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Francis Newman Holley

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Francis Newman Holley

Birth
Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA
Death
5 Oct 1878 (aged 71)
Burial
Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
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Wives:
~ Eliza (married 27 May 1846)
~ Lucinda "Bronson" Hayden (married 22 Dec 1869)

"Mr. Holley came to Wolcottville about 1837, and engaged in the woolen mills. When the first mill was burned in 1844, he and John Hungerford formed the Union Manufacturing Company and bought the old finishing house and established what is now the woolen mill and engaged in the manufacture of doe-skin cloths; in which business he continued with good success until 1872, when he sold his interest in that mill. He has served the town in various offices with credit and honor and maintained the high esteem of its citizens, and though living in retired life, is benevolently interested in the prosperity of the town."
("History of Torrington, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in ..., Part 2", by Samuel Orcutt, 1878, p. 719)

(sources: "History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut", Vol. 3, by William J. Pape, 1918, page 40; Headstone Inscriptions, 621-1 Center Cemetery, Torrington, CT, 1934, p. 25)
Wives:
~ Eliza (married 27 May 1846)
~ Lucinda "Bronson" Hayden (married 22 Dec 1869)

"Mr. Holley came to Wolcottville about 1837, and engaged in the woolen mills. When the first mill was burned in 1844, he and John Hungerford formed the Union Manufacturing Company and bought the old finishing house and established what is now the woolen mill and engaged in the manufacture of doe-skin cloths; in which business he continued with good success until 1872, when he sold his interest in that mill. He has served the town in various offices with credit and honor and maintained the high esteem of its citizens, and though living in retired life, is benevolently interested in the prosperity of the town."
("History of Torrington, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in ..., Part 2", by Samuel Orcutt, 1878, p. 719)

(sources: "History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut", Vol. 3, by William J. Pape, 1918, page 40; Headstone Inscriptions, 621-1 Center Cemetery, Torrington, CT, 1934, p. 25)


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