History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont; 
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; Syracuse, N.Y.; 
D.Mason & Co Publishers; 1891.

County:  Franklin
Township:  Richford

CORLISS, LORENZO D.,  a man well known and highly respected in 
Richford, was a native of the town, being born in 1818, the sixth child of 
Ephraim and Abigail (Goff) Corliss.  At the age of about twenty-three years 
young Corliss commenced life for himself by purchasing and improving a 
tract of land in the eastern part of the town.  Some sixteen years ago, having 
acquired a competency, Mr. Corliss retired from the farm and came to reside 
in Richford village.  Subsequently, however, he again lived on the farm for a 
brief time.  In 1843 he married Mary, a sister of Judge Silas P. Carpenter and 
a daughter of Jonathan Carpenter, of Richford.  No children have been born 
to them, but they have adopted a daughter, Mary, the wife of Edgar G. 
Garvin.  About the time of the war Mr. Corliss was town representative from 
Richford.  He has also served as town lister, and now is and has been for 
many years overseer of the poor.

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