• Born: 15 Jan 1801, Montpelier VT
• Died: 19 Sep 1832, Montpelier VT

  General notes:

Silversmith and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: Josiah Towne, about 1815, in Montpelier VT. ¹

• Advertised: 11 Sep 1829, in Montpelier VT. That he was located opposite bank in Montpelier; carried jewelry and worked as clock- and watchmaker. ³

• Advertised: Vermont Watchman & State Gazette, on 5 Jan 1830, in Montpelier VT. "His stock consists chiefly in silver table and tea spoons, salt and mustard spoons, cream ladles and silverplate of the first quality." ³

• Partnership: Ira Strong Towne, in 1831-1832, in Montpelier VT. As I. S. & J. TOWN. Advertised ". . . silver work oof every description manufactured to oder on short notice." ³

• Example: Watch paper for I. S. & J. TOWN, circa 1831, in American Antiquarian Society.