Isaiah Bangs

He went to Canada and ran the first steamboat on the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City. He went into business with his wife's father, under the firm name of Bigelow & Bangs, commission merhchants at 15 Long Warf, Boston. The firm owned and ran the first line of packet schooners between Boston, Albany, Troy and New York, bringing flour from the Genesee valley to Boston and were very successful. After Mr. Bigelow's death the firm became "Bangs & Co." The 1850 census notes the value of his real estate at $25,000.

Isaiah Bangs married Deborah Knowlton Bigelow on 5 Nov 1815 in Cambridge MA. (Deborah Knowlton Bigelow was born on 24 May 1792 in Westminster MA and died on 20 Aug 1872 in Cambridge MA.)

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