Stocking, George
Biographical notes:
The shoemaker George Stocking was born on May 23, 1784, on his family's farm in Ashfield, Mass., the second son of Abraham and Abigail (Nabby) Stocking. At 25, he married Ann Toby (1790-1835) from nearby Conway, with whom he had nine children, followed by two more children with his second wife, the widow Mary Jackson Shippey, whom he married on Dec. 16, 1840. George succeeded Amos Stocking, his uncle, in the tanning and shoemaking business at Pittsfield, Mass., where he died on Christmas day 1864.
From the guide to the George Stocking Account Book MS 486 bd., 1815-1850, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)
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- Shoemakers
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- Ashfield (Mass.) (as recorded)
