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Ancestors

Edward James Long

1873-1927 · Bangor ME
Born 1873, Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine
Died 1927
Children include Jeremiah

Edward James Long was born at Bangor, Maine, about 1873, the son of John Long, an Irish immigrant, and Joanna Augley. His brothers and sister were born there too: Jeremiah in 1867, Thomas in 1869, John in 1871 and Margaret in 1874.

He came to Massachusetts, and on 20 January 1897, aged 23, he married Lida Swazey Patten at Watertown. She was from Bucksport, Maine, down the Penobscot River from Bangor, the daughter of Mighill P. Patten and Julia Bowden. The couple made their home in Watertown. Their children were John Philip, Jeremiah Wilmon, born 6 September 1905, and Julia Joanna, who carried her two grandmothers' names.

His eldest brother Jeremiah, a candy maker, died at Peabody in 1904 and was buried at Bangor. Edward's second son, born the next year, was named Jeremiah. The family was at Watertown in the censuses of 1910 and 1920.

Edward died in 1927 and is buried in Saint Patrick's Cemetery, Watertown.

Children

Jeremiah Wilmon Long 1905-1983

Sources

Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, births, Watertown 1905, p. 693, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FXFY-BQZ.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, and Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, marriages, Watertown and Boston, 20 January 1897 (FamilySearch index entries).
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, marriages, Watertown, p. 411 no. 10, FamilySearch 1:1:N4CL-7RT; Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, Boston, 1:1:FH86-HT7.
Marriage, Watertown, 20 January 1897, Massachusetts state and town vital records (FamilySearch 1:1:N4CL-7RP, 1:1:N4CL-7RT); Maine, Births and Christenings, Bangor (1:1:F4MQ-7FV, 1:1:F4MQ-7L6, 1:1:F4MQ-WS4, 1:1:F4H6-DHL); death of Jeremiah Long, Peabody, 1904 (1:1:NWL2-N9G); birth of Jeremiah Wilmon Long, 1905 (1:1:FXFY-BQZ); 1910 census Watertown (1:1:M2V1-DMD); 1920 census (1:1:MX1K-DFP); Find a Grave memorial 199065039.

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