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Alvah Norton BELDING was born 27 March 1838 in Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
Alvah Norton BELDING was the child of Hiram Hulbert BELDING and Mary WILSONAlvah Norton BELDING died 18 December 1925
m. Lizzie Smith Merrick
1849–1916 (m. 1870)
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1838 Birth 27 March 1838
Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
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“Alvah Norton Belding was born March 27, 1838, in Ashfield, Mass., and there received his elementary education in the public and high schools. Until seventeen years of age he remained at home and aided in the farm work, doing as did other lads in the locality, and after the family’s removal to Michigan found plenty of that kind of exercise on the wild land. For the wages of eighty-seven cents per day he assisted in the building of the dam at what is now the city of Belding, and when the field of labor around the home became too restricted for his energies he looked about for something else. When but a lad of sixteen he had been a successful traveling salesman for one summer over western Massachusetts, selling jewelry for W. M. Root, of Pittsfield, Mass., who in those days had a number of men ‘on the road.’ Having a natural gift in this direction, and desirous of taking up other business than that of farming, Mr. Belding turned his attention to the business of selling silk. An elder...Read MORE...
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“Alvah Norton Belding was born March 27, 1838, in Ashfield, Mass., and there received his elementary education in the public and high schools. Until seventeen years of age he remained at home and aided in the farm work, doing as did other lads in the locality, and after the family’s removal to Michigan found plenty of that kind of exercise on the wild land. For the wages of eighty-seven cents per day he assisted in the building of the dam at what is now the city of Belding, and when the field of labor around the home became too restricted for his energies he looked about for something else. When but a lad of sixteen he had been a successful traveling salesman for one summer over western Massachusetts, selling jewelry for W. M. Root, of Pittsfield, Mass., who in those days had a number of men ‘on the road.’ Having a natural gift in this direction, and desirous of taking up other business than that of farming, Mr. Belding turned his attention to the business of selling silk. An elder...Read MORE...
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Residence A. N. Belding, Rockville, Conn.
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