Brace, Woodruff A., Winfield, was born on the old homestead joining the farm where he now lives, April 17, 1816, and has lived on this same farm over fifty years, having bought it with his brother Asahel G. in 1839. He married Julia M., daughter of Israel Young, of Columbia, May 31, 1843. They have one daughter, Florence A., born June 19, 1850. She married May 15, 1879, Mr. Arlington Spicer, and they have two children, Elsie Eusebia and Bertha Brace Spicer. They all live as one family on the old homestead. M. Arlington Spicer was born in Plainsfield, Otsego county, February 16, 1853, is a son of Minor and Mary Ann (McFarland) Spicer. Minor was a son of Edward Spicer, a soldier of the Revolution, and one of the first settlers of Plainfield. Mary A. McFarland was a daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Palmer) McFarland.

source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.