• Born: 20 Mar 1811, Meriden CT
• Marriage (1): Susan Benham on 25 Dec 1832
• Died: 21 Dec 1865, Meriden CT

  General notes:

Pewtersmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: Ashbel Griswold, in Meriden CT.

• Partnership: Ira Couch, after 1842, in Meriden CT. As COUCH & FRARY.

• He appeared on the Pewtersmith census in 1850 in Meriden CT. Listed as a manufacturer.

• He worked before 1852 as a pewtersmith in Meriden CT

• Partnership: Horace C. And Dennis C. Wilcox, Isaac Lewis, Lemuel Curtis, William Lyman, and John Munson, in 1852, in Meriden CT. As MERIDEN BRITANNIA Co. ¹²

James married Susan Benham, daughter of Darius Benham and Cynthia Cone, on 25 Dec 1832. (Susan Benham was born on 20 Apr 1812 in Meriden CT and died on 11 Mar 1871.)