William Abial RICHARDSON was born in Concord,VT,January
6, 1847, a son of Jacob and Irene [Hovey] Richardson. He was born and bred
a farmer’s boy. He had common school and academical educational advantages
and made good use of them. He taught school. At age twenty he went to Yonkers,N.Y.
and remained there the summer of 1868 until called home by the fatal illness
of his father. He married Halie E. Kenney, daughter of William and Mehitable
[Noyes] Kenney, of Bethelem,NH on November 17, 1868. They have two children,
Katie H. and Harry W.
In company of his brother Francis, he commenced a
long and successful career of hotel keeping and has been continuously engaged
in that business. He was a Democratin politics and represented Littleton
in the state legislature. He was a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago in 1884, which nominated Grover Cleveland for president.
[Engraving
by E.B. Hall’s Sons, New York]
Source:
Gazetteer
of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT; 1764-1887,
by Hamilton Child, May, 1887, page 410.
Additional
information available from Tom Dunn
who provided this photo and biographical sketch.
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