Charles Edward Woolverton and Delight Sabra Bennett

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Husband Charles Edward Woolverton

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           Born: 24 Aug 1820
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         Father: Dennis Woolverton {FGID: 67747169} 1
         Mother: Catharine Nixon {FSID: LHHB-LR9, FGID: 76305568}

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Amanda Rosetta Smith

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Wife Delight Sabra Bennett

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            AKA: Delight Salva Bennett
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Children

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1 F Alda Delight Woolverton

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         Spouse: Ingersoll Thomas Torrey

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2 M Linus Woolverton

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           Born: 12 Dec 1846 - Grimsby Township, Upper Canada
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           Died: 7 May 1914
         Buried: 7 May 1914 - Queens Lawn Cemetery, Grimsby, Niagara Regional Municipality, ON
Find A Grave ID: 160022348

         Spouse: Sarah Frances Lorimer
           Marr: 18 Oct 1870

         Spouse: Lilian Frances (Lizzie) Oakley
           Marr: 2 May 1903

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Edward Woolverton

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FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF14912

From David Macdonald

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sebastian/pafg09.htm

From Annals of the Forty No. 9:

"Charles, b. 24 August, 1820. He was educated in Grirnsby
and college in Toronto. He remained a leading agricul­-
turist in Grimsby township, planted one of the first
peach orchards and had a nursery on his farm. He was
a member of the Baptist church and was largely responsible
for establishing a church in Grimsby. He in. 1.
Delight Bennet. 2. Amanda Smith. Children:— Linus,
Alda."

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/smith_andrew_murray_13E.html

"During this period Smith visited Grimsby, in the Niagara peninsula of Upper Canada. There fruit was being grown for local use and he recognized the region as “a good location for the fruit and nursery business.” Returning in 1856, he formed a partnership with Charles Edward Woolverton for the production and distribution of fruit and nursery stock. Using a portion of Woolverton’s farm, they planted “about 600 peach trees in orchard and about 6,000 young apple trees and some pears, plums, cherries, etc., in nursery, in all about eight or ten thousand trees,” Smith later recalled. Although Chauncey and Delos White Beadle operated a larger nursery, at St Catharines, no commercial peach orchard bigger than Woolverton and Smith’s then existed in the peninsula Despite warnings from older farmers that the partners would never sell large quantities of peaches and fruit-trees, the venture proved highly successful. At first Smith built sales by importing peaches from Moody’s Lockport orchard. When their own trees began to bear, he persuaded an express company to establish an office at Grimsby. Since the town was on the Great Western Railway, Woolverton and Smith were able to ship fruit to centres previously supplied from the United States. Smith also induced several American fruit-dealers, including Curtis and Company of Boston, to buy apples from Grimsby, and he helped establish a market for Canadian apples in Britain.

Once local farmers saw that fruit production could yield greater profit from fewer acres than mixed farming, production soared in Grimsby and nearby townships. With the introduction of special “peach cars” to take the tender produce to market by rail, the area became the “Peach Garden of Canada.” Although the benefit to the peninsula’s lagging, grain-based agricultural economy was significant, one of the principal advantages of growing and exporting fruit, Smith said, was that it attracted immigrants by providing evidence of a favourable climate. In 1859 Smith, Woolverton, D. W. Beadle, and 15 others formed the Fruit Growers’ Association of Upper Canada (the Fruit Growers’ Association of Ontario from 1868), which Smith would serve as president in 1890 and as a director throughout the 1890s.

Woolverton and Smith dissolved their partnership about 1870, and Woolverton turned his land over to his son Linus*."

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General Notes: Wife - Delight Sabra Bennett

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FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF14913

From David Macdonald

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sebastian/pafg09.htm

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Notes: Marriage

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FTM
MARR: RIN MH:FF4369

From David Macdonald

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sebastian/pafg09.htm

Sources

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1. WikiTree Wolverton Family.

1 WikiTree Wolverton Family.

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