Flour Merchant

He went to Canada and ran the first steamboat on the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City.  He went into business with his wife's father, under the firm name of Bigelow & Bangs, commission merhchants at 15 Long Warf, Boston.  The firm          owned and ran the first line of packet schooners between Boston, Albany, Troy and New York, bringing flour from the Genesee valley to Boston and were very successful.  After Mr. Bigelow's death the firm became "Bangs & Co."  The 1850 census notes the value of his real estate at $25,000

 

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 14 Mar 1786 - Princeton, Worcester, Massachusetts 2 3
          Death: 22 Mar 1859 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 3
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Events

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1. Residence ², 1850 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Parents

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         Father: Isiah Bangs  (1747-1838) 1 
         Mother: Leah Vining  (1755-1828) 1

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Deborah Knowlton Bigelow  (24 May 1792 -       ) 1 2 4 5 6  
       Marriage: 5 Nov 1815 - Montréal, , Quebec, Canada 3
       Children:
                1. Anne Rebecca Bangs  (1816-1861) 1
                2. Deborah Bigelow Bangs  (1818-1900) 1 4 7 8
                3. Benjamin Bigelow Bangs  (1820-1860) 1 9
                4. Martha Sophronia Bangs  (1821-1850) 1
                5. Isaiah Lincoln Bangs  (1823-1880) 1 2
                6. Joseph Henry Bangs  (1825-1826) 1
                7. Henry Bowman Bangs  (1832-1835) 1

1 Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Trees.

2 Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432,), Year: 1850; Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_325; Page: 54; Image: 110.

3 History and Genealogy of the Bangs in America.

4 Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003.Original data - 1870. United States. Ninth Census of the United States, 1870. Washington, D.C. National Archives and Records Administration. M593, RG29, 1,761 rolls. Minnesota. Minnes), Year: 1870; Census Place: , , ; Roll: M593.

5 Halvorsen, Alice, comp, Barnstable County Massachusetts 1855 Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.Original data - Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Census 1855. Massachusetts, USA: 1855. LDS Film #0953973.Original data: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commo).

6 Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1), Year: 1860; Census Place: Cambridge Ward 2, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M653_508; Page: 361; Image: 363.

7 Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432,), Year: 1850; Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_325; Page: 70; Image: 141.

8 Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1), Year: 1860; Census Place: Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Roll: M653_548; Page: 0; Image: 432.

9 Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432,), Year: 1850; Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_325; Page: 60; Image: 122.