Peddler Sumner Frost and Family -- about 1880
Hannah Tyler Frost (1843-1882), Mahala Frost (1864-1933), Sumner F. Frost (Born: 1841 Albany, Oxford County, Maine. Sumner spent six years seeing the world as a sailor. Later he served in F Company, New Hampshire 14th Infantry, in the Civil War. Sumner died May 14,1905 and is buried in: West Riverside Cemetery in Milan, New Hampshire. My wife and I visited his grave not too long ago.
The photo is from the album of Gram Fifield (Hester Ellingwood Fifield,1820-1895, Dummer, Coos County, New Hampshire. Hester and her husband, Edward, adopted Sumner and his sister Alvina (my g-g-grandmother) after their father died. Later Gram Fifield raised Alvina's children too after Alvina's husband died in the Civil War and Alvina died soon after.
After the Civil War Sumner listed his trade as "peddler" on the United States Census.
"...peddlers were itinerant merchants who roamed the country when its interior markets were still underdeveloped and extremely diffuse. Beginning in the colonial period, such men—frequently of New England origin—traveled from farm to farm with their trunks strapped on their backs or, as roads improved, in wagons. Trunk peddlers who sold smaller items like combs, pins, cheap jewelry, knives and woodenware, knitted goods, and books...."
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Peddler Sumner Frost and Family -- about 1880
Hannah Tyler Frost (1843-1882), Mahala Frost (1864-1933), Sumner F. Frost (Born: 1841 Albany, Oxford County, Maine. Sumner spent six years seeing the world as a sailor. Later he served in F Company, New Hampshire 14th Infantry, in the Civil War. Sumner died May 14,1905 and is buried in: West Riverside Cemetery in Milan, New Hampshire. My wife and I visited his grave not too long ago.
The photo is from the album of Gram Fifield (Hester Ellingwood Fifield,1820-1895, Dummer, Coos County, New Hampshire. Hester and her husband, Edward, adopted Sumner and his sister Alvina (my g-g-grandmother) after their father died. Later Gram Fifield raised Alvina's children too after Alvina's husband died in the Civil War and Alvina died soon after.
After the Civil War Sumner listed his trade as "peddler" on the United States Census.
"...peddlers were itinerant merchants who roamed the country when its interior markets were still underdeveloped and extremely diffuse. Beginning in the colonial period, such men—frequently of New England origin—traveled from farm to farm with their trunks strapped on their backs or, as roads improved, in wagons. Trunk peddlers who sold smaller items like combs, pins, cheap jewelry, knives and woodenware, knitted goods, and books...."
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