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"Will" Saxton worked as a printer and lived at the Transcendentalist community Brook Farm helping to print the Harbinger. He served as his brother Rufus's aide-de-camp in Beaufort SC during the Civil War and stayed on working for the US government in various positions including for the Lighthouse Department. He loyally kept a diary every day, many volumes of which can be found at the Sterling Library at Yale. His obituary claims that he was the oldest citizen of Washington, D.C. when he died.
67th Wedding Anniversary, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, 26 January 1928: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93888650/s-willard-saxtonmary-wells...
Obituary, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, 21 March 1933: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48311224/evening-star/
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August 13, 1829
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Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
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1863
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December 26, 1867
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1933 |
March 19, 1933
Age 103
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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