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F Victoria (Dora) Granagher

Heiraten und Kinder

Notizen

Hinweis zur Person

Information from Edith Woodbridge, Query, RootsWeb Message Board.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, Toronto, 1905, p. 59-60:
Adolphus H. Woodbridge, one of the members of the county council of the County of Essex, is one of Kingsville's most representative and highly esteemed citizens.
Adolphus Woodbridge, father of Adolphus H., was born in Pennsylvania... In 1831 he married Julia Ray, and they came to the County of Essex, ... To them were born these children: ... Adolphus H. is the subject proper of this sketch...
Adolphus H. Woodbridge was born July 29, 1839, in Gosfield township, of which he is so honored and esteemed a citizen. His education was completed in the village schools by the time he was sixteen years old, when he went to Kingsville, and there he learned the shoemaking trade, later following the same at Albertville-then a stirring litte village. Later he removed to Kingsville, and continued to follow his trade there. Prior to this he had purchased a tract of forty-five acres on land in Lot 4, Concession 1, and while still working at his trade, began farming there, erecting all the buildings now standing. In 1883 he built his fine brick residence, one of the most attractive homes of this locality...
In 1861 Mr. Woodbridge married, in Malden township, Miss Amelia Mickle. They have had these children: ... John, born May 26, 1874, and now conducting a machine shop in Detroit, married Dora Granagher, and they have two daughters, Ellan and Florence Amelia; ...