Georgiana Louisa Wells
Georgiana Louisa Wells was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, on April 25, 1843, to Jerome and Louisa Wells. Her father was a merchant who owned $6,000 of real estate and $25,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Chicopee. By 1860, she was attending high school. She corresponded with Union soldier Frederick B. Doten during the Civil War, and they got married in Chicopee on October 1, 1866. They had at least two children: Jerome, born around 1870; and Florence, born around 1875.
They lived in Chicopee, and her husband worked as a bank cashier. By 1880, they employed at least one white servant, and by 1900, they employed two servants. Her husband died on April 9, 1903. On January 26, 1917, she left the country on a months-long excursion to “China and Japan, Manchuria, [and] Korea.” She returned to Chicopee in June 1917. Her health deteriorated on the trip, and she died in Chicopee on October 30, 1919.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (2045) | Wells, Georgiana Louisa ~ Doten, Georgiana Louisa | 1843-04-35 | 1919-10-30 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 2
People - Records: 1
- (2045) Wells, Georgiana Louisa is the [wife of] (2044) Doten, Frederick Bartlett
Places - Records: 1
- (1622) [birth, death] ~ Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts
SOURCES
1860, 1880, and 1900 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Record, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Passport Applications, 1795-1925, available from Ancestry.com; Hartford Courant, 13 April 1903; Frederick B. Doten to Georgiana Wells, 29 October 1864, Nau Collection; Frederick B. Doten to Georgiana Wells, 26 March 1865, Nau Collection.
