Gerrish, Oliver (1796-1888)

Name:

Gerrish, Oliver (1796-1888)

Title:

President, Portland Savings Bank
Secretary and Treasurer, Relief Fire Society, Portland
Member, F. & A. M.
Member, Portland Horticultural Society, 1867
Member, School Committee, Town of Portland, 1830
Trustee, Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, 1828
Recording Secretary, Bible Society of Maine, 1863
Treasurer, Portland Provident Association, 1866

Born:

01/04/1796

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

12/03/1888

Death Location:

Portland, ME

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH 1796-1817
Boston, MA 1817
Portland, ME 1819-1888

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith
Goldsmith
Watchmaker
Jeweler

Father:

Gerrish, Timothy (1756-1815)

Mother:

Patterson, Dorothy (1756-1845)

Relations:

Brother, Andrew Gerrish (1784-1835), Portsmouth
Son-in-law of Paul Little (17401-1818), goldsmith.
Master to Abner Lowell, William Senter (nephew), and Nathaniel Pearson (nephew) in Portland, ME.

Spouse:

Sarah Little (1802-1888), January 6, 1825

Children:

Francis Brooks, born 1825, Portsmouth, NH
Phebe Ann

Notes:

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 225, 267.

William G. Hennessy, "The Silversmiths of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Profiles, 1955.

George Thomas Little, et. al., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine. Volume III. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909), 1265.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 101-102.

"Records of the South Church of Portsmouth, N.H.," New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 82(January 1928), 37.

Advertisement, Weekly Eastern Argus, Portland, Maine, December 24, 1822.

"Oliver Gerrish," The Freeman's Repositiory, 19(October 1889)1, 44-48.

Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, ME