"Received a good academic education and taught school seven or eight years. Resided in Washington, D. C., from 1865 to 1883, when he removed to Buffalo, N. Y., and engaged in the wholesale coal business. Remained there five years, then for health's sake went to Topeka, Kansas, where he is still living. Is Western manager for the Barber Asphalt Company of N.Y."
--- Alonson Gray 1889.
"He worked at home until the death of his mother, then, with nothing to start in life, took a deed of the farm at South Canton, N. Y., enlarging it to sixty-six acres, and by strict economy and hard work, paid for it, and supported his father during life; also laying by a little for old age. About 1868 he gave up farming and moved to Potsdam village, going into a meat and grocery store at a good salary. Two years since he had a shock of paralysis, which has rendered him unfit for business, but he is able yet to be about."
--- Alonson Gray 1889.1
"She always lived at Potsdam, a quiet, uneventful life, faithful in all home and social duties. She was attacked with some internal disease called tumorous, from which she suffered much and which confined her to her room for many years. Her husband was taken from her one night with heart disease, without a moment's notice, Oct. 7, 1885, but she endured all her discipline without a murmur, patiently waiting for her change to come. She was stricken with paralysis, and did not speak nor swallow anything for thirteen days, d. June 26, 1888. One son, Henry Wilson, b. Sept. 1, 1857, in business at Potsdam, and with at adopted sister remaining to the home."
--- Alonson Gray 1889.