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HISTORIC HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS

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GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS

WORCESTER COUNTY

MASSACHUSETTS

WITH A HISTORY OF

WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY

PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

ELLERY BJCKNELL 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 families deserve th the hi,
praise. Herein consisteth a part of the knowledge of a man's own self. It is a great spur to
virtue to look back on the work of 'oiirjines."' — Lord Baitin.

There is no heroic poem in Che world but, is ^i!' tl'ic tott'cm the life of a man." — Sir
. Walter Scott.

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DRAPER FAMILY. Thomas Draper (i),
progenitor of the Draper family, of Hopedale, Mas-
sachusetts, and father of the immigrant ancestor,
lived and died in the parish of Heptonstall,
Vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He be-
longed to an ancient and numerous family, named
originally doubtless for the occupation. Thomas
Draper, indeed, was a clothier by occupation. His
children were: Thomas, John, William, James,
mentioned below, Mary and Martha. All were born
in Heptonstall, and James alone came to New
England.

(H) James Draper, son of Thomas Draper (i),
was born in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England, in
1618. He came to New- England about the time
he came of age, and from 1640 to 1650 was a pioneer
and proprietor of the town of Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts, tie became a proprietor of Lancaster in
1654, but lived and died at Roxbury. He was sev-
enty-three years old when he died, July, 1694. His
grave in the old churchyard there is marked by a
stone. He was admitted a freeman in 1690. From
his exceedingly strict piety he was known in his
day as James, the Puritan, and as such he is still
known to genealogists and historians. He was the
owner of several looms and he followed his trade
as clothier in this country. He married Miriam
Stansfield, April 21, 1646, at Heptonstall. England.
She was born there November 27, 1625. the daughter
of Gideon and Grace (Eastwood) Stansfield. Miriam
(Stansfield) died at Roxburj-, December-January,
1697. Her gravestone at Roxbury states: "Here
lyes ye body of ]Mrs. }\Iarrian Draper, wife of 'Sir.
James Draper, aged about 77 years Dec. -Jan. 1697."
The stone appears to be one of the oldest in the
cemetery.

The children of James and Miriam Draper were:
Miriam, born in England. February 7, 1646-47, died
there; Susannah, 1650, at Roxbury. married John
Bacon, of Charlcstown ; Sarah. 1652. at Roxbury;
James, mentioned below; John. April 24, 1656, at
Dedham, Massachusetts, died .April 5, 1749; Moses,
September 26, 1663. at Dedham, died August 14,
1693, at Boston ; Daniel. May 30, 1665, at Dedham,
died there ; Patience, August 17, 1668, at Roxbury :
Jonathan. March 10, 1670. at Roxbur\-, married
Sarah Jackson ; died at Roxbury, February 28,
1746-47.

(HI) James Draper, fourth child of James
Draper (i), was born in Ro.xbury, Massachusetts,
1654. and died there April 30. 1698. aged forty-four
years. He married .\bigail Whitney, a descendant
of John and Elinor Whitney, for whom see sketch
elsewhere in this work. She dted in Roxbury, Octo-
ber 25. 1721, aged fifty-nine years. The gravestones
of both are to be found in the Roxbury graveyard,
now in Boston. He was a soldier in King Phi-lip's
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war in 1675-76. Their children were : Abigail, Na-
thaniel. William, Eunice, James, mentioned below,
Gideon and Ebenezer.

(IV) James Draper, son of James Draper (3),
was born about 1694 at Dedham, Massachusetts,
and died there April 24, 1768. aged seventy-seven
years. He married (first). May 2, 1716, Rachel
Aldis. He married (second), November 12,

1719, Abigail Child. They settled in Ded-
ham. He was a manufacturer and farmer.
The wife Abigail was noted for her musical
talent. This James Draper was prominent in the
military afiiairs of the colony and captain of the
Dedham Company. Four of their children, James,
Abigail, John and Joshua, settled in Spencer, Massa-
chusetts, and have many descendants there and in the
vicinity. James and Joshua, the sons, settled there on
lots thirty-three and thirty-four, bought by their
father in 1736. The wife Abigail died November 12,
1767. Their children were : James, September 22,

1720. died March 1781 ; Abigail, December 12, 1721,
married Henry White: John, June 16, 1723, died
November S, 1748; Joshua, December 25, 1724;
Josiah, April 23, 1726, died August 18, same year;
Josiah, September 12, 1727, died September, IJ^JI
Rebecca, June 30, 1729; Mary, September 84r'^3l ;
Abijah, July 13, 1734. died November 18, 1734;
Abijah, July II, 1735. died February 13, 1737;
Abijah, May 10, 1737, died May i, 1780, mentioned
below; Samuel, December 5, 1740, died November
29, 1750.

(V) Abijah Draper, son of James Draper (4),
was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, May 10, 1737,
and died May I, 1780. He married. April 8. 1762,
.Alice Eaton, daughter of John and Elizabeth Eaton.
She was born January 31, 1741, and died January
22, 1777. He lived in Dedham where he was a
farmer. He was an active patriot before and during
the revolution, and was major of the First Suffolk
Regiment with active service in the revolution. The
children of Major Abijah and Alice were: Abijah,
born June II. 1763. died December 16, 1774; Ira.
mentioned below; Rufus, November 27, 1766, died
at Norfolk, Virginia, November 18, 1788; James,
born April 14. 1769; Alice. April 13, 1771, married
Ebenezer Daggett, died in New Boston. New Hamp-
shire, aged eighty-one years; Abijah. September 22,
1778. By second wife. Desire Metcalf, married
March 25, 1778, one daughter, Lendamine, born
March ,30, 1780, died October 26, 1823.

(VI) Ira Draper, son of Abijah Draper (5),
was born December 29, 1764. He settled in Weston,
Massachusetts. "He was," said Rev. Mr. Ballou,
"a man of large natural intelligence, mechanical
ingenuity and progressive thought." He invented a
loom temole, which was introduced by his sons,
thus starting the familv in the line of cotton nia-

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thinery improvement. He died January 22,
;i848, over eighty-four years of age. He mar-
;ried (first), May 31, 17S6, Lydia Richards,
-daughter of Lemuel and Rebecca Richards. She
■was born January 21, 1768, and died September 11,
.1811. He married (second) her sister, March 9,
.1812. She was born September 12, 1783, and died
JVIarch 3, 1847. The children of Ira and Lydia
.Draper were: i. James, born May 28, 1787, lived
;and died in Wayland, Massachusetts. 2. Ira, Jr.,
January 4, 1789, died June, 1845. 3. Rufus, August
30, 1790, died September 4, of same year. 4. Daugh-
ter, August 7, 1791. 5. Son, December 17, 1793.
6. Lucy C, June 17, 1797, died September 15, 1800.
.7. Rufus Foster, July 12, 1800, died October 13,
1841, married Polly Heminway. 8. Abijah, Janu-
.ary 5, 1S02, died October 4. same year. 9. Abijah,
Kovember 15, 1S03, died December 21, 1828. 10.
Daughter, December l, 1807. The children of Ira
and Abigail Draper were: 11. Ebenezer Daggett,
mentioned below. 12. Lydia, March 31, 1815, died
April 4, 1847, married John Edmunds. 13. (jeorge,
mentioned below. 14. Abigail. October 24. 1819,
• died July 22, 1847, married William W. Cook. 15.
.Lemue Richards, December i, 1823, married Lydia
M. Mansfield. 16 Lucy R., December 22, 1826.
■died July, 1827.

(VII) Ebenezer Daggett Draper, son of Ira
T)raper (6), was born at Weston, Massachusetts,
.June 13, 1813. He settled in U.xbridge. and attended
the First Church (Unitarian) of Mendon, Massa-
>chusetts. of which Rev. Adin Ballou was the pastor.
"When Mr. Ballou originated the Hopedale com-
munity, Ebenezer became a member and joined
Rev. and Mrs. Ballou on the old Jones farm
in Milford, now Hopedale. The locality had
been known from early times as the Dale.
The new owners prefixed the word Hope. The
society was called Fraternal Community No. I,
and afterward simply The Hopedale Community.
The community began practical operations imme-
diately after April i, 1842 "with a joint stock capi-
:tal of less than four thousand dollars on a worn-out
farm of two hundred and fifty-eight acres in a
-single time-shattered mansion, nearly one hundred
and twenty years old with a few rickety out-
buildings" Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Draper came there
about a year later, and they were main pillars of the
institution until its decadence. Mr. Draper succeed-
ing Mr. Ballou as the president.

The objects of the community were sumnie I up
thus by Mr. Ballou: "Its chief originator and his
associates were Independent Restorationists in
theology and moral reformers — believers in the
Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of man and
the religion of Jesus Qirist, as he taught and ex-
emplified it, according to the Scriptures of the New
Testament. And they became seized with a deeply
religious and rational ambition to carry their faith
logically into practice, socially as well as individually.
Their premises and conclusions were invulnerable
to just criticism. They were all teetotal temperance
people, thorough Abolitionists of the non-political
type, sincere believers in the co-equal rights of the
sexes, and devoted christian non-resistants, eschew-
ing all forms of deadly and harmful force against
human beings, even the worst. They ardently de-
sired to commence an order of society and civiliza-
tion on this basis, wherein systematic practice should
not persistently contradict and nullify gospel theory,
but concordantly exemplify it." The community
grew steadily and seemed successful for nearly four-
teen years, increasing to a membership of a hundred
with three hundred inhabitants dwelling in fifty
liouses, owning five hundred acres with "a respectable

array of homely but serviceable mills, shops and
conveniences. They had also a school house, chapel
and library, a handsome village site where good
streets had been built and the capital had grown to
$90,000." "There was not an idler or spendthrift
among us. All worked and saved. The community
gave away freely to others. It was not merely self-
sustaining, but an unselfish and beneficent one, made
up of intelligent, rational, industrious, economical,
orderly and charitable people." In 1856 when the
future seemed to promise much to the conmiunity, •
Mr. Draper, the president, in his annual address,
said : "I hope and believe that with our past ex-
perience and present advantages, we shall continue
to increase in love and wisdom, and so become more
and more a light to those around us — proving to the
world that Christian Socialism opens a more ex-
cellent way in which men may live together as social
beings, and that it gives us, as it will all who yield
to its saving power, peace and good will to one
another and to the whole human race." Yet in
less than two months the financial report convinced
Mr. Draper and his brother George, who together
owned three-fourths of the joint stock, that the
community was impracticable. George Draper had
only recently joined the community. To the great
disappointment of the founder, who never abandoned
his belief in the practicability of the idea, the busi-
ness of the community passed into private hands.
The business interests were taken over by Ebenezer
D. and George Draper, and formed the cornerstone
of the great industrial structure they and their suc-
cessors have erected in Hopedale. They paid all the
debts and bought in outstanding stock at par. At
least some of the credit for this model American
manufacturing village, this model manufacturing
plant, is due to the community of which the two
Drapers were the two most prominent laymen.

During the most important years of errly develop-
ment Ebenezer D. Draper was an important factor
in the concern. When he joined the community in
1842 he w-as worth about $5,000; in 1852 when he
•entered the partnership with his brother he was
worth $30,000. while (George had less than $5,000.
Both gained rapidly, and in 1868 when they dis-
solved partnership the senior brother was worth
$125,000, and George was worth over a hundred
thousand. Their business had expanded rapidly.
The growth of the business from this point belongs
vnder the sketch of the younger brother. Ebenezer
D. Draper became interested in the American Steam
Fire Proof Safe Company, of Boston, and in 1870
lie removed to Boston and disposed of his Hopedale
property. He lost all of his capital in his new enter-
prise.

He married (first). September 11, 1834, Anna
Thwing, daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Mowry)
Thwing. She was born December 23. 1814, and
<lied January 30. 1S70, at Hopedale. They had no
children of their own. but adopted the following:
I. Ida Anna, born July 12, 1828, died July 12,
1833. at Hopedale. 2. Mary Anna. August 15, 1852;
reidcs in Boston. 3. Charles Henry Eaton, son of
Rev. Henry Eaton., once pastor of the Pearl Street
Univcrsalist Society of Milford: his name was not
changed : he graduated at Tufts College in 1875 ;
from Tufts Divinity School in 1877; was soon set-
tled at Palmer; succeeded Dr. Chapin in New York
city.

Ebenezer D. Draper married (second), October
t8, 1872. Mrs. Mary (Parker) Boynton. They lived
at Boston Highlands where he died.

(VII) George Draper, thirteenth child of Ira
Draper (6), was born in Weston, Massachusetts,
August 16. 1817. He resided at Weston and at

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Saugus, Massachusetts, where his father went in
1822. He was educated in the pubHc schools of
Saugus, supplemented by an unusually complete
mathematical education at home. When he was
fifteen years old he entered the weaving room of
the cotton mill at North Uxhridge, where his par-
ents went to live, and for two years he was a
weaver. What he learned in earning his daily bread
in the cotton mill had more influence on his future
career than we can determine. He became an
. expert, and at the age of seventeen years he became
an overseer of weaving and dressing cloth in a
cotton-sheeting mill at Walpole, Massachusetts.
After three years he accepted a position as overseer
of the weaving in a large cotton mill at Three
Rivers, in Palmer, Massachusetts. He remained
there until 18,^9, and during his stay there made an
important improvement on the temple that his
father invented and manufactured. As a result of
hard times he was out of work for some time and
was driven at last to take a job as operative in the
Massachusetts Cotton Mill, at Lowell, at the
munificent salary of five dollars a week. In 1843
he accepted a position as designer for the extensive
cassimere mills of Edward Harris, at Woonsocket,
Rhode Island, and in 1845 became superintendent
of one of the mills of the Otis Company at Ware,
Massachusetts. He was promoted finally to the gen-
■eral superintendency of all the mills of this com-
pany.

He joined his brother, Ebenezer D. Draper, in
the Hopedale community about two years before it
was wound up as a business venture, and became one
of the two largest stockholders. The brothers
became' doubtful of the success of the in-
dustry as conducted at .Hopedale and wished
to withdraw. Their interests were so large, how-
ever, that they were obliged to take the plant of
the community, assuming the debts, and continue
the business as a partnership. As has been told
in the sketch of the senior partner, business pros-
pered and their capital increased as their enterprises
multiplied. When the older brother decided to
withdrav.' from the firm, his interests were bought
by General William F. Draper, eldest son of the
junior partner. The firm name became George
Draper & Son. In 1877 another son was admitted
to the firm which was then called George Draper
& Sons. Lieutenant Governor Eben S. Draper was
admitted to the firm in 1880. After the death of the
senior partner two sons of General Draper became
partners — William F. Draper, Jr., in 1887, and
George Otis Draper, in 1889. The entire success
of the Drapers has rested primarily on the patents
that they have secured. They have halved the cost
of production in the line in which their ma-
chinery applies. George Draper himself should
he honored less for his great business and
•executive ability than for the wonderful in-
ventions that he produced not only by his own skill
and ingenuity but those he hired other inventors
to work out for him. It would be impossible to give
an adequate idea in a brief sketch of this sort of
the plant owned and controlled by the Draper com-
panies even as they were when George Draper
left the helm to his able son and partner. The
business was divided from time to time until there
were five Draper industries under distinct manage-
ment on Mill River, occupying some twenty spacious
buildings, mostly of brick and of the most sub-
stantial and durable construction, furnished with
steam and water power, and supporting an entire
township

The names Draper and Hopedale have become
synonymous. The village became an incorporated

town April 7, 1886, through the efforts of George
Draper and the citizens of Hopedale. The Draper
companies were : The Hopedale Machine Company,
which made spoolers, warpers, twisting machniery,
roving frames, and the Sawyer and Rabbeth
spindles: Dutcher Temple Company, manufac-
turing loom temples, Shaw knitting machines,
Draper automatic sprinklers ; George Draper & Sons,
manufacturing spinning rings and controlling as
agent the product of the other concerns ; Hopedale
Elastic Fabric Company, manufacturing the elastic
webbing used in making suspenders, shoe gores,
etc. : Hopedale Machine Screw Company, manufac-
turing all kinds of machine screws. Mr.' Draper
was president of these companies and he had ex-
tensive outside interests. He was a large owner
in the Shaw Stocking Works at Lowell ; the Glas-
gow Thread Company of Worcester : the Glasgow
Yarn Company of Norwich, Connecticut ; the Mil-
ford & Woonsocket Railroad; the Milford & Hop-
kinton Railroad.

During the civil war, few men at the front ac-
complished more than he did at home in behalf of the
Union. He resigned from the community which had
set its face against all war or violence, and he co-
operated to the full extent of his ability and re-
sources to aid Governor Andrew in sending the
quota from Massachusetts to the Union Army. Mr.
Draper sent his only son old enough to enlist to the
front. He raised several companies. He helped
the work of recruiting. He gave up all attention to
business and devoted himself to assisting the gov-
ernment in every way that he could. While most
manufacturers were benefited from the conditions
during the war, he lost ground through his intense
loyalty' to the government. He was sincerely anti-
slavery. He was a personal friend of Governor An-
drew, Lloyd Garrison and other leaders of the public
sentiments. In politics Mr. Draper was originally a
Whig. He affiliated with the Free Soilers and
followed that party into the Republican party when
it was organized He remained to the day of his
death one of the foremost men of his party in the
Commonwealth. He was a vigorous, logical, and
untiring advocate of Protection for American indus-
tries. He studied the question at home and abroad.
No college professor in the world had' given the
theory of protection such careful study and surely
no manufacturer had a better opportunity to observe
the etlects of tarifif on manufacturing. He
practically started the Home Market Club of Bos-
ton, which has a membership of about two thousand
men, representing the manufacturing interests of
New England as well as Boston. He was the first
president. He declined to accept public office. He
was generous in his gifts, both public and private.
He assisted all the movements intended to make
Hopedale a better or more prosperous town. He
.eave the 'commodious and beautiful town hall to
Hopedale. and a liberal annual gift to the soldiers'
home at Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Mr. Draper died June 7, 1887, aged nearly seventy
j-ears, at the very height of his business success
•and full of great hopes and plans for the future.
He must be known to history as the Founder of In-
dustrial Hopedale and the greater the town becomes
in the future, the greater honor will be paid to the
man who kept his shoulder to the wheel during the
davs of invention and development, growth and re-
organization, until the town and its industries seem
to command an unfaltering prosperity. His friend and
brother in Hopedale Community. Rev. Adin Ballon,
has said of George Draper: "He began the world
with an empty purse, but was richly endowed with
mechanical genius, ambitious enterprise, shrewd in-

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telligence, sound business judgment, and indomi-
table persistency of purpose. With these and with
the faithful co-operation of a wife, rich in all the
qualities necessary to match and complement his
own, he has successfully risen to wealth and dis-
tinction."

George Draper married, March 6, 1839, Hannah
Brown Thwing, daughter of Benjamin and Anna
(Mowry) Thwing. She was born in Uxbridge,
January I. 1817. She died in 1883, and he married
(second) in Milford, 1884, Mrs. Blunt, of Milford.
The children of George and Hannah Draper were:

1. William Franklin, born at Lowell, April 9, 1842,
mentioned below. 2. Georgiana T., June 30, 1844,
at Lowell, died July 23, 1844. 3. Helen L., July 11,
1845, at Lowell; died August 10, 1847. 4. Frances
Eudora, July 26, 1847, at Ware, Massachusetts, mar-
ried Charles H. Colburn, February 20, 1868; their
children were Helen, born 1868, died 1896, and Alice,
1875. 5. Son, born at Ware, December 15, 1850,
died same day. 6. Hannah Thwing, born at Ware,
April II, 1853; married Edward Louis Osgood, at
Boston, January 20, 1881. Their children were : Ed-
ward D., born January 2, 1882 ; Fanny C. and Han-
nah D. (twin), born December 27, 1882; George D..
April 25, 1888. 7. George Albert, born at Hopedale,
November 4, 1855 ; mentioned below. 8. Eben
Sumner, born at Hopedale, Massachusetts, June 17,
185S, mentioned below.

(VH) Lemuel Richards Draper, son of Ira
Draper (6), was born December I, 1823. He resided
in Saugus, Lynnfield, Worcester, Milford, and
North Brookfield. He was an active business man.
He superintended various establishments and job
contracts, and though less successful than some of
his brothers he acquired a competence and proved
himself to have his full share of the family ability.

He married, at Lynnfield. January I, 1845. Lydia
M. Mansfield, daughter of David and Esther
(Williams) Mansfield. She was born at Lynnfield,
December $, 1824. Their children were: I. Edward
Mansfield, born at Saugus, April 10, 1846. died
September 9, 1848. 2. Annette Louise, born at
Saugus, September 28, 1847 ; married Jonas Hale
Carter, of Berlin. November 30, 1871. 3. Oscar
Eugene, born at Milford, April 12, 1850; married,
October 12, 1869, Emma L. Hunt. 4. Eva Richards,
born at Worcester, August 31, 1854; a teacher in
the public schools. 5. Minnie Eliza, born at Hope-
dale, March i, 1857; died January 12, i860. 6.
William Lemuel, born at Hopedale, August 29,
1861. resides at North Brookfield.

(VHI) James Dexter Draper, son of Rufus
Foster Draper (7), and grandson of Ira Draper (6).
was born at Wayland, October 4, 1827. His mother
was Polly Heminway. He was a molder in the
Draper Foundry at Hopedale, and sexton of the
church for many years. He married (first), Feb-
ruary, 1850, Caroline Pamelia Pratt, daughter of
Sumner and Susan (Cox) Pratt. She was born
at Lynnfield. Massachusetts, January 26, 1833, and
died March 13, 1855. He married (second). .April

3. 1862. in South Reading, Mary E. Newell, daughter
of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Whitcomb) Newell.
She was born in East Boston.

The children of James Dexter and Caroline P.
Draper were: i. Emma Caroline, born March ti,
185 1 ; married Joseph H. Quakers, July 2, 1877.

2. Ida Lorene, born August 2, 1852 ; married George
H. Chamberlain, January 14, 1878. The children of
James Dexter and Mary E. Draper were: 3. William
Newell, born at South Reading, January 2. 1865.

4. Charles Eugene, born in Hopedale. March 24.
1868. 5. Hnbie Irving, born in Hopedale, April 20.
187c. 6. James Dexter, born at Hopedale, -April 30.

1S74. 7- Ernest Wilfred, born in Hopedale, Decem-
ber 26, 1879.

(VIII) Oscar Eugene Draper, son of Lemuel
R. Draper (7), was born at Milford, April 12, 1850.
He settled in North Brookfield. He married (first)
Emma Lucy Hunt, daughter of Hiram and Laura
Ann (Adams) Hunt. She was born at Milford, May
16. 1849, and married there October 12, 1869. She
died December 8, 1876. He married (second),
September 21, 1S79, Emma E. J. Sturtevant, daugh-
ter of Calvin and Alony A. Griswold, of Walpole,
New- Hampshire. She was born March 31, 1S51.
The children of Oscar E. and Emma Lucy Draper
were: Laura Adelaide, born at Milford, December
12, 1870; Hiram Eugene, born at Milford, September
15, 1872; Clarence Percival, born at Milford, August
12, 1S74.

GENERAL WILLIAM FRANKLIN DRAPEJl.
(VIII) General William Franklin Draper, son oi
George Draper (7), was born in Lowell, Massa-
chusetts, April 9, 1842. He attended public and
private schools until the age of sixteen, being then
prepared to enter Harvard College, but his father
deemed him too young and he spent the next three
years in the machine shop and mills at Hopedale,
studying the construction and operation of the
Draper machinery. He became an expert draughts-
man. In the spring of 1861 he was again making
ready for college when the battle of Bull Run con-
vinced him and his father that his duty was to his
country first, and he enlisted August 9, 1861, in
Company B, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment,
which his father had assisted in raising and of
which, although he was only nineteen years old,
he was made second lieutenant.

Three years of active service followed. In the
Burnside expedition he was signal officer on the
general staff and in this position took part in the
battles of Roanoke Island, Newbern and Fort
Macon. In April, 1862, he was promoted to the rank
of first lieutenant and re-joined his regiment. The
Tw'enty-fifth was in Maryland and he resumed his
duties just after the battle of South IMountain, tak-
ing part in the remainder of the .Antietam campaign
that followed as captain of the Thirty-sixth Jilassa-
chusetts Regiment. He was in the battle of Fred-
ericksburg and was afterward sent to Newport
News with the corps. Seven months were spent
in Kentucky in pursuit of Morgan's Cavalry and
sundry guerrilla troops. In June, 1863. he went to-
Vicksburg to join General Grant's army, taking
part in the capture of the city and fightin.g in the
vicinity of Jackson. His regiment was reduced in
numbers by sickness and death from six hundred
and fifty in June to one hundred and ninety-eight
in September, when he was promoted major. In
August, 1863, the regiment returned to Kentucky
and marched through Cumberland Gap to East
Tennessee and there stayed for the winter, engag-
ing in the siege of Knoxville, and the battles of
Blue Springs, Campbell's Station and Strawberry
Plain. Colonel Goodell being disabled by wounds,
Jilajor Draper commanded the regiment after Octo-
ber 10.

In the spring of 1864 the Corps removed to
Annapolis and was partly recruited. They joined
the Army of the Potomac in season for the battle
of the Wilderness, where on May 6, 1864, Major
Draper, while leading his regiment, was shot
through the body and fell on a rifle pit just being
captured by his men. He seemed to be mortally
wounded and was left on the field, where he was
taken by the Confederates. Later he was re-cap-
tured and sent to a hospital in Washington. He
was given a lieutenant-colonel's commission, his

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regiment being too small to muster a colonel. After
he had partly recovered from his wound, he re-
joined his regiment during the siege of Petersburg.
The niinnie ball which passed through his body
is preserved by General Draper as a grim reminder
of his close call.

At the engagement at Weldon Railroad he had
command of his brigade. A month later, at Poplar
Grove church and Pegram's Farm, his division was
engaged and at one time cut od from the others.
His regiment was the only one in the brigade
that came out of the engagement as an organiza-
tion and they brought back the colors of several
other regiments. Here he was again wounded, be-
ing struck in the shoulder by a nearly-spent ball,
and, his wounds proving very troublesome, he ac-
cepted a discharge at the expiration of his enlist-
ment, October 12, 1864. He was brevetted colonel
and brigadier-general of United States Volunteers
for gallant and meritorious services in the field.
Both of his regiments during the war were fight-
ing regiments, the Twenty-fifth losing seventy per
cent of its number in one engagement (Cold Har-
bor), a record broken by but three other regiments
during the war. Tlie Thirty-sixth, in the campaign
beginning with the Wilderness, had every field and
line officer except one killed or wounded as well
as three-quarters of 'the enlisted men.

Returning home, General Draper went to work
for his father's firm, E. D. & G. Draper. He fol-
lowed naturally in the footsteps of his Draper an-
cestors ; from the English ancestors who made cloth
in the crude old ways of the early centurie9; from
his immigrant ancestor who brought his looms to
Roxbury, in New England, and was among the first
to make cloth in the colonies; from his grand-
father who invented and manufactured revolving
temples and looms in 1816 and paved the way for
the brilliant achievements in textile manufacturing
of the century following; to his Uncle James who
carried on the business in 1825 and afterward ; to
his uncle, Ebenezer Daggett Draper, who began to
manufacture temples in 1838; to his father who with
his uncle formed the E. D. & G. Draper firm in
1852 and began to manufacture temples, let-off mo-
tions, etc.

In April, 1868, he purchased the interests of his
ancle, Ebenezer D. Draper, the senior partner in
the firm, and the name then became George Draper
& Son. In 1877 when his brother, George A.
Draper, became a partner the name was changed
to George Draper & Sons. In 1880 Lieutenant Gov-
ernor Eben S. Draper entered the firm. After the
death of the father, George Draper, in 1887, William
F. Draper, Jr., was admitted and two years later
another son of General Draper, George Otis Draper,
was admitted. Since his father's death, General
Draper has filled his place. The business has con-
stantly expanded. The history of the firm and its
allied corporations has been a marvellous story of
progress, improvement of machinery, increase of
business, enlargement of facilities, building of
dwelling houses for employees, village improve-
ment. The Draper idea is never to stand still, al-
ways to improve things. During the past few years
since the general went to Italy as ambassador and
later on account of a severe illness, the burden of
active management has fallen largely on his younger
brothers and sons. All have been trained by prac-
tical experience and close application to business to
assume the management of the great and com-
plicated intA^ests represented by the words, "Drapers
of Hopedale."

Although General Draper was not a member of
the original firm at Hopedale, he has seen and taken

part in the business from the start. When he be-
came his father's partner the first milestone of suc-
cess had been passed, but the concern at Hopedale
in 1868 was a dwarf compared with the giant of
the present day. General Draper realized how much
the business depended upon improvements in ma-
chinery, and he has devoted a large share of his
attention to inventions. He has patented more than
eighty of his own besides hundreds that were pro-
duced by inventors under his direction and in his
employ, experimenting all the time. It can truth-
fully be said that his firm has done more to im-
prove and cheapen the manufacture of cotton cloth
than any other establishment now existing in this
country or abroad. Since 1870, inventions brought
out by the Drapers have doubled the production of
cotton spinning machinery in this country without
increasing the power or labor to operate the ma-
chines. The saving in machinery amounts to tens
of millions of dollars ; the saving in power is
enormous and the annual saving in labor, or rather
the annual increase of production by the same
forces, amounts in value to many millions. Their
inventions have been copied abroad and are the
foundation of great industries and have made a
revolution in methods there. What the firm has
done in spinning machinery it bids fair to do also
in weaving machinery, the progress in this direc-
tion having been rapid in recent years. General
Draper and his mechanical experts, James H.
Northrop and Charles F. Roper, have spent a num-
ber of years developing and improving the ma-
chinery used in cotton manufacturing.

General Draper has always taken an interest in
political affairs. He has been active in the Repub-
lican party and in the support of its protective tariff
policy ever since the war. He succeeded his father
as president of the Home Market Club of Boston,
and is a state leader of his party. But until 1892,
when he was elected to congress, the only public
elective office that he had held was that on school
committee of the town of Hopedale. He had been
on Governor Long's staff with the rank of colonel
during three years. He had been delegate to the
Republican National Convention that nominated
President Hayes, and as an elector at large in 1888
he voted for President Harrison. He was a candi-
date for governor of the Commonwealth in 1888,
was strongly backed by the soldier vote, but was de-
feated by Governor Ames, He declined the nomina-
tion which was virtually his the following year.

In 1892, when General Draper was nominated
for congress in the eleventh district, his campaign
against George Fred Williams was one of the most
brilliant and successful ever made in Massachusetts.
For weeks he was on the stump, speaking almost
every night, and although he made no pretensions
to oratory, he knew his subject, the tariff, as few
other men have ever known it ; he had something
to say and he carried conviction to the minds of
men who had been leaning to free trade and its
Democratic substitutes designed chiefly for vote-
getting. During his campaign United States Sena-
tor Lodge took occasion to say in his graceful way :
"Such a career as General Draper's is a fair exam-
ple of what is best in American life — ready for all
sacrifices when the need of the country is most
bitter, and ready for the performance of all duties
of peace when people demand them."

General Draper was re-elected in 1894. In con-
gress he was a bulwark for the defence of Ameri-
can industries against the attack of all enemies.
In his first term he was a member of the commit-
tees on foreign affairs and patents. During his sec-
ond term he was chairman of the committee on

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patents, and second on foreign afiFairs, being acting
chairman during the iUness of Chairman Hitt, of
Illinois. He made important speeches on the Chi-
nese Exclusion bill, advocating a moderate policy.
His speech on the Hawaiian question is still a docu-
ment of public interest to those connected with the
new colonial governments. He spoke on the Cuban
troubles and on the resolution to censure Ambas-
sador Bayard, the leading subjects before congress
at that time. He was the only Republican member
of the committee on Foreign Affairs, and one of a
half dozen in the whole house to oppose the resolu-
tion of censure. The patent committee under his
leadership did more work than had been done in
that committee for the preceding quarter of a cen-
tury. A very important revision and amendment of
the patent laws was carried through. General
Draper secured a law for dramatic copyright of
great value to dramatists. While in congress he
became one of the most influential members. He
was a hard student and indefatigable worker. He
made the tariff a subject of especial study and re-
search. His own business was a laboratory where
he could e.xperiment. He investigated personally
the conditions in Europe and America, and his
arguments for a protective tariff were accepted as
convincing by men who would not take the dictum
of a mere student and theorist.

General Draper was the permanent chairman of
the Republican state convention in Massachusetts
in October, i8g6, and his speech on that occasion
was used by the Republican national committee as
a campaign document, in the successful campaign
that followed. He was appointed April i, 1897, by
President McKinley, American ambassador to Italy,
and for three years he represented the American
government in Rome. General Draper was espe-
cially fortunate in having a wife who admirably sus-
tained the social duties of her high position. After
his return from Italy General Draper suffered from
a severe illness, but he is in active business and in
politics and his power has recently been shown in
a battle with the tariff revisionists. He made a not-
able speech in 1905 on the floor of the state con-
vention of the Republican party before the nomina-
tion of his brother as lieutenant-governor. Neither
he rior his brother ever carry water on both should-
ers. Any man of intelligence, knows where the
Drapers stand, though the brothers are not always
entirely agreed in their opinions. General Draper
succeeded his father as president or director of
many concerns outside of Hopedale. '

General Draper is a member of the Grand Army,
Loyal Legion, Knights Templar, Sons of the Revo-
lution, Society of Colonial Wars, Union and Al-
gonquin Clubs of Boston, the Arkwright Club,
Metropolitan, Army and Navy and Chevy Chase of
Washington, and many other clubs and fraternal
Organizations. He is a man of generous impulses
and, has given freely of his wealth in charity and
for public purposes. No man in Massachusetts has
more friends than General Draper. He is trusted
and honored wherever he is known.

He married (first), September 15. 1862. while
home on a brief furlough, Lydia D. W. Joy, daugh-
ter of David T. and Lydia D. (Bunker) Warren,
adopted daughter of Hon. David and Charlotte .-K.
Joy. She was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, Au-
gust 31, 1843. She died in February, 1884. He
married (second), May, 1890, Susan Preston, daugh-
ter of General William Preston, of Kentucky, an
officer in the Mexican war, minister to Spain under
President Buchanan, a major-general in the Con-
federate army, and a special envoy to Emperor Ma.x-
imilian in Mexico. Children of General and Lydia

D. W. Draper were : I. William Franklin, Jr.,
born at Hopedale, December 17, 1865. 2. George
Otis, see forward. 3. Edith, born in Hopedale,
February 18, 1874, married ^lontgomery Blair, an
attorney of Washington, D. C, son of Postmaster
General Blair, of Lincoln's cabinet. 4. Arthur Joy,
born at Hopedale, April 28, 1875, earned a lieuten--
ant"s commission in the "war with Spain during the
campaign in Porto Rico. 5. Clare Hill, see forward.
Child bv second wife :' Margaret Preston Draper,
March '18, 1891. General Draper's Washington
home is at 1705 K street.

(.VIII) George Albert Draper, son of George
Draper (7), was born at Hopedale, Massachusetts,
November 4, 1855. His early education up to the
age of seventeen years was received in the private
schools of his native place, and was supplemented
by a two years course in the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology in Boston. From that time to
the present JMr. Draper's interests have been solely
with the Draper Company. His 'first year was spent
in the office of the company. For two years follow-
ing he traveled, selling and setting up machines.
He soon became identified with the manufacturing
financial affairs of the company, and about 18S7
was appointed treasurer of one of the co-operating
bodies— Hopedale Machine Company. In 1896, when
the five Draper plants were merged in the Draper
Company, George A. Draper was elected treasurer,
and placed at the head of the manufacturing and
financial department.

Mr.. Draper married, November 6, 1890, Jessie
Preston, daughter of General William and Mar-
garet (Wickliflfe) Preston, of Lexington, Kentucky.
Her father won his military title by service in the
Confederate army during the civil war. The chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Draper are: Wickliffe Pres-
ton, born August 12, 1891 ; Jessie Preston, born
December 25, 1893, died August 12, 1894; Helen
Howard, born August 9, 1895.

HON. EBEN S. DRAPER (VIII), son of
George Draper (7), was born at Hopedale, Massa-
chusetts, June 17, 1858. He is the present lieuten-
ant-governor of the Commonwealth. He was edu-
cated in the well known Allen school in Newtori
and in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The years that he Spent in his apprenticeship in the
cotton mills and machine shop also belong to a very
important part of his early edutation. He began
at the bottom and worked with the hands and as
one of them for the time being. He had the
strength and endurance of the best of them and
worked during the long hours then prevailing and
asked no favors on account of his future prospects.
He learned the business from A to Z and was pro-
moted from time to time according to his experi-
ence and usefulness. He was admitted to the
firm of George Draper & Sons in 1880, and when
the firm became the Draper Company, in 1896,
was made selling agent of the establishment. Much
of his time since has been spent at the Boston of-
fices of the Draper Company. He is a prominent
figure in the financial affairs of New England. Be-
sides his enormous interests at Hopedale as officer
of the various Draper concerns. Governor Draper
is a director of the Boston & Albany Railroad Com-
pany, the Old Colony Trust Company, the New
England Cotton Yarn Company, the Queen City
Cotton Company, of Burlington, Vermont, and of
the Milford National Bank. ,

He is a member of the Corporation of the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, of which he is
an alumnus, a member of the board of trustees of
the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Fund, and gne of

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the managers of the Milford Hospital, which was
built by he and his wife and given to the town.

The main interests of i\lr. Draper, of course,
have been in Hopedale. It has been one of his
ambitions to make Hopedale the model for all other
manufacturing villages, and he has co-operated with
all the interests of his family and business asso-
ciates to this end. While perhaps others deserve
as much credit for the admirable conditions brought
about in the charming village where the Draper
plant is located, none took more satisfaction than
he in the recent award of the St. Louis Exposi-
tion pronouncing Hopedale the prize village in its
class in the United States, and that means, of
course, in the world. The streets are well laid
out and in perfect order, the dwelling houses are
well planned, artistic, even the cheapest of them,
and the village is clean, neat, attractive and in
many ways beautiful, impossible as that used to
appear in a factory town. The Draper plant itself
sets the example in good order, cleanliness and
picturesqucness.

Governor Draper has been interested in politics
from his early youth. He has been associated with
the political interests of his father and General
Draper, and active in support of the Republican poli-
cies, especially of protection to American industries,
for the past twenty-five years. He served as mem-
ber of the Republican state committee and was
chairman in 1892. He was chairman of the Massa-
chusetts delegation to the Republican national con-
vention in iSg6, and gave efficient help in securing
the adoption of the gold standard plank in the plat-
form upon which McKinley was elected. He was
chairman of the Massachusetts delegation to the
Nashville (Tennessee) Exposition of 1897. He has
been an active and influential member and officer of
the Home Market Club of Boston, was president
of the Republican Club of Massachusetts for two
years, and member of the club from its organization,
member of the Norfolk Club, the Middlesex Club
and the Massachusetts Club. He was a Republican
elector for the state of Massachusetts, chosen in
1900, and voted for the second election of Mc-
Kinley.

He was elected lieutenant-governor of the Com-
monwealth in November, 1905, after one of the
closest and most memorable campaigns of recent
years. Everything that money could do was done
by a strong and seasoned opponent to defeat him.
The issue of tarifif revision was made prominent.
As a well-known political journal expressed it: "In
the face of time-servers, in the face of temporizers,
Mr. Draper had the courage to stand up and declare
his own opinions with perfect candor on the mat-
ters of Canadian reciprocity and tarifif adjustment.
It was the most courageous thing of a warm cam-
paign and it promises to remain a standard for some
time. The declaration was not one which was
forced out of him either. He was not a cornered
man, for indeed the public expectation had already
been made up in anticipation of a comfortable at-
titude on the part of I\Ir. Draper, but he stepped
up to the mark of his own free-will, and set the pace
he desired to follow. * * * The family history
and fortunes of the Drapers have been founded on
the protective principle, and thousands of employees
whom they have gathered about them in Hopedale,
which has been styled the prettiest manufacturing
town in the state, have grown to have the same
general view of the economic situation. Yet the
wise ones, as they were willing to be styled, who
were sizing up the situation, remarked confidently
that, for all this, when the time came Eben S.

Draper would be found ready to swallow the reci-
procity program. * * * He declared against the
general idea of Canadian reciprocity by treaty as
an impossibility, something which he believed could
never bring about tangible results. He also spoke
on tarilT adjustment, but while declaring himself
a protectionist from the bottom of his heart, he
said that he was not one who held that tariff sched-
ules were sacred and he was perfectly willing to
trust the whole matter to Congress." General Draper
on the floor of the convention made his position
clear. He opposed any change of the tariff, believ-
ing in letting well enough alone. If the lieutenant-
governor repeats his success at the polls he will be,
under the time-honored custom of Massachusetts,
the next governor. In the old Cammonwealth the
people believe in trying a candidate for governor
first in the position of lieutenant-governor, and they
come to know him pretty well before he is honored
with the position of chief magistrate. Although
Governor Draper was too young to be in the civil
war, his services during the Spanish war should
be mentioned here. He was one of those who ap-
preciated that the government needed the prompt
and liberal assistance of all citizens in preparing
for the war that found the country so unprepared
for it. He was the leading spirit and president of
the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association and
not the least of his tasks in that position was rais-
ing $200,000 for the hospital ship "'Bay State." The
other good works accomplished by that organization
have been often commended by the soldiers in the
field. He Was in iSgS in much the same position
that his father held in 1861 in Massachusetts. A
writer who knows Governor Draper well recently
expressed his estimate of his character thus : "Eben
S. Draper has always had money in his family, but
to his credit it can be said that he has helped to-
make it. If today, by any sudden stroke of fate, it
should come about that all his family possesses
should be swept away, he has the training so that
he could go into the world and make a new fortune
for himself. * * * He is regarded as the best
type of New England manufacturer, polished by
education, travel and excursions in the fields of
politics — a man to do honor to the state in every
capacity."

Eben S. Draper married, November 21, 1883,
Nannie Bristow, daughter of General Bristow, of
Kentucky. He served in President Grant's cabi-
net as secretary of the treasury. By his marriage
the following children were born: Benjamin H.
Bristow, born February 28, 1885 ; Dorothy, born
November 22, 1890; Eben S., Jr., born August 30,

1893-

(IX) George Otis Draper, son of General Will-
iam F. Draper (8), was born in Hopedale, Massa-
chusetts, July 14, 1867. He was educated in the
public schools of Hopedale and Milford. the Allen
School of West Newton, and the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. While at the Institute he
held high official positions in connection with the
various student organizations. He was a member
of the Theta Xi fraternity. In his senior year he
won a medal for a tariff essay in a national students'
competition. Since leaving he has been constantly-
interested in the welfare of his alma mater, being-
on the council of the Technology Club and a mem-
ber of the M. I. T. Alumni Association.

After a year and a half of preliminary work in
various departments at Hopedale, he purchased a
small interest in the firm of George Draper & Sons,
largely with borrowed capital. Eight years later
he bought out his elder brother's interest, becom-

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ing a full partner. In twenty years' connection with
the Hopedale industries, he has taken out one hun-
dred patents, and had practical charge of General
Draper's business departments during the frequent
and prolonged absences of the latter while serving
as congressman and ambassador, etc. Mr. Draper
is a standard authority on the textile industry, hav-
mg published works with editions of 8,000 to 12,000
each, that are in use by cotton manufacturing estab-
lishments, textile schools, etc. He has lectured be-
fore many scientific societies, and has made constant
contributions to technical journals. His knowledge
of the patent art as affecting cotton machinery in-
ventions is possibly unequalled, as he has person-
ally classified all the patents in the art and had
constant touch with the development of cotton ma-
chinery inventions. His business career has been
particularly varied, as he has had official connection
with twenty corporations, in twelve of which he
served as president or vice-president. They have
included the manufacture of various kinds of ma-
chinery, various groups of textiles, also mining,
quarrying and contracting. Some of the largest
public buildings in our greater cities have been built
by contracts backed personally by him. Mr. Draper
is a member of the committee on patents and inven-
tions of the National Manufacturers' Association
and of the American Inventors' Association. He is
on the welfare committee of the National Civic
Federation, and on the board of government of the
National Cotton Manufacturers' Association; he is
also an active member of the American Cotton
Manufacturers' Association.

He has always been intimately interested in local
affairs, being the prime mover in establishing the
park system of Hopedale, and also a member of
the board of park commissioners. This system is
unique in that it covers ten per cent of the entire
area of the town. He has been the largest indi-
vidual investor in the industries of the neighbor-
ing town of Milford. In politics Mr. Draper has
declined to take any state office, although he did
serve for years as town assessor, and has had official
connection with the various local committees. He
is a member of the Home Market Club, the Massa-
chusetts Club, and the Republican Club. Mr. Draper
has continued his interest in athletics started during
college years. He has been a pioneer in automobile
development, having tested several machines per
year, repeatedly entering races, and having joined
three national automobile tours. He is a member
of the Massachusetts Automobile Club, the Bay
State Automobile Club, the Worcester Automobile
Club, the American Automobile Association, etc. He
is also commodore of the Nipmuc Canoe Club, and
member of the Tatassit Canoe Club of Worcester
and the Boston Athletic Association. Mr. Draper
has widely traveled, having visited some forty states
and seventeen countries. He has privately published
a book of travels, entitled "Still On The Search."
having forty illustrations by his own pen and brush.
He is a member of the National Geographical So-
ciety, the American Civic Improveme.nt Society and
the American Forestry League.

The history of the early Drapers shows much
personal interest in questions of religious freedom,
and Mr. Draper has personally given much of his
spare time for years in study of such matters, hav-
ing published a six hundred page book, entitled
"Searching for Truth," giving the views of a prac-
tical business man on religious subjects. Socially
Mr, Draper has a wide acquaintance. As a cosmo-
politan, he belongs to the Metropolitan Club of
W'ashington. Country Club of Brookline, Queque-

chan Club of Fall River, Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, etc.

He married August 29, 1892, Lily Duncan, daugh-
ter of Mayor Duncan, of Lexington, Kentucky, and
Ijy the marriage the following children were born :
Elise Allen, George Otis, Jr., and Henry
Duncan.

(IX) Clare Hill Draper, son of General Will-
iam S. Draper (8), was born in Hopedale, JiLissa-
chusetts. October 4, 1876. He attended the public and
high schools of Hopedale, and was afterward a stud-
ent at Phillips' Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire,
for two years, and later at St. Mark's school, at
Southboro, Massachusetts, where he finished a two
years' course, graduating in June, 1896, at the age of
nineteen. In the fall he entered Yale University
from which he was graduated in June, 1900, with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

In college he was active socially, having been
a member of the Sophomore Society of He Boule,
and the Junior Fraternity of Alpha Delta Phi. In
his senior year he was elected and served as one of
the class historians. After graduating he entered
the employ of the Draper Company in their Experi-
ment Department, and spent upwards of a year in
their weave-room, learning the trades of weaver
and loom-fixer, and making scientific records of the
action of weaving machinery. In 1902 he was elected
a director of the company and served on the experi-
ment and patent committees, and has since given
the greater part of his time to experimental work.
In the spring of 1906 he was made assistant super-
intendent in charge of experimental work, but gave
up this position in the fall to take charge of the
patent records and the detail of the Patent Depart-
ment, and w'ith his father. General Draper, has en-
tire direction of everything connected with the pur-
chase and taking out of patents, and the investiga-
tion of new inventions. He is a partner in C. F.
Roper & Co., of Hopedale.

Mr. Draper has been active in the various local
social organizations, being a director of the
Magomiscock Golf Club, vice-president of the Llni-
tarian and Maspenock Clubs, and ex-vice-commodore
of the Nipmuc Canoe Club. He has for several
years been clerk of the road commissioners of the
town of Hopedale. In politics he is a Republican,
and has frequently been a delegate to county, legis-
lative and congressional conventions. He is con-
nected with all the local Masonic bodies, belonging
to Montgomery Lodge, F. and A. M., Milford; Mt.
Lebanon Chapter, R. .\. M. ; Milford Council, R.
and S. M. : Milford Commandery. K. T. He is also
a member of Aleppo Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of
Boston: George Draper Lodge, No. 82, Knights of
Pythias, and William F. Draper Camp. Sons of
Veterans, both the two latter of Hopedale. He is
a member of the Yale Clubs of Boston and New
York, the University Club of Boston, the Boston
Athletic .Association, and the Worcester Automobile
Club.

Mr. Draper married, February 5, 1902, Matilda
Grace Engman. born August ig, 1878, daughter of
Harry A. and Matilda Engman, of Lexington. Ken-
t.u-cky. Her father is a civil war veteran, having
seen arduous service in the Confederate army. He
was a successful manufacturer of ranges in St.
Louis, Missouri, but has now retired from busi-
ness. Mr. and Mrs. Draper are the parents of two
children: Clare Hill. Jr.. born December 22, 1903;
and Grace Engtrian. born February 23, 1905.

W.\LTER JOHN STONE, born January 14,
1863, in Auburn, Massachusejts, in a lineal descen-

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dant on the paternal side from the emigrant, Simon
Stone (l), born in Much Bromley, Essex county,
England, where he was baptized February 9, 1585-
86. Also a descendant from the emigrant, Gregory
Stone, of Nayland, county of Suffolk, England, his
grandmother being a daughter of Luther Stone, in
seventh generation from Gregory Stone, Sr. The
emigrant was son of David and Ursula Stone, and
a grandson of Simon and Agnes Stone, also of
Much Bromley, at which place on the fifth day of
August, 1616. Simon, the grandson, married Joan
or Joana, daughter of William Clark, and their
two eldest children was baptized in Bromley. Prior
to 1624 they removed to Boxted, a few miles dis-
tant from their former home, and from Bo.xted
Simon with his family is believed to have emigrated
to America.

April 15, 1635, the family, father, wife and five
children, embarked from London on board the ship
"Increase," Robert Lea, master, for New England,
the English government having previously granted
them leave to remove to the colonies. Mr. Stone
settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, securing forty
acres of land situated along the bank of the Charles
river and south of the present Mount Auburn ceme-
tery, although it is believed that a" portion of the
cemetery covers a part of Simon Stone's early
homestead. He was admitted a freeman May 25.
1636, selectman from 1637 to 1656, and was a deacon
in the church many years. One of the pear trees
planted by him is said to have borne fruit for two
hundred and fifty years, and was still vigorous in
1899. Mr. Stone became a prominent real estate
owner, and according to tradition built a large old-
fashioned house, colonial in style, which served as
a home for his descendants for six generations, but
was finally destroyed by fire. At the time of Mr.
Stone's coming to America he was fifty years of
age. his wife Joana thirty-eight. After her death
lie. about the year 1654, married (second) Sarah,
widow of Richard Lumpkin, of Ipswich. Massachu-
setts. She also came from Boxted. Essex county,
England, and left a will dated March 25, 1663. (See
N. "E. Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 8.
Page 71). Mr. Stone died in Watertown, Septem-
ber 22. 1665.

Children by his first wife, were: Frances, bap-
tized January 20, 1618-19. married Rev. Henry
Green, of Reading; Mary, baptized October i. 1621,
died young; Ann, born 1624, married John Orne,
of Salem; she was his second wife; Simon, born
1631, married Mary Whipple; Mary, born 1632, died
-unmarried June 25, 1691 ; John, born August 5.
1635, married Mary Bass, of Braintree, and died
March 26, 1691 : Elizabeth, born April 5, 1639, died
young.

(II) Simon Stone, born 1631, married Mary,
daughter of Elder John Whipple, an early settler
of Ipswich, Massachusetts. She was born 1634 and
died June 2, 1720. Simon and his brother John
divided the real estate left by their father, Simon
retaining the paternal homestead for his residence.
He was deacon of the church, selectman several
years, town clerk ten years, representative to the
general court 1678 to 1684, inclusive, and in 1686-
89-90. one of the original proprietors of Groton.
where in 1662 he owned an eighteen acre right, in-
creasing his holdings there in 1670 to more than
eighty-seven acres, although he may not have lived
there. He died February 27. 1708. His children
were : Simon, born September 8, 1656, married
Sarah Farnsworth : John July 23. 1658, married
Mrs. Sarah (Nutting) Farnswckrth; Matthew,
February 16, 1659-60, married Mary Plymp-

lon ; Nathaniel, February 22, 1661-62, died
1661-62; Ebenezer, February 27, 1662-63, mar-
ried Margaret Trowbridge, died 1754; Mary,
1665, married Comfort Starr, of Dedham ; Nathan-
iel, 1667, married Reliance Hinkley, died 1755 ;
Elizabeth, October 9, 1760, married Isaac Stearns,
of Lexington ; David, October 19. 1672, married
Mary Rice, died October 7, 1750; Susanna, Novem-
ber 4, .1675, married Hon. Edward Goddard, died
17S4. Jonathan, December 26, 1677, married (first)
Ruth Eddy.

(III) Jonathan Stone, youngest child of Simon
Stone, Jr., resided on the homestead in Watertown,
was one of the proprietors committee, selectman in
1724 and 1727 and ensign of the military company
in 1730. He married (first), November 15, 1699,
Ruth Eddy, who died October 7, 1702, leaving one

child. He married (second) Mary — , who died

June 24, 1720. He married (third), November 15,
1720, Hepzibah, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary
(Bright) Coolidge; she died in 1763; he died Jan-
uary 7, 1754. His children were : Jonathan, born
1702; Hepzibah and Ann, twins, born August 9,
1722; the former died April 14, 1723, and the latter
married Jonas Stone; Moses, born December 16,
1723. married Hannah Taintor and lived on the
homestead in Watertown.

(IV) Jonathan Stone, Jr., horn 1702, married.
February 25. 1724-25, Hannah, daughter of Samuel
and Mary (Stearns) Jennison. She was cousin to
Captain Israel Jennison and a niece of Judge Will-
iam Jennison, both prominent in the early history
of Worcester. Mr. Stone died October 27, 1725,
leaving a son. His widow married, September 4,
1729, John Goddard, of Brookline.

(V) Jonathan Stone, only child of Jonathan
Stone, Jr., born November 17, 1725, married Ruth
Livermore, May 21, 1747. She was of Watertown,
where their two eldest children were born. April
6, 1752. Mr. Stone purchased of Gamaliel Wallis,
of Boston, ten acre* of land, situated, according to
the deed, in the southwesterly part of Worcester,
bounded west by the town line of Leicester, every
other way by land of Thomas Holmes and common
land. On this ten acre lot there was a house. He
also purchased other land amounting to more than
one hundred and fifty acres, located near his first
purchase. In 1757, Mr. Stone with others peti-
tioned to have their estates set ofif from Leicester
to Worcester ; all parties consenting, even the gen-
eral court, the prayer of the petition was granted.
Although he had been a resident of Worcester since
1752, the change made transferring all his estate
within the lines of Worcester caused him to become
more active in all matters relating to the welfare
of the town, serving on many important committees,
notably during the period covered by the war of
the revolution, the committee for giving instruc-
tion to the town's representatives to the general
court, committee for schools, for instruction, cor-
respondence, selectman, overseer of the poor, and
for getting the town's cannon out of Boston. 1774.
He not only assisted in conducting public affairs,
but with arms and ammunition in hand marched
on the 19th of April as private in Captain Timothy
Bigelow's company on the Lexington alarm, and
was corporal in Captain Hubbard's company, Col-
onel Ward's regiment, .\pril 24, 1775, to August I,
1775- In 1778 the portion of Worcester in which
stood Mr. Stone's residence was set off to Ward,
afterwards called Auburn. He died there December
I, 1806. His wife died September 2. 1764. He
married (second), October 29, 1765, Mary Gates,
who died .August 7, 1773. He married (third)

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Martha Baird, who died March 2, 1811, aged
seventy-one. His children were :

RiUh, born August 3, 1748, married Nathaniel
Harrington, of Worcester, and died August 24,
1817. Jonathan, December 8, 1750, married, Febru-
ary 13, 1777, Mary Harrington, who died March
24, 1791. Daniel, October 25, 1752, married Abigail
Jonas, and died January 22, 1792. Rhoda, August
3, 1754, married Phineas Flagg, May 25, 1777, and
died September 26, 1801. Joseph, March 20, 1758,
married Widow Hannah Boyden, and lived and
died in Auburn. He possessed considerable literary
and musical talent, was a conveyancer and con-
ducted a successful legal business, was called Squire
Stone, and as a writer of poetry and music acquired
some reputation. At his death, February 2, 1837,
he bequeathed to the Theological Seminary, Bangor,
Maine, the bulk of his valuable library and all his
manuscripts, consisting chielly of original poetry
and music. Nathaniel, born June 2, 1761, married
Sally Jacobs. Mary, February 18, 1763, married

Stevens, died December 10, 1825. Sarah,

March 24, 1768, married Cutting:, died May-
id, 1816. Moses, March 28, 1771, married Pamelia
Gilbert, February 26, 1796, died January 8, 1814.

(VI) Nathaniel Stone, born June 2, 1761, mar-
ried Sally Jacobs, of Sutton, September 17, 1788.
She died September 5, 1822, aged fifty-nine. He
died March I. 1843, aged eighty-one. Their chil-
dren were : Sally, born November 23, 1789, mar-
ried David Cummings, March 21, 1809. Abigail,
April 20, 1791, died September 9, 1853. Nathaniel,
March 11, 1793, married Elizabeth Eaton, October
19, 1818, died November 22, 1882. Mary, February
10. 1/95, married Aaron Small, of Millbury, Decem-
ber 2, 1819. Sina, July 25, 1796, married Harvey
Pierce, of Millbury, July 15, 1819. John, March
24. 1798.

(VII) John Stone, youngest child of Nathaniel
and Sally (Jacobs) Stone, born in Auburn, mar-
ried, December 21, 1825, Parmelia, daughter of
Luther and Abigail (Bemis) Stone, a descendant
from the emigrant, Gregory Stone. She died Au-
gust 5, 1850, and he married (second) December
9, 1855. Betsey (Stone) Craig. Mr. Stone was edu-
cated in the schools of his native town, and became
a man of influence in the community, serving in
nearly all the public offices within the gift of his
townsmen. In politics he was originally a Whig,
but later joined the Republican party. Was a
farmer, member of the parish, a generous supporter
of the church, and a high respected citizen. He
died September 30, 1877. His cliildren were: Ja-
son Bemis, born September 23. 1826; Luther, Jan-
uary 14, 1828, died July 1, 1895; Moriah Elvira,
July 23, 1830; John Elbridge, April 25, 1832; Sarah
Parmelia, August 4, 1835, died January 15, 1836:
Henry Burnum, June 13, 1837; Sarah Parmelia and
Susan Cordelia, twins, November 13. 18,^9 ; the
former died September 12, 1840 ; Caroline E., July
13, 1857. died September 24, 1858.

(VIII) Jason Bemis Stone, "eldest son of John
and Parmelia Stone, born September 25, 1826, mar-
ried, January 15, 1862, Deborah G. Bennett, and set-
tled in Auburn. He was a farmer, residing on the
homestead established by his father. He was a
conservative, thrifty and prosperous farmer. In
politics he was a Republican and honored by nearly
all the public offices .of the town; was selecttnan for
several years, a man held in high esteem by his
fellow townsmen. He received his early schooling
in his native town and at the Leicester Academy,
was a member of the Congregational Church, and
spent his life on the farm where he was born.
He died March 14, 1903, leaving two children :

Walter John, born January 14, 1863; Luther Na-
thaniel, December i, 1865.

(IX) Walter John Stone, eldest son of Jason
Bemis Stone, was born in Auburn, January 14, 1863^
was educated in the common schools of his native
town, the Worcester Academy, and Hinman's Busi-
ness College, graduating from the latter institution.
He then entered the employ of Mr. E. B. Crane
as bookkeeper in the office of his lumber yard in
Worcester, contimiing in his employ nearly fourteen
years as accountant and salesman, when he re-
tired and established a business under the firm name
of Stone & Foster Lumber Company, which was
successfully conducted. January, 1906, he sold his
interest in the business and is living at present
writing retired. Is public-spirited, working with
the Republican party, a prominent member of IMa-
sonic bodies, having passed to the thirty-second de-
gree. Is also member of tlie I. O. O. F., of Wor-
cester, the Elks and the Grange. He married, Oc-
tober 30, l88p, Winnifred E. Johnson, born August
28, 1868, in Oxford, daughter of Hiram K. and
Harriet A. (Stow) Johnson, and settled in Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, where he has been a suc-
cessful merchant. Their children are : Ralph John-
son, born Marth 12, 1892; Earl Walter, July 30,

1893.

(VIII) Henry Burnum Stone, born June 13, 1837,
in the town of Auburn, Massachusetts, was the
youngest son of John (7) and Parmelia Stone. His
mother was the daughter of Luther and Abigail
(Bemis) Stone, a descendant from Gregory Stone,,
thus forming a union of the descendants of Greg-
ory and Simon in the eighth generation from
Simon Stone.

John Stone, father of Henry Burnum Stone^
spent his life as a farmer, near the locality where
he was born. He was a Republican in politics, and
a valued citizen in his home town. He was select-
man and held other tow'n offices ; was a member of
the state militia ; and at attendant and liberal sup-
porter of the Congregational Church. His wife,
Parmelia Stone, was born April 6, 1801, on the
Luther Stone homestead, in Oxford, and died Au-
gust 5, 1850, in Auburn. Her younger brother,
Luther, born September 26, 1815, was a graduate of
Brown University, class of 1839; of Newton The-
ological Institution, 1842; was ordained Baptist^
1843 : preached at East Boston, Massachusetts. Ells-
worth, Maine, Burlington, Iowa, Rockford, Illinois;
was editor of the IFatchiiian of the Prairies, Chi-
cago, Illinois : one of the founders of the Baptist
Theological Union, and secretary of the board of
trustees. He died in Chicago, Illinois, July 9, 1890.
To John and Parmelia Stone were born eight chil-
dren : Jason B., mentioned in another sketch in
this work; Moriah Elvira, married Horace B. Stone,
who died 1870; John Elbridge, farmer, and engaged
in milling in Sterling, Massachusetts; Susan C,
unmarried ; Henry Burnum, mentioned below ;
Luther, died July i, 1895, and for a time was in
store with Henry B. Stone ; and Sarah and Susan,
twins. After the death of his first wife, John
Stone married Betsey (Stone) Craig, by whom he
had Caroline E., born July 13, 1857, died September
24, 1858.

Henry Burnum Stone attended the public schools
of his native town, and also the Wilbraham Acad-
emy, and at the age of seventeen became the clerk
of a banking firm in Providence, Rhode Lland. In
1858 he purchased the stock and good will of one
of the storekeepers in Auburn, and beginning at
the age of twenty-one. conducted a general assort-
ment store in his native town for five years. In'
the spring of 1863 he went to Newberne, North

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Carolina, as clerk in a store there, but returning to
Massacluisetts in 1863, established himself in the
tea trade in the city of Worcester, changing from
that to the paper, twine and cordage business in
1867, and for the past thirty-nine years has con-
ducted his business at No. 9 Park street. Mr. Stone
is attentive to business, and has been quite suc-
cessful in his undertakings. In politics he is a
Repulilican, public-spirited, and a pleasant man
socially. March 9, 1S9S, he was united in marriage
with Fidelia P. Small, of Millbury. She died July
16, 1906, in Worcester.

CHARLES H. BRYANT. The name Bryant
can be traced back in England to Sir Guy de Briant,
who lived in the reign of Edward III and whose
descendants had a seat in Castle Hereford. The
arms are as follows : Field is Or ; three piles meet-
ing near in the base of the escutcheon, azure. No
connection has been established between the four
emigrants of this surname in the Plymouth colony,
viz : John Bryant, of Taunton ; John Bryant, Sr.,
of Scituate ; Stephen Bryant, of Plymouth ; and
Lieutenant John Bryant, of Plymouth, Massachu-
setts, though according to tradition John, Sr., of
Scituate, and Stephen were brothers. Lieutenant
John and Stephen were relatives also. Stephen's
daughter Abigail married Lieutenant John Bryant.

(I) John Brj-ant. of Scituate, was the emigrant
ancestor of Charles H. Bryant, of Worcester. He
should be distinguished from John Bryant, of Taun-
ton, who died early. John Bryant became prominent
in Plymouth colony and filled various public offices.
He was owner of extensive tracts of land and active
in surveying public lands. He represented Scituate
in the general court in 1657-77-78. According to
tradition he came from Kent, England, on the ship
"Ann" and lived for a time at Barnstable before
coming to Scituate. His name appears first on
the Scituate records in 16,^9. He was reported able
to bear arms in 1643 among one hundred and five
Scituate men. He married three times: (First)
Mary Lewis, daughter of George and Mary (Jen-
kins) Lewis, of Barnstable, November 4, 1643, and
had seven children; (second) Elizabeth Witherell,
daughter of Rev. William Witherell, of Scituate;
(third) Mary Highland, daughter of Thomas High-
land, of Scituate. He died November 20, 1684. His
will was dated November 4, 1684. His nineteen
children, born in Scituate, were: John, see for-
ward; Hannah, born July 25, 1646; Joseph, died
June 16, 1669 ; Sarah, born September 29, 1648 ; Mary,
February 24, 1650. died April 8, 1652 ; Martha, Feb-
ruary 26, 1652 ; Samuel, February 6, 1654, died in
1690, in Governor Phipps' expedition to- Canada;
Elizabeth, August, 1665 ; Daniel, Mary, Benjamin,
December, 1669, died unmarried; Joseph, 1671 ;
Jabez, February 18, 1672, died unmarried 1697;
Ruth, August 16. 1673; Thomas, July 15, 1675 ;
Deborah, January 22, 1677; Agatha, March 12, 1678;
Ann. November 20, 1679 ; Elisha.

(II) Lieutenant John Bryant, eldest son of John
Bryant (l), w-as born in Scituate, August 17, 1644,

died there January 26, 1708. He married —

Mary. His will was proved February 12, 1708. His
estate was inventoried at three hundred and ninety-
five pounds. The children of Lieutenant John and
Mary Bryant, all born in Scituate, Massachusetts,
were: John, Jr., March 27. 1678; Jonathan. Jan-
uary I, 1679; Mary, September 3, 1682; David, Au-
gust 17, 1684, see forward ; Joshua, November 14,
1687; Samuel, January 15, 1689; Martha, August
22. 160T.

(III) David Bryant, fourth child and third son
of Lieutenant John Bryant (2), was born in Scit-

uate, Massachusetts, August 17, 1684. He married,
July -31, 1706, Hannah Church, widow. He died at
Scituate, June 21, 1731. His wife died 1736. His
estate was valued after his death at $2,151. The
children of David and Hannah Bryant: David,
born February 14, 1707; Elizabeth, February 16,
1709; Mary, May 4, 171 1 ; Jacob, see forward.

(IV) Jacob Bryant, youngest son of David
Bryant (3), was born in Scituate, Massachusetts,
January, 1714. He bought of Oxenbridge Thatcher,
of Boston, April 24, 1740, a farm of eighty-seven
acres in Leicester in the Ware or Mare meadow
for two hundred and fifty dollars. This land was
in the Northerly part of the town, adjoining land
of Thomas Prince. His will was dated June 10,,
17S0. He died February 7, 1781 ; she died in Lei-
cester, December 8, 1S18, aged ninety-two years.

The children of Jacob and Abigail Bryant were:
David, born 1761, married Abigail Eddy, 1784, set-
tled in Leicester, Massachusetts ; he died in Leices-
ter, October 7, iS.|T; Jonathan, see forward; Joseph,
Lydia ; Elizabeth. The daughters may be older than
the sons.

(V) Jonathan Bryant, second son as given above
of Jacob Bryant (4), was born in 1765. He died
March 16. 1802. He came to Leicester with the
remainder of the family when a young boy. He
settled there. He married Anna Warren, of Pax-
ton (intentions dated August 2), 1788. She died
Decemljer 8, 1818. He died March 16, 1802. The
children of Jonathan and Anna (Warren) Bryant
were : John, see forward ; Ira, born February 16,
1791 ; Alice, December 15, 1797; Lyman, March 29,.
1800.

(VI) John Bryant, eldest son of Jonathan Bry-
ant (5), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts,
March 13, 1789. He lived in Leicester, Oakham
and Holden. Massachusetts. He married Fanny
Smith, of Leicester (intentions dated November
18), 1S15. He died in Oakham, April 27, 1833,
aged forty-four years. The children of John and
Fanny (Smith) Bryant were: John Frink, born
July 25, 1817, at Leicester, died August S, 1835;
Charles, see forward ; Louisa, born 1823, married
Harvey Stratton, January I, 1849; David, went
west and died unrnarried ; Willis, married and went
west, where he died.

(VII) Charles Bryant, second child of John-
Bryant (6), was born at Oakham. Massachusetts,
August 12, 1820. He settled in Holden, Massa-
chusetts. . He was a farmer and merchant. In
politics a Republican and held offices in Holden,
overseer of poor and selectman. He was a Mason
in Worcester. He married Mary Jane Bryant,
daughter of Joseph and Malinda Bryant, January
24, 1849. She was born i\pril 19. 1821 (town-
records). Her mother was Melinda or Malinda
Watson, born August 4, 1791, daughter of Samuel
and Ruth (Baldwin) Watson, married October 30,
1772. Samuel Watson was born March 8, 1748-9,
the son of John and Mary (Blair) Watson, (in-
tentions dated November 20, 1743). Mary Blair
lived in Worcester before marriage. Joseph Bryant,
the father of Mary Jane, was born September 7,
1787, in Leicester. He was the son of David and
Abigail Bryant, and grandson of Jacob Bryant
(IV). See above. Charles Bryant died February
24, 1896, his wife April i, 1905.

The children of (Tharles and Mary Jane (Bryant)
Bryant were : Marie F., born May 9. 1850. died
September 16, 1852; Frank, July i, 1852; Charles
H., see forward; Abbie M., January 29, 1857; Jo-
senh Edgar. September 10, 1858 ; Walter David,.
July I, 1R60; Arthur, February 9, 1862. died Au-
gust 25, 1862; Fred Augustus, August 21, 1863.

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(VIII) Charles H. Bryant, third child of
Charles Bryant (7), was born in Holden, Massa-
chusetts, January 10, 1854. He was educated in
the common schools and Howe's Business College
in Worcester. He was a farmer and dealer in milk.
In politics a Republican and a member of the grange
and active in it. He married, JVIarch 15, 1881, Liz-
zie Hattie Allen, daughter of Asa Mixter and
Elizabeth A. (Richardson) Allen. Her line of
descent is: Matthew (I), the emigrant, son of
Richard Allen of Braunto'n, Devonshire, England,
settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Daniel (II);
Elnathan (III), born February 11, 1666, at Lan-
caster, Massachusetts, removed to Hopkinton in
1730, and died there 1734; Obadiah (IV), married
Susannah , and resided in Shrewsbury ; Is-
rael (V), born April 21, 1745, in Shrewsbury, mar-
ried Thankful Greenwood, of Framingham, 1768;
removed to Spencer in 1783; soldier in the revolu-
tion, fighting bravely at the battle of Bunker Hill ;
wife Thankful died October 25, 1805 ; married (sec-
ond) Sarah Bennett, widow, 1807; she died 1818;
liis children were : Silas, Ivory, Jemima, Junia,
Ashbel, Otis and Alvan, all born in Shrewsbury
•except the last ; Israel died July 17, 1833, aged nine-
ty years; Ashbel Allen (VI), married Eleanor
Mixter, of Hardwick, and their children were :
Nancy, born December 29, 1800; Israel, August 3,
1802; Asa Mixter, see forward; Liberty, September
5, 1809; Daniel, August 21, 1811; Eleanor, July 18,
1814, died February i, 1816; Albert, March 14, 1817.
Asa Mixter (VII), who married Elizabeth A.
Richardson, daughter of Benjamin and Judith
(Mason) Richardson, and granddaughter of Cap-
tain Ebenezer Richardson, of Spencer, was a soldier
in the revolution. Judith Mason was the daughter
of Ebenezer Mason, Jr., and granddaughter
of Captain Ebenezer Mason. The latter was born in
Watertown. March I, 1723, and married Elizabeth
Bright, of Watertown, October 15, 1760.

Elizabeth Mason, wife of Captain Ebenezer
Mason, was born August 11, 1734, and died Sep-
tember 18, 1812. They came to Spencer in 1764
with the three elder children. He was a tanner by
trade. He was town clerk of Spencer and captain
the Spencer company during the revolutionary war.
Captain Ebenezer Mason settled first on Lot 17,
later in 1774 on Lot 22. The children of Captain
Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Bright) Mason were:
Ebenezer, born in Watertown, February 18, 1761,
married in Spencer, December 22, 1785, Judith
White ; William, November 3, 1762 ; Enoch, July 22,
1764; Elliott, March 21, 1766, died October 18, 1812;
Seth, February 28, 1768; died young; Elizabeth,
August 18, 1772; Joseph, December 15, 1774; Su-
sanna, September 9, I777. died January 25, 1795 ;
Isaac. February 5, I7»2. Mrs. Bryant has reason
to be proud of her revolutionary ancestors. She
is a member of the Union Congregational Church.

Mr. Bryant is a quiet citizen of solid worth,
esteemed by those who know him, a representative
of the New England yeomanry still extant. He
lias been very successful in his business and has
one of the most valuable farms in Worcester. It
is situated in the outskirts on the Holden road.

The children of Charles H. and Elizabeth
(Allen) Brvant are: Fannie Elizabeth, born in
Worcester, December 21, i88r, a trained nurse in
the Worcester City Hospital; Nellie Jane, born in
Worcester. December 5, 1883, graduate of the high
school and Mrs. Lucy Wheelock's Kindergarten
School in Boston, teacher in the public schools;
Flora Allen, born October 13, 1894; Esther Louise,
born February 5. 1898, died April 20, 1898.

THE DAVIDSON FAMILY. The family of
Davidson is of Scotch origin, and there are at least
two branches of it in Worcester county. But the
lineage of those bearing the name treated in this
article has been traced to

(I) John Davidson, of Salem, Massachusetts,
who was married by Rev. Benjamin Prescott, March
8, 1719, to Sarah Overton, in Salem. April 12, 1720,
he purchased land of William King in Sutton, and
is an ancestor of Henry Wilbur Davidson, the
subject of this sketch. This John and Sarah
(Overton) Davidson had a son Benjamin, born
about 1727, and perhaps other children.

(II) Benjamin Davidson, son of John David-
son, married, April 29, 1751, Mary Whittemore,
and for a time resided in Sutton, but removed to
Spencer in 1792, where they both died ; he died
March 29, 1813. Children were : John, born Jan-
uary I, 1752; was a revolutionary soldier, married
Anne Gould and lived in Montpelier, Vermont;
Anne, September 18, 1753 ; married Stephen Cutler ;
at her death he with their children removed to
Montpelier, Vermont ; and Benjamin, mentioned
hereafter.

(III) Benjamin Davidson, Jr., was born in Sut-
ton, Massachusetts, September 21, 1756. Married,
December 14, 1780, Mary King, and lived in Sutton,
Charlton and Spencer, dying in the latter place
August 23, 1815. His widow died in Charlton, De-
cember 30, 1854. Mr. Davidson was a revolutionary
soldier, served as private in Captain James Green-
wood's company, Colonel Ebenezer Larnard's regi-
ment, which marched April 20, 1775, in response
to the Lexington alarm, service two days. Was
also among the men listed by Nathaniel Barber,
muster master for Suffolk county, May 25, 1777,
Captain Blanchard's company. Colonel Wesson's
regiment, term three years. In Continental army
pay accounts his name appears for service from
May 14, 1777, to November 14, 1777. reported fur-
loughed, and was unable to join on account of dis-
ability as certified to by Dr. Freeland and the select-
men of Sutton, August 15, 1785- The children of
Benjamin Davidson, Jr. and Mary his wife, were:
Simeon, born in Sutton, February 20, 1781 ; Betsey,
born in Sutton, married John Gould, Jr. ; Jonathan,
born in Sutton, 1785, died in Spencer, 1813: Sally,
born in Sutton, August 24, 1790, married Willard
Converse; Luther, born in Sutton. May II, 1792,
died in Spencer, 1852 ; Jesse, born in Charlton, De-
cember 2, 1796, died 1817; Mary, born in Spencer,
January 22, 1802, died 1872 ; Lucy, bom in Spencer,
May 24, 1805, died 1896.

(IV) Simeon Davidson, eldest son of Benjamin
Davidson, Jr., was born in Sutton, where he attended
the public schools, became a farmer and lived at
various times in Ward (now Auburn), Spencer,
Leicester and Oxford. He was a man of extensive
business experience, and was found dead in the
highway at Charlton, May 20. 1842. He married
Dorothea Cudworth, April 5. 1810, in Auburn, where
she was born April 28. 1781. She died in Oxford,
November 30, 1867. Their seven children were:
Abigail, born October 11. 1810, married Silas
Turner, of Oxford. William Gray, born January
4. 1812, mentioned below. Jonathan King, born Oc-
tober 10. 1813. married Mary L. Merriam, and was
the father of Henry Franklin Davidson, whose
sketch appears in this work. Simeon, Jr., born in
Spencer, 1816, married, January 4, 1836, Maria
Tucker: he died 1872. John Cudworth, born June
4, 1818, married, November 26, 1846, Cordelia E.
Lovell, of Millbury. Brigham, born July. 1820, died
in Barre, October 11, 1889. Lucy, born April 8,

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1S21,. at Leicester, married, April 3, 1844, John
Tucker. She died in Auburn, March 17, 1894. He
died in Auburn, June 21, 1869.

(\) William Gray Davidson, son of Simeon
Davidson, was born in Ward (now Auburn), and
at the age of sixteen years went to Millbury to
work on the farm of Lieutenant Jonathan Trask,
attending school during tlie winter seasons. After
a feu- years with Mr. Trask, he began work for
Captain' Joseph Griggs in his tannery, where he
learned the business and became superintendent of
the works, serving seventeen years when he resigned
the position and purchased the Trask homestead.
He was a prominent man of the town, serving as
school committeeman, selectman and also in other
town offices. He married Judith C. Holman in
Millbury, Mav 9, 1839. She was born November 7,
181 1, died July 13, 1894. He died in Millbury, No-
vember I, 1898. Children were: William Edward,
born August 19, 1840, died February 2, 1894: Ellen
Jane, January 17, 1843, married William G. Seavor,
at Worcester : Henry Wilbur, September 10, 1844,
mentioned below. Mary Elizabeth. June 29. 1850,
died September 23, 1861. Walter, September 2,
1851, salesman with Barnard, Sumner, Putnam Com-
paiiv, Worcester: Matilda Ann, August 14. 1854,
married Charles L. Bancroft, in Millbury, Decem-
ber 25, 1873.

(VI) Henry Wilbur Davidson, son of William
Gray Davidson, was born near the old homestead
in Millbury, Massachusetts, September 10, 1844.
Received his early education in the public schools
of his native town and at Phillips Academy, An-
dover, ^Massachusetts. In 1S64 he enlisted in the
Thirteen LTnattached Company, Massachusetts In-
fantry, in the civil war, and served chiefly in guard
duty.' for ninety days. He then re-enlisted in Com-
pany F. First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and
served to the end of the war. After returning home
he began farming, but later devoted his attention
to teaching school, an occupatiin he followed for
several years, having in charge during a portion
of the time the schools in Millbury, Sutton, Leices-
ter, Massachusetts, and also Lee, Ilinois, gaining
considerable prominence as an educator. Mr. David-
son is a Republican in politics, and has served the
town of Millbury four years as assessor, and many
years as a member of the school committee, and
takes great interest in the Grand Army of the Re-
public, the Millbury Grange, and the Patrons of
Husbandry organizations, of which he is a mem-
ber. At this writing he is serving his third term
as a justice of the peace. He united with the First
Congregational Church in Millbury, May, 1864, was
chosen deacon in 1900 and now holds that office.

He married (first) Martha Bond, daughter of
Captain Bond, of Millbury, in 1868. She died
January 11. 1879. He married (second), April 22,
1880. Ida T. Pierce, daughter of Francis and Mari-
etta (Tuttle) Pierce, of Enfield, Connecticut, Chil-
dren: Mary E., born August 31, i86g. William
G. September 9, 1871, married Lavinia Knight, Oc-
tober 28, 1896, and has seven children. Henry,
February 24. 1877, died March 4. 1877. Mabel, Sep-
tember '28. 1878. Edward P.. February 17, 1881.
Wallace F.. November 30, 1882. George A., Oc-
tober 21. 1885. Wilbur K., May 22, 1S91. Henri-
etta C, July 6, 1895.

HENRY FRANKLIN DAVIDSON, a prosper-
ous farmer and lumberman of Charlton, Worcester
county, Massachusetts, is a son of Jonathan K.
Davidson, a grandson of Simeon Davidson (4), of
Spencer. His great-grandfather was Benjamin
Davidson, Jr. (3), who was born in Sutton, this

county, September 21, 1756. Benjamin Davidson,
Sr.. who, April 29, 1751, married Mary Whittemore,
moved to Spencer in 1792, and resided there for the
remainder of his life, which terminated March 29,
1815. His son, Benjamin, Jr., previously referred
to, married Mary King, December 14, 1780, and re-
sided in Charlton and Spencer; his death occurred
in the latter place, August 25, 1815. He was a
revolutionary soldier. His wife survived her hus-
band nearly forty years, and died in Charlton, De-
cember 30, 1854. They had eight children.

Jonathan K. Davidson, father of Henry Franklin
Davidson, was born in Ward, now Auburn, October
10, 1813. settled in Charlton and resided there until
his death, which occurred in 1883. He married Mary
L. Merriam, born June 12, 1824, daughter of Cyril
Merriam. She died February 17, 1901. Jonathan
K. and Mary L. (Merriam) Davidson were the
parents of eleven children, nine of them now living,
namely: Herbert K.. Henry F., Alonzo B., Mary,
Sarah, Eugene A., Theodore E., Willis W. and
Arthur M. Sarah Davidson became the wife of
John Amidon.

Henry Franklin Davidson, the subject of this
sketch, was born in Charlton, March 19, 1847. After
concluding his attendance at the public schools, he
entered the employ of one of the Western railroads
and follow-ed that occupation in that section of the
country for six years. He next turned his atten-
tion to agricultural pursuits in Iowa, where he re-
mained for eight years, at the expiration of which
time he returned to Charlton, and has ever since
resided there, devoting his energies to general farm-
ing and lumbering with profitable results. In poli-
tics he supported the Republican party, but he never
participated in civic affairs. His religious affilia-
tions are with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In December. 1870. Mr. Davidson was united in
marriage with Miss :\Iaria V. Cole, born in Feb-
ruary, 1851, daughter of Ethan and Lucretia (Gil-
son) Cole. Their children are: Henry Herbert,,
born in Iowa, October 10, 1871. Cyrus Edward,
born in Iowa, August 30, 1873. Sarah Maud, born,
September 24, 1879. Henry Herbert married Miss
Alberta Wakefield, daughter of William H. and
Sarah (Young) Wakefield. Cyrus Edward is un-
married. Sarah Maud married, August 18, 1903,
Ralph H, Hayward.

BALCOM FAMILY. Alexander Balcom (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Dr. Elmer I. Balcom,
w^as a native of England. He settled at Ports-
mouth and Providence, Rhode Island, and became a
leading citizen of his day. He was a deputy to the
general assembly in 1683 from Providence. He
bought a tract of land twelve miles north of Provi-
dence, July 14. 1686, of Nathan Payne. He was in
Portsmouth, January 31, 1664, and was probably
born as early as 1635. He was a mason by trade.
He died May 4, 171 1, and his will was proved July
18, 171 1. The estate was settled by his wife Jane
and son John. The will mentions his children. He
married Jane Holbrook, daughter of William and
Elizabeth Holbrook. Their children were: Alex-
ander, married Sarah Woodcock, removed to At-
tleboro before 1692, son born there 1692; had seven
children ; mason by trade. Catherine, married Dan-
iel Jenckes, who was born April 19. 1663, and was
the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Jenckes. Sarah,
married Timothy Sheldon, son of John ; they had
four children. John, married Sarah Bartlett, who
was born 1678 and died January 30, 1739: they re-
sided at Providence and Smithiield. Rhode Island;
kept tavern ; names relatives in will. Freegift, was
insane at the time of Joseph's death. Joseph, see

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forward. Hannah, married, February 22, 1716,
Ebenezer Hayward, and had four children. Samuel,
Deborah, Lydia, married, April 14, 1701, Daniel
Hix, who was born 1660 and died March 21, 1746;
had five children.

(II) Joseph Balcom, son of Alexander Balcom
(l), was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, about
1660. He removed to Mendon in 1717 with his
family, including his three sons. He finally settled
in New Sherborn, now the town of Douglass where
his descendants have been numerous. His will
was dated March 5, 1732-33. It mentions his wife ■
Phebe and his children, as given below. He gave
his gun to Joseph, the eldest son. He mentioned
his brother, Freegift Balcom. The homestead was
in Uxbridge and New Sherborn and he owned
rights in both towns. The house was near Baiting
pond, with forty-four acres of land. He also owned
land in the Cedar swamp. His wife Phebe died
after 1732. His daughter, jNIartha Comstock, was
cut off in the will on account of her "disobedience."
He mentions also his kinsman, Samuel Read, and
well beloved friend, Jolm Harwood. The children
of Joseph and Phebe Balcom were : Joseph, Samuel,
see forward ; Elijah, Deborah, Phebe, Sarah, Mary,
JMartha, born March 21, 1714, at Bristol, married

• • Comstock.

(III) Samuel Balcom, son of Joseph Balcom
(2), was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, about 1710.
He was a tanner by trade. He settled in what is
now Douglass, Massachusetts, with his father, and

lived there all his life. He married Susannah • .

His will was made February, 1783, and allowed
February 4, 1783. It mentions four sons, John and
David, "elder sons," and Moses and Aaron, "younger
sons"; also daughter, Susanna Robbins. Children
of Samuel and Susannah Balcom, all born in Doug-
las, were: Samuel, born November 10, 1746; Mary,
born July 12, 1748; Susanna, born July 3, 1750,
married Benjamin Robbins ; John, born March 5,
1752, see forward; David, born May 26, 1754;
Bezaleel, born May 26, 1754; Phebe, born September
15- 1/59! Closes, born November 11, 1761 ; Aaron,
born J\Iarch 27, 1764.

(IV) John Balcom, son of Samuel Balcom (3),
was born in Douglass, March 8, 1752, died there

. October 6, 1838, aged eighty-six years. He was a
soldier in the revolution in Captain Bartholomew
Woodbury's company, Colonel Learned's regiment,
at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He married,
December 16, 1776, Sarah Claflin. He married (sec-
ond) lililley Lesure, who was born 1764 and died
May 7, 1812, aged forty-eight years. Children of
John and Sarah were : Ellis, born June 28, 1777 ;
Phebe, born January 28, 1779; Betsey, born April
3, 1781. Children of John and JMilley Balcom were:
Jesse, born September 27, 1786: Melley, born Feb-
ruary 26, 1788; Sally, born September 17, 1791 ;
John, born July 9, 1793 ; Oily ; Submit, born No-
vember 19, 1795; Azubah, born 1796; Maria; Ed-
ward ; Judson, see forward. Said to be a number
of other children, twenty-one in all. All of the
preceding appear on record except the last named.

(V) Judson Balcom, son of John Balcom (4),
was born in Douglass, February 26, 1805, died at
Grafton, Massachusetts, March 31, 1863, aged fifty-
eight years, one month and five days. His remains
were interred in the cemetery at East Douglas.
He resided at Holden, Douglass, ]Millbury and Graf-
ton. He bought a mill privilege of Ezekiel Wood
at Douglass. This privilege was formerly owned
by Edmund Carpenter, who sold it to I\Ir. Wood
May 26, 1838. The mill was fortnerly owned by
Lee and Jonathan Sprague. Mr. Balcom bought

the mill, etc., in 1847 and sold it back to Mr. Wood
in a few years.

He married (first), January 7, 1826. Jerusha
Elliott, of Sutton, and they lived at Douglass. He
married (second) (intentions August 20), 1848,
Martha Young, of Blackstone. All his children
except the first who died in infancy were mentioned
in his will, viz. : Child, died December, 1835, at
Douglass; Madison A., of Grafton, see forward;
Willard, of Grafton; Mary E.. married Joshua A.
Pike; JNIarcus D., resided in Grafton: Ellen Eliza-
beth (or Elizabeth E.), born at MiUbury, Novem-
ber 26, 1844.

(VI) Madison A. Balcom, son of Judson Bal-
com (5), was born in E^st Douglass, 1827. He was
educated in Douglass and Millbury, Massachusetts,
and learned the boot and shoe making business.
He is the senior partner of the firm of Balcom &
Johnson at Whitinsville. He married, December
26, 1849, Rebecca Frances Cook. Their children
are: Frederick A., see forward; Dr. Elmer Irving,
see forward.

(VII) Rev. Frederick A. Balcom, son of INIadi-
son A. Balcom (6), was born at Worcester, Jan-
uary 26, 1853. He was educated in the public and
high schools of Grafton, Massachusetts, at Williams
College, from which he was graduated in 1878, and
at the Yale Theological School, from which he was
graduated in 1S81. He was ordained January 9,
1S82, at West Hartland, Connecticut, and was
pastor of the Congregational Church there from
^lay, 1881, to June, 18S4. He w-as pastor of the
Holden Congregational Church at Holden, Massa-
chusetts, from June, 1S84. to September, 1886. He
taught in the Dow Academy at Franconia, New
Hampshire, from September, 1886, to March, 1887.
From July, 1887, to November, 1889, he was pastor
of the Congregational Church at North Leominster.
In i88g he was pastor of the First Congregational
Church at Rockland, Massachusetts, later pastor of
the church at Saylesville, Rhode Island. He mar-
ried Helen Newton and they have one child —
Margaret.

(VII) Dr. Elmer Irving Balcom, son of Madison
A. Balcom (6), was born in Grafton, Massachu-
setts, December 22, 1856. He attended the public
schools of his native town and graduated from the
high schools there in 1875. He went to Williams
College with his brother, and together they paid
their own way through college. He graduated, the
year after his brother, in the class of 1879. His
brother took to the ministry; he decided to study
medicine and went to the medical school of the
L'niversity of Michigan, where he received bis
medical degree in 1882. He spent another year in
the Post Graduate Hospital. New York city, in hos-
pital practice, and in 1884 opened his office in
Whitinsville, Massachusetts, where he has built up
a large practice. He is a member of the various
medical societies. He belongs to the Whitinsville
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In re-
ligion he is a Congregationalist and in politics a
Republican. He is a member of the board of
health of the town of Northbridge. of which
Whitinsville forms the main part of the population.
Dr. Balcom owns a handsome residence on Rail-
road avenue.

He married. December 16, 1876, Bertha M.
Peckham, daughter of Charles Peckham, of West
Bridgewater. She was a school teacher before her
marriage, a graduate of Worcester Normal. Chil-
dren of Dr. Elmer Irving and Bertha Balcom are:
Ralph Irving, born June 16. 1889; Velma May, Feb-
ruary 4, 1892 ; Ruth, October 30, 1894.

KLMER I. BAIXOM, SI. D

WORCESTER COUNTY

DR. JOHXSON R. WOODWARD. Richad
Woodward, the immigrant ancestor of Dr. John-
son R. Woodward, ot Oxford, Massachusetts, was
born in England in 1590. He sailed in the ship
"Elizabeth" of Ipswich, England. April 30, 163S,
with his wife Rose, aged fifty, and children George
and John, aged thirteen years. He settled at Water-
town, Massachusetts, and was admitted a freeman
September 2, 1635. He was a miller; bought a
wind-mill located m Boston and mortgaged or sold
it in 1648. His wife Rose died October 6, 1666,
aged eighty years, and he married (second) (.set-
tlement dated April 18, 1663) Ann Gates, born
1603, widow of Stephen Gates, of Cambridge. In
1642 he had a homestall of tw-elve acres, bounded
by land of John Spring, Martin Underwood, and
the highway, John Wincoll and John Knight. He
had another homestall bounded by land of Edward
How, Richard Benjamin and Edmund Blois. He
had in all three hundred and ten acres. He bought,
September 8, 1648, of Edward Holbrook and wife
Anne, a mill in Boston and sold it again, December.
1648, to William Aspinwall. He died February 16,
1664-65. The inventory of his estate was tiled April
4. 1665. His widow died in Stow, February 5,
1682-83. (See Gates sketch).

(H) George Woodward, son of Richard Wood-
ward (l), was born in England, in 1622, and came
with his parents and brother John in 1635 in the
ship '"Elizabeth.'' He was admitted a freeman May
6. 1646. He settled in Watertown, later at Brook-
line. He was selectman of Watertown in 1674. He
had eight children by his first wife. He married
(second), August 17, 1659, Elizabeth Hammond,
daughter of Thomas Hammond, of Newton. Her
father in his will, proved November 5. 1675, gave
her one hundred acres of land on Muddy River
(Brooklme), probably the place where George set-
tled. Woodward died May 31, 1676, and adminis-
tration was granted June 20, 1676, to his widow
Elizabeth and his son Amos. The inventory, made
June 23, 1676, amounted to one hundred and forty-
three pounds, ten shillings. His widow married
Samuel Truesdale. Children of George and his
first wife: Alary, born August 12, 1641, died Au-
gust 23, 1717 ; married, January 13, 1663-64, John
Waite; Sarah, born February 6, 1642-43, married,
1664, Stephen Gates, Jr., of Boston and Stow;
Amos, made freeman, October 10, 1677, died at
Cambridge, October 9, 1679, mentioning brothers
and sisters in will ; Rebecca, born December 30,
1647, married in Dedham, December 11, i6b6,
Thomas Fisher, of Dedham ; John, born IMarch 28,
1649; Susanna, born September 30, 1651, unmarried;
Daniel, born September 2, 1653, inherited the home-
stead; Mary, born June 3, 1656 (or Jilercy). The
child of George and Elizabeth : George, Jr., born
September 11, 1660, see forward.

(HI) George Woodward, son of George Wood-
ward (2), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,
September 11, 1660, died 1696. The inventory, De-
cember 3, 1696, amounted to one hundred and sev-
enty pounds, sixteen shillings. His w'idow was ad-
ministratix. He married, December 31, 1686, Lydia
Brown and they settled in Brookline, Massachu-
setts. Their children; Abraham, born at Water-
town. February i, 1687-8S, married Joanna Harris,
born May 28, 1690, daughter of Daniel and Joanna
(Brown) Harris; married (second), June 4, 1728,
Sarah Pierppnt, of Roxbury ; George, bought land
May 23, 1712, at Mendon ; Nathaniel, see forward;
Lydia, married Robert Harris, brother of Abraham
Harris ; Ichabod. of Brookline, married, July I,
1725, Abigail Holbrook, of Roxbury.

(IV) Nathaniel Woodward, son of George

Woodward (3), was born in Brookline, Massachu-
setts, about 1690. He married in Roxbury, June
23, 171 5, Dorcas Gardner, and probably settled in
Brookline, though the births of his children were
recorded in Roxbury. He settled at Brooklyn, Con-
necticut, and in 1734-35 was at Coventrj'. His five
children by his first w-ife were all born in Massachu-
setts. After the death of Dorcas, his first wife, he
married (second) Widow Topliff, who lived only

two years, and (third) Patten. He moved

to Stafford, Connecticut, where she owned a farm
and where he died March, 1772. He was a black-
smith and a man of some wealth. His farm was in
the northeast part of Coventry, near the Tolland
line. The children of Nathaniel and Dorcas Wood-
ward : Nathaniel, born JNIay 26, 1716, see forward;
Dorcas, born February 11, 1719, at Newton, mar-
ried John Aborn, son of Samuel and Martha Aborn,
of Tolland; he was killed by lightning in Ellington;
she married (second), 1772, John Williams, of Wil-
braham, and died in 1774; Moses, born at Newton,
June 7, 1721; Aaron, soldier in the revolution;
Anna, born at Ro.xbury, 1727, married, 1750, Samuel
Ladd, died 1808.

(V) Nathaniel Woodward, son of Nathaniel
Woodward (4), was born ]May 26, 1716. He mar-
ried, 1742-43, Elizabeth Aborn, daughter of Samuel
and Martha Aborn, of Tolland, Connecticut. He
died April 15, 1792, aged seventy-five years, ten
months, twenty-one days. His widow Elizabeth
died April 25, 1808, aged eighty-four years. Their
children were: jNIoses, born March 30, 1745, see
forward ; Elizabeth, born August 28, 1747, married,
1769, Gad Hunt, of Coventry; Esther, born August
24, 1749, died August 29, 1756; Nathaniel, born June
23, 1752, married. May 31, 1781, Zervia Ensworth;
both died May 27, 1828; Lydia, born August 19,
1754, married, 1777, John Babcock ; she died May
19, 1749; John, born March 13, 1760, physician of
Newark. New Jersey, married Katherine Roseurant ;
he died 178;.

(VI) Moses Woodward, son of Nathaniel
Woodward (5), was born in Tolland, Connecticut,
IMarch 30, 1745. He married Abigail West, of
Tolland. He was a soldier in the revolution. He
was first quartermaster of the Fourth Regiment of
Light Horse under Major Ebenezer Backus. In
!May, 1776, twenty-four troops were taken from the
various regiments and formed into separate cavalry
regiments, each in command of a major. At first
each militia regiment had one troop of cavalry or
light horse. He became cornet in Captain Sar-
gent's company of this regiment, and marched to
New York in the fall. After the campaign the
troop was discharged by Washington , in these
words : "A relief having come for his Light Horse
under INIajor Backus that corps is now dismissed
with the General's hearty thanks for faithful services
and the cheerfulness and alacrity they have shown
upon all occasions."

Of the children of Moses and Abigail Wood-
ward, two died in infancy ; the others were : Erastus,
died at the age of sixteen years; Bela (Billa in some
records), born 1772, see forward; Luke, born 1774,
married jNIary Howard, resided in 1854 in Jefferson,
Vermont, and had nine children ; Abigail, born June,
1778, died about 1800; married Amos Booth and
had three children ; Solomon, born 1784, blacksmith,
of Springfield. Massachusetts, where he died in
1833; married Dorcas Maiden, of New Hampshire;
had sons Erastus, Nathaniel, Solomon and Asa M.;
Esther, born 1787, married Ichabod Munsel ; she
died 1827; Erastus, born 1790, merchant of New
York city in 1820, died 1834; had four children.

(VII) Bela Woodward, son of Moses Wood-

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ward (6), was born in Tolland, Connecticut, in
1772. He settled in Roxbury, Vermont, in 1802, on
East hill. He manufactured saddle trees and was
the only man in New England having this
unique trade, it is said, for a long time. He mar-
ried Polly Steel, of Tolland, Connecticut, and they
had eight children. He died at Roxbur\-, Vermont,
in 1851. Among his children was Eleazer, born
about 1810, in Roxbury, see forward.

(,VHI) Eleazer Woodward, son of Bcla Wood-
ward (7), was born in Roxbury, Vermont, about
1810. He married Amelia Flint. Among their
children was Charles E., born 1835, see forward.
(IX) Charles Erastus Woodward, son of
Eleazer Woodward (8), was born at Roxbury,
Vermont, March 15, 1S35. He settled in Braintree,
Vermont, where he has lived since March 26, 185 1.
His home is on the old Elisha Mann place. He
married, March 26, 1857, Mary Elizabeth Flint,
born November 7, iSj7, seventh child of Rufus
Flint, Jr., born j\Iarch, 1800. Married, March 17,
1825, Olive Holman, and (second) Dorothy Freeze,
of Sandwich, New Hampshire. Rufus Flint, Sr.,
was born April 3, 1768, married Hannah Hawes,
born July 10, 1773, died July 12, 1842; he came to
Braintree, Vermont, with his father, and moved
to Madison, Ohio, about 1830, and died there May
12, 1837. His father, Silas Flint, was the son of
Samuel Flint. Silas was born at Hampton, Con-
necticut, March 19, 1737, and removed to Brain-
tree, Vermont, February, 1786. He was a soldier
in the revolution on the Lexington alarm, April ig,
1775, in Captain John Kingsley's company from
Windham. Again in 1777 he was in Captain Na-
thaniel Wales' company. Colonel Jonathan Lati-
mer's regiment, and marched to reinforce General
Gates. The regiment was in General Poor's brigade
and fought both battles of Saratoga, September
19 and October 9, and was pronounced by General
Gates an excellent regiment. He removed to Canada
and was killed there. He married (first), December
4, 1757, Sarah Norton, who died 1763; (second)
Abigail Robinson, born February 22, 1737. ;\Irs.
Silas Flint was given one hundred acres of land
as she was the first white woman to enter Brain-
tree, Vermont. Samuel Flint, son of John Flint,
Jr., was born April 9, 1712. After his third mar-
riage he removed from Hampton, Connecticut, to
Randolph, Vermont, and died there, 1802. John
Flint, Jr., son of John, was born February 8, 1681,
and settled in Windham, now Hampton, Connecti-
cut. John Flint, son of Thomas Flint, was born
August 3, 1655, resided at Salem Village, now
Danvers, Massachusetts, where he died April, 1730.
The immigrant, Thomas Flint, was from Wales.
About 1640, settled in Salem Village, where his
descendants are still living on the original farm.
He died April 15, 1663. (See Flint family).

Olive Holman, who married Rufus Flint, Jr.,
was born April 26, 1799; married. JSIarch 17, 1825,
Rufus Flint; she died February 8, 1864; she was
daughter of Solomon Holman, born in Sutton, now
Millbury, May 24, 1766, married. May I, 1793. Sally
Mann, and removed to Braintree, Vermont, where
he died November 26, 1862. Colonel Jonathan Hol-
man father of Solomon Holman, and son of Solo-
mon Holman, Jr., was born in Sutton, Alassachu-
setts, 1733; resided in that part now Millbury.
Colonel Holman and his brother Daniel were pro-
prietors of Braintree, Vermont, but never settled •
there. Colonel Holman died February 25, i8i4._
He was lieutenant under Colonel Ebenezer Leonard
in 177s; colonel of the Fifth Alassachusetts Regi-
ment, 1776-77; marched to reinforce Gates and was
in active service until he resigned April 8, 1779-

His father, Solomon Holman, Jr., son of Solomon
Holman, was born at Newbury, November 25,
1697, and settled at Sutton, where he died April 17,
1785. Solomon Holman, Sr., was born in England,
impressed on a man of war, escaped and settled in
Newbury, Massachusetts. Children of Charles E.
and Alary E. (Flint) Woodward: Olivia j\lay, born
April 30, ,1858; Anna Elvira, March 26, i860;
Charles Eleazer, July a. 1862; Johnson Rufus, Sep-
tember 2, 1865, see forward; Ida Abigail, April 4,
1868; Izza Amelia, August 14, 1872; Flora Emma,
October 28, 1878.

(X) Dr. Johnson Rufus Woodward, son of
Charles Erastus Woodward (9), was born in
Braintree, Vermont, September 2, 1865. He attended
the public and high schools at West Randolph, "V^er-
mont, the State Normal school at Randolph, two
years in the academic department and three years
in the medical school of the University of Ver-
mont, from which he was graduated with the degree
of M. D. in 18S8. Two days after he graduated,
July 19, 1888, he opened his office and began to
practice in Oxford, Massachusetts, where he has
been ever since. He is a member of the Massachu-
setts Medical Society, Worcester District Medical
Society, American Medical Association. He is a
member of the Oxford Lodge of Free Masons, the
Royal Arch Chaptei' of Worcester, Hiram Council
and Worcester County Commandery, Knights
Templar. He belongs to Nashoon Tribe, No. 146,
Red Men, Oxford, and to Oxford Court, Foresters
of America, No. 187.

He married Mary L. Hubbard, daughter of Abel
Howard and Laura (McCollum) Hubbard, of
Rochester, Vermont. They have one child, Gladys
Louise, born March 10, 1894. The children of Abel
Howard and Laura (McCollum) Hubbard were:
Anson E., Loretta, Ruth, Edson Howard, Herbert
Emory and Mary L. The children of William Hub-
bard, grandfather of Mrs. Woodward, were: Sam-
uel, William, Abel, Howard, Chestina, Tamar,
Sally.

McCOLLUM FAMILY. Alexander McCollum
(i), the immigrant ancestor of Mrs. Johnson R.
Woodward, of Oxford, jNIassachusetts, was born in
Londonderry, Ireland, about 1702. It is related that
his father was one of the besieged in the famous
siege of Londonderry, and the story comes down
in the family that on the very day Mountjoy re-
lieved the starving inhabitants that the father paid
a shilling for a cat's head for food.

McCollum settled in Londonderry, New Hamp-
shire, about 1730. He was a farmer and a man of
high standing. He served as collector of the parish
tax. His wife Jane was born in Ireland, 1704, died
October 11, 1773. Both were of old Scotch families,
Presbyterian in religion, and many of the friends
and neighbors in Ireland of the same Scotch stock
also settled in Londonderry. Most of the children
settled elsewhere, but all of this name in New
Hampshire appear to be descended from Alexander
and Jane J\IcCullom, of Londonderry. He died
there April 4, 1781. The children: Alexander, Jr.,
born March 22, 1731, married Elizabeth McMurphy,
daughter of Archibald McMurphy; died at New-
Boston, where he settled, January 6, 1761 ; Thomas:
Jean or Jane, married Isaac Brewster; Robert, had
the Londonderry homestead, see forward ; Archibald;
John, was in the Quebec expedition in the revolu-
tion in the compai./ of Captain Henry Dearborn,
the regiment of Colonel Benedict Arnold ; was then
of Pembroke, New Hampshire ; had been under

General John Stark in 1775 ; Janet, married

Gordon.

(II) Robert !McCollum. son of Alexander Mc-

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Colluni (i"), was bom in Londonderry, New Hamp-
shire, about 1745. All of his brothers and most of
his children left Londonderry to settle elsewhere.
He had his father's homestead, which remained in
the family to a recent date and possibly to the
present time. His children, born at Londonderry :
Archibald, removed from Londonderry; Alexander,
died aged two years ; William, see forward ; Jenny,
removed from Londonderry ; Alexander, settled m
New Boston, New Hampshire, married Elizabeth
Mc.Murphy; was grandfather of George W. iSlc-
Collum, who endowed the AlcCoUum Institute at
iMont Vernon, New Hampshire; .Robert, owned
the homestead with Jonathan ; Lydia, resided on
homestead ; Jonathan, part owner of homestead ;
Elizabeth B., was living on homestead in 1851 ;
!Martha, was living on homestead in 1851.

(HI) William ^IcColIum, son of Robert JMc-
Collum (2), was born in London, New Hampshire,
on the old homestead, about 1775. He settled in
Rochester, Vermont, about 1795. He married .

(,1V) Ezra iMcCoUum, son of William McCol-
lum (3), was born in Rochester, Vermont, Jan-
uary 2, 1799, died there June i, 1883. He married,
December 2, 1819, Fanny Wing, born October 6,
1797, died February 25, 1822, aged twenty-four
years. He married (second), September 29, 1823,
Laura Chafifee, born July i, 1797, died February 10,
1856. Children of Ezra and Laura McCoUum were :
Fannv, born June 21, 1824; Laura, born September
10, 1825, see forward; Ruth, born February 9,
1827, died September 27, 1846; Juliann (Julia Ann),
born September 23, 1829; William, born April 18,
1831 ; Dr. Ezra, born November 5, 1832, died at
Woodstock, Vermont, January 2, 1873; Henry, born
November 25, 1836, died August 23, 1839; Loretta,
born August 9, 1841, died August 25, 1843; Ruth.

(V) Laura McCoUum, daughter of Ezra Mc-
Collum (4), was born in Rochester, Vermont, Sep-
tember 10, 1825. She married Abel Howard Hub-
bard and among tlieir children was Mary L. Hub-
bard, wife of Dr. Johnson R. Woodward. William
Howard, perhaps grandfather of Abel Howard Hub-
bard, was sergeant in Captain Zehan Noble's com-
pany, 1780, in Vermont, in revolution.

MALCOLM G. CLARK. William Knowlton
(l), progenitor of Malcolm G. Clark, of Leicester,
Masachusetts, died on his way to America in 1632-
34. It is believed that his descent has been cor-
rectly traced from Richard Knowlton, of Kent, as
follows :

Richard Knowlton, born 1553, married Elizabeth
Cantize, July 17, 1577- Their children were: George,
born May 6, 1578, resided in Chiswick; Stephen,
born May i, 1580, died young; Thomas, born 1582;
William, born 1584, married Ann Elizabeth Smith.
The first two children were born in the parish of
Canterbury in Kent. The great cathedral is but six
miles from Knowlton Manor and the parish bound-
aries at that time included the latter, but the manor
is now in the parochial boundaries of the neighbor-
ing parish of Sandwich.

Thomas Knowlton, son of Richard Knowlton,
was born in Kent, Ii82. His children were: John,

born 1620, married Dorothy , 1643 ; Robert, born

1622, married Susan ; married (second) Sarah

; Mary, born 1628, married John Wilson, April

26, 1651 ; Sarah, born 1630, married Augustine Ellis,
February 23. 1656.

William Knowlton, son of Richard Knowlton,
emigrated to America, as stated above. His wife
was Elizabeth. Their children were: John, born
1610; Samuel, born 1611; Robert, born 1613, re-
mained in England, said to have died young; WiU-
iii — 2

iam, born 1O15; Mary, born 1617, died young;
Thomas, born 1620-22. The manor hall in Kent is
a beautiful structure with a history running back to
the days of William, the Conqueror.

William Knowlton owned the ship in which he
started for America and was known as Captain.
Knowlton. Of his children, John, William, Deacon
Thomas and probably Samuel accompanied him, for
a Samuel was found in Hingham soon after the
others appeared at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and he-
died in 1655, leaving a will, proved September,
1655, in which his brother John is named as execu-
tor. As John, son of Captain William, was the only-
one answering the description, Sam'uel must have
also been son of Captain William. John went to
Ipswich in 1639, and William and Thomas followed
in 1642. It is believed that Captain William was.
buried in Nova Scotia, whither he was boimd and
near the coast of which he died.

(II) William Knowlton, son of Captain Will-
iam Knowlton (i), was born in Kent, England.,,
1615. He settled at Ipswich and was a brick mason,
by trade. He was a member of the First Church of.
Christ (Congregational). He was admitted a free-
man in 1641-42. He was given commonage with,
pasturage for one cow and a share in Plum Island.
He sold to Edward Bragg, of Ipswich, December
12, 1643, a house and lot he had bought of John
Andrews. He died in 1655. The account of the
estate was presented in the Essex court by his.
brother, Thomas Knowlton, in 1678. Thomas stated
that he had kept two boys from the age of five to.
eight and a girl from one year old till she married.
Children of William and Elizabeth Knowlton were :
Thomas, born 1640, married Hannah Green, No-
vember 24, 1668; Nathaniel, born 1641, married
Deborah Grant, May 3, 1662'; William, born 1642,

married Susannah ; John, born 1644,^ married

Bethia Carter ; Benjamin, born 1646, married Han-
nah Mirick, November 30, 1676; Samuel, born 1647,
married Elizabeth Witt, 1669; Mary, born 1649,
married Samuel Abbe, October 12, 1672, had a son
Jonathan, resided at Wenham.

(III) William Knowlton, son of William
Knowlton (2), was born in Ipswich (probably), in
1642. He was a tailor by trade. He was fined for
having a pack of cards in his house. He was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1669. It is probable that he re-
moved to New York in J678, and settled in Nor-
wich in 1682, in company with Thomas Clark. Chil-
dren of William and Susannah Knowlton were :
Thomas, born 1667; Sarah, born December i, 167 1 ;
Joseph, born 1677, married Lucy Whipple.

(IV) Thomas Knowlton, son of William
Knowlton (3), was born in Ipswich, 1667. He mar-
ried Margery Goodhue, December g, 1692, and (sec-
ond), 1702, Margery Carter. His first wife died.
.August 23, 1698-99. Margery Goodhue was a grand-
daughter of Deacon William Goodhue, a pronjinent
citizen of Ipswich and one of the earliest settlers.
He was deputy to the general court in 1666-67-73-
76-80-81-83. For resisting illegal taxation he was.
imprisoned by Governor .Andros. Margery Good-
hue's father was Joseph, who married Sarah Whip-
ple, daughter of Elder John Whipple, who died in
Ipswich, 1683, leaving an estate of three thousand
pounds. Margery's grandfather was a soldier in the
colonial wars and a descendant, William Whip-
ple, was a signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and a brigadicr-.general at the capture of
General Burgoyne. Children of Thomas and Mar-
gery (Goodhue) Knowlton were: Robert, born
SeptemlTer 7, 1693, married Hannah Robinson, No-
vember 21, 1717; Marjery, born August 27, 1694^

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'died same da\-; !Marjery, born Marcli 2$, 1695, mar-
ried Jabez Dodge, November 25, 1718; Joseph, born
JVIarch 9, 1696-97; Deborah, born December 31,

1697-98. Children of Thomas and Marjery (Car-
■ter) Knowhon were : Abraham, born April 30,

1703, married Martha Lamson, January 16, 1734;
.Sarah, born March 5, 1705, married John Woodbury,
-April 2, 1723 ; Ezekiel, born March S, 1707, married
Susannah Morgan, 1728.

(V) Joseph Knowlton, son of Thomas Knowl-
ton (4), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March
9, 1696797. He married Abigail Bird, November
.25, 1718. He settled in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts,
.in 1733. He was admitted to the church there with
.■his wife Abigail in 1733. He was a farmer and
weaver. His wife Abigail died July 3, 1748, and he

-married (second) Anna . Abraham Knowlton,

.brother of Joseph, also settled in Shrewsbury and
"has many descendants thereabouts. The will of Joseph
was proved September 2, 1760. His son Joseph was
given the homestead at Shrewsbury. Children of
Joseph and Abigail (Bird) Knowlton were: Mar-
jery, born April 30, 1720, died February 5, 1740, at

Shrewsbury ; Abigail, born September 17, 1722, died

.at Hardwick, Massachusetts, March 4, 1807, unmar-
ried; Thomas, born November 10, 1724. killed at
Hoosac Fort, August 17, 1745 ; Joseph, born Octo-

rber 18, 1726, married Mary Knowlton, September 21,
1749'; Abraham, born November, 1727, married

'■Comfort Holaman ; married (second) Susannah
■Jordan; Jacob, born October 29, 1729, married Sarah
Pratt, November 21, 1759; married (second) Sarah
Smith; Abraham, born January. 1731, in Shrews-
bury; Nathan, born June 28, 1733, mentioned in his
father's will, April 17, 1756; Samuel, born Janu-

.ary 21, 1737, removed west; Nathaniel, born Janu-
.ary 21, 1737, removed west (twins) ; Israel, born
January 28. 1740.

(VI) Joseph Knowlton, son of Joseph Knowl-
ton (5), was born October 18, 1726. He married,
.September 21, 1749, Mary ^lorgan, his cousin,
•daughter of his father's half brother Ezekiel, men-
:tioned above. She was born j\Iay 16, 1731, and died

-August 21, 1796. He married (second) Cheney,

of Ward (Auburn), Massachusetts. Joseph was ad-
mitted to the Shrewsbury Church, 1774, and the
Ward Church, 1790. He conveyed his farm to his
son-in-law. Colonel Jonah Goulding, "to see him
through" and his daughter Grace cared for him in
her home until his death, August 22, 1816. Chil-
dren of Joseph and Mary (Knowlton) Knowlton
were: Abigail, born June 29, 1750; Asa, born
September 21. 1752; Anna, born October 7, 1754;
Grace, born July 23, 1756, married Jonah Goulding,
cf Grafton ; Nathan, born I\Iay 15, 1760, married
Abigail jMaynard. January 8, 1782 ; Joseph, born
May 4, 1761, married Priscilla Howe, May 11, 1784;
Mary, born August 23, 1763, married Joseph Boyden,
December 15, 1785, resided Guilford; Rachel, born
IVIarch 15, 1765, married Jasper Rand, 1783 ; Sam-
uel, born July 6, 1769, resided at Shrewsbury ;
Asahel, born November 23, 1773, resided at
Shrewsbury.

(VII) Grace Knowlton, daughter of Joseph
Knowlton (6), was born July 23, 1756. She married
Colonel Jonah (Josiah on some records by mistake)
Goulding. She died at Auburn. August 14, 1823.
He died there April 18, 1826. He was a sergeant
in the revolution and later is on the records as
colonel, said to have served during the Shays Re-
bellion. He lived in Grafton and Auburn, Massa-
chusetts. Children of Colonel Jonah and Grace
(Knowlton) Goulding were Joseph Goulding, born
January 15, 1778; Polly (Mary), born August 22,
J779, married Ebenezer Dunbar; Relief, born May

9, 1781, married Joseph Henshaw, of Auburn; Anna,
born March 10, 1783, died November 6, 1785 ; Grace,
born July 19, 1785, died August 16, 1796; Justus,
born March 13, 1787, died August 13, 1796; Sally,
born January 27, 1790, married ■ Warren, de-
scended from the same stock as General Joseph
Warren, of the revolution; Ebenezer Warren was
the settler in Leicester (see sketch of the Warren
family elsewhere in this work) ; Betsey, born Feb-
ruary II, 1792, died January 8, 1793.

DUNBAR FAMILY. John Dunbar (i), ances-
tor of Malcolm G. Clark, ■of Leicester, was born in
1710. He was one of the early settlers in Leicester.
He was the son of Peter and Sarah (Gushing)
Dunbar, and grandson of Robert Dunbar, of Scot-
land, who came to Hingham, Massachusetts, and set-
tled there. He lived in the northeast part of the
town. He married Abigail . He died in Leices-
ter, March 1802, aged ninety-two years. Children
of John and Abigail Dunbar were : Lucy, born
April 26, 1741, married Thomas Parker, Jr., of
Charlton; Sarah, born August 30, 1744. married
Samuel Parker, of Charlton ; Nabby, born April 10,
1746, married Phinehas Sargent, 1772; David, born
February 22, 1747, married Hannah Hammond,
1773; Thomas, born August i, 1750, died May, 1796;
Abner. born April 9, 1753.

(II) Abner Dunbar, son of John Dunbar (i),
was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, April 9, 1753.
He was a mason by trade. He married, March 31,
1774, Lydia Warren, daughter of Ebenezer Warren.
( See sketch of Warren family and of Ebenezer
AVarren.) He was corporal in Captain Loring Lin-
•coln's company, which marched to Bennington, 1777,
under Lieutenant-Colonel Flagg — a Leicester com-
pany. Also at Lexington. Children of Abner and
Lydia (Warren) Dunbar were: Sarah Warren,
born November 3, 1774, died unmarried; Ebenezer,
born March 29, 1777, lived in Clappville village ;
Lydia, born May 6, 1779, married David Legg, 1804;
Abigail, born April 9, 1782; Susan, born October 27,
1785; Polly, born May 20, 17S9, died young; Polly,
born October 5, 1791, married Artemas Haven,
1S14; David, Jr., born June 13, 1794, removed to
New York city.

(III) Ebenezer Dunbar, son of Abner Dunbar
(2), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, Alarch
29, 1777- He settled in the village of Clappville in
Leicester. He married Polly Goulding, daughter
of Colonel Jonah Goulding, of Auburn, Massachu-
setts, October 23, 1802. Children of Ebenezer and
Polly (Goulding) Dunbar were: Betsey, born Au-
gust 18, 1804; Alary, born April 14, 1808; Lydia,
born August 18, 1813, married, October 10, 1833,
Asa W. Clark, of Belchertown, Massachusetts. (See
Clark family sketch.)

CLARK FAMILY. John Clark (i), the emi-
grant ancestor of Malcolm G. Clark, of Leicester,
Alassachusetts, was among the Scotch-Irish who
came to New England in 1718. They were Pres-
byterians of English or Scotch blood form the north
of Ireland. John Clark came to Worcester first.
Some particulars of his residence there is given in
the sketch of George Arthur Smith in this work.

An examination of the recent work "The Scotch-
Irish" by Hanna makes it seem probable that the
Clarks came from the county of Antrim in the
north of Ireland. Among the prominent citizens
of the West Quarters of Carrickfergus, May 23,
1653, was John Clark, Sr. He was on the list of
Protestants that the "Commissioners for the settling
and securing the Province of LHster (the north of
Ireland)" published of those who were to remove.
The design was "to remove all popular Scots'' out
of Ulster to INIunster. Singularly enough we find

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that the Donclsons and Pattersons were in the same
parisli in Ireland. The children of John Clark's son
Matthew married into these families, fellow emi-
grants. It seems evident that the Clarks of Lon-
donderry were relatives of John Clark. The names
of John Reid, James Reid, James Patterson, John
Holmes, Andrew Reid, Senior and Junior, and
Archibald Crawford, of West Quarters of Carrick-
fergus, are the same names that a generation or two
Jatcr appear in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and
Pelham and Coleraine, Massachusetts. Most of John
Clark's family went from Worcester, Rutland and
Holden, where they first settled, to Coleraine and
the vicinity. They have many descendants in
the vicinity, today. They settled in Palmer, Cole-
raine, Belchertown, Pelham and vicinity.

His children by wife Agnes were : Matthew,
born about 1700, in Ireland, killed by the Indians,
1746; Thomas; John, born 1705, died at Pelham,
Massachusetts, September i, 1785, married Sarah
Cray, December 5, 1746, at Pelham; she died there
March 13, 17S7, aged seventy years; William, mar-
ried, April 17, 1739, at Rutland, Massachusetts, Mary
Smith; Samuel; James; George, born in Worces-
ter, JNIassachusetts, May 12, 1722, settled at Cole-
raine. Massachusetts; Sarah; Elizabeth.

(II) Matthew Clark, son of John and^ Agnes
Clark (l), was born in Ireland, probably in Car-
rickfergus', Antrim county, about 1700. He was the
iirst settler of Coleraine, Massachusetts. (See
sketch of Clark family in George Arthur Smith
sketch.) He was killed by the Indians in the
French and Indian war. He married Jennett Both-
well, daughter of Alexander and Jane (Doneca)
Bothwell, of Scotch-Irish family. He died in 1746,
when his youngest son was only two years old.
His widow died May, 1789. Children of Matthew
aiid Jennett (Bothwell) Clark were: Jane, born
1726, married Andrew Smith, of Holden, were an-
cestors of George Arthur Smith, former cashier of
the Citizens' National Bank of Worcester; John,
born 1728, married Betsey Stewart, settled in Cole-
raine; Alexander, born 1730, married Elizabeth
Doneca. probably a cousin, removed to Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts, died 1825 ; had nine children ;
Agnes, born 1732, married Daniel Danelson, settled in
-Coleraine; William, born 1734; Hannah, born 1736,
married Joseph Kowan or Cowan, settled in Cole-
raine; Elizabeth, born 1738, married William Stew-
art, settled Coleraine ; Margaret, born 1740, married
Peter Harwood, settled in Bennington, Vermont,
died there February 16, 1794; he married (second)
Mary (Warner) Doty; Sarah, born 1742, died 1758;
Matthew, born 1744, married Jane Workman, set-
tled in Coleraine, died April 18, 1813.

(III) William Clark, son of Matthew Clark
(2), was born in Coleraine, Massachusetts, 1734.
He married Mary Patterson (Genealogy gives her
name Elizabeth, perhaps married Elizabeth for sec-
ond wife), November 22, 1764. He settled in Cole-
raine. He was a soldier in the revolution. He was
credited to Belchertown and Wilbraham in Captain
Paul Laughton's company in the Lexington alarm,
April 19, 1775, and in Lieutenant Aaron Phelps'
company. Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment, July 9,
1777, date of enlistment. His eldest son Enos, of
Belchertown, was credited to Wilbraham. The men
of these adjoining towns served in the same com-
panies. As the heirs of William Clark were in 1727
granted a sixth part of the town of Belchertown, it
is likely that this William Smith, nephew of Will-
iam Srnith, the grantee, was in Belchertown before
the revolution and probably Enos and his other
children were born there. j,Iatthew Clark, brother
of William, was a captain in the revolutionary serv-

ice. Children of William and Mary (Patterson)
Clark were : Esther, Naomi, Enos, Joseph,
Amasa.

(IV) Enos Clark, son of William Clark (3),
was born in or near Belchertown, iSIassachusetts,
about 1755. He settled in Belchertown, Massachu-
setts. He married Naomi Weston. She was the
daughter of Abraham Weston, of Wellington, Con-
necticut. Weston was a soldier in the revolution.
He was a drummer in Captain Jonathan Parker's
company. Third Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade,
under Colonel Comfort Sage, in 1776. Enos Clark
was a soldier in the revolution. He was a private
in Captain Samuel Coos' company, sent Au-
gust 17, 1777, to reinforce the northern army
under General Gates. He also responded to the
call to 'arms, April 19, 1775, and marched to Lexing-
ton. Among the children of Enos and Naomi
(Weston) Clark was Asa Clark, grandfather of
Malcolm G. Clark, of Leicester.

(V) Asa Clark, son of Enos Clark (4), was
born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, December 5,
1776. He was a farmer at Belchertown, Massachu-
setts. Married, September 27, 1804. His children
were: Asa Weston, born November 23, 1810; So-
phronia, born April 2, 1806, married Jonathan
Wales, married (second) Hiram M. French; Naomi,
born in Belchertown, May 16, 1808, married Orrin
Spooner ; Sarah, married Chester Underwood, of
Belchertown ; Amanda, married Chester Osborne,
of Springfield, Massachusetts, died in Westfield,
JNIassachusetts.

(VI) Asa Weston Clark, son of Asa Clark
(S), was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, No-
vember 23, 1810. He attended the schools of his
native town and helped with the farm work. When
a young man he left home to teach school in Roch-
dale, a village in Leicester, Massachusetts. There
he met his future wife. Pie married Lydia Warren
Dunbar, daughter of Ebenezer and Polly (Gould-
ing) Dunbar, October 10, 1833, >" Leicester, Massa-
chusets. Rochdale was known as South Leicester
at that time. After his marriage he bought a farm
owned by his father-in-law, settled in Rochdale
and spent his life there. He was one of the lead-
ing citizens for many years. He was well educated
and of more than ordinary ability. He served the
town of Leicester as selectman for a number of
years- and filled other positions of trust and honor.
He w-as a Republican in later years, after that party
was organized. He united with the famous old
Baptist Church at Greenville in Leicester. (See
sketch of Green Family of Leicester and Worces-
ter.) He was elected deacon and served the church
for many years in that office. He died August S,
18S9. His wife died December 7, 1898. Children
of Asa and Lydia Warren (Dunbar) Clark were:
Mary Adelaide, born in Rochdale, September 17,
1834, married Edwarci I. Comins, of Worcester
(sec sketch of Edward I. Comins and family);
John Dunbar, born at Rochdale, December 6, 1838,
see forward ; Malcolm G., born in Leicester, Janu-
ary 30, 1841, see forward; Cecilia Lydia, bom in
Leicester, married Frederick A. Blake, of Worces-
ter, November 7, 1867; have no children.

(VH) John Dunbar Clark, eldest son of Asa
Weston and Lydia Warren Clark, was born in
Leicester, December 6, 1838. He was a resident of
that town all his life, the termination of which oc-
curred (by a short illness) at Chicago, Illinois; he
was never married. His education commenced in
the schools of Leicester, and after leaving Leices-
■ tcr Academy, he continued studying at Wilbraham,
Shelburn Falls, Massachusetts, and at North
Scituate. Rhode Island. Endowed from youth with

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inventive genius, as a boy he produced several clever
contrivances, and in early manhood invented the
rubber bucket for chain pumps, which proved to
be a success, not only in saving the wear and tear
of the old iron buckets, but as a business venture
for himself. Keen for mechanical industry and with
eyes constantly open, he early conceived the idea
of putting to valuable use a mill privilege owned
by his father in the village of Greenville. With
this in view he left home to learn the wool sort-
ing business, after which, in company with his
father he built the Greenville Woolen mill in 1871.
It was a wooden building, fifty feet square, three
stories high with a brick picker house adjoining;
the buildings were rented to other parties for five
years, at the expiration of which, in 1877, Mr. Clark
took the mill and conducted the business success-
fully until 1881. It was then enlarged one half,
and the business being more than he cared to man-
age alone, he formed a partnership with F. A.
Blake, his brother-in-law, and the firm became J.
D. Clark & Co., and it remained so until his death
in 1893, when it was changed to a corporation com-
posed of members of the family with Mr. Blake
as president and manager, and Irving E. Comins,
treasurer, and continued until 1900, when Mr. Blake
(because of ill health) resigned his ofifice and Mr.
Irving E. Comins succeeded him as president, and
Mr. Arthur C. Comins as treasurer and manager.
Mr. Clark took a lively interest as a good citizen
in all town affairs, kind hearted and benevolent,
ever ready to assist with time or money, a strong
temperance man, never using liquors or tobacco in
anv form, an active member of the Greenville
Baptist Church, in the prosperity of which he took
great interest.

(VII) Malcolm Goulding Clark, son of Asa
Weston Clark (6), was born in Leicester, Massa-
chusetts, January 30. 1841. He spent his youth on
his father's farm, attending the district schools and
completing his education at then Leicester Academy,
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, then entered Wil-
braham Academy, and at Suffield (Connecticut),
Academy. He returned from school to work on the
farm. He entered the lumber business and as a
manufacturer and dealer in lumber built up an ex-
tensive business.

Mr. Clark has large real estate interests that
claim a portion of his time. He built the brick mill
which he lets to the J. D. Clark Company, of which
he is a member. Mr. Clark is a Republican in poli-
tics. He has served the town of Leicester on the
school committee. He is an active member of the
Baptist Church at Greenville and is interested m
its charitable work. He married Inez F. Sibley,
daughter of Franklin Sibley, of Sutton, Massachu-
setts. Thev have one child, Ernest, born May 4,
1886, now (March, 1906), a sophomore in Harvard
College.

TAFT FAMILY. Robert Taft (i), immigrant
ancestor of Cyrus A. and William L. Taft, of
Whitinsville, Massachusetts, was the progenitor of
most of the Taft families of Worcester county, as
given elsewhere in this work. He was .first at
Braintree, Massachusetts, where he owned a lot in

1678. He sold his Braintree land November t8,

1679, to Caleb Hobart, and about the same time his
first land in Mendon. The town had just began to
recover from the baleful effects of King Phil Id's
war. He had confidence in the future and bought
freely in the vicinity of Mendon pond, becoming one
nf the largest property owners in that section. He
evidently was a man of property and influence at
the out;et. He was a hou.sewright by trade. He

was on the first board of selectmen of the organ-
ized town of Mendon in 1680, and in the same year
he served on the committee to build the minister's
house, evidentl}' in good standing in the Puritan
Church. Taft and his sons built the first bridge
across the river Mendon. In 1729 his sons built
the second bridge also. Taft was one of the pur-
chasers of the tract of land from which the town
of Sutton was formed. He died February 8, 1725,
aged about eighty-five years. He married Sarah

, and their five sons all had large families

and many descendants. The children : Thomas,
born 1671, died 1755; Robert, Jr., see forward;
Daniel, born 1673, died August 24, 1761 ; Joseph,
born 1680, died June 18, 1747; Benjamin, born 1684,
died 1766.

(11) Robert Taft, Jr., son of Robert Taft (l),
was born in 1674. He settled on part of his father's
land in what became U.xbridge. where he was
chosen selectman in 1727 at the first March meeting
and re-elected many times. He was one of the
leading citizens of Uxbridge as long as he lived.
His children, all born at Mendon. were : Elizabeth,
horn January 18, 1695-96; Robert, born December

24, 1697 : Israel, see forward ; Mary, born December
2T, 1700; Elizabeth, born June 18,. 1704; Alice, born
June 27, 1707; Eunice, born February 20, 1708-09;
John, born December 18, 1710; Jemima, born April
I, 1713; Gideon, born October 4, 1714; Rebecca,
born March l.S. 1716.

(HI) Israel Taft, son of Robert Taft (2). was
born in Mendon, April 26, 1699. The homestead
was in the part that was set off as Uxbridge. He
settled in the town of Upton adjoining. He was
also a prominent citizen. His will was made 1752
and proved September 19, 1753. He married Mercy

. who survived him and married (second),

October 2. (intentions dated) 1753, Benjamin Green,
of Mendon. She was the mother of nine younger
Taft children who were born in Upton and prob-
ably of some of the others who were born in L^x-
bridge. The children of Israel Taft: Priscilla.
born about 1720. married, February S, 17,38. Moses
Wood: Huldah, born about 1722, married, January

25. 1738. David Daniels; Israel, Jr., see forward;
Jacob, born about 1725: Elisha, born 1728; Robert,
born about 1730; Hannah, married Benja-
min : Stephen, born at Upton, before the tow-n was
incorporated. August 21, 1734: Samuel, born Sep-
tember 23, 1735: Mary, born January 23, 1736-37,
died June 12. 1738: Margery, born May 14. 1738,
married (intentions dated October 30). 1760, Simeon
Wood: Silas, born December 17, 1739, died May
10. 1741 : Stephen, born at Upton, April i, 1741,
died April 14, 1741: Silas, married September 8,
1772. Elizabeth Sadler: Rachel, born July iS, 1742,
died December 30. 1747: Amariah.

(IV) Israel Taft. Jr.. son of Israel Taft (3),
was born in Upton. Massachusetts, then LTxbridge,
in 1723. He married Martha Smith, in 1743. in
Upton, and they settled there. Their children, born
in L^pton. were : Israel, see forward ; Silas, born
November 5. 1744: Amariah, born 1746, died Sep-
tember 9. 1746; .A.mariah, born March 10. 1747-48;
Oliver, born November 3, 1750; Elizabeth, born July
27, 1753; Mercy, born January 16, 1757.

(V) Israel Taft. son of Israel Taft (4). was
born in Upton. December 12. 1743. When a young
man he settled over the line in the adjoining tow-n
of what is now Northbridge. Massachusetts. He
bought a farm there in 17S3. of James Nelson. He
was a miller by trade, and in 179.S he and his brother
or uncle. Jacob Taft. bought land and mill in North-
bridge with the privilege etc., by deed dated De-
cember T2. 1796. He bought more land, January

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-27. 1S03, of Thomas Ellison, and of Sauuiel Read,
of Uxliridgc, later. He also owned land in Sutton.
He sold the mill and other real estate to his son,
Elzaphan Taft, March 13, 1824. This mill was on
the road from Oxford to Boston, a few rods east
of tlic dwelling of Paul Whitin, the first of the
Whitin family at Whitinsvillc, who had just hought
the place of Colonel James Fletcher. Mr. Taft made
his will April 26, 1839, and died 1S42, aged ninety-
eight years. The will was filed May 3, 1842. He
bequeathed to his children, mentioned below. He

married Submit , and their children were :

Elzaphan. Cyrus, see forward; Ruth, married Ben-
jamin Fance ; Clarissa, married Ebenezer Follans-
bee; Lorana, married Cheney Taft, son of Marvel
Taft : Lydia, .\bigail. married Lyman Taft, son
of Marvel Taft, of Northbridge ; Lois, married
Jacob Adams.

(VI) Cyrus Taft, son of Israel Taft (5), was
born at Northbridge, Massachusetts, about 1790.
He moved when a young man to Peachani, Ver-
mont, but after a time returned to Northbridge,
where he died August 29, 1883. He married (first)
Lucinda Morse, and (second), June 4. 1864. Eliza-
beth G. , who survived him. The children

of Cyrus and Lucinda Taft : Gustavus E.. see for-
ward ; Peter M., Lucinda M., married Moses Darl-
ing, of Boston ; S. Jennie, married C. W. Pierce.

(VII) Gustavus E. Taft, son of Cyrus Taft (6),
was born in Peacham, Vermont, August 29, 1829.
When he was ten years of age he returned to Whit-
insvillc, in the town of Northbridge, Massachusetts,
with his parents. He received his education in the
public schools of Whitinsvillc and in the LLxbridge
Academy. At the age of seventeen he entered the
machine shop of P. Whitin & Sons as an apprentice.
Here he developed his mechanical ability and skill
to which his later success in life is due. He con-
tinued in the employ of the Whitin firm until i860,
when he went to Holyoke in the employ of John
-C. Whitin, who had just bought the Holyoke Ma-
chine Works. Mr. Taft took charge of the concern
as superintendent, and filled the position with con-
spicuous ability until Mr. Whitin sold his Holyoke
interests and took the machine shop at Whitinsvillc
on the dissolutibn of the firm of P. Whitin & Sons,
January i, 1864. Mr. Taft then returned to Whit-
insvillc as superintendent of the Whitin Machine
Works, where he had learned his trade, and was
identified with its upbuilding and enlargements. To
the success of the business he contributed largely
by his eminent abjlity as an organizer of labor and
manager of men, and by his great mechanical skill
and inventive genius, exercised in the improvement
of tools and machines, increased the efficiency of
th plant and the output itself. He made important
improvements on cotton machinery, in cards, in
spinning frames, and looms ; many of which proved
very valuable, and for some of which he took out
-patents. His most valuable patent was the Whitin
Gravity Spindle, the joint invention of himself and
Henry Woodmancy, granted July 18, 1882. The
spindle was protected also by patents in England,
France, Germany and Holland and it has reaped a
fortune for both inventors. The improvement was
-almost universally used, not only in this country
but wherever looms are operated. It brought into
use a new principle in the driving of the spindle,
increasing vastly the producing power of the mills.
In 1881 Mr. Taft was made agent of the Whitin
Machine Works and remained in active management
of the shops until his death.

In politics Mr. Taft was a Republican and es-
•pecially prominent in supporting the principle of
a home market and protective tariflf. He was a

leading citizen of the village of Whitinsvillc for a
full forty years. He took a lively interest in public
affairs, town, state and national, though his busy life
and great responsibilities left him little time to
give to the political matters in which he felt inter-
ested. He held no public offices. He supported
his party liberally and contributed to many public
enterprises and movements. He was of charming
personal character, attracting friends, holding the
esteem and love of his townsmen as few men have
ever done. He gave generously to the unfortunate
and needy. Though suffering for many years with
a fatal disease he kept at his post bravely and cheer-
fully until a short time before the end. He died at
his home in Whitinsville, June 23, 1898. Among
his public bequests in his will was the sum of five
thousand dollars to the Pine Grove cemetery.

He married, November 8, 1855, Ruth L. Lamb,
who survived him. Their children : Cyrus A., see
forward; William L., see forward; Theo (daugh-
ter), married Edward S. Clark; Edmund M., George
L., died in infancy; Alice L., Grace R.

(VIII) Cyrus A. Taft, son of Gustavus E. Taft
(7), was born at Northbridge, Massachusetts, 1856.
He attended the public and high schools of North-
bridge and graduated from the Massachusetts Ag-
ricultural College at Amherst, in the class of 1876.
He went to work then in the Whitin Machine
Works and learned the business of which his father
was the superintendent. He soon rose to a position
of responsibility with the concern and in 1903 was
chosen the resident agent and superintendent of the
factory, a position similar to that his father held
so many years. He is a director of the Whitin
Machine Works, and has demonstrated by his suc-
cessful and able management of the business his
capacity to fill the position created by his father.
Mr. Taft is a Republican in politics and stands
high in the party councils. He is a prominent mem-
ber of the Republican town committee. He has
served the town of Northbridge as selectman four
years. He is a trustee and vice-president of the
Whitinsville Savings Bank, In religion he is a
Congregational ist. He is unmarried.

(VIII) William L. Taft, son of Gustavus E.
Taft (7), was born in Whitinsville, in the town of
Northbridge, Massachusetts, September 2, 1859. He
attended the public and high schools of his native
town and a school in West Newton, Massachusetts.
He then entered the Whitin Machine Works, of
which his father was agent, and learned the busi-
ness thoroughly in every department of the works
and rose step by step to the position of general
superintendent of the plant. After twenty" years
of active life in the works . he ■ retired and has since
devoted his time chiefly to his country place on the
outskirts of Whitinsville. He has one of the finest
stock farms in the county. His stables are noted
for their horses and dogs also. Mr. Taft is fond
of hunting, and is well known among the sportsmen
of the county. He is a director of the Whitin Ma-
chine Works, and in politics he is a Republican and
has served the town three years as superintendent
of streets and also on the board of selectmen.

He married (first) Mabel Kidder, daughter of
John Kidder, of Whitinsville. She died in 1890
and their only child died in infancy. He married
^second), February i, 1892. Myra Smith, of Whit-
insville. She died in 1901. Their children are:
Ruth, born February 14, 1893; Mildred, died young;
Myra, born March 14, 1898; William L., Jr., died
young.

WILLIAM THOMAS CARROLL. John Car-
roll (i), father of William Thomas (farroll, of

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Worcester, Massachusetts, came to this country
when a young man. John Carroll was born in Ire-
land about 1795. At an early age he entered the
British navy, in which he served for fourteen years.
He was on the man of war in w-hich Napoleon
Bonaparte took refuge after his final defeat. He
left the navy at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with-
out the formality of a discharge when his ship was
at that port, as he preferred New England to further
service in the English nav\^ He settled in Easton,
Massachusetts, and worked in the malleable iron
foundry there. That foundry is said to be the first
of its kind in this country. He married Emily
Phillips, daughter of Abiel Phillips, of the revolu-
tionary war. She was a cousin of the late Wendell
Phillips, tfie orator. John Carroll and his family
attended the Methodist Church at Easton. He had
the misforune when still in the prime of life to get
crippled by burns from spilling some melted iron
in a puddle of water. Both legs were frightfully
burned and one of them never healed ; so that he
had to use crutches the remainder of his life. He
died at the age of eighty-one in 1859, at Foxboro,
where he was living at the time. His wife died at
Canton, Massachusetts, in 1880.

The children of John Carroll were : I. Mary
D., born in Easton, Massachusetts, married James
Kenney, resided at New Bedford, where both died,
leaving one daughter. 2. William Thomas, born at
Easton, Massachusetts, June 29, 1829. 3. Harriet
M., born at Easton, burned to death about 1865
by the explosion of a kerosene lamp in New York
city. left one daughter who is now deceased. 4.
Rachel S., born in Easton, married Franklin Ben-
jamin in New Bedford. Massachusetts, resided in
Buffalo, removed to Chicago where they now live
(1905), having a son and daughter. 5. Daniel W.,
born at Easton, married Annie Bisbee, of Easton,
resides at Canton, Massachusetts, a machinist by
trade. Their children are : Charles Elmer, George,
Eleanor Estelle. 6. Eliza A., born in Easton, un-
married. 7. Martha A., born in Easton. married
Charles Pierce, of New Bedford, where both died.
(H) William Thomas Carroll, son of John Car-
roll (i), was born at Easton, Massachusetts, June
29, 1829. He was educated in the public schools of
Easton and Middleboro. where his parents lived
when he was a boy. His first work was done on a
farm in Middleboro, Massachusetts. He next w'ent
to work in the thread mill of Charles Whiting
Morse in Easton. Two years later he moved with
the family to Canton, Massachusetts, where he
worked in the Neponset Cotton , Mills, continuing
there for ten years. He started iiis career as ma-
ichinist and inventor in the machine shop of Luther
R. Wattles, at Canton, and in three years he was
iorernan of the shop. He started in business for
himself in the town of Stoughton. Massachusetts,
which is near Canton. Later he removed to Newton
Lower Falls, where he had a machine shop. He
manufactured spinning rings and spindles. Busi-
jness prospered and to increase his facilities he
moved to Medw-ay, where he manufactured various
devices used in cotton mills. While in Medway he
invented a new form of spinning ring, which he
'patented and sold to the Drapers ,of Hnpedale.
That was thirty-six years ago. and it, was the real
beginning of his life work. That invention, how-
ever, destroyed his little business which had pros-
pered at Medway for ten years ; his patent took the
place of the spinning ring he had been making. He
was employed for a time by the Woonsocket Ma-
chine Company in experimental work. In May.
1874, he came to Worcester and opened a machine

shop at 17 Hermon street, a location that he oc-
cupied until the removal of the Massachusetts Oil-
less Bearings Company in 1905. He devoted his-
energies chiefly to experimental work. He was
constantly striving with marked success to improve
cotton manufacturing machinery. His first inven-
tion is still in use on every yard of cloth spun in
this country. He has had over fifty patents granted.
Fortj'-eight of these have been purchased by the
Drapers of Hopedale, chiefly improvements in spin-
ning machinery.

He is the inventer of the oilless bearing patents
owned by the Massachusetts Oilless Bearings Co.
He perfected this invention after twelve years of
constant thought and experiment. It seems de-
stined to work enormous advantage in the mechani-
cal world, practically doing away with the use of
oil as a lubricant. In 1896 he was awarded the
John Scott Medal for his non-metallic bearings on
the recommendation of the Franklin Institute. Un-
til recently he has made no special effort to push
the sale of this great economical device. The
quarters at Worcester, however, were outgrown, so
great has been the demand for these bearings, and
the corporation has located in a large shop at
Maiden, built for the use of the company. In June,
1905, the industry was moved there and for another
year Mr. Carroll is bound to give his time to the
work of teaching the workmen to manufacture the
goods and superintend the works. He will ulti-
mately leave the company, however. He was the
first president. Early in 1905 one hundred and'
fifty thousand bearings were in use. Some have
been in use for five years and have given perfect
satisfaction. None have worn out. Some are used'
on shafts that turn thirty thousand per minute with-
out heating. Some machines have been made practi-
cal that were failures before on account of failure
to lubricate. These oilless bearings are made of
special wood hardened and impregnated with a
lubricating compound. They have been tested on
all kinds of bearings, on spindles, looms, axles of
wagons, printing presses, roller skate wheels, emery
wheels, trolley wheels and hundreds of other places-
where goods lubrication is require^. Most inven-
tors have contestants for their honors. Every valu-
able invention has some imitator. Invention breeds
litigation. Mr. Carroll has been an important wit-
ness for the owners of his patents in six suits and
has been vindicated in each case.

Although Mr. Carroll has reached the age when
many men are incapacitated for the active duties
of life, he is the picture of health and strength.
.Mentally he was never more active and his inventive
genius seems to be as active and productive as it
was in middle life. His inventions have been re-
munerative and Mr. Carroll is well-to-do. He has
not acquired great wealth as he might, perhaps, if
he had taken all the possible profits from his in-
ventions. Te enjoys life keenly, however, because
he has done and is doing daily what he loves to do
and what he is probably be^t fitted to do. Mr. Car-
roll's work places him in the front rank among the
living inventors of industrial manufacturing machin-
ery. To men like him. the American people owe
largely their supremacy in the industrial world.
To men like him every living soul owes a debt for
making life in our time more comfortable, for plac-
ing better, more artistic and cheaper goods within
the reach of all consumers. The city of Worcester
is proud to claim as a citizen this man of over
fifty important inventions. He has made cheaper
by his brain and clever hand every yard of cloth
produced in recent years. The later invention of

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oillc?s bearings is of a revolutionary nature and
will in the future be an inestimable source of saving
labor and oil.

He married, Januao' 23, 1857, in Canton, Massa-
chusetts. Frances Ccdelia Taft, daughter of Dr.
Caleb S. Taft, then of Canton, ?\Iassachusetts. She
was born at Walton, New York, August 20, 1836.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll attend the Pleasant Street
Baptist Church. He is a member of the Order of
United American Mechanics and of the Ancient
and Illustrious Order of Knights of Malta. The
children of William T. Carroll and Frances C.
(Taft) Carroll are: Hattie Lodema Frances, born
at Canton, Massachusetts, October 22, 1858 ; Ada
Estelle, born at Canton, March 11, i860: William
Eugene, born at Medvvay, Massachusetts, March
28, 1862, died at Medway,' September 28, 1862: Ed-
gar Judson, born at Medway, July 17, 1S64; Elbert
Henry, born at Medway, April 7, 1867: Emma
Lavilia, born at Medway. February 16. 1869; Will-
iam Edward; born at Woonsocket, Rhode Island,
November 18, 1872 : Herbert F., born in Worcester,
August 21, 1874, died September 11, 1874.

ail) Elbert H. Carroll, son of William T. Car-
roll (2), was born in Medway, Massachusetts, April
7, 1S67. He was educated in the Worcester schools
and learned the trade of machinist. He has in-
herited his father's genius for mechanics and has
patented several devices for the Morgan Construc-
tion Company for which he is the superintendent.

(Ill) William E. Carroll, son of William T.
Carroll (2), was born in Woonsocket. Rhode Is-
land, November 18, 1872. He attended the Wor-
cester Polytechnic Institute for three years. He
is a draughtsman for the Morgan Construction
Company of Worcester.

(Ill) Edgar Judson Carroll, son of William T.
Carroll (2). was born in Medway, Massachusetts.
July 17, 1864. He is also an inventor of cotton
manufacturing machinery and has already patented
and sold to the Drapers twelve inventions of sub-
stantial value. He has been educated as an engineer
and machinist. For a time he was in the grocery
bfisiness at Chadwick Square, but at present is
working at bis trade.

TAFT FAMILY. Matthew Taft (i). the im-
migrant and first settler of the town of Upton.
Massachusetts, was the ancestor of Mrs. William
T. Carroll, of Worcester. Massachusetts. (See other
sketches of descendants named Taft from Matthew
Taft elsewhere in this work.) Matthew Taft and
his wife Anna Quintain came from Scotland and
settled among the first in what is now Upton. He
was one of the proprietors of the town. He bought
his land from Harvard College, which at that time
owned thirteen thousand and ninety-four acres in
this vicinity. He came there the same year, 1728,
probably bringing with him several children. He
became one of the most prominent citizens of the
town. He was moderator in 1741, town treasurer
in 1748-49, selectman in 1739-56 and perhaps tw'O
other years. His homestead was in the eastern
part of the town. He married (second) Janet Craig,
of Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1749 (intentions
declared October 21, 1749). The following chil-
dren of IMatthew and Anna (Quintain) Taft are
recorded as born in Upton. John, born --Xpril 7.
1736: Ann (twin), born April 27. 1739; Matthew.
Jr. (twin), born April 27. 1739; Robert, captain of
the Upton Company in the revolutionary war, and
probably others. (See Milford, Massachusetts, His-
tory for Robert).

(II) Matthew Taft. son of Matthew Taft (i),
was born in Upton, Massachusetts, April 27, 1739.
He married in 1760 (intentions declared July 26,

I7()0), Hannah Cutler, of Medway, Massachusetts,
He was a soldier in the revolution. He was ir»
Robert Taft's company in 1777, in Thomas Marshall
Baker's company in 1780, and in Colonel Nathan
Tyler's regiment in the service in Rhode Island.
The children of Matthew Taft as recorded at Up-
ton were : Azubah, born at Upton, November 27,
1761 ; Eli, born at Upton, Massachusetts, October
8, 1763 ; Moses, born at Upton, September 23, 1765 ;
Reuben.

(III) Eli Taft, son of Matthew Taft (2), was
born at Upton, Massachusetts, October 8, 1763. He
married Esther Adams, of Franklin, Massachusetts,
a descendant of Henry Adams, of Braintree, an-
cestor of the Presidents Adams, in 1790 (intentions,
March 14, 1790). They settled at Upton, but later
removed to western Massachusetts, near Deerfield,
for the sake of Mrs. Taft's health, but the change
was not beneficial and she died there. Their chil-
dren were : Ward Adams, born at Upton, January
I/. 1793. went to New York; Elvira, born in Upton,
married Rev. Mr. Wood, brother of Dr. Wood, of
Upton, and went to Vermont to. live; Azubah, born
in Upton, never married ; Philo, born in Upton,
August 12, 1798; Charlotte, born in Upton, April
g, 1800, married Elijah Tupper, of Franklin, went
to New York, where both died; Julia, born in Up-
ton, June 22, 1802, resided at Holliston, Massa-
chusetts, died unmarried ; Esther, born in Upton,
September 6, 1804, married Josiah Hawes, resided
at Franklin, Massachusetts, died at Holliston; Caleb-'
Strong, born June 23, 1807, at Upton ; Milton Met-
calf (Adams?), born in Upton, April 23, iSio,
went to New York, married Emeline Kellogg, of
Franklin, New York.

(IV) Caleb Strong Taft, son of Eli Taft (3),
was born at Upton, Massachusetts. June 23, 1807.
He died at Cannonsville, New York, April 24, 1878.
He moved to New York and studied medicine and
practiced in Walton, New York, for some time.
He married there Harriet Griswold. who was born
at Ticonderoga, New York, October 30. 1816. They
were married in New York. About 1837 they re-
turned to Massachusetts from Walton, New York,
where he first settled, and located at Frank'in,,
Massachusetts, later removing to C^antoti, Massa-
chusetts, where he practiced for many years. After
he gave up his practice he returned to New York
and died at Cannonsville, New York. He was a '
well known physician and greatly esteemed by the .
people among whom he worked.

The children of Dr. Caleb and Harriet (Gris-
wold) Taft were: Frances Cedelia. born at Walton,
New York, August 20, 1S36; William Ferris, born
at Franklin, Massachusetts, February !/■, 1839, died
December 4, 1843 ; Alpheus Stone, born July 7, 1S40,
at Franklin, died April 3. 1864. from disease con-
tracted in the service in the civil war; was in a
New York regiment, also Rhode Island regiment;
enlisted two times ; Harriet Lodema. born Decem-
ber 31, 1845, died September 10. 1847, at Canton,
Massachusetts ; Emma Lavilia, born at Canton,
April 8. 1849. resides at Medfield. Massachusetts,
married Rutilus E. Sherman, had three sons; Helen
Augusta, born at Canton, Massachusetts, October
8, 1853, died December T2, 1877, at Cannonsville,
unmarried, where her father had gone to live.

(V) Frances Cedelia Taft,. daughter of Dr. Caleb
Strong Taft (4). was' born at Walton, New York,
August 20, 1836. She married Williarn Thomas
Carroll.

ARTHUR M. TAFT (V), son of Brigham A.
Taft (4). was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts,
January 28, 1854. He is descended from Robert

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Taft, of Mendon, through Mijerniaii Taft (III),
Royal Taft (II), and his fatlier Brigham A, Taft.

When he was about a year old the family moved
to East Douglas in the town of Douglas, Massa-
chusetts. Here he attended the common schools.
At the age of eighteen he came to Worcester and
entered upon a mercantile life, which he followed
for a number of years. He worked first for Bryant
•& Wyley, wholesale notion dealers and jobbers in
fancy goods in the Stockwell building, Mechanic
street. He accepted a better position in the store
of Knowlton Brothers at 282 Main street, where
he worked for about five years, and when this store
was bought by Mrs. Martha McClelland he became
the manager. In 1880 he made an important change
in his life. He had been studying at every oppor-
tunity to fit himself foe the study of law, and in
1880 he found himself prepared to undertake the
same. He entered Yale Law School and graduated
in two years, receiving his degree of LL. B. in 1882.
He immediately returned to Worcester and in the
same year was admitted to the bar and began the
practice of law.

His first law office was at 415 Main street, at
the corner of Front street, but he removed in a
few years to the Walker building, where he has
since been located. He has never had a law part-
ner, although Charles S. Dodge, of Charlton, and
John B. Scott, of Grafton, share his offices. He has
Tiad a general practice with a large share of probate
■court business. He has had many important estates
to settle and is deemed an authority in probate
practice. In a financial way his practice has been
■quite as successful as any of the younger lawyers
and he easily ranks among the leading lawyers
of Worcester county.

He has become interested in several corporations
at various times. When the Massachusetts Oilless
Bearings Company removed early in 1905 from
Worcester to Maiden, he resigned as the president.
Tie was vice-president of the Rutland Marble Com-
pany until it passed into the possession of the Ver-
mont Marble Company, the Senator Proctor cor-
poration. He was formerly a director of the Quin-
sigamond Steamboat Company, and is at present
a director of the A. A. Coburn Co. He was vice-
president of the Pike Manufacturing Company,
■which formerly made a very good liquid shoe dress-
ing in a factory on Foster .street.

Mr. Taft is best and most widely known through
Tiis legislative career. He was elected to represent
"Worcester in the general court of 1901, and was re-
•«lected a representative for the years 1902-03-04-05,
serving a longer time than any other Worcester
Tepresentative in recent years, it having been an
■unfortunate custom of that city to change its rep-
resentatives after a year or two of service, leaving
the city usually without a strong delegation in the
legislature. Mr. Taft showed himself specially
fitted for legislative duties from the first and rapidly
gained the confidence of his associates. He has
■served on the committee on rules, the steering com-
mittee of the house, for four years. He was five
■years a member of the judiciary committee, and in
1904-01; was the accepted leader of the Republican
-majority in the house. He was a strong candidate
for the speakership in 1904. During his service in
the house he was on the important special committee
to revise the laws of the state. The present excel-
lent revised laws of Massachusetts is the result of
the work of that committee. In 1905 he introduced
the order which was finally adopted providing for
a joint special committee on railroad and street
railway laws. This committee, of which President
Dana of the senate is chairman and Mr. Taft is

house chairman, is at work and will report to the
legislature of 1906.

A typical instance of the strength of Mr. Taft
in a legislative contest was shown in the session
of 1905, wdien the Bucket Shop Bill, so-called, was
introduced. When this bill was reported from the
committee it provided for the suppression of the
small brokers, but allowed the large stock brokers
to escape entirely. In fact. Mr. Taft believes that
the bill was introduced at the request and in behalf
of the big brokers of Boston. Mr. Taft introduced
an amendment over which there was an uproar for
several days and over which there was one of the
hottest fights seen in the legislature in late years,
the liveliest for five years or more, anyhow. Mr.
Taft won when the vote was taken in the house by
an overwhelming vote. The Taft amendment, as
it was called, would put all the stock dealers, big
and little, on the saine footing. That was not what
was wanted by those who originated the bill. The
lirokers of all classes opposed the bill, which would
have compelled them to do an honest business. The
senate, which had passed the bill without the amend-
ment, refused to accept the Taft amendment, re-
fused to concur and appointed a conference com-
mittee. Mr. Taft was one of the house members.
For the first time during the session the conference
committee reported in support of the house posi-
tion and asked the senate to accept the Taft amend-
ment. The senate, however, finding the public as
well as the house in favor of Mr. Taft's amendment,
which merely provided for a square deal for all
the brokers. little and big, killed the whole bill.
This was a notable victory for Mr. Taft in defeat-
ing the purposes of the richest combination of
lobbyists ever seen at the state house. Mr. Taft
was a candidate for the senate in 1905 and had
virtually a walk-over. Mr. Taft was a member of
the Worcester school board for three years. He
has always been actively interested in municipal
and national politics and has always been a Repub-
lican. He was prominently mentioned for congress-
iTian in 1904.

Mr. Taft is a prominent Free Mason. He is a
member of Morning Star Lodge, Worcester Royal
Arch Chapter and Hiram Council. He is a member
of Quinsigamond Lodge, I. O. O. F. and Quinsiga-
niont Tribe of Red Men. He is past noble grand
of the Odd Fellows and past sachem of the Red
Men. He held office in the Masonic Lodge also.
He is a member of Worcester Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry; of the Board of Trade; of the Wor-
cester County Agricultural Society. He attends
Union Congregational Church. He is not married.

CLARENCE M. NASH. Thomas Nash (i).
immigrant ancestor of Clarence M. Nash, of Web-
ster, Massachusetts, was born in England and came
to America with his wife and five children with the
partv of Rev. John Davenport, sailing July 26. 1637,
in the ship "Hector," or its companion ship. The
Davenport party sailed from Boston again March
t6. i6,sS, and settled in New Haven, Connecticut.
There is a family tradition that Thomas Nash came
from Lancaster of Lancashire. England.

The settlers at Guilford seem to have attempted
to get the New Haven blacksmith away, for he was
one of the signers of the Guilford Compact, June
I, 1638. But he settled at New Haven, or Quini-
piac, as the settlement was first called, and Sep-
tember I, 1640. was admitted a freeman. He was
blacksmith and gunsmith for the settlers, and the
sixteen muskets owned by the town were placed in
his care. His services as blacksmith were also of
great value. His residence was at what is now

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the corner of Court street and Orange Temple. New
Haven. He died May 12, 1658. and Ifft a will men-
tioning his children. He married Margery Baker,
■died 1657, daughter of Nicholas Baker, of Hert-
fordshire. Their children were: I. Mary, married
Roger Allen. 2. John, a captain. 3. Sarah, mar-
ried Robert Talmage. 4. Joseph, sergeant, of Hart-
ford. 5. Timothy, born in England 1626, mentioned
below.

{ll^ Lieutenant Timothy Nash, youngest son of
Thomas Nash (ij, was born in England, or Ley-
den. Holland, 1626. He settled with his parents at
New Haven, Connecticut, or soon afterward. He
was there centainly in 1645, and was admitted a
freeman March 4. 1654, He learned his father's
trade of gunsmith and blacksmith. He removed to
Hartford February 11, 1660-61. Three years later
Tie joined the pioneers at Hadley, Massachusetts.
His home lot there was on the west side of what
is now Main street, in the village of Hadley. lately
owned by Captain Elijah Smith. The lot was
originally drawn by Robert Webster, who sold his
rights to Lieutenant Nash. He became one of the
leading citizen of old Hadley, serving on important
committees and in most of the town offices : was
a lieutenant of militia : deputy to general court
i6go, 1691 and 1695. He died May 13, 1699. aged
seventy-three years. He married. 1657, Rebekah
Stone, daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone, of Hart-
ford. She died April 17. 1709. Both left wills.
Their children were: I. Rebekah. born March 12,
1657-8, died young : 2. Samuel, born February 3,
1659-60; died at Hadley, 1668, killed by fall from
frightened horse which he was bringing from pas-
ture. 3. Thomas, born 1661. settled at Hartford.
4. Joseph, born January 27. 1663-4. died unmarried,
March 28. 1740. 5. Timothy. Jr., born about 1665.
■6. John, born August 21, 1667. resided at Hadley.
7. Samuel, born June 17, 1669: died unmarried May
;3, 17.^8. 8. Hope, born November 26. 1670; mar-
Tied Isaac Warner. 9. Ebenezer, born October 25,
1673 ; married ; resided at Suffield. Connecticut. 10.
"Daniel, born 1676, mentioned below. 11. Ephraim.
T)orn 1682. resided at Granby, Massachusetts. t2.
"Mary, died December 19, 1687.

(HI) Daniel Nash, son of Lieutenant Timothy
Nash (2), was born in Hadley, or some town where
the family was taking refuge from the Indians. 1676.
He followed his father's trade of blacksmith. His
"house and shop were on what is now the corner of
Bridge and Market streets, near the Episcopal
Church in Northampton. Massachusetts. The old
"house at last accounts was still standing. In 1726
Tie sold his property and settled in the south pre-
cinct of Hadley, later removed to the Upper Housa-
tonic. now Great Harrington, 1739. and there prob-
ably lived the rest of his days. He was a deacon,
as shown by the record of his admission to the
Kjreat Harrington Church, April 26. 1746. He died
there March 10, 1760, aged eighty-four years, and
his grave in the old burying ground is marked by
a stone. He married, June 11. 1710. E.xperience
Clark, of Northampton, descended from William
and Sarah Clark, who settled in Dorchester in 1636
and removed to Northampton in 1660. William
■Clark died July 18, 1690. aged eighty-one years, one
of the principal men of the town. His son John
'Clark married Rebecca Cooper, July 12, 1677 ; she
died 1678, and he married (second) Mary, daughter
•of Elder John Strong. March 20. 1679, one of their
-eleven children being Experience, mentioned above.
■Children of Daniel and Experience (Clark) Nash
were: I. Sylvanus, born January 11, 1712. 2.
2eruiah, born November 2. 1713: married John
Beals, and (second) Simon Willard. 3. Daniel,

mentioned below. 4. Experience, born December
26, 1716, died 1725. S. Joseph, born April 23, 1718.
6. Onesimus. 7. Jonathan, born December 3, 1721.
8. Rebecca, married Asahel King. 9. Josiah. 10.
Phineas, settled Wvoming, Pennsylvania.

{IV) Daniel Nash. Jr., son of Daniel Nash (3),
was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 13, 1715. He removed to Great Harrington
with the family and settled in that part of Deer-
field now Greenfield, about the time of his mar-
riage. He was chosen on the first board of select-
men of Greenfield, July 3, 1753. and also on the
committee to supply preaching for the first year;
was again selectman in 1758, and afterward ; was
representative to Provincial Congress in 1774, ap-
pointed to be held at Concord but convened at
Salem. October 7. 1775, and served also on the
committee on safety and correspondence. He was
a very stout and corpulent man. The story is
told that he was one of the three captors of a
counterfeiter during the revolution, when the
patriots were impovished by British counterfeits of
their paper money, but as the jail was full of tories
the judge had to sentence the criminal to a whip-
ping. The 'Other two were easy with their stripes,
but Nash laid on heavily, breaking the wretch's skin
at every stroke. That counterfeiter was never again
seen in Greenfield. Nash's home was first at the
centre of Greenfield, later at South Meadows, and
the house at last accounts was still standing, about
three-quarters of a mile from Nash's mill, on the
west side of the road. He married, 1741, Abigail
Stearns, who died November 26, 1749. He married
(second), 1750, Martha Wells. He died July I,
1790. Children of Daniel and Abigail: i. Daniel,
born November 4, 1742, settled at Greenfield. 2.
Experience, born June 29, 1745: married Matthew
Severance. 3. Sylvanus. born February. 1745, set-
tled at Greenfield. 4, Abigail, born June 22. 1748;
married Jonathan Hoyt. Children of Daniel and
Martha: 5. Onesimus. born December 27, 1751 ;
died February 28, 1752. 6. Onesimus, born Febru-
ary 10, 1753; died unmarried January 6, 1776. 7-
Tubal, mentioned below. 8. Simeon, born May 15,
1756, settled at Stockholm. New York. 9. Joseph,
born January 6. 1758; died September 27. 1762. 10.
Zenas, born June i, 1760, died September 20, 1762.
II. Quartus, born August 16, 1761. died October 3,
1762. 12. Joseph, second, born May 28. 1763, event-
ually removed to Pembroke, New York. 13.
Martha, born October 29, 1764; died November 3,
1764,

(V) Tubal Nash, son of Daniel Nash (4), was
born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, October 31, 1754.
He was an officer on the government side during
Shays' rebellion. He was a very respectable and
worthy citizen. Late in life, together with most of
his family, he removed to Canton, St. Larwence
county. New York, where he died October 20, 1816.
He married, September 17. 1778, Mary Corse, born
January 15, 1756, died at Canton, January 30, 1839.
Their children: i. Calvin, born June 16. 1779, set-
tled in Canton. 2. Onesimus. born December 17,
1780; settled in Greenfield. 3. Martha, born August
17, 1782; died December 18, 1789. 4. Mary, born
August 28, 1784; married Amos Bannister and sec-
ond Asa Crosby. 5. Robert, born February 28,
1786; died June 22, 1786. 6. Robert, born Novem-
ber 23. 1787. 7. Martha, born April 24, 1790; mar-
ried William Hoyden. 8. Harriet, born December
13, 1791. 9. Richard, mentioned below. 10. Cynthia,
born July 12. 1796. II. Thankful, born January 10,
1799 died September 20, 1803.

CVI) Richard Nash, ninth child of Tubal Nash
(5), was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Febru-

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ary 6. 1794. When a young boy he removed with
his father's family to Canton, New York. After
his marriage he settled in Northampton, and died
there June 2, 1836. He was a prosperous farmer
and a citizen of prominence. He married, Novem-
ber 7, 1817, Pamelia Edwards, born in Northamp-
ton, February 12, 1797, died about 1836. Children
of Richard and Pamelia Nash: i. Mary, born No-
vember 12, 1818 ; married Joseph H. Butler of Man-
chester. 2. William Shepard, born August 12, 1S20,
resided at Hartford, Connecticut. 3. Julia Philips,
born August 26. 1S22 ; married Miles Waterhouse,
of Winchester, New Hampshire. 4. Richard Ed-
wards, born December 7, 1824; died September 21,
1825. 5. Richard Edwards, mentioned below. 6.
Charles Wallace, born May i, 1829, settled at New
Hartford, Connecticut. 7. Amelia, born April 7,
1831. 8. Sarah, born February 28, 1833. 9. Henry
Bannister, born February 5, 1835.

(VII) Richard Edwards Nash, son of Richard
Nash (6). born in Northampton, Massachusetts,
May 26, 1826, died in Webster, Massachusetts, Feb-
ruary 23, 1880. He was educated in the common
schools and learned the woolen manufacturing busi-
ness in all its branches. He lived at Southbridge
and for twenty years he had charge of the finishing
department at Webster, of the Slater Mill, one of
the largest in that section of the state. He was a
Republican in politics, and took an active part in
town affairs and held various positions of trust and
honor. He married Lorena Pitsinger, of West-
hampton, Massachusetts. Their first born died in
infancy. A son, Clarence M. Nash, is mentioned
below ; a daughter, Ann F. Nash, died December,
1884, in Webster; she married Lowell C. Davis, of
Webster, by whom she had a daughter, Marion L.
Davis. Mrs. Nash resides in Webster.

(VIII) Clarence Monroe Nash, only son of
Richard Edward Nash (7), was born in Webster,
Massachusetts, August 2, 1866. He was educated
in the public schools and graduated from the Web-
ster high school, class of 1883. He then entered
the employ of the Slater Company as clerk in the
office. In 1886 he accepted the position of assistant
cashier of the Webster National Bank, a position
that he filled until 1900, when he was chosen cashier.
Mr. Nash enjoys the confidence and esteem of the
business world, and has a reputation for excellent
judgment as a banker. He was for seven years audi-'
tor of the town of Webster and since treasurer of
the Webster Co-operative Bank. Mr. Nash is one
of the leading Republicans of the town. He is a
member and treasurer of Ben Franklin Council. .
Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the First Bap-
tist Church, of which he was organist for twenty-
two years; has been clerk since 1888, and is super-
intendent of its Sunday school. He married, 1892,
Maude Nichols, of Dudley, Massachusetts. Their
children are; I. Dorothy, born November i, 1897.
2. Jeanette, born December 22, 1900.

JOHN P. COGHLIN. son of James Joseph
Coghlin, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, Oc-
tober 5, 1869. He was educated in the public schools
of Milford, and at the high school at Southboro,
where he graduated in 1888. He then took a
special course at Worcester Academy to prepare
for college and in 1889 entered the Worcester Poly-
technic Institute. He was graduated.in 1893. taking
the degree of S. B.. He was given the degree of
E. E. (Electrical Engineer) by his Alma Mater in
1905.

. Immediately after graduation he formed the
Columbia Electric Company for the manufacture
of dynamos and motors and to install electric plants.

Its shop was at 180 Union street. Later the com-
pany opened an office in the Burnside biulding. In
1S97 he sold his interests in the Columbia Electric
Company and soon afterward organized the Central
Electric Company with headquarters at 311 Main
street, dealing in electric appliances and apparatus
of all kinds, and installing electric plants. Later
he bought the Page Electric Company, which was
established on Pearl street in 18S5. He consoli-
dated the two companies and incorporated the com-
bined business under the laws of Massachusetts in
the same year. He also removed from 28 Pearl
street, where the Page Electric Company was
located, to 24 and 26 Pearl street to secure larger
quarters. The Page Electric Company is the best
known and largest electrical concern in Worcester.
Mr. Coghlin is the chief owner of the business.
He is president, treasurer and secretary of the cor-
poration. His brother, Peter A. Coghlin, is a director
and superintendent of the business. Another
brother, E. F. Coghlin, is the third director of the
corporation. The character of the work done by
i\Ir. Coghlin's company, and the extent and variety
of it can be told best by describing a few of his
larger contracts. Among the electric light and
power plants installed is that at the purification
plant of the Worcester sewerage plant at Outfall
avenue; the dynamo and lighting plant at the shoe
factory of Isaac Prouty, Spencer, Massachusetts ; the
electric plant at the Westboro Insane Asylum at
Westboro ; a magnificent equipment for the model
factory buildings of the Royal Worcester Corset
Company at Worcester ; the equipment at the Stan-
dard Plunger Elevator Company in Worcester,
where each machine, according to the latest methods^
is furnished with its individual motor, giving thus-
the maximum speed to all machines as required,
effecting an economy in power and increasing the
product substantially; the electric lighting outfit of
the Oread Institute; that of the Simplex Piano fac-
tory recently built on Blackstone street. Worcester.

The Page Electric Company had the contract
for the electrical wiring, fixtures and equipment
of "the C. C. Houghton block on Front street; of
the federal or post office building. Main street, Wor-
cester ; Union Congregational Church, Worcester ;
St. John's Church, Worcester; St. Joseph's Church,
Leicester ; St. Vincent's Hospital, Worcester ; the
Worcester City Hospital new buildings ; the Well-
ington Hotel, North Adams ; the East Side high-
school, the West Side high school and the Broad'
Street high school in Providence ; the new high
school building in Gardner, Massachusetts; the Nel-
son Theatre in Springfield, Massachusetts; the Wor-
cester Insane Asylum, Summer street: the Grafton
Colony for the Insane at North Grafton, recently
built : Poll's Theatre, formerly the Crompton block.
Front and Mechanic streets, Worcester; the new
Thule building, built by the Swedish people, Main
street, Worcester: the New Alumni building at the-
College of the Holy Cross ; the Casto Theatre at
Fall River; the residence of IMatthew J. Whittall,
the mill owner, at South Worcester: the residence of
Mrs. F. P. Knowles, Elm street; the new residence
of Austin P. Cristy, publisher of the IVorccslcr
Telegram, on Salisbury street; the residence of Mrs.
Frank P. Goulding, Harvard street : the residence of
C. .\. Hill. Queen street; the residence of Hon.
Joseph H. Walker, Ripley street.

Perhaps tlie largest contract of the kind ever
handled in Worcester was the electrical equipment
of the Worcester and Southbridge Street Railroad.
Mr. Coghlin was both electrical and mechanical
engineer for this work. His company installed all
the electrical apparatus and wiring, including over-

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head and job work. At the time it was built in
1891-2 this road was as finely equipped electrically
as any in the country. It was the first high speed
road in this section of the country and only two
others have been completed since. These two are
the very successful Boston & Worcester road and
the Narragansett Pier road from Providence. It
was the first high voltage system put into use. The
voltage used is developed at 11,000 volts and reduced
down to the ordinary voltage by the use of rotary
transformers. The power plant was built with the
view of furnishing power for two hundred miles
of electric roads. Mr. Coghlin's thesis at the time
of the completion of his graduate work at the Wor-
cester Polytechnic Institute was based on the ex-
perience gained in the construction of this fine
piece of electric road. He considered the commer-
cial engineering point of view in work of this kind.

One of the largest and perhaps the most unique
jobs of the company was at Niagra Falls where Mr.
Coghlin was given carte blanche by Mr. Perky in
building and equipping the plant of the Shredded
Wheat concern there. The power, as is well known,
is supplied there in the form of electrical energy, at
a voltage of 2200 and is transformed to diflferent
potentials according to the requirements of the case.
The electrical machinery and work there cost about
$200,000. Mr. Coghlin was the electrical engineer
and his company had the contract for the work.
Some 12,000 kilo-watts or about 18,000 horse-power
are utilized in the manufacture of shredded wheat
and triscuit. Each machine has its own direct con-
nected motor for which the electricity is transformed
to 440 volts. A rotary transformer supplies a direct
current at 220 volts for the elevators, and other
transformers provides the usual no volts for the
the 3,000 incandescent lamps in use. The triscuit
and other products of the company are baked in
electric ovens which are so arranged that when in
operation the baked product is being rolled out
by ihe cooking machine completely baked and ready
for the market without any handling during the
cooking. A test of the accuracy and excellence of
the electrical work may be had by a sight of one
row of 150 drop lights where every tip is seen to be
in alignment. The oflice building was wired with
the wires inside iron conduits.

The company has a right to be proud of the con-
tract at the Saco & Pettee mills at Biddeford,
Maine. This concern employs 2,000 hands and it
was provided that the plant should have electrical
power put in without interfering with the operation
of the mills. Two four hundred kilo-watt steam
turbine generators were installed in place of three
power plants from which power was wastefully
transmitted by means of ropes and belts from shaft
to shaft. The lighting system was also changed
from direct to alternating system. In this job the
separate departments each had their own motors.
The motors were not applied to each machine, but
to each room or building as the case might be.
Some fifty motors were installed in these mills.

A similar alteration in the pow-er was made at
the mills of M. J. Whittall at South Worcester.
One big electric generating plant was put in to
supply electricity to the motors in the various mills
and room >; of the many buildings of the Worcester
carpet mills, the Edgworth mills and the Whittall
mills, all now under the control and ownership of
Mr. Whittall. The new equipment displaced several
steam power plants at the various mills. The new
plant also supplies electricity for 3,000 incandescent
lamps. During the past three years the Page Elec-
tric Company has had a wholesale department, hav-
ing men on the road selling their goods to the mills,

factories, contractors, electric lighting and street
railways plants.

Mr. Coghlin is a member of the Commonwealth"
Club, Worcester Continentals, the American Insti-
tute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers. He is the president of
the Worcester Alumni of the Worcester Polytech-
nic Institute and president of the Worcester Auto-
mobile Club. He is third vice-president of the
Natoinal Electrical Contractors' Association.

He married, July 28, i8g6, Josephine A. Callahan,,
of Worcester. Their children are : John, born in
Worcester, May 4, 1897 ; Caroline. January 2, 1901 ;
Edwin, October 19, 1902. Mr. Coghlin resides at
25 Richards street. Worcester.

ALGER FAMILY. The name Alger was
spelled in colonial days in various ways : Aulgar,
Augur, Auger, Agur, Ager, Eager, Ager. As these
same spellings are found for the surname Hagar
it is somewhat difficult to distinguish the families
in the early records. The Bridgewater family of
Alger, from which the Winchendon family is de-
scended, wrote the name Alger at an early date but
Mitchell says that the pronunciation was Auger.

The earliest Alger immigrants were Arthur and.
Andrew Alger, of Scarboro, Maine, about 1640.
Both were killed by the Indians in King Philip's-
war in 1675. Sampson Augur, another early immi-
grant, lived in Old York (Maine) and there were
a number of others spelling their names similarly
and perhaps of the same families, all probably from
old England.

(I) Thomas Alger, the immigrant ancestor of
C. C. Alger, of Winchendon, Massachusetts, was-
born in England. The first record in America re-
lating to Thomas Alger is found in Watertown. It
shows that he settled first in Roxbury and then
came to Watertown and bought three-quarters of
an acre of land with a fulling mill thereon. May
30, 1663, of Timothy Hawkins. He was evidently
dissatisfied with Watertown, for he sold the milt.
and land December 18, 1663, to Thomas Lovering,.
late of Dedham, Essex county, England. Alger was-
a fuller by trade, as stated in the deed and shown
by the nature of the property sold. Lovering was-
called a cloth-worker in the deed. Alger removed
next to Taunton, where he stayed for a short time,,
and then settled in Bridgewater, where his de-
scendants have lived to the present time. He mar-
ried, in 1665, at Bridgewater, Elizabeth Packard,,
daughter of Samuel Packard. Their children were:
Israel, see forward; Deliverance, and probably
others.

(II) Israel Alger, son of Thomas Alger (i),
was born about 1667, at Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts. He married Patience Hayward, daughter of
Nathaniel Hayward. They settled in Bridgewater,.
where their children were born, viz. : Israel, see
forward; Joseph, born 1694; Thomas, born 1697;
Nathaniel, born 1700, removed to Easton and was
living there 1727 and 1728; John, born 1704, died
1730.

(III) Israel Alger, eldest child of Israel Alger
(2), was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in
1689. He was the executor of his father's estate.
He settled in Bridgewater. He married (first)-
Alice Hayward, daughter of Joseph Hayward. He
married (second) Susannah Snow, daughter of
William Snow, in 1717. He married (third) Rachel'
Wade, daughter of Thomas Wade. The only child
of Israel and Alice Alger was : Patience, whose
name was changed to Alice after her mother died ;
she was baptized Alice, 1727; she married, in 1732,,
Shepard Fiske. The children of Israel and Susanna.

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Alger were: Israel, baptized during boyhood, 1727;
Daniel, baptized 1727, probably tlie year of birth,
see forward ; James, born 1729.

(lY) Daniel Alger, son of Israel Alger (3), was
•born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1727, and set-
tled in his native town. He was a soldier in the
revolution in Captain Nathan Alden"s companj-,
Colonel Jeremiah Hall's regiment, and in Captain
Nathan Packard's company, Colonel J, Jacobs' regi-
ment, in 1780. On both occasions he served in
Rhode Island campaigns. He married Susannah
Fobes, daughter of Benjamin Fobes. Their chil-
dren, all born in Bridgewater, were : Daniel, born
1751; Susannah, born 1753, married Mark Packard;
Israel, born 1755 ; Keziah, born 1757, married John
Dickerman, 1786; Benjamin, born 1760, married
Hannah Snow, daughter of Daniel Snow, 1785, and
settled in Boston, Alassachusetts; Chloe (.twin),
born 1761, married Tisdale Howard, 1791 ; Sylvia
(twin), born 1761, married Colonel Caleb Howard,
1788; Nathan, born 1763; Martha, born 1766; David,
removed to Winchendon, Massachusetts, with his
brother Abiel ; married, 1790, Sarah Lathrop. daugh-
ter of Jonathan Lathrop ; Abiel, see forward.

(V) Lieutenant Abiel Alger, son of Daniel
Alger (4), was born in Bridgewater, June 22, 1772.
He removed to Winchendon in 1793-94. and resided
there until 1814, when he removed to Marlboro,
New Hampshire. Late in life he returned to Win-
chendon, and died there January 24. 1858. He was
a gentleman of the old school, intelligent, self-edu-
cated and conversant on all topics of his time. It
was always a delight to listen to his narration of
incidents that came under his personal knowledge,
his recollections of the revolution and the early
days of the Republic, of pioneer life in Winchendon
and Marlboro, New Hampshire, in which there was
much that appealed to him. He was a noted bear
and fox hunter. The Marlboro history tells of his
prowess. He paid for his first yoke of oxen with
the fifty dollars he received from fox skins.

He married, 1789, Rhoda Drake, daughter of
Richard Drake, Richard,^ Benjamin,- Thomas.^
who was born at Easton, February 26, 1770. She
died January 20, i860, at an advanced age. Their
■children were: i. Olive, born October 9, 1789, mar-
ried, April 19 1812 Jonathan Wyman. 2. Lavina,
born April I, 1791, died October 23, 1866, married,
December, 1825, Alpheus Flagg; (second), July,
184s, Solomon Tenney. 3. Abiel, Jr., born March
I9> 1793. in Bridgewater; he was a soldier in the
war of 1812; died in Vermont, April, 1813. 4.
Chloe, born November 11, 1794, at Winchendon,
married. May 9, 1826, Luke Rice ; died December
4. 1873. 5. Sylvia, born July 30, 1796, at Winchen-
don, died there November 26, 1873, unmarried. 6.
Asnah, born at Winchendon, May 18, 1798, married,
February, 1828, Sally Norcross; married (second),
August 7, i860, Mrs. Mary T. Moore; resided at
Orange, Massachusetts ; died May 5, 1880. 7. Ada,
torn in Winchendon, July 29. 1800. married, Octo-
ber, 1821, Ezra Porter, resided in Winchendon,
died August, 1891. 8. Nathan, born in Winchendon,
January 27. 1802, married Louisa Hale. 9. Melona,
born in Winchendon, October 29, 1804, married.
May, 1829, Silas S. Norcross, and lived in Win-
chendon. 10. Christopher Columbus, born in Win-
chendon, June, 1807, died October 4, 1881, see for-
ward. II. Rhoda, born in Winchendon, January
17, 1811, married, July, 1834, Joel Sibley; she mar-
ried (second), July, 1864, William Sibley; resided
in Winchendon, died December. 1889. 12. Horace,
"born in Marlboro, New Hampshire, November 17.
1817, married (second), 1842, Betsey Smith; he
was in the Tenth Cavalry and died in United States

Hospital, Covington, Kentuckv, in the service, April
6, 1864.

(VI) Christopher Columbus Alger, son of Abiel
Alger (5), was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts,
June 17, 1807. He made his home in Winchendon. He
was a man of strong personality, good judgment,
thrifty and industrious, and a prominent man of
the town. His farm is owned at present by his only
son. He married, IMarch 29, 1836, Sabrina Bal-
com, daughter of Gideon Balcom, whose ancestry
was: Daniel (IV), John (III), Joseph (II), Henry
(i). She was a lady of refinement and education.
Together they accumulated a considerable estate.
Their children, all born in Winchendon, were : I.
Christopher C, Jr., born July 14, 1837, see for-
ward. 2. Amelia V., born May 17, 1839, married,
February 15, 1870, Calvin ^Miller, and resides at No.
32 Westland street, Worcester ; they have two sons,
Morton Melvin Miller, born February 10, 1873, and
Allan Balcom Miller, born January 28, 1883. 3.
Isabella J., born June 27, 1852, resides in Worcester.

(VII) C. C. Alger, son of Christopher C. Alger
(6), was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, July
14, 1837. He was brought up on the home farm,
entering into the various duties and pleasures inci-
dent to the home and farm life. Educated in the
district school, which at that time gave the student a
broader education than the term district school at
present implies, he was well grounded in English,
higher mathematics and science. After being away
from home one or two years he consented to gratify
his parents in their oft-repeated request for him to
come home to live. He bought the homestead and
has carried it on since that time, December 7, 1865.
He has taken great interest and expended much
thought and money in developing the farm as well
as the beautiful pleasure grounds at Lake Denison,
until he has now one of the finest country estates
in Worcester county.

In politics he is a stanch Republican, always
having voted with that party, casting his first presi-
dential vote for Abraham Lincoln in i860. He and
his wife are both members of the Winchendon
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and are especially
active in the literary entertainments. He and his
family are associated with the old First Congre-
gational Church, at the centre of the town. He has
always been a helper in every good work for the
upbuilding of society and the promotion of good
morals and good government.

Not only in the Alger line, but in twenty-four
other lines of ancestry that have been traced his
ancestors have been substantial people in England
and America. His immigrant ancestors were found
in both Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies,
sturdy Puritans and Pilgrims who have transmitted
to posterity the spirit of civil and religious liberty.
Three of Mr. Alger's four great-grandfathers were
soldiers in the revolution.

Mr. Alger married, September 22, 1874, Ella
Laura May, of Winchendon, daughter of Daniel
May and a descendant of another old New England
family.

SYLVESTER FAMILY. John Sylvester (i) was
the inmiigrant ancestor of Thomas Henry Sylvester,
of Worcester. The name is of French origin, though
most of the American families of this name can
trace their descent to English progenitors. The
word Silvestre, meaning tree, is the origin of
the name, and the coat of arms is a parlant or
speaking one, viz.: Containing a tree. The arms:
Ar. an oak tree eradicated, vert. Crest : A lion's
head erased, vert. The English family settled in
England not long after the Norman conquest, the

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29.

ancestor probably going over from France with
William the Conqueror. Many distinguished men
of the name have been produced in the English fam-
ily, which is very numerous. In New England tlie
first settler of the name was Richard Sylvester, of
Weymouth, in 1633, and of Scituate in 1642; mar-
ried Naomi Torrey, 1663 ; his descendants are
numerous in Hingham ; many lived in Leicester,
Massachusetts, and most of the Massachusetts and
American families trace their lines back to him.

John Sylvester was probably born in England,
possibly France, if the family tradition is reliable.
He must have been born about 1750, perhaps a few
years later. He was a soldier in an Essex county
regiment for nine months, mustered by Henry
Rutgers, Jr., deputy muster master. This revolu-
tionary service may indicate that he was French,
rather than British, although many men born in
England fought on the American side. He married,
July 30, 1789, in Boston, and had one son, John
Gardner, see forward.

(H) John Gardner Sylvester, son of John Syl-
vester (l), was born in INIassachusetts, about 1790.
He had a superb education and was said to speak
seven languages. He was a gifted musician and
artist. In Boston he achieved a reputation for his
wonderful skill in drumming. He was a very prom-
inent Free jNIason, and in his day was the only
thirty-third degree Mason in the country. In later
life he removed to New Orleans and was taken
sick there. On account of the kindness of his
Masonic brethren in attending him when sick he
left a large sum of money to the New Orleans i\Ia-
sonic order. He married Rachel Penniman and
they had seven sons. Among them were : Artemas,
see forward ; John, Ingenious.

(III) Artemas Sylvester, son of John Gardner
Sylvester (2), was born in Boston, about 1815. He
received an excellent education in the public schools.
He went to sea and was a mariner for a number of
years. He sailed to all quarters of the globe and
visited all the principal ports. He rose to the rank
of first mate. Several years before the civil war he
entered the government service and was in charge
of the ordnance department during and after the
war. Later he went to California with his brother
Ingenious, who was a "Forty-Niner," and both be-
came interested in gold mining. Mr. Sylvester re-
turned to Boston in about three years. He lived
during his last years at the home of his daughter
in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and died there. He was
a Unitarian in religion and a Republican in politics.
He married Harriet Harris, born in England. Their
children were : Thomas Henry, born August 3,
1843, see forward ; Artemas, Susan Jane, Amelia
Winslow, Joseph Franklin, Jane.

(IV) Thomas Henry Sylvester, son of Artemas
Sylvester (3), was born in Charlestown, ^lassachu-
setts, now Boston, August 3, 1843. He was edu-
cated there in the common schools. At the age of
fourteen he went to work as clerk for J. B. Rand
& Company, hatters and furriers, remaining until
1861, when he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-
ninth regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia,
serving in the Army of the Potomac in the Penin-
sular campaign. He took part in many skirmishes
and battles, including Yorktown and Williamsburg,
^lanassas to Seven Pines. He was in the battle of
South Mountain and of Antietam, where he received
a shell wound, which caused paralysis. He was
taken to a hospital in Washington and later to a
Boston hospital. When he recovered sufficiently
he went to work again for J. B. Rand & Company,
and after some years accepted a similar position in

the store of Jackson & Company of Boston. He was
admitted to partnership in the firm in 1881 and
remained in the business until his death, May 13,
1899. He was a member of the ^^lethodist Episco-
pal Church until late in life, when he joined the
Christian Science Church. He was a Republican in
politics. He was a member of Bunker Hill Lodge
of Odd Fellows, Charlestown, Massachusetts, and
of Post 36, Grand Army of the Republic, Arlington,
^lassachusetts. He was a man of high principles
and enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all men
with whom he had dealings.

He married, August 27, 1863, Elmira Hamlin
Foster, of Boston, born August 23, 1844, daughter
of Joseph Samuel and Persis Hamlin (Clark) Fos-
ter. Her father was a teacher by profession. Chil-
dren of Thomas Henry and Elmira Hamlin Syl-
vester were : Joseph Adelbert Austin, born Feb-
ruary 10, 1865, married Charlotte .Reading; Elmira
Evelena, born November 18, 1867, married Bert
Leroy Knowles, of Worcester ; they reside at 42
Shattuck street, Worcester; Thomas Henry, Jr.,
born April 13, 1870, see forward.

(V) Thomas Henry Sylvester, son of Thomas
Henry Sylvester (4), was born at Chelsea, Massa-
chusetts, April 13, 1870. He obtained his early edu-
cation in the district schools of his native town,
moving with his parents to Boston when eleven
years old ; he attended the Cotting high school,
from which he graduated in 1887. He took a post-
graduate course in the high school, entering Boston
Ujiiversity in 1888. He left that institution in Oc-
tober, 1891, and entered Harvard University, where
he was graduated in 1893, receiving the degree of
A. B. During his college course he studied with
the intention of being a physician, but owing to the
healing of his sister by (Christian Science he became
interested in the work of the new cult and eventually
practiced healing in accordance with Christian Sci-
ence methods. In 1894 he went into patent broker-
age and followed that for two years, studying
Christian Science and perfecting himself in its
methods. He went to New York city in 1895 in
connection with the sale of patents and remained
there about two years in that business. In 1898 he
came to Worcester, where he entered upon the
practice of Christian Science, and has been located
there ever since, being the only male practitioner in
the county of Worcester and recognized as one of
the best in his profession. He has frequently been
abroad in connection with his practice. His office
is at 115 Lincoln street. iNlr. Sylvester was one of
the promoters of the first Christian Science Church
in Worcester, in March, 1898, and is today one of
its firm supporters, being the first reader of the
church. Mr. Sylvester is a Republican in politics.
He is a prominent Free Mason, being raised in
^lorning Star Lodge, Worcester, October 24, 1899.
He became a member of Worcester Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons, January 12, 1900; of Hiram
Council, March i, 1900, and was knighted in Wor-
cester County Commandery, June, 1906. He was
made a member of the Massachusetts Consistory,
April' 27. 1900, Scottish Rite Masonry. He is past
chancellor of Freedom Lodge, No. 121, Knights of
Pythias ; member of Worcester Lodge, No. 243,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Worces-
ter Council, Royal Arcanum, No. 12; associate mem-
ber of Post 36, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Arlington. Massachusetts. He- belongs to the Wor-
cester Harvard Club, the Theta Delta Chi Society,
Iota Chapter, of Harvard.

He married, March 28, 1895, Marie Dudley
Ryder, born at Englewood, New Jersey, May 26,

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1873, daugliter of Mitchell and Caroline (Irwin)
Ryder. Their children are: Hamlin Ryder, born
iorn October 16, 1896; Elaine, March 5, 1901.

DELANO FAMILY. The descendants of the
Pilgrim ancestor, Philip Delano, of Plymouth, have
the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry in the old
country for a dozen centuries. They have established
the full right to bear the arms of the Delano
family, which could be of no better stock and which
embraces a host of distinguished men in its
numbers.

The name is derived from the town of Lannoy,
a few miles from Isla, now Lille, France. Away-
back in A. D., 863, this town was called Alnetum,
later L'Annois and Lannoy. The meaning of the
word is unknow'n. It has been spelled L'Annois,
L'Annoe, L'AuImais, L'Aulnoy, but more often Al-
netum. Today Lannoy is a small manufacturing
town, seven miles from Lille, with a population at
the last census of 1,904. The first Lord of Lannoy,
progenitor of the family, was Hugues de Lannoy,
mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096.
On the same list was Simon de Alneto. A charte
des Chanoines (cannons) de St. Pierre a Lille
mentions Gilbert de Lannoy in 1171 and Hugues de
Lannoy is mentioned in 11S6. It is impossible to
present in this place an extended history of the
family in its early days in France. That has been
done with remarkable care and apparent accuracy
in the genealogy, which is authority for all said
here about the origin and early history of the family.
There seems to be no flaw in the following pedigree
in the direct male line of the American emigrant,
Philip Delano or Delanoy.

I. Arnulphe de Franchmont. 2. Conrad de
Franchmont. 3. Hellin, Marquis de Franchmont,
married Agnes, daughter of Othon, Duke of Ba-
varia. 4. Hellin II de Franchmont, married Agnis
de Duras. 5. Jean de Franchmont, married JNIa-
hienne de Lannoy. 6. Hugues de Lannoy. 7.
Hugues de Lannoy. 8. Guillebert de Lannoy. 9.
Baudoin "Le Begue." 10. Baudouin. 11. Philipe. 12.
Jean, born about 1 51 1, died I\Iay 25, 1560; was made
•chevalier de la Toison d'or in 1546; chamberlain to
the emperor Charles V from 1519 to 1556; gouv-
ernor de Haymont and captain general of same
province of Flanders in 1559; married Jeanne de
Ligne de Barbancori, daughter of Louis de Eigne,
seigneur de Barbancon and his wife, Marie de
Berghes. 13. Gysbert de Lannoy, born at Tourcoing,
1545, of Roman Catholic parents, but became a
Protestant and was disinherited by his father. 14.
Jean of Leyden, was born 1570, died at Leyden,
1604. He married at the Walloon Church (Tornai),
January 13, 1596, Marie le Mahieu, of a Brabant
family. 15. Philip, the American emigrant, see
forward.

It is shown that the Delanoy family for all these
centuries remained pure Norman and Flemish blood,
never intermarrying with the French race.

The following lines of descent show some of the
royal ancestors of Philip Delano :

I. Hnolf, first Duke of the Normans, a Viking,
A. D., 860. 2. William Longsword, Duke of the
Normans. 3. Richard, the Fearless. 4. Richard, the
Good. 5. Robert I, the Devil. 6. William, the Con-
queror, King of England, Duke of Normandy 7.
Henry I, "Beauclerc." 8. Matilda, married
Geofifroy Plantagenet. 9. Henry II, King of Eng-
land, 1154 to 11S9. ID. Matilda, married Henry V,
Duke of Saxony and Bavaria. 11. Henry VI,
married Agnes, daughter of Conrad, son
of Frederick I, a descendant of Alfred, the Great
(849), Cerdic (405) and other ancient English noble

and royal personages. 12. Agnes, married Othon,
Duke of Bavaria. 13. Agnes, married Hellin de
Franchmont. 14. Hellin II. 15. Jean de Franch-
mont, born about 1300. 16. Hugues de Lannoy,
born 131 1, died 1349. 17. Guillebert. 18. Baudouin,
Le Begul. 19. Baudouin. 20. Phillippe. 21. Jean, died
1560. 22. Gysbert, born 1545. 23. Jean, of Leyden.
24. Phillippe, the American emigrant mentioned
below.

The line of Philip Delanoy is traced to Charle-
magne and his ancestors to the year A. D., 61 r,
viz.: I. St. Arnoul, (611). 2. Ansegise, A, D.. 679.
3. Pepin, Le Gros, 714. 4. Charles Martel, Duke of
the Franks, 741. 5. Pepin, "the short," King -of
France, 768. 6. Emperor Charlemagne, 800. 7.
Pepin, King of Italy. 8. Bernard, King of Italy.
9. Pepin II. 10. Pepin, Compte de Vermandois.
II. Beatrix, married Robert, Duke of France. 12.
Hugue, the Great. 13. Hugue Capet, King of
France. 14. Robert, the Saint, King of France.
15. .'Mi.x de France, married Boudouin, fifth count of
Flanders. 16. Judith, married Guelph, Duke of
Bavaria. 17. Henry HI. 18. Henry IV. 19. Henry
V. 20. Henry VI, where the line connects with the
one previously given.

Another pedigree connects Philip Delano with
Priam, King of the Franks, in 382, and still another
with Guelph, Prince of the Scyrri, A. D., 476. Of
course, the royal ancestors of any family are legion
in case any connection is established, for the con-
stant intermarriages connect the ruling families of
all nations to some extent. The royal and some of
the noble family genealogies are available, of
course.

(I) Philip Delano, the immigrant ancestor of
Charles Wesley Delano, of Worcester, Massachu-
setts, was born in Leyden, Holland, 1602, and bap-
tized there 1603. His parentage and ancestors are
given above. The Delano family went to Leyden
to escape persecution in France where the Catholic
party was in power and the Inquisition active. They
were French Protestants or Huguenots. Philip
grew up under the teachings of the separatists of the
established Church of England, who fled to Holland
in 1608 to abide in Leyden. Thus he became affili-
ated with the Pilgrims who came over on the "May-
flower" and it is believed that he started in the first
company that came to Plymouth in that vessel. He is
supposed to have been in the companionship, the
"Speedwell," which sailed from Southampton for
America, but had to put into Dartmouth on account
of a leak. She sailed again August 31, after re-
pairs were made, but sprung a leak once more and
returned to Plymouth, England, where the
voyage was abandoned and eighteen of the passen-
gers who could not be accommodated on the "May-
flower," including Robert Cushman, remained in
England until the "Fortune" sailed next summer.
At any rate Philip Delano came to America on the
ship "Fortune" in 1621, then aged nineteen years.
In 1624 he had an acre of land granted him at
Plymouth, but gave it up as he settled in Duxbury.
Winslow is authority for the statement that the
name was formerly De la Noye. The records also
give Dillanoe, Dillnoe. Dilnow, Dillno and Delanoy.
The correct form of the name given by the geneal-
ogist is : Delano de Lannoy. The arms of the
family : Ar. a chevron bet. three boars' heads, sable.

Philip was admitted a freeman January I, 1632-
23. His farm at Duxbury, granted October 2, 1637,
was north and northwest of Alden's on the north
side of Stony or Mill brook, below the site of the
late tack factory. It was bounded by lands of
Morse Bumpas and Alden and comprised forty
acres. He was often employed in the early days

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as surveyor of lands and frequently served on the
grand jury. He was a volunteer in the Pcquot war,
June 7, 1637. He died at Bridge water, Massachu-
setts, about 16S1, aged seventy-nnie years. The
probate court was not established until 1686 aiid
his estate was settled according to the records in
the registry of deeds, July 5, 1682. He died in-
testate, but left a memorandum expressing his
Avishes and intent and this noncupative will was al-
lowed July 7, 1682.

He married (first), at Duxbury, December ig,
1634, Hester Dewsbury, of Duxbury. He married
(second), at Duxbury, 1657, Mary Pontus, widow
of James Glass, daughter of William Pontus. The
children of Philip and Hester : Mary, born 163S,
married Jonathan Dunham; Esther, born 163S;
Philip, Jr., born about 1640, married Elizabeth
Clark; Thomas (Doctor), born J\Iarch 21, 1642,
married Mary Alden; John, see forward; James,
■died unmarried ; Lieutenant Jonathan, born about
1651, married Mercy Vvarren; Rebecca, born about
1651, married John Churchill. The only child of
Philip and Mary was : Samuel, born 1659, married
Elizabeth Standish.

(H) John Delano, son of Philip Delano (i),
Avas born at Duxbury, Alassachusetts, about 1644.
In 1690 he was living on the north side of the path
■which led from the mill to South river, Duxbury,
and his name appears among those who leased the
common lands. In 1703 measures were about to
l)e taken for the division of these lands, and twenty
acres were voted to every householder, Septem-
ber 12, 1707. His name appears frequently on the
public records. He was a cordwainer or shoemaker
as well as planter. He sold his homestead "where
he now dwells" to his son, John, Jr., February 24,
1719. Later he conveyed lands to Thomas Delano,
Sr., and Joshua Delano, three acres of upland given
him by his father, part of the farm "where he
■dwelt with us."

He married at Du.xbury, Mary Weston, daughter
of Edmund Weston, Sr. He was born 1606 and died
1696, emigrant from London, England, in the ship
"Elizabeth and Ann" to Duxbury and was on the
list of those able to bear arms 1643, and was sur-
veyor 1652. His progenitor in England was Hay-
leric de Weston, of Surrey, in the time of Henry I,
(iioo) and the family arms are: Ermine on a
chief az. five bezants. Children of John and Mary
Delano : Israel, born about 1679. died unmarried
1704; Lydia, born about 1680; Mary, born about
16S3; Nathaniel, born about 1685; Mercy, born about
1687 : John, Jr., born about 1689, see forward.

(Ill) John Delano, Jr., son of John Delano
(2), was born about 1689, at Duxbury, Massachu-
setts. He married there, July 2, 1718. Sarah Cole,
daughter of John and Patience Cole. She was
■born in 1694 and died February 19, 1764. His
-widow sold to Samuel Cole the house of her late
husband where "Miles Sampson now dwells," in
1741. The children: Israel, born October 4, 1720,
died September 4, 1765 ; Isaac, born 1722 ; Patience,
■born 1724; Thankful, born 1727; John, 3d, see for-
ward.

(I'V) John Delano, 3d., son of John Delano,
Jr., (3'), was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, in
1730. He was lost at sea July, 1771. He married
in Pembroke, Massachusetts. May 22, 1758, Ruth
Cox. who was received in the church at Pembroke,
September 29, 1771. She died there. Her children
were baptized in the Second Church of Pembroke.
Her dower rights were set off in 1772. John De-
lano bought his place in Pembroke, five acres of
Abigail Co.x and others. The children : Ruth, bap-
tized August 6, 1760; married Ebenezer Whitman

Sarah, baptized April 3, 1763, married Gershom
Ramsdell ; John 4th, baptized April 14, 1765, see
forward ; Israel, born August 7, baptized September
20, 1767; Abel, baptized August 15, 1770, died 1799;
married, January 21, 1796, Deborah Pindrin.

(V) John Delano, 4th, son of John Delano (4),
was born in Pembroke, Massachusetts, April 14,
1765. He married (published at Boston, February
9, 1792) (by Rev. Peter Thacher), June 28, 1792,
Betsey Deverich, a native of Boston. He settled
in Illinois. Their children: I.John, born 179S, see
forward. 2. Oliver, born April 3, 1797, died aged
fifty-three years at Truro, March 30, 1852 ; mar-
ried Jane , born in New York, January 23,

1801, died at Truro, January 23, 1850, and had chil-
dren — William, born at Truro, October 15, 1826;
Betsey Long, born September 24, 1828, died unmar-
ried 1850; Jane Hutchins, born September 27, 1831,
died November 20, 1851 ; Israel Oliver, born Janu-
ary 14, 1834, died August 12, 1849; Benjamin Long,
born June 2, 1843. 3. Betsey, married at Truro,
November 25, 1819, Benjamin Long.

(VI) John Delano, son of John Delano (5),
was born in Pembroke, Massachusetts, or in Illinois,
in 1795, died in Truro, November 14, 1855, aged
sixty-two years, according to the records. He spent
his boyhood in Illinois, w-hither his father went,
but later came back to the vicinity of the former
home of the family and settled at North Truro,
where his brother Oliver also lived. He followed
the sea and became the master of a vessel, making
long voyages. Later he went to the Banks on fish-
ing cruises and did much mackerel fishing about
Cape Cod. He died while still in active life, break-
ing a blood vessel while lifting. Once he was given
up for lost while away on a fishing trip. He was
a man of attractive personality, much beloved by
his family and friends, of scrupulous integrity. He
was class leader and steward of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Truro, ]\Iassachusetts. In poli-
tics he was a Whig.

He married Elizabeth Atkins, daughter of Eben-
ezer and Mary (Paine) Atkins. Her father was a
farmer. She was born October 14, 1S02, died at
Provincetown, Massachusetts, December 12, 1874.
Their children : I. Elizabeth Deveraux, born at
Truro, December. 1821, married at Provincetown,
March 21, 1869, Elkanah Paine, born at Orrington,
Maine, June l, 181 1, died at Provincetown, May 4,
187s, leaving no children. 2. Mary Atkins, born
January 17. 1825, married, December 11, 1843, Syl-
vanus Smith Kenyon, born March 29, 1815;
they have children : Benjamin Walker, born Oc-
tober 20, 1845, married in Worcester, February 6,
1868, Ella Rosina Howe, daughter of Israel and
Deborah M. (Parker) Howe; she was born Decem-
ber 13. 1851, and they have children: Addie Louise,
born June 16, 1880, married Herbert Bartlett, of
Hartford, Connecticut ; Francis Crocker, born Jan-
uary 20, 1850, died young. 3. Zuruiah Atkins, born
October 22, 1827, died at North Truro, January 7,
1850; married there, November 3, 1848, John Smith,
Jr., born October 21, 1827, and they have a daugh-
ter Zuruiah, who married Edward Small. 4. Har-
riet Newell, bom October 12, 1829, died at North
Truro, July 26, 1853 ; married, December 25, 1850,
James Henry Allen, a native of Heath, Massachu-
setts, died at Eureka, Nevada. March, 18S9, and they
had children — Rev. James Francis Allen, born in
Provincetown, December 2$, 1851, married. May
15. 1873, at Worcester, Ida Alecia Rice daughter of
Barnabas Davis and Lydia Alecia (Howe) Rice,
born in West Boylston, May 15. 1854, resides at
50 South street. Lynn, Massachusetts ; children
Robert Francis Allen, born at Coleraine, Massa-

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chusetts, November 28, 1884; Ida .-yecia Allen
(.twin), born August 22, 1888; Florence May Allen,
(twin), born August 22, 1888. 5. Betsey Augusta,
born July 16, 183J, married (.first) at North Truro,
December 2, 185 1, John Smith, Jr., born Novem-
ber 6, 1825, lost at sea September 6, 1854; married
(second) at Provincetown, March 2, 1862, Elijah
Doanc, who was born at Eastham, January 23, 1816,
died at Provincetown, May 7, 1884; she married
(third) at Worcester, October 11, 1884, Henry
(ilark Wilson, born July 11, 1829; her children
were: John Forest Smith, born August 6, 1853,
married (first) Nellie Pinkham, (second) iSIary
Shippee; had Philip Sheridan Doane, born Sep-
tember 17, 1864, married Edith Young, of Worces-
ter. 6. John, born August 3, 1835, see forward. 7.
Isaiah, born at North Truro, August 31, 1837, mar-
ried Frances Calkins, of Worcester. 8. Emily
Frances, born October 5, 1839, married in Worces-
ter, William Ansel Washburn, and had two chil-
dren, Alice, died young. 9. Jane Louise, born Octo-
ber 5, 1842, married (first at Provincetown, Janu-
ary ID, 1865, Isaac F. Cook; married (second) at

Worcester, Thomas Baird and (third) Taylor;

has one child Harriet Cook.

(VII) John Delano, son of John Delano (6),
was born at North Truro, Massachusetts, August
3, 1835. He received his early education in the
common schools of that town. When he was twenty
years old he began to go to sea. After three years
of sea life he started to learn the mason's trade and
afterwards worked for Charles Fuller, of Province-
town. Then he went to Charlestown, Massachu-
setts, where ne was employed by Henry A. Cook,
his cousin, for three years. About 1863 he came to
Worcester and found employment with Daniel S.
Burgess, with whom he worked four years. After
four years more as a journeyman in the employ of
J. E. Stearns he went into the business as mason and
contractor on his own account, and has carried on
a large and successful business to the present time.
He has had the contract for the Walker house
at the corner of Main and Benefit streets ; for A.
H. Hammond's factories ; for S. D. Waite's Block
on Pleasant street and many other residences and
other buildings. He is a member of Grace Metho-
dist Episcopal Church and has been steward and
class leader. In politics he is a Republican. He has
been a member of Alontacute Lodge of Masons since
September 23, 1867, and is a member of Worcester
Chapter of Royal Arch jNlasons and of Worcester
Lodge of Perfection, Fourteenth Degree, Scottish
Rite ]\Iasonry. He is well known in Masonic cir-
cles. He married (first) at North Truro, February
16, 1859, Sarah Williams Johnson, daughter of
Henry and Julia Ann (Atkins) Johnson. She was
born at North Truro, October 15, 1836, died at
Worcester, May 6, 1863. He married (second),
December 16, 1869, Jane Eunice Prentice, daughter
of Benjamin and Mehitable (Winter) Prentice. She
was born August 3, 1847. The children of John
and Jane Eunice Delano are : Charles Wesley, born
March 12, 1871, see forward; Carrie Mae, born June
5, 1877, married, October 25, 1898, James Weston
Howe, of Worcester, and they have Medeline Prent-
ice, born August 8, 1899.

(VIII) Charles Wesley Delano, son of John
Delano (7), was born at Worcester, Massachusetts,
March 12, 1871. He attended the public and high
schools there, graduating in 1890 from the Class-
ical high school. In the fall he entered Wesleyan
College at Middletown. Connecticut, from which
he received his degree of A. B. in 1894. He ac-
cepted a position as teacher in the Robbins school at
Norfolk, Connecticut, where he remained a year.

In the fall of 1895 he came to the Classical high
school, Worcester, as teacher in Latin and English.
After ten years he was appointed to his present po-
sition in the new South high school on Freeland
street. During his college course he qualified as a
preacher and was licensed to preach by the Quar-
terly Methodist Conference in 1892 and afterward
was ordained as a local deacon, in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, by Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu in April
1899. In 1903, after completing the regularly pre-
scribed course of study, he was ordained a local
elder by Bishop Andrews in Brookline, Massachu-
setts. He has supplied pulpits at Brookheld in
1899, at North Grafton, 1900 to 1904 inclusive, and
at various places in the vicinity since.

He is a member of Grace Alethodist Episcopal
Church of Worcester and was superintendent of
the Sunday school three years. He was president
of the Worcester circuit of Epworth Leagues for
four years. He has been a member of Morning
Star Lodge of Free Masons since April 28, 1896,
and was worshipful master in 1901 and 1902 and
since then has been its secretary. He has been a
member of Worcester Royal Arch Chapter of Ma-
sons since April 21, 1899, and was high priest of
that body in 1903 and is a trustee of the permanent
fund. He is at present district deputy grand high
priest of the Fourth Capitular District. He is a
member of Hiram Council of Royal and Select
blasters, and is at present the thrice illustrious
master of the body.

In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to
the college fraternity of Alpha Delta Phi. While
in college he was in the Wesleyan Glee and j\Ian-
dolin Club and is interested in musical affairs. He
entered the declamation contests each year in col-
lege and took a prize in his junior year, the junior
exhibition prize. He is secretary of the School
Masters' Club of Worcester county. He is a mem-
ber of the Classical Teachers' of New England
Association and New England Association of Teach-
ers of English.

He married, September 30, 1900, Annie Chase
Barnard, born in Worcester, December 21, 1873,
daughter of William C. and Annie Louise (Chase)
Barnard, of W^orcester. Her father is a real estate
broker. The children : Gertrude Barnard, born
March 25, igoi, died same day; Lillian, born March
8, 1902; Charles Barnard, born January 6, 1906.

LEWIS BOYDEN GASKILL. The Gaskill
family of Hopedale, of which Lewis B., Richard G.
and William Gaskill are representatives, as is also
Judge Gaskill, of Worcester, was established in
Worcester county by Samuel Gaskill early in the
eighteenth century. The American origin of the
family however goes back to a much earlier date
in the colonial period. Edward Gaskill, the ances-
ter in common of all who bear that name in New
England, immigrated from England and was granted
land in Salem as early as 1637. His son, Samuel
Gaskill, who interested himself in the Quaker doc-
trines and attended the meetings of that sect, be-
came amenable to the strict Puritan law operative
against heretics, and was severely punished for this
offence.

Lewis B. Gaskill, the principal subject of this
sketch, is a descendant in the eighth generation
o' Edward, the Salem settler, and is of the fourth
generation in line of descent from Samuel Gaskill,
who located in Worcester county. Samuel (4)
Gaskill, who was a great-grandson of Edward, came
to the South Parish of Mendon (now Blackstoue)
in 1736, and purchased of Stephen Sweet a large
farm for which he paid the sum of four hundred

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and fifty pounds sterling. He had at least two
sons, Ebenezer and Benjamin. Samuel (6) GasUill,
son of Ebenezer and the grandfather of Lewis B.,
was a lifelong resident of Mcndon and a prosper-
ous farmer.

Kahum (7) Gaskill, Lewis B. Gaskill's father,
was born in Mcndon and succeeded to the posses-
sion of the parental estate. He wa.s an extensive
farmer, and m addition to his agricultural interests
he transacted a large flour and grain business, the
first to engage exclusively in that line of trade in
Mendon. He was one of the most prominent and
well-to-do citizens of Mendon in his day. and fully
merited the high estimation in which he was held
by iiis fellow-townsmen. He lived to be seventy-
two years old. Nahum Gaskill married Sarah (or
Sally) Southwick. of Mendon, and was the father
of twelve children : John Southwick, born De-
cember 12, 1807; Samuel, January 14, 1810; Hannah,
September 9, 1811 ; Olive, June 10. 1813; Micajah
Collins, September 26, 1816; Mary Thurber, August
13, 1818; Almira p-airbanks, June 8, 182 1 ; Gilbert,
April 28, 1823; Nahum, April 18, 1825; Richard
George, March 16, 1827; Lewis Boyden, see for-
ward; Albert Warren, born December 28. 1831. All
grew to maturity, married and reared families.
John S., died 1878, married Harriet E. Staples, a
member of one of the oldest families in Alendon,
and her death occurred September 3, 1874. Samuel
was still living in 1891, and in his eighty-eighth
year was vigorous and active. Hannah, wife of
Abner K. Sprague, survived her husband and died
in Blackstoiie, November 15, 1892. Olive, wife of
Elkanah Barrows, died July 12, 1881. Micajah C.
became a prominent civil engineer and was en-
gaged in laying out several railroads, including the
line from Worcester to Barre and that from Wor-
cester to Orange. He also made surveys for rail-
roads in Maine and other New England states. He
participated actively in the civic affairs of Men-
don, serving for a number of terms as selectman and
assessor and as representative to the state legisla-
ture. He was twice married. ]\Iary Thurber, mar-
ried Willis Gould, died March 5, 1898. Almira
Fairbanks became the' wife of Charles Fletcher, a
contractor. Gilbert was for many years a suc-
cessful contractor for the construction of public
highways. He also engaged extensively in farmuig,
and is living in retirement in Mendon. Nahum
was a prosperous farmer during the active period of
his life, and spent his declining years in retirement
at his home in Hopedale, where he died in 1895.
He married Fannie Eliza Wheelock. Richard G.
was twice married and has a son, Richard G., who
is the subject of another sketch in this work. Al-
bert W. resides in Mendon, and in- addition to be-
ing a successful farmer he was long identilied with
the town government, serving as a member of the
board of selectmen continuously for a period of
thirty years, at the expiration of which he declined
further re-election, and he also served as highway
commissioner for a number of terms.

Lewis Boyden Gaskill was born in Mendon Jan-
uary 4. 1829. He was reared and educated in his
native town, where he acquired a knowledge of agri-
culture, and resided on the parental estate until
after his father's death. In i860 he purchased the
farm in Hopedale, where he has ever since resided,
and in connection with general farming he con-
ducted a thriving wood and lumber business for
many years. Some few years ago he retired from
active business pursuits. His property, which is
of historic interest, as upon it was erected by Ben-
jamin Ally, prior to 1688, the first saw-mill in
this section of the county, is admirably located and
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exceedingly fertile. He has replaced most of the
old farm buildings with modern structures, but the
substantial and comfortable old residence, which was
built by George Kelley in 1783, has been preserved
in its entirety. When Hopedale was a part of Mil-
ford, Mr. Gaskill was prominent in the local gov-
ernment, and after its incorporation as a separate
town he continued to participate in civic affairs,
serving as a member of the board of selectmen,
overseer of the poor and upon the board of health.
in politics he generally supports the Democratic
party, but acts independently when so disposed.
His religious affiliations are with the Unitarian
Church. In May, 1863, Mr. Gaskill was joined in
marriage with Annie E. Jenckes, born in Mendon,
February 9, 1844, daughter of Ezra and Julia A.
(Swan) Jenckes. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskill have no
children.

WYMAN FAMILY. From well authenticated
sources it is now positively known that Francis
and John Wyman, who were among the first settlers
in Woburn, Massachusetts, came from the parish of
West Mill, county of Herts, England, and were the
sons named in a recently discovered will of Francis
Wyman, their father. Their oldest brother, Thomas,
inherited the old English estate. The names of
John and Francis first occur in Woburn, where they
signed town orders in 1640. A house is still stand-
ing, built in 1664, by Francis. John's house stood
nearby and was destroyed many years ago. They
were farm houses near the town site of Woburn,
and were exposed to attack of Indians during King
Philip's War. The house still standing was used
for a garrison, and the post-holes for muskets are
still to be seen. The two brothers also had houses
in the village, opposite the park at the juncture of
Main and Wyman streets. Their tannery was also
located nearby and the vat still exists, but are buried
beneath several feet of earth. The old gravestone
of Francis Wyman is still easily discernible and the
inscription reads :

"Here lies ye body of Francis Wyman, aged
about 82 years, died Nov. 28, 1699 — the memory of
ye just is blessed."

It is safe to estimate that there is now about
eight thousand Wymans in America. The name
of Wyman is' beyond doubt Saxon in its origin, and
in common with names in earlier times, spelled dif-
ferent ways, as "Wiman," "Wymant," "Ymond,"
"Wimond," etc. The line of descent for the Worces-
ter members of this family is as follows: (l) John,
born 1621, married Sarah Nutt, 1644. (12) Jonathan,
born 1661, married Hannah Fowle, 1690. (154) Jona-
than, born 1704, married Martha Thompson. Jona-
than, born 1763, married Ruby Richardson. Abel,
born 1793, married Maria Wade, 1817. Horace, born
1827, married Louisa B. Horton. 1837. Horace
Winfield, born 1861, married Mary W, Haskell, 1889.
Horace, (2) born 1893.

Horace Wyman, horn 1827, in Woburn, Massa-
chusetts, was the son of Abel and Maria (Wade)
Wyman, and descended from the English ancestor as
above indicated, John and the Jonathans. He obtained
his education at Francistown Academy, New Hamp-
shire, and the Woburn Academy. He followed the
occupation of a machinist and is an inventor of the
higher order in American genius. The United States
patent office records disclose the striking fact of his
having taken out one hundred and fifty patents,
most of them relating to textile machinery. Many
of his machines are in use in the up-to-date mills
of today. He has been an inveterate toiler and
ingenious delver into the complicated realm of me-
chanics, and has usually confined his labors and re-

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search to the one line of improving and bringing
forth the best possible looms and factory machinery —
a true benefactor to all mankind, as goods have
been cheapened by the use of machines first con-
ceived in his own brain and then wrought out with
his own skillful hands. He has been from time to
time associated with others, but ever studying the
best results. The Crompton Loom Works of Wor-
cester owe much of their success to his connection
with them. When George Crompton died in 1886,
the business was soon incorporated with Horace
Wynian as vice-president and manager.

iNIr. Wynian was married to Louisa Jlortcn.
daughter of Sparrow Horton, or Orleans, Massa-
chusetts, in 1837. Mrs. Wyman comes of English
extraction. Their three children are: i. Horace
Winfield, born 1861, married Mary W. Haskell, of
Kansas, in 18S9; M. Louisa; Adelaide, married
Ernest Wood, of Worcester.

Of the subject's son, Horace Winfield Wyman,
it may be said that he received his education in the
public schools of Worcester, the School of Poly-
technics and Worcester Academy. In 1883 he
formed a partnership with Leman F. Gordon, and
they engaged in the manufacturing business at Wor-
cester, having in operation an extensive forge-mill
and do a very large business. They employed a-^
high as one hundred high-grade W'orkmen, as early
as 1898. Drop forging in iron and steel in all sizes
are made at this plant. Some of the most pon-
derous machinery to be found in America may here
be seen in daily operation. The product of this
shop finds ready market in all parts of the world,
and a large exporting business has been carried
on for several years.

In reviewing the bright career of Dr. Wyman,
Jr., one is impre-sed with two facts : first, he came
of a good intelligent family, and second, that he
took a proper school training before launching out
into the great business calling which he chose for
his life work.

Franklin Wyman, son of David and Huldah
(Brown) Wyman, was born January 20, 1808, and
traces his line back to Francis, the Woburn emi-
grant and tanner. Francis had a son Timothy, Jjorn
in 1661 ; his son, Joseph, born in 1695, settled at
Billcrica and had a son Joseph. Jr., born in 1725,
and his son David, born 1767. brings it down to
him of whom we write this notice. His father,
David Wyman, learned the art of fulling cloth in
Dracut, and opened a mill for that purpose in
Jaffrey, New Hampshire. In 1793 he moved to
Westminster, Massachusetts, where he bought water
power on a small stream and established a "fulling
mill." He died there in 1839.

Franklin, who was bred and educated in West-
minster, when nineteen years of age, asked his
father if he would buy his time of him — as was the
olden custom. His father replied, "I don't talk
with boys ; you stay and work for nic." At the age
of twenty-one years Franklin went to Gardner,
Massachusetts, where he bought a wood lot on
credit. He hired men to clear off the land, sold the
wood and returned home with the money. He asked
to borrow more money of his father to engage in
business, but his father said, "No, you can't succeed
at borrowing money — you will fail and lose all."
The young man borrowed elsewhere, and bought
more timber land and made good profits. He then
engaged in chair making and was successful. He
finally settled at Westminster, built a mill and en-
gaged in paper manufacturing. He began inex-
perienced, but w^orked his way up until he built
other large paper mills on the same stream and in
lime, with the improved machinery, he became one

of the heaviest paper men in the United States. He
was highly successful and a remarkable man. He
built a dam, flooded one thousand acres of land and
had control of the head waters of the Nashua river.
This water was needed to supply the city of Fitch-
burg, and he sold his rights to the city in 1891
and thus closed his mills and retired. His- great
executive ability caused him to be repeatedly elected
to official positions. He w-as selectman six years
from Westminster, and a member of the state legis-
lature two terms. Politically he was a Republican
and was a liberal Christian.

He married (first), December 31, 1S39, Flen-
rietta B. Hazen, of Shirley, who died in i860. Their
children: Augustus, born 1843, died 1S49; Charles,
born 1848, died 1851; Charles F., born 1853, of
Worcester. He married (second) Amelia E. Ash-
ley Brooks, who died in 1864. She bore him one
child, Alfred A., of Fitchburg. He married (third).
Sophia L. Gardner, daughter of Jerome Gardner,
of Harvard, Massachusetts, who survives him. Their
only child, Evelyn May, died in 1895.

Oliver B. Wyman, born September 16, 1826, was
the son of Seth, Jr., and Lucy (Baker) Wyman.
His great-grandfather was Colonel Ross Wyman,
who settled at Shrewsbury (where Oliver B. was
born), in 1746, and was among the first to locate
there. Rose's father was Ensign Wyman, of Wo-
burn, and won much fame as a brave revolutionary
soldier. Oliver B. was one of a family of ten
children. He grew to manhood in Shrewsbury,
where he received his schooling. For several years,
in company with his brother Charles, he constructed
telegraph lines. In 1850 he retired from such business
and returned to Shrewsbury to take charge of the
old family homestead, an historic old place. Gold
excitement in 1S51 took him to California, which
trip consumed nearly two years. With the exception
of fifteen months' military service, he has been en-
gaged in general agriculture and lumbering. He
enlisted in 1863, in the Fifty-first ^Massachusetts In-
fantry, and was mustered in 1S64. Politically he is
a stanch Republican and has been chairman of the
town committee. Fie held numerous offices, includ-
ing selectman, and in 1878 represented his district
in the legislature. Fraternally he is a Master
Mason and also belongs to Shrewsbury Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. January i, 1852, Mr. Wy-
man married Hannah L. Carter, descendant of Rev.
Thomas Carter, the first ordained minister of Wo-
burn, Massachusetts. The only child born of this
union is Agnes.

G.\TES FAl\nLY. Stephen Gates (i), the im-
migrant ancestor of the Gates family of Ashburn-
ham, Massachusetts, was born in England, son of
Thomas Gates, of Norwich, Norfolk county, England.
His line of ancestry is given elsewhere in this work
(Thomas, Peter, Geoffrey, Geoffrey, Sir Geoft'rey,
William, Sir Geoffrey, William, Thomas). He came
from Flingham, England, to Hingham, Massachu-
setts, in the ship "Diligent'' of Ipswicli, England, in
the 1638- He was accompanied by his wife, Ann
(Hill) Gates, and two children. He removed from
Hingham to Lancaster, Massachusetts, at the settle-
ment of that town, and was there in 1656 and sub-
sequently went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
he died in 1662. He was admitted a freeman in
1653. His will, dated June 9, 1662, was proved
October 7, 1662. Stephen, Jr., received the house
and lot in Lancaster, his wife and son Simon re-
ceived the place in Cambridge and his son Thomas
was to remain with them at his pleasure. Ann
Gates, his widow, married Richard Woodward, of
Watertown, (see sketcli) in 1663. Ann was known

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as Gates after the death of her second husband, and
she died at Stow, February s, 1682-83. i 'le chil-
dren: I. Elizabeth, born in England, died August
3, 1704, at Hingham; married, November 29, 1647,
John Lascll (see sketch). 2. Mary, married, 1O58,
John Maynard, of Sudbury; he died December 2>.
171 1. 3. Stephen, Jr., see forward. 4. Thomas,
born 1042, married, July 6, 1670, Elizabeth Free-
man. 5. Simon, born 1645, died. April 21, 1693, at
Brockton. 6. Isaac, baptized JNIay 3, 1646, died Sep-
tember 3, 1651. 7. Rebecca, baptized May 3, 1646,
died January, 1650.

(.11; Stephen Gates, Jr., son of Stephen Gates
(i), was born about 1640. He died at Acton, Massa-
chusetts, 1706. He married Sarah Woodward,
daughter of George and Elizabeth (Hammond)
Woodward, of Watertown. They resided at- Stow,
Massachusetts, and he was an early proprietor of
Preston, Connecticut, where some of his descend-
.ants are still found. His will was made at Stow,
September 5, 1701, and proved in 1707. Children:
Stephen, born July 17, 1665; Simon, June 5, 1666,
see forw-ard; Thomas, December 31, 1669, died 1740,
.at Preston ; married, 1695, Margaret Geer, of Pres-
ton, Connecticut ; Isaac, 1673, died November 22,
1748, at Stow ; Nathaniel, 1675 ; Sarah, April 27,
1679, at Marlboro; Rebecca, July 23, 16S2, at Marl-
boro ; Daniel, April 2^, 1O85.

(III) Simon Gates, son of Stephen Gates (2),
was born at Stow, Massachusetts, June 5, 1666. ITe
married. May 4, 1688, Hannah Benjamin, of Stow.
Their children, all born at Stow, were : Simon, Jo-
seph, married, 1728, Prudence Hamlin; Benjamin,
niiirried, 1727, Bethulia Rice, bom March 24, 1704;

Elisha, Israel, see forward; Hannah, married

Heald ; Mary, married Haynes ; Susannah,

married Fitch; Elizabeth, married

Wheeler.

(IV) Amos Gates, son of Simon Gates (3),
was born at Stow, Massachusetts, about 1710. He

married Mary and they resided in Stow.

Their children : Oliver, soldier in the revolution ;
Amos, born at Stow, April 15, 1735,. died 1804,
aged sixty-nine years ; married, 1771, Widow Eliza-
beth Laws; soldier in the revolution; Simon, see
forward ; Abraham, born in Stow, was revolutionary
soldier from Ashby in 1775 and 1777; Asa, Jacob,
Isaac, born October 22, 1746, died February 17,
1831 ; was a soldier in the revolution.

(V) Simon Gates, son of Amos Gates (4), was
born in Stow, Massachusetts, about 1740. Fie died
March 11, 1803, aged sixty-three years. He mar-
ried Susannah Reed, of Stow, who died December
18, 1833, aged eighty-eight years. He bought lot
No. 26, second division, September 4, 1765, in West-
minster, where they lived until set off to the ad-
joining town of Gardner, thus changing their resi-
dence w-ithout moving from their house. The house
was lately occupied by his grandson, Horace Gates.
He is the ancestor of most of the Gates families in
Westminster, Gardner and vicinity. The children
of Simon and Susannah Gates : Nathan, born Feb-
ruary 23, 1767, at Stow, married Abigail Knowlton ;
Elizabeth, born September 14, 1769, at Gardner,
died September 13, 1778; Simon, born at Gardner,
November 7, 1774, died September 10, 1778; Anna,
born at Gardner, August 21. 1777, died September
17, 1778; Simon, Jr., born July 28, 1779, at Gard-
ner, see forward ; Daniel, born July 23, 1782, at
Gardner, died September 17, 1847 ; married May 27,
1805, Phebe Mossman ; Gerry, born 1784, died
young; Reuben, born April 21, 1786, at Gardner,
married Anna Mossman; Ezekiel, born October 31,
1789, at Gardner, died August 2, i8og, in twentieth
year ; Elizabeth, born January, 1794, never married.

(VI) Simon Gates, son of Simon Gates (5),
was born in Gardner, Massachusetts. Fie lived in
the old homestead in Gardner on Beech Hill. He
married Sarah Taylor, of Ashburnham, Massachu-
setts. Their children: Louisa, born ISlay 9, 1806;
Simon Hazeltine, November -4, 1807, married El-
vira Bancroft ; Horace, October 27, 1809, see for-
ward ; Dennis, February 20, 1812, married Lucy
Ware; ^lary, September 14, 1815, married Samuel
Flale; Dolly, born June 28, 1818, married Amos
Person Spaulding.

(VII) Horace Gates, son of Simon Gates (6),
was born at Gardner, Massachusetts, October 27,
1809, and was educated in the district schools of
that place. He early learned the trade of chair-
maker, when chairs were made by hand, and he
used to get out his own stock and put the chairs to-
gether. Most of his product he sold in Boston, in-
vesting his money there in groceries, which he dis-
posed of on his return. Fie had a shop on his farm
and his brothers worked with him. He was at one
time engaged in the fishing trade off Boston harbor.
Fie finally bought the interests of the other heirs
and became the owner of the homestead where his
father and grandfather had lived in Gardner, and
he was engaged in farming there until about 1885,
when his sons, in turn, took the farm and he retired
from active labor. Fie removed to Ashburnham and
resided with his son, Charles H. Gates, until his
death, November 18, 1899. Fie attended the Ortho-
dox Church, Gardner. In politics he was a Repub-
lican and served in the Gardner school committee
and as highway surveyor there. Fie served in the
militia when young. He married, June 6, 1852,
Mrs. Louisa (Fairbanks) Seaver, daughter of
Jarvis Fairbanks. Her father was a farmer. The
children of Florace and Louisa Gates : Charles
Hazeltine, born July 13, 1853; George Walter, Sep-
tember IS, 1854, married Mary Knight, resided in
Fitchburg, where he died December 27, 1894, leaving
no issue.

(VIII) Charles Hazeltine Gates, son of Horace
Gates (7), was born at Gardner, Massachusetts,
July 13, 1853. He was educated there in the com-
mon schools, going to school in old No. Six until
he was fifteen years old, working also on the farm.
He remained with his father on the homestead until
he was twenty-six years old, when he began to
work on the railroad as a section hand. TUen he
was teamster for John T. Woodbury for a time,
returning again for a year and a half to the rail-
road. Fie was subsequently employed as teamster
by E. Osgood & Sons, C. B. Kendall and others for
two years. He came to Ashburnham, Massachu-
setts, in 1884, and started in the coal business for
himself. After a year he sold his business to F.
W. Davis. He then engaged on his own account
in the grain and teaming business, carrying on this
with success for ten years. Then he bought his
present farm of one hundred and fifty acres. It is
in the eastern part of the township, bought of R.
N. Gowell, and was called the Ivers Adams place.
He successfully conducts this farm, ranking among
the most prosperous farmers of the town. Mr.
Gates built the house now occupied by E. D. Brig-
ham. He exchanged it for the farm known as the
Ohio Whitney place, where he lived five years be-
fore moving to his present farm. Mr. Gates has
also a fine residence on the South Ashburnham
road. He attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In politics he is a Republican and has served the
town of Ashburnham as superintendent of streets
in 1901-02. He is a member of Ashburnham
Grange, No. 202, Patrons of Husbandry. He was
a member of the Old Farmers' Club.

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He married, April 6, 1880, Elsie J. Merriam.
born December 16, 1858, daughter of Oliver N. and
Martha (Nichols) Merriam, of Westminster, Massa-
chusetts. Her father was a farmer and chair manu-
facturer. The children : Martha Louisa, born June
30, 1881, tnarried, September 20, 1900, flenry C.
Harrington, and they have two children — Bertrice
Emily, Nelson Oliver Harrington ; Oliver Horace,
born June 29, 1888, lives at home with parents ;
Anna Livona, born April 24, 1891.

GOULD FAMILY. The earliest mention of
the surname Gould in England is found in
1235 when Thomas Gould as a church of-
ficer of some kind signed a paper giving the
vicar of Hemel Hempstead the nomination of
the curates for Bovingdon and Flamden. A
Gould was rector of the church of Moult-
soe in Buckinghamshire, August 23, 1375, died 1409.
This place is about five miles north of Woburn and
twenty-three from Bovingdon. The family ap-
peared at an early date not only in Bucks but in
Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Oxford counties. The
ancestry of one of the American emigrants, Zaccheus
Gould, has been definitely traced to Thomas Gould,
of Bovingdon, about 1455. Doubtless the other
dozen or more emigrants of this name might also
be located in England with patient research.

(I) Thomas Gould, the immigrant ancestor of
most of the Gould families of Sutton and southern
towns of Worcester county, was born in 1639 in
England. There were several other emigrants of
the same name and the difficulties of tracing their
descendants are very great. Very little is known of
Thomas. He resided at Salem Village, now Dan-
vers. Thomas had one brother, Adam Gould, who
was a soldier in King Philip's war in Captain Jo-
seph Gardner's company. He married. September
28. 1687, Rebecca Cooper; (second Hannah Knight,
daughter of Joseph Knight, of Woburn, children —
Rebecca, born August 25, 1678, married Ezekiel
Marsh, who came to Worcester county; John, born
January 31. 1679-80, a blacksmith; Dorcas, born
September 8, 1683, at Groton, married, June i, 1711,
Anthony Buxton. Child of Adam and Hannah :
Thomas, died young. Thomas was appointed ad-
ministrator of the estate of his brother in 16S9, but
he himself died soon afterward. His widow Eliza-
beth was appointed administratrix June 24, 1690,
and Joseph, son of Thomas, succeeded his father as
ministrator of the estate of his brother in 1689, but
The children of Thomas and Elizabeth Gould were:
Joseph, born January 15, 1662-63, married, 1685,
Bethiah Raye ; Thomas, born September 16, 1604,
died February i, 1667-68; James, born February 8,

1666-67, married Deborah — , (second) Sarah

-; Thomas, Jr., see forward; Benjamin, born

August 26, 1669, was a witness April 11, 1692, m
one of the famous witchcraft trials ; Samuel, born
February 6, 1670-71, married Elizabeth Thorndike ;
Mary, born May 7, 1694, died 1746, married John
Hutchinson.

(II) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (i),
vk'as born at Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1667-68.
He married Abigail Needham, daughter of Anthony
and Ann (Porter) Needham. Their children, all
torn at Salem Village, were : Abigail, born August
3, 1692 ; Thomas, born June 23, 1694. see forward ;
Rachel, born April 11, 1716, married George Need-
ham; George, born 1706, married, 1732, ]\lary GiUs;
removed to Lyndcborough, where he died April 29,
1783 ; father of Lieutenant Jonathan Gould, who
settled in New Braintree ; "fourth deacon of the
church, elected before 1775 ; housewright by trade :
died at New Braintree, October 29, i8og, aged

seventy-tive years; ancestor of most of the New
Braintree families. Nehemiah, born October 15,.
1715, married, 1737, Esther Bowers; died 1758.
Provided, married, June 8, 1721, Joseph Marsh,,
of Salem and Killingly. Connecticut.

(HI) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (2),.
was born in Salem Village, Massachusetts, June

2S, 1694. He married (first) Margaret ,.

(second) Lydia Webber, of Salem, April 7, 1743,
at Salem. The children of Thomas and lilargaret
Gould: Thomas, born about 1720, see forward;
Nehemiah, married, July 11, 1758. Mary Phipps ;
Abigail, Margaret, married, November 7, 1743,.
Ebenezer Dunton, of Salem.

(IV) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (3),.
was born in Salem Village or Danvers, Massachu-
setts, about 1720. He married at Alarblehead, No-
vember 2J, 1750. Their children : Margaret, bap-
tized August 25, 1751 ; Sarah, baptized July 15,
1753; Thomas, baptized November 23. 1755, see
forward; Benjamin, baptized November 26, 1758;
Abigail, baptized October 31, 1762, perhaps mar-
ried Levi Fay, of Sturbridge. December 22. 1785.
The foregoing were baptized, but probably not born
in Marblehead. Other members of this Gould
family lived at Salem and Marblehead.

(V) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (4),
was baptized at Marblehead, November 2^, 1755.
A record of his birth on the town records of Charl-
ton is November 24, 1755, obtained perhaps by sub-
tracting his supposed age at death. Possibly the
baptism was on the twenty-fifth. He was a soldier
in the revolution, a private in Captain Abel Mason's,
company, Colonel Jonathan Holm's regiment, in
1776 and 1777, in Rhode Island; also in the same
company in Colonel Job Cushing's regiment to re-
inforce the northern army in 1777. Jonathan Gould,
possibly an uncle, sold to Thomas Gould land in
Sturbridge, April 13, 1780. This farm was bounded
by Captain White's land, Joshua Witt's and Captain
Parker's. This Jonathan Gould, of Sturbridge, died
there March 9, 1S12, aged eighty-seven years, mak-
ing his birth year 1725; his w'ife Mary died June
13, 1803. aged seventy-five, making her birth year
1728. Thomas was in Sturbridge in 1780. He re-
moved from there to Ashford. Connecticut, about
1788, and settled finally in Charlton. Massachusetts,
about 1791. He married. May 23, 17S2, Hannah
Williams, of Pomfret, Connecticut. Their inten-
tions of marriage w'ere recorded February 10, 1782,
at Sturbridge, where he lived, and the marriage is
also recorded at Charlton, though the marriage was
more likely at Pomfret. The births of all their
children are recorded at Charlton, although several
were born in Sturbridge, as indicated, and one at
Ashford. The children: Willard. born at Stur-
bridge. March 3, 1783, married, 1805, Sirene Bond,
of Holland; John, born February 7, 1785. at Stur-
bridge; Lyman, born September 19, 1787, at Stur-
bridge, married, May 26, 1818. Polly Jilarble ; Betsey,
born at Ashford. Connecticut, March 12, 1790, mar-
ried, March 20, 1814, Abijah Lamb, Jr. ; Rufus, born
September 3, 1792, see forward; Lius (Elias?), born
November 6, 1794, at Charlton; Maria, born March
5, 1799, at Sturbridge; Horace, born June 28, 1801,.
at Charlton.

(\1) Rufus Gould, son of Thomas Gould (5),
was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, September 3,.
1792. He married. April 8. 1824. at Oakham. Massa-
chusetts. Mary Henry. They resided in Oakham,
Rutland and New Braintree. Massachusetts. She
was born in Rutland and baptized there June 14,
1801, daughter of Samuel and Polly (Gates).
Henry, married October 28, 1795, at Rutland. Her
father, Samuel Henry, was born in Rutland, No-

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•vember 15, 1765, son of David and llannali ( Wat-
:Son) Henry, married 1761 in Leicester. David
Henry was of Scotch-Irish stock. Some of his
iamily resided in Leicester, where Rohert Henry,
perhaps his father, married, 1731, Charity Tonison.
Children of Rufus and JMary (.Henry) Gonld :
Cliarles Rufus, born December 2'j, 18J4, died 1827 ;
Rev. George Henry, see forward ; Mary Ann, born
iS'ovember 7. 1829, at Oakham; Wilham Rufus, born
April 20, l8j2, see forward; Louisa Jane, born Feb-
ruary 7, i8j5, at New Braintree, died in New Brain-
iree, November 25, 1843, buried in Oakham ; Charles
Pranklin, born October 31, 1837, in Oakham; Dr.
John VV'., dentist in Worcester, resides at 21 May-
wood street, see forward ; Rev. Edwin S., borfi
Pebruary 2. 1844, 3' New Braintree, see forward.

i^VH) Rev. George H. Gould, D. D., son of
Rufus Gould (.6), was born in Oakham, !Massaclui-
setts, February 20, 1827. He attended the public
schools and Monson Academy, where he was fitted
ior college. He was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at Amherst in 1850, after which
lie studied theology for a year at Andover under
Professor Park. He was graduated from Union
Theological Seminary in 1853. His health being im-
paired by close application to his books at a time
antedating modern college gymnastics and physical
culture, he went west to recuperate and was there
«ngaged six months in civil engineering. During
Iwo winter seasons he lectured before various
iyceums and preached temporarily in a number of
larger western cities, including ^lilwaukee, Detroit,
Dubuque, and Chicago. While yet a student, iNlr.
Could was invited to become a colleague of the Rev.
Albert Barnes, of Philadalphia, and on his return
from the west he received a call from the Bowdoin
Street Church, Boston, which waited for him a year
lefore selecting another pastor. His health being
but little benetited by his stay in the west, he ac-
cepted an opportunity in 1857 to go abroad with
John B. Gough, the celebrated temperance orator,
with w'hom he spent a year in London, six months
in Paris, four months in Edinburgh, two months in
Rome and traveled two summers in Switzerland.
!n 1862 Mr. Gould became pastor of the Olivet
•Congregational Church of Springfield, !Massachu-
setts, and during the two years that he was con-
nected with that society declined urgent calls from
Troy, New York ; Norwich, and Hartford, Con-
necticut. In December, 1864, he was settled over
the old Centre Church in Hartford with the under-
standing that on account of ill health he should
preach but once each Sunday. He remained there
six years and afterward supplied the Central Church
at Providence fifteen months ; the Walnut Avenue
Church in Boston six months, being subsequently
<:onnected with various churches in Boston and
suburban towns for longer or shorter periods. In
1872, at the formation of the Piedmont Church in
Worcester, Mr. Gould became active pastor, a po-
sition he retained five years. While thus engaged
he was called to the pastorate of Amherst College,
his alma mater, being invited to take the chair of
biblical literature in conjunction with college
preaching. He also received a call to take charge
-of the Third Congregational Church in New Haven.
In 1878 he began supplying the pulpit of Union
Church, Worcester, where he continued two years
and a half. Then he supplied various pulpits in the
■city and vicinity, as his health would permit, and
though not able to assume the responsibility of a
settled pastorate, was an acknowledged force in the
pulpit almost to the end of his life. In 1870 Am-
herst College bestowed on him the degree of Doctor
■of Divinitv.

Mr. Gould married, October 15, 1862, Ellen M.
Grout, daughter of Jonathan Grout, of Worcester,
a descendant in the sixth generation from John
Grout, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. Jonathan Grout,
Sr., grandfather of Mrs. Gould; carried on a suc-
cessful business as book-binder in Alillbury for
many years. He possessed literary talents of a
high order and was a leader in religious circles.
His wife Sally was from Lyme, Connecticut. Jon-
athan Grout, Jr., was born in Millbury, Massachu-
setts, September 14, 1815, and there learned the
book-binder's trade of his father. He married, Au-
gust II, 1836, Mary J. Smith, and five years later
came to Worcester to reside, establishing himself
as a manufacturer and bookseller in the building
now occupied by Wesby book-bindery and bis suc-
cessors there, Putnam, Davis & Co., who carried
on a successful business for many years. The pres-
ent firm is Davis & Banister (D. A. Davis and C.
H. Banister). Jonathan Grout's residence on Main
street, nearly opposite Jackson street, is one of the
landmarks of the city and is a fine specimen of
Corinthian architecture. His only son, John Will-
iam Grout, more familiarly known as Willie Grout,
was born July 25, 1843, and was educated at the
Highland Alilitary School in Worcester. On the
breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted in the
Fifteenth Volunteer Infantry, and was at once made
second lieutenant of Company D, one of the youngest
officers in the army. After a sort time in camp
his regiment was sent to Maryland, and October 21,
1861, was assigned to the troops placed under com-
mand of Colonel Devens in the battle of Leesburg.
L'nder the sharp fire that ensued, the young lieuten-
ant exhibited an heroic bravery and coolness that
surprised officers and men and encouraged them to
still further effort. After the retreat was sounded,
while gallantly leading his men from the field, he
was fatally wounded by a rebel bullet. A bio-
graphical sketch of Willie Grout and a copy of that
familiar poem. The Vacant Chair, written by one
who had known him from youth, Henry S. Wash-
burn, and set to music by the late George F. Root,
are to be found in the New England Magazine for
April, 1897. The Worcester Camp of the Sons of
Veterans was named for Willie Grout. Dr. Gould
died May 8, 1899. His widow married, 1899, Rev.
William Spooner Smith, of Auburndale.

Doctor George Leon Walker, of Hartford, writ-
ing to the Congrcgationalist some years ago, called
Dr. Gould: "the very eloquent minister of Pied-
mont Church at Worcester, who certainly has no
superior in New England. John B. Gough, the
temperance orator, who when at home was a par-
ishioner for five years at Piedmont while Dr. Gould
was pastor says of him in his autobiography : 'In
1856 I first met Reverend George H. Gould, D. D.,
and was fascinated by his preaching. He is emo-
tional with no sensationalism. He speaks with an
earnestness that convinces you he believes all he
utters, with deep pathos revealing the tenderness of
his own nature, an eloquence perfectly natural, a
face radiant at times when he utters some lofty
thought. He has no monotonous repetitions ; there
is nothing stale or conventional in his preaching.
He reaches the intellect and the heart, and were it
not for his health he w'ould have been one of the
widely-known popular preachers of the day.' "

(VII) William Rufus Gould, son of Rufus
Gould (6), was born at New Braintree, Massachu-
setts, April 20, 1832, and he resided there until he
was twelve years old, when his parents removed to
Oakham, Massachusetts. He received his education
in the public schools and when not in school worked
with his father on the farm. About 1854 he started

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for California, when the gold mines were attracting
venturesome and ambitious men from all parts of
the country. He located in the northern part of the
state and was successful in making money. He re-
moved to San Francisco and there engaged in busi-
ness. After six years and a half in the west he re-
turned to Massachusetts for a visit and decided to
stay in the east. In i860 he settled in Westborough
and established a retail boot and shoe business.
Soon afterward he purchased the dry goods store
of Mr. Penniman and formed a partnership with
Henry Chamberlain, of Southborough. Later he
engaged in the hardware business. During all the
years he was in the mercantile business he had been
seeking a good opportunity to go into manufactur-
ing, for which he was naturally adapted by me-
chanical and executive ability. In April, 1S79, he
entered partnership with George B. and John L.
Brigham under the name of Brigham, Gould &
Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, at
" Westborough. In 1S82 this firm was dissolved. In
November, 1883, he formed a new firm, in partner-
ship with Melvin H. Walker, under the firm name
of Gould & Walker. This firm was located in the
Brigham factory on Cottage street until February,
1887, when it was removed to the present quarters
in the building at the corner of Milk and Phillips
streets. At the time of Mr. Gould's withdrawal,
which was caused by ill health, December, 1889,
the business of the firm had grown from the modest
beginning in 1879, to employ some three hundred
hands producing 35,000 cases a yearj valued at
five hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Gould's place
in the firm was taken by M. V. Dunning and the
firm has prospered since and has proved one of the
substantial industries of the town. In 1887 Mr.
Gould erected the business structure in the village
known as Gould's Block. Mr. Gould died March
26, 1890.

Mr. Gould was an active and influential citizen
in town affairs. He was selectman of the town in
1887-88, one of the water commissioners of the town,
overseer of the poor, a director of the First Na-
tional Bank and trustee of the Westborough Savings
Bank. He was a generous supporter of the church
which he attended, and in his will left a liberal be-
quest to the Young Men's Christian Association
of the town. He used his wealth wisely and gen-
erously. He was leader in every good movement in
the town, and commanded the confidence as well as
the respect and esteem of all his townsmen. His
position as the largest taxpayer of the town made
him the leader in many ways, and he took advantage
of this oportunity to do his full duty as a citizen
and set a useful and valuable example. From the
tax list published in the history of Westborough for
1890 we quote the names of the three largest tax-
payers: J. A. Fayerweather, $595.50; Gould &
Walker, $518.10; estate of W. R. Gould, $482.86.
Mr. Gould married, 1866, Sarah Fayerweather,
daughter of John A. Fayerweather, and grand-
daughter of Major John Fayerweather. Major
Fayerweather came of an old Massachusetts Bay
family, the emigrant ancestor of which, Thomas, was
a proprietor of Boston in the early days, died there
in 1638, leaving a son Benjamin, daughter Mary
and other children. John Fayerweather settled in
Westborough and married there, October 28, 1805,
Sally Wheelock, daughter of Colonel Moses
Wheelock, prominent in the revolution. Fle died
February 24, 1826. Children of Major John and
Sally (^Wheelock) Fayerweather: Thomas Hub-
bard, born May 16, 1806, married, April 10, 1827,
Elmina A. Parker; John Appleton, born March 12,
1808, see forward; Sarah Hubbard, born January 7,

1810, married Charles Parkman Jones, born Marcb
or May 8, 1833 ; George J.

John Appleton Fayerweather, son of Major John
Fayerweather, was born March 12, 1808. He grad-
uated at Brown University, after which he worked
for a few years on his father's farm. In 1833 he
began his mercantile career as proprietor of the
general store located in the house now owned by
Elijah Burnap on West Main street. A year later
he occupied the house and has a store on the present
site of the Unitarian Church. In 1836 he bought
the old Parkman store and with various changes in
his fifra carried on the business until 1858. Then
for five years he was engaged in the wholesale
grocery business in Boston. Retiring from this
business, he became interested largely in the insur-
ance business and was president of the Worcester
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He held many
positions of trust and honor. He was a member of
the Westborough Agricultural Society from 1839
and was president of the Worcester County Agri-
cultural Society. He was prominent in political
life, an active and honored member of the Repub-
lican party. He was overseer of the poor, town
treasurer, selectman for many years and representa-
tive of his district in the general court. He was
president of the Westborough National Bank from
the time of its incorporation in 1861 until he died.
He was appointed by the governor of the state
trustee of the Westborough Reform School and
served from 1856 to 1859. In the management of
various important local enterprises, Mr. Fayer-
weather took an influential and helpful part. He
was for many years one of the largest taxpayers
and foremost citizens.

He married, December 27, 1831. Sarah Augusta
Tyler, daughter of Dr. John E. Tyler, of Boston.
She died April 15, 1875. They had two children:
One died in infancy, and Sarah Wheelock, born
May 29, 1835, married William R. Gould, mentioned
above. Mrs. Gould resides in the family homestead
at Westborough.

EX-CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM W. RICE.
Among the several genealogical lines of the Rice
family, as descended from the immigrant, Edmund
Rice, is the one to which Hon. William Whitney
Rice, of Worcester, belongs, and is as follows :

(I) Edmund Rice, bora about 1594, in England,
settled at Sudbury. Massachusetts 1639, married
and died at Marlboro, Massachusetts; the date of
his death was March 3, 1663. He was the father
of eleven children, including Edward.

(II) Edward Rice, son of Edmund Rice (i),
was born 1619. It is believed he was twice married —
first to Agnes Bent, who died childless. The second

wife was Anna , who died in 1713, aged

eighty-three years. The children of Edward and
Anna — eleven in all — included one named Benjamin.

(III) Benjamin Rice, son of Edward (2) and
Anna Rice, born December 22. 1666, married Mary
Graves, of Sudbury. Massachusetts, April i. 1691.
They lived at Marlboro, where she died, October

22, 1736, aged sixty-six years. He died February

23. 1748, aged eighty-three years. They had nine
children, of whom Azariah was the eldest.

(IV) Azariah Rice, son of Benjamin (3) and
Mary (Graves) Rice, was born August 13, 1693.

Married Hannah . and lived_ at Brookfield,

Massachusetts, where the wife died in 1754, and he
of a cancer in 1779. aged eighty-six years. They
had nine children, of whom Benjamin was the sec-
ond child.

CV) Benjamin Rice, son of Azariah (4) and
Hannah Rice, born February I, 1722-23, married

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Sarah Upham. of Malilcn, June ,?o, 1744. They lived
at Brookfield. where he was a selectman and a rep-
resentative. He died Fehruary i<S, 1796, aged seven-
ty-three years. His w-idaw died March, 1804, aged
eighty-three years. They had six children, of whom
Caleb was the third.

(VI) Caleb Rice, son of Benjamin (5) and
Sarah (.Upham) Rice, born September 2, 1754. mar-
ried Sally Abbott, and moved to Sturbridge. and
in 1806 to Pompey, New York, where he died of
fever. November 4, 1809, and his wife and three
children later.

(VH) ReV. Benjamin Rice, son of Caleb (6)
and Sally (Abbott)' Rice, was born May 9, 1784-
He graduated at Brown University in 1808, studied
theology at Andover College and settled as a min-
ister m Skaneateles, New York, then at Deerfield.
Massachusetts, and later at New Gloucester and
Buxton, Maine. He finally located at Winchendon.
where he died .Tuly II, 1847. aged sixty-four years.
He married Elizabeth Bennett, of Sharon, Connec-
ticut. She died February, 1818. For his second
wife he married Almina, daughter of John Whipple.
of Charlton. His third wife wae Lucy, daughter of
Phineas Whitney, of Winchendon. His children
were all by his last marriage and included one named
William Whitney Rice, who became a United States
congressman and whose sketch is subjoined.

William Whitney Rice, of Worcester, Massachu-
setts, distinguished as a lawyer and statesman, and
whose useful public career extended ever a period
of nearly one-third a century, was of English an-
cestry, and his lineage was well worthy the reverence
in which he held it. The families front which he
sprang were honored in the land of their birth, and
their descendants in America crowned their names
with additional honon They were men and women
of brawn and brain and conscience, their hearts
fervent in reverence for God and love ft)r religious
and political liberty. They were among the best
of those who made the New England character, and
left an impression for all time upon those who were
to follow them.

Mr. Rice was born in Deerfield, Massachuselts,
March 7. 1826, and died in Worcester, March 1,
1896. His parents w-ere the Rev. Benjamin and
Lucy (Whitney) Rice. In the paternal line he w-as
seventh from descent from Edmund Rice, and in
the maternal line he was eighth in descent from
John Whitney, both natives of England, who emi-
grated to America respectively in 16.^8 or 1639 and
in 1635. Edward Rice came from Berkhampstead,
in Hertfordshire, and first settled in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, and he was a selectman there in
1644 and deacon in the church in 1648. He subse-
quently removed to Marlboro, wdiere he died May
3. 1663. The old homestead in Sudbury yet re-
mains in the possession of some of his descendants,
and has been for many years the scene of a family
reunion. Edward, second son of Edmund, was born
in England about 1619, and died in Marlboro, Massa-
chusetts, August IS, 1712. His wife was .-\gnes
Bent and he was married a second time. Edward
Rice was uncle of Jonas and Gershom Rice, who
were sons of Thomas, third son of Edmund, the
emigrant. Jonas was the first permanent settler in
Worcester, where he died September 22, 1753, aged
eighty-one years. He was the most important man
ot the infant settlement. He was school teacher,
deacon of the church, major of militia, and judge
of the local courts. Captain Benjamin Rice, great-
grandson of Edward Rice, was of the party of
"Mohawks" who threw the tea into the Boston
Harbor, was a town correspondent of the committee
of safety, and served in the legislature in 1776-77

and in 1783-84. He married Sarah Upham, a de-
scendant of Lieutenant Phineas' Upham, who is
written of elsewhere in this work. Caleb, son of
Captain Benjamin, married Sarah Abbott, and they
became the parents of Benjamin Rice.

Benjamin Rice was born in Sturbridge, May 9,
1784, and died July 12, 1847. He was a graduate
of Brown University, studied Divinity at Andover,
entered the Congregational ministry, was settled in
turn at Skaneateles, New York ; South Deerfield,
INIassachnsetts ; New Gloucester and Buxton, Maine,
and during the later years of his life was- pastor
at Winchendon, Massachusetts. He was an ex-
cellent man and an acceptable minister. He mar-
ried Lucy Whitney (see Whitney genealogy in
pages following), second daughter of Phinehas
Whitney. She was born June 4, 1799, and long sur-
vived her husband, dying July iS, 1893. in the
ninety-fifth year of her age. She was tall, of great
mental and physical strength, and she was a real
aid to her husband in his various pastorates. She
was the mother of three children: i. William Whit-
ney Rice, to be written of at length hereafter. 2.
Lucy Ann, born in Deerfield, September 26. 1827,
who married the Rev. Milan Hubbard Hitchcock.
Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock were missionaries in Cey-
lon and Constantinople, and returned home in order
to care for Mrs. Hitchcock's mother in her ex-
treme old age. 3. Charles Jenkins Rice, born in
New Gloucester, Maine, July 2, 1832. He always
lived in Winchendon, on the place owned by his
mother, a part of the old Phinehas Whitney property.
He was offered a collegiate education, but preferred
a business career, and engaged in manufacturing
and dealing in lumber. He possessed many of the
traits of his grandfather, Phinehas Whitney. He
was influential in the community, and was for many
years moderator of the town meeting, and was twice
elected to the legislature as Republican. He was
a leading man in the church, and was ever ready
to lend his aid to the sick and distressed. ^ He died
May 3, 1892. He married Sarah M. Cummings, who
was born in Winchendon, June 5, 1842. No chil-
dren w-ere born of this marriage.

William Whitney Rice, eldest son of the Rev.
Benjamin and Lucy (Whitney) Rice, received his
early education in his native village and in Buxton,
Maine, and when thirteen years old entered the
.^cadetnv at Gorham. in the same state. Prior to
this he had contracted excellent habits of study and
reading wdiile under the private tutorship of Horatio
Woodman, and he left the academy as its most cap-
able speaker and writer and its best general scholar.
The same high abilities were further developed dur-
ing his course in Bowdoin College, from which he
graduated in 1846. when twenty years old, and this
fact was glowingly dwelt upon by the Rev. Egbert
C. Smith. D. D.. of Andover, in a tribute wdiich he
paid to the memory of Mr. Rice before the American
Antiquarian Society, subsequent to his death.

While a college student, Mr. Rice taught school
in his vacations, and after his graduation was a
teacher in Maine, but a hionth's confinement to the
school room found him with impaired health, and
he was obliged to return home, where he lay ill for
a year, and his father died before he had recovered.
In the autumn of 1847 he resumed teaching, and
remained in Leicester Academy for four years. He
was a most capable teacher, and many of his pupils
who came to stations of eminence and usefulness,
attributed much of the credit to him. Among his
pupils was the lady who afterwards became his wife.
In 1S51 he beean the study of law. imder the pre-
ceptor.ship of Emory Washburn and George F. Hoar,
and three years later was admitted to the bar and

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entered upon a practice which soon became exten-
sive and profitable. During his professional career
he was associated in partnership first with Hon.
Thomas L. Nelson, subsequently judge of the United
States district court, later with Hon. Francis T.
Blackmer, and last with Henry W. King, and with
his son, Charles Moen Rice, which partnership con-
tinued until the death of the father.

Mr. Rice entered upon public life at an un-
usually early age. While yet a law student he was
elected a member of the school committee ; he was
secretary for several years, and he remained a
member of the body until he was elected, in 1859,
to the mayoralty, the youngest man who had, up to
that time, been called to that position, and his ad-
ministration has been characterized as one of the
most sagacious in the history of the city. An im-
portant accomplishment during his administration
was the establishment of the Free Public Library
upon an adequate scale, which was largely due to
his intellect afid persistent efifort. In 1S55 lie was
appointed special justice of the police court, and in
1858 was appointed judge of the court of insol-
vency, a position which he held until its duties were
united with those of the judge of probate. In
t868 he was elected district attorney, and he dis-
charged the duties of the office with great ability
until 187,^, when he resigned. In 1876. after Hon.
George F. Hoar was chosen United States senator,
having served eight years as representative in con-
gress, Mr. Rice was elected representative as his
successor, and he was successively re-elected until
March 4, 1887. In congress he exerted a strong in-
fluence and he took a prominent part in the enact-
ment of much salutary legislation. He served as a
member of the committees on foreign aflfairs and
Indian affairs, and of the select committee to pro-
vide additional accommodations for the congres-
sional library. The most important bill of his in-
troduction was that to terminate the provisions of
the treaty of.i87i with Great Britain relative to
the fisheries, which carried out a purpose that had
been ineffectually attempted for a quarter of a cen-
tury, and his report upon which his bill was founded
was a most exhaustive treatise. His reports on the
brig "General Armstrong" and on the St. Johns
and St. Francis river bridges were also of enduring
value. His report upon the Congressional Library
Building was so complete that nothing could be
added to it. His report from the committee on
Indian affairs contained detailed accounts of the
traditions of the Sioux and Dakota Indians which
will ever be an authority upon tliat subject. The
e.xhaustive report upon the Chili- Peru imbroglio
made by the committee on foreign affairs was al-
most altogether his work, allhougli it is not directly
credited to him. His principal speeches, all of
which were highly meritorious, were those on "The
Death of General Burnside," "The Approbation of
Cherokee Indians," "Chinese Immigration," "The
Congressional Lilirary." the international fisheries
question, the bill to protect innocent purchasers of
patented articles, the liill granting the right of way
through the Indian Territory to the St. Louis &
San Francisco Railroad, and on the transfer of the
war department records to the state department
building.

Mr. Rice cast his first presidential vote for Mar-
tin Van Buren. He early allied himself with the
free soil movement, and became a powerful ex-
ponent of what became Republicanism. In 1854 he
was elected an active member of the Kansas Emi-
gration League, and in 1855 was an ardent sup-
porter of Henry Wilson for a seat in the United
States senate. From 1856, when he aided in the

organization of the Republican party, he was an un-
compromising advocate of its principles.

The close of Mr. Rice's last congressional term
marked his retirement from public life. He re-
sumed the practice of his profession, and gave his
effort unstintingly to the promotion of community
interests. Until his death he was a director in the
City National Bank and its solicitor. He was a
member of the American Antiquarian Society, a
trustee of Leicester Academy, of the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and of Clark University, and
an overseer of Bowdoin College, from which, in
1886. he received the degree of doctor 'of laws. He
was a Unitarian in religion, and a member of the
church committee.

In 1892, with his wife and Senator and Mrs.
Hoar, he visited Europe, spending the greater part
of his time in England. His health was already im-
paired, and the benefit derived from his journey
was but temporary. On his return he soon relin-
quished the greater part of his professional work,
and passed each summer upon the maternal farm in
Winchendon. He died lacking but six days of at-
taining the allotted three score years and ten. His
death was deeply deplored throughout the com-
munity, and many tributes were paid to his memory.
An "In Memoriam" volume, printed shortly after-
ward, contained a biographical sketch written by
Hon. Rockwood Hoar, and a narrative of the Whit-
ney family from the pen of Mr. Rice based in part
upon his investigation into the family historyin Eng-
land.

Mr. Rice married, November 21, 1855, Cornelia
A. Moen. of Stamford, Connecticut, who had been
his pupil while he was a teacher, and who was a
sister of Mr. Philip L. Moen. She died June 16,
1862. Two children were born of this union:
William Whitney. Jr., who died in early childhood,
and Charles Moen Rice. The last named was born
November 6, i860. He was fitted for college at
Exeter Academy, and graduated from Harvard Uni-
versity in 1882. He studied law in the Harvard
Law School and under his father. He was admitted
to the bar in February, 1886, and is now a member
of the firm of Rice. King & Rice. He married,
November 25, igo.^. Winneola M. Emory, daughter
of Parker A. and Elizabeth Alice Emory, of Wor-
cester, Massachusetts. Hon. William Whitney Rice
married for his second wife Alice Miller, Septem-
ber 28. 1875. She was born in Worcester, July 22.
1840, a daughter of Henry W. Miller, of Worcester,
and a sister of the late wife of Senator George F.
Hoar. Mrs. Rice is now deceased.

ALDRICH FAMILY. George Aldrich (i), was
the immigrant ancestor of the Aldrich family of
Mendon and L'xbridge. He is the progenitor of
Ralph Edward Aldrich, of Douglas. Massachusetts.
The name was spelled Aldridge and Oldridge in
the early records, and some branches of the family
still perfer the spelling Aldridge, but the famous
Rhode Island family and the descendants in Wor-
cester county, Massachusetts, have for many gene-
rations adopted the spelling Aldrich. George ."Md-
rich was born in Derbyshire. England, about 1605.
He was a tailor by trade. He sailed for America,
November 6, 16.U. He married in England, Sep-
tember 3, 1620, Catherine Seald. She was born in
1610, according to her deposition made June iS,
1670, when she gave her age as sixty years. Aid-
rich was admitted a freeman December 7. 1636. He
settled first in Dorchester. Massachusetts, and he,
with his wife Catherine, was member of the Dor-
chester Church in 1636. He lived in Braintree from
about 1640 to 1663, when he settled in Mendon, one

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of the first seven settlers. He sold liis place at
Braintree to Richard Thayer. June 9. 1663. He died
at Mendon, March i. 1682. His wife died there
January 11, 1691. His will was dated at Mendon,
November 2, 1682, and was proved April 26, 1683.
He bequeathed to his wife and to children: Jo-
seph. John, Jacob. Mary Bartlelt, Mercy Randall
and Martha Dunbar.

Children of George and Catherine ( Scald) Aid-
rich were : Abel ; Joseph, ancestor of Senator Aid-
rich and the Rhode Island family, married Patience
Osborne; he was born June 4, 1635: Mary; Miriam,
buried at Braintree, January 27, 1640; Experience,
died at Braintree. February 2, 1642. 'I'hc following
■children were born at Braintree: John, April 2,

1644; Sarah, January 16. 1646, married Bart-

lett; Peter, April ,14, 1648; Mercy, June 17. 1650,

married Randall; Miriam, March 16, 1652;

Jacob. February 28, 1653, of whom later; Mat-
tithiah (as the old clerk chose to spell Martha),
July 10, 1656, married Dunbar.

(II) Jacob Aldrich, son of George Aldrich (i),
was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. February 28,
1652, and died at Mendon. where he settled and
lived all his active life. The date of his death is
October 22, 1695. He was a farmer at Mendon on
the old homestead. He married. November 3. 1675,
Huldah Thayer. (See sketch of the Thayer family.
All the Worcester county .Thayers. or nearly all of
them were descendants of Ferdinando Thayer, of
Mendon.) Children of Jacob and Huldah Thayer,
all born at Mendon, were : Jacob, .\bel, Seth, of
whom later; Huldah. Rachel, Sarah, David, Peter,
John. Moses. Mercv, Rachel.

(III) Seth Aldrich, son of Jacob Aldrich (2).
was born in Mendon. Massachusetts, about 1680. and
died there in 1737. He married Deborah Hayward.
His second wife Mary is mentioned in his will. The
estate was settled by agreement signed in 1737 by
the heirs, twelve of the fifteen children being rep-
resented, five being minors. The mother. Mary, was
guardian for the youngest two. Edward .Aldrich for
the other three minor children. The children were:
Abel. William. Seth. Jacob, of whom later; Sarah,
married Isaac Richardson ; Susanna, married John
Wiley ; Edward, Jonathan, Abigail. Deborah, Sam-
uel. Elizabeth.

(IV) Jacob Aldrich, son of Seth Aldrich (3).
was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1710
and died there 1776-77. He was a Quaker and many
of his family and descendants have belonged to the
Society of Friends. His will dated October ir, 1775,
at Mendon. was allowed April 9, 1777. The sub-
scribing witnesses, Samuel Fletcher and David Far-
num, were Quakers, as stated on the probate rec-
ords, and they affirmed instead of swearing to the
will. The homestead was left to Nehcmiah and
Asahel Aldrich, his sons. Twelve children arc men-
tioned in the will. He married Joanna Bartlett.
Their children were: William. Daniel. Seth. of
whom later: Aaron, Jacob. Jr.. Nehemiah. .Asahel.
Mary, married Bennett ; .Abigail, married

Jenne; Joanna, married Twitchell :

Ruth, married

Martin ; Rachel.

(V) Seth Aldrich, son of Jacob Aldrich (4).
was born in Uxbridge. formerlv Mendon. Massa-
chusetts. 1738. He married Mary Aldrich. who
was born July i, 1745. the daughter of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Prentice) Aldrich. He died in 181S and
all his children named below were mentioned ex-
cepting Joseph. The children of Seth and Mary
Aldrich were all born at Uxbridge. viz : Joseph,
August 2, 1764. died March 21. 1766: Noah, October
4, 1766. died May 13, 1812; Ephraim. October 11.
1769, died August 24, 1826; Joel, July 14, 1772. died

December 25,-1838; Elizabeth, July 12, 1775, died

February 14, 1829; married Gaskill ; Mary,

February 23, 1781 ; Joseph, May 13, 1784. died July
24, 1785; Rachel, September 28. 17S8. died February

17, 1843; married Fletcher; Jacob, August

24, 1792, of whom later.

(VI) Jacob Aldrich, son of Seth Aldrich (5),
was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, August 24,
1792, and settled in that town. He also was
a farmer. He married three times (first)
Mary Blanchard, who died June 18, 1816. He
married (second) Mehitable Daniels, who died
February 4, 1833, and (third) Hannah Under-
wood. The child of Jacob and Mary Aldrich was :
Valentine M., born April 2. 1815, of whom later.
Children of Jacob and Mehitable Aldrich were :
Sarah D.. born at Uxbridge, November 8, 1819, died
September 13. 1901 ; Gilbert, born April 20, 1821,
died December 13, 1889; Edwin A., born December
6, 1823, died October 18, 1888; Mary Jane, born Feb-
ruary 12, 1826. died March 20, 1906; Leander H,,
born July I, 1828; Allen P.. born October 24. 1830.

(VII) Valentine ]\I. Aldrich. son of Jacob Aid-
rich (6), was born in U.xbridge. Massachusetts,
April 2, 1815. He was educated in the public schools
of his native town and at the Friends school in
Providence, Rhode Island. He worked at home
on the farm in summer and taught school in winter
for several years. He had schools in U.xbridge and
Burrillville, Rhode Island. He worked with his
father, also, making brick. He spent his active years
mainly farming and brick-making. He was a noble
figure in town affairs, and was elected to many
positions of public honor and trust. He was a mem-
ber of the school committee and of the board of
selectmen. He was a very active and consistent
member of the Congregational Church, and very
pious and religious. He was naturally generous and
charitable and won the affection and esteem of all
his townsmen during his long and honorable life
in his native town. He was a Republican in poli-
tics, after that party was organized. He died at
Uxbridge, June 29, 1894.

He married, July 3. 1844. Abigail Williams,
daughter of Stephen Williams. Their children, all
born at Uxbridge. were: i. Eleanor Williams, born
July 27, 1845. is a graduate of Mount Holyoke Col-
lege. 1865 ; taught school in U.xbridge about eigh-
teen monthts. then went to Northbridge to teach ;
she retired at the end of the spring terin May i.
1906, after over forty years of teaching in the public
schools — an almost unparalleled record ; she is
loved, honored and respected by three generations
of children, men and women ; she is living with her
nephew Ralph on the old Aldrich homestead, Ux-
bridge. 2. Abbie Elizabeth, born March 18, 1848,
in Uxbridge. died December 29. 1848. 3. Bayliss
W.. born December 5. 1849. of whom later. Valen-
tine M. Aldrich married (second) Betsey Williams,
daughter of Stephen Williams, and sister of his first
wife. November 6, i8.iT. Thcv had no children.

(VIII) Bayliss Williams .Aldrich, son of Valen-
tine M. Aldrich (7). was born in Uxbridge, Massa-
chusetts, December 5, 1849, and was educated there
in the public schools, at Phillips .Academy. Andover,
Massachusetts, and at Dartmoirth College, from
which he was graduated. He taught school in Sut-
ton, Massachusetts, and in Brooklyn, New York.
He came to East Douglass in 1873 and engaged in
the retail hardware business, and there he conducted
his store with profit until his death, December 2,
1891. He died in the prime of life, beloved and
honored by his neighbors as well as by his family,
when he had fairly achieved success in his mercan-
tile career and had great piomise of future useful-

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ness in the community. He had \voi» his place in
the world by a long and laborious struggle, begin-
ning with his school days when he won a liberal
education largely by his own efforts.

In politics he was a Republican and he took the
duties of citizenship seriously. He was elected by
his fellow-citizens to many positions of trust and re-
sponsibility, among them town treasurer of Douglas,
serving several years. He never lost his interest
in the public schools where he began his career as
teacher. He served on the Douglas school committee
and for a number of years was superintendent of
schools. Well educated and progressive, Mr. Aid-
rich gave freely of his time to the schools and did
much to raise the standards and keep the schools
of his town in step with the progress elsewhere.
He never neglected to help an ambitious student
who was traveling the path he had trod, beset
with the difficulties and obstructions in the way of
the student without means. But like all men who
have won a college education by their own efforts,
he appreciated it fully and advised young men to
work for it if they could not get it as a matter of
course.

Mr. Aldrich was a rare man. Attractive in his
personality, cheerful, hopeful and persistent, he con-
quered difficulties readily, won friends and enjoyed
their confidence. He was kindly and charitable.
g^iving freely to those who appealed to him, and
always foremost in the good works of the com-
munity. Moreover, he was a man of sound judg-
ment and sterling character. He was a successful
teacher, a successful business man and a successful
citizen. In every walk of life he did his duty freely
and fully. He was an active member of the Douglass
Congregational Church. He was a member of the
Blackstone Valley Agricultural Society of Uxbrid.ge,
charter member of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and member of the Fire King Engine
Company.

He mirried. September 4, 1872, Mary Angenctte
Ellison, who' survives him. Their children are:
Ralph Edward, of whom later ; Lena May, born
July IS, 1875 ; Abbie Elizabeth, born January 6,
1876.

(IX) Ralph Edward Aldrich, son of Bayliss
Williams Aldrich (8), was born in Uxbridge, June

21, 1873. He w.as educated in the public schools
at Douglass and was graduated from the East Doug-
lass high school. He was for a short time with his
father in the hardware store, but when his father
died in 189T the store was sold and he went to
farming on the homestead in East Douglass, where
he is now living. He has dealt extensively in wood
and cattle, besides conducting the farm. He mar-
ried, November 26, 1899, Sadie Gertrude Hodgden,
daughter of James Monroe and Mary Abbie (Fergu-
son) Hodgden. Their children are: Bayliss Gor-
don, born October 11, 1900; Richard Hodgden, born
March t8. 1902 ; Stewart Ellison, born September

22. IQO.i.

(IX) Abbie Elizabeth Aldrich, daughter of Bay-
liss Williams Aldrich (8), was born January 6.1876,
at Douglass. She is a graduate of the East Doug-
lass high school, attended Wheaton Seminary and
was graduated at Mount Holyoke College, where
she was a teacher for one year. She also taught
in the Springfield public schools one year.

(IX) Lena Mav Aldrich, daughter of Bavliss
Williams .Aldrich (8), was born in Uxbridge. Mass-
chusctts, July 15, 1875. She fitted for college in the
public and high schools of Douglas and gra<Iuated
from Mount Holyoke College, taking a graduate
course of study at Cornell University. She taught
school in Douglass for a short time before her mar-

riage. She married, January 8, 1901, Waller E.
Schuster, of whom later.

Walter E. Schuster, of East Douglass, Massachu-
setts, was born at Adams, Massachusetts, August 6,
1876. He was educated in the public schools of
that place, and in i8go came to East Douglass and
began his career there as bookkeeper for W. E.
Hayward, woolen manufacturer. He demonstrated
his usefulness to the business immediately and soon
held a position of trust and resposibility there. In
1903 he was advanced to the position of superin-
tendent of the mill, his present incumbency, in which
lie has the entire confidence of the proprietors and
the respect and esteem of the employes in his
charge. Mr. Schuster believes in a square deal for
all and his men know it. The employes of the
Flayward Woolen Company are loyal and interested
in the success of the business.

Mr. Schuster is especially a favorite of the
youn.g men and boys of Douglass on account of his
love for base ball and other sports and his generous
encouragement of the baseball teams. He is active
in town affairs. In politics he is a Republican, and
is a member of the town committee. He has been
town treasurer for two years. He is a Free Mason,
a member of Douglass Lodge. He is a director of
the Schuster Woolen Company, and of the Forest-
dale Manufacturing Company. He is an active mem-
ber of the Congregational Church and is on the pru-
dential committee.

He married, January 8, looi. Lena May Aldrich,
daughter of Bayliss W. Aldrich. Their children
are: Margaret Evelyn, born March 25, 1902 ; Win-
field Aldrich, July 17, 1906.

(VI) Ephraim Aldrich, son of Seth Aldrich (5).
was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He settled
there and married (first) Dorcas Hall and (second)

Ruth . He made his will May 8, 1826. It

was filed shortly after his death, October 24, 1826.
One of the witnesses was Gideon Mowry. The
children : Ephraim, Jr., Daniel H., see forward ;
Isabel, married Isaac Blanchard.

(VII) Daniel Hall Aldrich, son of Ephraim
Aldrich (6), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
He married Phebe Mowry. daughter of Gideon
Mowry. They settled at Uxbridge and their chil-
dren were : Gideon Mowry, born January 29, 1834,
see forward.

(VIII) Gideon Mowry Aldrich, son of Daniel
Hall Aldrich (7), was born in Uxbridge,
Massachusetts, January 29, 1834. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native
town and in the Friends School, Providence,
Rhode Island. At the age of eighteen he
left school and began work in a carriage and
repair shop. In 1880 he went into business for him-
self, dealer in wood and lumber, and operated a
S4W mill. In 1900 and for five years after he was
associated with Augustus Daniel, of Southbridge,
in the coal and wood business. In all his business
ventures he was successful. He is enjoying a
well-earned rest from active business since 1905.
He is a Democrat in politics and has been very
prominent in town affairs. He served as a member
of the school committee fifteen years, assessor eight
years, highway surveyor, and for twelve years select-
man, the longest term with one exception of contin-
uous service in this office in LTxbridge. He has been
on most of the important .committees of the town.
.\s a member of the water board which installed
the water works of the town he performed one of
his most creditable public services. He has been
elected frequently as delegate to the county and
state conventions. He is at present clerk of the
board of selectmen, who depend much upon his

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experience and counsel in administering the affairs
of the town. In religion he is a member of the
Society of Friends. He is one of the most honored
and respected citizens of the town.

He married. 1855, Patience Pettiplace. daughter
of Chad Pettiplace. She was born in SlatersviUe,
Rhode Island. Their children: Frederick Jona-
than, born April 23, 1856, see forward. Alice
Maria, born July 20, i860, educated in the public-
schools at Millbury and at the Friends Scliool,
Providence; taught school for three years; married
John H. Carpenter, of Glendale, Rhode Island ; now
living in Los Angeles, California, and they have
children — Claude H., graduate of Warren high
school, married, June 6, 1906, Eva Laura Hopkins,
of Los Angeles ; Edith Josephine. Leander Sawyer,
born at L'xbridge, April 20, 1862, see forward.

(IX) Frederick Jonathan Aldrich, son of Gideon
Mowry Aldrich (8), was born at Uxbridge, April
23, 1856, and educated there in the public schools
and at the Friends School of Providence. He
worked for a time for his father and for a few
terms taught school in Happy Hollow. He worked
at the carpenter's trade for a time, but finally went
into business at Union. Connecticut, dealing in wood
and lumber, and has built up an extensive trade.
He is an active citizen and interested in town affairs.
He has served his district in the legislature with
distinction. In religion he belongs to the Friends
Society. He married Lucy Horton, of Union, Con-
necticut. Their children: Herbert Daniel, born
October I, 1S88 ; Ida May, born December 31, 1890,
died October 27, 1891 ; Harry Ralzamon, born No-
vember 29. 1892; Gideon Mason, born March 15,
1895; Mildred Pauline, born June 24. 1897; Frederic
Leander, born May 14, 1901 ; Oscar John, born July
II, igo.'?; Mary Patience, born August 25. 1006.

(IX) Leander Sawyer Aldrich, son of Gideon
Mowry Aldrich (8). was born in Uxbridge, Massa-
chusetts, April 20, 1S62. He was educated in the dis-
trict schools and at the Friends School at Providence,
-where he was graduated at eighteen years of age.
He taught school in L'xbridge, (jlendale and Slaters-
viUe. Rhode Island, until 1884. He was clerk for
two years in the general store in Glendale and then
followed the carpenter's trade. He went into busi-
ness a few years later as builder and contractor,
and has had a very large and prosperous business.
He has a spacious shop in connection with his car-
penter 'work, located on Douglas street, and em-
ploys a considerable force of men. His work has
not been confined to Uxbridge ; he has had many
contracts in other towns in the county.

Mr. Aldrich has been especially interested in the
public schools, both as a teacher and later as a
member of the school committee, of which he was
a member for three years. He has worked faith-
fully for the maintenance of model public schools
in L''xbridgc ; has served as secretary and auditor
of the school committee and is at present the chair-
man. His greatest public service was done in the
construction and installation of the water works
of^ the town, of w-hich he was an assistant engineer.
His executive ability and business shrewdness saved
the town much expense in the course of the work.
He is a member of the Friends Society. In politics
he is independent.

LASELL FAMILY. John Lasell (i), the im-
rnigrant ancestor of the Lasell family of Whitins-
ville, Massachusetts, settled in Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, when a young man. He was a French
Huguenot, but his birthplace and date of birth are
not known. We are told that the name was origin-
ally La Hassell, corrupted to Lazell, Lassell, and

Lasalle. His name appears first in this country on
the public records of Hingham, when he married,
November 29, 1647, Elizabeth Gates, daughter of
Stephen and Ann Gates, who came to Hingham with
their children in 1638. Stephen Gates removed to
Cambridge about 1652 and spent a few years at
Lancaster; he made his will April 18. 1682; it was
proved April 8, 1683, and he made a bequest to his
daughter Elizabeth Lazelle and other children.
Stephen Gates is the ancestor of the old Worcester
county families of this surname. (See sketch of the
Gates family in this work.) Elizabeth was born in
England, and died at Hingham, August 3, 1704.

John Lasell was a prominent citizen of Hingham
and was often elected to positions of trust and
honor by his townsmen. He was admitted a free-
man, which is evidence that he already belonged to
the Puritan Church, in 1678. He was constable of
Hingham in 1677. His home in Hingham was at
the Centre "over the river." He died at Hingham,
October 21, 1700. His will was dated September 2,
1695, snd proved January 16, 1700-01. It mentions
his four sons living, Thomas, Stephen, John and
Israel, besides his grandson Joshua, son of Joshua,
deceased, and the children of Isaac and Abigail,
their fathers Joshua and Isaac being dead ; also his
daughters : Hannah Turner, Mary Burr and Sarah
Ripley. Children of John and Elizabeth Lasell, born
in Hingham, Massachusetts, were : John, baptized
September 8, 1650, see forward. Thomas, born Sep-
tember 15, 1652, married, April 26. 1685, Mary Allen,
of Du.xbury, probably daughter of Bouzoun Allen,
of Hingham; settled in Windham, Connecticut, in
what is now the town of Scotland in 1704. Joshua,
born November 17, 1654, died 16S9. Stephen, born
October 6, 1656, settled in Hingham. Elizabeth, born
February 28. 1657-58, died April 7, 1676. Isaac,
born July 10, 1660. settled at Hingham. Hannah,

born .August 31. 1662, married Turner.

Mary, born September 2, 1664, married, August,
1690, Simon Burr, Jr. Sarah, born November 29,
1666, married. April 17, 1693, Peter Ripley. John,
Jr., born April 25, 1669, settled in Hingham. Israel,
born September 25, 1671.

(II) John Lasell, son of John Lasell (i), was
born in Hingham, Massachusetts, April 25, 1660.
He married, March 26, 1696, Deborah Lincoln,
daughter of Joshua and Deborah (Hobart) Lin-
coln, She was born at Hingham, August 31, 1674.
He removed to Windham. Connecticut, as early as
September 9. 1741, when he deeded land in Hing-
ham, Massachusetts, that had been granted to his
father and handed down to him, (Suffolk Deeds,
Ixvii-page 88). He located near his brother,
Thomas Lasell, who had been there some forty
years, and his sons became settlers at Windham, in
Scotland parish. John Lasell and his wife are both
buried in the old cemetery at Scotland, and both
graves are marked by headstones. John L-asell was
a constable in Hingham in 1712 and a selectman in
1717. His children, born in Hingham, were: John,
Jr., born 1686-87, died February 10, following;
John, Jr., born October 13. 1698; Joshua, born De-
cember 29. 1703, see forward.

(HI) Joshua Lasell, son of John Lasell (2),
was born in Hingham, Massachusetts. December 29,
1703. He was a joiner or carpenter by trade. He
lived in Hingham until about 1740. when he and his
father removed to Windham, Connecticut. He mar-
ried. August I, 1728, Martha Harris. Their home
in Windham was in what is now Scotland, Connec-
ticut. Children of Joshua and Martha Lasell:
Joshua, bnrn December 21, 1729: a Joshua married
Hannah Bingham, who was born April 26. 1738,
daughter of Lemuel Bingham, and granddaughter of

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Captain Samuel Bingham, of Scotland parisli, whose
father was the immigrant, Thomas Bingham. Josiah,
born February lo, 1732-33, died May 15. 1736. Mary,
born April 5, 173". Sarah, born January 12. 1738-39.
Josiah, born May .5, 1741, see forward.

(IV) Josiah Lasell, son of Joshua Lasell (3),
was born in Scotland parish, Windham. Connecticut,
May 5. 1741, or just before the family removed from
Hingham. He was a soldier in the revolution, a
private in Captain John Kingsley's company of
Windham men, who responded to the Lexington
alarm in April, 1775. He married Lydia Bingham,
born December 10, 1745, at Scotland, daughter of
Jeremiah and Mary (Tilly or Filly) ) Bingham,
granddaughter of Deacon Nathaniel Bingham, who
was born October 3, 1681, in Windham. Deacon
Thomas Bingham, father of Deacon Nathaniel, was
the pioneer ancestor; was baptized June 5, 1642, at
Sheffield. England, died January 6, 1729-30, aged
eighty-eight years ; settled first at Norwich, then
at Windham. He married Mary Rudd, December
12, 1666. Nathaniel Bingham settled in Scotland
on a farm given to him by his father. He and
Joshua Lasell were charter members of the Scotland
Church ; Nathaniel Bingham was one of the first
deacons; married, July 25, 1705, Sarah Lobdell.
Children of Josiah and Lydia Lasell : Mary, born
June 15, 1769; Josiah, born April 21, 1771, died
December 22, 1771 (gravestone) : Josiah, born Sep-
tember 28. 1772; Enoch, born December 20, 1774;
John, born February 24. 1777 ; Lydia. born May 10,
1779; James, born August 22, 1781. died January
25. 17S5 (gravestone) ; Chester, born February 23,
1784, see forward; James, born October 10, 1786;
Lucy, born August 11, 1791.

(V) Chester Lasell, son of Josiah Lasell (4),
was born in Scotland parish, Connecticut. February
23, 1784, died in Schoharie, New York, October 30,
1864. He was one of the early settlers in Schoharie,
when a young man. He married, February 15, 1806,
Nancy Manning, daughter of Nathaniel Manning
(VII), whose line of descent is: Hezekiah (VI).
Samuel (V), Samuel (IV). Samuel (III), William
(II), William (I) Manning. Nancy Manning was
also descended directly from Governor Bradford.

Governor William Bradford, a sketch of whom
is given elsewhere in this work, was born in York-
shire, England, March. 15S8. died May 9, 1657; mar-
ried, August 4, 1623, Alice (Carpenter) Southwnrth.
who was born T590 and died March 26, 1670. (See
Carpenter family and Southworth family in this
work for English ancestry.) William Bradford, son
of Governor Bradford, was born June 17, 1624, died
February 20, 1703; married Alice Richards, born
June 17, 1624, died December 12, 1671. He was
deputy governor. Hannah Bradford, daughter of
William Bradford, Jr.. w'as born May 9. 1662. died
May 28. 17,^8: married. November 28. 1682, Joshua
Ripley, born November 9, 1658, died May 8, 17,^9.

Irena Ripley, born August 28, 1700, one of thir-
teen children of Joshua Ripley, married. April 20.
1719. Samuel Manning, born at Billerica, January
14, 1690, but was chiefly reared at Cambridge. Massa-
chusetts, removing as early as 1716 to Windham,
Connecticut, doubtless on the farm his father bought
there in 1714. He was admitted an inhabitant Sep-
tember 24. T716. was assessor 1720 to 1726, highway
surveyor in 1722. Samuel died June 3, 1727: Irene,
liis wife, January 20. 1726-27. Irene was also grand-
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Holiart) Ripley,
and great-granddaughter of William Ripley, who
emigrated from England in 1638 to Hingham,
Massachusetts; admitted freeman there 1642, and
died July 20. 16,56. Joshua Riolev was the first
town clerk and treasurer of Windham Elizabeth

Hobart was daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart, first
minister of Hingham.

Hezekiah Manning, son of Samuel and Irena
(Ripley) Manning, was born August 8, 1721. died
April 20, 1802; married, September 22, 1745, Mary
Webb, born 1725, died December 20, 1785. He was
a tithingman in Windham, 1745-46. assessor, I754'
55. grand juror 1747-53, constable and collector 1758,
first constable and collector of the colony ta.x 1759
to 1766. highway surveyor, deputy to the general
court, 1764 to 1767, elected six times, and held many-
other minor offices.

Nathaniel Manning, son of Hezekiah and Mary
(Webb) Manning, was baptized March 16, 1760, at
Windham. He w'as a soldier in the revolution. .-Xpril
24, 1777. to November 5, 1777, in Captain Nathaniel
Wales' company. Colonel Jonathan Latimer's regi-
ment, which was at the battle of Saratoga, assigned
to General Poor's brigade. General Benedict
.Arnold's division, and was highly complimented by
General Gates. In 1778, under Captain Jonathan
Rudd and Colonel Samuel Chapman, the regiment
served under General Sullivan at Newport and was
at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778.' He
inherited his father's farm, was selectman 1799 to
1801, deputy to the general assembly, 1806-07-09.
He died March 9, 1814. He married. September 3,
1783, Matilda Morgan, born October 6. 1764, daugh-
ter of Samuel (5) and Bethia (Parrish) Morgan,
granddaughter of Samuel (4) and Elizabeth
( Forsyth ) Morgan, great-granddaughte'r of James
(3) and Bridget Morgan. James Morgan (3) was
the son of John (2) and Rachel (Dymond) Morgan,
and grandson of James (i) and Margery (Hill)
Morgan, the immi,grants, who came from Wales
to Boston, 16,36. James Morgan was admitted a
freeman in 1643. He removed to Roxbury in 1640
and later to Connecticut.

Nancy Manning, daughter of Nathaniel and Ma-
tilda (Morgan) Manning, was born April 23, 1786,
as already stated. She died at Schoharie, New
York, December 13. 1872. Children of Chester and
Nancy (Manning) Lasell: Lucia, born June 15,
1807, married Lyman Knowles ; Edward, January
21, 1809, see forward; Matilda, September 23, 1810;
Nancy, May 16. 1812; Timothy. February 14. 1814;
Nathaniel, February 4, 1816; Chester, March 3,
1818 ; Samuel M.. August 10, 1820. died December
6. 1851; Claudius B.. February 20, 1822; Lydia,
November 9, 1823, married Professor George W.
Briggs; Josiah, August 6. 1825, see forward; James,
.•\pril 25, 1827; Mary, August 21, 1829; Charles C,
October 3, 1832.

(VI) Professor Edward Lasell, son of Oiester
Lasell (5), was born at Schoharie. New York. Jan-
uary 21, 1809. He was educated in the public
schools, and at Williams College, in which he be-
came an instructor and later professor of chemistry.
In 1852 he secured the incorporation of the academy
for young women at Auburndale. Mas--achusetts,
known as the Lasell Seminary. He was joined by
his brother, Josiah Lasell. and his brother-in-law.
Professor George W. Briggs. and the enterprise
proved entirely successful from the outset. No
more famous girls' preparatory and finishing school
is to he found in New England.

Professor Lasell married, November I, 1833.
Ruth Whitman, born January 10. 1815. daughter of
Dr. Timothy and Laura (Seymour) Whitman. Dr.
Whitman and his brother. John P. Whitman, were
merchants in partnership in William.stown. Massa-
chusetts, descendants of John Whitman, of Wey-
mouth, the immigrant ancestor. ( See the Whitman
familv sketch in this work.) Mrs. Timothy Whit-
man contributed largely to the eixlowmcnt of the

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chair held by her son-in-law. Professor LascU died
at Anburndale. Newton, Massachusetts, January ,30,
1852; his wife died at Auburndalc, July 22, 1881,
aged sixtv-six years. Children of Professor Ed-
ward and" Ruth Whitman were: Edward, Jr., born
August 17, 1834. died unmarried October 26. i860;
Laura Whitman, born June n. 1836, died June 23,
1891 ; Timothv, born October 9, 1838, deceased ;
Ellen, born March 26, 1841, married, December 19,
i860. Herman Day, son of Hon. Herman Gould, of
Delhi, New York, deceased. She lives in New York
and has three children ; Louise, born May 18, 1845,
resides in New York city.

(VI) Josiah Lasell. son of Chester Lascll (5),
was born at Schoharie, New York, August 6, 1825.
He attended the public schools of his native town
and fitted for college there. He entered Williams
College, where his brother Edward was professor
of chemistry, in 1840. After completing his college
course, he studied law for a time in Schoharie but
he preferred teaching. Very likely the few months
of study of law were valuable to him in his business
career in later years. He first taught in the boys'
school of Professor Piquet in Brooklyn, New York;
then for several years in Spingler Institute, New
York city, of which Jacob Abbott was principal.
In 1852 he and his brother-in-law. Professor George
W. Briggs, joined his brother. Professor Edward
Lasell, as associates and teachers in Lasell Seminary,
which he had projected and organized. A few
months after they began the work Professor Lasell
died, January 30, 1852, and Josiah Lasell and Pro-
fessor Briggs became joint principals.

In i860 Mr. Lasell was called from his work at
Lasell Seminary to assist John C. Whitin. his father-
in-law, in the conduct of the machine works he had
just purchased at Holyoke. Massachusetts, and Mr.
Lasell remained in Holyoke until January, 1864,
when Mr, Whitin sold out his Holyoke interests,
Mr. Lasell came to Whitinsville to take charge of
.the books and accounts of Mr. Whitin, who had he-
come the sole proprietor^ of the Whitin Machine
Works, and his great business ability was mani-
fested. When the Whitin Machine Works was in-
corporated in 1870 Mr. Lasell became the treasurer
and he shared in the duties and responsiliilities of
Mr. Whitin, and as the president had to lay aside
his duties one by one on accoimt of age and in-
firmity Mr. Lasell took up the burdens. At the
death of John C. Whitin, Mr. Lasell became the
president and he also retained the treasurership until
January, 1886. It was largely by his inspiration and
under his direction that the great enlargement of
the business and plant took place in the eighties.

■'As a business man," some friendly hand writes,
"he developed large capacity. Though not educated
to business, his well-trained mind grappled success-
fully with its problems. He took wide and far-
reaching views of the varied forces affecting busi-
ness interests, and knew and could state his rea-
sons for his opinions. He believed in large de-
velopments yet before us and formed his plans to
provide for them. He was, too, the master of de-
tails and had unusual capacity for accomplishing
a great deal of work with seemingly slight aflfort.
He was also able to see and appreciate the difficult
and intricate mechanical questions connected with
machinery."

He was called to various <iffices of trust. He
was director of the Providebce & Worcester Rail-
road, the Rome & Watertown Railroad and of the
Whitinsville National Bank. He was a trustee of
the Whitinsville Savings Bank. As a school teacher
Mr. Lasell was gifted with unusual ability. He
knew how to stir the interest of his pupils and

arouse ambition and effort as well as to make things
clear to the intellect. His work as a teacher is
fittingly conniiemorated with that of his able brother
in the name of Lasell Seminary, which they founded.
Mr. Lasell joined the Congregational Church in
early life. At Holyoke he was superintendent of the
Sunday school, and gave efficient help in the musical
part of the services. At Whitinsville he taught in
the Sunday school until he took charge of the choir,
which he conducted for a number of years. His
interest in music and especially church music never
abated ; he sang with his wonted fervor, we are
told, a few hours before his death, at a praise service
in the church. He died at Whitinsville, March 15,
1886. His son Chester W. Lasell succeeded his
father as the president of the corporation. Surely
Mr. Lasell's business career was remarkably suc-
cessful in every way.

He married, June 5, 1855, Jane Whitin, the only
daughter of John Crane Whitin. (See sketch of
Whhin family). She died March IJ, 1895, at
Whitinsville. Children of Josiah and Jane (Whitin)
Lasell were : Chester W., see forward ; Josiah M.,
see forward; Jennie L., died March 9, 1892; Cath-
erine Whitin. born March 10, 1856, married George
Marston Whitin. mentioned in the sketch of the
Whitin Family of Whitinsville in this work.

(VII) Josiah M. Lasell, son of Josiah Lasell
(6), was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Septem-,
her 15, 1863. He was educated in the public schools,
at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and
at Williams College, from which he was graduated
in 1886. His father died that year and he was called
at once to large responsibilities in the management
of the estate and of the Whitin Machine Works in
association with his brother. He became a director
and assistant treasurer of the corporation. He
remained in the active management of the business
until 1903. He remains in the directorate, however,
but devotes much of his time to travel and the care
of his estate. Mr. Lasell is a Republican in politics,
and greatly interested in town aifairs. He served
for several terms as chairman of the board of select-
men of Northbridge, and has for many years been
a member of the school committee. He is a mem-
ber of the Union Club of Boston, the Worcester
Club, the Grafton Country Club, the Eastern and
New York Yacht Clubs. He is a director of the
Whitinsville National Bank and trustee of the
Whitinsville Savings Bank.

He married, June 27, 1888, Mary F. Krum,
daughter of Judge Chester Harding Krum, of St.
Louis, Missouri ; a graduate of Washington Uni-
versity and Harvard Law School ; prominent in pub-
lic life in Missouri. Children of Josiah M. and Mary
F. (Krum) Lasell are: Josiah, born September 13,
1891 ; Elizabeth, January 8. 1896; John Whitin,
November 30, 1897 ; Margaret Harding, June 14,
1900: Philip Bradford, April 4, 1905.

(VII) Chester W. Lasell, son of Josiah Lasell
(6), was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He re-
ceived his education in the public schools at the
hands of private tutors, and at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts. He began to learn the
business of the Whitin Machine Works and spent
two years at work in the various departments of
the concern. After mastering the mechanical de-
tails, he went into the counting room and became
familiar with the bookkeeping, buying and selling.
In 1886 he succeeded his father as president of the
corporation, a position that he has since held. He
is also a director. In late years he has devoted con-
siderable attention to his estate and stables. His
hor.ses are widely known. He is president of the
Grafton Country Club, Grafton, Massachusetts, Tat-

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nuck Club, Boston A. A., Worcester Club and vari-
ous other clubs and organizations. In politics he
is a Republican, and influential in political and town
affairs.

He married. February 4, 1886, Jesse Keeler, sister
of Lawrence Murray Keeler, who married Eliza-
beth K. Whitin, daughter of George Marston and
Jane (Lasell) Whitin. She is the daughter of Julius
M. and Julia (Lathrop) Keeler, of San Francisco.
Their children are : Hildegarde, born December 28,
1S88; Marion, born June 24, 1890.

IRA OTIS BULLARD. Robert Bullard (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Ira Otis Bullard, of
Clinton, Massachusetts, was born in England in
1599. He was an early settler at Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, probably as early ,as 1630. Land was
granted to him on several occasions. There is
reason to believe that George Bullard, of Water-
town, born about 1600, died June, 1680; Isaac
Bullard, of Dedham, who signed the compact in
1636 and died in Dedham, May 11, 1676; John Bul-
lard, of Dedham, who was admitted a freeman May
13, 1640, were brothers. The father of Isaac Bul-
lard, of Dedham, who took the freeman's oath May
13, 1640; signed the social compact of Dedham, Au-
gust 18, 1636, and his wife was received into the
church there in 1639. At any rate, it may be said
that all the Bullards of Watertown and Dedham,
where the early settlers of his name all located,
were of the same family. Robert Bullard died soon
after coming to America, June 24, 1639. His widow
married (second) Henry Thorpe. Children of Rob-
ert and Anne were: Benjamin, see forward; a
daughter.

(.11) Benjamin Bullard, son of Robert Bullard
(l), was born in England or Watertown, about
1634. He was only five years old when his father
died and he was brought up by an uncle at Ded-
ham, Massachusetts. He was admitted a townsman
in Dedham, January i, 1655-56. He married (first),
April 5, 1659, Martha Pidge, born January 12, 1642,
at Roxbury, jNIassachusetts, daughter of Thomas
Pidge, and (second), 1677, Elizabeth Thorpe,
daughter of his step-father, Henry Thorpe. Bullard
and George Fairbanks, of Dedham, bought tbe
south half or third of the estate of Captain Robert
Kayne in the vicinity of Bogistow pond, lying partly
in what is now Shcrborn, partly in the present town
of Millis. Kayne had been granted one thousand
and seventy-four acres at Pawsett Hill, as the sec-
tion was called. The other half of this tract was
bought by Hill and Breck, of Dorchester, These
four men constituted the second company in Sher-
born. Several hundred acres of the original pur-
chase of Benjamin Bullard are owned by John S.
Bullard, at South Sherborn, the homestead having
remained in the family to the present time. The
occupants of the homestead have been : Captain
Samuel (III), Lieutenant Benjamin (IV), Peter
(V), John (VI), Daniel Whitney (VII), John
S. (VIII), the present owner. The garrison house
built on the Bullard farm is described in the sketch
of James H. Bullard, of Holden,

In 1662 Benjamin Bullard signed the first peti-
tion for the incorporation of the town. October 3,
1673, he sold his estate at Watertown to Justinian
Holden. In 1674 he signed a second petition for
incorporation of Sherborn and that prayer was
granted. He was one of the six brethren to con-
stitute the church at its formation. He was tithing-
man in 1680, selectman 1688 and was on the cnnniit-
tee to seat the meeting house. He was one of nine
who bought up the Indian claims of the township.
He died intestate September 27, 1689, and adminis-

tration was granted to his son Samuel and one Sarah
Bullard, possibly a third wife. His children : Eliza-
beth ; Mary, born September 14, 1663, died July 31,
1666; Hon. Samuel, born December 26, 1667, see
forward; Benjamin, born March I, 1670, died 1766;
Hannah, born August 6, 1672, married. May 30,
1692, William Sheffield; Lieutenant Eleazer, born
June 27, 1676, married Widow Sarah Leland ; John,
born May 7, 1O78, married Abigail Leland, daugh-
ter of Hopestill; Elizabeth, born January 31, 1681,
died young ; Mary, born February 20, 16S3, married
Hopestill Leland, Jr.; Malachi, born March 8, 1685,
married Bethia Fisher ; Isaac, born July 25, 1688,
married Sarah Morse.

(HI) Captain Samuel Bullard, son of Benjamin
Bullard (2), was born December 26, 1667, at Sher-
born, Massachusetts. He was a prominent citizen.
He was for a series of years moderator of the
Sherborn town meetings, five years assessor, nine-
teen years selectman, representative in the general
court 1708-09-23-24-25, and was active in procuring
for the town a grant of four thousand acres of
land west of Mendon, called New Sherborn, now
Douglass. He lived in an eventful period of the
history of his native town and the administration
of public af^'airs seemed to devolve mainly on him.
He died December II, 1727, aged sixty years. His
will, dated September 20, 1726, and proved Jan-
uary 8, 1727, gave the use of his estate to his wife
Deborah, who was made joint executor with their
son Benjamin, who had the real estate. His per-
sonal estate was appraised at two hundred and fifty-
six pounds.

Lie married, June, 1690, Deborah Atherton,
daughter of James Atherton, previously of Lan-
caster, afterward of Milton. Her father, a brother
or near relative of General LIumphrey Atherton,
died in Sherborn, August 6, 1710, and her mother,
December 29, 1713. The children of Captain Sam-
uel Bullard: Samuel, born January 31, 1692, died
October 14, 1717, unmarried; Martha, born Feb-
ruary II, 1695, married Eleazer Fairbanks, Decem-
ber 25, 1712; Benjamin, b'orn February 16, 1696-97,
see forward ; Deborah, born November 9, 17 — , died
February 10, 1757; married Eleazer Holbrook.

(IV) Lieutenant Benjamin Bullard, son of
Samuel Bullard (3), was born at Sherborn, Massa-
chusetts, on the homestead, February 16, 169O-97,
and died 1762. He inherited the homestead in South
Sherborn and was prominent in civil and military
life. He was constable in 1727 and selectman for
fifteen years. He made his will February 12, 1762,
making ample provision for his widow Miriam dur-
ing her widowhood and also for her second widow-
hood, if she should marry again. His farm of one
hundred and eighty-five acres he divided among his
three sons, giving Benjamin the home lot or east
division, who exchanged it for the southwest share
bequeathed to Peter. Samuel had the northwest
section. To Deborah Twitchell and Keziah Leland
each he gave half his lands in Douglass and eighty
pounds ; to Martha Leland eighty-six pounds.

He married, December 20, 1721, Miriam Morse,
born June 30, 1700, daughter of Samuel Morse,
granddaughter of Daniel Morse, and great-grand-
daughter of Samuel Morse, the first settler. She
was long blind and died December 9, 1774. Their
children: Adam, (A. M. Harvard, 1742) born
January 8, 1723, assessor 1747, died in Halifax,
Nova Scotia; Deborah.- born October 26, 1725, mar-
ried Jonathan Twitchell, March i, 1743-44; Miriam,
bnrn November 27, 1727, died August 4, 1728; Sam-
uel, born August 2, 1729. sec forward; Keziah, born
January II, 1731-32, married Flenry Leland, of
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the homestead; Martha, born September 15, 1737,
married Simon Leland; Benjamin, captain, born
June 30, 1741, settled on what is now called the
Alason place near the Bullard homestead.

(V) Colonel Samuel Bullard, son of Lieutenant
Benjamin Bullard (4), was born in Sherborn,
Massachusetts, August 2, 1729. He inherited a third
of his father's farm and built his house where the
heirs of the late Elijah Hill resided. He was early
invested with the honors of his fellow-citizens, and
much confidence through a long life was placed in
his judgment and integrity. He was received as cap-
tain Bullard, a member of the Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Company of Boston, 1755, chosen
selectman 1760 and held that office altogether nine
years. He was representative to the general court
in 1774. At the commencement and during the
revolution he was a leader of the Patriots. He was
often on the committee of correspondence and
safety. He was colonel of Fifth Middlesex County
Regiment in 1775, and served in the Bennington
■campaign in 1777 with General Stark. He resigned
April 14, 1779. He married, December 12, 1751,
Martha Perry, who died January 8, 1753, without
iss.ue. He married (second), July 10, 1754, Mary
(Coolidge) Ware, widow of Benjamin Ware, de-
scendant of the immigrant, John Coolidge, of
Watertown. She was born January 7, 1731-32, and
died March 11, 1813. In 1763 Colonel Bullard
bought of John Morse thirty acres originally granted
to Rev. Daniel Gookin and once owned by James
Coolidge, his father-in-law, situated on the west
side of the county road at the foot of Meeting
House Hill. He also bought of Moses Perry three
acres on the east side of the road and eighty acres
of woodland south of the road from the plain to
the farm. In 1769 he bought land of Perry for a
malt house. About 1763 he moved to the plain,
kept a public house and erected a malt house which
he and his descendants carried on for many years.
He died March 5, 1807. His eleven children: Mary,
born March 27, 1755, married Eleazer Dowse;
Adam, born October 27, 1756; Major Asa, born
April 27, 1758, died 1804-05; Nabby, born Septem-
ber II, 1760, died 1850; married Nahum Wight;
James, born August 25, 1762, died June 30, 1828;
Martha, born July 18, 1764, married Elisha Bar-
ber; Julia, born August 24, 1766, died aged about
eighteen ; Nancy, born February 27, 1768, married
Oliver Barber ; Samuel, born April 14, 1770, in-
herited the F'rench gun that had been his great-
grandfather Bnllard's; Benjamin, barn May 14,
^773> see forward ; Betsey, born June 16, 1776, died
unmarried at Sherborn.

(VI) Benjamin Bullard, son of Colonel Samuel
Bullard (5), was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts,
May 14, 1773. He settled in Sherborn and married
there, March 31, 1796, Persis Babcock, who died
August 19, 1809. He married (second) Nancy
Dexter, (third) Harriet (Pond) Farrington,
(fourth) Widow (Pierce-Daniels) Hines, 1841.
He was a resident of Sherborn and a farmer. His
children were: Otis, born August 6, 1797, see for-
ward; Ede, born October 8, 1800, died unmarried
aged thirty-two; Samuel Dexter, born May i, 1814,
died aged nineteen ; Persis Ann, married Michael
Guyrn and resided in Sherborn; Benjamin, died
aged five days.

(VII) Otis Bullard, son of Benjamin Bullard
(6), was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, August
6, 1797. He married Polly Pierce and resided in
Sherborn and Framingham. He was a farmer and
knife manufacturer, making knives chiefly for the
shoemakers. Their children were: i. Polly Maria,
married James Augustus Loker, of Cochituate, in

the town of Wayland, Massachusetts; he survives
her at an advanced age. Their children : Granville
Loker, resided in Cochituate, and had two chil-
dren — Bertha Loker, married J. O. Clifford, of
Lenox, Massachusetts ; Melville Loker, married and
has one child. 2. Theresa Loker, married William
H. Bent, formerly a large shoe manufacturer of
Cochituate, and they had three children : Elmer E.,
Millie, Harry, all of whom are married and have
children. 3. Ira Otis, born March 31, 1836.

(VIII) Ira Otis Bullard, son of Otis Bullard
(7), was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, March
31, 1836. Fie learned the trade of machinist in his
father's shop and succeeded him in the business of
making shoe knives in Natick. The heat from
the forge afifected his health and he was obliged to
change his occupation. He engaged in the drug
business in Natick under the firm name of Bullard
& Jennison. The pharmacy was opposite the Natick
Common on Common street. He finally sold out in
1874 and removed to the growing town of Clinton.
He has followed his trade of machinist since living
in Clinton. He has a repair shop near his house
on High street. Of late years he has worked in
the winter, spending his summers at his cottage in
Cottage City. Mr. Bullard is a Republican but has
never been active in politics. He is a life member of
Meridian Lodge, Free Masons, of Natick, and a
member also of the Clinton Tribe of Red Men.
He married Nancy Elizabeth Piper, born July 27,
1843, daughter of Horace Piper, of Sterling, Massa-
chusetts. Their children: Otis Horace, see for-
ward ; Frank Edwin, born at Sterling, December
19, 1868, see forward.

Ira Otis Bullard has at the present time in his
possession an old chair which came over from Eng-
land in 1630. It has been handed down and always
in the Bullard family, and in his possersion since
1858.

(IX) Otis Horace Bullard, son of Ira Otis
Bullard (8), was born 'in Sterling, Massachusetts,
September 17, 1867. He was educated in the Clin-
ton public and high schools. He learned the car-
penter's trade of Jeremiah Stuart, of Clinton, a
prominent builder. He worked as clerk for a few
years in Hosmer's grocery store, Lancaster, a po-
sition he gave up on account of illness. For twelve
years he has been employed as carpenter in the
Lancaster Mills at Clinton. He resides on High
street. He is a Republican in politics and a Metho-
dist in religion. He married, September 17, 1892,
Nina Brown, born in Irasburgh, Vermont, 1870.
Their children: Leslie Otis, born January 27, 1896;
Marion Olive, born April 2, 1898.

(IX) Frank Edwin Bullard, son of Ira Otis
Bullard (8), was born in Sterling, Massachusetts,
December 19, 1868. He was educated in the public
schools of (Tlinton and the Bryant & Stratton Busi-
ness College of Boston. Fie was first employed as
bookkeeper in a Boston house, then came to the
ofiice of the Bigelow Carpet Company, Clinton. He
, returned to work in Boston after a short time as
bookkeeper for O. W. Aldcn, grocer, Boston. In
1896 he returned to the office of the Bigelow Carpet
Company, and became the order clerk, a position he
holds at the present time. His home is at 100 East
street, Clinton. He is well known in Masonic cir-
cles, being at present senior warden of Trinity
Lodge of Free Masons, Clinton. He has been
through the chairs of Clinton Lodge of Odd
Fellows. He is also a member of Clinton
Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, Clinton. He
is also a member of the local council. Royal
Arcanum. He and his family attend the Uni-
tarian Church. Fie married, June 29, 1892,

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Addie J. Fuller, daughter of Asa and Frances
(Barnard) Fuller, of Sterling. She was born in
Wellesley, Massachusetts, formerly Needham, Sep-
tember 6, 1867. They have two children : Ida
Louise, born April 25, 1896; Frances Elizabeth,
August 9, 1898.

HENRY GODDARD, deceased, was one of the
most esteemed citizens of Worcester, held in honor
as one of its pioneer manufacturers in the wire in-
dustry and a man of immaculate character. He
was particularly beloved by the Masonic fraternity,
of which he was a distinguished representative, be-
ing at the time of his death the oldest member of
the order in the city of Worcester.

Mr. Goddard was a son of Benjamin Goddard,
and was born in Worcester, October 4, 1823. He
received a liberal education in the best institutions
in the city, and early followed in the parental foot-
steps in the choice of a life calling. At the age of
twenty-one, in 1844, he entered the factory of the
Worcester Wire Company in South Worcester, of
which his father was manager, and from the outset
gave every evidence of both inherited and acquired
mechanical talents. His first work was in the ca-
pacity of a wire drawer, and he was advanced suc-
cessively until the death of his father, whoin he
succeeded in charge of the works. He was thus
engaged until 1867, when the factory was destroyed
by fire, when he was removed the the Grove street
mill, returning the following year to the rebuilt
South Worcester works. These were closed in 1869,
and he was re-transferred to the Grove street fac-
tory, in the capacity of foreman of the wire draw-
ing and nail department, of which he had charge
until his voluntary retirement on account of fail-
ing health, in October, 1898, on his seventy-fifth
birthday. He had then been connected with the
works of this one company for the remarkable
period of nearly sixty years. Beginning as a young
man, he showed from the first such ability that he
was marked for speedy advancement, and rose
from the ordinary routine of manual drudgery to
directing the finest and most skilled operations. A
man of inventive turn of mind, he was quick to
discern opportunity or improved processes, and some
of his devices were placed in practical use, their
introduction greatly lessening the expense of pro-
duction and working a corresponding increase of
product. He became so thoroughly identified with
the institution that one of its greatest departments
came to be known by his name. His individuality
was so impressed upon the entire personnel of the
establishment that his retirement was attended with
significant detnonstrations of respect by all con-
nected with it, proprietors, fellow-workmen and
subordinates alike.

In the year following his retirement ( 1899) on
April 7, Mr. and Mrs. Goddard celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary, and the occasion was
one of the most notable social events of the day.
The preparations had been made by their daughter.
Mrs. H. E. Ball, of Worcester. The house was
beautifully decorated for the occasion with palms,
genista and cut flowers, the predominating color in
the dining room being yellow. Many out-of-town
relatives and friends were present, in addition to
a large city throng which numbered the represen-
tative men of the Washburn & Moen Company.

Death came to Mr. Goddard with the wearing
out of his physical powers, on January 12, 1904,
when he was entering upon his eighty-first year,
and the warm affection in which he wa>i held was
attested by the attendance of a large and deeply

affected assemblage of people of all ranks upon the
occasion of the funeral. The services were con-
ducted by the Rev. Frank Crane, pastor of Union
Congregational Church, and the interment was-
with Masonic ceremonies, conducted by Worcester
Comniandery of Knights Templar, the pallbearers
being four past eminent commanders of that body.
The floral tributes were exceedingly rich, and most
significant in design, particularly those from the
various bodies of the j\lasonic fraternity with w-hich
the lamented deceased had been affiliated. As was
said of him, standing at the head of Worcester
Masons, Mr. Goddard occupied a highly honored
and deserved place in the fraternity. The oldest
surviving past master of Morning Star Lodge, he
was the representative of patriarchial Masonry in
the heart of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Made a member of ISIorning Star Lodge on
August 4, 1847, he was elected worshipful master
in 1852, and was twice successively re-elected. Ma-
sonry was then in its infancy in Worcester, and.
the lodge numbered only about twenty-five mem-
bers. He became a charter member of Montacute
Lodge at its institution, and then aided in forming
a third, Athelstan, and was its first master, in 1866,
and elected to the chair again in 1880. He was
most excellent high priest of Worcester Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, from 1858 to 1864, both years-
inclusive — a longer period than any other ofticer of
that rank. He was a past master of Hiram Council,
Royal and Select Masters, and past eminent com-
mander of Worcester Comniandery, Knights Temp-
lar. In the larger fields of the Ivlasonic order he
was a permanent grand master of the grand lodge
of Massachusetts, a member of the grand royal
arch chapter of Massachusetts, and of the grand
commandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
He was also a member of the board of trustees of
the Masonic fraternity of Worcester. He was also
a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Independent
Order Odd Fellows, in which he had passed the
chairs. He was an attendant of Union Congrega-
tional Church, and lived a life of unimpeachable
practical Christianity, his religion being of that type
which found expression in action rather than in ex-
pression. He was an exceptionally generous man,
thoughtful of others, and while he frequently and
generously contributed to organized benevolences,
he was noted for his quiet way of relieving the
necessities of his follows by unsought for giftj
of money or articles of comfort, and the large body
of workmen connected with the same factories with
himself were particularly the objects of his regard
in these respects.

Mr. Goddard married, April 7, 1849, Miss
Eugenia D. C. Ball, a native of Holden, Massachu-
setts, and who was residing in Worcester with her
parents at the time of her marriage. Of this union
were born five children, of whom two, with the
mother, are now living: Julius H. Goddard. of To-
peka, Kansas ; and Willietta, wife of H. E. Ball, of
the same city.

WHITCOMB FAMILY OF LUNENBURG.
William Whitcomb, grandfather of George Henry
Whitcomb, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was a de-
scendant of John Whitcomb, of Dorchester and
Scituate, who was born in England and came to
New England probably in 1629. He was admitted
a freeman June 3. 1652, in the Plymouth colony.
He removed to Lancaster about 1652. He died
April 6. 1683. A full sketch of his life and many
of his descendants will be found elsewhere in this
work. Some of his sons remained in Plyniout'i

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colony, and from one of them is descended Will-
iam Whitcomb. All of the name are undoubtedly
descended from the same immigrant ancestor.

William Whitcomb was born at or near Ware-
ham, ^lassachusetts, about iSoo, His birth is not
recorded at Wareham, however. He was a cooper
by trade and followed many years this vocation. In
1839 he settled in Brookline, New Hampshire, where
for many years he was employed by William Gilson
and by Tucker & Stiles. He was also employed in
a charcoal kiln at Brookline. He died there March,
1850, on the William Gilson place. He was a Con-
gregationalist in religion and a Whig in politics.
He was a member of the Brookline militia com-
pany. He married Eleanor Hathaway, and their
children were: I. William Rufus, who served in
the army during the rebellion ; married Mary C.
Mellen, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and had
children — Mary, Lizzie, Albert, Lester and William,
all born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. 2. Robert
Thomas, born February 19, 1S39, mentioned below.
3. Cynthia Eleanor, born at Brookline ; married
first Samuel Mellen, and (second) Jason Stetson,
and has children*— William Stetson and Josephine
Stetson, born in Whitman, Massachusetts. 4. John
Tyler, born in Brookline, New Hampshire, died in
Stoneham, Massachusetts ; he served in the civil
war. 5. Charles Willis, born in Brookline; killed
at battle of the Wilderness; but buried in Groton ;
married Elizabeth Carr of Groton, Massachusetts.
6. Henry Francis, born at Brookline, New Hamp-
shire; married Martha Bradford, of Middleboro,
Massachusetts, and they have children — Nora,
Charles and Lilla May. 7. George Putnam, born at
Brookline; married Harriet Harrington of East
Templeton, Massachusetts. He had a brother
Thomas, born in Wareham and lived in Attleboro,
then in Pepperell, and died there. There were other
chddren.

Robert Thomas Whitcomb, son of William
Whitcomb, was born at Wareham, Massachusetts,
February 19, 1839. He was only six months old
when his parents removed to Brookline, New Hamp-
shire. He attended the district schools at Brook-
line until he was ten years old. when he began to
work out, first for Ephraim Gilson, attending school
in the winter terms, at Townsend, IMassachusetts.
After five years there he returned to Brookline, but
soon began to learn the shoemaker's trade at Pep-
perell in the shop of Fiske Brothers, where he
worked two years. He worked five years on the
farm of Ralph Jewett, in Pepperell. and then be-
gan to learn the cooper's trade of William P. Ben-
nett. He worked at this trade nearly eight years
for Freeman Tarbell. jnd then eleven years for the
Worcester & Nashua Railroad, in Pepperell, in
charge of freight and yard switching. About 1884
he came to Lunenburg and bought the Gov. Bout-
well farm in the south part of the town, and con-
tinued farming until 1892. He maintained a large
herd of dairy cattle and was a successful farmer.
He sold out to his son George Henry Whitcomb,
with whom he lived some time, but now (1906) is
residing in Lunenburg Center. He is a member
of the Lunenburg Methodist Episcopal Church, is
a trustee and member of the official board. In pol-
itics he is a Republican. He married. November
6, i860, Maria C. Litchfield, who was born No-
vember 9, 1840. daughter of Andrew and Cynthia
(Blood) Litchfield, of Pepperell, ?\Iassachusetts.
Her father was a farmer and stone mason, and was
a member of the state militia in his 30unger days.
The children : i. George Henry, born January 10,
1863. at Pepperell. 2. Annie Maria, born at Pep-
perell, married first George Elliott, of Ashby, Massa-
iii — 4

cluisetts, and they have: Clement, Mildred and Otis
Elliott; she married (second) Calvin Marden, of
Lunenburg, and had Robert Calvin Marden. 3.
Jennie Augusta, born at Pepperell.

George Henry Whitcomb, son of Robert Thoma*
Whitcomb, was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts,
January 10, 1863. He attended the public schools
of his native town, and at the age of sixteen years
entered the employ of Leighton Brothers, shoe man-
ufacturers, as shipping and packing clerk. Where
he came of age he went to Lunenburg and worked
there for a time on the farm of Herbert Litchfield
and for his father. In 1892 he bought the home-
stead of his father. The place is known as the
Gov. Boutwell farm, and consists of fifty-three-
acres of land. He has a large dairy and delivers-
milk and dairy products as well as garden stuff
to his customers in Fitchburg. The farm is located
in one of the most beautiful spots in the state.
From his house the scenery in charming. He is-
a member of the Lunenburg Methodist Episcopal:
Church, one of its trustees, and the superintendent
of the Sunday school. He has been president of
the Epworth League connected with this church.
In politics he is a Republican. He was for twelve
years a member of Lunenburg Grange, Patrons of
Husbandry. He has belonged to the Milk Dealers'"
Association. He married, May 7. 1S90, Minnie
Louise Howard, who was born January 23, 1870,
daughter of John F. and Abbie Frances (Whitney)
Howard, of Lunenburg. Her father was in the;
teaming business; he was a soldier in the civil war.
The children: Howard Robert, born January 16,.
1891. 2. Ralph Lester, born May 19, 1893. 3.
Blanche, born December 2, 1895.

DUDLEY FAMILY. The lineage of the Dud-
ley family of ^Nlendon, Worcester county, has been
traced from Francis Dudley (i), who married
Sarah, daughter of George Wheelar, of Concord,
October 26, 1665. She died in that town, December
12, 1713. Their children were: Mary, born Feb-
ruary 7, 1666 ; Joseph ; John, born March 10, 1674-
75; Benjamin, died March, 1681-82; Samuef, borrt
June 27, 1682; Sarah, died August 4, 1701 ; Francis.
Francis Dudley (father) was a soldier in King
Philip's war.

(II) Samue.l, son of Francis Dudley (i), was
born in Concord, June 27, 1682. He removed from
Concord to Littleton, where he was town clerk in
1716-17, and later took up his residence in Sutton,
wdiere he purchased land, May 31, 1726. He mar-
ried- (first) Abigail King, November i, 1704; mar-
ried (second) Lydia . His children were:

Samuel, born July 28, 1705; Francis, December 10,.
1706; David, Jonathan and Abigail (triplets), No-
vember 4, 1709; Sarah. July 28, 1713; Abigail, Oc-
tober 28, 1714; Mary. February 22, 1716; Patty,
September 13, 1718; Rogers, August 9, 1720; Paul,
September 24, 1721; Charles, December 10, 1722;
William, May 28, 1726; Douglass, September g,
1748.

(III) Jonathan Dudley, one of the triplets, born
November 4, 1709. in Concord, died November, 1789.
He married, in Sutton. August 18, 1736, Hannah
Putnam. Their children were : Jonathan, born
March 22, 1738 ; Hannah, January 20, 1740, died
August 25. 1786; John, August 20, 1743; Prudence,
^lay 4, 1747; Anna, April 9, 1753, married Alpheus
Marble; Samuel, January 4. 1755, died November
6, 1775: Peter, January 10, 1758.

(IV) John Dudley, son of Jonathan Dudley
(3), born August 20, 1743, married Mary Morse,
October 13, 1768. Their children were: John, born
October 19, 1769, married Deborah Marble ; Joseph,

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September iS, 1773; Sarah, January 22. lyyg; James,
J^overaber 23, 17S3. John Dudley died in Sutton,
August 25, 1786, and his widow married Solomon
Iceland, 1791.

CV) Joseph Dudley, son of John Dudley (4),
torn in Sutton, September 18, 1773, married Abigail
Potter, March 25, 1794. She died a widow at Sut-
ton, January 7, 1837. Their children were : Judith,
born September 25, 1794, married John Blanchard,
November 5, 1812; Silas, February i, 1797; Joseph,
May 3, 1799.

(VI) Silas Dudley, son of Joseph Dudley (5),
born February i, 1797, in Sutton, died November 15,
J882. He was one of those thrifty, highly success-
iul farmers of his generation. It was a real pleas-
ure to view his tidy, well-kent buildings and broad
acres as you passed his premises, situated on the
eastern slope of the beautiful elevation of land on
which the village of Mendon, Massachusetts, is
located. To this spot he came from Sutton about
the year 1835, and there he spent the remainder of
his life, leaving the record of an industrious, suc-
cessful and respected citizen. He married Char-
lotte K. Armsby, of Sutton, February 28, 1829; she
died December 7, 1877. Their children were : Ed-
ward, see forward; Silas, born 1832, died 1899;
Eliza, 1841, died 1844; Mary E.. January 24, 1845,
married James L. Greenleaf, December I, 1874.

(VII) Edward Dudley, son of Silas Dudley
("(6), was born in Sutton, December 15, 1829, and
ccame with his parents to Mendon during his cliild-
ihood days. Here he grew up. attending the public
;schooIs of the town and assisting his father in car-
•.rying on the homestead farm, to which estate he
:succeeded, and followed that occupation industri-
• ously for the remainder of his active life, realizing
:a comfortable prosperity. He was a representa-
;tive of that admirable type of New England man-
;hood whose upright character could not under any
■ circumstances be diverted from its natural chamiel,

and his numerous commendable qualities were sin-
cerely appreciated by a wide circle of friends and
acquaintances. In politics he was an earnest adher-
ent to Republican principles and performed his
duty as a citizen regularly at the polls, without of-
ficial aspirations. He attended the Methodist
Church. Edward Dudley died in Mendon, March
•9, 1901.

Mr. Dudley married, June 6, 1854, Mary M.
Ellis, who survives him. She is a native of Mendon
and a daughter of Timothy Ellis, of that town.
Three children were born of this marriage: i.
Charlotte Armsby, born July 12, 1855, married, _^Iay
16, 1876, Erwin Augustus Snow; children: Lillian
Estelle, died in infancy; Florence Edith, born Jan-
uary 19, 1878, married Albert C. Rhodes, June 27,
igoo; Bertie Allen, died in infancy ; Edward Dudley,
died in infancy ; Frederick Augustus, born Sep-
lember 22, 1883 ; Rose Elizabeth, born June 25, 1887 ;
Mabel Dudley, born July 16, 1888; Charlotte
Armsby, born July 4, 1892. The family reside in
JMendon. 2. Silas Armsby, born July 5. 1857, mar-
lied (first), July 15, 1888, Ella F. Prentice, who
•died February 13, 1892. Their children. Prentice
and Mary, died in infancy. He married (second),
August 28, 1895, Carrie Van Cott Jordan ; children
by this marriage: Ruth Marguerite, born October
6, 1898; Edward Armsby, born June 22, 1901 ; Char-
Jotte, born December 19, 1906. Silas Armsby re-
sides in southern California, engaged in fruit cult-
ure. 3. Mary E., born December 22, 1861, a suc-
<:essful teacher in the public schools.

ADAMS FAMILY. No person familiar with
the history of Massachusetts but what as they meet

with the family name of Adams recall in their mind
the heroic services performed by the various repre-
sentatives of this family in all of the numerous
struggles attending the life of the colony, the casting
off of the bands of tyranny and oppression forged
by the mother country, the great movement for
national independence and in the formation of a
compact that has brought security and harmony to
one of the strongest yet most humane nations in
the world. It was said of the patriot, Samuel
Adams, that he was a man of incorruptible integrity.
Governor Hutchinson, in answer to the inquiry why
Mr. Adams was not taken off from his opposition
by an office, wrote to a friend in England, "such
is the obstinacy and inflexible disposition of the
man, that he never can be conciliated by any office
or gift whatever." That characteristic of integrity
and firmness to their own personal convictions still
runs in the family, and not infrequently constitutes
and points to a safe representative for the people.
The branch of this family represented by Mr.
Horace Corbett Adams, a native of Mendon, Massa-
chusetts, runs from

(I) Henry Adams, who came from Devonshire,
England. 1632. and settled in that part of Massachu-
setts now Quincy, where he died in 1646. Of his
family of eight sons and one daughter, four sons —
Henry, Peter, Edward and Jonathan — were among
the early settlers of Medfield.

(II) Edward Adams, born in England, settled
in Aledfield about the year 1652, taking a lot on
Bridge street, near the corner of Dale street. His
house was burned by the Indians in 1676. He served
on the board of selectmen for many years, was com-
missioner in 1689 and representative in 1692. He
married (first) Lydia Rockwood, who died 1676.
He married (second). 1678, Abigail Day, of Ded-
ham, who died in 1707. He married (third), 1710,
Sarah Taylor. He died in 1716. He was the father
of fifteen children.

(III) John Adams, third child of Edward and
Lydia (Rockwood) Adams, had a grant of land on
the west side of the Charles river, "near
the new mill." in 1682. That same year he married
Deborah Patridge. He married (second) Susanna
Breck, who died 1744. He died 1751. He was the
father of thirteen children.

(IV) Obediah Adams, fifth child of John and
Deborah (Patridge) Adams, born in Medfield, 1689.
married, April 24, 1716 Christian Sanford. a native
of Mendon. daughter of Deacon Thomas Sanford,
and lived in West Medway. on west side of Chicken
Brook, three-fourths of a mile from the church.
They were the parents of ten children. He died
November 22, 1765. She died July 21, 1777, in the
eightieth year of her age.

(V) Jesse Adams, fifth child of Obediah and
Christian (Sanford) Adams, born September 10,
1727. married, March 30, 1773, Thankful Watkins,
and settled in Holliston. He died April 12, 1797.
He was a farmer by occupation. He served the
town as selectman. His wife was born in 1743 and
died January 3. 1797. Their children were: Levi,
born October 23, 1773; Abigail, November 20. 1775;
Hannah. January 29. 1778. died 1781 ; Resigned,
May 14, 1780, died same day; David, May 20, 1781,
see forward; Huldah, December 12, 1785.

(\T) David ."Vdams. youngest son of Jesse and
Thankful (Watkins) Adams, was born in Hollis-
ton. and learned the trade of a printer in Dedham.
He married, September 16, 1804, Truelove Corbett,
of Milford, eldest daughter of Ichabod and Olive
(Lazell) Corbett, both of that place. Ichabod Cor-
bett served as private in Captain Gershom Nelson's
company, and marched on the alarm of April 19,

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1775, serving nine days. He was also in Captain
Nelson's company under date of July 19, 1776.
Previous to that he was private in Captani John
Tyler's company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment;
return endorsed December 10, 1775. He enlisted
August 23, 1778. and was discharged September 12,
1778, Fourth Suffolk County Regiment, service twen-
ty-one days. In addition to tlie above four enlist-
ments, we' learn by a diary kept by him (and which
has been printed in the proceedings of the Worcester
Society of Antiquity) that he served from December
22, 1776, at which date he marched for the Hudson
river, reaching North Castle, January 13, 1777, was
at Tarrytown, West Chester, Alile Square, Court-
land Manor, Haverstraw, Morristown, Boundbrook
and other places then occupied by the American
army, reaching Mendon after a three months' service,
March 25, 1777. He also mentions another term of
service from January 8, 1778, to March 18 of that
same year, in Rhode Island, Captain Samuel
Craggin's company. Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's regi-
ment. Mr. Corbett died February 19, 1829. David
Adams died in West Medway, February, 1815, leav-
ing three children: Otis Corbett, born August 14,
1805, died 1859; Adaline, January 10, 1808, died
1852; David, January 17, 1815, see forward. After
the death of Mr. Adams, his widow married John
Knights, 1820, and they had Augustus and Charles
(twins), born December 24, 1822,

(\'II) David Adams, youngest son of David
and Truelove (Corbett) Adams, married, February
9, 1841, Jemima Ann Rawson, daughter of Simon
Rawson and granddaughter of Edward Rawson, who
was a soldier in the revolutionary war. David
Adams was born in Milford, but after the death
of his father, which occurred when he was a babe,
his mother married John Knights, as aforementioned.
David Adams passed his entire life in Mendon.
Starting out as a lad for the purpose of providing
for himself, he found his early life beset with trials
and discouragements, but he overcame them all and,
although experience proved a hard instructor,
profited by the lessons given. By strict fidelity,
frugality and a life void of hypocrisy, he gained the
confidence of his fellow townsmen. Mr. Adams'
«arly education was limited to the public schools.
Being endowed with a retentive memory and a
desire to inform himself upon the various public
questions of the day, he became a regular reader,
not only of the daily papers, but of books, and
verv few men were better read than he on the issues
of the hour. In early life he worked in the Mendon
bakery, later was employed in the making of boots
and shoes, the factory being in Mendon, and he was
engaged there until the industry was abandoned.

In politics Mr. Adams was first a Whig, then a
Republican. In the year 1855 he was elected to the
office of town clerk, and continued in office through
annual elections for thirty-five years, or until failing
health caused him to decline a re-election. In the
meantime he had purchased the property known
as the "Bakery," where as a poor man he labored.
This he renovated and enlarged, arranging and fitting
it for a hotel, naming it the Adams House, and
for fifteen or more years, under the management of
Mr. and Mrs. Adams, this house enjoyed the repu-
tation of being an attractive, comfortable, liomelike
public house. The death of Mrs. Adams, April 19,
1877, soon caused him to relinquish the hotel busi-
ness and sell the property. He then purchased the
Aaron Cook place, where he passed the remaining
days of his life in comparative ease and comfort,
attending to the cultivation of his productive farm.
He died April 14, 1900, in his eighty-fifth year.
Their children were : Isabella Phipps, born October

2~, 1841, married Charles H. Spencer; Horace Cor-
bett, July 18, 1848, see forward; Maria Miller, Octo-
ber 31, 1850.

(V'lII) Horace Corbett Adams, only son of David
and Jemima (Rawson) Adams, attended the public
schools of Mendon. He became the assistant and
chief reliance of his father in conducting the hotel,
livery and farming business, and at the death of the
latter succeeded to the family estate, and was also
elected to succeed his father in the office of town
clerk in 1890, and at present writing (1906) retains
that position. He was also elected to represent
the Tenth Representative Worcester County District,
composed of the towns of Hopedale, Mendon, Mil-
. ford, Upton and Westboro in 1901, and re-elected
to serve in 1902. Mr. Adams has been one of the
trustees of the laft Public Library since its organi-
zation in 1881, and is also secretary of the Mendon
Historical Society. He is one of the useful and
reliable representative men of Mendon. He married,
October 31, 1871, Cora G. Taft, who died September
25, 1872.

FARNUM FAMILY. Farnham is the name of
an ancient and honored English family. In America
the spelling Farnum is used by some branches of
the family, and branches of the Varnum family
spell their name Farnum also. According to Burke,
the family seat of the Farnhams in England was in
Leicester county, at Querndon House. By deeds
without dates there appears to have been two Lords
of Querndon in Leicestershire prior to the reign
of Edward I. Burke gives the line of the principal
family of the name, as follows: I. Robert Farnham.
2. Sir Robert Farnham, knight. 3. Sir John Farn-
ham. of Querndon, county Leicester, of the reign
of King Edward I. 4. Sir Robert Farnham, knight,
living in Querndon, 1346. 5. John Farnham,
Esquire, married Margaret Billington. 6. Robert
Farnham, Esquire, living in 1440, ancestor of many

of the Farnhams of Querndon and of . 7.

Thomas Farnham, Esquire, of Nether Hall, ancestor
of the fourth degree. 8. William Farnham, Esquire,
of Nether Hall, knight, married Barbara Hersey,
sister of Sir John Hersey, and had: I. John, married
Dorthy Walwyn, whose only daughter Dorothy
married Sir George Wright. 2. Thomas, of Stough-
ton, died 1562, leaving an only daughter Katharine,
who married Sir Thomas Beaumont. 3. Matthew,
succeeded his elder brother in the estates. g.
Matthew Farnham, Esquire, of Nether Hall, mar-
ried Lamentia Barrett, of Medbourn, Leicestershire,
and had : Mary, married Richard Dawes ; Humphrey,
see forward. 10. Humphrey Farnham. of Nether
Hall, married Elizabeth Digby, daughter of William
Digby, Esquire, of Welby. He lived at the period
that the two American emigrants, John and Ralph,
went to New England, and while he was perhaps
not their father, there is every reason to believe
the emigrants were from Leicestershire and close
relatives. About the same time a branch of the
family located in Ireland. The coat of arms : Quar-
terly, or and az. in the two first quarters, a crescent,
counterchanged. Crest : An eagle or, wings close,
preying on a rabbit, argent.

(I) Ralph Farnum, the immigrant ancestor of
all the Farnum families of southern Worcester
county, was born in England, probably in Leicester-
shire, in 1603. He came from London in the brig
"James," which sailed from Southhampton. April
6. 1635, and reached Boston, June 3, 1635. He gave
his age at sailing as thirty-two, his wife Alice's
as twenty-eight, and they had with them three
young children, Mary, Thomas and Ralph. He was
a barber by trade, but a yeoman after coming to

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America. He settled at Ipswich, of which he was a
proprietor in 1639. He removed to Andover, Massa-
chusetts.

Ralph Farnum had a brother John who settled
in Dorchester about 1638, was made a freeman May
13, 1640, removed to Boston and bought shop and
land there about 1647, was member of Second
Church and deacon June 5. 1650; first wife Eliza-
beth; married (second), April 7, 1654, Susannah
Arnold, daughter of Thomas Arnold, of Water-
town, and had ten children. Ralph Farnum died
January 8, 1692-93, and the inventory of his estate
is dated March 29, 1693. The children of Ralph
were: I. Mary, born 1628, married Daniel Poor,
of Andover, Massachusetts, in Boston, October 20,
1650; resided at Andover; she died February 3,
1714, aged eighty-five years. 2. Thomas, born 1631,
married, July 8, 1660, Elizabeth Gibbons, who died
August 26, 1683; he died January II, 1685. 3.
Ralph, Jr., born 1633, married Elizabeth Hall, in An-
dover, October 2, 1658; she died October 14, 1710,
aged seventy-eight years ; he died January 8, 1691-92.

4. Sarah, born at Andover, married George Abbot.
April 16, 1658. 5. John, born 1640, see forward.

(H) John Farnum, son of Ralph Farnum (l),
was born at Andover, Massachusetts, about 1640,
and died there June 17, 1723, in his eighty-third year.
He married, November 12, 1667, Rebecca Kent,
daughter of Stephen Kent, of Newbury. Massachu-
setts. She died February 8, 1728-29, aged seventy-
eight years. Their children, born in Andover, were :
I. John, born January 20, 1670, died February 14,
1670. 2. John, see forward. 3. Stephen, born Octo-
ber 19, 1674, died young. 4. Anne, born Decem-
ber II, 1677, married Thomas Russ, April 17. 1701.

5. David, born October, 1681, died November 30,
1687. 6. Jonathan, born April 27. 16S4. died May
24, 1761 ; married (first), 1708, Elizabeth Parker,
who died June 18, 1732; (second), May 31, 1733.
Mehitable Poor, who died January 19, 1763, aged
seventy years. 7. Thomas, born August 11, 1687,
probably died young. 8. David, born April 4, 1690,
married Dorothy Duncan.

(HI) John "Farnum, Jr., son of John Farnum
(2), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 13,
1672, died in Mendon, September 9, 1749. in the
seventy-eighth year of his age. He removed to
Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1700. On the early
records there his name is spelled usually Ffarnum.
This double "F" was common on the colonial records
as well as English for many names beginning with
this letter. He bought the lot and town rights of
Job Tyler, called a fifteen acre right, July 8, 1701,
recorded in Suffolk, liber 23, folio 2. His name is
third on the list of proprietors who drew at the sixth
division, February 4, 1707. From time to time he
bought more land and drew with the other pro-
prietors from the common land until he was a large
owner of real estate. In his will which was proved
.•\ugust 30, 1749, he mentioned his wife Abigail,
sons John, Jr. and Moses, daughters Mary and Ann
Penniman. He married, June 30, 1693, Mary Tyler,
and (second), November. 1733, Abigail Marsh, of
Bellingham. She died February 21, 1759. The chil-
dren of John and Mary (Tyler) Farnum: I. Mary,
born at Andover, March 16, 1694. married Nathan
Penniman, of Mendon. December 5, 1716. 2. Anna,
born January 18. 1696. at Andover, died April 20,

1696. 3. John. Jr., born at Andover, December 26,

1697. married Mary Wood, of Mendon, November

8. 1722. 4. Ann, born June 3. 1701, married ■ ■

Penniman, at Mendon. S- Moses, born at !Mendon,
September 8, 1705. see forward.

(IV) Moses Farnum. son of John Farnum (3).
*as born at Mendon, September 8, 1705, died at

U.xbridge, Massachusetts, September 8, 1770. The-
part of Mendon in which he was born was set ofT
in 1727 as the town of Uxbridge. He was a farmer
and lived in Uxbridge on the farm afterwards
known as the Daniel Farnum place and later as the
Martin Brown place, about east from what is now
called Happy Hollow, and perhaps three-quarters
of a mile from the Hollow. He and his wife were
Presbyterians in religion until late in life when they
became Friends, according to the biographer of his-
son. He had one acre of land granted by the pro-
prietors. March 21. 1745-46. adjoining David
Aldrich's. His father conveyed to him, April 25,
1743, two hundred acres in Uxbridge. He bought
a farm of fifty-three acres in Douglas, November
27- 173S. but seemed to prefer Uxbridge as a home.
He bought of Robert Clark, of Uxbridge, forty-eight
acres at a place in Uxbridge called Hoop Pole Hill,.
October 20, 1742. He also bought land of Ephraim.
Hill in Douglas, May 20, 1737; of David Read, in
Uxbridge land at Shockologue, March 5, 1742-43;
of Jacob Aldrich in Uxbridge, March 2. 1742-43;
of Benjamin Taft in Uxbridge, December 20, 1743;
of Joseph Damon in Uxbridge, October 2, 1749. The
aggregate of his land purchased was over six hun-
dred acres. His will is dated May 25, 1768, and was
allowed November 12. 1770. In it he mentions the
cedar swamp at Shockologue and other property.

He married, November 10, 1726. Abigail Sanford,
who died October 2, 1773. Her will allowed Novem-
ber 8, 1773, mentions the children, namely: i. John^
born 1727-28, married (first), May 3, 1750, Eliza-
beth Gaskill, daughter of Samuel; married (sec-
ond), July 19, 1756, Martha Comstock. Children —
Joseph Noah, Stephen, Hilary, and Rachel. 2. Moses,
born October 25, 1730, see forward. 3. Mary (twin),,
born September 2. 1732. married Silas Taft. Chil-
dren — Ephraim, Moses, Darius, Peleg, Levi, Rachel
and Preserved Taft. 4. Anna (twin), born Sep-
tember 2, 1732, married Benjamin Buffum. 5. Han-
nah, born September 11. 1737, married John Reed,-
of Smithfield, and had ten children. 6. Stephen, born
September 19, 1739, died April 27, 1761. 7. Abigail,.
horn August 19, 1741, married David Harris, of
Smithfield, 1761. 8. Rachel, born January 13, 1743,
married Daniel Reed, of Smitlifield. 9. Jonathan-
(twin), born June 28, 1745, married Uranah Harris,
September 29. 1765, at Smithfield. 10. David (twin),
born June 28, 1745. died before his father.

(V) Moses Farnum, Jr., son of Moses Farnum
(4), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Octo-
ber 25, 1730, died there May 9, 1780. The memorial
written by Moses Brown is given here in full:
"His parents were then (1730) in profession with
the Presbyterians and were afterwards convinced
of the Truth as professed by us and were zealously
concerned to educate their children therein. This
concern was afterwards gratefully remembered by
the subject of this memoir as being to his lasting
advantage. When quite young he appears to have
been inattentive to these parental reproofs and to
have lightly esteemed concerned friends until his
tender mind was reached by the supplication of a
friend, particularly for his father's family in a meet-
ing held at his house. After this he dare not
speak lightly of our profession. Notwithstanding-
the repeated visitations of Divine Goodness to him
he made but little progress in religious experience
for several years.

".\fter he married and had a family of several
children around him. he became more obedient to
the teachings of truth and useful in our society,
and being favored to improve the talent received,
the Lord was pleased to commit unto him a gift in
the ministry. In entering upon which service he

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•was deeply baptised under a humbling sense of the
Aveight of such a work and often appeared much af-
fected in our meetings under the influence thereof.
He as a minister was a close reprover of back-
sliders; but to the sincere and heavy laden, his word?
-were like oil to their comfort and encouragement.
He was short but comprehensive in his public testi-
monies and at times much favored in supplication.
He was ready to indite in a short and comprehensive
manner and was extensively useful in the discipline
of the church.

"He was a man of good natural understanding
and capable of argument, yet he seldom engaged in
any doubtful disputation, but in our meetings for
discipline, when such questions arose, he forbore,
keeping a bridle upon his tongue until the truth
■opened his way; often by a simple expression of his
feelings they were satisfactorily settled.

"He was steady in the attendance of our religious
meetings and a good example therein, humbly wait-
ing for divine assistance and often recommended it
to others as the only way to renew their strength.
In the endearing relation of father and husband,
he was kind, tender and careful, keeping his family
constant in attending our meetings and^ bringing
them up in our Christian order of plainness of
speech, behavior and apparel and in the frequent
reading of the Holy Scripture and often called them
together to sit in silence, sometimes counseling as
truth gave utterance.

"But what rendered him more amiable in the
view of his friends as being a strong mark of true
discipleship was his readiness to be advised and to
take advice, showing thereby his great love for the
T)rethren. In his neighborhood he was useful and
respected, having a disposition and qualifications
■which rendered his company and conversation in-
•structive and desirable. He was useful and instru-
mental in obtaining the freedom of oppressed en-
slaved Africans and became so deeply concerned
to unbind the heavy burden and let the oppressed
•go free, that for several years before his death he
declined the use of such goods as he knew to be
the product of the labor of slaves.

"He very constantly attended the quarterly and
yearly meetings to which he belonged and traveled
•considerably within their limits as a minister visiting
monthly meetings in company with other friends.
He visited on a religious account most of the fam-
ilies in his own monthly meeting and some of them
several times to their satisfaction, being well quali-
fied for such a service. And in this as well as his
other labors he was fervently engaged for the pros-
perity of the youth.

"In the year 1799, with the concurrence of
Friends, he visited Pennsylvania on a religious ac-
count and attended the yearly meeting in Philadel-
phia and many adjacent meetings to the satisfaction
of Friends. Shortly after, in company with Abra-
ham Griffiths from Pennsylvania he made a religious
visit to Friends in the Salem Quarterly Meeting.
in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, and
'it being winter and much snow on the ground suf-
fered great hardship. And this with his exposure
-afterwards in going to meetings through roads im-
-passible for horses by reason of snow, caused him
to think he must perish by the way.

"He however remained in comfortable health
-until the third month of 1780, about which time he
•was observed to fail and his disease proving to be
apoplectic greatly affected his speech, yet he con-
versed brokenly and by signs until near his last.
Being asked as to the state of his mind he said
-that on a review of his life, he had seen many
ithings in which he had been unfaithful, but had

known them all done away, so that now nothing
but peace and quiet of mind remained and that this
was his happy state fully appeared by his patient
resignation through the whole of his illness.

"He gave his family much good advice, exhorting
them to live in love one to another and counseling
his children to be obedient to their remaining par-
ent and was enabled so to speak to them that they
were much affected.

"He had borne his testimony against war and
bloodshed by refusing to pay the tax for the sup-
port of it and near his end he expressed his satis-
faction that he had so done and his belief that such
a testimony would rise into dominion.

"About two days before his decease, feeling
hirnself drawn to a conclusion, he took his solemn
and final farewell of his family (at which time his
understanding appeared clear and he a little revived)
taking them each by the hand as well as others
present, being unable to say more than yes or no,
but with the appearance of a mind truly sensible
of the nature and solemnity of such a parting.

"He gradually sunk till near the close, when
falling into a sleep, he remained till he breathed his
last without a sigh or groan, the ninth day of the
fifth month 1780. His remains were interred in the
Friends' burying ground in Uxbridge on the eleventh
following, on which occasion a large concourse of
Friends and other attended.

"Thus time closed with a valiant in the Lord's
cause, who we doubt not is now at rest in a mansion
of glory. Signed on behalf and by direction of the
meeting aforesaid held at Smithfield the first day
of the ninth month 1780 by Thomas Lapham, clerk."

Moses Farnum married Sarah Comstock, who
died March i. 1776, and (second) Elizabeth South-
wick, who died May 2, 1777. His real estate was
divided May 21, 17S2. The children of Moses and
Sarah Farnum: i. David, born at Uxbridge. Sep-
tember 29, 1753, see forward. 2. Daniel, born June
I4> I7SS. died Qctober 14, 1772. 3. Ann, born Janu-
ary 19, 1758, died June 4, 1833; married Seth Gif-
ford, of New Bedford, settled in Uxbridge. 4.
George, born June 12, 1760, died March 15, 1837;
married (first). 1787, Sarah Pitts; (second) her
sister Deborah Pitts, in 1790. 5. Royal, born Janu-
a''y 7. 1763, married, 1792, Widow Aldrich, who
died April 15, 1852. 6. Peter, born May 22, 1765,
removed to Grafton where he died May 6, 1832 ;
married Susannah Wadsworth. March 9, 1788, and
died September, 1865. 7. Abigail, born July 20, 1767,
died May, 1794; married (first). May, 1784, James
Buggum ; (second). 1791, Seth Sumner, of Taunton.
8. Moses, born April 10, 1770, died August 21, 185S;
married (first), December 5, 1792, Rachel Daniels,
born December 25, 1767, died August 11, 1846: (sec-
ond), December 21, 1847, Widow Mary (Barker)
Allen, the gifted Friends minister, who died at
Nantucket, January 31, 1861, aged eighty-seven
years. 9. Sarah, born April 7, 1780, died Septem-
ber :o, 1853; married. May 3, 1797, James Hark-
ness ; he died April 27, 1806: (second), August S,
1807, Caleb A. Wall, of Worcester, well known
antiquarian and editor, and had several children.

(VI) David Farnum. son of Moses Farnum (5).
was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, September 29,
1753, died at Grafton, February 29, 1844. He mar-
ried, December 7, 1781, Ruth Southwick. He had
land laid out to him by the proprietors in the western
part of Uxbridge, May 31, 1805. The children of
David and Ruth Farnum: I. Hannah, born De-
cember 22. 1782, died May 29. i860; married
Humphrey Taylor, resided in Grafton. 2. Daniel,
born November 22. 1784, see forward. 3. Moses,
born January 29, 1789, settled in the state of Michi-

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gan. 4. Plicbe, born April 15, 1791, died October
3, 1852, unmarried. 5. Jesse, born June 7, 1795. died
July 10. 1877, in Grafton, Massachusetts. 6. Mowry,
born December 23, 1799, see forward. 7. Samuel
Judson, born November 8, 1805. removed to Pough-
keepsie, New York; married Sally Ann Swartout,
and resided at Newburgh, New York.

(VII) Daniel Farnum, son of David Farnum
(6), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber' 22, 1784, died December 10, 1879, in North-
bridge, the town adjoining. He lived in North-
bridge near the Uxbridge line through all the mature
part of his life. We quote_from Kurd's history:
"Daniel Farnum was born with a good constitution,
which he preserved well by regular and temperate
habits, experiencing but little sickness, and retain-
ing his faculties in remarkable vigor till within the
last year of his life. He was emphatically a sound
mind in a sound body; he was characterized for
sound common sense, a strong sentiment of justice
and honesty, insistence on his own rights, and re-
spect for those of others ; economy, simplicity and
hospitality in domestic affairs ; was provident, faith-
ful and "kind in the family circle : a serviceable,
judicious and trustworthy townsman, honored with
the principal municipal offices, including those of
selectman and representative to the general court;
a reliable counselor in financial matters : a lover
of his country and its liberties; a firm opposer of
slavery and oppression ; sparing in religious pro-
fession, of broad tolerance toward all denomina-
tions ; liberal in theology, and a steadfast hoper in
the final triumph of good over evil. These were
qualities and characteristics which in Mr. Farnum
overshadowed the incidental imperfections common
to human nature.

"He was warmly attached to the interests of the
town, and was a constant attendant on the town
meetings, the last one he attended being in 1878,
when in his ninety-fourth year. Among the posi-
tions of public financial trust he occupied was that
of director of the Blackstone National Bank of Ux-
bridge over twenty years. He had been expecting
his departure for three years, expressed his entire
resignation to the Divine disposal, and passed away
in the confident assurance of the life everlasting,
December 10, 1870, aged ninety-five years and
eighteen days."

He married, February 28, 181 1, Mary Southwick,
of Uxbridge. Their children: i. Jonathan, born
October 15, 1812, died July 14. 1814- 2. Joseph S..
born August 21, 1S14, died December 22, 1873, at
Worcester; married Lois N, Stoddard. 3. Luke S.,
born January 20, 18:7, died August 23, 1883; mar-
ried Chloe Taft and had four children. 4. Ruth
M., born August 29, i8ig. resided at Uxbridge
and Northbridge. .=;. James M., born April 11, 1822,
see forward. 6. Mary Alice, born August 4, 1828,

married Rockwood, of Brookline. 7. Ann Eliza,

resided in Lancaster.

(VIII) James Moore Farnum, son of Daniel
Farnum (7), was born in Northbridge. Massachu-
setts, April II, T822. He was educated in the' pub-
lic schools of Northbridge and at Macomber Acad-
emy. Uxbridge, and Bolton Academy, Bolton, Mas-
sachusetts. While in school he worked on his
father's farm and learned to make shoes as farmers'
sons usually did in those days. He spent his active
years in farmin.g and lumbering. He dealt in cran-
berries which iie grew extensively. He was one
of the leading farmers and men of affairs of Ux-
bridge. He was a prominent Republican. Was
elected representative to the general court in 1889
and served his town with credit to himself and his
constituents ; was selectman for several years : mem-

ber of the school committee; trustee of the Uxbridge
Savings Bank ; several years president of the Black-
stone Valley Agricultural Society; president of the
Creamery Company of Uxbridge. He was a mem-
ber of the Second Congregational Church. He was
an active member and for many years the treasurer
of the Solomon Temple Lodge of Free Masons, of
Uxbridge. He was distinctly a gentleman of the
old school, courtly, polite, considerate of others, up-
right and straightforward.

He married, May 26, 1847, Ophelia Stoddard,
daughter of Lot Stoddard, of Medway, Massachu-
setts. Their children: i. Alice, born May 28. 1849,
married, January 11, 1871, Charles W. Ellison and
their children were : Minnie Farnum Ellison, born
October 7, 1873, died January 18, 1874; Elizabeth •
Clark Ellison, born August 5, 1876, died August 13,
1882; Alice Mary Ellison, born March 4, 1883;
Edith Ellison, born 1884. 2. Daniel Stoddard, born
April 4, 1855. married Flora Lily Baily, April 6,
1881 ; their children : Clarence Stoddard, born No-
vember 30, 1882; Royal, born June 11, 1884: Willis
Herbert, born July 23, 1898. 3. James Herbert,
born August 15. 1857, married, August 11, 1886,
Emma Jane Jefferson ; no issue. 4. Sarah Joanna,
born July 20, i860, married. January 11, 1SS2, Frank
J. Hamilton, a very prominent citizen of Uxbridge;
their only child — Mary Westcott Hamilton, born
September 14, 1883, married, June 29, 1905, Walter
Garfield Brown, civil engineer, now residing in
Brooklyn, New York.

(VII) Iilowry Farnum, son of David Farnum
(6), was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 23, 1799. He was educated in the district schools ,
of Uxbridge, and when a young man learned the
trade of wool sorter there. He followed this trade
several years. About 1823 he went to Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, and entered business with George
Wall in the manufacture of woolen goods at South
Fitchburg, continuing until about 1826, but met
with reverses. He then returned to Grafton and
built the Peter Farnum mill which he operated in
the manufacture of woolens for fifteen years. He
sold the business to Waterman Fisher and bought
the Jonathan Whipple farm on the road to Grafton
(Tenter. After about five years of farming there,
he moved to Millbury and in partnership with
Jonathan Wheeler hired the Singletary mill at Bra-
mansville of Frank Tenney, of Boston. This was
twice burned but rebuilt. In 1854, when it was last
burned, he closed out his interests and removed to-
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he began the manufact-
ure of plows, and later was in the hotel business
with his son, Charles W. Farnum.

He was mayor of the city of Cedar Rapids for
six years at the time of the civil. war, and was one
of the organizers of the Union League. Those
were the times when political feeling ran high, men
were divided in opposing camps in Iowa, as in
Kansas and i\Iissouri, and it took a determined ef-
fort such as that made in Cedar Rapids to preserve
the state for the Union. Mr. Farnum was elected
county judge, a position he held until his death in
March, 1868. He was reared a Quaker, but in later
years was a Unitarian. In early life he was a Whig,
later a Republican. He was a charter member of
Solomon Temple Lodge of Masons at Uxbridge,
and a member of Tyrian Royal Arch Chapter of
Alillbury. During the civil war he was a member
of the local militia, the Home Guards of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.

He married, at Fitchburg, Evelina Johnson Gib-
son, daughter of Leonard Gibson, of Fitchlnirg and
Westminster, Massachusetts. Their children, all

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born in Grafton, Masaclnisctts, were : Charles Will-
an.1. born June 14, 1826, sec forward. George South-
wick, born January 16, 1828, married Alice Taft,
of ^Iillbury, and had George Gardner Taft; David
Gibson, born ]\Iarch 9, 1830. married Fannie Dodd,
of Worcester; Henry Clay, born June 12, 1832, died
in Lincoln, Nebraska ; Daniel Webster, born June
26, 1834; Evelina Jane, born September 2. 1836,
married Wellington W. Higlcy, of Cedar Rapids,
and they have: Charles Wellington, William, Jes-
sie. Sarah Ellen, born April 26. 1828. married John
Bishop, of Cedar Rapids, and they have : Dwight,
George, Daniel, Nora. Mattie, John Davis, born
February 22, 1841 ; Mary Augusta, born December
8, 1843, died March 25, 1846.

(VIII) Charles Willard Farnum, son of Mowry
Farnum (7), was born in Grafton, i\Iassachusetts,
June 14, 1826, in the village known as Farnuras-
ville. He received his education in the common
schools of Farnumsville, in the Grafton high school
and in Leicester Academy, from which he graduated
in 1S45. He worked with his father on the home-
stead for four or five years and worked in his.
father's cotton mill, in wdiich he became an over-
seer in 1845. This mill was at Bramanville, in Mill-
bury, and later Mr. Farnum became the superintend-
ent. In 1854, when the mill was burned, he ac-
cepted a position as overseer of weaving in the
Cordis' mill in Millbury Center, where he remained
a year.. He then removed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
and was in the hotel business with his father two
years. He returned to Worcester and took up rail-
roading for an occupation. He began as locomotive
engineer on the Norwich & Worcester Railroad.
After a year he took a similar position on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, residing at Easton, Penn-
sylvania. He was passenger engineer on the Chi-
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad a year and then
accepted a position in a railroad supply establish-
ment. He returned east and was an engineer on the
Providence & Worcester Railroad during the civil
war, and for twenty years afterward, living mean-
while at Valley Falls, Rhode Island ; Worcester and
Uxbridge, ^lassachusetts. On account of ill health
he left the railroad business and bought a farm in
the east part of the town of Uxbridge of Henry
Taft, July 17, 1877. He sold it March 28. 1879, to
John Bacon and in the following year engaged in
the retail grocery business in Worcester in part-
nership with J. W. Day. They bought the store
of George Rogers, Pleasant street. This business
was closed out and later he opened another store
on his own account on Main street, near School
street, where he was located two years. In 1883 he
accepted the position of master mechanic of the
Fisher Manufacturing Company at Fisherville, Mas-
sachusetts. After eight years there and one year as
engineer on the Grafton & Upton Railroad, he re-
turned to LTxbridge to become master mechanic for
the Capron Woolen Company. March 12, 1895, he
bought of Jane Bacon his original farm of thirty-
two years acres at Uxbridge and conducted it un-
til 1905, w-hen he sold it and has since lived in Ux-
bridge Center, having retired from active business.
Mr. Farnum is a Unitarian in religion, a Republi-
can in politics. He is a member of L^nion Lodge,
No. 10. of ^Masons, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and
of the Pawtucket Royal Arch Chapter, No. 4. He
was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and of the W'orcester City Guards.

He married, January 30, 1850, Frances Eugenia
Benchley. born at Grafton, Massachusetts. ^lay 26,
1828, died August 7, 1861. daughter of James Healey
and Nancy Hemenway (Allen) Benchley, of Mill-
bury. Their children ; Isabel, born December 3,

1852, died August 29. 1853; Charles Mowrj-, born
July 27, 1861, see forward.

(IX) Charles Mowry Farnum, sou of Charles
Willard Farnum (8), was born at Worcester, July
27, 1861. He began his education in the old Salem
street primary grades, subsequently going to Syca-
more street school and later to the Woodland street-
grammar school, from which he graduated in the
class of 1878. entering the Classical high school
in the fall, remaining but a short time. He worked
for a few months as clerk in the carpet house of
J. S. Pinkham in the old Continental Hall. Then
he began the study of dentistry in the office of Dr.
C. Frank Bliven, Elm street, but after a year he was
obliged by ill health to discontinue study. In the
fall of 1880 he entered the employ of S. R. Leland
& Son, music house, where he was sheet music
clerk for several years, then manager of the band
instrument department and traveling salesman for
New England. He remained in the employ of this
firm until April, 1895, when he accepted a position
with the M. B. Lamb house as piano salesman.
April 13, 1903, he became piano salesman of ■ Seth
Richards & Co., where he remained until October
I, 1905, when he accepted a position in the genea-
logical department of the Lewis Publishing Coinpany
of New York and Chicago, a position he now holds.

He is a member of Piedmont Congregational
Church. In politics he is a Republican. He was
made a member of Montacute Lodge of INIasons,
May 27, 1895, and served as worshipful master of
that lodge in 1904 and 1905. He was made a
member of Eureka Chapter of Royal Arch Masons,
November 12. 1895. and held office in that body. He
received his Cryptic degrees in Hiram Council of
■Royal and Select jNIasters, December 26, 1895. and
was made a membe'r of Worcester County Com-
mandery. No. 5, Knights Templar, September 30,
i8g6. He was made a member of Lawrence Chap-
ter, Rose Croix, Scottish Rite, Eighteenth degree,
March 20, 1897. He is also a member of Worces-
ter Council, No. 12, Royal Arcanum.

He married. September 15, 1885, Georgianna
Logan Weir, born at Worcester, September 4. 1864,
daughter of George and Agnes (Young) Weir, of
Worcester, natives of Renfrewshire, Scotland. They
have no children.

DANIELS FAMILY. Robert Daniels (i), the
immigrant ancestor of the Daniels family at Mendon
and vicinity, was born in England about 1590. He
deposed June 26, 1652, that he was sixty years of
age and upwards. He died July 6, 1655. He was
an early settler at Watertown. Massachusetts, and
was a proprietor of the town in 1636. He was a
husbandman. He removed to Cambridge in 1636,
but was again in Watertown. He was admitted a
freeman March 14. 1638-39. He was of Water-
town October 7, 1651, when he sold to .Edward
Garfield six acres of land on the hither plain. He
sold six acres to John Whitney December 22, 1651,
also on the hither plain. Shortly before his death
he was excused from training. April. 1655. being
then over sixty years old. He was in Cambridge
again after 1651. He w-as a town officer in Cam-
bridge. His wife Elizabeth died October 2. 1643.
He married. May 2. 1654. Reana Andrew, widow of
William Andrew. His will was dated July 3. 1655,
and was proved October 2. 1655. He bequeathed!
to his widow Reana the estate she had when they
married and other property. He named five chil-
dren, as below, also his cousin. Anna Newcomen.
the widow married (third) Edmund Frost. Chil-
dren of Robert and Elizabeth Daniels were: Eliza-
beth, married Thomas Fanning ; Samuel, settled on

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Bogistow pond, Medfield, married Mercy Grant,
of Watertown, and had five children; died 1695:
Joseph, of whom later ; Sarah, married William
Cheney ; Mary, born September 2, 1642, married.
1660, Sampson Frary, who was slain at Deerfield in
1704 by Indians; Thomas, buried September 6,
1644.

(H) Joseph Daniels, son of Robert Daniels (i),
was born about 1640 in Watertown or Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He died in 1715. He was one of
the early settlers of Medfield, Massachusetts, was
townsman there in 1662 and signed the agreement
witli other settlers. His home was on the Bogistow
brook, southeast of Richardson's mills, where the
late Paul Daniels lived. A settler was killed by
the Indians on this farm during King Philip's war.
Joseph Daniels had various grants on the west side
of the river. His house was burned by the Indians
in 1676 during the war, and he was one of the Med-
field petitioners to the general court for relief after
the war. He was selectman of Medfield three
years. In 1700 he kept the school in the west side
of the town.

He married (first), November 16, 1665, Mary
Fairbanks, daughter of George Fairbanks, of Sher-
■born. She died 1682. He married (second)
.Rachel Shefiield, who died 1687. He married (third)
X.ydia Allen, widow of James Allen. Children of
Joseph and Mary Daniels were : Joseph, Jr., born
September 23, 1666, settled in jNIedfield ; Mary, born
July 4, 1669 ; her son Henry lived to be ninety-nine
j'ears old; Samuel, born October 20, 1671; Mehita-
ble, born July 10, 1674, died 1686 ; Ebenezer, born
April 24, 1677, married, 1701, Elizabeth Partridge;
married (second), 1707, Mary Harding; Elizabeth,
born March 9, 1679, married, 1705, Joseph Mason;
married (second), 1730, John Draper, of Dedham ;
Jeremiah, born March 17, 16S0, died June, 1680;
Eleazer, born March 9, 1681, of whom later. Chil-
dren of Joseph and Rachel Daniels : Jeremiah, born
16S4, married, 1713, Haimah Partridge; Rachel, born
1686; Zechariah, born 1687, died young.

(HI) Eleazer Daniels, son of Joseph Daniels
■(2), was born March 9, 1681. He settled in Mendon
and drew various lands there. He became a large
land-holder. He deeded swamp lands in Mendon,
October 8, 1727, "received from my honored uncle'.
William Holbrook," situated at Chestnut hill near
Hop brook to Thomas Thayer. He deeded to his
""well beloved son Joseph for parental love, good-
■ivill and natural affection" the eleventh lot in the
■country gore on the Leicester line May 13, 1746.
He deeded other lands to his son David and had ap-
■parently disposed of his real estate before death.
"The name of his wife does not appear upon any
■of tlie deeds examined. His two sons were ; Jo-
seph, mentioned in deeds ; David, of whom later.

(IV) David Daniels, son Eleazer Daniels (3).
Avas born about 17 10 and came to Mendon with his
parents. His father deeded to him three hundred
acres of land December 28, 1743. and also three
hundred acres in Mendon April 14, 1755. The lat-
ter tract of land was bounded on land of Benjamin
Wheelock and Aaron Thayer. He divided his land
in his will dated September 15, 1775, and filed June.
1776. To Darius Daniels he gave some money and
much land, including a section of the homestead,
eighty acres on the Rehoboth road, twenty-one
acres on the west side of the Rehoboth road and
another lot of eighty acres. To Moses he gave
land on Mill river on the Rehoboth road and part
of the homestead. To David he gave the section
of the farm on the south and also other pieces of
land in Mendon. Seth KtUey, his son-in-law, was
the executor.

He married Huldah , who made her will

December 9, 1794, naming therein all the children,
ten in number, though Huldah was deceased. This
will was filed July 2, 1799, and she probably died
in June. The children of David and Huldah Daniels
were: Darius, of whom later; David, had chil-
dren — Simon, Libbeus (son), Amos, Tyler, Smith,
Samuel, Adams, Polly, Olive, married Aid-
rich. Moses, Clotilda, married Baker; Ruth,

married Jonathan Wheelock; (second) Sta-
ples ; Molly, married Seth Kelley ; Chloe, married
Davenport; Mercy, married Wiliams; Ma-
tilda, married Gould ; Huldah, married

Penniman; (second) Death.

(V) Darius Daniels, son of David Daniels (4),
was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1740.
He died in 1832, aged ninety-two years, at Mendon.
His estate was administered by John Fowler, ap-
pointed May 26, 1832, when his only surviving chil-
dren appeared to be according to probate records :
Nathan, of whoin later ; Adolphus, born October
I, 1778. at Mendon; married Alsey, who was born
in Smithfield. Rhode Island, January 12, 1785,
daughter of Ezekiel Fowler (see sketch of Fowler
family) and they had eleven children; Joseph, a
prominent citizen of Mendon. There were eight
other children, all by the first wife, Ruth Aldrich.
The second wife was Mary. Darius died at the age
of ninety-two from the results of a fall and was
buried in the cemetery between Uxbridge and
^lendon given by the Aldrich family. Nine' of the
eleven children grew to maturity.

(VI) Nathan Daniels, son of Darius Daniels
(5), was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, December
12, 1769, and died there October 5, 1839. He made
his will September 20, 1838, and it was allowed May
28, 1839. He married Sarah Hilliard, who was born
1760 and died May I, 1814. The children were:
Hester (Kittcry), born April 9, 1797, married Jacob
Aldrich (see will) ; Bathsheba, born April 19, 1800,
married Esek Pitts, mentioned in will ; Sarah,
born August 5, iSoi, died January 18, 1827 ; Silence,
born July 22, 1804, died November 26, 1804 ; Mar-
cena, son born October 31, 1807, mentioned in will;
Absalom, born April 16, 1809, died September 20,
1854, mentioned in father's will; married March 9,
1829. R. Southwick ; Christopher, born March 10,
1810, of whom later; Margenia, born October I,
1811.

(Vin Christopher Daniels, son of Nathan
Daniels (6), was born in Mendon, March 10. 1810.
He was educated in the common schools of his na-
tive town, and was brought up on the farm. He
worked also in the straw shop and learned the trade
of shoemaker. After the custom of the farmers of
lilassachusetts in his day he worked at his trades in
winter and farmed in the summer. He was active
in town affairs and was a leading citizen for many
years. He was assessor and selectman of Mendon
and was elected to various other positions of trust
responsibility by his townsmen. In later years he
was a Republican in politics and greatly interested
in public questions. As a farmer he was excep-
tionally successful. He had a good dairy farm and
sold butter, milk and produce in the markets of
the vicinity. He was uniformly prosperous. He
was a member of the Society of Friends.

He married, June 9, 1839. Mary A. Southwick,
of Blackstone. Their children: i. Minerva, born
June 20, 1840, died 1895. 2. Sarah, born September
15, 1842, married, April 4, 1865, Charles Henry and
they have children — Andrew, born January 22. 1867;
Darius, born October 7. 1869. died January 8, 1902 ;
married Susan M. Brown, January 31. 1894. and
had Susan, born January 26, 1895 ; Charles A.

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Henry, born March i8, 1873. 3. Nathan George,
born 1845, died 1895 ; was a splendid type of the
New England farmer, of high character, good
judgment, cheerful temperament; influential in
town atTairs ; died in the prime of life, aged forty-
live years, unmarried.

JOSEPH DE MARCO was born in Brindisi di
^lontagna, Italy, January i. 1873. He is the son of
Francesco De Marco and Carmela Volpe. He was
one of twelve children, nine sons and three daugh-
ters. One of the brothers and Joseph came to
America. Achille De Marco came to this country
in 1882; died here February 12, 1903. Joseph is the
■only son living ; seven died in infancy.

Joseph De Marco landed at New York city June
17, 1887, and June ig, 1887, he arrived in Wor-
cester. He was educated in the schools of his na-
tive town in Italy, and left a technical school to
•come to this country. He went to work first for
L. J. Zahoni, the caterer, in Worcester, where his
■brother who came before him, was then employed.
By close study and intense application he mastered
the English language so thoroughly in three years
that he became the interpreter for the Worcester
county courts. From iSgo to 1894 he held this re-
:sponsible position, and became well known to the
lawyers and public men of the county. In 1897 he
went into business for himself. He started his
present business as banker and ticket agent for the
Italian people. His office is at 130 Shrewsbury
street, Worcester. He is a leader among the Ital-
ians of this section and his office is a sort of in-
telligence bureau and exchange for all Italian speak-
ing people.

In 1897 he was appointed notary public by Gov-
•ernor Woger Wolcott, and has since been re-ap-
pointed. In 1898 he enlisted in Company H, Massa-
chusetts Volunteers, for the war with Spain. After
the war he returned to Worcester and resumed his
business. In 1901 he was appointed justice of the
peace by Governor Bates. He is a member of the
Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias.

He married Rosina Grazietta Laraia. Their
■children, born in Worcester are : Achille, born
1896 ; Frank, born 1901 ; John, born 1902. They
Teside together with Rose, the widow of his brother,
Achille De Marco, at 150 Bloomingdale road,
"Worcester.

PATRICK FRANCIS BOYLE, son of Patrick
and Anna (Small) Boyle, and grandson of John
Boyle, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, March
;8, 1872. He removed to Worcester with his parents
when he was one year old, and was educated there
in the public schools. His father was a shoemaker
'by trade; was born in Ireland and came to America
in the fifties. He worked in various shoe factories,
■finally starting in business for himself as the pro-
prietor of a shoe store, Millbury street, Worcester,
where he was in successful business rnany years.

Patrick F. Boyle began his business career after
leaving school as clerk in the meat and grocery store
-of J. E. Lawton, Worcester. He also worked in
the market of Henry Brothers. Worcester. In 1902
he entered the hotel business, purchasing Hotel
Somerset, corner of Summer and Belmont streets,
Worcester. He has conducted the hotel under the
name of P. F. Boyle & Company very successfully.
It was one of the larger hotels of the city, and is
•centrally located opposite Lincoln Square station
■of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Mr. Boyle is a
Ionian Catholic in religion, a member of St. Anne's
parish, Worcester. He is independent in politics.

He belongs to the Worcester 'Aerie of the Order
of Eagles.

He married, June 26, 1894, Margaret Harrahy,
daughter of John and Maria (Henry) Harrahy, of
VVorcester. Lawrence Henry, father of Maria
(Henry) Harrahy, resides on Dartmouth street,
Worcester. Mr. Boyle's grandmother, Anna Small,
is also living, so his children have the unusual ad-
vantages of having two great-grandparents living.
Mrs. Small has just turned the century mark and
enjoys every faculty and best of health; she resides
at Grafton, Massachusetts. The Small family came
to Worcester in 1844 from Connaught, Ireland, and
has been prominent in Worcester for the past sixty
years. Children of Patrick F. and Margaret Boyle:
John H.. born at Worcester, October i, 1895; Rena
Lillian, born at Worcester. May 20, 1902; Frank
Henry, born April 26, 1904.

FRANK DANIEL TUCKER was born at Charl-
ton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, June 4, 1852.
He is the son of Daniel H. Tucker, a farmer and
lumber dealer at Charlton, who died in January,
1904, aged eighty-nine years. The grandfather of
Frank D. Tucker was Jonas Tucker, of Charlton,
whose children were: Mary Rich and Daniel Har-
wood Tucker. Daniel H. Tucker's children were:
Jonas W.. who settled at Downer's Grove, Illinois,
in the seventies ; Mary L., married Jason West, liv-
ing at Oxford : Julia S., married A. R. Jones, liv-
ing in West Somerville; Frank D., see forward;
Harriet A., married J. Abel Marsh. West Somer-
ville ; Sarah A., married George A. Lamb, of Spen-
cer, died about 1894; Martha A., married H. D.
Aldrich, West Somerville; Charles H., married Mary
Hammond, of Webster ; George N., married Maud
Parsons, on the old Charlton homestead; Ellen L.,
married John Hammond.

Frank Daniel Tucker, whose naine heads this
memoir, was educated at the common schools of
Charlton and Dudley. He remained at home on his
father's farm until thirty years of age, and he em-
barked in general merchandise business at Rochdale
in 1887. During that year he was made postmaster
and still holds the office. He is director and treas-
urer of the Rochdale Hall Comporation and a lead-
ing business factor of the place. Politically Mr.
Tucker is a supporter of the principles of the Demo-
cratic party, and in his church connection is an at-
tendant of the Baptist denomination.

January 2, 1878, he married Mary Augusta Bul-
lard, daughter of Joseph Bullard. of West Sutton.
Mrs. Tucker's grandfather was Dr. Artemas Bul-
lard. of West Sutton. His daughter was the wife
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The children all at-
tended college except Joseph. There were four Con-
gregational ministers in the family. The old his-
toric homestead belongs to Henry B. Bullard, and
Frank D. Tucker highly prizes the fine picture of
this house. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker
is brightened by the presence of three children, liv-
ing: Fred L., born June 15. i88.'i; George D.. July
6, 1888; Celia F., October 28. 1894. The sons are
both associated with their father in the store which
he conducts at Rochdale.

CHARLES BENJAMIN POST. Benjamin Post .
(i), father of Charles B. Post, of Worcester, Mass-
achusetts, was the son of Benjamin Post, one of the
pioneers in Fayette. Seneca county, New York. This
is a farming town some three miles from the city
of Geneva. Beniamin Post. Sr. was a farmer. His
children were: John; Daniel: Anthony: James; Ja-
cob; Benjamin: Mary Jane; Elizabeth. All the

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children settled in the vicinity of Fayette and have
many descendants.

(II) Benjamin Post, Jr., was also a farmer in
Fayette. He married Lavinia E. Kipp. Their chil-
dren were: Alice, died at the age of thirty-five;
William ; Charles Benjamin, Harry, Walter, Newton,
died young ; Irving, died young.

(III) Charles Benjamin Post, son of Benjamin
Post (2), was born at West Fayette. He attended
the common schools at Fayette and the high school
or, as it was then called, the Classical and Training
school, at Geneva, New York. For some time he
was a teacher in the public schools. He decided to
secure a business education and entered the Roches-
ter, New York Business Institute, and also took a
teacher's training course at the same institute, from
which he graduated in 1891. Since his graduation
he has been engaged as teacher and principal of
business colleges, having shown a special aptitude
for this kind of teaching. He held positions in the
Rochester Business Institute, Rochester, New York ;
in Elliott's Business College, Burlington, Iowa ; in
Jersey City Business College, Jersey Cit}-, New. Jer-
sey; and for five years in Becker's Business College,
Worcester. At Becker's he was the head teacher
and introduced the actual business practice used in
that institution. Mr. Post has also been president
and director of the course of study in the Water-
bury Business University. He came to Worcester
in 1894, and in 1899 established the Worcester Busi-
ness Institute, which has proved very successful
and grown rapidly. The institute has spacious and
well furnished quarters in the Taylor block on Main
street opposite the city hall. The business depart-
ment is fitted with roll top desks and all the equip-
ment of a thoroughly luodern business college. The
institute aims to educate bookkeepers and stenog-
raphers for practical and immediated usefulness
in the offices of manufacturers, mercantile estab-
lishments, and all the other oflices where modern
business methods are in vogue. Many of the grad-
uates are already filling positions of trust and re-
sponsibility. The education of the business insti-
tute is exceedingly practical. Many men who are
fitting themselves for a business career or to take
charge of important interests through inheritance
or otherwise, find that a thorough training in a
good business college, like that of Mr. Post's is
one of the best kind of safeguards against loss and
trouble. He is a member of Old South Church. He
is a Free Mason, belonging to Montacute Lodge and
Worcester Royal Arch Chapter. In politics he is
a Republican. He married December 30, 1892,
at Fayette, New York, Ella Kuney. She was born
at Fayette, New York, August 20. 1870. She is the
daughter of William H. Kuney and Lucinda (Beary)
Kuney. She is descended from an old Pennsyl-
vania family.

EAMES FAMILY. Thomas Fames fi). the
immigrant ancestor of Henry C. Eames and Edward
E. Eames, of Paxton. Massachusetts, of the Eames
family of Sherborn, Framingham and Boylston, was
a native of England. He deposed in court in 1651
that he was about thirty-four years old, hence his
year of birth was 1617. He was a brickmaker by
trade and also a mason. He came to this country
in 1634 and immediately afterward was a soldier
in the Pequot war. He was in Medford, Massa-
chusetts, from 1652 to 1659, occupying a water
privilege on the banks of the Mystic. He owned
a house and eight acres of land in Cambridge in
1664-65. Subse(|uently he settled in Sherborn on
land now within the town of Framingham. In
1669 he built a house and barn on the southern

slope of Mount Wayte. At one time during King
Philip's war, February i, 1676-77, when he was
absent from home, in Boston, the Indians fell upon
his defenseless family and set fire to his buildings.
His household then consisted of his wife, eight or
nine children, besides one or two children of his
wife by her former marriage. His wife and five of
the children were butchered after a desperate re-
sistance, in which the woman used hot soap as a
means of defence. The remainder of the children
were carried into captivity, whence three of them,
Margart, Samuel and Nathaniel, managed to escape.
Thomas lost all his movable property as well as
his buildings with the exception of the two horses
and what he had with hint in Boston. He estimated
the value of his buildings and other property lost
at three hundred and thirty pounds. As indemnifica-
tion for this loss he received a grant of land from
the general court, two hundred acres. He was
formally received as an inhabitant of Sherborn, Jan-
uary 4. 1674-75, and was a selectman of the town,
after the tragedy, in 1678, and was one of the com-
mittee to build the first meeting house in Sherborn,
for which land was granted him. The first planters
appeared to be very anxious to retain liim in the
community. He dropped dead on January 25, 1680.

He married Margaret , who was admitted

to the church January 28, 1641-42. The children:

1. John, born at Dedham, October 6, 1642, married
Mary — — , who died April 3, l68t ; (second) Eliza-
beth Eames and he had ten children. 2. Samuel,
born January 15, 1664-65, had by wife. Patience
Twitchell. at Sherborn, (Sershom, and by second
wife, Mary (Hunt) Leland, widow of Isaac Leland,
Susanna, Patience, Gershom, who settled in Boyls-
ton, Massachusetts, with his cousin William; 'Nlar-
tha, Lois, Lydia, Mary. Reuben, Ezra, and Mary,
born 1747-48. 3. Nathaniel, born December 30, 1668,
see forward. 4. Margaret. The names of the chil-
dren who were killed are not given. After Samuel
was captured he spent from February to May in
captivity, then managed to escape by looking for
plaintains, which grew only near English habitations.
Samuel was the ancestor of the Upton family in
Worcester county.

(II) Nathaniel Eames, son of Thomas Eames
(i), was born December 30, 1668, at Sherborn, Mas-
sachusetts. He was captured by the Indians when
about ten years old, during the King Philip war,
and was in captivity from February until May, when
he and his older brother and sister managed to
escape and finally return home. He settled in Sher-
born. He married Anna . Their children were :

r. Lydia, born December 10, 1694. married Benja-
min Muzzy, of Lexington. 2. Rebecca, born July
25, 1697, married Daniel Bigelow. 3. William, mar-
ried, 1733. Sarah Perry, of Holliston, and had^
Sarah, born 1734: Hannah, born 1737, died young.

4. Daniel, see forward.

(III) Daniel Eames. son of Nathaniel Eames
(2). was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts. March
20, 1711-12. He settled in that part of Sherborn
set off as Holliston. where his father and grand-
father also lived. He married. September 21, 1738,
Silence Leland and their children were: I. Daniel,
born March 28. 1740, married, 176:, Mary Cutler.

2. Hopestill, died young. 3. Hopestill, born June 28,,
T742. died .April 5. 1821 ; married Mary Leland,
daughter of David Leland, of Holliston, 1768, anj
had a large family. 4. Lydia, born 1746, died June

5. t8t4: married Joshua Lhiderwood, of Holliston.
5! .A.nna, married Colonel John Gleason, of Fram-
ingham. 6. William, see forward.

(IV) William Fames, son of Daniel Eames (3),
was born in Holliston. Massachusetts, formerly

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Sherborii, in 1749. About the time of his marriage
he settled in Boylston, Massachusetts. He married
(first) Lois Fisk and (second) Martha Jennings,
of Natick, Massachusetts. It is told of him that
having chosen a spot in the woods on which to build
his house he left his jacket to mark the spot while
he went to dinner at the house of a neighboring
settler. He cleared his farm in the wilderness.
His cousin, Gershom Eames, also settled in Boyls-
ton. His original farm is owned now in part by
his descendants, having been handed down in the
family. The farm is in that part of Boylston set
off as West Boylston. He was a soldier in the
revolution in 1777 on the Bennington alarm in the
company of Captain John Maynard, regiment of
Colonel Job Cushing. He died in West Boylston,
1814, aged sixty-five years. He and his wife were
both buried in Boylston. Children of William and
INIartha Eames, all born in Boylston, were: i.
Lydia. born October 10, 1773. 2. Polly, born March
18. 1776. 3. Jonathan, born March i, 1778. 4. Levi,
born January 12, 1783, see forward. 5. Lucy, born
November 25, 1786. 6. William, born November 22,
17S8. resided at West Boylston and Worcester,
where he died 1835 : married Persis Rice, at Wor-
cester, January 25, i8og, and had children : William,
Persis. Jabez. Betsey Beaman, Mary Reed, and Ann
Eliza, born between 1809 and 1831, in Worcester.

(V) Levi Eames, son of William Eames (4),
was born in Boylston, Massachusetts, January 12,
1783. He was a prosperous farmer in West Boyls-
ton. He married (first) Hepzibah Winter, by whom
he had no children. He married (second), April
9, 1819. in Worcester, Betsey Rice, daughter of
Luther Rice, whose farm is still owned by his de-
scendants in Worcester. The children of Levi and
Betsey (Rice) Eames, all born in West Boylston,
were: Child, died young: John B., born 1825, see
forward ; Luther R., see forward ; Levi Lincoln,
died in the trenches in front of Petersburg during
the civil war. Levi Eames died at West Boylston,
1872. His wife died in 1862, aged nearly seventy
years. She was the sister of the wife of William
Eames,- Jr., mentioned above. It is related of her
that before her marriage she made the trip to Mon-
treal on horseback through the wilderness.

(VI) Luther Rice Eames. son of Levi Eames
(5), was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts,
^Iarch 14. 1826. He worked on the farm from the
time he was able to be of service and became a
proficient gardener. He was employed upon a large
estate in North Dorchester, owned by a retired
Boston merchant, and during the six years he
worked there he took some pride in the fact that
his home was the birthplace of Edward Everett. He
returned to Worcester and resided there to the time
of his death. He was not a church member nor did
he ever join a fraternal or secret society. He was
a member of the Worcester Horticultural Society
and the Worcester Agricultural Society. He mar-
ried. June 3, 1856, Mary A. Wadel. a native of Ger-
many. She died from influenza in 1805. Two of
their children died of scarlet fever, one at the age
of fifteen and the other at the age of eight years.
The other children are: i. Canly. for ten years
bridge builder on the Northern Pacific Railroad;
has son, Kenneth Reid. 2. Valdo, bridge builder,
engaged in railroad work. 3. Ilia, married James
Murphy, of Greendale, and has three children. 4.
Estus, an engineer on the Boston & Albany Rail-
road, residing in Northampton, Massachusetts.

(VI) John B. Eames. son of Levi Eames (5),
was born in West Boylston, 1825. died March 24,
i8g6. He lived on the homestead at West Boyls-
ton and was a farmer. He married Sarah S. Gar-

field, who died May g. 1906. Their children were :
Ellen M., born July 3, 1851, resides in New York
city : Henry C, see forward ; Edward E., born No-
vember 9, 1856, see forward : George W., born
March 31, 1855, resides in Worcester: William,
born April 17, 1858, resides in Colorado City, Colo-
rado : Cora L. Howe, born September 29, 1859, re-
sides at Niagara Falls, New York.

(VII) Henry C. Eames, son of John B. Eames
(6), was born at West Boylston, Massachusetts,
May 7, 1853. He worked on his father's farm and
attended the district schools during his youth. He
settled in Paxton, Massachusetts, where he has car-
ried on farming and a trucking business. He has
been road commissioner of the town of Paxton for
ten years and is active in town affairs. He is a
Republican in politics. He and his family attend
the Congregational Church. He married Mary F.
Sanborn, daughter of Levi E. Sanborn, who was a
farmer and grocer. The children of Henry C. and
Mary F. Sanborn are : Carri"e L., born December
ID. 1877 : Charles W., July 27, 1880, married in Pax-
ton, October 31, 1905, Dora B. Bishop, a native of
Connecticut; Hattie E., July 23, 1882; Arthur L.,
September 30, 1884, married, September 12, 1906,
Florence Prentice, a native of Worcester ; Hiram
L. August 19, 1886; Frank S., August 15. 1888;
Etta A., July 3, 1894; Ernest E., September 26,
i8g8: Luther E., February 15. 1902.

(VII) Edward Everett Eames, son of John B.
Eames (6), born in West Boylston, November g,
tSsD, attended school in Worcester. At the age of
five years he went to live with his uncle, Hiram
Garfield, of Worcester, where he worked until the
age of nineteen years, when he went into the woods
cutting off wood and lumber, which business he
is engaged in at the present time in Paxton. He
married Ida Graton, of Paxton, November 9, 1882.
They had seven children : Grace, born in Paxton,
January 3, 1887, died January 9. 1887 ; Ethel Rosina,
born in Paxton, March 18, 1888; Ruth Isabelle, born
in Paxton. September 12, 1890; Sylvester Luther,
born in Paxton, August 9, 1892 ; Luke W., born in
Paxton, June 2, 1895, died July 4, 1895: Louisa Bea-
trice, born in Paxton, May 8, 1896; Flora Cornelia,,
born in Paxton, July 2, 1898.

CHRISTOPHER WHITNEY. Henry Whitney
(l), the immigrant ancestor of the late (Christopher
Whitney, of Westboro, Massachusetts, was born in
England about 1620. His English pedigree given
in the family genealogy is acknowledged incorrect,
but he doubtless belonged to the same family as
John Whitney, who settled in Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, and whose English ancestors are known.
Henry Whitney was first in this country at South-
old, Long Island, and he bought land there at Has-
hamommock, October 8, 1649, with Edward Tred-
well and Thomas Benedict, from William Salmon.
He lived later at Huntington, Long Island, where
he built a grist mill for Rev. William Leverick.
He was later at Jamaica,. Long Island, and was
townsman there 1664. He settled next at Norwalk,
Connecticut, in 1665, and agreed with the town to
build a corn mill on the north side of Norwalk
river, on the first lot west of Mill brook. He was
one of a list of thirty-three freeman, October it,
1669. His name appears last on the town records,.
February 20, 1672. He probably died in 1673. His
will was dated June 5, 1672. He described his
condition as "being weake and crazy in body, but
throwe mercy perfect in memory and understand-
ing." He married Widow Ketchum. His only
child mentioned in his will was John, see forward.

(II) John Whitney, son of Henry Whitney (l).

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was born about 1640, and died at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, 1720. He settled in Norwalk with his
father, and was also a miller and wlieelwright, suc-
ceeding to his father's house and mill. He built
a fulling mill, which he gave to his son John,
April 14, 1707. and he sold him the grist mill, July
8, 1712. . It was re-conveyed to the father, who
deeded it then to his son Joseph. He married,
March 17, 1674-75, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of
Richard Smith. Their children: John, born March

12, 1676-77, married Elizabeth Finch ; Joseph, born
March i, 1678-79, millwright, married Hannah
Hoyt; Henry, born February 21, 16S0-81, weaver,
married Elizabeth Olmstead; Elizabeth, married Jo-
seph Keeler ; Richard, born April 18, 1687, mar-
ried Hannah Darling ; Samuel, born 1688, married
Ann Laboree; Anne, born 1691, married, October

13. I709) Matthew St. John; Eleanor, born January
27, 1693, married Jonathan Fairchild; Nathan;
Sarah, married, June 13, 1717, Samuel Smith; Jo-
siah, married, October 3, 1729, Eunice Hanford.

(HI) Josiah Whitney, son of John Whitney
(2), was born about 1700, at Norwalk, Connecticut.
He married, October 30, 1729, Eunice Hanford. He
died in Norwalk about 1750. Their children, born
at Norwalk, were : Josiah, born February 10, 1730-
31, died young; Stephen, born February 10, 1732-
,33, settled in Derby; married Sarah Wheeler; (sec-
ond) Eunice Keeney ; (third) Hannah Hull; Henry,
born February 19, 1735-36, married Eunice Clark;
Eliezer, born March 7, 1737-38, see forward ; Isaac,
born March 27, 1741, living June 20, 1762.

(IV) Eliezer Whitney, son of Josiah Whitney
(3), was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, March 7,
1737-38. He chose Phineas Hanford, his uncle,
as guardian, August 3, 1756. Soon afterward he
appears to have removed to Vermont, where a num-
ber of his relatives also settled. Either he or his
son Eliezer was in Captain Benjamin Whitney's
company at Guilford, and parts of Windham in the
revolution, and was discharged finally May i, 1784.
Samuel Bartlett was on the committee to audit the
accounts of this company, and Nathaniel Bartlett
belonged to the company.

(V) Eleazer Whitney, believed to be the son of
Eliezer Whitney (4), was born 1756-1760. He
served seven years in the revolutionary war, prob-
ably in a jMassachusetts regiment. He died 1840,
about eighty-five years of age. His children : Molly,
Asa, Sally, Alpheus, see forward; Thankful, Philip,
Peggy, Eleazer, Jr., Abigail, Bartlett, born June 13,
1814, probably named for his mother ; Jonathan,
Betsey, Pattie. Jotham.

(VI) Alpheus Whitney, son of Eleazer Whit-
iiey (5), was born in Halifax, Vermont, 1800-1810.
He married Sarah Stow, of Halifax, and spent his
life in that town, following the vocation of a
farmer. Their children : Philip, Caroline, Chris-
topher, see forward ; Maria, Amos, George, William,
Sarah, Olive, Hannah, also two children who died
young.

(VII) Christopher Whitney, son of Alpheus
Whitney (6), was born in Halifax, Vermont, June
16, 1827. He was reared and educated in the dis-
trict schools of the Green Mountain State, and at
an early age took his share in the labor on his
father's farm. As a young man in Vermont he
learned the virtues of thrift and industry. In the
full flush of a vigorous manhood he came to the
town of Westboro, Massachusetts, more than fifty
years ago, poor in purse but rich in energy and am-
tition. His first employment there was in a bake-
shop, where he worked from three o'clock in the
morning to a late hour at night. He learned the
trade thoroughly and followed it in the business of

baker and flour and grain dealer for seventeen
years. Embarking then in the business of manu-
facturing lumber, he started in Natick, Massachu-
setts, but after a year transferred his place of busi-
ness to Westboro, where he spent the remainder
of his days. He built up a large and lucrative
trade, being successful in this line as in his other
undertakings. As a result of honest, intelligent and
energetic management, he acquired a competence.
Ever mindful of the hardship of his own boyhood,
he gave generously of his wealth to the poor and
afflicted and in a quiet, modest way was a practical
philanthropist. A filial and loving son, he assisted
in caring for the parental household from his earli-
est manhood, and tenderly watched oveF his parents
in their declining years.

In 1882 he built the Whitney House at Westboro
which is a standing monument to his enterprise and
public spirit. He took a lively interest in every-
thing pertaining to the welfare of his adopted town.
In partnership with the late Henry K. Taft (see
sketch), he was instrumental in establishing the
present electric light system. He was a director of
the Westboro National Bank and a leader of the
financial interests of the town. He was a Republi-
can in politics, but declined public honors and of-
fices of all kinds. He was a member of the Free
Masons, of Westborough. He died at his home in
Westboro, March 4, 1889.

He married. May II, 1851, Abbie Morse Thomp-
son, daughter of Dexter Thompson, of Bellingham,
Massachusetts. She survived her husband several
years, dying in 1901. Their children: Frank C,
born 1852, died May 4, 1886; Abbie M., born 1857,
married, 1884, Frank V. Bartlett (see sketch) ;
Nellie E.

CHARLES BUCK. The name of Buck, in con-
nection with the manufacture of high grade edge-
tools, is favorably known throughout the United
States. The Buck family has through several gen-
erations been famed for its skillful steel workers,
and Charles Buck has inherited in superlative de-
gree the talents of his forbears.

His paternal grandfather, Joseph Buck, born
1746, died 1824, at the age of seventy-eight years,
was for thirty years manager of the famous New-
bold edge-tool factory in Sheffield, England, then
the world's most famous workshop in that line.
Joseph Buck (2) was brought up in the calling of his
father, the Joseph Buck first named, and passed his
life in the shops in Sheffield, where he died at the
age of sixty-four years. His wife, Elizabeth Tay-
lor, whom he married April 5, 1825, was born in
Doncaster, England. They were the parents of
three sons, all of whom served an apprenticeship
under their father and became skillful in the art
of finishing edge-tools. John (now deceased), the
eldest, born February 20, 1826, the first of the fam-
ily to emigrate to the United States, came in 1849.
He worked in Williamsburg, New York, for a wage
less than a dollar a day, until his skill brought him
to the attention of D. R. Barton, a leading manu-
facturer of Rochester, for whom he worked for
three years. He then engaged in business on his
own account in Newark, New Jersey, subsequently
returning to Rochester. Charles, the second son,
is to be further referred to. Richard T., the third
son, born October i, 1831, came to America in 1853,
being the last of the brothers to emigrate.

Charles Buck, the second son of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Taylor) Buck, was born in Sheffield,
England, March 22, 1829. After receiving an ordi-
nary education he entered the Sheffield edge-tool
works, where under the masterly direction of his

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accomplished father he became a master workman
in the highest processes of edge-tool manufacture
— the grinding and poHshing. In 1850 he attained
his majority, and that year, with his brother John,
he came to America, locating in Rochester, New
York, where they found employment in a machine
shop. In 1853, the two brothers established the
Buck Brothers Edge Tool Works, for the manu-
facture of high-grade cutlery, and their goods were
at once recognized as unsurpassable in quality. They
had been joined by their brother Richard, who came
from England that year. Shortly their business
expanded to such a degree that they found it neces-
sary to add largely to their facilities, and in 1857
they removed to Worcester, Massachusetts. The
business was conducted with constantly increasing
success until 1864, when another removal was made,
to I\Iillbury, where the works are now conducted
by Edwin Wood and W. L. Proctor, sons-in-law of
Richard Buck.

In 1S72 Charles Buck disposed of his interest in
the above named works, and in the following year
built a shop in !Millbury on a site which he had pur-
chased in 1865, and established the edge-tool works
known by his name, and in this enterprise he has
achieved a large degree of success. His first 'con-
sideration was and is to produce an article of the
•very best possible quality, and he has conducted his
business after such methods that he is personally
cognizant of every process of manufacture, at times
performing some of the work of forging and
tempering with his own hands. The extent of his
trade is a secondary consideration, coming after
that of the mechanical work, his conservative dis-
position inclining him to preference for a compara-
tively small market and an appreciative class of
customers, before the unfinished work and pecuniary
uncertainty which so frequently attend the mam-
moth undertakings of great corporations of the
present day. Until very recent years and until
he was nearly seventy years of age he made fre-
quent business trips, going as far west as Chicago
and St. Louis to place his goods. Much of his
product is marketed through commission houses in
New York, Philadelphia. Chicago, and other cities.
He has acquired a comfortable fortune, and in its
acquisition has never committed an act not justified
by honor.

Mr. Buck is a fine example of the really self-
made man. His only capital at the beginning of
his career was his mechanical skill, his industry,
and his ambition. The latter trait was his first in-
centive not only to the effort which led to his
success in material concerns, but to his excellent
development of character. Going to his trade in
early youth, his education was necessarily imperfect,
but he found compensation for this advantage
through close and intelligent reading, dating from
the time when he came to Millbury. He took up
the works of standard authors, and acquired an am-
ple fund of general information which enable him
to converse eloquently upon any subject which could
engage the attention of the practical and self re-
specting citizen. For nearly fifty years he has
been an exemplary member of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, in whose service he has been most
earnest and useful. He has served as class leader,
and for fifteen years as superintendent of its Sun-
day school. In politics he is a Republican, and he
has ever been an earnest exponent of its principles,
yet has never sought official preferment, performing
his political duties out of a conscientious apprecia-
tion of the privileges and responsibilities of citizen-
ship. He is held in sincere regard in the community,
and his lovable character was well epitomized by

one who knows him well: "He is a grand old man^
self-made, willing to aid any one in distress; and
surely is a model for young men to follow." He
lives in unpretentious comfort in a pleasant resi-
dence situated upon a two-acre ' tract which also
contains his shops, storage rooms and other
buildings.

Mr. Buck was three times married. Before
coming to America he married Isabella Monroe, a
native of Scotland. One of the three children born
to them died in infancy ; the others are : Elizabeth,
widow of Dennis P. Hodge, residing in Worcester;
Isabella, widow of Charles Grossman, and mother of
a son, Charles F. Grossman. ■ Mrs. Buck died Au-
gust 15, 1855. Mr. Buck subsequently married
Mary Small, a native of England. Of their chil-
dren. Mary, Earnest and Joseph are deceased ; Mar-
tha became the wife of Luther Wheeler, of New
York Mills, New York, and the mother of six chil-
dren. Mrs. Buck died September i. 1864.

The present Mrs. Buck was Maria C. Kendall,
a native of Canada, a daughter of Lj-man and
Maria Kendall, highly respected citizens of Mill-
bury. Four children were born of this marriage;
Charles, died at the age of three years ; Josephine,
w'ife of Fred Ogden, and they had two children —
Leopold, and an infant son, deceased; Julia, wife of
Fred Wheeler, who is in the employ of Mr. Buck;
and Edith, who graduated from the Classical high
school, and married R. H. Crane, and they have one
son, Charles B. Crane, having lost another, Charles,
Jr., who died young.

LYMAN ^ SYLVESTER WATERS. Richard
Waters, the immigrant ancestor of Lyman Sylvester
Waters, of Millbury, Massachusetts, was baptized at
St. Botolph Aldersgate, London, England, March
3, 1604, son of James and Phebe Waters. James
Waters was a citizen and iron-monger; he was-
buried in London, February 2, 1617; his wife Phebe
was the daughter of Mr. George Planning, gent., of
Downe. Kent county. She married (second), Feb-
ruary 23. 1618. William Plasse, gunmaker. Richard
Waters learned his trade of gunsmith of his step-
father, and came to New England with his mother
and step-father about 1636. They settled in Salem
where the town bought the lot of Roger Conant to
give to Mr. Plasse as an inducement for him to stay
there, his trade making him a particularly desirable
settler. Plasse died April 15, 1646.

Richard Waters was admitted a freeman May 22,
1639. He was a proprietor of Salem. He deeded
land to his daughter Mary and her husband, Clement
English, in 1673. His house was not far from the
upper end of Broad street in Salem. His wife Re-
joice or Joyce vizs admitted to the church. May

23, 1641. His will was dated July 16, 1676, and
proved November 28, 1677 ; he bequeathed to wife
Joyce, and children William. Ezekiel, John, James,
Martha, Abigail, Punchard, Mary English, Susanna
Pulsifer, and Hannah Striker. Children of Richard
and Joyce Waters were : Daughter, baptized No-
vember 27. 1640; Eliza, baptized February 26, 1642,
died February 4, 1662 ; Abigail, baptized May 18,
1645, married. October 26, 1669, William Punchard;
Ezekiel, baptized April g, 1647 ; Susanna, baptized
.'\pril I. 1649. married Benedict Pulsifer; Hannah,
baptized February 20, 1652-53, married, April 10,
1673. Joseph Striker; Sarah, married. February 26,
1651, Joshua Ray; Phebe, married, October 11, 1658,
Thomas West : she died April 16, 1674 : Mary, mar-
ried. August 27, 1667, Clement English ; Martha ;
William ; John, see forward ; James, married, March

24, 1669-70, Mary Stalworth.

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was born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1640, aixi bap-
tized, according to Benedict, November 27, 1640.
He was a farmer and his place was at Northfields,
near the site of the Salem iron foundry. His will
was dated February 14, 1706-07, and proved March,
1707-08; it mentions his wife, three sons, daughters,
Elizabeth, Sarah Symonds and Abigail Jacobs. He
married, August i, 1663. Sarah Tompkins, daughter
of John and granddaughter of Ralph Tompkins, of
Salem, Massachusetts. The children of John and
Sarah Waters were: Richard (twin), born last of
June, 1664. died young: John (twin), born the last
of June, 1664, died young; John, born July 4, 1665,

married Mary ;■ Sarah, born August 30, 1667,

married John Symonds ; Richard, see forward ; Na-
thaniel, born February 6, 1671, married Elizabeth
King; Samuel, born March 29. 1674, died young;
Samuel, born May 6, 1675 ; Elizabeth, born January
10, 1677; Abigail, baptized May 6, 1683, married
John Jacobs.

(HI) Richard Waters, son of John Waters
(2), was born at Salem, Massachusetts, 1669, died
at Oxford, Massachusetts, 1725-26. Richard Waters,
then of Salem, and Samuel Rich, of Bellingham,
tought one thousand acres of land at Sutton, De-
cember 8, 1720. Of this purchase Waters had two-
thirds, Richard one-third. Waters bought, Feb-
ruary 8, 1728, two hundred and thirty-four acres
more land at Sutton of Nathaniel Byfield, William
Dudley and Ezekiel Lewis. His home was on what
is called the Bullard place. He joined the Sutton
church by letter in 1724 or 1728. His will was dated
October 21, 1775, and proved February 17, 1825-26,
naming wife and children ; he bequeathed land he
still owned at Salem. He married, March 3, 1697-98,
Martha Read, at Salem, where all their children
were born, viz.: Hannah, born March 4, 1699; Rich-
ard, see forward ; Abigail, born August i, 1702, mar-
ried Samuel Dudley; Samuel, born September I,
1704, married Richard Holman ; Mercy, baptized
July 24, 1707 ; Ebenezer, baptized July 10, 1709, died
at Cuba in the army, 1742: Mary, baptized Septem-
ber 30, 1711; Lois, baptized May 16, 1714, married
Thomas Chamberlain; Amos, baptized June 9, I7I7-

(IV) Richard Waters, son of Richard Waters
(3), was born at Salem. Massachusetts, November
22, 1700. He removed to Sutton with his father
and lived there the remainder of his life. He was a
farmer. He married Anna Holman, daughter of
Solomon Holman. of Newbury, Massachusetts.
Their children, all born in Sutton, were : Mary,
married Anthony Sigourney, of Boston ; Stephen,
born April 13, 1735: Ebenezer, born July 3. 1739;
Abraham, born April 3, 1743; Ruth, born January
6, 1746, married Thomas Kendall; Samuel, born
November 21, 1650; Hannah, born August 5, 1754,
married Marsh.

(V) Abraham Waters, son of Richard Waters
(4), was born in Sutton. Massachusetts, April 3,
1743. He settled in Sutton also. He married. De-
cember 3, 1772, Mehitable Waters, daughter of Jon-
athan Waters (4), and granddaughter of Nathaniel
Waters, one of the original proprietors of Sutton.
Nathaniel Waters, son of John Waters (2), men-
tioned above, was born in Salem. February 6, 1671-
72. married Elizabeth King, daughter of John and
Elizabeth King: settled in Sutton and bought land
with William Kine and Benjamin Marsh. Jonathan
Waters, son of Nathaniel, was baptized July 31.
1715. married Afchitable Gyles. August 10. 1739:
Their ninth child was Mehitable Waters, mentioned
above. Children of Abraham and Mehitable
(Waters) Waters were: Ebenezer, born 1773. died
1782; Simeon, see forward; John, settled in Pitts-

burg. Pennsylvania, and had seven children ; Mary,
died unmarried.

(VI) Simeon Waters, son of Abraham Waters
(5), was born in Sutton, about 1775. He married
Sarah Waters, daughter of Asa Waters, Sr. She
was born at Sutton, February 14, 1777, and her
famous brother, Asa Waters 2d., was born Novem-
ber 2, 1769. The father, Asa Waters, was born
January 27, 1742, son of Jonathan Waters (4), and
grandson of Nathaniel Waters (2), both mentioned
above. The will of Simeon Waters was dated May
I, 1849, and filed in the probate court, November
30, 1850. The executors were Simeon S. and Lyman
Goodell. Children of Simeon and Sarah Waters
were : Simeon Sylvester, see forward ; Sarah W.,
married Deacon Lyman Goodell, Mehitable, died
January i, 1892; she married Deacon Goodell a few
years after the death of her sister, Sarah W., his
tirst wife; Fanny C.

(VII) Simeon Sylvester Waters, son of Simeon
Waters (6), was born in Millbury, then a part of
Sutton, Massachusetts, April 6, 1810, died October
26, 1891, in Millbury. All his four sons served
with credit in the civil war. He married Catherine
M. Stone, of Rochester, New York, June 8, 1840.
She died January 10, 1852. Children of Simeon S.
and Catherine M. Waters were : Simeon Henry,
born at Millbury, April 13, 1841, served in Company
E, Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, in the civil
war ; Lyman Sylvester, see forward ; Edward A.,
born at Millbury, March 21, 1844, served in Com-
pany E, Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, in the
civil war; Trueman Bradley, born at Millbury,
March 30, 1846, enlisted in 1864 before he was
eighteen years old in the Thirty-sixth Massachu-
setts Regiment in the civil war ; Catherine S., born
at Millbury.

(VIII) Lyman Sylvester Waters, son of Simeon
Sylvester Waters (7). was born at Millbury, Massa-
chusetts, November 20, 1842. He attended the old
district school at West Millbury and the high school
of his native town. At the age of twenty he enlisted
August 2, 1862, for three years, in Company E,
Thirty-sixth Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteer
Militia, and was mustered out of service at Bos-
ton. July 14, 1865. He was in the Army of
the Potomac and took part in the battle of Fred-
ericksburg. Thence his regiment proceeded to Ken-
tucky and thence to Vicksburg and he was at the
surrender of that city. July 4, 1863. He took part
also in the battle of Jackson City, Mississippi ; re-
turning north the regiment took part at siege of
Knoxville. also in the Army of the Potomac under
General Grant. After he returned from the war he
followed various occupations for a few years, finally
buying the meat market of John W. Pope, at Mill-
burv. about 1875. He has conducted this business
for 'the past thirty years in Millbury with uniform
success.

Mr. Waters is a Republican in politics and has
been somewhat active in public affairs. He has
served the town as overseer of the poor, and as
the nominee of his party for selectman was defeated
by a small margin. He has been a member of the
Second Congregational Church for about twenty-
five years, served on the standing committee, has
been deacon for some twelve years and five years
superintendent of the Sunday school. He has been
senior deacon, junior and senior warden, and master
of Olive Branch Lodge of Free and Accepted Ma-
sons, Millbury. He is an active member of George
A. (Tuster Post, No. 70, has been a member since
the post was organized and for six years was its
commander. ,

HERVEY A. GILMORE

WORCESTER COUNTY

]\lr. Waters married, November 2, 1870, Harriet
jM. Barton, daughter of Joinn B. Barton, and tliey
have had two children: Lyinan Irving, died aged
■eight months: Bessie A., born September 11, 1876,
married Arclier R. Greeley, lawyer at Webster,
Massachusetts, and they have one daughter — Muriel
Waters Greeley, born August, 1899.

GEORGE L. JACQUES. The Jacques family is
•of French origin. The ancestors of George L.
Jacques, of Millbury, Massachusetts, come originally
from France and made their home in Canada or
Xew France as it was called in the colonial days.
Joseph Jacques, the father, was born in Canada,
but removed to this country and settled at West-
field, Vermont. He married Priscilla Levigne, who
came with him to his farm at Westfield, Vermont,
where she lived and raised a family of ten chil-
dren. Joseph Jacques died in Westfield, Vermont,
in 1885.

George L. Jacques was born on the farm at
Westfield. May 5, 1866, and was educated in the
public schools of his native town. At the age of
seventeen he struck out for himself. He began in
Millbury as a farm hand, saving something for his
start in life. After two years he ventured in the
lumber business. Success came to him from the
start and his business has grown steadily and in-
creased largely. He operates two large saw and
lumber mills at different towns in Worcester county,
and during the season keeps a hundred men cutting
wood for him. He has a fine farm on the outskirts
of West Millbury. He takes a lively interest in
town and political affairs, and is a leader in the
Republican organization of the town. He has been
engineer of the Millbury fire department, and has
served the town as an assessor to the satisfaction
of the taxpayers.. He has rendered the town con-
spicuous service for three years — 1903-04-05 — on the
board of selectmen, serving his third term in 1905.
Was elected in 1905 to represent the eighth Wor-
cester district as representative to general court for
year 1906. He is a regular attendant and member
of the Roman Catholic Church.

He married, in 1885, Mary McGrath, daughter
of Patrick McGrath, a farmer of Millbury. Their
children are : George E., born January 19, 1887 :
Nellie, born April 14, 1890: Beatrice, born October'
19. 1900 ; and Walter and Alice, who died aged
one month and four years, respectively. The chil-
dren are living with their parents, who moved to
Worcester, July 2, 1906, corner of Chandler a>nd
June streets.

HARRY W. THOMSON. Peter Thomson (i),
great-grandfather of Harry W. Thomson, of Mill-
bury, Massachusetts, was born about 1780, and died
November 15, 1843. He settled in Douglass, Massa-
chusetts. He married (first) Elizabeth Baker, of
Oxford, Massachusetts. January 7, 1807. He mar-
ried (second) (intentions October 31) 1811. Azubah
Martin. His hranch of the Thomson family settled
early in Mendon. Massachusetts. Children of Peter
and Elizabeth Thomson were : Daniels Baker, born
at Douglas, November 8, 1807, married, 1832, Phebe
.\Idrich ; Elijah, born August 18. 1809. see forward.
Children of Peter and .\zubah Thomson were :
Eliza, born June 7. 1812; Harford R., born August
TO, 1814 : Comfort R.. born August 25, 1818; Ada-
line Maria, born April 24. 1824.

(H) Elijah Thomson, son of Peter Thomson
(i). was born in Douglass. Massachusetts. August
18. 1809. He settled in Millbury. Massachusetts.
IMarried. January i, 1834, Eliza Hall. He married

(second) Lydia E.

The children of Elijah

and Eliza Thomson were : Henry C, born Septem-
ber 28, 1834, see forward. William Hall, born at
Millbury, January 16, 1844, deceased. He was a
druggist at Millbury and interested in the New
Haven Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Con-
necticut. He was a prosperous man and accumulated
a nice competence. The firm of E. Thomson &
Son. druggists, were in business over fifty years.
William Hall was highly esteemed, one of the
oldest residents ; he was in feeble health some years,
death due to stroke of paralysis.

(HI) Henry C. Thomson was a veteran of the
civil war, having served in the Twenty-third Illi-
nois regiment. He was a member of the Grand
Army. He settled in Millbury, Massachusetts. He
married Anna A. Stratton. Their child : Harry W.,
born January 18, 1883, see forward.

(IV) Harry W. Thomson, son of Henry C.
Thomson (3), was born in Millbury, Massachusetts,
January 18, 1883. He attended the public schools
of his native town, the Taft school, a private insti-
stution of Watertown, Connecticut, where he fitted
for college. He went to Yale University for two
years. He chose a mercantile career and June I,
1904. bought the store at Millbury. which he has
since conducted there. He deals in merchandise
and has a business well established and lucrative.
He is a Congregationalist in religion and a Republi-
can in politics. He married, August 7, 1905, Gertrude
Windle. graduate of the Millbury high school. They
have one child, Stuart W., born March 22, 1906.

HERVEY AUGUSTUS GILMORE, one of
Westboro's most successful farmers and live-stock
dealers, belongs to the well-known Gilmore family
of that town, which was founded in Greenwich, this
state, during the colonial period. His grandparents
were Robert and Betsey (Fay) Gilmore, of Green-
wich, and his parents, the late Thomas Smith and
Eliza Adeline (Bailey) Gilmore, removed from
that town to Westboro in 1866. Thomas S. and
Eliza Adeline Gilmore reared a family of seven
children, five sons and two daughters. Four of the
sons are now prominent residents of Westboro. and
a more extended account of the family will be found
in a sketch of Stephen A. Gilmore, which appears
elsewhere in this work.

Hervey Augustus Gilmore was born in Green-
wich, February 10, 1848. His preliminary studies
were pursued in the Greenwich public schools, from
which he went to the New Salem Academy, and his
education was concluded at the well-known Wilbra-
ham Academy. He was in early life engaged in
agricultural pursuits, but later turned his attention
to the manufacture of spring mattressess, which he
followed for a number of years with gratifying
success. He eventually resumed farming, but de-
voted the greater part of his time to dealing in live-
stock, being at the present time one of the best
known dealers at the Brighton market, and an expert
in the judgment of blooded cattle. Mr. Gilmore is
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, the Royal Arcanum and the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, and he is an active member
of the local Grange. Patrons of Husbandry. In
politics he is a Republican.

Mr. Gilmore married. September 10. 1876, Faus-
tina J. Knight, born December 2, 1848. daughter
of William Knight, of North Wayne. Maine. Of
this union there was one child, who died in infancy.
Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore adopted a little
girl, who is now Miss Blanche A. Gilmore. They
attend the Congregational Church.

WORCESTER COUNTY

HORACE P. WHIPPLE. John Whipple (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Horace P. Whipple, of
Whitinsville, Massachusetts, was born in England,
1617. He was a house carpenter and was employed
by Mr. Stoughton in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in
1632. His house was near what is now called
Neponset. He removed to Ipswich and became a
proprietor of that town in 1638. His brother, Mat-
thew Whipple, also settled at Ipswich and was the
ancestor of many Essex county and New Hampshire
families. John Whipple returned to Dorchester and
was a freeman and deputy to the general court.
May 13, 1640. He was one of the court's commis-
sioners of valuation in 1640. He was engaged in
trade with William Paine and others in 1647. He
had the rank of cornet in the military service. He
was a town officer of Dorchester. He and his
I wife joined the Dorchester church, in 1641. He
sold his house and lot at Dorchester, in 1658, to
James Minot, and removed to Providence, Rhode
Island, but he returned again to Ipswich and sold
land there May 31, 1673. He was recorded as a
purchaser July 27, 1659. at Providence, and drew
lot 45 as proprietor February ig. 1665. He took
the oath of allegiance in 1666. He was a deputy
from Providence to the general assembly in 1666-
69-70-72-74-76-77. He was licensed to keep a tavern
at Providence in 1674. He was treasurer of the
town from 1668 to 1683 ; town clerk 1670-71-72-76-
77-81-82-83. He was in the Providence town council
in 1669. He was virtually a resident of Providence
after 1659. He refused to abandon his home during
King Philip's war and was one of those entitled to
the Indian prisoners, who were sold for a term
of years to the planters. John Whipple died !May
16, 1685, at Providence, aged about sixty-eight years,
according to his gravestone there.

He married, 1639, Sarah , born 1624 and

died 1666, according to her gravestone. Their chil-
dren : John, baptized March 9. 1640, married, De-
cember 4, 1663, Mary Olney ; Sarah, baptized Feb-
ruary 6, 1641-42, married John Smith, Jr. ; Samuel,
baptized March 17, 1644; Eleazer, baptized March
8, 1646 (see forward) ; Mary, baptized April g,
1648, married Epenctus Olney ; William, born 1652,
baptized May 16, 1652, married Mary ; Benja-
min, baptized June 4, 1654, married, April i, 1686,
Ruth IMathewson; David, baptized September 28,
1656, married. May 15, 1675, Sarah Harndon ; mar-
ried (second) Hannah Tower; Abigail, born at
Providence, married, January 16, 1682, William Hop-
kins, son of Thomas Hopkins ; Joseph, born at
Providence, married. May 20, 1684, Alice Smith ;
Jonathan, born 1664, died September 8, 1721 ; mar-
ried Margaret Angell ; married (second) Anne .

(II) Eleazer Whipple, son of John Whipple (i),
was baptized at Dorchester, Massachusetts, !March
8, 1746, and was born probably within a month of
that date. He was also a carpenter or housewright.
He was a soldier in King Philip's war and was
wounded. The town of Providence paid six pounds
"for curing" him of his wound. He took the oath
of allegiance in 1667. He was deputy to the general
assembly in 1693 and 1701. He distributed his
estate largely before his death. He deeded land to
his sons Job and Eleazer, January i, 1714. Later
he gave the homestead to James, provided he pay
legacies of fifty pounds each to his brother Daniel
and his sister Elizabeth. His sons Eleazer, James
and Job. all of Providence, deeded to brother Dan-
iel, of Wrentham, certain lands. He died Novem-
ber 9, 1719, and his widow Alice and son James
administered the estate. He married, January 26,
1669, Alice Angell, born 1649, died August 13. 1743,
daughter of Thomas and Alice Angell, of Rhode

Island. Alice, widow of Eleazer, made her home
at Smithfield. She resigned as administratrix of
the estate January 22, 1733. The children: Eleazer,.
Jr.; Abel, born at Providence, June 3, 1675; Mar-
garet; Elizabeth, born 1680; Job, born J684; James,
born 1686; Daniel, see forward.

(III) Daniel Whipple, son of Eleazer Whipple
(2), was born in Providence, Rhode Island, about
1690. He was at Wrentham, Massachusetts, but
finally settled at Cumberland, Rhode Island, in or
near what is now Woonsocket, where many gen-
erations of his descendants have lived. He married

Mary . The children : Daniel, born August

ig, 1716: Joseph, born August 24, 1718, see for-
ward; Eleazer, born 1717, died 1720, aged three;
Mary, born December 3, 1724; and perhaps others.

(IV) Joseph Whipple, son of Daniel Whipple
(3), was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, August
24, 1718. He settled in Cumberland, married Sarah

, and their children, all born there, were :

Sarah; Gideon, born January 30, 1744, died Jilay,
1752; Sible, born August iS, 1746; Amos, born
February 3, I74g, died May, 1752; Leah (twin),
born July 5, 1751 ; Rachel (twin), born July 5,
1751, died May, 1752; Asa, born January 6, 1754,
see forward.

(V) Asa Whipple, son of Joseph Whipple (4),
was born at Cumberland, Rhode Island, January 6,
1754. He also settled at Cumberland. He mar-
ried Silvia Staples, daughter of Nathan Staples,
(by Peter Darling, justice of the peace), August i,
'^'JIZ- Their children, born at Cumberland, were:
Prusia, born May 20, 1776, died May 12, 1785;
Ezekiel, born April 18, 1778, died May 27, 1785 ;
Nathan, born I77g; Asa Jr., born August 12, 1780,
married, September 3, 1809, Catharine Quimby ;
Amos, born January 22, 1873, see forward; Lucy,
born June 26, 1785; Silvia, born October 15, 1787;
Levett, born November 8, 1789; Martha, born No-
vember 28, 1791 ; Sarah, born April 29, 1796.

(VI) Amos Whipple, son of Asa Whipple (5),
was born at Cumberland, Rhode Island, January 22,
1783. He married, (according to Cumberland tovvir
records) April 10, 1812, Lydia Porter. Their child :
Amos, born at Woonsocket, May 26, 1813, see
forward.

(VII) Amos Whipple, Jr., son of Amos Whipple
(6), was born at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, May
22, 1813. He married Louisa Larnard. Among
their children was : Horace P., born in Whitinsville,
Massachusetts, December 23, 1853, see forward.

. (VIII) Horace P. Whipple, son of Amos Whip-
ple (7), was born in Whitinsville, Massachusetts,
December 23, 1853. He was educated there in the
public and high schools. He learned the trade of
pattern maker in the Whitins Machine Works at
Whitinsville and became a skilled mechanic. He
holds a responsible position w'ith the Whitins Ma-
chine Works in the pattern department.

He married, 1883, Emma A. Putnam, daughter
of Lyman and Eliza (Brigham) Putnam. Her
mother was from the well known family of Brig-
hams of Westborough (see sketch o^ Brigham fam-
ily). Her father, Lyman Putnam, was the son of
Abijah and Betty (Burdon) Putnam, of Sutton,
and descendant of John Putnam, of Sutton. (See-
Putnam family of Sutton, etc.) Children of Lyman
and Eliza Putnam were: Sarah, Julian. Laura,
Orrison. The only child of Horace P. and Emma
A. Whipple was : Amos Earle Whipple, born No-
vember 9, 1889, at Whitinsville, student at present
in the high school, class of 1909.

CHARLES HENRY WALLIS. The first
American ancestor of Charles Henry Wallis was a

WORCESTER COUNTY

Scotcliman. He is believed to liave settled early
among the colonists at Plymouth and for several
generations the family is believed to have lived in
the vicinity. The history of Douglass, Massachu-
setts, where one of Mr. VVallis' ancestors settled,
says that the family was located at Seekonk, Massa-
chusetts.

Benjamin Wallis was born probably in Seekonk,
Massachusetts, in 1723. died December J5, 1814. He
settled in the westerly part of the new town of
Douglass. Massachusetts, about 1850, on the place
now or lately occupied by lilbridge G. Wallis. His
log cabin stood on the site of the present house.
He married Lydia Dudley, of Sutton, where he had
lived and owned land for a time. She was a de-
scen iant of Francis Dudley, of Concord, a relative
of Governor Dudley. He soon came to a position
of prominence in town affairs and was a selectman
for eighteen years. He was a member of the First
Congregational Church at Douglas Centre and gave
freely to its support. He was a captain in the
militia. Their sons were all of large stature, power-
ful in physique, active and skillful mechanics. They
made many ingenious articles for domestic use
and manufactured wooden plows, tubs, pails, barrels,
etc. Two of the sons, Samuel and James, built
themselves a hand sled and in company with three
others figured prominently in the famous trip of the
"Douglass Fleet" to Boston. The fleet made trips
to the city to exchange produce for commodities
not procurable at home. On this occasion they
were attacked at Roxbury by a party of forty
youths bent on thrashing the backwoodsmen. So
thoroughly did the five big Douglass boys lick the
Roxbury skirmishers that the story was told with
relish all over the state. Benjamin Wallis died De-
cember 25, 1814, aged ninety-one, and his wife died
October 23, 1820. aged ninety-two. Their children
were: Lydia, born September 10, 1748, married
Josiah Humes, died 1820; Benjamin, born March
4, 1751, married Sarah Thayer, died January 11,
1821 ; David, born October 16. 1753, married Bial
Albee, died May 20, 1827 ; Mercy, born February
12, 1756, married Captain Benjamin Dudley, died
October 24, 1824; Martha, married Daniel Hunt;
Samuel, born June 12, 1758, married Hannah Dud-
ley, died January 2, 1848 ; James, born August 28,
1761, married Chloe Humes, died August 24, 1845 ;
Jonathan, born February 26, 1765, died February 28,
1765; Aaron, born September 12, 1768, died August
9, 1845, married Prudence Aldrich; Peter, born
January 22, 1770, died September 17, 1775.

(H) Benjamin Wallis, son of Benjamin Wallis
(i), was born at Douglass, Massachusetts. March 4.
1751. He was a farmer at Douglass, where he always
lived. He died at Providence from a cold caught
while driving a pair of oxen there in midwinter,
He married Sarah Thayer, February 17, 1777; she
died February 25, 1838. Their children were :
Lydia, born February 2^, 1778, married E. Macken-
tire, died July 28, 1865; Peter, born December 22,
1779, married Hannah Hunt and Lucy Woodbury,
died October 29, 1846; Benjamin, born May 28,
1782, married Annie Thayer, died May 28. 1864;
Sarah, born July 10, 1785, married Samuel Dudley,
died March i, 1819; Joseph, born September 24,
1788, married Prudence Wallis. died October 14,
1857; Moses, born March 17, 1793, died November
14, 1842: Rufus, born February 24. 1797, married
Molly Paine, died October 22, 1853.

(Ill) Rufus Wallis. son of Benjamin Wallis
(2), was born at Douglass, Massachusetts, February
24, 1797, died October 22, 1853. He was in war of
1812, enlisting at Oxford. He married Molly Paine,
of Uxbridge, who was born April 22, 1802, died
iii— S

April 29, 1867. Their children were: Stephen P.,
born June 26, 1827, died July 21. 1859; Benjamin
G., of whom later ; Elmira, married Simeon Staples ;
Mary A., married Henry Morse.

(IV) Benjamin G. Wallis, son of Rufus Wallis
(3), was horn at Douglas, October 30, 1828, died
October 28, 1890. He was a farmer and resided at
Douglass. He married (first Elizabeth G. Paine.
May, 1853: she died July, 1861. He married (sec-
ond) Amelia J. Moser (or Mosie), December 25,
1862; she died June 26, 1867. He married (third)
Fannie A. (Metcalf) Luke, 1872; she died February,
1890. His children were: Charles Henry, born
February 25, 1854; Frank G.. August 22. 1857;
George Herbert, December 21, 1864, died April 21,
1866.

(V) Charles Henry Wallis, son of Benjamin G.
Wallis (4), was born at Douglass, February 25.
1854. He was educated in the Douglass schools and
at FVanklin Academy. He went to work at the age
of eighteen. He drove the stage for one year front:
Manchaug to East Douglass, and then entered a
wheelwright shop to learn the trade. He carried ort
a wheelwright's business in East Douglass and
Whitinsville, Massachusetts, until 1879, when he
went to Dudley to engage in lumbering and farming
there. In 1892 he added to his enterprises a grist
mill and in 1899 a saw mill.

He married, May i, 1878, Emma F. Magee, of
Uxbridge, the daughter of Thomas N. and Mary A.
(Buffum) Magee. He was a soldier in the civil
war, enlisting in the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts
Volunteers. He was wounded at Roanoke Island
and discharged. He re-enlisted as corporal in a
Rhode Island regiment, the Third Rhode Island
Cavalry, and was one of the one hundred and
ninety-seven drowned through the sinking of the
North American in the Gulf of Mexico, December
18, 1864. Thomas Magee, grandfather of ]\lrs.
Wallis, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and died
of yellow fever. The children of Charles H. Wallis
are : Mary Elizabeth, born May 7, 1879, married
Julius A. Meyer, October 26, 1901 ; Mabel J., born
June 6, 1880, died June 18, 1880 ; Charles A., born
March 14, 1881 ; Ernest L., born July 11, 1882;
Allen L., born March i^, 1885; Walter C., born
July 26, 1888.

JAMES DALEY, a prosperous merchant of
LIxbridge and an ex-member of the Massachusetts
legislature, is a son of Dennis and ' Elizabeth
(Dean) Daley, and immigrated with his parents
from Ireland in 1847. Settling in Boston Dennis
Daley became a railroad contractor and as such
was connected with the construction of several
important railway lines. Dennis and Elizabeth
Daley were the parents of ten children.

James Daley was born in Ireland. April 21, 1841.
He was educated in the public schools of New
Hampshire and here, after the completion of his
studies, he worked on farms and in the mills and
learned the shoe making trade, continuing in
that line of work until 1871. Some fifty-three
years ago he came to Uxbridge, where he
entered business as a clerk, and he continued in that
capacity for some years, carefully saving the surplus
of his earnings and at the same time acquiring a
reputation as an honest, industrious man. whose
sole purpose was to establish a good name which
would in due time serve as a basis for a business
venture on his own account. In 1871 he found him-
self in a position to realize his long cherished de-
sire, and opening a store for the handling of gen-
eral merchandise he rapidly advanced in pros-
perity. Mr. Daley is still engaged in business and

WORCESTER COUNTY

is widely and favorably known in Uxbridge and
vicinity. For several terms he served as chair-
man of the board of selectnien ; has represented
Uxbridge in the lower branch of the state legis-
lature with credit to himself and to the entire sat-
isfaction of his constituents: he is a leading spirit
in the Democratic party of this locality, with which
he has been affiliated continuously from the time
of his majority. While a member of the legislature
he was on the committee of drainage and reported
the bill for the committee which formed the basis
on which the city of Worcester disposes of its sew-
erage. He is now chairman of the committee which
at present is installing the new water supply for
Uxbridge. He is a member of the Knights of Co-
lumbus, and in his religious faith is a Roman
Catholic.

Mr. Daley has been twice married ; first in 1867
to Catherine Cunningham, daughter of Michael
Cunningham, a native of Ireland, and she died in
1874, leaving no children. In 1876 he married for
his second wife Mary Fitzgerald, of Uxbridge. and
her death occurred in 1882. Of his second union
there were two children : Dennis, who did not live
to maturity; and Benjamin, who is now assisting
his father in business; he married Julia Fenton, of
Uxbridge, and they have one child. James F. Daley.

OLAUS BERGGREN, of Oxford, Massachu-
setts, is a son of Anders Lief, born and lived all
his days in Sweden. He married Cristina Carolina
Akerlund, and their children were : Maria Katha-
rina. Per Johan. Anders Gustav, Olaus, see for-
ward : Karl Wilhelm.

Olaus Berggren was born in Sweden. August 26,
1866. He had a common school education in his
native village. He came to America in 1800. He
learned the trade of marble and granite worker and
stone mason in the old country, and has followed
it for the past twenty-seven years. He established
himself in the marble and granite business in Ox-
ford in 1896 and has built up a large and pros-
perous business. He has done a general contract-
ing business. He completed the first sewer in the
town of Oxford, and is much interested in grano-
lithic work, also sidewalks and all improvements
in town. He furnished all the granite on the
Charles Larned Memorial Library in Oxford, and
has built the most of the monuments in Oxford's
cemeteries. He is a Republican in politics and a
Baptist in religion. He belongs to the Independent
Order of Red Men. He married, in Sweden, i8go.
Matilda Johnson, born in Sweden, daushter of
Lars Ja Johnson. Their children are: Elin Ma-
tilda, born January 2. 1801. student in Becker's
Business College : Annie Victoria, born December
18. 1892. student in Oxford high school ; Carl Ric-
ard, born October 8. 1895: Charlotte Mary, born
February 3, 1904.

VARS FAMILY. George H. Vars, manager of
the Statp Mutual Life .Assurance Company of Wor-
cester, JIassachusctts. is a worthy representative
in the present generation of a French family whose
name was originally spelled "De Vars."

The first' of the familv naine to come to this
country was Lord John De Vars, who took up a
tract of land situated near the present town of
Westerly. Rhode Island, in 1677 or 1678. purchas-
ing the fame from the Indians. After securing this
land he returned to France for his familv. consist-
ing of n wife and one son. Isaac. While on the
voyage he was either killed or wounded so bndlv
in n duel that death shortly afterward ensued. His
wife and son Isaac, the latter a lad of tender years.

located on this land in Rhode Island, and from this
son has descended all the members of the Vars
family resident in Massachusetts. The old home-
stead has never passed out of the Vars family, and
has always been and is still occupied by the family.
It has been in the nossession of the family for one
hundred and ninety-five years, and they also hold
the original deed of the land. The house, built in
1700, near Westerly, was standing in 1895. George
H. Vars, of Worcester, traces his line through the
following ancestry :

(I) John De Vars, born in France about 1655,
settled in Newport, Rhode Island, about 1685.

(II) Isaac De Vars, son of John and Mary
De Vars, born in France about 1682.

(III) Theodaty Vars, son of Isaac and Rebekah
(Larkin) de Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode
Island, October 5, 1710.

(IV) Isaac Vars, son of Theodatv and Mary
(Dodge) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island,
October 25, 1733.

(V) Isaac Vars, son of Isaac and Waity (Gard-
ner) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island.
July 6, 1788.

VARS CO.\T OF ARMS

(VI) George W. Vars, son of Isaac and Han-
nah (Saunders) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode
Island, 1817. He married Amelia Thompson, and
among their children was Charles A. Vars.

(VII) Charles A. Vars, son of George W. and
Amelia (Thompson) Vars, was born at Westerly,
Rhode Island, August 16, 1842. He married
Amanda Thompson, and among their children was
George H. Vars.

(VIII) George H. Vars, son of Charles A. and
Amanda (Thompson) Vars, was born at Charles-
town, Rhode Island, August 6, 1865. He was edu-
cated at the high schools of Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, and when a young man engaged as sales-
man in the dry goods business, continuing for sev-
eral years. Later in life he embarked in the grocery
trade, which he conducted quite successfully for
several years, after which he disposed of the same
and then directed his attention to life insurance.
In 1900 he became the resident manager at Wor-
cester for the Equitable Life Association of New
York, and later became manager for the Central

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Massachusetts agency ci the State Mutual Life As-
surance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. He
is serving in the' capacity of president of the Under-
writers' Association of Massachusetts, and is also
an active member of the Worcester Board of Trade,
serving on the committee of ways and means. Mr.
Vars has advanced in Free ^Masonry to the thirty-
second degree, is a brother in the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, and is highly popular in the social
-circles of Worcester.

In 1891 Mr. N'ars was united in marriage to Miss
Jennie 'laylor. daughter of Ransford S. and Eliza-
beth R. 1 aylor, of Rhode Island. They have one
son, i\lonroe Taylor Vars, born September 16, 1892.
In religious connection the family affiliate with the
Universalist Church.

GEORGE FRANKLIN MORSE. Joseph Morse
'(l), the immigrant ancestor of George Franklin
Morse, of Leominster, Massachusetts, born in Eng-
land, about 1587, settled in Ipswich, Jilassachusetts,
wher he was a proprietor in 1637. He was a planter.
His son Joseph, who was also in Ipswich, later of
Watertown, came earlier. Joseph (i), married in

England, Dorothy . His will, dated April 24,

164G, proved September 29, 1646, bequeathed to his
wife Dorothy, sons Joseph and John, and daughter
Hannah. His children: I. Joseph, mentioned be-
low. 2. John, died 1694-5 ; married Dinah ; re-
sided in Ipswich, Groton and Watertown. 3. Han-
nah, married Thomas Newman, June 8, 1665, at
Ipswich.

(II) Joseph Morse, son of Joseph Morse (i),
born in England, 1610, came to America in ship
"Elizabeth," of Ipswich, England, sailing April 30,
1634, and settled finally at Watertown, Massachu-
setts. He was then twenty-four years old. In 1636
he was one of the proprietors at Watertown. He
died there March 4. 1690, and his estate was admin-
istered by his son John. He married Esther, daugh-
ter of John and Elizabeth Pierce of Watertown.
(See Leominster Pierce families for account of John
Pierce.) Children of Joseph and Dorothy Morse:
I. Joseph, born April 3, 1637; died 1677, settled at
Groton, proprietor. 2. Deacon John, see forward.

,3. Jonathan, buried May 12, 1743, at Watertown.
4. Jonathan, born November 7, 1643; died July 31,
1686; town clerk of Groton, etc. 5. Esther, born
March 7, 1645-6 ; married, December 22, i66g, Jona-
than Bullard, lived at Watertown. 6. Sarah, mar-
ried Timothy Cooper June, i66g, lived at Groton.

.7. Jeremiah, died September 27, 1719, at Newton,
proprietor of Groton. 8. Isaac, lived at Newton ;
wife died 1714.

(III) Deacon John Morse, son of Joseph Morse
(2), born in Watertown, February 28, 1639. settled
there, was admitted a freeman May 15, 1672, died
there July 23, 1702. His estate was administered
by his son James. He lived at Lancaster for a time,
and was one of the first deacons of Rev. Mr.
Amgier's Church. He married Anne, daughter of

John Smith, of Lancaster, and (second) Abigail
Stearns April 27, 1666; she died October 15, 1690.
Children of Deacon John and Anne Morse: i.
Lydia, born April 6, 1660. 2. John, born .April 7,
1662. probably died young at Lancaster. Children of
Deacon John and Abigail: 3. John, born May 10,
1667, died young. 4. James, born November 25.
1668; died 171S; married Abigail Morse. 5. John,
mentioned below. 6. Joseph, born August 25, 1671 ;
died June 24, 1709, settled at Guilford, Connecticut.
7. Abigail, born December 23, 1673 ; died iNIarch
6. 1673-4. 8. Abigail, born August 6, 1677; died
.-\pril 13, 1683. 9. Isaac, born January 5. 1677; died
N'oveniber 24, 1694 at Watertown. 10. Samuel, born

June 21, 1682. II. Nathaniel, died March 10, 1729-
30, married Grace Dyer ; second Phebe .

(IV) John Morse, son of Deacon John Morse
(3), born in Lancaster or Watertown, March 15,
1&69-70; resided in Watertown and Needham, Mas-
sachusetts; admitted a freeman June 2, 1699-1700;
was living in Needham in 1718. He married, Janu-
ary 8, 1689-90, Elizabeth Goodin (Godding), died
November 21, 1701. He married (second), Janu-
ary 7, 1701-2, Hepsebath Stone. His first wife
owned the covenant at the church October 3, 1697.
Children of John and Elizabeth Morse: i. John,
baptized October 3, 1697. 2. Susannah, born Janu-
ary 5, 1694-5, died at Watertown. 3. Isaac, men-
tioned below. 4. William, born November 18, 1699;
died, 1752, without issue. Children of John and
Hepsebath Morse : 5. Henry, born September 14,
1704; married Mary FoUett, and resided in Attle-
boro. 6. John, born 1705, died 1767, aged sixty-two
years; joined Cambridge Church 1730. 7. Rebecca,
born November 16, 1706. 8. Sarah, born June 3,
1708. 9. Sarah, born October 9, 1712; died March
26, 1714. ID. Elizabeth, baptized October 3, 1697.
II. Hepsebath, born February 14. 1702-3. 12. Abi-
gail, baptized Alarch 5, 1709-10. 13. Susanna, born
October g, 1712, died March, 1714. 14. Mary, bap-
tized June 19, 1715.

(V) Isaac Morse, son of John Morse (4), born
in Watertown, February 1 1, 1696-7, and baptized
October 3, 1697 ; received in the church at Cam-
bridge 1737 ; lived for a time at Attleboro. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Turner; their children: i. Elisha,
born November 2, 1727, died young. 2. Elisha,
mentioned below.

(VI) Elisha Morse, son of Isaac Morse (5),
born at Needham, November 2, 1741. He was a
soldier through the entire revolution. He was a pri-
vate in Captain Joseph Morse's company. Colonel
Samuel Bullard's regiment, at Lexington, April 19,
1775, and afterward, in Captain James Aliller's
company. Colonel Jonathan Wood's regiment, later
in 1775; in Captain Amos Perry's company. Colonel
Haw's regiment, 1778, Rhode Island ; in Captain
Joshua Fisk's company. Colonel Abner Perry's regi-
ment, 1780; was enlisted for three years in the
Continental army. He resided at Natick, Massachu-
setts. He married, 1762, Jemima Tomblin, bom
April 6, 1742. Their children, all born at Natick:
I. JNIehitable, born June 4, 1763; married Hezekiah
Bacon. 2. Lurana, born May 3, 1765 ; married Levi
Sawin of West Dedham. 3. Isaac, born February 3,
1769; married Deborah Cleveland; resided at Need-
ham ; had thirteen children. 4. Elisha, mentioned
below. 5. Arnold, born May 15, 1774; married,
April 6, 1792, Sally Hunting (according to the
church records), resided at Millbury, Massachu-
setts, and Pom fret, Connecticut. 6. Rebecca, born
October l, 1778; married Luther Broad, 1802, and
had ten children ; resided at Natick. 7. Persis, born
April I, 1780; married Elisha Robbins, who died
without issue. 8. Reuben, born October 4, 1782,
died 1835. 9- Betsey, born October 27, 1786; died
about 1801.

(VII) Elisha Morse, son of Elisha Morse (6),
born at Natick. Massachusetts. June 2, 1771 ; lived
for a time in Needham ; married Sally More ; their
children: i. Arnold, mentioned below. 2. Gardner,
born September 3, 1792, at Needham.

(VIII) Arnold Morse, son of Elisha Morse
(7), was born at Needham, March 21, 1791. He
had a common school education. He was a farmer,
later a paper maker. He resided in Needham, where
he was married, then for a time in Dorchester, and
finally about 1827 settled in Leominster and fol-
lowed the paper making business the rest of his life.

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He married, at Needham, December 2, 1810, Jane
Giles, both of Needham.

(IX) Gardner Morse, son of Arnold Morse (8),
born in Dorchester, now part of Boston, Massachu-
setts, 181 1. He attended the public schools, and at
the age of sixteen removed to Leominster, Massa-
chusetts, with his parents, and learned the business
of comb making, as most boys of his day in that
town had to do. As soon as he had completed his
apprenticeship he went into the business of comb
manufacture in Leominster, and built up step by
step a large and flourishing business in which he
was engaged all his active life. His home for more
than half a century was in what is still known as
the Morse Place, on West street, whither he moved
in April, 1836, and where he died October 15, 1894.
In 1857 he took into partnership with him his son,
George F., and William Booth, and Joseph F. Good-
hue (see sketch), under the firm name of G. Morse
& Company, which continued until it was incorpor-
ated as the Morse Comb Company, the first stock
company manufacturing in the town of Leominster.
Within the year this company lost its factory by
fire, and did not rebuild, but tlie G. Morse & Com-
pany firm continued the business until the begin-
ning of the war in 1861. He married, in 1833, Mary
Ann Willard, of Sterling, Massachusetts. Their
children: I. Mary C, born 1834. 2. George Frank-
lin, mentioned below. 3. Anna M., born 1838. 4.
Elizabetli A., born 1842 ; married J. H. Rice. 5.
Henrietta A., born 1844. 6. Charles A., born 1848.
7. Sarah H., born 1850; married C. F. Edgarton, re-
sided in Concord, Massachusetts. 8. Albert G.,
mentioned below.

(X) George Franklin Morse, son of Gardner
Morse (9), was born in Leominster, Massachusetts,
October 16, 1835, in the house known as the Micah
R. Ball place where his father then lived, on West
street. He went to school in old district No. 2,
where he then lived, was one of the first pupils
admitted to the Leominster high school when it
was established, and graduated in 1851 after a four
years' course. At the age of sixteen he went to
Boston as clerk in the importing establishment of
Hill, Burrage & Company, two members of that
firm being natives of Leominster — ^Alvah and
Charles H. Burrage. He remained there two years,
returning to Leominster to learn the business of
comb making in his father's factory, then run under
the firm name of G. & A. Morse, spending the years
1855 3nd 1856 there. In addition to the manufact-
ure of combs, G. & A. Morse owned a large general
store in Leominster, and George F. Morse kept the
books for a year. In 1857 he became a partner in
the firm of G. Morse & Company. The firm was
succeeded by a corporation known as the Mor^e
Comb Company, referred to already, of which
George F. Morse was the secretary.

When the civil war broke out Mr. Morse left
his business to enter the army. From 1861 to 1863
he was in the quartermaster's department. In 1862
he joined his regiment in the Third Division. Third
Army Corps, then under the command of General
Whipple, and remained with it until after the battle
of Fredericksburg. After leaving the service and
before he returned to Leominster, in partnership
with General Augustus Morse he bought the City
Hotel property at Annapolis. Maryland. After try-
ing the hotel business for a year he gave it up and
returned to his native town, where from 1864 to
1868 he was again engaged in the manufacture of
combs. Then he tried the hotel business again, as
proprietor of the Creighton House, Boston, which
he sold out at the end of the year to F. E. Balch,
and returned to Leominster. In 1871 he was again

in the comb business, this time adding the sale of
horns to the manufacture of them. The firm was
still called G. Morse & Company. In the following
year he and his brother Albert G. Morse took charge
of that department of the business having to do with
the buying and selling of horns, under the firm
name of G. F. Morse & Company. For the next
twelve years they pushed this business with great
energy and marked success. The constantly increas-
ing demand for horns during these years for the
manufacture of combs and jewelry made extensive
traveling necessary in order to secure the goods.
In 1875 ^ii"- ^lorse went to California on a business
trip, and in 1880 to Cuba and Mexico. The firm
had to seek horns where the cattle industry flour-
ishes, and Mr. Morse had travelled all over the
continent for the goods used in such large quanti-
ties in Leominster for making combs, etc. Mr.
Morse retains an interest in the business but is not
active himself in the management. He and his
brother erected powder mills at Rahway. New
Jersey, and he remained there until the plant was
sold. In 1882 Mr. Morse was elected president of
the South Spring Hill Gold ]\lining Company of
Amador, California, and he spent the greater part
of that year at the mines. He still holds this office,
and has spent many winters is California to look
after the property. He is president of the Fitchburg
Machine Works, but not active in the management.
For many years he was president of the Hecla
Powder Company of New York. He is a director
of the Leominster Gaslight Company. At the first
annual meeting to elect officers of the Wachusett
National Bank of Fitchburg he was elected a di-
rector, and he has continued in this office to the
present time. In politics he is a Republican. He
has been a notary public since 1874, when he was at
first appointed by Governor Thomas Talbot. He
was elected to the governor's council during the ad-
ministration of Hon. William E. Russell, continu-
in the office with his successor. Governor Wolcott.
He has served the town of Leominster as auditor,
and in various other offices. He attends the Llni-
tarian Church, and gives it his active support. Mr.
Morse has been unusually successful in business ;
he has been a faithful public servant and in many
ways is a model of good citizenship.

He married, in 1859, Mary E., daughter of
Nathan and Eliza (Downe) Tufts, of Fitchburg,
and their children are: i. Ralph G., born i860;
marrier, 1883, Susan F. Colby. 2. Alice A., born
1862 ; married. 1888, Charles A. Joslin. treasurer of
the Leominster Savings Bank; they have two chil-
dren — Maud A. and Ralph A. Joslin. 3. Florence
T., born 1865; married. 1886. William A. Putnam,
and they have one child, Ralph Putnam. 4. Mar-
garet D., born 1872 ; married F. N. Dillon ; their
children are Frederick N. Dillon, Dorothy Dillon,
Katherine Dillon. 5. Mabel W., b'orn 1872; mar-
ried Franklin Freeman ; their children are Alorse
Freeman and Gardner W. Freeman.

(X) Albert G. Morse, son of Gardner and
Mary Ann (Willard) Morse, was born in Leom-
inster, Massachusetts, February 4. 1846. He was
educated in the high school of his native town, and
upon the completion of his studies went to Wor-
cester and entered upon a clerkship in a dry goods
store, remaining for a short period of time. He
then went to Boston and later to New York, in
both of which cities he followed the clerical line
in the larger stores, and thereby gained a thorough
and complete knowledge of the mercantile business
in all its details. He then engaged in the manu-
facture of combs with his brother, George F. Morse,
under the firm name of G. F. Morse & Company,

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and with liis brotlier built the Hecla Powder Works
at Rahway, New Jersey, which they later disposed
of to the Duponts, of Wihnington, Delaware. He
then established what was known as the Morse Pub-
lishing Company of Boston and New York, in the
■conduct of which he was highly successful, and
after conducting the same for a number of years
disposed of it, and has since lived a life of retire-
ment in his home at Leominster, Massachusetts.
He was a director in the Northboro National Bank,
in which he rendered valuable service. He was
for eight years a member of the school board, and
the cause of education has always found in him
a stanch supporter and promoter. He is a Repub-
lican in politics, and is an earnest worker in behalf
of the party whose principles he advocates. He at-
tends the Unitarian Church, serving as chairman of
the parish committee seven years, and is a charter
member of the Royal Arcanum.

In January, 1871, Mr. Morse was united in mar-
riage to Emilia G. Christian, daughter of Thomas
S. Christian, of Detroit, Michigan, and they are the
parents of two children ; Anna G., born October
9, 1871. a member of the faculty of Adelphi C0I-,
lege, Broolyn, New York; and Willard Ives, born
September 17, 1884, secretary of the Royal Comb
Company, Leominster, Massachusetts.

DY'ER DAVIS. William Davis (i), ancestor
of Dyer Davis, of Dudley, was in Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts, 1642. A tradition held extensively in the
family is that he came from Wales about 1635.
He was born in 1617 and married (first) Eliza-
beth . She was buried May 4, 1658. He mar-
ried (second), October 21, 1658, Alice Thorpe. She
was buried February 24, 1667. He married (third)

Jane . He was admitted to full communion

April 20, 1673. Elizabeth, his wife, was a member
of the church October 7, 1649, when their three eldest
children were baptized. He died December 9, 1683.
widow Jane died May 12, 1714, at Watertown, at
the residence of Josiah Goddard, who married her
•daughter Rachel. He had three children by his
first wife, four by the second and three by the
third. Six other children are believed to have been
the children of Jane. The children were born at
Roxbury and baptized in the church there. They
were: John, born October i, 1643: Samuel, born
February 21, 1645; Joseph, born October 12, 1647;
William and Elizabeth (twins), baptized June 14,
1663, buried December 18, 1678; Mathew, baptized
January 24, 1664, settled at Woodstock, Connecticut ;
Jonathan, born February 2, 1665, settled at Wood-
stock; Mary, born March 28, 1669; Jane, born De-
cember 24, 1670; Rachel, born August 26, 1672,
married, January 28, 1696, Josiah Goddard, of
Watertown, and had nine children; Benjamin, bap-
tized January 7, 1674; Ichabod, baptized April i,
1676; Ebenezer, baptized April 9, 1678; William,
baptized January 3, 1680: Sarah, baptized July 20,
1681 : Isaac, baptized April 18, 1683.

(II) Joseph Davis, son of William Davis (i),
was born October 12, 1647, at Roxbury, Massachu-
setts. He married Sarah Chamberlain, who owned
the covenant February 8, 1673. Their children,
born at Roxbury, were ; Joseph, baptized February
22, 1673 ; Sarah, baptized February 22, 1673 ; Mary,
baptized December 12, 1675 ; Hannah, baptized
March 21, 1680; Benjamin, baptized February 22,
1684; Mehitable, baptized February 22. 1684; Abi-
gail, baptized April 15, 1688.

(III) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph (2), was born
at Roxbury, Massachusetts, probably 1671. He mar-
ried (first) Sarah ; he married (second), De-
cember 8, 1715, Elizabeth Lane. Of his seven chil-

dren the first six were by his wife Sarah. He was
a cordvvainer at Roxbury; in 1710 he bought of his
father a house and fifteen acres of land, partly in
Roxbury, partly in Brookline, the house being in
Brookline. He sold this place in 1717 to Joseph
Scott. He died soon after, intestate. Jacob Cham-
berlain was the administrator. Most of his chil-
dren, if not all of them, settled in Woodstock, Con-
necticut. His children were : Joseph, born at Rox-
bury, July 26, 1697; John, born October 30, 1699,
at Roxbury, resided at Woodstock, married, June
8, 1721, Martha Griggs; Sarah, born at Roxbury,
May, 1702, married, January 21, 1722, Joshua Healy;
Samuel, born June 27, 1704, married, August i,
1728, Hannah Bacon, settled at Woodstock; Joshua,
born November 20, 1706, resided at Woodstock,
married, December 15, 1731, Sarah Pierpont ; Ben-
jamin, born March 4, 1710, at Brookline, resided at
Woodstock; Ebenezer, born November II, 1717,
at Brookline.

(IV) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph Davis (3),
was born at Ro.xbury, Massachusetts, July 26, 1697,
married, January 31, 1723, at Roxbury, Sarah Cur-
tiss. She died March 5, 1727. He married (sec-
ond) Ruth Griggs, probably daughter of James
Griggs. He lived and died on the homestead bought
in 1743 near the southeast corner of Oxford town-
ship, known for many years in the vicinity as Ban-
nock City. All his children were born at Wood-
stock, the first three by Sarah, the others by Ruth.
The children were: Sarah, born November 23, 1723;
Joseph, born March 7, 1725, married Sarah, daugh-
ter of Deacon Samuel Davis, of Oxford ; Rachel,
born February 11, 1727; James, born October 8,
1734; Ruth, born October 6, 1735: Jemima, born
November 25, 17.^6, married, March 28, 1780, Jo-
seph, son of Benjamin Davis, of Oxford: Abigail,
baptized February 11, 1739, married John Learned,
of Oxford; William, baptized October 19, 1740;
William, baptized March 6, 1743, married Sibyl
Davis, daughter of Benjamin Davis, of O.xford.

(V) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph Davis (4),
was born at Woodstock. Connecticut, March 7, 1725:
he married. July 6, 1758, Sarah Davis, daughter of
Samuel and Mary Davis. She was born at Oxford,
Massachusetts, December 31, 1734. Joseph Davis
was a farmer ; owned a tract of land in what is now
the centre of Webster South village, and also the
site of the Stevens linen works, with the water power
in Dudley. Here he had a saw mill, which he oper-
ated. He later bought land and settled about a
mile westerly from the river, and his homestead is
now in possession of Hon. Ebenezer Davis (1830)
his grandson. He engaged somewhat in business
operations and went often to Boston markets with
farm produce, which he exchanged for groceries,
in which he dealt to a considerable extent. He was
known as a man of character and integrity.

(VI) Joshua Davis, son of Joseph Davis (5),
was born July 25, 1774.; married, March 13, 1793,
Susannah Dodge, of Dudlev, Massachusetts. He
settled at Dudley, where he died .'\pril 19, 1829. He
was an enterprisine farmer. Their children, all born
at Dudley, were: Chester, born April 29. 1799; Dyer,
born Januarv ig. 1801 ; Rhoda born January 2, 1803 :
Ziba. born December 3. 1805; Joshua, born March
15. 1807: Susanna, born September g. iSio; Adaline,
born February 3, 1812. died June 18, i8l4 : Frederick,
born January 22, 1816; Prince, born February 24,
1823.

(VII) Dyer Davis, son of Joshua Davis (6),
was born at Dudley, Massachusetts. January ig,
iSoi ; married. Januarv i. 1828. Betsey Haven. He
died December ig. 1843. at Dudley. He was a
farmer and lived on the homestead at Dudley. He

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was prosperous. He served the town as selectman
twice. He was an active worker in the Congrega-
tional Church. His wife Betsey was born at Wood-
stock, September 3, 1803. After his death she mar-
ried (second) John Fortune, of Pennsylvania, No-
vember 22, 1847. The children of Dyer Davis were :
Lucy Ann, born August 5, 1831, died July 17, 1844;
Dyer, born June 6, 1839.

(Vni) Dyer Davis, son of Dyer Davis (7),
was born at Dudley, June 6, 1839. He was educated
in the common schools and at Nichols Academy
in Dudley. In early life he purchased an interest
in and conducted with H. W. Williams the latter's
general store at Dudley. Later he bought a farm
where he has since resided. In the civil war he
was the first man to enlist when a company was
formed in Dudley. The company was disbanded
after drilling three weeks. Mr. Davis has been con-
stable of Dudley for fourteen years. He is an
active supporter of the Congregational Church.

He married, February 28, 1863, at Dudley, Sarah
Munroe, daughter of Sylvester Munroe. She was
born June 30, 1842, died December 13. 1896. Their
children were: Fred, born June 11, 1864, died De-
cember 16, 1866; Jennie H., born October 21, 1865;
Ella F., born April 6, 1867 ; Bessie A., born Septem-
ber 3, 1868; Fred D., born August I, 1870; Mary
Edna, born June 7, 1872 ; Nina Belle, born March
4, 1880.

(IX) Jennie Davis, daughter of Dyer Davis (8),
born October 21, 1865, married David Nicholls, of
New Boston, Connecticut, and has a son Ralph
and a daughter who died in childhood.

(IX) Mary Edna Davis, daughter of Dyer Davis
(8), was born at Dudley, June 7, 1870, married
Robert Searles, of Webster, Massachusetts. One
child, Gwendoline Searles survives, and one died
in infancy. Mr. Searles is a newspaper man, at
present correspondent in Webster for the Worcester
Telegram.

REy. SAMUEL MAY. Among the co-workers
and intimate associates of the "Old Guard" of Anti-
Slavery workers, including Garrison, Phillips and
Whittier, was he whose name heads this memoir.
He was a veteran philanthropist and reformer, whose
home was at Leicester, Worcester county, where was
born that spirit of freedom and anti-slavery public
opinion that spread throughout the entire country.

Rev. Samuel May was born in Boston. April II,
1810. the eldest child of Samuel and Mary (God-
dard) May. and the third of his name in direct line
and was sixth in generation from John May, who
came from Sussex, England, with two sons. John
and Samuel, in 1640, and settled at Roxbury, Massa-
chusetts. The line of descent is as follows:

(I) John May, eighth immigrant, born 1590, died
1670.

(II) John May, son of John (ll, born 1631,
died T671. married Sarah (Brewer) Bryce.

(HI) John May. son of John (2), born 1663.
died T7?o: married Prudence Bridge.

(IV) Ebenezer May, son of John (3), born
1692. died 17^2: married Abigail Gore. He lived
and died at Rnxbury, Massachusetts.

(V) Samuel May, son of Ebenezer (4). born
1723. died 1/94 : married (first) Catherine Mears :
(second) Abigail Williams. He was a builder and
lumber merchant ; a member of the Old South
Church. Boston, in revolutionary war days, and was
a man of much skill and great energy.

(VI) Samuel May. son of Samuel (s), born
1776. died 1870: married Mary Goddard. who died
in 1882. He was fnr many years a hardware mer-
chant in Boston and interested in various manufac*

turing enterprises elsewhere. He served as over-
seer of the poor and was an officer in the Provident
Institution for Savings. He was also one of the
proprietors of the Boston Athenseum. Seven chil-
dren were born to Mr. May and wife, six of whom
grew to maturity. They were : Samuel, born April
II, 1810; John Joseph, born 1813; Edward Augustus,
born 1817, died 1838; Frederick Warren Goddard,
born 1821 ; Mary Goddard, born 1824; Louisa God-
dard, born 1827, died 1828; Abigail Williams, born
1829.

(VII) Rev. Samuel May. son of Samuel (6),
born April 11. 1810, married Sarah Russell, No-
vember II. 1835. The children of Rev. Samuel and
Sarah (Russell) May were: Adeline, born Sep-
tember 4, 1836; Edward, born January 20, 1838; Jo-
seph Russell, born October 30, 1844; Elizabeth God-
dard. born April 21. 1850.

Samuel I\Iay fitted himself for college at the
school of Deacon Samuel Greele in Boston, and at
the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard Col-
lege in 1S25. aged fifteen years. He received his
academic degree in 1829. and was elected class secre-
tary, which position he held throughout his event-
ful life. The class book, containing the records in-
scribed in his clear and beautiful copper-plate hand-
writing, has been delivered to Harvard L^niversity.
Among his classmates were noted national char-
acters, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, United
States Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis,
Rev. S. F. Smith, author of "America." Chief Justice
Bigelow and James Freeman Clark. D. D. The class
numbered fifty-nine, all but two of whom died before
Samuel May.

Upon leaving Harvard Mr. May studied theology
one year with his cousin, Rev. Samuel J. May, at
Brooklyn. Connecticut. He continued his studies at
the Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, from which he was graduated in August,
1833. In September, 1833, _ Mr. May preached in
Leicester to a new Unitarian society, the Second
Congregational, which had been incorporated early
that year. Services were held at first in the old town
hall, but on August 12, 1834, a church was dedicated.
Mr. May was permanently engaged to preach in
June of that year and on the following August 13,
he was ordained and installed. Perhaps no better
description of the activities of his life can be here
recorded than to insert an extract from the IVorces-
tcr Ercning Gasette, just preceding his eighty-fifth
birthday celebration.

"In 1833 he had begun to feel the nation's re-
sponsibility for slavery; and he early identified him-
self with the small and despised body known as
abolitionists — men and women from every sect and
party, and of pronounced views in religion, politics
and social philanthropy, many of them thoughtful
and devoted heroes who 'recognized in slaver>' the
one great curse, disgrace of and menace to Amer-
ican institutions, and spared no labor nor sacrifice
in denouncing and opposing iniquitous legislation
and party bargains which tended to reinforce and ex-
tend the evil.' Party feeling was intensely bitter,
and there was prevalent a very general opinion that
a minister should have no decided opinions, or if
he had. should refrain from expressing his views.
On questions of justice and human rights, Mr.
Mav did not refrain from opening his lips."

In England, in 1843. he was instrumental in call-
ing the attention of British L^nitarians to the Amer-
ican anti-slavery movement and enlisting the strong
and valuable co-operation of Dr. John R. Estlin and
Rev. George .Armstrong, of Bristol, England. In
1846 he devoted himself to the great anti-slavery
society movement. In 1847 he became agent for the

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Massachusetts Anti-SIavcry Society, and with tlie
exception of about six months, when health hindered
him, he held the position, doing yeoman's service
as a platform speaker and organizer until 1868.
when his mission was accomplished. He was presi-
dent of the Worcester County South Division Anti-
Slavery Society several years. After the close of
the rebellion he, with many friends, embarked in
the activities of the Freedman's Aid Society, whose
beneficent work, enlarged, continues in the Hamp-
ton School. Virginia : the Tuskegee School. Alabama,
and the Atlanta University, Georgia.

Mr. May was fifty-one years old when the civil
war broke out and was exempt by age and profes-
sion from taking up arms, but with renewed zeal
he wielded his pen and raised his voice in the
national service. He never lost interest in the
church work at Leicester to his last days on earth.
Neither did age preclude his activities as a citizen
interested in the welfare of Leicester. From records
it may be found that he served as a member of
the school board for twenty-one years, and was a
trustee of the Lecester Academy at the time of his
death. For thirty-four years he was a trustee and
the purchasing agent of the Leicester public library.
In 1875 he was elected as a member of the house
of representatives for Massachusetts, servifig as
chairman of the committee on federal relations ; also
on the labor and woman's suffrage committees. He
was a strong temperance advocate and in politics
a Republican, though independent on temperance
and prohibition questions. Among the various so-
cieties to which he belonged may be named the
American L^nitarian Association, the Bostonian So-
ciety, the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and vice
president of the Woman's Suffrage Society from its
inception. In June. 1898. he became the senior
alumnus of the Harvard Divinity School.

Miss Sarah Russell, daughter of Nathaniel P.
Russell, and the Rev. Samuel May were united in
marriage by Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., November
II. 1835. Mrs. May was born January 5, 1S13.
and died June 13, 1895. after having been the loyal,
loving companion on the journey of life, with ^Ir.
May for almost sixty years. She left four children
to revere her memory : Adeline, Edward, a staf?
officer in the LInited States navy ; Joseph Russell, of
Boston : and Elizabeth Goddard.

The comely old mansion in which Mr. and Mrs.
May lived three score years is charmingly situated
on Leicester Hill, commanding a broad, picturesque
view. There have been many notable visitors at this
homestead, where good cheer and dignified hospitality
were ever provided. Mr. May's eighty-fifth birthday
anniversary was especially touching, and made more
so by the church and Sabbath school with which
he had so many years been -connected. The senti-
ment was expressed on that occasion by the school
children, who brought a gift of Easter lilies. His
fellow townsmen on this occasion testified their
respect and admiration for him by presenting him
with an album containing letters of congratulation
and tribute from scores of his old friends and co-
workers on both sides of the Atlantic. It is doubt-
ful if he leaves any heirloom to his children, which
he prized more than this beautiful sheaf of love
and reference. After a long, eventful and truly
noble life of ei.ghti'-nine years, Mr. May was called
to his reward, November 24, 1899.

AARON FULLER JONES. Lewis Jones (i)
was the immigrant ancestor of .Aaron Fuller Jones,
of Douglass, Massachusetts. He was born about
1620 in England, and died at Watertown. Massa-
chusetts, April II, 1684. Lewis Jones settled first

in Roxbury and was a member of the church there
in 1640. He removed to Watertown, Massachusetts,
about 1651, and owned land in the vicinity of Fresh
Pond. His will was dated January 7, 1678-79 and

proved June 14, 1684. He married Anna , who

survived him. Their children were : Josiah, born
1643, of whom later; Phebe, born January 28, 1645,
died at Roxbury, 1650; Lydia, married Jonathan
Whitney; Shubael, born July i, 1651, ( non compos.)
(II) Josiah Jones, son of Lewis Jones (l), was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1643. He settled
in Watertown and was admitted a freeman .April
18, 1690. He was in that part of the town known
as the Farms, later as Weston. He was a charter
member and one of the first deacons of the Newton
Church, elected January 4, 1709-10. About 1690
Watertown, Waltham' and Weston were made in
three precincts and the three companies of soldiers
were commanded respectively by Captain Bond, Cap-
tain Garfield and Lieutenant Jones. Later Jones had
the rank of captain. He purchased of John and
Sarah Stone, of Watertown. a farm of one hundred
and twenty-four acres on the north side of the Sud-
bury highway, about two miles from Sudbury. He
was selectman of Watertown in 1685-87-90-1702 to
1709. He was a prominent man in his day. He died
October 9, 1714. By deed dat