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TIMOTHY JEROME

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
People
Location
1725 Rowley-Jerome Road, Fabius, NY
Lat/Long
42.854988, -76.009497
Grant Recipient
Town of Fabius
Historic Marker

TIMOTHY JEROME

Inscription

TIMOTHY JEROME
LOG CABIN SITE AND FARM
LAND PURCHASED IN 1793
FIRST FABIUS SUPERVISOR
GREAT GREAT GRANDUNCLE OF
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION

In 1793 Timothy Jerome, from Massachusetts, bought 600 acres of land on Chenango Road, now known as the Rowley-Jerome Road. He came in 1794, built a log cabin, and started to farm the land. Jerome was a great-great-granduncle to Sir Winston Churchill and the first supervisor for the Town of Fabius.