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He was a member of the Berkshire Branch of the Massachusetts Militia, as
recorded in the Massachusetts Vital Records in the town of Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts for the year 1849.

On March 17, 1833, he was married to Eunice Marie Eddy in Stamford, Bennington, Vermont by Stephen C. Millard, Justice of Peace.

The couple had ten (10) children. One son died at the age of 8 months.

"Abram Anthony was born on the old Lapham and Anthony homestead at the junction of the North Adams and Savoy roads and was reared to agricultural pursuits.

He entered early life into manufacturing, first at Maple Grove with his brother John, and in with his brother-in-law, Issac Hoxie, drawing cotton to produce yarn forty-plus miles from Troy, Rensselaer, New York to Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts on roads leading over high hills.

The yarn was carried to neighboring houses and woven by handloom into stripe and then returned to the factory store and paid for in store pay. There is no money in store pay. Lumber, run, groceries in exchange for goods, and signed promise to pay notes from other business owners.

Early manufacturing under these difficulties was not successful and in 1833, Abm. Anthony & Co. closed and Abram commenced farming just east of Adams Village where he spent most of his life.

He was a very enterprising man, not confining himself to agricultural pursuits only, purchasing large tracts of woodland, he built and operated several sawmills, turning out large amounts of wood, lumber, and bark; keeping gangs of laborers at work year-round regardless of the cost or outcome.

He carried on more business than any other man of his time except for Joseph Edmonds, who like Abram, was a jack of all trades.

His last enterprise was the building of water power known as the Renfrew Gingham, which he sold to William Pollack for $25,000.

He passed away suddenly of heart failure, sitting by the roadside leaning on his staff. "

Source: As written by his daughter and recorded in the "Genealogy of the Anthony Family ~ 1495-1904.