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Historical records matching Amos Binney Merrill
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About Amos Binney Merrill
Amos Binney Merrill was named after his father, the Reverend Nathaniel Jewett Merrill's brother, a Harvard graduate and Boston attorney, Amos Binney Merrill.
The 1850 Census shows a 2 year old Amos B. living with his family in: Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts.
In the 1860 census a 12 year old Amos B. was living with his family in Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts.
The 1870 census of Reverend Nathaniel J. Merrill does not show the now 22 year old Amos B. living at home with his parents and siblings.
Amos Binney was married thrice. According to the 1870 Census Emma S. and Amos B. were married in June of that year. They were both noted as from Massachusetts and living in Franklin County. He was listed as a farmer and she as keeping house, and both noted as 22 years of age.
In the 1880 Census they were living in Blandford, Hampden County. He is still listed as a farmer, she is still listed as keeping house and their now 8 year old son, Franklin H. (b. in Massachusetts) is listed as in school. This is the last I can find about Emma and their son Franklin.
His second marriage is noted on page 237 of: Richard Pinkham of Old Dover, New Hampshire and his descendants East and West, a Pinkham genealogy written by Rev. Charles Nelson Sinnett before 1908. His second wife is not named, and she is noted as having died of 'consumption' (tuberculosis). Records indicate that her name was Lida May Miller. She was born in Massachusetts, possibly in Blandford, as that is where her parents were residing when Amos Binney Merrill was living and farming there. They had no children and she is buried in the North Blandford Cemetery.
The census of 1900 information has Amos B. (age 52) and Augusta (age 44) living in NYC, New York and their children are listed as: Catherine Merrill (age 12), Ruth Merrill (age 7), Amos Merrill (age 5), Clarence Merrill (age 4). The places of birth for Amos B. and Augusta coincide with what I have found so far. I also found that Augusta was noted as having 6 births and 5 living children at the time of this census.
Interestingly I have not found Amos listed in 1910 Census information - but there is a 1910 New York census that lists Augusta as being head of the household with Catherine (23) and Ruth (18) still in residence and both working. Amos A. and Clarence are not listed...and I also discovered that Augusta was recorded as having 6 births and 4 living children at the time of this census.
The 1920 Census has Amos A. as living (and renting) as the head of household in Hampden, MA with his Father Amos B.
Amos A. is listed as 25 and his father is listed as 72. Amos A.'s mother, wife to his father, is listed as being from New York. Amos B's mother is listed as being from Georgia! But as earlier census reports show his mother as Georgiana...I strongly suspect her place of origin is incorrect.
The last census I find Amos B. listed in is 1930. His age is 81, he is listed as from Massachusetts, widowed and is living in the Soldier's Home in Chelsea City, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
So it seems that Amos B. had two marriages and more children than we had thought. It seems that he and Emma Susan divorced, he remarried to Lida May Miner of Blandford, she died young and without children, and shortly thereafter Amos and the children moved to the New York/New Jersey area. He married Augusta in 1887. They had 6 more children and lost 2 based on the census reports I have found.
- In a newspaper clipping that my Grandfather Amos saved was a note he wrote to the Springfield Republican about the donation of a driveway to the Glendale Methodist Church in Wilbraham, MA in honor of his sister. In it he mentioned that his father Amos Binney had been, for a short time, a pastor. Preaching only at the Glendale Methodist Church.
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Amos Binney Merrill's Timeline
| 1848 |
April 29, 1848
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Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1871 |
June 26, 1871
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Heath, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1881 |
April 7, 1881
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Blandford, Hampden County, MA, United States
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| 1887 |
November 1887
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New Jersey, United States
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| 1888 |
November 25, 1888
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New Jersey
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| 1891 |
1891
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New Jersey, United States
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| 1892 |
November 1892
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Massachusetts, United States
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| 1894 |
July 9, 1894
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West Brimfield, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1896 |
April 1896
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Massachusetts, United States
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