores for many years so the occupation of this third great-uncle naturally caught my eye.
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