Sedgley, James (1824-1892)

Name:

Sedgley, James (1824-1892)

Born:

01/11/1824

Birthplace:

Limerick, ME

Died:

01/12/1892

Residence:

Limerick, ME
Concord, NH -- 1864 directory (not in 1867 directory)
Cleveland, OH -- 1880 census

Occupation:

Railroadman -- including Northern RR in Concord, NH, and Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana

Father:

Jotham Sedgley

Mother:

Hannah Alden Sedgley

Relations:

Siblings:
Sedgeley, Erastus (1825-1887; b.,res. Limerick, ME; farmer)
Sedgley, Hannah (1827-; b., res. Limerick, ME; m. Moses Chadbourne of Waterboro, ME; no children)

Spouse:

Ordway, Ellen Louisa (m. 1851)

Children:

Sedgley, Nellie P. (1854-; b. NH; res. Washington, DC; not married)
Sedgley, Mary Isabel (1860-; b. NH; res. Washington, DC)

Notes:

Early in life he left a dollar a day haying job in Limerick saying "he was through with farm work. For forty years he was a railroad man. First with the Northern of New Hampshire, and then with the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana, now called Lake Shore Road. He was superintendent of motive power and had many men under his charge.
He accumulated considerable property and traveled extensively. On a visit to old home town during the last years of his life he said, "I have traveled over much of the World but for me there is no place like Llmerick." He lived for some years in Cleveland, Ohio.
MARRIAGE: Married Ellen Louisa Ordway of Concord, NH, 1851