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Solomon Norton

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Solomon Norton

Birth
Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Death
8 Nov 1844 (aged 94)
Chautauqua County, New York, USA
Burial
Hamlet, Chautauqua County, New York, USA Add to Map
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From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co. 1894 (pg 287)

" Solomon Norton, who was born in Connecticut in 1757, and reared to farming, which he made a success. 

Solomon Norton moved to Vermont when a young man, bought a farm and erected a saw and grist mill, all of which he carried on for some years. He was prosperous and became a very influential man. At the age of seventy-five he retired from active life, and with his wife (his third one) moved to the town of Shoreham, Vt., where he passed the remainder of his days. He was first married, in 1774, to Miss Sarah Rexford, who was born in 1757 in Vermont, and they had thirteen children — seven sons and six daughters." 
From the Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio. Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co. 1894 (pg 287)

" Solomon Norton, who was born in Connecticut in 1757, and reared to farming, which he made a success. 

Solomon Norton moved to Vermont when a young man, bought a farm and erected a saw and grist mill, all of which he carried on for some years. He was prosperous and became a very influential man. At the age of seventy-five he retired from active life, and with his wife (his third one) moved to the town of Shoreham, Vt., where he passed the remainder of his days. He was first married, in 1774, to Miss Sarah Rexford, who was born in 1757 in Vermont, and they had thirteen children — seven sons and six daughters." 


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