Eugene B. Floyd

  General notes:

Silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• He worked before 1865 as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker in Springfield MA ⁶

• He worked from 1865 to 1870 as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker in Burlington VT
Some time after 14 April 1870, he sold the business back to Charles W. Wingate, who had recently return to the town. ⁶

• He was a partner from 1865 to 1866 with William Kirkham in Burlington VT as E. B. FLOYD & Co. at 154 Church Street, having bought the business of Charles W. Wingate. ⁶

• Advertised in the Burlington Times (Burlington VT), May 1866, announcing that he was carrying on alone at the "Sign of the Big Eagle." ⁶

• Advertised in the Free Press (Burlington VT), 29 Oct 1866, announcing that he both manufactured and sold gold pens. ⁶

• Advertised in the Free Press (Burlington VT), 11 Aug 1867, announcing that he had just finished making ". . . a large lot of standard silver spoons, forks, fruit knives, and butter knives in the best manner." ⁶

• He worked from 1877 to 1880 as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker in Providence RI

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Providence RI, listed as a jeweler.

Eugene married Mary Cleveland Taylor. (Mary Cleveland Taylor was born in 1850 in Brookline MA.)