Obed Foss, son of Lemuel and Mary (Chadbourne), Foss was born in Alfred, Maine, Sept. 5. 1818., When a boy in his teens his parents moved to Benton Falls, where he learned the carding business of his father. In 1841 he came to Dexter to work for the Amos Abbott Woolen Company in their Carding Mill on Mill Street.
In 1843 he was married to Miss Louisa M. Billings of Clinton, who was born in Albion on Sept. 26, 1822. To them were born, in Dexter, six children, two dying in infancy. Surviving children were: Rhodo C. born in 1844; Lucy P. in 1845; Mary, L. in 1847; and-George 0. in 1855.
Mr. Foss was one of the firm of Foss, Conant and Company, which built the Brick Mill, in 1848. This firm included Simon Foss, Andrew Conant, Obed and Benjamin Foss.
Mr. Foss lived in town on Mill Street, until 1857 when he moved to the farm on the Ripley Road since known as the Foss Place and occupied today (1934) by his youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst, who is eighty-seven years of age and the only living member of the family.
In politics Mr. Foss was always a Republican. He was a member of the First Universalist. Church Society.
He died on the farm where he lived for many years on March 29, 1891. He was survived by Mrs. Foss and the four children.
Mrs. Foss died Dec. 28, 1899 and the last month, of the last year of the century.
Contributed by Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst.
In 1843 he was married to Miss Louisa M. Billings of Clinton, who was born in Albion on Sept. 26, 1822. To them were born, in Dexter, six children, two dying in infancy. Surviving children were: Rhodo C. born in 1844; Lucy P. in 1845; Mary, L. in 1847; and-George 0. in 1855.
Mr. Foss was one of the firm of Foss, Conant and Company, which built the Brick Mill, in 1848. This firm included Simon Foss, Andrew Conant, Obed and Benjamin Foss.
Mr. Foss lived in town on Mill Street, until 1857 when he moved to the farm on the Ripley Road since known as the Foss Place and occupied today (1934) by his youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst, who is eighty-seven years of age and the only living member of the family.
In politics Mr. Foss was always a Republican. He was a member of the First Universalist. Church Society.
He died on the farm where he lived for many years on March 29, 1891. He was survived by Mrs. Foss and the four children.
Mrs. Foss died Dec. 28, 1899 and the last month, of the last year of the century.
Contributed by Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst.
Obed Foss, son of Lemuel and Mary (Chadbourne), Foss was born in Alfred, Maine, Sept. 5. 1818., When a boy in his teens his parents moved to Benton Falls, where he learned the carding business of his father. In 1841 he came to Dexter to work for the Amos Abbott Woolen Company in their Carding Mill on Mill Street.
In 1843 he was married to Miss Louisa M. Billings of Clinton, who was born in Albion on Sept. 26, 1822. To them were born, in Dexter, six children, two dying in infancy. Surviving children were: Rhodo C. born in 1844; Lucy P. in 1845; Mary, L. in 1847; and-George 0. in 1855.
Mr. Foss was one of the firm of Foss, Conant and Company, which built the Brick Mill, in 1848. This firm included Simon Foss, Andrew Conant, Obed and Benjamin Foss.
Mr. Foss lived in town on Mill Street, until 1857 when he moved to the farm on the Ripley Road since known as the Foss Place and occupied today (1934) by his youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst, who is eighty-seven years of age and the only living member of the family.
In politics Mr. Foss was always a Republican. He was a member of the First Universalist. Church Society.
He died on the farm where he lived for many years on March 29, 1891. He was survived by Mrs. Foss and the four children.
Mrs. Foss died Dec. 28, 1899 and the last month, of the last year of the century.
Contributed by Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst.
In 1843 he was married to Miss Louisa M. Billings of Clinton, who was born in Albion on Sept. 26, 1822. To them were born, in Dexter, six children, two dying in infancy. Surviving children were: Rhodo C. born in 1844; Lucy P. in 1845; Mary, L. in 1847; and-George 0. in 1855.
Mr. Foss was one of the firm of Foss, Conant and Company, which built the Brick Mill, in 1848. This firm included Simon Foss, Andrew Conant, Obed and Benjamin Foss.
Mr. Foss lived in town on Mill Street, until 1857 when he moved to the farm on the Ripley Road since known as the Foss Place and occupied today (1934) by his youngest daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst, who is eighty-seven years of age and the only living member of the family.
In politics Mr. Foss was always a Republican. He was a member of the First Universalist. Church Society.
He died on the farm where he lived for many years on March 29, 1891. He was survived by Mrs. Foss and the four children.
Mrs. Foss died Dec. 28, 1899 and the last month, of the last year of the century.
Contributed by Mrs. Mary L. Parkhurst.
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