History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . ELI EDGECOM15. HENRY SIMPSON. ELI EDGECOMB, eighth child aud sixth son of James and Anna(Burnhatu) Edgecomb, was born in tiie town ofSaco, Jan. 22, 1799. He spent liis early life athome on the farm and attending the district has spent his life as a farmer, active, industrious,and frugal. He married, in 1826, Betsey, daughterof Philip Libby, of Saco. He has always beenidentified with the Democratic party, and, althoughnot a member of any church, a supporter of churcliinteres
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . ELI EDGECOM15. HENRY SIMPSON. ELI EDGECOMB, eighth child aud sixth son of James and Anna(Burnhatu) Edgecomb, was born in tiie town ofSaco, Jan. 22, 1799. He spent liis early life athome on the farm and attending the district has spent his life as a farmer, active, industrious,and frugal. He married, in 1826, Betsey, daughterof Philip Libby, of Saco. He has always beenidentified with the Democratic party, and, althoughnot a member of any church, a supporter of churcliinterests. His father served in the Revolutionarywar; was a member of the Democratic party, auda member of the Orthodox Church of Scarborough,Cumberland Co. He lived upon the farm nowowned by his son Eli, and was a farmer by occu-pation. He died in his seventy-eighth year, in1835. His wife died in September, 1839, agedseventy-five. HENRY SIMPSON, fifth child and fifth son of Benjamin and Rebecca(Jacobs) Simpson, was born in Saco, April 18,1827. Owing to adverse circumstances of his parents,at the age of ten year
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