Edward is the son of Oel & Sophia Billings. (Birth & Death certificates)
Edward never married.
He studied law with Oliver P. Chandler, Esq., Woodstock, Vt. and was admitted to the bar in 1837, whereupon he entered into co-partnership with Mr. Chandler. He continued in the practice of law until his death. He died while attending the national convention which nominated Henry Clay for the presidency of the United States. (The History of Woodstock, Vermont)
∼New York Tribune, New York, New York, 13 May 1844, p2:
The Baltimore Patriot of Friday announces the death in that city of Mr. Billings, a delegate from Vermont to the Whig National Convention. His remains were interred in Green Mount Cemetery.
Extract from "Frederick Billings: A Life", University of California Press, 1998.
This close-knit family sustained its first paralyzing loss that summer of 1844; Edward, Oel's and Sophia's first-born, the apple of Oel's eye, died in Baltimore while at the Whig Convention. His death was little spoken of afterwards, though to Frederick it was clearly instructive. For a year or two earlier the correspondence hints of a growing worry on Sophia's part that Edward was drinking too much. Much of his energy had gone into Whig politics and into the militia, in which he was a colonel. He persisted in hoping for a minor appointment in government but failed to attain it. Handsome, gay, in demand for singing groups. Edward had not married and his mother thought he was adrift. In Baltimore, after an evening of strong drink, he and a group of young men set out into the harbor in a rowboat, apparently to look back upon the city's lights from the water, and Edward fell overboard and drowned. He might have lived had any of his companions been sober enough to apply artificial respiration, for apparently his body was recovered quickly; none did. Edward's funeral in Woodstock was a major event: a large procession, with fifty friends mounted on horseback, followed by members of the bar, medical students, and the citizenry generally, made its way through heavy rain to the cemetery. The cause of death of was never mentioned. Frederick [brother of the deceased] did not attend the funeral; it was examination week at the university. . . Frederick was casting about for a job well before commencement, which found him marginally in debt and anxious for his parents' welfare (travelling to Baltimore to claim Edward's body and paying for appropriate mourning clothes had used up their small savings). Sophia was urging Frederick to be godly and to show it by turning to the ministry, while his father began a quite understandable crusade against alcohol by refusing to license any rum sellers in Woodstock.
Edward never married.
He studied law with Oliver P. Chandler, Esq., Woodstock, Vt. and was admitted to the bar in 1837, whereupon he entered into co-partnership with Mr. Chandler. He continued in the practice of law until his death. He died while attending the national convention which nominated Henry Clay for the presidency of the United States. (The History of Woodstock, Vermont)
∼New York Tribune, New York, New York, 13 May 1844, p2:
The Baltimore Patriot of Friday announces the death in that city of Mr. Billings, a delegate from Vermont to the Whig National Convention. His remains were interred in Green Mount Cemetery.
Extract from "Frederick Billings: A Life", University of California Press, 1998.
This close-knit family sustained its first paralyzing loss that summer of 1844; Edward, Oel's and Sophia's first-born, the apple of Oel's eye, died in Baltimore while at the Whig Convention. His death was little spoken of afterwards, though to Frederick it was clearly instructive. For a year or two earlier the correspondence hints of a growing worry on Sophia's part that Edward was drinking too much. Much of his energy had gone into Whig politics and into the militia, in which he was a colonel. He persisted in hoping for a minor appointment in government but failed to attain it. Handsome, gay, in demand for singing groups. Edward had not married and his mother thought he was adrift. In Baltimore, after an evening of strong drink, he and a group of young men set out into the harbor in a rowboat, apparently to look back upon the city's lights from the water, and Edward fell overboard and drowned. He might have lived had any of his companions been sober enough to apply artificial respiration, for apparently his body was recovered quickly; none did. Edward's funeral in Woodstock was a major event: a large procession, with fifty friends mounted on horseback, followed by members of the bar, medical students, and the citizenry generally, made its way through heavy rain to the cemetery. The cause of death of was never mentioned. Frederick [brother of the deceased] did not attend the funeral; it was examination week at the university. . . Frederick was casting about for a job well before commencement, which found him marginally in debt and anxious for his parents' welfare (travelling to Baltimore to claim Edward's body and paying for appropriate mourning clothes had used up their small savings). Sophia was urging Frederick to be godly and to show it by turning to the ministry, while his father began a quite understandable crusade against alcohol by refusing to license any rum sellers in Woodstock.
Edward is the son of Oel & Sophia Billings. (Birth & Death certificates)
Edward never married.
He studied law with Oliver P. Chandler, Esq., Woodstock, Vt. and was admitted to the bar in 1837, whereupon he entered into co-partnership with Mr. Chandler. He continued in the practice of law until his death. He died while attending the national convention which nominated Henry Clay for the presidency of the United States. (The History of Woodstock, Vermont)
∼New York Tribune, New York, New York, 13 May 1844, p2:
The Baltimore Patriot of Friday announces the death in that city of Mr. Billings, a delegate from Vermont to the Whig National Convention. His remains were interred in Green Mount Cemetery.
Extract from "Frederick Billings: A Life", University of California Press, 1998.
This close-knit family sustained its first paralyzing loss that summer of 1844; Edward, Oel's and Sophia's first-born, the apple of Oel's eye, died in Baltimore while at the Whig Convention. His death was little spoken of afterwards, though to Frederick it was clearly instructive. For a year or two earlier the correspondence hints of a growing worry on Sophia's part that Edward was drinking too much. Much of his energy had gone into Whig politics and into the militia, in which he was a colonel. He persisted in hoping for a minor appointment in government but failed to attain it. Handsome, gay, in demand for singing groups. Edward had not married and his mother thought he was adrift. In Baltimore, after an evening of strong drink, he and a group of young men set out into the harbor in a rowboat, apparently to look back upon the city's lights from the water, and Edward fell overboard and drowned. He might have lived had any of his companions been sober enough to apply artificial respiration, for apparently his body was recovered quickly; none did. Edward's funeral in Woodstock was a major event: a large procession, with fifty friends mounted on horseback, followed by members of the bar, medical students, and the citizenry generally, made its way through heavy rain to the cemetery. The cause of death of was never mentioned. Frederick [brother of the deceased] did not attend the funeral; it was examination week at the university. . . Frederick was casting about for a job well before commencement, which found him marginally in debt and anxious for his parents' welfare (travelling to Baltimore to claim Edward's body and paying for appropriate mourning clothes had used up their small savings). Sophia was urging Frederick to be godly and to show it by turning to the ministry, while his father began a quite understandable crusade against alcohol by refusing to license any rum sellers in Woodstock.
Edward never married.
He studied law with Oliver P. Chandler, Esq., Woodstock, Vt. and was admitted to the bar in 1837, whereupon he entered into co-partnership with Mr. Chandler. He continued in the practice of law until his death. He died while attending the national convention which nominated Henry Clay for the presidency of the United States. (The History of Woodstock, Vermont)
∼New York Tribune, New York, New York, 13 May 1844, p2:
The Baltimore Patriot of Friday announces the death in that city of Mr. Billings, a delegate from Vermont to the Whig National Convention. His remains were interred in Green Mount Cemetery.
Extract from "Frederick Billings: A Life", University of California Press, 1998.
This close-knit family sustained its first paralyzing loss that summer of 1844; Edward, Oel's and Sophia's first-born, the apple of Oel's eye, died in Baltimore while at the Whig Convention. His death was little spoken of afterwards, though to Frederick it was clearly instructive. For a year or two earlier the correspondence hints of a growing worry on Sophia's part that Edward was drinking too much. Much of his energy had gone into Whig politics and into the militia, in which he was a colonel. He persisted in hoping for a minor appointment in government but failed to attain it. Handsome, gay, in demand for singing groups. Edward had not married and his mother thought he was adrift. In Baltimore, after an evening of strong drink, he and a group of young men set out into the harbor in a rowboat, apparently to look back upon the city's lights from the water, and Edward fell overboard and drowned. He might have lived had any of his companions been sober enough to apply artificial respiration, for apparently his body was recovered quickly; none did. Edward's funeral in Woodstock was a major event: a large procession, with fifty friends mounted on horseback, followed by members of the bar, medical students, and the citizenry generally, made its way through heavy rain to the cemetery. The cause of death of was never mentioned. Frederick [brother of the deceased] did not attend the funeral; it was examination week at the university. . . Frederick was casting about for a job well before commencement, which found him marginally in debt and anxious for his parents' welfare (travelling to Baltimore to claim Edward's body and paying for appropriate mourning clothes had used up their small savings). Sophia was urging Frederick to be godly and to show it by turning to the ministry, while his father began a quite understandable crusade against alcohol by refusing to license any rum sellers in Woodstock.
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