Abijah Edwin Hildreth and Sons
name: label: Collection Manufacturer
content: Burt, Hildreth & Company
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content: Burt, Hildreth & Company Records
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content: Burt, Hildreth & Company Records / Series 2: Family Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1877-1879, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1570, Subseries 2.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes the communication between Abijah Edwin Hildreth and his only two sons Edwin Alonzo Hildreth (March 28, 1843-March 26, 1907) and Stanley Barbour Hildreth (June 8, 1845-January 12, 1941). Abijah Edwin Hildreth was born to Abijah Edwin Hildreth (October 24, 1783-April 26, 1868) and Susannah Hildreth (December 3, 1789-September 10, 1861) on October 19, 1809, in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. On November 30, 1837, he married Eliza Parker White (October 18, 1817-November 18, 1890) in Cambridge and to the union ten children were born. The Hildreths lived in Groton on a large farm until 1880 when the family moved to Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts.  At some point Hildreth becomes involved in the dry goods business in Boston with partner George Cummings. Hildreth died on August 25, 1882, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy-two where he was also buried. Materials are arranged in chronological order.

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