Josiah Gorham Childs (1823 - 1901)

Born 22 Jun 1823 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Adulsa H. (Nickerson) Childs — married 26 May 1844 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA

Husband of Harriet A. (Brown) Childs — married 16 Oct 1849 in Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

Husband of Harriet B. (Taber) Childs — married 4 Mar 1885 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

Died 13 Dec 1901 at age 78 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Josiah was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1823, the son of David Childs and Sally Coombs.

Josiah married Adulsa Nickerson in 1844. They had one daughter before Adulsa died in 1848. (The child, born Flora Augustine, was legally renamed Adulsa Nickerson Childs in honor of her late mother.)

He remarried in 1849 to Harriet A. Brown. They had 3 children, of which two reached adulthood. The family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, by 1870. Harriet died there in 1883.

He married for a third and final time to Harriet B. Taber in 1885.

By 1883, he had founded J. G. Childs & Son, a wholesale fish dealing business in New Bedford, Massachusetts,with his son Augustine. The two also worked with other fish dealers in business undertakings, such as "Childs & Peckham" (1887) with Frank Peckham, and "Childs & Eldridge" with Fred Eldridge (1883).

"J. G. Childs & Son" is listed up until 1898 in the city directories of New Bedford. [1]. Josiah seems to have retired shortly after that, and his son Augustine became president at another fish business (or perhaps he just renamed the old business?) Either way, Josiah was retired by the time of the 1900 census.

He died in December of 1901 and was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

Sources

• "Massachusetts Town Records, ca. 1638-1961," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH26-SZ1 : 20 April 2016), Josiah G. Childs and Hattie B. Taber Hested, 04 Mar 1885
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZT-FY7R : 5 January 2017), Josiah G Childs and Harriet A Brown, 16 Oct 1849
• "Massachusetts State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQHD-54D : 15 November 2014), Josiah G Childs, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDSL-FTV : 17 October 2014), Josiah Childs, Massachusetts, United States
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH6Q-1WC : 11 August 2016), Josiah G Childs, New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M95G-F2R : accessed 30 March 2017), Josiah Childe, Precinct 9 New Bedford city Ward 5, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
• "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N48Q-F9S : 10 December 2014), Josiah G. Childs, 13 Dec 1901
• FindAGrave.com, Josiah G. Childs, Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Massachusetts [2] accessed 2 Apr 2017
• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Barnstable V-1, pg 409, [6:85], (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2010), accessed 27 October 2015. "[6:85]...The Children of David Childs & Sally his wife viz Josiah Gorham born June 22d 1823