Abel F. Beardsley took residence of The Parsonage as a manufacturer of lightning rods. Most of the town's records burned in a fire at the town clerk's home in 1867, so the exact date of the Beardsley house is unknown.
Abel F. Beardsley took up residence at The Parsonage as an entrepreneur manufacturing lightning rods. As a result of a fire that ravaged the town clerk's home in 1867, destroying most of the town's records, the exact date of the construction of the Beardsley house remains uncertain.