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Encydntiebta of Massachusetts
Biographical — Genealogical
Compiled with Assistance of the Following
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER
Former Librarian of Woburn Public Library;
Historian of New England Historic-Genea-
logical Society; Author of "History of Arling-
ton," "Bibliography of Woburn," "History of
the Cutter Family," etc.
EUGENE C. GARDNER
Member of American Institute of Architecture,
etc.; Author of "Homes and How to Make
Them," and other popular works; Lecturer,
and frequent contributor to leading magazines
and newspapers.
HARLAN HOGE BALLARD, A. M.
Librarian of Berkshire Athenaeum and Mu-
seum; Secretary of Berkshire Historical Soci-
ety; Author of "Three Kingdoms;" "World of
Matter;" "Translation into Englisli, Hexameters
of Virgil's Aeneid;" Joint Authoi- "American
Plant Book;" "Barnes' Readers;" "One Thou-
sand Blunders in English."
REV. JOHN H. LOCKWOOD, A. M.
Member of Connecticut "Valley Historical Soci-
ety, and Western Hampden Historical Society;
-Author of "History of the Town of Westfleld,
Mass."
HON. ELLERY BICKNELL CRANE
Charter Member, ex-President and for fifteen
years Librarian of Worcester Society of Antiq-
uity, and Editor of its Proceedings; Author of
"Rawson Family Memorial," "The Crane Fam-
ily," in two volumes, "History of 15th Regi-
ment in the Revolution," and Compiler of a
Number of Genealogies of the Prominent Fam-
ilies of Massachusetts. Member of the New
England Historic-Genealogical and other His-
torical Societies.
CHARLES FRENCH READ
Clerk and Treasurer of Bostonian Society;
Director of Brookline Historical Society; Sec-
ond Vice-President of Mass. See. S. A. R.;
Chairman Membership Com. Mass. Soc. Colo-
nial Wars; Member Board of Managers, Mass.
Soc, War of 1812; Treasurer of Read Soc. for
Genealogical Research.
ROBERT SAMUEL RANTOUL
Ex-President of Essex Institute; Member of
Massachusetts Historical Society; ex-Repre-
sentative and ex-Mayor of Salem.
E. ALDEN DYER, M. D.
President of Old Bridgewater Historical Soci-
ety; President of Dyer Family Association.
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NEWTON, James Hale,
Retired Bank President.
The Newton family, so ably represented
in the present generation by James Hale
Newton, who for the long period of thirty-
two years served as president of the Home
National Bank, he being one of the prin-
cipal organizers in 1884, is of English
origin, the pioneer ancestor arriving in
America many centuries ago, and from
then to the present time (1916) his de-
scendants have been residents of the vari-
ous States of the Union, contributing
their full share to the progress and de-
velopment of the communities wherein
they resided.
(I) Richard Newton, the pioneer an-
cestor above referred to, settled in Mas-
sachusetts prior to 1645, in which year
he was admitted a freeman of the colony,
and for a number of years he was a resi-
dent of Sudbury, removing from there to
Marlborough, his house being located in
the portion later set off as Southborough.
By his wife, Anna or Hannah Newton, he
was the father of six children, among
whom was Moses, of whom further. Rich-
ard Newton died in the year 1701, aged
nearly one hundred years, and his wife
passed away December 5, 1697.
(H) Moses Newton, son of Richard
and Anna or Hannah Newton, was born
in 1646. probably in Sudbury, Massachu-
setts, and later removed to Marlborough,
and was there active in defending the
town against the Indians during King
Philip's war. He married (first) October
27, 1667, Joanna Larkin, who died De-
cember 25, 1713. She bore him eleven
children, among whom was James, of
whom further. He married (second)
April 14, 1714, Sarah, daughter of Na-
thaniel and Sarah (King) Joslyn, of Marl-
borough. She was born 1650, and died
November 4, 1723.
(III) James Newton, son of Moses and
Joanna (Larkin) Newton, was born in
Marlborough, Massachusetts, January 15,
1683, died in Southborough, November
29, 1762, removing to that town in 1727.
He married (first) October 5, 1709, Mary
Joslyn, born April 14, 1685, died May 27,
1710, daughter of Nathaniel and Hester
(Morse) Joslyn, of Marlborough. He
married (second) September 8, 1712,
Rachel Greeley, who bore him six chil-
dren, among whom was Joseph, of whom
further.
(IV) Joseph Newton, son of James and
Rachel (Greeley) Newton, was born in
Southborough, Massachusetts, July 15,
1728, died in Hubbardstown, Massachu-
setts, in 1795, whither he removed in 1777
from Templeton, in which town he resided
for a short period of time. He married,
December 29, 1756, in Southborough. Ex-
perience Drury, who bore him six chil-
dren, among whom, was Ebenezer, of
whom further.
(V) Ebenezer Newton, son of Joseph
and Experience (Drury) Newton, was
born in Southborough, Massachusetts,
December 8, 1770. and died in Greenfield.
Massachusetts, February 16, 1844, ^^'
moving to that town from Hubbards-
town, where he was an honored and es-
teemed citizen. He married Mary Howe,
born about 1775, died October 15. 1804,
and they were the parents of four chil-
dren, among whom was James, of whom
further.
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(VI) James (2) Newton, only son of
Ebenezer and Mary (Howe) Newton,
was born in Templeton, Massachusetts,
July 21, 1801, and died in Greenfield, Mas-
sachusetts, August 19, 1891, having long
passed the allotted time of three-score
years and ten. He removed from his
native town to Hubbardstown, where for
several years he conducted agricultural
pursuits, and in 1835 removed to Green-
field, where he spent the remainder of his
days. He also successfully operated a
farm there, which was formerly the prop-
erty of Zebina Knight; in 1840 built the
"Newton house," near Green river, and
eight years later built the saw mill which
was the foundation of the Newton for-
tune. He married, February 10, 1824,
Esther Hale, born in 1799, ^^^^ June 7,
1885, and they were the parents of the
following named children: i. Laura, born
February 15. 1825, died November 26,
1865 ; married, June 19, 1855, Israel B.
Cross, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2.
Sarah, born April 2, 1826, died April 26,
1826. 3. Daniel Howe, born June 22,
1827; married, September 24, 1862, Mary
A. Cogswell, of Essex, Massachusetts ;
lived in Greenfield and Holyoke. 4. Jo-
seph Drury, born December 9, 1828; mar-
ried, November 23, 1853, Prudence H.
Alvord, of Shelburne ; lived in Greenfield
and later in Holyoke. 5. Susan, born May
27, 1830, died July 4, 1863. 6. James Hale,
of whom further. 7. Moses, born Octo-
ber 27, 1833; married, November 3, 1859,
Maria B. Arms, of South Deerfield. 8.
Ebenezer, born April 6, 1835, died March
4, 185 1. 9. Esther, born October 4, 1836;
married, March 25, 1863, Elias B. Mc-
Clellan, of Greenfield ; lived in Greenfield
and Whately. now in Keene. New Hamp-
shire. 10. John Carter, born April 21,
1838; married, November 28, 1865, Lela
F. Vulte, of New York ; resided in Hol-
yoke. II. Solon, born March 9, 1841, de-
ceased ; was a resident of Greenfield.
(VII) James Hale Newton, son of
James (2) and Esther (Hale) Newton,
was born in Hubbardstown, Massachu-
setts, January 13, 1832. In early boyhood
he attended the district schools of Green-
field, later Williston Seminary, in 1855
became a student at Amherst College, and
subsequently matriculated at Dartmouth
College, from which he was graduated in
1859. During the time he was in college,
he taught two terms in Whately, Massa-
chusetts, and one in Rockport, and in his
senior year taught one term in Lebanon
Center. He was also employed as a clerk
in stores during the summer months, as-
suming these duties early in life. Imme-
diately after his graduation, June 15, 1859,
he was elected principal of the Thomas
Street Grammar School in Worcester, the
largest school in the city, and during the
entire five years of his incumbency of
that office he had what is probably the
unprecedented record of never inflicting
corporal punishment upon any pupil under
his control. He was a born disciplinarian
and teacher, and his school was noted for
the excellent order maintained therein.
He impressed upon the scholars the fact
that they were there for the purpose of
being taught and he to teach them, and
that they must work in perfect coopera-
tion with each other in order that both
might be highly successful. So impres-
sive did this lesson become that after his
first year it was hardly necessary to re-
mind them of this fact, it being taken for
granted and each scholar making up his
mind, if possible, to outdo the other one
and assist not only themselves but the
teacher who furnished the incentive.
In 1864 Mr. Newton removed to Hol-
yoke and in company with his elder
brother, Daniel Howe Newton, and his
younger brother, John Carter Newton,
and others, incorporated and organized
the Hampden Paper Company, the third
industry of its kind in the town at that
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time, and James H. Newton served the
concern in the capacities of business man-
ager and treasurer for two years, at the
expiration of which time he disposed of
his interest in the business. In associa-
tion with his father-in-law, Calvin Taft,
he secured the incorporation of the Frank-
lin Paper Company, erecting a mill hav-
ing a daily capacity of three tons of en-
velope and cardboard papers. He was
the principal owner of the stock of this
company and filled the offices of treasurer
and manager. In 1867 he organized the
Albion Paper Company, retaining his con-
nection with it until 1869, when he sold
his interest to his brother-in-law, Edward
C. Taft, of Holyoke. In 1875 he joined
Moses Newton, James Ramage and
George A. Clark in organizing the New-
ton Paper Company, and in 1879 he or-
ganized the Wauregan Paper Company,
and erected the Wauregan mill, having a
daily capacity of six tons of writing and
envelope papers ; this mill was owned and
operated by members of the Newton fam-
ily. The mills of the Franklin and Wau-
regan Paper companies were sold to the
American Writing Paper Company in
July. 1899. In 1880 he joined with his
brothers, Moses, Daniel H. and John C,
in organizing the Chemical Paper Com-
pany, and became president of the com-
pany on the death of John C. Newton in
1899. I" 1^91 ^^ erected the Norman
Paper Mill, having previously established
this company with a capital stock of
$300,000, and was its president until 1892.
This mill turned out twelve tons of writ-
ing paper and envelopes per day, and was
operated up to 1899, when it was sold to
the American Writing Paper Company.
A spirit along the same lines as mani-
fested in his career as teacher and princi-
pal later characterized Mr. Newton's
business career, and at any time when it
became necessary to fill a place higher up
he always promoted the men who had
shown the greatest interest in the work,
and this method was carried out con-
sistently, and every man in his employ
strove to do the very best he could in
order to be worthy of promotion when
the opportunity presented itself. This, of
course, brought the entire force up to a
very high degree of efficiency with profit
to themselves and satisfaction to their
employers.
In 1869 ^^^- Newton invented and pat-
ented a process for making cloth paper
for collars and confined the operations of
his mill to its manufacture. This process
consisted in running cotton cloth through
the paper-making machine at the same
time with the paper pulp, thereby form-
ing a layer of paper of suitable texture
and thickness on one side and firmly
attached to the cloth. Paper collars were
at first manufactured of paper alone, al-
though some attempts in forming a com-
pound fabric of paper and cloth by past-
ing by hand sheets of paper on cloth had
been made, and cloth-lined paper of this
kind was to some extent in use. Mr.
Newton's combined cloth and paper came
into general use and its manufacture fur-
nished full employment to the Franklin
mill. In 1873 the method of preparing the
combined cloth and paper now employed
was introduced. This process was to run
a web of cloth between rolls, and coat it
on one side with a strongly adhesive solu-
tion of starch ; then to pass it in contact
with a web of paper of equal width,
through a series of steam-heated rolls,
until the dry, finished cloth-paper came
out at the end of the machine. This pro-
cess proved superior to that of Mr. New-
ton, and superseded it, and he then turned
his attention simply to the manufacture
of the paper to be used by others in the
new method.
Although Mr. Newton was for almost
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half a century actively identified with the
industrial ^owth of Holyoke, enjoying
the distinction of having been one of the
pioneers in the work, he also devoted con-
siderable time and attention to other
channels, in which his eflforts were equally
successful. In 1872 he aided in the organ-
ization of the Mechanics' Savings Bank
of Holyoke, serving as its president for
twelve years ; was a member of the board
of directors of the Third National Bank
of Springfield from 1873 to 1882; with
others he organized the City Bank of
Holyoke, in which he was a director until
1884, when he with others, namely, his
brothers, and E. L. Munn, its first cashier,
organized the Home National Bank of
Holyoke, of which he was president for
thirty-two years, until his resignation, at
which time he received great commenda-
tion for his faithful and efficient work
from directors and associates; in 1885, he,
with others, organized the People's Sav-
ings Bank, of which he was a trustee for
several years. Mr. Newton is now in his
eighty-fifth year, and although still hale
and hearty, he concluded that it was time
he withdrew from official positions, which
is a penalty one pays to age, but what is
more delightful in financial or commercial
circles, to say nothing of manufacturing
circles, than to throw down the harness
of business cares with the ringing ac-
claim from associates "glory to your good
works.'"
Mr. Newton also was an active factor
in other public affairs which had for their
object the u])l)uilding of the community.
He was chairman of the school commit-
tee from 1865 to 1868; represented his
district in the State Legislature for the
year 1877; served on the Board of Public
Works for the year 1897 ; has been a direc-
tor in tlie Holyoke City Hospital since its
organization, and has been connected
with the Holyoke City Library as trustee
since its incorporation, and now president
of the association. He was chairman of
the parish committee of the Second Con-
gregational Church for six years, and su-
perintendent of its Sunday school for one
year. He has always taken a keen inter-
est in college affairs, and was president
of the Dartmouth Western Massachusetts
Alumni Association for two years. He
was a member of the Connecticut Valley
Congregational Club from its organiza-
tion and president for one year. He was
also largely engaged in real estate opera-
tions, and he erected a number of tene-
ment houses and cottages for working
men and people of humble means, allow-
ing them ample time in which to make
payments, thus performing a philan-
thropic act for which many people were
exceedingly grateful.
Mr. Newton married (first) November
23, 1863, Susan W^adsworth Taft, born
1841, died 1900, daughter of Calvin Taft.
of Worcester. Children: i. Edward Taft,
born Decem.ber 15, 1864. 2. Frederick
Hale, born February 23, 1866, died 191 1.
3. Eliza. 4. James Bertram, born August
II, 1876. Mr. Newton married (second)
June 29, 1904, Emily Norcross, born in
Winchester, Massachusetts, daughter of
Warren Fisher and Emily (Colburn) Nor-
cross. Mrs. Newton was reared in Welles-
ley Hills, graduated at Wellesley College,
Bachelor of Arts, 1880, Master of Arts,
1884, and studied later at the Harvard
Annex and the American Schools of Ar-
chaeology at Athens and Rome. She
taught Latin in Smith College from 1889
to 1904, holding the position of associate
professor when she resigned. Mrs. New-
ton takes an active part in social, literary
and charitable work in the city of Hol-
yoke, and is a member of many clubs and
organizations.
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LOOMIS, William S.,
Journalist, Man of Enterprise.
Of ancient English family and tracing
in America to Joseph Loomis, who came
in 1639, William S. Loomis, of honored
memory, came into this world richly en-
dowed with those qualities of heart, soul
and body, which make for the strong in-
tellectual and physical man. Holyoke,
Massachusetts, was the scene of his life's
activity and there, where best known, he
was best loved and appreciated. A re-
view of his life work is most interesting,
and to the young man seeking an inspira-
tion will be found most helpful, as the
story of a man who met every responsi-
bility as it presented itself with a brave
heart, dif^culties but nerving him to
greater elTort.
The Loomis coat-of-arms is as follows :
Arms : Argent, between two pallets gules
three fleur-de-lis azure ; a chief of the last.
Crest : On a chapeau a pelican vulning
its breast, proper. Motto: Nc cede Jiialis
(Yield not to misfortunes).
William S. Loomis, son of Elijah W.
Loomis, of Monson and Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, was born at Monson, October
7, 1840, and died at his summer home.
Southwest Harbor, Maine, July 10, 1914.
During an early period of his boyhood his
parents moved to Holyoke and there he
obtained his education, finishing with
graduation from the high school. His
earliest business experiences were as
bookkeeper for Deacon Edwin Chase,
who was then conducting an extensive
lumber business, and with E. J. Pomeroy,
a grocer. He had just attained man's
estate when the alarms of war awoke the
nation, and with all the ardor of youth
and newly acquired responsibilities as a
citizen he embraced the Union cause. He
enlisted in 1861 in the Forty-sixth Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, going
to the front as sergeant of his company,
serving the full jjeriod for which he had
enlisted, nine months, returning with a
second lieutenant's commission won bj
gallantry in action and devotion to a
soldier's duty. He saw actual warfare
with his regiment at Newbern and Golds-
boro, bore well his part, receiving at the
end of his term an honorable discharge.
He again enlisted not long after his first
term expired, going to the front a second
time as paymaster's clerk, serving under
Colonel W. B. C. Pearsons, remaining
wuth the army until the final surrender at
Appomattox.
After the war closed and until 1872 the
young veteran was variously engaged, be-
coming interested also in journalism, his
connection with the Holyoke "Transcript''
beginning in 1872, when he became joint
owner of that journal with E. L. Kirt-
land. The "Transcript" was then a week-
ly newspaper and under the partners'
mangement vastly increased its reputa-
tion and circulation. About 1875 Mr.
Loomis purchased his partner's interest
and until 1882 edited and published the
paper alone. He gave it a more distinct
and wider sphere of influence, changed it
to a semi-weekly, and so impressed his
individuality upon the times by his whole-
some and forceful editorial writings that
the "Transcript" became the leading
newspaper of Holyoke. In 1882 he took
the first step toward carrying out a long
cherished ambition ; admitted William G.
Dwight as a partner and in October, 1882,
the first issue of "The Daily Transcript"
appeared. As a daily the "Transcript"
greatly widened its influence and use-
fulness, the partners continuing its suc-
cessful publication until 1887, when Mr.
Loomis retired, Mr. Dwight becoming
sole owner of the paper, which under his
editorship still continues its useful career.
Those fifteen years spent in journalism
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were years of great development ami
mental expansion for Mr. Loomis, his
editorial position requiring that he hold
broad and enlightened views, that he
might clearly and sanely guide those who
look to the "Transcript" as their source
of enlightenment. He did not make the
"Transcript'' a personal organ, but dis-
cussed in its columns public questions,
local. State and national, from a patriotic
standpoint, and advanced only well con-
sidered opinions. He was an exceedingly
forceful editorial writer, presenting his
views in a clear and interesting manner.
With his withdrawal from the "Tran-
script,'' his official connection with jour-
nalism ceased.
After leaving the "Transcript" in 1887.
I\Ir. Loomis entered upon his career as a
traction magnate, although that distinc-
tion was not of his own seeking origi-
nally. In pursuit of business plans he
had purchased a tract of farm land adja-
cent to Holyoke, which it was his inten-
tion to improve and eventually add to the
city's area. This land was located at
Elmwood in a fine farming section, but
not available for suburban residences un-
less rapid transit between Elmwood and
Holyoke could be secured. Mr. Loomis,
after acquiring the property, approached
the Holyoke Street Railway Company
with the proposition that they extend
their tracks to F.lmwood, a proposition
which was ]jr(jm])tly and decisively nega-
tived.
As the success of his undertaking de-
pended upon the establishing of a transit
system, Mr. Loomis obtained through,
purchase of stock in the company and
through the cooperation of friends, a con-
trolling interest in the company. The
road was then operated by horse power
and was limited in its extent in compari-
son with the extensive electric system as
in now exists. Immediately upon secur-
ing control of the company, Mr. Loomis
began the extension to Elmwood and at
the same time laid out his tract of land as
a residence section. The road was com-
pleted, and with the running of the cars
regularly residences began to be erected
and the development of Elmwood was
fairly inaugurated. When electricity
made its appearance as a propelling
power in street transportation, Mr.
Loomis w^as one of the pioneers in its
adoption and soon the city lines and the
Elmwood extension were operating under
electric power. With rapid transit as-
sured the Elmwood section rapidly in-
creased in popularity and has continued
one of the choice residential locations of
the city of Holyoke, a result wholly at-
tributable to the energy and enterprise
of William S. Loomis and the men who
were influenced by his public spirit and
initiative.
E)ut the Elmwood extension was only
one advantage of his connection with
Holyoke's traction system. He built and
operated the railway to Mount Tom, the
result being to make that spot of such
great natural beauty accessible to the
thousands of visitors who annually seek
that locality on health and pleasure bent,
and to advance the permanent develop-
ment of a large section. The city and
suburban lines of the company were kept
fully modernized as invention followed
invention, Mr. Loomis continuing presi-
dent and general manager until January,
1912, when he resigned and was suc-
ceeded by Louis D. PelHsser. He was
also a director of the Northampton Street
Railway Company, president of the Ess-
leek Paper Company of Turner's Falls
and vice-president of the Holyoke Sav-
ings P)ank.
The development of the "Transcript"
from an obscure weekly to a daily, the
development of a horse railway to a great
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electric traction system, would constitute
an enduring claim to be gratefully re-
membered as one of the greatest of Hol-
yoke's benefactors, but Mr. Loomis has
other claims to such remembrance. His
was the principal aid given in establish-
ing a library in the city in IMay, 1870, and
later he inaugurated the movement for a
new and appropriate library building, his
tireless energy, determination and gener-
osity resulting in the securing of the pres-
ent fine building. He ever maintained
official connection with the library, serv-
ing as auditor, member of the executive
committee and chairman of the board
of trustees. He was mainly instrumental
in the purchase and beautifying of For-
estdale Cemetery, and for many years
was president of the association in charge
of its development. The H^ome for Aged
People was an institution very near his
heart and to its interests he was always
devoted. As vice-president of the Ho-
lyoke Savings Bank, he was a tower of
strength to that institution and to his in-
fluence many men can trace their first
use of the bank for the accumulation of
savings.
In the fraternal and social organiza-
tions of his city, Mr. Loomis took a deep
interest. He held all degrees of York
Rite Masonry, belonging to Blue Lodge,
Capitular, Cryptic and Templar bodies,
also holding all degrees of the Scottish
Rite, in the Lodge of Perfection, Chapter
of Rose Croix, Council of Princes of Jeru-
salem, and Consistory of Princes of the
Royal Secret, the thirty-third being the
only degree of American Free Masonry
he did not possess. He was a member of
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States, an order composed
originally of officers of the Union army,
serving in the Civil \Ya.r. He took great
pride in his membership in that order
and was the only man in Holyoke to wear
the Loyal Legion emblem. He was past
commander of Kilpatrick Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, and ever took a
warm interest in the old veterans and
their official organization. His clubs were
the Pequot, Golf and Canoe, all of Hol-
yoke ; the Color Club, composed of vet-
eran soldiers, and the Franklin Harvest
Club.
Mr'. Loomis married (first) Augusta
R. W^eston, who died February 4. 1908.
Their only child, a daughter, born 1870,
died 1877. Mr. Loomis married (second)
March 7, 191 1, Harriet Clark, born at
West Springfield, ^Massachusetts, daugh-
ter of John F. Clark, a paper manufac-
turer of Dalton, Massachusetts, the town
of his birth and death. Mr. Clark
married Anna Lansing, of the promi-
nent Lansing family of Albany county,
Xew York, born in Troy, New York, died
in Holyoke, IMassachusetts. 'Sir. and Mrs.
Clark were the parents of three children :
Herbert S. Clark, of Holyoke, and Mrs.
Harriet Loomis, widow of William S.
Loomis ; the third deceased.
Seventy-four years was the span of life
allotted William S. Loomis, and during
their continuance there were no wasted
opportunities. Usefulness marked its
every phase and everywhere in Holyoke
are monuments to his memory. He loved
his home city and he loved his native
land. He traveled widely within her
borders and was familiar with her scenic
wonders. He loved her history and her
traditions, fought as a young man to
maintain them and in maturer years used
his talents and his strength to add to
their glory. His life is an inspiration, its
lesson, the old old lesson of intelligent
industry backed by worthy ambition and
upright character.
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RAMAGE, James,
Manufacturer.
Scotland has furnished to the United
States many of her valued citizens, men
who have crossed the Atlantic to ally
their interests with those of the "land of
the free." Adapting themselves to en-
tirely new surroundings, customs and
manners, they have achieved success and
won a place for themselves among the
representative men of the communities
in which their lots have been cast. Such
is true of the late James Ramage, who
was for many years prominently identi-
fied with the interests of Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts.
(I) John Ramage, the first member of
the line herein followed of whom we have
mention, was born in the year 1 731, and
was a witness of the execution of Wilson,
the smuggler, in Edinburgh, Scotland,
which is mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's
"The Heart of Midlothian." He married
and of the children born to him was Wil-
liam, of whom further.
(II) William Ramage, son of John
Ramage, was born in Scotland, in the
year 1751, and his death occurred at Val-
leyfield, Scotland, in the year 1832, he
having survived his wife, Helen (Ber-
tran) Ramage, twelve years, she passing
away at Valleyfield in the year 1820.
(III) William (2) Ramage, son of Wil-
liam (i) and Helen (Bertran) Ramage,
was born in Scotland, March 10, 1778, and
died at Lowmill, Penicuick parish, Scot-
land, January 23, 1864. He married, De-
cember 26, 1800, Helen Hill, born No-
vember 10, 1778, died at Lowmill, Octo-
ber 4, 1856, the ceremony being per-
formed by Mr. McEwan, of Howgate.
Children: i. James, of whom further. 2.
Janet, born January 26, 1803. 3. Helen,
born October 18, 1806. 4. John, born
February 9, 1809, died January 7, 181 1.
5. Margaret, born December 28, 1810,
married Andrew Warden. 6. A son, born
and died same day, in July, 1812. 7.
Robert, born July 13, 1814. 8. William,
born October 11, 1816. 9. A son, born and
died same day, June 2}^, 1820.
(IV) James Ramage, eldest son of
William (2) and Helen (Hill) Ramage,
was born in Penicuick, Scotland, Decem-
ber 4, 1801. In 1816, after completing his
education in the schools of his district,
he was apprenticed to a Mr. McGowan,
to learn the trade of paper-making, his
father having also served his apprentice-
ship at the same trade under the same
master. He followed this trade all his
life, and died at an advanced age in his
native town. He married, in 1825, Chris-
tine Hunter, who bore him ten children :
Margaret, Helen, Katherine, John, Adam.
William, James, Robert, Joseph, and a
child who died in infancy.
(V) James (2) Ramage, fourth son of
James (i) and Christine (Hunter) Ram-
age, was born in Penicuick, Scotland,
July 15, 1836. He attended the schools
of his district, and after completing his
course of study served an apprenticeship
at the trade of paper-making, becoming
thoroughly expert in that line, and later
was appointed superintendent of a mill
in Yorkshire, England. He emigrated to
this country in the year 1863, at the age
of twenty-seven years. He went first to
Buckland, Connecticut, where he re-
mained a year, and in 1865 went to Pater-
son, New Jersey, with his brother, John
Ramage, and assumed charge of the Ivan-
hoe Mills in that city. He continued his
residence there until January i, 1867,
when he removed to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and later accepted the position of
superintendent of the Franklin Paper
Company of Holyoke, and in 1872, five
years later, in company with Moses New-
ton, he established the Newton Paper
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Company, of which he was vice-president.
In 1884 he was elected president of the
Chemical Paper Company, of Holyoke,
of which he was formerly the general
manager, but resigned the office of presi-
dent in 1887. He then went to Monroe
Bridge and there erected the mills which
bore his name, The Ramage Paper Com--
pany, which proved a successful under-
taking and continued in operation until
sold by Mrs. Ramage in 1914. In 1892
Mr. Ramage purchased the stock of the
Franklin Paper Company of Holyoke,
and operated all these plants up to the
time of his death. He was also interested
in other channels of activity, having been
one of the incorporators of the Home Na-
tional Bank in 1884, the People's Savings
Bank in 1885, and was a member of the
board of directors of the former named,
and a member of the board of trustees of
the latter named, and he was also a mem-
ber of the State Legislature in 1891, in
which body he rendered valuable service.
He was a member of the Unitarian
church ; Mount Tom Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons ; Holyoke Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; Bay State Club, of which
he was president, and the Pequot Club.
He was a Democrat in politics.
Mr. Ramage married, November 23,
1864. Adelaide Emogene Risley, born in
Manchester, Connecticut. January 4,
1846, daughter of Martin and Eliza ]\Iay
(Skinner) Risley, the former named born
in Coventry, Connecticut, and the latter
named born in East Windsor Hill. Con-
necticut. Mrs. Ramage is a direct de-
scendant of Elder Brewster of the "May-
flower" and is eligible to the Society of
Mayflower Descendants. Mr. Risley
spent his early years in his native town,
followed the occupation of farming, and
later moved to Somers, Connecticut,
where he died at the age of eighty-four
years, the death of his wife occurring at
the age of sixty-six years. Mr. and Mrs.
Risley were the parents of five children,
namely: Mary J., deceased; Eliza M. ;
Winifred H. ; Adelaide Emogene, afore-
mentioned ; Emeline G. Mrs. Ramage is
a member of a family noted for longevity,
her grandfather attaining the age of nine-
ty-two years, and her grandmother ninety
years. She herself has passed the allotted
age of three score years and ten, but is as
keenly alive to affairs of the day and as
active, both mentally and physically, as the
majority of people twenty years her junior.
For many years it was the custom of Mr.
and Mrs. Ramage to annually take an
extensive trip either in the United States,
Mexico, South America or Europe, visit-
ing the principal places of interest, and
Mrs. Ramage is well posted on the his-
tory of all these various countries. Chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Ramage: i. Charles
W., born December 11, 1865; married
Edith Bartlett. 2. James M., born Feb-
ruary 13. 1869: president and treasurer
of the Franklin Paper Company : married
Marguerite Belle Dorr, daughter of
Charles W. Dorr, who died April 13. 1915.
and they are the parents of three children :
Marjorie Dorr, born October 20, 1900,
died April 10, 1905 : Doris Marguerite,
born May 20. 1905 ; May Risley. born
April 17. 1909. 3. Adelaide C. born De-
cember 18. 1872: became the wife of
Archibald Ramage. 4. Edith M.. born
November 2. 1878: became the wife of
Lawson Ramage. 5. Robert A., born May
5. 1879: secretary and treasurer of the
Franklin Paper Company. 6. Theodore
R., born March 15. 1884; bookkeeper for
the Franklin Paper Company ; resides in
Springfield. 7. Marian M., born Septem-
ber 14. 1885 ; became the wife of George
Watson. 8. Grace Brewster, born June
4, 1887. married Edson R. Lyman.
Mr. Ramage died at his late home in
Holyoke, December 9, 1902, and by his
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death there passed from that city one of
the sturdy Scots whose rugged individual-
ity, sterling integrity, inflexible honesty,
as well as more than ordinary ability, won
distinction and prominence. Starting
from the bottom of the ladder, with the
assistance and encouragment of his wife,
who ever studied his interest, encouraged
his efforts and was his constant compan-
ion for nearly forty years up to his death,
he steadily climbed upward to a com-
manding place in the world of business
and finance, drawing about him a circle
of friends which was ever widening and
who admired him for his determination.
His influence, not only in the business but
in the social world, constantly grew
stronger until at the time of his death no
man in Holyoke, if indeed in the State of
Massachusetts, had more thoroughly
demonstrated that by strict application of
one's best energies it is possible to accom-
plish great things, than James Ramage.
His one thought was to leave his family
well provided for and he amassed a com-
petence sufificient for this purpose. His
loss, although most keenly felt by his
widow and children, was a distinct one to
the entire community in which he stood
for so much. His career is indeed worthy
of commendation and should serve as an
example to young men who are ambitious
and desire to succeed in the business
world.
The engraving which accompanies this
article has been placed here by Mrs. Ade-
laide E. Ramage, in loving memory of
her husband's many beautiful qualities,
and will, we feel, be a source of pleasure
not only to all members of his family, but
to his hosts of friends of this locality.
MACKINTOSH, Col. John G.,
Financier. Enterprising Citizen.
The family of which Colonel John
George Mackintosh was an honored rep-
resentative was of Scotch extraction, its
members inheriting in marked degree the
characteristics of that thrifty race, these
attributes being clearly defined in the
career of the late Colonel Mackintosh,
who at all times was faithful to the trusts
reposed in him. fully met every obliga-
tion, conscientiously discharged the
duties of director of a number of enter-
prises, and retained the confidence and
respect of his fellowmen by an upright
life.
Colonel John George Mackintosh was
born in Tariffville, Connecticut, August
I, 1845, son of Donald Mackintosh, a
native of Paisley, near Edinburgh. Scot-
land, from which country he removed to
England, thence to the United States, in
1843. locating first at Tariflfville. Connec-
ticut, and in 1854, accompanied by his
family, removed to Holyoke. Massachu-
setts, where he rented a mill, which he
operated until 1871, when he purchased
the Hampden Mills and formed the part-
nership of D. Mackintosh & Sons, the
company comprising Donald. John
George and Charles E. IMackintosh, being
incorporated in 1888. The business was
a successful undertaking, the partners all
men of ability, enterprise and judgment,
and they gave employment to a large
number of persons. Donald Mackintosh
and his wife were the parents of three
children, the two sons above mentioned
and a daughter, Henrietta P. Donald
Mackintosh died September 30, 1902.
Colonel John George Mackintosh was
eleven years of age when he accompanied
his father to Holyoke. and he continued
his studies in the public schools of that
city. His first position in business life
was in the office of the Hampden Mills,
conducted by his father, where he re-
mained for some time. He then became
clerk for Ezra Flagg, who was the pro-
prietor of a drug store, and also acted as
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telegraph operator and received many of
the important messages connected with
the Civil War as well as numerous gov-
ernment messages. Later he accepted a
clerkship in the drug store conducted by
R. P. Luddington, after which he accepted
a position as bookkeeper for the Ames-
bury Woolen Mills, which were suc-
ceeded by the Germania Mills, for which
concern he became salesman, then treas-
urer, and later was made manager of the
New York ofifice. For a number of years
he was associated with his father and
brother in the management of the Hamp-
den Mills, of which he was later the
president, his term of service being noted
for efficiency and capability. He was also
connected with the Woronoco Paper
Company at one time and owned a con-
trolling interest in that concern. In 1876,
in company with his brother, Charles E.
Mackintosh, and Thomas N. Shepard, of
Northampton, he established the banking
house of J. G. Mackintosh & Company,
which later became the Manufacturers'
Trust Company, one of the conservative
and sound monied institutions of that sec-
tion. A disastrous fire destroyed their
offices which were located on Dwight
street, Holyoke, and the business was
liquidated. Mr. Mackintosh then organ-
ized the Springfield Safe Deposit & Trust
Company, to which he gave his undivided
attention, and was made president of the
concern at the time of its organization,
serving in that capacity constantly until
his resignation, January i, 1914, at which
time the office of chairman of the board
of directors was created and he was
elected to fill that important position.
This was, perhaps, the organization in
which he took the greatest interest and
to which he gave liberally of his time and
energy. Starting from a small beginning,
under his guiding hand and careful judg-
ment it finally attained a place where it
stood prominently forth as one of the
leading banking institutions in Western
Massachusetts. When it was finally de-
cided, on account of more room being
needed, to erect a building in order to
accommodate its steadily increasing busi-
ness, he devoted considerable thought to
its construction and it stands to-day as a
grand monument to his memory. His
incumbency of the office of president ex-
tended over the disastrous years of panics
in which so many financial institutions
were swept away, but his foresight, dis-
cernment, and mature judgment enabled
him to avoid the rocks which caused the
wreck of other institutions, and continued
to place it each year upon a firmer founda-
tion and with a steadily increasing pa-
tronage.
Mr. Mackintosh was also a member of
the first board of directors of the Holyoke
National Bank, organized in 1872, and
was actively identified with many other
industries, serving as director of the Nor-
thampton Street Railway, Holyoke Street
Railway, Greenfield Electric Light &
Power Company. In each and all of the
above, together with many other similar
companies, his was largely the directing
hand. He was an authority in financial
matters, his advice and counsel being
sought and followed by many of his asso-
ciates, and being of a bold and enterpris-
ing nature he conceived and executed
projects with the rapidity of lightning,
and while other men were thinking over
the means of carrying out certain enter-
prises, he had the undertaking far ad-
vanced toward completion. A glance at
the above will show how thoroughly Mr.
Mackintosh's time must have been em-
ployed, yet he never for a moment lost
his interest in Holyoke or its needs and
was ever ready to contribute of his time
or money to anything which w^ould be of
benefit to its people. He was one of the
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directors of the Holyoke City Hospital
and Holyoke Public Library, in both of
which he took an active part and interest.
He was also one of the members of the
School Board for many years. In 1887 he
accepted an appointment on the staff of
Governor Oliver Ames as assistant quar-
termaster general, with the rank of colo-
nel. He was a member of the Episcopal
church, but was a regular attendant of
the Second Congregational Church of
Holyoke. He was a member of Mt. Tom
Golf Club and Holyoke Canoe Club, de-
riving considerable pleasure from out-
door sports, and was also a member of the
Lawyers' Club of New York, the Algon-
quin Club of Boston and the Nyasset
Club of Springfield.
Mr. Mackintosh married, June 15, 1869,
Alice Emerson, born in Chicopee, Massa-
chusetts, April 7, 1846, daughter of John
D. and Harriett Newell (Edgerly) Emer-
son. John D. Emerson held a responsible
position with the Dwight Mills at Chico-
pee at the time of her birth, but after a
few years the family went to Gilmanton,
the old home of Mrs. Emerson. In 1852
the family moved to Holyoke where Mr.
Emerson was appointed overseer for the
Lyman Mills which had just been built,
and of which he was later made superin-
tendent. He spent his entire after life in
this position, his death occurring in the
year 1871. Mrs. Emerson died November
16, 1915. Alice, who was their only child,
received her education in the Holyoke
public schools and was a member of the
first class to graduate from the Holyoke
High School, in the year 1865. She was
a woman born and taught to the good
old-fashioned standards of home-making
and housekeeping. She was also a re-
markably accomplished musician, played
the piano in a wonderful manner, also the
organ, and before her marriage she served
in the capacity of organist in the old Sec-
ond Congregational Church which stood
where the Marble Hall Hotel is at pres-
ent. When the Rev. Dr. Trask first came
to Holyoke to preach before being ap-
pointed to his pastorate the first person
he saw at the morning service was Miss
Alice Emerson at the organ. Rev. Dr,
Trask often spoke of this after becoming
pastor of the Second Church and there
always existed a warm personal friend-
ship between Mrs. Mackintosh and Dr.
Trask. He was the clergyman who per-
formed the marriage ceremony of Mr.
Mackintosh and Miss Emerson, assisted
by the Rev. Dr. Peet of the Episcopal
church. Mrs. Mackintosh's great love for
music was one of her chief characteristics
and she never failed if possible to attend
any musical event of note which was
given in her vicinity. She preferred only
the highest standard of classical music
and was familiar with the works of the
world's greatest composers. She was also
a very well read woman and, as in her
music, her tastes ran only to the best in
literature. She was blessed with a beau-
tiful disposition, was most unselfish, con-
tinually doing some kindness for those
about her and during her entire life inter-
ested in many benevolences, having been
an active factor in the welfare of the
Holyoke City Hospital, and was a direc-
tor in the Hospital Aid Association from
the time the hospital was built. She was
an active and devoted member of the Sec-
ond Congregational Church, and a mem-
ber of the Friday Club. In her younger
days Mrs. Mackintosh entertained on a
large scale and was one of the most active
social leaders of the city of Holyoke. Her
hospitality was delightful and was greatly
enjoyed by their wide circle of friends.
Her family life was an unusually happy
one for above all Mrs. Mackintosh was
devoted to her husband, daughter and
mother. The death of Colonel Mackin-
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tosh, which occurred at his late home in
Holyoke, May 23, 1915, was a severe
blow to her, and another sorrow came to
her in the following November with the
death of her mother. Mrs. Mackintosh
bore both these bereavements in the brave
way that only a strong and forceful char-
acter like hers could. The death of Mrs.
Mackintosh, which occurred April 26,
1916, was a severe blow to her daughter,
Alice Emerson (Mackintosh) Woods,
wife of Dr. Frank A. Woods, the well
known physician of Holyoke.
To a natural dignity of manner. Colo-
nel Mackintosh added a geniality that
won him hosts of friends and made him
welcome everywhere. He was hospitable,
charitable, generous, with a ready sym-
pathy for those in affliction or need. A
keynote to his success in his many under-
takings was his executive force and mast-
ery of detail in whatever engaged his at-
tention. Mrs. Mackintosh was one of
those genial women who always see only
the brightest and happiest side of life and
this quality won for her the respect and
admiration of her large circle of friends,
and everyone realized that with her
death a whole and worthy chapter in the
life of Holyoke closed.
WOODS, Frank A., M. D.,
Prominent Physician of Holyoke.
Among the physicians of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, who, by careful study and
observation coupled with long practical
experience, have placed themselves at the
head of the medical profession of that
city, should be mentioned Dr. Frank A.
Woods, who for nearly two decades has
served upon the Board of Health of that
city, and in 1916 was appointed by Gov-
ernor McCall medical examiner for the
Holyoke district.
(I) He represents an old and honored
famil}-, he being in the eighth American
generation of the Woods family which
was resident in Watertown, Massachu-
setts, in 1653. Samuel Woods, the first
ancestor of the family, was born in Eng-
land, in 1636, later came to this country,
locating at first in Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, from whence he removed to
Cambridge, same State, and there mar-
ried, September 28, 1659, Alice Rushton.
In 1662 he was one of the original pro-
prietors of Groton, Massachusetts, and
there lived until the town was destroyed
during King Philip's War, after which
he returned to Watertown. In 1677 he
signed the agreement made at Concord
to resettle Groton, and in 1678 returned
to that town, where he died early in the
year 1718. His wife, who was born in the
same year as her husband, died April 17,
1712.
(II) Nathaniel Woods, third son of
Sam.uel and Alice (Rushton) Woods, was
born at Groton, Massachusetts, March 25.
1667, and there died, June 20, 1738. He
had four wives, the line of descent being
through Isaac, a son of the first wife,
Eleanor Woods.
(III) Lieutenant Isaac Woods, son of
Nathaniel and Eleanor Woods, was born
at Groton. Massachusetts, February 20,
1699, and died there, March 31, 1775. He
married, September 21. 1725, Abigail
Stevens, born at Chelmsford, Massachu-
setts. August 13, 1702, died at Groton,
Massachusetts, December 24, 1781,
daughter of John and Sarah (Snow)
Stevens.
(IV) Nehemiah Woods, fourth son of
Lieutenant Isaac and Abigail (Stevens)
Woods, was born at Groton, Massachu-
setts, December 6. 1731. and died in 1815.
He was a soldier of the Revolution,
fought at Bennington with General
Starke, at Ticonderoga with Colonel
Ethan Allen, was a member of the Com-
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mittee of Safety at Hollis, New Hamp-
shire, his place of residence, and is en-
tered in the Hollis records as Lieutenant
Woods. He married .
(V) Uriah Woods, son of Nehemiah
Woods, was born in Hollis, New Hamp-
shire. He was a farmer by occupation.
He removed to Maine, and later to New
York State, and was honored and re-
spected by all who knew him. He mar-
ried .
(VI) Dr. Jarvis U. Woods, son of
Uriah Woods, was born in Augusta,
Maine, October 23, 1842, and died in New
Haven, Connecticut, April, 1906. His
early life was spent in Augusta, where he
prepared for college and graduated from
the Augusta High School. He then com-
pleted a course at Waterville College
(now Colburn). After leaving college he
was anxious to enlist in the Union army
but his father's opposition prevented him
from so doing. He then received an ap-
pointment as clerk in the commissary de-
partment at Washington, D. C, there
continuing until the summer of 1865, be-
ing in that city at the time President Lin-
coln was shot. He then returned to
Maine and began the study of medicine at
Waterville under the preceptorship of the
eminent physician and surgeon. Dr. Bell,
who later located in Boston, Massachu-
setts. After a period of study under Dr.
Bell, Dr. Woods entered Hahnemann
Medical Institute at Philadelphia, from
which he graduated with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1868,
valedictorian of his class. The death of
his father the day preceding commence-
ment exercises prevented Dr. Woods
from delivering the valedictory address,
but the honor was his. After obtaining
his degree. Dr. Woods located in Nashua,
New Hampshire, practiced there a short
time, then located in Medford, Massachu-
setts, where he continued in active prac-
tice until the year 1869 when he came to
Holyoke, Massachusetts, and there prac-
ticed his profession most successfully for
over a quarter of a century. He then
yielded to the urgent demands made that
he come to New Haven, Connecticut, and
in 1895 he located in that city, where he
practiced until his death, eleven years
later. Dr. Woods was a man highly re-
garded in both cities as a learned and
skillful physician, as a citizen and a
friend. He was a member of the medical
stafif of Grace Hospital, member of the
New Haven County Medical Society, the
Homeopathic Medical Society of Hamp-
den County, the Massachusetts Homeo-
pathic Medical Society, the American
Medical Association, of Mt. Tom Lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of
which he was past master, the Royal Ar-
canum, and Delta Kappa Epsilon frater-
nity.
Dr. Woods married, May 3, 1870, Mary
A. Howes, the ceremony being performed
in the house in which the bride's mother
was born at Shelburne, Massachusetts.
She was a daughter of Seth Clapp Howes,
a hatter, who died at Watervliet, Maine,
in 1861, aged forty-nine years. He was
born in Derry, New Hampshire, where
his ancestors had resided for many years.
He married Lucy Kendall, daughter of
Timothy Kendall, of a Shelburne pioneer
family. She died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Dr. Jarvis U. Woods, in
New Haven, in 1908, at the advanced age
of ninety-four years. But two of her chil-
dren survive her: Mrs. Dr. Woods and
'J'homas F. Howes, of Cambridge. Dr.
Jarvis U. and Mary A. (Howes) Woods
were the parents of three children, two of
whom with their mother survived the
father: Dr. Frank A. Woods, of whom
further, and Alice May, who resides
with her mother. Miss Woods has taken
a vast amount of interest in genealogical
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matters and has traced several lines con-
nected with her family back to the first
ancestor in this country.
(VII) Dr. Frank A. Woods, son of Dr.
Jarvis U. and Mary A. (Howes) Woods,
was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
July 12, 1871. He received his education
in the graded schools of his native city
and graduated from the high school. He
then began the study of medicine with his
honored father, and later entered Hahne-
mann Medical College, Philadelphia,
graduating from this institution in the
class of 1893, receiving his degree of Doc-
tor of Medicine. He spent the year 1893-
94 in dispensary practice in Philadelphia^
and in special medical and surgical stuf'
ies and practiced abroad, then returned to
Holyoke and began practice in associ-
ation with his father. In 1895 Dr. Woods,
Sr., moved to New Haven, Connecticr
Dr. Woods, Jr., succeeding him, and he
has since been continuously in practice
in his native city, the combined service
of father and son now approaching the
half century mark. To the experience of
his private practice, always a large one,
Dr. Woods has added frequent courses
of study in the hospitals of Paris, Lon-
don and Berlin and the University of
Geneva, Switzerland, keeping abreast of
all medical discovery and invention,
either curative or preventive.
Dr. Woods has served his native city
with unusual devotion and ability as a
member of the Board of Health for almost
two decades, having been first appointed
in 1897 by Dr. George H. Smith, the then
mayor of Holyoke. He was reappointed
by Mayors Chapin and Avery at the ex-
piration of each term, and after one years'
absence from the board was again ap-
pointed in 1914 by Mayor Woods and is
the present chairman of the board. For
seventeen years he served as associate
medical examiner, receiving his first ap-
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pointment from Governor Wolcott and
reappointments from Governors Douglas
and Foss. On February i, 1916, Gov-
ernor McCall announced to the executive
council the appointment of Dr. Frank A.
Woods as medical examiner for the Hol-
yoke district, a recognition of long service
and conscientious performance of duty
that met with universal approval in
Holyoke. Shortly after this appointment
he was elected president of the State As-
sociation of Health Boards at their meet-
ing in Boston, succeeding Dr. Milton
Roseneau, of Harvard University. This
is an unusual honor for it is the first in-
stance of the ofHce having been conferred
on any physician outside of Boston. It
is merited recognition of Dr. Woods' in-
tense interest in the subject of public
health and of his reputation as one of the
best informed men in the State on health
board work. But it is not only as a phy-
sician but as a man that Dr. Woods has
achieved his popularity in the city of
Holyoke. His kindness and courtesy are
two of his most prominent characteristics
which have endeared him to his almost
limitless circle of friends and acquaint-
ances.
Dr. Woods is a member of the Amer-
ican Public Health Association, and ac-
tive in its propaganda ; the Holyoke Med-
ical Association, Springfield Academy of
Medicine, Massachusetts State Homeo-
pathic Society, Hahnemann Homeopathic
Association, the American Medical Asso-
ciation, and numerous other professional
societies. He is a member of the Masonic
order, belonging to the Blue Lodge,
Royal Arch Chapter, Council, Command-
ery of Knights Templar, also of the
Shrine, and is a member of the Knights
of Pythias. He is a devotee of out-of-
door recreation, particularly golf, and
holds membership in several social and
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country clubs including- the Holyoke and
Canoe.
Dr. Woods married, June I, 191 1, Alice
Emerson Mackintosh, born in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, August i, 1871, the only
child of the late Colonel John G. and
Alice (Emerson) Mackintosh, the former
named of whom died May 23, 1915, and
the latter named April 26, 1916. As a
girl Mrs. Woods attended the public
schools of Holyoke and was graduated
from the high school in 1890. She then
studied music under W. C. Hammond,
and later spent considerable time travel-
ing in this country and in Europe, usually
with her father, the kinship between the
two being sympathetic far beyond the
average bond between parents and chil-
dren. Mrs. Woods was devoted to her
home circle, this devotion commanding
the admiration of her wide circle of
friends. During the illness of her father,
mother, maternal grandmother, Mrs. Har-
riet Emerson, she was devoted in her at-
tentions to them, their deaths and hers
occurring in the space of a year and a
half. Thus, with intervals of six months,
these sad chapters removed the several
members that made the Mackintosh fam-
ily one of the leading ones in Holyoke.
Mrs. Woods was a member of the Second
Congregational Church from her girlhood
and had been a teacher in the Sunday
school until the illness of her father. She
had for years been a worker in the Young
Women's Christian Association and was
one of the directors of that organization.
Her club was the Westminster, which
was formed by the group of young women
who grew up in Holyoke together. It
followed that she was a prominent factor
in the social life of Holyoke, and prior to
her marriage to Dr. Woods she was the
center of considerable entertaining in her
Elm street home. Mrs. Woods brought
to her friendships a large degree of the
same quality that made her family life one
of devotion, and there was deep sorrow
among a wide circle over her untimely
death which occurred October 27, 1916.
During her illness Mrs. Woods had the
devoted care of her husband who gave up
his large and responsible practice and
yielded his duties as a member of the
State Board of Health and as chairman
of the Holyoke Board of Health in order
that his wife could have the devoted care
that she herself had given so freely.
CELCE, Frederick Ferdinand,
Physician, Surgeon.
The infusion of European blood into
New England life has tended to increase
both its physical and mental force. The
career of Dr. Celce in Holyoke has been
one calculated to confer credit upon him-
self and benefit to the community at large.
In the practice of his profession he has
been ably seconded by his talented wife,
who is fully as competent as himself in
medical labors. His father, Frederick
Celce, was born in the Rhine province of
Germany, where he was reared and edu-
cated, and came to the United States on
attaining his majority. In his native land
he had served an apprenticeship at the
cutlery business, and after coming to
New York took a position with the Sey-
mour Cutlery Company, with which he
continued, and later removed with this
concern to Holyoke in 1877. Here he was
made superintendent of the factory, and
this position he continued to hold until
his retirement in 1894. He has been ac-
tive in the social life of the community,
especially in Masonic affairs, having
passed through all York Rite bodies, be-
ing a member of the Blue Lodge ; Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons ; Council, Royal
and Select Masters ; Commandery,
Knights Templar; and Ancient Arabic
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Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He
married Rose Meyer, who like himself
was a native of Germany, and the only
child born to them is the subject of this
sketch.
Dr. Frederick Ferdinand Celce, only
child of Frederick and Rose (Meyer)
Celce, was born September 24, 1867, in the
Rhine province of Germany, and was sev-
enteen years of age when he came to
America. He received an excellent educa-
tion under the magnificent German sys-
tem, attending the public and high schools.
Shortly after coming to the United States,
Dr. Celce entered the University of Penn-
sylvania, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1893. Desiring to make further prepara-
tion for the practice of medicine, he went
to Europe, where he took a post-graduate
course in the hospitals and universities at
Vienna, Heidelberg and Munich, spend-
ing nearly two years in this special prepa-
ration for his lifework. Returning to
Holyoke, he settled there January i, 1895,
and at once took up the general practice
of medicine, in which he has continued to
the present time with ever increasing
popularity and success. At the present
time there are but two physicians in the
city who antedate him in service, and he
is the only physician in the city of Ger-
man birth. Dr. Celce is a man of broad
sympathies and great kindness of heart,
and his noble work has brought to many
relief from suffering and sorrow. He is
master of his profession, and takes high
rank among his contemporaries. He is a
member of the Holyoke Medical Society,
Hampden County Medical Society, Acad-
emy of Medicine, Eastern Hampden Med-
ical Association, and American Medical
Association. He has given generous
service to the public, on both the medi-
cinal and surgical staffs of the Holyoke
City Hospital, and is still active on the
medical stafif, this service now covering
nearly a quarter of a century. Dr. Celce
is a member of the Holyoke Club, Mount
Tom Golf Club, Holyoke Canoe Club;
was formerly a member of the Bay State
Club, and is a member of the German
Turn-Verein and Sons of Hammond, and
also Holyoke Chamber of Commerce.
Like his father, he has been active in pro-
moting the fraternal and benevolent work
of the Masonic order, affiliating with the
Blue Lodge, Council, Chapter, Command-
ery and Shrine. He is also a member of
the D. Hayes Agnew Surgical Society 0/
Philadelphia, and in most of the associ'
ations with which he is affiliated he has
served in various official and committee
capacities.
Dr. Celce was married in 1892 to Jean
Henrietta Hose, a native of Johns-
town, New York, where she received her
preliminary education. Entering the
Women's Medical College at Philadel-
phia, she was graduated with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in June, 1892. Fol-
lowing this she became an interne and
resident physician at the Pennsylvania
Hospital, having charge of the lying-in
department, and at the same time taking
special courses in post-graduate work.
After one year of this she went abroad,
and studied in the universities of Vienna
and Heidelberg, where she pursued post-
graduate work in hospital practice. Re-
turning to the United States she located
in Holyoke, where, like her husband, she
has been actively engaged to the present
time in the practice of medicine. She has
attained a high reputation and ranks as
one of the leading women physicians of
Western Massachusetts. She is one of
the associates of the medical staff of the
Holyoke City Hospital, is a member of
the Holyoke City and Hampden County
Medical associations, and the American
Medical Association. Dr. and Mrs. Celce
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are the parents of a daughter and a son :
Rosamond E., a student at Smith College,
class of 1917, and Frederick William, now
a student at Dartmouth College in the
class of 1919. The entire family are at-
tendants and contributors to the support
of the Second Congregational Church of
Holyoke, and bear their full share in pro-
moting the social and moral interests of
their home city. Dr. Celce is a man of
impressive personality, strong mentality
and settled purpose. He is in active sym-
pathy with every movement in the com-
munity which makes for progress. He is
a wise counsellor, a man of commanding
influence, not only within the circle of his
profession, but also in the community-at-
large. He is liberal in his judgment of
men, but exacts the most open sincerity.
His personal endowments command at-
tention, and he enjoys wide-spread es-
teem, attention and respect. Of similar
character is his noble wife, and together
they are carrying forward works of
humanity entitling them to universal
esteem.
McCORKINDALE, William,
Representative Citizen.
McCorkindale is an ancient Scottish
name mentioned by Scott in his "Heart
of Midlothian." Edward McCorkindale,
the founder of the family in the United
States, father of William McCorkindale,
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was a son of
Duncan McCorkindale, who lived and
died in Scotland. Edward McCorkindale
was born in Dalmuir, Dumbartonshire,
Scotland, in 1825, and died in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, in 1890. He learned and
followed the blacksmith's trade in Scot-
land until 1870, then came to the United
States, locating in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, where he was employed as a mill-
wright until his death at the age of sixty-
five. He married Margaret Lyon, born
in Ederslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland, in
1821, who lived to the great age of ninety-
one years, dying in Holyoke in 1912. She
was the daughter of Roger and Margaret
Lyon. Edward and Margaret (Lyon)
McCorkindale were the parents of four
children: Edward, deceased; Elizabeth,
became the wife of William King ; Wil-
liam, of whom further ; and Duncan L.,
whose sketch appears elsewhere in this
work.
^^'iIliam McCorkindale was born in
Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. June
5, 1851. He attended the middle parish
school until ten years of age. He then
began his business career in the paper in-
dustry, becoming an employee of Brown,
Stewart & Company, manufacturers of
newspaper, there continuing until his
departure for the United States in 1868.
He first located in Pittstown, New York,
where he was employed by Orrs & Com-
pany as machine tender in their Pittstown
mill. He only continued in their employ
for a short time, being seized with the
western fever, then epidemic, and went
to Wabash, Indiana, where he entered the
employ of Bremaker, Moore & Company,
as machine tender, the product of the
machine being straw print. After two
years' service in the mill, Mr. McCorkin-
dale removed to Dalton, Massachusetts,
where he became a machine tender for
Crane & Company, and remained with
that house for nine years. At that time,
1881, all of the No. i ledger papers used
in this country were made in Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, and the impres-
sion was that they could not be made
elsewhere. Mr. IMcCorkindale thought
that they could be made in Holyoke, and
in an interview with the late Joseph C.
Parsons he asked that gentleman to make
the experiment in that direction. Mr.
Parsons consented and purchased the Mt.
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Tom mill for that purpose. In June,
i88i, Mr. McCorkindale removed to Hol-
yoke, his parents also having made that
city their home. The mill was remodeled
and was started in October, i88i, and in
a few months made as good ledgers as
had been made up to that time, operating
under the name of the Parsons Paper
Company. In 1888 the demand for the
goods exceeded the capacity of the mills,
and the company planned a new mill, its
No. 2, which was designed as a model
plant, and which fully realized the de-
signs of its creators. When the Ameri-
can Writing Paper Company was formed
the No. I and Mt. Tom mills were sold to
that company, the Parsons Paper Com-
pany retaining the Sergeant street mill
and devoting all its energies to the pro-
duction of ledgers and bonds, of which
papers ]Mr. ]\IcCorkindale has made a spe-
cial study and as to which he is an au-
thority. Under Mr. McCorkindale's able
superintendency every department of the
plant is an efficient contributor to the ex-
cellence of the product and to the general
prosperity of the plant. While his life for
the past thirty-six years has been devoted
to the interests of the Parsons Paper
Company, of which he is also a stock-
holder, he has acquired other interests of
importance, and is a member of the board
of directors of the Millers Falls Paper
Company and of the People's Savings
Bank of Holyoke. Mr. McCorkindale is
a Republican in politics, and has long
been an active participant in public
affairs. He served as alderman four
years, and during the presidential cam-
paign just closed was president of the
Holyoke Republican Club. He is a dea-
con of the First Congregational Church,
a member of the Bay State and Holyoke
clubs, and a highly regarded member of
the community.
Mr. McCorkindale married, in 1873,
Lillian Forsythe, daughter of James For-
sythe, of Bar Head, Scotland, who came
to the United States when his daughter
was a child. Mr. and Mrs. McCorkindale
are the parents of two sons, Edward
James and Roger William, and a daugh-
ter, Ethel Lillian. Edward James was
born in Dalton. Massachusetts, July
30, 1876; a graduate of Holyoke High
School, and at present (1917J is located
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a paper
salesman; he married Elizabeth Miller,
and they arc the parents of three chil-
dren : Elizabeth, Marion and Edward.
Roger William was born in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, July 3, 1883 ; a graduate
of the Holyoke High School, and is now
a foreman in the Parsons Paper Com-
pany mills ; he married Mabel Perkins,
of Holyoke, and they are the parents of a
daughter, Leslie Jean.
BONVOULOIR, Pierre,
Pnblic Official.
There is probably no better known pub-
lic official in the commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts than Pierre Bonvouloir, who
for nearly three decades has held the
office of treasurer of the city of Holyoke,
and in this office has rendered to its citi-
zens the most efficient service possible.
His concise and advanced methods in
handling its intricate details are most re-
markable, and his unfailing courtesy to
every person with whom he is brought in
contact has placed him in the enviable
position which he occupies, that of one of
its most prominent and popular citizens.
(I) His family was originally of French
origin and was among the families of
position and influence in that country.
The ancestor of this particular branch of
the family was Captain Pierre Bonvou-
loir, a native of Iberville, Province of
Quebec, who was a patriot and officer of
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the Revolutionary forces. He followed
the occupation of tilling the soil, tirst
in his native town and afterward at St.
Brigide, Province of Quebec. He mar-
ried Clemence La Pointe, a descendant of
French ancestors, and among their chil-
dren was Pierre, of whom further.
(H) Pierre {2) Bonvouloir, son of
Captain Pierre (i) and Clemence (La
Pointe) Bonvouloir, was born in St.
Brigide, Province of Quebec, Canada,
about the year 1832. He followed the
same occupation as his father, farming,
first in his native place, then in Saco,
Maine, and later in Canada, whither he
returned from the United States. He
married (first) Marie Louise Benoit, who
bore him three children, among whom
was Pierre, of whom further ; married
(second) Zoe Xadeau, who bore him five
children.
(HI) Pierre (3) Bonvouloir, son of
Pierre (2) and Marie Louise (Benoit)
Bonvouloir. was born in St. Brigide,
county of Iberville, Province of Quebec,
Canada, March 9, 1854. He attended the
schools of his native town until he was
fourteen years old, then secured employ-
ment as a clerk in a store, and on Decem-
ber 12, 1871, three years later, he removed
to Holyoke. Massachusetts, where he
secured a similar position, w^hich he re-
tained for five or six years, and then in
company with Mr. J. A. Proult estab-
lished a grocery and provision store in
Holyoke, which they conducted until
1906, when Mr. Bonvouloir sold out his
interest. On July i, 1889, Mr. Bonvouloir
assisted in the organization of the City
Cooperative Bank, serving in the capacity
of secretary and treasurer for many years.
He is also serving as director in the Home
National Bank, the People's Savings
Bank, the Holyoke Savings Bank, the
Holyoke Library and the Holyoke City
Hospital. He also took an active and
prominent part in the political arena,
being chosen to fill a number of public
offices, in all of which he discharged his
obligations in an efficient and capable
manner, and to the entire satisfaction of
all concerned. In 1880 he became a mem-
ber of the City Council from Ward Four
and served one year ; for five years, from
1887 to 1892, he was a member of the
school committee, where he accomplished
much — probably more than will ever be
known — for the permanent welfare of the
children of the city ; in 1892 he served on
the Democratic State Central Committee ;
in 1893 he was first elected city treasurer
and held that office by successive reelec-
tion at the end of each term until 1916.
At all times and in these various posi-
tions his official conduct has been blame-
less, and he has acquitted himself with
the highest capability and conscientious
devotion to his duties and the trust re-
posed in him. In politics he is a staunch
adherent of the principles of Democracy,
and is a member of the Morris Plan Asso-
ciation, of which he is also a director. He
has made the country of his adoption the
country of his afifection, has exerted a
wnde-spread influence in Americanizing
his co-patriots, giving friendly aid and
advice to the many who come to him for
assistance along various lines, and he is
rightfully regarded as the leading citizen
of Canadian birth in western Massachu-
setts. As a man of business and a public
official no man has a cleaner record or is
more highly respected than he, a testi-
monial of which any man might well be
proud. He is a member of the Knights
of Columbus ; of the Societe St. Jean Bap-
tiste ; of L'Union St. Jean-Baptiste d'-
Amerique, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island,
of which he is tresorier general ; Cercle
Rochambeau ; La Societee Historique
Canadienne Francaise ; La Caisse Popu-
laire Credit Union, of which he is treas-
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urer; of the Foresters, and the Holyoke
Club.
Mr. Bonvouloir married (first) Febru-
ary 5, 1883, Lucinda, daughter of Joseph
Dufresne, of Trois-Rivieres, Province of
Quebec, Canada. Their children were :
I. Cosette, born December 8, 1884, mar-
ried A. W. Smith and they are the parents
of three children : Marcelle, Roger, Ga-
briel. 2. Lillian, born November 9, 1885.
3. Annette, born 1886, married Alfred
Lavoie and they are the parents of one
child. Pierrette. 4. Lionel, born 1888,
now a student at the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology, Boston. Mr. Bon-
vouloir married (second) May, 1891,
Annie Dufresne. a sister of his first wife.
CROCKER. Clifton Alvah,
Paper Manufacturer.
Three generations of this branch of the
Crocker family of New England have
made the name synonymous with paper
manufacturers, and for many years Sam-
uel Somerbie Crocker and his sons,
Daniel and Clifton Alvah Crocker, were
the principal owners and the executive
managers of the Holyoke corporation,
The Crocker Manufacturing Company,
paper manufacturers. After that corpora-
tion was sold to the American Writing
Paper Company, Clifton Alvah Crocker
organized the Crocker-McElwain Com-
pany of Holyoke, and as president of that
company preserves to the Crocker name
supremacy in the paper manufacturing
world in which his entire business life
has been spent. Paper manufacture first
became a family industry with Deacon
Samuel Crocker, who became an expert
paper maker in Newburyport mills, and
in 1796 settled at Leominster and worked
for Nichols & Kendall in the first paper
mill built there. His sons, Alvah and
Samuel Somerbie Crocker, learned the
same trade, worked in the same mill at
Leominster with their father, and later
became noted paper manufacturers, trans-
mitting the business to their sons.
(I) The Crocker family in this branch
was founded in New England by Captain
John Crocker, born presumably in Eng-
land in 1699, died in Newburyport, Mas-
sachusetts, March 19, 1763. He was both
a ship owner and master mariner, sailing
and owning with his son, Benjamin, the
brig "Ranger." In 1748 Captain Crocker
received permission to erect a rope walk,
the first ever built in Newbury, the old
name of the town. He married. April 12,
1727, Mary, daughter of Thomas Savage,
and both are buried in St. Ann's Church-
yard at Newburyport, their graves
marked by headstones.
(II) Benjamin Crocker, third child of
Captain John Crocker, the founder, was
born in Boston. Massachusetts. February
6. 1732, died in Newburyport, October 5,
1777. He was associated with his father
in his enterprises, and was one of the
substantial men of his town. He married,
in Hampton, New Hampshire, September
9, 1761, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Somer-
bie, who bore him nine children, of whom
lived to grow up. Samuel, of whom fur-
ther.
(ITT) Samuel Crocker (Deacon), son
of Benjamin and Sarah (Somerbie)
Crocker, was born at Newburyport. Mas-
sachusetts, March 22, 1774, died at Fitch-
burg. Massachusetts. August 26. 1856.
When a young man, he learned the paper
making business, a trade then requiring
great manual skill, and became an expert
workman. With him paper making was
introduced into the family. In 1796 he
located in Leominster. Massachusetts.
Nichols & Kendall having just built the
first paper mill there, and at the height
of its importance the mill gave employ-
ment to twenty-five hands. There Samuel
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Crocker's sons worked and learned the
business, going out from there to mills of
their own. After Alvah, the eldest son,
had built his mill at Fitchburg, Deacon
Samuel Crocker, the father, moved there
and in various ways was associated with
his sons in business. Deacon Samuel
Crocker was intensely religious in his
nature, stern, uncompromising and con-
scientious. He became a convert to the
Baptist faith, was one of the founders of
the Baptist church at Leominster, and
when in its early days the church had no
pastor, Deacon Crocker "demonstrated."
He was the first Baptist in Leominster
and the first Baptist deacon, and after his
removal to Fitchburg, he with nine others
organized the Fitchburg Village Baptist
Society. "He was a man of m,uch prayer
and much joy in his religion, an evangelist
in disposition, holding prayer meeting
and conference meetings in his own house
and elsewhere preaching the gospel fre-
quently." "He was a pillar of the church
through all its early years, because every
man who knew him respected his simpli-
city of heart and purity of character." He
married, at Lunenburg. Massachusetts,
May 3, 1798, Comfort, daughter of Samuel
and Hannah (Adams) Jones, of Medway,
Massachusetts. "Mrs. Crocker was a de-
scendant of the celebrated Adams family
and inherited all its self reliance and inde-
pendence of character. Nobly struggling
under adverse circumstances and unwill-
ing to receive assistance not absolutely
necessary, she aimed to nurture the chil-
dren in habits of honest industry and to
accustom them to exertion, not only from
necessity, but also from choice. From
this sensible and energetic young mother
the Crocker boys derived their prominent
characteristics."
(IV) Samuel Somerbie Crocker, sixth
son of Deacon Samuel and Comfort
(Jones) Crocker, was born at Leominster,
Massachusetts, October 30, 1813, died in
his native town, January 13. 1909. At the
age of ten years he began working in the
paper mill with his father and brothers,
and at the age of sixteen years entered
the employ of his elder brother, Alvah
Crocker, who in 1826 had built a paper
mill in that part of West Fitchburg, later
known as Crockerville. After working
two years for his brother, he began learn-
ing the carpenter's trade and also became
a millwright, following his trade for sev-
eral years. In 1839 he bought the water
power of what was later known as the
"Snow" Mill, and is now one of the
Crocker-Burbank mills, and there for a
number of years successfully manufac-
tured paper. In 1853 he sold the mill and
moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, there
erecting and operating the first paper mill
in the city. He manufactured paper in
Law-rence for twelve years, then returned
to Leominster, where in 1865 he built the
Crocker Woolen Mill, thereby adding a
flourishing business to the town indus-
tries. A few years later he returned to
his first business, and with his son, Daniel
P.. began the manufacture of paper in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, under the cor-
porate name of The Crocker Manufactur-
ing Company, Samuel S. Crocker, presi-
dent, Daniel P. Crocker, treasurer and
clerk. At the death of Daniel P. Crocker
in 1887, the youngest son of Samuel S.
Crocker, Clifton Alvah Crocker, suc-
ceeded his brother as treasurer. The com-
pany continued a large and profitable
business until 1899, when it was sold to
the American Writing Paper Company.
Samuel S. Crocker was interested in other
business enterprises, and until his retire-
ment, bowed with the weight of years,
was active in their management. He
lived to be ninety-six years of age. A
Congregationalist in his youth, he later
became a Baptist, and was a member of
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the Fitchburg Church founded by his
father. Later he was a deacon of the
Fir?t Baptist Church of Lawrence, and
when the Second liaptist Church of Law-
rence was formed, he became a deacon of
that congregation, and in Leominster
later still was deacon of the Central Bap-
tist Church. For seventy years he was
teacher, superintendent or scholar in the
various Sunday schools of the churches
to which he belonged.
He married, August 7, 1837, at Leo-
minster, Martha Elizabeth Putnam, born
in Shirley, Massachusetts, November 30,
1818, died in Leominster, April 26, 1907,
daughter of Samuel and Hannah F.
(Kimball) Putnam. Deacon Samuel S.
and Martha E. (Putnam) Crocker were
the parents of nine children: i. Daniel
P., born April 16, 1840; married, April 17,
1862, Caroline E. Litchfield; died at
Springfield, February 10, 1887. 2. Adams
Wheeler, born May 10, 1842. 3. Frank
Thomas, born July 4, 1844 ; married Alice
G. Allen; died at Leominster, July 31,
1873. 4- Frederick William, born March
27, 1846; a commander in the United
States Navy, visited during his long and
honorable career as a naval ofBcer nearly
every country in the world ; he married
Helen M. Blanchard ; died in Chelsea,
Massachusetts, October 31. 1896. 5. John
Henry, born May 11, 1848, died August
24, 1849. 6. Samuel Somerbie (2), born
January 15, 1850; died October 17, 1851.
7. Martha Elizabeth, born January 28,
1852. 8. Charles Fremont, born February
7. 1856. 9. Clifton Alvah, of further men-
tion.
Martha Elizabeth (Putnam) Crocker
was a descendant of John Putnam, who
came from England to Salem Village,
Massachusetts, in 1634, with wife Pris-
cilla and sons: Thomas and Nathaniel.
Nathaniel Putnam was born in England,
October 11, 1619, and died in Salem, July
23, 1700. Part of the property he owned
has remained in the family. He left a
large estate and was a man of great
prominence in his community, serving in
the General Court and as selectman. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
and Alice (Bosworth) Hutchinson, who
bore him seven children. Their third son,
John Putnam, was born at Salem, March
26, 1657, and died there in September,
1722. His farm was in that part of Dan-
vers near the "log bridge" across the
Ipswich river. He was an important man
in his town, and during the witchcraft
delusion was constable. He married
Hannah Cutler, who bore him fifteen chil-
dren. Their twelfth child, John (2) Put-
nam, was born in Salem, August 16, 1691,
and died February 10, 1764. He was a
well-to-do farmer, and by will devised
money, lands and buildings. He married
(first) Rachel Buxton, (second) Lydia
Porter, and had eight children. Their
second child, John (3) Putnam, was borrt
in Salem Village in 1720, died in Danvers.
and his will was probated November 16,
1786. He was captain of an Alarm Com-
pany of Danvers, which marched on the
Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. He
married Ruth Swinnerton, and had six
children. Their third son. Daniel Put-
nam, was born in Salem, April 19, 1749,
and died April 26, 1813, in Fitchburg.
Massachusetts. He served as ensign in
the Fitchburg Company under Captain
Ebenezer Bridge, which marched on the
Lexington Alarm, serving thirteen days.
He was a deacon of the church, and an-
nually his grave is decorated by the Grand
Armv Veterans in recognition of his
Revolutionary service. He married
Rachel Small, who bore him several sons.
They are both buried in Laurel Hill
Cemetery, both graves marked with a tall
slate stone. Their son, Samuel Putnam
(Captain), was born in Fitchburg, Massa-
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EXCiXLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
chusetts, September 5, 1785, died in July,
i860, and is buried with his wife and one
daughter in the cemetery of Lunenburg,
Massachusetts. He was always known as
"Captain*' Samuel Putnam, and was a
man of importance, holding the of^ce of
high sherifT. He married Hannah F.
Kimball and among his children was a
daughter. Martha Elizabeth, the wife of
Samuel Somerbie Crocker and mother of
Clifton Alvah Crocker.
(V) Clifton Alvah Crocker, third son
of Samuel Somerbie and Martha Eliza-
beth (Putnam) Crocker, was born at
Lawrence. Massachusetts. July 30, 1858.
In 1865 his parents moved again to Leo-
minster, where he was educated in the
public schools, finishing his studies in
Boston. When his school years w'ere
completed he entered the oflfices of
The Crocker Manufacturing Company,
founded by his father and brother Daniel
P.. and from that time has been intimately
connected with paper manufacture. At
the death of his brother, Daniel P., Feb-
ruary 10, 1887, he succeeded him as treas-
urer of the company, and held that office
until the sale of The Crocker Manufac-
turing Company, which was nearly all
owned in the family, to the American
Writing Paper Company in 1899. Mr.
Crocker remained with the purchasing
company for three years in official capac-
ity. He then resigned, and in 1904 in
company with his brother-in-law, R. F.
McElwain. organized the Crocker-Mc-
Elwain Company for the manufacture of
paper in Holyoke. Clifton A. Crocker,
president and treasurer, and R. F. Mc-
Elwain, vice-president. The corporation
operates a large plant in Holyoke. gives
employment to several hundred hands and
is an important factor in the paper trade.
Mr. Crocker is a member of the execu-
tive committee of the American Paper and
Pulp Association ; is vice-president and
director of the National Equipment Com-
pany of Springfield, Massachusetts ; presi-
dent and treasurer of the Chemical Paper
^Linufacturing Company, Holyoke ; direc-
tor of the Springfield National Bank ;
was chairman of the board of water com-
missioners of Springfield, Massachusetts,
a city in which Mr. Crocker has resided
for the past twenty years. He is presi-
dent of the Hampden Hospital ; member
of the First Highland Baptist Church of
Springfield ; a Republican in politics, and
interested in all good causes. He belongs
to lodge, chapter and council of the Ma-
sonic order, his clubs, the Holyoke of
Holyoke, Nayasset and Colony of Spring-
field, and the Springfield Country Club.
He is a director and vice-president of the
Springfield Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation, and is a trustee of the Inter-
national Young Men's Christian Associ-
ation College.
Mr. Crocker married, June 16. 1881,
Lucy Hannah, daughter of Oliver and
Paulina Doane (Witherill) McElwain. of
Becket, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs.
Crocker are the parents of three children :
I. Paulina, born November 4. 1882; mar-
ried. October 30, 1915, Joseph E. Holmes,
assistant treasurer of the Springfield In-
stitution for Savings ; one daughter, Eliza-
beth Crocker Holmes, born October 15.
1916. 2. Ruth, born February 8, 1884;
married, April 24. 1907, Franklin Law-
rence, secretary and manager of the Port-
land Stone Foundry Company of Port-
land. Maine. 3. Elizabeth, born February
13, 1891.
HATCH, Raymond Stewart,
Chemist.
Raymond Stewart Hatch, general su-
perintendent of the plant of the Crocker-
McElwain Company, paper manufac-
turers, of Holyoke, comes of an old New
England family.
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Joseph J. Hatch, great-grandfather of
Raymond Stewart Hatch, was born De-
cember i8, 1785, in Connecticut, from
which locality he removed to New York
State, settling in Hannibal, Oswego
county, the journey being made by means
of an ox team, somewhat different to the
present methods of rapid transportation
by means of steam and automobile. He
was a Methodist clergyman and followed
that vocation in Hannibal during the re-
mainder of his active career, his death
occurring in that town. He took an active
interest in community afifairs, and was
honored by all who knew him. He mar-
ried (first) September 9, 1807, Content
Marks, born May 24, 1787, died September
25, 1830. Their children were as follows:
Mary Ann, born August 21, 1808; Wil-
liam P., born March 3, 1810, died March
31, 1826; Sidney H., born December 23,
1813; Alfred M.. born August 7, 1816;
Lavinia, born February 28, 1819, died
September 30, 1842; James F., born Oc-
tober 4, 1821, died May 26, 1832; Eliza R.,
born March 20, 1823, died February 15,
1903 ; Elizabeth, born September 25, 1826;
George R., born September 4, 1829, died
August 20, 1830. He married (second)
January 18, 1831, Frances Raymond, born
March i, 1804, and they were the parents
of two children : Joseph Raymond, of
whom further, and Laura F.. born xA.pril
7, 1837, died March 24, 1838.
Joseph Raymond Hatch, son of Joseph
J. and Frances (Raymond) Hatch, was
born in Hannibal, Oswego county, New
York, October 26, 1833, died in Baldwins-
ville, Onondaga county, New York, Sep-
tember 3, 1905. He followed in his
father's footsteps, being a clergyman of
the Methodist denomination, devoted to
the interests of his church, and active in
all that concerned the welfare of the com-
munities in which he resided. He was
also patriotic and served his country dur-
ing the War between the North and
South, serving in many engagements. He
married, April 23, 1854. Marilla Dunton,
born April 13, 1833, died January 25, 1912,
and they were the parents of five chil-
dren: Edgar Raymond, of whom further;
William Dunton, born April 14. 1863, died
August 31, 1887; Edith Eliza, born May
25, 1868; Earnest Chauncey, born Decem-
ber 24, 1870; Irving Charles, born Febru-
ary 25, 1875.
Edgar Raymond Hatch, son of Joseph
Raymond and Marilla ■= (Dunton) Hatch,
was born July 4, 1856, in Hannibal, Os-
wego county. New York, and at the pres-
ent time is a resident of Syracuse, Onon-
daga county. New York. He received a
practical education in the schools adjacent
to his home, later served an apprentice-
ship at the trade of pattern maker, and
subsequently became an instructor in the
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New
York, being thoroughly competent to fill
all requirements, and performing his
duties to the entire satisfaction of all con-
cerned. He is an attendant of the Epis-
copal church, a Republican in politics, and
a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He married, September
27, 1882. Jennie Stewart, of Watertown.
New York, daughter of Nathaniel Stew-
art. Children : Raymond Stewart, of
whom further, and Ruth Fredrika. born
August 16. 1889.
Raymond Stewart Hatch, son of Edgar
Raymond and Jennie (Stewart) Hatch,
was born in Watertown. New York, July
18. 1883. He attended the schools of
Watertown. and Syracuse University,
graduating from the latter in the class of
T904. and then the Massachusetts School
of Technology, where he spent six months
in special work. His first employment
was as chemist with the Ozone Vanillin
Company of Niagara Falls, with whom
he remained for three years, from 1905 to
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1908, then entered the employ of Heller
&• Merz, manufacturers of aniline dye
stuffs, in Newark, New Jersey, serving in
the same capacity, remainiui^ there four
years, until 1912. He then took up his
residence in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
secured employment as a chemist with
the Crocker-McElwain Company, paper
manufacturers, and in August, 1914, was
appointed general superintendent of their
entire plant, which position he has since
held. He is a member of the American
Chemical Society, and the Technical As-
sociation of the Paper and Pulp Industry,
Phi Beta Kappa, college fraternity,
Niagara Frontier Lodge, No. 132, Free
and Accepted Masons, and the Lodge of
Perfection of the Scottish Rite bodies.
Mr. Hatch married, September 25, 1908,
Emily Male, born in Stoke. England,
daughter of Samuel Male, who emigrated
to the United States from England in
1895. Mr. and Mrs. Hatch are the parents
of one child, Frank Raymond, born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, July 20, 1914.
GRIDLEY, Philip Whitmore,
Enterprising Citizen.
This branch of the Gridley family in
America traces descent from Thomas
Gridley. of England, and during the
nearly three centuries which have elapsed
since his coming. Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut and again Massachusetts have been
the a])i(ling ])laces of the heads of the
generations herein outlined. Philip Whit-
more Gridley, assistant treasurer of the
Crocker-McElwain Company, paper
manufacturers of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, is of the eighth American gener-
ation, and is one of the honored sons of
Holyoke who has achieved success with-
in her borders.
Thomas Gridley, of Essex, England,
came to Newton (Cambridge) in 1623,
and with Rev. Thomas Hooker's company
went to Hartford in 1636. He married
Mary Seymour, of Hartford, a member of
the famous Seymour family of Connec-
ticut. Among his children was Samuel
Gridley, who was one of the original
proprietors of Farmington, Connecticut.
He married and among his children was a
son, Joseph Gridley, who early settled at
Southington, Connecticut. He married
Hannah Lewis, and among their children
was a son, Joseph (2) Gridley, who mar-
ried Sarah Woodruff. Among their chil-
dren was a son, Simon Gridley, who mar-
ried Lois Andrus (Andrews) and came
to Southampton, Massachusetts, in 1804.
They were the parents of Henry, men-
tioned below% and Dr. Josiah A. Gridley,
a physician of Southampton.
Henry Gridley, son of Simon and Mary
(Andrus) Gridley, was born in Southamp-
ton, Massachusetts, in 1805, and died in
1850. He was a school teacher, and in
association with his brother. Dr. J. A.
Gridley, manufactured a line of proprie-
tary goods including the well known
Gridley's Pills. He married Dolly Ann
Howland, born at Montgomery, Massa-
chusetts, in 1821, and died in 1898, a
daughter of Chester and Betsey Ann
Howland, of distinguished Puritan family.
Mr. and Mrs. Gridley were the parents
of two daughters, Cebia Ann, married
Chester W. M. Smith ; Sarah, died in
childhood ; and a son, Henry Howland,
mentioned below. Dolly Ann (Howland)
Gridley survived her husband and married
(second) D. D. Whitmore, and they were
the parents of Jane, D. D., Jr., and
Lucretia.
Henry Howland Gridley, son of Henry
and Dolly Ann (Howland) Gridley, was
born in Southampton, Massachusetts,
June 31, 1849. He was educated in the
public schools of Southampton, Sunder-
land, Montague, and Williston Academy
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at Easthampton, ^Massachusetts. The
earlier years of his business life were
spent as a bookkeeper in Greenfield, Mas-
sachusetts, New York City and Holyoke,
Massachusetts. In the last named city
the duties of paymaster were added to his
bookkeeping and for several years he held
these dual positions at the Massachusetts
Screw Works owned by the Newtons. He
was ambitious to escape the confining du-
ties of desk work, and for a long time de-
voted his evenings and spare hours to the
study of architecture and building, finally
becoming so well versed in theory that he
became a contractor. He erected the first
apartment house ever built in Springfield,
Massachusetts, and after passing a com-
petitive civil service examination was ap-
pointed superintendent of construction at
the United States Military Academy,
West Point, New York. He filled that
position most satisfactorily and later su-
perintended the erection of the Hartford
National Bank, the Merchants' National
Bank of Boston, one of the large hotel
buildings in Utica, New York, another at
Schenectady, New York, several school
buildings of importance, and upon the
organization of the Eastern States Ex-
position Company at Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, he superintended the construc-
tion of the various large buildings com-
prising the group intended for exposition
purposes (1916).
Mr. Gridley married, December 24,
1876, Jessie Whitmore, a daughter of
Jesse and Martha (Hosmer) Whitmore.
They are the parents of Florence, Philip
Whitmore, mentioned below, and Gladys
Ruth Gridley.
Philip Whitmore Gridley, only son of
Henry Howland and Jessie (Whitmore)
Gridley, was born in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, July 19, 1882. In 1890 his parents
moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, and
there he was educated in the graded and
higli schools. He began business life with
the Springfield National Bank, entering
that employ, February 2^, 1900, remain-
ing until October 8, 1904. He then se-
cured a position as bookkeeper with the
Crockcr-McElwain Company, paper
manufacturers of Holyoke, and has ever
since been associated with that company.
From the office he was transferred to the
manufacturing department under Mr. Mc-
Elwain, next was employed in the cost
and sales department, and in 1913 was
promoted to his present position, assistant
treasurer of the corporation, a post he
most efficiently fills. He is a member of
the Second Congregational Church, and
of Mt. Tom Golf Club.
Mr. Gridley married, March 26, 1907,
Sadie Bugbee, daughter of Walter T. and
Flora J. (Greenwood) Bugbee, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts.
BUCHANAN, Andrew,
Business Man.
A man of splendid business ability and
a citizen of highest standing, public-
spirited to a high degree, Andrew Buch-
anan left behind him not only an enduring
monument in the important company
with which he was so long connected, but
in the hearts of all who came in direct
contact with him. Always interested in
public afifairs, he was ever ready to lend
a hand in any movement for the public
good. He was deeply devoted to his home
and family, there finding his greatest joy
in life, but warm hearted and generous,
his great heart going out to all, and he was
the centre of a very wide circle of true
friends. He was a son of Robert Buch-
anan, founder of the firm of Buchanan &
Bolt, wire weavers of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, a business continued by his son,
Andrew Buchanan, and now most capably
managed by Mrs. Andrew Buchanan, who
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succeeded her husband in the presidency
of the company.
Robert Buchanan was born in Glasgow,
Scotland, in 1824. died in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, October 27. 1S94. scion of one
of Scotland's distinguished families.
When a young man he came to the United
States, locating at Belleville, New Jersey.
In 1876 he located in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, and in 1878 in Holyoke, where
he founded the firm of Buchanan & Bolt,
manufacturers of woven wire. The firm
originally consisted of Robert Buchanan,
his son, Andrew Buchanan, and John
Bolt. In course of time Robert Buchanan
retired, leaving his son and partner in
charge of the business, which had been
from its inception a most successful one.
Robert Buchanan married Jean Mc\'icker
and had sons, Andrew and James, also a
daughter. Jessie.
Andrew Buchanan was born in Belle-
ville, New Jersey. October 5, 1850, died in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, July 9, 1896. He
passed his early life in Belleville, there
v.^as educated and began his business life.
In 1877 he was engaged in Boston, com-
ing to Holyoke in 1878 and associating
with his honored father as partner in the
firm of Buchanan & Bolt. The partners
continued together until the retirement
of Robert Buchanan, and built up a busi-
ness, one of the most successful in the
city. Andrew Buchanan succeeded his
father as president of the company, which
had become a corporation, and exerted
his splendid executive and business
talents to its management until his death,
the business increasing with each succeed-
ing year. He was a Republican in Na-
tional politics, but in local affairs was
thoroughly independent, supporting the
candidates he judged best fitted for the
ofifices they sought, regardless of party
ties. He was a member of Common
Council for two years, but never sought
any public office. He was a member of
the Masonic order, belonging to lodge,
chapter and commandery ; also was a
Knight of Pythias, an attendant and gen-
erous supporter of the First Congrega-
tional Church.
Mr. Buchanan married, January 13,
1874, Grace E. Troop, of Belleville, New
Jersey, but born at Bridgewater, Massa-
chusetts. Three of the children of An-
drew and Grace E. Buchanan are living:
Robert, treasurer of the Buchanan & Bolt
Company ; Jessie ; Amy R., wife of Hom«r
E. Rawson. of Kuna, Idaho. After the
death of her husband, Mrs. Buchanan re-
tained her interests in the Buchanan &
Bolt Company, and is now its most effi-
cient president, proving herself a woman
of strons: executive abilitv.
PRENTISS, George Whiting,
Mannfactnrer, Financier, Philantliropist.
Whether considered as manufacturer,
financier or philanthropist, George Wil-
liam Prentiss must be accorded high rank
among the honored, progressive and
valued business men of Holyoke, who in
their day and generation laid broad and
deep the foundations upon which a great
manufacturing community has arisen.
He was one of the first manufacturers of
his class to realize that Holyoke possessed
potential greatness, and with his capital
and his own strong personality he began
the work of proving his faith by his
works. He was well advanced in octo-
genarian dignity when called to his re-
ward, and all but twenty-eight of his
eighty-six years had been spent in Hol-
yoke, the little wire mill of 1857 having
grown during these years into the great
corporation known as George W. Pren-
tiss & Company, and of which he was the
executive head.
Prentice or Prentiss is an ancient sur-
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name, the spelling always having varied
as it does to-day, branches of the same
family using both "tice" and "tiss." The
American ancestor of George W. Pren-
tiss, of Holyoke, was Captain Thomas
Prentice, born in England in 1621, and is
first of mention in America in the records
of the First Church of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, he having joined that church
about 1652. He was known as the
"trooper" from the fact that from 1656 he
was lieutenant and captain of horse at
Newton, Massachusetts, and it is a matter
of record that "he and his troop of horse,
owing to their sudden attacks and im-
petuous charges, were a terror to the
Indians." He led his troop at the "Swamp
Fight," and when his long and useful life
of public service was over he was laid
to rest in the old burying ground at New-
ton with military honors, July 8, 1710.
He was succeeded by his son, Thomas
(2) Prentice, a famous Indian interpreter,
from whom the line of descent follows
through Rev. John Prentiss, a graduate
of Harvard, and the fourth pastor of Lan-
caster, Massachusetts, 1705-48; his son,
John Prentiss ; his son, George Samuel
Prentiss ; his son, Samuel Prentiss ; his
son. Deacon Samuel Prentiss ; his son,
George Whiting Prentiss, to whose
memory this tribute is offered. Deacon
Samuel Prentiss, of the seventh American
generation, married Clarissa Whiting, and
moved to Claremont, New Hampshire,
w^here he conducted a tanning business
until 1857, when he returned to Massa-
chusetts, settling with his son, George W.
Prentiss, in Holyoke, where he died in
1877.
George W. Prentiss was born in Clare-
mont, New Hampshire, October 10, 1829,
and died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
April 2, 1915. He completed a high school
course in Claremont, and after graduation
obtained a position as clerk in a store at
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. After a short
term as clerk in Bedford, Massachusetts,
he entered the employ of the Henry S.
Washburn Wire W'orks at Worcester,
Massachusetts, remaining there three
years. This was the beginning of his life-
long connection with wire manufacturing,
the business proving very much to his
liking and he proving his aptitude for the
business. He won the high regard of the
management of the works, and during the
three years in Worcester acquired so
thorough a knowledge of the business
that he was sent to South Boston as man-
ager of the Norway Iron Works owned
by the W'ashburns. He remained in that
position about three years, then decided
the time had come to begin an independ-
ent career as a manufacturer. He chose
Holyoke as a location, and in 1857 began
wire manufacture in a small mill now
ow-ned by the Parsons Paper Company.
He began with a partner as Prentiss &
Gray, but in about a year purchased his
partner's interest and conducted the busi-
ness under his own name until 1871. The
product of the mill found instant favor,
and from an annual output of one hundred
tons made by a force of eight men the
plant grew to a point where as high as
ten tons of finished wire were turned out
daily by a force of one hundred workmen.
As the business grew, quarters more
commodious and suitable were found in
a building owned by the Holyoke Water
Power Company. In 1871, the business
becoming too important to be controlled
by one man, Mr. Prentiss admitted his
cousin, Marden W. Prentiss, to a partner-
ship, he having been superintendent of
the plant for ten years previous. The
firm in 1871 planned and erected the plant
substantially as it now stands, although
other buildings have been bought and
built. In 1877 the firm was further en-
larged by the admission of William Albert
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Prentiss, a son of the founder. Later the
firm was incorporated as George \V.
Prentiss & Company, the founder becom-
ing the president of the company, a post
he filled most efificiently until his death.
As the years added their weight he grad-
ually shifted the burdens of management
to younger shoulders, but until stricken
with a fatal illness regularly visited the
company's offices.
The development and management of
his wire mills fully tested his physical and
mental strength for many years, but as
partners w^ere admitted and the burdens
shifted to the corporation's officials, he
was freer to take active part in other
important institutions of his city. He
was a director of the Deane Steam Pump
Company of Holyoke, treasurer of the
Holyoke & Westfield Railroad Company
for several years, but his principal outside
connection was with Holyoke's financial
institutions. He was for many years
president of the Holyoke Savings Bank,
and when he finally surrendered the
executive management he retained his
membership on the board of directors,
thus continuing a potent force in the
bank's affairs until his death. He was
for many years a director of the Holyoke
National Bank and at one period its able
president, and also served the Third Na-
tional Bank of Springfield as a member of
its board of directors.
His was not a sordid nature, selfishly
seeking his own aggrandizement, but
with a broad public spirit he aided in all
movements for civic betterment and moral
uplift. He was very popular in his city,
and had he chosen to enter the political
field would have gone to higher position.
But he steadfastly refused the importun-
ities of his friends, and beyond service on
the Board of Aldermen from Ward Six
in 1874-75 and as a member of the Board
of Sinking Fund Commissioners for a
number of years, his deep interest in civic
affairs was as a private citizen. He served
as a director of Holyoke Public Library
from its earliest days, and was ever a
w^arm friend of that valuable institution,
also of the Holyoke City Hospital. He
was a member and a strong pillar of sup-
port of the Second Congregational
Church, and was affiliated with Mt. Tom
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
So the life of a good man and valuable
citizen was passed, although the fore-
going but dimly outlines his usefulness
and value to his community. No words
can express the beauty of his character
nor the depth of his influence. \Vith a
strongly developed character, upright,
honorable and just, went a charming per-
sonality. His open, frank face and kindly
eyes were but the windows of his soul.
Said one of his intimates : "It makes no
difference on what errand you go to Mr.
Prentiss he smiles." And he smiled from
his heart, smiled on the world, smiled at
his office and he smiled at home. His
was a w^orld of sunshine, happiness and
love, exemplifying Byron's line "Happi-
ness was born a twin."
Mr. Prentiss married, May 30, 1852,
Jane D. Washburn, of Kingston, Massa-
chusetts. They w-ere the parents of a son,
William Albert Prentiss, mentioned be-
low, and a daughter, Clara Jane, born
February 18, 1862, married William B.
Tubby, of Greenwich, Connecticut.
PRENTISS, William Albert,
Mannfactnrer, Financier.
William Albert Prentiss, son of George
Whiting and Jane D. (Washburn) Pren-
tiss, was born in Elmwood now Bridge-
water. Massachusetts, July 10, 1854. He
was three years of age when his parents
moved to Holyoke, and until the present
(1917) he has continued his residence in
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that city. He attended public schools,
passed to Williston Seminary, thence to
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, whence he was graduated, class
of '75 with the degree of Bachelor of
Science. He began business life in asso-
ciation with his honored father, became
a partner in 1877, and upon the incorpora-
tion of George W. Prentiss & Company,
was elected its treasurer. He remained
the capable financial head of the company
until the death of George W. Prentiss,
then succeeded him as executive head.
His long years of association with this
important and successful corporation has
developed a strong and capable executive,
whose soul is in the business he aided to
create and to which he is bound by ties
stronger than the hope of gain or fame.
He is also vice-president of the Holyoke
Savings Bank, and director of the City
National Bank and of the City Hospital.
Mr. Prentiss married, October 2, 1877,
Helen Maria Hubbard, daughter of Moses
Nash and Julia J. (Parsons) Hubbard, a
descendant in the ninth generation from
George Hubbard, the American ancestor,
through his son, John Hubbard, his son,
Isaac Hubbard, his son, John Hubbard,
his son, Elisha Hubbard, his son, Elisha
(2) Hubbard, his son, Jeremiah Hubbard,
his son, Moses Nash Hubbard, his daugh-
ter, Helen Maria (Hubbard) Prentiss.
Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss are the parents of
a son, George William Prentiss, men-
tioned below, and a daughter. Bertha
Helen Prentiss.
PRENTISS, George William,
Mannfacturer.
George William Prentiss, of the tenth
American generation of his family, son of
William Albert and Helen Maria (Hub-
bard) Prentiss, was born in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, November 2y, 1881. He
Ma8s — 6—3
was educated in Holyoke public schools,
Worcester Academy and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and is a graduate
of the last named institution, class of 1905,
degree of Bachelor of Science. He began
business life immediately after gradu-
ation, as secretary of George W. Prentiss
& Company, a position he ably filled up
to January i, 1917, when he became
treasurer, which position he fills at the
present time. He is a member of his
college fraternities, and Mt. Tom Golf
and Holyoke Canoe clubs, fond of out-of-
door recreations, and worthily bears a
name honored in Holyoke since the com-
ing of his grandfather in 1857 and in Mas-
sachusetts for over two and a half cen-
turies. Mr. Prentiss married, June 8,
1910, Isabelle Wheat, daughter of Wil-
liam and Clara (Abercrombie) Wheat,
of Springfield, Massachusetts.
JUDD, Philip Munson,
Business Man.
xA.lthough one of the ancient and honor-
able families of New England, Judds did
not become affiliated with the business
interests of Holyoke until 1878, when
John Kellogg Judd there located. In
1882 he organized the Judd Paper Com-
pany, of which he is yet the honored
president, his son, Philip Munson Judd,
being the efficient treasurer of the same
corporation.
( I) The name is an ancient one in Eng-
land, and was brought to America in 1632
or 1634 by Deacon Thomas Judd, who
came from England, settling at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, in that part of the
town known as the West End on the
W^atertown road. In 1636 he moved to
Hartford, Connecticut, removing thence
to Farmington in 1644, where he was one
of the first proprietors, a man of sub-
stance and influence. He was deputy to
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the General Court several times, a charter
member and second deacon of the Farm-
ington church, and died November 12,
1688, at Northampton, Massachusetts,
aged about eighty.
(II) Samuel Judd, son of Deacon
Thomas Judd, and his first w^ife, was born
in Farmington about 1651, died January
10, 1721, in Northampton. After the
death of his father he took care of his
stepmother, and in return she deeded him
her property, inherited from her first hus-
band, Thomas Mason, on Pleasant street.
He also owned other property, inherited
from his father. He married Mariah
Strong, who died May 18, 1751, aged
eighty-eight, daughter of Thomas and
Mary (Hewet) Strong. They were the
parents of ten sons and daughters.
(III) Thomas Judd, son of Samuel
Judd, was born in Northampton, Massa-
chusetts, January 28, 1691, died Decem-
oer 31, 1749. He removed to the east side
of Mount Tom, in the town of Northamp-
ton, to what is known as South Farms,
opposite South Hadley. He married Han-
nah Bascom, who died July 16, 1768, aged
seventy-four, daughter of Thomas Bas-
com. They were the parents of seven
sons and three daughters.
(IV) Reuben Judd, son of Thomas
Judd, died March 7, 181 5, in his eighty-
seventh year, a resident of South Hadley.
He married (first) Elizabeth White, who
died May 9, 1765, aged twenty-four,
daughter of Moses White, of South Had-
ley. He married (second) Elizabeth
Smith, who died March 31, 1781, aged
thirty-one, daughter of John Smith. He
married (third) Submit Graves, who died
in Hadley, December 24, 1830, daughter
of Moses Graves, of Hatfield. He had by
his three wives fourteen children.
(V) Salathiel Judd, eldest son of
Reuben Judd and his second wife, Eliza-
beth (Smith) Judd, was born August 31,
1769, settled in Chester, Massachusetts,
where he died in 182 1. He married Irene
Day, who died in South Hadley, daughter
of Abraham Day. They were the parents
of ten children, all born in Chester, except
the eldest.
(VI) Salathiel (2) Judd, son of Sala-
thiel (i) and Irene (Day) Judd, was born
in Chester, Massachusetts, May 3, 1795,
died in South Hadley, March 28, 1842.
He married Laura Taylor, and they were
the parents of six children, all born in
Chester but the youngest, who was born
in South Hadley.
(VII) Harvey Judd, son of Salathiel
(2) and Laura (Taylor) Judd, was born
in Chester, October 7, 1822, died June 14,
1901. He was a carpenter by trade, but
later founded the Judd Brothers Com-
pany, and in connection with this he also
operated a paper mill at South Hadley
Falls. He resided on a farm in South Had-
ley. He married Catherine B. Kellogg,
born in 1826-27, died October 28, 1891,
daughter of John and Laura (Chapin)
Kellogg. They were the parents of John
Kellogg Judd, mentioned below ; Mary
Laura ; Eliza G., born May 22, 1863, mar-
ried E. J. Church ; Alfred Taylor, of
Greenfield, Massachusetts, a paper manu-
facturer.
(VIII) John Kellogg Judd, son of
Harvey and Catherine B, (Kellogg) Judd,
was born in South Hadley, Massachu-
setts, January 27, 185 1, and since 1878 has
been a resident of Holyoke. He was edu-
cated in public schools and Hopkins
Academy at Old Hadley, beginning his
business career at the age of twenty as a
traveling salesman. In 1878 he located
in Holyoke, and in 1882 organized the
Judd Paper Company, wholesale paper
dealers. In 1890 the business was incor-
porated under the same name, John Kel-
logg Judd its first and as yet its only
president. The company is a most pros-
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perous one, conducting a large business
with the paper trade all over the United
States. In addition to his duties as execu-
tive head of the Judd Paper Company, he
is vice-president of the Peoples Savings
Bank ; he was a director of the City Bank,
and of the Home Bank, all of Holyoke.
He is a Republican in politics, and has
taken part in the municipal government,
both as citizen and official, serving as
president of council two years and as
alderman two years. He was a deacon
of the First Congregational Church for
thirty-two years, and is interested in all
good causes. He is fond of out-of-doors
and its pleasures, finding both relaxation
and enjoyment in the advantages ]\Iount
Tom Golf Club affords its members.
Mr. Judd married, July 5, 1876, Cleora
Fowler Munson, daughter of Garry and
Harriet (Lyman) Munson, of Hunting-
ton, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of
Deacon Samuel Lyman. Mr. and Mrs.
Judd are the parents of two sons : Philip
Munson, mentioned below ; Clifi'ord Kel-
logg; and a daughter, Cleora Marion,
married Charles H. Graves.
(IX) Philip Munson Judd, eldest son
of John Kellogg and Cleora Fowler (Mun-
son) Judd, was born in Huntington,
Massachusetts, April 19. 1877. His
parents moved to Holyoke the next year
and he has known no other home. He
was educated in Holyoke public schools
and Worcester Academy, and began his
business career in association with his
father in the Judd Paper Company. With
the exception of a year spent with the
Esleeck Paper Company, in which he had
an interest, his time and energy have been
given to the Judd Paper Company, of
which he is treasurer. He is a Republican
in politics, and has given much of his
time and business experience to civic
affairs. He was a member of the Board
of Aldermen, 1908-09 and 1910, serving as
president of the board one and one-half
years. During the years 1911-12-13 he
was a member of the board of fire com-
missioners and during the last two years
of his term was chairman of the board.
He is a member of the Mount Tom Golf
and Holyoke Canoe clubs, his favorite
recreations being the sports promoted by
these clubs. He is a member of the First
Congregational Church, and is interested
in all worthy causes.
Mr. Judd married, June 20, 1906, Fern
C. Wheeler, daughter of Edgar S. and
Emma (Deniston) Wheeler, born in Peru,
Indiana, but resided in Detroit, Michigan.
They are the parents of a daughter, Eliza-
beth Wheeler Judd, born December 29,
1908.
JUDD, William Eliott,
■Well "Knovim Educator.
The name Judd is one of the oldest
surnames in England and is identical with
Jude, an old and now almost obsolete
personal name. Judson and Judkins are
formed from the same name. Henry
Judde, of County Kent, England, and
John Judde, of Oxfordshire, England, are
named in "The Hundred Rolls of 1275"
and the family has been seated in County
Kent down to the present time. Sir An-
drew Judd, a dealer in skins and furs, of
London, son of John Judd, of Tunbridge,
Kent, was mayor of London in 1650, a
man of wealth and influence. The family
bore arms : Gules a fesse between three
boars" heads couped argent. It is believed
that all the Judds descended from this
Kent family.
Deacon Thomas Judd, the founder of
the American family, came from England
in 1633 and settled in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, where he was granted a home
lot in August, 1634. The first grant was
in that part of the town known as the
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West End on the road to Watertown.
Other lands were later granted him, and
on May 25, 1635, he was admitted a free-
man. In 1636 he moved to Hartford,
Connecticut, and was granted a home lot
of two acres near the "Charter Oak."
About 1644 he moved to Farmington,
Connecticut, where he was one of the
first proprietors and settlers, his home lot
having been on the main street. He be-
came one of the prominent men of the
town ; was deputy to the General Court
several terms ; a charter member of the
Farmington church and its second deacon,
and a substantial farmer. After his sec-
ond marriage he moved to Northampton,
where he was a selectman and a resident
until his death, November 12, 1688, aged
about eighty years. His first wife died in
Farmington, and he married (second)
December 2, 1679, Clemence, widow of
Thomas Mason. He was the father of
nine children, among whom was Sam.uel,
of whom further.
Samuel Judd, son of Deacon Thomas
Judd and his first wife, was born about
the year 1651. He married Mariah
Strong, and the line of descent was
through their son, Thomas Judd ; his son,
Reuben Judd ; his son, Samuel Judd, of
South Hadley, Massachusetts, who mar-
ried Fidelia Wright. His son, Samuel
Judd, was born in South Hadley, Massa-
chusetts, in 1806, and died in Michigan,
aged eighty-three years. After complet-
ing his studies in the local schools, he
engaged in paper manufacture, and later
was the owner of a mill at South Hadley.
He was a man of active, enterprising dis-
position, and in 1853 "went West, became
a dealer in grain and operated a meat
market at what is now the city of Grand
Rapids, Michigan. At one time he was
the owner of about one hundred and four-
teen acres, comprising practically all the
land now in the city of Grand Rapids. He
married Julia Swan, and among their
children was Samuel Adolphus, of whom
further.
Samuel Adolphus Judd, son of Samuel
and Julia (Swan) Judd, was born in
South Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1834,
and met his death at the battle of Fair
Oaks, Virginia, May 31, 1862. He was
educated in the schools of his native town,
and in 1853 accompanied his father West,
and assisted him in his various activities,
being associated with him in the conduct
of his meat lousiness at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, at the outbreak of the Civil
War. When Fort Sumter was fired upon
he assisted in organizing Company A, and
was chosen as its captain. This company
became part of the Third Regiment, Mich-
igan Volunteer Infantry, and as such
went to the front. This regiment was one
of the many composing the Army of the
Potomac. He continued in the service
and passed through all the battles up to
that of Fair Oaks, where he was mortally
wounded and died at the early age of
twenty-eight years. No greater monu-
ment can be erected to any man's memory
than one bearing the inscription "He died
for his country." Captain Judd married
Clara Smith and they were the parents
of two children : William Eliott of whom
further ; Jennie E., who became the wife
of C. P. Lyman, of Holyoke, ^^lassachu-
setts.
William Eliott Judd, of Holyoke, of
the eighth American generation, son of
Captain Samuel Adolphus and Clara
(Smith) Judd, was born at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, September 3, 1855. He was in
his seventh year when his father was
killed. The family remained in Grand
Rapids, and he there attended primary,
grammar and high school, and during his
second year in high school he removed
from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Massa-
chusetts, completing his preparatory
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studies at Monson Academy. He then
entered Amherst College, from which in-
stitution he was graduated in the class of
1874, in his nineteenth year. He was a
Phi Beta Kappa man. He came at once
to Holyoke, where he secured a position
as a teacher in the high school and filled
the position acceptably to all concerned
for six years. He then was appointed
principal of the grammar school, in which
capacity he served for two years. He
then removed to Hartford, Connecticut,
and there taught history and Latin in the
Hartford High School for three years, up
to 1885, when he returned to Holyoke,
Massachusetts, and became principal of
the high school and thus served for twelve
years, up to 1897, when he resigned, but
was again appointed to the position of
principal of the South Holyoke Grammar
School, serving from that time to the
present (1916). He has assisted in mak-
ing many changes for the benefit of the
school system and pupils. The present
structure was erected in 1907 and is one
of the most modernly equipped in the city,
suited to the needs of the teachers and
scholars. As originally planned the build-
ing had no assembly hall, and Mr. Judd
used his influence to have the plans
changed and the result was a beautiful
hall seating eight hundred persons, hav-
ing the best of acoustic properties, being
located on the upper floor, which adds
greatly to the pleasure and convenience
of all interested parties. Mr. Judd is the
oldest educator now in service in Hol-
yoke, serving in that profession for the
long period of forty years, thirty-seven of
which have been in Holyoke. When he
began teaching in the high school there
were only three teachers, and at the pres-
ent time (1916) they have forty, and then
Holyoke had only one grammar school
and now it has five. Such is his record
that he is known and beloved by thous-
ands of scholars, who under his direction
have so shaped their careers as to become
successful men and women and who to-
day regard him as their staunchest and
truest friend. Mr. Judd has made a
special study of history and is frequently
called upon to make addresses on his-
torical topics. Mr. Judd is a Republican
in politics, and in 1899 represented Hol-
yoke in the State Legislature, serving on
the educational committee. He is a
member and deacon of the First Congre-
gational Church, and a member of George
B. McClellan Camp, Sons of \"eterans.
of which he was the first comanander, and
a literary society known as "The Club."
Mr. Judd married, July 16, 1878,
Frances L Brown, of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, daughter of James and Catherine
(Squier) Brown. Children : Mabel,
teacher of English in Holyoke High
School ; Samuel E., teacher of Latin in
Morris High School in New York City;
he married Rose Althea Haigh and they
have a daughter, Althea.
PFAHLER, Martin Christian,
Representative Citizen.
The grandfather of Martin C. Pfahler,
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Christian G.
Pfahler, born in Wurtemberg, Germany,
came to the United States prior to 1800.
and settled in York, Pennsylvania, where
he died in January, 1868, aged eighty-
four years. His wife, whom he married
in Germany, died in York, January 10,
1863. He was a wood turner, operating
a foot lathe prior to the introduction of
power lathes. His entire life in the
United States was spent in York. He
and his wife were the parents of five sons :
Jacob; Charles and Christian, twins ; Wil-
liam and Henry.
Charles Pfahler, son of Christian G.
Pfahler, and twin with Christian (2)
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Pfahler. was born in York, Pennsylvania,
in 1819. died there January 2, 1883. After
completing his years of school life, he
became a clerk and later a merchant, his
entire life being spent in mercantile busi-
ness in York. Here he was an enterpris-
ing merchant and a leader. Among the
incidents of importance in his life was the
fact that when General Lee invaded Penn-
sylvania in 1863, General Early being in
command of the army holding York.
General Lee demanded a cash tribute of
$100,000. which Mr. Pfahler was instru-
mental in raising to the satisfaction of the
demands of the invaders. He took a
prominent part in religious matters, and
was a member of the Lutheran Church ;
also of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, a man of strict integrity and up-
right life. He married Catherine Weiser.
born in York, in 1821. died December 27.
1897, daughter of Martin J. and Cather-
ine CHaller) Weiser. Children: Emma
Catherine, married Dr. Charles A. Isen-
hart : Martin Christian, of further men-
tion : Clara Anna.
Martin Christian Pfahler. only son of
Charles and Catherine (Weiser) Pfahler,
was born in York. Pennsylvania. Febru-
ary 19. 1847, snd there educated in the
public schools and York County Acad-
emy. He remained at home until attain-
ing his majority in 1868. then came to
Massachusetts, locating in Holyoke. His
first position was as clerk in the offices of
the Germania Mills, where he continued
seventeen months. In July. 1869. he
entered the clerical employ of the Parsons
Paper Company, was advanced in rank
from time to time until 1875 when he was
appointed superintendent. For about a
quarter of a century he held that position.
1875-1899. the Parsons Paper Company
in the latter year becoming an integral
part of the American Writing Paper
Company. With the change in manage-
ment there came a change in position for
Mr. Pfahler. and from July, 1899. until his
resignation. January i, 1917, he was pur-
chasing agent for the American Writing
Paper Company. His term of service as
clerk, superintendent and purchasing
agent with the same interests covers but
little short of the half century. 1869-1917,
ill health causing his retirement. His
Holyoke residence covers the half century,
however, and he is one of the men who
have consistently and persistently aided
in the upbuilding of a great manufactur-
ing city. In 1892 Mr. Pfahler erected his
present beautiful home on Linden street
and there his hours "oflF duty" were spent,
his nature a dom-estic. home loving one.
His business and his home have ever been
the two great attractions of his life,
neither club, fraternity nor public life
holding any attraction for him.
Mr. Pfahler married, in 1872. ^^ary
Tyler, of York. Pennsylvania, daughter of
Matthew and Lydia Tyler. They are the
parents of six children of whom four are
deceased : A daughter Ella and a son
Horace Weiser are living. Ella married
Joseph B. Woodruff, of the American
Writing Paper Company, and has a
daughter Catherine : Horace Weiser. also
connected with the American Writing
Paper Company, married Pearl Chase,
and they are the parents of Martin Chris-
tian (2) and lane Chase Pfahler.
CALLAHAN, John R..
Attomey-at-Law.
Among the able and distinguished
members of the bar of Hampden county,
Massachusetts, is John R. Callahan,
whose professional career covers a period
of more than a quarter of a century, and
who has won distinctive prominence
through the possession of those qualities
which always insure success, close appli-
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cation, keen analytical power, logical
reasoning and accurate deductions. He
was born at Old Hadley, Hampden
county, Massachusetts, April 28, 1868, son
of John and Bridget (Stack) Callahan,
who were the parents of eight children,
namely: i. Ellen, now deceased, was the
wife of James Halpin, a farmer in Old
Hadley. 2. Cornelius, who has devoted
his active career to farming pursuits ; has
been prominent in town affairs in Old
Hadley, serving as assessor for many
years, and selectman for the past ten
years. 3. Patrick. 4. Mary, makes her
home with her brother Patrick on the old
homestead. 5. Catherine, a graduate of
normal school, and for many years a suc-
cessful teacher in the Highland School in
Holyoke. 6. John R., of whom further.
7. and 8. Children who died in early life.
John Callahan (father) was born in
County Kerry, Ireland, in 1819, emigrated
to the United States in 1850, located in
Old Hadley, Massachusetts, where he fol-
lowed farming as an occupation, w^on and
retained the esteem and respect of all who
knew him, and his death occurred in 1885,
aged sixty-five years. His wife, Bridget
Callahan, was also born in County Kerry,
Ireland, and died in 1907 at the age of
eighty-five years.
John R. Callahan received his prepara-
tory education in the public schools of
Old Hadley, then became a student at
Hopkins Academy, after which he ma-
triculated at Amherst College, graduating
in 1889 with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. Immediately after his graduation
he began the study of law in the office of
Captain David Hill, of Northampton, a
prominent attorney there, under whose
competent instruction he remained for
two years, and then attended the Boston
University Law School, where he supple-
mented his previous knowledge by a full
course of study. After passing a success-
ful legal examination, he was admitted to
the Hampshire county bar at Northamp-
ton, October 16, 1891. For a short period
of time he practiced his profession in the
office of his former preceptor, Captain
David Hill, at Northampton, and in 1892
opened an office in Holyoke and has been
engaged in general practice there since,
his clientele increasing with each passing
year, owing to the fact that he clearly
demonstrated his ability to successfully
handle the intricate problems of juris-
prudence. He has also gained an enviable
reputation for himself in the ranks of the
legal profession in Hampshire county, re-
taining an office in Northampton, where
he is as well known as in Holyoke. Upon
attaining his majority Mr. Callahan gave
his allegiance to the Democratic party,
but of late years has been independent in
politics, preferring to cast his vote for the
man best qualified for office. He is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce of
Holyoke, in which he takes an active
interest ; the Knights of Columbus, and
the Northampton Club.
Mr. Callahan married, August 2^, 1896,
Katherine A. Griffin, born in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, daughter of John Griffin,
now deceased, who was a successful me-
chanic, and his wife, Mary (Lawler)
Griffin, who were the parents of four chil-
dren, namely: Michael J., now deceased,
who was a well known man in Holyoke,
serving at different times in the capacity
of city clerk, mayor, postmaster and city
solicitor ; Anna, wife of John F. Shea ;
Margaret, wife of Albert F. Sickman ; and
Katherine A. Mr. and Mrs. Callahan are
the parents of two children : Ellen, a
graduate of Hopkins Academy, now a
student of Smith College, class of 1920;
John R., Jr., student at Hopkins Acad-
emy, class of 1918.
Mr. Callahan is a man of wide acquaint-
ance, and his circle of friends is large.
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In a profession where advancement de-
pends upon individual merit he has
steadily worked his way upward, un-
flagging effort and strong mentality
winning him prominence at the bar. His
social qualities, too, have gained him a
large following, and his eminent fitness
for leadership has made him an important
factor in communitv affairs.
JENKS, Charles Calvin,
Veteran of Paper Mannf actnre.
At the age of twenty-one years, Charles
Calvin Jenks, ex-president of the Whiting
Paper Company of Holyoke, and presi-
dent of the L. L. Brown Paper Company
of Adams, first came to Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts. That was half a century ago
and there he yet dwells, high in the
esteem of his fellow-men, honored in the
business world and interested in all that
makes for better things. His rise was not
meteoric, but from the bottom of the
ladder he rose through many deserved
promotions to the presidency of a great
com.pany, his every promotion marked by
untiring industry and the efficient fulfil-
ment of its duties. He did not wait for
opportunity to knock, but so well did he
perform each duty that he was always a
station ahead of the fickle goddess wait-
ing for her to catch up. In other words,
he created a demand for his services, and
then met the demand with such efficient
service that the demand increased with
each upward step.
Mr. Jenks descends from Joseph Jenks,
that early inventive and mechanical
genius to whom the General Court of
Massachusetts in 1646 granted a patent
for engines for water mills, and with
whom the selectmen of Boston were
authorized in 1658 to arrange with for the
construction of fire engines. He also
made the dye for making what was
known as the Pine Tree Shilling which
was much in use at that time and so high
was his standard for his honesty that the
bullion for making the shillings was de-
livered to him without weighing. And
the number of shillings which he turned
out from the bullion thus received were
accepted without question. Joseph Jenks
transm.itted his genius and ability to his
descendants, and a son, Joseph (2) Jenks,
established a forge and saw mill in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, in 1671. Joseph (i)
Jenks was succeeded by a race of smitl
and manufacturers in both Rhode Island
and Massachusetts, his grandson, Ed-
mund Jenks, returning from Rhode Island
and settling in Adams, Massachusetts.
Samuel Jenks, son of Joseph (2) Jenks,
had a small cotton mill at Adams, but
later abandoned it and operated a grist
and flour mill. Daniel Jenks, son of
Samuel and Maria Keziah Jenks, died in
Adams, Massachusetts, aged eighty years,
a manufacturer, cattle dealer and land
owner. He married (first) Lucy Brown,
and they were the parents of a son, Edwin
Franklin Jenks.
Edwin Franklin Jenks was born in
xA-dams, Massachusetts, in August, 1821,
died in January, 1868. His connection
with paper manufacturing was lifelong.
In 1865 he with L. L. Brown and William
Whiting formed the W^hiting Paper Com-
pany of Holyoke, Mr. Jenks being the
first treasurer of the com.pany. He died
at the early age of forty-seven, but each
year was well accounted for. He was a
director of the First National Bank of
Adams, a trustee of Worcester State In-
sane Asylum, member of the Massachr
setts House of Assembly, several terms
member of the Governor's Council, a Free
Mason, an Odd Fellow and a Univer-
salist. He married Nancy, daughter of
Daniel Fisk, and they were the parents of
Edmund ; Charles Calvin, of further men-
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tion ; Lucy B., married Edward J. Noble,
and resides in Adams ; and William Sam-
uel, who resided in Adams, now deceased.
Charles Calvin Jenks, of the seventh
American generation, was born in Adams,
Massachusetts, March 6, 1845. He was
educated in the schools of Adams, and
spent four years in a preparatory school
in Lanesboro. He then entered Tuft's
College, there completing a full classical
course, receiving his Bachelor's degree
with the class of 1866. Immediately after
graduation, he entered the employ of the
Whiting Paper Company at Holyoke,
Massachusetts, beginning at the bottom,
but finally reaching the presidency. In
that responsible position, which was
reached after a record of efficiency in
subordinate positions of ever increasing
importance, he was retained for several
years, resigning finally to accept his pres-
ent office, the presidency of the L. L.
Brown Paper Company of Adams. Dur-
ing this half century of activity, Mr. Jenks
has made Holyoke his home, but his busi-
ness interests have spread far beyond that
city and he is equally well known in the
business circles of Springfield and Adams.
In addition to the presidency of the L. L.
Brown Paper Company, he is a director
of the Chapin Bank of Springfield, the
Graylock National Bank of Adams and
vice-president of the Holyoke Savings
Bank. He is one of the honored veterans
of the paper manufacturing business of
Holyoke, his connection covering the
period of fifty years, his service with the
business world being from 1866 to 1917.
While he has made paper manufacturing
and corporate management the great
work of his life, therein winning high
reputation, he has taken a deep interest
in civic affairs, but solely as a citizen,
office holding having no place in his
scheme of life. He is a member of Mt.
Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Mt. Holyoke Chapter, Royal Arch Ma-
sons ; Holyoke Council, Royal and Select
Masters ; Connecticut Valley Lodge,
Knights of Pythias. He is a Universalist
in religious preference, and in political
faith a Republican. His clubs are the Mt.
Tom Golf, Holyoke Country, and Forest
Park, the last named of Adams.
Mr. Jenks married, November 18, 1868,
Estelle R. Mosier, of New York, who died
June, 1914, daughter of Ashley and Mary
(Wilson) Mosier. Their only son, Daniel
Ashley Jenks, born in 1877, is a graduate
Bachelor of Arts of Tufts College, class
of 1903.
SMITH, Lawrence Frink,
M anuf actnrer.
Lawrence Frink Smith, of Holyoke,
treasurer and manager of the Smith Tab-
let Company, a corporation founded by
his father, Frank Douglas Smith, de-
scends from, Henry Smith, of Harpham
Hall, England, who came to New Eng-
land in the ship "Diligent," landing at
Charlestown, 1638, with three sons, two
daughters, three men servants and two
maid servants. He settled first at Charles-
town, where his children, Henry and
Dorothy, were admitted to the church,
July 10, 1639. He later removed to Hing-
ham, where he was made a freeman,
March 13, 1638-39. He served as deacon
and deputy, was representative to the
General Court in 1641, and December 9,
1644, was one of nine chosen at a general
meeting to consider the peace of the in-
habitants. In 1643 he removed to Reho-
both and was one of the early proprietors ;
drew allotment of land. June 3, 1644; was
made freeman of Plymouth colony, June
4, 1645. His will is dated on the day of
his death. November 3, 1647, probated
June 4, 165 1, inventoried at one hundred
and forty-nine pounds, sixteen shillings,
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October 24, 1650, and mentions wife, "his
brother," Thomas Cooper, sons Henry
and Daniel, and daughter Judith. His
widow's will was probated December 14,
1650, her death having occurred shortly
after his. and was inventoried at one hun-
dred and twenty pounds, six shillings. He
married Judith Cooper and they had chil-
dren : Judith ; Henry, mentioned below ;
Hunt ; Dorothy and Daniel.
(H) Ensign Henry (2) Smith, eldest
son of Henry and Judith (Cooper) Smith,
was born in England. He died. Novem-
ber 24. 1676. and is buried with his wife
in the old burial ground at Rehoboth,
Massachusetts. He was a surveyor and
yeoman, and prominent in the settlement
of the town. He and his brother Daniel
with Nathaniel Paine laid out fifty acres
of land and five acres of meadow "unto
John Stevenson, in consideration of John's
help to his father-in-law. William Black-
stone, by order of the Court for the juris-
diction of New Plymouth." In 1641 he,
with divers others, was granted eight
miles square for the settlement of
Secunke by Governor Bradford, to be a
town bounded by Pultukett river. The
value of his estate in 1643 was two hun-
dred and sixty pounds. On May 24, 1652,
he was chosen grand juryman ; February
22, 1658, was accepted as a freeman ; May
26, 1668, he drew a lot in the North Pur-
chase (Attleboro) ; January 9, 1670-71,
laid out bounds for Captain Hudson, of
Boston, and John Fitch, of Rehoboth, for
their warehouse and wharf. He was a
representative to the General Court in
1662 and for several years thereafter. He
married Elizabeth Cooper. She died De-
cember 3, 1690. Children: Jo.shua, men-
tioned below; John. Elizabeth. Judith,
Thomas, Mary, Henry, Abigail.
(Ill) Ensign Joshua Smith, eldest child
of Ensign Henry (2) and Elizabeth
(Cooper) Smith, was born in Rehoboth,
October 2, 1658, died there September 20,
1719. He resided in the southeastern
part of the town, and appears to have
been a man of means as he and twenty
others, all individuals of the "neighbor-
hood of Palmer's river," entered into an
agreement to free the town, on the receipt
of fifty pounds, from all further expenses
that might accrue to it from the building
of the meeting house. This was about
two years prior to his death. His name
is found in the list of inhabitants and pro?
prietors having rights and titles to the
quit-claim deed of William Bradford of
the town of New Plymouth (Rehoboth),
February 7. 1689. He married, February
9, 1687. Mary Peck, born in Rehoboth,
November 17, 1662, daughter of Joseph
and Hannah Peck. Children : Rebecca,
Elizabeth, Henry, Joshua, mentioned be-
low ; Sarah.
(IV) Deacon Joshua (2) Smith, sec-
ond son of Ensign Joshua (i) and Mary
(Peck) Smith, was born in Rehoboth,
Massachusetts, October 10, 1695. died De-
cember 10, 1745. He lived near his father
in the Palmer river district, and deeds
show him to have been a yeoman with
considerable property. He was captain
of the military company, and May 9. 1733,
was one of a committee of nine chosen to
oversee the building of the new meeting
house. He married, February 15, 1722,
Mary Whitaker, born March 3. 1700,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Square)
Whitaker. Children : Thomas, Joshua,
mentioned below ; Samuel, Mary, Abigail,
Elizabeth, David, Lydia, Huldah.
(V) Joshua (3) Smith, son of Deacon
Joshua (2) and Mary (Whitaker) Smith,
was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
September 19, 1724. He was a soldier of
the Revolution and served upon the Com-
mittee of Safety, 1812. He married (first)
June 16. 1748. Joanna Redway. (second)
June 10, 1756, Mrs. Elizabeth Perrin
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Walker, a widow, born November 17,
1728.
(VI) Captain Daniel Smith, son of
Joshua (3) Smith, was born in Rehoboth.
Massachusetts, September i, 1761, died in
1826, and buried in East Cheshire. He
was also a soldier of the Revolution, and
is said to have been a prisoner of war on
a prison ship for eight years. He mar-
ried, April 28, 1785, Mary Bliss, born No-
vember 20. 1763. died January 3, 1842, a
daughter of Ephraim and Sarah (Reid)
Bliss.
(VH) David Smith, son of Captain
Daniel and Mary (Bliss) Smith, was born
in Cheshire, Massachusetts, December 27,
1788, and died in Elgin, Illinois, in 1863.
He built the Graylock Hotel at Adams,
Massachusetts, prior to his going West.
He married Susanna Brown, of Earlville,
Illinois, who died in 1864, a daughter of
Simon and Betsy (Topliff) Brown. They
were the parents of a daughter, Isabel,
and a son Lawrence.
(VIII) Lawrence Smith, son of David
and Susanna (Brown) Smith, w^as born
September 16, 1809, died in Earlville, La-
salle county, Illinois. He was killed by
being accidentally shot while out hunt-
ing. He married Susan Lapham, daugh-
ter of George and Maria (Brown) Lap-
ham. They were the parents of a son,
Frank Douglass, of further mention, and
two daughters. Flora and Kate, the latter
the wife of William H. Wilson.
(IX) Frank Douglass Smith, only son
of Lawrence and Susan (Lapham) Smith,
was born in Ottawa, Illinois, May 20,
1852, died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
April 29. 1904. one of the best known men
in the paper trade. In early life he came
East to the State of his ancestors, and
after living for a time in Adams located in
Holyoke, in 1873. He first entered the
employ of the old L'nion Paper Mill Com-
pany, where he remained until 1880, when
he formed a partnership with W. H. Wil-
son and began the manufacture of tablets
and writing pads, with a plant in the
Whitcomb Building. In 1881 he bought
Mr. Wilson's interest and was alone until
1890, when he admitted E. N. White and
formed the Smith & White Company.
Later J. L. Wyckoft" was taken in, and
in 1891 the business was incorporated as
the Smith & White Company, with Mr.
Smith president. In 1893 he sold his in-
terest to his partners, who continued the
business as the White-Wyckoff Company.
Mr. Smith then became treasurer of the
Smith, Wilson & Sears Company, con-
tinuing until 1896, when, with W. H.
Pryor. he organized the Smith Tablet
Company, of which he was first manager,
buying out Mr. Pyror's interest, and con-
tinued in this position up to 1900, when
he became treasurer, which office he held
until his death. The company was a very
successful one, and in its own particular
field of manufacture a leader then as now.
He was an able, progressive business
man, and an untiring Christian worker, a
member of the Second Baptist Church,
also serving as superintendent of the Sun-
day school. He was also deeply inter-
ested in Christian Endeavor work.
Mr. Smith married, in 1878, M. Lizzie
Frink. a daughter of Moses and Amelia
(Davis) Frink, of Willimansett, Massa-
chusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were the
parents of three children : Lawrence
Frink. mentioned below; Doris Lapham,
born June 13, 1889; Carl Douglass, No-
vember 20, 1894, married, January, 1916,
Irene Haughwout, of Binghamton, New
York.
(X) Lawrence Frink Smith, eldest son
of Frank Douglass and M. Lizzie (Frink)
Smith, was born in Holyoke. Massachu-
setts, January 6, 1882. He was educated
in the graded and high schools of Hol-
yoke and at \\'illiams College, which in-
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stitution he entered immediately after
graduation from high school. After com-
pleting his college study, he spent six
years in the New York office of the Smith
Tablet Company, up to 1907, then re-
turned to Holyoke, where he has since
been manager and treasurer of the Smith
Tablet Company, which was incorporated
under the original firm name, as above.
Their product is shipped all over the
United States, and to many foreign coun-
tries. He is a member of the college fra-
ternities, also Mt. Tom Golf and Holyoke
Canoe clubs, and of the Second Baptist
Church.
Mr. Smith married, October 27. 1906,
Mary Eliza Robinson, a daughter of
Arthur and Clara (Sanford) Robinson, of
North Adams, Massachusetts.
GALLUP, Augustus Truman,
Clothing Merchant of Holyoke,
Augustus Truman Gallup comes of old
Connecticut Colonial stock, and his pa-
ternal ancestry has been traced to the
time of the Norman Conquest in England.
The surname Gallup or Gollop, as once
spelled, is said to be of German origin,
from words meaning God and peace. Ac-
cording to old family tradition in Lor-
raine, France, where there is a family of
Gallups, one of the family was a fol-
lower of William the Conqueror, and the
same tradition exists in the English fam-
ily. The Gallup coat-of-arms is de-
scribed : Gules on a bend or, a lion pas-
sant guardant sable. Crest: A demi-lion
barry or and sable, holding in his dexter
paw a broken arrow gules. Motto: "Be
bolde Be Wyse." The following pedigree
of the American immigrant is taken from
the Visitation of Dorsetshire, 1623:
(I) John Gallup came out of the north
in the fifth year of the reign of Edward
IV. in 1465. He married Alice, daughter
and heir of William Temple, of Dorset-
shire, and settled there.
(II) John (2) Gallup, son of John (i)
Gallup, lived at North Bowood and
Temple, Dorsetshire, and died there in
1533. He married Joan Collins, of Snails
Croft, Dorsetshire.
(III) Thomas Gallup, son of John (2)
Gallup, died April 8, 1610. He married
Agneta, daughter of Humphrey Watkins,
of Holwell, Dorsetshire. Children : Ege-
dins, went to Rome and became a priest ;
Humphrey; John, mentioned below;
Thomas, heir of North Bowood and
Strode, died December, 1622.
(IV) John (3) Gallup, son of Thomas
Gallup, married Crabbe.
(V) John (4) Gallup, son of John (3)
Gallup, was the American immigrant, born
in England in 1590, was aged forty-three
years when the Visitation was made in
1633. The family still occupy the estate
at Strode. He sailed from Plymouth,
England, March 20, 1630, in the ship
"Mary and John," arriving at Nantasket,
Massachusetts, May 30, 1630. His wife
and children came in 1633. He came
from the parish of Mosterne. Dorsetshire,
settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts,
but removed to Boston. An extract from
a letter of Governor Winthrop to Rev.
John White says : "I have much diffi-
cultye to keepe John Gallup here by rea-
son his wife will not come. I marvayle
at the woman's weaknesse. I pray, per-
suade and further her coming by all
means. If she will come, let her have the
remainder of his wages ; if not let it be
bestowed to bring over his children, for so
he desired. It would be about 40 pounds
losse to him to come for her." This was
dated July 4, 1632. John Gallup was ad-
mitted to the First Church, January 6,
1634. and admitted a freeman in April
following. He was one of the earliest
grantees of the north part of the town
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and owned a wharf right and house at
Gallup's Point. He also owned Gallup's
Island in Boston harbor and had a farm
there, also a meadow on Long Island, a
sheep pasture on Xix Mate and a house
in l^oston. He was a mariner and made
voyages along the coast in his own ves-
sels. One of his expeditions was made
memorable as the first naval encounter in
this country, when he found the murder-
ers of his friend, John Oldham, in July,
1636. An account of the fight written by
his son John to Governor Winthrop has
been preserved (see Gallup genealogy).
He and his sons took the vessel that the
Indians had attempted to navigate after
murdering Oldham, and wrought venge-
ance on the savages. The Indians proved
to be Pequots, and this murder of Oldham
was the beginning of the Pequot w^ar.
After the settlement of Rhode Island
and Connecticut, his vessel was almost
the only means of communication be-
tween the two colonies, and once when
his vessel had been delayed, Roger Wil-
liams wTOte in a letter to Winthrop, "God
be praised John Gallup has arrived." He
won distinction by piloting the ship "Grif-
fin" in 1633 through a new channel, hav-
ing as passengers the Rev. John Cotton,
Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Mr. Stone
and others numbering two hundred. It
is supposed that his wife and children
were on this vessel. He died in Boston,
January 11, 1650. His will was dated
December 20, 1649. ^'S wife Christobel
died in Boston, September 27, 1655. Her
will was dated there July 24, 1655. She
joined the First Church, June 22, 1634.
Children: John, mentioned below; Joan,
Samuel, Nathaniel.
(VI) Captain John (5) Gallup, son of
John (4) Gallup, was born in Dorsetshire,
England, and came to this country in 1633.
He was with his father in the fight with
the Indians off Block Island, and after-
ward took part in the Pequot war, for
which the General Court of Connecticut
granted him a hundred acres. He settled
in New London, Connecticut, in 1650-51.
He received another grant of 300 acres,
February 9, 1652-53, on account of his
father's public service, and in the follow-
ing year one hundred and fifty acres
more. In 1654 he moved to the east side of
the Mystic river, now Stonington, where
he was among the first settlers. He was
deputy to the General Court in 1665-67.
He often served as Indian interpreter.
Although he was more than sixty years
old, when King Philip's war broke out,
he joined Captain John Mason, of Nor-
wich, at the head of the Mohegan Indian
company, and was engaged in the Swamp
Fight at Narragansett, December 19, 1676.
He was one of the six captains that were
slain. He married, in 1643, ^^ Boston,
Elizabeth Hannah Lake, daughter of John
and Margaret Lake, and granddaughter
of Edmund Read, Esq., of Wickford,
County Essex, England. Her mother
was a sister of Elizabeth Read, who mar-
ried John Winthrop, Jr., Governor of
Connecticut. Children : Hannah, born
in Boston, September 14, 1644; John,
1646; Esther, born at Taunton, March 24,
1653 ; Benadam, mentioned below ; Wil-
liam, 1658; Samuel, Christobel, Elizabeth,
Mary, Margaret.
(VII) Benadam Gallup, son of Captain
John (5) Gallup, was born in Stonington,
Connecticut, 1655. He married Esther
Prentice, born July 20, 1660, daughter of
John and Esther Prentice, of New Lon-
don. Both were members of the Stoning-
ton church. He died August 2, 1727, and
his wiie, May 18, 1751. His estate was
valued at five hundred and eighty-three
pounds. Children, born at Groton, Con-
necticut: Hannah, born IVIay 22, 1683;
Esther, 1685; Mercy, 1690; Benadam,
1693; Joseph, mentioned below; Mar-
garet, 1698; Lucy, 1701.
(VIII) Captain Joseph Gallup, son of
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Benadam Gallup, was born at Groton,
Connecticut, in 1695, died December 22,
1760, aged sixty-six years. He married,
February 24. 1720, Eunice Williams, who
died October 24, 1772. aged seventy-one
years. Children, born at Stonington :
Martha, born October 15, 1721 ; Joseph,
February 21, 1725 : Elisha, mentioned be-
low; Oliver, March 28, 1729; William,
January 16. 1735; Eunice, October 11,
1738; Prudence, February 17. 1742; Lucy,
January 5, 1747.
(IX) Captain Elisha Gallup, son of
Captain Joseph Gallup, was born at Ston-
ington, Connecticut. April 21, 1727. He
married, January 25, 1747, Mercy Denni-
son, of one of the leading families of
Stonington. He removed to Hartland,
Vermont, in 1778. Children, born at Ston-
ington : Anna, born June 3, 1748; Esther,
October 15, 1750; Mercy, July 11, 1753;
Elisha. October 16. 1755; Eunice, April
1, 1758; Joseph, mentioned below; Mar-
tha, March 30. 1762; Elisha, April 30,
1766; Edward, December 31, 1768: Denni-
son, August 30, 1776.
(X) Joseph (2) Gallup, son of Captain
Elisha Gallup, was born at Stonington,
Connecticut, October 18, 1760. He went
with his father to Hartland. He was a
soldier in the Revolution from Vermont,
a private in Captain Elias Wood's com-
pany which marched to Royalton, Ver-
mont, and Haverhill, in October. 1780;
also in Lieutenant Daniel Spooner's com-
pany which marched to Orford in March,
1 781 (pay rolls, pages 277 and 347, Ver-
mont Revolutionary Rolls). He married
Miriam Brigham, of Grafton, Massachu-
setts. She died March 16. 1823. He
moved to Melbourne, Province of Que-
bec, Canada, in 1800, and died there Feb-
ruary 18. 1849. Children, born at Hart-
land, \'ermont : Mercy, born June 19,
1785: Ezekiel, July 6, 1787; Joseph, June
2, 1789; Elisha Zadock, June 2"], 1791.
Born at Brookfield. X'ermont : George,
September 15, 1792; Martha, September
5, 1795; Elisha, mentioned below; Miri-
am, August 25, 1800. Born at Melbourne:
Eunice, January 2, 1805.
(XI) Elisha (2) Gallup, son of Joseph
(2) Gallup, was born at Hartland, \'er-
mont, February 15, 1798. He married, in
1825. Eunice Gardner, of Coventry, a de-
scendant of Lionel Gardiner, the immi-
grant, of the famous Gardiner's Island,
near the east end of Long Island. They
removed to Melbourne, Canada, and he
died there August 2, 1864. Children, born
at Melbourne: Miriam, born August 10,
1825; Elisha Joseph, October 17, 1826;
Fanny M., September 20, 1828; Loring
G., May 3. 1831 ; Harriet E., March 15,
1833; Pollie A., May 8, 1836; John P.,
mentioned below; P. Oscar. May 2, 1840;
Zadoc Augustus, September 30, 1842;
Marcia S., September 15, 1844.
fXII) John P. Gallup, son of Elisha (2)
Gallup, was born at Melbourne, Canada,
May 2. 1838. He was a farmer, residing
in his native town on Gallup Hill, and
owned an estate of 1,200 acres. He mar-
ried, in 1863, Althea Lawrence, of Mel-
bourne. Children, born at Melbourne:
Eunice S., born February 29, 1864; Elisha
J.. September 5, 1865 ; Augustus Truman,
mentioned below ; Frederick E., February
20, 1871.
(XIII) Augustus Truman Gallup, son
of John P. Gallup, was born at Mel-
bourne, Canada, January i, 1869. He at-
tended the public schools of his native
town, entered St. Francis College, affili-
ated with McGill University, from which
he was graduated June 29, 1886. He be-
gan his business career as clerk in the
office of the Ogdensburg & Lake Cham-
plain Company at Ogdensburg, New
York. Afterward he was a clerk in a
bank in Ogdensburg for a year, resign-
ing that position to become a clerk in the
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ENXYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
offices of the Grand Trunk Railroad in
Richmond, Quebec. In 1885 he left the
railroad business and entered mercantile
life as clerk in a clothing store in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, and he acquired
a thorough knowledge of the business
and valuable experience as a salesman in
stores at Manchester, New Hampshire,
and Chelsea, Massachusetts. In 1892 he
came to Holyoke, Massachusetts, to man-
age the Currier Clothing Store. Here he
was highly successful in a very respon-
sible position for fourteen years. In 1906
Mr. Gallup became the owner and incor-
porated the business under the name of
the A. T. Gallup Company, Incorporated,
of which he is president and treasurer.
This store has been one of the leading
concerns in the clothing trade of this sec-
tion for many years, and under his man-
agement and ownership for a quarter of
a century it has grown year by year and
maintained its position among the most
important mercantile houses of the city.
Since 1909 Mr. Gallup has also conducted
a clothing store at Meriden, Connecticut,
under the same corporate title. Both
stores are centrally located, carrying
large and fine stocks artistically arranged
and appointed.
Mr. Gallup married, 1895, Emma Louise
Brownell, of New Bedford, Massachu-
setts, a daughter of Stephen Brownell.
Children, born in Holyoke : Burton Au-
gustus, born October 25, 1899; Prentiss
Brownell, born September 25, 1901.
ALLEN, Charles Leslie.
Representative Citizen.
When a young man of nineteen, Charles
Leslie Allen was called into active service
in the business world, and as his father's
successor as agent for the Prouty & Miller
Lumber Company he has won high stand-
ing among the energetic, progressive and
capable young men of Holyoke.
(I) James Allen, the first of the family
in this country, was a grandson of Regi-
nald Allen, of Colby, County Norfolk,
England, and came to Dedham with his
uncle, the Rev. John Allen, about 1637.
He was admitted to the church, October
2, 1646, and made a freeman. May 26,
1647. He was one of the first thirteen
proprietors of the town of Medfield, and
he became a large landowner there. His
will was dated September 23, 1676. He
married, in Dedham, March 16, 1638, Ann
Guild, who died in Medfield, March 29,
1673. Children, born in Dedham, except
the youngest : John, born December 4,
1639; Martha and Mary, December 11,
1641 ; Sarah, May 4, 1644; James, April
28, 1646; Nathaniel, August 29, 1648; Jo-
seph, mentioned below.
(H) Joseph Allen, son of James Allen,
was born in Medfield, Massachusetts, June
24, 1652, settled in the northern part of
his native town. Castle Hill, since known
as Allen Place. He was a cooper by trade,
his shop and house having been built be-
fore King Philip's War and being set on
fire by the Indians in February, 1676,
when the town was sacked, but the flames
were extinguished. It was the only house
in this section saved from the flames. He
was admitted a freeman, October 11, 1682 ;
was a sealer of weights and measures in
1688. He married, at Seekonk (Reho-
both), November 10, 1673, Hannah Sabin,
born there, October 22. 1654, daughter of
William Sabin. She died in Medfield in
1730. Joseph Allen died January 14, 1703.
Children, all born in Medfield : Joseph,
born December 19, 1676; Hannah, June
23, 1679; Daniel, April 21. 1681 ; David,
March 22, 1683; Noah, April 21. 1685;
Eleazer, August 25, 1688; Jeremiah, Au-
gust 5, 1690. killed by Indians; Hezekiah.
mentioned below ; Abigail, October 24,
1694; Nehemiah, April 22, 1699; Thank-
ful and Mary, died young.
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(III) Hezekiah Allen, son of Joseph
Allen, was bom at Medrield. Massachu-
setts, Xovember 3, 1692. He was a car-
penter by trade, residing for a short time
in Weston, then removing to Dedham
about 1723, in which year he was dis-
missed from the church in Medfield to
that in Xatick. He was selectman of
Dedham in 174S, 1749 and 1750. In 1749
he was on the committee to secure timber
for the new meeting house in the third
precinct, located on the east side of Trout
brook. He lived in that part of the town,
now Dover, owning a large tract near
Regan Hill, extending from Xatick to
Medfield. and the land remained in the
family until 1886. He was buried in
Dover. His epitaph reads : "In Memon.-
of Capt. Hezekiah Allen Who died Au-
gust ye i6th. 1775 Aetatis S^."
Away \"ain World, your jojs I hate.
Heaven is my native air;
My friends I bid a short farewell
Till they shall meet me there.
He married, in Dedham. April 4, 1722,
Man.- Draper, bom at Dedham, Xovember
5. 1696, died October 25, 1775, daughter of
Daniel and Elizabeth Draper. Children.
all born at Dedham : Hezekiah. men-
tioned below; Man.-, bom July 2. 1727;
Timothy, August 31, 1729; Elizabeth.
August 7. 1731 : Hannah, Xovember 21,
1733; Mehitable. April 30, 1736; Abigail,
March 22. 1741-42.
(IV) Hezekiah (2) Allen, son of Cap-
tain Hezekiah ( i ) Allen, was bom at
Medfield, Massachusetts. April 15, 1724.
He inherited the farm of his father near
Regan Hill, Dover. He was one of the
petitioners for the formation of the new
parish at Dover, dated April, 1748. He
was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain
Ebenezer Battle's company on the Lex-
ington Alarm. April 19. 1775. serving six
days. In 1784, when Dover was set oft
from Medfield, he was made clerk of the
precinct. He was town treasurer in 1786;
warden, 1787-89. He was commissioned
captain of the Dedham Fourth Precinct
Company. Suffolk County Regiment, Sep-
tember 19, 1 77 1. He married (first) Xo-
vember 2^, 1745. Jemima King5bur\-. bom
February- 11, 1727, died in Dedham. April
13. 1755. daughter of Comet Timothy and
Jemima ( Ware) Kingsbury-. He married
( second ) in Medfield, April 7, 1757, Mary
Peters, who died in Dover, July 12, 1798.
His epitaph reads : "Tn Memory of Capt.
Hezekiah Allen who died July 12, 1798,
Aetatis 76. Watch, therefore, for you
know not the day nor the hour when the
Son of Man Cometh." Children, all born
at Dedham : Timothy, bom April 20, 1747 ;
Jemima, February.- 15, 1748: Rachael. Feb-
ruar\- 4, 1749-50; Susy, September 20,
1752: Hezekiah. May 2;-, 1754, died June
17. 1754. Children by second w-ife : Calaa,
Januan.- 11, 1759; Zella. September 8,
1760; Hezekiah Peters, May 3. 1762. a
soldier in the Revolution ; ' Perez. Febru-
ar\- 8, 1764: William Pitt, mentioned be-
low; Hitta, August 30, 1768: Calvin,
March i. 1770: Patty- and Mar\-. March
II, 1773; Morrill. April 3, 1776.
(V) William Pitt Allen, son of Heze-
kiah (2> Allen, was born October 21. 1766,
in Dedham. Massachusetts. He resided
in Dover and was elected highway sur-
veyor and collector in 1792 and 1795. He
removed to Medfield in 1798 to manage
his father-in-law's farm, and died there.
May 18. 1802. William P. Allen married,
March 2S, 1788, Kezia Mason, bom De-
cember 22. I J JO. daughter of Asa and
Beriah 1 Fisher 1 Mason, a sister of Eben-
ezer Mason. Children: Reuben, bom
September 13. 1789; Willard, Xovember
4. 1791. died young; Willard. mentioned
below; Martha, January 3, 1796: Ira.
July II. 1797: Amos. October 18, 1799:
Marv-. March 14, 1802.
(VI) Willard Allen, son of William
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Pitt Allen, was born in Dover, August
5, 1793, and died in Deerfield, Massachu-
setts, January 30, 1865. He married, in
Montague, Massachusetts, April 22, 181 2,
Elizabeth Field Nettleton, who was born
at Northfield, Massachusetts, September
30, 1794, and died in Deerfield, February
19, 1871. Children: i. Willard Mason,
born in Montague, April 2, 1819; married,
July 10, 1855, Lydia Elkins, of Effingham
county, Georgia, and died at Savannah,
Georgia, May 11, 1857. 2. Martha Ma-
linda, born in Deerfield, February 23,
1821 ; married there, January 7, 1845,
Horatio O. Rockwood, and died January
2; 1862, leaving three children. 3. Amos
Morrill, born at Deerfield, March 31, 1823 ;
married. May 10, 1853, Catherine M.
■ , of Middletown, Pennsylvania, and
had a daughter Mary, born at Pottsville,
Pennsylvania. 4. George Newton, born
July 7, 1825, died in Baton Rouge, Louisi-
ana, August 22, 1863. 5. Elijah Crane,
born September 20, 1827; married, in
Greenfield, September 20, 1864, Adelaide
Victoria Morgan, of Northfield. 6. Eliza-
beth, born August 7, 1831 ; married, June
5, 1861, Henry C. Hale, of South Deer-
field, Massachusetts. 7. William Pitt,
mentioned below.
(VII) William Pitt (2) Allen, son of
Willard Allen, was born in Deerfield,
Massachusetts, March 10, 1835, died at
South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, April
7, 1909. He was educated in the public
schools of Deerfield, and after finishing
his studies became a carpenter's appren-
tice. He was employed as a carpenter for
several years until 1879, when he entered
the employ of the Holyoke Machine Com-
pany at Holyoke as a pattern maker. He
continued with the company in that ca-
pacity until 1899, then retired through ill
health. Sometime after he engaged in the
roofing business, then in association with
his sons, Charles C. and Fred G. Allen,
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under the firm name, William P. Allen
Sr Sons, engaged in the manufacture of
Yukon Compound for pneumatic tires.
The firm built up an extensive business,
William P. Allen retiring a few years
prior to his death. He was of an inven-
tive turn of mind, and several of his in-
ventions were patented and placed upon
the market successfully. He was a mem-
ber of the sinking fund committee of
South Hadley Falls, an attendant of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and highly
esteemed by all who knew him. He mar-
ried. May 22, 1864, Anna Albina Morgan,
born at East Windsor, Massachusetts,
March 19, 1842, daughter of Charles C.
and Mary A. (Treadwell) Morgan, of
Northfield, Massachusetts. They were
the parents of six children: i. William
Arthur, mentioned below. 2. Charles
Clare, whose sketch follows. 3. Mary
Elizabeth, born January 24, 1870; mar-
ried James Madison, and has a daughter,
Esther Allen Madison. 4. Frederick
Grant, born March 5, 1872 ; now cashier
of the Park National Bank, of Holyoke;
married, June i, 1916, Lucy J. Reed, of
Constable, New York, daughter of John
and Annie (Donney) Reed. 5. Angie
Stella, born September i, 1878; married
E. A. Hastings, of Holyoke. 6. Bessie
Imogene, born September 5, 1881, died
January 17, 1884.
(VIII) William Arthur Allen, son of
William Pitt (2) Allen, was born at
Northfield Farms, Massachusetts, July
15, 1865, died at South Hadley Falls, Sep-
tember 4, 1909. He was educated in Deer-
field public schools, and after completing
his studies entered the employ of the
Holyoke Machine Company at Holyoke
as an office employee. He was next in
charge of a room for the Massachusetts
Screw Company of Holyoke, then found
his true sphere of action, the lumber busi-
ness. For thirteen years he was associ-
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ated with D. D. Johnson, then was ap-
pointed agent for the Prouty & Miller
Lumber Company and established a
branch of that company in Holyoke, con-
tinuing its manager until his death in
1909. The headquarters of the company
are at Newport. X'ermont, the senior part-
ner a former governor of that State.
Under Mr. Allen's able and skillful man-
agement the business became an exten-
sive one, and to its management he de-
voted his entire energ}-. He was stricken
down in the height of his usefulness, in
the prime of his manhood, when his pros-
pects for the future were bright and full
of promise. He was a man of quiet, do-
mestic tastes, his business and his home
filling the full measure of his life to the
exclusion of public service, club life or
fraternal orders. He was an attendant
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Allen married, August 10, 1889,
Caroline Bell Pearsons, daughter of Hor-
ace and Sarah Elizabeth (Higgins) Pear-
sons. ^Ir. and Mrs. Allen were the par-
ents of seven children : Charles Leslie,
mentioned below ; Evelyn Hazel, mar-
ried John 'SI. Hooks, of Holyoke; ^lyrtle
Elizabeth ; Grace Roxie ; Willard SIot-
gan ; Dorothy Belle ; Edward Pearsons,
all in Holyoke.
(IX) Charles Leslie Allen, eldest son
of William Arthur Allen, was born at
South Hadley Falls. Massachusetts, ^lay
3. 1890, and was there educated in the
public schools. At the age of nineteen,
the death of his honored father caused the
abandonment of his school plans and he
at once took the place with the Prouty
&: Miller Lumber Company left vacant by
the death of William Arthur Allen. He
has ably filled the position, and has con-
tinued the management of the Holyoke
branch of the company with marked suc-
cess. He is a member of Mt. Holyoke
Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of
South Hadley Falls, and of the First Bap-
tist Church, and is popular among a large
circle of business friends and acquaintances.
Charles L. Allen married. September 4,
1915. Gertrude, daughter of Joseph Seney,
of Holvoke.
ALLEN, Charles Clare,
Master Mech.anic.
A representative in the eighth gener-
ation of the family founded in Xew Eng-
land by James Allen, who came from Eng-
land as early as about 1637. Charles Clare
Allen, of Holyoke. Massachusetts, traces
his ancestry back through a line of Revo-
lutionary and Colonial stock to earliest
Xew England days.
Charles Clare Allen, son of William
Pitt Allen, was born at Whately, Massa-
chusetts. December 13, 1866. He attended
the public schools of Deerheld. \\'illiman-
sett. Chicopee and South Hadley Falls,
and after finishing his studies learned the
machinist's trade with the Holyoke Ma-
chine Company at Holyoke. He con-
tinued with that company for seven years,
became an expert worker in metal, and in
1890 entered the ser^-ice of the Farr Al-
paca Company as master mechanic, a posi-
tion he has held for more than a quarter
of a century and yet most ably fills. He
is a member of Mt. Holyoke Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of South Hadley
Falls, and of Mt. Holyoke Chapter. Royal
Arch Masons. In political faith he is a
Republican. Mr. Allen married. Septem-
ber I. 1913. Georgette Trudeau, of Coati-
cook. Quebec, Canada, daughter of Amida
and Azelda ( Langevin) Trudeau. Mr.
and Mrs. Allen are the parents of a daugh-
ter, Constance, born September 13. 1914.
MacCARTHY. Timothy Joseph,
City Engineer of Holyoke.
Timothy Joseph MacCarthy. the well-
known city engineer of Holyoke, Massa-
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
chusetts, who has tilled that office accepta-
bly and with credit to himself since 191 1,
and has been connected with it since 1893
as assistant engineer, comes of an old and
honored Irish ancestry.
His grandfather, Dennis MacCarthy,
was a farmer, and spent his entire life in
Ireland. He married Catherine Harring-
ton and they had the following children :
Ellen, Abigail and Michael. Dennis Mac-
Carthy predeceased his wife, who later
married Timothy Driscoll, the children
of this marriage having been : John,
James C, Daniel D., Mary, Kate, Marga-
ret, Sarah, Jane and Isabelle.
Michael MacCarthy, father of City En-
gineer MacCarthy, was born at Castle-
town, Berehaven, County Cork, Ireland,
in November, 1829. He was a man of
strong personality and rigid principle, and
attained high office in his own land. Upon
him was bestowed the dignity of the mag-
istracy, the factor of chief consideration
in this appointment being the moral and
social standing, in private life, of the men
entrusted with the office. Michael Mac-
Carthy was a gentleman of high moral
character. That he was also a man of
ability is evidenced by his business rec-
ord. In the days of his youth, education
in Ireland was crude and the better fam-
ilies owed their superiority of intelligence,
culture and deportment more to the en-
vironment and influence of their home life
than to any technical instruction afforded
them. Michael MacCarthy was a leader
in his community, and entered success-
fully into its business affairs. He carried
on an extensive general mercantile busi-
ness ; was commissioner of affidavits ;
agent for a steamship company and for
the Lloyd Mercantile and Marine Com-
pany. He also took a prominent part in
the Parnell agitation which compelled
the British government to pass remedial
legislation for the intolerable conditions
in Ireland. He spent his life in Ireland,
and died there, December 11, 1912, at the
advanced age of eighty-three. He mar-
ried Ellen O'Donovan, of Castletown,
County Cork, Ireland. She was the
daughter of Timothy O'Donovan and
from the same line of descent as General
John Sullivan. She was also a descendant
of the MacCarthys of Carberry, and, com-
ing as she did from one of the best fam-
ilies in Ireland, was a woman of culture
and refinement. Intellectually, she was
very capable, and passed some of her time
at the first National School established
at Castletown. While there she gave of
her knowledge whole-heartedly to the
children who received the first benefits of
the Act of Emancipation, 1845. Her
father passed some of his life as a master
shipwright, and also took up navigation
and general surveying.
The children of Michael and Ellen
(O'Donovan) MacCarthy were: i. Mi-
chael, died in infancy. 2. Mary, a sister
in a Catholic order. 3. John, deceased ;
was a lawyer in Ireland. 4. Ellen, died
in infancy. 5. Timothy Joseph, of whom
further. 6. Margaret, deceased ; she be-
longed to the Sisters of Mercy of the
C'atholic church in Ireland. 7. James D.,
who was clerk of the Crown and Peace
for County Carlow, Ireland. 8. Eliza-
beth, became the wife of Jeremiah O'Rear-
don, who was an M. A. of the Royal L^ni-
versity, and head inspector of schools in
Ireland ; they were the parents of fifteen
children, all of whom are very intelligent
and bid fair to make their mark later, the
eldest having taken ninety-two pounds
($460) in prizes in one year in the inter-
mediate examinations ; the American
branch of the family of which Mrs.
O'Reardon is a member, represented in
the person of Timothy J. MacCarthy and
his children, gives promise of high educa-
tional achievement. 9. Julia, became the
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wife of Peter White, a bank manager at
Granard, County Longford, Ireland. lo.
Helena, deceased ; was the wife of Eugene
O'Sullivan. ii. Dennis Florance, who
succeeded to his father's business in Ire-
land. 12. Isabelle, who resides in Lon-
don, England.
Timothy Joseph MacCarthy, son of Mi-
chael and Ellen (O'Donovan) MacCarthy,
was born at Castletown, Berehaven, Coun-
ty Cork, Ireland, August 22, 1862. His
early education was obtained at the Na-
tional School of his native place. There
he studied for eight years, from five to
thirteen, after which, having decided upon
a business career, he spent six months in
a commercial school in Cork. In the
meantime his parents decided upon a col-
legiate education for him, and he was sent
to the St. Brendan's Preparatory School,
Killarney, where he studied for three
years, which course fitted him for en-
trance to Maynooth College, which he at-
tended for three years, then entered upon
a course of technical instruction at
Queen's College, Cork, where he special-
ized in engineering. Possessed of a good
groundwork of knowledge in general sub-
jects, and an insight into the theory and
practice of engineering, he decided to seek
a larger field of activity in the United
States, and consequently set sail for Xew
York City, arriving on October 2, 1887.
He remained in the City of Xew
York for eight months, then removed to
Palmer, Massachusetts, where he entered
the employ of the Flynt Building & Con-
struction Company. A year later he re-
turned to Ireland, remaining with his
father for a year, then again came to the
United States, proceeding immediately
after landing to Holyoke, Massachusetts,
where he opened an oflfice on his own
account and actively practiced his pro-
fession until 1893, when he was appointed
assistant city engineer of Holyoke, and
in that capacity continued to serve the
city until 191 1, when, in recognition of
his faithful performance of the difficult
duties of that office, he was advanced to
the position of city engineer, and inspector
of buildings, which positions he still holds.
That the city of Holyoke has in Mr. Mac-
Carthy an official highly valued is evident
in the length of his service. His out-
standing characteristic is thoroughness,
and what is done under his supervision
is well done. He gives his entire time,
thought and attention to the duties of
his office, his desire being to make the
most of that time for the benefit of his
adopted city. Many changes have taken
place during his long term of office and
many undertakings of magnitude stand to
his credit as an engineer. Among the
important works carried out by him was
that resulting in Holyoke's Elmwood and
Oakdale excellent sewer systems, which
Mr. MacCarthy began in 1893. ^^ ^^^"
ternal activities, Mr. MacCarthy is affili-
ated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks and the Knights of Colum-
bus. He is also a member of the Holyoke
Countr\' Club.
Mr. MacCarthy married, October 21,
1899, Mary Elizabeth Walsh, their mar-
riage having been solemnized in New
York City. She is a daughter of John
and Catherine (Sheedy) Walsh, of New
York City, where her father was born
and where he was a well-known educator
practically all his active career, serving as
principal of the Sixty-third Street School.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. MacCarthy: Jo-
sephine Ivera, born October 7, 1900 ; Cath-
erine Ellen Aquin, born June 2, 1903 ; Anna
Felice, born May 7, 1904.
DELANEY, John L.,
Contractor of Note.
John L. Delaney, a well known con-
tractor of Holyoke. now retired, is a na-
tive of that city, born November 15, 1849,
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son of John and Bridget (Lahey) De-
laney, and grandson of James and Julia
(Caniphion) Delaney, natives of Ireland.
John Delaney (father) was born in Cul-
lahill, Queens county, Ireland, in 1811.
Left fatherless at the age of sixteen
months, it is not surprising that both he
and his brother James were given little
opportunity to attend school and secure
an education. In fact, as soon as they
were able to assist, they aided in the cul-
tivation of the home farm and later
learned a trade in order to be of more
assistance to their family. John Delaney
served an apprenticeship under a promi-
nent stone mason and followed this line
of work throughout the active period of
his life. The obstacles which beset him
in early life made him alert and ready to
take advantage of every opportunity.
Consequently, in December, 1835, the
time of the great fire in New York City,
he promptly emigrated to the United
States, realizing that the building indus-
try would ofTer great opportunities in
New York at that time. He left his na-
tive town, April i, 1836. embarked at
Liverpool, England, April 8, in the packet
ship "Star," commanded by Captain Glo-
ver, and arrived in New York City, May
9, and during the voyage of over a month's
duration he made big plans for the future.
As he anticipated, he found that stone
masons were in great demand and posi-
tions easy to obtain, his first work being
in the erection of the extension of Vassar
Brewery at Poughkeepsie, New York,
which covered a period of about one year.
He then went to Hudson, New York,
where he remained one year, and in the
fall of 1837 returned to New York City.
The Croton Water Works were being
built at that time and he secured employ-
ment in that undertaking, being thus en-
gaged for two years. Always on the look-
out for extensive building operations, he
learned that railroad bridges were being
built at I>ecket, Massachusetts, and he
immediately set out for that place. In
1841, reading that the Croton Dam was
washed away, he returned to seek employ-
ment there, and, owing to the conscienti-
ous work that he had performed in his
previous engagements, he was offered the
position of superintendent of the new
work, and for the following two years
remained in charge of the rebuilding of
the dam. He then returned to Massachu-
setts and worked on Fort Warren in Bos-
ton harbor for two years. Subsequently
he returned to Brooklyn, New York, and
was employed on the Atlantic Dock for
two years. He then went to Brunswick,
Maine, and was employed on the erection
of a chapel for Bowdoin College, and
when the work was completed in the fall
of 1846 again returned to Massachusetts.
Under the direction of J. B. Francis, he
had charge of important work at Lowell,
Massachusetts, for the Lock and Canal
Company until the spring of 1849, ^^
which year he located in Holyoke perma-
nently, in which city he was more promi-
nent in the building and construction
business than any other man and there
is not a section which does not attest to
his ability and in which his name is not
known, due to the buildings which he
erected. Under Engineer John Chase and
his nephews, S. Stewart and William A.
Chase, Mr. Delaney did all the important
stone work on the head gates, wheel pits,
raceways and the many extensive canal
walls, as well as on the bridges between
Holyoke and South Hadley. Several
bridges that span the canals, the founda-
tions of numerous mills, the city hall,
many of the churches and some of the
business blocks in the city were also put
up under his supervision. In Springfield
he was almost as active as in Holyoke.
The stone work at the Water Shops on
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the dam, the foundation for the gun level
machines, the stone dam at Smith &.
Wesson's Works. Mill River, the masonry
for the Connecticut River Railroad Com-
pany for the entrances to Hampden Park
f.nd the extensive river wall along their
premises are all of his work. The Otis
Company of Ware entrusted him with the
very important work of erecting their
dam, bridge and mill foundations. He
also built the dam of the Xonotuck Silk
Company at Florence. In 1874 he was
given the largest contract which he ever
received, this consisting of rebuilding the
bridges, dams and foundations which had
been washed away by the great Mill river
flood at Williamsburg and Haydenville.
His work was not only very profitable
for his employers but also netted him a
good amount, and in 1876 he had the
pleasure of revisiting the land of his birth,
accompanied by his daughter. This was
indeed a great enjoyment because it gave
him an opportunity to see how great had
been his success by comparing it with the
condition of his early life, and he also had
the privilege of again meeting the men
whom he had known in youth. After
spending some time with his relatives and
friends in Ireland, he made a tour of Eng-
land and France before returning to his
adopted country and to his home in Hol-
yoke. Massachusetts.
Mr. Delaney married, November 20,
1846, Bridget Lahey, of Thomastown.
County Kilkenny, Ireland. They were
the parents of six children : James E.,
born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 7, 1847; John L., of whom further;
Julia A., born November 23, 1851, died
December 19, 1854; Mary Elizabeth, born
June 4. 1854. died December 16, 1854:
Elizabeth A., born November 18, 1855 ;
and Mary L., born March 23, 1859.
John L. Delaney attended the public
schools of his native city, Holyoke, and
after completing his studies he engaged
with his father and brother in the con-
tracting business under the firm name of
John Delaney & Sons, this firm being no
longer m existence. This was indeed a
fortunate position for a young man, owing
to the success which his father had
achieved previous to forming the partner-
ship with his sons. During the many
years in which the firm was engaged in
the contracting business, they did more
than one million dollars worth of work.
John L. Delaney retired from active
business pursuits in 1894. His brother,
James Delaney, died July 13, 1910. and
prior to his death he had been very active
in politics, serving as mayor of the city
for a term, city clerk for seven years, as
a member of Governor Russell's staff for
three years, and during 1888-89 served as
delegate-at-large from Massachusetts to
the National Convention of his party.
James Delaney married Mary Devereaux,
and they were the parents of four chil-
dren who survive him. namely: ^lary.
John W., James E. and Alice; he is also
survived by two sisters : Elizabeth A.
(Mrs. T. B. O'Donnell) and Mary L.
(Mrs. Samuel McQuaid).
John L. Delaney married. May 9, 1874,
Margaret Horan, daughter of Maurice
Horan, of Quebec. Canada. Their chil-
dren are : Elizabeth M. ; John ; Edward
J., married Man,- Powers; Margaret T.,
a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, a'
teacher in the high schools of Holyoke ;
Catherine M.. who became the wife of
Dr. William T. Horrigan and they have
one child, Carol, born December 25. 1915 ;
and Robert.
LYNCH, Maurice.
Contractor and Builder.
Maurice Lynch was born in the little
town of Anniscaul, County Kerry. Ire-
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land, in 1837, one of six children, the
others as follows : Michael, John, Thom-
as, Patrick, Mary. Maurice Lynch came
to the United States with his mother, as
a lad, sailing from his native land in 1845
and arriving at the port of New York.
From there he removed to Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, where he received his educa-
tion in the public schools. He attended
principally the Chestnut Street School,
where he was a favorite of teachers and
fellow students alike. Upon completing
his studies in this institution, he applied
himself to learn the trade of bricklayer,
and upon the completion of his appren-
ticeship, being of an enterprising disposi-
tion, instead of working as a journeyman,
at once entered into business on his own
account, taking contracts in masonry
work in Holyoke. His contracts were on
a small scale at first, but he proved him-
self a capable business man and was very
soon enabled to increase the scale of his
operations until he became one of the
large contractors of Holyoke. Many of
Holyoke's largest buildings were erected
by Mr. Lynch and stand to-day as a mark
of his honest workmanship. He also en-
tered into the business of manufacturing
bricks, his first plant for that purpose be-
ing situated in South Holyoke, on the site
occupied at present by the Farr Alpaca
Company. About 1880 he established a
much larger brickyard at South Hadley
Falls, and remained in that location up to
the time of his death, which occurred
January 18, 1902. Mr. Lynch played an
active part in the civic life of Holyoke ;
he served at various times on the City
Council and Board of Aldermen ; was one
of the water commissioners, serving for
nine years, and was chairman of the
board at the time it established the pres-
ent fine water system by which Holyoke
is supplied. The Whiting Street Reser-
voir was built when he was chairman of
the Holyoke Water Board. He was a
prominent member of St. Jerome Temper-
ance Society, and his death removed an
active figure in the life of the community.
He was a prominent member of St.
Jerome's Catholic Church. Since his de-
cease the extensive business which he
built up has been carried on by his sons
under the name of Lynch Brothers Brick
Company.
Mr. Lynch married Mary Kennedy, a
native of County Kerry, Ireland, who
came to this country with her parents at
the same time that Mr. Lynch made the
journey here. Thirteen children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Lynch, of whom
seven are living, as follows: i. Elizabeth
R. 2. Patrick M., graduate of Boston
School of Technology, in the class of
1894, now treasurer of the Lynch
Brothers Brick Company. 3. John J., a
graduate of Williams College in the class
of 1894, now principal in the West Street
Grammar School of Holyoke. 4. Thomas
James, of whom further. 5. Maurice, Jr.,
a graduate of Williston Seminary, now
president of Lynch Brothers Brick Com-
pany. 6. Michael J., graduate of Brown
University, 1904, a successful attorney of
Providence, Rhode Island, where he oc-
cupies a position on the staff of the gov-
ernor of that State. 7. Joseph E., a gradu-
ate of Williston Seminary, secretary of
Lynch Brothers Brick Company. In ad-
dition to these children six children were
born, five of whom died in infancy. The
other child, Mary E., wife of Dr. P. T.
O'Reilly, died February 4, 1902, leaving
a daughter, Mary, now a student at Rad-
cliiTe College.
Thomas James Lynch was born on
Christmas Day, 1874, at Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, and since that time has made his
home there. His preparatory education
was acquired in the public schools of Hol-
yoke, after which he attended Williams
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College, from which institution he was
graduated with the class of 1894. and then
entered the Law School of the Boston
University, where he left a record of an
unusually intelligent and diligent student,
and from which he graduated with the
class of 1897. He was admitted to the
bar of Massachusetts in the same year.
and upon his return to Holyoke estab-
lished himself in practice there and has
continued to the present time (1917),
achieving a marked degree of success.
Mr. Lynch handles an unusual amount of
important litigation, and is regarded as
a leader of his profession in this section, his
services and achievements up to the pres-
ent being such that it may confidently be
predicted that the future holds for him a
brilliant success. Mr. Lynch has not con-
fined his activities to his profession, how-
ever, but has served the community in a
number of oflficial capacities, having been
a member of the School Board of Holyoke
for three years and treasurer of the City
Water Department. He is also a mem-
ber of the board of directors of the
Knights of Columbus Building Associ-
ation of Holyoke. In his religious belief
he is a Roman Catholic and attends that
church in Holyoke. He is a member of
the Catholic Society, Knights of Colum-
bus, the Holyoke Club and the Country
Club of Holyoke.
He married, June 3, 1914. Maria Marra.
a native of Holyoke. Massachusetts, a
daughter of John and Maria (McDonnell)
Marra. old and well known residents of
that citv.
GARVEY. Patrick James.
Attorney-at-Law. Active in Educational
Affairs.
One of the prominent and successful
lawyers of Holyoke, Massachusetts, is
Patrick James Garvey, a man whose repu-
tation as a member of the legal fraternitv
has been won through earnest, honest
labor and his standing at the bar is a
merited tribute to his ability. He is also
a public-spirited citizen, active in advanc-
ing the cause of education in his commu-
nity and he was the prime factor in the
establishment of the Holyoke Evening
High School, of which he is the principal
at the present time (1916).
(I) Daniel Garvey, the earliest known
ancestor of the branch of the family
herein followed, was born in Ireland, was
there educated, passed his entire active
life and died, honored and respected by
all. He married Ellen Moran. who bore
him seven children: Thomas, John, Den-
nis. Patrick, Kate. Mary, Honora.
(^11 ) Patrick Garvey, son of Daniel and
Ellen (Moran) Garvey. was born in
County Kerry. Ireland, and there resided
until the year 1847. ^vhen he emigrated
to the United States and located in Hol-
yoke, ^^lassachusetts, where he spent the
remainder of his days, his death occurring
many years later. He assisted in build-
ing the first dam in Holyoke, and during
that period acquired the title of "Bully"
Garvey. not. however, through any pug-
nacious tendencies displayed by him. He
was a man of large build and great
strength, and upon seeing two men fail
in placing a large stone in its proper place
he went to the rescue and unaided placed
it on the scafltolding. The man in charge
of the work said "Bully for you" and Mr.
Garvey was ever afterward known by
that appellation. He was a man of genial
disposition, always ready to assist a
neighbor and friend, and was honored and
respected accordingly. His wife. Eliza-
beth (Donnelly) Garvey. bore him seven
children : Mary, Ellen, John, Daniel. Pat-
rick H., Thomas J.. Michael.
(Ill) John Garvey, son of Patrick and
Elizabeth (Donnelly) Garvey, was born
in Caherciveen, Countv Kerr\-. Ireland,
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in 1836, died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
December 29, 1905. He attended the dis-
trict school in his native land, and when
about ten years of age accompanied his
parents upon their removal to the United
States and completed his studies in the
schools of Holyoke. Upon attaining a
suitable age to begin his active business
career he became an employee in the old
Hadley Mills, serving as bobbin boy.
Later he worked in foundries in North-
ampton and Easthampton, Massachusetts,
and for a number of years was a resident
of Northampton, up to the year 1876,
when he went to the Easthampton Val-
ley Machine Company foundry, and re-
mained there up to 1894, then went to
Holyoke, and there resided up to the
time of his death. The last ten years
of his life he spent in retirement from
active toil, enjoying to the full the fruit
of his former years of endeavor. He
was an active member of the Sacred Heart
Church, and in his daily life exemplified
its teaching. He married Honora Ashe,
a native of Dingle, County Kerry, Ire-
land, daughter of James and Mary Ashe.
Children: Mary, died young; John, died
young; Elizabeth, deceased; Thomas J.,
assistant engineer of the United States
armory at Springfield, Massachusetts ;
Eleanor, deceased ; Annie, deceased ; Pat-
rick James, of whom further.
Patrick James Garvey was born in
Northampton, Massachusetts, April 20,
1873. He attended the public schools in
the vicinity of his home, private school
in Chicopee, Massachusetts, St. Joseph
School, from which he graduated in 1888,
Williston Seminary, from which he grad-
uated in the class of 1891, and then, hav-
ing determined upon the profession of
law as his life work, he became a student
in the Boston University Law School,
from which he was graduated with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws in the year
1894. He was admitted to the bar the
same year, and at once established him-
self in the active practice of his profes-
sion in Holyoke. He has served as coun-
sel in a number of important cases, and
his experience has been broad and varied,
demonstrating his comprehensive knowl-
edge of the law and his ability to success-
fully cope with the intricate problems that
confront the members of that profession.
In addition to his extensive private prac-
tice, Mr. Garvey has devoted considerable
time and attention to the young men and
women who have been unable to attend
the public schools long enough to com-
plete their studies, and in 1896 he took up
the matter of evening schools in Holyoke,
realizing that in this way they could make
up for many deficiencies in their educa-
tional course, and through his indefatiga-
ble efforts that has been made practica-
ble. He was instrumental in founding
the evening high school, which was estab-
lished in 1904, which registers as high as
one thousand pupils per year. He was
chosen to serve in the capacity of princi-
pal, and the duties of this responsible
ofifice have been performed by him since
then in a highly creditable manner, he
keeping abreast of the times in every par-
ticular and giving those under his care
the benefit of his thoughts and ideas. He
keeps in touch with all that concerns the
welfare and improvement of his adopted
city by membership in various societies
where his counsel and advice are of great
value. He is a member and president of
the Holyoke Board of Associated Chari-
ties, member of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Holyoke. the Springfield Board
of Trade, the alumni associations of dif-
ferent schools, the Order of Foresters, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
the Improved Order of Red Men, of
which he is a charter member, the Hol-
yoke Country Club, the Holyoke Rod and
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Gun Club, of a number of boys' clubs and
of various societies connected with the
Catholic church.
Mr. Garvey married, June 25, 1902,
Anna E. Kilbride, of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, daughter of Thomas F. and Han-
nah (Flynn) Kilbride. Children: Anna,
born March 29, 1904; James, born May
30, 1907; Edward, born December 28,
1916.
HOUSTON, Robert Alonzo,
Representative Citizen.
The branch of the Houston family re-
siding in Holyoke and vicinity trace their
ancestry to Samuel Houston, a native of
Londonderry, Province of Ulster, Ireland,
a descendant of a Scotch ancestry, zeal-
ous Presbyterians in religion. He came
to this country in 1718 or soon afterward
with the Scotch-Irish who were invited to
locate in New England by Governor
Shute, of Massachusetts. Samuel Hous-
ton's lot was laid out in Xutfield (as Lon-
donderry was originally named on ac-
count of its great forests) in the year
1720, in what was called the English
Range, and was duly recorded April 6,
1725. It contained sixty acres and bor-
dered on Beaver Pond. To this farm he
added one hundred and forty-four acres,
June 25, 1729, recorded January 24, 1730,
in what was called the High Range, bor-
dering on Bear Meadow in Londonderry.
He was a well-to-do farmer, a man of
good habits, exemplary character and un-
questioned integrity. Among his chil-
dren was Rev. John, mentioned below.
(II) Rev. John Houston, son of Sam-
uel Houston, was born in Londonderry,
New Hampshire, April 4, 1732, the third
boy born to the Scotch-Irish settlers
there. After completing a preparatory
course in the schools of his section, he
studied for the ministry under the instruc-
tion of the Rev. David MacGregor, the
famous minister of the Londonderry
Presbyterian Church, and later entered
Princeton College, from which he was
graduated in 1753. After a few years of
preaching in various localities, he was
called, August 5, 1756, to the pastorate
of the church at Bedford, New Hamp-
shire, a town founded by the London-
derry pioneers, and was ordained there,
September 28, 1757. He received the
lands set aside for the first settled minis-
ter of the town, and a salary of forty
pounds, but it was stipulated that he was
to preach only at such times as the town
by vote requested him. A great portion
of his time was spent in itinerary preach-
ing in adjacent towns where there were
no Presbyterian churches. He remained
in cordial relations with his parish until
the Revolutionary War, but not being in
sympathy with the action of the colonies,
he remained loyal to the mother country.
When his attitude became known, the
town by formal vote restrained him, from
further preaching, June 15, 1776. He
then turned his attention to teaching pri-
vate pupils, from time to time, and to
agricultural pursuits. He was an able
preacher and a good pastor, had a high
reputation for classical learning, and is
described as a "tall, solemn, stern and
dignified man." He married Anna Peebles,
daughter of Robert and Sarah Peebles,-
who were also Scotch-Irish pioneers of
New Hampshire. Children: Samuel,
who served in the Revolutionary war;
Robert ; John, mentioned below ; Anna.
became the wife of Hugh Riddle ; Sarah,
became the wife of Hon. John Orr ; Wil-
liam, who served in the Revolutionary
War ; James ; and Joseph. Three of the
sons graduated from Yale College. Rev.
John Houston died in Bedford, February
3, 1798, aged seventy-five years. His wife
died in Bedford, July 4, 1798, aged sev-
enty-two years.
(Ill) John (2) Houston, son of the
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Rev. John (i) and Anna (Peebles) Hous-
ton, was born in Bedford, New Hamp-
shire, in 1760, and his death occurred in
his native town in September, 1853. He
spent his entire lifetime in Bedford, fol-
lowed the occupation of farmings, and was
highly respected and esteemed in the
com,munity. He married and was the
father of the following children : Robert,
who died at Bedford, December 12, 1869,
aged sixty-nine years ; John ; William E.,
mentioned below ; James, who died at
Bedford, March 21, 1871, aged seventy-
seven years.
(IV) William E. Houston, son of John
(2) Houston, was born in Bedford, New
Hampshire, April 12, 1801, and died in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, July 30, 1879.
He had a common school education, and
in early life followed farming in Bedford
and Gofifstown, New Hampshire. Later
he removed to Haverhill, New Hamp-
shire, where he resided for eight years,
during which time he followed farming
and conducted a saw mill, of which he
was the owner. He learned the trade of
carpenter during his young manhood, and
this he followed in Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, for five years, in which town he
settled upon removing from Haverhill.
In 1850 he came to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and engaged in farming at Smith
Ferry, now known as the Abbott prop-
erty. He was an earnest, industrious, up-
right and capable man, and a highly use-
ful citizen. He was a member of the
Baptist church of Holyoke, in the work of
which he aided to the best of his ability.
In early manhood he was an adherent of
the Whig party, and later in life gave his
allegiance to the Republican party, to
which he adhered during the remainder of
his days. Mr. Houston married, Decem-
ber 20, 1825, at Goffstown. New Hamp-
shire, Sarah Kimball, of that town, born
December 19, 1800, died January 12, i!
daughter of Richard and Margaret (Fer-
rin) Kimball, and a descendant of Rich-
ard Kimball, of old English ancestry, and
who was one of the pioneers of Massa-
chusetts, and the progenitor of a large
and very prominent family. Children: i.
Anna Margaret, born September 2, 1826,
died August 10, 1895 ; she was the wife of
John Roby Webster. 2. Nancy Melissa,
born January i, 1828, died August 25,
1883 ; she was the wife of Ebenezer A.
Johnson. 3. Richard Kimball, born No-
vember 28, 1829. 4. Robert Alonzo, men-
tioned below. 5. Sarah Amanda, born
March 3, 1834. died December 3, 1834. 6.
William E., Jr., born January 3, 1836. 7.
Sarah Amanda, born April 26, 1840, died
February 25, 1868; was the wife of Ed-
ward A. Johnson. 8. Joseph Edgar, born
April 4, 1842, whose sketch follows, only
one now living.
(V) Robert Alonzo Houston, son of
William E. and Sarah (Kimball) Hous-
ton, was born in GofTstown, New Hamp-
shire, August 18, 1831, and died in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, October 14, 1916.
He attended the public schools in his
native town aiid in Nashua, and com-
pleted his studies in the Nashua Acad-
emy. He then learned the trade of belt
making and roll covering, but this not
proving to his liking, he engaged in the
photograph business with his uncle, Wil-
liam Kimball, in Concord, New Hamp-
shire. Here his strict attention to his
duties was a source of satisfaction to his
employer, and he remained several years.
In 1850 he located in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and engaged in machine work in
the United States Armory in Springfield,
employed in the manufacture of rifles.
Subsequently he became an employee of
the Florence Sewing Machine Company
at Florence, Massachusetts, continuing
there for eleven years, and during the
greater part of that time served in the
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very responsible capacity of superintend-
ent of the testing department. On ac-
count of impaired health, he returned to
Holyoke and resided with Whiting
Street on his farm. Some years later he
formed a partnership with Clark Fergu-
son, under the firm name of Houston &
Ferguson, and they engaged in making
and installing top roll coverings, an in-
dustry at that time allied with the cotton
industry, and which trade he had previ-
ously learned. The shop was located
near the old Mt. Tom Paper Mill, but as
more modern appliances displaced the
leather covered top roll in the manufac-
ture of cotton goods, the firm discon-
tinued business and from that time until
his death, Mr. Houston lived practically
a retired life. In 1884 he purchased six
acres of land in what is now the residen-
tial section of Northampton street, Hol-
yoke, and erected a handsome residence,
equipped with every modern convenience
and com.fort, in which he spent the re-
mainder of his days. He subsequently
disposed of the remainder of the property
in building lots, realizing handsomely on
the investment. He devoted his time to
gardening, and the last summer of his
life he furnished a beautiful exhibition of
Canterbury Bells at the Holyoke Public
Library, and he took delight in being
present while the blooms were on exhibi-
tion to hear the exclamations of admira-
tion. Second to his gardens was his in-
terest in fishing, and when the season was
in full swing he, with several companions,
went to the woods of Maine to enjoy that
sport, his last trip being two years prior
to his death. In politics Mr. Houston
was always a Republican. Although not
active in civic affairs of any kind, and of
a quiet and retiring disposition, Mr.
Houston enjoyed a wide acquaintance.
He was one of the charter members of
the Pequot Club and retained member-
ship until his decease. He was an attend-
ant of the Second Congregational Church
of Holyoke, in the work of which he took
a keen interest, as he also did in every
project advanced for the welfare of his
adopted city.
Mr. Houston married, November 27,
1862, Polly Ann Street, born at North-
ampton, Massachusetts, December i,
1837, a daughter of Alpheus and Sally
Ann (Thorpe) Street. Children: i. Henry
Street, born September 11, 1863; married,
June I, 1886, Ada Belle Ham, a native of
Wilton, New Hampshire, but at the time
of her marriage a resident of Holyoke,
daughter of William G. and Lydia A.
Avery. 2. Ida Pearl, born November 4,
1872, died June 15, 1908; was the wife
of Rufus H. Chapin. 3. Robbie, born and
died September 7. 1874. Mr. Houston
died at his late home in Holyoke, October
14, 1916, after a comparatively short ill-
ness, at the advanced age of eighty-five
years. His death removed from Holyoke
a man well known and highly esteemed
by all with whom he was connected,
either in business or social life.
HOUSTON, Joseph Edgar,
Ag^iculturistt Business Man.
Joseph Edgar Houston, the youngest
son of William E. and Sarah (Kimball)
Houston (q. v.) was born in Haverhill,
New Hampshire, April 4, 1842. He was
eight years old when his parents removed
to Holyoke, Massachusetts, and he re-
ceived his early education largely in the
public schools there. He assisted with
the work of the home farm, which con-
sisted of ninety acres located at Smith's
Ferry, and he continued to reside with
his father until the latter's death, in 1879,
when he succeeded to the ownership of
the homestead. To the original tract he
afterward added from time to time, until
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it consisted of one hundred and forty-four
acres. He was engaged in general farm-
ing and also had an excellent dairy, dis-
posing of the latter products to the milk
dealers of the city of Holyoke. In every
sense of the word he was a successful
farmer, employing modern methods, rais-
ing and keeping high-grade cattle, con-
stantly improvang his fields, gardens and
orchards, and always kept pace with the
advance in agriculture. In addition to his
farming interests, he purchased tracts of
timber land and engaged in the lumber
business, selling lumber from these lots
and disposing of wood at the various
brick yards in his section. In 1882 he
retired from active pursuits, selling the
homestead, and since that year has made
his home in Holyoke. His achievements
in life have been substantial and impor-
tant. Endowed with a natural skill and
love for husbandry, Mr. Houston made
the most of his opportunities and suc-
ceeded well. He set an example to the
younger farmers of the section by a life
of industry, thrift and application, demon-
strating that good business methods and
a proper regard for efficiency insure good
results on the farm as well as in the mill
and office. Though a man of quiet and
unostentatious ways, devoted to his home
and caring little for social activity, he is
highly respected by his fellow citizens.
He has given to the Republican party his
loyal support and confidence, and his in-
fluence has been potent, though quietly
exerted. In religion Mr. Houston is a
Baptist.
He married, in 1877, Harriet A. Street,
daughter of Alpheus and Sally Ann
(Thorpe) Street, of Northampton, Mas-
sachusetts. Children: i. Lulu Maude,
became the wife of John Parsons Phelps,
who is now engaged in the paper busi-
ness in Bridgeport, Connecticut; they
have two children : Houston Street and
Elizabeth Phelps. 2. Mena May. 3. Ada
Josephine. 4. Paul Leon, a graduate of
Yale College, 1913; engaged in the paper
business, serving as assistant superintend-
ent of the Nonotuck Division of the Amer-
ican Writing Paper Company.
KENNEY, Daniel WQliam,
Journalist, Public Official.
Among the citizens of Holyoke who,,
during a long and unusually active career,
have wielded a definite influence in politi-
cal and civil affairs, and who have been
known for their sterling qualities, their
fearless loyalty to honest convictions,
their sturdy opposition to misrule in
municipal affairs, is Daniel William Ken-
ney, a man who lives the life he does be-
cause he believes it to be right and has
made high moral principles a part of his
nature.
William Kenney, grandfather of Daniel
W. Kenney, was a native of County Car-
low, Ireland, in which country he was
reared and educated, was the owner of a
stock farm and an extensive cattle dealer,
and was considered well-to-do for those
times. He was prominent and influential
in community affairs, and was honored
and respected in the neighborhood where
he spent his entire life, his death occur-
ing in the same county in which he was
born. He married Ann O'Niel, who bore
him eight children: Daniel, W^illiam,
Charles, Patrick, Michael, Anzela, Jane,
Maria.
Charles Kenney, father of Daniel W.
Kenney, was born in County Carlow, Ire-
land, died in Waterford, Ireland, 1875,
having lived in that town during the
greater part of his life. He received a
practical education in the national schools
of his native country, and early in life he
entered the employ of a dry goods mer-
chant, they being known by the name of
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drapers in that country at that time, and
was connected with that line of business
throughout his entire active career. He
was a Liberal in politics and took an ac-
tive interest in affairs pertaining- to the
welfare of the party. He married Alary
Aylmond, of County Kilkenny, Ireland,
who bore him six children, namely : Ann
Maria, deceased ; Daniel William, of
whom further; Michael Joseph, deceased ;
Mary Josephine, a widow, residing in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Lucy, de-
ceased ; Anastatia, superior in a convent
in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Daniel William Kenney was born in
the city of Waterford, County Waterford,
Ireland. July 6, 1858. He obtained his
education in Mt. Sion Christian Brothers
School in Waterford, Ireland, completing
his studies at the age of fourteen years.
He began his active business career in a
ship broker's office, and at the expiration
of one year's service he ran away in order
to go to sea and continued a seafaring
life for the following three years. At the
time of his father's death he returned to
his home, but shortly afterward again re-
turned to his former life and enlisted for
one year in the English Navy Reserve
with which he went to Turkey, South
America, Russia and other ports and
countries. In 1876 he reached Cape
Breton and in July of that year he came
to Boston, Massachusetts, and shortly
afterward joined the Eighth United States
Cavalry and engaged in scout duty on the
Mexican border. He was connected with
the United States Cavalry service for five
years and eight months, part of which
time was spent in barracks and the re-
mainder under tents, but during the en-
tire period he was faithful in the dis-
charge of his varied duties and won the
approval and commendation of his su-
perior ofificers. Upon the expiration of
his service he rettirned to Boston and en-
gaged in newspaper work, at which he
continued for some time, and later became
identified with Mr. P. F. Collier, publisher,
having charge of an of^ce for him in
Springfield, Massachusetts, and in ]\Ion-
treal, Quebec, this connection continuing
for about three years. In December, 1886,
Mr. Kenney came to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and in company with others estab-
lished a daily paper, the Holyoke "Demo-
crat," the name of which has since been
changed to the Holyoke "Telegram" and
conducted the above paper for about five
years. He changed from this paper to
the "Transcript,' another Holyoke paper,
of which he was city editor between four
and five years, and during that period his
chief aim and ambition was to make the
papers with which he was connected high-
class periodicals as distinguished from the
mere political organ, and he esteemed it
ample reward that he was connected with
them long enough to make them a power
in the city and an influence throughout
the State and Nation. During the years
1888-89-90 he served as probation officer;
also served as deputy sheriff for a short
time; was clerk of city council, and in
1895 was elected to the office of city audi-
tor of Holyoke, in which capacity he has
served to the present time (1916) and his
tenure of office has been noted for effici-
ency and accuracy. He casts his vote for
the candidates of the Democratic party,
the principles of which he believes is for
the best form of government. He is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and
has been especially active and a leader in
this order for twenty-two years. He has
held all the important offices in the order,
including district deputy, master of the
fourth degree, and one of the national di-
rectors of the National Board. Mr. Ken-
ney takes a deep and abiding interest in
everything pertaining to the public wel-
fare and to the advancement of material,
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social, intellectual and moral interests.
Personally he is popular and socially he
occupies a position in the front rank.
Mr. Kenney married, September ii,
1888, Minnie A. Reardon, of Hadley,
Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas and
Hannah (Toole) Reardon. Children :
Charles, a graduate of Holy Cross Col-
lege ; Marion Eilleen, Daniel William,
Jr., and Thomas A.
PARTRIDGE, Frederick F.,
Financier.
Advancement in any line of activity is
proverbially slow, and the man who
would win laurels in any walk of life is
he who applies himself diligently and
earnestly to the mastery of every detail
connected with his special line. It is these
qualities that have gained to Frederick
F. Partridge marked prominence as presi-
dent of the Home National Bank. Widely
and favorably known, the record of his
career cannot fail to prove of interest to
all of his large circle of friends.
Colonel William W. Partridge, grand-
father of Frederick F. Partridge, was born
February 25, 1790, in England, and died
April 15, 1849. By his marriage to
Louise Edwards, born March 13, 1793,
died October 15, 1863, he was the
father of ten children, among whom was
William E., born May 11, 1816, in
Northampton, Massachusetts, died in
Holyoke, February 24, 1903. In early life
he devoted his attention to agricultural
pursuits, and later served in the capacities
of court messenger, superintendent of the
poor farm, and night watchman of all the
banks in Northampton. He married, No-
vember 5, 1839, his cousin, Julia A. Part-
ridge, born September 12, 1819, died Sep-
tember 20, 1895, daughter of John S. and
Abigail (Hitchcock) Partridge. They
were the parents of five children : Wil-
liam E., born August 23, 1840, died of
starvation in Libby Prison, October 11,
1864; Lucy L., born February 23, 1843,
died February 22, 1897; Mary M., born
October 3, 1845 J Harriet H., born Octo-
ber 2, 1847, "^ied September 21, 1848;
Frederick F., of whom further.
Frederick F. Partridge was born at
Northampton, Massachusetts, February
18, 1862. His education was thorough
and practical, obtained in the schools of
his native town, and at the age of fifteen
years he entered upon his active career,
becoming a clerk in a dry goods store and
serving as such for three years. He then
spent a short time in a lawyer's office, but
changed his occupation when offered a
clerkship in the Northampton National
Bank, where he served until the year 1881,
when he came to Holyoke to become
bookkeeper for the City National Bank,
which was then located in the Hotel
Hamilton building. He served in that
capacity until 1884, giving entire satis-
faction to his superior officers, and upon
the organization of the Home National
Bank in that year became teller of that
institution, also bookkeeper, the other
officers being James H. Newton, presi-
dent, and E. L. Munn, cashier. He took
in the first deposit made at the bank,
March 4, 1884, and he held the position
until 1892, a period of eight years, when
E. L. Munn, the cashier, resigned, and he
was elected to that office, in which capa-
city he served for twenty-four years. On
January i, 1916, at a meeting of the direc-
tors of the Home National Bank, James
H. Newton, who had been the president
of this institution from, the time of its
organization, covering a period of thirty-
two years, declined reelection and Mr.
Partridge was elected his successor. For
several years previous to this time, Mr.
Partridge had practically assumed the
duties of this position, and was thor-
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oughly conversant with them. As noted
above, he is among the oldest bank offi-
cials in Holyoke, having served thirty-
five years in some position in connection
with National banks of Holyoke. At the
time of his accession to the office of
cashier the deposits were $420,000 as
against $1,638,878 at the present time
(1916); surplus and undivided profits,
$38,000 as against $205.227.41 ; and total
assets, $1,014,096 as against $2,283,426.05.
This is indeed a splendid record, meriting
the commendation of all connected with
the institution, and placing him in the
rank of successful and conservative execu-
tives who have the interests of the institu-
tions with which they are connected ever
uppermost in their thoughts. This dis-
tinction is well earned, it is a foregone
conclusion that he will display the same
• painstaking interest in behalf of the in-
stitution in his new office as he displayed
in his former positions. The career of
Mr. Partridge is one which elicits praise
and admiration and may serve as an ex-
ample well worthy of emulation by any
young man who desires to succeed.
Mr. Partridge is a Republican in his
political principle, and while he has never
held public office he has always taken an
active interest in all the affairs of the city
and has ever been ready to lend his aid
and influence to any measure for its up-
building or advancement. Although the
duties of his position in connection with
the bank have been of a strenuous nature,
he has still found time to assist other
worthy corporations and is a director of
the Holyoke Hotel Company and the
Morris Plan Bank, and is treasurer of the
Mt. Tom Realty Trust Company, owners
of a large amount of real estate in that
section. He has also taken an active part
in the various clubs and fraternal organi-
zations, being a member and for three
years (up to 1916 when he resigned) presi-
dent of the Holyoke Club ; a member of
Mt. Tom Golf Club, the Bay State Club,
Xonotuck Lodge, Xo. 61, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and was formerly
a member of the Holyoke Canoe Club.
'Sir. Partridge has always taken an active
part in religious matters, being a member
of the First Congregational Church So-
ciety, in which he has held the office of
treasurer continuously for nearly thirty
years.
Mr. Partridge married, August 3, 1885,
at Northampton, Massachusetts, Ella
Gertrude, daughter of Zebard and Martha
(Way) Foster. Mrs. Partridge was born
in Williamsburg, but resided up to the
time of her marriage at Northampton.
They are the parents of two children: i.
Ethel, who was a student at Wellesley
College ; she became the wife of George
E. Squier. advertising manager of the
White & ^^'ycofit Company of Holyoke ;
they are the parents of one child. Barbara.
2. Harry, who was a student at Rock-
bridge Hall, Wellesley Hills. Massachu-
setts, and is now purchasing agent of the
Coburn Trolley Track Company of
Holvoke.
SEARS, Henry G.,
Merchant, FixLancier.
Henry G. Sears, a progressive, ener-
getic merchant, president and treasurer of
the Henry G. Sears Company, Incorpor-
ated, and general business man of great
ability of Holyoke, comes of an old New
England family, being a descendant of
Richard Sares, as the name was then
spelled, and so appears in the records of
the Plymouth Colony tax list in 1633, and
in the Salem lists in 1637-38, each suc-
ceeding generation maintaining the honor
of the name and winning distinction in
the various communities in which they
have resided, whether in commercial,
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financial, professional or social life. Hol-
yoke, since 1871, has been the home of
one of the twentieth century representa-
tives of the family, Henry G. Sears, whose
name heads this article. The line of this
particular branch of the family is traced
through Captain Paul Sears, son of Rich-
ard Sears, who married Deborah Willard ;
their son, Captain Samuel Sears, who
married Mercy Mayo ; their son, Jona-
than Sears, who married Elizabeth
Howes ; their son, Jonathan (2) Sears,
who married Priscilla Sears ; their son.
Sergeant Jonathan (3) Sears, who mar-
ried Abigail Hall ; their son, Jonathan
(4) Sears, who married Hannah Foster;
their son, Stillman Sears, father of Henry
G. Sears.
Stillman Sears was born in Ashfield,
Massachusetts, September 23, 181 5, died
in the prime of life at Shelburne Falls,
Massachusetts, October 10, 1854. He
established and successfully conducted a
large teaming business before the build-
ing of the Fitchburg Railroad, his trucks
carrying under contract freight and mer-
chandise between Shelburne Falls, Green-
field and intervening points. He was a
man of great energy, a hard worker, well
known and highly regarded in the sections
he covered in his business operations.
When the work of excavation for the
great Hoosac Tunnel began, a certain in-
ventor believed the work could be per-
formed by a huge augur driven by such
powerful machinery that the mountain
could be pierced more economically and
quickly than by blasting and digging.
His plan was adopted and Stillman Sears
was awarded the contract for transport-
ing the heavy mass of machinery required
from the nearest railroad station to the
east end mouth of what is now the tunnel.
Great skill was required in this operation
on account of the weight of the machinery
and the locality of the point of destina-
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tion, but the contract was faithfully com-
pleted. The project was in the end de-
clared a failure after many thousands of
dollars had been expended. Stillman
Sears married, September 27, 1842, Abigail
Eldridge, who survived her husband by
five weeks, her death occurring November
20, 1854. They were the parents of two
children : Isabelle, married Henri N.
Woods, a prominent lawyer of Gloucester,
Massachusetts (now deceased), and now
resides at Rock City Falls, New York;
Henry G., of further mention.
Henry G. Sears was born at Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts, April 4, 1853, and
the following year was doubly orphaned.
His boyhood until the age of twelve was
passed under the care and in the home of
his maternal grandfather, Eli Eldridge,
but from that time forward he was the
captain of his own fortunes. At twelve
he was hired to a farmer of Conway for
two years, the farmer furnishing him as
remuneration, board, clothes, and giving
him $1.00 each year on July 4, and allow-
ing him to attend school three months
each winter. At the end of this time, he
secured a better position with a farmer
who gave him fourteen dollars monthly
for the seven months farming season, and
allowed him to attend school during the
winter months. The next year, being
stronger and having won a good name
among the farmers for faithfulness and
industry, he commanded a salary of
twenty dollars monthly for a term, of
seven months, every cent of which he
saved. With his one hundred and forty
dollars gained by hard work and strict
economy, he entered Powers Institute at
Bernardston, Massachusetts, and later
Northampton High School, investing the
entire sum and that which he could earn
in the meantime in securing an education.
In March. 1871, he entered the employ
of Lemuel Sears, a merchant of Holyoke,
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Massachusetts, remaining but a few weeks
when he accepted the advice of an uncle,
Henry Eldridge, and went West. He
located at Dwight, Illinois, and there
made an agreement by which in return
for his services he was to receive twelve
dollars and fifty cents per month the
first year, fifteen dollars the second and
twenty dollars the third year, in addition
to his board. The West did not prove to
his liking, and after one month in his new
home he returned to Holyoke and again
entered the employ of Lemuel Sears, be-
ginning as clerk at a weekly salary of four
dollars and board. He remained in that
subordinate position until twenty-three
years of age, when he was admitted to a
partnership in the -business then con-
ducted upon a retail basis only. The part-
nership, begun in 1876, was continued
until the death of Lemuel Sears, March
17, 1912, when Henry G. Sears purchased
the interest owned by the heirs and be-
came sole proprietor. Soon after 1876 the
business was enlarged and as wholesale
and retail grocers the firm became well
and most favorably known, the enthusi-
asm, energy and efficiency of the junior
partner agreeing well with the matured
wisdom and long experience of the senior.
After becoming sole proprietor Mr. Sears,
in April, 1913, expanded the business by
incorporation, as the Henry G. Sears
Company, with Henry G. Sears as presi-
dent and treasurer, and the business of the
company has been built up until it is at
the present time (1916) the largest in
Western Massachusetts. A force of
traveling salesmen and some fifty clerks
is needed to transact their large business,
and in addition to railroad shipments a
number of automobile trucks delivers
goods to surrounding cities and towns.
Mr. Sears has built up a widespread repu-
tation for fair and honorable dealing that
places him firmly in the high regard of
the commercial world in which he moves.
His business activities are not bounded
by the field covered by the Henry G.
Sears Company, but he has been an im-
portant factor in the management of other
commercial and financial concerns where
his resourcefulness, his vision and his
business acumen have been highly appre-
ciated. He is a director of the City Na-
tional Bank, for many years has been a
trustee and member of the investment
committee of the Mechanics Savings
Bank, and until the disposal of his interest
in 1915 was treasurer of the Holyoke Ice
Company, and is a director of the Nono-
tuck Hotel Company.
He is a member of Mt. Tom Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Holyoke
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Hol-
yoke Council, Royal and Select Masters ;
the Young Men's Christian Association,
the Congregational church, and in 1916
was honored by his business associates
by election to the office of president of the
Southern New England Wholesale Gro-
cer's Association. He is a believer in and
a strong supporter of the Republican
party, and in his political as in his busi-
ness life is guided by a devotion to prin-
ciple. Although his sterling worth and
fidelity would be gladly utilized by his
townsmen in public position, he has never
accepted political office, but as a private
citizen has aided in the many movements
that have benefited his city. His clubs
are the Bay State, Holyoke, Mt. Tom
Golf and Holyoke Canoe.
Mr. Sears married, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, June 18, 1884, Fannie E. Ford,
daughter of Charles E. and Jane R.
(Hemenway) Ford, granddaughter of
Alvah and Betsey (Barnes) I'ord, and
great-granddaughter of Phineas Hemen-
way, of Herkimer, New York, who at the
age of sixteen ran away from home and
enlisted in the Revolutionary army as a
drummer boy. Mrs. Sears, through col-
lateral lines, traces her descent to John
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and Priscilla Alden of the "Mayflower."
Mr. and Mrs. Sears are the parents of
three children: i. Marion E., married Dr.
Edward P. Bagg, an eminent physician
of Holyoke, and has two sons : Edward
P. and Henry Sears Bagg. 2. Marguerite,
married Morton Hull, of Chicago, a
graduate of Dartmouth College, now and
since the incorporation of the Henry G.
Sears Company in April, 1913, treasurer
of that company. 3. Henry P., died in
infancy.
PRENTISS, Hollo Arthur,
Business Man.
The Prentiss or Prentice family, of
which Rollo Arthur Prentiss, who for sev-
eral years was a well known retail shoe
dealer of Holyoke, is a descendant, is an
old and honored one, and is traced to
Captain Thomas Prentiss, who was born
in England in 1621. With his wife Grace,
whom he married about 1643 i" England,
and his daughter Grace, Captain Prentiss
came to New England about 1648, and
located in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where he and his wife joined the church.
May 23, 1652. A few years later he made
his home in what is now Newton, then
part of Cambridge, and though he lived
there to the end of his days, he had inter-
ests in various other towns. In 1667 he
bought three hundred acres of land in the
Pequot country, and he was one of the
first to build a house in Quinsigamond
(now Worcester), where he owned fifty
acres of land, but he did not remain there
to settle. He also owned real estate in
Woburn and Billerica, and in 1675 re-
ceived a grant of three hundred acres in
Connecticut. In those days land alone
was the measure of a man's wealth and
standing in the community.
In 1656 he was chosen lieutenant of a
troop of horse, and in 1662 became its
captain, and "he and his troops of horse"
we are told, "were a terror to the Indians
by his sudden and impetuous charges.
He took part in the Narragansett fight.
In 1689 ^^ s"<J li's troop were sent to
Rhode Island to arrest Sir Edmund An-
dres, the royal governor." He was one
of the commissioners to put Indian chil-
dren to service in 1675, and in the same
year was a commissioner to rebuild the
town of Lancaster, after it had been
burned by Indians. But at other times
he was a conspicuous friend and counselor
of the Indians, especially those that had
been converted to Christianity, and at
their request was appointed their guardian
and magistrate. In 1705 he settled his
estate by deeds of gift to his children.
He died July 6, 1710, on Sunday in conse-
quence of a fall from his horse on return-
ing from church, and was buried with
military honors, July 8, 1710, in the old
graveyard at Newton. There his grave-
stone is still standing. His wife Grace
died in Newton, October 9, 1692. Chil-
dren : Grace, born 1646 ; Thomas, Janu-
ary 22, 1649; Elizabeth, twin of Thomas;
John, February 2, 1653 ; John. July 10,
1655 ; Mary ; Henry ; Hannah, 1661.
(II) Thomas (2) Prentiss, son of
Thomas (i) Prentiss, was born January
22, 1649, ^n Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and lived in his native town. He married,
March 20, 1675, Sarah Stanton, daughter
of Thomas Stanton, who came to this
country in 1635, and became a famous
Indian interpreter and a man of note
throughout the colony ; her mother, Anna
(Lord) Stanton, was a daughter of
Thomas Lord. The home of the Stantons
was Stonington, Connecticut. Thomas
Prentiss died April 19, 1685. Sarah Pren-
tiss, widow of Thomas Prentiss, married
(second) in 1713, Captain William Den-
nison. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss:
Thomas, born January 13, 1676; Grace;
Samuel ; John, mentioned below.
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(III) Rev. John Prentiss, son of
Thomas (2) Prentiss, was born in 1682,
and graduated from Harvard College in
1700. He married (first) December 4,
1705, Mary, widow of Andrew Gardner.
She died in 1716, and he married (sec-
ond) Prudence, widow of Rev. Josiah
Swan. She died July 10, 1765. Mr. Pren-
tiss began to preach in May, 1705, at
Lancaster, and he was ordained, March
29, 1708, the fourth minister of that town,
continuing as its pastor until he died, Jan-
uary 6, 1748. It is said that he was
"gentle yet firm, satisfied with the way of
the churches, he asked for no newghides."
He baptized 1593 persons and admitted
to the church 321 during his pastorate.
His epitaph reads : "Ye Rev. Mr. John
Prentice, Pastor of ye First Church of
Christ in Lancaster. Died Jany. 6 A.
D. 1747-8, aetat 66. In his doctrine he
was learned, judicious, Plain, Season-
able and Unreprovable. In his Conversa-
tion Steady, Sober, Temperate, Peace-
able, Watchful, Instructive, Prudent and
Blameless. In his house ruling with all
gravity ; a tender Husband, a good Father,
a kind Master and given to Hospitality.
In his public character a true Bishop.
In his private Capacity a Gentleman and
Exemplary Christian. His micmory is
precious and his Praise is in the churches."
Children by first wife: John, mentioned
below; Mary, 1708; Thomas, baptized
September 3, 1709; Stanton, 171 1; Eliza-
beth, baptized November 22, 1713; Sarah,
baptized March 11, 1715-16. By second
wife: Dorothy, baptized January 12,
1718; Prudence, baptized November 29,
1719; Relief, married the Rev. John
Rogers ; Rebecca, born September 22,
1727.
(IV) John (2) Prentiss, son of Rev.
John (i) Prentiss, was born about 1706,
and died March 12, 1737-38. He settled
in Lancaster, Massachusetts. He mar-
ried, October II, 1728, Anna Bayley. Chil-
dren: John, born September 23, 1729;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Anna, born
June 17, 1734; Joshua, baptized October
2, 1737-
(V) Samuel Prentiss, son of John (2)
Prentiss, was baptized at Lancaster, Mas-
sachusetts, September 5, 1731. He mar-
ried, February 18, 1755, Prudence Osgood,
who died March 20, 1778. He removed to
Winchendon, Massachusetts, where he
died in 1800. His farm was situated on
what is still known as Prentiss Hill. He
was a soldier in the Revolution in Cap-
tain Peter Woodbury's company, Colonel
Jacob Gerrish's regiment from July 13 to
November 9, 1778; also in Captain David
Jewett's company, Colonel Gerrish's regi-
ment from November 12 to December 12,
1778, guarding the troops of the conven-
tion. Children : Prudence, born Febru-
ary 6, 1756 ; Anne, June 23, 1758 ; Thomas,
June 23, 1758; John, December 17, 1760;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Levi, April 19,
1768; Luke, July 17, 1770.
(VI) Samuel (2) Prentiss, son of Sam-
uel (i) Prentiss, was born at Lancaster,
Massachusetts, July 11, 1763. He mar-
ried, February 25, 1794, Rebecca Mc-
Ilwaine, who was born March 19, 1772,
daughter of James and Rebecca Mc-
Ilwaine. He was deacon of the First
Congregational Church of Winchendon,
but declined to serve. For many years
the foremost citizen of the town, he served
as representative to the General Court in
1812, as delegate to the State Constitu-
tional Convention, and for twenty years
was town clerk and justice of the peace,
holding other ofiices of trust and honor
from time to time. He died September
28, 1828. Children : Anna, born Decem,-
ber 15, 1794; Samuel, October 20, 1796;
John, December 4, 1798; Prudence, Au-
gust 21, 1800; James, February 28, 1803;
Levi, February 11, 1805; Rebecca, May
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27, 1807; Mary, February 12, 1810; Wil-
liam, mentioned below; Henry, April 20,
1815.
(VII) William Prentiss, son of Sam-
uel (2) Prentiss, was born at Winchen-
don, Massachusetts, August 9, 1812. He
married, December 17, 1835, Sarah Lin-
coln. He settled in Acworth, New Hamp-
shire, where he died March 29, 1864. He
was a shoemaker by trade. His wife was
born in 1813, died in September, 1902, a
daug"hter of Lemuel and Mehitable
(Fisher) Lincoln. Children: Davis Brain-
erd, mentioned below; Marden Warner,
born September 3, 1840; Robert Thomas,
July 17, 1842; William, Jr., February 26,
1845; Charles Herbert, January 21, 1848;
Samuel Lincoln, September 25, 1850.
(VIII) Davis Brainerd Prentiss, son of
William Prentiss, was born at Acworth,
New Hampshire, December 18, 1838. He
was educated in the public schools of his
native town, and in his youth learned the
trade of shoemaker, working afterward
as a journeyman in New Hampshire and
at Bellows Falls and Springfield, Ver-
mont. In 1883 he came to Hadley Falls,
Massachusetts, and entered the employ
of his brother, who was a grain dealer in
Holyoke, and he continued in this posi-
tion until 1908, when he was crippled by
an accident. Since then he has been re-
tired from active business. In politics he
is a Republican. He attends the Congre-
gational church. He married, December
24, 1864, Frances J. McNabb, who was
born in Barnet, Vermont, May 17, 1846.
Children : i. William Carlos, born Decem-
ber 22, 1867, a Congregational minister;
married (first) Ella Brackett, (second)
Elsie Hathaway, and (third) Mabel H.
Goodnow ; child by first wife, William B.,
born May 22, 1900; children by second
wife : Marden Thomas, born April 3,
1903; Adelaide Hathaway, August 15,
1905 ; Dorothy Frances, February 19,
1907; Frederick Carlos, June 5, 1909, died
June 26, 1910. 2. Mary Elvira, born Sep-
tember 15, 1869. 3- George Milan, born
May 15, 1871, died March 11, 1895. 4.
Horace Duncan, born August 11, 1872,
assistant postmaster of Holyoke ; married,
April 21, 1900, Minnie Gushing; children:
Allan Horace, born May 14, 1906; Dorris
Ethel, March 16, 1912. 5. Frederick Mar-
den, born December 14, 1874, died Au-
gust 25, 1892. 6. Milton Parks, born Oc-
tober 29, 1877, farmer in Granby, Massa-
chusetts; married, October 29, 1900, Lucy
C. Bemis ; children : Earl, born January
25, 1903; Hazel M., August 10, 1905, died
November 9, 1908; Alma C, April 19,
1910. 7. Rollo Arthur, mentioned below.
8. Henry Wallace, born February i, 1884,
died October 2, 1888.
(IX) Rollo Arthur Prentiss, son of
Davis Brainerd Prentiss, was born at Ac-
worth, New Hampshire, January 24, 1880,
but it may well be said that he has been
a lifelong resident of Holyoke, for he
came with his parents to that city when
but two years old and there in the public
schools he received his education and be-
gan his business career. Beginning with
a clerkship in the ofifice of the Mt. Tom
Railroad Company, his aptitude for the
business, his application to duty and his
faithfulness to the interests of his em-
ployers won him promotion from time to
time, and he was advanced to one of the
most responsible positions in the service
of the corporation, that of ticket agent for
the Holyoke Street Railway Company, a
position that he held for the period of five
years. But he was naturally ambitious
for business, requiring a larger field of
activity and greater ability, and in 1901
he resigned to take advantage of a prom-
ising opening in the employ of Thomas S.
Childs, the well known boot and shoe
dealer, where he remained for two years,
acquiring valuable experience and ac-
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quaintances and made his mark as a sales-
man. His ability attracted the attention
of various shoe manufacturers, who are
always on the alert for men of exceptional
capacity. He accepted a flattering offer
to become a traveling salesman and from
the beginning was highly successful and
he followed this line of work until 1905,
when he saw and accepted a favorable
opportunity to engage in business on his
own account as a retail shoe dealer in his
own city. His experience and training,
his wide acquaintance among all classes
of people there, and his natural ability as
a salesman were sterling assets, and from
the outset he has enjoyed a prosperous
business. Year by year his trade has
grown and his customers have multiplied.
Within the decade in which he was a mer-
chant he won for himself a place among
the foremost retail dealers of the city, and
he commanded the confidence and esteem
not only of the business community but
of all his fellow-citizens. Success in this
line of business particularly proves that a
man possesses tact, acumen, foresight in
purchasing, skill in advertising and at-
tracting trade, integrity in his dealings
and the ability to retain his customers.
But, most of all, those exceptional quali-
ties of personality that attract and retain
friends and inspire confidence and faith
even in strangers. On April i, 1917, the
building in which his store was located
was sold to other parties, and being un-
able to obtain a suitable location, Mr.
Prentiss sold his stock and retired from
the retail shoe business.
Mr. Prentiss has taken especial interest
in the Masonic fraternity, and is a mem-
ber of William Whiting Lodge, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons ; also of Hol-
yoke Lodge, No. 134, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of Holyoke. He attends
the Congregational church. While he is
a believer in the principles of the Repub-
lican party and keenly interested in pub-
lic affairs, he has been too closely confined
to his business to accept public office of
any kind.
He married, June 20, 1900, Lola Vir-
ginia Guimond, who was born at Malone,
New York, a daughter of Levi and Mary
(LaVergne) Guimond. They have one
child, Helen Marcia Prentiss, born at
Holyoke, December 14, 1909.
McCORKINDALE, Duncan L.,
Expert in Paper Indnitry.
Descendant of an ancient Scottish fam-
ily, Duncan McCorkindale, born and liv-
ing in his native shire until his fifteenth
year, has since been a resident of the
United States. The forty-six years which
have since elapsed have been spent in
various locatities, but since 1900 he has
been located in Holyoke as assistant su-
perintendent of the Parsons Paper Com-
pany. He is a son of Edward and Mar-
garet (Lyon) McCorkindale, and a grand-
son of Duncan McCorkindale, who lived
and died in Scotland, see elsewhere in this
work.
Duncan L. McCorkindale was born in
Greenoch, Scotland, June 8, 1854. He at-
tended Greenoch schools and worked in a
paper mill until 1870, when he came to
the United States with his parents, and
settled in Troy, New York, where he
spent four years, being employed in a
paper mill, also taking a course in a busi-
ness college. Becoming weary of paper
manufacture, he went to Waterford, New
York, nearby, and learned the marble cut-
ter's trade. Later he returned to his
original trade, and was superintendent of
several paper mills including the mill at
Troy in which he was first employed on
coming to the United States. He was
also superintendent at Wilder, Vermont,
erecting the first paper mill ever built in
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Wilder and installing all of the machin-
ery. Ke was next employed by C. S.
Garrett & Sons, of Philadelphia, in their
paper mill at Wayne, Pennsylvania. The
same firm bought the Ledger Mills at
Child?. Maryland, and Mr. McCorkindale
was selected to go there to rebuild the
mill and bring it up to modern require-
ments. After this task was completed he
remained as manager of the plant for fif-
teen years, until 1900. when he came to
Holyoke. He at once secured the posi-
tion of assistant superintendent of the
Parsons Paper Company plant, of which
his brother, William McCorkindale, is su-
perintendent, and still holds that position.
He is interested as a stockholder in the
Millers Falls Paper Company, and is one
of the expert men in his line of business.
He and his wife are members of the First
Congregational Church. He is a member
of the Holyoke Club and the Canoe Club,
and in politics is affiliated with the Re-
publican party.
Mr. McCorkindale married, June i,
1881, Martha McKay, daughter of Robert
and Charlotte Elizabeth McKay, of Troy,
New York. Mr. and Mrs. McCorkindale
are the parents of two sons and a daugh-
ter : Ralph, born in Troy, New York,
is now a civil engineer of New Bed-
ford, Massachusetts ; he married Minnie
Keeney, of Antioch, Contra Costa county,
California, and they are the parents of
two daughters, Margaret and Janett Mc-
Corkindale; Roy, born in Childs, Mary-
land, is now a civil engineer in the em-
ploy of the New York Central Railroad
Company ; Charlotte, the only daughter,
was born in Childs, Maryland, now (1917)
at the Sargent school for physical edu-
cation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ELY, Franklin Watson,
Business Man.
Massachusetts, the original American
home of the Elys, has retained as her
sons and daughters many of the descend-
ants of Nathaniel Ely, the pioneer mem-
ber of this branch of the Ely family in
America. Of the ninth generation, trac-
ing through an unbroken descent of Mas-
sachusetts citizens, Franklin Watson Ely,
president of the Ely Lumber Company of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, is one of the
twentieth century representatives of a
family long noted for those qualities of
mind and body which have rendered them
prominent in every field of human en-
deavor they have entered. He is of Hol-
yoke birth, was there educated and there
has spent his years, sixty-one, one of the
successful, substantial men of his native
city. He is a son oi Watson and Alary
(Ely) Ely, and' traces descent from Na-
thaniel Ely, the founder.
(I) Nathaniel Ely, of whom there is
nothing definitely known prior to his set-
tling at Newtown, now Cambridge, Mas-
sachusetts, is believed to have been born
in Trent, England, in 1605, and came to
America in the bark "Elizabeth," in April,
1634. He was made a freeman at Cam-
bridge, May 6, 1635. He went to Hartford,
Connecticut, in June, 1636, with the Rev.
Thomas Hooker, and his company, his
name appearing on the monument erected
in Hartford to the memory of its first
settlers. In 1649, o" ^he petition of Na-
thaniel Ely and Richard Olmstead, of
Hartford, the General Court gave per-
mission for the settlement of Norwalk,
Connecticut. Nathaniel Ely was con-
stable in Norwalk in 1654, an ofifice he
also filled in Hartford. He was select-
man in 1656, representative to the Gen-
eral Court in 1657, and a prominent man
in the new settlement. In 1659 he sold
his property in Norwalk and moved to
Springfield, Massachusetts. He was se-
lectman there several times as late as
1673. In 1665 he was licensed to keep an
inn, the old Ely tavern being on Main
street, Springfield. He died on December
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25, 1675. His wife Martha died in
Springfield, October 23, 1688. They had
two children, Sam.uel and Ruth.
(II) Samuel Ely, son of Nathaniel Ely,
was born in Hartford. Connecticut, died
in Springfield, Massachusetts. March 19,
1692. He accompanied his father to Nor-
walk and Springfield, and was quite suc-
cessful in acquiring property, leaving a
considerable estate at his death. He mar-
ried, in Springfield. October 28, 1659,
Mary, youngest child of Robert Day and
his second wife, Editha (Stebbins) Day.
She was born in Hartford, Connecticut,
in 1641, and twice married after the death
of Samuel Ely. She died October 17,
1725, aged eighty-four. Samuel and Mary
(Day) Ely were the parents of sixteen
children, of whom the third was Joseph,
through whom descent is traced to Frank-
lin Watson Ely. The first child was born
in 1660, the last in 1688.
(HI) Joseph (Deacon) Ely, son of
Samuel Ely. was born August 20, 1663, in
Springfield, Massachusetts, died in West
Springfield, April 29. 1755. He w^as a
leading member of the church and was
always known as "Deacon Joseph." By
will dated April 14, 1738. he devised con-
siderable land and money. He married
Mary, daughter of John Riley, wdio lo-
cated in that part of West Springfield
called Ireland Parish, in the south part
of the present city of Holyoke, near
"Riley Brook." She was born June 2,
1665, and died May 19, 1736, the mother
of eight children.
(IV) Joseph Ely. son of Deacon Joseph
Ely. was born in West Springfield. Mas-
sachusetts, April 9, 1686, and there died
January 6. 1770. His tombstone in addi-
tion to dates and age bears this inscrip-
tion :
It there's a Power above,
He must delight in virtue,
And that which he delights in,
Must be happy.
He married Margaret Leonard, born in
1692, died in West Springfield, October 3,
1760, the mother of eleven children, of
whom Benjamin was the seventh.
(V) Benjamin (Colonel) Ely, son of
Joseph Ely, was born in West Spring-
field, Massachusetts, December 25, 1730,
died there December 25, 1802. He was
a man of large influence, prominent in
town affairs, representative to the State
Legislature, bore the military rank of
colonel, and was one of the highly re-
spected, influential and useful men of his
day. He married Esther Backus, whose
mother, Jerusha (Edwards) Backus, was
a sister of President Jonathan Edwards.
They were the parents of eight children,
of whom Robert was the eldest son and
third born.
(VI) Robert Ely, son of Colonel Ben-
jamin Ely, was born February 28, 1763,
in West Springfield, Massachusetts, there
died August 7, 1847, and w^as buried in
that part of the town now known as
Agawam. He married, in June. 1792,
Jemina Leonard, daughter of Reuben and
Martha Leonard, born in West Spring-
field (Agawam Parish), September 19,
1769, died there October 20, 1849, the
mother of seven children, of whom the
third w^as Lucius.
(VII) Lucius Ely. son of Robert Ely,
was born May 30, 1797, in West Spring-
field, Massachusetts, and there died Feb-
ruary 28, 1838. He married, February 22,
1825, Harriet Day. born February 21,
1799, in West Springfield, died in Hol-
yoke, in 1893, at the great age of ninety-
four years, the mother of two children,
Watson and Benjamin Franklin, the
latter born April 21, 1828. died in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, February 17, 1849.
(VIII) Watson Ely, son of Lucius and
Harriet (Day) Ely, was born in West
Springfield, Massachusetts, August 14,
1826, died in Holyoke. Massachusetts,
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April II, 1896. He was educated in the
public schools, his parents moving when
he was quite young to what is now Elm-
wood, Massachusetts. On reaching suit-
able age, he was apprenticed to the car-
penters' trade, his employer agreeing to
teach him the trade and pay a yearly
wage of $50.00. This arrangement con-
tinued several years, the young man be-
coming an expert mechanic and worker
in wood. After establishing a high repu-
tation for mechanical ability he became
master mechanic for the Holyoke Paper
Company, holding that position for sev-
eral years. He then decided to begin
business as an independent contractor
and established his shops on Front street,
Holyoke. His unquestioned ability as a
builder brought him liberal patronage
from the beginning, and as the years
passed he became one of the leading con-
tractors of the city. A lumber yard was
later added, and his son, Franklin Watson
Ely. admitted to a partnership under the
firm name. Watson Ely & Son. This
connection existed until terminated by the
death of Watson Ely in 1896. He was an
excellent business man, but his mechan-
ical- genius was his greatest business
asset, and to his well known skill and
knowledge of every phase of the building
and contracting lines the early and con-
tinued prosperity of the company was
largely due. There are many monuments
in Holyoke to his skill as a builder, some
of the finest residences and public build-
ings in the city having been erected by
him. notably the Opera House, the
Windsor Hotel and the interior of the
City Hall. With the weight of years he
surrendered the heavier burdens of the
business to his capable son, and in his
later years lived a life of comparative
ease. He was a man of high character,
greatly esteemed by all who knew him.
In religious faith he was a Baptist, a
member of the Second Church of Hol-
yoke.
Watson Ely married, November 26,
1849, Mary, daughter of Peletiah and
Mary (Moore) Ely. She was born in
West Springfield, January 3, 1826, died
March 12, 1912, at eighty-six years of
age. She was the mother of an only son,
Franklin Watson Ely, of further men-
tion.
(IX) Franklin Watson Ely was born
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, June 26,
1855. He was educated in the public
schools of the city. He began business
life as a bank clerk, and for seven years
after graduation from high school was
in the employ of the Holyoke National
Bank. He resigned his position at the
end of that period, joining his honored
father in his contracting, lumber and
building business. In course of tim,e he
was admitted to partnership, the firm
Watson Ely & Son becoming one of the
leading firms of Holyoke in their line.
After the death of Watson Ely in 1896,
the son succeeded him as its owner and
head, continuing as such until January,
1898. when he incorporated the business
as the Ely Lumber Company, Franklin
W. Ely, president, and during the
eighteen years which have since inter-
vened he has ably guided the company,
which transacts a large business and
ranks with the leaders. Mr. Ely is a
wise, careful man of affairs, yet progres-
sive and liberal in all his dealings. He
has succeeded in his undertakings, and
maintains a high position among the
solid, substantial men of his city. He is
a member of the Baptist church, inter-
ested in good works and a supporter of
all movements that make for improve-
ment and progress.
Mr. Ely married, October 23, 1878,
Harriet Louisa Adams, daughter of the
Rev. Robert J. and Eliza J. (Mason)
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Adams, a descendant of James Mc-
Adams, born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in
1680, came to America in 1721, settled in
Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1743.
The line of descent is through his son,
James (2); his son, John, born 1756; his
son, John (2), born 1798, married Betsey
Alerriam ; their son, Rev. Robert J.
Adams, D. D., born in Granville, New
York, September i, 1829, married Eliza
J. Mason ; their daughter, Harriet L.
Adams, married Franklin Watson Ely.
Mr. and Mrs. Ely are the parents of three
sons: I. Robert Watson, born July 8,
1880; now purchasing agent for the Na-
tional Blank Book Company, of Holyoke;
he married. October 10, 1906, Jean B.
Allan; children: Janet Allan, born Au-
gust 24, 1908, and Bettina Adams, born
May 7, 191 1. 2. Ralph Adams, born Jan-
uary 31, 1884; now an expert in apple
growing, employed on the estate of
Frederick G. Crane ; married, Decem-
ber 7, 1916, Lena S. Pratt, of Dalton,
Massachusetts ; he is a vocalist of
note, possessing a rich baritone voice.
3. Karl Raymond, born April 6, 1888;
now clerk with the Crocker-McElwain
Company, paper manufacturers of Hol-
yoke ; he is also a noted musician,
organist and choir director of a church
in Northampton, Massachusetts ; he mar-
ried, September 15, 191 5, Dorothy Por-
teous.
WILSON, William Thomas,
Business Man.
In 1892 William Thomas Wilson, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry and Canadian birth,
first located in the city of Holyoke, where
he is now the honored treasurer of the
Holyoke Ice Company. He is a grand-
son of David Wilson, born and married
in Scotland, who later crossed the ocean
and settled on a farm in the province of
Quebec, Canada, near the city of
Montreal. He married Janet Stephen-
son, of Scotch birth and ancestry. They
were the parents of David, James, Mary
and Janet Wilson, all born in Scotland;
Robert, born on the passage to Canada ;
William, John, Barbara and Jean Wilson,
all born in the province of Quebec.
William Wilson, the first American
born child of David and Janet Wilson,
was born at the old homestead near
Montreal, Canada, in 1821, and died in
Howick, a post village of Chateauguay
county, Quebec, on the English river,
March 9, 1901. He obtained his educa-
tion in the public schools, and during his
youth was his father's farm, assistant. He
inherited the qualities of industry and
thrift from his pioneer parents, as well
as their strict Presbyterianism, and was
one of the successful stock farmers of his
section. His farm of one hundred acres
was devoted largely to stock raising, the
general products of the farm being de-
voted to the feeding of the horses, cattle,
sheep and swine with which the farm was
always well stocked. He was a Liberal
in politics, an official member of the
Presbyterian church, and a man thor-
oughly respected in his community. He
married, March 29, i860, Ann Baskin,
born in Howick in 1835, a daughter of
Thomas and Sarah (Cowan) Baskin, her
father coming to Canada from Ireland.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were the parents
of two sons and two daughters: i.
Sarah, married James Hope, and died
leaving a son, Albert, and a daughter,
Annie. 2. David, married a Miss McRea,
and they have four children : Albert,
Earl, Gordon and Jennie. 3. William
Thomas, of further mention. 4. Cather-
ine, married Wilbur Peacock, and they
have two children, Evelyn and George.
William Thomas Wilson, second son
of W^illiam and Ann (Baskin) Wilson,
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was born at St. Chrysostome, province of
Quebec, Canada, March 8, 1872. After
completing his studies in the public
schools, he began learning the carpenter's
trade continuing that occupation until
May, 1890, when he came to the United
States, finding employment in a shoe
factory at Athol, Massachusetts. In the
spring of 1891 he located in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, a city in which he has
ever since resided. Shortly after settling
in Holyoke, Mr. Wilson established a
retail ice business in Holyoke and South
Hadley Falls, which he conducted until
1907 under his own name. He then
admitted a partner, but two years later
bought him out and continued the busi-
ness alone until 1915. In that year he
bought, with Mr. E. H. Frederick, Jr.,
the controlling stock of the Holyoke Ice
Company, then doing a large wholesale
and retail business, and the company has
since transacted a very large business in
both departments. Mr. Wilson was
chosen treasurer of the company at that
time and this office he still fills, an im-
portant factor in its management. In
his political faith Mr. Wilson is a Repub-
lican, and in religious preference a Con-
gregationalist. He is a m,ember of Wil-
liam Whiting Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Holyoke Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Holyoke Council, Royal and
Select Masters, and Springfield Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, all of Hol-
yoke ; Melha Temple, Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, Springfield ; and of Hol-
yoke Lodge, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. His clubs are the Hol-
yoke. Mt. Tom Golf and Oxford Country,
and in all he is an honored, popular and
interested member.
Mr. Wilson married, April 25, 1894,
Annie E. Donaldson, born in the north of
Ireland. They are the parents of W^il-
liam, Howard, Edna and Walter Thomas
Wilson.
OWEN, James Franklin,
Insurance Actuary.
Well known among the fire and life
underwriters of the city of Holyoke,
James Franklin Owen has taken an active
part in the business life of that munici-
pality during the past sixteen years. Be-
fore he located there, however, he had
won a place of importance in the whole-
sale woolen trade in Boston. He comes
of a sturdy line of artisans and mechanics,
men skilled in trade and business, who
performed their share in the upbuilding
of the colonies, provinces and States of
New England. Though not a very
numerous family the Owens made their
mark in every community in which they
lived.
The surnames Owen and Owens have
been used in times past interchangeably,
but in Colonial days Owens was most
common. The name and family are of
Welsh origin. Though the name is now
to be found in Ulster Province, north of
Ireland, and Owens families are numer-
ous there, none of the name were among
the Scotch and English settlers of the
seventeenth century. In England and
Wales the name has been w^ell known for
centuries. John Owen, who settled in
Windsor, Connecticut, was born in
Wales or England. December 25, 1624,
and is the progenitor of a numerous pos-
terity in Connecticut. New York and the
West. The names of his children are
almost exactly the same as those of Wil-
liam Owen, mentioned below, and the
plain inference is that they were brothers.
Another pioneer, Samuel Owen, said to
have been born in Wales in 1651 and to
have come to New England in 1685,
settled in Rhode Island ; his great-grand-
son, Daniel Owen, was chief justice of
the Supreme -Court of Rhode Island and
lieutenant-governor ; and the names of his
children and grandchildren, Joseph, Oba-
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
diah. Josiah, and Samuel, indicate that he
was related to the other immigrants.
(I) William Owen came from Wales
or England to Braintree, Massachusetts,
before 1650. He was admitted a freeman,
May 7, 165 1. He was a son-in-law of
Charles Grice, mentioned in his will in
1661. He married, September 20, 1650,
Elizabeth Davies. William Owen died
January 17, 1702, intestate, and his widow
died June 3. 1702. Children, born at
Braintree: Daniel, buried October 14,
165 1 ; Deliverance, a daughter, born
February 15. 1654, married John Eddy;
Ebenezer, born May i. 1657, died of
smallpox on the Canadian expedition,
August. 1690, lived in Braintree ; Daniel,
September 23, 1659; son, August i, 1667;
Obadiah, February i. 1670; Nathaniel,
mentioned below ; William, of Boston.
(II) Nathaniel Owen, son of William
Owen, lived at Braintree. Children, born
at Braintree by wife Mary : Nathaniel,
born November 21, 1684. lived at Brain-
tree; Benjamin, November i, 1691, of
Braintree ; Joseph, January 3, 1695. of
Braintree; William, January 30, 1697;
John, mentioned below : Mary. February
15, 1702.
(III) John Owen, son of Nathaniel
Owen, was born at Braintree, Massachu-
setts, April 13. 1699. He settled in Fal-
mouth, now Portland, Maine, about the
time of his marriage. The first record at
Falmouth of John Owen was the birth of
his son John in 1723. After the death of
his first wife Lucretia, John Owen mar-
ried (second) at Falmouth, in 1735. Mar-
garet Mustard. He joined the church in
1726, and his wife Margaret, April 11,
1736. His home was where the postoflfice
is now located. At the time of the Revo-
lution he moved to Brunswick, where his
sons had settled. Children by wife Lu-
cretia: I. John, born December 5. 1723,
baptized by Rev. Mr. Fitch, 1726: mar-
ried Anna Hodgkins, daughter of Philip
Hodgkins, and had thirteen children ; sold
the homestead in Falmouth to Nathaniel
Deering, who enlarged it, occupied it
until he died and it was later moved to
Bramhall's Hill near the almshouse;
John was a soldier from Falmouth in the
Revolution. 2. Mary, born October 15,
1725, baptized 1726, died young. 3.
Mary, baptized November 12, 1727 (born
November 5). 4. Thomas, born July 29,
baptized August 3, 1729, probably died
young. Children by wife Margaret: 5.
Thomas, baptized 1737. soldier in the
Revolution. 6. \\'illiam, born 1740,
joined the church at Falmouth, Septem-
ber 29. 1765. moved to Brunswick in
1775-76. and by wife Mary had there:
James, April 9, 1776; Lucy, June 3. 1779;
Rachel, May 9. 1781 ; William, January
3. 1784. 7. Gideon, born April. 1742. the
first of the family to settle in Brunswick,
lieutenant in the Revolution, died at
Topsham : children, born at Brunswick:
Margaret. October 6, 1764: Thomas,
September i, 1766; Hugh White. Septem-
ber 23. 1768: Martha. July 13, 1770; John,
August 3. 1772: David, November 30,
1774. 8. James, lived in Portland; chil-
dren: Eunice, born February 28, 1773;
Lois. March 12. 1775: Samuel. July 13,
1777; Dorcas, September 6, 1778. The
will of John Owen, of Falmouth, was
dated August 2', 1752, proved October i,
1753. Inventory, one hundred and sixty-
three pounds, three shillings, four pence.
He bequeathed to wife Margaret and
children: Mary, John. Thomas. William,-
Gideon, Samuel and James. Jabez Fox
and his widow were executors ; Samuel
Cobb, Jr., Simon Gookin and Stephen
Longfellow, witnesses. (Maine Wills
p. 715). Ebenezer Owen, son of John
Owen, Jr., lived at Portland, and his son
Cotton was living, according to Willis,
in 1864. Philip Owen, grandson of John
Owen, also lived in Brunswick.
(IV) William (2) Owen, son of John
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Owen, was born in Falmouth, in 1740,
and with wife Mary joined the First
Church there, September 29, 1765. He re-
moved to Brunswick in 1775-76. He was
a taxpayer at Falmouth in 1766. He
married Mary Dunning. Children, born
at Falmouth: David, born May jo, 1767;
John, September 10, 1769; Elizabeth,
June 9, 1770; Samuel, mentioned below;
John, October 25, 1772; Peggy, March 13,
1774. Born at Brunswick: James, April
9, 1776; Lucy, June 3, 1779; Rachel, IMay
9, 1781 ; William, January 3, 1784.
(V) Samuel Owen, son of William (2)
Owen, was born in Falmouth, June 28,
1771. He was a cabinet maker in Bruns-
wick, Maine. He married Catherine
Williston, widow of George Williston.
Children: Charles, died in California;
John, died in Boston; Elizabeth; Sarah;
Frances ; Daniel Dickinson, mentioned
below.
(VI) Daniel Dickinson Owen, son of
Samuel Owen, was born in Rome, Xew
York, July 9, 1822, and died in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, March 4, 1902. His par-
ents lived for a time in Rome, but
returned to Brunswick when he was
eight years old. He was educated in the
public schools of Brunswick, and learned
the painter's trade there. He was a skill-
ful craftsman, and was employed chiefly
in ornamental work, frescoing and strip-
ing. For a number of years he was in
business on his own account. He was
employed frequently in the shipyards to
do the ornamental work on the vessels
building and being repaired there. In
1857 he removed to Boston, where he was
employed for a period of thirty-five years
by the S. A. Wood Machine Company.
He retired from active business at the
age of seventy years, and spent the last
two years of his life in Holyoke. In
politics he supported the Whig party until
it disbanded and afterward the Republi-
can party. When a young man he served
in the Maine militia and had a commis-
sion. In religion he was a Congrega-
tionalist. He married, December 31,
1856, Elizabeth S. Harrington, who was
born in Kennebunkport, Maine, August
17, 1837, a daughter of the Rev. James
Harrington, a Methodist clergyman, and
Patience (Sylvester) Harrington. Her
ancestral line from the pioneer in this
country was John (6), John (5), Amos
(4), Amos (3), Captain Joseph (2),
Richard (i) Sylvester. Children of
Daniel D. and Elizabeth S. Owen : Eliza-
beth Eugenia, deceased; Louise; Harriet;
Nellie; Florence, married William M.
Cochran, of Northampton, Massachu-
setts ; Gertrude, deceased ; James Frank-
lin, mentioned below.
(VII) James Franklin Owen, son of
Daniel Dickinson Owen, was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, May 7, 1875. He
received his education in the Boston
public schools and at Bryant & Stratton's
Business College in Boston. At the age
of seventeen, he began his business career
as clerk for a wholesale house dealing in
woolen goods in Boston. He won rapid
advancement, and at the end of nine
years held the responsible position of sell-
ing agent to the mills. In 1900 he en-
gaged in business on his own account in
Holyoke, buying the insurance business
of the firm of E. C. Clark with his brother-
in-law, W'. M. Corcoran, who recently
died. Year by year Mr. Owen has de-
veloped and increased this business, giv-
ing to it his constant attention and energy
and maintaining it among the foremost
agencies in this section. He is agent for
various large companies in all the depart-
ments of insurance, including fire, cas-
ualty and accident, and has one of the
best equipped offices in this section. Mr.
Owen is well known among the Free
Masons and members of other fraternal
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organizations. He is a member of Wil-
liam Whiting Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; and of Mount Holyoke Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of
the First Congregational Church, and for
a number of years has been clerk of the
society.
He married. July 12, 1900, Mary Wood-
all, born in Birmingham, England, a
daughter of John and Mary (Swift)
Woodall. Her father came to this coun-
try with his family in 1883 and made his
home in Boston. Children of Mr. and
Mrs. Owen: i. James Franklin, born at
Holyoke in 1902, died there aged six
months. 2. Franklin Woodall, born at
Holyoke, August 27, 1904.
MAGNA, Albert Gallatin,
Financier, Insurance Actuary.
Albert Gallatin Magna, the well known
insurance agent and banker of Holyoke,
descends, on his mother's side, from the
ancient Spencer family of Connecticut.
Among his ancestors is one of the
founders of Yale University, and the
Mayflower passengers, John Alden and
Priscilla Molines. In the paternal line he
is a descendant of Joseph Magna, who
came to New England previous to 1780.
The name was then spelled with a final
"e," Magne, but now an "a" has been sub-
stituted in place of the "e.''
Joseph Magna was the son of a West
Indian sugar planter, owning plantations
on the Island of Guadaloupe, who sent
his son to New England to be educated.
a custom then prevalent among the
wealthy planters of the West Indies. As
Saybrook, Connecticut, then maintained
an extensive trade with Guadaloupe, he
landed there and remained in Connecti-
cut, not only to complete his education,
but made his home, married and remained
here until after the birth of his vounerest
child, Lucretia. in 1788, when he returned
to his native Guadaloupe in response to
the entreaties of his aged father. After
his return to Guadaloupe, he, however,
kept in communication with his Saybrook
friends through the medium of the trading
vessels, particularly one commanded by
a Captain Whittely, by whom he sent to
his friends gifts of fruits and other island
products.
He married, as mentioned previously,
in New England, Lucretia Conklin, of
Southold, Long Island, born December
15. 1758, a member of an early Southold
family. She was a woman of rare beauty
and intelligence, remarkable even in her
advanced years for her fine appearance.
The family home was for many years
maintained in Old Saybrook and there
all their children were born. She, how-
ever, accompanied her husband on his
return to Guadaloupe, and there they
spent the remainder of their lives and
both died. Children : Charles, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1782: Mary Ann, February 19,
1784; Joseph, of further mention; Lu-
cretia, born April 22, 1788.
Joseph Magna, youngest son of the
founder, was born in Old Saybrook, Con-
necticut, August 15, 1786, and there
resided until eighteen years of age. His
father in Guadaloupe then sent for him,
but the vessel in which he took passage
was captured by a French privateer and
he was landed in Nantes, France. After
being released he returned to Saybrook,
Connecticut, and there spent his life. He
married Lydia Post, daughter of Jedediah-
and Abigail (Lay) Post, her mother a
descendant of John and Priscilla (Mo-
lines) Alden, of the "Mayflower." They
were the parents of Joseph Nichols, of
further mention : Diana, married a Mr.
Spencer ; Samuel and Sarah.
Captain Joseph Nichols Magna, son of
Joseph and Lydia (Post) Magna, was
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born in Connecticut, November 22, 1810,
died March 20, i860, at sea, and was
buried beneath the waves. From boy-
hood he followed the sea, and was among
the owners and sea captains of the old
clipper ship period, sailing from New
York to Liverpool. He was twice ship-
wrecked, in both instances with the loss
of his ship, and in fact lived his life of
fifty years amid scenes of adventure and
danger. His life ended as it was lived,
and with his passing went out one of
those brave spirits who made the Ameri-
can sailor respected in every port of the
world. Captain Magna married Abby
Maria Spencer, born May 12, 1818, died
October 20, 1867, daughter of Joseph and
Sabra (Dee) Spencer, who also traced
descent to John Alden and Priscilla Mo-
lines of the "Mayflower." They were the
parents of Joseph Nichols (2) ; Russell
\\'. ; Albert Gallatin, of further mention ;
Edwina, married E. L. Kirtland ; and a
child who died in infancy.
Albert Gallatin Magna, youngest son of
Captain Joseph Nichols and Abby Maria
(Spencer) Magna, was born in West-
brook, Connecticut, February 28, 1849.
After public school courses in Westbrook,
he spent three years at Russell's Military
School in New Haven, entering business
life as cashier in a large New Haven
carpet house. After two years' experi-
ence there he went to New York City,
entering a broker's office, but later was
given a position by his brother, who was
manager of a large cotton brokerage firm
on Wall street. In 1871 he located in
Holyoke, Massachusetts. All his previous
training having been along financial lines,
he secured a position with the Holyoke
Savings Bank, continuing with that insti-
tution for fifteen years. He then resigned
and established a general insurance busi-
ness, which he successfully conducted.
When the Manufacturers' Trust Com-
pany was organized, Mr. Magna was
elected its treasurer, and until the de-
struction of the Windsor-Howe block
maintained his offices in that building.
In November, 1900, he was elected secre-
tary of the Holyoke Savings Bank, and at
about the same time became manager of
the C. W. Johnson Company Insurance
Agency, and is now holding both posi-
tions. He is also a trustee of the Holyoke
Savings Bank. He is a member of lodge,
chapter and council of the Masonic order,
and the Mount Tom Golf and Holyoke
Canoe clubs. Now in the evening of life,
with ripened judgment and wide experi-
ence, ]Mr. Magna occupies a position in
his city, honorable in the extreme.
Mr. Magna married, October 26, 1876,
Harriet Goss, daughter of William and
Mary (Hallet) Goss, of Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Magna are the
parents of two sons, associated in busi-
ness as proprietors of the Magna Garage,
Holyoke : Russell W., born September
6. 1878, married Edith Scott; Joseph N.,
born June 28, 1882, married Edith Up-
dyke, and they are the parents of Edith
and Joseph N. Magna, Jr.
CROSIER, William Jefferson,
Veteran of Spanish-American War.
Although a native son of New York, Ma-
jor \\'illiam Jefferson Crosier, since 1882.
has been a resident of Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, and identified with the business
interests of that city through his connec-
tion with the Chase & Cooledge Company.
When Company D marched away to
maintain American honor upon foreign
battlefields, "Captain" Crosier marched at
their head, and when, their duty glor-
iously performed, the regiment returned,
"Major" Crosier was his title, he having
won that rank by bravery. When the
regiment, in 1916, was dispatched to the
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Mexican border with full ranks, it was in
a measure due to Major Crosier's activity
in recruiting men that those ranks were
full. Major Crosier is a son of Charles
Crosier, grandson of William Lorenzo
Crosier, and great-grandson of John Cro-
sier, all of Halifax, Vermont, the latter
connected with the cotton manufacturing
business. The family were originally
natives of France, going thence to Eng-
land, one branch settling in Ireland, from
whence descendants came to this country,
settling in Vermont.
John Crosier, who lived, died and is
buried in Halifax, Vermont, a cattle
dealer, had two sons, William Lorenzo
and Rodney. The latter went to the
State of Illinois and there died. William
Lorenzo Crosier, born in Halifax, Ver-
mont, died in North Adam^s, Massachu-
setts, about 1872, having resided in
North Adams from about the year 1838.
He was a cattle buyer, conducted a meat
market, and in his later years was en-
gaged in trucking. He had sons : Charles,
of further mention ; Alonzo, Oliver Dex-
ter, William Lorenzo (2).
Charles Crosier was born in Halifax,
Vermont, in 1828, died at Williamstown,
Massachusetts, in 1910. At the age of ten
years he was brought by his parents to
North Adams, ^Massachusetts, and there
attended public schools. He was a resi-
dent of Williamstown, Massachusetts, for
over half a century, and most of that
period was employed in the cotton mills,
although one year was spent in a mill at
Hoosick Falls, New York. Late in life
he bought a farm and managed it until
his death, at that time eighty-two years
of age. He was a faithful member of the
Baptist church, and a man much re-
spected. He married at North Leverett,
Massachusetts, Alvira Moore, born in
New Salem, daughter of Jefiferson and
(Hemmingway) Moore, and
granddaughter of Asa Moore, a soldier of
the Revolution, who fought at Bunker
Hill, and was with Ethan Allen when
with his "Green Mountain Boys" he cap-
tured the fort at Ticonderoga. They
were the parents of a son, William Jeffer-
son, of further mention, and a daughter,
Ella Elvira, who married Arthur C.
Smith, of South Williamstown.
William Jefferson Crosier was born at
Hoosick Falls, New York, March 25,
i860. He was educated in North Adams
and Williamstown public schools, and
during his youth was employed in the
cotton mills. He w^as later variously em-
ployed, and in April, 1882, when he lo-
cated in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he was
thoroughly experienced in business
methods. He was for some time engaged
in the manufacture of leather belting, and
then became a salesman with the Chase
& Cooledge Company, dealers in leather
belting and manufacturers supplies, and
until the present (1917) has continued
with that company, one of the oldest men,
in point of years of service, of their sell-
ing force. As a salesman he has an
honorable record, and holds the perfect
confidence and esteem of his company and
his customers. When the Spanish-Amer-
ican War broke out he went to the front
as captain of Company D, Second Regi-
ment, Massachusetts National Guard. He
saw hard service in Cuba, was engaged
with his regiment at San Juan Hill and
Santiago, and all incidents of that cam-
paign in which his regiment participated.
He returned from Cuba with the regi-
ment, August 27, 1898, having been in the
service since June 22. He was mustered
out with the rank of major, November 3,
1898. Major Crosier is a member of
]\Iount Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Holyoke Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Connecticut Valley Lodge,
Knights of Pythias; Holyoke Lodge,
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ;
and Nelson W. Miles Camp, No. 36,
Spanish War Veterans, of which he is a
past commander.
Major Crosier married (first) in April,
1886, Jessie Casey, born in Glasgow,
Scotland, who died leaving a son, Charles
Ray Crosier, born in January, 1887. He
married (second) in September, 1892,
Anna Corner, born in England, daughter
of William and Nancy (Harrison)
Corner. They are the parents of a
daughter, Anna Bertha, born in Septem-
ber, 1893, died in September, 1910, and a
son, Walter E., born in November, 1894.
LAPORTE, Mederic Joseph,
Engaged in Trncking and Antomobiles.
From noble French ancestry comes this
enterprising and successful citizen of
Holyoke. Beginning in a small way, he
has developed a very extensive business
and established a high reputation as a
business man and public-spirited citizen.
His ancestry, which is a long and notable
one, has been traced to Jacques de la
Porte and Marie (Hamelin) de la Porte,
who were born and married in France.
Their son, Jacques-Georges de la Porte,
Sieur de St. Georges, resided in Canada,
where he occupied a responsible position
in the community. He married in
Montreal, Canada, September 3, 1657,
Nicole Duchesne, and they were the par-
ents of Pierre de la Porte, born May 27,
1678, died September 6, 1751, at Laval
Tree, Canada. He married (first) Marie
Anjean and (second) Marie Antoinette
Cusson. The latter named was the
mother of Charles Laporte, born Decem-
ber 16, 1740, at St. Sulpice, Canada, died
October 23, 1825. He was a captain of
militia. He married Marie Josette Ethier,
who died September 20, 1817. Their son,
Jeremie Laporte, was born November 20,
Mags— 6— 6 8
1789, at Laval Tree, and died at St. Sul-
pice, i860. Like his father, he was cap-
tain of militia. His first wife, Marguerite
Dufour (Latour) Laporte, a daughter of
a noble Latour, was born September 12,
1793, and died February 14, 1831. His
second wife, Felicite (Juneau) Laporte,
was a sister of Solomon Juneau, founder
and first mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Leon Laporte, son of Jeremie Laporte and
his first wife, was born July 4, 1824, and
was for many years employed in the
paper making industry. In 1868 he
settled at Holyoke, Massachusetts, where
he continued to reside until his death,
1876. For some time after his arrival in
Holyoke he continued in mill work, and
then engaged in the sale of wood and the
trucking business, in which he met with
great success. He married. May 27, 1854,
Flavia Martineau, born 1832, died 1908,
at the age of seventy-six years. Of their
family of twelve children Mederic Joseph
Laporte, of this review, is the only one
living.
Mederic Joseph Laporte was born
April 18, 1859, in Canada. As a boy he
had very little opportunity for study,
coming when but nine years of age with
his parents to Holyoke. He immediately
went to work in a cotton mill, the hours
of labor extending from 5 :30 in the morn-
ing until 7:30 at night. When his father
engaged in business, the son was his
faithful assistant until death called the
father from this world, and the son was
then employed by various Holyoke citi-
zens until sixteen years old, when he
determined to become his own employer.
He possessed five dollars in cash and a
sound body, but his industry and fidelity
had already established for him a credit
which enabled him to start out in busi-
ness on his own account. He purchased
a horse, harness and wagon for sixty
dollars, paying over his cash and giving
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a note for fifty-five dollars. With this
equipment the ambitiovis youth immedi-
ately engaged in the trucking and express
business, doing all the work himself and
often continuing late in the night to com-
plete his tasks, and from this humble
commencement has grown up a business
which requires a payroll of nearly one
hundred dollars per day and employs a
capital of one hundred thousand dollars.
In 1898 he added to his trucking and
express a small livery which he pur-
chased. This occupied a small frame barn
which had been known as the Miller
Stable. It occupied the site of the present
five-story fire-proof brick structure now
occupied by M. J. Laporte, Incorporated,
erected in 1905. To the horse livery in
time was added a complete line of auto-
mobiles, which now includes not only
every style of machine in use, but also
luxuriously upholstered limousines for
weddings and other functions. With the
growth of Mr. Laporte's business has
extended his reputation as a caterer to the
highest demands made upon him, and he
now maintains the most complete and
varied equipment in this line in Western
Massachusetts. More than twenty-five
men are regularly employed, as chauffeurs
and in various departments, and any call
meets prompt attention at any hour of the
day or night. In addition to supplying
the public demand for taxicabs and other
forms of automobile, he deals in these
machines, and also maintains a complete
equipment for repairing automobiles and
carriages, carpet cleaning, carriage paint-
ing and blacksmithing, and conducts a
baggage and theatre transfer. In 1912
the business was incorporated under the
name of its founder and principal owner,
who is president and treasurer. The
company consists of Mr. Laporte and his
sons, L. Alphonse and Mederic Jerome,
who act as directors, and L. L. Escault.
who serves as secretary. The company
also conducts a riding school.
I\Ir. Laporte has always maintained an
intelligent interest in the progress of his
town and State, and has taken no incon-
siderable part in their aflFairs. He is a
Republican and has served twenty-five
vears as a member of the city commit-
tee, now chairman of the general com-
mittee and twenty years as chairman of its
finance committee, and is one of the
founders and the first president of the
Republican Club of Holyoke. In 1890 he
was elected a member of the Common
Council of the city and reelected the fol-
lowing year. In 1892 he was elected to
the Board of Aldermen and again elected
in 1893. By appointment of Mayor Smith
he served three years as fire commis-
sioner, and later four years as park com-
missioner. Governor Draper appointed
him a member of a board of five men to
discover reasons for the high cost of
living. After traveling over the State and
making careful and exhaustive inquiries,
the board made a report covering some
eight hundred printed pages, recommend-
ing beneficial legislation and forming a
valuable handbook for any interested in
the subject. In 1897 Mr. Laporte yielded
to the wishes of his friends and permitted
his name to be used in the Republican
caucus for nomination to the office of
mayor. In one of the largest caucuses
ever held by the party, he failed to secure
the nomination by only eight votes. For
several years he was a member of the
Republican League, and was present at
the great dinner given to President Taft
at the Hotel Astor in New York, which
was attended by one thousand of the
leading men of the Nation. Hi? last of!ice
was in 191 /, when he was appointed by
Governor McCall one of the Committee of
Safety, one of four appointed. Mr.
Laporte is identified with many social and
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fraternal organizations, among which
may be mentioned the following: Order
of Moose, Independent Order of Forest-
ers, New England Order of Protection,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and the Order of Heptasophs. With his
family Mr. Laporte is a member of the
Church of the Blessed Sacrament of Hol-
yoke. Mr. Laporte is a great lover of and
takes a just pride in his beautiful home
in Elmwood, which was constructed in
1892. He is a man of keen observation,
a diligent reader of the press of the day,
and is among the best informed men of
his time, and a most interesting talker on
any of the subjects of modern times. Hol-
yoke may well be proud of this product
of her institutions and times, and his
example may most properly be urged
upon the attention of ambitious youth.
Mr. Laporte married, November 14,
1882, Emeline L. Hainault, a native of
Oswego, New York. Of their seven chil-
dren five are living, namely: M. Albert,
now engaged in the automobile business
at Springfield, Massachusetts ; L. Al-
phonse, now with the Dunbar Motor
Company ; Mederic Jerome, associated in
his father's business ; Rondolph E., at
home ; Amelia Celina, at home.
WEISER, Edwin Christopher,
Representative Citizen.
The Weisers came to America in 1710,
landing at New York, where Conrad
Weiser, the great-great-grandfather of
Edwin Christopher Weiser, of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, remained until 1714. His
parents continued in New York until
1723, when they settled on Tulpehocken
creek in Berks county, Pennsylvania.
Conrad Weiser was born in Germany in
1696, and in 1710 was brought to New
York City by his parents, arriving June
13, 1710. His father made the acquaint-
ance of a Mohawk Indian chief, who be-
coming interested in young Conrad
offered to take him to the New York
home of his tribe and teach him the Mo-
hawk language. The father consented,
and in 1714 he began his residence with
the Indians. Although he suffered many
trials and privations during the following
years, he became an adept in the Indian
tongue, their signs, symbols and mys-
teries. He did not settle in Pennsylvania
until 1729, then joined the family at the
home on Tulpehocken creek. In 1730
Governor Gordon, of Pennsylvania, learn-
ing of his knowledge of the Indian tongue,
called upon him to act as an interpreter
with the Indians, and during the next
twenty-five years he acted in that capacity
at all the Indian treaty councils, and was
one of the most famous Indian inter-
preters of that period. During the French
and Indian War he was lieutenant-colo-
nel in command of the second battalion
of the Pennsylvania Regiment. He settled
in then Lancaster, later York county,
Pennsylvania, and was one of Lancaster's
early men of note. In 1752 he was ap-
pointed a trustee of the schools held in
Lancaster, York and Reading, Pennsyl-
vania. He died July 13, 1760.
He w^as succeeded by his son, Martin
Weiser, who died in York county, Penn-
sylvania, in 1822, leaving a son, Martin
Weiser, born in York, Pennsylvania, in
1789, and died in 1829, a merchant of
York. He married Catherine Haller.
They were the parents of William, Susan,
Mary, Catherine, Martin Haller, of fur-
ther mention, and Emma.
Martin Haller Weiser was born in
York, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and died in
1886. He learned the mercantile business
in his father's store in York, and nearly
his entire life was spent as a merchant.
He was an earnest Christian worker,
served the German Lutheran church as
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deacon, and was a man highly esteemed.
He was also a member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He married (first)
Caroline J. Peiffer, a daughter of Chris-
topher and Mary (Hyde) Peiffer. of
York. He married (second) Mary Tyler.
The children of his first marriage were :
Edwin Christopher, of further mention,
and William P., of Camden, New Jersey.
The children of the second marriage were :
Dr. Walter R. Weiser, of Springfield,
Massachusetts; Martin Luther, of Long
Island City, Greater New York, and
Margie Haller, deceased.
Edwin Christopher Weiser was born in
York. Pennsylvania, April lo, 1852. and
was there educated in the public schools
and York County Academy. After com-
pleting his school years, he spent four
years in general store merchandising as
clerk, then in 1872 located in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, a city in which he has
since continuously resided. He secured
his first employment with the Parsons
Paper Company in lowly office position.
but rose rapidly in rank, being in succes-
sion paymaster, secretary, assistant treas-
urer and manager of a departrruent until
the company was absorbed by the Amer-
ican Writing Paper Company. After this
he was manager of the Parsons Paper
Company, a division of the American
Writing Paper Company, for some years.
He had devoted himself so assiduously to
the duties of the responsible positions he
filled that he was obliged to retire from
paper manufacturing business and devote
himself to rebuilding the physical man.
He was out of business while this was
being accomplished, but upon the death
of \\'hiting Street he was appointed as
an assistant to the trustees of this large
estate, and since the year 1900 he has
devoted himself entirely to the above
position. He is also a director of the
Parsons Paper Company. He is a mem-
ber of the Second Congregational Church,
which he has served as treasurer, and of
the Holyoke Canoe Club.
Mr. Weiser married, October 9, 1890,
Lucy Bagg Brooks, a daughter of Ethan
and Hannah M. (^Bagg) Brooks, of
Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs.
Weiser are the parents of three children:
Richard Mather, born April 7, 1893, a
graduate of Cornell University, class of
1914, now connected with the National
Blank Book Company; Catherine, born
May 2. 1896: Helen Brooks, April 18,
1899.
Mrs. Lucy Bagg (Brooks) Weiser is a
descendant of Joseph Brooks, born in
Concord, Massachusetts, April 22, 1641,
son of William Brooks, of England, who
settled in Springfield. Massachusetts, as
early as 1649. Joseph Brooks, born Octo-
ber 10. 1667, left a son, Joseph (2)
Brooks, whose son, Israel Brooks, born
September i, 1736. died December 29,
1794. He lived in the Ware river district
of Massachusetts, and on March 9, 1758,
married Miriam Morgan, born July 13,
1739, died October 13, 1809. Their chil-
dren were : Miriam, Simon, of further
mention : Levi, Rachel. Letitia, Barnabas,
Roger and Mercy.
Simon Brooks, son of Israel and Miriam
(Morgan) Brooks, was born November
27. 1760. and died May 31. 1856. He mar-
ried (first) Hannah Owen, (second)
Theodosia Day. Their children were:
Elijah. Samuel Morgan, Jonathan, of fur-
ther mention: Hannah, Mary and Deb-
orah.
Jonathan Brooks, son of Simon Brooks,
was born in West SpringTield. Massaclru-
setts, February 10. 1796. and died in Au-
gust. 1869. He married Angelina Ring,
and they were the parents of: George,
Reuben. John Ring, Ethan, of further
mention ; Simon and Angelina.
Ethan Brooks, son of Jonathan and An-
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gelina (Ring) Brooks, was born in West
Springfield, Massachusetts, January lo,
1832. He married, January i, 1856, Han-
nah Mather Bagg. They were the par-
ents of two daughters : Harriet Loraine,
married Daniel P. Cole ; Lucy Bagg, mar-
ried Edwin C. Weiser, of previous men-
tion.
JOHNSON, Irving Lincoln,
Detective, Criminologist.
After a career of notable success in his
chosen profession as a detective, Irving
Lincoln Johnson, retired, is making his
home in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Thor-
oughly versed in the arts of pursuing and
capturing criminals, it may be said that
few men in this line of work have con-
tributed more to the protection of society
and the prevention of crime, as well as
the seeking out and prosecution of
offenders against the law. Mr. Johnson
comes of old English stock. His ancestors
in various lines are traced to the pioneers
of New England.
(I) Edmund Johnson, the first of the
family in this country, was born in Eng-
land. In 1635, at the age of twenty-three,
he and his wife Mary sailed from London
in the ship "J^n^^s." They hailed from
Romsey, England. In 1639 he was living
in Hampton, New Hampshire, where he
received grants of land from time to time.
Children: Peter, baptized 1639; John,
baptized May, 1641 ; James, mentioned
below.
(II) James Johnson, son of Edmund
Johnson, was born in Hampton, New
Hampshire, in 1643, ^"^ ^^^^ June 16,
1715. He married at Hampton, March 26,
1673, Sarah Daniels, who died in 1718, a
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Daniels.
He was a millwright, living at Hampton
and at Kittery, Maine. Children, born at
Hampton : James, mentioned below ;
Samuel, born August 18, 1678; John,
1679; Dorcas, June, 1681 ; Hannah ; John,
July, 1687; Mary, November 4, 1688;
Benjamin, November 22, 1691 ; John, Oc-
tober 27, 1694.
(III) James (2) Johnson, son of James
(i) Johnson, was born at Hampton, New
Hampshire, February 4, 1677, and died
November 6, 1752. He married at Hamp.-
ton, November 10, 1698, Elizabeth Mason,
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ward)
Mason. She was born at Hampton, May
5, 1674. He had part of the old home-
stead. Children, born at Hampton:
Dorcas, born December 19, 1699; Benja-
min, mentioned below ; Jonathan, born
May 6, 1706; Joseph, March 9, 1709;
James, May 4, 1713; Mary, February 22,
1717; Elisha, March 27, 1720.
(IV) Benjamin Johnson, son of James
(2) Johnson, was born at Hampton, New
Hampshire, in 1702. He married, June
22, 1727, Bethia, daughter of John and
Bethia (Tuck) Marston. She was born in
Hampton, November 17, 1704. He moved
to Epping, New Hampshire, and bought
land of Israel Oilman. This land he after-
ward deeded to his sons. James and Ben-
jamin. He was highway surveyor and
fence viewer; assessor in 1748-49; con-
stable in 1757. Children, with dates of
baptism: Sarah, November 24. 1728;
Bethia, January 4, 1730; Elizabeth, Janu-
ary 2, 1732; Abia, August 12. 1733; Ben-
jamin, September 14, 1735 ; Mary and
James, October 22, 1738; John, mentioned
below; Huldah, October 2, 1743; Susan,
May 18, 1746.
(V) John Johnson, son of Benjamin
Johnson, was born in 1741, baptized at
Hampton, New Hampshire. June 14, 1741.
He married (first) Abigail Morrison, born
at Epping, August 5, 1744, died at San-
bornton, in 1777, a daughter of Bradbury
and Elizabeth (Badger) Morrison. He
married (second) April 23, 1778, in San-
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bornton, Molly Smith, born at Epping,
January 22,, 1763. died at Sanbornton,
September 12, 182S. John Johnson lived
at Epping until 1775-76. It is said that he
was a soldier in the Revolution. He cer-
tainly was in Sanbornton in 1776, when
he signed the Association Test. He was
a carpenter. Children : Benjamin, born
1764, soldier in the Revolution ; Bradbury,
1766, carpenter, settled in Maine; Simon,
May 14. 1768; John, mentioned below;
Abigail, born 1772; Bethia, 1779; Elisha,
resided in Belfast and Knox, Maine ;
Polly, 1785 ; Brackett, 1787; Sally, May 6,
1789; Rachel Short, August i. 1792;
Ebenezer, 1794. went West; Zebulon
Smith, November 4. 1796; Sylvester,
1799; Amos, 1803, went West; Stephen,
1805. miller in Laconia, New Hampshire ;
Lydia Norris, February 28. 1808.
(VI) John (2) Johnson, son of John
(i) Johnson, was born in Hampton, New
Hampshire, September 22, 1769, and died
August 27, 1855. His wife. Rachel John-
son, died June 16, 1865. Among their
children was Nehemiah, mentioned be-
low.
(\'II) Nehemiah Johnson, son of John
(2) Johnson, was born in Maine. He
resided for a time at Damariscotta, later
removed to Freedom, where Elisha John-
son, brother of John (2) Johnson, was an
early settler. He had a cousin, Rev.
Ephraim Johnson, of Burnham. Maine,
for whom he named his son Ephraim,
mentioned below. His principal occupa-
tion was lumbering, making a specialty
of ship timber. He married Hannah
Brown.
(VIII) Ephraim Johnson, son of Nehe-
miah and Hannah (Brown) Johnson, was
born at Freedom, Maine. August 2, 1840.
He was educated there in the common
schools, and learned the trade of wheel-
wright and carriage maker. For some
thirty years or more he was engaged in
carriage making, and had a wheelwright
shop in the town of Thorndike, Maine.
For some years he was postmaster. He
was active in public affairs and a citizen
of prominence. He is now living at Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts. He is a Republican
in politics. Mr. Johnson married Mary
H. Hussy, born April 15, 1841. daughter
of Lincoln S. and Abigail (Gould) Hussy,
of Unity, Maine, and a granddaughter of
Peter Hussy, descendant of many of the
first settlers in Maine and New Hamp-
shire. Children of Ephraim and Mary
H. Johnson : Irving Lincoln, mentioned
below, and Omar Harry, born August 2,
1877, died in 1909.
(IX) Irving Lincoln Johnson, son of
Ephraim and Mary H. (Hussy) Johnson,
was born in Brooks, Maine. August 16,
1873. He removed to Thorndike with his
parents when he was but four years old,
and received his early education there in
the public schools. His early life in this
little Maine village ran parallel with the
farmers' sons who were his playmates and
school companions, but early in life he
became interested in criminalogy, a sub-
ject that he studied earnestly, creating
for himself a profession that soon called
him away from the scenes of his youth.
Beginning life as a detective, he proved at
the outset that he possessed the ability
and natural gifts for this occupation. He
went wherever duty called him. from city
to city, and for many years knew the
meaning of the word home only from
memories of his boyhood home. His
duties took him in the course of time to
ever^- State in the L^nion and to many
places abroad. He has had the perilous
duty of running down southern moon-
shiners in the South and of bringing noted
criminals home from Europe. His adven-
tures would supply material for a thrill-
ing book, and perhaps no detective living
has had more narrow escapes from death
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in the pursuit of his vocation. Since 191 1,
however, he has made his home in PIol-
yoke, and he has avoided his former in-
tense activity, though by no means retired
permanently from his profession. Always
interested in public affairs, and a Repub-
lican in his political beliefs, Mr. Johnson
has retained a degree of independence,
avoiding office himself, but exerting his
influence for the men and principles he
believed for the greatest good of the
greatest number. He is a member of all
the Masonic bodies up to and including
the thirty-second degree, and is well
known and highly esteemed in Masonic
circles in all parts of the country.
He married, April 4, 191 1, Minnetta
Koegel, daughter of Charles F. and Wil-
helmina P. (Merkel) Koegel, of Holyoke.
HAMMOND, William Churchill,
Organist, Choirmaster.
To few men has it been given to real-
ize their ideals of usefulness along the
lines they dreamed as has been the
happy lot of William Churchill Ham-
mond, professor of music at Mount Hol-
yoke College, organist and choirmaster
of the Second Congregational Church,
organist and choirmaster of Skinner
Memorial Chapel, and purveyor of mu-
sic to the people. As a youth he had
a vision of bringing music to every-
body, of opening wide the ways to it
so that every man, woman and child
would share it. He wanted it to be a
part of his life work that music in Hol-
yoke, his adopted city, could be had for
the asking, and it is a matter of the ex-
amination of statistics only to prove that
he has accomplished the ambition his
generous inclusive love of mankind in-
spired. So much has he done, so gener-
ously has he given of his time and talents,
that when he closed the recital season in
the spring of 1916 he had given C25 free
public recitals on the great organ of the
Second Congregational Church attended
by not less than 350,000 listeners. Is
there another such record of free organ
recitals in any city of the United States
by any church organist with no additional
remuneration? While he was connected
with Smith College of Music he gave
fifty free recitals on the college organ,
and during the twelve years' connection
with the music department of Holyoke
College, 1902-15, he gave 125 free recitals
on the Whiting organ. In the towns
around Holyoke he has given 75 recitals
to dedicate new organs, often at events
when music and charity were combined,
his services being always donated. And
this is but a small part of what he has
done for music and music lovers. He has
performed his regular duties as church
organist and head of a college music de-
partment; has conducted a great chorus
choir and built up such a feeling of co-
operation in the church that all expenses
connected with the free organ recitals is
borne by the church which supports Pro-
fessor Hammond in any program he may
suggest. So his boyish hopes have ended
in fruition, and from the ''Valley of Am-
bition'' he has climbed to the mountain
top.
Professor Hammond traces his ancestry
to Thomas Hammond, who came to this
country in 1636 and settled in Xewton.
Massachusetts. In England the name is
traced to the Conquest, and on the Roll
of Battle Abbey the name of Hammond
is found. The name as a surname is de-
rived from the given name Homo, and
as Hamo, Hamon and Hammond is re-
peatedly found in "Domesday Book."
Thomas Hammond, American ancestor,
was a son of Thomas Hammond, who
died in Lakenham. England, in 1589, and
is believed to have been a grandson of
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John llaniniond, a clothier. Thomas (i)
Hammond married, 1573, Rose Trippe,
the mother of Thomas (2) Hammond
Thomas (2) Hammond married, in Eng-
hind, ITizabeth Cason or Carson, and
with his family came to Massachusetts
in i(>i(y, settling at Newtown. He evi-
dently prospered as at his death his estate
inventoried 1,139 pounds. Thomas and
ITizabeth Hammond had children: Eliza-
beth. Thomas (3), Sarah and Xahum.
Thomas (3) Hammond, born in England
in 1643. married Elizabeth Stedman, De-
cember 17, i6()2, and had children: Eliza-
beth. Thomas, Isaac and Sarah (twins),
Nathaniel, John, I-llcazer. Isaac Ham-
mond, born December 20, 1668, married
Ann Hardwick and had children: Mar-
garet, Isaac. Josiah, Hannah, Jonathan,
Esther and Elijah. I-liijah Hammond,
born October 7. 1711. married Mary
Kingsbury and had children: Nathaniel,
Hannah, Priscilla. Nathaniel Hammond,
born in 1733. married Dorothy Tucker
and had children: Jason, Candau, Elijah,
Samuel, Eli, Mary, Allen, Calvin, Alvin.
]'"lijah Hammond, born in 1760, married
Martha Strong and had children: Elijah,
J(jsiah. Martha, Justus S., Allen, Mary
and Joseph Churchill. Elijah Hammond,
the father, was a prominent man in Ver-
ntm. Connecticut, was active in church
v.(jrk, the Hammond Church being a re-
ligious centre. The preceding generations
had all resided in Newton, Massachusetts,
but with this generation Vernon, Con-
necticut, became the family home.
Joseph Churchill Hammond was born
in i.So<>, died 1878. He was a man of edu-
cation and for a time taught the Vernon
School. Later he entered the employ of
the Haywood Rubl)cr Company at Col-
cliester, Connecticut, then a small con-
cern which he saw grow to be one of the
large rul)I)er manufacturing comjianies of
the country controlling many mills. At
the time of his death he was general man-
ager of the company, a position he had
held for many years. He was an active,
virile man, prominently interested in all
town afYairs, was a close friend of Gov-
ernor lUickingham with whom he was
associated in the rubber manufacturing
business, gave generously to the poor and
was noted for his charitable, benevolent
disposition. He gave an organ to the
Congregational church and was a devoted
Christian, showing forth his faith by his
works. He married Abbie Johanna Hub-
bard and had children : Samuel Hubbard,
Daniel Hubbard, Joseph Churchill (2),
and David Green.
Joseph Churchill (2) Hammond was
born in Colchester, Connecticut, Decem-
ber 15, 1836, died in Rockville, Connecti-
cut, August 22, 1913. He was educated
in Bacon Academy, Colchester, and com-
pleted his studies at the famous Hall
School in Ellington. In 185 1 he began
his business career in the drug store of
Lee & Osgood, Norwich, Connecticut, re-
maining four years. He then went to
Europe with a former classmate, Captain
E. C. Weeks, and on his return entered
the employ of the Hayward Rubber Com-
pany as shipping clerk in the Providence
of^ces of the company. In 1857 he en-
tered the service of the New England
Mill at Rockville, Connecticut, and in
1859 located permanently in Rockville.
He was bookkeeper for the New England
Mill until 1877 ^"d ^^^ several years act-
ing treasurer. He was also secretary of
the Rockville Aqueduct Company from
its reorganization in 1866 until 1893. and
upon the organization of the Rockville
Water & Aqueduct Company, he became
its secretary-treasurer, dual positions he
held until his death. In 1880 he perfected
and patented the "King B" buckle used
as a fastener on Arctic overshoes and or-
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to control its manufacture. He was gen-
eral manager and treasurer of the com-
pany and until 1892 pushed the sale of the
buckle until it was adopted by the leading
manufacturers of Arctic overshoes. In
1892 the business was sold to the United
States Rubber Company. He was for
many years secretary and treasurer of
the Rockville National Bank and the
Rockville Savings Bank, and treasurer
and trustee of the Rockville Public Li-
brary, trustee of the Rockville Free Read-
ing Room, and secretary and treasurer of
the Rockville Hotel Company. In 1878
he represented the town of Vernon in the
General Assembly, serving on important
committees and aiding the progress of
Legislation on the floor of the Flouse.
He was one of the founders of the local
branch of the Connecticut State Humane
Society, and for thirty years was the
Rockville agent of the society. He was
a lover of music and himself a good mu-
sician. One of Rockville's noted organ-
izations, the Hammond Silver Drum
Corps, composed of boys between the
ages of ten and sixteen years, was organ-
ized by Mr. Hammond in 1876; this was
named for him and became famous
throughout New England.
Mr. Hammond married, December 21,
1859, Catherine Isham Burr, born in Au-
burn. New York, March 22, 1841, died at
Rockville, Connecticut, August 2, 1907.
She was a daughter of Henry Burr, who
was born August 8, 1806; was the Boston
representative of the Haywood Rubber
Company for many years; he married, in
1827. Lucretia Isham. of Colchester, Con-
necticut. Henry Burr was a descendant
in the seventh American generation of
the family founded by John Burr, who
came from England with Winthrop's fleet
in 1630, settled in Roxbury, Massachu-
setts, moved to what is now Springfield,
in 1636, then settled in Fairfield, Connec-
ticut, where he attained important rank
and where he died in 1672. Horace Burr,
grandfather of Catherine isham (Burr)
Hammond, was a prominent man in
Hartford, Connecticut, and served as
president of the Hartford National Bank.
Mrs. Hammond removed to Colchester,
Connecticut, during her girlhood, and
there resided until her marriage to Mr.
Hammond, whereupon they took up theii-
residence in Rockville. Connecticut, that
city being her home until her death, forty-
eight years hence. She was a leader in
the social, charitable and musical life of
Rockville, where she was widely known
and loved. She was a woman of rare
charm and lovely personality, modest and
refined, and her nature was so rare that
words are feeble in expressing the loveli-
ness of her character. When Mr. Ham-
mand first came to Holyoke to serve as
organist at the Second Congregational
Church, she spent considerable time in
that city, and in later years spent con-
sider time at South Fladley. There she
drew about her a wide circle from the
faculty and student body at Mount Hol-
yoke College, the students at that time
wishing that there might be a permanent
Mrs. Hammond among them, for sympa-
thetic, inspiring friendship. She was one
of the choicest types of New England
bred gentlewomen, her nature, culture
and refinement of manner being deepened
by her strong character. She was most
deeply interested in the musical career
of her son, William C. Hammond, and
she was a great inspiration to him. She
was active in all entertainments for the
church, as well as social affairs, and her
exquisite taste in arranging tableaux and
statuary for stage effects was extremely
artistic. The Christmas season was a
happv time for her. because of her joy in
giving, and each year many homes were
gladdened with bundles and baskets of
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good cheer sent throu^^h her generosity. setts, his home, hrst becoming organist
Not a case of sorrow or misfortune came of the Second Congregational Church, in
to her knowledge hut it was borne in her 1885. He was instructor of organ music
heart, and not only that, her purse strings at Smith's College from 1899 until 1900,
opened, and with intuition rare, she and since 1900 has been Professor of
seemed to feel just the assistance needed. Music at Mount Holyoke College. His
The loss to her own circle in her death professional standing is of the highest,
could not be e.xpressed in words, and the and dating from the day he first became
friends who mourned her in Holyoke, also organist of the Congregational church at
those in other towns, where she had Rockville has licen one of continuous suc-
stayed temporarily felt that a beautiful cess. His second engagement was as
life had ended. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond organist of Pearl Street Church, Hart-
were the parents of two sons: William ford, his connection with the Second Con-
Churchill, of whom further ; and Charles gregational Church of Holyoke begin-
Ilenry. born September 16, 1863; he re- ning. as stated above, in 1885.
sided in Rockville. Connecticut, where for The professional reputation Professor
many years he was associated with his Hammond has attained rests upon a
father in business, and now (1917) is re- secure basis, and he has freely given to
siding in S])ringfield. the public service that which a fortune
William Churchill Hammond, of the could not have bought. The free organ
ninth American generation of his family, recitals given in Holyoke and elsewhere
eldest son of Joseph Churchill and Cath- have been enumerated, but the mere fact
erine Isham (P.urr) Hammond, was born that he has in that way added to the
in Rockville, Connecticut, November 25, pleasure of more than a quarter of a mil-
1860. After graduation from Rockville lion people is perhaps subordinate to the
High School, he began the development spirit he has inspired among all churches
of his early manifested musical talent, of the city, institutions and individuals,
and under the best teachers acquired pro- and by glowing example taught them the
ficiency on the pipe organ, his principal way to make church, society or home
instructors having been N. H. Allen, of doubly attractive.
Hartford, and S. P. Warren, of New York Professor Hammond came to the Sec-
City. This was not the work of the ond Congregational Church, young, joy-
moment to be laid aside in favor of other ous and enthusiastic, but beyond his con-
activities, but the settled jiurpose and ception of music as an art was that strain
professional ambition of an earnest young of the practical, a heritage from his dis-
man deeply in love with his art, desirous tinguished New England ancestors, so he
to make his talent a blessing to his com- began at once to plan, and soon to execute
munity. The years have brought him those plans with the result as here shown.
fame, and perhaps nothing during his pro- A free organ recital in a then so small a
fessional career has given him more genu- city as Holyoke was a new departure, but
ine pleasure than the free organ recitals Professor Hammond carefully nurtured
he has given to his old friends and neigh- the idea. He brought to the recitals solo-
bors upon his often recurring visits to ists of note, himself paying the expenses
Rockville. his birthplace and the home of of these out-of-town artists and bearing
his youth. the cost of furnishing programs. He en-
He early made Holyoke, Massachu- countered opposition from some of the
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church members, who regarded the pew
they paid for as their exclusive property
and objected to the church being used by
a public who did nothing to support it.
but these were in the minority, and there
were many broadminded men of vision
among the membership who saw with the
leader, and from the Second Congrega-
tional Church has gone out such a spirit
that now there is not a member that is
not proud to throw his or her influence
toward furthering Professor Hammond's
work. Now the church bears all the ex-
penses connected with the recitals. As a
further testimonial the first organ was
rebuilt, this occurrence taking place twice
since. The last time, to fitly honor the
silver anniversary of the leader coming
to them, a double organ was built, the
echo organ being placed in the rear of
the church. With the completion of
Skinner Memorial Chapel, during the
early winter of 1912, the music of the
Second Church rose to greater heights,
the especial feature of the beautiful chapel
being the organ which, placed in a setting
that adds to the beauty of the music, can
be played in connection with the double
organ in the church.
The first week's services in the chapel
ended with a Saturday afternoon free
organ recital at which hardly half of the
throng of people who came could be ac-
commodated, and here Professor Ham-
mond saw another opportunity to make
his art a still greater blessing to the
people. Saturday afternoon was a holi-
day to the army of mill workers and he
then and there inaugurated a series of
free recitals for their benefit, he presid-
ing at organ, and Joseph Skinner bearing
all expenses incident thereto. The large
attendance at these Saturday afternoon
recitals and the fact that they continue
is evidence that they are appreciated by
those for whose benefit they are given.
The vocal department of the church
music has kept pace with the instrumen-
tal, and a great chorus choir joins with
the organ in the grand anthems of praise.
Professor Hammond at the organ also be-
ing the choir master. For many years an
annual event has been the Christmas con-
certs of the combined choirs of the Sec-
ond Church and Mount Holyoke College,
an event that may be said to have a
nation-wide reputation, as the program is
distributed from coast to coast and used
as a model in great musical centers. This
concert never fails to crowd the Second
Church. And as further evidence of the
spirit that permeates and influences the
church the fact is cited that for many
years it has been used also annually for
the concert given by Professor Cartier's
violin students, about one hundred in
number, all playing in conjunction with
the great organ, this event also taxing the
seating capacity of the church.
Professor Hammond is a fellow of the
Guild of American Organists, and in
more recent years, w^ith the chorus, he
has arranged notable services in the
series of concerts given by the Guild.
This record of vicarious service would
constitute a worthy life record, but to it
must be added his regular duties as head
of a college department of music and as
organist and choir master of church and
chapel at regular services and rehearsals.
Professor Hammond could not have ac-
complished all that he has for Holyoke
had he been the musician alone. It is
the many-sided man, large-hearted and
far-visioned. with a genuine love of his
fellow men that reaches far beyond organ
loft or chorus choir, which has enabled
him to do so much for his community.
Among men he is a force for broad-
minded, liberal giving out of earth's bless-
ings to those otherwise destitute of them.
Personally one of the happiest, sunniest
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of men, he radiates a good cheer that dis-
pels all gloom or friction, numbering liis
friends wherever he is known. On April
2S, 191 5. the church gave one day to the
celebration of his thirty years' service as
organist of the church, and the following
invitation was sent broadcast throughout
the L'nited State:
A Complimcntar)' Organ Recital will he given
in the
Second Congregational Church
Holyoke, Massachusetts
on April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred fifteen
in affectionate appreciation of the faithful
service of
William Churchill Hammond
who fur thirty years as Organist and Choirmaster
has enlarged the influence of the church and
through his recitals extended the ministry of his
music to people of all creeds and of all walks in
life becoming thereby deservedly known as a rare
master of a great art, a leader in his profession,
an inspiring teacher and a friend of the people.
You arc invited to be present.
Professor Hammond married Fannie
Bliss Reed, only daughter of the Rev.
Edward Allan Reed, D. D., long pastor
o^ the Second Congregational Church, of
Holyoke, and his wife, Mary Ann (Bliss)
Reed. They are the parents of two sons:
William Churchill, Jr., born July 4, 1903 ;
Lansing X'andcr Hyden. born April 2,
1906.
MACKINTOSH, Donald,
Manufacturer.
The name Donald Mackintosh was one
well known in business life in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
through a long term of years. Donald
Mackintosh, the father, was a merchant
of Fdinl)urgli. Scotland; Donald Mackin-
tosh, the son, a manufacturer of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, was president of D. Mack-
intosh Sons Company. The sterling vir-
tues of the father were transmitted to the
son, ami in the fuller, freer business op-
l)ortunities of the New World bore full
fruit. Donald Mackintosh, the younger,
was a man of twenty-four years when he
came to the United States, and soon after
located in Holyoke. From the expert
dyer, he rose to a commanding position
as head of one of that city's most impor-
tant industrial enterprises, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the hand of misfortune
was heavily upon him more than once,
and the crises he passed through would
have daunted a less courageous soul. He
died in Holyoke, after a successful busi-
ness career. In the east transept of St.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church in
Holyoke, of which Donald Mackintosh
was one of the founders, is a beautiful
memorial window, a splendid example of
the opalescent glass art, placed there as
a monument to his memory.
Donald Mackintosh, the father, was
born in Killen, Perthshire, Scotland, died
in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was for
many years a merchant in his native city,
later moving to Edinburgh, where he con-
tinued in mercantile life until his death.
Donald (2) Mackintosh, son of Donald
(i) and Mary Mackintosh, was born in
Edinburgh. Scotland. 1819, died in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, September 27, 1902.
His only brother, James Mackintosh, died
in 1871. After completing his studies in
Edinburgh, Donald Mackintosh served
an apprenticeship of five years at the
dyer's trade in one of the best mills in
Paisley, Scotland, and became an expert
in blending colors and dyeing cloth. He
delved deep into the mysteries of his art,
and was as much the deep student of the
chemistry of colors and dyes as he was
the practical dyer for a purely commercial
result. From Paisley, he went to Leeds,
England, where for two years he w^as in
charge of a dyeing plant, going from
Leeds to Kidderminster as superintend-
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ent of the dyeing department of the
famous carpet manufacturing plant of
j. & G. Humphries. He remained super-
intendent of that department of the just-
ly famed Kidderminster Carpet Works
until 1843, when he met a representative
from the Hartford Carpet Company of
Connecticut, United States of America,
who had sent him abroad to secure the
services of a high-class dyer to place in
charge of their dyeing department. The
representative finally succeeded in mak-
ing satisfactory arrangements with Mr.
Mackintosh, and he came to the United
States. He continued in the employ of
the Hartford Carpet Company, in charge
of their dyeing department, for eight
years, when their entire plant was de-
stroyed by lire. Mr. Mackintosh then re-
turned to England, but was soon impor-
tuned by the Hartford Carpet Company
to again come to the United States to take
charge of a new plant they intended to
erect. He yielded to their very liberal
offer and came to the United States, but
the company was unable to forward its
plans for reorganization and rebuilding,
consequently had no occasion for the
services of the Scotch expert. While
sorely disappointed, Mr. Mackintosh
swallowed his chagrin and was soon in
receipt of an offer from the Hampden
Mills at Holyoke, Massachusetts, to take
charge of their dyeing department. He
accepted this offer and in 1854 assumed
the duties of his position. For twelve
years he continued as manager of the dye
plant at the Hampden Mills, then began
business in a small way under his own
name. He succeeded, and as he pros-
pered he enlarged his plant and was meet-
ing with success when his ancient enemy,
fire, swept his plant away and with it
all his accumulated wealth. Then his
Scotch determination and courage came
to his rescue, and ignoring the defeat he
had sustained, he quickly began prepara-
tions to retrieve his fallen fortunes. He
made his second start as a manufacturer
in Northampton, Massachusetts, but ere
long he returned to Holyoke, beginning
business on Bigelow street. There he
rapidly improved his position, the demon
of ill-fortune seemingly having been
appeased. Five years later the failure
of the Hampden Mills brought that prop-
erty into the market, and Mr. Mackintosh
became the purchaser of the mill in which
he had formerly been employed. To fi-
nance and operate so large a plant he
formed the D. Mackintosh Sons Com-
pany, his partners. Colonel John G. Mack-
intosh and Charles E. Mackintosh, his
sons.
Under the capable Mackintosh manage-
ment the Hampden Mills prospered as
never before, and there many of the pres-
ent methods of dyeing and manufactur-
ing were first introduced. An expert in
his own particular realm, dyeing, Mr.
Mackintosh, Sr., combined with that
knowledge an intimate acquaintance with
the best Scotch, English and American
methods of manufacture, and with the
aid of his capable partners the mills ran
without friction and the best results were
obtained. Dyeing raw cotton in bulk was
first practiced at the Hampden Mills by
Mr. Mackintosh, and many other im-
provements in the dyeing of cotton ma-
terials in time placed the plant among the
largest cotton dyeing mills of the coun-
try. The founder continued at the head
of D. Mackintosh Sons Company until
his death, and in all the realm of textile
manufacturing he had no superior.
He was one of the founders of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church in Holyoke, and
v.^as one of its wardens and ever a strong
pillar of support. He was of deeply do-
mestic nature, his home being the center
of his happiness. He was highly es-
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♦ecmed. and his upright, rugged honesty
;;nd purpose was apparent to even the
most casual acquaintance. He was in
the van of improvement and progress in
his own business, and left that business
far in advance of what he found it. He
was a true pioneer and blazed the way for
his successors.
Mr. Mackintosh married, in March,
1843, Hannah Underwood, born 1818,
died 1892, d^tighter of Benjamin Under-
wood, of Kidderminster, England. They
were the parents of four children : Colo-
nel John C, deceased ; James, deceased ;
Charles E. and Henrietta, of Holyoke.
Charles E. Mackintosh, born September
14. 1857, is president and treasurer of D.
Mackintosh Sons Company, vice-presi-
dent of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, di-
rector of the Springfield Safe Deposit
Company, president of the Nonotuck
Hotel Company, and interested in other
Holyoke enterprises. He married, in
1882, Carrie Chase, daughter of Nathan
Berkely and Sarah CBranscombe) Chase,
her father born in 1813, died in 1888, her
mother born in 1825, died in 1910. Re-
cently there w-as unveiled in the western
transept of St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
a beautiful memorial window in memory
of the long years of devoted service Mr.
and Mrs. Chase had given to that church.
The window, a companion work of art
for the Mackintosh window in the east
transept of the church, is a gift from Mrs.
Carrie (Chase) Mackintosh and her sister,
Jessie Sarah Chase. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
E. Mackintosh are the parents of the fol-
lowing children: i. Donald Chase, born
September 19. 1885, general manager of
D. Mackintosh Sons Company ; married,
October 15, 1910, Helen Louise Cook,
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, daughter of
Charles W. and Emma (Still) Cook;
children: Janet, born March 12. 1914,
and Donald, born September 9, 1915. ii.
Helen, became the wife of Paul Sturs-
burg, deceased, ii. Malcolm E. iv. Jessie
C. V. Henrietta.
BRAINERD, George Wilson,
Paper Manufacturer.
George Wilson Brainerd, treasurer of
the American Pad and Paper Company
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, who has been
for over twenty years connected with the
paper industry of that city, comes of one
of the oldest and most prominent families
of the old Connecticut colony.
(I) Daniel Brainerd, his immigrant
ancestor, was born in England, probably
at Braintree, County Essex, and was
brought to this country when he was
about eight years old. He lived with the
Wadsworth family in Hartford, Connec-
ticut, until 1662, when he took up land
on his own account, and settled at Had-
dam. in the wilderness. His children
were baptized at Middletown, eight miles
away. He became a leading citizen,
serving in the offices of constable, sur-
veyor, fence view^er, assessor and justice
of the peace, and on various town com-
mittees to lay out land. He was elected
commissioner by the General Assembly
in 1669, and was a representative in the
Legislature. For many years he was
deacon of the Haddam church, at a time
when the office of deacon was bestowed
upon the foremost citizens only. His
home was on what is now Main street,
east of the river. He died at Haddam,
April I, 191 5, aged seventy-four years
and was buried in the old graveyard a
few rods east of the court house.
Deacon Brainerd married (first) Han-
nah Spencer, who was born in 1641, and
died in 1691, a daughter of Gerrard and
Hannah Spencer. He married (second)
March 30. 1693, Elizabeth (Wakeman)
Arnold, a daughter of Samuel and Eliza-
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beth Wakeman. Her father died in the
Bahama Islands in 1641. He married
(third) November 29, 1698, Hannah
(Spencer) Sexton, who was born April
25, 1653, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah
Spencer, and widow of George Sexton.
Children, all by his first wife : Daniel,
born March 2, 1665-66; Hannah, Novem-
ber 20, 1667 ; James, June 2, 1669 ; Joshua,
July 20, 1671-72; William, March 30,
1673-74; Caleb, November 20, 1675-76;
Elijah, mentioned below; Hezekiah, May
24, 1680-81.
(II) Elijah Brainerd, son of Daniel
Brainerd, was born in Haddam, Connec-
ticut, in 1678, and remained in his native
town, following farming for his vocation.
He married (first) September 28, 1699,
Mary Bushnell, born March 10, 1675, died
September 11, 1735: (second) September
6, 1738, Margaret . He died April
20, 1740. Children, all by his first wife:
Mary, born June 20, 1700; Abigail, June
20, 1702; Joseph, June 21, 1704; Elijah,
mentioned below; Thankful, July 2, 1709;
Rachel. May 13, 1712; Jabez, February
19, 1714-15; Esther, August 16, 1717;
Phineas, October 17, 1720.
(III) Elijah (2) Brainerd, son of Elijah
(i) Brainerd, was born at Haddam, Con-
necticut, September 22, 1706. He also
became one of the foremost citizens of
his native town. He was made ensign
of the Eleventh Company, Seventh Regi-
ment of the Connecticut province in Octo-
ber, 1747, commissioned lieutenant of the
same company in 1754, and did valiant
service in the French and Indian wars.
He was elected deacon of the Haddam
church, an office that his grandfather had
filled before him, and continued in this
honorable post until the time of his death.
He died at Haddam. May 9, 1764. He
married, April 4, 1732, Phebe Bailey
(other records give her name as Davis).
She died about 1791, and her estate was
settled April 4, 1791. Children, born at
Haddam: Elisha, born March 7, 1733;
Elijah, September 5, 1734; Prosper, Janu-
ary 6, 1736-37; Mary, February 3, 1737-
38; Zachariah, February 6, 1741-42; Sus-
annah, February 6, 1744-45 ; Timothy,
May 23, 1746, died young; Mindwell, Oc-
tober 7, 1748; Martha, January 21, 1751 ;
Timothy, mentioned below.
(IV) Timothy Brainerd, son of Elijah
(2) Brainerd, was born at Haddam, Con-
necticut, April 2, 1754. He was a soldier
in the Revolutionary War, marching with
his company at the time of the Lexington
Alarm,, April 19, 1775, and remaining in
the service for two years. He was a pri-
vate in the Eighth Company, Colonel
Huntington's regiment, Connecticut, in
1775, and served at the siege of Boston,
stationed at Roxbury, Massachusetts, and
also in coast duty along Long Island
Sound in Connecticut. In 1776 he was
one of this regiment which went into the
Continental service. He was granted a
pension, March 4, 1831, for his service in
the war. He was a blacksmith by trade
and worked in East W'indsor and Lyme
as well as Haddam. He removed to
Palmer, ^lassachusetts, about 1772, and
set up a blacksmith shop, making scythes,
axes and other farming tools and doing a
prosperous business. He also had a farm
and at last accounts it was still owned by
his descendants. He died September 29,
1834. He married, in 1783, Sarah Wilson,
of Shelburne, Franklin county, Massachu-
setts. She was born October 19, 1765,
and died March 19, 1839. Children, born
at Palmer: Margaret, born March 20,
1784; Phebe, January 6, 1786; Sarah, Au-
gust 26, 1787; Phebe, July 25, 1789; Lucy,
January 31, 1793 ; Timothy, mentioned be-
low ; Amy, June i, 1796; Mary, June 16,
1798; Mindwell, August 9, 1800; Betsey,
July 8, 1803; Wilson, February 22, 1806.
(V) Timothy (2) Brainerd, son of
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Timothy (i) Brainerd, was born at
Fainter, Massachusetts, May 13, 1794. He
settled in Enfield, Massachusetts, and was
deacon of the Congregational church
there. He died February 3, 1876. He
married, December 9, 1819, Sophronia
Crosby, born July 28, 1797, died Decem-
ber 12, 1879, a daughter of the Rev.
Joshua and Lydia (Terry) Crosby, of En-
field. They had one child, John Crosby,
mentioned below.
(\T) John Crosby Brainerd, son of
Timothy (2) Brainerd, was born at En-
field, Massachusetts, October 23, 1820,
and was associated with his father as a
farmer some years, then went to Warren,
where he was engaged in the insurance
business, after which he removed to Am-
herst, Massachusetts, where he continued
in the same business and where he died
in 1906. He married, October 4, 1848,
Mary J. Lowell, born January 17, 1830,
died May, 1904, a daughter of John and
Maria (Lyman) Lowell, of Ware. Mas-
sachusetts. Children, born at Amherst:
Ellen Maria, born January 24, 1850, died
April 27, 1854; George Wilson, mentioned
below ; .Arthur Lyman, born December 4,
1870, in South Orange, New Jersey.
(VH) George Wilson Brainerd, son of
John Crosby Brainerd, was born at W'ar-
ren, Massachusetts, December 3, 1858.
He received his early education in the
public schools of his native town, com-
pleting his preparation for college in the
Hitchcock Free High School at Brimfield,
then entered Amherst College and gradu-
ated in the class of 1881 with the deg^-ee
of Bachelor of Arts. After teaching
school at West Stockbridge, Massachu-
setts, for two years, he turned to news-
paper work, beginning on the staff of the
Springfield "Union." Here he remained
until 1882, when he took a position on the
Holyoke "Herald." Like most ambitious
young journalists, he enjoyed the work of
a reporter, but accepted a promising
opportunity in business. It has been said
that there is no better training for a busi-
ness man than a few years of reporting
on a daily newspaper. During the next
four years he was a bookkeeper in the
office of the Chemical Paper Company at
Holyoke, at the end of which time he
resigned and acquired an interest in the
American Pad Company. Here he re-
mained two years, when he disposed of
his interest and removed to Boston to
become bookkeeper for the firm of
Turner, Clark & Rawson, a position
that he filled for four years. The fol-
lowing year he was with Hutchinson
& Company, wool dealers of Boston, in
the counting room. He was then, for
about a year, engaged in the insurance
business as agent of various fire and life
insurance companies with offices in Bos-
ton.
In 1894 he returned to the paper busi-
ness in Holyoke. The American Pad
Company was incorporated under the
name of the American Pad and Paper
Company, and in 1894 he was elected a
director and secretary, and held this until
1904, w'hen he was made treasurer of the
corporation, and since then he has con-
tinued to administer its affairs, and has
been a prime factor in the development
and growth of this concern, to which he
has devoted himself with characteristic
energy and industry. In addition to his
position in the above company, Mr.
Brainerd is one of the trustees of the
People's Savings Bank of Holyoke. He
is active in church and charities, and is a
deacon of the Congregational church. He
is a member of various clubs and the Chi
Phi college fraternity, and is prominent
in social circles. In politics he is a Re-
publican.
Mr. Brainerd married (first) July 26,
1883. Ella R. Savage, who was born at
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Paxton, Massachusetts, and died at Hol-
yoke, January i, 1910, a daughter of Seth
and Emma Ann (Granger) Savage. He
married (second) January 16, 1915, Susan
CaroHne Titcomb, a daughter of Edward
and Mary (Paine) Titcomb, of Barn-
stable, Massachusetts. Children by first
wife: I. George Winthrop, born at Au-
burndale, Massachusetts, September 29,
1889, attended public school at Holyoke,
entered Amherst College, graduating in
191 1 ; after spending five years in busi-
ness in Holyoke, he took a course in the
New York School of Philanthropy. 2.
Ruth Marie, born at Auburndale, January
14, 1893, graduated from the high school
of Holyoke, spent one year at Wheaton
Seminary, then went to the Teachers'
College in New York City.
BULLARD, WUliam H.,
Manufacturer.
Robert Bullard, the immigrant ances-
tor of this family, was born in England
in 1599, and died at Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, June 24, 1639, a few years after
he came to this country. His widow,
Anne Bullard, married (second) Henry
Thorpe. She was granted land in Water-
town in 1644. Henry Thorpe died May
21, 1673, and her children inherited his
estate. George Bullard, of Watertown,
Isaac Bullard, of Dedham, William Bul-
lard, of Watertown and Dedham, are be-
lieved to be brothers of Robert Bullard.
It is known that Robert Bullard had a
son Benjamin, mentioned below.
(II) Benjamin Bullard, son of Robert
Bullard, was born about 1634. After the
death of his father, he lived with an uncle
in Dedham. He was admitted a towns-
man of Boston, January i, 1655. He and
George Fairbanks were pioneers of Sher-
born, Massachusetts, as early as 1658.
Benjamin Bullard built his house to the
north of Bogistow pond. Soon afterward
he and his neighbors built a stone gar-
rison house as security against Indian
attack, on the shore of the pond near
Bullard's house. In this fort they were
once besieged by Indians, who attempted
to burn it by rolling a load of burning fiax
up to it, but the wagon was stopped by
a boulder, and the Indians finally retired
without succeeding in their attack. A
lineal descendant of Benjamin Bullard
still owns and cultivates the farm. Ben-
jamin Bullard signed the petition for the
incorporation of the town of Sherborn in
1662. He married (first) April 5, 1659,
at Dedham, Martha Pidge, born at Rox-
bury, January 12, 1642, daughter of
Thomas and Mary Pidge. He married
(second) in 1677, Elizabeth Thorpe,
daughter of Henry Thorpe. Children by
first wife : Elizabeth ; Mary, born Sep-
tember 14, 1663; Samuel, December 26,
1667; Benjamin, March i, 1670 (ancestor
of Eunice W. Bullard, who married Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher. She was a daugh-
ter of Dr. Artemas Bullard, granddaugh-
ter of Asa and great-granddaughter of
Benjamin Bullard, the third of the name
in direct line); Hannah, August 6, 1672;
Lieutenant Eleazer, June 2"], 1676. By
second wife : John, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, January 31, 1681 ; Mary, Feb-
ruary 20, 1683; Malachi, March 8, 1685;
Isaac, July 25, 1688.
(HI) John Bullard, son of Benjamin
Bullard, was born at Sherborn, Massa-
chusetts, March 7, 1678. He inherited
part of his father's estate in the north part
of Medway near the southeast corner of
what is now Holliston, and almost sur-
rounded by Bogistow brook. He mar-
ried Abigail Leland, daughter of Deacon
Hopestill Leland. Abigail Leland was
born February 17, 1683, married, January
7, 1702. Her father was a son of Henry
Leland, the Puritan, and grandson of
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Hopestill Leland, who died at Medfield in
1655, aged seventy-five years. Children :
Thankful, born at Medway ; John. May
16, 1705; Abigail. December 4. 1708;
Hannah, May 12. 1714: Mary, Xpril 7,
1717; Comfort. March 2. 1721 : Henry,
mentioned below.
(IV) Henry Bullard. son of John Bul-
lard, was born at Medway. Massachu-
setts, October i. 1723. He married,
March 14. 1745-46, Jemima Pond, who
died May 19, 1766; he married (second)
Abigail Morse, daughter of Nathaniel and
Sarah (Coolidge) Morse, granddaughter
of Joseph and Priscilla (Colburn) Morse.
John Morse, father of Joseph Morse, was
a son of the immigrant, Samuel ^lorse.
Children of Henry Bullard by first wife:
Mary, born October 14. 1746: Henry,
April 29, 1749; Adam. August 10, 1752;
John, November 28, 1756; Eli, November
16, 1758; Royal, April 21, 1762; Samuel,
May 15, 1766. By second wife: Abigail,
April II, 1773; Margaret, November i,
1775; Liberty, mentioned below; Amos,
February 25, 1780: Abigail, August 11,
1783-
(V) Liberty Bullard, son of Henry
Bullard. was born at Medway, Massachu-
setts, November 11. 1777, and died about
1848. He married (first) Abigail Learned ;
(second) Holbrook, of Belling-
ham. His first wife was a daughter of
Edward Learned, of Sherborn and Stur-
bridge, granddaughter of Captain Edward
and Sarah (Fuller) Learned, great-grand-
daughter of Deacon Benoni Learned by
his wife, Sarah (Fanning) Learned.
Isaac Learned, of Chelmsford, father of
Benoni Learned, married Mary Stearns.
He was a son of William Learned, the
pioneer at Charlestown. She died Feb-
ruary 29, 1808. Children by first wife:
Edward, mentioned below ; James, died
young ; James ; William. By second wife :
Abigail, Gilford, Aaron, Betsey, Hannah.
The family settled at New Salem, Massa-
chusetts.
(\T) Edward Bullard, son of Liberty
Bullard, was born at Medway, Massa-
chusetts, in May, 1800. He went in early
life with his father to New Salem, fol-
lowed farming in that town during all his
active life, and his death occurred there.
He married . Children :
Benjamin Francis, Lucinda, John H.,
mentioned below; Robert, Charles, San-
ford.
(VII) John H. Bullard, son of Edward
Bullard, was born in New Salem, Massa-
chusetts, in 1833, and died in Athol, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1892. In early life he was
a resident of Royalston, but about i860
removed to Athol, where he spent all the
later years of his life. He was a car-
penter and cabinet maker, a skillful me-
chanic. He was a member of the Aleth-
odist church, and a Republican in politics.
He married Lovina Elizabeth Jillson, who
was born in Richmond, New Hampshire,
daughter of Wheaton Jillson and grand-
daughter of Silas Jillson. Children :
\\'illiam Henry, mentioned below ; Ed-
ward E., born in Athol. who was drowned
soon after graduation from the high
school.
(VIII) William Henry Bullard. son of
John H. and Lovina Elizabeth (Jillson)
Bullard, was born in South Royalston,
Massachusetts, September 25, 1856. His
parents removed to Athol, same State, in
i860, and his education was acquired in
the schools of Athol and New Salem
Academy, where he was thoroughly pre-
pared for the active duties of life. During
young manhood he served in the capacity
of teacher in the schools of Petersham,
Massachusetts, and in those of Ashuelot
and Winchester, New Hampshire, his
work proving highly satisfactory, he
meeting all the requirements of the posi-
tion. In 1875 ^^ accepted a clerkship in
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a dry goods store in Athol, Massachu-
setts, and there familiarized himself with
that line of work, and in 1881, six years
later, removed to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, in which city he has since resided,
a period of three and a half decades. In
1887 he engaged in business on his own
account as a dry goods dealer and so con-
tinued until 1913, a period of over a
quarter of a century, and then disposed
of the same at an advantageous price. In
December, 1903, he established a business
known as the Bullard Thread Company,
under which name it operated until De-
cember, 1914, when it was changed to the
W. H. Bullard Thread Company of Hol-
yoke, of which Mr. Bullard is the sole
owner, and in the form,er named concern
he filled the offices of treasurer and agent.
The company are manufacturers of Char-
ter Oak products, which consist of Char-
ter Oak Best Six Cord Thread ; Charter
Oak Mercerized Crochet Cotton, Charter
Oak Spool Darning Cotton, Charter Oak
Ball Mending Cotton, Charter Oak 20
Ball Knitting Cotton. Charter Oak Mac-
rame Cord, Charter Oak Crochet Cord,
Charter Oak Crochet Twist, Charter Oak
Carpet Warp, Charter Oak Mercerized
Sea Island Embroidery Floss, all of which
are always reliable. The enterprise
proved successful from the outset, and
has steadily increased in volume and
importance, ranking now among the rep-
resentative business enterprises of Hol-
yoke, bringing to its owner a good finan-
cial return. It is needless to say to those
acquainted with his honorable business
career and his excellent executive ability
that every transaction is conducted on
strictly business lines and that he well
merits the confidence reposed in him.
Mr. Bullard is vice-president of the
Holyoke Cooperative Bank. In 1912-13
he was president of the Holyoke Cham-
ber of Commerce. He is a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
of the United Commercial Travelers' As-
sociation, of the Holyoke Club, the Canoe
Club, and the Mount Tom Golf Club. He
was president of the New Salem Alumni
Association in 1913-14-15. He is a mem-
ber of the Baptist church, interesting
himself in all that pertains to its welfare
and work.
Mr. Bullard married, August 25, 1880,
Evalyn B. Tandy, daughter of the Rev.
Lorenzo B. and Lucy Talbot (Stowell)
Tandy. Rev. Lorenzo B. Tandy was a
Baptist clergyman and had charges in
New Hampshire and Massachusetts ;
both he and his wife died in Newport,
New Hampshire ; she was born in Middle-
boro, Massachusetts. Children: i. Ralph
E., born April 12, 1882 ; commercial
traveler ; married Hazel Warner and has
one child, Marion, born July 7, 1908. 2.
Grace E., born October 2, 1892. 3. Irving
E., born January 29, 1896.
Mr. Bullard is a man of many sterling
characteristics, with a high standard of
citizenship, and with social qualities
which render him popular with his circle
of friends. His career has been char-
acterized by fidelity, honesty and enter-
prise, and as a business man, citizen and
Christian gentleman he commands the
respect and admiration of all with whom
he is associated.
MILLS, William Jay,
Business Man.
For over a quarter of a century Wil-
liam J. Mills has been a prominent figure
in the business life of Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, although the State of Connec-
ticut claims him as one of her native sons.
But he has for his adopted city all the
loyalty and love of a true son, and has
aided in the upbuilding of her commercial
greatness and business importance. He
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traces his ancestry to Holland, the name Peter (2) Mills, son of Peter (i) and
Mills being the English meaning of the Dorkas (Messinger) Mills, settled in
Dutch surname "Meulen." As his Dutch W'intonbury, Connecticut, where he died
ancestor won his title in perfecting the in 1754. He married, July 24, 1692, Joanna
peculiar dyke and canal system which Porter, born February 7, 1670. They were
have added so greatly to Holland's area the parents of eight sons and one daugh-
and prosperity, so this twentieth century ter. The eighth child was Rev. Eben-
descendant, by the exercise of the same ezer Mills, who studied theolog}- under
traits of character, has added to the up- the instruction of his brother, Rev. Jede-
building of the greater Holyoke. diah Mills, who for fifty-two years was
The progenitor of this branch of the pastor of a church at Repton, now Hunt-
Mills family in .\merica was Sir Wouters ington, Connecticut. The ninth child,
Van Der Meulen. of Amsterdam, Hoi- Gideon Mills, was prepared for college by
land. He won his knighthood from his his brother, the Rev. Jedediah ]\Iills, and
sovereign by rendering distinguished after graduating from Yale in .1737 was
public service in the improvement of the one of the Deans scholars at New Haven,
canal and dyke system of Holland. His was rector of Hopkins Grammar School
eldest son. Peter Van Der Meulen, born for ten months, then was licensed to
in Holland in 1622, came to Xew England preach and continued in the ministry until
from Leyden, where he was studying for his death, August 4, 1772. His son, Lieu-
the ministry at the university. About tenant Gideon Mills, married Ruth Hum-
1650 he joined the refugees who had come phrey, and their daughter, Ruth Mills,
to Leyden for "Conscience sake" from married Owen Brown, whose son, John
England, and thereby enraged his father Brown, was the "Liberator" whose "soul
who disinherited him. In "Colonial Rec- goes marching on."
ords," volume one (in the office of the Captain Peletiah Mills, eldest son of
Secretary of State, Hartford, Connecti- Peter and Joanna (Porter) IMills, was
cut), it is stated that by his own request born April 27, 1693. He practiced law
his name was changed to Peter Mills; and was a well known attorney of Win-
\'an der Meulen meaning, in the Dutch tonbury. He married, July 5, 1720, Mar-
language, "the man of the mill." It is tha Chapman, of Colchester, Connecticut.
not know that he ever lived in Hartford, They were the parents of two sons who
but on March 13, 1670, that town voted grew to manhood, Peletiah (2) and Eli-
to Thomas Shailler, "the lote that was jah.
Peter Milesa the donchemanes." He set- Peletiah (2) Mills, son of Captain Pele-
tled in Windsor, in that part now Bloom- tiah and Martha (Chapman) Mills, was
field, and as a "tailor" is frequently men- born in W'intonbury, Connecticut, Janu-
tioned in the manuscript of Rev. Timo- ary 9, 1723, and died there, July i, 1786.
thy Edwards, of East Windsor. He mar- He married. March 29, 1743, Hannah
ried (first) Dorkas Messinger, born Sep- Owen, who died January 26, 1806, aged
tember 2^. 1650, died May 18, 1688. He eighty-nine. Their sons: Peletiah (3),
married (second) December 10, 1691, moved to Johnstown, New York; Sam-
Jane Warren, of Hartford. He died April uel, to Colebrook, Connecticut; Eli and
17, 1710. leaving sons: Peter, of further Llihu, remained in Wintonbury.
mention ; Return and Ebenezer, and a Elihu Mills, youngest son and eighth
daughter Dorkas. child of Peletiah (2) and Hannah (Owen)
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Mills, was born in Wintonbury, Connec-
ticut, there was baptized in June, 1761,
and died in 1835 in Bloomfield. He was
a farmer of Bloomfield, and represented
that town in the General Assembly, 1815.
He married Hetty Allen, who died July
3, 1807, ag-ed forty-four. They were the
parents of two sons: Elihu, born Sep-
tember, 1793; and Ammi.
Ammi Mills, youngest son of Elihu and
Hetty (Allen) Mills, w^as born in Bloom-
field, Connecticut, in 1800, and died there
in 1848, a farmer. He married, Novem-
ber 16, 1826, Rebecca Loomis. daughter
of Jacob Loomis. Five of their nine chil-
dren died in childhood ; Susan R., Samuel
Jay, of further mention, Anson A. and
Gustavus D. lived to mature years.
Samuel Jay Mills, son of Ammi and
Rebecca (Loomis) Mills, was born in
Bloomfield. Connecticut, July 16, 1833,
and died June 5. 1915. At the age of
eighteen he became manager of the home
farm, and all his life was prominent in
town affairs, serving on the Board of
Selectmen in 1862, 1865 and 1868, once
being the candidate for both parties, al-
though his ow^n political faith was that of
the Democratic party. He was also town
treasurer for a term of eight years. He
was a member of the Masonic order, be-
longing to Hiram Lodge, of which he
was past master, and to Pythagoras
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Hart-
ford. He lived to the great age of eighty-
two years, a man highly esteemed and
universally respected. He married, No-
vember 8, 1854, Antoinette V. Whitmore,
born in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Septem-
ber 8, 1832. and is yet living in Bloom-
field. nearly eighty-five years of age.
daughter of Henry Whitmore. Mr. and
Mrs. Mills were the parents of two daugh-
ters: Harriet Virginia and Sadie Ruth,
both deceased, and of a son, William Jay.
William Jay Mills, only son of Samuel
Jay and Antoinette V. (Whitmore) Mills,
was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, De-
cember 15, 1859. After preparation in
the public schools, he entered Connecti-
cut Literary Institute at Sultield, and
after completing courses there attended
business college in Hartford. He began
his business career with the wholesale
house, George W. M. Reed & Company,
of New Haven, and for six years con-
tinued with that company. His next
move carried him far from his native
Connecticut and into a different line. He
went to New Orleans with the firm of
Reed & Smith, a wholesale oyster house,
operating largely in native waters and
shipping their product north. He spent
one year in the south, then returned to
New Haven and for another year was a
clothing clerk.
He had reached the age of twenty-nine
years, when in 1888 he entered into a
partnership with Lyman Besse as the
Besse-Mills Company, clothing merchants.
They opened a clothing store in West-
field, Massachusetts, and in 1890 opened
a similar store in Holyoke on the site of
the old Windsor Hotel. In 1900 they
completed the erection of the building
they now occupy at the corner of High
and Suffolk streets, and moved in the
same year. At the time of entering into
partnership with Mr. Besse, the latter
was operating a chain of twenty-one
clothing stores in different cities and
towns and in several of these Mr. Mills
has an interest. He has also since 1897
been buyer for the Besse stores, forty in
number, the largest syndicate in the
L^nited States. In 191 5, in company with
George P. B. Alderman, he erected the
Mills-Alderman block on High street,
Holyoke.
The business of the Besse-Mills Com-
pany in Holyoke has been a prosperous
one, and to its management Mr. Mills has
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given his energy and ability. He is pro-
gressive in his methods, and ranks with
the leading merchants of his city. In ad-
dition to his private business, he is vice-
president of the Commercial Trading
Company of Boston, a jobbing company.
His business quality has been thus tested
as buyer, retailer and wholesaler, and has
proven by every test to ring sound and
true. He is a member of the Holyoke
Chamber of Commerce : Mt. Tom Lodge.
Free and Accepted Masons ; Mt. Tom
Golf Club. Holyoke Club and the Second
Baptist Church.
Mr. Mills married. September 15. 1886,
Maria Louise Clarke, daughter of James
and Mary ( Gemmill ) Clarke, her father
born in England, coming to the United
States at the age of twenty-one years.
Mr. and Mrs. Mills have two sons: Leon-
ard Olcott. born May 29. 1887, a gradu-
ate of Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, now an electrical engineer in Mil-
waukee : Everett Jay. born February 21,
1896.
MARSHALL, William Rowe,
Representative Citizen.
In all the walks of life William Rowe
Marshall, of Holyoke. has so acquitted
himself as to be regarded as a most valued
and honorable citizen. Although his resi-
dence in Holyoke has been of compara-
tively short duration, and his career has
been a quiet and uneventful one, yet by
his manifestation of those sterling qual-
ities that ever command respect he has
gained the good will of all with whom he
is brought in contact.
Jacob Marshall, grandfather of William
R. Marshall, was born in Xatick. Massa-
chusetts, in 1795, died in Medfield, Massa-
chusetts, in 1871. He was a son of Jacob
and Mary (Morse) Marshall, the latter
named a daughter of Peletiah Morse, who
was an innholder in Natick. and a de-
scendant of Samuel and Elizabeth Morse,
who came to this country from England
in 1635. Jacob Marshall. Jr., married
(first) Louisa Jackson, of Walpole, Mas-
sachusetts, who bore him one child,
Louisa. He married (second) Mary
Gay, daughter of Joel and Priscilla
^Wheelock) Gay, and granddaughter of
Ralph Wheelock, '"the founder of Med-
field, Massachusetts," who was born in
Shropshire. England, in 1600. educated at
Clare Hall. Cambridge, was a dissenting
preacher and often preached after coming
to this country, though never a settled
minister. Mary (Gay) Marshall, whose
death occurred in 1870. bore her husband
four children, as follows : Harriet, born
1829. died 185 1 ; Mary J., born 1832. died
1850: William, of whom further; Olive
Frances, born 1840, died 1877.
William Marshall, father of William R.
Marshall, was born in 1836, in Xatick,
Massachusetts, died in Medfield. same
State, in 1906. He attended the schools
in the neighborhood of his home, and
upon arriving at manhood years chose for
his occupation the manufacture of bonnet
wire, conducting his operations in Med-
field under the firm name of William
Marshall Company, his son. William R.
Marshall, being connected with him for
several years. He was a man of industry
and thrift, active and enterprising, and
his business prospered accordingly. He
married, in 1864. Mary A. Rowe. born in
Medfield. Massachusetts, in 1843, daugh-
ter of William D. and Lydia A. (Hamant")
Rowe. the former named a native of Bos-
ton. Massachusetts, born in 1812, and the
latter named a resident of Medfield. Mas-
sachusetts, a descendant of Francis Ham-
ant, one of the thirteen original settlers
of that town. Children of Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall : William Rowe. of whom fur-
ther: Henry Everett, born in Medfield,
July 12. 1872. now residing in Boston.
William Rowe Marshall was born in
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Medfield, Massachusetts, March 4, 1865.
His preparatory education was obtained
in the public schools of Medfield, and this
was supplemented by a two years' course
in Framingham High School and a busi-
ness course in Bryant & Stratton Com-
mercial College. His first employment
was in a clerical capacity with Kimball
Brothers, carriage manufacturers, in Bos-
ton, serving as their bookkeeper for a
period of three years. He then entered
the employ of Hallett & Davis Piano
Company in Rochester, New York, with
whom he remained for one year. He then
returned to Boston and bought out the
Baker & Company Express which oper-
ated between Dedham and Boston, and
under the name of Marshall's Express
conducted a successful business for three
years, after which he disposed of it and
went to Westboro, Massachusetts, in the
capacity of assistant superintendent for
H. O. Bernard, engaged in the manufac-
ture of straw hats, and satisfactorily filled
that position for three years. He then
returned to Boston and engaged in his
former line of work, bookkeeping, for
four years, after which he became identi-
fied with his father in the manufacture
of bonnet wire under the firm name of
William Marshall Company, of which
William R. Marshall was manager, and
this connection continued for a period of
almost six years. He then went to
Worcester with the American Steel Wire
Company, with which concern he re-
mained for three years, and in 1908 took
up his residence in Holyoke, and assumed
the duties of superintendent of the Hol-
yoke Covered Wire Company, which po-
sition he has since held, enjoying the re-
gard of the many men under his control
by his fair and impartial treatment of
them, and his consideration for their com-
fort and welfare. In all his varied career
he has discharged his duties with a
promptness and fidelity that has won him
the commendation of all his superiors.
Mr. Marshall married, September 11,
1891, Maude A. Miller, of Westboro, Mas-
sachusetts, daughter of George and Ada
(Bowman) Miller. They are the parents
of one child. Thelma, born in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, December 23, 1894.
BURGESS, Arthur Hope,
Representative Citizen o£ Holyoke.
F"oreign countries have furnished to the
various States of the Union, and espe-
cially to the State of Massachusetts,
many of their representative men, men of
solid character and substantial worth who
came to the New World, not as adven-
turers, but to establish homes and make
for themselves fame and fortune, and
among this number must be mentioned
Arthur Hope Burgess, a resident of Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, where in all matters
pertaining to the public Avelfare he has
manifested a deep interest, giving his co-
operation to many measures for the pub-
lic good.
Dr. James Burgess, C. I. E., father of
Arthur Hope Burgess, was born in 1832
at Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, Scotland,
and died October 10. 1916. He was edu-
cated at the celebrated Glasgow Univer-
sity. Later he was appointed principal
of Doveton College, in India, in which
institution he also filled the chair of
mathematics and natural philosophy.
Some years later, owing to ill health, he
was forced to tender his resignation,
which w^as reluctantly accepted, and he
was appointed assistant director-general
of the archeological survey work in
India conducted by the British govern-
ment, in which capacity he served ac-
ceptably for thirty years, the last three
from 1886 to 1889, as director-general.
During the course of years he completed
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an exhaustive survey and study of an-
cient mines, inscriptions and other objects
of historical interest throughout India.
and was responsible for a large number
of publications on antiquarian subjects.
He had a distinguished career in the
sphere of pre-historic science and histori-
cal inquiry, and for his services in this
direction he received the honorary degree
of LL. D. of Edinburgh University in
1881. and he was awarded the Keith
medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
in 1898. He acted as joint chairman of
Edinburgh University library committee,
retiring from that office a year or two
prior to his death. He was a fellow of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Hon.
A. R. I. B. A., a fellow of the Royal
( ieographical Society and of other socie-
ties at home and abroad, and he also took
a prominent part in the affairs of the
Edinburgh Dumfriesshire Association.
Dr. Burgess was related closely to Sir
Walter Scott, a representative of an old
border family, the Scotts of Harden, an
oflFshoot from the house of Bucceleuch,
whose first publication, a translation of
"Burger's Ballads," "Lenore and The
Wild Huntsman." was issued in 1796.
Dr. James Burgess married Anna Allan,
born at Montrose. Scotland, in May, 1834,
and is living at the present time (1916).
Their children were as follows: Eliza-
beth Ann Scott, David. Arthur Hope,
Cecil Scott, Marion Scott. Edith Cath-
erine, Charles Herbert.
Arthur Hope Burgess, son of Dr. James
and Anna (Allan) Burgess, was born at
Bombay, India. .August 22, 1868. His
parents returned to Scotland when he
was three years of age, and his educa-
tion was acquired in the public schools
of Edinburgh, where they located. Upon
attaining a suitable age to enter upon the
active duties of life, he chose the trade
of machinist as the best suited to his
tastes and inclinations, and accordingly
served an apprenticeship at that line of
work, and later was employed as a jour-
neyman in the mechanical department of
the same works, serving in that capacity
for five years, after which he was pro-
moted to the draughting department, in
which he remained for two years, his en-
tire term of service being of inestimable
value to his employers. In 1891 Mr.
Burgess was chosen as the one most
capable in their employ to render the
service required, that of going to Canada
to install paper making machinery in the
plant of the company located there, which
work was performed by him to the entire
satisfaction of all concerned. During the
time he was employed in Canada, he de-
cided to change his residence to the
United States, trusting thereby to better
his condition and gain a more lucrative
livelihood, and accordingly in the follow-
ing year. 1892. he located in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, becoming an employee of
the draughting department of the J. & W.
Jolly Machine Company, and by his faith-
fulness to duty, industry and perseverance
won rapid promotion, rising step by step
until he became assistant treasurer of the
company, and subsequently treasurer, the
duties of which responsible ofifice he has
faithfully discharged for a number of
years, giving the utmost satisfaction to
his superiors, who appreciate him at his
true worth. The company is one of the
leading industries of Holyoke. and the
work of Mr. Burgess has been an impor-
tant factor in its development and suc-
cessful carrying on. See full description
of this business under articles of James
and William Jolly. Mr. Burgess holds
membership in William Whiting Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Holyoke,
and is also a member of Mt. Holyoke
Chapter. Royal Arch Masons, and Hol-
yoke Council. Roval and Select Masters,
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in all of which bodies he has held offices
and taken an active part and interest.
He is an attendant of the Second Congre-
gational Church, in the work of which he
takes an active interest.
Mr. Burgess married, in 1900, Janet
Cuthbertson. of Glasgow, Scotland,
daughter of John and Ann (Kennedy)
Cuthbertson, respected citizens of that
city. Children : Anna Edith, born June
5, 1902; Christine, born August 14, 1904,
on the anniversary of her grandfather's
birth.
KING. George W.,
Juvenile Probation OflScer for Holyoke.
King is an old English name. The
West Greenwich branch of the family is
of the ancient English stock commingled
with French by marriage, and the family
history is intensely interesting and ro-
mantic. Not far from London these
Kings originally lived, and in 1600 or
earlier they intermarried wath the Las-
celle-Wardwells, a semi-Huguenot fam-
ily. It is believed that a Lascelle girl
married a Pierce, and that their daughter
married one of the Kings. Michael. Wil-
liam and John King came early to New
England ; also Thomas King, progenitor
of many Rhode Island Kings. Another
brother remained in England, lived in
London and had means. One of his
younger children, John King, born in
1654, was a puny child, and his father,
after the plague had subsided, placed him
in charge of a sea captain sailing for
Providence. This captain proved to be a
scoundrel and sold the boy into service
for fourteen years.
(I) John King, the first of the line
whose name is known, grew up strong
and robust and followed the sea. Tradi-
tion tells us he became a buccaneer and
commanded a ship that preyed on the
Spaniards. It is known that he w^as for
some years one of the crew and probably
a petty officer under Captain Robert Kidd,
the famous pirate and buccaneer. John
King was later a seaman on a ship taken
by Kidd after he turned pirate. He had
no choice but to join Kidd's crew again,
?nd in the "Adventure'' sailed to ^Madeira,
down the African coast, around the Cape
of Good Hope to the Red Sea, seizing a
number of vessels on the way. In Algiers
John King escaped and went to Mar-
seilles in a French vessel in 1698. Captain
Kidd was captured in 1699 and hanged
in 1700. At the age of forty-four years,
John King married a French woman. He
lived in France and died there in 1740,
aged about eighty-six years. A conch
horn that he carried has been preserved
and is now owned by a descendant, V. D.
Nichols, of San Jose, California. He had
a son IMagdalen, mentioned below.
(II) Magdalen King, son of John
King, was born in France, August 23,
1702. It is said that he was named, after
French custom, for a godmother. He
was tall, fair and had blue eyes. When
his father died, he came wnth his wife's
relatives to Marblehead, Massachusetts,
but soon afterward with Peter La\^alley
removed to Warwick. Rhode Island,
where there was a Huguenot settlement.
He remained there twelve years, then
bought a two hundred acre tract at West
Greenwich on the Division Road near
what was known as Webster's Gate, and
cleared the farm. Here his descendants
m,et at the Indian Rocks and held a clam-
bake annually for many years. He died
in 1775, and was buried on his farm. His
son Samuel succeeded to the farm, but
it passed out of the possession of the
family in 1839; the house was burned
soon afterward, and the farm is now
overgrow'n with pitch pine and scrub oak.
He married, about 1727, Marie LaVal-
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ley, daughter of Peter La Valley, or Val-
lais, and Suzanna La\'alley. Marie was
a woman of remarkable energy and indi-
viduality. "She had plenty of family
pride, though she had too much sense to
show it. Her conversation was witty,
brilliant and sparkling, yet beneath it ran
the family reserve * * * she kept more
irons in the fire than half a dozen ordi-
nary women, but none of them ever
burned. She bore ten children and raised
them. She kept her hou'^e in apple-pie
order and another such a famous cook
the annals of the family do not record."
(Greene Family by Lora S. LaMance).
"Marie La Valley was of medium height.
She was dark and had expressive black
eyes. She had the mobile countenance of
a true French woman, her face lighting
up and reflecting every emotion or ani-
mation as she talked." The La Valley
family was of noble French stock. The
house of de la \'alle was once the second
most powerful in France. They were
autocrats of the valley of the Loire. The
present Queen of Holland and Kaiser
W'ilhelm have the blood of this family in
their veins through William of Orange,
who married the daughter of Admiral de
Coligny. and his wife Charlotte de la Val.
Peter and David La\'alley, brothers of
Marie, came to Marblehead as early as
1727. Both were shipmasters and Peter,
Jr., who wrote his surname Vallais, was
an intimate friend of Peter Faneuil, of
Boston. Peter La Valley, Sr., came with
John King and others of his own family
to Rhode Island, and he died at Warwick.
Children of Magdalen King: i. Grace,
married an Englishman and lived in
Canada. 2. Susan, married Job Nicholas
and lived in Providence. 3. John, married
Deliverance Spink. 4. Elizabeth, married
John Matteson. 5. Sarah, married Burton
Briggs. 6. Mary, married, but husband's
name unknown. 7. Anna, born 1742,
married Abel Greene. 8. Samuel, men-
tioned below. 9. Margaret, baptized Oc-
tober 16, 1748, married Peleg Edwards.
10. Paul, baptized May 19, 175 1, married
Dinah Matteson.
(Ill) Samuel King, son of Magdalen
King, was born in February, 1745. in
Warwick. Rhode Island, and died in 1829.
He married, April 15, 1766, Deborah
Greene, born September 23, 1744, died in
1812, daughter of James and Elizabeth
(Straight) Greene. Her parents married,
May 18, 1727. Elizabeth Straight's father
was descended from the immigrant. Cap-
tain Thomas Straight, who married ]\Iary
Long, daughter of Joseph and 'SlsLvy
Long, and their son, Henry Straight, who
was born at Watertown in 1651, came to
Rhode Island, and married Hannah Tor-
man. John Straight, son of Henry
Straight, was born March i. 1678, and
married Rose \\^estcott. About 1565
Meriba, daughter of Gershom and Meriba
Lascelle, early French Huguenots, mar-
ried in England, William Wardwell. son
of Richard and Mary (Ithell) Wardwell,
and their daughter, Rosanna W'ardwell,
married a \\'aite. Mehitable \\'aite. of
the next generation, married Richard Hill,
and their son, John Hill, was head of the
family from which the Rhode Island Hills
are descended. They lived at Great Tor-
rington, Devonshire, England. The
Westcotts were from the same place.
Stukeley Westcott. son of Richard and
Mary (Parsons) \\'estcott, came over in
1635. Their oldest son, Amos Westcott,
married Deborah Stafford, June 9, 1670,
and their daughter, Rosanna, married
(second) John Straight, and had a daugh-
ter Elizabeth, born October 8, 1705. De-
borah Greene was one of the "good-
natured Greenes" and a woman of fine
mental powers. Samuel King was an
expert millwright and built mills of all
kinds all over Rhode Island. He was a
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soldier in the Rhode Island militia in the
Revolution in Captain Samuel Wilber's
company in the spring of 1777, as shown
by an old payroll, (p. 137 Greene Gene-
alogy). Children: i. Nancy. 2. Sarah,
married Xathan Hathaway. 3. Mary,
married Sanford Pierce. 4. Elizabeth,
born 1771, married James Kittle. 5.
George, mentioned below. 6. Hannah,
born June 25, 1777, married Captain John
Howard. 7. Dinah, born 1778, married
Christopher Hopkins. 8. David, born
March 11, 1781, and lived at West Green-
wich. 9. Paul. 10. Joel, born November
3, 1785, lived at Pompey, New York. 11.
Stephen, born May 8, 1787.
(IV) George King, son of Samuel
King, was born May 21, 1774, and died
in 1833. He married his second cousin,
Meriba Matteson, who was born April 25,
1779, and died in 1847, ^ descendant of
the Greene line mentioned above and
doubly descended from Henry Matteson,
the pioneer. George King lived and died
in West Greenwich on a farm adjoining
the Magdalen King homestead. Chil-
dren: I. David, born July 23, 1802, mar-
ried Thankful Hopkins. 2. John, died
young. 3. Mercy, born April 10, 1807.
4. Sarah, born May 9, 181 1, married
Musor. 5. Whipple, mentioned below.
6. Celia, married Thomas Matteson. 7.
Caleb, born February 20, 1821, settled at
Pompey, New York.
(V) Whipple King, son of George
King, was born at West Greenwich, June
9, 1813. and died August 29, 1903. He
was the patriarch of his family, and
deacon of his church. He was a farmer,
living for a time in Onondaga county.
New York, and in Griswold, Connecticut,
and later at Passaquisett Brook Farm,
near Kenyon, Rhode Island. He was
active in public affairs, and held the
offices of assessor, town clerk and director
in the State Bank. He was deacon of the
Baptist church. He married, February
12, 1838, Elizabeth Clark, daughter of
Luke Clark, of Richmond, Rhode Island.
Their only child was John Whipple Perry,
mentioned below.
(VI) John \\'hipple Perry King, son
of Whipple King, was born at Richmond,
Rhode Island, February 24, 1847, ^"^1
died in 1913. He attended the public
schools and the institute at Suffield, Con-
necticut. He taught school for twenty
years in various Rhode Island and Con-
necticut towns. He also carried on the
farm of his father at Passaquisett Brook,
on the Narragansett reservation. He and
his wife were both active in the temper-
ance movement, and he was a prominent
member of the Prohibition party, once
candidate on the Prohibition ticket for
lieutenant-governor and at another time
candidate for State treasurer. He served
on the Prohibition State Committee of
Rhode Island. At the time of his death
he was collector of taxes of Charlestown,
Rhode Island. He was a faithful member
of the Baptist church and clerk of the
society. He married, December 7, 1865,
Harriet Elizabeth Tefft. a native of Gris- •
wold, Connecticut, born January 31, 1845,
daughter of Sprague and Eliza M.
(Browning) Tefft. Children: i. George
Whipple, mentioned below. 2. Ruth
Elizabeth, born February 19, 1872, mar-
ried Oscar E. Earnshaw, of Mystic, Con-
necticut, and has two children: Eldred
and Everett Earnshaw. 3. Joanna Rey-
nolds, born September 28, 1873, married,
April 25. 1895, Thomas G. Clark, of Ken-
yon, Rhode Island, and had two children:
Leon Whipple Clark, born March 19,
1898, and Edith May Clark, born March
16, 1899.
(VIE) George Whipple King, son of
John Whipple Perry King, was born May
19, 1867, at Griswold, Connecticut. He
attended the public schools in Charles-
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town, Rhode Island, and the East Green-
wich Academy, in which he took a busi-
ness course, and the State Xurmal School
at Providence, from wliich he was gradu-
ated in 1888, at the age of twenty-one.
He was employed on the farm during the
summer months, and taught school dur-
ing the winter months, after which he
entered the L'nited States Indian service
as a teacher in the field, and served in
that capacity in the West for five years,
from 18S9 to 1894. During his term in
the government service he was stationed
at Fort Lapwai, Idaho, in Chief Joseph's
Reservation, and was principal of the
schools there for two years, and after-
ward superintendent at the Klamath
Agency Boarding School at Fort Kla-
math, Oregon, in Captain Jack's Reserva-
tion, two years, and for seven years was
superintendent and principal of schools
in Western Shoshone in Nevada. He
then returned to Rhode Island and taught
in the schools for two terms, but resigned
this position to become an ofificer of the
Rhode Island Reform School at Howard,
Rhode Island, having charge of the
largest division, his term of service ex-
tending from January 6, 1895, to Septem-
ber, 1907, when he resigned. He then
took up his residence in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, to which city he is greatly
attached, and in recent years he has re-
ceived several tempting offers to locate
elsewhere, but has declined them all, pre-
ferring to retain his residence in the city
of his choice. He was appointed superin-
tendent of the Boys' Club of Holyoke,
September 16, 1907, and has held that
position to the present time (1917), devot-
ing his life to the work for boys. On
February 17, 1916, he was appointed by
Judge Edward W. Chapin as juvenile pro-
bation ofificer for Holyoke. His new office
will not require the severance of present
relations with the Boys' Club, in fact his
experience in the latter named especially
qualifies him for the new position. Mr.
King is chairman of the Case Committee
of Associated Charities in Holyoke. He
takes an active interest in church matters,
and has been superintendent of the Sun-
day school of the Second Baptist Church
for four years, during his residence in
Holyoke. In politics he is an Independ-
ent. He was a member of Doric Lodge,
No. 38, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Auburn. Rhode Island, and was musical
director of this lodge for ten years, and is
now a member of William Whiting
Lodge of Holyoke. He is a skillful
amateur photographer, and has spent
considerable time in the study of this and
has a large collection of interesting views.
Mr. King married, August 13, 1891,
Martha Estelle Saunders, daughter of
Captain Thomas E. and Sarah (Gavitt)
Saunders. Children : Frances Elizabeth,
born August 9, 1892, at Klamath Agency,
Oregon ; Sarah Saunders, born June 9,
1895 ; George Whipple, Jr., born February
25, 1899.
SPIES, Milton Samuel,
Leading Merchant of Holyoke.
Milton Samuel Spies, the w^ell known
merchant tailor, is of German parentage,
and exemplifies in his own person the
sterling traits and worthy characteristics
of that race of people. He has attained,
by virtue of his own unaided efforts, a
high place in the regard of the community
in which he has elected to make his home,
and has shown the way to those of his
own race who, coming here with strong
ambitions, may not be discouraged by
the difficulties to be overcome.
The ancestor of Mr. Spies, as has
already been indicated, was of German
origin, from which country have come so
many of our representative citizens, men
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who have been willing to lay down their
lives if necessary for the preservation of
the land of their adoption. The grandfather
of Milton S. Spies was a large land owner
in Germany, his birthplace having been
Posen in the German empire. Among his
children, Abraham Spies, was the father
of Milton S. Spies, and he also was born
in Posen and spent the early part of his
life in Germany. Here he learned the
tailor's trade, and when he reached the
age to decide for himself journeyed from
his native land in search of wider oppor-
tunities. He first went to England and
there worked at his trade for about two
years, making in the main a considerable
success, but, hearing that there was still
more to be hoped for in the United States,
he traveled to that country in 1869 and
located at first in New York City. Here
he worked as a journeyman tailor for
many years. He then engaged in busi-
ness for himself, which he conducted up
to 1905, in which enterprise he was ex-
tremely successful, then retired and is
now living at Holyoke, Massachusetts.
He is a man who possesses the very
strongest loyalty to the land of his adop-
tion, being an American in his aims and
ambitions and fully in sympathy with the
life in this country. He was married to
Betsy Kahn, who like himself was born
near Posen in Germany. They are the
parents of a large family of children as
follows : Sarah, Jacob, Katherine Eliza-
beth, Milton S., Harry, Annie, Abraham,
Murray and Paulina. Sarah, the oldest
child, was born in England, but the re-
mainder of the family are all native Amer-
icans, while they are all identified com-
pletely with the life and customs of this
country.
]\Iilton Samuel Spies was born in New
York City, January 25, 1875. His educa-
tion was received in the public schools of
that city, and he very early showed signs
of the business talent which has since
distinguished him in his career. After
completing his education in these institu-
tions, he secured employment in a num-
ber of the best stores in New York,
among which should be named the Brink-
erhofif establishment ; Meyer-Johnson, the
large tailors and dealers in cloaks ; B.
Marks, the well known tailor, and still
later Bloomingdale Brothers, the well
known department store at Fifty-ninth
street and Third avenue. New York,
where he was employed for a number of
years in the clothing department. During
this time, Mr. Spies became thoroughly
familiar with business methods and objec-
tives here and fitted himself well for the
management of his future establishment.
He had also taken cutting lessons and
these, in connection with his experience
in the tailor trade, part of which he had
gained from his father, made him feel that
he was capable of himself engaging in
business. Accordingly, in the year 1901,
he came to Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
in that city established himself success-
fully in the tailoring business. He has
since that time built up a remarkably fine
trade, which is still in the period of actual
growth. His trade is in every way of the
highest class, and his establishment is a
most up-to-date one in all its equipments
and service, and Mr. Spies is recognized
as one of the leading merchants of his
adopted home.
In the year 1898 Mr. Spies well proved
the strong patriotism which he feels for
this country by enlisting in the One Hun-
dred and Sixty-ninth New York Infantry
for service in the Spanish-American War.
He held himself during the period of that
struggle ever in readiness to go to the
front but, as is well known, the United
States government had need for but a
comparatively small portion of its volun-
teers, and Mr. Spies' regiment was not
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called upon for active service. Mr. Spies
is extremely active in the general life of
the community, and is particularly promi-
nent in fraternal circles, being a member
of a number of important local lodges in
Holyoke. An unusual honor came to
Milton S. Spies, worthy president of the
Holyoke Aerie of Eagles, who received
official notice of his appointment as
deputy for the first district, comprising
Essex and Suffolk counties. The appoint-
ment was made by Rex B. Goodcell, of
San Bernardino, California, the worthy
grand president of the Eagles. Mr. Spies
is believed to be the first worthy president
to be named a district deputy. The dis-
trict deputies are usually members who
are past worthy presidents. However,
Mr. Spies attended the national conven-
tion of the Eagles as a delegate from the
Holyoke Aerie in August, 1916, when it
was held in Savannah, Georgia. He
therefore became a member of the Grand
Aerie, which made him eligible for a dis-
trict deputyship. District deputies usual-
ly have been residents of the district to
which they were appointed. Now, appar-
ently, it has been decided to have the
deputies supervise districts in other parts
of the State, and better results are ex-
pected. All of the deputies are named by
the head of the national body. Besides
this affiliation he is also a member of the
Improved Order of Red Men. of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
In 191 7 he was elected a member of the
Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, to serve
three years, and has been very active in
the encouragement and stimulation of
local business in this capacity. He keeps
the interests of Holyoke ever at heart,
and is counted one of those public-spirited
citizens who never fails to respond to
calls upon his generosity for the assist-
ance of any public movement undertaken
for the common weal.
Mr. Spies married, in October, 1900,
Edna Sophia Fountain, a native of
Coopersville, New York. Mrs. Spies is a
daughter of Octave and Sophia (Xoelj
Fountain. Her family on both sides of
the house is of French origin, her father.
Octave Fountain, having been born in
Champlain, Clinton county, Xew York,
a son of Julian and Ursula Fountain, and
the grandson of Julian Fountain, who
came from France to this countrj', where
he changed his name from the original
French of DeFontaine. Her mother,
originally Sophia Xoel, was born in
Coopersville, Xew York, and was a
daughter of Joseph X'oel, and a grand-
daughter of another Joseph X'oel, who
came from France in the company of
Lafayette and played a part in the gain-
ing of American independence. To Mr.
and Mrs. Spies two children have been
born : Edna Sophia, Rebecca Evangel,
born April 18, 1903, and Elizabeth Clara
X^aomi, born September 15, 1906.
OSBORNE. Archie J.,
Business Man.
Archie J. Osborne, head of the firm of
G. E. Russell & Company, of Holyoke,
hardware dealers, was born in Xorth
Hadley, Massachusetts, January 18, 1862,
son of Timothy Root Osborne, who was
a son of John Osborne, who resided in
Xorth Hadley, removing from South
Deerfield, and he there spent his remain-
ing years. He was a farmer in both
named towns, and in addition worked at
the manufacturing of wagons and at
blacksmithing. He died at the age of
sixty, and his wife, who bore him seven
children, died at the age of seventy-four
years.
Timothy Root Osborne was reared and
educated in Xorth Hadley, and upon
arriving at a suitable age engaged in the
livery business and in the manufacture
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of brooms, continuing along these lines
throughout the active years of his life,
lie was one of the best known and most
highly appreciated men of that town,
took an active interest in all that per-
tained to its welfare and upbuilding, and
was ever ready to lend a helping hand to
those in distress or those who were mak-
ing an earnest effort to help themselves.
His death came as a personal bereave-
ment to all who had the honor of his
acquaintance, and his funeral services
were attended by the largest gathering
of people ever known in that community.
His wife, Jane Osborne, a native of Pel-
ham, died in Holyoke, in March, 1913,
aged seventy-eight years. She was a
member of the Congregational church of
North Hadley. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne
were the parents of four children who
reached maturity : Archie J., of whom
further; Harrison D., a resident of Hol-
yoke ; Edson P., died in 1904, at the age
of fifty years; Jennie M., died in 1912;
three died in infancy.
Archie J. Osborne spent the early years
of his life in North and South Hadley,
and was educated in the schools of the
former named town. At the age of fifteen
years he began earning his own liveli-
hood, his first employment being the driv-
ing of a stage to Smith's Ferry, which he
followed for five years. He then took
up his residence in Holyoke, entering the
employ of J. S. Preston, Jr., proprietor of
a men's furnishing store, with whom he
remained for two and a half years. In
the year 1883 he became an employe of
G. E. Russell, beginning as a clerk and
so remaining for a period of six years,
when he was admitted to partnership, the
business being then conducted under the
style of G. E. Russell & Company and so
continues to the present time. Upon the
death of Mr. Russell, January 26, 1907,
his widow assumed her husband's inter-
ests, but in 1917 Mr. Osborne purchased
her interest. (An account of the life of
Mr. Russell will be found elsewhere in
this work). The business is now the
oldest under one name in Holyoke, and
Mr. Osborne has been longer associated
with it than any man in any business on
High street. Its scope and volume has
greatly increased with the passing years.
When he began his connection with the
business, it only occupied the ground floor
of the present building, No. 245 High
street, and at the present time (1917)
they occupy five floors and the basement,
the building being one hundred by fifty
feet, and in addition to this, on Suffolk
street, they occupy an extensive store-
house, one hundred by forty-five feet,
where they carry agricultural tools of
every description, all kinds of dairy sup-
plies, and a large assortment of stock of
all kinds for replenishing the supply in
the High street store. This stock con-
sists of every conceivable thing in the line
of hardware, of all grades, paints, oils,
kitchen utensils, china, glassware, wood-
enware.
Mr. Osborne is a Republican in politics,
and he and his family attend the Baptist
church. He is a member of the Chamber
of Commerce, of which he is president
(1917). He is a member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks ; mem-
ber of the Western iMassachusetts Hard-
ware Association, serving as its president
in 1913 ; charter member of the New Eng-
land Hardware Dealers Association, join-
ing in 1891, being one of the three charter
members living at the present time; and
was chosen for its president in 1915 ; the
association has now four hundred and
fifty active members and four hundred
and fifty honorary members, one of the
largest in the country. Possibly few men
have taken a more active part in these
organizations than has Mr. Osborne. He
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is also a member of the Rotary Club, and
of the Holyoke Canoe Club.
Mr. Osborne married, March 27, 1884,
Ilattie R. Doyle, born in Northampton,
Massachusetts, daughter of John A.
Doyle, now deceased, who was a paper
maker there for many years. Mrs. Os-
borne is one of nine children, her mother
living at the present time (1917) aged
eighty-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne
are the parents of four children : Edith ;
Bessie, who became the wife of Dr. E. A.
Knowlton, a sketch of whom appears
elsewhere in this work, and they are the
parents of one child, Silvia, born March
18, 1915 ; Leila, a graduate of the Holyoke
High School and Miss Wheelock's School
of Boston, a teacher in the schools of Hol-
yoke ; George, associated with his father
in business.
This brief resume of Mr. Osborne's
many spheres of activity and usefulness
proves the broadness of his mental vision,
and whether considered as employee,
employer, merchant, official business
associate or clubman, he has always been
found a man true to himself and true to
his fellows.
TREWORGY, Henry Howard,
Merchant.
One of the best known business men of
the city of Holyoke, a useful, trusted and
honored citizen, was the late Henry
Howard Treworgy. He was a shrewd,
capable and successful man of affairs, a
self-made man, starting with no advan-
tages and fighting his own way to for-
tune. He was descended from a race of sea-
faring men. His ancestors came early to the
Maine coast, and though the Treworgy
name has never been numerous, the men
who bore it have been distinguished for
their industry, courage and persistence in
the face of great difficulties. The sur-
name Treworgy is a variation in the spell-
ing of Trueworthy or Treworthy, and in
the early records all three spellings were
used in connection with the same family.
(I) James Treworgy, said to be of
Welsh (Cornish) descent, bought land in
Kittery, Maine, in 1635. He married at
Kingsweare, England, March 16, 1616,
Katharine Shapleigh, daughter of Alex-
ander Shapleigh. He died in 1650, and
his widow married Edward Hilton, of
Exeter, New Hampshire. Alexander
Shapleigh was a merchant in England,
agent of the Maine estate of Sir Ferdi-
nando Gorges. He deeded all his estate
at Kittery to his son-in-law, James Tre-
worgy, May 26, 1642, and probably re-
turned to England before July 6, 1650,
when his estate was settled at York,
Maine. Besides Katharine, Mr. Shap-
leigh had a daughter Joan, who married
John Meredith ; daughter Elizabeth, mar-
ried John Oilman ; and daughter Lucy,
married Thomas Wills. Children of
James and Katharine Treworgy: i. John,
mentioned below. 2. Joan, married John
Meredith. 3. Samuel, born 1628, married
Dorcas Walton. 4. Lucy, born 1632,
married (first) Humphrey Chadbourne
(not Scammon, as given in the Kittery
history) ; married (second) Thomas
Wills; and (third) Elias Stillman. 5.
Elizabeth, born 1639, married, June 3,
1657, the Hon. John Oilman, of Exeter,
died September 8, 1719.
(II) John Treworgy, son of James
Treworgy, was born at Kingsweare, Eng-
land, and baptized December 30, 1618.
He came to this country as the agent of
John Winter l^efore 1639, and was after-
ward agent of Alexander Shapleigh, his
grandfather. From 1640 to 1649 he was
a resident of Kittery, and thence went to
Newfoundland, where he died before 1660.
He was one of the Newfoundland com-
missioners, April 8, 165 1. He married,
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January 15, 1646, Penelope Spencer,
daughter of Thomas and Penelope
(Filiall) Spencer, and Spencer has been
used in the family in every generation
since this marriage as a given name.
Thomas Spencer, her father, married in
England (license dated September 24,
1623) Penelope Filiall; he died in 1648;
his will w^as dated June 22 and proved
August 23, in that year. Thomas Spencer
had a brother, John Spencer, who died at
Salem in 1637. Thomas Spencer men-
tions in his will brother Nicholas Kidwell
and children : John Spencer, who settled
in New England ; Penelope, who married
John Treworgy, mentioned above ;
Thomas and Rachel, who had the lease
of Waddam in Chertsey, England ;
daughter-in-law, Anna Fyllial ; mention-
ing wages due him for service of the king
(see Waters Gleanings 467). Children
of John Treworgy : John, born August
12, 1649; James, mentioned below.
(Ill) James (2) Treworgy, son of John
Treworgy, was born about 1660. He was
mentioned in the will of Katherine Hilton,
his aunt, in 1676. In 1696 he was a
tanner in the employ of Sir William
Pepperell. He married (first) July 16,
1693, Mary Ferguson, daughter of John
Ferguson. An interesting record is the
deposition made many years afterward by
Abigail Hodsdon and Elizabeth Gowen
stating that they were "bridemaids" at
this wedding. His wife died July 19,
1696. He married (second) Sarah Brad-
ley, widow of John Bradley. He married
(third) in 1702, at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, Ruth Kirk, daughter of
Henry Kirk. His third wife owned the
covenant in the church at the time her
son was baptized. He lived in Ports-
mouth in 1701-02, but most of his life in
Kittery. Children by first wife : Pene-
lope, born June I, 1694, married Joseph
Kilgore ; John, mentioned below. By
Mass— 6— 8 I 1 3
second wife : Samuel, born August 20,
1698, died October 9 (record in Boston).
By third wife : James, baptized at Ports-
mouth, April II, 1714.
(IV) John (2) Treworgy, son of
James (2) Treworgy, was born at Kit-
tery, Maine, June i, 1696, and died before
1748. He married, in April, 1731, Mary
Bracey, daughter of William and Mary
(Marston) Bracey, of York, Maine. She
was born in June, 1707. He lived at
Biddeford, Maine. Children: i. James,
mentioned below. 2. Spencer, baptized
June 19, 1743; married Judith Townsend,
of Little Falls, September 21, 1769, when
he was of Biddeford ; he was lost at sea
with his brothers, December 12, 1776, and
she married (second) John Stewart, and
(third) Ebenezer Jordan ; her daughter,
Betsey Townsend Treworgy, married his
son, Solomon Jordan, in 1803. 3. Jacob,
married, December 9, 1756, lost at sea
with his brothers. 4. Daniel, married
Betsey Townsend. 5. Mark. 6. Daugh-
ter, married, June 26, 1753, John Davis.
(V) James (3) Treworgy, son of John
(2) Treworgy, was born in 1732. He was
a sea captain and was lost at sea with
Captain Haslam, Spencer and Jacob
Treworgy, his brothers, and a sailor
named Seavy, on their way from Union
River (Surry), Maine, to Boston, Decem-
ber 12, 1776. He was admitted to the
Biddeford church, June 2^, 1762, and came
to Surry about 1770. He married, De-
cember 9, 1756, at Biddeford, Catherine
Libby. Children : James ; Nathaniel,
mentioned below ; Jacob, born July 10,
1771, died March 5, 1848, married Han-
nah Jackson ; lived at Unity, Maine.
(VI) Nathaniel Treworgy, son of
James (3) Treworgy, according to the
best obtainable evidence, was born about
1770 in Surry, Maine. He had a farm
at Treworgy Cove in his native town. He
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his life wore a tall hat. He died in Surry.
He married there Huldah Townsend.
Children, born in Surry: Nathaniel, Wil-
liam G., mentioned below; Charles, Levi,
Newell, Archibald, Betsey, Judith, Jordan.
(\'II) Captain William G. Treworgy,
son of Nathaniel Treworgy, was born in
Surry, Maine, November 8, 1813, and died
in August, 1871, lost at sea. He followed
the sea all his active life and was a master
mariner and ship owner. He married,
August 18, 1840, Nancy Jarvis, of Surry,
born December 26, 1819, died January i,
1908. Children, born at Surry : Annie J.,
Edward, Elizabeth, Caroline, William
Harris, a prominent lumber dealer of
Boston ; Henry Howard, mentioned be-
low.
(VIII) Henry Howard Treworgy^ son
of Captain William G. Treworgy, was
born at Surry, Maine, September 28, 1858,
and died at Holyoke. Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 22, 1902. He received his education
in the public schools of his native town,
and during his youth, like other sons of
farmers and mariners, he devoted a good
part of his time to helping his father. At
the age of nineteen he left home and came
to Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he
found employment as clerk in the Dick-
inson Ninety-nine Cent Store. Subse-
quently he was a clerk in the employ of
Philander Moore, the veteran grocer. In
the course of time he was admitted to
partnership, and the firm continued pros-
perously. The store was located at 223
High street in the center of the retail dis-
trict. As the city grew the partners kept
pace with its growth and with the
progress in their special line of business.
In 1890 Mr. Moore, the senior partner,
withdrew and Mr. Treworgy became the
sole owner. He continued the business
successfully until it was purchased by the
Mohican Company, and remained as man-
ager for the new owners for a short time.
From time to time Mr. Treworgy had
made substantial investments in Holyoke
real estate, and after he retired from the
grocery business he devoted his time
chiefly to the care and development of his
property. In partnership with Charles
E. Ball, he built the business block at the
corner of High and Dwight streets, com-
pleted in 1898, now one of the most im-
portant buildings of its kind in the city.
He possessed an accurate knowledge of
real estate values, and his judgment was
taken in many cases where the value of
property was sought. He took a keen
interest in public affairs, though he de-
clined to accept office. In politics he was
a Republican. He was a member of the
Holyoke Business Men's Association, of
the local council of the Royal Arcanum,
and of the Second Baptist Church.
He married, November 27, 1888, Mary
E. Brooks, of Fairfield, Connecticut.
Children, born at Holyoke : Harry
Howard, August 11, 1890; Ethel Mae,
August 14, 1891 ; Rachel Lillian, Decem-
ber 30, 1893; Alice Louise, June i, 1895;
Grace Luella, February 11, 1897; Ruth
Brooks, August 27, 1901.
BALDWIN, Herbert Lucian,
Business Man.
The firm of Baldwin Brothers is one
well known in Holyoke, ^lassachusetts,
not alone for the extensive grocery busi-
ness conducted under that name, but for
the public spirited, upright and honorable
manner in which that business is con-
ducted as well as all other enterprises
with which Baldwin Brothers are con-
nected. The brothers are of English
parentage, sons of Bentley Baldwin, and
grandsons of Hugh Baldwin, who lived
and died in Yorkshire, England, as did
his wife, Ann (Bentley) Baldwin. They
were the parents of seven children : Bent-
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ley, of further mention ; Joseph, John,
Hugh, Abraham, Martha and Harriet
Baldwin.
The eldest son, Fjcntley Baldwin, born
in Bradford. Yorkshire, England, June 9,
1 84 1, died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
Mav II, 1889. He became a worker in
the English mills, and after coming to the
United States in 1873 continued the same
line of activity with the Farr Alpaca Com-
pany in Holyoke, but lived a retired life
for several years prior to his death. He
\vas a man of strong character and up-
right life, a Democrat in politics, and a
member of the Episcopal church. He
married, in 1864, Mary A. Bulger, born in
Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, April
8, 1842. died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
April, 1900. They were the parents of
five children: i. Etta J. 2. Anna, de-
ceased. 3. William Cole Piatt, inventor
of the Baldwin Reversible Garment,
president of the Baldwin Garment Com-
pany of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
London, Canada, and senior partner of
Baldwin Brothers, grocers of Holyoke ;
he married Sibyl Smith, of Meriden, Con-
necticut, and has two sons : Bentley Ivan
and William Cole Piatt (2). 4. Maud,
deceased, married Edward E. Bogart, of
Holyoke, and left a daughter Helen. 5.
Herbert Lucian, of further mention.
Herbert Lucian Baldwin was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, December 29.
1878. He was educated in the city public
schools, and on leaving school he entered
the employ of his brother, William C. P.
Baldwin, then conducting a grocery busi-
ness in Holyoke. He continued in respon-
sible position with his brother until 1901,
then was admitted a partner, the firm re-
organizing as Baldwin Brothers. In
addition to a very extensive grocery busi-
ness, Baldwin Brothers conduct a large
baking plant, the business of both store
and bakery being under the management
of Herbert L., his brother, William C. P.,
devoting himself to the executive man-
agement of the Baldwin Garment Comr
pany, manufacturers of the Baldwin Re-
versible Garment. The business of Bald-
win Brothers is conducted upon a high
plane of both quality and efficiency, and
is a worthy monument to the energy and
enterprise of the owners. Herbert L.
Baldwin is a member of several business,
fraternal and social organizations, includ-
ing William Whiting Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons ; Mt. Holyoke Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; the Pequot Club,
and the Holyoke Canoe Club.
He married, December, 1902, Myra
Morse, of Norwich, Connecticut, daugh-
ter of M. E. and Josephine Morse. Mr.
and Mrs. Baldwin are the parents of a
daughter, Maude Gofif, born March 10,
1905, and a son, Leonard Morse, IMarch
4, 1907.
FOWLES, Joseph Henry,
Contractor, Bnilder.
The senior partner of the firm of J. H.
Fowles & Son, contractors and builders,
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, ranks among
the foremost in his line of business. Dur-
ing the thirty years in which he has been
in business, he has taken an important
part in the development and progress of
the city in which he lives, and his career
affords an excellent example of business
success and useful citizenship. His an-
cestry has been traced to the days of the
first settlements in New England, and it
is descended from one pioneer.
(I) George Fowles or Fowle, as many
of his descendants in Massachusetts spell
the name, was born in England, came to
Massachusetts about 1636, and located in
Concord, where he was living March 14,
1638-39, when admitted a freeman by the
General Court. He moved to Charles-
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town between 1646 and 1648, bought a
house there, and followed his trade as
tanner until the end of his life. His house,
bought of R. Mousal, was on the road to
Penny Ferry. He also owned land in
Maiden. He died September 19, 1682, in
Charlestown. aged seventy-two years,
according to his gravestone. His wife
Hannah, who came from England with
him, died at Charlestown, February 15,
1676-77. aged sixty-three years. His will
was dated March 11, 1681-82, and proved
October 3, 1682, bequeathing to his sons
in minute detail all his property. His
real estate was valued at three hundred
and twenty-one pounds. He was active
in the military service, and was surveyor
of arms. Children : Hannah, married
Samuel Ruggles ; Captain John, married
Anna Carter ; Mary, born November 24,
1640, at Concord ; Peter, born December
2, 1641 ; James, mentioned below ; Mary,
born February 9, 1644; Abraham, mar-
ried Hannah Harris ; Zechariah, died
January 7, 1677-78; Isaac, died October
15, 1718 (through his daughter Abigail,
was great-grandfather of President John
Adams) ; Elizabeth, born January 27,
1655-56-
(II) Lieutenant James Fowles, son of
George Fowles or Fowle, was born at
Concord, Massachusetts, March 12, 1643,
and died at Woburn, Massachusetts, De-
cember 17, 1690. He settled in Woburn,
where he was a taxpayer as early as 1666,
and he had a common right in the town
in 1668. In the same year he was
admitted a freeman, and in 1672 he was
constable. He was a trooper, appointed
ensign about 1686 by Governor Andros
and afterward commissioned lieutenant.
He gave evidence of his patriotism by
enlisting in the expedition against Canada
in 1690, and like many other soldiers in
that ill-fated army he returned ill, and
died December 19, 1690. Before he left
home he made his will, July 30, 1690,
stating in the preamble : "Being by a call
of God bound for Canada in the expedition
against the French enemy and not know-
ing whether I shall ever return home
alive." He was a shoemaker by trade,
living and having his shop near the site
of the present Central House. In 1678
he was allowed by the town to take in "a.
little piece of land behind the Bell Hill"
adjoining his estate and so-called because
upon it was located the bell that called
the people to meeting. On the westerly
slope of the hill is the burying ground
where James Fowles, his son James, and
many descendants are buried. It is now
known as Powder House Hill. He
acquired a large estate for his day, leaving
property valued at seven hundred and
fifteen pounds and his descendants
profited largely in later years, as his
estate was located in the heart of the
village. He married, about 1666, Abigail
Carter, daughter of Captain John and
Elizabeth Carter, of Woburn. She mar-
ried (second) Ensign Samuel Walker,
April 18, 1692. He died January 18, 1703-
04, and she married (third) Deacon
Samuel Stone, of Lexington, Massachu-
setts. Children by first marriage : Cap-
tain James, mentioned below ; Abigail,
born October 15, 1669; John, captain,
March 12, 1671 ; Samuel, September 17,
1674; Jacob, April 3, 1677; Elizabeth,
September 28, 1681 ; Hannah, January 2^,
1683-84; Mary, July 18, 1687.
(Ill) Captain James (2) Fowles, son
of Lieutenant James (i) Fowles, was born
at Woburn, Massachusetts, March 4, 1667,
and died there March 19, 1714, aged
forty-seven years. His homestead was
on the site of the present Central House,
Woburn, and it is believed that he built
and kept the old Fowles Tavern, sup-
posed to have been erected in 1691, soon
after the death of his father, and for a
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century and a half the leading public
house of the town, always kept by a
Fowles. It was demolished in 1840 to
make way for the Central House. He
became sergeant of the Woburn military
company, 1693 to 1701, and was captain
in his later years. He was for thirteen
years town clerk, 1701-14; selectman for
fourteen years, and also a commissioner
to aid in establishing the province tax,
1703. He married, October 2, 1688, Mary
Richardson, born March 22, 1669, at Wo-
burn. daughter of Joseph and Hannah
(Green) Richardson, descendant of the
Richardsons who founded Woburn. She
married (second) Samuel Walker, of
Woburn. deacon, and died, his widow, at
Charlestown, October 23, 1748, aged
eighty years (gravestone). Children of
first marriage, born at Woburn : Mary,
born June 18, 1689; James, July 20, 1691 ;
Abigail, August 22, 1693; John, major,
November 11, 1695; Hannah, September
13. 1697; Elizabeth, August 9, 1699;
Ruth, April 6, 1701 ; Sarah, July 29, 1703 ;
Samuel, mentioned below ; Esther, May
29, 1707; Martha, March 12, 1709; Cather-
ine, September 20, 171 1.
(IV) Samuel Fowles, son of Captain
James (2) Fowles, was born at Woburn,
Massachusetts, June 10, 1705. He mar-
ried, September 5, 1727, Susanna Reed,
born August 18, 1707, daughter of Lieu-
tenant Joseph and Phebe (Walker) Reed.
He lived at Woburn also. Children, born
at Wobi:rn : Samuel, September 11,
1728, married, December, 1766, Elizabeth
Barron, of Billerica ; Joseph, mentioned
below; Joshua, June 21, 1733, went to
Maine; William, September 13, 1735,
went to Maine ; Jonathan, June 16, 1747.
(V) Joseph Fowles, son of Samuel
Fowles, was born at Woburn, Massachu-
setts, June 17, 1732. He and his brothers,
Joshua and William, settled early at Ball-
town, of which the present town of
Whitefield was a part. Samuel, Joshua
and Joseph Fowles were among the
signers of a petition of the inhabitants of
Lincoln county, Maine, April 22, 1755,
and the records of probate in Lincoln
county give evidence that they lived there
at a later date. Joshua and William were
witnesses to various documents on file.
By wife Sarah he had children, born at
Woburn: Samuel, January 22,, 1756;
Susanna, twin of Samuel ; Joseph, men-
tioned below ; and probably several others
after going to Maine.
(VI) Joseph (2) Fowles, son of Joseph
(i) Fowles, was born in Woburn, Massa-
chusetts, March 9, 1758, and went with
his father and brothers to Pemaquid,
Maine, when a young man. He settled at
Whitefield, Maine, in the south part of the
present town. The name of his wife has
not been found, but we have the names
of several of their children: i. William,
died in Whitefield, 1859; married Char-
lotte Blair, and had Benjamin, Caroline,
Charles, Hannah and William. 2. Samuel,
said to have gone to Green Bay, Wiscon-
sin, where he was a pioneer in the lumber
business. 3. Bradford, settled to the east-
ward in Maine. 4. Joseph, mentioned be-
low.
(VII) Joseph (3) Fowles, son of Jo-
seph (2) Fowles, was born 1780-90, in
Whitefield, Maine, and followed farming
there through his active life. He married
. Children : Harrison,
Samuel, Miles, John, Bradford. Gardner,
mentioned below, and Lydia.
(VIII) Gardner Fowles, son of Joseph
(3) Fowles, was born at Whitefield,
Maine, in 1828, and died at Southampton,
Massachusetts, December 25, 1915. aged
eighty-seven years. He was educated in
the common schools, and during his youth
followed farming in his native town.
When he came of age he left home and
located in Southampton, where he bought
a farm and conducted it during the re-
mainder of his active life. He enlisted in
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Company B, Thirty-first Regiment, Mas-
sachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served
three years in the Civil War, being
mustered out at Xew Orleans, November
19, 1864. In politics he was a Republican ;
in religion a Congregationalist. He mar-
ried (first) Mary Thorpe, daughter of
James and Almenia (Searles) Thorpe, of
Southampton. He married (second)
Frances Frary. Children by first wife :
Ellen, died in infancy ; Alice ; Joseph
Henry, mentioned below ; Frank ; Harry ;
Mary and Xellie. Children by second
wife: Leon, Bernard, Ethel, Cecil.
(IX) Joseph Henry Fowles, son of
Gardner Fowles, was born at Southamp-
ton, Massachusetts, March 2S. 1857. He
received his education in the public
schools of that town. After leaving
school he worked on a farm for two years.
At the age of seventeen years, he began
to learn the trade of carpenter in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, and for a number of years
worked as a journeyman. For thirty
years he has been in business as a car-
penter and builder. From the beginning
he has been successful and year by year
the scope of his operations increased. As
his reputation became known he was
given contracts not only in the city where
he lives, but in all the surrounding towns
and even in distant points, in X'ew Hamp-
shire. \'ermont, and as far away as
Florida. Among the many business
buildings and residences that he has
erected are the McCauslin & Wakelin
Block; the Besse-Mills Block: the Tilley
Building; the Majestic; Dr. Tuttle's
Block ; residences of T. J. Morrow, Clifton
Tilley and others too numerous to men-
tion; the Polish Church, and Highland
Methodist Episcopal Church. He has
from fifteen to forty carpenters in his
employ, according to the season. Until
recently he was in business alone, but
since he admitted his son, Lynford
Fowles, to partnership, the business is
conducted under the firm name of J. H.
Fowles & Son. Mr. Fowles is one of
the best known and most highly esteemed
business men of the county. The reli-
ability of his work is characteristic of the
man. Trained in the old-fashioned school
of honor, his aim has been to do durable,
lasting, substantial work, and throughout
his career he has sustained his reputation
as a first-class builder. Mr. Fowles is a
member of Holyoke Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and of the High-
land Methodist Episcopal Church. In
politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Fowles married, Xovember 3, 1877,
Mary Merrill, born in Orono, Maine,
daughter of Asa and Mary (Spencer)
Merrill, of Orono. Children: i. Effie,
born May 30. 1879 ! became the wife of
Fred Ball, of Holyoke, and had three chil-
dren, one of whom is living, Marion. 2.
Lynford, born March 15, 1882, in Hol-
yoke ; educated there in the public schools,
learned the trade of carpenter, and was
employed by his father until admitted to
partnership, now junior partner of T. H.
Fowles & Son. 3. Florence, born January
3, 1887; a graduate of Holyoke schools,
then for two years attended Xorthfield
School, from which she was graduated
and obtained a diploma ; she went to Bos-
ton, where she studied and obtained a
diploma as a manicurist, and practiced in
Holyoke ; later attended the Xew York
City Training School for Nurses, from
which she graduated and received a
diploma, and at the present time (1917)
is practicing her profession as a trained
nurse. 4. Ruth, born May 31. 1890;
graduate of Holyoke schools and Wes-
leyan Academy at Wilbraham. Massachu-
setts : became the wife of Earle Brown,
of Xew York City, now a teacher in
Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania : they have one child, Earle Joseph
Brown.
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ALDEN, Edward Smith,
Printer, Journalist.
A practical printer, owner and pub-
lisher of the "Artisan," a weekly paper
devoted to the interests of labor, and
former president of the State Federation
of Labor, Mr. Alden occupies a respon-
sible relation to the industrial world. A
worker himself from boyhood, he has risen
in the confidence of his fellow workers
by a course of consistent and persistent
interest in their welfare and by his loyalty
to every trust reposed in him. He is a
fine type of American manhood and
worthy of the honored name he bears, a
name which has existed in New England
from the first landing of the Pilgrims.
He is a descendant of John Alden, who
cast his lot with the Puritans and came
over in the "Mayflower," a ship which
also bore his future wife, Priscilla Molines
(Mullins). They were married in the
spring of 1621, and from them, comes a
large number of worthy descendants.
John Alden, in 1633, was appointed
assistant to the governor, and from that
time was one of the influential men of the
colony, associated with Edward Win-
slow. Josiah Winslow, Bradford Prince
and Thomas Hinckley in public life,
holding ofifices of the highest trust. He
possessed sound judgment and talents
above the ordinary, and there is abundant
evidence as to his industry, integrity and
exemplary piety. On the farm he owned
stands one of the four oldest houses in
New England, and there he spent his
declining years, dying at Duxbury, Sep-
tember I, 1686, aged eighty-seven, the
last survivor of the "Mayflower" com-
pany, that famed band of Pilgrim fathers.
The line of descent to Edward Smith
Alden, of Holyoke, is through Joseph
Alden, son of the "Pilgrim," born in
Plymouth in 1624, died February 12, 1697.
He married Mary, daughter of Moses
Simmons, who came in the "Fortune" in
1 62 1, and settled at Duxbury; their son,
Joseph (2) Alden, born at Plymouth or
l^ridgewater in 1667, died at Bridgewater,
December 22, 1747. He settled at South
Bridgewater, was a deacon of the church
and a prominent citizen. He married,
in 1690, Hannah, daughter of Daniel
Dunham, of Plymouth ; their son, Sam-
uel Alden, was born at Bridgewater,
August 20, 1705. He married (first)
in 1728, Abiah, daughter of Captain Jo-
seph Edson, a descendant of Deacon
Samuel Edson, an early Bridgewater
settler. The line continues through their
fifth child, Josiah Alden, born in Bridge-
water in 1738, and was a farmer there, in
Wales and in Ludlow, Massachusetts.
He married, in 1761, Bathsheba Jones, of
Raynham. Their eldest son Elijah
served in the Revolution. Another son,
Benjamin Alden was born in 1781, and
died in 1841. He married Mary (Polly)
Hodges, born in 1781, and died in 1865.
Their son, Jefferson Alden, was born at
Ludlow, Massachusetts, January 26, 1804,
and died in August, 1857. He was a
maker of reeds for textile machinery and
the inventor of a machine used in his busi-
ness. He married Salome Kendall,
daughter of Amos and Sila (Miller) Ken-
dall. Their eldest son George was a
soldier of the Civil War.
Edward Monroe Alden, son of Jefiferson
and Salome (Kendall) Alden. was born
in Ludlow, Massachusetts, February 17,
1844, died at Chicopee, Massachusetts,
November 28, 191 1. He located in Chico-
pee at an early day, ran an express line
between Holyoke and Chicopee, and was
long active in various other business
activities, having a shoe store in Chicopee
Falls, also a store in Chicopee, and for
many years conducted a real estate busi-
ness in both Chicopee and Springfield.
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He was a member of Chicopee Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, was a com-
panion of Chicopee Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, a past noble grand of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and a
member of the Congregational church.
He married Ida Smith, a woman of liter-
ary talent, a writer of stories, many of
them published in the "New England
Homestead." She died in 1891, leaving
children: Edward Smith, of further
mention ; Ida Grace, born November 30,
1877, married Amos T. Palmer; Percy
Monroe, born August 5, 1883 ; Edith M.,
born September 12, 1885; John S., born
April 1 1, 1899.
Edward Smith Alden, of the ninth
American generation of the family
founded by John Alden and Priscilla
(Mullins) Alden, son of Edward Monroe
and Ida (Smith) Alden, was born in
Chicopee, Massachusetts, August 18, 1875.
He attended public school until thirteen
years of age, then began business life in
a grocery store in Palmer, Massachusetts,
remaining there four years. He then be-
gan his apprenticeship to the printing
trade with the Springfield Printing and
Binding Company of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, receiving absolutely no wages
for a time. He thoroughly mastered the
"art and mystery" of printing with that
company, and when he had passed his
apprentice term remained with them as a
journeyman in the job printing depart-
ment. When the linotype was introduced
and struck terror to the hearts of many
journeyman printers who thought it
spelled ruin for the typesetter, Mr. Alden
welcomed the machine, at once learned
to work it, and became a good operator.
Soon afterward he was called home to
Chicopee to assist his father in the real
estate business, later going to Holyoke,
where he secured a position in the job
department of the "Daily Transcript," as
foreman of the linotype department. He
remained with the "Transcript" twelve
years, a strong comment on his value to
his employers. In 1908 he began the pub-
lication of "The Artisan," but did not
devote his entire attention to that journal
until 1912, since when it has been his
sole business interest.
The "Artisan" is a weekly, devoted to
the interests of the working man, and is
a highly regarding medium, reaching a
large list of readers and well patronized
by advertisers, is ably edited and a power
in labor's cause. Mr. Alden also main-
tains a high class job printing business
called the Alden Press. In September,
1916, he moved from his location on High
street to commodious quarters on Maple
street. For fifteen years he has been
president of the local Typographical
Union, has been its representative in the
Central Labor Union for as many years ;
is vice-president of the Central Labor
Union ; has for some years been a dele-
gate to the Massachusetts Federation of
Labor, to the American Federation of
Labor and New England Typographical
Union, and in 191 1 was elected president
of the State Federation, holding that office
three years, a record for length of service
in that body. In 1915 he was sent as a
delegate to the National Federation meet-
ing in San Francisco during the Panama
Exposition. He is still active in these
various bodies in official capacity.
In politics he is independent. He is a
member of Roswell Lee Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Springfield ; Morn-
ing Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of
Springfield ; Springfield Ctnuicil, Royal
and Select Masters ; Springfield Com-
mandery. Knights Templar ; Melha
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ;
Amity Lodge and Agawam Encampment,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Springfield. He is highly regarded in
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these bodies, and wherever known num-
bers his friends.
Mr. Alden married, October i, 1902,
Mary Tate, born in County Clare, Ireland,
daughter of George Tate. Mr. and Mrs.
Alden are the parents of Alice, Arnold
and Priscilla Alden, and of three sons who
died voungf.
DOWD, Hon. James J.,
An Honored Citizen of Holyoke.
Honored and respected by all, there
were few men in Holyoke who occupied
a more enviable position in business,
political or religious circles than the late
James J. Dowd, not alone on account of
the success he achieved, but also on
account of the honorable, straight for-
ward business policy he ever followed.
He was of the type of man who makes
the nnest citizen, was serious-minded in
all of his pursuits, accomplished a vast
amount of good in his quiet, unostenta-
tious way and performed many kind and
charitable deeds for people in need. Dur-
ing his more than half a century of resi-
dence in Holyoke he made many friends,
and in all relations of life he manifested
those sterling qualities that ever com-
mand respect and are at all times worthy
of emulation.
James J. Dowd was a native of Ireland,
born in 1859, and six years later, in 1865,
accompanied his parents to this country,
they settling in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
in which city the son spent his entire after
life. The father, also James J. Dowd, was
employed in the mills of Holyoke for a
number of years, and his death occurred
in that city. He and his wife were the
parents of fourteen children ; one of their
sons, Matthew Dowd, resides in Water-
bury, Connecticut ; two daughters in Ire-
land, two in Holyoke, and one is in the
Convent of Notre Dame in Lawrence,
Massachusetts.
James J. Dowd received his education
in the public schools of his adopted city,
making the best of his opportunities and
thus acquiring knowledge that proved of
great benefit to him in his later career.
His first occupation was clerk in the gro-
cery store and market conducted by the
late Jeremiah Doody located at No. 163
Lyman street, Holyoke, and later, after
mastering all the details of the business,
he purchased the stock and good will of
his employer and conducted the business
successfully for fifteen years, at the ex-
piration of which time he disposed of it
to Messrs. Grififin and Reardon, realizing
a goodly profit on the transaction which
compensated him for his years of honor-
able toil and endeavor. For the follow-
ing thirteen years he served the city of
Holyoke on the Board of Assessors,
serving eight years as chairman, and dur-
ing the latter part of his term, in 1898, he
opened an insurance and real estate busi-
ness whh J. J. Keane, in which they were
particularly successful, gaining an en-
viable reputation for honesty and integ-
rity. This they continued up to 1907,
when Mr. Keane retired, and Mr. Dowd
w^as alone until 1910, wdien he admitted
his son, James J. Dowd, Jr., who had just
been graduated from Holy Cross College,
into partnership and this association con-
tinued up to the senior Mr. Dowd's death.
It is safe to assume that the business will
be conducted by the son along the same
straightforward lines as laid down by his
honored father. The elder Mr. Dowd was
one of the first tenants of the former Ball
Building and occupied the offices for the
long period of eighteen years, up to the
time of his decease. He was chosen to
represent Holyoke in the State Legis-
lature and served acceptably during the
terms of 1901 and 1902, and for the
promptness and fidelity displayed by him
in the discharge of his duties he won the
commendation and approval of all con-
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cerned. During his incumbency of the
office of assessor, when the board was
confronted with serious problems. Mr.
Dowd showed his grasp of property valu-
ations and his views and opinions carried
weight with the other members of the
board, and in his years in the Legislature
he exhibited the same seriousness of pur-
pose and his efforts in behalf of the
people were highly beneficial and bore
good fruit. He was the predecessor of the
late Thomas J. Dillon.
From the time he took up his residence
in Holyoke until his decease, Mr. Dowd
was prominently and actively identified
with St. Jerome Church, and he served
on the altar up to the time that he was
made collector in the year 1886. his serv-
ice in difTerent capacities in that church
covering a period of forty years. To
people attending the church for the past
half century, Mr. Dowd was a familiar
figure and he was acquainted with nearly
ever}' member of the parish. He was
highly thought of by all and was particu-
larly loved by all of the children of St.
Jerome schools. He was a model of
accuracy himself and he felt that church
people should be as loyal and generous
to the church as he was. St. Jerome
Church never had a more faithful collector
or a church official that was more willing
to give his energies and effort. He was a
member of the Holy Name Society of the
church, joining the organization when it
was first formed. He was a charter mem-
ber of the Holyoke Council, Knights of
Columbus, and w^as one of the most
active and zealous workers in the organi-
zation. He was at the time of his death
secretary of the building committee, and
he was one of the most tireless workers in
the organization for the erection of the
present home of that order. He had
always been a loyal member of the An-
cient Order of Hibernians and had shown
the same unfailing interest in its welfare,
and he was a member of Holyoke Lodge,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
also of the Robert Emmett Literary Asso-
ciation.
Mr. Dowd married, January, 1886,
Mary Frances McCann, of Montreal,
Canada, who was his constant companion,
and they w-ere the parents of four chil-
dren, namely: Infant, deceased; James
J., of whom further ; Mary Agnes, died at
age of two and a half years ; John
Francis, died at age of three and a half
years. Mr. Dowd was devoted to his wife
and son, and their family life was an un-
usually happy and peaceful one.
Mr. Dowd died at his late home, Xo.
127 Chestnut street, Holyoke, after a
short illness. May 6, 1916. He was sur-
vived by his widow, son, six sisters, Mrs.
Katherine Hannifin, Mrs. Edward Dowd,
Sister James of the Order of X'otre Dame
at Lawrence, Mrs. Geran, Mrs. Rice and
Mrs. Grififin, of Ireland, and one brother,
Matthew Dowd, all of whom are men-
tioned previously. In his death the city
of Holyoke lost a man of splendid char-
acter, a man who was at the wheel of
service for many years and whose entire
life was an inspiration for right living and
earnest purpose.
There was a solemn high mass of
requiem in St. Jerome Church for Mr.
Dowd. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor John T.
Madden w^as celebrant, Rev. Walter T.
Hogan, deacon, and Rev. James O'Con-
nor, sub-deacon. Within the sanctuary
w^ere seated Rt. Rev. Thomas D. Beavan,
bishop of Springfield Diocese, who pro-
nounced the benediction ; Rev. Owen Mc-
Gee, of Springfield, Rev. James Sheehan,
of Ware, Rev. John O'Connell, of Fair-
view. Rev. D. T. Devine, of Brookfield,
and Rev. P. F. Dowd, of the Holy Cross
Church. Monsignor Madden paid the
following tribute to Mr. Dowd who had
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been so long identified with St. Jerome
Church ; in addition to this his son re-
ceived over twenty letters from other
pastors who could not be present.
Dk.ak Friends : — To let this sad occasion pass
without a brief tribute to the character of James
J. Dowd would savor of a lack of appreciation of
the work and worth of a noble Christian man.
As a boy he served at this altar. As a young man
and through manhood he gave the best service
without stint or reservation to the furthering of
the material and moral interests of St. Jerome's.
For over a generation has he, Sunday after Sun-
day passed up and down in this church, always
painstaking and ever courteous to all comers.
Exact in every detail, firm in the enforcement of
church regulations, he possessed the fine art of
tempering firmness with a gentle suavity, all his
own. In bearing and in fact he was an ideal
church official. He would have graced a wider
field and would have been a marked figure in any
congregation. One trait stood out in a very
marked manner in his character. He had a very
fine and correct idea of the position and respon-
sibility of a layman in reference to his church.
This was so developed in him that he felt it a
conscientious duty to assist in every practical way
in the uplift and advancement of religion. Always
ready to tender advice, he never overstepped the
line, never obtruded his own opinion, or insisted
on its adoption, but was always found amongst
the hard persistent workers. He even anticipated
the needs of those who sought his cooperation.
He was a warm hearted, sympathetic man. He
could interest himself in the wants and simple
pleasures of children. He could frequently be
found chattering with them and entering into
their childish plans. The older members of the
congregation were always greeted with a word or
a nod of kindness and sympathy. All in all his
presence will be missed for many a day in old St.
Jerome's. He had promised himself some respite
from the self-imposed labors, but now that the
Master has called him we are glad that the
summons found him still in active duty — still at
the head of workers of the church that he so
ardently loved and so faithfully served. Peace
be to his memory. Your fervent prayers will fol-
low him beyond the grave. Eternal rest be his
portion and may Heaven's light shine upon him
forever more.
James J. Dowd, Jr., w^as born in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, February i6, 1889.
He was educated in the public schools of
his native city, in parochial and high
schools, and Holy Cross College, Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, from which he was
graduated in 1910. During the time spent
in high school and college he had played
with success on the base ball team, four
years in high school and four years in
college, and upon the completion of his
course of study in college he decided to
take up baseball as a profession during
his spare time, and from then up to the
time of his father's death, a period of
almost seven years, he filled the posi-
tion of pitcher in the professional clubs
of the State and National organizations,
playing with the Montreal, Pittsburgh,
Indianapolis, Utica, and Cincinnati clubs.
In this sport and profession his efforts
were always seconded by his father,
who encouraged him in every way,
being present at all times when pos-
sible to applaud his good work. The
senior Mr. Dowd was an enthusiast in the
national pastime, and through the w^ork of
his son met many of the most prominent
players in the baseball world, and with
them he was not only popular but a great
favorite. As a rule ball players have so
many encomiums heaped upon them and
are made so much of by the public that
they become reserved and to some extent
almost cold in their manner to strangers,
but exactly the opposite was it with James
J. Dowd. They were not only glad to
see him, but to show their appreciation
of him and as a special mark of respect
he w^as in many cases invited to sit with
them on the bench during the game, a
privilege accorded or extended to very
few men outside of baseball officers in the
United States, and at his death the asso-
ciation sent an enormotis floral piece over
six feet in height as a mark of their re-
spect and the esteem in which he was
held. Upon the death of his father, James
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J. Dowd, Jr., was compelled to relinquish
his position and return to Holyoke to take
charge of his father's business, which he
still continues. He is a young man whom
it is a pleasure to know, a worthy son of
a worthy sire.
VERSHON, (Mrs.) Mary A.,
■Well-Known Resident of Holyoka.
Joseph \'ershon (\'achon in French),
father of Jacob Vershon, deceased hus-
band of Mrs. Mary A. \'ershon, was born
in Canada, from whence he came to the
United States, locating at first in Water-
bury. Washington county, Vermont, from
whence he later removed to Providence,
Providence county, Rhode Island, where
he died January 20, 1917, at the advanced
age of ninety-two years. He took an
active part in the various communities in
which he resided, giving his time and
attention to the profession of journalist,
in which he was highly successful, having
been able to lay aside sufficient funds to
provide for his needs during his declining
years. He married Rose Tatro, a native
of Canada, and they were the parents of
four children to grow up, namely : Mary,
Jacob, David and Seymour.
Jacob Vershon, eldest son of Joseph
and Rose (Tatro) Vershon, was born in
St. Cesaire, Province of Quebec. Canada,
1857. He was reared and educated in his
native land, and during his active career
was a mechanic and a mill man. After
coming to Holyoke, he followed the busi-
ness of a barber, and during his last years
he was in Providence, Rhode Island, and
he died there in 1902. He was faithful in
the performance of his duties, conscien-
tious and painstaking, and gained the
good will and confidence of all with whom
he associated. He married, in 1878, Mary
A. (Henault) Welch, born in Beauhar-
nois, in the vicinity of Montreal, Province
of Quebec, Canada, daughter of Edward
and Angelina (Deignault) Henault,
granddaughter of Henry B. Henault, and
widow of James E. Welch, to whom she
was married in 1871, and by whom she
had one son, Edward Welch. He is a
printer in Springfield, Massachusetts. By
her second marriage she had children,
namely : Angelina, died in infancy ; Rhea,
died aged six years ; Eva. died in infancy ;
Henry, at home with his mother, was an
engineer for ten years on the Boston &
Albany Railroad, now in the automobile
business, married Florida Emond, of
Montreal. The Henault family trace
their descent to a lord in Canada, who
was the father of Henry B. Henault,
aforementioned. The city of Berthier,
Canada, is built on what was formerly the
estate of Henry B. Henault, who was the
father of nine children : George, Albert,
Edward, Victor, ]^Iary, Elmira, Louise,
Martha and Antoinette. Edward Hen-
ault, the third son of Henry B. Henault,
w^as born in Canada, removed from there
to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1864, and
five years later took up his residence in
Holyoke, Massachusetts. He was a book-
keeper, well educated, and a great musi-
cian. He died in 1875.
Mrs. Vershon is a strong advocate for
the French people in this country, doing
all in her power to advance their inter-
ests. She has taken an active part for
many years in the fraternal order, Com-
panion of the Foresters, has filled the
various chairs in the order, serving as
supreme recording secretary, supreme
chairlady, etc., and has been delegate to
their various conventions for more than
tw^enty years, traveling in this capacity to
various parts of the country. She has
instituted lodges and acted as official in-
terpreter of the work of the order. She
is the owner of a valuable estate fronting
for some six hundred feet on Main street,
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Holyoke, with the Connecticut river run-
ning the entire length on the rear part of
the property. She is a woman of broad,
humanitarian spirit, of wide general cul-
ture, and is interested in all that pertains
to the uplifting of the human race, espe-
cially the people of her own nationality,
the advancement of the moral, the intel-
lectual and the good, and all that brings
comfort and true happiness.
DILLON, William Joseph,
Business Man, Public OfficiaL
The firm of Dillon Brothers, funeral
directors of Holyoke, Massachusetts, of
which William J. and James H. Dillon are
the efficient heads, was founded on the
business established by their father, John
Dillon, and their uncle, Thomas Dillon.
John, Thomas and Michael Dillon, all
born in Ireland, were the sons of Thomas
Dillon, a school teacher in Ireland, and
his wife, Ellen (Carroll) Dillon. She was
a most capable, energetic woman, and
ambitious that her sons should have better
opportunities than their section of Ireland
afforded. She finally left her husband and
two younger sons in Ireland and came to
the United States with her eldest son,
Thomas. She selected a location in Chic-
opee, Massachusetts, and later was joined
by her husband and the two sons, John
and Michael. This sketch deals with the
fortunes of John Dillon, the second son
of the family.
John Dillon was born in Balleydufif,
Ireland, in June, 1842, and died in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, December 25, 1903.
He came to the United States with his
father in 1856, a lad of fourteen years.
He was well educated for a boy of his
years, his scholarly father having given
him the benefit of his own teaching. He
learned the trade of wheelwright in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, with E. D. Shelley,
continuing at his trade until 1870. He
then formed a partnership with his
brother, Thomas Dillon, and as T. & J.
Dillon they started an undertaker's estab-
lishment in Holyoke, in the J. Doody
block. They prospered and continued to-
gether until Thomas Dillon sold his share
in 1889, John Dillon then conducting the
business alone until his decease in 1903.
His undertaking rooms were in the Dillon
Block erected by Dillon Brothers, which
is one of the largest in the city. It was
begun in 1875, completed in 1885, and
occupies half a square, formerly the site
of the old City Reservoir. John Dillon
was an able business man, a skilled
cabinet maker, and thoroughly under-
stood the business he followed. He
served as alderman, was very, popular and
was one of the substantial men of his
adopted city. He married Alary Sullivan,
born in 1846, died in 1887, ^ daughter of
Patrick Sullivan, of Irish birth. They
were the parents of a large family: i.
Elizabeth, married Richard A. Cronin,
postmaster of Chicopee, Massachusetts. 2.
Mary, died in infancy. 3. Thomas J.,
deceased ; was common councilman, alder-
man, representative and State Senator,
and held the office of tax collector at
death ; for several years he was a member
of the firm of Dillon Brothers. 4. John J.
5. William Joseph, of further mention. 6.
Helen, married B. J. Grady. 7. Hannah.
8. Mary. 9. Catherine. 10. Michael. 11.
James H., a partner in Dillon Brothers;
member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks; Division i, Ancient Order
of Hibernians ; Uncas Tribe, Improved
Order of Red Men ; Knights of Columbus,
and Holyoke Club ; married Anna C.
Byrnes. 12. George, died in January,
1916. 13. Jeremiah. 14. Grace.
William Joseph Dillon, son of John
and Mary (Sullivan) Dillon, was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, July 24, 1872,
and has always resided in his native city.
He finished the full course allotted to
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students of St. Jerome Parochial School,
and after graduation spent a year at
Childs Business College. After complet-
ing his studies he became associated with
his father, who taught him his business,
but later he learned the bricklayer's trade
with Lynch Brothers, working at that
trade until the year 1900. He then re-
turned to his father and continued his
efficient assistant until John Dillon's
death in 1903. After the founder had for-
ever departed, his sons, Thomas J., W il-
liam J. and James H., formed the firm of
Dillon Brothers and continued the busi-
ness. In a few years the political and
public responsibilities that were bestowed
so liberally upon Thomas J. Dillon caused
him to withdraw from the firm, William
J. and James H. Dillon continuing the
business as at present, their undertaking
establishment being operated upon the
most modern methods for the care and
burial of the dead. In 1917 they pur-
chased ground and built a new building
at No. 124 Chestnut street, where they
have very fine funeral parlors. William
J. Dillon is an ex-councilman of Holyoke ;
ex-overseer of the poor, a position he held
for eleven years; is a member of the
Bricklayers' Union; Knights of Colum-
bus ; Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks; Ancient Order of Hibernians and
the Loyal Order of Moose.
He married, in October, 1901, Elizabeth
Donahue, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, a
daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Leary)
Donahue. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon are the
parents of seven children, all born in Hol-
yoke : May, in January. 1903 ; John, May,
1904; Catherine, died in infancy; Eliza-
beth, born in 1908; William, July, 1909;
Catherine, in 191 1 ; Eleanor, in 1914.
STREET, John,
Representative Citizen.
The old Street homestead in Holyoke,
now the home of John Street, was also
his birthplace. To the then new house on
the old homestead farm his father, Philo
Williams Street, brought his bride, Lu-
cina P. Dickinson; the first fire ever
lighted in the big sitting room fireplace
being on the night of the wedding, Febru-
ary 17, 1 83 1. Fifty years later a fire burn-
ing in the same fireplace threw out the
warmth and good cheer to one hundred
and fifty relatives and friends gathered to
celebrate the golden wedding anniversary
of Philo W. and Lucina P. (Dickinson)
Street. There Philo W. Street and his
wife lived for more than half a century,
there their children were born, the death
of the father in 1883 being the first break
in the family circle.
On the paternal side John Street, of
Holyoke, traces his ancestry to the Rev.
Nicholas Street, the early teacher and
preacher of Taunton, Massachusetts, and
colleague of Rev. John Davenport, of New
Haven, Connecticut. The Streets were of
ancient English lineage, the name Le
Strete being found as early as 1300. The
family bore arms and were of importance,
this branch springing from Richard
Street, of Somersetshire, whose will was
probated September 30, 1592; his son,
Nicholas Street, whose will was proved
May 3, 1610; his son, Nicholas (2) Street,
a gentleman of Bridgewater, Somerset-
shire, whose will was proved February
13, 1617. This Nicholas (2) Street mar-
ried, January 16, 1602, Susanna Gilbert.
They were the parents of the Rev. Nich-
olas Street, the American ancestor.
(I) Rev. Nicholas Street, born in
Bridgewater, Somersetshire, England,
there baptized January, 1603, died in New
Haven, Connecticut. April 22, 1674. His
mother died one month after the birth of
her son, and at the age of thirteen years
he lost his father. Matriculation papers
of Oxford University show that "Nicholas
Street of Somerset entered college No-
vember 2, 1621, at the age of eighteen."
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He received the degree of Bachelor of
Arts at Oxford, February 21, 1624. He
was installed as reader over the Taunton
church, an office he held jointly with Mr.
Hooke for seven years. When Mr. Hooke
was called to New Haven, Connecticut, as
colleague with the Rev. John Davenport,
Mr. Street continued pastor of the Taun-
ton church for fifteen years alone, then on
September 26, 1659, followed Mr. Hooke
to New Haven, and took the latter's place
as assistant to the Rev. John Davenport.
On September 27, 1667, Mr. Davenport
was called to Boston, Mr. Street succeed-
ing him as pastor of the First Church at
New Haven and serving until his death,
April 22, 1674. He was a wise and
earnest man, grave and dignified in ap-
pearance, and holy in life, who kept the
mark of his gentle birth in all the pioneer
life in the wilderness. He shrank from no
responsibility, rose to every occasion and
left a precious memory. His second wife
was Mrs. Mary Newman, widow of Gov-
ernor Francis Newman, of New Haven.
She survived Mr. Street and married
(third) Governor Leete, whom she also
outlived; she died December 13, 1683.
Rev. Nicholas Street had children : Rev.
Samuel, of further mention ; Susanna ;
Sarah, married James Heaton ; Abiah,
married Daniel Sherman.
(H) Rev. Samuel Street, only son of
Rev. Nicholas Street, was born in 1635,
and died at Wallingford, Connecticut,
January 16, 1717. He was a graduate of
Harvard College, 1664, one of a class of
seven, all of whom he outlived. A
monitor's bill, recently discovered, two
hundred years old, gives all the names of
Harvard's twenty-three students of that
year. For ten years he taught in Hop-
kins Grammar School, New Haven, those
being years of association with his hon-
ored father and in preparation for the
ministry. He was installed April 22,
1674, the first settled pastor at Walling-
ford, and for forty-five years he was the
spiritual head of that church. In 1710 he
was one of the original signers of the
Plantation Covenant of Wallingford, and
exerted a great influence in all the affairs
of the town. He was esteemed a
"heavenly man" and was highly respected
by the inhabitants of Wallingford.
Soon after graduation from Harvard,
Mr. Street married, November 3, 1664,
Anna Miles, daughter of Richard and
Katherine (Constable) Miles, the latter
dying in Wallingford, April 11, 1687, aged
ninety-five years. On his tombstone, now
replaced, was this inscription : "The Rev-
erend Mr. Street departed this life Janu-
ary 16, 1817, aged eighty-two." Mrs.
Street died August 10, 1730. She had
been married sixty-six years. Children :
Anna, born in New Haven, August 17,
1665, died before her father; Samuel, of
further mention ; Mary, born in New
Haven, September 6. 1670; Susanna, born
in Wallingford, June 15, 1675, married
Deacon John Peck; Nicholas, born in
Wallingford, July 14, 1677. married Je-
rusha Morgan ; Katherine, born in Wall-
ingford, November 19, 1679, married
(first) Joshua Munson, (second) Sergeant
Joshua Culver (2) ; Sarah, born in Wal-
lingford, January 15, 1681, married The-
ophilus Yale.
(Ill) Lieutenant Samuel (2) Street,
son of the Rev. Samuel (i) Street, was
born July 2^, 1667. at New Haven, Con-
necticut, and his estate was administered,
February 18, 1719. At a general assembly
held at Hartford, May 10, 1716: "This
assembly do establish and confirm Mr.
Samuel Street of Wallingford to be lieu-
tenant of the train band on the west side
in the town of Wallingford." He mar-
ried (first) July 14, 1690, Hannah Glover,
born October 10, 1672, died July 8, 1715,
daughter of John Glover, of New Haven.
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He married (second) December 20, 1716,
Mrs. Elizabeth (Brown) Todd, daughter
of Eleazer and Sarah (Bulkley) Brown.
Children by first marriage : Eleanor, born
December 3, 1691 ; Nathaniel, born Janu-
ary 19, 1693, married Mary Raymond;
Elnathan. born September 2, 1695, mar-
ried Damaris Hull; Mary, born April 16,
1698, married John Hall ; Mehitable, born
February 15, 1699, married Abraham
Bassett ; John, born October 23, 1703,
married Hannah Hall; Samuel, of further
mention.
(IV) Samuel (3) Street, son of Lieu-
tenant Samuel (2) Street, was born May
10, 1707, and died in Wallingford, Con-
necticut, October 15, 1792. He married
(first) November 12, 1734, Keziah Mun-
son, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth
(Hermon) Munson. He married (second)
in 1745, Sarah Atwater, born November
28, 1727, died October i, 1795, daughter
of Caleb and Mehitable (Mix) Atwater.
Child of first wife : Glover, of further
mention. Children of second wife : Titus,
born June 4, 1748; Caleb, born October
26, 1753.
(V) Glover Street, son of Samuel (3)
Street, was born May 28, 1735, and died
November 28, 1826, aged ninety-one years.
He was taken prisoner by the French
during the French War on a merchant's
ship from New Haven to the West Indies
and carried prisoner to Guadaloupe, there
confined som,e months. He married, in
1755, Lydia Allen, of North Haven, Con-
necticut. She died February 13, 1817,
aged eighty. Children : Esther, born
February 24, 1757, married twice; Han-
nah, born October 18, 1758, married Jehiel
Todd; Keziah, born March 7, 1761, died
in infancy; Samuel, born October 2, 1762,
married Ann Munson; Glover (2), born
May 7, 1764, married Deborah Bradley;
Caleb Munson, born July 13, 1766, mar-
ried Bathsheba Chapin ; Keziah, born
July 23, 1768, married Zenas Hastings;
George, born January 2, 1771, died Sep-
tember 23, 1836, married, October 17,
1808, Miriam Munson, born October 22,
1763, died March 14, 1843; Joshua, born
November 28, 1772, married twice; Eliza-
beth, born July 30, 1775, married Elijah
Morgan; John, of further mention.
(VI) John Street, son of Glover Street,
was born in Wallingford, Connecticut,
May 29, 1778, and died January 17, 1846.
He was a representative from West
Springfield, Massachusetts, in the General
Court at Boston in 1827-28, probably com-
ing to West Springfield with others of the
family in the year 1800. He was a car-
penter by trade and a farmer, owning
lands at Holyoke upon which many fine
residences now stand. He w-as connected
with the building of the First Congrega-
tional Church in Holyoke, and only re-
ceived for this work one dollar a day, and
was a man of importance in his com-
munity. He married, in 1801, Sally Wil-
liams, born in Wallingford, Connecticut,
December 15, 1783, died September, 1848,
daughter of Willoughby Williams. Chil-
dren : Harriet, born May 30, 1802, at
Wallingford. married Abner Miller;
Abigail Charlotte, born December 24,
1804, at Holyoke, married Titus Ingra-
ham ; Philo Williams, of further mention ;
Sally Jerusha, born August 9, 1809, at
Holyoke, married Milo Judd Smith, of
Northampton ; George Willoughby, born
September 9, 1814, at Holyoke, married
Sarah K. Button ; John Herman, born
November 14, 1820, died March, 1876,
married, December, 1846, Mary Loderna
Munson.
(VII) Philo Williams Street, son of
John Street, was born in Holyoke. Massa-
chusetts, March 29, 1807, and died De-
cember 9. 1883. He learned the carpen-
ter's trade with his father, and grew to
manhood at the old homestead which he
helped to clear. He built the new house
on the home farm to which he brought
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his bride, and there he spent his more
than half a century of married life. He
combined undertaking with his carpenter-
ing and conducted many funerals. He
also conducted farming operations, and
was one of the substantial men of his day.
He married, February 17, 1831, Lucina P.
Dickinson, who died October 18, 1894,
aged eighty-two. After the celebration of
their golden wedding day, February 17,
1881, the devoted couple passed two more
anniversaries in their Holyoke home, but
before the third had rolled around the
loving husband and father had passed
away, his wife surviving him eleven years.
They were the parents of two sons : Philo
Hobart, born October 20, 1838, married
Caroline V. Ball, deceased ; John, of fur-
ther mention.
(VIII) John Street, of the eighth
American generation of the family
founded by Rev. Nicholas Street, and
youngest son of Philo Williams and Lu-
cina P. (Dickinson) Street, was born at
the homestead in Holyoke, Masachusetts,
June 19, 1851, and there yet resides. He
was educated in the graded and high
schools of Holyoke, and in his earlier
years devoted himself to farming and
market gardening. For a long term of
years he conducted a prosperous business
along those lines, in addition to farming
on his farm of thirty-two acres, but is now
also engaged in the wholesale ice busi-
ness, a line of activity he entered in 1906.
He owns the old homestead and there re-
sides, the third of his line to occupy it.
Mr. Street was made a Mason in Mt. Tom
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Feb-
ruary 2:1, 1878, and is now in the fortieth
year of membership. He is an Independ-
ent in politics, and served as common
councilman for two years.
He married, in November, 1877, Mary
Strong, daughter of Chester and Sarah
(Cooley) Strong.
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O'CONNOR, John James,
Superintendent of City Farm.
For eleven years John James O'Con-
nor has filled his present responsible
position, and under his charge many imr
provements have been made in the city
property, and its occupants have been
made happy and comfortable. Mr. O'Con-
nor is a native of Ireland, where his
grandparents, Patrick and Mary (Slat-
tery) O'Connor, lived and died. They
were the parents of Thomas O'Connor,
born in County Kerry in 1832, and died
there in 1882. He was an industrious and
thrifty farmer, and reared a large family
of children. He married Ellen O'Connor,
who was born in 1837, daughter of John
and Mary (Flaherty) O'Connor, and she
is still living in her native place, at the
age of eighty years. Several of their chil-
dren came to this country. The eldest,
Patrick, is employed by the Park Depart-
ment of Holyoke, Massachusetts; the
second, Michael, resides in his native
place ; two daughters, Mary and Cather-
ine, are deceased ; Thomas F., resides in
San Francisco ; John J., the subject of the
succeeding biography ; Hugh, died in
childhood ; Daniel, a resident of Water-
bury, Connecticut ; several died in infancy.
John James O'Connor was born De-
cember 22, 1872, at Castle Gregory,
County Kerry, Ireland, and attended the
national schools there, receiving excel-
lent instruction. In his twentieth year he
came to the United States, arriving May
14, 1892, and very shortly afterward lo-
cated in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where
his home has continued to the present
time. For some years he engaged in the
insurance business, and was later an
undertaker. In 1906 he was made super-
intendent of the Holyoke City Farm, and
has ably filled that position to the present
time. Under his administration new
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buildings have been erected, old equip-
ment has been renewed, and a much larger
acreage of land has been tilled and more
and better live stock maintained on the
farm, so that the comfort of the inmates
has been secured and the interests of the
city conserved. On April 17, 1917, the in-
stitution of which Mr. O'Connor is super-
intendent, was visited by the members of
a joint committee of public institutions,
and also the members of the Legislature
of this section spending the day in inspect-
ing the buildings and grounds. Shortly
after their departure, Mr. O'Connor re-
ceived a very beautiful testimonial com-
pliraenting him upon the skillful manner
in which he had conducted the large farm
of over one hundred acres, and for the
neat and tidy appearance of the buildings,
also for the efforts put forth by both Mr.
O'Connor and his wife, who acts in the
capacity of matron, for their care and
consideration of the welfare and comfort
of the inmates of the institution under
their supervision, and for their courtesy
in the entertainment of these officials,
fourteen in number, all of whom signed
this testimonial which is very highly
treasured by Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor. Mr.
O'Connor has been especially active in
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, in
w^hich he has held all the offices of the
local body, and was president of the
Hampden county branch for four years.
For a period of two years he served as
treasurer of the State organization, and
has been a delegate to several of the na-
tional conventions. He is also a member
of the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, and of the Knights of Columbus.
He married, November 27, 1902, Jo-
sephine T. Kennedy, who was born in
Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland, daughter
of John and Catherine (Baker) Kennedy,
who came to America in 1897.
CHARLTON, Kenneth Rhoades,
Automobile Dealer.
Successful in a new industry, as a dealer
in automobiles, Kenneth Rhoades Charl-
ton, of Holyoke, has attained distinction
as a merchant. He is well known and
highly esteemed in business circles in that
city and through Central ^Massachusetts.
His paternal ancestry is Scotch and Eng-
lish ; his maternal (Granger) is of old
Colonial stock. The surname Charlton is
English.
(I) Henry Charlton, the first of the
family in America, was doubtless of Eng-
lish ancestry, more or less remote, but he
was probably born in Scotland, whence
he came about 1800 to Nova Scotia and
made his home.
(II) William Charlton, son of Henry
Charlton, was born in 1801, and died in
Nova Scotia in 1876. He w^as by trade a
ship carpenter, but he also followed farm-
ing. He was a perfect giant in stature
and strength. He married .
Children: Elizabeth, Jane, Charlotte, Am-
brose, mentioned below ; Robert, William.
(III) Ambrose Charlton, son of Wil-
liam Charlton, was born in Williamstown,
Nova Scotia, in 1823, and soon afterward
came with his parents to live in Spring-
field, Nova Scotia. He followed farming
for an occupation, and continued to live
in Springfield until he died, July 4, 1890.
In his early days he was a river driver
and lumberman. He married Abigail
Rope, who was born at Springfield, ^March
31, 1831, died February, 1914, a daughter
of Elijah and Betsey (Fletcher) Rope.
Their children, born at Springfield: Eli-
jah, John, Emma, Israel Manning, men-
tioned below; Margaret, William, Edith.
CIV) Israel Manning Charlton, son of
Ambrose Charlton, was born in Spring-
field, Nova Scotia, June 20, i860. He at-
tended the public schools of his native
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town, but at the age of twelve years went
to work as a driver of logs on the river
and as lumberman. He continued in this
arduous occupation until after he came of
age. In 18S3, he sought his fortune in the
States, and for three years he followed
farming in West Acton, Massachusetts.
In 1886 he made another change in voca-
tion, acquiring a grist mill at West
P)ridgewater. Massachusetts. Here he
ground the grain for farmers and engaged
in farming as well. For two years he con-
ducted a general store in addition to his
other business there. Finally he took up
the trade of carpentering and he has fol-
lowed it since 1888. Leaving West
Bridgewater. he lived for a few years
again at West Acton, but since 1909 he
has made his home at Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts. From January i, 1906, to
March, 1908, he was employed in the me-
chanical department of a construction
company of the Panama Canal. This
work was perhaps the most interesting
and arduous of all. His duties took him
to all parts of the work and he acquired
invaluable experience in the course of his
work in the "Big Ditch." While living on
the Isthmus of Panama, he joined Isthmi-
an Canal Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Repub-
lican. He attends the Congregational
church. Mr. Charlton married, June 23,
1886, Carrie Augusta Granger, who was
born at Concord, New Hampshire, March
12, 1861, daughter of Albert Sanford
Granger (see Granger line). They have
one son, Kenneth Rhoades, mentioned be-
low.
(V) Kenneth Rhoades Charlton, son of
Israel Manning Charlton, was born in
Ottawa. Canada, w^here his parents resided
for a short time, June i, 1891. He at-
tended the public schools of West Acton,
Massachusetts, and for a year was a pupil
in the school in the adjoining town of
Boxborough. He was afterward a student
in the West Springfield High School and
in the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, New
"^'ork, from w^hich he was graduated in
191 1 with the degree of Bachelor of Sci-
ence. After graduation he went into the
automobile business in Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, and in 1913 came to Holyoke.
where he has had the exclusive agency
for the Ford and Hudson automobiles in
that city, and has built up a very exten-
sive and profitable trade, finding a market
for some three hundred machines yearly,
exclusive of used cars. At the present
time, in order to accommodate his busi-
ness, he is erecting a new modern fire-
proof garage at a cost of about $75,000.
He is progressive in his methods, possess-
ing the natural gift of salesmanship and
is a master of all the details of his busi-
ness. Mr. Charlton is a member of Mount
Tom Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of Holyoke ; of the Holyoke Club
and the Canoe Club. He is a member of
the Second Congregational Church of
Holyoke.
He married, June 30, 1913, Eloise Fay
Shur, of El Paso, Illinois, a daughter of
Columbus Porter and Constance Anna
(Welch) Shur.
(The Granger Line).
The earliest mention of the surname
Granger in England is found in the Roll
of Battle Abbey in 1086. The word is of
ancient French origin, adopted into Eng-
lish, and applied to a farmhouse or home-
stead and the bailiff who had charge of a
farm was called Ate Grange and after-
wards merely Granger.
(I) Launcelot Granger, the immigrant
ancestor, came from England and settled
in Ipswich, Massachusetts, as early as
1648. The following tradition concerning
him appears in many branches of the fam-
ily, giving it some measure of probability:
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"Launcelot Granger was born in the west
of England and, when a lad of twelve or
fourteen years of age, he was stolen from
his mother (his father being dead) and
brought to Plymouth in Massachusetts,
where he was sold (apprenticed) to serve
two years for his passage. He had served
on ship as a cabin boy. He afterwards
married a lady named Adams and settled
east of Boston, where he lived until they
had two children." Launcelot Granger
removed from Ipswich to Xewbury at the
time of his marriage in 1654, and leased
the farm of Stephen Kent on Kent's
Island. The site of his house there may
still be recognized. The building was re-
moved in 1884. About 1674 he removed
to Suffield. Connecticut, and September
14 of that year, received a grant of sixty
acres besides forty for each of his two
sons. But he did not remain long after
King Philip's \\'ar. In 1678 his home was
on High street. During King Philip's
War he lived in the stockade at \\^estfield.
He spent his last years in Suffield, and
died there, September 3, 1689, and was
buried in the old graveyard opposite the
meeting house, High street.
He married, January 4. 1653-54, Joanna
Adams, daughter of Robert and Eleanor
Adams. She was born in England in
1634 and died after 1701 in Suffield. Rob-
ert Adams was born in 1601 in Devon-
shire, England, and died at Xewbury. Oc-
tober 12, 1682. Children of Launcelot
Granger: John, Thomas. George, Robert,
Mary. Elizabeth, Dorothy. Rebecca. Sam-
uel, Hannah, Abraham, mentioned below.
(II) Abraham Granger, son of Launce-
lot Granger, was born April 17, 1673. at
Newbury, and died at Sufifield, Connecti-
cut. He married (first) in 1706, Hannah
Hanchett, daughter of Deacon John and
Esther (Pritchett) Hanchett, of Suffield.
She died January 18, 1707-08. He mar-
ried (second) Hannah , who died
June 7, 1726. He came to Suffield with
the family when an infant and lived there
the remainder of his days. He was a
farmer in the northern part of the town
on the present road to Westfield, then but
a path, and as late as 1892 his homestead
was owned by descendants. Child, born
at Suffield. by first wife: Benjamin, men-
tioned below. Children by second wife :
Seth and Hannah.
(HI) Benjamin Granger, son of Abra-
ham Granger, was born in Suffield. Janu-
ary 15, 1707-08. and died there, March
30, 1796. He married (first) June 4. 1730,
Obedience Smith, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Youngglove) Smith. She
was born January 28, 1703-04. and died
April II, 1731. He married (second)
June II, 1733. Martha Granger, born
January 6. 1707-08, daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Allen) Granger, of Suf-
field. Benjamin Granger was a farmer
in the northern part of Suffield on the
road to Westfield, adjoining the farm of
his father mentioned above. Child, born
at Suffield, by first wife : Charles. Chil-
dren by second wife : Ruth, Martha,
Eldad. soldier in the Revolution ; Jona-
than, mentioned below; Benjamin.
(IV) Jonathan Granger, son of Benja-
min Granger, was born at Suffield. Octo-
ber 19, 1743. He married, September 12.
1765. Abiah Halliday, born July 20. 1744,
daughter of William and Anne (Moses)
Halliday. They lived at Suffield and at
Marlboro. Vermont. In the Revolution
he was a teamster, and while engaged in
hauling supplies for the army, in unyoking
his oxen he struck his right hand upon the
ox-bow so severely that the hand was
permanently disabled and he was incapac-
itated for further service. Children, born
at Suffield: Eldad. mentioned below;
Abiah, Lovica, Walter, killed in the War
of 1812, unmarried; Jonathan, Mary.
(V) Eldad Granger, son of Jonathan
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Granger, was born at Suffield, ]\Iarch i6,
1/66, and died March 2, 1866, at Alstead,
New Hampshire. He married, in 1790,
Sarah Holmes, daughter of Thomas and
Hannah (Harris) Holmes, of Woodstock,
Connecticut. She was born October 10,
1771, at Woodstock, died October 25,
1852, at Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
She was distantly related to Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes. Eldad Granger in early
life went to Chesterfield, New Hampshire,
where he followed his trade as wheel-
wright. Later he removed to the adjacent
town of Westmoreland, where he built a
house and established a saw mill and grist
mill. He operated these mills to the end
of his life. In politics he was a Whig, in
religion a Universalist. He died at the
house of Mrs. Hodgkin, his daughter, in
Alstead, lacking fourteen days of being
a centenarian. Children, born at Chester-
field : Lucinda, born July 10, 1788;
Luther, October 11, 1791 ; Sabra, Febru-
ary 18, 1793, died March 2, 1793; Sabra,
February 17, 1794; Sanford, mentioned
below; Mary, May 17, 1798; John, Febru-
ary 18, 1800. Born at Westmoreland :
Elihu. April 3, 1802; Maria, July 10, 1804;
Miranda, May 10, 1806; Nancy, February
20, 1808; John J., August 17, 1810; Sarah
Susan, September 19, 1812; Lucy H., July
13, 1814; Daniel H., July i, 1817.
(VI) Sanford Granger, son of Eldad
Granger, was born March 12, 1796, at
Chesterfield, died May 17, 1882, at Bel-
lows Falls, Vermont. He married, Feb-
ruary 26, 1826, Abigail Stevens, born
January 16, 1800, died November 18, 1877.
She w'as a native of Chester, Vermont.
They settled in Bellows Falls. He was a
mechanic and millwright, and obtained
considerable reputation as a bridge
builder. When he was twenty-three
years old he bought a mill site at Rock-
ingham, Vermont, and erected a mill,
which was carried away by a freshet.
Some years later he built another mill on
Saxtons River, near Bellows Falls, and
he conducted it for a long time. He was
one of the founders of the Methodist
church at Bellows Falls. In 1855 he
erected a three-story brick block in the
village, the ground floor of which was
used for a store. He was an ardent
Abolitionist and cooperated with the
Underground Railroad in aiding slaves on
their way to Canada. He died of diph-
theria at the age of eighty-seven years.
His portrait is in the Granger Genealogy
and also that of his father, Eldad Granger.
Children, born at Bellows Falls : Albert
Sanford, mentioned below ; Harriet Abi-
gail, born May 14. 1837, died January 23,
1880, married Joseph Miller ; Edwin, April
21, 1843, died May 5, 1843; Edward Lor-
ing, August 18, 1844, married Angelina
^I. Roe; Mary Geyer, May 8, 1846, died
August 31, 1846.
(VII) Albert Sanford Granger, son of
Sanford Granger, was born at Bellows
Falls, November 10, 1834. He married
(first) March 16, 1857, Loretta Elizabeth
Carpenter, born October 9, 1835, died
June 16, 1870, daughter of Seth and Re-
becca (Thomas) Carpenter, of Surrey,
New Hampshire. He married (second)
October 19, 1876, Sarah Hodgkin, daugh-
ter of Emory and Maria (Granger) Hodg-
kin. He married (third) January 17,
1889, Adelaide Cilley Hayes, born May 12,
1837, daughter of David, Jr., and Mar>^
Ann (Waldron) Hayes. He was a me-
chanical engineer. From 1857 to 1861 he
resided at Concord, New Hampshire ;
from 1861 to 1867 at Springfield, Massa-
chusetts; from 1867 to 1876 at Bellows
Falls ; from 1876 to 1879 at South Fram-
ingham, Massachusetts, and after 1879 in
New York City, his home for many years
being at No. 147 East Thirty-ninth street.
Children by first wife : Clement Alfred,
born December 15, 1857, died January 8,
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1881 ; Carrie Augusta, born March 12,
1861, married Israel M. Charlton (see
Charlton) ; Rose B., born November i,
1863, lives at Brooklyn, New York; Ruth
Elizabeth, born November 15, 1865, lives
in New York City, married Captain A. N.
McGray, secretary of the Neptune Asso-
ciation of Master Seamen of the port of
New York, also a noted nautical writer
and district superintendent of schools of
New York City ; Sanford Thomas, born
October 9. 1868. died April 21, 1870.
O'NEILL, John Joseph,
Contractor. Manufacturer.
To her sturdy citizens of Irish birth
and parentage the United States owes
much of its progress and development.
They are ever ready to engage in enter-
prises that enlarge and develop cities, and
Holyoke is fortunate in having many such
within her borders. The name, O'Neill,
signifying grandson of Xeill, is among the
oldest and most dignified and respectable
in Ireland. Among its descendants was
John O'Neill, a noted contractor on the
Pacific Coast of the United States, who
was connected with the construction of
the Northern Pacific railroad. Michael
O'Neill, a brother of John O'Neill, was
born in 1847, i" County Kerry, Ireland,
and died in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in
1909. He attended school in his native
district, and came to America at the age
of eighteen years, in 1865, settling in Hol-
yoke. He learned the trade of bricklayer,
and was occupied in this capacity until his
untimely death. This was caused by the
falling of an embankment while at work
on the construction of the Rock Cliff
building in Holyoke. Mr. O'Neill was an
intelligent and progressive citizen, greatly
interested in politics, a good talker, and
an active worker for the benefit of the
Democratic party. He married Mary
Lynch, like himself a native of County
Kerry, Ireland, daughter of Timothy and
Mary (Cain) Lynch, both of whom were
educated people. Children of Michael and
Mary O'Neill: Thomas, died young;
John Joseph ; Mary, died in infancy ; Tim-
othy ; Margaret ; Catherine, died young ;
Helena ; Frank ; Eugene ; Catherine.
John Joseph O'Neill, second son of
Michael and Mary (Lynch) O'Neill, was
born November i, 1874, in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts. He has been actively identi-
fied with the industries of his native city
for many years. No fortuitous circum-
stances placed him in the front of enter-
prising and successful men, for his ad-
vancement is but the natural consequence
of industry and well-applied talents. In
the town schools he made good progress
and prepared himself for the active life
which ensued on leaving his studies. At
an early age he entered a paper mill,
where he was employed three years, and
he there entered upon an apprenticeship as
bricklayer. After some years as journey-
man, he engaged in business on his own
account, as contractor, in which he has
always been successful. With the excep-
tion of six years, when he was employed
as superintendent of construction in New
York City and Washington, D. C, he has
been continually in business in Holyoke.
He was foreman in charge of work on the
Holyoke postoffice building, and has con-
structed many important buildings in and
about that city, including the D. M. Rear-
don residence in South Hadley, built at a
cost of twelve thousand dollars ; the Jo-
seph Metcalf School in Holyoke ; the
Massachusetts State Hospital for Epilep-
tics at Munson ; and the Hampden County
Training School at Agawam. He has also
erected many apartment houses and pri-
vate residences. In 1910 he built for him-
self an apartment house on Dwight street,
which he has recently sold, and is now
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fitting up for a home the Mosher property
on Bowers street, which he subsequently
purchased. For some years, Mr. O'Neill
has engaged in the manufacture of brick,
in which he does an extensive business,
and is sole owner of the Holyoke Brick
Company, as well as of the John J. O'Neill
Company, contractors and builders, and
is a large employer of labor. Naturally,
Mr. O'Neill is interested in social matters,
is a mem,ber of the Knights of Columbus
and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and
is always ready to foster any undertaking
that promises benefit to his native city.
He is genial and popular, and enjoys the
esteem and respect of a host of his fellow
citizens.
He married, June 6, 1899, Rose M.
Landers, a native of Canada, daughter of
Michael and Ellen (Sears) Landers, with
whom she came to the United States
when two years old. They have children,
born as follows : Timothy, September 4,
1900; Mary Catherine, November 21,
1901 ; John, September 22, 1903 ; Eleanor,
October 6, 1905 ; William, November 14.
1907 ; Margaret, December 22, 1909 ;
Thomas, January 13, 1912, died March
24, 1913 ; Rose, May 20, 1913 ; George, Au-
gust 24, 1914; Charles, January 21, 1916.
BENEDICT, Gorham,
Hotel Manager.
Gorham Benedict, the very capable and
popular manager of the magnificent new
hotel at Holyoke, the Nonotuck, is de-
scended from, one of the finest old Colo-
nial families of Connecticut. The sur-
name Benedict has been in use in Eng-
land since about the year 1200. As a per-
sonal name it has been used from very
remote antiquity. It comes originally
from the Latin word meaning blessed.
The order of Benedictines was founded by
Saint Benedict in 520, and no less than
fourteen Popes bore this name between
574 and 1740.
(I) Thomas Benedict, first of the fam-
ily in this country, was born in Notting-
hamshire, England. According to family
tradition, apparently verified by records,
he was the only representative of the fam-
ily in England at the time he emigrated to
America. His ancestors came to England
from Holland, having fled first to Ger-
many and thence to Holland on account
of religious persecution in France, their
original home. They lived in the silk dis-
trict, and were of French and Latin stock.
He married Mary Brigum (Brigham or
Bridgham) who came to New England in
1638 in the same vessel. A family history
was written in 1755 by Deacon James
Benedict, a descendant of Thomas Bene-
dict, relating facts that he had orally from
the immigrant's wife. He says: "Be it
remembered that one William Benedict
about the beginning of the fifteenth cen-
tury (doubtless meaning about the year
1500) who lived in Nottinghamshire, Eng-
land, had a son born unto him whom he
called William after his own name (an
only son), and this William — the second
of the name — had also an only son whom
he called William ; and this third William
had in the year 1617 an only child whom
he called Thomas and this Thomas mar-
ried the Widow Brigum. Now this Thom-
as was put out an apprentice to a weaver
who afterwards in his twenty-first year
came over to New England. Afterwards
said Thomas was joined in marriage with
Mary Brigum. After they had lived some
time in the Bay parts (Massachusetts)
they removed to Southold. Long Island,
where were born unto them five sons and
four daughters, whose names were Thom-
as. John, Samuel, James. Daniel. Bett,
Mary, Sarah and Rebecca. From thence
they removed to a farm belonging to the
town called Hassamanac. where they
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lived some time. Then they removed to
Jamaica on said island, where Thomas,
their eldest son, took to wife Mary Mes-
senger of that town. And last of all they
removed to Xorwalk, Fairfield county,
Connecticut, with all their family, where
they all married." The generations are
given down to the time of writing, March
14, 1755. by James Benedict, of Ridgefield,
Connecticut.
Traces of Thomas Benedict are found
in the records of Jamaica, December 12,
1662, when he was appointed with others
to lay out the south meadow and was
voted a home lot. He served on other
committees and held various offices. He
was appointed magistrate, March 20, 1663,
by Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch Governor
of New Amsterdam. In the same year he
signed the petition for annexation to Con-
necticut. He was lieutenant of the mili-
tary company, December 3, 1663 ; was a
grantee of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
After coming to Connecticut he was town
clerk of Norwalk. 1664, 1674, 1677 and
afterward ; seventeen years a selectman
before 1689; was a freeman as early as
1669 ; representative to the Connecticut
General Assembly from 1670 to 1675. In
1684 he was appointed by the General
Court to plant a town, called Danbury. in
1687. "His good sense and general in-
telligence, some scientific knowledge and
his skill as a penman made him their re-
course when papers were to be drafted,
lands to be surveyed and apportioned and
disputes to be arbitrated. It is evident
that very general respect for his judgment
prevailed and that trust in his integrity
was equally general and implicit." He
was one of the founders of the church at
Southold and also at Huntington, and of
the First Presbyterian Church at Jamaica
in 1662. He was deacon of the Norwalk
church during his last years. His will
v/as dated February 28, 1689-90. Of his
household James Benedict wrote : "They
walked in the midst of their house with a
perfect heart. They were strict observers
of the Lord's Day from even to even."
Many of his descendants followed him in
the ofifice of deacon of the church. ""The
savor of his piety as well as his venerable
name has been transmitted through a long
line of deacons and other godly descend-
ants to the seventh generation." Chil-
dren : Thomas, died November 20, 1C88-
89; John, Samuel. James, Daniel, men-
tioned below ; Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah,
Rebecca.
(II) Lieutenent Daniel Benedict, son
of Thomas Benedict, was born in South-
old, Long Island, about 1650. He re-
moved to Norwalk with the family ;
served in the Swamp Fight in King
Philip's War, December 19. 1675. and re-
ceived a grant of twelve acres on account
of this service. He sold his property at
Norwalk, March 25. 1690, and removed to
Danbury. He probably died soon after
February 15, 1722-23. He married Mary
Marvin, daughter of Mathew Marvin, of
Norwalk. Children: Mary, Daniel, men-
tioned below ; Mercy, Hannah.
(III) Daniel (2) Benedict, son of Lieu-
tenant Daniel (i) Benedict, was born in
Norwalk, Connecticut. He married Re-
becca Taylor, daughter of Thomas Tay-
lor, one of the original settlers in Dan-
bury. His will was dated March 26, 1762,
proved August 5, 1776, soon after his
death. Children, born in Danbury ; Mat-
thew, mentioned below ; Theophilus, born
J711 ; Rebecca; Mary, 1714; David; Na-
than ; Deborah.
(IV) Matthew Benedict, son of Daniel
(2) Benedict, w^as born in Danbury, Con-
necticut, in 1707. He married. May 21,
1729, Mabel Noble at New Milford. She
was of a prominent old family. Matthew
Benedict sufifered heavily at the burning
of Danburv bv General Trvon during the
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ENXYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Revolution, April 27, 1777, and in 1792
his heirs were allowed two hundred and
five pounds, four shillings, eight pence in
compensation. He died September 28,
I78i,and his estate was distributed March
27, 1782. The inventory shows that he left
an estate valued at more than one thou-
sand one hundred and sixty-four pounds
(see Danbury probate records, IV, p. 235).
Children, born at Danbury: Matthew,
born 1733; Noble, January 25, 1735; Za-
dock, mentioned below ; Thankful, mar-
ried John Hopkins; Jonah, born 1741 ;
Abijah.
(V) Zadock Benedict, son of ^latthew
Benedict, was born in Danbury, Connecti-
cut, in 1737. He married (first) Jerusha
Russell, of Branford, Connecticut, born
1741, died September 3, 1791. He married
(second) Betsey Frost, born 1766, died
February 17, 1844. Zadock Benedict was
a farmer, but about 1780 began to manu-
facture hats and is given the honor of be-
ing the pioneer in manufacturing what
afterward became the principal industry
of his native town (see "History of the
Hatting Trade." Francis, Danbury. 1861).
He was representative of the town in the
General Assembly in 1790; was selectman
in 1783, 1784 and 1786. He also lost heav-
ily when General Tryon sacked the town
in 1777, and was allowed compensation by
the State in 1792 to the sum of one hun-
dred and sixty-nine pounds, seventeen
shillings. He died August 17, 1798, at
Danbury, leaving an estate valued at three
thousand six hundred and fifty pounds,
wealthy for his day, prominent in town
aflfairs, a very able and useful citizen.
Children, born at Danbury : Jerusha, born
1772, married Isaac Ives; Russell Harri-
son, June I. 1774, died August i, 1775;
Zadock Russell, mentioned below.
(\T) Zadock Russell Benedict, son of
Zadock Benedict, was born at Danbury,
Connecticut, June 7, 1799. In early life
he became a partner in a mercantile firm
of New Orleans, in the Mexican and West
Indies trade. He prospered in business
there. Coming to New York City, he en-
gaged in the wholesale crockery trade and
built up a very large business. lie was
president of the Rosendale Cement Com-
pany, and a director of the Seventh Ward
National Bank of New York. The author
of the Benedict genealogy describes him
as a "man of fortune and of elegant mien
and manners." He married (first) August
16, 1825, Mary Ann White, daughter of
Russell White; (second) September i,
1830. Maryette Tweedy, daughter of Sam-
uel Tweedy, of Danbury. She died July
6, 1838, at Danbury. Child by first wife:
Russell White, born June 4, 1826, married,
November 13, i860, Sarah Allen Ogden,
daughter of David S. Ogden, and they had
Edith, born September 17, 1861, and Ed-
gar, August 2, 1865. Children by second
wife : Robert Morris, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth, May 14, 1834; Samuel Tweedy,
September 8, 1837, married, June 29, 1865,
Julia A. Jackson, daughter of Professor
Isaac W. and Eliza (Pomeroy) Jackson,
and had children: Mariette. born May 17,
1866. and William Jackson, August 31,
1869.
(VII) Robert Morris Benedict, son of
Zadock Russell Benedict, was born at
Danbury, Connecticut, August 6, 1832,
and died in New York State in 1896.
When a young man he was associated
with his father in the crockery trade in
New York City, but on account of ill
health he moved to Canandaigua, New
"S'ork, where he lived on a stock farm.
For nearly fifty years he enjoyed the life
of a "gentleman farmer," as it was called
a generation ago. He married, April 25,
i860, Margaret Gorham, daughter of Wil-
liam W. and Betsey (Parish) Gorham, of
Canandaigua. Her mother was a daugh-
ter of Jasper Parish, who was once cap-
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tured by the Indians, and later was ap-
pointed agent of the Six Nations by Presi-
aent Washington. Children of Robert M.
and Margaret Benedict: i. Elizabeth,
born April 26, 1861, died September 26,
1862. 2. Robert Russell, born November
2^, 1863, a lawyer in Philadelphia and
manager of the American Surety Com-
pany of New York. 3. Gorham, men-
tioned below.
(\'III| Gorham Benedict, son of Rob-
ert Morris Benedict, was born in Canan-
daigua. New York, November 26, 1867.
He received his education in the public
schools of his native town. He began his
career in Canandaigua in the lumber busi-
ness, and was afterward with Canandaigua
vSteamboat Company. Eventually he en-
gaged in the hotel business, and has since
been associated with some of the finest
hotel properties in the country, including
the Arlington at Washington, D. C. ; the
Ten Eyck of Albany, New York ; and at
present is the manager of the Nonotuck
in Holyoke, one of the finest hotels in
Massachusetts.
Perhaps no class of men have better
opportunities to make friends among the
leaders of the business world, captains of
industry, merchants and statesmen than
the proprietors of the great modern hotels,
and Mr. Benedict, year by year, added to
his extensive acquaintance of substantial
men from all parts of the country. His
reputation in the hotel business placed
him among the foremost men in his line.
and when the Nonotuck was completed,
the owners chose Mr. Benedict as man-
ager and exerted their friendship and in-
fluence successfully in bringing him to ac-
cept the opportunity. The Nonotuck is
one of the largest and finest of the modern
hotels of New England. The able man-
agement of Mr. Benedict has given it a
reputation throughout the country and at-
tracted the custom of automobile tourists
of all sections. He has made this hotel
one of the leading institutions of the city,
bringing thousands of visitors and much
new business to the city. During his com-
paratively brief residence in Holyoke, he
has made a large number of friends and
is widely known already in the commu-
nity. He is a member of the Holyoke
Club and of jNIount Tom Golf Club.
Mr. Benedict married, November 6,
1906, Mrs. Madeline Pollock, daughter of
Dr. George H. Corbett, of Orilla, Canada.
BOGART, Edward Elmer,
Representative Citizen.
Edward E. Bogart, secretary and gen-
eral manager of the Chase & Cooledge
Company of Holyoke. is a descendant of
Myndert Van de Bogart, who with his
brother Jacobus came from Amsterdam,
Holland, in 1702, and settled on the site
of the present city of Poughkeepsie, New
York. They acquired a large tract of land
and built one of the first eleven houses in
that then village. They gave the land and
contributed liberally to the ':upport of the
first church in the village. Dutch Re-
formed. In 1726 Myndert Van de Bogart
was elected the first sherifif of Dutchess
county. The land on w-hich the first court
house was built was also donated by the
Van de Bogart brothers, and Jacobus was
a member of the building committee.
Myndert Van de Bogart married, in 1724,
Gretchen Kipp. and had a son, Myndert
(2). who in 1765 married Hannah Vetie.
Their son. Minard (Myndert anglicized)
Bogart, died in Chatham, New^ York, a
carpenter by trade. He married Cather-
ine Curtis, born in Dutchess county. New
York, died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Sumner I. Smith, in Whately, Mas-
sachusetts. They were the parents of:
James, George, John, William Henry, of
further mention ; Sarah, married Duane
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Latham ; Lucretia, married Franklin Hol-
dredge ; Mandeville ; Harriet, married
Sumner Ives Smith, whom she survives.
now (1917) residing in Whately, Massa-
chusetts, aged ninety-three ; Elizabeth,
married Charles Stewart.
William Henry Bogart, son of Minard
and Catherine Curtis Bogart (as the name
had become anglicized), was born in
Chatham, Columbia county. New York,
in 1816. died at Cummington, Hampshire
county, Massachusetts, in 1878. He early
began work in the mills as a mule spinner,
his pay seventy-five cents weekly, but
later he learned the painter's trade and
made that his life work. He was at one
time the owner of a small farm at Wind-
sor, Massachusetts, and was a fairly suc-
cessful man, a Methodist in religious pref-
erence. He married Caroline Holdredge.
who died in 1886, daughter of Asher Hol-
dredge, of Plainfield, Massachusetts. They
were the parents of: Charles Wesley;
Mary Louise, married Franklin B. Sher-
man ; Caroline Aurelia, married George
Smith ; Flenry Oscar, of further mention ;
Harriet, married a Mr. Lawrence ; Al-
mira, married a Mr. Whipple ; Alice
Ophelia, married a Mr. IMallory.
Henry Oscar Bogart, son of William
Henry and Caroline (Holdredge) Bogart,
was born in Conway, Massachusetts,
March i, 1845. and there obtained a pub-
lic school education. When war broke
out between the states he tried to enlist
and several times repeated the attempt,
but his youth and other causes rejected
him. Finally, in 1863, he succeeded in
convincing the recruiting officers of his
fitness. Mr. Bogart enlisted from Berk-
shire, Massachusetts. July. 1863, to serve
three years or during the war, and was
mustered into the United States service
at Boston. Massachusetts. December 20,
1863, as a private of Captain Amos L.
Hopkins' company. "K," First Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, Colo-
nel Samuel E. Chamberlain commanding.
This regiment was organized at Camp
Brigham, Readville, during the early
riutumn of 1861 with the following field
officers : Robert Williams, Colonel Hor-
ace B. Sargent, Lieutenant-Colonel Wil-
liam F. White and John S. Adson, major.
The companies were mustered in on the
various dates from the 12th, 18th and
25th of September, the regiment leaving
camp by battalions on the 25th, 27th and
29th of October. The first battalion,
under Major Curtis, moved to Annapolis,
Alaryland, when it went into camp for
about five weeks, the second and third
battalions were halted at New York, and
formed part of General T. W. Sherman's
expeditionary corps, sailing from New
York for Hilton Head, where the First
Battalion joined it in February. The com-
mand served at times in detachments ; it
was for a long time the only cavalry force
in the Department of the South, and
either as a regiment or by detachments
took part in the following engagements :
Secessionville, James Island, demonstra-
tions against Charleston, after which two
companies being left at Hilton Head and
two at Beaufort, the remaining eight com-
panies accompanied an expedition to Ed-
isto Island. Later the regiment was as-
signed to the First Brigade, Gregg's di-
vision. Cavalry Corps, Army of the Poto-
mac, and participated in engagements at
Cacopon Bridge or Pawpaw, South Moun-
tain, Antietam, Maryland ; Rappahan-
nock Station, Fredericksburg. Hartwood
Church. Kelleys Ford, Rapidan. Bealton
Station. Aldie, Copperville, White Sul-
phur Springs. Brandy Station. Beverly
Ford. Virginia ; Gettysburg, Pennsylva-
nia ; Boonsboro. Jones' Cross Roads,
Maryland ; Shepherdstown. Culpeper,
Rappahannock, New Hope Church, Rob-
ertson's Tavern, Mine Run. Todd's Tav-
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ern, Yellow Tavern. Po River, Beaver
Dam Station, Ashland, Spottsylvania,
Tatopotomy, Deep Bottom, Meadow
Bridge, Cold Harbor, Hawes' Shop, Deep
Bottom (second), Trevillian Station, St.
Mary's Church, Jerusalem Road, Siege of
Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Malvern
Hill, Hatcher's Run, Dinwiddie, and a
number of minor engagements and skir-
mishes ; also took part in the Grand Re-
view at Washington. D. C, May 29, 1S65.
Mr. Bogart was injured at Vaughan Road,
which compelled his being placed in the
hospital at City Point, where he remained
for two months. He was at all other
times with his command during his term
of enlistment, and rendered faithful and
meritorious service at all times. He re-
ceived an honorable discharge at Boston,
Massachusetts. July 26, 1865, by reason
of the close of the war.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Bogart went
W^est. remaining seven years, visiting all
the states of the Middle and far West.
going to the Pacific coast before returning
to Massachusetts, and there settling in
Whately in 1872. There for a year he
operated a tobacco farm, then moved to
Sunderland and farmed there until 1875,
when he moved to Cummington, Massa-
chusetts, there being employed as a
painter until 1886. In that year he moved
to Holyoke. Massachusetts, where he has
since resided, following his trade of
painter. He is a member of the Baptist
church, and of Kilpatrick Post, No. 7,
Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Bogart married, April 9, 1871, Anna
Pelton, of Kent county, Michigan, daugh-
ter of Ephraim and Magdelene Pelton.
She is deeply interested in and an honored
member of the Women's Relief Corps,
auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Re-
public. Mr. and Mrs. Bogart are the par-
ents of a son and two daughters : Edward
Elmer, of further mention ; Nellie A. and
Anna Lillian, the latter died in 1900, she
married Robert B. Stedman, and left a
daughter, Elsie Loraine.
Edward Elmer Bogart, son of Henry
Oscar Bogart, was born in Whately, Mas-
sachusetts, August 26, 1872, but when
young his parents moved to Cummington,
where he attended public schools. In
1886 he came to Holyoke, and was em-
ployed in the Hadley Falls National Bank
for three and a half years, leaving the
bank to enter the employ of Chase &
Cooledge, leather merchants, and has
since been continuously with that com-
pany, advancing to higher position with
the years, and is now its secretary and
general manager. He is a member of
Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Mt. Holyoke Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons ; Springfield Commandery,
Knights Templar; Melha Temple, Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine ; the Knights of
Pythias ; Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks; Sons of Veterans and Holyoke
Canoe Club.
Mr. Bogart married (first) July 5, 1899,
Maude Mary Baldwin, who died in Octo-
ber, 1902, leaving a daughter. Helen Bent-
ley Bogart. He married (second) Febru-
ary 19, 1910, Edith Erline Nash, daughter
of Alfred S. and Dora Shannon Nash, of
Chicopee. Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs.
Bogart are the parents of a daughter,
Marion Louise.
MORTON, Robert Kellogg,
AVire Mannfactnrer.
One of the youngest managers of the
great industrial plants of Holyoke is Rob-
ert Kellogg Morton, who began without
unusual advantages at the bottom of the
ladder and won his own way by dint of
persistence, energy and ability to one of
the coveted places in the manufacturing
world. He is the general manager of the
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George W. Prentiss Wire Mill and presi-
dent of the Holyoke Covered Wire Com-
pany. He is a representative of the old
English stock that founded the Common-
wealth, and of the adventurous colonists
who settled in perilous times in old Hat-
field. Morton is a very ancient English
family. As a surname it takes its origin
from the name of a locality in which the
family once lived. There are parishes and
places in the counties of Oxford, Bucks,
Chester, Dorset, Essex, Nottingham,
Salop, Stafford, Gloucester, Daveon and
Berks. A great baronial family, spelling
the surname Mortain, afterward anglicized
to Mourton or Morton, was founded in
England by Robert, Earl of Mortain,
brother of William the Conqueror. Many
of the branches of the family in England
possess coats-of-arms. In Scotland, the
family was well established in Edinburgh-
shire and Dumfriesshire before the year
1300, while still earlier the surname was
common in England, thus dating to the
very beginning of family names, about
the year 1200. A branch of the Scotch
Morton family is found in Ireland, where
the name is most numerous in Antrim,
but is pretty well diffused throughout that
country.
George Morton, progenitor of most of
the Colonial Morton families of Massa-
chusetts, was born about 1585 in Auster-
field, Yorkshire, England, and is believed
to have been of a noble family. In his
"Founders of New England" Hunter sug-
gests that he belonged to the family of
Anthony Morton, of Bawtry, but of
George Morton's early life we know very
little. His home was near Scrooby,
whence came many of the Pilgrim
Fathers, and he joined the Pilgrims in
Leyden, and continued active in the move-
ment until his death. When the "May-
flower" sailed he remained behind, though
we are told that he much desired to em-
bark. He was a merchant, and is said to
have been agent of the Puritans in Lon-
don. To him is credited the authorship
of "Mourt's Relation," which may be
described as the first history of the
colony. His name was often abbreviated
to "Mourt" and was generally spelled
"Mourton." This book is full of interest-
ing and valuable matter about the colony.
Shortly after it was published, George
Morton prepared to emigrate, and he
sailed on the ship "Ann," arriving in
Plymouth in June, 1623, but did not long
survive. He died in June, 1624. He mar-
ried, July 2T^ or August 12, 1612, Juliana
Carpenter, daughter of Alexander Car-
penter. Children : Nathaniel, born in
Leyden, 1613; Patience, at Leyden, 1615 ;
John, at Leyden, 1616-17; Sarah, at Ley-
den, 1617-18, and Ephraim, born on the
ship during the voyage. Flis widow Juli-
ana married (second) Manasseh Kemp-
ton, and she died at Plymouth, February
16, 1665, in her eighty-first year.
(I) Richard Morton, son of George
Morton, of Plymouth, was born in 1640,
and came from England with relatives
who settled in Hartford. He later came
to Hatfield, Massachusetts, in 1670. He
was a blacksmith by trade, and followed
it in that town until his death, April 3,
1710. His wife Ruth died December 31,
1714. Children: Thomas; Richard, born
about 1665; John, born January 31. 1670,
died April 26, 1670; Joseph. April 1672;
John, April, 1674; Abraham, mentioned
below; Elizabeth, March 31, 1680;
Ebenezer, August 10, 1682 ; Jonathan. No-
vember 2, 1684, died April 23, 1767.
(II) Abraham Morton, son of Richard
Morton, was born at Hatfield, May 12,
1676. and died there, February 28, 1765.
He built the first house on the Morton
homestead in Hatfield. He married. May
8, 1 701. Sarah Kellogg, daughter of Sam-
uel and Sarah (Root) Kellogg. His wife
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died in June, 1755, aged seventy-two
years. Children, born at Hatfield : Abra-
ham, born May 2, 1703; Richard, Octo-
ber I, 1704; Sarah, April 3, 1707, married
Samuel Smith; Samuel, September, 1709;
Abigail. January 6, 171 1. died February i,
1715 : Xoah ; Moses, mentioned l)elo\v ;
Daniel, December 23. 1720; Abigail, Feb-
ruary I, 1722, died December 24, 1726.
(ni) Moses Morton, son of Abraham
Morton, was born in Hatfield, in 171 7,
and died there. January 30, 1798. He mar-
ried Ruth Billings, who died March 2S.
1802, aged eighty-six years, daughter of
Richard Billings. Children, born at Hat-
field: Judith, born August i, 1753. mar-
ried Joseph Waite ; Abigail, November
29, 1754; Josiah, mentioned below.
(IV) Josiah Morton, son of Moses
Morton, was born at Hatfield, February
16, 1757, and died May 30. 1829. He was
a soldier in the Revolutionary War, a
private from Hatfield, in the company of
Captain Seth Murray, regiment of Major
Jonathan Clapp, serving from July 6 to
August 12, 1777, one month and ten days,
marching one hundred and twelve miles,
in the expedition to Fort Edward and
Mosses Creek. The payroll from which
this record was taken was sworn to in
Hampshire county (see ''Massachusetts
Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary
War." Vol. XI, p. 1142). During the
war he was a constable and often had to
take Tories to the jail at Northampton.
Josiah Morton married, February 10, 1789,
Phebe Bliss, who died January 5, 1836.
Children, born at Hatfield: Moses, born
January 4, 1790; Abigail, December 13,
1791, died August 15, 1874; Rodolphus,
mentioned below; Sarah. March 20, 1796,
died February 28, 1879; Leander. March
16, 1803, died October 17, 1872.
(V) Rodolphus Morton, son of Josiah
Morton, was born at Hatfield, January' 21,
1794. and died there. June 20, 1853. ^^
was a farmer in his native town, land
surveyor and civil engineer ; a man of
exemplary character and exceptional abil-
ity. He married, in 1836, Elizabeth W.
Dickinson, who was born May 5, 1S08,
died April 24. 1862. daughter of Israel
Dickinson. Children, born at Hatfield:
George Louis, born January 8, 1837, died
April 5, 1870; Mary Dickinson, January
26, 1840, died December 19, 1894. mar-
ried Hugh Mitchelson ; Charles Kellogg,
mentioned below.
(VI) Charles Kellogg Morton, son of
Rodolphus Morton, was born at Hatfield,
en the old Morton homestead. May 9.
1842. He attended the public schools of
his native town. He enlisted in Com-
pany K, Fifty-second Regiment, Massa-
chusetts \'olunteer Infantry, in the Civil
\\'ar, and served eleven months, being
mustered out August 14, 1863, with the
rank of corporal. During the greater part
of his service his regiment was located in
Louisiana and he took part in the siege,
assault and capture of Port Hudson.
After he was discharged he returned to
Hatfield and followed farming. He is the
fifth generation of the family that has
owned and lived upon the old Morton
homestead. He has some fifty acres of
land in the village of Hatfield and plants
a large acreage of tobacco and onions.
He is one of the best known and most
successful farmers in this section. In
politics he is a Republican. For many
vears he was prominent in town aflFairs.
and from 1880 to 1886 he was chairman of
the board of selectmen of the town. He
is a member of William L. Baker Post.
No. 86, Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Morton married, January 17. 1872.
Mary W. Kellogg, who was born May 20,
1846. daughter of John Kellogg. Chil-
dren : Robert Kellogg, mentioned below ;
Charles Dickinson, born May 11. 1882,
now associated with M. S. Friede, Incor-
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porated, of New York City, buyer for the
Russian government.
(VII) Robert Kellogg Morton, son of
Charles Kellogg Morton, was born at
Hatfield, April i8, 1876. He received his
early education in the public schools of
his native town and at Smith Academy in
Hatfield. He began his career in business
as clerk of the Home National Bank, now
the Hadley Falls Trust Company. After
a year in the bank, he accepted a position
in the office of George W. Prentiss Wire
Mill. Step by step he was advanced on
his merits. For a number of years he was
a salesman, then he was made superin-
tendent of the factory, and finally, on
January i, 1916, was promoted to his
present position as general manager of
the company.
Well fitted by virtue of natural gifts
and through training in this business, he
is recognized everywhere as an expert
wire manufacturer, a manager of execu-
tive ability. His knowledge of manufac-
turing coupled with his skill as a sales-
man have been exerted to good advantage
in developing and enlarging the business
of his company, which he has maintained
in a prosperous and thrifty condition. In
addition to his duties with this concern,
he is president of the Holyoke Covered
Wire Company, another large and grow-
ing corporation. Mr. Morton is a member
of Mount Tom Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, of Holyoke ; of Hol-
yoke Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; of
Holyoke Council, Royal and Select Mas-
ters ; of Springfield Commandery, Knights
Templar, of Springfield ; Melha Temple.
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Spring-
field. He is a member of the United Com-
mercial Travelers' Association ; of the
Holyoke Club, the Mount Tom Golf Club
and other social organizations. In politics
he is a Republican.
Mr. Morton married, August 15, 1916,
Jane Grover, daughter of Joshua and
Mary Eleanor (Shortz) Grover, of Wap-
wallopen, Pennsylvania.
RICHARDS, Arthur James,
Mill Superintendent.
From a very humble beginning, Mr.
Richards has worked his own way up-
ward to one of the most responsible posi-
tions in the great textile industries of
Massachusetts. His ancestors were iden-
tified with this industry, and his father,
Arthur Richards, was one of the most ex-
pert carpet weavers in this country. He
was born in Kilmarnock, near Glasgow,
Scotland, about 1807, and died at Lawr-
ence, Massachusetts, in 1867, as the result
of injuries received in the fall of a large
mill there. He received an excellent edu-
cation, was a man of much natural ability,
and became an expert in weaving fancy
carpet. At an early age he came to Amer-
ica with a party of weavers who, like him-
self, were expert in their particular lines
of work, and assisted in establishing the
operation of the carpet mills at Thomp-
sonville, Connecticut. Afterwards he went
to the Pemberton Mills in Lawrence, Mas-
sachusetts, and was working there when
the mill fell, killing and wounding a large
number of people. From the injuries re-
ceived at this time, Mr. Richards died
within a short time. He married, in this
country, Mary Dean, of Lyme. Connec-
ticut, daughter of Richard and Mary Ann
Dean, and they were the parents of Mary,
Annie, Elizabeth, Helen. Alma. Grace,
and Arthur J. Richards. The last named
is the only one now surviving.
Arthur James Richards was born July
7, 1858, in Danvers, Massachusetts, and
was compelled by the early death of his
father to begin very early, at nine years, in
the labors necessary to the support of the
family. Soon after his father's death they
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went to Olneyville, Providence, Rhode
Island, and there he entered the mills
of Delan, manufacturers of cotton goods.
His education was largely supplied by
night schools, and of these he was a steady
and faithful attendant. He is also a reader
and keen observer of events, and is reck-
oned among the best informed citizens of
Holyoke. For nine years he was em-
ployed in mills at Providence, and in 1873
he went to W'illimantic, Connecticut,
where he entered the employ of the W'illi-
mantic Linen Company, which later be-
came a part of the American Thread Com-
pany. Mr. Richards' long employment
with this establishment is ample testi-
mony to his capacity, faithfulness and in-
dustry. Starting in with this concern as
a mule spinner, he became in time assist-
ant overseer, then overseer, and later
assistant superintendent at Willimantic.
In May, 1909, he removed to Holyoke,
Massachusetts, as superintendent of the
Merrick Thread Mills Xos. 2 and 3, which
are now a part of the American Thread
Company's plant. Under his efficient
management the works are turning out
high quality of goods, and are prosperous.
Mr. Richards in 1912 brought out a patent
for a tube roll for spinning machines,
and in 1913, in connection with Peter J.
Hinds (sketch under proper heading in
this work) founded the Richards Hinds
Company and began the manufacture of
these rolls at Indian Orchard, Massachu-
setts, where they still continue to do a
prosperous business, this roll being used
upon all spinning machines for all kinds
of yarns, cottons, etc. Mr. Richards is a
man of kindly nature, of keen business
conception, and ready action, and is
equally popular with employers and those
who serve under his direction. He has
always tried to do his duty as a citizen,
and is identified with various organiza-
tions and institutions calculated to de-
velop and improve the best that is in
man. He is a regular attendant of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church of Holyoke, and
is an active member of the Masonic fra-
ternity, afifiliating with Eastern Star
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Royal
Arch Chapter, and St. John's Command-
ery. Knights Templar, all of Willimantic.
While retaining his membership in these
bodies, he is a frequent and welcome
visitor at the sessions of similar bodies in
Holyoke.
'Mr. Richards married (first) in June,
1883, Delia Alice Senior, of Xewbury-
port, ^lassachusetts, daughter of Charles
and Helen (Speakman) Senior, both of
whom came from England. She died
in 1915, and Mr. Richards married (sec-
ond) in August, 1916, Mabel Clark, of
Willimantic, Connecticut, daughter of
Ralph and Betsey (Chamberlain) Clark.
His children, all born of the first mar-
riage, at Willimantic, are as follows: i.
Arthur Charles, now office manager of
the Merrick Mills on Appleton street,
Holyoke ; he married Grace Stevens, of
Winsted. Connecticut. 2. Mary Ellen,
wife of George Battersly, of Providence,
Rhode Island, a draughtsman ; they have
a son. Earl Arthur, assistant foreman of
the carding department of the Merrick
Thread Mills of Holyoke.
WRIGHT, John Sidney,
Health Officer.
For many years IMr. Wright has been
identified with the city government of
Holyoke in various capacities, serving
efificiently for nine years as chief of
police, and has gained the confidence and
esteem of the entire city electorate. He
is descended from a very old American
family, founded in this country by John
Wright, who was born 1600-01. and died
in Woburn. Massachusetts, June 21,
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1688. He was first at Charlestown, Mas-
sachusetts, and was one of the thirty-two
who settled W'oburn, was a freeman in
1643, and represented Woburn in the
General Court in 1648. For many years
he was selectman of the town, from 1645
to 1647, 1649 to 1658, 1660 to 1664, 1670
and 1680-81. His wife Priscilla died in
Woburn, April 10, 1687.
(II) Their only known son, John (2)
Wright, born 1630-31, in England, died
in Woburn, April 30, 1714, aged eighty-
three years. He married, in 1661, Abigail
Warren, of Woburn, born 1641-42, died
April 6, 1726, aged eighty-four years.
Their children were: John, Joseph and
Ebenezer, all residing in Chelmsford,
Massachusetts, in 1701 ; Josiah, men-
tioned below; Ruth, Priscilla and De-
borah.
(III) Josiah Wright, son of John (2)
and Abigail (Warren) Wright, was born
in 1674-75, lived in Woburn, and there
married, September 17, 1700, Ruth
Carter, who was born October 18, 1681,
in Woburn, daughter of John and Ruth
(Burnham) Carter, and died there Janu-
ary 31, 1774. Josiah Wright was a deacon
of the Woburn Church from 1736 until
his death, January 22, 1747, at the age of
seventy-three years.
(IV) Josiah (2) W^right, eldest son of
Josiah (i) and Ruth (Carter) Wright,
was born December 2, 1701, in Woburn,
and lived in that part of the town which
is now Wilmington, with his wife
Abigail. He was a soldier of the Colo-
nial wars, and died July 15, 1758, at Lake
George, in his fifty-seventh year. His
children are recorded in W^ilmington.
(V) Josiah (3) Wright, eldest son of
Josiah (2) and Abigail Wright, was born
in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and lived
for a time in the adjoining town of Bil-
lerica, whence he removed, in 1792, to
Grafton, Vermont. The journey was
Mass— 6— 10 74
made on a sled drawn by oxen, and six
weeks were consumed in the trip. He
cleared up land in Grafton, and became
a prosperous farmer. He was a soldier
of the Revolution, serving eight months,
from May 7, 1775, under Captain Handell
and Colonel Bridges. In March, 1777, he
reenlisted for the term of the war, in
Captain Josiah Fox's company, Colonel
Henry Jackson's regiment, the Ninth
Massachusetts. He lost one eye and part
of one hand in the service, and received
for some years a pension of forty-eight
dollars a year, which was increased to
ninety-six dollars. He married, in W^il-
mington, February 10, 1785, Mary Ruey,
of Salem. They had two sons, born in
Wilmington: Josiah, April 30, 1785, and
Daniel, mentioned below ; Lucina, born
September 27, 1790, in Billerica ; Phebe
and Freelove, in Grafton, Vermont.
(VI) Daniel Wright, second son of
Josiah (3) and Mary (Ruey) W^right, was
born July 15, 1787, in Wilmington, Mas-
sachusetts, and was a farmer and shoe-
maker in Vermont, where he died in
1857. He made shoes by hand for the
community in which he lived, and was an
active member of the Congregational
church of Grafton. He married Lucy
Parker, and they had children : Leverett
D., Josiah, John Willard, mentioned be-
low, George, Lucinda, and Samuel. The
last named resides on the homestead in
Grafton, cleared by his grandfather.
(VII) John Willard W^right, son of
Daniel and Lucy (Parker) Wright, was
born August 14, 1825, in Grafton, Ver-
mont, and is still living (1917) at the age
of ninety-two years. He attended the
public schools of his native town and the
academy at Chester, Vermont. Through
most of his active life he was a carpenter
and l:)ridge builder, leaving the paternal
farm at the age of twenty-one years, and
living in Bellows Falls, Vermont, from
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1874 to 1915. For many years he was
engaged as a building contractor, and
with his brother went to Vineland, New
Jersey, where they built forty or fifty
houses. Up to ten years ago he was
very active, and painted and shingled his
own house when eighty-six years old.
In early life he was a Whig, and upon the
organization of the Republican party be-
came one of its most faithful adherents.
During his residence in Grafton he served
on the school committee. He is a faithful
attendant of divine worship as conducted
by the Congregational church. Mr.
Wright married, in 1851, Lura Maria
Rhodes, of Grafton, Vermont, born Sep-
tember 14, 1826, died 1907, daughter of
Daniel and Mary Rhodes. They were
the parents of John Sidney, mentioned
below ; Mary Ann, Eudora, M. Henry,
Merriam, deceased, and Minnie Janet.
(VIII) John Sidney Wright, eldest
child of John Willard and Lura Maria
(Rhodes) Wright, was born February 22,
1853, in Grafton, Vermont, where his boy-
hood years were spent, and where he re-
ceived his primary education in the
public schools. He was subsequently a
student at Leland Seminary and Gray's
Seminary, Townshend, Vermont, from
which he was graduated in 1873. Two
years later he settled in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, where he has continued to re-
side to the present time. His first em-
ployment in Holyoke was with the Amer-
ican Express Company, and subsequently
for a period of six years, he was employed
by the old Connecticut River Railroad
Company. In 1880 he entered the service
of the Whiting Paper Company of Hol-
yoke, having charge of stock and supplies,
and continued in that capacity eighteen
years. Mayor Arthur B. Chapin ap-
pointed him chief of police, January 2,
1899, and this position he filled continu-
ously until 1907. establishing a record in
Holyoke by holding that office longer
than any other individual. He resigned
this position in 1907 to become health
officer, and since that time has continu-
ously held that position. Mr. W^right is
active in the social life of the community,
is a charter member of the Holyoke
Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks ; is a member of King Solomon's
Temple Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, of Bellows Falls, V^ermont ; Royal
Arch Chapter and Council, of Holyoke ;
Springfield Commandery, Knights Temp-
lar, and Alleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of
Boston.
Mr. Wright married. March 12, 1879,
Caroline Louisa Grout, of Newport, Ver-
mont, daughter of Emerson and Mary
(Hoyt) Grout. They were the parents
of three children, of whom the only sur-
vivor is ]\Iary Janet, the wife of Ernest
T. Preston, of Holyoke; they have one
son, Sidney Wright Preston, born April
6, 1907. Two sons, Daniel Sidney and
Arthur Emerson Wright, died in infancy.
MORIARTY, Daniel Francis,
Manufacturer, Mercliant.
As president of the Holyoke Supply
Company of Holyoke. Daniel Francis
Moriarty ranks as both manufacturer and
merchant ; his company handling the
specialties of other houses as well as
manufacturing important lines of their
own. He has worked his way up from an
apprentice at the steamfitter's trade to the
head of a large concern, and as a business
man displays the same ability he did in
the mechanical department.
He is a son of Maurice Moriarty, born
in Dingle, County Derry, Ireland, about
1830, died in South Hadley Falls, Massa-
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chusetts, April 14, 1914. Maurice ]\Io-
riarty came to the United States with his
mother in 1839, lived in New York City
about three years, in Chicopee, Massa-
chusetts, about eight years, going thence
to South Hadley Falls, where he was en-
gaged in brick making for many years,
and advanced to foreman of the plant in
which he was employed. He married
Ann Breshnahan, born in Ireland, in
1830, died in 1904. They were the par-
ents of Margaret, deceased ; Mary ; Maur-
ice J. ; Catherine, deceased ; Daniel Fran-
cis, of further mention.
Daniel Francis Moriarty was born at
South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, No-
vember 20, 1870, and there was educated
in the graded and high schools. After
graduation from high school, he learned
the steamfitter's trade with Keegan &
Company, after which he spent eight
years as foreman of the Holyoke Valve
& Hydrant Company, his service with the
latter terminating in 1907. In that year
he organized the Holyoke Supply Com-
pany, engineers and contractors, of which
corporation Mr. Moriarty was elected
president; F. A. Champlin, treasurer; J.
A. Tucker, secretary. They are manu-
facturers of the Flynn Combination
Steam Engine Heater and are contractors
for steamfitting and also handle all kinds
of steam specialties, valves, radiators,
boilers, and cut piping of all kinds. The
company occupies a large, finely equipped
plant, which it has recently built, and is
well known all over New England. Mr.
Moriarty is a member of the Holyoke
and Pequot clubs and Mt. Tom Golf
Club ; is an Independent in politics, and
highly esteemed as a business man.
He married, August 10, 1893, Rose
Tucker, daughter of Patrick and Mary
(McMannis) Tucker. Mr. and Mrs. Mo-
riarty are the parents of Ruth Louise,
Clement David, and Edward Moriarty.
WALKER, Charles Edward,
Merchant.
When after a long term of clerical
service in other cities, Mr. Walker re-
turned to Holyoke. ]\Iassachusetts, and
purchased the sporting goods business of
M. D. Stebbins, he invested it with his
own energetic personality and has at-
tracted to the largest sporting goods
store in the city a line of patronage which
attests the appreciation of the public he
wishes to serve. Mr. Walker is of Eng-
lish parentage, but of American birth,
his father, William Walker, coming to
the United States in i860 and settling in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
William W^alker was born in Derby-
shire, England, in 1834, and there learned
the trade of wire weaver, using a hand
loom. He remained in England until
i860, then came to the United States,
obtaining employment in the paper mills
at Middlefield after a prior settlement
at Pittsfield. Later he spent some time
in the State of Connecticut, then returned
to Middlefield, thence about 1891 locat-
ing in Holyoke, where for a number of
years he has lived retired from active life.
He is a member of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, and a man of upright life,
highly regarded. Mr. Walker married
Ruth Scholls. born in Yorkshire, Eng-
land, daughter of Isaac Scholls. They
are the parents of six sons: Elijah, mar-
ried, has a son Harold Walker, who is
married and has a daughter. Alta Weaver ;
William, married, and has children :
Earl, Robert, Fred and Francis Weaver ;
Frank ; George, married, and has chil-
dren: Dorothy, Elizabeth, Mildred. Lucy
and Ralph Weaver; Fred, married, and
has children : Ruth, William, Agnes,
Esther and Fred (2) Weaver ; Charles
Edward, mentioned below.
Charles Edward Weaver was born at
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Middlefield, Massachusetts, August 22,
1868. He was educated in the public
schools of South Windsor, Connecticut;
North Adams and Springheld, Massachu-
setts. He began his wage earning career
in a clerical position with a paper manu-
facturing mill at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
returning to Massachusetts after eighteen
months, obtaining a position as clerk in a
Huntington store. He spent three years
in Huntington, then for a year and a half
was a clerk in the H. W. Cooley grocery
business in Holyoke. He was next em-
ployed in a general store at Chester, Mas-
sachusetts, for two years, then returned to
Holyoke, filling for a time a clerical posi-
tion in the J. B. Whitmore General Store.
The next eight years were spent as clerk
in the Springfield department store of
Meekins, Packard & Wheat, which serv-
ice terminated his clerical career.
These years spent in difterent cities in
varied mercantile lines had invested him
with a thorough knowledge of modern
merchandising, a clear idea of its pitfalls
and with well digested plans for his own
future. Believing himself to have arrived
at the proper time of life to engage in
business for himself and to have found
the proper opening in Holyoke, he pur-
chased the sporting goods business of M.
D. Stebbins. His keen judgment guided
him wisely in making this investment,
and the years which have since intervened
have brought him prosperity. The busi-
ness is conducted under the firm name of
C. E. Walker & Company ; all kinds of
sporting goods of superior manufacture
are handled, the store is headquarters for
that line of goods in the city, in fact out-
side of the largest cities no larger or better
stocked store can be found. In 1904 ^Ir.
Weaver bought the business block at No.
396 High street, and occupies its floors as
sales and display rooms. Above this
store he uses the second floor, covering
the space over the stores of Nos. 394, 396
and 398, taking up the entire block on that
floor, and carrying the largest stock of
sporting goods in Western Massachu-
setts.
To his business enterprise, Mr. Weaver
adds fraternal and social activities, and he
is one of the popular men of his city. He
is a member of Mount Tom Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Mt. Holyoke
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Holyoke
Council, Royal and Select Masters ;
Springfield Commandery, Knights Tem-
plar; Melha Temple, Nobles of the ^Mystic
Shrine ; Bay State Club ; Holyoke Canoe
Club and Second Baptist Church. In poli-
tics he is a Republican.
Mr. Walker married (first) May 24,
1893, Emma Galbraith, born in South
Roxton, Province of Quebec. Canada,
daughter of Major Joseph and Isabelle
(Howe) Galbraith. They were the par-
ents of a son, Roy Galbraith, born in
Springfield, Massachusetts, May 24, 1895,
a graduate of Holyoke High School, now
associated in business with his father,
and a daughter, Leah Emma, born July
23, 1897. Mrs. Emma (Galbraith) Walker
died January 4. 1900. Mr. Walker mar-
ried (second) Sarah Squires, of Platts-
burg. New York.
O'CONNELL, John,
Retired Bnaineaa Man.
Among the citizens of Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, fast approaching octogenarian
honors is John O'Connell, whom the years
have touched so lightly that almost every
day he may be seen on the streets driving
or walking. He has watched Holyoke's
growth from stage coach days and from a
mere village to a veritable hive of manu-
facturing industry, and in the growth has
borne a man's part as citizen, business
man and official of the city government.
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He is not a native son, l)ut was born on
the Green Isle across the sea, the isle
which has furnished the United States
with so many men who either themselves
or through their descendants now bear so
important a part in governmental, profes-
sional and business life in every American
State. He was one of the early grocers of
Holyoke. and for many years conducted
a prosperous business in Ward 4, but
since 1901 has lived a retired life, free
from business cares.
The O'Connells came to Holyoke in
1847, coming from County Kerry, Ireland,
where Daniel O'Connell was born in 1799.
He resided in the west part of the county,
there married Catherine Manning, and
there all his children were born. In 1847
he came to the United States with his
family, located in Holyoke. where he died
in 1849. His wife died in West Holyoke
in 1885. They were the parents of James ;
Michael ; Daniel, founder of the important
contracting firm, Daniel O'Connell's Sons ;
Maurice ; John, of further mention ; Jo-
anna, and Mary, who married James Sul-
livan.
John O'Connell, son of Daniel and
Catherine (Manning) O'Connell, was
born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1840,
and in 1847 was brought to Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, by his parents, his father dying
two years later. He attended the public
schools, but in early life became a wage
earner, being first employed in the Lyman
Mill. He did not like mill work, and in
a short time left to take a position as gro-
cer's clerk, continuing in that business
some three or four years. He next tried
farming, then for eleven years, 1859-1870,
ran a milk wagon. In 1870 he established
a grocery store in Holyoke, which he suc-
cessfully conducted for twenty years. He
sold out in 1890. but after a short time
again established in the grocery business,
continuing until 1901, when he perma-
nently retired from business to devote
himself entirely to the large real estate
interests he had acquired. He was a good
business man and a shrewd investor, mak-
ing few mistakes in his estimate of prop-
erty values, and with rare judgment
selecting locations which the years would
greatly increase in price.
He was a trustee of the People's Sav-
ings Bank for several years, and in earlier
life took active part in city afifairs, and has
always lent his aid to the cause of good
government, both as a citizen and during
his two terms as a member of Council.
When Holyoke was first incorporated a
city, Mr. O'Connell was a member of the
first Common Council, served well the in-
terests of the new municipality, and has
never been other than a friend and a sup-
porter of all movements that he felt was
for the good of his community. He is one
of the popular men of the city, and when
he recently celebrated his seventy-sixth
birthday, his home in Dwight street stood
open all day to receive the congratulations
of the many friends who called upon the
hale, hearty and well-beloved couple.
Mr. O'Connell married (first) in 1870,
Margaret Bowles. He married (second)
in 1874, Joanna Landers, born in Holyoke,
daughter of John and Jane (Sullivan)
Landers, her father coming to the United
States in 1847. The two children of his
first marriage are deceased, but of the
twelve children of John and Joanna
O'Connell, nine are living: i. Rev. John
A. O'Connell, pastor of St. Ann's parish
in Fairview. Massachusetts. 2. Edward,
a veterinary surgeon in the United States
army ; was three years in the Philippines,
three years in China, again one year in the
Philippines, and now (1917) in San An-
tonio. Texas. 3. Dennis F., a member of
the Holyoke Park Commission. 4. Joseph
J., married Laura Packett, a native of
Bridgeport, Connecticut; they reside in
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Springfield. 5. Richard J. 6. Christopher
J., a doctor of dental surgery, of Holyoke.
7. Howard, a graduate of Holy Cross
College, 1916, now a student at the Grand
Seminary in Montreal. 8. Catherine, re-
sides with her parents. 9. Mary J., a
music teacher in Holyoke, resides with
her parents. The names of the deceased
children are : Daniel. Howard. Paul.
Being denied the blessings of advanced
education for himself. Mr. OConnell gave
his children every advantage, and al-
though he has been granted long life in
which to enjoy the fruits of his industry
and ability, the great joy in the lives of
the aged couple is that they have been
spared to witness the rise of their chil-
dren to honorable position in the world, a
satisfaction only parents can understand
and appreciate.
EASTMAN. Fred Atherton,
Representative Citizen.
The Boston & Maine Railroad Company
probably has in its service no freight agent
better known or more popular than Fred
Atherton Eastman, who has charge of the
business in Holyoke. Massachusetts. In
addition to a natural aptitude for the work
in which he has been engaged for so many
years, his training has been received in
various other positions of trust and re-
sponsibility. From a line of sturdy an-
cestors he has inherited traits of character
that have stood the acid tests of a life of
great industry in positions requiring abso-
lute integrity, alertness, tact, loyalty, fair-
ness and a sense of duty and justice.
The surname Eastman is one of the
oldest in England, derived, it is evident,
from the word Easterling. originally
meaning a native of eastern Germany and
synonymous with the surnames Easmond.
Estmond. Eisman and Esmond. The only
coat-of-arms of the familv is described :
Gules the dexter chief point an escutcheon
argent charged with a lion rampant.
(Ij Roger Eastman, the first settler in
this country, was born in Wales in 1661,
died in Salisbury, then Massachusetts,
now Connecticut, December 16, 1694. He
came to this country from Langford, W i-t-
shire. England, in the ship "Confidence,"
in 1640, as an apprentice of John Saunders,
and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts,
where he received land in the first di-
vision in 1640-41. He was a housewright;
was a proprietor of the town and, in 1644,
both he and his wife were members of the
church, and his name is on a list of con-
tributors to the minister's tax in 1650. He
aeposed, April 11, 1671, that he was sixty
years old, and on the same day his wife
gave her age as fifty. He died December
16, 1694. He married Sarah Smith, bom
1620, died ;March 11, 1697-98. Children,
born at Salisbury : John, bom January 9,
1640: Nathaniel, May 18, 1643; Philip,
December 30, 1644; Thomas, November
II. 1646: Timothy, Novemt)er 29. 1648;
Joseph, January 8, 1650; Benjamin, Feb-
ruary 12, 1652 ; Sarah, September 25, 1655 ;
Samuel, mentioned below; Ruth, March
21. 1661.
(II) Samuel Eastman, son of Roger
Eastman, was born at Salisbury, Novem-
ber 20, 1657, and died February 2~, 1725.
He took the oath of allegiance in 1677 and
was admitted a freeman in 1690. He re-
moved from Salisbury to Kingston, now-
in New Hampshire, about 1720. and was
dismissed from the Salisbury church to
the Kingston church. September 26. 1725.
He was granted land in Kingston. He
married (first) November 4. 16S6. Eliza-
beth Scriven. who was baptized and ad-
mitted to the Salisbury church, October
8, 1690. He married (second) September
17, 1719. Sarah Fifield. who died at Kings-
ton, August 3, 1726. Children, all by first
wife: Ruth, born Januarv ^, 1688: Eliza-
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beth, December i, 1689; Mary, January 4,
1691 ; Samuel, January 5, 1695-96; Joseph,
January 6, 1697; Ebenezer, mentioned
below; Thomas, January 21, 1703; Timo-
thy, March 29, 1706; Edward, ]\Iarch 30,
1708; Benjamin, July 13, 1710.
(III) Ebenezer Eastman, son of Sam-
uel Eastman, was born at Salisbury, Jan-
uary II, 1701, and died at Kingston, Feb-
ruary 16, 1746. He married, May 5, 1729.
Mary Sleeper, a widow. Children, born at
Kingston: Samuel, baptized May 7, 1727
(date given in genealogy) ; Edward, men-
tioned below ; Mary, baptized August 25,
1734; Hannah, baptized May 3, 1741.
(IV) Edward Eastman, son of Eben-
ezer Eastman, was born in Kingston, New
Hampshire, baptized there February 25,
1732, died November 7, 1815. He was a
soldier in the Revolution, and a member
of the Committee of Safety. He lived on
w^hat has been lately known as the Titus
H. Wadsworth farm. He married, May
6, 1758, Anna Judkins, who died March
24, 1817, aged seventy-seven years. Chil-
dren, born at Kingston: Benjamin, men-
tioned below ; John, born November 23,
1760; Hannah, February 12, 1764. Born
at Salisbury, New Hampshire : Phineas.
June 20, 1766; Mehitable, June 20, 1768;
Moses, August 11, 1770; Nancy, August
5, 1772; Abigail, March 5, 1775; Samuel,
April 4, 1780.
(V) Ensign Benjamin Eastman, son of
Edward Eastman, was born at Kingston,
New Hampshire, June 19, 1759. died at
Salisbury, New Hampshire, April 14,1813.
He was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War at the age of sixteen. He married,
March 23, i/'88, Dolly Bean, born at Or-
ford, New Hampshire, died January 13,
1853, at Salisbury, New Hampshire, aged
eighty-five years. He was a farmer and
shoemaker. His home was at Shaw's
Corner in Salisbury. Children, born at
Salisbury, New Hampshire : Edward.
September 12, 1789; John, January 13,
1791 ; Betsey, May 7, 1793; Nabby, April
21, 1795; Phoebia, October 21, 1797;
Moses, mentioned below; Daniel B.,
March 26, 1802; Abby, January 25, 1805;
John T., October, 1808; Benjamin F.,
July 18, 1811 ; Nancy, October 18, 1813.
(VI) Moses Eastman, son of Ensign
Benjamin Eastman, was born at Salis-
bury, New Hampshire, November 2, 1799,
died September 9, 1888, in Danbury, New
Hampshire. His early life was spent in
Danbury. In 1832 he moved to Wilmot,
New Hampshire, but in 1840 he returned
to Danbury and spent the remainder of
his life there. He was captain of the mili-
tia company; selectman of Danbury and
representative from that town in the State
Legislature. He was a farmer. He mar-
ried, at Salisbury, April 22, 1826, Irena
Wells, born at Sandown, New Hampshire,
October 16, 1800, died January 26, 1891,
a daughter of Nathaniel and Anna (Bean)
Wells, of Salisbury and Danbury. Chil-
dren, born at Danbury: Sarah Ann, Feb-
ruary 3, 1827, married George W. At-
w^ood ; Warren, October 17, 1828, lived
at Princeton, Illinois ; Nancy Woodbury,
May 26, 1830, lived at Potter Place. New
Hampshire; Moses, March 11, 1832, lived
at Franklin Falls, New Hampshire. Born
at Wilmot: Benjamin Franklin, March i,
1834, died aged three years ; Thomas Ben-
ton, December 26, 1837. died aged three
years; Amanda, January 5. 1839. married
Levi Bean ; William Harrison, October
27, 1840, lived at Attica. Kansas; Irene
Marett, September 17, 1842: Oscar Irvin,
July 21, 1844, married Lucia Jane Keni-
son.
(VII) Moses (2) Eastman, son of
Moses (i) Eastman, was born at Dan-
bury, New Hampshire, March 11, 1832,
and died at Franklin, New Hampshire, in
1904. He was a farmer in Danbury; re-
moved to Franklin Falls, where for many
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years he kept a boarding house. He was
a member of the Masonic lodge of Elkins,
New Hampshire, and of the Unitarian
church. He married Celestia R. Currier,
of Danbury, a daughter of Moses and
Lucretia (Smith) Currier. Children: i.
Appleton Burt, a bookkeeper in a lumber
concern in Bangor, Maine; married, and
has one son. Malcolm. 2. Moses Frank,
resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a
stair builder. 3. Fred Atherton, men-
tioned below^ 4. Ada Maria, married
George R. Xeal, agent of the Standard
Oil Company in Stoneham, Massachu-
setts; children: Richard, Fred, Eastman
and Franklin. 5. Lucretia Irene, married
Will S. Moore, a machinist, employed by
the Springfield Machine Company of
Windsor, Vermont; daughter, IMiniah,
born March 11, 1902.
(VIII) Fred Atherton Eastman, son of
Moses (2) Eastman, was born at Dan-
bur}-, New Hampshire, July 8, 1866. He
attended the public schools of his native
town and afterw-ard was a student in
Proctor Academy for one year. Since he
was seventeen years of age, he has been
engaged constantly in the railroad busi-
ness. In the winter of 1883 he was em-
ployed at the railroad station at Danbury
under George Gordon, station agent. In
the following spring he was sent to
Canaan, New Hampshire, and began to
learn telegraphy in the railroad offices.
Six months later he was assigned to the
station in South Danbury, as station
agent. The place was small, but he won
the confidence of his superiors by the
faithfulness he displayed, and a year later
was appointed station agent at Grafton,
New Hampshire, a position he filled for
seven years. In 1891 he was appointed to
a much more important place in charge of
the station at Franklin Falls. New Hamp-
shire, as general freight and passenger
agent of the Boston & Maine Railroad
Company. Franklin is a thriving city of
some seven thousand people. Here he re-
mained for a period of twenty-one years,
and grew constantly in the esteem of
those who had business with his em-
ployers and in the confidence of his su-
perior olificers in the corporation. On
January, 1912, he was transferred to
White River Junction in a similar capac-
ity, but in August of that year was placed
in charge of the freight and passenger
service of the railroad at Bellows Falls,
Vermont. His stay there was brief, how-
ever. In the following February he was
appointed freight agent at Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, .a position he has since filled
with ability and efificiency. Few of the
emplo}ees of the Boston & Maine have
had a longer period of service, a third of
a century, yet Mr. Eastman is yet in the
prime of life. The duties of freight agent
at Holyoke are particularly onerous and
important. The value of the freight enter-
ing and leaving the city of Holyoke is
very great. The paper alone sent from
this city forms a vast aggregate in the
course of a year. While a citizen of
Franklin, he took an active part in local
aflfairs. He joined the Masonic fraternity
in that city, and is also a member of the
Eastern Star Chapter there. He is a
member of the Canoe Club of Holyoke.
He and his family attend the First Con-
gregational Church.
He married. June 5, 1890, Hattie Ger-
trude Kilton, daughter of Lovell and
Amaryelias (Stearns) Kilton, of Grafton,
New Hampshire, the former named a
farmer there all his life, and a representa-
tive of an old family there. Children: i.
Harold Moses, born at Franklin. January
23, 1892; graduate of the I'ranklin High
School and the New Hampshire State
College at Durham; now superintendent
of the National Radium Company, Den-
ver. Colorado ; married Louise Phillips, of
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Concord, Xew Hampshire; one son, Har-
old Moses, Jr., born ^larch 2^, igiy, in
Denver, Colorado. 2. Richard Kilton,
born at Franklin, August 19, 1902. 3.
Ruth \'olana, born at Franklin, April 27,,
1904.
HEIDNER, Joseph G.,
Business Man.
As head of J. G. Heidner & Son, Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, Mr. Heidner con-
trols a business in musical instruments
and music accessories which he founded
in 1891 and conducted under his own
name until 1912, when he admitted his
son as a partner. This is one of the best
equipped music stores in the State, and
the business therein transacted is evi-
dence that the musical public appreciates
that fact.
When Frederick Heidner, born in Ger-
many in 1816, came to the United States,
a lad, he found his way to Fulton county.
New York, and in the town of Bleecker,
near the village of the same name, became
a farmer. He also resided in Broadalbin,
a manufacturing borough of Fulton coun-
ty, ten miles north of Amsterdam. Fred-
erick Heidner married Mrs. Mary Yennis
Strauchen, also born in Germany. They
were the parents of eight children: Fred-
erick A. ; Joseph G., of further mention ;
Samuel D. ; Charles E. ; Anna; Susan;
Margaret, married Frederick Getchell ;
Caroline, married Edward Simons. Fred-
erick Heidner, the father, died in i8go, his
wife Mary in 1867.
Joseph G. Heidner, son of Frederick
and ]\Iary Heidner. was born in Bleecker.
Fulton county. New York. June 7, 1856.
and there obtained a good public school
education. At the age of seventeen, he
began working in a paper mill in Broadal-
bin, New York, there continuing three
3-ears, until 1873, when he came to Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, which has ever since
been his home and the scene of his busi-
ness successes. For fifteen years after
coming to Holyoke, Mr. Heidner engaged
in the sewing machine business with his
brother, Frederick A. Heidner, as a sales-
man, retiring from that line in 1891 to
establish in business for himself as a
dealer in pianos. The business he then
founded has grown to large proportions
and now includes a full line of modern
musical instruments and accessories. In
1912, Raymond Frederick Heidner was
admitted a partner, the firm now trading
as J. G. Heidner & Son. In 1917 they
moved to a beautiful new store at No. 294
Maple street, where he has one of the finest
showrooms in Western Massachusetts.
Mr. Heidner, Sr., is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, the Second Congre-
gational Church, and in political faith is
a Republican.
Mr. Heidner married, in 1886, Anna
E)elding, daughter of Frederick and Chloe
( Dresser) Belding, of Easthampton. ^las-
sachusetts. They are the parents of Ray-
mond Frederick, born in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, November II, 1889. a graduate of
Holyoke High School, a junior of Hamil-
ton College, now junior partner of J. G.
Heidner & Son ; he is a member of Mt.
Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
and Holvoke Canoe Club.
BALLOU, Alonzo Newton,
Representative Citizen.
For over thirty years Mr. Ballou has
been chief engineer with the American
Thread Company of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, coming to that position with the
change from the Merrick Thread Com-
{>any name. Mr. Ballou comes of an early
and distinguished family, his American
ancestor, Maturin Ballou, a descendant of
Gunebored Ballou, of Norman-French
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ENXYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGR.A.PHY
origin, believed to have come to England
with the Conqueror.
(I) Maturin Ballou, born in De\on-
shire, England, early came to Xew Eng-
land, his name appearing on recorded
documents among the signatures of the
twenty-eight proprietors with Roger Wil-
liams, on the grant of land now a part of
the city of Providence, Rhode Island. He
signed his name ''Mathurin." but his de-
scendants adopted Maturin as the spell-
ing. He married, between 1646 and 1649.
Hannah, daughter of Robert and Cather-
ine Pike. He died between the years 1661
and 1663.
(H) James Ballou, son of Maturin
Ballou, was bom in Providence, Rhode
Island, in 1652, and died soon after the
settlement of his affairs in 1741, although
the date is not definitely known. Soon
after his marriage in 1683 he settled in
Loquasquissuck. originally a part of
Providence, now Lincoln. His first home
was a log house built prior to 1685, his
second a frame dwelling near the site of
the first. He acquired about one thou-
sand acres by gift and purchase, and in
1706 conveyed a farm to each of his three
sons. James. Nathaniel and Obadiah. He
was a man of high character and sound
judgment, ably administering his affairs.
He married. July 2;^. 1683. Susanna Whit-
man, born at Providence, February 26,
1653. died about 1725. daughter of \'alen-
tine and Mary Whitman.
(Ill) Xathaniel Ballou. second son of
James Ballou, was born in Providence,
Rhode Island, April 9. 1687. died in the
town of Cumberland. Rhode Island, Janu-
ary' II, 1747. and there both he and his
wife were buried in the Ballou family
plot. His farm was near Beacon Poll Hill
and there he long resided. He was a
member of the first town council of Cum-
berland, and was holding that office at the
time of his death. He married. December
7. 17 16, Mary Lovett, born near Paw-
tucket, Rhode Island, in 1696, died in
Cumberland, October 14, 1747.
(IV) Stephen Ballou, son of Xathaniel
Ballou, was born in Cumberland, Rhode
Island, March 18, 1731, and died Novem-
ber 13, 1776. His homestead comprised
the northerly portion of his father's lands,
and there he pursued a quiet, even life.
He married (first) June 13, 175 1. Mehit-
able, daughter of Elder Josiah Cook. She
died June 2, 1772, leaving a family of
eight children. He married (second) Sep-
tember II, 1774, Anna, daughter of John
and Mar}- (Fisher) Metcalf, who survived
him many years and sold out her right of
dower in the Stephen Ballou homestead,
July 7, 1809. She married a second hus-
band, Jonas Ellis, of Thompson, Connec-
ticut.
(V) Edward Ballou, eldest son of Ste-
phen Ballou and his first wife. ^lehitabie
( Cook) Ballou, was born in Cumberland,
Rhode Island, X'ovember 24, 1756. He
was a soldier of the Revolution, and in
his old age drew a government pension.
He was industrious and honorable, and
highly respected. He died at the home
of his son, Stephen Ballou, in Pelham,
Massachusetts, Februarv* 22, 1833. He
married, in Cumberland. Bethany Streeter.
born October 25, 1755. died there, Febru-
ary 22, 1808, daughter of Isaiah Streeter.
They were the parents of ten children.
(VI) Stephen (2 ) Ballou, eldest son of
Edward and Bethany (Streeter) Ballou,
was born in Cumberland. Rhode Island,
May II, 1782, and died in Pelham, Massa-
chusetts, March 5, 1859. Xot long after
his marriage in 1804, he moved to Pel-
ham. Massachusetts, and there followed
his trade of carpenter. Both he and his
wife were members of the Society of
Friends and used the plain speech. He
married. October 14, 1804, Alice (Elsie)
Bralev, born in Cumberland, December
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17, 1777, died in Pelham about 1861,
daughter of Roger (2) J:5raley. They
were the parents of nine children.
(VII) Hiram Ballou, eighth chikl of
Stephen (2) and Alice (Braley) Ballou,
was born in Pelham, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 9, 1823, and died there, May 2,
1903. He was a man of intense religious
nature, and from his conversion at the
age of eighteen was a pillar of strength
to the Methodist Episcopal church, of
which he was an active member for sixty
years. He was at different times a mem-
ber of the oflicial board, a class leader and
Sunday school superintendent. Prayer
meetings were often held at his home and
many souls were blessed under his leader-
ship. He was one of the leading spirits
in the organization of the Methodist So-
ciety at Amherst, was one of the original
members of that church, being transferred
from the West Pelham church. When
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church was
erected by the Amherst congregation, he
generously contributed of his time and his
means, and until his death maintained the
deepest affection for the church and con-
gregation he had aided to found and up-
build. His faith in God was unwavering,
and there was nothing uncertain in his
hope of immortality. So thoroughly con-
sistent was his Christian character that
from him radiated an influence for good
that was an appreciable force in the moral
life of his community. He was a farmer
all his life, and one of the substantial, re-
liable men of his town. Hiram Ballou
married (first) in Pelham, November 30,
1843, Elizabeth Wales Arnold, born in
Belchertown, Massachusetts, August 23,
1823, died June 15, 1871, daughter of Wil-
lis and Polly Arnold. He married (sec-
ond) Mrs. Olive F. (Briggs) Stowell.
daughter of Amos Briggs and widow of
Ira L. Stowell. His ten children were all
born in Pelham except Lyman Ellsworth,
the ninth ; his first wife was the mother
of all. Children: i. Plenry Auburn, born
October 26, 1844; a machinist and engi-
neer of New Haven, Connecticut ; mar-
ried Addie Beers. 2. Winslow Elmer,
died young. 3. Mary Alice, born Octo-
ber 18, 1849; married Charles Beers. 4.
Alonzo Newton, of further mention. 5.
Harriet Louisa, died young. 6. Emma
Loretta, born June 24, 1855 ; married
Oscar Pettengill. 7. Lizzie Jane, born
August 18, 1857, died January 5, 1887 ;
married Dr. Almond J. Cutting. 8. Delia
Maria, born March 12, 1861, died 1917;
married Willard D. Stowell. 9. Lyman
Ellsworth, born December 7, 1863, a tin-
smith of Barre, Massachusetts. 10. Wil-
liam Martin, born December 27, 1867.
(VIII) Alonzo Newton Ballou, son of
Hiram and Elizabeth Wales (Arnold)
Ballou, was born in Pelham, Massachu-
setts, October 27, 185 1. He attended the
public schools of Pelham, Belchertown
and Enfield during the winter seasons,
spending his summers in farm employ-
ment. Later he moved to South Hadley
Falls, entered the employ of the Glasgow
Mills and continued four years. In 1883
he took a position with the ^Merrick
Thread Company of Holyoke as foreman
of a department. When the American
Thread Company superseded the IMcrrick
Thread Company, Mr. Ballou became
chief engineer of Mill No. i, a position
he has held continuously since 1886 in full
charge of all steam and electric power
used in the mill. He is a master in his
particular line, is a member of the Engi-
neers' Association, and highly regarded
by his associates. He is a member of Hol-
yoke Lodge. Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.
Mr. Ballou married, February 2-]. 1871,
Mary Akers, daughter of Joseph and Lucy
(Tufts) Akers, of Granby, Massachusetts.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballou are the parents of
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three children, a daughter, Elizabeth, and
two sons, Frederick and Joseph, both of
whom died in early childhood. Elizabeth
Liallou married Charles Moore, of Wil-
hmantic, Connecticut, a division manager
with the drand Union Tea Company, re-
siding in Springfield; they have a daugh-
ter, Dorothy Moore, born July 6, 1909.
O'SHEA, John,
Piano and Music Dealer.
John O'Shea, the well known piano and
music dealer of Holyoke, was born in
Kathkale, County Limerick, Ireland, April
22, 1848. He is the son of Patrick and
Ellen (Scanlon) O'Shea. The father, who
was a horse-shoer and farrier in Ireland,
died when John O'Shea was but two
months old, leaving his wife with several
small children, namely: Mary, Catherine,
Margaret, Ellen, James and John. When
the latter named was about two years of
age his mother, realizing that there were
few opportunities for her to support her
family comfortably and with advantages in
Ireland set sail for the United States, and
after a voyage of more than two months
arrived in Boston, Massachusetts. It is
needless to say this took considerable
courage, and demonstrated clearly the
great love and ambition she cherished for
her children. From Boston she w^ent to
Ware, Massachusetts, in which town she
resided up to the time of her decease.
John O'Shea received the ordinary pub-
lic school education in Ware, and re-
mained in that town until he was about
twenty-five years of age, and for a number
of years after completing his studies was
employed in the George H. Gilbert Manu-
facturing Company, after which he served
in the capacity of foreman in the weaving
department of Charles A. Stevens & Com-
pany. Leaving their employ, he engaged
in the manufacture of cigars in connec-
tion with William F. Cooney & Company,
continuing along that line until his re-
moval to the Western section of the
United States, he being ot the opinion
that the West offered greater opportu-
nities for advancement than the East. He
chose as his place of residence the city of
St. Louis and for several months con-
ducted a grocery store there. Immedi-
ately after his marriage, which occurred
in that city, he returned to Ware, Massa-
chusetts, then came to liolyoke, and for
one year was associated with his brother-
in-law in the tin business. He then
opened a tobacco, cigar and fruit store,
and also conducted a public dining room,
which was well patronized. His several
business ventures up to this time had been
successful financially, and believing he
had accumulated sufficient capital he
established a piano and sewing machine
business ; is now located at No. 463 High
street, and which has proved a successful
undertaking, and to this enterprise he has
since devoted his entire time and atten-
tion. His affable manner and unfailing
courtesy have won him many patrons,
and these assets being great advertisers
his business has increased more rapidly
than is usual in a line not dealing in
staples.
Mr. O'Shea married, in 1873, Mary Gil-
bert, born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
daughter of George and Catherine (Flem-
ing) Gilbert, natives of England and Ire-
land, respectively. After the death of Mr.
Gilbert his widow married a Mr. Healey,
and her death occurred in St. Louis in
1899. Mr. and Mrs. O'Shea are the par-
ents of seven children: i. Frank, born in
March, 1874. died in infancy. 2. James,
a sketch of whom follows. 3. Catherine,
born October 4, 1877, d'^*^! i" June, 1893.
4. Mary, born May 12, 1880, died in 1892.
5. John, born in May, 1887. 6. Gilbert,
born in August, 1889; assists his father
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in the piano and sewing machine busi-
ness; married, in September, 1914, Lillian
M. McCuddy, and they have one son,
James Edward, born April 24, 1916. 7.
Edward, born in August, 1893; ^ gradu-
ate of Dartmouth College, June, 1916.
Such citizens as John O'Shea add a
considerable element to the communities
with which they are connected, and much
of the development of Holyoke has been
due to this class of men who devote their
entire time to building up a business en-
terprise on principles of strict integrity
and honorable dealings.
O'SHEA, James, f
Attorney-at-Laxr.
James O'Shea, the well known attorney
of Holyoke, was born in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, September 2y, 1875, son of John
and Mary (Gilbert) O'Shea, who are men-
tioned in preceding sketch. John O'Shea,
realizing that educational advantages
would count largely in his son's success
later in life, gave him full opportunity to
attend the public school of Holyoke, from
which he graduated in 1893, and was later
sent to Boston University, where he en-
tered the Law School and from which he
graduated in 1897. He was admitted to
the bar and began the practice of law the
same year. On account of the popularity
of his family he found it expedient to
open his office in Holyoke, and since 1897
has been a member of the bar of that city,
and here he has since continued in active
and successful practice. In 1914 he was
appointed district attorney by Governor
Walsh, an office in which he fully met the
expectations of his supporters. Turning
his attention to politics, he became an
active member of the Democratic organ-
ization in the county and State. In 1904
he was elected a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention, and in 1912 he
held a similar position, representing the
]''irst Congressional District. Political
activities have brought him personally be-
fore men of prominence in the Democratic
party, and he is well and favorably known,
and on his office walls are seen auto-
graphed portraits of Hon. William J.
Bryan and the Hon. Champ Clark, both
of which were given to Mr. O'Shea by
these gentlemen as tokens of respect and
esteem. Mr. O'Shea is a member of the
Roman Catholic church, the Knights of
Columbus and of the Holyoke Club. His
career thus far gives promise of far greater
and more varied successes in the future,
and it is probable that his legal activities
will become quite as wide-spread as his
political- connections.
On June 27, 1905, Mr. O'Shea married
Alice M. Benjamin, of Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, daughter of Albert H. and
Esther Benjamin. The residence of Mr.
and Mrs. James O'Shea is at No. 388
Appleton street, Holyoke.
McHUGH, Edward Thomas,
Head of McHngli Foundry Company.
For fifty-eight years Mr. McHugh has
been connected with the foundry business
in different places, but since 1880 in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, where he is the ca-
pable head of the McHugh Foundry Com-
pany, one of the useful industries of the
city. He is a son of Thomas McHugh,
and a grandson of LIugh IMcHugh, who
was a native of and died in Ireland. He
married a Miss Sheridan and they had
children: Hugh (2), Edward, Mary, Eliz-
abeth, Nancy and Thomas. After being
left a widow, Mrs. McHugh came to the
United States with her children in 1824
and settled in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Thomas McHugh (father), born in the
north of Ireland in 1814, died at Cam-
bridgeport, Massachusetts, in 1878. He
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was ten years of age when brought to this
country by his widowed mother, and in
Lowell, Massachusetts, he learned the
moulder's trade, and all his after life was
a foundryman. From Lowell he went to
North Chelmsford, but was living in
Lowell, Massachusetts, when the canal
was opened to that city, the canal long
antedating the railroads. For sixteen
years he lived at Canton, Massachusetts,
and at Cambridgeport spent the later
years of a life which was an active one
until \vithin two years of his death, which
occurred in his seventy-eighth year, in
if)02. He married Julia O'Connor, born
in County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Tim-
othy and Helena (Toomey) O'Connor.
She was one of seven children, the others
being: John, Mary, Cornelius, Margaret,
Patrick. Timothy. Thomas and Julia
( O'Connor j McHugh were the parents
of : Mary, married Timothy J. McCarty ;
Edward Thomas, of further mention ;
Charles ; Timothy, deceased ; Cornelius,
deceased ; Elizabeth ; Annie, deceased ;
Helena, married Burnherd McCafifrey;
and Julia.
Edward Thomas McHugh, eldest son
of Thomas and Julia (O'Connor) Mc-
Hugh, was born in Canton. Massachu-
setts, Xovember 20, 1845, ^^id there at-
tended school until thirteen years of age.
He then began learning the moulder's
trade, and has ever since been a foundry-
man, working for others and running his
own business, but always a foundryman.
During the Civil War he was in govern-
ment employ, stationed at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, his work the repairing of rail-
roads damaged by the Confederates.
After the war he worked in Cambridge-
port and Warren, Massachusetts, several
of these years spent in the employ of the
Knowles Steam Pump Company, of War-
ren. In 1880 he located in Holyoke, and
for the following thirteen vears was man-
ager of the foundry department of the
Dean Steam Pump Company. He was
also employed by the Holyoke Motor
Company and by the city of Holyoke for
several years ; he equipped and started
the Keough Foundry on the site of his
present plant, performed a similar service
for the Holyoke Auto Company, and later
ran that foundry under his own name for
ten years. He then sold out, taking mort-
gages in part payment. Eventually he
was obliged to foreclose on the plant, and
in 1914 again put it in commission and
operates it under the name of the Mc-
Hugh Foundry Company. Castings of
varied kinds and a full line of foundry
work are turned out at the plant, which
is patronized by the large industrial com-
panies of the city, including the Holyoke
Heater Company, Cowan Truck Com-
pany, Perkins Paper Company, Holyoke
Gas & Electric Company, Bosch Magneto
Company, American Writing Paper Com-
pany, American Thread Company, Ger-
mania ]Mills and the Independent Paper
Companies. The quality of the work
turned out at the McHugh Foundry can
be judged by the high standing of his
patrons, much of their work being of the
most important character. The jobbing
department of the foundry is kept fully
employed and is under the management
of the veteran owner, who Is everywhere
recognized as an expert in his special line.
This has been his life work, and he has
never departed from it, and although re-
peatedly urged to accept political office,
these ofiFers are as repeatedly refused. He
is a member of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks. He is a most
kindly hearted, genial man, whom all re-
spect.
Mr. McHugh married, in February.
1871. Mary McTighe, daughter of John
and Bridget (King) McTighe, of Warren,
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. McHugh
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are the parents of six children : Charles,
who died at the age of nineteen years ;
Agnes; Edward, foreman of the McHugh
Foundry Company, married Alary Shea
and has two sons, Edward and Paul ;
Helena, married James H. Riley, a lawyer
of Springfield, Massachusetts ; John, en-
gaged in the drug business in Springfield ;
Cornelius, died aged three years.
WALSH, Maurice Joseph,
Contractor.
Maurice J. Walsh is among the many
natives of Ireland who have won recog-
nition and prosperity in the United States
through their industry, business capacity
and lives of integrity. His grandfather,
Bartholomew Walsh, was a farmer in Ire-
land, where he owned a section of land,
and died at the age of one hundred and
five years. He married Mary O'Connor,
and they had the following children :
Michael, Maurice, James, John and Red-
mond. Of these, Michael Walsh, born
1822, in County Kerry, Ireland, died there
in 1907. at the age of eighty-five years.
He received such education as the na-
tional schools supplied, and engaged in
agriculture upon the paternal homestead,
where he reared a large family. He mar-
ried (first) Mary Mahoney, and (second)
Nora O'Connell. They had seventeen
children, as follows : John, James, Maurice
Joseph, Michael, Redmond, Bartholomew,
Patrick, Jeremiah, Daniel, Mary, Johanna,
Bridget, Nora, Alice, Catherine, Ellen
and Margaret.
Maurice Joseph Walsh was born March
2, i860, in Caherciveen, County Kerry, Ire-
land, and was educated in the schools of
his native town. As a youth and young
man he studied the trade of wheelwright
and carriage maker, and when twenty-two
years of age came to America and located
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which has
ijecn his place of residence to the present
time. On arriving in Holyoke he found
employment as a carpenter, serving suc-
cessively with Francis F. O'Neill, Toomey
and Shea, Doan Williams, and Casper
Ranger. In 1908, Air. Walsh engaged in
business on his own account as a con-
tracting carpenter, and continued with
success for some time, after which his son
became a partner, and since that time the
business has been carried on under the
firm name of M. J. Walsh & Sons. Many
of the best business blocks and residences
of Holyoke have been erected by Mr.
Walsh. Among these may be mentioned
the Central Fire Station, one of the best
of Its kind in the United States ; West
Springfield High School, and the public
schocl building at Agaw^am. He employs
a large force of men, and his pay roll often
amounts to seven hundred dollars per
week. By his industry, ability and care-
ful attention to details and the wishes of
his patrons, Mr. Walsh has built up a
large and successful business. He does
not seek membership in any social organ-
izations, or fraternities, but is a member
of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of
Foresters. Since 1900 he has been sexton
of the Sacred Heart Church.
Mr. Walsh married, April 13. 1883,
Mary Terese Conway, a native of County
Limerick, Ireland, daughter of James and
Margaret (Lynch) Conway. Air. and
Airs. Walsh are the parents of the fol-
lowing children : Mary, widow of John
Dowd. and mother of John, Francis and
Alary Dowd ; James, associated with his
father in business ; John, who was a part-
ner w^ith his father until his death in
1915, at the age of twenty-five years;
Alaurice, a graduate of the Rensselaer
Institute of Technology; Catherine, de-
ceased ; George ; Aiargaret ; Charles and
Cecelia.
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MAHONEY, James Henry,
'Warehouse Proprietor.
For many years Mr. Mahoney has been
identified with business affairs in Hol-
yoke, and is known and esteemed as a
sound business man, industrious, prompt
and reliable, and has formed many lasting
friendships. His father, Timothy Ala-
honey, was born 1810, in County Kerry,
Ireland, and died in Huntington, Province
of Quebec, Canada, in August, 1890, at the
age of eighty years. A blacksmith by
trade, he worked as a mechanic in his na-
tive land, and after coming to America
was thus occupied for some time in- Og-
densburg and JMoira, New York, and in
Huntington, Canada, where he died. His
first wife's family name was Kelliher, and
he married (second) Catherine Manning,
also a native of County Kerry, daughter
of James and (O'Connor) Man-
ning. There were three children of the
first marriage : Patrick, John and Mar-
garet. Those of the second marriage
were : Mary, now deceased ; James H. ;
Annie ; Timothy ; Michael, now a gun
tester on the Mexican border; Elizabeth,
deceased ; Catherine, deceased, and Ellen,
wife of Edward Beathune, of Avonmore,
Province of Ontario, Canada.
James Henry Mahoney was born July
15, 1856, in Ogdensburg, New York, and
was a child when his parents removed to
Huntington, Quebec. There he worked
upon a farm as a boy, received a fair com-
mon school education, and was later em-
ployed in a grocery store. He took up
his residence in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
May 6. 1881, and since that time has been
one of the most active and progressive
citizens of that growing city. For a short
time he was employed in a boiler shop,
and subsequently drove a team for Daniel
O'Connell, a truckman of Holyoke. His
next employment was in a shop where he
was engaged in making bone knife han-
dles. He entered the employ of A. H.
Perry, in a storage warehouse, April 25,
1882, and continued thirteen years with
that establishment. He succeeded to the
ownership of this business, July 22, 1895,
and since that date has continued a gen-
eral storage warehouse business, under
the title of the People's Public Ware-
house, in the same building he entered in
1882. He gives especial attention to ship-
ping and deliveries, in which he employs
several horses and drivers, and is conduct-
ing a very prosperous and growing busi-
ness. Mr. Mahoney is a man of genial
manners, of kind heart, and broad mind,
and has drawn to himself many faithful
friends. He is ever courteous and oblig-
ing, endeavoring to satisfy the wants of
his customers, and is deservedly popular
with the general public.
Mr. Mahoney married, July 17, 1883,
Emma Elizabeth Kelly, of Malone, New
York, daughter of Roger and Alary (Lar-
kin) Kelly, born in Dublin, Ireland. The
first child of Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney,
Mary, is deceased. Their only son, Wil-
liam Henry Mahoney, is a foreman in
the service of P. Garvin, of Holyoke. The
two surviving daughters, Bernice and
Frances, are teachers in the public schools
of Holvoke.
HIGGINS, John Francis,
Well-Known Citizexu
At his father's brass foundr}^ in Hol-
yoke, John Francis Higgins learned the
business in its various details and there
holds the position of foreman. He is a
son of James Edward Higgins, founder
of the business of which he is now head,
and grandson of Michael Higgins. born in
Ireland, later came to the United States,
settled in Chicopee, Alassachusetts, where
he was in the employ of Belcher & Taylor,
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manufacturers of agricultural machinery.
Michael Higgins married Mary Williams,
and they are the parents of David, Alice,
Mary A. and James E. Higgins.
James Edward Higgins was born at
Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and there
has ever retained his residence. After
completing public school study, he learned
the moulder's trade and for fifteen years
was in the employ of Graves & Kinney at
their foundry in Holyoke. He then estab-
lished a brass foundry in Holyoke, under
his own name, which he successfully con-
ducts. He has always taken an interest
in the public life of Chicopee Falls, his
home, has served as license commissioner
and register of voters and in other capac-
ities. He married Elizabeth Malley, of
Chicopee, and they are the parents of four
sons : John Francis, of further mention ;
James A., David V., and Frank, deceased.
John Francis Higgins, eldest son of
James Edward and Elizabeth (Malley)
Higgins, was born at Chicopee Falls, Mas-
sachusetts, July i6, 1882, and was there
educated in the public school. He began
work with his father in the brass foundry
in Holyoke, learned brass moulding in all
its branches, and finally became foundry
foreman, which position he now fills. He
is also treasurer of the Gas Safety Appli-
ance Company of Holyoke, manufacturing
an improved gas cut ofif. He is a member
of the Foresters of America, and in poli-
tics is an Independent. Mr. Higgins mar-
ried, October 25, 1908, Anna Moriarity,
daughter of Henry F. Moriarity, of Chico-
pee. They are the parents of a son, Frank,
born in April, 1913.
BURKHARDT, Robert Carl,
Merchant.
Third of the sons of Gottlieb Heinrich
Burkhardt, who accompanied their par-
ents to the United States and in their
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adopted city, Holyoke, Massachusetts,
won honorable standing, Robert C. Burk-
hardt has practically spent his entire life
in Holyoke, and is there rated among the
enterprising and successful merchants of
the city. He was born in the city of
Glanchau, Saxony, Germany, October 27,
1867, but in 1870 was brought to the
United States by his parents. After two
years' residence in Huntington, Massa-
chusetts, the family came to Holyoke and
there Robert C. was educated in the pub-
lic schools. He began the active business
of life as an employee of the Germania
Mills in Holyoke, but after a few years as
a mill worker he entered the employ of
Casper Ranger, contractor and builder,
where he remained three years. He then
entered the employ of his father in the
grocery business and was with him thir-
teen years, when he decided to go in busi-
ness for himself. He chose the Elmwood
district of Holyoke as a location, and there
opened a grocery store which he has suc-
cessfully conducted until the present date
(1917). He built in 1916 a beautiful block,
65x73, three stories high, in the Elmwood
section, in one-half of which he has a gro-
cery store, the other half being occupied
as a dry goods store. Five families reside
in the upper floors. He is a member of
William Whiting Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, of Holyoke ; Mt. Holyoke
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; the Hol-
yoke Turn Verein, Holyoke Board of
Trade, Young Men's Christian Associ-
ation and Veteran Firemen's Association.
He is highly regarded as a business man
and in the societies to which he belongs.
Mr. Burkhardt married, October 20,
1893, Anna Schnabel, of Broad Brook,
Connecticut, daughter of John and Mary
(Weizer) Schnabel. They are the par-
ents of a son, Everett Robert, born Sep-
tember 20, 1899, and a daughter, Alice
Anna, born June 10, IQ04.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
WARNER, Ernest Stone,
Merchant, Manufacturer, Real Estate
Operator.
Among the men well known in the real
estate business of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, is Ernest Stone Warner. He is
descended from old Connecticut Colonial
stock in various lines of ancestry.
(I) John Warner, the first in his pater-
nal line in this country, was born in Eng-
land. He was an early settler in Hartford,
and one of the founders and proprietors of
Farmington, Connecticut. He served in
the Pequot War and was rewarded for his
service by a grant of land from the colony.
In 167 1 he was deputy to the General
Court. In October, 1689, land was granted
to his heirs and to Sergeant Thomas Judd
and Sergeant John Stanley. He was one
of the petitioners for liberty to make a
small plantation at Mattatuck, and signed
the articles of 1674, intending to remove
thither, but he died in 1679. His sons,
John and Daniel, were also signers, and
several generations made their homes in
what is now Waterbury. His will was
dated in March, 1679. Children : John ;
Daniel ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Sarah,
baptized March 15, 1656-57, married Wil-
liam Higason.
(II) Thomas Warner, son of John
W^arner, was born as early as 1650. He
lived at New Haven and Waterbury,
whither he moved before 1680. He took
possession of his father's lands at Water-
bury after February, 1682-83. He was a
subscriber to Mr. Peck's settlement as
minister. He held the offices of hayward,
chimney viewer and surveyor. His house
was on the east side of what is now Banks
street, on the site of the Baptist church.
It was voted November, 1679, by the town
that his cellar might stay as built, accord-
ing to an "agreement with Lieutenant
Samuel Steele." His lot adjoined land of
John Hopkins and John Richards, but
later he exchanged it with the latter for
a lot near the present location of the paper
mill. He died November 24, 1714. By
w'ife Elizabeth he had children: Eliza-
beth, married Samuel Chesterton ; Ben-
jamin, mentioned below. Born at Water-
bury : John, born March 6, 1680-81 ; Mary,
December 9, 1682, died June 7, 1705 ; Mar-
tha, April I, 1684, married John Andrews ;
Thomas, October 28, 1687, married Abi-
gail Barnes; Samuel, March 16, 1690;
Margaret, March i, 1693, married Eben-
ezer Richason.
(HI) Benjamin Warner, son of Thom-
as Warner, was born before 1678 in New
Haven. Connecticut. He administered his
father's estate and made an agreement to
care for his mother w^hile she lived, in con-
sideration of quitclaim deeds from the
other heirs. He was granted a '"bachelor
right" in Waterbury in 1700. His father
deeded him part of the homestead lot,
July 10, 1702. He removed to New Haven
before 1704. He married .
Children, born at New Haven: Desire,
born August 23, 1704, married February
II, 1728-29, Ezekiel Sanford, whose sister
married her brother, Benjamin Warner,
Jr.; Benjamin, mentioned below; Joseph,
IMarch 16, 1714; perhaps others not re-
corded.
(IV) Benjamin (2) Warner, son of
Benjamin (i) Warner, was born at New-
Haven, Connecticut. January 16, 1707. He
married, January i, 1729-30, Rachel San-
ford, born May i, 1710, at North Haven,
Connecticut, daughter of Samuel Sanford,
granddaughter of Thomas Sanford, and
great-granddaughter of the pioneer,
Thomas Sanford (see Sanford geneal-
ogy). He died before 1750 at New Haven,
and she married (second) November, 1750,
Enos Sperry. Children, born at New
Haven: Benjamin, born May 2, 1730, died
at Hamden. Connecticut, where he and his
brothers settled, March 2, 1800, aged sev-
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enty years; Ebenezer, born December 14,
1732, died at Hamden, February 19, 1818,
aged seventy-eight years ; Mary, born
October 2},, 1736; Rachel, September 13.
1738; Hezekiah, March 9, 1740-41; Han-
nah, July 5, 1743.
(V) Benjamin, Ebenezer and Hezekiah
Warner, sons of Benjamin Warner, where
the pioneers in Hamden, Connecticut. All
three were living there in 1790, as shown
by the census. Among the sons of Ben-
jamin (3) Warner were David, Benjamin,
Amos, Samuel. Ebenezer, and Jonah.
Hamden was part of Xew Haven until
1786. The northwest part of the town
was called Warnertown. Hezekiah War-
ner was a prominent citizen, selectman in
179091-92, 1810 and 1819. Ira Warner,
another early settler, died at Hamden,
August 20. 1835. aged ninety-six years;
his wife, Betsey \\'arner, died March 3,
1877-
(VI) Jonah Warner, son of Benjamin
(3) Warner, was born in Hamden, Con-
necticut, in 1764, and died there Novem-
ber 5, 1848, aged eighty-four years. He
married Olive Sanford, born 1775, died
1862, daughter of David Sanford (Samuel,
Samuel, Thomas, Thomas Sanford, the
pioneer). Children, born at Hamden:
Elizabeth, married Alfred Doolittle ; Al-
ma, married Zeri Peck ; Maria, married
Seymour Doolittle ; Litha, married Silas
Lyman, and lived in Bethany, Connecti-
cut; Eliza, married Egbert Ailing; Me-
linda, married Chauncey Nutt ; Mehit-
able, died young; Zealous, married Mary
Ailing; Abner, married ^lary Bradley;
Minor, mentioned below ; Harley, born
September 10, 1812, died March 10, 1890,
married (first) Susannah Dorman, (sec-
ond) Emily Ailing.
(VII) Minor Warner, son of Jonah
Warner, was born at Hamden, Connecti-
cut, Tune II, 1805, and died July 6, 1880.
He married. May, 1829, Betsey Elizabeth
Ford, who was born May 29, 1S07, at
Hamden, and died December 14, 1864, in
that town. He was a farmer in his native
town and a lumberman, owning extensive
tracts of woodland, from which he cut the
timber and manufactured railroad ties and
lumber. He was an influential citizen,
and served the town as selectman and in
other places of trust. Children, born at
Hamden: i. Jane, born March i, 1831,
died February 26, i860; married William
Lord. 2. Charles Jared, born April 25,
1832, married Mary Oviatt. 3. Robert
Rollin, mentioned below. 4. Louisa, born
1836, died September 12, 1843. 5- Amos,
born May 28, 1841, died July 17, 1853, at
Hamden. 6. Griswold, born September.
1842, died September, 1842. 7. Marietta
Cleora, born September 12, 1843, married
James Stone. 8. Huldah Adeline, born
December 11, 1845, married Levi Munson.
9. Betsey Ann, born October 20. 1847,
married Frederick Mix. 10 and 11. Twin
daughters, born and died in 1849.
(VIII) Robert Rollin Warner, son of
Minor Warner, was born in Hamden.
Connecticut, November 15, 1833, and died
September 6, 1902, at Holyoke, Massachu-
setts. He married, October 13. 1857, Mar-
tha Johnson, born October 7, 1838, in
Watertown. Connecticut, died November
15. 1883, at Wallingford in that State. He
followed the same occupation as his father,
cultivating his farm at Hamden. cutting
telegraph poles and railroad ties from his
wood lots and selling them to the rail-
road company. Except for a few years
when he lived in Bethany. Wallingford
and Pelham, Massachusetts, he made his
home in his native town. He was quiet,
reserved and industrious, devoting him-
self to his home and business and avoid-
ing public life. For many years he was
an officer of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Hamden, of which he was a
member. He was a devout and sincere
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Christian, an earnest, capable, upright
man. Children, born at llamden : i. Cora
Estelle, born September 21, 1858, died
February 13, 1895; married Joel Miller.
2. Ellsworth Robert, born February 26,
i860, married Rosette Warner. 3. Ida L.,
born October 8, 18O1, died June 20, 1899,
at Litchfield, Connecticut. 4. Fred An-
drews, born September 20, 1863, married
(first) Estella Tuttle ; (second ) Lillian
Potts. 5. Burton Horace, born December
II, 1870, at Pelham, Massachusetts, mar-
ried Nettie Johnson. 6. Ernest Stone,
mentioned below. 7. Frank Hobart, born
December 23, 1875. married Fannie
Young. 8. Clinton Melvano, born July
30, 1877, married Mary Hendrick.
(IX) Ernest Stone Warner, son of
Robert Rollin Warner, was born at Wal-
lingford, Connecticut. March 23, 1873.
He received his early education in the
})ublic schools of Wallingford, Litch-
field and Hamden, Connecticut. After-
ward he was for a time in the em-
ploy of his brother Fred A., who then
owned a dairy and was engaged in the
milk business. In 1890 he came to Hol-
yoke and began his mercantile career as
clerk in a grocery store. A year later he
accepted a position with the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, a year later he
was promoted to the position of assistant
superintendent, an of^ce he held for three
years. He resigned on account of ill
health and turned to farming again. For
two years he lived with his brother Ells-
worth R., who had a farm at Wallingford.
W'ith health restored he returned to Hol-
yoke and engaged in business as a grocer.
In 1897 he established a tea business in
Holyoke and conducted it for thirteen
years. Until 1902 he was alone in this
business, but in that year he admitted his
brother into partnership, and for eight
years the business continued under the
firm name of the Warner Tea Company.
In 1910 he sold his interests in the firm
and gave his attention to other lines of
business. In 1909-10 he financed the El
Progresso Banana Company of Honduras,
Central America, and acted as its fiscal
agent for a year and a half. Since 1911 he
has given the greater part of his time and
attention to real estate, with of^ces in
Holyoke. He has handled many impor-
tant real estate transactions, and in the
development of property he has been
highly successful. Besides his real estate
interests and business, he conducts a fac-
tory manufacturing roach powder, and
also operates the Andrews Chemical Com-
pany of Holyoke. Mr. Warner is treas-
urer of the Holyoke Real Estate Ex-
change. In religion he is a Methodist
and for fifteen years has been secretary
of the board, and trustee of the Highland
Methodist Episcopal Church of Holyoke.
He is a member of the William Whiting
Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma-
sons ; also of the Holyoke Canoe Club.
Mr. Warner married (first) May 29,
1893, Lillian E. Bryant, born October 18,
1871, at South Hadley Falls, ^lassachu-
setts, died April 11, 1911, daughter of Syl-
vester W. and Lydia E. (Carter) Bryant.
He married (second) June 2^, 1911, Mabel
Chase Smith, born in New Bedford, Mas-
sachusetts, daughter of Sabina Smith.
Children by first wife, born at Holyoke :
1. Stanley Ernest, born March 15, 1894.
2. Howard Malcom, born February 9,
1897, died March 14. 1901. 3. Marion
Viola, born November 10, 1901. 4. Bertha
Althea, born December 19, 1903. 5. Pau-
line Estella, born January 8, 1906. 6.
Everett, born December 14, 1910. His
son, Stanley Ernest, graduated from the
public schools in Holyoke, a business col-
lege, also the Tri-State College, An-
gola, Indiana, with the degree of C. E.,
now with the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad in the valuation depart-
ment ; member of Angola Lodge, No. 23,
in Indiana.
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KEANE, Jeremiah J.,
Public OfiBLcial.
In the field of poHtical Hfe the late Jere-
miah J. Keane won distinction, and at the
time of his death was numbered among
the leading, influential and honored citi-
zens of Holyoke, in which city he spent
the greater part of his life. In private life
and public office he was always affable,
yet firm in maintaining what he regarded
to be right, and in the expression of his
sentiments, however much they might an-
tagonize those of other people, no one
was ever in doubt as to his position upon
any questions of business or politics, and
no one ever had reason to question his
perfect sincerity in any expression he
might make or any position he might
take. He had complete command of him-
self, of his intellect and of all the forces
of his nature, which quality eminently
qualified him for leadership.
Jeremiah J. Keane was born in New
York City, May 26, 1856, son of Jeremiah
and Honora (O'Conner) Keane. He at-
tended the parochial schools in his native
city, and at the age of eleven years accom-
panied his parents upon their removal to
Holyoke, Massachusetts, and there at-
tended the public school, also spending
considerable time in evening study, thus
laying the foundation for his broad culture
of later years. His first employment was
in the Lyman Mills of Holyoke, in whose
service he remained until he was sixteen
years of age, and the following six months
he was a student in the Holyoke High
School. He conducted a private school
for a number of years, and was later prin-
cipal of the evening school in the old
Chestnut Street Building, the forerunner
of the present Evening High School, serv-
ing in that capacity for many years, and
through this service he left the indelible
impress of his personality on a large num-
ber of the young men and women of Hol-
yoke who have since performed and are
still performing their full duty as citizens.
Mr. Keane also served an apprenticeship
at the trade of bricklayer, and for more
than two decades was employed as book-
keeper and bricklayer for Lynch Brothers.
Later he formed the I'aker, Cavanaugh,
Keane, Lynch & Verrill Company that
erected the Riverside Paper Mill and de-
veloped the brick yards in Willimansett.
The firm was finally dissolved and Mr.
Keane then formed a partnership with
James J. Dowd, recently deceased ; this
firm conducted an insurance and real
estate business.
In the field of politics Mr. Keane always
took a keen interest and he became a com-
manding figure. He was elected a mem-
ber of the Legislature in 1886 and was
returned for three more terms, his record
in that body being like that of the re-
mainder of his career, clean and honorable
at every point. As long as he was a mem-
ber of the Legislature he haunted the
State Library and the Boston Public
Library and read himself into a remark-
able familiarity with Irish history, and
the habit, once acquired, led him on to
general reading, which trained him into
acute thinking and close reasoning, and
he became remarkably adept at logic and
in debate. In 1904 he was elected by the
aldermen a member of the Board of As-
sessors, and he served as secretary of the
board during his entire term ; he brought
to that office a wide practical knowledge
of inestimable value to the board as a
whole. xA-s a member of the Legislature
and of the Board of Assessors he demon-
strated what a man with the right spirit
and poise can put into his work. He was
an earnest worker and he never allowed
his conscience to be stifled or warped. It
was these qualities, coupled with his
painstaking industry, that made Mr. Keane
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staking industry, that made Mr. Keane
the ideal in public service. For many
years he devoted a large share of the time
outside his regular office hours to figuring
out estimates for contractors to be sub-
mitted in making bids on various con-
tracts, and he was an authority on the
cost of brick work and plastering.
Few self-educated men were better
equipped with book knowledge than Mr.
Keane, and he had a reading knowledge
of French, German and Gaelic. His li-
brary was one of the most remarkable in
the city of Holyoke, having many of the
volumes that are out of print now. Books
dealing with the history of Ireland and
Irish literature were his especial delight,
and although not a native of Ireland he
was deeply attached to the Emerald Isle.
Naturally he was identified with local
Irish societies. He was a vice-president
of the Robert Emmett Literary Society,
and at one time was an officer in the na-
tional organization of that society. He
was also a member of the Gaelic League,
and Division ii, Ancient Order of Hiber-
nians. He held membership in the Hol-
yoke Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles ;
the Bricklayers' Union and in the Holy
Name Society of St. Jerome Church, and
was at one time president of the St. Jer-
ome Temperance Society, and as a young
man took an active part in the St. Vin-
cent De Paul Society.
Mr. Keane married. October 8, 1895,
Mary Elizabeth Callahan, born in Bally-
duff, County Kerry, Ireland, daughter of
Jeremiah and Mary (Hurley) Callahan,
and granddaughter of James Callahan ;
she came to the United States with her
parents in April, 1868. Mr. and Mrs.
Keane had three children, all of whom
survive him, namely: i. John, born July
6, 1896, was employed in the forestry de-
partment, now in the automobile busi-
ness. 2. Rosemary, born July 28, 1898, a
member of the graduating class of the
Holyoke High School, 1916; later entered
the Boston Conservatory of Music,
graduating in June, 1917, as a super-
visor of music. 3. Jeremiah, born June
22, 1905, a student at St. Jerome School.
Mr. Keane was devoted to his wife and
children, and in his home life he was seen
at his best, always thoughtful and con-
siderate of the wishes and desires of the
members thereof. When his daughter was
quite small he used to walk with her, just
as much as he could, the two holding
hands, and this was not a duty assumed
because she was frail, but it was taken
because of his intense joy in it. Mr.
Keane had ambitions that his daughter
should have a most complete education,
and had perfected plans along that line,
his ideal being that first of all she should
be thoroughly good, fine and lovable.
It would be hard to enumerate the many
fine qualities that made up the unique per-
sonality of Mr. Keane, but one stood out
very dominantly, the fact that he was
essentially a gentleman. The cultured
side of life appealed very strongly to him.
Alost men who have to get at life from
the necessity standpoint do not go out of
their way for the beautiful in life, but Mr.
Keane did. Somehow one had the feeling,
after talking with him, that is if one was.
not accustomed to see him often, that it
had taken a long line of cultured ances-
tors to have evolved him. In his associ-
ations with other men Mr. Keane was the
diligent, thoughtful man. Life was a seri-
ous thing with him and he studied how to
put his time to the best use. He died May
31, 1916, at his late home in Holyoke.
There was a high mass of requiem in St.
Jerome Church, and the interment was in
St. Jerome Cemetery. By his death the
city of Holyoke lost one of its most es-
teemed and most efficient public officials,
a man by temperament and by life train-
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ing adapted to an unusual degree to the
duties of the various offices he filled so
acceptably. Mayor John J. White paid
the following tribute to Mr. Keane :
In the death of Jeremiah J. Keane the city has
lost an honest, efficient official. I feel his loss
keenly because I have been in contact with him
all during my public career and have always
found him a man with a high regard for the
rights of others. Mr. Keane loved his work and
he attended to it diligently. It is not going to be
an easy matter to get a man who will give the
same attention to the details of the position that
he has given. He was peculiarly adapted for the
position both by temperament and by his knowl-
edge of buildings. It will seem awfully strange
not to see "Jerry" Keane around the City Hall
with his always cheery good-natured salutation.
We will all miss him, miss his kindly greeting and
miss his willingness to assist in any way possible
to help others.
The portrait accompanying this sketch,
placed there by his widow in memory of
his many beautiful qualities, will, it is
believed, be a source of much pleasure to
his large circle of friends.
AFFLECK, John Henry,
Manufacturer.
The surname Affleck is of Scottish ori-
gin, derived from Auckenleck estate and
family.
Henry Affleck, son of Robert Affleck,
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His
father was born and died in Scotland.
Henry Affleck was educated in his native
place, and learned the trade of paper mak-
in there. When still a young man he be-
came manager of various paper mills in
England, and eventually engaged in busi-
ness as a manufacturer of paper on his
own account. His mills were at Guns
Mills, located near the border line of Eng-
land and Wales near the Forest of Dean
in Gloucestershire. There the first cannon
were cast in England. He continued in
this business to the time of his death at
the age of sixty-eight years. He was an
able man of afifairs, an upright, earnest
and useful citizen. In politics he was a
Liberal. His brother, Robert Affleck, was
well known throughout the United King-
dom on account of his activity in the
temperance movement. He was a force-
ful speaker, and for many years was on
the lecture platform. For forty years
Robert Affleck resided in London. Henry
Affleck married Elizabeth Swinton, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth Swinton, of an
old Scotch family, residents of Edinburgh.
Children of Henry and Elizabeth Affleck :
William, who for many years was travel-
ing salesman for the firm of Charles Mar-
den & Sons, paper dealers, of Sheffield,
England, and who was said to be the most
successful commercial traveler in his line
of business in England ; John Henry, men-
tioned below ; Thomas, died in Holyoke
in 1913 ; Agnes, Violet, Minnie, Bessie.
John Henry Affleck, son of Henry
Affleck, was born in Derbyshire, Eng-
land, June 4. 1856. He received his early
education in the schools of that county.
He also attended school in Gloucester and
the Blenheim House School. In his
father's mill at Guns Mills he learned the
art of paper making and the details of the
business. In 1874, when he was but a
boy in years, he was intrusted with the
duty of installing a paper mill in New
Brunswick, Canada, and he remained
there two years. During the next six
years he was associated in business with
his father, but his observation of con-
ditions in America led him eventually to
seek his fortune here. He saw greater
])ossibilities for a paper manufacturer in
the United States than in the United
Kingdom, and thither he came in 1880,
beginning his career as superintendent of
the finishing department of the Holyoke
Chemical Company at Holyoke, Massa-
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chusetts. He remained in this position
for a period of twelve years, and in a
similar position in the employ of the
George C. Gill Paper Company for seven
years. The mills of both these concerns
were in Holyoke. Since 1900 Mr. Aftieck
has been in business on his own account.
He established the Afifleck Ruling and
Stationery Company, of which he is presi-
dent and treasurer. He erected a large
and finely equipped mill on North Bridge
street, Holyoke. In system, convenience,
the latest machinery and methods, this
concern keeps pace with the foremost in
its line of business. The blank books and
stationery of the Afifleck plant are known
in all parts of the country, and in various
foreign markets. Mr. Afifleck has devoted
his energies strictly to his business, has
taken no active part in public afifairs, and
is affiliated with no social organizations
outside of Mt. Tom Golf Club.
He married (first) in 1881, Clara
Thomas, daughter of Henry and Jemima
Thomas, of Hereford, England. She died
in 1908. He married (second) in Buffalo.
New York, Mrs. F. S. Brooks, nee Caro-
line Priscilla Wallace, of Watertown,
New York. Their home is in Holyoke.
By the first marriage there w^as one
daughter, Minnie Gertrude, born in Hol-
yoke in 1882, married Charles Howard
Hastings, of Holyoke, and has a daughter
Marion, born in November, 1903.
Franklin Samuel Brooks, the first hus-
band of Mrs. Affleck, was a native of
Oriskany Falls, New York, and a repre-
sentative of an old Revolutionary family.
He died in 1897. By this marriage there
were two daughters: i. Ida May, who
married Merle Haynes Dennison, of Buf-
falo, New York, and they have two chil-
dren: Carl Wallace and Priscilla. 2.
Minnie A., married Forrest George
Kirsch. of Springfield, Massachusetts.
HAARMANN, Gustav,
Manufacturer.
A native son of the city of Mendon,
Westphalia, Prussia, Gustav Haarmann,
in the metal working plants of that city,
t^'ained his insight into a business which
has de\cloped in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
into the present corporation, G. Haar-
mann cK: Company (Inc.). of which he is
president. He is a son of Frederick Haar-
mann, foreman in a brass factory in Men-
don, Westphalia, JVussia, where he died
at the age of fifty-four. Frederick Haar-
mann married Sophia Greningho, who
died in Mendon. They were the parents
of Henry, Emma, Gustav, of further men-
tion ; and Bertha. Emma is deceased, but
both Henry and Bertha are living in Ger-
many, Henry having two sons in the Ger-
man army, both of whom have been deco-
rated with the Iron Cross for valor at
Verdun.
Gustav Flaarmann was born in Mendon,
Westphalia, Prussia, September 12, i860,
and was there educated, taking special
courses in music and drawing. He con-
tinued in his native city until twenty-four
years of age, employed in brass works,
manufacturing pipes for various purposes
and brass musical instruments. In 1884
he came to the United States, arriving at
New York City and remaining in that
vicinity two years, a teacher of instru-
mental and vocal music and leader of his
own orchestra. In 1886 he located in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, and was for a time
with the W^hiting Paper Company. He
was also employed by the C. H. Bausch
t'^; Sons Machine Tool Company, and later
was with the Bausch & Harris Machine
Tool Company of Brightwood, Spring-
field, remaining in the employ of the last
named company until 1900. In that year
he began manufacturing under his own
name as a partner in the Haarmann &
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Derichs Structural Iron Works, but soon
purchased his partner's interest and con-
tinued the business under the firm name,
Ilaarmann & Son. A very successful busi-
ness was conducted as a firm until 1913,
when he incorporated as S. Haarmann &
Company (Inc.), of which he is president
and treasurer. The present plant of the
company on Commercial street, Holyoke,
was erected in 1909, but additions have
been made constantly. The company are
manufacturers of structural steel and
other building material and employ about
forty men and ship their ])roduct to all
the New England States. New York, and
New Jersey. Mr. Haarmann is a thor-
ough master of his business from a prac-
tical standpoint, a wise executive, and a
capable manager.
Mr. Haarmann married (first) in Hol-
yoke, ^Massachusetts, Antowith Hahna-
mann, who died in 1891, daughter of
Frank Hahnamann. He married (sec-
ond) in 1892, Ulrika Taushor, born in
Saxony, Germany, daughter of Frank
Taushor. The only child of Gustav and
Antowith (Hahnamann) Haarmann is a
son. Frank, born December 14, 1890, edu-
cated in Holyoke public schools, now
superintendent of the plant of C. Haar-
mann & Company (Inc.). Gustav and
Ulrika (Taushor) Haarmann are the par-
ents of two sons : i. Gustav (2), born No-
vember 4, 1894; educated in Holyoke
schools ; now a bookkeeper in the employ
of G. Haarmann & Company (Inc.) ; he
married, December 26, 1914, Albertina,
daughter of F. X. Densereau, of Holyoke ;
they have one daughter. Reta, born March
29, 1917. 2. Frederick, born September
12. 1898.
REVETT, Frank Haynes,
Business Man.
Although the Revetts were long seated
in England, they were of French-Hugue-
not descent. Two generations of the fam-
ily, William Revett and his son, Frank
11. Revett, have made Holyoke their
home, the father, now deceased, but the
son one of the business men of the city,
lioth were born in England, son and
grandson of Captain William Revett, born
in Fastfield, Norfolkshire, England, March
16, 1801, died in his native England in
1848. He was a farmer prior to his re-
moval to Bradford in Yorkshire, but in
the latter place a captain of police, having
been a watchman during the "Tartus
Riots" and a member of the police force
after the establishment of a regular sys-
tem of protection. He remained a cap-
tain until his death, his the second death
from the regular force. Captain William
Revett married, April 20, 1824. Ann Mi-
son, born in Fastfield, England, in 1805.
They were the parents of: Mary Ann,
Elizabeth. Martha, Ezekiel, Eliza, Wil-
liam (2), of further mention, and James
Revett.
William (2) Revett, son of Captain
William (i) Revett, was born in Brad-
ford, Yorkshire, England. October 31,
1838, and died in Westfield, Massachu-
setts, January 10, 1903. In England he
was a warehouseman in the textile busi-
ness, serving an apprenticeship of seven
years to qualify for the position he held.
In 1882 he came to America for his health,
going first to Canada, where in out-of-
door work on Dominion railroads he re-
gained his health in a large degree. In
1883 he came to the United States, locat-
ing in Manchester, New Hampshire, there
remaining until 1889. employed as a fin-
isher in a cloth textile mill. In 1889 he
came to Holyoke, entered the employ of
the Farr Alpaca Company as a finisher,
remaining with that company until his
retirement a few years prior to his death,
making his home in Westfield. He was a
man of quiet, home loving tastes, a mem-
ber of the Manchester Unity, Odd Fel-
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lows in England, and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows in this country,
and was a past noble grand of the order.
In religious faith he was a Methodist.
William {2) Revett married, August 6,
1864. Sarah Ann Allen, born in Manches-
ter, England, January 3, 1832. died in Hol-
yoke, in November, 191 3, daughter of
George and Ann Allen. They were the
parents of five children, all born in Brad-
ford, England: Lucy Ann. born Novem-
ber 7, 1865, died February 25, 1891 ; Eliz-
abeth, born September 15. 1867, married,
April 25. 1887, George M. Goodwin ; Eliza,
born February 23, 1869, died February
II, 1871 ; Frank Haynes. of further men-
tion; James William, born October 28,
1874. married, and has children: William,
Jessie and George
Frank Haynes Revett, eldest son of
William (2) and Sarah Ann (Allen)
Revett, was born in Bradford, Yorkshire,
England, August 28, 1872. He attended
public school in Bradford until eleven
years of age. his mother and her children
then joining the father in Manchester,
New Hampshire. On arriving there in
1883, Frank H. resumed his studies, at-
tending both the Franklin and Lincoln
street schools. After completing his stud-
ies, he secured employment in the Man-
chester Mill, later going to the Ezeldam
Hosiery Mill in Manchester and there re-
maining until coming to Holyoke. In
Holyoke he was with the Farr Alpaca
Company for nine months, then decided
to learn the plumber's trade. He served
an apprenticeship of four years with C.
P. Lyman, of Holyoke. then worked for
a year in Boston, spending the next twelve
years in the employ of plumbing firms in
Westfield. Massachusetts. In 1906 he be-
gan business for himself in Holyoke with
headquarters in Elmwood, and has built
up a prosperous plumbing business. He is
a member of the Master Plumbers' Associ-
ation, which he has represented in a num-
ber of State conventions. He is a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Mount Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons; Mt. Holyoke Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons; Mt. Holyoke Council,
Royal and Select Masters ; and is an at-
tendant of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Revett married, September 30,
1900, Caroline Woolley, born in Toronto,
Canada, daughter of George and Sarah
(Brett) Woolley, her father born in Eng-
land. Mr. and Mrs. Revett are the par-
ents of: Olive Lucy, born in Westfield,
Massachusetts. July 3. 1901 ; Frances Ger-
trude, born in Westfield, January 13. 1903 ;
Allan Haynes, born in Holyoke, October
20, 1909 ; Ruth Elizabeth, born in Hol-
yoke, July 9, 1915.
GIFFORD, Stephen Elmore.
Master Mechanic, Veteran of Civil War.
When a lad of fifteen years, Stephen E.
Giflford answered his country's call and,
from November, 1863, until the surrender
of General Lee. was in the thick of the
fight. That early devotion to the call of
duty has ever characterized his life, and
the position he has held with Holyoke's
leading industries as master mechanic for
forty-five years is the proof. He is a son
of Jesse Giflford. and a grandson of John
Giflford, the latter a farmer of Lee, Massa-
chusetts, who died in 1751, leaving chil-
dren: Martin, William. Harry. Jesse and
Sarah. Jesse Giflford. born in Lee. Massa-
chusetts, died at Tyringham, Berkshire
county. Massachusetts, a farmer. He mar-
ried Julia Vedeto. daughter of John Ve-
deto. of Tyringham. They were the par-
ents of sons, Henry, and Stephen Elmore,
of further mention, and of a daughter,
Lillian.
Stephen Elmore Giflford was born in
East Lee, Berkshire countv, Massachu-
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setts, December 5, 1848. lie attended
Lee and Stockbridge public schools until
ten years of age, then left home and
henceforth , made his own way in the
world, his first compensation being board
and clothing. But he did make his way,
and for the next five years not only sup-
ported himself but obtained additional
education. He developed a strong and
healthy body in which beat a stout, cour-
ageous heart, and after fighting his own
battle for five years he applied for and
was granted the privilege of fighting for
his country. He enlisted on November
9, 1863, in Company E, Thirty-fourth
Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, and
for two years and three months was in
the service before receiving his honorable
discharge, the last eight months before
the war was over being stationed in Rich-
mond, Virginia. During his service he was
engaged in many battles, fighting with his
regiment in the Shenandoah Valley, at
Newmarket, Lynchburg, Cedar Creek,
Hatcher's Run, Winchester and Fisher's
Hill under Sheridan ; was under Grant at
Petersburg and at the capture of Fort
Gregg, where out of two hundred and
sixty-eight defenders of the fort only thir-
ty-one were left alive to surrender, and at
Appomattox was in full view of General
Lee when final surrender was made. His
service was largely with the Thirty-fourth
Massachusetts Regiment.
Safely passing the perils of war, the boy
veteran returned to South Lee, and for
two and one-half years was employed in
a paper mill. Later he learned the car-
penter's trade in Stockbridge, there con-
tinuing until 1873, when he located in
Holyoke as an expert mechanic with thor-
ough knowledge of mill construction.
Forty-three years have since elapsed, and
during that entire period he has been en-
gaged as superintendent and master me-
chanic. He was in chargre of the construc-
tion of the addition to the first plant of
the I'^arr Alpaca Company, and in 1886
superintended the erection of a second
plant for the same company. He served
the Franklin Mills as master mechanic for
two and a half years, the Skinner Silk
Mills for eleven years in the same capac-
ity, and for nearly twenty-four years has
occupied a similar position with the Whit-
ing Paper Mills. This fact alone be-
speaks his merit, for the duties of master
mechanic are responsible ones and on him
depends the successful operation of a vast
I)lant employing many hands. For six-
teen years Mr. Giflford was a member of
the Volunteer Fire Department, and in
1890-91 he represented his ward in Com-
mon Council, serving on the committee
on highways and bridges. He is a mem-
ber of Kilpatrick Post, No. 71, Grand
Army of the Republic, and of Mt. Tom
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
which latter body he has been a member
since 1885, one of the oldest members in
the order.
Mr. GifYord married, October 2, 1869,
Sarah Sullivan, of South Lee, Massachu-
setts, who died August 30, 1913. Mr. and
Mrs. Gifford w^ere the parents of three
daughters and a son : Esther, married
Ralph Fisk ; Florence, married Frederick
Pinney, their children, Richard and Irene
Pinney ; Mabel, deceased ; \\'alter. mar-
ried Mrs. Blanche (Tougway) Howes,
now residing in Brooklvn, New York.
ATTINGER, George,
Bnsiness Man.
From the time of his coming to the
United States in 1883 until his locating in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1900, Mr. At-
tinger's life did not lack variety, neither
in ()ccuj)ation nor location. Since his set-
tlement in that city he has steadily pur-
sued the business of cigar manufacturing,
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and has been very successful, ([uadrupling'
his working force and establishing a very
large trade among local retailers. He has
ever been a worker, beginning at the age
of thirteen years in his native Germany,
and at no time has his energy or ambition
lagged. He is a son of John G. Attinger,
who was born in Germany, and there died
in 1887, 'It the age of forty-seven years.
He was a farmer, operating large vine-
yards and wine presses. He married
(first) Rose Bertch, who died in Decem-
ber, 1868. He married (second)
. who died February 15, 1916. Chil-
dren of first marriage: Frederick, now in
the German army; Mary, residing in New
York ; George, of further mention. Chil-
dren of second marriage: John and Wil-
helm, both now in the German army ;
Christina and Rosa.
George Attinger, son of John G. At-
tinger and his first wife, Rosa (Bertch)
Attinger, was born in Owen, Kerkheim,
Wodenburg, Germany, November 30,
1868. He attended the public school until
thirteen years of age, then began learning
the cabinet maker's trade, at which he
worked two years before coming to the
United States in 1883. He was fifteen
years of age when he came to Fairfield.
Connecticut, and entered the employ of
Ambrose Taylor, getting out ties, driving
oxen, running an engine, in fact, doing
any kind of work required of him. From
Fairfield he went to Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut, working in the casket department
of the Buckingham Furniture Company,
thence to South Norwalk, Connecticut,
where he learned cigar making, going
four and a half years later to New Haven,
thence to Boston, these various changes
consuming seventeen years of his life,
1883-1900. He had become an expert
cigar maker, was thoroughly informed in
the details of tobacco manufacturing and
having accumulated sufficient capital, in
1900 he decided to start in business for
himself. He chose Holyoke for a location,
and with a force of four men began busi-
ness under the firm name. The Attinger
Cigar Company, but was himself the sole
owner. He made goods entirely for the
local trade and was successful from the
start. In 1905 he bought the block, No.
71 Main street, in which his business is
located, and sixteen men are now em-
ployed to meet the demand for his goods.
His brands are popular, his business
methods please his trade, and he can well
corrg'Ta-tulate himself upon his standing in
the business world of his adopted city.
He has numerous fraternal and social
affiliations, belonging to the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights
of Pythias, the City Club, Park Lyceum,
Bay State Club and the Springdale Turn
Verein. In political faith he is an Inde-
pendent.
BATCHELOR, Robert Gilbert,
Representative Citizen.
This branch of the Batchelor family
was founded in the United States by
Philip Batchelor, great-grandfather of
Robert G. Batchelor, of Holyoke. His
son. Henry Batchelor, remained in his na-
tive England, but Henry's son. Frederick
Batchelor, came with his grandfather,
Philip Batchelor, and finally settled in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, where his son,
Robert G. Batchelor, was born. Philip
Henry and Frederick Batchelor were
manufacturers of cloth, both in England
and the United States, men of skill and
industry.
Philip Batchelor was born in England
in 1792, came to the United States in 1857,
and died in Granby, Massachusetts, in
1864. In England he was engaged in the
cloth manufacturing mills, and in Granby
was employed in the same line of activity
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until his death. He had sons, John, .Vl-
fred, Frederick, Henry, of further men-
tion, and daughters, Xaomi. Jane, Maria.
Henry Batchelor, born in Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, England, there resided all his
life, and died August 25, 1892, aged seven-
ty-two years. He was a woolen manu-
facturer, also a landowner, conducting
farming operations. He married Fannie
Martin, born in England, and there died
January 13, 1872, aged fifty-nine years.
They were the parents of: Maria; Fred-
erick, of further mention ; Henry, Ann,
Alfred, Edward, Ruth, George, Agnes and
Owen.
Frederick Batchelor was born in Trow-
bridge, Wiltshire, England, November 30,
1839, and died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
November 7, 1916. He was educated in
Trowbridge schools, and until 1857 was
employed in the woolen mills there. In
that year he came to the United States
with his grandfather, Philip Batchelor,
settling with him in Granby, Massachu-
setts, and there continuing until the out-
break of war between the North and
South. He enlisted early in the struggle
and served, until disabled, in Company
D, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Massachu-
setts Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted in
1861, accompanied Burnside's expedition
to North Carolina and wdiile in a trans-
port going around Cape Hatteras a terri-
ble storm was encoimtered, and during
the pitching of the vessel he had a leg
broken and was in the hospital for some
time, and after eleven months was honor-
ably discharged. After his recovery, he
remained in Granby until 1864, when he
moved to Holyoke, his home until death.
He was an active man. and in the pursuit
of business crossed the Atlantic seven
times and made several coastwise trips
South. He was a well known amateur
botanist, loved flowers and grew them in
profusion. He was a member of the old
volunteer fire department, belonging to
Relief Steamer Company, and afifiliated
with the Veterans of the Civil War in
Kilpatrick Post, No. 71, Grand Army of
the Republic.
Mr. Batchelor married, April 26, 1866,
Mary Ann Hogan, born in County Clare,
Ireland, daughter of John and Bridget
(Consedine) Hogan. Mr. and Mrs. Bat-
chelor were the parents of five children,
all born in Holyoke, IMassachusetts : i.
Mary Agnes, born September i, 1867,
married Frank H. Wade, then of Spring-
field, now of Holyoke, Massachusetts. 2.
Alfred Henry, born June 5, 1870, married
Louise Dowling Read, and has a daugh-
ter, W^inifred Mary. 3. Frederick John,
born July 6, 1875, married, May 7, 1903,
Leola Bronson ; children : Ruth Madeline
and Robert Franklin. 4. Fannie, born
July 27, 1879, died July 18, 1916; married
William C. Bohl. 5. Robert Gilbert, of
further mention.
Robert Gilbert Batchelor was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, October 7, 1882.
A-fter preparation in Holyoke schools, he
entered Cornell University, but the fail-
ure of his health compelled him to leave
the university before graduation. He was
in the employ of the Dean Steam Pump
Company for two years ; was with the
Holyoke Paper Company nine years, 1903-
12, then on account of his health was
obliged to give up inside occupation. He
spent two years in the forestry depart-
ment of the city government, and is now
living retired.
DRESCHLER, John Franklin,
Active Factor in Commnnity A£Pairi.
The great-grandparents of John F.
Dreschler, of Holyoke, Massachusetts,
came from their home in \\'eitenberg.
Upper Franconia, Bavaria (now part of
the German Empire) in 1814, bringing
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with them a son, Carl Ludwig Dreschler,
born in Weitenberg, Bavaria, in 1792.
For a time the family resided in New
York City, where Carl L. Dreschler
learned the blacksmith's trade. In later
years he located in Tonawanda, Xew
York, where he profitably pursued his
trade, conducted a store, owned a farm,
became one of the prominent men of the
village, and at one time the owner of land
upon which one-half of that now impor-
tant town is built. He was a man of great
energy and foresight, his wealth being ac-
cumulated solely through his own eft'orts
and wise investment. He died in Tona-
wanda. in 1885, at the great age of ninety-
three years. He married and had chil-
dren: Minnie. Mary. Adolph. of further
mention ; Katherine, Hannah, Florence
and Julius.
Adolph Dreschler. son of Carl Ludwig
Dreschler, was born in Xew York City, in
1825. died in Buffalo, X'ew York. June 6.
191^, a nonagenarian, although not quite
reaching his father's age. He was edu-
cated in Tonawanda schools, his parents
having moved to that town in Western
X'ew York during his youth, and there he
learned the blacksmith's trade with his
father. Later he became a farmer and a
large landowner at Mt. Clemens. Michi-
gan, selling out eventually at a handsome
profit. His brother Julius also became a
large landowner in Mt. Clemens, and yet
retains very large holdings of real estate
in that famed health resort. Adolph
Dreschler. after disposing of his interests
at Mt. Clemens, returned to New York
State and located at Black Rock on the
X'iagara river, later in life removing to
Buffalo, where he lived a retired life for
nearly forty years, but dealt considerably
in real estate, buying, building and selling
on his own account. He, like his parents
and grandparents, was a member of the
German Lutheran church, but was liberal
in his religious views. He was a man of
great energy, shrewd and farsighted, hon-
orable and upright in his life and highly
esteemed. He married, in 1847, ^iary
Ritter, of Buffalo, who survived him and
still resides in her native city, aged eighty-
three years, daughter of Felix and Kather-
ine (Rather) Ritter. Adolph and Mary
Dreschler were the parents of a large fam-
ily : Mary, deceased ; Felix ; Edward, de-
ceased ; Charlotte ; Ludwig, deceased ;
John Franklin, of further mention ; Wil-
liam H., deceased ; Martha and Rosilla.
John Franklin Dreschler, of the fourth
generation of the family m the United
States, son of Adolph and Mary ( Ritter j
Dreschler, was born in Mt. Clemens,
Michigan, May 25. 1864. \\'hen he was
six years of age his parents returned to
XeAv York State, where he attended pub-
lic school Xo. 10 in Buft'alo. a private
school for six months and German Lu-
theran College for one year. After leav-
ing college he was for a time associated
with the planing mill business, then for
ten years was engaged with the John C.
Hamilton Lumber Company as foreman.
He left that company to become superin-
tendent of the Chapin Hall Lumber Com-
pany of Xewark, Xew Jersey, remaining
with that company ten years. He next
established in business for himself in Xew
York City, there conducting a cabinet
m.aking shop for four and one-half years,
selling that business to become general
superintendent for Hoxson Brothers, con-
tractors and builders, remaining with that
firm three years. He then, in 1913, formed
a connection with the well known Casper
Ranger Lumber Company of Holyoke.
Massachusetts (see history of this com-
pany under separate heading), and still
continues as general superintendent. He
is a Republican in politics, and has always
been active in party work wherever lo-
cated. He is a past chancellor com-
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mander of the Knights of Pythias, being
the youngest man in New York State
elected to that office. He is a member of
the Royal Arcanum, and a past grand
regent of the State of New York; also
belongs to the Order of Orioles and to the
Butter Club of Holyoke. He is true to
the religious teachings of his youth, and
while located in Newark aided in the erec-
tion of a new German Lutheran church.
Mr. Dreschler married, in December,
1888, Alma Strauss, born in Koenisgberg,
capital of East Prussia, Germany, in No-
vember, 1869. They are the parents of
two daughters : Olive, died aged three
years; Edna, born September 6, 1891,
married John Balsir, of Buffalo, New
York, and has a daughter, Jennie, born
January 3, 1913.
COLLINGWOOD, James,
Autliority on Art of Dyeing.
In the great mills of his native York-
shire, England, Mr. Collingwood mastered
the dyer's art, and in Yorkshire, Philadel-
phia and New Jersey mills gained a rich
experience that for the past twenty-eight
years has been employed for the benefit
and profit of the Farr Alpaca Company of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, one of New
England's most important manufacturing
corporations. He comes from a family of
mill workers, his father, Joseph Colling-
wood, having been connected with York-
shire mills from boyhood to old age. Jo-
seph Collingwood was born in Halifax,
Yorkshire, England, about 1826, and died
at Bradford, in his native county, at the
age of seventy. His work was principally
as stock warehouseman in the dye house.
Most of his life was spent in Bradford and
there his children were born. He mar-
ried Mary Smith, and they were the par-
ents of the following daughters : A.nn
Eliza, Grace, Emily and Maria; sons:
Charles and James.
James Collingwood was born in Brad-
ford, Yorkshire, England, November 29,
1849, son of Joseph and Mary (Smith)
Collingwood. Until fourteen years of age
he attended Bradford schools, and since
1864 has been connected with the dyeing
departments of textile mills in England
and the United States. He became an
expert dyer and held good positions in
Bradford mills during the years 1864-71,
but in the latter year decided to come to
the United States. He located in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, but after a few
months spent in a textile mill there re-
turned to England and resumed his trade
in Bradford, continuing until 1876, when
he came to the United States and again
located in Philadelphia. He spent a year
there, then was employed for three years
in New Jersey mills, returning to Phila-
delphia in 1880 and there remaining until
1887. His work during those years was
entirely as a dyer, his engagements being
with the best mills in the section named.
In 1887 he located in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and formed an association with the
Farr Alpaca Company, and since then has
been continuously in the employ of that
company in charge of the color and proc-
ess dyeing department. He is thorough-
ly skilled in the mysteries of dyeing as
applied to textiles, and in all matters per-
taining to his art is an unquestioned au-
thority. His long retention in the posi-
tion he holds is the best proof of the value
placed upon his services and higher eulo-
gy could not be uttered. He has taken
more than ordinary interest in Holyoke
civic affairs, has served in City Council,
and in party affiliation is a Republican.
He is a member of Mt. Tom Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons ; Holyoke Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; Holyoke Council,
Royal and Select Masters, and is a com-
municant of the Second Baptist Church.
Mr. Collingwood married, November
22, 1873, Sarah Jane McFarland, born in
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Huddersfield, a borough of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, England, daughter
of Ward and Jane (Beaulandj McFar-
land. Mr. and Mrs. CollingAvood are the
parents of five children: Emily, born in
Bradford, England; Joseph, born in Phil-
adelphia, Pennsylvania, now a dyer in the
employ of the Farr Alpaca Company of
Holyoke, married May E. Alderman, of
Holyoke ; Jane Eliza, born in Holyoke,
married John L. Bagg, of Holyoke. and
has a daughter, Elizabeth Bagg; George,
born in Holyoke, now a steel worker in
Ohio; Frank, born in Holyoke, now with
the Magna Automobile Company of Hol-
yoke.
GLESMANN, August Frank,
Business Man.
Although born in Germany, Mr. Gles-
mann has been a resident of Holyoke since
his eighth year, and as an official of the
Dietz Baking Company is closely identi-
fied with a business with which he has
been associated from youth. He is a
grandson of Frank Glesmann, who lived
and died in Germany, and a son of Frank
(2) Glesmann.
Frank (2) Glesmann was born in Posen.
Germany, October 18, 1839, and died in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, October 27, 1908.
He obtained a good education, and in his
youth was employed by a stock farmer as
a shepherd. Later he entered railroad
employ as a brakesman, so continuing for
fifteen years. He came to the United
States, September 14, 1882, located in
Holyoke, and there until his death, twen-
ty-six years later, was an employee of the
Germania Mills. He was a member of
the German Lutheran church, a man of
industrious, upright life. He married,
February 9, 1868. Mrs. Christina (Shultz)
Domke, born in Hohensalza, Posen, Ger-
many, November 12, 1838, daughter of
Karl and Elizabeth (Veisner) Shultz, and
widow of W'ilhelm Domke. By her first
marriage she had a daughter Bertha, who
married Richard Herman Dietz. Frank
and Christina Glesmann were the parents
of five children: Minnie, married Otto
Fromhold and has a son, Arthur ; Amelia,
married Henry Schloerb and has two
daughters, Margaret and Erma ; August
Frank, of further mention ; Anna, married
Ernest Ruckdeschel, a sketch of whom
follows, and has sons, Edwin and Walter;
Max, died aged two years.
August Frank Glesmann, only son of
Frank and Christina Glesmann, was born
in Posen, Germany, August 3, 1874. He
attended a Posen school for two years,
but in 1882 his parents brought him to
Holyoke, Massachusetts, and there his
education was completed. After leaving
school, he entered the employ of Richard
H. Dietz. husband of his half-sister. Ber-
tha, and with him acquired expert knowl-
edge of the baking business. He con-
tinued in a responsible position with Mr.
Dietz until the incorporation of the Dietz
Baking Company, when he was elected
vice-president of the company. He is a
capable and efficient business man, held
in high esteem by all who know him.
Mr. Glesmann married, in 1901, Emma
Price, daughter of Edward and Rose Price,
of Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Glesmann are
the parents of four children: Helen, Ed-
ward, Doris and Esther.
RUCKDESCHEL, Ernest,
Head of Rnckdeschel Press.
Brought by his parents from his native
Bohemia in 1882, a child of three years,
Mr. Ruckdeschel knows no other land
than this, and has in his adopted city
pursued a course of successful effort, and
is now the head of a prosperous printing
business conducted under his own name.
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His grand and great-grandfather were
professional men in liohemia, Austria, the
latter a school teacher, his son John a
lawyer and clerk of court in the city of
Asch, the westernmost town of Bohemia.
August Ruckdeschel, son of John Ruck-
deschel, was born in Asch, Bohemia, Aus-
tria, October 30, 1853, died in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, September 29, 1904. He
attended school until fourteen years of
age, then was employed in the textile
mills, becoming- an expert weaver. He
lemained in his native land until after his
marriage, coming with his wife and son
to the United States in 1882, arriving in
New York in April of that year. He lo-
cated in Holyoke, Massachusetts, there
finding employment in the Germania
Mills, later g"oing to the Skinner Silk
Mills, there continuing for several years.
He married, January i, 1878, Eva Holz-
heimer, born in the town of Selb, Bavaria,
daughter of John and Eva Margaret
(Hendeck) Holzheimer. They were the
parents of four children : Ernest, of fur-
ther mention ; Elsie, born in Holyoke,
May 21, 1884, married William Flittner
and has two sons, Ferdinand and Wil-
liam ; ]\Iax, born September 26, 1885, a
linotype operator, married Edith Seidel
and has a daughter, Judith ; Ferdinand,
born February 3, 1888, a printer, of New
York City.
Ernest Ruckdeschel, eldest son of Au-
gust and Eva (Holzheimer) Ruckdeschel,
was born in Asch, Bohemia, Austria, July
26, 1879, and in 1882 was brought by his
parents to Holyoke. After completing
courses of public school study, he began
learning the printer's trade with the
Powers Paper Company, in their print-
ing department, spending three years with
that company. The years until 1902 were
spent in the employment of the Holyoke
houses. Smith & White Company, Hub-
bard & Taber, three years each. In 1902
he entered the employ of White & Wy-
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ckoff and remained until 1908. He then
went to Poole Brothers, Chicago, Illinois,
and remained there for a short time.
White & Wyckoff requested him to re-
turn and take charge of their printing
department, and this he did and remained
until 1910, when he went to the printing
plant of John C. Otto, of Springfield, as
foreman. During these years he had be-
come not only an expert in its mechanical
features, but had acquired an intimate
knowledge of printing as a business, and
in 1913 established a plant for himself.
Coming to Holyoke he began business
under the name of The Ruckdeschel
Press. He now maintains a plant for ex-
ecuting orders for all kinds of color, also
die stamping and engraving. To his ex-
pert knowledge of printing as a trade, he
added four years' instruction in art under
the famous August Castringius, a talented
artist, whose ability has been recognized
by a medal of honor from Munich Uni-
versity and a gold medal from Paris.
Liability and service are the watchwords
of The Ruckdeschel Press, and the re-
sponse from the public has been a steadily
increasing patronage and a constantly
growing business. Mr. Ruckdeschel is a
member of the Connecticut Valley Club
of Printing House Craftsmen and a mem-
ber of the Franz Abt Maennerchor, the
German Lutheran church and of the
Young Men's Society of that church.
He married, October 24, 1900, Anna
Glesmann, daughter of Frank and Chris-
tina (Shultz-Domke) Glesmann, a sketch
of whom precedes this. They are the
parents of two sons : Edwin Ernest, born
March 21, 1902; Walter Franz, May 4,
1906.
SHEA, Daniel,
Representative Citizen.
Among Holyoke's well known citizens
who have been identified with the best
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interests of the city for some years is
Daniel Shea, who, although not a native
of the United States, is known and hon-
ored for his devotion to the country of
his adoption, also for his sterling qualities
and his cooperation in every project that
has for its object the betterment of the
community and the uplift of mankind.
John Shea, grandfather of Daniel Shea,
was a native of Ireland, in which country
he spent his entire lifetime, devoting his
attention to the tilling of the soil, and he
lived to the advanced age of eighty-five
years, his death occurring in his native
land in the year 1885. His wife, also a
native of Ireland, bore him three children :
James, Maurice, Daniel, of whom further.
Daniel Shea, father of Daniel Shea, of
this review, was born in County Kerry,
Ireland, 1829. He attended the common
schools of the neighborhood, assisted in
the work of his father's farm, and upon
attaining manhood years followed in his
father's footsteps, devoting his entire at-
tention to agricultural pursuits. In 1879,
at the age of fifty years, he left his native
land in the hope of advancing the interests
of both himself and his family, and upon
arriving in the United States located in
the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
for a number of years was in the employ
of the city government, performing his
duties in a creditable manner. He mar-
ried, in Ireland, Joanna McCarthy, a na-
tive of Ireland, and they were the parents
of five children : Mary, who became the
wife of ^Michael McDonald; Maurice;
James ; Daniel, of whom further, and
Dennis. Daniel Shea. Sr., died in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, January, 19 13. aged
eighty-four years.
Daniel Shea, Jr., was born in Dingle,
Ireland, May 15, 1866. His youth was
spent in his native land, his time occupied
by attendance at the school in the neigh-
borhood of his home and assisting with
the work of the home farm. He accom-
panied his parents upon their removal to
the United States, he being then thirteen
years of age, and for some time thereafter
he attended the night schools of Holyoke,
in this manner greatly supplementing the
knowledge gained during his earlier years.
His first employment was in the paper
mills in Holyoke, his term of service ex-
tending over a period of seven years, dur-
ing which time he gained a good insight
in the manufacture of that most useful
commodity, paper. In the year 1888 he
severed his connection with the paper mill
in order to carry out his purpose of see-
ing something of his adopted country, and
accordingly made his way to the Pacific
coast, where he remained for twenty-three
years, that section of the country proving
more to his liking than the eastern sec-
tion, during which time he made his
headquarters in the city of San Francisco,
and during the time spent there was con-
nected wuth a telephone company. In
191 1 he returned east and once more took
up his abode in Holyoke, purchasing there
"The Rosamond." located on Pleasant
street, an apartment house consisting of
eighteen suites, and during the interven-
ing years has devoted his entire time to
looking after this property, which he
keeps in first-class condition. In religion
he is a Catholic, interested in the work of
the Holy Cross Church, and in politics is
an Independent.
Mr. Shea married, in 191 1, Annie Lynch,
of Holyoke, Massachusetts, daughter of
Michael and Katherine (O'Donnell)
Lynch, also born in Holyoke. In their
daily life Mr. and Mrs. Shea endeavor
to do their full duty, actuated by a spirit
of love toward all mankind, and thus have
won and retained the respect and esteem
of all with whom they are brought in con-
tact, whether in business, political or so-
cial circles.
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WILLIAMS, Frank,
Snccessful Manufacturer.
In the subject of this review we have
a man who has attained a high position in
the business world, a self-made man, hav-
ing worked his way up, step by step,
without the aid of parents, he being left
an orphan at an early age, without capital
or influential friends, but he made good
use of his meagre opportunities, and since
engaging in business on his own account
has prospered from year to year, conduct-
ing his business matters carefully and
systematically, and in all his acts display-
ing an aptitude for successful manage-
ment.
Frank Williams was born in New York
City, August 8, 1865. His father was a
native of England, in which country he
was reared and educated, the male mem-
bers of the family being seafaring men.
In manhood he emigrated to this country,
taking passage from Liverpool, England,
and during the progress of the Civil War
he enlisted his services in defense of his
adopted land and probably lost his life in
that conflict as he never returned to his
home, consequently his son never knew
him and never experienced a father's care.
His mother was a Southern woman, and
her death occurred in Orange county, New
York, when her son was eight years of
age, leaving him thus alone at the age
wiien most boys are enjoying all the ad-
vantages of home and the protection of
parents. He was then placed in the care
of a family in Paterson, New Jersey, with
whom he resided until he was about four-
teen years of age, in the meantime attend-
ing the common schools ot that place, and
then, his surroundings not being to his
liking, he ran away and made his way to
Newark, New Jersey, where he lived with
a family by the name of Judson for a num-
ber of years. He was alw^ays fond of the
water, probably inheriting that taste from
his paternal ancestors, and for the follow-
ing live or six years he followed the water
as a means of livelihood, running engines
in yachts and attending the regattas.
Mr. Judson, his benefactor, was a manu-
facturer of screen plates for paper mills,
his plant being located in Newark, New
Jersey, and Mr. Williams eventually be-
came an employee in his factory, becom-
ing thoroughly familiar with the details
of the business, and subsequently brought
out some valuable patents of his own in
connection with the screen plates, which
added greatly to their value and useful-
ness. In the meantime Mr. Judson died,
and for some time thereafter Air. Wil-
liams conducted the business in the inter-
est of the widow of Mr. Judson. In 1896
Mr. Williams removed to Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, and established a similar line
of business under the name of Judson &
Williams, using the name of Judson in
honor of his former employer and bene-
factor, but being the sole owner of the
business. At first he rented quarters from
the Water Power Company, but in 1906
erected the commodious plant at No. 115
Park street, Holyoke, which he has used
ever since in the manufacture of screen
plates, for which there is a constant and
ever increasing demand, there being only
two other plants in this country engaged
in the manufacture of the same article.
A portion of his building is occupied by
Higgins & Company Brass Foundry, of
which Mr. Williams is the principal owner,
this being one of the leading industries of
Holyoke, giving employment to many
hands. In addition to his manufacturing
business, in which he requires the services
of a large force of skilled operatives, Mr.
Williams has devoted considerable time to
real estate operations, which he conducts
on an extensive scale, he being the owner
of valuable property in the city of Hol-
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yoke, and he is also the owner of an apple
orchard in the State of Washington,
which is in a high state of cultivation,
and from which he derives a goodly in-
come. The chief characteristics in Mr.
Williams" business career are his honesty
of purpose, his determination to succeed
and his straightforward and honorable
methods of conducting his affairs, and
these qualities have been the means of
securing for him a liberal and constantly
increasing patronage. Mr. Williams is a
m.ember of the Baptist church, in the work
of which he takes an active interest, of
Holyoke Lodge, No. 134, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and of the en-
campment of the same order.
Mr. Williams married, ]\Iay 11, 1907,
Edna Brainard, of South Hadley Falls,
Massachusetts, daughter of Halsey and
Emma (Graves) Brainard. They are both
well and favorably known in the section
in which they make their home, and they
enjoy the high regard of many friends.
BEAUREGARD, Alexandre,
Contractor, Builder.
Alexandre Beauregard, of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, comes of an old and re-
spected French-Canadian family. Charles
Beauregard, great-grandfather of Alex-
andre Beauregard, who was a man of
wealth, was a hotel keeper in Canada.
He had considerable real estate interests
there also, the steady rise in value of
which brought him wealth. At his death,
liis possessions were divided among his
sons, of whom we are interested in Alex-
andre Beauregard, grandfather of the
subject of this article. He was born in
the Province of Quebec, Canada. Inherit-
ing so much land, he was naturally a
farmer, and this vocation he followed all
his life on the estates left him by his
father. His wife was Mary Tathe. They
were the parents of Alexandre (2) Beau-
regard, father of the respected Holyoke
resident of present interest.
Alexandre {2) Beauregard was born on
the family estate, Province of Quebec,
Canada, in the year 1847, and at this writ-
ing (1916J is still actively interested in
his farming affairs at South Hadley, Mas-
sachusetts, where he has resided for twen-
ty-four years. He was educated in the
district school of his native place, but, as
the son of well-to-do parents, this ele-
mentary foundation of knowledge was
supplemented by a course at St. Hya-
cinthe College. After completing his
course there, he returned home, and as-
sisted his father in the working and man-
agement of the family estate and farm.
In May, 1885, he came over the border
into the United States, locating in East
jaffrey, New Hampshire. He was em-
ployed in a mill there for seven years. In
1892 he came into Massachusetts, pur-
chasing a farm in South Hadley tow^nship,
where he still lives. He is of the old type
of French-Canadian gentlemen, and while
resident in that country took an active
part in Canadian politics. He w'as a
staunch Conservative, and worked keenly
and indefatigably in the interests of that
party. His wife, whom he married in
Canada, was Edwith Shepard. To them
Avere born the following: Alexandre (3),
Horace, Clarice, Edward, Euclid, Alice,
Almina, Eulalia, Rosa, Mary and Louise.
Alexandre (3) Beauregard was born at
St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, Can-
ada, November 5, 1869. After an educa-
tion in the elementary schools, he entered
1 csolutely into the working of his father's
farm. In 1885 he came with his parents
to New Hampshire, and for a time re-
mained with them, assisting his father at
the mill at East Jaffrey, that State. He
later journeyed further south, and found
work at W'orcester, Massachusetts, but
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in 1892 he moved to Holyoke, ^lassachu-
setts in which city he has made his home
ever since. He learned the carpenter's
trade, and was employed by others for a
number of years before embarking in busi-
ness for himself. Diligence, knowledge,
initiative and self-conhdence developed
his activities, until his business of con-
tractor and builder assumed considerable
proportions. He eventually formed a
partnership with Mr. Choiniere, under the
firm name of Choiniere & Beauregard, and
their success has been gratifying and ap-
preciable. They have erected many nota-
ble structures, and have done considerable
work in Springfield, ^lassachusetts, as
well as in Holyoke. Mr. Beauregard built
and owns the Cambria Apartment House,
on Appleton street, Holyoke. He is build-
ing another block known as the Welling-
ton 2nd. corner of Dwight and Linden
streets, which has sixteen beautiful apart-
ments and five stores, and he is also build-
ing two beautiful residence blocks. He is
an Independent in politics. He is an en-
thusiastic member of the Order of For-
esters.
On May 30, 1897. ^^^ married Rosaline
Beaudoin, who is a native of his own
Province, Quebec, Canada. The union
has been blessed with issue as follows :
Wilfred. Leo. Alec, Isabelle, Edna, \'iola
and Evelina.
BRADLEY, Arthur William,
W^ell-Known Citizen.
Michael Bradley, grandfather of Arthur
William Bradley, of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, was born in County Down, Ireland,
in 1814, and died in Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania, from the effects of heat prostra-
tion in 1866. He was educated in Ireland,
and came to this country when a young
man, in 1839, locating in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He had learned the trade
of handloom weaving in his native place,
and after coming to America followed his
trade in the winter months, working as a
stone mason the remainder of the year.
He served through the Civil War in the
Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment,
taking part in twenty-seven engagements
and miraculously escaped without a wound
of any kind. He married Rosa Brady.
Children: Ellen; Peter; Arthur Joseph,
mentioned below ; Cecilia ; Hugh, who
served in the Civil War. was wounded in
the battle of Fair Oaks and died in the
military hospital, Baltimore ; John, served
in the Civil War, was killed in the Battle
of the Wilderness, and his body never re-
covered ; Michael ; Charles ; Mary.
Arthur Joseph Bradley, father of Arthur
William Bradley, was born in County
Down, Ireland, October 3. 1838. and
came to this country with his parents
when he was but six months old. He
attended the public schools of Philadel-
phia and w-as a resident of that city until
1863, when he removed to Camden. Xew
Jersey. Eight years later he moved from
that city to Philadelphia, where he lived
five years. In 1876 he removed to South
Hadley Falls, Massachusetts. In 1889 he
came to Holyoke and made his home
there until 1910. since when he has been
living at Amherst, Massachusetts. In his
younger days he learned the trade of brick
mason, and for many years worked at that
trade in summer. For a number of years
he was employed in the Alpaca Mills in
Holyoke during the winter season, and
later in the mills at W^altham, Massachu-
setts. He has always taken a lively in-
terest in public aflfairs. In politics he is
a Democrat, and he has served on the
Democratic town committee of South
Hadley Falls and on the Democratic city
committee of Waltham. He served in
the L'nion army in the Civil War, enlist-
ing February 10, 1865. in Company C,
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during most of his service was on de-
tached duty in and near Richmond, Vir-
ginia. He was mustered out after peace
was declared. He has been a member of
the Order of Foresters, the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, the Improved Order of
Red Men, and at one time was sub-district
chief ranger. He was active in labor or-
ganizations and is past master workman
of the Knights of Labor, which was for-
merly the strongest labor organization in
the country and paved the way for the
l)resent more highly organized labor
unions.
Mr. Bradley married Ann Hourigan,
who was born in Ireland. July ii, 1838,
and died January 25, 1908, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Riley) Hourigan.
Children : Arthur William, mentioned be-
low ; Michael Edward, Thomas Francis,
Joseph William, and Mary, who became
the wife of William Welch.
Arthur William Bradley, son of Arthur
Joseph and Ann (Hourigan) Bradley, was
born in Camden, New Jersey, March 11,
1867. He received his education in the
public schools of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, and South Hadley Falls, Massa-
chusetts. At an early age he started out
to earn his own livelihood, his first em-
ployment being in the Farr Alpaca Mills
at Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he
gained a thorough insight into the details
of that line of work and became proficient
therein, and later he was listed on the
working force of the Hadley Thread Mills
and the mills of the Merrick Thread Com-
pany, in both of which corporations he
was noted for the excellence of his labor.
In 1904 he was appointed to the responsi-
ble position of superintendent of the W.
H. Bullard Thread Company of ?Iolyoke,
and from that date to August i, 1916,
when he resigned, rendered excellent
service in that capacity, giving entire sat-
isfaction to all concerned, winning the
approbation of his superiors and the good
will and respect of those under his charge,
being a man of fair-minded principles, dis-
playing no discrimination or favor in his
treatment of the emi)loyees. This last
term of service makes altogether thirty
years of experience in the manufacture of
thread, years that have tested his strength
and endurance to the utmost, but he has
always been found faithful to the duties
imposed upon him, performmg each day's
work in a cheerful manner and thus has
well earned the recompense that he is en-
joying at the present time, the esteem and
confidence of all with whom he is brought
in contact in his daily toil. In addition
to his arduous duties at the factory, he
has for some years been the proprietor of
a highly successful mercantile business
conducted in the city of Holyoke, from
which he derives a lucrative income, and
thus he is preparing for his advancing
years, and in due course of time will be
enabled to give up active pursuits and en-
joy a well-earned rest, the sequel of years
of toil and strife. Mr. Bradley, aside from
casting his vote for the candidates whom
he considers best suited for the various
offices, has never taken an active part in
politics, preferring to devote his entire
attention to his chosen work and his
home, nor has he afifiliated Avith organiza-
tions of any description.
Mr. Bradley married, January i, 1898,
Marie Gennest, a native of Canada, born
October 2, 1876, daughter of John and
Celanese (Nadeau) Gennest. Children:
Russell Arthur, born February 18, 1899;
Thomas Francis, born July 31, 1902;
Marie Claire, born December 12, 1905.
The uniform courtesy and genial dis-
position of Mr. Bradley have gained for
him the friendly regard of all with whom
he has come in contact, and in a work of
this description he well deserves represen-
tation as an exemplary resident of his
adopted city, the interests of which he
serves to the best of his ability.
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GALLIVAN, Andrew D. A.,
Florist, Market Gardener.
Andrew Dennis Aloysius Gallivan, one
of the leading florists and market gar-
deners of Holyoke, is in partnership with
his brother, Daniel Joseph Gallivan, under
the firm name of Gallivan Brothers. Their
success in founding and building the busi-
ness of the firm is a source of pride to the
entire community. Though both partners
were born under foreign skies and lacked
every advantage at the outset, they have
shown foresight and shrewdness and ex-
erted their energies and abilities to such
good purpose that their firm takes rank as
the leading florist's establishment of the
city.
Dennis Gallivan, father of Andrew D.
A. and Daniel J. Gallivan, came of an an-
cient and honorable Irish family, and his
entire life was spent in the region of his
birth in Ireland. He followed farming in
a modest way. He married Catherine Hor-
gan, daughter of a neighboring farmer. A
few years later, in 1881, when he was still
a young man. he died, leaving two sons.
Andrew Dennis Aloysius and Daniel Jo-
seph. The latter was born March 29, 1880.
So closely have the lives of the two sons
been associated that to write a biography
of one is to tell the life story of the other.
Andrew Dennis Aloysius was but three
years old when his father died, and his
brother was an infant. The widowed
mother decided a few years later to fol-
low the example of various relatives and
make her home in this country. In 1887.
with her two little sons, she sailed for
America. Making her home in Holyoke,
she devoted herself to the care and main-
tenance of the boys, and owing to her love
and wisdom, and through her guidance and
training, both grew into sturdy, capable
men, and in full measure they realized in
the course of time the substantial rewards
of life for which she planned and prayed
in their youth. Both boys were given a
good common school education in the
public schools of Holyoke.
Andrew Dennis Aloysius Gallivan was
born in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland,
July 12, 1878. When he left school, he
found employment in the cultivation and
raising of greenhouse produce and flowers.
I'Vom his ancestors he appears to have in-
herited a natural skill with plants and the
soil, and a keen enjoyment and love for
his occupation. All that he could learn of
the methods of cultivation of flowers and
vegetables, especially when they were
grown under glass, he acquired while a
boy employed in various places. He read
and studied agriculture and horticulture.
He held positions of trust and responsibil-
ity under various employers, and learned
by practical experience every detail of the
business of a market gardener and florist.
With a modest capital the brothers ven-
tured in business as market gardeners and
florists in 1901. Beginning with a few
lines, they increased the capacity of their
plant and the extent and variety of their
product, keeping pace with progress in
the art of cultivation under glass on a
commercial scale. They were both in-
defatigable and thoroughly capable, and
their industry has been rewarded. At
Smith's Ferry, where their large green-
houses are located, they have also one
of the finest and most profitable market
gardens in the State of Massachusetts.
As florists measure their success by the
area of glass in their greenhouses, the fact
that Gallivan Brothers now have green-
houses covered by more than 20.000
square feet of glass indicates the extent
of their activities during the past six-
teen years. Their flowers and produce
find a market almost exclusively in Hol-
yoke and vicinity. Besides the plant at
Smith's Ferry, the firm has a place of
business in the city at No. 500 Dwight
street. Their artistic and attractive store
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is stocked with every sort of flower on
the market, and is thoroughly metropoli-
tan in style and management. Their
wholesale trade is, of course, important
and extensive. As business men the
brothers are popular and highly esteemed
by the other merchants in the city. Their
careers furnish a fine incentive to the
youth who are apt to believe that the dif-
ficulties in the way of a successful venture
in business have become too great to be
within the reach of a poor boy. Mr. Galli-
van and his brother have made their firm
known throughout this section of the
country, and their example will be an in-
spiration to other young men.
In the social and business organizations
to which Mr. Gallivan belongs he has
many friends throughout New England.
He is a member of Holyoke Lodge, No.
74, Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and of the New England Order of
Protection. In politics he is a Democrat,
but such have been the demands of his
growing business that he has declined to
hold public office of any kind. But his in-
terest in the affairs of the municipality is
keen and frequently in evidence. He is
a communicant of the Blessed Sacrament
Church and a faithful supporter of the
parish.
He married, October 26, 1909, Julia
Hallisey, a daughter of John and Mary
(Donahue) Hallisey, of Holyoke, and they
have two children : Daniel, born Decem-
ber I, 1910, and Elmore Andrew, born
June 6, 1912.
SMITH, Herbert Edmund,
Representative Citizen.
The career of Herbert Edmund Smith,
of Holyoke, although quiet and unevent-
ful in the main, demonstrates the fact that
success depends not u])on circumstances
or environments, but upon the man, the
successful men of the day being those
who have planned their own advancement
and have accomplished it in spite of many
obstacles, overcoming dif^culties that to
men not possessed of courage would seem
unsurmountable.
F.dward Smith, father of Herbert Ed-
mund Smith, was a native of Adel, York-
shire, England, where he was reared and
educated, and later engaged in lousiness
pursuits as a farmer and continued until
his death in 1871. He was active in the
affairs of the neighborhood, energetic and
enterprising, and was highly thought of
by his neighbors and friends. He mar-
ried Mary Ann Simpson, who w^as born
at Chapeltown, Yorkshire, England. After
the death of her husband she came to Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, where she died in
1904. They were the parents of five chil-
dren : Emily ; Thomas Simpson, de-
ceased ; George Edw^ard ; John ; Herbert
Edmund, of whom further.
Herbert Edmund Smith was born at
Adel, Yorkshire, England, January 31, 1870.
He obtained a practical education by at-
tendance at the schools of his native town,
and this knowledge was supplemented by
a course of study in the E. E. Childs
Business College of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, he having accompanied his mother
to this country after the death of his
father. He gained his first insight into
the business world by securing employ-
ment in the silk mills in Holyoke, in
which city his mother took up her resi-
dence, and there continued for a period of
nine years, becoming thoroughly expert
in that line of work. He then entered into
business relations with the American
Thread Company of Holyoke, serving for
twelve years in their mills, and for the
following two years he was an employee
of the Bullard Thread Company of the
same city. This completed the years of
service at his trade, and he then turned
his attention to an entirely different line
of work, in which he was equally compe-
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tent and successful, and from which he
derived a goodly income and a sense of in-
dependence not to be gained by working
for others in whatsoever capacity em-
ployed. This new venture was the culti-
vation of the soil, in which occupation he
engaged at Trenton, Ontario, Canada,
where he resided for five years, after
which he returned to the United States,
locating at Easthampton, Massachusetts,
where he continued in the same line for
six years, and met with well merited suc-
cess. He then decided to lead a more re-
tired life and accordingly exchanged his
farm for a beautiful apartment house in
Holyoke. It is among the finest in archi-
tecture and appointments in the city, is
favorably located on the corner of Apple-
ton and Elm streets, in the best residential
section, is four stories high and contains
thirty apartments, and covers a lot one
hundred and fifteen by one hundred and
thirty feet. Mr. Smith devotes his atten-
tion exclusively to the care of this prop-
erty, and its trim appearance testifies to
the interest displayed by him in its man-
agement and care. He attends the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and his political
allegiance is given to the Republican
party, but he has never sought nor held
public office. He is a man of sterling
worth, and throughout his residence in
the various sections mentioned has gained
the respect and good will of his fellow
men.
]Mr. Smith married, in 1898, Tina Teal,
daughter of John and Lucretia (Patrick")
Teal, of Trenton, Ontario, Canada. They
were the parents of one child, Vernon,
born in 1906, died in 191 5, aged nine years.
HILL, George Henry,
Manufacturer.
The only manufacturer of hand stamps
in the city of Holyoke, Mr. Hill devotes
his entire energy to the prosecution of his
business, one which he learned under the
instruction of his honored father, with
whom he w^as for several years associated
in business prior to his settlement in Hol-
yoke.
His father, Benjamin B. Hill, was born
in Lowell, Massachusetts, and became a
manufacturer of hand stamps, a business
in which he was engaged until near the
close of his long life of eighty-three years.
At various periods he w'as located in busi-
ness in Springfield, Massachusetts ; Phil-
adelphia, Pennsylvania, and Chicago, Illi-
nois. He was a member of the IMasonic
order, and in religious belief a Spiritualist.
He married Sarah Adelia Steel, and she
died in 1910. They were the parents of
the following children: Milton B., George
H., of further mention; Carrie M., and
Sarah Josephine, deceased.
George H. Hill was born in Bridgeport,
Connecticut. April 14, 1853. His educa-
tion, begun in the public schools of Chico-
pee, was completed in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, schools, and then for a few years
he was employed with his father in the
manufacture of hand stamps, adopting
that as his own business. For a time
thereafter he was in the employ of the
R. H. Smith Manufacturing Company of
Springfield, then passed several years in
Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. About
1898 he permanently located in Holyoke,
where, as the only hand stamp manufac-
turer in the city, he transacts a profitable
business.
Mr. Hill married. September 8, 1876,
Sarah S. King, born in Suffield. Connec-
ticut, daughter of William B. and Mar\-
R. (Wright) King. Mr. and Mrs. Hill
are the parents of the following children:
Sarah Josephine, born in Chicago, Illinois ;
Lucy May, born in Boston, Massachu-
setts, deceased ; Herbert King, born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, educated in
Springfield and Holyoke public schools,
now engaged as a window^ dresser by the
A. T. Gallup Company of Holyoke.
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HEBERT. Arthur,
Bnainca* Man.
After preliminary service as a clerk,
Arthur Hebert en^'agcd in the drug busi-
ness under his own name and is proprie-
tor of one of llolyoke's prosperous, well
equipped and well stocked drug houses.
The lieberts are of an old Canadian fam-
ily, there standing in the city of Quebec a
monument erected in honor of a Hebert.
Arthur Hebert, of Holyoke, is a son of
Toussaint Hebert, born in the Province of
Quebec in 1843. now residing at Crysler,
Stormont county. Province of Ontario,
where for the past twenty-five years he
has been engaged in general farming. In
his younger years he was a general mer-
chant, spent a period of his life mining in
California, was for several years in the
hotel business, and at one time bought
and sold horses, trading between Canada
and the United States. Most of his life
has been spent in Crysler, however, and
there he has won public favor as an honor-
able, upright man. He is a Liberal in poli-
tics, and has served as mayor of his town.
He married X'^ictorine de Laricheliere,
born in the Province of Quebec, died at
Crysler, in 1915. Children: Rosanna,
Olivine. Joseph. Arthur, of further men-
tion ; Felix, Marie Louise. Victoria, Bea-
trice, Dolores, Theresa, Irene, Charles
Henry, Isabelle, all living.
Arthur Hebert, second son of Toussaint
and \'ictorine (de Laricheliere) Hebert.
was born at Crysler, Stormont county,
Province of Ontario. February 10, 1878,
and until the age of twelve attended the
public schools. From twelve until eighteen
he was engaged as a farm assistant, then
attended r)ttawa I'.usincss College. At
the age of nineteen, in 1897, he came to
the United States, settling in Ilolyoke.
Massachusetts, securing a i)osition as a
drug clerk. He continued in that line un-
til 1904. then opened a drug store under
his own name. The store he opened about
twelve years ago is still his place of busi-
ness, although after purchasing the prop-
erty he remodeled it for his own purposes
and erected adjoining the store a public
warehouse and storage plant. He is a
successful business man, and has taken
a deep interest in the welfare of his coun-
trymen in Holyoke. Through his serv-
ices on the naturalization board, Mr.
Hebert has been instrumental in the mak-
ing of six hundred new citizens. He is a
member of Model Parliament, the For-
esters of America, the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the Holyoke
Club, and the Society of St. Jean Baptiste.
He married (first) June i, 1903, An-
toinette Boivin. born at Pierreville, Ya-
masha county, Quebec, who died in Hol-
yoke. Massachusetts, March 6, 1908. He
married (second) May 22, 1910, Imalda
A. Couillard, daughter of Joseph Couil-
lard, that family, like the Heberts, being
of ancient Canadian settlement. By the
second marriage there are four children:
Roland Gerald, born May 22, 191 1;
Jacques, November i, 1912; Henriette,
April 19, 1915 ; Bibianne. September 21,
1916. The home of Mr. Hebert is one
where good cheer abounds and where the
wayfarer is always sure of a most cordial
welcome.
CARREAU, Alphonse Wilford,
Builder, Contractor.
Among the well known builders and
contractors of Holyoke, Massachusetts,
who by perseverance and fair dealing
have attained an enviable place in busi-
ness circles, should be mentioned the firm
of L. Carreau & Son.
Louis Carreau, the senior member of
the firm, was born at Saint Gregorie le
Grand (Mount Johnson), Iberville county,
Quebec, Canada. May 15. 1859, son of
Evariste and Philomene (Baizeut) Car-
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reau, the former of whom died in Canada,
September 20, 1861, aged twenty-eight
years. They were the parents of three
sons : Joseph, : Louis and Evariste. Louis
Carreau was educated in the schools of
his native place, there learned the trade
of carpenter, which he followed there until
1889. in which year he came to the L'nited
States and located in Willimansett. Mas-
sachusetts, where he resided until 1916,
when he removed to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts. From the year of his coming to the
United States until 1896, a period of seven
years, he was employed as a carriage
builder in Willimansett and Chicopee. In
the latter named year he engaged in busi-
ness on his own account as a contractor
and builder in Chicopee, and so continued
until his removal to Holyoke, as noted
above. He is a mechanic of rare skill and
a contractor of integrity and ability. He
is a director of the Master Builders' Asso-
ciation, and a member of the Order of
Foresters and the French Artisans. Mr.
Carreau married, February 9. 1863, Marie
Rosaline Masse, who bore him seven chil-
dren : Alphonse Wilford. of further men-
tion ; Alida D., deceased ; Blanche, be-
came the wife of Henry J. Lamothe; Jo-
seph, died in infancy ; Alice, deceased ;
Yuonne ; Lucienne Marguerite.
Alphonse \\"ilford Carreau was born at
Saint Bridget, Iberville county. Province
of Quebec, Canada, September 24, 1882.
He was brought to the Cnited States by
his parents when a lad of seven years, and
resided in Willimansett and Chicopee
prior to his removal to Holyoke. He was
educated in the School of the Precious
Blood, South Holyoke, Chicopee High
School and ^larysville College, Canada,
and after completing his studies became
associated with his father in his contract-
ing and building business. He gained a
thorough knowledge of the business, and
in 1903. upon attaining legal age, was ad-
mitted to partnership and so continues.
the firm being known as L. Carreau &
Son. A list of the buildings erected by
this firm would require a volume to enu-
merate, but among the many may be cited
the following that will long remain as
monuments to their skill and ability : Wil-
liam Whiting School ; Knights of Colum-
bus Building; George S. Taylor School
at Chicopee ; Infirmary and Sanatorium
at Rutland, Massachusetts ; Worronoco
Paper Mill at Worronoco; Mills-Alder-
man Building. Holyoke; Bijou Theatre.
South Holyoke ; E. H. Frederick's plant
at Main and Sergeant streets ; Charles U.
Roy Block on Main street ; residences of
Henry George Alderman, B. P. Alderman,
Edward Xewton and Charles O. Connell ;
Croise Brothers Auto Garage, the Elks
Building, and many apartment houses,
including the block built on Pine street
in 1916 in which the firm has had for
some time their offices and in which the
family resides.
Alphonse Wilford Carreau served on
the Chicopee Board of Assessors for three
years : is secretary of the board of direc-
tors of the Master Builders' Association ;
is a member of the Independent Order of
Foresters ; Improved Order of Red Men ;
Holyoke Lodge, Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks, in which he has passed
all the chairs, and in March. 1916. was
elected exalted ruler; the Holyoke Club,
Holyoke Country Club, and the Alcyone
Canoe Club of Chicopee. He is a highly
esteemed member in all these bodies, very
popular in his circle of friends and ac-
quaintances, and one of the young men
of Holyoke whose future is full of
promise.
GINGRAS, Amedee P.,
Business Man.
Coming from his native Canada a very
young man, Amedee F. Gingras first was
a bell boy in the Massasoit Hotel, Spring-
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field, but two years later he located in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, where with one
or two exceptions he is the oldest nier-
(hant. and is the oldest undertaker, by
years in the city, which city he has seen
grow from a population of 6.500 to 7J.000.
Amedec ]•'. (jingras was born in the Prov-
ince of (Juebcc, Canada, Aus2:ust 18, 1849.
He was educated in puljlic schools and St.
.Marys College, after which he spent three
years as a grocery clerk in West Farhan,
Quebec. He then spent two years in
Springfield, Massachusetts, coming thence
to Holyoke, where he has since been con-
tinuously in business. His entrance into
business was as proprietor of a dining
room which he purchased from Mr. Guyot,
of the Guyot Hotel. He operated the
dining room very successfully for three
years, then, craving for out-of-door life,
he started an express business with but
two horses. P>ut the business grew under
his careful management and was con-
tinued for two years. In 1876 he began
his present business at No. 42 High street,
but in 1879 '"IS bought the property and
enlarged it to meet the demands of an in-
creased business. He became one of the
leading undertakers of the city, and in
1884 erected a suitable building at No. 47
High street, which he still occupies. As
the years have passed his business has
greatly increased, but he has kept pace
with its growth and maintains a modern
establishment carefully managed. He is
one of Holyoke's oldest business men, and
recalls the fact that where his building
now stands was once the site of the city
reservoir, the entire locality being now
covered with business blocks and resi-
dences. He is a devout Catholic, and in
his earnest activity gives liberally of his
time and means to church and charity.
In the days prior to the incorporation of
Holyoke as a city, he took an active part
in town affairs, and for several years
served as constable, the same of^ce as the
present constable.
He married, February 7, 1871, Claudia
Mfiiard, who has borne him eighteen chil-
dren, among whom are the following :
Rosalie, who died in 1896, and whose hus-
band followed her two years later, leaving
a daughter, Beatrice, born July 10, 1896,
now a bookkeeper in Chicopee National
I lank; Delia, a nun in the Convent of St.
Hyacinthe, Montreal, Canada; Arthur and
George, twins ; Charles ; Gabriel ; Emma
M., of further mention ; Viola, married.
May 19, 191 5, Herman Paquette, a mer-
chant of Holyoke ; Charlotte, also in St.
Hyacinthe Convent.
Emma M. Gingras was born in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, April 25, 1879, and
died March 29, 1917. She obtained her
early education in Holyoke public schools,
after which she attended the Sisters of
Presentation Boarding School in Canada.
She then entered St. Hyacinthe Convent,
Montreal, Canada, where she completed
her studies and was graduated in 1897.
Deciding upon a profession she entered
Spence's School, New York City, taking
a full course in optometry, graduating O.
D., class of 1902. For the next six years
she was associated with her uncle, Dr.
A. S. Menard, of Holyoke, who for many
years was an eminent specialist in dis-
eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat in
Holyoke. Feeling the need of a more
thorough and complete knowledge in her
profession, Dr. Gingras in the summer of
1908 went abroad and took a post-gradu-
ate course in a hospital in Paris, France,
and on her return to Holyoke began pri-
vate practice with offices at No. 255 High
street. She continued there until 1916,
when she moved to ofifices on the sixth
floor of the newly completed Holyoke
National Bank Building, corner of High
and Dwight streets, where she continued
in her professional career up to her death.
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She was a devout member of I'erpetual Help
Church, a member of the National Optical
Association and L'Union St. Jean Bap-
tiste d'Americque, L. C. B. A., No. 664.
The funeral of Miss Emma M. Gingras,
O. D., took place April 2, 1917, from the
home, 47 High street, followed by a solemn
requiem high mass in the Perpetual Help
Church, Rev. Joseph Marchand was cele-
brant, Rev. Father Landry was deacon and
Rev. Father Delage, of Willimansett, was
sub-deacon. In the sanctuary were seated
Rev. L. Geoffroy, of Three Rivers ; Rev.
Father Durocher, of Aldenville ; Rev.
Father Robillard, of Willimansett, and
Rev. Father Damour, of the Perpetual
Help Church. The bearers were Dr. Bou-
vier, Dr. Arthur Lepine, Clement Du-
charme, John Plante, O. D., S. Bonvouloir
and Ernest Beaumais. The full church
choir sang. The funeral was largely at-
tended. Rev. Joseph Alarchand read the
prayers at the grave.
IVES, Dwight H.,
Man of Affairs.
Among the few families of Holyoke
who trace their ancestry back to early
Colonial times should be mentioned the
Ives family, represented by Dwight H.
Ives, who has been connected with that
city in some business capacity for over
half a century. The name runs back to
the days of the Normans and to the
North of France where it is spelled
"Yves" and where a number of families
are still to be found. The English
branches of the family trace their descent
from Guilbert Yves, who crossed the
channel from Normandy among the fol-
lowers of the Conqueror.
The first of the name to reach these
shores, so far as known, was Captain
William Ives, who came to Boston in
1635, aged twenty-eight, in the '"True-
love" from London. In 1638 he was in
New Haven, and on June 4, 1639, was
one of the subscribers to the T'undamental
Agreement, Ouinnipiack, which place a
few years later became known as the
Colony of New Haven. He died early
in 1648. His two sons, John and Joseph,
pushed on northward into the wilderness
in 1670 and w-ere among the first signers
of the Wallingford Plantation. The chil-
dren of William Ives: Phebe ; John, mar-
ried Sarah Ball ; Joseph, of whom fur-
ther; and Plannah, who became the wife
of Samuel Cook, of Wallingford. The
widow^ of William Ives was married
again, not long after his death, to Wil-
liam Bassett.
(H) Joseph Ives, second son of Cap-
tain William Ives, married, January 2,
1672-73 (old style), IVIary Yale, born
April 16, 1650, daughter of Thomas Yale,
a merchant in New Haven, and Mary
(Turner) Yale, daughter of Captain Na-
thaniel Turner, who was lost in the
"Phantom Ship" which sailed from the
port of New Haven early in January.
1647, '^^^ never returned. For a descrip-
tion of the "Phantom Ship'' read the Rev.
John Davenport's letter to Rev. Cotton
Mather in "Mather's Magnalia." Mary
Yale was a first cousin of Governor Elihu
Yale who gave to Yale College its name,
in consequence of munificent donations
presented by him, he being at the time a
resident of London and ex-governor of
Madras of the East Indies. It was long
supposed that Elihu and Mary Yale were
brother and sister and President Stiles
so gives it. but recent careful researches
by Professor Dexter, of Yale, have proven
that the fathers of Elihu and Mary were
brothers. Joseph Ives died November 17,
1694.
(Ill) Ensign and Deacon Samuel Ives,
son of Joseph and Mary (Yale) Ives,
was born in New Haven, November 6,
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i()Oj, and died there, November 24, 17JO.
He was one of the first "two deacons"
chosen in the First Society Church of
New Haven. In Rev. Trumbull's Cen-
tury Sermon it is shown that in 1718
Deacon Samuel Ives was commissioned
"ensign" and at the same time his brother
Joseph received the appointment of cap-
lain, tie married, January 3, 1706, Ruth
At water, born December 31, 1688, daugh-
ter of Johnathan and Ruth (Peck) At-
water. Johnathan At water was a son
of David Atwater, one of the original
signers of the Plantation Covenant of
Quinnipiack. Ruth Peck was a daughter
of the Rev. Jeremiah Peck, son of Deacon
William Peck, who was also an original
subscriber to the Plantation Covenant of
New Haven. William Peck, one of the
founders of the New Haven Colony, came
with his wife. Elizabeth, and his son,
Jeremiah, from England, probably in the
company of Governor Eaton, Rev. John
Davenport and others in the ship, "Hec-
tor," which arrived at Boston, June 26,
1637. Rev. Jeremiah Peck, son of Wil-
liam Peck, was born in the city of Lon-
don, England, or its vicinity, in 1623. He
came to America with his father in 1637.
He is said by Cotton Mather to have been
bred at Harvard College. In 1659 he was
appointed by the General Court of the
Colony of New Haven to take charge of
the Collegiate School (later the Hopkins
Grammar School) and "there teach the
languages and the sciences." There he
remained until 1661, having removed
from Guilford where he had been teach-
ing school, and where he also married
Johannah Kitchell, daughter of Robert
kitchell. of Guilford. In 1668 Mr. Peck
received a call from the Presbyterian
church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey.
He accepted and was the first permanent
minister of that church. He remained
until 1678 and then returned to New
England. Elizabethtown is now Eliza-
beth. The old church was destroyed by
fire, it is believed, and a second structure
was erected upon its site, which in the
Revolution was used as a stone house
and was burned by the British. A new
house of worship, very large and impos-
ing, was erected upon the .-ite of the old
church, which is still standing, an admir-
able relic of Revolutionary days and
architecture, it is of brick and has a
pointed spire ; the grounds embrace a
church yard for burial ; there is a spaci-
ous session room which stands upon one
corner and occupies the site of the origi-
nal school, which has grown into Prince-
ton College, whither it was removed.
The Rev. Jeremiah Peck was one of the
founders of Elizabeth and an original
signer of its Fundamental Covenant. He
owned two hundred and twenty acres of
land. Flis residence or house lot, con-
taining five acres, was situated in what is
now the block adjoining the church on
the north ; it was located at the corner
of Broad and West Jersey streets, and in
1678, when he left Elizabeth, he sold his
home lot. He died at Waterbury, Con-
necticut, June 7, 1699, aged seventy-eight
years. He was eminent in his profession,
and prominent in all affairs for the pro-
motion of good in the Colony. His widow
also died in Waterbury, in 171 1.
(IV) Captain Jonathan Ives, fourth
son of Ensign and Deacon Samuel and
Ruth (Atwater) Ives, was born March
14, 1716-17. He was a great musician,
and he possessed a voice of so much com-
pass that it could be heard a half mile
distant. He was a farmer and innkeeper.
He removed from New Haven to Ham-
den, in 1735, then also a part of the New
Haven Colony, where he settled on the
banks of the Mill river being one of
its pioneer settlers. This was near the
present village of Ivesville ; at that time
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ihere were no roads in the territory and
his nearest neighbor was one mile dis-
tant. In that town he was a large land-
holder, and a representative of the dis-
trict in the Legislature, by which posi-
tion he was entitled to the affix to his
name of Hon. and Captain. The annals
of the period show that good men, strong
in character, morals and religion were
chosen as representatives in State as well
as in national affairs. Captain Jonathan
Ives married, February 19, ^7Z7'Z'^^
Thankful Cooper, born April 11, 1721,
daughter of Joseph Cooper, who was a
son of John (2) and Mary (Thompson)
Cooper, son of John (i) Cooper, an origi-
nal signer of the New Haven Plantation
Covenant. Captain Jonathan and Thank-
ful (Cooper) Ives were the parents of
four sons and four daughters. The sons,
Jeremiah, Joel, Jonathan and Ailing, all
served in the Revolution. Captain Ailing
Ives, named for the Ailing family, who
largely married with the Ives family, was
captured by the British and sent to Ire-
land, whence he had a very remarkable
escape. He returned to America to the
astonishment of his family and friends
who mourned for him as dead. He mar-
ried Rebekah Dickerman, of Hamden, and
their daughter. Julia Ives, received her
name in honor of the name of the ship
"Julia" which bore her father from the
captivity of the British to the liberty of
America, the land of the free. Julia Ives
married Rev. Ezra Bradley, an Episcopal
minister, who moved to West Springfield,
Massachusetts, and had for his home the
place near the Ashley Ponds, known as
the Bradley House, where the Rev.
Dwight Ives was born. The name of
Julia together with that of the freedom
ship, as it were, is perpetuated in the
name of Julia Bradley Ives, of Holyoke.
(V) Jeremiah Ives, eldest child of Cap-
tain Jonathan and Thankful (Cooper)
Ives, was born in New Haven, Novem-
ber 19, 1738, died in 1825, aged eighty-
seven years. He married, in what is now
North Haven, then a part of New Haven.
June 7, 1768, Hannah Bassett, born De-
cember 26, 1739, died in West Springs,
September 14, 1803, aged sixty-four years,
the seventh and youngest child of Abram
and Mehitable (Street) Bassett, of New
Haven. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Trumbull,
the historian of Connecticut during the
eighteenth century. Abram Bassett was
a son of Samuel and Mary (Dickerman)
Bassett, and grandson of William Bas-
sett, the settler, who married the widow
of William Ives, the settler, and she was
the mother of Lieutenant Samuel Bas-
sett. Abram Bassett was born Novem-
ber 9, 1692 ; he married, February 2,
1721, Mehitable Street, and one of their
daughters, Mehitable Bassett, sister of
Hannah (Bassett) Ives, became the wife
of Judge Samuel Bishop, of New^ Haven.
Jeremiah Ives engaged in farming on a
tract of land in West Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, which was in the possession of
his descendant. Dwight H. Ives, up to
1906. This tract embraced three hundred
acres.
(VI) Abraham Ives, son of Jeremiah
and Hannah (Bassett) Ives, was born in
New Haven, 1768. died in 1855. He in-
herited the tract of land above men-
tioned and engaged in agricultural pur-
suits throughout the active years of his
life. He married, in Ireland Parish. West
Springfield, Massachusetts. January 22,
1795, Eunice Day, who died December
12, 1844, aged seventy-four years. She
was a daughter of Joel Day. of Ireland
Parish, and his wife, his first cousin. Eu-
nice Day, daughter of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Mattoon) Day. of Northfield, Mas-
sachusetts, and among the children of the
latter named were three who intermar-
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ricd with their kindred by the name of
Day. Nevertheless they produced good
stock, that even to the present time has
not degenerated. V>y observing the above
statement concerning W'illiam Ives and
his descendants it is shown that very
nearly all trace back by intermarriage to
the tirst and most prominent settlers and
founders of one of the grand colonies
sent out by England in those stirring,
startling days of the English Reforma-
tion. Xo band of these early immigrants
seemed so strongly combined with the
energy, spirit and jjower of the Puritani-
cal element as did that "Godly Company"
who settled upon the shores of the Ouin-
nipiack. Among those who perished with
Captain Nathaniel Turner on the "Phan-
tom Ship" was another ancestor of this
family, Thomas Greyson, one of the chief
and principal planters of the colony.
Eaton was governor, John Daven-
port, minister, and Thomas Greyson, the
financier of the colonies. He embarked
on the "Phantom Ship" for the purpose
of going to England in the interest of
the Colony, whose funds were low, thus
causing a depressed condition of afifairs.
Mr. Thomas Greyson was an ancestor
through the line of Hannah (Glover)
Street, wife of Lieutenant Samuel Street.
She was a daughter of John and Joanna
C Daniel) Glover, the latter named a
daughter of Stephen Daniel, of Saybrook,
who removed to New Haven and married
Anna or Hannah Greyson. daughter of
Thomas Greyson. Although Mr. Grey-
son was an active merchant and an assis-
tant of the Puritan Colony, he gave land
for an Episcopal church which they
named Trinity and which stands at the
present time (1916) on the original site.
Lieutenant Samuel Street was a son of
Rev. Samuel and Ann (Mills) Street, the
latter named a daughter of Mr. Richard
Mills, one of the most prominent found-
ers and signers of the New Ilaven Cove-
nant. The prefix "Mr." was a title of dis-
tinction in Colonial days and only a few
civilians possessed it. Rev. Samuel Street
was a son of Rev. Nicholas Street, who
came from Taunton, Massachusetts, to
New Haven, Connecticut, and succeeded
Rev. John Davenport.
(VII) Abraham (2) Ives, son of Abra-
ham (i) and Eunice (Day) Ives, was
born in West Springfield, Massachusetts,
August 15, 1803, died October 19, 1866.
He succeeded to the homestead whereon
his father and grandfather resided and
brought it to a high state of cultivation.
He was a prominent man in the commu-
nity, inheriting in large measure the ex-
cellent characteristics of his forbears. He
w^as a member of the First Baptist Church
of West Springfield, as was also his wnie.
He married Harriet Knowles, born in East
Hampton, near Mt. Tom, June 16, 1807,
but resided in West Springfield from early
childhood, died June 7, 1889, a daughter
of Joshua Knowles. They were the par-
ents of four children : Ann E., now de-
ceased, was the wife of Alvin C. Pratt ;
Dwight H., of whom further; Ellen H.,
resides with Dwight H. ; Julia B.. now
deceased.
(VIII) Dwight H. Ives, son of Abra-
ham (2) and Harriet (Knowles) Ives,
was born on the paternal homestead in
West Springfield, Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 28, 1836. He attended the public
schools of his native town, and was later
a student at the Suffield Literary Insti-
tute and Holyoke Academy. For the six
years following the completion of his
studies he assisted his father in the man-
agement of the large farm which had
descended from his ancestor, and subse-
quently he assumed the entire manage-
ment of the same, adding adjoining land
by purchase from time to time until the
farm embraced two hundred and thirty
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acres, one of the largest in that section,
and devoted principally to dairying. The
milk product was disposed of at retail in
the city of Holyoke for twenty-one years,
during which time Air. Ives delivered
milk to his customers. He then disposed
of the retail part of the business and en-
gaged in the wholesale milk business and
in this he continued in connection with
his agricultural pursuits, doing a very
successful, profitable business, up to 1905
when he disposed of the farm. In 1897
he removed from the farm to No. 1966
Northampton street, Holyoke, which has
since been his place of residence. For
two years Mr. Ives was interested in con-
ducting a retail meat business in Hol-
yoke, but after retiring from this he be-
came associated with Edward Nether-
wood, under the firm name of Nether-
wood & Ives, and they purchased a large
tract of land at Elmwood, a suburb of Hol-
yoke, which was laid out in village lots.
On this tract Mr. Ives erected some thirty
bouses, which he sold to good advantage,
and continued in real estate operations
until 1900, when he disposed of his inter-
ests. At the present time he is living re-
tired from active pursuits.
For the past fifteen years Mr. Ives has
been a director and vice-president of the
Holyoke National Bank, and for a period
of ten years has been one of the trustees
and a member of the board of investment
of the Holyoke Savings Bank. He is a
director of the Holyoke Valve & Hydrant
Company, the Irving Paper Company,
and was formerly a director of the Bul-
lard Thread Company. From 1900 to
1914 he was a member of the board of
license commissioners. He has always
been identified with the Republican party,
of which he is a staunch supporter, and
served in various capacities in city offices,
being a member of the Common Council,
and was elected in 1894 as representative
Mass— 6— 13 I
in the State Legislature, being reelected
in 1895. \N hile serving in the latter named
capacity he was a member of the com-
mittee on roads and bridges. In 1897 he
was elected a member of the State Senate,
and served on the committee on prisons
and agriculture and was chairman of the
committee on engrossed bills. Mr. Ives
and his sister attend the First Baptist
Church of Holyoke, and he is connected
with the Masonic fraternity, being a mem-
of Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and Accejjted
Masons ; Mt. Holyoke Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons; and Holyoke Council,
Royal and Select Masters. Mr. Ives is
an energetic and capable business man,
and through his own effort has risen to
a position of importance in the city of
Holyoke. He is ever ready to sustain any
movement calculated to advance the in-
terests of the city and benefit his fellow
men.
LAWRENCE, Hiram Bartlett,
Educator.
Among the educators of Massachusetts
who have left a name indelibly stamped
upon the community should be placed
first Hiram Bartlett Lawrence, late of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, who served the
public schools of that city for the greater
part of his useful life of seventy years, the
last thirty-eight of which were as princi-
pal of Appleton street school, this period
covering the years from 1S72 until his
death in 1910. He was then dean of the
Holyoke corps of educators and in but
few instances has his term of active teach-
ing service been exceeded in the entire
State. Thoroughly consecrated to his
work, he was more to his pupils than a
teacher, he was their friend, their guide
and their inspiration. The good influence
he exerted over them in the school con-
tinued after they passed from under his
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teachings and his memory is warmly
cherished by men and women now in the
sere and yellow leaf, who recall his deep
interest in their welfare and his many acts
of kindness. Thousands of boys and girls
passed through the Appleton street school
during those thirty-eight years and in
each he felt a personal interest, and his
ambition was that the Appleton street
school should be to them a true ahna
maicr in shaping the course of their lives.
Many of those scholars were men and
women of Holyoke when Mr. Lawrence
ended his earthly career, and it was in
I espouse to a strong public sentiment
created by them that the board of educa-
tion renamed the Appleton street school
and honored the man who had so long
been its head by calling it the Lawrence
School, thus officially designating it by
the name the public had long before given
it. And truly in the Lawrence School his
influence permeated every department and
inspired every teacher and every pupil to
their best endeavor.
The years spent in Holyoke schools did
not cover Mr. Lawrence's entire career as
an educator, for both in Maine, his native
State, and in New Hampshire he had been
principal of high school and academy. He
educated himself for the profession of law
and was regularly admitted to the Maine
bar. but being compelled to teach in order
to finance his college education, he de-
veloped a deep love for that profession
and after a short period of law practice
he followed the leadings of his heart and
gave himself to the cause of education.
On the paternal side Mr. Lawrence
traced his ancestry to Robert Lawrence,
who, about 1664, left England, going to
Holland, coming thence to Massachu-
setts and settling at Sandwich, Barnstable
county. In this branch he traced his de-
scent to Sir Robert Lawrence, who at-
tended his sovereign, Richard Coeur de
Lion, to the Holy Land and as a Crusader
won high honors. He particularly dis-
tinguished himself at the siege of Acre
and was knighted Sir Robert of Ashton
Hall. Fifteen generations of the family
Nourished in England ere the transplant-
ing to America where the name is an
equally honored one. On his mother's
side Mr. Lawrence traced to Robert Bart-
lett, who came to America on the ship
"Ann" in July, 1623. settled at Plymouth,
I\Iassachusetts, where he was prominent
in early Colonial affairs and founded one
of the strong New England families.
Hiram Bartlett Lawrence, son of Oliver
A. and Lemira ( Bartlett j Lawrence, was
born in Wayne, Kennebec county, Maine,
March 8, 1840, and died at his home in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, December 20,
1910. His boyhood was passed on the
home farm, the winter months being de-
voted to school work, the summer months
to farm labor. After exhausting the ad-
vantages oflFered by the Wayne schools he
attended Towie Academy at \\'inthrop,
then taught for two winter terms in Ken-
nebec county schools. He spent one year
as a student at Maine State Seminary at
Lewiston, entering Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine, in 1862. He spent four
years at that institution, paying his own
way with money earned during vacation
periods. He won high honors at college
and was class orator of the graduating
class of 1866. He had decided upon the
profession of law and registered as a law
student in a lawyer's office at Gardiner.
Maine, pursuing his law studies in con-
nection with his duties as principal of the
Gardiner High School. On August 11,
1866. he was admitted to the Maine bar
and he formed a partnership and began
his legal practice. Shortly afterward his
partner died, and after due consideration
and no suitable partner being available,
he decided to abandon the law and dedi-
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cate his life to the profession of teaching,
in which he had already proved a success
and to which he felt strongly drawn. His
first position after arriving at that de-
cision was as principal of the Gardiner
High School, of Gardiner, Maine. After
completing his work there he next went
to Penacook Academy, New Hampshire,
where he remained until 1872, when he
was elected principal of the Appleton
street school, Holyoke, Massachusetts,
and in that position the remaining thirty-
eight years of his life were passed. Apple-
ton street school was organized in 1864
and had three principals prior to Mr.
Lawrence, he taking charge in 1872. His
term of service exceeded that of any
teacher ever connected with the Holyoke
schools, and in recognition of his long
and valuable service, his usefulness and
his devotion, the school is now officially
known as the Lawrence School, a fitting
tribute to his long and faithful service.
But his monument is in the hearts of all
who personally came wnthin the circle of
his influence, and their "name is legion,"
including the youth of two generations,
there being scarcely a family of standing
in Holyoke in which one or more mem-
bers do not lovingly recall their school
years at the Appleton street school under
his instruction, training and example.
A lover of nature himself, he introduced
the nature study, Appleton street school
being the first school to form classes for
indoor and outdoor nature study. The
decoration and beautifying of school
rooms and grounds was also due to his
initiative, in fact, his progressive mind
led in all modern forms of educating the
young. He kept ever abreast of his times
and in no particular did he lag behind.
Himself a man of education and culture,
he craved the same advantages for the
youth of Holyoke, and by earnest, efficient
\vork he brought boards of education.
parents and pupils to a higher plane of
thought and accomplished much of the
desire of his heart. He was well-known
in educational circles beyond his own city
and often employed his talents as a writer
and platform speaker. He was made a
Mason in 1868, belonged to Ionic Lodge,
Free and x-\ccepted Masons ; Psi Upsilon
fraternity, Western Massachusetts Gram-
mar Masters' Club, "The Club," of Hol-
yoke, a literary organization ; and the
Second Congregational Church. In poli-
tics he was a Republican. He was very
popular in these organizations, in fact, his
genial manner, unfailing courtesy and in-
tellectual gifts were an "open sesame" to
any circle.
Mr. Lawrence married, December 29,
1875, Mary J. Day, daughter of Horace
R. and Mary J. (Wiggins) Day. (See Day
family elsewhere in this work.) She is
a graduate of Holyoke High School, and
prior to her marriage taught in the Wil-
liam Whiting and Appleton street schools
of Holyoke. She survives her husband
and continues her residence in Holyoke.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence were the parents
of three children: Ray, died in infancy;
Genevieve, died at two and one-half years
of age ; Vera, wife of Raymond E. Snow,
who is connected with the office of the
chief engineer of the water department of
the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, son
of W. H. Snow, a former manager of the
Holyoke Gas and Electric Company, now
filling a similar position at New Bedford,
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
E. Snow have two children : Raymond
Lawrence and Norma.
O'NEILL, Francis Felix,
Real Estate Operator.
Lawrence O'Neill, grandfather of
Francis F. O'Neill, was a paper manu-
facturer in Dublin. Ireland, where he
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lived and died, but was represented in the
United States by his three sons, Felix,
John and Lawrence, Jr., to all of whom
he taught his own trade, paper making.
John O'Neill was the first of the brothers
to come to the United States, he engag-
ing in the manufacture of i)aper, and giv-
ing employment to his brother, Lawrence,
when he came here in the year 1840,
accompanied by their mother.
Lawrence O'Neill, Jr., was born in
Dublin, Ireland, about 1822, and died in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1885. He
was educated in the schools of his native
land, also supplemented this by his own
eflforts, and in 1840 he left his native land
to seek a home in the new world, joining
his brother John, a paper manufacturer of
Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He
was in his brother's employ and in busi-
ness association with him until the year
1869, when he located in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, there being employed as a paper
maker until his death, which occurred in
1885. He was an active church member,
and reared his children to habits of indus-
try and right living. He married Jane
^I. Wrinkle, a native of Ireland, a daugh-
ter of Timothy Wrinkle, who died in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1897. Mr.
and Mrs. O'Neill were the parents of nine
children, namely : i. John S., was a mem-
ber of the Holyoke Board of Health for
a number of years ; married Julia A. Hood,
and they had the following children :
John ; Mary, married Eugene Moriarity ;
Anna ; Lawrence A. ; Ray ; Frances, mar-
ried Edward F. McCarthy ; Jane ; Joseph ;
Grace A.; John S. O'Neill died December
6, 1915. 2. Jane Ann, deceased; was the
wife of Francis J. Curley, deceased; chil-
dren : Jane M., Stella, Evelyn, Gertrude,
William F., Elizabeth, became the wife of
Daniel Courtney. 3. Lawrence A., in part-
nership with his brother, Francis F., in
Holyoke. 4. Francis I-"clix, of whom fur-
ther. 5. Timothy, married Nellie Connor,
and has childen : Lawrence A.. Jane M.
and Mary. f>. Mary E. 7. Edward M. 8.
Katherine A., a teacher in the Whiting
School. 9. Elizabeth M., principal of the
South Chestnut Street School, Holyoke.
Francis Felix O'Neill, son of Lawrence
and Jane M. (Wrinkle) O'Neill, was born
in Westminster, Massachusetts, May 6,
1855. His early education was obtained
in the public schools of Norwich and
Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and after
the family located in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, in 1869, he attended the Lawrence
Street School. Upon the completion of
his studies, he entered the employ of the
Hampden Paper Mills as a cutter, going
thence to the office employ of the Albion
Paper Mill. Before attaining his seven-
teenth year, he decided upon the trade of
carpenter, and from that time until the
age of twenty-three he was employed at
that trade as apprentice and journeyman,
becoming an expert mechanic and builder.
In 1878 he began contracting and build-
ing under his own name, and until 1907
was so engaged, monuments to his skill
and integrity as a builder standing in
every part of the city of Holyoke. Among
the public buildings he erected may be
named the Hamilton Street and South
Chestnut Street public schools, also
Charles Street and Alden school houses
in Springfield, Sacred Heart and Holy
Cross churches, many business blocks on
Essex, High, Main and Cabot streets,
erecting more business blocks on High
and Main streets than any other builder
of the city, also many of the largest
apartment houses. In 1907 he retired
from the contracting field, and has since
devoted himself to the real estate busi-
ness, in association with his brother,
Lawrence A. O'Neill. Mr. O'Neill has
always taken a deep interest in city
affairs, but has never sought public office.
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He is a Democrat in politics, and was
member of the State Central Committee
during the term of Governor Russell. Mr.
O'Neill has taken an active part and in-
terest in the business affairs of Ilolyoke,
and was one of the first directors of the
lUisiness Men's Association, which organ-
ization was the basis of the present Board
of Trade, of which he is a director, and he
is also a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce. He is a member and past president
of the Holyoke Master Builders Associ-
ation, of which he was the organizer, and
a member of the Massachusetts State As-
sociation of Master Builders, of which he
was one of the organizers, and is now a
member of the executive board ; a member
of the Improved Order of Red Men, and
past sachem of Wampanoag Tribe ; the
Catholic Order of Foresters, and past
chief ranger of Shields Court, and in 1876
enlisted in Company K, Second Regi-
ment, Massachusetts National Guard,
serving three years.
Mr. O'Neill married, January 30, 1884,
Julia A. Murphy, daughter of Patrick and
Joanna (McCraw) Murphy.
SKINNER, William,
Manufacturer, PIiilaiitliTopist.
It is an honor to stand as did William
Skinner in the very front rank of textile
manufacturers of this great nation, but a
greater honor to be, as he was, a man who
by an honorable upright life left the im-
press of his character upon the yovmg men
of his city, and to rank for all time as one
of those men of generous nature and char-
itable impulse, to whom Holyoke owes
the development of her philanthropic and
public institutions.
He placed "Skinner's Satin" upon the
market, and there is no name better
known in the dry goods trade, its repu-
tation resting on quality of goods and
honorable dealing on the part of the
maker. That reputation did not come in
a day nor upon the (Iclivcring of one bill
of goods, but by long years of honest
manufacture and honorable dealing. Un-*
til 1874 his i)lant was located in the centre
of a prosperous conmiunity which grew
up around it known as Skinnerville. Then
came the great flood of 1874, when Mill
river swept all evidences of manufactur-
ing from her banks, leaving nothing be-
longing to Mr. Skinner but his residence,
and that injured. The rebuilding of a
plant was an easy matter, as the only
thing to do was to plan new and enlarged
buildings, select a location, and l)uild. But
with the handsome residence slightly in-
jured, the problem was more difficult. It
was finally settled, however, by taking
the house down as carefully as possible,
transporting it to Holyoke grounds occu-
pying an entire city block. Thus was the
old mansion with its memories retained
and with its beautiful surroundings, the
home of Mr. Skinner until his death. It
was in accord with the homeloving in-
stinct of his nature that Mr. Skinner did
this thing, and when beautiful "Wistaria-
hurst" was ready for occupancy, it was
not a new, cold, unfamiliar home that he
entered, but the home he knew and loved,
a valued gem in a new setting.
William Skinner, son of John Skinner,
was born in London. England. November
14, 1824, died at his home. 'AVistaria-
hurst.'' Holyoke. Massachusetts. Febru-
ary 28, 1902. His father was engaged in
the silk business in London, and after
completing a full course in the public
schools William Skinner was given a
practical training in silk manufacture by
his father. At the age of nineteen he
came to the United States, a skilled
worker in silk, determined that his techni-
cal knowledge and skill should bring him
greater returns than was possible in Eng-
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land. His first position was with the
\'alentine Dye Works in Northampton,
Massachusetts. Two years later he asso-
ciated himself with Josei)h Warner, and
under the firm name of Warner & Skin-
ner began the manufacture of sewing silks
in Northampton. In 1849 the excellent
water power at Haydenville, part of the
town of Williamsburg, attracted him, and
a few miles from Northampton a small
mill was built on the banks of Mill river.
There he manufactured sewing silks. In
1853 he purchased a plant and water
power at what became known as Skinner-
ville. and in 1854 added silk twists to his
former line of sewing silks. In 1857 he
built a three-story mill, 80x30, known as
the Unquomonk Silk Mills. There he
continued in splendid usefulness and pros-
perity until 1874, Skinnerville becoming
a thrifty, prosperous community, and the
Unquomonk Silk Mills, one of the leading
manufacturing enterprises of Western
Massachusetts. Nearby he had erected
a residence in keeping with the wealth
and position of its owner, and nothing
but promise of even better things was in
prospect when suddenly, on May 16, 1874,
a dam five miles above Skinnerville in an
instant caused a raging devastating flood.
The mill and houses were swept away,
and all that remained of the thrifty village
was the house of Mr. Skinner, which stood
on higher ground, but even that did not
escape injury.
\\''ith the mill swept away, Mr. Skinner
decided to rebuild in a locality offering
better power facilities, and after mature
deliberation selected Holyoke and there
completed his first mill in October, 1874.
six months after the flood disaster. He
there began the manufacture of cotton
back satins, and silk and mohair braids,
for which the Skinner mills became
famous. Prosperity for the plant and
for the city in which it was located fol-
lowed, and from the single mill came en-
largement and addition until a very large
plant resulted, and a business the largest
of its kind in the United States. In 1883
his sons, William and Joseph A., were ad-
mitted, the firm name then becoming W^il-
liam Skinner & Sons. At that time five
hundred hands were employed at the
plant, but this was greatly increased later,
as additions were made until in 1917 over
two thousand five hundred hands were
employed. In 1889 the business w^as in-
corporated as W'illiam Skinner Manufac-
turing Company, capital $100,000, with
William Skinner, president and treasurer,
and Joseph A. Skinner, secretary ; and as
its capable head William Skinner con-
tinued until his death in 1902. The great
mills of the company were veritable hives
of industry where the vast quantities of
raw- material received were converted into
finished goods, a constant stream of satin
dress goods and linings, taffeta silk, and
mohair braids, sewing silks, and twists,
pouring out through the shipping room to
every nook and corner of the world where
their use was possible. "Skinner's Satin"
ruled the market, and in the great cities,
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago, offices for sale and distribution
were maintained. Mr. Skinner was a di-
rector of the Silk Association of America,
director of the Silk Manufacturers* Asso-
ciation, and president of the Holyoke
Manufacturers' Association. He was a
good business man, relying not on diplo-
macy, but upon right and just dealing for
his victories.
With his own future assured, Mr. Skin-
ner lost no opportunity to extend the
helping hand to a "worn and weary,"
brother, or to generously remember Hol-
yoke's institutions for bettering the con-
ditions of the unfortunate. He was the
largest contributor to the City Hospital
and for many years was president of its
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board of management. The House of
Providence Hospital was also largely
benefited through the generous nature of
this greathearted man. He gave without
reservation a complete site for a Young
Men's Christian Association building, and
liberally toward the erection of the build-
ing thereon. Grace Church, an outgrowth
of the Second Congregational Church of
Holyoke, was erected largely through his
generosity, and just prior to his death he
subscribed ten thousand dollars toward
the new Holyoke Public Library Fund.
Besides. Mt. Holyoke. \'assar and Smith
colleges all were recipients of his gener-
ous benefactions ; and to the Dwight L.
Moody School at Xorthheld, Massachu-
setts, he gave a finely equipped g}-mna-
sium.
He was a patron of art and music, and
all societies of a refining nature appealed
to his nature. He loved Holyoke and her
institutions, and no son could have been
more devoted and helpful. He profited
through Holyoke's exceptionally good
manufacturing facilities, and Holyoke re-
ceived in return not only the substantial
gifts noted, but. in addition Holyoke has
received the loyal interest of his able sons
and helpful daughters who carry on the
business, maintain beautiful 'W'istaria-
hurst," and continue the philanthropic
work the father began.
Mr. Skinner married (first) Xancy
Warner, of Xorthampton, Massachusetts,
a descendant of one of the first settlers
of the town. She left two daughters —
Eleanor, who married Frederick H. War-
ner, of Boston : and Xina, who married
Charles E. Clark, of Philadelphia, de-
ceased. Mr. Skinner married (second)
Sarah Elizabeth Allen, died March 6,
1908. daughter of Captain Joseph Allen,
of Xorthampton. who died July 12. 1876.
William and Sarah E. ('Allen) Skinner
were the parents of two sons and three
daughters :
1. William Skinner, born in Xorthamp-
ton, Massachusetts. June 12, 1857; pre-
pared at Williston Seminary and attended
Yale University. He succeeded his father
as head of the great corporation that bears
his name. He is vice-president of the
Pacific Bank of Xew York City, and a
director in the following institutions : The
Broadway Trust Company of Xew York;
the Irving Xational I'ank of Xew York;
the Boston & Lowell Railroad Company ;
the Hartford & Connecticut Western
Railroad Company ; the Poughkeepsie
Bridge Railroad Company ; the United
States Conditioning and Testing Com-
pany; the Worcester Investment and Se-
curity Company : the Worcester Street
Railways Company ; the First Xational
Bank of Boston ; the Maine Central Rail-
road Company; the Massachusetts Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company : the Amer-
ican Surety Company ; the Equitable
Life Assurance Company ; the Boston
Railroad Holding Company ; and the
Central X'ew England Railroad Company.
He is a member of the board of managers
of the Silk Association of .A-merica ; and
of the following clubs : The Metropoli-
tan. Union League. Xew York Yacht, and
Automobile. In religion he is a Congre-
gationalist.
2. Elizabeth Allen Skinner, married
Rev. William H. Hubbard. D. D.. of Au-
burn, Xew York.
3. Joseph A. Skinner, president of the
Hadley Falls Xational Bank.
4. Belle Skinner, mistress of "Wistaria-
hurst," her loved and long time home
5. Katharine, who married Robert S.
Kilborne. of Xew York City.
CLARK, John E..
Manufacturer, Financier.
From the age of sixteen years the life
of John E. Clark, of Holyoke. Massachu-
setts, president of the People's Savings
Bank of that city, has been one of increas-
ing and successful business activity, and
since the age of twenty-one he has been
a partner, manager or head of every busi-
ness enterprise with which he has been
connected. The association he formed
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early in his business life with (leorge R.
Dickinson, of Springfield. Massachusetts,
continued unbroken until Mr. Dickinson's
death, and together they conducted suc-
cessfully several enterprises which be-
came well known in Holyoke and West-
ern Massachusetts. His association with
the People's Savings P>ank began in 1885
as a director and vice-president, and since
May 10, 1909, he has been its capable
president. In every line of activity he
has entered he has proven strong and
capable, his career furnishing an example
of continued success, won through hon-
orable methods and the ability to plan and
execute.
He is a son of Edward and Lucinda
(Allard) Clark, the former of whom was
born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where
on arriving at manhood he engaged in
farming. He went to Ashland, where he
sold produce and killed beef for the Bos-
ton market. He then went to Petersham,
where he followed farming and raising
produce. He then went to Worcester and
engaged in selling tin, woodenware and
glassware. His final removal was to
Springfield, where he spent the remainder
of his life, and where his death occurred
September 12, 1882. He was a Repub-
lican in politics, taking a deep interest in
piiblic affairs, and was an active member
of the various bodies of the Masonic
order. He married Lucinda Allard, who
died August 2, 1888, the mother of nine
children, four of whom are living: i.
Alrua L., widow of E. L. Munn, who was
for many years a prominent banker of
Holyoke, where he was instrumental in
founding two large banks ; during his last
years he resided in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts. 2. John E., of further mention.
3 Alice M., widow of Charles B. Brown,
who died in February, 1916. 4. William
H., a traveling salesman, representing a
western paper house.
John E. Clark was born at Ashland,
Massachusetts, July 24, 1847. He was
educated in the public schools of W^orces-
ter, Massachusetts, leaving school at the
age of sixteen to enter the employ of R.
C. Dickinson & Company, of New Haven,
Connecticut, wholesale dealers in rags
and paper stock, and manufacturers of
tin and ironware. Their business was
one which is now among the memories of
the past, but was then a very important
one. They manufactured by hand labor
in their factory in New Haven a full line
of tinware, also dealt in woodenware and
cutlery, and in addition carried silver and
glassware in every variety for household
use. These goods were sold all over New
England by men classed as "tin peddlers,"
who covered designated routes with
wagons, carrying a large stock, being
virtually traveling department stores.
They exchanged their goods for cotton
and woolen rags, old iron, brass, copper,
etc. Their coming was eagerly awaited
by the housewives, boys and girls, and a
lerge business was transacted by each
wagon. Modern invention and easy com-
munication between country and town
brought about the death of the business,
the handmade tinware of the Dickinson
plant not being able to compete with the
press work of modern factories.
Mr. Clark was admitted a partner to
R. C. Dickinson & Company at twenty-
one years of age, the firm then consisting
of R. C. and George R. Dickinson and
h'mself. After a few years R. C. Dickin-
son retired and the two remaining part-
ners consolidated with Thomas H.
Wheeler, who was engaged in a similar
business. Finally George R. Dickinson
retired, and Mr. Clark in 1878 sold his
interest to Mr. Wheeler. In 1879, J" part-
nership with his old associate, George R.
Dickinson, he purchased the old Albion
Paper Mill, at Holyoke, which they oper-
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ated as the Dickinson & Clark Paper
Company. They conducted a highly suc-
cessful business up to 1890, when they
disposed of it to its former owners. In
the meantime, in 1883, in connection with
D M. Dickinson, they had purchased the
Excelsior Paper Company, which busi-
ness they carried on for some years when
Mr. Clark bought out both partners, con-
tinuing the business alone, until forced
by ill health he sold the Excelsior Mill
to Henry S. Dickinson and others. He
intended to erect a large plant and resume
paper manufacturing, but the death of
Mr. Dickinson altered Mr. Clark's plans,
and after settling up the affairs of the
former partnership, he accepted the posi-
tion of general manager of the George R.
Dickinson Paper Company, and continued
in this position and with this plant until it
was disposed of to the American Writing
Paper Company, and he was retained as
manager of this company for several
years. He was first president of the Ford
Augur Bit Company, of Holyoke, and
after the death of the treasurer he was
elected to that office and continued in that
capacity until April 14. 1916, when the
business was disposed of.
He was one of the charter members
of the People's Savings Bank of Holyoke,
organized in 1885, and as vice-president
ard trustee has maintained intimate rela-
tions with the bank from the first. On
May 10, 1909, he was elected its president
and has since devoted himself to the
dn.ties of that office. He was for many
years a director of the Excelsior Paper
Company, and is now a director of the C.
AV. I. Building Company, Incorporated,
of New Haven. A Republican in politics,
he has taken an active part in the city
gc vernment, serving as alderman 1885-
86. and has been ever an interested and
useful citizen. He is a member of the
Holyoke Club, of which he was president
for three years, and is always ready to aid
any public movement that is of value to
the city.
Mr. Clark married, August lo. 1870,
Adella E., daughter of Walter \V. and
Sarah (Bartholomew) Ives, of Walling-
ford, Connecticut. Walter W. Ives was
born December 3, 1816, and died Decem-
ber 21, 1880. He was a farmer and fol-
lowed that calling all his life. His wife
was born October 24, 1822, and died De-
cember 26, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Walter
W. Ives were the parents of seven chil-
dren, five of whom are now living: Vic-
torine A., residing in Meriden, Connec-
ticut; Adella E., wife of John E. Clark;
Georgene, residing in Meriden ; Charles
Walter, residing in New Haven ; Fannie
E., twin with Charles W., wife of Herbert
J. Frink, president of the Holyoke Ma-
chine Company. John E. and Adella E.
Clark have three children: i. Royal E.. a
graduate of Brown University, is now
engaged in the real estate and insurance
business at Bridgeport, Connecticut ; he
married Catherine E. Wheeler and they
have the following children, Wheeler and
John Elliott. 2d. 2. Aline B., married
Herbert C. Haunton, general agent for
mill supplies; they have one son. Thur-
low C. 3. Walter E., who was assistant
treasurer and manager of the Ford Augur
Bit Company, of Holyoke. up to 1916. and
is now with the Millers Falls Tool Com-
pany, of Millers Falls. Massachusetts ; he
married Mildred Kendrick. of Chicago,
Illinois.
TITUS, Leonard Lee.
Cashier of City National Bank. Holyoke.
Leonard Lee Titus, one of the promi-
nent figures in financial circles in Central
Massachusetts, cashier of one of the larg-
est banks in Holyoke, director of the
Morris Plan Company of Holyoke. treas-
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urer of the Chamber of Commerce, and
other organizations, is descended from
one of the oldest New England families.
The surname Titus is extremely ancient,
dating to the time surnames came into
use before the year 1200. in France, and
soon afterward in England. The best
authority on English surnames, "Patro-
nymica Britannia," informs us that the
surname was derived from the personal
name. Even before the time of Titus, the
Roman Emperor, back in Biblical times,
Titus was a common personal and bap-
tismal name, when in most countries each
{)crson had one or more personal names,
perhaps a patronymic to tell the name of
his father, but no family name. Burke
gives but one coat-of-arms for the Eng-
lish family and the presumption follows
that the Canadian and American descend-
ants are entitled to use it. It is described :
Quarterly one and four or on a chief
gules, a lion passant guardant of the field.
Two and three gyronny of eight or and
azure on an escutcheon or a black's head
ccuped sable, wreathed round the temples
argent and azure. Crest: A black's head
ccuped at the shoulders proper, wreathed
round the head argent and of the first.
(I) Robert Titus, the first in America,
was born in St. Catherine's Parish, near
Stanstead Abbots, Hertfordshire, Eng-
Irind, about thirty miles from London, in
the year 1600. He was a son of Colonel
S'las and Constantia Titus. Colonel Titus
died there October 22, 1607. Robert Titus
sailed from London, April 3, 1635, in the
ship "Hopewell," with wife Hannah, aged
thirty-one years, son John, aged eight, and
son Edmund, aged five years. He settled
in Boston and had a grant at Muddy
River (now Brookline), was admitted a
fieeman. May 13, 1640, removed to Wey-
mouth, Massachusetts, and about 1644 to
Rehoboth, with Rev. Samuel Newman.
He was one of the founders of the town
of Rehoboth, and commissioner of Ply-
mouth county in 1648-49-50 and 1654. He
sold his Rehoboth property to Robert
Jones, of Nantasket, and went to Hunt-
ington, Long Island, May 23, 1654, with
sons, Samuel, Abiel and Content. His son
John remained in Rehoboth. The will of
Hannah Titus, wife of Robert Titus, was
dated May 14, 1672, at Huntington, and
was proved December 17, 1679 (Court of
Appeals, Albany, New York). Children:
Jchn, mentioned below; Edmund, born
1630, died 1727; Samuel; Susanna; Abiel,
born March 17, 1641, at Weymouth ; Con-
tent, March 28, 1643, died 1730.
(II) John Titus, son of Robert Titus,
was born 1627, in England, died April 16,
1689. He was one of the original pur-
chasers of what is now the city of Attle-
boro, Massachusetts ; was prominent in
town and church. He and his son John
were soldiers in King Philip's War. His
first wife's name was Rachel, who died
before 1659, in which year he married
Abigail Carpenter, daughter of William
and Abigail Carpenter, of Rehoboth, born
April 9, 1643, iri Weymouth, Massachu-
sttts. She married (second) November
9, 1692, Jonah Palmer, and died March
5. 1710. Children of first wife, born at
Rehoboth : John, mentioned below ;
Abigail, February 18, 1652 ; Silas, May 18,
1655; Hannah, November 28, 1658; of
second marriage: Samuel, born June i,
1661 ; Joseph and Mary (twins), March
17, 1665 ; Experience, October 9, 1669.
(TTI) John (2) Titus, son of John (i)
and Rachel Titus, born December 18, 1650,
in Rehoboth, made his home in that town,
and died there December 2, 1697. He
married there (second) July 3, 1677,
Scirah Miller, born October 15, 1655, in
Rehoboth, daughter of John Miller, Sr.,
died March 10, 1752.
(IV) Timothy Titus, youngest son of
John (2) and Sarah (Miller) Titus, was
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born November i6, 1692, in Rehoboth,
where he lived with his wife Waite.
(V) Timothy (2) Titus, second son of
Timothy (i) and Waite Titus, was born
September 14, 1721, in Rehoboth, and was
m.arried at Dedham, December 24, 1747,
to Jerusha Whipple.
(VI) Timothy (3) Titus, son of Tim-
othy (2) and Jerusha (Whipple) Titus,
was born June 17, 1762, in Rehoboth, and
lived in that town. He married there,
March 7, 1785, Olive Lincoln, born Janu-
ary 4, 1763, in that town, daughter of
Isaac and Sarah Lincoln, who came from
Taunton.
(VII) Jam,es Titus, second son of Tim-
othy (3) and Olive (Lincoln) Titus, was
born August 3, 1797, and removed to New
Brunswick, settling in Kings county of
that Canadian province. There he mar-
ried Mary Upham, born July 22, 1797, in
Cavendish, Vermont, died August 9, 1872,
youngest child of Jabez and Bethia (Cut-
ler) Upham, who came from Brookfield,
Massachusetts, and located in Wood-
stock, later Upham, Kings county, New
Brunswick. Jabez Upham served in the
Continental Revolutionary army, and
after many years residence in Vermont
removed to New Brunswick. James Titus
and wife were the parents of three sons :
Jabez E., Jonathan C. and James W.
(VIII) Jabez E. Titus, son of James
Titus, was born February 5, 1826, in Irm-
sey, province of New Brunswick, Canada,
and died in September. 1878. His first
wife's maiden name was Snow. He mar-
ried (second) Charlotte E. Gorham,, who
was born April 15, 1825, at Long Beach,
Kingston, New Brunswick, died April 9.
1900, daughter of George and Sarah (Ray-
mond) Gorham. Both Snow and Gorham
families were doubtless branches of the
pioneers from Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Child by first wife : James. Children by
second wife: Theodore E., Annie W.,
married Robert Hastings ; Joseph H.,
mentioned below; Lemuel W., Claretta
J., Ransford, George E., Sarah Louise,
married Victor Gowland.
(IX) Joseph H. Titus, son of Jabez E.
and Charlotte E. (Gorham) Titus, was
born at Smithtown, New Brunswick,
April 18, 1858. He was educated in the
common schools, and early in life engaged
in business as a lumberman in New
Brunswick. While yet a young man in
1891, he came to Massachusetts. After
living a few years at Wollaston, Massa-
chusetts, he bought a place in New Brain-
tree, Massachusetts, in 1904. and since
then has followed farming. He is a mem-
ber of the Baptist church. He married.
November 19, 1877, in Canada, Phoebe
Elizabeth Titus, who was born in Titus-
ville. New Brunswick, October 8, 1858. a
daughter of William and Phoebe (Dyke-
man) Titus, also a descendant of the
Loyalist settler. Children: Harry W.,
born November 8, 1881, lives in Wollas-
ton. married and has a son, Lincoln ;
Leonard Lee. mentioned below ; Cora
\\\. born July 15, 1885; Horace G., born
November 23. 1886, lives in Ouincy, Mas-
sachusetts ; Ferris Louise, born Novem-
ber 18. 1899.
(X) Leonard Lee Titus, son of Joseph
H. Titus, was born at Smithtown. Kings
county. New Brunswick, October 4. 1883.
He came to this country with his parents
in early childhood, attended the public
schools of Wollaston and afterward took
a course in a Boston business college. He
has been in the banking business since
he was sixteen years old, beginning in
1899 as a clerk in the First National Bank
of Boston. From time to time he won
promotions, and he was assistant cashier
of the bank when he resigned in 1914 to
accept the position of cashier of the City
National Bank of Holyoke. In noticing
the choice of the directors for ca-hicr. the
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"Bankers Home Magazine" of September,
1914, said :
Mr Titus was formerly in the employ of the
First National Bank of Boston for twelve years
preceding his election to his new position, during
which time he had worked in various capacities in
that large and prosperous institution, thus having
received a training that well fitted him for the
position to which he was recently elected. Mr.
Titus was not only active in his own bank but
was interested in the work of organizations con-
nected with the banking business, being charter
secretary of the Boston Chapter, American Insti-
tute of Banking, having attended their conven-
tions in the past, thereby enlarging his acquaint-
ance and making friends throughout the country.
Locally his service in connection with the work
of the Bank Officers' Association of the city of
Boston as secretary of the entertainment com-
mittee for three years was one which brought
him in close touch with the banking fraternity of
Boston, and while his summons to a broader field
was well merited, he will be much missed by his
Boston friends. The bank which he has the honor
to represent is one of the oldest in Holyoke, in-
corporated in 1879, with a capital of $200,000 —
in 1888 it was reorganized and the capital in-
creased to $500,000. To-day it is recognized as
among the strongest financial institutions of West-
ern Massachusetts with deposits of $2,800,000, ably
officered, ably directed and carrying the accounts
of many of the leading merchants and manufac-
turers of Holyoke and vicinity.
In his new position, Mr. Titus has made
good from the outset. He has made
friends rapidly and is already well known
throughout the city. Under his adminis-
tration the bank has enjoyed a period of
exceptional growth and prosperity. When
the Morris Plan Company, an institution
for small borrowers, was recently incor-
porated in Holyoke. he became interested
as one of the founders and is now one
of the directors. This bank seems to have
a special field of usefulness in Holyoke
and supplies a great need. In public
affairs Mr. Titus has taken an active part
since coming to Holyoke, and he is now
treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce
and of the Rotary Club, in which he is the
representative of the banking business.
He is also a member of the Canoe Club,
the Mount Tom Golf Club and other
organizations. He attends the Second
Congregational Church.
Mr. Titus married, October 3, 1908,
Elizabeth Klingenhagen, of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, a daughter of Caspar
Klingenhagen.
WYCKOFF, Joseph Lewis,
Manufacturer, Man of Affairs.
The ancestry of Joseph L. Wyckoff,
president of the White & WyckofT Manu-
facturing Company, of Holyoke, makers
of fine stationery, traces in paternal line
through ten American generations to
Oaes Cornelissen Wyckoff, born about
1595, who came from the Netherlands to
New Amsterdam in 1636. But the com-
ing of the Dutch ancestor is antedated
by Mr. Wyckoff's English ancestors, John
and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, of the
"Mayflower" by sixteen years, that his-
toric couple forming a part of the first
English settlement in New England in
1620.
The maternal line traces through nine
American generations, John and Priscilla
Alden being young when they landed,
their marriage being the first in the Ply-
mouth Colony, and their daughter Eliza-
beth the first white woman born in New
England. The line of descent is through
their fifth child, Ruth Alden, who married
John Bass ; their daughter, Sarah Bass,
married Ephraim Thayer ; their daughter,
Ruth Thayer, married John Capen ; their
daughter, Esther Capen, married Benja-
min Ludden ; their daughter, Milcah Lud-
den, married Daniel Gates ; their daugh-
ter, Esther Gates, married James Wyck-
ofi ; their son, James WyckofT, married
Caroline W. Tuttle ; their son, Joseph
Lewis Wyckoflf, of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts.
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Claes Cornelissen Wyckoff, the Dutch
ancestor, who came to New Amsterdam
in 1636, left a son, Peter Claessen
Wyckoff. who died in 1695, '^ prominent
man of his day living on Long Island. He
married Gretia Van Ness. Children :
Annatje, Mayken, Geerje, Claes or
Nicholas, Cornelius, Hendrick, Gerrit,
Martin, Peter, and John.
Claes (Nicholas) Wyckoff, son of Peter
Claessen Wyckoff, married and had chil-
dren: Peter, died 1757; Jacob, died 1720,
married, October 16, 1706, Willantje Jan-
son Van Vorhes ; Nicholas, baptized Feb-
ruary 16, 1679; Sarah, baptized February
27. 1681 ; Cornelius, baptized August 5,
1683, married. May 3, 1708, Adriana Luy-
ster.
Peter Wyckoff", eldest son of Claes
Wyckoff, married and had children :
Nicholas Petersen, John, Jacobus, Cor-
nelius, Maryin, Antje, Sarah, Jannetje.
Nicholas Petersen Wyckoff, eldest son
of Peter Wyckoff, born in 1700, married
and had children : Peter, Samuel, Nich-
olas, William, John and Nellie.
Peter (2) Wyckoff, eldest son of Nich-
olas Petersen Wyckoff, was born March
17 1724, and died June 7, 1807. He mar-
ried (first) Maria , born November
22, 1 719, and died Februar^^ 7, 1758. He
married (second) Jannett , who
died June 16, 1775. He married (third)
Rebecca Emaus, who died September 17,
1807. Children: Hannah, born March
2y, 1744; Nicholas, September 20, 1745;
John, July 19, 1747; Elizabeth, October
27, 1749; Peter, January 22, 1754; Mavia,
April 15, 1757; Joseph, January 5, 1760;
William, December 27, 1761 ; Cornelius,
October 11, 1763; Mary, October 4, 1765;
Jane, September 18, 1767; Margaret, No-
vember 14, 1769; Albert, March 14, 1772.
William Wyckoff, son of Peter (2)
Wyckoff and his second wife, was born
December 2/, 1761, and died April 2, 1847.
He married. January 17. 178^), Isabella
Crownover or Covenhoven, born Septem-
ber II, 1767, and died October 15, 1837.
Children: James, born October 19, 1788,
died June 20, 1840; Peter, October 28,
1790, died March 7, 1821 ; Thomas, Octo-
ber 27, 1792, died March. 1844; Sarah,
October 15, 1794, died January 15, 1838;
Samuel, January 13, 1798; Jannette, Octo-
ber 30, 1799, died December 28, 1876;
Lucetta, February 12, 1802, died October
17, 1838; Laura, February 19, 1804, fl>ed
January 4, 1878; Mary, January 2. 1807.
James Wyckoff, eldest son of William
Wyckoff, was born at Hopewell, New
York, October 19, 1788, and died there,
January 3, 1840. He married at Hope-
well, January 19, 1812, Esther Gates, born
at Hopewell, April 19, 1796, died at La-
Crosse, Wisconsin, July 14, 1871, she be-
ing a descendant of John and Priscilla
(Mullins) Alden, of the "Mayflower."
Children: Eliza, born July 25, 1813, died
January 21, 1890; Daniel G., May 5. 1815,
died December 28, 1890; a son, born and
died May 15, 1817; Esther, born Novem-
ber 7, 1818, died August 7, 1819; Emma,
November 7, 1818, died August 5, 1819;
James, December 12, 1820, died July 19,
1890; Joseph B., February 24, 1822; Eras-
tus, April I, 1825, died August 13, 1825;
Esther G.. December 27, 1826, died Janu-
ary 21, 1917; Emma Hitchcock, Novem-
ber 25. 1829, died November 29, 1894,
m^irried at Hopewell. New York. April
10, 1854, Richard T. Tuttle, born at
Seneca, New York, September 18. 1830.
died at Perry, April 2/, 1896 — child— Wil-
lis Hastings Tuttle, born at Perry. June
7. 1856, died November 29. 1916; Cyrus
G., July 2j, 1832. died August. 187 1 ; Wil-
liam M. B., August 2/, 1834: Mary I..
January 4, 1837. died April 20. 1837.
lames (2) Wyckoff. third son of James
(i) Wyckoff. was born at Hopewell. On-
tario county, New York. December 12,1820,
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and died at Perry, Wyoming county, Xew
York, July 19, 1890. For several years
he was a farmer in Canandaigua, Ontario
county, New York, then moved to Perry,
Wyoming county, where he engaged in
the hardware business and in the manu-
facture of harvesting machinery under the
firm name of Wyckoff & Tuttle. In a
history of the town of Perry published in
1915, this tribute is paid James Wyckoff:
"Probably the most enthusiastic agitator
in providing Perry with railroad connec-
tion with the outside world was James
Wyckoff who was among the first to
recognize the advantages that would
accrue in developing the town and stimu-
lating its growth. He was one of the
original and most active and determined
promoters of the enterprise ; was presi-
dent of the road for a number of years,
and a director from the beginning until
his death. After the sale of the road he
held for several years the ofifice of rail-
road commissioner of the town of Perry."
The fact was well recognized that to
Mr. Wyckoff more than to any other was
due this great public improvement, the
village of Perry connected with the out-
side world with gleaming rails over
which the products of both village and
town were carried to distant markets.
He was as confident during the most
gloomy period of the undertaking as when
the whistle of the first locomotive an-
nounced the fruition of his hopes. He
was an honored member of the Masonic
order, and a devoted Christian, serving
the Perry Presbyterian Church as deacon.
James Wyckoff married at Hopewell,
New York, October 3, 1843, Caroline
Wadsworth Tuttle, born at Seneca, New
York, August 26, 1824, died October 30,
1905, daughter of Joseph Tuttle, of Ben-
nington, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Wyckoff
were the parents of six sons and a daugh-
ter: I. Henry Pratt, born at Hopewell,
New York, December 10, 1845, ^^^^ ^^
Perry, New York, September 12, i860.
2. Ella Harwood, born at Hopewell, April
3. 1S48; married at Perry, April 4, 1872,
Francis H. Lloyd, of LaCrosse, Wiscon-
sin ; children, all born at LaCrosse :
Henry Wyckoff, April 4, 1873; Thomas
Harper, October 16, 1877; Caroline
Louise, March 7, 1885. 3. Frank Herbert,
born at Hopewell, July i, 1851, died at
Perry, December 21, 1900. 4. Edwin
Morton, born at Hopewell, April 12, 1856;
married, December 19, 1888, Frances S.
Downing, of Palmyra, New York. 5.
James Newton, born at Perry, November
I9> 1859; married there, May 8, 1889,
Mary E. Olin, of Perry ; children, both
born at Perry, Elizabeth Olin, March 8,
1890, deceased ; James September 9, 1894.
6 Joseph Lewis, of further mention. 7.
Richard Tuttle, born at Perry, October
16, 1866; married at Ithaca, New York,
May 13, 1891, Pauline M. Blakesley, of
Ithaca. Children, born at Holyoke, I\Ias-
sachusetts: Helen Louise, August i,
1892; Frank Tuttle, May 14, 1898.
Joseph Lewis Wyckoff, fifth son of
James (2) and Caroline Wadsworth
(Tuttle) Wyckoff, was born at Perry,
New York, December 10, 1864. He was
educated in Perry and Ithaca schools, and
began his business career in the harvest-
ing machinery plant of Wyckoff & Tuttle
at Perry. After three years' service with
that company he was elected secretary
of the Perry Salt Company, holding that
position two years. He then spent eigh-
teen months in New York City, locating
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1890, after
his New York experience. In Holyoke
he became identified with the Smith &
White Paper Company, later purchasing
Mr. Smith's interest, the firm reorganizing
as a corporation, the White & W^yckoff
Manufacturing Company, of which Mr.
Wyckoff is president, E. N. White, treas-
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urer. The company are manufacturers of
a high grade of stationery, and are among
the successful industrial corporations of
Holyoke. In addition to his executive
responsibilities, Mr. Wyckoff is vice-
president of the Cowan Truck Company
and director of the Hadley Falls Trust
Company. He is a progressive, energetic
man of affairs, highly regarded in the
business community in which he moves.
In 1908, Mr. Wyckoff took a leading
part in petitioning the Legislature to have
set ofif from the city of Northampton the
so-called Smiths Ferry District and annex
the same to the city of Holyoke. The
district was in reality and for all prac-
ticable purposes, except the legal bound-
ary, a part of the city of Holyoke, and
the residents of the district were unani-
mous in their desire to become a part of
Holyoke. The agitation which led up to
the actual annexation act lasted for three
years, and was an extremely strenuous
struggle between the city of Holyoke and
the citizens of the Smith Ferry District on
the one side and the city of Northampton
and Hampshire county on the other side.
Under the terms of the act, that portion
of Northampton south of the Mt. Tom
Station to the Holyoke line, a distance of
about two and three-quarter miles, was
annexed to Holyoke for a consideration
of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). The
southern part of this territory has already
developed into Plolyoke's most attractive
residential section, and the entire terri-
tory will, without doubt, in time become
one of the finest portions of the Connec-
ticut Valley. For the part which Mr.
Wyckoff took in this matter, he is entitled
to the lasting gratitude of the city of
Holyoke, and his efiforts will undoubtedly
in time be adequately appreciated. He
was one of the moving spirits in the
development of the Mount Tom Golf
Club, and for eleven years has been its
president. For two years he was presi-
dent of the Holyoke Club, president of
the Bay State Club three years, and in
all takes more than a mere member's
interest. He holds the thirty-second de-
gree in Massachusetts Consistory, is a
member of the Holland Society of New
York and also a member of the Alden
Kindred of America.
Mr. Wyckoff married at Port Jervis,
New York, June 13, 1893, Minnie A.
Branch, daughter of Thomas H. and Oliva
A (Roscoe) Branch, of Port Jervis, and
paternal granddaughter of Charles and
Eliza (Taynton) Branch, and maternal
granddaughter of Richard Millbank and
Margaret (Sleightholm) Roscoe, her
grandfather coming from Bristol, Eng-
land, to Port Jervis, New York, where he
died. His son, Thomas H. Branch, was
born in Bristol, but from youth resided
in Port Jervis.
WILSON, J. Edward,
Representative Citizen.
J. Edward Wilson, general manager and
acting treasurer of the Essex Pad and
Paper Company, of Holyoke. Massachu-
setts, who has for many years been one
of the prominent and respected citizens of
Holyoke, was born in that city, July 9,
1876, son of William Harri>on Wilson,
of whom further, and grandson of James
Wilson, who was a paper maker in Eng-
land before coming to this country,
though he was still a young man at the
time of his emigration. He settled in
Dalton, Massachusetts, and there spent
the greater part of his life.
William Harrison Wilson (father) was
a native of South Lee, Massachusetts,
born March 5, 1848. He was reared in
Dalton, Massachusetts, and received his
education in the schools of that town.
He learned the paper making trade in the
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Crane Mills of Dalton, and was advanced
from one position to another until he
attained that of foreman. He later went
to Lawrence, where he was further
advanced by an appointment as superin-
tendent of the mills of the Russell Paper
Company. In 1872 he removed to Hol-
yoke, having secured the position of
superintendent of the Riverside Mills,
which, following their purchase by the
American Writing Paper Company, be-
came known as Riverside No. 3, its pres-
ent name. He held this position until
1S80, when he formed a partnership with
F. D. Smith and began the manufacture
of writing pads, tablets, etc., in the Whit-
more Building. They continued business
under the name of the Smith & Wilson
Tablet Company until 1881, when Mr.
Wilson disposed of his interest to Mr.
Smith, and he then became associated
with the Union Paper Company, in which
his father was a stockholder, and in which
he served as foreman. Later he was con-
nected with the Hampden Glazed Paper
and Card Company, and subsequently
with the Essex Pad and Paper Company,
his interest in this continuing up to the
time of his death, which occurred January
I, 1917. He was one of the best known
and leading authorities on paper making
in this section of the State. He was a
member of Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and of the Holyoke
Canoe Club.
Mr. Wilson married Kate B. Smith,
born in Adams, Massachusetts, 1853,-
daughter of Lawrence D. and Susan (Lap-
ham) Smith, the former named also a
native of Adams, Massachusetts. Mr. and
Mrs. W^ilson were the parents of two
children : J. Edward, of whom further,
and Daisy Mabel, who became the wife
ot Edward Ashley, a salesman, connected
with the Japanese Tissue Mills. They
have one child, Sarah Stewart Ashley.
J. Edward Wilson obtained his educa-
tion in the public schools of his native
city, Holyoke, and his initiation in busi-
ness was with the Smith Tablet Com-
pany, and at the death of his uncle, F. D.
Smith, his aunt, Mrs. Smith, incorporated
the Smith Tablet Company, of which
corporation Mr. Wilson was appointed
treasurer, in which capacity he continued
to direct and control the affairs of the
company until 1907, in which year he
became acting treasurer, secretary and
general manager of the Essex Pad and
Paper Company, which offtces he is filling
at the present time (1917). Mr. W'ilson
has taken considerable interest in frater-
nal organizations. He was formerly a
member of Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and
Acepted Masons, and later, with others,
became one of the charter members and
founded the William W'hiting Lodge ;
he is also a member of Holyoke Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons ; Holyoke Council,
Royal and Select Masters ; Holyoke Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, and the An-
cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine. He is also a member of the Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
the Holyoke Canoe Club and the Mt.
Tom Golf Club.
Mr. Wilson married (first) April 5,
1899, Jennie Bottomley. Mrs. Wilson
died November 2, 1914. A daughter,
Elizabeth, survives. Mr. W^ilson married
(second) December 12, 1916, Mrs. Emily
(Robert) Cloutier, widow of Dr. Felix J.
Cloutier, a sketch of whom follows this
in the work.
(The Bradford Line).
Mrs. W^illiam Harrison W^ilson traces
her ancestry back to and beyond the time
of the coming to these shores of the good
ship, "Mayflower." The genealogy con-
nects with the distinguished Colonial
family of Bradford, as hereafter stated:
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Kate B. (Smith) Wilson was a daughter
of Susan (Lapham) Smith, born 1825,
and died 1901. Susan (Lapham) Smith
was a daughter of Maria (Brown) Lap-
ham, born 1802, and died 1890. Maria
(Brown) Lapham was a daughter of Sus-
anna (Bradford) Brown, born 1782, and
died 1876, daughter of Elisha Bradford,
born 1745, and died 1809. Elisha Brad-
ford was a son of Abner Bradford, born
1707, and died 1784, who in turn was a
son of Israel Bradford, born 1678, and
died 1760. Israel Bradford was a son of
Major William Bradford, born 1624, and
died 1704, who was a son of the first
American ancestor of the family. Gov-
ernor William Bradford, Colonial gov-
ernor, who was born in Austerfield, York-
shire, England, in March, 1588, son of
William Bradford, who died in 1591, and
grandfather of his namesake, who died
in 1595-
Governor Bradford inherited a yeo-
man's freehold, and, being religiously in-
clined from childhood, joined the Puritan
church, established in 1606 by William
Brewster, at Scrooby Manor, Notting-
hamshire, which act estranged him. from
his relatives. Threatened with persecu-
tion he. and his co-worshippers, decided
to emigrate to Holland. In 1607, Wil-
liam Bradford and other principal mem-
bers of the society made an agreement
with a Dutch captain, by which they were
to embark for Boston at Lincolnshire,
England, but they were betrayed by the
Dutch captain, and some were sent to
prison by the British authorities. Wil-
liam Bradford escaped in the spring of
1608 to Amsterdam, Holland, where he
apprenticed himself to a silk weaver, a
French Protestant. In 1609, he removed
to Leyden, Holland, and eagerly promoted
the scheme of forming an English colony
in the New World. Assisted by Sir Edwin
Sandys, who at that time was treasurer
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of the English colony of Virginia, he and
his company were granted a patent of a
tract of land in Virginia. On September
5, 1620, William Bradford embarked at
Southampton, England, in the "May-
flower" with the first hundred Pilgrims
that left for America. Stress of weather
forced them to seek shelter in Plymouth
Harbor. Before landing, the Pilgrims
signed a compact of government by which
Carver became first governor. His ad-
ministration, however, only continued a
few months, his death coming on April
21, 1621, and William Bradford was unan-
imously elected to succeed him. He was
elected governor year after year, with one
or two exceptions, up to the time of his
death in 1657. He was a cultured man,
of literary inclination, having some ac-
quaintance of Latin, Greek and Hebrew ;
was well read in history and philosophy,
and a considerable part of his leisure time
was spent in literary composition. Many
manuscript books in verse were left to
posterity by him ; his "Epitaphium
Meum" was issued in Morton's "New
England Memorial" (Cambridge, 1669).
Other productions of his brain and quill
are to be found recorded conspicuously
in the historical archives of the United
States.
CLOUTIER. Felix J..
Physician, Manufacturer.
In the death of Dr. Cloutier. who died
[anuary 19, 1914. the city of Holyoke lost
one of its most progressive and useful citi-
zens. Dr. Cloutier was thoroughly edu-
cated, and brought to the practice of his
profession the keenest interest in it, a re-
markable ability, and a kindliness of heart
which made him extremely popular among
his patients. He was ever ready to relieve
to the utmost of his power any form of
suffering without consideration as to pe-
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cuniary reward. He was not only the
good physician, but a man of keen busi-
ness ability, broad foresight and intense
industry. In the short span of his life he
accomplished much, and in his death a
most promising career was cut short.
Dr. Cloutier was born March 15, 1863,
in Napierville, Canada, one of a family of
twelve children, nine of whom are still
living. After attending the Grand Semi-
nary in Montreal, he entered Trinity Uni-
versity at Toronto, Ontario, from which
he was graduated in 1888. He then took
a post-graduate course at Queens Uni-
versity at Kingston, Ontario, and gradu-
ated the following year. He at once set-
tled in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he
began the practice of his profession, and
in a short time built up a successful prac-
tice. He was known as the leading
French physician of the city ; was exceed-
ingly popular among the French people,
and his practice extended to all national-
ities, by whom he was equally regarded.
Through his popularity as a physician,
and his industry and thrifty care of his
earnings he was enabled to embark in a
business which has proved of great bene-
fit to the manufacturing city of Holyoke.
In 1912, in association with Dr. G. C.
Robert, he formed the Willimansett Ice
Company, of which he was president. He
superintended the erection of the build-
ings of this plant, managed the business
in a very successful manner, and to-day
it stands as a monument to his industry
and business sagacity. Dr. Cloutier was
exceedingly kind and benevolent to the
needy of his city, ever ready to respond to
the call of suffering, and many have cause
to cherish his memory with great grati-
tude. His charities were many and wide-
spread, were administered without osten-
tation, and known in most cases only to
the beneficiary. He was a member of
Holyoke Medical Association, American
and French Medical societies, of numer-
ous fraternal orders, and of the Holyoke
Club and Holyoke Country Club. His
broad sympathies and benevolent im-
pulses were represented by various fra-
ternities in which he afifiliated, including
the Order of Heptasophs, Ancient Order
of United Workmen and the Foresters of
America.
Dr. Cloutier married. May 22, 1895,
Emily Robert, a sister of Dr. George Rob-
ert, of Holyoke. Like her talented hus-
band, she is a woman of good executive
and business perception, and is now act-
ing as president of the Willimansett Ice
Company of Holyoke. Under her admin-
istration the business proceeds without
interruption, and with the same success
with which it started out under her hus-
band's initiation. Dr. Cloutier was very
fend of travel, and in 1905, together with
his wife, visited the Paris exposition and
spent some four months in traveling
through continental Europe.
Mrs. F. J. Cloutier married (second)
December 12, 1916, J. Edward Wilson,
whose sketch precedes this.
SMITH, George Herbert,
Physician, Public Official.
In the death of Dr. George H. Smith,
the city of Holyoke lost not only its lead-
ing physician, but also one of its most
prominent men who had for more than a
quarter of a century taken an important
part in all its political, social, business
and professional afifairs, and who was
widely esteemed and highly respected by
all who knew him. It was not only in the
afifairs of the city in times of peace that
he took an active part, but when the war
cloud rolled menacingly across the hori-
zon, it found him not only ready but
anxious to be of any service possible to
defend the flag and to preserve intact the
Nation. In the following review no at-
tempt will be made to give in detail the
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service which he rendered, but simply to
call attention to some of the important
events in a life which covered a period of
nearly seventy years, and which from the
time when he attained his majority until
its close was every moment taken up in
an effort to be of especial benefit to the
citizens of his City, State and Nation.
(I) He was a descendant of one of the
oldest American families, and inherited
from worthy ancestors most estimable
qualities. The founder of this family in
America was Lieutenant Samuel Smith,
who was born in England about 1602, and
came to America with his wife Elizabeth
and several children. They sailed April
3. 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ips-
wich for Xew England. The parents
were then called thirty-two years of age.
They settled first in Salem. Massachu-
setts, where Lieutenant Smith was ad-
mitted a freeman, September 3, 1634, and
was one of the proprietors of the town in
1638. Later he removed to Wethersfield.
Connecticut, where he was a leading citi-
zen. Thence he removed to Hadley, Mas-
sachusetts, where he held important
offices in both church and State, and died
about 1680, aged seventy-eight.
(II) Phineas Smith, third son of Lieu-
tenant Samuel Smith, was born about
1635-36, in New England, and died ^larch
7, 1 73 1, aged ninety-five years. In 1673
he was admitted a freeman, and resided
in Hadley. He married, October 2, 1661,
PTannah Hitchcock, born 1644-45. died
August 31, 1733, daughter of Luke Hitch-
cock, of Wethersfield, Connecticut.
(III) Chileab Smith, eighth child of
Phineas Smith, was born February 18,
1685, died November 8, 1746. His father
was ensign and he was a lieutenant in the
colonial militia. He resided in Hadley.
He married, December 19, 1710, Mercy
Golding, who died in her sixty-ninth year.
(IV) Phineas (2) Smith, third son of
Chileab Smith, was born June 5, 1717, and
resided in Granby, where he was a man of
prominence. In 1774 he was a delegate
to the Provincial Congress and again in
1775. and deputy to the General Court in
^-117^ ^779 and 1781. Notwithstanding his
great age he entered the Revolutionary
army. He was a captain in Colonel Por-
ter's regiment which marched on the Lex-
ington Alarm, but was out only two days,
as they were not in time to reach the
scene of conflict. He was subsequently a
captain of the Eighth Company in Colo-
nel Samuel Howe's (Fourth Hampshire
County) Regiment, ordered commis-
sioned in Council, April i, 1776. He was
subsequently a captain in Colonel Rug-
gles Woodbridge's regim.ent, which served
four days, marching on the Bennington
Alarm, August 17, 1777. Because of his
age he resigned October 6. 1777. He mar-
ried (first) Mary, daughter of Benjamin
Church, of South Hadley; (second) in
175 1, Elizabeth Smith, born February 14,
1728, in Hadley, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Smith, granddaughter of John
and Mary (Root) Smith, great-grand-
daughter of John Smith, who was killed
by the Indians, May 30, 1676, in Tops-
field. John Smith's wife was Mary,
daughter of William Partridge. He was
a son of Samuel Smith, the ancestor above
mentioned. His wife survived him many
years, dying July 28, 1814. Captain
Phineas Smith died February 6. 1787.
Both he and his wife are buried in the
Granby Cemetery with the following
epitaph : "This stone stands but to tell
not what they were ; when Saints shall
rise, that day will show, the part they
acted here below."
(\') Phineas (3) Smith, eldest child of
Phineas (2) Smith, was born about 1752.
He was also a soldier of the Revolution.
He was a member of his father's com-
pany in Colonel Howe's (Fourth Hamp-
shire County) regiment, and was drawn
with others for the reinforcement of the
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Continental Army, list dated May 28,
1777. He was a sergeant in his father's
company of Colonel Ruggles Wood-
bridge's regiment, and served four days
on the Bennington alarm.
(VI) Medad Smith, son of Phineas (3)
Smith, was born about 1780, in Granby,
where he followed agricultural pursuits,
and toward the close of the War of 181 2
was one of a company which reported for
military duty. On account of the cessa-
tion of hostilities their services were not
required. He married Pamela Dickinson,
and they were the parents of Edmund H.,
of whom further.
(VII) Edmund H. Smith, son of Me-
dad Smith, was born February 2, 181 3, in
Granby, and removed in boyhood with his
parents to Chicopee, Massachusetts. He
was employed in the cotton mills as over-
seer until 1845, when he returned to Gran-
by. He remained there but one year, how-
ever, and in 1846 settled at Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts. Two years later he removed
to Windsor Locks, Connecticut, where
he continued five years, and was subse-
quently engaged in farming in Franklin
county. New York, until 1858, when he
returned to Windsor Locks as overseer
in a thread mill, where he remained until
1865. In that year he removed to Hol-
yoke, and was overseer there in the Ly-
man Mills, later in the Beebe & Webber
Woolen Mill, from which position he re-
tired to a small farm. He died Septem-
ber 8, 1891. in Willimansett, opposite
Holyoke. He married Lucy Blanchard,
daughter of Josiah Blanchard, and a
granddaughter of Moses Clement, of
Revolutionary fame. Their children were:
George Herbert, of whom further ; An-
nette L., who married James L. Hodge, of
Holyoke, and is now deceased ; Adella A.,
widow of Dr. E. A. Stebbins, a dentist,
of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, who
died in 1896.
(VIII) Dr. George Herbert Smith, eld-
est child of Edmund H. and Lucy
(Blanchard) Smith, was born July 4,
1840. in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts,
and was educated in the schools of that
town and South Hadley Falls, Massachu-
setts. For some time he was a student
at the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham,
Massachusetts, from which he was gradu-
ated in 1861. Having determined to adopt
the profession of medicine, he began its
study with Dr. R. T. Chafifee, of Windsor,
Connecticut, where he remained one year
at the beginning of hostilities between the
North and South in the Civil War, he de-
cided to go to the defense of his country,
and enlisted September i, 1862, becoming
a member of Company C, Twenty-fifth
Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. The
regiment was immediately ordered to the
department of the gulf under General Na-
thaniel P. Banks, and participated in the
expedition which resulted in the capture
of Port Hudson. Mr. Smith entered the
army as a private, and in ^^larch 1863, he
was appointed to the surgical staff of his
regiment, filling that position until he was
mustered out of service. After the close
of hostilities he resumed his medical stud-
ies with his former preceptor, and later
attended Bellevue Hospital Medical Col-
lege of New York City, from which he
was graduated in March, 1865. He located
in the village of TarifTville, in the town
of Simsbury, Connecticut, where he re-
mained in practice one year, when failing
health compelled him to seek a change of
climate, and he went to Sycamore, Illi-
nois. There he continued two years, and
in 1868 located at Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, where he continued in practice with
much success until his death, which oc-
curred August 16, 1907. He specialized
in the diseases of women and children, in
which he was eminently successful, being
celebrated throughout this section as one
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of the first and foremost physicians in
this specialty. He was on the staff of the
Holyoke City Hospital for many years,
also a member, and one of the examiners,
of the pension board. He was a man of
high literary sense, a lover of the best
books, and an admirer of Dickens, whose
works he had repeatedly read. In religion
he was an Episcopalian, and took a great
interest in this church. A man of much
energy, and of broad and sympathetic
character. Dr. Smith was eagerly sought
as a participant in the regulation of pub-
lic affairs. He was an earnest supporter
of Republican principles, and early took
an active part in the councils of his party.
In 1875 he was elected a member of the
Common Council of Holyoke, was re-
elected in 1876, and afterwards became
president of the Council. In 1877-78 he
was a member of the Board of Aldermen.
In 1881 he became a member of the
School Committee, and with the excep-
tion of two years was continuously a
member for a quarter of a century. He
was a member of the Board of Park Com-
missioners and Board of Health, and was
chairman of the Board of Commissioners
of the sinking fund. In 1897 he was
elected mayor of Holyoke, under the first
city charter. Dr. Smith was interested in
several business enterprises of Holyoke.
For a time he officiated as a director of
the Holyoke & Westfield railroad. He
owned a one-third interest in the Excel-
sior Paper Company, was one of the or-
ganizers of the Ford Bit Company, and
a director; director of the Keating Wheel
Company ; trustee of the Mechanics' Sav-
ings Bank, and at one time its auditor,
and in addition to these was at one time
a partner of Smith, White & Sears Com-
pany, merchants. He was a member of
the Connecticut Valley Medical Associa-
tion, of which he served as vice-president.
He was appointed by President Harrison
and served for some years as a member of
the Xational Pension Board. He was also
affiliated with various philanthropic and
benevolent organizations. He attained an
eminent position in the great Masonic fra-
ternity, being a member of all the bodies
in both the York and Scottish Rites. Origi-
nally a member of St. Mark's Lodge, in
Tarift"ville, Connecticut, where he joined
in 1865, he took a demit to Mt. Tom Lodge
of Holyoke. He was a member of Mt.
Holyoke Chapter, Royal .\rch Masons;
Holyoke Council. Royal and Select Mas-
ters ; S])ringfield Commandery, Knights
Templar, and Evening Star Lodge of Per-
fection; Massasoit Council, Princes of
Jerusalem ; Mt. Olivet Rose Croix Chap-
ter of Boston ; and the Massachusetts
Consistory, attaining the thirty-second
degree in the Scottish Rite. He was a
member of Holyoke Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows ; Tuscarora En-
campment of the same order, being a past
grand of the lodge and district deputy
grand master of the district ; a memljer
of Connecticut Valley Lodge. Knights of
Pythias, in which he held the office of
chancellor, and was also a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution. He
was a member of Kilpatrick Post. Grand
Army of the Republic, in which he had
taken an active part, serving as com-
mander, and was favorably known in this
connection, having made many addresses
for this body.
He married. June 8. 1869. at Sycamore.
Illinois. Ada M. Babcock. daughter of Dr.
C. W. Babcock. formerly of Medina. Ohio.
She died January 15. 191 1. They were
the parents of three children : Edmund
Herbert, died in infancy : .Vbbie May ;
Lucv C. widow of Edwin Burgin. The
home life of Mr. Smith was an ideal one.
and his memory is cherished by not only
his family, by whom he was so greatly
beloved, but by a vast circle of friends,
not only in Holyoke. but throughout all
the surrounding county.
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TILLEY, Trenor Preston,
Merchant.
The surname Tilley is found in Eng-
land as early as the Norman Conquest
and appears in the Domesday Book. The
name was common also in France and
Holland at an early date, and is doubt-
less of Norman-French origin. The name
is spelled in the ancient records Tillie,
Tilly, Teley. Tiley, Tilee and Tely. We
have at the present time the surname
Tylee, probably of the same English
stock.
Edward and John Tilley were among
the passengers of the "Mayflower." Ed-
ward Tilley and his wife Ann both died
in the spring of 1620-21. John Tilley
brought his wife and daughter Elizabeth,
and he and his wife also died early in
1621. The only descendants of these Pil-
grim Tillcys are through John's daugh-
ter who married John Howland. John
Tilley lived at or near Exeter, England.
His son, William Tilley, also lived at Exe-
ter. John (2) Tilley, son of William Til-
ley, was born at Edford, England, about
1687-90, and came to Boston with his
brothers, William and James, to work in
the rope-walk of their cousin, William
Tilley. He was in Boston about 1720, re-
moved to New York State, where he mar-
ried and had two sons. Leonard Tilley,
son of John (2) Tilley, was born in Brook-
lyn, New York, where he lived until his
marriage, after which he resided at Gran-
by, Massachusetts, and was the progeni-
tor of all of the name, it is thought, in
Western Massachusetts. His wife was of
Dutch ancestry. Children : Alexander,
Ludwig, John, Ruth, Bridget. Ludwig
Tilley, son of Leonard Tilley, was born
about 1770-75, in Granby, made his home
in the latter town, and was a farmer and
substantial citizen. He married in Gran-
by. Children: George, Orrin, Porter,
Ruth, Jcrusha, Cynthia, Sally, Leonard.
George Tilley, son of Ludwig Tilley, was
born about 1800, on the old homestead at
Granby, received a common school edu-
cation and followed farming for his voca-
tion. He was a Whig, but look no active
part in politics. In religion he was an
orthodox Congregationalist. He married,
about 1828, Hannah Sheldon. Children :
James, Norris, John, Marie, Benjamin,
Eugene, Hiram, Clarence.
John (3) Tilley, son of George and
Hannah (Sheldon) Tilley, was born Feb-
ruary 13, 1834, on the old homestead,
where his childhood was spent. He at-
tended the public schools of his native
town and left home at the age of seven-
teen to work for a neighboring farmer, re-
ceiving one hundred dollars for a years'
v/ork. When he was twenty he removed
to Medway, Massachusetts, to work in a
straw shop or "bonnet-factory." Six
months later he went to Hartford, Con-
necticut, and established himself in busi-
ness, cleaning and remodeling hats and
bonnets. He was successful in this ven-
ture. A few years later he returned to
Granby, and in partnership with his
brother bought and carried on a farm
until the Civil War. He entered the
Union army, September i, 1862, in Com^
pany H, Second Regiment, Massachu-
setts Volunteers, with the rank of cor-
poral, and was discharged August 14,
1863. After this he located at South Had-
ley Falls, where he resided until 1870,
wdien he again returned to Granby, and
lived there until 1894. While residing in
Granby, he was engaged in buying and
selling timber land and in the general
lumber business, a line in which he was
well known. In 1882 he was a representa-
tive in the Massachusetts Legislature.
Mr. Tilley's final move was to Holyoke,
where he made his permanent home from
that time until his death, which occurred
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February 14, 1912. For some time previ-
ous to his removal to Holyoke, Mr. Tilley
had been engaged in building a beautiful
residence for himself on Northampton
street, which was completed in 1893. He
began in the furniture business while re-
siding in South Hadley Falls, in 1870, his
first store being on Alain street, Holyoke,
later on High street, and in this business
he was very successful, and from time to
time was obliged to enlarge his store. In
April. 1907, he began the erection of a
new block, which was completed and
ready for business November i of the
same year. This is one of the finest of
its kind in New England ; it is six stories
high and filled with furniture of every
description, each floor being devoted to a
separate line, it being the largest exclu-
sive furniture store in Western Massa-
chusetts. Mr. Tilley was counted among
the most substantial and successful mer-
chants of the Connecticut Valley ; was
president of the People's Savings Bank,
and a member of the finance committee ;
director of the Home Savings Bank, and
a member of its finance committee. He
was a member of the Congregational
church. In politics he was a Republican,
and when a resident of Granby was elect-
ed from a Democratic district as a Repub-
lican candidate to the General Court. He
married, November 27, i860, in Granby,
Mary A. Preston, born February 25. 1838,
daughter of Joel L. and Esther (Rust)
Preston. Children: i. Clifton Fowler,
born October 2, 1861, educated at South
Hadley Falls schools, is associated with
his brother in the furniture business
founded by their father. 2. Trenor Pres-
ton, of whom further.
Trenor Preston Tilley, son of John (3)
and Mary A. (Preston) Tilley, was born
Decem.ber 8, 1875. i" South Hadley Falls,
and was in his fifth year when the family
moved to Granbv. There he was edu-
cated, graduating from the high school in
1893. In the following year he entered
his father's store in Holyoke and has been
connected with the business to the pres-
ent time. He is an energetic and sound
business man, and has contributed to the
continued success of the business in many
ways. On the death of his father early in
1912, he succeeded to the ownership of
the store, in association witli his brother,
Clifton Fowler Tilley, and they transact
a steadily increasing business. Mr. Tilley
is regarded by his contemporaries as a
business man of highest integrity and
substantial character. He is a member
of the First Congregational Church of
Holyoke, of the local lodge. Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and the Holyoke
Canoe Club. He married, September 4,
looi, Harriet L. Snow, born in Holyoke,
May 5, 1879, daughter of Melvin and
Hannah (Henry) Snow. Children : John
Melvin, born October 27. 1905: Ruth
Mary, October 30, 1910; Nathan Snow,
June 24, 1916.
ALLEN, Carl Addison, M. D..
Phyiician. Tuberculosis Expert.
As a good physician and benefactor, Dr.
Allen takes high rank not only in his
home city of Holyoke, but throughout the
section of the country in which he lives.
He has been a student all his life, and has
achieved large results by his industry and
determination. His ancestors were peo-
ple of character and worth, and partici-
pated in the development of this country
along the highest lines of social, political
and moral endeavor. The name of Allen
comes from the baptismal name Allen,
which was used from ancient times in
various forms in several countries. In
one version of the roll of Rattle Abbey
the name Fitz-Aleyne (son of Allen) oc-
curs. One of the first in England record-
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ed as using Allen as a surname was
Thomas Allen, sheriff of London in 1414.
There are no less than twenty-five fam-
ilies of the name in Great Britain and Ire-
land possessing coats-of-arms, whilst
there are about twenty other families
with the same name spelled in as many
different forms. The name moreover is
one of those most frequently met with in
the United States, and is represented by
many distinct families. Several immi-
grants brought it to these shores among
the earliest in New England. The family
traced below has numerous representa-
tives throughout the United States and
they are usually found among the lead-
ing citizens.
(I) James Allen came to Dedham with
his uncle, Rev. John Allen, about 1637.
He was a grandson of Reginald Allen, of
Colby, Norfolk, England. The first men-
tion of him in the records is dated April
6, 1638, when "Jeames Allin accepted to
haue sixe acres layd out for him in yt
corner of Jeffrey Myngey yf ther it may
be found fitt." He received other grants
at various times and was admitted to the
church, October 2, 1646, and made a free-
man. May 26, 1647. Iri 1649 ^ number
of the inhabitants of Dedham made up a
company in order to form a settlement at
Boggestown, upon the Charles river, now
known as Medfield, and he was one of the
first of the thirteen proprietors and the
fifth to be granted land in the new town.
The committee w^hich carried on the
affairs of the town at first granted him
land, June 19, 1650, when it laid out the
thirteen house lots. His lot was on South
street near the present residence of Mr.
Rhodes. In 1650 his estate was valued
at one hundred and thirty-nine pounds.
He was again granted land in 1653, near
that of his son Joseph. He received other
grants and owned tracts on both sides of
the river. His will was dated September
2^, 1676; he left his barn, houses, etc., to
his son-in-law. Joseph Clark, and as he
had given his house on South street to
his son Nathaniel, he must have owned
two places. He married, in Dedham,
March 16, 1638, Ann Guild, who died in
Medfield, March 29, 1673, and he died
there, September 27, 1676.
(II) Joseph Allen, fourth son of James
and Ann (Guild) Allen, was born June 24,
1652, at Medfield, and died in that town,
January 14, 1703. He settled in the north-
ern part of the town on Castle Hill,
known as the Allen place afterward. He
was granted two lots of land in 1673, ^"^^
between the road leading to the "Goos-
man Morse's" and land owned by his
father, below Samuel Wight's land. The
other lot was between his father's land
and that owned by Samuel Wight, bound-
ed on the east by the highway leading to
Natick. He \vas a cooper by trade and
his house and shop were built before
King Philip's war. In 1676 the Indians
determined to burn the town, and his
property was among the first to receive
their attention. They took shavings from
the shop, piled them on the kitchen floor,
and set them on fire ; but the shavings
had been piled on a trap door, which fell
into the cellar w^hen burned, and extin-
guished the flames. No other damage
was done, although all the other houses
in that part of the town were burned. He
received, September 21, 1676, from his
father, six acres of upland and one acre
of meadowland, and this was probably
his share in his father's will, as his name
was not in the will which was dated two
days later. In 1675 his name was on the
list of proprietors and he was made a
freeman, October 11, 1682. In 1688 he
was a sealer of weights and measures, and
he and his wife were admitted to the first
parish in 1697. He married in Seakonk
(Rehoboth), November 10, 1673, Hannah.
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born there October 22, 1654, died in Med-
field, 1730, daughter of William Sabin.
(III) Nehemiah Allen, eighth son of
Joseph and Hannah ^Sabin) Allen, was
born April 22, 1699, in Medfield, and lived
in Sherborn, Massachusetts, from 1723 to
1741, soon after removing to Sturbridge,
same State. He married Alary Parker.
(IV) Abner Allen, son of Nehemiah
and Mary (Parker) Allen, was born Au-
gust 22, 1746, in Sturbridge, Massachu-
setts, where he died Alarch 6, 1830. He
married Mary or Marcy Marsh, who died
July 8, 1802, in Sturbridge.
(V) Penuel Allen, eldest child of Ab-
ner and Mary (Marsh) Allen, was born
October 17, 1772, in Sturbridge, and set-
tled in Sutton, New Hampshire.
(VI) Stephen Allen, son of Penuel
Allen, was born in 1810, in Sutton, and
settled in Lempster, New Hampshire,
when a young man. He married, in 1834,
Phebe, daughter of Leland Lewis, a highly
respected citizen of Lempster, prominent
in educational work. She was born in
Novenxber, 1814, and lived to celebrate
with her husband the sixtieth anniversary
of their marriage.
(VII) Dr. Carl Addison Allen, son of
Stephen and Phebe (Lewis) Allen, was
born October 27, 1847, in Lempster, and
began his education in the public schools
of the town. He was subsequently a stu-
dent at Kimball Union Academy, in Meri-
den. New Hampshire, from which he
graduated in 1871. Subsequently he be-
came principal of the academy at Marlow,
New Hampshire, and while in discharge
of the duties of that position began the
study of medicine with Dr. Marshall Per-
kins, of that town. After taking a course
of lectures at Bowdoin College, Bruns-
wick. Maine, he entered Long Island Col-
lege, and was graduated with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine in 1874. For fif-
teen years Dr. Allen was engaged very
successfully in the practice of medicine at
Acworth, New Hampshire, and was the
good physician to people in a wide range
of territory, the nearest physician being
six miles away. Under the strain of the
demands thus made upon his strength
ard time, Dr. Allen broke down tempo-
rarily, and was obliged to abandon his
practice. In 1890 he settled in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, and since that time has
been very energetic and successful in the
practice of his profession. In 1890 he
made an extended trip through the west-
ern portions of the United States, visiting
Yellowstone Park, Yosemite \'alley. and
other interesting points, and on his re-
turn to Holyoke was enabled to take up
his humanitarian work with great vigor.
While residing in Acworth he was super-
intendent of schools for a period of twelve
years, and was also active in promoting
various business concerns of the town,
being a silent partner in a general mer-
cantile business and interested in a local
newspaper, of which he was for some
time editor. He is a member of the New
Hampshire State Medical Society and of
the Connecticut River Medical Society,
of which he has been president. He is
also a member of the Hampden District
and the Massachusetts State Medical soci-
eties, and the American Medical Associa-
tion. While occupying a prominent posi-
tion in the medical world. Dr. Allen is
probably best known for his connection
with and activity in the promotion of ad-
vancement in the treatment of tubercu-
losis. He has devoted a great amount of
study and conducted many successful ex-
periments in the treatment of this disease,
and was instrumental in organizing the
Holvoke Society for the Prevention and
Relief of Tuberculosis. This was organ-
ized at the beginning of 1906. and on Feb-
ruary 22, of that year. Dr. Allen was
elected president, and held the office by
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ENXYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
successive reelections up to January,
1917, a period of over ten years. He is a
member of the State Tuberculosis Asso-
ciation and the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis. The local society has performed a
vast amount of work along this line. It
began at first with a day camp, but when
the law was passed compelling the city
to erect a hospital for the treatment of
tuberculosis, Dr. Allen was selected as
one of those to designate the site, and as
a result the present Hillside Hospital was
erected. Probably no other man in the
State of Massachusetts has taken so active
a part along this line, and he may justly
be gratified at the result attained. Dr.
Allen and his family are associated with
the Congregational church. He has long
been an active member of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, and has passed
all the chairs in the subordinate lodge of
that fraternity.
Dr. Allen married (first) May 19, 1875,
Sophie E. Stearns, of Lebanon, New
Hampshire, and they were the parents of
four children: i. Walter S., graduated
from the high school and from Amherst
College, class of 1900, and is now super-
intendent of their main laboratory, at
Lowell Hill, of the General Chemical Com-
pany in New York, one of the largest es-
tablishments of its kind in the world ; he
married (first) Lucia Turner, of New
Hampshire, and they had two daughters,
Olive E. and Marian S. ; the mother died
and he married (second) Nina McDou-
gall ; they have one daughter, Ruth. 2.
Dr. Fred H. Allen, graduated from the
high school and from Amherst College,
after which he entered Harvard Medical
School, where he graduated in 1902, and
spent one year in special study in Ger-
many ; he married Harriett Ives, and they
have two children. Harold and Stephen ;
Dr. Allen is a member of the Holyoke
Medical Society, of which he is president,
and of the Massachusetts State Medical
Society. 3. Raymond P., attended the
common and high schools of Holyoke,
and is now paymaster of the Farr Alpaca
Company; he married Ina Squier, and
they have two adopted children, Eliza-
beth and Philip. 4. Sophie E., attended
the schools of Holyoke, and graduated
from Mt. Holyoke College in 1909; she
taught two years in the high school, and
is now secretary to the dean of the post-
graduate department of Columbia Col-
lege in New York City. Dr. Allen mar-
ried (second) March 25, 1891, Hattie M.
Murdough, of Acworth, New Hampshire,
daughter of Freeman Murdough, an old
resident of that place. From, this mar-
riage resulted the birth of two children:
Carl M., who graduated from the Hol-
yoke High School, and the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, and is now con-
nected with the General Chemical Com-
pany of New York, and Leland C, who
is a student of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College, class of 1918, now in the
United States service.
HEYWOOD, Francis Daniel,
Manufacturer.
The surname Heywood is distinct from
Haywood, Hayward and Howard, al-
though the spelling of each in every pos-
sible way makes it dif^cult not to confuse
the families, especially where Heywards,
Howards and Heywoods were living in
the same town. The derivation of the name
Heywood is given in a pedigree prepared
by Peter John Heywood, of Whitehaven,
England, in 1781, and published in "Hunt-
er's Life and Times of Oliver Heywood,"
who was a non-conformist clergyman of
note in the days of Charles I. The pedi-
gree runs back to the year 1164, a period
when surnames were beginning to come
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into use in the mother country. The earli-
est authentic document containing- the
name of Heywood, or its prototype, is a
title deed still preserved for a tract of
land in Lancashire, from one Adame de
Burgo or de Bury, who held the Knight's
fee to a large section of territory in the
vicinity to Peter de Ey-wood, that is "of
wooded island." The latter was the re-
puted founder of the Heywood family in
England, from, which the American fam-
ily is descended. This estate remained in
the possession of the descendants of Peter
Heywood more than five hundred years,
or until 1717, when Robert Heywood sold
it to John Starkey of Rochdale, whose
grandson, James Starkey, dying intestate,
allowed the place to pass into the hands
of the Crown. It is now an attractive
public park, having been donated for that
purpose by Queen Victoria. The English
line from this Peter Heywood is traced in
an unbroken line to the emigrant in Amer-
ica. James and John Heywood, both
about twenty-two years old, brothers,
came together in the ship, "Planter," in
1636. They were both certified from Step-
ney Parish, London. James Heywood
settled in Charlestown, and later went to
Woburn, where he died November 20,
1642.
(I) John Heywood, born in London,
1620, died January 11, 1707. He settled
in Concord, Massachusetts, and was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1670. He married
(first) August 17, 1656, Rebecca Atkin-
son, daughter of Thomas Atkinson.
She died 1665. He married (second)
August 5, 1665, Sarah Simonds. He
married (third) Priscilla , who sur-
vived him. Children of first wife : Re-
becca, born September 9, 1657. died
young; Rebecca, May 13, 1660; John,
mentioned below; Persis, April 11, 1664;
Benomi, July 31, 1665.
(H) Deacon John (2) Heywood, eldest
son of John (i) Heywood, was born in
Concord, Massachusetts, April 5, 1662,
and died there January 2, 1718. He was
constable of Concord in 167C, and in his
later years kept an ordinary or inn. He
married Sarah . Children : Sarah,
died in infancy; Thomas, born July 13,
1686 ; Samuel, mentioned below ; Edmund,
born July 31, 1689; Josiah, Xoveml)er 15,
1691, married Lydia ; Daniel, April
15, 1694, removed to Worcester, married
Hannah Ward; Eleazer, August 3, 1696;
Nathan, September 24, 1698; Sarah, Jan-
uary 18, 1700-01; John, March 14, 1703,
settled in Lunenburg; Mary. March 23,
1704; Phineas, July 18, 1707, settled in
Shrewsbury, married Elizabeth Moore,
died March 6, 1770; Benjamin, October
25, 1709.
(HI) Deacon Samuel Heywood. son of
Deacon John (2) Heywood. was born Oc-
tober II, 1687, and died October 28, 1750.
He resided in Concord, where he was a
prominent citizen, serving as deacon of
the church, town clerk, and in other town
offtces. He married, January 19, 1709-10,
Elizabeth Hubbard (ceremony by Rev.
Joseph Estabrook) and she died Decem-
ber 25, 1757, aged sixty-six years, six
months. Children, born at Concord:
Samuel, October 18, 1710. died January
12. 1712-13; Amos, February 18. 1711-12,
died young; Elizabeth, June 3, 1714 ; Sam-
uel, March 4, 1715-16; Jonathan, Deccm/-
ber 3. 1717; Amos, mentioned below;
Jonas, August 21, 1721 ; Charles. Decem-
ber 24. 1723 ; Rebecca, December 23. 1725 ;
Aaron, November 11, 1728; John. June 22,
1729; Sarah. June 19. 1731 : >Liry. .\pril
8. 1733-
(IV) Captain Amos Heywood. son of
Deacon Samuel Heywood. was born at
Concord, Massachusetts. October 3. 1719,
died February 7, 1792, at Holden. Massa-
chusetts. He and his brother Samuel
were among the early settlers of Holden
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in Worcester county. He was received
into the Holden church in 1742. He was
ensign in the militia company in 1763 and
captain in 1771. He was selectman in
1762, 1763 and 1780. He was active in
both town and church during his long
life. He married, August 30, 1743, at
Concord, Mary Buttrick, of Concord, of
the same family as Major Buttrick, who
commanded the Americans at the Con-
cord fight. She died January 21, 1793,
aged seventy-three years. Children :
Daniel, born July 2, 1744, died in infancy;
Silas, mentioned below; Amos, born
March 17, 1748; Mary, April 9, 1750;
Lucy, February 28, 1751, died young;
Daniel, February 24, 1752; Eunice, Janu-
ary I, 1756, married, August 19, 1779,
Abiel Buttrick; Lucy, October 31, 1757,
married, March 7. 1782, Lemuel Hey-
wood ; Elizabeth, October 30, 1759, mar-
ried, January 28, 1781, John Forbes ; Levi,
November 21, 1761 ; Alpheus (twin), May
21, 1764, married, October 14, 1794, Patty
Davis; twin of Alpheus, May 21, 1764.
(V) Silas Heywood, son of Captain
Amos Heywood, was born in Holden,
Massachusetts, February 20, 1745-46, died
at Royalston, Massachusetts, November
21, 1825. He settled in Royalston when
a young man ; was a farmer. He was a
soldier in the Revolution, a private
in Captain Jonathan Houghton's com-
pany, detailed from Colonel Nathan
Sparhawk's regiment (the Seventh) and
General Warner's brigade to reinforce the
guards at the Rutland barracks under
Colonel Jacob Gerrish and to escort
troops of the Saratoga convention to En-
field, Connecticut. (Massachusetts Revo-
lutionary Rolls, volume vii, page 640).
He married, November 11, 1779, Hannah
Goddard, of Shrewsbury, who died at
Royalston, January 18, 1821, in her sev-
enty-first year. Children, born at Royals-
ton: Hannah, January 6, 1781, died May
16, 1795; Betsey, April 4, 1782, died May
23. 1795: Silas, mentioned below; Grace,
February 7, 1785; Lucy, July 10, 1787;
Benjamin, July 12, 1789, died April 19,
1795; Sarah, July 23, 1792, died May 22,
1795 ; Benjamin, November 19, 1795, mar-
ried, September 17, 1819, Sally Cutler.
(VI) Silas (2) Heywood, son of Silas
(i) Heywood, was born in Royalston,
^Massachusetts, October 21, 1783, died
May 2, 1819, at Royalston. He married,
June 25, 1812, Hannah Heywood, of Win-
chendon, who was born September 24,
1785, at Winchendon, died February 21,
1829, at Royalston. Children, born at
Royalston: Silas Nelson, May 7, 1813,
died September i, 1815; Daniel, men-
tioned below ; Silas N., December 9, 1816,
died 1904, at Springfield, married Mary E.
Reed, child, Sarah E. ; Hannah Grace,
September 13, 1818, married William O.
Brown.
(VII) Daniel Heywood, son of Silas
(2) Heywood, was born in Royalston,
Massachusetts, April 4, 1815, died No-
vember 29, 1884, at Holyoke, Massachu-
setts. He was a merchant, conducting
stores at different times in Athol and
Holyoke. He married Levina Partridge,
born November 30, 1819, at Dedham, died
January 10, 1899, at Holyoke. Children :
I H. Emogene, born August 16, 1846,
married Herbert Lyman, of Westfield,
June 3, 1873, died 1916, at Westfield; two
children, William F., Mary E., both born
in Westfield. 2. Francis Daniel, men-
tioned below. 3. William H., born Feb-
ruary 7, 1850, died 191 1 ; married (first)
Clementina Hazen ; children : Ralph,
born June 29, 1877, died July, 1895, and
Alice, born March, 1882, married Alfred
H. Morton, Jr., in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts. William H. married (second)
Margaret Newell, of St. Johnsbury, Ver-
mont, where she now resides. 4. George,
born 1856, died 1857.
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liNCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
(VIII) Francis Daniel Heywood, son
of Daniel and Levina (Partridge) Hey-
wood, was born in Springfield, Massachu-
setts, September 28, 1848, died there Jan-
uary 28, 1916. In 1856 his parents moved
to Holyoke, and there he attended school
until fourteen years of age. He then en-
tered the employ of the Connecticut River
Railroad, beginning in the offices of the
freight department at Springfield. He
displayed unusual aptitude, and was ad-
vanced through successive promotions
until he became general passenger and
ticket agent, a position he held until his
resignation in 1881. He then entered the
Whitmore Manufacturing Company of
Holyoke, manufacturers of surface coated
paper, and was the honored treasurer of
that company until 1916, when he retired
from business. From boyhood until 191 5,
Mr. Heywood made his home in Holyoke,
then moved to Springfield. During the
thirty-five years he was connected with
the management of the finances of the
Whitmore Manufacturing Company, he
saw the company grow from a small be-
ginning until it was operating one of the
largest plants of its kind in the State, its
product going to all parts of the world.
In that growth and prosperity his was an
important part, reflecting credit upon his
ability as a financier. During his long
residence in Holyoke he was closely iden-
tified with civic affairs, was a trustee of
the City Hospital, director of the Boys'
Club, was active in the affairs of the Sec-
ond Congregational Church, and for a
time chairman of the parish committee of
the Church Society. He was a Repub-
lican in politics, and, although he never
entered actively into political life, his
name was frequently mentioned for re-
sponsible city government offices.
He married Isabel Cady, of Stafford
Springs, Connecticut, daughter of Mrs.
Garner Cady. They are the parents of
three children: i. Frank Herbert, born
in 1876, died in 1887. 2. Clara Emily,
born August 3, 1878; married, in 1903,
Charles E. Scott, and since 1906 engaged
in missionary work in China, where all
their children except the eldest were born ;
children : Elizabeth Alden, Helen Pren-
tice, Beatrice Eleanor, Francis Heywood,
and Kenneth Monroe. 3. Francis Cady,
of further mention.
HEYWOOD, Francis Cady.
Mannfactnrer.
Francis Cady Heywood, of the ninth
American generation, youngest son of
Francis Daniel and Isabel (Cady) Hey-
wood, was born in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, August II, 1888. He prepared for
college at Holyoke High School, then en-
tered Cornell University, whence he was
graduated with the degree of Mechanical
Engineer, class of 1911. After gradua-
tion he formed an association with the
Whitmore Manufacturing Company of
Holyoke, and rose through successive pro-
motions to the superintendency of the
plant. Upon the retirement of his hon-
ored father in 1916, Francis C. Heywood
was elected to succeed him as treasurer
of the company, that office now having
been held by father and son since the or-
ganization of the company in 1881. Mr.
Heywood is a member and corporal of
Company D, Second Regiment, Massa-
chusetts National Guard, and in response
to the President's call in June. 1916, went
to the Mexican border with his regiment
and was stationed with his company at
Columbus. New Mexico, the scene of one
of the border raids. He is a member of
William Whiting Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons; Holyoke Lodge. Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks; Hol-
yoke Canoe Club; Holyoke Yacht Club;
the Sans Souci Club : the Second Congre-
gational Church and is a teacher in the
Sunday school.
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BIGELOW, James Bernard, M. D.,
PhyalciaiL, Health Officer.
Bigelow is a name frequently found in
Massachusetts records ; many descend-
ants of the English family settled in that
State, coming here direct from England
or from Ireland, where one early branch
of the family located. Although spelled
in a variety of ways, it can always be
traced to the Anglo-Saxon biggan (.big)
and bleaw (hill or barrow) and was prob-
ably adopted as a surname by a resident
of some such locality.
John Bigelow, the first ancestor of Dr.
James Bernard Bigelow to leave Ireland,
was born in County Tyrone, Province of
Ulster. The stories which reached him
telling him of the free and democratic life
in the United States so fired his imagina-
tion that, in spite of the long voyage of
about the year 1840, he left home to see
for himself what his chances would be in
this new and prosperous country. The
date of his arrival is not known, but it is
reasonably certain that he arrived at an
eastern port and located at once in Massa-
chusetts. Conditions were probably not
as he expected to find them, but the same
courage which prompted him to leave his
native land also helped him overcome the
obstacles against which any foreigner
must struggle. His brother, C. H. Bige-
low, a well-known watch manufacturer of
the day in New York, gave him an oppor-
tunity to enter his watch business, and it
is quite likely that he remained in that
city several years. The next record shows
that he resided in Granby, Connecticut,
for a few years before settling perma-
nently in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in
1867. About ten years previously he is
known to have taken out citizenship
papers. His death occurred at his home
in Holyoke, in 1880, when he was sixty
years of age. He married Margaret Elli-
ott, also a native of Ireland, but who had
long resided in this country, having been
brought here by her parents when she
was but two years old. Her brother, Wil-
liam Elliott, was one of the largest and
most successful cattle dealers of his gen-
eration in Xew York State. Mr. and Mrs.
Bigelow had children : William J., Ber-
nard Francis, of whom later mention will
be made; Ellen; Elizabeth, who married
John Splan ; Alice, who became the wife
of Edwin Keough ; Margaret ; James ;
Thomas ; Joseph.
Bernard Francis Bigelow, second child
of John Bigelow, was born February 7,
1S53, in Granby, Connecticut. The father
had not been in America long enough to
be able to give his children the educa-
tional advantages the next generation
were to receive, and at the early age of
eight and one-half years the son was
forced to begin work in the mills in order
to assist in supporting the family. Sub-
sequently he spent a few years in the
elementary schools of Terryville and
West Hartford. A better instance to
show the high value of labor at the pres-
ent day could not be found than to com-
pare the wages this youth received, even
after working several years, with the
wages being paid at present. His wages
were thirty-three and one-third cents per
day and at the present time (1917) the
most unskilled labor is receiving more
than ten times that amount for a shorter
working day. In 1867 he came to Hol-
yoke with his parents, and for the next
seven years he was employed in diflFerent
positions in order to find something which
would prove sufficiently remunerative to
enable him to engage in business for him-
self. For one year he was a teamster, and
the next two years was employed in the
Hampden Cotton Mills. In 1870 he took
a position in a meat market business, and
after working for others for four years he
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purchased a business for himself, in which
he was successfully engaged until 1915, a
period of over forty years, during which
time he built up a large patronage. For
several years he was chief engineer of the
fire department and many improvements
were made at his suggestion. One of the
principal benefits Holyoke received from
him while in that position is the present
fire alarm system. In politics he has given
his support to the Democratic party, and
for two years he was a member of the
city government. He holds membership
in the Ancient Order of United Work-
men and the Roman Catholic church.
In 1875 ^6 married Elizabeth Shine, a
native of Ireland and the daughter of
John and Catherine (Scanlon) Shine.
Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow are the parents
of the following children : John, whose
death occurred at the age of fourteen
years ; Mary ; Elizabeth ; James Ber-
nard, of whom later mention will be
made; Marguerite, who died when twen-
ty-one years of age.
Dr. James Bernard Bigelow, second son
of Bernard Francis Bigelow, was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, August 13, 1886.
After completing the regular courses
given in the elementary grammar and
high schools of the city he entered Dean
Academy in the fall of 1905, graduated
from that institution in 1906; he then
entered Tufts College and two years later
completed his academic course in that in-
stitution. The choice of a profession had
already been decided upon and he took
up the study of medicine in Tufts Medi-
cal College, receiving his degree in 191 1.
In order that he might be more fully
qualified for the duties of his profession,
he spent three years in hospital training.
The first two years of this time were spent
at St. Vincent's Hospital, one of the
largest in New York City, then one year
at the New York Institution for Found-
lings, and three months at the Manhattan
Maternity Hospital. This gave him an
unusually thorough training and ac-
quainted him with modern facilities and
the most successful clinical practices. In
1914 he opened an office in Holyoke,
where he has since been successfully en-
gaged in the practice of his profession,
and is highly regarded by the medical
fraternity in the city. As an indication
of his ability, he has for the past two
years been city physician of Holyoke, fill-
ing this position with credit to himself
and the entire satisfaction of the citizens.
He is a member of all the local medical
associations, and a fellow of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, in which so-
cieties he constantly keeps himself cogni-
zant of the proceedings and discoveries.
The esteem in which he was held while at
college is shown by his membership in
the Alpha Kappa Kappa, and the Phi Chi
Beta fraternities. He is also a member
of the Knights of Columbus and the 15e-
iievolent and Protective Order of Elks.
KNOWLTON, Edward Allen, M.
Physician, Surgeon.
D.
Dr. Edward Allen Knowlton. one of
the younger physicians and surgeons of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, has been in ac-
tive practice there since completing his
hospital training in Boston, in 191 1. He
is descended from one of the oldest and
most distinguished families of Massachu-
setts. The history of the Knowlton fam-
ily is traced in this country to the found-
ing of the colonies and in England to the
time of the Conquest. The ancient seat
of the family in England, known as
Knowlton Hall in Knowlton parish, is
located in County Kent, six miles from
the city of Canterbury, and was granted
to the first ancestor of which there is
record by William the Conqueror for serv-
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ice in the army of conquest. In the thirty-
third year of Edward I. a descendant
named Perot assumed the title of Lord
Knollton. The surname was variously
spelled in the ancient records. From 1553
to the present time the line has been
traced by documentary proofs.
(I) Richard Knowlton, of County Kent,
a descendant of the original Knowlton
stock in that county, was born in 1553.
He married, July 17, 1577, Elizabeth Can-
tize. Children : George, born at Canter-
bury, Kent, May 6, 1578, lived in Chad-
wick; Stephen, born May i, 1580; Thom-
as ; William, of whom further.
(II) Captain William Knowlton, son of
Richard Knowlton, was born in Canter-
bury, Kent, England, in 1584. He was
a well-to-do shipmaster, part owner and
captain of a trading vessel which often
visited Xova Scotia and New England
ports. When he sailed for New England
to make his home there, he was forty-
eight years old. With him came his wife
and six children. They settled in Hing-
ham, Massachusetts. He died at sea soon
afterward. He married, in England, Ann
Elizabeth Smith. Their children were:
John, born 1610; Samuel, 161 1; Robert,
about 1613; William, of whom further;
Mary, 1617; Thomas, about 1620.
(III) William (2) Knowlton, son of
Captain William (i) Knowlton, was born
in Kent, England, in 1615, and came to
this country in 1632 or 1634 with his
father and brother Thomas, joining an-
other brother John in Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, in 1642. William Knowlton was a
brick mason by trade, but followed farm-
ing after coming to New England. He
joined the Ipswich church, and in 1642
was admitted a freeman of the colony. As
early as December 12, 1643, as shown by
a deed to Edward Bragg, he owned land
in Ipswich. He died intestate in 1665 and
his estate was administered by his brother
Thomas. He married, in England, Ann
Smith. Children: Thomas, born 1640;
William, 1643; John, of whom further;
Samuel, 1647; Benjamin, about 1649;
Joseph, about 165 1 ; Mary, 1653, married
Samuel Abbe.
(IV) John Knowlton, son of William
(2) Knowlton, was born in Ipswich, Mas-
sachusetts, about 1645, ^"d spent his
youth there. He was admitted a free-
man in 1669, and took the oath of allegi-
ance at Manchester in 1680. He removed
to Manchester in 1679. He was a car-
penter by trade and associated his father
in building at Ipswich and later bought
land and erected and sold houses at Man-
chester. He was prominent in military
affairs and was captain of the local mili-
tia company. About 1707 he removed to
the hamlet (now the town of Hamilton)
and died there in August, 1728. He mar-
ried (first) Bethia, daughter of Rice Ed-
wards, of Charlestown and Wenham, and
she died after 1707. He married (second)
Susanna Hutton (intentions of marriage
dated April 11, 1714, at Wenham). Chil-
dren by first wife: John, of whom fur-
ther; Mary, married James Patch; Rice,
born 1676 ; Susanna, married Samuel Corn-
ing, Jr.; Benjamin; Bethia; Thomas,
born about 1686; Timothy, married Han-
nah Story; Elizabeth, married Malachi
Corning; Abigail, married Isaac Ged-
dings ; Miriam, married Joseph Day.
(V) John (2) Knowlton. son of John
(i) Knowlton, was born about 1670 at
Ipswich He went to Manchester with his
parents, learned the trade of carpenter,
and was a builder and farmer. He mar-
ried, December 20, 1697, Abigail, daugh-
ter of Joseph Batchelder, of Salem. Chil-
dren, born at Manchester : John, August
3. 1699; Joseph, December 28, 1701 ; Abi-
gail, May 2, 1705 ; Churchill, March 5,
1707; Miriam, September 7, 171 1; Lucy,
February 28, 1714-15 ; Prudence, April 13,
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1718; Andrew, of whom further; Han-
nah, March 13, 1723-24.
(VI) Andrew Knowlton, son of John
(2) Knowlton, was born at Manchester,
March 5, 1720. He married, November i,
1741, Abigail Stone, of Beverly. He set-
tled in Machias, Maine. Children: Rob-
ert, born May 26, 1743; Jeremiah, of
whom further; Andrew, born 1747, mar-
ried Ruth Ridlon ; Jonathan, July 28,
1750; Betsey; Molly; Rachel; Anna,
August 21, 1759; Lydia; Abigail; Sally.
(VII) Jeremiah Knowlton, son of An-
drew Knowlton, was born at Manchester,
in 1745, and married Anna Pierce. Chil-
dren : Ezekiel, of whom further ; Mehit-
able, Anna, John, Jonathan, Samuel, An-
drew, Sally, Betsey, Jeremiah, Fellows,
David.
(VIII) Ezekiel Knowlton, son of Jere-
miah Knowlton, was born in 1765. He
was adopted by an English naval officer
named Eastman. He married Polly
Knowlton, sister of Joseph Knowlton.
Both he and his wife died soon after 1819.
They resided in Davistown, Canada. Chil-
dren: Abigail, born March 21, 1795;
Polly, May 29, 1797; Sally, August 23,
1799; Hiram, November 14, 1803; Amy,
January 30, 1806; Joseph W., 1808; Lu-
cinda, January 13, 181 1; Lovina, Janu-
ary 7, 1814; Isaac Case, of whom further.
(IX) Rev. Isaac Case Knowlton, son
of Ezekiel Knowlton, was born at Lib-
erty, Maine, September 6, 1819, and died
at West Acton, Massachusetts. March 23,
1894. He was reared in the family of his
sister Abigail. He learned the trade of
cooper and was employed in making lime
casks at Rockland and Thomaston, Maine.
His early education was limited. He was
a student for a time in an academy, but he
pursued the study of Latin and Hebrew,
and fitted himself for the ministry. He
began to preach at Albion, Maine, in 1841.
and settled in Lincoln, Maine, in 1843 5 ^*
Durham, 1845; ^^ Auburn, 1850; Hamp-
den, 1851 ; Oldtown, 1853; at Keene, New
Hampshire, i860; in South Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, 1863; at New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, 1865; at Calais. Maine, 1870; at
West Acton, Massachusetts, 1875, ^^^ ^^
continued as pastor there for eighteen
years, retiring in 1893, after more than
fifty years of active work in the ministry.
He received the degree of Doctor of Di-
vinity from Tufts College in 1889. He
was well known among the clergy and
laity of the Universalist denomination in
New England. He was an able preacher
and a forceful writer. He contributed fre-
quently to newspapers and magazines and
published two books, "The History of
Calais, Maine" (1873) and "Through the
Shadows" (1885)
He married, November 27, 1845, ^^ary
S. Wellington, daughter of John and Mary
Smith (Winslow) Wellington. Children :
Hosea Morrill, of whom further; Mar>'
Alice, born February 7, 1850; Frank War-
ren, October 2, 1851 ; Wellington Case.
May 14, 1858.
(X) Hon. Hosea Morrill Knowlton, son
of Rev. Isaac Case Knowlton, was born at
Durham. Maine. May 20, 1847. He at-
tended the public schools, the academies
at Oldtown and Bangor, Maine, and
Powers Institute at Bernardston. Massa-
chusetts. He entered Tufts College, from
which he was graduated in 1867 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. He entered
Harvard Law School and received his de-
gree there in 1870. being admitted to the
bar in the same year and beginning the
practice of his profession in New Bedford.
Massachusetts. He took an active part
in public affairs, and soon achieved a
place of prominence in the community.
From 1872 to 1876 he served the city on
the school committee. He was appointed
register of bankruptcy in 1874, and held
that oflfice until it was abolished by a
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change in the laws, two years later. He
was city solicitor of New Bedford in 1875.
He was a representative to the General
Court in 1876 and 1877, ^^^ State Senator
in 1878 and 1879. Erom 1879 to 1893 ^^
was district attorney of the Southern Dis-
trict of Massachusetts. He was elected
attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1894
and served by annual reelection until 1901.
He was for many years one of the most
prominent and trusted leaders of the Re-
publican party in the Commonwealth.
His learning, integrity, common sense
and ability as a public speaker brought
him in close touch with the people of the
State. He stood high in his profession,
ranking among the very foremost lawyers
of the country. In later years he had his
oflftce at No. 50 State street, Boston. His
untimely death at Marion, Massachusetts,
December 18, 1902, cut short a very prom-
ising career. He was a member of the
University Club, the Union Club, the Mid-
dlesex Club, the Wamsutta Club and the
Oakley Country Club. He married, May
22, 1873, Sylvia Bassett Almy, bom at
New Bedford. Children, bom at New
Bedford: John Wellington. February' 28,
1874; Abby Almy, March 30, 1876; Frank
Warren, August 16, 1878; Edward Allen,
of whom further; Helen Sophia, August
I, 1885; Sylvia Prescott, May 29, 1890;
Benjamin Almy, June 13, 1892.
(XI) Dr. Edward Allen Knowlton, son
of Hon. Hosea Morrill Knowlton, was
born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
April 16, 1883. His early education was
received in the public schools of his na-
tive city. He was graduated from Phil-
lips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire,
in 1902, and from Tufts College in 1906.
He entered the Tufts Medical College,
from which he was graduated in 1909
with the degree of M. D., and during the
next two years he was an interne in the
Boston City Hospital. In 191 1 he opened
an ofhce in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
since then has been in private practice in
that city. He is a member of the Holyoke
Medical Society, the Springfield Academy
of Medicine, the Massachusetts Medical
Society, the American Medical Associ-
ation, and is a member of the surgical
staff of the Holyoke City Hospital. He
attends the Unitarian church. Dr. Knowl-
ton married, November 12. 1913, Bessie
Osborn, a daughter of Archie J. and
Hattie (Doyle j Osborn, of Holyoke.
They have one child. Sylvia, bom March
18. 1915.
McCORMICK, John Joseph David,
Business Man.
The early generations of the McCor-
mick family, worthily represented by the
late David McCormick, and his son, John
J. D. McCormick, a business man of Hol-
yoke, were numerous in Ireland, where
they were generally known as industrious
people who engaged in agricultural pur-
suits and the trades of their native vil-
lages.
(I) Michael McCormick, great-grand-
father of John J. D. McCormick, was a
native of Ireland and there spent his en-
tire life, performing well the duties and
obligations that fell to his lot. He mar-
ried a Miss Sears, who bore him nine chil-
dren, as follows: John, David, Thomas,
Michael, Henry, Helen. Catherine, Lizzie
and Honora.
(II) Michael (2) McCormick, fourth
son of Michael (i) and (Sears)
McCormick, was also a native of Ireland,
was reared, educated, spent his active ca-
reer, married and died in his native land,
his death occurring at the early age of
thirty years. His wife. Mary (Sheehy)
McCormick, bore him four sons: Michael,
John, Patrick, and David, the latter being
but seven days old when his father died.
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Later Mrs. McCormick became the wife
of Maurice O'Connell, and they were tlie
parents of two children : Daniel and
Nellie. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connell emi-
grated to the United States, about 1864-
55, and located in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, where she resided until her death in
1903, at the advanced age of eighty-tive
years.
(Ill) David McCormick, youngest son
of Michael (2) and Mary (Sheehy) Mc-
Cormick, was born in Ireland, Feljruary
4, 1854. He resided there until 1864-65.
when he accompanied his mother and
step-father to this country, he being then
ten years of age. He attended the public
schools of Holyoke, Massachusetts, in
which city he resided, and later served
an apprenticeship with James & Marra.
who were engaged in a stone-cutting and
contracting business, becoming in course
of time one of the best stone masons and
contractors in the valley, and there are a
large number of buildings in Holyoke that
stand as monuments to his skill and abil-
ity. After completing his apprenticeship,
he entered into business relations with
Jerome Jackson, of New York, who re-
tired from the firm at the expiration of
seven years, Mr. McCormick conducting
the business alone for a short period of
time. He then associated himself with
John Wall, which connection was dis-
solved after a number of years. He then
conducted the business on his own ac-
count until a short time prior to his death,
when he admitted his son, John J. D., to
partnership, and from that time the busi-
ness was conducted under the firm name
of David McCormick & Son. Mr. Mc-
Cormick was an active member of the
Roman Catholic chufch. of the Holyoke
Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, and was also one of the charter
members of Shields Court of Foresters.
It is impossible to show more clearly the
esteem in which he was held throughout
his life in the city where he made his
home from boyhood until his death than
by (juoting extracts from an editorial
wliich appeared in the Holyoke "Daily
Transcript" immediately after his dcalli :
It was Bacon who wrote of beauty: 'A'irtuc is
like a rich stone — best plain set." The quotation
is most apt for David McCormick. Holyoke's well
known stone contractor, who has just passed on.
Mr. McCormick was a rich stone — plain set. He
was one of those men who come up from humble
beginnings. He worked, lived right and was
bound that his children should enjoy the privileges
of education and culture that were never his. It
was a beautiful ambition and has been liberally
realized. He has one son who is a junior at Cor-
nell and doing brilliant work, and his daughters,
too, have made his life happy, especially since the
death of his wife in 1898. Mr. McCormick was
a man of few words but there was a tine char-
acter and earnest manhood for a background.
The world is the better for such men as plain,
modest, silent David McCormick.
Mr. McCormick married, in 1886, Cath-
erine Dowling. born in County Kerr)-.
Ireland, August 15, 1856, died in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, September 6, 1898. daugh-
ter of Timothy and Catherine ( Mc-
Carthy) Dowling, and granddaughter of
John and Mary (Cahill) Dowling. Six
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Cormick: Eileen, who is a graduate of
Mt. Holyoke College and a successful
teacher in the Holyoke High School;
Michael ; John Joseph David, of further
iTiention : Francis Daniel; William, died
in infancy; Catherine.
(IV) John J. D. McCormick. (nily son
nowlivingof David anrl Catherine ( Dow-
ling) McCormick. was born in Holyoke.
Massachusetts. March 10. i8<)i. He was
reared and educated in his native city, and
after completing his high school course
he attended Williston Seminary for one
vear. and then entered Cornell University.
Ithaca. New York, where he remained for
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two and one-half years, his course being
interrupted by the death of his father.
Some time prior to leaving the university
his father had taken him into partnership,
under the tirm name of David McCormick
tS: Son, and since the father's death the
business has been successfully carried on
by the son and his sister, Eileen. During
his college course, Mr. McCormick spe-
cialized in civil engineering preparatory
to engaging in construction work, intend-
ing in this way to enlarge the business
interests of the firm of which he had been
made a member. In addition to the above
named interest, Mr. McCormick has vari-
ous other business connections in which
he is financially interested but which are
n( t conducted under his name. He is a
member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Foresters of America,
the Rotary Club, the County Club, the
Knights of Columbus and the Ancient
Order of Hibernians.
MILLER, Edward J., M. D.,
Physiciait.
This well known and successful physi-
cian of Holyoke comes of an old and hon-
ored Scotch ancestry. His grandfather,
John Miller, came from his native land,
Scotland, to the United States, and settled
in Westchester county, New York, where
for several years he engaged in farming.
He then moved to Norwalk, Connecticut,
where he resided until his death at the
great age of ninety-three. Flis wife, who
died at the age of eighty was the mother
of five children, only two of whom, Eliza
and John, are living.
One of these children, Charles E. Miller,
born in Westchester county, New York,
there resided for many years, acquiring
an education and the trade of cabinet
maker. At about the age of thirty-four
he moved to Norwalk, Connecticut, fol-
lowing his trade about forty years until
his death at the age of seventy-four years.
He was well known and highly respected,
a member of the Methodist church, and a
Republican in politics. He married Nellie
Littell, who survives him, still a resident
of Norwalk. She is a daughter of Wil-
liam Littell, who at the time of his daugh-
ter's birth was residing in New Y'ork
State. Later he moved to Norwalk,
where he died, leaving three children :
Nellie, widow of Charles E. Miller ;
Charles, living in Binghamton, New
York; and Airs. Eva Smith. Charles E.
and Nellie (Littell) Miller were the par-
ents of three children: Dr. Edward J., of
whom further ; Bertha, wife of Walter C.
Haynes, of Norwalk ; Walter, a tool-
maker of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Dr. Edward J. Miller, of the third Ameri-
can generation of the family founded by
John Miller, of Scotland, was born in Nor-
walk, Connecticut, July 31, 1880, eldest of
the children of Charles E. and Nellie (Lit-
tell) Miller. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools of Norwalk, completing the
high school course with graduation. He
decided upon a professional career, and
choosing medicine he entered the New
York College of Homeopathy connected
wath Flower Hospital, there pursued a
full course to graduation, receiving his
degree M. D. with the class of 1907.
After graduation, he received appoint-
ment to the medical staff of Blackwell's
Island Hospital and there spent two
years. This was valuable experience, as
the two thousand patients treated in that
institution during his term were suffer-
ing from every form of disease known to
the human family. His association with
the twenty-four eminent physicians com-
prising the hospital stafT was of greatest
value to the young physician and afforded
him opportunity to acquire knowledge
through personal contact with men of ex-
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perience and culture. With such prepara-
tion and equipment, Dr. Miller located in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1910, and here
began the work of building up a private
practice. The years that have since inter-
vened have been years of constant growth
in public favor, and have demonstrated
the depth of his learning and of his devo-
tion to his most arduous profession. Al-
though a young practitioner, his practice
has attained generous proportions and he
has the confidence of his clientele as well
as the highest esteem of his professional
brethren. Dr. Miller is a member of
Hampden County Homeopathic Medical
Association, of the Holyoke Homeopathic
Medical Society, and the Massachusetts
Society of Homeopathy. He is a member
of college fraternities, and with his wife
attends the Second Congregational
Church.
Dr. Miller married, February 24, 1914,
Armenta Rose, born in Dayton, Ohio,
daughter of John Rose, a well known and
successful inventor of Dayton, now resid-
ing in Holyoke. Mrs. Miller is one of
three children : Mary, w^ife of Charles
Fauld, residing in Cleveland, Ohio; Ar-
menta, wife of Dr. Edward J. Miller;
John, of Dayton, Ohio.
CHASE, Joseph Edwin,
Merchant, Cnrio Collector.
From a noted American family, Mr.
Chase inherited a tendency to excel in
anything he undertook, and thus gained
the esteem and respect of a very wide
circle of acquaintances. He was known
throughout the United States, not only as
a collector of curios, but also as an expert
chessplayer. His ancestry has been
traced to a remote period in England.
For many years the earliest known ances-
tor of the American family was Aquila
Chase, who was among the founders of
Hampton, New Hampshire, and he was
said to be from, Cornwall, England, by
several antiquarians whose authority was
tradition. A long search has established
beyond a reasonable doubt that he was
from Chesham, in Buckinghamshire, some
thirty miles northwest of London. The
family is said to have been of Norman
origin, and it has been suggested that the
name was formerly LaChasse. In the old
English records it is spelled Chaace and
Chaase, and in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries it was modified to the present
form most in use — Chase.
Thomas Chase, the first of the family
of whom we have definite information,
had a son, John Chase, who had a son.
Matthew Chase, of the parish of Hund-
rich, in Chesham, who married Elizal)eth
Bould, daughter of Richard Bould. Their
son. Richard Chase, married Mary Rob-
erts, of Welsden, in Middlesex. Their
son, Richard (2) Chase, baptized August
3. 1542, married, April 16, 1564. Joan
Bishop. Their fourth son, Aquila Chase,
was baptized August 14. 1580. The
unique name of Aquila is found nowhere
in England, before or since, coupled with
the name of Chase, which makes it reas-
onably certain that this Aquila was the
ancestor of the American family.
His son, Aquila (2) Chase, born 1618.
settled, about 1646, in Newbury, Massa-
chusetts, in that part which is now New-
buryport. He was formerly in Hampton
(now part of New Hampshire), where he
and his brother Thomas, together with
fifty-five others, received grants of land in
June, 1640. He married .Ann Wheeler,
who was a daughter of John Wheeler,
wh(i came from Salisbury. England, in
September, 1^146- After his death. De-
cember 27, 1670. she married (second)
Daniel Mussiloway.
Ensign Moses Chase, youngest child of
Aquila (2) and Ann (Wheeler) Chase,
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was burn December 24, 1663, in Newbury.
He married, November 10, 1684, Ann Fol-
lonsbee, and settled in West Newbury,
on the main road, about one hundred
rods above what is now Bridge street. A
large majority of the Chases in the United
States are said to be his descendants. He
died September 6, 1743.
His eldest son, Daniel Chase, born
September 20, 1685, '" Newbury, now
West Newbury, moved to Littleton, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1725, thence to Sutton, same
State. He married, January 6, 1706,
Sarah, daughter of George March, of Gro-
ton, Massachusetts. Subsequently he
moved to Sutton, where he died in April,
1768.
Their youngest child, Moses (2) Chase,
was born March 16, 1727, in Newbury,
and removed to Sutton with his parents
when five years old. About 1765 he
j( lined the pioneers in settling Cornish,
New Hampshire, where he died October
18, 1799. He married, April 15, 1752,
Hannah Brown, of Sutton, born Novem-
ber 15, 1735, daughter of Jonas and Han-
nah Brown, and died January 16, 1812.
Their third son. Rev. Amos Chase, born
May 19, 1760, in Sutton, graduated at
Dartmouth College and entered the minis-
try. For many years he was pastor at
Litchfield, Connecticut, where all his
large family of children are recorded. He
died January 25, 1850, in Centreville,
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, in his
ninetieth year. He married (first) No-
vember 30, 1788, Rebecca Hart, of Gris-
wold, Connecticut; (second) June 27,
1792, Joanna Lammon, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, who died August 19, 1848.
Edward Chase, youngest child of the
Rev. Amos and Joanna (Lammon) Chase,
was born about 1805-08, in Litchfield, and
lived some time in Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, whence he removed to Holyoke,
Massachusetts, in 1849. He engaged in
the lumber business, in which his son in
time became a partner, the style of the
firm being E. Chase & Sons. He died in
Holyoke at the age of sixty years. His
wife was Maria Adams. One son and
four daughters of their remarkable family
survive, namely : Charles P. Chase, presi-
dent of the Springfield Board of Trade,
Springfield, Massachusetts ; Mrs. W. H.
Brooks, of Holyoke ; Mrs. Sarah Piatt
Decker and Mrs. P. S. Kingsland, of Den-
ver, Colorado; Mrs. Arthur A. Shaw, of
Somerville, Massachusetts. A brother of
Mr. Chase, Henry A. Chase, was post-
master at Holyoke, as was also a nephew,
Charles A. Chase.
Joseph Edwin Chase, son of Edward
and Maria (Adams) Chase, was born
March 22, 1839, '" Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, and died April 20, 191 1, in Holyoke.
After the death of his father, he opened a
fruit and novelty store on Dwight street,
Holyoke, where the Postal Telegraph
ofifice now stands. There he kept a large
line of novelties and curios, and was inter-
ested in various collections. His wonder-
ful aggregation of butterflies, which he
had spent many years to collect, was sold
to Mt. Holyoke College for one thousand
dollars. It was said to be the finest col-
lection ever seen. He also had note-
worthy collections of stamps, minerals
and coins. After some years he sold out
his store and engaged in the real estate
business, until his retirement two years
preceding his death. Mr. Chase was a
remarkable character, with a well stored
mind, and informed on a wide range of
subjects. Flis chief diversion was in play-
ing chess, in which he gained wide dis-
tinction. He conducted many games by
mail, with players in different parts of the
United States, and was often a winner.
Mr. Chase married, March 22, 1874,
Alma Cofftn, born in Londonderry, New
Hampshire, daughter of David and Har-
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riett (Burbank) Coffin. Children: i.
Jessie, died aged eight years. 2. Alma,
married (first) Herbert Rowe, one daugh-
ter, Herma Rowe ; married (second)
Harry Kimball. 3. Willis, died aged four
years. 4. Josie, married Cooledge Porter-
field, and they have a daughter, Priscilla.
5. Joseph Theodore, a graduate of Dart-
mouth, was president of his class and a
noted athlete ; he is an expert civil engi-
neer, and has attained high rank in his
profession ; has participated in some large
developments in his native land ; is man-
ager of the Roanoke Rapids Power Com-
pany of Roanoke Rapids, North Caro-
lina; married Cora Lee Welch, and they
have two children : Josie Alma and
Chester Everett.
SULLIVAN, Eulick R, M. D.,
Physician.
Now a practicing physician of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, Dr. Sullivan brought to
his practice in that city the experience
gained in college, hospital and practical
work as a physician in other fields. He
has during the few years of his Holyoke
residence gained the confidence of his
clientele, and is held in high repute as a
physician of honor and skill. He bears
the given name also bestowed upon his
grandfather, Eulick Sullivan, who died
in County Kerry. Ireland, in 1848. After
his death his widow, Ellen (Lyon) Sulli-
van, came to the United States with her
children, settled at Three Rivers, Massa-
chusetts, later at Palmer, and there reared
her children to habits of thrift, honesty
and usefulness. She brought to the
United States children : Cornelius, Mary,
Catherine, Thomas and Julia.
Thomas Sullivan, youngest son of Eu-
lick and Ellen (Lyon) Sullivan, was born
in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1844. His
father died in 1848, and in 1850 he was
brought to the United States by his
mother with the remainder of the family.
He attended public school in Palnu-r,
Massachusetts, worked in boyhood in the
mills at Three Rivers, and in time at
Thorndyke Mills, and later was an over-
seer in the Lyman Mills in Holyoke.
About 1875 he retired from mill work,
located at Belchertown, Massachusetts,
and there has for forty years followed the
peaceful life of a farmer. He married
Margaret Leary, born in Ireland, daugh-
ter of Cornelius and Margaret (McCar-
thy) Leary. They are the parents of six
children, all born in Belchertown : Julia,
Mary, Dr. Eulick F., of further mention ;
Ellen, Cornelius and Margaret.
Dr. Eulick F. Sullivan, eldest son of
Thomas and Margaret (Leary) Sullivan,
was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts,
October 4, 1880. He there began his edu-
cation in the public school, prepared at
W esleyan Academy, W^ilbraham, Massa-
chusetts, then entered the Medical De-
partment of the University of \'ermont
at Burlington, whence he was graduated
Doctor of Medicine, class of 1904. He
later engaged in post-graduate work in
New York and Boston. He then located
at North Adams, continuing in practice
there until 1914. when he moved to Hol-
yoke, where he is well established. Dr.
Sullivan is on the staff of the House of
the Providence Hospital, is a member of
the Massachusetts State Medical Asso-
ciation, the Holyoke Medical Society, the
Knights of Columbus and other societies.
Dr. Sullivan married, November 8, 191 1,
Joanna Griffin, of Belchertown. daughter
of Michael and Margaret (Houlihan)
Griffin.
CLARK. Georae Henry. M. D..
Phvuician-
.•\ practicing physician of the city of
Holvoke. Massachusetts, for over a quar-
ter of a centurv. Dr. Clark has won the
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patronage of a large clientele and the
good will of his townsmen to an unusual
degree. He is a great-grandson of Ralph
Clark, of County Kilkenny, Ireland, one
of those well to do Irish landowners, a
lever of sports and good horses, who lent
that charm to the Irish character that will
ever endure. He married Maria Mat-
thews, who bore him a son Robert, and a
daughter Bessie, who married John Smith.
Robert Clark, born in Kilkenny, Ire-
land, in 1807, came to the United States
in 1849, ^"<i only survived the change of
residence two years, dying in Ware, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1851. He married Ellen
Cunningham, daughter of Thomas Cun-
ningham, born in Ireland, who long sur-
vived him, dying in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, in 1907, aged eighty-eight years.
They were the parents of Jane ; Robert
(2), of further mention; William; Eliza,
married Morris Keough, and Ralph Clark,
all but the last named born in Ireland.
Robert (2) Clark was born in Kilkenny,
County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1842, and
was brought to the United States by his
parents in 1849. ^^ "^^^s educated in the
schools of Ware, Massachusetts, and after
a short term in the mills there learned the
carpenter's trade. He continued a house
builder for a time, then became a car
builder, employed until his retirement in
the car shops at Springfield and for a time
in the United States Armory at Spring-
field. For several years he lived a retired
life, his health having failed. He married
Ellen Donoghue, born in Kilkenny, Coun-
ty Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1841, died in 1913.
They were the parents of five sons:
George Henry, of further mention ; Wil-
liam, killed by a railway train ; Charles,
John and Frank Clark.
Dr. George Henry Clark, eldest son of
Robert (2) and Ellen (Donoghue) Clark,
was born in Ware, Massachusetts, May
30, 1868, and obtained his education in
Ware and Springfield schools. Deciding
upon the medical profession as his life
work, he entered Long Island Medical
College, Brooklyn, New York, whence he
was graduated Doctor of Medicine, class
of 1891. He chose Holyoke as a location,
began practice there, and from the un-
known young physician has risen to a
leading position among the professional
men of the city. He was a member of
the school board for five years, from 1905
to 1910, and chairman of the board during
his last year of service. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Medical and other
professional associations, is thoroughly
modern in his methods of practice, ana
highly regarded as a physician of skill
and honor.
Dr. Clark married, September 5, 1899,
Margaret Keefe, daughter of Cornelius
and Ellen (Fox) Keefe, of Holyoke.
They are the parents of two daughters :
Helen, born September 10, 1900; Mildred,
January 24, 1905.
POWERS, William Joseph, M. D.,
Physician.
After extended courses of study at
home and abroad, hospital experience and
general practice in different localities. Dr.
Powers, in 1909, permanently located in
Holyoke, Massachvisetts, where he is well
established as a skillful and honorable
practitioner. He is a son of Patrick Pow-
ers, whose long career with the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Company of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, covering a period of
half a century, is worthy of special men-
tion.
Patrick Powers w^as born in Newton,
County Waterford, Ireland, in 1834, and
died in Worcester, Massachusetts, in
1908, only living four years to enjoy the
pension granted him by the corporation
he served so long and so well. He at-
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tended school in Newton until eighteen
years of age, then, in 1852, came to the
United States and located in Worcester,
Massachusetts. He secured a position
with the American Steel & Wire Com-
pany, then a small concern operating ia
one building, and for fifty-two years re-
mained in that employ, a trusted em-
ployee. During that period Mr. Powers
saw the company grow to vast propor-
tions, and in his way had been one of the
factors contributing to its growth and im-
portance, he having charge of a depart-
ment employing fifty men. In 1904 he
was retired on a pension, carrying with
him the esteem of his life-time employers.
He was a Democrat, and a member of the
American Order of United Workmen.
Patrick Powers married Bridget Kean,
daughter of John Kean. They were the
parents of thirteen children, six of whom
are living (1917) : James, deceased; Mar-
tin ; Margaret, married John McParth-
land ; John; Richard; William J., of fur-
ther mention ; Catherine, married J.
O'Connor.
Dr. William J. Powers was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts, June 10, 1879,
and there passed through the grade and
high schools, finishing with graduation.
From high school he passed to Dart-
mouth College, taking a two years' special
course. Deciding upon the profession of
medicine, he entered Baltimore Medical
College, whence he was graduated Doctor
of Medicine, class of 1902. During the
remainder of 1902 and in 1903 he was
engaged in hospital work in Providence
Hospital, Holyoke ; practiced at Chicopee
Falls, Massachusetts, 1903-1907, and in
January, 1908, went abroad for study in
the hospitals and medical schools of Lon-
don and Vienna. Prior to his return to
the United States in 1909, he visited the
home of his father in Ireland, a visit he
greatly enjoyed. After his return he
spent three months in special medical
study in New York City and a like period
in Boston, locating in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, in 1909, thoroughly fitted to till
the important place which he now
occupies in the city's professional life.
Dr. Powers is a member of the American
Medical Association, the Massachusetts
Medical Society and the Holyoke Medical
Society ; serves Holyoke as a member of
the Board of Health, and is an ardent
apostle of the doctrine of prevention of
disease through sanitary precaution and
personal habits. He is a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
the Knights of Columbus, and of the Hol-
yoke Country Club.
Dr. Powers married. April 19, 191 1,
Genevieve McGlynn, daughter of John
and Mary McGlynn, of Chicopee Falls.
They are the parents of a son and two
daughters: Margaret (Peggy), born
April 12, 1912; William, August 8. 1913;
Elizabeth (Betty), April 4. 1915.
ALGER, Charles R.,
Bnaineas Man.
For two decades Charles R. .Mger has
been in active business in the city of Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, and during those
years his business has constantly grown
and his personal popularity increased.
Admirably fitted by nature and training
for the trying duties of his profession, he
is called upon by families in time of be-
reavement, not only in Holyoke but in all
parts of the county. He is descended
from the same stock as the late President
Grover Cleveland, and from many other
sterling families of Colonial days. His
Alger ancestors from Connecticut came
up the Connecticut river before the Revo-
lutionary War. settled in the State of
\'ermont. and were active participants in
that memorable struggle for independ-
ence.
The Alger genealogy of the descendants
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of Thomas Alger says: "Until recently
the name of Alger was almost invariably
Ijronounced Auger, and this it appears
was in accordance with the rule as in
other names. Some members of the
family have never varied the orthography
of the name from Alger, yet by others it
has been frequently written, as pro-
nounced. Auger." The spellings vary
widely in the early Colonial records, such
as Aulger, Augur, Ager, in all branches
of the family. An early record states
there were eight emigrants of the Alger
family came to New England before 1700,
but later investigation points to a larger
number. Andrew Alger and his brother
Arthur were in Scarborough, Maine, in
1651 ; Sampson Alger was in York, Maine,
in 1649; Tristram Alger was early at
Scarborough ; John Alger settled in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, as early as 1652;
Jonathan and Benjamin Alger, brothers,
were in Salem, about 1650, and they were
probably related to William Alger, who
was in Salem in 1636, and died in 1654,
and also to William Alger, of Maiden,
1659. In Connecticut there was another
grouf). Dr. Nicholas Alger, ancestor of
the Augurs and Algers, in and about New
Haven, who came as early as 1643. (See
Savage.)
(I) Roger Alger, who settled early at
Lyme, Connecticut, was born in 1670.
He married Elizabeth , in 1711-12,
ceremony performed by Joseph Peck,
Esq., and he was the father of: John,
mentioned below ; Joseph, who married,
April 2, 1732, Mary Huntley, at Lyme,
and they had a son, Joseph, born April
22, 1733. He also was the father of sev-
eral daughters whose marriages occurred
in Lyme.
(II) John Alger, son of Roger Alger,
was born August i, 1694. He married
(first) December 13, 1722, Temperance
Tillotson, who died September 3, 1727.
lie married (second) Mary . Chil-
dren by first marriage : Nathan, born
October 2, 1723; Joanna, August 3, 1725;
Mathew, March 20, 1726-27. Children by
second marriage : John, born December
14, 1730; Benjamin, March 19, 1733, died
April 23, 1752; Mary, November 13, 1735,
died March 11, 1736; Mary, January 20,
1736-37; John, mentioned below; Silas,
mentioned below ; child, born and died
September 20, 1748.
(Ill) Captain John (2) Alger, son of
John (i) and Mary Alger, was born in
Lyme, Connecticut, March 13, 1739. With
his brother Silas he came to Strafiford,
Orange county, Vermont, prior to the
Revolution. He served in the French
and Indian War in the company of Cap-
tain Zebulon Butler in 1759. He married,
at Lyme, December 25, 1760, Elizabeth
Wade.
(III) Silas Alger, son of John (i) and
Mary Alger, and brother of Captain John
(2) Alger, was born in Lyme, Connecti-
cut, August 13, 1745. He accompanied
his brother John to Strafiford, Vermont,
as before noted. He was a private in the
company of which his brother, John
Alger, was captain, according to a pay roll
dated at Thetford, Vermont, August 14,
1777. He was also a member of the Com-
mittee of Safety in 1779. He was the
father of the following children: i.
Jared, served as private in the company
of which his uncle. Captain John Alger,
was the head, in 1780 was a member of
Captain John Powell's company, and later
a member of Captain Abner Seeley's com-
pany. 2. Roger, served in Captain Eli
Noble's company in Vermont, August 16
to November 21, 1780. 3. Isaac, men-
tioned below.
(IV) Isaac Alger, son of Silas Alger,
was born in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1770.
When a young man he removed to Water-
vliet. New York, and engaged in business
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as a retail grocer. His death occurred
there, October 4, 1814. He married
Eunice (Cleveland) Wing, a widow,
daughter of Zenas and Eunice (Luding-
tcn) Cleveland (see Cleveland V). She
married (third) Benedict Burdick, by
whom she had one child. Children of
Isaac and Eunice Alger: Isaac, born
1798; Esther, 1800; Eunice, 1803; Joseph
C, 1806; Eliza C, 1808; Lydia, 1810;
Mary, 1812; Silas W., mentioned below.
(V) Silas W. Alger, son of Isaac and
Eunice (Cleveland-Wing) Alger, was
born in WatervHet, New York, May 9,
1814, and died May 12, 1886, in Fly Creek,
New York. His father died when he
was an infant and he was adopted by a
Mr. Foster, w-ho made life so hard for
him that he ran away and entered the
employ of Eaton & Gilbert, carriage
manufacturers. In 1846 he removed to
Fly Creek, Otsego county. New York, and
engaged in business for himself, and also
from i860 to 1884 he served in the
capacity of postmaster of that town. In
politics he was a Republican. He mar-
ried, at Lansingburg. New York, Kather-
ine Oakley, born in 1814, died December
17, 1892. Children: Sanford S., born
February 12, 1838; Amelia, January 11,
1840; Freeman W., August 2. 1842; Eu-
gene G., June 19, 1844; Mary J., April 25,
1846; George, October 21, 1847, died De-
cember 8, 1849; Georgianna, June 12,
1850; Charles R., mentioned below;
Emery S., February 27, 1854. The sons,
Freeman W. and Eugene G., served in
Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-
first New York Regiment in the Civil
War; Freeman W. died May 3, 1863, in
the battle of Fredericksburg, and Eugene
G. died at Annapolis, Maryland. June 4,
1865, having spent eight months in An-
dersonville prison and being too weak
from starvation to recuperate after being
discharged.
(\'I) Charles R. Alger, son of Silas W.
and Katherine (Oakley) Alger, was born
in Fly Creek, New York, .April 29, 1852.
He received his early education in the
public schools of his native town, and
during his youth assisted his father, being
for a time the assistant postmaster. In
1880 he engaged in business on his own
account as an undertaker and embalmer
in his native town, but three years later
sought a larger field in Cooperstown,
New York, where he continued in the
same line of business until 1889. Shortly
before that time he had admitted a part-
ner in the business and to him he sold his
interests. For a period of almost five
years thereafter he was engaged as a
traveling salesman. In 1896 he resumed
his old line of business in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, purchasing the Dickinson
undertaking establishment, and he has
conducted the sarae with marked success
to the present time (1917). ^Tr. .Mger is
one of the well known business men of
Holyoke, active and popular in social and
fraternal circles, and a worker in the
Methodist church, of which he has been
a trustee for many years, and a useful and
influential citizen. He is a member of
Holvoke Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, having joined this lodge In-
a demit from Otsego Lodge of Coopers-
town, New York, of which he had been
noble grand. A member of Connecticut
Valley Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and
Massasoit Lodge. Knights of Malta, also
Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and .Xcccptcd Ma-
sons; Holyoke Chapter. Royal Arch
Masons; Holyoke Council. Royal and
Select Masters.
Mr. .Alger married, October 14. 1874,
at Fly Creek. New York. Alice M. Col-
burn, daughter of Everett L. and Caro-
line (Simonds) Colburn. They have an
adopted son. Charles Floyd, born in .Al-
bany, New York, June i, 1879, married
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Annie May Webb, born in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, daughter of James Webb
and Eliza (Doney) Webb; children,
Alberta Alice and Ernest Charles.
(The Cleveland Line).
(I) Moses Cleveland, founder of the
family in this country, was born in
Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about
1621, and at the time he left London for
New England in 1635 he was an inden-
tured apprentice. He settled in W^oburn,
Massachusetts, where he was living when
admitted a freeman of Massachusetts in
1643, s"*^ he died there January 9, 1700-
01 He was admitted to the full com-
munion in the First Church of Charles-
town, in 1692. He held various public
oflFices in Woburn. He married, Septem-
ber 26, 1648, Ann Winn, born about 1626
in Wales or England, daughter of Edward
and Joanna Winn, w^ho were pioneers in
this country. Children, born at Woburn :
Moses, Hannah, Aaron, Samuel (men-
tioned below) ; Miriam, Joanna, died aged
six years ; Edward, Josiah, Isaac, Joanna
and Enoch.
(II) Sergeant Samuel Cleveland, son
of Moses Cleveland, was born at Woburn,
Massachusetts, June 9, 1657, died at
Canterbury, March 12, 1735-36. He was
a soldier in King Philip's War, serving as
sergeant. About 1680 he located at
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and cleared
a farm the following year. Subsequently
he removed to Canterbury, Connecticut,
with his brother Josiah. He married
(f:rst) in Chelmsford, May 17, 1680, Jane
Keyes, who was born in Newbury, Mas-
sachusetts, October 25, 1660, daughter of
Solomon and Frances (Grant) Keyes ;
she died without issue, November 4,
1681. He married (second) in Chelms-
ford, May 22, 1682, Persis Hildreth,
daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hil-
dreth. She was born in Cambridge, Feb-
ruary 8, 1660, and died in Canterbury,
February 22, 1698. He married (third)
in 1699, Margaret Fish, a widow, of
Canterbury. Children by his second wife :
Persis, Samuel, Joseph, mentioned below ;
Elizabeth and Mary. Children by third
wife : Abigail and Timothy.
(III) Sergeant Joseph Cleveland, son
of Sergeant Samuel Cleveland, was born
in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 18,
1689, ^"d di^<i ^^ Canterbury, March 11,
1766. He married (first) February 7,
1710-11, Abigail Hyde, born at Cam-
bridge, August 8, 1688, daughter of
Jonathan and Dorothy (Kidder) Hyde.
She died in Canterbury. He married
(second) Sarah Ainsworth, who was born
in Plainfield, Connecticut, June 12, 1700,
died at Canterbury, June 21, 1761, daugh-
ter of Alexander Ainsworth. Children, all
by first wife : Ephraim, Jonathan, Benja-
min, mentioned below ; Dorothy, John,
Elijah, Persis, Ezra and Samuel.
(IV) Benjamin Cleveland, son of Ser-
geant Joseph Cleveland, was born at
Canterbury, Connecticut, May 20, 1714,
and died in 1797 at East Brookfield, Ver-
mont. His wife Rachel, whom he mar-
ried in 1736, died in 1792, at Lyme, New
Hampshire. Children, born at Canter-
bury : Joseph, Benjamin, Dorothy, Abi-
gail, Zenas, mentioned below ; Rachel,
Persis, Rufus, Mary and Phebe.
(V) Zenas Cleveland, son of Benjamin
Cleveland, was born at Canterbury, Con-
necticut, in 1749. He lived at Brookfield,
Vermont, from 1786 to 1790, removing
thence to Litchfield, Pennsylvania, where
he died August 27, 1821, aged seventy-two
years. From boyhood he suflfered from
lameness, caused by a fever sore. He
followed the trade of shoemaker through-
out his active life. In 1773 he married
Eunice Ludington, who died at Litch-
field, May I, 1824. Children: i. Eunice,
born about 1774; married (first) a Mr.
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Wing and had one child, Freeman Wing. whose career we are here especially con-
and perhaps others; she resided at one cerned ; Louis; Joseph, wIkj resides at
time near Albany, New York; she married Buffalo, New York; Anna, who became
(second) Isaac Alger (see Alger IV). 2. the wife of Harry Pratt, of Westbrook,
Betsey, born 1776. 3. Zenas, born Sep- now deceased; and William, who also
tember, 1778. 4. Elinor, born April 10, resides at Buffalo.
1780. 5. Anna, born 1782, died 1786. 6. Born April 11, 18.S0, at Westbrook,
James, born October 30, 1784, died August Maine, Wilfred F. (iirard was educated
ic, 1786. 7. Flora, lived with her father in the local public schools, and after com-
at Bethel, New York, and went west pleting his studies at these institutions,
with him. found employment in cotton niills. situ-
ated in different sections of New luigland.
GIRARD Wilfred F. ^^ ^'^^^ continued for a number of years,
moving from place to place, and beine
Photographer. , ° „r , , >, • r
located at Westbrook, Maine ; Jewett
Wilfred F. Girard, a native of West- City, Connecticut; Clinton and North
brook, Maine, is of French Canadian Adams, Massachusetts ; and Pawtuckct,
parentage, and has made his home in Hoi- Rhode Island. He then secured a position
yoke, Massachusetts, only since 1913. In with a firm at Providence, Rhode Island,
spite of this fact, however, he has become where for two years he worked on the
most intimately associated with the life manufacture of adding machines, and
of this community, and is now one of the then came to New Haven, Connecticut,
best known photographers in this section w-here for a similar period he was em-
of the State. He is a son of Napoleon and ployed by a concern which manufactured
Emma (Bradley) Girard, his father hav- various computing machines, at the mak-
ing been born in Canada, from which place ing of w^hich he was employed. The next
he came to the United States and settled move of Mr. Girard was to East Hampton,
in Maine, when about eighteen years of Massachusetts, where he became asso-
age. As a young man he worked as a ciated with a photographer, from whom
farm hand and as a lumberer in the woods he learned the details of this art. and
of that State, but eventually settled in finally, in 1913, came to Holyoke, Massa-
Westbrook, where he engaged in a mer- chusetts, where he has founded a photo-
cantile enterprise, being the first French graphic establishment on his own account.
Canadian merchant in the city. He w^as In Holyoke Mr. Girard has met with
engaged in both a grocery and bakery remarkable success, and in 191''). finding
business, which he conducted with con- larger quarters necessary, removed his
siderable success, and he also owned a studio from No. 194 High street to the
farm, where he carried on agricultural Mills-Alderman Building. His establish-
operations at the same time. He married ment at the new location is undoubtedly
Emma Bradley, and they were the parents one of the best equipped commercial
of the following children : Charles, who photograph shoi)S in New England. Here
now resides at Pawtucket, Rhode Island; he has large facilities for developing and
George, deceased; John, who continues printing for amateurs, and in addition to
to make his home at Westbrook, Maine ; this makes a specialty of such work as
Mary, who became the wife of George outside and interior views, machinery,
Smith, of Westbrook; Wilfred F., with flashlights of banquets, etc. He has re-
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cently added to his equipment the modern
kiograph method for transferring photo-
graphs to other materials such as china,
glass, wood, celluloid, leather and so forth,
and is also specializing in this. His staff
of workers has constantly increased and
he recently added to it Mr. J. Frank Wig-
gins, of New York, an expert in designing
printing paper machinery. The plant is
now equipped to handle some five hun-
dred rolls of film a day, and Mr. Girard
keeps his shop open at all tim£s to visitors,
amateurs, as well as those in the trade.
He is regarded by his colleagues in the
business as one of the most competent
and successful commercial photographers
in the country. Mr. Girard is conspicu-
ous in the social and fraternal life of the
city, and is a member of the local lodge
o^ the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Girard is at once an artist and a
typical man of business, of the kind that
has made New England famous and
placed her so high in industrial circles.
He is the kind of man at whom the com-
munity can and does point with gratitude
and admiration for the benefits which his
activities have conferred upon it.
McLEAN, Hugh,
Representative Citiien.
Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland,
with its large trade in linens, its immense
bleaching grounds and nearby iron mines,
was the scene of the activities of this
branch of the McLean family for many
years, and there Patrick McLean and his
sen, Hugh McLean, were born. Later
both moved to Linlithgow, Scotland,
where Patrick McLean was a salesman
of household tin and hardware. Here he
spent the remainder of his life, and here
he and his wife are both buried. He mar-
ried Agnes Murdoch, also born in Bally-
mena, and they were the parents of four
sons, Hugh, James, Patrick, and Daniel;
the latter two served in the British army
in the Crimean War ; and of two daugh-
ters, Mary and Agnes.
Hugh McLean was born in Ballymena,
County Antrim, Ireland, in 1833, and died
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, August 3,
1893. He attended Ballymena schools
until fourteen years of age, then with his
parents moved to the parish of Linlith-
gow, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. There
he learned paper making in all its
branches, and remained until of legal age.
In 1854 he came to the United States,
locating in the State of Pennsylvania, but
in 1858 he returned to Scotland, where he
spent the following twenty-three years of
his life. In 1881 he again came to the
United States, located in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, and there was actively employed
in paper manufacture until his death. He
was a man of intelligence, possessed a
mind w-ell stored from wide reading of
good literature, his excellent memory
enabling him to secure the full benefit of
his reading. He was a ready public de-
bater, and was well known for his readi-
ness to defend any position he took upon
any question within his scope of learning.
He became a naturalized citizen in 1853,
and was an ardent Republican in his
political belief.
Hugh McLean married Elizabeth Don-
aldson McLaughlin, born near Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 1841, daughter of William
McLaughlin, born in County Ferman-
augh, a town of Enniskillen, Ireland, and
his wife, Elizabeth Donaldson, born in
Scotland. Hugh and Elizabeth McLean
were the parents of: Agnes, married
Robert Clark; Patrick J. (q. v.); Eliza-
beth, married Peter McGarrity ; Hugh (2)
(q. v.) ; Margaret ; Mary, married Harry
Osborne ; Daniel (q. v.) ; William, and
Thomas, all residing in Holyoke.
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McLEAN, Patrick J.,
BniinesB Man.
Of true Scotch-Irish blood, Patrick J.
McLean, eldest son of Hugh and Eliza-
beth Donaldson (McLaughlin) McLean,
brought to the land of his adoption the
sturdy qualities of honorable ancestors,
and on American soil has demonstrated
that he possesses the characteristics of a
race which has contributed so largely to
the upbuilding of the United States and
her institutions. He was born in Scot-
land, May 15, 1863, there was educated,
and there resided until 1881, when he
came to the United States with his father
on his second coming. On July 22 of the
same year he began his residence in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, there adding to his
mental equipment courses of study in
evening school and business college. For
fourteen years he was employed in the
chemical mills of the city, then entered
into partnership with his brother Hugh,
and in 1895 opened a retail furniture store,
under the firm name of McLean Brothers.
The business was profitably conducted as
a partnership until 1912, when Patrick J.
McLean withdrew and started a furniture
and house furnishings business under his
own name, and so continues. He is .a
member of the Catholic Order of Forest-
ers of Massachusetts ; also the American
Order of Foresters. He is a Democrat in
politics, and in religious affiliation a
Catholic.
Patrick J. McLean married, in 1885,
Jane Cassidy, born in Londonderry, Ire-
land, came to the United States at the
age of eighteen years, died in Holyoke,
in 1910, daughter of John and Margaret
(Coyle) Cassidy. Mr. and Mrs. McLean
were the parents of three children : Hugh
P., born September 22, 1895, employed in
store with his father; John J. C, born
1898, now studying medicine in Tufts
College ; Jane Lauretha, born January,
1900, now a student at the Elms .Academy
in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
McLEAN, Hugh. Jr.,
Merchant.
Now a successful merchant of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, Hugh McLean, Jr., son of
Hugh and Elizabeth Donaldson (Mc-
Laughlin) McLean, when a lad of four-
teen years came from his native Scotland,
and amid the many opportunities offered
finally chose merchandising, his success
evidencing that he chose wisely. He was
born in Caldercruix Shotts, a parish of
Lanarkshire, Scotland, sixteen miles
southeast of Glasgow, April 27. 1867.
After attendance at the parish school he
was employed at the Dalsholm mills at
Maryhill, near Glasgow, for a short time,
then in 1881 came with his parents and
family to the United States, locating in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1881. This
city he has ever since considered his home,
although he was employed for some years
in other states. Shortly after coming to
Holyoke, he went to the State of Penn-
sylvania, and for seven years was em-
ployed in the paper mills of that State and
New York State. Later he was for one
year engaged as a traveling salesman. In
1889 he formed a partnership with his
elder brother, Patrick J., founding the
business in Holyoke in which he has since
been engaged. Until 1912 they conducted
the business under the firm name. Mc-
Lean Brothers, but in that year Patrick
J. retired from the firm, since which year
Hugh McLean has conducted it alone,
continuing the firm name. He is a retail
dealer in furniture and kindred lines, has
built up an extensive trade, and is one of
the substantial, highly esteemed mer-
chants of Holyoke. As a citizen. Mr. Mc-
Lean has borne his full share of civil
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responsibility, and for twenty years has
been active in the Democratic party. He
served as a member of the Board of Alder-
men four years, being president of the
board one year. At the present time he is
chairman and treasurer of the Board of
Water Commissioners ; member of the
New England Water Works Association,
serving on important committees, and has
contributed several articles of value to the
press concerning the water supply of
cities, and on many other topics of inter-
est. He is a member of the Democratic
State Central Committee, and was form-
erly chairman of the Democratic City
Committee. He is a potent force in city
politics, and wields an influence in favor
of good government. He is a member
and vice-president of the Home Furniture
Association ; member of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Forest-
ers, Knights of Columbus, and of Blessed
Sacrament (Catholic) Church.
Mr. McLean married (first) October 14,
1892, Ella K. Denneen, daughter of Mat-
thew and Eliza (O'Keefe) Denneen, of
Westville, near Malone, New York ; she
died April 5, 1910. Mr. McLean married
(second) in July, 1911, Nellie T. Gorman,
daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Gor-
man. Hugh and Ella K. (Denneen) Mc-
Lean were the parents of: Hugh Den-
neen, Marion Elizabeth, Elsie Ann, and
Matthew Francis McLean.
McLean, Daniel,
Fire Department Officer.
The fourth of the sons of Hugh and
Elizabeth Donaldson (McLaughlin) Mc-
Lean, all born in Scotland of Scotch-Irish
ancestors, Daniel McLean, after a term
of service as mill worker and mercan-
tile clerk, entered the public service as
fireman, and for fourteen years, as lieu-
tenant, captain and deputy chief, led his
men in their gallant efforts to protect life
and property. His rise in rank evidences
the value of his service to the department
and to the city, and no words of praise
can add to the high reputation he holds.
Daniel McLean was born in Scotland,
March i, 1876, accompanied the family to
Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1881, complet-
ing his education in the public schools of
that city. He began his wage earning life
as an employee of the George C. Gill
Paper Mill, remaining one year ; spent
eighteen months with the Norman Paper
Mill, going thence to the furniture store
of McLean Brothers, continuing in the
latter's employ until 1901. He then
entered the Holyoke Fire Department as
lieutenant of Hose Company No. 2, was
promoted captain in 1903, third deputy
chief in May, 1914, and on July 7, 1915,
first deputy chief, which position he still
holds, a record of honorable advancement
for meritorious service, highly creditable.
He attended and was graduated from the
New York Fire College and Training
School of the New York Fire Department
in order to more thoroughly perfect him-
self in his duties. He is a member of the
Firemen's Aid Association, and of the
State Permanent Firemen's Organization.
He is a Democrat in politics, and a mem-
ber of the city committee. Fraternally he
is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus,
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and the Improved Order of Red
Men, and in religious faith is a Catholic.
Mr. McLean married, November 12,
1913, Martha Annie Driecom, of Holyoke,
daughter of Max Otto and Katherine
(Riemers) Driecom, her father born in
Germany, now deceased, was a prominent
b?ker of Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. McLean
have one child, Martha Elizabeth, born
May 8, 1917.
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RANGER, Casper,
Founder of Important Holyoke Industrie!.
Casper Ranger, founder of two of the
principal industries of Holyoke — the
Casper Ranger Lumber Company and
the Casper Ranger Construction Com-
pany, was born in the city of Mulhausen,
Alsace-Lorraine, now a part of the Ger-
man Empire, in 1850. His rearing was
essentially American, for he was but six
years old when he came with his parents
to this country, their youngest child. He
was educated in the Holyoke and South
Hadley Falls public schools, and after
completing his studies, chose the trade of
carpenter for his active business career.
He began as an apprentice with Allen
Higgenbottom, but later came under the
masterly instruction of Watson Ely, a
successful Holyoke builder of that day.
Mr. Ranger not only became an expert
workman, but a capable manager of men,
and was made foreman by Mr. Ely, which
position he held for several years, and
during that period superintended the
execution of several of the most impor-
tant of Mr. Ely's contracts, among these
being the erection of the City Hall and
Opera House in Holyoke.
In the year 1877, when he had reached
his twenty-seventh year, Mr. Ranger had
reached a point in his career when he real-
ized that he must either embark in busi-
ness on his own account, or forever remain
an employee. His ambition forbade the
latter alternative, and in a small way, as
his capital would allow, he began contract-
ing, and from that time until his death
he was busily engaged in the contracting
and building business, also general wood
working and lumber dealing, his opera-
tions covering the New England States
and the State of New York. It is, how-
ever, principally with his relations to the
city of Holyoke that this narrative has to
deal. Here he soon came to be recog-
nized as its leading contractor and builder.
His absolute honesty, strict observance of
the terms of a contract, and his own
thorough knowledge of his business,
which constituted him his own most
capable superintendent, were (jualifica-
tions which appealed to those with build-
ing contracts to award, and his services
were greatly in demand. The best class
of contracts fell to him, and each one
completed was another effective adver-
tisement.
As time passed, and the business ex-
panded, Mr. Ranger found efficient aides
in his sons, and on May l, 191 2, he incor-
porated the Casper Ranger Construction
Company and the Casper Ranger Lumber
Company, and the Ranger interests en-
tered upon a broader field of expansion.
The elder Ranger gave personal super-
vision to every important contract so long
as the business remained within limits
where that was possible. In his latest
years, he had the great satisfaction of see-
ing that his sons were so thoroughly
grounded in his aims and methods, that
the results attained by them were such
as he himself would have accomplished :
but, while these worthy sons shouldered
the heavier burdens of the business, the
father, as long as he lived, was the man-
aging head of the great industries he had
founded and developed to such unusual
proportions.
While held in admiration for his mas-
terly business abilities, Mr. Ranger was
highly esteemed for his high personal
qualities. He was upright in every rela-
tion of life, loyal and devoted in his
friendships — in brief, of the best type of
citizen. He was deeply interested in pub-
lic afTairs, and took an active part in civic
government. In 1880 he was chosen to
rei)rescnt Ward One in the city council ;
and in 1881-82-83 was reelected alderman
Mass— 6— 16
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from the same ward. In i8<>3 he was
appointed license commissioner by Mayor
A. B. Chapin, and later was appointed to
the same office for a full term of six years.
In 1906 he was reappointed, and during
his entire term, of twelve years was chair-
man of the commission. He was a mem-
ber of the governing board of Holyoke
Lodge, Knights of Columbus ; and a
member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, the Holyoke Club, the Mt.
Tom Golf Club, and the Holyoke Coun-
try Club. He enjoyed the society of his
friends in these organizations, his kindly,
genial, friendly nature expanding under
their social influence, and rendering him
a welcome addition to any group. He
was a lover of his home, and deeply be-
loved in that home by its every member.
While monuments to his skill as a builder
stand everywhere, his truest monument is
in the hearts of his children. The por-
trait of Mr. Casper Ranger which is pre-
sented in the pages of this work, placed
there by his sons, will, it is felt, be a
source of gratification to his large circle
of friends..
Casper Ranger married (first) Kather-
ine Kilmurry, and (second) Ellen Mc-
Donnell. His first wife bore him nine
children, six of whom attained years of
maturity, namely: Joseph F., (see
sketch) ; William E., (see sketch) ; James
A., (see sketch) ; Charles ; George A. L.,
(see sketch) ; and Catherine. Of his sec-
ond marriage three children were born —
Carolyn ; Alma, who became the wife of
Frank Brady, of Brookline, Massachu-
setts ; and Helen.
Mr. Casper Ranger died in Holyoke,
October 17, 1912.
The two great industries which bear
the name of Casper Ranger, and which
are enduring tributes to his name, are
worthy of a particularity of mention
which is deserving of space in this con-
nection. Their contributions to the city
of Holyoke and other important New
luigland cities stamp their founder and
his sons who are continuing his work, as
public benefactors. Seventy per cent, of
all the mills in Holyoke have been erected
by Casper Ranger or by the Casper
Ranger companies. A few of the most
important are the Skinner Mills, the
Whiting Paper Company Mills, the
American Writing Paper Company Mills,
the Farr Alpaca Company Mills, the Ly-
man Mills, the W'hite & WyckofF group,
the National Blank Book plant, the Whit-
more Manufacturing Company plant, the
Deane Steam Pump buildings, and the B.
F. Perkins Mills. Other mill and factory
plants erected outside Holyoke are the
West Boylston Mills in Easthampton ;
Hathaway Cotton Mills in New Bedford ;
Dwight Manufacturing Company plant
in Chicopee ; United Metallic Cartridge
Company factories in Bridgeport ; and
many in Springfield. In the latter city
they are represented by the buildings of
the Springfield Institution for Savings,
the United Electric Company, the United
States Envelope Company, and many
others. Nearly every building on the
campus of Mt. Holyoke College, at South
Hadley Center, including Skinner Recita-
tion Hall and the Alumni Building, are
the Ranger handiwork ; as are also the
Skinner Memorial Chapel of Holyoke,
connected with the Second Congrega-
tional Church, concededly the most beau-
tiful edifice in New England ; the Smith
College Library Building at Northamp-
ton ; Stockbridge Hall ; the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, and the Beta Theta
Pi and Psi Upsilon fraternity houses at
y\mherst ; the City National Bank build-
ings at Holyoke; and many more. Among
the tine residences erected are those of
S. R. Whiting, E. N. White and J. L.
Wyckoff, on Northampton street, Hol-
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yoke; and the Joseph A. Skinner resi-
dence in South Hadley. The beautiful
Nonotuck Hotel of Holyoke is an ex-
ample of that class of building. The
operations of the Ranger Company, as
indicated, cover structures devoted to
every purpose, the range of material be-
ing equally wide — wood, stone, brick,
steel or concrete — in fact, every known
material being used in their building. In
order to meet the demands of the busi-
ness, an enormous plant is maintained
in Holyoke, under the name of the Casper
Ranger Lumber Company ; this includes
a woodworking mill equipped with the
latest and most improved machinery,
which covers an entire block ; a vast
lumber yard, construction yards, and
storehouses for their equipment; and the
Hampshire brickyards, of which the com-
pany are owners, burn millions of bricks
annually for their use.
The incorporation of the Casper Ranger
Construction Company and the Casper
Ranger Lumber Company has been pre-
viously mentioned. The olificials of both
corporations at present (1917) are the
following named, sons of Casper Ranger,
the founder: William E. Ranger, presi-
dent; Joseph F. Ranger, treasurer; and
James A. Ranger, vice-president and
assistant treasurer — narratives of whom
follow in this work. Under their father,
the founder of the Ranger industries, fair
dealing and honest fulfillment of every
contract was never deviated from ; and it
is the pride of his sons, who revere his
memory, that the principles which were
as dear to him as his heart's blood, shall
ever be the guiding lights of his succes-
sors. Admirable as is the work they have
accomplished as builders, they have yet a
greater claim upon public favor in the
spirit of courtesy and kindness with
which they have permeated their entire
plant — that spirit of genuine goodwill and
observance of the "Golden Rule" which
pervades every department. Although
two thousand skilled workmen, represent-
ing every mechanical trade, are at times
employed, it is the policy of the companj
to see every man with whom they cat
possibly have dealings ; and every caller,
whether he represents small or large in-
terests, receives the most courteous con-
sideration. The present managers of the
great Ranger industries have well fulfilled
the expectations of their honored sire.
RANGER, Joseph F..
Officer of Casper Ranger CompanieB.
The immense business of the Caspel
Ranger Construction Company of Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, is conducted by iht
able sons of the founder — Joseph F., Wil-
liam E. and James A. Ranger, each in
charge of a particular department. Th<
business of the company is very exten-
sive, and each son as he came to suitable
years was taught its every detail by the
father, in fact during the intervals in
school life this education for the positions
they were to fill was begun and continued
until each was fitted for his particular
department of the business.
Joseph F. Ranger, the eldest son di
Casper Ranger, was born in Holyoke
Massachusetts, September 5. 1872. lit
was educated in the public schools and
Eastman's Business College, and at the
age of nineteen years, in 1891, entered
his father's employ. He was not ignorant
of much of the work of the Ranger Con-
struction Company, having from boyhood
spent his vacation periods with his father,
whose ambition it was to train his sons
to l)ecome his successors in the great
business he had founded and brought to
a high plane of success. After entering
the business permanently. Joseph F.
Ranger for several years devoted himself
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to outside details connected with pur- James A. Ranger was born in Holyoke,
chasing, contracting and supervision, February 17, 1877. He was educated in
later turning his attention more to office the public schools, Williams College and
details, now being largely occupied in the
inside management. He is a Republican
in politics, and in 1916 was appointed a
member of the city board of water com-
missioners. He is deeply interested in
local real estate, and has done a great
deal for the improvement of the residence
sections of the city through his building
operations. Mr. Ranger is rated an ex-
pert in real estate values and his advice
is constantly sought by both buyers and
sellers. His judgment is relied on im-
plicitly, and the utmost confidence re-
posed in his fairness and justness. He
is a member of the finance committee of
the Mechanics' Savings Bank, and a
director of the Nonotuck Hotel Company,
the hostelry owned by that company be-
ing one of the finest in New England.
Joseph F. Ranger married, April 26,
1897, Alma F., daughter of Frank Smith,
of Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and
Mrs. Ranger are the parents of Kather-
ine, Casper and Elizabeth Ranger.
RANGER, James A.,
Officer of Casper Ranger Companies.
Third of the sons of Casper Ranger
trained by their father to occupy the im-
portant positions they now fill, James A.
Ranger brought to his present position
the experience and business knowledge
Brown College, entering his father's em-
ploy immediately after leaving college.
He was not unfamiliar with the details
of that business when he became a per-
manent part of it as, like his brothers, he
had improved his vacation periods in
various positions both outside and in the
office. In 1901 he was elected to his pres-
ent position, and has developed into one
of the strong men of Holyoke's business
world. Together with his brothers, Jo-
seph F. and William E., he organized the
Hampshire Brick Company, a successful
brick manufacturing company, of which
he is treasurer. He is a member of Sacred
Heart Church, the Knights of Columbus,
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, and the college fraternity, Psi
Epsilon.
James A. Ranger married, September,
1905, Mary Scolley, born in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, of old New England
family. They are the parents of two
children : Casper James and Mary Louise
Ranger.
RANGER, William E.,
Officer of Casper Ranger Companies.
Second of the sons of Casper Ranger,
and like his brothers trained under the
direction of his honored father for the
post of responsibility which he so ably
of a man of greater age, having been but fills, William, E. Ranger is the ideal chief
little past his majority when he became
assistant treasurer of the Casper Ranger
Construction Company of Holyoke, and
vice-president in charge of the lumber
and construction department. That he
has well performed his part in the man-
agement of the large corporation founded
by his father, the prosperity of the com-
pany testifies.
executive for a corporation which em-
ploys such a large number of men as the
Casper Ranger Construction Company of
Holyoke. During his school days every
vacation period was devoted largely to
acquiring familiarity with the various
details of the great business, and when
the time came to permanently become a
part of it, he was placed at the bottom of
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the ladder, sharing every burden and lil)cral supporter of all their interests and
hardship that befell the other workmen, devoted to all that is best for their wel-
In this he gained perfect equipment for fare. He takes a deep interest in the
the greater responsibilities which were to well-being of his many employees, and
follow and a sympathy and an under- has the confidence and the highest esteem
standing of working men and their needs, of all who know him.
difficulties and thinking, which leads him William E. Ranger married, October
to meet them on common ground where 14, 1903. Eliza M.. daughter of John
there are dififerences to adjust. The men Morra.
look upon him as their best friend, in fact
one of them, for did he not for years share RANGER Georee A L
their burdens in daily toil? This ex])lains
his popularity with the men, many of
whom do not think of him as the presi- Youngest son of Casper Ranger and
dent of the corporation for which they his first wife, George Ambrose Luke
work, but as their old friend and call each Ranger has spent his life in Holyoke.
other by the familiar titles of their boy- He was born on the old Ranger home-
hood days. stead on Appleton street, which has lately
William E. Ranger was born in Hoi- passed into other hands. He was edu-
yoke, Massachusetts, January 29, 1876. cated in the Holyoke public schools. He
He was educated in the public schools, then entered the employ of the Casper
and when those years of preparation were Ranger Lumber and Construction Com-
past he assumed the more serious duties pany and remained with this concern for
of life according to the plans of his father, several years and then accepted a position
whom he joined in his building and con- with the Hampshire Brick Company, also
tracting operations. This preparation, owned and operated by them, where he
begun even in his school days, was from arose to the position of assistant foreman,
the very bottom upward and was most holding this position up to June 14, 191 7.
thorough. Prior to his father's death he a period of about twenty-five years when
had been advanced to a responsible post he resigned.
and was the practical head, as the father Mr. Ranger had for some years been
gladly surrendered the burdens of man- interested in owning and operating auto-
agement as his sons were able to assume mobiles, and feeling the need of a change
them. When Casper Ranger finally laid after resigning this position, began the
down in peace "after life's fitful fever," operating of an automobile covering a
William E. Ranger succeeded him as route from the City Hall to the flighlands
president of the Casper Ranger Construe- and in addition to this conveys people to
tion Company, and still most ably guides all the surrounding cities, using two auto-
the destinies of that most successful and mobiles in the prosecution of his business,
important corporation. He is also a He is a man of strong character as befits
director of the Morris Plan Cooperative a son of Casper Ranger and is possessed
Bank and has other large interests. He of those characteristics which have made
is a member of Holy Cross Church, the the name an honored one wherever
Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and known. He is a member of the Knights
Protective Order of Elks and Mt. Tom of Columbus. In politics he is a Repub-
Golf Club, active and popular in all, a lican.
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Mr. Ranger married, June 14, lyii,
Gertrude Canedy, born in Brattleboro,
Vermont, daughter of Harvey Lincoln
and Sarah Jane (Larrabee) Canedy, and
granddaughter of Levi Canedy. In 1915,
Mr. Ranger erected a fine residence in
Holyoke at No. 39 Ridgewood avenue,
which since its completion has been the
familv home.
HALL, Roy Porter,
DairymaiL.
The tradition is that the now numerous
family of the Hall surname in New^ Eng-
land are descended from three Hall
brothers, John, Ralph, and Richard, who
came from England and settled, John, in
Dover; Ralph, in Exeter, New Hamp-
shire ; and Richard, in the vicinity of
Boston. But there were other Halls in
New England during the Coloniol period,
and among them in the first two or three
generations were twenty who bore the
baptismal name of John.
Roy Porter Hall, of Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, descends from the Maine branch
of the descendants of that John Hall who
first appeared in New England in 1635,
when he was made a freeman of Charles-
town. His name appears on the tax list at
Dover, New Hampshire, in 1648. By his
wife Elizabeth, he was the father of seven
children including sons, Sheba, John,
Nathaniel and Ralph, from whom sprang
a numerous family.
Roy Porter Hall is a son of Ellery Cola
Hall, and a grandson of Albert S. Hall,
who left his native Maine and settled in
Massachusetts. He married Mrs. Hannah
H. Hall, widow of George Hall. They
were the parents of several children who
died young, and Leonidas, Marshall and
Ellery Cola Hall, the latter born at Mai-
den, Massachusetts, in 1852, died at South-
wick, Massachusetts, in December, 1902.
Ellery Cola Hall, although a farmer, was
active in business pursuits. He conducted
a meat market in Springfield for a time,
and after his removal to Southwick was
foreman of the Porter tobacco farm. He
married, in 1879, Ella Sarah Porter, born
in Westfield, Massachusetts, December 5,
1856, died in 1896, daughter of Isaac D.
and Sarah Ann (Drake) Porter. They
were the parents of four children: i.
Albert E., died in childhood. 2. Sarah
Edith, married Franklin DeWolf, of
Southwick, and has a daughter, Ella
Adeline Warner, born in September, 1906,
a charter member of the Children of the
American Revolution, and at the age of
twenty-one she graduates into the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. 3.
Charles Leslie, a merchant of Southwick,
married Lovina G. Hastings, and has
three children : Ella Caroline, John Al-
bert and Donald Ellery. 4. Roy Porter,
of further mention.
Roy Porter Hall was born at Chicopee
Falls, Massachusetts, June 2, 1887. He
was educated in the schools of Spring-
field and Westfield, Massachusetts, and at
Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Massa-
chusetts. After completing his studies he
was engaged in farming for a few years,
then entered mercantile life as a clerk,
spending about three years in Springfield,
Massachusetts. The following year was
spent in Southern Idaho and Denver,
Colorado, after which he returned to Mas-
sachusetts, locating in Holyoke in 1902.
He began the retailing of milk in a small
way, serving customers on a short route
in the city. This small business soon ex-
panded into a larger one, and finally
reached such proportions that he incor-
porated as the Hall's Dairy, Incorporated,
of which he is treasurer and general man-
ager. The dairy handles daily two thous-
a!id quarts of pasteurized milk and large
quantities of kindred dairy products, being
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the largest business here, the plant is
equipped with all the latest improved
machinery for their sanitary handling.
Air. Hall married, July 7, 1913, Adeline
Idella Warner, daughter of Solomon
Coombs and Mary Elizabeth (Kirtland)
Warner, of Southwick, Massachusetts.
Solomon C. Warner served in the Civil
War in a Massachusetts regiment. Mr.
and Mrs. Hall are the parents of two
children : Roy Warner, born March 30,
1914, and Mary Edith, December 17, 191 5.
The parents arc members of the Baptist
church.
Mrs. Hall traces descent to John
Warner, born in Springfield, Massachu-
setts, April 20, 1756, died December 24,
1807, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Pie married Mary Ward. Their son. John
W^arner, married Fannie Sanderson and
they were the parents of Solomon Coombs
Warner, father of Solomon Coombs (2)
Warner, who married Mary Elizabeth
Kirtland. Their daughter, Adeline Idella
Warner, married Roy Porter Hall. Mrs.
Hall was educated in the public schools
of Westfield and was graduated from high
school, after which she entered the State
Normal, completing the required course
and receiving a diploma as teacher. She
then taught one year in Southwick. Mas-
sachusetts, the following three years in
Greenfield. Massachusetts, then two years
in the upper grades of the public schools
of New Jersey, filling all these positions
to the entire satisfaction of the Boards
of Education where she taught. Through
the Sanderson line, they also trace back
to the Revolution.
On the maternal side. Mr. Hall de-
scends from Isaac Porter, who came to
Westfield, Massachusetts, from East
Hartford, Connecticut. His son. Ezekiel
Porter, was born in East Hartford, about
1783, and died in Westfield, Massachu-
setts, April 16, 1843. He married. Janu-
ary 30, 1810, Mercy Day, who died June
17, i86i, aged eighty-four years. Their
son, Isaac Day Porter, born in Westfield,
August 17, 1816, died September 4, 1875.
He married, July 4, 1843, Sarah Ann
Drake, born December 21, 1822, died in
1882. Their daughter, l^Ua Sarah Porter,
married Ellery Cola Hall, and they were
the parents of Roy Porter Hall.
REDFORD, Joseph,
ManufactnriiiK Expert.
As superintendent of manufacturing for
the American Thread Company in Hol-
yoke, Mr. Redford fills a position for
which he is admirably fitted through long
manufacturing experience in many locali-
ties. He gained his first knowledge under
the eye of his honored father, who was an
authority on all matters connected with
the manufacture of cotton and woolen
goods, the father gaining his fame in the
textile world through long experience in
English and American mills. Lawrence,
Massachusetts, was the seat of the elder
Redford's activity, and he played an im-
portant part in developing cotton manu-
facturing there.
Robert Redford was born in Bolton.
England, in 1845, died in Lawrence, Mas-
sachusetts, June II. 1914. ■\t the age of
eight years he began in the cotton mills
of Bolton, and from that lowly position
advanced with his years to higher position
until he became manager of the Reddish
Spinning Company of Reddish, England.
In 1880, at the age of thirty-five, he came
to the United States, located in Lawrence,
Massachusetts, and there repeated his
English successes. He planned and built
the Arlington Mills in Lawrence, and as
agent for the owning corporation spent
the last twenty-five years of his life. In
the interest of the corporation he made
two trips annually to England and
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France, buying and selling goods, secur-
ing all improvements in textile machin-
ery from abroad and introducing Amer-
ican goods to the foreign trade. He was
one of the best informed men in the textile
business, an authority frequently con-
sulted by manufacturers on important
subjects where knowledge, experience and
sound judgment were needed. He was
also president of the Warren, Spencer &
Brookfield Railroad, and had other busi-
ness interests. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity, in which he had taken
all the Scottish Rite degrees, up to and
including the thirty-second, some of these
degrees having been conferred in Lawr-
ence, others in England and still others in
France under special dispensation. He
was a member of the Congregational
church, and a man of highest character.
He married Jane Booth, born in Bolton,
England, daughter of Joseph and Mar-
garet Alice Booth. They w^ere the parents
of three children : Joseph, of further
mention ; Margaret Alice, deceased ; May
Lottie.
Joseph Redford, only son of Robert
and Jane (Booth) Redford, was born in
Bolton, England, December 22, 1867. He
attended Bolton schools. When a boy he
accompanied his Grandfather Redford on
his travels, visiting St. Petersburg (Pet-
rograd) and nearly all European capitals.
In 1880 he came to the United States with
his parents, completing his education in
the Lawrence, Massachusetts, schools.
He then entered the employ of the Arling-
ton Mills, of which his father was agent,
continuing with that corporation until
1908, being the overseer of the carding
department of the cotton mill. In 1906
he was sent to Brazil as an expert on mill
construction and operation, spending
eighteen months in that country on his
mission. He performed similar work in
Quitman, Georgia, then returned to Mas-
sachusetts, going to Fall River in the
interest of the American Thread Company
and placing the Kerr Mill No. 3 in running
operation. On February 14, 1910, he was
transferred to Holyoke as superintendent
of the American Thread Company's Mill
No. 5, and there continues his official title,
superintendent of manufacturing, is a
manufacturing expert and so recognized
in the textile world. He is a member of
lodge and encampment of the Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, and of the
English Social Club.
Mr. Redford married, October 30, 1890,
Martha Smith, daughter of John and
Esther (Preston) Smith. They are the
parents of a daughter and three sons :
Marion Alice, married Dr. Manning, a
practicing dentist of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts ; Everett Robert, an automobile
expert, married Ida Turgeon, of Holyoke;
Carlyle and Lawrence.
HINDS, Peter Joseph,
Mill Snperintendent.
Mr. Hinds may be reckoned among the
self-made men of America, who have con-
quered many obstacles and risen from
humble beginnings to positions of import-
ance and responsibility in the comm.unities
where they live. His father, John Henry
Hinds, was born in 1849, ^^ County Cavan,
Ireland, and came to America when a
young man, settling at Newark, New Jer-
sey, where he died in 1905. He received
the benefit of the national schools of Ire-
land, was a man of keen perception and
much native ability, so that he profitted
thereby. He continued in agricultural
|)iirsuits until about eighteen years of age,
when he came to America, and located in
Newark. Th.ere he engaged in business
for many years, until his death, as above
noted. He was a man of quiet nature, of
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domestic taste, and never took part in
political or public life. He married, in
Newark, Mary Riley, also a native of
County Cavan, Ireland, who came to
America when sixteen years of age,
daughter of Peter and Mary Riley. Mr.
and Mrs. Hinds have children: Rose,
wife of Michael Gray; Mary, Elizabeth,
Peter J. and Joseph. The last named died
in childhood.
Peter Joseph Hinds was born October
I 1881, in Newark, New Jersey, and was
educated in the parochial schools of that
city. After a special course of two and
one-half years in the Newark Business
College, he entered the mill of Clark's O.
N. T. Thread Company in Newark, where
he soon proved his efficiency and fidelity,
and through gradual promotions became
overseer. In 1909 he removed to Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, where he was for
som,e time assistant superintendent of the
Merrick Thread Mill. Thence he went to
Fall River, Massachusetts, occupying a
similar position in the Kerr Mill for a
period of about two years. In November,
1915, he returned to Holyoke. as assistant
superintendent of the Hadley Division of
the American Thread Company, which
position he has continued to hold to the
present time. Mr. Hinds is the inventor
of a tube roll that is used in all spinning
machines on yarns of all kinds, and is
rapidly growing in demand and import-
ance. In association with Mr. A. J. Rich-
ards, he formed a firm known as the Rich-
ards-Hinds Company, and engaged in the
manufacture of these rolls at Indian
Orchard. Massachusetts. In the four
years that the goods have been established
on the market a very large business has
been built up and is constantly growing,
assuring to Mr. Hinds an ample reward
for his ingenuity and application. He is a
man of untiring energy, of keen insight,
and is fully capable of caring for the inter-
ests placed in his charge. While in New-
ark, Mr. Hinds was especially active in
amateur dramatics and acted as a director
and coach fur many of the leading amateur
productions in that city and vicinity, for
many years being well known alung these
lines. Naturally he makes his influence
felt in Ilolyoke, although his short resi-
dence there has prevented his taking a
controlling part. His general knowleclge
of affairs, his ability and natural leader-
ship are likely to lead to his promotion in
the near future, and certainly act to the
advantage of the community. He is a
member of the Knights of Columbus and
the Holyoke Country Club.
Mr. Hinds married, in Fel)ruary. 1899,
Mary Houghton, a native of Nova Scotia,
daughter of Samuel Houghton, a native
of London. England, and his wife. Mary
Ann (Scofield) Houghton. Mr. and Mrs.
Hinds have children: Gertrude, Mary,
John. Joseph and \'irginia.
FORSTER. John F. C. M. D..
PhysiciRii. Surgeon.
In a comparatively short period Dr.
Forster has developed a practice in Hol-
voke that is increasing, and is recognized
by his contemporaries and the public as a
skillful and able physician. He is de-
scended from worthy English and Scotch
ancestry.
(I) The first of his lineage now known
was Thomas Forster. a lifelong resident
of England, who married a Miss Stuart,
said to have been a descendant of the
roval family of Stuart of Scotland. They
were the parents of Wilfred Forster. who
was a pioneer settler of Richibucto. New
Brunswick.
(ID Wilfred Forster was born, reared
and educated in Cumberland county. Eng-
land, and resided there until 1826. when he
followed the tide of emigration to the New
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World. Locating in Xtw Hrunswick. he
settled at Richibucto, at the time when
that town contained but five dwellings.
He purchased land and, having capital,
was considered a gentleman farmer, and
died at the age of seventy years. He mar-
ried, in Lngland. Llizabeth Graham, a
native of Cuml)frland county, who sur-
vived him, reaching the age of eighty-nine
years, and dying in Richibucto. Both
were members of the Episcopal church.
They were the parents of seven children.
(HI) Their son, James Forster, was
Ixirii in Scotland, in the early part of the
nineteenth century, being fifteen years of
age when his parents came to New Bruns-
wick, where he completed his education,
having as teacher the recent Senator
David Wark, of Fredericton, New Bruns-
wick. After leaving school he went to
sea, and after seven years embarked in
the coasting trade as master of his own
vessels, making trips along the coasts of
Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Like his forebears he adhered to the Epis-
copal church, and in Canadian politics was
ranked as a Conservative. After a long
and useful life he died at the age of
seventy-six years. His first wife, Isabella
Baker, was a daughter of John Baker, of
Prince Edward Island, and the mother of
seven children. One of these, William
Forster, was a telegraph operator in New
York at the outbreak of the Civil War,
and was sent, with others, on an expedi-
tion to tap the rebel wires between
Charlestown and Savannah. For a period
of five hours he was in communication
with the Southern main army, taking
many important messages to the com-
manding general of the Union army.
Subsequently he was captured by the
Confederates, and sent to Columbia,
South Carolina, thence to the prison at
Andersonville, Georgia, where, after ten
months of confinement, he died of starva-
tion. James Forster married (second)
Mrs. Jane Robotham, who died in 1856,
the mother of two children.
(IV) John Baker Forster, son of James
and Isabella (Baker) Forster, was born
April 5, 1842, in Richibucto, and educated
there. In early life he learned telegraphy,
and for some time was employed as an
operator. Gifted with unusual business
qualifications, and becoming very skillful
in his line, he was made superintendent of
the telegraph line between Richibucto and
Moncton, in 1859, and continued in that
position until 1867, having his head-
quarters at Richibucto. For the next
twelve years he was interested in the
shipping business, and operated a packet
between Shediac and Richibucto. In
1868, at the opening of the Eastern Exten-
sion Railway, now part of the Intercolo-
nial, he became station agent at Painsac
Junction, where he continued one year,
and then went to Nova Scotia to establish
on the railway extending from Pictou to
Halifax the working system used on the
Intercolonial. In 1870 he became station
agent of the latter line at Point du Chien,
where he continued four years, and in
1870 became general agent for several
lines of steamers running from Montreal
and Quebec to Pictou, Nova Scotia. This
position he resigned in 1879, to become
deputy warden at the Dominion Peniten-
tiary, Dorchester, New Brunswick, an in-
stitution with which he continued for
many years to be connected, becoming
warden in 1887. Mr. Forster was an
active Mason, affiliating with Richibucto
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He
was a most useful member of the Epis-
copal church, and of the New Brunswick
Synod, also a trustee of the "Church
School for Girls" at Windsor, Nova
Scotia, and one of the governors of King's
College, at the same place. He married
Fuphcmia Cooke, daughter of Dr. Wil-
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liam Cooke, of Pictou, and they were the
parents of six children, three now living:
Sadie, John F. C, see next paragraph, and
William.
(V) Dr. John F. C. Forster, son of John
Baker and Euphemia (Cooke) Forster,
was born July 24, 1879, ^^ Point Duchene.
New Brunswick. He was educated in the
public schools of Dorchester, New Bruns-
wick, and Pictou Academy. Pursuing
further studies, he graduated from Mt.
Allison University at Sackville, New
Brunswick, in 1898, and from McGill
University, Montreal, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine in 1902. His college
course was supplemented by hospital
work in the Montreal General Hospital
and the Victoria Hospital, of Montreal,
also in the Pierpont Morgan Hospital and
the Lincoln Hospital of New York City.
Having become thoroughly prepared for
the practice of medicine, he settled at
North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1905. and
continued there for seven years, with
Dr. Forster married. June 5, i<^5, Annie
Snyder, a native of Lancaster, Ontario,
Canada, daughter of John P. Snyder.
WHITE, Harry William.
Bnaineas Man.
The name White is a common one, not
only in New England, but in all parts of
the United States, it having been brought
over from Great Britain to this country at
various times, from the earliest Colonial
period down to the present. There were
six who bore this name among the emi-
grants who came to the country during
the early part of our history, of whom the
most prominent were John White, of
S^lem. Massachusetts, who arrived here
in 1638, and William White, of Ipswich,
who preceded him by three years. Prob-
ably the first who reached New England,
however, was elder John White, who
appears to have been born in the mother
countrv about 1600. and who sailed on
the good ship "Lion" in the month of
gratifying success. In 1912, Dr. Forster June, 1632, and landed in Boston some
removed to Holvoke, where he has since months later. He resided for a time at
given his entire time to the general prac-
tice of surgery. A man of scholarly
attainments, of keen and analytical mind,
he is thoroughly fit by nature and experi-
ence for the successful practice of his
profession, and is deservedly popular with
the people of Holyoke. He did not cease
Cambridge, but afterwards settled at
Hartford, where he died January i. 1684.
It is not probable, however, that the
line with which we are here concerned is
descended from any of these, and it is
supposed to have been founded here at a
much later date bv Tohn White, who was
to be a student on leaving college, and is bcrn probably in England or Ireland in
found well versed in all the modern dis-
coveries and advancement of the profes-
sion. He is a member of the Massachu-
setts Medical Association, Hampden
County Medical Society, and the North-
ern Berkshire Medical Society, and his
worth and ability are recognized by his
contemporaries. He is also a member of
the Holyoke Club and the Holyoke Canoe
Club, and finds relaxation in outdoor life.
Like his forbears he is a faithful member
of the Episcopal church.
1791, and who died in this country m
1856. He was a farmer by occupation.
He married Sarah Granger, and they had
the following children : John, who was
killed while serving in the Union army
during the Civil War; Huldah. who be-
came the wife of Henry Humiston :
Sarah; .Anna; Margaret: Lizzie: Kate,
who became the wife of David Fortune:
Tames. .Mice, who became the wife of Gil-
bert Mvatt: William Edward, who is
mentioned below : and .-Mexander.
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William Edward White was burn Au-
gust 13, 1847, at Chateaugay, Franklin
ccainty. New York. He attended the
schools of his native town, and afterwards
worked as a lumberman in the forests of
New York State. He began this whole-
some, if hard life, when but fifteen years
of age, giving his attention to this work
during the winter months, while in the
summer time he farmed. I'or three
years he worked for a Mr. Johnson, the
uncle of his future wife, in the latter's
saw mill at Powers Court, Canada, and
drove a team for a number of years. In
the year 1870 he returned to the United
States and came to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, where he secured a position as engi-
neer in the paper mills. Here he remained
for some thirty years, and then went to
Westfield, Massachusetts, where he occu-
pied a similar position for four and a half
years. He once more returned to Hol-
yoke and was there associated with the
Parsons Paper Company, during the last
years of his active life. In 1905 he retired
from business, and is now (1917) making
his home in Holyoke. He has always
been a man of strong domestic instincts
and has found his chief pleasure in his
own home. He is a great reader, his taste
extending over a wide field of subjects,
and he has a retentive memory which pre-
serves for him the value of what he reads.
In his religious belief he is a Methodist,
and he attends the First Methodist Epis-
copal Church of that denomination at
Holyoke. He is a member of the Legion
of Honor, and is well known in social
circles in the town. Mr. White married,
February 4, 1878, Priscilla Johnson, a
native of Powers Court, Canada, born
May 31, 1858, a daughter of David Ward
and Caroline Olivia (Hall) Johnson. Mr.
and Mrs. White are the parents of the
following children: Nettie Ward, who
became the wife of S. A. Kjoller, and the
mother of one daughter, Priscilla; Archi-
iKild, married Florence Dakin ; Harry
William, with whose career we are par-
ticularly concerned ; Orrick Edward, mar-
ried Marion Chapman; Fayette Osgood,
married Elsie McCausland ; Howard
Allen, married Lillie Barker Tapper;
and Viola.
Born February 8, 1883, at Holyoke,
Massachusetts, Harry William White has
continued to make his home in his native
town up to the present time. There he
passed his childhood and there he received
his education, attending for this purpose
the local public schools, although to a
very large degree he is self educated. The
circumstances of his early life were such
that he did not enjoy many educational
advantages, but such as he did he supple-
mented by studying independently of his
school work at night, and in this way
came to possess in time a better education
than many a young man who may attend
the best of schools. While thus engaged
at night, he was not idle in the day time,
but worked from an early age in the paper
mills at Holyoke. In the year 1906 Mr.
White associated himself with C. P. Ly-
man, of Holyoke, in the plumbing and
tinning business of the latter, and now
has entire charge of the work of that
firm, not only of the practical and me-
chanical department, but of the making of
ertimates, contracts, etc. He is correctly
regarded at the present time as one of the
most successful of the younger business
men and merchants of the town, and has
earned an enviable reputation for probity
and ability. He is a conspicuous figure
in the social and fraternal circles of the
community, and is a member of the local
lodges of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and was at one time affiliated
with the Knights of Malta. Like his
father before him he is a Methodist in
his religious belief, and attends the First
Church of that denomination in Holyoke.
Harry William White was united in
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marriage, March 14, 1906, with Bessie
Arms Lyman, a native of Sunderland,
Massachusetts, and the adopted daughter
of Alfred and Sarah (Brahman) Arms.
To ]\Ir. and Mrs. White two children have
been born as follows : Lyman Fayette,
February 20, 1907, and Orrick Ward, July
20, 1908.
MacBEAN, Thomas,
Real Estate, Insurance.
Alexander MacBean, grandfather of
Thomas MacBean, of Holyoke, was a
Scotch soldier in the English army, was
with Wellington at Waterloo, the battle
fought in Belgium which determined the
fate of Europe and the great Napoleon.
Great-grandsons of his are now with the
English army in France and Egypt,
Thomas, the elder, a gunner of the royal
artillery, a veteran of the Dardanelles
campaign, now in Egypt, the younger,
also Alexander MacBean, just promoted
to the rank of sergeant, although but
eighteen years of age. It is the ambition
of this latter day Alexander MacBean that
he too may see service in a great battle in
Belgium that perhaps may be as decisive
in settling the fate of Europe as was the
battle in which his great-grandfather
fought.
This Alexander ]\IacBean was a grand-
son of Gillies MacBean, who fought with
his Prince Charlie and was one of the
famous clan Macintosh, whose motto was
"Touch not a cat but with a glove."
Gillies MacBean had three sons born as
triplets, one of which was the father of
Alexander MacBean, grandfather of
Thomas MacBean, of Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts. Alexander MacBean married
Nancy Wilson, and they are the parents
of three sons: Peter, a veteran of the
Crimean War, who died in the English
army ; James, was with Havelock's Relief
I^xpedition in this mutiny and was killed
at the Relief of Lucknow ; and Thomas,
of further menticjn.
Thomas MacBean, father of Thomas
MacBean, Jr., was born in Markinch,
Scotland, in 1836, and died in ICasthamp-
ton, Massachusetts, July 3, 1901. He at-
tended school in Scotland until nine years
of age, then began working in a paper
mill. He continued a paper mill worker
in Scotland until 1893. then came to the
United States, dying eight years later.
His life in Massachusetts was spent in
Flolyoke and Easthampton. In politics
he was a Liberal, a warm admirer of the
statesman, William E. Gladstone, took a
deep interest in the churcli and its work,
and was devoted to his home and family.
He married Jane Jamieson. born in Mark-
inch, Scotland, about 1841, died in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, in September, 1893,
daughter of Alexander and Jane (Eng-
lish) Jamieson. They were the parents
of four daughters and two sons: Eliza-
beth, deceased ; Alexander, of Norwich,
England, whose sons, Thomas and Alex-
ander, are fighting with the Allies in
France and Egypt, their sister in the med-
ical army service; Agnes, twin with Alex-
ander, deceased; Jane Jamieson, married
James Ross, of Holyoke, and has a son.
James MacBean Ross ; Thomas, of further
mention; and Harriet Jamieson MacBean.
Thomas MacBean. Jr.. was born in
Markinch, Scotland. August 20, 1870. He
was educated in the schools of his native
town, went to work in a flax mill when
ten years of age and in a pa{)er mill when
twelve. He came to the L'nited States in
1893, and located in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, where he was first employed by the
Holyoke Paper Company and later by the
Riverside Paper Mill, leaving the mill in
1896 to enter W'illiston Seminary. He
there remained four years and success-
fullv passed entrance examinations to
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Yale University. He studied law for two
yea.Ts, then entered the real estate and in-
surance business in Easthampton, in igoo,
remaining there until February, 1915,
when he located in Holyoke in the same
line of business. He is a member of Ionic
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Easthampton ; Northampton Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons; William Parsons
Council, Royal and Select Masters;
Northampton Commandery, Knights
Templar; and the First Congregational
Church, of Easthampton. He was for
four years water tax collector of East-
hampton, and is secretary and treasurer
of the Holyoke Specialty Manufacturing
Company, engaged in the manufacture of
a motor washing machine. He is a man
highly esteemed for energy and upright-
ness.
Mr. MacBean married, March 16, 1903,
Edith Bromley, daughter of Charles and
Hanna Bromley, of Leicester, England.
Mrs. MacBean came to the United States
when a child.
BEAUPRE. Dolor Israel, M. D.,
Physician^ Surgeon.
Among the physicians of French par-
entage, who by courteous treatment and
sympathetic manner, has endeared him-
self to a large circle of people in Holyoke,
thereby affording him an opportunity to
use to the greatest extent his ability as a
physician, should be mentioned the gen-
tleman whose name heads this article. He
is of French ancestry, descended from the
sturdy yeoman who came from France to
Canada some years before the "May-
flower'' sailed.
The surname Beaupre in French has the
same meaning originally as Fairfield in
English, and is a derivation from a place
name. Before the year 1200 this name
came into use as a family name, adopted
by various distinct families, from the
name of the locality in which they lived.
The name became wide-spread, the family
or families being prolific, and in France
and Canada many of the name have
achieved distinction.
The founder of the family in Canada,
Augustin Beaupre, was born at Bordeaux,
France, in 1677, and died September 7,
1747. He was the first of the name that
the records reveal in this country, and
his descendants have been fairly numer-
ous both in Canada and the United States.
Israel Beaupre, a descendant of Au-
gustin Beaupre, was born in La Colle,
Province of Quebec, Canada. His early
schooling was received in his native town,
but his education was limited, as he left
his home when sixteen years old and took
a position in the mills at Manchaug, Mas-
sachusetts, to learn the trade of loom
fixer. He became a skillful mechanic, and
followed his trade for a time in Canada
and later in Ludlow, Massachusetts.
Eventually he settled in Indian Orchard,
and there he followed the trade of car-
penter and joiner, and in due time became
a contractor and builder. He employed
several men and took contracts for many
buildings in this section. He had a repu-
tation for good, honest and reliable work.
He was an active, alert, energetic man,
highly esteemed in the community, and
resided there until his death in 1912, at
fifty-six years of age. He was a member
of the Heptasophs, and of the local Union
of Carpenters at Indian Orchard He mar-
ried, at Indian Orchard, Mary La Fren-
iere, born at Freligsburg, Province of
Quebec, Canada Children, born at Indian
Orchard: i. Rose, became the wife of
Caregnan, of Indian Orchard ;
Roland and Clarice. 2. Emma,
1904, aged nineteen years. 3.
4. Dr. Dolor Israel, of whom
Hormis
children
died in
Bertha,
further.
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Dr. Dolor Israel Beaupre, son of Israel
and Mary (La Freniere) Beaupre, was
born at Springfield, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber ID, 1886. He attended the public
schools of Indian Orchard, and after
graduating entered Assumption College
of Montreal, Canada, from which he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in the class of 1908. He then entered
the Medical School of La Salle Univer-
sity, from which he was graduated with
the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the
class of 1912. He was afterward an in-
terne in Hotel Dieu, a Montreal hospital,
for more than a year. In 1913 he came
to Holyoke. Massachusetts, where he
opened an office and has since been in
active general practice in that city. The
above description does not adequately
portray the character and achievements
of Dr. Beaupre, who in every sense of the
word is a self-made man and who has
reached his present place in the medical
and social life in the city of Holyoke by
persistent effort and a determination to
succeed. He is a member of the Hamp-
den County Medical Society, in the pro-
ceedings of which he takes an active part
and interest, and he is also a member of
the following societies: The Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Inde-
pendent Order of Orioles, the Catholic
Order of Foresters, and the following
French societies : St. Jean Baptist Society
and the Rochambeau Circle.
Dr. Beaupre married, October 5. 1914, .
Hermenie Osteguy, born at Merryville,
Canada, daughter of Flies Osteguy. She
died February 25, 1916.
KOEGEL, Charles Frederick,
Inventor, Mannfactnrer.
Charles Frederick Koegel, mechanic,
inventor and manufacturer, who died in
Holyoke in 191 1, was one of its best
known and highly respected citizens. He
was a native of Germany, and in his life
he exemplihed in a marked degree the
German characteristics of thoroughness,
tenacity and unflagging industry. He was
born February 7, 1848, in P>aden, Ger-
many, a son of Ignatius Koegel, also a
native of that city, and his wife, Margaret
I'lorentine ( Reich j Koegel. Ignatius
Koegel was born about 1819, in Baden,
the son of Ignatius Koegel, also a native
of that place, where he died at an ad-
vanced age. Ignatius Koegel, Jr., left his
native land and settled in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, where he died in 1891, at the
age of seventy-two. His wife was born
1822, and died in 1892, at Holyoke, at the
age of seventy years. They were survived
by eight children : Charles Frederick,
Herman, William, Mary, Francis, Floren-
tine, Amelia, Anna and Louise. Of these
only five are now living: William, resid-
ing at Clinton, Massachusetts; Floren-
tine; Mary, became the wife of John
Schuster; Anna, became the wife of
Adolph Hitner; and Louise, became the
wife of Hubert Kuell.
Charles Frederick Koegel was the finest
type of early German immigrant, and his
name can well be placed in the list of
those who have labored unceasingly for
the upbuilding of Holyoke as an indus-
trial community. His early education
was received in his native land, and he
was a student in the mechanical engineer-
ing department of the famous University
of Heidelberg, when his parents deter-
mined to remove to America. He accom-
panied them, and spent most of his life in
Holyoke. Here he first entered the em-
ployment of the Holyoke Paper Com-
pany as master mechanic, and continued
seventeen years in this association. He
was possessed of a clear mind and great
creative faculties, and was an indefatiga-
ble worker. While employed in the mills
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by day, he spent much of hi> time by
night devising improvements in mill
working machinery. He fitted up a
laboratory at his home and there spent
many hours of the night in experimenting
in the development of labor-saving de-
vices. In this he was very successful, and
no less than seven of his ideas were
patented and placed in practical oper-
ation. Many others of his devised im-
provements which he did not take the
trouble to patent are now in daily use.
The most important of his inventions is
the "Koegel Slitter," which he perfected
while working as a master machinist.
After completing his term of service in
the Holyoke Paper Mills he engaged in
business for himself, and made improve-
ments upon the originally patented slitter,
which has since been known as the "Im-
proved Koegel Slitter No. i." Others of
his important inventions are the slitting
grinder and the sloper slitting machine.
In 1892 Mr. Koegel founded the now well
known firm of Charles Koegel & Sons,
and with the aid of one of these, Mr. Her-
man Koegel, and one workman, he began
to builfl and repair paper mill machinery
in a small room on Bigelow street. Natur-
ally whatever this remarkable man under-
took to accomplish was successfully car-
ried through. Although begun in a very
small way, this establishment has con-
tinually grown until it is now recognized
as one of the leaders in this line of indus-
try. Every machine produced is of
acknowledged merit and simplicity. The
c|ualit}' of the production has given the
firm a very high reputation, and it now
produces paper and wire mill machinery,
patent slitting and wire drawing machin-
ery, improved universal slitter grinding
machines, latest improved slitters, slitter
blades, and circular knives of every de-
scription, improved wire winding ma-
chines used to spool wire, said to be the
best on the market, doing more and better
work than any other. The establishment
owns many patents on the machinery
which it turns out, and is the largest in
its special class in New England. Much
of the machinery is of original design,
and possesses many points of superiority,
and finds ready market throughout the
United States and in foreign countries.
Much of the product has been shipped to
Japan and Germany. The plant very
quickly outgrew its humble quarters on
Bigelow street, and was removed to a
three-story building on the first level of
Canal, near Cabot street, occupying about
twelve thousand feet of floor space. Here
they have a factory fully equipped with
the most modern appliances, much of the
machinery designed and built for special
lines of work. It is a fine monument to
the man who founded and built it up. Mr.
Koegel was more than a mechanic and
inventor. He was a capable business man,
with a large vein of humor in his makeup,
which often turned aside the anger of
others. His society was highly prized by
his acquaintances, and he was ever wel-
come in every circle where he went. Be-
neath his cheerful exterior was the serious
mind which enabled him to grapple with
great problems. His tenacity of purpose
and mental grasp enabled him to bring
most of his problems to a satisfactory
solution. Always a student and deeply
interested in trade matters, he did not
overlook the interests of the community
in which he lived, and was active in solv-
ing political and social questions. Though
not active in practical politics, he never
lost interest in the progress of his adopted
country, and of his home town. Before
the city had an organized fire department
he ofifered his services as a fireman, and
aided in protecting property and life. He
was a member of the Knights of Pythias,
of the Holyoke Club, and one of the
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organizers and active members of the
Holyoke Turn V^erein. His death, which
occurred at Holyoke, August 8, 191 1, at
the age of sixty-three years, caused a loss
keenly felt, not only by his family, but by
his associates and the community gener-
ally. In his death Massachusetts lost a
true type of the worthy citizen, and a
noble and generous soul.
Mr. Koegel married, June 1, 1872, Wil-
helmina Pauline Merkel, also a native of
Baden, a daughter of Johan Frederick and
Margaret Barbara (Schuster) Merkel.
Her parents were natives of Germany,
who settled in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
where they died. Mr. Koegel is survived
by his widow, five daughters and three
sons, namely: i. Louise, became the wife
of Charles Oliver Downing, of Holyoke ;
he died July 2, 1910. 2. Minnetta, became
the wife of Irving L. Johnson, of Miller,
South Dakota. 3. Elizabeth, became the
wife of Harry E. Perry, formerly of
Springfield, Massachusetts, now of Keene,
New Hampshire. 4. Lillian, became the
wife of Harold C. Foy, of Hartford, Con-
necticut. 5. Margaret, became the wife
of Tracey W. Gerry, of Oshkosh, Wis-
consin. 6. Herman, married Emma E.
Jagger, of Holyoke, Massachusetts. 7.
Fred, married Theresa Schnell. 8.
Charles, especially well known through-
out the paper industry; married, October
17, 1916, Rosalind E. Cook, only daugh-
ter of George W. Cook ; for a number of
years prior to her marriage, Mrs. Koegel
wac engaged in newspaper work in Hol-
yoke, and for five years was with the
"Transcript," where she won the highest
esteem of her co-workers and commanded
the respect and confidence of the Holyoke
public in a degree that few newspaper
workers ever attain. The "Transcript"
ofBce said of her that during her years
of unfailing efficient work covering the
local department in more ample mj.nncr
than is usually connected with the work
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of the social departnicnt, Miss Look was
never known to have made a statement
that was not so or to have missed an item
that she might have been able to secure,
i his is as high a tribute of efficient work
as a newspaper can give.
The business founded by Mr. Koegel is
conducted by the three sons. Each of the
sons entered the business as soon as he
had completed the course of the city
public schools. They also attended night
sessions at business schools, while ac-
tively employed at the shops during the
day. They inherit in large degree the
energy and i)eculiar ability of their father,
and are thorough and efficient business
men. Under their management the
growth of the business has continued, and
they now employ fifty-five skilled me-
chanics and transact a business of one
hundred thousand dollars per year.
Though keenly interested in the political
and social questions of the day, they do
not take any active part in political move-
ments, and devote their attention and
abilities to the development of their busi-
ness. Like their parents they are loyal
supporters of the Lutheran church.
MURRAY, Peter Joseph,
BnaineiB Man.
For many years a well known and
highly regarded merchant of Holyoke.
Massachusetts. Mr. Murray attained the
position he held in the business com-
munity through his own energy, enter-
prise and integrity. A worker from l)oy-
hood, he threw himself heartily into what-
ever task was before him and richly
earned the success achieved and the posi-
tion he occupied. He not only won per-
sonal reputation, but by the upbuilding of
a prosperous commercial house he added
to the growth and importance of the city
of his adoption.
Peter Joseph Murray was a grandson
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of Peter Murray, who lived and died in
Ireland, where he was a well-to-do farmer.
He married (hrst) Rose Shaughnessy,
who died leaving children : James and
i:ilen. By a second wife he had Barney
and Mary Murray.
James Murray, only son of Peter Mur-
ray and his hrst wife, Rose (Shaugh-
nessy) Murray, was born in Ireland, in
183 1, and was killed at the battle of the
Wilderness in Virginia, May 10, 1864, a
brave soldier of the Union. He was a
man of education and intelligence, self-
made, as at the age of seventeen, in 1848,
he ran away from home to come to the
United States. On coming he found a
home in Steuljcn county, New York,
where for a time he was a hotel steward.
Later he bought a farm of sixty acres and
had just settled down to a farmer's life
when the call to arms drew him and he
marched away to the war, never to return.
He married, in Canisteo, New York, Mary
Ann McNiel, born in Belfast, Ireland,
daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Mc-
Niel) McNiel. They were the parents of
Rose Murray, married Thomas Maloney ;
Mary Ellen, married James J. Monahan ;
Sarah, married George Sanderson ; Peter
Joseph, of further mention ; James, de-
ceased, a fire commissioner of Hartford,
Connecticut ; Margaret, married Hugh
Brady, captain of police, Yonkers, New
York'
Peter Joseph Murray was born in Rex-
ville, Steuben county. New York, Febru-
ary 9, i860, and died at Greylock Rest,
Adams, Massachusetts, where he had
gone for treatment, May 10, 1916. Until
the age ot thirteen the lad remained at the
Rexville farm with his mother, attending
the i)ublic school, then from thirteen to
si.xtecn he lived in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, later returning to the home farm
where he remained for six years, coming
with his mother to Holyoke at their ex-
piration. He obtained a position in Hol-
yoke with Martin Conway, a dealer in
sewing machines, with whom he remained
four years. At the end of that period he
established himself in the same line of
business, succeeding in his undertaking,
as he was bound to do, for he labored
with an earnestness and singleness of pur-
pose which nothing could daunt or dis-
courage. About 1896, Mr. Murray formed
a partnership with P. J. Collins, and under
the firm name, Collins & Murray, engaged
in the retail furniture business. In that
line he made his great success, and dur-
ing the twenty years which elapsed before
death ended his labors, the firm transacted
a large and profitable business while the
partners, working in perfect harmony,
kept pace with the progress of the city
and prospered abundantly. Mr. Murray
was a man of honorable, upright life, was
of a genial, happy disposition, thoroughly
enjoyed his work, and made a friend of
every person with whom he came in con-
tact. He enjoyed the society of his fellow
workers in every line, was so full of en-
ergy and optimism that his very presence
was an inspiration and his example of
diligence and devotion made him a leader
among his business friends. His influence
was always exerted for good, and he freely
aided with his means all worthy causes.
He was a member of Holyoke Lodge, Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
and the Catholic Order of Foresters, but
his greatest attraction was his home and
family. There he was at his best and
there he loved to be. The close attention
he gave to business finally undermined
his health, but it was thought that a
course of treatment at Greylock Rest,
with the absolute respite from business
cares that place afiforded, would restore
his failing energies, but the edict had gone
forth and his race was run.
Mr. Murray married. May 29, 1888,
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Catherine A. Reardon, born in Hadley,
Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas and
Hannah (Toole) Reardon, her father com-
ing to the United States from Ireland a
young man. They were the parents of a
daughter, Grace, who resides with her
mother in Holyoke.
SMITH, George Albert,
Representative Citizen.
George A. Smith, sales manager of the
Hampden Glazed Paper & Card Com-
pany, comes of an old Connecticut family.
He is a son of Joseph Smith, of Colches-
ter, Connecticut, and grandson of Captain
William B. Smith, who died in 1840, a
farmer. Captain Smith married Jane
Crosby, who was born in East Haddam
county, Connecticut, and died in June,
1882. Captain William B. and Jane
(Crosby) Smith were the parents of John
Albert, Henry, Franklin, Joseph and Brit-
any Smith.
Joseph Smith was born in Old Lyme,
Connecticut, October 11, 1839. A black-
smith by trade, he has pursued his voca-
tion and lived in Colchester most of his
life. He is a veteran of the Civil War, en-
listing in Norwich, Connecticut, in Com-
pany A, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Connec-
ticut Volunteer Infantry, serving one year
under General Butler at New Orleans,
and was under fire in several engage-
ments of a minor character but exceed-
ingly dangerous. After his return from
the war he followed his trade in Colches-
ter, and operated a wheelwright shop,
building carriages and wagons, turning
cut of his own shop the finished carriage ;
wood work, iron work, upholstering and
painting all being done by his own men
on the premises. He continued active in
business until 1915, when he retired. For
a number of years he was president of the
Colchester Savings Bank, is a member of
the board of managers of Bacon Academy,
member of the First Congregational
Church, but has never taken an active
part in politics. Joseph Smith married,
April II, 1866, Ellen Fuller, daughter of
David and Mary (Sissons) Fuller. They
are the parents of: George Albert, of fur-
ther mention; William I., born February
2, 1868; Annie M., August 17, 1869; Ber-
tha F., March 8, 1871 ; Nellie M., January
17; 1873; J- Henry, September 20, 1874;
Rose F., May 24, 1876; Emma D., Octo-
ber 2, 1878.
George Albert Smith was born in Col-
chester, Connecticut, February i, 1867.
After passing through the graded schools
he entered Bacon Academy, Colchester,
and was graduated from that institution,
class of 1886. He began business life as
a clerk in a hardware manufacturing plant
at Nashua, New Hampshire, continuing
two years before connecting himself with
the Nashua Card & Glazed Paper Com-
pany, of Nashua, a corporation of which
he was a part for sixteen years, rising to
the position of superintendent. In 1905
he came to Holyoke and entered the sales
department of the Hampden Glazed Paper
& Card Company, a position he has most
ably filled until the present time (1917).
He is a member and treasurer of the Sec-
ond Congregational Church, of Holyoke,
and of the Holyoke Country Club.
Mr. Smith married, in December, 1892,
Bertha Wallace, of Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, daughter of Job and Eliza Wallace.
They are the parents of a son, Wallace
Smith, born in Nashua, in July, 1900.
DICKINSON, George Levi,
Retired Police OfBcer.
Whether the elements of success in life
are innate attributes of the individual or
whether they are quickened by a process
of a circumstantial development, it is im-
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possible to clearly determine, yet the
study of a successful life is none the less
profitable by reason of the existence of
this uncertainty, and in the majority of
cases it is found that exceptional ability,
supplemented by close application and
earnest purpose, forms the real secret of
the success attained. This is certainly
true of Sergeant George Levi Dickinson,
whose passing deprived the city of Hol-
yoke of one of the most efficient members
of the police department. Sergeant Dick-
inson was of English descent, tracing
through eight generations to Nathaniel
Dickinson, of Ely, Cambridge, England,
a descendant of Walter de Caen, who later
adopted as his surname the name of his
manor, Kenson, in Yorkshire, and was
known as Walter de Kenson. This be-
came Dykonson in the second generation,
Dykenson in the third, Dykensonne in
the fourth, Dickensonne in the fifth, Dick-
erson in the sixth, and in the seventh, the
present form, Dickinson. From Yorkshire
this branch in the eleventh generation
settled at Brinley Hall in Staffordshire,
thence in the thirteenth in Cambridge-
shire, William Dickinson, of the four-
teenth generation, who married, in 1594.
Sarah Stacey, dying in Ely in 1628. They
were the parents of Nathaniel Dickinson,
of the fifteenth English generation, and
the founder of the Dickinson family in
New England.
Nathaniel Dickinson was born in Ely,
Cambridge. England, in 1600, and died in
Hadley, Massachusetts, June 16, 1676. He
married at East Bergolat, SufTolk, Eng-
land, in January, 1630, Anna, widow of
William Gull, and with her settled in
Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1636 or
1637. There he became a leader, serving
as town clerk in 1645, and in 1646-47 as
deputy to the General Court. In 1659 he
moved to Hadley. Massachusetts ; was
admitted as freeman there in 1661, was a
deacon of the church, first recorder of the
town, selectman, assessor, magistrate,
member of the Hampshire Troop, and a
member of the first board of trustees of
Hopkins Academy. He lived for a time
in Hatfield, but returned to Hadley, where
he died. His first wife died in Wethers-
field, and in Hadley he married his second
wife, also bearing the name Anna. By his
first marriage there were ten children, one
of whom, Azariah, was killed in the
Swamp Fight, August 25. 1675. The line
of descent is through Samuel Dickinson,
the sixth child and fourth son, who was
born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in
July, 1638, and died in Hatfield, Massa-
chusetts, November 30, 171 1. He was
made a freeman of Hatfield in 1690, and
there spent the remainder of his life. He
married, January 4, 1668, Martha, daugh-
ter of James Bridgman, of Springfield and
Northampton. They were the parents of
five sons, three daughters and one died
unnamed.
Ebenezer Dickinson, the sixth child,
was born February 2, 1681, and spent his
life in Hatfield, Massachusetts. He mar-
ried, June 27, 1706, Hannah Frary. They
had eight children, the third a son Nathan.
Nathan Dickinson was born in Hatfield,
Massachusetts, May 30, 1712, and died in
Amherst, Massachusetts, August 7, 1796.
He married (first) Thankful Warner,
(second) Joanna Leonard, of Springfield,
fthird) Judith Hosmer. By his first wife
he had children : Nathan (2) ; Levi, of
further mention ; Irene and Enos. By his
second wife he had eight children, and by
the third wife a son Stephen and a daugh-
ter Judith.
Levi Dickinson, son of Nathan Dickin-
son and his first wife. Thankful (Warner)
Dickinson, was born January 3, 1741-42.
He married and had a son, Sylvanus Dick-
inson, whose son, Levi Dickinson, mar-
ried Alma Pomerov, and thev were the
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parents of Levi P. Dickinson, father of
Sergeant George Levi Dickinson, to
whose memory this review of a useful life
is dedicated.
Levi P. Dickinson was born November
27, 1832, in Hadley, Massachusetts, and
died in June, 1914. He was a carpenter
by trade, and for many years was a guide
en Mt. Tom and in charge of the Observa-
tion Room. He married Eliza Smith, born
in April, 1833, and died in January. 1914.
They were the parents of five children :
Mary Delia, became the wife of August
W^ilfred Hoffman, of South Hadley Falls,
and they have one son, George Levi Dick-
inson HofTman ; William ; George L. ;
Nellie Clara; Edward P. 15.
George Levi Dickinson, of the ninth
American generation of his family, son of
Levi P. and Eliza (Smith) Dickinson, was
born at North Amherst, Massachusetts.
June 27. 1859, and died at the City Hos-
pital in Holyoke, after a month's illness,
May 2, 1916, on his thirty-seventh wed-
ding anniversary. He acquired a practical
education in the public schools of his na-
tive town, and was reared to habits of
thrift and industry, characteristics which
were strongly in evidence during his sub-
sequent career. In 1880, upon attaining
legal age, he took up his residence in Hol-
yoke. becoming a clerk in the store of
Philander Moore, whom he served faith-
fully and conscientiously for five years,
until appointed a member of the police
force by Mayor James E. Delaney, Febru-
ary 5, 1885. He possessed a wonderful
physique, but used his strength judicious-
ly, his power lying in the splendid judg-
ment he always used in making arrests,
not exerting more than the necessary
force and never arresting a man who did
not deserve it. He was kindness itself
when it came to dealing with other men's
weakness, never taking advantage of his
uniform to enforce his private views, this
fact being one of the truest tests of his
si>lcndi(l maniiood. Ik* was appointed
lieutenant in 1898 by the late Mayor
Michael Connors, and in the discharge of
his duties was most cfificient. With the
establishment of civil service in the de-
partment he was returned to the ranks,
but was promoted a sergeant by Mayor
X. P. Avery, March 8, 1908. A more fear-
less officer never wf)rc a uniform ; law
l^reakers feared him, but the little children
on his beat in the old days were his most
valued friends, this indicating clearly his
gentle, loving nature. He performed his
duty faithfully and conscientiously in
every part of the city, l)ut in later years
he had jurisdiction at night over the dis-
trict below the canals and he took a {)ar-
ticular pride in the way "my boys'' kept
the law. In private life he was the earnest,
clean living man, in manner cordial and
genial, in disposition courteous and kind-
ly, his many manly characteristics win-
ning him popularity with a host of friends.
He enjoyed the esteem and respect ever
accorded to those who act well their part
in life, in whatever sphere placed, and his
name was synonymous with all that was
upright and honorable. Said his chief.
Marshal Thomas J. Lynch, and his senti-
ments were echoed by evcr\' member of
the police department: "He was a splen-
did police officer, strong, kind and always
a credit to the force and the uniform he
wore. The department loses an efficient
member and the city loses an excellent
citizen by death."
Sergeant Dickinson married. May 2,
1879. Etta Moulton. daughter of Robert
and Mary (Brown) Moulton. of North
Parsonsfield, York county. Maine. They
were the parents of four children, all of
whom survive their father: Edith; Wil-
liam Robert, married Minnie Beudroin ;
Alice, married Howard Martin and has a
son, Robert Frank Martin ; George Ed-
ward, married Grace E. Temple and has a
daughter, Marian E. Dickinson.
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MOQUIN. Valmore,
Capitalist.
Valmore Moquin was a native of Que-
bec, and was a descendant of an old
French-Canadian family, a son of Joseph
Moquin. a native of Canada, born 1803,
who died in Holyoke, August 22, 1866,
aged sixty-three years. Early in life Joseph
Moquin located in Springfield. Massachu-
setts, where he was in the grocery busi-
ness, and was successful also as a con-
tractor and builder, having large real
estate interests. He married Priscilla
Roberts, who died within a few years
after their marriage, leaving three chil-
dren: Valmore, Cordelia and Minnie, all
now deceased.
X'almore Moquin was born August 2,
1848, at Urbain, Province of Quebec, Can-
ada, and died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
December 31. 1908. He w^as fourteen
years of age when his father removed to
Massachusetts, and resided for some
years in .Springfield, whence he removed
to Holyoke. and there continued to reside
until his death. He was one of the best
known of the French residents of Hol-
yoke, where he settled in 1868. Here,
with the assistance of his wife, he estab-
lished a grocery store, and by their close
application and honest methods drew
about them a large body of customers,
making the business very successful and
profitable. This continued until a short
time before his death, when his wife sold
out. after which, until his death, he gave
attention to his real estate interests, and
in 1881 he built the present home of his
widow at Xo. 180 Pine street. With
shrewd foresight they foresaw the de-
veloi)ment and prosperity of the city, and
invested largely in real estate, which en-
hanced in value. From 1894 to 1897 he
was a fire commissioner of Holyoke, and
he was ever readv to advance the interests
of the city. He became a stockholder and
director of the People's Savings Bank,
Holyoke Savings Bank and City Co-oper-
ative Bank. He was greatly interested in
and was a life-long member of the Society
of St. Jean Baptiste, held several offices
in this society, and was also interested in
a number of other organizations, includ-
ing the Artisans. He was also a member
of several social organizations, and was
very popular throughout the city among
all classes of people. Ever quiet and un-
assuming, he was most hospitable and
large-hearted, and contributed to the sup-
port and advancement of various public
institutions. He was a self-made man,
with small educational opportunities, for
which he made up by well-balanced judg-
ment and keen powers of observation and
foresight. His advice in business matters
was often sought and highly regarded.
His judgment on the larger business ques-
tions of the day was sound, and this led
to his political preferment, and would
have led farther in this line had he been
willing. His home life was almost ideal,
and he was never happier than when en-
tertaining friends in his home circle.
He married, April 26. 1876, Caroline
Gilbert, of Troy, New York, born Febru-
ary 4, 1853, daughter of Maxim and Adele
(Billdreau) Gilbert. She survives him
with their three sons : Albert, Oscar and
Rene J., all of Holyoke. Six of their
children died in early childhood. Albert,
the eldest son, born March 6, 1877, is a
buyer for a leather goods house in Bos-
ton ; he married Milly La Roche. The
second son, Oscar, was born June 20.
1879, and is now manager of the Chicopee
Falls plant of Solins Market and Gro-
ceries ; he married. August 20, 1900, Tillie
Trembly, and has children : .Albert, Ed-
gar, Pauline and Armand. Rene J. was
born August 13, 1885, in Holyoke. where
he has spent his entire life, graduating
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from the grammar school. He was sub-
sequently a student at Thompson's Busi-
ness College of Holyoke, and the Jesuit
College in Montreal. Since the death of
his father he has had charge of the real
estate interests of the estate, which occu-
pies his entire time. He was married,
September 25, 1906, to Lillian Dragon, of
Northampton, Massachusetts, daughter of
Joseph and Rose Delina (Hobert) Dragon.
They are the parents of three sons : Leon-
ard, born February 15, 1909; Vincent,
February 15, 191 1; and John Roberts,
April 3, 1917.
FEATHER. Frank,
Business Man.
Although located in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, since 1883, it was not until 1910
that Mr. Feather engaged in business
under his own name, but during the seven
years that Feather (S: France, sheet metal
workers, have been in business they have
been very successful and are well known
in the trade. Mr. Feather is of English
birth and parentage, son of John Feather,
who was born in Keighley, Yorkshire,
England, where he died in 1868, aged
fifty-three years. John Feather, a wool
comber by trade, became a manufacturer
and commission spinner, operating the
Hope Mills at Keighley. An accident
which broke both his legs caused his re-
tirement from business about three years
prior to his death. He married Sarah Jane
Crossley, of Sutton, Yorkshire. England,
who died in 1871, aged fifty-three years.
Frank Feather was born in Keighley,
Yorkshire, England, March 26, 1859. He
attended Keighley School until eight years
of age, then was admitted to the woolen
mills as a half-day worker, attending
school the other half of the day. At the
age of thirteen he was taken on as a full
time worker at the woolen mill in Bingley.
where he continued two years. At the
age of fifteen he commenced the ajjpren-
ticeship of a sheet metal worker in Bing-
ley, which covered a period of six years.
In 1881 he came to the United States, set-
tling in Boston, where he had a brother
George, a pattern maker. He was em-
ployed at his trade in Boston for two
years, and for a short time in Lawrence,
Massachusetts. In 1883 he came to Hol-
yoke. Massachusetts, and has since made
that city his home. He entered the em-
l^loy of S. T. Lyman &: Son. now C. P.
Lyman, who were conducting the princi-
pal sheet metal factory in the city, as their
foreman, and remained with them about
twenty-eight years. In 19 10 he formed a
partnership with Wallace M. France,
under the firm name. Feather & I'rance,
sheet metal workers, and so continues,
specializing in mill work and executing
contracts. Throughout New England Mr.
Feather is known as an expert designer
and mechanic, and his years of experience
in two countries, coupled with his me-
chanical ability, renders him weli
equipped for steel metal manufacturing.
From youth he has been a musical enthu-
siast and is a fine performer on the
cornet. For years he was a member of
Scheniwind's Orchestra, and at one time
was leader of the Holyoke Military Band.
For twelve years he was a "call man'" in
the Holyoke Fire Department, was fore-
man of Dexter Hose Company for six
years, and at retirement was holding the
rank of captain. During the years 1896-
97-98, he represented wards three and
seven on the Board of Aldermen, serving
with credit to himself and with benefit to
the districts he represented. He is a
member of William Whitney Lodge. Free
and Accepted Masons, and in political
faith is an Independent Republican.
Mr. Feather married, July 15. 1884.
Sarah f. McLean, born on Prince Edwar'i
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Island, Canada, daughter of James and
Sarah Jane (Boyle) McLean. Mr. and
Mrs. Feather are the parents of three sons,
all born in Holyokc : Albert Ozro. born
in 18S5, manager of the piano and musical
department of the People's Furniture
Store at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and
like his father an accomplished musician ;
he married Beatrice Spiccr, of Methuen,
Massachusetts, and they are the parents
of a daughter, 15eatrice Elizabeth ; Frank-
Russell. l)orn in 1890, a sheet metal
worker; Harry Heath, born in 1891. a
pattern maker.
FRANCE, Wallace Maden,
Bnainess Man.
In 1871 Wallace M. France was brought
from his Lancastershire home in England
by his parents and taken to far off Iowa,
and in 1873 he was brought by them to
Holyoke, where he is now a partner with
Frank Feather, they forming the firm.
Feather & France, sheet metal manufac-
turers. He is a great-great-grandson of
Thomas France, of Adlington, England,
baptized January 19. 1783. Thomas France
was the father of thirteen children : Eliza-
beth, born September 9, 1804; Margaret,
February 22, 1806; Alice. December 20,
1807; Mary, September, 1809; Ann, July
21, 1810; James, August 15, 181 3; Adam,
July 2, 1815; Martha. April 13. 1817;
Thomas (2), of further mention; Joseph,
May 13, 182 1 : William, February i, 1824;
Ellen, September 17, 182S; Sarah, May
13, 1830.
Thomas (2) France was born in Adling-
ton, England, March 21, 1819, and died in
his native England in 1885. He was the
inventor and manufacturer of a cement for
covering steam pipes that they might
better retain the heat, a purpose for which
asbestos is now used largely. He created
a demand for his product all over the
manufacturing portions of England and
Ireland and did a good business. He mar-
ried, August 2;^, 1840, Mary Tomlinson,
born September 25, 1813, died June 3,
1872, daughter of Christopher Tomlinson.
They were the parents of four sons and a
daughter: Joseph, now (1917) living in
England; Thomas (3), born April 21,
1832, died at eight years; James, of fur-
ther mention ; William, born November 3,
1845, <J'^d April 28, 1847; Mary Ann,
born September 24, 1850.
James France was born in the parish
of Horwich, Lancastershire, England, in
1841, and died in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, July 31, 1910. He was a man of
fine intelligence and good education, em-
ployed until 1871 by his father in the
manufacture and sale of his steam pipe
covering material. In 1871 he came to
the United States with his wife Elizabeth
Ann and two sons, Walter and Wallace
M. He located at Harlan, Iowa, where
he bought one hundred and sixty acres
of farm land, seventeen miles from a rail-
road station, and remained there until the
spring of 1873, when he sold and came
east, locating in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
his home until death, thirty-seven years
later. He learned the machinist's trade
in the Lyman Mills Machine Shop, and
continued in the employ of that corpora-
tion for twenty-two years. He then re-
tired from the shops, took the civil serv-
ice examination prescribed by the Hol-
yoke board of education and secured ap-
pointment as janitor of the Elmwood
School, a position he most satisfactorily
filled until his death about fifteen years
later. He was a member of Mt. Tom
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; w^as
also a Royal Arch Mason, and a member
of Holyoke Council, Royal and Select
Masters. He attended the Protestant
Episcopal church. He married, August
7, 1866, Elizabeth z\nn Maden, born in
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Stacksted, Lancastershire, England, De- a Sir Knij^-ht uf Sjiriiigfield CuniuKUKicTy,
cembcr 6, 1845, tlaughter of John and Knights 'Jemphir, and in Scottish Kite
Elizabeth Maden. Their eldest son, Wal- Masonry holds the thirty-two degrees, and
tcr France, born April 2. 1867, died Sep- is a member oi Cininecticut \'alley Con-
tember 12, 1902. The younger son, Wal- sistory. He is also a Xoble of Melha
lace M. France, is of further mention. Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of
Wallace Maden France was born in the Mystic Shrine. He is an attendant of
Bolton, Lancastershire, England, May 26, the Protestant I-:i)iscopal church.
1868. and was three years of age when .
brought to the United States by his par- ZIELINSKI Tohn
ents. He was five when the family lo-
^ 1 ■ TT 1 1 n,T 1 1 Bank Official, Musician.
cated m Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
there he attended public school until en- From the time of his coming to the
tering the Lyman Mills at the age of United States in 1899, Mr. Zielinski has
eleven. He began at a daily wage of been constantly employed as a profesional
twenty-five cents, which was soon raised organist and teacher, that being the pro-
to a larger amount, he remaining in the fession he prepared for under the instruc-
mills for six years. In 1875 he left home tion and advice of his honored father in
to go on the stage in vaudeville with a his native Poland. Even before coming.
minstrel troupe and did not return perma- he had from the age of seventeen been
nently to Holyoke until 1903. Two years organist of a large church, a church so
of this period were spent in a mining camp large that it was an unusual honor for so
in Arizona and one year in the real estate young a man to be chosen to conduct its
business in Chicago, the other years were music. It was not until coming to Hol-
spent on the stage. yoke that Mr. Zielinski seriously associ-
After returning to Holyoke, he entered ated business with his professional work.
the employ of C. P. Lyman, a sheet metal but after taking a position he advanced
manufacturer, as bookkeeper, continuing rapidly, and although having but a three
in that capacity for eight years. 1903-TI. years' connection with the Holyoke Na-
He then formed a partnership with Frank tional Bank, he was on January 0. 191 7.
Feather, an expert sheet metal worker, elected assistant cashier: but he has re-
who had been Mr. Lyman's foreman for tained his position as organist of the
twenty-eight years, and the firm of Mater Dolorosa Church, a position which
Feather & France, sheet metal manufac- first brought him to Holyoke in i'>ij. He
turers, sprang into existence. The com- is a young man of unusual energy and full
bination has proved a very profitable one of public spirited interest in all that per-
to both and the firm has won a strong tains to the city which has adopted liim.
position in the business life of Holyoke. and is held in the highest esteem by his
Mr. France is a member of the Masons' ow^n people as well as by the many friends
and Builders' Association of Holyoke. In he has made, professional, business and
Free Masonry he is a member of all bodies social. He is an eloquent speaker, and at
of the order in both York and Scottish all Polish patriotic meetings is always
Rites. He is a member and secretary of called for. If he has a passion it is for
William Whiting Lodge. Free and Ac music, but so versatile is he and so well
cepted Masons; a member of Mt. Hoi- has he performed every duty that each
yoke Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hoi- would seem to be his particular talent.
yoke Council. Royal and Select Masters; He is a son of Blszius Zielinski, son of
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ENXYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
a tradesman and manufacturer of fur ct^ats
in I'oland, both father and son living their
entire lives in Poland, Austria and Czerm-
na, Galicia. Blszius Zielinski, born in
Poland in 1835, died in Czermna in 1913,
was a man of superior intelligence and
education, and a teacher and musician.
He was organist of the church at Czerm-
na. forty-six years, and until the last four
years of his life was the village secretary.
Attached to the parish church at Czermna
was a tract of twenty acres of good farm
land which was set aside for the use of
the organist of the church, and this little
tract Mr. Zielinski cultivated in connec-
tion with his professional duties. He mar-
ried (first) Marianna Rydarowicz, (sec-
ond) Anna Kwiatek, (third) Appalonia
Krol, (fourth) Marianna Data. Children
of first marriage : Anna. Stanislaus. Mari-
anna, Geneva. Thomas, and John, of
whom further. Children of third mar-
riage: Michael, Ignatius, now a prisoner
of war to the Russian government, and
Frank. Child of fourth marriage: Clare.
John Zielinski was born in Czermna in
Galicia. Polish Austria, February 27, 1880,
and at the age of three years was left
motherless. He was educated in the
schools of Czermna, finishing with a four
years' course in normal school. All
through his school years he made a spe-
cial study of music and the pipe organ,
his father's position as organist giving
him good opportunity to become master
of that instrument. From the age of sev-
enteen he held the position of organist of
the church at Jodlowa, a large parish and
one it was an honor for so young a man
to serve. In 1899, being then in his twen-
tieth year, he left home and emigrated to
the United States, the country which to
many of his countrymen was both a land
of promise and a place of refuge from the
wrath of the governments that in turn
have inflicted their fatal power over Cen-
tral Europe. He spent two days in St.
Joseph's Home in New York City, after
arriving from Europe, securing at once a
position as organist and teacher in the
])arochial school of the Polish Catholic
church at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He
left New York and at once entered upon
his duties, finding his school numbering
but thirty pupils. At the end of three
months the school numbered one hundred
and twenty-three pupils, and two ad-
ditional teachers had been employed.
Four years were spent in Perth Amboy.
years of great benefit both to the teacher
and to the parish.
From Perth Amboy he went to South
River, New York, as organist and musical
instructor, but his health was not good
there and after one year he resigned, go-
ing thence to Trenton, New Jersey, re-
maining there three years as organist of
Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church. He
also availed himself of Trenton's fine edu-
cational institutions and perfected himself
in certain English branches, passing ex-
aminations on orthography and compo-
sition. From Trenton he went to Florida,
New York, as organist of St. Stephen's
Church, where he remained four years, in
the meantime taking a course in East-
man's Business College at Poughkeepsie,
New York, completing a six month's
course in five months and graduating
with the class. In 191 1 he became organ-
ist of St. Stanislaus Church at Chelsea.
Massachusetts, and while there was man-
ager of the Polish weekly newspaper,
"The Gazeta Bostonska."
On May 23, 1912. Mr. Zielinski located
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, as organist of
Mater Dolorosa Church, a position he
fills at the present time (1917). During
the first year he held a position in the
Albert Stieger department store in Spring-
field, and during that period attracted the
attention of an official of the Holvoke Na-
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
tional Bank with the result that in Feb- Perth Aniboy, Xevv Jersey, Mary E. Dul-
ruary, 1914, he became identified with the ski, born in Grudziadz. Polish Germany,
force of that institution, his position being daughter of John and Veronica (Jankow-
an outside one, as solicitor. In October, ska) Dulski, who came to the United
1915, he was made manager of the for- States in 18S1. Mr. and Mrs. Zielinski
eign exchange department of the bank, are the parents of seven children : Ronald,
and a year later the managership of the born at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Octo-
savings department was added to his ex- ber 23, 1903; Edmund, born in Trenton,
change department duties. On January New Jersey. September 16. 1905; Karl,
9, 1917, he received a further promotion born in Trenton. New Jersey, August,
to the assistant cashier's window. This 1907; JdIiii, born in I'lorida. New York,
record of three years cannot be excelled March 7, 1909: Eugene, born in Florida,
if equalled by any employee or officer in April 19, 1910; Joseph, born in Chelsea,
any national bank in the country. A rise Massachusetts. January 20, 1912; Doro-
from outside solicitor to the department ihy, born in Holyokc. Massachusetts,
manager, and assistant cashier, is a rise January 20, 191 7.
not only exceptional but phenomenal,
when the advance comes through merit wiLLISTON. Lorenzo Arthur,
and not through relationship or favorit-
ism. It stamps Mr. Zielinski as a young
man highly gifted in those qualities that One of the foremost business men of
make the successful banker and financier, the city of Holyoke, a highly successful
He is a director of the Eastern States Ex- dealer in lumber, prominent in clubs, fra-
position with headquarters at Springfield, ternal organizations and other activities.
Massachusetts, and local agent for Hamp- Lorenzo Arthur Williston has had a ca-
den county for the Guarantee Committee reer of unusual interest. A native of the
Fund, $100,000 capital. city in which he has always lived, he is
He is a member of St. Stanislaus So- descended from many of the early settlers
ciety, a Polish organization numbering in this section. Though the family has
one hundred members; member of St. never been very numerous the W'illistons
Casimir Society; the Holy Rosary So- have taken a prominent part in the up-
ciety ; Kosciusko Society, honoring the building of colony, province, towns and
great Polish patriot ; member and musi- cities in the vicinity.
cal director of St. Cecelia Singing So- The surname Williston is doubtless of
ciety; a communicant of the Roman Danish origin, implanted very early in
Catholic Church ; member of the Knights England, probably when King Canute
of Columbus, and of the Benevolent and made his famous invasion. Williston
Protective Order of Elks, and with all his was one of the chiefs in Canute's army,
other responsibilities and duties is the de- There is a tradition relating that three
voted organist of Mater Dolorosa Church, brothers came to New England in 1640
It is worthy of note that he has been a from Lancashire, England, but no records
church organist from his seventeenth have been found to substantiate it. This
year continuously, the time consumed in tradition exists in almost every old family-
crossing the ocean being the longest and is usually wrong, coming, it is
period of idleness he has since known. thought, in many cases from a confusion
Mr. Zielinski married. June 3. TO02. at of the history of paternal and maternal
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ancestry. Many Wilsons came with the
first settlers, and at least one Wilton.
John Willison or Willingstone was a
pioneer of Ij^wich. Massachusetts, but
whether he was father of Joseph men-
tioned below or not, nobody has yet found
proof.
( I ) Joseph Williston, the progenitor of
the Willistons of Springfield and Ilolyoke,
was of English ancestry, born about 1670,
])robably in England. During his child-
hood he lived in the family of John Wil-
liams, of Windsor, Connecticut, and was
doubtless related to him, possibly a grand-
son. Williams married, July 29, 1644,
Mary Burley, who died August 3, 1665,
and he himself died April 18, 1681. Early
in life Williston removed from Windsor
to Springfield, Massachusetts, and in 1691
settled in the adjacent town of Westfield.
He married (first) at Springfield, March
2, 1699, Mary (Parsons) Ashley, widow
of Joseph Ashley, daughter of Joseph Par-
sons ; his wife died August 23, 171 1. He
married (second) November 2, 171 1, Sarah
Stebbins, widow of Thomas Stebbins ; she
died in 1732. Children, born at Spring-
field: I. Joseph, born December 28, 17 — ,
died .August 21, 1747; married Hannah
Stebbins, and was the father of Rev. Noah
WMlliston, who graduated at Yale in 1757,
pastor of the church at W^est Haven, Con-
necticut, and whose son. Rev. Payson
Williston, D. D., graduate of Yale in 1783,
was first minister of Easthampton, Mas-
sachusetts, serving for more than fifty
years (John Payson, son of Rev. Payson
Williston was a cotton manufacturer and
prominent in business in Holyoke, and
Samuel Payson, another son, an eminent
citizen, founded the Williston Seminary
at Easthampton. A. Lyman Williston,
son of John Payson, was one of the chief
benefactors of Mt. Holyoke College in its
early days, a trustee and treasurer ; was
a trustee of Williston Seminary and of
Smith College ; an eminent citizen of
Northampton). 2. Margaret, born March
30, 1703, died aged thirteen years. 3. John,
November 6, 1705, died November 10,
1747. 4. Nathaniel, mentioned below.
(II) Nathaniel Williston, son of Joseph,
was born at Springfield, January 28, 1707 ;
died July 18, 1748. He married, Novem-
ber 20, 1735, Miriam Stebbins, born Octo-
ber 8, 1707, daughter of Benjamin and
Martha Stebbins, granddaughter of Jo-
seph and Sarah (Dorchester) Stebbins;
great-granddaughter of Thomas and Han-
nah (Wright) Stebbins. Thomas was a
son of the founders of the Stebbins family
in this country, Rowland and Sarah, who
came from England wath the first settlers.
She married (second) in 1749, Caleb Par-
sons, who was born December 27, 1699,
at Springfield, died July 24, 1760, a son
of Ebenezer and Margaret (Marshfield)
Parsons. Children of Nathaniel and Miri-
am (Stebbins) Williston: Nathaniel;
Elihu ; Israel, mentioned below ; Mary.
(HI) Israel, son of Nathaniel Willis-
ton, was born at Springfield, about 1730.
He was a soldier in the Revolution, a ser-
geant in Captain Nathan Rowle's com-
pany, Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Robin-
son's regiment from Hampshire county,
December 25, 1776, to April 3, 1777, and
served at Ticonderoga. He was second
lieutenant in Captain Levi Eddy's com-
pany (second), Colonel Moseley's regi-
ment (Third Hampshire County) com-
missioned September 18, 1777. He was a
lieutenant in Captain Francis Stebbins'
company. Colonel David Moseley's regi-
ment in 1782, engaged in supporting the
government at Springfield and W^est
Springfield and the roll preserved at the
State House was dated at West Spring-
field. (See "Massachusetts Soldiers and
Sailors in the Revolution," xvii, p. 519).
(IV) Israel (2), son of Israel (i) Wil-
liston, was born at Springfield or West
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Springfield. The census of 1790 shows
that both Israel, Sr., and Israel, Jr., were
then living in West Springfield, the elder
having a family of eleven and the younger
having three. He married, at West Spring-
field, December 17, 1788, Sophia Day (in-
tentions dated November 29, 1788). She
v^ras born February 17, 1771, a daughter
of Thomas Day, born October 2j, 1745,
who married, September 12, 1767, Joanna
Noble. Luke Day. father of Thomas, was
born July 2, 1706, married November 9,
1734, Jerusha Skinner. Ebenezer Day,
father of Luke, was born September 5,
1677, married April 18, 1700, Mercy
Hitchcock, who died September 29, 1761 ;
and he died September i, 1763, aged
eighty-eight years. Thomas Day, father
of Ebenezer, married Sarah Cooper,
daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Cooper,
who was killed when the town was
burned, October 2"], 1659; Thomas Day
died December 27, 171 1, and his widow
November 21, 1726. Robert Day, father
of Thomas, was the immigrant ancestor,
born in England about 1604, came in the
ship "Hopeweir in 1635, lived at Cam-
bridge and Hartford. The Day family
had been from the days of the settlement
one of the most prominent in Springfield
and vicinity. Israel W^illiston died before
his son Lorenzo Day was born, and his
wife died soon afterward.
(V) Lorenzo Day Williston, son of
Israel (2) Williston, was born in West
Springfield, about 1800 and died in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, September 26, 1879.
Both he and his wife were reared by the
Shakers, but left the Shaker settlement at
the time of their marriage. He became a
typical Yankee farmer, prosperous, frugal,
industrious and conscientious, spending
most of his life and making his home in
Ireland parish, Holyoke. He married, in
1826, Sophia Asenath Pease, born March
9, 1802, died February 13, 1869. Children.
born in Holyoke: Sophia /\senath, born
February 24, 1827; Xewton B., Septem-
ber 3, 1829; Caroline Roselle, March 8,
1831 ; Lorenzo Xewton, mentioned be-
low; R(jland Stebbins, March 13, 1835,
killed in the Civil War; Monroe Peter,
December 31, 1837, killed in the Civil
War; l-'mily .\nne, June 20. 1840; Cyn-
thia Jane, June 3, 1872; Mary I'..: Henri
Arthur.
(VI) Lorenzo Xewtrm Williston. son
of Lorenzo Day Williston, was born at
Holyoke, May 15, 1833, and died there,
April 6, 1903. He received his education
in the public schools of his native town.
When a young man he learned the
barber's trade and engaged in business
with a shop in the old Massasoit House
at Springfield, Massachusetts. A desire to
see more of the world led him to go to sea,
and for several years he made voyages on
whaling vessels to the Arctic ocean, where
he saw the midnight sun, and also to the
Antarctic ocean, sailing around Cape Horn
several times and circumnavigated the
globe. On these vessels he was chief
harpooner and first mate. He was ship-
wrecked several times, barely escaping
with his life, and his wish to see the
world having been thoroughly gratified
after many years of seafaring life, he
decided to abandon it for some other
pursuit, which he did when his vessel
reached San Francisco. He later went
to New Mexico, where he spent two
years on the plains, employed as a cow-
boy. After an absence of eight years he
returned to Holyoke. and again engaged
in his trade, opening a barber's shop in
the old Exchange Building. Afterward
he moved his business to Hotel Hamilton,
and still later to the Windsor Block,
where he continued in this line of work
until he retired in 1891. At the time he
retired he was the oldest barber in the
city. For many years his shop was the
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largest in the city, and he was personally
jjopular with all classes of customers. His
ojjportunities for making friends were ex-
tensive and few had a wider circle in the
city. In politics he was a Democrat of
the old school, keenly interested in mu-
nicipal affairs as well as in national poli-
tics and served one year in the city coun-
cil. He was also much interested in fra-
ternal organizations; was a charter mem-
ber of Mount Tom Lodge, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons ; of Mt. Holyoke
Chapter, Royal .\rch Masons, and of Rob-
ert Morris Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star. Mr. Williston married, December
_'5, 1861, Lucy Abigail Hatch, who was
born in West Royalton, January 8, 1837,
died March 8, 1904, a daughter of Adrian
and Lucy (Frink) Hatch. Children, born
at Holyoke: Jane Roselle, born January
3, 1863; Lorenzo Arthur, mentioned be-
low; Lucy Hatch, July i, 1867, died No-
vember 2"], 1874; Elizabeth Leona, No-
vember 6, 1870, married W. W. Eddy;
Roland Albert, March 20, 1873; Emily
Meyers, Juiy 29, 1878.
(VII) Lorenzo Arthur Williston, son
of Lorenzo Newton Williston, was born
at Holyoke, June 20, 1865. He received
his education in the public schools of his
native town. He began his business career
in 1883, thirty-four years ago, as office
Ijoy for Watson Ely, dealer in lumber in
Holyoke, and he has continued in the
lumber business to the present time with
the same concern. When the business
was incorporated in 1898, Mr. Williston
became secretary of the corporation and
manager of the business. The name of
the concern became the Ely Lumber Com-
pany. As manager of this company, Mr.
Williston has been among the foremost
in his line of trade, and his reputation has
extended throughout western and central
Massachusetts. For three years he was
president of the Retail Lumber Dealers'
Association of Massachusetts.
Mr. Williston has been called into the
public service of the city, and for the past
eight years has been on the Board of Park
Commissioners and is now chairman. To
the parks he has given the same able ad-
ministration of affairs that he has given
to his own business, and he has devoted
his time freely to the improvement and
development of the city parks. He is well
known in Masonic circles. He was made
a Master Mason in Mt. Tom Lodge, and
was a charter member of William Whit-
ing Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons. He is also a member of Holyoke
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Holyoke
Council, Royal and Select Masters;
Springfield Commandery, Knights Tem-
plar; the Consistory; Melha Temple,
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was a
charter member of Robert Morris Chap-
ter, Order of the Eastern Star, and a
charter member of Holyoke Lodge, Be-
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
of Holyoke ; also of Massasoit Command-
ery, Knights of Malta, and he is a mem-
ber of the Holyoke Club and Mount Torn
Golf Club. For three years he was presi-
dent of the Pequot Club.
Mr. Williston married (first) in 1893,
Alice Hearn, who died August 2, 1905,
daughter of William and Frances Hearn.
Her father was a soldier in the Civil War.
He married (second) Mary McGuirk, of
Holyoke. By his first wife, Mr. Williston
had one child, Frances Alice Williston.
O'DONNELL, James Joseph,
Owner of Holyoke "EveninR Telegram."
With true training and knowledge of
general affairs, and association with
leaders in the world's progress, Mr.
O'Donnell, a leading citizen and attorney
of Holyoke, reflects honor upon his city,
and in his conduct of the Holyoke "Tele-
gram" and of the Holyoke post office, of
which he is postmaster, stands for the
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highest interests of the city and of the
State. Mr. O'Donnell has filled many
offices in Holyoke since the time when,
as a youth of twenty years, he taught
Latin and mathematics in the Holyoke
High School, and in all of these he has
kept the human and helpful side in view,
with a personality that never tired urging
progress and forward movements among
Holyoke's young men.
John O'Donnell, grandfather of James
J. O'Donnell, w^as born in the town of
Inch, County Kerry, Ireland, and his
death occurred in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, in which place he settled upon his
arrival in this country, in the year 1840.
In his native land and also in his adopted
country, he devoted his attention to agri-
culture, conducting his operations in the
latter place on a farm at Rock Valley. He
was the father of four children : John,
Terrance, Kate and Mary.
Terrance O'Donnell, father of James J.
O'Donnell, w^as born in the town of Inch,
County Kerry, Ireland, in 1837, and died
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1873. He
w-as brought to this country by his par-
ents, when a young man, was reared on
the homestead farm, and upon attaining
a suitable age for earning his own liveli-
hood began work in the quarries, and at
the time of his death was foreman of the
quarries operated by Mr. Delany. He
was honest and capable, and was held in
the highest esteem by all with whom he
associated. He married Kate Doyle, a
native of Dublin, Ireland, daughter of
Michael and Ellen (Curran) Doyle.
James M. Doyle, brother of Mrs. O'Don-
nell, was chief engineer on the Southern
Pacific railroad, and was actively identi-
fied with its construction ; he was held
in the highest esteem by Collis P. Hunt-
ington, the financier of the Southern
Pacific railroad. Mr. and Mrs. O'Donnell
were the parents of two children : Mary
T., and James Joseph.
James Joseph O'Donnell was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, May 13, 1873.
lie was educated in the public schools of
Holyoke, and Holy Cross College, where
he was graduated in 1892, after which he
pursued a post-graduate course in Har-
vard University. He taught Latin and
mathematics in the Holyoke High School,
then entered the Boston University Law
School and received the degree of LL. V>.
He was admitted to the bar in 1898, and
from that year to 1904 engaged in the
active practice of law in Holyoke. The
following five years he served as suj^er-
intendent of schools in Holyoke, and his
keen judgment, fine sense of practicability
and skill made many advances in the Hol-
yoke schools, and he left the imprint of
his personality upon his work. The year
1910 was spent in the practice of his pro-
fession in Holyoke. In the following year
he bought out the majority of the stock
of the Holyoke "Telegram." of which he
was already a large stockholder, and was
made president and treasurer of the cor-
poration, and has edited, published and
controlled the policies of the paper ever
since, which has steadily increased in cir-
culation, and its influence as a factor for
good has been strongly felt in the com-
munity. In addition to this he is treasurer
of the Essex Pad and Paper Company of
Holyoke, one of the well known enter-
prises of that thriving city, and has also
dealt extensively in real estate.
Since attaining his majority, Mr. O'Don-
nell has taken an active interest in the
welfare of the Democratic party, and has
been one of the real forces in developing
and keeping Holyoke as the Western
Massachusetts stronghold of Democracy.
Perhaps nothing will show his determin-
ation more than the fact that Holyoke
was the only city in Massachusetts that
went for President Wilson in the Demo-
cratic primaries when that gentleman was
first a candidate. Mr. O'Donnell assured
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the Wilson leaders in advance that Hol-
yoke would be recorded for him in the
primaries, and all the efforts of the Clark
men or Massachusetts State Democratic
committees could not divert him from his
purpose. The prominence he has gained
therein is the result of the influence of a
man whose opinions are honest and in
whom the people have confidence. He
was appointed by Governor E. N. Foss
on the committee on river waterways for
the purpose of developing the Connecti-
cut river from Holyoke to Long Island
Sound. He was appointed postmaster of
Holyoke, November 25, 1913, one of the
first appointees of President Wilson, and
is performing the duties of that office at
the present time (1917). Mr. O'Donnell
holds membership in the Boston Press
Association, Irish Historical Society, Park
Lyceum, Ancient Order of Hibernians,
Knights of Columbus, Country Club of
Holyoke, Mt. Tom Golf Club and the Hol-
yoke Club. Genial in manner, pleasant
in conversation, Mr. O'Donnell has a large
circle of well earned friends.
Mr. O'Donnell married, February 14,
1912, Mary Dillon, of Holyoke, daughter
of Thomas and Anne (Kennedy) Dillon.
FARR, Hoit Franklin,
Active Business Man.
For half a century, Hoit Franklin Farr
has been in active business life in Canada
and Holyoke, Massachusetts, his first con-
nection in Holyoke being with the Farr
Alpaca Company, the last quarter of a
century with the American Dye Wood
Company. He is a descendant of an old
Massachusetts family, that first appeared
in New England as early as 1629, when
George Farr, shipwright, came in the fleet
with Higginson, settled first in Salem,
and soon afterward went to Lynn, where
he was made freeman in 1635.
(I) Thomas Farr, of Hardwick, Mas-
sachusetts, with whom this narrative be-
gins, removed there from Stow or Little-
ton some time previous to 1719, when his
name appears as the owner of land. In
that year also his wife Elizabeth was ad-
mitted a member of the church in Hard-
wick. He was the father of two sons :
Thomas, Jr., and Jonathan.
(II) Jonathan, son of Thomas and
Elizabeth Farr, lived in Hardwick, but
was of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, pre-
vious to 1767. He was a selectman in
1777, and during the same year served as
a soldier in the Revolution. He married
(first) June 5, 1751, Mary, daughter of
John Wells; married (second) January
19, 1757, Mercy, a daughter of Thomas
Winslow. Children: i. William, born
March 15, 1752. 2. Jonathan, born April
14, 1754. (By second wife) : 3. Joshua,
born September 23, 1757, died August 28,
1815; married Molly, daughter of Zerub-
bael Snow. 4. Amos, born March 9, 1759.
5. Mary, October, 18, 1760; died Decem-
ber 16, 1839; married Jonathan Brigham.
6. Moses, born May 18, 1762. 7. Abigail,
born January i, 1764, died at St. Johns-
bury, Vermont, 1837 ; married, 1787, James
Snow. 8. Asahel, born March 23, 1766.
Children by third wife : 9. Susy or Susan,
born July 21, 1779. 10. Sabrina, born
February i, 1782, died January 18, 1868;
married (first) 1802, Francis Parks ; (sec-
ond) Wilder Brown ; (third) 1837, Rus-
sell Farr. 11. Charlotte, born February 9,
1799.
(HI) Moses, son of Jonathan and
Mercy (Winslow) Farr, was born in
Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1761, and died
in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, July 14,
1829. He married, in 1784, Sabrina Hast-
ings, (laughter of Josiah Hastings, who
married Mary Hartwell and settled in
Chesterfield as early as 1770, and lived
near the river in the southwest part of
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the town, on what has long been known
as the Hastings farm. He served as a
private in Company T., Third Regiment
New Hampshire Volunteers, in the Revo-
lution, which took an active part in the
battle of Bunker Hill, and was in service
in 1775, and 1777. He died December 14,
1810. Moses and Sabrina (Hastings) Farr
had eight children, all born in Chester-
field: I. Achsah, July 2, 1785; died No-
vember 21, 1824; married 1803, John
Snow. 2. Ora, July 25, 1786. 3. Mary,
February 20, 1788; married, 1809, Ezra
Church. 4. Roxanna, August 21, 1789;
died July 4, 1825 ; married Loring Farr.
5. Jason, 1794, a physician ; died October
II, 1825; married Rachel, daughter of
John Day. 6. Sally, 1796, died May 13,
1828; married, 1815, Roswell Powers. 7.
Polly, 1799; died May 8, 1840; married,
1829, Roswell Powers. 8. Sabrina, 1809,
died December 10, 1829.
(IV) Ora, son of Moses and Sabrina
(Hastings) Farr, was born in Chester-
field, New Hampshire, July 25, 1786, died
there, June 30, 1828. He was a mill-
wright, and followed his trade in the
town. In 1814 he married Hannah Har-
ris, born in Chesterfield, June 20, 1795,
died at Sutton, Vermont, July 31, 1852,
daughter of John and Hannah (Colburn)
Harris, granddaughter of Abner, Sr., and
Debora Harris, who removed with his
family from Medford, Massachusetts, to
Woodstock, Connecticut. Abner Harris
married Elizabeth Lawrence, of Medford.
He was a son of Isaac and Mary (Dun-
bar) Harris, and a grandson of Arthur
Harris, who came from England to
America, was of Duxbury, Massachu-
setts, in 1640, and afterwards was one of
the proprietors and first settlers of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts. His wife
was Martha Lake. Ora and Hannah
(Harris) Farr had six children, all born
in Chesterfield: i. Emily, April 25, 1815;
married, 1834, Alfred Chamberlain. 2.
Marshall H., January 16, 1817. 3. Hoit
F., January 18, 1819; lived in California,
but died in Sutton, Vermont, July 16,
1867. 4. Larkin L., November 4, 1821.
5. Norman H., April 16, 1824. 6. George
R., July 27, 1826. After the death of
Ora Farr, his widow married (second)
Luther Stoddard, and removed to Ver-
mont.
(V) Larkin Lloyd Farr, son of Ora
and Hannah (Harris) Farr, was born No-
vember 4, 1821, in Chesterfield, New
Hampshire, died September 12, 1863, at
Brattleboro, Vermont. He was a farmer
and a carpenter, and resided in various
parts of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Fle married, February 23, 1845, Mary V.
Young, born January 14, 1828, daughter
of John Folsom Young, of Deerfield,
New Hampshire. Children: i. Ellen S.,
resident of Holyoke ; born in Manchester,
New Hampshire, May 4, 1846. 2. Hoit
F., of further mention. 3. Fred M., resi-
dent of Keene, New Hampshire ; born in
Newark, Vermont, September 2^, 1853 ;
married, June 3, 1880, Mary J. Hills. 4.
Dennie L., born in Chesterfield, New
Hampshire, November 29, 1861, whose
sketch follows.
(VI) Hoit Franklin Farr, son of
Larkin Lloyd and Mary V. (Young)
Farr, was born in Newark, Vermont,
January 14, 1852. He attended public
schools, in Newark, Vermont, and Hes-
peler, Canada. At the age of fourteen,
in 1866, he joined his cousin, Herbert
Marshall Farr, whose father. Marshall
Howard Farr, was a contractor and
builder. Later, at the age of sixteen, he
left school and entered the office of
Randall Farr & Company, that firm com-
posed of relatives engaged in the manu-
facture of knit goods at Hespeler, Water-
loo county, Canada. The confinement
proved too much for Mr. Farr, and in
Ma8*-6— 18
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1871 he gave up his position and went
to California, sojourning in the Vaca
Valley in Solano county. Much improved
in health, he returned the sam^e year to
Canada, and secured work with Randall
Parr & Company, continuing until 1874,
when the company moved to Holyoke,
Massachusetts, incorporated as ilic Farr
Alpaca Company. capital $250,000 —
erected mills, and the same year began
business with Merhert M. Farr as agent
and active business head. After the re-
moval to Holyoke, Hoit F. Farr con-
tinued in the employ of the Farr Alpaca
Company for seventeen years, spending
eighteen months in the manufacturing
department, then going to the finishing
and dyeing department, as its capable
manager. In 1891 he resigned his posi-
tion on account of failing health, and
entered the employ of the American Dye
Wood Company, of New York, as travel-
ing salesman. Life on the road built up
his health, and for twenty-five years he
represented his company in the New
England States, his labors in later years
having been confined to the States of
Massachusetts and Connecticut. These
two corporations have claimed his entire
business activity, and each had his serv-
ices about twenty-five years. In politics
he is a Republican, and in religious faith,
a Unitarian. He is a member of Mount
1. Ervin Harris Farr, born in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, August 12, 1882. After
graduation from high school he attended
Tufts College one and one-half years,
then entered Dartmouth Medical College,
whence he was graduated M. D.. class of
1906. He began practice in Holyoke in
November, 1907, and there continues suc-
cessfully specializing in X-Ray practice.
He was city physician for two years, and
in charge of the Holyoke Tuberculosis
Sanitarium six months of the same year.
Dr. Farr married, October 6, 1913, Ruby
Medora Beeching, daughter of William S.
and Edith (Marston) Beeching.
2. Clarence Larkin Farr, second son of
Hoit F. Farr. was born in Holyoke, March
9, 1892. After completing his education
in Holyoke schools, he entered business
life, and is now a traveling salesman for
the Lyman Seed Company.
FARR, Dennie L.,
Ex-Mayor, Prominent Citizen.
In presenting to the readers of this
volume the history of Dennie L. Farr,
late of Holyoke, we record an account
of a life that has been honorable and
useful. He was regarded as one of the
leading citizens of Holyoke, and his
worth as a public ofificer was widely
acknowledged because of the efficient
service he performed in the various
offices he filled. He came of an old
Massachusetts family.
Dennie L. Farr was born in Chester-
Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; field, New Hampshire, November 29,
Holyoke Lodge, Independent Order of 1861, died in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
Odd Fellows ; and the Holyoke Canoe
Club. He is a man thoroughly respected
by all who know him, a good business
man, and companionable friend.
Mr. Farr married, October 25, 1876,
Mary Belle Porter, born at Great Falls
(Xew Sommerworth), New Hampshire,
daughter of John and Mary Rosabelle
(Hazen) Porter. Mr. and Mrs. Farr are
the parents of two sons :
May 19, 1909. He received his early
education in the schools of Bellows Falls,
New Hampshire, Westminster, Vermont,
and of his native town, and then became
a student in the academy at Swanzey,
New Hampshire. At the age of seven-
teen he made his home in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, and entered the employ of
the Farr Alpaca Company, of which the
late Herbert M. Farr, a cousin of Dennie
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L. Farr, was the founder. Later he was
promoted to the position of paymaster,
in which capacity he served for ten years,
then became assistant treasurer, and
faithfully discharged the duties of that
office until 1902, when illness compelled
him to relinquish work that had proved
both agreeable and remunerative. Mr.
Farr always took a deep interest in public
affairs, and was prominently identified
with the Republican party. In 1887 he
began his political career, being elected a
member of the Common Council, and in
the following year was a member of the
Board of Aldermen. His excellent work
in these branches of the city government
was so satisfactory to the voters of Hol-
yoke that in 1889 he was elected city
treasurer, which office he held for three
years. He was thorough and efficient in
the performance of duty in that important
position, and in 1893 he was elected to
the highest office in the gift of the
people, that of mayor of Holyoke, he
assuming those responsible obligations
when only thirty-two years of age.
Under his administration many improve-
ments were made and several important
public works were inaugurated and com-
pleted, among them the sewer systems of
Elmwood and Oakdale, also the beautiful
new public school building of Elmwood,
the finest in the city.
Mr. Farr was one of the most popular
men in the city of Holyoke, and his rise
in the political history of the city proved
not only his tremendous popularity and
the esteem in which he was held, but the
fact that he always did his duty well and
thus earned the commendation of the
citizens. He was a self-made man, of
magnetic personality, possessed fine high
ideals, and was ever ready to assist when
the opportunity presented itself. He was
a member of Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons ; Mt. Holyoke Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons; Holyoke Council,
Royal and Select Masters; Springfield
Commandery, Knights Templar; was
also a member of the Royal Arcanum,
Holyoke Turn Verein, Holyoke Canoe
Club and Bay State Club. He was a
member of the Second Congregational
Church of Holyoke, and was an active
member of the Young Men's Christian
Association, having served on its finance
committee many years.
Mr. Farr married, October 12, 1886,
Augusta Schaefer, daughter of Leonard
Schaefer, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Farr: i.
Leonard S., with the Farr Alpaca Works ;
married Christine Dickey, and they have
two sons — Gilmore Lloyd and Duncan
Larkin. 2. Ruth, a graduate of Holyoke
High School and Wheelock Kinder-
garten School, and for seven years
has taught in Proctor, Vermont ; she has
travelled extensively over the United
States, thus adding greatly to her knowl-
edge of people and places. 3. Clara V.,
a graduate of the Dr. Sargent's Schooi
of Physical Culture, in Cambridge ; noM
the wife of Herman C. Walker, an ety
mologist of West Springfield, Massachu
setts, and they have one daughter, Eliza-
beth.
Mr. Farr was a true, staunch and un-
failing friend, a devoted husl)and, an
affectionate father, and in all these re-
spects he was a man, with all that that
means. His life may prove an example
for others to follow in his footsteps, and
this is a legacy more precious than any-
thing else. He was an example of un-
faltering devotion to duty, and a man
whose faith in his duty as a citizen was
very high.
FARR, Simeon,
Representative Citizen.
Twenty-eight years ago, Simeon Farr
and his wife. Ann (Batchelor) Farr, left
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their English home and came to Holyoke,
Massachusetts, where they made their
home on South street, Ehn\voo<l. Later
they moved to No. 19 View street, where
on March 5, 1892, they celebrated their
silver wedding. There they continued
living until March 5, 1917, when their
golden anniversary was celebrated by
their keeping an "open house" and a fam-
ily reunion, eleven children and twenty-
five grandchildren now comprising the
family. The twenty-eight years passed
in Holyoke. Massachusetts, have been
spent by Mr. Farr in active labor as mill
worker and gardener, and although they
have whitened his locks and left their
imprint in other ways, he is strong and
healthy, performing his regular duties
every day. He is a son of James Farr,
born in England, in 1797, died in his
native land in 1858. James Farr married
Martha Marks, born in 1804, died at the
great age of ninety-three years. They
were the parents of Alfred, Henry, Maria,
Sarah. Elizabeth, Mary, Robert, Jane,
George, and Simeon, the last named the
only survivor of this family.
Simeon Farr was born in Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, England, June 7, 1846, and
there attended the public schools. When
still young he began working at farm-
ing and gardening, at first but half of the
day, spending half a day in school. This
continued until his school days were over,
when he became a full time farm worker,
being so engaged for three years. The
woolen mills of Trowbridge then claimed
him, and for twenty-three years he con-
tinued employed in woolen manufactur-
ing, from the age of twenty until he was
forty-three. In 1889 he came with his
family to the United States, locating in
Holyoke, which has ever since been his
hom£. His first employment in Holyoke
was as an employee of the Beebe &
Weber Mills, nine years being passed
with that company. For the past nine
years he has been in charge of the park
plots and gardens surrounding the Had-
ley division of the American Thread
Company, and also the No. 2 mill of the
same company as gardener, reverting to
the occupation of his youth and one he
loves.
From youth Mr. Farr has been a musi-
cian, and for eighteen years was organist
of St. Nicholas Church, North Bradley,
England. His talent was not confined to
the instrument, he having a good voice
that was cultivated, and for several years
he was a member of a male quartette.
Since coming to Holyoke he has played
occasionally in local churches and aided
in musical entertainments. For twenty-
tw^o years he has been a member of Court
City of Holyoke, Foresters of America.
Mr. Farr married in Trowbridge, Eng-
land, March 5, 1867, Ann Batchelor, born
May 24, 1844, Rev. Samuel Martin per-
forming the marriage ceremony. Mrs.
Farr was also born in Trowbridge, a
daughter of Henry and Fanny (Martin)
Batchelor, and a sister of Alfred, George
and Edward Batchelor, all residents of
Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Farr are the par-
ents of twelve sons and daughters, eleven
of whom are living: Emily, died at the
age of five years ; Fanny, married Albert
Mennel, of Holyoke ; Albert, of Holyoke ;
Ellen, married Frank Goodman, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island; Jesse Nelson, of
Providence ; Fred F., of Holyoke ; Lewis,
of Holyoke ; William, of Westfield, Mas-
sachusetts ; Margaret, married Carlton
Pratt, of North Adams, Massachusetts;
Howard, of Holyoke; Mary, married Jo-
seph Collins, of Palmer, Massachusetts ;
John, of Brockton. These children, also-
twenty-five grandchildren were present
at the golden wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Farr, March 5, 1917, all having
come to this country and made their
homes with or not far from their parents
in Holyoke. The parents, always home
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loving people and deeply mindful of their
children's interests and welfare, are now
richly repaid in knowing that all are
happily situated, and they in turn are
deeply mindful of the interests and wel-
fare of their honored parents.
Upon the occasion of their golden
wedding, Mr. Farr wrote the following
poem:
To My Beloved Wife on the Occasion of Our
Golden Wedding, March 5, 1917.
It's fifty years ago to-day, Dear Heart,
That we joined hands and hearts, and pledged
to share
Each other's burdens, joys, and play our part
In life, when all the world looked fresh and
fair.
The dreams and hopes that ardent youth inspired,
Not all were realized, yet, it is plain
That God withheld some treasures most desired
For His own purpose, lest we live in vain.
God's special gifts are ours, the children's love.
And sympathies. And all the days to come.
Our hope and fervent prayer is "that the dove
Of peace shall spread her pinions o'er our
home."
We look adown the vista of the years.
We've passed together, toiled together, prayed ;
Sometimes we've caused each other pain, yea
tears ;
But love has ever healed the wounds we made.
As the years pass on we'll need each other more ;
The joys which thrilled the heart of youth are
gone;
The River seems more real ; the dark'ning shore.
The turbid waters each must breast alone.
We now have passed the allotted years of man.
And lengthening shadows steal across the lea.
The few more days that are left, we humbly plan.
To dedicate them all. Oh Lord, to Thee.
— Simeon Farr.
SHEEHAN, Patrick Henry,
Lavryer.
Since the date of his birth in County
Cork, Ireland, in 1834, until his sailing
for the United States in 1873, Jeremiah
Sheehan, father of Patrick H. of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, lived in his native county,
becoming a well known manufacturer of
custom trade shoes. He was a quiet
home-loving man, and it was a great trial
to him to break with the associations of
a lifetime, but the "land of promise'' was
out across the seas and was beckoning
him, so that in 1873, with his wife and
family, he came, settling at North Brook-
field, Massachusetts, where he was em-
ployed in the shoe factories until his
death in 1887. His wife, Mary Connolly,
also born in County Cork, died in North
Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1893, aged
sixty-two. They were the parents of:
Mary; Daniel, deceased; Jeremiah;
Patrick Henry, of further mention ;
Thomas, deceased ; James, postmaster at
Minis, Massachusetts.
When the family left their home in
Ireland, Patrick Henry Sheehan was a
child of three years, his birthday, March
12, 1870. When of suitable age he began
attending the North Brookfield public
school, and when sufficiently advanced
entered Holy Cross College at Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, pursuing a three
years' course. He prepared for the pro-
fession of law at Boston University Law
School, and in private study under the
preceptorship of L. Emerson Barnes, of
North Brookfield, completing preparation
and gaining admission to the Worcester
county bar in 1893. He located in Hol-
yoke the same year, and has there con-
tinuously practiced until the present
(1917); is well established, and highly
regarded as a lawyer and citizen. He is
a member of the various bar associations,
and holds the unlimited confidence of the
bench and bar of the county in which his
entire professional life of nearly a quarter
of a century has been spent.
In addition to a large law practice, Mr.
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Sheehan has been interested in political
affairs, and is one of the leading Demo-
crats of his city. In 1895 he was chair-
man of the Democratic City Committee
of Holyoke. and in 1896 he was nomi-
nated by his party as their candidate for
Congress from the Holyoke district,
polling an exceptionally large vote. His
profession holds him closely, a large
clientele entrusting him with the con-
duct of their legal aflFairs. He is very
jealous of the rights of his clients, and he
uses all his rights within the law to
protect them. He is rated a skillful, hon-
orable lawyer and a safe adviser, learned,
honorable and upright.
Mr. Sheehan married, in Boston, in
June, i8</), Mary E. Collins, of that city,
daughter of Edmund and Eliza (Hen-
nessy) Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Sheehan
are the parents of two sons: Henry Col-
lins, born April 16, 1897; and John Ed-
mund, November 2, 1903.
SMITH. Albert,
Enterprising Business Man.
The comjnodious modern store, 364
High street, Holyoke, in which is housed
the jewelry business of Lynch & Smith,
is the outgrowth of the business founded
in Holyoke in 1889 by Albert Smith, the
present junior partner. Mr. Smith is a
practical jeweler, inheriting from his
father mechanical ability of a high order,
which, developed under high class in-
struction, has produced the expert jew-
eler and watch maker. He is of English
birth and parentage, a grandson of Ben-
jamin Smith, and a son of William Smith,
Yorkshire men and skilled mechanics.
William Smith born in Kieghby, York-
shire, England, in 1844, is now living
retired in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He
was educated in the public school, and
learned the machinist's trade in England,
becoming an expert w^orker in metals.
In 1881 he came to the United States,
locating in Holyoke, there entering the
employ of J. and W. Jolly as machinist,
continuing with them over twenty years,
until his retirement from active service.
He is a member of the Baptist church, a
man of integrity, highly respected. He
married Ada Shuttleworth, who died in
1906, aged sixty-one years. Their eldest
son, John Smith, died September 5, 1916,
leaving a widow, Clara (Britzel) Smith,
and a son, John William Smith.
Albert Smith, second and youngest
son of William and Ada (Shuttleworth)
Smith, was born in Kieghby, Yorkshire,
England, March 20, 1877. He was
brought to the United States by his par-
ents in 1881, and there was educated in
the public schools. After completing his
school years he entered the employ of
Mr. Baum, and began learning the trade
and business of a jeweler. After pro-
gressing to a certain point he left Mr.
Baum and entered the Horological
School at Waltham, Massachusetts,
whence he completed full courses and
was graduated in 1898. After graduation
he returned to Holyoke, and the same
year opened a jewelry and optical goods
store which he conducted alone until
1901, when he formed a partnership with
Thomas J. Lynch, under the firm name
of Lynch & Smith, jewelers and op-
ticians. They conducted a very success-
ful business at No. 394 High street until
May, 191 7, when they moved to their
present store, 364 High street, in a block
owned by the firm. The store is hand-
somely and appropriately furnished,
well stocked, is conducted along the best
modern lines, and is one of Holyoke's
prosperous business houses.
In addition to his jewelry business, Mr.
Smith is president of the Bijou Theatre
Company. The Bijou has recently been
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renewed and refurnished at a large out-
lay, and is one of the attractive amuse-
ment houses of the city. He is a member
of Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Holyoke Chapter, Royal Arch
mained with Burdett tS: Williams until
1870. then after a short time he located
in Holyoke.
The first years of his business career
in llolvokc in the hardware business,
Masons; Holyoke Council. Royal and were spent in partnership with Joel Rus-
Select Masters; and Humbolt Lodge, sell under the firm name of J. Russell &
Knights of Pythias. In religious prefer- Company. They were located in the
ence he is a Baptist. Hotel Hamilton block on Dwight street,
Mr. Smith married, June 3. 1913. Ella and there conducted a successful business
MifYert. daughter of William Miffert, of until 1883. when C.ilbert E. Russell sold
Holyoke. They are the parents of a
daughter, Edith Smith, born April 13,
1914; and a son, Edwin Albert, born July
12, 1917.
RUSSELL, Gilbert E.,
Bnsiness Man.
Gilbert E. Russell, of this review,
located in Holyoke. Massachusetts, in
1870 and was there successfully engaged careful, thoroughly reliable business man.
his interest to his cousin Rrjbert and re-
tired from the firm.
lie then opened a hardware store at
245 High street under his own name, so
continuing for about eight years, when
he admitted .Archie Osbourne to a part-
nershij). The firm becoming Russell &
Osbourne. They built up a very large
business, Mr. Russell continuing the
active head until his death. He was a
in business until his death, January 26,
1907. The hardware business which he
founded became one of the largest in Hol-
yoke, and stands as a monument to his
business ability.
Gilbert E. Russell was born at Bidde-
ford, Maine, November 6, 1848. He was
the son of Amos and Sarah Russell. His
parents moved to Holyoke, thence to
West Springfield, Massachusetts, where
they spent the rest of their lives. Gilbert
E. Russell was educated in the public
schools of West Springfield and Burnett's
English and Classical Institute of Spring-
highly esteemed and very popular. Xo
l)etter estimate of the place Mr. Russell
held in public esteem can be given than
the resolutions passed by the Men's Club
of the Second Congregational Church, of
which he was a memhcr. /\t the regular
meeting of this club the following resolu-
tions were passed :
It is hereby resolved to e.xtcnd t-^ the wife of
our late lamented member, G. K. Russell, the
deepest sympathy of this organization in her great
loss and affliction, and each and every member
will long cherish and admire his sterling qualities
and absolute fairness in all business matters;
field. He began business life as clerk in his kindly influence and manly action under all
,, c- u 1 4. TJ^ 1,. r^ conditions won for him the respect and devotion
the Snow hardware store. He onlv re- . ,, ^ . . . • n 1
" he so richlv deserved and his memorv will alwavs
mained here a short time when he re- ^^ cherished by those who were fortunate to
signed and next located in Worcester, j^p^w him and esteem his friendship.
Massachusetts, there continuing in the
hardware btisiness as clerk for the firm of
White & Conant, and here he remained
until he received the offer of a better posi-
tion with Burdett & \\'illiams, of Boston,
and he then went to that citv. He re-
A Republican in politics, Mr. Russell
took a deep interest in public affairs, and
neglected none of the duties imposed by
citizenship, but never would accept polit-
ical office, although often importuned to
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do so. He did however take an active sional reputation and honor, their prac-
interest in the State National Guard, and
was one of the organizers of Company
D, of Holyoke, and for a number of years
held the rank of first lieutenant of that
company. The volunteer fire department
also claimed his active interest for many
years until he resigned, his long term of
service entitling him to membership in
the Veteran Firemen's Association. He
was treasurer of the Holyoke Business
Men's Association ; president of the
Western Massachusetts Hardware Asso-
ciation ; and a member of the New Eng-
land Hardware Dealers' Association;
member of the Second Congregational
Church ; and of the Bay State and Hol-
yoke Canoe clubs.
Mr. Russell married, April 24, 1883,
Mrs. William J. Cobb, nee Hattie J. Ells-
bree, daughter of Ephraim B. Ellsbree.
lier mother, Helen Jane W^alker, was
born near Syracuse, New York, and died
aged sixty-nine years ; she was twice
married, Mrs. Hattie J. Russell being the
only living child by her first husband, and
born in Plymouth, Connecticut, a repre-
sentative of an old Massachusetts family.
Mr. Cobb, first husband of Mrs. Russell,
died after ten months of married life.
After the death of her husband. Mrs.
Russell retained his interest in his busi-
ness down to 1917, when she sold it to his
I)artner, Archie Osbourne.
HUNT, George Eddy, M. D.,
Phyiician.
Since 1899, Dr. Hunt and his talented
wife have been successful medical prac-
titioners in the city of Holyoke, both be-
ing graduates of the medical department
of Tufts College, and experienced physi-
cians at the time of their location in Hol-
yoke. The years which have since inter-
vened have brought them added profes-
tice being extensive, while as friends and
neighbors they are very popular.
George Eddy Hunt is a son of Isaac
Eddy Hunt, and a grandson of Luther
and Trena (Sylvester) Hunt. Luther
Hunt, a farmer, settled at Fort Coving-
ton. Franklin county, New York, in 1800.
Here he spent the rest of his life. He
was twice married and his son by the first
marriage Hezekiah, died in Lowell, Mas-
sachusetts. His son, Isaac Eddy Hunt,
by second marriage, was born in 1840 and
educated in the district schools of that
town. During his boyhood Isaac Eddy
Hunt was employed by the farmers of the
section, but later he learned the mason's
trade, which he followed until the Civil
War, when he volunteered but w^as re-
jected, but again volunteered and was
accepted and enlisted September 3, 1864,
in Company H, Third Regiment New
York Cavalry, Kent's Division. Eigh-
teenth Army Corps, under the command
of General B. F. Butler, and served until
he was honorably discharged with the
rank of corporal. He escaped all the
perils of war. and on his return to private
life resumed work at his trade. Later in
life he purchased a farm near Constable,
Franklin county, New York, where he
has since resided, following his trade and
managing the farm. He has held the
office of justice of the peace, and was
office deputy of the Order of Good Temp-
lars, is past commander of the local post
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a
member of the Presbyterian church.
He married, at Constable, New York,
in September, 1862, Martha M. Garner,
who died in 1893, daughter of James and
Nancy Garner. They were the parents
of six children : Ella May, born October
4, 1863. deceased; George Eddy, July 15,
1866; Addie Mabel, July 19, 1868, at
home; Mattie Eliza, April 21, 1870, mar-
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ried Fred Bell ; Ernest Alfred, January 2",
i8j2, at home ; \'iola Dell, August 5, 1877,
deceased.
Dr. George Eddy Hunt was born on
the old homestead in Constable, Franklin
county, New York, July 15, 1866. His
early life was spent in his native section,
where he attended the public schools and
Franklin Academy. Later he entered
Tufts College, and in 1894 received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine from the
Medical School of that institution. The
same year he began practice, locating at
Constable, where he remained until 1899.
In that year he moved to Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, where he has been in success-
ful practice until the present date (1917).
He is highly regarded as a skillful, honor-
able physician, and is held in universal
esteem. He is a member of the medical
societies of his city and county, the Mas-
sachusetts Medical Society, and the
American Medical Association. In fra-
ternal relation he is af^liated with Wil-
liam Whiting Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Holyoke Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has
filled all the chairs and is a past noble
grand. In religious faith he is a Congre-
gationalist, and in politics is a Repub-
lican.
Dr. Hunt married in 1898. Dr. Alice
Elizabeth Palmer, born at Richfield
Springs, New York, daughter of Dr.
Danver Palmer, an eminent physician of
that town. Miss Palmer followed the
example of her father, two brothers and
two brothers-in-law, and chose medicine
as her profession. She is a graduate of
the medical department of Tufts College,
obtaining her degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine in the class of 1894. The same year
she became resident physician to the
State Insane Asylum at Danville, Penn-
sylvania, continuing in that responsible
position until her marriage in 1898, win-
ning the highest approbation of the hos-
pital Ijoard. After resigning from her
position, Dr. Hunt accompanied her hus-
l)and to Constable, where she engaged
with him in practice. The following year
>he began practice in Holyoke. and has
established a most satisfactory clientele.
She is a member of the leading medical
societies, local. State and National, and
of the Congregational church.
(The Sylvester Line).
(Ij Richard Sylvester, the immigrant
ancestor, was born in England, and was
one of the original settlers in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in 1630. He applied for
admission as a freeman of the colony,
October 19, 1630, but soon afterward re-
moved to Weymouth, where he was liv-
ing in 1633. In 1640 he went to the Pil-
grims at Marshfield. There he held town
office. His wife Naomi was a sister of
the famous Captain William, Torrey. of
Weymouth. Children: Lydia, born 1633 ;
John. 1634; Peter, 1637; Joseph. 1638;
Dinah. 1642; Elizabeth. 1643: Richard.
1648; Naomi. 1649: Israel, mentioned be-
low; Hester, 1653; P.enjamin. 1656.
(II) Israel Sylvester, son of Richard.
was born in 165 1. probably at Marshfield.
He lived in Scituate, and his house was a
quarter-mile southeast of the South meet-
ing house on the Second Herring Brook.
It stood until 1829. Children, born at
Scituate: Israel. mentioned below;
Silence. Richard. Lois. Martha. Mary.
Elisha, Peter, Zebulon, Bathsheba, De-
borah.
(III) Israel (2) Sylvester, son of Israel
(i) Sylvester, was born at Scituate. Sep-
tember 23. 1674; baptized there Septem-
ber 19. 1675. He married. October 3.
1 701. at Scituate, Ruth Prince. They
settled in Duxbury. Children, born in
Duxbury: Ruth. Israel, mentioned be-
low ; Grace.
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(IV) Israel (3) Sylvester, son of Israel
(2) Sylvester, was born at Duxbury,
May 5. 1706. He married. December 12,
1734, Abigail Snell. born at Duxbury,
1703, a daughter of Josiah Snell, after-
ward of West Rridgewater. She died at
Duxbury, July 22, 1775. He died in 1785.
Children, born at Duxbury : Joseph, men-
tioned below; Israel.
(V) Joseph Sylvester, son of Israel (3)
Sylvester, was born at Duxbury, July 6,
1735. He married Lucy Sampson, daugh-
ter of Ephraim. who came of "Mayflower"
stock. Joseph settled in North Bridge-
water. Children, born at North Bridge-
water : Lucy. Ephraim, Seth, mentioned
below ; Benjamin. Josiah, Joseph, died
March 18. 1849.
(VI ) Seth Sylvester, son of Joseph
Sylvester, was born at Duxbury, baptized
there December 25, 1763. At Royalton,
\'ermont. he erected a fulling mill Oc-
tober I. 1790. He married, 1788, Han-
nah Eddy. He died in 1801, in Bos-
ton. He served in the United States
Xavy. Children : John, born at Wood-
stock. Massachusetts. September 8. 1789;
Galen, born at Royalton, Massachu-
setts, December 14. 1791. died April 4,
1866; Seneca, born at Reading, Massa-
chusetts, May 12, 1794, died March 4,
1853, married, December 10, 1819, Har-
riet Curtis ; Ira, born at Peterborough,
New Hampshire, July 18, 1796. married
Lucy Davis ; Irena, born at North Bridge-
water, Mas.sachusetts, October 18. 1798,
died October, 1869. married at Royalton.
\'ermont. Luther Hunt (see Hunt).
COMTOIS, Odilion J., M. D.,
Physician.
Dr. Comt(jis, one of Holyoke's well
known physicians, who has been in prac-
tice in that city for over a quarter of a
century was born at Three Rivers,
Canada. He obtained his professional
education in the United States and in
Europe, and as medical expert served the
United States government in Alaska, then
returning to Holyoke, rich in experience,
to resume medical practice in that city.
He is of French parentage, his father,
Odilion Comtois, being a son of French
parents and an early settler near Mon-
treal. Canada.
Odilion Comtois, son of the French
emigrant, was born near ^lontreal.
Canada, and in the city of Montreal
gained education and business experience.
At about the age of twenty years he
moved to Three Rivers. Province of
Quebec, Canada, where he engaged in
business as a leather merchant, until his
death at the age of seventy years. He
was an able business man, far ahead of
his times, and so wisely had he conducted
the affairs of his large business that his
executors found only thirty dollars in
outstanding accounts on his books. For
half a century he was one of the leading
business men of Three Rivers, also was
prominent in public aiTairs. He dealt ex-
clusively for cash in both buying and in
selling, that fact explaining the small
amount of the bills receivable.
He married Alice Rhean, born in Beau-
fort, Quebec, a highly educated woman
and professional teacher. After becom-
ing acquainted with Miss Rhean he pre-
sented her with a steel pen, the first ever
seen in that section. His next effort to
win his lady's favor was the gift of a
kerosene burning lamp, that too being
the first of its kind in that section, and
procured at the cost of a good deal of
trouble and considerable expense. The
amount of interest these two common
articles excited fairly indicates the primi-
tive region and early date of this incident.
Eleven children were born to Odilion and
Alice (Rhean) Comtois, all except Dr.
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Odilion J. yet residing at Three Rivers,
Canada, the sons eminent bnsiness and
professional men. The mother yet sur-
vives, aged eighty-four years.
Odilion J. Comtois was born at Three
Rivers. Province of Quebec, Canada,
March 19, 1859, ^"^ obtained his early
and preparatory education there. He
then entered McGill College in Montreal
and in 1884 he was graduated with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. The same
year he located in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and began the practice of his pro-
fession, chiefly among his own people.
In 1890 he entered the Post-Graduate
School, New York City, there pursuing a
full course to graduation, and later spent
several months in the hospitals of Paris.
During this trip he was in London at the
time of Queen Victoria's death, and wit-
nessed the imposing pageant her funeral
presented.
On his return to Holyoke, Dr. Comtois
was appointed by the government to in-
vestigate and report upon the causes
which resulted in the death of about three
hundred Esquimaux at Kings Island,
Alaska. This duty he performed, and
then spent three and a half years in the
Yukon region on his own responsibility,
studying the habits of the Esquimaux and
Alaskan Indians. He was enabled to get
very close to the lives of those people,
for he represented the authority of the
government, being postmaster and re-
corder of deeds for Kings Island. He
collected a vast amount of information
concerning them, and passed through
many most interesting experiences ere he
abandoned his investigations and returned
to the United States. He again located
in Holyoke, where he has since continued
in successful practice.
His practice is large, and among an
influential clientele by whom he is most
highly regarded. Cultured, courteous and
a gentleman we love to allude to as of
the "old school," Dr. Comtois has a wide
circle of friends, attracted by his charm-
ing j)crs(.)nality. In the j)rofcssi(jn his
medical knowledge, experience and keen
analytical power have won him exception-
ally high standing, and his fame has
spread far beyond the confines of his city
and county. He is a member of the Hol-
yoke Medical Society, the French Cath-
olic Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
Dr. Comtois married, in 1885, Miss
Malvina Dufresne, of Three Rivers,
Canada, daughter of Joseph Dufresne. a
merchant and hotel proprietor. They
have an only son, Edgar E. Comtois, born
in 1888, educated in Holyoke grammar
and high schools, later attending the
academy in New York City founded by
Mrs. Eugene Kelly. He is now a cotton
broker, associated with the firm of George
H. McFadden & Brothers, of New York
Citv.
DOERING. Paul.
Bnsiness Manager.
As manager of the retail department of
the Henry (i. Sears Company of Holyoke,
Massachusetts. Mr. Doering fills a posi-
tion for which his many years of service
with the company peculiarly fits him. and
one which he has fairly earned. He is a
son of Henry and Emma (Muscall) Doer-
ing. both ot (icrnian birth, wlio in 1880
came to the United States, bringing with
them their son Paul, then a child of six
years. Henry Doering was liorn in Meck-
lenburg. Schmcren. Germany, in 1836,
died in Holyoke. Massachusetts. May 7,
1910. He was a man of good education
and lousiness ability, and prior to his com-
ing to the United States he owned and
operated a woolen mill. In 1880 he lo-
cated in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where
until his retirement in 1895 ^^ "^^^^ ^" ^^^
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employ of the Gerniania Mills in an im-
portant capacity. He was a member of
the German Lutheran Church, a man of
both ability and character. Mr. and Mrs.
Doering^ were the parents of seven chil-
dren, all b(jrn in Germany: hla, married
Joseph Bader ; Martha, married Herman
Himritz; Hannah, deceased; William,
I'.nul. Paul and Henry, twins, the former
of further mention, the latter deceased.
Paul Doering was born in Mecklen-
l>urg. Schmeren, Germany, also the birth-
])lace of his father and his mother, June
28, 1874. At the age of six years he was
brought to Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
with the exception of four years in
Springfield has ever since resided in Hol-
yoke. He completed public school
courses of study, and since leaving school
has been engaged in the grocery business
in different capacities. Four of the years
which have since intervened were spent
in a grocery store at Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, but otherwise his entire busi-
ness experience has been with Henry G.
Sears, of Holyoke, his last engagement
now covering a continuous period of
twenty-two years. Promotions have not
l)een lacking in those years, for he has
ever held the respect and appreciation of
his employers. His present position as
manager of the retail department of the
Henry G. Sears Company has been re-
cently bestowed, and is the culmination
of a series of promotions which have
brcnight Mr. Doering up from the bottom
<jf the commercial ladder. He is a man of
strong, reliable character, and possesses
the inherent qualities which mark the
successful business man. He is a member
of Holyoke Lodge, No. 134, Free and
.'\ccepted Masons; is an attendant of the
Second Congregational Church ; and in
l)olitical faith he is a Republican.
Mr. Doering married, October 19, 1898,
Louise, daughter of Jacob and Catherine
(Christ) Wig. Her father was born in
Germany, and her mother was born in
Xew York. Mr. and Mrs. Doering have
a daughter, Martha Louise, born March
24, 1901.
RAINAULT, Frank,
Head of Amusement Company.
As a director and treasurer of the Bijou
Theatre Company and manager of the
Bijou Theatre, Mr. Frank Rainault is
well known in his native city, Holyoke,
while his popularity is attested by his
selection for position in the city govern-
ment. He is a grandson of Edward
Rainault, a Canadian farmer who, dying
young in life, left three children to make
their way through life without a father's
guiding care.
Charles Rainault, the second son of Ed-
ward J^ainault, mentioned above, was
born at Ruxton Pond, Canada, and died
in Holyoke, Massachusetts, at the age of
forty-four. He came to Holyoke when
a small boy, soon after his father's death,
and obtained a meagre education in the
city schools. He also lived in North
Brookfield, Massachusetts, for a time, but
most of his life was passed in the employ
of the Springfield Blanket Company, at
their Holyoke plant. At the time of his
death he was foreman of a department in
that concern, and until the very last of his
life remained at his post in active duty.
He married Saphronie Bernier, also of
Canadian birth and parentage. They
were the parents of Frank, of further
mention ; Adelaide, deceased ; Arthur, a
farmer in the west ; Raoul, engaged in the
plumbing business in Holyoke ; Homer,
Edward, Georgianna ; and Lora, married
Pierre Provost.
Frank Rainault, eldest son of Charles
and Saphronie Rainault, was born in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, October 25, 1876.
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He was educated in parochial and public
schools, and after leaving school began
learning the jeweler's trade with Mr.
Crosby, remaining three years. Later he
was proprietor of a billiard room in Hol-
yoke, which he conducted for a number of
years until 1913, when he became inter-
ested in a theatrical venture. He pur-
chased the old Bijou Theatre on Main
street, and incorporated the Bijou Theatre
Company, of which he is director, treas-
urer and manager. The old house has
been thoroughly remodeled, refurnished,
and redecorated, its seating capacity
raised to 1300, and in its appointments,
convenience and com.fort it is one of the
best equipped and arranged and the most
attractive playhouses in the State.
In 1905 Mr. Rainault was elected a
member of the board of aldermen from
Ward Tw^o, and served three years, 1906-
09, N. P. Avery then mayor; and in 1915
he was elected chairman of the board of
overseers of the poor, for a term of three
years, to serve till 1918. He is a member
of the Improved Order of Red Men, the
Rod and Gun Club, and the Circle
Rochambeau. In politics he is a Demo-
crat on national issues.
Mr. Rainault married, July 12, 1897,
Florence Perreault, born in the province
of Quebec, Canada, daughter of Hormidas
and Julienne Perreault. They are the
parents of: Oreal, born October 6, 1899;
Ernest, June i, 1901 ; Jeannette, Septem-
ber 30. 1903.
HUBBARD, Rev. William Henry,
Genealogy and Biography.
William Henry Hubbard, D. D., was
born in Clark county, Kentucky, April
16, 1851, died in New York City, January
31, 1913. He was descended ninth in the
direct line from George Hubbard and
Mary (Bishop) Hubbard, who came over
from England with an infant son John,
settling first in Watertown. Massachu-
setts, 1633, shortly moving to Guilford,
Connecticut. He was a member of the
Assembly at the union of the Hartford
and New Haven colonics in 1670.
John Hubbard married Mary Mcrriam,
of Concord, Massachusetts (1630-1702),
and the line of descent is traced through
their son, Isaac Hubbard (1667- 1750).
and his wife, Ann Warner ; tluir son. John
Hubbard (1693-1778) and his wife, Han-
nah Cowles ; their son, Elisha Hubbard
(1721-68) and his wife, Lucy Stevens;
their son, John Hubl)ard (1765-1804) and
his wife. Ruth Dickinson ; their son.
Henry Hubbard, and his wife, Mercy
Warner; their son, William Henry Hub-
bard, a graduate of Brown University, re-
ceiving the degrees Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Laws, and his wife, Ann
Waite Hinds, a graduate of Andover
Seminary, parents of three sons: William
Henry, the subject of this sketch ; Charles
F. W'. (D. D.) ; and Edward Waite Hub-
bard, who died in early manhood.
Dr. Hubbard was graduated from
Louisville, Kentucky, High School, and
entered Amherst College at the age of
sixteen. The year previous, in 1866. he
received his diploma from the Bryant and
Stratton Mercantile College at Louisville,
having carried on this extra course in
connection with his high school work.
Graduating from .Amherst College. Am-
herst, Massachusetts, in the class of 1871.
at the age of twenty years, he entered
Andover Theological Seminary, remain-
ing one year, and later attended Prince-
ton Theological Seminary for two years,
terminating with graduation, class of
1874. He accepted the pastorate of the
first church offered him at Rutland, Mas-
sachusetts, and performed earnest and
efficient work for a little more than a year,
when he accepted a call to the pastorate
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of the Congregational church at -Merri-
mac, Massachusetts. Here he labored
with great success for seven and a half
years, and laid the foundation of the
career which eiuletl in distinction and
honor.
F"rom Merrimac he was called to the
South Congregational Church at Concord,
New Hamjjshirc. His work at Concord
prospered in a great measure. Meanwhile
he engaged in social unlift measures and
in the enforcement of the law. Soon the
Second Congregational Church, of Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, extended him a call,
and he became its pastor for one year,
during which time one hundred and forty
were added to the church membership. It
was while at Holyoke that he married
Miss Elizabeth Allen Skinner, who be-
came also his associate and helper in his
future work. About this time the First
Presbyterian Church of Auburn called
Dr. Hubbard to become its pastor, and he
assumed his duties in October, 1886.
From this time until his death, January
31, 191 3, his life was one of intense activ-
ity. During his pastorate eighteen hun-
dred were added to the church member-
ship ; a debt of $8,000 was cleared ; an en-
dowment of $50,000 was raised ; and the
organ was enlarged. One of the dreams
of his early pastorate was realized in the
completion of a new chapter house that
would give the enlarged Sunday school
better accommodations.
Not only did Dr. Hubbard busy himself
in the upbuilding of the church and in
extending its usefulness, but he went out
into the highways and byways in pursu-
ance of the religious, civic and moral up-
lift of the community. He never spared
himself; his only thought was of the great
work there was for him to do, and the
limited time in which to accomplish it.
His heart and energy were devoted to
every good cause, and he was active in
city affairs. He served with ability and
efficiency on the Board of Charities ; and
was closely identified with the Business
Men's Association, and served it ably in
various capacities. For five years he was
editor and publisher of the "xA.ssembly
Herald of the Presbyterian Church," also
for three years editor and publisher of the
"Gospel Message." In this work, as in
all others, he evinced the strength and
the same high ideals of Christian char-
acter. He was a member of the executive
commission of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, and on account
of his executive ability was made execu-
tive secretary of this commission. The
duties of the offices were so arduous and
so exacting that in 191 1 he resigned the
pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church, in order to devote his time more
fully to the appointed service.
That his work was appreciated, v/as
evidenced by the following expression
from the joint executive committee of the
Executive Commission :
The Committee wishes to place on record its
appreciation of the faithful, efficient and pains-
taking labors of Rev. William H. Hubbard, D.
D. He brought to the work of the Committee a
?reat aptitude for dealing with matters financial;
a clear, clean-cut conviction of the necessity of
developing in the individual church systematic
beneficence, a full knowledge of the whole subject
from every point of view ; a deep and abiding
interest not only in the entire Church, but in
particular in the smaller and weaker churches,
and a burning passion for all the work of the
Church so that the Kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour, Jesus Christ, might be advanced at home
and abroad: "A workman that needeth not to
be ashamed." As one of the religious papers,
"The Continent," stated, "The Church will no
doubt wait long to see again his like for gener-
ous devotion, but the imprint of his intense cru-
sade will always be found upon Presbyterians."
Dr. Hubbard married, November 9,
1886, Elizabeth Allen Skinner, daughter
of William Skinner, the famed satin
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manufacturer and eminent citizen of IIol-
yoke, Massachusetts, whose useful life is
reviewed at length in this work. Dr. and
Mrs. Hubbard were the parents of three
sons: I. William Henry (3) Hubbard
(see below). 2. Allen Skinner Hubbard,
now of New York City, born January 31,
1891 ; graduated from Yale in 191 1, and
Harvard Law School, 1914; married to
Harriet Ellen Richardson, of Auburn,
New York ; has two sons : Allen Skinner
Hubbard, Jr., and David Richardson
Hubbard. 3. Edward Waite Hubbard,
born June 29, 1893 ; graduate of Hill
School, 1912, and Yale, 1916.
William Henry (3) Hubbard, now of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, born May 16,
1888, Auburn, New York, graduated from
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale Univer-
sity, class of 1909, receiving the mathe-
matical prize ; is now the superintendent
of William Skinner & Sons ; married June
12, 1917, Dorothy Alice White, daughter
of Edward Nelson White, of Holyoke
(see elsewhere in this work).
OLIVER, Robert,
Business Man, Preaclier.
Among the representative citizens of
Holyoke should be mentioned Robert
Oliver, a prosperous business man, who
also serves in the capacity of local
preacher for the "Plymouth Brethren of
the Apostolic Line." He is a native of
Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, where
his ancestors had lived from time im-
memorial. He was named after his
grandfather, Robert Oliver, who was a
well known and respected citizen of that
locality. His father, George Oliver, was
also a native of Roxburghshire, born in
1840 and died in 1900. He was a frame
work knitter in the hosiery mills in that
section of Scotland, his father having fol-
lowed the same line of trade. George
Oliver married Annie Williamson, of Rox-
burghshire, who survives him and is now
(1916) residing in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts. They were the parents of ten chil-
(Ircn : Robert, of whom further ; Mary,
who resides in Scotland ; William, who
died in early youth ; George, who resides
in Scotland ; Janet, who came to the
United States; Williamson, who resides
in Scotland ; Walter, who came to the
United States; Maggie, who resides in
Scotland ; James and John, both of whom
came to the United States.
Robert Oliver passed the years of his
childhood and early youth in his native
town, and there received his education in
the common schools. At an early age he
began working in the famous hosiery
mills of that district, where his father
and grandfather had been employed, but
being of a very ambitious character he
soon tired of a task which promised no
future for him. He engaged in the gro-
cery business for about a year. He then
decided that there were larger opportuni-
ties in the bakery business, and in order
to qualify himself for that line of work
he began to study methods of baking,
working at Hawick, Fisher Row, Kil-
birne. Scotland, and other places, and
after thoroughly learning the details of
the business he accepted a position as
foreman of a bakery at Hawick, in which
capacity he served for upwards of eight
years.
In 1904, however, he determined to
realize his ambition of owning his own
business, and on this occasion emigrated
to the United States, where he believed
that greater opportunities awaited him.
Here his mother joined him, and they
made their home for a time at Chester.
Pennsylvania, but eventually came to
Holvoke. Massachusetts, where they are
residing at the present time. For a short
period of time after locating in this coun-
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try, Mr. Oliver worked in the baking
establishments of Mr. C. C. Barr, of
Springfield, and Mr. Beebe, of Holyoke.
but in April. 1908, he entered into part-
nership with a Mr. Inglis and they estab-
lished a bakery, the business being con-
ducted under the style of Inglis & Oliver.
This connection continued until the be-
ginning of the year 1916, when Mr. Inglis
withdrew, and the business is now con-
ducted by Mr. Oliver under the name of
Robert Oliver. It has always been Mr.
Oliver's policy to keep the bakery up-to-
date in every respect, it being equipped
with every modern device, and recently
he has added a new model bread-making
machine of the most recent pattern, all of
which aid in the rapidity of the baking
process. It being at the present time one
of the well equipped enterprises in the
community.
Mr. Oliver is a man of deeply religious
life, and is the local preacher for the "Ply-
mouth Brethren of the Apostolic Line," a
sect with which he has been identified for
many years. This office carries with it
no salary, but Mr. Oliver devotes a con-
siderable amount of time and energy to
it purely for the love of the cause. His
work in the neighborhood has been at-
tended with a high degree of success, and
he has made his influence felt throughout
the entire region. It was this work which
was mainly responsible for his change of
residence from Chester, Pennsylvania, to
Holyoke, Massachusetts, where there
seemed to be a much larger field for
activity in this line. His work also carries
him to Springfield, Massachusetts, and
Hartford, Connecticut, in both of which
cities he preaches.
Mr. Oliver married. May 4, 1894,
Maggie Rodger, a daughter of Robert and
Mary -Ann (Welsh) Rodger, and a native
of Scotland.
DUNBAR, Charles Robert,
Enterprising Business Man.
A well known business man of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, Mr. Dunbar has since
1904 been the capable and efficient execu-
tive head of the Dunbar Motor Car Com-
pany, which company has offices and
controls the sale of the well and favorably
known Oakland automobile throughout
Western Massachusetts. He is a scion
of the ancient and noble Dunbar family
of Scotland, his branch of the family de-
scending from Robert Dunbar, who was
born in Scotland in 1630, and with his
wife Rose settled in Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, in 1655. It is believed he
brought considerable money to begin life
in the new country with, as for years
there were but two men in Hingham
noted higher on the tax list than he. He
died October 5, 1693; his wife, November
10, 1700. Children: John, born Decem-
ber I, 1657; Mary, October 25, 1660; Jo-
seph, March 13, 1662; James, June i,
1664; Robert, September 6, 1666; Peter,
November i, 1668; Joshua, October 6,
1670; Hannah.
From these sons sprang a vast number
of descendants, including Robert Dunbar,
of Belchertown, Massachusetts, great-
great-great-grandfather of Charles Robert
Dunbar, of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The
records of the Belchertown Congrega-
tional Church date back only to 1756, and
in them Robert Dunbar is named, as well
as his son Charles. Robert Dunbar, of
Belchertown, a descendant of Robert
Dunbar, the founder, was born in 1745,
died in Belchertown in 1807, aged sixty-
two years. His widow, Betsey, married
(second) in 1809, Rev. John Emerson, of
Conway.
Charles Dunbar, son of Robert and
Betsey Dunbar, was born in 1779, died in
Belchertown in 1842. He married Susan
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Gates, born 1785, died 1847, daughter of
Thomas A. and Margaret (Dwight)
Gates, and granddaughter of Elihu
Dwight, who died 1760, at the early age
of twenty-three years. He was a grand-
son of Nathaniel Dwight, of Northamp-
ton, and son of Captain Nathaniel
Dwight, who married Hannah Lyman,
born 1708, died 1792, aged eighty-four
years. Captain Nathaniel Dwight was a
prominent man in Relchertown, a captain
in the French and Indian War, his com-
mission dated August 9, 1757. He was
also active and useful during the Revolu-
tionary period, although old age was upon
him. He was a valuable member of the
town and aided in promoting its best
interests. Captain Dwight died in 1874,
aged seventy-two years. Mrs. Margaret
(Dwight) Gates, mother of Mrs. Susan
(Gates) Dunbar, died in 1841, aged
eighty-three years.
Charles T. Dunbar, son of Charles and
Susan (Gates) Dunbar, was born in Bel-
chertown, Massachusetts, and there spent
his life as a farmer. He and his wife Mary
were the parents of the following chil-
dren : Henry M. ; Charles Frank ; Wil-
liam and Margaret.
Henry M. Dunbar, son of Charles T.
and Mary Dunbar, was born in Belcher-
town, Massachusetts, in 1841, died there
in February, 1914. At the age of eighteen,
unable to get his parents' consent to en-
list, he ran away and enlisted in the Sec-
ond Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer
Cavalry, and served three years during
the Civil War. He was wounded in battle
but not seriously, returning at the close
of the war, a veteran in experience, but
barely past his twenty-first year. When a
young man he went west remaining there
several years engaged in farming, but in
1875 he returned to Belchertown, and
there continued farming operations until
his death. He was a member of the
Grand .Army of the Republic, and an at-
tendant of the Congregational church.
He married Sarah Ann Phillips, and
was the father of three sons : Charles
Robert, of further mention ; Walter
Dwight, of I'^elchertown ; and Warren
Dickinson Dunbar, in San Pedro, Cali-
fornia.
Charles Robert Dunbar, son of Henry
M. and Sarah .\nn (Phillips) Dunbar, was
born in Henry, Illinois, January 15, 1873.
Two years later his parents returned to
Belchertown, Massachusetts, his father's
birthplace, and there Charles R. Dunbar
was educated in the public schools. .After
completing his school years he was var-
iously employed in Belchertown, prin-
cipally in mercantile lines for some time,
and then established a meat market which
he conducted for three years. In Octo-
ber, 1892, he located in Holyoke, Massa-
chusetts, and for twelve years was asso-
ciated with R. F. Kelton in the meat busi-
ness. During the latter part of this time
he became interested in the Franklin
Hotel on Maple street, near Essex street,
which building was later sold to and is
now occupied by the Young Women's
Christian Association. .After selling this
hotel, Mr. Dunbar opened a high class
restaurant on Suffolk street, known as the
"Franklin." This restaurant, with Mr. E.
G. White as manager, under his capable
management has steadily increased in
popularity until it now stands unexcelled
among the medium priced restaurants of
Western Massachusetts.
Mr. Dunbar in his versatile way has
also developed an entirely new mercantile
line in the "Toggery Shop," a men's
clothing and furnishing store at the
corner of High and Suffolk streets, estab-
lished in 1902. This business is ably con-
ducted by Mr. T. N. Murray and Mr. Ly-
man F. Gaylor. both of whom Mr. Dunbar
has admitted to partnership. Nothing
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can better illustrate the scope of Mr. Dun-
bar's business genius than the fact that
he has founded and successfully directs
two so dissimilar yet so important enter-
prises, one catering to the palate, the
other to the outward satisfaction of
patrons, and so thoroughly pleases both
the inner and the outer man. Restaurant
and haberdashery are both of the highest
class and abundantly patronized.
Mr. Dunbar's personal attention has
mostly been given to the automobile busi-
ness, operating in Western Massachu-
setts, where he has four agencies — one in
Springfield, one in Holyoke, one in Nor-
thampton, and one in Greenfield. In con-
nection with this and for the purpose of
distributing the Oakland car throughout
the New England States, Mr. Dunbar or-
ganized the Oakland Motor Company of
New England, which now handles the
entire allotment of Oakland cars for New
England, being one of the largest selling
agencies making a specialty of any single
car in the United States, and of this
company Mr. Dunbar is president. In
addition to this he was on April 5, 1917,
elected president of the Clyde Car Com-
pany, of Clyde, Ohio, formed by an amal-
gamation of the Krebs Commercial Car
Company, of Clyde, Ohio, of which he
was also president, and others. The
Clyde Car Company has just received an
order for two hundred trucks to be de-
livered "somewhere in Europe" and as it
has a capacity of three to four trucks a
day this is quite a sizeable order.
Mr. Dunbar is also a director of the
Park National Bank of Holyoke, and
assistant treasurer of the Eureka Blank
Book Company. He is a man of fine
business quality — keen, incisive, progres-
sive and energetic. He demands that
each enterprise in wliich he joins shall
possess probabilities of success if properly
managed, and with that foundation he is
always ready to lead or keep step with
the most progressive. He has won high
position in business circles, not alone in
his own city, but in Western Massachu-
setts and all New England. In fact, his
name is well known far beyond sectional
limits even to far away parts of the United
States.
He is a member of the Masonic order
and of high degree, belonging to Mount
Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; the Coun-
cil of Royal and Select Masters ; the Com-
mandery of Knights Templar ; Melha
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
Springfield ; and is a thirty-second degree
Mason, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
He is also an Elk and a Knight of Pythias.
In political faith he is a Republican, and
in religious faith a Congregationalist.
Mr. Dunbar married, April 24, 1899,
Alice Clary, daughter of Charles and
Sarah (Parsons) Clary, of Conway, Mas-
sachusetts.
McAUSLAN, Alexander,
Merchant.
The subject of this biography is de-
scended from very ancient Scotch fami-
lies, large landholders in the middle cen-
turies. The family was allied by descent
with that of Buchanan, which became
extinct as a lairdship in the time of the
twenty-second laird, John, who married
Mary Areskin, daughter of Henry, Lord
Cardross, her mother being a daughter of
Lord Colville. The story of the Buchanans
is largely a story of the wars of early
Scotland, and is most interesting because
of the various fortunes attending the fam-
ily. The estate passed out of the hands
of the twenty-second laird, who had no
sons, and in time was widely subdivided.
Among the inheritors were the MacAuse-
lans, immediately descended from the
family of Buchanan.
Alexander McAuslan was an extensive
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farmer in Argylshire, Scotland, having in
his possession at one time five valuable
farms, and married Margaret McCutchen.
They had a large family of children —
Jannette, James, Jane, Robert, Alexander,
John, and Margaret. Of these, Jane is
still living (1917), at the age of ninety-
one years. The son, James, was born in
1816, in Glenderuel, Argylshire, and died
at the age of fifty-six years, in 1872. Pie
owned farms in Dunbartonshire, in the
vicinity of Loch Lomond, made famous
by Scott, and in the immediate neighbor-
hood of an ancient kirk of the Established
Church of Scotland. He married Jessie
Fletcher, born in the same neighborhood
as himself, who died in 1874. Their chil-
dren are : Catherine, married William
Montgom.ery ; Margaret, married W. B.
Wakelin ; Jessie, married Cunning-
ham, of Glasgow ; Alexander, of further
mention; Dougal, of Westfield, New Jer-
sey, for more than forty years an em-
ployee of the Standard Oil Company ;
James, a farmer of Easthampton, Massa-
chusetts ; John, a resident of Oregon ;
Archibald, of Glasgow. Scotland ; Helen,
deceased in 1868, aged nine years ; Chris-
tina, a member of the faculty of Mt. Hol-
yoke College ; Robert, an employee of the
post office department in Glasgow, Scot-
land.
Alexander McAuslan was born August
2'j, 1854, in Glenderuel, Argylshire, and
obtained his education in the little red
school house in the section adjacent to
his home. In May, 1869, before the com-
pletion of his fifteenth year, he emigrated
to the United States, and located in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, where he was first
employed in what was known as the Bos-
ton Store, of which his uncle. John Mc-
Auslan, was part owner. With the natu-
ral Scotch aptitude for business, he made
himself useful in the establishment, where
he continued for sixteen years. Unlike
many young Americans, he did not dis-
pose of his earning in frivolous pleasures,
but made prudent disposition, and in time
had acquired a capital by which he might
engage in business f<jr himself. In 1S85
he removed to Holyoke, Massachusetts,
and established a dry goods store with
two partners, under the firm name of Con-
nely, McAuslan ^^ Reid. Their store was
in the Windsor Block on Dvvight street,
in Ilolyoke. After two years Mr. Reid
retired from the firm, and soon after Mr.
Connely died, and the cares of the busi-
ness rested upon Mr. McAuslan. In 1889.
W. B. Wakelin. Mr. Mc.Auslan's brother-
in-law. became interested in the business,
and the partnership became Mc.Auslin &
Wakelin. These have continued to be the
principal proprietors of the concern to the
present time. In 1900 the establishment
was moved to a more desirable location
on the corner of Dwight and High streets,
and in 1901 the adjoining Worcott Block
was added to the store, giving a very large
space, which is utilized in their growing
and extensive business. This was incor-
porated in 1909, under the name of The
McAuslan & Wakelin Company, with Mr.
W. B. Wakelin as president, Alexander
McAuslan, treasurer, and James Wakelin.
secretary. The establishment is num-
bered among the best equipped in West-
ern Massachusetts, and is widely known
among retail purchasers as a reliable
mart. Through upright and progressive
business management. Mr. Mc.\uslan has
won the friendship and confidence of the
buying public, and has thus contributed
in no small degree to the prosperity of
the business. As an adjunct to his im-
mense business he has become interested
in the Baldwin Garment Company of Ilol-
yoke. of which he was one of the founders
and first directors. He has long been
identified with the First Congregational
Church of Holyoke, in which he is a dea-
con.
Mr. McAuslan was married, in Febru-
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ary, 1884, to Eliza (Ingles) Tyler, of
Providence, Rhode Island, daughter of
Edward Tyler. Mr. and Mrs. McAuslan
are the parents of the following children :
Jessie, a graduate of Mt. llolyoke Col-
lege, now the wife of Carl I'.olgehole, of
the Deane Steam I'ump Company ; Ed-
ward; Elsie, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke
College; John, and Amelia.
SACKETT. Harry Robert. M, D.,
Phyaician, Public OflBcial.
A resident and one of the prominent
physicians of Holyoke, Massachusetts,
since 1884, Dr. Sackett traces through a
line of paternal ancestors of Massachu-
setts birth and residence to the year 1631,
when Simon Sackett came from England
to Boston. Westfield became the family
seat of the second generation of the fam-
ily, and so continued until Abner, of the
seventh generation, grandfather of Dr.
Harry R. Sackett, of Holyoke. Abner re-
moved to Chicopee, where his son, George
I. Sackett, was born, and he to Spring-
field, where his son. Harry R. Sackett,
was born.
The family is an ancient one in Eng-
land, where it is traced back to 1066, when
their ancestor came from Normandy with
William the Conqueror. The names
Sackett and Sackville are borne by de-
scendants of this Norman knight, and in
the Sackville line at least there is a record
of Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, born
in 1636.
(I) Simon Sackett, with his brother
John and nephew John, came to New
England in the ship "Lion," which sailed
December i, 1630, from Bristol, England.
He was in the company with Roger Wil-
liams. With Simon were his wife Isabel
and their infant son. Simon, Jr. They
landed after an unusually stormy voyage,
at Boston, February 5, 1631. He settled
in Cambridge, and his home was on the
north side of what is now Winthrop
street, in the centre of the block between
Brighton and Dunster streets. He lived
but a short time after coming to Amer-
ica, dying in October, 1635. Novem-
ber 3 following, his widow Isabel was
granted leave to administer on his estate.
At the same session of the court the
memorable decree was entered which on
account of his religious belief banished
Roger Williams from the colony. The
\\'idow Sackett and her two sons joined
him and were among the company which
made the hard journey to form the settle-
ment at Hartford, Connecticut. She mar-
ried there (second) William Bloomfield.
(II) John, son of Simon Sacket, was
born in 1632, in Cambridge, and is sup-
];osed to have' been the first white child
born there. In 1653 he became a resident
of Springfield, and was granted land there.
He married (first) November 23, 1659,
Abigail Hannum, born 1640, died October
9, 1690, daughter of William and Honor
(Capen) Hannum. Soon afterwards he
sold his house and land at Springfield,
and removed to property he had pur-
chased at Northampton. He lived here
until 1665, w^hen he again sold his prop-
erty and removed to a farm bought of
one Chapin, near Westfield, on w^hat are
now Sackett's Meadow^s. He w^as one of
the first settlers at Westfield. He built
a house and barn, both of which were
burned October 27, 1675, by the Indians,
who at the same time destroyed a large
amount of other property and drove off
his cattle. He rebuilt his house and barn,
and erected a saw mill on a creek which
ran into the Westfield river. John Sack-
ett was selectman in Westfield in 1672
and at various times afterwards, as late
as 1693. He married (second) Sarah,
daughter of John Stiles, widow of John
Stewart, of Springfield. His will, dated
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May lO, 1 718, was proved May 20, 1719.
He gave all his real estate away before
his death.
(HI) John (2), son of John ( i) Sackett.
was born in Westfield, November 4, 1660,
and died December 20, 1745. He married
(first) December i, 1686, Deborah, daugh-
ter of William and Margaret Filley, of
Windsor, Connecticut; (second) May 17,
1702, Mehitable, daughter of Robert and
Elizabeth (Swift) Banks, and widow of
John Harris.
(I\^) Eliakim. son of John (2) Sack-
ett, was born March 12, 1712, and died in
1764. He married, July 5, 1738, Bethesda,
born 1717. daughter of Samuel and Maria
(Root) Fowler. His will was dated July
5. 1764-
(\') Ezra, son of Eliakim Sackett,
born November 15, 1750, and died in
1834. He was a soldier in the Revolu-
tion, and served three months from Octo-
ber 20, 1777, under Captain Daniel Sack-
ett, in the Department of the North. He
married, February 14, 1779, Lydia Lev-
ering, born 1751, of Ipswich.
(VI) Charles, son of Ezra Sackett. the
Revolutionary soldier, and his wife, Lydia
Lovering, was born at W^estfield, Decem-
ber 6, 1783. and married Abigail Otis.
Their son,
(VII) Abner Sackett. born in Westfield.
was a blacksmith, following his trade at
Shelburne Falls, Chicopee, later operat-
ing a shop in W'est Springfield. A fea-
ture of his shop work was the shoeing of
oxen, a practice as common in that sec-
tion in that day as the shoeing of horses
now is. His son,
(VIII) George I. Sackett. was born in
Chicopee, Massachusetts, and is now liv-
ing in Holyoke, one of the oldest railroad
employees in the United States in point
of service. He was educated in the pub-
lic schools, learned the trade of cutlery
maker at Shelburne Falls, and during the
Civil War period held an important posi-
tion with the firm of Lamson, Goodnow &
Company. About 1865 he entered the
service of the Boston & Maine Railroad
Company, and was advanced from post
to post to that position which he has since
held as yardmaster at Holyoke, his term
of service now overlapping the half-cen-
tury mark. For nearly that same period
he has been a member of De Soto Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, his
name appearing on the charter of that
lodge as one of the organizers. He holds
all degrees of York Rite Masonry, belong-
ing to lodge, chapter, council and com-
mandery, and is also a Noble of the M.ys-
tic Shrine.
George I. Sackett married Sarah Har-
vey, of Scotch descent, her father a pio-
neer farmer of St. Lawrence, Canada,
where he cleared a tract of land, erected
a home, and reared a family of ten chil-
dren. Later he resumed pioneer life in
the State of Iowa, taking a tract of prairie
land, and bringing it to a high state of
cultivation, and living there until his ad-
venturous life ended at the great age of
ninety-six years. Sarah (Harvey) Sack-
ett died in 1906, leaving an only child.
Dr. Harry R. Sackett.
(IX) Dr. Harry Robert Sackett. only
child of George I. and Sarah (Harvey)
Sackett, was born in Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, June 25, 1871. In 1881 his par-
ents moved from West Springfield to
South Hadley. and in 1884 to Holyoke.
He was educated in the public schools of
those towns, completing the course with
graduation from Holyoke High School,
class of 1889. Choosing medicine as his
profession, he matriculated at the New
York College of Homoeopathy, whence
he was graduated with the degree of Doc-
tor of Medicine, class of 1893. After a
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year spent in hospital work in New York,
he located in 1894 in Holyoke, where he
has since been continuously in practice,
with the exception of six months which
he spent in hospital work and study in
Berlin. Cermany.
Dr. Sackett is a member of the Western
Massachusetts Homoeopathic Society, of
which he was president in 1900; member
of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Soci-
ety, and the -American Institute of flomce-
opathv. He has identified himself with
the public life of his city, and since De-
cember, 191 5. has been a member of the
board of alderman, elected to serve two
years. In political faith he is a Repub-
lican. He is prominent in fraternal life,
belonging^ to Mount Tom Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons ; Mount Holyoke
Chapter. Royal Arch Masons ; Springfield
Commandery, Knights Templar; Melha
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ;
Holyoke Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows ; Wampanoag Tribe, Im-
proved Order of Red Men (past sachem
and ex-trustee); the Foresters of Amer-
ica, of which he is chairman of the board
of trustees. His clubs are the Holyoke,
and Holyoke Canoe. Since 1886 he has
been a member of the Second Baptist
Church.
Dr. Sackett married, July 7, 1896, Miss
Edith Parsons Hayes, born in Michigan,
daughter of Frederick Hayes, born in
Maine, who in early life moved to the
State of Michigan, served from that State
in the Union army during the Civil War,
and died in Holyoke in 1914. His daugh-
ter Edith P., a graduate of Mt. Holyoke
College, class of 1894. taught in the Elm-
wood school for one year before her mar-
riage.
Dr. and Mrs. Sackett are the parents of
George L. Sackett, born October 24, 1901,
and Frederick Noble, born January 13,
1912.
BEAUCHAMP, Ovila,
Merchant and Manufacturer.
Not only in business circles but in the
civic affairs of the city of Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, Ovila Beauchamp has taken a
part of prominence. As a merchant and
manufacturer his activities have been
varied and uniformly successful. He is
especially interested in the modern move-
ment to provide suitable playgrounds for
the children of the cities, and is now a
member of the playgrounds committee in
Holyoke. Mr. Beauchamp's ancestors
have been on American soil from the time
Quebec was settled.
(I) Michel Beauchamp lived in France,
formerly at La Rochelle, afterward at
Notre Dame de Cogne. He married
Marie Roulette. Children : Jacques, died
February 8, 1693, married Marie Dar-
dyne ; Jean, mentioned below.
(II) Jean Beauchamp, son of Michel
and Marie (Roulette) Beauchamp, bap-
tized February 23, 1636, at Notre Dame
de Cogne, left France and settled at
Pointe-aux-Trembles at Montreal, No-
vember 23, 1666. He married Leanne
Loisel, daughter of Louis Loisel. Chil-
dren : Child, born and died August 6,
1669; Marie Francoise, baptized Septem-
ber II. 1670, married (first) Louis Tru-
chon. and (second) Jacques Robin; Jean,
baptized November 22. 1676, at Repen-
tigny, married Jeanne Muloin ; Pierre,
mentioned below ; Barbe, baptized June
10, 1683, married (first) Guillaume Figot,
and (second) Andre Bouteillet ; Fran-
coise. baptized June 22, 1686; Marguerite,
baptized March 27. 1689, married Jean
Baptiste Leclerc at St. Francis.
(III) Pierre Beauchamp, son of Jean
and Leanne (Loisel) Beauchamp. was
baptized June 29. 1679. ^^ married, June
29, 1699, at Montreal, Angelique Fran-
coise Leclerc, daughter of Guillaume Le-
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clerc. Children : Pierre, baptized No-
vember lo, 1700, at Repentigny ; Pierre,
baptized May '^'j, 1704, at St. Francis, He
Jesus; Michel, mentioned below; Jean,
baptized March 27. 1712, married Gene-
vieve Sequin at Cachenaie ; Francois,
baptized February 18, 1714, married
Marie Joseph Vaillancoeur ; Marie Aga-
the, baptized September 13, 1716; Marie,
1723. died 1727; Joseph, baptized Janu-
ary 19, 1730, married Marguerite Vaillan-
coeur.
(IV) Michel Beauchamp, son of Pierre
and Angelique Francoise (Leclerc) Beau-
champ, was baptized March 7, 1706. He
married Elizabeth Laderoute, daughter of
Pierre Laderoute. She was also born in
1706. Children: Michel, mentioned be-
low ; Joseph Marie, baptized February
2^^, 1732, married Marie Reine Bourgouin ;
Marie, born 1729, married Pierre Tru-
chon, and died April 6, 1749; Marie Jo-
seph, baptized August 16, 1737; Pierre,
baptized February 17, 1735, at St. Fran-
cis, He Jesus; Francois, married (first)
Marie Charlotte Bourgouin, and (second)
Marguerite Tareau ; Pierre, married Marie
Joseph Gariepy ; Pascal; Elizabeth, bap-
tized February 24, 1743, married Charles
Roy; Amable, baptized October 8, 1740,
died March 30, 1750; Marie Joseph, bap-
tized January 22, 1747.
(V) Michel Beauchamp, son of Michel
and Elizabeth (Laderoute) Beauchamp,
was baptized July 14, 1729, at Lachenays ;
married (first) Therese Gariepy, June 9,
1749, and (second) Angelique Truchon at
St. Henri De Nascouche. They had a son,
Pascal, mentioned below.
(VI) Pascal Beauchamp, son of Michel
and Angelique (Truchon) Beauchamp,
was baptized February 13, 1765. He mar-
ried (first) at St. Henri de Massondre.
Catherine Renaud, daughter of Francis
Renaud (III). He married (second)
Marie (Croteau) Huboit, daughter of
Bernard Croteau (III ) and widow of Jean
Baptiste Huboit.
(VII) Henry Beauchamp, son of Pas-
cal and Catherine (Renaud) Beauchamp,
was born in I7</), in Quebec. He mar-
ried Antoinette Fortin. They resided in
Quebec. Among their children was
David, mentioned below.
(VIII) David Beauchamp. son of Henry
and Antoinette (Fortin) Beauchamp, was
born at St. Henri, Moscuchc. Province of
Quebec, Canada, in 1814, and died there
in 1894, aged eighty-two years. Like his
forefathers he followed farming for his
vocation. He married Rachelle Lauzon.
They had eight children, the only son
living being Pierre, mentioned below, and
he has three sisters living.
(IX) Pierre Beauchamp, son of David
and Rachelle (Lauzon) Beauchamp. was
born April 6, 1842. in the parish of St.
Henri. Moscuche, Quebec. He followed
farming until middle life. In .\pril, 1886.
he disposed of his interests in Canada
and came to Holyoke, Massachusetts,
where a considerable part of the popula-
tion is French speaking of Canadian
birth. Here he opened a grocery store
and began the manufacture of blood sau-
sages. Though starting in business in
middle life, he made wonderful use of his
opportunities and acquired a handsome
competence. His prudence and economy,
industry and thrift, were the secret of his
success. He was popular among all
classes, and his personality brought him
customers and kept them, won him many
friends and gave him influence in the
commimity. In 1906. after twenty years,
he retired, the business being continued
bv his sons. Since then he has been
occupied in the care and development of
his real estate, in which he has invested
largely in Holyoke.
He married. October 12, 1864. Melanie
Forand, who was born in Canada, Octo-
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ber 29, 1845, daughter of Joseph Forand.
Children: Henry Odilon, a sketch of
whom appears in this work ; Rachel, born
August 21, 1867; Joseph, June 20, 1869;
Celina, March 29, 1871 ; Zephaine, Octo-
ber 2, 1873; Ovila, mentioned below;
Amanda. February 19, 1877; Adelia, Janu-
ary 10, 1879; Maria, October 10, 1880, de-
ceased; Victoria, September 2^, 1882, de-
ceased; Marie, May 11, 1S86; Pierre, July
30, 1888, deceased. All but the youngest
were born in Canada. On October 12,
1914, was celebrated in a most fitting
manner the fiftieth anniversary of the
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Beau-
champ. At this time was also celebrated
the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of
their son, H. O. Beauchamp and wife;
and at a solemn mass that same morning
at nine o'clock in the Precious Blood
Church, the marriage took place of
Amanda, the daughter of H. O. Beau-
champ, and the granddaughter of Pierre
Beauchamp. to Philias (jramchamp. of
Enfield, Connecticut. Later in the day a
banquet w^as given at which over one
hundred guests were present, including
thirty-six grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren ; probably one of the larg-
est family gatherings to take place in re-
cent times in Western Massachusetts.
(X) Ovila Beauchamp, son of Pierre
and Melanie (Forand) Beauchamp, was
born at St. Henri, Moscuche, Quebec,
May 28, 1875. His early schooling was
received in his native parish. He was
but eleven years old when he came with
his parents to Holyoke, and he completed
his elementary education there in the
public schools. Becoming associated in
business with his father, first as helper
and clerk, later as partner, in the grocery
and provision business, he has since early
youth been well known in mercantile cir-
cles. His brother was afterwards in the
firm. In 1901 he succeeded his father in
the blood sausage business, and he has
continued in this industry with a large
measure of success to the present time.
In 1906 he added to his other activities
by engaging in the manufacture of char-
coal, a business he has developed and
pushed to a highly prosperous condition.
Besides his mercantile and manufacturing
business, he has valuable real estate in
Holyoke. Mr. Beauchamp has had per-
haps especially good opportunities to
study the needs of the children of the city.
For years he has taken a kindly interest
in their v/elfare and has given his influ-
ence and support to various projects to
improve their condition and make their
youth happier. The playground idea
made an especial appeal to him, and when
the movement progressed from city to
city he assisted in keeping Holyoke in
line. He is a member of the city play-
ground committee and has been inde-
fatigable in working for more and better
grounds, so that every child in the city
may have the proper place and things for
the years of play. His principal recrea-
tion is hunting and he is a member of the
Rod and Gun Club of Holyoke. The only
fraternal organization of which he is a
member is the local lodge, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Beauchamp married, July 14, 1896,
Clarinda Hebert, of Montreal. Canada, a
daughter of Isadore and Philomena
(Benard) Hebert. They have three chil-
dren: Lillian, born 1899; Ellen, born
1901 ; and Hattie Belle, born 1905.
BEAUCHAMP, Henry Odilon.
Prosperous Business Man.
Henry O. Beauchamp comes of a long
line of honorable ancestors, a full account
of whom precedes this in the work.
He was born in St. Henry, Mascouche,
Province of Quebec, Canada, October 9,
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1865. He was educated in the schools ot"
his native town, worked at farming in
Canada until 1885, the year prior to his
majority, and in July of that year he came
to the United States and located in Ilol-
yoke, Massachusetts, being the first mem-
ber of the family to come to this country,
his father and his family following him
a year later. His first employment was
with the Water Power Company of Hol-
yoke, with whom he remained a short pe-
riod of time, and then removed to Water-
bury, Connecticut, where he worked for
a similar period of time, and then re-
moved to Haverstraw, New York, where
he secured employment in the making of
brick, that being the principal industry
of that thriving city. His next move was
to Lewiston, Maine, from whence he re-
turned to Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
for the following five and a half years
worked in the planing mill of the Merrick
Lumber Company, after which he became
an employee of the Casper Ranger Con-
struction Company of Holyoke, which
connection continued for nine and a half
years. This ended his career as an em-
ployee, he, during this period of time,
having accumulated sufficient capital to
engage in business on his own account.
In 1901 he established a bakery business
at No. 261 Park street, and later estab-
lished another store at the corner of Sar-
geant and Bridge streets, and for about
two years conducted both establishments
successfully, then in January, 1917, sold
the store at Sargeant and Bridge streets.
In 1913 he organized the Holyoke Baking
Company, the plant located at No. 578
Bridge street, of which he is secretary and
treasurer, and he is also the owner of the
building occupied by that company, and
British Columbia. The Holyoke Baking
Company gives employment to about
twenty-five people, skilled and efficient
workmen, their ])ay-roll amounting to
about $1,600 in(jnthl_\ , and it ranks
among the rej)resentative industries of
that section of the city. Mr. Beauchamp
is a director, secretary and treasurer of
the Monument-National Canadian-i-'ran-
cais Society, of which he was president
for five years, and is a director of the
Economic I'ank of iiolyoke. He has
served in the capacity of overseer of the
poor. He holds membership in the Im-
proved Order of Red Men and in the Mt.
Tom Ciolf Club.
Mr. Beauchamj) married. October 22,
1889, Louisa Robert, daughter of Pierre
and Ozilda (Masse) Robert, the ceremony
being performed at St. Bruno, Province of
Quebec. Canada. Children: i. Maria Rose
.\nita, born October 5. 1890: became the
wife of Raymond Tessier and they have
three children: Joseph Gerald. Raymond
Henry. Marguerite Theresa. 2. Theresa
Olida. born December 24. 1891 ; became
the wife of Albert Rheum and they have
two children : \'incent and Charles. 3.
Rose Bertha, born March 13. 1894. 4.
Pierre Albert, born .\pril 4. 1805. ^^'^d in
infancy. 5. Leo Adelward. born May 30.
1896. 6. Rene Robert, born February 22.
1898. 7. Simonne Loretta, born Septem-
ber 19. 190T. 8. Charles Edward, born
luly 2"], 1903. 9. .Arthur Odilon. born
February 7. 1907.
RYAN. William P., M. D.,
Phyaician. in Military Ser-rice.
William P. Ryan, a successful physi-
cian of Holyoke, comes of staunch Irish
also the owner of twenty tenement blocks, stock. John Joseph Ryan, grandfather of
one of which, No. 31-35 Commercial street. Dr. Ryan, was born in Ireland and died
he sold in 1917. He also owns a farm in Hartford. Connecticut, in IQOI. His
of four hundred acres in Ensign. Alberta, life in the Old Country was passed in the
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open air and as coachman to Sir Thomas
Burke, one of the victims of the Phoenix
Park, Dublin, tragedy, and "whipper in"
of the hunting liounds he spent his time.
He came to the United States in 1872 and
until his death he was employed by the
priest of St. Mary's Church at Windsor
Locks, Connecticut, in the care of the
parish grounds and church. But he never
outlived his love for a good horse, and he
was most enthusiastic over the merits of
horse or hunting dog. He married, in
Ireland, Mary Gibbons, daughter of
Thomas Gibbons, who died in her native
land. They were the parents of Michael
J.. Catherine C. John Joseph (2), of fur-
ther mention : Thomas, deceased, and
Mary.
John Joseph {2) Ryan was born in
Dublin. Ireland, in 1861. and educated in
the public schools and under the instruc-
tion of the Christian Brothers. In 1872
he came to the United States with his
father, and at quite an early age was em-
ployed in the underwear mills at Wind-
sor Locks. In 1879 he first located in
Holyoke, was employed for a time in a
paper mill, then learned the trade of car-
riage blacksmith with Fenton & Dunn,
with whom he remained as journeyman
for seventeen years. While so employed
he joined the Holyoke Volunteer Fire
Department and served for ten years,
then became a member of the permanent
paid department, with which he has been
connected for fifteen years. He is lieu-
tenant of Ladder Company, No. 3. at the
Highlands Station, and one of the faith-
ful, fearless and efficient officers of a
branch of city government which comes
closer to the lives and hearts of the peo-
ple than any other.
Lieutenant Ryan married, in 1883,
Elizabeth C. Sullivan, born in 1866,
daughter of Patrick B. and Bridget (Hill)
Sullivan, of Holyoke. They are the par-
ents of children, as follows: i. Dr. Wil-
liam P. Ryan, of further mention. 2.
Elizabeth C, married Thomas Hanni-
fan, who was a manager of a leading dry
goods store in W' ilmington, Delaware ; he
is now in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he is preparing to be-
come an aviator in the service of the
United States government, and in a re-
cent examination he received the highest
marks ; at the expiration of his prepara-
tion, he will receive a commission as lieu-
tenant in the Aviation Corps. 3. Ray-
mond J. Ryan, associated with the Trav-
elers' Insurance Company of Hartford.
4. Catherine Ryan, an office employee of
the Fisk Rubber Company. 5. Howard
Ryan, now with the Fisk Rubber Com-
pany. 6. Kenneth Ryan, paymaster with
the Whiting Paper Company. 7-8. Made-
line and Milton Ryan (twins).
Dr. William P. Ryan, son of Lieuten-
ant John Joseph and Elizabeth C. (Sul-
livan) Ryan, was born in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, December 17, 1885. After
extended preparatory courses in Holyoke
schools, he entered St. Mary's College at
Emmitsburg, Maryland, whence he was
graduated Bachelor of Arts. Deciding
upon the medical profession, he entered
the Medical Department of the Univer-
sity of Vermont in 1907. receiving his de-
gree of Doctor of Medicine with the
graduating class of 191 1. After service
as interne at the Hartford General Hos-
pital, Lying-In-Hospital, New York, and
the House of Mercy Hospital, Springfield,
Dr. Ryan in 1913 established in private
practice in Holyoke, where he rendered
public and institutional service as city
physician, police surgeon, as head of the
health department of the City Farm, and
assistant to the Board of Health and sur-
geon to the City Hospital. On December
23, 1916, Dr. Ryan was ordered into
active service as a first lieutenant in the
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United States Army Medical Corps, and
was assigned to duty on the Mexican
border. At the end of his six months"
service in this capacity, and while still at 1""1
Paso, Texas, because of his ability he was
selected by General Pershing from a large
number of surgeons to accompany the
first contingent of United States troops to
France, where he is now (1917) rendering
valuable aid to the United States govern-
ment.
He is a member of the Holyoke Medical
and Hampden County Medical associ-
ations, the Massachusetts State and
American Medical associations, the
American College of Surgeons, holds a
lieutenant's rank in the United States
Army Medical Corps ; is a fellow of the
Association of Military Surgeons of the
United States ; also member of the Acad-
emy of Medicine, and the Springfield
Catholic Club. He is a Democrat in
politics, and took active part in local
affairs for several years. His success in
his profession has been both marked and
merited, and with his career hardly more
than begun, the future of the young phy-
sician and surgeon seems full of brilliant
promise. He is a member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks, the
Holyoke Country Club, and the Knights
of Columbus, and is very popular in both
orders. His college fraternities are the
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Kappa.
MORRISON, Robert Francis, M. D.,
Physician.
Among the younger representatives of
the medical profession in Holyoke, Mas-
sachusetts, none are more worthy the
success they have achieved than Dr.
Robert F. Morrison, a native son of Mas-
sachusetts, who in addition to his pres-
tige as a physician has so acquitted him-
self as to be regarded as a most valued
and honorable citizen, worthy of the
reputation he enjoys.
John Morrison, the first ancestor of the
line herein followed of whom we have
definite information, was a native of Ire-
land and there spent his entire lifetime,
engaging in various pursuits. He mar-
ried and among his children was a son,
Robert, of whom further.
Robert Morrison, son of John Mcjr-
rison, was born in County Cork, Ireland,
and died in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
When of the age to decide upon his life-
work, he learned the trade of blacksmith,
which he followed for many years in his
native land, and also for many years in
the city of Holyoke, where he located
upon his arrival in this country in the
year 1850. He at once became a loyal
citizen of this country and displayed his
patriotism during the trying period of
the Civil War by drilling recruits for a
Holyoke company in the old Exchange
Hall, his work proving of great value.
He married Mary Foley, who bore him
three children: Thomas; John L., of
whom further ; and Mary Frances.
John L. Morrison, son of Robert and
Mary (Foley) Morrison, was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, April 22, 1854.
He was educated in the public schools of
his native city. He there learned the
trade of a machinist : became a master
mechanic ; for a number of years he was
in the employ of the Ames Company of
Chicopee, and eventually engaged in
business on his own account, manufac-
turing and repairing machinery. Later,
and from 1910 to the present time (1916)
he has been connected with the Holyoke
Covered Wire Company, earnest and
faithful in the discharge of his duties.
He married Mary Kenney, a native of
Dublin. Ireland, whose death occurred in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, May 24, 1916, a
daughter of Tames and Marv (Madden)
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Kenncy. They were the pirents of three
sons : Robert Francis, of whom further ;
John L., Jr., and Francis T.
Dr. Robert Francis Morrison, son of
John L. and Mary (Kenney) Morrison,
was born at Chicopee, Massachusetts,
November ii, 1S77. He obtained an ex-
cellent jjreparatory education by attend-
ance at the public schools of Holyoke,
and his preparation for the medical pro-
fession was obtained by a course of study
at the Baltimore Medical College, from
which he was graduated and received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901.
Immediately after his graduation he
opened an office in Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, and since then has continued in
practice in the same city, putting to a
practical test the theoretical knowledge
he had acquired in his collegiate course.
He has a broad and comprehensive under-
standing of the principles of the science
of medicine, and although he is one of the
young men engaged in his chosen line of
work he has gained a reputation for skill
that many an older medical practitioner
might well envy. In 1904 he went abroad
in order to further increase his store of
knowledge pertaining to the science of
medicine, to which he devotes his entire
time and attention. Dr. Morrison is a
member of the Holyoke Medical Society,
the Springfield Academy of Medicine,
the Hampden County Medical Society,
the Massachusetts Medical Society and
the American Medical Association, and
through these connections he keeps in
touch with the progress that is being
made toward perfection in the realm of
medicine. He also holds membership in
the local lodge of the Knights of Colum-
bus. He is a man of unfailing courtesy
and of cordial disposition, and these
qualities endear him to all and make him
popular in whatever circle he moves.
Dr. Morrison married, September 7,
1904, Elizabeth Blanche Smith, born Au-
gust 9, 1878, at Frederickstown, New
Brunswick, daughter of Arthur and Mary
(Hammond) Smith, of Frederickstown,
New Brunswick. Children : Elizabeth
Blanche, born July 17, 1905, died July 23,
1906; Mary, born July 15, 1908, died May
7, 1909; Robert Francis, Jr., born April
8, 1913; John Arthur, born September
17. I9M-
CHAMBERLAIN, Robert Horace,
Civil War Soldier, Public Official.
A veteran of the Civil War, and for
twelve years thereafter active in the Mas-
sachusetts National Guard, prominent in
public life and in the Masonic order of
city and State, General Chamberlain was
without doubt the best known man of the
city of Worcester, the city of his birth
and scene of his life's activities. He was
as favorably known in every department
of life he touched, and everywhere his
name stood for honesty and uprightness.
He was a great-grandson of Jacob (3)
Chamberlain, who came from Newton,
Massachusetts, in 1742, to Worcester, and
bought a tract of land on Salisbury street
of which seventy-two acres were handed
down by his son, John Chamberlain, to
his son, Thomas Chamberlain, and by
him to his sons, Robert Horace and
Thomas (2) Chamberlain.
Jacob Chamberlain, the founder of the
family in Worcester, was a great-grand-
son of William Chamberlain, the Ameri-
can ancestor, who is believed to have
been a descendant of William, Count de
Tankerville, of Tankerville Castle, Nor-
mandy, who came to England in 1066
with William the Conqueror. John de
Tankerville, a descendant of Count Wil-
liam de Tankerville, was lord chamber-
lain to King Henry I. and assumed his
title as a surname. The line is traced
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through the centuries to the time of the
coming to America of William Chamber-
lain, born about 1620. Arms : Gules an
in escutcheon argent between eight mul-
lets in orle, or, quartering, gules a chev-
ron between three escallops. Motto:
I'irtuti nihil invixiui.
The line of descent from William
Chamberlain, the founder, is through his
son, Jacob (i) ; his son, Jacob (2) ; his son,
Jacob (3), the founder in Worcester; his
son, John ; his son, Thomas ; his son,
General Robert Horace Chamberlain.
Thomas Chamberlain, born at Worces-
ter, March 6, 1783, inherited and con-
ducted part of the farm owned by his
father and grandfather, and in its cultiva-
tion advanced the science and art of hor-
ticulture, was one of the founders and
first trustees of the Worcester Horticul-
tural Society in 1840, and in the hall of
the society on Front street, Worcester,
his portrait adorns the walls. He was the
first president of Common Council after
the incorporation of the city of Worces-
ter ; was crier of the Worcester court for
seventeen years ; filled most ranks in the
State Militia from corporal to brigadier-
general, and attended Old South Church.
He married (second) October 30, 1832,
Hannah Blair, daughter of Robert and
Elizabeth (Harrington) Blair, born Feb-
ruary 19, 1793, died August 23, 1873. He
died September 5, 1855.
Robert Horace Chamberlain, youngest
child of Thomas and Hannah (Blair)
Chamberlain, was born in Worcester,
Massachusetts, June 16, 1838, died June
28, 1910. After public school courses and
attendance at Worcester Academy he be-
came, at the age of eighteen, an appren-
tice to the machinists. Ball & Bullard,
continuing with them until his enlistment,
September 25, 1S62, in Company A, Fifty-
first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry, for a term of nine months. He
went to the front as sergeant, and during
the campaign in North Carolina was en-
gaged at Goldsboro, Whitehall and
Kingston, and with the Army of the Po-
tomac in pursuit of General Lee's army
after their defeat at Gettysburg. He was
promoted a captain, and with his regi-
ment was assigned to special guard duty
over five thousand Confederate prisoners
confined at Indianajjolis. He was must-
ered out with honf)rable discharge, No-
vember 30, 1864. He at once returned
to Worcester, which city was ever after-
ward his home.
For twelve years after his return from
the army. Captain Chamberlain was ac-
tive in the State Militia as his father had
been years before. He reorganized the
Worcester City Guards in 1865 and was
its captain for two years; he also reor-
ganized a battery of artillery that was
named the Chamberlain Light Battery.
He was commissioned major and after-
wards colonel of the Tenth Regiment.
Massachusetts National Guard, and on
December 31, 1876, was made a brigadier-
general. He resigned from the service
the same year, but always retained his
interest in the citizen soldiery of the
State and Nation.
After retiring from the army in 1864,
he resumed his trade and was employed
as a machinist until 1870. He then re-
ceived from Mayor Blake appointment as
city superintendent of sewers, a position
he filled for eighteen years. In 1888 he
was appointed master of the House of
Correction, an office he filled until 1892,
when he was elected high sheriff of Wor-
cester county as the candidate of the Re-
publican party. This was not the first
elective office, however, for from 1867
until 1870 he had represented his ward in
Common Council. Although devoted to
his party, General Chamberlain was not
a violent partisan, but placed citizenship
above party and gave to every man credit
for honesty of purpose. He was faithful
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to every tru>t reposed in him, whether
public or private, and was as highly re-
garded by his political adversaries as by
his party friends.
General Chamberlain's standing in the
Masonic order was of the highest and
brought the friendship of eminent men
of the order from all over the States of
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he hav-
ing been grand commander of the Grand
Commandery of Knights Templar with
juri^diction over both States. He was
made a Mason by Montacute Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, September 8,
1862; became a companion of Worcester
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, May 6,
1864; of Hiram Council, Royal and Select
Masters, March 2;^, 1864; a sir knight of
Worcester County Commandery, Knights
Templar. December i, 1865; and was
elected grand commander in 1892. In
Scottish Rite Masonry he had attained the
thirty-second degree, Massachusetts Con-
sistory. He was also treasurer of the
Masonic Mutual Relief Association. His
association with his comrades of the army
was ever one of the joys of his life, and
in George H. Ward Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of which he w-as a charter
member, and in Massachusetts Chapter,
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, he maintained that as-
sociation until the end of his life. His
club was the Hancock of Worcester, his
religious affiliation with the Congrega-
tional church.
General Chamberlain married, January
10, 1865. Esther Browning, born July 12
1841, daughter of Joshua and Lavina
(Morse) Browning, of Hubbardston,
Massachusetts. They were the parents
of two daughters : Flora Browning, mar-
ried, June 12, 1894, Charles B. Weather-
by ; Mabel Susan, married Dr. Perley P.
Coney, and now resides in Augusta,
Georgia.
WRIGHT, George Merrill,
Mayor, Banker, Mannfactnrer.
Those w^ho w^atched the early life of
George Merrill Wright did not need the
gift of prophecy to predict his successful
business career, for he evidenced in his
first efforts an aptitude and energy which
could not fail. Not yet even in life's
prime, just fifty-two to be exact (1917),
he has risen from draughtsman to presi-
dent and general manager of an immense
woven wire plant at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, with nearly one thousand oper-
atives. Since he reached his eighteenth
year he has been continuously engaged in
some department of the business, and for
thirteen years has been the executive
head and general manager.
To this record of business success must
be added activity and prominence as a
financier and extended service as alder-
man and chief executive of Worcester
four consecutive terms, no mayor of the
city ever having been honored with a
more emphatic endorsement of his public
policies. His attitude toward the public
office he holds is the same as toward the
position he holds as a manufacturer. He
regards the affairs of a city nothing more
nor nothing less than managing the affairs
of a big corporation and that the same
striving for efficiency should be prac-
ticed as in a private corporation. The
city of Worcester is indeed a big corpora-
tion, one item of expenditure alone during
the three years of Mayor Wright's admin-
istration totalling one and one-quarter
millions of dollars for schools and school
buildings. That the public agree with
him in that attitude is fully evidenced by
his continuous reelections to administer
the affairs of that great corporation, the
city of W^orcester.
Mr. Wright is of the eighth American
generation of his family in America, trac-
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iiig to John Wright, who was married in
Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1661, to
Abigail Warren. In England the family
is an ancient one and the surname one of
the oldest known, rivaling Smith in its
antiquity. In England the family bore
arms: Azure, two bars azure in chief
three leopards or. Crest: Out of a ducal
coronet or a dragon's head proper.
Maternal descent is traced to John
Prescott, who married Mary Platts in
England, came to America in 1638, first
settling on the Island of Barbadoes, com-
ing to Massachusetts in 1640 and settling
at Watertown. The Prescott line is
traced in England to James Prescott, one
of the gentlemen at the court of Queen
Elizabeth in 1564, whose son. Sir James
Prescott, was created lord of the manor
of Derljy in Lincolnshire and had arms
granted him : Ermine, a chevron sable on
a chief of the two leopard's heads or.
Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, a boar's
head and neck, argent bristled of the first.
Sir James Prescott had a son, Roger Pres-
cott, whose son, Ralph Prescott, was the
father of John Prescott, the American
ancestor of George Merrill Wright
through his maternal great-grandmother,
Sarah Prescott, who married Stephen
Wright. They were the parents of
Ezekiel Conant Wright, father of Harriet
Elizabeth Wright (who was also a de-
scendant of John Wright, of Woburn)
wife of George Fletcher Wright, and they
the parents of George Merrill Wright.
The line of descent from John Pres-
cott, the founder, is through his son,
Jonas Prescott, 1648-1723; his son, Jonas
(2) Wright, born i6^)j ; his son, Jacob
Wright, born I'x^S; his >on, ICphraim
Wright, born 1725; his son, I'.phraim
(2) Wright, l)orn 1761 ; his son. Ephraim
(3) Wright, born 1793; his son, George
Eletchcr Wright, born July 25. 1831, died
May 30, 1903; liis son. George .Merrill
Wright.
George Fletcher Wright, in i''^53, l>e-
came senior member of I'.urt. Wright &
Company, manufacturers of tread mills
at Harvard and Clinton. Massachusetts,
prior to that date serving as master me-
chanic for the pioneer manufacturers of
wire cloth in the United States. Later
he established a small plant fmm which
has grown the present mammoth business
of the Wright Wire Company of Worces-
ter and Palmer, Massachusetts, which
from its inception has been confined to
the Wright family, George I*". Wright and
his sons, George Merrill and Herbert N'.
Wright. At the death of the founder he
was succeeded by his eldest son, George
M., the younger son, Herbert X.. becom-
ing vice-president and treasurer.
Mr. Wright, Sr., married, September 13,
i860, Harriet Elizabeth Wright, daughter
of P^zekiel Conant and Susan (Stevens)
Wright, paternally descended from John
Wright, of Woburn, and maternally from
John Prescott, of Watertown. Their only
children were the two sons mentioned.
George Morrill Wright, the elder of the
two sons of George I'-letcher and Harriet
Elizabeth (Wright) Wright, was born at
Clinton, Massachusetts, .\pril 12. 1865.
He pursued a course of public school
study at Clinton, ending in high school.
(2) Prescott, 1678-1750; his son, Jonas supplemented by a term at Monson Acad-
(3) Prescott, 1703-1784; his son, Timothy emy and Foster Business College. He dc-
Prescott, 1728-1808; his daughter, Sarah veloped a decided talent in drawing, one
Prescott, wife of Stephen Wright, 1765- of his drawings at the age of six repre-
1817. Mayor Wright's descent from senting an engine and a train of two cars,
John W^right, of Woburn, the Ameri- a faithful reproduction of his model. One
can founder, is through his son, John of his treasures preserved through all the
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years is a drawing of a locomotive thirty
inches in height, in perfect proportion,
which his father, an expert, considered
so remarkable a drawing for a lad of
eleven years that he had it appropriately
framed. A strong talent for business
operations also early manifested itself,
and at fourteen he conducted a specula-
tion in l>arrels, buying all that were
offered him and paying for them with his
own check, for he kept his own bank
account. A year later, at fifteen, he
owned fourteen hundred chickens and was
conducting a very respectable poultry^
farm. "Coming events cast their shad-
ows before" and beautiful "Indian Hill"
with its broad acres, fine buildings,
blooded stock and fancy poultry is the
realization of the dreams of that boyhood
period.
After leaving school he was associated
with his father in the wire mill, and after
mastering the details of manufacture he
became general manager of the Wright
Wire Cloth Company, whose small plant
was then located at Palmer, Massachu-
setts. George Fletcher Wright and his
two sons then constituted the executive
and managerial staff, the factory force
numbering six men. But all were inter-
ested, capable workers and the enterprise
prospered from its beginning. After his
preliminary service in the draughting
room and in various departments of the
little plant, Mr. Wright, at the age of
twenty-one became general manager, and
now (191 7) at the age of fifty-two holds
building, corner of Stevens and Canter-
bury streets, two hundred and thirty by six
hundred and forty-two feet, but four years
later the demands of business necessitated
additional facilities and a wire drawing
plant at Palmer was purchased and oper-
ated in connection w'ith the Worcester
works. They employed six hundred
hands, and had eight acres of floor space.
For the first six years the business was
operated under the style and title. The
Wright Wire Cloth Company, then for
ten years as the Wright & Colton Wire
Cloth Company. In 1902 the corporation
became as at present, The Wright Wire
Company. George M. Wright, while al-
ways retaining the position of general
manager, also filled the offices of treasurer
and vice-president, succeeding to the pres-
idency in 1903.
In that year a third factory was added,
devoted to the manufacture of wire rope.
The Palmer plant is especially engaged
in that branch of manufacture, the Wor-
cester plant to the w^eaving and galvan-
izing wire cloth and netting. From a
capitalization of twenty thousand dollars,
when first organized as a Massachusetts
corporation, the paid-in-capital has
reached nearly a million dollars, the force
of six men has increased to nearly a
thousand and Wright wire in its varied
forms is sold in every State in the Union,
in Canada, Central and South America,
the West Indies and the Philippines. One
of those original six employees is yet with
the company and six others of the fac-
the same relation to the plant, which has tory force have been with Mr. Wright for
outgrown the wildest hopes of its found- thirty years.
ers. In the early years he spent consider-
able time on the road, selling the product
of the plant, and he has ever continued
that practice, travelling to all parts of the
country and keeping in personal touch
with the trade. In 1889 the plant was
moved to Worcester. They built a new
The success of the company was first
made possible by the extraordinary me-
chanical ingenuity of George Fletcher
Wright. He invented machines and meth-
ods for drawing and weaving wire, one of
the inventions being the first machine for
weaving by power wire cloth for window
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screens. Thirty machines are used in the
plant for weaving the poultry netting and
the first machine made for that purpose
was from drawings made by George M.
Wright and built in the Wright plant.
He has also several valuable patents to
his credit, in fact, W^right inventive gen-
ius as well as Wright managerial and ex-
ecutive ability is the foundation, super-
structure and keystone of the arch of
Wright success. While in times past
some of the machines invented and manu-
factured by the Wrights have been sold
to other manufacturing concerns in the
United States and Canada, the present
policy of the company is to manufacture
them only for their own use. A particu-
larly valuable patent designed and drawn
by George M. Wright is a balance valve
hydraulic crane for the acid bath used in
cleaning wire. Besides the extensive
making plants at Worcester and Palmer,
the company maintains sales offices and
warehouses in New York, Boston, Phil-
adelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and San
Francisco, while their well organized
selling force covers the wide field in
which the wire products of the various
mills are marketed. At the head of this
concern stands George M. Wright, who
in his achievement has more than ful-
filled the promise of his youth. In addi-
tion to the foregoing, he is also president
of the Park Trust Company of Worcester.
The public service rendered by Mr.
Wright began in 1900 with his election to
Common Council from then Ward Six
(now Ward Seven). In 1902 he was one
of the nine successful candidates for alder-
man, elected from a list of twenty-six
candidates, he standing fifth in the bal-
loting, although alphabetically at the bot-
tom of the list of candidates. In 1913 he
was the Republican candidate for mayor,
being successful at the polls by a major-
itv of two thousand three hundred and
thirty. In 1914 he was elected to succeed
himself by a majority of five thousand
eiglit hundred and forty-three. For a
third term lie received a majority of six
thousand five hundred and eighty-five.
I'or a fourth term his majority fell to two
thousand eight hundred and fifty, but that
was the largest majority a fourth term
mayor had ever received, Mayor Wright
being the fourth mayor of Worcester to
be so honored. As councilman he served
on committees on education, water and
finance ; as alderman on committees on
water, fire department, military alTairs.
street lighting, and as trustee of the City
Hospital ; as mayor he has proved efficient
and popular, broad-minded, courageous,
upright, public-spirited and progressive.
During his years in office two high school
buildings have been built, the Pine Hill
reservoir and dam has been started and
nearly half completed, doubling Worces-
ter's water supply, a modern fireproof
police station erected, a bridge across
Lake Quinsigamond, the fire department
doubled in size and one-half motorized,
its equipment and efficiency added to, a
tuberculosis hospital built and opened, a
modernly equipped children's ward added
to city hospital facilities, a "W'hite Way"
system of street lighting installed, five
hundred and eighty arc lights forming the
system placed in operation, June 17, IQM.
by the pressing of a button by Mayor
Wright in the presence of the Mayor's
Club of Massachusetts and one hundred
thousand people, the Chamber of Com-
merce providing a parade of automobiles
as part of the celebration. Notwithstand-
ing the large sums of money spent for the
above public improvements, the credit of
Worcester stands so high that during the
past two years the city has been able to
borrow money at a lower rate of interest
than any other city in the United States.
Every man of large affairs has some
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favored recreation or hobl)y and Mr.
Wright is no exception, still the form his
fancy has dictated is somewhat out of the
usual order. In Charlton. Massachusetts,
at Iiulian Mill, an («1(1 Indian hurying-
gronnd, nine hundred and twenty-tive feet
above sea level, he purchased an estate
of two hundred and fifty acres. There he
has a beautiful residence and spends sev-
eral months of the summer seasons in
addition to frequent week-end journey-
ings at all times of the year. But it is not
a home alone that he has made at "Indian
low and Elk, and since 1909 has belonged
to the Worcester Continentals. He is a
member of Bethany Congregational
Church, and in politics is a Republican.
His clubs are the Worcester, Automobile
and Rotary, all of Worcester, and the
Mayor's Club of Boston.
This record of the principal activities
of Mr. Wright reveals the strong forceful
.American business man of the type which
has made our country famous. A pen pic-
ture of his personality shovt'S a man of
fine address, splendid physique, clear-
eyed and frank in expression, his kindly
Hill" but a noted stock and poultry farm, spirit clearly indicated. He has the mag-
the fourteen hundred chickens of his boy- netic quality strongly developed, a quality
hood appearing few in comparison with
the four thousand and two hundred he
keeps at Indian Hill. His barn is the fin-
est in the State, sheltering a herd of fifty
pure blood Holstein cattle as well as
which attracts men that are held to him
by his genial, direct manner of conversa-
tion. He is the soul of hospitality and
numbers his friends everywhere among
every class. His first nomination for
horses, swine, sheep of good blood. Three mayor was by petition signed by leading
large silos furnish the stock with that
form of green food, modern dairy machin-
ery preparing it for market, one machine
for washing bottles was installed at a cost
of six hundred dollars, ice is harvested on
the farm, Hayden electric machines sup-
ply power and light and every device
men of every nationality and his election
came to him as a great surprise, as he did
not realize the depth of the regard in
which he was held. That he has so richly
merited the continued esteem of the vot-
ers is not more a tribute to his wise ad-
ministration than to the fine personal
known to the stock farmer or to the poul- qualities which have endeared him.
try fancier is employed to insure health
and purity of product. Mr. Wright here
finds the real joy of his life and considers
"Indian Hill" nothing sort of an earthly
paradise.
He has been a member of the Worces-
ter Chamber of Commerce since 1893; is
a member of the Worcester Publicity
Association ; a trustee and member of the
executive committee of The Home for
Aged Men ; member of the Worcester
Mr. Wright married, December 4, 1890,
Minnie E. Searle, daughter of John Frank
and Emmeline F. Searle, of Grafton,
Massachusetts. Mrs. Wright is a mem-
ber of Bethany Congregational Church,
and of the Women's Club of Worcester,
an organization which owns free from
debt a one hundred thousand dollar club
house. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the par-
ents of three children: i. George Fran-
cis, assistant general manager of the
Game and Fish Association ; member of Wright Wire Company ; married Mattie
the Holstein and Freesian Association ;
a member of lodge, chapter and com-
mandery of the Masonic order, also hold-
ing the thirty-two degrees of the Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite ; is an Odd Fel-
Hickok. 2. Ralph W., manager of the
Indian Hill Stock and Dairy Farm. 3.
Florence M., attended the Emma Willard
School for Girls, Troy, New York, class
of 1916.
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CHASE, Charles Augustus,
Banker.
Identified with nearly every hanking
institution of Worcester, with its histor-
ical societies and educational friends, Mr.
Chase was a model citizen, devoted to the
progress of thought and all that makes
for the welfare of mankind. His business
activities were many, and his leisure was
devoted to historical research and record-
ing his discoveries. Of exceptionally
kindly nature, he drew to him all manner
of men and occupied a high place in the
affections and regard of the community.
There were sevaral of this name among
the early immigrants who settled New
England. The ancestor of Charles A.
Chase was William Chase, who came in
Governor Winthrop's fleet in 1630, accom-
panied by his wiie, Mary, and son Wil-
liam. He w^as among the members of
Apostle John Eliot's Church at Roxbury,
where he subscribed to the freeman's
oath, May 14, 1634. About 1638 he re-
moved to Yarmouth, Massachusetts,
where he died April 13, 1659. ^^^ widow
died in October following. She suffered
great physical affliction for some years,
but recovered and bore two children in
this country. Descended from this couple
was Israel Chase, born March 21, 1770, in
Sutton, Massachusetts, son of Caleb and
Sarah Chase, and was killed by a falling
tree in Leicester, same State, March 2,
1797. He married Matilda Butterworth.
and they were the parents of Anthony
Chase, who was born June 16, 1791, in
Leicester. Because of the untimely death
of his father, the son passed most of his
early years in Uxbridge and Berlin, Mas-
sachusetts, working on farms, but he re-
ceived a fair education in the public
schools and Leicester Academy. He set-
tled in Worcester in July, 1816, and was
associated with his future brother-in-law.
John Milton I'"arlc-. l'"rom 1S23 to 1S35
he was one of the proprietors of the \\ or-
ccster "Spy," the leading newspai)er of
Western Massachusetts. Mr. Chase was
a scholarly man of keen intelligence, and
did much to advance literary interest in
Worcester. In association with another
he bore the expense of bringing a lecturer
from lulinburgh to encourage study and
investigation. He was among the fcnind-
ers and first presick-nt of the Worcester
Lyceum, in i<S29, and i^rcpared with his
l^en the constitution and by-laws of the
Worcester Mechanics' Association, in
1 84 1. An active friend of schof)ls, he
often served as school committeeman.
but declined other official stations often
tendered, with the exception of a term as
alderman. He was an elder of the So-
ciety of Friends. When the Blackstone
canal was completed, he became agent for
the W^orcester & Providence Boating
Company, and was soon made collector
of revenue for the canal company. In
March, 183 1, he was elected treasurer of
Worcester county, and continued in that
office thirty-four years, until January 1.
1865. In the autumn of 1864 his son was
elected to succeed him. In 1832 .\nthony
Chase became secretary of the Worcester
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, con-
tinuing until his election as president in
1852. He was one of the corporators of
the Central Bank, twenty-eight years
treasurer of the Worcester County .Vgri-
cultural Society, long a director of the
Citizens' (now National) Bank, and a
trustee and vice-|)resident of the Worces-
ter County Institution for .Savings. He
died August 4, 1879. ^^ married (first)
June 2, 1819, Lydia Earle. born March 24,
1798, in Leicester, died May 2. 1852.
daughter of Pliny and Patience (Buffum)
i'.arle. He married (second) April 19,
1854. Hannah, daughter of Daniel and
Phebe Greene, of East Greenwich, Rhode
Island.
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Charles Augustus Chase, son of An-
thony and Lydia (Earle) Chase, was born
September 9, 1833, in Worcester, where
he was long years a worthy successor of
a worthy father, and died June 5, 191 1.
His birthj)lace was a house on Salisbury
street, on the present site of the armory.
The family soon removed to a house on
Nobility Hill, on a terrace, on the site of
the present Boston Store. The son first
attended the Infants' School, which stood
i>n the north end of Sumner street, and
later was a stiuient at the Thomas Street
(Jrammar School, from which he was
graduated in 1845. He pursued the course
at the Classical and English High School,
taking a post-graduate course in matlic-
matics. In 1855 he graduated from Har-
vard College, receiving the degree of
Master of Arts in 1858. During his last
year at Harvard he did newspaper work
t)n the Boston '\Advertiser," and for seven
years after graduation continued as a re-
porter on that journal. In 1862 he made
a tour of Europe, after which he settled
in Worcester. In 1864 he was elected to
succeed his honored father as treasurer
of the county, and filled that ofifice a
period of eleven years, ending in 1875. He
served also as register of deeds, and was
soon after chosen secretary of the Wor-
cester Board of Trade. In 1879 he be-
came treasurer and manager of the Wor-
cester Telephone Company, and in the
same year began his service with the
Worcester County Institution for Sav-
ings, the largest savings bank in the State,
outside of Boston, being elected treasurer,
November 10 of that year, to succeed
Charles A. Hamilton. This position he
filled until 1904, when he was elected
president, to succeed Stephen Salisbury.
In 1908 he tendered his resignation, as
he desired to retire from active business,
and this resignation was accepted March
27, of that year. At the same time Mr.
Chase was elected vice-president, in which
relation he continued until his death. He
was many years identified with the na-
tional banking institutions of the city.
I'Vom 1880 to 1889 he was a director of
the Citizens' National Bank ; was a di-
rector of the Worcester National Bank
and the Merchants' and P"armers' Mu-
tual Insurance Company; and was presi-
dent of the North End Street Railway
Company. From 1866 to 1874 he was
a director of the Free Public Library ;
was treasurer of the Memorial Hospital ;
vice-president of the Home for Aged
Men ; secretary of the American Anti-
quarian Society ; secretary and vice-presi-
dent of the Worcester Lyceum Associ-
ation ; vice-president of the Art Society ;
and a member of the School Board. He
was president of the Worcester Harvard
Club, and actively identified with the
Worcester Society of Antiquity, New
England Historic-Genealogical Society,
Bunker Hill Monument Association and
Massachusetts Society of the Colonial
Wars. Every movement calculated to ad-
vance mental, moral or material progress
received his cordial endorsement and sup-
port. His death was a serious loss to the
city and State, and was very widely re-
gretted. He was a deep student of his-
torical and genealogical matters, and
much of his writings have been published.
In 1879 ^^ "^^s employed by the publish-
ers of a history of Worcester county to
prepare the chapters on the history of the
city of Worcester. In this work he gave
considerable time to research, and his
work brought out many hitherto un-
known features of the city's history. He
also contributed the chapter on news-
papers in a history published in 1889.
Mr. Chase married, April 29, 1863,
Mary Theresa Clark, of Boston, who died
January 22, 1884. They left two daugh-
ters, Mary Alice and Maud Eliza, who
survive. The former is the wife of
Thomas Hovey Gage, Jr., of Worcester.
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mitil i'/->3. when in association with
Walter I".. P.i^'t'low, a life \(>n^ friend, he
purchased his father's interest, the younjj^
man assuming full control of the sales
department ; Mr. Hij^elow of the manufac-
PORTER, Walter C,
Mannfaotiirer.
In April, 1912, the world was startled
by that great tragedy of the sea, the sink-
ing of the immense steamship "Titanic" turing department oi the business. Both
ofr the coast of Newfoundland with a re- were exceedingly capable men, and under
sultant loss of hundreds of lives. As time their able management a period of expan-
developed the facts of that night of horror sion and i)rosi)erity began. Mr. Porter,
a story of bravery in the face of death as salesman, jiossessed unusual strength
was revealed which forever glorifies the in his ability to impress his customers
men of the "Titanic." Not needing or with his absolute h(jnesty of ])ur[)ose and
waiting the command "women and chil- as time wore on he demonstrated that his
dren first" they aided them into the life- promises meant perf(jrmance, all barriers
boats, then stood back and after securing were broken down, customers multiplied
life-belts for themselves bravely awaited and a customer always became a friend,
the inevitable. When at last the stricken Their lasts were in demand all over North
ship took the final plunge and the icy .America wherever shoes were made, and
waters claimed so many gallant spirits, unsolicited a luiropean demand set in
no nobler soul took its flight over the which was allowed to practically take
frozen sea than Walter C. Porter, to care of itself for about three years.
Avhose memory this tribute of respect is Finally it reached such proportions t'
offered. Mr. Porter determined to organize the lui-
Walter C. Porter was born in Worces- ropean market by a personal tour of Eng-
ter, Massachusetts, May 13, 1865, son of land, (icrmany, b^rance, .\ustria and other
Samuel Porter, a manufacttirer of shoe countries, become acquainted with the
lasts. After completing his education in customers the firm had and establish new
the public school of the city, he entered agencies. He sailed from Boston. Febru-
the employ of his father and thoroughly ary 20, 191 2, and in succession visited the
learned the business. He continued with trade centers of Europe, created a fine
his father until 1891, developing partic- impression and had a very successful tour
iilar strength as a salesman. His service from a business standpoint. It was his
was uninterrupted during those years first European trip, and while he thor-
save for vacation trips, one such being an oughly enjoyed his experience, his letters
extended cruise in South American waters home were tinged with regret at absence
in a sloop rigged pleasure yacht, a cruise from his home and native land, but were
not without its dangers, shipwreck being joyous at the prospect of a speedy return.
very near during a tropical hurricane The coal strike in England he feared
which caught the yacht in an exposed would detain the sailing of the "Titanic"
location.
In 1891 Mr. Porter determined to enter
a diflFerent line of business, and resigning
his position he opened a grocery store at
Holden, Massachusetts. But his early
training soon asserted itself, and in 1897
on which he had booked passage, but
under date of March 31. I<)i2, he wrote
that the White Star officials had assured
him that the great steamer would assur-
ed! v sriil on her maiden ocean voyage.
.\pril 10, and added "How I wish it was
he returned to his father as partner and to-day I was to sail instead of April 10."
sales manager. This connection existed Next came the tidings of the greatest
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sea disaster of modern times, and al-
though his family and partner put forth
every effort no tidings were obtained of
his fate until the finding of his body by
the cable steamer, "Mackey-Bennett,"
near the scene of the disaster, a life-belt
sustaining him. He was brought to Hali-
fax with the two hundred and fifty other
heroes found by the steamer, thence to
Boston and final resting place in Worces-
ter.
Mr. Porter's business strength was in
his ability as a salesman, his absolute in-
tegrity and faculty for inspiring confi-
dence. He was one of the most popular
men connected with the shoe trade and
was equally esteemed socially. He was a
mem!)cr of the Worcester Board of Trade
and the Worcester Traveling Men's Asso-
ciation, both organizations having his
warmest support. He belonged to the
Commonwealth Club, the Lakeside Boat
Club, the Worcester Automobile Club,
and was a lover of out-of-door sports and
recreations. Although connected with
these various clubs, Mr. Porter spent very
little of his time outside of his home,
being devoted to his family, their comfort
and pleasure being his chief thought.
i'Viendly, genial and generous, he had a
host of friends who sincerely mourned his
untimely end, and warmly cherish his
memory.
Mr. Porter married (first) Louise Phil-
lips, daughter of Oscar Phillips, of the
Hey wood Boot & Shoe Company. Mrs.
Porter died in 1905. Eighteen months
later, Mr. Porter married (second) Mrs.
Mabel N. Sanford, widow of Charles B.
Sanford, who survives him, a resident of
Worcester. By his first marriage Mr.
Porter had two children : Helen I. and F.
Stanley Porter. By her first marriage
Mrs. Porter has a son, Lyndon Sanford,
and a daughter, Nellie R. Sanford.
SHAW, Robert Kendall,
Librarian of 'Worcester Free Pnblic Library.
Robert Kendall Shaw, a descendant of
a sturdy New England stock, and a resi-
dent of Worcester, Massachusetts, his
native city, was born July 18, 1871, a son
of Joseph Alden and Eliza Antoinette
(Thompson) Shaw, also residents of
Worcester.
Robert Kendall Shaw received his early
education in the public schools of his
native city and graduated from the Wor-
cester Classical High School in 1890. He
was salutatorian of his class. In 1894 he
graduated from Harvard University with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, summa
cum laudc, taking final honors in classics.
During the following three years he was
a teacher in the Highland Military School.
He studied in New York State Library
School, 1897-99, received the degree of
Bachelor of Library Science, 1901. From
1898 to 1901 he was on the staff of the
New York State Library. From 1901 to
1904 he was assistant in the Library of
Congress at Washington, D. C. In 1904-
05 he was librarian of the public library
of Brockton, Massachusetts. He returned
to Worcester in 1905 to accept the posi-
tion of assistant librarian of the Free
Public Library, and upon the resignation
of Mr. Samuel Swett Green in January,
1909, Mr. Shaw became librarian, in
which capacity he is serving at the pres-
ent time (191 7). tie has continued the
policy, in which Mr. Green was a pioneer,
of making the library a popular institu-
tion, cooperating with the public schools
and colleges of the city in assisting re-
search of all kinds, answering every ques-
tion possible, keeping pace with demand
for fiction and w^orks of entertainment as
well as those of study and instruction.
Under Mr. Shaw^ the usefulness of the
librarv has widened and broadened. Mr.
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Shaw is a member of the American Lib-
rary Association, Massachusetts Library
Club, Bay Path Library Club, Phi Beta
Kappa of Harvard, Worcester Economic
Club, Shakespeare Club of Worcester, and
the ILirvard Club of Worcester. He was
president of the Massachusetts Library
Club in 1910-1 1. He delivered an address
at the dedication of the Fobes Memorial
Library at Oakham in 190S, of the Mer-
riam Library at Auburn, Massachusetts,
in June, 1909, and of the Beaman Memo-
rial Library at West Boylston in 1912. In
191 1 he read a paper on Elihu Burritt be-
fore the W^orcester Society of Antiquity.
He was one of the speakers at the dedica-
tion of the three new branch libraries in
Worcester, under his charge, at Green-
dale, South W'orcester and Quinsigamond
respectively, known as the Carnegie
branches of the W^orcester Free Public
Library. Mr. Shaw is an F^piscopalian
in religion, an attendant of All Saints
Church in Worcester, and an independ-
ent in politics.
Mr. Shaw married, September 20, 1902,
Bertha Mower Brown, of F2au Claire,
Wisconsin, daughter of James Harding
and Sarah Anna (Taft) Brown.
WOOD, Albert, M. D.,
Physician, Civil W^ar Veteran.
From 1865 until his death in 1912, Dr.
Wood was an eminent physician and sur-
geon of W^orcester, Massachusetts, and
intimately connected with the great phil-
anthropic institutions and hospitals of the
city. He was professionally a giant, his
four years of service as surgeon in the
army and his wide experience as a prac-
titioner bringing him into close touch
with every ailment to which humanity is
subject. He came from early Colonial
English family, his pioneer ancestor, Wil-
liam Wood, born in 1582, coming to Mat-
31
lock, Massachu^c'tt>. in i6,^S with his wife.
s(jn Michael and (laughtt-r Ruth. His will
dated September 15, 1670, in which he
stated his age to be about eighty-eight
years, was proved June 30, 1672.
Michael Wood, son of William Wood,
had a house and lot in CfJiiCdrd. and was
inierestcd in the COncord Iron Works.
Later he settled on a farm, where he died
May 13, 1674. His wife Mary bore him
eight children, one of whom was a son
Abraham.
Abraham \\'o(k1, son of Michael and
Mary Wood, born at Concord, died at
Sud])ury. Massachusetts. September 12.
1746. He held the offices of town clerk
and selectman in Concord, and there
spent most of his life. After the removal
of his son Abraham (2) to Sudbury, he
moxed with his wife Sarah to that town
and spent his last years in the home of
his son. Mrs. Sarah Wood died Feb-
ruary 24, 1748.
Abraham (2) Wocjd, son of Abraham
( 1 j and Sarah Wood, was born in Con-
cord, April 16, 1684, died in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, July 11. 1742. His wife
Hannah died November 7. 1746.
Cajjtain Samuel Wood, son of Abraham
(2) and Hannah Wood, was born in Sud-
bury. March 17, 1710, died in Westboro,
Massachusetts, March 18. 1760. He set-
tled in 1750 in Westboro in that part
afterward Xorthboro. and there with his
sons engaged in the manufacturing of
shell jewelry. Later they became cloth-
iers and fullers, and for half a century the
linn was widely known. .Ml of Captain
Samuel Wood's sons except one. and all
of his s(tns-in-law. served in the Revolu-
tionarv army. II is second wife. Keziah
Moore, daughter of John Moore, whom he
married November 2<). 1739. was the
mother of all his children.
Captain .Abraham (3) Wood, son of
Captain Samuel Wood and his second
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wife, Keziah (Moore) Wood, was born in
Westboro, Massachusetts, July 30, 1752,
died August 6, 1804. He was a clerk of
the company of minutemen of which his
brother Samuel was captain and marched
with the company to Cambridge, but later
returned home and operated the fulling
mill. For many years he was captain of
the local military company and a man of
considerable local importance. He was a
good musician, chorister of the church
and publisher of a small collection of
church music. His composition, "Funeral
Elegy," on the death of General Wash-
ington, was republished at the death of
President William Henry Harrison in
1840. He married, April i, 1773, Lydia
Johnson, who the night before the march
of the minutemen to Cambridge sat up
all night melting her pewter plate into
bullets with the aid of a soapstone mould
yet preserved In the family. She died
April 3, 1843, ^^ '^^^ eighty-ninth year.
Samuel (2) Wood, son of Captain
Abraham (3) and Lydia (Johnson)
Wood, was born in Northboro, Massachu-
setts, February 22, 1799, died 1879, aged
eighty years. He married, April 16, 1826,
Elizabeth Bowman, daughter of Joseph
and Anna (\'alentine) Bowman; she died
in Northboro. May 18, 1868.
Dr. Albert Wood, third child of Samuel
(2) and Elizabeth (Bowman) Wood, was
born in Northboro, Massachusetts, Feb-
ruary 19, 1833. died at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, September 26, 1912. He was
educated in the public schools, the classi-
cal school of West Newton, the State
Normal School of Bridgewater, and Dart-
mouth College, a graduate of the latter
institution, ilachelor of Science, class of
1856. From 1856 until 1859 he taught
in the public schools of the county and at
Cape Cod, entering Harvard Medical
School and pursuing courses there until
graduated Doctor of Medicine, class of
1862.
After a term of hospital service as in-
terne, he enlisted and went to the front as
surgeon, serving from July 7, 1862, until
July 7, 1863, as assistant surgeon of the
Twenty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts
V^olunteer Infantry, and from 1863 until
November 30, 1864, as surgeon of the
First Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry.
In November, 1864, he became active sur-
geon in the regular United States army,
serving in the hospitals at City Point
until honorably discharged. May 17, 1865.
He saw hard service, was with his regi-
ment in many hard battles and often oper-
ated under difficult as well as dangerous
conditions. In 1865, after the war, Dr.
Wood began practice in Worcester, and
continued until within a few years of his
death. He was city physician for five
years and surgeon in the City Hospital
for ten years. For more than twenty-five
years he w^as a trustee of the City Hos-
pital and continued in that offtce until his
death. In this hospital he took a great
interest and to him is due in large meas-
ure the development and great usefulness
of that institution. From 1874 to 1910
Dr. Wood was treasurer of the Worcester
State Hospital, and from 1877 to 1910
treasurer of the Worcester State Asylum,
and was one of the most useful and effi-
cient officers of these great institutions.
In 1874 he was appointed superintendent
of the Washburn Free Dispensary and
served efificiently for a number of years
in this office. For many years he was
trustee of the Memorial Hospital, Worces-
ter, taking deep interest in this institu-
tion, being vice-president and trustee
until his death. For six years he was a
director of the W^orcester Free Library.
He was a member of the Massachusetts
State Board of Health, Lunacy and Char-
ity one year. He became medical direc-
tor of the State Mutual Life Assurance
Company, January 15, 1889, and served
until his death. He was a director of the
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State Mutual from January 3, 1883, until
his death. For more than forty years he
was on the United States Pension Board
of Examiners in this district through both
Republican and Democratic administra-
tions. He was a member of the Worces-
ter Medical Society ; the Worcester
County Medical Society ; the Massachu-
setts State Medical Society, of which he
was for several years a councillor ; the
American Medical Association, and the
American Association of Medical Direc-
tors of Life Insurance Companies. He
was for many years surgeon of George H.
Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the
Republic, and member of the Massachu-
setts Commandery, Military Order of the
Loyal Legion. In politics he was a Re-
publican ; in religion a Unitarian, was
treasurer of the church for a number of
years. He was a member of the Worces-
ter Club until his death.
Dr. Wood married (first) July 7, 1868,
Emma Allen, born September 13, 1833, at
Pomfret, Connecticut, died at Worcester,
February 26, 1892. He married (second)
July 13, 1893, Jennie Isabel Cleveland,
born September 11, 1861, daughter of Ed-
win Clarence and Anna Rebecca (God-
dard) Cleveland, of Worcester. Mrs.
Wood was educated in the public and
high schools of Worcester and at the
Roswell Parish School. She is a com-
municant of All Saints' Protestant Epis-
copal Church, in which she has been an
active worker, a meml)er of various com-
mittees, and was a member of the board
of visitors of the Old Ladies' Home for
several years. She is a member of the
Worcester Woman's Club. Children of
Dr. Albert and Emma (Allen) Wood:
Albert Bowman Wood, born June 2P;
1869, died December 9, 1900: Emily
Chandler Wood, who is also a member
and a director of the Associated Charities
and the employment societies on the
visiting committee.
BATES, Theodore Cornelius,
Public Official, Man of Affair*.
The spirit which inspired the useful life
of Theodore Cornelius Bates and guided
him through the varied responsibilities u\
liis career through the hours "off duty" i'-
foimd in what may be called his "motto."
a verse from Sir Walter Scott, which
beautiful sentiment, ap])ropriately framed,
hung above his desk in the library at hi^
home :
When the hour o' trouble comes.
That comes to mind and body:
When the hour o' death comes.
That comes to high and low;
It is na what we hae dune for oursels.
But what we hae dune for others.
We'll think on maist pleasantly.
— Sir Walter Scott.
Into a life of sixty-nine years. Mr.
Bates compressed what would have been
the worthy achievement of a much longer
term of life. Prior to his retirement from
business he was proprietor and head of
one of the largest businesses of its kind
in the United States and had other impor-
tant interests. He devoted years of his
life to the improvement of health condi-
tions and water supply in New England.
was a power in politics, reared monu-
ments to his skill as a construction engi-
neer, created a model farm at the old
homestead in North Brookfield, widely
toured the Old World, patronized art and
literature, lived an ideal home life, and in
all things attained the "full stature of a
man," an .\merican of the best type, a
son of Massachusetts, honored and be-
loved.
Mr. Bates traced his English descent
from Sir Gerard Bate, of Yorkshire, who
was Lord Mayor of London in 1248, the
family a prominent one in church and
State. Descendants of Sir Gerard F.ate re-
moved to Lydd. in Kent, and in the old
church there in the centre aisle is the tomb
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of Sir Thomas liates, jurist of the town in
1485. Surrounding his are the tombs of
others of the family surmounted by brass
figures, among the tinest in England, and
on one tomb is carried the arms of the
Bates family : Sable a fess between three
dexter hands cuuped argent. Motto:
Matin et cordc.
The American ancestor was Clement
Bates, of Lydd, Kent, England, born in
1595, son of James Bates, died in 1614;
son of John Bates, died at Lydd, Kent,
1580; son of Andrew Bates, died at Lydd,
1533 '• •'^o" of John Bates, died 1522; son
of Thomas Bates, of Lydd, parish of All
Hallows, Kent, who died there in 1485.
At the age of forty Clement Bates with
his wife and five children sailed, April 6,
1835, on the ship "Elizabeth," for New
England. He settled at Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, in September, 1635, at about the
same time Rev. Peter Hobart's company
arrived. He had a homestead of five
acres on Town street, near River street,
and the old house built thereon was
lately standing, owned by descendants of
Clement Bates. His wife Anna died in
Hingham, October i, 1669, aged seventy-
four years; he died September 17. 1671,
aged seventy-six. By will he left land to
his sons, Joseph, Benjamin and Clement.
Descendants of Clement Bates and his
brothers served in Colonial wars and in
the Revolution ; the Boston Free Public
Library and Reading Room, the first in
America, was founded by a Bates with a
gift of $50,000. A great room in the build-
ing is called "Bates Hall," and the name
Bates is inlaid in bronze in the floor in the
entrance hall. .\ Bates founded Bates
College, and everywhere monuments
attest the worthy lives of members of
this ancient New i'lngland family.
Through his mother, Sarah (Fletcher)
Bates, a line of descent is traced from
Theodore C. Bates to Baron Fletcher,
3
whose descendant, Robert Fletcher, of
Yorkshire, England, came to New Eng-
land in 1630, settled at Concord, Massa-
chusetts, becoming wealthy and influen-
tial, and was one of the founders of
Chelmsford, Massachusetts. His will,
dated February 4, 1672, states he was
then "aged about four score." He died at
Concord, April 3, 1677, aged eighty-five.
A great-great-grandson of the founder,
Robert Fletcher, was Major Daniel
Fletcher, born October 18, 1718, a major
in the English Colonial army, engaged in
the French and Indian wars, also a mem-
ber of the General Court representing the
town of Acton. His son. Jonathan
Fletcher, was a "minute man," fighting at
Lexington in Captain David Wheeler's
company, and later for bravery was suc-
cessively promoted lieutenant and cap-
tain, serving until independence was
gained. Captain Jonathan Fletcher mar-
ried Lucretia Emerson, of the same fam-
ily as the eminent Ralph Waldo Emer-
son. Elijah Bates, a lineal descendant of
Clement Bates, married Sarah Fletcher, a
lineal descendant of Robert Fletcher, and
their seventh child was Theodore Cor-
nelius Bates, to whose memory this re-
view of an honored, upright life is dedi-
cated.
Theodore Cornelius Bates was born at
North Brookfield, Massachusetts, June 4,
1843, and died at Worcester, Massachu-
setts, March 11, 1912. His father, who
was very partial to his ambitious son, en-
couraged him to persevere in the efforts
to obtain an education and gave him such
assistance as he could. After exhausting
the advantages of the Brookfield public
schools, he entered Pinkerton Academy
at Derry, New Hampshire, there winning
high scholarship honors. For three suc-
cessive years he won the first prize for
scholarship, deportment and attendance,
lliis casting such a spirit of discourage-
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ment over the pupils that the faculty
asked him not to compete for the prize
again. While still a student he taught
school and was so highly regarded as an
educator that he was appointed principal
of the North Brookfield High School, and
later held the same position in the West
Brookfield High School.
But his ambition was for a business
career, and he was a very young man
when he established in business in Bos-
ton, there conducting a crockery store
successfully for several years. He passed
through various business experiences,
finally, at the age of thirty-three, in 1876,
he became proprietor of the Worcester
Corset Company. In the upbuilding of
that enterprise his genius for business or-
ganization and his executive ability were
fully demonstrated, and under his man-
agement its expansion and growth w^ere
continuous. He was a very successful
manufacturer, and when he retired from
business the company was one of the
largest manufacturers of corsets in the
world. He was active in organizing the
manufacturers of the same line of goods
into a national association, was elected
its first president, and until his retirement
from bvisiness continued the executive
head of the Corset Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation of the United States.
With his special business firmly estab-
lished, he acceded to some of the requests
which came to him asking his coopera-
tion in other New England enterprises,
becoming a director and president of sev-
eral important corporations. He took a
leading part in organizing the Worcester
Electric Light Company, also in promot-
ing the building of the North Brookfield
railroad which linked that town wnth the
Boston & Albany system. He was presi-
dent of that branch for several years, and
in 1880 became a director of the Boston
& Albany railroad, representing the Com-
nioiiu callh of Massachu'-ctt^ uhicli was
a large shareholder in the company. He
ser\ed the people well as their repre-
sentative on the board and continued a
director until through hi> recommenda-
ti(jn the State sold its stock, investing the
proceeds in a permanent State school
fund. He was for years a trustee of the
People's Savings Bank of Worcester, and
interested fuiancially in electric railways
in (litTerent parts of the United .States.
He was president of the Terminal Bridge
Com|)any of Kansas City, Missouri, the
la>t important industrial work he did
being in connection with the erection of
the great bridge which spans the Missouri
at Kansas City. .\s president of the com-
pany he thoroughly and skillfully con-
ducted the work of reclaiming the land
along the river, driving tlu)usands of
spiles to prevent destruction of the bank-,
(jovernment engineers highly commend-
ed his ])lan, and when later the floods
came that jiart of the Missouri river bank,
])rotected by Mr. Bates, was the only part
of the levee which withstood the river's
mad onrush. In that work he was asso-
ciated with two of his closest friends,
Gustavus Swift and Ogdcn Armour. In
his later years Mr. Bates traveled exten-
sively abroad, and was the first American
to closely inspect and pass upon the value
of the storage battery system of electric
railways in use by the city of Budape-^t.
For five vears Mr. Bates was a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts State Board of
Health, which controls all waterworks
established by the towns and cities of the
State. Under his direction and encour-
agement. North Brookfield in iS«p in-
stalled a water system so perfect in detail
and plan that it outranks all others in
the State. He continued his interest in
this branch of public health conservation,
and for many years was a member of the
New England Waterworks Association.
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He always retained his residence in North
Brookfield, and was more than devoted to
the interests of his home town. He was
president of the board of water commis-
sioners for the first seven years after the
installation of the waterworks ; founded
the Free Public Library and Reading
Room, and was president of its board of
trustees for its first eighteen years. While
serving as representative and State Sena-
tor, he donated his salary to the town for
the purchase of books for the library and
was ever its generous friend.
During the last five years of his life,
being in such poor physical condition and
finding it impossible to continue his
active business life, but not yielding to
disease or suffering, his thoughts turned
to the ancestral home in North Brookfield
and he lavished upon it almost affec-
tionate care. There in the fall of 1910 he
harvested from an acre of ground more
corn than had ever been raised on an
acre anywhere in the United States, and
at the New England Corn Exposition was
awarded a gold medal for his perfect dis-
play of corn products. That all might
benefit by his methods he published at the
request of many New England farmers a
carefully prepared and illustrated pamph-
let giving in detail his experience in pro-
ducing his wonderful crop. He did not
rest with making the ancestral acres
highly productive, but spent time and
money in beautifying his estates, which
included not only the homestead acres
but an adjoining park of chestnut and
oak trees cut by roads connecting the
Bates with the Duncan estate, a family
heritage belonging to his wife. There
was found on his desk after his death an
article of value and interest he had writ-
ten concerning his native town. He was
an ardent Republican, and from the cast-
ing of his first vote took an active part
in public aflPairs. From 1870 to 1880, he
was chairman of the North Brookfield Re-
publican town committee, was chairman
for many years of the Twelfth District
Republican Club, the Worcester County
Republican Committee, the Worcester
Congressional District Committee, and
for ten years was chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Massachusetts
Republican State Central Committee.
In 1879 he was elected from North
Brookfield to the Massachusetts House of
Assembly, was chairman of the commit-
tee on claims and a member of the
famous "retrenchment committee," ap-
pointed during the administration of Gov-
ernor Talbot. In 1883 he was elected
State Senator, serving on committees on
railroads, as chairman, and as a member
of prisons and State house. His vote is
recorded yea or nay on every measure
which came to vote in either House or
Senate during his legislative career. He
will long be remembered for the deter-
mined fight he made for the reelection of
Senator Benjamin F. Hoar as United
States Senator against General Benjamin
F. Butler, then Governor of Massachu-
setts. The contest was long and bitter,
and with a less determined organizer and
leader than Mr. Bates it is generally ad-
mitted Senator Hoar's valuable services
would have been lost to the State. This
was a most critical period in Mr. Hoar's
career, but the tactful and strenuous
leadership of Senator Bates, who was
then chairman of the executive committee
of the State Central Committee, as well
as State Senator, carried him through to
a second term and others followed. Mr.
Bates not only threw his entire personal
strength into the contest, but also paid all
the expenses of the campaign. In 1884
he was elected a delegate to the National
Republican Convention, held in Chicago,
which nominated James G. Blaine for
the presidency, and previously had been
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appointed by President Hayes as commis-
sioner to a proposed World's Fair to be
held in New York in 1883, General U. S.
Grant having been appointed president.
It is not perhaps generally known that
Mr. Bates was one of the three manufac-
turers to found the famous Home Market
Club and was one of its first officers. The
idea of the club first took form in his
office in Worcester when George Draper,
of Hopedale, and Timothy Merrick, of
Holyoke, met with Mr. Bates to consider
the organization of such a club. From
that meeting came the powerful and influ-
ential club which has been such a bul-
wark of strength to the cause of Protec-
tion, a cause in which Mr. Bates believed
with all his heart and did so much to sup-
port. Only a short time before his death,
at the urgent request of prominent mem-
bers of the club, he prepared a valuable
article for the "Protectionist Magazine"
and remained firm in the faith until the
last.
Broad in his sympathies and interests,
Mr. Bates was associated with many na-
tional societies, including the American
Academy of Political and Social Science,
the American Forestry Association, the
American Antiquarian Society, and
others. He was a member of the New
England Historic-Genealogical Society,
the Bunker Hill Monument Association,
the Hooker Association, and the Worces-
ter Society of Antiquity. His ancestry
opened the doors of many patriotic soci-
eties to him, and of these he held mem-
bership in the Massachusetts branch of
the Society of Colonial Wars, New York
Society of Patriots and Founders of
America, Massachusetts Society, Sons of
the American Revolution (which he
served as manager) and the Massachu-
setts Society of the War of 181 2. He was
a prominent member of the Masonic
order; a Master Mason, life member and
a pa>t master u{ Ouinsigamcjnd Lodge, a
C()mi)anion of Morning Star Chapter, a
sir knight of Worcester Commandery,
and corresponding secretary of the Grand
Lodge, Massachusetts, l-Vee and Accepted
Masons. In Scottish Rite Masonry he
attained the thirty-two degrees of Massa-
chusetts Consistory. In religious faith
he was a Congregationalist, and for many
years was chairman of the First Congre-
gational Society of North Brookficld.
So '"what he had dune for others" he
could "think on most pleasantly," but the
foregoing only indicates the extent of his
usefulness. He delighted in helping young
men to an education, and there are twen-
ty-seven young men of New England
whom he sent to college who otherwise
could not have gone. To them he was the
known benefactor, but there were hun-
dreds to whom he extended encouraging
words and sympathetic kindness, who
perhaps did not realize how greatly they
were indebted for the advice and help-
ful word which determined their future.
He was of open genial disposition, kindly
and generous, with a personal magnetism
which attracted men and ever held them
as friends. He was richly endowed with
those qualities of mind and character
which mark the manly man, but above
them all possessed the spirit of courage
and persistency which would not admit of
failure. He was true to himself and true
to every trust committed to him.
Mr. Bates married, December 24, 1868.
Emma Frances Duncan, daughter of
Charles Duncan, of North Brookfield,
also of distinguished Colonial ancestry.
Mrs. Bates is also of Revolutionary de-
scent, and in 1906 was vice-president gen-
eral of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, reelected in 1908, and in 191 3
was elected honorary vice-president gen-
eral for life, there being only thirteen in
the United States. She is a woman of
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literary ability and charitable impulse,
well known and honored. Mr. Bates, a
most devoted husband, was keenly inter-
ested in the executive work performed by
Mrs. Bates and in her charitable and lit-
erary interests. Their only daughter,
Tryphosa Duncan Bates, a young lady of
decided musical and literary talent, was
educated at Radcliffe College, which she
entered very young. A most aflfectionate
father, Mr. Bates took the deepest inter-
est and pride in his daughter's career,
gave her every advantage and his per-
sonal encouragement, especially in the de-
velopment of her voice, which later was
to bring her fame in both the United
States and abroad, although he preferred
she should sing but for charity, which
wish she respected. He aided her in
every way in the beginnings of her liter-
ary career, and was deeply gratified with
the success of her published books and
the splendid recognition she received
from abroad, especially from royalty,
Miss Bates married Francis Batcheller,
of Boston, Massachusetts.
There came to Mrs. Bates after her
honored husband's death many resolu-
tions of respect and letters of sympathy.
These came from personal friends, from
the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society
of 1812, the Sons of the Revolution, the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Free and
Accepted Masons, and other Masonic
bodies, from various banks of which he
was a director, from the Worcester Board
of Trade and from the governing body of
the town of North Brookfield, the latter
l)eing here re{)roduced :
Nortli Brookfield, Mass., April i, 1912.
Mrs. Tlicodorc C. Bates,
Dear Madam: —
At the adjf)urncd Annual Town Meeting held
in North Brookfield 'on Saturday, March 29,
1912, tlie following resolutions were presented
and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, In the Divine Providence, our dis-
tinguished fellow citizen, Honourable Theodore
C. Bates, has been called from the scenes of his
earthly labours;
Resolved, That his fellow citizens of his na-
tive town of North Brookfield, in Town Meet-
ing assembled, desire to give expression to
their grateful appreciation of the noble serv-
ice he rendered this community in the promo-
tion of those great public utilities to which he
so largely contributed in their accomplishment
which laid the foundation for our present in-
dustrial prosperity and the welfare of our peo-
ple
Resolved, That his devoted interest in educa-
tional progress, the advancement of the ethical
and civic life of the community, fostering as he
ever did the loftiest ideals of the duties and
responsibilities of citizenship, should enshrine
his memory in our hearts with respect and grati-
tude and should be to all a source of inspiration
and courage;
Resolved, That these resolutions be placed
on the Town Records, and a copy sent to the
family of the deceased.
Charles Parkman,
Patrick J. Daniels,
Albert H. Foster,
Committee on Resolutions.
Very respectfully yours,
George R. Hamant,
Town Clerk.
COLTON, Samuel Horton,
Editor, Publisher, Business Man.
For many years in the nineteenth cen-
tury, Mr. Colton was among the leading
citizens of Worcester, filling a number of
important public stations and working for
the promotion of the general welfare. He
was a scion of one of the old American
families of English origin, and possessed
in marked degree the qualities that led
men to cross a wide ocean and settle
in the wilderness for conscience sake.
With right impulses and a self-control
born of correct training, he was ever
found on the side of justice and right, and
set to his contemporaries an example
which those coming later might well fol-
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The immigrant ancestor of this family
was George Colton, who was born 1610-
20 in England, and came from Suttan
Coldfield, Warwickshire, to America.
After a short time at Windsor, Con-
necticut, he located among the first set-
tlers in that part of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, which is now Long Meadow, as
early as 1644. He subscribed to the oath
of allegiance in 1665, and was freeman in
1669. In 1671 and 1677 he was repre-
sentative of Springfield in the General
Court ; he was on a committee to lay out
lots and organize the town of Suffield,
then supposed to be a part of Massachu-
setts, and in 1672 to lay out the bounds
of the town. In 1722 fifty acres were laid
out in Sufifield to his assigns on account
of his services. He married Deborah
Gardner, or Goodner, of Hartford, who
died September 5, 1689. Their descend-
ants have always been numerous in En-
field and Long Meadow, and have borne
no mean part in the development of
American civilization.
Samuel Morton Colton was born No-
vember 24, 1802, in Long Meadow, a son
of Reuben Colton and grandson of George
Colton, both of whom were natives of the
same town. Reuben Colton reared a fam-
ily of four sons and one daughter, and
died in 1825 at Chicago, Illinois. Samuel
H. Colton learned the printer's trade and
followed it until 1825. when he settled at
Worcester, and joined John Milton Earle
in the publication of the Worcester
"Spy." They probably did most of the
composition and printing themselves in
that early day, and by close application to
business were successful. Owing to fail-
ing health Mr. Colton retired from the
firm of S. H. Colton & Company, pub-
lishers of the "Spy" and found restora-
tion in outdoor occupation. For some
time he conducted a nursery business, hav-
ing grounds at the corner of Austin and
Main streets, Worcester, where are now
business blocks. He also cultivated
ground in South Worcester, and after a
time engaged in the insurance business in
the city. He was universally esteemed
and respected, and was often called to the
service of his fellows in positions of re-
sponsibility. He died in Chicago in 187 1.
while on a business trij) to the west.
He married (first) October 6. 1830,
Anna K. Earle, born October 12, 1806,
died March 28, 1842, daughter of Timo-
thy and Ruth (Keese) l^arle, of Leicester,
Massachusetts. Their only child, Sam-
uel, died in early infancy. Mr. Colton
married (second) Ann King, a native of
New York, daughter of John .\. and Mary
B. King. John A. King was a London
banker, came to New York in 1791, and
became treasurer of the Farmers' Loan
and Trust Company, continuing until his
death. He married, in 1801. Mary B.
Bowne, born 1777, in Flushing, Long
Island, daughter of James and Caroline
(Rodman) Bowne. She was the mother
of three sons and seven daughters. All
the daughters married and lived in New
York, where the last survivor died in
1898, at the age of eighty-three years.
The only son to grow to maturity was
John Bowne King, long a prominent phy-
sician at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel H. Colton were the
parents of a number of children, four of
whom grew to maturity, namely: i. John
Bowne, was long active in managing the
Bay State Shoe Company, from which he
retired in 1895. 2. Mary, unmarried, re-
sides in Worcester. 3. Reuben, resides
in Boston. 4. Samuel H., educated at the
Friends' School at Providence, and was
long engaged in business at Worcester ;
for fourteen years he was treasurer of the
Wright & Colton Wire Company, now
known as the Wright Wire Company,
from which he retired in 1899; since then
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most of his time was devoted to outdoor
experiments at his estate called Red
Farm, in Millbury, Massachusetts; he
attained success in rearing a herd of An-
gora goats, and continually engaged in
agricultural developments ; he made plans
to accompany Donald B. McMillan on his
ex{)edition to Greenland, as a hunter in
the interest of the American Museum of
Natural History, but circumstances forced
him to al)andon the trip ; he died July 3,
1913, at Red Farm ; he was a member of
the Worcester Club and a member of All
Saints' (Protestant Episcopal) Church;
he married Elizabeth Slater Howe, of
Worcester, daughter of the late James H.
Howe ; children, all of whom survive him :
Katharine, married Lorin Coes ; Samuel
H. ; James Howe ; John Bowne ; Sydney ;
Rodman ; Susanna B. ; Eleanor K.
BEMIS. John M.,
Physician, Speeialiit.
Dr. Merick Bemis, son of Samuel Flagg
and Betsey (Barrett) Bemis, was born
May 4, 1820, at Sturbridge, Massachu-
setts, and died October 3, 1904. He prac-
ticed his profession for fifty-six years, and
was one of the most eminent physicians
that ever resided in Worcester. Almost
to the day of his death he retained his
faculties and health. It was often said of
him, during the last score of years that
he practiced, that he was one of the most
active aged men of W'orcester, carrying
on a business that would tax the energies
of a man of fifty. Through his entire
period of practice. Dr. Bemis confined his
study and attention to his specialty,
nervous and mental diseases, and he was
for many years recognized as one of the
leading alienists of the country. The wide
range of knowledge and experience in
cases of insanity, coming under his ob-
servation and care during his long con-
nection with large institutions for the
insane, gave him an advantage over most
of the specialists in this line of study. He
was called often as an expert in consulta-
tion and by the courts. His record of
twenty-five years of continuous service in
the State Insane As)'lum, at Worcester,
was in itself a remarkable record, and
evidence of his ability and powers of en-
durance.
His parents moved from Sturbridge to
Charlton when he was quite young. He
was brought up on a farm, getting what
educational advantages the district
schools of his day afforded. He sought
a higher education and worked his way
through Dudley Academy. He walked
each way every week from his home to
the academy, a distance of twelve miles,
teaching school in winter to pay his way
in the academy. He went to Amherst
Academy for two years with the expecta-
tion of going to Amherst College. A
long and severe illness caused him to
abandon his plans for a college education,
and for several years he taught school in
Brookfield, Massachusetts. At the age
of twenty-one he began the study medi-
cine, and entered the office of Dr. Wins-
low^ Lewis as a student, but continued
to pay his way by teaching school in the
winters. He attended medical lectures
at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Medical Col-
lege, where he received the first half of
his medical education, and later went to
Castleton Medical College, of Vermont,
where in 1848 he received his degree of
Doctor of Medicine. On November 14,
1848, he came to Worcester to take the
place, temporarily, of one of the physi-
cians in the lunatic asylum, and soon
afterward received an appointment as
assistant physician to Dr. George Chand-
ler, the superintendent. When, eight
years later, in 1855, Superintendent
Chandler resigned, the attention of the
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trustees was at once turned to Dr. Bemis
as the most capable man for the position,
and he was elected to the office. Being
given a leave of absence for the purpose
of travel and study in Europe, he made
an extended tour, lasting eight months.
He returned to Worcester in the summer
of 1857 and took charge. Immediately
he began to put into operation the reforms
and new methods he had learned. For
seventeen years he filled the position of
superintendent to the satisfaction of the
State authorities, and developed the in-
stitution until it stood among he fore-
most American hospitals for the insane.
Radical changes in the methods of treat-
ing insanity were made during his admin-
istration. One of the innovations due to
Dr. Bemis was the employment of com-
petent female physicians in lunatic asy-
lums. It is difficult to understand now
how these institutions got along without
women physicians. The custom has now
become general. One of his last and most
important duties in the State institution
was the establishment of the hospital at
Bloomingdale, the land for which was
bought during the last years of his super-
intendency of the Summer street institu-
tion. He submitted plans for the l)uild-
ings, and again visited Europe in 1868 to
inspect hospitals for the insane and study
the treatment for the insane and the
treatment of lunatics. The Massachusetts
institution was kept in the front rank of
progress. The example set by this Com-
monwealth has been exceedingly useful
and beneficent, because it has been fol-
lowed in other States, and by private in-
stitutions generally in this country.
Dr. Bemis resigned his position in 1872
to establish a private hospital for the care
and treatment of patients afflicted with
the various forms of mental and nervous
diseases. He located the hospital on Sal-
isbury street, Worcester. The main build-
ing is the mansion built in 1857 by the
Rev. Nathaniel Bent for a young ladies'
seminary. This property, which includes
ten acres of land, is very favorably locat-
ed for its purpose. The hospital is known
as Herbert Hall. The large, handsome
mansion is cheerful, airy and well fur-
nished ; there are spacious verandas sur-
rounding the buildings; the view from
the hall is one of the most pictures(|ue in
a country abounding in fine scenery ;
there are attractive walks under the
stately old shade trees in the spacious
grounds, and altogether it is an ideal
place for an invalid and convalescent. It
has been successfully conducted ever
since its foundation, first by Dr. Merrick
Bemis, then by him and his son, Dr. John
M. Bpmis, and from the founder's death
by his son alone until his death. No men-
tion, of Dr. Bemis' professional career
would be complete without referring to
his prominence as a specialist in psychi-
atry. He was frequently consulted both
by medical brethren and by the courts in
difficult cases of insanity or alleged in-
sanity. He wrote many monographs
upon hospital work among the insane and
on the general subject of insanity.
He was a man of large heart and gener-
ous impulses and gave freely to charities.
Few have equalled him in proportion to
his means in the number of gifts judi-
ciously distributed among a variety of
worthy objects. His patriotic service dur-
ing the Civil War deserves special men-
tion. When, in 1861, the president's
proclamation calling for a force of 75.000
men to take the field immediately was
made, Dr. Bemis earnestly desired tew
enter the service. He was unable to pass
the physical examination, however, but
he gave freely of his means to support
the Union cause. He organized and
equipped a company and sent it to the
front. He took an active interest in their
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welfare while they were in the field, and
contributed freely to the support of the
families of the boys in that company
while the war continued. It was due
largely to his efforts that the public sub-
scription to purchase the organ for Me-
chanics' Hall was successful. In 1864 the
organ, which cost nine thousand dollars,
was dedicated, and it has proved to be
one of the finest instruments of its kind.
It has been one of the factors in making
the Musical Festivals there so success-
ful, from a musical point of view.
Dr. Bemis collected one of the most
\aluable and interesting private libraries
in the State. Much of the library is, of
course, devoted to medical works, and
some of the volumes are very old and
rare. He found some time to devote to
public atlairs, and was a member of the
Worcester Board of Alderman in 1861-62-
63, serving at the same time on the School
Board. This was a particularly impor-
tant period during the early and darker
years of the Civil War. He was a direc-
tor of the Mechanics' National Bank ; a
member of the Worcester Horticultural
Society, the Worcester Society of An-
tiquity, the Natural History Society, of
which he was president until his death,
the Massachusetts and Worcester District
Medical societies, the American Medi-
cal Association, the New England Psy-
chological Society and the American
Medico-Psychological Association. He
was connected with various Masonic
bodies ; was a member of the Church of
the Unity, and a life member of the
American Unitarian Association. For
about fifteen years he was one of the
State trustees of the Baldwinville Hos-
pital Cottages for Children, in the man-
agement and development of which he
had taken a leading part, and was presi-
dent of the corporation at the time of his
death. He was the first American physi-
cian to take a stand for the division of
hospital buildings for the insane into
separate cottages or pavilions.
Dr. Bemis married, January i, 1856,
Caroline A. Gilmore, whose father was
for thirty years a successful practitioner
at Brookfield, Massachusetts. In his
office, in fact. Dr. Bemis received his first
lessons in medicine, and was started on
his professional career while a school
teacher at Brookfield. They had one
child, John Merrick.
Dr. John Merrick Bemis was born in
the old Summer Street Insane Hospital,
Worcester, of which his father was super-
intendent, February 14, i860, and died
September 22, 191 5. The life work of Dr.
Bemis was so completely merged and
identified with that of his father at Her-
bert Hall Hospital, that what has been
said as to the attainments of the father
as a physician and specialist applies
equally well to the son. He was educated
from the start as a specialist, and had
unusual opportunities for practice and
hospital study. After his course at the
Worcester High School, he became a
student at Phillips Andover Academy, but
w^as obliged, owing to poor health, to
leave the academy, and he studied at
home for three years under private tutors.
He then entered the medical department
of the University of Vermont, at Burling-
ton, from which institution he received
his diploma in 1893, that of Doctor of
Medicine. Later he did special work at
the Harvard Medical School, and upon
completing his education, he returned to
W^orcester and became associated with
his father in the management of the Her-
bert Hall Hospital, which his father
founded in 1872, and upon the death of
his father, in 1904, he assumed the duties
of superintendent of the hospital, serv-
ing in that capacity until his death. He
was ever a student, studying from time
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to time at Harvard and Clark universities,
and frequently he wrote papers for vari-
ous learned societies. His specialty, of
course, was mental diseases. Herbert
Hall is the only private hospital in the
State devoted to insane patients exclu-
sively, except the McLean Hospital,
which is in a class by itself. Herbert
Hall is chartered by the State and under
the State supervision. It ranks high
among the institutions of its kind. Dr.
Bemis devoted his time almost exclu-
sively to the hospital. He was trustee of
the Baldwinville Hospital Cottages for
Children, on the education committee of
the Highland Military Academy of
Worcester, a member of the Massachu-
setts Medical Society, the Worcester
Medical Society, the American Psycho-
logical Society and the New England
Psychological Society. In religion he was
an Episcopalian.
Dr. Bemis married, June 25, 1887, Fan-
nie Bishop Brown, of Andover, Massa-
chusetts. Children of Dr. and Mrs.
Bemis: Annie Merrick, born October i,
1888, married William Wood; Caroline
Gilmore, born May 25, 1891, married
William Seach, naval officer in the United
States navy.
MAYNARD, William,
Manufacturer.
John Maynard, the immigrant ancestor,
came from England to Sudbury, Massa-
chusetts, in 1638, or earlier, and was one
of the forty-seven settlers who shared in
the division of the meadows there in 1639.
He brought w-ith him his son John, aged
eight years. In 1656 he was one of the
petitioners for the Marlborough grant and
removed thither soon after 1657. He was
selectman of Sudbury. He married (sec-
ond) in Sudbury, Mary Axtell, and had
five more children. He died December
r. 1672. His will wa> dated September
4, 1672, and proved April i, 1673, be-
(lucathing to all his children. Children:
J'>liii. mentioned lielow ; Zechary, born
June 7. 1647; ICli/.abcth. May 2^, i'>49;
Lydia ; Hannah, September 20. 1653;
Mary, Augu>t 3, 1656.
(II) John (2) Maynard, son of John
(i) Maynard, was born in ICngland, about
1630. He became a proprietor of Marl-
borough in 1656 and freeman in 1685. He
died in 171 1. He married (first) Sarah
; (second; April 5, 165X, Mary
Gates. Children by first wife: Elizabeth,
born May 26, 1649; Hannah, September
20, 1653: Mary, August 3, 1656. By sec-
ond wife: John, January 7, 1662; Eliza-
beth, April 2, 1664; Simon. June 15. 1666;
David. December 21, 1669: Zachariah,
October 27, 1672; Sarah, May 15. 16'^;
Lydia, August 29, 1682; Joseph, .\ugust
27, 1685.
(III) Simon Maynard, son of John (2)
Maynard, was born at Marlborough. June
15, 1666, and died January 19, 1748. His
wife Hannah died April 5, 1748.
(IV) Ephraim Maynard, son of Simon
Maynard, was born at Marlborough, Oc-
tober 17, 1707. His first wife Sarah died
May 24, 1742. He married (second) Jan-
uary 3, 1743, Mary Balconi. He had
eight children.
(\') Simon (2) Maynard, son of Eph-
raim Maynard, was born at Marlborough,
June 5, 1748, and died November 15. 1818.
He married Silence Priest and had three
children.
(VI) Isaac Ma\nard. son of Simon
(2) Maynard, born December 3, 1779.
died September 12, 1820. He married.
Septemljer 29, 1808, Lydia IIowc. born
December 19, 1779. at Marlborough,
daughter of John and Susanna (Fair-
banks) Howe. She survived him and
married (second) .\j)ril 9. 1S28. Abraham
Dow. Children of Isaac Maynard :
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Amory, nicntiuned below ; Lydia, born
November i6, 1805, married Joel Wilkins.
(V'll) Amory Maynard, son of Isaac
Maynard, was born at Marlborough, Feb-
ruar}' 28, 1804. His schooling was lim-
ited. Until he was fourteen he went to
the district school in the winter terms
and worked for his father on the farm
and in the saw mill in the summer sea-
son, and he was but sixteen when, owing
to the death of his father, the manage-
ment of the farm devolved upon him.
Though he continued to carry on the
farm for twenty-five years he engaged
in business also when a young man, and
became a very prominent and successful
l)uilder and contractor. In 1846 his mill
privilege was taken by the city of Boston
as part of a new water supply, but after
$60,000 had been spent on a reservoir, the
property was sold to its former owner in
1859. For more than twenty years he
had been studying the use of water power
for manufacturing. He had reached mid-
dle life when he started upon his real
business career. He bought the water
privilege in the village of Assabet in Sud-
bury. July 2, 1846, and formed a part-
nership with W. H. Knight, of Saxon-
ville, for the purpose of manufacturing
woolens. The firm erected a mill, 50 by
100 feet, and began to make carpets and
carpet yarns for the Boston market. At
that time there were no good roads and
i)ut fourteen houses in the village, but the
business gradually grew, houses were
built, transportation improved and at the
beginning of the Civil War the first of
the present group of mill buildings was
erected and the firm began to weave blan-
kets, largely for the government. In the
course of time, the manufacture of woolen
goods was developed to a high degree.
At the time of Mr. Maynard's death, the
business, which had been incorporated in
the meantime, stood among the leading
manufacturers of woolens and became
known not only throughout the United
States but also in the West Indies, South
America and other foreign countries.
More than five hundred wholesale houses
were dealing directly with the company
and twelve hundred operatives were em-
ployed. In 1847 the property was valued
at $150,000, and he increased that value
ten-fold. He saw the village grow into
a thriving town which was incorporated
by the Legislature, April 19, 1871, and
named Maynard in honor of him. The
new town had a population of tw^o thou-
sand, all depending on this industry.
There was a celebration of the birth of
the town, April 27, 1871. Mr. Maynard's
son Lorenzo w'as the first town treasurer.
His success was due to his native abil-
ity in getting business and selling goods.
He was without experience when he
started in the manufacture of woolen
goods, but he knew all about mills and
machinery and he alone deserves credit
for making the industry great and profit-
able. His partner withdrew in 1853 dur-
ing the first stages of the enterprise be-
fore substantial success w^as achieved.
Mr. Maynard had a capital of $25,000
acquired from his previous business
profits and savings when he started. He
made money rapidly during the Civil
War, but he also met financial troubles
at various times. His corporation. The
Assabet Manufacturing Company, was
formed May 2^, 1861, wath J. A. Goddard
as president ; T. Quincy Brown, treasurer,
and Mr. Maynard, manager and agent.
The building of the Fitchburg Railroad
in 1849 assisted the mills materially, and
Mr. Maynard was successful in having
the railroad pass through Assabet. He
was fortunate, too, in possessing a high
degree of mechanical ability that was of
great value to him at a time when rapid
progress w'as made in developing machin-
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ery for manufacturiiit,''. lie lust no lime
in adopting- new labor-saving devices. Me
built up a reputation for the (piality of
his products and maintained high stand-
ards of excellence. In later years his
sons were given charge of the mills and
he devoted his time wholly to making
contracts and selling the goods. At the
time of his death the annual outi)ut of
the mill was nine million yards.
Of no less importance to the success of
his enterprise was the upl)uilding of the
village and town of Maynard, formerly
Assabet, and he took an active part in
building dwelling houses there. He was
founder of the church. Some idea of his
varied and constant activity may be given
by the fact that in 1879 he took the first
vacation he had had in fifty years, and
he kept in business to a ripe old age. He
was a strong physically as well as intel-
lectually and he enjoyed his work and
responsibilities.
For twenty years he lived in a house
opposite the mill, removing then to a
house on and old Puffer place at the foot
of Sumner Hill, returning three years
later to a large mansion erected opposite
the mill. In 1862 he removed to Worces-
ter street, Boston, but eight years later
returned to the old home where he lived
until 1873, when his mansion on the hill
was occupied.
One of his few recreations was music.
He led the choir in the church and played
the bass viol and cello with skill. His
cello is now in the possession of the fam-
ily of his son. William Maynard, of
Worcester. Owing to his age and failing
health he retired from business trips in
1885. His mental faculties gradually
failed, though he retained his physical
strength and vigor. His death was
caused by a fall when ascending the stairs
in his house. He had previously suiTered
a stroke of paralysis. He died March 5.
iS</). It has been well said of him that
liis inllucncc was always on the side of
religion, temperance and industry.
He marritd, January 26. 1S26, Mary
I'ric-t, who uas liorn at Marlborough,
July, 1S05, died at Maynard, January 22,
1S86, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe
Priest. She was very active in charity
and church work and a member for many
years of the l"-vangclical church of May-
nard. Children : Lorenzcj, mentioned be-
low ; William, mentioned behjw ; Harlan
P.. died in 1861, aged eighteen years.
(VHI) Lorenzo Maynard, son of Am-
ory Maynard, was born at Marlborough,
Massachusetts, June 22, 1829, and died
at Winchester, aged seventy-four years,
nine months. He became associated with
his father in business, and in iKfo wa.s
overseer of the spinning in the worsted
mills, afterward superintendent until
18S7, when he succeeded his father as
agent. He retired in 1898, when the busi-
ness became part of the property of the
American Woolen Company. He mar-
ried, October 2, i860, Lucy Ann David-
son, who was born in Stow, July 25, 1833.
Children : Mary Lucy, Fannie L., who
married John W. Flood ; Hattie ; Victoria ;
William R., who now resides in Winches-
ter. The daughters are all deceased.
(\1II) William Maynard. son of Am-
ory Maynard, was born at Marlborough,
Massachusetts, May 6. 1833. and died at
Worcester, Massachusetts, November 9,
1906. He was twelve years old when his
father went to Assabet. He had only a
common school education. I'or forty
vears he was associated in business with
his father and l)rother in Maynard and
he was active in the management until
1884, when he retired on account of ill
health. .\fter spending four years in
California, he returned east fully restored
in health. From 1888 to the end of his
life he made his home in Worcester. He
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had great skill mechanically and sterling
business ability. He devoted his atten-
tion faithfully to business and contributed
his full share to the success of the great
industry that his father established. His
later years in Worcester were devoted to
his family, and the care of his estate, and
he lived quietly and peacefully, a kindly,
conscientious, upright, honored citizen.
He was a member of the Evangelical
(Congregational) church of Maynard and
later of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, Worcester. A memorial window
was dedicated. May 22, 1916, to his
memory in Plymouth Church. Before a
large audience and an augmented choir
of one hundred and thirty-five voices.
Rev. Dr. Robert McDonald conducted the
dedicatory service. The window is
twenty feet high and eight feet in width
and contains 5050 pieces of English an-
tique stained glass. It required the labor
of many workmen for months to make
the window. It represents the Sermon
on the Mount. It was designed by V\l. G.
Ball and W. H. Burnham, artists, to be
decorative rather than pictorial. The
Coloring is restful and serene and pro-
duces an atmosphere of mystery under
normal conditions of light, though in
strong morning sunlight the colors glow
brilliantly with a luminous richness. The
whole composition is reminiscent of the
masters of the craft of centuries ago,
when the windows of the great cathedrals
were being ennobled by the glories of
this difficult art.
Mr. May nard's passionate love and prac-
tical knowledge of both vocal and instru-
mental music constrained him to take an
active and generous interest in the main-
tenance of a high standard of excellence
in church music. In a quiet way he con-
tributed greatly to the support of re-
ligion and for the extension of the influ-
ence and usefulness of the church. He
paid for several sittings in order that stu-
dents from out of town might feel at
home in Plymouth Church and come reg-
ularly there to worship. In politics he
was a Republican.
He married Mary Adams, who was
born May 4, 1831, in New York City,
a daughter of James and Janet (Cherry)
Adams. Her parents were natives of
Paisley, Scotland. She had three brothers,
Joseph Adams, John and William, and
sisters, Janet Speirs, Elizabeth Burleigh,
and Jane Adam^, who died in 1914. Her
sister, Janet (Adams) Speirs, born Sep-
tember 14, 1823, died aged eighty-four
years ; her children : Mary E., married Iver
Johnson, of Fitchburg, and died there Oc-
tober 12. 1915 ; Mrs. Daniel A. Harrington,
of Worcester; Mrs. Charles R. Moules,
of Somcrville ; Mrs. Arthur D. Pratt, of
Shrewsbury ; Dr. Francis W. Speirs, a
graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in 1888. Doctor of Medicine
from Johns Hopkins, 1897, and died at
Lansdown, Pennsylvania, at the age of
thirty-seven years, eight months, twenty-
three days, editor of the "Book Lovers
Magazine" at the time of his death, left
a son Harold. Mrs. Maynard is living at
the old home. No. 87 Elm street, Worces-
ter, at eighty-six years of age. Children :
I. Mary Susan, born at Maynard, Octo-
ber 15, 1853; married Warren S. Peters,
and had four daughters. 2. Amory, born
February 28, 1855 ; was agent of the
Assabet Manufacturing Company ; still
living at Maynard; married (first) Au-
gust 5, 1880, Ida Adams, who died in
September, 1881; (second), July, 1886,
Clara S. Mornenburg. 3. Jeanette Cherry,
born April 25. i860; married Veranus C.
Van Etten (deceased) ; her only child
died young ; she resides with her mother
in Worcester. 4. Lessie Louise, born
June 23, 1868; married Paul B. Morgan,
of Worcester. 5. Harlan James, born
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February 12, 1870; graduated at the head
of his class at the Philadelphia Textile
School, receiving the Theodore C. Search
gold medal ; had charge of the silk depart-
ment of the John B. Stetson Company,
Philadeli)hia, and is now living at New-
ton Highlands; married Florence I'^
Smith ; children : Harlan J., Jr., John and
William. 6. George Elmer, born Decem-
ber 4, 1873, ^^^^ October 21, 1901, at the
home of his brother, Harlan J., at Oak
Lane, Pennsylvania ; graduate of the Tex-
tile School of Philadelphia and afterward
with the John B. Stetson Company of
that city. 7. Grace Ella, twin of George
E., resides with her mother at No. 87 Elm
street, Worcester.
SHEPARD, Gen. William,
Soldier, Statesman.
During the nearly two and a halt cen-
turies of its corporate existence Westfield
has produced many citizens eminent in
civic virtues, noble in character, influ-
ential in local affairs and in the broader
life of the Commonwealth. It is no dis-
paragement, however, to those notable fel-
low townsmen to claim for William She])-
ard that, all things considered, he was the
most illustrious of all those who up to the
present time have honored the ancient
town. He came of the best yeoman stock
of Old and New England. In his veins
coursed Puritan blood unmixed with other
strain, and his character was true to type
in its worthiest features. He was eminent
as soldier, statesman and churchman. His
conduct of affairs in each of those spheres
wherein the Puritan was wont to excel
W5LS such as to win him universal respect,
and to reflect credit upon his lineage and
his native town.
His grandfather, John Shepard, a de-
scendant of John Shepard. of Wendle-
sham, Suffolk county, England, 1550. was
l)orn in W'etheringset, in the ^anie county,
in i()73,and came to Westfield, Massachu-
setts, about 1700. His son, John Shejjard.
was a tanner by trade, and married Eliza-
beth Noble, .May 20, 1731. The fourth of
their nine children was \\ illiam. born De-
cember I, 1737.
After having gained >uch education as
the primitive schools of that period af-
forded, William Shepard, when only sev-
enteen years old. enlisted as a private sol-
dier at the outbreak of the I'rench War in
1754. .After two years (jf service he was
made a sergeant in Captain Jonathan
Ball's company of Colonel William Wil-
liams' regiment. In 1759 he was a lieu-
tenant in Captain John Bancroft's com-
])any under Abercrombie, and took part
in the disastrous attack on Fort Ticon-
deroga. He was a year later a captain
under .Amherst during the victorious cam-
paign which resulted in the fall and con-
quest of Canada, taking part in all tlie im-
portant engagements. Thus he gave six
full years of service and returned home
when not quite twenty-three years old
In 1774 he was elected to the highest civil
office in the town, that of selectman, and
the following year was made a member
of the first Committee of Correspondence
and Inspection there, as so commonly else-
where at that crisis in national affairs, ap-
jointed to promote the public safety and
welfare. .At the time of the I-exington
.Alarm. .April 19. 1775. he was lieutenant-
colonel of Colonel 'Fimothy Danielson's
regiment of minute-men. and from that
time he served to the virtual end of the
long Revolutionary conflict, with Wash-
ington during the siege of r)oston and
later in the ojierations in the vicinity of
New "S'ork. His regiment having belonged
to the brigade of General John Glover, it
had a responsible part in the successful
retreat which followed the battle of Long
Island, when ever}' soldier and all the
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
ammunitions and stores of the Continen-
tals were safely ferried across to New
York in the face of a vastly superior force
of the enemy.
In October, Lieutenant-Colonel Shepard
was promoted to the command of the regi-
ment with which he was serving, Colonel
Learned's, through the direct intervention
with Congress of Washington. During
that same month General Glovers bri-
gade engaged a vastly superior force of
the enemy at Pell's Point m the town of
Pelham, in an action lasting several hours
which, in stubborn bravery and success-
ful defense, deserves to rank with the
more famous battle of I'unker Hill. The
loss inflicted upon the enemy was very
heavy while that suffered by them was
very slight, although it involved a severe
wound in the neck inflicted upon Colonel
Shepard. I lis escape from death was
very narrow, though his convalescence
was rapid. That important action at Pell's
Point has been strangely ignored and
slighted by the leading historians and
only recently has been depicted in its true
light through the researches of Mr. Wil-
liam Abbatt, of New York.
Colonel Shepard was with General Wash-
ington in pursuing his Fabian policy, re-
treating through the Jerseys before an
enemy which he was not strong enough
to attack in open battle. In the startling
surprise of the Hessians at Trenton on
Christmas eve, 1776, Glover's brigade
again performed yeoman service and
made the sensational victory possible. It
afterward shared in the crucial victory at
Saratoga and the privations of Valley
Forge during the succeeding winter.
Later in the war Colonel Shepard acted
as brigadier-general under Lafayette, who
presented his subordinate with a sword as
a mark of personal esteem, still preserved
and cherished by the family of a descend-
ant. Tie was mustered out of service in
January, 1783, after having participated in
twenty-two battles, and proved himself to
be always a most reliable and efficient
ofificer. Five of his six brothers were sol-
diers in the Revolution, as well as his own
eldest son, William, a record of family
honor and patriotism which can hardly be
paralleled.
During four successive years after his
return from the field. General Shepard
served as selectman, and at other times
during other years subsequently, while
many times, almost to his last year, he
was chosen moderator of town meetings,
and appointed to important committees.
In 1785-86 he represented the tow'n in the
lower branch of the Legislature. In the
latter year he was appointed major-gen-
eral of the Fourth Division of the Massa-
chusetts State Militia, which opened the
way to the important part w^hich he
played in quelling Shays' Rebellion. It
is possible here only to indicate most
briefly the value and efficiency of his
leadership in that long series of revolts
against, and outrages upon, duly consti-
tuted authority. It was General Shep-
ard's forces which made the decisive de-
fence of the Springfield Arsenal when at-
tacked by Shays, January 25, 1787. Dur-
ing the greater part of a year, several
months before and several months after
that affair. General Shepard was much of
the time in the field, dealing with the
scattered bands of insurgents, who
roamed about the State, from Boston to
the New York line, breeding mischief and
threatening the existing order. The sei^-
ice which he thus rendered his State w^as
as valuable during its continuance as that
already rendered in the broader national
field.
In 1796 General Shepard, with Nathan
Dane, of Beverly, and Daniel Davis, of
Portland, acted as commissioners to treat
with the Penobscot Indians and secured
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the release of all lands above Xicholas
Rock in the Penobscot ri\ cr. It may have
been that his success in that undertakinj^
accounted for his having been chosen the
following year to represent Massachu-
setts and act with Jeremiah W'adsworth,
acting for the United States, to treat with
the Six Nations whom they met on the
Genesee river in New York State, and
secured the release of extensive lands
which General Shepard afterward sur-
veyed and laid out into townships. lie
was presidential elector for the first and
second elections under the Constitution of
1788 and 1792. Having served two years
in the Legislature, General Shepard
served four years as State Senator and
was on the Governor's Council from 1792
through 1796. After such varied service,
faithful and honorable, rendered to his na-
tive State, he was elected to serve the
nation in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh
Congresses, from Marcii 4. 1797, to March
3. 1803.
General Shepard's interest in popular
education is evidenced by his having been
chosen to preside at a meeting held Janu-
ary 13, 1792, to organize a Library Club.
He was also active and influential in the
establishment of the famous Westfield
Academy, and served for many years,
from the time that its charter was granted
in 1793, as a member of its board of trus-
tees.
Soon after his return from the Revolu-
tionary War, he united with the church of
which the Rev. Noah Atwater was then
pastor. Thence to the time of his death,
thirty-four years later, he was devoted to
its welfare. His grandfather had been
one of its deacons for twenty-six years.
The second John, William's father, served
in that capacity two years longer than his
father before him. William in turn was
elected to that office in 1789 and served
for more than a quarter of a century.
Thus the iliree successive generations in
that family served in that capacity more
than three-cjuarters of a century honor-
ably and faithfully.
On the martial held, in jilaccs of civic
trust, and as an officer of the church, he
was always true to the best type of I'uri-
tan life, honored and approved in each of
the three spheres by all who had op|K)rtu-
nity to mark his conduct and test his cluir-
acter. For nearly fourteen years he served
his country as a soldier, besides defend-
ing for nearly a year of campaigning his
native State against the machinations of
malcontents who sought to destroy the
authority of its courts and who bid defi-
ance to its just laws. The trusted friend
of Lafayette and Washington, the office
bearer in church. State and nation, he
spent his declining days in straitened
circumstances due largely to sacrifices of
property which he had made for the pub-
lic weal and which were not requited as
generously as they had been made.
The following merited tribute was paid
to his memory by Y. ^L TUigbce in 1890,
in the "Memorials of the Massachusetts
Society of the Cincinnati :" '("icneral Shep-
ard might well be taken as a typical sol-
dier of the Revolution, brave, earnest and
God-fearing. The rough life of a camp in
the critical period between boyhood and
manhood did not corrupt his morals, the
savagery of border warfare with the In-
dians did not affect the natural kindness
of his disposition. He appears to have
had a certain grim humor of the Crom-
welHan kind : and it may be said of him
indeed, that he was a Captain after Crom-
well's own heart."
General Shepard married. January 31,
1760, Sarah Dewey, daughter of Moses
and Rachel (Moseby) Dewey, born April
13, 174T, in Westfield. died there. Janu-
arv 23, 182Q. Children: William, bom
March 19, 1761 ; Turner. September 16.
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1762; Charles, September 2/, 1764; Sarah,
February, 1767; Xoah, l\'bruary 20, 1769;
Nancy, mentioned below ; Warham, De-
cember 29, 177;^: Lucy, December 15,
1778; Henry, June 24, 1782.
Nancy, second daughter of \\ illiani and
Sarah ( Dewey j Shepard, was born Octo-
ber 25, 1771, in Westheld, and died Febru-
ary 17, 1802, at St. Albans, Vermont. She
married Seth (3) Wetmore, a prominent
citizen of X'ermont. a native of Middle-
town, Connecticut. He was a son of Seth
(2) Wetmore, of Middletown, grandson
of Seth (i) Wetmore, of Middletown,
whose father, Izrahiah Wetmore, of Mid-
dletown, was a son of Thomas Wetmore,
born 161 5, came from England to Boston
in 1635, settled at W^ethersfield, Connecti-
cut, in 1639, and removed to Hartford,
previous to 1648. He was one of the
founders of Middletown, Connecticut,
which he represented in the General
Court in 1654-55, and died 1681. Seth
(3) Wetmore resided in St. Albans, Ver-
mont, was sheriit, judge of probate, over
twenty years member of the Governor's
Council, and a fellow of the University
of Vermont from 1821 to his death in
1830. He was the father of William Shep-
ard Wetmore, born 1801, at St. Albans,
a distinguished merchant of South Amer-
ica, New York and China, dying 1862, in
Newport, Rhode Island. He married An-
stiss Derby Rogers, and they were the
I)arents of George Peabody Wetmore, late
Governor and United States Senator from
Rhode Island.
General Shepard ended his noble and
magnanimous career, November 11, 1817,
less than a month before the rounding out
of eighty full years, worthy to be held in
everlasting renown. As this narrative
goes to press (1917), a suitable monument
to his memory is about to be erected by
private gifts and an appropriation of
$3,500 by the town of Westfield.
The lineal descendants of General Shep-
ard now living in Westfield are the fol-
lowing: Charles Warham Shepard and
his sister, Addie Ellina Shepard, children
of Charles Warham Shepard, son of War-
ham Shepard, son of General William
Shepard. Also Mrs. Mabel (Shepard)
Robinson, daughter of William Wetmore
Shepard, son of Captain Russell Shepard,
son of Turner Shepard, son of General
William Shepard. She married, June 16,
1896, Archie D. Robinson, born in Worth-
ington, Massachusetts, son of Calvin C.
and Sarah (Stebbins) Robinson. They
have one child, Howard Shepard Robin-
son.
HILL, Charles A.,
Manufacturer, Financier.
When a young man of twenty-seven
years, Mr. Hill cast in his lot with the
city of Worcester, and from that year
(1861) until his death forty-seven years
later, he was a resident of the city and
identified with her business interests.
Although for nearly half a century con-
nected with well known companies, cor-
porations and banks, in an official capac-
ity, he was not known to the general pub-
lic, so quiet and retiring was his nature.
He was, however, well known in business
circles and by his associates, and inti-
mately was the beauty of his character
best appreciated. Industry and ability
combined in Mr. Hill to produce a suc-
cessful man, and so long as men revere
integrity and honor will those who knew
Mr. Hill cherish his memory.
Charles A. Hill was born in 1834, and
died at his home, 39 Queen street, Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, January 20, 1908. He
secured a good education, and spent the
earlier years of his business life as a book-
keeper, coming to Worcester in 1861 in
that capacity. His first position was with
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Jerome Marble, with whom he was asso-
ciated first as bookkeeper and later as
partner. They continued as partners un-
til 1870, when Mr. Hill and 11. M. Hidden
organized the Phenix Plate Works, with
factory on Park avenue, for the manufac-
ture of ferrotype plates and japanning
supplies. That partnership existed most
profitably for eighteen years, but in 188S
Mr. Hidden retired. Mr. Hill then reor-
ganized as a corporation the Phenix I'late
Company, and was elected its treasurer,
a position he held until his death at the
age of seventy-four. The new company
took over the old plant, and as the years
passed it enlarged, broadened and pros-
pered. While its financial head and de-
voted to the interests of the company he
founded, Mr. Hill had other interests, and
served the Mechanics' National Bank as
director, and the Mechanics' Savings
Bank as trustee.
Quietly his life was passed, but no man
was more loyal to the trusts committed
to him, and no man was more truly appre-
ciated by those who were in a position to
know how great was his w-orth and how
untiring his industry. His career again
points the way to honor and success, and
no matter how earnestly men may search
for more, how firmly they may believe in
the existence of a "royal road," there is
no such path but the old, old one, named
industry and integrity. That path Mr.
Hill followed and there is no other.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason,
and n Knight Templar ; and a member of
the Commonwealth Club of Worcester,
and of the Congregational church.
Mr. Hill married Emily J. Aldrich.
daughter of Hosea and Mary (Chard)
Aldrich, November 17, 1868, and they
were the parents of an only child. Charles
G. Hill. He was born August i, 1881.
He was educated in Worcester, in the
public schools and Classical High School ;
and at Harvard College, from which he
was graduated with the cla>s of 1905 ;
and succeeded his father in the Phenix
Plate Works. He married Lena Bowker,
daughter of Charles \V. Bowker, of
Worcester, and they have one child,
< "harles .Augustus Hill, born June 12,
MORGAN, Ernest Isaac,
Attorne7-at-Law.
The late Ernest l>aac .M(jrgan, who
was a successful and ])rominent lawyer
of Worcester, in which city he resided for
more than a decade, attaining high rank
among his professional brethren, was a
native of West Windsor, X'ermont, born
(October 30, 1870, son of Isaac and Adeline
(Lamson) Morgan, both of whom died
when he was very young.
Probably his orphaned condition gave
his nature a more serious turn than it
might otherwise have had, but many of
the sterling principles which proved such
i\ strong influence in his later life were
due to the care and training with his
sister, with w^hom he lived, gave him
throughout his youth. Her unceasing
efforts to instill in his young mind the
high moral obligations which were his
later ideals swayed him in his subsequent
relationships more than any amount of
disinterested care and training could
have done. Later in his boyhood he lived
with his guardian and others, all of whom
tried to the best of their ability to assist
in continuing the training which his sister
had so ably started, but to none of these
did he owe the same debt of gratitude as
to her. This varied life and lack of home
associations early started a spirit of in-
dependence and self-reliance which was of
the greatest value in his profession.
In 1870, at the age of nine years, he
entered the public school in Windsor at
the suggestion of his guardian, the Hon.
Gilbert A. Davis, and his studies were
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ccmtinucd in the hi^Mi school from which
he graduated in 1886, the youngest pupil
to have completed the courses prescribed
in that institution. His vacations were
quite as profitable to him as were his
school days in that he was always busy
with the many tasks and occupations
which commonly fall to the lot of the
country-bred lad. Later he became a stu-
dent at the University of Vermont, from
which institution he received the degree
of I'.achelor of Arts, in 1891. During the
year that he spent with his guardian in
\\ indsor. he had ample time in which to
decide upon a career, and almost immedi-
ately chose the practice of law. Entering
the Boston University Law- School, he
again made a remarkable record for rapid
completion of studies, finishing the three
years' course in one year, and this is all
the more remarkable when it is noted that
he was awarded the highest honors, mag-
iici cum laudc, and received the prize for
the best thesis of the year. For a few
months following his admission to the bar
of Massachusetts, he was engaged in gen-
eral ofifice work in Gloucester, Massachu-
setts, and then located in Worcester, same
State, where he has since continued in
active practice. Shortly afterward he
formed a partnership with a boyhood
friend from Vermont, Ralph A. Stewart,
under the firm name of Morgan c^^: Stewart,
having offices in Worcester and Barre,
Massachusetts. Some years later the Hon.
George S. Taft became a member of the
firm and the name was changed to Taft,
Morgan 8z Stewart. The members of the
firm were becoming very important in the
community, Mr. Morgan having made a
splendid record as assistant city solicitor,
and Mr. Stewart having been made as-
sistant district attorney under the Hon.
Herbert Parker. They derived consider-
able publicity during their tenure of these
offices, and gave the public an opportu-
nity to realize what these men were ca-
pable of doing. In 1903 Mr. Morgan was
forced to retire from the firm on account
of failing health ; this was not only a great
blow to himself but also a serious loss to
his partners, who deeply regreted the ne-
cessity for the dissolution of the business
tie. It was necessary for him to go to
Colorado, and during his stay for two
years in that high western country his
health greatly improved. In 1905 he re-
turned to Worcester and again took up
the practice of his profession. Not long
after his return he was appointed assist-
ant district attorney and retained the
office until another short trip to Colorado
was necessary, this consisting of but a
few months' duration, and upon his return
to Worcester he took up the practice of
his profession with greater zeal than ever,
but was soon forced to abandon his pro-
fessional labors entirely.
Perhaps Mr. Morgan was enabled to
rise to his high professional standing at
the bar and also to battle with his failing
health more effectively than would other-
wise have been possible by having inter-
ests outside of those connected with his
professional career. In addition to being
greatly interested in history and biogra-
phy, he was one of the most prominent
nature enthusiasts in Eastern Massachu-
setts. His collections of butterflies and
moths are, perhaps, the best to be found
in New England and the collections which
he gave to the University of Vermont, to
Colorado College at Colorado Springs and
to the Natural History Society of Worces-
ter were each as complete vmits of butter-
flies and moths as could be developed in
this section. Orchids, birds and minerals
were also of great interest to him and the
study which he made of these was, per-
haps, only secondary to that of his butter-
flies.
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Mr. Morgan married, October ii, 1893. DOLLIVER. Edward B..
Florinda Mclndoe, of Windsor, Vermont,
and they were the parents of one child,
Stuart Carleton Morgan, born November
5, 1900.
Mr. Morgan died January 19, 1910. lie-
was a member of the Worcester County
Bar Association, and a director of the
Worcester Natural History Society. The
respect and appreciation in which he was
RepresentatiTe Citlira.
A man of many activities, long identi-
tied with the mamifacturing interests of
the city of Worcester, l-:dward B. Dolli-
ver's natural ability, coupled with a
breadth of vision and soundness of judg-
ment, ranked him among the successful
business men of his day and generation.
He was a son of Samuel B. and Delia A.
held were duly acknowledged by the fact (Blake) Dolliver, and well connected
that these various organizations attended both paternally and maternally.
his funeral in large numbers and they later
presented Mrs. Morgan with resolutions
showing the esteem in which he had been
held. All of these tributes were richly
Edward B. Dolliver was born in Graf-
ton, Massachusetts, September i, 1848,
and died in Worcester, Massachusetts,
July 6, 1910. He attended public schools
deserved, for no man was more respected until fourteen years of age, then began
or more fully enjoyed the confidence of learning the shoemaker's trade with his
the people with w^hom he lived. Being father. Seven years were thus spent,
honorable in business, loyal in citizenship, which brought him freedom from par-
charitable in thought, kindly in action, ^"tal control, and he did not long delay
faithful to every trust, his life was an ex- dropping the tools of his trade. He s|)cnt
ample of the highest type of American the years 1869-1872 as clerk of the Quin-
citizenship. sigamond House, at North Grafton, and
It is interesting to note in passing one '" similar employment elsewhere in
of the tributes which was paid him shortly Worcester and Boston, and in 1873 ^e
before his death and which shows one of bought the restaurant in Boston, of which
the beautiful sides of his nature: ^is father was part owner. He ran the
Boston restaurant until 1876, then re-
During the past six years he has found in turned to Worcester and began his long
nature study some compensation for the inter- and important connection with manufac-
ests he was forced to forego. He has mounted
and classified a collection of nearly one thousand
butterflies and moths, raising most of the speci-
mens from the caterpillars. He has also made
four collections of several hundred each and
presented them to different educational insti-
tutions. He has studied the trees, ferns, mosses,
mushrooms and rocks, putting the same thorough
work into each subject. Instead of discussing
aches and ailments he will show you the plumage
on a butterfly's wings or the circulation in a bit
of moss. Everyone coming in contact with him
receives a fresh interest in the beautiful things
of nature, and many have been led by his enthu-
siasm to pursue scientific studies. Is it possible
to estimate the far-reaching influence of such an
example ?
turing. In November, 1876, Mr. Dolli-
ver began a three years' term of service
with the Worcester Machine Screw Com-
pany. In 1879. A. W. Gifffird, of that
company, purchased his partner's inter-
ests, becoming sole owner. When the
change was made. Mr. Dolliver was pro-
moted to the position of office manager.
In that post he found ample scope for his
managerial ability and he developed with
his opportunity. In 1900 the business
was sold to the Standard Screw Com-
pany, Mr. Dolliver being retained by the
Standard, elected a member of the board
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of directors and by the board was chosen
treasurer of the company. In that office
he passed the ten years intervening be-
tween his election and his death. He was
also president of the Arcade Malleable
Iron Company, and otherwise interested
in business affairs.
Mr. Dulliver's connection with the Ma-
sonic order was long and honorable. He
was a member of Quinsigamond Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, from 1880,
was elected worshipful master in 1887,
1888 and 1889, was a trustee of the
lodge's permanent fund and treasurer of
the board of trustees in charge of the
Charity Fund. He was a companion of
Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; be-
longed to Hiram Council, Royal and Se-
lect Masters; and was a Sir Knight of
Worcester County Commandery, Knights
Templar. In the Scottish Rite he held
the degrees of Worcester Lodge of Per-
fection. He w^as a member of the
Worcester Board of Trade ; Worcester
County Mechanical Association, a direc-
tor in 1901, 1902, 1903; member and an
officer of the famous military company.
The Worcester Continentals, member of
the Tatissit Canoe Club, and a director of
the Worcester County Club, highly re-
garded by his associate members of these
organizations.
Mr. Dolliver married, May 6, 1875, Au-
gusta O. Pratt, of Grafton, Massachu-
setts. Children: i. Winifred A., married
Ralph H. Davis, whom she survives, a
resident of Worcester. 2. Clarence Ed-
ward, born August 22, 1885, died Decem-
ber 14, 1904.
KENDRICK. George Perry,
Bnainesi Man, Public Official.
A long-time business man of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, Mr. Kendrick founded
the firm of George P. Kendrick & Com-
pany, and gave to the city the largest and
most perfectly equipped livery establish-
ment in the city. The business he founded
in 1849 continued in the family after his
death and until the death of the last son
in 1916. He was a man of energy and
good business ability, and from youth
made his own way in the world.
George Perry Kendrick, son of Jacob
and Hannah (Coleman) Kendrick, was
born in Warren in 1825, died in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, in 1896. When he
was three years old his parents moved
to Enfield, Massachusetts, and there his
school days were passed. He early dis-
played those traits which ever distin-
guished him, energy and ability, his first
venture in business resulting in success.
He worked on a farm near W^orcester,
and for some time served a milk route in
the city which under his charge became
one of the largest and most profitable.
He began the livery business in 1849, i^
partnership with A. E. Coleman, they
purchasing the livery and sales stables of
Andrew J. Waite from the Trumbull
Estate. This farm was located at the
corner of Franklin and Foundry streets,
Worcester, and there Kendrick & Cole-
man conducted a successful business for
several years, Mr. Coleman finally retir-
ing. Kendrick & Coleman were succeeded
by Kendrick & Brown, Edward Brown
becoming the new member of the firm.
The business continued as Kendrick &
Brown until the death of Mr. Brown, then
was conducted alone by Mr. Kendrick
until the admission of his sons, George
H. and Edward H. Kendrick, when the
firm of George P. Kendrick &: Company
came into existence. During these years
business had steadily increased and large
additions were made to the original quar-
ters. In 1882 the large barns built by Mr.
Kendrick on I'^anklin street were burned,
and the main business was moved to the
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large brick building erected by Mr. Henry
Flagg and Mr. Kendrick on Trumbull
street. There he continued at the head of
the business until his death and there his
sons succeeded him until they too were
compelled to lay down life's burdens. At
the time of the death of Edward 11. Ken-
drick, June 14, 1916, the business was
concededly the largest and best equipped
of any livery business in the State.
Mr. Kendrick was an ardent Republi-
can, and for several years was an active,
useful member of the city committee, lie
was elected a member of the Massachu-
setts House of Assembly in 1872, re-
elected in 1873 'i"*^ served with credit.
He was a member of the Worcester Board
of Aldermen in 1877-78-79-80, and could
always be found in his seat and bearing
his ftill share of the public burden. He
was a member of the Salem Street Church,
which was organized about the time he
came to Worcester, but while Dr. Tomp-
son was pastor he went to another church.
Later in life he attended the Universalist
church. He was a man of broad mind and
was inclined to deal charitably with all
men who differed with him in either poli-
tics or religion, yet he was very decided in
his own opinions. He gave liberally to
every good cause and was highly esteemed
of all men.
Mr. Kendrick married, September 23,
1850, Candace S., daughter of Captain
Sumner and Candace Holman. She died
in 1910, leaving two sons: George A.,
who died November 26, 1912; Edward
H., who died June 14, 1916. both associ-
ated in business with their father and his
worthy successors.
KENDRICK, George A.,
Business Man.
Through his connection with his father
and brother in the firm of George P. Ken-
drick (.Sj Suns, livery, ancl as the owner
and driver of some fast light harness
hur.-^cs, (ieorge A. Kendrick became well
known in Worcester, his native city, and
had a Statewide acquaintance. ( Icorge A.
Kendrick, son of (ieorge 1'. and Candace
( Holman) Kendrick, was born in \\ orces-
ter. and there died November 26, 19 12.
He was educated in Worcester public
schools, which he attended until sixteen
years of age. then entered business life
as clerk for Kennicutt & Co., continuing
witli that lirm five years. He had then
attained legal age and was admitted to
the firm of George P. Kendrick & Sons,
his father, brother Edward 11.. and him-
self, comprising the firm, which long con-
ducted a prosperous livery business in
Worcester.
The business cares and responsibilities
which he early assumed quite fully occu-
pied Mr. Kendrick's time, but he too had
his hours "ofT duty," and these he greatly
enjoyed in the company of his fast horses,
over whom he delighted to draw the reins.
He was widely known throughout the
State as a horseman, and was an expert
driver, nothing giving him greater enjoy-
ment than to skillfully work a trotter up
to his best gait. He was a lover of all
out-of-door sports. He was a member of
Worcester Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, had a wealth of friends and
was a generous friend to all worthy ob-
jects.
Mr. Kendrick married (fiist) Ma^y IClla
Flagg, daughter of Henry and >Taria
Flagg. and two children were born of this
union: i. Helen Kendrick, married .\us-
ten .\. Heath, of Worcester; one child,
FUis. 2. Edith Kendrick. married .Mbert
S. Richey, of Worcester ; children: Fran-
ces Richey, Janet Richey. Mr. Kendrick
married (second) .Xnnie L. h\'iulkncr.
(laughter of Francis and Jo'^ephine ( Ken-
nev) I-'aulkner.
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THAYER, Eber H.,
Basineas Man.
A firm believer in the benefit that
would accrue by a close relationship be-
tween producer and consumer, Mr. Thayer
strove to demonstrate this fact in his i)ri-
vate business and as head of the Massa-
chusetts Creamery of Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, served his many customers
with dairy products from his own Ver-
mont farm and from others he controlled.
The result of his twenty-five years in the
creamery business, conducted along the
lines of "direct from producer to con-
sumer," strengthened his belief that the
middleman was but a tax on both, and
he conducted his operations with great
success. The business he founded in
Worcester was a very successful one and
attracted a patronage that was ever loyal.
Eber H. Thayer was born in North-
field, Vermont, son of Joseph and Maria
(Green) Thayer, both of old Vermont
families. He died at his home, No. 9
P>oynton street, Worcester, Massachu-
setts, February 9, 191 5, aged fifty-eight
years. He was reared on the home farm,
educated in public schools, and spent his
earlier years engaged in farming opera-
tions. He began business life as a buyer
and shipper of country produce, princi-
pally confined to poultry and potatoes.
He continued this for several years, but
for the last twenty-five years he has been
exclusively engaged in the creamery busi-
ness, seven years in Vermont and eighteen
years in Worcester, ATassachusetts. He
owned a fine dairy farm in Northfield,
\'ermont, and served to his trade the pro-
ducts of his high-grade herds. This farm
he sold in 1895 and located in Worcester,
and when he began business there had
as a partner Ralph Muzzy whose interest
ho purchased a year later. From that
time the Massachusetts Creamery was
run by Mr. Thayer and his sons, a branch
being maintained in Providence, Rhode
Island, under the management of one of
tlie sons. The business is run upon the
best modern and sanitary lines and is a
success from both the standpoint of the
seller and consumer. When the founder
was gathered to his fathers he passed
control to his sons, who continue it
along the lines laid down by their hon-
ored father under whom they were
trained. Their prime source of supply is
from Enosburg Falls, where they have a
large creamery, the product of five thou-
sand cows, and which is steadily on the
increase. Mr. Thayer was a man of high
character, and in his business relations
and his private life held the respect and
esteem of his community. He was a
member of Athelstane Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, and of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
He married Alice Doty, who survives
him with three sons: Homer A. Thayer,
manager of the Providence branch of the
Massachusetts Creamery ; William J.,
and Carey A. Thayer, managers of the
Worcester main department of the Mas-
sachusetts Creamery.
LEYDEN, Joseph William,
MeTchant, Public Official.
Among those who have gained distinc-
tive preference in mercantile and politi-
cal circles in Worcester is Joseph Wil-
liam Leyden, who is a man of resource-
ful business ability, keen discernment and
progressive ideas, whose efforts have
been an important factor in every enter-
prise in which he has engaged. He has
advanced steadily step by step to a com-
manding place in business and politics,
having long since left the ranks of the
many to stand among the successful few.
Joseph William Leyden was born
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March 12, 1880, in Worcester, Massachu- anDthcr, serving in the >hii)ping depart-
setts, a son of Owen and Kitty (Keely) ment at the time he severed his connec-
Leyden. Owen Leyden was a native of tion with the concern. He was then nine-
County Roscommon, Ireland, where he teen years old and his next occupation
was reared and educated. He came to was with the concern which had so long
the United States in 1863, settling at once employed his father, the American Steel
in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he and Wire Company, hut he (jnly re-
was employed by the American Steel and mained in their employ a year, however,
Wire Company, his service extending his next empKjyer being Mr. G. W. Fu-
over a period of almost forty years, dur- gall, jiroprietor (jf a shoe store. In 1901
ing which time he attained a position of he decided to engage in business on his
trust and responsibility. That his serv- own account, and accordingly opened a
ices were appreciated is attested to by grocery store at No. 70 Ward street,
the fact that the company pensioned him Worcester, where he carries a general
when he had reached the age of sixty- line of groceries, and which he has con-
seven years. He died September 21, 1916, ducted successfully up to the present
in Worcester. His wife, who was a na- time (191 7).
tive of County Sligo, Ireland, came to Mr. Leyden's activity in public affairs
the United States as a young girl and naturally led to his being suggested as a
married Mr. Leyden in the city of candidate to the ComuKm Council of
W^orcester, and there her death occurred Worcester, and in 1912 was elected to
in December, 1906, at the age of about the office from the Fourth Ward. He
sixty years. They were the parents of held this office for three years, 1913 to
eight children, as follows: James F., re- 191 5, and was then reelected for a term
sides in Worcester ; Owen W., who is em- of two years, but owing to the redi.^'tri-
ployed in Worcester ; Timothy, who died bution of the city districts his term of
in early manhood; John J., who died at office expired in 1916, and in 1917 he was
the age of thirty-four years; Thomas F., elected for one year from the new ward,
a resident of Worcester, where he is em- then Ward h'ivc, also elected by the city
ployed as watchman at the Crompton council as a trustee of the City Hospital,
residence; Joseph William, of whom During his service in the council he was
further; Mary E., became the wife of a a member of its finance committee and
Mr. Paquetta, of Springfield. Massachu- the committees on streets, education and
setts, in which city her death occurred; legislative affairs. He is a candidate for
Catherine, who became the wife of the Legislature for the term of 1917. His
Charles Wilson, of Spencer, Massachu- entire life has been spent in the city of
setts. Worcester and he has been devoted to its
Joseph William Leyden attended the interests. He also served for seven years
Union Hill School at Providence and the as a member of the city committee of the
Millbury Street School, completing his Democratic party. He is a Roman Cath-
studies when about fifteen years of age. olic in his religious belief and a member
He then entered the employ of the Bos- of the Sacred Heart Church in Worcester,
ton Store as a cash boy, but his alert to the support of which he contributes lib-
mind and industry soon brought him to erally. He is active in the social and club
the favorable notice of his employers and life of the parish and is a member of Divi-
he was advanced from one position to sion i, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and
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Alhambra Council, Knights of Colunilnis.
He is strongly interested in the temper-
ance question and has performed valuable
work in its cause as a member of St.
John's Guild, the well known temperance
society in Worcester.
Mr. Leyden is distinctly what is called
a man's man, his tastes, occupations and
views of life being of the kind that make
a strong appeal to men as we meet them
in the world of every day. He has always
been extremely interested in outdoor
sports and is himself an athlete of con-
siderable ability. He is especially de-
voted to the game of baseball and as a
young man played with several of the
minor teams. He is also interested in
track athletics and has attended the im-
portant meets in this part of the State
for many years.
PETERSON, Hugo Oliver, M. D.,
Physician.
Born in the State of Illinois, educated
and brought to man's estate in the State
of Minnesota, Dr. Peterson first came to
the State of Massachusetts in pursuit of
medical instruction, which he found at
Harvard. It was not until the year 1913
that he finally located in Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, but his rise in public favor has
been rapid and no physician in the city
can claim a wider acquaintance, his posi-
tion as city physician and his interest in
athletic sports and games bringing him
prominently into the public eye. His
interest in children and in child welfare
work is most marked and the work he is
doing is bringing good results. He is a
son of Rev. Olof P. Peterson, who about
1 88 1 came to the United States a young
man of twenty-one, the first missionary
sent by the Swedish people to their breth-
ren in the United States.
Rev. Olof P. Peterson was born on the
i.^land of Gotland, Sweden, in i860, and
received his education in Stockholm, the
capital of his native land. In 1881 he
came to the United States, receiving fur-
ther education in the Swedish Theologi-
cal Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. His
tirst ministerial work in Illinois and Min-
nesota was done under the authority of
the Baptist church, but since 1906 he has
been pastor of Salem Square Congrega-
tional Church, Worcester, Massachusetts.
He married Anna Kling and has five chil-
dren : Hugo Oliver, of further mention ;
Gordon, a graduate of Worcester High
School and a star athlete ; Florence, re-
siding with her parents ; Phyllis, secre-
tary to Mr. Charles Tatman, an attorney
of Worcester ; Ruth, wife of Samuel E.
Nims, superintendent of the Worcester
Gas Works.
Dr. Hugo Oliver Peterson was born at
Moline, Illinois, October 14, 1886. When
he was four years of age his father accept-
ed a call to a church in St. Paul, Minne-
sota, where Hugo O. attended grammar
and high school, later completing his
classical education at the University of
Minnesota at Minneapolis. Later the
family came east and he entered the medi-
cal department of Harvard University
whence he was graduated Doctor of Med-
icine, class of 191 1. He followed his uni-
versity course with eighteen months post-
graduate work at Massachusetts General
Hospital, and in children's diseases re-
ceived an additional degree. In Novem-
ber, 1913, he located in Worcester and
began medical practice there, continuing
very successfully until the present. On
February 26, 191 5, he was appointed city
physician by Mayor George M. Wright
and confirmed by councils for a term of
three years. He has made many friends
and is highly regarded as both physician
and citizen. He is a member of the ex-
amining board for applicants seeking ad-
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mission to the United States Naval Acad-
emy, and is examining physician for
twenty-five fraternal orders of the city.
During his second year at Harvard he
vv^as class president and head of the class
in anatomy, also was elected honorary
member of the Boylston Medical Society.
He is a member of the American Medical
Association, Worcester District of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, and in all
takes an active interest. His interest in
child welfare has led him to take an
active part in securing the most healthful
conditions possible, and as member of the
committee on cleanly and sanitary milk
stations has done good service.
Dr. Peterson is a splendid specimen of
physical perfection, standing six feet two
inches and weighing two hundred and
thirty-two pounds, all in fine proportion.
He has a pleasing platform presence, is
an interesting, graceful speaker and is
often called upon for addresses during city
campaigns. He is fond of athletics, and
when the physicians and lawyers of the
city met for their annual game of base-
ball he was the pitcher for the medicos.
He has from boyhood been an enthusias-
tic, stamp collector, his collection num-
bering about eight thousand. Another
fad is the decoration of his office with im-
plements of warfare.
He is a member of the Harvard Club
of Worcester, the Worcester Economic
Club, Worcester County Republican
Club, and of Salem Square Congrega-
tional Church, of which his honored
father is pastor. He holds all degrees of
York and Scottish Rite Masonry, up to
and including the thirty-second, belong-
ing to Athelstan Lodge, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter. Royal
Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and
Select Masters ; Worcester County Com-
mandery, Knights Templar ; Aleppo
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of
the Mystic Slirinc ; Worcester Lodge of
Perfection ; Goddard Council, Princes of
Jerusalem ; Lawrence Chapter of Rose
Croix; Massachusetts Consistory. Sov-
ereign Princes of the Royal Secret ; Ale-
thia Grotto, M. O. V. P. E. R. ; Stella
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. In
Odd Fellowship he belongs to Thule
Lodge, Mt. X'ernon Encampment and
Idun Rebekah Lodge. lie is also a meni-
l)er of Worcester Lodge, Knights of
Pythias; G. A. Commandcry, Knights of
Malta; J. E. Lodge. V. 6.; Carl XV.
Lodge, S. P>. A., also Massasoit Tribe.
Improved Order of Red Men.
Dr. Peterson married, May 19, i'>i5.
Marie E. Dahlstrom, daughter of Juliu-
Dahlstrom, of Providence, Rhode Island.
a graduate nurse of the Memorial Hos-
pital. Dr. and Mrs. Peterson have a
daughter, Mae Hildegarde Peterson.
GUILFOYLE. William Joseph,
Public Official, Active in Labor Uniont.
Although but a young man, Mr. Guil-
foyle has from the time of attaining his
majority been entrusted with weighty re-
sponsibilities both in business and public
life. He is a devoted adherent of the
cause of organized labor and in the Cen-
tral Labor Union has for the past five
vears been active in its important work.
He is a son of Lieutenant Thomas D.
and Katherine (Cowan) Guilfoyle, his
father a lifelong resident of Worcester,
and for twenty-six years a member of
the fire department, now a lieutenant.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Guilfoyle are
the parents of five children : Thomas, a
foreman at Greendale : Frances, a high
school teacher; William Joseph, men-
tioned below ; Sarah and Grace, book-
keepers in Worcester.
William Joseph Guilfoyle was born in
Worcester. Massachusetts. November 19.
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1890. He attended public school until
sixteen years of age, then began business
life and since attaining his majority has
been manager for Farrcn & Company of
No. 229 Grove street, a position he has
now held for five years. He is an excel-
lent business man and highly regarded
by his employers. A Democrat in poli-
tics, he has taken active interest in party
affairs and is one of the influential young
men of the party. In December, 1916, he
was elected to represent Ward Four in
Common Council, took his seat, January
I, 1917, and is proving his worth in com-
mittee and floor work, serving on com-
mittees, legislative and fire. For the past
five years, Mr. Guilfoyle has been active
in labor organizations. He is financial
secretary and treasurer of Local Union,
No. 843, of Worcester, and its representa-
tive in the Central Labor Union of
Worcester, of which he is assistant secre-
tary, a member of its legislative com-
mittee for the past two years, secretary
of its executive board and a member of
the legislative organization and on minor
committees. He has represented the
Local Union and the Central Labor
Union as a delegate to many conventions
of organized labor, and is one of the
strong young men who worthily represent
labor's cause. He is a member of the
Church of the Ascension (Roman Catho-
lic). He is very popular and has many
friends who are interested in his career.
Mr. Guilfoyle married, August 8, 1896,
Helen Sweeney, of Trenton, New Jersey.
The family home is No. 32 Patterson
street, Worcester.
KNIBBS, John W.,
Enterprising Citizen.
A life of usefulness terminated with the
passing of John W. Knibbs, of Worcester,
Massachusetts, a man of versatile tastes
and talents, a successful business man,
well known in club life, deeply interested
in inventions and inventors, an enthusi-
astic horseman and horse lover. Next to
horses, he loved flowers, and rarely was
he seen without a boiitonniere, and it was
his invariable custom to send flowers to
his sick friends. He often said that the
time to give flowers to our friends was
w'hile they were living, and when he lay
ill at the City Hospital his room was liter-
ally filled with flowers sent by those w^iom
he had thus remembered when they were
ill. He was a man of strong convictions,
with the courage to maintain them, but
very companionable, and a rare story
teller. He often celebrated his birthday
at the Hotel Bellmar. which was his home
for many years, and on these occasions he
was a most engaging host.
John W. Knibbs was of English and
Welsh ancestry, son of Charles Lewis
Knibbs, a landscape gardener and expert
vegetable farmer of Hargrave, Northamp-
tonshire, England, where John W. Knibbs
was born. Charles Lewis Knibbs mar-
ried lietsey Wills, of Welsh descent, they
the parents of John W. Knibbs, born De-
cember II, 1854. died at Brant Rock, Mas-
sachusetts, his summer home, March 19,
1916. He early became a baker's appren-
tice, and at the age of fourteen was receiv-
ing a man's wages and performing all the
duties of an expert man baker. At the
age of fifteen he had an apprentice work-
ing under him, and was one of the best
bakers in a bakery famous for its prod-
ucts. Ill fortune overtook his father, and.
rejecting an oflfer of an interest in the
bakery wherein he had learned his trade,
he came to the United States, that he
could earn more in this country and soon
be in a position to assist his parents out
of their difficulties, and he did.
In 1871 he came, landing in Boston, but
going through to Worcester at once, there
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entering tlic employ of (General William S.
Lincoln. lie reached Worcester with hut
two dollars of his capital remaininj^, and
during the two years he was with (ieneral
Lincoln his pay was $300. \\v ke])t ex-
penses down to the lowest possible point,
and it was not very long before he was
able to send to England for his parents,
and on their arrival to establish them in
a good home in Tatnuck. After leaving
General Lincoln, he was employed for a
time on Jonathan Chapin's farm in llol-
den. later going with Calvin Taft, a re-
tired merchant. Tt was while with Mr.
Taft that his love for horses developed
into a passion, and one which brought him
fortune. In 1881, upon the death of Calvin
Taft, Mr. Knibbs began business as a
liveryman, erecting a brick barn at No. 6
Barton Place, with capital he had s;jved
from hJ<= earnings
After his marriage his father-in-law,
Cornelius H. Hill, was associated with
him as partner for one year, and after he
retired W. M. Johnson was admitted, the
firm taking the trade name of Johnson &:
Knibbs. In 1889 Mr. Johnson retired,
and from that time forward Mr. Knibbs
conducted the business alone. In later
years he founded the Metropolitan Stor-
age Company, serving as treasurer, and
owning all but one-tenth of its capital
stock. The advent of the automobile de-
creased his livery business greatly, but
the barn was continued as a feed stable
for horses used for commercial purposes
by the various business houses. Mr.
Knibbs loved his horses, and would in-
stantly discharge any employe he found
mistreating one of them. If a badly
treated horse was seen on the street, he
made it his business to see that the cruel
owner or driver was properly punished.
The light harness horse was his particu-
lar hobby, and he was an authority upon
the horse generally, the trotter particu-
larly, lie was a director and treasurer of
the Old Driving Park Club, and when-
ever a race was run off at their Greendale
track it was a fr)regone conclusion that
Mr. Knibbs would be either the starter
or one of the judges. He was the owner
of "Governor Benton," sire of "Picnton."
M. 2.10, and when in the height of his
glory as a horseman that old half-mile
Glendale track was the scene of some
exceedingly lively events. I'or six years
he held the contract for carrying the
United States mails between the Worces-
ter post office and the L'nion depot, and
during the Spanish-American War he
held a big race meet at Glendale. which
netted a handsome sum for the Worces-
ter boys who came back from the war
disabled. For a number of years he was
Worcester correspondent for the iour-
nals devoted to the interests of the horse
and his owner, and it was said that he
knew the pedigree of every horse that
was worth knowing, repeating many of
them from memory. He did not adopt
the automobile in place of horses, but
when it decreased his business he sub-
stituted another, but kept up the old tra-
ditions by running the old barn as a feed
stable.
He was always interested in inventions
and inventors, and it was often his money
which the hopcfid invent(Tr was using
and losing. P>ut all were not failures, and
one which succeeded was a fibre leather,
a combination of rubber and leather for
waterproof shoe soles. That invention
he controlled, and it became a source of
profit. The invention of Edward D.
Houston, known as Onion Salt, was also
one of his profitable investments, he
being treasurer of the company which
was later absorbed by the National Onion
Salt Company. At the time of his death
he was president of the .Xmcrican Car-
bide Company, capital $1.000.000 — a com-
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pany formed to revolutionize the carbide
industry in the United States, under the
J. H. Reed patents and processes, l)y
j,'rcatly increasing output and reducing
manufacturing costs one-half. The com-
pany in December, 1913, bt)Ught tlie plant
of the Whilingham Lime Company, In-
corporated, at Sherman, \'ermont, lime
rock used in making carbide there being
found in abundance and of the best qual-
ity. Another successful invention he pro-
moted was a loom for weaving a seamless
rug wider than other rugs made in the
United States.
A Republican all his voting years, but
beyond being at one time a candidate for
nomination for State Senator, he took no
active part in political affairs. When a
young man he became a member of Old
South Church, and for many years was
a member of the Worcester Continentals
and accompanied them on their many
trips, including that taken to join in the
jjarade attending the inauguration of
President Taft, March 4, 1909. In Janu-
ary, 1916, he was appointed quartermas-
ter with the rank of captain on the staff
of Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Loving
C"ocs. He was also a member of Worces-
ter Lodge, Benevolent and Protectivt
Order of Elks, and highly regarded by
his many friends of the order.
Mr. Knibbs married Etta E. Hill, who
survives him, an invalid who passes the
greater portion of c-ach year at Brant
Rock, the summer home of Mr. and Mrs.
Knibbs. It was to Brant Rock that Mr.
Knibbs was taken from the hospital in a
vain attempted to restore his lost health.
For many years the Bellmar, No. 667
Main street, Worcester, had been the city
home, Mr. Knibbs spending part of his
time in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Knibbs
were the parents of two sons and a
daughter: i. John W. (2) Knibbs, a
graduate of Dartmouth College, of athle-
tic fame ; a general western selling agent
for the Otis Elevator Company with
headquarters at Portland, Oregon. 2.
eharles H. Knibbs. 3. Lila. married John
S. Gerety, and is her mother's devoted
friend and companion at the Brant Rock
home. Charles H. Knibbs and John S.
Gerety are in charge of the business of
the Metropolitan Storage Company and
other interests of the Knibbs estate.
SOULLIERE, Jean Baptiste Noel,
Real Estate and Insurance Broker.
Prominent among the residents of
W^orcester who are actively identified
with projects for its progress and de-
velopment must be mentioned Jean B. N.
Soulliere, a native of Worcester, and a
descendant of a French ancestry, early
members of the family locating in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, from
whence members of the later generations
came to the United States, a large num-
ber locating in the State of Massachu-
setts.
Jean B. Soulliere, father of Jean B. N.
Soulliere, was born at St. Barthelmy,
Quebec, Canada, in 1840. He acquired
his education in the French schools of
Quebec. In 1856, when sixteen years of
age, he came to the United States and
located in Bramanville, a part of Mill-
bury, Worcester county, Massachusetts,
and entered the employ of Crane &
Waters' Woolen Mill. After working
there a few years he learned the shoe-
maker's trade, working in Shrewsbury
and Marlboro a few years, after which
he entered the employ of the H. B. Fay
Shoe Manufacturing Company, with
which concern he remained for eighteen
years, becoming one of their valuable em-
ployees. The firm going out of business,
he worked at his trade in Worcester a
few years longer. During these many
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years, by the exercise of economy, he was on the "Times, " with which paper he was
enabled to accumulate considerable capi- connected for some time. Later he spent
tal and with this as a basis he established a year in various job offices, acquiring a
a grocery store, located at the corner of thorough knowledge of the diflferent lines
Winfield and Parker streets, in the con- of j(jb printing. For six years he was cm-
duct of which he met with success, and ployed on the old "Worcester Spy" and
for the past fifteen years he has been lead- for thirteen years on the "Worcester Ga-
ing a retired life. Since 1861 he has been zette." In the meantime, his wife cstab-
a resident of Worcester and is probably lished a small store, to which he also dc-
the oldest French Canadian of W^orces- voted a portion of his time during his
ter, in point of years of residency, living connection with the "Gazette." and a few
in that city at the present time. He has years later this business had grown to
reached the age of seventy-seven years, such extensive proportions that he found
Mr. Soulliere married Celina Guertin, it would amply rejjay him to give up his
born in April, 1845, in Newport, Rhode newspaper connections and devote his
Island. Her death occurred in Worces- entire time to his mercantile business, a
ter, in January, 191 2, at the age of nearly general store located on Pleasant street,
sixty-seven years. They were the par- which he conducted for eighteen years,
ents of nine children: Jean B. N., of up to 1912. when he sold it in order to
whom further; Celina. wife of Adolphus engage in real estate and insurance busi-
Bernier, of Worcester; Joseph, a whole- ness. thus gradually enlarging his sphere
sale merchant of W^orcester, married of business activities. During the first
(first) a Miss Dumont, and (second) Mrs. year he was located in the Slater Build-
Flora Grenon ; George, whose death oc- ing, and since then has occupied offices
curred in infancy; Abraham E. ; Frank in the State Mutual Building, where he
X., and Henry, all interior decorators and transacts his numerous deals of impor-
finishers ; Marie Louise, a fashionable tance and controls a prosperous business.
modiste; Ida M., a music teacher. His first purchase of property in Worces-
Jean Baptiste Noel Soulliere was born ter was in the year 1S90, and to-day he
in W'orcester, Massachusetts, December is the owner of considerable real estate
25, 1864. He attended the public schools in that city.
of his native city up to the ninth grade, Mr. Soulliere in his earlier life was very
and his ambition was to have a college activi- in furthering the ideals and activi-
education, but greatly to his disappoint- tics of the labor Unions, being a charter
ment, however, he was compelled to leave member and first financial secretary of
school at the early age of thirteen in the Worcester Typographical Union. He
order to assist in the support of the fam- was one of the principal figures in cstab-
ily. His first occupation was assisting lishing this organization in the city and
his father in the shop, but later he be- later became its president and treasurer.
came a newsboy. At the age of thirteen, l^oth offices requiring executive ability
he entered the ofifice of "Le Bien Pub- and tact. He was a delegate to the Cen-
lique," a French paper, where he learned tral Labor Union, and International
the printing trade. Unfortunately for Typographical Union ; also served as
him this paper failed, but his industry treasurer of the Central Labor Union of
and perseverance in his former position this city. He also holds an honorable
was the means of his obtaining a position withdrawal card which was sent him in
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a frame with the compliments of the
Typographical Union in 1903.
On October 2-j , 1887, Mr. Soulliere mar-
ried Marie I*!mma Langlois, daughter of
Paul and Flavie (Giroux) Langlois, her
father being a native of Portneuf, Quebec,
Canada, where he learned the carriage-
maker's trade, which he later followed in
Worcester, where he came about 1852.
His death occurred in this city in 1902
at the advanced age of seventy-two years.
Mrs. Langlois died the following year at
the age of sixty-nine years. Mrs. Soul-
liere has spent her entire life in Worces-
ter, where she also received her educa-
tion. She is one of eleven children.
Mr. and Mrs. Soulliere have ten chil-
dren : Joseph Hector Noel, dental sur-
geon of Worcester, who received his edu-
cation in the public and parochial schools
of this city and later attended Tufts Col-
lege and Baltimore College, where he re-
ceived his degree; Paul Edelmar, for-
merly a linotypist, but now in the real
estate and insurance business; Emma
Eugenie Loretta, stenographer, who was
educated in the Worcester parochial and
[uiblic schools, and is a graduate of St.
Ann's Academy, of Marlboro, Massachu-
setts; John Henry Lionel, commercial
salesman, who was also reared and edu-
cated in Worcester ; lola Beatrice, a grad-
uate of St. Ann's Academy and later a
private teacher in French, and who is at
present taking a special course in French
at the Boston University preparatory to
teaching the language in the public
schools; Ida Irene, a stenographer at the
Worcester National Bank since she com-
pleted her business college course ;
l-lrnest Frederick, a junior in the Worces-
ter Polytechnic Institute; Marie An-
toinette Beatrice, a student in the Worces-
ter High School, graduated in June, 1917;
William Edgar, a student at the Worces-
ter Trade School ; and Jeanettc, a student
in the High School since she completed
her public and parochial school education.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Soulliere are members
of the Roman Catholic cliurch and active
in its various organizations.
Mr. Soulliere organized the Notre
Dame Court of the Catholic Order of For-
esters and was elected its first chief
ranger. For nineteen years he has been
treasurer of the Massachusetts State
Court of the National organization and
has been delegate to seven international
conventions during the past sixteen years,
missing only one of their meetings, and
is still very active in its ranks. He was
one of the organizers and first financial
secretary of Court Papineau, Foresters
of America, which later seceded from
that order and became an independent
society. Last year (1916) it became
affiliated with the Franco-Amercian For-
esters. Mr. Soulliere was the first presi-
dent of the independent society and ever
since has been a member of the fund com-
mittee. He is also a member of the old
St. Jean Baptiste Society, and of Conseil
Franchere, of L'Union St. Jean Baptiste ;
has been president of the Notre Dame
Credit Union since its foundation in 1912,
and member of Alhambra Council,
Knights of Columbus, and Worcester
Lodge, No. 243. Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks.
Mr. Soulliere has been president of
the Franco-American Dispensary Society
since its foundation in 1915. This chari-
table society is chartered under the law^s
of the State of Massachusetts, and is the
only one of its kind in existence in the
country among the Franco-Americans.
The dispensary is conducted by the
Franco-American physicians of Worces-
ter and supported by voluntary contribu-
tions.
In politics Mr. Soulliere has given his
undivided allegiance to the Democratic
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party, believing that its broader an<l
more idealistic aims will further the in-
terests of the working class more than
the conservative principles of the oppos-
ing party. He was a precinct officer of
the Eighth Ward for a number of years.
In 1910 his popularity was particularly
prominent, as shown when he was candi-
date for sherifif, and he reduced a Repub-
lican majority of thirteen thousand at a
previous election to three thousand. In
fact, his friends thought at one time that
he had won the election. In 191 1 he was
elected alderman-at-large for the follow-
ing year. He was prominently mentioned
and supported at the Democratic caucus
in 1915 for the nomination of mayor of
Worcester. In 1916 he was candidate for
State Auditor on the Democratic ticket.
In addition to these varied activities he
has found time to act as secretary of the
Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church, an
ofifice which he has held for twenty-five
years. It is usually his honor to be elect-
ed treasurer of the various organizations
with which he is affiliated, an office which
attests the trust and confidence which
his associates place in him. Governor
Foss honored him by sending him a com-
mission as notary public and justice of
the peace. Part of Mr. SouUiere's popu-
larity has been won by his modest yet
affable manner and his courtesy, and
much of it is due t(j his integrity in his
business dealings and his efficiency in
executive management. His residence is
located on Merrick street.
LEWIS, Albert George,
Business Man.
In 1892 Albert George Lewis came to
the city of Worcester, Massachusetts,
from his native Wales. He had not been
long in the city before it was noticed
that there w^as a decided difference be-
tween the young Welshman and other
young men, and as the years rolled ou
he became a much discussed man and
long before his tragic death his success
in the business world was pointed out
repeatedly as one of the marvels of twen-
tieth century mercantile enterprise in the
very heart of the great commonwealth of
of Massachusetts. Pers(MiaIly .Mr. Lewis
always replied when asked to explain the
secret of his success, "hard work did it,"
and perhai)S that modest reply is nearer
the real reason than is thtjught. P.ut it
was "hard work" intelligently directed
toward a given goal, and to reach that
goal he not only worked hard but made
all other forces emplr)y their efforts to
aid him. The aid of system and organi-
zation was invoked, enthusiasm drove
hand in hand with devotion to duty and
every department felt the impulse of the
master mind. It was as a clerk that Mr.
Lewis first attracted the attention of
business men after his coming to Wor-
cester, a young man of twenty-five years,
and once the eyes of the business world
were focused upon him his advance was
rai)id ; the clerk became a dc[)artment
manager, then general manager, and then
at the head of his own business shone
forth in the full radiance of his great
ability. He owed nothing to a lucky turn
of Fortune's wheel, nothing to influential
friends, nothing to special governmental
favor, but out in the broad world of com-
l)etition he won every victory. He was
a better clerk than others and thus won
promotion ; he was a better manager than
others and thus advanced to proprietor-
ship, and when in competition with lead-
ing merchants he ranked with the most
prominent. He was a typical self-made
man and a shining example in this land of
opportunity, this land of men who have
"risen from the ranks."
.\lbert G. Lewis was born in Cardiff,
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Wales, Great Britain, January 2, 1867,
died in Worcester, Massachusetts, June
23, 1915. He was educated in his native
land and there passed the first twenty-five
years of his life, absorbing all that was
best from his .surroundings and fitting
himself for the battle of life which was to
be waged far from his native land. In
1892 he came to the United States, locat-
ing at once in Worcester, Massachusetts,
where he received employment as a clerk
in the store of which E. W. Hoxie was
proprietor. There he quickly acquired
the American methods of merchandising,
and that knowledge added to a native
cleverness and pleasing personality made
him a favorite with customers and with
the store management. He was singu-
larly modest withal, but his light could
not "be hid under a bushel," and in the
course of time the management of the
Mohican Store in Worcester became
aware that the young man would ])e a
valuable addition to their selling force.
That store, one of the most important
links in the chain of stores owned by
Frank A. Munsey, was the scene of his
activity for all the remaining years of his
life save seven. He passed through all
grades of promotion to the very highest,
and as manager of the Worcester store
brought store service and efficiency to its
highest point of development.
In 1908 Mr. Lewis retired from the
service of others and opened a market
at Lincoln Square, Worcester, and there
saw the fruition of his hopes, this being
the second largest market in Worcester.
Seven successful. pros])crous years were
there passed, and as head of his own
business the real strength and force of
his ability were demonstrated. He ac-
quired substantial fortune, and beyond
his mercantile business had important in-
terests, also owning a great deal of real
estate. His death was most tragic and
shocked the city with its suddenness. A
few months previous he moved to his
new residence at No. 11 Dustin street
and to reach it quickly he frequently went
through the deep cut through which the
trains of the Boston & Albany Railroad
ran. There he was overtaken by a train
and met his death.
Mr. Lewis married (first) in Wales,
when seventeen years of age, Morllia
A. Evans, who died in Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts. He married (second) in
Worcester, May 29, 1898, Elizabeth Annie
Bragg. By his first marriage he had four
children, all residing in Worcester. By
his second marriage tw^o children were
born. His children are : J. Edgar, Mary
G., Elizabeth B., Albert G., Jr., Helen G.,
Charles B. Mrs. Lewis survives her hus-
band, residing in Worcester.
WASHBURN, William Ansel,
Public Official.
A man of incorruptibly honest deci-
sion, firmness and knowledge of human
nature, Mr. Washburn was for fourteen
years city marshal of Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, an office equivalent to chief of
police, a position to which he was pro-
moted after years of previous service on
the police force as patrolman and cap-
tain. He was strict in the enforcement of
the law, but so honest and conscientious
that he held the unvarying respect of
even those who so sought to evade its
provisions. His service as patrolman
taught him the needs of that branch of
the service, and when he became chief he
was most considerate, although he en-
forced strict discipline. During his long
term as city marshal he effected many
reforms in the department, brought it to
a high state of efficiency, and held the
respect of his men in an unusual degree.
William Ansel Washburn was born in
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Leicester, Massachusetts, August 14,
1837, died at his home, No. 178 Lincoln
street, Worcester, May 19, 1916, son of
John and Nancy (Bemis) Washburn, his
fa:her a blacksmith and farmer. During
his childhood the family moved to Pax-
tnn, Massachusetts, where he was edu-
cated, and resided until coming to
Worcester in 1857. He secured a posi-
tion as attendant at the State Lunatic
Hospital, remained there four years, then
spent four years in business. In 1865 he
was appointed to the police force, and
in 1867 was promoted day captain, but
only held that rank six weeks, when he
was advanced to assistant marshal. He
was first appointed marshal in 1873, by
Mayor Clark Jillson during his first term,
who restored him to the oflfice in 1875
during his second term. He held the
office until 1879, then was succeeded by
another until 1883; was again appointed
in 1886, served in 1887, 1889, 1890, 1891
cisco, where the arrest wa^ made. The
Grafton National Bank robbery and the
famous Lucicjus W. Pond case were
solved largely through liis work, and
many gangs of burglars and robbers were
broken uj) during his terms of office. .-\t
the time of his death he was a deputy
sheriff, and twenty-two years of his life
had been spent in the service of the
county as deputy sheriff and master <»f
the House of Correction. He was retired
and pensioned, August i, 191 1. He had
been a member of the Massachusetts So-
ciety, Chief of Police, and in 188K was
president of that body, and when the
Worcester Police Relief Association was
organized, in 1887. he was a member of
the committee appointed to draft a con-
stitution and by-laws. He was a member
of Worcester Lodge, No. 56, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows ; Montacute Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Stella Chap-
ter, Roval Arch Masons; Worcester Com-
and 1892, when he was succeeded by mandery, Knights Templar : and in Scot-
Major Edward T. Raymond. He again
returned to office with Mayor Winslow.
During the years that he was out of
office he engaged in business, his last
connection being as partner with A. T.
Norcross in the fruit and provision line.
tish Rite Masonry held the fourteen de-
grees of Hiram Lodge of Perfection.
Mr. Washburn married, in November,
1861, Emily F. Delano, of Provincetown,
Massachusetts. Their only living child.
Edith, married Elmer H. Fi^h. Mrs.
But there were few years between 1865 Washburn survives her husband, rcsid-
and 191 1 when he was not connected with ing in Worcester. The family were all
the force of either the city or county in
some capacity. He knew his business
thoroughly, and was one of the most
efficient of a long line of honest, capable
and devoted officials who have served
their city. He was connected with sev-
eral of the noted criminal cases of the
attendants
Church.
of the First Universalist
AUGER. Louis L.. M. D..
Physician. Anthor.
The name i^i Dr. I.<niis L.
.\uger is
city, and through his ability as a detec- one well known in W.^rcester on account
tive some noted criminals were brought
to the bar of justice. Marshal Wash-
burn's journeyings in the Pond case took
him as far West as Omaha, where he met
Pond and Detective Ezra Churchill, who
had followed the criminal to San Fran-
of the distinction he has won m connec-
tion with the practice of medicine and
surgcrv, and his marked ability has
gained him an eminent place in the ranks
of the medical fraternity. He not only
possesses a thorough theoretical knowl-
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edge, but is especially skilled in the prac-
tical work of his profession, and his
efforts have gained for him a constantly
growing practice.
Dr. Louis L. Auger was born in Louise-
ville, Maskinonge county, Canada, April
23, 1859, son of Dr. Charles L. Auger and
Ada ( Bouret) Auger, and grandson of
Desire L. Auger, the first merchant of
Louiseville. Dr. Charles L. Auger was
born in Louiseville, Maskinonge county,
Canada. July 26, 1832, acquired a practi-
cal education, prepared for the profession
of medicine, and from May, 1856, to 1907,
a period of over fifty years, has been
actively and successfully engaged in his
chosen profession in his native town. He
is a remarkable man, retaining vigorous
health and although eighty-four years of
age he has retained such perfect eyesight
that he has never had to resort to the use
of glasses. His wife, Ada (Bouret) Au-
ger, was a native of Montreal, Canada,
and died in Louiseville, Canada, in Feb-
ruary. 1900. Dr. and Mrs. Auger were
the parents of eight children, two sons
and six daughters, and Arthur Auger,
brother of Dr. Louis L. Auger, is serving
in the capacity of post office inspector in
the province of Alberta. Canada.
Dr. Louis L. Auger received his classi-
cal education at Nicolet Seminary and
was graduated at Victoria Medical Col-
lege in the class of 1879, receiving there-
from the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In the following year he began the prac-
tice of medicine at Great Falls, New
Hampshire, where he remained until 1889,
during which time he built up an exten-
sive practice and in addition served for
two years as city physician. In the last
mentioned year he went to Europe and
for the following two and a half years
pursued his medical studies in the lead-
ing institutions of the old world. He
has in his possession a letter written bv
the Hon. James G. Blaine, the famous
statesman, in 1889, who was then the sec-
retary of state, requesting the diplomatic
officers of the United States to extend all
courtesies to Dr. Auger which proved of
great value in securing social and other
recognition in all countries visited. That
letter Dr. Auger treasures ver\- highly,
not alone for the service it rendered,
which was great, but the source from
which it came. He spent his time princi-
pally in the cities of Paris and Berlin.
Upon his return to the United States,
Dr. Auger located in the city of Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, where his ability and
skill in the diagnosis and treatment of
disease brought him a large number of
patients who trusted implicitly in his
judgment and discretion. In 1897 he
again visited Europe, spending his time
in France, England and Germany, and in
1901 and 1905 again made trips to the
other side, this extensive travel adding
considerably to his store of knowledge
and also proving a means of recreation
and pleasure. His practice, which is ex-
clusively an office practice, is among all
nationalities, and he specializes in Elec-
tro Therapy — diseases of the nerves. He
has also written a number of articles of
a considerable value and interest to the
medical world which are highly prized
and often used as authority.
Dr. Auger was the promoter of the
French people in the United States, and
was chosen as first vice-president of the
Grand Convention of the French people
held at Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1886.
On this occasion he was chosen to go to
Washington to invite President Cleve-
land to be present at this important re-
union. He also founded the first French
Republican Club of the State, the first
meeting being held at his home, and he
was chosen to fill the oflfice of president.
He also served as president of the Alli-
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ance Francaise of Worcester. In addi-
tion to those above named Dr. Auger is
a member of Worcester County Medical
Society, the State Medical Society, and
the Economic Club of Worcester. He is
a man highly accomplished, learned in his
profession, of pleasing address and pol-
ished manners, hence the high rank ac-
corded him in professional and social
circles. He is well acquainted with many
of the leading men in political life, and
his prominence in the French political
clubs brought him in contact with many
of the great leaders of the State.
Dr. Auger married (first) August, 1884,
Abina Magnan, daughter of Adolph Mag-
nan, of Joliette, Canada. They were the
parents of two children, both of whom
are deceased. He married (second) June,
190S, Marie Bernier, daughter of Damas
Bernier, of Montreal, Canada.
O'SHEA. Michael J.,
Leader in Public Affairs.
The name O'Shea is associated in Mas-
sachusetts, and in Ireland, the home of
the earlier generations of the family, with
thrift and ambition. Although they have
been in Worcester for only two genera-
tions, they have won a place of esteem
and respect which is their reward for
strict perseverance in pursuit of advance-
ment and public-spiritedness.
Michael J. O'Shea, Sr., came to Worces-
ter from Ireland in 1865. Having learned
the mechanic's trade in his home land,
he continued along the same lines in
Worcester. His death occurred in 1914.
He was married to Margaret Shea, also
a native of Ireland who preceded him to
Worcester by one year. Her death oc-
curred in Worcester in 1910. They had
ten children, eight of whom are living:
John J., successful manager of a Pitts-
field hotel ; Cornelius, general manager
of the Pittston Manufacturing Company
of Pittston, Pennsylvania ; Bridget, wife
of Herman Watson, of Worcester;
Michael J., of further mention ; Daniel,
construction engineer of the American
Steel Wire Company of Worcester ;
Mary, who resides at home ; Margaret T.,
who married John Dacy, of Boston ; Jo-
seph N., foreman in McClintock & Mar-
shall Construction Company, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Michael J. O'Shea was born in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, July 25, 1879. He
spent his youth attending the public
schools. For years he worked in the vari-
ous shops of Worcester, and became a
first-class machinist, but in 1906, realiz-
ing that further educational advantages
would give him greater opportunities to
carry on the public work in which he was
particularly interested, he took up the
study of law. It may be that his inabil-
ity to continue his education earlier acted
as a spur rather than as a discourage-
ment, because it is unusual to find a man
studying a profession years after his ele-
mentary education has been completed.
In politics as well as in social questions,
Mr. O'Shea has always taken a keen and
active interest. In fact he was very ener-
getic in directing the campaign of Louis
A. Frothingham for Tiovernor in 191 1,
and that year was a member of the Pro-
gressive Republican State Committee.
In 191 2 he was successful in conducting
the campaign for the renomination of
President Taft and later worked for the
latter's election. President Taft carried
Worcester county by a majority of seven
thousand over the votes cast for ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and by four thousand and
one hundred over the total number cast
for President Wilson, which was the larg-
est given to the President in any city in
the country. This campaign established
for Mr. O'Shea a national reputation and
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his advice is now sought by all of the for he is known to be an altruistic and
big Republican leaders. The following public-spirited man and thinks it the duty
year Mr. O'Shea toured New England in of men who have the ability to influence
the interests of former Governor Herbert the public to present important questions
H. Hadley, who was at that time con- to the voters.
sidered for the Republican nomination Mr. O'Shea married, July 30, 1913,
for the presidency of 1916. On account Catharine Cecelia Sullivan, of Worcester,
of his previous political activities he was They have one child, Anna Margaret,
particularly able to sound the various born November 8, 191 5. In addition to
organizations and many individuals on being a prominent member of the
their opinion of the chances Governor Worcester County Republican Club, he
Hadley would have of securing the nomi- is also a member of the Massachusetts
nation. In 1913 and 1914 he served as Republican Club, Court McCafTerty, Mas-
chairman of the speakers' committee of sachusetts Order of Foresters, and is
the Republican city committee. In Feb- affiliated with St. Paul's Roman Catholic
ruary, 1914, he became managing director Church.
Active Factor in Labor Unions.
of the Massachusetts Protective Tarif?
League, which office he still retains. On nqONAN, James S..
December 4, 1914, Mr. O'Shea success-
fully established in Worcester "The
Voter and His Employer," a paper which James S. Noonan, president of the
has attained a national circulation and is Worcester Central Labor Union, was
devoted to the protection of American born in County Kerry, Ireland, 1870, son
industries and sound legislation. All of of Simon and Ellen (Sullivan) Noonan,
his various political campaign speeches and a descendant of a long line of ances-
have related largely to the question of tors who spent their entire lives in Ire-
Protection as being of particular advan- land, from which country has come so
tage to the working man of America, many of our best and most patriotic citi-
and his paper now gives him additional zens.
opportunity to express his views to the Simon Noonan was also a native of
Republican voter throughout the coun- County Kerry, Ireland, and was there
try. After "The Voter and His F^m- reared, educated, worked for many years,
ployer" was established, he conducted and married, and in the year 1881 he and
the campaign of Channing Smith, of his wife and their children came to the
Leicester, for Governor's Councillor. In United States, settled first in North Graf-
addition to these national and State cam- ton, Massachusetts, from whence they re-
paigns he has been active in all the nomi- moved to Worcester, same State, where
nations and elections in the county and his widow is residing at the present time
city of Worcester and has been influen- (1917). In 1902, after twenty years of
tial in keeping the Republican party in laborious and unremitting toil, Mr.
office in many instances. In 1916 he was Noonan felt an inclination to return to
a candidate for Republican nomination the land of his birth, a most natural de-
for State Senator from the First Sena- sire, he fully realizing that the return
torial District of Worcester and made a would be under very different circum-
strong campaign. Mr. O'Shea's political stances from his departure so many years
career is not carried on for personal gain, previously. The thought of the journey
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gave as great pleasure to his wife and
family as to himself, and their sorrow
was proportionally great when they
learned of his death there before he had
completed his visit. Mr. and Mrs.
Noonan were the parents of fifteen chil-
dren, of whom nine are living at the pres-
ent time : Catharine, the widow of Den-
nis Fleming, of North Grafton, Massa-
chusetts ; Andrew, who has been for
twenty-two years in the employ of the
Standard Oil Company, a resident of
Worcester, Massachusetts ; Bridget, wife
of Daniel Gering, of North Grafton, Mas-
sachusetts ; Hannah, wife of Dennis
Dowd, of Worcester, Massachusetts ;
Margaret, wife of Patrick Flynn, of
Springfield, Massachusetts; Michael, who
is employed in Worcester, Massachu-
setts; Simon, a resident of Worcester,
Massachusetts, and an employee of J. W.
Bishop & Company, builders ; James S.,
of whom further ; Mamie, a resident of
Worcester, who is traveling at the pres-
ent time.
James S. Noonan attended the public
school of North Grafton for one year
after his parents located there, and then,
when but twelve years of age, began to
assist in earning his own livelihood. For
the following five years he was employed
in various companies in North Grafton,
then moved to Worcester and entered the
shop of Washburn & Garfield, where he
learned the trade of gasfitter and steam-
fitter and there remained for six years.
His next employer was O. S. Kendall,
with whom he remained for some time.
So rapidly did he progress in his en-
deavors to learn the intricacies of the
business that he was soon appointed su-
perintendent of piping for the W. F.
White Company and for fifteen years
served in that capacity, and it is gratify-
ing to note that during his long residence
in Worcester he has been employed by
only three different companies. For a
number of years he had a large corps of
men under his supervision, and during
this time he found that there are many
conditions surrounding the life of the em-
ployee of which the employer has little or
no knowledge. For this reason he began
to take an active interest in the labor
unions whose united strength he feels can
accomplish far more in a community,
both for the employer and employed, than
would be possible by individual effort.
His unusual executive abilities have led
to his appointment to a number of offices
in the Steam and Gasfitters Union,
namely, treasurer, secretary, vice-presi-
dent and president, all in five years. He
was recently appointed president of the
Worcester Central Labor Unions, which
gives him the position as official head of
twelve thousand union men. This is a
high honor, demonstrating clearly the re-
spect and esteem in which he is held by
the other workmen in the city of Worces-
ter, and it also demonstrates his great de-
sire to better the conditions of all work-
men. There have been no movements
pertaining to organized labor in which he
has not been an active participant, and
during his tenure of office he has met
with many difficult problems, but his re-
election to office is ample proof that he
has been able to meet these difficulties
satisfactorily. Only recently he sent a
long message to President W^ilson en-
couraging him in his efforts in behalf of
the eight-hour law which at the close of
the Congressional session in September,
1916, came before the public so forcibly,
known as the Adamson law. Mr. Noonan
is a member of the Sacred Heart Church
(Roman Catholic) of Worcester, and in
politics he is an Independent, casting his
vote in accordance with his reason and
conscience rather than for party allegi-
ance. Although thoroughlv American in
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spirit and actions, he has naturally been
interested in the Irish question during
the last few years and is an ardent ad-
mirer of the activities of the Irish Revo-
lutionists, this being in line with his de-
sire for industrial development.
Mr. Noonan married, 1902, Catharine
Lyons, daughter of John and Margaret
(McGrath) Lyons, who bore him three
children : James Francis, Margaret, John
Harold, the latter's death occurred at the
age of six years ; he was a particularly
precocious child and showed unusual
mental development for his age ; so
keenly interested was he in the activities
of his father that he was a regular at-
tendant at all labor meetings at which
his father was present. This is indeed
remarkable for a child only six years
of age and made his death doubly hard
for his parents ; at the age of five years
and a half he danced at a show in the
church.
There is no other country in the world
which has such a large percentage of
valuable citizens, all self-made men, who
started without extraordinary family or
pecuniary advantages. Mr. Noonan has
striven actively and energetically to bring
his career to the successful point it has
now reached, and this same courage and
integrity which has achieved so much in
the past will probably carry him con-
siderably higher in the near future.
MURPHY, John Henry,
Insurance Agent, Councilman.
In 1861 John J. Murphy left his native
Ireland, a lad of sixteen years, and came
to the United States, the country with
whose national life so many of his race
have so readily identified themselves. He
was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in
1845, came to this country in 1861, set-
tling first in New York City, then in
Worcester, Massachusetts, where he died
December 20, 1914. The half century he
spent in Worcester were years of active
successful effort, half of them spent in
the employ of the American Steel and
Wire Company, the remainder at the head
of a prosperous trucking business. He
resided in the Fourth Ward of the city,
and there invested in real estate, becom-
ing one of the substantial men of the
ward. In 1873 ^^ married in Worcester,
Ellen Shea, also born in County Kerry,
Ireland, who had been a resident of
Worcester from her nineteenth year. She
died in Worcester, September 10, 1910, in
her sixty-fifth year. Mr. and Mrs. Mur-
phy were the parents of a daughter, Ella
L. Murphy, now residing in Worcester,
and a son, John Henry Murphy, now a
member of Common Council, who with
his sister maintains the family home in
the Fourth Ward, so long the abode of
their honored parents.
John Henry Murphy was born in the
ward in which he now resides, in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, July 6, 1886. He was
educated in the parochial schools, finish-
ing with graduation from St. John's High
School, class of 1904. He began busi-
ness life as a clerk and timekeeper for the
American Steel and Wire Company, but
after one year in that position he was
promoted assistant department superin-
tendent, a post he most capably filled for
seven years. In 1912 his health com-
pelled him to resign his position with the
company, and after a term of rest and
recuperation he entered the insurance
business, his present activity. This not
only involves the care and development
of his own property interests in the
Fourth Ward, but also a large business
of a varied nature as agent for others. A
Democrat in politics, Mr. Murphy has
long been an active worker for the Demo-
cratic party. He has represented the
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Fourth Ward in the city government
since 1912, and was the candidate of his
party for alderman in 1916. While in
the city government he has served on
various important committees, including
water, claims, military affairs, lighting
streets, his present service being on the
redistricting committee, and as trustee of
the Worcester City Hospital, the latter an
elective office. During his four years of
councilmanic service he has supported all
forward movements in city improve-
ments, being particularly active in sup-
port of all measures tending to improve
water and light service and the condition
of streets. He is well known and very
popular in his ward, and ranks with the
public-spirited, progressive members of
the city government. In religious faith
he is a communicant of St. John's Roman
Catholic Church.
HILL, Edwin H.,
Inventor.
When a boy of fifteen Edwin H. Hill
came to Worcester, Massachusetts, and
beginning in lowly position with the
Washburn & Moen Wire Works rose to
responsible position and continued in that
employ until his retirement in 1885. He
was but six years of age when brought
to the United States and here spent his
after life. He was a man of considerable
inventive genius, and during his career
with W'ashburn & Moen patented several
inventions valuable to the barbed wire
manufacturer.
Edwin H. Hill was born in England,
September 3, 1834, died in Worcester,
Massachusetts, November 4, 1916, an
octogenarian. In 1840 he was brought
to New York City and there attended
school until fifteen years of age, when he
came to Worcester and entered the em-
ploy of Washburn & Moen as office boy.
He was unusually bright, and from office
boy worked his way to better positions,
and when the years had added experience
to his natural ability became very valu-
able to the firm. He finally became fore-
man or manager of the barbed wire de-
partment of the works and so continued
until his retirement in 1885. In 1884 he
made his first visit to California, and
after retiring from active business made
several visits, also going northward to
Tacoma, Seattle and British Columbia
cities. He was a member of Plymouth
Congregational Church, a generous friend
of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion and all good causes. He was a mem-
ber of the Masonic order, belonging to
Athelstane Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons ; Hiram Commandery, Knights
Templar; and in the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite held the thirty-second de-
gree. He was also a member of the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows. He was
a man of strong, upright character, friend-
ly in disposition, a lover of his home and
very hospitable. Mr. Hill married, in June.
1865. ^Tary Ellen Whitcomb, who sur-
vives him.
FEINGOLD, Louis E.,
La-cv^yer. Man of AfPairs.
Coming from his native Russia a mere
child, Louis E. Feingold has spent the
years since 1884 in Worcester, Massachu-
setts, where he is a successful and promi-
nent member of the bar. He is a man of
culture and a lawyer of exceptional abil-
ity, holding high rank among the suc-
cessful men of his profession, yet the re-
spect and esteem in which he is held
comes not alone through his culture nor
his ability, but through his untiring
efforts in behalf of the uplift of his ow^n
race and the indomitable spirit which has
carried him from lowly position to one of
influence and usefulness. He is a mem-
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ber of every Jewish organization in
Worcester and of several of national
scope and in all is an active, trusted
leader. Perhaps his greatest and most
impressive philanthropy is the Hebrew
Sabbath School of which he is the
founder, sole supporter and superintend-
ent. The class founded in 1907 has an
average of three hundred girl pupils in-
structed by fifteen teachers. It must not
be inferred that Mr. Feingold was a fav-
ored child of fortune ; the contrary is true,
for his early life was a struggle and he
is a most notable example of a self-made
man. His education was frequently in-
terrupted by the necessities of the fam-
ily and the failing health of his father
whose death June 26, 1907, left a mother
and three sisters to his care. That duty
he willingly accepted and nobly per-
formed, his mother and one sister yet re-
maining under his care. A true lover of
humanity and a deep student of soci-
ological problems, he has heard and re-
sponded to every call for aid from his
own race and in true benefit no man with
his means could have accomplished more.
Louis E. Feingold was born in Russia,
March i, 1880, and on July 14, 1884, was
brought by his parents to Worcester.
Until 1891 he attended the Ash, Lamar-
tine and Ledge streets public schools,
then was obliged to leave school, seek
employment and contribute to the sup-
port of his family. He did not return to
school for seven years, but by self study
held to all that he had acquired and made
such advancement that in September,
1898, he was able to enter the English
High School as a member of the junior
year. He was graduated with honors,
class of 1900, then entered Brown Uni-
versity, where he was graduated Bache-
lor of Philosophy, class of 1904, and was
elected to the honor society. Phi Beta
Kappa, the same year. He was con-
fronted by many difficulties in securing
an education as he was compelled to
finance his way through Brown, but this
was accomplished by services as pianist
and by earning a competitive scholarship.
One year after graduation. Brown Uni-
versity honored her son by conferring
upon him the degree of Master of Arts.
During the summer of 1904, Mr. Fein-
gold attended Harvard Summer School,
and in the fall of 1904 entered Harvard
Law School. There the university ex-
periences were repeated and the two
years there spent, 1904- 1906, were financed
by a scholarship which was awarded in
his last year, by tutoring and by his serv-
ices as pianist. In 1906, due to the ill-
ness of his father, Mr. Feingold became
the head and main support of the family.
His father died June 26, 1907, since then
one sister has followed him, another has
married ; and the widow, son and an un-
married daughter now- constitute the
home circle.
In December, 1906, Mr. Feingold ap-
peared before the Board of Law Exam-
iners, passed all tests, and on February
15, 1907, was admitted to practice before
the Massachusetts courts. On May 17,
1907, he opened a law office in Worcester,
and on April 21, 1908, was admitted to
practice before the United States Circuit
Court. He has risen rapidly since his
admission to the bar, and in his offices in
the State Mutual Building and in the
courts transacts a large business. He
ranks high as a lawyer, is very popular
and enjoys the esteem of all who know
him. He is a member of the Massachu-
setts Bar Association, Worcester County
Bar Association, the Harlan Law Club
and Harvard Law School Association.
Now but thirty-six years of age, the
foregoing would indicate a life so full
that more could not be added, yet it rep-
resents merely the personal side of the
work he has accomplished. He has con-
tributed liberally both of his time and
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means in behalf of the Republican party,
also to other causes, civic betterment,
fraternity, charity and philanthropy. He
has served as a member of the Republican
city committee for nine years and as
treasurer for four years ; chairman of the
Fourth Ward branch for four years ;
member of the executive committee three
years ; delegate to the Republican State
Convention four years ; delegate for
Winslow and Whiting in 1908; organizer
of the Naturalization Bureau for the Jew-
ish Lodges of the Independent Order of
IVrith Abraham ; member of the execu-
tive committee of New Voters meeting
appointed by Mayor Logan ; member of
the Lincoln Centennial committee ; served
on the executive committee of Worcester
Economic Club ; was appointed by Mayor
Wright on the Citizens' W^ar Relief com-
mittee, and was chosen one of the seven
members of the executive committee ; rep-
resented Worcester as a delegate to the
Jewish congress held in Philadelphia,
March 26, 27, 1916; led in the movement
in the fall of 191 2 which gave Worcester
a Republican mayor, was one of the com-
mittee of fifteen which selected Mayor
Wright to head the Republican ticket,
and is thoroughly devoted to the interests
of the party of his choice.
In organizations, civic, educational,
non-sectarian, fraternal, social and scien-
tific, he holds many memberships, includ-
ing the Worcester Chamber of Com-
merce ; Worcester Economic Club (exec-
utive board of 1912-13) ; Harvard Club of
Worcester ; Garden City Council of Boy
Scouts ; Council of Worcester Social Set-
tlement; Regulus Lodge, Knights of
Pythias (past chancellor) ; Knights of the
Maccabees ; Improved Order of Red Men ;
.American Economic Association ; Na-
tional Geographic Society ; W'orcester
County Republican Club, and is a trus-
tee of Worcester Public Library, his term
expiring in 1922. That office is elective,
the choice resting with the Board of
Aldermen who chose Mr. Feingold by an
unanimous vote, although there was an-
other Republican candidate for the office.
He also has the further distinction of
being the first Jewish member to sit upon
that Board of Trustees.
He is one of the leaders of the Jewish
communal afifairs and deeply interested.
He is lecturer at Sons of Israel Syna-
gogue ; founder (jf the Hebrew Sunday
School for Girls ; trustee of the Hebrew
Free School ; one of the founders and a
director of the Young Men's Hebrew
Association of Worcester ; member of the
Zionists of Worcester; district deputy,
Independent Order of B'rith Abraham, a
Jewish fraternal order having one thou-
sand members in Worcester and two hun-
dred thousand in the United States ;
meml)er of the degree team and pianist
of the Independent Order of Binai B'rith.
a Jewish order with lodges all over the
world whose object is to safeguard Jew-
ish interests ; founder and for three years
the sole support of Jewish Boys' Clubs in
Worcester ; a member of the Hebrew
Charity Society (Achnosos Auchin);
legal aid adviser for Jewish charitable or-
ganizations of Worcester ; chairman,
judge and adviser for Hebrew Debating
Societies ; member of the Jewish Pre-
Congress Committee ; Free Burial Soci-
ety (Cherva Chesed Shel Emes); He-
brew Immigrant Aid Society ; Harvard
University Menorah Society ; Hebrew
Publication Society of America ; Hebrew
Historical Society of America; Jewish
Chautauqua Society of America ; sub-
scribing member of the Dropsi College
for Hebrew and Cognate learning; sub-
scribing member of the Jewish Consump-
tion Sanitarium of Denver. Colorado ;
subscribing member of the Joseph El-
chanaa Yeshiva (Hebrew College) ; and
in all is an active leading spirit. His
philanthropic spirit is known to all, and
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when the disasters to the "Titanic" and
floods in the Middle West aroused the
entire United States, he was a member
of committees appointed to raise funds in
Worcester for the relief of sufferers from
these great disasters.
Mr. Feingold owns a beautiful home on
Union Hill, near Worcester Academy,
and there has entertained many notables
among others Louis D. Brandeis, asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States ; Nahum Sokolow, of War-
saw, the great Russian publicist, lecturer,
linguist and leader among the Zionists
of the world ; Schmarya Levin, former
member of the Russian Duma, and one
of the most prominent Zionist writers
and lecturers in the world. No fuller lite
could be lived than he of whom the fore-
going is written, and no man in any com-
munity better deserves the love, confi-
dence and esteem of his community.
MOONEY, Nicholas Joseph,
City Official.
Although head of one of the most im-
portant fire insurance agencies of Worces-
ter at the time of his death, Mr. Mooney
was perhaps better known for his public
service as a city official and as a member
of city organizations. He was a pleas-
ing public speaker, often rising to heights
of eloquence, and on one occasion when
the Father Matthew Total Abstinence
Society presented a testimonial to Sena-
tor George F. Hoar in recognition of his
long life and valuable service, the society
chose him president to make the presenta-
tion, which he did in a graceful, eloquent
speech.
Nicholas J. Mooney, son of Richard
and Margaret (Doyle) Mooney, was born
in Worcester, Massachusetts, October to,
1848, and there died March 31, 191 5. He
was educated in Worcester public schools.
and after completing his studies was vari-
ously engaged as carpenter and machin-
ist. At the age of twenty-nine, in 1877,
he was appointed a member of the
Worcester police force by Mayor Charles
B. Pratt. He served faithfully and effi-
ciently on the force for fifteen years, 1877-
1892, then resigned to become a local
agent for the Germania Fire Insurance
Company of New York. In 1902 he was
appointed general city agent for the com-
pany, and then regularly established in
a full agency business. In addition to the
Germania, he represented the Reliance
Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia,
the Commercial Union of New York, the
Firemen's of Newark, the Worcester Mu-
tual and Merchants and Farmers of
Worcester. He also represented accident
indemnity companies and those writing
the varied forms of modern insurance.
His agency became one of the largest
and best known in the city, and in its up-
building Mr. Mooney gained high repu-
tation as a man of sound judgment, whose
advice on real estate values was sound
and safe to follow. He was one of the
founders of the Bay State Savings Bank
and a member of its board of investment,
his associates relying strongly on his
judgment. He took a deep interest in
municipal affairs, was elected to repre-
sent the ward in Common Council for ten
consecutive terms, serving on important
committees, including finance. He was
a member of the Knights of St. Crispin,
and in 1870, the year of the "strike" con-
ducted by that organization, was its sec-
retar}' and took a prominent part in the
management and direction of the organi-
zation's side of the controversy. He was
also a member of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, Father Matthew Total Ab-
stinence and Mutual Benefit Association
of Worcester. In political faith he was
a Democrat.
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Mr. Meaner married, in 1885, Joanna
M. Healey, of Cambridt^e, Massachusetts,
who died June 9, 19 14. They were the
parents of John J., who died April 8,
1915; Frances C, Rachael A., Anna T.
and Sheila.
O'BRIEN, Martin J..
Public Official.
At the age of fifteen, in 1902, Mr.
O'Brien entered the employ of the Bos-
ton & Albany Railroad Company, and
step by step rose to his present position
of assistant cashier. As he has risen in
the estimation of his employers so has he
advanced in public confidence, and for
the past three years he has served as a
member of the Worcester Common Coun-
cil. He has served his city well and has
been active in support of all measures
tending to the public good. He is a son
of John and Mary (Wall) O'Brien.
John O'Brien was born in Ireland in
1834. and now an octogenarian wonder-
fully active for his years, resides in
Worcester, Massachusetts. When a young
man he came to the United States, settling
in Lynn, Massachusetts, later going to
Cambridge, where for some time he was
policeman at Harvard College, and later
moved to Worcester, where he resided
for twenty-five years ; for twelve years he
was janitor of Worcester Academy, after
which service he retired to the quiet of
home and a well earned rest. During the
Civil War he enlisted in Company I, Sec-
ond Regiment ^lassachusetts Volunteer
Cavalry, serving with honor until dis-
charged at the end of the war. Mr.
O'Brien married Mary Wall, born in
County Kerry. Ireland, who came to this
country with her parents, John and Mary
Wall, settling with them in Winchester,
Massachusetts, her home until marriage.
Mr. and Mrs. John O'Brien have four
children: Martin J., of further mention;
John, residing in Worcester; Edward, re-
siding in Worcester; Nellie, married
Frank D. Farrell, of Worcester.
Martin J. O'Brien was born in Woburn,
Massachusetts, May 4, 1887, and was edu-
cated in Grafton street public school,
W'orcester, his parents moving to W^orces-
ter about 1890. At the age of fifteen his
father's poor health compelled him to
leave school and begin life as a wage
earner, but that did not prevent his con-
tinuing his studies, only changing him
from a day to a night scholar. After
three years in night school he was grad-
uated fully equipped for business service.
His first position obtained in 1902 was as
clerk in the Boston & Albany Railroad
office at Worcester, a company in whose
employ he yet remains. Promotion came
to him as a reward to faithfulness and
efficiency, and in 1909 he had reached his
j)resent position, assistant cashier. A
Democrat in politics, Mr. O'Brien has
ever taken interest and part in public
afifairs. In December. 1913, he was elect-
ed a member of the Common Council
from Ward Three; was elected in 1915
and is now serving his second term. In
council he serves on committees on lights,
public health, water and military affairs,
and since 1914 has been a member of the
Democratic City Committee. He is a
hard worker in his official capacity for
the good of his city, and a earnest, capa-
ble worker for the success of the party
whose principles he has espoused. He
is a member, past secretary and treasurer
of the Worcester branch of the Brother-
hood of Railway Clerks, and has been
active in Brotherhood circles for several
years. He is a communicant of St. Ste-
phen's Roman Catholic Church.
Mr. O'Brien married. October 15, 1906,
Gertrude E. Deady, born in Worcester,
daughter of Michael Deady, of Worces-
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ter. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien are the par-
ents of four children : Walter Henry ;
Rita; Harold, died December 25, 1913,
aged eighteen months ; Mary Gertrude.
SHEA, William Francis,
Laxiryer, Conncilinan.
William Francis Shea was born in
Worcester. Massachusetts, Tune 19, 1891,
and ranks as one of the most prominent
members of the younger generation in
civic activities. He is the son of Patrick
Henry and Bridget (Coakley) Shea, both
of whom were born in County Kerry. Ire-
land. The father left Ireland to try his
fortune in America when he was a young
man, and almost immediately after arriv-
ing in this country settled in Worcester,
Massachusetts, where he spent his entire
after life. He was one of the most in-
dustrious and thrifty citizens the city has
had, and by careful investment he was
able to place himself among the real
estate holders in the city, and at the time
of his death. May 2, 1909, aged forty-
three, he left considerable property He
was married in this city and his widow
resides here at present. They had chil-
dren, five of whom are living: i. Timothy,
a graduate of Clark College, where he
took his classical post-graduate course ;
manager of the J. J. Donohue Company
of Worcester ; married Minnie Healy. of
Worcester. 2. William Francis, of whom
later mention will be made. 3. Elizabeth,
wife of William F. Welch, of Worcester.
4. May, who resides at home. 5. Mar-
garet, who resides at home. Realizing
the handicaps which he had early in life
because of lack of education, Mr. Shea
gave his children unusual advantages.
William Francis Shea attended the
Notre Dame School and later studied
with the Xavierian Brothers. During his
courses in these institutions he prepared
to enter Holy Cross College, where he
studied for three years, but in 1914 he
left that institution and the following
year entered the Boston University of
Law, where he expects to graduate in
191 7. Throughout his school career he
has been very active in athletics, playing
halfback on the football team in St.
John's High School and for three years
was an anchor man on the track team.
His political career is remarkable, in that
a man as young as Mr. Shea has already
gained such prominence. He gives his
allegiance to the Democratic party, and
has worked actively in its interests for
the past three years. He was twenty-
one years of age when he was first elected
to the Common Council, the youngest
man ever elected to that body. He has
been a member of this Council for three
years, representing the fifth ward, and at
his last election received a plurality which
made his election the most conspicuous
in the city. During his first year as a
member of the Common Council he
served on the Committee of Public Build-
ings and Legislative Matters. During his
second year he was a member of the Com-
mittee of Police and Charities, and was
appointed by the chairman to the Com-
mittee of Bills on Second Reading. Dur-
ing his present term he is serving on the
Committees on .Sewers and Ordinances.
On account of his legal training he is a
particularly valuable member and can
well attend to matters concerning the
welfare and development of Worcester,
to which he is always willing to give his
time and support. He was in 1916 a can-
didate of the Seventeenth District for the
legislative term of 191 7. Thus far his
campaign has progressed favorably, and
it is expected that he will win his usual
majority. He has in view many measures
of public interest and municipal develop-
ment which he hopes to introduce in the
next legislature.
In fraternal organizations Mr. Shea is
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member of the Ancient Order of Hiber- giving him every advantage possible, as
nians. Council No. 36, and is a fourth de- they realize that he will be a valuable
gree menil^er of Alhambra Council. No. asset to their activities.
88, Knights of Columbus. He is said to .
be the youngest man in the State to hold
that degree. One of the interesting inci-
dents in Mr. Shea's career was the trip
HUBBARD, Josiah Clark, M. D.,
Physician.
he made in 1904, when only thirteen years \\ ith high standing as a physician and
of age. I"",arning the money for this trip surgeon in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Dr.
he started out unaccompanied to visit the Hubbard also enjoys the esteem and con-
principal cities in England, Ireland and fidence of his fellows as a good citizen.
Scotland. Owing to his youth he was In estimating the character of Dr. Hub-
detained at the docks at Liverpool until bard it is proper to consider the character
another Worcester resident vouched for and achievements of his forbears, who
his ability to take care of himself. After have been leaders in human effort in van-
that he had no difficulty in traveling and ous walks of life, his father being espe-
encountered many unique experiences, cially noted as an educator.
The Blarney Stone interested him partic- (I) George Hubbard, the ancestor of
ularly. After about five months' travel this family, was born in the southeastern
he returned to the United States, having part of England, and came to New Eng-
been written up and pictured in various land in 1633, located in W'atertown,
American and English papers, both in where he remained until October, 1635,
his baseball outfit, which he took with when, with a company of sixty men,
him, and in his regular apparel. He w^as women and children, he went to Wethers-
frequently referred to as the youngest field, Connecticut, to settle. He was a
globe-trotter in the world. Realizing the surveyor and was employed to survey the
advantages that he will have in his career lines of Windsor, Connecticut, then called
by being a thorough linguist, he has made Dorchester, and Wethersfield, then called
a study of French. Latin and Greek and Watertown. For a year or so the Con-
is now taking up Polish. All of these necticut Colony was under the jurisdic-
will add to his popularity quite as much tion of the Massachusetts Bay govern-
as his big generous nature. Mr. Shea has ment. which appointed commissioners for
spent some of his vacations in the street the purpose. George Hubbard was a dele-
railway service, and is a member of the gate to the first General Court in Wethers-
Amalgamated Association, No. 22, of field, and was representative in 1638-39.
Street Railway Men. His recreation is The records show that he was a promi-
usually taken on Lake Quinsigamond, nent surveyor in the Connecticut colonies
where he has a cottage. He holds a com- for many years. He lived in the eastern
mission as justice of the peace, which part of Wethersfield. which later became
was given him by Governor Walsh. His fllastonbury. and a portion of his original
popularity extends beyond the younger farm was at last accounts owned by de-
element of Worcester, and he is looked scendants. After living in Wethersfield
upon by the older generations as one of three years he went to Long Island
the promising men rising in the public Sound, where he settled in the town of
life in the community. The political lead- Milford. and later he sold Milford Island
ers of the State are watching him and are to Richard Bryan. He married Mary
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Bishop, who died at Guilford, Connecti-
cut, September 14, 1675, daughter of John
and Anne Bishop, early settlers of Guil-
ford.
(II) John Hubbard, son of George and
Mary (Bishop) Hubbard, was born in
England, in 1630. and came to this coun-
try with his parents in 1633. He was one
of a company, April 18, 1659, that organ-
ized the town of Norwottuck, or Hadley,
and was admitted a freeman, March 26,
1661. After 1672 he went to Hatfield,
and died there at the home of his son,
Isaac Hubbard, in 1702. He married
Mary Sheaf, and lived a few years at
Concord, Massachusetts.
(III) Jonathan Hubbard, son of John
and Mary (Sheaf) Hubbard, was born
January 3, 1659, in Wethersfield, Connec-
ticut, and died at Concord, Massachu-
setts, July 17, 1728. He removed as
early as 1680 to Concord, and married
there Hannah Rice, of Sudbury.
(IV) Samuel Hubbard, second son of
Jonathan and Hannah (Rice) Hubbard,
was born in Concord, Massachusetts,
April 2"], 1687. and died there December
12, 1753. He married Sarah Clark, of
Concord.
(V) Lieutenant Samuel (2) Hubbard,
second son of Samuel (i) and Sarah
(Clark) Hubbard, was born in the year
1713. and died in Holden, Massachusetts.
December 3, 1783. He was a soldier of
the Revolution, lieutenant of his com-
pany. Pie married (second) Abigail
Clark.
(VI) Elisha Hubbard, son of Lieuten-
ant Samuel (2) and Abigail (Clark) Hub-
bard, was born in Holden, Massachusetts,
December 20, 1774, and died in Vermont,
July 17, 1814. He married Mercy, daugh-
ter of John and Azubah Hubbard.
(VII) John (2) Hubbard, eldest child
of Elisha and Mercy (Hubbard) Hub-
bard, was born in Holden, Massachu-
setts, August 24, 1768, and died in Wind-
sor, November 22, 1849. ^^^ was a farmer,
residing in Springfield and Hinsdale, Mas-
sachusetts. He was a man of high char-
acter and considerable influence, in early
life he was a teacher, a superintendent of
school, a member of the Legislature, and
presidential elector. He married Lydia
Raymond, born May 26, 1768, daughter
of William and Mercy (Davis) Raymond,
of 1 1 olden.
(VIII) Eli Andrews Hubbard, son of
John (2) and Lydia (Raymond) Hub-
bard, was born in Cummington, Massa-
chusetts, December 11, 1816, and died in
Holyoke, Massachusetts. He graduated
from Williams College with the degree of
A. B. and later received that of A. M. The
greater part of his active life was passed
in educational work. He taught in vari-
ous public and private educational insti-
tutions of Massachusetts, including Wil-
liston Seminary at Easthampton, and in
1865 was appointed the first su])erintend-
cnt of schools of the city of Springfield,
which position he filled for nine years, at
the expiration of which time he resigned
to accept a similar position in Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, where he remained for
four years. He was appointed agent of
the State Board of Education and filled
this position acceptably for some time,
after which he retired from active serv-
ice. At the solicitation of the famous
Dwight L. Moody, he assisted in organ-
izing and took charge of a school for boys
at Mount Hermon. and conducted it very
successfully through a trying period of
its existence. After his retirement he re-
sided for a time in Hatfield, Massachu-
setts, and removed thence to Holyoke,
same State, where he spent the remainder
of his days. While a resident of East-
hampton he represented that town in the
Massachusetts Legislature, and was wide-
ly known as an educator and public offi-
cial. He married, August 19. 1844, Fran-
ces Daniels, born June 24, 1824, in Worth-
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ington, Massachusetts, (laughter of Cap-
tain Ranslow and Xancy (Starkweather)
Daniels, of that town. Mrs. Hubbard
died in llolyoke, Massachusetts, 1913.
They were the parents of two children :
Emma L., who resides in Xorthampton,
Massachusetts, and Josiah Clark, see next
jiaragraph.
(IX) Dr. Josiah Clark Hubbard, only
son of Eli Andrews and Frances (Dan-
iels) Hubbard, was born in Easthampton,
Massachusetts, September 5, 1853, <i"*^
was nearly twelve years of age wdien his
parents removed to Springheld. March
17. 1865. Me was a student of the public
schools of that city, and of a private
school of Northampton, conducted by
Josiah Clark, where he prepared for col-
lege. Entering Williams College, he was
graduated in 1877 with the degree of A.
B., and immediately began the study of
medicine with Dr. Morris Longstreth, of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1880 he
was graduated from Jefferson Medical
College of Philadelphia, and was appoint-
ed resident physician at Howard Hospital
in that city, where he served one year,
1881, and since that time he has been
actively engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession at Holyoke, Massachusetts, at the
present time (191 7) enjoying the distinc-
tion of being the oldest physician in point
of practice in the city, and one of the
most highly esteemed, as a leader in his
chosen profession. Throughout his thir-
ty-six years of active connection with the
medical profession he has been a close
and discriminating student, continually
increasing his proficiency and consequent-
ly his patronage has steadily increased
with the passing years. Dr. Hubbard is
a man of genial temperament, masterful
in his diagnosis and treatment, popular
and known far and wide, and a citizen of
whom the community may well be proud.
In addition to his private practice. Dr.
PTubbard has served on the staff of the
llolyoke City Hospital, of which he has
been superintendent for several years, and
the House of Providence Hospital of llol-
yoke. and for a number of years has
served in the capacity of trustee of the
People's Savings r^>ank. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, a
fellow of the American Medical Associ-
ation ; the college fraternity. Phi Chi,
and of the Congregational church.
Dr. Hubbard married, April 21, 1881,
Mary Stowe, a daughter of William
Stowe. a well known citizen of Spring-
field, who served as postmaster of that
city for many years, and was clerk of the
Massachusetts House of Representatixes.
They were the parents of one son, Wil-
liam Stowe, who died in 1883.
MAXFIELD, George Arthur, D. D. S.,
Dental Practitioner, Inventor, Anther.
Since graduation from the Dental De-
partment of the University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1881, Dr. Maxfield has practiced
his profession in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
with the exception of two years spent in
Chester, Pennsylvania. He is one of the
eminent men of his profession, well
known all over the State. He was a
former president of the Massachusetts
Dental Society, and later president of the
Northeastern Dental Association. His
practice in Holyoke is large, and as a citi-
zen he is held in high esteem. He is a
son of Arthur Livermore Maxfield, of
New Hampshire birth, a descendant of
John Maxfield, who was of Salisbury,
Massachusetts, in 1652. He is also a
direct descendant of Samuel Windsley,
one of the twelve men who obtained the
grant for a plantation at Merrimac, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1638.
Arthur Livermore Maxfield was born
in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, August
31, 1818, died in Ashuelot, New Hamp-
shire, August 24, 1890. He was educated
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in Gilmanton. and there resided until six-
teen years of age, when he began work-
ing in the cotton mills of Lowell. Massa-
chusetts. His first employment was as
bobbin boy in the F>oott corporation mill,
but so capable was he as a boy and man
that in ten years he had been advanced to
the post of overseer. About 1844 he be-
came overseer of a cotton mill in Hallo-
well, Maine, but after a few months there,
he returned to Massachusetts to accept a
similar position at Chicopee Falls. He
remained at the last named town ten
years, and during that time, in his capac-
ity of expert, he instructed many Irish
girls in the art of weaving, the Chicopee
ATill being the first to attract girls of that
nationality, and Mr. Maxfield being the
first American expert to instruct them.
From Chicopee Falls he went to Holyoke
as paymaster at the Hampden Mills, re-
maining ten years, when he organized the
Holyoke Warp Mills, with which he was
identified for several years. Later he was
superintendent of the Stratton Mills at
West Swanzey. New Hampshire, there
introducing cotton warp manufacture.
His last business connection was with the
Ashuelot Warp Company. Ashuelot. New
Hampshire, which he organized and
superintended and of which he was sole
proprietor until his death. He was a
thoroughly able and eflficient cotton manu-
facturer, and held high position among
men of that business. He married Orissa
Anderson, born October 8. 1821. died
1916, and had a family of nine children.
two of whom died young. Two of his
sons, Samuel Williston Maxfield and
Fred G. Maxfield. succeeded their father
in the management of the Ashuelot Warp
Millj: and another son. Dr. George A.
Maxfield. is of further mention.
Dr. George Arthur Maxfield was born
at Chicopee Falls. Massachusetts, Octo-
ber 29, 1848. His early education was
obtained in the public schools of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, and after finishing hi5
studies, he was employed in the mill
under the direction of his father. In 1869
he left the mill and learned the machin-
ist's trade, which he followed for several
years before deciding to prepare for the
practice of dentistry. In 1878 he entered
the dental department of the University
of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, there
continuing until graduated Doctor of
Dental Science, class of 1881. He spent
the first two years after graduation at
Chester, Pennsylvania, and in 1883
located in Holyoke, where he has since
been in successful practice. The years
he spent in the machinist's trade gave him
a decided advantage in the mechanical
side of his profession, and he soon gained
an enviable reputation for excellence of
work. He is a member of the Massachu-
setts Dental Society, to which he was
elected in June. 1883, and of which he has
attended every annual meeting up to the
present. 1917. He was elected first vice-
president of this organization and was
one of the three members who planned
the reorganization of the society into
seven districts and the <Irafting of the
new constitution and by-laws. On June
6. 1895, he was elected as the thirty-first
president of this organization. He is an
honorary member of the State Dental so-
cieties of Vermont, New Hampshire and
Connecticut. For eleven years he was
secretary of thi.s latter organization until
its merger with the New England Dental
Society (of which he is also a member at
the present time). He is a member of the
North Eastern Dental Association, vice-
president, 1912-13. president. 1914-15. and
a member of the Delaware Dental Soci-
ety. For sixteen years he has been a
member of the Massachusetts State Board
of Registration in Dentistry, to which he
was appointed in 1897 by Governor Roger
Wolcott, and from which he retired with
honors in May, 1913. He is a member of
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the American Dental Association ; and
was formerly a member of the New York
Institute of Stomatology. He has writ-
ten many papers on dental subjects which
have been published in the dental jour-
nals. He has also invented several dental
appliances and was the joint inventor
with Dr. Newton Morgan, of the Morgan-
iMaxfield Disk Mandrel, which for its
simplicity and utility has become one of
the standard dental appliances. He is a
communicant of the Baptist chiirch, for-
merly clerk of the congregation, and in
political faith is a Republican.
Dr. Maxfield married (first) in 1871,
Elizabeth R. Bennett, of Holyoke, who
died in 1882. He married (second) in
1885. Martha H. Currier, of Holyoke,
daughter of Andrew J. Currier, of Nor-
wich, Connecticut. His only child, Arthur
Currier Maxfield, was born December 10,
1890, died March 30, 1900.
As will be seen by the above. Dr. Max-
field has been an untiring w^orker in the
interests of his profession and is known
far and wide not only as a skillful dentist,
but as the truest type of the gentleman
of the old school. That he has a wide
circle of friends is easily understood, for
all who are brought in contact with him
are at once impressed by hts genial man-
ner and straight forward methods. The
portrait found on the opposite page will,
it is felt, be a source of pleasure to all of
his acquaintances and friends.
LAWRENCE. Hiram Bartlett,
Educator.
Among the educators of ISTassachu setts
who have left a name indelibly stamped
upon the community should be ])laccd
first Hiram Bartlett Lawrence, late of
Holyoke, Massachusetts, who served the
public schools of that city for the greater
part of his useful life of seventy years,
the last thirty-eight of which were as
principal of Appleton street schoo], this
period covering the years from 1872 until
his death in 1910. He was the dean of
the Holyoke corps of educators and in
hut few instances has his term of active
teaching service been exceeded in the en-
tire State. Thoroughly consecrated to his
work, he was more to his pupils than a
teacher, he was their friend, their guide
and their inspiration. The good influence
he exerted over them in the school con-
tinued after they passed from under his
teachings and his memory is warmly cher-
ished by men and women now in the sere
and yellow leaf, who recall his deep inter-
est in their welfare and his many acts of
kindness. Thousands of boys and girls
passed through the Appleton street school
during those thirty-eight years and in each
he felt a personal interest, and his ambi-
tion was that the Appleton street school
should be to them a true alma mater in
shaping the course of their lives. Many
of those scholars were men and women of
Holyoke when Mr. Lawrence ended his
earthly career, and it was in response to
a strong public sentiment created by them
that the board of education renamed the
Appleton street school and honored the
man who had so long been its head by
calling it the Lawrence School, thus offi-
cially designating it by the name the pub-
lic had long before given it. And truly
in the Lawrence School his influence per-
meated every department and inspired
every teacher and every pupil to their
best endeavor.
The years spent in Holyoke schools did
not cover I\Ir. Lawrence's entire career as
an educator, for both in Maine, his native
State, and in New Hampshire he had been
principal of high school and academy. He
educated himself for the profession of law
and was regularly admitted to the Maine
bar. but being compelled to teach in order
to finance his college education, he de-
veloped a deep love for that profession
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and after a short period of law practice he
followed the leadings of his heart and
gave himself to the cause of education.
On the paternal side Mr. Lawrence
traced his ancestry to Robert Lawrence,
who, about 1664. left England, going to
Molland, coming thence to Massachusetts
and settling at Sandwich, Barnstaible
county. In this branch he traced his de-
scent to Sir Robert Lawrence, who at-
tended his sovereign Richard Coeur de
Lion to the Holy Lord and as a Crusader
won high honors. He particularly dis-
tinguished himself at the siege of Acre
and was knighted Sir Robert of Ashton
Hall. Fifteen generations of the family
flourished in England ere the transplant-
ing to America where the name is an
equally honored one. On his mother's
side Mr. Lawrence traced to Robert Bart-
lett, who came to America on the ship
"Ann" in July, 1623, settled at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, where he was prominent
in early Colonial affairs and founded one
of the strong New England families.
Hiram Bartlett Lawrence, son of Oliver
A. and Lemira (Bartlett) Lawrence, was
born in Wayne, Kennebec county, Maine,
March 8, 1840, and died at his home in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, December 20.
1910. His boyhood was passed on the
farm, the winter months being devoted
to school work, the summer months to
farm labor. After exhausting the advan-
tages offered by the Wayne schools he
attended Towle Academy at Winthrop,
then taught for two winter terms in Ken-
nebec county schools. He spent one year
as a student at Maine State Seminary at
Lewiston, entering Bowdoin College at
Brunswick, Maine, in 1862. He spent four
} ears at that institution, paying his own
way with money earned during vacation
periods. He won high honors at college
and was class orator of the graduating
class of 1866. He had decided upon the
profession of law and registered as a law
student in a lawyer's office at Gardiner,
Maine, pursuing his law studies in con-
nection with his duties as principal of the
(iardiner High School. On August 11,
1866, he was admitted to the Maine bar
and he formed a partnership and began
his legal practice. Shortly afterward his
j)artner died, and after due consideration
and no suitable partner being available,
he decided to abandon the law and dedi-
cate his life to the profession of teaching,
in which he had already proved a success
and to which he felt strongly drawn. His
first position after arriving at that de-
cision was as principal of the Gardiner
High School of Gardiner, Maine, after
completing his work there he next went
to Penacook Academy, New Hampshire,
where he remained until 1872, when he
was elected principal of the Appleton
street school, Holyoke, Massachusetts,
and in that position the remaining thirty-
eight years of his life were passed. Apple-
ton street school was organized in 1864
and had three principals prior to Mr.
Lawrence, he taking charge in 1872. His
term of service exceeded that of any
teacher ever connected with the Holyoke
schools, and in recognition of his long and
valuable service, his usefulness and his
devotion, the school is now officially
known as the Lawrence School, a fitting
tribute to his long and faithful service.
I!ut his monument is in the hearts of all
who personally came within the circle of
his influence, and their "name is legion,"
including the youth of two generations,
there being scarcely a family of standing
in Holyoke in which one or more mem-
bers do not lovingly recall their school
years at the Appleton street school under
his instruction, training and example.
A lover of nature himself, he introduced
the nature study, Appleton street school
being the first school to form classes for
indoor and outdoor nature study. The
decoration and beautifying of school
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rooms and grounds was also due to his
initiative, in fact, his progressive mind
led in all modern forms of educating the
young. He kept ever abreast of his times
and in no particular did he lag behind.
Himself a man of education and culture, he
craved the same advantages for the youth
of Holyoke, and by earnest, efficient work
he brought boards of education, parents
and pupils to a higher plane of thought
and accomplished much of the desire of
his heart. He was well known in edu-
cational circles beyond his own city and
often emplo3'ed his talents as a writer and
platform speaker. He was made a Ma-
son in 1868, belonged to Ionic Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons ; Psi Upsilon
fraternity. Western Massachusetts Gram-
mar Masters' Club, "The Club" of Hol-
yoke, a literary organization, and the Sec-
ond Congregational Church. In politics
he was a Republican. He was very popu-
lar in these organizations, in fact, his
genial manner, unfailing courtesy and in-
tellectual gifts were an "open sesame" to
any circle.
Mr. Lawrence married, December 29,
1875, Mary J. Day, daughter of Horace
R. and Mary J. (Wiggins) Day. (Sec
Day family elsewhere in this work.) She
is a graduate of Holyoke High School,
and prior to her marriage taught in the
William Whiting and Appleton street
schools of Holyoke. She survives her
husband and continues her residence in
Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence were
the parents of three children : Ray, died
in infancy ; Genevieve, died at two and
one-half years of age ; Vera, wife of Ray-
mond E. Snow, who is connected with
the office of the chief engineer of the
water department of the city of Spring-
field, Massachusetts, son of W. H. Snow,
a former manager of the Holyoke Gas
and Electric Company, now filling a simi-
lar position at New Bedford, Massachu-
setts. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Snow
have two children, Raymond Lawrence
and \orma.
EASTON, Col. Fergus Anzle,
Soldier, Enterprising Citizen.
With tlie passing of Colonel Easton,
well known in (jrand Army, business and
club circles of Worcester, a man of pleas-
ing personality and sterlmg character
closed his career — one who had lived
under two flags, for he was a native
son of Scotland. He had only been in
the United States five years when Presi-
dent Lincoln issued his first call for men,
yet he was one of the first to respond
from New York, and was in the thick of
the battles of the Army of the Potomac
until j)hysically unable to longer remain
in the army. He was a man of tall, erect,
soldierly bearing, a splendid cavalryman,
and even when the years had whitened
his hair, they left him his erect soldierly
figure. He was a successful business
man, possessing great energy and fore-
sight. He was not a favored son of for-
tune, but won his way to a competence
through his own eflforts. He was intense-
ly social, and had a host of friends in the
various organizations, friends drawn to
him by his charming personality, and held
to him by the close bonds of respect and
appreciation of his sterling character. He
never grew old, and but two weeks prior
to his death was an attendant at a dinner
at the Shrewsbury Club, who-e in re-
sponse to a call to speak he prophesied
"good times ahead" for the club members,
and promised them future entertainment
around the club fireplace listening to his
stories, "when I feel in the right humor."
He was a veritable "prince of good fel-
lows." yet a sterling business man. and
keenly alive to all the responsibilities of
life, meeting every demand of citizenship.
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He was a son of George liaston, a man
of still more striking figure than his son.
He was known in Scotland as the great
temperance reformer who traveled the
length and breadth of Scotland spreading
the gospel of temperance. lie had a
powerful voice, attracted great crowds
to hear him, and accomplished astonish-
ing results for the cause to which he w^as
devoted. He married Mary Hethrington,
both he and his wife being of the best and
purest Scotch blood.
Fergus Anzle Easton was born in
Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Sep-
tember 24, 1842, and died at the Baptist
Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, De-
cember 16, 1916, having gone to Boston
with his wife a few days previous to en-
tertain a friend from the west. At the
age of three years he was sent to the
parish school of Ewes, and at the age of
eight his parents moved to Edinburgh,
where he was graduated from the Normal
High School, at the age of fourteen he
came to the United States in a sailing
vessel, and the experiences of that long
and tiresome voyage in 1856 was one of
the stories he loved to relate in later life.
He was employed in New York as a cur-
rier until the first call for troops, when
he enlisted, April 17, 1861, as a private in
Company 1, Fourth Regiment New York
Volunteer Infantry, was mustered in the
next day, and was with the first troops
to leave the north for service in Virginia.
His first enlistment was for the time all
were first called, three months, and he
\vas mustered out July 22. He reenlisted
September 9, in Company y\, Sixth Regi-
ment New York Volunteer Cavalry, and
on September 12 was mustered into the
Federal service for three years as first
sergeant. lie was sent with his regiment
to York, Pennsylvania, and from March
22, 1862, was on duty in the defense of
Washington. He was commissioned sec-
ond lieutenant June 27, 1862, and assigned
to Company G of his regiment, and in
(Jctober following was detailed to duty
as acting adjutant. He was promoted
lirst lieutenant March 22, 1863, but was
not mustered as of that rank until 1900,
when the War Department amended his
record, giving him muster under his com-
mission of June 27. 1862. He continued
in the service until physically disabled,
when he resigned, July 26, 1863, and re-
turned to his home in South Hingham.
During his military service he served in
the Army of the Potomac under Generals
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade
was in the Maryland compaign of 1862
fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg
the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl-
vania Courthouse, Beverly Ford, Middie-
burg, Upperville, Chancellorsville, and
Gettysburg in 1863, and gallantly ac-
quitted himself.
After regaining his health. Colonel
Easton engaged in business as a currier
at Hyde Park, with his brother, under the
firm name D. M. & F. A. Easton, with
offices and storeroom in Boston. The
great Boston fire of 1872 destroying their
property. Colonel Easton soon afterward
started in the news business, having news
stands in Lynn and Brookline prior to
his coming to Worcester in 1875. His
first stand in Worcester was on Main
street, but he afterw^ard moved to the
rotunda of the old post office building,
there continuing until 1893, when he
moved to the corner of Main and Pleas-
ant streets. For the first eighteen months
in the post office building he had as part-
ners William Phillips and Esther M.
Pratt, but he purchased their interests.
He had the agency for Boston Sunday
papers, and controlled their sale in sev-
eral other New England cities, and his
business was a very successful one.
While at the old post office site in Pearl
street, Peter Culbert, who had known the
family in Scotland, came to this country
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bringing a letter of recommendation from
Colonel Easton's sister. This was in 1888,
and until 1896 Mr. Culberi remained in
Colonel Easton's employ, becoming man-
ager of the Worcester store. In 1893 ^^^^
business was moved to the store at the
corner of Main and Pleasant streets, and
a soda fountain, the largest in the city.
was installed, the soda fountain business
then being in its infancy. The new busi-
ness venture was a success from the start,
new departments were added, and a very
large business transacted. The F. A.
Easton Company was or;^anized with
Colonel Easton as treasurer, and a branch
later was opened at 366 Main street, and
both were under his daily supervision.
He was also at one time president of the
Ro}Titon-Plummer Company (Inc.).
Until three years prior to his death,
his home was in Worcester, then he erect-
ed a beautiful home in Shrewsbury, where
he had formerly owned a bungalow and
passed his summers. He built several
small houses near the bungalow, where
his guests w-ere lodged on week-end visits.
His estate at Shrewsbury was a handsome
one, and only a few months before his
death he there entertained the survivors
of his old regiment, the famous New York
Sixth Cavalry, he being life president of
the Veteran Association of the regiment.
He was also a member of General Wil-
liam S. Lincoln Command, L^nion Veteran
Union, and a member at one time on the
staff of the national commander of the
union, there gaining his title of colonel.
He was also a member of Massachusetts
Commandery Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States. He was a
member of the Masonic order, belonging
to Hyde Park Lodge. Free and Accepted
Masons ; Stoughton Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons; Hyde Park Council. Royal and
Select Masters (thrice illustrious mas-
ter) ; Worcester County Commandery.
Knights Templar; and of the Lodge of
Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scot-
tish Rite. His clubs were the Worcester
Golf, Worcester Country, Tatassit Canoe,
Economic and Shrewsbury.
I'^ond of the theatre. Colonel Easton
was an inveterate "first nighter," and had
many warm friends among theatrical folk,
lie traveled a great deal during the later
years of his life, and frequently went
south during the winters. While he ever
retained an intense love for the "land of
the heather," he never revisited the scenes
of his youth but once, and that was in
1856. Neptune was most inhospitable on
both passages, and he never again would
run the dangers of such illness as he en-
dured. He was one of the most popular
and picturesque men in business, very
friendly with his employees, and had ac-
quaintances with people in every walk of
life. He was a most interesting racon-
teur, and his stories of war life and of
Scotland are treasures that will long live
in the memories of his friends. He re-
tained his love for his native land to the
last, and no concert or celebration given
by the sons and daughters of Scotland
was complete without him. Add to these
traits a charming personality, a devoted-
ness to his friends, a charitable disposi-
tion and a cheerful optimistic spirit, and
the explanation is simple as to why he
was so highly esteemed.
Colonel Easton married, in 187 1, Mary
?^lla Pratt, who died in 1905. He mar-
ried (second) in 1910. Miss Jean Cam-
eron, who sur\"ives him.
DRAPER, Jason True,
Teacher of Science.
After thorough training and extensive
experience as a teacher in other high
schools. Jason True Draper, who has
been for the past twenty years an instruc-
tor in natural sciences in the Holyoke
High School, has won an enviable place
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in the esteem of the other teachers of the
city and of his pupils and their parents.
His paternal ancc>lry is of early colonial
stock.
(I) Roger Draper, the immigrant an-
cestor, was born in England and came to
this country as early as 1638. tie settled
in Concord, Massachusetts, where he was
living, March 14, 1638-39, when he was
admitted a freeman of the colony by the
General Court. He married Mary Had-
lock, widow of Nathaniel Hadlock. They
had two children : Adam, mentioned be-
low, and Lydia, born at Concord, Septem-
ber II, 1641.
(II) Adam Draper, son of Roger Dra-
per, married at Concord, September 15.
1666, Rebecca Brabrook. Children, born
at Concord : Samuel, born January 19,
1668; Joseph, July 27, 1671 ; Elisha, Oc-
tober 24, 1673; Adam, mentioned below.
(HI) Adam (2) Draper, son of Adam
(i) Draper, was born at Concord, Febru-
ary 24, 1675-76. He w-as living in Haver-
hill when he married, March 5, 1703-04.
tlannah Brewer. He died November 4.
171 1, and his widow married (second)
August 9, 1716, Thomas Eastwood. The
records show that all his children, except-
ing the son Joseph, died in infancy. Chil-
dren, born in Haverhill : Samuel, born
September 2, 1704, died September 5.
T704; Elisha, born June 15, 1705. died
June 21, 1705; Hannah. April 26, 1706,
died May 5, 1706; Joseph, mentioned be-
low.
(IV) Joseph Draper, son of Adam (2)
Draper, was born in Haverhill. August
12. 1710. He settled in that part of Old
Haverhill that was originally Kingston.
later Sandown. New Hampshire. As
early as 1732-33 he was one of the signers
of a petition for a tavern license at Hamp-
ton Falls, and in 1734 against a division
of Hampton Falls. In 1742 he signed an-
other remonstrance against making a new
district from the east part of Kingston
and the west part of Hampton. He was
the only head of a family of this name in
Sandown, in 1790, according to the first
federal census. He was a witness to the
inventory of Shadrach Ware, September
2y, 1746, at Kensington; witness and ap-
praiser of the estate of Moses Blake, of
Kensington, June i, 1752. He married
Phebe Marston, daughter of William
Marston. When the Revolution came he
was evidently the only adult male of the
family in Sandown, for he was the only
Draper who signed that pledge. That
signature entitles his descendants to
membership in the Sons of the Revolu-
tion and other Revolutionary societies.
His son Jacob is mentioned in next para-
graph.
(V) Jacob Draper, son of Joseph Dra-
per, was born in 1750. at Sandown, for-
merly Kingston, New Hampshire, and
died in Plymouth, in 1817. He came to
Plymouth in 1776 and settled in the
southern part of the town. He was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, serv-
ing on the frontier in Captain Jeremiah
Eames' company from July to October.
1776. He married, in Plymouth, Decem-
ber 4. 1777, Elizabeth Ladd, who was
born at Kingston, January 6, 1756, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Clifford)
Ladd. Children, born at Plymouth :
Jacob, born 1780; Jonathan, born March
2^, 1782; William, twin; Sarah, 1784:
Joseph. 1786; Nathaniel, mentioned in
next paragraph ; Peter. 1793 ; Reuben.
1797; Hannah; Betsey.
(VI) Nathaniel Draper, son of Jacob
Draper, was born at Plymouth, in 1790.
on the homestead. Ward's Hill, and died
there. August 10, 1845. He was a dealer
in produce and provisions and had an ex-
tensive business. In 1824 and 1825 he
was a selectman of Plymouth. He mar-
ried (first) in 1814. at Plymouth, Mary
Ciill. born August 24, 1796. daughter of
William Gill. She died December 22.
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1837, and he married (second) February
18, 1841, Mrs. Rebecca (Shutej Shattuck,
widow of Eno3 Shattuck. Children by
first wife: Mary Jane, born 1815, died in
1834; Jason Currier, mentioned in next
paragraph; Eliza, born November 29,
1819, died October 7, 1842; Harriet, Jan-
uary II, 1822, died July 24, 1891; Na-
thaniel Fletcher, January 12, 1826, died
November 5, 1871 ; Emily, May, 1830,
died September 29, 1831 ; Mary Emily,
1833, died in 1861.
(VIF) Jason Currier Draper, son oi'
Nathaniel Draper, was born at Plymouth,
New fiampshire, December 7, 1816, and
died at Bristol, in that State, April 24,
1868. He attended the local schools and
academy, and learned the trade of glove-
maker. In partnership with his brother,
Nathaniel F. Draper, he established the
Plymouth Buck Glove concern, making
buckskin gloves after his own designs.
In 1858 the business was moved from
Plymouth to Bristol to secure better
water power, and he continued active in
the manufacture of gloves to the end of
his life. He was an energetic, progres-
sive, shrewd and successful man of affairs,
a pioneer in the industry in which he was
engaged, and a useful and upright citizen.
Mr. Draper married, December 22, 1842,
Hannah True Cass, who was born at An-
dover, Massachusetts, November 9, 18 19,
and died in Bristol, November 26, 1890,
a daughter of Benjamin and Betsey
(True) Cass. Children, born in Plym-
outh: I. Sarah Garaphelia, born 1849,
died August 20, 1850. 2. Luzetta Sarah,
born December 29, 185 1 ; married George
A. Emerson, of Bristol, a lawyer, select-
man of that town, removed to Everett,
Massachusetts; had three children. 3.
Jason True, mentioned in next paragraph.
(VIII) Jason True Drapei, son of Jason
Currier Draper, was born at Bristol, De-
cember 30, 1859. He attended the public
schools of his native town and prepared
for college hi the high school at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, where one of his
classmates was Howard Elliot, now
(1917J president of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Company.
He entered the Tilton Conference Semi-
nary at Tilton, New Hampshire, for fur-
ther study, and was graduated in the class
of 1879, and later attended Chauncy Hall
School in Boston. In 1880 he entered
Boston University and was graduated in
the class of 1884 with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. The two years follow-
ing he took graduate courses in the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos-
ton. Since then he has devoted himself
to the profession of teaching. His first
experience was at the Lyndon Institute,
Lyndon Center, Vermont, where he
taught two years. During the follow-
ing year he was a teacher in Berea Col-
lege in Kentucky. Then he returned East
and spent a year in graduate work in
Harvard University, 1888-89. He was
then appointed a teacher in the Central
High School of Pueblo, Colorado, and
remained with that institution for five
years, after which he accepted a position
in the Oakland High School, Oakland.
California, remaining there for three
years. In 1897 he was appointed to the
staff' of the Holyoke High School, where
for the past twenty years he has been in-
structor of natural sciences. His record
as a teacher stands second to none, and
his work has been thorough and consci-
entious. The pupils who have been under
his instruction are his warmest friends
and admirers. Mr. Draper is a communi-
cant of the Protestant Episcopal church,
of which he was junior warden for a num-
ber of years. He is a member of the col-
lege fraternity. Theta Delta Chi.
Mr. Draper married, June 2^, 1886,
Catherine Morrison, daughter of Nathan-
iel and Philinda P. (Rand) Morrison.
Mass— 6— 24
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LAPORTE, Harry,
Business Man, Financier.
This is an ancient and honorable family
of 1-rance, knighted by King Louis 11.
and granted lands in Canada by King
Louis XV. in 1543. Laporte, Indiana, is
named in honor of a Laporte who hgured
in the history of that section. Six gener-
ations of the family, ancestors of Harry
Laporte, lived in Canada, descendants
of Jacques de La Porte, the American
ancestor. Leon Joseph Laporte, of the
seventh generation, located in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, in 1867, and became one
of the prominent business men of the city,
president of the Laporte Drug Company
and vice-president of the City Co-Oper-
ative Bank. At his death he was suc-
ceeded by his son, Harry Laporte.
Jacques de La Porte, born in France,
came to America in 1600, locating on
lands granted to his family in 1543 by
the French king, Louis XV. He married
Maria Hamlin and had :
Jacques Georges de La Porte, born in
Montreal. He married, September 3, 1657,
Nicoli Duchesne and had:
Pierre de La Porte, born in Sorel, Que-
bec, Canada, May 24, 1678, died 175 1. He
married (first) Marie Anne Jeane ; mar-
ried (second) Marie Antoinette Cusson
and had :
Charles Laporte, son of Pierre de La
Porte and his second wife, was born at
St. Sulpice, province of Quebec, Canada,
December 16, 1740, died October 3, 1825,
a man of prominence and captain of mili-
tia. He married Marie Josepte Ethier
and had :
Jeremie Laporte, born November 20,
1789. He married (first) Dufour Latour;
married (second) Felicte Juneau and had :
Leon Laporte, born July 4, 1824. Lie
married, May 27, 1844, Flavie Martineau
and had :
Leon Joseph Laporte, born in Laval-
trie, Quebec, Canada, 1845, t^ied in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts, August 3, 1908. He
was educated in the College of Lavaltrie,
a classmate of Sir Wilfred Laurier, pre-
mier of Canada. A Laporte cousin of
Leon Joseph Laporte was mayor of Mon-
treal, and later was knighted by the gov-
ernment of England. In 1867 Leon J.
Laporte came to the United States, lo-
cated in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and
learned the drug business. He began in
the employ of F. D. Goodall and for about
twenty -two years continued a trusted and
efificient employe. In 1890 he began business
for himself. Later he incorporated the busi-
ness under the title of The Laporte Drug
Company, of which he was the capable
president until his death. Mr. Laporte
was one of the organizers of the City Co-
operative Bank of Holyoke. was chosen
a member of the first board of directors
and vice-president. He had other busi-
ness interests of importance, was a man
of great ability and highly regarded in his
adopted city. He was one of the organ-
izers of the Knights of Pythias, and a
member of the Catholic church, which he
generously supported.
Mr. Laporte married Julie Robichaude,
also of French ancestry, descending from
Etienne Robichaude, born in France,
through his son Francois; his son Pierre;
his son Pierre; his son Louis; his son
Joseph, father of Julie Robichaude, wife
of Leon Joseph Laporte. Mr. and Mrs.
Laporte were the parents of Anna, Ed-
ward, Harry, Louise, Wilfred, deceased,
and Leo Laporte.
Harry Laporte, son of Leon Joseph and
Julie (Robichaude) Laporte, was born in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, September 4,
1884. He attended the public schools of
Holyoke. He began working for the La-
porte Drug Company when twelve years
of age, and after leaving school entered
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the employ of that compan}-. lie was his
father's confidential assistant, and upon
the death of the founder in 1908, the son
succeeded his sire as president of the La-
porte Drug Company. In 1916 he pur-
chased all the outstanding stock and be-
came sole owner of the business founded
a quarter of a century ago by his father.
He has other business and property
interests, including Laurel Hall Apart-
ments, a beautiful apartment building be-
gun in 191 5. finished in 1916, and a farm
of one hundred and fifty acres. At the
farm he breeds fine poultry, raising for
the Holyoke Market, his pens now con-
taining about three thousand White Leg-
horn hens. He is a director of the City
Co-Operative Bank of Llolyoke. He is a
member of St. Jean Baptiste Society ; the
Improved Order of Red Men; Loyal Or-
der of Moose ; the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, and the Massachu-
setts Catholic Order of Foresters. In po-
litical faith he is a Republican. Air. La-
porte is unmarried.
MARSH, George Charles,
Mannfacturer.
The ancestors of Mr. Marsh were
among the early residents of Hartford,
Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts,
and belonged to the sturdy class which
alone was capable of surviving the hard-
ships of life in the wilderness, surrounded
by savage tribes of red men. Matters of
principle were paramount with them, and
the family has always been distinguished
by fidelity to the highest rules of civiliza-
tion, by firmness in the fulfillment of duty
and by industrious attention to the seri-
ous business of life.
George Cotton Marsh, one of the brave
defenders of the National Union during
the Civil War, was born in 1847, i" Had-
ley, and died November 26, 1900, in Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts. He received a com-
mon school education, and entered the
United States service at the early age of
fifteen years, January 20, 1862, enlisting
for three years' service as a bugler. He
became a member of Company A, Fifth
Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, and
was discharged January 20, 1865. He
was made a sergeant of the Massachu-
setts State Militia, February 28, 1869, a
member of Company K, Third Regiment
of Infantry, under Colonel J. B. Parsons.
His record as a soldier is among the most
unique of the Civil War, as he partici-
pated in thirty or more battles, including
the following: Kelly's Ford. March 17,
1863; Beverly Ford. June 11. 1863; Up-
perville, June 21, 1863; Gettysburg. July
3, 1863; Williamsport. July 6, 1863;
Boonesboro, July 5. 8, 9. 10, 1863; Man-
assas Gap, July 21-22, 1863; Brandy Sta-
tion, August 1-5, 1863 ; Wilderness, May
7, 1864; Spottsylvania, May S, 1864; Sheri-
dan's Raid, May 9. 1864; Cold Harbor,
May 29-30, 1864; Deep Bottom, July 28,
1864; Newton, August 12, 1864; Win-
chester, August 18, 1864; Stoneman's
Raid, Austin's Raid. Barnet's Ford, Ha-
vana Station, Near Richmond, Mechanics-
ville. Old Farm, Shepardstown, Smith-
field, Winchester, Luray Valley. Waynes-
boro. Mount Crawford. Woodstock, Cedar
Creek. At the battle of Cedar Creek he
received a wound from which he soon re-
covered. After peace came he went to
Chicago, Illinois, w^here he was for a time
engaged in the meat trade. Returning to
Massachusetts, he located in Holyoke and
was employed as overseer in the old
Hampden Mills. For twenty-five years
he carried on a very successful trade in
fruit and produce, retiring in 1897. Mr.
Marsh was naturally allied w^ith the
Grand Army of the Republic, and was a
member of Kilpatrick Post. No. 71. He
was also a member of Connecticut Val-
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ley Lodge, Knights of Pythias. While he
sought no part in the management of
civic affairs, he was a firm supporter of
his political principles, affiliating with the
Republican party. He married Catherine
E. Ward, born in 1847, in Montreal, Can-
ada. After living some time in Xew York
City, she went to Holyoke, in 1865, and
resided there until her death, which oc-
curred January 15, 1915. She was an
active business woman, with extensive
property interests, which she managed
successfully. She was a regular attend-
ant of the Second Congregational Church
of Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh were
the parents of two children : Estella Belle,
the daughter, died in infancy. The other
is mentioned at length below.
George Charles Marsh, son of George
C. and Catherine E. (Ward) Marsh, was
born July 20, 1880, in Holyoke, where he
has continued to reside to the present
time. He had good educational oppor-
tunities, and was a student at the high
schools of Holyoke and Williston, and
Dean Academy. As a youth he took great
interest in athletics, and this continued
after leaving school. He participated in
many contests, making this his principal
occupation for some time. In 1912 he en-
gaged in business as a manufacturer of
paper boxes in Holyoke, a member of the
firm of Tait & Marsh. The business was
successful, and in January, 1916, Mr.
Marsh became the sole owner by pur-
chase of his partner's interests, though
he continued the use of the firm name up
to July, 1916, when he sold out. He has
always endeavored to promote the inter-
ests of his native town, and participated
in the work of the various organizations
having that end in view. The following
clipping which appeared recently in the
local paper shows the popular esteem in
which Mr. Marsh is held by his fellow
citizens :
.\ few years ago, "Cap" Marsh was one of the
most famous amateur athletes in the valley. He
was a member of the Holyoke High basketball
team that won the national championship at the
BulTalo E.xposition and in one game, as a member
of the Dean Academy team, he scored fifty-seven
baskets, a world's record for an amateur game.
"Cap" was and still is blessed with one of the
finest physiques. Six games a week were just
enough to keep him in trim. Ordinary folks are
satisfied with one or two. But it is not entirely
as an athlete that "Cap" has made good. The
Oracle considers him one of the sincercst men
that lives. And this is an age and a community
where sincerity shines by comparison with the
other stuff. He doesn't like hypocrisy in busi-
ness or in politics, and he doesn't care who knows
that he don't like it. He believes in the "play
fair and hit the line hard!" policy and it doesn't
take much of a stretch of the imagination to
figure it out that "Cap" Marsh will make his
mark wherever he goes.
He is a member of Grace Church and
a teacher in its Sunday school, and of
the Holyoke Young Men's Christian As-
sociation. He is affiliated with William
Whiting Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, and also with the Holyoke Canoe
Club. Mr. Marsh married, July 22, 1914,
Violet Rose Kemp, who was born in Scot-
land, daughter of Alexander and Anna
Belle (Forest) Kemp.
STILES, Dermis Joseph,
Retired Bnsineas Man.
Dennis Joseph Stiles, now retired, and
who was for some years the owner of one
of the fine farms in this section, has re-
cently become once more a resident of
Holyoke, where he is devoting his time
to the care of his real estate interests.
His father, Dennis Stiles, was born in
1838. in County Kerry, Ireland, where he
was the proprietor of a hotel, or, as it was
called in the old country, a "public house."
Mr. Stiles married Honora McDonald,
also a native of County Kerry, daughter
of Hugh and Bridget (O'Connell) Mc-
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Donald, and they were the jjarents of the erties, to the development of which he
following children: John, now living in now devotes his time,
the West; Elizabeth, married Kouella Mr. Stiles married, April j8, 1903,
Lathrop, of South Hadley h'alls. Massa- ICsthcr Mee. born in l)ui)lin, Ireland,
chusetts ; Kate, deceased; and Dennis daughter of Michael and Mary (Gynon)
Joseph, mentioned below. Dennis Stiles, Mee, and the following children have
the father, who was an energetic, active
man, died in 1876 at the comparatively
early age of thirty-eight, and in 1882 his
widow, with all her children except the
}oungest, came to the United States, set-
tling in South Hadley Falls, where she
bravely endeavored to make a home for
herself and her young family. Her efforts
were rewarded, and when she passed
away in 1909. at the age of fifty-eight, it
had been given her to see all of her chil-
dren prosperous, the richest blessing
which can fall to the lot of a mother.
Dennis Joseph Stiles, son of Dennis
and Honora (McDonald) Stiles, was
born March 27, 1876, in Ventnor, County
Kerry, Ireland. He was left behind when
been born to them: Howard, Esther,
John, and Edward. Dennis Joseph Stiles
is a successful self-made man, and as
such has helped to build up and maintain
the leading interests of his home commu-
nity.
SQUIER, George Edwin,
Advertising; Manager.
(ieorge Edwin Squier, who is now
{1917) the advertising manager of White
& Wyckoff, one of the well known paper
manufacturers of Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, is a descendant of an old New
England family. Three pioneers of the
Squier family came to Massachusetts Bay
his mother came to the United States in Colony before 1650; George Squier. who
quest of a new home. In 1885 he was settled in Concord, but removed to Con-
brought to that home, which was at
South Hadley Falls, and it was in the
town schools that he received his edu-
cation. The boy's first em])loyment. on
leaving school, was with a Mr. Marro.
whom he assisted in the care of horses.
As a young man he opened a billiard and
pool room in Holyoke, on High street,
and for several years conducted a flour-
ishing business on his own account.
Eventually, however, Mr. Stiles retired.
necticut soon, the progenitor of the Con-
necticut families ; Samuel Squier. who
was admitted to the church at Salem,
April 30, 1648, but probably returned soon
to England; Thomas Squier. mentioned
in next paragraph.
(I) Thomas Squier. born in England,
settled in Charlestown very early and was
a planter. He was a member of the
church at the local reorganization, No-
vember 2, 1632, and was admitted a free-
and about four years ago purchased a man of the colony. May 14. 1634. In 1646
valuable farm at West Holyoke. Becom- he was a town officer. He resided at
ing thus the owner of seventy acres of Maiden in 1653. l^'^ter in P.oston. where
productive land he pastured seventeen he sold land in 1659. He was a member
cows and went into the business of sell- of the Boston Artillery Company in 1646.
ing milk. This he conducted successfully l^Ie married, about 1633. Bridget .
until April. 1917, w^hen he disposed of it They had one son. John, mentioned be-
and bought a large apartment house on low.
the comer of Essex and Walnut streets, (U) John Squier, son of Thomas Squier,
Holyoke. He later purchased other prop- was born in 1630. in England. He came
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from England about May 4, 1663, and set-
tled in Reading, 1667-69, and was town
clerk there. Later he lived in Boston and
Cambridge. He died at Cambridge, June
26, 1713. aged eighty-three years. He
married Sarah Francis, daughter of Rich-
ard Franci.->. Children ( from Cambridge
history ) : .'^amuel ; John, born at Reading.
Sei)tember 4, 1667. died before his father;
Stephen, born at Reading, January 18,
1669; Thomas, July 25, 1672, at Cam-
bridge; Sarah, May 2t„ iGyy; Jonathan,
July 24, 1679, died before 1708; Mary,
October 18. 1681 ; Richard, November 2,
1683; Daniel, August 3, 1686.
(IV) Samuel Squicr, a descendant of
John Squier, was born in 1740, and set-
tled in \\'estford, Massachusetts, before
1765. John (2) Squier had a son Samuel
living in Cambridge in 1708, and there is
reason to believe he was the grandfather.
There can be no doubt that Samuel .Squier
belongs to this family. He went to Ma-
son, New Hampshire, in 1773, and served
in the Revolution in New Hampshire
regiments. He lived on the south side of
Dix Blood's place. He was in the Con-
tinental service as late as 1780. The Rev-
olutionary Rolls of New Hampshire show
a record of his service. He was on the
pay roll of the Mason company in 1776,
in Captain Daniel Emerson's company,
Colonel Wingate's regiment, 1776 (p. 61,
vol. iv) ; also of Captain Daniel Liver-
more's company. Third Regiment, Janu-
ary I, 1777, to 1780 (vol. iii, pp. 35 and
740). Recf)rd of State bounty paid to him
in 1779. He was in Captain John Goss'
company. Captain Nichols' regiment un-
der General Stark, July 20, 1777. The
record states that he enlisted for the war,
June 13, 1779, and was in the fifth regi-
ment under Colonel Moses Nichols (vol.
ii, pp. 211, 632, 636). He married, April
10, 1764. Mary Hildrcth, of an old Dracut
and Chelmsford family. After his death
his family probably moved to Monson
Daniel and John Squier were soldiers in
the Revolution from Monson. Children,
born at Westford : John, born June 8,
1765, settled in Monson; ."^amuel, July 18,
1768; Solomon, mentioned in next -piua
graph ; Daniel, of Monson.
(V) Solomon Squier, son of Samuel
Squier, was born at Westford, April 20.
1770, and died February 17, 1834. He
married at Monson, November 25, 1784,
Sarah Moulton, who was born January
28. 1768. died October 9, 185 1, daughter
of Freeborn Moulton, who was born at
r)rimfu'ld, April 9, 1746, and wife Jerusha.
I'rceborn Moulton, Sr., father of Free-
born Moulton, was son of the fourth Rob-
ert Moulton in direct line from the pio-
neer, Robert Moulton. Two of their sons
served in the War of 181 2 from Monson.
Solomon, Jr., and William. Charles
Squier, son of Solomon Squier, was also
a soldier from Monson in this war and in
the same company, under Captain Fuller.
Lieutenant-Colonel Enos Foot. Children,
born in Monson: i. Almon, born June 9,
1785, died March 28, 1813. 2. Carlton,
born April 5, 1787, died February 25.
1866. 3. John, mentioned in next para-
graph. 4. Charles, born April 20, 1791,
died March, 1857. 5. William, born April
17, 1793, died 1886. 6. Solomon, born
March 12, 1795, died December 12, 181 1.
7. Sally, twin of Solomon, died December
31, 1858. 8. Elijah, born March 16, 1797.
9. Arby, born February 7, 1799, died Jan-
uary 19, 1870. 10. Daniel, born Febru-
ary 8, 1801, died January 15, 1871. ii.
Betsey, born June i, 1803, died Septem-
ber 17, 1836. 12. Truxton. born March
II, 1805, died April 9, 1841. 13. Rens-
selaer, born May 10, 1807, died February
28, 1863. 14. Elvira, born June 30, 1809,
died December 13, 1867. 15. Ruby, born
August 22, 181 1, died November 26, 1890.
(VI) John Squier, son of Solomon
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Squier. was born at Monson, May 8, 1789.
and died October 9. 1841. He settled in
his native town, and married there. March
II, 181 1. Chloe Lincoln, who was born
September 13. 1793. and died December
8. 1S71. Children, bom at Monson: i.
William Perlin. born May 2. 1812. died
July 3. 1888. 2. Sally Emeline. bom No-
vember 3, 181 3, died July 8. 1879. 3. John
Almon. born January 16. 1816. died Octo-
ber 2^. 1890. 4. Lorenzo Lincoln, men-
tioned in next paragraph. 5. Abner Ben-
nett, bom November 3. 1820. died July
10. 1822. 6. Chloe Arodyne. born May 7.
1822. 7. Alonzo Carleton. bom Septem-
ber 20, 1824. 8. Amanda Josephine, born
April 26, 1826. 9. Polly Eveline, born
September 14. 1828. 10. Miriam Ange-
line. bom August 18. 1833. ii. Eliza
Adeline, born June 18. 1837. 12. Maria
Geraldine. born November 16, 1840.
(All) Lorenzo Lincoln Squier, son of
John Squier, was bom in Monson. June
13. 1818. and died there August. 1899
He also followed farming in his native
town all his active life. He married at
Monson. Adeline Stacy, who was born at
Monson. July 28. 1824. Children, born at
Monson: i. Edwin Alonzo. mentioned in
next paragraph. 2. Eugene Alonzo. bom
at Palmer. 3. John P.
i\"nii Edwin Alonzo Squier, son of
Lorenzo Lincoln Squier, was bom at
Palmer. April i. 1850, and died at Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts. September 28. 1903.
He received his education in the public
schools. Starting in a humble position in
the employ of the Boston & Maine Rail-
road Company, he continued through his
life in the railroad business. As station
agent, freight agent and express agent he
served the same company at Monson.
Greenfield. Chicopee Falls. Springfield
and Holyoke. For many years he was
freight agent at Holyoke and he con-
tinued active to the time of his death.
For more than thirty years he held posi-
tions of trust and responsibility, and dis-
charged his duties zealously and faith-
fully. He had a wide acquaintance among
the railroad men of New England and
lived through a period of wonderful
growth and development. He was a use-
ful citizen, serving the city of Holyoke
on the Board of Aldermen, and taking
great interest in the improvement of its
bridges and highways, as a member of
the committee in charge of them. In
politics he was always a Republican. He
was a member of the First Congrega-
tional Church and of the Bay State Club.
Mr. Squier married Ellen Amelia Daw-
ley, daughter of George and Sarah (Leon-
ard 1 Dawley. of Woodstock. Connecticut.
Children: i. Alice Maud, married Wil-
bert A. Davis. 2. Edith Adeline, married
Edwin Stillman Brooks. 3. Helen May.
married Willard A. Munson. 4. Ina
Louise, married Ra>Tnond P. Allen. 5.
George Edwin, mentioned in next para-
graph.
( IXi George Edwin Squier. son of Ed-
win A. Squier. was born at Holyoke. July
7. 1887. He attended the public schools
and fitted for college in the Holyoke High
School, entering Dartmouth, from which
he was graduated in the class of 1908
Since 1913 he has been advertising man-
ager of the White & Wyckoff Manufac-
turing Company of Holyoke. His work
has attracted the attention of manufac-
turers throughout the country- and of the
general public to whose attention the
products of his firm are most attractively
presented in various publications. Mr.
Squier holds membership in the Mount
Tom Golf Club. He is a member of the
First Congregational Church of Holyoke.
He married, September 27,. 1913. Ethel
F. Partridge, daughter of Fred F. Part-
ridge, of Holyoke (see Partridge family,
elsewhere in this work\ They have one
child. Barbara, bom December 20. 1914.
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CAIN, Newton Levi,
Contractor, Builder.
This is a name well known in Massa-
chusetts in connection with the building
business. Newton Levi Cain, who has
been for nearly half a century a resident
of Holyoke. is a veteran in this industry,
and while a veteran is still in active serv-
ice, taking a lively and helptul interest in
the affairs of his community.
(I) John Cain, grandfather of Xewton
Levi Cain, was born about 1760, and as a
vouth rendered service in the Revolution-
ary struggle by enlisting in the Conti-
nental armv. He was a farmer, and for
a number of years lived in Taunton. Mas-
sachusetts, migrating in 1805 to Savoy, in
the same State. Mr. Cain married Anna
ilarras, and their children were: John,
served in the War of 1812: Moses, died
in 1862: James, mentioned below. John,
the father, lived to be seventy-three years
old, passing away at Savoy, March 31,
1833. He was a man of interesting per-
sonality, a lover of music, performing on
the violin with skill. Extremely active
and athletic, and of small, wiry frame, he
was able to jump in and out of a hogs-
head without touching it with his hands.
Mrs. Cain lived to be eighty-two years
old, her death occurring April 14, 1847.
CH) James Cain, son of John and Anna
( P.arras) Cain, was born in Taunton, and
was but three years old when his parents
moved to Savoy. It was there that the
remainder of his long life was spent in
agricultural pursuits. During those many
years he was a witness of progress in a
variety of ways, notably in methods of
traveling and transportation. It was his
privilege to see the first railroad train
that ran through that part of the coun-
try. He was a good citizen and always
took an active part in church work. Mr.
Cain married (first) Jemima Partridge,
who died May 7, 1840, at the age of thir-
ty-three, leaving the following children:
Iranklin, Russell, Joel, Ann Eliza, and
Maria. Mr. Cain married (second) Sarah
Martin, and the following children were
born to them : Arthur Martin ; John, died
July 2. 1906; Xewton Levi, mentioned
below ; and Mary and Mark, twins, of
whom the former died young and the
latter in infancy. Mrs. Cain died Septem-
ber 26. 1866. and the death of Mr. Cain
occurred June 16, 1890, at the advanced
age of eighty-seven.
(Ill) Newton Levi Cain, son of James
and Sarah (Martin) Cain, was born Octo-
ber 30. 1845. in Savoy, Massachusetts, and
received his education in the schools of
his native town. After completing his
course of study, he assisted for two years
in the labors of the farm and then for sev-
eral years was variously employed, as a
teamster and occasionally on farms in and
around North and South Adams and at
Shelburne Centre. In 1868 Mr. Cain came to
Holyoke and learned the carpenter's trade,
finding himself at the end of three years
in circumstances which justified him in
going into business on his own account,
both as a carpenter and contractor. From
that day to this he has continued to pur-
sue the same line of endeavor with prac-
tically uninterrupted success. For twelve
years he was in partnership with Charles
L. Kilburn under the firm name of Cain
& Kilburn, but during the greater part of
the time has conducted business alone.
Among the important structures erected
bv Mr. Cain during his many years of
executive activity was that of the Hol-
yoke Young Men's Christian Association,
now owned by the Hadley Falls Trust
Company. This building was reared at
an expense of seventy thousand dollars
above the ground. Mr. Cain also built
the Second Baptist Church in Holyoke;
in Pittsfield the Elizabeth street school
building, at a cost of twenty-eight thou-
sand dollars, and the John street school
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building, at a cost of twenty thousand
dollars. He also built the Baptist church
in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and erected
many of the finest residences in Hol-
yoke. In 1873 ^^^- ^^in built for him-
self a house at the corner of Allyn and
Pleasant streets, and this he later moved
and erected on its site the Cain apartment
house, one of the finest structures of the
kind in the city. In 1902 }>lr. Cain erect-
ed his present residence in Highland Park,
where he at one time owned thirteen lots
on which he built beautiful houses which
he sold to advantage. His enterprise as
well as his foresight is shown in the fact
that he was the first man to build in High-
land Park, thus showing his faith in the
latent possibilities of that beautiful sub-
urb. In disposition Mr. Cain is thorough-
ly domestic, a true "home man." taking
no active share in politics and standing
aloof from clubs and societies. He has
always, however, been earnest in the
work of the Baptist church of which he
is a member, and has held every office in
the church society. On November 13,
1882, he was made deacon and in 1916
life deacon.
Mr. Cain married (first) February 22,
1876, Ruth A. Clark, of New Hartford,
Connecticut, born March 10, 1851. and
their children were: i. Edith M., born
January 22, 1878, married Andrew J.
Elrowning, of Oxford, Massachusetts, and
has three children : Gladys M.. Ruth C.
and Elliot. 2. Nellie, born February 7,
1879. 3. Elmer M., born February 7.
1882. bookkeeper in City National Bank ;
married Erline Kreh. and died July 2.
1912; left one son, Ralph E. 4. Howard
D., born February 22, 1886, married Sadie
Wiltsie. 5. Harold Clark, born May i,
1888. The mother of these children died
February 2, 1903, and Mr. Cain married
(second) March 7, 1908, Lizzie A. Kil-
bourne, whose ancestral record is append-
ed to this biography.
The record of Newton Levi Cain stands
not in the printed page alone. It may be
read in brick and marble in many places
in Massachusetts and is "writ large" in
some of the most imposing structures of
his home city.
(The Kilbourne Line).
The name of Kilbourne seems to be
derived from the name of a town in
Yorkshire. England, where the family
was originally seated. The race is an an-
cient one and is entitled to more than one
escutcheon. The patronymic, which ap-
pears in history as early as the thirteenth
century, has undergone many changes of
orthography and is now spelled in a vari-
ety of ways. The family is a distinguish-
ed one "on both sides of the sea," many of
its members having belonged to the learn-
ed professions and mingled officially in
public life.
( I ) Thomas Kilbourne. founder of the
American branch of the race, was a son
of John Kilbourne, and was born in 1578
in Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Eng-
land. In 1635 he came in the ship "In-
crease" to New England, settling in
Wethersfield, Connecticut. Thomas Kil-
bourne married, in England, Frances
, and their children were : Marga-
ret, Thomas, Elizabeth. George, Mary,
Lydia, Frances, and John, mentioned be-
low. Thomas Kilbourne, the father, died
in Wethersfield before 1639. and his
widow passed away in 1650.
(II) John Kilbourne. son of Thomas
and Frances Kilbourne. was born in 1624.
in Wood Ditton, and was in his eleventh
year when the family emigrated to New
England. He spent the remainder of his
life at Wethersfield, where he held office
and was a man of prominence. He is
generally referred to as "sergeant." John
Kilbourne married (first") Naomi ,
and their children were: John; Thomas,
mentioned below, and Naomi. He mar-
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ried (second) Sarah Bronson, and they
had children. The death of John Kil-
bourne occnrred April 9, 1703.
(III) Thomas (2) Kilbourne, son of
John and Naomi Kilbourne, was born in
1653, in Wetherstield, and moved to Hart-
ford, where he became a landholder. He
was a leading man in his community, fill-
ing many positions of trust, and, like his
father, is usually referred to as "ser-
geant." Thomas Kilbourne married a
daughter of William Hills, of Glaston-
bury, and the year of his death is given as
1712.
(IV) Samuel Kilbourne, son of Thon^-
as (2) and (Hills) Kilbourne, was
born in 1696, and was of Chatham, Con-
necticut. He married Jerusha Shailor, and
died in 1762.
(V) Jacob Kilbourne, son of Samuel
and Jerusha (Shailor) Kilbourne, was
born in Chatham, and in 1774 went to
Ashfield, Massachusetts. During the
Revolutionary War he served in the Con-
tinental army, his commanders being
Captain Drummond and Colonel Wright.
and in 1781 was stationed at West Point.
Jacob Kilbourne married (first) Annn
Smith, and their children were : Timothy ;
Jonathan, mentioned below: and Anna.
He married (second) Hannah Alden. by
whom he had children. Jacob Kilbourne
and his wife were among the victims of
an epidemic fever, both passing away in
December, 1813.
(VI) Jonathan Kilbourne, son of Jacob
and .Anna (Smith) Kilbourne, was born
in Ashfield, and moved to Stamford, Ver-
mont. He married Eunice Matthews, an>l
among the thirteen children born to them
was George F., mentioned below.
(VII) George F. Kilbourne, son of
Jonathan and Eunice (Matthews) Kil-
bourne, was bom December 10, 1830, in
Ashfield, and was a youth when the fam-
ily removed to Stamford. After his mar-
riage Mr. Kilbourne settled in Clarks-
burg, Massachusetts, where he engaged
in farming. Like his ancestors he was
prominent in community affairs, filling
the ofifices of selectman and school com-
mitteeman and serving one term as ta.s.
collector. Mr. Kilbourne married Lydia
Maria Norcross, and the following chil-
dren were born to them: Luella E., mar-
ried John L. Howes ; Jerusha, died in in-
fancy ; Esther M., married Hobart C.
Tower ; Alice M., wife of Joseph A.
W^ade ; Alma A., married P. G. Carpen-
ter: Lizzie A., mentioned below; and Ida
May, married Frederick W. Cox. The
father of the family passed away on May
I, 1901, leaving a record in which his chil-
dren may take a just and laudable pride.
(VIII) Lizzie A. Kilbourne, daughter
of George F. and Lydia Maria (Norcross)
Kilbourne, was born in Stamford, Ver-
mont, and became the wife of Newton
Levi Cain, as stated above.
JOLLY, James,
Foundryman, Machinist.
The city of Holyoke, the home of many
industries, lost one of its valuable citizens
when James Jolly died at Hot Springs,
North Carolina, March 27, 1902. He was
of Scotch birth and exemplified the ster-
ling character of his nationality, showing
superior talents and an industry that is
proverbial. He was one of the three chil-
dren of John Jolly, and was born August
8, 1846. in Aberdeen, Scotland. His
l)rother William and sister Jennie also
came to this country, the latter being now
the wife of Robert Law, of Holyoke.
James Jolly learned the trade of ma-
chinist, and as a young man, in 1873,
came to the United States, locating in
Holyoke, where he was employed in vari-
ous mills, including those of the Holyoke
Machine Company and Chemical Paper
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Company, in 1881, in association with
his brother. William Jolly, under the firm
style of Jolly Brothers, they established
a business as general machinists, conduct-
ing what was known as the City Foundry.
This business has since been incorporated
under the style of J. & W. Jolly Company,
Inc. In tlieir foundry were manufactured
for some time, under a royalty, the well
known McCormick Water Wheels. Xow
(1917), in addition to making- these wheels.
they are general machinists, blacksmiths
and elevator manufacturers, also proprie-
tors of the well known City Foundry, where
not only do they make castings for their
own use but a large amount for outside
trade, the leading concern of its kind in
the city. Mr. Jolly was a man of great
industry, was of genial natiire. a man of
the highest principles, and was univer-
sally esteemed and respected for his man-
ly character. He was an active and influ-
ential member of the Presbyterian church.
a promoter of all good works, and a friend
of good government and honesty in the
conduct of public affairs. In political as-
sociation he was a Republican, but was
never a seeker of ]niblic honors, contented
with the quiet of his home life, and de-
voted to the development of a successful
business.
He married, in Scotland. June 2^. 1869,
Marion Thompson, born near Edinburgh.
Scotland, and they were the parents of
eight children: John, at home: Sarah,
married Thomas M. Thompson, and they
have two children. Hazel and Jane : Bar-
bara, married John Scougall now residing
in Chicago, and they have two children,
Marion and John A. : Alice S.. at home :
Tames, was for some years with the firm
of J. & W. Tolly Company, Inc. : Rob-
ert, now residing in the West : Walter ;
Marion, at home. They also adopted a
son, Albert E., who is vice-president and
assistant treasurer of J. ^ W. Jolly Com-
pany, Inc.
JOLLY, William John,
Manufacturer.
The J. tS: \\ . Jolly Company, of which
\\ iiliam J. Jolly, of Holyoke, is president,
was founded by James and William Jolly,
brothers, the latter the father of \\ iiliam
J. J oil}, and conducted by them until the
death of James Jolly (see preceding
sketch), and from that time until his
death William Jolly was head of the busi-
ness. These brothers, William and James
Jolly, native Scots, were expert machin-
ists, learning the business in its every de-
tail under the strict apprenticeship laws
governing in Scotland. After coming to
the United States they established in
business in 1881 in Holyoke as Jolly
Brothers, and in connection with a gen-
eral machine shop operated a foundry
known as the City Foundry. They built
up a very successful enterprise, and when
the founders were called to their "Long
Home." they left an enterprise securely
established. The task of the founders was
not an easy one. and they passed through
many hardships before success was in-
scribed upon their banner. P.ut they were
true to their Scotch blood and allowed no
discouragement to daunt them. When
William Jolly laid down the leadership in
1013 the business was incorporated under
the title of the J. ^^ W. Jolly Company,
with his son, William J. Jolly, as presi-
dent.
William Jolly was born in .Aberdeen.
Scotland, January 12, 1850, died in Hol-
\ oke, Massachusetts. June 19, 1913. son
of John Jolly. After completing his school
vears in his native city, he learned the
machinist's trade and remained in Scot-
land until 1873, when he came to the
United States, locating in Holyoke. His
first position was with the Holyoke Ma-
chine Company as machinist. Later an
attractive offer came to him from New-
Jersey and three years were spent in that
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPIIV
State. He then returned to Holyoke as
master mechanic with the Excelsior Paper
Mills, continuing until 1881, when with
his brother James he founded the J. »S: W.
Jolly Machine Company. Both were ex-
perts in their trade and from the start
l>oth took a part in the everyday oper-
ation of the shop and did a machinist's
work at lathe and bench. Later the City
I''oundry was added and a general ma-
chine shop and foundry business trans-
acted. Still later the}- became manufac-
turers, specializing in water wheels and
elevators, manufacturing the well known
McCormick water wheel.
The dream which brought William
Jolly to the United States was realized,
and in this land of broader, freer opportu-
nity he rose to a leading position in his
business. The brothers continued in busi-
ness until the death of James Jolly, after
which W^illiam Jolly continued as the
head of the business, becoming sole
owner through purchase of the interest
formerly owned by his brother. He was
a man of wonderful business sagacity, ex-
ercised sound judgment, was cautious and
prudent, but never timid nor vacillating,
his business being conducted with a firm
hand. He was a man of industry and
plain life, very democratic in his relations
with his workmen, and was held by them
in the friendliest regard. As a business
man he held the esteem of his associates
and his advice and opinions were deferred
to. Honorable and upright in his private
and business life, genial in disposition, he
went to his grave genuinely lamented.
\\''illiam Jolly married Mina Reed, born
in Belmont. New York. They were the
parents of three sons : William John, of
further mention ; Ralph, deceased ; and
Albert E.
William John Jolly was born in Hol-
yoke. Massachusetts, June 12, 1881, and
there has ever resided. He was educated
in the public schools of the city, and be-
gan his business career as an apprentice
in the machine shops of the J. & W Jolly
Machine Company, under the supervision
of his honored father. He completed a
full term of apprenticeship, became a
thorough master of his trade, also ob-
tained an intimate knowledge of mill-
wrighting, metal manufacturing and
foundry methods. From the shops he
advanced to the offtce and became fa-
miliar with the recording and selling de-
partments, and upon the death of his
father. William Jolly, in 191 3. the firm
became a corporation with William J.
Jolly as president, a position which he
has since held. He is a member of Mt.
Tom Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons,
and Holyoke Lodge. Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, and in politics is a
Republican.
CHAPUT, Henry Ernest, M. D.,
Physician.
A classical graduate of St. Hyacinthe
College and a medical graduate of Lavell
University, Canada, Dr. Chaput. on com-
ing to Holyoke. Massachusetts, in 1898,
brought a wealth of the theory and prac-
tical experience as a physician, covering
a period of three and a half years. Much
of that theory has been relegated to the
"discard" as antiquated or false, and in
its place has come the wisdom gained by
his nearly a quarter of a century of ex-
perience as a practitioner and through the
learning gained by the research and in-
vestigations of himself and others.
Dr. Chaput, one of the well known phy-
sicians of Holyoke, is of pure French an-
cestry, the family coming from France to
Canada, where his grandfather, Narcisse
Chaput, was bom in 1819, died 1878, his
birthplace Argenteuil. Rouville county.
He settled in St. Hyacinthe, province of
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EXCYCLUPEDIA OF BlUGRAl'HY
Quebec, and followed the business of a
baker. His wife, Cojetean, whom he mar-
ried when she was fourteen was the
mother of six children: Xarcisse (2), of
further mention ; Alexander, Albina, Al-
dina, Ernest and Virginia.
Narcisse (2) Chaput was born in St.
Hyacinthe, (juebec, Canada, in 1843, and
there yet resides, a government employee.
After completing his public school educa-
tion, he began the study of medicine in
St. Hyacinthe and continued for two
years, but never practiced, associating in-
stead with his father and becoming his
partner in the bakery business. Later he
was appointed bailiff in St. Hyacinthe,- an
office he held for many years. He is now
employed by the Canadian government in
the internal revenue department, sta-
tioned in St. Hyacinthe. He is a Liberal
in politics. He married Eloise Guitte,
born in r>ance, died in 1907, aged fifty-
six, daughter of Pierre Guitte, who died
in France when his daughter was quite
young, she then coming to Canada. They
w'ere the parents of Henry Ernest, of fur-
ther mention; Ida, deceased; Arthur;
Rudolphe ; Henriette ; Addina, deceased ;
Albert, Eugene, Eva, Ernestine.
Dr. Henry Ernest Chaput was born in
St. Hyacinthe. Quebec, Canada, Decem-
ber 29, 1869. He was educated in the pri-
mary and preparatory schools, then en-
tered St. Hyacinthe College, taking the
classical course, and was thence gradu-
ated, class of 1889. He then pursued a
thorough course of medical study at La-
vell's University, and in 1894 was award-
ed his degree of M. D. Three and one-
half years w-ere then spent in medical
practice at Danville. Richmond county,
his residence and professional life in Hol-
yoke beginning in 1898. There he has built
up and maintained a good general prac-
tice as one of the skillful, honorable, popu-
lar physicians of Holyoke. He is a mem-
ber of the French Medical Society ; was
appointed member of the Loard of Health
in lebruary, 1917, for a lerm of three
years; member of the Hcptasophs; the
Society of St. Jean de iiaptiste ; the Loyal
Order of Moose ; one of the members of
the Local Exemption Board, District No.
1 , and a communicant of the Church of
the Precious Blood.
Dr. Chaput married, October 30, 1895,
Jane Gerard, daughter of David and Eliz-
abeth iKernan) Gerard, of St. John, Que-
bec. Canada. Dr. and Mrs. Chaput are
the parents of two sons and a daughter :
Gerard Henry, born August 13, i89(j, a
graduate of Holyoke High School and a
student at college, X'ictoriaville, Canada,
is now a magazine and newspaper writer;
Salvia Arthur, born August 11. 1897. a
student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Iroy, New York, is now a yeoman
in the United States navy, doing clerical
work at the Brooklyn Xavy Yard ; Jane
Henrietta, born April 19, 1899.
ROGERS, Frank John,
Substantial Citizen.
Many of the older residents of Holyoke
will recognize this name as that of a man
who, throughout his years of quiet, per-
sistent endeavor as a business man and of
disinterested activity as a citizen, always
commanded the respect and won the
affection of his fellows. A number of
years have elapsed since Mr. Rogers
passed away, but there are not a few who
delight to recall his social nature and
kindly and companionable disposition.
Richard Rogers, father of Frank John
Rogers, married Anna Gibbon} , and their
children were : J.'.mes ; Richard; Joseph:
Mary, deceased : and Frank John, men-
tioned below. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers re-
sided at Highland Falls, Xew York.
Frank John Rogers, son of Richard and
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Anna (Gibbony) Rogers, was born May
31, 1861, at Highland Falls, New York,
and received his education in the schools
of his birthplace. At the age of eighteen
years, Mr. Rogers came to liolyoke, the
town which was destined to be for the
remainder of his life his home and the
centre of all his interests. He first learn-
ed the trade of an iron moulder, and he
also spent some time in New York Lily,
where he learned the plumber's trade. Mr.
Rogers thus had the advantage of being
doubly equipped for earning a livelihood.
He was first employed by the liolyoke
Machine Company, where he remained
for some years, and later by the Deane
Steam Pump Company, where he re-
mained until his death. At both his
trades he was skillful, enjoying the mer-
ited reputation of an able, industrious and
thoroughly reliable workman. In politics
Mr. Rogers was always active, taking the
lively interest of a good citizen in all com-
munity afifairs He was a call man in the
Holyoke fire department for many years,
in which he was well known. He afifili-
ated with the North Star Lodge of For-
esters, and was a charter member of the
Star Social Club, serving as its recording
secretary. His religious membership was
in the Sacred Heart (Roman Catholic)
Church.
Mr. Rogers married, January 23, 1891,
Ellen T. Breshnehan, whose family record
is appended to this biography, and who
I)roved herself in all respects a true help-
mate. Mr. Rogers, though of an extreme-
ly social nature, never found the attrac-
tions of any other place equal to those of
his home. He and his wife had no chil-
dren of their own, but received into their
home and carefully reared the four chil-
chen of Mrs. Rogers' brother. These
were : Raymond, now in the army, who was
formerly stationed at Fort Ethan Allen,
near Burlington, V\^rniont, now at Ayer,
Massachusetts; Rhea, Irene, and Marga-
ret. All four were reared and educated
by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, their aunt lavish-
ing upon them a mother's care.
Ihe death of Mr. Rogers, which oc-
curred July 2, 1903, deprived Holyoke of
a useful citizen who was mourned not
only by his family and his many friends,
but by those who had dealings with him
in industrial relations, and who had learn-
ed to appreciate his numerous excellent
qualities. He was a man of abilit}-. ster-
ling worth of character and a most kindly
disposition. Such a citizen is of value in
any community.
Jeremiah Breshnehan, father of Mrs.
Ellen T. (Breshnehan) Rogers, was born
in County Kerry, Ireland, and in 1854 emi-
grated to the United States, settling first
in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and later at
Southampton, in the same State. All his
life he was engaged in farming. Mr.
Breshnehan married Margaret Mannix,
and their children were : John ; Jeremiah ;
Michael ; Patrick, whose children were
reared by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers ; Timothy,
and Ellen T., mentioned below. All but
Michael and Ellen T. are now deceased.
Ellen T. Breshnehan, daughter of Jere-
miah and Margaret (Mannix) Breshne-
han, was born in Southampton, Massa-
chusetts, and became the wife of Frank
John Rogers, as stated above.
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INDEX
ADDENDA AND ERRATA
Bemis, page 320, Dr. Merick Bemis should be Dr. Merrick Bcmis.
Hubbard, page 286, last word of quoted matter should be Presbytcrianism instead of Presby-
terians; page 287, Edward W. Hubbard is lieutenant of Field Artillery, United States Army.
Johnson, page 85, in line after caption, for Criminologist, read Criminalogist.
Knowlton, page 223, Dr. and Mrs. Knowlton are the parents of a son, Archa Osborne Knowl-
ton, born August 14, 191 7.
Sackett, page 292, Simon Sacket should be Simon Sackett.
1 N DEX
Affleck, Caroline P., 168
Clara, 168
Henry, 167
John H., 167
Robert, 167
Alden, Benjamin, 119
Edward M., 119
Edward S., 1 19, 120
Elijah, 119
Jefferson, 119
Joseph, 119
Josiah, 119
Mary, 121
Alger, Alice M., 235
Charles P., 235
Charles R., 233, 235
Isaac, 234
John, 234
Roger, 234
Silas, 234
Silas W., 235
Allen, Abner, 217
Carl A., Dr., 215, 217
Carl M., 218
Charles C, 50
Charles L., 47, 50
Pred H., Dr., 218
Georgette, 50
Gertrude, 50
Hattie M., 218
Hezekiah, 48
James, 47, 216
Joseph, 47, 216
Leland C, 218
Nehemiah, 217
Penuel, 217
Raymond P., 218
Sophie E., 218
Stephen, 217
Walter S., 218
Willard, 48
William A., 49
William P., 48, 49
Attinger, George, 171. 172
John G., 172
Auger, Abina, 349
Charles L., Dr., 348
Desire L., 348
Louis L., Dr., 347. 348
Marie, 349
Baldwin, Bentley. 115
Herbert L., 114, 1 15
Hugh, 114
Mary A., 115
Myra, 115
William C, 115
Ballon. Alonzo N.. 153, 155
Edward, 154
Hiram, 155
385
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
James, 154
Mary, 155
Maturin, 154
Nathaniel, 154
Stephen, 154
Batchelor, Frederick, 173
Henry, 173
Mary A., 173
Philip, 172
Robert G., 172, 173
r>ates, Clement. 314
Elijah. 314
Emma F., 317
Theodore C, 313. 314
Beauchamp, Clarinda, 296
David, 295
Henry, 295
Henry O., 296
Jean, 294
Louisa, 297
Michael, 294
Michel, 294, 295
Ovila, 294, 296
Pascal, 295
Pierre, 294, 295
Beaupre, Augustin, 254
Dolor I., Dr., 254, 255
Hermenie, 255
Israel, 254
Beauregard, Alexandre, 180
Charles, 180
Rosaline, 181
Bemis, Caroline A., 322^
Fannie B., 323
John M., Dr., 320, 322
*Merrick, Dr., 320
Samuel F., 320
Benedict, Daniel, 136
Gorham, 135, 138
Madeline, 138
Matthew, 136
Robert M., 137
Thomas, 135
Zadock, 137
Zadock R., 137
Bigelow, Bernard F., 222
James B., Dr., 222, 223
John, 222
Bogart, Annie, 140
Edith E., 140
Edward E., 138, 140
Henry O., 139
Maude M., 140
Minard, 138
William H., 139
Bonvouloir, Annie, 23
Lucinda, 23
Pierre, 21, 22
Bradley, Ann, 182
Arthur J., 181
Arthur W.. 181, 182
Marie, 182
Michael, 181
Brainerd, Daniel, 94
Elijah, 95
Ella R., 96
George W., 94, 96, 97
John C, 96
Susan C, 97
Timothy, 95
Breshnehan, Jeremiah, 382
Brooks, Ethan, 84
Franklin S., 168
Israel, 84
Jonathan, 84
Joseph, 84
Simon, 84
Buchanan, Andrew, 29, 30
Grace E., 30
Robert, 30
Bullard, Benjamin, 97
Edward, 98
Evalyn B., 99^
Henry, 98
John, 97
John H., 98
Liberty, 98
Robert, 97
William H., 97, 98
Burgess, Arthur H., 103, 104
James, Dr., 103
Janet, 105
386
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Burkhardt, Anna, i6i
Gottlieb H., i6i
Robert C, i6i
Cain, James, 376
John, 376
Lizzie A., 377
Newton L., 376
Ruth A., 377
Callahan. John, 39
John R., 38, 39
Katherine A., 39
Carreau, Alphonse \V., 186, 187
Louis, 186
Marie R., 187
Celce, Frederick, 19
Frederick F., Dr., 18, 19
Jean H., 19
Chamberlain, Esther, 302
Jacob, 300
John, 301
Robert H., 300, 301
Thomas, 301
William, 300
Chaput, Henry E.. Dr.. 380, 381
Jane, 381
Narcisse, 380, 381
Charlton, Ambrose, 130
Eloise F., 131
Henry, 130
Lsrael M., 130
Kenneth R., 130. 131
William. 130
Chase, Alma, 230
Amos, Rev., 230
Anthony, 307
Aquila, 229
Caleb, 307
Charles A., 307, 308
Daniel, 230
Edward, 230
Israel, 307
Joseph E., 229, 230
Joseph T., 231
Mary T., 308
Maud E., 308
Mcjses, 229, 230
Thomas, 229
William, 307
Clark. Adella E., 201
I'-dward, 200
George H., Dr.. 231. 232
John E., 199, 200
Margaret, 232
Ralph. 232
Robert, 232
Royal E., 201
Walter IC, 201
Cleveland, Benjann'n, 236
Joseph, 236
Moses, 236
Samuel, 236
Zenas, 236
Cloutier, Emily, 210
Felix J.. 209, 210
Collingwood, James. 175
Joseph, 175
Sarah J., 175
Colton, Ann, 319
Anna K., 319
Elizabeth S., 320
George, 319
John B., 319
Reuben, 319
Samuel H., 318, 319
Comtois, Edgar E., 283
Malvina. 283
Odilion, 282
Odilion J.. Dr., 282, 283
Crocker, Benjamin. 23
Clifton A., 23, 26
Frederick W.. 25
John, Capt., 23
Lucy H., 26
Martha E., 25
Samuel. 23
Samuel S.. 24
Crosier. Anna, 81
Charles, 80
Jessie, 81
John, 80
William J., 79, 80
387
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Delaney, John, 53
John L.. 52, 54
Margaret, 54
Margaret T., 54
Dickinson, P^benezer, 260
Etta, 261
George L., 259, 261
Levi, 260
Levi P., 261
Nathan, 260
Nathaniel, 260
Dillon, Elizabeth, 126
James H., 125
John, 125
Mary, 125
William J., 125
Doering, Henry, 283
Louise. 284
Paul, 283, 284
Dolliver, Augustin O., 334
Edward B., 333
Samuel B., 333
Dowd, James J., 121
James J., Jr., 123
Mary P., 122
Draper, Adam, 368
Catherine, 369
Jacob, 368
Jason C, 369
Jason T., 367, 369
Joseph, 368
Nathaniel, 368
Roger, 368
Dreschler, Adolph, 174
Alma, 175
Carl L., 174
John P., 173, 174
Dunbar, Alice, 290
Charles, 288
Charles R., 288, 289
Charles T., 289
Henry M., 289
Robert, 288
Eastman, Benjamin, 151
Ebenezer, 151
Edward, 151
Fred A., 150, 152
Harold M., 152
Hattie G., 152
Moses, 151
Roger, 150
Samuel, 150
Easton, Fergus A., Col., 365, 366
George, 366
Jean, 367
Mary E., 367
Ely, Benjamin, Col., 72
Franklin W., 71, 73
Harriet L., 'j'i)
Joseph, 72
Karl R., 74
Lucius, 72
Nathaniel, 71
Ralph A., 74
Robert, 72
Robert W., 74
Samuel, 72
Watson, 72
Emerson, John D., 14
Parr, Ann, 276
Augusta, 275
Clara V., 275
Clarence L., 274
Dennie L., 274
Ervin H., 274
Hoit P., 272, 273
James, 276
Jonathan, 272
Larkin L., 273
Leonard S., 275
Mary B., 274
Moses, 272
Ora. 273
Ruth, 275
Simeon, 275, 276
Thomas, 272
Feather, Albert O., 264
Frank, 263
Frank R., 264
388
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Harry H., 264
John, 263
Sarah J., 263
Feingokl, Louis E., 353
Fish, Edith, 347
FJmer H., 347
Forster, Annie, 251
James, 250
John B., 250
John F. C, Dr., 249. 251
Thomas, 249
Wilfred, 249
Fowles, Florence, 118
Gardner, 117
George, 115
James, Capt., 116
James, Lieut., 116
Joseph, 117
Joseph H., 115, 118
Lynford, 118
Mary, 118
Samuel, 117
France, James, 264
Thomas, 264
Wallace M., 264. 265
Gallivan. Andrew D. A., 183
Daniel J.. 183
Dennis, 183
Julia, 184
Gallup, Augustus T.. 44, 46
Benadam, 45
Elisha, 46
Emma L., 47
John, 44
John, Capt., 45
John P., 46
Joseph, 45, 46
Thomas, 44
Garvey, Anna E., 58
Daniel, 56
John, 56
Patrick, 56
Patrick J., 56, 57
Gifford, Jesse, 170
John, 170
Sarah, 171
Stephen E., 170
Gingras, Amedee F., 1S7
Claudia, 188
ICmma M., 188
Girard, Napoleon, 237
Wilfred F., 237
Glesmann, August F., 176
I'inma, 176
Frank, 176
Granger, Abraham. 132
Adelaide C. 133
Albert S., 133
Benjamin, 132
Eldad. 132
Jonathan, 132
Launcelot, 131
Loretta E., 133
Sanford, 133
Sarah. 133
Gridley. Henry, 28
Henry H., 28
Philip W., 28, 29
Sadie. 29
Simon, 28
Thomas, 28
Guilfoyle, Helen, 340
Thomas D., 339
William J., 339
Haarmann. Antowith. 169
Frank, 169
Frederick, 168, 169
Gustav. 168, 169
Ulrika, 169
Hall. Adeline I.. 247
Albert S., 246
Ellery C. 246
John. 246
Roy P.. 246
Hammond. Catherine I.. 89
Fannie B., 92
Joseph C, 88
Thomas. Sy
William C. 87, 90
Hatch. Edgar R.. 27
389
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Kmily, 28
Joseph J., 27
Joseph R., 27
Raymond S., 26, 27
Hebert, Antoinette. 186
Arthur, 186
Imalda A.. 186
Toussaint, 186
Heidner, Anna, 153
Frederick, 153
Joseph G., 153
Raymond F., 153
lleywood, Amos, Capt., 219
Daniel, 220
Francis C, 221
Francis D., 218, 221
Isabel, 221
John. 219
Samuel, 219
Silas, 220
Higgins, Anna, 161
Elizabeth, 161
James E., 160, 161
John F., 160, 161
Hill, Benjamin B., 185
Charles A., 330
Charles G., 331
Edwin H., 353
Emily J., 331
George H., 185
Herbert K., 185
Mary E., 353
Sarah S., 185
Hinds, John H., 248
Mary, 249
Peter J., 248, 249
Houston, Harriet A., 61
Henry S., 60
John, 58
John, Rev., 58
Joseph E., 60
Paul L., 61
Polly A., 60
Robert A., 58, 59
Samuel, 58
William E., 59
Hubbard, Allen S., 287
*Fdward W., 287
Eli A., 360
Elisha, 360
Elizabeth A., 286
George, 285, 359
John, 285, 360
Jonathan, 360
Josiah C, Dr., 359, 361
Mary, 361
Samuel, 360
William H., 285, 287
nVilliam H., Rev., 285
Hunt, Alice E., 281
George E., Dr., 280, 281
Isaac E., 280
Luther, 280
Ives, Abraham, 191, 192
Dwight H., 189, 192
Jeremiah, 191
Jonathan, 190
Joseph, 189
Samuel, 189
William, 189
Jenks, Charles C, 40, 41
Daniel, 40
Edwin F.. 40
Estelle R., 41
Joseph, 40
Samuel, 40
Johnson, Benjamin, 85
Edmund, 85
Ephraim, 86
♦Irving L., 85, 86
James, 85
John, 85, 86
Minetta, 87
Nehemiah, 86
Jolly, James, 378
John, 378
Marion, 379
Mina, 380
William, 379
William J., 380
390
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Judd, Fern C, 35
Frances I., yj
Harvey, 34
John K., 34
Philip M.. zi, 35
Reuben, 34
Salathiel, 34
Samuel, 34, 36
Samuel A., 36
Thomas, n, 34, 35
William E., 35, 36
Keane, Jeremiah, 165, 166
Jeremiah J.. 165
John, 166
Mary E., 166
Rosemary, 166
Kendrick, Annie L.. 335
Candace S., 335
Edward H., 335
George A., 335
George P., 334
Jacob, 334
Mary E., 335
Kenney, Charles, 61
Daniel \V., 61, 62
Minnie A., 63
William, 61
Kilbourne, George F., 378
Jacob, 378
John. 377
Jonathan, 378
Samuel, 378
Thomas, 377, 378
King, George, 107
George W., 105, 107
John, T05
John W. P., 107
Magdalen, 105
Martha E., 108
Samuel, 106
Whipple, 107
Knibbs, Charles H., 342
Charles L., 340
Etta E., 342
John W., 340, 342
Knowlton, Andrew, 225
Bessie, 226
♦Edward A., Dr., 223, 226
Ezekiel, 225
Hosea M., 225
Isaac C, Rev., 225
Jeremiah, 225
John, 224
Richard, 224
William, 224
William, Capt., 224
Koegel, Charles, 257
Charles F., 255
Fred, 257
Herman, 257
Ignatius, 255
Wilhelmina P., 257
Laporte. Charles. 81, 370
Emeline L., 83
Harry, 370
Jeremie. 81, 370
L. Alphonse, 83
Leon, 81, 370
Leon J.. 370
M. Albert, 83
Mederic J., 81, 83
Rondolph E.. 83
Lawrence, Hiram B., 363, 364
Mary J.. 365
Oliver A.. 364
Robert, 364
Lewis, Albert G., 345
Elizabeth A., 346
Morllia A.. 346
Leyden, Joseph W., 336, 337
Owen, 337
Loomis, Augusta R., 9
Elijah W., 7
Harriet, 9
William S.. 7
Lynch. John J.. 55
Joseph E.. 55
Maria, 56
Mary. 55
Maurice. 54. 55
391
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Maurice, Jr., 55
Michael J., 55
Patrick M., 55
Thomas J., 55
McAuslan, Alexander, 290, 291
Dongal, 291
Eliza, 292
James, 291
McCorkindale, Duncan L., 70
Edward, 20, 70
Edward J., 21
Lillian, 21
Martha, 71
Ralph, 71
Roger W., 21
Roy, 71
William, 20
McCormick, David, 227
Eileen, 228
John J. D., 226, 227
Michael, 226
McHugh, Edward, 159
Edward T., 157, 158
Hugh, 157
John, 159
Mary, 158
Thomas, 157
McLean. Daniel, 240
Elizabeth D., 238
Ella K., 240
Hugh, 238
Hugh, Jr., 239
Jane, 239
Martha A., 240
Nellie T., 240
Patrick, 238
Patrick J., 239
MacBean, Alexander, 253
Edith, 254
Thomas, 253
MacCarthy, Dennis, 51
Mary E., 52
Michael, 51
Timothy J., 50, 52
Mackintosh, Alice, 14
Carrie, 94
Charles E., 94
Donald, 12, 92
Ilaanah, 94
John G., Col., 12, 93
Magna, Albert G.. 78, 79
Harriet, 79
Joseph, 78
Joseph N., 78, 79
Russell W., 79
Mahoney, Bernice. 160
Emma E., 160
Frances, 160
James H., 160
Timothy, 160
William H., 160
Marsh, George C, 371, 372
Violet R., 372
Marshall, Jacob, 102
Maude A., 103
William, 102
William R., 102
Maynard, x\mory, 324, 326
Ephraim, 323
George E., 327
Harlan J., 326
Isaac. 323
John, 2,22,
Lorenzo, 325
Mary. 326
Simon, 323
William, 323, 325
Miller, Armenta. 229
Charles E., 228
Edward J., Dr.. 228
John, 228
Mills. Ammi. loi
Elihu, 100
Maria L., 102
Peletiah, 100
Peter. 100
Samuel J., loi
William J., 99, loi
Mooney, Frances C, 357
Joanna M., 357
Nicholas J., 356
392
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Richard, 356
Moquin, Albert, 262
Caroline, 262
Joseph, 262
Oscar, 262
Rene J., 262
X'almore, 262
-Morgan, Ernest 1., 331
Florinda, 333
Isaac, 331
Moriarty. Daniel F.. 146, 147
Maurice, 146
Rose, 147
Morrison, Elizabeth B., 300
John, 299
John L., 299
Robert. 299
Robert F., Dr., 299, 300
Morton, Abraham, 141
Charles K., 142
George, 141
Jane, 143
Josiah, 142
Moses, 142
Richard, 141
Robert K., 140. 143
Rodolphus, 142
Murphy, John H., 352
John J., 352
Murray, Catherine A., 259
James, 258
Peter, 258
Peter J., 257, 258
Newton. Ebenezer, 3
Emily, 6
James. 3, 4
James H.. 3, 4
Joseph, 3
Moses, 3
Richard, 3
Susan W., 6
Noonan, Catharine, 352
James S.. 350. 351
Simon, 350
O'Brien, Gertrude E., 358
John. 357
Martin J., 357
O'Connell, Catherine, 150
Christopher J.. 150
Daniel, 149
Dennis F., 149
Edward, 149
Howard. 150
Joanna, 149
John, 148, 149
John A., Rev., 149
Joseph J., 149
Margaret, 149
Mary J.. 150
Richard J., 150
O'Connor, John J., 129
Josephine T., 130
Patrick. 129
Thomas, 129
O'Donnell, James J., 270, 271
John. 271
Mary, 272
Terrance, 271
O'Neill, Francis F., 195, 196
John J.. 134
Julia A.. 197
Lawrence, 195
Lawrence. Jr., 196
Michael, 134
Rose M., 135
O'Shea, Alice M., 157
Catharine C, 350
Cornelius, 349
Daniel, 349
Edward. 157
Gilbert. 156
James, 157
John. 156
John J.. 349
Joseph M.. 349
Mary. 156
Michael J.. 349
Patrick. 156
Oliver, George. 287
Maggie. 288
Robert. 287
Osborne, Archie T-. no, in
393
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Hattie R., 112
John, no
Timothy R., no
Owen, Daniel D., ■]']
James F"., 75, "Jl
John, 75, 76
Mary, 78
Nathaniel, 76
Samuel, 75, TJ
William, 76
Partridge, Ella G., 64
Frederick F., 63
Harry, 64
William E., 63
William W., Col., 63
Peterson, Hugo O., Dr., 338
Marie E., 339
Olof P., Rev., 338
Pfahler, Charles, 37
Christian G., 37
Martin C, 37, 38
Mary, 38
Porter. Louise, 310.
Mabel X., 310
Samuel, 309
Walter C, 309
Powers. Genevieve, 233
Patrick, 232
William J., Dr., 232, 233
Prentiss, Davis B., 69
George W.. 30, 31. 33
Helen M., 33
Isabelle, 33
Jane D., 32
John, 68
John, Rev., 68
Lola v.. 70
RoUo A., 67, 69
Samuel, 31, 68
Thomas. 31, 67
William, 69
William A.. 32
Prescott, John, 303
Jonas, 303
Rainault, Charles, 284
Edward, 284
Morence, 285
I'Vank, 284
Ramage, Adelaide E., ii
Charles W., u
James, 10
James M., 11
John, 10
Robert A., n
Theodore R., n
William, 10
Ranger, Alma F.. 244
Casper, 241
Eliza M., 245
Ellen, 242
George A. L.. 245
Gertrude, 246
James A., 244
Joseph F., 243
Katherine, 242
Mary, 244
William E., 244
Redford, Carlyle, 248
Everett R., 248
Joseph. 247, 248
Lawrence, 248
Martha, 248
Robert, 247
Revett, Caroline. 170
Frank H., 169, 170
William. 169
Richards, Arthur. 143
Arthur C, 144
Arthur J.. 143
Delia A.. I44
Mabel, 144
Rogers, Ellen T.. 382
Frank J.. 381
Richard, 381
Ruckdeschel, Anna, 177
August, 177
Ernest. 176, 177
John, 177
Russell. Amos, 279
Gilbert E.. 279
Hattie J., 280
394
ENCYCLOPEDIA CF BIOGRAPHY
Ryan, John J., 297, 298
William P., Dr., 297, 29S
Sackett, Abner, 293
Charles, 293
Edith P., 294
Eliakim, 293
Ezra, 293
George 1., 293
Harry R., Dr., 292, 293
John, 292. 293
*Simon, 292
Sears, Fannie E., 66
1 lenry G., 64, 65
Jonathan, 65
Stillman, 65
Shaw, Bertha M., 311
Joseph A.. 310
Robert K.. 310
Shea, Annie, 178
Daniel, 177, 178
Daniel, Jr., 178
John, 178
Patrick H., 358
Timothy, 358
William F., 358
Sheehan, Jeremiah, 277
Mary E., 278
Patrick H., 2^"]
Shepard, John, 327
Sarah, 329
William, Gen., 327
Skinner, Belle, 199
John, 197
Joseph A., 199
Nancy, 199
Sarah E., 199
William. 197, 199
Smith, Ada M., 213
Albert, 278
Bertha, 259
Chileab, 211
Daniel, 43
David, 43
Edmund H., 212
Edward, 184
Ella, 279
i^Vank D., 41, 43
(Jeorge A., 259
George 11., Dr., 210, 212
Henry, 41, 42
Herbert E., 184
Joseph, 259
Joshua, 42
Lawrence, 43
Lawrence F., 41, 43
ALiry \L., 44
Medad, 212
Phineas, 21 1
Samuel, 211
Tina, 185
William, 278
William B., Capt., 259
Soulliere. Emma E., 344
Ernest F., 344
Ida L. 344
Tola r... 344
Jean B., 342
Jean B. X.. 342, 343
John H. L., 344
Joseph H. N.. 344
Marie E., 344
Paul E., 344
William E., 344
Spies, .'\braham. 109
Edna S., no
Milton S., 108, 109
Squier. Edwin A.. 375
Ethel F., 375
George E., 373, 375
John. 373. 374
Lorenzo L.. 375
Samuel, 374
Solomon, 374
Thomas, 373
Stiles. Dennis. yj2
Dennis J.. 372. 373
Esther. 373
Street, Glover. 128
John, 126, 128. T29
Ma^^^ 129
Nicholas, Rev.. T26
Philo W.. 128
Samuel, 128
395
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Samuel, Lieut., 127
Samuel, Rev., 127
Sullivan. Eulick, 231
Eulick !•■., Ur., 231
Joanna, 231
'riiomas, 231
Sylvester. Israel, 281. 282
Joseph. 282
Richard. 281
Seth, 282
Thayer, Alice, 336
Carey A.. 336
Fiber 11. , 336
Homer A., 336
Joseph, 336
William J., 336
Tilley. George. 214
Harriet L., 215
John, 214
Trenor P., 214, 215
Titus, Elizabeth, 204
Jabez E.. 203
James, 203
John. 202
Joseph H., 203
I^onard L., 201, 203
Robert, 202
Timothy, 202, 203
Treworgy, Henry H., 112, 114
James, 112, 113
John, 112, 113
Mary E., 114
Nathaniel, 113
William G., Capt., 114
Vershon, Jacob, 124
Joseph, 124
Mary A., 124
Walker. Charles E., 147
Emma, 148
Roy G., 148
Sarah, 148
William, 147
Walsh. Bartholomew, 159
James. 159
John. 159
Mary T., 159
Maurice }., 159
Micliael, 159
Warner, lienjamin, 162, 163
Ernest S., 162, 164
John. 162
Jonah, 163
Lillian E., 164
Mabel C, 164
Minor, 163
Robert R., 163
Thomas, 162
Washburn, Emily F., 347
John, 347
William A., 346
Weiser, Conrad, 83
Edwin C, 83, 84
Lucy B., 84
Martin, 83
Martin H.. 83
Richard M., 84
White, Pjessie A., 253
Harry W.. 251, 252
John, 251
William E., 252
Williams, Edna, 180
Frank, 179
WilHston, Alice. 270
Israel, 268
Joseph, 268
Lorenzo A., 267, 270
Lorenzo D., 269
Lorenzo N., 269
Mary, 270
Nathaniel, 268
Wilson. Annie E., 75
David, 74
Emily, 208
J. Edward, 207. 208
Jennie, 208
Kate B., 208
William. 74
William H., 207
William T., 74
Wood, Abraham, 311
Abraham, Capt., 311
Albert, Dr., 311, 312
396
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Emily C, 313
Emma, 313
Jennie I., 313
Michael, 311
Samuel, 312
Samuel, Capt., 311
Woods, Alice E., 18
Frank A., Dr., 15, 17
Isaac, 15
Jarvis U., Dr., 16
Nathaniel, 15
Xehemiah, 15
Samuel, 15
Uriah, 16
Wright, Caroline L., 146
Daniel, 145
George F., 303, 306
(jeorge M., 302, 303
John, 144, 145, 303
John .S., 144, 146
John W., 145
J. Sidney, 144
Josiah, 145
Minnie E., 306
Ralph W., 306
Wyckoff, James, 205
Joseph L., 204, 206
Minnie A., 207
Peter, 205
William, 205
Zielinski, Blszius, 265
John, 265, 266
Mary E., 267
397
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