Symonds, Joseph E. (1840-1932)

Name:

Symonds, Joseph E. (1840-1932)

Title:

Private, Co. E, 7th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862-1865

Other Names:

Symonds, Joseph Edward

Born:

12/08/1840

Birthplace:

Hancock, NH

Died:

04/14/1932

Death Location:

Penacook, NH

Residence:

Hancock, NH 1840, 1850, 1860
Penacook, NH 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
Fisherville, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Cabinetmaker, by 1870
Cabinetmaker, with Willam H. Caldwell (Concord), 1876
Owner/operator, J. E. Symonds Co., 1883-1896 (aka Symonds Abbott)
Owner/operator, J. E. Symonds Table Co., 1897-1922, Penacook, NH

Father:

Symonds, Lewis (1805-1893)

Mother:

Robinson, Persis (1808-1905)

Relations:

Partnership, J. E. Symonds Co., Penacook, 1883-1896
(Joseph E. Symonds and George W. Abbott)
Partnership, J. E. Symonds Table Co., 1903
(Joseph E. Symonds, George W. Abbott, and Arthur C. Stewart)

Spouse:

Sarah Frances Ann Little (1843-1925) October 21, 1867, Fisherville

Children:

Charles H., born 1868; moved to CT
Mabel L., born 1870; m. Locke; Portsmouth?)
Mary Florence, born 1876

Notes:

"Leading Business Men of Penacook," 1890: Known especially for extension tables, but also makers of saloon tables, dining tables, kitchen tables, office tables, and special orders.

1887 Concord Business Directory: works in walnut, chestnut, ash, cherry, and whitewood.

Augustus D. Ayling, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866. (Concord, New Hampshire: Ira C. Evans, 1895), 395.

George F. Bacon, The Leading Business Men of Concord and Vicinity, Embracing Pencook, East and West Concord. (Boston, Massachusetts: Mercantile Publishing Company, 1890), 89.

David A. Brown, Compiler. The History of Penacook, N. H., From its First Settlement in 1734 Up to 1900. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1902), 29, 30, 43, 159, 160, 168, 342-344.

Donna-Belle Garvin, "Concord, New Hampshire: A Furniture- Making Capital," Historical New Hampshire, 45(Spring, 1990)1, 39, 40, 45, 52, 101.

William W. Hayward, The History of Hancock, New Hampshire 1764-1889. (Lowell, Massachusetts: Vox Populi Press, 1889), 890.

James O. Lyford, Editor. History of Conocrd, New Hampshire, From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Volume I. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1903), 649.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

Woodlawn Cemetery, Penacook, NH