The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lyhe favored the whig party; religiou,sly he was aCongregationalist and contributed largely to thebuilding of the present Congregational church edi-fice of Thomaston. He was twice
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . lyhe favored the whig party; religiou,sly he was aCongregationalist and contributed largely to thebuilding of the present Congregational church edi-fice of Thomaston. He was twice married: first toPhilena Tuttle, daughter of Lemuel and Lydia Tut-tle, Apr. 20, 1808. She died March 12, 1810. Hewas married on Apr. 14, 1811, to Laura Andrews,daughter of William and Submit Andrews. Shedied July 12, 1871. He was the father of nine chil-dren, three of whom died in September, 1815, in theyear memorable as that of the dysentery died Jan. 29, 1859. THOMAS, Seth, manufacturer, was bom at Ply-mouth Hollow, Conn., Dec. 31, 1816, son of SethThomas. He enlarged and made great improve-ments in his father s factory, and introduced theSeth Thomas clocks into all parts of the world, in-cluding the remote countries of China and prided himself on having made every kind of time-piece from the most delicate watch to a town died at his residence in Thomaston, Conn., , OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 119
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