Vernon A. Messinger
Vernon A. Messinger was born on August 17, 1813, in Dedham, Massachusetts, to Jonathan and Chloe Messinger. He married Adeline Fenno on January 8, 1839, and they had two children: Elmar, born on November 15, 1839; and Emma, born on December 7, 1840. They lived in Canton, Massachusetts, and Messinger worked as a silk manufacturer. By 1850, he owned $4,000 of real estate. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1850s, and by 1860, he owned $10,000 of real estate and $8,000 of personal property. In 1861, he received a patent for an “improvement in machines for sorting silk thread.” He retired in the 1860s. He died of old age in Boston on September 14, 1899.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (5325) | Messinger, Vernon A. | 1813-08-17 | 1899-09-14 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (15294) [recipient] ~ Elmar A. Messinger Diary, 1862
People - Records: 3
- (5325) Messinger, Vernon A. is the [parent of] (5324) Messinger, Elmar A.
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Hartford (CT) Courant, 22 February 1861
