Joseph Henry Mudgett (1821 - 1880)

Born 1821 in Maine, United States

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Died 1880 at about age 59 in Wisconsin

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Biography

1850 and 1870 census say he was born in Maine.

By 1880 he was in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The census says he was keeping a boarding house. It looks like he was living in the household of a widowed Mrs. McGinnes who was a nurse born in New York and whose parents were born in Vermont. She may perhaps have been some relation? Joseph was living with Mary Jane, and children Jessy, Nelly, and James.

He filed a patent (US patent 200,217) for an improved fencepost in 1877. His patent application says he was still living in Comanche, Iowa. His son Charles was one of the patent Witnesses.

Excerpt from "Thomas Mudgett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his descendants." ^[1]

JOSEPH HENRY MUDGETT (5) (Abraham 4 John 3, 2 Thomas 1) born in Gt. Valley, N.Y. in 1821: died in Camanche, Iowa on 1-12-1881. He married MARY JANE ROWLAND, (b, 1832) daughter of Alexander Rowland. Children:

1. Philip Paine b 1850
2. Charles b 1853
3. Jessie
4. Nella R b 1873
5. Col John Jay b 1873

Sources

1. ↑ "Thomas Mudgett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his descendants." By Mildred Dennett Mudgett & Bruce D. Mudgett. 1961, page 67. https://archive.org/details/thomasmudgettofs00mudg_0

• http://www.scribnerfamilies.org/ghtoutnew/gp10894.htm
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDJR-CFG : accessed 3 March 2016), Mary J Mudgett in household of Jos Mudgett, Iowa, United States; citing p. 8, family 60, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,883
• Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office. 1878. Retrieved via Google Books.