He was a hotel keeper at Shrewsbury and Sudbury, removed to Rochester where his first six children were born. He
began a butchering business and in two years entered the manufacturing of shoe pegs, continuing to 1840 when he
was burnt out and lost all. He then removed to Wayne Co, OH and in 1845 to Medina OH- taken from History of Oxford, MA
page 687He was in the hotel business in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, also in Sudbury, Massachusetts Later he was
a manufacturer of shoe pegs. They removed to Rochester, N.Y., in 1827, and thence to Ohio in 1840, locating on a farm in
Mohicanville, in 1845, went to Medina, Ohio, where he was in the milling business for 2 years; then engaged in teaming
and machine threshing; his death occurred in Medina, Ohio.