Nicholas Gaubert Norcross
Nicholas G. Norcross, the older brother of Hon. Jonathan Norcross was born 25 Dec. 1805, a native of Orono, Penobscot, ME. He married Sophronia and removed to Bangor, Maine, where he embarked upon a very prosperous career in the lumber industry; finally settling in Lowell, Massachusetts, where the industry additionally thrived. There Norcross was known as "The Lumber King" of Lowell, MA. One of his son-in-laws; Charles Wesley Saunders, who had married his daughter Caroline O. D., was also quite noted in Lowell in the lumber industry and politics as well.
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