| Title | , Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle: January - April 1874, Editor: Stafford C. Cleveland online [http://www.yatescounty.org/upload/12/historian/Jan74.htm ], accessed 14 Sep 2008 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.). | |
| Short Title | Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County Chronicle: January - April 1874, Editor: Stafford C. Cleveland online [http://www.yatescounty.org/upload/12/historian/Jan74.htm ], accessed 14 Sep 2008 | |
| Source ID | S144 | |
| Text | 8 January 1874 There died in Brooklyn the other day one of the most remarkable men for genius of invention known during the present century. He died the last day, or about the last day of the old year.—His name was Jeptha A. Wilkinson. His father, Jeptha Wilkinson, was a brother of Jemima Wilkinson, the Universal Friend….[He] was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1791. He was a soldier in the war of 1812….Afterwards he invented a remarkably ingenious machine for the manufacture of weaver’s reeds….He married in Paris Sarah H. Gibson, daughter of John H. Gibson, a wealthy lawyer of London, who left them a handsome fortune at his death. They were the parents of fourteen children. … Jeptha Avery Wilkinson was a brother of Mrs. Nancy Johnson, the mother of our townsman Jeptha A. Potter…. | |
| Linked to Individuals: 1 |
Jeptha Avery Wilkinson, Sr. ^ | |
