• Born: 29 Nov 1811, Wales MA
• Marriage (1): Mary Edwards

  General notes:

Jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: William Beecher, circa 1826, in Southbridge MA.

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Cumberland RI. Listed as a jeweler.

• He worked circa 1853 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Woonsocket RI with a shop in the Farrington Building at 32-35 Main Street.

• He appeared on the census in 1860 in Cumberland RI. Listed as a merchant.

• He appeared on the census in 1870 in Woonsocket RI. Listed as a jeweler.

• Example: Tradecard, circa 1880, in Private Collection.

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Woonsocket RI. Listed as a manufacturing jeweler.

Billings married Mary Edwards. (Mary Edwards was born in 1814.)