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SARGEANT, MOSES MARTIN (1799-1888)

SARGEANT, MOSES MARTIN, general merchant and county treasurer; b. Danville, Vt, 20 May 1799, s/o Asa Sargeant and Sally Martin; m. 1830, Maria Louisa Wood, a native of Prince Edward Island; d. Newcastle, 29 May 1888.

Moses M. Sargeant came to Newcastle in 1825 and started a store. For more than sixty years he had dry-goods, groceries, and patent medicines for sale. For a long time, if not from the start, his store stood on the corner popularly known as "Sargeant's Corner," which was the site subsequently occupied by the Stothart Mercantile Co. His former store was demolished in 1918 before the Stothart Block was built.

Sargeant, who was "proverbial for his honesty and integrity," was chosen to succeed William Loch in 1855 as county treasurer, and he held this part-time appointment for a great many years. He was a faithful adherent of the Presbyterian church, but he believed in mixing with members of other denominations. He was a particular friend of Father Michael Egan, who once referred to him figuratively as his brother.

Sargeant and his wife, Maria L. Wood, who died in 1850, at age forty, had one son, Charles Sargeant, and two daughters, one of whom was Mary Elizabeth Sargeant, the second wife of Richard B. Haddow.

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[b] LDS-IGI [m] official records [d] Advocate 30 May 1888 / Advocate 2 Jan 1868 (ad), 25 Jun 1879, 23 Jan 1884 (ad), 23 May 1918; Gleaner 7 Oct 1850, 21 Feb 1857


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