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JULIA (PARMLY) BILLINGS 1835-1914
Eleazer, Eleazer, Jehiel, Stephen, Stephen, John, John
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at right with three of her daughters, married Frederick
Billings (1823-1890), who a New York attorney,
environmentalist, railroad president and businessman.
Today the family spread outside Woodstock, Vt., is a
working dairy farm that is part of the Billings Farm
& Museum, operating in partnership with the
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
Julia appears in "The Parmly Sisters," a painting by Thomas P. Rossiter. Billings, Mont., founded in 1882 by the Northern Pacific Railway as a home for its employees, was named for Frederick.
External link: Parmly Billings
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Photos Nos.: 07-0225f, 07-0227, parmbillings
The couple's oldest son,
Parmly, at right, arrived in the frontier town five years
later and became part owner of a ranch and a bank, and
landed a seat on the local school board. He contracted
pneumonia and died at the age of 25; his grief-stricken
family established the