When a Young Woman from a Poor Country brought Our Family into the American Economy

My grandfather's family on our Mother's side was living in Nova Scotia, where they had been ever since America won its independence from England.

They had been Loyal to the Crown and lost all their property as a result. They were rewarded with property in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia economy remained poor, but the American economy took off.

One young woman in the Sanford family married into a wealthy family in Boston (the Fishers), they owned a Business College, and this made them wealthy. She brought down her brother from Nova Scotia, who learned Shorthand and taught Shorthand in the Business School.

He was able to buy a new house in Summerville, a suburb of Boston, and married one of the Business School students, a recent immigrant from England. They had three children, two girls, and a boy, the second girl was my mother, Mildred.