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to California and now resides there in Nevada City as yet unmarried.)

Lewis born at Agawam Feb. 24, 1808. Removed to Genesee, county New-York in Dec. 1823 (now Orleans county), where he resided in the employ of a mercantile firm, part of the time at Albion and the remainder at Batavia, until September 1829, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio. There he entered the grocery business which he continued to prosecute until 1846, when he purchased the Globe Iron Works, which he still conducts in partnership with William Watson Worthington (1857). He married Sally Ann, daughter of Joseph Pierce Oct. 2, 1837; by her had a son Lewis Sedam Worthington, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 21, 1839.

Maria, born at Agawam Feb. 10, 1810, married in 18 . M. B. Moseley of Springfield, Mass, by whom she had three children: Elizabeth W : Edward and Lucy H., who died between two and three years old. The two elder children now reside with their father in Philadelphia, Penn. Maria died after a short illness, at her residence in Philadelphia, in the presence of her husband and family May 1851.

Edward born at Agawam March 17, 1812, removed at an early age to Hartford, Conn., subsequently to Mobile; New-Orleans; New-York; Norwich Conn., and in 1857, to Winona Minnesota.

Benjamin born at Agawam, Dec. 16 1815, removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained a few months and then engaged in a trading expedition to the southern rivers, in which he continued two years. He returned to Cincinnati, with impaired health, and commenced the study of the law in the office of Gen. Cary and William Groesbeck. He was admitted to practice in the courts of the state, with a fair prospect of obtaining both reputation and wealth. His health continued to decline and he died unmarried at his father's house Cincinnati, Nov. [blank space], of consumption.







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