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

SEARS, NATHANIEL,  a pioneer in the county, was a brother of Alden 
Sears, who built the hotel known now as the Union House.  Sherman W., 
son of Nathaniel, married Catherine Cook, and had by her eight children, of 
whom Frank C., born May 30, 1846, at Duxbury, Vt, was the second.  In 
August, 1864, Frank C. with his father enlisted as recruits in Company A, 
Sixth Vermont Volunteers, serving about ten months, and both being 
mustered out of service at the close of the war on June 11, 1865.  April 6, 
1868, Mr. Sears married Addie C., daughter of John F. Powell, of Richford.  
In the fall of the same year he started in business in this village as a general 
merchant, in which he is still engaged.

Submitted by Linda Pingel