HORATIO B. RICHARDSON was born, at Waltham, Mass., February 10, 1813, and
was one of ten children born to Ruel and Orra (Bird) Richardson.  He was
educated in the common schools of his native State and Connecticut, and when
a young man learned the machinist's trade of his father.  When only about
fifteen years old he was made second overseer in a cotton spinning mill at
Glastonbury, and besides having worked at this business in Glastonbury he
was also at Lowell and other places.  In 1833 he came to Bedford to start
the woolen mills, then in course of erection, and remained one year, then
went to Louisville, Ky., and from there a year later to Missouri.  Two years
later he returned to Bedford, which has ever since been his home.  In 1847
he embarked in merchandising which for thirty-seven years he has continued
without interruption, and to-day represents one of the oldest and most
reliable business houses of Bedford.  He owns, besides his grocery and
provision store and building, nine dwellings and other business property in
Bedford and Springville, and eighty acres of farming land.  He has served in
local positions of trust in the county, is a Republican and has always been
identified with the best interests of his county and particularly in the
erection of the High School building in Bedford.  On the 19th of May 1842,
Nancy A. Webb became his wife, and to their union eleven children have been
born, only the following being yet alive:  Henry, Horace, Allen, Orra, Mary,
Ellen and Louise.


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