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OEORGK F. HOAR

HISTORIC HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS

AND

GENEALOGICAL m PERSONAL MEMOIRS

WORCESTER COUNTY

MASSACHUSETTS

WITH A HISTORY OF

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY

PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

ELLERY BICKNELL CRANE

Librarian of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and Editor of its Proceedings;

Author of "The Rawson Family Memorial," "Crane

Family," two vols. , Etc.

"Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient J amilies deserveth the htghesC
praise. Herein consist eth a part of the knowledge of a man's own self. It is a great spur to
virtue to look back on the work oj our lines." — Lord Bacon.

"There is no heroic poem in the world hut is at the bottom the li/e of a man." — Sir
Walter Scott.

Vol. I

STI^.A.TrE:;iZ>

NKW YORK CHICAGO

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1907

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INTRODUCTORY

WORCESTER COUNTY

The history of Massachusetts — civil, political and military — has been written by
various authors and at various times, each succeeding writer adding a new chapter of
annals, or treating his subject from a different viewpoint. Such history , however, splendid
narrative that it is, is principally concerned with what has been accomplished by the peo-
ple in a mass, and takes little note of individuals, except those so pre-eminent as leaders as
to come under the full glare of fame.

Hence it follows that genealogical and family memoirs are of peculiar importance,
includino- as thev do, the personal annals of those who make heroes and heroism possible —

those who have marched in the ranks of
progress, bearing the heat and burden of
the day, — portraying the spirit which
actuated them, and holding up their
etTort for an example to those who come
afterward. As was written by Marti,
neau, "To have forefathers renowned for
\ionorable deeds, to belong by nature to
those who have bravely borne their part
in life and refreshed the world with
mightv thoughts and healthy admiration,
is a privilege which it were mean and
self-willed to despise. It is a security-
given for us of old, which it were false-
hearted not to redeem ; and in virtues
Prescott Homestead, at pepperei-i. bred of a noble stock, mellowed as they

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The home of Col. William Prescott, second son of Benjamin are by reverence, tiiere is often a grace

Prescott. and the grandfather of William H. Prescott. the distin-
guished historiaa. Col. Prescott was born in Groton. and settled on a
large tract of land previously owned by his father, located in what
was calletl the " ' Gore." later included in the town of Pepperell. He
served as a Lieutenant in the expedition sent in 1755. to remove the
French Neutrals from Nova Scotia; and as colonel of the Minute Men
enrolled in and about Groton in 1774. At the battle of Bunker Hill.
June 17. 1775. he occupied the distinguished position of Commander
of the American forces. He died October 13. 1795. aged sixty-nine
years, having been bornFebruaiy -0. 17'Jt>. His widow died October
21. 1821, aged eighty-eight years; both buried at Pepperell.

and ripeness wanting to self-made and
brand-new excellence. Of like value to
a people are heroic national traditions,
giving them a determined character to
sustain among the tribes of men, making
them familiar with images of great and
strenuous life, and kindling them with faith in glorious possibilities."

The county of Worcester affords a peculiarly interesting field for a study of family
traits, individual character and personal achievements. It is rich in historical associations,
and its soil has been the scene of events of the utmost importance to the entire nation. To
it came a sturdy people, men and women, too, of brawn and brain and conscience, their
hearts fervent in reverence of God and love for religious and political liberty. They came

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up out of great tribulations. They were of that overflow of Pilgrim and Puritan stock
which traversed an unbroken wilderness to make homes where were savages, ar.d to con-
quer primeval nature. They builded better than they knew.

" For Good is not a shapely mass of stone,

Hewn by man's hand, and worked by him alone.

It is a seed God suffers hmi to sow —

Others will reap, and, when the harvests grow,

He giveth increase through all coming years,

And lets men reap in joy, seed that was sown in tears."

Simple and clean in their lives, .is were these
earlv settlers, the homes which they builded were hum-
ble, but they were the seat of all the virtues that consti-
tute ideal manhood and womanhood. The courage,
fortitude and activity displayed by these hardy pioneers
was most remarkable, and, when the struggle for na-
tional independence came, the sons and daughters of
these illustrious sires were not wanting in patriotism
and devotion, freely sacrificing comfort, life and prop-
is.MAH Thomas. LL, a erty, that they might bequeath to the generations that

Founder of "Massachusetts Spy." and Ameri- ghould follow them a free liberal government "of the

can Antiquarian Society, born July 30, °

1749. died April 4. 1S31. in Worcester. people, by the people, and for the people. They were,

from the beginning, prime movers in every patriotic movement, and in all looking to the
elevation of humanity. In 1775, in convention assembled, they expressed their abhorrence
of human slavery, and that, whenever opportunity should present, they would use their
influence toward the emancipation of the negro. From here, their birthplace, marched
Captain (later known as Colonel) Timothy Bigelow and Captain Benjamin Flagg— with
their companies of minute-men on that

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memorable l9th of April, 1775, and
here, in the city of Worcester, the
Declaration of Independence was first
read in Massachusetts. Here, too, was
the home of General Artemas Ward,
the trusted friend and chief lieutenant
of the great Washington. In Worces-
ter was set up, by Isaiah Thomas,
the first printing press in an inland
town in Massachusetts, and the jour-
nal which was printed from it was one
which was unparalleled in its influ-
ence upon the minds of the common
people in their ready espousal of the
cause of independence from British

tyrannv. Here entered upon his illus- ^^.^^ ^^^ ^^_^^^^ Farnum in ITOe. and stands in the southerly part of the

tiious career Levi Lincoln, one of the «'«'' "' U^b"dge.

Giants in those davs— a great lawyer, jurist and statesman. Here lived and labored repre-
Tentatives of the famous Prescott, Curtis, Allen, Washburn and Devous families and here
was born George Bancroft, the historian. Here, too, were heard, at various periods,
Webster, Sumner, Lincoln, Henry Wilson and Henry Ward Beecher, and, in the yet later

Karnum House, Uxbridge

Worcester Art Museum, Salisbury Street. Worcester

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days, the lamented Senator George F. Hoar, all eloquent proclaimers of libert}' and plead-
ers for humanity. And, in the Civil war, the grandsons of the men of Bunker Hill fought
at Gettysburg, and on many another glorious field, that the Union might be preserved.

There were not only patriots among the settlers of Worcester county, but men of
special note in various fields of industry. Perhaps no spot of the same area on this conti-
nent has produced so many of superior mechanical genius, or thuse who lutve given to the
world mechanisms of such great utility and advantage to

the progress of civilization. Senator Hoar, in a speech ^^^- '

made before the United States Senate, on January (j,
1903, said; " Within twelve miles of the spot where I
live, was born Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton
gin, who doubled the value of every acre of land in this
country on which cotton can grow. Six miles in another
direction was born Erastus Bigelow, the inventor of the
carpet machine. Six miles in another direction lived
Blanchard, the inventor of the machine for turning irreg-
ular forms, perhaps the most important single mechan-
ical invention that has been made in the country down
to this time. Eight miles another way was born Whitte-
more, inventor of the card clothing machine. Twelve
miles another way was born and lived Elias Howe, inven-
tor of the sewing machine. When the Civil war broke
out, Mr. Howe enlisted as private. When, in its em-
barrassment, in the summer of 1861, the government
could not pay its soldiers, this private soldier drew his
check for all the arrears due his regiment of a thousand
men, forsome months. * * * All around me there are
homesteads, some bordering my own, owned by invent-
ors, foremen and skilled workmen, who have acquired
fortunes in this honorable service, so beneficent to mankind and so honorable to this
country."

The founders of the olden time, who laid the foundations for the development of the
present, left not only a splendid posterity on this their own soil, but they gave a pregnant
interpretation to the words of Bishop Berkley : "Westward the course of the empire
takes its way," for from them came an overflow which was destined to continue until it
reached the far-off Pacific — men and women to carry forth and perpetuate that plain, sturdy,
personal character of manhood and womanhood for which the people of Massachusetts
have gained a large degree of renown. Wherever they planted their homes, there the
church and the school house are found as monuments of their personality. Nor is this all,
they prided themselves in thrift, and the reward that comes as the fruit of honest toil and
endeavor; and, wherever placed, have proved a power for ideal citizenship and good gov-
ernment, for that righteousness which exalteth a nation.

In each generation and at every stage of progress, the people of Worcester county
have had the service of men of the loftiest character and highest capability — in arms, in the
arts of peace, in statesm.inship, in affairs, and in letters. It is to connect the active pro-
gressive men of the present generation with their illustrious ancestry, that the present vol-
umes were undertaken, in the conviction that

Major General Artemas Ward

Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
October T>. 17T4: General in the Continentai
army : Cotnmander-in-Chipf of the Massachu-
setts forces. May 19. 177.5. liorn in Shrews-
bury. Massachusetts. November 26. 1727. son
of Nahum and Martha (Howe) Ward. As
Major took part in the campaign of 1755
against the hr^nch. near Lake Champlain, at-
taing the rank of colonel. Member of the
Massachusetts Lecislature for sixteen years:
Speaker of that body 17>-.'>; Member of Congress
1791-9,5; died in Shrewsbury October 27, 1800,

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" It is indeed a blessing when the virtues
Of noble races are hereditary, *

And do derive themselves from imitation
Of virtuous ancestors."

The honorable ancestry which belongs to the people of Worcester county is a noble

heritage, and the story of its achieveinents is a sacred
trust committed to its descendants, upon whom devolves
the perpetuation of their record. History is constantly
making, and that of yesterday and today is as important
in its place as that of the centuries past. Throughout
the country are those who are memorialized in its pages,
through whose sagacity, determination and philanthropy,
states and communities have been benefited in material
ways, and in religious, educational and political affairs —
in all that stands for progress and improvement.

It was the consensus of opinion of leading men in
Worcester county — men well informed and loyal to the
memories of the past, who were consulted with refer-
ence to the matter — that the editorial supervision of Mr.
Ellery Bicknell Crane in the preparation of the work,
would insure the best results attainable in these deeply
interesting channels. For fifteen years the President
of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and the present
librarian of that body and the editor of its " Proceed-
ings," he has long been deeply interested in the pursuit
of genealogical information in the county of Worcester,
and his wide knowledge and the ample material at his
command in the library of the above mentioned society
have afforded to the local writers upon this work a rich mine of information along the
lines prescribed, and through his instrumentality, also, they have had access to the wealth
of historical and genealogical records
in the archives of the American Anti-
quarian Society, through the courtesy
of its librarian, Mr. Edmund M. Bar-
ton. Mr. Crane has also contributed
to these pages a historical sketch of
the Worcester Society of Antiquity,
including a brief notice of the Amer-
ican Antiquarian Society. The pub-
lishers have given all possible care
with reference to the family and per-
sonal narratives. If, in any case, one
should be found incomplete or faulty,
the shortcoming is ascribable to the
paucity of data furnished by the sub-
scriber, or to be obtained from public
record, many families being withoutex-
act records in their family line ; while,

Governor Levi Lincoln

Continued in the office of Governor for nine
successive re-eleclions, until, declining to be a
candidate for re-election, retired from the
office on the induction of his successor, in Jan-
Unry, 18.S4. Chosen member of 24th Contress.
Both Harvard and Williams colleee conferred
upon him the degree of LL. D. He was born
October 2.5. 1782: died May 28, 1868.

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Bancroft House. Worcester

The liome of Rev. Aaron Bancroft, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Here was born George Bancroft, the Historian, October 3. 1800, son of
Rev. Aaron and Lucretia iChandler ' Bancroft.

Views of Polytechnic Institute, Worcester

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in other cases, various representativesjof a family are at disagreement as to names and dates
of some of their forbears. In all cases the sketch has been submitted to the subject or his
representative, and upon him, in case of error, must rest the ultimate responsibility.

It is believed that the^present work will prove a real addition to the mass of litera-
ture concerning the families of historic old Worcester county, and that, without it, much
valuable inform.ition contained] therein would be inaccessible to the general reader, or
irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of many custodians of family records, and the
consequent disappearance of material in their possession.

THE PUBLISHERS.

WOllCESIEIi SOCIEiy OF A\TIOIj'ITy

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On the third day of May, 1775, was issued
the first copy of the Massac/iusctts Spy, printed
in Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas, since which
date this town (now city), the heart of the
Commonwealth, has been a prominent news
center.

Worcester has also been a great book
publishing center, "The Royal Standard
English Dictionary " (Perry's), the first dict-
ionary published in America, was printed here
=- -^^ ^_ by ]\/[r_ Thomas, as was also the first music

books printed from types, music having been

Worcester Society of Antiquity . , . . '^ , .

previously printed from engraved plates.
Various editions of dictionaries, lexicons, Bibles, medical works, law books and standard
works in history and general literature, were printed and kept on sale here. The Koran
was printed here in 1806, a Greek Lexicon in 1808; Plutarch's Lives, in six volumes
(1802); JosephuS, in six volumes (1794). A folio edition of the Bible published in 1791,
illustrated with fifty copper-plate engravings, furnishes a fine specimen of the work of
Mr. Thomas. Almanacs, sermons, school books, broadsides and works on nearly every
branch of literature of that period, came from the press (or, rather, presses) of Mr.
Thomas.

Thus were the people of Worcester early given special opportunity to learn the use
and value of books, acquiring more or less an honest desire for them, and to appreciate
the benefits of the knowledge to be gained through their use. The addresses and patriotic
utterances distributed among the people of New England through the circulation of the
Massachusetts Spy, had much to do with stimulating the spirit and feeling of resistance to
the arbitrary measures inaugurated by the government of Great Britain. And, after the
contest was over, and the independence of the United States secured, the influence of the
editor and publisher of that organ was exerted for the establishment of a societj' that
should bring together and preserve the mementoes of that heroic struggle, and also become
an institution that should take its jilace among the prominent historical societies in Eng-
land, France and other countries of Europe.

With that object in view, the American Antiquarian Society was formed in the year
1812. Its membership included representative men from the various States in the
Union. The printer, and founder of the society, Isaiah Thomas, LL. D., was its first
president. The first home or hall of this Society was a brick building, with a main up-
right part two stories in height, and a wing extending out on the north and also one
on the south side. The main or center portion of this building was dedicated on August
24, 1820, and the two wings added about eleven years later. This home, known as
Antiquarian Hall, stood on the easterly side of Summer street, near the corner of Belmont
street, and was built at the expense of Mr. Thomas, on a lot of land which he owned and
subsequently gave, by will, to the Society. In 1852 it was found necessary to have more
commodious quarters to accommodate the needs of the American Anticjuarian Society,

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and land was ^iven by Honorable Stephen Salisbury, father of the late Honorable Stephen
Salisbury, as a site for their new building, which now stands at the corner of Highland
street and Main street, next north of the Court House, and is the present home of this
most popular national institution.

In the year 1820, of the eighty-three names on the membership roll, twenty-four
were residents of Massachusetts, ten of whom resided in Worcester, the remainder of the
number were scattered throughout twenty-one other states of the Union. In 1880, thirty-
nine members were residents of Worcester; forty-four from Massachusetts, outside of
Worcester; sixty-two from other states of the Union; and seventeen from foreign countries.
At present the membership in America of this (the American Antiquarian Society) is lim-
ited to one hundred and forty. In 1893 there were twenty-six from Worcester; forty-three
from Massachusetts, at large; sixty-two from other states in the Union, and thirty-two
from foreign countries; total membership, one hundred and sixty-three.

Since its organization it has been co nucting a noble and most important work. It
came into the field so soon after the birth of our national government that special and
most favorable opportunities have been found for the accumulation of books, pamphlets,
papers and manuscripts treating of historical events, not alone of America, but of various
other nations — a service to which it was early commissioned. Its sphere of labor was,
and is, world-wide, special attention being given to the subject of Archaeology, including
a study of the antiquities of this American continent, and every measure was to be adoi)ted
that should "make the Society appear respectable as a National Institution," and the
American Antiquarian Society has not fallen short of accomplishing its mission, and is
recognized as one of the leading Societies of its class in the world. Its voluminous
library contains a collection of Americana of rare value, while its stock of original manu-
scripts may be counted of much more than ordinary interest. But as the population of
Worcester increased, and the good influence of this parent society was felt among the
citizens, there sprang up a desire for anotlicr organization, that should give opportunity
for other citizens of Worcester and vicinity to engage in historical study and research, and
also to provide a suitable place for preserving and placing on exhibition relics of the past,
especially those bearing upon the history of the City and County of Worcester, including
their people and institutions, preserving, for he benefit of future generations, such books,
pamphlets and documents of every descripfon as would furnish account of and portray
the habits, life and character of the people that came to reclaim this wilderness and plant
the institutions from whence so many benefits are at present derived, and to foster and
encourage an interest in the histor\- of this special locality.

A number of conferences were held in the printing office of Messrs. Tyler and
Seagrave, then on Main street, opposite the City Hall. At these preliminary meetings
there were present Samuel E. Staples, Franklin P. Rice, John G. Smith, Daniel Seagrave
and Albert Tyler. As a result of these deliberations, notices were issued for a meeting to
be held at the home of Samuel E. Staples, Number 1, Lincoln Place, January 24, 1875.
Besides Mr. Staples, there were present at this meeting John G. Smith, Franklin P. Rice,
and Richard O'Flynn. It was here decided to proceed with the formation of a society,
and arrangements were made for drafting a constitution, which was submitted at a meeting
held January 30th, and, after slight changes, was adopted at the third meeting, held Febru-
ary 13th. The first regular meeting held under the constitution came on March 2, 1875, at
which time the organization was completed by the election of the following named officers:
Samuel E. Staples, president; Henry D. Barber, vice-president; Daniel Seagrave, secre-
taiy; Henry F. Stedman, treasurer, and John G. Smith, librarian. 'For more than two

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years meetings were held at the homes of the members, where occasionally a paper was
read on some historical subject. But usually the time was passed in sociability and exam-
ining the collection of books and relics in the possession of the member with whom the
meeting was called.

The infant society soon came into favor and was received by the citizens of Wor-
cester with open arms, and grew with such rapidity that it became necessary to clothe it
with a charter, that was secured in the month of March, 1877, Honorable Clark [illson
having been chosen by a vote of the Society, at its annual meeting, held January 2d of that
year, to secure such an act. The names of the charter members were Samuel E. Staples
Clark Jillson, EUery B. Crane, Daniel Seagrave, Franklin P. Rice, James A. Smith, Albert
A. Lovell and Albert Tyler.

The organization of the corporation took place at the meeting held on March 6
1877, at the home of Eldward I. Cornius, on Wellington street, Worcester, at which time
the following officers were elected: President, Samuel E. Staples; vice-presidents Clark
Jillson and Ellery B. Crane; treasurer, James A. Smith; clerk, Daniel Seagrave. These
officers constituted the executive committee and Albert A. Lovell, Franklin P. Rice with
Charles R. Johnson, were chosen to serve as the committee on nominations. Thus was
the organization set in motion and started on its errand of usefiilness. Good moral char-
acter and an interest in the pursuit of historical studies, with the agreement to contribute
five dollars each year, and also pay such other assessments, not exceeding one dollar, levied
at any one time, as the society might elect, was the early test of qualification requisite for
membership. At the annual meeting January 4, 1876, twelve names constituted the mem-
bership roll. The next year saw the number increased to thirty names, and at the meet-
ing held January 2, 1877, the librarian reported four bound volumes and four pamphlets
as the extent of the Society's library.

The first book given the Society was entitled "Worcester in the Revolution," pre-
sented by the author, Albert A. Lovell, at a meeting held Septemb< r 12, 1876, at the home
of Ellery B. Crane. There was no special effort put forth for rapidly increasing the mem-
bership. Some care was, however, given to securing workers in the cause that would enable
the organization to make a showing sufficient to attract the attention of other persons of
similar desires, and, if possible, secure their co-operation, and it is the belief that in this
direction the efforts advanced were not futile.

In the year 1878 the Society counted sixty-nine names upon its roll, fifty-two of
them classed as active, two as life members and fifteen as honorar}^ members. Among the
latter class were men occupying exalted places as literary men and writers of history, all
of whom, we regret to note, have now passed away, and gone to their eternal reward. At
this writing not one of these fifteen gentlemen is left.

The monthly reports made by members of their additions to their private collections
stimulated the work of collecting, and helped to create interest in all matters of a historical
nature, with the result that, when the time came for forming the Society's Collection, there
was a generous response from those private sources, making it possible to create a com-
mendable showing within a comparatively brief period of time. That the handful of books
and pamphlets which by gift had become the property of the Society might receive proper
care, and the secretary have a place for his books and papers, some kind of a repository
was needed for their safe keeping, and the secretary purchased for one dollar and a half
the Society's first book case. For want of a better place it was temporarily set up in the
printing office of Messrs. Tyler and Seagrave.

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But the institution was growing, and June 19, 1877, steps were taken toward secur-
ing a room in which to hold business meetings and deposit the Society's treasures, and on
the fourth of September a vote was passed instructing the Treasurer to hire a room in the
Bank Block, Foster street, and the first meeting of the Society was held there in room
Number Six, up one flight of stairs, on Tuesday evening, October 2, 1877, twenty-one
members being present. This was a notable meeting in the life of the young organization.
More than two hundred and forty gifts of books and pamphlets with a few pictures were
presented that evening, manj' of them being of special value. Honorable Clark Jillson's
contribution included a large folio volume of Cicero's Orations, printed in the year 1472, a
fine specimen of early printing. Four honorary members and three active members were
voted in at that meeting, and Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith," was proposed for
honorary' membership, and notice of the death of Harvey Dwight Jillson, M. D., of Fitch-
burg, was given, it being the first death within the Societj^

For more than thirteen years the designation painted on the door of room Number
Six announced to the visitor or the passer-by that it was the home of the Worcester Society of
Antiquity, and many pleasant hours were passed within those walls by the little band of
faithful and constant workers who, by common consent, met there not only on the first
Tuesday evening in each month, but on every Tuesday evening, unless absent from the
city or detained by sickness, for all Tuesday evenings were consecrated to the interest
of this Society. Not all who met there then are now within the sound of the human voice.
But their influence and their works abide, and the memories of those pleasant, fascinating,
edifying social gatherings linger in the minds of those living today, who can, perhaps, more
fully appreciate the value of those social conclaves in bringing together and centralizing
the forces out of which this Society has been evolved, and also the words uttered by a mem-
ber of that circle who has gone hence, one who in those days was a tower of strength, a
giant among the weaklings, and possibly did more at the critical moment to put this
Society in a condition to stand alone, than any other man. These are his prophetic words:
"Our mission is not one that changes with the seasons. When we become weary with the
labor it imposes and seek other employments, the places we leave will be filled by zealous
laborers from a new generation, but the corner stone laid by our hands will continue to
support the superstructure, though the sound of the builders' hammer may ring through its
arches for centuries to come."

Before the close of the year 1877, members of the Society were greatly encouraged
in their work, as well as in the future prospects of the organization, by the kindly, stimu-
lating words received from certain gentlemen prominent in historical and literary circles,
in reply to notices sent them by the secretary, informing them of their having been elected
to honorary membership in the young Society. Among those who responded with special
reference to what had been accomplished, and the future outlook, were Benjamin J. Loss-
ing, Rev. Adin Ballou, Rev. Abijah Marvin, John G. Metcalf, M. D., Holmes Ammidown,
Elihu Burritt, William S. Barton, Esq., Dr. Guilermo Rawson, and Rev. Carlton A.
Staples. Of these, at this writing, not one remains.

During the life of the Society, there has been no step taken that apparently pro-
duced more beneficial results, and brought the Society into more popular favor, than print-
ing and disseminating its transactions and literature. Thus was attention called to the
valuable work being performed, and the publications of the Society soon found a demand
which to this moment has continued to increase. Among the early tasks assumed was copy-
ing and printing the inscriptions upon the tombstones in the ancient cemetery in Worces-

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ter, known as the Mechanic Street Burial Ground. And, before the summer of 1877
was ended, much had been done in securing inscriptions from burial grounds in Lancaster,
Lunenburg, Mendon, Shrewsbury and three of the ancient cemeteries in Worcester, while
some progress had been made in copying those from the burial grounds in Brookfield,
Leicester, Rutland, Southbridge and Sturbridge. This initial effort awakened fresh inter-
est throughout the community in the preservation of both public and private records, and,
through persistent exertions of members of this S ociety, and the co-operation of friends,
the early records of Worcester were published, from the earliest date down to the adoption
of the city charter in 1848, including the vital records, all of which have been assembled
within the covers of the Societj^'s publications, and constitute apart of the historical work
accomplished through its members.

At the close of the year, 1879, the librarian, Albert Lovell, reported that the Socie-
ty's librar)' contained thirteen hundred and twenty-five bound volumes and four thousand
three hundred and fort^'-two pamphlets and in the spring of 1881 it became necessary to
add another room to Number Six, the latter being used for meetings, while the second room
was for the accommodation of the rapidly increasing library and a small collection of rel-
ics. It was thought, with this addition, ample room had be?en provided for some time to
come. But in June, 1885, came a substantial increase to the library, of a gift from Mrs.
Charlotte Downes, of a collection of books and pamphlets, once the property of her late
husband, John Downes, Esq., of Washington, D. C. It was a pleasant surprise, and
caused no slight enthusiasm throughout the membership of the Society, for they fully ap-
preciated the value of the gift.

On the thirty-first day of March, 1883, occurred the death of Rev. George Allen. He
had been a frequent visitor at the meetings, and much interested in the work of the
Society. During his lifetime he had accumulated a large library. A short time before his
death, a considerable portion, however, had been sold at public auction in Boston, but
there still remained at the time of his decease about three thousand volumes, and, through
contributions of money from members and their friends, this collection of books and
pamphlets was added to the Society's library.

The next red-letter day was the observance of the tenth anniversary of the organ-
ization. The exercises were held in the Old South meeting-house, then standing on the
common on the site of the present City Hall. It was held on the twenty-seventh day of
January, 1885. Rev. Carlton A. Staples delivered the principal address. The proper date
came the twenty-fourth, but as that fell on Saturday, it was decided to celebrate on the
following Tuesday. There was a large attendance at the meeting in the church, after
which there was a banquet served at the Bay State House. Alfred S. Roe was toastmaster,
and it was after midnight when the end came to the good things that were said there. Not
long after this event, Honorable Stephen Salisbury, one of Worcester's prominent philan-
thropists, who had been watching the growth and conduct of this institution, offered to
assist in providing a home for it by contributing a lot of land on which to erect a building,
and also to give a certain sum of money toward a building fund. His offer was accepted
•with most grateful acknowledgments, committees were chosen for carrying the work for-
ward, and in due time the Society came into possession of a substantial, commodious,
brick building, well adapted to the needs of the Society, and through the exertion of its
members and their friends, chief among them the late Stephen Salisbury, it is the posses-
sor of a property valued at fifty thousand dollars, not including its valuable library of
twenty thousand bound volumes, thirty-five thousand pamphlets, and an interesting mus-

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eum containing over six thousand relics of Indian, Colonial, Revolutionary, Civil and
Domestic life, many articles of which it would be exceedingly difficult to duplicate, all
debts paid, and eleven thousand dollars of invested funds. Truly a remarkable showing.

The home of this Worcester Society of Antiquity is located at Number Thirty-nine
Salisbury street, Worcester, Massachusetts, and was dedicated on the afternoon of
November 24, 1891.

WORCESTER COUNTY

HON, GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR. No more
popular and truly meritorious family name comes
to the mind in writing of the many celebrated family
circles of Worcester county than that to which the
late lamented United States senator, George F. Hoar,
belonged. Others have attained to high eminence
in local, state and national fame, but to recite the
history of their accomplishments is an easier task
than to pick from a vast collection of important
data the facts from which a sketch suitable in
length for a work of this character can be compiled
and do justice to the memory of him for whom it is
written. Senator Hoar was born at Concord, Massa-
chusetts, August 29, 1826, and passed from earthly
scenes September 30, 1904 — seVenty-eight eventful,
well spent years.

His ancestors from the early day "^Massachusetts
Bay Colony," were men of great courage and activity.
One writer says "They were in advance of the times
in which they lived and were leaders to a higher
and better sphere, both in social and political sense."
The earliest of his male ancestors in this coimtry
was John Hoar, one of three brothers who came
with their sister and mother from Gloucester, Eng-
land. The husband and father, Charles Hoar, was
sheriff of Gloucester and died before his family came
to America. His wife, Joanna, died at Braintree,
1661. They had three sons and two daughters.
The sons were Daniel, who returned to Eng-
land in 1653 ; Leonard, who graduated at Har-
vard College, 1650, and was president of that insti-
tution from 1672 to 1675, when he died, and John.
(See Hudson's "History of Lexington," page 104,
Genealogical Register.)

(H) John Hoar, son of the first family who
located in New England by this name, was a lawyer,
distinguished for bold, manly independence. He
resided in Scituate, Massachusetts, from 1643 to
1655. It was about 1660 when he settled in Con-
cord and died April 2, 1704. His wife Alice died
June 5, 1697. Their children included Elizabeth, who
in December, 1675, married Jonathan Prescott; Mary,
married Benjamin Graves, October 21, 1668; and
Daniel, who married (first) jNIary Stratton, (sec-
ond) Mary Lee. The Hoar family were among the
early bay colonists and some true conception of their
character may be had' by referring to a matter of
New England history, wherein it is recorded that
after the Indian massacre at Lancaster at the time of
King Philip's war. John Hoar, at the request of the
colonial authorities, followed the Indian band far
into the wilderness, and after great hardship and the
exercise of great ingenuity, recovered by ransom
Mrs. Rowlandson, a lady captive from Lancaster.
Her account of her ransom is published. The rock

where she was redeemed is situated in .

close bv the base of Wachusett Mountain, and has
I

been marked by the senator with a suitable inscrio-
tion. ^

(III) Daniel Hoar, son of John, born about
1655, married, July 19, 1677, Mary Stratton, and
October 16, 1717, Mary Lee. By these marriages the
lollowmg children were born: John. October "4
1678; Leonard, a captain, died April, 1771, ag"ed
eighty-seven years, in Brainfield, where a part of the
desceiidants now reside— some having taken the name
ol Homer; Daniel, 16S0, married Sarah Jones-
Jonathan, died at the Castle, October 26, 1702-
Joseph died at sea, 1707; Benjamin; Mary,' March
14, 1689, died June 10, 1702; Samuel, April 6,
1691; David, November 14, 1698; Isaac, May 18
1695; Elizabeth, February 22, 1701. '

(IV) Daniel Hoar, son of Daniel (3) and great-
grandson of the ancestor, born 1680, inarried Sarah
Jones, daughter of John and Sarah Jones, December
20, 1705, lived in southeastern part of Concord
where he died February 8, 1773, aged ninety-three
years. Their children were: John, born January
b, 1707; he was twice married. Jonathan, born
January 6, 1707 (twin brother of John), graduated
at Harvard College, 1740; was an officer in the
provincial service during the war of 1744 to 1763.
In 1755 he went as a major to Fort Edward; the
next year was a lieutenant-colonel in Nova Scotia,
and an aide to Major-General Winslow at Crown
Point. After the peace of 1763 he went to England
and was appointed governor of Newfoundland and
neighboring provinces, but unfortunately died on his
passage thither, aged fifty-two years. Daniel, en-
tered Harvard College, 1730, but did not graduate;
he married Rebecca Brooks, November 2, 1743, and
removed to Westminster, where he died, leaving two
sons and two daughters. Lucy, married John
Brooks. Elizabeth, married a Mr. Whittemore of
West Cambridge. :\Iary, married Zachariah Whitte-
more.

(V) John Hoar, born January 6, 1707, married
in Lexington, June 13, 1734, Esther Pierce, by
whom he had two children. She died and he married,
August 21, 1740, in Watertowni, Elizabeth Cooledge.
He died in Lincoln. Massachusetts, May 16. 1786,
and his widow died March 20, 1791. He lived suc-
cessively in Lexington, Watertown and again in
Lexington and Lincoln. It is not quite clear when
he first came to Lexington. lie was taxed for a per-
sonal and realty in 1729, and had a seat assigned him
in the meeting house in 1731, when they reseated
the house. He was a member of the school committee
in 1743. He subsequently filled the offices of con-
stable, assessor and selectman. His home was in that
part of Lexington set ofif to Lincoln in 1754. His
children were: Rebecca, born in Lexington, July i,
1735, married, May 6, 1755. Joseph CiUler; Esther,
born in Watertown, January 28, 1739, married Ed-

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mond Bowman, 1760; John, born in Lexington, July
14, 1741, died young; Samuel, born at Lexington,
August 23, 1743; Elizabeth, born in Lexington,
October 14, 1746; Mary, born in Lexington, October
5, 1750, died young; Sarah, born in Lincohi, June
9, 1755 married Nehemiah Abbot ; Leonard, born
in Lincoln, June 29, 1758, was twice married ; Re-
becca, born in Lincoln, October 18, 1761, married
Joseph White, Lancaster; Mary, born June 17, 1764,
married Thomas Wheeler, March 27, 1788; Joseph,
born July 30, 1767.

(VI) Samuel Hoar, son of John (5), born in
Lexington, Massachusetts, August 23, 1743, was an
important man in Lincoln ; he frequently represented
his town in the house of representatives, and was
a state senator from Middlesex county, Massachu-
setts, from 1813 to 1816. He married Susanna
Pierce, by whom he had ten children — five of each
sex.

(VII) Samuel Hoar, eldest son of Samuel (6),
born May 18, 1778, graduated at Harvard College,
1802, received the degree of LL. D., 1838. He taught
school in Virginia two years, and was admitted to
the Massachusetts bar in 1805. He was an eminent
lawyer, contemporary with Choate, Mason and
Daniel Webster. He frequently represented the town
of Lincoln in the Massachusetts legislature, was a
senator from the county of Middlesex from 1813 to
181 6, and was elected to congress for the years
1835-37-44. The legislature of Massachusetts sent
him to South Carolina to test the constitutionality
of certain acts authorizing the imprisonment of free
colored persons held as prisoners in that state. By
order of the governor of South Carolina, he was
forcibly ejected from the state and compelled to
leave before fulfilling his mission, but acquitted him-
self manfully throughout the entire case. He was a
man of marked character and standing. He died
at Concord, Massachusetts, November 2, 1856. He
married Sarah, youngest daughter of Roger Sher-
man, of Connecticut, who was one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence ; one of the framers
of the United States Constitution; judge, and later
United States senator, and mayor of New Haven
until his death. The children of Samuel and Sarah
(Sherman) Hoar were: Elizabeth, born July 14,
1814; Ebenezer Rockwood, February 21, 1816; Sarah
Sherman, November 9, 1817; Samuel Johnson, Feb-
ruary 4, 1820, died 1821 ; Edward Sherman, Decem-
ber 22. 1823, graduate of Harvard College, 1844;
George Frisbie, August 29, 1826.

(VIII) Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, eldest son of
Samuel and Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, born February
21, 1816, graduated at Harvard College, 1835, and in
1839 began the practice of law in Concord, Massachu-
setts, and aside from representing his native county in
the state senate was, in 1849, made judge of the court
of common pleas. In 1859 he was appointed a justice
of the supreme court of Massachusetts, and in Gen-
eral U. S. Grant's administration was appointed
attorney general of the United States in March,
1869. In 1871 he was high commissioner of the
Washington treaty, and a member of congress from
Massachusetts from 1873 to 1875.

(VIII) George Frisbie Hoar, son of Samuel and
Sarah (Sherman) Hoar, born in Concord, Massa-
chusetts, August 29, 1826. The scenes of his boy-
hood were cast in pleasant places, midst fine influ-
ences, all calculated to unfold the germ of the true
life to be enacted. After his common school days at
Concord he entered Harvard College, graduating
in 1846. He chose the honorable profession of law
for his calling in life, fitting himself in Harvard
Law School and in the law office of Judge Thomas
in Worcester. He was admitted to the bar in 1849
and at once began the practice of his profession in

Worcester, which city has ever since claimed him
as one of her most honored citizens. Among his
legal associates were Hon. Emery Washburn and
later with Hon. Charles Dcvens and J. Henry Hill,
Esq. Mr. Hoar rapidly rose to a very eminent rank
in his profession. The native genius of his mind,
well disciplined by a thorough educational training,
and augmented by an uncommon energy, he steadily
moved forward and became a recognized leader. In
1869, when he entered congress, after twenty years
at the bar, his legal practice was the largest of any
west of Middlesex county and the most valuable in
a financial point of view.

It was in 1849 when George F. Hoar first en-
tered the political arena as the chairman of the Free-
Soil party for Worcester county, where the party
was the best organized of any county in the United
States. When he was twenty-five years of age, in
1851, he was elected as a representative to the gen-
eral court of Massachusetts. He was the youngest
member in that body, but became the leader of the
constitution in law matters and to him was given
the task of drawing resolutions protesting against
the compromise measures of the National govern-
ment in 1850. He had so far advanced in political
life that he could have succeeded Hon. Charles
Allen in congress, but he would not listen to the call
made by his friends to enter congress as it would
be to put politics ahead of law — his chosen pro-
fession. Had he at that time entered the con-
gressional field, he would no doubt have been among
the foremost in civil war and reconstruction periods.
He would not go to congress, but did not refuse to
serve in the state legislature, which was pressed
upon him. In 1857 he was a member of the senate
and chairman of the judiciary committee. In that
body he made a masterly report. He was always
ready to make campaign speeches, and but few ad-
vanced more thorough, extended and logical ar-
guments.

In 1868 Mr. Hoar was elected a representative
in congress (Republican) as the successor of the
late Hon. John D. Baldwin. In this, the forty-first
congress, he was a member of the committee on
education and labor and his chief work was the
preparation and advocacy of the bill for national
education. The bill did not pass in that session,
and Mr. Hoar reported it in the next, and finally in
the forty-third congress it passed by the house but
failed in the senate. In the same congress he
vindicated General Howard and supported Sumner
in his opposition to General Evarts' scheme of an-
nexation of Santo Domingo. As a member of the
election committee in the forty-second congress, he
drew the bill and had much to do along this line.
In the following congress he made his famous
eulogy on Senator Sumner. He was instrumental
in passin.g the Ead's jetty bill, and thus was opened
up the New Orleans ocean commerce line. But
perhaps of more importance than all was his con-
nection with the electorial commission bill, he be-
ing associated with General Earfield, Judge Abbott,
of Massachusetts, and Payne, of Ohio. In 1872
and again in 1874 Mr. Hoar had made known his
desire to retire to private life, but each time felt
his duty was in serving, because his state de-
manded it.

In 1876 his resolve to not be a candidate again
for re-election was announced as final, and the 1.
people elected his successor; but the next Massa- ||
chusetts legislature chose Mr. Hoar to succeed Mr. '
Boutwell as United States senator, and he took his
seat March 4, 1877, at the beginning of President
Hayes' administration. Here he rapidly rose in the
scale and dignity of a true American diplomat and
statesman. He became chairman of many important

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committees, including that of privik-gcs antl claims
and on judiciary. He was author of the bill for
distributing the balance of the Geneva Award ; the
Lawell bankruptcy bill ; the presidential succession
bill, tenure of office act, bureau of labor statistics
and many others. The most of his time in the
house and United States senate was spent in work-
ing for bills, laws and measures of large scope and
wide range, leaving others less competent than him-
self to discharge their duties in maltirs of not so
nuich real importance to the great and growing
nation.

In 1883 and 18S9, he was re-elected to his seat
in the senate. To have been elected by the legislature
so many times by a unanimous vote of its members
was a new record for Massachusetts, and only be-
spoke of merit for him of whom this brief memoir is
compiled, giving him a rank along with Charles
Sumner and Daniel Webster, who were in the saine
office, and as a cotemporary with Samuel Hoar, his
father. His voice has been heard in the national
halls of legislation for thirty-five years, and he
served as United States senator twenty-seven years
of this period, his service being as long if not longer
than any American of our time.

Mr. Hoar has four times served as the chairman
of the Massachusetts Republican State Convention.
In 1880 he was president of the National Convention
at Chicago, by which General Garfield was made
presidential nominee. In his deliberations upon
that occasion he proved his masterly fitness as a
leader of great bodies of great men in exciting,
eventful history-making times. In l8g8 President
McKinley tendered him the ambassadorship to Lon-
don, but on account of his extreme age and desiring
to further serve in the senate, he respectfully de-
clined. He enjoyed travel, especially in Europe.
From his first visit to England in i860, he has made
trips as follows: 1860-68-71-92-96-99. He was a
member of the Worcester Fire Society for fifty
years. This society was formed in 1793, and was
limited to a membership of thirty persons ; it has
come to be a social and historical body of much
interest.

In 1903 Senator Hoar wrote and had published
what is known by its title, "Autobiography of Sev-
enty Years." It is a neat and well written detailed
account of his own life. It embraces two volumes,
and is dedicated to his wife and children — -"a record
of a life which they made happy," he says in its
dedication. One paragraph in his introduction of
this work reads : "The lesson I have learned in
life,' which is impressed more deeply as I grow old,
is the lesson of Good Will and Good Hope. I be-
lieve that to-day is better than yesterday . and that
tomorrow will be better than to-day. I believe that
in spite of so many errors and wrongs and even
crimes, my countrymen of all classes desire what
is good and not what is evil."

While much of his time for more than one-third
of a century has been in Washington, yet has Wor-
cester felt the touch of his influence and life. He
was the prime mover in establishing a free public
library in this city. He materially aided in placing
the Polytechnic Institute on solid foundation. He
■was a great friend and help to Clark University.
He was trustee of the Leicester Academy and first
president of St. Wulstan Society, at Worcester. He
also was instrumental in founding the Worcester
Art Society and Worcester Club. He was an hon-
orary member of the Worcester Mechanics' Asso-
ciation. He was the oldest member at the time of
his decease of any save two of the American Anti-
quarian Society, and was an honorary member of
the Worcester Society of Antiquity, as well as
active in the ^lassachusetts Historical Society. He

was chairman of the public preservation committee
of Massachusetts, and heljjed to mark permanentlv
the old revolutionary landmarks by proper stones
tablets, etc. He bought the old house in whicli
had lived General Rufus Putnam, at Rutland, and
made it a permanently preserved historic relic of
revolutionary times.

That the effect of his noble impulses and the
care and consideration he always gave to the help-
less and oppressed be not lost sight of, it should here
be given as an illustration of this marked trait of
his character, what relates to the early abolition
days, when he, a young lawyer practicing in Wor-
cester, helped to defend a person from mob violence.
It was the case wherein a slave "kidnapper" during
the "fifties" was arrested and tried in Worcester,
but finally allowed to depart, with the promise of
never reiurning. Many colored people here and
many more radical abolitionists felt justice had not
been meted out to him, and had it not been for
young George F. Hoar and his associates he would
have been violently mobbed. While Mr. Hoar was
a life long friend and helper of the colored race,
he did not believe in the theory of mob law. He
ever took deep interest in the freedmen of the south
and gave liberally toward their educational insti-
tutions, believing, as he did, that education would
sooner or later solve the race problem.

One more recent act of his great kindness was
seen in securing the discharge of two small .\ssyrian
girls, who accompanied their mother to this country
from Assyria in 1901 to be with the head of the
family who had been here several years and de-
clared his intention of becoming a citizen in Wor-
cester. Before landing at Boston harbor the o-ISicers
discovered that one of the little girls was afflicted
wnth a disorder of the eye known as trachoma and
considered incurable in adults and contagious. They
under the law, were ordered not to land on our
shores and to return at once to their native coun-
try. The family was poor, the father a hard work-
ing citizen of Worcester, and the mother was to be
thus ruthlessly torn from the two idols of her heart.
The various officials tried in vain to evade the ex-
isting law, but were thwarted. The steamer which
was to take the little girls back was to sail the
next day, but through the interposition of Senator
Hoar, whose son Rockwood made the facts known
to him, finally through a touching telegram to
President Roosevelt, secured a peremptory order of
release of the children, and they were brought to
Worcester, cared for and soon cured. When the
kindhearted president visited Worcester, a few-
months later, he wished to see them and they met
him at Senator Hoar's residence, where all parties
were pathetically touched by the scene. It is small
deeds that introduce to us great characters and
tender hearts, such as was that of both Senator
Hoar and President Roosevelt. Soon tliereafter
Senator Hoar had the law so amended that such a
proposed hardship could not again exist in this
country through "red tape."

While he of whom we write had his political
enemies — and within his own party — perhaps no
other man has been in public life so many years and
made so few enemies, and even those who opposed
his position were at all times personally his friends.
In the part he took in opposing the action of the
present Republican administration policy regarding
the Philippine Island question.^ — one where he crossed
swords politically with many of our brainiest
statesmen — all, even President McKinley himself,
knew of and respected his manly independent stand
as a.gainst popular opinion. McKinley was of a
different opinion regarding a vexed question, but
personally was one of Senator Hoar's warmest

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friends. In Mr. Hoar's Autobiography, he says :
"It has been my ill fortune to differ with my party
many times." One such occasion was when he
bluntly said to McKinley, "you cannot maintain a
Despotism in Asia and a 1-lepubIic in America."
The man with no opposers has accomplished little
and has made but few friends, but he who in the
pride and spirit of his manhood advocates the right,
as he sees the right, and not from policy, is sure
to accomplish what is demanded of a well rounded
character, whether in politics, social or private life.
Senator fioar was broad-minded, scholarly and
patriotic in all he said and sought to accomplish.
Of his domestic relations it may be stated that
in 1853 he married Mary Louisa Spurr, daughter
of Samuel D. Spurr, who conducted a dry goods
house in Worcester, kept in a large two-story brick
block on the north corner of Main and Central
streets. Near it stood a large two-story frame
house, which was the residence of Mr. Spurr. Mrs.
,Hoar at her death left two children, a daughter
Mary, and a son Rockwood, who graduated from
Harvard College in 1876, and was elected district
attorney for Worcester county in 1899, serving until
January i, 1905. In the autumn of 1904 he was
elected to a seat in congress as the nominee of the
Republican party for his district. For his second
wife Senator Hoar married Ruth Ann, daughter of
the late Henry W. Miller, of Worcester. She died
about a year in advance of her husband. Finally
the end came and he who had been styled "the
grand old man" was claimed by the death mes-
senger and the spirit took its flight at his home in
Worcester, September 30, 1904. He was a firm
believer in the Unitarian faith, and was identi-
fied with that church many years. His funeral w-as
attended by one of the largest concourse of people
ever seen in the commonwealth on such a sad oc-
casion. His remains now repose in Sleepy Hollow
cemetery, at the place of his birth.

ROCKWOOD HOAR, late congressman from
the third congressional district, was the only son
of the late Senator George F. Hoar. While the best
wishes of the friends of the honored sire always fol-
lowed the son, while the ability and character of the
father seemed to be in large measure inherited by the
son, Mr. Hoar won his own spurs. He gained his
election because he had evinced the capacity essential
to represent this district in congress, because he was
one of the most accomplished lawyers in his native
city, because his record as district attorney deserved
endorsement and commendation. He demonstrated
an unprecedented popularity when a candidate for
office. His vote for district attorney showed increas-
ing strength at the polls every time he ran. His
friends took an unqualified pride in his career.

Rockwood Hoar was born in Worcester, August
24, 1855, and always lived there. He fitted for col-
lege in the Worcester public schools. He graduated
at Harvard College in the class of 1876 and entered
the law school. He received the degree of LL. B.
in 1878 and A. M. in 1879. He was admitted to the
bar in 1879 and immediately began to practice in
the law office of his father, which was then shared
by Colonel A. George Bullock, president of the State
Mutual Life Insurance Company, at present, and the
Hon." Thomas L. Nelson, late justice of the United
States district court. In 1884 he was appointed
assistant district attorney for the middle district of
Massachusetts, a district which includes the city
and county of Worcester. He was assistant while
Colonel W. S. B. Hopkins was district attorney until
1888. In i8gg he was elected district attorney of
the middle district and served until January, 1905.
He was thus closely identified with the administra-

tion of justice in this county for twenty years. He
had an excellent general practice, but his reputation
as a lawyer and public official depended chiefly on
his record in the district attorney's office as assistant
and as chief. It would be difficult to find anywhere
a man who had shown more sympathy for the un-
fortunate, combined with absolute faithfulness to
his duty as prosecuting officer. No district at-
torney of Worcester county showed more discriminat-
ing judgment in performing his office. His ideal
seemed to be, not the one of securing convictions at
any cost, but to see justice done and the spirit of the
law executed in good faith.

The detective officers of the district have a high
reputation for intelligence and thoroughness in the
pe-rfurmance of their duties. By a careful and sys-
tematic preparation and supervision of important
criminal cases, Mr, Hoar was able to thoroughly
master the questions at issue and to ascertain in
advance what disposition should be made of them.
He rarely lost cases in which he went to trial. The
counsel for defendants soon learned that his recom-
mendations to the court were carefully considered
by the presiding judge and that they could obtain
the best results for their clients by submitting to
his careful and sympathetic judgment and to his
recognition and frank endorsement of all that could
fairly be said in favor of the defendant. The first
trial in Massachusetts upon an indictment for mur-
der in the second degree was conducted by him and
the indictment sustained by the supreme judicial
court. The murder trials conducted by him were
held without the expensive relays of stenographers,
which had so largely increased the expense of these
trials in earlier days. His cases were promptly
and vigorously presented.

Shortly after he was elected district attorney he
became convinced that the probation system was in
line with modern methods and a means of making
the law more efficient. In 1900 he secured the ap-
pointment of Colonel James M. Drennan as proba-
tion officer for the superior court. Under this
system about one hundred cases annually are taken
on probation by Colonel Drennan. That means
about a third of the cases presented to the court
that would eventually come to trial. This policy
gives the first offender a chance to reform and avoid
a criminal career. The harsh and indiscriminate
treatment of criminals has been found to defeat the
very purpose of criminal law, and manufacture and
harden criminals rather than to teach them a lesson.
First offenders in all the more serious crimes, as
for instances boys who have committed theft, burg-
lary or embezzlement, have been put in the care of
the probation officer. Of the four hundred and
twenty-five cases put on probation during Mr. Hoar's
term as district attorney, only a very few have
proved to be second offenders. The probation system
is not only humane and reasonable, but it is a Chris-
tian and philosophical way to teach men who have
erred to keep straight, to demonstrate that the law
of nur times is not provided as an instrument of
vengeance, but merely to protect society and to
correct the criminal himself. What The Worcester
S/^v said of Mr. Hoar when he was elected dis-
trict attorney is very fitting at the close of his service
as he enters upon a new career in the public service :
"In all his official acts, Mr. Hoar has been scrupu-
lously painstaking, no matter what degree of im-
portance was attached to them and his tenure of the
office of assistant district attorney was characterized
by a measure of success that augurs well for a satis-
factory administration of the department with him
as chief."

He held many other positions of honor and
trust. He was a member of the common council in

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Worcester from 1887 to 1891, inclusive, being presi-
dent the last-named year. These were important
years in the municipal history of Worcester, and
Wr. Hoar was always useful and energetic. He was
a private in the jNIassachusetts Concord Artillery
Company, Company C, Fifth Regiment, Massachu-
setts Volunteer JNIilitia, from 1875 to 187S. He was ap-
pointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Oliver
Ames and served from 1887 to 1890 with the rank
of colonel. He was appointed judge advocate gen-
eral on the staff of Governor Roger VVolcott in 1897
and served four years, acting as president of the
military board of officers, having charge of the
equipment of the ^Massachusetts troops in the war
of 1S98 with Spain. He had the rank of brigadier-
general. He was known by all the prominent men
of the state, and well liked by his associates in
office. He was a director of the Worcester Trust
Company. He was formerly a director of the Wash-
burn & Moen Manufacturing Company before it
was absorbed by the American Steel & Wire Co.
He was a trustee of Clark University. He was
for twenty years a trustee of the Worcester Insane
Hospital, having in charge also the Worcester In-
sane Asylum, both institutions being a part of the
state system for the care and cure of the insane.
He received his appointments from successive gov-
ernors. He always took great personal interest in
the development and conduct of these hospitals.

He was a member of the Grafton Country Club,
Tatnuck Country Club and the Worcester Club, but
too busy to take advantage of his privileges often.
His recreations were golfing, driving and hunt-
ing. He was a lover of good horses. He
took an occasional hunting trip in New Hamp-
shire, but he followed in a general way the
old fashioned devotion to his home and
his office more closely than most of his professional
brethren. He was a member of the parish committee
of the Church of the Unity, of which his mother
was a charter member, and which his father attended
from the time of his coming to Worcester till his
death. He was one of the most prominent laymen
in the Unitarian church in the state, and an active
and enthusiastic participant in all concerning the
welfare of the Church of the Unity. i\lr. Hoar
occupied the modest house at Washington which his
father purchased about a year before he died.

He would have been an interesting figure among
the new congressmen, partly because of the prom-
inence of his father, partly because of his having
redeemed the third congressional district by a sub-
stantial majority. His was a district where a Democrat
was elected to congress for three successive terms
and in a year when a Democratic governor was
elected in Massachusetts (1904), he was elected to
congress, the vote of his district standing : Rock-
wood Hoar, Republican, 17,796 ; John B. Ratigan,
Democrat, 10,617; John W. Brown, Socialist, 733.
Incidentally it may be noted that never before in
the history of the government has a father in the
senate been followed upon his death by a son in the
house of representatives. His grandfather, Samuel
Hoar, his uncle. Judge E. Rockwood Hoar, and
Judge Hoar, son of Sherman Hoar, were prominent
i\Iassachusetts congressmen.

He married, June i, 1893, Christine Rice, daugh-
ter of William E. Rice, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
(See Skttch of Rice Family and William E. Rice.)
^Irs. Hoar is well fitted for her social duties at
Washington by training and personal attractiveness.
At the recent visit of President Roosevelt to Wor-
cester he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hoar, at
their charming home at 16 Hammond street. Their
children are: Frances Helen, born November 24,
1895; Louisa Ruth, born August 22, 1898.

.•\t the close of the last se>sion of congress he came
home greatlj' fatigued and almost immediately started
on a European trip in search of rest, accompanied by
members of his immediate family, and although the
trip proved restful, the severe strain to which he
had been subjected, had laid the foundations for a
disease of the brain which finally terminated his
life. Soon after reaching Worcester on his return
from Europe, he placed himself under the care of
his family physician, and all that was possible for
human hands to do, was done to save his life, but
he passed away on Thursday evening, November i,
1906, at his home. No. 34 Oak avenue, Worcester,
in the same house in which his father died.

SALISBURY FAMILY. The earliest rec-
ord of the Salisbury family goes back into the
history of Great Britain, and it is very likely that
the family had ancestors in Wales. From family
records and those of Suffolk county, Massachusetts,
it is clear that John Salisbury, who came to Boston
between 1630 and 1640, was the founder of the
family in America. But little can be learned of his
history either on this side or beyond the seas. It
is certain that he was a Boston ta.xpayer in Suffolk
county, JNIassachusetts, in 1689; that he was among
"The List of Inhabitants in Boston," 1695 ; and that
he died in 1702.

(I) John Salisbury, earliest known at Boston,

married first, Annabel , and (second)

Bridget Williams, from whom were children, includ-
ing Nicholas and James (twins), born August 20,
1094; Nicholas was baptized in the Second Church
of Boston, John was styled in the Suffolk county
probate records as "late of Boston, a marriner,''
generally understood in those early days to mean a
sea captain.

(II) Nicholas Salisbury, son of John and
Bridget (Williams) Salisbury (i), born August 20,
1694, was a mere boy at the time of his father's
death. Little of positive record can be had of the
career of Nicholas, who was described as a "Mer-
chant" in the Boston records, but that he grew to
manhood and married Martha Saunders, and to
them were born Elizabeth, Sarah and Stephen. The
date of the marriage of Nicholas and Martha was
October i, 1724, and tradition says "he fell in love
with her at first sight, at tUe Old South Church in
Boston." Her father was Josiah Saunders, who in
the records was described as "Marriner" (sea cap-
tain). Martha's mother was Rebekah Eldridge.
whose brother John left a legacy of eight thousand
pounds sterling to "My Sister and all her daughters
and their children in New England." In the will of
Nicholas Salisbury, April 4, 1748, he is called "shop-
keeper." He gave three hundred pounds sterling
to his son Stephen, and the balance of his estate left
at the time of his wife's decease. He also gave "My be-
loved brother Benjamin" one hundred pounds ster-
ling or its equivalent. "Viewed in the light of what
was the true fact, and what transpired in later years
in connection with the Salisburys' standing and
worth as men of means and integrity of character,
the following copied from the proceedings of the
selectmen of Boston, at a meeting held July 9, 1711,
is amusing: "Ordered that Nicholas Salisbury, who
belongs to Charlestown and came lately to our Town
to dwell, be notified to appear before the Selectmen
with security or depart out of our Town." In ex-
planation of this it should be stated that it was then
the law and custom in New England to require se-
curity of all newcomers, this being for a twofold
purpose ; first, to insure the town against people
who might be paupers or liable to be a financial
burden; and second, to make sure of the religious and
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him as a citizen who should have their protection,
and who should walk and live in harmony with
them.

(III) Stephen Salisbury came to Worcester in
1707 to establish a branch house for Samuel and
Stephen Salisbury, of Boston, his partner being an
elder brother. He was born in Boston, September
25, 1746, the son of Nicholas and Ivlartha (Saun-
ders) Salisbury. The above firm were importers of
hardware and kindred goods from England and the
West Indies. Worcester proved a favorable centre
for a large country trade, then numbering about one
thousand people. Tbe Salisburys imported their
own merchandise, and hence could ati'ord to sell
almost as cheaply in Worcester as in Boston. When
Mr.^ Salisbury first moved to Worcester, political
affairs were engaging the attention of the people,
and the trouble with the mother country was be-
coming more and more serious. Here controversies
had become more acute than in most places, for here
lived numbers of obstinate Tories, as well as many
who were fearless defenders of the colonial rights.
Mr. Salisbury early took his stand with the patriots
He accepted no office, but his name frequently ap-
pears m town records as being on committees to
prepare resolutions against some act of tyranny. He
bought a large farm to the northward of the city,
and his place of business was at Lincoln Square. To
the east of the front door of his "mansion" was
the counting-room and salesroom. Until well ad-
vanced in life his mother presided over his house-
hold.^ January 31, 1797, after his mother's death, he
married Elizabeth Tuckerman, daughter of Edward
and Elizabeth Tuckerman, of Boston. By this mar-
riage one son was born— Stephen, March 8, 1798 A
daughter, Elizabeth T., was born in 1800, died in
1803, and a son, Edward Tuckerman, born in 1803
died in 1809. Mr. Salisbury died May 11, 18 V
eighty-four years of age. "His figure was slight and
very graceful, and it is said that his face was very
handsome, and he retained a complexion of youth-
ful freshness until the end of his life." His pastor
and friend, Rev. _ Dr. Aaron Bancroft, described him
as a "just man." He was an original member of
the famous Worcester Fire Society, organized Jan-
uary 21, 1793, and continued an associate until July
6, 1801. A part of the above facts have been gleaned
from writings of his contemporaries, each and all
plainly verifying all that is here claimed as to the
sterling qualities of his manly character,

(IV) Stephen Salisbury was born at Lincoln
Square, in the city of Worcester, IMassachusetts,
March 8, 1798, at the old Salisbury mansion, erected
by his father Stephen, who came from Boston to
Worcester m 1767 and built the above residence in
1770, in which he dwelt for the remainder of his
days. Stephen Salisbury obtained his primary
education at the Old Centre district school
prepared for college at the Leicester Acad-
emy, and graduated with honors from Harvard Uni-
versity in the class of 1817, celebrated for what its
members accomplished after they went forth to
the actual work of their lives. Among them were
Hon. George Bancroft, Hon. Caleb Cushing, Pro-
fessor Alva Woods and George B. Emerson. He
studied law under Hon. Samuel M. Burnside, and
was admitted to practice at the Massachusetts bar,
but owing to his extensive local interests never en-
tered actively into the practice of the legal pro-
fession, though a well read and highly capable at-
torney. His own business interests kept his time
fully occupied, but his legal schooling was of lasting
benefit to him in after life. While he never sought
office, he yielded to the calls of his fellow-citizens,
and served in various prominent positions, all of
which he filled with a most thorough completeness.

Among the places of trust thus accepted by him
were those of selectman, 1839; representative in the
general court of Massachusetts, 1838-39; senator,
1846-47, and alderman during the first year Wor-
cester was an organized city, 1848. In i860 and
again in 1872 he was elected presidential elector
from his state. As early as 1840 the records show
he was an active member of the American Anti-
quarian Society, a member of its council from Octo-
ber, 1853, and president in 1854, continuing as such
for more than thirty years. He was the third presi-
dent of the Worcester Free Public Library, and
served from 1864 to 1865, and again from 1868 to
1872, inclusive. He generously contributed toward
the reading rooms connected with this library. He
was also a member of the Massachusetts Historical
Society. The d«gree of Doctor of Laws was con-
ferred on him by Harvard University in 1875. He
was overseer of the University for two full terms
from 1871 to 1883. He was also a conspicuous figure
in the history of the Worcester Free Institute, now
the Polytechnic Institute; was its first president, an
office which he held until his death in 18S4; he gave
the valuable land on which the buildings stand,
and contributed liberally to the support of the in-
stitution.

In reviewing his many responsible financial
trusts it is found that from 1845, when Hon. Daniel
Waldo died, for more than thirty-nine years he
served as president of the Worcester Bank, and was
for fifty-two years one of the directors, being first
elected in 1832. He also held the office of president
of the Worcester County Institution for Savings for
a quarter of a century, resigning in 1871. He was
made a director of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad
at the date of its organization in 1845, and was its
president from 1850 to 1851. At Lincoln Square he
built the factory long known as "Court Mills," for
the manufacture of farm implements, and when
the site was needed for other purposes he built for
the Ames Plow Company (which had succeeded to
the business of the earlier partnership), a large fac-
tory on Prescott street. He built the first wire-mill
on Grove street, and enlarged the works to adapt
them to the expanding business, finally selling the
site to the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Com-
pany. He built other large factories on Union
street.

While busy with a multitude of cares, he neg-
lected not the weightier matters. He was identified
as a member of the Second Parish Unitarian Church,
in which he ever took a deep interest. In all of his
relations he was .every inch a man, honored and
trusted by a wide circle of friends throughout the
coninionwealth. Whether he be viewed from a social,
religious, civic, or financial point of view, he always
showed a full, well rounded character — a genuine
type of American citizenship. His personal manner
was genial, courteous and obliging to a marked de-
gree.^ His own interests were always gauged by the
best interests of his friends and neighbors. He was
a well-read gentleman, deeply versed in historical
and antiquarian lore, art and literature, in vifhich he
took great delight, with the added years of his
busy, eventful life.

During his latter years he accomplished much
for the substantial improvement of the northern por-
tion of his home city, aiding very materially in
building up a great manufacturing centre. He built
the spacious business block on Lincoln Square, and
in 1837 his residence on Highland street. His
father's ancient "mansion" in which he was born,
presents at this writing about the same homelike
appearance that it did a century ago, when it was
occupied by a trustworthy loyal revolutionary
patriot.

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Of his domestic relations it may be said that no
more affectionate husband or loving parent ever
graced a Massachusetts home and fireside. His
first wife, to whom he was married November 7,
1833, was Rebekah Scott Dean, of Charlestown, New
Hampshire, who died July 24, 1843, leaving as their
only child, Stephen Salisbury, Jr. He next married
Nancy Hoard, widow of Captain George Lincoln,
who died September 4, 1852. In 1855 he married
Mary Grosvenor, widow of Hon. Edward D. Bangs,
former secretary of state for Massachusetts; she
died September 25, 1864. He died August 24, 1884,
in his eighty-seventh year. In the language of one
who had long known him, "He was a considerate
gentleman of the old school type, a model of which
this generation has none too many imitators." At
his funeral the Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, DD.,
LL. D., used for his text, "We all do fade as a
leaf." With his demise a generous property passed
to his only child, Stephen Salisbury, Jr., a consid-
erable portion of this property being composed of
farm lands lying in close proximity to the business
portion of the city of Worcester. The son, with
wise business discretion, erected many dwellings,
factories and business blocks thereon, thereby con-
tributing greatly to the growth and prosperity of the
city, and a proportionate increase in valuation to
the estate.

(V) Hon. Stephen Salisbury is one whose name
is familiar to every citizen of Worcester, who has
any knowledge of the city and its principal institu-
tions. His local pride has been evidenced by his
many generous acts for the public welfare, and it
is justly to be said that scarcely any undertaking
of magnitude has been attempted during recent years
without his co-operation, directly or indirectly.

The only son of Stephen and Rebekah Scott
(Dean) Salisbury, he was born March 31, 1835, i"
Worcester, in one of the brick houses near the end
of Main street, opposite the court house. He began
his education in an infant school taught by Mrs.
Levi Heywood, on Main street. When six years old
he passed the winter of 1841-42 with his parents in
Savannah, Georgia. In the latter year he attended
the private school of Mrs. Jonathan Wood, at the
corner of Main and School streets, Worcester,
Massachusetts, and for a short time in 1844 was a
pupil in Jiliss Bradford's school in Boston. In
1845 he was a student in the grammar school under
Warren Lazell, later kept by C. B. iSIetcalf. until
1848, when he entered the Worcester High School,
then in charge of Nelson Wheeler. He matriculated
in Harvard College in 1852 and graduated there-
from in 1856 after completing the four years'
course. After his graduation he went to Berlin and
became a student in the Frederick William Uni-
versity. During the spring of 1857 he attended
lectures at the Ecole de Droit, in Paris. He spent
the summer and autumn with his classmates Rice
and Kinnicutt in England, Scotland and Ireland,
and late in the year visited Turkey, Asia Minor and
Greece, including a month's tour on horseback, ac-
companied by a guide. This trip gave hirn much
interesting and valuable information concerning the
country and customs of Greece. Aftervvard he re-
sumed his studies at Berlin, then re-visiting Paris,
and set out with his father's family upon a tour
covering portions of Italy, England. Scotland, Ire-
land and Wales. In December, 1858, after an ab-
sence of more than two years, he returned to Wor-
cester, and took up bookkeeping for a time as a
special study. He subsequently entered the law
otfice of Dewey and Williams as a student of law,
and in 1859 entered Harvard I>aw School. Two
years later he received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws, and was admitted to the bar in Worcester in

October, 1861. During the following winter months
he visited David Casares, a college classmate, in
Yucatan, where he made a study of the Maya In-
dians' ruins and monuments. In 1885 he traveled
through the same country and other portions of
Mexico and Cuba, re-examining some of the ruins
which he had seen on his former visit. In 1S88 he
again visited Europe, his tour including France,
Belgium, Holland and Spain. In Spain, especially,
he found much to interest him, as also in portions
of Portugal. He was also an extensive traveler in
his own country, and with his taste for the study of
history and natural history became possessed of a
large fund of useful knowledge, a review of which
he has given to American societies of historical
investigation.

Mr. Salisbury early entered into the responsi-
bilities of business life. In 1863 he became a
trustee of the State Mutual Life Assurance Com-
pany of Worcester. In 1865 he was chosen a director
of the Worcester National Bank, and after the death
of his father (in 1884) succeeded him in the presi-
dency. In 1877 he became a trustee and member
of the board of investment of the Worcester County
Institution for Savings, of which his father had
been president; and in 1882 he succeeded the late
Governor Alexander H. Bullock as its president.
He was also a director of the old Worcester &
Nashua and of the Boston, Barrc & Gardner Rail-
roads. He also gave much attention to public affairs,
In 1864, 1865 and 1866 he was a member of the
common council of Worcester, and president of the
board during his last term. In 1889 he was made
one of the commissioners of the sinking funds of
the city, and served in that capacity to the time of
his death, November 16, 1905. As a Republican he
represented the first Worcester district in the state
senate in 1893, 1894 and 1893, serving as cliairnian
of the committees on education, banks and banking,
and the committee on the treasury. In all these
various positions he displayed the qualities of the
well equipped man of affairs, and discharged every
trust with scrupulous fidelity.

Mr. Salisbury was conspicuously active and tise-
ful in his relation to many educational, historical
and charitable institutions, devoting to them not
only his service, but liberally of his means. He
was a prominent member of the Worcester Lyceum
and Natural History Association, vice president of
the Worcester Agricultural Society, a director of
the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, a trujtee
of Clark University from its founding in 1887 until
his death, and was at one time its treasurer. He was
also a trustee of Leicester Academy, and for ten
years served as treasurer of theMusic Hall Asso-
ciation, as well as one of its directors. He was
a trustee of the City Hospital at its incorporation
in 1S72, and secretary for eighteen years; trustee of
the Memorial Hospital, and secretary for ten years,
and vice president of St. Vincent Hospital. He was
also a trustee of Rural Cemetery, and secretary
of Hope Cemetery. Mr. Salisbury became a mem-
ber of the American Antiquarian Society in 1863,
a member of its council in 1874, vice-president in
1884. and in 18S7 was elected president, a position
which he occupied to the time of his death, and by
his will this society received about two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars and his library. In 1884 he
was elected a trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, and president in 1895, to which institution
he recently gave three hundred thousand dollars.
He was a member of the faculty of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology connected with Harvard
University; a member of the Massachusetts His-
torical Society, to which institution by his will he
gave five thousand dollars; a member of the Wor-

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cester County Horticultural Society, and formerly
its president ; tlie American Geographical Society ;
the New England Historic Genealogical Society; the
Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia y Estadistica
and the Conscrvatorio Yucateco. In all of these he
ever maintained a deep and intelligent interest. His
writings include important papers on the people of
Yucatan and their arts, which he contributed to the
American Antiquarian Society. He also translated
several valuable papers from the German of Dr.
Valentine on the same and kindred subjects. In
1888 lie prepared and read an exhaustive paper on
'"Early Books and Libraries." JMr. Salisbury was
an accomplished linguist, and enjoyed a good speak-
ing knowledge of the Spanish and other languages.

Mr. Salisbury's public spirit was shown not only
by his interest in municipal and state affairs, but
his more tangible works show him to have had
at heart the beauty and convenience of the city.
Among his public benefactions may be further men-
tioned a building for the City Hospital, a laboratory
and electrical station for the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute ; eighteen acres of land bordering on
Salisbury Pond given to the city in 1887, and by
him named Institute Park; a lot of land to the
Worcester Society of Antiquity and contributions
to their building fund, and by will another lot of
land and five thousand dollars. In 1896 he gave
land for the Worcester Art Museum, and con-
tributed with other citizens funds for the erection
of a museum building and for the endowment of
the corporation, and by his will made that institu-
tion his residuary legatee. In 1899 he gave land
for a building for the Worcester Woman's Club,
which has been recently erected. In 1900 Mr. Salis-
bury built on the summit of Bancroft Hill, one of
the most prominent elevations in Worcester, a gate-
way of rough stone, known as Bancroft Tower,
which affords an excellent opportunity for observa-
tion. This has been opened to the public, together
with the grounds surrounding it.

It is unusual in any family for one generation to
succeed another during so long a period of time as
that between John Salisbury in 1640 and his repre-
sentative of the present day, without degeneration in
some instance. Of the Salisbury family it is to be
said that from the emigrant ancestor down the name
has been a synonym,, for industry, integrity, public-
spirit, and civic duties ably and faithfully performed.
Each bearer of the name, in his own generation, has
shown the faculty of making his work bear fruits
beneficial to the general welfare of his fellow-citi-
zens, and in no instance has he hesitated to devote
himself, intellect and means to these ends.

The late Mr. Salisbury never married. The
value of his estate at the time of his decease, which
at this writing has not been settled, has been by
estimate fi.xed at from three to four millions of
dollars.

WASHBURN FA^IILY. This name is derived
from two simple words — wash, which imples a swift
current of a stream, and burne (or bourne), signi-
fying a brook or small stream. It has been said of
this family, whose origin is in England, carrying a
coat-of-arms, that the posterity of John Washburn,
who was the first emigrant to locate in New Eng-
land in 1632, "will seldom find occasion to blush
upon looking back upon the past lives of those
from whom they have descended. Fortunate indeed,
may the generations now in being, esteem themselves,
if they can be sure to bequeath to their posterity
an equal source of felicitation."

In this illustrious family have been found some
of our nation's greatest characters, in public and
private life, including great lawyers, statesmen and

military men in all of the American wars. Maine,
Vermont, Massachusetts and Wisconsin have each
had governors from this Washburn family, and
three brothers served as congressmen from three
states at the same time, and all with much ability.
Authors and college graduates may be found to a
score or more, who have left their impress upon the
world. As manufacturers, they have excelled, and
wherever wire goods and wire fencing are known,
there is found the name Washburn as being pioneers
in this line.

(.1) John Washburn, the original immigrant,
who settled at Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1632,

married Margery ■ , and by her was born

a son named John, of Bridgewater, who married in
1645 Eliza Mitchell. His father was secretary of
the Massadiusetts Bay Colony, and he, with his two
sons, John and Philip, were able to bear arms in
1643. The immigrant and his son John were among
the original fifty-four persons who became proprie-
tors of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1645. They
bought the lands of the old Sachem Massasoit, for
seven coats of one and a half yards each, nine
hatchets, eight hoes, twenty knives, four moose
skins, ten and a half yards of cotton cloth. The
transfer was signed by ^liles Standish, Samuel Nash
and Constant Southworth.

(II) John Washburn was born in England,
1621, and his brother Philip at the same place in
1624. He died unmarried. John (II) and his wife
Eliza Mitchell had these children : John, married
Rebecca Lepham ; Thomas, married (first) Abigail
Leonard and (second) Deliverance Packard; Jo-
seph, married Hannah Latham; Samuel, married
Deborah Packard ; Jonathan, married ;\Iary
Vaughan ; Benjamin, died on the Phipps expedition
to Canada ; Mary, married Samuel Kingsley ; Eliza-
beth, married (first) James Howard and (second)
Edward Sealy ; Jane, married William Orcutt ;
James, married Mary Bowden ; Sarah, married John
Ames.

(III) Samuel Washburn, son of John (2), called
"Sergeant," was born in 1651 at Duxbury, Massa-
chusetts. He married Deborah Packard, by whom he
had six children, including Israel.

(IV) Israel Washburn, born at Bridgewater,
1684. married Waitstill Sumner in 1708, and had four
children — one named Israel.

(V) Israel Washburn, who settled at Rayn-
ham, was born August 11, 1718, and married Leah
Fobes. He was committeeman of "Inspection and
Safety" and captain of a train band, 1774, and served
a short time in the revolutionary war. His son
was Israel.

(VI) Israel Wahburn. son of Israel Washburn
(S), was born in 1775, and married a !Miss King in

1783. He served in the revolution and was at the
Lexington alarm. He served in the general court
and was a member of the constitutional convention.
He talked but little and made but one speech in
pubHc life. He died at Raynham, 1841. Of his
ten children Israel (VII) was one.

(VII) Israel Washburn, son of Israel (6), was
born at Raynham,' Massachusetts, November 18,

1784, died at Livermore, Maine, September i, 1876.
He went to Maine in 1806 and taught school for a
time and then engaged in ship and boat building. He
removed to Livermore in 1809 and bought a farm,
store and goods, and continued in trade until 1829.
This farm was later and is still known as the "Nor-
lands." He represented his "district of Maine" be-
fore it had been set off from Massachusetts, which
was in 1820. He served in 1815. 1816, 1818 and
1819. Toward the end of his life he was afflicted by
blindness and his friends used to read the news to
him, of which he never tired. He was great in

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cheerfulness, rivaled Lincoln in story-telling and
could remember events well. It is said he could
name all congressmen and give the district to which
they belonged, when he himself had three sons in
congress.

His noble son, Hon. Elihu B., of Illinois fame,
wrote from Paris, when Minister to France, as
follows :

"This is the eighty-si.xth birthday of my father.
All hail to the glorious, great hearted, great headed,
noble old man ! In truth, the noblest Roman of them
all. How intelligent, how kind, how genial, how
hospitable, how true !"

This same worthy son had carved on his father's
monument at death, "He was a kind father and an
honest man." Passers by. to-day, may see this in
the cemetery overlooking the family place, "The
Norlands."

(Vni) Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, the only mem-
ber who still clung to the final "e" on his name,
was the son of Israel (7), born at Livermore,
Maine, September 23, 1816, and died at Chicago,
Illinois, October 22, 1887, aged seventy-one years.
In his early manhood, he taught school for ten dol-
lars per month and "boarded round." In 1836 he
entered Kents Hill Seminary, and in 1839 the Cam-
bridge Law School. In 1840 he moved to Illinois,
practicing law at Galena. In 1852 he was elected to a
seat in congress, continuing sixteen years, and upon
retirement was known as the "Watch Dog of the
U. S. Treasury" and also as "Father of the House."
He swore into office Schuyler Colfax and James G.
Blaine as speakers. To him and William Seward
alone did Abraham Lincoln confide the secret of
the runnnig of his train from Philadelphia to Wash-
ington, March, l86r, when Washburne had the tele-
graph wires cut, fearing trouble would ensue en route.
Both Seward and Washburne agreed to meet him
at the depot in Washington, but Washburne was the
only friend who did in fact meet him. He was a
constituent and admirer of General Grant, who
owed to him promotion to high office. In 1869 Grant
ottered him a place in his cabinet as secretary of
state, which he soon resigned and accepted the
office of Minister to France, and was there during
the trying days of the siege and commune, coinci-
dent with the Franco-Prussian war. He remained
there nearly nine years, and longer than any prede-
cessor. During the Andrew Johnson impeachment
trial, he was chairman of the house committee.

He married in 1845, Adele Gratiot, granddaugh-
ter of Stephen Hemslead, of Connecticut, a soldier
of the revolutionary war. She died March, 188/.
aged si.xty, her husband only surviving her until
October 22. Their son, Gratiot Washburne, was
graduated from the Highland Military Academy of
Worcester and from the Naval Academy at New-
port, Rhode Island. He was secretary of the United
States legation under his father in France, and was
one of four upon whom the French government be-
stowed the Cross of Legion of Honor for services
performed during the siege of Paris. He was
secretary of the American Exposition at London in
1886, and died suddenly in Kentucky.

(VIII) Governor Israel Washburn, son of Israel
(7), was born at Livermore, JIaine, June 6, 1813. He
was admitted to the bar in 1823. He was in the
legislature in 1842 and congressman from Maine
in the thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth,
thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth United States congresses
He was first a Whig and later a Republican. He
was elected governor of Maine in i860, and Lin-
coln made him collector of the port of Portland
in 1863. He was a literary man and also lectured
much. Fie married (first) Mary M. Webster and
(second) Robina Naper Brown, of Boston, in 1876.

He died May 12, 1883, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His son Israel was an officer in the Sixteenth
Maine Regiment during the civil war period.

(VIII) General C. C. Washburn, ex-Governor
of Wisconsin, was fully named Cadwallader Colden
Washburn. He was the son of Israel, born at
Livermore, j\laine, 1818. xie was a land survcyar.
went to Illinois in 1839, and settled at Mineral
Point, Wisconsin. He practiced law, and in 1859
moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was elected to
congress, serving from 1856 to 1862. He was dele-
gate to the peace convention in i86r, and rai-^^ed a
cavalry regiment the same year and was made
colonel. During 1862 he was promoted to brigadier-
general and then to major-general, and was at
Vicksburg with Grant and under General Banks in
Louisiana. In 1867 he was elected to a seat in con-
gress from Wisconsin, serving until 1871, when he
was chosen governor of Wisconsin.

(VTI) Governor Emory Washburn, of Massa-
chusetts, descended from the original immigrant
thus: I. John and Margery; 2. John and Eliza-
beth Mitchell; 3. Joseph and Hannah Latham; 4.
Joseph and Hannah Johnson ; 5. Seth and Mary
Harrod ; 6. Joseph and Ruth Davis ; 7. Governor
Emory, who was born in Leicester, Worcester
■ county, Massachusetts, 1800, and graduated at
Williatns College, 1817. In 1826 and 1827 we find
him in the general court of Massachusetts, and in
1841 and 1842, state senator, in 1844 judge of the
court of cominon pleas, from which bench he re-
signed in 1847, and in 1853 he became governor of
the state he had so faithfully served. He was made
a professor in law at Harvard College in 1856. con-
tinuing until March 18, 1877, when death claimed
him. He was a noted author of many law works,
genealogy and general historical books and papers.
including the excellent "History of Leicester," his
native place. He married Marianna C. Giles, who
bore him three children.

(V) John Washburn, son of John (4), was born
in i6gg, married Abigail Johnson, and had these
children: John, born 1730, married Lydia Prince;
Abigail, born 1732; Mary, born 1734; Mercy, born
I7.?6; Seth, born 1738, married (first) Faer How-
ard, (second) Ann Fullcrton, (third) Deborah
Churchill; Phillip; Thankful, born 1742.

(VI) Seth Washburn, born 1738. married as
above three wives and his children were : Fear, born
1766; Perris; Abigail; Seth born 1769. married Sarah
.A.dams ; Ichabod ; .Anna (by second wife) ; Ephraim
(by third wife).

(VII) Captain Ichabod Washburn, son of Seth
(6), was born about 1771. and in 1793 married
Sylvia Bradford, whose ancestors came in the "May-
flower," through the following line : Goyernor Will-
iam Bradford, who came on that ship, had a son,
William, whose .son, Samuel, had a son, Gamaliel,
whose son, Gamaliel, Jr., had a son named Peabody,
whose daughter, Sylvia, was the wife of Captain
Ichabod Washburn, who was a sea captain and lost
his life while off the coast at Portland. Maine,
helping to care for his brother seamen who were
sick with yellow fever. He died at twenty-eight
years of age, leaving three children : Ichabod
(VIII) and Charles (twins), who subsequently
came to Worcester, and a daughter Pamelia.

(VIII) Ichabod Washburn, the founder of the
great wire industry in Worcester, which is now a
prominent factor in the Ainerican Steel and Wire
Company, son of Ichabod and Sylvia (Bradford)
Washburn, was born August 11, 1798. at Kingston.
Massachusetts. His father died when he was but
an infant, and his mother was left to support her-
self and little ones by working at her loom and
spinning wheel. When nine years of age Ichabod

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Washburn went to live with a harness maker in
Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he did chores and
learned to stitch harness, attending school during
the winter terms. After five years' experience at
Duxbury, he returned to Kingston and worked for
a time in a small cotton factory. At the age of
sixteen years he was employed as an apprentice to
learn the blacksmith's trade with Jonathan and
David Trask, of Leicester. After a service of
two years the firm dissolved partnership, and young
Washburn found employment with Nathan Muzzcy
at the same trade, engaging to work for two years,
to receive fifty dollars for his services, be allowed
twelve weeks schooling and furnished with board
and clothing. T^Ir. Muzzey at the end of a year left
Leicester for the adjoining town of Auburn, Wash-
burn accompanying him, continuing until his twen-
tieth birthday. In the winter of 1817 and 1818 he
went to MiUbury to work as journeyman, but within
a few weeks the news came that a position as clerk
in Mr. Warren's grocery store in Portland, Maine,
was awaiting him, his sister having become in the
meantime Mrs. Warren. A brief trial at clerking
in his brother-in-law's store convinced him that he
was better adapted to mechanical than mercantile
pursuits, and he returned to Millbury and began
making ploughs on his own account. lie had no ■
funds, but, though a stranger, came to Worcester
and presented his case to Mr. Daniel Waldo, a man
of means, whO' heard his story and upon his own
note gave him money with which to operate. This
was his start financially. In 1819 he worked in an
armory making ramrods, and in the autumn of that
year came to Worcester.

In 1820 he engaged in business with William H.
Howard, manufacturing woolen machinery and lead
pipe, and soon thereafter purchased Mr. Howard's
interest in the business. In 1822 he took as a part-
ner Benjamin Goddard, and with the increase of
business they employed thirty workmen. They made
the first condenser and long-roll spinning-jack that
was made in the county. During the winter of 1830
and 1831, while on School street, he experimented
in the manufacture of wooden screws. Later he
and Goddard sold their business and moved to
Northville, where the manufacture of wire and
wooden screws began, the wire being made by Wash-
burn & Goddard and the screws by C. Reed & Com-
pany, associates. They also made card-wire. Some
in 1836-37 the screw business was removed to Prov-
idence, and finally r^^^'ged into the "American Screw
Company." In January, 1835, lie dissolved with
Goddard at Northville, and continued the wire busi-
ness in a building erected for him by Stephen Salis-
bury, on Mill brook, which furnished the power for
driving the crude and experimental machinery then
in use. This building was forty by eighty feet, three
stories high. In 1835 his twin brother. Charles, came
from Harrison, Maine, where he had been practic-
ing law, and formed a partnership with his brother,
which terminated in January, 1S38, but soon after
the substitution of the "wire-block" by Ichabod Wash-
burn, which revolutionized the industry, the busi-
ness began rapidly to multiply, and in 1842 they
again associated themselves as partners, the firm
name being I. & C. Washburn.

In 1847 the two Washburns put in a rolling mill
of their own at Quinsigamond, and soon the firm of
Washburn, Moen & Company was formed. The
same, however, was dissolved in 1849, the business
going to Henry S. Washburn, a member of the firm.
The firm of I. & C. Washburn that same year was
dissolved and a division of the plant made, Charles
taking the part at Quinsigamond. April i, 1850,
Philip L. Moen became a partner of Ichabod Wash-
burn, the style of the firm being I. Washburn and

Company. Ichabod Washburn spent much time in
experimenting in the tempering of wire that it might
be put to various uses, and at the suggestion of Mr.
Chickering, of Boston, he produced samples of
piano string wire, an article which hitherto had been
brought from England. That branch of the busi-
ness has been conducted with success up to the
present time, as well as other musical instrument
wires. In July, 1859, Ichabod Washburn employed
one hundred and twenty men and made three tons ■
of wire per day. In 1863 he and his partner built H
a colton-mill, which they operated about ten years, »
producing sulficient yarn to cover four tons of temp-
ered crinoline wire per day. January, 1S65, Ichabod
Washburn and Mr. Moen changed the firm name
to "I. Washburn and Moen Iron Works" — capital
stock, five hundred thousand dollars. In i858 it be-
came the Washburn-JNIoen iSIanufacturing Company,
with one million dollars capital. In 1889 the plant
was operated by three thousand workmen. A few
years since the whole business was merged into the
American "Steel & Wire Company.

Ichabod Washburn married (first) Ann G.
Brown, October 6, 1823. She was the daughter of
Mrs. David Brown, with whom he boarded in
Worcester. One son was born to them, December
1, 1824, but survived only a few days. Two daugh-
ters were born to them : Eliza Ann, born June 4,
1826, married Philip L. Moen, and died at the age
of twenty-six years ; and Lucy Painelia, born March
8, 1832, who died when twenty-two years old. The
mother and little granddaughter soon passed from
earth, leaving Mr. Washburn alone in the world.
He founded the Worcester Memorial Hospital to H
the fond memory of his two daughters. For his H
second companion he married Elizabeth B. Cheever. ™

Of his political standing, let it be recorded that
he was a strong anti-slavery advocate and gave of
his means abundantly, and urged by a petition to
President Lincoln the emancipation of the colored
race. After he formation of the Republican party,
he ever voted and worked and paid for the princi-
ples it advocates. He believed that capital and
labor should alike be busv and ever put to produc-
ing for the world. He was state senator in i860
and performed his part faithfully and well.

He was a life-long Christian and did very much
to aid the church. He was one of the first four
deacons of the Union Church, and assisted materi-
ally in building that church. He was treasurer of
the Church Anti-Slavery Society in 1859. From his
own funds, he erected the Mission Chapel on Sum-
ner street, Worcester. Space in this volume pre-
cludes the enumeration of but few of the benevo-
lent causes and benevolent industries to which he
gave most lavishly, believing as he did that money
was made to use and to use for mankind. He was
a systematic giver and in proportion to his income.
He felt it a duty to donate, and like Peabody, his
business multiplied on his hand by liberal giving to
worthy causes, hence he headed all subscription pa-
pers with a Christianlike pleasure. From him came
twenty-five thousand dollars to further on the build-
ing of the Mechanics' Hall, so appreciated today and
for the past decades used for great audiences, re-
ligious and political. He also was one of the origi-
nal promoters of the "Bay State House." He de-
spised into.xicating drinks and tobacco, giving time
and wealth for their suppression. When he built
his first lumber house, he would not ask men to
help "raise" it, if they asked to have liquor, as was
customary, but preferred to pay cash to men who
would do it without into.xicants, furnishing instead
lemonade and "small beer." Among his benefactions
should not be forgotten the large amounts he gave
toward the erection and support of educational and

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for file Afiffd (eif^hty- 1869, with that on Gr'

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religious institutions: Home for the Aged (eighty-
five thousand dollars) ; ^Memorial Hospital, the
Freedmen's Cause, the Home and Foreign Missions,
Orphans' Home, etc., scattered from Maine to
Georgia. But even the lives of the truly great and
good must cease. Seized by a stroke of paralysis in
February, 1868, he lingered on until death came
December of the same year. His last words were
spoken to a brother, "It is all right," and thus Wor-
cester and the world lost one of her noblest sons,
a self-made, wealthy, devoted Christian.

(VHI) Hon. Charles Washburn, twin brother
of Ichabod Washburn, was born in Kingston, Massa-
chusetts, August II, 1798. He selected as his voca-
tion the profession of a lawyer, and after receiving
the advantages of a common school education en-
tered Brown University, from which institution he was
graduated with the class of 1820. He was admitted to
the bar, and in 1823 was practicing his profession in
Otisfield, Maine. The following year he removed
to Harrison, same state, where he continued to labor
in his chosen profession, gaining special distinc-
tion as a lawyer. During the years 1830 and 1S33
he served his district in the Maine legislature. In
1835 he came to Worcester, ]\Iassachusctts, to join
his brother Ichabod in the wire industry, and in 1842
the firm of I. & C. Washburn was formed and two
years later the rolling-mill at Quinsigamond was
built. In 1849, through a dissolution of the firm and
a division of the property, the plant at Quinsigamond
came into the hands of Charles Washburn, who was
actively engaged in conducting this branch of the
wire business, which he continued until the year
1868, when the Washburn and Moen jManufactur-
ing Company was formed, this industry becoming
a part of the great business plant. As early as 1849
Mr. Washburn served as a member of the school
committee ; in 1849 and 1850 he was chosen a mem-
ber of the common council, having been president
of the same for three years; in 1851 was a member
of the Massachusetts legislature, and in 1854 served
in the board of aldermen. Mr. Washburn retained
an interest in the firm of the Washburn & Moen
Manufacturing Company, and was a member of the
board of directors up to the time of his death,
October 27, 1875.

Mr. Washburn married Zibeah Cary Blake, daugli-
ter of GrenfiU Blake, of Otisfield. Maine, November
30, 1826; she died August 12, 1845. Their children
were: Charles F. (IX), born August 23, 1827;
Grenfill B., ?ilay 16, 1829; Lucia B., October 29,
1730; Grenfill H., April 20, 1833; George L, May 26,
1835 ; Henry B., November 10, 1837 ; Maurice B.,
July 25, 1839; Zibeah C, April 15, 1844; Maurice,
August 9, 1845. Charles Washburn married for his
second wife Anna F. Brown, February 2, 1847.
There were three children of this marriage — a son
John, and two daughters, Ellen and Anna.

(IX) Charles Francis Washburn, son of Hon.
Charles Washburn, having acquired an excellent
education in the schools of Worcester and Leicester
Academy, from which he graduated, was prevented
by illness from attending college, but he added to
his academical knowledge a liberal store of general
information from his personal reading and observa-
tion. After an extended trip to Europe he entered
his father's rolling mills, and from the beginning
gave evidence of that mechanical skill and business
sagacity that characterized him in his later career.
He mastered every detail of the industry, working
in all departments, and gaining perfect mastery of
them. In 1857 he was admitted to partnership with
his father under the firm name of Charles Wash-
burn & Son. The business expanded rapidly as new
methods made possible new products, and the
Quinsigamond plant was finally incorporated, in

1869, with that on Grove street as the Washburn &
Moen Manufactur .any, and grew to oper-

ate a capital of .V and gave direct employ-

ment to some four tiioii-and people. Originally re-
stricted to the manufacture of wire for card teeth
and other similar purposes, the factories began the
making of telegraph wire as soon as the Morse in-
vention had demonstrated its practicability, and in
1850 was begun the making of piano wire, in which
the product of the Washburn mills soon superseded
the English make in the markets of the United
States. The company met every necessity as it
arose where wire could be used— wire for hoop
skirts between i860 and 1870, and after that the
great demand for all varieties of barbed wire for
fencing. During the last ten years it has produced
vast quantities of iron and steel cables and ropes,
spiral springs, etc., and, following the introduction
of electric energy for heating, light and power,
thousands of tons of wire annually for these pur-
poses. The yearly output of steel is about 40,000
tons, and of all products about 100,000 tons. In
1891 the company also established works at Wau-
kegan, Illinois, with wire capacity nearly equal to
that of the parent establishment.

In the capacity of secretary, director and vice-
president of the corporation, Mr. Washburn con-
tinually took a leading part in the administration of
its business, and to his perseverence and sagacity
was largely due the great advancements which were
made from time to time in the development of its
usefulness and importance, a signal attestation of
this fact being found in his securing to his company
the conrol of the barbed wire patents.

Deeply absorbed in his business Mr. Washburn
held aloof from public concerns, except in one in-
stance where he served the city as a member of the
common council. He was deeply interested, how-
ever, in benevolent and philanthropic works, and
rendered zealous and useful service to two of the
most notable and praiseworthy institutons of his
city, acting as vice-president of the governing board
of the Memorial Hospital, founded by his uncle,
Ichabod Washburn, and as president of the Home
for Aged Women. Of a sincere, christian tempera-
ment, he was a communicant of All Saints' Protest-
ant Episcopal Church. He was a warm advocate of
free-soil principles in his early days; was an original
member of the Republican party, and afllliatcd with
it earnestly and effectually during the remainder of
his life. He was a man of culture and refinement,
delighting in healthful and ennobling literature, and
devoted his leisure hours to his home and library.
He died July 20, 1893, leaving behind him to his
family and the community the fragrant memories
which cling to a noble and useful life in those broad
ways where such an unselfish man can make his
every act a benediction upon the thousands who
surround him.

Mr. Washburn married, October 10, 1855, Mary,
the eldest daughter of James M. Whiton, of Boston,
jNIassachusetts. Eight children were born to them,
all sons except one, and all excepting one son sur-
vived their honored parent. The children were:
Charles G., born January 28, 1857; James M., died
in infancy, December 27. 1S58; Philip, born August
2, 1861, died October 6, 1898; Miriam, born July 12,
1864; Robert M., born January 4, 1868; Henry B.,
born December 2, 1869; Reginald, born October 13,
1871; Arthur, born May 27, 1877. Reginald Wash-
burn married, August 26, 1903. Dorcas, daughter of
Hon. Edward S. Bcadford, of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts. Philip Washburn married, June S, 1883.
Miriam Phillips, youngest daughter of Rev. R. S.
Storrs, D. D., of Brooklyn, New York. He had
five daughters, two of whom died in infancy.

WORCESTER COUNTY

(X) Robert Morris Washburn, son of Charles
Francis and Mary Elizabeth Washburn, was born in
Worcester, January 4, 1868. He was educated in the
public schools, and was graduated at the Worcester
high school in 1886. He received the degree of A.
B. from Harvard University in 1890. He then
studied law for one year in the office of Rice, King
& Rice. He was then admitted a member of the
second-year class at the Harvard law school, where
he remained for one year, and in November, 1892,
was admitted to the Worcester county bar. He is
a practicing lawyer at 314 Main street, Worcester.
He is unmarried, living at the homestead estate, 42
Elm street. He is a member of the Republican city
committee, 1906, and a vice-president of the Repub-
lican club of Massachusetts, and a member of the
Republican Club of Worcester. He is also a mem-
ber of the Worcester Club, and Quinsigamond Boat
Club.

(X) Hon. Charles Grenfill Washburn, son of
Charles Francis and Mary E. (Whiton) Washburn,
was born in Worcester. January 28, 1857. He began
his education in the public schools of his native city,
was graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute in 1875. and from Harvard University in
1880. He subsequently took up the study of law
and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. He
has been constantly identified with the manufactur-
ing interests of the city. In 1880 he established the
business now conducted by the Wire Goods Com-
pany, with which he is still connected. In 1882 he
became treasurer and manager of the Worcester
Barbed Fence Company, which was subsequently
absorbed by the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company, and from 1884 to 1891 was a member of
the last named corporation, and during a part of
that period served in the capacity of director and
executive officer.

A Republican in politics, Mn Washburn was a
member of the Massachusetts house of representa-
tives in 1S97-98, in which body he served the first
year on the committee on mercantile affairs, and
the second year as chairman of the committee on
taxation. On the expiration of his term in the lower
branch he was elected to the state senate from the
first district of Worcester, serving two terms — 1899
and 1900. In 1902 he was a member of the com-
mittee tO' revise the corporation laws of Alassachu-
setts. He was a delegate to the Republican national
convention in Chicago, and the ^Massachusetts mem-
ber of the committee appointed to notify Theodore
Roosevelt of his nomination. He was elected No-
nember 6, 1906, to the si.xtieth congress from the
Third IMassachusetts District. He is a trus-
tee and president of the Worcester Poly-
technic Institute. He married. April 25, 1889,
Caroline Vinton Slater, daughter of Horatio
N. Slater, of Webster. Their children were : Eliza-
beth, born 1892, died in infancy; Slater, born August
5, 1896; Charles Francis, born May 10, 1898, died
December 19, 1902; Philip, born October 4, 1899;
Esther Vinton, born August 10, ' 1902.

Mrs. Washburn is a great-granddaughter of
Samuel Slater, founder of the town of Webster,
and a manufacturer of much importance in his day.
He was a native of Derbyshire, England, and
when fourteen years of age was apprenticed to
Jedediah Strutt, a partner of Arkwright, the cele-
brated pioneer in cotton manufacture. The offer
of a premium for the introduction of the Ark-
wright machinery into the United States brought
him to America at the close of his apprenticeship.
He arrived in New York about December i, 1790.
and established at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a
manufactory for cotton yarn. In 1812, in partner-
ship with Bela Tiffany, of South Brimfield, Massa-

chusetts, under the firm name of Slater & Tiffany,
he began the erection at Webster, Massachusetts, of
mills for the manufacture of cotton yarn. During
the war of 1812 the firm also engaged in the manu-
facture of broadcloth. In 1816 ^Nlr. Slater purchased
the interest of his partner, and afterwards associ-
ated with himself Edward Howard, a practical
cloth maker. In 1829 Howard sold his interest to
Samuel Slater and his sons — George B. and Hora-
tio N. Slater — who conducted business under the
firm name of Samuel Slater & Sons. From 1835,
the year of the death of the senior Slater, the sons
conducted the business until 1843, when occurred
the death of George B. Slater and Horatio N.
Slater succeeded to the sole management, in which
he continued until his death, in 1888, when his
nephew and namesake, the father of Mrs. Charles
G. Washburn, became the owner and manager. The
business after the death of H. N. Slater, Jr., was
incorporated as S. Slater & Sons. Samuel Slater,
the emigrant, was twice married. First, October 2,
1791, to Hannah, daughter of Oziel Wilkinson. She
died about 1812, and about 1817 he married Esther,
daughter of Robert Parkinson, of Philadelphia. His
first wife bore him nine children, of whom the sev-
enth was Horatio Nelson Slater.

(VII) Hon. William Barrett Washburn, son of
.'\sa and Phebe (Whitney) Washburn, and grandson
of Colonel Elijah Washburn and Captain Phineas
Whitney, was born in Winchenden, January 31,
1820. He fitted for college at the Westminster and
Hancock Academies, and was graduated from Yale
College in 1844. He clerked three years and then
engaged in the manufacture of doors, chairs and
wooden-ware at Erving. In 1857 he moved to
Greenfield, where he lived at the time of his death.
October 5, 1887. He was a member of the house of
representatives in 1850 and of the senate in 1854.
He was a member of congress from 1863 to January
I, 1872, when he resigned to be inaugurated gov-
ernor of Massachusetts. April 17, 1874, he resigned
as governor to fill the unexpired term of Hon.
Charles Sumner in the United States senate, hold-
ing the office until ]\Iarch 4, 1875. For many years
he was president of the Greenfield Bank and one
of the trustees of Yale College and an overseer of
Amherst College. He married, September 6, 1847.
Hannah Sweetster by whom were born two sons
and four daughters.

(IX) General Francis Washburn, son of John
M. Washburn, was born July, 1838, at Lancaster, his
parents having the April previous removed from
Boston. From the academy of his native town, at
the age of sixteen years, he went to serve a regu-
lar term in the Lawrence Machine Compan}'"s shop.
He next went to the Scientific School of Mining
and Engineering at Freiburg. Saxony. When in
1860-1861 the civil war cloud darkened our fair
national sky, he wrote, "I must hasten my return.
If the war comes, I shall sail at once." In Decem-
ber, 1861, he was given a commission in the army,
which he used as soon as he waited to see his
father pass from earth. He was mustered in as sec-
ond lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry,
the history of which is well knowil in the war de-
partment. He became captain, lieutenant-colonel,
and in February, 1865, commissioned as colonel,
which he held at the time of his death. He was
mortally wounded in the brilliant engagement at
High Bridge, Virginia, April 6, 1865. His braver/
was noted by the then Lieutenant-General Grant,
at whose request he was commissioned brigadier-
general. Here men fought hand to hand, an un-
common occurence. He fell from saber stroke and
pistol shot. He was brought home to the house
of his brother, Hon. John D. Washburn, where he

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shortly gave up his young life, licing ])ut twenty-
six years of age. He was called the "While Knight
of Modern Cavalry."

(IX) Hon. John D. Washburn, born in Boston,
March 27, 1833. was the eldest son of John Mar-
shall and Harriet (Kimball) Washburn. His par-
ents removed to Lancaster when he was five years
old and there his youth was spent amid those beauti-
ful surroundings. In 1853 he was graduated from
Harvard College, entering the law, lirst studying
with Hon. Emory Washburn and Hon. George F.
Hoar in 1854, finally receiving" a diploma from the
Harvard School in 1856. He practised in Worcester
with Hon. H, C. Rice. He made for himself a place
of importance among insurance circles, as legal
adviser. Later he succeeded Hon. Alexander H.
Bullock as general agent and attorney of the in-
surance companies in 1866. Through this associa-
tion he became connected with Governor Bullock
as chief of the stafi from 1866 to 1869, receiving a
colonel's commission. From 1871 to 1881 he was
trustee of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital, and from
1875 to 1S85 filled a similar place in the School for
Feeble ^Minded. He was a member of the house
of representatives from 1876 to 1879, and a senator
from Worcester in 1884. From 1866 to 1880 he was
a director of the Citizens' National Bank. He was
also a member of the board of investment fur the
W^orcester County Institution for Savings ; also
trustee and treasurer of the Memorial Hospital. In
1883 he became president of the Merchants' and
Farmers' Insurance Company. For many years he
was the councilor and secretary of the American
Antiquarian Society. During the latter years of his
life he was appointed as minister to represent this
country in Switzerland.

He married in i860 Mary F. Putnam. 'J'heir
daughter Edith, in 1884, married Richard Ward
Greene, of Worcester. He died April 4, 1903, leav-
ing a record in itself, a royal legacy to any com-
munity. He was one of nature's own nohlemen.
Even to the most humble of his constituents, he
would grant a personal favor and special attention.
It is believed that exposure to the hot sun, while
visiting in Paris, affected his head and that from
this was traced his lingering illness and final death.

(VIII) W'illiam Ansel Washburn, deputy
sheriff of Worcester, was born in Paxton, Massa-
chusetts, August 14, 1837. He was the son of John
and Nancy (Bemis) Washburn. His grandfather
was Francis Washburn, born in Brockton, 1769, died
1844; the great-grandfather being Jacob Washburn,
born in the same place.

John W'ashburn, W^illiam Ansel Washburn's
father, was born in Leicester, November 14, 1800,
and died in 1867. He was a shoemaker and black-
smith and drove the stage many years between Bos-
ton and Worcester. He married Nancy- Bemis in
1831. Their children were Delia, William A. and
Alice (twins), and Julia.

William Ansel was reared to farm life and then
learned the trade of shoemaker with his father.
When eighteen he left home and came to Worcester,
securing employment in the Hospital for the Insane
for four years. Then he clerked for a time,' but soon
began as a nail-maker in the factory of Prouty &
Allen. He was finally appointed a patrolman on the.
police force in 1863, and two years later was made
assistant-marshal, holding the same from 1873 to
1880; again in 1883, and from 1886 to 1S93. In
1893, he, by appointment, was made deputy sheriff
and deputy jailer. Like many another modern man,
he is closely identified witli civic societies, including
the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders. He is a
Knight Templar. Politically he affiliates with the
Republican party. In his religious belief he ad-

hcre.s^ to that of llie Universalist faith. November
29, 1860, he married Emily Delano, of Provincetown,
Massachusetts.

(VII) Hon. Peter Thatcher Washburn, once
governor of Vermont, was born in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, September 7, 1814, and died at Wood-
stock, Vermont, February 7, 1870, He was the son
of Reuben and Hannah Washburn. The father was
born in Leicester, Massachusetts, December 30,
1781. When Mr. Washburn was but three years of
age his father removed to Cavendish, Vermont. He
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1835, and began
law practice in 1838 at Ludlow, Vermont. He be-
came one of the most marked political figures in
the state. For eight years, from 1844 to 1852, he
held the office of supreme court reporter. In 1853-54,
he was in the legislature, and when the rebellion
broke out he rai.sed troops and entered the service as
lieutenant-colonel of the First Regiment from Ver-
mont, being stationed at Fortress Monroe. He only
remained in the service about three months, and in
1861 was appointed inspector-general of Vermont.
September, 1869, he was elected governor of Ver-
mont. He was active with his pen, and in 1844
publislied a "Digest of Vermont Reports" and many
other works of value.

BARTON FAMILY. Hon. Ira Moore Barton was
a gentleman of unusual qualities as a scholar, jurist
and judge. He was born in Oxford, Massachu-
setts, October 25, 1796. and was of the fifth genera-
tion from Samuel Barton, of Salem, Massachu-
setts, 1693, and of Sutton, 1718. After preparation
by a private tutor and at Leicester Academy, he
entered Brown University and was graduated from
that institution in i8rg. He began the study of
law with Samuel W. Bridgham, of Providence, con-
tinuing his legal, education with Sumner Barstow,
of Sutton, and Hon. Levi Lincoln, of Worcester,
from whose office he entered the Harvard Law
School, graduating in 1822. He immediately estab-
lished an office in Oxford, where his recognized
ability and skill as a legal adviser and advocate
soon brought him a large practice.

For three years (1830-31-32) he represented the
town of Oxford in the state legislature, and in
1833-34 represented the county of Worcester in
the state senate, serving for a time as commissioner
for the revision of the statutes. He removed to
Worcester in 1834, and two years later was ap-
poiiUed by Governor Edward Everett judge of pro-
bate for the county of Worcester. As the duties of
the office did not require his entire time, he contiiuied
his practice in other courts. In 1844 he resigned as
judge of probate to devote his entire time to his
growing practice. In 1840 he was chosen presi-
dential elector, and in 1846 represented the town
of Worcester in the house of representatives in
the state legislature. He rendered efficient service
in behalf of his constituents and the state, exerting
himself earnestly in favor of an act to extend the
equity and jurisdiction of our highest court. In 1844
Judge Barton took as law partner Peter C. Bacon,
also of Oxford, and two j-ears later William Sum-
ner Barton, eldest son of the judge, was taken
into the firm.

In 1849 Judge Barton went to Europe, where he
passed nearly two years, enjoying a much needed
rest. On his return he resumed his practice in the
firm. He was a member of the American Anti-
quarian Society, and one of its councillors. He died
July 18. 1867. and the librarian of that institution,
Samuel F. Haven. LL. D., in his council report
of October of that year says of Judge Barton —
"In every station, public or private, he was dis-
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devotion to the fullest performance of every duty."
He was an accomplished lawyer, an upright magis-
trate, an enlightened patriotic citizen. His widow
died in Worcester, November 24, 18S3, aged eighty-
three years. Their children were: William Sumner,
born September 30, 1824, died July 13, 1899; Hannah
Maria, born April 21, 1826, died December
13, igo6; Artemas Bullard, born August 12,
1828, died June 21, 1831 ; Charles Henry, born
April 10, 1830, died February 16, 1885 ; Artemas
Bullard, born December 5, '1831, died April 17,
1837; Lucy Ann, born July 24, 1834, died Septem-
ber 25, 190S ; Francis Augustus, born October 24,
1836, died January 29, 1898; Edmund Mills, born
September 27, 1838; George Edward, born July
30, 1841, died May 29, 1878.

William Sumner Barton, eldest son of Judge
Barton, was born in Oxford, September 30,
1824, and came when ten years of age with
his parents to Worcester. He attended the
common schools and also the Worcester _ Acad-
emy, was graduated from Brown University
in 1844, and later received the degree of A. M.
After studying law in the office of his father and
law partner, Peter C. Bacon, and attending the Har-
vard Law School, he was admitted to the bar in
1846, and became a partner in his father's firm,
the style of the firm being Barton, Bacon & Barton.
In June, 1854, he accepted a position in the Bank
of Commerce, Boston, where he remained until
January, 1872, when he was elected treasurer and
collector of tax^s for the city of Worcester. From
1876 until his death he was treasurer of the sinking
funds, and also from 1872 treasurer of all the trust
funds of the city. Mr. Barton was a genial, court-
eous gentleman, prompt and accurate,^ thoroughly
competent to discharge the duties of his office — an
ideal public official. He inaugurated a new and
modern system of arranging and keeping accounts,
which greatly facilitated and simplified the work of
the department. He was fond of historical study
and research, and among the articles from his pen
are, "Sketch of the Bullard Family," "Sketch of the
Life of the Duchess of Orleans and her Sons, the
Comte de Paris, and the Due de Chartres," and
"Epitaphs from the Cemetery on Worcester Com-
mon, with occasional notes, references and an in-
dex." After a faithful, honorable service as city

BULLARD HOUSE. WEST SUTTON

The Bullard house was built by Ebenezer Waters in 1767. who sold
it to Mr. Hunt, of whom Dr. Artemas Bullard purchased it about the
year 180.5. Here Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was born, courted and
married. In the parlor at the left as you enter the house, in which
Mr. and Mrs. Beecher were married, is a painting of Boston Common,
on the panel over the fire place, and in the chamber overhead is a
painting of the Boston Tea Party, in a panel over the fireplace there

treasurer for twenty-seven years, he died July 13,
1899.

He married April 4, 1849, Anne Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Samuel and Mary Gould (Ellery) Jennison, of
Worcester. He married for his second wife, No-
vember 22, 1870, Katharine Almy, daughter of Will-
iam and Jane Byron Ellery, of New York city.
His widow and live children survive him ; three
daughters by the first marriage, and a son and
daughter by the second.

Edmund Mills Barton was born in Worcester,
Massachusetts, September 27, 1838, the son of the
late Hon. Ira Moore Barton and his wife, Maria
Waters (Bullard) Barton. She was born January
25, 1800, in the town of Northbridge, daughter of
Artemas Bullard, M. D., and his wife Lucy, eldest
daughter of Deacon Jesse and Anna Mason White,
of Northbridge. Dr. Bullard was a successful prac-
titioner, who acquired an extensive practice, and
as a citizen was greatly respected and beloved. He
was appointed by Governor Strong surgeon of the
local infantry regiment, and was in 1814 elected
a fellow of the council of the Massachusetts Medi-
cal Society. Mr. Barton's great-grandfather, Asa
Bullard, of Holliston, Massachusetts, answered the
Lexington Alarm, serving in Captain Stapels Cham-
berlain's company. Colonel Samuel Bullard's regi-
ment.

Mr. Barton's boyhood days were chiefly spent
in Worcester. After passing through the various
graded schools, he took a course at the Valentine
school in Northborough. The opening scenes of
the civil war found him at home, assisting in the
care of his invalid father. In May, 1863, he went to
the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, visit-
ing hospitals on the way, and laboring in the field
hospitals after the battle of Chancellorsville. He
then visited the headquarters of General John A.
Dix, at Fortress Monroe, and accompanied him
upon his expedition to Bottom's Bridge, near Rich-
mond. The battle of Gettysburg called him to that
field for hospital work, and there he was commis-
sioned field relief agent of the United States sani-
tary commission, under the authority of the secre-
tary of war, and was assigned to the Fifth Army
Corps of the Army of the Potomac. This position
he held at the front until the end of the war and
the final review at Washington. (See Marvin's
"Worcester in the war of the Rebellion"
for further details.)

After Mr. Barton's return from the war,
July I, 1865, he spent a few months in travel
and on April I, 1866, became assistant
librarian of the American Antiquarian So-
ciety, Worcester. Upon the death of the
eminent librarian. Dr. Samuel Foster
Haven, he was unanimously elected on
April 24, 1883, to succeed him in the im-
portant office. It was a most fitting recog-
nition of the services of a zealous, pains-
taking efficient officer, who has at all times
given the best at his command to further
the good service of that remarkably well
equipped institution. For Mr. Barton's
literary productions, reference is made to
Ford's partial bibliography of published
works of members of the American His-
torical Association, of which Mr. Barton is
an original life member of the American
Library Association, of which he was for
some years a councillor; life member of the
American Antiquarian Society; life mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Library Club, and
at one time a vice-president ; member of
the Worcester High School Association,
and its president in 1894 1 also a member

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Df various historical, military, and benevolent so-
:ieties and cluirch clubs.

He married, September 6, 1871, Abigail Twycross
Blake, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Paine Blake,
and they have one daughter and three sons : Lydia
Maud, born August 2, 1872 ; Edmund Blake, born
Dctober 30, 1874; Frederick MacDonald, born June
[9, 1880; and Harold BuUard, born December 21,
[88s.

WOODCOCK FAMILY. We find from "His-
:orical Collections" that the first settlement in Attle-
Dorough was commenced by a John Woodcock and
[lis sons, about 1669. He built a public house on
Lhe Bay road, and laid out about three hundred
icres of land for his farm. He took up in several
parts of the town six hundred acres, some on his
Dwn shares, and the rest on rights that he pur-
:hased. His house was occupied for a garrison,
ind was licensed in 1670. Woodcock was a man
jf some consequence in those days, his name often
ippearing in town ofKces and on committees. In
[691 he was chosen deputy to the general court
Erom Rehoboth, and at several other times. He
A'as shrewd, hardy and brave, a strong and im-
slacable enemy to the Indians. He died in 1701,
It an advanced age. After his death seven bullet
loles were counted in his body. He had two wives :
Sarah, died May 10, 1676 ; and Joanna, who sur-
ifived him. His children were : i. John, married
Sarah Smith, 1673. 2. Israel. 3. Nathaniel. 4.
Jonathan. 5. Thomas ; and three daughters.

In August, 1894, the following item appeared in
he Boston Journal: ''The grave of Nathaniel Wood-
rock, who was killed by the Indians, and who was
:he first white settler in Attleborough, has prob-
ibly been located. The discovery promises to be
jf much historical importance. A few days ago,
Afhile workmen were grading at the 'Old North
Burying Ground,' a grave-stone was ploughed up.
*it present all that can be traced without acids

s. 'In Memory of N W , died March, 1665.' "

^Jathaniel Woodcock is known to have been killed
)y Indians in March, 1665.

Nathan Woodcock, the great-grandfather of our
;ubject proper, Theodore E., was married in Easton,
Massachusetts, September 26, 1765, to Elizabeth
Stone.

John Woodcock, their son, was born in Easton,
Vlassachusetts. October 14, 1775, and died in Leices-
er in 1814. He was educated in the common schools
if his neighborhood, and was a man of keen in-
ellect, shrewd and practical, with a v\-armhcarted
lature. He was endowed with the gift of inventive
jenius, and in 1809 he received United States Let-
ers Patent for a machine, still much in use, for
splitting leather, and which at that time was of
jreat value. He is mentioned by Governor Wash-
)urn in his "History of Leicester," as a very "in-'
renious mechanic," for whose valuable invention
he town owes a debt of gratitude which ought not
be forgotten. He lived but fourteen years after
:oming to Leicester, falling a victim to consump-
:ion. but in those j-ears he had built up, in con-
lection with his partner, a valuable business, known
IS the manufacture of card clothing, which in the
lands of descendants and their associates, continued
nany vears. He married, in Easton, December 15,
796, Ruth Mehurin, of Easton, Massachusetts, and
vas at the time of marriage of Rutland, Massachu-
etts. He left three sons and two daughters, whose
Ives were all passed in Leicester, "usefully and
lonornbly:" Hannah, married Benjamin Conklin,
826, Ruth,' married Dwight Bisco, Esq., January 8,
:826. John, Josephus, Lucius.

John Woodcock, son of John (4), was born in

Rutland, Massachusetts, July 23, 1800, and died in
Leicester, August 26, 1880. He obtained a common
school education, and true to the best traditions of
New England li£e, as well as to the education he
had received, he entered early, at the age of seven-
teen upon a course of business industry. He took
service with James and John A. Smith, who were
his father's successors in business. In 1825 he be-
came, with Hiram Knight, Esq., partner in the same
firm, later known as Woodcock & Knight, and in
1848 Theodore E. Woodcock and Dexter Knight,
sons of seniors, came to the firm under the name
of Woodcock, Knight & Company. He retired from
business in 1867. During his life, he gave a good
share of his time to the public service, was a select-
man, and in other town offices, and in the legislature
two years. He was always a stanch Republican;
was a director of the Leicester Bank from 1836
to the time of his death, a period of forty-four
years, and a trustee of the Savings Bank from its
beginning. He was for ten years chairman of the
directors of the Public Library of the town in which
he took a warm interest, and to which he made
many donations of valuable books. He was known
as a man of intelligence, and of sound, practical
judgment, of a memory remarkably exact both of
persons and events.

Mr. Woodcock was married, in 1823, to Anna
Jenkins, born in Cambridge, New York, daughter
of Joshua and Remember Bowen Jenkins, who were
both stanch Quakers. Reared in this faith, the
daughter Anna retained the gentle, loving nature
so characteristic of the Society of Friends, ever
ready to lend a helping hand to the sick and un-
fortunate ; of affable and pleasing manner, her many
fine qualities endeared her to a large circle of friends.
Three children were the result of this marriage:
Theodore Earle; Ann Eliza, married Dr. William
H. Brown, of Bangor, Maine, in 1851, and died in
1889; Ruth Mehurin, married William W. Cald-
well, Esq., of Newburyport, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 21, 1848. Mrs. Woodcock died in 1856. Mr.
Woodcock married (second) in 1858, Ellen L.
Burnett, of North Brookfield, Massachusetts, a lady
of culture, who cared for him most tenderly in
his declining years, and still survives him. His
home was always the happy resort of children and
grandchildren; his spirit ever affectionate and gen-
erous,

Theodore Earle Woodcock, son of John (5),
was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, February 19,
1825. He obtained his education in the schools of
his native town and in Leicester Academy. He com-
menced at an early age working in his father's
caid factory, learning the business, and in 1848 was
adnntted as a partner in the card clothing manu-
facturing with his father, the firm known for many
years as Woodcock. Knight & Company, Mr. Wood-
cock retiring in i88r, the company dissolving by
mutual consent, having had a high reputation in
one form or another, since 1802, when the business
was established by Winthrop Earle and John Wood-
cock, grandfather of Theodore E., the subject
proper of this sketch.

Mr. Woodcock was chosen director of the Leices-
ter Bank in 1869. serving until 1904, when the bank
went into liquidation; is second vice-president of
the Leicester Savings Bank; also a member of the
finance committee; he has served as selectman in
his town, and was a director of the Public Library
for many years. Mr. Woodcock is a man of quiet
tastes, home-loving and fond of reading. Although
residing in Worcester, he is still loyal to his native
town. Leicester, and retains his legal residence there,
and is also a regular attendant at the John Nelson
Memorial Church of that place.

WORCESTER COUNTY

In 1850 he was married to Miss Ellen Caldwell,
daughter of John Caldwell, Esq., of Newburyport,
Massachusetts, a most estimable lady of pleasing
manner, but who was unfortunately an invalid for
several years, and died in 1873. By this union, three
children were born, viz.: Anna Ruth; Ellen Orne,
died in 1873, aged seventeen years ; John, died in
infancy. Anna Ruth married, April 28, 1875, George
Richardson, of the firm of Clark, Sawyer Co., of
Worcester. They have two children, and reside in
Worcester, Massachusetts.

HON. THOMAS H. DODGE. Among the
noted and praiseworthy types of manhood whose
career has brightened and blessed his fellowmen,
none rises to a more truly noble and lofty attitude
than an honored son of the "Green Mountain"
state, of whom the subjoined notice and genealogi-
cal sketch is .written. With such an abundance of
real facts from which to draw, one scarcely knows
which to select for record use and which to leave
unemployed. The subject of which we write is

Thontias H. Dodge, who has been an active,
brainy, never-stand-still character, whose career,
now well nigh spent by the coming-on of old age,
will for generations yet to come be kindly remem-
bered for the work he had so intelligently wrought
out with his own brains and willing hands. While
some men achieve great names by military fame ;
some by statesmanlike lives ; others by money-mak-
ing traits alone, this gentleman has made for the
world a true pattern for any young man who wishes
to improve his time and make good use of the op-
portunities with which he finds himself environed,
upon his advent into the world. In this man one
finds a study, which to fully comprehend needs to
be re-enforced by a knowledge of his noble an-
cestry — noble not in a sense of handed-down
"royalty," but of that sturdy self-making, self-deny-
ing, painstaking sort of which most truly great men
are produced.

Concerning the genealogy of Mr. Dodge, let it
be said that he is of English origin, and what people
have been felt more for their intellect and virtues
than the Anglo- SaxOn race? The Dodges have
a history known somewhat of as far back as
1306 A. D., when members of the family held lands
in Stockport, England. But as the object of this
volume is to begin with the American ancestry,
as a rule, and trace the descendants to the present
time, such facts as might be had concerning the
English family will not be atteinpted to be repro-
duced herein.

In the course of researches for this family his-
tory only two main branches have been found, one
descended from William, or Richard, of Beverly,
Massachusetts, and the other from Tristram Dodge,
who settled on Block Island, Rhode Island, in 1660.
April 25, 1629, there sailed from Gravesend, on the
Thames, two boats — one the "Talbot," a vessel of
three hundred tons, and the "Lion's Whelp," a
neat ship of one hundred and twenty tons. They
reached Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, May _ 8. The
journal kept by Reverend Francis Higginson, of
the "Talbot," has been preserved and gives clue
to the origin of all American Dodges. That record
says that the "Lion's Whelp" had forty planters
from Dorchester, many mariners, eight pieces of
ordnance, provisions, and four goats. Both vessels
sailed from Yarmouth, May 11, 1629, and arrived
at Salem, June 29, the same year.

William Dodge settled in that location now called
Beverly, but in early times known as Bass-River-
Side, being separated from Salem by the bay. Tra-
dition states he was tall, with black hair and a
dark complexion. He became a freeman April 17,

T.6zy, and received a grant of land containing sixty
acres in September that year. William Dodge came
to Salem nine years earlier than Richard, hence he
has been called the "father of American Dodges."
The records, however, show the descendants of
Richard outnumber his, probably on account of the
fact that the former had but two sons, while Richard
had five.

Richard Dodge, brother of William (i), was
received as an inhabitant in October, 1638, and was
granted ten acres by the town of Salem. He was
admitted into the churcji at Salem, May 5, 1644.
In 1671 he helped to establish the First Church at
Beverly. Richard died in June, 1671, leaving a will
jjy which it appeaiTS that he left a brother Michael :
the will of Richard, in connection with the will
of his father, John Dodge, renders the origin of
Salem Dodges quite clear. Records in the register's
office of Essex county also show that William Dodge,
senior, had a nephew William Dodge (Coker Will-
iam or William Coker), son of Michael, to whom
by a deed dated May 12, 1685, he gave sixteen
acres of land where now stands the Beverly reser-
voir. On the same date he also imposed a duty
upon his son Captain William Dodge, of Beverly,
to "pay my brother," "if he came to New England
and dwell in this town of Beverly, five pounds per
annum, so long as he shall dwell here" — referring
to his brother in England — doubtless Michael
Sprague, then his only brother, Richard having died
in 1671.

The Dodges for at least four generations rarely
engaged at anything besides farming. They wanted
to possess and improve the soil. They were hard
workers and seldom irreligious; rarely office seek-
ers, and were a temperate set of people. With the
expansion of population they pushed forth for new
homes, to subdue other lands, and have been found
on the wild frontiers, through the northern states,
and today count their descendants by the hundreds
if not thousands all the way from New England
to the waters of the Pacific. Men of note and
national fame may be found here and there from
out their ranks of workers. They are found among
the philanthropic, military, literary, clergy, medical,
legal and college professorships and callings — ever
ready to do and to dare.

To come now direct to the line of genealogy in
this country it may be said, first, that John Dodge
(i) and wife Margery, of Somersetshire, England,
had these children : i. William, came to America,
1629; died between 1685 and t602. He was prob-
ably born about 1604. 2. Richard, appeared in
Salem. 1637 : died June. 1671 : probably born 1602.
3. Michael, lived and died in Somerset county, Eng-
land, and had five children. 4. Mary, died in Eng-
land and had one son — John.

(Ill William Dodge, eldest son of John (l),
born about 1604, came to Salem, Massachusetts, in
162Q. A tradition was handed down by Col. Robert
Dodge to his son Francis, of Georgetown, D. C.,
that "farmer William" came to America when about
twenty-one years of age. to see how he liked it,
and returned to England, telling his father that he
had determined to settle in America, and asked
him for some oresent. His father said, "get mar-
ried and I will give it." William is said to have
had two refusals, but finally succeeded, married,
and for his "present" his father gave him a pair
of bulls. "Farmer William," as he was styled, be-
came a prominent factor in his new home in the
New World. He was elected to many local ofiices
and served in courts as juryman, helped construct
roads; bridges, churches, and was an extensive
farmer. In 1685 he ,sold his real estate, conveying
the homestead to his son Captain William. His

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:hildren were: I. Capt. William, born September,
[640; died 1720. 2. Hannah, born 1642; married
5amuel Porter, who died 1660 ; married Thomas
k\'oodbcrry. Josiah Dodge, killed in the Narragan-
>ett war in 1O75, may have been another son.

(II) Richard Dodge, son of John Dodge (l),
:he English ancestor, and a brother to William above
lamed, married in England, and had a son John,
ivho died there. His wife was baptized as Edith.
[t is quite certain that Richard and wife joined the
New England colony in 1638, and as the King
it that time was not allowing emigration, it is
possible that he left England without royal sanc-
;ion. He settled in "Dodge Row," North Beverly,
.vhere he built a house that was occupied and kept
n the family for more than two hundred years.
He and his wife Edith were members of the Wen-
lam Church, but the most of his time and talent
seems to have been spent in farm improvements,
lot paying any special attention to church work.
His wife outlived him seven years, dying June
27. 1678, at the age of seventy-five years. Their
:hildren were : John, Mary, Sarah, Richard, Samuel,
Edward, Joseph.

(III) Joseph Dodge, son of Richard (2), born
in Beverly, 165X, died August 10, 1716; married
Sarah Eaton, of Reading, 1671. He was a farmer
in Beverly, near his father, on Dodge Row. He
ivas one of the executors of his father's estate, re-
:eiving a liberal joint share with his brother Ed-
ward. The children born to Joseph and his wife
ivere : Abigail, Joseph, Noah, Prudence, Abigail,
Jonah, Sarah. Elisha, Charity, Nathaniel.

(IV) Elisha Dodge, son of Joseph (3), born
January, 1687, died January 17, 1755. With his
brother Jonah he shared his father's real estate
holdings. In his will he gave his wife Mary two
cows, f6ur sheep and other property, and to his
son Elisha all real and personal estate. He left
to his wife a negro woman, Bathsheba, who was
to belong to his daughters Lois and Mary on the
death of their mother. His realty was appraised
at 380 pounds, and personal at 114 pounds. He
married Mary Kimball, of Wenham, October, 1709,
and the children born to them were : Jerusha, Lois,
Elisha, Mary, Elisha.

(V) Elisha Dodge, son of Elisha (4), born in
Beverly, May 17, 1723, died after 1777, in New
Boston, married, first, to Eleanor Dodge ; sec-
ondly, to Sarah Foster, of Wenham, 1748, who died
August, 1768: and in 1769 he married Mrs. Deborah
Lovett. He lived in Beverly until 1777, when he
moved his family to New Boston, New Hampshire,
where he died. His children were: Sarah, Jerusha,
Elisha, Noah, Malachi, Abigail, Ella, Enoch,
Mehitable, Mary.

(VI) Enoch Douglas, son of Elisha (s), born
May. 1762. in Beverly, died December 27, 1834,
in Eden. Vermont; married, December 18, 1787,
Jael Cochran, born in New Boston, New Hamp-
shire, 1768, died at Eden, Vermont, April 6, 1844.
They moved to New Boston in 1788. Their chil-
dren were: i. Malachi Foster, born New Boston,
New Hampshire, August 20. 1789. 2. Elizabeth,
born March 28, 1792, died February 22, 1793. 3.
Betsey, born January 17, 1794, died July 22. 1802.
4. Enoch, born December, 1795, died Crete, Illinois,
March 4, 1873. 5. Elisha, born February 18, 1798,
died July, 1802. 6. Jane, born January 25, 1800,
died February, 1844; married Daniel Cornish. 7.
Nathaniel C. born -May, 1802, lived at Jefferson-
ville. Vermont. 8. Joseph, born March 31, 1804.
died June, 1864. 9. Mary, born June 24, 1806, died
1880. 10. Hiram, born June 25, 1808, died May 13,
1859. II John, born December, 1810, died March,
1814.

(VII) Malachi F. Dodge, son of Enoch (6),
born August 20, 17S9, in New Boston, New Ilamp-
.•ihire, died October 13, 1865, in Nashua, New Hamp-
shire. He married Jane Hutchins, January g, 1812,
at Belvidcre, Vermont. They first resided in Bel-
videre and ne.xt in Lowell, Vermont, whence they
removed in 1837 to Nashua, New Hampshire. Their
children were: i. Priscilla D., born May 1813, died
August li, 1864; married William H. Huntley. 2.
Malachi F., born January 8, 1815. 3. Elisha
C, born September 27, 1816, died February,
1825. 4. Sarah Jane, born July 6, 1818, mar-
ried, November 18, 1845, Frederick Plummer
Bixby; both deceased. 5. Daniel Darling, born June
28, 1820, married Miss Wyman; both deceased. 6.
Thomas Hutchins, born September 27, 1823, mar-
ried Eliza Daniels. 7. Abbie R., born June, 1825,
married Rodney M. Rollins; both deceased. 8.
Elisha E., born November 17, 1827, married Martha

E. Fernald ; both deceased. 9. Mary Harding, born
November 20, 1829, married Mason Boyd ; he is
deceased ; she resides in New Hampshire. 10. Eme-
line A., born July, 1832, died October 26, 1865.

(VIII) Malachi F. Dodge, Jr., son of Malachi

F. (7), born January 8, 1815, at Eden, Vermont,
married. May, 1838, Charlotte A. Ober, of Hopkin-
ton, New Hampshire, first, and after her death he
married Hannah P. Edwards. Both are now de-
ceased. They resided at Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, and had following children: I. Infant son, died
in 1841. 2. Edward O., born February, 1844; mar-
ried Ellen L. Dearborn, deceased. 3. Thomas F.,
born October, 1846. 4. Willy H., born November,
1851, deceased. 5. James E., born March, 1854,
resides in Manchester, New Hampshire, and al-
though a Republican in politics has been city auditor
for many years under the administration . of both
parties. 6. Frank E., born September, 1863, deceased.

(VIII) Having brought down from the English
ancestor, the line of descendants to which our chief
subjects belonged, it should here be stated that
he of whom we write, Hon. Thomas H. Dodge (8),
was born September 27, 1823, in the town of Eden,
Lamoille county, Vermont. He is the fourth son
of Malachi F. Dodge (7), and wife Jane liutchins.
Thomas H. had the early advantages of good dis-
trict schools, as his father was a well-to-do farmer.
The family later moved to the town of Lowell,
Vermont, residing on a farm until he was about four-
teen years of age, when his eldest brother secured
a good position with a manufacturing concern at
Nashua. New Hampshire, and the family removed
there. Here he applied himself to his school duties
and became a great admirer of Judge Edmund
Parker, who was his Sabbath school superintendent.
The Dodge family there were members of the Olive
St. Congregational Church. Through the influence
of Judge Parker, young Dodge resolved on becom-
ing a lawyer and manufacturer. He proposed to his
parents to bear his own expenses and thus showing
what he could accomplish, agreeing to pay to his
father a sum for the remainder of his time, as he
had not yet reached his majority. He decided on
learning the cotton manufacturing business, hence
commenced at the bottom as a roll carrier, giving
him a chance to understand all about the raw
product and its preparation for spinning. All this
time he was reading books on this subject. After
earning sufficient money in the factory he entered
Gymnasium Institute, at Pembroke, New Hamp-
shire, where he rapidly advanced, and. at the com-
mencement delivered his first oration, '"The Canadian
Patriot's .Address before his Execution." Learned
state lawyers and jurists were present and he made
a great impression upon all. One judge made the
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before him." And true it was. But little did they
dream that within a third of a century this lad
would stand so high as a manufacturer and in-
ventor, as well at the forefront as an advocate and
jurist in a special branch of law. He returned to
the cotton mills, and in 1850 published his famous
review of the "liise, Progress and Importance of
Cotton Manufactures of the United States." He was
a close student in many branches of natural phil-
osophy and chemistry. He was a born inventor,
and knew to succeed he must needs be fully posted,
hence his extra training along all mechanical lines
occupied his time for years. Among his numerous
inventions was his printing press, patented to him
by the United States Patent Office, November 18,
1851. From the use of this and other inventions he
received a large income at a tinie in his career
of research and activities when most needed to send
him up higher. Now having the funds — the product
of his own brains — he decided to fit himself for
law, and in 1851 he entered the office of Hon. George
Y. Sawyer and Col. A. F. Stevens, of Nashua, New
Hampshire. Having given three years close study,
he w-as admitted to the bar "at Manchester, New
Hampshire. In 1854 he opened an office at Nashua.
He was then thirty-one years of age. Aside from
his own position as a lawyer he had gained prom-
inence as a manufacturer and inventor of no small
skill. By reason of these things, Hon. Charles
Mason, then United States Commissioner of
Patents, was attracted toward this rising genius,
and tendered him the position in the examining
corps of the United States Patent Office. He was
first assistant, but soon his peculiar ability and iit-
ness caused him to be made an examiner-in-chief.
As long as Commissioner Mason was at the head
of the Patent Office, the advice and opinion of
Mr. Dodge were constantly sought after. He was
finally admitted to practice in the United States
supreme court, and had very many large patent
cases, some involving millions of dollars, in which
he was eminently successful. His clients came from
one ocean to the other, and from the forests of
Maine to the cotton belt of the far away South-
land. In the forepart of 1S64, Mr. Dodge took
xip a residence in Worcester. He had an office
and was a third owner of the Union Mowing
Machine Company, at Worcester, which plant em-
ployed many men and made goods for all parts
of the country. In 1881, while still in an extensive
law practice, he in connection with Charles G.
Washburn, organized the Barbed Fence Company,
of Worcester, of which Mr. Dodge was president.
This was but the commencement of what has become
an immense barbed wire industry. In 1883 the long
years of brain work caused a serious break in his
usual good health, and he was compelled to retire
from the active routine of business cares to which
he had subjected himself for so many years.

In a work such as this, it is impossible to give
space sufficient to give at length, even an outline,
of all of interest connected with this man's career,
but in closing this sketch, a brief review of some
of the more important acts in both his private
and public life will be noted. He started out in
life with a high aim. He worked his own way
through school. He invented several cotton cloth-
making appliances by which hundreds of dollars
were saved each month by each cotton mill. He in-
vented a printing press in the fifties, which principle
carried out has given the world its great continuous
roll printing presses. He improved the manner
of making mowing machines, whereby over a million
men's work is saved each haying season. He dis-
covered the safety valve defect and has taught the

world much about the cause of steam boiler ex-
plosions. He was a chief examiner and chairman
of the board of appeals in the United States Patent
Office, being appointed by Judge Holt, chairman,
who succeeded Judge Mason as Commissioner of
Patents. The latter office Mr. Dodge resigned in
the fall of 1858. Some idea of the esteem in which
Mr. Dodge's services were held may be gained from
the fact that the venerable editor-in-chief of the
National Intelligencer of Washington said that no
other public officer had ever received such a genuine
and high tribute as that which Commissioner Holt
bestowed upon Mr. Dodge, which was as follows:

UDited States Patent Office
November 3, 1858.
Sir: — I have received with emotions of unmineied sorrow your
letter of yesterday resigning the office of examiner, the duties of
which you have for years discharged with such distinguished
honor to yourself, and advantage to the public interest. It would
have been to me a source of high gratitication could I have enjoy-
ed for the future that zealous support which you have so kindly
afforded me in the past. While, however, I fee! that your retire-
ment will be a severe loss to the service, as it will be a personal
atHiction to myself, I cannot be insensible to the weight of the
considerations which have determined you to seek another and
more attractive field of labor, I shall ever recall with the liveliest
satisfaction the pleasant social and oflicial relations which have
marked our intercourse, and in accepting your resignation 1 beg
to offer to you my heartfelt thanks, alike for your personal friend-
ship and for the high, loyal and most effective co-operation, which
in the midst of circumstances of dilficulty and embarrassment you
have constantly extended to me in the adminstration of thisofbce.
In whichever of the variad paths of life it may be your fortune to
tread, be assured that you will bear with you my warmest wishes
for your success and happiness.

Most sincerely your friend,

J. Holt.
Mr. Thomas H. Dodge.

He was instrumental in bringing about a change
in the United States Postal Department at Wash-
ington, by which letters not called for, if containing
a return card, would find their way back to the
writer, without the long, expensive routine of going
through the Dead Letter office. He has been an
eminently successful patent attorney, handling in-
tricate cases, wherein many millions of money have
been at stake. He has been connected with vast
mower and barb wire manufacturing industries at
Worcester. He has given "Dodge Park" to the
city — a gift royal in and of itself. He has, together
with his truly estimable wife, been a faithful church
and Sabbath school worker. They have donated
large sums of money from time to time toward the
building of church edifices in Worcester and other
places, including Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Union and Piedmont Congregational
Churches. He has given to the Odd Fellows of
Massachusetts the charming grounds upon which
stands the State Odd Fellows' Home in Worcester,
and then gave beautiful grounds adjacent known
as Dodge Park. These were unselfish gifts, because
he is not a member of this great order. He wrote
a twenty page genealogy of one branch of the Dodge
family in i88o. He was true and loyal to the Union
cause in the dark and trying days of the civil war.
He lived in Washington, D. C, and has home was
ever open to those disposed to care for the sick
and wounded soldiers. Both he and his truly good
companion gave of their means and distributed
delicacies of food, both in and outside the regular
hospitals. At no time did this far-seeing man ever
doubt the final triumph which came to the Union
cause. Not able himself to enter the army, he
furnished a substitute at a cost of one thousand
dollars — a young French Canadian, who served with
great credit, and rose to the rank of a commissioned
officer.

Mr. Dodge was married June 29. 1843, to Eliza
Daniels, of Brookline, New Hampshire, and to her
he attributes much of his success in life, as she

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has ever cheered and encouraged his undertakings.
Tlie deep interest they have both taken in church
work and the support of the same, with their in-
terest in the Natural History Camp and the Summer
schools for boys and girls, give the readers to know
the tendencies of their minds. May 18, 1905, Mr.
and Mrs. Dodge each donated five hundred dollars
to the cause.

Mr. Dodge is a man of distinguished presence,
dignified, yet genial. His has been a life of great
usefulness. He is noted for liberality of mind and
kind hospitality. The warm place he holds in the
affections of the people, in a community in which
he has done so much good work, and spent so large
a portion of his useful and honorable life, is the best
evidence of his work as a citizen whom all Massa-
chusetts may well be proud to own.

AUGUSTUS GEORGE BULLOCK. Richard
Bullock, (I) the emigrant ancestor of A. (leorge
Bullock, of Worcester, settled in Rehoboth, Mass.,
in 1643. He was a man of some prominence in the
town. Among" other positions he held was that of
town clerk in 1659. He married (first), August 4,
1647, Elizabeth Ingraham, probably daughter of
Richard Ingraham, a settler of -Rehoboth ; he married
(second) Elizabeth Billington, September 21, 1660.
His children were: Samuel, born August 19, 1648;
Elizabeth, October 9, 1650; Mary, February 16,
1652 : Mehitable, April 4, 1655 ; Abigail, August
29, 1657; Hopestill. December 26, 1659; Israel, July
IS, 1661 ; Jilercy, March 13. 1662, died March 19,
1663; John, May 19. 1664; Richard, March 15. 1666-7.

(II) Samuel Bullock, son of Richard (i) and
Elizabeth (Ingraham) Bullock, was born at Reho-
both, Massachusetts, August 19, 1648. He was a
farmer and lived at Rehoboth. His name appears
in the list of proprietors of Rehoboth in 1689. He
was a contributor to the fund raised for de-
fence in King Philip's war in 1675. He married
(first) Mary Thurber, November 12, 1673. He mar-
ried (second) Thankful Rouse, May 26, 1675. Their
children were: Mary, born October 4, 1674; Eben-
jzer, February 22, 1676; Thankful, June 26, 1681 ;
Samuel, November 7, 1683 ; Israel, April 9, 1687 ;
Daniel, 1689; Richard, July I, 1692; Seth, September
26, 1693.

(III) Ebenezer Bullock, son of Samuel Bullock
(2), was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. February
22, 1676. He married Sarah Moulton, March 29,
[698. They resided at Rehoboth. Their children
ivere : Mary, born June 6, 1699 ; Mehitable, April
[, 1701 ; Samuel, November 17, 1703; Hugh, April
[, 1706; Aaron, 1707; Squier, iNIarch 4, 1709; Mir-
am, September 30, 1711; Thankful, INIay 23. 1714;
Kathcrinc, died December, 1707; James, August 21,
1716.

(IV) Hugh Bullock, son of Ebenezer Bullock
(3), was -born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, April
[, 1706. He married (first) Anna Cole, 1733; (sec-
ond) Mehitable . He resided at

Reholioth. His children were : James, born Decem-
3er 17, 1734; Alethea, March 12, 1736; Ebenezer,
Fune 30, 1739; Sarah, August 17, 1741 ; Moulton,
N'ovember ^, 1743 ; Prudence, May 6, 1746 ; Hugh,
.\ugnst 12, 175T ; Barnet (records give Barnard),
Fune 20, 1773.

(V) Hugh Bullock, son of Hugh Bullock (4)
ind Anna Cole, was born August 12, 1751, at
Rehoboth. Massachusetts. His brother Moulton rc-
Tioved to Royalston, Massachusetts, before the rev-
olution and settled there. Moulton's farm was
jwned in 1865 by Jason Fisher. Hu.gh went to
Royalston during the revolution. Hugh Bullock's
farm was north of his brother's. After his sons

were grown up and engaged in other business he
built a house on the common, west of his son Bar-
net's house. This house was occupied in 1865 by C.
H. Newton. Hugh died in this house in 1837, at the
age of eighty-five. His w^ife, Rebecca (Davis) Bul-
lock, died 1809, aged fifty years. Hugh Bullock
was one of the company that started for Saratoga
to repel the invasion of Burgoync. He was in
Captain Peter Woodbury's company, Colonel Job
Cushing's regiment, which reinforced General Stark
at Bennington, Vermont The children of Hugh
Bullock (5) were: Rufus, born September 23,
1779; Calvin; iVIoulton, born 1787, died 1865; Bar-
net, born 1798, died 1884; Candace, was living in
Royalston 1865.

Christopher, Ebenezer, Nathan, and David Bul-
lock also settled in Royalston about this time. The
history of Royalston states that they were cousins
of Hugh and Deacon Moulton Bullock. They were
all stalwart men. David being the tallest man in
town. Their stay in town was short. When they
had their places well cleared and were in the full
vigor of manhood they went westward, following the
tide of settlers from the .Xtlantic states inland after
the revolution.

(VI) Rufus Bullock, son of Hugh Bullock (5),
was born at Royalston, Massachusetts, September
23. 1779- He was perhaps the most distinguished
man who spent his life in the town of Royalston.
He died there January 10, 1858. With small means
he laid the foundation of a good education and be-
came an acceptable school teacher before he was
of age. He taught .school several winters and
worked out at farming in the summers. He was
clerk in the country store, and finally opened a store
on his own account on tlie common. The business
prospered and he led the life of a country merchant
the remainder of his days, accumulating a fortune
for his day and enjoying to a remarkable degree
the respect and confidence of the people of the
vicinity. Mr. Bullock made it a rule to expand
his business as his means increased, never going
beyond but always using fully what he had. He al-
ways gave every detail of his varied business in-
terests his personal supervision. He began to manu-
facture at his mill in South Royalston, which was
very successful. He always conducted a farm and
took time to work in the fields himself, notwith-
standing the demands of his store and factory. He
seemed to find recreation in the variety of his
interests.

Mr. Bullock often served the town in public of-
fice. He was town clerk in 1812 and 1813. He was
selectman in 1811-12-13. He represented Royalston
and his district for five years in the general court.
He was in the state senate 1831-32. He was dele-
gate to the constitutional conventions in 1820 and
1852. and was once chosen a presidential elector.
He left $5,000 in his will to the Congregational
church, in which he always took a profound inter-
est ; he gave $2,500 to the Baptist Society ; $2,500
to the Second Congregational Church at South Roy-
alston ; $5,000 to the town of Royalston for schools.
A significant proviso of the last named bequest
was that the town must keep the cemetery in re-
pair or forfeit the money. The condition of the
old graveyards of Massachusetts at times has been
a reproach to civilization in this state. Mr. Bul-
lock's bequest will doubtless save the graves of Roy-
alston from desecration and neglect. Mr. Bullock
was a trustee of .Amherst College and presented
the telescope for the observatory.

He married. May 4, 1808, Sarah Davis, of Rindge,
New Hampshire. The history of Royalston says
of her: 'She still .-urvives (1S65) and lives among

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us, the same indvistrious and cheerful matron of the
olden type, whose wisdom and energy helped to
build the house; and who is still spared to enjoy
it, when builded, and still to attract the children
and the children's children to the ancient home-
stead." Of Mr. Bullock it says: "He was a pa-
triot of the early type — a gentleman of the olden
school — a friend to be trusted, a man whose prin-
ciples bore the test of intimate acquaintance and in-
spection, and whose influence, unobtrusive but po-
tent, has been eminently useful." Their children
were : Maria Louisa, born October 14, 1809 ; Emily,
born September lO, 181 1, married W. D. Ripley,
died -May l, 1904; Rebecca, born April 28, 1814,
married Nelson Wheeler; Alexander Hamilton, born
March 2, 1816, died January . 17, 1882; Charles
Augustus, born 1818, died^ August 25, 1882 ; Rufus
Henrv, born January 9, 1821.

(Vn) Alexander Plamilton Bullock, son of
Rufus Bullock (6), was born at Royalston, Massa-
chusetts, March 2, 1816. He entered Amherst Col-
lege in 1832, was a diligent student and on his
graduation, in 1836, delivered the salutatory ora-
tion at commencement. In the catalogue of his
contemporaries at college are found the names of
Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
Bishop Huntington and other famous men. After
graduating he taught school for a short time at
Princeton, N. J., and then partly at the wish of his
father and partly on account of his own inclination
entered the Harvard Law School. After leaving
the law school he spent a year in the office of the
well known lawyer, Emory Washburn, of Worcester,
where he gained a good knowledge of the details of
legal practice, and in 1841 was admitted to the bar.
Senator Hoar said of Mr. Bullock: "He disliked
personal controversy. While he possessed talents
which would have rendered him a brilliant and per-
suasive advocate, the rough contests of the court
house could never have been congenial to him. He
was associated with Judge Thomas as junior coun-
sel in one important capital trial, in which he is said
to have made an eloquent opening argument. He
had a considerable clientage for a young man, to
whom he was a safe and trustworthy adviser. But
he soon established a large business as agent of im-
portant insurance companies and withdrew himself
altogether from the practice of law."

From early manhood Mr. Bullock took a decided
interest in politics. The prominence of his father
in political circles may have increased a natural
taste for public life. He was particularly well versed
in constitutional law and that fact, together^ with
the well defined convictions he held, gave him in
debate and in administration great advantages: He
was originally a Whig. Step by step he advanced
to the highest position in the commonwealth. He
was a member of the house of representatives for
eight years, first in 1845, last in 1865. In 1862-
63-64-65, during the civil war, all legislative
positions were of extraordinary importance and in-
volved great responsibility. He was exceedingly
popular among his colleagues. He was a state sena-
tor in 1849, judge of the Worcester county court
of insolvency for two years— 1856-8, having served
as commissioner of insolvency since 1853. He was
mayor- of Worcester in 1859. The greatest event
of his public career was his service as governor of
the commonwealth in 1866-67-68. At his first elec-
tion he received nearly 50,000 votes more than his
opponent. Governor Bullock had many opportuni-
ties to serve in high positions in the national gov-
ernment. Among other places that he declined was
the mission to England offered him by President
Hayes.

In financial, humane and all reformatory move-

ments Governor Bullock was active and efficient.
He was president of the State Mutual Life Assur-
ance Company, and of the Worcester County In-
stitution of Savings ; director of the Worcester
National Bank ; chairman of the finance commit-
tee of the trustees of Amherst College, and a life
member of the. New England Historic-Genealogical
Society. While editor and publisher of the Daily
Aegis (now The Gazette) he displayed marked
ability as a writer and newspaper man. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of LL. D. from Amherst
and Harvard Colleges. He was a great friend of
learning, interested in all educational institutions.

In 1869 he visited Europe with his family. Upon
his return the following year he was received with
a public demonstration to welcome him home and
give evidence of the respect and love of his towns-
men. Governor Bullock was an orator of great
power. A volume of his addresses was published.
Senator Hoar, who made a special study of orators,
said of Gevernor Bullock's speeches : "Above all,
he possessed, beyond any of his living contemporar-
ies, that rare gift of eloquence which always has
been and always will be a passport to the favor of
the people where speech is free." His eulogy of
President Lincoln in Worcester in 1865 was one
of many notable public addresses that he delivered.
He delivered the commemorative oration at the
centennial of the incorporation of his native town
of Royalston.

Governor Bullock married, 1844, Elvira Hazard,
daughter of Colonel A. G. Hazard, of Enfield,
Connecticut, founder of the Hazard Gunpowder
Manufacturing Company. Their children were :
Augustus George, born at Enfield, Connecticut ; Isa-
bel, married Nelson S. Bartlett, of Boston ; Fanny,
married Dr. William H. Workman, of Worcester.
(VHI) A. George Bullock, son of the late Alex-
ander H. (7) and Elvira (Hazard) Bullock, was born
June 2, 1847, at Enfield, Connecticut. His life has
been spent from infancy, however, in the city of
Worcester. He attended the Highland IVIilitary
Academy and graduated there in 1862. After two
years of preparation under Professor E. G. Cutler
he entered college in 1864. Professor Cutler, his
tutor, was afterward professor of English literature
at Harvard. In 1868 Mr. Bullock graduated at
Harvard College. Soon afterward he began the
study of law in the offices of the late Judge Thomas
L. Nelson and the late Senator George F. Hoar.
He was admitted to the bar and entered upon the
practice of his profession. His career as a lawyer
closed with his election to the presidency of the
great insurance company, although a legal train-
ing is perhaps most essential in the education of
the executive head of such a corporation. Certainly
Mr. Bullock's legal experience increased his effi-
ciency and augumented his success in developing
the business of the State Mutual Company. His
predecessor in the presidency was Philip L. Moen,
who completed the year to which Mr. Bullock's
father, Alexander H. Bullock, had been elected in
January, 1882, his death two weeks later making a
vacancy. In the following year A. George Bullock
was elected. New methods were introduced and the
company grew amazingly. This company began its
business in Worcester in 1845. Its first first presi-
ident, John Davis, its third president, Alexander H.
Bullock, and its vice-president, Emory Washburn,
were at various times elected governor of the com-
monwealth. The second president of the company,
Isaac Davis, was almost as prominent in public af-
fairs as his uncle who preceded him. He was
president twenty-nine years. A vice president and
one of the organizers was John Milton Earle, who
was editor of The Spy for so many years. In

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•ecent years, under Ihe present management, the
)nsiness of the company has increased phenomenally,
rhe company has among its assets one of the at-
ractive office buildings of Boston and the most val- •
lable office building by far in Worcester, contain-
ng two hundred and one offices.

Mr. Bullock's other interests are extensive. He
s president of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad
Company ; vice-president of the Worcester Con-
lolidated Street Railroad Company ; president of
he Worcester. Railways and Investment Company;
rustee and member of the board of investment of
he Worcester County Institution for Savings ; di-
rector of the Providence & Worcester Railroad
i^ompany ; director of the Boston & Albany Rail-
oad Company ; director of the Worcester Gaslight
~ompany ; director of the Worcester National Bank ;
lirector of the Worcester Trust Company ; director
>f the Railways anl Lighting Company of Boston ;
lirector of the State Street Trust Company of Bos-
on ; director of the American Loan and Trust
I^ompany of Boston. He was a commissioner
it large to the Columbian exposition at Chi-
:ago in 1S93, appointed by the president of
he United States. He has been chairman of
he directors of the Public Library. He was
iormerly trustee of the State Lunatic Hos-
lital at Worcester. He is a member of the Amcri-
:an Antiquarian Society and of The Worcester
jociely of Antiquity. He is a member of the Tat-
mck Country Club, Commonwealth Club, Worcester
riub, Harvard Club of New York, University Club
if New York, Somerset Club of Boston and of the
Jnion Club of Boston. He attends the First Uni-
arian church. He is a Republican. He resides in
I handsome brownstone house at 48 Elm street,
juilt by Governor Bullock. By a singular coin-
:idence the former residence of Governor Lincoln
s directly across Elm street. Mr. Bullock has a
jeautiful country home near INIt. Wachusett, in the
own of Princeton.

He married Mary Chandler, dau.ghter of Dr.
jeorge and Josephine (Rose) Chandler, of Wor-
:ester, October 4, 1871. Their children, all of whom
vere born in Worcester, were : Chandler, born
August 24, 1872; Alexander Hamilton, November
■, 1875; Augustus George, Jr., April 20, 1880, died
4pril 29, 1880; Rockwood Hoar, August 21, 1881.

(IX) Chandler Bullock married, October, 1900,
klabcl Richardson, daughter of George Richardson,
)f Worcester. Their children are: Margaret, born
n Worcester, December 22, 1901 ; Josephine Rose,
)orn June 21, 1904. He is a lawyer practicing in
.Vorcester.

(IX) Alexander Hamilton Bullock married

Florence Armsby, widow of McClellan,

Func. 1902. His wife has a daughter Beulah
)y her first marriage. He is a lawyer practicing in
kVorcester.

(IX) Rockwood Hoar Bullock married Eliza-
)eth Bliss Dewey, daughter of Francis H. Dewey,
)f Worcester, June 8, 1905.

Barnet Bullock was the fifth generation from
Richard Bullock, the emigrant ancestor. He was
3orn in the west part of Royalston, June 9, 1798,
ind during his active life followed the business of
I merchant in that town. He held for a long time
:he commission of justice of the peace, doing most
Df the public business in that line in the town for
many years, besides filling various responsible town
offices. He was town clerk from 1837 to 1847;
selectman, 1840, 1844 and 1845, and representative
to the general court in 1843 and 1844. One of the
oldest and most prominent citizens of Royalston,
he died September i. 1884, being the last survivor
of the four sons of Hugh Bullock, who came from

Rehoboth and settled in Royalston during the revolu-
tion. He married, November 27, 1828, Lucy New-
ton, daughter of Nathan Brighani Newton. Their
children were Calvin, born September 21, 1829, died
March 5, 1S70; Brighani Newton, born .'\pril 6,
1831, died February 20, 1906; Barnet Ellis, born
March 22, 1833; Lucy Lee, born May 25, 1835, died
September 18, 1882 ; Elizabeth Candace, born Octo-
ber 16, 1838, died March 24, 1843 ; Charles Stuart,
born January 20, 1841 ; James Frederick, born July
21, 1842, died May 28, 1870; Mary Elizabeth, born
December 18. 1847, died i\iarch 21, i86g.

Brigham Newton Bullock was the second son of
Barnet Bullock, and was born in Royalston, April 6,
1831. He spent his early life in his native town,
where he attended the common schools. February
24, 1847, at the age of sixteen, he started out in
life by entering the employment of Joseph Esta-
brook, who kept a country store and the postoffice.
Me remained with Mr. Estabrook until the fall
of 1851, when for a short time he attended the
fall term of the high school, kept by Crandall Bros.
On October 20 of the same year he left Royals-
ton and the high school to enter the passenger de-
partment of the office of the Vermont & Massa-
chusetts Railroad in Fitchburg, where he remained
until January, 1874. He then went to Boston, where
he was cashier of the Boston, Hartford & Erie
Raih-oad from March, 1874, until .August, 1874.
From there he went to -the Home Savings Bank,
Boston, August 6, 1874, as treasurer, and remained
until February 27, 1882, when he returned to Fitch-
burg and entered the Fitchburg National Bank as
cashier, holding that office until he was made presi-
dent in 1S88, and as an active working president he
served the bank for the remainder of his life. Under
his administration its affairs were conducted w^ith
great success, and its resources largely increased.

His acknowledged ability as a financier led the
trustees of the Fitchburg Savings Bank to secure
his services as treasurer, when a vacancy occurred
in that office in July, 1894, and he remained treas-
urer, to their great satisfaction, until the law
separating national and savings banks went into
effect in 1904, when he was chosen chairman of the
board of investment, and in that capacity was able
to give to the bank the benefit of his valuable over-
sight and experience while he lived. In addition
to the responsibilities of the conduct of these two
large financial institutions, to which he gave most
of his time and attention, he served as a director
in the Fitchburg Railroad Company, in the Fitch-
burg Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in the Grant
Yarn Company, and in the Simonds Manufacturing
Company of Fitchburg. . He was a member of the
First (Unitarian) Parish.

Mr. Bullock was not only a successful financier,
but a man of sterling character, and to all the re-
sponsibilities which he assumed he honestly and
faithfully devoted himself. His "word was as good
as his bond." He would have nothing superficial.
The whole structure of every institution which he
managed must be thoroughly sound and strong from
its very foundation ; and so he left them. Not only
was he a strong, practical man of business, firm in
his convictions, and just in all his dealings, but he
also had a heart sensitive to all needs of humanity
and the beautiful in art and nature. He was a
devoted husband and father, and a faithful friend
and a genial companion to all who enjoyed his
intimate acquaintance. He always retained his af-
fection for his native town of Royalston, and spent
a portion of each summer in that beautiful hill
town of Massachusetts. He was of the best product
of tiie New England country town.

Brighani N. Bullock married, November 13, 1888,

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Flora Belle Ripley, of Fitchburg. She survives her
husband, who died in Boston, February 20, 1906.
Their only child is Richard Bullock, born May 3,
1892.

THE GREEN FAMILY. (I) Thomas Green
was the ancestor of the Green family of Worcester,
to which belong Samuel Swett Green, librarian of
the Free Public Library ; Martin Green, a civil
engineer and contractor ; and James Green, a lawyer,
of Worcester; Oliver Bourne Green, a civil engineer
and contractor, of Chicago; Dr. John Green and
Dr. John Green, Jr., both oculists, of St. Louis ;
the late Andrew Haswell Green, "Father of Greater
New York;" and many others, both of the sur-
name of Green and of other surnames.

Thomas Green was born in England in about
the year 1600, according to a deposition which he
made August 16, 1662. A Thomas Green, who prob-
ably w-as his son, came over to Massachusetts, at
the age of fifteen, in the "Planter," which sailed
from England April 2, 1635. The same name and
age appear also in the "Hopewell," which sailed
the next day, and are believed to represent the same
Thomas Green, Jr. Preceding the list of passen-
gers in the "Planter," is a certificate which states
that Thomas Green came from St. Albans, Hertford-
shire. It seems likely that Thomas Green, senior,
came to New England at the same time, or a
little earlier, and settled at Lynn and Ipswich. He
was living at Lady Moody's farm at Lynn about
1646. The Green "Genealogical Sketch," which was
published before some of these facts were dis-
covered in the records, states that he probably
removed from Ipswich to Maiden in 1649 or 1650.
He was certainly in Maiden. October 28, 1651, when
his wife Elizabeth and his daughter Elizabeth signed
a petition to the general court. He had a farm of
sixty-three acres in the northern part of Maiden.
He was one of the leading citizens, serving re-
peatedly on the grand jurj', and in 1658 as a select-
man of Maiden.

When the "Genealogical Sketch of the Descend-
ants of Thomas Green (e) of Maiden, Mass., by
Samuel S. Green of Providence, R. I.," was written,
there were "reasons for supposing that Thomas
Green, senior, came from Leicestershire, but no
proofs of the fact." If the suggestion that Thomas
Green who came over in the "Planter" was his
son, is well grounded, the home of the family would
seem to have been at St. Albans.

The first wife of Thomas Green, senior. Eliza-
beth, whom he married in England, was the mother
of all his children. She died August 22, 1658. He
married secondly, Frances Cook, September 5. 1659.
She was born in 1608. married first to Isaac Wheeler,
secondly to Richard Cook, who died October 14,
1658. She had children by the first two husbands ;
none by the third, Thomas Green. Thomas Green
(I) died December 19, 1667. His will, dated No-
vember 12, 1667, was proved January iS, 1667-8.
In it he mentions five sons, five daughters and his
wife. The homestead was situate in that part of
Maiden which is now included in Melrose and
Wakefield. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth
Green were :

T. Elizabeth, born about 1628.

2. Thomas, born in 1620 (if it is true, as the
ship-records say, that he was fifteen years old
when he sailed [in 1635,] : but ages in these lists of
emigrants are not to be relied on'). He married
Rebecca Hills, 1653. [See his sketch later, "Thomas
(H)."]

3. John, born in England about 1632. according
to the Genealogy ; married to Sarah 'VV^heeler, De-

cember 18, 1660. (Church records give birth of
John, son of Thomas, Sr., January 25, 1658).

4. Mary, born in England about 1633 ; married
before 1656 to Capt. John Waite, who was select-
man seven years, and representative to the general
court, 1666 to 1684.

5. William, born about 163S ; married first to
Elizabeth Wheeler; married secondly to Isabel
(Farmer) Blood.

6. Henry, born 1638; married January II, 1671-2.

7. Samuel, born March, 1645 ; married first,
1666, to Mary Cook; secondly, to Susanna .

8. Hannah, born 1647; married November 5,
1666, to Joseph Richardson, of Woburn, Mass. She
died May 20, 1721.

9. Martha, born 1650.

10. Dorcas, born in Maiden, May I, 1653 ; mar-
ried January 11, 1671-2, to James Barrett of Maiden,
who was born April 6, 1644. She die'd 1682; he died
1694.

(II) Thomas Green, son of Thomas Green (i),
was born in England 1620, — if the record of the list
of passengers of the ship "Planter" which sailed
April 2, 1635, or the "Hopewell," which sailed the
next day, is correct. He claimed to be fifteen years
old then. He married in 1653, or before, Rebecca
Hills, daughter of Joseph Hills, of Maiden, later
of Newbury, Massachusetts. (See sketch Joseph
Hills family in this work.) Rebecca's mother was
Rose Dunster. a sister of Rev. Henry Dunster, first
president of Harvard College. Thomas Green (2)
settled in Maiden. He was a farmer, was admitted
a freeman. May 31, 1670, and died February 13,
1671-2. His will was dated the same day, and
proved April 2, 1672. His widow, Rebecca, died
June 6, 1674. The inventory of her estate was
filed March 4, 1674-5. by her son-in-law, Thomas
Newell. The children of Thomas and Rebecca
Green were :

1. Rebecca, born 1654; married to Thomas
Newell, of Lynn. 1674.

2. Thomas, born February, 1655-6 ; died April

IS. 1674-

3. Hannah, born October 16, 1658; died March
25, 1659-

•4. Hannah, born February 24, 1659-60; married
.\ugust 26, 1677, to John 'Vinton, of Maiden, and
later of Woburn, Massachusetts.

5. Samuel, born October 5, 1670; married to
Elizabeth LTpham, about 1692.

(III) Captain Samuel Green, the only son of
Thomas (2) and Rebecca Hills Green who came
to full age. was born October 5, 1670. He was one
of the principal men in Leicester or Strawberry
Hill, where he settled in 1717. The town was
granted February 10, 1713-14. and Capt. Samuel
Green was on the committee with Col. William Dud-
ley of Roxbury and others to settle it. He owned
three lots of forty acres each, and two of thirty each,
in the town of Leicester, and was highly respected
and very influential. The vicinity of his old home-
stead, now a village, is called after him, Green-
ville. He built a house, grist mill and saw mill.
At the first town meeting of which there is any
record, he was elected moderator, first selectman
and grand juror, and he held like offices in the town
of Leicester the remainder of his life. Governor
Washburn, in his history, calls him a prominent man,
and he is honored as one of the pioneers. He also
owned land in Hardwick, Massachusetts. He was
always called Captain, a rank he won at Maiden,
and he was the first captain of the Leicester com-
pany of militia. Capt. Samuel Green married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Lieut. Phinehas LTpham. of Wor-
cester, a son of Deacon John Upham, w-ho had ar-

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■ived from England, September 2, 1633, settled at
A^eymouth, Massachusetts, moved to Maiden about
:6so, and was one of the original proprietors of
3uinsigamond. His son Phinehas Upham settled
n Worcester in April, 1675. After the Indians had
iestroyed the first white settlements at Mendon,
Brooktield and Worcester, Lieut. Upham fought
)ravely in the battle of Narraganset Fort, Decem-
)er ig, 1675, where he was mortally wounded. Capt.
Samuel Green died January 2, 1735-6. His will 'was
nade at Maiden just before he came to Leicester
o settle, April 18. 1717, and it was proved Febru-
i'"y 5, 1735-6. His wife died at Leicester, prob-
.bly in 1761. Their children were :

1. Elizabeth, born April 4, 1693, married to
rhomas Richardson of Maiden.

2. Rebecca, born April 4, 1695, married to Samuel
Baldwin. (According to Maiden records the first
wo were twins, born April 4, 1695).

3. Ruth, married to Joshua Nichols.

4. Thomas, born 1699, married to Martha Lynde
n Maiden, January 13, 1725-6.

5. Lydia, married to her cousin, Abiathar Vin-
on of Maiden, April 30, 1723. He resided in Brain-
ree a year or two after his marriage, then settled
n Leicester, where he lived until his death in 1740.
iis widow Lydia married secondly, January 15,
746. Samuel Stower, of Leicester, a native of
flalden.

6. Bafhsheba, married to Elisha Xevins.

7. Abigail, married to Henry King.

8. Any (Anna?), married to Ebenezer Lamb.
(IV) Dr. Thomas Green, son of Capt. Samuel

jreen (3), was born in Maiden in 1699. He mar-
ied, January 13. 1725-6, Martha Lynde, daughter
f Capt. John Lynde by his third wife, Judith Worth,
.'idow' of Joscs Bucknam of Maiden. Martha Lynde
ras born July 6. 1700. Before Capt. Samuel Green
emoved his family to Leicester, in 1717, he and his
on Thomas had driven some cattle from Maiden to
lie site of their new home, preparatory to moving
he family. Thomas was left at Leicester in charge
f the cattle, while his father returned to Maiden.
Vhile there alone the boy was attacked with fever
nd became very ill. In his weak state he lay in
sort of cave made by an overhanging rock on a
ttlc 'stream, and secured food by milking a cow
/hich he induced to come to him frequently by
ying her calf to a tree near the cave. At length
i\'0 of his former neighbors at Maiden, who had
ome on horseback to look after their cattle, found
im, but refused to take him home. They notified
is father, however, wdio went at once to his relief,
nd got him home on horseback after a painful
Durney of four days.

Thomas Green's attention was early turned to
le studv of medicine. His impluse in this direction
; said to have come from two English ship-sur-
eons — it is even said they were pardoned buc-
aneers, — who lived iw his father's house at Leicester,
lught young Thomas with interest and lent him
ledical books. He grew to be friendly with the
ndians and learned from them the curative proper-
,es of native herbs. As the settlement grew his
ledical practice extended over a wider field and
ven into Rhode Island and Connecticut. Many
oung men came to him for instruction in medi-
ine; he is said to have taught one hundred and
A-enty-three medical students. The very slight facts
fhich have come down to us about Dr. Thomas
Ireen's study and practice of medicine show him
3 have been the most prominent practitioner of the
nuntry doctors of his time; but these facts are
specially interesting because he was the first of
long line of famous physicians and surgeons. His

son, grandson and great-grandson, each named John
Green, were each of them the most distinguished
physician in Worcester county; while Dr. John
Green of St. Louis, the descendant of Thomas in the
next generation, is now the foremost eye-surgeon
in the Mississippi Valley; and his son Dr. John
Green, Jr., also of St. Louis, is already a prominent
and successful practitioner in the same specialty
of medicine. Five generations of Dr. John Greens
go back to Dr. Thomas Green as their progenitor
and their forerunner in the noble art of improving
the health of man.

Dr. Thomas Green (4) joined the First Baptist
Church at Boston, November 7, 1731. But in 1735
he was dismissed from that church to take part
in forming another church at Sutton, the parent-
church of his denomination in Worcester county,
and the fourth Baptist church in the Province of
Massachusetts Bay. On September 28, 1737, he and
Benjamin Marsh were ordained as pastors of this
Sutton church. One year later to a day, the Leices-
ter families of the congregation erected a church of
their own at Greenville (in Leicester), the eighth
Baptist church in Massachusetts, and Dr. Thomas
Green, who was a charter member of both the Sutton
and the Leicester church, was chosen the first pastor
of the new church, and he remained its pastor for
almost thirty-five years. In a historical discourse
delivered at the Greenville church in 1888, on the
150th anniversary of its foundation, the Rev. Hiram
C. Estes, D. D., its pastor, says of the church-
building, "that Dr. Green was the principal pro-
prietor of the house; that its grounds were given
by him, and its frame was raised and covered at his
expense." "While he was preaching on Sunday,"
said Hon. Andrew H. Green on the same anni-
versary, "at his home across the way the pot was
kept boiling to supply the needed sustenance to the
little flock which came from all directions to attend
upon his ministrations." During his ministry in
Leicester, he baptized more than a thousand per-
sons. In "Rippon's Register" he is spoken of as
"eminent for his useful labors in the gospel min-
istry." His preaching was not confined to his
own parish ; he was widely known as Elder Grren.
In 1756. Rev. Isaac Backus, the Baptist Annalist in
New England, held a meeting with Mr. Green's
church, and made the following entry in his diary:
"I can but admire how the Doctor (Thomas Green)
is able to get along as he does, having a great deal
of farming business to manage, multitudes of sick
to care for, several opportunities to instruct in the
art of physic, and a church to care for and watch
over; yet in the midst of all he seems to keep re-
ligion uppermost — to hold his mind bent upon divine
things — and to be very bold in Christian conver-
sation with all sorts of people." Dr. Estes said,
in his discourse above quoted, that "Dr. Greert lived
three lives and did the work of three men in
one. He w-as a man of business, active, energetic
and successful. * * * He was also a noted phy-
sician ; * * * and was a preacher of the gospel
nuitc as eminent in this as in his other spheres of
life."

Dr. Green's homestead was next beyond the
river from the Baptist Church on the road to
Charlton, where his grandson, Samuel Green, after-
wards kept a tavern. He died August 10, 1773. at
the age of seventy-four years. His wife Martha
died June 20. 1780. They were buried in the church-
yard at Greenville, but their remains were removed
to the Rural Cemetery in Worcester, by Dr. John
Green (7). a descendant, where the graves are suit-
ably marked. The children of Thomas and Martha
Green were:

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1. Samuel, born in Leicester 1726; married to
Zerviah Dana; married secondly to Widow Fish.

2. Martha, born at Leicester April 23, 1727,
married about 1753 to Robert Craig (born Decem-
ber 10, 1726; he died October 13, 1805); she died
September 17, 1801 ; Craig studied medicine under
Dr. Thomas Green, but returned to the manufacture
of spinning wheels instead of practicing ; they had
nine children.

3. Isaac, married to Sarah Howe.

4. Thomas L., born 1733, married to Hannah
Fox ; married secondly to Anna Hovey.

5. John, born in Leicester August 14, 1736, mar-
ried to Mary Osgood, and secondly to Mary
Ruggles.

6. Solomon, married to Elizabeth Page.

7. Elizabeth, married first, to Daniel Hovey;
married secondly, January 16, 1776, to Rev. Benja-
min Foster (Yale 1774; Brown DD. 1792), who
succeeded Rev. Thomas Green as pastor of the
Baptist church at Leicester; removed to Newport,
Rhode Island, thence to Gold Street Church, New
York city, where he died of yellow fever in 1798.

"Dr. Thomas Green," says Samuel S. Green in
his biography of the late Andrew H. Green, "bought
the homestead in Worcester which forms the nucleus
of the extensive and beautifully situated estate on
Green Hill, lately owned by Andrew H. Green.
This is one of the finest gentlemen's places in that
neighborhood, contains over five hundred acres of
field and forest and water, and has lately become a
part of the park system of the City of Worcester.
The deed was given by Thomas Adams to Thomas
Green of Leicester, dated May 28, 1754, in con-
sideration of 330 pounds." His son John appears
to have married and gone to Green Hill to live,
about the year 1757, when he c^nus of age. The
tradition of the family is that Thomas located his
son on this hill remote from Worcester village that
he might be protected by distance from the tempta-
tions of the town. At Dr. Thomas Green's death,
August 19, 1773, his entire estate passing through
the probate office was appraised at 4,495 pounds,
equivalent very nearly to $22.477 : an estate said
to have been larger than any that had been entered
at the probate office in Worcester previous to his
death.

(V) Dr. John Green, fifth child of Dr. and
Rev. Thomas Green (4), was born in Leice'Jter,
Massachusetts, August 14, 1736. He married first,
Mary Osgood, of Worcester, apparently just as he
came of age. in 1757. She was born August 31,
1740, and died September 5. 1761. He married
secondly apparently in 1762, Mary Ruggles. daugh-
ter of Brig. Gen. Timothy Ruggles. of Sandwich,
afterwards of Hardwick. Massachusetts. , Mary was
born in Sandwich, on Cape Cod, in 1740, and died
in Worcester. June 16, 1814, aged seventy-four
years.

Dr. John Green studied medicine with his father,
in company with many other students. On coming
of age. he moved to Worcester and built his house
upon the eminence at the north end of Worcester
which came to be known as Green Hill. Here he
lived for his whole life. He was very successful
from the first. He adopted the practice of watch-
ing over his natients like a nurse, day and night,
if required. He became even more famous as a phy-
sician and surgeon than his distinguished father.
His son, grandson, great-grandson and great-great-
grandson, all of the same name and title of Dr.
John Green, have also attained unusual eminence
in the same profession. No better evidence of in-
herited aptitude and skill in medicine and surgery
could be shown. Dr. John Green instructed many

students, as his father had done. At first he had
his office at the house on Green Hill, but later in
a small wooden structure on Main street, on the
original site of the Five Cent Savings Bank build-
ing. At that time there were but seven houses on
Main street between the Common and Lincoln
Square. William Lincoln, in his "History of Wor-
cester," writing in 1836, says: "Tradition bears
ample though very general testimony to his worth.
Fortunate adaptation of natural capacity to pro-
fessional pursuits gave an extensive circuit of em-
ployment and high reputation. Habits of accurate
observation, the action of vigorous intellect, and
the results of experience, seem to have supplied
the place of that learning deriving its acquirements
from the deductions of others through the medium
of books. Enjoying great esteem for skill and fidel-
ity, hospitality and benevolence secured personal re-
gard." Dr. Samuel B. Woodward writes of Dr.
Green: "An earnest patriot, he was in 1773 a mem-
ber (and the only medical member) of the American
Political Society, which was formed 'on account
of the grievous burdens of the times,' and did so
much to bring about that change of public senti-
ment which e.xpelled the adherents of the Crown.
He took a prominent part in all the Revolutionary
proceedings, and in 1777 was sent as representative
to the general court. In 1778 and 1779 he was
town treasurer and in 1780 one of the selectmen,
the only physician who ever held that office" in
Worcester.

The father of Dr. Green's second wife. Gen.
Timothy Ruggles, of Hardwick, was a distinguished
lawyer, judge, statesman and soldier. He was op-
posed, however, to the Revolution, and is called by
historians "Massachusetts' great loyalist." Hon.
Andrew H. Green of New York, a descendant, had
a biography of Gen. Ruggles published.

Dr. John Green died in Worcester, October 29,
T7g9, at the age of sixty-three. All his children were
born on Green Hill, Worcester ; the first three be-
ing the children of Mary Osgood, Thomas's first
wife, and the last ten being the children of Mary
Ruggles, his second wife :

1. John, born April i, 1758; died September 20,
1761.

2. Mary, born November 27, 1759; died Febru-
rary 15. l759-6o.

3. Thomas, born January 3, 1761 ; married
October 8, 1782, to Salome Barstow of Sutton.

4. John, born March 18. 1763, married to Nancy
Barber of Worcester. [See sketch of his life
later.]

5. Timothy, born January 9, 1765; married to
Mary Martin of Providence, Rhode Island.

6. Samuel, born May 10, 1767 : married to

Widow Tillinghast ; married secondly, to

Waring.

7. Elijah Dix. born July 4, 1769: never mar-
ried; he was a graduate of Brown, 1792; practiced
medicine at Charleston, South Carolina ; died Sep-
tember 21, 1795.

8. Mary, born April 30, 1772 ; never married ;
she died at the house of her brother, Samuel, in
Columbia. South Carolina. September 24, 1824.

9. Elizabeth, born July 31, 1774; unmarried;
.she died at Green Hill. February 3, 1854, aged

eighty: lived chieflv with her brother Timothy, in
New York city.

10. William Elijah, born January 31, 1777. [See
his sketch, later.]

11. Meltiah, born July 28, 1779; died unmar-
ried, December, iSoo. of yellow fever, at St. Bar-
tholomew, West Indies; ^as a resident of Jamaica.

12. Bourne, born December 15, 1781 ; died un-

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narried, August, 1806, at sea ; was engaged in
ommerce.

13. Isaac, born September 4, 1784; died Sep-
ember 9, 1807, while a member of the Sophomore
lass of Columbia College, New York.

(VI) Dr. John Green, son of Dr. John Green
5) and Mary (Ruggles) Green, was born at VVor-
ester, on Green Hill, March 18, 1763. He studied
nedicine with his father and began to practice at
he age of eighteen. He inherited the skill and
.bility of his father and grandfather. Particularly
killed in surgery, his services were in constant de-
nand, "while daily could be seen," says Charles
fappan, "Dr. Green and his half-dozen students
nounted on horesback and galloping through the
itreets as if some one or more were in peril."
ie lived at first in the little wooden office-building
)f his father on Main street. Later he built a hou.se
ust south of it. He was, we are told by the "Gen-
■alogy," "of industrious habits, patient, pcrsevcr-
ng; in his manners, urbane and obliging: in his
udgments, discriminating, and always reliable; a
nan of ereat powers of observation ; he had an ex-
ensive practice in Worcester and the surrounding
egion. He combined with accurate practice as a
ihysician, rare skill as a surgeon." Hon. Oliver
~iske, his biographer, said of him : "From his
:hildhood the natural bias of his mind led him

that profession which through life was the sole
(bject of his ardent pursuit. To be distinguished
IS a physician was not his chief incentive. To
issuage the sufferings of humanity by his skill
■vas the higher motive of his benevolent mind,
ivery duty was performed with delicacy and tender-
less. With these propensities, aided by a strong,
nquisitive and discriminating mind, he attained to

1 pre-eminent rank among the physicians and sur-
;eons of our country." He was tall, strong and
tttractive in person. He died August II, 1808, at
he age of forty-five years, having practiced, how-
;ver, for twenty-seven years, for the last nine of
vhich he was practically the only physician in the
own. The Worcester Spy reported that "To his
uneral came the largest concourse of people from
his and neighboring towns ever knowm to be col-
ected here on a similar occasion." "It has been the
ligh privilege of few of our community to enjoy
:o much confidence and respect, to be so loved while
iving and so mourned when dead." .

He married Nancy Barber, granddaughter of
iiobert Barber of Northville, who was among the
Presbyterians who fled from the religious pcrse-
:utions in his native land and sought refuge in Ire-
and, whence he came to America, and made the
Barber estate near Barber's Crossing, in North-
ville, Massachusetts. The children were:

1. John, born April 19. 1784; married to Dolly
Zurtis of Worcester. They had no children. [See
sketch of his life later.]

2. Eunice, born April 29. 1786: married to
Leonard Burbank, (Brown. 1807). They had four
:hildren : I. John Green, graduated at West Point,
irst in his clars. He served in the Seminole and
VIexican wars, and was killed in the battle of Molino
lei Rey. where he had voluntered upon a forlorn
lope. He was never married, but was engaged to
\nna M., daughter of Gen. Belknap, of the Regular
\rmy, a contemporary of Gen. Scott. 2. Ann Eliza-
beth, married to Joseoh Gardner, of Fitchburg.
rhey had one child. Elizabeth, who lived aiid died
in Fitchburg unmarried. .\nx\. Elizabeth is now
lead. 3. George G.. married to Lydia O. Whiting,
li Worcester. No child was born to them, but they
idoptcd one under the name of Caroline Amelia
Burbank. George and Lydia are dead. 4. James Leon-

ard, married to Persis S. Wood, of Grafton. They
had one child only, Emma Jourdan. James L. is
now dead. Emma J. married Frank Richard
Macullar, of Worcester, son of Addison Macullar.
They had one child, Margaret Burbank, now living.
Frank R. Macullar is now dead.

3. Mary, born March 14, 1788; died unmarried,
September 16, 1817.

4. Nancy, born August 28, 1790; married to
Dr. Benjamin F. Ileywood of Worcester, (Dart-
mouth, 1812). [See the sketch of the Heywood
Family, later.]

5. Samuel, born March 21, 1792; died August
24, 1796.

6. Sarah, born August 22, 1794; died August
23, 1796.

7. Samuel B., born April 11, 1797; died July
20, 1822.

8. Frederick William, born January 19, 1800;
he settled in Columbia, South Carolina ; married
Sarah Briggs of Columbia; they had thirteen chil-
dren and are both dead.

9. James, born December 23, 1S02; he married
Elizabeth Swett of Dedham. [See his sketch, later,
"James Green (VII)."]

10. Meltiah Bourne, born July 16, 1806: he
married Mary Stone Ward. [See his sketch, later,
"M. B. Green (VII)."]

11. Elizabeth R.. born September 26, 1808; she
married Dr. Benjamin F. Heywood, who had also
married her sister Nancy. [See Heywood Family
sketch.]

(VI) William Elijah Green, son of Dr. John
and Mary (Ruggles) Green, (5), w-as born on Green
Hill. January 31. 1777. and died there July 27, 1865,
aged eightj--eight years. He was graduated at
Brown University in 1798. He succeeded his father
in the ownership of the homestead on Green Hill,
comprising then two hundred acres. He studied
law under Judge Edward Bangs, with whom and
with whose son, Edward D. Bangs, he was as-
sociated in practice for some years afterwards. He
was an original member of the First Baptist Society
of Worcester, but late in life became identified
with the Universalists. He will be remembered for
the earnest work he did for temperance and the
Public schools of Worcester. He was for many
years captain of the Worcester Light Infantrj-, and
was a volunteer in the War of 1812. He was one
of the foremost promoters of the Blackstone Canal,
and never lost an opportunity to help advance the
interests of his native town. It has been said ol
him that he was a man of great geniality and cheer-
fulness : affable to men of all conditions, hi.shly
respected and very popular. In his later years. Wil-
liam E. Green withdrew from the practice of the
law and spent his time in the development of his
estate on Green Hill. While this estate has been
brouglit to its present perfection by his sons. An-
drew H. Green and Martin Green — the latter one
of whom resided there for thirty-two vears. — Green
Hill has been for one hundred and fifty years an
attractive spot, a gentleman's estate, suggesting the
old English homes rather than the farms of New
England. The original house, to which Andrew
H. Green added a fine modern structure by cutting
the old liouse in two and putting a new section be-
tween the front and rear, is approached by Green
Lane, an old county road. It had a museum of
familv heirlooms and relics. In itself it is one of
the choicest inheritances of the early settlers of
Worcester. What is called the Green Hill Book
originated Senteniber !,■;. 1861. when the fen chil-
dren of William E. Green, the old "Squire." met
together for the first time since their childhood,

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and this meeting proved also the last gathering of
the family as a whole. At that time Oliver B.
Green came from Chicago ; John P. Green was at
home on a visit from Copiapo, Chili, where he lived
forty years; Mary R., Lucy M. and Andrew H.
came from New York ; and Martin from Peshtigo,
Wisconsin. Some interesting portrait groups of the
family were taken and are preserved in the Green
Hill Book, a large folio record book, in which an
account of this reunion was entered, and in which
records of interest to the family, including notices
of visits, have since been kept. It is illustrated
with photographs of several generations of the
family ; has clippings from newspapers containing
obituaries and other family items.

Mr. Green died July 27, 1865, in the same room
at Green Hill in which he was born, — at the age
of eighty-eight years. He was married four times ;
first to Abigail Nelson, daughter of Josiah Nelson,
of Milford, who bore him one child, William Nel-
son Green ; secondly, to Lucy Merriam, daughter
of Deacon Joseph Merriam of Grafton, who bore
him one child, Lucy Merriam Green; thirdly, to
Julia Plimpton, daughter of Oliver Plimpton. Esq.,
of that part of Sturbridge now known as South-
bridge. Massachusetts. She had nine children ; and
fourthly, to Elizabeth D. Collins, a widow. From
this marriage there was no child. The children of
William E. Green were :

1. William Nelson, born at Milford, Massa-
chusetts, February 23, 1804 ; died December 6, 1870.
He was judge of the police court of Worcester.
[See his sketch, later.]

2. Lucy Merriam, born at Grafton, November
12, 1810. She was for a great many years tlie joint
owner with her sister, Mary Ruggles Green, of a
young ladies' school at No. i Fifth avenue. New
York city, which they made famous ; unmarried ;
her brother, Andrew H. Green, a bachelor, lived
with these two sisters and helped them conduct their
business affairs ; she died May S, 1893, at Worcester.

3. Mary Ruggles, born in Worcester, June 29,
T814; she married Carl W. Knudsen, who was born
in Denmark, 1818, and died in South Norwalk,
Connecticut, February 27, 1894. She was a teacher
and joint proprietor with her sister. Lucy M., of
the young ladies' school at No. I Fifth avenue, New
York city. She died March 17, 1894.

4. Julia Elizabeth, born in Worcester, February
2, 1816 ; she lived at home with her parents ; was a
teacher ; never married, and died August 5, 1880.

5. Lydia Plimpton, born at Worcester, August
4, 1817; died August 27, 1818.

/ 6. John Plimpton, born in Worcester, January
^ 19. iSig; he became a physician, practiced in New

York and lived in China and South America. He

died .

7. Andrew Haswell, born in Worcester. October

6, 1820; a prominent lawyer in New York city,

associated in practice with Hon. Samuel J. Tilden ;

president of the Board of Education ; commissioner

of Central Park, and comptroller of New Y'ork city.

[See a sketch of his life later, — "A. H. Green

(VH)."1
x/' 8. Samuel Fiske. born in Worcester, October

10, 1822 ;■ a physician and missionary in Ceylon.

9. Lydia Plimpton, born at Worcester, March
18. 1824; she lived at the old home on Green Hill,
and died there September 7, 1869.

10. Oliver Bourne, born at Worcester. January
I, 1826 : he married August 28, 1S55, Louisa Pome-
roy of Stanstead, Canada ; a prominent civil engineer
at Chicago. Illinois. [See a sketch of his life, later,
— "O. B. Green (VII)."]

11. Martin, born at Worcester, April 24. 1828;

for many years a civil engineer engaged in import-
ant work; now resident at Worcester. [See a sketch
of his life, later,— "Martin Green (VII)."]

(VII) Dr. John Green, son of Dr. John Green
(6), was born in Worcester, April 19, 17S4. He was
graduated at Brown University in 1804, and began
to practice medicine in Worcester in 1807, a year
before the death of his father and eight years
after that of his grandfather, Dr. John Green of
Revolutionary fame. He seems destined to be re-
membered longer than either, for he will be known
to future generations as the founder of the Free
Public Library of Worcester. Having early decided
to devote a liberal portion of his fortune to the
founding of such an institution, he was engaged
for many years in collecting books, which in 1859
he presented to the city, adding continually to the
number afterward, and leaving in his will funds of
$35,000 for the library, with a provision for further
accumulation.- The funds amounted, November 30,
1905, to $61,403.

He studied medicine with his father, succeeded
to his father's practice at his death, and for half
a century was the acknowledged leader of his pro-
fession in this section of the state. He was a good
student, gentle and sympathetic with his patients,
especially with women and children, but quite in-
flexible when it seemed to him necessary ; very
cautious and also very daring ; but his most valuable
professional quality was the keenest possible obser-
vation.

Although this third Dr. John Green is likely
to be best known hereafter as the foimder^ of
Worcester's Public Library, contemporary physicians
and his own patients generally believed him to be
the greatest physician and surgeon of the three
who. under the name of Dr. John Green, had cared
for this conmiunity for ninety-eight years. He was
the last Dr. Green of the four in this con-
tinuous family line who had served this neighbor-
hood medically for over one hundred and thirty-
five years without a break. He was given the de-
gree of M. D. by Harvard College in 1815. and in
1826 by his Alma Mater, Brown LTniversity. He
was treasurer of the District Medical Society three
j-ears, vice-president five years, and president seven ;
vice-president of the American Medical Society in
1854 : the first president of the Worcester County
Horticultural Society : a councillor of the Massa-
chusetts Medical Society and of the American Anti-
quarian Society. He was an early and constant
patron and supporter of the Worcester Natural
. History Society. On account of age and failing
health, he retired from practice about 1855. He
died in his eightv-second year, at Worcester, Oc-
tober 17. 1865. He married Dolly Curtis, daughter
of David Curtis, of Worcester, and aunt of the late
George William Curtis, the distinguished author and
orator. They had no children.

(VII) James Green, son of Dr. John Green
(6), was born in Worcester. December 23. 1802.
less than six vears before the death of his father,
who died at the early age of forty-five years, and
left a family of nine children surviving him. The
oldest son. John (7), had already received his col-
legiate and medical education, and had started in
1826 by his .Mma Mater, Brown University. He
practice : but James had to go to work at the age
of twelve, after very little schooling. This
' calamity made him very eager afterwards to give
his own children the best education he could.
He lived all his life in Worcester, and married.
May I, 183'?. Elizabeth Swett. daughter of Samuel
Swett of Boston and Dedham. Massachusetts, a
merchant engaged in foreign trade. They lived at

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2 Harvard street, in Worcester, for about twenty-
:iglit years just preceding his death on June lo,
874. All their children were born in Worcester,
rhe widow Elizabeth continued to live in the same
lOUse until she died, May 7, 1901, leaving her three
ons surviving. Their children were:

1. James, born February 15, 1834; died Fcbru-
iry 17, 1834.

2. John, born April 2, 1S35 ; graduated at Har-
•ard College, 1855 1 M. D., Harvard ; an eminent
]phthalmologist and leader of his profession in St.
^ouis, Missouri. [See sketch of his life later, —
Dr. John Green (VHI)."]

3. Samuel Swett, born February 20, 1837;
L B., Harvard, 1858; Harvard Divinity School,
864; Harvard A. M., 1870. [See a sketch of his
ife later, — "Samuel S. Green, VHI."]

4. Elizabeth Sprague, born April ig, 1839; she
lied at St. Louis at the home of her brother John,
anuary 9, 1870.

5. James, born March 2, 1841 ; Harvard A. B.,
862: LL. B., 1S64; A. M., 1865. [See sketch of
.is life, later, — "James Green, VHI."]

(Vn) Meltiah Bourne Green, son of Dr. John
jreen (6), was born in Worcester, July 16, 1806.
le married Mary Stone Ward, daughter of Artemas
Yard of Worcester, Massachusetts. He lived in
Vorcester, and died there May 24, 1888. His wife
ied at Worcester, January 7, 1896. Their children
.•ere :

1. Meltiah, born August 27, 1838; died August
9, 1838.

2. Mary Caroline, born December 13, 1839;
ied August 13, 1840.

3. Meltiah Bourne, born Januarv 3. 1843 ;
L. B. Trinity, 1865 ; LL. B. Harvard. 1867. He died
t Geneva, Switzerland, December 27, 1877.

(VH) William Nelson Green, son of William
'.. Green (6), was born in Milford, Massachusetts,
;hcre his father lived and practiced law for a time,
"ebruary 23, 1804. He was educated in the public
:hooIs of Worcester. He studied law- in the office
f Samuel M. Burnside in Worcester, and was ad-
litted to practice in 1827. ' From 1833 to 18.36 he was
le editor of the National Aegis, a Worcester news-
aper. distinguished more for the excellence of its
liting and the greatness of some of its editors
fter they left the paper, than for any degree of
nancial success attained. Somebody has said that
alf the lawyers in Worcester in the early days
;rved their time as editor of the Aegis. He w'as
)r a time a school teacher. He will be remembered
est for his high-minded and efficient service as the
rst judge of the city court. When Worcester was
icorporated as a city in 1848. the new charter es-
iblished a police court, of which he became the
4stice. Judge Green was undoubtedly the best
iialified among the justices of the peace who had
itherto administered the criminal law in the town
f Worcester. He was not only the first but the
;i=t and only judge of the Worcester police court,
k'hen, after a faithful service of twenty years,
•idge Green retired, the municipal court was es-
:blished and the police court abolished to meet
sw needs of the city. Judge Green loved nature
id was very fond of hunting. He died December
1870. two j'ears after retiring from the jud.geship.
■e married. February 23, 1839. Sarah Munroe
Ball) Staples, who was born in Northhoro and
as a widow when he married her. They had five
lildren. born in Worcester:

I. William Nelson. (S), born January 10, 1843.
e enlisted in the 25th Massachusetts Regiment, and
as promoted for gallantry in the battle of Roanoke
I be second lieutenant in the I02d New York Regi-

ment. He was in the battle of Cedar Mountain and
was a prisoner in Libby Prison. He received special
mention for brave conduct in the battle of Chancel-
lorsville, and a Commission as lieutenant-colonel in
the 173d New York Regiment. He was shot at
Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, during a battle, and died
May 13, 1864, from the wound.

2. Timothy Ruggles, born June 22, 1844. He
lived many years in New York with his uncle An-
drew H. Green, and after his uncle's death returned
to Worcester, where he now resides,

(Vn) Andrew Haswcll Green, son of William E.
Green (6) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
October 6, 1820. The best account of the life and
achievements of "the Father of Greater New York"
is that written by his cousin and friend, Samuel
Swett Green, librarian of the Free Public Library
of Worcester, and read at the semi-annual meeting
of the American Antiquarian Society, April 27, 1904.
From that account the writer of this sketch has
draw-n most of the facts and in many cases has
quoted freely from it.

.•\t the age of fifteen Mr. Green left school. His
early education was obtained at the old Thomas
street school at the corner of Summer street. He
went to work in New York city, whither he jour-
neyed by stage and steamboat. He was employed
first at the munificent salary of fifty dollars a year
in the store of Hinsdale & Atkins as errand boy.
His next position was clerk in the store of Lee,
Savage & Co., wholesale cloth merchants and im-
porters, where he steadily advanced until he had
reached nearly the head position when the firm
failed. After a severe illness and return to Green
Hill for some months during convalescence and re-
cuperation, he entered the employ of Wood, Johns-
ton & Barritt. linen importers. Exchange Place,
New York. Then he went to the house of Simeon
Draper. At the age of twenty-one he went to
Trinidad, where he spent a year on the sugar plan-
tation of Mr. Burnley, a friend of the family. While
there he became interested in the cultivation of
sugar cane, the manufacture of sugar and molasses
and tried without success to introduce some im-
provement in the methods and processes in use.
He gave up the attempt, returned to New York and
entered the law office of a relative, John W. Mit-
chell. He began the practice of law in the office
of Samuel J. Tilden, "whose political principles he
shared." to quote his own words, "and with whom
he sustained confidential and trusted relations
throughout life."

He was elected trustee of the schools in the
fourth ward of New York, and afterward school
commissioner and member of the board of educa-
tion. He was made president of the board, which
consisted of forty four members, in 1855. Two
years later he was appointed a commissioner of
Central Park and became treasurer of the board of
commissioners, president and executive officer of
the board, and for ten years comptroller of the
park. He had complete supervision of the engineers,
landscape architects, gardeners, and the whole force
of laborers amounting at times to three thousand
men. The office of comptroller of the park was
created especi-dly for Mr. Green. It happened that
in the first years of the park there was constant
friction between the commissioners and the Tweed
ring, then being formed, and the coiumissioners
were quite willing to leave the work to anyone who
would attend to it. So Mr. Green was made both
president and treasurer. .As the park was developed
and grew in popularity some member of the board
intimated that it was not right for one man to hold
lioth offices, and Mr. Green was elected treasurer,

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to which the salary, which the legislature had
authorized the commissioneTs to pay either to the
president or treasurer, -was to be paid. But Mr.
Green promptly declined to serve in the salaried
position, whereupon another member was elected
treasurer and he was elected president without sal-
ary. ^ The new treasurer failed to give satisfaction
and in a few months the office of comptroller of
parks was created and Mr. Green elected to till the
position. The nominal president of the board had
the duty of presiding at meetings, but all the exe-
cutive and administrative work devolved on the
comptroller, who was likewise the treasurer. He
served in this very important and honorable posi-
tion for ten years, when the Tweed charter of
1870 removed the members of the hoard from office
and turned Central Park over to a department of
the city government appointed by A. Oakey Hall,
mayor. Although Mr. Green was appointed a mem-
ber of the new board the conditions were such that
he resigned in 1872.

Chancellor MacCracken. of New York Univer-
sity, in speaking of Mr. Green, said that "by his
care for Central Park he was led to care for related
enterprises, such as the Museum of Art. the Museum
of Science and the Zoological Garden." He was
constantly alive to the work of beautifying the
city, whether by individual effort or as a member
of one or another organization. A recent address
declared that his thoughtfulness was woven into
the structure and visible aspect of New York. Here
we see it in a reserved acre of greensward; there
in the curve of a graceful line, like the beautiful
span of Washington Bridge, and somewhere else
in a sweet sounding name, like Morningside. "Mr.
Green had a rare combination of qualities," said
Samuel Swett Green, "to fit him to do the great
work which he did in laying out and developing
Central Park. He had an eye for the picturesque
and beautiful, and a fondness and aptitude for the
kind of practical service needed. He had too a
passion for having everything done thoroughly."

Mr. Green was naturally appointed a mem-
ber of the original board of commissioners on
the Niagara reservation, and held the position until
his death, being president most of the time. An
island formerly known as Bath Island has been
named for Mr. Green. Several years ago the state
of New York established a commission with the
title "Trustees of Scenic and Historical Places and
Objects in the State of New York." The name has
twice been changed and is now American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society. Mr. Green was
the founder and enthusiastic president of this so-
ciety from its organization until his death.

In 1865 the legislature imposed upon the com-
missioners of Central Park the duty of laying out
that portion of the island lying north of One Hun-
dred and Fifty-fifth street. It was while he was
directing the work of laying out Central Park and
Upper New York that Mr. Green first called at-
tention in a serious and deliberate manner to the
desirability of the union of the towns and cities
now popularly known as the Greater New York,
The first result of Mr. Green's recommendation of
the consolidation was the annexation in 1873 of
Morrisiania, West Farms and Kingsbridge. Mr.
Green presented to the legislature of NewYork in
i8qo a notable brief, advocating consolidation. A
referendum in 1804 resulted in a favorable vote in
all the four counties concerned. The commission to
draft the charter was appointed by the state. June
9, 1896. with Mr. Green as chairman. The charter
as drafted became a law November d, 1807. The
new city was established January i, 1898, and May

22, iSgS, Mr. Green appeared before the legislature
by invitation to receive congratulations for his work
in forming the Greater New York. A thoughtful
address was given by him. A medal was struck
off as a memorial and presented to Mr. Green Oc-
tober 6, 1898, and by general consent also he has
come to be known as "The Father of Greater New
York."

Mr. Green's connection with the New York
library system is interesting history. He was one
of the executors of the will of his law partner,
the late Samuel J. Tilden, and was one of the origi-
nal trustees, three in number, appointed in the will
to add to their number and establish a great free
library in New York. Mr. Green's efforts resulted
in saving much of the property for the libraries
when all was involved in contests and litigations.
It was his scheme to bring about the union of some
of the great libraries in New York, and he quietly
secured the legislation necessary with the final re-
sult of consolidating the Astor, Lenox and Tilden
foundations in the formation of the New York
Public Library, which, Mr. S. S. Green says,
"through the assiduous and valuable labors of its
well known and accomplished librarian. Dr. John
S. Billings, by means of subsequent consolidations
and aided by a munificent gift from Mr. Andrew
Carnegie and by city appropriations, bids fair to
become one of the most important institutions in
New York."

Mr. Green first became prominent in the whole
country of which New York is the metropolis, by
his work in the office of comptroller in behalf of
good government during the exposure of the frauds
of the Tweed ring. This office he held for
five years, till in 1876, he became executor of
the will of William B. Ogden, the railroad
king of New York and Chicago. Had Mr. Tilden
been declared president of the United States, Mr.
Green would undoubtedly have been in the cabinet.
He was one of the original trustees of the New York
and Brooklyn Bridge. In 1890 the legislature ap-
pointed him a commissioner to locate and approve
the plan of the great railroad bridge across the
Hudson river which is to join Manhattan Island
with the rest of the country. He was elected to the
constitutional convention in 1894.

He was a member of the New York Historical
Society, the New York Genealogical and Biographi-
cal Society and many other societies devoted to
geography, history, the fine arts, science and philan-
thropy. He became a member of the American
Antiquarian Society in October, 1889, and left that
society $5,000 in his will. He also bequeathed $5,000
to Clark University in Worcester, and $1,000 to
the Isabella Heimath, a home for aged women in
New York. In politics he was a Democrat, although
he was not in agreement with the majority of his
party in his position on the tariff. He was a Pro-
tectionist. He was killed November 13, 1903, by
a crazy man just as he was entering his home in
New York. He never married, but lived in his own
home. Park avenue. New York.

He was the owner of the old homestead on Green
Hill, where he made large purchases of land de-
stined it seems to benefit the city of Worcester,
where he was born, as greatly as his service in the
Park Board of New York benefited the city of his
adoption. He enlarged the old house by cutting
it in two. moving back the rear portion and building
between the front and back of the old building a
fine mansion, thus securing in the middle of the
house large and higher rooms on the lower floor
and suits of apartments for himself, his brothers
and sisters upstairs. Later a spacious porch and

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veranda were added in front. His deep affection
for his family and reverence for his ancestors were
frequently shown. "He always carried his brothers
and sisters and their children and grandchildren in
his heart," writes Mr. S. S. Green, "and no one of _
them ever suffered for the lack of a home or the
comforts of life. Mr. Green placed a mural bronze
tablet in the interior of the church at Greenville
in remembrance of its first pastor (his ancestor),
Thomas Green. Had I given him encouragement to
believe that it was fitting to single out one from
the thousands of young men who did service in the
civil war for especial and lavish commemoration
he would, I am sure, have engaged St. Gaudens,
or another sculptor as distinguished, to have made
a statue of his nephew, William Nelson Green, Jr.,
to be placed in an appropriate position in Worcester."

It should be said of Mr. Green, as of his brothers
to whom reference is made elsewhere, that they
were descended from the Bournes of the Cape, from
Governor Dudley, of the Massachusetts Bay colony,
and from Rev. John Woodbridge, a brother of
Benjamin Woodbridge, whose name stands first
on the roll of graduates of Harvard College. He
was also descended from the three Tillies and John
Howland. passengers on the "Mayflower."

His character has been described by the New
York Tribune, which said of him at the time he
was appointed deputy comptroller: "Incorruptible,
inaccessible to partisan or personal considerations,
immovable by threats or bribes, and honest by the
very constitution of his own nature" and as fitted
for the office by "long experience in public affairs,
strict sense of accountability and thorough methods
of doing business." Hon. Seth Low, mayor of
New York at the time of Mr. Green's death, said of
him : "It may truthfully be said that to no one
man who has labored in and for the city during the
last fifty years is the city under greater and more
lasting obligations than to Andrew H. Green. The
city itself, in some of its most beautiful and endur-
ing features, is the monument of his love ; and the
city may vv-ell cherish his honored name with the
undying gratitude that is due to a citizen who has
made it both a greater and better city than it was."

(VII) John Plimpton Green, son of William E.
Green (6), was born in Worcester, January 19, 1819.
He studied medicine in New York and practiced
there for a time. He removed to Whampoa, China,
thence to Copaipo in Chile, South America, where
he spent most of his mature years, practicing medi-
cine. He died January 6. 1892, at Green Hill.

(VII) Samuel Fisk Green, son of William E.
Green (6), was born at Green Plill, Worcester,
October 10, 1822: died there May 28, 1884. He
studied medicine and practiced for a time, but when
a young man went to Batticotta in the Island of
Ceylon as a missionary physician for the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He
spent almost a quarter of a century in ministering
personally to the wants of both the bodies and
souls of the Taniil population of the Island. After
his return to Green Hill, he continued to translate
medical treatises into the Tamil language until his
death. Besides practicing medicine in Ceylon he
established there a medical school, and his pupils
were very numerous. He is given the credit of
creating the medical literature of the Tamil language.
He married. May 22. 1862, Margaret Phelps Wil-
liams. Since his death his family has been occupy-
ing the mansion at Green Hill. His children were:
Julia E., born January I, 1S64 ; Lucy Maria. Febru-
ary 26, 1865 ; Mary Ruggles. September 22, 1867 ;
Nathan Williams, March i.^. 1871.

(VII) Oliver Bourne Green, son of William E.
Green (6), w-as born January i, 1826. He and his

brother, Martin Green, of Worcester are the only
survivors among the eleven children of Squire
Green. His early education was received in the
school house 'at the corner of Thomas and Sum-
mer streets. For a few winters he taught school,
but the building of steam railroads attracted him
and he obtained a position as rodman on trench
survey for the New York & Erie Railroad, and for
a few weeks assisted in the preliminary surveys.
What he himself calls his first position, however,
was on the Worcester & Nashua Railroad, w^here,
begining as rodman, he learned the art and science
of civil engineering in the way it was then taught,
by experience. He next went to the Hudson River
Railroad and took part in the survey of what has
since become one of the greatest railroads in the
country. He was particularly strong in field work
and he obtained more than his share of that part
iif the engineering. After the Hudson River job,
lie became resident engineer in charge of part of
Ihe construction of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
He was stationed in West Virginia in the section
containing the Welling tunnel, one of the longest
on the road. It is about thirty miles from the
Ohio line. He stayed there two years and a half
until the road was completed and in operation. He
was occupied for a time in the survey for the
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Xenia Railroad, only part of
which was built at the time. He accepted the dif-
ficult task of engineer of a division on the Missis-
sippi Central Railroad, of which his brother, Mar-
tin Green, w-as later the chief engineer. He spent
the years 1853-54-55 in the south. In 1857 he was
engaged in the dredging and contracting business
with his brother, Martin Green, and later for over
thirty years on his ow-n account. He did much of
the construction along the Lake front, more than
any other contractor. He had many city contracts
for breakwaters and in the park system of Chicago.
He built a mile of the Lake Shore drive. One of
his best known jobs was done in 1877 for the
Sturgeon Bay Canal Company. He constructed the
canal which connects Green Bay with Lake Michi-
gan and saved all the lumber vessels that enter
Green Bay at least two hundred miles on their round
trip.

Since 1867 Mr. Green has lived at 403 LaSalle
avenue, Chicago. His house was burned there in
the "great fire." but he rebuilt later. He continued
in active business until i8g8, when he turned his
business over to his son, Andrew Hugh Green.
Mr. Green is a member of the Western Society of
Civil Engineers and is one of the oldest members.
He is a member of the New England Congregational
Church of Chicago. He is a Democrat in politics
with a belief in the Republican principle of pro-
tection that made him wdiat he calls an Eclectic.

He married. August 28, 1855, and in 1905 cele-
brated his golden wedding in the mansion on Green
Hill. It was a notable event socially, from the
gathering of the relatives and several old school-
mates and other friends wdio had not met for years.

His wife, Louise Pomeroy. was the daughter of
Hazen and Lois Pomeroy. She was born in Stan-
stead, Canada, and he met her while making the
survey of the Mississippi Central Railroad. She
was a school teacher there. Their children are:
Mary Pemeroy. born April 26, 1857, lives with her
parents. Olivia, born December 10, 1859, married
Wyllis W. Baird. and they have two children:
Warner Green Baird. a student in Cornell ; Katha-
rine L. Baird. Andrew Hugh, born November 26,
1S60. graduated at Harvard University in 1892, and
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog)', in 1896.
He took over his father's business, with which he
was thoroughly familiar, and having introduced

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some of thf newest methods and latest macliinery,
sold it in 1901 to advantage, and has been travel-
ing since then.

(Vll) Martin Green, son of William E. Green
(6), was born in Worcester, April 24, 18^8. The
room in which he was born in the homestead at
Green Hill is the same in which his father was
born and died, and in which his ten brothers and
sisters were born. He received his schooling in
the old school at the corner of Summer and Thomas
streets, when Warren Lazell was the teacher of
the Knglish department and Charles Thurber of the
Latin department. He took a course at Little Blue
Seminary at Farmington, Maine. His father in-
tended to have him go to college, but he was at-
tracted to the profession in which his brother Oliver
was making good progress, and he started his
career as civil engineer as chainman in the survey
for the Hudson River Railroad, where his brother
was also employed. He was promoted rapidly and
became a proficient civil engineer. When the sur-
vey was completed to Greenbush, he returned to the
old home at Green Hill, but went to work for the
Worcester & Nashua Railroad Company. When the
work w'as done on the Nashua road he accepted
a position with the Pennsylvania Coal Company
Railroad. He was occupied here for three years
in surveying and building gravity railroads in Lu-
zerne county, Pennsylvania. When the work was
done he was offered the superintendency of the
road. He returned to Worcester but was called
to take the position of division engineer on the
New York & Harlem Railroad. He was in charge
of the construction of the line from Millerton to
Copake. When the work was done he was selected
as chief engineer for the Lebanon Springs Railroad
Company. This road was to run from Chatham,
New York, to Bennington, Vermont, throu.gh a
rough and hilly country and presented some dif-
ficult engineering problems. Tlie work was left
unfinished on account of the financial troubles of
the railroads involved in the great frauds of Robert
Schuyler, who had been president of sixteen rail-
road companies.

Mr. Green was then appointed chief engineer of
the Mississippi Central Railroad, which had been
begun all along the two hundred and sixty-seven
miles of its length, and was left by his predecessor
in the greatest disorder and confusion. Some sec-
tions he found built a one-fourth mile out of the
proper course, so that it taxed his resources to build
curves and schemes to save the work already done.
He found the engineering force grossly incompetent.
When he left this railroad was substantially com-
plete, but so anxious were the planters, who were
directors of the road, and the president to keep him
that they offered him whai was at that time a very
large salary, $20,000 a year, to remain. And' after
he had actually left, they sent a delegation to New
York to see him, and another to Chicago to try to
persuade him to come back. No stronger testimony
to the value of his work as a railroad engineer need
be cited. To his natural gift for this kind of work
he added great physical strength and vigor, and he
gave all his energy to the performance of the work,
whatever it might be, that he had in hand. The
Mississippi Central is now a part of the Illinois
Central Railroad. As first constructed by Mr. Green
it ran from the junction with the Memphis &
Charleston Railroad, six miles north of the Ten-
nessee line to Canton and Jackson, Mississippi. It
was a very important railroad in the southern in-
terests. He had the honor to run the first loco-
motive ever run in the state of Mississippi.

Although Mr. Green received offers of positions
as chief engineer from three other railroads, he

persisted in his purpose when leaving Mississippi
and went to Chicago, where he was employed first
to .<tudy the question of a tunnel under the Chicago
river, to gather statistics and make plans. He pro-
ceeded with the work of building the Chicago tun-
nel and remained with the work until the coffer
dams were built. He then went into business on
his own account as contractor and dredger. At
that time one of the prime necessities of commer-
cial Chicago was the vv-idening and deepening of
Chicago river and the construction of proper
wharves for shipping. He had the contracts for the
dredging of the river from the lake to the old Rush
street bridge. He took out the old government
light houses and government barracks and the old
fort. The river was made about five times its
original width. He also improved the north branch
of the river as far as Ward's rolling mill, and the
fouth branch for about twelve miles. He was in
Chicago in its first great period of development,
and of that work he took a large and im-
portant part. In 1867 he sold his Chicago
business and went to Peshtigo, Wisconsin,
for the Peshtigo Lumber Company, in which
William B. Ogden was interested, with whom
Mr. Green was associated during much of his active
business life. This company owned one hundred
and seventy-six thousand acres of lumber land. As
manager of this vast property he had to erect saw
mills and grist mills and build two large ships for
the lumber trade. He was in Peshtigo three years.
He built the ship canal at Benton Harbor, Michi-
gan. This canal gave steamships access to Benton
in the heart of the peach country. He owned a line
of boats and wdien- the work was completed his
line took during the season forty thousand baskets
to Chicago every night. Besides his steamship line
he built and owned saw and grist mills at Benton
Harbor.

Before the great fire in Chicago he returned and
w-as interested with his brother in the contracting
business. The fire caused hmi to over-work and
break down. On May 23, 1872, by advice of his
physician, he returned to Green Hill, Worcester,
Massachusetts, to rest and recuperate. The life in
Worcester attracted him and he remained here,
developing the Green Hill estate to its present state.
He removed, November 13, 1905, to No. 974
Pleasant street, where he has since lived. Mr.
Green has never cared to join secret societies and
clubs. He is a member of Central Congregational
church, Worcester. He served three years on the
Worcester park board and for about three years on
the board of trustees of the State Lunatic Asylum
at Westboro. Massachusetts.

He married, December 25, 1859, Mary Frances
Stewart, of the New York Stewart family. She
was born in New York city, December 25, 1821,
and died at 4 Melville street, Worcester, April 20,
T005. Their children are: William Ogden, born in
Chicago, September 26, i860: Samuel Martin, born
at Benton Harbor. IMichigan. April- 13. 1864.

(VIII) John Green, of St. Louis, Missouri, son
of James Green (7), was born in Worcester,
Massachusetts. April 2, 1835. He was fitted for col-
lege at the Worcester Classical and English high
school: entered Harvard College. 1851; was grad-
uated, A. B., iSss: S. B.. 1856; A. M.. 1859: M. D.,
1866. He studied medicine at Cambridge. Massa-
chusetts, under the direction of Profs. Morrill and
Jeffries Wyman: also at the Massachusetts Medical
College in Boston : and from 1858 to i860 in Lon-
don, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He was admitted
a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, on
examination in 1858. He was elected a member
of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1856,

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id member of the council, as curator of Com-
jrative Anatomy, in 1857 ; i" l^e '^"er year he
-companied Prof. Jeffries Wyman on a scientific
cpedition to Surinam (Dutch Guiana). He began
le practice of medicine in Boston in ibOl. He
as a member of the Boston Medical Association ;
le Suffolk District Medical Society, of which he
-as elected secretary in 1865; and of the Boston
ociety for Medical Observation. He was appointed
delegate to the American Medical Association,
rem B°oston, in 1864 and 1865. He held successively
le positions of attending physician and attending
uro-eon at the central office of the Boston Dis-
en°ary. During 1862 he was in the medical service
f the Western Sanitarv Commission and of the
Jnited States Sanitary Commission, and was for
everal months acting assistant surgeon m the
Vrmy of the Tennessee.

In 1865 he went again to Europe for the pur-
,ose of continuing studies in ophthalmology, in Lon-
ion Paris, and Utrecht. In 1S66 he removed to
5t 'Louis, Missouri, where he has since resided
md practiced his profession. He is a member of
he American Ophthalmological Society, elected
866- one of the original members of the American
Dtological Society, founded 1868; and a member
jf the International Ophthalmological Congress
iince 1872. He was a member by special appoint-
nent of the International Medical Congress held in
Philadelphia in 1876, and was secretary of the sec-
tion of Ophthalmology. In 1867 he was appointed
lecturer on Ophthalmology in the St. Louis Summer
School of Medicine; in 1868, professor of Ophthal-
mology and Otology in the St. Louis College of
Phvsicians and Surgeons, which position he held
during the two years of existence of that institution;
in 1871 lecturer on Ophthalmology m the bt. Louis
Medical College; in 1872 ophthalmic surgeon to
the St Louis Eve and Ear Infirmary, and consulting
ophthalmic surgeon to the St. Louis City Hospital;
and, in 1874 ophthalmic surgeon to St. Luke s Hospi-
tal In 1886 he was elected professor of Ophthal-
mology in the St. Louis Medical College (later the
Medical Department of Washington University, bt.
Louis. Missouri). He is president of the St. Lotus
Ophthalmological Society. He is a member of the
St Louis Academv of Science, of which he was
president in l8g5 ; member of the board _of trustees
of the Missouri Botanical Garden (Shaw s Garden),
since 1895; member of the Missouri Historical So-
ciety; member of the American Antiquarian So-
ciety; member (and first vice-president) of the
St. Louis Society of the Archaeological Institute
of America: etc. He has contributed scientific
papers to leading medical journals, to the trans-
actions of the American Ophthalmo ogica Society,__
"Transactions of the American Otological Socie y
"Proceedings of the International Ophthalmological
Congress" (London. 1872, and New York. 18/6)
"Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, etc.
The honorarv degree of LL. D. was inferred upon
him by Washington University m IQOS.. and by the
Universitv of Missouri in 1906. He is a charter
member of the University Club of St. Louis; mem-
ber of the St. Louis Club, the discontinued) Ger-
mania Club, the Liederkranz Club; of t^c Roun^
Table Club; and member (president from 1890 to
1906. now honorary president) of the Harvard Club
ofSt. Louis. He is also a member of the Society of
the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Society of

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Dr. Green married. October 2.^ 1868, Harrie
Louisa Jones, daughter of George Washington and
Caroline (Partri.lge) Jones, "f J.^^^P''^^""/ ^1=^'^:
chusetts; of this marriage two children. J"hn (born
at Templeton, Massachusetts, August 2, 18/3), a"d

Elizabeth (born in St. Louis, December 3, 1878),
are living in St. Louis. His home is at 2670 Wash-
ington avenue, St. Louis, Missouri.

(VIII) Samuel Swctt Green, was born in Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, February 20, 1837. He is a
•son of the late James Green (7), and a nephew of
Dr. John Green (7). the principal founder of the
Free Public Library, of Worcester.

His descent from Thomas Green (I), who came
to this country early in the seventeenth century,
has been described already, and an account of his
ancestors in the line of the Greens has been given
above. Mr. Green's mother was the late Elizabeth
(ireen, daughter of Samuel Swett, of Boston and
Dcdham. Through her mother, a daughter of Dr.
John Sprague, of Boston, she and the subject of this
sketch are" descended from an even earlier resident
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony than Thomas
Green namely, Ralph Sprague, who came to Charles-
town 'in 1629, from Upway, Devonshire, England.
Through his great-great-grandfather. Gen. Timothy
Ruggles, of Hardwick, Mr. Green is also descended
from Rev John Woodbridge, one of the earliest
settlers of Newbury, and from Mr. Woodbridge's
wife's father, Thomas Dudley, the second governor
of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Rev. John
Woodbridge was the brother of Rev. Dr. Benjamin
Woodbridge, whose name stands first on the list of
graduates of Harvard College. Through the same
ancestor, Mr. Green is descended from John TiUey,
his wife and his daughter, Elizabeth, wife of John
Howland. These four ancestors came to this coun-
try in the "Mayflower." , c- r-

The first school attended by Samuel S. Grecji
was that of Mrs. Levi Heywood. Her school was
discontinued however, before long, and he was
sent for several vears to another infant school, kept
by the late Mrs. Sarah B. Wood, afterward a resi-
dent of Chicago, the wife of Jonathan Wood.
From that private school he passed, upon
examination, into the public grammar school
on Thomas street, which, during his studies
there was under the charge of Mr. Caleb
B Metcalf. Going next to the high school, he grad-
uated from that institution in 1854, and immediately
entered Harvard College. Among his c assmates
there were two other graduates of the \yorcester
hi-h 'school, namely, Eugene Frederick Bliss, who
has been for most of his life, since graduation, a
citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the late Lieut
Thomas Jefferson Spurr, who was mortally wounded
at the battle of Antietam. Mr. Green graduated from
Harvard College in 1858. In the early part of the
summer of i8w he sailed from Boston for Smyrna
as a passenger in the barque "Race Horse, and be-
fore returning home, in the same vessel visited
Constantinople. Remaining two years in Worcester
on account of ill-health, he resumed his studies at
Harvard University in the autumn of 1861, ana
graduated from the divinity school connected with
that institution in 1864. He visited f-"7P<\ a.Ka>" '"
1877 190^ 1903, 1904 and 1906, and added m 1903
to e'xtensive travels previously made in this coun-
trv a visit to Alaska. During the civil war, and
while in the divinity school, Mr. Green was drafted
fo service in the army, but w^s debarred from
entering it bv delicate health. He took the degree
of Master of Arts at Harvard University in 1870,
ind Tunc 28 1877, was chosen an honorary mem-
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa society by, the chapter of
the order connected with the same university.

In 1864 Mr Green became bookkeeper in the
Mechanics National Bank of Worcester, and in the
course of a few months, teller .in the Worcester
\ational Bank. The latter position he Jield for
several years. He was offered the position of cashier

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of tlie Citizens National Bank, to succeed the late
Mr. John C. Ripley, but declined it; as he also
declined, at about the same time, a place in the Wor-
cester County Institution for Savings.

Mr. Green became a director of the Free Pub-
lic Library, January I, 1867, and four years later,
January 15, 1871, librarian of the same institution.
The latter position he still holds, having been elected
for the thirty-sixth year of service January 2, igo6.
.The library has grown rapidly in size and use under
his care. It contained, December i, 1905, 153,176
volumes. The use of its books in the year ending
with that date was 366,935. A feature in that use
is the remarkably large proporlion of books that
are employed for study and purposes of reference.
Mr. Green is regarded as an authority among
librarians in respect to matters relating to the use
of libraries as popular educational institutions, and
in respect to the establishment, of close relations
between libraries and schools. He was a pioneer in
the work of bringing about inter-library loans and
in a large use of photographs and engravings in
supplementing the value of books. He has for a
few years past set the example of having, in a library,
talks about books on specified subjects, and is now
conducting some interesting experiments in bring-
ing the users of the circulating department and the
children's room under the influence of the best
works of art.

Mr. Green was one of the founders of the Amer-
ican Library Association, and is a life fellow of
the society. He was for several years the chair-
man of the finance committee of that body and its
Yice-president for 1887-9 and 1892-3. In 1891 Mr.
Green was chosen president of the association, and
presided at the annual meeting held that year in
San Francisco. He was in 1896 the first president
of the council. He is an original Fellow of the
Library Institute, founded in 1905 ; an organization
supposed to be composed of a limited number of the
most distinguished librarians of the country, Mr.
Green was a delegate of the American Library As-
sociation to the International Congress of Librarians
held in London in October, 1S77, was a member of
the council of that body, and took an active part
in the discussions carried on in its meetings. Be-
fore the close of the Congress, the Library Associa-
tion of the United Kingdom was formed. Mr. Green
was chosen an honorary member of that association,
in July, 1878. He presided for a day over the
World's Congress of Librarians held in Chicago
in 1903, and at a meeting of the American Library
Association held at Chicago University the same
year. Mr. Green was a vice-president of the In-
ternational Congress of Librarians held in Lon-
don in 1897. In 1890 he was appointed by the gov-
ernor of Massachusetts an original member of the
Free Public Library Commission of the Common-
wealth, and was reappointed in 1894, 1899 and 1904.
Mr. Green was one of the founders and the original
first yice-president of the Massachusetts Library
Club. He was for many years a member of the com-
mittee of the overseers of Harvard University to
make an annual examination of the library of the
university, occupied a similar position in connection
with the Boston Public Library for a single year,
and began, in 1887, to deliver annual courses of
lectures as lecturer on "Public libraries as popular
educational institutions" to the students of the
School of Library Economy connected with Colum-
bia College, New York city. He has also lectured
at the Library School since it became an institu-
tion of the state of New York, and was chosen a
member of a committee to examine the school in
both places.

As librarian of the Free Public Library, Mr.
Green has gained for himself and his library a wide
reputation. In "The Worcester of 1898" it is said
of him that "his purpose has been from the first
to make the Public Library an instrument for popu-
lar education and a practical power in the com-
munity. To this end he has written and spoken
much during the past twenty years, and his eflforts
and advice have influenced, in no slight degree,
library methods and administration throughout the
United States. Tlie library methods of Worcester
have been studied in the Department of the Seine,
in which the city of Paris is situated. Mr. Green's
advice has been sought by the Educational De-
partment of the English government. The Free
Public Library of Worcester has recently been de-
scribed at great length by a German scholar as an
example worthy to be followed in that country,
in advocating the introduction of popular libraries,
such as we have in the United States, into Germany."
There is a picture of the interior of the children's
room of the Free Public Library in a recent Danish
pamphlet written by Andr. Sch, Sternberg, of the
Free Public Library Commission of Denmark. Mr.
Green was chosen a Fellow of the Royal Historical
Society of Great Britain, May 8, 1879, and on April
28, 1880, a member of the American Antiquarian
Society. Since October 22, 1883, he has been a
member of the council of the latter organization.
He was also elected a member of the American
Historical Association immediately after its forma-
tion. He was an early member of the Colonial
Society of Massachusetts and of the American or-
ganization known as the Descendants of Colonial
Governors. Mr. Green is a life member of the
New England Historic-Genealogical Society, and
was for several years a member of the Archaeologi-
cal Institute of America, and of the committee on
the School for Classical Studies at Rome. He is a
corresponding member of the National Geographi-
cal Society and of the Historical Society of Wis-
consin. He is a member of the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment Association, and was for several years a fel-
low of the American Geographical Society, and a
member of the American Social Science Associa-
tion. He has been a manager of the Sons of the
Revolution, and was a charter member and the first
lieutenant-governor of the Society of Colonial Wars
in Massachusetts, presiding at its first general court
and the dinner which followed it. Mr. Green is a
member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants,
and of the Old Planters Society. He has been a
member of the University Club, Boston, from its
organization, and was an original member of the
Worcester Club, the St. Wulstan Society, and the
Worcester Economic Club. He is also, a member
of the old organization, the Worcester Association
for Mutual Aid in Detecting Thieves. October 12,
1882, Mr. Green was chosen a member of the board
of trustees of Leicester Academy, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Rev. Edward H. Hall,
on his removal from Worcester to Cambridge. In
1886 he assisted in the formation of the Worcester
High School Association, and was chosen its first
president, and re-elected to the same position in
1887. In the summer of 1886 he was chosen presi-
dent of the Worcester Indian Association and held
the oflice for two years.

Mr. Green has been president of the Worcester
.\rt Society. He was a member of a committee of
three asked by the late Mr. Salisbury to consult
with him about arrangements for starting the Wor-
cester Art Museum and to help him in the choice
of the list of corporators. When the Museum was
organized, he was offered a position as trustee, but

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declined to accept it. Mr. Green has been, from
the beginning of the organization, secretary lA the
Art Commission of the St. Wulstan Society. He
has been treasurer of tlie Worcester Public School
Art League since its establishment in 1895. He has
been very influential in promoting interest in the
fine arts in Worcester by means of exhibitions which
he started in the Public fJbrary building, and by
the installation in the library of a large collection
of the best photographs of the old and more modern
masterpieces ii> painting and sculpture.

Mr. Green was also, at two different times and
for several years, treasurer of the Worcester Natural
History Society, and has been for many years a
trustee of the Worcester County Institution for
Savings. In 1903 Mr. Green was made second vice-
president of the Worcester Harvard Club (which
not long before he had helped to form) ; and in
1904, first vice-president. For several years he has
been a member of the corporation for the adminis-
tration of the Home for Aged Men. Mr. Green
formerly wrote constantly for the Libniry Journal.
sending an article to the first number, and has
made many contributions to the proceedings of the
American Antiquarian Society. He has also written
papers for the American Journal of Social Science,
the Sunday Rcviczv of London and other periodicals.
Two books by him were published by the late Fred-
erick Leypoldt, of New York, namely, "Library
Aids" and "Libraries 'and Schools." Both were
printed in 1883. The former work, in a less com-
plete form, had been previously issued by the United
States Bureau of Education as a circular of in-
formation. At the request of the secretary of the
Board of Education of Massachusetts, Mr. Green
wrote an appendix to his forty-eighth annual re-
port on "Public Libraries and Schools." The essay
was afterwards printed as a separate pamphlet. A
paper by him on "The use of pictures in the public
libraries of Massachusetts" was printed as an ap-
pendix to the eighth report of the Free Public
Library Commission of Massachusetts. Mr. Green
has made many addresses and read a number of
papers on library and other subjects. Among the
earliest of these are "Personal Relations Between
Librarians and Readers." a paper wdiich was pre-
sented to a meeting of librarians who came together
in Philadelphia in October, 1876, and formed the
American Library Association (of this paper two
editions have been printed and exhausted). It was
made the subject of editorials in several Boston and
New York newspapers, and the plans of conducting
a library, described in it, were regarded at the
time of its appearance as novel and admirable :
"Sensational Fiction in Public Libraries," a paper
read July I. 1879, at one of the of the sessions of the
meetings of the American Library Association, held
in Boston that year (this paper was also printed in
pamphlet form and wddely distributed) : "The Re-
lations of the Public Library to the Public Schools,"
a paper read before the American Social Science
Association, at Saratoga, in September, 1880 (this
address was printed in the form of a pamphlet, and
has been widely read and very influential in awaken-
ing an interest in work similar to that described
in it, in America and abroad) ; papers and an
address on subjects similar to the one last men-
tioned, read or delivered at meetings of the Ameri-
can Library Association in Cincinnati and Buffalo,
at Round Island, one of the Thousand Isles in the
St. Lawrence river, in San Francisco, and at a
meeting of the Library Section of the National Edu-
cational Association, at a meeting in Washington.
Other important papers bv Mr. Green on questions
in library economy are "The Library in its relation
3

to persons engaged in industrial pursuits;" "Open-
nig Libraries on Sundays;" "The diuies of trustees
and their relations to librarians;" "Address as Presi-
dent of the /fhierican Library Association ;" "Inter-
library loans in reference work;" "Adaptation oi
hbraries to constituencies," printed in vol. I of the
report of the United States Commissioner of Educa-
tion for 1892-3 ; "How to encourage the foundation
of libraries in small towns;" and three closely con-
nected papers entitled "Discrimination regarding
"open shelves' in libraries," "What classes of per-
sons, if any, should have access to the shelves in
large libraries" and "Lead us not into temptation."
.•\ddresses have been printed in pamphlet form that
were made at the opening of library buildings in
Newark, New Jersey, Rindge, New Hampshire,
North Brookfleld and Oxford, Massachusetts. *

Mr. Green made remarks at the library-
school in Albany and in two or three Massa-
chusetts towns favoring the purchase of books
for grown-up inmiigrants in the languages to
wdiich they have been accustomed. He

wrote^ "A History of the Public Libraries of Wor-
cester" for the "Worcester of 1898," and earlier for
Hurd's "History of Worcester County." He was
chairman of a committee to supervise the portion of
that history relating to the town and city of Wor-
cester.

The first account of the methods introduced
by Mr. Green in the conduct of the Free PubHc
Library in Worcester, wdiicb was printed in pamphlet
form, was presented as an appendix to his annual
report as librarian for the year 1874-5, copies of
which -were sent to the Exposition in Philadelphia
in 1876. It was afterwards reprinted at the request
of the directors of the Free Public Library for dis-
tribution. In the fourth report of the Free Public
Library Commission of Massachusetts, Mr. Green
wrote on "Libraries and Schools," in the fifth report,
oi-i "Loaning reference books to small libraries," in
the seventh report, "On the use of libraries by chil-
dren" and, as stated above, in the eighth report,
"On the use of pictures in libraries." He also wrote
portions of the reports of the Free Public Library
of Worcester, while a director, and has written nearly
the whole of the reports (excepting the presidents*
reports) while librarian. He wrote sketches of the
lives of such librarians as William Frederick Poole
and John Fiske for the American Antiquarian So-
ciety's proceedings. The more elaborate historical
papers which have been prepared by Mr. Green are:
"Gleanings from the Sources of the History of the
Second Parish, Worcester, Massachusetts," read at
a meeting of the American Antiquarian Society,
held in Boston, April 2$, 1S83, and "The Use of the
Voluntary System in the Maintenance of Ministers
in the Colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts
Bay during the earlier years of their existence," an
essay which formed the historical portion of the re-
port of the Council of the American Antiquarian-
Society, w-hich Mr. Green presented to that society
at its meeting in Boston. April 28, 1886. Both of
these papers have been printed in a form separate
from the proceedings of the society for which they
were written. The latter was hi.ghly praised by the
distinguished student of early ecclesiastical history
in Massachusetts, the late Rev. Dr. Henry Martyn
Dexter. Other interesting and valuable historical
papers by Mr. Green are "Bathsheba Spooner,"
"The Scotch-Irish in America," "The Craigie
House," and "Some Roman Remains in Britian."

*Ttic address of welcome at 111** dedication in 1(*(M of (lie
building of Clarlf University Library was printed in the "Pub-
lications " of tlie library.

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He has also written for the American Antiquarian
Society, and the Colonial Society, elaborate sketches
of the lives of Pliny Earle Chase, George Bancroft,
Edward Griffin Porter, Andrew Haswell Green and
Benjamin Franklin Stevens. Mr. Green was invited
by the late Justin Winsor to write a chapter in his
"Narrative and Critical History of the United
States," but had to decline the invitation for lack
of time and strength.

(Vni) James Green, a counscllor-at-law in the
City of Worcester, was born March 2, 1841, at Wor-
cester, Massachusetts. His parents were James (7)
and Elizabeth (Swett) Green. He studied in the
Worcester public schools, and graduated at Harvard
College in 1862. The college course held pretty
strictly then to the classics, mathematics and phil-
osophy, and he was particularly interested in Greek
and history and English composition. In the social
life of the college, he was a member of the Institute
of 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club, the Haidee Boat
Club. etc. His college rank was sufficient to give
him a "Detur" (a prize for the work of the fresh-
man year), and parts at the junior and senior ex-
hibitions. At the time of his graduation, in the
summer of 1862, the civil war was going on, and the
fortunes of the Northern side were discouraging.
He tried to enter the array, against the medical advice
of his uncle, who had always cared for him pro-
fessionally, and he actually signed the enlistment
roll ; but his company was not filled in time to be
accepted. He had entered the law office of Hon.
Dwight Foster, at Worcester, before commence-
ment, and in the spring of 1863 he entered the
Harvard Law School, and was a proctor in the
college, and he received his Harvard degrees of
LL. B. in 1864, and A. M. in 1865. He passed the
year 1S64-5 in law offices in New York city, es-
pecially in the office of Miller, Peet & Nichols, and
was admitted to the New York bar on examination
\n 1865. Most of the year 1865-6, he was traveling
in the western states, and in the latter year he was
admitted to the Worcester bar. He has been in
practice in Worcester ever since. In January, 1872,
he went to Europe on account of threatened ill
health, and spent two years and a half in traveling
'in the continent, and largely in Italy, studying the
languages wherever he went, and also architecture,
painting and sculpture and modern history. He
traveled also in Greece, and journeyed as far as to
Constantinople and Smyrna. Upon his father's
death, on June 10, 1874, he returned at once to
Worcester. Since that time he has busied himself
a good deal in the care of real estate as well as
at the law. In 1877-8 he traveled another year in
France and Spain and England.

On June 2, 1881, he married Miss Mary A. Mes-
^inger, of Worcester, daughter of David Sewell and
Harriet (Sawyer) Messinger. and they have lived
ever since at 61 Elm street, Worcester. They have
had two children, Mary Sprague and Thomas Sam-
uel Green, who both attended the public schools of
Worcester, and are now living. After graduating
at the Classical High School, the daughter at-
tended Miss Baldwin's school at Bryn Mawr, and
the son entered Harvard College in 1905.

James Green's tastes have always been in the
direction of literary study, and he has interested
himself a good deal in modern languages and modern
history; but his life has been too much occupied with
the details of business, and handicapped by a defect-
ive eyesight and a too sensitive constitution, to allow
him to follow out his tastes freely. He became
verv much interested in the late war between the
British and the Boers in South Africa ; and, feeling
that the British cause was grossly misrepresented

in the United Slates, he wrote a lecture on this
subject which he delivered before the Society of
Antiquity in Worcester and afterwards issued as a
pamphlet. The ground that he covered had been
very little touched by other pamphleteers; for he
tried to show, in contradiction of what was often
said in American papers, that the British were light-
ing for the very same principles for which the
American colonists fought a century before; and
that the Boers, in their anger at the British policy
of emancipating the blacks, were as illiberal and
false toward the British colonists in South Africa
as King George's ministers had been toward our
ancestors in America. This pamphlet was circu-
lated widely in the United States, and was de-
clared by many thoughtful critics to be one of the
very best short statements of the subject that had
been printed. Upon the unsolicited recommenda-
tion of a high official at Washington, to the Imperial
South African Association in London, to reprint
this pamphlet and circulate it freely in all English-
speaking countries, it was republished by the asso-
ciation for free distribution, and the distinguished
Quaker philanthropist, John Bellows, of Gloucester,
England, reprinted the book for the association at
his own expense. Mr. Green has also printed va-
rious other pamphlets and biographical notices from
time to time, in his own name and anonymously,
and among them an address to his college class-
mates at an anniversary dinner; a notice of a new
edition of Aristotle's Musical Problems that had
been brought out by certain Dutch scholars ; and a
tribute to the memory of his associate and friend
at the bar, Hon. David Manning, etc. Mr. Green
was an early member of the St. Botolph Club, and
the Massachusetts Reform Club, of Boston, and of
various local organizations, including the Worcester
Club, the Shakespeare Club, the Gesang Verein
Frohsinn, the Twentieth Century Club, and the
Economic Club, all of Worcester; and also of clubs
for reading and conversation in French and Ger-
man. He was brought up in the historic First Uni-
tarian Church of Worcester, to which he still be-
longs. The earlier pages of these Memoirs show
his descent from four of the Pilgrims of the "May-
flowei-," and from Thomas Dudley, second governor,
and other early Puritans of Massachusetts Bay;
and his connection with Henry Dunster, first presi-
dent, and Benjamin Woodbridge, first-named grad-
uate, of Harvard College.

(IX) John Green, Jr., of St. Louis, Missouri,
was born August 2, 1873, at Templeton, Massa-
chusetts, the son of Dr. John Green (8), and Harriet
L. (Jones) Green. He was fitted for college in
St. Louis, and also with Mr. Charles W. Stone in
Boston, and entered Harvard College in September,
i8or, from which he was graduated A. B. in June,
1894. He entered the Medical Department of Wash-
ington University (St. Louis) in October, 1895,
and was graduated M. D. in -^pril, 189S. receiving
the Gill prize in Diseases of Children. He entered
the St. Louis City Hospital on competitive examin-
ation, and served as junior assistant from June to
December, 1898. Since November, 1899, he has
been engaged in the practice of ophthalmology in
the city of St. Louis. He is a member of the St.
Louis Medical Society, the Medical Society of City
Hospital Alumni, the Missouri State Medical Asso-
ciation, the American Medical Association, the St.
Louis Medical Library Association and the American
Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology.
He has been secretary, vice-president and president
of the Medical Society of City Hospital Alumni.
He is also a member of the Society of the Sons of
the Revolution and the Civic League of St. Louis.

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Dr. Green has published the following paiiiphlels :
"The General Practitioner and Ophthalmology,"
"Treatment of Ophthalmia Neonatorum," "Double
Optic Neuritis occurring durnig Lactation," "Ocular
Examination as an aid to the early diagnosis of
Multiple Sclerosis, with report of a Case" {\vM\
Dr. S. I. Schwab), "Juvenile Glaucoma Simplex
associated with Myasthenia Gastrica et Intestinalis,"
"A case of Cerebro-spinal Rhinorrhoea with Retinal
Changes" (with Dr. S. I. Schwab), "Treatment
of Certain External Diseases of the Eyes by the
X-ray," "Ocular Signs and Complications of
Diseases of the Accessory Sinu.ses of the Nose,"
"Report on Progress in Ophthalmology for the years
1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906," and "The Control of
Municipal Medical Institutions, with special refer-
ence to the City of St. Louis," etc. He is editor
of the Department of Ophthalmology of Tlic Inter-
state Medical Journal, visiting ophthalmic surgeon
to the Jewish Hospital Dispensary of St. Louis, and
consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the St. Louis
Female Hospital.

He married, October 29, 1902, Miss Lucretia
Hall Sturgeon, of St. Louis, Missouri. Their chil-
dren are : Helen Celeste, born November 23, 1903,
and Harmon, born July 3, 1905. His office address
in 1906 is 225 Vanol building, corner of Vandeventer
avenue and Olive street, St. Louis, Missouri.

(Vni) William Ogden Green, son of Martin
Green (7), was born in Chicago, Illinois, September
26, i860. He was educated at the Worcester Poly-
technic Institute. He went to work first in an
electric light factory at New Britain, Connecticut;
then for the Merrick Thread Company, Holyoke,
Massachusetts. From there he went as a manager
for a silk mill at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He put
it into first class condition and left it highly pros-
perous to take charge of the Peshtigo Lumber Com-
pany in Wisconsin, for which his father was man-
ager years before. Andrew H. Green, as trustee
of the estate of the late William B. Ogden, repre-
sented the owners, but Mrs. Ogden herself made
frequent visits to the property and paid Mr. Green
high compliments on the reformation he brought
about and the improvement effected. By his advice
the property was sold and he wound up its compli-
cated affairs in a manner so pleasing to the directors
that they made him a present of $10,000 at their
last meeting as a testimonial of their satisfaction.
He is a member of the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers. He is now a member of the
firm of Ogden. Sheldon & Company, one of the
most important real estate broker firms in Chicago.

He married, October 20, 1891, Josephine Poole
Giles, at Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. Their children,
all of whom were born in Chicago, are : William
Stewart, born November 7, 1893 : Andrew Haswell,
born May 10, 1896; Lucretia Poole, born June 19,
1899.

(Vlin Samuel Martin Green, son of Martin
Green (7). was born at Benton Harbor, Michigan,
April 13, 1864. He was graduated at the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. His first position was with
Frederick E. Reed, the manufacturer of machinery,
Worcester, Massachusetts, for whom he designed
and draughted various tools. He also designed the
interlocking sw'itches on the railroad viaduct in Wor-
cester. He next went to Buffalo to work for Noyes
& Company, millers. When his brother, William
Ogden Green, left the Merrick Thread Company,
where he was the engineer in charge of the plant;
the management desired him to remain, but took
the younger brother in his place on his recommenda-
tion. Although young and inexperienced Samuel
Green made good. He successfully completed the

big mill, one hundred and twenty-five by five hun-
dred feet. He remained with the Merrick Thread
Company until the trust was formed, when he was
chosen engineer-in-chief for the new management,
the American Thread Company. He has charge of
all the changes and new construction of the com-
pany. At the present time, at Ilion, New York,
he is reconstructing and building a two million dollar
plant, and the old mills are all receiving modern
equipment of machinery and power. Me has recently
constructed at VVaukegan, Illinois, a large factory
for the United States Envelope Company. His chief
office is at Holyoke, Massachusetts, and his residence
is at Springfield, Massachusetts. He is at present
rebuilding the cartridge factory at Bridgeport. Con-
necticut. He is a member of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.

He married, at' Holyoke, June 18, 1890, Ida Mc-
Kown. of that city. Their children are: Mildred,
born September 27. 1895, in Holyoke; Lydia, born
June 2, 1902, in Holyoke.

HENRY F. HARRIS. From the best obtain-
able evidence, which includes recorded data, it is
certain that the Harris family, as represented in
Worcester. Massachusetts, is descended from
Thomas Harris, who came with his brother William
and Roger Williams in the ship "Lion" from Bristol,
England, to Lynn, Massachusetts, as early as 1630.
The line of descent is traced as follows:

(I) Thomas Harris married Elizabeth ,

and they were the parents of Thomas. Mary and
Martha. As a friend and follower of Roger Will-
iams he was imprisoned and otherwise illtreated in
Boston, Massachusetts, in 165S.

(II) Thomas Harris, son of Thomas the emi-
grant, married Elnactrau Tew. and they were the
parents of eight children.

(III) Thomas Harris, son of Thomas (2), was
born in 1665 and died in 1741. He married Phoebe
Brown, and they w-erc the parents of eight chil-
dren.

(IV) Charles Harris, son of Thomas (3) and
Phoebe (Brown) Harris, was born in 1709. He
married Mary Hopkins, March 19, 1748, at North
Scituate, Rhode Island, and they were the parents
of ten children,

(V) Gideon Harris, son of Charles (4), and Mary
(Hopkins) Harris, married Rhoda Smith, widow
of his brother Henry, and of this marriage seven
children were born.

(VI) Henry Harris, son of Gideon (5) and
Rhoda (Smith) Harris, was born August 2, 17S7.
He married Bernice Randall, and (second) Waty
Smith. Of his second marriage were born the fol-
lowing children: r. Alsaide. 2. Linus Monroe. 3.
Gideon. 4. Mary Smith. 5. Charles Morris, see
forward. 6. Thomas Henry. 7. Otis Braddock.
8. Whipple Burlingamc. Gideon and Otis B. passed
.•iway prior to 1S89; Mary S., widow of Alfred
Whiting, died in Worcester in the spring of 1904;
Thnmas IT. resides at Canada Mills. Holden. Massa-
chusetts : Whipple B. resides in Three Rivers. Pal-
mer. Massachusetts. The father of this family died
at the age of thirty years, leaving his family with-
out means. His wife was a remarkable type of true
New England womanhood, possessing a strong mind
and noble character, and gave to her children an
excellent rearing.

(VII) Charles Morris Harris, fifth child and
third son of Henry (6) and Waty (Smith) Harris,
was born in Providence. Rhode Island. August 3,
1S22. Througli his mother he was a grandson of
Captain Jonathan Smith, of Revolutionary fame,
who. tradition says, stood fully six feet in height.

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and commanded a company each of whom was oi
that or greater stature. Mr. Harris was also a de-
scendant of that John Smith, of Dorchester, who was
banished for his divers dangerous opinions, and who
removed from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to
Rhode Island at the request of Roger Williams, who
wanted him as a miller, and he was ever afterward
known as "Smith the miller."

Shortly after his birth, the parents of Charles
Morris Harris removed to Scituate, Rhode Island,
where he was reared. Until he was thirteen years
old he attended the common schools for eight weeks
in summer and a like term in winter, and later at-
tended two short winter terms, completing his school-
ing when he was fifteen years old. From the age
of six to fourteen years his time out of school was
given to labor in the Richmond cotton mills, twelve
to fourteen hours daily, at the pitiful wage of one
cent an hour. One dollar and a quartt- a week was
the highest wages he received until he was almost
of age, when he was paid six dollars and t-f;y cents
a week. During this period he had gone from the
Richmond mills to the Sprague mills at Smithficld,
Rhode Island, thence to the Blackstone mills at
Mendon, Washington, and to Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, and was thoroughly and practically con-
versant with every detail of the cotton milling in-
dustry, capable of conducting every process from
the handling of the raw material to the final finish-
ing of the product.

In the spring of 1842. when he was twenty-two
years old, he engaged in thread manufacturing nn
his own account, in partnership with David S.
Wilder. In the autumn of the same year they re-
moved to West Boylston and purchased a small
mill at Central Village, wdiere they began the manu-
facture of satinet warps. They also leased a mill
at Lovellville, in the Town of Holden, which they
also operated in connection with that at Central
Village. In 1845 he became associated in a business
partnership with his brothers, Linus M. and Gideon,
and a brother-in-law, Alfred Whiting, who had
bought the Holt mill, at w'hat was then called Holt's
Village, but later Harrisville. Under the firm name
of L. il. Harris & Co. they engaged in the manu-
facture of cotton cloth, and built up a thriving
business. The factory was destroyed by fire about
1851, but rebuilding was begun within thirty days
after the disaster, and in less than a year the new
factory was in successful operation and with in-
creased capacity. In 1857 Sir. Harris bought an
interest in a cotton mill at Poquonnock, Connecti-
cut. His beginning was inauspicious. The first
year he lost six thousand dollars, but he only re-
doubled his cflort, and with such success that two
years later he had made good his loss and was
worth twelve thousand dollars more in addition.
Early in i860 he sold his Connecticut interests and
bought an interest in a factory at Savage, Howard
county, Maryland, where he remained nearly two
years. In the fall of 1861 he returned to the factory
of L. M. Harris & Co., remaining until 1863. In
that year he and his brother, Linus M. Harris,
bought one-half of the stock of the West Boylston
Manufacturing Company at Oakdale. This was then,
as it is to-day, one of the most important manufac-
turing institutions in the state. In 1814 it received
from the commonwealth of Massachusetts a special
charter under which it was authorized to manu-
facture "cotton and woolen clothes and fine wire."
On coming into this corporation Mr. Harris became
general manager and treasurer, and he served as
such with such conspicuous ability for a period of
twenty-six years, ending with his death, April 24.
1880, in Boston.

Mr. Harris married Miss Emily Dean, on
Thanksgiving Day, 1848. She was born in Sterling,
Massachusetts, November 9, 1823, and at the time
of her marriage was residing in West Boylston.
She was a direct descendant of Thomas Dudley,
second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
To Mr. and Mrs. Harris were born three children :

I. Henry Francis, of whom further. 2. Charles
Morris, Jr., for several years prior to his father's
death superintendent of the West Boylston Manfg.
Co. mills ; he died November 10, 1892, aged
forty-one years, leaving a widow, two sons and
three daughters. 3. Emily Armilla, died March

II, 1892, . aged thirty-five years; she was twice
married; by her first husband, Lyman P.
GoodcU, she had one son, Roscoe Harris
Goodell, now banker in Chicago and married to
Helen Peabody, daughter of Frederick F. Peabody.
of Evanston, Illinois; by her second husband, Alonzo
R. Wells, she had a son, Ray Dean Wells. Mrs.
Harris, the mother of these children, died August
6, 1892.

(VIII) Henry Francis Harris, eldest child of
Charles Morris (7) and Emily Dean Harris, was
born in Harrisville, West Boylston, Massachusetts,
August 19, 1849. He fitted for college in the Green
Mountain Institute at South Woodstock, Vermont,
in Worcester Academy and Lancaster Academy, at-
tending the latter institution two years. In 1867
he entered Tufts College, from which he was grad-
uated in 1871 at the head of his class. He then
entered the Harvard Law School, and after a six
months' course further prosecuted his legal studies
for about a year in the office of Hon. Hartley Will-
iams, of Worcester. He subsequently entered the
Boston University Law School, from which he was
graduated in the first class from that institution in
1873. He was for some time following in the
office of John A. Loring, of Boston, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in that city in December, 1873.
January I of the following year he entered upon
a professional practice at Worcester. Aside from
attending to the demands of a constantly increasing
legal practice, he has been prominently interested in
the manufacture of cotton goods, succeeding his
father in 1889 as treasurer of the West Boylston
Manufacturing Company, whose valuable plant, hav-
ing been purchased by the Metropolitan Water Com-
mission was relocated at Easthampton Massachu-
setts, and doubled in size and capacity. He has
served as such until the present time. He was also
president of the L. M. Harris Manufacturing Com-
pany. Mr. Harris is a member of the board of
directors of the Worcester Trust Company, the Wor-
cester Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and is solic-
itor for that corporation. He was a director of the
First National Insurance Company : is a mem-
ber of the board of trustees of the Worcester City
Hospital ; and was a member of the school board,
serving on various important committees of that
body. Mr. Harris is a public-spirited gentleman,
and among the various organizations with which he
is conspicuously associated is that of Free Masons.
He is a man of sound judgment, a safe counsellor
in matters public and private, and enjoys the confi-
dence and respect of the community where he
resides.

May 17, 1883, Mr. Harris married Emma Frances
Dearborn, daughter of William F. and Mary J.
(Hurd) Dearborn, of Worcester. She is a lady of
culture and an accomplished musician. She gradu-
ated from the Worcester High School in 1878, and
subsequently studied vocal music under Madam
Capianna. Possessor of a sweet and cultivated
voice, she was for many years a member of the

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choir of the Universalist church, and its director
during much of that time.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris have two living children ;
Rachel, born December ii, 1887; and Dorothy, born
March 22, 1890. They lost an infant son by death.

DEWEY FAMILY. From among the various
branches of the Dewey family have come many dis-
tinguished celebrities, includmg the eminent Judge
Francis H. Dewey, and the famous Admiral George
Dewey, who attained fame at Manila Bay, in the
Spanish-American war. The family is of royal de-
scent, with coat-of-arms going back many genera-
tions in England. In America all trace to the com-
mon ancestor,

(I) Thomas Dewey, who came to the Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony from Sandwich, Kent, Eng-
land, with Rev. John Warham and his little band
of one hundred and forty passengers, who formed a
church before leaving England, and .sailed in the
"Mary and John," and became the first settlers at
Dorchester, Massachusetts, arriving at Nantucket,
May 30, 1630, a month earlier than the Winthrop
colony. On June 6, the following Sunday after they
arrived, services of gratitude and praise were held
under the open sky. After being a pioneer in that
section, the church and the above emigrants mostly
removed to Windsor, Connecticut. Thomas Dewey
married the widow of Joseph Clark and had five
children : I. Thomas, born 1640. 2. Josiah, born
1641 ; he was the Dewey from whom descended Ad-
miral George Dewey. 3. Ann, born 1643. 4. Israel,
born 1645. 5. Jedediah, born 1647.

(II) Jedediah Dewey, son of Thomas, the emi-
grant, borii 1647, and died 1721.

(III) James Dewey, fifth son of Jedediah, born
1692, and died 1756.

(IV) Daniel Dewey, son of Stephen, had a son
Daniel, who became judge.

(VI) Judge Daniel Dewey, son of Daniel, was
born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and moved to
Williamstown. He was a distinguished man of his
day, w-as a lawyer of note, and for many years a
judge of the supreme court of .IMassachusetts, and
was also a member of congress.

(VII) Judge Charles Augustus Dewey, son of
Judge Daniel Dewey, was born March 13, 1793, in
Williamstown, Massachusetts, died in 1866. He
became a lawyer, was elected district attorney, and
was appointed judge of the supreme court of Massa-
chusetts, in which important position he served for
the long period of thirty years. He married first.
Frances Aurelia, daughter of Hon. Samuel and
Martha (Hunt) Henshaw, of Northampton, Massa-
chusetts. She died at Williamstown July 20. 1821.
He married second, July 28, 1824, Caroline Hannah
Clinton, daughter of General James and .Mary (Lit-
tle) Clinton, of Newburg, New York, and a sister
of Gov. De Witt Clinton, of New York. Among
the eight children born to Judge Dewey, Sr.. were
Francis H., Charles A., Alary Clinton, wife of
Judge H. B. Staples, of Worcester, and Maria
Noble, of Worcester.

(VIII) Francis Henshaw, oldest son of Judge
Charles Augustus and Frances A. (Henshaw)
Dewey, was born in Williamstown, July 12, 1821.
His career in public and professional life was so
brilliant that the outline of it must be here preserved
as an important part of the family history. His
mother died w^hen he w-as an infant, but he was
tenderly cared for by his stepmother, Caroline H.
Clinton, who married his father when he was three
years old. Francis H. Dewey graduated from Will-
iams College in 1840, at the early age of nineteen
years, studied law at Yale and Harvard, and was

admitted to the bar at Worcester in 1843. He soon
became the partner of Hon. Emory Washburn, who
was made justice of the common picas bench the
following year, and from that time the legal business
of the otfice was thrown upon Mr. Dewey, who had
a very large practice. For more than twenty years
he was recognized as the leader of the bar in Wor-
cester county. While not elegant in diction he was
possessed of what all termed "common sense," and
dealt practically and energetically with whatever
matters were entrusted to him. He was very suc-
cessful in the conduct of cases before juries. He
was appointed to the bench of the supreme court
in February, 1869, and resigned in 1881.

Judge Dewey came to Worcester when the in-
habitants numbered only eight thousand, and he
lived to see this number multiplied ten times over.
He was active in all public offices, church matters
and charitable enterprises. He seemed born for
diplomacy, and was the embodiment of tact and
skill, combining with these qualities the abilities of
the thoroughly equipped and entirely practical man
of affairs. He was a leading spirit in the organiza-
tion of various railroad companies and manufac-
turing and financial corporations, and was an of-
ficial in and counsel for many of the same. Up to
the time of his death he was president of the Nor-
wich & Worcester Railroad,' president of the Me-
chanics' Saving Bank, a director in the Mechanics'
National Bank, and a director and one of the
heaviest stockholders in the Washburn & Moen Man-
ufacturing Company, attending to a great amount of
its legal business. He was deeply interested in edu-
cational and the higher moral concerns of the com-
munity. He was a trustee of his alma mater, Will-
iams College, from 1869 to the time of his death,
a period of eighteen years. He was also until his
death president of the board of trustees of the Wor-
cester Public Library, president of the board of
trustees of the Old Men's Home, a trustee of the
Washburn Memorial Hospital, president of the
Rural Cemetery Corporation, president of the Wor-
cester County Horticultural Society, and a trustee
of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was
inclined to business ' more than office holding, but
at the request of friends in his party h-; served in
the two branches of the city government, and two
terms in the state senate. He died in the full vigor
of his manhood, December 16, 1887, while devoting
his strength to the many public interests with
which he W'as connected.

Judge Dewey married, November 2, 1846, Frances
Amelia Clarke, only daughter of John and Prudence
(Graves) Clarke, of Northampton, Massachusetts.
Her father was the founder of Clarke Institution
for Deaf Mutes. Jud.ge Dewey married (second;
April 26, 1853. Sarah Barker Tufts, only daughter
of Hon. George A. and Azuba Boyden (Fales)
Tufts; she was born January 31. 1825. at Dudley.
Massachusetts, and is now ( .-^pril, 1905) living in
Worcester. By his first marriage Judge Dewey had
a daughter, Fannie, born September 17, 1S49, d'^'l
the following day. His children by his second wife
were: i. Fanny Clarke, born February I, 1854, died
July 28, .same year. 2. Caroline Clinton, born Decem-
ber 18, 1854; died December, 1878; married, 1S77,
Charles L. Nichols, and had Caroline Dewey. 3.
Francis Henshaw. to be further mentioned. 4. John
Clarke, born May 19, 1857, who is a lawyer. He
married his second cousin, Sarah B. Dewey, and
their children are John Clarke, Jr., and Daniel. 5.
George Tufts, born Stptember 12, 1S58, who is a
lawyer; he married Mary L. Nichols, and their chil-
dren are Marv Linwood, George Tufts. Jr., and
Charles Nichols. 6. Sarah Frances, born September

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IS, i860; died; married Oliver Hurd Everett, and
their children were Caroline Dewey and Francis
Dewey. 7. Charles Augustus, born and died April,
1863.

(IX) Francis Henshaw Dewey, son of Hon.
Francis H. and Sarah B. (Tufts) Dewey, was born
March 23, 1856, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He
was reared in his native city and there attended the
private schools, after which he spent two years at a
primary school and four years at St. Mark's School
in Southborough, preparatory for college. In 1872
he entered Williams College, graduating therefrom
four years later among the six highest of his class.
He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,
where membership is based on scholarship. In 1879
he received the degree of Master of Arts from his
alma mater. After reading law in the office of
Messrs. Staples and Goulding, of Worcester, he en-
tered Harvard Law School, from which he gradu-
ated in 187S with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
In February, 1879, he was admitted to the bar, and
has since been actively engaged in practice, and his
prominence in his profession is attested by his
election in 1897 to the vice-presidency of the Wor-
cester County Bar Association. In 1880 he became
solicitor for the Worcester Mechanics' Savings
Bank and the Mechanics' National Bank, and on the
death of his honored father, in 1887, he succeeded
him as a trustee and director in these institutions,
respectively. In April, 1888, he was elected presi-
dent of the Mechanics, National Bank, which office
he still holds. One of his most important trusts is
the presidency of the Worcester Consolidated Street
Railway Company, to which he was elected in May,
1898, having been a director since 1893. and under
his supervision and management a system of about
forty miles of track conlined principally to the city
of Worcester has been extended to one hundred and
sixty miles, and connects eighteen cities and towns,
together with frequent service, carrying nearly
thirty millions of passengers in a year. For many
years he has been a director in the Norwich & Wor-
cester Railroad Company, the Worcester Gas Light
Company, the Worcester Traction Company, the
Worcester Theatre Association, of which he is also
treasurer; he is president and treasurer of the Bay
State House, and a director in many business cor-
porations. He is a trustee of the Worcester Rail-
ways and Investment Company. He has also had
charge of the settlement of many large estates iri
the capacity of trustee and executor, and possesses
unusual business qualifications,

Mr. Dewey has ever taken a deep interest in edu-
cational and charitable work, and is actively
identified with many of the most important
institutions in these lines. He is a trustee
and vice-president of Clark University, and of
Clark College, and has long been vice-presi-
dent of the Art Museum, and a member of
the American Antiquarian Society. He is a di-
rector of the Associated Charities, chairman of the
Commission of City Hospital Funds, and a trustee
of the Memorial Hospital. He is a member of the
Board of Trade, of which he was for several years
a director; vice-president of the Massachusetts
Street Railway Association ; and a member of the
\yorcester Fire Society and many social organiza-
tions. For many years he has been prominent in
the First Unitarian Parish, and has been superin-
tendent of the Sunday school and chairman of the
parish committee. He is a stanch Republican in
politics.

December 12, 1878, Mr. Dewey married Miss
Lizzie Davis, daughter of the late Harrison Bliss,
and of this union were born two children: Eliza-

beth Bliss Dewey, July 19, 1883; and Francis Hen-
shaw Dewey, May 19, 1887.

EDWIN BROWN. John Brown (i), or
Browne, the progenitor of Edwin Brown, of Wor-
cester, was associated with the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
While he was travelling in his youth he became ac-
quainted with Rev. John Robinson, pastor of the
Pilgrims, and through him met many of his people
in the same way that Governor Winslow and Cap-
tain Miles Standish came to join the Pilgrims. He
did not come in the "Mayfiower," however. It was
not until March, 1629, that he reached New Eng-
land. He landed at Salem. Two years earlier, how-
ever, March 19, 1627, the council for New England
approved a patent for trade soil and planting on
which a Royal charter was obtained March 4, 1628,
to certain patentees and their associates, among
whom were John Browne, John Saltonstall, and
others who became well known in the colonies. He
was elected to Governor John Endicott's council,
April 3, 1629, with Francis Higginson, Samuel Skel-
ton, Francis Bright, Samuel Browne, Thomas
Graves and Samuel Sharp. He went from Salem
to Plymouth and later to Taunton with his son,
James. In 1643 John Brown and his sons, John and
James, were residents of Taunton, but next year
they settled at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. There
John Browne, Sr., and John Brown, Jr., stayed
and were among the first settlers, but James Browne
being a Baptist was forced to leave town in 1663
and with others of his sect founded the town of
Swansey, Massachusetts. The designation Mr.
given hmi in the records always shows that he was
counted among the gentry. His sons and grandsons
were leaders in civic, judicial and military affairs.
John Brown was appointed one of the townsmen
(an office) in Rehoboth, March 16, 1645, and again
in 1650-51. He served the town on important com-
missions. He was on the prudential committee. He
was for seventeen years from 1636 to 1653 one of
the governor's assistants or magistrates. In 1638
the following were the governor's assistants : Will-
iam Bradford, Edward Winslow, Captain Miles
Standish, John Alden, John Jenny and John Browne.
He was one of the commissioners of the United
Colonies of New England (which foreshadowed the
later confederation) from 1644 to 1655. In the gov-
ernor's court June 4, 1652, he won a notable suit
for damages for defamation against Samuel New-
man, the judgment being for one hundred pounds
and costs. Mr. Browne waived the judgment, how-
ever, and let Newman oflf on payment of the costs.
Mr. Browne was a friend of Massasoit, and the
proof of their friendship was shown when the life
of his son James was spared by King Philip, son of
Massasoit, when he came on a mission from the gov-
ernor to the Indians. Colonel Church in his
narrative says : "that the Indians would have killed
Mr. Browne, who with Mr. Samuel Gorton and two
other men bore the letter, but Philip prevented
them, saying that his father had charged him to
show kindness to Mr. Browne." It is said in his
honor that he was the first magistrate to raise his
voice against the coercive support of the ministry,
taking the stand that all church support should be
voluntary and backed his precepts by liberal ex-
ample. He was a man of abilities, intellect, piety
and patriotism, and was buried with civic and mili-
tary honors in 1662. His wife Dorothy died in
1674. His efdest son died the same year as he
(1662). His other son, James, was afterwards in
the magistracy. His grandson, John Browne, be-
came useful and eminent. In 1685 John Browne
was one of the first associate justices of the court

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d{ common pleas in the county of Bristol. In
[699, during the administration of Lord Bellamont,
le was again appointed a justice. John Browne,
5r., was born in 1595 and died April 10, 1662. His
A'ife died at Swansey, Massachusetts, January
27, 1673- The children of John Browne (I)
ivere : Ensign John, Jr., born in England,
died last of March, 1662; (settled in Reho-
)oth and had these children : John, born last Kri-
iay in September, 1650; Lydia, August 5 or 6, 1656;
\nnah, January 29, 1657; Joseph, April 9, 1658;
Mathaniel, June 9, 1661 ; Major James, of Swansey,
)orn in England 1623, died 1710; Mary, born in
ingland, married, July 6, 1636, Captain Thomas
kVillett, of Plymouth, the first English tnayor of
Slew York city, who was twice elected to that of-
ice. William, resided in Salem, not mentioned in
KiU and not proved to be son of John Browne (I).

(II) Major James Brown, son of John Browne
[l), born in England in 1623, was in Taunton in
643 with his father, the assistant, and went with
lim to Swansea, Massachusetts. He was said 10 be
1 Baptist and preacher. He was chosen an assist-
mt in 1665. He married Lydia Howland, daughter
)f John Howland, who came over in the "May-
iower," and all his descendants are likewise de-
icended from Mayflower ancestry. He died October
'.g. 1710. aged eighty-seven years. Their children
vere : James, born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts,
vlay 4, 165s, died at Harrington, Rhode Island,
725 ; Dorothy, born at Swansey, Massachusetts,

\ugust 29, 1666, married Kent; Jabez,

lorn July 9, 1668, at Swansey, Massachusetts.

(III) James Brown, son of Major James Brown
2), born at Rehoboth, ;May 4, 1655 (or May 21),
iied April 15, 1718, aged tifty-nine years, (probably
hould be sixty-two); married Margaret Denison,
une 5, 1678. She died May 5, 1741, aged eighty-
our years. He was a sergeant in the militia. All
lis children were born in Swansey. They were, as
ecorded : Lydia, born January 23, 1678-9, died Feb.
uary i, 1678-9; Mary, September II, 1680; Mar-
:aret (given by Savage), June 28, 1682; Lydia, July
8, 1684; James, September 7, 1685; Mary, July 5,
687; Peleg, February 28, 1688; William, June 2,
690; Dorothy, May 7, 1694.

(IV) William Brown, son of James Brown (3),
vas born June 2, 1690. He married (first) Eliza-

eth , about 1710. She died April 27, 1725,

ged twenty-seven years. He married (second)
lebecca Follett, October 27, 1725. He died Feb-
uary 26, 1731-2. He settled at Rehoboth, where all
is children are recorded except William. As the
ecords clearly show that the son is William, Jr., he
lUst be the eldest son of Williain, there being no
ther William at Rehoboth or Swansey at the time,
'he children of William Brown were: Will-
ini, born about 1710; Consider, September 8, 171 1;
Vmos, May 28, 1714; .Elizabeth, June 14, 1716;
Sethiah, July 8, 1718; Jerusha, August 27, 1720;
Lzra, August 18, 1722; Rebecca, April 17, 1725 ;
Joah, August 7, 1726; Isaac, August 24, 1728; Ann,
larch 13, 1729, died October 27, 1731 ; Ann, Jan-
lary 8, 1731-2.

(V) William Brown, son of William Brown (4),
vas born about 1710 at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Me
narried at Rehoboth, Ruth Walker, October 10,
728. The births of their eleven children are all
ecorded at Rehoboth. He was commissioned a
avalry ofiicer. Ruth Walker was born December 2,
710, and died March 6, 1790. She was descended
rom Widow Walker, one of the original settlers
f Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Widow Walker vvas
orn about 1620. Her son, Philip Walker, married

n 1654 Jane , and died in 1679, leaving sons,

5amuel, and Philip Walker.

Samuel Walker, son of Philip Walker (2), was
born 1655, died 1712. He served in King Philip's
war under Major Bradford. He married Martha
Ide (born 1654, died 1700), daughter of Nicholas
Ide, who also served in King Philip's war under
Major Bradford. His son, Samuel Walker (4),
was born in 1682 and died in 1712. He married
Ruth Bliss, who was born 1687. Their daughter,
Ruth Walker (born December 2, 1710, died March
6, 1790), married William Brown, Jr., as already
stated October 10, 1728. William Brown, Jr., settled
at Rehoboth. Their children were; Ruth, born Sep-
tember 10, 1729; Lucy, October 26, 1731 ; Sarah,
November 6, 1733 ; \Villiam, November 22, 1735 ;
Sarah, December 4, 1737; Samuel, March 25, 1740;
Molly, April 18, 1742; John, July 10, 1745; Deb-
orah, August 29, 1747; Chloe, October i, 1749;
Huldah, December 4, 1751.

(VI) Lieutenant Sanmel Brown, son of William
Brown, Jr. (5), was born at Rehoboth, Massachu-
setts, March 25, 1740. He married (first) Esther
Bucklin, January 5, 1764. She died about 1777. He
married (second) Polly Luther, of Warren, August
23, 1778. She died in 1782. He married (third)
Huldah Hunt, January 16, 1783.

The children of Samuel Brown (6) were : Sam-
uel, born March 2, 1765, married Polly Brown,
March 11, 1801 ; Josiah, October 18, 1767; Lucy,
October 20, 1770; Esther, October 16 1772; Mollie
(probably a twin of preceding), October 16, 1772
(1774 on records, obviously an error); Theophilus,
April 9, 1774; Abigail, February 12, 1780; Eliza-
beth, October 22, 1781 ; Luther, July 21, 1782; Jo-
seph, March 2, 1787; Ira, January 15, 1791 ; Peter
Hunt. January 13, 1793.

(VII) Samuel Brown, son of Samuel Brown
(6), born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, March 2,
1765, died in 1820. He married Ada Hardy, died
1847, daughter of Samuel and Betsey (Walker)
Healy, of Seekonk. Betsey Walker was born in
1753 and died in 1839, daughter of Nathaniel Walker,
of North Providence (born 1703, died 1783), who
married, 1727, Anna Sweeting (born 1707, died
1772). Nathaniel Walker was son of Philip Walker
(born 1661, died 1739), who married Sarah Bowen
daughter of William Bowen (born 1671, died 1739).
This Philip Walker was son of Philip and grand-
son of Widow Walker, already mentioned in this
sketch. Samuel Brown settled at Rehoboth. Chil-
dren of Samuel and Ada (Healy) Brown: i. Will-
iam, born August 19, 1797, married Louisa Glad-
ding, of Providence. 2. Mary (on Rehoboth records)
born March 17, 1801. 3. Albert, born (date given
in Rehoboth records) March 20, 1804. 4. Elizabeth
Walker, (record from her grandson, Appleton L.
Clark) born September, 1813, died November, 1891,
luarried Appleton Purdj- Lesure (born May 13,
1814, died August 4, 1865). 5. Abby, married A. R.
Marsh, resided in Boston (birth not recorded at
Rehoboth). 6. Theophilus. born September 12, 1811.
married Sarah Ann Knowlton.

(VIII) .■\lbert Broun, son of Samuel Brown
(7), born at Seekonk, Massachusetts, March 20,
1804, married, 1828, Mary Blair Eaton. (See Eaton
Family, also Rice Family). Mary Blair Eaton was
a descendant of Adonijah Rice, the first white child
born in Worcester. .Albert Brown learned the
tailor's trade and located first in Providence.^^ He
came to Worcester about 1825 and opened an "Ern-
porium of Fashion" as he called his shop, on Main
street, opposite Central street. He took into part-
nership his brother William Brown, and under the
firm name of W. & A. Brown they were the first mer-
chant tailors located in Worcester. .'\t the death of Al-
bert Brown. September 29, 1854, the surviving part-
ner took his brother Theophilus Brown into the

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firm, and at present the firm is conducted 1)y W. T.
Brown, son of Tlicophihis. Albert Brown was a
well known citizen of Worcester. He represented
liis ward in the common council. He went to
England with the Peace Commission, and his de-
scendants treasure a Bible given to him by Richard
Cobden, with whom he formed an acquaintance
there. He was to some extent an owner of shipping.
He was a member of the Mutual Fire Society of
Worcester. Children of Albert and Mary Blair
(Eaton) Brown: i. Albert Samuel, born Worces-
ter, February 22, 1829, of whom later ; 2. Henry
William, born Worcester June 21, 1831 ; married
Harriet B. Rathbone. 3. James Stewart, born Jan-
iiary 12, 1834, oi whom later. 4. i\Iary Eaton, born
April IS, 1835, died April 29, 1843. 5. James Stew-
art, born September 12, 1837; married first, Fanny
Em.ma Childs of Worcester; married (second) Eliza-
beth Johonnot; is treasurer of the Worcester Five
Cents Savings Bank ; veteran of the civil war ;
prominent in business and financial circles in Wor-
cester. 6. Sarah Dean, born in Worcester, Feb-
ruary 13, 1S40, married George Wilson Ryerson, of
New York. 7. Emily, born January 24, 1842, married
John Stanton Baldwin, formerly editor and pub-
lisher oi Worcester Daily Spy. (See sketch Bald-
win Family). 8. Edwin, born in Worcester, March
24, 1844, married, June 12, 1872, Mariana jMit'flin
Earle, daughter of Timothy K. and Nancy
(Hacker) Earle of Worcester. 9. Charles Eaton,
born January 23, 1847. 10. Mary Louisa, born June
I, 1849; married Stephen C. Earle, the well known
architect of Worcester. 11. Ada, born September
29, 1852, died February 3, 1869.

(IX) Albert Samuel Brown, son of Albert
Brown (8), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
February 22, 1829. He attended the public schools
of his native town until he was sixteen years old,
when he entered a wholesale woolen house in Bos-
ton. After a short time he took a position in Colla-
more's crockery store in Boston. He finally re-
turned to Worcester to enter business with his
father in the store and tailor shop. In 1S53 he made
a trip to Europe, partly for business and partly for
pleasure. When he returned home he worked for
a time in a Worcester crockery store. In i860 he
bought out J. P. Hale's crockery store and began
business on his own account. The store was lo-
cated at i8r Main street. He added wall
paper to his line of goods and later moved to 284
Main street. In 1880 he sold his store to E. G.
Higgins, the wall paper dealer, whose business grew
to be the largest of its kind in New England, Mr.
Brown retired from active business life after selling
his store. He loved travel and spent two years in
Europe. He made his home in Worcester until his
death, September 14, 1900.

Mr. Brown stood well as a citizen and business
man. He was highly esteemed for his manly char-
acter and many good qualities. He was a member
of the First Unitarian Church and later of the
Church of the Unity and was a teacher in the Sun-
day school. In politics he was a Republican. He
served the city in the common council. He was a
member of no secret orders or military organi-
zations.

He married, November 28, i860, Ellen M. Morse,
daughter of Mason H. and Maria (Bigelow)
Morse, of Worcester. Mason H. Morse was a car-
penter and builder. He served on the building com-
mittee when the Church of the Unity to which he
belonged erected the present edifice on Elm street.
Ellen M. Morse, as well as Mr. Brown, was a de-
scendant of the first white child born in Worcester.
She was born Jilarch 22, 1837. Maria Bigelow was

the daughter of Lewis and Sophia Bigelow, and
was born in W^orcester, April i, 1815, and married
May 24, 1836. (See sketch of Bigelow family). Mr.
and Mrs. Brown had no children. Mrs. Brown re-
sides at her home in Worcester, 21 Elm street,

(IX) Henry William Brown, .son of Albert
Brown (8), born in Worcester, June 21, 1831, died
February 21, 1900, at Daytona, Florida, where he
was spending the winter. He married Harriet B.
Rathbone, of Providence, Rhode Island. He grad-
uated from Harvard College in 1852. and from
Harvard Divinity School in 1857. He preferred
teaching to the ministry, and from 1875 to 1896,
a period of twenty-one years, was an instructor in
the State Normal School of Worcester. His serv-
ices in the school are best told by quoting the words
of Principal E. Harlow Russell.

" Coming to the school so soon after its bcKinninc. he had
much to do with shaping its policy and in establishing tiie depart-
ment which he maintained with so much efficiency and distinction.
A graduate of Harvard College and later of the Harvard Divinity
School, in his early years he was a clergyman, but left that pro-
fession for the more conyenial one of teaching. He may certain-
ly be said to have given the best years of his life to the service of
the Worcester school. He was always thoroughly in sympathy
with the aims and purposes of its administration, loyal to its princ-
ipal, appreciative of its excellencies, and considerate to a marked
degree of its defects. With his fellow teachers his relations were
most friendly They felt the strength that he brought to the
faculty, and always regarded him with affectionate admiration.
While not an ambitious man, as the word is ordinarily used, his
standard of excellence was high, and he gave to his professional
work the best that was in him. He was a ripe scholar, with a
thorough command of the classical languages and literatures, but
he never ceased to be a diligent student, with a genuine taste for
knowledge of all sorts, in the lines of science as well as of litera •
ture His most conspicuous service to the cause of education
was probably his translation from the German of Prof. Preyer's
famous books, 'The Mind of the Child,' and Mental Develop-
ment in the Child.' Mr. Brown's intimate acquaintance with
German, acquired during two periods of residence in Germany,
together with his command of a clear, idiom Uic English style,
render these translations of the highest authority and value. "The
work was published by D. .'^ppleton & Co.. New York, in their
International Education Series, and the translation received the
highest commendation from the editor of the series. Dr. William
T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education.

" Mr. Brown was a man of unusual refinement, of lof'y ideals
and of warm affections. Tl^ese qualities, combined with his ample
intellectual equipment, made him a teacher of rare breadth and
power. The graduates of this school will bear unanimous testi-
mony to the quality and permanence of the influence he exerted
upon growing minds, an influence appreciated by them more and
more with the lapse of time. Although his standard washieh, his
dealings with individual pupils were always felt to be just and
humane, and in his classes there was no tyranny and no friction.
It may be truly said that among the hundreds of young people
who have come under his instruction here, there was not one who
did not feel toward him not only profound respect but warm
esteem. And his attachment to the graduates was shown by his
manifest pleasure in meeting them on their visits to the school
and his genial speeches to them at their annual reunions. The
graduates have a permanent memorial of him which they greatly
prize in the shape of a reunion song composed for them by him
some years ago. and which is sung s'eirlv to the tune of " I''air
Harvard" at their annual gatherings. Wlien Mr. Brown was in
Worcester last autumn he was invited by a committee of graduates
tositfi)r his portrait for the graduates' room of the school This
he did, and the result, a large photograph by Notman, of Boston,
proved a most satisfactory likeness and is now of priceless value.
To the large body of graduates who for a score of years have en-
ioyed Mr. Brown's instructions, as well as to the circle of his
more intimate friends, the news of his death will come with a
sense of personal loss"

He had one son, Conway Rathbone, who died
while a student and undergraduate at Harvard, at
the age of twenty-three years.

(IX) J. Stewart Brown, son of Albert Brown (8),
was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. September 12,
1837. He was educated in the public and high
schools of Worcester, and began the active duties
of life by entering the employ of Henry W. Miller,
proprietor of a hardware store, with whom he re-
mained several years ; later he established a house-
furnishing business of his own which he continued
until the breaking out of the civil war. At that
time he was sergeant of the old Worcester Light
Infantry, and was made sergeant of his company in

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the famous Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, which
was mustered out August 2, i86r, and which was
attacked which marching' through the streets of
Baltimore to Washington, District of Cohimbia. In
the fall of 1861 he went to the front with a com-
mittee of relief, with between eleven and twelve
hundred dollars contributed for the Worcester sol-
diers. In November, 1862, he was commissioned
adjutant of the Fifty-first Regiment, Massachusetts
Infantry, participated in the battles of Kinston,
Whitehall and Goldsboro, North Carolina, and was
mustered out July 2, 1S63. Later he entered the
commissary department with the Ninth Army Corps
and remained until the close of the war, receiving his
honorable discharge April 16, 1865. Upon his return
to civil life JMr. Brown again entered the employ of
Mr. Miller, remaining two years. He then engaged
in business on his own account, manufacturing braid
and shoe laces, and after conducting the same for
four years disposed of the business in order to
accept the office of water registrar of the city of
Worcester, which he filled to the satisfaction of the
various administrations, and to the people of the
city, until his resignation in 1883, when he ac-
cepted the treasurership of the Worcester Five
Cents Savings Bank, to which he had been elected.
For nearly twentj'-five years he has been the ex-
ecutive head of this large and prosperous savings
institution, which, judged from every standard, is
one of the most successful of its kind in the city.
It has shown a wonderful growth in the total de-
posits and investments. He is a director of the Mer-
chants' and Farmers' Fire Insurance Company, of
Worcester, rendering faithful service in that capacity.
Upon the organization of George H. Ward Posi,
No. ID, Grand Army of the Republic, he was ap-
pointed the first adjutant, and he has been a constant
and earnest worker for the best interests and welfare
of the post ever since. He has also been an officer
of his regimental association since its organization.
In the war play, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,"
which has been given for many years annually in
the Worcester theatre, he took, for la numlier of
years, the part of Frank Rutkdge, and his achieve-
ments in this part will never be forgotten by his
comrades and those who attended the performances.
The excellence of the cast originally had much to
do with the perennial popularity of this grand old
war play in Worcester. The Grand Army of the
Republic has netted a considerable income every year
from the week's performances of the "The Drum-
mer Boy," as it is commonly called. Mr. Brown is
a member of the Unitarian church. In politics he
is a Republican.

He married (first), September 26. 1872, E. Fan-
nie Childs, born at Hartford, Connecticut, April 29,
1845, died in Worcester, Massachusetts, May 1,5,
1894, daughter of Gardner and F'annie (Goulding)
Childs, of Worcester. The children of this union
were : Albert, born November 2, 1877, educated at
the Worcester public and high schools, and a grad-
uate of the American Academy of the Stage, which
he attended for three years ; he has made a very
promising start in his first professional engagement
on the stage. Helen Elizabeth, born in Worcester,
July 21, 1886, attended the Worcester public schools,
and was a graduate of the class of 1904 of Prospect
hill school, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, lie mar-
ried (second), June 11, 1896, Harriet E. Johonnot,
born September 3, 1848. at Boston, Massachusetts,
daughter of Ambrose E. and Elizabeth (Gaffield)
Johonnot, of Boston.

(IX) Edwin Brown, son of Albert Brown (8),
was born in Worcester, March 24, 1844. He at-
tended the Worcester public schools, leaving the
high school in 1S60 to accept a position in the City

Bank, afterwards the City National Bank, absorbed
in 1903 by the Worcester Trust Company. At the
age of eighteen he enlisted in Company C, Fifty-
first Regiment, and served in the campaigns in
North Carolina and Maryland. ^ He returned to
Worcester with his regiment in l8()3, and became
book-keeper at the City Bank, but after two years
was called to the Worcester National Bank, where
he became teller, remaining in that position for one
year, when he was called back to the City National
Bank as teller and assistant cashier. He continued
there until 1871, when he went into business with
his father-in-law, Timothy K. Earle, becoming a
member of the firm of T. K. Earle &. Co., whose
factory for the manufacture of machine card cloth-
ing for cotton and woolen mills was located on
Grafton street, Worcester. In 1880 a stock com-
pany was formed under the name of the T. K.
Earle Manufacturing Company, with Mr. Brown as
treasurer and manager. j\lr. Earle died in 1881, and
Mr. Brown continued the business for the com-
pany until 1890. At that lime there was a con-
solidation of the various card clothing factories of
the country under the name of the American Card
Clothing Company. Mr. Brown was treasurer of
the new corporation, and he held that position until
190S, when the company was licpndated.

Mr. Brown is a vice-president of the Worcester
Five Cents Savings Bank. He was one of the
founders of the Quinsigamond Boat Club in 1857,
and in his younger days was the stroke oar of the
crack crew of that club, which formerly held the
championship of the lake, and which rowed on the
Hudson river at Troy, New York, October 9, 1867,
in the first national amateur regatta in the United
States. Mr. Brown has always taken an interest
in healthful athletics and sports. He was a charter
member of the Worcester Club, and is a member
of the old Worcester F'ire Society, a veteran mem-
ber of George H. Ward Post, ' 10, G. A. R. ; a life
member of the Worcester County Mechanics Asso-
ciation ; a member of the Worcester Natural History
Society; the Worcester Society of Antiquity; the
Tatnuck Country Club, and was formerly a member
of the Commonwealth Club; the Grafton Country
Club; and the Worcester County Musical Associ-
ation. He is a Republican. He belongs to the First
Unitarian Church.

He married, June 12, 1872, Mariana Mifflin Earle,
daughter of Timothy K. and Nancy (Hacker) Earle.
Their children are: I. Earle, born in Worcester,
August 15, 1873; graduated Harvard University
1895 ; was in business two years ; went to Spanish-
American war in the F'irst Rhode Island Regiment;
then went lo Harvard Law School ; is practicing
law in Worcester, 314 Main /Street. 2. Edwin
Hacker, born Worcester, July 29. 1875; graduated
Harvard University 1896, and at Worcester Poly-
technic Institute 1898: is a mechanical engineer
with the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company
of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is now (1905) at
Nome, Alaska, on his fourth trip as engineer for
gold mining companies. 3. Caspar Mifflin, born in
Worcester, 'October 13, 1878; graduated at Harvard
University 1900; with Graton & Knight Manufac-
turing Company of Worcester, and has had charge
of their exhibits at St. Louis, Missouri, and Port-
land (Oregon) Expositions: while in college he
was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, presi-
dent of the Varsitv Banjo Club, and was on his
class crews and foo'tball teams. 4. Lloyd Thornton,
born August 20. 1880; graduated at Harvard LTni-
versity 1903; now in Harvard Medical School; was
president of the Varsitv Mandolin Club, and a mem-
ber of the Hasty Pudding and other clubs while in
college.

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(IX) Charles Eaton Brown, son of Albert Brown
(8), was born in Worcester, January 23, 1847. He
graduated from the Worcester High School in
1863, and from the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis in 1^7. He was one of the officers of
the U. S. navy who were with the first embassy
ever received at the court of the Tycoon of Japan,
and, when Minister De Long was received, the
Americans were entertained with barbaric splendor.
The Tycoon had some selected executions of crim-
inals, and even some crucifixions to entertain and
honor his guests. The U. S. gunboat "Oneida," of
which he was an officer, was sunk in the harbor of
Yokohama, January 23, 1S70, by the British steam-
ship "Bombay," and one hundred and twenty of-
ficers and men lost their lives. The body of Ensign
Brown was recovered and brought home to Wor-
cester for interment. He was unmarried.

THE SPRAGUE FAMILY, descended from
good old English stock, have an honorable history
covering a period of nearly three hundred years
in America. The late Hosea Sprague published in
1828 a genalogy of the Spragues in Hingham to the
fourth generation. He lived at Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, and his personal knowledge of the family
aided him in making a compilation of the records,
and from it we glean many points invaluable in this
connection.

Edward Sprague, of England, was a resident of
Upway, county of Dorset, where he died in 1614.
He was a fuller by trade. He married Christiana
(family name not given in the record)by whom he had
six children: Ralph, Alice, Edward, Richard, Chris-
topher, William. Ralph, Richard and William ar-
rived at Naumkeag (Salem) in 1628, coming over in
the interest of the Massachusetts Bay Company, who
decreed that "none but honest and godly men should
go oyer to settle." In "Prince's Chronology" we
read: "Among those who arrived at Naumkeag are
Ralph Sprague, with his brothers Richard and
William, who with three or four more were by
Governor Endicott employed to explore and take
possession of the country westward. They traveled
through the woods to Charlestown, on a neck of
land called Mishawum, between Mystic and Charles
rivers, full of Indians named Aberginians, with
whom they made peace." Hon. Edward Everett in
' his address commemorative of the bi-centennial of the
arrival of Winthrop at Charlestown, said: "Ralph,
Richard and William Sprague are the founders of
the settlement in this place, and were persons of
substance and enterprise, excellent citizens, generous
public benefactors, and the head of a very large and
respectable family of descendants."

Ralph Sprague was about twenty-five years of
age when he came to this country. He had four
sons, John, Richard, Samuel and Phineas. and a
daughter Mary, who married Daniel Edmands
on September 28, 1630. John and Richard were
born in England. Ralph was one of a jury
impaneled which seems to have been the first jury
in Massachusetts. Ralph Sprague was a lieutenant
in the train band. In 1631 Captain Richard Sprague
commanded a company of the train band, and on
Friday of each week exercised his command at a
convenient place near the Indian wigwams. Feb-
ruary 10, 1634, the famous order creating a board
of selectmen was passed ; Richard and William
Sprague signed the order. Richard Sprague left
no posterity. His sword which is named in his
brother William's will was preserved in one of the
old Sprague houses in Hingham in 1828.

(I) William Sprague, son of Edward, of Eng-
land, was born in England. He married, 1635,
Millesaint, daughter of Anthony Eames. She died

February 8, 1696. He remained in Charlestown until
1636. His wife was admitted into the church in
Charlestown in 1635, and the eldest son was bap-
tized there May, 1636. He came to Hingham m
the same year in a boat which landed on the east
side of the cove, on a tract afterward granted to
him by the town, and became one of the first plant-
ers, the name Bare Cove having been changed to
Hingham, September 2, 1635. William Sprague's
house lot was said to be the pleasantest in Hing-
ham. Many parcels of land were granted to him
from 1636 to 1647. These gifts show the esteem
in which he was held by his fellow townsmen. Jan-
uary 30, 164s, he was one of seven men chosen in
town meeting to order the prudential affairs of the
town. In 1662 he was disbursing officer for the
town, and also constable and fence viewer, etc. Feb-
ruary 21, 1673, he deeded to his son Anthony cer-
tain lands for six and thirty pounds of lawful
money of New England, and nine pounds in mer-
chantable corn. He died October 26, 1675. The
children of William and Millesaint Sprague were:

1. Anthony, born September 2, 1635, married Eliza-
beth Bartlett, daughter of Robert Bartlett, of
Plymouth. He was a large landowner of Hing-
ham. His house was burned by Indians, April
19, 1676. He died September 3, 1719. 2. John,
baptized April, 1638, married Elizabeth Holbrook,
December 13, 1666. Sprague Island was given to
him by his father. He died in Mendon, 1690. 3.
Samuel, baptized May 24, 1640. He removed to
Marshfield, Massachusetts, where he became secre-
tary of the colony and register of deeds before
1692. He was the great-grandfather of Hon. Seth
Sprague, of Duxbury. 4. Elizabeth, baptized May

2, 1641. 5. Jonathan, baptized March 20, 1642, died
July 4, 1647. 6. Perses, baptized November 12, 1643,
married John Doggett. 7. Joanna, baptized Decem-
ber, 1644, married Caleb Church, December 16,
1667. 8. Jonathan, born May 28, 1648, moved to
Providence, Rhode Island. 9. William, born May
7, 1650, married Deborah Lane, daughter of Andrew
Lane, December 13, 1674. At a later date he re-
moved to Providence, Rhode Island. 10. Mary, bap-
tized May 25, 1652, married Thomas King. II. Han-
nah, baptized Februarv 26, 1655, died March 31,
1658.

(II) Jonathan Sprague, born in Hingham, May
28. 1648, son of William (l), married Mehitabel,
daughter of William and Elizabeth Holbrook, and
in 1672 removed to Mendon, Massachusetts. In
1675, his father died and left to him sixty acres of land
in Providence, Rhode Island, where he settled be-
fore 1680. He aided in surveying the eastern line
of the colony. His was a strong, manly character.
He was a piember of the house of deputies for
sixteen years between 1695 a'ld 1714; speaker of the
house, 1703 ; and member of the town council eight
years from 1705 to 1712; clerk of the assembly in
1707. In 1703, with two others, he w-as appointed
to draw up the methods and proceedings of the
court of common pleas. The "Annals of Provi-
dence" says he was a decidedly religious man, pro-
fessed the Baptist faith, and preached as an ex-
horter. He died in 1741. The children of Jonathan
and Mehitabel Sprague were: l. Jonathan, a resi-
dent of Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island,
married Bethiah Mann, November 28, 1699. She
was born March 12, 1683. and died April 6, 1712.
For his second wife he married Hannah Hawkins,
widow of Stephen Hawkins. He died April 22,
1764. 2. William, born February 2, 1691, was a resi-
dent of Providence, and also of Smithfield, Rhode
Island. Smithfield was set off from Providence and
organized as a town in 1730. He died in Smith-
field, 1768. He bore the rank of captain in the

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econd militia regiment of Providence in 1732. The
History of Woonsocket, Rhode Island," says : "For
pwards of a century the Spragiies were prominent
ctors in the religious and political history of old
imithfield." He deeded much land to one cause
nd another, and large tracts to his children. 3.
'alienee, married William Jenks, and they had ten
hildren. 4. Joanna, married John Teft, who died
1 1762. She died in 1757. They had eleven chil-
ren. 5. Mary, married Daniel Brown, and they
ad six children. 6. A daughter whose name is
nknown, married Ebenezer Cook.

(III) Captain William Sprague, son of Jon-
than (2), born 1691, married September 16, 1714,
lies Browne, who was born iMay 31, 1691. Their
hildren were: I. Nehemiah, born January 5. 1717,
larried, 1738, Mary Brown. 2. Ales, born October
, 1720. 3. Sarah, born February 10, 1722, married
William Sly. 4. Samuel, born September 12, 1724.
. Jetter, born September 19, 1726. 6. Joshua, born
uly 3, 1729, married Abigail Wilber.

(IV) Nehemiah Sprague, son of Captain Will-
im Sprague (3), married April 16, 1738, Mary
Irown, and had Elias, born in Smithiield, Rhode
sland, June 16, 1744; Nehemiah, born January 20,
750, who died there in June, 1796. These brothers
'ere farmers, and members of the Society of
riends.

(V) Elias Sprague, son of Nehemiah (4), was
orn in Smithiield, Rhode Island, June 16, 1744, and
ied in Douglass, Massachusetts, February 15, 1799.
le married Mercy, daughter of Joseph Bassett,
LUgust s, 1764; she was sister of Alice, who became
le wife of Nehemiah (5). Elias moved to Doug-
iss, Massachusetts, not later than 1788, at which
ate he deeded his homestead in Smithfield, Rhode
iland, for three hundred and ninety pounds silver
loney. The children born to Elias and Mercy
■Prague were : I. Jonathan, born December 9,
705. 2. Theodate, born January 4, 1768. 3. Amy,
orn October 6, 1769. 4. Benjamin, born April 10,
771. 5. Lavinia, born August 12, 1773. 6. Stephen,
orn November 18, 1775, married Olive Seagrave.

Preserved, born October 17, 1777, married Joanna
rask. 8. Thankful, born October 19, 1779. 9.
William, born June 3, 1782. 10. Alice, born August

J, 1784. II. Elias, born . 12. Lucina,

orn — ■ — . 13. Unnamed.

(VI) Jonathan Sprague, son of Elias Sprague
S), born at Smithfield, Rhode Island, December 9,
765, was twice married. His first wife was Pa-
ence, daughter of Robert Pixley (or Pidgeley), of
lew Grafton, Massachusetts. She was born in
765. They were married in Smithfield by Pelcg
Lrnold, justice of the peace, August 12, 1785. Their
lildren were: I. Sarah, born in Smithfield, Rhode
sland, December 3, 1785. 2. Nehemiah, born
1 Smithfield, Rhode Island, June 17, 1787.
. Mercy, born in Douglas, Massachusetts, Janu-
ry 17, 1789. 4. Federal Constitution, born
I Douglas, Massachusetts, October 16, 1790.
. Amy. born in Douglas, October 14, 1792.
. Daniel, born in Douglas, August 4, 1794. 7.
'reserved, born in Douglas, April 4, 1796, died in
:iildhood. 8. Lee, born in Douglas, February 7,
798. 9. Patience, born in Douglas, March i, 1800.
3. Jonathan, Jr., born in Douglas, October 6, 1801.

The father, Jonathan Sprague, died in Thompson,
bnnecticut, October 29, 1815. Patience, his wife,
ied December 14, 1801. They were buried in the
riends' burying-ground at South Douglas, Massa-
lusetts. Jonathan Sprague married (second)
lezia, daughter of Daniel and Kezia Torrey, of
utton. Massachusetts. She was born there April
5, 1770, and died in Douglas, Massachusetts, May

10, 1844. Their children were: Almira, Philinda,
Elias and Emeline. In all, Jonathan Sprague had
ninety-seven grandchildren.

(VII) Lee Sprague, son of Jonathan (6), and
Patience Sprague, was born in Douglas, Massa-
chusetts, February 7, 1798. He married (first)
Olive How Williams, May 21, 1821, who was born
in Pomfret, Connecticut, November 27, 1803. She
died in Ware, Massachusetts, November 11, 1822.
The second wife of Lee Sprague was Lucia Snow,
born April 28, 1805, daughter of Deacon Eli Snow
and Alice Alden, she being in the sixth generation
from John Alden of the "Mayfiower." The father
of Lucia Snow was in the fifth generation from
Nicholas Snow, who came to Plymouth in the ship
"Ann," in 1623, and married Constance Hopkins,
a "Mayflower" pilgrim. Lucia Snow was married
in Ware, Massachusetts, to Lee Sprague, September
8, 1824, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts,
December 4, 1864. Lee Sprague married for his
third wife Mary A. Bradley, born in 1808, married
May 8, 1866, deceased. The children of Lee and
Lucia Sprague were: I. Olive Williams, born in
Ware, Massachusetts, June 12, 1825; died in East
Douglas, Massachusetts, December 23, 1840. 2.
Augustus B. R., born in Ware, Massachusetts, March
7, 1827. 3. Caroline Florella, born in Ware, Massa-
chusetts, July I, 1829; died in East Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, August 7, 1863. 4. Francis Henry, born
in Ware, Massachusetts. June 3, 1833 ; died April
13, 1834. 5. William Wirt, born in Ware, Massa-
chusetts, February 8, 1835 ; died August 20, 1837, in
East Douglas. 6. William Lee, born in East Doug-
las, Massachusetts, November 9, 1839; died Jan-
uary 23, 1841.

Lee Sprague, the father of these children, died
in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1877.

(VIII) Caroline Florella Sprague, daughter of
Lee and Lucia Sprague, born in Ware, Massa-
chusetts, July I, 1829, died in East Jaffrey, New
Hampshire, August 7, 1863. She married Rev.
Franklin D. Austin, at Worcester, Massachusetts,
January, 1853. Their children were: i. Frank Lee,
born in Tolland. Massachusetts, March 16, 1855 ;
became a civil engineer, a graduate of Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, 1877; died in April, 1897. 2.
Flora Lucia, born in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire,
December 27, 1857 ; graduated at Mt. Holyoke,
Massachusetts; died in St. Paul, Minnesota, January
5, 1900. 3. Caroline Sprague, born in East Jaffrey,
New Hampshire. July 29, 1863 ; graduated at
Smith's College, Massachusetts.

GENERAL AUGUSTUS BROWN REED
SPRAGUE was born in Ware, Massachusetts,
March 7, 1827, son of Lee and Lucia (Snow)
Sprague. He is a lineal descendant in the seventh
generation from William Sprague, who came from
England in 1628 with Endicott in the interest of
the Massachusetts Bay Company to prepare for a
new colony. His maternal grandmother, Alice Al-
den, was a descendant in the fifth generation from
John Alden, and his grandfather, Eli Snow, in the
same generation, from Constance Hopkins, another
"Mayflower" pilgrim.

General Sprague obtained his education in public
and private schools in Ware and East Douglas, and
was fitting for college when home circumstances
compelled a change of plan, and in 1842 he carne
to Worcester. At first a clerk, he soon engaged in
mercantile business for himself, and was so occupied
from 1S46 to 1861, when at the outbreak of the re-
bellion he gave his services to his country. He was
well prepared for the emergency, being already a
well drilled soldier. He had joined the Worcester

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Guards at the age of seventeen, and had served as
private, non-commissioned and commissioned officer,
as adjutant of the Eighth Regiment, and major and
inspector on the staff of the commander of the
Fifth Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Vol-
unteer MiHtia, which latter position he was holding
at the time of the attack upon Fort Sumter. Under
the call of President Lincoln for the first seventy-
five thousand men. Major Sprague was unanimously
elected to the captamcy of the Worcester City
Guards, designated as Company A, Third Rifle Bat-
talion, commanded by Major Charles Devens, Jr.
This body left for the seat of war April 20, 1861.
Early in July Major Devens was called to the com-
mand of the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Vol-
unteers, and Captain Sprague, by virtue of seniority,
commanded the battalion until its muster-out on
August 3d, its term of service having expired. Upon
his return home he at once identified himself with
the organization of the Twenty-fifth Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers, in which he was com-
missioned lieutenant-colonel. On his solicitation sev-
eral who had served with him in the Third Battalion
were commissioned in this regiment, among them
being Major McCafferty, Adjutant Harkuess, and
Captains Pickett, Moulton, O'Neil and Atwood. Be-
fore the regiment left its rendezvous for the front
Colonel Sprague was presented with a magnificent
sword and belt by the members of his old company.
Later his Worcester friends presented him with a
valuable horse and equipments, Hon. Alexander H.
Bullock making the presentation address on behalf
of the donors. Colonel Sprague served with his
regiment until November 11, 1862, taking part in
all the skirmishes and battles in which it participated,
including the famous "Burnside Expedition," and
he was officially commended by his superior officer
"for bravery and efficiency in the battles of Roanoke
Island and Newberne." He was promoted, on the
date which marked his separation from the Twenty-
fifth Regiment, to the colonelcy of the Fifty-first
Massachusetts Regiment. By special request of Major
General John G. Foster, the department commander.
Colonel Sprague was ordered with his new regiment
back to North Carolina, where he participated in the
battles of Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro. The
names of these engagements were subsequently by
order of Major General Foster inscribed upon the
regimental colors which had been presented by the
ladies of Worcester.

When General Lee led the Confederat army on
the campaign which found its disastrous ending at
historic Gettysburg, Colonel Sprague's regiment,
with others, was ordered from Newberne to rein-
force General John A. Dix at White House, on the
Pamunky river, after which it returned to Fortress
Monroe for transportation to Massachusetts, its term
of service having expired. Learning, however, that
the rebel army was yet north of the Potomac river.
Colonel Sprague telegraphed to Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War, an offer of his regiment for fur-
ther service. This patriotic proffer was gladly ac-
cepted, and the regiment was ordered to Baltimore,
and thence to the Army of the Potomac at Williams-
port, Maryland, and only left the field when Lee's
army was well out of reach on its retreat into Vir-
ginia. The return of the Fifty-first Regiment to
Worcester was a notable event in the history of the
city, glad hearts, and the sorrowful ones as well,
joining in the glad welcome to the returning heroes,
and making a day long to be remembered. July 27
the regiment was mustered out of service.

Colonel Sprague, however, was not to remain
long inactive. Soon after the disbandment of his
regiment he was requested by Governor John A.

Andrew to recruit and command the Fifty-seventlj
Regiment, but illness in his family constrained him
to decline. Later he again oft'ered his service to his
state, and as there were then no new regiments being
raised, he was offered by Governor Andrew a com-
mission as lieutenant-colonel in either one of two
regiments then in the field — the Fourth Cavalry and
the Second Heavy Artillery. His warm personal
regard and soldierly admiration for a young man
well remembered in Worcester county, Francis
Washburn, who had made a brilliant record as a
captain in the First Massachusetts Cavalry Regi-
ment and was well deserving of promotion, moved
him to decline the first of these offers in favor of
his friend, and he accepted the latter. He was com-
missioned February i, 1864, and at once joined his
regiment, with which he served in some of the
most momentous campaigns which marked that stir-
ring period. He commanded his regiment in its
field service in southern Virginia and North Caro-
lina, and formed a part of General Schofield's col-
umn in its march to open up communication at
Goldsboro, North Carolina, with the army of Major
General William T. Sherman, which, having come
thus far from Savannah after its "March to the
Sea," was now moving against the confederate
General Joseph E. Johnston. These operations,
combined with those of General Ulysses S. Grant
against the rebel army under Lee, worked the down-
fall of the Confederacy, and soon afterward the
regiment was sent to the mouth of Cape Fear river
to dismantle Fort Fisher and repair Fort Caswell,
and later assembled at Galloupe Island, in Boston
Harbor, where it was discharged from service Sep-
tember 20, 1865, previous to which he was commis-
sioned colonel of the regiment. He was brevetted
brigadier-general to date from March 13, 1865, "for
gallant and meritorious services during the war."
His entire service covered the long period of three
years and nine months, and ever received the
warmest commendation of his superior officers.

Returning to civil life. General Sprague was soon
called to important civil service, which marked the
beginning of a period of more than a quarter of
a century of public life. In February, 1867, he was
appointed collector of internal revenue of the Eighth
Massachusetts District. Ou* the death of Hon. J.
S. C. Knowlton, sheriff of the county of Worcester,
General Sprague was appointed his successor, in
July, 1871, and he acquitted himself with such con-
spicuous ability that he was elected to the posi-
tion at the next election, and successively re-elected
until his tenure of office was extended to six terms
of three years each, continuing until January, 1890.
Soon after entering upon his duties the Worcester
prison was greatly enlarged, and after its comple-
tion General Sprague gave to all the details of prison
management his close personal attention, entering
upon a work which was justly regarded as a public
benefit, and a pronounced advance in the improve-
ment of modern prisons. He revised the entire
system of accounts keeping, and introduced innova-
tions which at once conduced to the comfort of the
prisoners and awoke in them a sense of gratitude
to him and respect for themselves which found ad-
ditional fruits in improved morale and more effi-
cient discipline. In both prisons under his con-
trol (at Fitchburg as well as at Worcester) he
did away with the shaving of heads and the wear-
ing of parti-colored garments, believing them to be
unnecessary indignities imposed upon short-term
prisoners. Food of better quality, in greater variety,
and prepared under the best hygienic methods, was
provided, and at less cost than that of an inferior
quality. Better clothing and bedding were provided,

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ind the library was largely increased with carefully
.elected books. General Sprague's efforts, inany of
hem innovations, were so highly appreciated by the
lommissioners of prisons that they gave warm ex-
)ressions to their commendation in their annual re-
jorts, pronouncing the Worcester count}' prisons
he model prisons of the commonwealth. Addi-
ional appreciation was expressed by Governor Long,
vho urged General Spraguc to accept the appoint-
nent of warden of the state prison, but he was so
nterested in his work in the Worcester county
)rison that he declined. •

General Spraguc has also rendered useful service
n both branches of the municipal govtrnment. In
December, 1895, he was elected mayor of Worcester,
uid was re-elected the following year, his term of
jffice being thus extended to January, 1898. His ad-
ninistration was particularly distinguished as the
)ne during which was erected the new city hall, a
luilding of notable beauty and utility, and from
he beginning of the work until it was practically
:ompleted, he was an ex-officio member of the
niilding commission, and gave his oversight to the
vork of construction. At the present time General
Sprague is president of the Worcester Electric
-ight Company, and of the Worcester iMechanics
Savings Bank. General Sprague maintains a deep
nterest in the various military bodies with which
te is connected, and in which he is most widely
md favorably known. A. B. R. Sprague Post No.
'.4, G. A. R., of Grafton, was named in his honor,
^n 1868 he was commander of the ^Massachusetts
Department of that order, and in 1873-74 was quar-
ermaster-general on the staff of the national com-
nander, General Charles Devens. He is a charter
Tiember of the Massachusetts Commandery, Mili-
ary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States,
md in 186S was its junior vice-coinmander. He
lided in the formation of the Fifty-first Massachu-
setts Regiment Association, of which he has been
:or many years president. In 1889 that body pre-
sented to him a beautiful and valuable diamond
studded Grand Army badge, and in 1903 it paid him
;he high compliment of causing his war-time por-
:rait to be painted and presented to the Worcester
bounty Mechanics Association, which placed it upon
;he wall of their hall. He is also a member of the
Society of Mayflower descendants, of the IMasonic
fraternity, and of numerous other social and benc-
icial organizations.

General Sprague married, December 23, 1846,
Elizabeth Janes, daughter of Samuel and Eliza Shep-
ard Rice, who was born January' 25. 1826, and died
February 20, 1889. Their children, all born in Wor-
:ester, Massachusetts, were : Samuel Augustus, born
June 17, 1847, died May 12, 1848. William Augustus,
Dorn May 11, 1850, died April -9, 1857. Josephine
Elizabeth, born December 19, 1851, married, Octo-
ber 16, 1872, Edward H. Knowlton, and died in
Worcester, December 7, 1879. She left one son,"
Howard Spraguc Knowlton, born iNIarch 4, 1S78.
He was graduated at the Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute, class of 1898, and married, October 17, igoi,
Alice Frances Conant. Carrie Lee, born April 17,
1858. died August 28, 1877. Fred Foster, born Oc-
tober 24, 1864, married, April 12, 1892, Adaline
Estelle Sprague. He died July 16, 1906. Gen-
eral Sprague married (second), October 23,
1890, Mary Jeimie, daughter of William C.
and Martha Kimball Barbour, of Worcester.
She was born September 24. 1857, and was
at the time of her marria.ge assistant librarian of
the Free Public Library of Worcester. Their only
child, Alice Aldcn, was born September II, 1893.

WILLIAM ELLIS RICE, son of William and
Lmehne (Draper) Rice, was born at Ware, Mas-a-

chusetls, August 6, 1833.

He is from colonial stock, being in the seventh
hne from his first American ancestor. Deacon Ed-
mund Rice, who, born in 1594. came from Berk-
hamstead, Hertfordshire, England, and settled in
Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638. His genealogical
descent is through Thomas, born 161 1 ; Ephraim,
born 1655; John, born 1704: Peter, born 17^5; Will-
iam, born 1803. His grandfather, Peter Rice, born
at Sudbury, Massachusetts, June 25, 1755, moved
to Spencer, Massachusetts, and married Olive,
daughter of Major Asa Baldwin, of Spencer, an
officer in the revolutionary army. Peter Rice was a
soldier' in the revolutionary war, a member of Cap-
tain Seth Washburn's company that marched from
Leicester, and was one of those actually in the fight
at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Wil'liam, son of
Peter, and the youngest of thirteen children, all
born at Spencer, was the father of William Ellis.
He died at Worcester, November 18, 1882.

On the maternal side his grandfather, Hon.
James Draper, born at Spencer, February 26, 177S,
was the sixth of that name in direct descent from
James Draper, who, born 1C18, came from Halifax,
Yorkshire, England, and settled in Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts, lie was born in Spencer and died there
in 1868. in his ninety-first year, having served his
native town in many capacities, such as town clerk,
chairman board of selectmen, town treasurer, over-
seer of the poor, town agent, etc. He was also a
county commissioner, a member of the general court
for thirteen years, a senator, a magistrate for over
fifty years, and the author of Draper's "History of
Spencer," published in 1841.

His mother, the eldest daughter of James and
Lucy (Watson) Draper, of Spencer, was a woman
of unusual dignity of character, intelligent, kind-
hearted and .sympathetic. She died in 1854. The
parents of Mr. Rice were residing at his birth in
Ware, where his father with his father's eldest
brother were proprietors of the general store of the
town : some years later his parents took up their
residence in Worcester.

The subject of this sketch was given such edu-
cation as was considered necessary to fit for com-
mercial business, including a year or so at the high
school and about the same time at Leicester Acad-
emy. In 1852, at the age of ci.ghteen he obtained
the position of clerk and book-keeper in the counting
room of Ichabod Washburn & Co., in Worcester,
at that time the principal drawers and finishers of
the finer grades of iron wire in this country. He
remained with this firm about seven years, acquir-
ing a general knowledge of business and of the
manufacture of wire, and then relinquished his posi-
tion and engaged in similar business in a smaller
way on his own account, in partnership with Mr.
Dorrance S. Goddard, under the firm name of Wil-
liam E. Rice & Co. Business was started in leased
premises in Connecticut, and shortly after moved to
Holyoke, Massachusetts, where a large modern plant
was erected by them, and the venture made success-
ful and prosperous.

In 1865, at the solicitation of Mr. Ichabod Wa.sh-
burn. whose confidence and favor Mr. Rice pos-
sessed, this business was joined with Mr. Wash-
burn's larger business, then incorporated under the
title of I. Washburn & Moen Wire Works. Con-
currently Mr. Rice became a stockholder, director
and executive officer in this corporation. From this
merger Mr. Rice's influence and activity in the
further development in Worcester of its greatest

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industry, the manufacture of wire, began. He was
in hearty accord with Mr. Washburn in the belief
that the business could be greatly expanded with
beneficial results. Closely following this connection,
a plant in the village of Quinsigamond was pur-
chased and a company incorporated under the title
of the Quinsigamond Iron and Wire Works, for the
manufacture of wire-rods and wire, with Mr. Rice
as its treasurer and general manager. This com-
pany was very successful in business, and was
merged with the I. Washburn & Moen Wire Works,
imder the corporate title of Washburn & Moen
Manufacturing Company, in 1868. This merger
marked an epoch in the enlargement of the wire
industry in Worcester, and was the occasion of the
purchase of the manufacturing site on Grove street,
at that time occupied in part, under lease, by the
I. Washburn & Moen Wire Works, and the erection,
under a comprehensive plan, of substantial mill
buildings and power plants and the installation of
the continuous rod-rolling system for producing
rods of small gauge and in longer lengths than was
at the time practiced in this country. This practice
was introduced from England,^ where it _was re-
reported upon by Mr. Rice during his visit to the
manufacturing districts there in 1867. This system,
modified and greatly improved by Worcester engi-
neers, has been a potent factor in promoting the
growth of the wire industry in Worcester. Mr.
Rice, who was a director in the corporation and its
treasurer, was influential and active in the expan-
sion, as well as in the general conduct of the busi-
ness which has resulted in adding so noticeably to
the population and to the property of Worcester.
In 1870 Mr. Rice visited the iron manufacturing
districts of Sweden, and arranged for the manufac-
ture of special bars for the continuous rolling sys-
tem, acquiring for his company the distinction in
Sweden of being the first consumer in this country
to import rolled iron direct from Swedish manufac-
turers. In 1877 Mr. Rice organized the Worcester
Wire Company, for the general manufacture of wire,
with a plant at South Worcester. This also, be-
came an exceedingly successful company. In 1899
Mr. Rice, as president of the Worcester Wire Com-
pany, which office he took in 1877, and of the Wash-
burn & Moen Manufacturing Company, which office
he took in 1891, was instrumental, in behalf of the
stockholders, in efifecting a sale and transfer of all
the shares of the above mentioned corporations, and
in merging the business afl^airs of both in the .A.mer-
ican Steel & Wire Co. The successful conclusion
of this important negotiation permitted the much de-
sired withdrawal of Mr. Rice from the business
affairs upon which his attention had so long been
concentrated, and his general relinquishment of
business pursuits. Mr. Rice has filled numerous
fiduciary positions of importance, and been con-
nected in matters of consequence with many cor-
porate and other organizations.

Mr. Rice married, January 11. 1866, Frances
Helen, daughter of Thomas L. and Margaret (Bart-
lett') Randlett. of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who
died May 3, 1879. December 15. 1S81, he married
Lucy Draper, daughter of Moores M. and Sophia
A, (Draper) White, of the city of New York. He
has two children: Christine, the. wife of Hon. Rock-
wood Hoar, M. C. ; and Albert White. A. M., Har-
vard. 1905, now a student in the Harvard Law
School.

WHITNEY FAMILY. John Whitney, the emi-
grant ancester of George C. Whitney and the late
Edward Whitney, of Worcester, settled in Water-
town, Massachusetts, in 1635. He was born about

1589. His wife, Elinor, was born about 1599. With
seven children they embarked at Ipswich, England,
in April, 1635. They have a very large posterity in
America, .'\nother John Whitney settled in Con-
necticut and founded an equally large family.

John Whitney bought the si.xteen acres home-
stall of John Strickland at what is now Waltham,
in Watertovvn then, situated on what is now Bel-
mont and East Common streets. Strickland went
to Wethcrsficld, Connecticut, to live. John Whit-
ney w^as admitted a freeman March 3, 1635-6. He
was a constable* in 1641 and a selectman from 1638
to 1655 inclusive. He was town clerk in 1655.
His wife Elinor died May 11, 1659, said to be fifty-
four years old, though other records would make
her about sixty. He married (second), September
29, 1669, Judah Clement. He died June i, 1673,
said to be seventy-four years old. The ancestry of
John Whitney is given with the Whitney Family
elsewhere in this work.

The children of John and Elinor Whitney were :
Mary, baptized in England, May 23, 1619, died
young: John, baptized in England, 1620; Richard,
baptized in England, 1626, married Martha Coldam ;
Nathaniel, baptized in England, 1627 ; Thomas, bap-
tized in England, 1629, married jMary Kedall (Ket-
tcll) ; Jonathan, baptized in England, 1634, married
Lydia Jones ; Joshua, baptized in England, July 5,
163s, married Lydia ; Mary ; and Abi-
gail Tarbell ; Caleb, born in Watertown, July 12,
1640; Benjamin, born in Watertown, June 6, 1643,
married Jane and Mary Poor.

(II) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (i)
was born in England in 1620. He settled in Water-
town, Massachusetts. He married, 1642, Ruth Rey-
nolds, daughter of Robert Reynolds, of Wethers-
field, Watertown and Boston. John Whitney lived
on a three acre lot on the east side of Lexington
street on land granted to E. How, next the home-
stall of the Phillips (q. v.) Family. Whitney was
admitted a freeman May 26, 1647, at the age of
twenty-three He was selectman from 1673 to 1680
inclusive He was a soldier in 1673, and was in
King Philip's war. He died October 12, 1692.

The children of John and Ruth (Reynolds)
Whitney were : John, born September 12, 1643,
married Elizabeth Harris; Ruth, born April 15,
1645, married, June 20. 1664, John Shattuck, son of
the emigrant William Shattuck ; John was drowned
while crossing the Charlestown Ferry, September
14. 1675 ; he was in the Squakeag fight September
4, 167s, and was on his way to Boston to report the
disaster to his company : Nathaniel, born February
I, 1646, married Sarah Hagar; Samuel, born July
26, 1648. married Mary Bgmis ; Mary, born April 29,
1650, died unmarried after 1693 ; Joseph, born Janu-
ary IS, 1651, married Martha Beach; Sarah, born
March 17, 1653, married. October 18, 1681, Daniel
Harrington; she died June 8, 1720: he married
•(second), October 25, 1720. Elizabeth Bridge, widow
of Captain Benjamin Garfield; Elizabeth, born June
o. 1656. married. December 19. 1678, Daniel Warren :
Hannah ; Benjamin, born June 28, 1660. married
Abi.gail Hagar and Elizabeth .

(HI) Benjamin Whitney, son of John Whitney
(2), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, June
28, 1660. He married. March .30. 1687, Abigail
Hagar, daughter of William and !\Iary (Bemis)

Hagar. He married (second) Elizabeth . He

died in 1736. His children were : Abigail, born
in Watertown, March 3. 1688. married, March 18,
1717. Richard Sawtel ; Benjamin, baptized July 10,

169S. married Rebecca ; Ruth, baptized July

10, 1698, married, July 7, I7I,S, John Bond, bap-
tized November 23, 1690, removed to Worcester

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WORCESTER COUNTY

;fore 1752; John, born June 15, 1694, married

irst) Susan , (second) Bethia Cutter and

third) Mrs. Beriah (Bcmis) (Child) Pierce;
avid, born June 16, 1697; Daniel, born July 17,
'GO, married Dorothy Tainter.

(IV) Ensign David Whitney, son of Benjamin
/'hitney (3), was born in Watertown, Massachus-
ts, June 16, 1697. He married, 1720, Rebecca
illebrown, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
ovember 6, 1695, and died 1749. He was one of
le proprietors of land at Paris, Maine, in 1736.
[e died in 1745. He resided in Watertown and
/altham, Massachusetts. Their children were :
ebecca, born November 2, 1721, married, July iS,
545, Thomas Stowell ; David, September 25, 1723.
larried Mary Merriam; Anna, August 8, 1725, mar-
ed, June 4, 1752, Samuel Merriam ; Nathan, born
[arch 12, 1726; Ruth, February 23, 1728, died April
?. 1757; Josiah, November 22, 1730, married Sarah
.avvrence; Jonas, June 25, 1733, married Sarah
/hittemore ; Jonathan, February 10, 1735, died April

1757.

(V) Nathan Whitney, son of David Whitney
4), was born March 12, 1726-7. He married
abitha Merriam. He settled in Westminster,
[assachusetts. He bought of Benjamin Brown,
lecember 26, 1750, a lot of ninety acres of land
1 the southern part of the town ; part of this land

still owned by his descendants and used as the
imnier home of George C. Whitney and the family
f Edward Whitney, of Worcester. He also bought
f Thomas Merriam, his father-in-law, the south-
ist ends of the adjoining lots, 83 and 84, on which
; built his first temporary house. His framed house
hich was built later forms the older part of the
resent structure on the old homestead. He brought
is bride to Westminster in 1752 or 1753. His
ruggle with the soil and misfortune almost dis-
juraged him. In the epidemic of 1756 both their
lildren were taken. Again in 1764 their four chil-
ren died of the epidemic. Out of nine children
nly three lived to maturity.

Nathan Whitney was a persevering and enter-
rising man, and at length he prospered. He he-
mic one of the leading men of the town, and had
1 honorable military record. He was corporal in
aptain Daniel Hoar's company in 1759. From 1771
1 1776 he held a commission from George III as
iptain. He sided with the colonists against the
ing, resigned his commission and took what part
is age and health permitted in the revolution. In
776 he was iti charge of the Hessian prisoners
■om the British armv stationed at his old home-
ead in Westminster. He died Aug:ust 10, 1803,
jed seventy-six. His wife Tabitha died December
5, 1822, aged ninety years. Mr. Whitney was one
f the largest property holders on the Westminster
IX list of 1798.

The children of Nathan and Tabitha (Merriam)
k'hitney w-ere: Tabitha, born June 29, 1753;
fafhan. May 16, 1755. died August 28. 1756;
abitha, July 6, 1757, died January 27, 1764; Nathan,
.pril 9, 1760, died July 2. 1764; Jonathan, May 14,
"61, died June 21, 1764: Ruth. April 17, 1763, died
uly 7. 1764: Nathan, July I. 1765; David, August
>,• 1767; John, October 13, 1769.

(VI) John Whitney, son of Captain Nathan
^''hitney (5), was born in Westminster, Massa-
lusetts. He married Elizabeth Stearns, daughter
E Josiah and Abigail (Emerson) Stearns. December
[, 1793. He settled on the first lot bought by his
ither. No. go. and built the house now in use as

summer home by the Whitney family of Wor-
sster. He died at the early age of thirty-two years,
une 25. 1802. His widow married James Walker,

who died without issue. She married (third) Luke
Warren, of Hibbardston, by whom she had four
children. She died October 30, 1838, aged sixty-
eight years. The children of John and Elizabeth
(Stearns) Whitney were: John, born January 15,
179s. died February 22, 1796; John, February 20,
1797; Betsy, May 3, 1799, married April 30, 1829,
Thomas Merriam, and resided at Westminster; had
three children; died July 15, 1888.

(VII) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (6),
was born in Westminster, Massachusetts. He suc-
ceeded to his father's estate and lived upon it all
his life. He married Lydia Allen, daughter of
Deacon Ephraim Allen, of Hubbardston (published
September 30), 1821. They had a family of eight
children, all of whom were of excellent character
and reputation. He was greatly interested in the
education of his children, fitted up a school room in
his house, and maintained a private school, the ad-
vantages of which were shared by many children
besides his own. He became a Baptist in middle
life and joined the church. Later he was chosen
deacon. In 1843-4 typhoid fever struck down all
the members of the household. The father, mother
and one child died. The date of his death was
March 15, 1S44, aged forty-seven; of his wife De-
cember 19, 1843, aged forty-one.

Their children were: J. Emerson, born Septem-
ber 13, 1822, married twice, resided at Grafton,
Massachusetts ; Sumner A., June 27, 1824, married
Lura Clarke, had three children ; he died August
29, 1861 ; Ephraim, July 6, 1826, died June 20, 1850;
Mary, October 23, 1829, married Charles M. Tinley,
had three daughters; she died February 25, 1859;
Harriet, May 29, 1832, married twice, resided in
Worcester and Alinnesota ; had two children ; Ed-
ward, August 12, 1834; F'rancis S., March 25, 1840,
died January 16, 1844; George Clarkson, September
19, 1842.

(VIII) Edward Whitney, son of John Whitney
(7), was born on the old Whitney homestead in
Westminster, Massachusetts, August 12, 1834. He
obtained his elementary education in the public
schools of his native town. In 1852, at the age of
eighteen, he went to New York to strike out in
business for himself. There he remained for four
years, holding a position of trust in the Metropoli-
tan Bank. In 1856 he came to Worcester, joining
his elder brother, Sumner A. Whitney, in the station-
ery business which was carried on in the Butman
block for a few years. His brother died in 1861
and he continued the business alone. He removed
soon after to the Bowen block at the corner of Main
and Mechanic streets, where he remained for about
twenty years. Early in the eighties he removed to
the present location of the business at 112 Front
street. Shortly before his death Mr. Whitney ad-
mitted to partnership his two sons, Edward Cutting
Whitney and Harry Sumner Whitney, and they
have succeeded to the business which is carried on
under the 'same name. The firm does a large whole-
sale trade in paper and stationery, blank books,
manila paper and paper bags, all over New England.
Mr. Whitney occupied a high position in the business
community. His sterling character was the founda-
tion of the great business success of his business.

During the last few years of his life he turned
his business cares over to his sons and spent some
time in foreign travel, visiting various sections of
.•\mcrica, Europe and the Holy Land, in which he
took especial interest. He was an active and efiicient
worker in church and Sunday school. 'When he
first came to Worcester he joined the Union Con-
gregational Church and was superintendent of its
Snndav school for more than ten years. He was

WORCESTER COUNTY

also deacon for many years. About 1892 he trans-
ferred his membership to the Plymouth Congre-
gational Church. He was president of the Wor-
cester Young Men's Christian Association for two
years. He was for several years chairman of the
executive committee of the Young Men's Christian
Association of Massachusetts. He was president of
the Worcester Congregational Club for two years.
He was a .trustee of the Home for Aged Men. Few
men have done more for the religious interests of
the city than Mr. Whitney. He never cared for
politics to any extent and never considered public
office. It has been said of him that he was "inter-
ested in whatever was conducive to human wel-
fare, and he did much to promote the better life
of his adopted city and to lift the world to a higher
level." Mr. Whitney died February 5, 1897. He
married, November 26, 1857, Susan Louise Cutting,
born August 29, 1838, died January i, 1880. He
married (second), October 27, 1886, Emma Louise
Rice, who survives him; she is the daughter of
William Rice. The children of Edward and Susan
Louise (Cutting) Whitney were: Lillie Marie,
born in Worcester, June 19, 1867, died August 24,
1868; Edward Cutting, borp July 19, 1869; Harry
Sumner, born June i, 1873', married Alice Wright
Gibson, of Germantown, Philadelphia, daughter of
Alfred C. Gibson, of Germantown, they have one
daughter, Louise, born March 30, 1905.

GROUT FAISHLY. Of English descent, we find
the first representative in this country to be Captain
John Grout (I), of Watertown and Sudbury,
Massachusetts. He came from England with his
gun in his hand and first settled at Watertown.
His date of settlement was about 1640, and in 1662
he was granted leave to practice as a "Chirurgeon."
A few years later it is found that he moved to Sud-
bury, where for thirty years he served as selectman.
He acquired the title of Captain, and was given
charge of defending the settlements at Sudbury.
May 14, 1648, he testified that, about 1642, Tacomus,
an Indian Sagamore, or chief man among the In-
dians at Chapnacunco, came to Boston with his sons
and received sundry gifts and favors from Governor
John Winthrop. In return he proposed to give
Winthrop some land up in his country (Nipmug).
John Grout, with others, went to take possession
of the land. His eldest son kneeled down on the
ground, and Tacomus made his mark to the deed
on his son's back ; then the father signed it on his
father's back, and so one, with all the other sons,
the same way, thus abandoning all right of succes-
sion to the land. John Grout was recognized as a
man of great courage and much wisdom. For
forty years he was in charge of the train bands, or
militia of Sudbury. He was twice married. Hi,s
second wife was Sarah Busby, widow of Captain
Thomas Cakebread. By his first wife Mary he had
children : John, born 1641 ; Sarah. 1643 ; Joseph,
1649; Abigail, 1655: Jonathan, 1658; Mary, 1661 ;
Susannah, 1664 ; and Elizabeth.

(II) Jonathan Grout, born 1658, married Abi-
gail Dix, sister of John Dix, grandfather of Dr.
Elijah, of Worcester and Dixmont, Maine. Their
children: i. Jonathan, born February 9, 1702. 2.
Josiah, born 1703. 3. John, born 1704. 4. Abigail,
born r7o8. 5. Sarah, born 1711. 6. Patience, born
in 1714. 7. Peter, born 1715.

(III) Jonathan Grout, son of Jonathan (2),
born February 9, 1702, married Hannah Hurd, June
6, 1743, and purchased the farm referred to and re-
moved from Sudbury to Worcester with his wife
and one child in 1744. He died 1748, leaving his
widow with three children : i. Jonathan, born June

2, 1744. 2. Silence, born November 8, 1745. mar-
ried Josiah Gates, February 20, 1771. 3. Piiscilla,
born August 13, 1747.

(IV) Captain Jonathan Grout, son of Jonathan
(3), born June 2, 1744, when sixteen years of age
returned to Worcester, assuming charge of his
father's estate, left him by his father. He rendered
valuable service during the revolutionary war. He
married, March 2, 1769, Anna Harrington, who died
August 25, 1827. He died October 17, 1828, leav-
ing children: i. Jonathan, born February 14, 1772.
2. Anna, born September 16, 1774. 3. Francis, born
October 30, 1777. 4, Hannah, born May 7, 17S1.

(V) Captain Francis Grout, second son of Cap-
tain Jonathan Grout (4), born October 30, 1777,
remained on the old homestead and became a farmer.
True to the loyalty of the Grout family, in early
life he enrolled in the Massachusetts militia, April
20, 1804, became sergeant of a company in First
Regiment ; March, 1809, was made ensign, and a
year later lieutenant, and promoted to captain in
1811. He married Aumah Davis, of Templeton,
and their children were : Julia Aumah, Sarah,
Jonathan Davis. Captain Francis Grout died in
Worcester. October 31, 1864, aged eighty-seven
years. His youngest child and only son was :

(VI) Jonathan Davis Grout, who succeeded to
the old homestead, and married Adeline S. Wash-
burn, 1850, and died, leaving two sons: i. Francis,
born 1851. 2. Charles Henry, born 1854. The latter
became a popular music teacher of Worcester, where
he still resides. Francis W. inherited the home farm.
He was selected a member of the city government,
serving as Alderman in 1891-92-93-94.

Jonathan Grout ("Master"), son of Jonathan
(4), born 1772, after gaining the advantages of the
VVorcester schools, entered Leicester Academy and
there fitted himself for a teacher. Success as a
teacher gave him the title far and near of "Master"
Grout. He mastered the book-binding trade as well,
and became an extensive dealer in books and sta-
tionery in Millbury. He also became a noted author
of school text-books, including "The Pupil's Guide
to Practical Arithmetic," published in 1802, the first
work on mathematics published in this country.
His books had a wide sale, as his work was a great
improvement over the old hard-written "lessons"
and rules on mathematics, which, together with his
book, are now among the antiquarian relics of the
Worcester Society of Antiquity. It is said of him
that "he was a Puritan through and through, except
their faults." He married Sally De Wolfe, of
Lyme, Connecticut, and had children : i. Edwin,
born August 4, 1812. 2. Jonathan, born September
24. 1815. 3. Sarah Ann, born February 13. 1820.

(VI) Jonathan Grout, son of Jonathan (s),
born September 24, 1815, became a popular book
seller and owned Grout's block, coming to Wor-
cester from his native town, Millbury, in :84i. He
first started in a small way. After twelve years
of remarkable business success, in 1852 he sold his
business to John Keith. Other changes occurred in
the business, he having it again, but in 1876 it was
sold to Putnam & Davis. Mr. Grout built several
fine business houses in Worcester and was a well-
to-do man. He died April 4, 1882. His grandfather
settled in 1744 upon the Grout estate on Vernon
street. Worcester, which has remained in one branch
of the family ever since. The subject of this notice
was the fifth of the same name (Jonathan) in direct
line of succession from the progenitor in this coun-
try, Captain John Grout of Watertown, 1640. Jona-
than Jr. was interested in the making of copying
presses, perforated paper, etc.. and indirectly through
pecuniary investment in the enterprise of Dr. Rus-

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1 L. Hawes, who invented Uic machines for and
□diiced the first envelopes in the world, which
:re pirt upon the market by Mr. Grout. He was
man of great business tact, energy and sagacity,
icl< to decide and act. His capacity for taking

large transactions was wonderful. It was in
JO that he went in company with L. H. Bigelow
d built another business block. He found time
)m out all his business concerns to devote some
ppy hours in the cultivating of his finer instincts.
; loved art and good pure literature. He loved
lure and was an admirer of birds, trees and
wers in their state of freedom. .Mso, in horticul-
e and floriculture he took great delight. He was
Whig and Republican in politics, but no office
■ker. He married Mary J. Smith, by whom he
1 children: i. Charles Edwin, died in infancy.
Ellen Manderville, married George H. Gould.

D., who died May 8, 1899, and she then married
V. William S. Smith. 3. John William, born
y 25, 1843. 4. Mary Elizabeth, married Hiram

.'\dams.

(VH) Lieutenant John W. Grout, only son of
lalhan Cjrout (6), born July 25, 1843. was barely

enough to claim a man's standing when he fell
i-oluntary sacrifice on the altar of his country,
the civil war period. He was fine and manly in

features, and with elastic vigor, and the "criin-
I glow of health" he seemed every inch a soldier,
i was a rare combination of qualities. He was an
omplifhed pianist, was also proficient in nialhe-
tics, and had an art for drawing, to which he
led some knowledge of the French language and

ancient classics. In early youth he exhibited
ns of military genius. A treasured specimen is
vhittled dagger with a Union shield on it. now
ibly prized. He entered the military department
Caleb B. Metcalf's Highland school at Worcester
I became an expert in tactics. This peculiarly
"d him, when the Rebellion opened up, for active,
fnl service. Upon the organization of the Fif-
ith Massachusetts Regiment he was welcomed
Company D as its second lieutenant, and he
led the company imtil it went to the front. True
his retiring nature he chose some secluded spot
which to drill his men.

The story of Leesburg (Balls Bluff), October
1861, is familiar to many, and is a matter of war
artment record, but we wish here to make men-
1 of the fact enacted by him of whom we write.
; Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment was in the
kest of the fight and suft'ered great loss. Lieu-
tnt Grout was found adecptate to his duties. His
Iness and self-possession astonished all of his
1. _ In the terrific showers of leaden hail, Provi-
ce shielded him from harm. Upon the foe, who
lid bayonet a wounded soldier, he executed sum-
■y wrath. Every blow of his own sword told
hand-to-hand contest. He declared he w-ould
er surrender alive. Compelled to retreat, his
Iness was still maintained. Driven to the bank
the river, he still forgot himself, in the service
ig rendered to make good the escape of his
imand. With inadequate means for transporta-

he crossed the stream with the wounded men

returned : again the frail boat was filled to its
icity and he remained upon the shore, but he

risked too much for his own safety. The re-
nder were now reduced to the last extremity,

when the young lieutenant went up to his
;rior, with the calm but heroic enquiry, "Is
e anything more I can do?" the reply of Colonel
ens was, "Nothing but take care of yourself."
I when the Colonel cried to his brave men, "I
' never surrender !" and with benediction, "God
4

be with you all," gave the final order," Every man
lor himself," Lieutenant Grout had done his duty,
and nobly justified the highest expectations of his
admirers, .\fter waiting for the first faint glimpse
of the rising moon, he threw his incumbrances be-
yond recovery, and with a few companions plunged
into the stream, but before he could reach the oppo-
site shore, the fatal ball of the barbarous assassin
left him only time and strength to exclaim "Tell
Company D that I should have escaped, but I am
sliot." He was lost in the dark rolling waters of
the Potomac, but after some time the river yielded
up the treasure, and under the flag of his heroic
love he was borne from the paternal mansion "to
the house appointed for all living." We are indebted
lor the facts here given to a memorial written by
Rev, E. Cutler, soon after the gallant soldier was
killed, and it is a priceless gem among the family
possessions, and they have thus had it inserted in
this volume to further perpetuate the pathetic story
of one who gave up his young life to save his com-
rades—and his country as well.

This sketch of the Grout family would be in-
complete without a few lines to pla'ce upon record
some of the accomplishments of a sister of this
deceased hero, Lieutenant John William Grout. ■
Ellen Mandeville Grout was born in the town of
Princeton, Massachusetts, at the foot of Mount
Wachusett, in the year 1840. Her father .soon re-
moved from Princeton, and while prosecuting suc-
cessful business enterprises in Worcester, the daugh-
ter attended the graded schools there, and also
attended the Oread Collegiate Institute, that famous
school founded by Hon. Eli Thayer for the educa-
tion of girls. In October, 1862, she was married
to Rev. George H. Gould, who two years later w-as
settled as pastoi' over the old Center Church in
Hartford, Connecticut. About the year 1870 Dr.
Gould returned to Worcester, Massachusetts, and
for several years was pastor of Piedmont Church.
He was a very popular and gifted preacher and dis-
tinguished for his brilliant oratory. He died May
8, 1899, and his widow married for her second hus-
band the Rev. William S. Smith, of Auburndale.
Mrs. Smith is greatly interested in the subject of
conchology, and is the possessor of a large and valu-
able collection of shells, many of them rare and
very beautiful. She has given much time to the
study of conchology, and has lectured in Boston,
Worcester and other places on that subject, illus-
trating her addresses with selections from her stock
of beautiful shells, also with fine water-color de-
signs. She presents her subject not so much in a
scientific as in a popular way, quoting from litera-
ture, history and geology. She has published a
volume of Dr. Gould's sermons, wdiich is entitled:
"In what Life Consists, and Other Sermons," and
has written articles for the papers and magazines.
Mrs. Smith has traveled extensively in this country
and in Europe.

WELLINGTON EVARTS PARKHURST.
The family of which Wellington E. Parkhurst, who
was born January 19, 1835, in Framingham, Massa-
chusetts, is a member, is of ancient English origin,
the name appearing as early as A. D. 1000. The
signification of the name is seen in its construction,
"Park" meaning a public ground, and "Hurst" a
grove or wood. The history of the Isle of Wight
mentions a royal park called "Parkhurst Forest."
Two centuries ago a colony of Parkhursts migrated
from Parkhurst, on that island, to Surrey county,
in England, from which branch of the family the
Americans of this name are supposed to have de-
scended. Bishop Parkhurst, of Norwich, England,
who died h\ 1574, is supposed to have been the

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grandfather of the groat-grandfather of George
Parkhurst. the first settler in America.

The descent of the American families from the
George, mentioned above, was as toUows: 1.
George living in Watcrtown, Massachusetts, in
r643 il. Geo?ge, Jr., bom in .6.8, lived in \Vater-
tovvm III. John, born in 1644. also resided m
Watcrtown. IV. John. Jr.. deacon, born in 1671,
lived in Weston. V. Josiah born in 706 also re-
sided ... Weston. VI. Jos.ah, Jr., born m 736. fir-
settled i.i Weston, and in '762. removed to Farn-
ingham. bnilding a house near Ci.tler Mills, ater
a part of the town of Ashland. VII. Ephrani , born
in Framingha.n, January .6, .765. %;^^"''^'; ']},f_ f
the homesTead. January 20, .850. VIII. Char e. R
W.. of whom later. IX. Wellit-.^aon Evarts, ot

"''' Chade"' F W. Parkhnrst (father) was born
March ; 1808. in Framingham, Massachusetts a
^on of Ephraim Parkhurst. a farmer, also the teacher
of district schools for twenty-one successive w.n-
ters. Charles F. W. was educated '" th^gtowii
schools and at Framingham Academy. In 1853 he
.-emoved to Clinton. Massachusetts, and for tweiity--
;,nT Kars was paymaster of the Clinton W.re-C o h
Co,iipany. also for a part of the tune served as clerk
at Parker's Machine Works. He served as first
town clerk of Ashland. Massachusetts, also several
years as a member of the school committee a justice
of the peace, chorister of the village choir, and
teacher in penmanship. During his residence in
Clint...., he also served as a meiiiber of the school
committee board, a portion of which time he acted
as chairman. He was a member of the Congrega-
tional church, and served several years as deacon
Originally he was an Abolitionist m poht.cs, but
later became a Republican. On November 8, 1832,
Mr Parkhurst married Mary Goodale, born in
Marlboro. Massachusetts. November 18, 1807, and
prior to her marriage was a school teacher. Mr
Parkhurst died February 9, 1878; h.s w.fe passed
awav March 15, 1887.

Wellington Evarts Parkhurst attended the public
schools and Framingha.n Academy. I.i May, .853,
at the age of eighteen, he went to Cl.nton, taking
a position in the office of the Bigelow Carpet Com-
panv. Later he was paymaster at the Lancaster
Quilt Company's mill, and afterwards assistant
treasurer of the Clinton Savings Bank. He held
the office of town clerk six years, and for fifteen
vears was a member of the school board: he also
has filled the office of town treasurer, library direc-
tor and assessor, and for four years was the super-
intendent of the Congregational Sunday school. He
represented the Worcester thirteenth district tour
years in the legislature, in the sessions of 1800 Oi-
02 and '93, serving as house chairman of the ]vm:
committee on education, of public char.table .nsti-
tutions also as house chairman of the state legis-
lative delegation to the Chicago World's Fair visit-
ing in the "Massachusetts House," June 17- l893.

For a time during the civil war. Mr. Parkhurst
filled the position of city editor of the Worcester
Daily Sfy and was subsequently promoted to take
the chief' editorial chair, but declined on account of
ill health In 1865 he assumed the editorial manage-
ment of the Clinton IVeeklv Courant. wh.ch posi-
tion he still fills, after a continuous service of about
forty-one vears. In 1803 he also became the editor
of the Clinton Daih Item, having served to the
present date, a period of about thirteen years. On
the occasion of a vacancy on the board of trustees
of the State Sanitarium for Consumptives, at Rut-
land. Massachusetts. Governor Wolcott. in 1897, ap-
pointed him to the position, which he_ st.U holds

by a reappointment in 1902. At the semi-centeiinial
of the incorporation of the town of Clinton, in ujoo,
he officiated as chairman of the reception coinmittee,
and as chairman on the occasion of the public exer-
cises in the town hall. In 1904 he was elected by
the Republican convention of the fourth Massa-
chusetts district a delegate to the national conven-
tion held in Chicago. Mr. Parkhurst is a member
of the Masonic Order, lodge, chapter and command-
ery A member of the Odd Fellows Order. A
member of the Massachusetts Press Association, of
which he was one of the original members. A
member of Pomona and Lancaster Granges. A
member of Clinton Historical Society, of wh.ch he
was one of the organizers and for ten years the
treasurer. A .iiember of the Clinton board of trade.
On September 13, 1866, Mr. Parkhurst married
Miss Hattie F. Fairbank, of West Boylston, who
died December 13. 1885. On August 9, 1887, Mr.
Parkhurst n.arried Miss Georgiana B. Warren, a
daughter of George and Pa.nelia (Eames) Warren,
of Framingham. Massachusetts. Mr. Parkhurst has
one sister. Miss Helen Adelaide, for many years
a teacher of music and of day schools, also two
brothers: Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., for
the past twenty-five years pastor of the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church of New York city;
and Professor Howard E. Parkhurst, organist at
the same church, also a teacher of music, a resident
of Englewood, New Jersey.

GENERAL JOSIAH PICKETT. The record
of Worcester is no exception to that of other cities
in this great Republic, but the reader has only to
glance at the long roll of names of patriotic men
who, during those trving days of the civil war, re-
sponded to the call of President Lincoln and went
forth from this city to strengthen the hands of the
government and help to preserve the Union, to
in some measure appreciate the service her c.t.zen
soldiery rendered the country from the spring of
l86i to the close of the war. A.iiong those names
representing that honored list appears that of Gen-
eral Josiah Pickett, who was born at Beverly. Massa-
chusetts, November 21. 1822. and after attend.ng
the coiumon schools of his native town was appren-
ticed to learn a mechanical trade, which he in rea-
sonable time acquired and in the prosecution of
which for a number of years he found remunera-
tive employment. The prevailing gold excitement
induced him in 1852 to make a trip to Califoni.a.
via the Lake Nicaragua route, where after a so-
journ of nearly three years, and in the meantime
a satisfactory trial at mining, he returned to Mas.vi-
chusetts, and in the early spring of l8sj found a
home in the citv of Worcester.

His military experience began in July, 1840. as
a member of 'Co.npanv F. Sixth Infantry Ma^^^a-
chusetts \'olunteer Militia, and with.n three years
w^a- advanced to a lieutenancy. Soon after h.s
arrival in Worcester he beca.ne a member of the
city guards, and in 1859 was elected a lieutenant of
the company. When the call for troops came in
April, 1861 . he was a.nong the first to offer his
services and to encourage others to do likew.se, and
as first lieutenant he left Worcester April 20, with
his co.npanv. then assigned to the Third Battalion
of Rifles Major Charles Devens. Jr.. commanding
Thi- liattalion reported at Annapolis, then proceeded
to Fort McHenry, Maryland, where Lieutenant
Pickett rendered valuable service during a three
months' campaign. Returning to Worcester in Au-
gust he became activelv interested in organizing
the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, receiving
a com.nission as captain in September. This regi-i

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t'lit left Worcester. October 29. 1861, and was as-
giied to General Buniside's forces for service in
ortli Carolina, sailing from Annapolis, Maryland,
niiiary 9, 1862, and after a perilous experience at
a reached the scene of the battle of Roanoke Is-
nd in season to receive their baptismal fire on that
ghth day of February, Captain Pickett being
nong the first to effect a landing, and was highly
immended for gallantry in this engagement.

The battle and capture of Newberne followed.
1 March 14, and on the 20th he was promoteil

be major, in which capacity he commanded the
giment during the Tarboro and Goldsboro c.xpc-
tion. and. upon the resignation of Colonel Upton.
1 October 29. received a commission as colonel
the regiment. Colonel Pickett gave abundant
idence of his courage and capability as an otticer
id soldier. He brought his regiment to a high
andard of discipline, rendering conspicuous scr-
ee in all the subsequent battles and military opera-
Mis in North Carolina, connnanding also, with
2[nal ability, the forces and defences at Plymouth,
id of the sub-military district of the Pamlico, at
'ashington. North Carolina, receiving honorable
ention for .such services upon his departure- for
irginia to rejoin his regiment in December, 186,^.

Early in 1864 the Twenty-fifth Regiment was
signed to Heckman's brigade of the Eighleenth
rmy Corps, for service in the Army of the James,
id, with his brave and loyal veterans in a new-
Id of operations. Colonel Pickett won further dis-
iction in the severe engagements that followed,
itably his gallant repulse of the charging Con-
derate lines at the battle of Arrowfield Church.
ay 9. .\gain. in the battle of Drury's BlufT, May
, at the critical moment in tlie fight, the intrepid
d decisive action of Colonel Pickett saved the
nion right from irretrievable disaster. In this in-
ince the First Brigade was being severely pressed

the enemy. General Heckman. Colonel Lee. with
iptain Belger and a portion of his battery had
lien into the hands of the enemy and were prison-
5. The brigade was in a most critical and serious
ght, when the command fell to Colonel Pickett,
lose self possession served him at this moment

it had on former occasions. He quickly rallied
lat was left of the brigade, formed a new line of
ttle. and succeeded in holding the enemy in check.
;reby protecting the base of supplies at Bermuda
.indred from possible capture.

June 3. 1864. at the battle of Cold Harbor. Vir-
lia. in a most heroic charge upon the enemy's
>rks. the Twenty-fifth losing tw'o hundred and
icteen out of three hundred and two men taken
action. Colonel Pickett w-as severely .vounded
lile leading his brave men through that "Valley

death." and not since the famous charge of the
i.gadc at Balaklava, immortalized in story and in
iig. has greater heroism been displayed. So says
; Confederate General Bowles in his official re-
rt of the liattle. For his distinguished gallantry
on this and previous occasions during the war.

received a commission as brevet brigadier-gen-
d to date from June .3. 1.864, the recommendation
■ this commission being signed by Brevet-Major-
ncral George J. Stannard. and endorsed by Major
ncral A. E. Burnside, Major General John G.
ster, U. S. A., and Brevet Brigadier General A.

R. Sprague, U. S. V Disabled from further
;ive service in consequence of his wound, and
;ply regretting his inability to continue with his
ivc comrades until the final victory, he reluctantly
ired after a service of nearly four years, on Janu-
.• 10. 186.;. having won the respect and confidence
t onlv of his entire command, liut that of his

su])erior officers as well. It is not the purpose of
this skelcli to present to the reader incidents as-
sociated with all of the various engagements during
the civil war in which General Pickett took part,
but merely to mention those in which his conduct
as a soldier and military tactician called for the
special coimnendalion from his associates in arms
and from others knowing the facts and competent
to pass judgment upon his patriotic and praise-
worthy service.

.After returning to his home in Worcester, and
sutTering severely for nearly a year from the wound
ni bis iiip. the ball was finally extracted, and in
October, 1865, General Pickett accepted a position
in the Boston Custom House. Within a year
( iiaim-ly. in September. 1866) he received the ap-
pointment as i)ostmaster of Worcester, a compli-
ment most satisfactory to her citizens. With his
characteristic promptness and foresight for the ac-
commodation of the public, he sought new and more
commodious quarters, and the postoffice was re-
moved from the old Exchange building to Pearl
street, and for twenty years he was the efficient
and progressive postmaster of Worcester. All re-
forms that seemed to him necessary for the best
interests of the service he adopted, and the capacity
(it the office grew with public demand, and the
present efficient postmaster of Worcester (Mr.
Hunt) was educated from a boy of sixteen in the
Worcester postoffice while it was under the man-
agement of the subject of this sketch. In fact, it
may be said that other valualile assistants in that
department were also early brought under the same
care and training, and still continue in service. In
i88g he was apiiointed by Governor Ames a mem-
ber of the State Armory Commission. This choice
was made by the governor at a time when it was
nroposed to erect at the expense of the state of
Massachusetts a number of buildings to be used as
beidriuarters for the militia of the state, and the
stately structures, with their convenient appoint-
ments, that may be .seen in Worcester, Boston, Fall
River. Lowell. Springfield and other cities within
the state, attest the .good judgment and wisdom of
that commission of which General Pickett is still
(igo?) a member, and for the service on which
hoard he possesses special nualifications. To the
military associations that originated through ser-
vice performed in behalf of the country. General
Pickett has given most cordial support. While no
attemnt is made to mention the list it was noted
that he is a charter member of the Massachusetts
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal
Lesion,: a member of the Grand .■\rmy of the Re-
iniblic: president of the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts
\'etcran Regiment .\ssoeiation : and has been treas-
urer, of Post 10, Relief Fund from its organiza-
tion. In 1894 Hon. Henry A. Marsh, mayor of
Worcester, selected him to serve as a member of
the I.iccn-^e Commission, and in the discharge of
tlie perplexing duties devolving upon that board
his integrity has never been nuestioned.

Since the day of General Josiah Pickett's retire-
ment from the army, the citizens of Worcester have
sought to do him honor in various ways. It was
the accepted belief that no street parade of any
considerable magnitude, either of civic or military
nature, could be hnndled in the streets of Worcester
withoul General Pickett as chief marshal in com-
mand, and it is but fair to say that from the mili-
tary procession Julv 4. 1865. when the war regi-
ments returned and were received by the citizens
of Worcester, together with the many subsequent
military and civic processions, under his direction
as chief marshal, including the ceremony of laying

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the corner .-lone of the new city liall, September 12,
1S96, there was no confusion in the line, all moving
on time with promptness and military precision.

But the latest, perhaps the most deservmg and
lasting conrplimen't paid this quiet, thoughtful, mod-
est, loyal citizen and soldier, was the placmg of his
portrait upon the walls of Mechanical Hall, that
famous forum of Worcester, the walls of which
have echoed and re-echoed during the past half
century as works of patriotism fell from the lips
of Andrews, Philips, Sumner, Bullock, Devens,
Hoar, and others. And upon those walls may be
-cen as companion pictures, portraits of Washing-
ton, ' Lincoln, Garfield, Andrews, General Ward,
Sergeant Tom Plunkett and many others. The pre-
sentation speech was made October 30, 1902, by
General -V. B. R. Sprague, a comrade thoroughly
familiar with the military life of General Pickett,
and the portrait was received by ex-Alderman Ed-
ward M. Woodward, president of the Worcester
County .Mechanics Association. Both addresses were
of high order, and in eloquent language expressed
the high estimation in which the subject of this
sketch is held by both his comrades and fellow citi-
zens— the man who, from the impulse of the hour,
performed his duty' as he saw it, without thought
of reward, and on account of such service was
promoted from lieutenant to a brevet-brigadicr-
general is certainly worty of respect and special
mention. The ancestral line of General Pickett has
been traced to Nicholas Pickett, who was born about
1649, and an inhabitant of Marblehead. Massa-
chusetts, as early as 1670, then a young man about
twenty-one vears of age. He married a daughter
of John Northey. Of his connection with other
families of the same name, or from whence he came
to Mas.sachusetts, the records are silent. It is be-
lieved that by occupation he was a mariner. He
was living in 1692. He had children: Henry, born
about 1676; Nicholas, bom about 1678. died 1825:
John, born about 16S0, died May, 1763: Dorothy,
born about 1682. married Thomas Stevens.

(H) John Pickett, born about 1680, died May.
1763. was a fisherman, and later a shoreman, resi-
dence Marblehead. February 16, 1727, he bought
for 250 pounds a tract of land near the southerly
end of the town, of Peter Levally. He married,
January 17, 1704, Elizabeth Kelley, a daughter of
John and Grace Kelley. Elizabeth died 1720. July
22, 1737. he bought the mansion house once the
homestead of his deceased father-in-law. John Kel-
ley. John Pickett married (second). October 31.
1721, Elizabeth Savory. By his will dated .^pril
I. 1763, we learn that he was owner of the schooner
called" the Pelican, and one-half of the sloop called
the Lizard in which his son John carried on the
coasting business. The will also mentions a silver
tankard. Children were: John, baptized February
27, 1708-0: Grace, baptized July 17, 1709, died
young: William, baptized July 27. 1712. died Decem-
ber, 1761 : Joseph, baptized October 10. 1714, died
April II, 177.=;; Elizabeth, baptized July 27, 1717.
died young: Thomas, baptized July 17, 1719-20, died
about I7=;3: Sylvester, baptized March 25, 1722, died
young; Elizabeth, baptized May 17, 1724, married
Thomas Swan, Jr., living 1763: Nicholas, baptized
November 6. 1726, died before 1762.

(HI) Thomas Pickett was a mariner, and was
lost at sea about 1753. He married Sarah, daughter
of Richard Trevett. Jr.. and wife whose maiden
name wa- Elizabeth Ingalls. She died 1803. Her
great-grandfather. Henry Trevett. is reported as the
earliest resident of Marblehead bearing that family
name. Their children: Sarah, baptized .August 23.
1743. died young: Sarah, bantized July 2, 1749. died
unmarried: Thomas, born June 27. 1750, died July

10, 1819; Elizabeth, baptized July i, 1753, died prior
to 1763.

(IV) Thomas Pickett, born June 27, 1750. He
removed to Beverly about 1775. where he died July
10, 1819. He was by occupation a sailmaker and
married Miriam, daughter of Samuel and Mary
Striker. April 18, 1775. She died in Beverly, August
23, 1839. March 8. 1788, he purchased a house and
lot of" William Abbott, and other real estate trans-
actions were recorded in his name later. Their
children were all born in Beverly, but baptized in
the old Second Church in Marblehead, the parents
taking them over the river in a small boat, there
being no bridge over which to cross the harbor at
ihat time. Their children were: Thomas, born
December 10, 1775, died July 4, 1817; Miriam, born
May 22, 1777, died October 17, 1818; married Moses
Howard. Martha Trevett, born January 25, 1779,
(lied February 14, 1811; married Nehemiah Roundy ;
Richard, born November 8, 1780, died December
20. 1864; John, born July 29, 1782, died June 13,
1800: Sarah, born June 22, 1784, died February 24,
1809; Samuel Striker, born March 8, 1786, died
November 24, 1854; Margaret, born May 31, 1788,
was the second wife of Nehemiah Roundy; Charles,
born .-Xpril 15, 1790, died August 8, 1812; Hannah,
born July 9. 1792. died December 5, 1818, married
.•\mos Stickney ; Josiah, born February 19, 1795,
(lied February II, i860; Polly, born March 6, 1797.

(V) Josiah Pickett, born in Beverly, February
19. 1/95- clied February 11. i860: married, February
10. 1822. Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Batch-
elder) Creesy. She was born September 12, 1799,
and died in 1879. He served in the L^nited States
navy, war of 1812, was taken prisoner and confined
in Dartmoor prison, England. After returning
home was for some years a seafaring man, but
finally adopted .his former occupation — that of sail-
making. Children: Josiah, born November 21,
1822 ; John William, born December 30. 1824, sboe-
ipaker ; married Susan H. Tucker ; Charles, born
December 12. 1826, was a mason in Salem, and re-
sided in Beverly; Mary Howard, born February 3,
1S20. died September 25, 1833; Sarah Frances, born
Dccemlicr 25, 1830, married Dewing Southwick;
Mary Elizabeth, born November 13, 1832, married
Samutl Bell; Martha, born November 26, 1834,
married James H. Kendall ; George Augustus, born
September 10, 1836. married Agnes G. !\Iunsey;
Hcpzibah .-Vnn. born June 28, 1843. married (first)
Charles L. Woodbury; (second) Charles Friend.

(Vn Josiah Pickett, born in Beverly, Novem-
ber 21. 1822. at the age of thirteen years left his
home to carve out his own success in life. He mar-
ried, December 2. 1847, Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob
and Anna Burnham, born March 4, 1827. Since
March, 1855. the family home has been in Worcester,
Massachusetts. (See sketch). Their children;
Frank Lewis, born January 25. 1849. died Novem-
ber g, 1852 ; William A., born October 12, 1857.

The foregoing closes the ancestral record of this
branch of the Pickett family to date of July, 1905.
There was a John Pickett, who landed at Salem,
with Governor Endicott's company, in 1628, who
removed to New London, Connecticut, and subse-
quently married Ruth, daughter of Jonathan
Brewster, and granddaughter of Elder William
Brewster, of Mayflower celebrity. Their descen-
dants are still living in that section of the state.
The family name also appears among the earliest
legislative, official and historical records of Virginia
ami North Carolina, and among the conspicuous
descendants of more recent date is the Confederate
general, (jeorge E. Pickett, of Gettysburg fame, irt
the civil war. Descendants of these early settlers
are found in many of the southern states.

WORCESTER COUNTY

WILLIAM SEDLEY DOGGETT. Thomas
)oggett (i), the immigrant ancestor of William
edley Dogget. of Clinton. Massachusetts, was
orn in England in 1607. His name i-' spelled also
logged. Doged and Daggett and many of his de-
:endants have adopted the latter form of the name,
le sailed for New England in May. 173", from
armonth in the "Mary Ann," William Goose,
lastcr. He was registered as servant to Thomas
llivcr of Norwich, England, for some imftnown
;ason, perhaps for lack of funds. Many of the
rni,grants who came here to better their fortunes
orked out their passage after coming. He settled
rst at Concord, Massachusetts, removed to Marsh-
eld, then to Weymouth. He was planter and town
(ficer, both at Weymouth and Marshfield. In the
itter town he was selectman. He was fined six
snce for being an hour late at town meetings May
5. and August 13, 1657. He took the oath of
deliiy in 1657. His farm at Marshfield that he
:cupied in 1659 was adjoining that of Peregrine
i'hite. famous as the first child of English par-
its born in New England. The cellar of his house
believed to be in the field back of the house now
r lately owned by Asa Sherman, of Marshfield.
ie was a constable in 1660, on the grand jury May
5, 1666, and his name is constantly on the records
I various public services and as holding minor
ifices for many years.

He died at Marshfield, August iS, 1692. His
rst wife died at Concord, August 23. 1642. He
larried (second) Elizabeth Fry. widow of William
ry, of Weymouth, and daughter of Jonas and
ranees Humphrey, of Dorchester. She was prob-
jly born in England and died 1652, at Weymouth.
:e married, at Marshfield, August 17, 1654, Joane
hillingsworth, widow of Thomas Chillingsworth,
[ Marshfield. She was born in England, died
eptember 4, 1684. at Marshfield. His children :
shn. born at Concord, 1642, see forward; Hannah,

)rn at Weymouth, 1646, iftarried Elancher;

arah, born 1650, married Sherman; Samuel,

)rn 1652; Rebecca, born July 29, 1655, married
Wilder.

(II) John Doggett, son of Thomas Doggett (l),
as born in Concord in 1642 and died at Marsh-
;ld, 1718. He resided at Marshfield most of his
fe, but in 1662 was at Hingham. where he lived
)r a time. His father gave him half the home
irm, April 20, 1672, and he settled at Marshfield,
here he was admitted townsman May 13, 1672.
"e was constable in 1682 and highway surveyor in
J84. He bought some adjoining land of Justus
ames. April i, 1686, for ten pounds, and one of
le. witnesses was Peregrine White. John Doggett
id his brother Samuel hired the flats on the South
ver of the town, probably to cut the salt hay.
!e was admitted a freeman in June, i68q. He was
I the grand jury. May 18, 1691. and highway sur-
■yor 1692. He held the office of tithingman and other
a'ces of responsibility and trust in the town. He
as admitted to the church, May 30, 1697, and was"
1 the jury at Plymouth as late as December 13,
•08.

He married (first), at Hingham, 1673, Persis
prague. daughter of William and Milicent (Eames)
prague, of Hingham. She was born there Novem-
;r 12. 1643, and died at Marshfield, 1684. He mar-
ed (second), at Marshfield. September 3. 1691,
[ehitable Truant, daughter of Maurice and Jane
niant. of Duxbury! He married (third), at New-
iry. June 22, 1697, Rebecca Brown, widow of

;aac Brown, of Newbury, daughter of Bailey.

he was born 1640 and died at Newbury, August
;, 1731. Children of John and Persis Doggett

were: Jolin, born at Marshfield, June 28, 1674, died
March 1, 1678-79; Thomas, born 1676, sec forward;
John, born February 26, 1674, probably died un-
married. Children of John and Mehitable were :
Isaac, born June 7, 1692, died September 21, 1692;
Hannah, born December 28, 1693.

(III) Thomas Doggett, son of John Doggett
(2), was born at Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1O76,
and died there January 5, 1736-37. He gave his
son Thomas part of the homestead, February 27,
1701. He was a juror at Plymouth, May 10, 1708,
field driver, March 21, 1708-09, on the grand jury,
January 10, 1710, highway surveyor, hogreeve, etc.
He was a farmer and prominent in town affairs.
He married (first), at Marshfield, January 18,
1698-99, by Rev. Edward Thompson, Experience
Ford, daughter of William Ford, of Marshfield.
She was born 1676 and died there October 25,
172S. He married (second), Sarah Phillips. He
died January 5, 1736-37, and is buried in Cedar
Grove cemetery, alongside the grave of his first
wife. Both graves are marked with stones. His
second wife married, at Pembroke, September 7,
1737. Joseph Ford, of that town. The will of Thomas
Doggett was dated April 19. 1736. The children:
William, born October 30, 1699, died February 16,
;6y9-i7oo; John, born 1702; Persis, bor» 1704;
Thomas, born 1706, see forward; Sarah, born 1709,
died unmarried, September 30, 1745 ; E.xperience,
born 1714, died at Lebanon, Connecticut, 1730.

(IV) Thomas Doggett. son of Thomas Doggett
(3), was born at Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1706,
and died at Middleborough, Massachusetts. .August
II, 1788. He married, at Marshfield, December 11,
1728, by Rev. Joseph (jardner, Joanna Fuller, a
descendant of Samuel Fuller, of the "Maynower."
So all their descendants are eligible to the May-
flower Society. Thomas was a yeoman of Marsh-
field and Middleborough. He was executor of
his father's estate and was part owner of the sloop
"Middleborough" in 1732. He sold the homestead,
March 6, 1741, at Marshfield, and bought at
Marlboro, May 7. 1741, settling there before Sep-
tember 7. His will was dated August 30, 1785,
and proved October 6, 1788. Their children, all
born at Marshfield, were: John, born 1729: Thomas,
born 1731, died young; Mark, born 1733. died young;
Jabcz, born JIarch 3, 1734; Seth, born February 15,
1736; Simeon, born January 4, 1738, .see forward:
Experience, born May I, 1740, baptized April 23.
1741, died at Middleborough, 1830; Joanna, born
March 16, 1742.

(V) Simeon Doggett. son of Thomas Doggett
(4). was born at Marshfield, January 4, 1738, and
died at Middleborough, May 6, 1823. He and his
brother Jalicz served in the French and Indian
war under Captain Benjamin Pratt, being at Oneida
Station, New York, September 28, 1758. He was a
carpenter by trade, as well as a farmer. • In the
revuhilion he did not think it ri.ght for the colonies
to rebel, and as a consequence he was forbidden by
the town authorities to leave his farm. He and a
neighbor, who was suffering from the same cause,
used to meet daily to talk it over, each remaining
religiously on his own farm. He was a stanch
Episcopalian in religion. He built his house on
the highway from Taunton to Plymouth in the town
of Middleb'oro. and it was occupied for many gen-
erations by his descendants. He married, February
28, 1760, Al)igail Pratt, daughter of David Pratt,
who was a native of North Carolina. The chil-
dren: Thomas, born at Middleboro, April 14. 1761 :
Elkanah, born October 27, 1762; Simeon. l)orn
March 6, 1765, see forward; Abigail, born March
4. 1775-

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(VI) Rev. Simeon Doggett, son of Simeon Dog-
gett (5), was born in Middelboro, Massachusetts,
March 6, 1765, and died at Raynham, Massachu-
setts, March 20, 1852. His early associations were
those of an orderly, industrious and pious Puritan
home. His mother was a native of North Caro-
lina and had brought with her from her southern
birthplace the prepossessions of an Episcopal train-
ing, and she took care to indoctrinate the mind of
her son with the tenets of the English church.
The sterner influences of Calvinism in his home
were softened by the grace of the Armenian liturgy,
and while a heretical bias was thus given to the
faith of the child an attachinent to the English
ritual was fostered which no length of years, no
change of opinions, no constant use of other methods
could weaken. His father, though not rich, w-as in
easy circumstances and able to prepare and send
his son to college. Simeon entered Brown Uni-
versity, where he was graduated in 1788 at the
age of twenty-three. He taught school for a year
at Charlton, Massachusetts. His mind was directed
to theology, and after being refused admission to
one Congregational church, he was admitted by
Rev. Dr. Hitchcock's church at Providence and he
began fo study. He lived si.x months in a planter's
family in Virginia. In 1790 he went to live in the
fainily of the celebrated Dr. West, of Dartmouth,
and studied divinity under this eccentric but able
teacher. He became a tutor in Boston University
in 1791 and held the position five years. In May,
1792, he was licensed to preach by the Rhode Island
Convention of Congregational ministers and began
immediately to supply pulpits and preach at every
opportunity. One of his early sermons was printed,
and it was one of the first published in the United
States which openly defended Unitarian views.

In 1796 Bristol Academy in Taunton was
formally opened with Mr. Doggett as first pre-
ceptor, and his address was another milestone in
theological emancipation in New England. He ac-
cepted a call to settle at Mendon, Massachusetts,
and was ordained January 17, 1813. He resigned his
position at the academy, but remained on the board
of trustees. The Mendon church was large, in-
fluential and supposedly orthodox, yet it called him,
knowing his Unitarian views, unanimously and did
not rescind the call when he required a change of
the church creed before he became minister, .\fter
a notable pastorate he was dismissed January 4,
1830. at his own request, and settled at Raynham,
where he wished to spend his declining years. His
means placed him above the fear of want; he had
a good library and at Raynham leisure to enjoy
it. He visited the southern states in 1834-35, and
preached the sermon at the dedication of the Uni-
tarian church at Savannah. He retired from the
ministry at Raynham in 1845. His eightv-seventh
birthday was celebrated by his townsmen and friends
very elaborately and pleasantly. He died March 20,
1852. He and his wife made a joint will.

He married. October 29. 1797. Nancy Fobes.
daughter of Rev. Perez Fobes. LL. D., and Prudence
(Wales) Fobes. She was born at Raynham, Massa-
chusetts, September 8. 1769. and died there Decem-
ber 14. 1854. Their children: John Locke, born
at Taunton. September 9. 1798: Samuel Wales, born
at Taunton. July 9. 1800: Simeon, born at Taunton.
November 11, 1802, died in Georgia. July 21. 1826:
Prudence Wales, born at Raynham. September 30'.
1804. died at Raynham. December 27. 1854: Perez
Fobes, born at Taunton, Ma<:sachusetts, June 2,
1806, see forward; Theophilus Pipon. born at Taun-
ton. January 20, 1810; Abigail, born at Taunton.

November 8. 1812 ; William Paley, born June 29^
1814, died at Raynham, November 25, 1836.

(VII) Dr. Perez Fobes Doggett, son of Simeon
Doggett (6). was born in Taunton, Massachusetts,
June 2, 1806, and died at Wareham, Massachusetts,
January 28, 1875. In early life he lived on the farm
and his education was obtained largely through
his father's excellent library. He spent two years
in Florida, working for his brother in mercantile
business. He decided at length that he would study
medicine and began in the office of Dr. Usher Par-
sons, a distinguished physician at Providence. He
attended the Jefferson Medical School at Phila-
delphia for three years, and was graduated at the
age of twenty-five years. He began immediately to
practice in Wareham, Massachusetts, and was fortun-
ate from the outset in winning the confidence of his
patients. He had a good practice. "For forty-four
years he went in and out among his friends, neigh-
bors and patrons in his own and surrounding towms,
meeting with the success which a man may com-
mand who is well equipped for his business." He
died suddenly', falling in the street just after making
a professional call in apparently full possession of
his physical and mental health. He was sixty-nine
years old.

"Dr. Doggett was not a brilliant man and in some
directions he was as simple-minded as a child, but
it is believed that few men bring to the study and
practice of their profession more of those peculiar
and varied mental and physical qualifications which
help to make up the true physician and surgeon."

"Timid and slow in some departments of life,
in everything relating to his profession he was always
alert, quick to see. prompt to act. Proving him-
self the well trained, patient, conscientious physician,
whose judgment was not often at fault, he also
demonstrated by delicate operations skillfully per-
formed that a brilliant surgeon was only con-
cealed by his narrow field and lack of opportunity."

He married. November 26, 1832. at Wareham,
Lucy Maria Fearing, daughter of William and Eliza-
beth (Nye) Fearing. She was born at Wareham,
August 27. 1807, and died there October 2, 1885.
Their children, all born at Wareham, were: (Zharles
Seymour, born March 9, 1836, resides Brookline,
Massachusetts ; William Sedley, born November g,
1837, see forward : Anna Maria, born November 5,
1839, married in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 25, 1858. by Rev. Nathan P. Philbrook. to Walter
Danforth Burbank. son of Samuel Burbank : she
died March 16, 1870 ; he was born in Sandwich,
1834. and resided at Wareham ; died 1893.

(VIII) William Sedley Doggett. son of Perez
Fobes Doggett, MD. (7), was born at Ware-
ham. Massachusetts, November 9. 1837. He was
educated in the public schools of his native town.
He chose a mercantile career and began as clerk
in a Boston dry goods establishment, in which he
was employed five years. He then went to Glaston-
bury, Connecticut, was associated with his brother
in the manufacture of woolen goods and remained
in that business for some years. He left there to
conduct a general store at Warren. New Hainp-
shire, where he remained eight years, doing a modest
but prosperous business. He removed to Clinton,
Massachusetts, and engaged in the dry goods busi-
ness. After a long, honorable and very success-
ful career there, for a period of twenty years, he
retired in 1897. Mr. Doggett has taken an interest
in the affairs of Clinton and has invested largely
in real estate there. He built one of the finest
business buildings in the town, known as the Dog-
gett Block. He is a Republican and has been stead-

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fast in his support of the principles of his party.
He has never cared for public office. He is a
member of Clinton Lodge of Odd Fellows, and
lias been its treasurer for many years.

Mr. Doggett married, at Auburn, New York,
June 21, 1866, Frances Pomeroy Willson, who was
born at Auburn, July 5, 1842. the daughter of
Harvey and Fanny (Pomeroy) Willson. Her father
was a merchant at Auburn. Their children are :
Lucy Fearing, born at Auburn, August 7, 1867,
married Ernest Silberburg and they have four chil-
dren ; Anna Frances, born at Warren, New Hamp-
shire, May 3, 1871, married Edward Page and they
have one child ; Amy Willson, born at Clinton, Au-
gust 31, 1884.

MOEN FAiHLY. The Moen family, for more
than a half century prominently identified with the
manufacturing interests of the city of Worcester,
and whose members have borne a most useful part
in promoting the development of its various in-
stitutions, financial, educational and religious, is
of French origin.

Louis Moen and his wife, Madeleine D'Arquienne,
came from France about 1808, and settled in the
village of Wilna, Jefferson county. New York. A
son of Louis Moen by a former marriage remained
in France, and his descendants still reside in Paris.

Augustus Rene Moen, son of Louis and
Madeleine (D'Arquienne) Moen, was born in Paris,
France, September I, 1799. and was nine years
old when he accompanied his parents to the L'nited
States. He was educated in Wilna. New York,
.^bout the year 1830, having made the acquaintance
of S. H. Collins, the famous ax manufacturer of
Collinsville, Connecticut. Mr. Moen removed to that
place to accept a position as his business agent,
or salesman. He subsequently conducted a hardware
business on his own account in the city of New
York, with residence in Brooklyn, Long Island. He
afterward made his home in Stamford. Connecticut,
where he died, August 24, 1867, after enjoying the
entire confidence and esteem of a wide circle of
friends. He w'as married, in Utica, New York,
October 7, 1823, to Sophie Anne Le Clanche, who
was also born in Paris, France. August 30, 1803,
daughter of Nicholas and Maria (Pint) Le Clanche,
the latter born in Treves, a city of Rhenish Prussia.
Sophie Anne Moen survived her hu.sband nearly
a score of years, dying January 30, 1887. Their
children were:

1. Philip Louis, see forward.

2. Mathilda. Louisa, born July 11, 1826, in Wilna.
New York; married Lewis R. Hurlbutt, .April 11,
1854. and died January 25, 1881.

3. .Augustus I\L, born May 22. 1830, died in
infancy.

4. Cornelia .\nn. born October 3, 1832, in Col-
linsville. Connecticut; married, November 21, 1855,
William W. Rice, Esq., of Worcester, Massachusetts,
afterward mayor of that city and member of con-
gress from that district. She died June 16, 1862.

5. Henry A. R.. born September .^o, 18.^8, in
Brooklyn, New York ; married Mary Biddle. of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in London,
England. November 10, 1887.

6. Edward A., born May 31, 1841. in Brooklyn,
New York ; married Mary Sophia Cram, of Port-
land. Maine, and died, 1903.

Philip Louis Moen, eldest child of Augustus
Rene and Sophie Anne (Le Clanche) Moen, was
born in Wilna. New York, November 13, 1824. He
began his studies in the town of his birth, and
later in turn attended schools in Carthage, New
York. Collinsville, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New

York. His studies in the later city were prepara-
tory to a course in Columbia College, New York,
but an eye ailment necessitated his discontinuance,
and he turned his attention to commercial affairs,
setting himself to learn the details of the hard-
ware trade, the occupation of his father. While
thus occupied he made the acquaintance of Ichabod
Washburn, of Worcester, Massachusetts, whose
manufacturing interests required an occasional visit
to the city of New York, where he marketed a por-
tion of the product of his mills. In the year 1846
the anniversary of the American Board of Foreign
Missions was held in Brooklyn, and as delegate
to that assembly the elder Mr. Washburn, accom-
panied by his daughter, was assigned for the ses-
sion to the home of .Augustus R. Moen, where a
friendly acquaintance was formed which later re-
sulted in young Philip Moen coming to Worcester
to claim the daughter as his bride.

Philip L. Moen was first as.sociated with his
father-in-law. Ichabod Washburn, at his Grove street
works, and later with Messrs. Henry S. and Charles
Washburn in the rolling mill at Quinsigamond vil-
lage. This firtn was dissolved January 12, 1849.
and .April i, 1850, Mr. Moen became a partner with
his father-in-law in the wire-drawing industry, where
he filled a much needed place, assuming the finan-
cial conduct of the business, while Mr. Washburn
directed the mechanical operations. Under the new
firm the business prospered and increased in volume
and from that modest beginning grew until many
acres were covered with the great structures from
which went out thousands of tons of wire to assist
in the forwarding of civilization throughout the
world. Mr. ]Moen had the satisfaction of living to
enjoy the fruits of his energy and financial ability,
coupled with the technical knowledge of such an
expert mechanic as Ichabod Washburn. At the death
of Mr. Washburn, in 1868, Mr. Moen succeeded
to the presidency of the corporation, a position which
he retained up to the time of his decease.

The same characteristics which made Mr. Moen
so successful in the world of business would also
have rendered him a most valuable public official,
but the demands of his life occupation were too
pressing for many interludes. In 1854 and 1855
he was a member of the city school committee, and
in 1885, as a presidential elector from the Tenth
District, he cast an unsuccessful ballot for James
G Blaine. Mr. Moen was always a Republican in
politics, and ever ready to assist in advancing the
Drinciples of his party. In his religious affiliations
he was a member of the Union Congregational
Church, and for many years one of its deacons.
Tliere was nothing relating to the good of human-
ity that did not receive his hearty and generous sup-
port. He w-as a zealous advocate and liberal sup-
porter of the Yctimg Men's Christian .Association.
was president of its board of trustees, and as a
life member he was the second largest contributor
toward the construction of the elegant home of
the .Association now standing in Elm street, in the
city of Worcester. .-Xs an earnest advocate of
higher education he lent his efforts in behalf of the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and was one of
its trustees from its founding until his death, a
portion of the time serving as treasurer of the
corporation. He was a director of the Central
National Bank, president of the board of trustees of
the Memorial Hospital, director of the State Mutual
Lift Insurance Company, trustee of the People's Sav-
ings Bank, trustee of the Home for .Aged Women.
director of the Free Public Library, president of
the Worcester Countv Mechanics .Association, and
a member of the Worcester Agricultural Society.

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Mr. Moen was a man of commanding presence,
genial, courteous, conscientious, with frank, open
manners, bearing all the marks of a gentleman of
the old school. His loss from the social as well
as the business world was deeply felt throughout the
city, county, and even far beyond their bounds,
wherever he was known. He died at his home in
Lincoln street, Worcester, April 23, 1891.

Mr. Moen married (first) November 17, 1846,
Eliza Ann, daughter of Ichabod and Ann G.
(Brown) Washburn. Their only child, Annie Eliza,
died in her third year, March 21, 1854. The mother
died January 25. 1853, in her twenty-seventh year.
Mr. Moen married (second) March 26, 1856. Maria
Sloan Grant, of Chelsea, Vermont, a lineal de-
scendant of Mathew Grant, one of the first settlers
of Windsor, Connecticut. Their children were:
Philip Washburn, of whom further ; Sophie, who
resides in Boston: Cornelia, died in infancy; Alice,
married Arthur Edward Childs, whose home is in
Boston.

Philip Washburn Moen, eldest child of Philip
L. and Maria Sloan (Grant) Moen, was born in
Worcester, Massachusetts. April 28, 1857. After
receiving his early educational training at home, he
accompanied his parents during a European tour,
and on their return, after a final year in the high
school, he entered Yale University, where he took
the academic course, graduating with honors in
1878. After his graduation he studied for two
years in Sweden, after which he spent a year in
travel on the continent. He then returned home
and entered upon his business career, in May, 1881,
joining the firm of Washburn & Moen, becoming
first a director, later the treasurer, and in 1S88 added
to the latter duties those of, general manager, re-
maining in that twofold position until 1899, when the
American Steel and Wire Trust Company pur-
chased the business and plant, Mr. Moen being re-
tained as one of the vice-presidents. As an executive
officer he was ready and decisive, with thorough
knowledge of the great industry, which was de-
veloped to larger proportions under his manage-
ment. Four years after the property was acquired
by the American Steel and Wire Trust Company he
relinquished connection with it, to busy himself
with his personal affairs. He held positions as a
director of the Worcester Trust Company, the Wor-
ce-ster Consolidated Street Railway Company, the
People's Savings Bank, the Worcester Electric Light
Company, and trustee of the Massachusetts Lighting
Company and the Boston and Worcester Electric
Company. He was vice-president of the Massa-
chusetts Home Market Club, and a member of the
Boston University and Union Clubs, also of the
University 'and Yale Clubs of New York city. Al-
though a Republican in politics, he seldom accepted
public trusts, but was a liberal contributor to all
legitimate expenses of the party, and might have
held the office of mayor of the city of Worcester
had he been willing to accept a nomination. He was
from boyhood a member of the Union Congrega-
tional Church, of which he became a trustee and
chairman of the building committee. The Memorial
Chapel, now a part of the ^church property, was a
tribute from him, with his mother and sisters, to
the memory of his father, Philip L. Moen, who was
for many years identified with all its interests. To
the Young Men's Christian Association of Worces-
ter he lent his personal aid, and followed his father
as chairman of its board of trustees.

Mr. Moen was married, in Edinburg. Scotland.
June 5, 1890. to Margaret Brown, daughter of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Leishman) Struthers, of

that city, her father being a retired manufacturer.
These parents are now deceased. After his retire-
ment from business Mr. Moen took special delight
in amplifying and beautifying his summer home
in the hill-town of Shrewsbury. To this attractive
country seat was given the_name of Ard-na-Clachan,
suggested perhaps from his associations with Scot-
tish life and localities. Here he erected upon a
most sightly outlook a charming residence, where,
surrounded by the broad acres of a beautiful farm,
he passed more than half his time in superintending
the cultivation of fields and the growing of choice
varieties of fancy domestic animals, in which he took
special interest, and which he delighted in exhibit-
ing to the many friends who visited him. At the
New England Fair, in connection with the Worcester
Agricultural Society, in September, 1904, as a mem-
ber of the committee of arrangements and the re-
ception committee, and also as a department super-
intendent, he was constant and untiring in his ef-
forts to make the occasion a triumphant success.
Immediately after the close of the fair, although
greatly fatigued, he went on business to Toronto,
Ontario, returning home September nth, and on
the night of the following day (September 12th)
was stricken with apoplexy and passed away. His
death was deeply felt by the citizens of Worcester.
That such a generous-hearted broad-minded, public-
spirited man, with high aspirations, guided as he
was by a noble purpose, should be so suddenly re-
moved from his place of usefulness, brought a sharp
pang of regret to the community, and called forth
the most profound sympathy.

COES FAMILY. John Coes (i) was born in
1748, probably in Scotland. There is evidence that
he came from a family of Scotch that lived near
the southern boundary, and some of the same name
are living in Glasgow now. The name is distinct
from the family of Coe in this country, at any rate.
During the Revolution several soldiers by the name
appear on the Massachusetts rolls. The name was
apparently spelled Coas and Coose at times, and in-
correctly. Samuel Coes, of Marblehead. w'as A
soldier in the Revolution. Joshua Coes, of Bridge-
water (spelled Coesse) and William Coas, of Cape
Ann. w-ere soldiers also. It is possible that William
Coes (or Coose), of East Greenwich. Rhode Island,
was a relative of the Worcester settler.

John Coes settled in W^orcester before the Revo-
lution. He was a farmer. His seven children were
born here, and so far as is known all of the Coes
in this country are descended from him and his
wife Rebecca. He died in Worcester, June 24.
1S27. aged seventy-nine years. His children were:
I. Daniel, born December 10. 1776. 2. Simeon, born
July 9. T781. died March 3. 1833. He married Sabra,
and their children were: William, married Lucy H.
Green, April 30, 1835 : Simeon Sibley, born May 22.
1811, died September 22, 1847: John Green, born
July 24. 1814; Levi Charles, born July 13. 1819, mar-
ried Charlotte McFarland, November I. 1846 : Mary
Augustus, born January 22, 1823, died July 8. 1838.
3. William, born February 19. 1786, died April 17.
1829. He married Jemima Chapin. September 14,
1S09. Their children were': Nancy Chapin. born
Septemher 10. 1810: Leonard Chapin. born July 7.
1812: William Seth^ born August 9. 1814; Rebecca
Salome, born December 24, 1816. school teacher at
Worcester: married James E. Budlong. of Provi-
dence. December 13, 1843 : William Seth Leonard,
born May 29. 1820: Luther Draper, born October
T3. 1822. 4. Sally, born January 23, 1787. married
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29, 181 1. S. Mary, born November 28, i/gr, died
September 12, 1831. 6. Levi, born October 28, 1793,
married Kezia. 7. Elijah, born May ig, 1795,

(II) Daniel Coes, son of John Coes (i), was
born and brought up on his father's farm in what
is now called New Worcester, December 19. 1776,
and died January 26, 1838. He married, October
26, 1808, Roxana, or Roxlany (as the records have
it) Gates. (See Gates Family Sketch). Their chil-
dren were: i. Sally, born February 22, 1810, died
February 16, 1832: Loring, born April 22, 1812;
Albert, born September 29, 1813, died February 13,
1837; Aury Gates (name originally was Horatio
Gates), born January 22, 1816.

(III) Aury Gates Coes. son of Daniel Coes (2),
was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, January 22,
1816, and died December 2, 1875. Fie married Nancy
Maynard, who was born in 1815, and died December
I. 1842. He married Ann S. Cutting, May 29, 1845.
He married (third) a Miss Gibson. He married
(fourth) a Miss Winch. His children were: John
Henry, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 25, 1840 ; Frederick Lewis ; Anna Rebecca,
born ' March 25, 1847 : Mary, bursar of Radcliffe
College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Stella, died in
Dresden, Bavaria, and body was lost at sea. The
business career of the late Aury G. Coes is given
with that of Loring Coes herewith.

Loring Coes. third in line from John, the founder,
is the son of Daniel Coes, and was born in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, April 22, 1812. He has been
for many years the nestor of Worcester manufac-
turers, the most wonderful instance of mental and
physical capacity in the history of Worcester, if
not of the country. At the date of writing he is the
active head of the business that he established in
1836, and at the age of ninety-four years is as alert
and active ;is the majority of inen are at sixty.

Mr. Coes spent his jjoyhood on his father's farm
in New Worcester, where he was born. He at-
tended the district school in the winter months, but
his education has been attained largely outside the
schoolroom. He is a self-educated, as well as a
self-made man. .A.t the age of fourteen years he
was apprenticed to Anson Braman, of Worcester, a
carpenter, to learn his trade, and served with him
three years. He then worked for Mr. Salmon
Putnam until he was of age. Afterwards he worked
for various manufacturers of Worcester, construct-
ing the wooden parts of woolen machinery then in
use. He had a contract with Henry Goulding and
employed six or eight men. Among others whom
he and his brother worked for was the firm of
Kimb'all & Fuller, makers of woolen machinery,
an'd in 1836 they bought the business, forming the
co-partnership of L. & A. G. Coes. Originally this
business was carried on at the mill privilege owned
by the Coes interests for so many years, but in 1835,
just before the Coes took possession, it had been
removed to Court mills, where L. & A. G. Coes
continued in business until October, 1839, when
the Court mills -were destroyed by fire.

This disaster impaired th(!ir capital so much
that they were unable to continue the business, and
they went to Springfield to work for Laurin Trask
as pattern makers in his foundry. While there
they invented a new and very convenient form of
wrench. There were at that time two styles of
wrenches in common use, one an English patent,
the other known as the Merrisk or Springfield
wrench. Both hands had to be used to adjust either
of these kinds of wrenches The Coes wrench could
be adjusted by the same hand using it, leaving the
other hand of the workman free. In order to
obtain a patent on the device they returned to

Worcester and sold the patterns of their spinning
machinery, that had been saved from the fire, to
Samuel Davis, a manufacturer of woolen machin-
ery. With this money they secured a patent, is-
sued to Loring Coes, April 16, 1841.

The firm of L. & A. G. Coes proceeded to manu-
facture wrenches under the patent. They were as-
sisted by the late Henry Miller, a hardware dealer
and "prominent citizen of Worcester. He fitted up
a shop in the northwest end of Court mill with
the necessary machinery and tools, of which he
retained the ownership, and he sold for the firm
all of the wrenches they made. Early in 1843 the
firm had paid for its plant,, was employing three
machinists, and had a contract with Calvin Foster
& Co. to handle their product. The next winter
L. & A. G. Coes moved to the shop of Albert
Curtis in New Worcester.

At the close of their contract with C. Foster
& Co., April I, 1848, Ihcy entered into a contract
with Ruggles, Nourse & Mason to handle their
product for the next five years. They bought for
$5,500 the old woolen mill at New Worcester, in
which they had worked in their youth. With the
mill they got two hou.ses and four acres of land,
besides the water privilege. The famous Captain
Daniel Gookin was its first owner, and from him
the great-grandfather of Loring and Aury G. Coes
purchased it, and built a .saw mill at the upper
■privilege, where there had been previously a beaver
dam. When they moved to New Worcester they
were employing from twelve to fifteen men. and
making from five hundred to six hundred wrenches
a moiith. They repaired and raised the mill, and
put in new machinery and a new water wheel. Their
contract with Ruggles, Nourse & Mason expired
April I, 1853, and after that L. & A. G. Coes sold
their own goods. They had made many improve-
ments in the wrenches, and in the special ma-
chines used in constructing them.

On July 21, 1853, with Levi Hardy, the firm
purchased from Moses Conant his shop, machinery
and business, that of the manufacture of shear
blades and knives for hay cutting machines. The
co-partnership continued until May 2, 1864. after
which the. business was conducted by the firm of
L. & A. G'. Coes, who bought the interests of Levi
Hardy. Tn 1865 a dam was built half a mile above
their mill privilege to form a reservoir, and next
year a new shop was built at the reservoir, and de-
voted exclusively to the manufacture of shear blades,
hay cutting knives, and similar goods. In 1867 a
new dam was built a hundred rods below the
reservoir. The two brothers dissolved the part-
ncrshi]) and divided the business. Loring Coes had
the upper privilege with the knife business: Aury
G. Coes having the lower one with the wrench
business. .'Vt that time the annual product had in-
creased to ten thousand wrenches or more.

In 1871 Loring Coes began to manufacture
wrenches also, the patents having expired. He
erected the building at Coes Square for the pur-
pose. At the outlet of the upper pond Loring Coes
carried on an extensive business in the manu-
facture of- die stock for cutting sole leather and
other purposes, as well as many kinds of blades.
.Aury G. Coes formed the firm of A. G. Coes
S: Co. in partnership with his two sons, and con-
tinued to carrv on the very prosperous wrench busi-
ness until his" death in 1875. The sons continued
under the same finn name until .April i, 1888. when
the two Coes firms were consolidated under the
name of Coes Wrench Co. The officers were:
President, Loring Coes: treasurer. John H. Coes,
and secretarv. Frederick L. Coes. The factory was

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tlicn turning out about fifteen hundred wrenches
a day. An important patent was issued to Loring
Goes in 1880, on the "Knife Handle'' or scaled and
riveted handle, also his invention, replacing the
old round handle made of a single block. This
model was very successful and was one of the
causes that united the wrench business of the Goes
family in one concern, as it is to-day. Improve-
ments and inventions have followed, and improved
models were adopted in 1895 and again in 1901
and 1903. A little more than a month before his
ninetieth birthday, Loring Goes bought out the in-
terests of his partners, John H. and Frederick L.
Goes, sons of his former partner, Aury G. Goes,
and assumed the sole ownership of the wrench busi-
ness. In June, 1902, he consolidated with it the
corporation of Loring Goes & Go., Incorporated,
making the capital stock of the Goes Wrench Go.
$150,000. The knife business is conducted as part
of the corporation under the name of Loring Goes
& Go., Incorporated, Department.

The knife business of the Goes family is hardly
less famous than the wrench business. It has a
reputation of producing steel goods of unsurpassed
quality and merit. Mr. Goes has always followed
as his maxim in business : "Make the best only, —
Quality first, Price afterwards" and his reputation
is literally world-wide. There is not a country in
the world where the Goes Wrench is not in use.
Even in the Levant there is a demand for this'
indispensable tool. Mr. Goes not only /attends to
his business in person, daily, but continues to iiiake
improvements and secure patents. The business
has never been more prosperous than at pi'esent.

In 1903 a new factory was completed, fifty by
one hundred and fifty feet, with an ell fifty by fifty
feet, and with new machinery and equipment the
product of the company was doubled. The capacity
of the knife shop within a few years has also been
increased one hundred and fifty per cent. At the
present time the Goes factories produce three hun-
dred dozens of wrenches daily, about three thousand
six hundred, and four and one-half tons of wrenches
are completed every day the shop runs. The pay-
roll includes one hundred and ninety hands, mostly
machinists and mechanics of skill and experience.
The Goes wrench shop is the largest wrench shop in
the world.

Mr. Goes was representative in the general
court in 1864 and 1865. He has served the city in
both branches of the council, and was for more than
thirty years a director of the Gity National Bank.
He is a director of the Worcester Electric Light
Gompany. For some years he has been the oldest
living manufacturer engaged in the hardware trade.
He is fond of fishing, and has for many years made
a fishing trip to Maine during the season.

The present officers of the corporation are :
President. Loring Goes : vice-president and clerk,
Frank Loring Goes; treasurer, Loring Goes;
directors, Fred W. Blackmer and Frederick Searle.
Mr. Blackmer is counsel for Mr. Goes. (See sketch
elsewhere in this work). Mr. Searle is a native of
St. Austel, Gornwall. England, and for fifteen years
has been superintendent of the works. He is also
the master mechanic. He worked in the copper
mines in 'Vermont and machine shops in Fitch-
burg, Massachusetts, before coming to Worcester.

Loring Goes married Harriet Newell Read,
daughter of Russell Read, of Attleboro, Massachu-
setts. January 14. 18,35. She died in 1902. Their
children were: i. Francis Russell, born June 9. 1837.
2. Ellen Stanley, born October i, 1839. married
Melvin O. Whittier. who was born in Mercer. Maine,
May 13. 1834, aid came to work at the Goes shop

at the age of seventeen, worked up until he was
superintendent of the manufacturing department in
1865, and became partner of Loring Goes, his father-
in-law, when L. & A. G. Goes dissolved. Mr.
Whittier sold out to Mr. Goes in 1887 and re-
turned to Maine to live, where he died in 1905.
His daughter, Mabel Ella Whittier, married George
Ghurchill, and they have a daughter, Hildegarde
Ghurchill. 3. Anna Read, born November 12, 1842,
died May 13, 1845. 4. Ghester E. B., lives with
his father, never in business.

(IV) Frank Loring Russell Goes, son of Loring
Goes (3), was born June 9, 1837, in Worcester,
Massachusetts. He received his early education
in the school of his native town. Later he at-
tended Leicester Academy and Middleboro Academy.
Early in life he showed an inclination for the mili-
tary, and at the age of nineteen was a lieutenant
in the city guards. When the civil war broke out
he took an early opportunity to enlist in the Twenty-
fifth Massachusetts 'Volunteers, and served with
honor until nearly the close of the war, when by
reason of disability he was compelled to return
home. (For his business relations with the Goes
firm and his father's business, see the sketch of
Loring Goes preceding).

He married in 1867,' Persis J. Putnam, daughter
of Salmon Putnam. (See Putnam Family Sketch.)
The death of Mr. Goes in 1871, at the early age
of thirty-four, was doubtless hastened, if not
directly due to exposure in the army. He left
one child. Frank Loring. born August 30, 1872.

CV) Frank Loring Goes, son of Frank Loring
Russell Goes (4), was born in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, August 30, 1872. He attended, the Wor-
cester public and high schools, and took a course
at Worcester Academy. He also attended a priv.ite
school at Northboro, Massachusetts. At the age of
seventeen he went into the shops of the Goes
Wrench Go. to learn the business. He work'.d in
every department and learned the trade thoro'ighly.
He was placed in charge of the knife factory in
1892. When Loring Goes bought out his partneis
in 1902, he was put in charge of the main office. He
is a member of the Gommonwealth Glub, the Wor-
cester Golf Glub, and the Hardware Glub of New
York. In politics he is a Republican. On July 11,
1891. he married Gora Braman, daughter of Gharles
Braman. of Providence. Rhode Island. Her mother
was Priscilla Braman. nee Wright, born in North-
boro. Massachusetts. The children of Frank Loring
Goes are: Loring, born September 17, 1892; Russell
Read, born August 26, 1894.

EDWARD A. GOODNOW. In 1632. twelve
years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
Rock, three Goodnow brothers sailed from Eng-
land to join the enterprise beyond the stormy At-
lantic. They shared the hardships of those who
laid the foundations of the Gommonwealth of Massa-
chusets. Among the three brothers who came to
these shores was Thomas, who settled at Sudbury.

('II) Thomas Goodnow, son of the English

branch, married Jane , and had a son

named Samuel.

(HI) Samuel Goodnow, son of Thomas (2),

born February 28, 1646, married Mary

by whom a son Samuel was born.

(IV) Samuel Goodnow, son of Samuel (3),
born November ,30, 1675. died about 1720. married
Sarah Brigham, and they had a son Thomas.

(V) Thomas Goodnow, son of Samuel (4).
born March 18, 1709, married Persia Rice, of Marl-
boro. April 17, 1734, and they had a son Edward.

(VI) Edward (ioodnow, son of Edward (s).

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born October 30, 1742; married Lois Rice, and they
had a son Edward.

Edward (6) removed from Sudbury to Prince-
ton, Massachusetts, and in 1786 built the old Good-
now homestead, still standing and owned by his
grandson, William B. Goodnow, the brother of our
subject proper.

(,VII) Edward Goodnow, son of Edward (6),
born December 1776, married Rebecca Beaman. He
inherited his father's estate. Rebecca Beaman took
her turn with other girls in going to Worcester,
thirteen miles, to get the mail. She went on horse-
back and the trail was through the woods, her only
guide being the "blazed" trees. To Edward and
Rebecca Goodnow were born six sons and two
daughters ; all were born in Princeton, and with
one exception grew to manhood and womanhood.
These children were : Erastus D., Edward A.,
Jonas B., Franklin, William B., Harriet E., Louis
R. and Abel. The father died in 1852, and the
mother in 1870, both in Princeton.

(Vni) Edward Augustus Goodnowy son of
Edward and Rebecca (Beaman) Goodnow, was born
at the old homestead, Princeton, July 16, 1810. Al-
though the New England boy of his time had much
hard work to perform, yet the people believed in the
value of a good education. To this lot he of whom
we write was no exception to that rule. His boy-
hood days were spent for the most part on his
father's farm. After attending the district school
he attended three terms at Hadley Academy. With
this schooling he went forth to meet and to do bat-
tle with the practical side of life's career. In 1823,
when he was thirteen years old, his parents opened
an inn at their homestead, on the Connecticut and
fioiton road. So well was the house kept that it
soon became famous. Teamsters and stock men were
only too glad to reach its homelike rooms and sit
around its bountiful tables. This inn W'as kept
open twenty-seven years. Young Edward mingled
with the travelers and merchants who stopped there .
and here he first acquired his taste for mercantile
pursuits. When twenty years of his life had passed,
he left the scenes of farm life and began clerking
in the store of his older brother, Erasmus Good-
now, in Princeton. It was soon discovered that he
had sought and found the calling for which he was
especially adapted. So well did he succeed in his
new role that at the end of two years service, he
was admitted as a partner in the business. Quick
to observe the trend and fashion of the times, this
firm soon improved their golden opportunities and
commenced the manufacture of palm-leaf hats, in
connection with the general^ merchandise business,
the junior partner performing much of the outside
work. His early farm life fitted him well to care
for such matters, including the teaming for the
firm. For several seasons he might have been seen
rising at two o'clock in the morning and driving
to Boston, a distance of forty-five miles. There he
would sell such commodities as his load from
his country home was made up of, and re-
load with goods and supplies bought in exchange,
to be used in the general store at home. JSIuch of
the time consumed by such long and frequent trips
was made while others slept. But it was a good
schoolmaster to him. Antagonism is the, law of de-
velopment, and hence these early hardships proved
but stepping stones to a marked and prosperous
career.

Like many other sensible and thoughtful young
business men, Mr. Goodnow sought out a loving
wife, in the person of Harriet Bagg, of Princeton.
After five years of married life the angel of death
called her from his side. Subsequently he married

her sister, Augusta, by whom one son was born,
Henry Bagg Goodnow, who died in infancy. Af-
fliction again settled down on the household of Mr.
Goodnow and death claimed the second companion.
Later he married Catherine B. Goodnow, who jour-
neyed with him for a quarter of a century and who
was an active member of the Congregational church
for about twenty-iive years, when she passed from
earthly scenes.

In 1836, after four years of partnership, the
business was expanded by admitting another member
to the firm, with the view of manufacturing shoes.
The new firm relations existed eleven years, when
Mr. Goodnow realized that the domain of Prince-
ton was limited as a trade center for the carrying out
of his plans, so, after having been in trade in his
native town fifteen years in all, he went to Shcl-
burne Falls in 1847, where he formed a partnership
with the great cutlery establishment of Lamson,
Goodnow & Company, but soon finding the damp
air of Deerfield Valley did not agree with him. he
removed to Eaton, central New York, remained
there for a time, and finally returned to New Eng-
land and located at Worcester, in 1852, when the
city had but 18,000 people. Being familiar with the
shoe business, Mr. Goodnow opened a retail shoe
store, which he pursued for four years, and then
changed to the wholesale trade in the same line of
goods. To him belongs the honor of opening the
first jobbing house in Worcester. Success crowned
his efforts, and sales ran from one hundred thous-
and to four hundred thousand dollars per annum.
Integrity in his business methods was the key to
his success. After a successful business of fourteen
year in Worcester, JNIr. Goodnow retired from active
mercantile life.

Concerning the political belief of Mr. Goodnow
it should be said that he was one of the stanch
Abolitionists, when it meant something to advocate
such a cause. He was one of eight persons to
adopt the principles of the Free-soil party, and sub-
scribe to the principles, "We inscribe on our banner,
'Free soil, free speech, and free men' and under it
we will fight on, fight ever, until triumphant vic-
tory shall reward our exertions." When gun number
one sounded the alarm from Fort Sumter in 1861, he
was not surprised. More than a dozen clerks from
his own place of business, one after another, marchqd
to the battlefield; all were aided by him, and one
of the brave number was under full pay by him
during the entire time of his military service, and
his business place open for him upon his return
from the Southland, when victory was for the Union.
When Governor Andrew proposed to raise a col-
ored regiment and equip it for the field, he gave
five hundred dollars for its expenses, heading the
subscription paper for that amount. When the
war cloud was darkest and the finances of the coun-
try were in peril, he subscribed liberally for the
iirst bond issued. He thoughtfully erected mar-
ble tablets to the memory of fifteen high school
students who gave their young lives on the altar
of their native land. As an object lesson to the
youth of the city, he placed a bust of General
Grant in the high school. Among other benefac-
tions was a life sized oil portrait of President Gar-
field, to be hung in the hall of the Mechanics' As-
sociation. The following resolution was passed by
the Association :

I\esol7'i-tf. That the VVorrestcr County Mechanics' Association
hereby tenders a noie of thanks to Mr. Edward A. Goodnow for
liis public-spirited liberality in presenting to the association a
full-length portrait of James .\. Garfield, late president of the
United States. Attest:

William A. Smith. Clerk.

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A few years later he preseiiled the =aiue asso-
ciation with a portrait of Henry Wilson.

Mr. Goodnow was never an office seeker, hut did
hold the position of trustte of the Stale Reform
School, mider appointment of Governor Andrew and
by re-appointment by Governor Bullock, serving in
all seven years. L'pon retirement from business,
he spent two years in leisure, but that was enough
to convince him that man is happiest when employed,
so he accepted the position of presidi.nt of tlie i-irst
National bank, tendered by a unanimous vote. Here
Mr. Goodnow was not a hgure-head, but the real
head. All the paper passed through his hands. He
took some risks that more timid men would not
have dared to take. He secured large deposits by
a liberal attitude toward patrons of the bank. When
he took the olhce, the bank stock was quoted at
one hundred and ten ; but under his good manage-
ment, the par value was doubled. So much was
his business sagacity appreciated by the stock-hold-
ers,, that a set of complimentary resolutions
were passed, thanking him and giving him
the credit for buildnig up a great banking
business — second to none in the Commonwealth.
Whife Mr. Goodnow was a busy man of
affairs, he found pleasure in spending nnich of
his means in way of magnificent gifts of a philan-
thopic and truly charitable nature. He gave not to
be seen of men, but where good could be accom-
plished — where the condition of his fellow men
could be bettered. The list of such generous acts
is indeed too lengthy to insert in a work of this
character but a few will here be noticed briefly.
Beginning with his native town, Princeton, he gave
a library building known as the "'Goodnow Me-
morial Building," which consists of a library, read-
ing-room, two school rooms, w'ith desks for forty
scholars each, together with an endowment of five
thousand dollars. Tliis is indeed a magnificent
memorial, "a thing of bcautj is a joy forever."
To educational institutions, he has ever been more
than generous. Among such instances may be named
the Female Seminary at Jlount Holyoke, in way of
scholarship, parks and other matters, all amounting
to twenty-five thousand dollars. He gave to the
Iowa College at Grinnell ten thousand dollars to re-
place buildings destroyed by a terrible cyclone. Sub-
sequently he gave five thousand dollars for the
erection of a cottage named the Mary Grinnell Mears,
in honor of the wife of Rev. D. O. Alears, D. D. To
the Wellesley College and the Moody School at
Northfield he gave each five thousand dollars. His
anti-slavery sentiments were e.xpresscd by the gift of
five thousand dollars to Washburn College in
Kansas, to found a John Brown professorship. The
colored race has not been overlooked by the phil-
anthropist, for he has repeatedly been a contributor
toward the erection of buildings for the colored
school at Hampton, Virginia, also at Oberlin, Ohio ;
Berea College, Kentucky, and Lincoln College, Penn-
sylvania. Not content with the donating of his
wealth on this side of the seas, he was the first man
to erect a building on the continent of .Africa for the
education of women. Thus he commenced the
laudable work of Christianity and civilization among
the female portion of "Darkest Africa." This is
in connection with the Huguepot Seminary, Wel-
lington, Cape of Good Hope, Africa. The building
known as Goodnow Hall was constructed after Mr.
Goodnow's plans, and then shipped to Africa ready
to be erected. The expense was over fifteen thous-
and dollars.

In connection with his church benefactions it
should be here recorded that he was long associ-
ated with the Plymouth Congregational Church of

W orcester, to which he was a very generous do-
nator as the years and decades rolkd by. Among
thc.-,e benefactions must not be forgotten the superb
chime of bells which each week sounds from the
belfry of this church edifice. The same was given
in memory of his late wife, Catherine B. Goodnow;
also, as a memorial of his only son, Henry B.
Goodnow, who died in infancy, he gave an organ to
this church, the total expense being ten thousand
dollars. In 1887 he gave five thousand dollars to-
ward the Catherine B. GoodnoW Fund of the Young
Women's Christian Association of Worcester. To-
ward the completion of this magnificent building he
gave not less than thirty thousand dollars.

•Although having lived four score and three years,
until recently he of whom we write saw with un-
liiinmed eye. and was exceptionally robust for one
so far advanced on the journey of life. He was a
constant attendant at the church of his choice. In-
deed, the life of Mr. Goodnow was one of marked
success, and of such noble characters the world has
none too many. He died F'cbruary i, 1906, after an
illness of only two days, and a large concourse of
sorrowing friends followed him to his last resting
place.

SAMUEL R. HEYWOOD. In sketching the
useful and eventful career of Samuel R. Heywood,
founder of one of the most enterprising and suc-
cessful manufacturing establishments of the city of
Worcester, it is to be noted that his influence has
touched almost every branch of trade and public
interest in his community within the period of more
than a half century. He has not only been one of
the principal factors in making Worcester an im-
portant manufacturing center, but a leader in the
promotion of various other enterprises — financial,
commercial, transportation, etc. He has rendered
valuable service to the public in various official sta-
tions, and has liberally aided with his iiiHuence,
personal effort and means, all that goes to make up
the higher life of the community — the churches,
schools oi all degree, and those beneficent insti-
tutions which minister to the needs of the suffering
and afflicted. In all the relations of life he has so
acquitted himself as to receive sincere recognition
as an ideal citizen.

Mr. Heywood was born at Princeton, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, November 24, 1821, and was
reared upon a farm, where he developed attributes
of a model manhood — a splendid physique, which
enabled him to carry into his octogenarian years
the ambitions and abilities which in ordinary men
wane in the sixties; and those habits of industry and
persistency which were to form the foundations of
a career of unusual u.sefulness and success. As a
lad he attended the ordinary country schools, and
was for two terms a student in the Westminster
.Academy, defraying his expenses with the earnings
from his own labors. When about twenty years old
he entered upon a business life as an employe of E.
1). and E. A. Cjoodnow, of Princeton, manufacturers
of boots and shoes, and proprietors of an extensive
general store. In .August, 1848, he located in Hub-
bardstown, as senior nrember of the firm of Hey-
wood & Warren, general merchants, bringing to
the business a small amount of capital of his own
earning, and a character which aft'ordcd him all the
credit he desired. In the course of three years
he purchased the interest of his partner, and car-
ried on the business until January. 1855. This ex-
perience marks the end of his preparation for the
larger enterprises upon which he was now to enter.
Fie had not only acquired considerable means, but
he had duveloped his business abilities to such a de-

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gree as to justify liim in seeking a wider I'leld for
his effort, and he decided to remove to Worcester.
Here he became a partner of one of his lirst em-
ployers, E. A. Goodnow, under the style of Good-
now & Heywood, in the wholesale and retail lioot
and shoe trade. This partnership was dissolved in
the following year, Mr. Heywood taking the retail
trade, in which he continued until 1.S64. He at once
engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, ex-
tending his operations from time to time, constantly
reaching out into larger and more distant markets,
and introducing new goods as experience demons-
trated their worth and acceptability. The Heywood
boot soon came to be known as the best product
in its line, from what was for many years the lead-
ing city in the country in this class of manufacture.
Later, as a more cultivated taste warranted the
making of a lighttr and more dressy style of foot
wear, he turned his attention to the manufacture of
that style of goods. At whatever stage, his house
maintained its high reputation by its use of only
the very best obtainable materials, the most finished
workmanship, and strictly honorable business deal-
ings. To the present time the product of the Hey-
wood factory is the standard in men's high-grade
foot wear, stylish, perfect fitting and durable, made
in all the leading styles and shapes, and in sizes
and widths to fit any foot. Aside from the great
and constantly increasing demand for the Heywood
goods from every part of the United States, for
fifteen years past they have been extensively sold
in Canada, England, Honolulu. Havana. Buenos
Ayres, Cape Town, and other foreign markets. The
constant development of this industry necessitated
various enlargements of the factory, and changes
in the managerial force. In 1879 Mi"- Heywood
erected the VVachusett building on Winter street,
which was then one of the largest and best equipped
boot and shoe factories in the country. This estab-
lishment, after repeated enlargements, now occu-
pies a frontage of one hundred and forty feet on
Winter street, eighty-five feet on Harding street,
and a wing ninety-one feet in depth at the east end,
near Grafton street, all the principal buildings be-
ing five stories in height. The plant is equipped
with the latest and most improved machinery, and
is a model one in every respect. At whatever
stage of the development of this gigantic enterprise,
Mr. Heywood has given to it his close personal atten-
tion, maintaining a close oversight of every detail —
the selection of material, the operation of the ma-
chinery at every step of manufacture, besides keep-
ing a close touch with the market, its conditions and
possibilities, and introducing innovations in style
of goods, seeking new outlets for his product; and,
in short, ever maintaining for his house a position
of leadership which was unquestioned throughout
the country. As they came of proper age, Mr. Hey-
wood introduced his sons to the business, as will
appear in connection with their respective names.
In 1884 the Heywood Boot and Shoe Company
was incorporated, with Mr. Heywood as president,
a position which he has occupied to the present
time, abating nothing of his deep personal interest,
and exercising general maiVagerial powers.

While thus busied with the building-up and con-
duct of a great establishment which would seem-
ingly tax the abilities of any one man, Mr. Heywood
has given his aid to various enterprises having a large
place in the business life of the city. In 1865 he
Ijecame a director in the Central National Bank of
Worcester, serving as such until February, 1903,
when that institution was absorbed by the Worcester
Trust Company. In 1864 he was also a charter mem-
ber of the People's Saving Bank, and a member

of its board of trustees and Iniance committee from
that time until July, 1884, when he became presi-
dent, in which position he still continues. He has
also for many years been a director in the Cotton
and Woolen Mutual Insurance Company of Boston.
In all these various positions he has displayed the
same high ability and conscientiousness wliich have
characterized him in his personal concerns. He has,
besides, rendered inestimable service to the com-
munity and connnonwealth in various important po-
sitions where he labored with rare sagacity and un-
failing devotion to the interests committed to his
keeping. He was a member of the common council
in 1859, and of the board of aldermen for two
years following. In 1873 and 1874 'le was again
elected to the common council, and in the latter
year was president of that body. In 1875 lie repre-
sented the city of Worcester in the Massachusetts
house of representatives, and was re-elected for the
two succeeding years, .serving on the railroad com-
mittee each year. He was an ardent admirer of
that splendid old-school statesman (and his intimate
personal friend) Hon. George F. Hoar, was an early
and efficient advocate of his election to the Ujiited
States senate for his first term, and as a meiuber
of the legislature was largely instrumental in ef-
fecting a result which gave to the country the serv-
ices of one of its grandest men. A man of strong
convictions and unflinching moral courage, Mr.
Heywood has never allowed considerations of per-
sonal popularity or expediency to govern his con-
duct as a citizen. He was an original ''Free Soil-
er," and cast his first vote for James G. Birney fcir
president, and labored in his behalf as zealously as
though defeat were not foreordained. Mr. Hey-
wood aided in the organization of the Republican
party in 1856, and was ever a vigorous upholder of
its principles. In his political conduct he only re-
garded legitimate and honorable ends to the good
of the nation and community, regardless of all per-
sonal considerations. That he held office from time
to time was in no instance due to his self-seeking,
but to the estimation in which he was held in the
community as a man well equipped, in heart and
brain, for the service of his fellows. His well known
interest in education and his broad humanitarian-
ism led to his being called to connection with the
system of state charities of the commonwealth. In
1877 he was- appointed by the governor a trustee of
the State Reform School at Westboro. and he was
one of the seven trustees retained by that executive
out of the entire number (twenty-one) when in
1879 the state schools at Alonson. Lancaster and
Westboro were by act of the legislature consolidated
under one management. He held this position until
1888. giving to its duties much thought and labor,
marked with a genuine feeling of sympathy for
unfortunate youths, and a spirit of genuine helpful-
ness toward them. He has always been among the
foremost in the establishment and maintenance of
the ennobling institutions of this city, and one of
his most highly appreciated acts was the creation
of the much needecl library at the Memorial Hos-
pital. His example and precept have ever been
recognized ' as a power for practical temperance.
Without pretension to oratorical powers, he possesses
the faculty of impressing his hearers through his
evident sincerity. A Congregationalist in religion,
he was formerly w'itli the Salem Street Church,
and with Plymouth Church from its organi-.^ation.
He was prominent in its creation, active in all per-
taining to its interests, especially in connection
with the erection of its edifice and the extinguish-
ment of its building debt. His personal benefactions
are ever liberal, being freely bestowed for legiti-

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male religious moral and charitable work abroad as
well as at home. His personal character is be>t
discerned by considering the relations which have
ever subsisted between himself and his hundreds
of employees, who recognize m hnn a apprecia-
tive personal friend as well as a just and kind em-
olover A half century of Uninterrupted business .
life is a record made bv but few men of large affairs,
vet today, thanks to his native vigor of mmd and
body pure life and equable disposition, he maintams
an active interest in the great business with which
his name will ever be associated, and in all the varied
community interests which have engaged his atten-
tion during his entire career.

In June 1856, Mr. Heywood married Harriet
Butler iMilliken, daughter of Z. T. and Aima H
MiUiken of Chelsea, Massachusetts, natives of
Franklin county, Maine. Of this marriage were born
five children, three of whom were sons, two coming
to maturity, one passing away 111 infancy and one stil
rem?ins to share with his father the duties and
responsibilities of his large concerns. The children

^^^7. George Ezra, born January 26, 1859, died the
following month. , ■, ^„

-> Frank Everett Heywood. born April 20,
i860 He was most promising from his
youth When seventeen he graduated from the
Worcester Classical High School, and was then for
a vear a student at Easthampton. He entered Harv-
ard University, where he was not only a close
student, displaying a special interest m chemistry,
but was prominent in athletic sports. He graduated
with the class of 1882, and the same year was ad-
mitted to partnership with his father as a member
of the firm of S. R. Heywood & Company. At the
incorporation of the Heywood Boot and Shoe Com-
pany in 1884 he became vice-president and treasurer,
and served in that twofold capacity until his death,
October 25, 1899. He was also a director in the
Citizens' National Bank of Worcester He was
a man of excellent business ability, and admirable
personal character— qualities which marked hnn as,
in the course of events, the fit successor of his hon-
ored father in the headship of the Heywood Com-
pany He died universally mourned, and it was
noted by a local chronicler that seldom had the
citv seen evidence of such sincere and general gnet
as 'that which followed him to his untimely grave.
December 18, 1884, he married Harriet Dodd Jen-
nings, born December 4. 1864. daughter of Horace
N. and Maria (Dodd) Jennings, ot East Orange.
New Jersey. His widow resides in. Worcester, witli
her children: Chester Dodd, born October 12, i bb/ ;
Rhilip Butler, born March 24, i88g; Florence Blair,
born Mav 18, 1893: Richard, born May^8, 1897-

3. Caroline Louise Heywood, born September i.?,
1862. died September 16. 1866.

4. Henrietta Butler Heywood, born May 15. 180.T
died November 25. 1868. . . ■ ,

Albert Samuel Heywood, only surviving son ot
Samuel R. Heywood, was born May 31. i8o7. ".<-'
'was fitted for college in Worcester High school and
Worcester Academy. He was graduated from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the class
of 189^ He became connected with the tieneral
Electric' Company of New York, and was winning
distinction in the world of electrical science when
occurred the death of his brother, Frank Everett
Heywood, and this untoward event made it desira-
ble that he should abandon a calling m which he
was deeply interested in order to share the burdens
of the father. He accordingly resigned his posi-
tion January I. 1900. and became vice-president
and treasurer of the Heywood Company, the po-

sitions which had been rendered vacant by the death
of his brother. Taking up his new duties methodic-
ally and with cheerful alacrity, he has proven him-
self an earnest and devoted man of atTairs. and a
worthy companion as well as son to his honored
parent. September 28, 1899, he married Laura
Chester Foute, of Atlanta. Georgia, who was born
in Adairsville, Georgia, October 30, 1873, daughter
of William Edward and F'liza (Houston) Roberts
F'oute. Their children are : Edward Foute Hey-
wood, born July 17, 1900; Harriet Butler Heywood.
born August 16, 1901 ; Dorothy Heywood, born
October 5, 1902.

OBADIAH BROWN HADWEN, who enjoys
national reputation as a scientific horticulturist and
pomologist, is a native of Rhode Island, born in
Providence, August 2, 1824, son of Charles and
Amy Sherman (Brownell) Hadwen, He comes of
sturdy English ancestry, descending from John
Hadwen, of Rochdale, England, who was a settler
in Newport. Rhode Lsland, in early colonial days.
His great-aunt was the wife of Obadiah Brown,
who was prominent as a pioneer in the cotton-spin-
ning industry in America. Charles Hadwen, father
of Obadiah B. Hadwen, was a resident of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, where he was a leading manu-
facturer and merchant. In 1835 he retired from
these occupations and removed to Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, and purchased and located upon the Wing
Kelley farm, near Tatnuck.

Obadiah Brown Hadwen attended in turn the
Friends' Schools in Providence, Rhode Island, the
Clinton Grove Institute in Ware, New Hampshire,
where he was a student for four winters' terms,
and the Worcester (Massachusetts) Manual Labor
School, where he remained for one term. The prin-
cipal preparation for his peculiarly useful life work,
however, was obtained upon the parental farm near
Tatnuck. where he developed those tastes and capa-
bilities which marked his career. In 1844. the year
before attaining his majority, he came into posses-
sion of a portion of the home farm which he has
since occupied for the long period of sixty-two years.
For forty years of this time he followed market
gardening, and a nursery and dairy business. Mean-
time he greatly enhanced the value of the property
by the erection of new luiildings. But his principal
delight w\is practical and scientific agriculture and
horticulture, and in these lines his deep knowledge
and sound judgment found general acknowledgment.
He adorned his grounds with trees of his own
planting, in great profusion, of the most beautiful
specimens of their kind, many which were unknown
in that region until introduced by him, and which
have attracted the admiring attention of horticult-
urists from every part of the United States, .'\niid
the changes incident to the great expansion of .t
thriving industrial city, the rural surroundings of
his farm have been almost entirely obliterated, but
his immediate home and the grounds pertaining to
it have been preserved intact— a veritable rus in urbc.
Mr. Hadwen's accomplishments as a horticult-
urist found early recognition, and for more than
half a ccnturv he has been known as the leading ex-
ponent of those interests which he has labored so
earnestly and usefully to promote. He early be-
came connected with the famous Massachusetts
.■\gricultural Club, organized April 4. 1840, and was
for many years its president and is now a most act-
ive member, and he was long vice-president of the
Worcester County .Agricultural Society, of which
be is yet a trustee. His unusual abilities also found
legislative recognition, and he was for many years
a trustee of the Agricultural College at .Amherst.

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where, iiiulcr liis direction in the capacity of chair-
man of the hoard, many important additions and
sahitary innovations were made. He became a mem-
ber of the Worcester County Horticultural Society
in 1847, serving that body as trustee, vice-president
and president, and he was re-elected to the latter
office in 1895, after a period of twenty years from
his first incumbency, and has since been re-elected no
less than twelve times. He has also long been
a prominent member of the Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society and the American Pomological So-
ciety. In 1867 he was made one of the commis-
sioners in charge of the public parks of Worcester,
and the great value of his services in that capacity
is evidenced by his continuous reappointment. For
several years he was chairman of the parks commis-
sion, and he still holds membership in that board.
This brief epitomization of his life work sets him
forth among the most valuable members of the
community— one who. in love o'f nature, delightedly
holds communion with her visible forms, and brings
her refining and uplifting influences to bear upon
all about him, conveying the lesson that contentment
and peace and most real happiness comes to him
who nestles closest to nature's heart. And so it is
not strange that in religion he adheres to the tenets
of the Society of Friends. He was originally a
Whig in politics, and his abhorrence of human slav-
ery led him to identify himself with the Repub-
lican party on its organization, and he cast his vote
for its first presidential candidate, General (then
Captain) John C. Fremont. An ardent Unionist and-
an appreciative admirer of Abraham Lincoln, he
was a firm upholder of that great statesman in his
struggle for the vindication of the national author-
ity and the re-establishment of the Union. His
natural tastes and habits of mind forbade him tak-
ing an active part in political affairs, but he suf-
fered himself on one occasion to be elected to the
common council of Worcester, and was a valued and
efficient member of that body in 1868-69.

;\Ir. Hadwen married, December 25, 1845, Har-
riet Page, of Westminster, Vermont, a descendant
of an honored revolutionary family of that state.
Three children were born of this marriage. A son,
William E. Hadwen, is deceased ; and another,
Charles Hadwen, is a prominent produce merchant
in Chicago, Illinois. A daughter, Amy, is the wife
of John "H. Goes, of the Goes Wrench Company of
Worcester, Massachusetts.

CHANDLER FAMILY. William Chandler (i),
the immigrant ancestor of one of the foremost
families of Worcester county, to which John Greene
Chandler, of Lancaster, belonged, was born in Eng-
land and settled early in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
He was there in 1637 and was one of the proprietors.
He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640. His
homestead consisted of twenty-two acres. The fol-
lowing, from the Roxbury records, gives a con-
temporary opinion of him : "He lived a very re-
ligious and godly life among us and fell into a con-
sumption to which he had a long time been in-
clined; he lay near a year sick in all which time
his faith, patience and holiness and contentation
so shined that Christ was much glorified in him. He
was a man of Weake parts but Excellent faith and
holiness ; he was a Very thankful man, & much
magnified God's goodness. He was poor but God
prepared the hearts of his people to him that he
never wanted that which was (at least in his esteem)
Very plentiful and Comfortable to him. he died
about in the yeare 1641 & left a sweet memory be-
hind him." Rev. John Eliot wrote : "A Christian,
Godly brother." He was buried January 19, 1641-2.

His widow Annis married (second), July 21,
1643, John Dane, of Barkhamstead and Bishop's
Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and Ipswich and
Roxburi', in New England. Dane died at Roxbury
and was buried September 14, 1658. She married
(third), at Roxbury, August 9, 1660, John Par-
menter, of Sudbury, a prominent man there, select-
man 1641.

The children of William Chandler were : I.
Hannah, born about 1629 in England, married, De-
cember 12, 1646, George Abbot; (second), 1690,
Rev. Thomas Dane. 2. Thomas, born about 1630,
married Hannah Brew'er. 3. William, born in Eng-
land, married (first), August 5 or 18, 1658, Mary
Dane, of Ipswich; married (second), October 8,
1679, Bridget Henchman, widow of James Richard-
son. 4. John, born February 16, 1658, married
Elizabeth Douglas. 5. Sarah, born at Roxbury,
married (first), November 4. 1659, William Cleaves;

(second) Wilson; (third), October 11, 1688,

Ephraim Stevens; (fourth) Allen.

(II) Deacon John Chandler, son of William
Chandler (l), was born about 1635. He married,
February 16, 1658, Elizabeth Douglas, of Wood-
stock, Connecticut. She died in New London, Con-
necticut. July 23, 1705. She was born in England
about 1610, the daughter of William, and Anna
(Mattle) Douglas. He and his wife were ad-
mitted to the church May 28, 1665. He was active
in the settlement of Woodstock and served on im-
portant committees. He had first choice of a home
lot and he took one situated on the brook on the
highway at the north end. He was selectman of
Woodstock in 1693, 1694, and also moderator in
1694. He was on the committee to build a meeting
house on Plaine hill, nearly in front of the Bowmen
Mansion. He was one of six who bought the
Moshamoquet Purchase of James Fitch, of Norwich.
Deacon Chandler died April 5, 1703, aged sixty-
eight years. By his side in the graveyard at Wood-
stock are buried a number of his descendants. His
will was dated June I, 1702.

The children of Deacon John and Elizabeth
Chandler, all born in Roxbury, before their removal
to Woodstock, were: i. John, born March 4, 1659,
died young, and his gravestone bears the earliest
date of death of any of the family in America as
recorded by gravestones. 2. Elizabeth, born Feb-
ruary 20, 1661, married, November 18, 1680, Robert
Mason, of Roxbury. 3. John, born April 16, 1665.
4. Joseph, born April 3, 1667, died in Roxbury, Sep-
tember 29. 1668. 5. Hannah, born September 18,
1669, married, July 7. 1685. Moses Draper, of Rox-
bury. 6. Mehitable. born August 24, 1673, baptized
June, 1673 ; married, June 25. 1695, John Coit, of
New London. 7. Sarah, born November 19, 1676,
died July 3, 1711 ; married (first). June 9, 1697,
William Coit, of New London; (second), Septem-
ber 2. 1708. John Gardiner, of Gardiner's Island. 8.
Joseph, born June 4, 1683, married, June 29, 1708,
Susannah Perrin, of Roxbury.

(HI) Hon. John Chandler, son of Deacon John
Chandler (2). was born at Roxbury. Massachu- •
setts, April 16, 1665. He married, November 10,
1692. Mary Raymond, of Woodstock, who was born
March 12, 1671-2, the fifth child of Deacon John
Raymond, who married. December 10. 1652, Eliza-
beth Smith, daughter of Nehemiah Smith. Deacon
Joshua Raymond was the eldest son of Richard and
Judith Raymond, of Salem. Mrs. Chandler died
.\pril 8. 171 1, aged thirty-nine years, and is buried
on Plain hill. 'Woodstock. There is an interesting
tradition in the family of Mrs. Joshua Raymond
and Captain Kidd. whom she had entertained at her
house for some time. It is said but not universally

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believed that when the blithesome pirate left her
hospitable roof he filled her apron full of gold,
jewelry and costly plunder. Mr. Chandler married
(second). November 14, 1717. Esther Butman,
widow of Palgrave Alcock.

John Chandler was town clerk of Woodstock
in 1690, 1691, 1692 and 1694, and selectman in
1693 and 1694. He resided several years at New
London, where four of his children were born.
In 1698 he had a tavern license there. He returned
to Woodstock to live and was surveyor of the town
in 170J. deputy to the general court in 171 1, Wood-
stock then being in Massachusetts. When the county
of Worcester was established he was appointed judge
of probate. He held the first probate court in
the meeting house of Worcester July 13, 1731. He
also held the court of common pleas and general
sessions August 10, following. The county was
organized April 2, 1731. Judge Chandler's son John
was appointed clerk of the courts. Judge Chandler
held his position as judge of these two tribunals
until his death. One of his sons, John, Jr., suc-
ceeded him on the bench, while another, Thomas
Chandler, became a judge in Vermont, where he
had settled. Judge Chandler was for forty years
a commissioner of the peace and was seven years
in his Majesty's council. He died at Woodstock.
August 10, 1743, in his seventy-ninth year.

The children of John and Mary Chandler, born
at Woodstock or New London, were : John, born
at New London, October 18, 1693, of whom later;
Joshua, born February 9. 1695-6, married Elizabeth
Cutler; William, born November 3. 1698. married
Jemima Bradbury; Mary, born April 30, 1700, mar-
ried John McCoy: Elizabeth, born May 13. 1702,
married Joseph Frizzell ; Samuel, born January 5,
1703-4, married Dorothy Church; Sarah, born Octo-
ber II, 1705. died March 7, 1721-2; Mehitable, born
at Woodstock, August 10, 1707, married, 1747,
Thomas Buckniinster, of Brookfield ; Thomas, born
July 23, 1709, married Elizabeth Eliot; Hannah, born
March 27, 171 1, died May 23, 1711.

(IV) John Chandler, son of John Chandler (3),
was born at New London, Connecticut, October 18,
1693. He married, October 23, 1716, Hannah
Gardiner, on the Isle of Wight, off Long Island.
She was born December 11, 1699, and died January
5, 1738-9. in Worcester, and was buried on the
Worcester common. Her grave with the others
has been covered from sight, and the stones cov-
ered, for some inscrutable reason. She was de-
scended from Lion Gardiner, who came over in
163.S and married Mary Williams, daughter of
Dericke Williams and Hachim Bastians Williams ;
he bought the Isle of Wight, better known, perhaps,
as Gardiner's Island (east of Long Island). His son,

David Gardiner, married Mary' : his grandson.

Jolin Gardiner, son of David, married Mary King
and three other wives, and was the father of Han-
nah Gardiner, who married Judge Chandler. Ac-
cording to the Chandler Genealogy Gardiner's
Island was entailed. The attempts to entail estates
in Massachusetts failed in every case. The old
English law of primogeniture was broken down
effectually. John Chandler married (second) Sarah
Clark, widow of Hon. Nathaniel Paine, of Bristol,
Rhode Island.

He was a surveyor by profession and was ap-
pointed to plot Pomfret. Connecticut, and later he
surveyed the line agreed upon between Massachu-
setts and Connecticut, June, 1714. He was coroner
for Suffolk county before the county of Worces-
ter was established. He removed to Worcester when
the county was formed, and was moderator ,of the
town meeting in 1733. He represented Woodstock

in the general court and also Worcester in 1732-35-
,58-39-52-53- He was a selectman of the town of
Worcester in i7.33-34-.?5-.?7-39-40-42-43 to 1753 in-
clusive; town treasurer 1741 to 1752 inclusive; first
clerk of the county courts 1731 to 1754 inclusive;
sheriff from 1751 to 1754 inclusive (while Mr.
Chandler was sheriff Timothy Paine was associate
clerk vyith him) ; register of probate from the or-
ganization of the county until 1754; register of deeds
until 1762. In May, 1754, he was appointed judge
succeeding his father, and in May, 1757, he was
made chief judge with three associates. He was
one of the delegates of the American colonies who
met at Albany, New York, delegates of the Five
Nations of Indians, and were partly successful in
making allies of them. An interesting character in
Judge Chandler's family was a colored slave "Aunt
Sylvia," who lived to be one hundred and seven
years old.

Oi Judge Chandler the hi.slorian of Worcester,
Lincoln, wrote : "On the decease of his father h«
succeeded to the higher office of judge, colonel
and cotmcillor. His talents were brilliant and showy,
rather than solid and profound. With manners
highlv popular he possessed a cheerful and gay dis-
position, indulging in jest and hilarity and he
c.\crcised liberal hospitality. While Judge of Pro-
bate he kept open table for the widows and orphans
who were brought to his tribunal by the concerns
of liusiness." He was made a member of the
Ancient and Llonorable Artillery Company in 1734,
and was elected commander in 17,37. He died Au-
gust 10. 1762, and is buried on the Worcester
common.

The children of Hon. John and Hannah Chand-
ler were: Mary, born at New London, September
'). 1717, married, February 7, 17.36-7, Benjamin
(ireene; Esther, born May 23, 1719, married. May
9. 1745. Rev. Thomas Clapp ; John, of whom later;
Gardner, born at Woodstock, September 18, 1723,
married Hannah Greene; married (second), August
2. 1767, Anne Leonard; Sarah, born January 11,
1725, married, 1749, Timothy Paine; Hannah, born
February I, 1727-8, married. May 17, 1750, Samuel
Williams; Lucretia. born July 18, 1728. married,
September I. 1761, John Murray, of Rutland; Eliza-
beth, born January 5, 1732-3, married, September
20, 1751, Hon. James Putnam; Katherine, born
March 28, 1735, married Levi Willard ; a son, born
and died January 5, 1737-8.

(V) Hon. John Chandler, son of Hon. John
Chandler (4), was horn at Woodstock, Connectcut.
February 26, 1 720-1. He married Dorothy Paine,
of Worcester, March 5. 1740. She was the daugh-
ter of Colonel Nathaniel Paine, of Bristol, Rhode
Island, and Worcester, Massachusetts. Colonel
Paine's wife, her mother, was Sarah Clark, daughter
of Timothy Clark, of Boston. Colonel Paine re-
moved to Worcester in 1738 and had land near
Lincoln street. Mrs. Dorothy Paine died October
5. 17^5. tie married (second), June 11, 1746, Mary
Church, daughter of Charles Church, of Bristol,
Rhode Island, sheriff, who died December 31. 1746,
aged sixty-four years. Her sister. Dorothy Church,
married Samuel Chandler. Their father, Colonel
Charles Church, was son of Colonel Benjamin
Church, born in Duxbury, i6,-?9, and wife Alice,
the daughter of Constant Southworth, of Plymouth.
(Sec sketch of Southworth family).

John Chandler resided on the east side of Main
street near the present site of Clark's block, formerly
the site of Mower's Tavern and of the United
•States Hotel. He followed in the footsteps of his
father and grandfather, both prominent servants of
tlie Crown. He was town treasurer from 1753 to

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1760, inclusive; town clerk from 1764 to 1768, in-
clusive; county treasurer from 1702 to '1775, in-
clusive; sherifif from 1751 to 17O2; judge of probate
from 1762 to 1774. Colonel Chandler marched to
the relief of Fort William Henry, August, 1757.
John Adams, who was then living in Worcester,
afterwards president of the United States, wrote:
"At the time Fort William Henry was besieged
Colonel Chandler had occasion to send expresses
often and while keeping school in Worcester I of-
fered my services and was sent to the Governor of
Rhode Island."

He inherited the traits of character as well as
the offices of his father and grandfather. He was
cheerful and engaging in manner, hospitable as a
citizen, friendly and kind as a neighbor, indus-
trious and enterprising as a merchant. To a
chivalrous sense of loyalty to the British govern-
ment he sacrificed during the revolution property
valued at over 36,000 pounds. In his own schedule
presented to the British government after he had
left his country, he reduced these figures which
were probably about right, to 17,000 pounds, includ-
ing 6.000 for loss of income from his offices. So
just and moderate was this compensation ascer-
tained to be, at a time when extravagant claims were
presented by others, that his claims were allowed
in full and he was called in England "The Honest
Refugee." His portrait iS to be seen at the foot
of the stairs in the front hall of the American
Antiquarian Hall at Worcester. Colonel Chandler
had a pew in Old South Church.

After the revolution broke out and Colonel
Chandler left Worcester to affiliate with the Tories
and British, he never returned. His estate was con-
fiscated and he was named with his brother-in-law,
Hon. James Putnam, and others of his family on
the list of six who were banished and forbidden
to return under penalty of death. Two of his sons,
Rufus and William, were among the proscribed, and
his nephew. Dr. William Paine. The son, William
Chandler, and Dr. Paine, were permitted later to
return home, and Dr. Paine regained the confi-
dence and esteem of the community. Col. Chand-
ler died in London, September 26, 1800, and was
buried at Islington. His son Rufus was buried
in the same grave. The spot is marked by a
simple stone suitably inscribed.

The children of John and Dorothy Chandler
were: John, born March 3, 1742. of whom later;
Gardner, born December i, 174.?. died December
t6, 1743; Clark, born December i, 1743; Dorothy,
liorn September, 174S, married, December 26. 1767,
Samuel Ward, of Lancaster. The children of John
and Mary Chandler were: Rufus, born May 18, 1747,
married. November 18, 1770, Eleanor Putnam;
Gardiner, born January 27, 1749, married in 1772,
Elizabeth Ruggles ; Nathaniel, born November 6,
1750: William, born December 7. 1752; Charles,
born January 22. 1755. married, November 18, 1706,
Sally Mower ; Samuel, born February 25. 1757 ;
Sarah, born December 14, 1758, married, Septem-
ber 14, 1780. William Seaver, Jr.: Benjamin, born
August 15, 1761, died December 16, 1775: Francis,
born July 28, 1763, died December 16, 1775; the
two latter were drowned together in the mill pond
in South Worcester; Lucretia, born June 9, 1765,
married, October 24, 1786, Rev. Aaron Bancroft:
Thomas, born January 11, 1768, married, Septem-
ber 25, t8o2, Eliza Davis, widow of William Denny:
Elizabeth, born February 20, 1770, married. Decem-
ber 2, 1786, Ebenezer Putnam, of St. John, New
Brunswick, where the family lived after the ex-
patriation.

(VD John Chandler, son of Colonel John Chand-

ler ($), was born in Worcester, March 3, 1742, the
eldest child; married, April 4, 1766, Lydia Ward,
who was born in 1732 and died July 30, 1794, aged
sixty-two years. She was descended from Deacon
William Ward, who came over with his second wife
Elizabeth, from Yorkshire, and settled in Sudbury,
dying in Marlboro, formerly part of Sudbury, aged
eighty-seven years. His son, William Ward, born
in Sudbury in 1640, married Hannah Johnson,
daughter of Solomon Johnson, widow of Gershom
Amee. His son, Colonel Nahuni Ward, of Shrews-
bury, was born 1684, and married Martha How,
daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Kerby) How.
They were the parents of Nahum Ward, Jr., of
Shrewsbury, who married Lydia Stearns; was a
merchant, died when about twenty-five years old,
leaving two daughters, one of whom Lydia, mar-
ried a Mr. Chandlee.

John Chandler was an enterprising merchant of
Petersham, Massachusetts. His home was about a
mile from the center and is still remembered for
the deer park in which he indulged. His deer es-
caped finally from' the enclosure and he lost them
all. He was successful in business. He com-
mitted suicide during a fit of despondency and
melancholy, to which he was subject, in 1794, aged
fifty-two years.

The children of John and Lydia Chandler were:
John, born July 23, 1667, married, June 5, 1800,
Elizabeth Greene; Lydia. horn August 28, 1768, mar-
ried Joseph Head; Clark, born April 19, 1770, mar-
ried. July 14. 1791. Nancy Lyon; Nathaniel, born
February 3, 1772, died August 19, 1772; Nathaniel,
of whom later.

(VII i Nathaniel Chandler, youngest child of
John Chandler (6), was born in Petersham, Massa-
chusetts, October 6, 1673; married. August 17. 1802,
Dolly Greene, of Lancaster. She was born in Staf-
ford, Connecticut. February 25. 1783, died July 30,
1869, the tenth child of John Greene, son of Na-
thaniel, who was born in Surinam, South America,
December 10, 1736. John's wife was Azubah Ward,
born at Woodstock, Connecticut, November 11, 1737,
daughter of Major Daniel Ward by his wife Mary,
daughter of Nathaniel Stone, and widow of Henry
Coggin. Major Daniel Ward was a son of Obadiah
and Hannah (Harrington) Ward, grandson of
Richard Ward and wife Mary, daughter of John and
Elizabeth Moore, and great-grandson of the Sud-
bury immigrant. 1639, William Moore. (See Moore
family sketch).

Nathaniel Chandler graduated from Harvard
College in 1792. He settled in Petersham and man-
aged the Petersham branch of the business of John
Chandler & Brothers. Afterwards he removed to
Lancaster to assume the estate of his uncle-in-law
there. Samuel Ward, Esq. He was representative
to the general court in, 1807. Although troubled
with an ■affliction that kept him under the care of
Dr. George Chandler and Dr. S. B. Woodward
during the last years of his life. Dr. Chandler wrote
of him: "He was of medium height and size, his
complexion light and features regular and marked.
He retained his intelligence, shrewdness, wit and dry
humor, his dignity of person and character, his
marked courtesy and gentlemanly bearing to the
last." He died in Worcester, June 4. 1852, aged
seventy-eight years.

The children of Nathaniel and Dolly Chandler
were: Samuel Ward, born Julv 12, 1803, married.
November iS. 1830. Eliza Fales Richmond : Catherine
Amory. born April 18. 1805. married. May 7, 1833.
Theophilus Parsons. Esq. ; Charles, liorn September
7. 1807. married. March 25. 1834. Sarah Whitney;
John Greene, of whom later ; Mary Greene, born

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May 23, 1818, married, February 25. 1862, D,r.
John Ware, son of Rev. Henry Ware, of Harvard
College. (See sketch of Charles E. Ware and
iamily of Fitchburg. George Fredtrick, born
ilarch 12, 1822. married, April 22. 1847, Susan Buss.

(Vni) John Greene Chandler, fourth child of
Nathaniel Chandler (7), was born in Petersham,
.Massachusetts, December 18, 1815. He was brought
up on the farm in Lancaster and attended school
there. Having a natural aptitude for drawing he
learned the art of wood engraving, and became
one of the most proficient artists in this line of his
day. After residing in various places Mr. Chandler
returned to Lancaster in 1869 and spent the re-
mainder of his life there. In religion he was an
earnest Unitarian.

He married. June S, 1850, Sarah Ann Guild, who
was born October 26, 1817, the daughter of Samuel
Guild, president of the People's Bank of Roxbury.
Her father was born in Walpole, March 18, 1777,
and died January 12, 1862 ; married, 1806, Sarah
Means, daughter of James Means, Jr. Her grand-
father, Nathaniel Guild, married, 1733, Mary Boy-
den, of Wrentham : he was the son of Samuel and
Sarah (Hartshorn) Guild; the grandson of Samuel
and Mary (Woodcock) Guild. Mary Woodcock
was the daughter of Samuel and Ann Woodcock.
The immigrant ancestors were John and Elizabeth
(Crook) Guild, of Dedham. The children of John
Greene and Sarah Ann Chandler were : Alice
Greene, born July 18, 1851, who resides in Lan-
caster ; Miss Chandler has been connected with the
Lancaster town library since 1872. For eighteen
years she was librarian and is now advisory librarian
and trustee. Fanny Guild, born July 10, 1857, died
July, 1901.

CHARLES FR.\ZER, a prominent business man
of Worcester county, was born in Glasgow, Scot-
land, April 7, 1838, the son of the late Charles
and Margaret (Bruce) Frazer, both natives of Scot-
land.

Charles Frazer obtained his education in the
common schools of his native place, and in 1849
emigrated to this country with his parents, landing
at New York, proceeding to South Hadley Falls,
Massachusetts. His father was an expert mill hand,
and was engaged in the mill business at Hadley
Falls, where he died in August. 1850, after which
the family removed to Clinton and Charles was there
employed in the Lancaster mills. He also was em-
ployed with his father in the mill at Hadley Falls.
He later learned the trade of a bricklayer, being
thus engaged for some time. Subsequently he
formed a partnership with Mr. Fairbanks, and
conducted a contracting and building business with
considerable success. In 1879 Mr. Frazer engaged
in the coal business in Clinton. Massachusetts, which
he has since conducted with the most flattering suc-
cess. During the war of the rebellion Mr. Frazer
enlisted, in 1861, in Company C. Fifteenth Massa-
chusetts Infantry. He participated in the various
engagements that made that company famous, and
distinguished himself for his bravery and fearless-
ness on the field of action. He entered the service
as a private and was mustered out a lieutenant.

Mr. Frazer's political affiliations are with the
Republican party, and he has served as assessor and
road commissioner for his party. He is a member
of the Masonic order and a member of the com-
mandery. He is an enthusiastic member of the
G. .A. R., Clinton Post, a member of the Odd Fel-
lows, and is also treasurer of the Sterling Worsted
Mills. Mr. Frazer is pre-eminently a self-made man,
and enjoys the confidence and respect of the entire

community. In matters of religion he and his
tanr.ly attend the Unitarian church.

On Seplemlier 6, 1858. Mr. Frazer was united
m marriage to Mary barr, a daughter of Robert
Harr, of Janu-stown, Scotland, and their children
were: Charles R., married Bertha Eager, and they
have two children: Robert B. and Bertha .-X. Etta
.\!.. married James Charnoek. and two children were
born to them : Sydney T. and Harold Irving. Fred-
crick E., married Helen Smith and has three chil-
dren : Etta F., Helen and Jeannette B. Charles R.,
died June 8, 1906.

EZRA GREE^N. James Green (i), immigrant
ancestor of the late Ezra Green, of Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, was Ijorn in England about 1620.
He came to Charlestown. in New England, before
1647, and was admitted a freeman there May 26,
1647. He removed to Maiden, the Mystic side, in
1647. and was one of the petitioners for a division
of the town in 1648. He was interested in church
affairs, and he appears prominent in various church

matters. He married Elizabeth . Their house

lot was on land bought of Richard Harrington in
1656 and remaining in the possession of his family
until 1765. It was situated on Green hill and the
hnuse is still preserved on what is now ."Xppleton
street. James Green served on a committee to lay
nut a liigliway in June, 1671. He was a citizen of
influence in Maiden. He died there March 29.
'687, aged seventy-seven years. His will was dated
September 2. 1682, and probated May 5. 1687. It
mentions his wife and. two sons mentioned below,
viz.: John, "of the Hill," died 1709, of whom later;
James, resided in Maiden,

(II) John Green, "of the Hill." as he was called
from his place of residence to distinguish him from
the other John Greens, of Afalden, was son of
James Green (I), and born perhaps in England
ar)Out 1645. He was a mariner in 1673. He was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1683 and died March 22. 1709.

He married Mary . It is obviously difficult

to distinguish him from the others of the name
in some instances. The children of John and Mary
were: Mary, born December. 1668; Samuel, only
son. of whom later : Elizabeth ; Hannah. All were
born in Maiden.

(III) Samuel Green, only son of John Green
(2), was born in 1679. He settled at Maiden and
became a prominent citizen. He was deputy to the
general court in 1742 and selectman in 1743. He
bou,ght the dwelling and five acres of land of Rev.
David Parsons after he had removed to Leicester.
He ranked high socially as he was called "Mr." on
various records. He died February 21, 1761. aged
eighty-two years. His will dated January 30, 1752,
was proved March 23, 1761. His wife. Martha
Green, daughter of Samuel Green, died May 29,
T754, aged seventy-two years. He married about
1700. His wife was granddaughter of Thomas
Green (1), of Maiden, so that the children of Sam-
uel Green are descended from both the immigrant
Greens of Maiden.

(I) Thomas Green, the grandfather of Mrs.
Samuel Green, was born in England. 1606, and came
to this country in 163,=; or 1636. He was probably
in Ipswich until 1649 or 1650, and then settled in
Maiden. Massachusetts. He was selectman in 1658.
He died December 19. 1667, and his will is dated
November 12. 1667. He married (first) Elizabeth

. and (second) Frances Cook, widow of

Richard Cook, and previously widow of Isaac
Walker. (.See further facts in sketch of the Green
Family of Leicester and Worcester.) Ex-Mayor
Green of New York, was a descendant.

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The children of Thomas and Ehzabcth Green
were: Elizabeth, born in England, about 1628;
Thomas, born in England, about ibJO (Sec Pope's
Pioneers of Massachusetts), married Rebecca Hills;
John, born about 1632, married Sarah Wheeler;
Mary, born about 1633, married Captain John
VVaite; William, born 1635, married Elizabeth
Wheeler, and (second) Isabel (Farmer) Blood;

Henry, born 1638, married Esther ; Samuel,

of whom later; Hannah, born 1647, married Joseph
Richardson; Martha, born 1650; Dorcas, born May

1, i')5.?> niarried James Barrett.

(H) Samuel Green, father of Martha, who mar-
ried Samuel Green (HI), was the son of Thomas
Green (I), mentioned above. He was born March
164s ; married, 1666, Mary Cook, sister of Frances
Cook, whose third husband was Thomas Green (I).
Mary died November 24, 1715, and Samuel (H),

married (second) Susanna , who survived

him.

Samuel Green (H) lived in Maiden and was
known as Samuel, Sr. He bought, October, 1670, of
his brother William half of his father's farm and
occupied the old mansion house. He bought the
other half June 13, 1684. He died October 31,
1724, aged seventy-nine years, seven months. Flis
will was dated January 3, 1721. The children of
Samuel (H) and Mary Green were: Samuel, born
January, 1667-8, married Mary Wheeler; Thomas,
born 1669, married Hannah Vinton ; John, born
April I, 1672; William, born August, 1674, married
Elizabeth Farmer; Mary, born about 1677, married
her cousin, John Green ; Jonathan, born February

2, 1679-80 married Lydia Buchmann ; Martha, of
whom later ; David, born 1685, married Martin
Pratt; Elizabeth, born November. 16, 1687, married
David Gould; Isaac, born May 20, 1690, married
Mary Pratt.

The children of Samuel Green (son of John
(II)) and his wife Martha Green, daughter of
Samuel Green (son of Thomas (I) Green) were:
James, born November 22, 1702, selectman of
Maiden. 1751 ; Martha, born January 18, 1703-4,
married John Sweetser, October 2, 1722 ; John,
born August 11, 1707, resided in Carlisle; Timothy,
born October 10, 1709, removed to Lancaster; Ezra,
of whom later; Mary, born December 28, 1717;
Sarah, born April 24, 1721 ; Samuel, born April 14,
1724.

(IV) Ezra Green, fifth child of Samuel Green
(3), was born in Maiden. Massachusetts, February
31, 1714-5. He was deacon of the Maiden Church,
and very prominent in town affairs. He was select-
man in 1753-57-63-68: deputy to the general court
1760-61-62; town clerk and for many years justice
of the peace and magistrate. He died April 28, 1768,
aged fifty-four years.

He married (first) Sarah Hutchinson, Febru-
ary 12. 1740. She died July 7. 1741, aged twenty-
six years, without issue. He married (second)
Eunice Burrill, daughter of Hon. Eben Burrill, of
Lynn. She died October 2, 1760. He married
(third), April 29. 1762, Mary (Green) Vinton,
daughter of Isaac Green, and widow of Benoni Vin-
ton. The children of Deacon Ezra and Eunice Green
were: Dr. Ezra, born June 17. 1746, graduate of
Harvard, 1765, surgeon in the revolution; settled
at Dover. New Hampshire, and died there July 25.
1847, aged one hundred years, twenty-eight days ;
Bernard, of whom later. The children of Deacon
Ezra and Mary were: Mary, born March 22, 1763;
Aaron, born January 22. 1765.

(V) Bernard Green, second child of Ezra Green
(.<'). was born in Maiden. Massachusetts. January
14 or 15, 1752. He was one of the most distinguished

and influential men of his day in the town. He
was in the battles of Lexington, Bunker Hill and
White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey.
He was a corporal in Captain Blaney Shirley's com-
pany at Lc.\mgton. He was first sergeant in Cap-
lain John Walton's company, Colonel Brooks's regi-
ment, in 1776, and was at White Plains, Trenton
and Princeton battles. He was lieutenant in Colonel
Thatcher's regiment of Middlesex militia in 1778,
and later was captain of the Maiden company. After
the revolution he was deputy to the general court,
and for thirty years justice of the peace and magis-
trate. Much of the early history and especially the
oral traditions were preserved owing to his interest
in them. He is described as a man of towering
frame and colossal mind. His son was the orator
at the two hundredth anniversay celebration of the
foundation of the town of Maiden. He died at
Maiden, July 15, 1834, aged eighty-two years.

He married (second) Lois Diman, daughter of
Rev. James Diman, minister of the East Church at
Salem, Massachusetts, June 7, 17S9, and she died
February 22, 1839, aged eighty-one years. The
children of Bernard Green were: Bernard, born
December 30, 17S3; Mary Anne, born August 5,
1791, died young; Eunice Burrill, born October 21,
1792; Ezra, of whom later; Mary Orne, born Au-
gust 22, 1796; James Dimon, born October 8, 1798,
graduate of Harvard 1817. pastor Third Church,
Cambridge, mayor of Cambridge, 1653 ; orator at the
Maiden bi-centennial.

(VI) Ezra Green, fourth child of Bernard Green
(5), was born at Maiden, Massachusetts, February
II, 1795. He was educated there in the public schools
and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire.
He thought he preferred to follow the sea to study-
ing at the academy and without permission of the
constituted authorities he shipped before the mast
and brought his school days abruptly to an end.
Upon his return home he worked on the farm until
1858, succeedin.g his father on the homestead at Mai-
den. He was a Whig in politics and a Unitarian in
religion. He was interested in public affairs and
wrote several books of travel. He w-as a man of
sturdy character, broad views and unusual general
intelligence. He removed from Maiden to Lancaster
in 1858. and died there in 1862. He had a handsome
home in Lancaster, in which his widow has since
resided. She is a bright and interesting woman
notwithstanding her great age. She was born in
1819, the daughter of Ralph 'and Abigail (Childs)
Richardson, of Vermont.

Bernard Green married Elmina Richardson,
1842. Their children were : Bernard Richardson,
born December 28, 1843, married Julia Lincoln, and
they have four children: Elmina Minerva, born
.\ugust 28, 1S45, married H. T. Harwood, and they
have eight children: Sarah Elizabeth, born .\pril i.
1847, married Charles Wilder, and they have one
child; James D., born December 25, 1848, married
Elizabeth Damon; George Ezra, born September 17,
1850, died young: Abby F., unmarried; Marion,
unmarried. They were born in Maiden. Two others
died young.

J.AMES LOG.AN. The Logan family, repre-
>ented by James Logan, a prominent Massachu-
setts manufacturer, of Worcester, originated in
-Vyrshire, Scotland. The genealogy of James Logan
is traced as follows from the middle of the eighteenth
century.

(I) David Logan, of Brouchallmuir, in tht
parish of Dunlop, in Ayrshire, Scotland, married
Elizabeth Muir.

(II) James Logan, son of David and Eliza-

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beth (Muir) Logan, was born in the village named
above, July iS. 1778, and died March 26, i860, aged
eighty-one years, eight months and eight days. He
married, December 25, 1801, Margaret, daughter of
Archibald and Janet (Gibson) Thompson, of Cor-
bert, parish of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland;
she was born in November, 1782, died August 28,
1825. Their children were: Janet, born November
3, 1802. died August 23, 1855; married John Alli-
son: David. September i, 1805. died July 23, 1S18;
Elizabeth. July 31. 1807. died Sept.ember 30, 1824;
Mary, March 30, 1809, died February 27. 1829 ; mar-
ried Alexander Reid : Margaret Thompson, June 15,
181 1, died October 27, 1812; Archibald Thompson,
July 22, 1813. died January 4, 1886; Margaret
Thompson, August 2, 1816, died December 2, 1835;
David (see forward) : Agnes Logan, July 24, 1822,
married William Robb.

(III) David Logan, eighth child and third son
of James and Margaret (Thompson) Logan, was
born in Lochvvinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland, De-
cember 5, 1818. He married Mary Kennedy, born
in Paisley, Scotland, January 25, 1816. With their
children, tvvo sons and two daughters, they sailed
in 1852 from Greenock, Scotland, in the ship "Isa-
bella," and arrived in the United States after a
voyage of seven weeks. David Logan first settled
in Connecticut, whence he soon removed to Wor-
cester, Massachusetts. He found employment with
the Norwich & Worcester Railroad, serving as watch-
man for several years, and subsequently located
on a farm in Clierry Valley, near Worcester, Massa-
chusetts. He died in Cherry Valley, Massachusetts,
March 20, 1893. His wife died in Cherry Valley,
Massachusetts, September 20, 1888. Of his children,
four were born in Scotland, and two in Worcester,
Massachusetts. David, born August 16, 1840, in
Paisley. Scotland, died in Brewster, New York,
October 10, 1902 ; Margaret, August 2, 1848, in Pais-
ley. Scotland, died at North Woodstock. Connecti-
cut, February 2, 1902 : Annie Kennedy, born Sep-
tember 7. 1850. in Paisley, Scotland, became the
wife of Lendall Houghton : James, see forward ;
Oscar Alva, born January 24, 1854, in Worcester,
Massachusetts : John Kennedy, born December 14,
1855. in Worcester. Massachusetts.

(IV) James Logan, fourth child and second
son of David and Mary (Kennedy) Logan, was
born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 6, 1852, and was
a babe three months old when his parents came to
the United States. His life was one of arduous
labor from his very boyhood, and his education
■was in greater part eked out at spare times. As
was the custom then in both Great Britain and the
United States, boys became bread winners as soon
as they were large enough, and at the age of ten
years young Logan found employment in the Park-
liurst Woolen Mill at Valley Falls, a village near
Worcester, ]\Iassachusetts. Labor began at five in
the morning, the operatives working for two and
a half hours before breakfast, the entire mill day
being extended to fourteen hours. The machinery
was clumsy, even when working at its best the pace
was slow, and there were frequent stoppages on ac-
count of breakdowns and want of water, that being
before the day of steam engines. These delays were
of great advantage to the young workman. He
bad attended school some little before, and he now
devoted his hours of enforced relief from work to
further improving his mind. The teacher at the
Valley Falls school was Mary H. D. King, a noble
woman whose entire life was given to school work
in Worcester, and whose memory is revered by
hundreds of men and women as the friend of their
youth, the faithful guide who inspired them to

apply themselves to study, and to fit themselves
for the active duties of life. Upon young Lugan
slu- left a strong impress, and he ever regarded hei
with peculiar alfection and gratitude. She induced
a half-dozen mill lads to come to the school to recite
in the odd hours when the mill was shut down,
for want of water power, and at noon hour, when
the work was more continuous, she heard them
recite their lessons. Of this company young Logan
;i!one persisted in continuing his studies and recita-
tions, and the fact is significant as showing hi.?
determination to procure an education which should
enable him to enter upon a larger career than that
of a mere laborer. When about eleven an accident
indirectly further advanced him on the highway to
success. His arm was caught in a machine and
was broken in three places, being almost torn off
at the wrist, and leaving a frightful scar for life.
While his arm had lost some of its power and use-
fulness, he was not incapacitated, and he resumed
mill work. At fifteen he was taken ill, and on his
recovery, after a period of six months, was able
to perforin only light mill labor, and the fact that
his left arm was weak turned his mind toward
bookkeeping. In his sixteenth year he entered B. G.
How-e's Business College, which then occupied
(piarters in the building where the Park theatre
now .stands, and while attending that school assisted
for a short time as billing clerk in the office of
S. R. Heywood & Co., the veteran shoe manu-
facturer. The next year after completing his com-
mercial course, he took temporary employment with
the First National Fire Insurance Company, then
in the building now occupied by Green's drug store,
at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets; he soon
obtained a position as bookkeeper with A. Y. Thomp-
son & Co., dry goods dealers, in the Flagg block,
on Main street. Here he remained for about two
years, receiving $150 for his first year's work, and
sleeping on the counter, as w-as the custom in those
days, in order to serve as a watchman over the
store. His course now was one of gradual but sub-
stantial advancement. After leaving Mr. Thompson
he returned to the woolen mill of G. N. and J. A.
Smith. Cherry Valley (now operated by their
nephew, Channing Smith), in which he had pre-
viously worked as a mill boy, and in which he now
served for about two years in the capacity of book-
keeper. In 1873 he became bookkeeper for Sanford
& Company, book sellers and stationers, at the corner
of Main and Maple streets, one of the two book
stores then in the city, and now conducted by the
Sanford-Putnani Company. Finding that his office
duties did not require all his time, he volunteered
to sell goods in the store in addition to his office
duties and developed unusual ability as a salesman.
In 187S he received an offer from David Whitcoihb.
of G. Henry Whitcomb & Company, envelope manu-
facturers (established since 1864. to enter their
employ. The salary was considerably less than he
had been receiving, but he saw an opportunity for
a more extended field of usefulness, and he accepted.
Mr. Logan soon gained an accurate practical knowl-
edge of all the proces.«s of manufacture, the
marketing of the product, and the details of the
business, gaining the entire confidence of his em-
ployers. His services as a salesman were of
particular advantage, and he contributed in marked
degree to the extension of the business.

In December. 1S82. Mr. Logan associated with
hiuT-elf George H. Lowt\ of Boston, under the name
of the Logan & Lowe F.nvelope Company. .\ fac-
tory was established in the Stevens block, on South-
bridge street. Leader machines were installed, and
the business was inaugurated most promisingly. In

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July. 1883, Mr. Logan received a flattering offer to
return to the Whitcomb Company, and the firm of
Logan & Lowe Envelope Company, was dissolved,
Mr. Lowe returning to Boston to become a partner in
the wholesale paper house of Carter, Rice & Com-
pany. Mr. Logan's stay was short, and in January,
1884, he with Henry D. Swift, D. Wheeler Swift, and
John S. Brigham (all formerly connected with the
Whitcomb Company) formed the Logan, Swift &
Brigham Envelope Company, for the manufacture
of envelopes. A factory was established at 16 Union
street, and operations were begun with Leader and
Rcay machines, which were soon superseded by a
new equipment designed by the .Swifts, who were
the mechanical experts of the enterprise, and who
were the inventors of all the envelope folding ma-
chinery in the Whitcomb Company. With the ad-
vantage of the more rapid production made possible
by improved machinery, and Mr. Logan's splendid
ability for marketing the goods, the success of the
firm was phenominal, and it was of world-wide
fame as the most extensive, most completely equipped
and most profitable of any in its line in the L'nited
States. Li 1898 the business was consolidated with
that of the Whitcomb Company, the Hill Envelope
Company and seven other large envelope manu-
facturing firms, under the corporate title of the
United States Envelope Company, with Mr. Logan
as first vice-president and general manager, positions
which he has occupied to the present time. To the
complex duties thus devolved upon- him, with new
problems and new conditions continually arising, he
has brought tireless energy and abilities of the
highest order, his grasp extending froin the initial
process through all the stages of manufacture, the
continual improvement of the equipment, and the
great responsibilities connected with the marketing
of the immense product of the factories. At the
pre.^ent time nearly two thousand operatives are
constantly employed. Much of the success attend-
ing the practical work of the establishment is due
to D. Wheeler Swift, the chief mechanical engineer,
Of the original Logan, Swift & Brigham Company,
Mr. Brigham died February ig, 1897, and Henry
D. Swift has retired from business.

Mr. Logan occupies much of his time in the
general offices in Springfield, Massachusetts, and
makes his home in Salisbury street, Worcester,
where he occupies a handsome residence. He has
always taken a deep and active interest in com-
munity affairs. He was formerly a trustee of the
Worcester County Institute for Savings : served for
several years as president of the Worcester County
Mechanics' Association ; was a director of the board
of trade ; was a member of the grade crossing com-
mission of 1898, and would at that time probably
have been elected to the mayoralty, had he been
willing to accept a noinination, but having agreed to
accept the office of general manager of the Con-
solidating Envelope Company, did not feel he would
be able to give to the service of the city the time
which he believed a mayor ought to give. He has
ever been particularly interested in the educational
andTienevoIent institutions of the city. He has long
been a trustee of the Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute: is a trustee of the Bancroft Scholarship,
charged with the use of a fund by George Ban-
croft, the historian, in aiding Worcester young peo-
ple to a collegiate education : and is a trustee of the
Worcester City Hospital, in which he takes an active
and efficient interest. He was one of the chief
promoters and has always been, among the principal
supporters of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion in Worcester, which he has served in the
capacity of president, and is at the present time one

of the trustees, and it is largely through his effort
that this beneficent institution has been preserved
from financial embarrassment. He is also a mem-
ber of the state executive committee of the Young
Men's Christian Association, of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island. He is a member of the Central
Congregational Church and of its board of deacons.
He is an active member of the Congregational Club,
of which he has been president ; and of the Wor-
cester Society of Antiquity. He is a member of
various Masonic bodies — Montacute Lodge, Eureka
Royal Arch Chapter, and Hiram Council. He is
one of the thirty members of the Civic Federation
of New England, representing the manufacturers of
the state of Massachusetts in that body. Mr. Logan
gave to the town of Leicester a park adjoining the
cemetery at Cherry Valley ( where he began his life ,, j
as a school and mill boy) known as Towtaid Park, U
the Indian name for that locality. He is one of the Q
lecturers upon business topics at Dartmouth College
in the Tuck School of Administration and Finance,
and in 1904 received the degree of Master of Arts
from that institution.

James Logan married, in 1879, Annie D., daugh-
ter of Levi Johnson, of Worcester, who for many
years was proprietor of the jewelry store in the
Bay State House at the corner of Main and Ex-
change streets. Mr. Johnson is now (1905) living
in Worcester at his home, 12 John street, having
retired from business several years ago. He was
born in 1819. The children of James and Annie D.
Logan are : Oscar Johnson, born September 23,
1880. died August 28. 1881 : Donald Brigham. No-
vember 8, 1881, graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1904. taking the degree of Bachelor of Laws ;
after spending another year in the Tuck School of
.\dministration and Finance he received in 1905
the degree of Master of Commercial Science; Alice,
born August 29, 1887; Ruth, born April 20, 1889.

CHACE FAMILY. Bartholomew Chace d),
one of the first settlers of Rhode Island, was proba-
blv the immigrant ancestor of Mrs. Maria .■\.
(Chace) Haskell, of Clinton, Massachusetts. The
Chace family of Rhode Island has been distin-
guished for ability and worth. Most of the des-
cendants spell the name Chace in distinction from
the numerous descendants of Aquila Chase and his
brother, Thomas Chase, of northern Massachusetts
and of New Hampshire.

(II) Joseph Chace, perhaps a grandson of the
immigrant, Bartholomew Chace, was born about
1680. He settled in Warwick, Rhode Island. His
wife Abigail died there November 25, 1730. Their
children born in Warwick, were : Gideon, born De-
cember 22, 1712; Ebenezer, January 17, 1715: Paul
May 22, 1716; Mome, July 23, 1718; Arbra, July i,
1720; Joseph, January 13, 1723, died young; Abigail,
January 13, 1723 (twin), died young; Mary, June
18, 1726; David. The children of Joseph and Mary
Chace, born at North Kingston, Rhode Island,
were : Joseph, William, settled in Bcllingham. Massa-
chusetts, and had Isabel, born May 12, 1758. mar-
ried Seth Hayward; Joseph, born August 16. 1764,
and others.

(III) Joseph Chace. Jr.. son of Joseph Chace
(2). was born at North Kingston, Rhode Island,
February 16, about 1740. Among the children of
Joseph was Charles, born in Rhode Island about
1765. Joseph appears to have been a soldier in the
revolution from Bellingham, and his brother Wil-
liam settled there permanently.

(IV) Charles Chace. son of Joseph Chace, Jr.
(3), was born in Rhode Island about 1762. He
was at Cumberland. Rhode Island, November S,

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1786, when he married Abigail Ide, daughter of
Timothy Ide, of a well known old family, lie
lived there a few years, then was at Bellingham,
where his father lived at one time and where his
uncle made his home. He married (second), also
at Cumberland, Rhode Island, December 28, 1794,
Ruth Jencke. of Wrentham. Charles and his wife's
brother, William Jencke, of Wrentliam, bought tlie
Tucker house and farm on what is now known as
Chace street in the spring of 1798 of Major Merrick
Rice. As jNlajor Rice was one of tlie lawyers of
Lancaster and as the property had come into his
hands from Benjamin Houghton and Josiah Cool-
idge, who had it two years before from Thomas
Tucker, it is probable that the estate had passed
from the hands of the Tucker family on account
of the hard times at the close of the eighteenth
century. The house, like that of William Gould
on the Mill road and that of Elias Sawyer at what
is now Lancaster Mills, had been begun, but throvigh
lack of funds had never been finished. It remained
for Mr. Chace to complete it. a large square New-
England mansion, still standing on the original site
between Chace street and the Nashua river. The farm
contained about one hundred and fifty acres, or
some thirty-five more than in the old Tucker place.
The price paid was two housand dollars. In 1802
Mr. jenks (as the name is now spelled) released
his part in the ownership to Mr. Chace.

Mr. Chace was not only a farmer but also a
tanner, currier and shoemaker. He bought di-
rectly from the neighboring farmers whenever they
slaughtered cattle and tanned the hides in vats to
the north and south of his house. Some two years
after he bought a skin he had it ready for use as
leather. His currymg and shoemaking were done
in a shop one story high, eighteen by thirty feet,
six rods or so west of the house. The sides of
leather were hung on the sides of this building to
dry. On one side of the shop the drying and
dressing were done, on the other the boots and
shoes were made by Mr. Chace and his hands and
apprentices. He had simple tools and all the work
was by hand. His two eldest sons probably learned
the whole business of their father, but in later life
.•\lanson confined his activity to shoemaking while
the other son Charles became a tanner. Mr. Chace's
home life is thus described in the Clinton history:
"The family life was that of the ideal New Eng-
land home, as it existed in the early part of the
century (nineteenth). There was great earnest-
ness of religious belief, but no austerity. Mr.
Chace belonged to the Rhode Island family of
Chaces and brought with him from his old home
the Baptist belief, .\lthough the members of the
family attended public worship at the old church
at Lancaster Center, still they clung to their own
form of faith and gathered their neighors to wor-
ship with them, and thus became the originators
of the Baptist organization in the town. When
John Burdett settled in Clinton, they found in him
an equally devoted worker. Something of the beau-
tiful home life of the family can be surmised from
this extract from a letter written by the youngest
son to his mother on his thirty-sixth birthday.
"This day reminds me anew of the untold, unpaid.
and unpayable debt of gratitude which every son is
under to a good mother, and for which the only
return he can make is to shov^f her that he is not
insensible of it. Frequently when not otherwise
occupied, does my mind wander back to the days
of my early childhood, when it was so sweet to
pillow my head upon my mother's knee, when her
lap was my home, the safe refuge to which I
flew from every childish grief and trouble, .^nd

there are moments when my spirit, worn and soiled
by the cares of life, has lost its freshness and its
hope, in which I would fain be that little boy over
again and nestle in my mother's bosom an<l linil
it as secure a retreat from the trials of manhocjd
as 1 did then from the trials of infancy."

Mr. Chace died in 1852, aged ninety years. In
his will, which was proved in 1852, he mentioned
his nephew, Timothy Ide Crowninshield, and his
four surviving children: Alanson, Charles, Jr.,
George Ide and Diana. The children of Charles
and Abigail (Ide) Chace were I. Titmothy Ide,
born March 6, 1787, at Cumberland, Rhode Island,
died Sptember 12. 1789. 2. Sally, born November 7,

1789. married Crowninshield. The children of

Charles and Ruth (Jenks) Chace: 3. Alanson, .see
forward. 4. Charles, Jr., built the old part of the
house at No. I Green street; he was a tanner;
settled at Stillriver (Harvard) and became deacon
of the church there in August, 1819, and served
for more than seventy years. 5. William J., died
young. 6. George Ide, who gained a world-wide
reputation, prepared for college at Lancaster Acad-
emy, graduated as valedictorian of his class at
Brown University in 1830; he was for a year prin-
cipal of a classical school at Waterville, Maine,
then returned to Brown in 1831, as tutor in mathe-
matics, in 1833 became adjunct professor of mathe-
matics and applied philosophy, in 1836 professor of
chemistry, geology and physiology, and filled that
chair for thirty-one years ; was well known as a
public lecturer, traveled in Canada, Nova Scotia
and Central America, as well as the western jKir-
tion of his own country in his capacity as mining
expert; in 1867 he was acting president of the Uni-
versity ; resigned as professor in 1872 and traveled
abroad; returned to Providence and during the re-
mainder of his life devoted himself to the inter-
ests of his city and state, chiefly as the chairman
of the Rhode Island State Board of Charities and
Correction ; a volume of his essays published in
1886, reveals his scholarship and ability. Presi-
dent Andrews said of him after his death, April
29, 1885 : "Professor Chace had the keenest analyti-
cal power of "any thinker whom I ever heard dis-
course * * * and he joined with this a hardly
less remarkable faculty for generalization." 7.
Diana. 8. Amia Ann. , ^, , ^, / s

(V) .\lanson Chace. son of Charles Chace (4),
was born in Cumberland. Rhode Island, October
22. 1795. He came to South Lancaster, now Clin-
ton, with his father when he was very young and
was educated there in the common schools. He
learned the trades of tanner and shoemaker of his
father. In 1818 he and his brother, Charles Chace,
Jr.. probahlv with the aid of their father, bought
of " Seth Grout one acre of land and of James
Pitts one acre of land and one twentieth of the water
power at the dam now controlled by the Lancaster
Mills; they erected a small tannery between the
spot where the present machine shop stands and the
river He settled on the homestead at Clinton and
as his father was old took charge of the farm and
of the shoe making: about 1828 he sold his house,
shop and water rights to James Pitts. He served
the district as member of the Lancaster school com-
mittee; as one of live representing Clintonville m
the division of property when the town of Clinton
was incorporated, and was a selectman in the new
town of Clinton. He was one of the organizers
and most devoted supporters of the Baptist church
in Clinton. He built the Chace mansion formerly on
Prcscott street, now removed to Cedar street. He
was ill fact, one of the most honored and trusted
as well as among the most public-spirited men of

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the town of Clinton in its early days. He died
February 13, 1875. <it Clinton. He married Maria
Harris and they had two children: Charles H.,
born February ig. 1826, see forward. Maria A.,
married W. H. Haskell, see forward.

(VI) Charles H. Chace, son of Alanson Chace
(5)> was born February 19, 1826, died January 9,
1904. He succeeded his father in possession of the
old homestead. He took contracts for cellars and
excavating in the early iifties. In 1858 he went into
business with his brother-in-law, W. H. Haskell.
In 1861 he continued to run the grocery business
and erected an addition to the store building which
he occupied at that time on Mechanic street. He
. is a Baptist in religion. He had been selectman of
the town. He married, April 11, 1850, Caroline M.
Ball, of Boylston, now deceased. They left three
living children : A. Alanson, Addie Eliza and
Emma Chace.

(VI) Maria A. Chace, daughter of Alanson
Chace (5), was born at Clinton, Massachusetts,
February i, 1833. She married, October 20, 1855,
William H. Haskell, who was born in Rochester.
Massachusetts, October 20, 1824 the son of Seth
and Unice (Hammond) Haskell, a native of- Mat-
tapoisett, Massachusetts. He spent his boyhood and
early manhood in Rochester, acquired his education
there in the public schools and academy. He en-
tered the general store kept by his father and sub-
sequently managed a store at North Abington, Massa-
chusetts. About 1850 he went to Clinton to work
for his brother, David Haskell, who was seven
years older than he, and who had already a store on
Mechanic street on the lot afterward occupied by
the C. H. Chace building. He soon became a part-
ner and the business was conducted under the firm
name of Haskell Brothers. The elder brother
David was the victim of a dreadful accident, Sep-
tember 5, 1854. He was returning some "burning
fluid" to a barrel when it took fire from a lantern,
exploded, and the cellar of the store was filled with
flame. He died from his injuries the next day.
The home of David Haskell was on Water street
in the brick house built by Asahel Harris. For
more than three years William H. Haskell con-
tinued the business alone, but in August, 1858, he
advertised groceries and dry goods at the old stand
in partnership with D. W. Kilburn. In the same
year Charles H. Chace succeeded Mr. Kilburn in
the firm. In August, 1861, the firm was dissolved
and the business divided, Mr. Haskell keeping the
dry goods and Mr. Chace the grocery. Mr. Has-
kell finally sold his business to Mr. Chace. He had
a store for a short time at the rear of his resi-
dence on Chestnut street. During the closing
years of the civil war he was in the grocery busi-
ness in the basement of Burdett & Fiske"s block
on the corner of Union and High streets. In 1868
he erected the block at the comer of Union and
Walnut streets, where he continued in the grocery
business until his death, December 2, 1878. He
was a leading member of the Congregational church
of Clinton, and his wife is still active in the church.
He was a worthy citizen and highly respected.

The children of William H. and Maria A.
(Chace) Haskell were: i. Harriet M., born June
29, 1858, married Clarence H. Bowers, D. D. S., of
Clinton, and the have three children — George
F. H., Alice D., and Caroline A. 2. Alice C,
born June 23, 1861, died in childhood. 3. Elnathan,
born December 14, 1863, died young. 4. Minnie
Eliza, born October 28, 1865, died in infancy. 5.
William David, born July 9, 1867, died July 17.
1887. 6. Mary Agnes, born February 22, 1873.
died in infancy.

WILLIAM H. BLOOD. Richard Blood (i),
the immigrant ancestor of William H. Blood, of
Lancaster, Massachusetts, was one of several broth-
ers who came to New England among the early
settlers. Some of them owned land in Ruddington,
Nottinghamshire, England, and it is thought they
all hailed from that neighborhood.

James Blood, whom good authority calls brother
of Richard, was a yeoman and sergeant at Concord ;
proprietor of the town and was admitted a free-
man June 2, 1641. He was one of the commis-
sioners to lay out the Hough grant of four hun-
dred acres in 1650; commissioner to end small causes
at Chelmsford in 1660. He deposed March 30,
1660, that he was about fifty-five years old ; he
died September 17, 1683, and his will makes no
mention of Richard or his other brothers. His wife
Ellen died August i, 1674.

John Blood settled in Lynn and he was living
there in 1647, but removed to Concord where James
Blood was living; his brother, Robert Blood, ad-
ministered his estate by appointment dated Septem-
ber 27, 1692.

Robert Blood, probably younger than John and
James, was a yeoman and planter at Lynn before
1647. He and John Blood, his brother, sold a
moiety of one tenement and half an ox gang in
Ruddington, mentioned above, to William Crafts,
of Lynn. He married, April 8, 1653, Elizabeth VVil-
lard, daughter of Major Simon Willard; he died
October 22, 1701.

These four immigrants are ancestors of all of
the name, or nearly all. Richard Blood, Robert
Blood, Joseph Blood and James Blood were among
the original proprietors of Groton, Massachusetts.
Richard and Robert were petitioners for the plan-
tation.

Richard Blood was on the first board of se-
lectmen and served for several years afterward.
He was town clerk in 1668 and for years was the
largest taxpayer. He is called the chief among the
original proprietors. He died December 7, 1783, at

Groton. He married Isabel . Their children

were : Mary, died April 19, 1662 ; Janies, of whom
later; Nathaniel, of Groton, married, June 13, 1670,
Hannah Parker, daughter of James Parker ; Eliza-
beth, married Thomas Tarbell ; Joseph, probably
the proprietor mentioned above.

(II) James Blood, son of Richard Blood (i),
was born perhaps in England before his parents
came over, about 1640. He was a prominent citi-
zen of Groton, where he was killed by the Indians
Septem.ber 13, 1692. He married, September 7,
1669, Elizabeth Longley, daughter of William Long-
ley. She died before 1687. He married (second)
Abigail . The children of James and Eliza-
beth Blood were : Richard, born Alay 29, 1670, died
July 8, 1670; Mary, born September I, 1672; Eliza-
beth, born April 27, 1675 ; Hannah, died January 6.
1675. The children of James and Abigail Blood
were : James, Jr., born August 12, 1687 ; John, liorn
March 16, 1689, of whom later ; Martha, born Oc-
tober 20, 1692.

(III) John Blood, sixth child of James Blood
(2), was born in Groton, Massachusetts, March 16,
1689, and died August 2:^. 1758, in his seventieth
year. He settled also in Groton. He married there,
July 13, 1712, Joanna Nutting, of one of the old
families. Their children, all born at Groton, were :
John, born February 18. 1713-4; Elizabeth, born
March 19, 1715-6; David, born September 28, 1718;
Lydia, born September 28, 1720 ; William, born
December 9, 1722; Moses, born November 25. 1724;
Hannah, born July 7. 1727 ; Oliver, born July 9,
1729; Caleb, born November 23. 1734. of whom later.

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(IV) Caleb Blood, youngest child, of John
Blood is), was born November 23, I7,i4, at Groton,
Massachusetts, and died there December 9. 1804,
aged seventy years. His grave is marked by a stone
in the old graveyard. He was a soldier in the
revolution, in Captain Longley's company, Colonel
Asa Whitcomb's regiment in 1775, and also hclpt-d
with funds contributed to carry on the war.

He married, November i, 1753, Hannah Holden,
•daughter of John and Sarah (Davis) Holden. He
married (second), March 3, 1774, Elizabeth Farns-
worth, who died September i, 1773. She was
a daughter of Isaac and Anna (Green) Farns-
worth. The children of Caleb and Hannah Blood
were: Caleb, Jr., born at Groton, October 24, 1755,
served all through the revolution and it is difficult
to distinguish his record from that of his fatlier of
the same name ; Hannah, bom September 23. 1757 ;
John, born September 6, 1759; David (twin), born
July 8, 1762; Samuel (twin), born July 8, 17(12.
The children of Caleb and Elizabeth Blood were :
Timothy, born March 8, 1775, died January 13,
1777; Thomas, born August 31, 1776, of whom later;
Timothy, born September 8, 1778; Elizabeth, born
August 25, 1780; Levi, born September 14, 1782,
■died September 29, 1782; Sally, born August 31,
1783; Luther, born October i, 1785; Nancy, born
May, 1787.

(V) Thomas Blood, son of Caleb Blood (4),
was born August 31, 1776, at Groton, Massachusetts,
and died there October 13, 1835, aged fifty-nine
years. The following inscription is copied from his
gravestone :

"Canst thon by faith survey with joy
The change before it comes ?

And say 'let death this house destroy.
I have a Heavenly home.' '"

Thomas Blood was brought up in Ciroton and
•educated there in the common schools. He was
well-read, a student of public questions and an in-
fluential citizen of his native place. He was cap-
tain of the militia company. He was a prosperous
farmer of this city.

He married Sarah Fitch. Their children were:
Roxy, Millie, Betsy, Alfred, Marj', Nancy. Thomas
F. Gilman.

(VI) Thomas F. Blood, son of Thomas Blood
(5), was born in Groton, Massachusetts. January
10, 1814, and died at Lancaster. January 23, 1S84,
aged seventy years, according to his gravestone. He
succeeded to the homestead of his father at Gro-
ton and resided on it until 1845, when he removed
to Lancaster, where he built a substantial house on
the farm now owned by his son. William H. Blood.
In politics he was a Whig and he took a lively in-
terest in public affairs. He was an active mem-
ber of the Congregational church.

He married. January 30. 1840, Caroline E. Parker,
daughter of Charles Parker, of Groton. Their
children were : Charles Edwin, born at Groton,
April 2, 1842, served in civil war for two years in
Company H, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment ;
William Henry, born September 21, 1843. of whom
later ; Angelo P., born December 26, 1845 ; Caro-
line E., born October 25, 1847 ; Ellen F., born Nov-
€mber 27, 1849; Lucius M., born February 24.
1856.

( VII ) William Henry Blood, son of Thomas
F. Blood (6), was born in Groton, Massachusetts,
September 21, 1843. He removed to Lancaster with
his parents when he was but two years old and
has lived there ever since. His education was ac
quired in the public and high schools of Lancaster,

and he followed in the footsteps of his ancestors,
working on the homestead of his father at Lan-
caster. When he was twenty-three he purchased his
present farm of twenty-seven acres and later added
many acres to his farm. He is one of the most suc-
cessful general farmers in his locality. For a num-
ber of years he was connected with the Lancaster
Creamery, which produced a large quantity of ex-
cellent butter. He has an extensive dairy depart-
ment on his farm. He has acquired a competence
from his farm and is counted among the most sub-
stantial citizens of the town. In politics he is a
Republican and has frequently been chosen to posi-
tions of trust and responsibility. He was tax col-
lector in 1868-69-70, was road commissioner four
years, superintendent of streets fifteen years, was
on the board of water commissioners for seven
years, was on the board of selectmen from 1879
until 1898. He is on tlie parish and church com-
mittees of the Lancaster Congregational Church, and
he and his family are active in church work.

Mr. Blood married May 31, 1866, Mary E. Priest,
daughter of Levi Priest, of Harvard, Massachu-
setts. She was born February, 18^5. Her mother
was Eliza (Hartwell) Priest, of Groton. The chil-
dren of William H. and Mary E. Blood are: Alice
M., born May 18, 1867, married Sereno Goodnow.
who is an assistant on the Thayer estate, and
they have three children : Ellen, Edith, Grace Good-
now ; George H., born July 26, 1869, is engaged in
the oil business ; married Florence McCloud. and
they have three children : Mabel, Ada, George Blood ;
Arthur W.. born April 7, i87;2, married Sadie Israel ;
resides in Lancaster; their children are: Walter R.,
and Harold William Blood; Frankie, died in in-
fancy; Walter, died j'oung; Nellie E., born Sep-
tember 22, 1884; Horace, died young; Edgar Nelson,
horn October i, 1900.

MANNING FAMILY. William Manning (i).
the founder of his family in America, came to the
colony of Massachusetts Bay at an early date. He
came (from best evidence) from Essex county, Eng-
land. The first nine or ten weeks — -he said himself —
lie lived at Roxbury. Massachusetts, after landing
here. He then removed to Cambridge, where docu-
ments were first signed by him. the date not later
than about 1634, possibly several years before. He
was on the list of landholders in February, 1635.
.'\n old church record says: "Payd our brother
Manninge for a bellrope." This was dated 1648,
when he was engaged in "A business laudable and
commendable." He had doubtless been a merchant
in England. In 1638 he bought "foure acres of
Swamp ffield of planteing grounde ; Charles Towne
East." His son William was a journeyman in
Middlesex county, 1652. William Manning ( i ) was
a freeman (church member and voter) 1640. His
wife Susannah died 1650, and later he removed to
Boston and there united with the church in 1664.
Susannah was his second wife : of the first nothing
is known. His third wife was Elizabeth, who out-
lived him. He died in 1665 or 1666. He was prob-
ably born in 1592. It is not quite clear, but from
the best present obtainable evidence it seems that
his children were : William, born about 1614. in
England, and Hannah.

(II) William Manning, son of the first to lo-
cate on American soil, born about 1614. in England,
came in or before i6.?4 to the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and lived in Cambridge the remainder of
his days. He purchased lands and engaged in busi-
ness as a merchant. He also owned a warehouse,
boathouse, on a canal to which boats had free
access, and constructed with his own hands a wharf

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liv hi^ boathouse. He was elected highway surveyor
Trii^i- also a "ganger" of casks and constable,
,(,5'-'s3 In 1652, 1666, 1670 he was selectman; also
for'the years 1672-75-81-83-a total of .fiff^e" -Ve^".
He was a member of the grand jury m 1686, ibSb.
■\s a selectman he was on a committee to inspect
into the families "that there be no bye drinking or
aiiv misdemeanor whereby sin is committed, and
persons from their houses unseasonably." His wife
was Dorothy, and their children were: Hannah,
Samuel Sarah, John, Mary, all born and baptized
in the church. In 1668 he was sent to England to
procure another minister, and m 1671 Rev. Urian
Oakcs was received and ordained through their
visit abroad. Oakes remained pastor uiitil his
death, and was also president of Harvard College.
In 1670 Mr. Manning was appointed "to catechise
the youth" of his town. The most important act
of his life was in connection with Harvard College,
he having been selected, with Deacon John Cooper,
to replace the old college building with a new one,
and to receive and disburse funds for that purpose
This was in 1672, and his work extended until
1684 This college was then nearer the people's
hearts than any institution since. It was established
by the general court (legislature") sixteen years after
the landing of the "Mayflower." It was the pride
and hope of the people who cast their fortunes in
the New World. In 16.39 it received the name of
Harvard College. William Manning (2) had much
to do with the starting of this great educational
school. The bodies of William and Dorothy Man-
ning were buried in tlie cemetery of Harvard Square,
and the headstones, still well preserved, show that
he died March 14, i6qo, and his wife July 26,
T6q2. He died full of vears and honors— a merchant,
selectman, and held many other offices, aside from
being a rebuilder of Harvard College. Their chil-
dren were: i. Hannah, born 1642. 2. Samuel, born
1644. 3 Sarah, born 1645. 4- Abigail, born 1647.
S. John, born 1649. 6. Mary, born 1651. 7- Timothy,
born t6s,i.

(Ill) Samuel Manning, son of William (2) and
Dorothv. born 16J4, was reared in his native town
and educated in the midst of the good school sur-
roundings of Cambridge. His handsome penmanship
and easy style of composition showed hmi much
superior' to his associates. When eighteen years of
age he and other associates were summoned before
the court and reproved for firing off their guns at
night to cause an alarm. They belonged to a
militia company, and the real object of the alarin
was to give the impression that Indians had attacked
the town, but even the court was not disposed to
look too sternlv upon the boyinsh prank. He mar-
ried at about 'that date (1666) and removed to
Billerica, twenty miles distant. He was 111 the
true sense a pioneer. When he settled only forty-
six years had elapsed since the "Mayflower" landed
on the "stern and rock-bound coast." The Indians
were still strong on all sides— friendly one day and
hostile the next. King Philip's war was in 1673,
and twice his new home was assailed by savages.
While they lived beyond the Concord river they
were greatly exposed to danger, conflagration and
death. In 1696 his new house became a "garrison.'
He was made a corporal in 1682, sergeant in 1684,
and ensign in 1699. He followed farm life and
endured great hardship to subdue his lands. In
1668 he was survevor of highways, sealer of weights
and measures, T'675-1700; constable, 1677: trial
juryman, 1679; assessor, 1694, 1698. 1702; tithing
man, 1679-82-97, 1704-9; town clerk seven years:
selectman eighteen years; and representative, 1695-
97. The town records are full of commissions to

him. At various times between 1677 and 1700 he
was connected with repairing "the great bridge
over the Concord river. He followed surveying a
quarter of a century. In 1692 he was paid fourteen
shillings for writing fourteen pages in the "town
book." In 1693 he superintended the erection of a
meeting house. In 1670 he was made a freeman of
the colony. He was a large real estate holder. His
will was made February 21, 1710. The chi dren by
his two wives are as follows: By Elizabeth:
Samuel, born 1695. and John. By Abiel : Imi-
othy born 1673; Hannah, William, Mary, Sarah,
Dorothy, Isaac, Ephraim, Elizabeth, Timothy,
Eliphalet, Abiel. , / s .

(IV) William Manning, son of Samuel (3), born
June 27, 1677, at Billerica, where he always resided
He inherited the old homestead. He was one of
nineteen men out of one hundred and fifty who were
digniticd by the title of "Mr." and one of ten who
occupied the best or "fore seat below," as it was
termed in church pews. He was prominent '" the
militia, being an ensign in 1723. He married Eliza-
beth French, born 1679, died 1736, when he married
ISIary Shed. Ensign Manning died 1764. His chil-
dren were: Elizabeth, horn 1701 ; Esther, born
1703; Mary, 1705; William. 1707; Jacob. 1710;
Sarah, 1711; Rachel, 1714; Martha. 1718; Hannah,

(V) Jacob Manning, son of William Manning
(4), born March 27, 1710, at Billerica, Massachu-
setts, always resided in his native place. He received
a portion of his father's farm by deed, or gift. His
rate to the church in i755 \\-as 7 shillings, 11 pence.
He was a journevman in the second session of court
and surveyor in 1741-48-54: also a constable He died
I762 He married Martha Beard, and had the fol-
lowing named children: i. Jacob, born 1739- -•
Mary, born 1741. 3- Isaac, born 1743- 4- Jesse, born
1745- 5- Thomas, born 1747- 6. David, born 1749-
7. Martha, born 1750. 8. David, born 1753- 9-
Esther, born 1756. , ^ , . n ,

CVI) Jesse Manning, son of Jacob (51. born at
Billerica, Massachusetts, August 18, 1845, was a sol-
dier of the Revolution, and marched on the Lexing-
ton Alarm, April 19, I775. in Col. Green's regi-
ment He was a farmer. .A.fter his father died he
bought a portion of the old homestead. Deceniber
> 1766 he was married to Anne Carleton ; she died
in I77Q. and he married Elizabeth Abbott of .^nd-
over. Massachusetts. For his third companion he
married (1802) Abigail Baldwin, who died m 1825.
Jesse Manning died in the autumn of 1825. His chil-
dren were: i. Mercy, born 1768. 2. David, borit
1751. 3. Elizabeth, born 1773- 4- Jesse, born 1776.
5. 'Julia, born 1778. /^^ .

(VII) Jesse Manning, son of Jesse (6), born
at Billerica. Massachusetts. July 12. 1776. He re-
sided first in his native place and then removed to-
Sutton, New Hampshire, and later to Paxton,
Massachusetts, where his latter days were spent_ In
New Hampshire he was engaged in the lumber busi-
ness and had a mill in connection therewith. At
Paxton he was a carpenter. He married Mary Kil-
bri'dge at Tewksbury in 1796. He died at Paxtoir
Julv 28 1852, having married tor his second
wife Marv Durah (or Durren). His children
bv his first wife were; i. Jesse, born I797- ^■
Nancy, born 1800. The children by Mary Durab
were: i. Elizabeth, born 1810. 2. David, born 1812.
3 Mary Jane, born 1814. 4- Elmira, born 1816. o-
Samuel Stillman. born 1818, at Lexington.

(VIII) David Manning, son of Jesse (7). born
at Sutton, New Hampshire, April 14. 1812: lived at
Paxton, Leicester and Worcester, Massachusetts;
he died at the last named place April 15. 1890. He

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married Luc}- B. Grosvenor, who died in 1896. Tliiir
children were: I. Bethia, married Joscpli A. Titus.
2. George G. 3. Theodore. 4. David. 5. Charles
W. 6. Joseph Avery. 7. Frederick. During the
rebellion he was a member of the Freedom Club,
a loyal organization, and was one of three of its
business committee.

(.IX) Joseph Avery Manning, son of David and
Lucy E. (Grosvenor) Manning, born February 19,
1851, at Worcester. He married Ella Amsden, and
their children were: i. Joseph Nelson, born June
30, 1879. 2. Frances G., born April 21, 1883. 3. Ed-
ward Avery, born September 14, 1894.

(IX) Charles Walter Manning, son of David
and Lucy B. (Grosvenor) Mannnig, born August
2, 1848; married Eva W. Parker and had: i. Wal-
ter Webster, born May 24, 1875. -• I'Vank (iros-
venor, born January i, 1877 ; died May 6, 1879. 3.
Earl G., born January 9, 1881.

(IX) George G. Manning, son of David and
Lucy B. (Grosvenor) Manning, born October 20,
1842; married Ellen Moore, and had one son Roger,
born February 21, 1879.

(IX) Theodore Manning, son of David and
Lucy B. (Grosvenor) Manning, born in Pa.xton,
Massachusetts, October, 1844, became a member of
the Manning Shoe and Rubber Company, and for
more than forty years resided at Worcester. When
twenty years of age he came to Worcester, in
1856. He completed his education in the public
schools and acquired his good business training
with E. A. Goodnow, wholesale boot and shoe
dealer, after which he became a member of the S.
R. Heywood & Company, as a shoe manufacturer.
Ill 1870 he associated himself with his brotlur
Cieorge G. and B. W. Childs. The latter withdrew
from the concern and the two brothers continued
until 1896, when he was transferred to Boston, be-
ing consolidated with that of J. A. Manning, thus
forming the Manning Shoe and Rubber Company.
Our subject's health failed and on April 28, 1898,
he passed from earthly scenes. He married Caro-
line E. Woods, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, and
left eight children: Frederick, Charles S., Grace
W., Florence, David R., Robert H., Harold G., and
Clarence W. Charles S. resides in Ohio, the others
at Newton. He was a regular attendant of the
Plymouth church from the time of its formation.
He had a wide circle of personal friends.

(IX) Hon. David Manning, son of David and
Lucy B. (Grosvenor) Manning, was born August
29, 1846. The first ten years of his life was spent
in Leicester, to which place his parents had moved
from Paxton, Massachusetts, when he was an in-
fant. After 1856 Worcester was his home. He was
proud of his ancestry, tracing family ties back to
Samuel Adams. David, the father of our subject,
was one of six children; all of with the exception of
Joseph Manning, member of the shoe jobbing firm
of Boston, known as Manning Brothers, are dead.
The others were: George C, Theodore Walter and
Mrs. Joseph A. Titus.

Mr. Manning was educated in the public schools,
graduating in 1865 from the Worcester high school,
where he was awarded prizes for efficiency in dif-
ferent branches. In the autumn of 1865 he entered
Yale College, from which he graduated in high rank
in 1869. He then entered Harvard Law School,
but failing health compelled him to leave the con-
finement of college life, but he entered the law office
of Col. Joseph A. Titus, his brother-in-law, and
H. O. Smith. In 1872 he was admitted to the prac-
tice of his chosen profession. Soon after he ac-
cepted a position in the law- office of Rice & Black-
mer, where he gained wide experience in bank-

ruptcy proceedings. In 1880 he left this firm, and
associated himself for a time with Burton W. Potter,
but soon opened an office of his own. He was re-
garded by his fellow associates at the bar as among
the most prominent in the county. Taking much in-
terest in public affairs he was elected as a representa-
tive from Ward No. 7 in 1887 and in 1899, the record
time, and there became prominent through his serv-
ice on the judiciary coinmittec. In 1900 he was
elected to the state senate, serving tw^o years. Prior
to having served in the legislature he was an asso-
ciate justice of the Central district court from 1881
to 1887, when he resigned. He was a member of
the state central committee in 1888, 1897, 1898, and
was frequently urged to become a candidate for
mayor of Worcester, but declined the honor. He
aspired to be a congressman in 1902, but was de-
feated in nomination by Rufus B. Dodge. Mr. .Man-
ning, who died Thursday, January 5, 1905, was a
great lover of home life. A devoted husband and
father, he spent all possible time at his own home
circle, finding supreme happiness in the quiet of the
sacred precincts of his own affairs. He was not
a secret society man, and did not believe in some
respects in secret organizations, but was in sympathy
with the great principles of the benevolent features
of such institutions, lie was an honored member of
the Commonwealth and Tatnuck Clubs, lie was an
active member and supporter of Unity Church, be-
ing the chairman of the pastoral committee. The
year 1878 marked a new era in Mr. Manning's life,
in his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander
Bigelow and wife, born January 16, 1849. Mrs.
Manning and one son, .-klexander Bigelow Manning.
survive him. Shortly after their marriage Mr. and
Mrs. iManning toured abroad, returning in the
autumn of that year. One of his most intimate
associates, Charles R. Johnson, remarked upon hear-
ing of his sudden death from apoplexy : "I shall never
meet a better man. He stood for honesty, integrity and
reliability and the highest sense of honor. He was
indeed the most high-minded man I ever met." He
disliked to take a case that he did not believe in,
but when his heart was in the case he was an an-
tagonist to be legally feared. He would fight a case
to the bitter end if he believed he was right, his
client's cause in such instance becoming his own.
He was well read in philosophy as well as law, and
was made up of the most sterling qualities. He
was laid to rest in Hope Cemetery. As an exponent
of law, a radical temperance advocate, a conscien-
tious citizen, a loving licmie companion and an in-
dulgent father, no better, truer type of manhood
ever graced the city of Worcester.

PERLEY PIERCE COMEY, M. D. David
Comey (l) w'as tbe emigrant ancestor of Dr. Perley
Pierce Comey, of Worcester. He was in Woburn
as early as 1663 and was doubtless the first of the
name in this country. Family tradition says that
he was born in Scotland. His son John married the
daughter of a Scotchman, and the district in which
he lived in Concord later was known as Scotland-
The name is spelled Coniee by part of the descend-
ants. In the earlier days it w-as spelled in various
ways. Comy. Come. Comi, Comay and Coomy.

About 1664 David Comey removed from Woburn,
where he first settled, and made his home in Con-
cord. Massachusetts, and there he lived the re-
mainder of his days. He was killed while a soldier
in King Philip's war in the Sudbury fight, described
elsewhere in this work, April 21, 1676. There is a
pathetic petition on file in the archives of the general
court wherein the widow recites her woes after the
loss of her husband. He was a young man, born

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about 1640, and when he was killed the widow had
six small children including a baby six weeks old
and four children of the first marriage to care for.
The estate amounted to only eighty-seven pounds,
fifty of which was represented by the house and
land and the rest by clothing and furniture. She
had to give away the children. In the petition she
prayed that Captain Timothy Wheeler be named
guardian for the purpose. The records fail to tell
us how the orphans of the soldier fared later.

David Comey married (first) Elizabeth, who
died at Concord, iVIay 4, 1671, leaving four chil-
dren. He married (second) Esther . His

widow married (second), November 7, 1682, Sam-
uel Parry. The children of David and Elizabeth
Comey were : Elizabeth, married, March 29, 1691,
John Kendallj born 1646, died 1732, of Woburn,
where she died December, 1701 (See Kendall
Sketch) ; Mary, born January 30, 1663, married.
May 24, 1688, Joshua Kibby, of Sherburn and died
July 9, 1712; he died 1731 ; John, of whom later;
David, born November 14, 1666, died before 1676;
Sarah. The children of David and Esther Comey
were two daughters, one of whom was Esther, born
February 14, 1676.

(H) John Comey, third child of David Comey
(i), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, October
18, 1665. He was a farmer. He removed from
Concord to Cambridge Farms, as Lexington was
then called, in 1689. He died in Lexington, 1729,
aged si.xty-four years. The date 1723 given in the
Cambridge history is incorrect.

He married, June 21, 1688, Martha Munroe, who
was born November 2, l66j, the eldest daughter of
William Munroe, a Scotch soldier sent over a pris-
oner of war by Cromwell. (See Sketch of Munroe
Fannly). Their first four children were baptized
Feljruary 26, 1699. Their children were : John, born
at Concord, April 8, 1687, died young probably;
Hannah, died unmarried May 26, 1720; Martha,
died July 9, 1713: David, of whom later; Eliza-
beth, born January 29, 1701, at Lexington ; Abigail,
baptized October 26, 1707, married, January 4, 1728,
Jonas Pierce, and died at Westminster, Massa-
chusetts.

(IH) David Comey, fourth child of John Comey
(2), was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, January
II, 1696. If family tradition is correct he died in
1800 at the age of one hundred and four years. In
1729 he was called a yeoman. In 1736 he was an
inn-holder.

He married (first) Ruhama Brown, daughter of
Joseph and Ruhamah Brown. She was born in
Watertown, July 15, 1701, died June 3, 1730. He

married (second) Sarah . There were five

or six children by the first marriage, who died
young. Only two of the children of David and
Ruhamah ( Brown) Comey survived, viz. : John,
haptized September 28, 1725 ; Joseph, baptized
August 4, 1728. The children of David and Sarah
Comey were: Benjamin, born November 15, 1733;
Sarah, September II, 1735; Mary, April 11, 1738;
Ezekiel, April 27, 1740; Ruhama, April 15, ,1742;
David, April 21, 1744 ; Jonathan, April 4, 1746.

(IV) Jonathan Comey, youngest child of David
Comey (3), was born in Lexington, Massachusetts,
April 4, 1746. When he was a young boy he went
to Foxboro, where some of his elder brothers set-
tled, and while still a young man removed to Hollis-
ton, Massachusetts, where he lived with Samuel
M'essinger. After he married he went to live in the
west part of Hopkinton on the west side of White-
hall Pond. At the Lexington Alarm April 19,
1775, he turned out with the minute men. He served
in the revolution in Captain John Holmes' company,

Colonel Samuel Bullard"s regiment. His name was
spelled Jno. Commey on the rolls.

He married Elizabeth Wells about 1768. Their
children were: Parmelia, married NathanieL Cham-
berlain, of HoUiston, and settled in Wardsboro, Ver-
mont ; Royal, of whom later ; Betsey, married Joshua
Mellen, and resided in Westboro, Massachusetts ;
their only son was Judge Edward Mellen, of Wor-
cester; they had four daughters; Polly (Mary),
married Jonathan Fairbanks, and lived in Holden ;
Nellipee, married John Wheelock, of Vermont ; she
died at the birth of her son John, who was brougiit

up by Adams; Hannali, married .\bner

Prentiss, of Hopkinton.

(V) Royal Comey, second child of Jonathan
Comey (4), was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts,
January 29, 1772. He died in Hopkinton, October,
1853, aged eighty years. He was a well-to-do
farmer. He always lived in his native town of
Hopkinton. His place was on the east side of
Whitehall pond, and he also owned a large tract
on the western side and also an island in the pond,
now known as Comey's island.

He married Polly Andrews, of Millford. who
died August 29, 1873, aged eighty-eight years, eight
months, eight days. The children of Royal and
Polly (Andrews) Comey were: Hiram, born July
18, 1S06, married, 1832, Emily Gibbs; Elbert, August,
1806, married twice and had seven children ; El-
bridge Gerry, of whom later; Dexter, February '21,
1814, died in Westboro, November 8, 1892 ; Martha
Ann, August 19, 1817, married William B. Wales, of
Hopkinton, who died April 13, 1845, leaving one
child, Mary Ann ; Mary, July 12, 1823, died July,
1844.

(VI) Elbridge Gerry Comey, third child of
Royal Comey (s), and father of Dr. Perley P.
Comey (VII). was born in Hopkinton, Massachu-
setts, November 11, 181 1. He married Abigail J.
Pierce. He was a farmer. He settled first in Hol-
liston, but in i860 returned to his native town, Hop-
kinton, Massachusetts, to live. He was a man of
sterling character and exemplary life. He died in

Hopkinton, , 1868. They had children : Amanda

."Kun, born December 20, 1832, died November 10,
1856 ; educated at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary ;
Aratus, born October 27, 1837 ; Henry Newton, born
March 4, 1840; Manlius, born March 18, 1843 :
Mary Abby, born November 28, 1845. married. July
15, 1868, George S. Gibson, of Hopkinton, Massa-
chusetts, has five children, resides in Clinton, Massa-
chusetts; and Perley P., of whom later.

(VII) Dr. Perley Pierce Comey, youngest son
of Elbridge Gerry Comey (6), was born in HoUis-
ton, Massachusetts, January 14, 1852. He removed
to Hopkinton with the family when eight years old.
Fie spent his boyhood and youth helping his father
on the farm when he was not attending the district
schools of HoUiston and Hopkinton. In 1868, after
his father died, he was sent to the Oread high
school in Worcester, a classical school connected
with the Oread Institute at that time. He after-
ward learned the business of a druggist and phar-
macist in Worcester. He began to study nudicine
in the office of Dr. A. P. Richardson, of Boston.
He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in
1878. In the following August he began to practice
his profession in Clinton, Massachusetts. Almost
from the start he received liberal patronage and soon
had a very extensive practice, not only in Clinton
but in all the adjoining towns. Ever ready to sym-
pathize and advise the afthcted and suffering, he be-
came popular wherever he was known. He was not
only a successful physician and skillful surgeon, but
his tact and excellent judgment were quickly rec-

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ogiiized by his patients. He removed to the larger
field of Worcester about 1897, though still retain-
ing much of his county practice. lie resides at
bj Lincoln street, and his office is at 61 Lincoln
street. Dr. Conicy stands high in the estimation of
his fellow practitioners in Worcester, and in hos-
pital and private practice has been singularly for-
tunate in recent years, lie is a member of the
Massachusetts Medical Society. He is a prominent
Free Mason and Odd Fellow.

He married, in ICS73, Marion L. Jones, daughter
of John O. Jones, of Boston, and granddaughter of
the late Colonel James Estabrook, of Worcester,
with whom she lived. They have three children,
viz.: I. Effie M., born in Clinton, a graduate ot
Smith College, married D. E. iNIanson, ot Brookline,
Massachusetts, manager of the Westinghouse Elec-
tric Company of Boston ; they have two children :
Marian and John T. ; Gertrude J., born in Clin-
ton, a graduate of Smith College, resides at home;
Clifton J., born in Clinton, a graduate of Worcestu'
Academy, class of 1905, now (1906J a student 111
Boston.

OLIVER WILLIS RUGG. John Rugg was the
emigrant ancestor of Oliver Willis Rugg and Arthur
1'. Rugg, of Worcester, and probably of all the
families of that surname in this vicinity. He came
to this country about 1650 and settled at Water-
ii'wn, but soon reinoved and was one of the first
-cttlers of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Rugg is an
ancient family in Norfolk county, England, and
Lord Braybrooke says that two men of this branch
of the family were aldermen of Norwich. One re-
port states that John Rugg was born in Sowerby,
llalifa.x parish, England, March ir, 1632. John
Rugg was in Lancaster in 1652. He married licst,
in i6;4, Martha Prescott, and (second). Hannah
Prescott, both daughters of Jonathan and Mary
( Platts) Prescott. He was very active in town
affairs. He was admitted a freeman in 1669. His
wife Martha died May 4, 1660, after having had
two children, both of whom died young. John
Rugg died at Lancaster in 1696. His widow was
killed by the Indians at Lancaster, September 22,

ibgy. His children were : i. ■ died January

18. 1655-6. 2. John, born January 17. 1655-6, died
Januarv 29, 1655-6. 3. John, born June 4. ' 1662,
died 1712: had: i. John. ii. Samuel, settled at
Hadley. iii. Nathaniel, iv. David., v. Jonathan,
vi. Benjamin. vii. Mary. viii. Abigail.'^ 4. Mary,
born July II, 1664. 5. Thomas, born September 15,
1666. resided at Lexington, Massachu-^etts ; married

Elizabeth , and had : i. Thomas, born

December 6, 1691. ii. William, born November 19,
1693. iii. Elizabeth, born January 20. 1695. iv.
Hannah, born April 26. 1697. v. Abigail, born
March 13, 1699. vi. Sarah, born February 12, 1702.
vii. Mary, born May 30. 1703. viii. Ruth, born Sep-
tember, 1706. ix. Tabitha, born September 10, 1708.
X. Milicent. born November 11, 1710. xi. Martha,
born November 10. 1713. 6. Joseph, born Decem-
ber 15, 1668. (Joseph, his wife and three children
and his mother Hannah were murdered by the In-
dians at their home in Lancaster. September 22,
1697. The others killed at that time were: Rev.
Mr. Whiting. Daniel Hudson, his wife and two
daughters: Ephraim Roper, wife and daughter ; John
Skait and wife; Jonathan Fairbank. Widow
Wheeler, Mary Glazier, and a son of each of Eph-
raim Roper, John Skait and Joseph Rugg. Most
of these families were in South Lancaster. Peace
had already been declared between Great Britain
and France when this attack was made.) 7. Hannah,
born January 2, 1671, married John Bell, 1690. 8.

Rebecca, born May 16. 1673, married Nathaniel
Hudson. 9. Daniel, born November 15. 1678 10
Jonathan, born February 10, 1681, settled in Marl-
iiorough. Massachusetts, married Sarah, daughter of
John Newton; removed to Framingham, Massa-
chusetts; married (second) Hannah Singletary

married (third) Eliz.abeth , who was living

when he died, December 25, 1753.

(H) Daniel Rugg, son of John Rugg (i), lived
m that part of Lancaster that is now Sterling. He
was born September 15, 1678, at Concord, while the
family was away from Lancaster. He died at Sterl-
mg, June 23. 1758. He was constable in 1718, and
always prominent in church affairs at South Lan-
caster or Sterling. He lived near the Sawyers,
Fairbanks, Samuel Prescott, John Harris and Rev.
Andrew (iardner. They served together in the same
garrison by order of the general court at Mr. Gard-
ner's house, on the west side of the Nashua river.
Daniel Rugg saw much service during the Indian
troubles. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Reu-
ben Priest, of Sterling, March 10, 1730. He died
June 23, 1758. His wife died December 3, 1754.
He joined the church March 3, 1716-17; she joined
April I, 1716-17. Both had been members of the
Eancasier church. Daniel Rugg signed the cove-
nant in 1708 at Lancaster. Children of Daniel and
Elizabeth Rugg: i. Captain Daniel. 2. Reuben,
horn at Sterling, married Lydia Ross. 3. Amos,
born December 17. 17-16. baptized January"20, 1717.
4. Nathan, born April 13, 1718. 5. Isaac, baptized
.\pnl 3. 1720. 6. Sarah, baptized July 21, 1728.
7. Mary (full communion). May 6, 1733.

(II!) -Amos Rugg, son of Daniel Rugg (2),
was born at Sterling, December 17, 1716 ; married De-
cemlier 29, 1741, Mary Burpee, and settled in Sterl-
ing. He was a farmer. Children of Amos and
Mary (Burpee) Rugg; T. Amos, born January 6,
1744-45. died September 11, 1746. 2. Amos, (2<l),
l)orn March 1747, married Sarah Willard 1769, in-
tentions recorded February 8, 1769. 3. Mary, born
May 7. 1750. 4. Stephen, born October 30, 1751,
died October 19, 1756. 5. Solomon, born March 17,
1754. died November 5. 1756. 6. Phebe, born June
.S- ^75^- 7- Olive, born April 6, 1760. 8. Pamelia,
born April 12, 1762. 9. Hannah, born June 22, 1764.
10. Luther, born April 12. 1770.

(IV) I.ulher Rugg. son of Amos Rugg (3),
was born at Sterling, then the western part of Lan-
caster. .April 12. 1770. and died in Sterling October
20, 1S63. He was prominent in town affairs, an
active and useful citizen. He was elected a member
of the committee on laying out roads in 1817; as
assessor six years, 1818-27: served on the school
committee five years. 1818-25 ; on board of over-
seers of poor 1820 and 1821 ; on board of officers
to preserve order in public worship, in 1820, 1824.
1826 and 1827 : elected field driver 1825 and 1832.
■ind member of committee on gift of the Jacob
Conant farm to the town in 1839. He married
luiif 22. 1800. Ruth Jewett. daughter of Amos
Jewett, who was born in Lancaster, March. 1747.
died at Lancaster, April 15, 1781, married, October,
1768. .Sarah Willard. Amos Jewett was a soldier
in the Continental army during the revolutionary
war in the campaign about Boston. Ruth was born
January 16. 1776. and died September 20. 1864.
Their children: i. Harriet, born March 30, i8or.
died August 23, 1892 ; married Spencer Wilder. 2.
Mason, born September 16. 1802, died September 7,
1804, 3. Luther Warren, born .August 24. 1804,
died December T4. 1859. 4. .Amos Willard. born
February 2,'i. 1806. died June 2. 1866. 5. Ruth Eliza.
liorn February 13. 1808. died April 19. 1836. married
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1810, died June 25, 1814. 7. Adolplia. born December
15, 1812. died September 24, 1861. married William
CrowcU, 1S50. 8. Augustus Kendall, born February
17, 1815, died August 7, 1S43. 9. Prentice Mason,
born July 22. 18I7, died February 25, 1885.

(.V) Prentice Mason Rugg. son of Lutber Rugg
(4), born at Sterling, July 22, 1817, died in Boston,
February 25, 1885. He carried on a farm at Sterl-
ing, and taught school in the winter for many years
in Lancaster and Sterling. For twenty-one winters
in succession he taught school, and later four years
more. He was frequently honored by his fellow
citizens. He served as assessor nineteen years, from
185s to 1881, as member of school committee, nine
years from 1847 to i860 as moderator of town meet-
ings ; eight years from 1869 to 1879 as selectinan ;
as juryman eight terms from 1868 to 1882; as high-
way surveyor four years from 1843 to 1869; as trus-
tee of the Conant fund three years from 1868 to
1870. and other various committees. He married,
June 15, 1847, Cynthia Ross. She was born in
Bakersfield. Vennont, December 17, 1825, daughter
of Willis and Mary (Taylor) Ross. Both of her
parents were born in Sterling and removed to
Bakersfield. The children of Prentice Mason and
Cynthia (Ross) Rugg were: I. John Mason, born
June 6. 1848, died in Sterling, August 28, 1866; was
educated in common schools of Sterling and was
fitted for college in the Lancaster Academy under
W. A. Kilburn, principal. He taught the South
Lancaster grammar school during the winter term
of 1865 and 1866. 2. Oliver Willis, born March
24, 1850. 3. Carrie Hannah, born February 7, 1852,
married Herbert R. Sylvester, who was born in
Newton, Massachusetts, and is principal of the Claf-
lin School of Newton. Carrie Hannah was edu-
cated in the public schools and at the State Normal
School at Salem, class of 1873. She taught school
at Lancaster and Sterling, Wellesley and Newton.
They reside at Newtonville. 4. Arthur Prentice,
born August 20, 1862, married Florence Belcher,
of Worcester ; has had four children. 5. Mary
Taylor, born September 4, 1864, died September I,
1866.

(VI) Oliver Willis Rugg, son of Prentice
Mason Rugg (5), was born at Sterling, March 24,
1850. His early days were spent on the farm in that
town. He attended the district schools of Sterling,
and later spent two terms at the Lancaster Academy
under W. A. Kilburn, principal. He taught the
Chocksett district school during the winter -term
of 1868-69, and later substituted in Sterling for his
sister Carrie H., so that she might accept a better
position which had been offered her after she had
teen engaged at Sterling. He entered the Wor-
cester Polytechnic Institute in September, 1869,
.graduating in 1872, in the second class graduated
from that Institute. Among his classmates were
Parkman T. Denny, of Leicester, A. W. Woods, of
Worcester : George H. Scott of the Morgan Spring
Company of Worcester : Solon Davis and Jonathan
Moore, of Holden ; Herbert S. Rice, of Barre ; S.
C Heald, Jr., of Jamica Plains ; and M. B. Smith,
of Lowell. During the vacation of 1871 he worked
with William A. Smith, engineer in charge of the
water supply for the city of Fitchburg. In Septem-
ber, 1872, he went to work for George Raymond,
who was engineer in charge of the preliminary sur-
veys for the introduction of water into the town of
Leominster, also into the city of Springfield : en-
gineer for the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad
Company, and engineer for the Fitchburg Railroad
Comnany. While in his employ Mr. Rugg made
estimates for the Leominster water supply, surveys
and estimates for the Springfield water supply, and

did much of the engineering for the Vermont &
Massachusetts Railroad Company, and some for the
Fitchburg Railroad Company. Mr. Raymond was
elected city engineer of Fitchburg the first year it
was incorporated as a city, and he gave into the
hands of Mr. Rugg the engineering for the street
department of that city. After leaving Mr. Ray-
mond, Mr. Rugg worked for a time on his own
account at Clinton and other places. It was at this
time that he substituted in the school at Sterling
for his sister. He was elected a member of the
school committee about this time and served for
many terms. In 1878 he formed a partnership with
his classmate, A. W. Woods, as civil engineers and
surveyors, and they opened an office at 44 Front
street, Worcester. Three years later they moved
to the Rogers Block, at the corner of Pleasant and
Main streets, and still later to the J. H. Walker
building at the corner of Barton Court and Main
street. This firm had all the work of the Wash-
burn & Moen Manufacturing Coinpany until they
established an office of their own. They also had
the work of George Crompton for many years.
The firm made a preliminary survey to Marlboro
for H. H. Bigelow. who planned to extend the line
he had built to the Lake. They also made an ac-
curate survey and very artistic plan of Lake Quin-
sigamond for Mr. Bigelow. They did the prelimi-
nary surveying for the Grafton, Upton & Milford
Railroad, and carried out the construction of a part
of that road. Mr. Rugg, for the firm, made the
plans and superintended the construction of the
first electric railroad in Worcester, the Worcester,
Leicester & Spencer Electric Street Railway. The
firm were the engineers for the Worcester & Mill-
bury Electric Street Railway Company. In 1893
they made preliminary surveys for electric railways
from Worcester to Southbridge, Webster, North-
bridge, via the Blackstone Valley, and to Marlboro.
This was done by order of the late Samuel Winslow,
who was then president and one of the promoters
of the Worcester, Leicester and Spencer Electric
Railway. None of these roads, however, were built
under these franchises. Mr. Rugg and his partner
dissolved in 1S94, and Mr. Rugg opened his office
in the Day building, on Main street. After that
building was destroyed by fire in March. 1897, he
moved to his present office, Room 824, State Mutual
Building. He has been occupied much of the time
with street railway work, although his office has
had a large variety of work for individuals and
corporations in Worcester county. He engineered
the relocation of the Worcester, Leicester & Spencer
Electric Street Railway to conform to the state
highway, made preliminary surveys for an electric
railway from Pen Yan to Branchport, in the state
of New York, on which he was afterward the con-
structing engineer, was constructing engineer for
the Worcester & Clinton Street Railway Company,
relocated and constructed a part of the Worcester
& Webster Street Railway, was constructing en-
gineer for the Worcester & Southbridge Street Rail-
way Company, made preliminary surveys for an
electric railway from Washington Junction to Cas-
tine, in the«state of Maine, a distance of about forty
miles ; this road, however, has never been built. He
has also made preliminary surveys, plans and esti-
mates for a railroad to connect at Millbury with
the W"orcester Consolidated Street Railway, and
run to Singletary Lake, a railroad from Fiskdale
to Palmer, an extension of the Southbridge & Stur-
bridge Street Railway, and one from Whitinsville
to Providence, an extension of the Blackstone Valley
Street Railway, but these likewise were never built.
He has in the past few years done practically all of

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the engineering for the Worcester Consolidated
Street Kaihvaj- Company. Plans and estimates have
been prepared for the abolition of grade crossings
in the towns of Webster and Winchendon under
his supervision. Mr. Rugg is a member of Athels-
tan Lodge, A. F. and A. M. ; of Hiram Council, of
Worcester Chapter, of the Worcester Countj- Coni-
niandery, Knights Templar, and he has taken all
the degrees to and including the thirty-second in
the Scottish Rite. He is Republican in politics and
z member of the Board of Trade.

He married. May 14. 1902, Maud Edith Thre^luT,
daughter of Harrison O. and Mary Lizzie (.Hinck-
ley I Thresher, of Hardwick. Massachusetts. Their
children are. i. Oliver Willis, Jr., born October jS.
190.5. 2. Alma Beatrice, born April 6, 1905, both
born at Worcester.

ARTHUR PRENTICE RUGG. (6). son of
Prentice M. Rugg (5j, was born at Sterling. Massa-
chusetts. August 20, 1862. (For ancestery see sketch
of his brother, O. Willis Rugg.)

Arthur P. Rugg passed his youthful days at
home in his native town, where he attended the
district schools, and later prepared for college at
Lancaster high school, from which institution he
was graduated in 1879. He entered Amherst Col-
lege, was graduated cum laudc in 1883, and im-
mediately began the study of law. entering the
Boston University Law School. In 1886 he received
liis degree of Bachelor of Laws magna cum laiide,
was admitted to the bar the same year, and was
selected to serve as class orator at the connnence-
ment exercises. Worcester having been chosen as
the central field for his work, he entered into a law
partnership with John R. Thayer, recently repre-
sentative in congress from the third Massachusetts
district. The firm of Thayer & Rugg in 1886 had
their offices in the Walker building, but the present
spacious offices of the firm are to be found on the
eighth floor of the State Mutual building, where
they located shortly after the completion of the
building. /

Mr. Rugg's professional career has been very act-
ive and successful. He has won many notable victories
for his firm, having few equals as a trial lawyer
and no superior in the preparation of cases. He
has confined himself to no special line of practice,
and though not generally know-n as a criminal
lawyer has had an extended experience in the crim-
inal courts, having in 1893 and 1894 served as as-
sistant district attorney pro tempore, and in April.
1895, \va<; appointed assistant district attorney by
Herbert Parker. He was chosen city solicitor, July
.1. 1897, to succeed William S. B. Hopkins, and has
teen annually re-elected since that year, a fact
which testifies to his sterling integrity and quali-
fications for office. This is one of the most im-
portant positions of the kind in the state, and his
excellent service rendered in behalf of the public
during his term of office has won for him the com-
plete confidence of the citizens and taxpayers of
the city. He was admitted to nractice in the supreme
■court of the United States. November 28. 1904. for
the purpose of arguing writs of error in the famous
cases of the City of Worcester vs. the Worcester
Consolidated Street Railway in relation to condi-
tions in location for tracks. He has devoted him-
self exclusively to the work of his profession, avoid-
ing political office and other interests that he felt
would conflict with the requirements of his chosen
vocation. His services as counsel for various towns
in the county when involved in litigation have been
often sought. He is counsel for many corporate
interests, and has a large clientage among all classes.

In recent years he has been called upon to serve
on rnany important commissions to abolish grade
crossings and to determine apportionments in the
Metropolitan district. Mr. Rugg had a brief service
ill the common ccnmcil of Worcester, representing
his ward in 1894-95. and during his second year
was president of the board. He has been a trustee
of the Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank since
1807. and was a director of the First National
Bank from 1900 to 1903, when the bank went into
voluntary liquidation. He is a member of Athels-
lan Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons;
lliram Council; Worcester Chapter; Worcester
County Commandery. Knights Templar. He is a
nioniber of the Worcester Club, Commonwealth
Club, American Bar Association, Appalachian Club
of Boston, American Forestry Association, Wor-
cester Board of Trade, Worcester County Horti-
cultural Society, Worcester County Agricultural
Society, and the Worcester Society of Antiquity. He
is president of the Amherst College Alumni Associa-
tion (1900;, a trustee of the School of Expression,
Bo.ston, an active number of the Church of the
Unity C Unitarian), of Worcester, a member of the
parish committee, and a Republican in politics.

Mr. Rugg has met with uncommon success in
the prosecution of bis chosen profession because
of the elements of success within him. He is
studious, thoughtful, quick to comprehend, has in
store a generous fund of practical knowledge, and
is a gentleman and a man of honor. Aside from
his extensive yet rapidly increasing legal practice,
he has found time to respond to invitations to de-
liver various addresses, among which might be
named a memorial address at Sterling, Massa-
chusetts, on the death of the late President McKin-
ley: and "Colonial Farm Life in Colonial New
England," delivered before the Worcester Society
of Antiquity. He has also delivered Memorial Day
addresses before various Grand Army Posts, also
on other public occasions, some of which may be
found in print. He has also been called upon to
act on various commissions and boards of arbitra-
tions when questions of law were involved.

As these pages were undergoing revision. Mr.
Rugg was paid the high compliment of having been
selected by Governor Guild to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the resignation of Hon. John Lathrop.
and was accordingly commissioned associate justice
of the supreme court, and took his seat on the bench,
in the court house at Worcester, on October i, 1906.

Mr. Rugg married, in Worcester, Massachusetts, ,
April 10. 1889. Florence May Belcher, daughter of
Charles and Esther (Jewett) Belcher, of Worcester.
Their children are : Charles Belcher, born Janu-
ary 20, 1890 ; Arthur Prentice, Jr.. born August 22.
1893: Esther Cynthia, born September 5. 1896: Don-
ald Sterling, born August 18, 1898, died February
22. 1899.

ANDREW J. BANCROFT. Lieutenant Thomas
Bancroft fi). son of John and Jane Bancroft, was
born in England in 1622. He was the immigrant
ancestor of Andrew J. Bancroft, of Lancaster.
Massachusetts. His father also came over but died
in Lynn in i6,V- His mother. Jane Bancroft, had
land assigned to her in Lynn where the family first
settled in New- England. She was living in LvUn
in 16,^8.

Thomas Bancroft was living in Dedhani. Massa-
chusetts, in 1647. and was admitted to townsman
in 1648. He removed in 1652 or 1653. wdien his
name first appears on the church records of Read-
ing. Massachusetts.' but there is no proof that he
ever lived within the limits of that town, but he

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certainly lived in that vicinity the remainder of
his days. He hired a the hundred acre farm of
Samuel Bennett in what is now Saugus, an adja-
cent town, and the Reading church was the nearest
to his home, so he belonged to that parish. The
town lines in that neighborhood seem to have been
indefinite. He was not a proprietor of the town
of Reading, but his son Thomas lived in Reading
and became a very prominent citizen there.

The home of Lieutenant Thomas Bancroft was
just south of the Straits, a narrow roadway through
the rocky hills leading from Reading to Saugus.
It is still known as the Bancroft place. The sur-
vey of the line between Lynn and Charlestown
made about 1670 mentions the "house that was En-
sign Bancroft's." About that time he bought seventy
acres of land at Lynnfield, three miles from Reading
church, which was still the nearest to his home.
In 1678 the deed of the adjoining Holyoke farm
recites "that it had been for some time in posses-
sion and improvemeiit of Thomas Bancroft and a
half acre with building thereon was reserved • and
deeded to Bancroft."

Lieutenant Bancroft died in Lynn, August ig,
1691. The inventory of his estate was filed Novem-
ber 24, 1691, by his son Ebenezer. It shows that
he owned land at Reading and Lynn, etc. An
agreement for a division of the property was made
by the widow, Elizabeth, sons Thomas, John and
Ebenezer ; Joseph Brown, husband of the daughter
Elizabeth, and Sarah Bancroft, the youngest daugh-
ter. The widow died May I, 1711.

He married (first) Alice Bacon, daughter of
Michael Bacon, of Dedham, Massachusetts. March
^l, 1647-8. She died March 29, 1648. He married
(second) Elizabeth Metcalf, daughter of Michale
and Sarah Metcalf. She was admitted to the church
December 14,- 1651, at Dedham. and November 22,
1669, at Reading, by letter from Dedham. The
only child of Lieutenant Thomas and Alice was :
Thomas, born 1648, of whom later. The children
of Thomas and Elizabeth were : Elizabeth, born
and died 1650: John, born February 3, 1651-2, mar-
ried Elizabeth Bacon; Elizabeth, born at Reading,
December 7. 1653. married Joseph Brown ; Sarah,
horn 1660. died 1661 ; Raham, born 1662, died 1683 ;
Sarah, born 1665, inarried John Woodward ; Eben-
ezer, born 1667. married Abigail Eaton and resided
at Lynnfield; Mary, born 1670.

(II) Thomas Bancroft, son of Lieutenant
Thomas Bancroft (l), was born in Dedham. Massa-
chusetts, in 1648 or 1649. He settled in Reading,
Massachusetts, and became one of the most promi-
nent citizens there. He was an officer in King
Philip's war, selectman for several years. He re-
sided in the western part of Reading where the
old Bancroft homestead is to be seen at present.
His was the fourth house built in the west parish ;
it was near what is now called the Abraham "Temple
place.

He married in 1673, Sarah Poole, daughter of
Jonathan and Judith Poole. Their children were :
Thomas, of whom later ; Jonathan, born and died
1675 ; Sarah, born 1676, married Abraham Bryant ;
Mehitable. born 1678, married Parker ; Jona-
than, born 1681. married Sarah . died in 1702;

Raham, born 1684 ; Judith, born 1688. married
Parker ; Samuel, born 1691, died 1692 ;

Samuel born 1693 ; Elizabeth, born 1696, married

(III) Captain Thomas Bancroft, son of Thomas
Bancroft (2), was born in Reading. Massachusetts.
1673. He also settled in Reading. He married
Mary Webster. Their children were: Thomas,
born in Reading about 1705; Benjamin, of whom

later ; Jonathan, married Mary Pierpont ; Joshua,
married Mary Lamson, resided in Reading and
Worcester.

(,1V) Captain Benjamin Bancroft, son of Cap-
tain Thomas Bancroft (3), was born in Reading,
Massachusetts, 1701 or 1702, died at Groton, July
21, 1787. He settled first in the adjoining town of
Charlestown and later at Groton, Massachusetts.
He joined the church at Charlestown, November
3, 172S. He bought his house there in 1723 of John
Allum. He was a tanner by trade. He was cap-
tain of militia and probably served in the colonial
wars. He married Anna Lawrence, daughter of
John Lawrence, of Lexington, and a descendant of
John Lawrence, of Watertown. (See Lawrence
pedigree with A. B. Lawrence sketch, Fitchburg,
in this work.) The children of Captain Ben-
jamin and Anna Bancroft were: Benjamin, Jr.,
of whom later; Edmund, born at Charles-
tow-n, Massachusetts, November 23, 1726, set-
tled at Pepperell, formerly part of Groton ; was
treasurer, deputy to the general court, and captain ;
Anna, born December 20, 1728, at Groton, died
November, 1806; Mary, born April 4, 1731, died
December i, 1732; Joseph, born September 5, 1733.
died Noveiuber 24, 1737; Mary, born February 0,
1735. died November 25, 1737; Joseph, born August

I, 173S, died November 2, 1745; Sarah, born Novem-
ber 2, 1740, died November 2, 1745 ; Jonathan, born
January 27, 1743, died October 26, 1745.

(V) Deacon Benjamin Bancroft, son of Captain
Benjamin Bancroft (4), was born in Charlestown,
Massachusetts. September 29, 1724, and died at
Groton, October 27, 1804, aged eighty years. He
f(.illowed his father's trade, a tanner, and like his
father became captain of the militia company. In
the revolution his son Benjamin was a soldier. He
seems to have served also at Rutland, guarding
British prisoners in Captain Nathaniel Harrington's
company. Colonel Abijah Stearns's regiment, in
1778. He was treasurer of the town and deacon
of the church at Groton.

He married. October iS, 1749, Alice Tarbell, of
Groton. She died November 29, 17S1. Their chil-
dren were: Benjamin, Jr., born August 7, 1750,
at Charlestown or Groton ; Abel, born at Groton,
May 2S. 1752; Thaddeus, born April 12, 1754; Wil-
liam, born May 2, 1756, lieutenant in the revolution;
married, 1782, Agnes Edes ; Joseph, born July 3,
1760; Samuel, of whom later; Sarah, born July 29,
1767; John, born January 28, 1771.

(VI) Samuel Bancroft, son of Deacon Benja-
min Bancroft (5), was born at Groton, Massa-
chusetts, July 6, 1764. He settled in Groton. He
married. May 7, 1789, Anigail Child. He was edu-
cated in the common schools and learned the trade
of stone mason, which he followed all his life. He
was also a farmer. His children were : Isaac, born
November 6, 1789; Tarbell, May 19, 1792; Edmund,
May 23, 1794; Abigail, October 23, 1796; Stowell,
April II, 1799; George W., August 11, 1801 ; Eliza,
July 14, 1803.

(VII) Stowell Bancroft, son of Samuel Ban-
croft (6), was born in Groton. Massachusetts, April

II. 1799. He was educated in the district schools
and learned the trade of his father, a stone mason,
and followed it as a business during his active life.
In politics he was an active Whig for many years.
He resided in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and in
Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. He married
(first) Mary Heywood. December 3, 1822: she died

January 3, 182s She was born February 7, 1796,
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Perkins) Trow.
He married (second) Martha D. Trow, July 3,
1825; she died December 15. 1876. He died March

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14, 1883. Of his children one was liy the first mar-
riage and five by the second. The child of Stowell
and Mary was : Mary EHzabeth, born December
17, 1824. The children of Stowell and Martha Ban-
croft were: Emily Heywood, born July 19, 1826,
died December 29, 1875 • Andrew Jackson, born
April 28, 1829; Sabrina Francis, born August 28,
183 1 ; William Henry Child, born August 10, 1833;
Charles Bainbridge, born September 4, 1838, died
June 2, 1903.

(VIII) Andrew J. BaTicroft, son of Stowell
Bancroft (7), and Martha Dodge (Trow)
Bancroft, was born in Dunstable. Massachu-
setts, April 28, 1829. He removed to New
Hampshire with his parents when he was a
young boy and attended the district schools
there. He settled in Mount Vernon, New Hamp-
.'liire, where he engaged in the business of lumber-
ing and farming, achieving more than ordinary
success. In 1856 he removed to Lancaster, Massa-
chusetts, and settled there on a farm. For the past
few years Mr. Bancroft has led a retired life. In
politics Mr. Bancroft is a Republican. He has
taken a leading part in town affairs in Lancaster
and for over thirty years has been on the board of
assessors. He has also served the town as road
commissioner, overseer of the poor and selectman.
He is an active attendant of the Congregational
church and one of its most liberal supporters. Mr.
Bancroft inherits the executive ability and strength
of character that have made the Bancrofts for
many generations leaders and men of prominence.
He has given to his fellow citizens the utmost satis-
faction in the various positions of trust and respon-
sibility that he has filled.

He married, October, 1856, Mary A. Clough,
daughter of James and Sarah (Sargent) Clough, of
Orange, New Hampshire. Their children are : Ed-
win E.. born September 10. 1858. married Josephine
Given, and they have three children; William L.,
born February 20. 1S62. married Agnes White, and
they have had two children ; George A., born July
I, 1865. married Edith R. Worcester; Charles G.,
born December 3, 1867. married Blanche Hight.
and they have two children ; Martha S., born
November 2, 1871.

WHITNEY FAMILY. John Whitney (i), the
immigrant ancestor of Anna Henshaw Whitney, of
Lancaster, Massachusetts, was born in England in
1659. He settled early in Watertown, Massachusetts,
where he was living in June, 1635. He married in

England, Elinor . who was born in 1599

and died at Watertown. May 11, 1659. He married
(second) in Watertown. September 29, 1659. Judith
Clement, who died before him. He died June 1,
1673. (Something of his ancestry and more of his
early history will be found under the sketch of the
Whitney family of Worcester, Massachusetts, in
this work.)

The children of John and Elinor Whitney were:
Mary, baptized in England. May 23. 1619. died
yoiuig; John, of whom later; Richard, born in Eng-
land. 1626, married Martha Coldam; Nathaniel,
born in England. 1627 ; Thomas, born in England,
1629, married Mary Kettell : Jonathan, born in Eng-
land. 16,34. married Lydia Jones; Joshua, born in

Watertown, July 5, 1635. married Lydia ;

(second) Mary' : (third) Abigail Tarbell ;

Caleb, born at Watertown. July T2. 1640, buried
July 12. 1640; Benjamin, born at Watertown. July
6. 1643. married Jane and (second) Mary Poor.

(li) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (i),
was born in England, 1620. He settled in Water-
town. He married Ruth Reynolds, daughter of
6

Robert Reynolds, of Watertown, Weathcrsfield and
Boston. John Whitney's estate was administered
by his widow and sons, John and Benjamin. The
inventory dated October 26, 1692, included eighteen
parcels of land amounting to two hundred and ten
acres. His will was dated February 27, 1685; it
was not proved. His homestall was a three-acre
lot on the east side of Lexington street on land
granted first to E. How, bought by him in 1643, 'the
lot next south of the homestead of the Phillips
family and probably the same lot occupied by his
grandson, Bradshavv Whitney. He was a soldier
in King Philip's war under Captain Hugh Mason.
He died October 12, 1692.

The children of John and Ruth Whitney were:
John, born September 17, 1643, married Eliza'oeth
Hinds; Ruth, born .^pril i,:;, 1645. married, June
20, 1664. John Shaltuck. who was in the Squakeag
fight September 4. 1675, and was drowned soon
afterward at Charlestown Ferry; Nathaniel, born
February r. 1646, married Sarah Hagar; Samuel,
born July 26. 1648. married Mary Bemis; Mary,
Ijorn April 29. 1650; Joseph, born January i,s, 1651,
married Martha Beach ; Sarah, born March 17,
i6.S3, married. October 18, 1681, Daniel Harrington;
Elizabeth, born June 9, 1656, married, December
19. 1678, Daniel Warren; Hannah; Benjamin, born
June 28. i66o,- married .-\bigail Hagar.

(III) John Whitney, son of John Whitney (2),
was born in Watertown, September 17, 1643, mar-
ried in 1669, Elizabeth Harris, who was born No-
vember 9, 1644, daughter of Robert Harris. She
owned the covenant in the Roxbury church March
.SO, 167:. He was admitted a freeman in May, 1684.
He was a member of the Second Church of Rox-
bury, November 2. 1712, and doubtless had be-
longed to the First Church there. His house lot,
containing nine acres, was situated on Pond street,
in that part of Roxbury called Jamaica Plain. He
was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1676, and
owned the covenant in the church at Roxbury in
February. 1684. He was a tailor by trade. His
will is dated September. 1718. and was proved
March 13, 1726-7. He died March 4, 1726. The
children of John and Elizabeth Whitney were : Dan-
iel, born December 3. i68r, married Susanna Curtis;
Timothy, born April 16, 1678, married Margaret
Bacon; Elizabeth, born September 9. 1670; Ruth,
born at Ro.xbury. baptized .Xugust 31, 1674. mar-
ried, April 22, 1701. Joseph Adams, .resided in
Brookline ; Sarah, baptized August 2, 1684, died
July 4. 1689; John, born April I, 1672. died young.

(IV) Daniel Whitney, eldest son of John Whit-
ney (3). was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
December 3. 16S1. He lived at Roxbury. He mar-
ried, June 21. 1704, Susanna Curtis. Their children
were ; John, born May 23. 1705, inherited land of
his grandfather Whitney at Woodstock, Connecti-
cut, then in Massachusetts; Elizabeth, born Febru-
ary 4. 1706; Susanna, born February 21, 1708; Dan-
iel, born March 26, 171 1 ; Anna, born .'\pril 30, 1713;
Elijah, of whom later ; Ruth, born December 5,
1718; Eli.sha, born October 5. 1722; Esther, bom
July II. 1726, married, March 8, 174S, John White.

(V) Elijah Whitney, son of Daniel Whitney
(4). was born at Roxbury. Massachusetts. January
IS. 1715. He married Hannah — . They set-
fled in Warwick. Massachusetts, where in 1776 he
served on the committee of safety and correspon-
dence. Their children, born at Roxbury, were :
Elijah, born September 23, 1744; Elisha, born Oc-
tober 6, 1747, of whom later; John, bom November
29. 1/49. married May Payson ; Hannah, born June
13. 175'S. baptized at Roxbury same year; Daniel,
married Sarah Gay.

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(VI) Elisha Whitney, son of Elijah Whitney
(5), was born at Roxbury, October 6, 1747. He
married in Newton, Massachusetts, June 4, 1769,
Abigail Dana. He was a lieutenant in the revolu-
tion. His picture painted by Stuart is owned by
his grandson, Benjamin D. Whitney. He resided
at West Roxbury, Massachusetts. The children
of Lieutenant Elisha and Abigail Whitney were:
Experience, born February, 1776, died September
17, 1777: Abigail, born April 10, 1778, married,
November 17, 1799, Joseph Stavcr, of Boston;
Elisha. born February 4, 17S0, married Sarah Heath;
Asa. of whom later: Pedy, born July 20. 17S4, mar-
ried in Roxbury, 1801, Colonel Joseph Dudley, who
was born October 16. 1780; he owned and occupied
the old Dudley homestead in Roxbury ; he was a
fanner strict in principles, generous with his for-
tune ; he gave a site for a townhouse in Roxbury ;
William, born June 17, 1788, died unmarried;
Elizabeth, born March 3, 1793. died unmarried.

(VH) Asa Whitney, son of Elisha Whitney (6),
was born in Boston, May 18, 1782. He married at
Pomfret, Connecticut, December 3r, 1805, Mary
Hammond, who was born December 7, 1787, and
died 1845. He died March 4, 1826. He resided at
Pomfret, Roxbury, Cambridge and Boston.,

The children of Asa and Mary Whitney were:
I. Benjamin Duick, born November 6, 1807, mar-
ried (first) Elizabeth Williams and (second) Char-
lotte Genella. 2. Daniel H., born October 7, 1809,
died October 6. 1817. 3. Sarah Hammond, born
May 23, 1812, died June 23, 1817. 4. Mary, born
March 5. 1815, married Professor Cornelius C. Fel-
ton, of Harvard University, who was born in West
Newbury. Massachusetts. November 6, 1807, and
died in Chester, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1862.
He graduated from Harvard in 1827, taught school
two years at Geneseo, New York, was appointed
Latin tutor at Harvard in 1829, became Greek tutor
in 1830, college professor of Greek in 1832. and in
1834 was chosen Eliot professor of Greek literature.
He was for many years regent of the college ; in
i860 he was elected president and continued in the
office until his death. He was a member of the
Massachusetts Board of Education and one of the
regents of the Smithsonian Institute. He was one
of the most profound and enthusiastic classical
scholars in the country. He edited and translated
a number of important works. He wrote "Greece.
Ancient and Modern," — and other important books.
5. Emily, born September 27, 1817, married Dr.
Joseph Sargent, of Worcester. (See sketch of Dr.
Sargent and his family in this work.) 6. Asa H.,
of whom later. 7. Sarah, born July 13, 1822, mar-
ried Frederick W. Gale, of Worcester : both lost on
the steamer ".'\rctic," September 27. 1854. 8. Cath-
erine Dean, born December 17, 1824. married. May,
1849. Dr. Henry Sargent. (See Sargent family of
Worcester and Leicester.)

(VIII) Asa Hanunond Whitney, son of Asa
Whitney (7), was born in Boston, June 17, 1819.
He married, October 3, 1842, Laura Leffingwell
Henshaw, who was born June 23, 1820. at Warren,
Ohio, and died April 20, 1886. He prepared for
college in Boston schools and was graduated at
Harvard College in 1838. After leaving college he
made a voyage to the Mediterranean for his health
and subsequently went to Rio Janiero as supei;-
cargo. On his return he became the junior part-
ner of the firm of Henshaw & Whitney, wholesale
druggists, Boston. He resided in Cambridge ; later
he became interested in railroad business and re-
moved to Norfolk. Virginia, where he tuanaged the
financial affairs of the Seaboard & Roanoke Rail-
road Coinpany, as its treasurer. He was a man of

great energy and earnestness of character. He re-
sided late in life at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where
he died October 7, 1858.

The children of Asa Hammond and Laura Lef-
fingwell Whitney were: i. Laura L., born June
15, 1843, died January 24. 1870. 2. Anna Henshaw,
of whom later. 3. Richard Sullivan, born June 19,
1846, died August 23, 1847. 4. Catherine Dean,
born June 17, 1849, luarried Robert George Lawton,
of Hudson, New York, on the English frigate
"Narcissus," off Havana. Cuba, May 31, 1871. He
was born August 12, 1839, and died December 2,
1904: was a resident of Havana; member of the
banking firm of Lawton Brothers. Their children
were : Robert Henshaw Lawton, born in Havana.
April 3. 1872, died at Lancaster, Massachusetts,
December 10, 1881 ; Sydney Allen Lawton, born at
Lancaster, November 2, 1873, graduate of Harvard
University, 1895, "0\v with the firm of Wrenn
Brothers, brokers. New York city; married, June
29, 1901, Harriet Sheldon Lawton, of Hudson, New
York, and they reside at Rye, New York, and have
two children — Sarah, born October 19, 1902, and
Katharine, born October 14, 1904; Ethel Whitney
Lawton, born at Lancaster. October 4, 1875, married
Chester Parker, of South Lancaster, Massachusetts,
at New York city, October 5, 1899 ; resides in Lan-
caster and they have had three children — Chester
Parker, Jr., born September 29, 1900; Felton Parker,
born January 14, 1902. died March 21, 1902; and
Lydia Parker, liorn November 4, 1903: Richard
Henshaw Lawton, born in Lancaster, March 23,
1888. resides in Rye, New York. 4. Hammond
Moore, born at Norfolk. Virginia, June 28, 1851,
resides in Brookline, Massachusetts: married at
Boston, November 13, 1879, Catherine Howard
Reed, and their children are — Catherine, born at
Longwood, Massachusetts, September 28. 1881, mar-
ried, September 30, 1903, Theodore W. Little, at
Cohasset, Massachusetts ; they reside in Brookline ;
Margaret, born at Longwood, Massachusetts, De-
cember 28, 1886. resides at Longwood. 5. Emily
Stark, born at Norfolk, Virginia, July 10, 1854.
resides at Lancaster.

(IX) Anna Henshaw Whitney, daughter of Asa
Hammond Whitney (8), was born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, November 30, 1844. She attended
school there and in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1855
she was sent to a boarding school at Keene. New
Hampshire with her elder sister, Laura L. Whitney.
In 1858 they entered Lasell Seminary at Auburn-
dale, Massachusetts, graduating in i860. During
the next two years she was a teacher in Lasell
Seminary and in the year following she taught for
a year in a private school in Worcester. In Febru-
ary, 1864, she accepted a position as teacher in the
academy at Lancaster, which shortly became the
Lancaster high school. With the exception of one
year, 1880-1, -spent abroad, she continued to teach
there until 1888.

Miss Whitney has served several three-year
terms on the school committee of Lancaster, and
is at present secretary of the hoard. She is also
secretary of the board of trustees of the Public
Library.

Since giving up her work as teacher in the public
schools she has taught drawing and painting to
private nupils and in the public schools at times.
Miss Whitney has an attractive home at Lancaster
and pursues agriculture at her farm. "Few Acres,"
as one of her avocations. For many years she
kept kennels of St. Bernards and pug dogs for
pleasure and profit, and has officiated as judge of
these and various other breeds at the leading bench
shows in the United States and Canada, beginning

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soon after her return from Europe and continuing
to the present time.

EZRA BURTON. The Burton family from
which Ezra Burton, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, is
descended, settled in Essex county. The progenitor
was probably Boniface Burton, of Salem, who died
June 13, 1669, at the age of one hundred and thir-
teen years. He was one of the first settlers, being
made a freeman Way 6, 1635. He removed to Read-
ing, Massachusetts, in 1644. His wife was Frances.
The Burtons settled in New Hampshire where Mah-
lon Burton,- grandfather of Ezra Burton, was born.
He is remembered as a man of fine physique and
a pubUc speaker of some distinction. He lived at
Wilton, New Hampshire, where many of the de-
scendants of the old Burton family are to be found
today. In this section of southern New Hampshire
the family has lived for five or more generations.
Some of them went to Vermont after the revolu-
tion when a new state was carved out of the wil-
derness by the sons of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire. Among the children of Mahlon Burton
was a son named for him. Mahlon Burton. Jr.

Nahum Burton spent his youth on his father's
farm. He attended school at Wilton and became a
farmer. He too went to Vermont and settled at
Weston, where he lived and died. He was a Whig
and like most of the pioneers extremely patriotic.
He married (first) Charlotte Pettingill. After her
death he married her sister, Lucinda Pettingill.
Their father was in the revolutionary war at the
battle of Bunker Hill, and died in Weston. New
Hampshire. May 16, 1859. She was born in New
Hampshire. She was a woman of exceptional beauty
of character. Among her children was a son, Ezra,
who was born at Weston, ^larch 6, 1827.

Ezra Burton lived the typical life of a Vermont
farmer's son in the early part of the nineteenth cen-
tury. He remembers the introduction of the steam
railroads and the gradual extinction of the stage
coach and other former methods of transportation.
He saw the industrial birth of the new era in
America. He attended such schools as were within
his reach at his Vermont home. There were eight
children and each in turn had to do his share in
helping run the farm. The pioneers who went to
Vermont saw their children and grandchildren drift
away. In this family Ezra was the fourth son to
leave the old homestead and start life in Boston.
The brothers were in the trucking business and at
first he worked for them. At len.gth he went into
the business of brush making with one of his broth-
ers, and he followed this business until he retired.
For thirty years he was salesman of the firm and
spent much of his time travelling in the United
States. He began when there were few railroads,
when the stage covered more ground than the
steam cars. He was successful in building up a
large business, and the firm established a reputation
second to none for their product. He luoved to
Lancaster. Massachusetts, in 1868. and since then
occupied the residence in which he now resides. He
still retains an interest in the brush factory, although
he retired from active business in 1895. He is a
Republican in politics. He attends the Unitarian
church at Lancaster.

He married, April 7, 1863, Sarah Elizabeth
Brace, daughter of Thomas Brace, of Salem. Massa-
chusetts. Thomas Brace was a sea captain of a ves-
sel in trade with China. Their children were :
Linda, died young ; Edward O. ; Maude K.. married
David Hinckley; Ruth O.

SUMNER FAMILY. From the best obtainable
evidence it is believed that Roger Suinner, of Bi-

cester, Oxford county, England, died December
1608, and buried in St. Edbury churchyard, was the
progenitor of tlie Sumner family in America, at
least the New England and especially the Worce'ster
county branches. He married Joan Franklin, No-
vember 2, 1601, and I)y this union one .son was born,
William (i), who l)ecame the American ancestor!
Wdham was baptized at Bicester church, Oxford
county, England, January 2, 1602, and in 1625 mar-
ried Mary West, and by her had two .sons, born in
England : Roger, baptized August, 1632, and George,
baptized March. 1633. The family then emigrated
to New England, settling at Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, about 1635, and from this family, it is be-
lieved, have sprung all the New England Sumners,
including Governor Increase, Gen. W. H. Sum-
ner, and our great statesman, Hon. Charles Sumtier,
of congressional fame.

(II) William Suinner, son of William (i) and
Mary, was probably born in Massachusetts. He
married Elizabeth Clement, daughter of Augustine
Clement, of Dorchester. He was a mariner.

(II) Roger Sumner, born in England, son of
William (l), married the daughter of Thomas
Joslin, an early settler at Hingham. Roger was
admitted to the church at Dorchester, 1656, but
moved to Lancaster and there remained until that
town was destroyed by the Indians, when he moved
to Milton, Massachusetts, where he was deacon of
the first church. His children were : Abigail, Sam-
uel and Ebenezer. Another son, William, was the
father of Seth Sumner, and he the father of Job
Sumner, who had a son Job, born at Milton, Janu-
ary 20, 1776, and changed his name to Charles
Pinckney. The last named was high sheriff of Suf-
folk county. Massachusetts, and married Relief
Jacobs, by whom he had children, including Hon.
Charles Sumner, born at Boston, January 6. 1811.
who became the great and eloquent American anti-
slavery statesman, and who was brutally assaulted
in his seat in congress by Brooks, a pro-slavery
member.

(II) George Sumner, son of William (i), was
born in England, February 14, 1634; made a free-
man, 1637; married Mary Baker. He lived on
Brush hill, JNIilton, and was deacon of the church
there. His children were. Mary, George, Samuel,
William, Ebenezer, Edward, Joseph, Benjamin. •

(III) George Sumner, son of George (2) and
yia.ry (Baker) Sumner, married Ann Tucker, of
Ro.xbury. Their children were : Samuel, born No-
vember 13, 1695, died February 8, 1782; George;
.Ann; Mary; William; Susanna; Elizabeth; Josiah;
.Abigail.

(TV) Samuel Sumner, son of George (3), and
Aim (Tucker) Suinner married Elizabeth Griffin,
daughter of Joseph Griflin, of Roxbury. They set-
tled at Pomfret. Elizabeth was born February 2,
1700. and died November 13. 1772. She w-as esteemed
a woman of exemplary piety. Their children were:
.Ann ; Samuel ; Elizabeth ; George ; Joseph, born
January 19, 1740, died December 9, 1824; Sarah.

(V) Joseph Sumner, son of Samuel (4), and
Elizabeth (Griffin) .Sumner, was born July 19. 1740.
at Pomfret, Connecticut. He became a member of
Yale College, and from that institution received high
honors. He early devoted his life to the ministry,
and in June, 1762, when tw-enty-three years of age,
conmienced preaching. During all the trials and
conflicts of his life he was noted for cheerfulness,
and other social graces. Not easily provoked, he
knew what was due to his character and he secured
respect from all. Soon after he commenced preach-
ing, says .Aaron Bancroft, U. D. (father of the his-
torian. George Bancroft) in a tribute-sermon on Mr.
Sumner : "In the contest between the parent coun-

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try and tlic AiiK-i'ioan provinces, he proved himself
an efficient patriot, and during the Revolutionary
struggle he suffered the inconveniences and priva-
tions to which men of his profession were exposed
from the state of public affairs, and all these trials
he bore with patience and equanimity. His consti-
tution was vigorous; through all his life he was
blessed with good health. During the period of
sixty-two years he was never absent from the stated
communion of his church, and till bodily infirmity
rendered him unable to officiate, the public exer-
cises of the Sabbath in this place were suspended
only seven times, on account of his indisposition, or
his journeyings. His method of preaching was
evangelistic ; he dwelt not on controversy, but. well
instructed in the essential truths of revelation, kept
back nothing profitable to his people. .\n advocate
for Christian liberty, and supporting the Protestant
principles of the sufficiency of Scripture as the rule
of faith and practice, he endeavored to secure the
harmony of the church by inspiring Christian breth-
ren with unity of spirit, and binding them together
in the bond of peace." As an illustration of his
broad, liberal views, it is related that at a meeting
of the Worcester Association of Ministers, as was
usual. Dr. Bancroft applied for admission to mem-
bership. Opposition was made by some of the
members, and the subject was put over to the next
meeting, and at that time a majority appeared
against Dr. Bancroft's admission. On this result.
Dr. Sumner of Shrewsbury, and Mr. Avery of
Holden. arose and declared that they would not
belong to a body which passed so illiberal a vote
as that rejecting Dr. Bancroft, and that the Asso-
ciation might meet when and where they would,
but they would no longer be considered members
of it. In consequence of this withdrawal the Asso-
ciation was broken up. Dr. Sumner, of whom this
memoir is written, married Lucy Williams, of Pom-
fret, Connecticut, June 8. 1763. Their children were:
Sarah, Samuel. Joseph, Joanna, Lucy, Elizabeth
Dorothy, Erastus.

(V) Increase Sumner, governer of Massachu-
setts, son of Increase (4), was born in Norfolk
county, Massachusetts November 27, 1746. The first
rudiments of his education were taught him by
Judge William Cushing, of the supreme judicial
court, who was preceptor of the public grammar
school in Roxbury in 1752. His father believed that
the life of an honest, hard-working farmer was the
best for his son, but afterward many importuned
him to educate his son and namesake to fill higher
places of public trust. All obstacles having been
surmounted, he entered college in 1763 and grad-
uated 1767. He spent the next two years in teach-
ing at Ro.xbury. He studied law under barrister
Samuel Quincy, and was admitted to the bar in
1770, opening his office at Ro.xbury, in the house in
which his mother continued to reside until her death.
In 1776, a period of great difficulty, Mr. Sumner
was chosen a member of the general court, serving
until 1780. and was then elected senator from Suf-
folk county. Massachusetts.

It was September 30, 1779, when he formed a
connection of much importance in every well-
rounded man's career, by his marriage with Eliza-
beth Hyslop. of Boston, a lady of rare intelligence,
and remarkable for her amiable disposition. During
the same year he was chosen a member of the con-
vention for forming a state constitution. In June.
1782. he was chosen a member of congress by the
Massachusetts legislature, in place of Timothy Dan-
ielson. who resigned ; but Sumner never took his seat
in that body. August of the same year he was made
associate justice of the supreme judicial court. In

1797 he was elected governor, and was re-elected,
and his able, firm and patriotic administration won
for him a lasting place in the great heart of the
commonwealth. In 1799 he was made governor by
an almost unanimous vote. Out of three hundred
and ninety-three towns in the state, including the
"District of Maine," one hundred and eighty were
unanimous for Sumner. But at the commencement
of the political year he was bedridden, and June 7,
1799. in his fifty-third year, his career ended. "No
death,' says one biographical writer of that day,
"except Washington's (which took place six months
later) was ever more deeply deplored in Massachu-
setts." Personally, it should here be added of Gov-
ernor Sumner, that he was a devoted son. a loving
and attentive husband, a kind and affectionate
father and friend. The purity of his morals was
never once questioned. He was a practical farmer
and enjoyed the cultivation of the soil. He was a
lover and owner of fine horses. In horticulture, he
found great delight, and with his own hands grafted
his whole orchard. In early life he made a public
profession of Christianity, becoming a member of
the Congregational Society and church. The only
child of Governor Increase Sumner and his wife
Elizabeth Hyslop was William Hyslop, born July
4, 1780.

(VI J William Hyslop, only son of Governor
Increase Sumner (5), was born, "on the night of
July 4, 1780." He graduated from Harvard College.
1799: was aide-de-camp to Governors Strong and
Brooks, to the former 1810-16, and to the latter
1816-48, when he was appointed adjutant-general by
Governor Brooks. He held that position under
Brooks, Eustis, Lincoln and Davis, till 1834, when
he resigned. For eleven years from 1808 he was
one of the representatives of Boston. September 10.
1814, he was appointed by Governor Strong executive
agent to repair to "the District of Maine (then in-
vaded by the enemy) and promptly provide every
practicable means for defense of that part of the
state." In Dtcember. 1814, he was appointed by the
Board of War to borrow money of the banks and pay
off the troops which had been called out in JNIaine.
In 1816 he was agent with Hon. James Lloyd to
present the Massachusetts militia claim to the United
States governmtnt for its services. In November.
1826, he was appointed by the secretary of war, a
member of the board of army and militia officers of
which Major General Scott was president, to re-
port a plan for the organization of the militia and
a system of cavalry tactics. He first married Mary
-Ann Perry, October 4, 1826. She was the widow
of Raymond H. Perry, brother of Commodore O. H.
Perry. Mr. Sumner died July 14, 1834.

(VI) Samuel Sumner, son of Joseph (5), and
Lucy (Williams) Sumner, was born at Shrewsbury,
September 24, 1765. He was graduated at Dart-
mouth College, 1776, and appointed English pre-
ceptor of the Leicester Academy, July, 1788. After
leaving Leicester he studied theology with his
father, and was ordained over the church and society
at Southboro, June, 1791. In 1797 he was dismissed
by letter to St. Albans. Vermont. He next moved
to Bakcrsfield, Vermont, and became pastor. The
peculiar circumstances under which he was ordained
are thus given : "The region of the country about
Bakcrsfield was, in the beginning of the last cen-
tury, an almost unbroken wilderness. Indeed, it is
said Mr. Sumner's first approach to its wild do-
main was by a path designated by blazed trees. As
the place was so difficult to cross. Dr. Sumner ar-
ranged that the ceremonies of installation should be
held in his own church in Shrewsbury, where they
were performed after the approved orthodox man-

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ner, the only peculiarity being the absence of the
minister installed." He afterward removed to Troy,
Vermont, where he died at the home of his son, in
1837, aged seventy-two years. He is said to have
often expressed himself, that in selecting the pulpit
for his sphere of duty, he mistook his calling.

(VI) Sarah Sumner, eldest daughter of Joseph
(S), and Lucy (Williams) Sumner, married William
Jennison, of Worcester, in 1788.

(VI) Joanna Sumner, second daughter of Jo-
seph (5) and Lucy Sumner, married, September 0,
1806, Edward Sumner, of Roxbury. He was ;i
cousin of Governor Increase Sumner.

(VI) Lucy Sumner, third daughter of Joseph
(5) and Lucy Sumner, born at Shrewsbury, Decem-
ber 2, I7;'l, married Joseph Wheeler, of Worcester,
January 13, 1793. In 1803 they moved to Uixlield,
Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, and known as
"the District of Maine.'' Dixtield was then known
as "Township No. i, on Androscoggon River, Dis-
trict of Maine," and letters were so addressed to Mr.
Wheeler.

(VI) Erastus Sumner, youngest child of Joseph
(S) and Lucy (Williams) Sumner, born February
10, 1783, married Lavinia Boyd, of Marlboro, July
12, 1805. Their children were: L. Caroline, born
January 7, 1807. 2. Lucy, born August 14, 1809.
.5. Lydia Ann. born November 8, 1814. 5. Jane
Augusta, born November 18, 1817. 6. George, born
March 22, 1819; died September 19, 1821. 7. Cath-
erine Whipple, born July 8, 1822. 8. George, born
July 25, 1824 ; died 1893.

(VII) George Sumner, son of Erastus (6) and
Lavinia (Boyd) Sumner, was born July 25, 1824,
and died 1893. He was the grandson of Rev. Dr.
Joseph Sumner. His first entrance into mercantile
life was at the age of fifteen years, in the store of
Bigelow & Goodnow, in the "Old Tavern House,"
in Shrewsbury. After two years of training there he
came to Worcester as a clerk for Henry H. Cham-
berlain, founder of the house of Barnard. Sumner
& Putnam Co. His ability rapidly advanced him until
he was made a partner in the growing business and
continued at its head throughout his life, and his son
Edward P. is still an active partner in the concern.
Before his marriage he made his home with Allen
Rice, and was thrown into the company of men who
have left footprints on the business and social ways
of Worcester, including the "Sixteen Associatesi" a
society of social and literary character. He was an
active member of the Worcester City Guards, as well
as of the old State Guards in time of the civil war.
In the financial circles of the city his judgment was
often appealed to. He became a director in the Wor-
cester Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and vice-
president of the Five Cents Savings Bank. He was
a regular attendant of the Church of Unity. He had
no taste for political preferment, but had deep con-_
cern for the business welfare of the city. He was
a liberal contributor to the Library and ^luseums of
the Worcester Society of .\ntiquity. In 1888 he
published a work entitled "Memorials of the Rev.
Joseph Sumner, D. D., Minister of Shrewsbury.
1762- 1824." The man who could say "George Sum-
ner is my friend" had a friend indeed. He was a
lover of the beautiful in both art and nature, but
no painter himself.

One of the rules of the society of "Associates,"
all being single men at the time, was "He who mar-
ries first sliall provide a supper for the Cluli." Mr.
Sumner married, in 1854. Sarah E. Richardson,
daughter of Charles and Mary Richardson, of Man-
chester, New Hampshire, and he carried out the
obligation taken under the above named chib rule.
in a royal manner. To Mr. and Mrs. George Sum-

ner were born: i. George R.. born May 30, 1861 ;
married Louisa Ford, of Portland, Maine; had one
child, George Sumner. 2. Mary Locke, born Feb-
ruary 5, 1863; married William D. Sewall. of Bath,
Maine ; had four children — Arthur, Margaret,
Dorothy and Sumner. 3. Edward Prentiss, born Jan-
nary 18, 1866; married Pertha Perry, of Worcester;
had two children, Catherine and Frances. 4. Caro-
line Allen, born April 12, 1867; married .Albert G.
Liscomb, of Worcester.

REV. GEORGE MURILLO BARTOL. John
Bartol (i), who lived and died in Crewkerne, Som-
ersetshire, England, was the father of the immigrant
ancestor of the Bartol family of America, to which
Rev. George Murillo Bartol, of Lancaster, belongs.
He was a glover by trade. He married at Crew-
kerne, March 17, 1598, Agnes Williams. Among
their children was John Bartol, of whom later. John
Bartol, Sr., died at Crewkerne and was buried there
I'Vbruary 20, 1639-40.

(II) John Bartol, son of John Bartol (i). was
born at Crewkerne, and baptized there April 26,

i6or. He married Parnell . His father died

probably soon after he left England and he inherited
the estate in England, which Thomas Letchford, a
Boston attorney, conveyed to Henry Hazzard. of
Bristol, England, mariner, consisting of house and
garden at Crewkerne, July 25, 1641. He was plaintiff
in a civil suit in 1640 and again in 1644. He lived at
Salem a short time before settling in Marblehead.
He was selectman of the latter town in 1649-56-57-
58-64. He was called a planter in the records, but
was probably also a mariner. He was found drowned
and the inquest was held October i, 1664. His estate
was administered in the Essex county court. Novem-
ber 2g. 1664. Many of his descendants have lived
in Marblehead. The children of John and Parnell
Bartol were: William, born 1629 (aged thirty-two in
1662, another record) ; John, Jr.. born 1631, aged
forty-two in 1673. Mary, born at Marblehead, Feb-
ruary I, 1642. Probably others died young.

(III) William Bartol. son of John Bartol (2).
was born in England in 1629. He died in 1690, leav-
ing five sons and three daughters.

(IV) Robert Bartol. son of William Bartol (3).
was born in Marblehead. Massachusetts, about
1660. married, March 16, 1681, Sarah Beckett. He
died in 1708. Thev had four children.

(V) William Bartol. son of Robert Bartol (4^.
was born in Marblehead in 1691. He married. May
4, I7r8, Mary Felt. (One of this name was born at
Casco Bay, October 12, 1687.) They had four
children.

(VI) George Bartol, youngest son of William
Bartol (5), was born in 1721. died at Freepon.
Maine, in 1788. He settled there and his children
were born there and his grandchildren to the num-
ber of thirtv-one. He died there and was buried
with his wife and children in the old burying ground
on the hill that overlooks the town and Casco Bay.
He died January 21. 1788. Mrs. Hannah Bartol died
April 4. 1784. aged sixty-live years. He married
(second) Hannah Allen, at Falmouth (now Maine).
.•\pril 17, 1746. Their children were: William, born
1747. died 1843; married Elizabeth Grant, who was
born in 1749 and died 1833; George, of whom
later: John, baptized July 21. 1734. married Mary
Carter; Samuel, born 1753. died 1786; married Mary
Soule. The children of the first marriage were:
Marv, baptized Mav 25. 1746. married — Wins-
low ; Deborah, bai)tized May 29. 1743, died young;
Deborah, baptized June 10, 1750.

(VII) John Bartol. son of George . Bartol (61.
was bom m North Varmouth, Ma.ne, juiy, 1734-

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He bought a place of his father containing fifty acres
at Havaseeket. He married Mary Carter. Their
children were: John, born 1779, died 1805; Daniel,
born 1781, married Mary Lowe; Solomon, born
1782 ; Desire, born 1784, died 1806 ; Jacob, born
1786, died 1804; Dorcas, born 1788; Ephraim, born

1791 ; Reuben, born 1793, married Chase,

and had Reuben and Joseph ; Ammi, born 1795 ;
Miriam, born 1797, died 1809; Alfred, born 1801,

married Coffin and had Ansyl, Melinda,

George, John and Martha ; George, born 1803.

(VH) William Bartol, another son of George
Bartol (6), was born 1747, and died 1843. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Grant, who was born in 1749 and died
'H 1833. Their children were: David, of whom

later; Hannah; Elizabeth, married Trott;

Susan, married ■ Trott; Sarah; Esther, mar-
ried Douglass ; Samuel, married Sarah

Weston, and had Samuel and Sarah Trott ; Lucretia,

married Denison ; Jane, married

Stetson.

(VH) George Bartol, son of George Bartol (6)
and brother of the two preceding, was born about
1750 and died 1796. He married, January 12, 1775,
Jane Soule, daughter of Barnabas Soule, of Free-
port. She was born 1756 and died January 24, 1833.
Her second husband was Captain James Bacon. Her
ancester, George Soule, came over on the "May-
flower" on the first voyage. He married about 1623
Mary Beckett, who came to Plymouth in 1621. They
settled at Duxbury and had eight children. Their
son, John Soule, born 1632, died 1707, married
Hester Dewsbury, born 1638. died 1738, and they
had nine children. Their fifth son, Moses Soule,
died in 1751, leaving nine children. The third son
of Moses was Barnabas Soule, born 1705, died 1780;
married Jane Bradbury. She was born 1718, and
Jane who married George Bartol (VH) was one of
her nine children.

The children of George and Jane (Soule) Bartol
were : Solomon, born 1775. died September 23,
1781 ; Barnabas, born 1777, of whom later; George,
of whom later, ancestor of Rev. George Bartol ;

Jane, born 1781, married Fields; Phebe,

born 1784, died 1876; married (first) Veazie ;

(second) Soule; Sarah, born 1787, mar-
ried Latchfield; Patience, born 1789, died

1871 ; married

Lufkin ; Samuel, born 1791,

died 1817; married Mary Chandler; Elizabeth, born
1793. married Staples; Polly, born 1796-8.

(Vni) David Bartol, son of William Bartol
(7), was born 1781 and died 1849. His children

were: Sarah, married Trott; Benjamin,

born 1810, married Blanchard ; George,

born 1812, married Betty Mitchell ; William, born

1814, died 1842; Jane, born 1816, married

Merrill; Elizabeth, born 1821, died 1840; Mary,
born 1824.

(Vni) George Bartol, son of George Bartol
(7), was born August 8, 1779, and died April 6,
1855. He is the father of Rev. George M. Bartol
and also the late Rev, Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol. Like
his father, he was a merchant. He kept the leading
general store at Freeport, Maine, for many years.

He married Ann Given, March 2";, 1809. Her
father was a soldier in the revolution. The children
of George and Ann Bartol were : Samuel Veazie,
born December 29, 1809, died February, 1810;
Horace Veazie, born April 23, 1811, died January
6, 1881 ; Cyrus .\. (Rev. Dr.), born April 30, 1813,
married, February 7, 1838, Elizabeth Howard, died
December 16, 1900, leaving one child, Elizabeth
Howard, born January 14, 1842 ; Samuel Lewis, born
July 23, 1817, died September, 1818; George Mu-

rillo, of whom later; Mary, born December 12,
1822, died June 21, 1902.

(IX) Rev. George Murillo Bartol, son of George
Bartol (8), was born in Freeport, Maine, September
18, 1820. He attended the public schools of Port-
land, where the family lived during his youth. He
prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
New Hampshire. He was graduated in regular
course from Brown University, Providence, in 1842.
He studied for the ministry in the Harvard Divinity
School at Cambridge, from which he was grad-
uated in 1845. He began immediately to preach.
He occupied the pulpit of the First LInitarian Church
of Chicago for several months. He preached for
some time in various other towns.

His first accepted call was to Lancaster to the
pastorate that for nigh sixty years he filled with
ability and success. Under date of June 19, 1847,
he wrote in reply to the call of the Society at Lan-
caster : "I have given to the proposal of the Uni-
tarian Society in Lancaster, by you, their committee,
my most serious consideration. I beg that you will
not deem me wanting in a proper sensibility to this
mark of confidence and esteem on the part of those
you represent. I return my warmest thanks for the
invitation and for the flattering terms with which
it was accompanied. I am happy to accept it and
hereby very respectfully do. so. With fervent
prayers that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
the love of God, and the fellowship of His Holy
Spirit may be with you all, I remain, my brethren, in
the truth and affection of the Gospel, ever your
friend and servant."

The committee in charge consisted of John ^L
Washburn, Ezra Sawyer and Luke Bigelow. Twenty
churches were represented at the ordination, August
4, 1847. The council met in Lancaster House and
organized with Rev. Joseph Allen, of Northboro,
moderator and Rev. T. P. Allen, of Sterling, scribe.
When the certificates as to Mr. Bartol's education
and Christian standing were read. Rev. Edward
Everett Hale, then pastor of the Church of the Unity
at Worcester, made the formal motion "that we are
satisfied with the above testimonials and that we are
ready to proceed with the ordination." Among the
clergymen who took part that day Dr. Hale and
Mr. Bartol alone survive. The sermon was preached
by Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol, brother of the candidate.
The Scriptures were' read by Dr. Hale. The others
who took part in the service were : Rev. Joseph
.•\llen. Rev. C. T. Thayer, of Beverly; Rev. Alonzo
Hill, of Worcester; Rev. Mr. Frothingham, of
Salem.

Mr. Bartol came to what his friend Rev. Mr.
Marvin called a "wealthy and respectable" congre-
gation and the passing years have surely enhanced
both those qualities. The history of the First Church
of Christ of Lancaster dates to 1653 when the min-
istry of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson began. His pas-
torate was terminated by the destruction of the
town by the Indians in King Philip's war, 1675.
Rev. John Whiting, who was minister from 1690
to 1697, met his death at the hands of hostile In-
dians, and his successor, who was pastor from 1701
to 1704, met a similar fate. Rev. John Prentice be-
gan to preach in 1705 and died in 1748, the year
he was succeeded by Rev. Timothy Harrington,
whose ministry continued until 1795. Rev. Nathaniel
Thayer was his colleague about two years and his
successor as minister. His remarkable record as
minister, lasting until the summer of 1840, is told
in a sketch of his life elsewhere in this work. The
next pastor and predecessor of Mr. Bartol was

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Rev. Ednnind H. Sears, who was installed December
J3, 1S40, but was obliged to resign on account of
ill health, and his work in the parish ended April
I, 1847.

The present church edifice was erected in 1816.
The architect was Charles Bulfinch, who is known
the world over as the designer of the iVlassachusctts
State House and of the Capitol at Washington. Rev.
A. P. Marvin, who was for some years the orthodox
minister at Lancaster, wrote of Mr. Bartol many years
ago : "The present pastor, living in times of change,
has seen, with rare exceptions, every pulpit, of every
denomination, in the region round, occupied by suc-
cessive ministers, whose power for usefulness has
been, in many cases, weakened by the fickleness of
the people. The record is honorable to the church,
and to the parish and the town with which it has
been connected, during nearly seven generations of
men. The church was in connection with the town
as a parish from 1653 till the Second Parish was
formed, when the church and the First Precinct
were united. When Sterling became a town, Lan-
caster resumed its parochial functions, which con-
tinued till near the close of the ministry of Dr.
Thayer."

At the close of twenty-tive years, August 4,
1872, the anniversary of his pastorate, a reception
was given Mr. Bartol and his wife in the town
hall and was largely attended not only by his own
parishioners but by all his townspeople and many
from neighboring towns and the distance. Among
the speakers were Rev. A. P. IMarvin, the pastor of
the Evangelical Church; Rev. E. H. Sears, the
predecessor of Mr. Bartol ; the venerable Rev. B.
Whittemore and Mr. Bartol himself. An even more
elaborate celebration of his fortieth anniversary was
held August 4, 1887. When Mr. Bartol completed
his fiftieth year he was given such an ovation and
greeting by the people of his parish, town and of
the whole denomination as few men ever live to
receive. As Dr. Hale said, and Dr. Hale was one of
the central figures of the celebration because he
himself was one of the ministers in charge of Mr.
Bartol's ordination fifty years before, "there were
more hydrangeas in the church today than tliere
were in the whole state of Massachusetts fifty years
ago." Mr. and Mrs. Bartol were given a most de-
lightful and hearty reception in the Thayer Memorial
Chapel after the more formal services in the church.
Dr. Edward A. Horton was one of the speakers.
Among the gifts lavished upon, the good minister
that day were a silver loving cup from past and
present members of the Worcester Ministerial Asso-
ciation, of which he was a veteran member, and a
magnificent silver service, suitably engraved, from
his parish. A poem for the occasion was written
by Mrs. Julia A. Carney, of Galesburg, Illinois. On
this occasion the Springfield Republican said : "While
extremely liberal in his religious views. Dr. Bartol's
singularly cordial and sincere nature has won the
loving regard of the ministers of all other denomina-
tions. The old Unitarian Church designed by
Charles Bulfinch is one of the landmarks of Wor-
cester county. People of all denominations filled it
in Dr. Bartol's honor."

Of Mr. Bartol's service to the public Mr. Henry
S. Nourse, the historian, said : "His power for good
has not been limited by parish confines, nor re-
stricted to the stated religious teachings of his order.
The clergy in Lancaster had ever been held the
proper supervisors of the schools, and upon his com-
ing Mr. Bartol was at once placed in the school
board and was annually re-chosen, until, having
given faithful service, usually as chairman of the

board, during twenty-one years, he felt constrained
to ask relief from this onerous duty.

"From the establishment of the public library, he
has always stood at the head of the town's commit-
tee, entrusted with its management, and in its incep-
tion and increase, his refined taste, rare knowledge
of books and sound literary judgment have been
invaluable. With talent and scholarship that in-
vited him to a much wider field of service, he has
clung lovingly to his quiet country parish, making
it the centre of his efforts and aspirations. He is
an enthusiastic lover of nature in all her moods, a
discrnninating admirer of beauty in art, earnest m
his soul convictions, although averse to sectarian con-
troversy — and so tender of heart as to seem char-
itable to all human weakness, save that he is intol-
erant of intolerance."

It was Mr. Bartol who expressed the unanimous
sentiments of the people of Lancaster by the follow-
ing resolution adopted at a legal town meeting May
20, 1865: "Whereas, on the fifteenth day of April,
1865, Abraham Lincoln, the venerated and beloved
president of the United States, was by an assassin,
suddenly assaulted and slain, the blow by which he
fell being aimed not only at his life, but through
him at the life of the nation.

"Resolved, that in recording our tribute to the
memory of the late president with profound sorrow
for his loss, we do all beyond all parly pre-posses-
sions, own and bless in him an unselfishness in dis-
position and singleness of purpose, a gentleness,
humanity and benevolence under great provocation,
with an honesty of intention, an ardent patriotism, a
fidelity to duty, and a growing mastery of the cir-
cumstances of his position, which enabled him with
the blessing of God, to fulfill and bring to a success-
ful completion, a work almost unprecedented for dif-
ficulty ; that in his removal at the moment in which
his labors w'ere being crowned with the triumph of
national authority and the evident approach of the
blessings oi peace, we see the completion of a career
which the nation will ever look back to with thank-
fulness, and hold in tender and affectionate remem-
brance."

One of the most interesting homes in a town
where all the homes are interesting and some re-
markable for artistic and beautiful features, is the
low, quaint, rambling structure in which Mr. Bartol
lives. It stands back modestly from the highway,
shielded by trees and shrubbery, with ample
grounds where the flowers seem to delight in adding
to the decorations of a fascinating place. Inside the
house there are treasures of art and literature, birds
and flowers.

Mr. Bartol is a Republican in politics. He
belongs to few organizations outside the church.
He has been since graduation a member of the
scholars' fraternity, the Phi Beta Kappa. He re-
ceived the degree of D. D. from his alma mater
(Brown University) in 1892.

He married, June, 1856, Elizabeth Washburn, the
daughter of John M. Washburn, of Lancaster. Their
children are: George, born May 16, 1857, married,
January 12, 1898. Nellie Holt, and they have two
children: Eleanor, born October 31, 1901, Elizabeth.
born November 7, 1902; Anna, born May 5, 1859,
died at Manchester, Massachusetts, August, 1880;
Elizabeth Washburn, born April 10, 1861, married,
July 29, 1884, Harold Parker, and they have three
children— Bartol Parker, born June 7. 1885, Eliza-
beth Parker, born September, 1886, Cornelia Conway
Parker, born May 21, 1894. (Sec sketch of Parker
family of Lancaster.) Dr. John Washburn, bom
January 10, 1864, graduate of Harvard College,

WORCESTER COUNTY

1887, married, October 2, 1900, Charlotte Hemcnway
Cabot, and they have three children : Janet, born
July 13, 1902, Dorothy, born December 15, 190J,
Ann, born December 21, 190.=;; Mary Washburn,
born August 2, 1867, resides at home with her par-
ents ; Dr. Edward Francis Washburn, born in Man-
chester, September 5, 1874, graduate of Harvard,
1896.

CHARLES AUGUSTUS CHASE. William
Chase (i), from whom Charles Augustus Chase, of
Worcester, is directly descended, came from Eng-
land with Winthrop in 1630. The surname Chase
is undoubtedly derived from the French Chasser
(to hunt). The ancestral seat in England was at
Chesham in Rockinghamshire, through which runs
a rapidly Hewing brook or river, the Chess.

Thomas Chase and Aquila Chase, who settled
at Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1639, were broth-
ers, and were perhaps cousins of William Chase, the
first comer. The record of Rev. John Eliot, the
Indian Apostle, of "such as adjoyned themselves to
this church," the First Church of Roxbury, has this
entry : "William Chase, he came with the first com-
pany, bringing with him his wife Mary and his son
William." The maiden name of his wife is not
known. The son William was about seven years
old at the time of migration. The father applied
for admission as a freeman, October 19, 1630. He
was a town officer at Roxbury. He served against
the Narragansetts in 1645. He removed to Yar-
mouth, Massachusetts, in 1638, and died there. His
will, dated May 4, 1659, states that he was aged.
It was proved May 13, 1659, hence his death occurred
. in May of that year. He bequeathed to his wife
Mary and two sons, Benjamin and William (see N.
E. Hist. Reg. V. 388). His daughter Mary was
buried at Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 28,
1652. The early records of the town of Yarmouth
were destroyed by fire, so that it is impossible to
give the dates of birth and death of all the children.

(II) William Chase, son of William Chase (l),
was born in England about 1623, if he was seven
at the time of the migration. He removed with his
father's family to Yarmouth in 1638. He died there
in 1685. It is impossible to give the name of his
wife or the dates of birth of his children ; it is
known, however, that he had eight children, of
whom William was the eldest.

(III) William Chase, eldest son of WilHam Chase
(2), was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He mar-
ried for his first wife Hannah Sherman, of the stock
to which Roger Sherman and General W. T. Sher-
man belonged. His second wife was Priscilla Perry.

■ By the first marriage he had five children, of whom
the third was Isaac.

(IV) Isaac Chase, third child of William Chase
(3), married (first), February 10, 1704. Elizabeth
Blethen. of Salem, by whom he had five children ;
married (second) Mary Fowler, by whom he had
seven.

(V) Isaac Chase, third son of Isaac Chase (4).
married, November 13. 1729, Amy Anthonys mar-

, ried (second) Elizabeth , who survived

him. , Isaac and Amy Chase had eight children, of
whom the eldest was Anthony Chase.

(VI) Anthony Chase, son of Isaac Chase (5), was
born at Swanzey, Massachustts, February 21, 1832;
.married (first) Katherine, daughter of Timothy and

.Bridget Sewell. and lived at Mendon, Massachusetts.

..He. died May 3, 1817, leaving a widow, Mary Chase.

.j.^nthony and Katherine Chase had eight children,

j,of whom the .seventh was Israel.

',i,/.ji( VII) -Israel Chase, .sou of Anthony Chase, (6),
' Veas born September 13, "1760; married. February i,

1787, (Caroline) Matilda Butterworth, daughter of
Noah and Dorcas Butterworth, of Smithficld,
Rhode Island. They lived in Mendon, Pa.xton and
Worcester and had si.x children, of whom Anthony
was the third.

(VIII) Anthony Chase, third son of Israel
Chase (7), was born at Paxton, Massachusetts, June
16, 1791 ; married (first), June 2, 1819, Lydia Earle,
daughter of Pliny and Patience Earle, of Leicester.
(See Ralph Earle and his descendants, p. 215.)
Married (second), April 19, 1854, Hannah Greene,
daughter of Daniel and Phebe Greene, of East
Greenwich, Rhode Island. In early youth Mr. Chase
lost his father, and in 1816 entered into mercantile
business in Worcester with John Milton Earle, his
future brother-in-law, and became one of the owners
of the Massachusetts Spy, continuing as such from
1823 to 1835. In 1829 he was agent for the Wor-
cester & Providence Boating Company, formed to
operate the newly opened Blackstone canal, and was
soon afterward appointed collector of the canal reve-
nue. In March, 1831, he was elected county treas-
urer and held the office for thirty-four years. In
1832 Mr. Chase was chosen secretary of the Wor-
cester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and in 1852
was its president, an office which he held until his
death, August 4, 1879. He was one of the founders
and the first secretary of the Worcester Lyceum in
1829, and shaped the Worcester County Mechanics'
Association in its infancy, drawing up its constitu-
tion and by-laws with his own hand in 1841 ; was one
of the corporators of the Central Bank of Wor-
cester on 1828 ; was for many years treasurer of the
Worcester Agricultural Society ; and for a long
period director in the Citizens' Bank of Worcester;
was trustee and vice-president of the Worcester
County Institution for Savings.

Mr. Chase took great interest in the public
schools, often serving on the school committee, and
was an alderman in the early days of the city, but
frequently declined public offices on account of the
confining nature of his regular vocation. He gave
his three sons an education at Harvard College. He
was a member of the Society of Friends, holding the
office of elder in that body. Most of the children
. of his ancestor, William Chase (II), joined the So-
ciety of Friends, and their descendants in great
measure have been members of that religious body.
Some of the family in Rhode Island and southeast-
ern Massachusetts began about a century ago to
write the name (^hacc, but 'Chase is the accepted
spelling. He died August 4, 1879, aged eighty-
eight years.

Lydia Earle was descended frorn Ralph Earle. of
whom a sketch is given elsewhere in this work. The
children of Anthony and, Lydia (Earle) Chase, all
born in Worcester, were : Pliny Earle, born August
18, 1820; Lucv, December i, 1822; Thomas, June
16, 1827; Eliza Earle, October 8, 1829; Charles
Augustus, see forward; Sarah E., May 29, 1836.
The children of Anthony and Hannah (Greene)
Chase were.: Emily G., married Joseph RussrI i\lar-
ble (see sketch of George Russell Marble of Web-
ster) ; Frederick Anthony died young.

CIX) Charles Augustus Chase, fifth child of
Anthony Chase (8), was born in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, September 9, 1833, in a house on Salisbury
street, where the armory now stands. His educa-
tion began with the infant school, in a small build-
ing that stood at the northerly end of Summer
street, He graduated from the Thomas street gram-
mar school in 1845 into. the. "Classical and EnglisTi
Higli School" where he remained five years, takiiig
■iA: post-graduate cpurse.jn rnathematics. .While ^jn
the' high school he printed a juvenile paper, "The

WORCESTER COUNTY

Humble Bee." In 1851 he entered Ha.vard College
and was graduated from that institution in 1856,
receiving the degree of A. M. in 1858. He joined
the staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1855,
and filled the position of reporting the various de-
partments and of office editor for seven years. In
1862 he made a five months' tour of Europe and
upon his return again took up his residence in
Worcester, and in the autumn of 1864 was elected
treasurer of Worcester county, succieding his father,
■who had held the office for a third of a century.
He was re-elected and served altogether eleven
years as treasurer. In 1875 was elected on an inde-
pendent ticket as register of deeds, serving in 1876
— centennial year — was soon afterward elected sec-
retary of the board of trade, and in 1879 was treas-
tirer and manager of the Worcester Telephone Com-
pany.

Mr. Chase has for more than twenty-five
■been one of the pricir'.-.! officprs of the largei

s bank in Mh~ if Boston, Iwv-

been elected ireasurer of the

•■e.r Coum ii ot .savings, and suc-

Hon. St- 'lury in 1904 ^.s its pr-jsi-

■ i^i I. This savji-; ,,.■■ :^ was incnrporated Febru-
ary 8, 1828. Snnuiel Jennison. the cashier of ilic
Worcester B-'ii'. -.va- the first (r .Tsnnr .mi,' rniil
recently the of the \'

also been pi the Woi ■

tution for Savings. The interests v
were mutual. The second treasure .
ion was Charles A» Hamilton, whtiu
ceeded. At the time Mr. Chase be.
'!t of the bank, the deposits amounted ■■ .1 uia
1000,000. In 1905 the bank bought t!ic lot at
corner of Main and Foster streets, and began
build its own home, a hands'ime and artistic
ucture. It should be stated a'< > thai t'l-.sc two
iitutions, the Worct'sfer Ban'
•imty Institution for Saving

liking institutions of Worcc ic county. Mr.
lase was a director of the Citi/cns National Bank
•m l88o to r88g: has been a director of the Wor-
;ter .National Bank since .January, 1888; of the
Vorcester) Merchants and Farrnc--. Fire Insur-
•e Company since 188,3, and was \ ice-president of
; Worcester \rf Society. Mr. Chase was secre-
rv of «he Worct'Ster Lyceum Association from
•i.? to r866, vice-oresident 1862-8, on the lecture
nmittee from 1866 to 1880, and was a director
the Free Public Library of .Worr--tfv from 1866
1874. He has been for sc ■ treasurer

the Memorial Hospital and 4 secretary

the American Antiquarian >' i.-,y. and is a
■mher of the New England Historic Genealogical
oiety; the Colonial Society of Massachusett- ■ •'
inker Hill Monument .Association and the
Ler Society of Antiquity. He is .I'-o vi
•It of the Home for Aged Men : ;
irth End Street Railway Cotnp ,
fit of the Worcester Harvard Chi'n
Mr. Chase has written many pape'-s and panr
. rflaring to the history of Wor
Oiase wrote under contract v
'": mpany. of Br>s:on, a !
■ ir history of Worcc^t. r
valuable matter, the result
; preserved. For the ' Hi=tflrv ';
.published by J. W Lewis &• C
vChase contributed a chaotc-r on
',He also prepared an h-^'r'r-cri
' cester Bank, which
iJtOj celebrate the ceni

,11904-
,j ■ He tna^ried .in April, iS-'i,?;. Mary There^ (

of Boston, and fhcy liad two children ; -\i
married Thomas Hovey Gage, jr., of ', -
and Maud Eliza, who lives with her father.

HENRY ^LEM PRATT. 1 he subject -,:
following sketch is of one of Worcester's up-t^-
business factors. Ili^ r,n.,n.';.-.i .nr,-,-,, ],•,-; I,
markable and th-
general business
another man, \>
the success he 1k-

Mr. Pratt, the .
(Hobbs) Pratt, was
Charlton, Mas.s.i:'
genealogy it is
lain Joseph Pra
Captain Pratt'
Indian of Maine,

I hrough the ^;
to the descc.
genealogy through hia mOLhci-, S,»li> Ji-
mother was an Adams, to the famous AC
from which President John Adams an^
John Quincy Adams were descended, pi
them (he ancestry has been traced ba^-x nc

Emperor Charlemag^ie. This noble strain has never
■■. ' '!-■ :ivl >:\\h: Hobbs Embodied the noblest
od, and was a supporter and
their children as long as she
lecently died at the age of eighty-
'M.

was quite young, his par-
where he remained and
-)i his neighborhood until he
\ ' age. working a part of the

n ,,,,v. at bottoming boots and shoes.

! ' him coming to Worcester and at

['■ n a sli^^c store for his board, but

t; remain at the bot-
.vo years clerking in
a Jr\ . ii. lo.s.s, became salesman in

the Ci A P Ware. The years roll

by and w ' :""■ In

1866 then- 1- Style

of Ware & 1 -.-■'., V. ill' ■■ • most

complete clothing stores 1. In

1857 they commenced to iig for

llie retail trade and it has come to be among* the
mo.»t extensive in the state. William W. Johnson
became a partner after Mr. ^' irement in

iS'o :.I-:fi Edward T. Wardv Fanii.ary t

TK ! Mc u: Ml - II '. \ .11 e v\ • -. M

ss until January t, 1869, when it
\\arc. Pratt & Co., and remained
I. i8S5, when it was changed to a

..1
111 the
oresi-

k was
He

lie Itas vTcctcd a cliarni-
aninne the most romantic

the .ruatcrnal ^ide of

WORCESTER COUNTY

Humble Bee." In 1851 he entered Harvard College
and was graduated from that institution in 1856,
receiving the degree of A. M. in 1858. He joined
the staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1855,
and filled the position of reporting the various de-
partments and of ofhce editor for seven years. In

1862 he made a five months' tour of Europe and
upon his return again took up his residence in
Worcester, and in the autumn of 1864 was elected
treasurer of Worcester county, succeeding his father,
who had held the office for a third of a century.
He was re-elected and served altogether eleven

jears as treasurer. In 1875 was elected on an inde-
pendent ticket as register of deeds, serving in 1876
- — centennial year — was soon afterward elected sec-
retary of the board of trade, and in 1879 was treas-
iirer and manager of the Worcester Telephone Com-
pany.

Mr. Chase has for more than twenty-five years
been one of the pricipal officers of the largest sav-
ings bank in Massachusetts outside of Boston, hav-
ing been elected November 10, 1879, treasurer of the
Worcester County Institution of Saving^;, and suc-
ceeding Hon. Stephen Salisbury in 1904 as its presi-
flent. This savings bank was incorporated Febru-
ary 8, 1828. Samuel Jennison. the cashier of the
Worcester Bank, was the first treasurer, and until
recently the president of the Worcester Bank, has
also been president- of the Worcester County Insti-
tution for Savings. The interests of the two banks
were mutual. The second treasurer of the Insti-
tution was Charles A. Hamilton, whom Mr. Chase
succeeded. At the time Mr. Chase became presi-
dent of the bank, the deposits amounted to about
$20,000,000. In 1905 the bank bought the lot at
the corner of Main and Foster streets, and began
to build its own home, a handsome and artistic
structure. It should be stated also that these two
institutions, the Worcester Bank and the Worcester
County Institution for Savings were the pioneer
"banking institutions of Worcester county. Mr.
Chase was a director of the Citizens National Bank
from iSSo to 1889; has been a director of the Wor-
cester National Bank since January, 1888; of the
(Worcester) Merchants and Farmers Fire Insur-
ance Company since 1883. and was vice-president of
the Worcester Art Society. Mr. Chase was secre-
tary of the Worcester Lyceum Association from

1863 to 1866. vice-president 1862-S, on the lecture
; committee from 1866 to 18S0, and was a director
•of the Free Public Library of Worcester from 1866

to 1874. He has been for several years treasurer
of the Memorial Hospital and recording secretary
of the American Antiquarian Society, and is a

. rrieniber of the New England Historic Genealogical
Society; the Colonial Society of Massachusetts: the
Bunker Hill Monument Association and the Wor-
cester Societv of Antiquity. He is also vice-presi-
■dent of the Home for Aged Men : president of the
North End Street Railway Company, and presi-
dent of the Worcester Harvard Club.

Mr. Chase has written many papers and pamphlets

. relating to the history of Worcester Tn 1870 Mr.
Chase wrote under contract with C. F. Jewett &
Company, of Boston, a history of Worcester for
their history of Worcester county, in which much
valuable matter, the result of orisrinal research was

i preserved. For the "Historv nf Worcester County,"

'.published by J. W. Lewis & Company, in T889. Mr.
Chase contributed a chapter on the newspaper press.
,He also prepared an historical sketch of the Wor-
cester Bank, which was published in book form

ivto; celebrate the centennial of that institution in

.',»904. ; ,

■ ,, He married in April. 1863, Mary Theresa Clark,

of Boston, and they had two children : Mary Alice,
married Thomas Hovey Gage, Jr., of Worcester;
and Maud Eliza, who lives with her father.

HENRY SALEM PRATT. The subject of the
following sketch is of one of Worcester's up-to-date
business factors. His financial success has bien re-
markable and the element entering into his life and
general business career are indeed possessed by many
another man, but rarely applied and managed to
the success he has wrought out by them.

Mr. Pratt, the eldest son of Salem and Sally
(Hobbs) Pratt, was born November 18, 1836, at
Charlton, Massachusetts. By referring to his family
genealogy it is learned that his grandfather. Cap-
tain Joseph Pratt, was an officer in the war of 1S12.
Captain Pratt's grandfather was a full blooded
Indian of Maine, traces of whose noble blood run
down through the generations, giving courage and
honor to the descendants. Mr. Pratt traces his
genealogy through his mother, Sally Hobbs, whose
mother was an Adams, to the famous Adams family,
from which President John Adams and President
John Quincy Adams were descended, and through
them the ancestry has been traced back to the
Emperor Charlemagne. This noble strain has never
died out, and Sally Hobbs {■mbodied the noblest
qualities of womanhood, and was a supporter and
guiding influence to their children as long as she
lived. She has recently died at the age of eighty-
seven. July 8, 1904.

When Henry S. Pratt was quite young, his par-
ents removed to Charlton, where he remained and
attended the schools of his neighborhood until he
was si-xleen years of age. working a part of the
time with his father at bottoming boots and shoes.
In 1853 we find him coming to Worcester and at
first he worked in a shoe store for his board, but
such a character could not long remain at the bot-
tom of life's ladder. After two years clerking in
a dry goods store, he, in 1855. became salesman in
the clothing store of A. P. Ware. The years roll
by and we find him a partner in the concern. In
1S66 there was a branch house formed, under style
of Ware & Pratt, which today have one of the most
complete clothing stores in the commonwealth. In
1857 they commenced to manufacture clothing for
the retail trade and it has come to be among the
most extensive in the state. William W. Johnson
became a partner after Mr. Ware's retirement in
1870. also Edward T. Wardwell. and January i,
1.S88. a stock company was organized with Mr. John-
son as president. Mr. Pratt as treasurer and Charles
E. Black as clerk. The firm of Ware & Pratt
«.< inducted Ini-ine^s uiuil January T. 1869. when it
was changed to Ware. Pratt & Co., and remained
so until January i, 1888. when it was changed to a
stock company.

Aside from his interests in this good business
firm, he became interested in numerous financial
institution^. In 1887 he became a director in the
Citizens' National Bank and in i8qi its vice-presi-
dent. Upon the decease of Hon .Samuel Winslow.
. the president, in the autumn of 1894, Mr. Pratt was
cbo.son to fill the vacancy, and he served to the
satisfaction of the stockholders until the bank was
merged with the Worcester Trust Company. He
is also connected with the Mechanics Savings Bank
nf Worcester, and is one of its trustees. He bought
the Hillcroft farm, where he has erected a charrn-
ing residence. The view is among the most romantic
of any within the varied and extensive as well as
historic environments of Worcester city. He also
Jniilt the "Chadwick . Block.", on Main street, the
same deriving the name (i;om, .the rijaternal s.ide of

WORCESTER COUNTY

Mr. Pratt's wife's people. It should here be added
that this block stands on the exact spot where ]\Ir.
Pratt commenced his career by working for his
board until some better opening presented itself to
him.

Like every other good American citizen, Mr.
Pratt appreciates the right of suffrage, and believ-
ing the Republican party comes the nearest to main-
taining a good form of government he casts his
vote with it. While he is a strong party man, yet
he prefers others to hold the public offices, while
he labors in other fields and remains a law-abiding
citizen of the best type. In religious belief he is
a Unitarian and attends the First Church.

His friends are legion. He has belonged to
various societies, including the Hancock and Com-
monwealth Clubs, where he was a popular and high-
ly esteemed member. He is the active manager of
the Ware-Pratt Company. Not unlike other well
rounded characters, Mr. Pratt established for him-
self a home influence by marrying Melora Fletcher,
December 24, 1857, and to her he acknowledges
much of the happiness of his life. The career of
such a man should be a model for the rising young
men of Worcester, who may be sons of parents
unable to start them in business. Mr. Pratt com-
menced unaided, and by virtue of industry and
economy steadily made his way to the front rank
in the business circle of Worcester men. He is
kind, genial, temperate and progressive, all essen-
tial elements in a ysuccessful life.

WILLIAM H. HOBBS. Josiah Hobbs (i), the
pioneer ancestor of William H. Hobbs and Horace
Hobbs of Worcester, is also the progenitor of prac-
tically all the families in New England of this sur-
name. He was born in England, in 1649, and came
to America in the ".\rabella," Richard Sprague,
master, leaving Gravesend, May 27, 1671, arriving
in Boston in July. For the next eighteen years
he was a resident of Boston. In 1690 he removed to
Lexington. Massachusetts, then the west precinct
of Cambridge, and there he lived during the re-
mainder of his life, except for two years spent in
Woburn. in the western part, now Burlington,
Massachusetts. In 1691 he was a subscriber to the
building fund of the first meeting house in Lexing-
ton. In 1692-.1 he was among the contributors to
the support of Rev. Mr. Esterbrook, the first minister
there. He and his wife, Tabitha, were baptized in
.August, 1699. In September of the same year their
children : Josiah, Tabitha and Mary Hobbs were
baptized ; in October, 1700, Matthew and Susan
Hobbs were baptized; January 8, 1710, Ebenezer was
baptized, and April 13. :7I2, Tabitha. Of his seven
children none had families, according to the records,
except Josiah. Josiah Hobbs (father) died May
30. 1 741, aged ninety-two years. He married in
1683.

(II) Josiah Hobbs, son of Josiah Hobbs (l),
vi-as born in Boston in 1684, and moved to Lexing-
ton with his parents in 1690. He resided there
until 1705, when he was twenty-one ; he then re-
turned to Boston and settled there. In 1708 he
married Esther Davenport, of Dorchester, and re-
sided on a farm at the north end of Boston. Ac-
cording to his own statements he used to drive
cows to pasture from the North End to Muddy
river, now Brookline. and to Roxbury, now a part
of Boston. He told his grandchildren that he had
hoed corn .on Cornhill. Boston. He and his wife
joined Rev. Cotton Mather's church (the New
North) and their children were christened there.
He purchased a farm at Weston, of a man named
Cheney, and removed there. He joined the Weston

church and was a very devot man, of strict Puritan
views. He died February 27, 1779, aged ninety-
four. His wife died November 29, 1778, aged
eighty-eight years. Children of Josiah Hobbs and
his wife, Esther Davenport Hobbs: i. Ebenezer, born
in Boston, 1709, married Eunice Garfield, of Lan-
caster, 1734, died of injuries received October 19,
1762. 2. Josiah (twin), born at Governor's Island,
in Boston Harbor, 1721, married Mary Hunting-
ton, of Weston ; she died 1804 ; was a soldier in the
revolution and deacon of the church ; he died 1802,
aged eighty-one years. 3. John (twin), born on
Governor's Island, 1721, married Beulah Warren,
of Weston ; was a deacon and soldier in the revo-
lution ; was present at the taking of Burgoyne; he
and his twin brother bought farms in Brookfield,
then called Podunk ; he died from a cold taken
while he was in the service in 1777, leaving a large
family of children, from some of whom are de-
scended many of the Hobbs families of Worcester,
and other towns of the county. 4. Esther, born in

Boston, October 22, 1722, married Gibbs^

settled in Framingham. Massachusetts. 5. Sarah^
born May 10, 1724, married Stone, of Wes-
ton, settled in Vermont and had son, Joseph. 6.

Dorcas, born 1726, married Parks, settled

in Lincoln, Massachusetts. 7. Hannah, born Janu-
ary 25, 1729, married Jeremiah Wetmore, of Wei:-
ton, settled in Middleton, Connecticut, ancestors of
the well known Wetmore family of Boston. 8.
Nathan, born in Weston in 1731, married Elizabeth-
Fiske. and had ten children.

(III) Ebenezer Hobbs, son of Josiah Hobbs (2),
was born in Boston, 1709, married Eunice Garfield,
of Lincoln, 1734. He died of injuries received
October 19, 1762. His widow died (October 4, 1776,
aged sixty-eight years. Cliildren were : Isaac, born
i~.^5' married Mary Sanderson, of Waltham, 1757,
had several children who died in infancy : he died
September 30, 1813: Ebenezer, born 1736, died
October 28. 1756, unmarried ; Elisha, born 1843,
married Lois Hastings, of Waltham, 1764: Susan-
nah, died young: Hepsibath, died young: Mathew,
born 1745, married Lydia Wesson, of Lincoln, in
1760; she died in 1782, aged thirty-five years; he
married (second) Lucy Holmes, of Boston, who
died 1812 ; he was a soldier in the revolution ; was
at Lexington April 19, 1775, and followed the re-
treating British as far as West Cambridge, where
he was relieved and returned to Concord ; served
under Captain Jonathan Fiske; was captain of his
company in 1780; Elizabeth, born 1748, married
Phineas Gregory, who settled in Princeton in 1767;
Samuel, born 1751, married Lucy Monroe, of Lex-
ington, who died in 1812, aged sixty years: he was
one of the party who threw the tea overboard in
Boston Harbor: settled in Sturbridge. died May
J823 : Esther, 1753, married Captain Bowker, of
Sudbury, removed to western New York.

(IV) Elisha Hobbs, son of Ebenezer Hobbs (3),
was born in 1743. He married Lois Hastings, of
Waltham, in 1764. He settled in Princeton before
the revolutionary war and spent the remainder of
his days there. He was deacon of the church. His
wife died September 22. 1807. aged sixty-four years.
He died December 16, 1816, aged seventy-four years.
Children were: Lois, born May 10, 1765, married,
1783. John Mirick, of Princeton, where she died
1843; Elisha, January 29, 1768; Micah, November
22, 1770. died October 29, 1775: Jonas, .'\ugust 31,
1772, went to Vermont early ; Susanna, May 20,
1774 : Micah, September 29. 1776, died at Hope,
Maine. February 2, 1842. aged sixty-six years, had
two sons. Josiah and Henry: John, July 21, 1779,
married Betsey Bailey, of Sterling; William, Au-

^^■oR^F.STER county

gust 30, 1781, married Nancy Gill, of Princoton, had
three sons : William, born 1S09, resided in Wor-
cester, and Elisha lived on the homestead in Prince-
ton : Moses, October 24, 1783. married Mercy Gill,
of Princeton, was killed in Hubbardston at the rais-
ing of a barn, 1823.

(V) John Hobbs. son of Elisha Hobbs of
Princeton (4), was born in Princeton, Massachu-
setts, July 21, 1779. He married BetseyBailey, of
Sterling. Their children were: Betsey, born March
10, 1800; John, June 17, 1801, resided in Yonkers,
New York; Micah, February 22, 1804, married a
daughter of Moses Hobbs and resided in Prince-
ton; George, May 16, 1806, resided in Worcester;
Henry, November 4, 1808, died 1840: Susan. June
2, 181 1 ; Isaac, June 13, 1813, removed to Hope,
Maine; Samuel, January 29. 1816, at Princeton;
Bailey October 8, 1818, resided in Y'onkers, New
York.

(VI) George Hobbs. major-general, son of John
Hobbs (5), was born in Princeton. Massachusetts,
May 16, 1806. He died in Worcester, November 3,
1872. He married Calista Beaman, 1829. He set-
tled in Sterling, where he kept a hotel in the days
when the country tavern was at the height of its
prosperity. He also managed an extensive stage
business there. General Hobbs removed to Worces-
ter in 183S and kept the Eagle Hotel, at the corner
of Main and Thomas streets. He is still remem-
bered by the older citizens of Worcester as a manu-
facturer of brick. He had kilns on Lincoln street,
and continued to manufacture bricks until his health
failed, a few years before his death. He invested
in real estate and built many brick buildings in
various parts of the city. He left a valuable estate.
He was one of the few Worcester men who attained
the rank of major-general; he became commander
of the City Guards in 1840, and he rose through
the various ranks in the state militia to that posi-
tion. He resigned in 1856. but always retained an
interest in the military affairs of the state. He
had two sons, prominent officers in Worcester regi-
ments in the civil war. He was highly respected
as a citizen as well as a soldier. For several years
he was chief of the Worcester fire department. He
served the city of Worcester in 1861-63-64 as alder-
man. He was an assessor for several years. Dur-
ing the last years of his life'he was in feeble health,
for a year was confined to the house.

The Worcester Gazette said of him at the time
of his death : "He was deeply interested in the
military branch of the public service, and the spirit
and efficiency of the militia in his time were largely
due to his influence and example. * * * In all
positions of pubjic trust he was faithful and
energetic."

Children of George and Calista (Beaman)
Hobbs : Ann. born 1830, at Sterling, married George
S. Howe; she resides at present in The Aurora,
Worcester; Horace. September 2. 1831. at Sterling:
Martha, at Sterling, 1834 ; Catherine or Kate Rust,
born 1836: George Webster, March 22. 1839, at
Worcester; William Harrison, April 28. 1841, at
Worcester.

(VII) Horace Hobbs, son of Oneral George
Hobbs (6), was born in Sterling, Massachusetts,
September 2, 1831. He attended the Worcester
public schools. He learned the profession of civil
engineering and surveying and followed it for about
seven years. He was a strong anti-slavery man,
and when Eli Thayer organized the movement for
Free Kansas Mr. Hobbs was one of the first to enlist
as a pioneer. When he reached Kansas he found
the feeling at fever heat. In fact he participated in
the first practical and effective resistance against

slavery. He was in a cavalry company in the town
of Lawrence at the time of the Border Ruffian In-
vasion from Missouri, and he remained in Kansas
until hostilities ceased. He was there thirteen
months. He worked at brick making, with his
father, for about five years in all. When the civil
war broke out he enlisted early. In 1863 he was
conmiissioned captain of Company H, Fifty-first
Regiment.

Captain Hobbs lived for a time in Auburn, a
town adjoining Worcester. He was town treasurer
there for five years. He was deacon of the Con-
gregational church for a number of years, treasurer,
and also superintendent of the Sunday school. All
his life he has been known as an earnest and con-
sistent supporter of the temperance movement in
its various forms. In politics he has always been
a Republican, and has been satisfied with the straight
ticket. He has never voted for a Democrat. Since
1876 he has been examiner of titles at the Wor-
cester county registry of deeds. His careful, pains-
taking work there is known to members of the bar
all over the state. He and his brother have made
a specialty of searching titles, and have won a high
reputation for excellent work. He is a member of
George H. Ward Post, No. 10, G. A. R., and of
the Loyal Legion. He is also a member of the Con-
gregational Club and the board of trade.

He married (first) Mary P. Parker. He married
(second) Maria K. Knowles, daughter of Elisha
and Eunice (Huntington) Knowles. of .\uburn. The
children of Horace and Mary P. (Parker) Hobbs:
Horace B., died at the age of eighteen rnonths ;
Cora Louise, a clerk in the office of the register of
deeds ; William H., attended the Worcester high
school, a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Insti-
tute, then took a course at Harvard University, at
Johns Hopkins, and at Heidelberg University, Ger-
many (where he studied again in 1905) : for some
years professor of geology in Wisconsin State Uni-
versity at Madison. Wisconsin: he married Sarah
Kimball, has one child. Winnifred B., born T900.
Children of Horace and Maria K. (Knowles) Hobbs:
Howard K.. was in the Second regiment at the battle
of Santiago, is sergeant of the Worcester Light In-
fantrv and treasurer of the company : also treasurer
of Willie Grout Camp, Sons of Veterans ; treasurer
of the Sunday school : graduate of Worcester high
school : associated wMth his father and uncle as
examiner of titles at the court house. Alice M.,
graduate of Wheaton Seminary.

(VII) George Webster Hobbs. son of General
George Hobbs (6), was born in Worcester. March
22, 1839. He was educated in the public schools of
his native citv and at Norwich University, Vermont.
He studied law \v\th. Colonel E. B. Stoddard. He
was admitted to the bar and commenced to practice
in \?6o, at Uxbridge. He was a lieutenant in the
Worcester Light Infantry. For many years he was
one of the most prominent and influential citizens
of Uxbridge. He was interested in historical sub-
jects and wrote extensively. He married Chloe E.
Taft. daughter of David Taft, of Uxbridge.

(VII) William Harrison Hobbs, youngest son
of General George Hobbs (6), was born in Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, April 28, 1841. in the hotel at
the comer of Main and Thomas streets, which at
that time was kept by bis father. He first attended
school in the old school house on Main street: then
in the Thomas street school in the various grades.
He also attended the Worcester Academy, the
Highland Military Academy and the Worcester
high school. In 1855 he joined the Worcester Light
Infantry, and was with his company in the famous
march through Baltimore at the beginning of the

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civil war, April 19, 1861. This company was part
of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. He was one of
those detailed by Captain Harrison W. Pratt to
notify the members of the company to be at the
armory for active service. He still has the written
order, viz. :

"Private W. H. Hobbs : You are hereby ordered
to warn, and give immediate verbal notice, to the
non-commissioned officers and privates of the com-
pany under my command, and whose names are
specified in roll annexed, to appear at their armory
at four o'clock in the forenoon of Wednesday, the
seventeenth day of April, current, uniformed and
equipped as the law directs for military duty and
active service.

Harrison W. Pratt,

"Commanding Company B, Third Battalion In-
fantry."

He was mustered out of service, with the rank
of corporal, at the expiration of his enlistment.
After his return from the service Mr. Hobbs went
into the business of brick-making with his father, and
continued until the death of his father in 1872. In
the following year he went to Haverhill and started
in the brick business, but on account of the financial
troubles and hard times of that period, he sold out
in 1874. He returned to Worcester and entered
the real estate and conveyancing business. He had
an office in the building on the present site of the
Chadwick until 1883, when he went into the registry
of deeds, working with his brother Horace in ex-
amining titles. He has continued in this business
ever since. At present he is the head of the Hobbs
Title Company, and his associates are Samuel H.
Longley and Howard K. Hobbs, his nephew. Mr.
Hobbs is well known, especially among the law-
yers of the county, and is highly esteemed. He is
regarded as one of tlie leading experts in real estate
matters in Worcester county. He is a Republican
in politics, but not an active one. He belongs to
George H. Ward Post, No. 10, G. A. R., and has
been a member of the auditing committee for the
past three years ; a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Quinsigamond Lodge, No. 48, and
trustee of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows'
Mutual Benefit Association for several years, also a
member of the Veteran Independent Order of Odd
Fellows' Association, having been an Odd Fellow
for twenty-five years. Mr. Hobbs married,
November 26, 1865, Martha Lydia Holt, daughter
of Lucius K. and Rebecca (Miles) Holt. They
have two children, both living: Charles H., resides
at New Orleans, educated at Worcester Academy ;
Katharine, lives with her parents, 146 Main street,
W^orcester.

(I) Nicholas Holt, the pioneer ancester of Mrs.
William H. Hobbs, was born in England, in 1602.
He came from Romsey, England, in the ship
"James," William Cooper, master, sailing April 6,
and landing in Boston June 3, 1635. He was one of
the first settlers at Newbury and Andover, Massa-
chusetts. At Newbury he was husbandman, pro-
prietor and town officer. He made a long journey
with others to take the freeman's oath May 17,
1637, and vote against Sir Harry Vane. He was a
tanner as well as a farmer. He removed to And-
over in 1644. He sold his Newbury land Novem-
ber 14, 1652. He is called a plate-turner (wood-
worker) in some records. He married (first) Eliza-
beth . She died at Andover, November 9, 1656.

He married (second), June 20, 1658, Hannah
<Bradstreet) Rolfe, widow of Daniel Rolfe and
daughter of Humpljrey Bradstreet. She died June

20, 1665. He married (third) Mrs. Martha Preston,
widow of Roger Preston, May 2I, 1666. She died
March 21, 1703, aged eighty years. He died Jan-
uary 30, 1685, aged eighty-three years. Children of
Nicholas and Elizabeth Holt: Hannah, born in
England, married Robert Gray ; Elizabeth, born at
Newbury, March 30, 1636; Mary, born at Newl)ury,
October 6, 1638; Samuel, October 6, 164 1 ; Henry,
born 1644, of whom later; Nicholas, 1647; James,
1651 ; Pnscilla, June 20, 1653. Children of Nicho-
las and Hannah Holt were : Rebecca, born Nov-
ember 14, 1662; John, January 14, 1663-4.

(II) Henry Holt, fifth child of Nicholas Holt
(i), was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, 1644.
He married, February 24, 1669, Sarah Ballard,
daughter of William Ballard. She died at Andover.
November 25, 1733. He died January 17, 1719,
aged seventy-five years. They joined the church
June 3, 1716. He was prominent in town affairs. '
In 1686 he owned a mill on Ladle brook. Children
were : Elizabeth, born in Andover, Massachusetts,
December 29, 1670; Oliver, January 14, 167 1 ; Henry,
January 24, 1673 ; James, see forward ; George,
March 17, 1677; Sarah, August 17, 1678; Josiah,
December 13, 1679; Dinah, May 23, 1681 ; Paul,
February 7, 1684; William, February 3, 1687;
Zerviah, March 24, 1689; Keturah, December 15.
1690; Humphrey, September 22, 1693; Benjamin,
July 8, 1696.

(III) James Holt, fourth child of Henry Holt
(2), born in Andover, Massachusetts, September 3.
1675, married, May 24, 1705, Susannah Preston. She
died February 20, 1741-2. He died November 25,
1751. aged seventy-six. Their children: Abigail,
born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 20, 1705.
died 1716; James, 1707; Zerviah, 1712; Barzillai.
see forward; Abigail, died February 20, 1756.

(IV) Barzillai Holt, fourth child of James
Holt (3), born in Andover, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber 25, 1715, married (first) August 27, 1738, Eliza-
beth Goss ; married (second), February 22, 1759,
Lois AUena, and settled in Marlboro, Massachu-
setts, in the part later set off as Shrewsbury. He
was one of the first settlers in West Boylston,
about 1720. He died at Boylston in 1774, aged
fifty-eight years. Children of Barzillai and Eliza-
beth (Goss) Holt: Abel, see forward; Barzillai,
May 12, 1745; James, June 6, 1746; Elizabeth,
August 29, 1753; Silas, born in Marlboro; Levi,
May 6, 1760; Abiel, May 11, 1763; Jothani, Jan-
uary 10, 1765.

(V) Abel Holt, eldest child of Barzillai Holt
(4), born in Marlboro, ?\Iassachusetts, June 14,
1740, married, October 21, 1765, or February 27,

1766, Eunice Keyes, daughter of Henry Keyes, of
Shrewsbury, born April 19, 174^, died October 21,
1840, aged ninety-five years and six months. He
died February 18, 181S, aged seventy-five years. He
was a soldier in the revolution. Children were :
Lois, born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, May 11,

1767, married William Drury, of Holdcn ; .Amasa,
born in Boylston, April 24, 1772, married, 1798,
Nabby Nourse, of Berlin ; Asa, born in Boylston,
June 26, 1776; Abel, June 26, 1776, married Hannah
Wright; Jonas, October 22, 1779; Eunice, October
21, 1782; Henry Keyes, July 2, 1788, married, No-
vember 16, 1813, Lydia Fairbanks, see forward ;
Tyler, September 21, 1791, married, October i, 1812,
Arethusa Fairbanks; she died August 16, 1837, He
died November 8, 1866, at West Boylston.

(VI) Henry Keyes Holt, seventh child of Abel
Holt (5). born in Boylston, Massachusetts, July
2, 1788, married, November 16, 1813, Lydia Fair-
banks, a descendant of Jonathan Fairbanks, of Ded-
ham, in the following line: Lydia (VI), Seth (,Y)>

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onathan (IV), Jabez (III), Jonas (II), Jon-
than (I). He died September 8, 1828, from in-
uries received in a fall. His widow married (sec-
)nd), September 25, 18+4, Natlianicl Davenport.
Children of Henry Keyes and Lydia (Fairbanks)
iolt : Henry Fairbanks, born in South Berwick,
daine, November 26, 1816, married, December 22,
841, Martha Levina Wood, daughter of Alcrritl
Vood ; Lucius Keyes, see forward.

(VII) Lucius Keyes Holt, youngest child of
ienry Keyes Holt (6), born in Sterling, JVIassachu-
etts, married, October 10, 1843, Rebecca Frost, of
ilarlboro, Massachusetts. They resided in Lan-
aster, Massachusetts. Children were : Martha
.ydia, born in Shirley, Massachusetts, November
14, 1845, see forward ; Henry Keyes, born in Lan-
;aster, March 5, 1850, died August 4, 1857, drowned
.t Holyoke, Massachusetts ; Frank E., born in
lolyoke, December 17, 1856, married Nellie Hast-
ngs ; resides at Bayonne, New Jersey ; superintend-
;nt of the Singer Sewing Machine Company fact-
iry at Elizabeth, New Jersey; they have one child,
Dlive, born 1893; Lucius M., born in Lancaster,
ulv 13, 1859, deceased.

(VIII) Martha Lydia Holt, eldest child of Lu-
:ius Keyes Holt (7), born at Shirley, Massachu-
etts, November 24, 1845. I" early life she lived
vith her parents and went to school in Clinton,
^lassachusetts. During the civil war the family
ived at Easthampton. She attended Williston
Seminary and Worcester Academy. She is a mem-
ler of the Fairbanks Association and as indicated
ibove is descended in the same line as Vice-Presi-
lent Fairbanks, who is her cousin. , She married
A'illiam Harrison Hobbs. (See sketch above.)

ARTHUR LANE SAFFORD. Thomas Saf-
ord (l), the immigrant ancestor of Arthur Lane
^afford, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was born in
ingland and settled in New England at Ipswich
jefore 1641. He was on the list of proprietors of
he town April 6, 1641, and was admitted a freeman
December 19, 1648. He bought a farm at Ipswich,
hirty-two acres, .of Henry Kingsbury, February 8,
[648. He was a subscriber to Denison's allowance
n 1640 and had a share and a half in Plum Island.
He died in F~cbruary, 1666-7. His will was dated
February 20, 1666-7, a"d proved Alarch 26, 1667.
He gave his farm to his son Joseph on condition
if his care of the father and mother and paying
certain amounts to daughters Elizabeth, Mary and
Abigail.

He married Elizabeth , who died March 4,

[67, at Ipswich. Their children were: Joseph,
3orn 1631 or 1632, (he deposed March 29, 1692,
that he was about fifty-nine or sixty years old.)
ivas admitted a freeman 1682 ; married, March 6,
[660, Mary Baker ; Jolni, of whom later ; Elizabeth,
Mary, Abigail. (One of the daughters married
Kilum.)

(II) John Safford, son of Thomas Safford (i),
was born about 1633, probably in England. He set-
tled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He had a share of
Plum Island. He gave land to his son Thomas for
the maintenance of his wife and daughter by deed
dated September 5, 1698. The children of John
md Sarah Safford were: John, Jr., of whom later;
Sarah, born July 14. 1664. died July 21, 1712; Mar-
garet. February 28, 1665-6; Rebecca, August 30,
1667; Mercy or Mary, born February 26, 1669-70;
Elizabeth, February 2y. 1670- 1 : Thomas, October
16, 1672, married, October 7. 1698, Eleanor Shats-
well or Setchwell, widow of Richard Setchwell and
daughter of Daniel Cheney; married (second) at
Rowley, June 29, 1725, Sarah Scott; their son Jo-

seph was a pioneer at llardwick, where many of his
descendants live; Joseph, March 12, 1674-5.

(III) John Safford, Jr., son of John Saflford
(2), was born about 1660. He took the oath of
allegiance in 1683 at Ipswich. He was administra-
tor of the estate of his father-in-law, Thomas New-
man, March 5, 1691. He married, September 15,
1685, ilanuah Newman, daughter of Thomas New-
man. He married (second), June 28, 1702, Abigail
Martin. He resided at Ipswich. The children of
John, Jr, and Hannah Safford were : John. Jr.,
born February 28, 1687-8; Hannah, September 24,
1691; Sarah, December 25, 1694; Mary, March 5,
1697; Elizabeth, January 24, 1700. The children of
John, Jr. and Abigail Safford were: Mary, April
-4. 1703; Joseph, January 18, 1705; Gideon, March
24, I7(xj, of whom later.

(IV) Gideon Safford, son of John Safford, Jr.,
(3), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 24,
1709. He lived 111 Ipswich. He married there,
January 13, 1731-2, Elizabeth Hill. Their children
were: Mary, born September i, 1732; Thomas,
October 15, 1735, of whom later; Elizabeth, Sep-
tember 17, 1737; Thankful, October 15, 1739; Amy,
January 25, 1742; Lucy, April 3, 1744; Samuel, Jan-
uary 2, 1748; Pagy, May 10 1750; Anne, July 12,
17s- ; Gideon, Jr., November 4, 1754.

(V) Thomas Safford, son of Gideon Safford
(4), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, October
IS. .^735- He was a soldier in the French and
Indian war and was in Captain Jonathan Brown's
company at Lake George in 1758. During the
revolution he was living at or near Watertown, and
he enlisted July 2,- 1778, with others to serve as
guards over the powder magazine for six months.
He continued to serve on this duty until August
2, 1779. He was called "corporal" m some of the
records. He married at Watertown, July 31, 1764,
Sarah Kettell, of Medford, his residence bcini^ given
as Dedham. His wife joined the Dedhani church,
March 23, 1766. The only record of birth of chil-
dren born to Thomas and Sarah is found in Ded-
ham records : Thomas, baptized at Dedham,
August 24, 1766, by Rev. Mr. Townscnd.

(VI) Thomas Safford, Jr., son of Thomas
Safford (5), of Dedham and Watertown, was bap-
tized at Dedham, August 24, 1766. He lived at
Dedham, Watertown and Concord. He learned the
trade of baker. He removed from Concord to
Lancaster in 1795. He bought of Joseph Willington
Page of Lancaster for one thousand and ninety
pounds his estate in Lancaster, including land on
the Berlin road, land known as the Rugg Intervale,
formerly of Isaac Rugg's estate, and land on the
Harvard road by deed dated April 22, 1795. This
deed gives his residence as Concord, but he must
have removed immediately afterward, as his son
Thomas was baptized at Lancaster, September 6,

I79S-

He married (first) Elizabeth Stetson, who died
at Lancaster, March 11, 1818, aged forty-nine years.
He married (second), 1819, Anna Brighani. Eliza-
beth Stetson was the daughter of Ebenezcr Stetson,
who married in Watertown, July I, 1765, Lucy Rug-
gles. Ebenezer Stetson died in 1809 and the chil-
dren of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stetson) Safford
were named among his heirs, Thomas Safford be-
ing appointed guardian of the minor cliildrcn, Sep-
tember 26, 1809. The second wife was of Marl-
boro, Massachusetts. The children of Thomas and
Elizabeth Safford, all except George, born or bap-
tized in Lancaster, were: George, of whom later;
Thomas, baptized September 6, 1795 ; Catherine, bap-
tized April 23, 1797, died July 4, 1798; Joseph Collis,
baptized December 6, I7<;fe; Francis Augustus, bap-

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tizf d August 3, 1800, died August 3. 1801 ; Caro-
line, born May 30, 1802, died August 31, 1803';
Catherine, born Ueccmber g, 1S04, died February
14, 1807; Henry, born March i, 1S07; Susan Pahner,
born February 19, i8og; Adchne, born January 13,
181 1 ; Elizabeth, (.guardian appointed at her father's
death).

(.VI 1) George Safford, eldest son of Thomas
Safford (6), was born about 1794, probably in Con-
cord, Massachusetts. He was brought up in Lan-
caster and attended school there. He was a farmer.
He married Mary (.I'olly) Stevenson, July 8, 1816,
daughter of Martin Stevenson, of Lancaster. She
died February 19, 1831, aged thirty-si.N: years. He
was guardian of their children who were heirs of
their grandfather Stevenson, who owned forty acres
on George Hill. The children of George and Polly
Safford were: Charles, born September 14. 1817,
of whom later ; George Fo^dick, born March 19,
1819, had children: George and Helen Shortly;
Roby Ruel, born December 12, 1821 ; Augustus, born
January 9, 1825 ; Flenry, of Fitchburg ; Mary E.
George Safford married again and had Fred, whose
children are George Saiford and Lizzie Snyder of
Troy, New York. George Safford married a third
■wife.

(VllI) Charles Safford, son of George Safford
(7), was born in Lancaster, September 14, 1817.
He resided in Lancaster, where he carried on the
business of cabinet making, painting, etc. He was
for many years the town undertaker. He died in
1879, aged si.\ty-nine years. He married. May 16,
1843, Julia A. D. Carter, than aged twenty-four
years. Their children were : A daughter, died
young; Charles Ethan, born October 17, 1845, mar-
ried twice ; one son, Clarence, was killed in the
destruction of the Maine at Havana; Sarah Julia,
February 16, 1847, died June 22, 1847; Ellen Frances,
June I, 1848, married Frank Havard, of Bolton ;
they have two sons and two daughters ; Frank, a
painter by trade, died unmarried at Lancaster ; Henry,
a painter by trade, married Carrie Divoll ; has had
five children, two of whom are living; Arthur
Lane, of whom later ; William P., is in the emr-
ploy of his brother in the general store at Lan-
caster; married Lillian Wilder, daughter of Wil-
liam G. Wilder, of Chnton ; thev have one daughter
Mabel.

(IX) Arthur Lane Safford, son of Charles
Safford (8), was born at Lancaster, Massachu-
setts, August 15, 1856. Fie attended the public and
high schools of his native town. At the age of
si.xteen he began to work in the general store at
Lancaster. The store changed hands several times,
but he remained in the employ of the various pro-
prietors until December, 1879, when in partner-
ship with BLUjaniiu Kingsbury Gallup he became
proprietor of the store himself. The firm name was
Gallup & Saft'ord and they had an excellent busi-
ness. In 1891 Mr. Safford bought out his partner
jmd since then has conducted the business alone.
He has a high grade general store, groceries, dry
goods, hardware, agricultural implements and the
usual stock of the large country store. He also
deals in grain, flour, etc. His former partner is
now manager for the Swift concern of a branch at
Trenton, New Jersey.

In politics Mr. Safford is a Republican. He was
for seven' years town trea.surer and ta.x collector,
but declined to serve after his partner withdrew
from the business. He is at present trustee of the
town's charity funds, held under various bequests,
for the benefit of the poor of the town. He is a
Free Mason, member of Trinity Lodge of Clin-

ton, He is a member of the Lancaster Lodge of
Odd Fellows.

He married Marian Adams Fuller, daughter of
Edward M. Fuller, brother of Eben S. F'uller, of
Clinton. (.See sketch of Fuller family in this work.)
Their children were: Edith Marie, born June, 1891;
Edward, May 6, 1895.

ELI JONES WHITTEMORE. The genealogy
of the W hittemore family to which Eli Jones Whitte-
more, of Worcester, belongs, has been traced back
in England to the twelfth century. Mr. Whitte-
niore has the result of the researches of D. J.
Whittemore, chief engineer of the Chicago, Mil-
waukee & St. Paul Railroad, which were carried on
for a number of years in England at considerable
expense and infinite pains to secure accuracy. A
vast amount of information that he collected should
be edited. A brief abstract only can be used here.
It will serve to correct some of the errors in the
Whittemore and Whitmore genealogies. The name
is commonly spelled Whitmore in England, while
some descendants of the original stock spell their
name Wetmore.

(I) TJie Whitmores of Staft'ordshirc, England,
were originally termed de Boterel. The name of
the father of William de Boterel (1100-1135) and
his brother, Peter de Botrel, is unknown. William
had a son William (1158-I163).

(II) Peter de Botrel, of Staffordshire, had a
son Radulph or Ralph.

(HI) Ralph de Botrel (1152-1171) married twice.
His son William by the first wife married Avisa de
Whitmore (1179). William (IV) (1174) Iwd a son
Reginald (V) (1204-16), who had a son Robert
(VI) (1238), who had a son Robert (VII) (1260).
This is not the American line. That descends from
the second wife, by her son Ralph de Botrel and
not by Rad Fitz Wetmore (1220-40), an illegitimate
son. Rad had a son Will le Burgvyllon (1242-54).

(IV) Ralph de Botrel had a son, Sir John.

(V) Sir John de Whitmore married Agnes
( 1252-76) and had at least three sons : John, Lord
of Whitmore, founder of what the genealogists call
the Caunton line : William, married Alice Fenners,
had son Philip (VII), founded what is called the
Claverly branch: Ralph (VI).

(VI) John Whitmore, son of Sir John Whit-
more, married Margerie (1270-1301).

(VII) Richard of Whitmore married Susannah
Draycote, daughter of Sir Philip Draycote, of
Painesley, knight, and had : Jane, married John
Blunt ; Mary, married John Gifford : Beatrix, mar-
ried John Chetwind; Christina, married Richard
Fleetwood ; Philip.

(\TII) Philip Whitmore, married Thomasine,
daughter of Richard Oliver (?), and had a son,
Richard Whitmore.

(IX) Richard Whitmore. son of Philip Whit-
more (8), married (first) a daughter of Sir Ralph
Bagot; married (second) daughter of Richard
Devereu-x : married (third) a daughter of Simon
Harcourt. probably of Ellenhall, Staffordshire, and
by his third wife had son Nicholas.

(X) Nicholas Whitmore. son of Richard Whit-
more (9). married .-Knnie Aston, daughter of Thomas
.'Kston. of Tixall. Staft'ordshire, and had: Mary,
married William Lusone ; Anthony.

("XI) Anthony Whitmore. son of Nicholas Whit-
more (10), married Christina Vaux, daughter and
heir of Nicholas \^au-x, and had : Joan. William.

(XII) William Whitmore. son of .Anthony Whit-
more (11), had a son John.

(XIII) John Whitmore. of Caunton, second son

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of William Whitmore (12), in the reign of Henry
VI, married Alice BIyton, daughter and heir of
Robert BIyton, of Caunton, county Notts; married
(second) Catherine Compton, daughter and heir
■of Robert Compton, of Hawton (Visitation of York
1563), and had: William; Robert, who was the
lieir.

(XIV) Robert Whitmore, son of John Whit-
more (13), of Caunton, married Catherine Claye,
daughter of George Claye. of Finningly, county
Notts (Visitation of Yorkshire), and had son Will-
iam, the heir, who married a daughter of John Rid-
ley. William of Rotterham died in 156S. Robert
Whitmore. married (second) Alice Atwoode. of
Harlington, Bedfordshire. He died at Caunton in
1540. By this marriage the children were: Richard,
died without issue, 1559; John, living in 1545;
Charles, died 1568; Thomas, living in 1559, probably
died about 1603; Edmund, living in 1559; Rowland,
living in 1591 ; James. Randall, and three daugh-
ters. Thomas Whitmore, Sr.. of Hitchin, w-as the
son of Edmund or Rowland, son.^ of Robert. Hitchin
is the parish where the emigrant Thomas Whitmore
was born, and he was the son of another Thomas
Whitmore. as will be seen later.

(XV) Charles Whitmore. son of Robert Whit-
more (14). died in 1568. He lived at Tuxforth,
county Notts. His children were : William, died
1582 in county Notts ; John, supposed to have lived
in .Staffordshire and died 1571 : Robert, died 1608;
Richard, died 1578; James, died 1614; Thomas,
the elder, died 1649; Roger, of Hitchin; Christo-
pher, of county Beds, died 1640; four daughters,
and a posthumous child supposed to be George.
Three of the sons spelled the name Whittamore,
three spelled it Watmore and one Whitmore, the
spelling that has prevailed in England.

(XVI) Thomas Whitmore, son of Charles Whit-
more (15). lived at Hitchin. county of Hertford.

England. He married Mary . His two sons

emigrated to New England : Thomas to Maiden.
Massachusetts, and John to Stamford. Connecticut.
Thomas, of Maiden, is the ancestor of most of the
American Whittemores. John Whitmore, of Stam-
ford, had a daughter Elizabeth and son John
Whittemore. who v,-as of age in 1649, lived at Stam-
ford and Middletown. Connecticut.

(XVI) Roger Whitmore. son of Charles Whit-
more (15), and brother of Thomas Whitmore. of
Hitchin, was the father of Nicholas Whitmore :
Nicholas was the father of two sons also who
emigrated to New England : Francis Whitmore to
Boston and Thomas Whitmore to Middletown.
Connecticut. From these are descended the Amer-
ican Whitmores. Their father was a first cousin
of the Maiden emigrant. Thomas Whittemore.

(XVII) Thomas Whittemore, son of Thomas
Whittemore (16). was born at Hitchin, Hertford-
shire, England. He came to New England prior
to 1640. for at that time he was in Charlestown.
Massachusetts, on the Mystic side, which later was
the town of Maiden, and signed a petition with
neighbors for better privileges in 1640. He bought
land there of Mr. John Cotton in 1645. This lot
adjoined his home lot and is now in the city of
Everett. Massachusetts. It remained in the Whitte-
more family until May i. 1845. over two hundred
years after he bought it. The site of the first dwell-
ing house is known.

He married (second) Sarah Deardes, April 14,
1623, in England. She was buried November 17,
T628. He married (third) Hannah , who ac-
cording to her deposition in 1662. was born in 1612.
She married (second) Benjamin Butterfield. June
3. 1663. at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Thomas

Whittemore died at Maiden, May 25, 1661. His will
was proved June 25, 1O61. Children of Thomas
Whittemore w^ere : Sarah, baptized April 14, 1616;
Mary, baptized May 12, 1624; Thomas, baptized
October 6, 1626, lived in England; Daniel, baptized
July 3r, 1633, married Mary Mcllins, daughter of
Richard Mcllins, of Charlestown, March 7, 1662;
John, baptized April 27, buried 29, 1635; Nathaniel,
baptized May i, 163C, married Mary Knower, left
no male descendants; John, baptized February II,
1638-9, at Hitchin, England, as were also all the
preceding; settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had
fifteen children and has many descendants; Eliza-
beth; Benjamin, married Elizabeth Bucknam, who
died July 18, 1726; he died July 16, 1726; Thomas
(one of the few- cases where there are two sons
of exactly the same name living at the same time.
The elder Thomas Whittemore was in England and
never came over) married Elizabeth Peirce, of
Woburn, November 9, 1666, and had son Thomas,
born August 14. 1667; Samuel, married Hannah

, removed to Dover. New Hampshire, thence

to Somerville, Massachusetts, and died September
15, 1726; both he and his wife buried at Cambridge,
Massachusetts ; Peletiah ; Abraham, served in the
army in King Philip's war in 1676, died January
14. i6go-r.

(XVIII) Daniel Whittemore. son of Tliomas
Whittemore (17). was born in Hitchin, Hertford-
shire, England, and baptized there July 31. 1633.
He married Mary Mellins. daughter of Richard
Mellins. of Charlestown, March 7, 1662. Richard
removed from Charlestown to Weymouth, where
he was admitted a freeman September 7. 1639. He
inherited the homestead from his lather and' settled
on it. He bequeathed the homestead to his sons
Daniel and John, the latter being the father of
John Whittemore. of Leicester. The will was non-
cupative and was tiot proved till nearly two years
after his death. His widow Mary was the' ad-
ministrator. Children of Daniel Whittemore were:
Daniel, born April 27, 1663, resided in Charlestown
and Maiden, died September 21, 1756. aged ninety-
four ; left the homestead to his son Daniel ; John,
February 12. 1664-5. died 17.^0: Thomas, March 5,
1667; Mary. February 15. 1668-9; Nathaniel, Feb-
ruary 7. 1670; Peletiah. 1680; James.

(XIX) John Whittemore. son of Daniel Whitte-
more (18), married Ruth Bassett. She and her
sister, Lydia Bassett. who married his brother Daniel
Whittemore. were daughters of Joseph Bassett, son
of the emigrant. William Bassett, who came over
in the "Fortune" in 1621. lived at Duxbury, Massa-
chusetts, in 1637. was deputy to the general court
in 1640-41-42-43-44: Bassett joined Governor Brad-
ford and others in the purcha.=e of Dartmouth.
Massachusetts, and removed to Bridgewater. where
he died in 1667. John Whittemore died in 1730.
His wife Ruth was appointed administratrix April
3. I7,w. His whole estate was appraised at five
hundred and three pounds. Children of John and
Ruth Whittemore were : John, born September 12,
1694. settled in Leicester: Jeremiah (q. v.): Benja-
min, married Sarah Kendall. 1723: Patience, mar-
ried Timothy Lamson ; David, born April 6. T706,
married Alice Kendall, of Bedford. Massachusetts,
March ir. 17,^0-31. resided at Boston; Deborah,
born March i. 1707-8: Peletiah. born October 30.
1710. resided at Dunstable.

(XX) Jeremiah Whittemore. son of John
Whittemore (19). was born in Maiden. Massachu-
setts. 169;. He married in Boston. March 1$. 1722,
Patience Reed, .seventh daughter of Israel and Mary
(Kendall) Reed, of Woburn. Massachusetts. She
was born December 3, 1609. She was received in

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the Weston Church from the church in Chelsea,
February 26, 1726-7, and died in Weston, October
24, 1745, aged forty-seven years, ten months, twenty-
one days. They were then living in Weston. He
married (second). May lo, 1746, Abigail Wooley,
of Concord. He died in Concord, Massachusetts,
March 31, 1783, aged eighty-eight years. His chil-
dren were by the first wife.

Children of Jeremiah and Patience (Kendall)
Reed were: Jeremiah, born in Concord, August 16,
1723, of whom later ; Isaac, born in Weston, Massa-
chusetts, November 15, 1726, married. May 9, 1751,
Ruth Bullard, who died October 10, 1764; he mar-
ried (second) (published July 6), 1765, Elizabeth
Graves, of Sudbury, Massachusetts; he had seven
children; Patience, born January 20, 1729-30, mar-
ried, May 28, 1754, John Flagg; Israel, born July
10, 1732, married. May i, 1755, Abigail Brown, had
seven children; Asa, born August 7, 1736, died
April 12, 1746.

(XXI) Jeremiah Whittemore, son of Jeremiah
Whitfemore (20), was born in Concord, Massachu-
setts, August 16, 1723, and died at Spencer, Massa-
chusetts, May 14, 1803, aged seventy-eight years.
He went from Weston to settle in Spencer in 1760.
Some of his children were born before he moved,
some afterward. He married Mary Carter. Their
children were: Amos, died 1751; Asa. bom Novem-
ber ID. 1749, married Lucy Muzzey, March 2, 1765,
removed from Spencer to the south part of Leicester,
Massachusetts, died 1821, she died 1822; (Otis
Whittemore now or lately living in Leicester is a
grandson, as is also Eber Whittemore. Their father
was Amos. Mrs. H. D. Edwards, daughter of Asa's
son Charles, is now or was lately living in Leices-
ter, Massachusetts); Reuben, born April 29, 1754;
Mary, born in Weston, married Nathan Wright,
October 26, 1779: Tamar. born June 18, 1756, mar-
ried Robert Watson ; Sybil, born' January 17, I7S8,
married Reuben Underwood, February i, 1779;
Aaron, born in Spencer. March I, 1762, married

Sally ; Esther, born in Spencer, December 28,

1764. died unmarried: Jeremiah, born in Spencer,
February 21, 1766, married. February 21, 1792, Polly
Washburn, of Paxton : Sarah, born in Spencer,
March 16, 1768, married Ebenezer Kingsbury.

(XXII) Reuben Whittemore, son of Jeremiah
Whittemore (21). born April 29, 1754. at Weston,
Massachusetts, died at Spencer, April 19. 1832. He
married Abigail Watson, March 2, 1794. He set-
tled at Spencer, Massachusetts. Their children
were: Betsey, born at Spencer, June l.S. 1780. mar-
ried James Browning: Amos, born at Spencer. Sep-
tember 7, 1782, resided in Hartford. Connecticut,
married Sally (Barnard) Hotchkiss, July 18, 1813;
he died July 3, 1854: .she died August 13, 1853;
had six children ; Thankful, born February 6, 1785,
died August 22, 18,38 : Daniel, born at Spencer.
April 28. 1787, married Fanny Prouty, daughter of
Joshua Prouty, March 4. 1815: he died October
5. 1S72. aged eighty-five: she died November 21,
1843. aged fifty-four ; Roswell. born October 3,
1789: Rhuben, born in Spencer. February 5, 1795,
married Salome Clark. November 30, 1819, born
September 5, 1795. died January 22, 1869; he died
January 17, 1861. had eight children : Oliver, born
February 11, 1797. of whom later; Caroline, born
December 14, 1798. married Samuel M. Hobbs;
William, born July 7, 1801, died April 4, 1841,
unmarried : Abigail, born in Spencer. November 20,
1803. married Augustus Rider, of Spencer, had one
son. Alfred.

(XXIII) Oliver Whittemore, son of Reuben
Whittemore (22), was born in Spencer, Massachu-
setts, February ir, 1797, died March 29, 1830. He

married Lydia Jones, June 26, 1823. He was a
tarmer. His children were: Eli Jones, born April
30, 1824 ; Harriet Susannah, born March 8, 1826,
married, April 19, 1853, Phineas Jones, of Spencer,
Massachusetts, removed later to Newark, New Jer-
sey, where he was in partnership in the wheel-
wright business with Eli J. Whittemore ; she died
Aiarch 6, 1866; had one son, Frederick Augustus,
born August 21, 1868; Oliver Augustus, born March

2, 1828, married in Denver, Colorado, ■ , no

children.

(XXIV) Eli Jones Whittemore, son of Oliver
Whittemore (23), was born April 30, 1824, in Spen-
cer, Massachusetts. He was educated in the dis-
trict schools of his native town and at Leicester
Academy, at Leicester, Massachusetts. His father
died when he was only six years old. He worked
on a farm until he was sixteen, when he entered the
wheelwright shop of S. G. Reed at Spencer. He
became a partner of Mr. Reed some years after-
ward and succeeded him in the business there. Mr.
Whittemore manufactured carriages and wagons and
developed a substantial business in which he ac-
quired a competence. In 1866 he removed to-
Newark, New Jersey, where he entered partner-

■ ship with Phineas Jones, who married his sister,
Harriet L. Whittemore. The firm name was Phineas
Jones & Company and they did a general wheel-
wright business and manufactured carriages and
wagons. The firm still does a prosperous business
there. Mr. Whittemore sold his interests to Mr.
Jones, his partner, in 1874 and retired. The present
owner of the business is Henry P. Jones, son of
Phineas, the original partner with Mr. Whittemore.

Mr. Whittemore returned to Worcester county
when he retired from business and settled in Wor-
cester. In 1877 he moved to the handsome house
on Main street, which he now occupies. While
in Spencer he served four years as postmaster under
President Lincoln, as assessor for two years and
selectman for three years. He is one of the ap-
praisers of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of Wor-
cester. In politics he is a Republican. He was
formerly a member of the Worcester County Me-
chanics' Association and the Agricultural Society.

He married (first), April 13, 1858, Maria I.
Pope, at Spencer, Massachusetts. She died in 1862
at Spencer. He married' (second) Elizabeth M.
Hamblett, of Manchester, New Hampshire, at that
city. May 3, 1866. She died February ig, 1901.
He had two children by the second marriage,
namely: Eric Hamblett, born July 30, 1867: Emma
Lizzie, February 23, 1869, resides with her father
in Worcester.

(XXV) Eric Hamblett Whittemore. son of Eli
Jones Whittemore (24), was born in Newark. New
Jersey, July ,30. 1867. He married Jennie Black,
of Medford, Massachusetts. He was educated in
the Worcester schools, graduating from the Wor-
cester high school. He is engaged in the manu-
facture of paper boxes in Fitchburg, a business
which he started and built up himself. His chil-
dren are: Elizabeth Hamblett, born October 7, 1897;
Ruth Bailey, July 2, 1905.

DR. KENDALL EMERSON.^ The Emerson
Family, which has been prominent in New England
since the first settlement, originated in England
and numbers among its members many distinguished
and able men. The first to use the name Emerson
in England was Johannes Emeryson, of Brancepcth
parish, Durham county, England, who was born
before 1,300. From him the various branches of the
English family are descended, though the line can-
not be traced perfectly. The coat of arms was borne

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by the American branches of the family as well as
tjie English.

(I) Thomas Emmerson, the first EngHsh an-
cestor to whom the pedigree of Dr. Emerson, of
Worcester, can be traced definitely, was born sofne
time before 1540 in England. He was a resident
of Great Dunmow, county Essex, where his three
children are registered. He was probably son of
Ralf of Foxton. who received arms in 1535. His
children were : Robert, baptized at Great Dunmow,
October 25, 1561; Joan, baptized 1563; John, bap-
tized 1565.

(II) Robert Emerson, son of the preceding
Thomas Emerson (ij, was born in Great Dunmow
and baptized there October 25, 1561. He may be
identical with Robert Emerson, of Bishop's Stort-
ford, who married there November 24. 1578, Susan
Crabb, who was buried there November 20. 1626,
aged seventy years. Robert was buried at Bishop's
Stortford, January 6. 1620. His children were:
Alice, baptized at Bishop's Stortford, November 22,
1579; Margaret, baptized February 21, 1581-2;
Thomas, see forward ; Anne ; Robert, baptized April
12, 1596; John.

(III) Thomas Emerson, son of the preceding
Robert Emerson (2), was baptized at Bishop's Stort-
ford, July 26, 1584. In the church warden's book
of St. Michael's he is recorded as a collector for
the poor in 1636. He married Elizabeth Brewster,
July I, 1611, at Bishop's Stortford, and the
genealogist of the English Emersons suggests that
she was the daughter of the postmaster of Scrooby
and the elder of the colony at Plymouth. The chil-
dren of Thomas Emqrson, as recorded in the bap-
tismal registry of St. Michael's church at Bishop's
Stortford, Herts, were: Robert, baptized May 24,
1612: Benjamin, baptized October 2, 1614; Ralfe.
baptized (October 19, 1615, killed by falling tree
June, 1626: James, baptized February 16, 1617; Jo-
seph, baptized June 25, 1620, settled in Mendon,
Massachusetts; Elizabeth, baptized June 14. 1623;
John, baptized February 26, 1625, settled in (jlouces-
ter, Massachusetts ; Thomas, see forward ; Nathaniel,
baptized July 18, 1630, settled Ipswich, Massachu-
setts ; Susan, baptized March 17, 1632, may have
died on the voyage.

(IV) Thomas Emerson, son of the preceding
Thomas Emerson (3), was the emigrant ancestor
of Dr. Emerson. He died in Ipswich, Massachu-
setts, May I, 1666. His wife Elizabeth was named
executrix of his will 1653. She survived him. They
settled in Ipswich. They came according to family
tradition in the ship "Elizabeth .\nn" in 1635. He
had a grant of land there in 16,38. The children of
Thomas Emerson were : Elizabeth, married John
Fuller; Thomas, died 1653, before his father; Jo-
seph, see forward : John, 1625, died December 2,
1700; James, resided in England; Nathaniel. 1629;
Sarah, died August 12, 1640.

(V) Joseph Emerson, third child of Thomas
Emerson (4). the emigrant, was born in England,,
about 1620-1, and died at Concord, Massaclmsetts.
January 3. 1680. Through his son Joseph he was
the ancestor of that most illustrious American,
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo (9) I Wil-
liam (8) : Joseph (7) ; Edward (6) ; Joseph (s) ;
He married, 1646, Elizabeth Woodmansey, daugh-
ter of Robert and Margaret Woodmansey, school-
master of Boston. They resided at Ipswich, Massa-
chusetts, York. Maine and Milton. Massachusetts.
Joseph Emerson was a Puritan minister, said to have
been educated in England. He may have studied
at Harvard. He was at Ipswich as early as i6,-?8.
He was admitted frpeman there December 19. 1648.
He preached at York. Maine, the same year. In

1653^ he was a resident of Wells and took the free-
man's oath there July 4, 1653. He signed a petition
to Cromwell while of Wells, asking the Protector
to confirm the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over
the inhabitants of Wells. About 1664 he left Wells,
where he seemed to have a turbulent lot of parish-
ioners and where the church, after he left, had to
disband. About 1664 he became minister at Milton,
Massachusetts. December i, i66g, he settled in
Mendon, Massachusetts, where he remained until
the town was destroyed by the Indians, when he
retired to Concord, where he died. He married
(second), December 7, 1665, Elizabeth Bulkeley,
daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord,
Mas.-achusetts, granddaughter of Rev. Peter Bulke-
ley, first minister of Concord. She was born in
1638 and died September 4. 1693, having married
Captain John Brown, of Reading, Massachusetts.
The cliildren of Rev. Josepli Emerson were; (by
the first wife) Joseph, Mary; (by second wife the
following:) Lucian, born October 2, 1667, married.
May 15, 1683, Thomas Damon, of Reading (see
Damon family) ; Edward, .April 26, 1670, married
Rebecca Waldo ; Peter, see forward ; Ebenezer ;
Daniel, married. May 19, 1709, Jane Armitage.

(VI) Peter Emerson, son of Rev. Joseph Emer-
son (5), was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, 1673
and died 1749. He married, November 11, 1696,
Anna Brown, who was born in Reading. 1678, daugh-
ter of Captain John and .Anna (Fiske) Brown, of
Reading. Captain John Brown had married Peter's
mother. They resided in the first parish of Read-
ing, now- South Reading, on the farm inherited
from Captain Brown. Peter Emerson was a
farmer. The children of Peter and Anna (Brown)
Emerson were : Anna, born July 6, 1697, died Au-
gust II, 1697: Elizabeth. February 20, 1699; Anna,.
March 9, 1701, resided in HoIIis, New Hampshire;
Brown. April 16, 1704; Lucy, 1706; Sarah, Novem-
ber 8. 1708: Jane, March 11, 171 1, resided at Hollis ;
Mary, December 20, 1713, resided at Salisbury,
Massachusetts: Rev. Daniel, May 20, 1716 (see
forward), resided in Hollis; Catherine, December
2. 1718.

(VII) Rev. Daniel Emerson, ninth child of Peter
Emerson (6). was born at Reading, Massachusetts,
May 20, 1716, died at Hollis, New Hampshire, Sep-
tember 30, 1801. He married, November 7, 1744,
Hannah Emerson, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Mary
(Moody) Emerson, of Maiden, Massachusetts. She
was born at Maiden, December 3, 1722, died at
Hollis. February 28. 1812. They resided at Hollis..
Mr. Emerson was graduated at Harvard College,
1739, and immediately prepared himself for the work:
of the ministry. In 1741 he was called to be the-
first minister of Hollis. New Hampshire, then thc:
west precinct of Dunstable, Massachusetts. He con-
tinued minister until November 27, 1793, when Rev.
Eli Smith, who married his granddaughter, was
elected as his colleague. In 1755. during the old
French war. he was chaplain to the famous rangers
of which Robert Rogers and John Stark were the
officers. He was considered the ranking officer
because of his family arms, bearing three lions.
He kept a journal during his service and it has
been preserved. He was chaplain again in 1758
in Colonel Hart's regiment. One of his letters to
his wife, dated at Crown Point in 1755, w-as brought
to Hollis by his dog, which he had trained for the
purpose. He taught school and fitted his students
for college. He gave the land on which the meet-
ing house was built. He was one of the ablest advo-
cates of the "New Light" doctrine, and for many
years was the leading and most influential minister
in his section of the country. Professor Churchill

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said of liiiii : "He was a kind of Congregational
Bishop in his region," His dwelling house, built
and occupied while he was minister in Hollis, is in
good repair and habitable. The children of Rev.
Daniel and Hannah (Emerson) Emerson were:
Hannah, born September 30, 1745; Daniel, Decem-
ber 15, 1746 (see forward) ; Mary, September 19,
1748; Peter, November g, 1749; Lucy, October 29,
1751: Mary, Novcmljer 14. 1753: Elizabeth, May 5,
1755: Ebenezcr. August 14. 1757: Joseph, Septem-
ber 28, 1759 (H. C. 1779); Ralph, March 4, 1761 ;
Rebecca, July 5, 1762; Samuel, September 6, 1764;
William, December 11, 1765.

(VHI) Daniel Emerson, second child of Rev.
Daniel Emerson (7), was born at Hollis, New
Hampshire, December 15, 1746. died there October
4, 1820. He married; November 17. 1768, Ama
Fletcher, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Under-
wood) Fletcher. She was born April 7, 1746, died
November 22, 1797. They resided at Hollis. He
was a leading citizen, the wealthiest taxpayer and
deacon of the church. He was one of the eighteen
proprietors of New Ipswich, New Hampshire,
preached there occasionally and had his tax re-
funded for that reason. He was one of the thirty-
two proprietors of the New Ipswich Academy in
1787, and was a trustee from the time of its in-
corporation in 1789 until his death. In the revolu-
tionary war Captain Emerson was active. As a min-
ute man he marched at the head of his company
for Ticonderoga in 1776, reaching the Connecticut
river. He started a second time and reached
Cavendish, Vermont. He was captain of the first
company in Colonel Nichol's regiment and of the
fifth company in Colonel Mooney's regiment. He
served in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778-9.
He was a member of the governor's council in 1787,
and representative to the legislature nineteen
terms, 1780-1812. He was coroner and high sheriff
of Hillsboro county. New Hampshire, town clerk
of Hollis, 1780-81, selectman twelve years, and town
treasurer 1774-79 and 179S and 1799. Mrs. Emer-
son inherited besides the Fletcher blood that of
Adams and Underwood, founders of Chelmsford,
Massachusetts. Her father settled in Dunstable
when it was a wilderness, and lived there fifty
years a prominent and respected citizen. Family
.gatherings were held twice yearly until their chil-
dren and grandchildren numbered above sixty in
the Fletcher homestead at Dunstable. The chil-
dren of Daniel and Ama (Fletcher) Emerson were:
Ama, born August 20, 1769, died August 4. i860,
married Rev. Eli Smith : Daniel, see forward ;
Hannah. December 7. T773; Josepli, October 13,
1777: Ralph, August 18, T787; Samuel. November
9, 1791 ; William, November 9, 1791 (twin of pre-
ceding). Daniel Emerson married (second) Han-
nah Mosier, widow, who survived him and died
August 20, 183 1.

(IX) Daniel Emerson, second child of Daniel
Emerson (8), was born at Hollis, New Hampshire,
July 15, 1771, died at Dartmouth, Massachusetts,
November [6, 1808 He married, December 3,
1797, Esther Frnthingham, a daughter of Major
Benjamin Frothingham. She was born in Charles-
town, Massachusetts, 1770, died in Hollis, New
Hampshire, March 14, 1849. They resided at
Charlestown, in Maryland, in Virginia, in New
Hampshire and at Dartmouth. Jilr. .Emerson was
graduated at Harvard, 1794. He was a student
at law with Samuel Dexter. He was a merchant
in Charlestown, in Maryland, in Virginia and Hollis,
New Hampshire. He sold out to his partner.
Bixby, who did not pay the firm's debts as agreed,
and he ruined himself in paying them. He was

ordained in 1806 and settled as minister at South
Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where be remained un-
til his death. His widow returned to Hollis and
for many years kept the village store, driving to
Boston at regular intervals in her own chaise to
make purchases. She thus supported and educated
her large family. The children of Daniel and
Esther ( Frothingham ) Emerson were : Daniel, born
August 8, 1798: Elizabeth, July 29, 1800. died Octo-
ber 4, 1870, married, August 26, 1823, William S.
Bradbury, resided at Westminster, Massachusetts ;
Edward.' October I, 1802, died April 21, 185 1, mar-
ried, November 13, 1844, Hannah Pierce ; resided
at Hollis and at Allegan, Michigan ; Charles, April
9, 1805, died July 6, 1805; Benjamin Frothingham,
see forward ; Joseph, September 4, 1808, died July
21, 1885, married (first) Sarah H. Davis, (second)
October 16, 1858, Martha A. Howard, resided at
Andover.

(X) Benjamin Frothingham Emerson, fifth
child of Daniel Emerson (9), was born at Hollis,
New Hampshire, July 3, 1806, died at Nashua,
New Hampshire, September 6, 1884. Mr. Emerson
entered Dartmouth College in 1826 and studied
two years ; he was graduated from Union College
in 1830. He attended the law school at Cambridge
the next year, then taught school in the west. He
practiced law in Nashua from 1836 to 1873, and
was intrusted with the settlement of many of the
largest estates of that region. He married, Novem-
ber 29, 1842, Elizabeth Kendall, daughter of Nathan
and Elizabeth (Thompson) Kendall. She was
born at Bedford, New Hampshire, October 7. 1812.
died at Nashua, September 26, 1870. They resided
a Nashua. He married (second), October 9, 1872,
Caroline Carlton (Frye) Rankin, widow of James
Henry Rankin, and daughter of Samuel and Mary

(Hoyt) Frye, of Danville, Vermont, where she
was born February 8, 1817. She died March i,
1886. The children of Benjamin Frothingham and
Elizabeth (Kendall) Emerson were: Benjamin
Kendall, see forward ; Charles Edward, born Octo-
ber II, 1846, graduate of the Chandler Scientific
School at Hanover, New Hampshire, 1870. a civil
engineer of Nashua, New Hamp.shire.

(XI) Professor Benjamin Kendall Emerson,
eldest child of Benjamin Frothingham Emerson
(to), was born at Nashua, New Hampshire, Deccm-
lier 20, 1843. He married, April 2, 1873, Mary An-
nette Hopkins, a daughter of Erastus and Charlotte
Freylinghuysen (Allen) Hopkins. She was born at
Northampton, Massachusetts. April 2, 1848, died at
Amherst. Massachusetts, July 31, 1897. They resided
at Amherst. Mr. Emerson was graduated valedictor-
ian of the class of 1863 of Amherst College. He
studied at Gottingen and took his Ph. D. there in
1869. He was assistant in the German geological
survey in 1869 and made geological studies in Swit-
zerland, Saxony, Bohemia and Norway. He became
professor of geology and zoology at Amherst College
in 1870. He is the author of the genealogy. The
Emerson Family, an excellent work. He is a mem-
ber of the German Geological Society, the Ap-
palachian Club, the American Philosophical So-
ciety, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Society of Naturalists of Eastern United States,
the National Geographic Society. He was vice-
president in 1896 of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, vice-president in 1897
of the Geological Congress at St. Petersburg, first
vice-president in i8g8 of the Geological Society of
America, assistant geologist of the United States
Geological Survey since 1887 and is now geologist
(1905). He is the author of monograph xxvii.
United States Geological Survey, entitled: Geology

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of Old Hampshire county or Franklin, 1 lanipsliirc
and Hampden counties, in Massachusetts, lie wrote
bulletin No. 126, United States Geological Survey,
•entitled: A Mineral Lexicon of Franklin, Hamp-
shire and Hampden counties, in Massachusetts, lie
wrote the United States Geological Survey bulletin,
entitled: The Geology of Southwestern Berkshire,
and also the United States geological survey fojios,
which contain geological maps and descriptions of
Eastern Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden
and Worcester counties in Massachusetts. He has
written many articles for the scientific journals.

Mrs. Emerson's father was the Hon. and Rev.
Erastus Hopkins, of an ancestry noted in the New-
England ministry. Her great-great-grandmother
was Esther Edwards, sister of Rev. Jonathan Ed-
wards. Her grandfather on her mother's side was
Rev. William Allen, D. D., president of the
ephemeral Dartmouth University and later of
Bowdoin College. She was also descended from
Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College,
from Rev. Thomas Allen, of Pittsfield, the re-
nowned "fighting parson" of the American revolu-
tion, and also in the eighth generation from Wil-
liam Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth
colony. Of her the Springfield Republican, August
6, 1897, said :

"The college circle at Amherst feels itself sadly
stricken by the recent unlooked for death of Mrs.
Annette Hopkins Emerson, wife of Professor B. K.
Emerson. Her life seemed so abounding in health
and joyousness that her friends cannot realize that
it is ended. It was Mrs. Emerson's rare and happy
fortune to radiate sunlight in the world through
her bright and fervent personality. None who came
within the range of its influence failed to feel its
cheering effect. Nor was its characteristic merely
negative loveliness. There was a fire, a sparkle,
an intellectual stimulus in Mrs. Emerson's pres-
ence and conversation that were fairly exhilirating.
So clever and charming and genuine a woman did
not fail to receive' recognition as a leader in the
social life of Northampton, which became her home
after marriage. Though her attention was largely
■occupied in her later years by the absorliing do-
mestic interests which belong to the rearing of a
large family, she kept well in touch with the pro-
gress of the intellectual world. She had a decided
literary interest and could herself write brightly
and forcefully when occasion offered. She had
hoped to go with her husband to the congress of
geologists at St. Petersburg this summer, and had
planned to describe her experiences and impres-
sions in letters to the Republican and other jour-
nals ; but she was obliged to forego this great
pleasure. It is hard to submit to the termination
of a life so strong, so rich, so healthful ; but solace
and inspiration come with the thought of its ac-
complishment, its wholesome and helpful influence."
The children of Professor Benjamin Kendall and
Mary .Annette (Hopkins) Emerson were: Char-
lotte Freylinghuysen, born January t,. 1874. graduate
of Smith College; (Benjamin) Kendall, see for-
ward ; Edward Hopkins, born September 18, 1877,
graduate of Amherst, 1899 : Annette Hopkins, born
September .^, 1879; Malleville Wheelock. born
August 28. 1887; Caroline Dwight, born March 14,
1891.

(XII) Dr. Benjamin Kendall Emerson or
Kendal! Emerson, as he is known, having dropped
his first name, son of Professor Benjamin Kendall
Emerson (11). was born in Northampton. Massa-
chusetts. June 27, 1875. He attended the public
schools of Amherst in early life. He entered Am-
herst College in 1893 and graduated in 1897. He

IS a memlKT of the Phi Beta Kappa of Amherst
He was graduated from Harvard Medical School
m igoi, and after .some hospital practice settled in
Worcester and began the practice of his profession,
in vvhich he has made goo<l progress and has ac-
<iuired an excellent jiractice. He married, October
I. 190,?, Josephine Devereux Sewall, born in Water-
town, New York, October 14, 1875. She is a grad-
uate of Smith College, 1897. They have one child,
Sewall, born at Worcester, October 13, 1904. They
reside at 72 West street, Worcester. Dr. Emerson's
office is on Pearl street.

HENRY H. STOWl'. John Stowe or Stow (i).
was the progenuor in New England of Henry H.
Stowe. of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He came with
his wife Elizabeth and six children in one of Win-
throp's companies and settled in Roxbury, Massachu-
setts. He arrived .May 7. 16.34. The children were
Thomas. Elizabeth. John, Nathaniel, Samuel and
Thankful. He was admitted a freeman September
,?, 16,34. He was a proprietor of the colony and a
delegate to the general court in 1639, He was
elected in 16,38 a member of the .-Xncient and Honor-
able Artillery Company.

He married Elizabeth Biggs, daughter of Mrs.
Rachel Biggs, who came to Dorchester in 1635

with her daughter, Foster. The Foster and

Stowe children received valuable legacies from their
uncles, John and Smalhope Biggs, of Cranbrook and
Maidstone. Kent county, England. His wife, Eliza-
beth, a very godly woman, was buried August 24,
1636. All his children were probably born in Eng-
land. They were : Thomas, resided at Concord,
Massachusetts, and Middletown, Connecticut. Eliza-
beth, married Henry Archer. John. Samuel, born
about 1620, graduated from Harvard College in
1645, the second class to graduate, the year 1644
having no graduates. (The Harvard quinquennial
catalogue states that he had the A. M. degree. There
had been but thirteen graduates before he had his
degree. Thtre were seven graduates in 1645.) He
was a clergyman at Middletown, Connecticut. He
died in 1704. Nathaniel, resided at Ipswich, was
born according to a deposition he took there in
1622. Thankful, married John Pierpoint. of Ro.x-
bury, Massachusetts.

(II) Thomas Stowe, son of John Stowe (l),
was born in En,gland. probably Lincoln or Middle-
sex county, w-here the families of Stowe were numer-
ous about 1610. He was in Concord, Massachusetts,
before 1640, and had a family of at least three
children, Samuel, Thomas and Nathaniel. He and
his brother Nathaniel owned six hundred acres of
land between Fairhaven Pond an<l the Sudbury Line.
Thomas Stowe sold his rights in 1660 to Thomas
Gobble and David Dam, he having moved to Con-
necticut. He probably left Concord about 1650 and
moved to Middletown. then part of Hartford. Con-
necticut. The town of Stow, Massachusetts, was
near Marlboro and Sudbury where this land of
tlie Stowe brothers was located, but the Stowe
family seems to have had no part in establishing
the town. It was incorporated in May, 1683, but
the history shows no Stowe active as a pioneer. In
fact the whole family seems to have been in Con-
necticut about this time, and the Stowes do not
appear as of the town of Stow until much later.
Still the town was probably named in some way
for a member of the family or by a friend of
the Stowes.

The children o\ Thomas Stowe were: Samuel
who becaTue I he progenitor of the Marlboro and
Slow families after his return to Massachusetts;

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Nathaniel; Thomas, born 1O50, settled in Middle-
town, Connccticnt.

(III) Samuel Stowe, son o{ Thomas Stowe (2).
was born in Concord, Massachusetts, before his
father went to Middletown, Connecticut, probably
about 1648. He was a soldier in King Philip's war.
Immediately afterward he became interested in the
new settlement, at Marlboro. His name is on a
petition for the plantation in 1677 and he was prob-
ably there some months before, perhaps directly
after peace was established and the settlers in towns
like Sudbury and Marlboro were able to work
their plantations once more. In 1684 he bought
of Waban and James Atchuit, two Indians of Natick,
Massachusetts, for six pounds in money and six
pounds in corn — twenty acres of land in Marl-
boro. He was also one of the proprietors of the
Ockoocangansett plantation purchased by the In-
dians. He was prominent as a proprietor and citizen
of the new town.

His children were: Samuel, born May 2, 1680,
married, December 19, 1704, Sarah Snow; Thomas,
born December 27, 1682, married, January 20, 1713,
Hannah Johnson; Mary, born July 18, 1685,- married,
June 13, 1706, Jonathan Morse ; Thankful, born
October 8. 1687, married, March 29, 1710, Samuel
Stevens; Rachel, born February 21. 1690, married,
December 14, 1715, Luke Rice; John, born March
30, 1696, married, April 25, 1722, Elizabeth Brig-
ham. All three sons left large families of children
and have numerous descendants in Marlboro and
central Massachusetts.

(IV) Thomas Stowe, son of Samuel Stowe (3),
was born probably at Marlboro (where it was
recorded). December 27, 1782. He married, Jan-
uary 20. 1 713, Hannah Johnson, daughter of Will-
iam and Hannah Johnson. She died June 15, 1789.
He died .August 28, 1765. His will proved October
8, 1765. mentions his sons Benjamin, Thomas, Sam-
uel, Stephen and David and Experience Newton,
deceased ; also son Josiah who is required to pro-
vide for the support of his mother, Hannah.

Their children were: Comfort, born July 16, 1716.
died 1716: Thomas, born September 8. 1717, died
1717; Benjamin, l)orn August 25, 1718: David, born
October 14, 1719, died young; Thomas, born October
IS, 1720, married. June 3, 1752, Elizabeth Newton ;
Charles, born December 31, 1721, died young; Sam-
uel, born December 26, 1723, luarried, April 28,
1748, Rebecca Howe: Stephen, born December 15,
1724, married. May 23, 1753. Abigail Smith ; Josiah,
born December 8, 1725. died young ; Hannah, born
December g, 1726, died young; Experience, born

February 24, 1728, married Newton; David.

born April 29. 1729: Josiah. born July 5, 1730, luar-
ried, 1760. Ruth Howe; Hannah, born September
8, 1731 ; Sabella. born September 4. 1732, died 1752 ;
Silas, born October 20. 1734. All the sixteen chil-
dren seem to have been by one wife, an unusual fam-
ily even for those prolific days. She was evidently
over ninety, the mother, when she died.

(V) Stephen Stowe. son of Thoinas Stowe (4),
was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, December 15,
1724. He married. May 23. 1753, Abigail Smith.
Two of their children were born at Marlboro. They
removed to Stow. Massachusetts, probably about
1758, where for several generations their descendants
lived. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war.

Their children were : Lydia, born in Marlboro,
March 24, 1754; Silas, born in Marlboro, April 26,
17^6; Ichabod. born about 1758 (and others prob-
ably) on the old homestead in Stow. Massachusetts.

(VF) Ichabod Stowe. son of Stephen Stowe (5),
was born in Stow. Massachusetts, 1759. He married
Ruth Whitney. November 29. 1781. He was a soldier

in the revolutionary war. He settled in Stow and
conducted the old farm. He had a son Moses and
other children, namely : Ichabod, Abraham, Levi,
l-uke.

(VII) Moses Stowe, son of Ichabod Stowe (6),
was born on the old Stowe homestead at Stow,
Massachusetts, in 1803. He died in Lancaster,
Massachusetts, in 1883. He attended the schools in
Stow. He went to work first on the old farm, but
later decided to learn the wheelwright's trade. He
followed this business all his active life. He set-
tled in Lancaster where he spent his last years. In
politics he was originally an "old line Whig" and
was deeply interested in his party, for which he
worked earnestly and faithfully. He married Eliza
W. Jones, January I, 1829. They had two children:
Franklin, born October 16, 1829, died September 1
2,^, ]8-i7: and Henry H., born March 29, 1841. I

(VIII) Henry H. Stowe, son of Moses Stowe '
(7), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, March
29, 1841. He was educated there in the public
schools and then for a time worked at the wheel-
wright's trade with his father. He succeeded to
his father's business and conducted it successfully.
He was able to retire a few years ago and enjoy
life quietly and comfortably at his pleasant home in
Lancaster, Massachusetts. Mr. Stowe has always
taken an interest in political affairs and at times
has been an active worker in the Republican party.
He has been overseer of the poor of Lancaster
for several years. He belongs to the local branch

of the Red Men and is active in the order. He is an
active member of the Lancaster Unitarian church.
As a conservative but successful man in his own
business, as a man of high personal character, of
simple manly virtues he has the respect and con-
fidence of his neighbors. He married in 1863, Lydia
A. Robbins, of Ashby, Massachusetts. Their chil-
dren are: Mabel G., born at Lancaster, Massachu-
setts, December, 1873, resides at home ; Cora R.,
bnrn at Lancaster, August 29, 1877, stenographer
for Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company, 141
Milk street, Boston, Massachusetts.

JOHN HENRY COES, a retired business man
cif Worcester, Massachusetts, formerly serving in
the capacitj' of treasurer of the Coes Wrench Com-
panj', one of the leading industrial enterprises of
that city, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts,
September 2,=;. 1840. a son of Aury Gates and Nancy
(Maynard) Coes, grandson of Daniel and Roxana
or Ro.xalana (Gates) Coes. and great-grandson of
John Coes, who settled in Worcester. Massachusetts,
prior to the revolutionary war. So far as is known
all the Coes in this country are descended from
this John Coes and his wife Rebecca. John Coes
died in Worcester, June 24, 1827, aged seventy-
nine years.

Daniel Coes (grandfather) was born on his
father's farm in Massachusetts, in that part of Wor-
cester formerly known as New Worcester, Decem- ,
her 19, 1776, was reared thereon, and died January I
26. iS.-^S. He married. October 26, 1808. Roxana
(Ro.xalanv or Roxalana) Gates, and their children
were: Sally, born February 22, 1810, died February
16. 1832; Loring. born April 22, 1812 : Albert, born
September 20, 1813, died February 13, 1837; Aury
Gates, born January 22, 1816. The Gates family is
mentioned at length hereinafter.

Aury Gates Coes (father) was born in Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, January 22, 1816. and died
December 2. 1875. Amon.g the firms for which he
worked during his early life was that of Kimball &
Fuller, makers of woolen machinery, and in 1836
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business, forming the copartnership of L. & A. G.
Coes. Aury Gates Goes also took an active part
in politics, wielding a potent inlluence in behalf of
the principles of the Republican party. During
the years 1870-71 he served in the house of repre-
sentatives, and was a member of several important
committees. He was an active and leading member
of the Union Gongregational Church in Worcester,
Massachusetts. He married Nancy Maynard, born
1815, died December I, 1842, who bore him one
child, John Henry, mentioned at length hereinafter.
He married (second) May 2g, 1845, Anna S. Cutting,
who bore liim two cliildren : Anna Rebecca, born
March 25, 1847 : and Frederick Lewis, born Janu-
ary 9. 1849. He married (third) Mrs. Lucy Gib-
son, nee Wyman, a widow, born in Fitchburg, who
bore him two daughters : Estella, born September 25,
1858. died in Dresden, January 3, 1883, unmarried;
and Mary, born March 24, 1861 ; she is a graduate
of RadclilTe College, class of 1887, and received
the degree of Master of Arts from the same institu-
tion in 1897. She was assistant to the secretary of
the college from 1888 to 1894, and from the latter
year to the present time (T905) has served in the
capacity of secretary. Mr. Coes married (fourth)
Abigail Winch, no issue.

John Henry Coes, whose name appears at the
head of this sketch, received his elementary educa-
tion in the public schools of Worcester, to which
city his parents removed from Springfield during
his early lifetime. The knowledge thus acquired
was supi)lemented by attendance at Leicester Acad-
emy and W'iibraham Academy. He began the prac-
tical duties of life by entering the office of the
firm of L. & A. G. Coes, manufacturers of wrenches,
his father and uncle comprising the company, and
there mastered every detail of the business. When
the partnership between Loring and Aury Gates Coes
was dissolved in 1869. the latter formed the firm
of A. G. Coes & Company, admitting his son John
Henry to partnership, and continued the manu-
facture of wrenches in Worcester. This connec-
tion continued until the death of the senior mem-
ber of the firm, December 2, 1875, after which the
business was carried on under the same firm name
by John H. Coes and his brother. Frederick L,
Coes. In 1888 the firm of A. G. Coes & Co. and
that of Loring Coes & Co. were incorporated under
the laws of Massachusetts with a capitalization of
$100,000. as the Coes Wrench Company, and its of-
ficers were : Loring Coes, president ; John H. Coes,
treasurer ; Frederick L. Coes, clerk. In iq02 the
two brother? — John H. and Frederick L. — sold their
stock and interest in the company to their uncle,
Loring Goes, and retired from the business.

John H. Coes is a director of the Worcester
Trust Company and member of its executive com-
mittee, also vice-president and a member of the
finance committee of the Mechanics Savings Bank,
of Worcester, and the duties of these two respon-
sible positions occupy the greater portion of Mr.
Coes' business hours. He holds membership in the
Commonwealth Club. Worcester Club, Ta.tnuck
Country Club. Massachusetts Agricultural Club of
Boston, and the Sons of the Revolution, being
eligible to membership in the latter named through
Simon Gates, the fifth in line of descent on the
maternal side. Mr. Coes was at one time quite
active in Masonic circles. He: is a member of
Montacute Lodge, Worcester Royal .'\rch Chapter,
Hiram Council, and Worcester County Commandery,
Knights Templar. Mr. Coes married, February 5,
1874. .A.mie Brownell Hadwen. born m Worcester
Massachusetts. November 4, 1846. daughter of
Obadiah B. Hadwen (see sketch). They have one

child. Mary Maynard Coes. born March 14, 1876.
The family reside at No. 1058 Main street, Wor-
cester.

GATES FAMILY. Stephen Gates was an emi-
grant ancestor of John H. Coes, of Worcester. For
biographical sketch and children of Stephen Gates,
sec ehsewhere in this work. This line is traced
through his son Simon.

(II) Simon Gates, son of Stephen Gates (i),
was born in 1645, died April 21. 1693, at Brockton,

Massachusetts. He married Margaret , of

Cambridge, Massachusetts. They resided in Cam-
Ijridge, Lancaster and Brookline, Massachusetts. He
inherited his father's estate at Cambridge. The chil-
dren of Simon and Margaret Gates were: i. Abigail,
born August 14, 1671, died 1771, aged one hundred
years, at Brighton, Massachusetts: married (first)
Nathaniel Sparhawk, Jr., who died November 8,
1734: married (second), 1735, Josiah Mayo, of Ro.x-
bury, Massachusetts. 2. Simon, born September i,
1C7!. died January 2, 1675-76. 3. Simon, born Jan-
uary 5, 1675-76, died March 10, 1735, aged sixty
years: married. May 29, 1710, Sarah Wood, daugh-
ter of John and Lydia Wood, of Marlboro, Massa-
chusetts ; they settled in Marlboro, where she died
in 1751. 4. George, born April 6. 1678, died May
23, 1679. 5. Amos, born 1681, died 1754: married.
May 19, 1703. Hannah Oldham, daughter of Sanmel
and Hannah (Dana) Oldham, whose birth occurred
October 10. T68r. 6. Jonathan, born June 22, 1683,
died February 7. 1755-56. at Worcester. Massachu-
setts ; married Persis Shepard, daughter of John
and Persis (Pierce) Shepard. of Charlestown.
Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Thomas and
Hannah (Ensign) Shepard. of Maiden. Massachu-
setts. She was born 1691. died July 12, 1776. 7.
Samuel, born August 11. 1685. said to have settled
somewhere in Connecticut, but no descendants
known. 8. Margaret, born August 13. 1689, married
James How or John How.

(Ill) Simon Gates, son of Simon Gates (2),
was born January 5. 1675-76. died March 10, 1735,
aged sixty vcars: married. May 20. 1710, Sarah
Wood, daughter of John and Lydia Wood, of Marl-
boro, Massachusetts. They settled in Marlboro,
where she died in 1751. The children of Simon
and -Sarah (Wood) Gates were: I. Simon, bom
December 11, 1710, died .April 11, 1777. aged sixty-
six years: married. 1749. Sarah How. who died
September ,30. 1800, aged seventy-five years. 2.
Sarah, born October 15. 1712. died at Hubbardston,
Massachusetts: married. February 3. 17.36. Ephraim
Church, of Rutland. Massachusetts. 3. Susannah,
liorn Deccnilier 19. 1714. died at Hubbardston: mar-
ried Captain John Phelps, of Rutland, Massachu-
setts. 4. Stephen, born August 20, 1718. died October
>■ 177.1. a.ged fifty-five years, at Rutland : married,
February 4, 1742-43, Damaris How. born .August
12, 1725. at Marlboro, Massachusetts, died Decem-
Vier 3. 1809. aged ci.ghty-three years, at Rutland.
Massachusetts, whence they removed in 1749. 5.
Solomon, born May 14, 1721. died March 2.
1761, aged forty years, at Worcester: married,
November 10, 1748, Mary Clark, and resided at
Worcester. 6. Samuel, born February 28. 1722. mar-
ried Caroline How : he was a soldier in the revolu-
tion. 7. Silas, born February 3, 1727. died August
25. 1703, aged sixtv-six years, at Marlboro: mar-
ried. May 9, 1754, Elizabeth Bragg, who died March
20. 1806. aged seventy-four years. 8. John, born
January 27. 1729.

(IV) Simon Gates, son of Simon Gates (3),
was I>orn December 11. 1710. died .\pril 11. 1777:
married, 1749, Sarah How, who died September 30,

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1800, aged seventy-five years. They resided in
Worcester, Massachusetts. The children of Simon
and Sarah (How) Gates were: i. Rebecca, born
in Worcester, 1752, died October 13, 1834; married,
May 5. 1778, David Richards, who died January 29,
1829. aged seventy-eight years. 2. Simon, Jr., born
at Worcester, 1752. died February 2, 1849; married
Sarah Edgerton. daughter of S. N. Edgerton ; she
died August 19, 1843, ^S<^^ eighty-five years. 3.
Asa, born in Worcester, January 29, 1757, died No-
vember 21, 1835; married, February 15, 1786, Fanny
Field. 4. Sarah, born in Worcester, April 2, 1761,
died November 21, 1819; married. May 15, 1783,
John Sargent, who died February 7, 1829. 5. John,
born 1764, died May 20, 1786. 6. Mary, born 1768,
died December 24, 1809; married William Moore.

7. Kathcrine, born April 22, 1772, married Phineas
Jones ; he died March 22, 1814. aged sixty-six years.

8, Levi, born May 21, 1776, died October 6, 1837,
buried at Ashland, Ohio: married, 1791, Chloe Sum-
ner, daughter of Josiah Sumner, born 1769, died
October 4, 1828. They resided at Charlton, Massa-
chusetts, and thence went to Shoreham, Vermont.

(V) Simon Gates, son of Simon Gates (4), was
born January 6, 1756, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He died February 2, 1849, aged ninety-three years,
at Worcester. He married Sarah, daughter of S.
N, Edgerton, and her death occurred August 19,
1843, aged eighty-five years. He responded to the
Lexington call to arms in 1775, entered Captain
Hubbard's company before Boston, and served in
the battle of Bunker Hill. He also served in Cap-
tain Stone's company in the battle of Bennington,
campaign of 1777, also in Captain Cushing's com-
pany in the fall of 1777- He was a revolutionary war
pensioner. Mr. Gates was a very domestic man,
and was never away from home hut two or three
nights in his life except while in the service. He
died in the same room in the same house in which
he was born. The children of Simon and Sarah
(Edgerton) Gates were: i. Olive, born August

28, 1784, married Hayward, of Mercer. Maine.

2. Roxalany, born May 10. 1786: see forward. 3.
John, born June 10, 1789, married Letitia Burr. 4.
Levi, born May 7, 1790, died at Claquato, Lewis
county, Washington : married Hannah Paine, of
Worcester, February 20, 1820. 5. Mary, born Octo-
ber 10 or II, 1792, married Erastus Tucker, Octo-
ber 5, 1819, 6. Sarah, born September 9, 1794. 7.
David R., born March 31, 1799, died at Worcester;
married (first) Eliza Fessenden, February 11, 1824;
married (second) Sarah N. Britton, born Novem-
ber 24. 1809, at Spencer, Massachusetts, died Febru-
ary 8, 1893. 8. Horatio, born September 4, 1801,
died 1852 : married Fidelia A. Hall. 1825 : married
(second) Hannah Head, born 1799, died 1893.

(VI) Roxalany or Roxalana Gates, daughter of
Simon Gates (5), was born May 10, 1786, at Wor-
cester, Massachusetts. She married, October 26,
1808, Daniel Coes, aforementioned in this narrative
as the grandfather of John H. Coes, and their chil-
dren were: I. Sally, born February 22, 1810. 2.
Loring, born April 22, 1812 ; see Coes Family. 3.
Albert, born September 29, 1813. 4. Aury Gates,
born January 22. 1826, aforementioned as the father
of John H. Coes.

PAUL BEAGARY MORGAN. Miles Morgan
(i). the emigrant ancestor of Charles H. Morgan,
of Worcester, and his son, Paul Beagary Morgan,
was born probably in 1615 in LlandorfT, Glamorgan
county. Wales, and removed ttt Bristol, England,
a few years before he emigrated to America. He
came to Boston in April. 1636, with two brothers.
The eldest, James, settled in New London, Connecti-

cut : John went to Virginia and Miles joined the
colonists and became one of the fotinders of Spring-
field, Massachusetts. These colonists were organized
at Roxbury, Massachusetts, now part of Boston.
John Morgan Is the ancestor of General David Mor-
gan, of "ranger" fame in the revolution, and of
famous members of this family in the southern
states. James Morgan, of Connecticut, also has
many prominent men among his descendants.

Miles Morgan drew land for his home lot on
the south side of Ferry Lane. At present the site of
the original Morgan dwelling house is occupied by
the repair shop of the Connecticut River Railroad.
Having prepared his first home. Miles Morgan mar-
ried, about 1643, Prudence Gilbert. The following
quaint story of his courtship and marriage is taken
from the Morgan Genealogy: "On his passage from
England he formed an acquaintance with a young
woman who belonged to a family which on their
arrival settled in Beverly, Massachusetts. To her
he determined to prefer his suit. This he did by
letter in which he proposed to her to become his
wife and the sharer of his dubious fortunes in the
wilderness. To this frank proposition she with
equal frankness (for coquetry it seems was not then
the fashion) wrote him an explicit answer and
avowed her willingness to comply with his wishes.
Her suitor it appears was resolved to prosecute the
affair like a man of business. On receiving an
answer .so favorable to bis inclinations, he imme-
diately engaged two of his friends and an Indian
to attend him in his matrimonial expedition and de-
parted 'with all convenient speed' taking with them
an old horse for the purpose of conveying the house-
hold stufif of the intended bride to her future habi-
tation and their muskets with which they might put
to flight the 'armies of the aliens' who might per-
chance molest them in their pilgrimage to and from
the land of the people of the east. Prosperity at-
tended the journey and the hymeneal torch was
kindled on his arrival. The matrimonial contract
having been satisfied in due form the old pack
horse received his destined burden, the bridegroom
and his companions shouldered their muskets and
thus escorted the bride to Springfield, who walked
with them on foot the whole distance from Beverly
to that place, viz.. 1.30 miles."

In 1675. during King Philip's war, the Morgan
House was attacked by the Indians, but so bravely
was it defended by Miles Morgan and his sons that
the Indians retired after an unsuccessful siege.
Peletiah Morgan, one of these sons, was killed in
this war in the following year at what is now
Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Among other prominent descendants of Miles
and Prudence Morgan are J. Pierpont Morgan and
his late father, Junius S. Morgan, the bankers. The
line of descent is Miles (I), Nathaniel (II), Joseph
(III), Captain Joseph (IV), Joseph (V), Junius
Soencer (VI)', J. Pierpont (VII) Morgan. The
Worcester familv traces its descent from David,
son of Miles (II).

The genealogy of the Morgan family has recently
been traced by George T. Clark, Antiquary, from
remote Welsh ancestors. He gives sixteen genera-
tions of Morgan ancestors of Miles Morgan, of
Springfield. It is so seldom that English and Amer-
ican genealogies can be so successfully united that
American Morgans may well take some satisfaction
in their Welsh ancestry.

(I) Cadivor-Fawr, married Elen, daughter and
heir tn Llwch Llawen and had:

(II) Bleddri, third son. witnessed a Berkerolles
grant of Bassalleg to Glastonbury and was probably
a land owner in those parts. He bore "Argent, 3

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bulls' heads cabossed sable." The ordinary coat
of the Morgans has long been "Or, a griffin segreant
sable," but some branches have used Cadivor and
other's Bleddri. Morgans o£ Pencoyd bore "Argent,
a lion rampant gardant sable between two cantons;
the dexter, "Or, a griffin segreant sable;' the sinister,
■Bleddri; " The Llantarnam Morgans bore the grif-
fin on a field argent. The descendants of Ivor
Howel used Bleddri. but inserted a chevron between
the Bulls' heads. The Lewises of St. Pierre used
the Cadivor lion, and the Griffin for a crest. Bleddri
is said to have married Clydvven, daughter of Grif-
fith ap Cydrich ap Gwaethfoed-fawr, and had

(III) Ivor, w-ho married Nest, daughter ofCara-
doc ap Modoc ap Idnerth ap Cadwgan ap Elystan
Gloddrydd, and had

(IV) Llewelyn, who married Lleici, daughter of
Griffith ap Beli, and had

(V) Ivor, who married Tanglwst, daughter of
Homel Sais ap Arghvydd Rhys. They had

(VI) Llewelyn Lleia, married Susan, daughter
of Howel ap Howel Sais, a first cousin. They had

(VH) Ivor, father of

(VIII) Llewelyn ap Ivor of Tredegar, Lord of
St Clear, married Angharad. daughter of Sir Mor-
gan ap Meredith, from the Welsh lords of Caerleon,
ap Griffith ap Meredith ap Rhys, who bore •■.Argent,
a linn rampant sable." Sir Morgan died 1332, when
Angharad was aged thirty-two years. They had: i.
Morgan. 2. Ivor Hael, whence iSIorgan of Gwern-y-
Cleppa. 3. Philip, whence Lewis of St. Pierre.

(IX) Morgan, of Tredegar and St. Clear, mar-
ried Maud, daughter of Khun ap Grono ap Llwarch,
Lord of Cibwr. He died before 1384. Issue:
Llewelyn: Philip, whence Morgan of Langstone;
John father of Gwenllian, married David Goch ap
David: Christian, married Jevan ap Jenkin Kemeys ;
Ann. married David Gwilim David, of Rhiwperra :
Margaret, married Traherne ap Meyric of Merthyr :
A daughter married Thomas ap Gwillim of
Carnllwyd; Elenor, married Grono ap Howel
Bennet. , ^ , , c

(X) Llewelyn ap Morgan of Tredegar and St.
Clear, living 1387, married Jenet. daughter and heir
of David-vychan ap David of Rhydodyn, 1384-87-
Issue : Jevan ; Christy, married Madoc ap" Jevan of

Gelligaer : . married Roger ap Adam of St.

j^lellon's: , married Madoc of Bassalleg;

married Thomas Llewelyn; Ann, married

John ap Jenkin : . married , of Raglan ;

. married Builth.

(XI) Jevan Morgan, 1415-48. married Denise
or Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas ap Llewelyn-
vychan of Llan gattog-on-L'sk. Issue: John. David.
1442-48 : Jenkin. I4i4-

(XII) Sir John Morgan. Knight of the Sepul-
chre 1448. Stewart of GwentUoog. married Jenet,
daughter and co-heir of John ap David Mathew
of Llandaff. Issue: Morgan; Thomas, whence
Morgan of Machen and Tredegar; John, whence
a branch ; Lewis, 1491 : ■ William Morgan, coroner,
l.SOi father of John of Newport, died 1541. father
of William. I!;4i-I559; Philip. 1491 : Elizabeth, mar-
ried John Fiennes. Lord Clinton and Say; Jane
married William David Powel ; Mary, m'Yried
Thomas Llewelvn-vychan of Rhiwperra; Isabella,
married James Kemeys of Began, died 159I;

(XIII) Thomas Morgan, second son of Sir John
Morgan, was of Machen; enquire of the body to
Henry VII: living 1538; married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Roger Vaughan. of Porthaml. Issue: Row-
land Reynold, whence Morgan of Llanvedw : John,

whence Morgan of Bassalleg; Edmond. whence
Morgan of Penllwyn-Sarth ; Margaret, married

(first) John Kemeys. (second) Wdliam Edmunds;

Barbara, married Sir Henry Seymour ; Maud, mar-
ried John ap Rosser; Jane, married (first) William
(nintcr, (second) Richard ap Jenkins, (third) Will-
iam Vaughan. of Magor ; Constance, married Will-
iam Jones, of Treowen; Mary, married (first) Ed-
ward Williams, (second) Richard Herbert; Eliza-
beth, married Edward James.

(XIV) Rowland Morgan, of Machen, 1517-/7,
married Blanch, daughter of John Thomas, of
Llanarth. Settlement, November li, 1517; sheriff,
1557. Issue: Thomas; Henry, whence Morgan of
St. Mellon's; Catherine, married (first) Thomas
Mathew, (second) Miles Morgan, (third) Henry
Jones; Ann, married Philip Morgan, of Gwern-y-
Cleppa ; Mary, married Thomas Lewis, of
Rhiwperra ; Elizabeth, married Edward Kemeys, of
Ccfn Mably.

(XV) Thomas Morgan, of Machen and Trede-
gar and of the Middle Temple, 1.567-77; sheriff,
1581 ; M. P. for county in 1589; will. 1603: mar-
ried Elizabeth Bodenhani, daughter Roger Boden-
ham. Issue: Sir William: Edward, 1586, married
Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Ricliard Thomas,
of Berthollcy; Sir John, died before 1610. married
Florence Morgan, daughter and eventual heir of
William Morgan of the Friars. They had William
Morgan of the Friars, 1663, mayor of Newport,
1667, father of Lewis Morgan, died about 1690,
father of Lewis died 1729, who .sold to the Friars.
He was father of Blanch and Catherine. David
Morgan, whence a branch ; Blanch, married Edward
Lewis, of Van; settlement 1.5S5: Catherine, married
William Herbert, of Coldbrook ; Elizabeth, married
William Jones, of Abergavenny; Jane, married
Rowland Morgan, of Bassalleg; Elizabeth, married
William Blethvn, of Dynham ; Ann ; Margaret, mar-
ried Henrv Williams, of Mathern.

(XVI)' Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar.
knighted 1633; M. P. for the county 1623-25: will
made 1650, "proved 1653, shcriflp 1612: aged ninety-
three at death ; he received Charles I. at Tredegar
Julv 16 and 17, 164,5; married (first) Elizabeth
Winter, daughter of Sir William Winter, of Lidncy,
(second) Bridget Morgan, daughter of Anthony
Morgan, of Heyford. county Northampton, widow
of .\nthony Morgan, of Llanvihangel Crucorney.
Issue by first wife: Thomas: Edward, of Kilfengan.
will dated .April 4, 1660. proved February. 1661 ;
married Elizabeth James, daughter and heir of
Charles James, of Llandewi Rhydderch, had Eliza-
beth, daughter and heir, married Henry Chambre
of Court Morgan. William, whence Morgan of
Rhvmnv. Rowland of Risca. will dated December
ig. 1660. proved February. 1661 ; married Honora

and had Colonel William Morgan;; buried

at Bassalleg. October 27. 1679. John of the Temple
in 1652; coel. Mary, married George Lewis, of St.
Pierre. Blanch, married John Carne. of Ewenny.
Frances, married Charles Williams, of Llangibby.
Mary, single, will 1687. Elizabeth married William
Morgan, ofDderw^; .she died 16.^8. he died 1649.
Bv Sir William's second wife: Sir .Anthony of
Kilfengan, s. p. His widow was alive in 1673.
Mary married Peter Farmer, of Ix)ndon. who died
1691. ' Thev had Margaret, daughter and heir, mar-
ried John 'More, who sold Kilfcn,gan in 1707.

(XVII) Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of Sir Wil-
liam of Tredegar (16), married William Morgan,
merchant of Diveru; went to Bristol. England, in
1616 Elizabeth died 1638. William died 1648; both
buried in Bristol (See Great O^P')-;}" |™>^, i}"<l
Book of Wills of Bristol). Issue: ^^ILES MOR-
GAN born 1616 named perhaps after Miles Mor-
gan, captain British army, who perished with Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, half brother of Sir Walter

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Raleigh, who sailed 1576 under a patent "to oc-
cupy any heathen lands not actually possessed of
any Christian prince or people." The only other
Miles 1 find (than Capt. Miles supra) is Miles
Morgan or Morgan Miles, son of William Miles
of Cabalva.

(XVIII) Miles Morgan was next to Col. Pyn-
chon the most important and useful of the Spring-
field Colony. He was made second in command,
though he was the youngest of the company. He
was the only pioneer in fact who was less than
twenty-one years of age when admitted. He was
a brave and intrepid Indian fighter in the frequent
conflicts on the frontier. He was a wise counsellor
and a sturdy tiller of the soil. In civil life Col.
Pynchon was the grocer and Morgan was the
butcher. A handsome monument was erected at
Springfield in 1879 in testimony of the services of
Miles Morgan in settling the town, governing the
colony, fighting the Indians in 1675 when Spring-
field was sacked and burned and many of the little
colony killed. .

Miles Morgan married Prudence Gilbert T636.
Issue: I. Mary, born December 14. 1644. 2. Jona-
than, born September 16, 1646. 3. David, born July
23. 1648. 4. Peletiah, born May 17. 1650; killed
by the Indians 167s; died unmarried. 5. Isaac,
born March 12, 1652. 6. Lydia, born February 8,
1654. 7. Hannah, born February 11, 1656. 8. Mercy,
born May iS, 1658. Prudence Gilbert Morgan died
November 14, 1660. Miles married February 15,
1669 (2) Elizabeth Bliss. By her he had issue:
I. Nathaniel, born June 14, 1671. Miles' Morgan
died May 28. 1699, aged eighty-four years.

(XIX) David Morgan, son of Miles Morgan
(18), was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, July
23, 1648. He married Mary Clark of Springfield,
January 16, 1672. They lived at Springfield. He
died May 30. 1731. Issue: i. Peletiah, born March,
1676. 2. David, born February 18, 1679. 3. John,
born October 7, 1682. 4. Jonathan, born September
13, 1685. 5. Mary, born December 24, 1686. 6.
Benjamin, born May 2, 1695; married Mary Graves,
June 4, 1718. Issue: i. Benjamin, born November
26, 1719. 2. Stephen, born May 4, 1722. 3. Aaron,
born November 7, 1724. 4. Mary, born August 4,
1727.

(XX) Deacon David Morgan, son of David
Morgan (19), was born in Springfield, Massachu-
setts, February 18. 1679. He married Deborah Col-
ton, daughter of Ephraim Colton, 1703. He died
September it, 1760. See Colton family annexed.
David Morgan and his son Joseph were among the
original proprietors of Brimficld, Massachusetts,
drawing respectively grants number 46 and 25 in
the distribution of land to the first settlers in 1732
and the family went to Brimfield about that time.
Descendants of David are still living in the town.
He was town clerk in 1731.

The standing of Deacon Morgan's family is
shown by the report of the seating committee Sep-
tember 12, 1757, when the widow of Mr. Morgan
is given a post of honor in the first pew with such
well known men as John Sherman, Esq.. Captain
Leonard Hoar. Mr. Nathan Collins and their wives.
The dau.ffhters of Deacon David Morgan married
into the Hoar and Sherman families. His children
were: I. David. 2. Joseph, born August 19, 1705.
3. Mary, born 1706, married Leonard Hoar. Jr.,
May 6. 1736. 4. Elizabeth, married Phineas Sher-
nuin, December 12, 1738. 5. Jonathan, born 1740.
fi. Deborah, married Nathaniel Collins. 1763. 7.
Mcrcv. born 1744, died 1745. 8. Isaac, born 1747.

(XXT) Sergeant Joseph Morgan, son of Deacon
David Morgan (20), was born at Springfield. Au-

gust 19, 1705, and died January 28, 1798. He was
a sergeant, in the troops sent from New England,
at the second seige of Louisburg in 175S, and al-
though seventy years of age he responded to the
call April 19, 1775, and went to Lexington, under
Capt. Sherman and Col. Pynchon. He married
Margaret Cooley, December 25, 1729. She died
July 17, 1754. He married (second) Rachel Dada,
August II, 1759. She died March 27, 1810. He was
a cabinet maker by trade and his son Joseph con-
tinued the business after his death.

Their children were: I. Margaret, born April
20, 1730, married John Mighell, February 2, 1749.
2. Joseph, Jr., born April 17, 1733. 3. Mary, born
February 28, 1735, died 1736. 4. Mary, born June _
IS. 1737, married Capt. Ebenezer Hitchcock, May ■,
7, 1761. 5. Benjamin, born July 24, 1739. 6. Mir- ":
iam, born May 7, 1742. 8. David, born January 25,
1745. 8. Keziah, born January 26, 1747, married
Benjamin Cady, December 31, 1767. 9. Aaron, born
March 16, 1749. 10. Elijah, born May 31, 1758.
II. Enoch, born August 3, 1763.

(XXII) Sergeant Aaron Morgan, son of Sergt.
Joseph (21), and Margaret Morgan, was born at
Brimfield, Massachusetts, March 16, 1749, and died
there August 30, 1825. He responded to the Lex-
ington Alarm April 19, 1775, in Capt. Thompson's
company, Col. Danielson's regiment. He was in
Gates Army in the north 1777 in Capt. Capen's
company, Col. Woodbridge's regiment. He had
other service also to his credit. He was a promi-
nent man in Brimfield town affairs. He was moder-
ator in 1807, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815; he
was town clerk from 1784 to 1797 ; selectman in
1798, 1799, 1800, iSoi. 1802, 1803, 1804; assessor
1775, 1776, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, to 1793, 1795, 1796,
1798 to 1804 inclusive. He married Abigail Sher-
man, November 26, 1772. She died October 23,
1828, See Sherman family annexed. Their chil-
dren were: l. Lucy, born January 20, 1774, mar-
ried James Moore, December 19, 1793. 2. Justin,
born March 8, 1/77. 3- Aaron, Jr., born December
6, 1779. 4. Calvin, born May 27, 1782. 5. Thomas
born April 7, 1788, married Orra Morgan, October
27, 1816. .6. Sally, born June 30, 1790, married
Harris Sherman, April 28, 1814.

(XXIII) Calvin Morgan, son of Sergt. Aaron
Morgan, was born at Brimfield, Massachusetts, May

27, 1782, and died June 13, 1832. He married Polly
Forbush of Grafton, Massachusetts, March 10, 1803,
she died January 12, 1868.

Their children were : I. Hiram, born August i,
1803. died June 29, 1866. 2, Dexter, born June 2,
1805, died March 17, 1818. 3. Margaret F., born
September 23, 1806, married G. W. Dinsmore, Sep-
tember 23, 1829. 4. Calvin. Jr., born April 4,
1808. married Susannah P. Lane, died October 31,
1835. 5. Mary Ann. born December 28. 1809, mar-
ried Joseph B. Parker, October 15, 1833. 6. Abi-
gail T., born June 13, 181 1, married Heman S. Jack-
son, May 29. 1859. 7. Enoch Melvin, born June 2,
1813. died December 9, 1813. 8. Sarah B., born
March 26, 1815. married Luther Bigelow, June II,
1835. died September 17, 1840. 9. Malvina F., born
April T2, 1817, married Andrew J. Copp, July 2,
1839. died June 27. 1841. 10. Francis Dexter, born
April 24, t8iq, married Elizabeth Phelps, November
25. 1841, died 1846. II. Harriet N., born September

28, 182T. 12. Cordelia, horn October 20, 1825, died
February 14, 1842.

fXXIV) Hiram Morgan, son of Calvin Mor-
gan (23), was born at Brimfield, Massachusetts,
August r, 1S03. died June 29, 1866. He married
Clarissa Lucina Rich, daughter of Dr. Noah Rich.
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Children were as follows : I. Charles Hill, born
January 8, 1831. 2. Francis Henry, born September
23, 183,3. 3- Hiram Dexter, born July 27, 1836,
died in infancy. 4. Cyrus Rich, bo'n July 4. 1838,
married Adelaide Fisher, 5. Harriet Eaton, born
March 27, i84i, died in infancy.

(XXV) Charles Hill Morgan, son of Hiram
Morgan (24), was born at Rochester, New York,
January 8, 1831. His parents moved to Clinton,
Massachusetts, when he was an infant. He at-
tended the Clinton schools and Lancaster Academy.
At the age of fifteen he began to learn the machin-
ist's trade in his uncle's shop. He developed a love
for mechanical drawing and acquired a thorough
knowledge of mechanics as well as much technical
skill. In 1852 when he was twenty-one years of
a.ge he had acquired sufficient knowledge of chem-
istry to take charge of the dye house of the Clinton
Mills. Mr. Morgan was for a time draughtsman
for the Lawrence Machine Company and for Eras-
tus B. Bigelow. He went to Philadelphia in i860
and for a short time was associated in business there
with his brother. Returning to Worcester in 1864
he accepted the position of general superintendent
of the wire mills of Washburn & Moen, where he
remained for twenty-three years, during eleven of
which he was a director of the corporation. While
with the Washburn & Moen Co. he designed the
first hydraulic elevator introduced in New England.
He made seven trips to Europe to visit the steel
and wire mills of England. Belgium, Germany,
France and Sweden. He studied the new patents,
read the trade journals and kept his mill well to
the front in the development of new methods and
machines. An advance step in the wire business
was an improvement of the continuous rolling mill
designed and constructed in Manche'^ter, England,
in accordance with the designs of George Bedson.
This continuous rolling was a great improvement
in methods, but production was limited by the im-
perfections of the ordinary hand reel. Mr. Mor-
gan's first improvement was a reel operated by
steam power; the second was the invention and
construction of a continuous train of rolls having
only horizontal axles. Experience has shown that
this mill consisting of a series of horizontal rolls
with intermediate twistings or turning guides be-
tween the rolls, giving the metal one quarter of a
turn in its passage from one pair of rolls to the
next, was far superior to a mill with alternate hori-
zontal and vertical rolls. Nine years after the build-
ing of the Bedson mill another mill from new de-
signs^ furnished by Mr. Morgan was built on the
Belgian and continuous plan and was known as
the Combination mill. In t886 Mr. Mor,gan patented
automatic reels with vertically moving platform.

Mr. Morsan became consulting engineer for the
American Wire Company of Cleveland in 1887 and
introduced new and valuable inventions. In 1889
he completed and put in operation at Dollar Bay,
Michigan, a large copper mill for the Tamarack
mine, one of the mines producing the famous lake
copper.

Mr. Morgan began the manufacture of rolling
mill machinery, etc., in 1888 and three years later
incorporated the business under the name of The
Morgan Con^tructinn Co. The capital stock of
the company i^ $100,000. Mr. Morgan is president
and his son, Paul B. Morgan, treasurer. The exe-
cutive office and the mill is at 11 to 21 Lincoln
street. Worcester. Branch offices are located in
New York city and Brussels. Belgium. The com-
pany manufactures rolling mill machinery for steel
liillcts, merchant shapes, rods, cotton ties and barrel
lioops ; also wire drawing and hydraulic machinery.

A specialty of the company is the equipment of en-
tire plants from boilers to special devices made to
order complete. Business has developed steadily
and a large export trade has been built up. The
company has valuable patents for machinery used
in modern mills.

Chas. H. Morgan is also the president and owner
to a large extent of the Morgan Spring Company
which was incorporated in 1881. It is capitalized
at $700,000. The business developed to its present
proportions by steady but rapid growth. Mr. Mor-
gan began the manufacture of springs at the Mor-
gan mills on Lincoln street. In 1896 the extensive
plant at Barber's Crossing was constructed and has
been enlarged to allow for the increase in business.
This location is ideal for the purposes of the com-
pany. The works are at the junction of the Fitch-
burg and Nashua Railroads, making shipping facili-
ties admirable. In 1905 the Morgan Spring Com-
pany purchased an extensive plant at Struthers.
Ohio, where rod rolling and wire making machinery
has been installed. The company manufactures
wire rods, the best grade of oil-tempered steel
wire, also spiral and flat springs of all kinds, many
spetial designs being made for agricultural and
other machinery. There are departments for wire
drawing, tempering and spring making.

Mr. Morgan's connection with the Washburn
Shops of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute gives
him a high place among the benefactors of that
institution. In March, 1886, Ichabod Washburn
made his gift to establish the machine shop and
working mechanical department of the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. The idea of Mr. Washburn
was unique. Mr. Morgan more than any other man
deserves credit for the successful development of
the plan made by the founder. The shop is at the
same time a laboratory and trade school for the
Institute and a business concern self-supporting.
Mr. Washburn recommended Mr. Morgan as a suit-
able trustee knowing his great mechanical skill
and large experience. Mr. Washburn died before
the shop was completed. Mr. Morgan was elected
a trustee of the Institute, March 27, 1886, and at
the request of the dying founder of the institution
Mr. Morgan took charge of the construction and
equipment of the shops. Mr. Morgan at the re-
quest of Mr. Washburn selected the first superin-
tendent. Milton P. Higgins. a graduate of the
Chandler Scientific School at Hanover. New Hamp-
."^hire. From the first. Mr. Morgan co-operated with
Mr. Higgins to sgt a high standard of efficiency.
The success of the experiment in technical educa-
tion has made the Worcester Polytechnic Institute
famous and its shops are the model for the whole
country. Mr. Washburn's idea as worked out by
Mr. Morgan. Mr. Higgins and their associates has
been a new triumph in American industrial educa-
tion and nrogress.

Mr. Morgan hns been an active member of the
Plymouth Congregational Church and was one of the
its founders and deacons : he has been director of
the Y. M. C A. and member of the Congregational
Club of Worcester. He was a director of the First
National Bank.

He married in 1852. Harriet C. Plympton, of
Shrewsbury. In 1862 his wife died. He married
second. .August 4. 1863. Rebecca A. Beagary, of
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.

His children were: I. C Henry Morgan, born
February r. t8,S4, married Jessie Bradbury, resides

in Worcester. 2. Hiram Plympton, born

— , 1862. died in infancv. 3. Harriet L.. horn June
0. 1864, married Dr. Winthrop D. Mitchell, of East
Orange, New Jersey. (They have one child. Beat-

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rice MitdicII. born June 6, 1891.) 4. Charlotte, born
July 10. 1866, married Frederick M. McFadden of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 5. Paul Beagary, born
May 7, 1869, married June 15, 1893, Lessie Louise
Maynard. 6. Ralph Landers, born September 5,
1872. married Alice Sawyer.

(XXVI) Franxis Henry Morgan, son of Hiram
(24), was born September 23, 1833, and died June
19, 1899. He married Ellen A. Wright who died,
and he married second Caroline Augusta Smith,
October l, 1868. He resided in Worcester, being
from the time of the founding of Morgan Spring
Company to the date of his death, the treasurer
and general manager of that company. His chil-
dren are : Harry VVallis, born September 26, 1869,
died August 13, 1870. 2. Mary Colchester, born
June 28, 1874. 3. Charles Francis, born June 23,
1877. 4. Rav, born August 6, 1883, died November
28, 1888.

(XXVn) Paul Beagary Morgan, son of Charles
Hill Morgan (25), and Rebecca A. (Beagary) Mor-
gan, was born in Worcester, May 7, 1869. He at-
tended the Worcester schools leaving the high
school after three years to enter Worcester .Acad-
emy. He graduated from the Academy in 1887 and
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1890. He
completed his education abroad with a year in
Sweden studying the iron industry, taking a special
course in metallurgy and chemistry in the Royal
School of Mines at Stockholm. He had practical
experience in the celebrated Munkfors Works of
Uddeholm Company. LTpon his return he went
into business with his father and has had in recent
years a large share in the management and respon-
sibility for the business established by his father.
He is treasurer of the' Morgan Spring Company
and of the Morgan Construction Company, and presi-
dent of the Heald Machine Company.

He has won a reputation among business men
for his integrity, prudence and common sense. He
was in 1904 elected a director of the Worcester
National Bank. He is a trustee of the People's
Savings Bank and of Memorial Hospital. He has
accepted the honor and trying duties of the presi-
dency of the Worcester County Musical Associa-
tion. This organization gives the annual Musical
Festival for which the name of Worcester is cele-
brated in the nuisica! world.

Mr. Morgan is a member of the Plymouth Con-
gregational Church, of the Worcester Y. M. C. A.,
and of the Congregational Club. He is an ex-presi-
dent of the Alumni Association of the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, vice-president of the Alumni
of Worcester Academy. He is interested in public
affairs, a Republican, an honorary member of George
H. W.-ird Post, G. A. R.. and a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution. He is a member of
the Worcester Club, the Quinsigamond Boat Club,
the Tatnuck Country Club, the Worcester .Automo-
bile Club, the Youngstown (Ohio) Club and the
Engineers Club (New York).

He married Lessie Louise Maynard. daughter
of William and Mary (Adams) Maynard, June 15,
1893, at Worce.ster, Massachusetts. His wife is a
descendant of the Maynard family of Marlboro,
for which the town of Maynard. Massachusetts, is
named. Their children are: i. Philip Maynard,
born April 13, 1896. 2. Charles Hill, 2d. born Sep-
tember Tg. 1902. 3. Paul Beagary, Jr., born June
II. 1904. 4. Vincent, born February 2, 1906.

(I) John Maynard. the emigrant ancestor of
Mrs. Paul B. Morgan of Worcester, was one of
the petitioners for the grant of Marlborough. Massa-
chusetts. He was in Sudbury in 1638 and was one
of the forty-seven who shared in the division of

.Sudbury meadows in 1639. He was selectman of
Sudbury. He removed to Marlborough soon after
the grant in 1657. He married Mary Gates. He
died December 22, 1711. His children were: i.
Elizabeth, born May 26, 1649, died young; 2. Han-
nah, born September 30, 1653 ; 3. Mary, born August
3, 1656; 4. John, born January 7, 1661, married
Lydia Ward ; 5. Elizabeth, born April 2, 1664 ; 6.

Simon, born June 15, 1666, married Hannah

7. David, born December 21, 1669, married Hannah

; 8. Zachariah, born October 2y, 1672 ; 9.

Sarah, born May 15, 1680, married June 9, 1705,
Joseph Johnson ; 10. Lydia, born August 29, 1682,
married April 7, 1703, Thomas Haggate ; 11. Joseph,
born August 27, 16S5, married Elizabeth Prue and
had Benjamin, born May 7, 1721.

(II) Simon Maynard, son of John Maynard
(l), was born in Marlborough, June 15, 1666, mar-
ried Hannah . He died January 19, 1748.

She died April 5, 1748. Their children were : I.
Hannah, born June 9, 1694, marrie<l .\pril 21, 1714,
Joseph Crosby ; 2. Simon, bprn March 4, i6g6, mar-
ried November 18, 1718, Sarah Church; 3. Eliza-
beth, born September 26. 1698, married 1723, Robert
Horn; 4. Tabitha, born February 2, 1701. died April
7. 1724; 5. Elisha, born March 20, 1703; 6. Eunice,
born November 17, 1705. married Nathaniel Falk-
ner; 7. Ephraim, born October 17, 1707, married

Sarah and Mary Balcom ; 8. Benjamin,

born December i, 1709, died 171 1.

(III) Ephraim Maynard, son of Simon May-
nard (2). was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts,

October 17, 1707. He married first Sarah

who died May 24, 1742: second January 3. 1743,
Mary Balcom. Their children were: I. Tabitha,
born July 21, 1738. died May 24. 1742; 2. Ephraim.
born March 7, 1740, died May 10, 1742; Sarah, born
November 6. 1743; 4. Ephraim, born August 29,
1745, married September 14. 1773, Eunice Jewell;

5. Simon, born June 5, 1748, married Silence Priest ;

6. Joseph, born December 31, 1750, married Novem-
ber 14, 1777, Lovina Barnes; 7. Benjamin, born
March 10, 1753: 8. Eunice, born February 7, 1757.

(IV) Simon Maynard, son of Ephraim May-
nard (3), was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts,
June 5, 1748. He married Silence Priest. He died
November 15, 1818. Their children were: i. Isaac,
born December 3, 1779, married 1803, Lydia Howe ;
2. Hannah, born December 28, 1782, married Janu-
ary 31, 1S02, Peace Peters : 3. John Priest, born
June 2, 1791, married 1812, Betsey Weeks, daughter
of John Weeks.

(V) Isaac Maynard, son of Simon Maynard
(4), was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts, De-
cember 7, 1779, married in 1803, Lydia Howe, daugh-
ter of Artemas Howe. She married second. Isaac's
children were: i. Amory, born February 28, 1804,
married Mary Priest, daughter Benjamin Priest;
2. Lydia. born November 16, 1805, married Joel
Wilkins.

(VI) Amory Maynard, son of Isaac Maynard
(S), was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts, Feb-
ruary 28, 1804. He married Mary Priest, daughter
of Benjamin Priest of Marlboro. Among their chil-
dren was William.

(VII) William Maynard, son of Amory (6),
Maynard. was born May 6. 1833. at Marlboro. He
married Mary Adams. Their children were: i.
Lessie Louise, born June 23, 1868.

(VIII) Lessie Louise Maynard. daughter of
William Maynard (7), was born June 23, 1868.
She married Paul Beagary Morgan (27). See
Morgan sketch.

(XXVIII) Ralph Landers Morgan, son of
Charles H. Morgan (2~,'), was born at Worcester,

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Massachusetts. September 5, 1872. He married,
October 12, 1897, Alice Sawyer, daughter of Wil-
liam H. Sawyer, the lumber merchant of Worcester.
He was educated at Worcester Academy and W.
P. I. After leaving school he was associated with
the firm of Flint, Eddy & Co., of New York. He
was president of the Morgan Motor Company, the
business of which has been discontinued. He was
for a year manager of the automobile department
of the American Bicycle Co., at Toledo, Ohio. At
present he is a consulting engineer, and is interested
in a number of local and foreign enterprises. He
is a member of Plymouth Church, Worcester, Quin-
sigamond Boat Club and Engineers Club of New
York.

(XXIX) Charles Francis Morgan, son of Fran-
cis Henry Morgan (26), was born June 23, 1877.
He married Edith Jeanette Norcross (daughter of
Orlando W. Norcross), October 5, 1904. He is
active in the inanagement of Morgan Spring Com-
pany, holding the office of assistant treasurer and
clerk of llie corporation. He is a member of the
Winter Club.

THE COLTON FAMILY from which Paul B.
Morgan is descended, originally came from Sutton
Coldfield, Warwick county. England. George Col-
ton, the emigrant, settled at Springfield. Massachu-
setts, before 1644. Removed from Hartford. He
did important service in King Philip's war. He was
representative to the General Court in 1669, 1671
and 1677. By his wife Deborah Gardner, of Hart-
ford, Connecticut, he had Isaac Colton, born Novem-
ber 21, 1646, died September 3. 1670.

(II) Isaac Colton, son of George (l), was born
November 21. 1646, married Mary Cooper, daughter
of Thomas Cooper, June 30. 1670. She was born
November 15. 1651. She married second Edward
Stebbins, October 18, 1701 ; she died August 29,
1742.

(III) Deborah Colton, daughter of Isaac Col-
ton (2). married Deacon David !\Iorgan, of
Springfield.

COOLEY FAMILY. <l) Benjamin Cooley of
Springfield, a proprietor in 1645, was born in Eng-
land about 1615, married Sarah . He died

August 17, 1684. She died August 23, 1684.

(II) Daniel Cooley, son of Benjainin Cooley
(i), was born at Springfield, May 2, 1651. died
February g, 1727, married Elizabeth Wolcott, daugh-
ter of Simon Wolcott, December 8, 1680. Sec Wol-
cott sketch.

(III) Benjainin Cooley. son of Daniel Cooley
(2). was born October 28. 1681, married January
31, 1701. Margaret Bliss, daughter of Samuel Bliss.
Jr.. and wife. Sarah Benjamin.. They removed to
Brrmfield, Massachusetts.

(IV) Margaret Cooley. daughter of Benjamin
Coolev (3), was born January 30. 1710. married
Joseph Morgan.

THE SHERMAN FAMILY. (I) Edmund
Sherman, the emigrant, came from Dedham, Essex
county. England, and settled at Watertown. Massa-
chusetts, about 1632. He married Judith Angin.
1611.

(II) Rev. John Sherman, son of Edmund Sher-
man (i), was baptized January 14, 1614, married
Abigail .

(III) James Sherman, son of Rev. John Sher-
man (2). was born 1645. died March 3. 1718, mar-
ried May 13. 1680. Mary Walker.

(IV) Capt. and Dr. John Sherman, son of
James Shernjan (3). was born about 1683, died
March g. 1772. married Abigail Stone, who was
born February 13. 1680.

(V) Thomas Sherman, son of Capt. John Sher-

man (IV), was born September 6, 1722, died No-
vember 22, 1803, married Anna Blodgett, Septem-
ber 12, J 75 1. She died December 10, 180S. He was
in the revolution.

(VI) .'\bigail Sherman, daughter of Thomas
Sherman (V), was born January n, 1752, married
Aaron Morgan, November 26, 1772. See Morgan
sketch.

BLODGETT FAMILY. (I) Thomas Blod-
gett. came from England in 1635. and settled at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, married Susanna .

(II) Samuel Blodgett, son of Thomas Blodgett
(l), was born 1633, died July 3, 1687, married about
December 13, 1655, Ruth Ingleden.

(III) Thomas Blodgett, son of Samuel Blod-
gett (2), was born 1660, removed to Lexington,
Massachusetts, about 1699. married Rebecca Tidd,
November 11, 1684.

(IV) Joseph Blodgett, son of Thomas Blodgett
(3), was born September 17, l6g6. married Sarah
Stone, who was born at Lexington, November 7,
1700. She died May 6. 17.S5; married second Sarah
Ingersoll, June 29, 1738.

(V) -Anna Blodgett, daughter of Joseph Blod-
gett (4), was born April 10, 1824, married Thomas
Sherman. See Sherman sketch.

THE TIDD FAMILY. (I) John Tidd em-
barked May 12. 1637. at Yarmouth, England, aged
nineteen years, married Margaret, who. died 1651.
He died .^pril 24. t6s-.

(II) John Tidd. Jr.. son of John Tidd (l),
was born in England, married .'Kpril 14, 1650, Re-
bekah Wood.

(III) Rebekah Tidd. daughter of John Tidd (2),
was born , married Thomas Blodgett, No-
vember II. 1685.

THE STONE FAMILY. (I) Gregory Stone
was born in England. 1590, married there 1618,
Mary Ganda.

(II) Deacon John Stone, son of Gregory Stone
(l), was born August 31, 1644, died 1719, married
Mary Ward, who was born about 1647. She died
June 10. 170.3.

(III) Abigail Stone, daughter of Deacon John
Stone (2). was born February 13. 1680, married
Dr. John Sherman of Springfield, Massachusetts.

WARD F.A.MILY. (I) William Ward of Sud-
bury, was representative to General Court in 1644
and several other years. He was chairman of the
selectmen. He served in Kitig. Philip's war. He
died at Marlborough, /Xugust 10. 1687; married
Elizabeth .

(II) Mary, daughter of William Ward (l),
married Daniel Stone. See Stone sketch.

WOLCOTT FAMILY'. (I) Henry Wolcott
was born in 1577, died 165.1;. He was the son of
John Wolcott. of Tolland. Somersetshire. England,
married January 19. 1606. Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Saunders, of Tolland.

(II) Simon Wolcott. son of Henry Wolcott (i).
was born September 11. 1624. married second
Martha Pitkin, sister of William (parents of Roger
the governor). She married second Daniel Clark,
died October 13, 1719.

(III) Elizabeth Wolcott, daughter of Simon (2)
and Martha, married December 8, 1680, Danie!
Cooley. Sec Cooley sketch.

HON WALTER H. BLODGET, the present
mayor of Worcester, comes from a New York
family. The grandfather. Jesse Blodgct. was the
first male settler in what is now known as Den-
mark. New York. He was born in 1764 and died
in 1848. He was a man of great energy and known
as one of tlie leading factors of that town for many

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years Bv occupation he was a farmer. He mar-
ried and the hidv of his choice was the first woman
to settle in Denmark. New York. They were the
parents of several children, includmg among the
numher Harri.=on, the father of Walter H. Blodget.
Harrison Blodget was the first male child born m
Denmark. He was born in iSoi and died in ibpg.
He was educated in the common schools of his
dav and worked in spare hours, assisting his father,
as'be^t he could. He finally chose law for a pro-
fession and soon became one of the foremost at-
torneys of the state. He was active in local and
state politics, being a staunch Democrat. He be-
came a member of the general assembly and was in-
strumental in the passage of several important bills.
He was later appointed as associate judge of Lewis
county New York, filling the position with credit.
He married Diantha Dewey, of Leyden. New York,
born October, 1806, and died in 1890. By this
union the following children were born : Phil^ander,
Irene L.. Charles D., Francis A., Florence C, and

Walter H. , , , ,

Walter H Blodget was born at the old home-
place erected by his grandfather, in Denmark, New
York. November 2. 1850. He was educated in the
common schools and in the Ives Seminary and then
attended a business college in New York state, where
he fitted himself for the activities of a business
career. On finishing his education, he entered a
small store in his hoine town, where he clerked for
a time and later became agent for a warehouse on
the Black river canal. After following this for
a time he decided to go into business for himself
and opened up a small store at LowviUe, New York,
in which he dealt in butter, cheese and produce
generallv. Success attended him from the start.
He remained there until i88r, when he camie to
Worcester and engaged in the produce business.
He associated with him A. C. Boshart and chose as
a location the Warren block: at present (1906) is
located at 65 to 77 Park street, under the name of
Blodget & Boshart. Later on Mr. Boshart retired
from the firm, selling to Mr. Blodget. It was in
t8o8 that the firm of W. H. Blodget & Co. was
formed and incorporated, with Mr. Blodgett as
president and his son, Walter H., Jr.. as vice-presi-
dent. The firm also opened a large place of busi-
ness at Boston. Their annual sales are immense.
In 1904 they were more than one million dollars.
Soon after arriving in Worcester. Mr. Blodget
became identified with many business associations
here and in Boston. He became a member of the
local board of trade, of which he was president two
years. 1902-03. He served on the railroad committee
of this body, of which he became chairman, and
in all their offices proved himself equal to the
emergencies which came up for speedy action and
final solution. He is a member of the Fruit and
Produce E.xchange of Boston. He is one of the
regular speakers of the Farmers' Institute and is
registered as such in Washington, and vice-presi-
dent of the Massachusetts state board of trade.
He also is vice-president of the advisory board of
the Philadelphia Museum. Politically he differs
from his forefathers and has ever been a progres-
sive Republican, and he fully believes in the great
principles of that political party. He was elected
to the office of mayor of Worcester in 1903, and
re-elected in 1904, proving a highly satisfactory
official, ever guarding the interests of all the people.
While absorbed in actual business affairs and of-
ficial duties, he forgets not to care for the higher
and more sacred trusts of life. He is active in
church work and was one of the organizers of the
Adams Square Church and has served at the super-

intend'-nt of the Sabbath school from the first. He
is a person of rare judgment. As a speaker he
has no little notorietv. As a toast-master at ban-
quets and public gatherings, he has a remarkable
t'lct His benevolent spirit is manifested toward the
unfortunate poor and suffering within his com-

'""in^becember, 1873. Mr. Blodget was united in
marriage to Miss Lotta J. Boshard, daughter of
Garrett Boshard, of New \ ork. She died in 1882.
Bv this union one son was born— Walter fl., Jr.,
born in New York in 1882. He was educated in
the schools of the Empire state and Worcester,
Massachusetts, and is now vice-president of his
father's company. In 1883 Mr. Blodget, Sr mar-
ried Miss Mary F. Spaulding, daughter of M W.
and Verrila (Arsbury) Spaulding. Mr. Spaulding
was a merchant and county clerk of Canton. New
York Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding had nine children.
Mr. and Mrs. Blodget are the parents of four chil-
dren as follows: Bertha, born Apnl 20, 1889;
Chester, born May 27, 1892; Anna D., born July
'4 1894; Jesse M., born October 16, 1900. Mr.
Hlod<^et still retains the old homestead at Denmark,
New^York, which is used as the summer home tor
his family. He also has considerable property in-
terests in' Worcester county.

DICKINSON FAMILY. Eleven centuries ago
a soldier of fortune made his appearance at the
court of Halfdan Huilbein, King of Norway. His
name was Ivar. He had been a shepherd and had
been captured bv the Northmen and carried to sea.
He drifted into a life of adventure^ He became a
favorite at the Norwegian Court. The King made
him general of his army and in 725 gave him his
daughter Eurithea in marriage He was called
Prince of Uplands. When the King died the son
of Ivar became heir to the throne and during his
minority Ivar was regent. This son. Eystem,
rei<rned imtil 755- He was succeeded by his son, J
Hamld Harfager. Rollo, a Prince of this line
overran Normandy in 910. His sixth and yo"ngest
son, Walter, received the castle and town of Caen
as an inheritance. His great-grandson. \^' alter de
Caen, accompanied William, the Norman to Eng-
land at the time of the Conquest^ To this nob e-
man the line of Dickinsons descended from the first
American pioneer, Nathaniel, may be traced.
Nathaniel is the fifteenth in line, as follows :

(T) Walter de Caenm. later Walter de Kenson,
taking the name from his manor in Yorkshire.

(II) Tohnnc Dvkonson. freeholder of Km.gston
unon Hull. Yorkshire, married. 1260. Margaret Lam-
bert, died T316. • r 1, ij .Kn,-s

(III) William Dykenson. freeholder as above.

'"^ (IV) Hugh Dykensonne. freeholder as above,

'^ (V)^ .^nthovne Dickensonne. freeholder as above
married. 1376.' Catheryne De La Pole: he died

''^(VI) Richard Dickerson. freeholder as above,
married. 1 300. Margaret Cooper, died 1441.

(VII) Thomas Dickinson, freeholder as above
married. T470. Margaret Lambert: alderman first
ward Hull ii43-4: mayor l444-.=i; died 1475.

(VIII) Hugh Dickinson, freeholder as above,
married TJ=;r. Agnes Swillington : removed I47S
to Kenson Manor. Yorkshire: died IW- „ „^^^

(IX) William Dickinson, freeholder of Kenson
Manor, married. 1475- Isabel Langton : died 1546.

(X) John Dickinson, settled in Leeds York-
shire', married _ in 1499. Elizabeth Danby : alderman
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(XI) William Dickinson, settled Brindley Hall.
Staffordshire, married in 1520, Rachel Kinge ; died
1580.

(XII) Richard Dickinson, of Bradley Hall, mar-
ried. 1540, Elizabeth Bagnall ; died 1605.

(XIH) Thomas Dickinson, clerk in the Ports-
month navy yard, 1567 to 1587, removed to Cam-
bridge 1587; married. 1567, Judith Carey; died 1590.

( XIV) William Dickinson, settled in Ely, Cam-
bridge, married, 1594, Sarah Stacey, of Ely; died
1628.

(XV) Nathaniel Dickinson, son of William
Dickinson (14), was born in Ely, Cambridge, in
1600. He married, January, 1630. at East Bergolat,
Suffolk, Anna Gull, widow of William Gull. They
came to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1636 or 1637.
He was one of the leaders in the colony. He was
town clerk in 1645. representative to the general
court in 1646 and 1647. He removed to Hadley,
Ma^sachusetts. in 1659, and was admitted a free-
man there in 1661. He was chosen deacon of the
church and first recorder of the town. He was
selectman, assessor and town magistrate. He was
a member of the Hampshire Troop and on llie first
board of trustees of Hopkins Academy. He re-
sided a few years at Hatfield. He died at Hadley,
June 16. 1676. He married (first) in England;

(second) Anne . when he went to Hadley.

The children of Nathaniel and Hannah (Gull)
Dickinson were : John, born 1630. killed in King
Philip's war; Joseph, 1632. killed by Indians, 1675;
Thomas. 1634 ; Anna or Hannah, 1636, married John
Clary and Enos Kingsley. of Northampton ; Samuel,
see forward: Obadiah. April 15, 1641 ; Nathaniel,
.August, 1643: N^ehemiah, about 1644; Hezekiah,
February, 1645-6; .Azariah, October 4. 1648, killed in
swamp fight, August 25. 1675.

(XVI) Samuel Dickinson, fifth child of Nathan-
iel Dickinson (15), was born in Hatfield, Massa-
chusetts. July. 1638. He was admitted a freeman
in 1690, and served in the war in 1675-6. He died
November 30. 1711, aged seventy-three. He mar-
ried. January 4. i(568. Martha Bridgeman. daughter
of James Bridgeman, of Springfield and Northamp-
ton. Massachusetts. She was born November 2,
1649. and died July 16, 171 1, aged sixty-one years.
Their children were: Samuel, born August 17,
1669: , DeceiTiber 12, 1671 : Nathaniel, Feb-
ruary 10, 1672 : Sarah. November S, 1675 ; Azariah.
February 2, 1681 ; Ebenezer. see forward ; .Ann,
December 17. 1683: Joseph, August 3. 1686: Han-
nah. .April 4. 1680.

(XVTI) Ebenezer Dickinson, si.xth child of
Samuel Dickinson (16). was born in Hatfield. Feb-
ruary 2. 1681. He settled there. He married. June
27. 1706. Hannah Frary. He died March 16, 1730. .
Their children were : Editha. born August 23, 1707 :
Elizabeth. .August 2. 1700: Nathan, see forward:
Hannah. February 17. 1715: Reuben. Augu.st 2,
1 71 7: Samuel (twin). October 14, 1718: Mary
(twin). October 14, 1718. died unmarried. 1754;
Ebenezer. January 5. 1724.

(XVIli) Nathan Dickinson, third cliild of
Ebenezer Dickinson (17). was born in Hatfield.
May 3. 1712. He removed from Hatfield to Am-
herst. Massachusetts, an adjoining town, in 1742.
and died there .August 7. 1796. aged eighty-four.
He married (first) Thankful Warner: (second)
Jnanner Leonard, of Springfield; (third) Judith
Hosmer. His children were: Nathan, see for-
ward: Ebenezer. January 3. 1741; Irene. July 13,
1743. died March 28. 1834. aged ninety: Enos,
March 28. 1746: Azariah. March 6. 1752: Elihu,
October 14. 1753: Shelah. September 20, 1755.
soldier in revolution, died .April 30, 1777 ; Thankful,

March 15, 1758; Lois, baptized August 5, 1759-
.Vsa, baptized May 10, 1761 ; Levi; Joanna, baptized
■April 6, 1766. The following children were by the
seccmd wife: Stephen, baptized July 6, 1770; Judith
married Daniel Heath.

<XIX) Nathan Dickinson, eldest child of Nathan
Dickinson (18), was born in Hatfield, Massachu-
setts October 19. 1835. He was a soldier in the
revolution. He served in Lieutenant Noah Dickin-
son s company in 1775 a'l'l in Captain Reuben Dick-
inson's company in 1777-78. He resided in Am-
herst'. -Massachusetts, wdicre he died at the age of
ninety, August 3, 1825. He married (first), Janu-
ary 15, 1761. Esther Fowler, who died March 15,
1803, aged sixty-three. He married (second), March
19. 1804. Jerusha Klodgett. widow, who died October
17. 1818. Cliildren of Nathan and Esther (Fowler)
Dickinson, all born in Amherst, were: Timothy,
born 1761; Perez, March 26, 1763; Ezekicl, May 25!
1765: Esther. .May 3. 1767; Esther, December 14,
1768: Irene, December 30, 1770; Samuel Fowler, see
forward: .Anna. .April 15, 1780.

(XX) Samuel Fowler Dickinson, seventh son of
Nathan Dickinson (19), w-as born in .Amherst,
Massachusetts, October 9, 1775. He received his
early education in that town . He fitted him-
self for college and entered Dartmouth, from
which he was graduated in 1795. Upon com-
pleting his college course he returned to his
father's home in Amherst and entered the law
office of Judge Simeon Strong, where he studied
until he was admitted to the bar. He became
one of the ablest lawyers in western Massachusetts.
He was a natural leader of men and quite naturally
became prominent in politics. He served his district
in the general court in the house and senate for
twelve years. He was town clerk of .Amherst for
many years. His public career was brilliant and he
became well known throughout the state. He was
an influential Whig leader. Perhaps his greatest
public service was the part he took as founder of
.Amherst Academy and .Amherst College. For the
college he sacrificed his property, his time and his
professional opportunities, and he was held in the
highest regard by the friends and alumni of that
institution and his memory is cherished there for
his generous and distinguished service to the col-
lege. He was for many years the college treasurer.
He was prominent in the church as well as the state.
At the age of twenty-one he was elected deacon of
the Congregational church, to which he belonged,
and he was a church oflicer all his active life. In
1833 he removed from his old home in .Am-
herst to Cumberland, Ohio, where he maintained his
prominence as a citizen. He practiced law- there, but
became interested in Lane Seminary and acted as
its steward. Later he filled the office of steward for
the Western Reserve University. He exercised his
benevolence here repeatedly in helping deserving boys
through college. His memory is cherished at West-
ern Reserve L^niversity with the same afltcctionate
regard and honor as at .Amherst. He helped both
institutions in the trying days of their early life.
He died at Hudson, Ohio. .April 23, 1S38.

He married. March 21. 1802. Lucretia Gunn, born
October 3, 1775, of Montague. Massachusetts. Their
children were: 1. Edward, born January i. 1803,
.graduate of Yale College, 1823 ; married. May 6,
1828. Emily Norcross, daughter of Joel Norcross,
of Monson. Massachusetts ; he was representative
and senator in the general court of Massachusetts,
member of the governor's council, congressman ; he
died in Boston. 2. William, see forward. 3. Lu-
cretia. born December 16. 1806, married Rev. .Asa
Bullard. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she

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died. 4. Mary, bom February lo. 1809, died in New
York city March .31, 1852: married Mark H. New-
man, of New York. 5. Samuel Fowler, Jr., born
August 16, 181 1, died in Richmond, Virginia; his
home was at Macon, Georgia ; he married in the
south. 6. Catherine, born February 17, 1814, died in
New York city ; married Artematus Sweetser, son
of Joseph Sweetser, of New York. 7. Timothy, born
March 11, 1816, died in Grififin, Georgia: married
January 10, 1838, Hannah Dickinson, daughter of
Ezekiel Dickinson. 8. Frederick, born August 13,
181S (or August 31, 1819, Hadley Hi.story), gradu-
.Jte of Amherst College, 1837; died in Billerica,
Massachusetts ; married, February 17, 1846, Mary
Richardson, of Billerica, leaving three sons. 9.
Elizabeth, born .May 29, 1823, died in Worcester;
married Augustus N. Currier, and had three chil-
dren.

(XXI) William Dickinson, second child of Sam-
uel Fowler Dickinson (20), was born in Amherst,
Massachusetts, September 7, 1804. He attended the
Amherst district schools and Amherst Academy until
fifteen years of age. His education was shaped to
fit him for a business career. He went to work iirst
as a clerk in a dry goods store in Boston, where he
remained several years and learned the essentials of
business. He came to Worcester and worked in
the grocery store of Mr. Butman in the old Brinley
block on the corner of Main and Elm streets. After
some time in this business he started in business
for himself in the manufacture of paper at Hard-
wick, Massachusetts. After a few years he sold out
his mill and returned to Worcester, in 1836, and was
elected cashier of the Central National Bank, then
the Central Bank, and since 1903 part of the Worces-
ter Trust Company. He filled the position of cashier
with signal ability, and after fourteen years in that
office resigned to become the treasurer of the State
Mutual Life Assurance Company. He was well
fitted for the great trust and responsibility of this
position. It proved congenial to him and he re-
mained in it for nearly forty years. He held a promi-
nent position in the financial life of Worcester for
many years. He was treasurer also of the Merchants'
and Fanners' Insurance Company for about forty
years. He was a director in the Quinsigamond
Bank, later the Quinsigamond National Bank,
merged in 1905 with the Worcester Trust Company.
He was also director in the Providence & Worcester
Railroad, now leased by the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford Railroad Company.

In 1863 Mr. Dickinson began the manufacture of
paper making machinery, with others, and was inter-
ested in this business for eight years. He subse-
quently manufactured felt, a business in which his
son. Samuel F. Dickinson, was interested with him.
The factory was in a large block which he built on
Foster street.

Mr. Dickinson was a man of unusual business
ability. He took advantage of his opportunities and
made a large fortune for his day. He invested
largely in real estate. He was the owner of the
Dickinson Block and many other valuable parcels
of real estate in the city and county. Fie was always
interested in public affairs, especially in municipal
matters. He was originally a member of the Whig
party, but like a large majority of that party turned
to the Republican party when the Whig party was
dissolved. He was never a strong partisan, however.
He served the city for several years in the common
council and in the board of aldermen. He was nomi-
nated for mayor against Charles B. Pratt, the Demo-
cratic nominee, but failed of election. He was a
member of the school board for three years. He
was the donor of the bell on the Walnut street high

school and also of the fountains in front of the
school buildings. He was a director of the Free
Public Library and member of the Worcester So-
ciety of Antiquity. Although not a college graduate
he was always, like his father, a liberal supporter
of colleges and institutions of learning and pro-
foundly interested in the public schools and educa-
tional matters. He was appointed by Governor
Benjamin I\ Butler, of whom Mr. Dickinson was a
warm admirer, on the board of trustees of the State
Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. He was an altend-
ant at LInion Congregational Church.

Mr. Dickinson married (first) October 31, 1831,
at Andover, Massachusetts, Eliza Hawley, of And-
over, Mas.sachusetts. He married (second) October
26, 1852, Mary Louisa Whittier, of Andover, daugh-
ter of Noah and Hannah (Hawley) Whittier, of
-Andover. Mr. Whittier was a department superin-
tendent of railroad bridges and road bed. He was
captain of the Andover militia company. The only
child of William and Eliza (Hawley) Dickinson
was William Hawley, born in Hardwick, October
22, 1832, deceased; married Ellen Bike, of New
York city. Children of William and Mary Lnui.va
(Whittier) Dickinson were: Helen Whittier, born
in Worcester, March 5, 1855, married Thomas L.
Shields, of Sewickley, Pennsylvania: they have two
children : William Dickinson, a student in Cornell
University, and Mary Whittier ; Samuel Fowler,
born in Worcester, March 14, 1857, married Nellie
Goodnow, of Worcester ; George Stuart, born in
Worcester, October 22, 1863, married Mabel Mar-
shall, daughter of Frank Marshall, of Worcester; he
is a graduate of Yale University.

GILBERT JONES RUGG, for many years
prominently identified with the manufacturing inter-
ests of the city of Worcester, and who has served
the community usefully in various responsible posi-
tions of a public nature, is a descendant of one of
the first settlers of Lancaster, Massachusetts. The
immigrant ancestor and founder of his family in
America was John Rugg, who came from Somerby,
England, landing March II, 1632. His wife was the
ill-fated Hannah Prescott, who was cruelly killed
by the Indians, September 11, 1696. She was a
daughter of John Prescott, the first settler at Lan-
caster, Massachusetts. To John and Hannah ( Pres-
cott ) Rugg were born eleven children, all of whom
settled in Lancaster and became the ancestors of
various branches of the Prescott family, now widely
dispersed throughout the United States. John Rugg
died in Lancaster, November 24, 1655. Descended
from him was Abel Rugg, who died February 14,
1843, aged ninety-two years, and whose wi-fe, Cath-
erine Frost, died November 2, 1843, the same year
with her husband, at the age of eighty-six years.
They were the parents of Abel Warner Rugg, born
March 17, 1797. He married Hannah Jones, and
they were the parents of eight children.

Gilbert Jones Rugg, son of Abel Warner and
Hannjb (Jones) Rugg, was born in Lancaster,
Massachusetts, iNIarch 27, 1836. He was reared upon
the parental farm, and was early habituated to in-
dustry, frugality and perseverance — traits which
were the strongest characteristics of the sturdy
people of that day. He received a practical educa-
tion in the neighborhood schools, common and pri-
vate, his school studies concluding with his seven-
teenth year, when he went to Worcester to pro-
cure employment and learn a trade, purposes which
he pursued with all the ardor of youth and the wise
judgment of mature years, not only laboring indus-
triously to master his chosen calling, but at the same
time improving his mind through carefully chosen

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looks and intercourse witli persons of broad
knowledge and wide experience. At the early age of
seventeen he became an apprentice in the niacliine
shops of Willard Williams & Co., with wliom he
remained after the expiration of his term of service,
eight years in all, and only leaving his employers to
accept the foremanship of the Ball & Williams man-
ufactory of planers and other wood-working ma-
chinery, a position for which he was eminently
qualified. With well established reputation for skill
as a mechanic and business qualifications of a high
order, in i86a. he entered into partnership with Luke
B. Witherby and Seneca Merrill Richardson for the
manufacture of wood-working machinery, and cre-
.ated an establishment which for a third of a cen-
tury has been one of the conspicuous industrial insti-
tutions of the city of Worcester. For thirty years
the business was conducted under the firm name of
Witherby, Rugg & Richardson. After the death of
his partners Mr. Rugg procured (in 1901) the in-
corporation of the business under the title of the
Witherby, Rugg & Richardson Company, thus per-
petuating the names of those with whom he had
been most pleasantly associated during a long and
peculiarly useful period. Mr. Rugg became president
of the corporation, and continued to act in that
capacity until March i, 1903, when he made a sale
of his stock to the Hobbs Manufacturing Company.

While giving close attention to the affairs of the
■company before referred to — w'atching with pains-
taking care the practical operations of the works as
well as the office affairs, and keeping constantly in
touch with the manufacturing world with constantly
developing business as a result — ^Ir. Rugg at the
same time gave careful and intelligent interests to
many concerns of a public nature, and contributive
to the advantage of the community at large. .'Vs
vice-president of the Worcester Five Cents Savings
Bank and a member of its investing committee he
rendered service of a peculiarly useful nature. In
1871 he was elected a member of the Worcester
board of aldermen, for a term of two years;
was made a member of the common council of
1875-76; and again was elected to the board of
aldermen in 1885. In the latter period he rendered
exceptionally meritorious service on the city high-
way committee, and in all his official conduct ac-
quitted himself most usefully and with conscientious
devotion to the trusts committed to him. At the
election in November, 1904, he was elected a repre-
sentative to the general court, and in that body
served efficiently upon the street railway committee.
Aside from official relations he has always borne
a full share in ail movements contributing to the
interests of the city, whether in material, moral or
educational lines. He is affiliated With various
Masonic bodies — Morning Star Lodge, A. F. and
A. M.; Eureka Qiapter, R. A. M. ; Hiram Council.
R. and S. M. ; and Worcester Commanderv. K. T.

Mr. Rugg married Miss Susan M. Earle, who
•died in 1896. He married (second) Celia A. Will-
iams, widow of Beman A. Lovell. of Worcester.
His children were by his first marriage; i. Florence
E. Rugg, born April 24, 1865. married Robert A.
Mason, of Worcester. 2. Clara Emily Rugg, born
August 10, 1871, died in 1896; married Charles A.
Rogers, and they had one child, Hazel R. 3.
Alice Gertrude Rugg, born November 24. 1873, mar-
ried Irvin W. Howard, of a prominent Worcester
family. ]\Ir. Rugg resides at 809 Main street. Wor-
cester, where has been his home since 1871, when
he first occupied it.

ELISHA DEWEY BUFFIXGTOX. Thomas
Buffington (i), said to be from Scotland, came to

America soon after 1650 probably, and settled at
Salem, where he married Sarah Southwick, Decem-
ber 30, 1671. As he married the daughter of a
Quaker and the granddaughter of one, it is likely
that he led a very quiet life at Salem on his farm.
He was not in public life or in military companies,
and seems to have escaped persecution and publicity
as well. His wife, Sarah Southwick, was daugh-
ter of John and Sarah Southwick. Her mother
was the widow of Samuel Tidd. The father of John
Southwick was Lawrence Southwick, of Salem.
Lawrence Southwick was a glassman, proprietor of
Salem. He was admitted a freeman September 6.
1639. His wife Cassandra was received in the
church at Salem 1639, an(' Elizabeth Southwick
September I, 1650. They were Quakers, His will,
dated August 10, 1659, at the house of Nathaniel
Sylvester, at Shelter Island, proved in Essex court,
November 29, 1660, mentions sons Daniel Southwick
and John Burnell ; daughters. Provided Southwick
and Mary, wife of Henry Traske ; Deborah and
Josiah Southwick; Ann Potter ; Henry Traske's chil-
dren — Mary, Sarah and Hannah ; Samuel (born
February 19, 1S58), and Sarah, children of John
Southwick, son deceased probably before 1659.

Besides Thomas Buffington there was a John
Buffington in Salem about the same time that
Thomas first appears in the records. There seems
to be no record of any descendants, nor of his re-
lationship to Thomas. The name is more commonly
spelled by the descendants of Thomas Buffington
without the "g," but Mr. Buffington of Worcester
preferred this spelling. The name was found some-
times in the records spelled Bovington. The Com-
moners' Record recently published showed Thomas
Buffington, Sr., a landowner 1702 and as late as
1723. when, if living he must have been seventy-five
and perhaps older. Savage gives three children, but
it is probable that the third is a child of his son's.
(See Abigail, born July 25, 1695, under Thomas
Buffington (2). Thomas and Benjamin arc un-
questionably his sons. Joseph Buffington, whose
son Joseph married at Swansea in 1734, was prob-
ably another son. Children of Thomas and Sarah
(Southwick) Buftlngton: i. Thomas, born in Salem
March i, 1672; married Hannah Ross there, and had
a family in Salem, is probably the ancestor of the
Salem branch of the family, many of whom were
interested in the shipping business in Salem. His
children were: Abigail, born in Salem July 25.
1695 (Savage makes her daughter of Thomas. Sr.):
Hannah, born in Salem May 11, 1701, married
Eleazer Pope, who died August 2. 1734, leaving son
Stephen and others: James (?). perhaps father of
Captain Zadock Buffington, prominent in Salem
many years, incorporator of Acqueduct, 1798; Mary
(?), baptized an adult in Salem, March 31, 1728.
2. Benjamin, see forward. 3. Joseph (?), had son
Joseph who married at Swansea, .\bigail. son of
Samuel and Martha Shearman, December 11, 1734.
James Buffington, who with his wife Elizabeth
joined the Congregational church at Saltm. was
probably the Jame.s" son of Thomas Buffington (2)
mentioned above. Ilis children: Betty, Mary. Han-
nah and James, all baptized when their parents
were bv Rev. Benjamin Prescott, at the church
now of' South Danvers, July 27, 1740. They prob-
ablv had been Quakers until then.

(11) Benjamin Buffington. son of Thomas Buf-
fington (i), born July 24. 1675, at Salem: married

Hannah -. they were Quakers, and the

records indicate that he removed soon after mar-
riage about 1700 to Swansea, where the Quakers and
Tiaptists persecuted elsewhere lived peaceably side
by side. The family tradition states that some fifty

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families from Salem went to Swansea and liought
titles to their lands from the Indians, as was their
custom, in addition to getting the grant from the
government. Benjamin Butfington had a deed,
which is now in possession of the family, and shows

he bought three hundred acres of land of

Marcy, who was the only one of the settlers not a
Quaker. The homestead has been in the possession
(if the Huffinglon family about two hundred years.
"The Buffingtons have all been Quakers down to
E. D. Buffington of Worcester," writes a member
of the family, "and he was a thorough Quaker in
principle, although a few years before his death he
joined the Unitarian church, to which his wife
belonged." The family records indicate that Ben-
jamin Buffington, the settler at Swansea, had seven
children. From the records of Salem, Savage's Dic-
tionary, and the more recently published Vital
Records of Rhode Island, in which the records of
the Friends' church at Swansea are given, partial
records of six have been discovered. The records
of William Buffington, the son from whom Elisha
D. Buffington is descended, are preserved in his old
homestead at Swansea, and have been copied for use
here. Children of Benjamin and Hannah: i. Ben-
jamin, born Salem. May 9, 1699, probably died
young (Savage mentions two others not named,
presumably born in Salem. 2. Benjamin, born April
9, 1701, died June 9, 1760, at Swansea, Massachu-
setts, married Isabel, daughter of Joseph and Sarah
Chase (given in another Rhode Island record as
daughter of Eben and Mary Chase) ; she was born
July 6, 1705, at Swansea, and died June 6, 1791 ;
both buried in the Friends' yard at Swansea; their
children: Benjamin, Moses, Stephen, Elizabeth,
Hannah. 3. William, see forward. 4. Esther, born
in Swansea probably, married Stephen Chase (or
Chace), son of Joseph and Sarah, November II,
1728. 5. Hannah, married Silas Chase, December
20, 1733. 6. Jonathan, married Sarah, daughter of
James and Martha Luther, April 12, 1735.

(III) William Buffington, son of Benjamin Buf-
fington (2), born probably in Swansea, Massachu-
setts, possibly Salem, fifth day of week, October 9,
1703; married Susanna, daughter of Samuel and
Sarah Chase, all of Swansea, July 25, 1726. Susanna
was born fifth day of week, April 7, 1704. They had
nine children born at Swansea : i. William, born
December 20, 1726, third day of week ; married
Phebe, daughter of James and ^lartha Luther, Feb-
ruary 5. 1746-7. 2. Elizabeth, born February 9, 1729,
first day of week, married Ezekiel Chase. 3.
Susanna, born June 9, 1731, fourth day of week,
married William Luther, June 16, 1748. 4. Sarah,
born May I, 1735, fifth day. 5. Phebe, born May
29, 1739, first day. 6. Samuel, see forward. 7.
Hannah, born March 5, 1741, seventh day. 8.
Martha, born September 22, 1744, first day of
week. 9. Benjamin, born September 7, 1747, second

day of week; married Hannah ; had son

William, married Mary Lawton, March 11, 1770.

(IV) Samuel Buffington, son of William Buf-
fington (3), born Swansea, Massachusetts, July 26,

1740; married ■ ■ — , born March 13.

1739, died February 2, 1809. They settled on the
homestead at Swansea. Their children: i. Elisha,
see forward. 2. Samuel, born about November,
1770; died February 16, 1816, aged forty-five years,
four months. 3. Susanna, born October 23, 1773,
died July 30, 1827, aged fifty-three years, nine months
and seven days. 4. Elizabeth, born 1775, died April
7, 1807.

(V) Elisha Buffington, son of Samuel Buffing-
ton (4), born Swansea, June 8, 1767, died April 17,
1858, aged ninety years, ten months and eleven days ;

married Sara Chase, born July 19, 1762, daughter of
John Chase, who died March 2y, 1786, aged sixty-
five years, three months, and whose wife died May
19, 1805, aged seventy-eight years, three months. Sara
died December 13, 1841, aged seventy-nuie years,
five months. Peace Chase, her sister, died Novem-
ber 27, 1788, aged thirty-nine years, six months.
Jonathan Chase, her brother, died July 25, 1824,
about seventy-eight years old. Martha, her sister,
died March 15, 1826, aged seventy-two years, twelve
days. Children of Elisha and Sara (Chase) Buf-
fington: I. Susanna, born March 13, 1794, died
April 8, 1818. 2. Martha, born October 27, 1795,
married Peleg Gardner ; she died April 19, 1842.
3. John, born April 16, 1798, died June 28, 1816, in
Havana, Cuba. 4. Frances, born December 10, 1800.
5. Phebe, born January 7, 1803. 6. Samuel, see for-
ward.

(VI) Samuel Buffington, son of Elisha Buf-
fington (s), was born in Swansea, Massachusetts, on
the old homestead there October 3, 1806. He was a
man of influence and a Quaker. He carried on the
farm. He married Eliza Ann Mason, born June 7,
1810, died 1881. He died October 26, 1871. Their
children were: John H., born August 13, 1829;
Sarah E., born February 3, 1834, died July 30, 1835;
Elisha Dewey, born in Swansea, November 4, 1836;
Samuel L., born October 7, 1839, lives on the old
homestead, married Augusta Wood, and their chil-
dren arc : Mabel, Raymond W., Julia S. Durand,
Elisha L., Elizabeth, Paul, Carl, all living on the old
homestead ; Frank Benton, born January g, 1842,
died April 14, 1855.

(VII) Elisha Dewey Buffington, son of Samuel
(6), was born in Swansea, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 4, 1836. He was brought up on the old Buf-
fington homestead which has been in the family
from the time of King Philip, of whom it was bought.

Elisha Bulfington when a boy attended school at
Warren, Rhode Island, in the winter, and worked
on his father's farm in the summer. At the age of
eighteen, in 1854, he went to California, by way of
the Isthmus. He stayed in California, but a short
time, and then returned by way of Lake Nicaragua.
For a short time he taught school in Lansing, Michi-
gan. Afterward he walked from Michigan to
Pike's Peak and back. Although the party had a
wagon and perhaps some horses, there were always
too many sick to admit of the well ones riding. He
returned to I\Iassachusetts and entered a druggist's
shop in Fall River, where he learned the business,
which he found congenial, and in which he was to
achieve success. He started for himself in Wor-
cester in 1862, buying the drug store of William H.
Goulding, where Buffington's store is at present.
Very soon after he started, he added the manu-
facture of homoeopathic remedies, and later the
wholesale department, which soon became the most
important part of the business. When the Day build-
ing was burned the store was located in the Flagg
building, the next block, but was refnoved to the
new Day building as soon as it was completed. Soon
afterward the business was incorporated as the Buf-
fington Pharmacy Company, by whom it has been
carried on since his death. The original officers of
the company were Mr. Buffington and some of his
clerks in the store.

Mr. Buffington was always an enthusiastic sports-
man and traveler. In 1893 he was appointed a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts State Fish and Game Com-
mission, and was very active in propagating and
preserving fish and game, not only in Worcester
county but throughout the state. He was a member
of the Oquosic Angling Club, composed of enthu-
siastic and regular anglers in the Rangeley Lakes.

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e was practically the fonniler of the hatchery of
e Fish Commission at W'llkinsville, and had an
rnest desire to have Lake Quinsigamond properly
Dcked with fish. He was serving his third term
I the Fish and Game Commission at the time

his death. He had a taste for travel and means

gratify it, made many trips abroad, and bronght
ime many artistic and interesting souvenirs of his
avels. Flis house is I'llled with treasures that he
Uected when abroad. He was a liberal contributor
the Wtircester Art Museum Corporation, of
hich he was a member: and was a member of the
jciety of Antiquity, the Home JIarket Club of
jston, the Tatnuck Country Club, the Worcester
ub, and the Commonwealth Club. He was a
rector of the Worcester Safe Deposit and Trust
onipany. He attended the First Unitarian Church.
1 politics he was a stanch Republican. Mis grand-
ther on his mother's side was Squire Mason, who
as a member of Governor Lincoln's staff when it
ntained but three members. Mr. Buffinglon died
ovember 19, 1900, after a short illness at his home,
I Chestnut street. He married, November 4, 1867,
larlotte Katon Walker, daughter of Benjamin and
:iarlotte (Eaton) Walker. Her father was born in
reenfield, Massachusetts, but lived most of his life

Worcester. Her mother belonged to the Eaton
mily, one of the best of the old Worcester fam-
es ; her grandfather was Nathaniel Eaton. Mr.
uffington had no children.

There could be no better and more appreciative
ibute to the character of Mr. Buffington than that
nt to the editor of the Worcester Spy by Colonel
. B. Stoddard, one of his dearest friends, who
IS himself passed away since then. It was pub-
;hed November 20, 1900, as follows :

■'He belonged distinctly to that class of men,
ho, without early advantages of education, have
f their own native intelligence and energy made
leir way to recognized positions of prominence and
fluence in the community. Mr. Buffington began

the bottom of the ladder, so far as worldly ad-
intages are concerned, but was not destined to stay
lere. He was gifted with rare common sense and
jick insight, and easily took in the essential con-
itions of any situation. Success was no accident
ith him. He saw the path to it, and followed it
ith the necessary self-denial and persistence to
:coraplish his object. Whether in the accumula-
on of property or the keeping of it by judicious
ivestment, his judgment was always of the sound-
it. But though he thus acquired a large compe-
:nce, he was by no means a mere money getter.
!e knew not only how to get it, but how to spend
. He always looked upon money as a means, not
> an end. He had a large range of interests, and
as constantly engaged in making investigations into
lany subjects. His knowledge of nature, of plants
id animals especially, was wide and accurate. Per-
ips no man in this community had a better com-
land of everything relating to game, not only
le haunts and habits, but the game laws and usages
id the best method of propagation and protection.
!e had also a genuine interest in art, not merely
I American and European art and artists, but
irious forms of art in the East, where he traveled
ctensively and observed intelligently. His large
jllection contains not only pictures of unusual
lerit and high value, but also tapestries, ceramics
id other objects of rare excellence. His taste in
lis direction was fully shared and greatly assisted
f his accomplished wife. Even in his recreations,
i whist and chess, he was not content with any
iperficial practice of the game, but always wanted
) go to the bottom of it and find its underlying
8

mathematical principles. Above all, Mr. Buffington
was a steadfast friend and genial companion, and
it is his cheerful, loyal and affectionate disposition
that will be longest remembered by those who knew

him best."

THEODORE P. BROWN. James Brown (i)
was the emigrant ancestor of Theodore P. Brown,
of Worcester, Massachusetts, the manufacturer of
the Simplex Piano Player. He was born in Scot-
land about 1720-30. There is a tradition in the
family that he was wealthy, having with him a chest
of gold. Owing to a storm or shipwreck the gold
vyas lost. Besides the gold it is said he had twenty
fine linen shirts that were also lost on the journey
over. He was a tailor by trade. He married Han-
nah Dlanchard, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, and
their descendants have been numerous in the vicinity.
Dunstable is now Nashua, New Hampshire. The
Blanchards were among the pioneers there. Thomas
Blanchard, her emigrant ancestor, came to America
from the vicinity of .Xndover, England, in the ship
"Jonathan," in 16,39. He settled first at Braintree.
His son George was with him. He bought of Rev.
John Wilson, February 12, 1650-1, house and land in
the south part of Maiden, Massachusetts. (Pope
says he came from Pentoii, Hants, England.) He
married first in England. His wife died there. He
married (second) Agents (Bent) Barnes, widow, a
sister of John Bent. She died on the passage over.

He married (third) Mary . He died May

21, 1654. His will is dated May 16, and was proved
June 20, 1654. He made bequests to his wife Mary ;
to children George, Thomas, Samuel, Nathaniel ; to
grandson Joseph, and to the church at Maiden. He
provided that Benjamin Thompson should be fitted
for the University (Harvard) if his parents con-
sent. Benjamin was son of Deacon John Blanchard.
Benjamin does not appear in the list of Harvard
graduates, however. His estate was administered
by his widow, appointed June 3, 1656.

(H) Deacon John Blanchard, son of Thomas
Blanchard, the emigrant, was one of the pioneers
at Dunstable. Massachusetts, now Nashua, New
Ilamnshire. He was admitted a freeman in 1649.
He was one of the founders of the Dunstable Church
in 1685. Children were: Joseph; Thomas; Hannah,
born January 6. 1659; Benjamin; James; Sarah;
Mary ; Nathaniel.

(III) Thomas Blanchard, son of Deacon John
Blanchard, and grandson of Thomas Blanchard, the
emigrant, was born about 1670 and must have been
a young child when his father went to Dunstable.

He married Tabitha . She died November

29, 1696. He married (second) Ruth Adams, of
Chelmsford. ^Massachusetts, October 4, 1698. He
died March 9. 1727. In the possession of Mrs.
Charles E. Wheelock, 8 Cottage street, Worcester,
is a deed from Thomas to his son Thomas, dated
1721, of land in Dunstable. Children of Thomas
and Tabitha Blanchard were : Abigail, born May 5.
1694; John. May 20, l6g6. Children of Thomas and
Ruth (Adams) Blanchard were: Thomas (sec for-
ward) ; William, born 1701 ; Ruth, April i, 1703.

(IV) Thomas Blanchard, son of Thomas Blanch-
ard, and grandson of Deacon John Blanchard, of
Dunstable, was born August 12, 1699. He served
in the Indian wars and was taken prisoner in Sep-
tember, 1724. He was a prominent man in Dunstable,
and held various town offices. Mrs. Wheelock has
the original tax warrant for the year 1738, for the
old town of Dunstable, issued to Thomas Blanchard
as collector of taxes. It shows the results of his
work. It contains a full list of the taxpayers of
the town. Joseph Blanchard, son of Captain Jo-

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seph Blanchard, wlm was iinck- of Tlinmas P.lanch-
ard, heads ihc list.

llaniiali Blanchard, l)orn about 1740, daughter of
Tliomas, married James Brown, the emigrant. He
died in 1778. A copy of liis will, dated October 10.
1778, i,s owned by Mrs. Wheelock. It is a certified
copy made soon after the will was proved in the
Nashua court. It should be noted that James Brown,
of Dunstable, was a lieutenant in the battle of
Bunker Hill, according to the history of Dunstable,
and no other James Brown of the right age and de-
scription is to be found.

The children of James and Hannah (Blanchard)
Brown were ; John ; James, settled in Waterford,
Ohio, (Mrs. Wheelock has a letter written by him
in which he mentions the death of his first wife in
I7g8 and his second marriage); Phebc; Hannah;
Isaac; Daniel: Samuel; Aaron, (see forward). The
will indicates that all but Samuel and Aaron were
of age, as it specifies that the others receive their
bequests, and the two youngest receive theirs when
they become of age.

(H) Aaron Brown, son of James Brown (i),
was born in Dunstable or Nashua, New Hampshire,
November 17, 1773. He was a soldier in the war
of 1812. He married, September 5, 1797, Hannah
Proctor, daughter of Reuben Proctor, of Merrimac.
New Hampshire. She was born July 13, 1778. He
lived in Nashua and died April 24, 1844. in Canton,
Maine, where he removed about 1815. He was a
charter member of the Livermore Falls, Maine,
Lodge of Free Masons and was a prominent man in
the order. The children of Aaron and Hannah
(Proctor) Brown were: James (see forward);
Nancy, born at Dunstable, December 28, 1799. mar-
ried Rev. Bartlett; Larned Small, born in

Dunstable, March 18, 1801; John, (see forward);
Reuben Proctor, born in Wilton, Maine, January 28,
180S ; Jefferson, born in Wilton, Maine, September
22, 1806; Arthur, born in Wilton, Maine, October 15,
1807 ; Rebecca Proctor, born in Wilton, February 5,
1810: Abigail Bigelow, born at Jay, Maine, March
29, 1812; Susannah Carpenter, born in Jay, Maine.
July 16, 1815; Hiram, born February 9, 1817, at Jay.
now Canton, Maine ; Orin, born October 20, 1818.
at Jay, now Canton, died in Texas ; Belinda Bartlett,
born in Canton, Maine, July i, 1821.

(Ill) James Brown, son of Aaron Brown (2),
born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, or Nashua. New
Hampshire, August 5, 1798; died April 8, 1881, at
Grafton, Maine. Married (first) Mary Thompson.
July 4, 1824. She died April 19, 1833; married
(second) Ruth Stewart, October 28. 1838; she died
February 4, 1901. The children of James and Mary
(Thompson) Brown were: James Monroe, (see
forward) ; Arthur, born September 24. 1827. died
October 15, 1857; Ira Bisbee, born April 5, 1829,
died March 12. 1831 : Ira Bisbee. born June 10. 1831,
died July 19, 1831 : -William Thompson, born January
16, 1833, married Esther H. Swan, June 10, 1859; he
died April 28, 1861. The children of James and
Ruth (Swan) Brown were: Mary, (see forward) :
George Miller, born August 16, 1844. married Ella
M. Briggs, March, 1864; Euthalius Irving, born
November 14. 1848. married Freda W. Small.

(Ill) John Brown, son of Aaron Brown (2).
born in Wilton. Maine, December 29. 1802 ; he mar-
ried Huldah Gardner. When he was a young boy
the family removed to Livertiiore, Maine. He was a
house carpenter and farmer. His children were :
John Quincy, married Lucia Littlefield, resides at
Portland ; Joanna Allen, married Seth L. Davis, a
farmer at Errol, New Hampshire; Hannibal Gard-
ner, married Mary Parlin, resides at West Parish.
Maine; Aaron, (see forward); Bartlett Jackson,

married ; resides in Hyde Park, Massachusetts ; has
been in the same house for thirty-five years ; Maria
Eunice, dressmaker, Tremont street, Boston ; Orin
Hutchinson, born 1838; married; was a soldier in
the civil war, prisoner in Libby for months, and
came home and died at his brother Hannibal's, at
Patten, Maine ; was in a cavalry regiment.

(IV) Aaron Brown, son of John Brown (3).
born in Livermore, Maine, July 29, 1832; died m
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1903. He married Ella
M. Ratcliffe, born March 26, 1829. He was a cab-
inet maker by trade. He became an architect and
followed his profession in Boston and various towns
in i\Iaine ancl New Hampshire. He was a man of
great mechanical skill and his son Theodore evi-
dently inherits some of his inventive genius from his
father. The children of Aaron and Ellen M. (Rat-
cliffe) Brown were : Arabella, died in infancy ;
Wendell Phillips; Theodore Parker, born at Maiden,
Massachusetts, October 2, i860.

(IV) James jNlonroe Brown, son of James
Brown (3), born November 15, 1825; died Septem-
ber II, 1895; married Eunice E. Frost, November
15, 1849. They were the parents of Mrs. Charles
E. Wheelock, of Worcester, Massachusetts.

(IV) Mary T. Brown, daughter of Jamis
Brown (3), born August 22, 1839; married George
H. Otis, October 10, 1863. Their children are :
Frances Lillian, married Fred Decker, of Burling-
ton, New Hampshire; Arthur Monroe; Jennie M,
married Harvey C. Philbrook, of Bethel, Maine ;
Will Howe.

(V) Theodore Parker Brown, son of Aaron
Brown (4), was born in Maiden, Massachusetts.
October 2, i860. When he was two years old the
family moved to Sterling, Massachusetts. When he
was five years old the family moved again to Lis-
bon, New Hampshire, where he attended the public
schools. He came to Worcester with his parents at
the age of thirteen. He began work in the shoe
factory of Hon. Joseph H. Walker, and remained
with him for nine years. He is known by the gen-
eral public, and all over the world among dealers in
musical instruments, as the inventor and manufac-
turer of the Simplex Piano Player. He began to
manufacture this instrument at 9 May street, Wor-
cester, when piano players were a novelty, and
looked upon by the people generally as toys. He
developed and perfected the instrument until it
ranks first among the piano players in the opinion
of competent judges. It has won prizes at the Ex-
positions. It has been a verv popular instrument.
The general recognition of the value of piano play-
ers, and the very promising future for the busuiess,
has made the Simplex Player an article of which the
citizens of Worcester take a peculiar pride on ac-
count of its production here. The success of Mr.
Brown in the business world has been very gratify-
ing to his friends. He is especially popular in the
Masonic bodies to which he belongs. He is a mem-
ber of Montauck Lodge ; of Lawrence Chapter ; of
Hiram Council and the Worcester County Com-
mandery. Knights Templar ; the Consistory, thirty-
second degree ; the Commonwealth Club, of which
he is president, and to the Tatnuck Country Club.
He is a Republican in politics and was a ineinber
of the city council, Worcester, in 1892, and president
of that body in 1893.

He married. January 13, 1881, Alice J. Daniels,
born April 26, 1863, daughter of Horace and Ann
M. (Innian) Daniels, of Pa.xton, Massachusetts. She
was educated in the public schools of Paxton and
at the Friends' school. Providence, Rhode Island.
The children of Theodore Parker and Alice J.
(Daniels) Brown were: Barbara, born May 5. 1884,

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graduate of Worcester high school and is taking a
four years' course at the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston ; Marjorie, died young ; IJorothy, died
young.

ELDRED FAMILY. The late Frederick Augustus
Eldred, of Worcester, traced his descent from Je-
hosaphat Eldred, who came from England in i",i[.
He bought of Isaac Green land at Nortli Falmouth,
it being the fourteenth and fifteenth lots of the allot-
ment, and is spoken of in history as a yeoman. His
son, Lemuel Eldred, born November 5, 1751, in Fal-
mouth, died July 24, 1842, in the ninety-first year
of his age.

William Eldred, son of Lemuel Eldred, was born
Sepember 25, 1780, in Falmouth (Quisset), and re-
ceived his education in the schools of that town.
He was a farmer, and it was from his farm that the
first shipment of Cape Cod cranberries was ob-
tained. He was also a salt manufacturer, having on
his land salt works where he evaporated sea-water.
During the war of 1812 he served in the militia as
a member of Colonel Dimraick's regiment, and par-
ticipated in the defense of Falmouth. The British
sailed into the harbor, and under cover of night
tried to land in their smaller boats, but were re-
pulsed by Captain Eldred's company, who were con-
cealed behind the sand hills along the beach. The
British finally sailed to North Faliuouth, where
they burned much shipping. Captain Eldred and
others of the townspeople were joint owners of
some of these vessels', and appealed to congress for
reimbursement under the I-Vench spoliation act. but
Captain Eldred, losing his claim papers, abandoned
the case and never received his share of the in-
demnity. In politics he was first a Whig and later
a Republican. He was a member of the Congrega-
tional church, in which he held various offices, and
to the work of which he was sincerely and earnestly
devoted. Mr. Eldred was twice married. His first
wife was Miss Fessenden, and their children were:
I. Cornelius, born in Falmouth, as were all the
others. 2. Edwin, married Elizabeth Knowlton, of
Williamstown, Massachusetts, and had several chil-
dren, among them Lucian, recently died in Wor-
cester. 3. Lorenzo, married. 1845, Mercy F. Grew,
of Falinouth. 4. William Henry, lost at sea. 5.
Frederick Augustus (see forward) ; 6. Patience, mar-
ried William Eldred, of another branch of the family,
and had children : Edwin, married Hannah Lovell,
of Worcester: William Henry, married Harriet Mc-
Farland, of Worcester, and has two children : Ar-
thur Warren, a dentist in Worcester, and preceptor
at the Harvard Dental College of Boston : Marion
Frederica, wife of Charles Alincklcr. of Worcester,
and mother of two children — Ralph Eldred and
Glen Canon. 7. Elizabeth, married Robert Tobey,
of Sandwich. Massachusetts. 8. Susan, wife of
Stephen Davis, of Falmouth : their children : De-
borah. Patience. Salome, Alom Hyde. John Williain,
and Robert Franklin. 9. Hannah, wife of. Benjamin
Franklin Hatch. The mother of these children died,
and Mr. Eldred married, when seventy years of
age. Miss Worthington. of Boston. By this mar-
riage there were no children. When about sixty
years old Mr. Eldred's mind became unsettled and
did not recover its tone for ten years, after which
his reason was undisturbed for the remainder of
his life, his death occurring November 26, 1859, on
the homestead where he had been Jjorn and had
always lived.

Frederick Augustus Eldred. son of William
Eldred, was born in Falmouth (Quisset), and was
educated in the common schools of his native town.
When about eighteen years old he went to New

Bedford, where he served an apprenticeship of three
years to a carriage-maker. Later he entered into
partnership with Lyman Drury, of Worcester, in
the manufacture of refrigerators, and after carry-
ing on the business for several years sold his in-
terest to Mr. Drury. Not long after he purchased
the hat store of Mr. Barker, on Main street, and
conducted the business for a number of years. In
1861 or '62 he associated with himself N. S. Lis-
comb, under the firm name of Eldred & Liscomb.
The connection remained imbroken until the close
of Mr. Eldred's life, after which Mr. Liscomb con-
tinued the business until a few years ago, when he
also died. Mr. Eldred was a good citizen, but al-
ways avoided public life. He was a Republican in
politics, and an earnest member of the Congrega-
tional church, twice serving as superintendent of the
Sunday school.

Mr. Eldred married, October 2, 1848, Mary A.,
daughter of Albert Gallitan and Mary Cunningham
(Stott) Liscomb, of Fair Haven, Massachusetts,
and sister of N. S. Liscomb, mentioned above. Mr.
Liscomb, the father, was a ropemaker of Fair Ha-
ven, and during the gold era went to California,
taking with him his small slock of machinery. He
there worked very successfully at his trade for three
years, at the end of which time he returned to Fair
Haven, Mr. and Mrs. Eldred had no children. The
death of Mr. Eldred, which occurred in 1872, de-
prived the community of a good man and a worthy
citizen.

_ HON. THEODORE C. BATES. The ancestors
of Clement Bates, who was the first to come to
the United States of America, are traceable for five
(5) generations before the Pilgrims came to New
England.

Thomas Bates, of Lydd, parish of All Hallows,
county of Kent, England, who died in 1485, had a
son, John Bates, who died at Lydd, England, in
1522, leaving a son, Andrew Bates, who died at
Lydd. England, in 1533, leaving a son, James Bates,
who died at Lydd, England, in 1614, whose three
sons Clement. Edward and James embarked at Lon-
don, Ejigland. for New England, .April 6. 1635, in
the ship "Elizabeth," William Stagg, master.

Edward Bates settled at Weymouth, Massachu-
setts, James at Dorchester, Massachusetts, and
Clement in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Clement
Bates brought with him in 1635 — he then being forty
years of age — his wife Aima, also aged forty, and
his five children, as follows : James, aged fourteen ;
Clement, aged twelve ; Rachel, aged eight ; Joseph,
aged five; Benjamin, aged two; and two servants;
and there was born to them in Massachusetts a son
Samuel. March 24. 1639. On September 18. 1635,
Clement Bates received a grant of five acres of land
on Town street — now called South street, Cohasset,
which land has been in the possession of the
original grantee and his descendants for two and a
half centuries.

Joseph Bates, born in England, 1630, married
in Hingham. Massachusetts, January 9, 1657. Esther
Hilliard: was selectman in 1671 and later. He died
April 30. 1706. She died June 3, 1709. They had
nine children, all born in Hingham, Massachusetts:
Joseph, September 28, 1660; Esther, August 29,
1603; Caleb. March 30, 1666; Hannah, October 31.
1668; Joshua, August 14, 167 1 ; Bathsheba, January
26. 1674; Clement. September 22, 1676; Ellenor,
August 25. 1679: Abigail, October 16, 1780.

(Ill) Joseph Bates, son of Joseph (2), born
September 28. 1660, married Mary, daughter of
Samuel and Martha Lincoln. He died November 3,
1714. She died March. 1752, aged ninety years.

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They had six children: Mary, Joseph, Jonathan,
Rachel, Susanna and Hester.

(IV) Joseph Bates, son of Joseph (3), horn in
Hinghani, Massachusetts, March 6, 16S7, married
Dehorah, daughter o£ Samuel and Hannah (Gill)
Clap. He died in 1750. He was a deacon in the
church. They had five children, all born in Hing-
hani, Massachusetts: Joseph, May 6, 1714; Deborah,
April 2, 1716; Samuel, March 25, 1718; Jonathan,
March 27, 1720; Mary, April 10, 1723.

(V) Samuel Bates, son of Joseph (4), born
March 25, 1718, in 1737 married Mercy Beal. He
died, aged seventy-one, in 1789. They had twelve
children, all born in Hingham: Mordecai, June 29,
1738; Hannah, March 11, 1740; Joseph, June 11,
1742; Samuel, November 15, 17441 Mercy, February
IS, 1747; Adna, November 14, 1749; Mary, 1752;
Mary, February 15, 1755; Susanna, March 11, 1756;
Jonathan, May 5, 1757; Mary, April 30, 1760;
Thomas, January 12, 1763.

(VI) Samuel Bates, son of Samuel (5), born
November 15, 1744, married ^Martha, daughter of
Jonathan and Priscilla (Lincoln) Beal, who died in
1905. He died November 3, 1801, was drowned off
Cohassett Rocks. They had nine children, all born
at Cohassett, Massachusetts: Deborah, December 9.
1765; Eliza, January 20, 1767; Obadiah, August 20,
1769; Bela, May 10, 1772; Laban, April 3. '1774:
Sarah, January 26, 1777: Newcomb, April 17, 1779;
Samuel, January I, 1783; Sybil, February i, 1786.

(VII) Obadiah Bates, son of Samuel (6), born
August 20, 1769, was a private in Captain Peter
Lothrop's company of (Cohassett) Massachusetts
militia in the war of 1812: he married Hannah Beal,
of Cohassett. He died October 20, 1831, aged sixty-
two years. She died November II, 1841, aged
seventy years. They had six children, all born ai
Cohassett: Elijah, April 25, 1796: Martha, December
25, 1797; Hannah Loring, August 10, 1799; Mary,
May 5, 1802; Ann Beal, December 12, 1803; Joseph,
April 12, 1805.

Theodore C. Bates, youngest son of Elijah and
Sarah Fletcher Bates, is third in descent from
Obadiah Bates, who was a private in Captain Peter
Lothrop's company, (Cohassett) Massachusetts
militia, in the war of x8i2.

He is third in descent from Ensign Ebenezer
Beal, Jr., who was ensign of Captain Thomas
Jones' fourth company of Hingham militia in
Colonel Josiah Quincy's regiment, January 21, 1762.

He is fourth from Captain Ebenezer Beal, Sr..
of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was captain of the
Hingham company in Colonel Benjamin's company
in the Third Suffolk regiment, which marched to the
relief of Fort William, August 15, 1757.

He is fifth from Lazarus Beal, of Hingham,
Massachusetts, who was a representative to the
Masaschusetts Bay Colony or general court in 1719
and 1720.

He is sixth in descent from Lieutenant Jeremiah
Beal, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was an en-
sign of the Hingham Foot Company. May 11, 1681,
and a lieutenant, March 30, 1683, and a representa-
tive to the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general
court in 1691. 1692 and 1701.

He is seventh in descent from Lieutenant John
Beal, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a dep-
uty in the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general
court from 1649 to 1659.

He is sixth from Captain Thomas Andrews, who
was captain of the Hingham company in 1690.

He is seventh in descent from Joseph Andrews,
who was a deputy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
or general court from 1636 to 1638.

He is sixth from Samuel Clapp, son of Thomas

Clapp, of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a
deputy from Scituate to Plymouth from 1680 to
16S6, from 1690 to 1691, from 1692 to 1696, from
1699 to 1703, 1705 to 1709 and 1714 and 1715, making
twenty years.

He is seventh from Thomas Clapp, who was a
deputy to Plymouth court in 1649.

He is eighth in descent from Edmund Hobart,
of Hingham, Massachusetts, who was a deputy in
the Massachusetts Bay Colony or general court in
1639, 1640 and 1642.

He is sixth in descent from Lieutenant James
Lewis, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, who was lieu-
tenant of the militia company in Barnstable
(1678).

He is fifth in descent from Lieutenant Benjamin
Loring, of Hull, who was ensign of the militia in
Hull from 1713 to 1715. He was a deacon in the
church. He held many town offices — town treasurer
1709, town clerk, 1717.

He is third in descent from Major Daniel
Fletcher, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was born
in Concord, Massachusetts, October 18, 1718.'

He is second in descent from Captain Jonathan
Fletcher, who was born in Acton, Massachusetts,
January 21, 1757.

He is fourth in descent from Lieutenant Jonathan
Hartwell, of Littleton, Massachusetts (1692-177S).

He is fifth in descent from John Hartwell, of
Concord, Massachusetts, who was a soldier in Cap-
tain Thomas Wheeler's company at the Indian am-
buscade and siege of Brookfield, August, 1675, ''i
King Philip's war.

He is sixth in descent from William Hartwell,
of Concord, Massachusetts, who was a corporal of
Concord company and quartermaster of Captain
Thomas Wheeler's company, October 15, 1673.

He is fifth in descent from Cornet Samuel
Fletcher, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was bugler
in Concord company, and in Captain Thomas
Wheeler's company in 1675, and was with Captain
Thomas Wheeler's company at the Indian attack in
Brookfield, Massachusetts.

He is fifth in descent from Ensign Thomas
Wheeler, Jr., of Concord, Massachusetts, son of
Captain Thomas Wheeler, and ensign of the Con-
cord company, which was commanded by his father.
Captain Thomas Wheeler, in King Philip's war at
Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1675. At the time of
this battle or Indian ambuscade and siege, Captain
Thomas Wheeler was severely wounded and his
horse killed, whereupon Ensign Wheeler, his son,
placed his father on his own horse, and took his
father out of danger, and in doing so was twice
severely wounded in the attempt to rescue his father
from the perilous position and pursuit by the In-
dians, during the retreat of the ambuscade, in which
so many of Captain Thomas Wheeler's men were
killed and wounded ; he kept close beside his father
until he caught a horse, whose rider had been killed
by the Indians ; he then, with Captain Thomas
Wheeler, and the few soldiers who were escaping
and being closely pursued by the Indians, was by the
aid of two friendly Indians, brought back by a cir-
cuitous route, unknown to the soldiers, to the forti-
fied house at Brookfield, arriving there just before
the several hundred savages came and laid siege
to the fortified house so fiercely and destroyed and
burnt the houses of the town.

He is sixth in descent from Captain Thomas
Wheeler, of Concord, Massachusetts, who was in
command of the Colonial soldiers and the inhabi-
tants when attacked by the Indians at Brookfield.
when the town was destroyed and so many of its
inhabitants killed in 1675. The narrative of Captain

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Tliomas Wheeler regarding the attack on Brook-
field by the Indians in August, 1675, 's one of the
most interesting of official records of the state
archives of the hardships endured by the early set-
tlers of Massachusetts and in King Philip's war.
He is sixth in descent from Lieutenant Simon
Davis, of Concord, Massachusetts, who served under
Captain Thomas Wheeler at~ the Brookfield ambus-
cade and siege August. 1675. in King Philip's war,
and who, after Captain Wheeler's wounds became so
serious, was one of those who was by Captain
Wheeler placed in command of the soldiers at
Brookfield in the fortified house.

There were five ancestors of Theodore C. Bates
with Captain Thomas Wheeler at the ambuscade by
the Indians and the siege of the fortified house, or
fort, at Brookfield, Massachusetts, August 5, 1675,
namely :

Captain Thomas Wheeler, Ensign Thomas
Wheeler, Jr., Lieutenant Simon Davis, Cornet Sam-
uel Fletcher, John Hartwell.

(VIII) Elijah Bates, son of Obadiah Bates (7),
born April 25, 1796, married Sarah Fletcher, young-
est daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson
Fletcher. Sarah Fletcher was born in Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, May 3, 1799, and died in Worcester, Mas-
sachusetts, September 28, 1890. Jonathan Fletcher,
her father, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 21, 1758, and died in Boston, Januarj' 16, 1807.
Lucretia Emerson, wife of Captain Jonathan
Fletcher, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, August
4, 1764. She married Jonathan Fletcher, May 20,
1782. Lucretia Emerson Fletcher died in Thomaston,
Maine, July 7, 1800. They had four children :
Francis, Susan, Lucretia, and Sarah.

Elijah Bates was born in Cohasset, Massachusetts,
April 25, 1796, died in North Brookfield, Massa-
chusetts, September 6, 1863. He was a furniture
manufacturer in Boston, Massachusetts, where he
gave seven years to learn his trade. He moved with
his wife and only child to North Brookfield, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1820. Then Brookfield was the largest
town between Boston and Springfield, on the Con-
necticut river. He was the first of his name in the
town. For many years, in addition to manufacturing
furniture, he did an extensive business manufac-
turing large wooden boxes for shipping boots and
shoes, for several large boot and shoe manufacturers
in North Brookfield and the adjoining towns. He
was a successful business man and although he was
unfortunate in meeting several heavy losses by fire,
having no insurance on his property destroyed, no
man ever lost a dollar by dealing with him. He held
many different town offices, having been selectman
and assessor for many years. He took a deep in-
terest in the old "Liberty Party" and the Anti-Slav-
ery agitation ; and when the war of the rebellion
came, he encouraged his sons to ofTcr their services
for the Union cause, and one of them, Thomas,
was the first person to enlist from North Brookfield.
THE FLETCHER FAMILY. "The Fletchers
are supposed to be of Norman descent, and to have
come over with William the Conquerer, as there
was a family of their name in the Southern part
of Normandy," so says Bentham in his "Baronetage
of England." The family name of Fletcher has
always been an honorable one in England, and there
are three Fletchers holding Baronetcies, and many
others have high offices in the army and navy, and
also in civil life.

The first of that name known to have come to
this country was Robert Fletcher, who was born in
Oxford. England, in 1592, as shown by the records
of his death found in the town records of Concord,

-Massachusetts. He settled in Concord. Massachu-
setts, in 1630, being thirty-eight years of age when
he came to America. He brought with him his
wife and two sons, named Luke and William, and
a daughter named Carey, also a brother William,
who afterward settled in Middletown, Connecticut
Robert Fletcher was a wealthy and influential man.
He died in Concord, Massachusetts, April 3, 1677,
aged eighty-five years. He had five children : Luke,
William, Carey, Samuel and Francis.

Francis Fletcher, the fifth child of Robert
I'lctcher, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in
1636, and married, August i, 1656, Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of George and Catharine Wheeler. He re-
mained with his father in Concord, and became,
like his two older brothers who settled in the
adjoining towns, a great land owner. He was re-
ported "in full communion with ye Church" in
Concord in 1677, and was admitted a freeman the
same year. His wife Elizabeth died June 14, 1704.
They had eight children, viz : Samuel, Joseph, Eliza-
beth, John, Sarah, Hezekiah, Hannah and Benja-
min.

Samuel Fletcher, oldest son of Francis Fletcher,
was born August 6, 1657, and married Elizabeth
Wheeler, April 15, 1682. He was a selectman of
Concord many year.s, and town clerk from 1705
to 1713. He died October 23, 1744, and his wife
lived but three days after his death. They had
eleven children, all born in Concord. Massachusetts,
viz: Samuel (who died young), Joseph, Elizabeth,
Sarah, John. Hannah, Ruth. Rebecca, Samuel, Ben-
jamin and Timothy.

Joseph Fletcher, second son of Samuel Fletcher,
was born in Concord, Massachu.-etts. March 26,
1686. He married for his first wife, Elizabeth
Carter, December 20, 1704, and married, as his
second wife, Hepzibah Jones, July 11. 171 1. He
was made a deacon of the church in Acton, Massa-
chusetts, in 1738, and was a member of the com-
mittee to apportion the land to be set oflf from Con-
cord as "Concord Village" in 1723. afterwards
called Acton in 17.36. He died September n, 1746.
He lived on the site where his grandfather, Robert
Fletcher, first settled. By his first wife he had
three children : Lucy, Abigail and Lydia. By his
second wife he had five children : Lucy, Elizabeth,
Daniel. Charles. Elijah and Ruth.

Daniel Fletcher, fifth child and first son of Dea-
con Joseph Fletcher, was born in Concord, Massa-
chusetts, October 18, 1718. He was a lieutenant in
Captain David Melvin's company from March to
September. 1747, and was stationed at Northficld.
He was captain of a company in 1755 in His Ma-
jesty's service, coming from Acton. Massachusetts,
and served from September 10 to December 30,

1755. fifteen weeks and six days, as signed by
Daniel Fletcher. Boston. Massachusetts, March n,

1756. (See Vol. 94, p. 70, on Muster Roll of the
(iompany in State Archives at Boston, Mass.)

In Vol. 95. p. 320, "The Alarm List." whereof
Samuel Davies was captain. Daniel Fletcher's name
appears also as captain. This list included those
who were held in reserve, such as clergymen, dea-
cons Jn the church, etc.. 1757. Again, in the Massa-
chusetts Archives, Vol. 136. p. 504, is an account
for billctting soldiers on their return from Lake
George in 1758. On March 133. 1758, Daniel
Fletcher enlisted in Colonel Ebenezer Nichols' regi-
ment in the Canada Expedition, in which expedi-
tion he was wounded and taken prisoner. He en-
listed at that time from March 13 to November
28. 1758. as appears in Vol. 96, pp. 416 and 418,
upon a Muster Roll of a Company of Foot in His
Majestj-'s service in the French war, under the

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command of Captain Daniel Fletcher, in a regi-
ment raised by the Province of Massachusetts Bay
for the reduction of Canada, under Colonel Eben-
ezer Nichols. In Vol. 98, pp. 157 and 158, upon
the Mu.ster Roll of a Company in His Majesty's
service, under the command of Captain Daniel
Fletcher, it appears that he rendered service in the
capacity of captain from November 2, 1759, to Au-
gust I, 1760. In Vol. 98, p. 452, upon a Muster Roll
of Oiticers and Men in Captain Daniel Fletcher's
company, in Colonel Fryc's regiment, in the service
of the Province of Nova Scotia, he served as cap-
tain from January I, 1760, to the time of their dis-
charge, August I, of the same year. In 1768, Cap-
tain Daniel Fletcher was a member of the Honour-
able House of Representatives of His Majesty's
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England,
begun and held at Boston, county of Suffolk, on
Wednesday, the 2Sth day of May, Anno Domini,
176S. (See the Journal of Massachusetts Bay, May,
1768, to April, 1770, No. 16, p. 4, Captain Daniel
Fletcher acting member.) In 1772 Captain Daniel
Fletcher was appointed on a committee of public
affairs. On June 26, 1776, under Field Oiificers of
the Regiment raising for Quebec. New York and
Ticonderoga, John Cummings, Esq. was elected
brigadier-general of the forces destined to Canada.
(See Vol. 26, p. 277.) On June s, of the same year,
James Brickett, Esq., was elected in the room of
John Ctminiings, who declined to be colonel of the
rcaiment to be raised in Middlesex county. Jonathan
Reed, colonel, Benjamin Brown, lieutenant-colonel,
Daniel Fletcher, major. (See Brooks' Militia Of-
ficers, 6-months Men, Continental Balances, Vol. 28,
p. 28, red mark, and p. 72.) (See also Vol. 26, p.
277, Roll and Abstract of the File, and Staff Officers
'as proposed in the Spring of 1776, Col. Reed's Regi-
ment, in the Northern Army in the Service of the
United States of America ; Jonathan Reed to be
Colonel, from Littleton, Mass.; Benjamin Brown
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, from Reading, Mass. ;
Daniel Fletcher to be Major, from Littleton, Mass. ;
William Emerson to be Chaplain, from Concord,
Mass.; John Porter to be Adjutant, from Littleton,
Mass. : Edmund Monroe to be Quartermaster, from
Lexington. Mass. ; David Taylor to be Sergeant,
from Charlestown, Mass. ; Ezekiel Brown to be Ser-
geant's Mate, from Concord, Mass.) At the same
time, his son, Jonathan Fletcher, was in the revolu-
tionary war as a private in Captain Samuel Reed's
company of Minute !Men, in Colonel William Pres-
cott's regiment, as is demonstrated by the fact
that the name of Jonathan Fletcher is on file of the
Revolutionary Rolls of Massachusetts among the
names "For the Muster Roll of Captain Samuel
Reed's Company of Minute Men, in Colonel Wil-
liam Prescott's Regiment, who, on and after the
19th day of April last (1775), did inarch in con-
sequence of the Alarm on that day ;" dated at "Lit-
tleton. February 19, 1776." (See Vol. 56 Coat Rolls.)
He served as a Minute Man at the Lexington Alarm
six days, from April 19 to 24, 1775.

Major Daniel Fletcher was elected by the Massa-
chusetts assembly, June 26. 1776, or after the revo-
lutionary war had commenced, as a major in the
Third liattalion. destined to Canada. (See Vol. 26,
p. 277. Revolutionary Rolls at State House.)

Major Daniel Fletcher died in Acton, Massa-
chusetts, Dccemlier 15, 1776, in the fifty-ninth year
of his age, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery
at Acton, about one mile east from the center of
the town.

Major Daniel Fletcher, first son of Deacon
Joseph Fletcher, was born in Concord, Massachu-
sets, October 18, 1718. He married Sarah Hart-

well, of West ford, Massachusetts, the intention of
marriage having been entered November 12, 1741.
They had nine children, all born in Acton, Massa-
chusetts: Daniel, Charles (who died young), Peter,
Sarah, Ruth, Joseph. Charles, Jonathan and Betsey.

Jonathan Fletcher, eighth child and sixth son of
Major Daniel and Sarah Hartwell Fletcher, was
born in Acton. Massachusetts, January 21, 175".
Major Daniel Fletcher, father of Captain Jonathan
Fletcher, was connected with the Revolutionary war
very early in the struggle, of which fact there is
abundant evidence. Jonathan Fletcher enlisted April
-4- 1/75. in Captain Abijah Wyman's company.
Colonel William Prescott's regiment, as from Lit-
tleton, although his father. Major Daniel Fletcher,
was a citizen of Acton. (See Vol. 16, p. 76, Massa-
chusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) He was in the battle
of Bunker Hill, in which battle Colonel Prescott's
regiment suffered such severe loss of life. He
served eight months or more in the revolutionary
army at the siege of Boston under General Wash-
ington. (See Vol. 56, Coat Rolls, p. 66, October 3,
1775, a'so Vol. 16, p. 76.) Vol. 57 contains Jona-
ihan Fletcher's autograph. Under figure seven of
indexes of that volume, in Captain Abijah Wyman's
company, is the receipt of Jonathan Fletcher for
supplies, dated November 14, 1775. On January
15. "^jy^i' 'lis name appears on the roll of Captain
David Wheeler's company, in Colonel Nixon's regi-
ment, as a fifer from Acton, Massachusetts. (See
Vol, 24, p. 7,;. Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.)
In 1777 he was a private in Captain George Minot's
company, CLilonel Samuel Bullard's regiment. (See
Vol. 21. p. 79, Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.)
Jonathan Fletcher is recorded as a lieutenant. Feb-
ruary 27. 1778, and was on the pay roll of Captain
Jacob Haskin's company. Colonel John Jacob's regi-
ment. (See Vol. 2, p. 83, Massachusetts Revolu-
tionary Rolls.) How much before that time he was
conimi.=sioned as a lieutenant, we are unable to find
liy the records. From the pay rolls, it is thought
it must have been nearly or quite a year. He served
five months and twenty days from February 27,
1778. as a lieutenant in this company. (See Vol.
2, p. 83, Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) (Vol.
46. p. 162, shows Lieutenant Jonathan Fletcher's ac-
counts from December i, 1778 to January I, 1779.)
He was in continuous service as a lieutenant, until
we find that he had been commissioned as captain
in the Ninth Company of the Seventh Regiment, on
July 27. 1780. (See Vol. 28, p. 66, Massachusetts
Revolutionary Rolls.)

On November i, 1781, the town of Fitchburg
was required to pay certain soldiers who had not
been paid for service, among them was Captain
Jonathan Fletcher, who received from the selectmen
of Fitchburg, one hundred and five pounds and mile-
age for seventy-five miles to each of his men. by
order of the general court. The soldiers constitut-
ing his company came from the towns of Lexing-
ton, Acton, Westminster and Fitchburg. (See Vol.
,1,^. P- 535. Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls.) He
remained as Captain until the close of the war. so
(hat from the time he was commissioned as lieu-
tenant, made him in continuous service as lieuten-
ant or captain nearly or quite six years, and as pri-
vate or officer from the very commencement of the
revolutionary war, April 19, 1775 (being then but
eighteen years of age), in the battle of Lexington
to its final termination in 1783. Captain Jonathan
Fletcher had a very elegant sword presented to him
liv the soldiers of his company at the close of the
war, which sword was destroyed at the time the
Rates family residence at North Brookfield was
burned in 1844. There was also destroyed at that

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time a large family Bible, prepared by Captain Jona-
than Fletclier, and containing a perfect and full
record of the Fletcher family, extending back
through many generations and branches.

Captain Jonathan Fletcher was a warm personal
friend of Paul Revere and also of General Henry
Knox. After the close of the war General Knox
became a very large owner of real estate in St.
George's, Maine, and went there to live in 1795,
afterwards removing to Thomaston, Maine, where
he died on October 25, 1806. Captain Jonathan
Fletcher accompanied General Knox to Maine and
remained there, near or with him, for several years,
until the death of his wife, Lncretia Emerson
Fletcher, who died in Thomaston, July 7, 1800.
Captain Jonathan Fletcher went to Boston, Massa-
chusetts, and died there January 16, 1807, and was
buried in Copp's Hill burial grounds, near the Old
North Church, with Masonic honors. He was a
member of Saint Andrew's Lodge, .Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, of Boston, Massacliusetts.

Thus it is clearly shown that both Major Daniel
Fletcher and his son, Captain Jonathan Fletcher,
were very patriotic soldiers in the colonial and revo-
lutionary wars, especially is this true of Jonathan,
who at the early age of sixteen years entered the ser-
ifice as a private in the minute men of 1775, and
ivho merited and received several promotions, and
remained in the revolutionary army until the close
3f the war, during si.x years of which he served as
1 commissioned officer, the first three being as a
ieutenant, the last three as a captain.

Captain Jonathan Fletcher, son of Major Dani;I
md Sarah Hartwell Fletcher, was born in Acton,
Vlassachusetts, January 21, 1757. He was married
jn May 20, 17S2, in Acton, to Lucretia Emerson.
5he was born in Acton, August 4, 1764, and died in
Thomaston, Maine, July 7, 1800. Captain Jonathan
71etcher died in Boston, Massachusetts, January 16,
807.

Sarah Fletcher, fourth and youngest daughter
)f Captain Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher,
vas born in Boston, JNIassachusetts, jNIay 3, 1799. She
vas married on August 2, 1818, in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, to Elijah Bates, born in Cohasset, Massa-
■husetts, .April 25, 1796. They were married by
he Rev. John Murray, of Boston. Elijah Bates
lied in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, September
i, 1S63. Sarah Fletcher died in Worcester, Massa-
:husetts, September 28, 1890.

BERRY FAMILY. Joseph Berry (_i), ancestor
)f Russell Woodward Berry, late of Worcester,
Vlassachusetts, was born before 1700. While the
ecord of his birth has not been found, it is believed
hat he came from a Boston family. Ambrose Berry
ind 'wife Hannah were living in Boston from 1686
ind probably earlier, and in 1697 and probably later,
rhey had a son Joseph, born July 11, 1693; died July
•.4. 1693. and there are reasons for believing that
oseph Berry (i), may be a son born after they
eft Boston, Ambrose Berry was at Saco, Maine,
n 1636, perhaps the father of Ambrose Berry, of
Boston, and died May 3, 1661.

Other members of the Berry family, of Boston,
vere Thomas and Grace Berry, who had a son John,
lorn March 3, 1664, and a daughter Grace born
une I, 1669. Thaddeus and Hannah Berry had :
. Elizabeth, born December 2, 1665 ; married Joseph
rownsend. 2. Samuel, June 20, 1667. 3. Han-
lah, August 12, 1668. 4. Thomas, September
o, 1670. Thomas and Margaret Berry, of
5oston, had ^largaret, June 26, 1692, and Thomas,
darch 19, 1694. Oliver and Gartright Berry, of

Boston, had Sarah, born January 28, 1678; Abigail,
May 10, 1688; Oliver, February 26, 1693; John, Feb-
ruary 4, 1696. To some of these families it seems
certain that Joseph Berry belonged, and it is believed
that all of them were related closely.

Joseph Berry settkd in Framingham, Massa-
chusetts, and married there Thankful Shears, Jan-
vjary 27, 1719-20. She was the daughter of John
Shears, of FVaniingham.

John Shears (3), son of Samuel Shears (2), was
born in Wrcntham,. Massachusetts, 1666, and went
to F'ramingham, Massachusetts, to settle. His farm
was on Doeskin Hill where he was living in i6<;3.
He was a town officer in 1724. Lie married, April
9, 1688, Alice Alitchleson, of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts. Their children were: i. Thomas, born
January 9, 1708. 2. Thankful, married January 17,
1719-20, Joseph Berry, before mentioned.

Samuel Shears (2), son of Jeremiah Shears (i),
was born in 1627, in England, and probably came to
Dedham, Massachusetts, with his father. He mar-
ried Mary and settled in Wrcntham, which

was origmally part of Dedham, Massachusetts. He
died in 1691, aged sixty-four years. His wife died
April 26, 1704. Their children were: 1. Mary, born
1664. 2. John, 1666; before mentioned. 3. Mchitable,
February I, 1668. 4. Solomon, February 20, 1669;
died at the age of nineteen years. 5. Grace, Febru-
ary 29, 1672. 6. Judith, July 17, 1675.

Jeremiah Shears (i), was an emigrant and pio-
neer of Dedham, Massachusetts. He was probably
from Yorkshire in England. He marritd (probably
for his second wife) Susanna Green, widow of Nich-
olas Green. He died in 1664. It is presumed that he
was the father of the preceding, though little is
known of him.

Joseph Berry married (second) Hepzibah Ben-
jamin. He owned the farm later owned by Ezekicl
Howe, whose father bought it of Berry. His widow
administered his estate in 1757. Children of Joseph
and Thankful (Shears) Berry were: i. Alice, born
1721 ; baptised June 18, 1721, at F'ramingham. 2.
Abijah, baptised July 14, 1723; died young. 3.
Shears, (see forward). 4. Thomas, March 16,
1726-7; was in Sudbury 1760. 5. Benjamin, April
M, i733', settled in Framingham; fought in the
Concord fight, April 19, 1775; died at Oakham,
Massachusetts, March i, 1800. 6. Thankful, Octo-
ber 14, 1735 ; married General John Nixon, Febru-
ary 7, I7S4, one of the most prominent olificers of
Central Massachusetts in the revolution ; his fam-
ily came from New York and the South. 7. Mary,
Alay 29, 1737; married Amos Parmenter. 8. Abijah,
December 5, 1738; died, unmarried, at Marlboro
about 1810. 9. Lydia, April 5, 1739; married Joel
.Mewton, June 3, 1862, in Southboro. (One of the
two latter dates of birth is obviously erroneous, but
is according to record. — Ed.)

(II) Shears Berry, third child of Joseph Berry
(i), the preceding, born in Framingliam, Massa-
chusetts, December 25. 1725; married June 15, 1750,
Esther Woodward, of llolden. He settled in the
West Wing of Rutland about the time of his mar-
riage, and his children were born there. In 1766
he bought a farm of Samuel Gordon at Oakham,
and removed to that town. He and his son Joseph
were associated in the ownership of considerable
land in the vicinity. He was a soldier in the revo-
lution. He was in Captain Barnabas Shears' com-
pany in 1776, and in the Continental army, in Colo-
nel Converse's regiment, in 1777. He enlisted for
three years in 1777 in Captain Wheeler's company,
Colonel Nixon's regiment. He was also a private in
Captain .Abel Holden's company, same regiment, and

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was at Peekskill in 1779, in Captain Timothy Paige's
company, Colonel John Rand's regiment, anel in 1780
was at West Point with his company.

After the revolution it seems that Shears and
Joseph Berry left Oakham and settled in Salem,
New York, as stated in a deed dated March 24, 1788,
and recorded in 1797, in which land in Oakham is
deeded to them by John Powers, of Oakham. They
also bought land in common from George Caswell,
February 4, 1789, when they were both living in
Oakham. About 1797 the family moved to Ver-
mont, where Shears probably died. Some of them
located at Guildhall, Vermont. Children of Shears
or Sheers (as the records have it) Berry were: I.
Eunice, born in Rutland, June 22, 1751. 2. Joseph,
born in Rutland, December 29, 1752. 3. Ephraim,
born in Rutland, November 25, 1754. 4. Esther,
born in Rutland, December 5, 1757 ; married Elias
Marsh, August i, 1776. 5. Lydia, born at Rutland,
September g, 1760; married at Oakham (intentions
August 23) 1789. 6. John, born at Oakham, April
4, 1772. 7. Woodward (see forward). 8. Benjamin,
baptised August 17, 1777, at Rutland.

(III) Captain Woodward Berry, seventh child
of Shears Berry (2), born in Oakham, September
2, 1774; baptised October i, 1775. He married
Nancy. The family removed to Vermont and
resided at Guildhall, where most of the children were
born. He was captain in the militia and served, it
is said, in the war of 1812.

Joseph Berry, brother of Captain Woodward
Berry, was also a very prominent man, a lawyer, in
1799 one of the seven founders of the Guildhall
Church; chief judge of the court in 1822; in the
governor's council in 1819-20-21-22-23-24; state's
attorney in 1811-12-15-16-17-18-21-23-24; representa-
tive to the state legislature of Vermont in 1816 ; re-
moved to Newbury, Vermont, thence to Iowa, where
he died; his wife was Sarah. Perhaps Woodward
Berry went West also. The date of his death and
place are not known. His wife returned with the
family to her old home in Oakham, Massachusetts,
about 1830. She lived to an advanced age and died
in the eighties, in Worcester, at the home of her
son Russell Woodward Berry, Chatham street.

Children of Captain Woodward and Nancy Berry
were : l. Joseph Austin, born in Oakham, July 7,
1807; died young (probably the Joseph who died
January 7, 1839, at Oakham, though his age is given
wrongly as twenty-two instead of thirty-two). 2.
Sarah, born in Vermont, 181 1 ; died December 28,
1839, at Oakham. 3. Sophrpnia, born in Vermont
about 1812; died October 19, 1842; married Captain
Russell Ripley, December 13, 1832, at Oakham.
Captain Ripley was the son of Lieutenant Zenas and
Sarah Ripley, and was born at Oakham, February
22, 1804. 4. Russell Woodward, (see forward). 5.
Deacon Zebina E., (see forward). 6. Isaac; settled
in Vermont ; married Emily Copeland and had two
children : Hortense, who married James W. Rand,
of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and had children ;
Nancy, who married David G. Tapley. of Worcester,
and they have two children : Walter, married, liv-
ing in Washington, District of Columbia, and Ella.

married Robinson, and resides with her

parents at no Austin street.

(IV) Russell Woodward Barry (Berry), son
of Captain Woodward Berry, born in Guildhall,
Vermont, died in Worcester in i8gi. He went
to school in Vermont. When a young boy he re-
turned with his mother to Oakham, Massachusetts,
but soon afterward came to Worcester to learn his
trade. He had little schooling, but having a taste
for books, managed to acquire a good education.
He learned the carpenter's trade and followed it all

his life in Worcester, lie built his own house at
42 Chatham street, where his widow now resides.
During his active life he worked for the leading con-
tractors and helped construct many of the important
buildings that rank among the landmarks of Wor-
cester.

Mr. Berry was a good citizen, modest, quiet and
domestic in his tastes, belonging to no secret orders.
He was for many years a member of the Worcester
County Mechanics Association. In poltics he was a
Republican, but never cared for public office. Pie
attended tbe Congregational church. He married
October 5, 1843, Harriet Gage, daughter of Eben and
Sally (Stone) Gage, of Leicester, Massachusetts.
Eben Gage was a farmer. He lived for a time also
at Orford, New Hampshire. He was colonel of a
regiment of New Hampshire militia. No children
were born to Russell Woodward Berry.

(IV) Deacon Zebina E. Berry, son of Captain
Woodward Berry (3), was born in Guildhall, Ver-
mont. He was educated there and worked on
the farm of his father there until 1831, when he re-
turned with the family to Massachusetts, and went
to work in Worcester. He was then twenty-live
years of age. He was employed first by Carter &
Tobey, builders, and helped to build the first part
of the old Lunatic Asylum on Summer street, and
worked on other large structures built at that time.
He retained the spelling, Berry, while his brother
Russell preferred Barry. At the time of his death
he was one of the oldest and best known carpenters
and builders in Worcester. He died in 1889, at the
home of his daughter Mrs. Alonzo W. Cole, 12 May-
wood street. He was very active in church work.
Soon after coming to Worcester he joined the First
Baptist Church, and was one of forty baptized No-
vember, 1831, in Fox's Pond near Green street, and
in 1836 he was elected deacon. He served until
1848. In his later years he was a member of the
South Baptist Church because of his residence in
that section of the city.

He married (first) November 3, 1836, Lucretia
H. Culver, daughter of Joshua and Susan (Teed)
Culver, of Somers, New York; married (second)
a sister of his first wife, Susan Augusta Culver,
September 4, 1849. Children of Deacon Zebina E.
and Lucretia H. (Culver) Berry were: i. Susan
Augusta, September 16, 1838 ; deceased. 2. Sarah
Louisa, July 22, 1840; deceased. 3. Ella Lucretia,
(see forward). 4. Susan Culver, January 9, 1846;
married Charles Amidon, of Worcester.

(V) Ella Lucretia Berry, third child of Deacon
Zebina E. Berry (4), born in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, March 6, 1843 ; married August 6, 1867,
Alonzo W. Cole, a native of Orleans, Massachusetts.
They reside on Maywood street, Worcester. They
have one child, Arthur Williams Cole, born Feb-
ruary 17, 1875 ; married January 22, 1903, Emma
Louise Taylor, daughter of Robert C. Taylor,
formerly of Webster. Massachusetts. (See sketch
of Alonzo W. Cole and the Cole Family in this
work.)

THE KNOWLES FAiNIILY, as represented in
Worcester county, is from Eastham, (the Nauset
of the aborigines). Barnstable county, that portion
of Massachusetts known as Cape Cod, where for
more than a hundred and fifty years the ancestors
of L. J. and F. B. Knowles lived, and were known
as exemplary, wise and industrious farmers.

Richard Knowles who had lived in Plymouth and
there married Ruth Bower, August 15, 1639, was at ,
Eastham as early as 1653, according to Freeman, '
the trustworthy historian of Cape Cod. (Vol. II, „
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born in the former town : Mercy, married EplirMim
Doane, February 5, 1668; John; Samuel, born Sep-
tember 17, 1651. It would appear that Mchilable,
born in 1655, and Barbara, bora September 28, 1656,
were born in Eastham. Samuel married, Decem-
ber, 1679, Mercy Freeman, and Barbara, June 13,
1677, married Thomas Mayo. The complete
genealogy of the Knowles family would reveal mar-
riages with all the names early represented in East-
ham, so that it was nearly or remotely related with
all the dwellers in that township.

John Knowles, son of Richard, married, Decem-
ber 28, 1670, Apphia, daughter of Edward Bangs,
one of the first comers and a very important man in
the community. Apphia and her twin sister Mercy,
born October 15, 1651, were married on the same
day, the latter to Stephen Herrick. John Knowles
was one of nineteen men Eastham furnished for the
King Philip war, and was one of the slain, as ap-
pears in the action of the colony government in pro-
viding for his widow. Freeman (vol. I, p. 280) says,
"and provision was especially made for Apphia,
widow of John Knowles, of Eastham. lately slain in
the service." From a note at the foot of p. 366,
vol. II, the conclusion is drawn that he was killed
near Taunton, June 3d, 1675 ('■ <^- 3^ day, 4th
month, O. S.). John and Apphia Knowles had
three children : Edward, November 7, 1671 ; John,
July 10, 1673 ; Deborah, March 2, 1675. When the
father died no one of his children was old enough to
appreciate their deprivation. Edward, older son,
married (first) .Ann Ridley, and (second) the widow
Sarah Mayo, and was the father of six children.
He was known in town annals as Deacon Knowles,
and died November 16, 1740. The widow of John
Knowles later married Joseph Atwood, and the ap-
pearance of a Bangs Atwood in a later generation
of the Atwoods would indicate that she bore chil-
dren by her second husband. The son John, of the
third generation in the Knowles family, married

Mary , of whom no record is found. In an

old burial burial ground of Eastham, near the
shores of the town cove, the bodies of the brothers
are buried. Quite likely many more of the family
lie there also, but if so their memorials long ago
disappeared. Side by side are two ancient slates,
each having the winged skull, that of the wife with
the traditional crossed bones, and inscriptions as
follows : "Here Lyes Buried the Body of Mrs. Mary
Knowles, wife of Colnl John Knowles. Died
Nov. ye 7th. 1745, in the 73d Vear of Her age;"
"Here lies buried the body of Colnl John Knowles
who departed this life Nov. 3d, 1757, in the 85th
Year of His Age." When he bore the title of
captain, John Knowles was a member of general
court. Very likely his military appellations eame
from service in the militia. Colonel John and Mary
Knowles had: Joshua, born 1696; John, 1698; Seth.
1700; Paul, 1702; James, 1704; Jesse, 1707; Mary,
1709.

Joshua, eldest child of Colonel John and Mary
Knowles, apparently followed the vocaton of his
father, farming, with possibly an occasional venture
at fishing. The metes and boundaries of the town
assignments of land to the successive generations
of the family indicate nearness to the center of the
town of Eastham, and the burial of their dead in
the cemeteries near that part bears out the sup-
position. Joshua Knowles was married to Sarah
Paine, March 13, 1717-18, by Nathaniel Freeman,
Esq. She was born April 14, 1699, daughter of John
and Bennet Paine, another of the oldest families
in the township, one that later gave a signer of the
Declaration of Independence to the country. The
wife died July 12, 1772, and the husband. ^Iay 27,

1786. Their children were: Jesse, born April 13,
1723; Rebecca, May 23, 1726; Sarah, March 10,
1727-28; Joshua, April 27, 1730; Josiah, May 24,
173s; Simeon, August 11, 1737; Susanah, March 9,
1740.

Simeon, youngest son of Joshua and Sarah
Knowles, appears as follows in the Eastham records :
"August 12, 1758, then entered the intentions of
Simeon Knowles and Eunis Mayo boath ol Elastham
to proseed in marriage. Recorded Thomas Knowles,
town elk." The foregoing is nearest the date of
marriage thus far found. The wife was a repre-
sentative of another long placed Eastham family,
the prime ancestor, John Mayo, having been the
first minister in the town. From Simeon comes
whatever claims his descendants have on revolution-
ary memories from the name of Knowles. The state
rolls have under his name the following entry :
"Simeon Knowles, Private. Captain Israel Higgins
Co., Major Zenas Winslow's Regiment, Sept. 9 to
Sept. 13, 1778, 4 days, on an alarm at Falmouth."
Roll endorsed, "on alarm att Bedford." It is pos-
sible that Simeon died in Eastham, before the mov-
ing of the family to Hardwick; certainly Paige, his-
torian of the latter town, makes no mention of his
death. His wife died in Hardwick, April 5, 1819,
aged seventy-nine years. The eldest and possibly
all the children were born in Eastham ; Simeon,
August 17, 1766; Elisha, about 1769, died August
14, 1859; Phebe, died, unmarried, April 7,
1824, and others. The family had remained in
Eastham or in adjoining towns for considerably
more than one hundred years, but now comes the
migratory 'spirit. It is said that the disposition of
people from the Cape to seek better homes in
northern Worcester county arose from the locating
there of the Rev. Timothy Ruggles, father of his
more famous son, who was a loyalist in the revo-
lution. Having lived and preached in towns near
Barnstable county, he drew upon some of his ac-
quaintances for recruits to the settlements in the
northwest.

Simeon, eldest child of Simeon and Ennis (Mayo)
Knowles, married PrisciUa Doane, their marriage
intentions having been published November 10, 1787,
in Eastham. The Doanes were also among the long
established dwellers in the town. . Their children
were : Bangs, born in Eastham, March 9, 1789, died
September 17, 1806 ; Simeon, born Eastham, June
22, 1791 ; Leonard, Edward, Harriet and perhaps
others. From the above facts it would -seem rea-
sonable that the second Simeon was the real migrant,
and that his mother and brethren accompanied him.
He died August 22, 1823, while his widow .--ur-
vived until February 5, 1839, dying at the age of
seventy-five years.

Simeon, second child of Simeon and PrisciUa
(Doane) Knowles, was the first of the family in
nearly two centuries to marry outside the Old
Colony. He married, March 14, 1814, Lucetta New-
ton, of Hardwick, daughter of Silas and Naomi
(Washburn) Newton. The Newton lineage of
Lucetta, born January 2, 1792, began in Sudbury in
the person of Richard, whose son, IMoses of .Nlarl-
hnro. transmitted the name to Josiah, ami he to
Timothy, a farmer, who lived on the road from
Hardwick to Barre. All of these men were promi-
nent in their day and generation. Timothy, born
February 28, 1728, married Sarah ]\Ierrick, was a
soldier in the French and Indian war, and died July
10, 1811. His son, Silas, born February 11. 1766,
was a Hardwick farmer and the father of Simeon's
wife, Lucetta. The latter died in Warren, August
2^, 1868. aged seventv-six years. Simeon Knowles
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Simeon and Lucctta (Newton) Knowles were;
Laura Loraine, born October lo, 1816, married
Rufus Washburn, Jr., of Johnstown, New York,
February 21, 1837; Lucius James, born July 2, 1819;
Harriet Evaline, July 24, 1821, married Lorin Brown,
Fitchburg, October i, 1844; Francis Bangs, Novem-
ber 29, 1823. The family resided about three miles
northerly from the common in Hardwick.

F'raucis' B., youngest child of Simeon and Lu-
cetta (Newton) Knowles, was twice married, (lirst),
December 23, 1845, to Ann Eliza Poole, of Glovers-
ville. New York. The children by this marriage
were : Eliza Evaline, born January 5, 1848, in
Gloversville, married September 2, 1873, C. Henry
Hutchins, of Worcester, long identified with the
Knowles Loom Works and now president of the cor-
poration. Their children are : Arthur Knowles
and Helen Mabel. Mrs. Hutchins died February 13,
i8y8, and Frank Poole, born February I, 1853, in
Gloversville, married, October 2, 1879, Alice J.,
daughter of George C. and Eleanor J. (Doane) Bige-
low, of Worcester; their children are: George
Francis, Marion and Lillian. The mother died
February 24, 1865, soon after the removal to War-
ren. Mr. Knowles's second marriage, April 23,
1867, was to Hester A., daughter of John Reynolds
and Fanny (Wightmah) Greene, of Worcester.
Their children are: Mabel, married June 15. 1893,
Dr. Homer Gage, of Worcester. They have one ,
child, Flomer Gage, Jr. Frances, married April 23,
1900, George Eddy Warren, of Boston, a bu.'^iness
man. Lucius James, married, April 6, 1904, Laura,
daughter of John R. McGinley, of Pittsburg, Penn-
sylvania. Their son, Lucius James, Jr., was born
in London, England. Both sons of Francis B.
Knowles are directly connected with the great busi-
ness established by father and uncle. The names
of "Frank" and "Lucius" are still heard in the
works and, from the names in the latest generations,
the famous appellations bid fair to obtain for years
to come.

]Mrs. Knowles comes of an old Rhode Island fam-
ily, descended from John Greene, surgeon, of Gill-
ingham, England, who came to America in 1635
and settled in Warwick, Rhode Island, where
through successive generations the family resided.
The line from the first John Greene included Peter,
Peter, Elisha, Elisha, Stephen. William, who mar-
ried Abigail Reynolds, thus becoming the father of
John Reynolds Greene, the father of Mrs. Knowles.
He was for many years a Worcester merchant, and
a warden of All Saints' Church. Fie was born in
Warwick, Rhode Island, December 22, 181 1, and died
April I, 1873. Well educated, he was highly suc-
cessful in business, and deeply interested in church
w(irk. His children were : Byron W., Hester A.,
Stephen E., Mary, Fannie and Abbie.

So blended were the lives of the brothers L. J.
and F. B. Knowles, it were much easier to write of
them together than separately. Their characteristics
supplemented each other perfectly, and never did
■ men better exmplify the scriptural words, "Behold
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity." There were only two sons
in the family of Simeon Knowles, and they ap-
peared to have little affiliation for the life so long
pursued by their ancestors, for we see them, in due
order, leaving the hills of Hardwick determined to
win their way by other means than those employed
by the fathers. To the younger brother had been
'given the rather unusual name, for those days, of
Francis with another, still more uncommon, but re-
calling an uncle, Eastham born, who had died in his
early manhood. As a Christian name, Bangs sug-
gester a long line of ancestral facts and no doubt

the father, Simeon, in thus naming his boy had m
mind a tribute to the "Cape Cod Folks," whose
memory to him was especially dear. However, as
the years went by and the boy advanced to man-
hood his double name was seldom used in its en-
tirety. Indeed among his immediate friends he was
more often known as "Frank," while for signature
purposes the" initials, F. B., were found to be all
he had time to write.

After securing whatever of educational aid ilic
common schools of Hardwick could afford, with
some higher attainments at Leicester Academy, he
early essayed the role of schoolmaster himself, in
this capacity serving in Dana, and possibly in other
nearby towns. While still four years away from
his majority he was permitted to leave the farm and
to undertake the task of shifting for himself. His
older sister Laura had married in Johnstown, New
Y'ork, and it is possible that this fact accounts for
her brother's presence, when nineteen years old, as
a teacher in the neighboring village of Gloversville.
He had not assumed the profession as a lifelong-
occupation, but rather a makeshift till some better
way appeared. The place where he thus found him-
self was noted then, as it is now, for its manufacture
of kid and buckskin gloves and mittens, leading in
this particular all other places in the country. What
more natural than that this enterprising, resource-
ful New England boy should speedily see a chance
for himself to better his condition, by forsaking th;
schoolroom for the mart of trade. At any rate
ere long he became a salesman for one of the great
glove making companies of the town and, going upon
the road, he speedily familiarized himself willi a
large part of the eastern portion of the country.
April I, 1845, he entered upon the making of gloves
himself, continuing in this occupation till he em-
barked in the clothing business, and this was his
vocation when in 1883 came the call from his brother
to come back to Massachusetts.

He, therefore, came to Warren, Worcester coun-
ty, to bear a hand in the development of the inven-
tions which were taking shape in the fertile brain
of Lucius J., and from that time onward his interests
were largely in this part of the Commonwealth.
Though L. J. Knowles was conducting a great busi-
ness in his making of steam pumps in his Warren
factory, he was not satisfied, but desired rather to
enter upon the manufacture of looms, upon whose
improvement his mind had been dwelling. Accord-
ingly the advent of the younger brother followed
and with expected pleasing results. We are told
that the first loom was constructed in the pump
works of Warren, but the advantages of Worcester
soon became so obvious that in 1866 the loom works
were transferred to this city and first established
in Allen court, the name of F. B. Knowles appearing
in a Worcester directory for the first time in 1867.
The older brother contmued his residence in War-
ren.

Though constantly growing, the business remained
in Allen court until 1879, when it took a move to
the southward and expanded into the so-called
Junction shops. Progress, however, knows no
boundaries and the capacity of this location was
soon overtaxed. In 1890, having been erected near
the Boston & Albany Railroad on the corner of
Grand and Tainter streets, the most extensive plant
of its kind" in the country, the business was re-
moved for the third time into quarters seemingly
ample for years of development, yet in 1892, before
the blight of the Wilson Bill had struck the nation,
enlarged area was again in urgent demand. During
all these years of growth and prosperity, the younger
of the Knowles Brothers was constantly at his post.

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an invaluable factor in all the many features of the
vast enterprise. Of the older brother, it is said that
he never sold a machine, gave little heed to the
purely business details of the enterprise, but busied
himself with the endless possibilities in the mechan-
ism of loom making. On the contrary, F. R. had no
mechanical tastes nor talent, could not drive a nail,
but the pushing of the manufactured articles into
public sight and favor was his delight. The financial
side of the work he could and did handle marvel-
ously well, till at his death he could truthfully say,
had he cared to do so, that the Knowles Loom
Works were the most extensive in the country, if
not in the world.

The limitations of human strength and energy
speedily appear in the strenuous life which the
ardent Americans lead and, long before the Knowles
Brothers had reached the age at which their fathers
were • still doing long and arduous days' work on
their respective farms, these princes of mechanical
hidustry found it necessary to abate .somewhat the
intensity of their labors, but they did not begin
early enough. Both of them were wont to seek rest
and recuperation during the winter months in vari-
ous ways. Florida, long the fabled possessor of the
fountain of youth, had been a resort for Francis
B., and he was w'ith his brother when, in the spring
of 1S84, the latter passed away at the Riggs House,
in Washington, a victim of that specially character-
istic ailment of Americans, another name for over-
work, "Heart Failure," a fate that a few years later
was to fall to the lot of F. B. himself, whose physi-
cal breaking down began with his arduous labors at
the Centennial Exposition in 1876 through his de-
termination to make the Knowles loom succeed.
The loom became a wonderful success, but at what
a cost.

Recognizing the advisablencss of a yearly respite.
Mr. Knowles had several years before interested him-
self in Florida investments and had become the
owner of extensive areas there. In Winter Park,
he was the principal owner of the Seminole Flotel,
and was the president of the development company,
and here a large part of the year, at any rate during
the cold weather, but he was wont to remain. Tt was
at the end of his annual stay that, in the spring of
1800, with his family he started homeward. For six
weeks, by slow stages, they were working north-
ward, that he might the better adapt himself to the
climate. The month of May found them in Wash-
ington and, while friends were expecting their early
return, there came to his older son the startling dis-
patch that the father had suddenly died of angina
pectoris. The news thus sent came from Post-
master General John Wanamaker. a personal friend
of many years standing. There followed the sad
completion of the homeward journey, the services at
Piedmont Church, of which he had' been so long a
pillar, and the final resting place in beautiful Rural
cemetery.

The smile which ever lighted the face of Francis
B. Knowles was an excellent index of his nature,
and perhaps this very look had much to do with
the success that attended him. "The world shall
be better for my having passed through it" is said
to have been a sentiment close to whose truth he
he tried to live. Flow well he succeeded a grateful
community has repeatedly borne testimony. From
friends, acquaintances, and employees there came
one common statement, that he merited all the suc-
cess that he achieved, that he was a faithful friend,
the kindest of employers and in every way the best
of citizens.

In these hurrying days, it is a sad fact that the
most admirably equipped men cannot afford the

time for political preferment. The degree to which
machinery and enterprises are speeded, demands
every bit of strength that a man possesses and
ever the call is for more. Though a lifelong Re-
publican in his political affiliations and a liberal
supporter of campaign expenses, Mr. Knowles never
saw the day in his Worcester life that he could give
to serving his fellow citizens in any official capac-
ity. Flad he been able to accept there can be no
doubt as to the positions in which he would have
shone through the suffrages of those who knew so
well his sterling worth. Whatever diversion he
took from business was found in religious lines.
For years he conducted Sunday school institutes
through Worcester county, and in the labors of the
Young Men's Christian Association he was inde-
fatigable.

With so long a lineage, including so many
names of sterling worth, there need be no surprise
that Mr. Knowles was a devoted member of the
Congregational church. His advent to Worcester
was in the days when that- denomination was be-
ginning its career of expansion. He was here early
enough to give hearty aid and comfort to the propo-
sition to establish Plymouth Church, but that was
located somewhat distant from the part of the city
in which his interests chiefly lay, hence he was
ready to help forward the new Piedmont venture
and here was his church home for the remainder
of his days. He was an early Sunday school sup-
erintendent here and one of the most beloved
deacons from the beginning. Still he was not at
all confined in his giving, and when Pilgrim Church
was taking shape, along with his sister-in-law. .Mrs.
Helen C. Knowles, he .gave the site for the edifice
and was in addition a liberal giver to the enterprise
all the way along. He was a generous donor to-
wards every good cause, and Knowles Hall, an
edifice in the plant of Rollins College at Winter Park,
Florida, attests his interests in the educational de-
velopment of the new south. To the same insti-
tution he gave a further sum of money for the
endowment of scholarships. No good cause ever
appealed to him in vain. He was the third largest
giver toward tlic edifice of the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association and had long been a life member.
The last check drawn by him was for $5,000 in be-
half of the Young Women's Christian .\ssociation
of Worcester.

His home life was an ideal one. There he sur-
rounded himself with all that wealth and culture
could provide, and the same was a favorite resort
■for those who delighted in art and literature. Mrs.
Knowles. having traveled extensively at home and
abroad, is an excellent judge of art and, with ample
means at her command, has made a collection of
paintings larger than that afforded by some public
galleries. The only regret that one can have in
eontemplaling so admirable a career is that to the
successful manufacturer, the faithful friend, good
citizen and Christian gentleman there had not been
granted greater length of days for the enjoyment of
the fruitage of wise planting and judicious culture.

For more than twenty-five years the name of
Lucius J. Knowles, of Worcester, was a synonym
for the business enterprise and integrity. His name
with that of his brother, though only the initials
were usually employed, became known as far as the
necessity of looms extended, and that means the
limits of the civilized world. From a long line of
industrious Cape Cod farmers, he and the other
children of Simeon Knowles were the first to en-
joy the luxury of double names, but the easily pro-
nounced combination, Lucius James, was quite too
long tor his busy life and it was generally abbrevi-

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ated, especially when written, to the first letters only.
The student of genealogy may find interest in tlie
fact that his Christian appellations do not appear in
the long line of ancestral names. Evidently Simeon,
the third, intended to begin a new series. Hardwick,
as an agricultural town, though a great improvement
on Eastham, so long the home of the Knowles
family, did not present attractions sufficient to hold
the older son of Simeon and Lucetta. Evidently,
like so many New Hampshire people, he thought
his native town a good one to emigrate from. It
is easy to fancy his boyhood on the country farm,
getting what he could out of the district school,
meanwhile dreaming dreams of the great outside
world in which he early determined to play a con-
spicuous part.

One of his early schoolmasters was his maternal
uncle, John C. Newton, for many years a resident
of Worcester, and thereafter he was privileged to
add several terms at Leicester Academy, then one
of the best secondary schools in the Commonwealth.
In a word, though by no means liberally educated,
he was well equipped for the work on which he
was about to enter. Before he was twenty-one years
old, we find him in Shrewsbury, a clerk in the
store of W. W. Pratt. In 1838, when only nineteen
years of age, he formed a partnership w-ith his
Uncle Newton, his former teacher, and together
they conducted a general store in the same village.
On the retirement of his uncle in 1841, he took in
as partner, his first employer, W. W. Pratt, and
so continued till 1844. During these days, the young
merchant has married and, in a small way, pros-
pered, but he is very far froin the goal whicli in
vision attracts him. In these days the public be-
gins to hear of the accomplishments of Daguerre,
the Frenchman, in his experiments with light on
sensitized silver, and L. J. Knowles is the very first
man in Worcester to undertake a realization of this
wonderful discovery. His studio was on Main street,
near the old location of the Quinsigamond Bank,
or just north of Central street. It is possible to
find in the city today several specimens of his early
work. Indeed, the very first exposure made for pay
is still a cherished possession of the subject. But
photography did not satisfy and he next engaged
in spooling cotton thread in New Worcester. In
1847 he is making cotton warp in the town of
Spencer and two years later in Warren. There he
busied himself with both cotton and woolen mills
and engaged in the luanufacture of the steam pump
which he had invented. This was eminently suc-
cessful and its development would have satisfied any
ordinary man. but he had not yet reached the voca-
tion which he deemed specially his own. All suc-
cessful men have pet schemes or plans, some of
which, if they are persistent, they realize. During
all these years Mr. Knowles, who was a mechanic
by nature, had fancied improvement in looms for
the making of fabrics. His first invention in this
line was in 1856. By the aid of one wood workman
and two machinists, the first loom was set up in
the pump works. An inspection of the inventions
made by this Hardwick farmer's son, with a realiza-
tion of the consideration each one involved, leads
us to wonder where he found any leisure for di-
version. We are told that when in Shrewsbury
he made itnprovements in organs and other reed
instruments, and that here he began his studies in
the "safety steam boiler feed regulator." As early as
1840, he was working on appliances for the applica-
tion of electricity as a motor, anticipating in this re-
spect the invention of later years, for he made several
engines to be thus propelled. Apparently there was
very little time when he was not devising some

way of improving an old machine or of making an
entirely now one. In fine, more than one hundred
inventions issued by him stand to his credit in the
Washington patent office.

Of the calling of his younger brotlier in 1S63,
mention has been made in the sketch of the latter's
life, and of the development of the loom manufact-
ure, the second greatest industry in Worcester, the
story is briefly told in that chapter. Were it de-
sirable to extend the story in any way it would be
only to note the character of the workmen that the
loom works demand. Skilled mechanics are ever
the boast of New England and few enterprises ever
drew together a greater number of men, every one
of whom was able to successfully conduct great
enterprises of his own. An inspection of the intel-
ligent faces seen in the great shops on Grand and
Tainter streets can not but impress the beholder
with the nobility of labor. The overallcd, dusty
workmen are members of the city government,
leaders in the political parties of the state, deacons
and Sunday school superintendents in their re-
spective churches and, in nearly all cases, among
the most respected men in the community.

While a resident of Warren, Mr. Knowles en-
joyed the distinction of representing the district to
which his town belonged in the general court in
1862, and again in 1865, thus havnig the privilege
of assisting in upholding the hands of John A.
Andrew in the trying days of the civil war. In
1869, his senatorial district sent him as its choice
to Boston as one of the forty senators for that
term. That he was painstaking, faithful public ser-
vant need not be affirmed. He was one of the
most public-spirited citizens in Warren and his de-
parture was considered a great loss to the township,
but the demands of his investment in Worcester
were too strong to be resisted. However, he left
in the town so long his abode and so loyal to him,
substantial tokens of his reward, for in his will he
devised the sum of $5,000 as a fund for the support
and maintenance of the free public library of that
town, also the sum of one thousand dollars for the
perpetual care of his lot in the cemetery, where
rest the remains of his parents and those of his
brother's wife.

As a resident of Worcester, the directory for
1871 has his name for the first time and thence for
thirteen years he was an embodiment of zeal and
energy for every good cause and work in the city's
development. Not alone was he devoted to the
improvement and advancement of the industry with
which his name was linked, but also the best in-
terests of the city were his. In 1873 he held a seat
in the common council and gladly would his feIlo«
citizens have kept him there longer had his time
and other duites permitted. The dominanfe of
business robs the public of the very best services
which might otherwise be employed. He was a
director in the Central National Bank and in the
State Mutual Life Insurance Companj-, was presi-
dent of the People's Savings Bank and of the
Board of Trade and was a prominent figure in the
management of other financial interprises of a public
or semi-public character. It was a pleasant recog-
nition of his life-long labors, intellectually as well
as physically, that Williams College in 1869 gave
him the honorary degree of A. M. Many a wearer
of such honors, secured in regular course, never
merited them half so much as this self-tauglit me-
chanic and manufacturer of Worcester. The col-
lege was honored in his acceptance of _ the proffered
recognition.

When a young man in Shrewsbury, Mr. Knowles
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town, and for more than twenty years she was his
faithful companion as he strove for success. She
died at the age of iifty-six years, February 17, 1873.
Some time afterwards he was married to .Mrs.
Helen C. Hayward, of Boston, daughter of Alex-
ander and Cornelia (Goodnowj Strong. Possessea
of similar tastes, theirs w-as a singularly happy life
during the remainder of his earthly work. 'I'he col-
lection of paintings which they made and with which
they adorned their beautiful Main street residence
was one of the largest and best in Central Massa-
chusetts. Mrs. Knowles, who did not long survive
her husband, dying November 5. 1S84, when tifty-
one years old, signalized her devotion by leaving
th esum of $25,000 for the furtherance of art study
in Worcester. The income of this suin, at present in
the care of the St. Wulstan's Society, is the prime
source for the maintenance of the Art Museum, one
of Worccsters most cherished institutions.

While usually enjoying a high degree of health,
Mr. Knowles was conscious of serious impairment
of the same through his excessive labors in the
care of his wife during a visit made by them to
Europe some two years before his deafh. Realiz-
ing somewhat the limitations of energy and strength,
he had begun to abate the incessant strain to which
he had so long subjected himself. It was with this
thought in mind that with his wife he had visited
Fortress Monroe in the winter of 1S84, and coming
northward had met in Washington his brother and
wife. Here at the Riggs House he was taken vio-
lently ill with the same ailment which carried off
Charles Sumner and so many other hard workers,
viz. : angina pectoris, and alter a brief period of
agony died February 25. His body was brought
home for interment and with that of his brother
sleeps in Rural cemetery.

From the day that he found himself possessed
of anything to give, Lucius J. Knowles was a gen-
erous giver. To his church, to public measures,
to everything that seemed good and needy he was
charitable, the Lord, loving a cheerful giver, must
have had an unusual liking for the Knowles Broth-
ers. He was long a mainstay in Union Church and
for many a year one of its cherished deacons.
While a Congregationalist in his first allegiance,
few churches ever went to him for aid without get-
ting it. Though he has passed on to another world
several thousands of his estate went towards the
building of the beautiful edifice of the Young Men's
Christian Association, of which he was a life mem-
ber. While his home was in the southern part of
the city, on Main street, and he liad a just and proper
liking for his vicinage, he w'as not cribbed nor con-
fined by narrow boundaries. In everything his
progress was on the very broadest Hnes possible.
Worcester's most prosperous days have been seen
under the developing care and assistance of such
men as the brothers' Knowles, men whose interests
and affections were here not spread over a section
so extended that little thickness was possible. Con-
stant, determined, honest, progressive, would that
Worcester had more of their kind and character.

ALONZO WILLIAMS COLE. In the Cole
family to which Alonzo Williams Cole, of Wor-
cester, belongs, the tradition of three emigrant
brothers is confirmed by sufficient proof. John, Job
and Daniel Cole came to New England in the em-
ploy of William Collier, a London merchant, in 1633.
John Cole died in Plymouth, in 1637, and in his will
mentioned Master Collier's men in describing his
brothers to whom he made bequests.

(I) Daniel Cole, the youngest of the trio, first
appears on the records April 6, 1640, when he owned

lifty acres of upland granted then. He was re-
ported as able to bear arms at Yarmouth in 1643,
and was made a freeman June, 1645, at Yarmouth.
He was one of the jury that tried Alice Bishop
for infanticide in 1648. He was a tailor by trade.
He sold land at Marshfield June 8, 1C49. He re-
moved to Eastham in 1652. He was a deputy to the
general court in 1654-57-61-67-89. He was constable
m 1664 and selectman in 1668-70-71-72-81.

He died December 21, 1694, aged eighty years.
His wife Ruth died December 15, 1694, aged sixty-
six years. Administration was granted to his son
Israel, on Daniel Cole's estate, January 15, 1695,
and later an agreement was signed by all the heirs,
as given in the following list of his children: 1.
John, see forward. 2. Timothy, born September 4,
1646. 3. Hepsebah, April 16, 1649; married Daniel
Doane. 4. Ruth, April 15, 1651; married John
\oung. 5. Israel, January 8, 1653. 6. James,
November 3, 1655. 7. Mary, March 10, 1658; mar-
ried Joshua Hopkins. 8. William, September 15,
1663. 9. Daniel. 10. Esther or Hester; married
Medad Atwood.

(.II) John Cole, cldest'child of Daniel Cole (i),
was born in Yarmouth, July 16, 1644. He moved
to Eastham with his parents and lived there during
most of his active life. He married Ruth Snow,
daughter of Nicholas Snow, December 12, 1666.
He was at Groton in 1672, but returned to East-
ham w'hen the settlers had to abandon their homes
in 1675-76, m King Philip's war. He was living in
Eastham again in 1695. His wife died June 27,
1717. He died June 6, 1725. Their children, most
of W'hom were born in Eastham were: 1. Ruth,
born March 11, 1668; married William Twining.
William (2), William (i). 2. John (see forward).
3. Hepsibah, June 20, 1672. 4. Hannah, ^March 27,
1675; died June II, 1677. 5. Joseph, June 11, 1677.
6. Mary, October 27, 1679. 7. Sarah, June 10, 1682.

(HI) John Cole, second child of John Cole (2),
born in Eastham, Massachusetts, March 6, 1670;

married Mary , who died February 17, 1731-2.

He died December 13, 1746. Their children were :

I. Jonathan, born October 4, 1694. -■ John, Octo-
ber 14, 1696. 3. Mary, August 25, 1698. 4. James,

October 23. 1700. 5. , January 21, 1703. ■ 6.

Joshua, March 20, 1705. 7. Moses, July 22, 1707.
8. Phebe, October 29, 1709. 9. Thankful, October
20, 1712; died young. 10. Joseph, (see forward).

II. Thankful, October 19, 1716.

(IV) Joseph Cole, tenth child of John Cole
(3), was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, October
13, 1714. He died in the south parish of Eastham
in 1800. The records of his children are not at
hand and that of Jesse, presumed to be his son, is not
recorded.

(V) Jesse Cole, believed to be the son of Jo-
seph Cole (4), born in Eastham, Massachusetts,
February 4, 1755 ; married January, 1772, Bethia
Young, of Eastham, of one of the pioneer families
there. She was born September 21, 1752. Jesse
Cole was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain
Solomon Higgins' company of Eastham, enlisted
July 12, 1775, and served six months, four days in
defence of the seacoast. He died in the south
parish of Eastham in 1803.

The record of his children is not complete.
Among them were: i. Jesse, Jr., who died in 1800.
J. Itlisha, (see forward).

(VI) Elisha Cole, the grandfather oj Alonzo
Williams Cole, of Worcester. Massachusetts, born
in Orleans. Massachusetts, June 4. 1784; died there
.\pril 6, 1865. He was educated in the common
schools of Orleans, and at an early age studied
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he was a soa captain, Init finally abandoned this
occupation and houghl large tracts of land in and
near Orleans, where he conducted a farm and salt
works. He raised sheep and tattle and was one
of the leading men of his day in the town. He
continued to run his farm up to the time of his
death. He was a selectman in i8j8 and repre-
sentative to the general court 1833. He was a
Universalist iii religion and a Republican, in his
later years, in politics. He was greatly interested
in public questions and his one great desire in his
last years was that he might live until Richmond
was taken. His wish was gratified.

He married January 5, 1804, Keziah Doane,
daughter of Azariah and Polly Doane, and de-
scendant of the emigrant, John Doane (i), through
Daniel Doane (2) ; Joseph Doane (3) ; Joshua
Doane (4). father of Azariah Doane (5). She died
at Orleans. September 20, 1869. Children were: i.
Jesse, born September 30, 1804 ; died March 16,
1806. 2. Bethiah, December 4, 1806; died October
10, 1808. 3. Meriel, December 25, 1808. 4. Alonzo
(see forward). 5. Dorinda, January 19, 1814. 6.
Keziah Doane. July i, 1817. 7. Elisha, June 12,
1820. 8. Mary Doane, July 16, 1822. 9. Sally, April
8, 1825. 10. Mark, November 12, 1826; died July
21, 1849. II. Benjamin, February 10, 1830.

(VH) Alonzo Cole, fourth child of Elisha Cole
(6), was born at Orleans, Massachusetts. March 4,
1812. He received a common school education in
the schools of his native town. He shipped before
the mast when very young and followed the sea
for many years. He was captain of various ves-
sels. He 'was part owner of his last vessel, a
barque, the Clara C. Bell. His wife wished to ac-
company him on one of his voyages, and against
the wishes of her parents and friends she went
with him on a voyage south, taking with her their
only child. Alonzo Williams. While in port at
Charleston, South Carolina, she was stricken with
yellow fever and died. He determined to bury the
body of his wife in Orleans. He succeeded in evad-
ing the quarantine officers until he reached Boston,
where some of the crew informed the authorities
and he was fined for evading the quarantine laws.
But he succeeded finally in getting the body buried
in the old graveyard in Orleans after much diffi-
culty. It cost him fully a thousand dollars to carry
out his purpose.

Mr. Cole w'as a Universalist in religion and a
Republican in politics. He was a Free Mason.
He married August 20, 1839, Melissa Smith, daugh-
ter of William and Abigail (Doane) Smith, of Or-
leans. William Smith was also a sea captain. Their
only child was Alonzo Williams Cole (see forward).

(VHI) Alonzo Williams Cole, only child of
Alonzo Cole (7), was born in Orleans, Massachu-
setts, March 13, 1844. He attended the common
schools at Orleans until seventeen when he went
to East Somerville, Massachusetts, and lived with
his aunt wdiile attending the Somerville high school.
He returned to Orleans, but after a short time re-
moved to Worcester where he lived with another
aunt. Mrs. A. E. Peck, for about three years, and
worked in the art store of his uncle, at first. Then
he decided to learn the trade of machinist and en-
tered the Loom works of George Cronipton for that
purpose. After a year and a half he went to work
for L. W. Pond as a machinist. He was working
there during the war. He left the shop to enlist
July 12, 1864, in Company E, Forty-second Massa-
chusetts Infantry. The company was on guard duty
in the city of Washington and vicinity. They were
stationed at Great Falls, Maryland. He was mus-
tered out November 11, 1864.

Upon hi> return home, he went to work again
for L. W. Pond and became a journeyman machinist
in about a year and a half. He accepted a position
at Piedmont, West Virginia, as mechanic for the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, but after a year there
his health obliged him to give up the work. He
became foreman for Richardson & Merriam, and
later for Mclver Bros., who succeeded the former
firm. He remained in a responsible relation to this
firm for twenty-five years. He worked for Marcus
Mason & Co.. makers of plantation machinery, and
the Stowe Shoe Machinery Company for three
years. He has been for several years tool-maker
for the A. Burlingame Company, manufacturers of .
engines. He ranks well among the expert mechanics
and skilled machinists of a city that has few rivals
in this respect. Mr. Cole is a man of retiring dis-
position, greatly attached to his home and busi-
ness interests. He is highly respected in the church
and community that knows him. He is an active
member and one of the trustees of the Trobridge
Memorial Methodist Church. In politics he is a
Republican.

He married Ellen Lucretia Berry, August 6,
1867, at Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the
daughter of Zebina and Lucretia H. (Culver)
Berry, of Worcester. They have one child : Arthur
Williams Cole, born in Worcester, February 17, 1875,
married January 23, 1903, Emma Loui.>-e Taylor,
daughter of Robert C. Taylor, formerly of Webster,
Massachusetts. He was educated in the Worcester
schools ; graduate of the high school, also the Wor-
cester Polytechnic Institute; is at present professor
in the State University of Maine, near Bangor.

CYRENUS ALDRICH. George Aldrich (I)
was the emigrant ancestor of Cyrenus Aldrich, of
Worcester, Massachusetts. He came in 1631 from
Derbyshire. England, to America, and settled first
in Dorchester in New England. In 1640 he was
in Braintree, and in 1663 he w'as among the first
seven to arrive in the town of Mendon. He mar-
ried in England. September 3, 1629, Katherine Seald.
She was born in 1610 according to a deposition made
in 1670. He died March i, 1683. His will was
dated at Mendon, November 2, 1682, and was proved
April 26, 1683. The children of George and Kath-
erine Aldrich were : Abel, Joseph, Mary, Miriam,
E.xperience. John, Sarah, married a Mr. Bartlett;
Peter, Mercy, married a Mr. Randall ; Jacob, see
forward ; Martha, married a Mr. Dunbar.

(II) Jacob Aldrich, son of George Aldrich (i),
was born Feljruary 28. 1652. He married, Novem-
ber 3, 1675, Huldah Thayer. He died February 22,
1695. Their children were: Jacob, Abel, Seth, Hul-
dah, Rachel, Sarah, David, see forward ; Peter,
John. Moses, Mercy, and Rachel.

(III) David Aldrich, seventh child of Jacob
Aldrich (2), was born in Mendon. Massachusetts,
May 3, 1685. He married (first) Hannah Capron,
who died February 20. 1732. He married (second)

Mehitable . The children of David and

Hannah (Capron) Aldrich were: David. Edward,
Elizabeth. -Jonathan, Peter, Jonathan. Margaret,
Abner, Levi, see forward;' and Ichabod. David
Aldrich died March 15. 1771.

(IV) Levi Aldrich, ninth child of David Aldrich
(3), was born in Mendon. Massachusetts, December
IQ, T729. He married, February 7, 1745, Abigail
Hunt. He died December 22. 1795. Their chil-
dren were: Rufus, Nathan. Levi, Nathaniel, Amasa,
see forward : Chloe, Phineas, Abigail, Luther, Cal-
vin, and David. ,

(V) .'Vmasa .Aldrich. fifth child of Levi .Aldrich
(4). was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, June 13,

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1760. He married, November I, 1780, Urana Paine.
She was born September 17, 1763, and died February
II, 1843. He died December 2, 1813. His widow mar-
ried (second; Gen. Philemon VVhitcomb, of Swan-
zey, New Hampshire. Amasa Aldrich went from
Mendon to Swanzey after the revolution. The chil-
dren of Amasa and Urana (Paine) Aldrich were:
Marmaduke, born August 13, 1781 ; Mary, May 27,
1783; Urana, March 3, 1785; Phineas, May 20, 1787;
Amasa, March 18, 1789; Paine, see forward; Rufus,
January 20, 1793, died 1798; Otis, July 6, 1795. died
1798; David, September 6, 1797; Anna, August 31,
1799; Paul Fisher, December 26, 1801 ; Jacob, March
3. 1804, died 1804; John Langdon, March 27, 1805;
Jethro, May 14, 1807, died 1807; William, Octo-
ber 20, 1808.

(VI) Paine Aldrich, sixth child of Amasa
Aldrich (5), was born in Swanzey, New Hampshire,
January 4, 1791. He married (first), February 18,
1813, Sarah (Sally) Hammond, daughter of Joseph
Hammond. She was born June 17, 1793. Paine
Aldrich was brought up in his native town and
attended the schools there. After his marriage he
removed to Richmond, New Hampshire, wliere he
bought the Cook Mills at North Richmond and
repaired and built them over. While there he
invented the turntable for railroads, and in 1830
he came to Worcester to manufacture turntables.
During the early period of railroad building in the
United States and in fact from the thirties until the
time of his death Mr. Aldrich had a large demand
for his contrivance for turning around locomotives,
cheaply and quickly. He built his shop first where
the Aldrich House stands near Aldrich Place. He
associated with him in the business his son Cyrenus
Aldrich. He invested largely in Worcester real
estate. He bought pasture land in the vicinity of
Pleasant street and on both sides of High street
between Pleasant and Chatham streets. He built
brick houses on the street opposite his works. For
a time he lived in a house on the site of the
present Hotel Newton. Later he built a fine house
on the present site of Hotel Adams. He owned
large tracts of land on Chatham, Clinton and Irving
streets, and in that section of the city which be-
came very valuable as the period of rapid growth
which made the town a city came in the forties, and
they became in time some of the most valuable resi-
dential property in the city. He died August, 1871,
and the business ceased to exist soon afterward.
Another patent iron turntable took the place of the
Aldrich design, but at that tiine there was practically
no railroad in the country that did not have the
Aldrich turntable in use. They were built in Wor-
cester and shipped in sections to all parts of the
country and exported to foreign lands. Mr. Aldrich
acquired large wealth for his day and invested it
wisely.

Mr. Aldrich Was modest and retiring in dispo-
sition, notwithstanding his material successes and
his position in the business world, and was highly
esteemed and respected in the community. During
his last years he was in feeble health and was con-
fined to his bed for a year before he died. He
attended the First Universalist Church and later the
Salem Square Congregational Church while Rev.
Mr. Richardson was pastor. In politics he was a
Whig, later a Republican, but never active in party
affairs and never sought office. He was a member
of no secret societies. He was a member of the
Worcester County Mechanics Association. He mar-
ried (second) Sophia Capron, widow, who survived
him. The children of Paine and Sarah (Hammond)
Aldrich were : Harriet, see forward ; Cyrenus, see
forward.

(VII) Harriet Aldrich, daughter of Paine
Aldrich (6), was born in Swanzey, New Hampshire
She married Erastus Metcalf, of Rindge, New
Hampshire, and they afterwards lived in Filzwilliam,
New Hampshire, where she died June 2. 1865. The'
children of Erastus and Harriet (Aldrich) Met-
calf were: i. Elizabeth, born November 13, 1835,
married lieiioni Fullam, son of Judge Fullam, of
Ludlow, Vermont. 2. Sarah Jane, born February 9.
1838, married James F. Kettell, of Worcester, and had
four children: Jennie Maria, born October 2, i'863,
married George F. Hutchins, of Worcester, and had
one child, Richard, born April 28, 1881 ; Henry James
Kettell, born April 19, 1869, married Mary Good-
win, of Worcester, and had two children: James,
born August 23, 1898, and Katherine Kettell, born
July 25, 1905. John Frederick Kettell, born No-
vember 29, 1865, deceased; Frank Kettell, born
January 26, 1873, married Maud Barnes; no chil-
dren. 3. Melissa Metcalf, born February 8, 1840,
married George W. Davis, of Hudson, Massachu-
setts, and had two children: George Fred Davis,
unmarried; Fannie Melissa Davis, married Ralph
Joslyn, of Hudson. Massachusetts, and has three
children: Ralph Davis Joslyn; Mary Joslyn, and
James Metcalf Joslyn. 4. Hammond Cyrenus Met-
calf, born January 9, 1842, unmarried. 5. Helen
Sophia Metcalf. born February 21, 1S46. married
Henry F. Smith, of Woburn, Massachusetts, and
had three children: Henry. Caroline and Ralph.

(VH) Cyrenus Aldrich, only son of Paine
Aldrich (6), was born in Swanzey. New Hamp-
shire, September 24, 1815. He attended the schools
of that town. He was raised orr the old farm in
the same town with "Joshua Whitcomb," and worked
with his father on the homestead, in the mill and
in the turntable business. The firm of Paine Aldrich
& Son was formed when Cyrenus was still a young
man. The junior member of the firm superintended
the construction of the turntables and set them up
for the railroads. They were made in Worcester
and shipped in sections. As his father's health be-
gan to fail in the sixties he gradually assumed
charge of the entire business. At the close of the
civil war his father retired from business on ac-
count of his health and he also discontinued the
business. The last three turntables were made and
set up in New Brunswick, for European and North
American Railroad.

Mr. Aldrich retired from active business and gave
his time to his investments, and property. He at-
tended the old Pleasant Street Baptist Church which
stood where the present Lothrop's Opera House
stands. He was a quiet and unassuming, amiable
and democratic in his disposition. He devoted all
his time to his business and his home. He was a
Republican after the party was organized. He
was a member of the Worcester County Mechanics'
Association and of the old Worcester Light In-
fantry, and later of the Veteran Association. He
married, February 25, 184s. Sarah Patch, daughter
of William W. and Sarah (Willard) Patch, of
Worcester. William Patch was a prosperous farmer.
He was the son of Joseph and Hannah (Flagg)
Patch, of Worcester, and was born January i, 1794.
(See sketch of Hartshorn Family for his anccstrv.)
Both Willard and Patch families date from the
early .settlement of New England.

The children of Cyrenus and Sarah (Patch)
Aldrich were: I. Eldora Metclla. born September 16.
1846; is living at the homestead, 22 High street.
Worcester, unmarried ; 2. William Paine, born De-
cember 18. T848. married Charlotte Gibb. of New
York city. October 16. 1876. and had four chil-
dren : Grace Eldora .'\ldricli. born November 9.

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1877, married William Sumner Radway, of Ricli-
Inond, Virginia, and they have two children, All)ert
Beverly Radway, born July 12, 19OJ, and Charles
Aldrich Radway, born December 4, 1903. William
Paine Aldrich, Jr., born July 26, 1879, unmarried ;
Sarah Alice Aldrich, born September 26, 1881, died
April, 1883; Edith JMarion Aldrich, born July 24,
1885, unmarried. William Paine is the proprietor
of a large cloth printing business, plant located at
Passaic, New Jersey', and an office in New York
city; also a bleaching and dyeing plant at Dela-
wanna, New Jersey. 3. Frank Edgar, born May
20, 1854; was associated with his brother in the
cloth printing business in New York city ; died
December 2, 1903; married Louise M. Love, of
Providence, Rhode Island, and had one child, Roger
Cyrenus Aldrich, born February 13, 1879, who mar-
ried May Locke, of Brooklyn, but now living at
Reading, Pennsylvania. They have two children :
Roger Williams, born October 12, 1902, and Harold
Locke, born November 12, 1905. Cyrenus Aldrich
died January 12, 1889.

GEORGE FARNUM HEWETT. William
Hewett (I), great-grandfather of George F. Hewett,
of Worcester, is believed to be a descendant of
Thomas Hewett, who was a proprietor of Hing-
ham, Massachusetts, 1647, settled in Uxbridge among
the pioneers of that town, bought land in Sutton,
February 25, 1779, and other parcels later, and
resided in Sutton the latter part of his life. He
bought land in Ward (now Auburn) in 1803 of
Eliphalet and Tamar Holman, and his sons Daniel
and William Hewett lived there several years. He

married Patience . Their children were: I.

William, Jr., see forward. 2. Daniel. 3. Phinehas.
4. Alanson. 5. Henry. 6. A daughter, married a
Cummings, and had Sabrina and Abel Cummings.

7. Hammond Jewett. 8. Patience, married

Blackman. 9. Rhoda, married Hammond. 10. Eli,
residuary legatee.

(H) William Hewett, son of William Hewett
(l). born in Sutton, now Northbridge, Massachu-
setts, August I, 1778. died at Grafton, Vermont,
1850; married, in Uxbridge, January 14, 1802,
Lurany Leonard Paine, born in Uxbridge, January
I, 1777, died at Northbridge, February 29, 1806.
He married (second) Nabby (or Abigail), daugh-
ter of Francis and Sally Holman, of Millbury, be-
fore December 15, 1808. He had one son, Elbridge,
by the first marriage ; see forward. His other chil-
dren were : Lurania, born in Sutton, March 13,
1809, recorded in Auburn ; Sally, born in North-
bridge (recorded in Auburn), June 11. 1811; Fran-
cis Holman. born in Auburn, May 29. 1814.

(HI) Elbridge Hewett, son of William Hewett,
Jr. (2), born in Sutton, now- Northbridge. Massa-
chusetts, August II. 1804, died in Worcester, March
I7> 1877; married in Grafton, February 20, 1827,
Nancy Wadsworth. He resided in Grafton, where
he owned a farm. About the time of his marriage
he removed to Worcester and opened a store at the
corner of Central and Summer streets. He kept
a general store including West India goods, and
later added a lumber yard on Central street, near
the Blackstone canal, which was then in full opera-
tion. He dealt extensively in lumber and wood
in the adjoining towns. He owned the last canal
boat which ran on the Blackstone canal. His son,
George F. Hewett. has an interesting oil painting
showing the location of the store and vicinity sev-
enty-five years ago, before the railroads had begun
to alter the map of Worcester. The great industries
of_ Worcester started in the very neighborhood of
this store, and many of them have outgrown the

locality. The brick factories and mills in this neigh-
borhood are among the oldest landmarks of the
city. Mr. Hewett had the contract with merchants
to water the streets of Worcester when conditions
warranted it. He had a farm at Northville, m
Worcester. About i860 he removed his store from
Central street to the corner of Glue and Hanover
streets, where later his son erected a brick block.
Children of Elbridge and Nancy (Wadsworth)
Hewett: i. Andrew Fuller, died unmarried. 2.
Mary L., married John Wheeler, resided in Graf-
ton, where she now lives, a widow ; he was a shoe
manufacturer. 3. Caroline, died in Grafton, un-
married. 4. George Farnum, see forward.

(IV) George Farnum Hewett, son of Elbridge
Hewett (3), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
July 5, 1836. He was educated in Worcester in the
public schools, the high school and Worcester Acad-
emy, where he studied several terms. He worked
for a time in his father's store, but in 1854 decided
to follow the advice of Horace Greeley ; went west
and found employment on the Cleveland & Toledo
Railroad, now the Michigan Southern, begmning as
a brakeman, and was promoted to various posi-
tions during the six j'ears he remained with the
company. About 1857, when serving as station
agent at a new railroad junction first called Clay
Junction, he had the privilege of naming the town
that sprang up there. He culled it Millbury, and it
has since grown into a thriving town of considerable
importance. It is about eight miles from Toledo,
Ohio. Mr. Hewett built a saw mill there. In the
fall of 1859 Mr. Hewett left the railroad business
and returned to Worcester. He was associated with
his father for a time, but in i860 started in business
for himself, laying the foundation for the extensive
interests of which he has since been the head.
He began with a shop on Front street, in the rear
of a store in the Front Street Theatre building.
Three years later he took the store now occupied
by Hall & Lyon, druggists, and extended his busi-
ness to the wholesale and retail liquor trade. He
removed a few years later to a large store on the
corner of Foster and Waldo streets, near the pres-
ent location. In 1S99 the business was removed to
the present location at 41, 43 and 45 Waldo street,
to a building especially erected for l\Ir. Hewett by
the heirs of Dwight Foster. It has a frontage of
one hundred feet on Waldo street and a depth of
one hundred and twenty-five feet extending through
to Commercial street, having a height of four stories
in front and five at the rear. The building and
plant was constructed from plans designed specially
to handle the business to the best advantage. The
product of the George F. Hewett Company bottling
works is the largest of any in New England, and
the plant and equipment is the largest and best.
The George F. Hewett Company deals in ales, lager
and porter, bottled at the shop, also in the leading
brands of bourbon and rye whiskies, imported wines
and cordials, and Continental gin. The business of
bottling gives employment to a hundred men. Al-
ready the spacious quarters are overtaxed, and an
addition is being built. The business was incor-
porated in 1891 as the George F. Hewett Company,
with a capital of $50,000, George F. Hewett presi-
dent and treasurer.

Mr. Hewett has not allowed business to engross
his time completely. He is one of the best known
Free Masons of Worcester, having taken all the
degrees in the Scottish Rite, and having held the
chairs in all the degrees. He is a member of
Quinsigamond Lodge, Hiram Council. St. Andrews
Chapter, the Boston Commandery, Knights Temp-
lar, and was at the head of the Worcester Lodge of

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Perfection for five years. He holds the rank of
captain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston, and having been over twenty-
five years a member is on the veteran list. He
was one of the charter members of the Worcester ■
Continentals. He is a member of the Worcester
Jilks. the Royal Arcanum and the Red Men. In
politics he has always been a Deinocrat, except
from 1896 to 1900 w-hen he voted against Bryanism
and free silver. He was in the board of aldermen
one year and the common council for eight years.
He represented Ward 3 in the council and Ward
7 in the board of aldermen, served on the finance
committee, and was deeply interested in the City
Hospital, of which he was a trustee. Mr. Hewett
married, 1858, at Painesville, Ohio; Maria L. Knox,
whose mother married (second) Elbridgc Hewett,
at Stafford Springs, Connecticut. They have had
one child: Mabel E., born September, i860, married
Charles F. Bigelow, of Worcester, lately deceased,
and had one daughter, Helen Bigelow, now living
in Worcester with her mother at her home, 69
Cedar street. Mr. Hew-ett resides at the Standish
Hotel, 767 Main street Worcester.

WADSWORTH FAMILY. Christopher Wads-
worth (I), one of the early settlers of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, was an emigrant ancestor of George
Farnuiu Hewett, of Worcester, through his mother's
line. Christopher Wadsworth is believed to have
been the son of Thomas Wadsworth, from the
records in a Bible he brought with him and which
is now owned by the Cowles family in Hartford,
Connecticut. He was born in England, and is be-
lieved to have come in the same ship with William
Wadsworth. who may have been his brother. Will-
iam came in the ship "Lion," which sailed Sunday,
September 16, 1632, with one hundred and twenty-
three passengers, of which fifty were children. After
a twelve weeks voyage the ship touched at Cape
Ann, and five days later landed in Boston. William
settled in Cambridge, and in 1636 removed to Hart-
ford. Christopher lived and died at Duxbiiry. He
was a prominent citizen m a tow-n where such
prominent men as Miles Standish, Elder Brewster
and John Alden lived. He married Grace Cole.
He was the first constable, then an office of more
importance relatively than the sheriff is now : was
deputy to general court, selectman and highway
surveyor at various times. The first record men-
tioning his name at Du.xbury is under date of 1633.
In 1638 he drew land in Holly Swamp, and the site
of his house is west of Captain's Hill, ne-ar the
new road to Kingston ; his lands ran clear to the
bay. on what w-as formerly known as Morton's
Hole. The homestead remained in the family until
1855 when it w-as sold. The will of Christopher,
dated July 31, 1677. was filed September, 1678. Of
his four children. Joseph and John lived and died
in Duxbury; Captain Samuel removed to Milton, and
was killed by the Indians in the fight at Sudbury,

1676. The children were: i. Mary, married ■

Andrews. 2. John, born 16,38, died 1700. married
Abigail .\ndrews, 1667; she died 1723; he lived on
the old homestead of Christopher; was deacon of
the church at Du.xbury many years : had eleven
children. 3. Joseph, horn 1636, died 1689. married
Abigail Wait. 1655; second wife was Mary:- six
children. ■ 4. Samuel, probably the eldest son.

(II) Captain Samuel Wadsworth. son of Christo-
pher Wadsworth (i). probably born 1630. lived at
Bridgewater. then Du.xbury plantation, where he was
a taxpayer in 1655 to 1665. About 1655 he married
Abigail Lundall, of Duxbury. He occupied the land
at Bridgewater owned by his father, and h;id a
9

sixty-fourth mtercst in the township. His son
i imothy succeeded his grandfather as owner in 1686.
Captain Samuel and his brother Joseph Wads-
worth owned land at Bridgewater longer than any
others of the early .settlers after they moved aw^ay
from the town. Captain Samuel bought a beautiful
tract of land in Dorchester in what is now Milton,
about 1660. The farm was bctwx-en the Blue Hills,
Milton, and Boston. Some of this property is now
or was recently owned by descendants, having been
in the family ever since the first settlement. Cap-
tam Samuel was a man of means and influence,
actrve in church and state. His descendants of the
name of Wadsworth are more numerous than those
of any of his brothers. He had six sons. He was
a soldier in King Philip's war, in command of the
Milton company.^ In .April, 1676, he was ordered to
Marlboro with fifty men to strengthen the garrison
in that town. On the way thither his command
passed through Sudbury, where the Indians were
in hiding. .After Captain Wadsworth reached Marl-
boro he learned that the Indians had attacked the
settlement at Sudbury and burned the houses on
east side of the Sudbury river. The Watertown
soldiers under Captain Hugh Mason checked the
enemy, but Wadsworth hurried to his relief without
waiting for his men to rest, though ihey had
marched all day and all night before. Captain
Brocklebank went with the company and some of
the Marlboro garrison. Captain Wadsworth and his
men were ambushed by about five hundred Indians,
with the usual war-whoops and savage attack. After
a desperate struggle" for five hours Wadsworth had
lost five men : the Indians had lost more than a
hundred. But as night approached the Indians set
fire to the dry grass, the smoke blinding the
colonists, and they were obliged to abandon their
sheltered position and were literally cut to pieces.
Captain Wadsworth. covered with wounds, it is
said, was one of the last to fall. Thirty men, in-
cluding Captain Brocklebank, Captain Wadsworth
and two other officers were slain, and were buried
hi one grave. The twenty who escaped found refuge
in a mill that had been fortified, and were rescued
by Captain Prentice and Captain Crowell. Five or
six were taken prisoners and tortured to death by
fire. "The date of this figlit was April, 1676. some
authorities giving the i8th. others the 21st. (Taptain
Wadsworth is described as "that resolute, stout-
hearted soldier, one worthy to live in our history
under the name of a good" man.". The first monu-
ment to hiin and his comrades in arms buried on
the battle field at Sudbury was erected by his son.
President Wadsworth. of Harvard College. On No-
vember 27. 1S52. a monument built by the joint
action of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and
the town of Sudbury was dedicated. .At that time
the twenty-nine bodies were all found, the marks of
the wounds showing in some cases after a lapse of
nearly two hundred years. Children of Captain
-Samuel Wadsworth: i. Christopher, born 1661, died
1687 (his grave is marked by the oldest stone in
the graveyard at Milton). 2. Ebenezer, see forward.
3. Timothy, born 1662. 4. Joseph, born 1667. 5.
Benjamin, born 1670. 6. Abigail, born 1672. mar-
ried .A. Boardman. 7. John, born 1674. died 1734.

(Ill) Ebenezer Wadsworth. son of Captain Sam-
uel Wadsworth (2). was among the early settlers
of Milton. Massachusetts, where he was born. 1660.
died 1 717. He married Mary , and their chil-
dren w-ere : I. Mary, born 1684. married Simp-
son. 2. Samuel, horn 1685 ; was lieutenant in Mil-
ton company; died 1754; married .Ann Withington.
3. Recompense, see forward. 4. George, born 1698,

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in Milton, died 1778; married Hannah Pitcher; was
farmer and miller at Stonghton, Massachusetts;
ensign in Captain Goffe's company in French war;
had seven children.

(IV) Recompense Wadsworth, son of Ebenezer
Wadsworth (3), born at Milton, 1688, died 17^9!
married Sarah Morey ; their children: I. Sarah,
born 171S, died 1728. 2. Mary, born 1718, married
Jeremiah Tucker. 3. David, see forward. 4. Jona-
than, born 1722, at Roxbury, removed from Milton
about 1755, died 1798 (gored to death by a bull) ;
married. 1742, Rebecca Davenport, of Milton, born
in Roxbury, 1723; ten children.

(V) David Wadsworth, son of Recompense
Wadsworth (4). born in Milton, 1720, died Decem-
ber s, 1749, in (jrafton, Massachusetts, where he re-
moved and settled ; married Hannah Paul ; their
children: i. David, see forward. 2. Ebenezer, born

.\ngust 20, 174s, in Milton, married Lucy and

Patience Swift. 3. Samuel, born September 28,
I747,at Grafton, died 1842; married Margery Hutch-
inson; seven children. 4. Sarah, married Joseph
Merriam,

(VI) David Wadsworth, son of David Wads-
worth (5), born at Grafton. 1741, died 1821 : married
Elizabeth Whipple, born 1744, died October 31, 1827;
their children: i. Susannah, born at Grafton, Sep-
temljer 13, 1765, married Peter Farnum. 2. David,
born July S, 1767; scythe manufacturer at Barre,
Massachusetts ; "married Virtue Willard. 3. Jona-
than, see forward. 4. John, born July 18, 1771,
settled at Barre; died 1833: married Lois Warren;
twelve children. 5. Jacob, bom August 24, 1773,
died April 11, 1774. 6. Samuel, born June 18. 1775,
died 1812 ; married Elizabeth Barnes. 7. Ebenezer,
born June 24, 1777, died August 5, 1777. 8. Moses,
born October 30, 1778; married Elizabeth Tisdale,
and removed to Walpole, Massachusetts. 9. Paul,
born February 9, 1781, died December 16, 1783. 10.
Joseph, born March 29, 1784: scythe manufacturer
at Auburn. New York; married Anna Barnes, died

1854.

(VII) Jonathan Wadsworth, son of David
Wadsworth (6), born at Grafton, in the section now
called Farnnmsville, May 23, 1769, died 1850. He
married, in Grafton, 1790. Tabitha, born in Grafton,
May 8. 1772, died in 1853, daughter of Captain Jo-
seph Warren. (See Warren Family.) Children
of Jonathan and Tabitha (Warren) Wadsworth: I.
Mary, born November ig, 1790, married Jameg Mar-
tin; died June 15, 1833. '2. Sally, born August 24,
1794, married Paul Farnum : died April 9, 1829,
Boston. 3. Nancy, see forward. 4. David, born
1800, died young. 5. David, born October 20, 1803,
South Boston ; married, December 8, 1825, Caroline
Metcalf; nine children. 6. Eliza Ann, born June 9,
1806. married Zephaniah Frost. 7. Lucina, born
May 5, 1808. married Adolphus Fowler, 1829. 8.
Susan, born June 3, 1810, married Calvin Taft. 1834;
died October 23. 1837. 9. Jonathan, born October
30. i8t6, died June 3, 1833.

(VIII) Nancy Wadsworth, daughter of Jonathan
Wadsworth (7), born March 11, 1798, died Decem-
ber 29, i8s9; married Elbridge Hewett.

WARREN FAMILY. John Warren (I), was
■an emigrant ancestor of George Farnum Hewett. of
Worcester, through his mother's mother's line. John
Warren came to America in 1630 at the age of forty-
five. He was born in England, therefore, in 1585.
He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he
was made freeman May 18, 1631. In 1635 he and
Abraham Browne were appointed to lay out high-
ways and see that they were repaired. His home-
stall of twelve acres, drawn 1642, was boiinded by

the homestalls of William Hammond. John Biscoe
and Isaac Sterne, and he had seven other lots,
amounting in all to one hundred and seventy-six
acres. He sympathized with the Quakers, and was
"at odds with the Puritan church. In October, 1651,
he and Thomas Arnold were fined for an offense
against the laws concerning baptism. He was warned
March 14, 1658-9, for not attending church, and later
fined for neglecting to go to church fourteen Sab-
baths, at the rate of twenty shillings each. May
27. 1661, his house was searched for Quakers. His
neighbor Hammond was also suspected of harbor-
nig the persecuted Quakers. His wife Margaret died
November 6. 1662. He died December 13, 1667,
aged eighty-two. His will, dated November 30,
1667, was proved December 17, 1667. His children,
all born in England, were: i. John, see forward.
2. Mary, born in England ; married, October 30,
1642, John Bigelow. 3. Daniel, born 1628, took the
oath of fidelity, 1652. 4. Elizabeth, married about
1654, James Knapp.

(II) Captain John Warren, son of John Warren
(i), was born in England. 1622. He took a prom-
inent part in town affairs at Watertown ; was select-
man in 1676 during the war. His will is dated Janu-
ary 12, 1702-3, and proved February 22 same year.
He married, July 11, 1667. Michal. widow of Richard
Bloys and daughter of Robert Jennison. She died
July 14, 1713. Their children: i. Margaret, born
May 6, 1668, died unmarried, 1703. 2. Sarah, born
January 25, 1670-1. 3. Elizabeth, born July 8. 1673;
married October 18. 1705, Daniel Harrington. 4.
Mary, born May 25, 1675; married December 30,
1698. Joseph Peirce. 5. John, born May 21, 1678.
6. Grace, born May 12. 1679-80; died unmarried,
January, 1703. 7. Sainuel, born January 23, 1683;
married Lydia Cutting; he died November 13, 1759;
she died July 15. 1766.

(III) John Warren, son of Captain John War-
ren (2), settled in Weston. He married first, Abigail
Hastings, died July 19, 1710; second. May 14, 171 1,
Lydia Fiske. His estate was administered by his
wife Lydia, appointed July 29, 1726. She married
(second) in Watertown. June 17, 1730. Benjamin
Harrington. Children of John and Abigail (Hast-
ings) Warren were: i. John, born April 3, 1701 ; a
blacksmith at Marlboro. 2. Sarah, born ' September
20. 1702; married, October 29, 1725, Samuel Har-
rington. 3. Samuel, see forward. 4. Thomas, born
March 11. 1705-6: married, 1727, Lydia Mixer. 5.
David, born June 22. 1708; married, June 22, 1733,
Martha Coolidge "Jr." 6. Lydia. born 1712. 7. Ben-
jamin, born April 4, 1715. 8. David, born January
5, 1716-7. 9. Abigail, born October 28. 1719. 10.
Lucy, born October 26, 1721. 11. William, born
October 21, 1723, died 1739. 12. John, baptized
1725.

(IV I Captain Samuel Warren, son of John War-
ren (3). born March 18. 1703-4, died January 26,
1775. Captain Samuel Warren came to Grafton,
from Weston in 1730. He was oni of the original
members of the church there. His daughter Sarah
was the first white child born in the town of Graf-
ton. His house was a log cabin at first nearly
opposite Chapin's Lane. He was captain of a com-
pany that marched to the relief of Fort William
Henry, March 25, 1757. He married, at Weston,
Massachusetts, August 26. 172S. Tabitha, born 1702.
died April 21, 1765, daughter of Joseph and Sarah
(Waite) Stone. Their children: I. Samuel, born
April 20. 17,10: married. May 29. 1754. Eunice Cor-
bet, of Mcndon. 2. Sarah, born December 24, 1731 ;
married Phineas Leland. 3. Rebecca, born April- 16,
1733. 4. .Abigail, born April 29, 1735. 5. John, born

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\ugust 8, 1736; died September 8, 1755. 6. Tabitha,
)orn August 6. 1738, died September 7, 1754. 7.
t\illiam, born May 2g, 1740, removed to Conway.
i. David, born Marcb 24, 1742; married Prudence
iVhipple. 9. Joseph, see forwarcl. 10, Martha, born
VI ay 31, 1747.

(V) Captain Joseph Warren, son of Captain
Samuel (4), born April 22, 1745, died July 19,
1808; married, March 28, 1765, Lois Lyon, born
[746, died February 7. 1816. In February, 1763, he
,vas a private in Captain Ebenezer Cox's regiment
n His Majesty's service. He was sergeant in Cap-
ain Luke Drury's company. He responded to the
Lexington call. In April, 1776, he was made
lecond lieutenant in Captain Nathaniel Sher-
nan's company. Colonel John Goulding's regiment.
He marched August I, 1777, with his company to
:he relief of Bennington. Children of Captain' Jo-
seph Warren: I. Samuel, born December 7, 1765,

Harried Stow, and (second) Widow Crovv-

nshield ; removed to Wethersfield. Connecticut. 2.
Fohn. born November 28, 1767; married Polly
Chapin and Susannah Grout. 3. Sally, born No-
.-ember 30, 1769: married Gardner Brown, of Sut-
;on. November, 1 791. 4. Tabitha, see forward. 5.
Lois, born June 14, 1779; married, November 12,
1797, John Wadsworth. 6. Phila, born February
21, 1783; married, March 12, iSor, Nathaniel
Whipple. 7. Delphia, born November 3, 1786, died
[869. unmarried.

(VI) Tabitha Warren, daughter of Captain Jo-
;e.Dh Warren (5), married Jonathan Wadsworth.
She was the mother of Mrs. Elbridge Hewett,
iiother of George F. Hewett. (See Wadsworth
Family and George F. Hewett.)

PAINE FAMILY. Stephen Paine (i), from
vhom so many of the families of the name in Amer-
ca traces their descents, was an emigrant ancester of
jeorge Farnum Hewett, of Worcester through his
'ather's mother. INIrs. William Hewett. The sub-
;tance of the following account of the family is
aken from a sketch written some years ago by
Slathaniel Paine, vice-president of the Worcester
Frust Company, who also wrote the history of the
Paine family in Worcester.

Stephen Paine was descended from a family of
jreat Ellin^liam, a parish in the Hundred of
jhropham, near Hingham, Norfolk county, Eng-
and. He was a miller by trade. He came to New
Sngland with a large party from Hingham and vi-
cinity in 1638, in the ship "Diligent," John Martin,
naster, with a family consisting of his wife, three
iOns and four servants. There are records subse-
juently of only two sons, however. One died early
)r returned to England. Paine settled at Hingham,
n Plymouth Colony, where lie had land grants,
ie was admitted a freeinan in 1639, and elected a
leputy to general court 1641. In 1641-2 he and
bur others obtained leave of general court to .set-
le Seekonk, and he removed to that place, which was
ifterward called -Rehoboth, in 1643-4. There he
)ecanie prominent, holding many offices of honor and
rust ; was made a townsman, an office of some im-
wrtance. 1644; in 1645 he was again sent to the gen-
;ral court and continued to represent Seekonk, until
660. also held various town offices until 1671. He
Jecame a founder of the town of Attleboro. i\lassa-
chusetts in 1661, he and his sons Stephen and
Slathaniel being among those who bought .-\ttle-
)oro, of. the Indians. They also owned the tract
ivhic^ includes the present town of Swansea, Massa-
chusetts, and Barrington. Rhode Island.

Stephen Paine died in .-Xugust. 1679, outliving
)Oth his sons. His first wife died January 20,

1660. He married (second) Alice, widow of Wil-
liam Parker of Plymouth and Taunton, Massachu-
setts. She died December 5, 1682. His children
Nathaniel and Stephen both born in England.

(II) Stephen Paine, son of Stephen Paine (l),
born 1629, in Norfolk county, England, was nine
year.s old when he came to New England with his
folks. He settled with them at Hingham, and re-
moved with them to Rehoboth in 1643-4. He be-
came a prominent citizen there, taking the oath of
fidelity in 1657. He was a tanner by trade. He
was active in town afifairs and held a number of
offices. He may have resided a few years at Swan-
sea, where he and his father owned land. He
was active in King Philip's war under Major Wil-
liam Bradford, as a soldier and also as a contrilni-
tor to the war fund. He died at Rehoboth, Jan-
uary 1677-8. His wife Anne married (second)
Thomas Metcalf, of Rehoboth. Children of Stephen
and Ann Paine: i. Stephen, born September 29,
1651 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer
Williams, of Taunton; married (second) Mary
Brintnall, August 12, 1707; was deputy to general
court 1694 and 1703. 2. Rebecca, born October 20,
1656; married, December 24, 1673, Peter Hunt, Jr.;
married (second) Samuel Peck, November 21, 1677.
3. John, born April 3, 1658, resided at Swansea,
1683; surveyor of highways there 1686; married
Elizabeth Belcher and had large family. 4. Mary,
born May II, 1660. married October 29, 1678-9.
'Eaioch Hunt, of Rehoboth. 5. Samuel, born, at
Relioboth, ^lay 12, 1662, married Anne Peck, of
Rehoboth, December 16, 1685; married (second)
Mrs. .Abigail Fussell of Woonsocket ; removed 1708
from Rehoboth to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. 6.
Elizabeth, born August 27, 1664, married February
ID, 1685, Jacob Pepper. 7. Sarah, born October 12,
1666; died April 17, 171 1; married, November 23,
1688, Daniel Alden. 8. Nathaniel, born Sep-
tember 20. 1667; married May i, 1694, Dorothy
Chaffee.

(HI) Samuel Paine, son of Stephen Paine (2).
born at Rehoboth, August 12, 1662 ; married, Decem-
ber 16. 1685, Anne Peck, born December 22, 1667,
at Rehoboth, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Sarah
(Hunt) Peck. Sarah Hunt was daughter of Peter
Hunt, Sr., and granddaughter of Enoch Hunt, the
emigrant. Joseph Peck, grandfather of ."Vnne, came
over in the "Diligent" with Stephen Paine from old
Hingham. Norfolk county, England, with his family
and servants. Anne (Peck) Paine died February
26, 1703, soon after the birth of Daniel, her last
child. Samuel married second (intentions January

18. 1708-9), Abigail, daughter of Bartholomew,

widow of Joseph Frizzell. She was admitted in full
communion in the church May 5, 1728, died January
i.l, I75-, aged seventy-nine. Samuel died May 11,
1735- The graves of Samuel and his wives are
marked by stones in the old graveyard at East
Providence, Rhode Island. Children of Samuel :
I. Samuel, born September 13, 1686, removed to
Pomfret, Connecticut, 1705-6: married Ruth,
daughter of Abraham and Sarah Perrin ; she was
born March 30, 1688, probably -at Rehoboth; both
admitted to church at Pomfret. September, 1719;
was on petition for town charter: held office; wife
died June 5. 1725: he died February 15, 1725. 2.
.•\nne, born September 15. 1688; married, March 13,
1717, Peter Hunt, his second wife. 3. Scth, born
.August 20. 1690; married Mary Morris, removed
to Connecticut. 4. Judith, born February 18, 1695,
married January 5. 1719, Tchabod Peck, of Reho-
both, brother of Ensign Daniel Peck; nine chil-
dren. 5. Noah, born May 28, 1696; married Jan-

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uarv 11 171^ Mfhitable Storrs, born March 30,
.709. 6.' Daniel, born February 22, 1702-3, 7-
Rebecca, born 1710; married, Jnly 4, '7-U, Deliver-
ance Cleveland, of Canterbury, Connecticut, where
she died 1784. 8. Ebenezer, see f°"y"d-

(iV) Ebenezer Paine, son of Samuel ir-aine
(■X) was born 171 1. His mother was a grand-
daugh er of John Grosvernor, of Roxbury, who
dted September 27, 1691. (The only gravestone
in the Roxbury, Massachusetts graveyard bearing
a coat-of-anns is that of John Grosvenor.) He was
a tanner and town constable; had property m
Pomfret, where his children went m 1700 with his
widow. She died 1738, aged eighty-seven. Eben-
Tzer Paine settled in Woodstock, Connecticut. He
owned the covenant in 1740; served on several im-
pXnt church committees for the town ; admit ed
freeman 1749; served as constable. He died March
29 T789, aged seventy-eight years; his wife died
May 23. 1758. Their children; I. Mary, born .at
West Woodstock, Connecticut (where all the chil-
dren were born), September 23, 1737, married May
2 1769, Moses Pernn, of Woodstock (the records
tell us that she died of the bite of a skunk). 2.
Ebenezer Jr., born December 16. 1739; married
r766 Esther, born May 2, I743, daughter of Samuel
Child and Keziah Hutchins ot Kill.ngly. Con ecti-
cu mason; removed from Woodstock to Hartland
Vermont, where he died April 9, '795 ;. wfe d,ed
March 6, 1839, aged ninety-six. 3- Lelce^ter, see
forward 4. Asa, born September, 1744; married a
daughter of Sainuel and Keziah Child; settled 1,1
Pomfret, Vermont : four sons. 5- Stephen, .born
Sentember 17, 1749; married, May 19. 1795, Martha,
daughter of Dr. Parker Morse, of Woodstock, Con-
necticut ; held many offices of honor and trust; in
1788 was member Connecticut state convention to
ratify federal consitntion and voted no; represen ed
Woodstock in legislature and was generally cal ed
Deputy Paine; died June, 1820; his w. e died
January 5, 1825. 6. Hannah, born December 23,

'^^tv) Leicester Paine, son of Ebenezer Paine
(4) born at West Woodstock, Connecticut, May
II 1742; removed to Uxbridge, Massaclnisetts
about 1780; married Elizabeth, daughter of David
Draper, who built the house generally known a-,
the Draper House, at Uxbridge He died July /,
1821 aged seventy-nine; she died November 6,
iBw a4d eighty. Children of Leicester Paine : i. Lu-
rana Leonard, see forward. 2. Mary Grosvenor,
born November 19, l/Si, Woodstock died un-
married, 1832. 3. David Draper, born July 26 1788,
married October 23, 1822, Jemima French, of Ux-
bridge, born 1800, died April 23, i8s9; jomer b>
trade, also school teacher ; prominent man. select-
man assessor, deacon Baptist church; died Novem-
ber 18. 1854; eight children. _, , , f
(VI) Lurana Leonard Paine, daughter of
Leicester Paine (5), born Woodstock, Connectictit,
January i, 1777; married January U, 1802, at Ux-
bridge, ]Massachusetts, William Hewett Jn He was
born Xuo-ust l, 1770, at Gloucester, Rhode Island.
Hi" fathe°r was William Hewett, of Sutton, Massa-
chusetts. Lurana died at Sutton February 29,
iC Her children, all born at Northbndge, Massa-
ch?isetts: formerlv Sutton: i. Elias P. Hewett born
1802. died 1803. 2. Elbridge Hewett. born August
i,-i804. married. February 20, 'S^^' Nancy Wads-
worth of Grafton, INIassachusetts, who died 1869,
he died March 17, 1777 at Worcester, Massachu-
setts Children : \. Andrew Fuller Hewett boni
\u-ust 29, 1829. 2. Mary Lurana. born July 16
183! married John Wheeler, of Grafton, who died

1881 3 Caroline Hewett, born January 16, 1833;
teacher in public schools of Worcester, Massachu-
setts, manv years. 4- George Farnum, born July :,,
1836, marr'ied Maria L. Knox.

THWER FAMILY. The original American
ancestor of one branch of the Thayer family in
New England was Thomas Thayer, who settled
in Braintree, Massachusetts, coming from ihorn-
burv, England. He married Margery Wheeler,
who died December 11, 1672. He died April, i6/2
Thomas (x) was a shoemaker, as shown by his will
made September 13, 1665. The children of Thomas
and Margery were : Thomas, Jr., Ferdmando and

Shadrach. ^ .,,,

(II) Ferdinando Thayer, son of ihuinas
Thayer (i), married Huldah Hay ward, of Brain-
tree and settled at Mcndon about 1668 vvhere he
reared his large family, and died there^ March 28
I7n. and his wife Huldah. 1690. He had been at
Mendon before the King Philip war and his name ap-
pears in the minutes of the first town meeting, June,
1667, as selectman. Among the lands set off and sur-
veved for him was one tract in January, l674, and
then after the Indians burned the town, it seems he
went back again and re-located and took lands in-
cluding a fortv acre house-lot, May 26 16&6 They
had tvvelve children, about half of them born m
Braintree and the latter ones at Mendon. Their
names were-Sarah, Huldah, Jonathan, David died
16V4, Naomi, Thomas, Samuel. Isaac. Josiali.
Ebenezer, Benjamin and David. , -^ j- 1.,

(III) Benjamin Thayer, son of Ferdinando
Thayer (2), born in Mendon, December 2a 1712.
married (first) Sarah Haywood; (second) Hannah
Haywood. Youngest child was Aaron, born No-
vember II, 1715- f Ti • ■ Tl,.,,.^,-

(IV) Aaron Thaytr, son of Benjamin Iha\er
(3) married Jemima Cook, in 1738, and they had
thirleen children, including one named Benjamin^

(V) Benjamin Thayer, born April 16, 1/44, son
of Aaron Thayer (4), married Sarah Bosworth
of BeUiiisham, July 9. 1767. and they had seven
children, including one named Caleb.

(VI) Caleb Thayer, son of Benjamin Ihayer
(5) born January 31. I770. married Elizabeth
Thayer. April 7, I79i. and they had five children in-
cluding Caleb. x ^ , u Ti,o„o,-

(VII) Caleb Thayer, son of Caleb Thayer
(6), born January 5. '803. marned Hannah Gas-
kill Mav 20, 1827, and they had : Adin, born Decem-
ber' 5, i'828; Elias Ellis, born April 21, 1832. died
i8ao; Elizabeth, born June 11. 1836.

(VIII) Judge Adin Thayer, son of Caleb
Thayer (7), was born December 5. 1828. His was
but a limited educational opportunity. tie at
tended the common district schools and later the
Worcester Academv. Thinking he might follow
teaching for a profession, he -took a thorough course
of training at the Westheld Normal school. He
had not long tested his fitness and liking for stead>
school roont life, when he decided that the bes
channel for his success would be that o^.^e legal
profession, so he began the study of law with Henrv
Chapin, whom he finally succeeded on the bench.
It was in 1854 that Mr. Thayer commenced his
legal practice at Worcester. His judgment being
of the soundest type, marked by the plain, practural,
common sense, he soon rose to a man of "W'-e than
ordinary importance in Massachusetts. While he
was an eminent lawyer, his most bri liant work was
in the arena of politics, and within this field he was
pre-eminent. Early allied with the Free Soil party,
he was eager and earnest in opposition to the en-

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croacliments of tlie slave power, and despised the
proceedings under the Fugitive Slave Law, as it
affected hia own native state. His relatives were in-
timate with Hon. Charles Sumner and John An-
drew. He was unselfish and consistent in his de-
votion to the principles which he believed should
actuate and predominate in his state and nation.
While he might have appreciated high office, he never
sulked or faltered because another was chosen to
hold such honorable places. He became an invalu-
able adviser among the early day leaders within the
Republican party. In the truest, best sense he was
a strong partisan. Believing as he did in justice
to all inen, he threw himself into the canvass spir-
ited like a brave warrior, determined that the cause
should not fail by reason of any neglect upon his
part. He was a great political organizer and the
catnpaigns he directed were complete in every de-
tail. He seldom appeared as a speaker, but when
he did his arguments were logical and convincing.
He held but few offices. Under President Lincoln
he was internal revenue collector and re-appointed
by General Grant. Two years he served as state
senator. In 1878, as chairman of the state com-
jiiittee of the Republican party, he rendered great
service. The bench w^as vacated by the death of
Judge Chapin in 1878, and Mr. Thayer was ap-
pointed to succeed him in probate court, and faith-
fully discharged his duty for ten years. In his
•death in 1888 Massachusetts lost a stanch defender.
(IX) Charles Martin Thayer, only child of
Judge Adin and Caroline W. (Kendrick) Thayer,
was born in Worcester, December 4, 1866. He was
educated in the public schools and Harvard Uni-
versity, graduating from the latter institution in
1S89. He then entered Harvard Law School, grad-
uating therefrom in 1892, studied law in the office
of Hopkins & Bacon, was admitted to the bar in
Suffolk county in 1891, and took up his practice
in the city of Worcester. He is a member of the
Worcester County Bar Association. He is a director
of the Worcester Trust Company at the present
lime (1905), the Peoples Savings Bank, Crompton
& Knowles Loom Works, and the Merchants and
Farmers Insurance Company. He is the trustee of
several large estates. He was chairman of the
.school committee for a period of three years. He
is the Worcester county attorney for the Boston &
Maine Railroad. He is a Republican in politics.
(VIII) Frederick Thayer, son of Caleb and
Flannah (Gaskill) Thayer (7), and the brother of
the eminent judge and jurist of Massachusetts,
Hon. Adin Thayer, was born in Blackstone, Massa-
chusetts. He coiupleted his school studies at the
academies at Wilbraham and Greenwich. He then
engaged in teaching for a season and then
embarked in trade, a member of the Wor-
cester firm of Thayer & Taft. He soon be-
came manager of the Worcester Company of
Capitalists, who purchased the mill and power
privilege at Blackstone, formerly owned by
A. T. Stewart, of New York. Mr. Thayer
became one of the largest dealers in shoddy and
satinet in New England. While at Blackstone he
represented his district in the general court, two
terms — 1879-80. For his first wife he married
Adelia L. Greene, related to General Nathaniel
Greene, of revolutionary fame. His second wife
"was a sister of his former companion — Carrie D.
Creene.

(III) Isaac Thayer, son of Ferdinando and Hul-
dah Thayer (2), married (first) Mercy Ward, (.sec-
ond) Mary — , and had eleven children born to him.

(IV) Joseph Thayer, son of Isaac Thayer (,3).
married (first) Sarah Balcomc, and (second)

Rachel Richardson. To Joseph were born twelve
children, including John, the filth child.

(V) John Thayer, son of Joseph Thayer (4),
married Dasa Richardson, in 1776, and they were
the parents of six children, including one named
John, Jr.

(VI) John Thayer, Jr., son of John Thayer (5).
born in 1787, married Ruth Mowry, in 1810, and had
tliree children— Mowry Richardson, Charles Dexter
and Aurilla.

(VII) Mowry Richardson Thayer, eldest son
of John Thayer (6), was born April 27, 181 1. Like
most farmer boys at tliat time he received only
an ordinary common school education. He devoted
his life to farming and cutting and marketing wood
;ind timber. He was also widely known as a
trader, mostly in cattle and horses, and was an
excellent judge of both. He held many town offices,
and was by nature highly endowed with practical
conmion sense. Had he received a college education
he would probably have taken high rank among the
prominent men of the state. His natural attain-
ments were of a high order, and his opinions and
judgment were mucli sought by his fellow towns-
people. May I, i8.!S, he married Harriet Morse,
and to them were born three children : Chester
M., Lucy A., and John Randolph. The last named
is referred to in a following narrative.

(V'lII) Hon. John Randolph Thayer, ex-con-
gressman, was born in Douglas, Massachusetts,
March 9, 1845, son of Mowry Richardson and Har-
riet (Morse) Thayer (7), and grandson of John
and Ruth (Mowry) Thayer. Of this line of the
Thayer family for three generations down to him-
self, he was the first to choose a professional life.

He was left an orphan at the age of fifteen, to
which time his school days were passed in his native
town. At the age of si.xteen he became a student
at Nichols Academy in Dudley, where he fitted for
college. In 1865 he entered Yale College, at New
Haven, Connecticut, and graduated four years later
with far above average standing in his class. While
at college he took much interest in athletics, and
rowed in his class crew. He belonged to various
college societies, and was quite a favorite among the
students.

Immediately after his graduation Mr. Thayer
came to Worcester and at once began the study
of law with the law Judge Henry Chapin, and in
1871 was admitted to the bar. During his early
practice he was associated first with Judge Hartley
Williams, later with W. A. Williams and afterward
formed a partnership with Charles S. Chapin, the
firm being styled Thayer & Chapin. In 1S85 he
formed a partnership with .Arthur P. Rugg. which
co-partnership has continued under the name of
Thayer & Rugg to the present time. From the be-
ginning of his professional life Mr. Thayer has
enjoyed a lucrative practice, and has tried many im-
portant cases, including six capital cases. Some
lawyers succeed best before juries hut fail when
addressing their argument to the judge alone: but
not so with him of wdiom we write, for before the
highest courts, wdiere strictly legal questions are
involved, he has achieved signal success. A logical
reasoner and well read in law. he commands the
attention and respect of the justices of the highest
courts. Of late years his special practice has been
in civil cases.

Not unlike other fellow attorneys, he early took
a deep iiUerest in political affairs. He has been in
great demand as a campaign speaker for the
last thirty years and more, and, gifted hi,- nature
as an interesting and impressive orator, ever
holds the clo.-:est attention of his audiences.

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As an indication of the admiration in which
he is held for his manliness of character,
it need only be remarked that whenever he has been
a candidate for public position, his majorities have
been mucli larger than his party vote would have
promised. If one trait be stronger than another in
his well-balanced make-up, it is his earnest belief
ni the civil equality of all men, and their everyday
rights, whether as laborer or capitalist. His friend-
ship when once made becomes part of his life, and
unfailing as it is strong. His is a true friend-
ship, a genuine fraternal regard not often found
among the politicians of modern times.

For four years Mr. Thayer served as a member
of the common council in the city of Worcester,
and the same number of years on the board of alder-
men. For two terms (1880-81) he was a repre-
sentative in the general court, serving on the
judiciary committee, one of the most important in
that body. His work was effective among the leaders
of the house in both sessions. The people set a
high value upon his services, and in 1890 and 1891
he was elected to the state senate, although the sena-
torial district was naturally Republican by more
than two thousand plurality. He ranked among
the most active and influential leaders of the senate
during both terms of his service. Another evidence
of his strong hold upon the regard of his fellow
townsmen is afforded in the fact that notwithstand-
ing his city is strongly of another political belief
than that which he advocates, when he was nom-
inated for mayor of Worcester he received the larg-
est vote ever given up to that time to a Demo-
cratic candidate for that position. When he was put
forward as the candidate of his party for a seat in
congress, in 1892, against Hon. J. H. Walker, he
wanted only seven hundred and eighty-four votes
of being elected, while at the same election the
Democratic candidate for president ran three thou-
sand behind the Republican nominee in that con-
gressional district. His party friends felt such en-
couragement that they believed his, election to con-
gress could be accomplished, and in l8g8 he became
a candidate against Mr. Walker, who had held his
seat for ten years, and this time Mr. Thayer was
elected by a plurality of one hundred and sixty-seven
votes, while the Democratic candidate for governor
ran more than eight thousand votes behind the Re-
publican candidate in the district.

His conduct while representing his district in
congress was not only above reproach, but he ac-
quitted himself so capably and with such integrity
as to win the admiration of both political parties.
Elected as he was from a Republican district, he
never shirked the labors and responsibilities of look-
ing after the best interests of the district at large
and of the entire people, and made many personal
friends even among his political opponents. His
courtesy was extended in behalf of every constit-
uent, regardless of his political affiliations. In brief,
the important district which he had the honor to
represent in congress enjoyed the services of a clean,
honorable, progressive, painstaking and capable ad-
vocate during the six years he occupied his seat,
he being re-elected twice, the last time with a ma-
jority of nearly eight hundred, which was five
times the majority he received at his first election.
He voluntarily retired at the expiration of his third
term, though strongly urged by leadin.e representa-
tives of both political parties to accept another nom-
ination. He was succeeded by Hon. Rockwood Hoar,
son of the late lamented Senator George F. Hoar.
Mr. Thayer is recognized a^ one of the most force-
ful Democratic leaders in Massachusetts, and while

he takes much pride in tracing his Democracy
through three generations, he is one of the most
independent thinkers and actors in public life at the
present time.

Mr. Thayer possesses a strong and magnetic ■
personality, and with it great w'ill power, but con-
trolled by a most kindly tempered disposition, en-
abling him to make and retain the constant friend-
ship of a wide circle of his fellow-men. While his
brain is ever active, and his mental powers find
constant exercise, he is wise in that he takes occa-
sion to turn from his multiplied duties and care
for his physical manhood by interesting himself in
various sports and amusements. For twelve years
he was president of the Worcester Sportsmen's Club,
which comprises in its membership about one hun-
dred and eighty sportsmen who give their atten-
tion principally to fox hunting. It cannot be af-
firmed that he is a society man, for aside from his
college fraternities he has never connected himself
with any of the many civic, military or secret or-
ganizations of his day.

Mr. Thayer is happy in the possession of a most
interesting family. He married, January 30, 1872,
Charlotte D. Holmes, daughter of Pitt and Diana
(Perrin) Holmes. Their six children are: Henry
Holmes, born November 25, 1873; John Mowry,
January 4, 1875; Charlotte Diana, May 8, 1879;
Marguerite Elizabeth. February 2, 1881 ; Mary Per-
rin, February 7, 1885; Edward Carrington, Octo-
ber 2, 1893.

CIII) Benjamin Thayer, son of Ferdinando (2),
by wife Hannah Haywood, had among other chil-
dren,

(IV) Aaron Thayer, who married Jemima Cook,
in 1738. Their son

(V) Benjamin Thayer, born April 16, 1744, mar-
ried first Sarah Bosworth, in 1767, and second Ruth
Alden. in 1793.

(VI) Cushman Thayer, son of Benjamin Thayer
(5), married Miranda Pond in 1818. by whom sev-
eral children were born.

(VII) Hon. Eli Thayer, son of Cushman Thayer
(6), born in Mendon. Massachusetts, June 11, 1819.
He is si.xth in descent from John Alden, who came
in the "Mayflower." through Ruth, daughter of Rev.
Noah Alden, of Bellingham, who married his grand-
father. Benjamin Thayer.

Eli obtained his "early education in the old
fashioned common schools of Mendon and at
Bellingham high school. Later he attended the
academy at Amherst and the Manual Labor school,
now the Worcester .-Academy. In 1835-6 he taught
a school in Douglas, and the next four years clerked
in his father's store in Millville. In 1840 he en-
tered the Manual Labor school to fit for Brown
L'niversity. and entered as a student there in the
autumn of that year. In 1842 he taught school at
Hopkinton, Rhode Island. In September. 1844. he
took charge of the boys' high school at Providence,
receiving $600 for the balance of that year. It had
been an unruly school, but he became complete
master of every pirpil. He graduated from Brown
University in T845, second in his class. He im-
mediatelv came to Worcester to accept a position
in the Acadetny and soon became its principal. The
same year he bought land on what was styled Goat
Hill, at $150 per acre, and began the erection of
the building called the Oread, which was com-
pleted in 1852. Here he established the famous
school for young women, which he conducted with
much success, until he entered upon his well-known
work as congressman. He served in the legislature
in 1853-54, when he introduced a bill to incorporate

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the Bank of Mutual Redemption. It was in 1854
that Mr. Thayer accomplished the great and his-
toric act of his life, in originating the plan which
saved Kansas and other territories to freedom and
settled the destiny of the nation; for had the
southern leaders then secured this territory for
slavery, it would have held it long years and no
rebellion would have followed and the slave would
not have been free, at least for many decades. It
\yas at a meeting to protest against the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, held in the old city hall
at Worcester, March 11, 1S54, that Mr. Thayer an-
nounced his celebrated "Plan of Freedom." He at
once secured an act to incorporate the Massachu-
setts Emigrant Aid Company, and prior to the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise, he hired a hall
in Boston and began speaking day and night, to
further his course of sending emigration to Kansas,
but it was difficult to arouse enthusia.'sm and make
up the first Kansas Colony. He traveled much, ad-
dressed many thousands of people, but soon after
the departure of the first colony in 1854, there was
no trouble, and the south soon awoke to the fact
that it had a power to contend with. The border
war in Kansas began and the powers at Washington
abandoned the fight at the close of 1856.

In the fall of 1856 Mr. Thayer was elected to a
seat in congress from the Worcester district, and
at once took a leading place in national matters.
He was ever a great advocate of colonization of the
colored men, whom he divided to be set off in Cen-
tral America, or other localities, thus freeing our
own republic of the curse entailed upon us by the
slave trade. His speeches on "Suicide of Slavery"
and on the admission of Oregon, brought great
fame to him. In i860, after a most e.xciting can-
vass, he failed of re-election by a narrow majority.

The south end of Worcester owes much to him
for the matter of developing its domain, for manu-
facturing purposes. It was nearly fifty years ago
that he was instrumental in the erection of the
large shops called the Adriatic mills. He laid out
streets and improved several tracts in that neigh-
borhood. He was the author of "The Kansas
Crusade," a graphic, valuable historic work. He
also wrote much for newspapers and magazines,
concerning the great times which tired men's
souls.

(V) Benjamin Thayer and wife Sarah Bos-
worth. Their seventh child

(\T) Benjamin Thayer, married Rachel Wales,
1802 : settled in Mendon, Massachusetts. Their
eighth child

(VII) Davis Thayer, born October 13, 1817,
in Mendon, married. April 15, 1845, Sarah, daugh-
ter of Jonathan and Sarah Grout. Mrs. Thayer
was born February 13, 1820. They had one son and
two daughters. Mr. Thayer died in Worcester,
April i.^, 1895.

(VIII) Charles Davis Thayer, son of Davis
Thayer and grandson of Benjamin Thayer, was
born in Worcester, July 7, 1850. his father being
buried on his fiftieth wedding anniversary day. For
many years he was the private gardener for Colonel
Isaac Davis, mayor of Worcester. For a quarter of
a centurv he conducted a market garden. In i86g he
sold out and settled on Pleasant street, continuing
his agricultural pursuits for pleasure. April i^,
1845, he married Sarah A. Grout. Three children
were born of this union, one of whom, Idella Grout,
died May 2, 1870, aged about seven years. The
others were : Charles D. and Anna E.

Charles Davis Thayer was educated at Wor-
cester, graduating from Highland University Mili-

tary Academy, July 9, 1869, where for two years
he had been an officer in the corps. He drilled and
was an honorary member of the Worcester Liglit
Infantry. He clerked for his uncle, Jonathan
Grout, bookseller, a short time, and when nine-
teen years old engaged in his present business,
agriculture, horticulture and florist. He began
without capital, indeed had to borrow a thousand
dollars, paying more than seven per cent interest.
He at once began his greenhouse work. F^or a short
time he employed his father, a man of experience,
to assist him. Today his greenhouse is among the
most extensive of any in the great commonwealth.
From time to time he had added to his real estate,
including a part of the Greendale estate ; also the
"Liberty F'arm" of seventy acres, known as the
Abby Kelly Foster property. The latter he con-
verted into a dairy farm, selling milk to city cus-
tomers. His possessions are now wide and valua-
ble. He is a member of the Worcester County Agri-
cultural Society and Horticultural Society; the Wor-
cester Grange, of which he has been chaplain. He
has also been conuiiander of Cavalry, Conimandery
H. and I. Order, Knights of Malta ; and first lieu-
tenant of Company A of the Worcester Continentals.
Politically he uniformly supports the principles of
the Republican party.

Mr. Thayer married, December g, 1874, Nellie
W'yman, who was born in Newburyport, Massa-
chusetts, but reared in Worcester. Her father was
a thriving flour merchant in Worcester. He was a
noted Abolitionist in his yoimger days and later
a strong Republican. He died June, 1895, aged
seventy-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Thayer are the
parents of seven children, of whom two died young.
Willie, second-born, died when he was seven years
old, and Leon in infancy. The others were ; Al-
fred D., Joseph F., Mary W., Charles D., Jr. and
Sarah G.

(V) Benjamin Thayer and second wife, Ruth
Alden, had four children, one of them,

(\T) Alden Thayer, born December 27, 1796,
brother of Cushman, married Silance McNama,
.-Vpril 6, 1821. Their son,

(VTI) Alden Thayer, born February 3, 1826,
married Martha C. Knowdes. in 1850.

Alden Thayer, Jr., son of Alden Thayer, Sr.,
was born February 3, 1826, at Mendon, Massa-
chusetts, where he spent his boyhood days, com-
pletmg his education at Worcester Baptist School,
taking the civil engineering course. On leaving
school he found employment as surveyor's assistant
in making surveys for the Boston & Worcester Rail-
way. He gave this up and clerked in his father's
store in Worcester ; he having recently removed
from his farm at Mendon and engaged in business,
in 1850 he bought a business of his own, which
increased, and he sought better and more spacious
quarters from time to time, and finally became a
leader among Worcester merchants. When his son
became of age he was admitted as a partner. The
entire business was sold in 1884, when Alden
Thayer retired to a beautiful home at Tatnuck and
there spent the remainder of his days. He was
ever known as a man of correct habits and con-
scientious and one who made few mistakes. Being
a foremost Baptist, he aided in building up the
Dewey Street Church. He died in 1889. Martha C.
Knowles became his wife in 1850. Their children
w-ere: Ida. Walter L., George A.. Charles Austin,
Sarah Maud, Lsadore Grace, and Lucius.

George Alden Thayer, son of Alden and Martha
C. (Knowles) Thayer, was born in Worcester.
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Boylston, but later came to Worcester and en-
gaged in trade. He died in l88g at Tatnuck, pos-
sessed of the esteem of all who knew him. George
Alden passed his youth in Worcester, attending the
public schools. He then spent seven years as book-
keeper for a pork-packing house, and three years
more at Swift & Company's branch at Ithaca, New
York, as resident manager. We next find him as-
sociated with his father at Worcester, who then con-
ducted the largest grocery in the city. This busi-
ness was sold in 1884, when George Alden en-
gaged in the meat and provision business, con-
ducting the same until 1890. when his real estate
interests demanded his whole time and he sold out.
In 1884 he married Eliza A. Rice, by whom were
born : Ida May, Ralph T.. Helen and Carl A.
Mr. Thayer died February 13, 1893. Of a genial,
warm-hearted nature, he easily made friends, and
had the happy trait of keeping them his admirers.
When very young he united with the Baptist church
and was ever a devout Christian. Like his father
he was a great Bible student.

RODNEY HAYWARD DAVIS. Dolor Davis
(1), the emigrant ancestor of Rodney Hay ward
Davis, of Worcester, was one of the prominent
pioneers in both colonies. His posterity is very
numerous and among them have been some very dis-
tinguished men, namely : Hon. John Davis, governor
and United States senator, and Hon. John D. Long,
governor, congressman, and secretary of the navy.
He married, in County Kent, England, March 29,
1624, Margery Willard, daughter of Richard Willard,
of Horsemonden, County Kent, yeoman. She was
baptized at Horsemonden, November 7, 1602, and
died before 1667. Dolor Davis, accompanied by his
wife, three children, and Simon Willard, his wife's
brother, came from England to New England and
settled prior to August 4, 1634, in Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts. Simon Willard was one of the founders
of Concord; he was captain of foot in 1646. major
in 1654, and at his death in 1673 "the colony lost
one of its most distinguished members." Dolor
Davis was a carpenter and master builder. He re-
received first grant of land in Cambridge, June 4.
1635, and others later. He removed to Duxbury,
August 5, 1638-39, was admitted a freeman, and was
granted land there in 1640. He was a resident of
Barnstable in 1643, and was admitted a freeman
there, June 2, 1646. He was honored in Barnstable
with various public offices, including those of high-
way surveyor and constable. He and his wife were
dismissed from the Duxbury to the Barnstable
church, August 27, 1648. In 1656 he left Plymouth
colony and returned to Massachusetts Bay, and pur-
chased in Concord one hundred and fifty acres with
a house thereon. In 1666, however, he returned to
Barnstable and died there, in June, 1673. His will
was made September 13, 1672, and proved July 2,
1673. It mentions sons Simon and Samuel as al-
ready having their portions ; eldest son John ; son-
in-law Lewis and Mary his wife ; and daughter Ruth
Hall.

Children of Dolor and Margery (Willard) Davis
were : John, born in England about 1626. to whom
was bequeathed the Concord homestead ; Mary, born
in England aliout 1631 ; Elizabeth; Lieutenant Simon,
see forward ; Samuel, settled in Concord and
Bedford, Ruth, born in Barnstable. March 24.

1645-

(II) Lieutenant Simon Davis, son of Dolor and
Margery (Willard) Davis, was born in America,
and died in Concord. June 14. 1713. aged seventy-
seven years. His will was proved July 3, 1713. His

liomestead was near his father's house on a farm
given him by his father. He was one of Captain
Thomas Wheeler's troopers in the expedition of
1675 to the Nipmuck country, and he took command
when the captain was wounded. He received his
commission as lieutenant. July 2, 1689. He was
admitted a freeman, March 21, 1699. He was deputy
to the general court in 1689-90-92-1705. He married,
December 12, 1660, Mary Blood, daughter of James
and Eleanor Blood, born at Concord, July 12, 1640.
Their children were: Dr. Simon, see forward; Mary,
born October 3, 1663, married Deliverance Wheeler,
of Stow; Sarah, March 11 or 15, 1666, married
Thomas Wheeler; James, January 19, 1668; Eleanor,
October 22. 1672; Ebenezer, June i. 1676; Hannah.
April I, 1679. married Samuel Blood.

(III) Dr. Simon Davis, eldest son of Lieutenant
Simon and Mary (Blood) Davis, was born in Con-
cord. Massachusetts, October 12, 1661. He settled
in Concord and was one of the distinguished phy-
sicians of his day. The children of Dr. Simon Davis
were; Dr. John, see forward; Simon, born Sep-
tember 7, 1692, married, June l, 1719, Hannah
Bacon; Henry, February 23, 1694; Elizabeth, March
28, 1695. died November 15. 1706; Mary, Novem-
ber 8. 1701 ; Samuel. March 6. 1703, see forward;
Eleanor. March 4. 1705-06 ; Peter, September 25,
1707, probably removed to Rutland.

(IV) Dr. John Davis, eldest son of Dr. Simon
Davis, lived in Concord and Acton. He was born
in Concord, Massachusetts, November 19, 1689, and
died November 16, 1762. He married. December
17. 1713 ; Abigail Dudley, and their children were;
John, born July 15, 1714, died young; Ezekiel. see
forward; Micah. February 15, 1720; Isaac. Oct\)ber
24. 1723; Abigail, March 22, 1726-27; Samuel, April
23. 1730. resided at Acton; John, June i, 1735. of
Acton. Dr. John Davis was the grandfather of
Captain Isaac Davis, who was killed in the Con-
cord fight. In order to show the relationsliip with
the Worcester family the line will be continued.

(V) Ezekial Davis, or as the old records almost
invariably give the name down to the last century
(1800) Davies. son of Dr. John and Abigail (Dud-
ley) Davis, was born in Concord, Massachusetts,
June 8, 1717. He settled in Acton. He married his
third cousin. Mary Gibson, daughter of Abraham
Gibson (4), granddaughter of Deacon Timothy Gib-
son (3). great-granddaughter of John Gibson, Jr.
(2). and great-great-granddaughter of John Gibson
(i). The children of Ezekial and Mary (Gibson)
Davis were ; Isaac, see forward ; Mary, born Novem-
ber 21. 1746; Sarah, married Stephen Hosmer,
brother of Abner Hosmer, who was killed in the
Concord fight; Ruth. February 19. 1751; Sergeant
Ezekial. born in Acton, June 8. 1753, was in his
brother's company in the fight at Concord ; Josiah.
Tune 14, 1755. was a revolutionarv soldier in Captain

Israel Heald's company. Colonel Eleazer Brooks' regi-
ment ; Rebecca, September IX, 1757; Lois. April 7,
1760; Abraham, February 10. 1764; Olive. October
29, 1765.

(VI) Captain Isaac Davis, eldest son of Ezekial
and Mary (Gibson) Davis, was born at Acton.
Mas'=achusetts. February 23, 1744-45. and was killed
at the fight at North Bridge (Concord). .'Xpril 19.
1775, at the head of his company, the first officer
Ivilled in the revolution. He joined the church,
February 10. 1765. His old homestead is or was
lately owned by Charles Wheeler. It is located about
eighty rods southwest of the present site of Deacon
W. W. Davis's house. Two fine old elms that were
planted by Captain Davis still mark the location,
on the opposite side of the road from where the

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house stood, in which the Acton company gathered
to go to Lexington, and in which the funeral of the
three victims was held. Captain Davis, the man who
headed the first column against the King's troops
in the revolutionary war, was early on the ground
with thirty-eight Acton minute men, and in the
hesitancy of older officers to attack the British regu-
lars drew his sw'ord and said : "I am not afraid ;
I haven't a man that's afraid to go." He led two
companies from Concord, two from Bedford, and
one from Lincoln besides his own. They advanced
to the bridge to the tune of "The White Cockade.'J
He was the first to fall. The other two victims ot
the fight were friends, neighbors and relatives. Abner
Hosmer, son of Deacon Jonathan Hosmer, was
twenty-two years old, and engaged to be married.
Sarah Davis married his brother, Stephen Hosmer.
James Hayward. son of Deacon Samuel Hayvvard,
was killed after the battle, near Fiske Hill, on the
road from Concord to Lexington. He lived eight
hours after he was shot. .\ monument was erected
by the town and state jointly in 185 1 to the memory
of Captain Davis and his two soldiers, Hosmer and
Hayward, and their remains were placed under the
memorial. Captain Davis married, October 24, 1764,
Hannah Brown, born in 1746.

(HI) Lieutenant Simon Davis, son of Samuel
Davis (2), grandson of Dolor Davis (i), was the
progenitor of many of the Rutland and Holden
Davis families.

(IV) Samuel Davis, sixth cliild of Dr. Simon
Davis (3). was born in Concord, Massachusetts.
March 6, 1703, died in Acton, July 4, 1800. He re-
moved to Acton when a young man and was already
there when the town was incorporated in 17.35. His
homestead was on the Stow and Carlisle road, in

1735. He married Sarah . who died in .^cton,

April 13, 1801. and their children were: Elijah,
see forward : David, settled in Acton ; Rev. Nathan.
see forward ; a son, lived in Boston : Sarah, born Oc-
tober, 1741 in Acton; probably others. Rev. Nathan
Davis, third child was born in Cambridge. Massachu-
setts, November 30. 1737. He graduated from Harvard
College, 1759, and became minister at Dracut. No-
vember 20, 1765. He was dismissed at his own re-
<iuest in 1785 and removed to Boston. He was
chaplain at Ft. Independence, also review officer.
He died March 4. 1803, aged sixty-five years. In
the Harvard catalogue his name is spelled Davies.
He received the degree of Master of Arts.

fV) Elijah Davis, son of Samuel (4) and Sarah
Davis, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, May 21,
1753. died May 7, 18.32, aged seventy-nine years.
He was a private in Captain Israel Heald's com-
pany. Colonel Eleazer Brooks' regiment, and was
on guard duty at Cambridge in 1776. Later in the
year he was in Captain John Minot's company.
Colonel Dike's regiment, at Dorchester. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Hayward. a relative of James Hay-
ward. who gave his life in the fight at Concord,
and they settled in Acton, in which town all their
children were born. The names of their children
were as follows : Betsey, lived in Townsend : Sam-
tiel, died young: Mary, died young: Sarah, died
young: Elijah, died in Worcester. March 24. 1S44.
aged forty-seven years; Sarah, married Benjamin
Peabodv. of Dracut ; Samuel, see forward : Nathan,
■ lived in Townsend. Massachusetts.

(VI) Samuel Davis, seventh child of Elijah (5)
and Elizabeth (Hayward) Davis, was born in .■\cton.
Massachusetts, December iS. 1806, died in Worcester,
Massachusetts. November r, 1892. He learned the
carpenter trade in Acton, .\fter serving his ap-
prenticeship he worked in Lowell, Massachusetts,

and Saco. Maine. He came to Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, 1828, and entered the employ of Wash-
burn & Goddard, making woolen machinery on School
street. He afterwards bought out Washburn &
Goddard, and conducted the business himself for a
number of years. Afterwards he sold this busi-
ness to Henry Goulding, and then entered the firm
of Nourse, Mason & Company, agricultural manu-
facturers, at Court Mills, which is now the Ames
Plow Company. He held a number of public offices
In 1847 he was town surveyor ; was one of the last
three selectmen before Worcester was-made a city;
was a member of the house of representatives in
1848. and an alderman of the city under Mayor
Richardson. He was interested in the early develop-
ment of real estate in Worcester, being instrumental
in making State street. Harvard .■■treet. Exchange
street. Oak avenue and other streets in the thickly
settled parts of Worcester.

He declared his intentions of marriage, December
3, 1829, and married, December ,30, 1829, in Mill-
bury. Massachusett.s. Selina E. Stockwell. born in
Sutton. Massachusetts. February 24. 1809, died in
Worcester, Massachusetts, January 22, 1889, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth (Walker) Stockwell, of
Sutton. Their children were: Rodney Hayward,
born April 2, 1831. died October 2, 1852; he was
drowned at sea between San Francisco and China ;
he was an officer in the clipper ship "Shooting Star;"
Frances Emily, born February 2$. 1833. died Au-
gust 26. 1833 ; Samuel Everard, see forward ; Selina
Elizabeth, born November 23, 1841, died October 13,
1884.

(VII) Samuel Everard Davis, third child of Sam-
uel (6) and Selina E. (Stockwell) Davis, was born
in Worcester. Massachusetts. Novemljer 20. 1838,
died in Worcester. July 14. 1893. As a boy he at-
tended the Sumner and Thomas street schools in
Worcester. After leaving these schools he went to
Berlin Academy, and from there to Norwich Uni-
versity, Vermont. He spent two years in France,
and upon his return to Worcester, Massachusetts,
entered the employ of Nourse. Mason & Company,
agricultural manufacturers, at Court Mills. He later
went to Boston with the Frank Holbrook Company,
dealers in agricultural implements, where he re-
mained until he moved back to Worcester in 1878.
With Dorrance S. Goddard and Charles S. Hall he
bought forty acres of land on Belmont street, near
Eastern avenue, which they developed for build-
ing purposes. He was interested in this work at
the time of his death.

He married, at Dorchester, Massachusetts (Bos-
ton), June 16. 1864. Hannah Caroline Robinson, born
in Dorchester. January 29. 1836, a graduate of the
Dorchester high school. 1855.

Hannah Caroline (Robinson) Davis traces her
ancestry to James Robinson (l), wdio came from
England about 1660 and settled in Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts. He married Mary Alcock. From them the
line is traced to John Robinson (2), who married
Ruth Burt. John Robinson, Jr. (3), who married
Susannah Williams. James Robinson (4) a soldier
in the revolution in Captain Ebenezer Withington's
companv of Dorchester, married Sarah Breck.
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