https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138789723/abram-anthony He was a member of the Berkshire Branch of the Massachusetts Militia, as recorded in the Massachusetts Vital Records in the town of Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts for the year 1849. On March 17, 1833, he was married to Eunice Marie Eddy in Stamford, Bennington, Vermont by Stephen C. Millard, Justice of Peace. The couple had ten (10) children. One son died at the age of 8 months. "Abram Anthony was born on the old Lapham and Anthony homestead at the junction of the North Adams and Savoy roads and was reared to agricultural pursuits. He entered early life into manufacturing, first at Maple Grove with his brother John, and in with his brother-in-law, Issac Hoxie, drawing cotton to produce yarn forty-plus miles from Troy, Rensselaer, New York to Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts on roads leading over high hills. The yarn was carried to neighboring houses and woven by handloom into stripe and then returned to the factory store and paid for in store pay. There is no money in store pay. Lumber, run, groceries in exchange for goods, and signed promise to pay notes from other business owners. Early manufacturing under these difficulties was not successful and in 1833, Abm. Anthony & Co. closed and Abram commenced farming just east of Adams Village where he spent most of his life. He was a very enterprising man, not confining himself to agricultural pursuits only, purchasing large tracts of woodland, he built and operated several sawmills, turning out large amounts of wood, lumber, and bark; keeping gangs of laborers at work year-round regardless of the cost or outcome. He carried on more business than any other man of his time except for Joseph Edmonds, who like Abram, was a jack of all trades. His last enterprise was the building of water power known as the Renfrew Gingham, which he sold to William Pollack for $25,000. He passed away suddenly of heart failure, sitting by the roadside leaning on his staff. " Source: As written by his daughter and recorded in the "Genealogy of the Anthony Family ~ 1495-1904.
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English and West Indian (mainly Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, also Dutch Caribbean): from the personal name Anthony, Latin Antonius, which, with its variants and cognates, is one of the commonest personal names in Europe. Spellings with -h-, which first appear in English in the 16th century and in French (as Anthoine) at about the same time, are due to the erroneous belief that the name derives from Greek anthos ‘flower’. The popularity of the personal name in Christendom is largely due to the cult of the Egyptian hermit Saint Anthony ( AD 251–356), who in his old age gathered a community of hermits around him, and for that reason is regarded by some as the founder of monasticism. It was further increased by the fame of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195–1231), who long enjoyed a great popular cult and who is believed to help people find lost things. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates and derivatives (patronymics) from other languages, for example Greek patronymic Antoniades , Italian Antoni , Polish Antoniewicz , Croatian and Serbian Antonović (see Antonovich ) and Antunović; see also below. The name Anthony is also found among Christians in southern India, but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Compare Antony .
German, Flemish, and French (mainly Alsace): Latinized (humanistic) patronymic from local equivalents of the Latin personal name Antonius, from its genitive form Antoni(i). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the German, Dutch, French, and Slovak cognates Antoni 1 and Antony 2.
History: John Anthony of Hampstead, Middlesex, England (now part of north London) migrated to Boston, MA, in 1634. By 1640 he had moved to Providence, RI, where his descendants are still established.
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