Person:Alfred Sisson (4)

BIOGRAPHY: History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Biographical NY: The American Historical Society, Inc. 1920 - Page 102: John Sisson, son of Nathan and Lydia Sisson, was a farmer most of his life, living for a time in Potowanet [sic]. Later he lived in Cranston, Knightsville, Quidnick, Dodgeville, Central Falls, West Greenwich, working small farms in these milling districts of Rhode Island. He married, October 11, 1829, Amy Allen, daughter of Benjamin and Susannah Allen, of Middletown, R. I. John and Amy Sisson were the parents of the following children: 1. Alfred P., died July, 1918, was an overseer of the carding room of a Bissell Cotton Mill, overseer of the Sepachet Mills and of the Harris Mills, superintendent of the Dodgeville Mills of B. B. & R. Knight, and held positions in Webster, Holyoke and Fall River, Mass., and Phenix, R. I.; he aided in the upbuilding of several cotton mills which had been badly managed, and was one of the most capable of mill men; he married Cynthia Knight, of Coventry, daughter of Alfred Knight, and they were the parents of two daughters, Nellie, married C. H. Hoar, of Barrington, R. I., and Annie, married ---- Ladd, of Holyoke, Mass. 2. Peter K., was a mill man.