Canadice - One of our old and respected citizens, Thomas Doolittle, died Tuesday morning the 19 inst, at the advanced age of 87 years - as near as we have learned - and the funeral is appointed for Thursday, the 21st at 11 o’clock a.m., at the M. E. Church.
Mr. Doolittle has many relatives in town, and some in the west, and a son at Syracuse, N. Y. The deceased is a brother of Alva Doolittle of Wayland.
Thomas Doolittle Esq. was born in April 1792, and came to the town of Richmond (now Canadice) and bought of Samuel Agard the farm on which he died, in 1825.
He thus became one of the few who survived the changing of the wilderness to the present fruitful fields of that enterprising town, and in his day bore his share of the trials incidental to such a change.
In an early day he kept a tavern in that town, was elected and held the office of Town Clerk from 1832 to 1836 and again in 1842, and was Justice of the Peace from 1846 for several years.
He passed his meridian of usefulness some years ago, and on the 16th inst., at a ripe old age went to “sleep with his fathers.”
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