| NAME |
Copley, Lois A. (Miss) |
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| PLACE |
Lowell, MA |
| AGE
IN 1850 |
24 |
| MAIDEN
NAME |
Lois Ann Copley |
| PARENTS |
Harvey Copley (c. 1795-c. 1854) and Ruth Emerson (1795-1890) |
| BORN |
About 1824 |
| DIED |
21
September 1914
in Richland
Center,
Richland
County,
WI
at the age of 88 |
| BURIED |
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| MARRIED |
William
Sheldon of Richland
Center,
Richland
County,
WI,
about 1895 |
| CHILDREN |
None |
| FEDERAL
CENSUS RECORDS |
1830 |
Goshen,
Addison
County,
VT. The Harvey Copley household consists of one male
between the ages of 30-40, one female 30-40, one female 5-10, and one female under 5. |
| 1840 |
Goshen,
Addison
County,
VT. The Harvey Copley household consists of one male
between the ages of 40-50, one male 10-15, two males 5-10, one female 40-50, one female
15-20, two females 10-15, and two females 5-10. |
| 1850 |
Lowell, Essex County, MA. Enumerated on August 15, 1850, Hannah (26), Lois
(24), Adeline (20), and Mary (16) Copley are living in the boarding house of “L.
Crawford.” Miss Lucy Crawford ran a
boarding house for the Merrimac Manufacturing Corporation in Lowell, which means that the
Copley sisters likely worked there. Incorporated
in 1822, it was the earliest and the largest textile mill in town. In 1851, they employed 1,633 female and 622 male
workers. The entire town of Lowell had a
population of some 33,000. Their boarding
house serviced about 50 young women. |
| 1860 |
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| 1900 |
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| 1910 |
Richland
Center,
Richland
County,
WI
(dwelling 554). Lois A. (78 VT) and her
husband William S. Sheldon (68 NY), a farmer, have been married for fifteen years. She had no children.
Her father was born in NY, her mother in VT. |
| NOTES |
Daughter of “Mrs. Ruth
Copley,” and sister of “Miss Adaline E. Copley,” “Miss Hannah
Copley,” and “Miss Mary J. Copley.”
Worked in the textile mills of Lowell,
MA
in 1850. |
