Windsor

BILLINGS, Fred O.

Men of Vermont: an Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Pub. Co., 1894, part II, p 120

Fred O. BILLINGS, Sharon, real estate broker, was born 18 June 1881 in Sharon 
[Windsor County, Vermont], son of Olin Leslie and Jessie F. (SARGENT) 
BILLINGS. Educated at Tilton Seminary, Tilton [Belknap County], New 
Hampshire, and Bryant and Stratton Business College, Boston, Massachusetts. 
He was reared on a farm; at the age of sixteen farmed for Rev. G. CHAMBERLAIN 
for one year; from seventeen to twenty-one fired for the Amoskeag Company of 
Manchester [Hillsborough County], New Hampshire. Entered training school for 
nurses at Tewksbury [Middlesex County], Massachusetts, in 1900, and engaged 
in nursing for ten years. Republican. Member of the Congregational Church. 
Member of Sharon Lodge No. 105, Free & Accepted Masons, and Sharon Grange. 
In 1911 he [Fred O. BILLINGS] married Bessie Dora BUELL of South Strafford 
[Orange County, Vermont].

Submitted by Cathy Kubly