. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. hat time. Mr. Barberwas also successor to Gardner & Talcott in one of the most im-portant industries of Smyrna, seventy years ago, the manufac-ture of Linseed oil, a business involving extensive travel with ateam to collect the flax for the production of the genuine articlewhich painters in our day would be very glad to obtain. Aftera few years the mill was burned causing a very heavy loss to theowner, who re-built the same, and not many years later sold theplant to William Faucett, returning to the mercantile businesswhich he followed till
. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. hat time. Mr. Barberwas also successor to Gardner & Talcott in one of the most im-portant industries of Smyrna, seventy years ago, the manufac-ture of Linseed oil, a business involving extensive travel with ateam to collect the flax for the production of the genuine articlewhich painters in our day would be very glad to obtain. Aftera few years the mill was burned causing a very heavy loss to theowner, who re-built the same, and not many years later sold theplant to William Faucett, returning to the mercantile businesswhich he followed till the year 1853, when he moved to a farmin Norwich. The site of the old mill was that of the old cheesebox factory on the present Widger place. Another Barber family, a complete sketch of which we verymuch regret we are unable to obtain, was that of Joshua, whomarried Isabel Sprague, whose sons, Horace and Sprague werewell-to-do and respected by all, the former marrying CynthiaSutliflf and living all his life in Smyrna, and the latter marrying 92. AUGUSTIN PIEFk. Our First Old Home Week and locating in Otselic, where his death took place not manyyears ago. Julius S., the son of Horace was born in Smyrna,and married Delphernia, a daughter of the late Alfred Willcox,and there were born to them a son and a daughter, Jesse D.,who married Nellie, the oldest daughter of Wellington A. Gra-ham, and Cora, who is now the wife of Gardner N, Willcox, ashas been before stated. AUGUSTIN Pier was born in Otego, Otsego County, N. Y.,February 8, 1820, coming to Smyrna when but sixteen years ofage, where he afterwards resided excepting four or five yearsspent in Auburn, this state. His father was Heman Pier, bornat Great Barrington, Mass., and his grandparents John andPhoebe Pier, the latter a daughter of Joseph and Betsey Tobey,who were ihe second family in Smyrna. His first wife wasOlive, a daughter of the late Cyrus Simons, by whom onedaughter was born, Millie, the esteemed wife of Horace Sexto
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