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Wilbur Stearns Littlehale

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Birth	:	12 Dec 1850 Dracut, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death	:	11 Jun 1898 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial	:	Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.6288986, -71.2936020
Description	:	Cause of Death was a Railroad accident. Son of Daniel S. and Elmira (nee Brown) Littlehale. Aged 47 Years 6 months. Wilbur Stearns married Addie McCarlie of Lowell, Jan. 11, 1876. She died Dec. 12th following, of chronic pneumonia contracted while on a visit to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. He married again, Etta E. House of Methuen, Mass., Oct. 12, 1881. She was the daughter of his former pastor, Rev. T. J. B. House. His first wife was a member of his second wife's household, and roomed with her oldest sister a number of months before the marriage ; and... Read More	Cause of Death was a Railroad accident. Son of Daniel S. and Elmira (nee Brown) Littlehale. Aged 47 Years 6 months. Wilbur Stearns married Addie McCarlie of Lowell, Jan. 11, 1876. She died Dec. 12th following, of chronic pneumonia contracted while on a visit to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. He married again, Etta E. House of Methuen, Mass., Oct. 12, 1881. She was the daughter of his former pastor, Rev. T. J. B. House. His first wife was a member of his second wife's household, and roomed with her oldest sister a number of months before the marriage ; and was also baptized by his second wife's father who performed the marriage ceremony and preached the funeral sermon. He also officiated at the ceremony, when Wilbur married Mb own daughter, assisted by the Rev. R. G. Seymour of Boston, Mass. In regard to his brother's death, Wilbur says, "I can only say it was sad enough for me. I had just arrived at his home in Milton, N. H., to spend my vacation with him. In the afternoon while we were out sailing the boat was capsized and he was drowned. I wen down with him and did not know when he released his hold upon me. I only know that I barely reached the shore myself, and was unable to drag myself out for some moments." In regard to his life he says : " Left an orphan at the age of five years, I fared better than most orphans and better than the majority of those who are blessed with a father's and mother's love and care. I lived with my uncle Horatio C. Marshall until I was about eighteen, and both he and my aunt Mary could not have treated me better had I been their own son. My uncle was a poor man, a mason by trade, and both my cousin and myself used to work for the neighbors at spring time and harvest ; and well I remember how grand we felt as we purchased our clothing, etc., from our own earnings." In March, 1870, he went to Boston and secured a position as bundle boy in Frost Brothers & Co.'s store. They were importers and jobbers of fancy dry goods. He was then in the milk business, and missing the last train home, took the train to Winchester and then walked to Dracut, a distance of twenty-one miles, getting home about midnight. This he did because he had to go over his route that morning. He commenced work in Boston, March 17, 1870, at a salary of $100 per year, but was paid more. In May, 1871, he was baptized (the 1st Sunday) and joined the First Baptist Church, Charlestown District, Boston, Mass. In less than two years he was out on the road as travelling salesman, and by close attention to business he soon worked his way up to the position of head salesman, which he occupied till he turned his attention to his present business, In July, 1883, he was elected trustee and secretary of the "Triple Thermic Motor Co." of New York city. This company is capitalized at $25,000,000. In 1884 he moved to New York, to attend to his duties as secretary. He is still a trustee of the company and has great confidence in the ultimate success of the motor.

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Wilbur Stearns Littlehale's memorial is located at: Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, USA.
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Wilbur Stearns Littlehale death on 11 Jun 1898 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
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Latitude: 42.6288986
Longitude: -71.2936020

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Etta Louise House Batchelder

(1861 - 1955)

Addie McCarlie Littlehale

(1852 - 1876)

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