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Henry Gilman Little

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Henry Gilman Little

Birth
Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
3 Nov 1900 (aged 87)
Grinnell, Poweshiek County, Iowa, USA
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Grinnell, Poweshiek County, Iowa, USA
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Henry Gilman Little, was born at Goffstown, N. H., in 1813, and died at Grinnell, Iowa, Nov. 3, 1900. He was of Puritan blood. His revolutionary grandfather stood with the " embattled farmers " at Lexington to fire " the shot heard round the world," and numerous earlier ancestors were members of the provincial and colonial congresses and men of influence and standing. In one branch of his mother's ancestry there had been a line of deacons unbroken for a hundred years, and many clergymen of his blood were prominent in the Massachusetts Congregationalism of early days. Mr. Little, leaving home with his parents' blessing at the age of sixteen, lived for a time at Wethersfield, Conn., in the family of his mother's brother, Rev. Dr. Tenney, and after- wards in Newington. He went to Illinois in 1835, and the next year brought a young wife from the comforts of a Connecticut home to dwell in a log cabin of one room. The place where they settled, by the energy of Mr. Little and others, be- came the thriving city of Kewanee. He was surveyor, teacher, lecturer, builder, and in early days a hunter. He held many public offices, and was considered a man of good judgment and wise counsel

SOURCE: A genealogy of the Viets family with biographical sketches : Dr. John Viets of Simsbury, Connecticut, 1710, and his descendants, p.121 Contributor: LINDA CUNHA (50896274)
Henry Gilman Little, was born at Goffstown, N. H., in 1813, and died at Grinnell, Iowa, Nov. 3, 1900. He was of Puritan blood. His revolutionary grandfather stood with the " embattled farmers " at Lexington to fire " the shot heard round the world," and numerous earlier ancestors were members of the provincial and colonial congresses and men of influence and standing. In one branch of his mother's ancestry there had been a line of deacons unbroken for a hundred years, and many clergymen of his blood were prominent in the Massachusetts Congregationalism of early days. Mr. Little, leaving home with his parents' blessing at the age of sixteen, lived for a time at Wethersfield, Conn., in the family of his mother's brother, Rev. Dr. Tenney, and after- wards in Newington. He went to Illinois in 1835, and the next year brought a young wife from the comforts of a Connecticut home to dwell in a log cabin of one room. The place where they settled, by the energy of Mr. Little and others, be- came the thriving city of Kewanee. He was surveyor, teacher, lecturer, builder, and in early days a hunter. He held many public offices, and was considered a man of good judgment and wise counsel

SOURCE: A genealogy of the Viets family with biographical sketches : Dr. John Viets of Simsbury, Connecticut, 1710, and his descendants, p.121 Contributor: LINDA CUNHA (50896274)

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