Bio of Follett, Marville M. (b.1812) Wabasha Co., MN
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Follett, Marville M., retired jeweler, Lake City, is a native of
Smithfield, Rhode Island, born in 1812. His father, Leonard Follett, was
of French extraction and a native of the same state. He died in early
life, leaving this his only child to the care of the mother, who soon
after married again. Her maiden name was Lavina Jefferson, also a native
of Rhode Island, and of English parentage. The later years of her life
were passed in the state of Massachusetts, where she died in the 80th year
of her age. The orphan boy whose name heads this sketch was forced out of
school into a woolen factory, to earn his own bread and clothes, at an
early age. At the age of twenty-one years he went to Lowell,
Massachusetts, where he became a jeweler's apprentice. After completing
his trade he entered in business for himself, remaining two years in the
same city. While here he married Miss Martha Berry, on June 1, 1837. She
was the daughter of Peleg Berry, a wealthy farmer of West Fairley, Orange
county, Vermont, whither they soon after removed. In West Fairley he
established himself in the business of his trade, and there remained till
1854, when he sold out and went to Canton, New York, where he devoted
twelve years to the same business. Failing health by this time induced him
to make a change, and accordingly he, through the advice of a friend, went
to Upton, Massachusetts, bought a farm and followed agricultural pursuits
till the spring of 1868, when he sold again, and in June of the same year
removed to Minnesota and permanently located in Lake City. Here he
invested in a stock of merchandise, which he placed in charge of a
son-in-law, and in this way lost a large amount of his hard-earned money,
after which he was obliged to go back to his trade, and thus continued
till 1860. Their children are Susan V., wife of J. W. Champlin, Clara M.,
now Mrs. H. F. Tanner, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Jennie L., died in
Vermont, Luther M., a jeweler in Appleton, Wis., and Leonard P. at
Wahpaton, D. T.