0880 Ervin T. TREFETHEN

Biography:

Born in Eliot, Maine. Resided in Dover, New Hampshire [Source 132]
Married on 12 September 1888, in Boston Massachusetts; he was 26, a salesman, son of Ephriam & Parmilia. Wife was 28, daughter of S. Franklin & Sarah [Source 36: New Hampshire Marriage Records] { says she was daughter of Leondas F. & Elizabeth (HEAD) RAND and that her father was also a machinist}.
Was a machinist and supervisor of a machine shop in Boston for several years.
He later became a junior member of the firm Chadwick & Trefethen.
Resided in Portsmouth, New Hampshire [Source 132]
From Glenn Bailey (via the “Roundtable”)
“from Charles A. Hazlett, History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL (1915)
Page 823
Ervin T. TREFETHEN, who has always been engaged as a practical machinist, is junior member of the well know firm of Chadwick and TREFETHEN. He has been a resident of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for seven years, and in that time has made many friends and acquaintances.
Mr. TREFETHEN was born in Eliot, Maine, October 30, 1852, and is a son of Ephraim and Parmelia (Laugley) [Langley] TREFETHEN, and a grandson of Archelaus TREFETHEN. The last named and his brother, Daniel, were proprietors of an old packet line between Boston and Dover, New Hampshire. Ephraim TREFETHEN was a native of Dover, New Hampshire, and his wife was born in Lee, New Hampshire. He was a seafaring man and lived at Merrimac, Massachusetts, at the time of his death as did his wife, both being buried at that place. Religiously they were members of the Baptist Church. Their children, four in number, were: Frank; George; Florence, wife of Mark Winkley; and Ervin T.
Ervin T. TREFETHEN pursued a course of study in the grade and high schools, after which he took up the trade of machinist, which he always has followed. He was superintendent of a machine shop in Boston for several years prior to coming to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Here he has been associated with Mr. Chadwick for seven years.
Mr. TREFETHEN was married in 1888 to Miss Nellie E. Raad of Portsmouth, a daughter of Leondas F. and Elizabeth (Head) Raad. Her father was also a machinist by trade. She is one of a family of six children, the others being: Estella, Mary, Frances, Arthur, Elizabeth and Katherine. In religious attachment Mr. and Mrs. TREFETHEN are devout members of the Methodist Church, and he is president of the church board of trustees in Boston.”

Ervin T. TREFETHEN0880 (30 October 1852 - after 1887) Married Nellie E. RAND or RAAD

Ervin T. TREFETHEN⁰⁸⁸⁰
(30 October 1852 - after 1887)
Married Nellie E. RAND or RAAD