Augustus Edward Bissell

1805 - 1875  (70 years)

• Name	Augustus Edward Bissell
  Born	13 Feb 1805	Torrington Twp, Litchfield Co, Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	31 Jul 1875	Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA
  Person ID	I45613	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2011

  
  

  Father	Elijah North Bissell, Sr.,   b. Abt 1762, Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 23 Feb 1825  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Rachel Cook Soper,   b. 12 Apr 1772,   d. 23 May 1846, Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut, USA  (Age 74 years)
  Married	22 Jan 1789	Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F17033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  http://www.archive.org/stream/yalebios00yalerich/yalebios00yalerich_djvu.txt Augustus Edward Bissell (born February 13, 1805, at Torringford, Conn., died July 31, 1875, at Detroit, Mich.) was a merchant. He lived for eighteen years in Georgia, removing to Detroit in 1839, where he carried on a wholesale mining and lumbering supply business until I860, when lie added to it the flour and grain and shipping business. He was a son of Elijah Bissell and Rachel (Soper) Bissell, and a descendant of the Hugue- not Bissells who were driven out of France at the time (1572) of the St. Bartholomew massacre, fled to Eng- land, settled in Somersetshire, came to Plymouth in 1628, thence to Windsor, Conn., in 1635, and soon had the monopoly of the ferry (the Scantic) across the Big (Connecticut) River, which remained in the family more than one hundred years.