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Thomas Jefferson Remington

Male 1835 - 1901  (66 years)


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  • Name Thomas Jefferson Remington 
    Born 15 Aug 1835  Coventry, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 23 Sep 1901  [1, 2] 
    Buried Historical Cemetery 83, Scituate, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I05083  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father John Remington,   b. Abt 28 Feb 1805, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Mar 1883, Coventry, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Mother Louisa Potter,   b. 1811,   d. 7 Mar 1849  (Age 38 years) 
    Married Abt 1830 
    Family ID F01939  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Letitia White,   b. 15 Dec 1839, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Sep 1899  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 20 Feb 1859  RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
     1. Frederick Alonzo Remington,   b. 12 Apr 1859, RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jan 1940  (Age 80 years)
     2. Lydia Remington,   b. 3 Mar 1864, Scituate, Providence Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Mar 1951, Norwood, Norfolk Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     3. Susan Etta Remington,   b. Abt 1866,   d. 9 Dec 1877  (Age ~ 11 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F01942  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (If you use any portion of these notes, please give credit to me, Lois Sorensen, and to other sources as noted herein.)

      According to the "History of Providence County," p. 621, ed. by Richard M. Bayles in 1891, Thomas was born in Coventry, but soon afterwards his parents moved to Scituate. He married Letitia White of Scituate, and they had three children.

      In the 1880 Federal Census, the family is at Scituate, Providence, County, RI.

      Thomas was elected to the Scituate Town Council in 1887 and 1889, serving as president for part of the time. During the Civil War he was in the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery.

      Around 1875 he started the Remington's Dairy, which was continuously managed by future generations for 94 years. Formerly he had been a cattle dealer. He would take the train to New York, buy horses and cows, then drive them home to Rhode Island, selling and trading some along the way. After starting the dairy business, he peddled milk by horse and wagon, and often by horse and sleigh in the winter months. (Information on the Remington's Dairy was obtained from several newspaper articles on file at the North Scituate Library.)

  • Sources 
    1. [S012445] Remington Family, Martha A. Benns, 37.

    2. [S012398] RI Cemetery Database.

    3. [S012955] RI Marriage Index.