tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post4632091668986154730..comments2024-03-26T00:48:24.850-07:00Comments on Heirlooms Reunited: 1840 Letter from Lovina Libby at Great Falls, New Hampshire, to her Future Husband Benjamin Franklin Baker at Waterboro, MainePam Beveridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-48008135073604721262019-07-21T05:54:45.265-07:002019-07-21T05:54:45.265-07:00Very interesting! Thanks for the background infor...Very interesting! Thanks for the background information.Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-20549149487953516992019-07-19T07:50:24.082-07:002019-07-19T07:50:24.082-07:00I love this one. A terrific love-note with lots o...I love this one. A terrific love-note with lots of historical clues.<br /><br />Lovina, like so many ladies of this period, might have worked in Great Falls (Somersworth) for employment at Great Falls Manufacturing Company. This company predominately employed women around this timeframe and Great Falls itself was therefore predominantly female around 1840. The Wendell brothers, who founded this enterprise, were hard-core methdodists. Somehow, they seem to have converted the vast majority of the folks to lived there to this denomination -- a topic that has fascinated me for a long time. It's almost as though one had to practice this faith as a condition for employment! <br /><br />It's also possible that Lovina had a prior connection to this region -- her given name being a red flag. Roots of this given name appear to originate around Great Falls, from Lovina Hobbs who married Sheldon Annis. Her given name has some connection to a similar-sounding surname that I can't recall at the moment. <br />Ryan Noyeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10228886375412040119noreply@blogger.com