Israel Jerome Townsend (1825 - 1892)

Born 25 Apr 1825 in North Castle, Westchester Co, New York, USA

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Died 6 Jun 1892 at age 67 in Fairmont, Martin, Minnesota, United States

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Biography

Israel Jerome Townsend was born in Armonk, North Castle NY in1825. He is the son of Israel Townsend and Phebe Thorn Sands, and married Mary Louisa Emmons (Daughter of Isaac Emmons), August 19. 1853.^[1] Israel Jerome attended Columbia College, divinity school, class of 1847, member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. He moved his family west to Minnesota on behalf of the Domestic Missionary Society of Protestant Episcopal Church in the 1850s. He was an Episcopal minister in Blue Earth, MN and at Saint Martins Church in Fairmont, MN. Israel Jerome Townsend and Mary Louise Emmons had the following children: Herbert Israel Townsend, and Mary Elizabeth Townsend.

Israel and Mary Emmons Townsend are buried at Lakeside Cemetery Fairmont, MN.

Sources

1. ↑ History of Westchester County: New York, Including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, Volume 2, 1886, by John Thomas Scharf

See also:

• "Townsend—Townshend, 1066-1909: the history, genealogy and alliances of the English and American house of Townsend” page 103