Richmond family

Trajan Hoyt Richmond, a native of Poultney, Vermont, and his wife, Lydia M. Cazier, had ten children: Charles E., Charlotte, Rollin M. (or Rowland), Joel, Cornelia, Lewis L., Sarah, Hiram Hoyt, Albert D., and Edwin. They lived in Lebanon, New York, in the mid-19th century. Hiram and Albert Richmond traveled to the West Coast in the 1860s and 1870s. Lewis L. Richmond was an agent for sewing machine companies in Saint Louis and Saint Joseph, Missouri; he and his wife, Mary Eunice Lasell, had four children: Minnie, Merle, Jessie, and Ralph. Rollin Richmond and his wife Ruth lived in Lebanon, New York; their nieces and nephews included Emmett J. Close, Lena Courtney, and E. J. Fisk.

William and Ernestine Patterson lived with Rollin and Ruth Richmond in Lebanon, New York, in 1880.

From the guide to the Richmond family collection, 1872-1909, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)