The Cressy Family

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Deacon George Newton7 Cressey (Alpheus6, Aaron5, Michael4, Jonathan3, Mighill2, Mighill1)
Born June 2, 1827 in Jamaica, Vermont
Married 1860 Mary Bailey daughter of John Bailey, a lawyer, graduate of Dartmouth College, and granddaughter of Washington's General Jacob Bailey of Vermont.
Mr. Cressey's ambition was to enter the ministry. After school days were over, for 40 years he labored unremittingly as a Colporteur and Home Missionary. In 1849, when he received his first Commission from the American Tract Society of New York, he was 22. After serving 5 years in Vermont, Massachusetts and Canada, he went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he spent 35 years. He has helped in founding several churches in Baltimore and the Female City Mission, which is very largely a monument of the joint efforts of himself and his devoted wife, as is also the Home for Fallen and Friendless Women. They did hospital work in the time of the Civil War. "No person in Baltimore, we believe, has exerted so widespread religious influence among the masses as this good man. His name is a loving household word among the poor, and many tears were shed in these poor homes when he left our city." He was an honored and beloved member and Deacon of the Congregational Church of Baltimore.
No children. His wife died in 1868. He returned to his home in Vermont.

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