History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ty for two terms in the State Legis- lature of Massachusetts just prior to the Wilcox was largely interested in the interestsof the city, and upon his retirement from businessinvested much of his capital in real estate, which bythe rapid rise in value proved a profitable invest-ment. He was a man of keen judgment, posses-sing a business sagacity and a will to carry forwardwhatever he conceived to be right. His fatherbeing a farmer, Ijoth he and hi
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . ty for two terms in the State Legis- lature of Massachusetts just prior to the Wilcox was largely interested in the interestsof the city, and upon his retirement from businessinvested much of his capital in real estate, which bythe rapid rise in value proved a profitable invest-ment. He was a man of keen judgment, posses-sing a business sagacity and a will to carry forwardwhatever he conceived to be right. His fatherbeing a farmer, Ijoth he and his brother Philipenjoyed only liiniled opportunities for educationfrom books, but while young men they laid wellthe foundation for successful business careers, andwere men of stability and prudence in all the re-lations of life. In the year 1826, November 9, he married MissOrpha J., daughter of Asa Wood, of had seven children, all of whoni are deceasedbut one, Mrs. Utley Cadwell, of New York. Oneson, E. P. Wilcox, died Sept. 13, 1870; anotherson, Frank P., died April, 1876. Mr. Wilcox diedJan. 1, 1871, aged Hon. Warner C. Sturtevant was born in Keene,Cheshire Co., N. H., Jan. 23, 1809. His grandfather,Cornelius Sturtevant, was a native of Belfast, Me., set-tled in Keene, N. H., about the year 1787, where helived as a farmer during the remainder of his life, and diedat the advanced age of ninety-one, in the year 1822. Hisfather, Luther Sturtevant, was a ship carpenter by trade,and spent the time until he was fifty years of age at , when he bought a farm and followed agriculturalpursuits the remainder of his life. He was married toAzubah Claflin, formerly of Hopkinton, Mass. She wasa cousin of H. B. Claflin, of New York, and also of Gov-ernor Claflin, of Massachusetts. Their children were four sons and three daughters, ofwhom the subject of this narrative was the youngest. Thefather died at the age of eighty-nine, in the year 1867;the mot
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