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Metcalf, Benjamin (1796-1840)

Name:
Metcalf, Benjamin (1796-1840)
Born:
07/17/1796
Birthplace:
Wilmington, VT
Died:
06/25/1840
Death Location:
St. Mark's Lighthouse, FL
Residence:
Wilmington, VT
Windsor, VT
Woodstock, VT 1820-1834
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Cabinetmaker, 1820, 1822, 1824
Inventor, 1827
Machinist, 1831-1832
Father:
Metcalf, Benjamin
Mother:
Ware, Eunice
Relations:
Partnership, Richardson & Metcalf, Woodstock, -1820
(Ebenezer Richardson and Benjamin Metcalf)
Partnership, Benjamin Metcalf & Company, Woodstock, -1822
(Benjamin Metcalf and Holland Burt)
Partnership, Fisher & Metcalf, Woodstock, 1824-1825
Member, Woodstock Institute, Woodstock, VT, 1831
Spouse:
Ora Weymouth, October 12, 1826
Notes:
Birth Records, Town of Wilmington, Vermont Vital Records

Jean M. Burks and Philip Zea, Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850. (Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 2015), 146-147.

"Employment," Woodstock Observer, Woodstock, VT, June 24, 1823, 4.

"Village Register," Working-Man's Gazette, Woodstock, VT, January 5, 1831, 7.

"Meeting of the Woodstock Institute," Working-Man's Gazette, Woodstock, VT, February 2, 1831, 5.

"To Printers," Woodstock Observer, Woodstock, VT, January 3, 1832, 3.

Death Notice, Commercial Advertiser, New York, NY July 6, 1840, 2.
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