Colonel Robert Means, Jr.

"Robert [MEANS], born in 1786, the third son of Robert and Mary, and their youngest child save three who died in infancy or early youth, seems to stand like the Apocrypha, even like John the Baptist, between the old and new dispensations. He, with Aunt French on the Atherton side, was the youngest of our second generation, and for his second wife he married into our third generation. He was graduated in 1807 from Bowdoin College and after reading law with his brothers-in=law Jeremiah Mason and Charles H. Atherton, he established himself in practice at Amherst. There he built a most attractive house, to which he brought his wife, Mary E. Dinsmore, of Keene, and where they lived until her death in 1830. ..... [He became] the agent of a mill at Lowell, where he moved in 1831. And in 1834 he married Abigail A. Kent, a daughter of the Honorable Amos Kent of Chester and a granddaughter of Joshua Atherton, a second alliance between the two families. They lived in Lowell until his death in 1842, when his wife bought the Robert Means home in Amherst, where she lived during the summer and where she died. ..... In genealogical tables it is not difficult to separate one generation from another, but in writing the story of a family the generations refuse to be separated, for in the concerns of their lives they are constantly mingling."
--- Anne M. Means, Amherst and Our Family Tree, Boston, 1921, p132-134, 142

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David McGregor Means died 1835 aged 54 years / Catherine Means died 1838 aged 54 years / Catherine Atherton Cleveland died 1846 aged 29 years / Robert Means died 1842 aged 55 years / Abby Atherton Means died 1857 aged 55 years / "Whosoever trusteth and believeth in me, shall never die." //