Background
Little"s father, Josiah, was a descendant of one of the first settlers of what is now Auburn, Maine. Edward Little was born in 1773 in Newbury, Massachusetts and attended Phillips Exeter before graduating from Dartmouth College in 1798.
Little"s father, Josiah, was a descendant of one of the first settlers of what is now Auburn, Maine. Edward Little was born in 1773 in Newbury, Massachusetts and attended Phillips Exeter before graduating from Dartmouth College in 1798.
Little eventually became a successful attorney and entrepreneur in the city of Newburyport, but after a devastating fire in 1811 he moved to Portland, Maine several years later, and then in 1826 he moved to what is now Auburn. After his father"s death in 1830, Little inherited land in the Auburn area. Edward Little lived in the Edward Little House and died in 1849.