TITLE:   Bio, BENJAMIN TYLER RICHARDS

SOURCE:  History of Strafford County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens 
         by John Scales, editor Dover Daily Democrat, published by Richmond-
         Arnold Publishing Co., F.J. Richmond, Pres;  C.R. Arnold, Sec and 
         Treas., Chicago, Ill., ©1914  pg 716

TRANSCRIBED:  by C Parziale, Feb 2001

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	BENJAMIN TYLER RICHARDS, one of Rochester’s respected citizens, now 
retired, residing at No. 220 North Main Street, was born at Lynn, Mass., 
April 27, 1835, and has spent his entire life in the New England states.  He 
attended the village schools in boyhood but as soon as old enough took his 
place on the shoemaker’s bench to learn the trade.  At that time no one had 
even dreamed of the present great shoe factories with their specialized 
machinery, able to turn out thousands of completed footwear a day, and he 
learned the trade in the old way and with the old instruments.  Now hand-made
shoes are a luxury while then they were a necessity.  Mr. Richard’s 
continued to live at Lynn until he was 30 years of age.  In 1855 he went to 
Redfield, Kennebec County, Me., which was his home for thirteen years and 
during eleven years of this time he was postmaster of that city and for seven
years town clerk.  He returned then to Lynn, Mass., where he remained for 
eight more years and then came to Rochester as foreman in the shoe-cutting 
department of a factory belonging to F.W. Breed of Lynn, Mass.  Mr. Richard’s 
continued in this capacity until about 1901, when he retired, after a busy 
and useful life.
	Mr. Richard’s was married in early manhood to Miss Marilla M. 
Elliott, of Readfield, Me., and five children were born to them:  David 
Elliott, who is unmarried and lives at Kansas City; Elizabeth, who is the 
widow of Benjamin Router, of Lynn, Mass., resides at Rochester and has one 
daughter, Mildred, who is the wife of William Jenness, and two grandchildren 
(great grandchildren of our subject), Lloyd and Natalene Jenness; William 
Tyler, who is a resident of Lynn, Mass., married Elma Newhall and they have 
five children, Florence, Grace, Hazel, Chester and Ruth, Grace being the wife
of Daniel McDonald and the mother of one daughter, Lillian; Marilla, who 
died at the age of 18 months; and Isabelle, who is the wife of John H. 
Sheppard and has six children -- William, Harold, Marion, Frances, Gladys and 
Mary.



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