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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 BICKNELL CRANE

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

Author of "The Rawson Family Memorial." "Crane

Family," two vols.. Etc.

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DRAPER FAMILY.. Thomas Draper (i),
progenitor of the Draper family, of Hopedale, Mas-
sachusetts, and father of the immigrant ancestor,
Hved 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 Jaijies 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. He 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. Marrian Draper, wife of Mr.
James Draper, aged about TJ 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 Charlestown ; Sarah, 1652. at Roxbury ;
James, mentioned below : John, April 24, 1656. at
Dedham. Massachusetts, died .^pril 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 Roxbury. married
Sarah Jackson; died at Roxbury, February 28.
1746-47.

(HI) James Draper, fourth child of James
Draper (i). was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
1654, and died there April 30. 1698. aged forty-four
years. He married Abigail Whitney, a descendant
of John and Elinor Whitney, for whom see sketch
elsewhere in this work. She died in Roxbury. Octo-
ber 25. 172T, 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 Philip's
iii — I

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
Alclis. 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 affairs 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 thipty-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 8. 1748; Joshua, December 25, 1724;
Josiah, April 2t„ 1726, died August 18, same year;
Josiah, September 12, 1727, died September, 1795;
Rebecca, June 30, 1729; Mary, September 24, 1731;
Al)ijah. July 13, 1734. died November 18, 1734;
-\l)ijah, July II, 1735. died February 13, 1737;
.\l>ijah. May 10, 1737, died May i, 178a, mentioned
I-.elow ; Samuel, December 5, 1740, died November
29. 1750.

(V) Abijah Draper, son of James Draper (4),
was born in Dedham, MassacTiusetts, May 10, 1737,
and died May i. 17S0. He married. April 8, 1762,
-\lice 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
Regiiuent with active service in the revolution. The
children of Major .-\bijah and .-Mice were: Abijah,
born June 11. 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. Bajlou,
"a man of large natural intelligence, mechanical
ingenuity and progressive thought." He invented a '
loom temple, which was introduced by his sons,
thus starting the family in the line of cotton ma-

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cliincry improvement. He died January 22,
1848, oviT liglitv-foiir years of age. He inar-
ricd (lirsl), May .?i. I/^^O, Lyilia Riehards,
•daughter of Lemuel and Rebecca Ricliards. She
was born January Ji, I7(>8, and died September 11,
.1811. He married (.second) her si.stcr, March 9,
181J. She was born September 12. 1783. and died
March 3, 1847. The children of Ira and Lydia
Draper were; I. James, bom May 28, 1787. ''ved
■ and died in Wayland, Massachusetts. 2. Ira, Jr.,
January 4, 1789, died June, 1845. 3- Rufus, .Vugust
30, 1790, died September 4, of same year. 4. Daugh-
ter. August 7, 1791. 5. Son, December 17, 1793-

6. Lucy C, June 17, 1/97. died September 15, 1800.

7. Rufus Foster, July IJ. 1800, died October 13,
1841, married Polly Heminway. 8. Abijah, Janu-
ary 5, 1802, died October 4. same year. 9. Abijah,
November 15. 1803, died December 21, 1828. 10.
Daughter, December I, 1807. The children of Ira
and Abigail Draper were: 11. Ebcnczer Daggett,
mentioned below. 12. Lydia, March 31, 1815, died
April 4, i8.(7. married John Edmunds. 13. George,
mentioned below. 14. Abigail. October 24, 1819,

•died July 22, 1847. married William W. Cook. 15.
Lctinie Richards, December i, 1823, married Lydia
M. Mansfield. 16 Lucy R., December 22, 1826,
vdicd July, 1827.

(VII) Ebenezcr Daggett Draper, son of Ira
Draper (6). was born at Weston, Massachusetts,
June 13, 1813. He settled in Uxbridge. and attended
the First Church (Unitarian) of Mendon, Massa-
chusetts, of which Rev. Adin Ballon was the pastor.
When Mr. Ballon originated the Hopedale com-
munity, Ebenezcr became a member and joined
Kcv. and Mrs. Ballon on the old Jones farm
in Milford, now Hopedale. The locality had
l)een 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 lL>pedale Community.
The community began practical operations imme-
diately after April I, 1842 ■'with a join; 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 orie 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 connnunity were summel 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 Oirist, as he taught and ex-
emplified it. according to the Scriptures of the New
Testament. .\nd 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 .Miolitionists of the non-political
type, sincere believers in the co-equal rights of the
sexes, and devoted christran non-resistants, eschew-
ing all forms of deadly and harmful force against
htmian beings, even the worst. They ardently de-
sired to conmience 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
RTew steadily and seemed successful for nearly four-
teen years, increasing to a membership of a hundred
w-ith three hundred inhabitants dwelling in fifty
houses, 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 sel-f-
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 community,
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 loye and wisdom, and so become more
and more a light to those around u.s — 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
di.-appointment of the founder, who never abandoned
his belief in the practicability of the idea, the busi-
ness of the comnumity passed into private hands.
The business interests were taken over by Ebenczer
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
Drajiers were the two most prominent laymen.

During the most important years of crrly develop-
ment Eb-.;nezer D. Draper was an important factor
in the concern. When he joined the community in
1842 he was worth about $5,000; in 1852 when he
entered the partnership with his brother he was
worth $30,000, while George had less than $S,ooo.
Both gained rapidly, and in 1868 when they dis-
solved partnership the senior brother was worth
$125,000. and George was worth over a huridred
thousand. Their business had expanded rapidly.
The growth of the business from this point belongs
imder the sketch of the younger brother. Ebenezcr
D. Draper became interested in the -American Steam
Fire Proof Safe Company, of Boston, and in 1870
he 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. .^nna
Thwing. daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Mowry)
Thwing. She was born December 23, 1814, and
died January 30, 1870, at Hopedale. They had no
children of their own. but adopted the following:
I. Ida Anna, born July 12. 1828. died July 12,
1S33. at Hopedale. 2. Mary .\nna, August 15, 1852:
reidcs in Boston. 3. Charles Henry Eaton, son of
Rev. Henry Eaton, once pastor of the Pearl Street
Universalist 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.

Ebenezcr D. Draper married (second), October
iS.'i872. 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 public 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 Uxbridge, 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 1839, 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 1S45 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
■withdraw 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
be 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 imder 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 w'ere : • 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
Unicpn. 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
C( mmonwealth. He was a vigorous, logical, and
I'litiring advocate of Protection for American indus-
tries. He studied the question at home and abroad.
\o 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 effects of tariff on manufacturing. He
practically started the Home Market Club of Bos-
tiin. which has a membership of about two thousand
men. representing the manufacturing interests of
Xew- 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
irnve 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
years, at the very height of his business success
and full of great hope? 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
days of invention and development, growth and re-
organization, until the town and its industries seem
to command an unfaltering prosperity. His friend and
Iirother' in Hopedale Community. Rev. Adin Ballou.
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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tcUigencc, sound business judgment, and inilonii-
table ptrsisloncy of purpose. With these and with
the faithful eo-operation of a wife, rich in all the
qualities necessary to match and complemciu his
own. he has successfully risen to wealth and dis-
tinction." „ ,, ,

tieorge Draper married. March 6. l8.W. Hannah
Brown Thwing. daughter of Benjamin and Anna
(Mowry) Thwing. She was born in U.xhndge,
Jamiarv l. 1817. She died in 1883. and he married
(second) in Milford. iS«4. Mrs. Blunt, of Millord.
The children of Lieorge and Hannah Draper wore:
I. William l-'ranklin. horn at Lowell, .\pril 9. i*^4^.
mentioned below. J. Cieorgiana T., June 30. 1844,
at Lowell, died July .'3. 1844. 3- Helen L.. July 11,
1845. at Lowell; died August 10, i847- 4- 1' ranees
Eudora. July j6. 1847. at Ware. ALassachusetts. mar-
ried Charles H. Colburn, February JO. 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 11. 1853: married Ldward Louis Osgood, at
Boston. January JO. iSSi. Their children were: Ed-
ward D.. born January 2. i88j: 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
Suinner, born at Hopedale, Massachusetts, June 17,
1858, mentioned below.

(\II) Lemuel Richards Draper, son ot Ira
Draper (6), was born December I. 1823. He resided
in Saugus. Lynnficld, Worcester. Milford. and
North Brookficld. 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 jiroved
himself to have his fidl .share of the f.aniil>;_ ability.

He married, at Lynnficld. January I. 1845. Lydia
M. Mansfield, daughter of David and Esther
(Williams) Mansfield. She was born at Lynnficld,
December 5. 1824. Their children were: I. Edward
Mansfield, Iwrn at Saugus. .April 10. 1846. died
September 9. 1848. 2. .Vnnette 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,
bom 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 se.xton of the
church for many years. He married (first), Feb-
ruary. 1850. Caroline Pamelia Pratt, daughter of
Sumner .-ind Susan (Cox) Pratt. She was born
at Lynnficld. Massachusetts. January 26. 1833, and
died 'March 13. 1855. He married (second), .-\pril

3. 1862, in South Reading, Mary E N'ewell. daughter
of Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Wbitcomb) Newell.
She was Itorn in East Boston.

The children of Jaiiies Dexter and Caroline P.
Draper were: I. Emma Caroline, born March it,
1851 ; married Joseph H. Qualters, Jnly 2. i.*<77.
2. Ida Lorene, born .\ugust 2, 1852; married George
H. (Thamberlain. January 14. 1878. The children of
Jame» Dexter and Mary E. Draper were : 3. William
Newell, born at South Reading. January 2, iS()5.

4. Charles Eugene, born in Honedalo. March 24.
1868. 5. H"bie Irving, born in llopedale. .April 20.
if^jo. 6. Jaine< Dexter, born at Hopedale. .April 30.

1874. 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. 1879. Emma E. J. Stnrtevant. daugh-
ter of Calvin and Alony A. Griswold. of Walpole,
New Hampshire. She was born March 31, 1851.
The children of Oscar E. and Emma Lucy Draper
were: Laura .Adelaide, born at Milford, December
12. 1870: Hiram Eugene, born at Milford. Se|)tembcr
15. 1872: Clarence Percival. born at Milford. August

'"'(GENERAL WILLIAM FRANKLIN DRAPER.
(Vlll) General William l'"ranklin Draper, son of
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 bis 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 bis regiment. The
Twenty-fifth was in Maryland and he resumed his
duties just after the battle of South Mountain, tak-
ing part in the remainder of the .Antietam campaign
that followed as captain of the Thirty-sixth Massa-
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
V'icksburg to join General Grant's army, taking
part in the capture of the city and lighting 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 Kno.xville, and the battles of
Blue Springs; Campbell's Station and Strawberry
Plain. Colonel Goodell being disabled by wounds.
Major 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. loiter he was re-cap-
tiired and sent to a hospital in Washington, lit
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 minnie 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 off 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,
arid, 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. The 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 centuries ; 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-oflf mo-
tions, etc.

In April, 1868, he purchased the interests of his
uncle, 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 interests 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.
Xorthrop 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 alrnost
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 affairs, being acting
chairman during the ilhiess of Chairman llitt. of
lUinois. He made important speeches on the Clii-
nesc 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 tlie 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 conunittee on Foreign AtTairs, and one of a
half dozen in the whole lionse 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 inlUiential 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 wliere
he could experiment. 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, 1896, 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 nor 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 .'\rmy,
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. Jov, daui^h-
tcr of David T. and Lydia D. (Bunker)' Warren,
adopted daughter of Hon. David and Charlotte .A.
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 Max-
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,
F'ebruary 18, 1874, married Montgomery 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 by second wife : Margaret Preston Draper,
March 18, 1891. General Draper's Washington
home is at 1705 K street.

(.VHI) 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 Mr. Draper's interests have been solely
with the Draper Company. His first year was spent
in the oflSce 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 1887
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 (Wickliffe) 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
How'ard, born August 9, 1895.

HON. EBEN S. DRAPER (VHI), 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 Newton
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 education. 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 Mil ford National Bank.

He is a member of the Corporation of the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, of which he is
an ahnnnus, a member of the board of trustees of
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the managers of the Milford Hospital, whicli was
built by he and his wife and given to the town.

The main interests of Mr. 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 E.xposi-
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, cleanlmess and
picturesqueness.

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 1896, and gave efficient help in securing
the adoption of the gold standard plank in the plat-
form upon which AIcKinley 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 tariff 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 tariff 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 Jilr. 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. * * * }le 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 tariff adjustment, but while declaring himself
a protectionist from the bottom of his heart, he
said that he was not one who held that tariff sclied-
ulcs 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 Cammonwcallh 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 IDraper was too j'oung 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 1898 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, bom
November 22, 1890; Eben S., Jr., born August 30,

(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 metn-
ber of the M. I. T. .\himni .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 Hopeilale iiuliistries, he has taken out one hun-
tlreil 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-
ing 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 nianv scientific societies, and has made constant
contributions to technical journals. His knowledge
of the patent art as affecting cotton machinery in-
ventions is possibly unei|ualled, 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' .\ssociation.

He has always been intiinately 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 fake 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 .\utomobile Club, the Bay
State Automobile Club, the Worcester Automobile
Club, the -American Automobile Association, etc. He
is also commodore of the Nipniuc 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 Improvement Society and
the ,\inerican 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. .'\s a cosmo-
politan, he belongs to the Metropolitan Club of
Washington. 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
by 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. Massa-
chusetts. October 4. 1876. He attended the public and
Iiigh schools of Hopedale, and w'as afterward a stud-
ent at Phillips' .\cadcmy, 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 Boulc.
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 pf 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 with 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 hxal
social organizations, being a director of the
Magomiscock Golf Club, vice-president of the Lini-
tarian and Maspenock Clubs, and ex-vice-commodore
of the Xipmuc 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. A. M. : Milford Council. R.
and S. M. ; ^Iilford Commandery. K. T. He is also
a member of ."Meppo 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 F.ngman. born August 19. 1878. daughter of
Harry A. and Matilda Engman, of Lexington. Ken-
tiKky. 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 Engman. born February 23, 1905.

WALTER JOHN STONE, born January 14,
1863. in .Auburn. Massachusetts, in a lineal descen-

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ilant on the paternal side from the emigrant, Simon
Stone (i). horn in Much Bromley. Essex county,
England, where he was haptized February g, 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 Boxted
Simon with his family is believed to have emigrated
to America.

April 15, 163s. 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 pi-esent Mount Auburn ceme-
tery, although it is believed that a portioii 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 tvvo
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
he. 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. i6i8-ig. 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) Farnsworth; Matthew.
February 16, 1659-60, married Mary Plymp-

ton ; Nathaniel, February 22, 1661-62, died
1661-62; Ebenezer, February 27. 1662-63, m:iT-
ried Margaret Trowbridge, died I754; 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. Novcin-
ber 4. 1675. married Hon. Edward (joddard, died
17,4. Jonathan, December 26, 1677, married (first)
Rtith 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 .\ugust 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., born 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 acres 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 fir.sl
purchase. In 1757. Mr. Stone with others peti-
tioned to have their estates set off from Leicester
to Worcester; all parties consenting, even the gen-
eral court, the prayer of the petition was granted.
.Mthough 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, comnnttee 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 (Taptain Hubbard's company. Col-
onel Ward's regiment, .April 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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Martlia Baird, wlio died March 2, 181 1, aged
sevcnty-onc. His children were:

Ruth, born August 3, 1748. married Nalhanicl
Harrington, of Worcester, and died August 24,
1817. Jonathan, December 8, 1750, married, Febru-
ary 13, 1777, Mafy 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 chiefly 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

16. i8i6. 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 s, 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 2t, 1809. Abigail,
April 20, 1791. died September 9, 1853. Nathaniel,
March II, 1793, married Elizabeth Eaton, October
19, 1818, died November 22, 1882. Mary, February
'Oi '795. 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.

(,\'ll) 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 be 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. Ilis children were: Ja-
son Bemis, born September 25. 1S26: Luther, Jan-
uary 14, 1828, died July I, 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. 1839; 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 selectman for
several years, a man held in high esteem by his
fellow townsmen. He received his early schrroling
in his native town and at the Leicester Academy,
was a rncmber of the Congregational Church, and
spent his life on the farm where he was born.
He died March 14, 1903, leaving two children:

Waller 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, continuing 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 Ma-
sonic bodies, having passed to the thirty-second de-
gree. Is also member of the I. O. O. F., of Wor-
cester, the Elks and the Grange. He married, Oc-
tober 30, 1889, Winnifred E. Johnson, born August
28, 1S68, 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 March 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 town 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 Watchman 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. .-Vfter the death of his first wife, John
Stone married Betsey (Stone) Craig, by whom he
had Caroline E., born Julv i ^, 1S57, died September
24. 1858.

Henry Burnum Stone attended the public schools
of his native town, and also the Wilbrabam Acad-
emy, and at tlie age of seventeen became the clerk
of a banking firm in Providence, Rhode I-land. 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 bis 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
Massachusetts 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
Republican, public-spirited, and a pleasant man
socially. March 9, 1895, he was united in marriage
■with Fidelia P. Small, of Millbury. She died July
16, 1906, in Worcester.

CHARLES H. BRYANT. The name Br>-ant
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 Brj-ant, 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 Br\-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 1639. 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, 164S ; 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 (i), was 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, 1691.

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

uate, Massachusetts, August 17, 1C84. 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, 1711; Jacob, see forward.

(IV) Jacob Bryant, youngest son of David
Bry-ant (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,
1780. He died February 7, 1781 ; she died in Lei-
cester, December 8, 1818, 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, tS.|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
December 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, 1780. He lived in Leicester, Oakham
and Holden. Massachusetts. He married Fanny
Smith, of Leicester (intentions dated November
18), 181 5. He died in Oakham, April 27, 1833,
aged forty-four 3'ears. The children of John and
Fanny (Smith) Bryant were: John Frink, born
July 25, 1817, at Leicester, died August 5, l8.]5 ;
Charles, see forward ; Louisa, born 1823, married
Harvey Stratton, January i, 1849; David, went
west and died unmarried ; Willis, married and went
west, where he died.

(VII) Charles Bryant, second child of Johrt
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 oflRces 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 April 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-g,
the son of John and IMary (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 Charles and Mary Jane (Bryant)
Bn,-ant were : Marie F., born May g. 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, i860: Arthur. Februarv' 9. 1862. died Au-
gust 25, 1862 ; Fred Augustus, .'\ugust 21, 1863.

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(VIII) Charlos H. Bryant, thinl child oi
Charlfs 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. Ho was a farmer and dealer in milk.
In politics a Rcpuhlicau and a meniher of the grange
and active in it. He married, March 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 Braunton. Devonshire. England,
settled in Cambridge. Massachusetts; Daniel (II);
Elnalhau (111), born Febniary it. i6(i6, at Lan-
caster. Massachusetts, removed to Hopkinton in
I7J0. 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;
his children were: Silas. Ivory. Jemima. Junia,
Ashhel, Otis and Alvan. all born in Shrewsbury
except the last; Israel died July 17. 183,5. aged nine-
ty years; Ashbel .Mien (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. Man-h 14. 1817.
Asa Mixter (VII). who married Elizabeth A.
Richardson, daughter of Benjamin and Judith
(Mason) Richardson, and granddaughter of Cap-
tain F.benezer Richardson, of Spencer, was a soldier
in the revolution. Judith Mason was the daughter
of Ebenezer Mason. Jr., and granddaughter
of Captain Ebenezcr 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 iS. 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, 1777. died January 25, 1795;
Isaac. February 5. 1782. Mrs. Bryant has reason
to be proud of her revolutionary ancestors. She
is a member of the Union Congregational Qiureh.

Mr. Bryant is a quiet citizen of solid worth,
esteemed by those who know him. a repr<?sentative
of the New England yeomanry still extant. He
has 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) Bryant are: Fannie Elizabeth, born in
Worcester, December 27. 1881. 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 .Mien, born October 13, 1894; Esther Louise,
linrn February 5. 1898. died April 20, 1898.

THE DAVIDSON FAMILY. The family of
Davidson is of Scotch origin, and there arc 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
.■\nne Gould and lived in Montpelier, Vcnnont;
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 Suflfolk 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 11, 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 horn 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. Alerriam, and was
the father of Henry Franklin Davidson, whose
sketch appears in this work. Simeon, Jr., born in
Spencer, l8i6, 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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1823, at Leicester, married. April 3, 1844, John
Tucker. She died in Auburn. March 17, 1894. He
died in Auburn, June 21, 1869.

(V) 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 the winter seasons. After
a few 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-
pany, 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 1864 he enlisted in the
Thirteen Unattached 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, 1869. 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. 1891. 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 18S3. He married Mary
L. Merriam. born June 12, 1824, daughter of Cyrii
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 followed 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 smce
resided there, devoting his energies to general farm-
nig and lumbering with profitable results. In poli-
tics he supported the Republican party, but he never
participated in civic aft'airs. His religious affilia-
tions are with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In December, 1870, Mr. Davidson was united in
marriage with Miss Maria 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,
was 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 bv trade.
He died May 4. 171 1, and hi^ 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, w^ho
was born 1678 and died January 30. 1739: thev re-
sided at Providence and Smithiiefd. 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. Hamiali. married, February 22, 1716,
Ebenezer llayward, and had four cliildren. Samuel,
Deborah, Lydia, married, April 14, 1701, Daniel
liix, who was horn lOOO and died March 21, 1746;
liad live children.

(,11) Joseph Balcom, son of Alexander Balcom
(i), was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, about
1660. He removed to Mendon in 1717 with his
family, including his three sons. He linally settled
in New Sherborn, now the town of Douglass where
his descendants have been numerous. His will
was dated March 5. I73-2-33- I' mentions his wife
rhebe 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 Uxbridgc and New Sherborn and he ovyned
rights in both towns. The house was near Baiting
l)ond, with forty-four acres of land. He also owned
land in the Cedar swamp. His wife Phcbe died
after 1732. His daughter, Martha 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 Phcbe Balcom were: Joseph, Samuel,
see forward; Elijah, Deborah, Phebe, Sarah, Mary,
Martha, born March 21, 1714, at Bristol, married
Comstock.

(HI) 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
I'ebruary 4, 1783. It mentions four sons, John and
David, "elder sons," and Moses and Aaron, "younger
sons" ; also daughter, Su.<anna 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;
Bezalecl, born May 26, 1754; Phebe, born September
15. 1759; Closes, born November 11, 1761 ; Aaron,
born March 27, 1764.

(IV) Joljn 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) Milley Lcsure, who was born 1764 and died
May 7, 1812, aged forty-eight years. Children of
John and Sarah were: Ellis, born June 28, J777;
Phcbe, born January 28, 1779; Betsey, born April
3, 1781. Children of Jolm and Milley Balcom were:
Jesse, born September 27. 17S6; Melley, born Feb-
ruary 26, 1788; Sally, born September 17, 1791;
John, born July g, 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 Mr. Wood
May 26, 1838. The mill was formerly 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; Marcus D., resided in Grafton; Ellen Eliza-
beth (or Elizabeth E.), born at Millbury, Novem-
ber 26, 1844.

(VI) Madison A. Balcom, son of Judson Bal-
com (5), was born in East 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 Madi-
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 William?
College, from which he was graduated in 1878, and
at the Yale Theological School, from which he was
graduated in 18S1. He was ordained January 9,
1882, at West Hartland, Connecticut, and was
pastor of the Congregational Church there from
May, 1881, to June, 1884. He was pastor of the
Holden Congregational Church at Holden. Massa-
chusetts, from June, 1884. to September, 1S86. 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 1889 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
University of Michigan, where he received bis
medical degree in 1S82. 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; Vclma May, Feb-
ruary 4, 1892; Ruth, October 30, 1894.

ELMER I. RALCOJI. M. D.

WORCESTER COUNTY

DR. JOHNSON R. WOODWARD. Richad

Woodward, the immigrant ancestor of Dr. John-
-son R. Woodward, oi Oxford, JMassachusetts, was
born in England in 1590. He sailed in the ship
■ "Elizabeth" of Ipswich, England, April 30, l()35,
with his wife Rose, aged lifty, 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 ni Boston and mortgaged or sold
it in 1648. His wife Rose died October 6, 1666,
.aged eiglity 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 twelve 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 filed April
4, 1665. His widow died in Stow, February 5,
1682-83. (See Gates sketch).

(II) George Woodward, son of Richard Wood-
ward (l), was born in England, in 1622, and came
with his parents and brother John in 1635 "i t'^^
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 $■ 1675, gave
her one hundred acres of land on Muddy River
(Brookline), 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: Mary, 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 II, 1666,
Thomas F"isher, of Dedham ; John, born March 28,
1649; Susanna, born September 30, 1651, unmarried;
Daniel, born September 2, 1653, inherited the home-
stead; Mary, born June 3, 1656 (or ilercy). The
child of George and Elizabeth : George, Jr,, born
September 11, 1660, see forward.

(III) 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 widow 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, 1687-88, married Joanna Harris,
born May 28, 1690, daughter of Daniel and Joanna
(Brown) Harris; married (second), June 4, 1728,
Sarah Pierpont, of Roxbury; George, bought land
^lay 23, 1712, at Mendon ; Nathaniel, see forward ;
Lydia, married Robert Harris, brother of Abraham
Harris: Ichabod, of Brookline. married, July I,
J725, .Abigail Holbrook. of Roxbury,

(IV) Nathaniel Woodward, son of George

Woodward (3), was born in Brookline, Massachu-
setts, about 1690, He married in Ro.xbury, June

23, 1715, 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 Coventry. His five
children by his first wife 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 May 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; jMoses, born at Newton,
June 7, 1721 ; Aaron, soldier in the revolution ;
Anna, born at Roxbury, 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: JMoses, born March 30, 174S, 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,
March 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 Major 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 Mary 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, ni
1772 He settled in Roxbury, Vermont, in i8oJ, on
East hill. He manufactiired saddle trees and was
the" only man in NV-w England having tins
unique trade, it is said, for a long time. He mar-
ried I'ollv Steel, of Tolland. Connecticut, and they
had eight children. He died at Roxhnry. Vermont,
in 1851. .Xinong his children was Eleazer, born
about 1810, in Roxbury. see forward

tVlIl) Flea/er 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 l8.?5. see forward

(IX) Charles Erastus Woodward, son ol
Elea/cr Woodward (8), was born at Roxbury.
Vermont. March 15. 1835. He settled m Braintrec,
Vermont, where he has lived since March 26, 1851-
His home is on the old Elisha Mann place He
married, March 26, 1857. Mary Elizabeth Flint.
born November 7. iSJ7. seventh child of Rutus
Flint Jr. born March. 1800. Married. March 17.
182s' Olive Holman. and (.second) Dorothy treczc,
of Sandwich. New Hampshire. Rufus Hint. Sr..
was born April 3. 1768, married Hannah Hawes.
born July 10, i//.?. di^'i Ju'v '^^ ^^- ''e /ame to
Braintree, Vermont, with his father, and moved
to Madison. Ohio, about 1830, and died there -May
12 i8?7 His father, Silas Flint, was the son of
Samuel Flint. Silas was born at Hampton, Con-
necticut. March 19. "737, a"d removed to Brain-
tree, Vermont. February. 1786. He was a so dier
in the revolution on the Lexington alarm. April 19.
1775, in Captain John Kingsley's company from
Windham. Again in 1777 lie 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)
Abiga'il Robinson, born F'ebruary 22. 1737- Mrs
Silas b'lint was given one hundred acres of land
as she was the first white woman to enter Brain-
tree Vermont. Samuel Flint, son of John Hint,
jr., was born April 9. 171-'- 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. March 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. Massachu-
.setls, 17.33: 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. 1814.
He was lieutenant under Colonel Ebenezcr Leonard
in 1775; colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts 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
1 lolmaii. was born at Newbury. November 25,
1097. 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, Mas.sachusetts. Children of Charles E.
and Mary E. (F'lint) Woodward: Olivia -May, born
April 30, 1858: Anna Elvira. March 26. i860;
Charles Eleazer, July .1. 1862; Johnson Rufus, Sep-
tember 2. 1865. see forward; Ida Abigail, April 4.
1868; Izza Amelia, August 14, 1S72; F'lora Emma,
October 28, 1878.

(X) Dr. Johnson Rufus Woodward, son of
Charles Erastus Woodward (9), was born in
Braintree. VerinoiU. September 2, 1865. He attended
the public and high schools at West Randolph, Ver-
. 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 1888. 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 Chapter 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 .'\merica. No. 187,

He married Mary L. Hubbard, daughter of Abel
Howard and Laura (McCoIlum) Hubbard, of
Rochester, Vermont. They have one child, Gladys
Louise, born March 10. 1894. The children of Abel
Howard and Laura (McCollum) Hubbard were:
.'\nson 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.

Mc'COLLUM FA.AHLY. Alexander McCollum
(i), the immigrant ancestor of Mrs. Johnson R.
W'oodward. of Oxford, Massachusetts, 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 Mount joy 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 ^IcCullom. of Londonderry. He died
there .•-\pril 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.y 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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Colluin (l), 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 tmie. His children, born at Londonderry :
Archibald, removed from Londonderry; Alexander,
died aged two j'cars ; William, see forward ; Jenny,
removed from Londonderry ; Alexander, settled in
New Boston, New Hampshire, married Elizabeth
McMurphy; was grandfather of George \V. Mc-
Collum, who endowed the McCollum Institute at
Mont 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 185 1 ;
Martha, was living on homestead in 1851.

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

(IV) Ezra McCollum, son of William McCol-
lum (3), was born in Rochester, Vermont, Jan-
uary 2, 1799, died there June l, 1883. He married,
December 2, 1819, Fanny Wing, born October 6,
1797, died February 25, 1S22, 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 JNIcCollum were :
Fanny, 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; iienry, born
November 25, 1836, died August 23, 1839; Loretta,
born August 9, 1841, died August 25, 1843 ; Ruth.

(V) Laura McCollum, daughter of Ezra Mc-
Collum (4), was born in Rochester, Vermont, Sep-
tember 10, 1825. She married Abel Howard Hub-
bard and among their children was Mary L. Hub-
bard, wife of Dr. John=on 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
(i), 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, 157S, 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. 1582. 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 161 1; Robert, born 1613, re-
mained in England, said to have died young; Will-
iii — 2

iam, born 1615; Mary, born 1617, died young;
Thomas, born 1O20-22. 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, Samuel 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 bound and
near the coast of which he died.

(II) William Knowlton, soir, of Captain Will-
iam Knowlton (i), was born in Kent, England,
1615. He settled at Ipswich and was a brick mason
by trade. Fie 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 soa
Jonathan, resided at Wenham.

(HI) 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 1678, 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, 1671 ;
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 9, 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 prominent
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 brigadier-general at the capture of
General Burgoyne. Children of Thomas and Mar-
gery (Goodhue) Knowlton were: Robert, bom
September 7, 1693, married Hannah Robinson, No-
vember 21, 1717; Marjery, born August 27, 1694,

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(lied same day; Marjory, born March 2$. i695. mar-
ried Jabcz DodKt. Novcmlier Jj, i/iS; Joseph, l)orn
^larcli 9, 1690-97; Ucborali, born December 31,
l697-<>*<. Children of Thomas and Marjery (Car-
ter) Knowlton were: Abraham, born April 30,
1703, married Martha Lanison, January 16, 1734;
Sarali. born March 5, 1705, married John Woodbury,
April 2, 17J3; Ezekiel. born March 5, 1707, married
Susannah Morgan, 1728.

(.V) Joseph Knowlton. son of Thomas Knowl-
ton (4), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March
9, 1696-97. He married .Vbigail Hird. November
23, 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. (Thildren 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 Ilardwii-k, Massachusetts, March 4, 1807. unmar-
ried; Thomas, born November 10, 1724, killed at
Hoosac Fort, August 17, 1745; Joseph, born Octo-
ber 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 Sarali
Pratt. November 21. 1759; married (second) Sarah
Smith: .Aliraham. 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 t8, 1726. He married,
September 21, 1749, Mary Morgan, his cousin,
daughter of his father's half brother Ezekiel, men-
tioned above. She was born May 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,
of Grafton; Nathan, born May 15, 1760, married
.Abigail .Maynard. January 8, 1782; Joseph, born
May 4, 1761. married Priscilla Howe. May 11, 1784;
Alary, born .August 23, 1763, married Joseph Boyden,
December 15. 1785. resided Guilford; Rachel, born
March 15, 1765, married Jasper Rand. T783; Sam-
uel, born July 6, 1769, resided at Shrewsbury ;
.Asahel. born November 23, 1773. resided at
Shrewsbury.

(X'll) Grace Knowlton, daughter of Joseph
Knowlton (6), was born July 23, 1756. She married
Colonel Jonah (Josiah on some records by mistake)
(Moulding. 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,
1779, married Ebenezer Dunbar; Relief, born May

9, 1781, married Joseph llensliaw, of .Aulnnn ; .Anna,
!K)rn Alarch 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 tbc same slock as General Joseph
Warren, of the revolution; Ebenezer Warren was
the settler in Leicester (sec sketch of the Warren
family elsewhere in this work) ; Betsey, born Feb-
ruary II, 1792, died January 8, 1793.

Dl'NB.AR FA.MILY. John Dtnibar (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 llingbam, Mas,sachusetts, 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, boriv
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.

(H) Abner Dunbar, son of John Dunbar (i),
was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, .April 9, 1753.
}le was a mason by trade. He married, March 31,
1774, Lydia Warren, daughter of Ebenezer Warren.
(See sketch of Warren family and of Ebenezer
Warren.) 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,
17S5; Polly, born May 20, 1789, died young; Polly,
born October 5, 1791, married .Artemas Haven,
1814; David, Jr., born June 13, 1794, removed to
New York city.

(HI) Ebenezer Dunbar, son of Abner Dunbar
(2), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, March
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 ((ioulding) Dunbar were: Betsey, born Au-
gust 18, 1804; ilary, born .April 14, 1808; Lydia,
born .August 18, 1813, married, October 10, 1833,
Asa W. Clark, of Belchcrtown, Massachusetts. (See
Clark family sketch.)

CLARK FAMILY. John Clark (i), the emi-
grant ancestor of Malcolm G. Clark, of Leicester,
^lassachusetts, w-as 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 "Cominissioners for the settling
and securing the Province of Ulster (the north of
Ireland)" published of those who were to remove.
The design was "to remove all popular Scots" out
of Ulster to Munstcr. Singularly enough we find

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that the Donelsons and Pattersons were in the same
jarisli 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 genefation or two
later appear in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and
Pelham and Coleraine, iMassachusetts. Most of John
ClJrk'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
Gray, December 5, 1746, at Pelhain ; she died there
March 13, 1787, aged seventy years; William, mar-
ried, April 17, 1739, at Rutland, Massachusetts, Mary
Smith; Samuel; James; George, born in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, 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
first 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)
Bothvvell, 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
and 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, bom 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,
f\pril 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 Smith, the grantee, was in Belchertown before
the revolution and probably Enos and his other
children were born there. Matthew Clark, brother
of Williatii, 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, Massachusetts,
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 (leneral 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 ill 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, iMassachusetts, died in Westtield,
IMassachusetts.

(VI) Asa Weston Clark, son of Asa Clark
(5), 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. He married Lydia Warren
Dunbar, daughter of Ebenezer and Polly (Gould-
ing) Dunbar, October 10, 1833, in 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 was 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 5,
1889. His wife died December 7, 1898. Children
of Asa and Lydia Warren (Dunbar) Clark were:
Mary Adelaide, born in Rochdale, September 17,
1834, married Edward I. Coniins, of Worcester
(,-ee 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, born in
Leicester, married Frederick A. Blake, of Worces-
ter, November 7, 1867 ; have no children.

(VII) 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-
ter Acadeiny, 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 tlie
rubber bucket for cliain pumps, which proved to
be a success, not only i" 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 liigh with a brick picker house adjoining;
the buildings were rented to other parties for live
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 \yith Mr. Blake
as president and manager, and Irving E. Comins,
treasurer, and continued until 1900, when Mr. Blake
(because of ill health) resigned his office 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
any for;n, 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 bis 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 in
its charitable work. He married Inez F. Sibley,
daughter of Franklin Sibley, of Sutton, Ma?sachu-
setts. Thcv have one child, Ernest, born May 4.
1886, now (Alarcli. 1906), a sophomore in Harvard
College.

TAFT FAMILY. Robert Taft (i), immigrant
ancestor of Cvrus 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
Rraintrec, Massachusetts, where he owned a lot in

1678. He sold his Braintree land November 18,

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 Philip's
war. He had confidence in the future and bought
freely in the vicinity of Mendon pond, becoming one
of the largest property owners in that section. He
evidentlv was a man of property and influence at
the outlet. He was a housowright 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, evidently 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 famihes

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. ,

(II) Robert Taft, Jr., son of Robert Taft (i),
was born in 1674. He settled on part of his father's
land in what became Uxbridge, 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,
born January 18, 1695-96; Robert, born December

24, 1697; Israel, see forward; Mary, born December
27, 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,
bom March i^. 1716.

(III) 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 I\Iendon. 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 Ux-
bridge. The children of Israel Taft: Priscilla.
born about 1720, married, February 3, I7,'!8. 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 17.^0; Hannah, married Benja-
min; Stephen, born at L'pton. before the town 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 74. 1747; Silas, married September 8,
7772, Elizabeth Sadler; Rachel, born July iS, 1742,
died December 30. 7747; Amariah.

(IV) Israel Taft. Jr., son of Israel Taft (3),
was born in Upton. Massachusetts, then Uxbridge,
in 7723. He married Martha Smith, in 1743, in
Upton, and they settled there. Their children, born
in Upton, were : Israel, see forward ; Silas, horn
November 5. 7744; Amariah, born 7746, died Sep-
tember 9. 7746; Amariah, born March 70. 7747-48-,
Oliver, born November 3, 7750; Elizabeth, born July
27. T/'^'^: Mercv. born January 76, 7757.

(V) Tsrael'Taft. son of 'Israel Taft (4). was
born in Upton. December 12. 7743. When a young
man he settled over the line in the adioining town
of what is now Northbridge, Massachusetts. He
bought a farm there in 7783. of James Nelson. He
was a miller by trade, and in 779:; he and his brother
or uncle. Jacob Taft, bought land and mill in North-
bridge with the privilcce etc., by deed dated De-
cember T2. 1706. He bought more land, January

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37, 1803, of Thomas Ellison, and of Samuel Read,
of Uxbridge, 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 the dwelling of Paul Whitin, the first of the
Whitin family at Whitinsville, who had just bought
the place of Colonel James Fletcher. Mr. Taft made
his will April 26, 1839, and died 1842, aged ninety-
eight years. The will was filed May 3. 1842. He
bequeathed to his children, mentioned below. He

inarried 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, Abigail, 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 Peacham, 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-
insville, in the town of Northbridge, Massachusetts,
with his parents. He received his education in the
public schools of Whitinsville and in the Uxbridge
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 Whitinsville
on the dissolution of the firm of P. Whitin & Sons,
January i, 1864. Mr. Taft then returned to Whit-
insville 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 ability 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 if«i 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 tariff. He was a

leading citizen of the village of Whitinsville 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; Tlieo (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
Congregationalist. He is unmarried.

(Vlll) 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
C second), February i, 1892, Myra Smith, of Whit-
insville. She died in looi. Their children are:
Ruth, born February 14, 1803; Mildred, died young;
Myra, born March' 14, 1898; William L., Jr., died
young.

WILLIAM THOMAS CARROLL. John Car-
roll (l), father of William Thomas Carroll, of

WORCESTER COUNTY

Worcester, Massaoluisctls, 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 which 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 navy. He settled in Easton,
Massachusetts, and worked in the malleable iron
foundry there. That foundry is said to he 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, trie 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
Buflfalo, 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 Middlcboro, where his parents lived
when be was a boy. His first work was done on a
farm in Middlcboro, Massachusetts. He next went
to w-ork in the thread mill of Charles Whiting
Morse in Easton. Two years later he moved with
the faiuily to Canton, Massachusetts, where he
worked in the Neponset Cotton Mills, continuing
there for ten years. He started his career as ma-
■chinist and inventor in the machine shop of Luther
R. Wattles, at Canton, and in three years he was
foreman 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-
ness prospered and to increase his facilities he
moved to Medway, 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 Hopedale.
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 be had been making. He
was employed for a time by the Wonnsncket 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.
Forty-eight of these have been purchased by the
Drapers of Hopedale, chiefly improvements in spin-
ning machinery.

He is the invcnter 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, iiractically 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 econoinical 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, looins, axles of
wagons, printing presses, roller skate wheels, emery
wheels, trolley wheels and hundreds of other places,
where goods lubrication is required. 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 he 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 acc|uired great w-ealth as he might, perhaps, if
he had t.-ken 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 best 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 import.nnt inventions. He has luade cheaper
by his lirain and clever hand every yard of cloth
produced in recent years. The later invention of

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

He married, January 23, 1857, in Canton, Massa-
chusetts, Frances Cedelia Taft, daughter of Dr.
Caleb S. Taft, then of Canton, Massachusetts. 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 Medway. Massachusetts, March
28, 1862, died at Medway, September 28, 1862; Ed-
gar Judson, born at Medway, July 17, 1864; Elbert
Henry, born at Medway. April 7, 1867; Emma
Lavilla, born at Medway. February 16, 1869; Will-
iam Edward, born at Woonsocfcet, Rhode Island,
November 18, 1872 ; Herbert F., born in Worcester,
August 21, 1874, died September 11. 1874.

(Ill) Elbert H. Carroll, son of William T. Car-
roll (2), was born in Medway. Massachusetts, April
7, 1867. 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
business at Chadwick Square, but at present is
workine at his 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 two
other years. His homestead was in the eastern
part of the town. He married (second) Janet Craig,
of Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1740 (intentions
declared October 21. 1749). The following chil-
dren of Matthew and Anna (Quintain) Taft are
recorded as born in Upton. John, born .'Kpril 7,
1736: Ann (twin), born April 27, 1739; Matthew,
Jr. (twin), born April 2T. 1739; Robert, captain of
the Upton Companv in the revolutionary war, and
probably others. (See Milford, Massachusetts, His-
tory for Robert).

(II) Matthew Taft. son of Matthew Taft (l),
was born in Upton, Massachusetts. .-Xpril 27. 17,19.
He married in 1760 (intentions declared July 26,

1760), Hannah Cutler, of Medway, Massachusetts.
He was a soldier in the revolution. He was in
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 Decrfield,
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
17, 1793, went to New York; Elvira, born in Upton,
married Rev. Mr. Wood, brother of Dr. Wood, of
Upton, and went to Vermoiit to live ; Azubah, born
in Upton, never married ; Philo, born in Upton,
August 12, 1798; Charlotte, born in Upton, April

9, 1800, married Elijah Tupper, of Franklin, went
to New Y'ork, 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 2j„ 1807, at Upton ; Milton Met-
calf (Adams?), born in Upton, April 23, i8io.
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 borrr
at Ticonderdga. 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 Canton, 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, 1836: William Ferris, born
at Franklin, Massachusetts, February 17, 1839, died
December 4, 1843 ; Alpheus Stone, born July 7, 1840,
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, 184s, died September 10. 1847, at Canton,
Massachusetts ; Emma Lavilla, 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 12, 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,
.■\ugust 20, 1836. She married William 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 Mention, through Mijernian Taft (III),
Royal Taft (II), and his father Brigham A. Taft.

When he was about a year old the family moved
to Kast Douglas in the town of Douglas, Matsa-
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 Stockwcll building. Mechanic
street. He accepted a better position in the store
of Knowlton Brothers at 282 Main street, where
he worked for about five ye.irs, and when this store
was bought by Mrs. Martha McClelland he became
the manager. In 18S0 he made an important change
in his life. He had been studying at every oppor-
tunity to fit himself foL 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
had 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.
He was vice-president of the Rutland Marble Com-
pany until it passed into the possession of the Ver-
mont Marblp Company, the Senator Proctor cor-
poration. He w'as 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
liis legislative career. He was elected to represent
Worcester in the general court of 1901, and was re-
elected a representative for the years 1902-03-04-05,
serving a longer time than any other Worcester
representative in recent years, it having been an
imfortunate custom of that city to change its rep-
resentatives after a year or two of service, leaving
the city usually without a strong delegatioti 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
1904-05 was the accepted leader of the Republican
majority in the house. He was a strong candidate
for the speakership in 1004. During his service in
the house he was on the important special committee
to revise the laws of the state. 'Ilie 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.

.\ typical instance of the strength of Mr. Taft
in a legislative contest was shown in the session
(if 1905, when the Bucket Shop Bill, so-called, was
introduced. When this bill was reported from the
conunittee 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.
Tatt 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 same footing. That was not what
was wanted by those who originated the bill. The
lirokers of all classes opposed the bill, which would
liave 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
lobljyists 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-
man in 1904.

Mr. Taft is a prominent Free Mason. He is a
member of Morning Star Lodge, Worcester Royal
.\rch Chapter and Hiram Council. He is a member
of Quinsigamond Lodge. I. O. O. F. and Quinsiga-
mont Trilie 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. 16,37,
in the ship "Hector." or its companion ship. The
Davenport party sailed from Boston again March
16. 16.3S. 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-
|iiac. ;is 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 left 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.

(H) Lieutenant Timothy Nash, youngest son of
Thomas Nash (i), was born in England, or Ley-
<len, 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, i66o-6r. Three years later
he 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
1690, 1691 and 1695. He died May i,^ 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-
ried Isaac Warner. 9. Ebenezer, born October 25,
1673 ; married ; resided at Suffield, Connecticut. 10.
Daniel, born 1676. mentioned below. 11. Ephraim.
horn 1682. resided at Granby, Massachusetts. 12.
Mary, died December 19, 1687.

(HI) Daniel Nash, son of Lieutenant Timothy
Nash (2), was born in Hadley, or some tovi'U 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
he sold his property and settled in the south pre-
cinct of Hadley, later removed to the Upper Housa-
tonic. now Great Barrington, 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
Great Barrington 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.
■Zeruiah, born November 2, 1713' married John
Seals, and (second) Simon Willard. 3. Daniel,

mentioned below. 4. Experience, born December
26, 1716, died 1725. 5. Joseph, born April 23, 1718.
6. Onesimus. 7. Jonathan, born December 3, 1721.
8. Rebecca, married Asahel King. 9. Josiah. 10.
Phineas, settled Wyoming, Pennsylvania.

(IV) Daniel Nash. Jr., son of Daniel Nash (3),
was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 13, 1715. He removed to Great Barrington
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 Julyi,
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 ID, 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 .\mos 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 Boyden. 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. 1S03.

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

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ary 6. 1704. When a young l)oy lie removed with
his father's family to "Canton, New York. After
his marriage he settled in Northampton, and died
there Jiuie 2, i8j6. lie was a prosperous farmer
and a citizen of prominence. He married. Novem-
ber 7. 1817, Pamolia lulwards. horn in Norlhanip-
ton. Kebniarj' 12, 1797, died about 1836. Qiildrcn
of Richard and Pamelia Nash: I. Mary, born No-
vember \2, 1818; married Joseph H. Butler of Man-
chester. 2. William Shepard, born August 12, 1820,
resided at Hartford. Connecticut. 3. Julia Philips,
born August 26. 1822; married Miles Waterhousc,
of Winchester, New Hampshire. 4. Richard Ed-
wards, born December 7, 1824; died September 21,
1825. 5. Richard luhvards, mentioned below. 6.
Charles Wallace, born May i, 1829, settled at New
Hartford, Connecticut. 7. Amelia, born April 7,
T831. 8. Sarah, born February 28, 1833. 9. Henry
Bannister, born February 5, 1835.

(VII) Richard Edwards Nash, son of Riehard
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-
hanipton, 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. COGHUN. 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
1 90s.

Immediately after graduation he formed the
Columbia Electric Company for the luanufacture
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 Burnsidc biulding. lit
1897 he sold his interests in the Columbia Electric
Company and soon afterward organized the Central
Electric Company witli 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 1885. 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 tlic Page Electric Company was
located, to 24 and 26 Pearl street to secure larger
quarter.s. 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
Mr. Cogh!in"s company, and the extent and variety
of it can be told best by describing a few of his
larger contracts. .\mong 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, INIassachusetts ; 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 Cronipton block.
Front and Mechanic streets, Worcester ; the new
Thule building, built by the Swcdi-h people. Main
street, Worcester: the New .'\lunini building at the
College of the Holy Cross : the Casto Theatre at
Fall River; the residence of Matthew 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 IVorccster
Telegram, on Salisbury street; the residence of Mrs.
Frank P. Goulding, Harvard street : the residence of
C. A. Hill. Queen street; the re>idence of Hon.
Joseph H. Walker, Ripley street.

Perhaps the largest contract of the kind ever
handled in Worcester was the electrical equipment
of the Worcester and Southbridge Street liailroad.
Mr. Coghlin was both electrical and mechanical
engineer for this work. His company installed alV
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 lirst 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 different
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 iS.ooo 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 the 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 office 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 fiftv motors were installed in these mills.

A similar alteration in the power 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 rooms 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, 1896, Josephine A. Callahan,,
of Worcester. Their children are : John, born in
Worcester, May 4, 1897; Caroline. January 2, 1901 ;
Edw-in, 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 difiicult 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
.\ndrew 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 mill
and land December 18, 1663, to Thomas Lovering,
late of Dedham, Essex county, England. Alg.er 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 tiine,.
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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Algcr were: Israel, baptized during boyhood, 1727;
Daniel, baptized 172", probably tlie year of birth,
see forward; James, born 1729.

(IV) Daniel Alger, son of Israel Alger (3), was
•born in Bridge water, Massachusetts, 1727, and set-
tled ill his native town. He was a soldier in the
revolution in Captain Nathan Alden's company.
Colonel Jeremiah Hall's regiment, and in Captain
Nathan Packard's companv. 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 Jilark Packard;
Israel, born 1755; Keziah, born 1757, married John
Dickerman, 17SO; Benjamin, born 1760, married
Hannah Snow, daughter of Daniel Snow, 1785, and
settled in Boston, Massachusetts; Chloe (twin),
born 1761, married Tisdalc Howard, 1791 ; Sylvia
(twin), born 1761, married Colonel Caleb Howard,
17SS; 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
ji 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 JMarlboro history tells of his
prowess. He paid for his first yoke of oxen with
the fifty dollars he received from fo.x skins.

He married, 1789, Rhoda Drake, daughter of
Richard Drake, Richard,^ Benjamin,- Thomas, 1
■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,
1845, Solomon Tenney. 3. Abiel, Jr., born March
19. '793. 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. S. 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 s. 1880. 7. Ada,
■ born 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, Kentucky, in the service, April
6, 1804.

(\'i) Christopher Columbus Alger, son of Abiel
Algcr (s), 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, March 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 accunnilatcd 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,
F'ebruary 15, 1870, Calvin Miller, and resides at No.
32 Wcstland 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
CJrange, 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 (l) was
the immigrant 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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ancestor probably going over from France with
William the Conqueror. Many distinguished men
of the name have been produced in the Enghsh fam-
ily, which is very numerous. In New England the
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 fn England,
possibly France, if the family tradition is reliable.
He must have been born about 1750, perhaps a few
years later, fie 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.

(II) John Gardner Sylvester, son of John Syl-
vester (i), was born in Massachusetts, 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 Mason, and in his day was the only
thirty-third degree IMason 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 Ma-
sonic order. He married Rachel Penniman and
they had seven sons. Among them were : Arteraas,
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 Arteraas
Sylvester (3), was born in Charlestown, Massachu-
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,
Manassas 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 Jilethodist 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,
Massachusetts. He was a man of high principles
and enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all men
with W'hom 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 Thom.is 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 1S87. He took a post-
graduate course in the high school, entering Boston
University 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 IIS Lincoln street. Mr. 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
Morning 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, igoo, 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, daiiKlucr lit Mitchell ami Caroline (Irwin)
Ryder. Their children are: Hamlin Ryder, born
born Oclobcr 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 fiill 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 Isia, 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 unknown. It has been spelled L'Annois,
L'Annoe, L'Aulmais, 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 Hugucs <lc Lannoy,
mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096.
On the same list W'as Simon de Alneto. A charte
dcs Chanoines (cannons) de St. Pierre a Lille
mentions Gilbert de Lannoy in 1 171 and llugucs de
Lannoy is mentioned in 1186. 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 lor 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 F'ranchmont, married Ma-
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 151 1, died May 25, 1560; was made
chevalier de la Toison d'or in 1546; chamberlain to
the enii)eror Charles V from 1519 to 1556; gouv-
ernor de Ilaymont and captain general of same
province of F'landers in 1559; married Jeanne de
Eigne de Barbancon, daughter of Louis de Eigne,
seigneur de Barbancon and his wife, Marie de
Bcrghes. 13. Gysbert de Lannoy, born at Tourcoing,
I545i of Roman Catholic parents, but became a
Protestant and was disinherited by his father. 14.
Jean of Leyden,' was born 1570, died at Ley den,
1604. He married at the Walloon Church (Tornai),
January 13, 1596, Marie le Mahicu, 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. Huolf, first Duke of the Norman.s 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 ]. "Beauclerc." 8. Matilda, married
GeofTroy Plantagenet. 9. Henry II, King of Eng-
land, 1 1 54 to 1 189. 10. Matilda, married Henry V,
Duke of Saxony and Bavaria. »i. Henry VI,
married Agnes, daughter of Conrad, son
of Frederick 1. a descendant of Alfred, the Great
(849), Cerdic (495) and other ancient English noble

and royal personages. 12. Agnes, married Othon,
Duke of Bavaria. 13. Agnc<, married Hellin de
Franchmont. 14. Hellin 11. 15. Jean de Franch-
mont, born about 1300. 16. Hugucs de Lannoy,
born 131 1, died 1,349. 17. Guillebert. 18. Baudouin,
Le Begul. 19. Baudouin. 20. Phillippc. 21. Jean, died
1560. 22. Gysbert. born 1545. 23. Jean, of Leyden.
24. Phillippc, the American emigrant mentioned
below.

The line of Philip Delanoy is traced to Charle-
magne and his ancestors to the year A. D., 611,
viz.: I. St. Arnoul, (611). 2. Ansegisc, A. D., 679.
3. Pepin, Le Gros, 714. 4. Charles Martcl, Duke of
the Franks, 741. 5. Pepin, "the short," King of
FVance, 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. Alix de France, married Boudouin, fifth count of
F'landers. 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 (juelph. Prince of the Scyrri, A. D., 476. Of
course, the royal ancestors of- any family are legion
in case any coimection 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
Cliarlcs Wesley Delano, of Worcester, Massachu-
setts, was born in Leyden, Holland, 1602, and bap-
tized there 1603. His parentage and ancestors ara
given above. The Delano family went to Leyden
to escape persecution in France where the Catholic
party was in power and the Inquisition active. Tliey
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 Cushnian, 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-
33. 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 .Mden 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 Pequot war,
June 7, 1637. He died at Bridgewater, Massachu-
setts, about 1681, aged seventy-nine years. The
probate court was not established until 1686 and
his estate was settled according to the records in
the registry of deeds, July 5, 16S2. He died in-
testate, but left a memorandum expressing his
wishes and intent and this iioncupative will was al-
Jowed July 7, 1682.

He married (first), at Duxbury, December 19,
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: ^lary, born 1635,
married Jonathan Dunham; Esther, born 1638;
Philip, Jr., born about 1640, married Elizabeth
Clark; Thomas (Doctor), born March 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 ^lary was: Samuel, born 1659, married
Elizabeth Standish.

(H) John Delano, son of Philip Delano (i),
was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, about 1644.
In 1690 he was living on the north side of the path
which led from the mill to South river, Du.xbury,
and his name appears among those who leased the
common lands.' In 1703 measures were about to
be 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,
St., and Joshua Delano, three acres of upland given
him by his father, part of the farm "w'here 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,
(lioo) 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
1683 ; Nathaniel, born about 16S5 ; Mercy, born about
1687: John. Jr., born about 16S9, see forward.

(III) 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.

(IV) John Delano, 3d., son of John Delano,
Jr., (3), was born at Du.xbury, 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 Cox and others. The children : Ruth, bap-
tized August 6, 1760; married Ebenezer Whitman

Sarah, baptized .April 3, 1763, rnarried Gcrshom
Ramsdcll ; John 4th, baptized April 14, 1765, see
forward; Israel, born August 7, baptized September
20, 1767; Abel, baptized .\ugust 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 iTiarried (published at Boston, February
9, 1792) (by Rev. Peter Thachcr), Juno 28, 1792,
Betsey Deverich, a native of Boston. He settled
in Illinois. Their children: I.John, born 1795, see
forward. 2. Oliver, born April 3, 1797, died aged
lifty-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, 185 1 ; Israel Oliver, born Janu-
ary 14, 1834, died August 12, 1849; Benjamin Long,
born Jime 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
si.xty-two years, according to the records. He spent
his boyhood in Illinois, whither his father went,
bnt 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, Massachusetts. 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, 1802, 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 i, 181 1, died at Provincetown, May 4,
1S75, leaving no children. 2. Mary Atkins, horn
January 17. 1825. married, December 11, 1843, Syl-
vanus Smith Kenyon, born J\Iarch 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 w'as 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-
ujiry 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, born 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, 1889, and they
had children — Rev. James Francis Allen, born in
Provincetown. December 25, 1851. married. May
IS. 1873, at Worcester, Ida Alecia Rice daughter of
Barnabas Davis and Lydia Alecia (Plowe) Rice,
born in West Boylston, May 15, 1854. resides at
50 South street, Lynn, Mas.sachusetts ; children
Robert Francis Allen, born at Coleraine, Massa-

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cluisctts, Xovembcr 28, 1884; Ida AJecia Allen
(.twill), bom August j-', 1888; Florence May Allen,
(.twin), born August 22, 1888. 5. Betsey Augusta,
born July lO, 1853, married (.first) at North Iruro,
December 2, 1851, John Smith, Jr., born Novem-
ber 0, 1825, lost at sea September 6, 1854; married
(second) at Frovincetown, March 2, 18O2, Elijah
Doane, who was born at Eastham, January 23, 1816,
died at Frovincetown, May 7, 1884; she married
(third) at Worcester, October 11, 1884, Henry
Clark Wilson, born July H, 1829; I'er children
were: John Eorest Smith, born August 6, 1853,
married (lirst) Nellie Pinkham, (second) Mary
Shippee; had Philii) Sheridan Uoane, born Sep-
tember 17, i»)4, married Ediih 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 s. '839. married in Worces-
ter, William Ansel Waslibuni, and had two chil-
dren, Alice, died young. 9. Jane Louise, born Octo-
ber S, 1842, married (first at Provincetown, Janu-
ary 10, 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 Plenry 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. Pie 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 Montacute Lodge of Masons since
September 23, 1867, and is a member of Worcester
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and of Worcester
Lodge of Perfection, Fourteenth Degree, Scottish
Rite Masonry. He is well known in Masonic cir-
cles. He married (first) at North Truro, February
16, l8S9, Sarah Williams Johnson, daughter of
Henrv 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
S, 1877, married, October 25, 1898, James Weston
Howe, of Worcester, and they have Medelme 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 Wcsleyan
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 P'reeland
street. During his coUege 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. Pie has supplied pulpits at Brookfield in
1899, at North Grafton, 1900 to 1904 inclusive, and
at various places in the vicinity since.

He is a member of Grace Jilethodist 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 F'ree Masons since April 2^, 189b,
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
Masters, 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 Man-
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 Worcester. Her father is a real estate
broker. The children : Gertrude Barnard, borrv
March 25, 1901, 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 Blackstone)
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) Gaskill,
son of Ebenezer and the grandfather of Lewis B,,
was a lifelong resident of Mendon and a prosper-
ous farmer.

Nahum (7) Gaskill, Lewis B. GaskiU's father,
was born in Mendon and succeeded to the posses-
sion of the parental estate. He was an extensive
farmer, and in addition to his agricultural interests
he transacted a large Hour and grain business, the
first to engage exckisivcly 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 his fellow-townsmen. He lived to be seventy-
two years old. Nahum Gaskill married Sarah (or
Sally) Southwick, of iSIendon, and was the father
of twelve children : John Southwick, born De-
cember 12, 1807; Samuel, January 14, iSio; Hannah,
September 9, iSil ; Olive, June 10, 1S13 ; Micajah
Collin.s, September 26, 1S16; Mary Thurber, August
13, 1818; Almira Fairbanks, June 8, 1821; 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 Mendon,
and her death occurred September 3, 1874. Samuel
was still living in 1891, and in his eighty-eighth
year was vigorous and active. Llannah, wife of
Abner K. Sprague, survived her husband and died
in Blackstone, November 15, 1892. Olive, wife of
Elkanah Barrows, died July 12, iSSi. ]\Iicajah C.
became a prominent civil engineer and was en-
gaged in laying out several railroads, including the
Ime 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. Mary Thurber, mar-
ried Willis Gould, died March 5, 1898. Almira
Fairbanks became the wife of Charles Fletcher, a
contractor. Gilbert was for ftiany years a suc-
cessful contractor for the construction of public
highways. He also engaged extensively in farmhig,
and is living in retirement in Mendon. Nahum
was a prosp.erous farmer during the active period of
his life, and spent his declining years in retirement
at his home in Hopedale, where he die.d 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 identified 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 m 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 binldmgs 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, hut 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, Jcnckes. born in Mendon,
February 9, .1844, daughter of Ezra and Julia A.
(Swan) Jcnckes. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskill have no
children.

WYMAN FAAIILY. From well authenticated
sources it is now .positively known that I'^rancis
and John Wyman, who were among the first settlers
in Woburn, iNlassachusett.s, 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
]\Iain 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 yeiars, 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: (i) John,
born 162T, married Sarah Nutt, 1644. (12) Jonathan,
born 1661, married Hannah Fowle, 1690. (l54)Jona-
than, born 1704, married Martha Thompson. Jona-
than, born 1763, married Ruby Richardson. Abel,
born 1793, married Maria Wade, 1S17. Horace, born
1827, married Louisa B. Horton. 1837. Horace
Winfield, born 1S61, married Mary W. Haskell, 1889.
Horace, (2) born 1893.

Horace Wyman, born 1S27, in Woburn, Massa-
chusetts, was the son of Abel and Maria (Wade)
Wyman, and descended from the finglish ancestor as
above indicated, John and the Jonathans. Hcolitnined
his education at Francistown Academy, New Hamp-
shire, and the Woburn Academy. He followed the
occupation of a machinist and is an inventor of t!ic
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 tlic one line of ini])rovinK and bringing
forth the best possible looms and factory machinery —
a true benefactor to all mankind, as goods have
iK-en clieapened 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 theni. When George Crompton died in 1886,
the business was soon incorporated with Horace
Wyman as vice-president and manager.

Mr. Wyman was married to Louisa Horton,
daughter of Sparrow Horton, or Orleans, Massa-
chusetts, in 1S37. Mrs. Wyman comes of English
e.vtraction. Their three children are: I. Horace
Winlicld, born 1861, married Mary W. Haskell, of
Kansas, in 1889; 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 Lcman 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 at
high as one hundred high-grade workmen, 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 impressed 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, born
in 1661 ; his son. Joseph, born in 1695. settled at
Billerica and had a son Joseph, Jr., born in 1725,
and his son David, horn 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
JafTrey, New Hampshire. In 179,^ 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 buv his time of him — as was the
"klen custom. His father replied, "I don't talk
with hoys ; you stay and work for me." At the a.ge
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 luoney. He asked
to borrow more money of his father to engage in
l)usiness, 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 worked his way up until he built
other large paper mills on the same stream and in
time, 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 orticial positions. He was 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, 1839, Hen-
rietta B. Hazen, of Shirley, who died in i860. Their
children: Augustus, born 1843, died 1849; 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. F"or several years,
in company with his brother Charles, he constructed
telegraph lines. In T850 he retired from such business
and returned to Shrewsbury to take charge of the
old family homestead, an historic old place. Gold
excitement in 1851 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 1864. Politically he is
a stanch Republican and has been chairman of the
town committee. He held numerous offices, includ-
ing selectman, and in 1878 represented his district
in the legislature. F^raternally 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.

GATES FAMILY. Stephen Gates (1), the im-
migrant ancestor of the Gates family of Ashburn-
ham. Massachusetts, was born in England, son of
Thomas Gates, of Norwich, Nprfolk county. England.
His line of ancestry is given elsewhere in this work
( Thomas, Peter, Geoflfrey, Geoffrey, Sir Geoffrey,
William, Sir Geoffrey, William, Thomas). He came
from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Massachu-
setts, in the ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, 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. Aim
(iates. his widow, married Richard Woodward, of
Watertown, (see sketch) in 1663. Ann was known

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.as Gates after the death of her second hiisliand, and
she died at Stow, February s, 1682-83. The chil-
dren; 1. Elizabeth, born in England, died August
3, 1704, at Hingham; married, November 29, 1647,
John Lasell (see sketch). 2. Mary, married, 1658,
John Maynard. of Sudbury ; he died December 22,
1711. 3. Stephen, Jr., see forward. 4. Thomas,
born 1642, married, July 6, 1670, Elizabeth Free-
man. 5. Simon, born 1645, died April 21, 1693, at
Brockton. 6. Isaac, baptized May 3, 1646, died Sep-
tember 3, 1651. 7. Rebecca, baptized Alay 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, i(365; Simon, June 5, 1666,
see forward; 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 2^, 1682, at Marl-
boro ; Daniel, April 2i, 1685.

(HI) Simon Gates, son of Stephen Gates (2).
was born at Stow, Massachusetts, June 5. 1666. He
married. May 4, 1688. Hannah Benjamin, of Stow.
Their children, all born at Stow, were ; Simon. Jo-
seph, married, 1728, Prudence Hamlin; Benjamin,
married, 1727, Bethulia Rice, born 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. trie

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 otf to the ad-
joining town of Gardner, thus changing their resi-
dence without 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 22. 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 24. 1777. died September
17. 1778; Simon, Jr.. born July 28. 1779, at Gard-
ner, see forward; Daniel, born July 23, 17S2. 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 .'\nna ■Mossman; Ezekiel, born October 31.
1789. at Gardner, died August 2, 1809, in twentieth
year; Elizabeth, born January, 1794, never married.

(VI) Simon Gates, son of Simon Gates (5),
was born in Gardner, Massachusetts. He lived in
the old homestead in Gardner on Beech Hill. He
married Sarah Taylor, of Ashburnham, Massachu-
setts. Their children: Louisa, born May 9, 1806;
Simon Hazeltine. November 4, 1807, married El-
vira Bancroft ; Horace, October 2y, 1809, see for-
ward ; Dennis, February 20, 1812, married Lucy
Ware; Mary, September 14. 1815. married Samuel
Hale; 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. He 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.
He 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. He removed to Ashburnham and
resided with his son, Charles H. Gates, until his
death, November 18, 1899. He 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. He served in the
militia when young. He married, June 6, 1852,
Mrs. Louisa (F^airbanks) Seaver, daughter of
Jarvis Fairbanks. Her father was a farmer. The
children of Horace and Louisa Gates : Charles
Hazeltine, born July 13, 1853; George Walter. Sep-
tember 15, 1854, married Mary Knight, resided m
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. Then he
was teamster for John T. Woodbury for a time,
returning again for a year and a half to the rail-
road. He was subsequently employed as teamster
by E. Osgood & Sons, C. B. Kendall and others for
two years. He came to Ashburnham, Massachu-
setts. Ill 1884. and started in the coal business for
himself, .'\fter 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. (jates has
also a fine residence on the South .'Kshburnham
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 .\shburnhani
Grange. No. 202, Patrons of Husbandry. He was
a member of the Old Farmers' Club.

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lie married, April 6, iS8o, KIsie J. Merriam.
born Uecemlier lO, 1S5.S, daugluer of Oliver N. and
Martha (.Nichols) Mcrriani, of Weslniinstcr, Massa-
chusetts. Her fallier was a farmer and chair manu-
facturer. The children: Martha Loui-a, born June
30, 1881, married, September 20, 1900, Henry C.
Harrington, and they have two children — 13crtrice
Emily, Nelson Oliver Harrington; Oliver Horace,
born June 29, 18S8, lives at home with parents;
Anna Livona, born April 24, iSgi.

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 Hemcl Hempstead the nomination of
the curates for Bovingdon and Flamden. A
Gould was rector of the church of Moult-
soe in Buckinghamshire, Augu.n 23, 1375, died 1409.
This place is about live miles north of Wobiirn 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.

(.1) Thomas Gould, the immigrant ancestor of
most of the Gould families of Sutlon 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 Ezckicl
Marsh, who came to Worcester county ; John, born
January 31, 1679-80, a blacksmith; Dorcas, born
September 8, 1683, at Groton, married, June i, 17117
Anthony Buxton. Child of Adam and Hannah :
Thomas, died young. Thomas was appointed ad-
ministrator of the estate of his brother in 1689, but
he himself died soon aftcrjvard. His widow Eliza-
beth was appointed adminii-tratrix June 24, 1690,
and Joseph, son of Thomas, succeeded his father as
niinistrator 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, 1664,
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, in
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.

(11) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (i),
Avas born at Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1667-68.
He married Abigail Needham, dau.ghter of Anthony
and Ann (Porter) Needliam. Their children, all
born at Salein 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, Mary Giles;
removed to Lyndeborough, where he died April 29,
1783; father of Lieutenant Jonathan Gould, who
settled in New Braintrec ; "fourth deacon of the
church, elected before 1775: housewright by trade;
died at New Braintrce, October 29, 1809, aged

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

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

23, 1094. He married (first) .Margaret ',

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

(IV) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (3),
was born- in Salem Village or Danvers, Massachu-
setts, about 1720. Pie married at Marblche'ad, No-
vember 27, 1750. Their children : Margaret, bap-
tized August 25, 1751 ; Sarah, baptized July 15,
'753; 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 bora
in Marblehead. Other members of this Gould
family lived at Salem and iMarblchcad.

(V) Thomas Gould, son of Thomas Gould (4),
was baptized at Marblehead, November 23, 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 Plolm'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,
pos.-ibly 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, 1812, aged eighty-seven years, mak-
ing his birth year 1725; his wife i\Iary died June
13, 1S03, 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, 1782, I-I.innah
Williams, of Pomfret, Connecticut. Their inten-
tions of~-marriage were 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 cljildreii : Willard, born at Stur-
bridge, March 3, 1783, married, 1805, SiFe»»e-Houd,
of Holland; John, born February 7; 1783, at Stur-
brid.gc ; Lyman, born September 19. 17S7, at Stur-
bridge. married, May 26, 1818. Polly Marble; 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
S. 1799, at Sturbridge; Horace, born June 28, 1801,
at Charlton.

(VI) Rufus Gould, son of Thomas Gould (?,),
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 Braintrce. 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 Henrj', was born in Rutland, No- .

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vember 15, 1765, son of David and Hannah (Wat-
son) Henry, married 1761 in Leicester. David
Henry was of Scotch-Irish stock. Some of his
family resided in Leicester, where Robert Henry,
perhaps his father, married, 1731, Cliarity Tomson.
Children of Rufus and Mary (.Henry) Gould:
Charles Rufus, born December 27, 1824, died 1827 ;
Rev. George Henry, see forward ; Mary Ann, born
November 7, 1829, at Oakham ; William Rufus, born
April 20, 1S32, see forward; Louisa Jane, born Feb-
ruary 7, 1S35, at New Braintrcc, died in New Brain-
tree, November 25, 1843, buried in Oakham ; Charios
Franklin, born October 31, 1837, in Oakham; Dr.
John W., dentist in Worcester, resides at 23 May-
wood street, see forward; Rev. Edwin S., born
February 2, 1844, at New Braintree, see forward.

(,VH) Rev. George H. Gould, D. D., son of
Rufus Gould (6), was born in Oakham, Massachu-
setts, February 20, 1827. He attended the public
schools and Monson Academy, where he was fitted
for college. He was graduated with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at Amherst in 1850, after which
he 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
engaged six months in civil engineering. During
two winter seasons he lectured before various
Jyceums and preached temporarily in a number of
larger western cities, including Milwaukee, Detroit,
Dubuque, and Chicago. While yet a student, INIr.
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
iefore selecting another pastor. His health being
but little benehted 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 whom he spent a year in London, six months
jn Paris, four months in Edinburgh, two months in
Rome and traveled two summers in Switzerland.
In 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 w'as settled over
the old Centre Church in Hartford with tlie under-
standing that on account of ill health he should
preach biit once each Sunday. He. remained there
six years and afterward supplied the Central Church
at Providence fifteen months ; the Walnut Avenue
Church in Boston si.x months, being subsequently
■connected 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 Flavcn.
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 Divinity.

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 Millbury 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 his suc-
oessors there, Putnam, Davis & Co., who carried
on a successful business for many j'ears. 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
Flighland Military 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.
Under 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 w'as 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 Congregationalist 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 II. 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 would 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, Alassachusetts. He received his education
in the public schools and when not in school worked
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for California, when the gold mines were attracting
venturesome and amhitious 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 halt in the west he re-
turned to Massachusetts lor a visit and decided to
stay in the east. In iSOo he settled in Westborough
and established a retail boot and shoe business.
Soon afterward he purchased the dry goods store
of Mr. Penninian 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, 1879, 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 1882 this firm was dissolved. In
November, 1883, he formed a new firm, in partner-
ship with Melvin II. 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 tinic of Mr. Gould's withdrawal,
which was caused by ill health, December, i88g,
the business of the firm had grown from the modest
beginning in 1879, to employ some three hundred
hands producing 35,000 cases a year, 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 u.^ed 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. F'ayerweather, $59S.50; Gould &
Walker, $518.10; estate of W. R. Gould, $482.86.
Mr. Gould married, 1866, Sarah Fayerweather,
daughter of John A. F'ayerweather, 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. He died
February 24, 1826. Children of Major John and
Sally (Wheelock) Fayerweather: Thomas Hub-
bard, born May 16, 1806, married, .^pril 10, 1827,
Elmina A. Parker; John .'\ppleton, born March 12,
1808, see forward; Sarah Hubbard, born January 7,

1810, married Charles Parkman Jones, born March
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 firm 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 F'ire 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 tiie Repub-
lican party. He was overseer of the i)oor, town
treasurer, selectman for many years and representa-
tive of his district in the general court. He was
president of thq 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, born 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'

eigiity-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, Octotjer

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.

(V) Benjamin Rice, son of Azariah (4) and
Hannah Rice, born February i. 1722-23, married

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Sarah Upham, of Maiden. June .^o. 1744. They lived
at Brookfield, where he was a selectman and a rep-
resentative. He died February 18. 1796. aged seven-
ty-three years. His widow died March. 1804, aged
eig'hty-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 j. 17.^4, mar-
ried Sally Abbott, and moved to Sturbridge. and
in 1806 to Ponipey, New York, where he died of
fever, November 4, 1809. and liis wife and three
children later.

(VII) 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 Andovcr College and settled as a min-
ister in Skaneateles, New York, then at Deerfield.
Massachusetts, and later at New Gloucester and
Bu.Kton, Maine. He finally located at Winchendon,
where he died July 11, 1847. aged sixt}--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 tliird 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 linea-ge was well w^orthy the reverence
in which he held it. The families from which he
sprang were honored in the land of their birth, and
their descendants in America crowned their names
with additional honor. They were men and women
of brawn and brain and conscience, their hearts
fervent in reverence for God and love for 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. Massachusetts.
March 7. 1826. and died in Worcester. March i.
l8g6. His parents were the Rev. Beniamin and
Lucy (Whitney) Rice. In the paternal line he was
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 i6vS 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, where he died May
3. 166.3. The old homestead in Sudlniry 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 i6ig. and died in Marlboro. Massa-
chusetts, August 15, 1712. His wife was .-Xgnes
Bent and he was married a .second time. Edward
Rice was uncle of Jonas and Gcrshotn 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. 175.?. 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" wlio threw the lea into the Boston
Harbor, was a town correspondent of the committee
of safety, and served in the legislature in 1776-77

and in 178,3-84. He married Sarah Upham. a dc-
.scendant of Lieutenant Phineas Upham, who is
written of elsewhere in this work. Caleb, son of
Captain Benjamin, married Sarah Abbott, and they
liecame 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 LIniversity. studied Divinity at .Andovcr,
entered the Congregational ministry, was settled in
turn at Skaneateles, New York ; South Deerfield.
Massachusetts ; 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 18, 1S93, 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, horn 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 ofifered 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 were 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
.A.cademy at Gorham, in the same state. Prior to
this he had contracted excellent habits of study and
reading while under the private tutorship of Horatio
Woodman, and he left the academy as its inost cap-
able speaker and writer and its best general scholar.
The same high abilities were further developed dur-
ing his course in Bovvdoin 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 .■Xndover, in a tribute which he
paid to the memory of Mr. Rice before the American
Anlinuarian 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 month'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. .'\niong his
pupils was the lady who afterwards became his wife.
In 1851 he began the study of law. under the pre-
ceptorship of Emory Washburn and George F. Hoar,
and three years later was admitted to the bar and

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entcrcil upon a practice wliich 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.
Blacknier. and last with Henry W. King, and with
his son. Charles Mocn Rice, which partnership con-
tinned 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 }S$g,
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 and persistent eflfort. In 1855 he 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
1868 he was elected district attorney, and he dis-
charged the duties of the office with great aliility
until 187.1, when he resigned. In 18-C. 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 affairs and
Indian afTairs, and of the select committee to pro-
vide additional acconniiodations for the congres-
sional library. The most important bill of his in-
troduction was that to terminate the provisions of
the treaty of 1871 with Great Britain relative to
the fisheries. W'hich carried out a purpose that had
been incfTectually attempted for a quarter of a cen-
tury, and his report upon which his bill w^as 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 connnittce on
Indian affairs contained detailed accounts of the
traditions of the Sioux and Dakota Indians which
will ever be an authority upon that subject. The
exhaustive report upon the Chili-Peru imbroglio
made by the committee on foreign afTairs was al-
most altogether his work, although it is not directly
credited to him. His principal speeches, all of
which were highlv meritorious, were those on "The
Death of General Burnside," "The .-\pprcbation of
Cherokee Indians," "Chinese Immigration." "The
Congressional Library." the international fisheries
question, the bill to protect innocent purchasers of
patented articles, the bill granting the right of way
throuch 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 A'an Buren. He early allied himself with the
free soil movement, and became a prnverfid ex-
ponent of what became Republicanism. In 185a 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 unslintingly 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
i88(). 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 vi.'?ited Europe, spending the greater part
of his time in England. His health was already im-
paired, and the benefit derived from his journey
w-as 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
Winchcndon. He died lacking but six days of at-
. taining the allotted three score years and ten. His
death w-as deeply deplored throughout the com-
munity, and many trilnites wore 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 history in 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, 1903. 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 (n, was
the immigrant ancestor of the Aldrich family of
Mendon and Uxbridge. He is the progenitor of
Ralph Edward Aldrich, of Douglas, Massachusetts.
The name was spelled Aldridge and Oldridge in
the early records, and some liranches of the family
still perfer the spelling .Mdridge, but the famous
Rhode Island family and the descendants in Wor-
cester county. Massachusetts, have for many gene-
rations adopted the spelling Aldrich. George Aid-
rich was born in Derbyshire. England, about 1605.
He was a tailor by trade. He sailed for America,
November 6, 16.11. He married in England, Sep-
tember 3. 1620, Catherine Seald. She was born in
t6io. according to her deposition made June t8,
1670, when she gave her age as sixty years. Aid-
rich was admitted a freeman December 7, 16.16. 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, his 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 Bartlett, Mercy Randall
and Martha Dunbar.

Children of George and Catherine (Seald) 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. The 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, oi whom later; Mat-
tithiah (as the old clerk chose to spell Martha),
July 10, 1656* married — Dunbar.

(H.) 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, Abel, Seth, of
whom later; Huldah. Rachel, Sarah, David, Peter,
John, Moses, Mercy. Rachel.

(HI) 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
guardiafi 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 tliere 1776-77. He was a Quaker and many
of his family and descendants have belonged to the
Society of Friends. His will dated October 11, 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 Nehemiah and
Asahel Aldrich, his sons. Twelve children are men-
tioned in the will. He married Joanna Bartlett.
Their children were : William, Daniel, Seth, of
whom later ; Aaron, Jacob. Jr., Nehemiah, Asahel.

Mar}', 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 1,1745. the daughter of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Prentice) Aldrich. He died in 1818 and
all his children nrmed 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, 1788. 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; Lean<Ier H.,
born July i, 1828; Allen P., born October 24, 1830.

(VII) Valentine M. Aldrich, son of Jacob Aid-
rich (6), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts,
April 2, 1815. He was educated in the public scliools
of his native town and at the Friends school in
Providence, Rhode Island. He worked at liome
on the farm in summer and taught school in winter
for several years. He had schools in Uxbridge 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, Abi.gail 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 Uxbridge about eigh-
teen monthts, then went to Northbridge to teach ;
she retired at the end of the spring term 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. 184S. 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, 1851. They 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 Dartmouth 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 luitil 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 comimiiiity. IK- had won liis 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 eflforts.

In politics he was a Republican and he took the
duties of citizenship seriously. He was elected by
his fellow-citi/ens to many positions of trust and re-
sponsibility, among them town treasurer of Douglas,
serving several years. lie 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 tlic 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. Aldricli 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.
giving 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
Blackstoue Valley Agricultural Society of Uxbridge.
charier memlier of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen and member of the Fire King Engine
Company.

He married. September 4, 1872, Mary Angenctte
Ellison, who survives him. Their children are :
Ralph Edward, of whom later; Lena May, born
July 15, 1875; Abbie Elizabeth, born January 6,
1876.

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

21, 187.V He was educated in the public schools
at Douglass and w-as 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 1891 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, Novemlier 26, 180O, Sadie Gertrude Hodgden,
daughter of James Monroe and Mary Abbie (Fergu-
son) Hodgden. Their children are: Bayliss Gor-
don, born October 11, igoo; Richard Hodgden. born
March 18. 1902; Stew-art Ellison, born September

22, IQO,;.

(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 Dong-
lass high school, attended Wheaton Sctninary 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 Bayliss
Williams .Mdrich (8), was born in Uxbridge. Mass-
chusctts. July 15. 1875. She fitted for college in the
public and high schools of Douglas and graduated
from Mount Holyoke College, faking a graduate
course of study at Cornell University. She taught
school in Douglass for a short time before her mar-

riage. She liiarried, January 8, 1901, Walter 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
190.^ he was advanced to the position of superin-
tendent of the mill, his present incumbency, in which
be 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
Hayward Woolen Company arc loyal and interested
in the success of the business.

Mr. Schuster is especially a favorite of the
young men and lioys of Douglass on account of his
iove 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 tnetnber 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, iqoi. Lena May Aldrich,
daughter of Bayliss W. Aldrich. Their childrerj
are: Margaret Evelyn, born March 25, 1902; Win-
field Aldrich, July 17, IQ06.

(VI) Ephraim Aldrich. son of Seth .Aldrich (.0.
was born at L^xbridge, 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, 1S26.
One of the witnesses was Gideon Mowry. The
children : Ephraim. Jr., Daniel H., see f(ffvvard ;
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, 1S34,
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
saw mill. In igoo 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 conunittee fifteen years, assessor eight
yJars, highway surveyor, and for twelve years select-
man, the longest term with one exception of contin-
uous service in this office in Uxbridge. 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 frc(|uently 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 lionored
and respected citizens of the town.

He married. 1855, Patience Pettiplace, daughter
of Chad Pettiplace. She was born in Slatersville,
Rhode Island. Their children : Frederick Jona-
than, born April 23, 1856, see forward. .-Mice
Maria, born July 20, i860, educated in the public
schools at Millbury . and at the Friends School,
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 Uxbridge, April 20, 1862. see forward.

{IX) Frederick Jonathan Aldrich. son of Gideon
Mowry Aldrich (8), was born at U.xbridge, 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. i8qo,
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, 1903; Mary Patience, born August 25, 1906.

(IX) Leander Sawyer Aldrich, son of Gideon
Mowry Aldrich (8). was born in Uxbridge. Massa-
chusetts, April 20, 1862. 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 Uxhridge. Glendale and Slaters-
ville, 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 Uxbridge : 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 which 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 Usell CiL the im-
migrant 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 i6.?8. Stephen Gates removed to
Cambridge about 16.S2 and spent a few years at
Lancaster; he made his will April 18. 1682; it was
proved April 8, 1C83, and he made a bequest to his
daughter Elizabeth Lazelle and other cliildren.
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. and proved Jamiary 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 IS, 1652, married. April 26. 1685, Mary Allen,
of Duxbury, 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 1689. 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 (l), was
horn 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 earl.v 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 Lasell 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.

(III) 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. .\ugust I. 1728. Martha Harris. Their home
in Windham was in what is now Scotland. Connec-
ticut. Children of Joshua and Martha Lasell :
Joshua, born December 21. 1729: a Joshua married
Hannah Bingham, who was born .•\pril 26. 1738,
daughter of Lemuel Bingham, and granddaughter of

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Captain SaimicI Bingham, of Scotland parish, whose
father was the immigrant, Tlionias Bingham. Josiah,
born February lo, 1732-33, died May 15. 1736. Mary,
born April s. ^7i7- Sarah, born January 12, 173S-39.
Josiah, born May 5, 1741, see forward.

(.IV) Jo>inh Lascll, son of Joshua Lascll (3),
was born in Scotland parish, Windham, Connecticut,
May 5, 1741, or just before the family removed from
Hingliam. 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 I^sclI : Mary, born
June 15, 1769; Josiah, born April 2\. 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. 1785 (gravestone) ; Chester, born February 23,
1784, sec forward; James, born October 10, 1786;
Lucy, born Aug^ust 11, 1791.

(V) Chester Lasell, son of Josinh 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, 1S06,
Nancy jianning, daughter of Nathaniel Manning
(VH), whose line of descent is: Hezckiah (VI),
Samuel (V), Samuel (IV), Samuel (HI), 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, 1588. died May 9. 1657; mar-
ried, August 4, 1623, Alice (Carpenter) Southworth,
who was born 1590 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., was born May 0. 1662. died
May 28. 1738: married, November 28. 1682, Joshua
Ripley, born November g, 165S, died May 8. 17.39.

Irena Ripley, born August 28, 1700. one of thir-
teen children of Joshua Ripley, married, April 20.
1719. Samuel Manning, born at Billcrica, 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 1774. He was admitted an inhabitant Sep-
tember 24, 1716, was assessor 1720 to 1726, highway
surveyor in 1722. Samnel died June 3, 1727: Irene,
his wife, January 20. 1726-27. Irene was also grand-
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hobart) Ripley,
and great-granddaughter of Willinm Ripley, who
emigrated from Eneland in 16.38 to Hingham.
Massachusetts: admitted freeman there 1642, and
died July 20. 1656. Joshua Rinlev was the first
town clerk and treasurer of Windham. Elizabeth

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

Hezckiah 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, 1754-
55, grand juror 1747-53, constable and collector 1758,
first constable and collector of the colony tax 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 Hezckiah and Mary
(Webb) Manning, was baptized March 16, 1760, at
Windham. He was a soldier in the revolution. April
24, 1777, to November 5, 1777, in Captain Nathaniel
^Vales' company, Colonel Jonathan Latimer's regi-
ment, which was at the battle of Sarato.ga, assigned
to General Poor's brigade. General Benedict
.Arnold's division, and was highly complimented by
(iencral 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,
17S3, Matilda Morgan, born October 6, 1764, daugh-
ter of Samuel (5) and Bethia (Parrish) Morgan,
granddaughter of Samuel (4) and Elizabeth
(Forsyth) Morgan, great-granddaughter of James
(3) and Bridget Morgan. James Morgan (3) was
the son of John (2) and Rachel (Dymond) Morgan,
and grandson of James (l) and Margery (Hill)
Morgan, the immigrants, who came from Wales
to Boston, 1636. 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 (^lorgan) Manning, was born ."Xpril 23, 1786,
as already stated. She died at Schoharie, New
York, December 13. 1S72. Children of Chester and
Nancy (Manning) Lascll: Lucia, born June 15,
1807. married Lyman Knowles : Edward, January
2\. 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 to, 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,
.April 25, 1827: Mary, August 21, 1S29; Charles C,
October 3, 1832.

(VI) Professor Edward Lasell. son of Chester
Lasell (5), was bom 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, Massachusetts,
known as the Lascll 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 outlet. No
more famous girls' preparatory and finishing school
is to be found in New England.

Professor Lascll 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 partnershin in Williamstown. Massa-
chusclts, descendants of John Whitman, of Wey-
mouth, the immigrant ancestor. (See the Whitman
family sketch in this work.) Mrs. Timothy Whit-
man cnntributed largely to the endowment of the

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chair licid liy her son-in-Iavv. Professor Lasell died
at Aubiirndale, Newton, Massachusetts, January 30,
1852; his wife died at Auburndalc, July 22, 18S1,
aged sixty-six years. Children of Professor Ed-
ward and Ruth Whitman were : Edward, Jr., born
August 17. 18.34, died unmarried October 26, i860;
Laura Whitman, born June 11. 1836, died June 23,
1891 ; Timothy, born October 9, 1838, deceased ;
Ellen, born March 26, 1841, married, December ig,
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 Lasell (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. Lie 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 1S60 Mr. Lasell was called from his work at
Lasell Seminary to aVsist 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 be-
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 responsibilities of
Mr. Whitin, and as the president had to lay aside
his duties one by one on account 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 w'ith 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 cfeal of work with seemingly slight affort.
He -was also able to see and appreciate the difficult
and intricate mechanical questions connected with
machinery."

He was called to various offices of trust. He
was director of the Providence & 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 0/ his pupils and

arouse ambition and effort as well as to make things
clear to the intellect. His work as a teacher is
fittingly commemorated 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
Whitin family). She died March 12, 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 tow-n affairs. 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 Kank 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, l8g6 : John Whitin,
November 30, 1897; Margaret Harding, June 14,
igoo: 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 l886 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
horses are widely known. He is president of the
Grafton Country Club, Grafton, Massachusetts, Tat-

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nuck Chill. RosUin A. A., Worcester Club and vari-
ous other eUibs and organizations. In politics he
is a Republican, and intUiential in political and town
affairs.

He married, February 4, 1886, Jesse Kecler. sister
of Lawrence Murray Keeler, who married Eliza-
beth K. Wbitin. daughter of George Marston and
Jane (Lasell) VVhitin. She is the daughter of Julius
M. and Julia (Lathrop) Keeler, of San Francisco.
Their children are: Hildegarde, born December 28,
1888; 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. lie was an early settler at VVatertown, 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 Dedhain, 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.

(II) Benjamin Bullard, son of Robert Bullard
(i), 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 Ro.xbury, .Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas
Pidge, and (second), 1677, Elizabeth Thorpe,
daughter of bis step-father, Henry Thorpe. Bullard
and George I'airbanks, of Dedham, bought the
south half or tliird of the estate of Captain Robert
Kaync in the vicinity of Bogistow pond, lying partly
in what is now Sherborn, partly in the present town
of Millis. Kayne had been granted one thousand
and seventy-four acres at Pawsctt 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 tlic 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. (VHI), the present owner. The garrison bouse
built on the Bullard farm is described in the sketch
of James H. Bullard, of Holdcn.

In 1662 Benjamin Bullard signed the first peti-
tion for the incorporation of the town. October 3,
1673, 'ic ^old bis 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 si.K brethren to con-
stitute the church at its formation. He was tithing-
nian in 1680. selectman 1688 and was on the coi^in'it-
tce to seat the meeting house. He was one of nine
who bought up the Indian claims of the towiislnp.
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 2O, 1667, see
forward; Benjamin, born March i, 1670, died I76<);
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, 1678, married Abigail Leland, daugh-
ter of Hopestill ; Elizabeth, born January 31, i()8i,
died young ; Mary, born February 20, 1683, 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 affairs seemed to devolve mainly on him.
He died December 11, 1727, aged si.xty 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 filty-
si.x pounds.

He married, June, 1690, Deborah Atherton,
daughter of James Atherton, previously of Lan-
caster, afterward of Milton. Her father, a brotlier
or near relative of General Humphrey .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, Decein-
ber 25, 1712; Benjamin, born 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, 1696-97,
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 F'cbruary 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-si.x pounds.

He married, December 20, 1721, Miriam Morse,
born June 30, 1700, daughter of Samuel Morse,
granddaughter of Daniel Morse, and great-grand-
dauglilcr 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; \Iiriam,
born November 27, 1727, died .'\ugust 4. 1728; Sam-
uel, born August 2, 1729, see forward; Keziah, born
January 11, 1731-32, married Henry Leland, of
Sherborn; Peter, born September 23, 1734, bad

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the homestead; Martlia. Ijcirn Septemhcr 15, 17,57,
married Simon Leland ; Benjamin, captain, Ijorn
Jinie 30, 1741, settled on what is now called the
Mason place near the Bullard homestead.

(V) Colonel Samuel Bullard, son of Lieutenant
Benjamin Bullard (4), was horn 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
issue. 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 n, 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 tlie 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 French gun that had been his great-
grandfather Bullard's; Benjamin, barn May 14,
1773, see forward; Betsey, born June 16, 1776, died
unmarried at Sherborn.

(VI) Benjamin Bullard, son of Colonel Samuel
Bullard (s), was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts,
May 14, 1773. He settled in Sherborn and married
there, March 31, 1796, Persis Babcock, who died
August ig, 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 Dekter, 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. He 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 affected 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 qt 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 ly,
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 possession 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
^•ears 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 Clinton and the Bryant & Stratton Busi-
ness College of Boston. He was first employed as
bookkeeper in a Boston house, then came to the
office of the Bigelow Carpet Company, Clinton. He
returned to work in Boston after a short time as
bookkeeper for O. W. Alden, 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. He married, June 29, 1892,

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AdJic J. Fuller, daugluer of Asa and Frances
(Barnard) Fuller, of Sterling. She was born in
Wellesley, Massachusetls, formerly Needliam, Sep-
tember b, 1867. They have two cliildren : Ida
Louise, born April 25, 1S96; Frances Elizabeth,
August 9, 1898.

HENRY GODDARD, deceased, was one of the
most esteemed citizens of Worcester, held in honor
as tine 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 w-as 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
whicli his father was manager, and from the outset
gave every eviience of both inherited and acquired
mechanical talents. His lirst work was in the ca-
pacity of a wire drawer, and he was advanced suc-
cessively until the death of his father, whom he
succeeded in charge of the works. He was thus
engaged until 1867, when the factory was destroyed
by tire, when he w-as 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, ho showed from the first such ability that he
was marked for speedy advancement, and rose
frDm 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 divices 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
cstalilishnient that his retirement was attended with
significant demonstrations 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 daj'.
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 was 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. F'rank Crane, pastor of Union
Congregational Church, and the interment was-
with Masonic ceremonies, conducted by Worcester
Commandery of Knights Templar, the pallbearers
being four past eminent commanders of that body.
The tloral tributes were exceedingly rich, and most
significant in design, particularly those froin the
various bodies of the Alasonic fraternity with which
the lamented deceased had been atiiliated. As was
said of him, standing at the head of Worcester
iMasons, 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 Morning 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-live 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 officer of
that rank. He was a past master of Hiram Council,
Royal and Select Masters, and past eminent com-
mander of Worcester Commandery, Knights Temp-
lar. In the larger fields of the Masonic 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. JIc 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 biing 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 gifts
of money or articles of comfort, and the large body
of workmen connected wnth the same factories with
himself were particularly the objects of his regard
in these respects.

Mr. Goddard inarried, 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 Willictta, wife of H. £. Ball, of
the same city.

WIHTCOMB FAMILY OF LUNENBURG.
William Whitcomb, grandfather of George Henry
Whitcomb, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was a de-
scendant cf John Whitcomb, of Dorchester and
Scituate. who was born in England and came to
New England probably in 1629. He w-as 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 Plymouth

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

William Whitcomb was born at or near Ware-
ham, Massachusetts, about 1800. 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 Ivlarch,
1850, on the William Gilson place. He was a Con-
gregationalist in religion and a W'hig 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; niarrieil 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, 1839. mentioned below.
3. Cynthia Eleanor, born at Brookline; married
tirst 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 ha\t children — Nora,
CharJes 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
children.

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
W'ork out, first for Ephraim Gilson. attending school
in the winter terms, at Townsend, Massachusetts.
After five years there he returned to Brookline, hut
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, and 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, Mas-^achusetts.
Her father was a farmer and stone mason, and was
a member of the state militia in his younger 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

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

George Henry Whitcomb, son of Robert Thomas
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. When
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 laad. 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. 1890, 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 ^lendon, 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; Samuel, born
June 27, 1682; Sarah, died August 4, 1701 ; Francis.
Francis Dudley (father) was a soldier in King
Philip's war.

(H) Samuel, son of Francis Dudley (l), 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,
where 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 9,
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,
May 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 i8, 1773; Sarah, January 22. 1779; James,
November 2i, 1783. John Dudley died in Suttcm,
August 25, 1786, and his widow married Solomon
Leland, 1791.

(.V) Joseph Dudley, son of John Dudley (4),
born 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,
1882. He was one of those thrifty, highly success-
ful farmers of his generation. It was a real pleas-
lure 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 1S44; Mary E., January 24, 1845,
jnarried James L. Greenleaf, December I, 1874.

(VII) Edward Dudley, son of Silas Dudley
•(6), was born in Sutton, December 15, 1829, and
'Canie with his parents to JMendon during his child-
hood days. Here he grew up, attending the public
schools 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-
'iiood whose upright character could not under any
rfrircumstances be diverted from its natural channel,
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
<iuty as a citizen regularly at the polls, without of-
ficial aspirations. He attended the Methodist
Church. Edward Dudley died in Mendon, March
p, 190 1.

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. May
i6. 1S76. Ervvin .Augustus Snow: children: Lillian
Estelie, died in infancy; Florence Edith, born Jan-
uary 19, 1878, married Albert C. Rhodes, June 27,
1900; Bertie Allen, died in infancy; Edward Dudley,
<lied in infancy; Frederick Augustus, born Sep-
.tember 22, 1883 ; Rose Elizabeth, born June 25, 1887 ;
Mabel Dudley, born July 16, 1888; Charlotte
Armsby, born July 4, 1892. The family reside in
Mendon. 2. Silas Armsby, born July 5, 1857, mar-
ried (tirst). 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 .\rmsby, born June 22, 1901 ; Char-
lotte, 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-
cessful teacher in the public schools.

AD.\MS F.-^MILY. 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
otY of tlie 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 Medfield 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.

(HI) 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
Debofah Patridge. He married (second) Susanna
Breck, who died 1744.. He died 1751. He was the
father of thirteen cliildren.

(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, borrt 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 .Adams, 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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11775, serving nine days. He was also in Captain
-Nelson's company under date of July 19, 1776.
Previous to that he was private in Captain 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 the 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, Mile Square, Court-
land Manor,- Haverstraw, Morristown, Boundbrook
and other places then occupied by the American
army, reaching Mendon after a three months' service.
JMarch 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
Ad'ams died in West Medway, February, 1815, leav-
ing three children : Otis Corbett, born August 14,
1805, died 1859; Adaline, January 10, 180S, 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.

(VII) 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 w'as 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'
early 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
very 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, homelike
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

27, 184 1, married Charles H. Spencer; Horace Cor-
bett, July 18. 1848, see forward; Maria Miller, Octo-
ber 31. 1850.

(VHI) 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 I'aft 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. 9.
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 Fanium 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 Farmun died
January 8. 1692-93, and the inventory of his estate
is dated March 29, 1693. The cliildren of Ralph
were: l. 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 11, 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 .\bbot,
April 16, 1658. s. John, born 1640, see forward.

(H) John Farnum, son of Ralph Farnum (i),
was born at Andover, Massachusetts, about 1640,
and died there June 17, 1/23, '" '"s eighty-third year.
He married, November 12, 1667, Rebecca Kent,
daughter of Stephen Kent, of Newbury. Massachu-
setts. She died February 8, 172S-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, 1684. died May
24, 1761 ; married (first), 1708, Elizabeth Parker,
who died June 18, 1732; (second). May 31. i733-
Mchitable Poor, who died January 19, 1763, aged
seventy vears. 7. Thomas, born August II, 1687,
probably'died young. 8. David, born April 4, 1690,
married Dorothv Duncan.

(HI) John "Farnum, Jr., son of John Farnum
(2), was born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 13,
1672, died in Mendon, September g, 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" w-as 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 bis will which was proved
August 30, 1749, he mentioned his wife .'\bigail,
sons John, Jr. and Moses, daughters Mary and Ann
Penninian. He married. June 30, 1603. 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
Penninian. 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. 5. Moses, born at Mendon.
September 8. 170.1;. see forward.

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

Uxbridgc, Massachusetts, September 8, 1770. The
part of Mendon in which he was born was set ofE
in 1727 as the town of Uxbridge. He was a farmer
and lived in U.xbridge 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
.\ldrich's. His father conveyed to him, April 25,
1743, two hundred acres in Uxbridgc. He bought
a farm of fifty-three acres in Douglas, November
27, 1738. but seemed to prefer U.xbridge 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, Mary, 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 Septemlier 11. 1737, married John Reed,
of Smithfield, and had ten children. 6. Stephen, born
September 19, 1739. died April 27, 1761. 7, Abigail,
born .August 19, 1741, married David Harris, of
Smithfield, 1761. 8. Rachel, born January 13, 1743,
married Daniel Reed, of Smithfield. 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 Brow-n 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
.Tdvantage. When cpiite 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 amund him, he became more obedient to
the teachings of truth and useful in our society,
.ind 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
•weight 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 words
■were like oil to their comfort and encouragement.
He was short but comprehensive in his public testi-
inonies and at times much favored in supplication.
He was ready to indite in a short and comprehensive
nianner and was extensively useful in the discipline
of the church.

"He was a man of good natural understanding
.and capable of argument, yet he selHom 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 reconmiended 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
<:onstant 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
xliscipleship was his readiness to be advised and to
take advice, showing thereby his great love for the
brethren. In his neighborhood he was useful and
respected, having a disposition and qualifications
vv'hich rendered his company and conversation in-
structive and desirable. He was useful and instru-
inental 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, tliat 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
Priends, 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 .'\bra-
ham Griffiths from Pennsylvania he made a religious
visit to Friends in the Salem Quarterly Meeting,
in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Alaine, 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 liad seen many
things 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 w-ar 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
himself 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 inonth 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 w'ith 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
tneeting 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, 1782. The children of Moses and
Sarah Farnum: i. David, born at Uxbridge. Sep-
tember 29, 1753, see forward. 2. Daniel, born June
14. 1755, died October 14, 1772. 3. .A.nn, 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-
ary 7, 1763, married, 1792, Widow Aldrich, who
died April 12. 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. 1855;
married (first), December 5. 1792. Rachel Daniels,
born December 25, 1767, died Augtist 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 10, 1853: married. May 3, 1797. James Hark-
ness; he died April 27, 1806: (second), August 5,
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,
173,^. 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. Phcbe, born April 15, 1791, died October
3, 185J. unmarried. 5. Jesse, born June 7, 1705. 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-
keepsic, 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, '" 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 Hurd'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, 1811. Mary Southwick,
of Uxbridge. Their children: i. Jonathan, bom
October 15, 1812, died July 14, 1814. 2. Joseph S.,
born August 21, 1814, died December 22, 1873, at
Worcester; married Lois N. Stoddard. 3. Luke S.,
born January 20, 1817, died August 23. 1883: mar-
ried Chloe Taft and had four children. 4. Ruth
M., born August 29, l8ig. resided at Uxbridge
and Northbridge. S- James M., born April 11, 1822,
see forward. 6. Mary Alice, born August 4, 1828,

married Rockvvood, of Brooklinc. 7. Ann Eliza,

resided in Lancaster.

(Vlin James Moore Farnum, son of Daniel
Farnum (7), was born in Northbridge. Massachu-
setts, April TT. 1822. 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 farming and lumbering. He dealt in cran-
berries which he grew extensively. He was one
of the leading farmers and men of affairs of LIx-
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 conunittec; 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 II, 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 18S4. 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: WiJIis
Herbert, born July 23, 1898. 3. James Herbert,
born August 15, 1857, married, August 11, 1886,
Emma Jane Jefiferson ; no issue. 4. Sarah Joanna,
born July 20, i860, married. January 11, 1882, 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.

(Vll) Mowry Farnum, son of David Farnuiri
(6), was born at U.xbridge, Massachusetts, Decem-
ber 23, 1799. He was educated in the district schools
of Uxbridge, and w'hen 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
Center. 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 qnd Missouri, 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 imtil 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 L'xbridge,
and a member of Tyrian Royal Arch Chapter of
Millbury. During the civil war he was a member
of the local militia, the Home Guards of Cedar
Rapids, low-a.

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

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JAMES M.rARNUM

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55 ■.

born in Grafton, Masachusetts, were : Charles VVill-
ard, born June 14, 1826, see forward. George South-
wick, born January 16, 1828, married Alice Taft,
of Millbury, and had George Gardner Taft; David
Gibson, born March g, 1830, married Fannie Dodd,
of Worcester; Henry Clay. Ijnrn June 12, 1832, died
in Lincoln, Nebraska ; Daniel Webster, born June
26, 1834; Evelina Jane, born September 2, 1836,
married Wellington W. Higley, 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, Massachusetts,
June 14, 1826, in the village known as Farnums-
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 1845. He worked with his father on the home-
stead for four or five years and worked in his
father's cotton mill, in which 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, Massachusetts. 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, w'here he was located two years. In 1883 be
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 L^xbridge 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 LJxbridge and conducted it un-
til 1905, when 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 Union Lodge,
No. ID, of IMasons, 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, May 26,
1828, died August 7, 1861. daughter of James Healey
and Nancy Hemenway (.\llen) Benchley, of Mill-
bury. Their children ; Isabel, born December 3,

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

(IX) Charles Mowtv Farnum, son 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. Fie remained in the employ of this
firm until April, 1S95, 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 Company
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 Masons,
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 Crjptic degrees in Hiram Council of
Royal and Select i\Iasters, December 26, 1895. and
was made a member of Worcester County Com-
mandery. No. 5, Knights Templar, September 30,
1896. 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. 1S64,
daughter of George and Agnes (Young) Weir, of
Worcester, natives of Renfrewshire, Scotland. They
have no children.

DANIELS FAMILY. Robert Daniels (r). 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, 165 1, 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 was 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, 1653,
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 poiul, Modficid, married Mercy Grant,
ot' Watcrtowii. and had five children; died 1O95;
Joseph, of whom hiter ; 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,
1 044.

(II) Joseph Daniels, son of Robert Daniels (i),
was born abuiU 1640 in \Vatertown or Cambridge.
^iassachusetts. lie died in 1715. He was one of
the early settlers of Medfield, Massachusetts, was
townsman there in 1662 and signed the agreement
with 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 Sheffield, who died 1687. He married (third)
Lydia Allen, widow of James Allen. Children of
Joseph and Mary Daniels were : Joseph, Jr., born
September 23, 1666, settled in Medfield ; Mary, born
July 4, 1669; her son Henry lived to be ninety-nine
years old; Samuel, born October 20, 1671 ; Mehita-
ble, born July 10, 1674, died 1686; Ebenezer, born
April 24, 1O77, married, 1701, Elizabeth Partridge;
married (second), 1707, Mary Harding; Elizabeth,
born March 9, 1679, married, 1705, Joseph Jilason;
married (second), 1730, Jolin Draper, of Dedham ;
Jeremiah, born March 17, 1680, died June, 1680;
Eleazer, born March 9, i68r, of whom later. Chil-
dren of Joseph and Rachel Daniels : Jeremiah, born
16S4. married, 1713, Hannah Partridge; Rachel, born
1686 : Zcchariah, born 1687, died young.

(III) 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-
will 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 the deeds examined. His two sons were : Jo-
seph, mentioned in deeds ; David, of whom later.

(IV) David Daniels, son Eleazer Daniels (3).
■was born about 1710 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 si<le 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 Kelley. his son-in-law, was
the executor.

He married Huldah , who made her will

December g, 1794, naming therein all the children,
ten in number, though Huldah was deceased. This
will was filed July 2, 1799, and she jirobably 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, Adains, Polly, Olive, married Aid-
rich. Moses, Clotilda, married Baker; Ruth,

married Jonathan Wheelock; (second) Sta-
ples; Molly, married Seth Kelley; Chloe, married
Davenport; ^lercy, 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 whom 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
Mendon 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 (Kittery), born April 9, 1797, married Jacob
Aldrich (see will); Bathsheba, born April 19, 1800,
married Esek Pitts, mentioned in will ; Sarah,
born August 5, 1801, died January 18, 1827 ; Silence,
born July 22, 1S04, died November 26, 1804; Mar-
cena, son born October 31, 1807, mentioned in will;
Absalom, born April 16, 1809, died September 20,
1S54, mentioned in father's will ; married March 9,
1829, R. Southwick ; Christopher, born March 10,
iSio, of whom later; Margeriia, born October I,
1811.

(VII) 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
Massachusetts 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 Blackstonc. 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. ]86g. 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 affairs; died in the prime of life, aged forty-
five years, unmarried.

JOSEPH DE MARCO was born in Brindisi di
Montagna, 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 1S82; 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 19, 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 h^ h^'d 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 otiice 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 i8g8 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 igoi 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
reside together with Rose, the widow of his brother,
Achille De Marco, at 150 Bloomingdale road,
Worcester.

PATRICK FRANCIS BOYLE, son of Patrick
iind 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 many 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
lie 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
Roman Catholic in religion, a member of St. .A.nne's
jiarish, 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
Worcester. 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 (Zharlton,
whose children were : Mary Rich and Daniel Har-
wood Tucker. Daniel H. Tucker's children \yere:
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 name 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 ofiice. 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 ii. 1883; 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. .-Ml 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 City, New Jer-
sey ; and for five years in Becker's Business College,
Worcester. At Becker's he w-as the head te.icher
and introduced the actual b.usiness 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 modern business college. The
institute aims to educate bookkeepers and stenog-
raphers for practical and immcdiated usefulness
in the offices of manufacturers, mercantile estab-
lishments, and all the other offices where modern
business methods are in vogue. Many of the grad-
uates are alre.-idy 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 Kuncy. She was born
at Fayette, New York, August 20. 1870. She is the
daughter of William H. Kuney and Lucinda (Beary)
Kuncy. She is descended from an old Pennsyl-
vania family.

FAMES FAMILY. Thomas Fames (i). the
immigrant ancestor of Henry C. Fames and Edward
E. Eames, of Paxton. Massachusetts, of the Eames
family of Shcrborn, 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. Subsequently 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 upoa
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 him 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 him 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 :
T. John, born at Dedham, October 6, 1642, married
Mary , who died April 3, 1681 : (second) Eliza-
beth Eames and he had ten children. 2. Samuel,
born January 15, 1664-65, had by wife. Patience
Twitchell. at Sherborn, Gershom, and by second
wife, Mary (Hunt) Leland, widow of Isaac Leland,
Susanna, Patience, Gershom, who settled in Boyls-
ton, Massachusetts, with his cousin William ; ^Iar-
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:

1. 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 Hollistnn, 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-
f.ather also lived. He married. September 21, 17.^8,
Silence Leland and their children were: I. Daniel,
born March 28. 1740. married, 1761, Mary Cutler.

2. Hopestill, died young. 3. Hopcslill, born June 28,
1742. died .'Vpril 5, 1821 : married Mary Leland,
daughter of David Leland. of Holliston, 1768. and
had a large family. 4. Lydia, born 1746. died June

5. 1814; married Jn<hua Underwood, of Holliston.
5, .Vnna, married Colonel John Gleason, of Fram-
ingham. 6 William, see forward.

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

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Sherborn, 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 cliosen a spot in the woods on which to build
his house he left his jacket to mark the spot wliile
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
oft 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
Martha 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 forw-ard. 5. Lucy, born
November 25. 1786. 6. William, born November 22,
1788, resided at West Boylston and Worcester,
where he died 1835 ; married Persis Rice, at Wor-
cester, January 2$. 1809, 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,
March 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 1895. Two of
their children died of scarlet fever, one at the age
of fifteen and the other at the a.ee 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, brid.ee 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 9. 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., borr»
March 31, 1855, resides in Worcester; Willianv
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 : Carrie L., born December
10, 1877 ; Charles W., July 27, 18S0, 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 ig, 1SS6; Frank S., August is. 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 9,
1856, attended school in Worcester. At the age of
five years he went to live w'ith 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, 18S7 ; 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, 189,^; 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 11,
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 "bein.g 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.

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was born about 1640, and diej at Norwalk. Con-
necticut, 1720. He settled in Norwalk with his
father, and was also a miller and wheelwright, 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, 1 71 2. 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. Thci'r children: John, born March

12, 1O76-77, married Elizabeth Einch ; Joseph, born
March i, 1678-79, millwright, married Elannah
Hoyt ; Henry, born Eebruary 21, 1680-81, weaver,
married Elizabeth Olmstead ; Elizabeth, married Jo-
seph Kecler; Richard, born April 18, 1687, mar-
ried Hannah Darling; Samuel, born 1688, married
Ann Laboree; Anne, born 1691, married, October

13. 1709, Matthew St. John; Eleanor, born January
27i 1693, married Jonathan E-airchild; 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 lo, 1732-
33, settled in Derby; married Sarah Wheeler; (sec-
ond) Eunice Keency; (third) Hannali 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 Windliam 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 Massachusetts 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-
ney (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 cliildren : 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-
bition. His first employment there was in a bake-
shop, where he worked from three o'clock in the
tnorning 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 lilial and loving son, he assisted
in caring for the parental household from his earli-
est manhood, and tenderly watched over 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 E"ree
Masons, of Wcstborough. He died at his home in
Westboro, March 4, 1889.

He married, May 11, 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, 1S29. 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 polishing. 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 Millbury, where the works are now conducted
by Edwin Wood and W. L. Proctor, sons-in-law of
Richard Buck.

In 1872 Charles Buck di3po.=ed 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 ]VIethodist 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 Lutlier 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 Lyman 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,
wife 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 was 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. l66g. William Punchard :
Ezekiel. baptized April g. 1647 ; Susanna, baptized
April 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 II, 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.

(II) John Waters, son of Richard Waters (i).

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was born in Sak-m. Ma>sachusctts, 1640, and bap-
tized, according to Benedict, November 27, 1640.
He was a farnuT and bis place was at Nortbfields,
near the site of tlic Salem iron fonndry. His will
was dated l''cbrnary 14. 1706-07. and proved March,
I707-0X; it mentions bis 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 IVIay 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,
■bought 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 Bnllard 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 l, 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, 1717.

(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 Nfewbury, 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 .\pril 3. 17^^: 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 Kinir and Benjamin Marsh. Jonathan
Waters, son of Nathaniel, was baptized July 31,
1715, married ^^chitahle 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 VVaters, 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
CJoodell. 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
first 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-si.xth 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 Companj' 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-
bury. about 1S75. 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 aflfairs. 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. Custer Post. No. 70. has been a member since
the post was organized and for six years was its
commander.

HERVEY A. GII,MORE

WORCESTER COUNTY

Mr. Waters married, November 2, 1870, Harriet
TVI. Barton, daughter of John B. Barton, and they
liave had two children: Lyman Irving, died aged
■eight months; Bessie A., born September 11, 1S76,
married Archer R. Greeley, lawyer at Webster,

Massachusetts, and they have one daughter — Muriel

Waters Greelej-, 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
New 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-
•<iren. 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
^vood 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
^■ear 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 and
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 i.^, 184,3. 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 branch 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
Aldrich; Elijah, born August 18, l8og, see forward.
Children of Peter and Azubah Thomson were :
Eliza, born June 7, 1812; Harford R., born August
10, 1814: Comfort R., born August 25, 1818; Ada-
line Maria, born .'Vprii 24, 1824.

(H) Elijah Thomson, son of Peter Thomson
(t), was born in Douglass, Massachusetts, August
t8, 1809. He settled in Millbury, Massachusetts.
Married. 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-
low's, 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 w'as one child, who died in infancy.
Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore adopted a little
girl, who is now Miss Blanche .\. Gilmore. They
attend the Congregational Church.

WORCESTER COUNTY

HORACE P. WHIPPLE. John Whipple (O,
the ininiigraiit ancestor of Horace P. Whipple, of
Whitinsville, Massachnsctts, 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
Neponsct. He removed to Ipswich and became a
proprietor of that town in l6.?cS. 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 Dorclicster 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 otficer of Dorchester. He and his
wife joined the Dorchester church, in 1641. He
sold his house and lot at Dorchester, in i6.s8, 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 19, 1665. He took
the oath of allegiance in 1666. lie 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 i66g. 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 w'ere sold for a term
of years to the planters. John Whipple died ^lay
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 9,
1648, married Epenctus Olncy ; William, born 1652,
baptized May 16, 1652, married Mary ; Benja-
min, baptized June 4, 1654, married, April i, 1686,
Ruth Mathewson; 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 hfty 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, 1 719, 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 Sniithtield. 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 1O84; James,
born 1686; Daniel, see forward.

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

Mary . The children : Daniel, born August

19, 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 Saralv

, and their children, all born there, were:

Sarah; Gideon, born January 30, 1744, died May,
1752; Sible, born August 18, 1746; Amos, born
February 3, 1749, 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,
'^77Z- Their children, born at Cumberland, were :
Prusia, born May 20, 1776, died May 12, 1785 ;
Ezekiel, born April 18, 1778, died May 2y, 1785;
Nathan, born 1779; 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, 17S9; 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 town>
records) April 10, 1812, Lydia Porter. Their child:
Amos, born at Woonsocket, May 26, 1813, see
forward.

(VII) Amos Whipple, Jr., son of .\mos 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.

(Vni) 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 with 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 W\'stborough (see sketch of 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

Scotchman. Me is believed to have settled early
among the colonists at Plymouth and for several
generations the family is believed to have lived in
the vicinity. The history of Donglass, 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 25, 1814. He
settled in the westerly part of the new town of
Douglass, Massachusetts, about 1850, on the place
now or lately occupied by Elbridge 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-
scendant 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 tke 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
Ro.xbnry 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, 174S, 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, 1 765, died February 28,
1765; Aaron, bom September 12, 1768, died August
9, 184s, married Prudence Aldrich; Peter, born
January 22, 1770, died September 17, 1775.

(H) Benjamin Wallis, son of Benjamin Wallis
(l), 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 w-ere :
Lydia, born February 23, 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.

(IH) 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— 5

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 born 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 Franklin Academy. He went to work at the age
of eighteen. He drove the stage for one year from-
Manchaug to East Douglass, and then entered a
wheelwright shop to learn the trade. He carried on
a wheelwright's business in F^ast 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 ^aw mill.

He married. May i, 1878, Emma F. Magce, o£
Uxbridge, the daughter of Thomas N. and Mary A.
(Bufifum) 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 u
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 Mrs'.
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 13, 1885; Walter C, born
July 26, 1888.

J.\MES DALEY, a prosperous merchant of
Uxbridge and an ex-member of the Massachusetts
legislature, is a son of Dennis and Elizabeth
(Dean) Daley, and immigrated with his parent.s
from Ireland in 184.7. 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, .^pril 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

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is widely and favorably known in Uxbridge and
vicinity. For several terms he served as chair-
man of the hoard of selectmen ; has represented
L'xhridge 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 tlie Democratic party of this locality, with which
lie has been aftiliated continuously from the time
•of his majority. While a member of the legislature
lie 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 whicli
at "present is installing the new water supply f'^""
Uxbridge. He is a member of the Knights of Co-
lumbus, and in his religious faith is a Roman
Catholic. • o^

Mr. Daley has been twice married; first in 1807
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 U.\bridge, 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
iiis days in Sweden. He married Cristina Carolina
Akerlund, and their children were: Maria Katha-
riiia. Per Johan, Anders Gustav, Olaus, see for-
ward : Karl Wilhelm.

Olaus Berggren was born in Sweden, August 20,
1866. He had a common school education in his
native village. He came to America in iSqo. 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, 1890,
Matilda Johnson, born in Sweden, daughter of
I^rs Ja Johnson. Their children are: Elin Ma-
tilda, born January 2. iSqi, student in Becker's
Business College ; Annie Victoria, born December
18. i8q2, student in Oxford high school : Carl Ric-
urd. born October 8. 1895: Charlotte Mary, born
February 3, 1904.

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

The first of the familv name 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 same from the Indians, .\fter securing this
land he returned to France for his familv, consist-
ing of a wife and one son. Isaac. While on the
voyage he was either killed or wounded so badly
in 'a 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 'lossession 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
11. 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 Theodaty 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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^lassachusetts agency cl 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. Vars was united in marriage to Miss
Jennie 'laylor, dauglitcr of Ransford S. and Eliza-
beth R. laylor, of Rhode Island. They have one
son, Monroe Taylor Vars, born September 16, 1892.
In religious connection the family affiliate with tlie
Univcrsalist 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, Massachusetts,
wher he was a proprietor in 1637. He was a planter.
His sen Joseph, who was also in Ipswich, later of
Watertown, came earlier. Joseph (i), married in

England, Dorothy . His will, dated April 24,

1646, proved September 29, 1646, bequeathed to his
wife Dorothy, sons Joseph and John, and daughter
Hannah. His children: l. Joseph, mentioned be-
low. 2. John, died 1694-5 J 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, 1669, 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, itjgo.
Children of Deacon John and Anne Morse: i.
Lydia, born April 6, i66o^ 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 1718; 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 Marcli
6, 1673-4. 8- Abigail, born August 6, 1677: died
.•\pril 13, 1683. g. Isaac, born January 5, 1677; died
Ni)vember 24, 1694 ^t Watertown. 10. Samuel, born

June 21, 1682. II. Nathaniel, died March 10, 1729-

30, married Grace Dyer; second Phebe .

(IVj John Morse, son of Deacon John Morse
(3), born in Lancaster or Watertown, March 15,
1669-70; resided in Watertown and Needham, Mas-
sachusetts; admitted a freeman June 2, 1699-1700;
was living m 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 : 1. 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 Follett, 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
2b, 1714. 10. Elizabeth, baptized October 3, 1697.
II. Hepsebath, born February 14, 1702-3. 12. Abi-
gail, baptized March 5, 1709-10. 13. Susanna, born
October 9, 1712, died March, 1714. 14. Mary, bap-
tized June 19, 1715.

(V) Isaac Morse, son of John Morse (4), born
in W'atertown, February 11, 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 iNIorse, 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; m Captain
Joshua Fisk's company, Colonel Abncr 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, born
April 6, 1742. Their children, all born at Natick:
I. Mehitable, 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 Alay 15, 1774; married,
April 6, 1792, Sally Hunting (according to the
church records), resided at Millbury, Massachu-
setts, and Pomfret, Connecticut. 6. Rebecca, born
October i. 1778; married Luther Broad, 1S02, 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 MArse, 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 Necdham, December 2, iHio, Jane
Giles, both of Needham.

(.IX) Gardner Morse, son of Arnold Morse (8),
born in Dorchester, now part of Boston, Massachu-
setts, i8il. He attended the puldic scliools, 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 hnn 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 the 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.
Elizabeth 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
Worse (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 si.xteen 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 3"d 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 Morse
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 .\nnapolis, 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. '1 he lirm was
still called (j. 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 (.j. F. Morse & Coinpany. 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 '^J''. Morse went to California on a business
trip, and in 1880 to Cuba and Mexico. The firm
had to seek horns where the cattle industry nour-
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. Fie and , his
brother erected powder mills at Rahway, New
Jersey, and he remained there until the plant was
sold. .In 1882 Mr. Alorse was elected president of
the South Spring Hill Gold Mining 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 Uni-
tarian Church, and gives it his active support. Mr.
Morse has been unusually successful in business ;
he has beeti 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., bom
18C2 ; inarried, 1S88, 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,
Katherinc Dillon. 5. Mabel W., born 1872; mar-
ried Franklin Freeman ; their children are Morse
Freeman and Gardner W. Freeman.

(X) Albert G. l\Iorse, 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, retnaining 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,
imder the firm naiue of G. F. Morse & Company,

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and with his brother built the Hecla Powder Works
at Rahway, New Jersey, which they later disposed
of to the Duponts, of Wilmington, 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 hnn
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
g, 1871, a member of the faculty of Adelphi Col-
lege. Broolyn, New York; and Willard Ives, born
September 17, 1884, secretary of the Royal Comb
•Company, Leominster, Massachusetts.

DYER DAVIS. William Davis (l), 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 (l),
was born October 12. 1647, at Roxbury, Massachu-
setts. He married Sarah Chamberlain, who owned
the covenant February 8, 1673. Their children,
bprn 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-
Tied (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 cordwainer 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 11, 1717,
at Brookline.

(IV) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph Davis (3),
was born at Roxbury, 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 II, 1727; James, born October 8,
1734; Ruth, born October 6, 1735; Jemima, born
November 25. 1736, 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 Oxford.

(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 w-ater 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 Dudley. Massachusetts. He
settled at Dudley, where he died April 19. 1829. He
was an enterprisinc 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. 1S07; Susanna, born September 9. iSio: Adaline,
born February 3. 1812. died June 18. 1814 : Frederick,
born January 22, 1S16; Prince, born Februarv 24,
1823.

(VII) Dyer Davis, son of Joshua Davis (6),
was born at Dudley. Massachusetts. January ig,
1801 : 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.

(Vlin Dyer Davis, son of Dyer Davis (7),
was born at E)udley, 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 wxre : Fred, born June II, 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 l, 1870; Mary
Edna, born June 7, 1872; Nina Belle, born March
4, i&So.

(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.

REV. 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 Rnxhury, Massa-
chusetts. The line of descent is as follows:

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

(II) John May, son of John (i), born 1631,
died 1671. married Sarah (Brewer) Bryce.

(III) John May, son of John (2), born 1663,
died 1730; married Prudence Bridge.

(IV) Ebenczer May. son of John (3), born
1692, died I7=;2: married Abigail Gore. He lived
and died at Roxbnry, Massachusetts.

(V) Samuel May. son of Ebene/er (4). born
1723, died 1794: 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 (5), born
■1776. died 1870: married Mary Gnddard. who died

in 1882. He was for 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 oflScer in the Provident
Institution for Savings. He was also one of the
proprietors of the Boston .'\thcna;um. 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, sou 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 May 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 1825, 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 "."Xmerica," 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, tlie 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 Worces-
ter Evening Gacette, 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 slavery 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 ooinion 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 B, 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-Slavery Society, and with the
exception of about six montlis, when health hindered
him, he held the position, doing yeoman's service
as a platform speaker and organizer until 186S,
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 Frcedman'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 wdien the civil
war broke out and was exempt by age and profes-
sion from taking up arms, but 'with renew'ed 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 w-elfare 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 tliirty-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, serving 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 prohil)ition 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, 1813,
and died June 13, 1895, after having been the loyal,
loving companion on the journey of life, with Mr.
May for almost sixty years. She left four children
to revere her memory: Adeline, Edward, a staff
officer in the L'nited 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 tbis
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 mahy 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 eighty-nine years, Mr. May was called
to his reward, November 24, iSgg.

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 tlie church there
in 1640. He removed to Watertow-n, Massachusett.s,
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 comi)os.)

(II) Josiah Jones, son of Lewis Jones (i), 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 dated April 21, 1684,
Jones sold to John Bright for sixty pounds a quarter
share in the mills on Stony River, thirty acres of
land bought of Nathaniel Treadway, February 19,
1678-79, land bought of John Chadwick, etc. He
married, October 2. 1667, Lydia Treadway, who died
September 18, 1743, aged ninety-four years. Their
children, born at Watertown, were : Lydia, born
August 25, 1668, married, January 2, 1687-88 ; Na-
thaniel Coolidge, Jr. ; Josiah, Jr., born October 20,
1670, died December 21, 1734; Mary, born December
10. 1672, married. July 5, 1693, John Brewer, of
Sudbury; Nathaniel, born December 31, 1674, of
whom later; Samuel, born July 9, 1677, died Janu-
ary 17, 1717-18; James, born September 4, 1679;
Sarah, born February 6, 1681, married, March 20,
1704, John Warren: Anna, born June 28, 1684, mar-
ried Deacon Joseph Mixer ; John, born March ig,
1686-87: Isaac, baptized May 25, 1690, removed to
Bolton, Connecticut, and had seventeen children who
lived to maturity.

(HI) Nathaniel Jones, son of Josiah Jones (2),
was born in Weston, Massachusetts, December 31,
1674. He removed to Worcester at the time of its
first permanent settlement in 1719, and had forty
acres in the first division. He settled on the road
from Worcester to Leicester about a mile beyond
New Worcester and kept a tavern there. He be-
came a very prominent citizen. He was captain of
the military company, selectman 1722-23, deputy to
the general court 1727. He left Worcester about

1730. He owned land at Sutton, Massachusetts,
and deeded ninety-eight acres to his son Nathaniel.
He was in Falmouth (now Portland), Maine, in

1731. While at Falmouth in 1732 he sold land at
Sutton to Philip Chase. He was in Falmouth. De-
cember 31, 1737. when he deeded land in Oxford.
Massachusetts. He died November, 1745. ^ Six_ of
his children were born in Weston, and five in Wor-
cester, by his first wife. He married (second) — —
Flagg and had three more children. The youngest
was born in Falninuth.

The children of Nathaniel and Mary Jones were:
I. Phinehas, born February 28. 1704-05, died No-
vember 3, 1743, at Portland, Maine. 2. Nathaniel,
born .\pril 5, 1707, settled in Leicester; married
four times; his .son Daniel was killed in 1758, a
soldier at the attack on Ticonderoga. 3. Stephen,
born August 17, 1709, married, July 31, 1735, Lydia

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Jones, and settled at Falnioutli ; was in Colonel
Noble's company and both Colonel Noble and Cap-
tain Jones were killed. 4. Noah, born November
26, 1711, of whom later. 5. Jonas, born ."Xpril 22.
1715. married, September 6, 1763, Abigail Hart-
well, and settled in Shrewsbury; had nine children.
6. Icliabod, baptized at Weston, May 26, 1717, mar-
ried Coffin ; settled in Boston and was a ship-
master. 7. Isaac, born at Worcester, October 14,
\T22. 8. Sarah, born about 1721. 9. Mary, born in
Worcester, August 10, 1719. 10. Eunice (twin).
II. I-ncy (twin). 12. Moses. 13. Lydia. 14. Jabe,;.
born at Falmouth, had the homestead ; died at age
of eighty-five years ; married thrice.

UVJ Noah Jones, son of Nathaniel Jones (3),
was born at Weston, Massachusetts, November 26,
1711. He .settled on the homestead in Worcester.
He died in Worcester, and his will was dated May
II, 1781. and was filed August 4, 1781. It mentions
his sons: Phinehas, Asa, Timothy. William; daugh-
ters Mrs. James Moore, Lydia Moore, Mary Har-
rington. .Abigail Stone. He married Rebecca Hay-
ward, daughter of Daniel Hayvvard, or Heywood.
The minor children of Noah and Rebecca had
guardians appointed at the time of the death of their
grandfather, Daniel Heywood. The children of
Noah and Rebecca Jones were: i. Mary, born Janu-
ary ly, 1745-46, married Josiah Harrington, Jr. 2.
Phinehas, tjorn January 10, 1747-48. married Kath-
arine Gates. 3. Rebecca, born January 7, 1749-50,
married James Moore.. 4. Lydia, born January 5,
1752. married, August 16, 1770, Captain John Peirce.
5, Samuel, born March 9, 1754. 6. Abigail, born
February 24, 1756, married, November 5, 1777,
Daniel Stone, of Charlton. 7. Noah, Jr., born Sep-
tember 12, 1758. married Deborah Holbrook ; served
in revolution in Captain Jesse Stone's company.
Colonel Job Cushing's regiment ; also in Captain
Thomas Fish's company. Colonel Nathan Tyler's
regiment. 8. William, born November 8, 1760, of
whom later. 9. Timothy, born July 22, 1762, mar-
ried, January 7. 1790, at Sutton, Hannah Hutchin-
son. 10. Asa. born April 12, 1765.

(V) William Jones, son of Noah Jones (4),
■was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, November

8, 1760. He married Dolly , and resided in

Worcester. Their children, born in Worcester,
were: William, Jr., baptized February 19, 1790,
of whom later; Betsey, baptized October 30, 1785.

William Jones, Jr., son of William Jones (5).
was born in Worcester, February, 1790, and bap-
tized I'ebruary ig. He went from Worcester to
'I'eniple, New Hampshire, when a young man, mar-
ried there and then settled in Temple, Maine. He
married Polly Drury, daughter probably of Will-
iam and Elizabeth Drury, of Temple, New Hamp-
shire, about 1810. Their children, all born at Tem-
ple, Maine, were: Sarah C. born February i, 1813;
William D., March 7, 1815; Mary A.. December 11,
1816; John, October l, 1818; Lucy D.. August 27,
1820: Eliza, June 14, 1822; Seth N., July 18, 1824;
Seneah, March 30, 1826; Ezra, June 18, 1827;
Seneah. April 27, 1830; Aaron Fuller, September 11,
1832, of whom later ; Noah H., August, 1836.

(VII) Aaron Fuller Jones, son of William
Jones (6), was born in Temple, Maine. September
II. i8.?2. He received a common .'^cliool education,
leaving school at the age of fourteen to earn his
own living in the cotton mill. He worked first for
the Howe cotton mill and later in the Lnvctt cotton
mill at Douglass, Massachusetts, where the family
■were then living. He then learned to bottom shoes
and after a time went into business for himself in
a small way. Then he formed a partnership with
William Abbott and continued for four years. He

was then in partnership for a short time with Ezra
Jones as proprietors of a general store in Douglass,
but he sold out and took a position in the office of
the Douglass Axe Company as bookkeeper. The
close conlinemcnt of this work was not congenial,
and at the end of si.x months he resigned. Sub-
sequently he was in various lines of work and occu-
pied with the duties of his public office, but at pres-
ent is on the retired list. Virtually all his life has
been spent in Douglass, wliither he came when a
young boy. No man is better known by his towns-
men, none more attractive or popular, and his per-
sonality has made for him many friends. He has
been elected to many positions of trust and respon-
sibility in Douglass. During the civil war he was
on the board of selectmen and was active in re-
cruiting for the service. He has been overseer of
the poor, tax collector and held most of the other
offices of the town at various times. He is a well
known Free Mason, a member of Douglass Lodge.
He is an active member and deacon of the Congre-
gational Church. He is generally known among his
acquaintances as Fuller Jones.

He married, December 4, 1858, Mary A. Oakes,
who was born in Wilton, Maine. Their children
are: l. Arthur F., born August 6, i860, married,
July 3, 1882, Alice Perkins, and their children are
—Methyl L., Harry C, Ida May. 2. Etta L., born
November i, 1862, married George P. B. Clark, and
their children are — Margie R., Marie L. 3. Frank
S., born February 14, 1871, died December, 1871.
4. Frank E., born May 22, 1875, married Mary
Thatcher, of Webster.

EDWARD EVERETT HOWE. John How,
Esq., of Warwickshire, England, was the father of
John How, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, according
to Hudson, who says that he was a descendant of
John How, and son of John How, of Hodinhall,
England, and connected with Sir Charles How, of
Lancaster, England, in the days of Charles I. The
name is certainly ancient English and the family
distinguished and numerous in the old country.

(II) John How, son of John How (i), was the
immigrant ancestor. He settled in Sudbury as early
as 1639, and was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640.
He was a town officer in 1657. In 1642 he was a
selectman of Sudbury. In 1655 he was appointed
by the pastor and selectman of Sudbury "to see to
the restraining of youth on the Lord's Day." He
was one of the petitioners in 1657 for the grant
which constituted Marlboro. According to tradi-
tion he was the first white inhabitant who settled
on the new grant. He went there in 1657 and built
a cabin near the Indian plantation. Hudson states
that he became a friend of the Indians and served
as arbitrator for them in cases of- dispute. He
opened the first public house there in 1670. He died
at Marlboro in 1687, and in his will left among other
items to his son Thomas "the horse he troops on."
His house was located one hundred rods from
Spring Hill meeting house, a little east of the pres-
ent road from Spring Hill to Feltonville. His wife
Mary died about 1687. Their children were: John,
born 1640, married, January 22, 1662, Elizabeth ; he
was killed by the Indians ; Samuel, born October
20, 1642, married, June 5, 1663, Martha Bent; Sarah,
born September 25, 1644. married, June, 1667, Sam-
uel Ward; Mary, born June 18, 1646, died young;
Isaac, born August 8, 1648, married, June 17, 1671,
Frances Wood; Josiah, married, March 18, 1674,
Mary Haynes, of Sudbury; Mary, born June 18,
165 1, married, September 18, 1872, John Withcrby;
Thomas, born June 12, 1656, married (first) Sarah
Hosmer; (second) Mrs. Mary Barron; Daniel, born

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June 3, 1658, died i66i-; Alexander, born December
29, 1661, died January following; Eleazer, see for-
ward.

(III) Captain Eleazer How, son of John How
(2), was born in Marlboro. Massachusetts, Janu-
ary 18, 1662, died there March, 1737, aged seventy-
five years. He commanded the military company of
the town and was an able and reliable man, we are
told. He was a man of property for his day and
had silverware, an unusual possession for a colonial
household. In searching the inventories of thou-
sands of estates of that period one finds silver and
china very seldom ; the utensils w-ere mostly pewter
and wooden. Eleazer left a silver spoon to his
son Gershom, a spoon each to his daughters, Martha
Bartlett and Hannah Beaman. He mentions other
children in the will. He married, 1683, Hannah
How, daughter of Abraham How, another pioneer
settler. She died June 24. 1735, aged seventy-two
years. The children of Captain Eleazer and Han-
nah HoW' were : Martha, born September 4, 1686,
married Daniel Bartlett; Deborah, born July 6,
1688, married, June 30, 1710, Benjamin Bailey;
Eleazer (twin), born July 3, 1692, died July 27,
1692; Hannah (twin), born July 3. 1692; Gershom,
born September 8, 1694. see forward; Ephraim, born
March 30, 1699. married, January 8. 1723, Elizabeth
Rice; Eleazer, born December 15, 1707, married
Hepzibah Barrett; Hannah, married, May 2, 1726,
Eleazer Beaman ; Elizabeth, mentioned in will, mar-
ried VVitherby.

(IV) Ensign Gershom How, son of Captain
Eleazer How (3), was born at Marlboro, September
8, 1694, died October 28. 1738. The inventory of
his estate included two firelocks, two swords, two
belts, two girdles, wooden plates and trenchers, the
whole amounting to three thousand eight hundred
and eighty-seven pounds. He married, December
6, 1741, Hannah Bowker. Their children were:
Miriam, born November 2";. 1722, married. May 17.
1744. Jotham Bartlett; Moses, born March 6, 1725,

married Hannah ; Silas, born February 5, 1727,

see forward; Zerviah. born October 9, 1729, married.
October 28, 1747. David Felton ; Persis. born March
2, 1736, married, December 18, 1755, John Gleason ;
Hannah, born November 9, 1737.

(V) Silas Howe (as the name has been spelled
in later generations), son of Gershom How (4).
was born in Marlboro February 5, 1727. He mar-
ried Beulah Leland. of Marlboro. November 22,
1749. and settled first in Shrewsburv, North Pre-
cinct, where his two eldest children were born. In
I7S4 he removed to Brooktield, where many of hi^
relatives were living, and four of his children are
recorded there. In 1765 he removed to Leicester,
where he lived the remainder of his life and where
the remainder of his children were born. He died
in Leicester, 1768, and his widow was appointed
guardian of minor children, Lydia and Benjamin;
Jonathan Knight being appointed guardian of Han-
nah. The estate was finally settled in 1793, when all
the heirs came of age. Moses Howe, of Marlboro,
brother of the deceased, w'as a surety on the admin-
istrator's bond. The heirs named in the settlement
were : Isaac, the eldest ; Esther Sheffield, Lucy Ten-
ney. Lydia Howe, John Howe. Benjamin Howe.
The children of Silas and Beulah Howe were :
Hannah, born at Boylston (North Precinct). De-
cember 10, 1750, married Eli Keyes, 1762; Isaac,
born at Shrewsbury, North Precinct, February 28,
1753 ; Esther, born at Brookfield. .'\ugust 31. lysS^

married Sheffield; Lucy, born January 16. 1757.

married Tenney ; John, born at Brookfield,

February 9, 1761 ; Lydia, born October 30, 1764.
married, December 16, 1784, William Peeso, of

Brookfield; Benjamin, born April 28, 1767, at
Leicester. It should be noted that Silas, Jr., of
Brookfield, and Silas, of Shrewsbury, whom Ward
supposed to be his son, were not his sons, nor were
they near relatives.

(VI) Isaac Howe, son of Silas Howe (5), was
born at Shrewsbury, North Precinct, now Boylston,
I'ebruary 28, 1753. and died at Northboro, the ad-
joining town, December 9, 183 1, aged seventy-nine
years. He settled in Northboro. He was a soldier
in the revolution in Captain Samuel Wood's com-
pany of minute men who responded to the Lexing-
ton alarm, April 19, 1775, under General Artemas
Ward, of Shrewsbury. Later in 1775, he was on
picket duty under Major Laomnii Baldwin and also
in Captain Wood's company. Colonel Jonathan
Ward's regiment. He received one of the coats
given in the winter of 1775 by Northboro to her
soldiers on duty. In 1777 he was at Albany under
Captain Silas Gates. He was a blacksmith by trade.
In 1800 he sold land in Northboro to Joel Felton,
of Northboro, In 1828 he deeded land on the east
side of the Assabet river to Benjamin Wilson.

He married Hannah Fay, who died September
4. 1805, aged forty-eight years, eight months, four-
teen days. He married (second), February 13,
1806, Louisa Morse, of Marlboro. She died Sep-
tember 22, 1826, aged sixty-seven years, one month,
eleven days. (Children of Isaac, Sr., and Hannah
Howe, born in Northboro, were Dinah, born Sep-
tember 23, 1775, died October 9, 1795; Sarah, born
December 20, 1776. died August 22, 1779; Hannah,
born April 28, 1781 ; Abraham, born May 15, 17S3;
Rebecca, born July 11, 1785; Isaac, Jr., born March
13, 1788, see forward; Thankful, born April 6, 1790;
Sarah, born September 24, 1792; Catherine Dexter,
born January 21, 1794; Zerviah, born June 20. 1797;
Jacob, born May 17, 1798 (record gives his father's
name as Israel) ; Charles, born August 12, 1801.

(VII) Isaac Howe, Jr., son of Isaac Howe (6),
was born at Northboro, Massachusetts, March 13,
1788. He settled at Leominster on a farm and
lived there during his active years. He married
Rebecca Houghton, about 1815, and she administ-
ered his estate. He died March, 1843. Their chil-
dren were : John, Sally, George, Ilenry, see for-
ward ; Emory.

(VIII) Henry Howe, son of Isaac Howe, Jr.
(7). was born at Leominster, Massachusetts, 1824,
died at Lunenburg. April 12, 1862. He received a
common school education at Leominster and then
learned the trade of his father and grandfather, that
of blacksmith. He settled in Lunenburg, where he

had a blacksmith shop. He married (first) •

, who died leaving one daughter. He married

(second). October 3. 1855, Mary Ann Foster, born
1833, daughter of George and Roxanna (Mofifet)
Foster, of Lunenburg. The only child of the first
wife was : Mary A. F., born 1850. The children of
Henry and Mary A. F. Howe were: Hattie, born
.'\prir 1856, died September 15. 1856; Edward Ever-
ett, born September 10, 1857. see forward; Hattie
Ellen, born August 31, 1858. died June 2. 1859;
Adaline, born April 6, i860; Jane M., born Novem-
ber 22, 1861.

(IX) Edward Everett Howe, son of Henry
Howe (8), was born at Lunenburg, Massachusetts,
September 10, 1857. His father died when he was
only four years old, and early in life he had to
work for a living. He was employed by Stillman
Stone, when ten years old and upwards, and later
went to live with his mother at the place on Flat
Hill. He had the ordinary common school educa-
tion of his day. He worked at farming and lum-
bering for various employers for several years, tin-

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ally engaging in business on his own account as a
teamster. He has been employed considerably in
town work with his carts and horses, for the past
fourteen years, having been the highway surveyor
and road commissioner of Lunenburg. In 1894
he bmight the old Kamsdell farm of .\ugustus Tay-
lor, for whom he lias done much teaming in the past
twenty years. This farm is the present home of
Mr. Howe. In politics Mr. Howe is a stanch Re-
publican and in religion is a Methodist. He coin-
mands the fullest contidence and respect of his fel-
low-citizens as a self-made man of ability, persistence
and high character. He married Katherine Hughes,
of Melrose, Massachusetts. They have no children.

MARCELLUS ROPER. Few Worcester county
families have so nnich tragic history in the colonial
days as the Ropers of Sterling and Rutland. From
the earliest days of the Lancaster settlement the
name of the family has iigurcd prominently. The
name is common in England. The progenitor of
the family was Musard, probably of Norman de-
scent, whose name was Latinized as Hasculphus.
His grandson assumed the title of De Rubra Spalha
or Red Sheath, and in time this came to be spelled
Roper; first run together as Rospeare, then Rousper,
Rooper, Ropere. William of the Red Sheath and
his Sa.xon wife, Elnith, were great benefactors of
St. iMartin's Priory in Dorn. His son was Adam,
of Swacliffe, county Kent, and this was the
home of Sir William Roper, husband of Margaret
More, daughter of Sir Thomas More. The coat
of arms of the Ropers of West Dereham, Norfolk
county, is probably that of the American brancli,
if the American Ropers claim any rights to bear
arms. It is : Crest, a buck's head, erased, or, at-
tired sa. ; in mouth a pear, gold, stalked, leaved,
vert.

(I) John Roper, the immigrant ancestor of
Marccllus Roper, of Worcester, came from New
Buckingham, Norfolk county, England, and was
probably born there in 1588; he sailed for New
England in the summer of 1637 and settled in
Dedhani, Massachusetts, in August of that year.
He died soon after 1664. His wife was living at
the time of the Lancaster massacre in 1676, and the
date of her death is not known. Two sons prob-
ably came with him. They were : John, of whom
later ; Walter, born 1614, married Susan, founder
of the Ipswich family.

(II) John Roper, son of John Roper (l), was
born probably in New Buckingham, England, in 1611 ;

married in England, Alice , who was born

in 1614. He was examined April 13, 1637, at Yar-
mouth, England, as to his intentions in emigrating
to New England ; he sailed probably on the "Rose
of Yarmouth," John Andrews, master, with wife and
two daughters. He was a carpenter by trade. He
settled in Dedham and was admitted a freeman
there June 2, ib4i. He resided later at Charles-
town and Lancaster, Massachusetts. He was se-
lectman at Lancaster. He was killed by the In-
dians in ambush March 26, 1676, at Lancaster. His
widow, Alice, married (second), April 14, i()8i,
John Dickinson and they resided in Salisbury,
Massachusetts. John Dickinson died December 30,
1683, and his widow married (third), at Salisbury,
in 1684, William Allen. She died there April i,
1687.

The children of John and Alice Roper were :
Alice, born in England, married Thomas .^danis ;
Elizabeth, born in England ; Rachel, born in Ded-
ham, (all the younger children were also born
there) March 18, 1639; Hannah, born April 2,
1642; Ephraim, born December 23, 1644, of whom

later; Nathaniel, born December 23, 1644; Ruth,,
married Deacon John Haynes; Sarah, married
James Mackinab.

(III) Ephraim Roper, son of John Roper (2),.
was born in Dedham, December 23, 1644; he married

in Dedham, Priscilla . He was a farmer.

He settled in Lancaster some time after the death
bt John Roper, Sr. He had one child born ia
Dedham, Priscilla, who was slain in the first Lan-
caster massacre, F"ebruary 10, 1676. Ephraim mar-
ried (second), at Concord, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 20, 1677, Mrs. liamiah Goble, of Concord ;
they were both victims of the second massacre Sep-
tember II, 1697, at Lancaster, and their third daugn-
ter was also killed. His children were: I'riscilla,-
born November 2b, 1672, killed F'ebruary 10, 1676;
Priscilla, February 5, 1679; Ruth, January 7, 1681;
Elizabeth, January 17, 1O83; Bathshcba, Ephraim,
of whom below.

(IV) Ephraim Roper, youngest child of Ephraim
Roper (3), was born m Sudbury, Massachusetts,
1687, and married in Sudbury, about 1714, Sybillah
Moore, daughter of Richard and Mary (Collins)
Moore, who was born m Sudbury, September 2,
i()94. He was taken prisoner by the Indians at the
time his parents were killed and was in captivity
for two years. He resided in Sudbury until about
1720, and his first four children were born 111 that
town; the others were born in Worcester, whither
he moved. He was a farmer. He was accidentally

. shot and killed in the woods F'ebruary 16, 1730,.
and is buried on the Worcester common. The chil-
dren of Ephraim and Sybillah Roper were : Mary,
born May 20, 1715; Ephraim, of whom below; Pris-
cilla, May 20, 171S; Sybillah, March 6, 1720; Abi-
gail, March 11, 1722; Ruth, January 14, 1724; John,
October 27, 1725; Nathaniel, March 2, 1727; Han-
nah, March 3, 1729; Daniel, October 2, 1730, pro-
genitor of the Rutland branch.

(V) Ephraim Roper, second child of Epliraini
Roper of Worcester (4), was born in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, October 21, 1716. He was married
in Sterling, Massachusetts, by Justice Houghton,
April 8, 1748, to Michal Houghton, daughter of
Benjamin and Zerviah Houghton. Michal was born
at Sterling, then called Chocksett, in Lancaster. June
22, 1725, and died December 31, 1816. He was a
farmer; died December 5, 1793, and is buried in the
old Sterling cemetery. The children of Ephraim
and Michal Roper, all born in Sterling, were: I.
Benjamin, born January 7, 1750, married Azubah
Willard; Manasseh, May 26, 1752, married Lucy
Livermore; Silas, January 20, 1754, married Eliza-
beth Burpee ; Asa, August 10, 1756, married Polly
King; Nathaniel, F'ebruary 23, 1758, married Naomi
Gibbs; Enoch, December 7, 1758; Ephraim. John,
Sylvester, July 22, 1762, married Catherine Pierce;
Joseph, December 29, 1763, married Ruth Gerry;
Lucy, February 10, 1767, married Joshua Everett.

(VT) Sylvester Roper, ninth child of Ephraim
Roper (S), was born in Sterling, July 29. 1762;
married in Sterling, November 11, 1804, Catherine
Pierce. He settled on the farm at Justice Hill in
Sterling. He was noted for his remarkalile and
accurate knowledge of the Bible as w-cll as for his.
gifts in conversation. He is described, by those who
knew him, in middle life and during his active
years as the leader and entertainer on all social
occasions, "the delight of old and young alike.'' He
died March 2, 1849. His wife was born March 6,
1771, and died November 3. 1841. Their children,
all born in Sterling, were: Martin, June 13, 1805,
married Persis Welsh Stanley; Eliza, May 12, 1807,
died July 29. 1828; Merrick, October 11, 1808. mar-
ried (hrst) Mary Ann Ricard ; (second) Mrs. Mar-

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tha J. Houghton, widow; Lydia, January 3, 181 1,
married Hull B. Witt.

(VH) Martin Roper, eldest child of Sylvester
Roper (6), was born in Sterling, June 13, 1805,
married in New Hampshire, March 27, 1838, Persis
Welsh Stanley. He lived on the Sylvester Roper
place, Justice Hill, Sterhng, where he died Octo-
ber 7, 1889. His widow died at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. W. Clarence Phillips, Leominster,
Massachusetts, December 2, 1S96. Their children,
all born in Sterling, were : George Stanley, January
s, 1839, married Nettie Robbins; Albert B., July
4, 1842, married Frances Lincoln ; Eliza C, March
23, 1845, married Josiah H. Wilder; Jerome, May
19, 1847, married Amanda C. Carter ; Lydia, June
19, 1849, died December 23, 1866 ; Ella Frances,
May 30, 1854, married W. Clarence Phillips.

(.VIII) George Stanley Roper, eldest child of
Martin Roper (7), was born in Sterling. January
2, 1839; married, May 16, 1866, Nettie Robbins, of
Upton, Massachusetts. He was a farmer and
owned the old Sylvester Roper place on Justice
Hill, Sterling. He was a man of sterling qualities,
genial, kind-hearted and beloved by everyone. He
served the town of Sterling as highway surveyor,
overseer of the poor and assessor. He died March
4, 1899. The children of George Stanley and Net-
tie Roper were: Marcellus, of whom below; Her-
bert Francis, born November 22, 1871, married,
January 9, 1895, Annie Hale Randall, of Woburn ;
he is in charge of the receiving department in the
Boston Store, a department store in Worcester ;
Ethel Lydia, born July 28, 1878, in Sterling, mar-
ried there, March 23, 1898, Ralph Herbert Hosmer,
who is a civil engineer, and they have : Lucile Min-
netta Hosmer, born in Sterling ni 1898, and Stanley
Roper Hosmer, born in Sterling, September 23,
1904.

(.IX) Marcellus Roper, eldest child of George
Stanley Roper (8), was born at Sterling, Massa-
chusetts, September 19, 1869. He attended the pub-
lic and high schools of his native town, grad-
uating from the Sterling high school in 1886.
He is also a graduate of Hinman's Busi-
ness College, Worcester. He began his busi-
ness career in Worcester as bookkeeper for
the firm of Brown & Simpson, manufacturers
and dealers in pianos and organs, at the present
location of the Hammond Organ Reed Company, 9
May street. In addition to the bookkeeping i\Ir.
Roper had entire charge of the retail business of
the company. When the business was incorporated
in 1892 as the Brown & Simpson Company, Mr.
Roper became a director with Andrew H. Hammond
president, and Theodore P. Brown, treasurer. The
capital of the concern was seventy-hve thousand
dollars.

In 1895 Mr. Roper, while retaining his con-
nection with the Brown & Simpson Company, en-
gaged in the bicycle business in the store at 148
Main street. At that time the bicycle business was
very active and in the year 1896 alone Mr. Roper
sold over eleven hundred wheels. In 1899 Air.
Roper added pianos to his business at 148 Main
street and withdrew from the Brown & Simpson
business. In 1900 he decided to devote his atten-
tion exclusively to the piano business. His busi-
ness grew rapidly. His own gifts as a salesman,
his practical knowledge of manufacturing pianos
and his knowledge of the instruments in which he
was dealing attracted business, and in a few years
he outgrew his original quarters. In 1905 he leased
the entire building at 284 Main street, including
four floors and basement. The building was re-
modeled expressly for his business ; a new show

window on the ground floor, also on the second
floor was added, new floors laid, the rooms deco-
rated, and special elevator facilities added. Mr.
Roper has the most convenient and attractive quar-
ters for the piano business in Worcester. He occu-
pied the new premises March i, 1906. Mr. Roper
represents some of the best piano manufacturers in
the world : the Knabe, the Vose, the Lester, the
Henry F. Miller, Haines Brothers, and ten other
leading firms. He has in stock in the new store
over two hundred pianos. His business was in-
corporated under Massachusetts laws in -1902 with
a capital of fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Roper is the
principal owner of the stock and is president, treas-
urer and general manager.

He is well known in Masonic circles, having'
taken all the degrees, including the thirty-second.
He is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Eureka
Royal Arch Chapter, Hiram Council and the Wor-
cester County Commandery, Knights Templar ; the
Consistory in Boston and Aleppo Temple, Mystic
Shrine. He is also a member of Quinsigamond
Tribe of Red Men, the National Piano Dealers'
Association of America ; Conquest Council, Royal
Arcanum ; the Commercial Travelers' Association
of America, also the Worcester Merchants' Asso-
ciation. He is a Republican in politics. His resi-
dence is in Sterling, where he has recently built
a handsome and attractive home.

He married. June 19, 1901, Rosa Edith, daugh-
ter of Elmore R. and Elizabeth E. Willard, of Ster-
ling. Their child, Marcellus Roper. Jr., born May
12, 1906.

JOHN JOSEPH ROGERS, of Worcester, the
genial and popular proprietor of the Waldo House,
and president of the Massachusetts branch of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, is a worthy repre-
sentative of that class of foreign-born citizens who
have aided so materially in the advancement and
development of all lines of enterprise, and who have
been loyal and true to the government of their
adopted country, giving up their lives if need be
to its protection.

Cornelius Rogers, grandfather of John J. Rogers,
was a native of Ballyfarnon, county Roscommon.
Ireland. Among his children was a son, Hugh
Rogers, father of John J. Rogers, who followed
farming as a means of livelihood in his native place,
Ballyfarnon. His farm bordered on the historic
McDermott Roe's estate. He took great pride in
raising early vegetables. One field he kept con-
tinually under cultivation, and it was known far
and wide as "Rogers Corrigeen." When crops
failed everywhere else you could depend on this
spot; it produced the best potatoes in all Ireland.
He was also an expert judge of cattle and traded
in them considerably. Late in life he came to this
country and lived with his son, John J., from 1900
until his death, July 30, 1904. Hugh Rogers mar-
ried Maria Lenehan. a native of Ireland, daughter
of Francis and Bridget (Shivnan) Lenehan, of
Ballyfarnon, county Roscommon, Ireland. She was
a woman of culture and refinement. She was the
mother of seven children, as follows: John J., born
March 22. 1869. of whom later : Cornelius P.. set-
tled in W'orcester. Massachusetts, married Eliza-
beth Cahill ; Bridget, married Peter Breen, of Wor-
cester, a barber by trade ; Anna M., married John
Minns, of Worcester, clerk: Elizabeth M.. book-
keeper; Sarah J., bookkeeper at the Waldo House;
Francis, died in early life; Marie, died in early
life. Mrs. Rogers died at the early age of thirty-
seven years ; she is interred in the historic old
churchyard of Kilronan, close by the resting

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place of Carolan, the last of the Irish Ijarils.

John Joseph Rogers was born in Ballyfarnon,
county Roscommon, Ireland, March 22, 1869. He
received his education in his home town, going
through all the early thorough training for which
the "old countries'' are still said by many to be
unsurpassed, and assisted his father on the home
farm. At the age of seventeen he emigrated to the
United States and at once located in Quinsigamond
village, Worcester, Massachusetts. He obtained
employment in the Crompton loom works, mastered
the trade of machinist, which he worked at for sev-
eral years. In 1903 he became the proprietor of the
Waldo House, one of the oldest and largest hotels
in Worcester, well known to all the commercial
travelers who visit that city. Mr. Rogers has been
successful in this line, owing to the fact that he is
attentive to the wants and wishes of his patrons,
conducts everything in a first-class manner, is
genial and kindly m disposition and enjoys a wide
acquaintanceship.

For many years Mr. Rogers has been identified
with the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Worces-
ter and the county, and has been instrumental in
making the organization the success that it is. He
joined Division 3, that order, in 1888, and became
one of its most active members, attending all the
meetings and showing that he was earnest in the ad-
vancement of the order. The first office he was
elected to was assistant financial secretary and soon
was elected financial secretary of the same division,
which position he held three and a half years. At
the expiration of that time he was elected president
of the division and served three years and a half.
At the county convention in April, 1896, he was
elected president of the Worcester County Hi-
bernians and held the position si.x years. During
his regime he organized a number of divisions in
Worcester and the county and assisted the order
materially. After serving six years, he declined to
take the office again. Mr. Rogers was the only
one ever elected to that position for the third term
and received the rare tribute of the unanimous en-
dorsement of the two re-elections. During his term
in Worcester county he gave especial attention to
the military branch of the order, and for many
years has held the position of captain of Company
A. Hibernian Rifles of Worcester. He has always
been known as a strict and painstaking officer and
was elected captain on account of his skill and pro-
ficiency in drill. He holds two gold medals received
as prizes in individual competitive drills.

On August 29, 1906, at Fall River, Massachu-
setts, Mr. Rogers was elected president of the
Massachusetts branch of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians. The people of Worcester and especially
the meniliers of the order were greatly elated over
the election of Mr. Rogers as state president. A
grand banquet was given in his Iionor attended by
the leading citizens of Worcester and men prominent
in church, society and politics throughout the state.
A beautiful ivory gavel, with silver mounting suit-
ably inscribed, was presented to Mr. Rogers during
the banquet. When the Hibernians started tlieir
new building on Trumbull street, Worcester, one
of the finest society blocks in the state today, he
was chosen chairman of the building corporation
and has served in that capacity ever since. Mr.
Rogers has always been an enthusiastic worker in
the interest of Irish nationality and gives his hearty
support to every measure that promotes the welfare
of his fatherland. He is a member of the Wor-
cester i^odge of Elks; Knights of Robert Emmet;
Court City of Worcester, Foresters of America:

Irish National Foresters ; Division 3, Ancient Or-
der of Hibernians; and the Washington Social
Club.

Mr. Rogers married, July ij, 1904, in St. PauTs
Roman Catholic Church, Worcester, Kathryn
Theresa Morrilly, daughter of Thomas and Kath-
erine (.Mulkeen; Morrilly, of Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts. Mrs. Rogers was graduated from the
Fitchburg schools and entered the Salem Normal
school, where she received her training as a school
teacher. Later she attended the Emerson School
of Oratory in Boston, and for several years was
well known as a dramatic reader. She also pursued
a course of musical studies and did some excellent
things in flower and landscape painting. Mrs.
Rogers has been affiliated with church and social
organizations. She is president of the Infant of
Prague Society in Worcester, elected to office in
December, 1904. Mrs. Rogers is devoted to the
work of aiding St. Gabriel's Orphanage at High
street.

HON. CHARLES AUGUSTUS DEWEY, pre-
eminent among the most distinguished, honored
and trusted citizens of Milford, is a representative
of a family of royal descent, with coat-of-arms going
back many generations in England, and who num-
bers among its members many well known men
who have achieved success and distinction in
various walks of life, including .\dniiral George
Dewey, who gained renown during the Spanish-
American war. The founder of the American
branch of the family was Thomas Dewey, who came
to the "Massachusetts Bay Colony" from Sandwich,
Kent, England, in 1630, with Rev. John Warham
and his little band of one hundred and forty
passengers, who formed a church before leav-
ing England, and sailed in the "Mary and
John," and became the first settlers at Dor-
chester, Massachusetts, arriving at Nantasket,
May 30, 1630. Thomas Dewey married the widow
of Joseph Clark, who bore him five children, among
whom was Stephen Dewey, who married Elizabeth

Ann , and five children were the issue of this

union.

Daniel Dewey (great-grandfather), son of
Stephen and Elizabeth Ann Dewey, was born at
Westfield, Massachusetts, 1729. He was a prosperous
farmer, was noted for fair and honorable dealing,
and was active and influential in town affairs, and
was universally respected. Prior to his death, which
occurred at Sheffield. Massachusetts, April i, 1776,
he was appointed captain of a company of militia
in the revolutionary war, but a few weeks after
appointment passed away.

Daniel Dewey (grandfather), son of Daniel
Dewey, was born at Sheffield. Massachusetts, June
29, 1766. He removed to Williamstown, May 12,
1787. During the administration of President Mad-
ison he was elected a member of congress, and
served from 1812 to 1814. One year prior to his
death he was appointed judge of the supreme court,
and during that short period discharged his duties
with the utmost fidelity. Throughout the length
and breadth of Berkshire county he was very in-
fluential (politically), being a potent factor in the
interests of the party whose principles he advocated.
He lived a quiet, unostentatious life, and enjoyed
the friendship of many estimable persons, who
valued him at his true worth. For a number of
years he was a trustee of Williams College, ren-
dering valuable service in that capacity. He mar-
ried Maria Noble, of Williamstown. He died at
his home in Williamstown, May 20, 1815. and his

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obituary appears in Vol. 12, Massachusetts Re-
ports.

Judge Charles Augustus Dewey (father), son of
Daniel and Maria (.Noble) Dewey, was born at
Williamstown, Massachusetts, March 13, 1793. He
removed to North Hampton, in 182O, and for a
number of years therealter served as district at-
torney. He was appointed judge of the superior
judicial court in 1837 by Governor Edward Everett,
and remained on the bench until his death, August
22, 1866, a period of thirty years, holding said po-
sition longer than any previous judge with but one
exception, that being Judge Wilde, this fact being
an eloquent testimonial to his ability as an adjudi-
cator as well as of his sterling integrity. He was
very prominent with the legal profession throughout
the state of Massachusetts, and in private life was
universally respected for his many excellent char-
acteristics. He was associated for many years with
Chief Justice Shaw, one of the leading members of
the profession. For forty years Judge Dewey
served as trustee of Williams College, and many
acres whereon that institution was located was for-
merly the property of Judge Dewey, who was an
extensive landholder. He married Caroline H. Clin-
ton, who was born at Little Britain, Orange county.
New York, January 26, 1800, and they resided on
the site upon which now stands President Seeley's
residence, one of the modern and imposing struct-
ures which add so materially to the beauty and at-
tractiveness of that section of the county. Eight
children were the issue of this marriage.

Colonel Charles Clinton, the founder of the
Clinton family in New England, of which Mrs.
Charles A. Dewey (mentioned above) was a repre-
sentative, was a direct descendant of William the
Conqueror. He was born in Ireland, and in 1729
came to America; he was a man of means, and
chartered a ship, bringing over more than one hun-
dred colonists, and they were landed and stranded
at Cape Cod whence he later removed to Orange
county. New York. Major General James Clinton,
father of Mrs. Dewey, son of Colenel Charles Clin-
ton, was born 1736, died 1812. At the age of
twenty-two he was captain in the old French war,
1758, serving with his father at the capturing of
Fort Frontenac from the b'rench. In August, 1776,
he was appointed brigadier-general, and was with
General Washington at the closing conflict of the
revolutionary war, during the siege of Yorktown
and surrender of General Cornwallis, having com-
mand of the "American Centre" of Washington's
army with Count de Rochambeau, occupying the
left wing and General Lincoln the right wing. Dur-
ign the greater part of the war he was stationed
at Albany, New York, and took charge of West
Point when that traitor, Benedict Arnold, failed to
deliver it with its stores to the enemy, which cost
him his life. He also took part in the expedition
against the British and Indians in central New
York state with General Sullivan, in 1779, this be-
ing considered one of the most savage and brutal
attacks. Major-General Clinton was twice mar-
ried: his first wife bore him seven children. She
was a widow, by name Mary Gray, and was the
mother of four children by her first husband, this
making a total of eighteen children.

De Witt Clinton, son of General James Clinton,
was born in 1769. Between 1817 and his death, in
1826, he was repeatedly governor of New York
state, and while serving in that capacity was the
main promoter of the great canal from Lake Erie
to the Hudson, known as the Erie Canal, which act
was highly commended and won for him the grati-
tude of a vast multitude. He received the appoint-

ment as Minister to England, but declined this
honor in order to accept the mayoralty of New
York city, his term extending over a period of ten
years. In 1812 he was the candidate for president
of the United States on the Democratic and Fed-
eral ticket, his opponent having been James Madi-
son, who was elected to that high oftice by a small
majority.

George Clinton, a younger brother of Major-
General James Clinton, was also appointed brigadier-
general, receiving his appointment upon the same
day as his brother. He was the first governor of
the state of New York, holding that position
throughout the revolutionary war, and for a total
period of twenty years. He was twice elected vice-
president of the United States, the first time with
Thomas Jefferson, the latter's second term, and the
second time with James Madison, the hitter's first
term. George Clinton died while in office at Wash-
ington, D. C.

Charles Augustus Dewey, son of Judge Charles
Augustus and Caroline H. (Clinton) Dewey, was
born in Northampton, Massachusetts, December 29,
1830. He was fitted for college at Williston Sem-
inary, East Hampton, and was subsequently grad-
uated from Williams College with the salutatory
honors in the class of 185 1. He first studied law
with his brother, the late Hon. E>ancis H. Dewey,
of Worcester, then took a year's course at the
Harvard Law School, and later pursued his studies
in the city of New York, where he was admitted
to the bar in 1854. Having practiced law there until
the fall of 1856, he went to Davenport, Iowa, and
pursued his practice for two years. In March, 1859,
he came to Milford, Massachusetts, and for the fol-
lowing two years was a professional partner of
Hon. Hamilton B. Staples. In 1861 he was ap-
pointed trial justice, and in 1864 the police court
of Milford was established, and he was appointed
judge. He held this office until the Third District
court of southern Worcester was organized, in
1872, when he was appointed judge of said court
by Governor Washburn. Meanwhile he served
seven years on the school committee of Milford,
and for some time as its chairman. For a quarter
of a century he was a trustee of the Milford Town
Library and for the greater part of the time the
chairman of the board.

In all these professional and official positions
Judge Dewey has discharged his responsible duties
not only with admirable ability, fidelity and prompti-
tude, but to such complete satisfaction of all parties
concerned as rarely falls to the lot of one obliged
to deal with so much conflicting mentality and in-
terest. He is learned in legal lore, wears an in-
herited mantle of judicial rectitude, and holds the
scales of legal equity with a firm hand of clemency.
At his bar the innocent and guilty are alike sure
of both justice and kindness. He is a man of
strong convictions on subjects he deems important',
and pronounces his opinions without equivocation
when properly necessary. In politics he is a strong
Republican, and exercises a potent influence in be-
half of that party. He is a member of the Con-
gregational Church, in which he is and has been
for years an active and zealous worker. He is par-
ticularly fond of good literature, and the greater
part of his leisure time is devoted to the study and
perusal of the same.

Judge Dewey married, March 12. 1867, the cere-
mony being performed by the Rev. George G. Jones,
in Milford, Massachusetts, Marietta N. Thayer, who
was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. June 22,
1847, daughter of Alexander W. and Marietta
(Dustan) Thayer. She has the ancestral honor of

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being a descendant of the celelirated Hannah Dns-
tan, of "Salem Witchcraft fame." who in March,
1697, was carried off from her home in liavcrliill,
Massachusetts, by the Indians, and subsequently
escaped from captivity, returnmg to lier family with
the scalps of ten Indians whom she had toma-
hawked. One daughter was the issue of this mar-
riage, Marie Thayer Uewey, born August 8, 1872,
ill Milford, Massachusetts. Slic was educated in
the public and high schools of Milford, graduating
from the latter with the class of 1888, then was a
pupil in Miss Salisbury's private boarding school fot
two years, and for one year was a student in the
Burnham School at Northhampton. February^ 24.
1897, she became the wife of iJr. Charles H. Cole,
of Milford, a prominent physician. They are the
parents of one son, Charles Dewey Cole, born July
I, 1901.

MOULTON FAMILY. Menzies Moulton,
father of Joseph M., John Warren and Albert
Chapin Moulton, was born in Monson, Massachu-
setts, in 1832, and grew to manhood in that town.
Learning the carpenter's trade he followed it as a
journeyman until 1862, when he enlisted at Rut-
land in' the Fifty-lirst Regiment, Massachusetts Vol-
unteers, for service in tne civil war, and partici-
pated in the battles of New-Berne, Kingston, White-
hall, Goldsboro and Gettysburg, besides many other
engagements of a minor character. He subsequently
established himself as a building contractor in Rut-
land, and followed that business successfully for
many years. He is still living and resides in North
Rutland. He was long and prominently identified
with local civic affairs, having served as chairman
of the board of selectmen for a period of twenty
years, the longest term on record ; for a number
of years chairman of the board of assessors; and
held every other town office of importance. He is
one of the charter members of the local post. Grand
Army of the Republic, and has long officiated as its
adjutant. Menzies R. Moulton has been three times
married. His first wife, who was before marriage
Jane E. Chaffee, of Wales, Massachusetts, bore him
one daughter, Carrie, who died in 1856. For his
second wife he married Maria Reed, and Inez, the
only child of this union, did not live to maturity.
Of his union with Oella Bigelow, his present wife,
were born nine children, namely: Sarah, Joseph M.,
Alice, John Warren, Oella, Albert Chapin, Helen,
Samuel and Henry W. Sarah, married Byron
Bates, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island ; Alice and
Henry W. died young; Oella is unmarried and re-
sides in Monson ; Helen, married Charles Ware, of
Connecticut; Samuel, died at the age of twenty-
three years.

Joseph M. Moulton was born in Rutland, June
13, 1864. He was reared and educated in Rutland
and his early training in the woolen manufacturing
industry began in his youth. His active life has
been devoted exclusively to the manufacture of
satinets and union mi.xtures, and the products of
the Moulton Brothers' establishment at North Rut-
land, in which he is overseer in the carding depart-
ment, have long enjoyed a high reputation in the
textile trade centres of this country. The plant,
which is equipped with improved machinery of the
most modern type propelled by both steam and
water-power, furnishes steady employment to a large
number of skilled operatives, and its busy wheels
of industry also serve to prevent the locality from
having the appearance of somnolence, which would
contrast most unfavorably with the industrial
activity of the adjoining towns. In politics Mr.

Moulton is a Republican. His religious affiliations
are with the Congregational Church.

In 1893 Mr. Moulton was united in marriage
with .Miss Louise C. Vomers, daugliter of Lee and
Mary (Hnnter) Somers, of Vermont. Mr. and
Mrs. Moulton are the parents of three children,
namely: Wendell, born March, 1894; Mary, born
1897, and Gladys, born 1899. Wendell and Mary
are now attending school m Worcester.

John Warren Moulton was born in Rutland,
April 30, 1867. After concluding his attendance
at the public schools he became connected with a
woolen mill at North Rutland, wliere he learned
the business in all of its details, and is now joint
proprietor of that establishment. The Moulton
Brothers' mill, which is the only manufacturing in-
dustry in North Rutland, employs an average force
of fifty operatives and produces annually large
quantities of woolen cloth of excellent quality, in-
cluding union mixtures and satinets, which have a
steady and constantlv increasing demand in the
textile trade. The business is not only the source
of a good income to its proprietors, but is exceed-
ingly beneficial to the cominuiuty, and the spirit
of enterprise displayed by the linn is heartily ap-
preciated by their fellow-townsmen. Politically Mr.
Moulton acts wth the Republican party ; he was
elected one of the town constables in 1889, which
office he still holds ; he was also elected one of se-
lectmen in March, 1906. In his religious faith he
is a Congregationalist.

In 1886 Mr. Moulton was joined in marriage
with May Belle Taylor, daughter of James M. and
Mary Ann (.Walker) Taylor, of Leeds, England.
Mr. and Mrs. Moulton have had six children, three
of whom are living, namely: John Warren, Jr.,
Mabel Greta and Dorice, all of whom are attending
school. The others were: Nellie O., Jessie V. and
another child who died at birth.

Albert Chapin Moulton was born in Rutland,
December 22, 1869. His early education, acquired
in the Rutland public schools, was supplemented
with a commercial course at a business college in
Worcester. About the year 1888 he engaged in the
provision business in Worcester, which he followed
for ten years, and he then accepted an appointment
on the police force. A year later he returned to
Rutland, where he entered the woolen manufactur-
ing industry in company with his brother, J. War-
ren Moulton, who under the firm name of Moulton
Brothers are now carrying on a flourishing business
at North Rutland, employing an average force of
fifty operatives and producing satinets and union
mixtures of a superior quality, which command a
ready sale in the textile markets. In politics Mr.
Moulton is a Republican and although he evinces
a lively interest in public affairs, local, state and
national, his numerous bu.-iincss duties prevent him
from participating in civic matters beyond the exer-
cise of his elective privileges. He is a member
and a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

September 2, 1892, he married Sarah E. Holmes,
daughter of John and Maria Holmes, of Millbury,
this county. Mr. and Mrs. Moulton have one son,
Albert B., born April 23, 1895, now attending school
in Worcester.

MISS PERSIS E. KING, of Maiden, a retired
educator, who was formerly one of the most prom-
inent teachers in the Boston public schools, is the
second child and eldest daughter of the late Horace
and Catherine Augusta (Mead) King, of Rutland.
Her grandparents were Samuel and Persis (Esta-
brook) King, the former of whom went from Wren-

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tham, this state, to Rutland and was a prominent
resident there during the early years of the last
century.

The birth of Horace King took place in Rut-
land, July i6, 1806. Forced to depend upon his
own resources at an early age by the untimely death
of his father, his opportunities for obtaining an
education in his boyhood were exceedingly limited,
but he afterward remedied this defect by devoting
his leisure hours to study. When fourteen years
old he began to support himself, and three years
later went to Boston, where he secured employment
in the home of Dr. Jeffreys, with whom he re-
mained for one year. He next obtained a position
as waiter and general utility man at the old Nor-
folk House, Roxbury, and although his duties were
numerous he nevertheless found time to improve his
education. His desire for mental progress was
equalled by his habits of economy and thrift, which
enabled him early in life to realize the fact that
the future prosperity he was so ambitious to acquire
depended wholly upon the accumulation of a suf-
ficient amount of funds with which to establish him-
self in business. A resolution to save his earnings
was adhered to with the result that in a short
space of time he found himself in possession of
quite a sum of money, and when a favorable oppor-
tunity for a safe business speculation presented
itself he was prepared to invest. The inadequate
means of regular communication existing at that
time between Boston and its suburban districts at-
tracted his attention, and quickly discerning that
with better facilities the passenger traffic would
rapidly increase, he established an omnibus line be-
tween Roxbury and Boston, commencing business
with two vehicles, which ran at regular intervals.
In this unpretentious manner was the movement for
rapid transit in Boston inaugurated, and Horace
King was the pioneer. As he had foreseen the
•omnibus business developed rapidly, both in volume
and importance, requiring as it expanded the addi-
tion of many new vehicles annually in order to meet
the constantly increasing demand for public trans-
portation, and by judicious management Mr. King
in a few years acquired the ownership or control
of every line running into the city. These "busses,'"
as they were called, furnished comparatively the
only means of transportation from Jamaica Plain,
Roxbury, Dorchester, Brookline, South Boston,
Charlestown, Cambridge and other points to
Boston, requiring the services of two hun-
dred and fifty horses and employing upwards
of one hundred and fifty men. Nor did
their usefulness cease at tlie introduction of
the street railway, but they were long afterward
considered a profitable investment for capital. Al-
though the omnibus business necessarily demanded
much of his time, Mr. King did not sever his con-
nection with the hotel business in Roxbury, and he
erected and for some years conducted the present
Norfolk House, which has long been a prominent
landmark in that locality.

About the year 1850 Mr. King sold a large por-
tion of his interest in the omnibus business to
Messrs. Flagg and Estabrook, to whom he also sur-
rendered the control, but the new concern did not
flourish and he was eventually obliged to resume
charge of its affairs. His recall was too late, how-
ever, as the business had been hopelessly crippled
by incompetency and mismanagement, and in the
financial panic of 1856-57 the once flourishing busi-
ness, together with his entire fortune, were swept
away. Broken in health and spirit from the effects
of the disaster, he returned to his former home
in Rutland, and resided there for the remainder

of his life, which terminated January 31, 1903, at
the age of ninety-six years, six months.

In June, 1837, Horace King visited the home of
his boyhood for the purpose of consummating the
happiest event of his life, that of his marriage with
Miss Catherine Augusta Mead, and after the cere-
mony the bride was conveyed in a comfortable
chaise to her new home in Roxbury. Mrs. King
was a native of Rutland and beloi^ged to a highly
reputable family of that town, being a descendant
of Deacon William Mead, who served the church
in that capacity for a period of fifty years; also of
Benjamin Mead, a revolutionary patriot, who par-
ticipated in escorting British prisoners of war from
Boston over the hills to the Continental prison at
Rutland. He possessed a vigorous constitution,
which in his case was truly indicative of a long
life, as he died in 1858, at the advanced age of
ninety-three years. Some of Mrs. King's relatives
have acquired honorable distinction in more recent
years, notably Major-General George Gordon
Mead, United States army (1815-1872), who served
in the Seminole, Mexican and civil wars, and in
1863 was appointed to the command of the Army
of the Potomac.

Horace and Catherine A. King were the parents
of eight children, namely: Charles, born in 1838,
died in 1840; Persis E., see forward; William Mead,
born February 8, 1842; Sidney C, born December
17, 18+4; Horace, born December 12, 1846; Mary
Forbes, born February 6, 1848; Edwin Elmer, born
in 1850, died in 1861 ; and Frederick Augustus, born
in 1852, died young. All were born in Boston or
Roxbury. William Mead King, who died in 1888,
married Nancy M. Tenny, of Jersey City. New
Jersey, who bore him three children. Sidney C.
King, who is residing in Taunton, this state, mar-
ried Maria L. Alead and has one child. Horace
King, who was holding a responsible and lucrative
position in the service of the Boston & Maine
Company, sacrificed it after the wreck of his
father's fortune in order to return to Rutland and
care for the family. Mary Forbes King is unmar-
ried and resides in Rutland; although not a strong
person physically, yet she was a constant help and
faithful attendant during her parents' life, especially
during their declining years.

Persis E. King was born March 29, 1840. She
was educated in the Boston public schools, and
after the financial disaster previously referred to,
turned her attention to educational pursuits. At the
breaking out of the civil war she offered to serve
the Federal government in some clerical capacity,
was accepted and while acting as a clerk or copyist
in the quartermaster's department under the Rev.
Horace James, chaplain of the Twenty-fifth Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, she met with some
thrilling adventures that can never be effaced from
her memory. Miss King inaugurated her educa-
tional career as a district school teacher in Rutland.
Her services were subsequently secured for the
public schools of Worcester, where in due time she
was promoted from the Orange street to the
Lamartine street school, and for a number of years
she taught successfully in the eighth grade under
the supervision of Charles T. Haynes, who being
an able teacher himself, exacted a high standard
of service from his subordinates. From Worcester
Miss King went to the Everett school, Boston,
where the remaining years of her activity as a
teacher were spent under the supervision of Prin-
cipal Hyde, a warm personal friend of her father,
and afterward advanced to the position of chief
executive of the Boston .school board. Owing to
her impaired health, resulting from overwork, she

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was at Icngtli compelled to relinquish teaching and
retire to the quiet surroundings of her home in
Rutland, where she resided until her removal to
Maiden. She has acquired a high reputation which
has been the means of bringing her many flattering
offers to resume educational work, but she has
been reluctantly obliged to decline as the feeble
condition of her health will not admit of any undue
physical exertion.

NOURSE FAMILY. Francis Nourse CO, the
immigrant ancestor of the late Benjamin Alden
Nourse, of Westborough, Massachusetts, is per-
haps best known as the husband of Rebecca Nourse,
who was a martyr to the witchcraft delusion of
Salem. The story of her life, trial and death is
given elsewhere in this work. Jler maiden name
was Rebecca Towne, daughter of William Towne.
Her sister, Sarah Towne, married Edmund Bridges
and (second) Peter Clayes, and both of the sisters
were involved in the witchcraft persecutions at
Salem. Rebecca was hanged July 19, 1692, aged
seventy years. Subsequently the jury, judges and
prosecutors all acknowledged their delusion and
prayed for pardon for their error. A monument
to Rebecca Nourse has been recently erected.

Francis Nourse was a quiet, peaceable citizen.
The lirst record of him is found in the Essex
court tiles of 1639. He was a proprietor of Salem
in 1647. He deposed November 26, 1666, that he
was forty-five years old. He settled in Salem Vil-
lage, that part of the town now Danvers. He died
there November 22, 1695, aged seventy-seven years.
His birth date in England is given on good author-
ity as January 18, 1618. The children of Francis
and Rebecca Nourse were ; John, married Eliza-
beth Smith ; Sarah, Rebecca, married Thomas Pres-
ton, whose daughter married Peter Clayes, Jr.;
Samuel, Francis, born February 3, 1661, at Read-
ing; Mary, married John Tarbell ; Elizabeth, Ben-
jamin, born January 26, 1666, see forward; Michale,
a daughter, married William Russell.

(.HJ Benjamin Nourse, son of F'rancis Nurs
(Nourse, Nurss, Nurse, etc.) (l), was born in
Danvers, Massachusetts, then Salem Village, Jan-
uary 26, 1666, and died at Framingham in 1747.
He came to Framingham with his relatives Clayes
and Bridges, mentioned above, in 1693. and located
on what is still known as Salem Pl;nn and built a
house between those now or lately of F. C. Brown
and \V. G. Lewis. He bought of Joseph Buckmin-
ster, F'ebruary II, 1707, "a messuage now in actual
possession of said Benjamin Nurse home lot of 12
acres on the south side of Stony Brook, fifty acres
on the north side of the brook and 38 acres adjoin-
ing Collcr's meadow." He was for a long time one
of the leading citizens of the town of Framingham.
He was selectman and served in other important
positions for the town. He left his real estate to his
son Aaron, who sold it June 11, 1764. to Abner
Bixby, who in turn sold it to Richard iMske.

He married (first) Tamazin and (sec-
ond), February 16, 1713-14, Elizabeth (Sawtelle)
Morse, widow of Joseph Morse, of Watertown.
The children of Benjamin and Tamazin Nourse
were: Tamazin, born at Salem, November 13,
1691, married Ebenezer Heminway ; Benjamin, Jr.,
born at Framingham, January 20, 1694; William,
born March 8, 1696, see forward; Elizabeth, born
September 18, 1699, married Theophilus Phillips,
of Hopkinton; Ebenezer, born March 27. 1701;
Mary, born April 24. 1703; Moses, born March,
1705; Aaron, born January 11, 1708.

(Ill) William Nourse, son of Benjamin Nourse
(2), was born in Framingham, ^ilassachusetts.

March 8, 1696, and died at Westborough, not far
from his native place, April 15, 1779. His marriage,
December 12, 1723, to Rebecca F'ay, was the lirst
recorded in the town of Shrewsbury. He was liv-
ing on house lot No. 3 in Shrewsbury, 1729, and
was set off with his farm to the town of West-
borough in 1 74 1, it is difficult to say whether the
children were born in Shrewsbury or Westborough.
All were born on the same farm in what was then
Shrewsbury township and is now Westborough. The
locality where he lived is still known as Nurse's
Corner. His wife died at Westborough, June 22,
1776. The children were : Mary, born September
14, 1724, married Eleazer Williams, in Westbor-
ough, in 1742; Samuel, born May 30, 1725. died
young; Lydia, born June 2i, 1727 (Westborough
record is July 30, probabb- date of baptism) ; Dan-
iel, born May n, 1729, see forward; Benjamin, born
July I, 1731, married Lucy liall, 1759, at Grafton;
Abraham, born March 2^. 1733; Rebekah, born Au-
gust 4, 1734 (Shrewsbury record July 12. prob-
ably right); Priscilla, born October 18, 1736, (West-
borough record December 12) ; Zerviah, born Octo-
ber II, 1739, died at Westborough, September 29,

(IV) Daniel Nourse, son of William Nourse
(3), was born in what is now Westborough, then
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, June 15, 1729. He
lived at VVestborough and served from that town
in the revolutionary war. He was a private in the
company of Captain Seth Morse, the regiment of
Colonel Ward on the Lexington alarm, April 19,
1775. Again he served in the company of Captain
Joseph Warren, Lieutenant-Colonel Wheelock, en-
listing September 27, 1777, in the northern army.
He was corporal in 1779 in the company of Captain
Adam Henry, serving as guards for the troops of
the convention at Rutland. He married Sarah

and their children, all born at Westborough,

were: Daniel, April 6, 1760; Sarah, February I,
1762; Priscilla, Alarch 29. 1764; Joseph, May 9,
1766, settled in Shrewsbury; married Hannah Da-
vis; Benjamin, November 3, 1768, see forward;
Hannah, November 2, 1770, died November 20,
1770; Mary, December 29, 1771 ; Joel, April 13,
1774, settled in Shrewsbury; married Anna Par-
ker; Noah, August 20, 1778, died September 24,
1778; Abijah, October 3, 1781, died September 15,

1783.

(V) Benjamin Nourse, son of Daniel Nourse
(4), was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, No-
vember 30, 1768, and died there May 20, 1861, at a
very advanced age. He settled in Westborough
also. He married, May 8, 1796, Asenath Davis, of
Grafton, of one of the best known and most numer-
ous of the old Worcester county families. She died
March 30, 1838. Their children, all born at West-
borough, were: David, born March 29, 1798; Ben-
jamin Davis, July 31, 1800, died F'ebruary 22, 1826;
Joseph Joslin, December 26, 18.07, see forward.

(VI) Joseph Joslin Nourse, son of Benjamin
Nourse (5), was born at Westborough, Massachu-
setts, December 26. 1807, and died March 25, 1838,
aged thirty-one 3'ears. He died in the prime of life,
leaving a widow and one son. He married, at
Grafton, 1833 (intentions March 16), Sarah A. Mcr-
riam. born in Grafton, January 7, 1813, dau,ghter of
Timothy Merriam. She remained on the old home-
stead until her death at an advanced age in 1903.
She was a woman of unusual ability and sterling
character. The only child of Joseph Joslin and
Sarah .•\. Nourse wa.- : Benjamin Alden, born at
Westborough, July 19. 1836. see forward.

(VII) Benjamin .Alden Nourse, son of Joseph
Joslin Nourse (6). was born in Westborough,

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Massachusetts, July 19, 1836. He attended the dis-
trict schools of his native town and had hoped to
be able to go to college, but had to abandon that
hope and help his widowed mother carry on the
farm. He made the most of every opportunity to
study, however, and under the tutorship of Silas
C. Stone pursued the high school course. As a
farmer he was unusually successful. He believed in
new methods and progress and became one of the
most prominent and well-to-do farmers of his sec-
lion. He was a man of good natural ability, sound
judgment and business ability. He helped many
young men to success in life by teaching them the
right way to conduct a farm.

He was prominent in public affairs and ofter
called by his fellow townsmen to fill places of trust
and honor. He was for many years a member of
the school committee, was selectman from 1872 to
1876, inclusive, in 1876 was representative to the
general court from his .district, and again, twenty
years later, was sent to the legislature from his
district. On Monday, February i, 1897, a few
weeks after he had entered upon his legislative
duties, he was stricken with apoplexy and died the
following day. In the house he was serving on the
committee on charitable institutions and but a few
days prior to his death, in company with the other
members of that committee, he visited the West-
borough Hospital for the Insane and the Lyman
School in his town. When his colleague, Repre-
sentative Cook, of Milford, announced his death, the
house adjourned as a mark of respect to the de-
ceased. A committee appointed by the speaker at-
tended his funeral.

Mr. Nourse was active in the temperance move-
ment and in the work of his church. He joined the
Evangelical Congregational Church at the age of
thirteen years, and for thirty-five successive, years
served as deacon of the old church, always con-
tributing freely to the support of the church and
the cause of religion. Throughout his life he was
a thorough Bible student and taught a class in the
Sunday school more than forty years. He was
kindly, generous and charitable in all the walks of
life. The only secret order to which Mr. Nourse
belonged was the Farmers' Organization, the West-
borough Grange, Patrons of Husbandry.

He married. May i, i860, Jane Fay, born in
Grafton, October 16, 1837, daughter of Benjamin
Willard and Martha (Brewer) Fay. Children of
Benjamin Alden and Jane Nourse were: Willard
Joslin, born October i, 1866, a lawyer, residing at
Gunnison, Colorado ; Arthur, July 13, 1868, see for-
ward; Ernest Morrison, May 21, 187 1 ; Bertha May,
March 14, 1875, died January lb, 1879. Deacon and
Mrs. Nourse adopted a daughter, Edna, now Mrs.
Fred H. Doolittle, of Northfield, Massachusetts.

(VIII) Arthur Nourse, son of Benjamin Alden
Nourse (7), was born in Westborough, Massachu-
setts, July 13, 1868. He succeeded his father as
owner of the homestead. He was educated in the
common schools of his native town, the Westbor-
ough high school and the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College at Amherst, from which he was
graduated in 1890. On leaving college he went to
California and spent live years on a ranch, first as
assistant and then as bookkeeper. He returned to
help his father on the homestead, and since his
death has fairly taken his place as farmer and busi-
ness man. Like his father he is interested in the
public schools and has been a member of the school
committee since 1900. He is a Republican also. He
is a member of the Evangelical Congregational
Church, in which his father was active for a life-
time. He is a member of the Lodge of Free
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Masons of Westborough. He married Gertrude EL
Lesure, of South Royalston, Vermont. They have
one child, Dorothy Fay.

THE RICH FAMILY OF ROYALSTON is o£
ancient English origin. As early as A. D. 1236
Edmund Rich was the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Baron Richard Rich, who was born in London in
1498, was a poor barrister of humble family who
rose to fame, became a wealthy nobleman and
founded the most powerful family in England. His
sons were the Earls of Warwick and Holland,,
famous and powerful. The former was president
of the Plymouth council and admiral of the Eng-
lish navy.

(I) Richard Rich, immigrant ancestor of Ben-
jamin Warren and George D. Rich, of Royalston,
Massachusetts, was born in England. He appeared
first at Dover Neck in New England, later settling
on Cape Cod and dying in 1692 in Eastham, Massa-
chusetts. He bought land in Dover of Samuel-
Treworgcy and wife Dorcas T., who came from
Cornwall. The deed is dated November 6, 1674.
Philip Demon, of Dover Neck, who died June,
1676, in a will dated May, 1676, mentions his own
son Evans and his kinsman, Richard Rich, as ex-
ecutors. ^Ir. Rich was a man of position, property
and influence as shown by his record and his-
marriage with Sarah Roberts, daughter of Gov-
ernor Thomas Roberts. His only child, known, was,
Richard, see forward.

(II) Richard Rich, son of Richard Rich (i)",
was born about 1640, perhaps in England. He was
at Eastham, Massachusetts, 1665. He was taxed
there in 167 1 and admitted freeman, August 2;^,
1681. His children, born at Eastham, were: John,
born 1665, married Mary Treat, daughter of Rev.
Samuel Treat; Thomas, removed to Connecticut or
New York; Richard, born 1674, see forward; Sam-
uel, born 1684, was tithingman in Truro, 1711, diedi.
1752; Sarah, married Samuel Treat, son of Rev..
Samuel Treat; Lydia; Joseph, voter at Eastham in
1695-

(III) Richard Rich, son of Richard Rich (2),
was born in 1674 at Eastham, Massachusetts, proh-
ably. He died May 3, 1743, aged sixty-eight years..
The children, all born at Truro, were: Sarah, borij.
i6g6, died January, 1722; Richard, born February
28, 1699, married Hannah and his son. Cap-
tain Richard Rich, was called "Buzzy Dick;" Re-
becca, born June 15, 1701 ; Zaccheus, born .\pril 2,
1704. see forward; Obadiah, born July 15, 1707,
married Polly Cobb; Priscilla, born February 5,
1710, died young; Huldah, born July, 1712; Joseph,
born October 5, 1720, married Susannah (follins;
Silvanus, born September 4, 1720, married, 1740,
Mary Lombard.

(IV) Zaccheus Rich, son of Richard Rich (3),
was born at Truro, Massachusetts, April 2, 1704.
He settled in the extreme southern part of the
town of Truro. He and his brother, Obadiah Rich,
settled on Beach Hill. The children of Zaccheus
and Ruth (Collins) Rich: Ann, Sarah, Zaccheus,
married Rebecca (Tollins or Hardy, 1753; Jesse,
married Hannah Smith, 1757; Benjamin, born 1737,
married Lucy Sauls; Thatcher, born 1739, see for-
ward ; Richard, called Uncle Hunn ; Ephraim, borij
1746; Elder Elisha, born 1758, ordained at Chelms-
ford; Priscilla.

(V) Thatcher Rich, son of Zaccheus Rich (4),.
was born at Truro, Massachusetts, in 1739, and died
at Phillipston, Massachusetts, February 23, 1817,
aged seventy-eight years. He was an early settler
in the town of Phillipston. He married (first) lane
Lombard. He married (second) Hannah ^

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who died May i, 1823, or April 30, 1825 (two public
records). Children of Thatcher and Jane Rich,
■born at Phillipston: Kulli. born July 2, 1765, mar-
ried, September 0, 1797, Amos Parker, of Jaffrey,
New Hampshire; Elizabeth, born July 17, 17671
married, April 15, 1790, Roger Brigham; Benja-
min, born 1773, see forward; Jane, born May 22,
1776, married, February 14, 1801, Freeborn Ray-
mond Jr.; Dinah, born October 25. 1782, married.
May 26, 1807, Nabum Ward; Hannah born May
10, 1785, died May 16, 1832; Sarah, born Novem-
her 6, 1787, died May 12, 1795; Thatcher, born
April 2, 1790, see forward; Sally born July 6,
J795; Priscilla, born December 6, 1797, married,
August 19. 1818.

(VI) Thatcher Rich, Jr., son of Thatcher Rich
(5), was born in Phillipston, Masachusetts, April
22, 1790. He settled on a farm in Phillipston when
a young man. He married. May 8, 1817, Phebc
Ward, granddaughter of General Artemas Ward, of
Shrewsbury, and many of the former possessions
■of that distinguished man are in the possession of
the family at Royalston. The children of Thatcher
and Phebe Rich were: Lewis Damon, born July
3, 1818, died aged hfty-seven years; Thomas Walter,
bom May i, 1820; Benjamin Ward, born September
:2T, 1821, see forward; Anna Raymond, born May,
1823, died April 16, 1825 ; Jeremiah Atkins, born
May 8, see forward ; Phebe Ann, born August 22,
1826, died 1905; George, born September 20, 1828,
bandmaster of the Twenty-first Massachusetts Vol-
imteer Regiment band, died 1886 ; John Eliot, born
November 3. 1830, died July 12, 1900; Harriet, born
September "20, 1835 (twin) ; Harrison (twin), born
September 20, 1835, soldier in the Fifteenth Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Regiment ; now living in the
National Soldiers' Home at Togus, Maine.

(VU) Benjamin Ward Rich, son of Thatcher
Rich (6), was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts,
September 29, 1821, died July 3, 1900. He was edu-
cated in the common schools. He conducted a gen-
eral store at Royalston with much enterprise and
success for many years. He was selectman of the
town, and was frequently elected to offices of re-
sponsibility, at various times holding virtually all
the town offices. He was representative to the gen-
eral court. He was well known in musical circles.
He had a good voice and ear for music and was
well trained. He conducted various bands and
orchestras in the vicinity. He was an upright man,
highly esteemed by all his townsmen. He married
Lydia B. Witt, of Royalston. Their children, all
born in Royalston, were: I. Benjamin Warren,
see forward ; Jeremiah Edward, born December 22,
1649, married Florence Marcy, who died in 1900
without issue ; he resides in Royalston, Massachu-
setts ; Marcia Jeannette, born Februarv, 1857, mar-
ried (first) F. D. Stockwell and (second) N. Mc-
Donald; has two children; resides in South Boston,
Massachusetts ; Charles Witt, see forward.

Charles Witt Rich, a commercial traveler, whose
home is at Athol, Worcester county, Massachu-
setts, where he also operates a dry goods business,
was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, May 19, i860,
the son of Benjamin and Lydia (Witt) Rich, whose
ancestral history will be found in their sketch within
this work.

Charles W. Rich was reared and educated in his
native county. He attended the common schools
and later took a commercial course at Bryant &
Stratton's Commercial College of Boston. After
the completion of his education, he was for twelve
years associated with Bradford Thomas, wholesale
dry goods merchant, of Boston, and subsequently
became a traveling salesman for the Sprague Com-

pany, clothing manufacturers, of Orange, Massa-
chusetts, a position which he still holds. In 1900
Mr. Rich established at Athol a general dry goods
business, of which the specialty is the handling of
remnants. He has in his employ from four to six
persons and does the largest business of its kind
in the place. In his absence his wife conducts the
store. Mr. Rich attends the Congregational Church ;
is a prominent Mason, member of Orange Lodge,
A. F. & A. M., St. Andrew's Chapter, R. A. .M.,
Washington Council of Lebanon, New Hamp-
shire, Athol Commandery, and Aleppo Temple, A.
A. O. N. M. S. Mr. Rich is a Republican in poli-
tics, which political party he believes best serves
the masses.

He married, August 27, 1892, Jennie M. Hughes,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Webster Hughes, of En-
field, New Hampshire.

(VH) Jeremiah Atkins Rich, son of Thatcher
Rich (6), was born in .Phillipston, May 8, 1825.
He was educated in the district schools of his na-
tive town. His early life was spent on his father's
farm in Phillipston and on the farm of Stephen
Hale in South Royalston. When a young man he
worked at the trade of a bridge builder on the
Cheshire and Vermont and Massachusetts railroads.
In 1850 he went to the gold mines of California
in company with Captain John Whitmore and sev-
eral other citizens of South Royalston. He re-
mained there about five years and was moderately
successful. On his return he was associated with
Charles Bowker, of South Royalston, in the busi-
ness of chair making. Later he became superin-
tendent of George Whitney's chair manufactory in
the same village, which position he held until the
business was discontinued about 1893. He then re-
tired from active business life, dying in November,
1899, P"or over forty years he was a prominent
and intluential citizen of Royalston. Like his
brother, Benjamin Ward Rich, he served the town
as selectman, as representative to the general court,
and in various other offices of trust and honor.
He was a prominent member and supporter of the
Second Congregational Church and was clerk of
the society for several years. In politics he was an
active Republican. He married Susan Kendall, of
Royalston, who died in 1903 without issue.

(VIII) Benjamin Warren Rich, son of Benja-
min Ward Rich (7), was born in Royalston,
Massachusetts, September 12, 1847. He was edu-
■cated in the public schools of his native town. When
but twelve years old he began to work out of school
hours in his father's store. Later he worked with
his father in the business and finally succeeded to
it. He has a prosperous business. The store was
established by his father in 1840, and Mr. Rich him-
self has been associated in the business for forty-
five years. He carries the usual varied stock of a
general country store. He has been active in town
affairs. He has served the town on the board of
health, for three years was on the board of select-
men. He was for some years a trustee on the
board in charge of the Bartlett Fund of $26,000
given to the town to take care of the poor. In poli-
tics Mr. Rich is always a Republican, influential in
that party, and often delegate to its nominating con-
ventions. For the past five years he has been post-
master of South Royalston, and the postoffice is
connected with his store. He is the oldest and best
known Free Mason in the town. He is a member of
Star Lodge of Athol, and the Chapter and Com-
mandery, also of Athol. He belongs to the Council
at Greenfield, Massachusetts, and has taken the de-
grees of the Order of the Mystic Shrine in Boston.
He married S. Ardella Farrar, daughter of S. S.

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Farrar, of Royalston, Massachusetts. She died
March 27, 1900. He has no children.

(,VI) Benjamin Rich, son o£ Thatcher Rich
(5), was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts, 1773,
and died there July 22, 1842, aged sixty-nnie years.
He married, December 21, 1797, Patty Atkins, who
died August 13, 1820, aged forty-four years. He
married (second) (intentions dated August 26,
1821) Abigail (Abby or Nabby) Day. He was a
fanner at Phillipston. His death was caused by a
fall from a load of hay. Most of his children re-
moved to Vermont and died there. The children
of Benjamin and Patty (Martha in town records,
though marriage record gives name as PattyJ were:
Myna, born September 21, 1798, married, September
25, 1816, Oliver Preston, of Athol ; George, born
May 8, 1801, died August 25, 1826, aged twenty-tive
years; Solomon, born June 9, 1804; Dinah, born
July 9, 1806; Lucy, born November 20, 1808, married
Oliver Preston; Benjamin, born May 12, 1811. The
children of Benjamin and Nabby (Day) Rich:
Martha Atkins, born June 8, 1827, died at Athol,
1900; George Dwight, born December 16, 1829, see
forward.

(V'll) George Dwight Rich, son of Benjamin
Rich (6), was born at Phillipston, Massachusetts,
December 16, 1829. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town. When not in school
he worked from an early age on his father's farm
in Phillipston. He was for several months a stud-
ent at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham. He learned
the trade of chair making and later entered the
woolen mill and for several years had charge of the
mixing and picking of the stock. A few years ago
he lost his right hand in an accident in the mill.
Mr. Rich is a Republican in politics. He married,
1857, Emeline Campbell, of Hardwick, Massachu-
setts. She died June 27, 1906, without issue.

GEORGE BOEPPLE. One of the most pro-
gressive and prosperous provision dealers in the
city of Worcester is George Boepple, of Quiiisiga-
mond village. Both his stores at 30 and 600 MiU-
bury street are well known to lovers of German
delicatessen as well as to the housewives who are
buying staple groceries and meats.

Mr. Boepple learned his trade in Germany, where
he was born and brought up. He was born in
Wittemburg, Germany, August 6, 1862, the son of
Jacob and Christina Boepple. His father was a
butcher by trade and the son served the regular
apprenticeship to a butcher, learning the art of
making sausages and caring for all kinds of meats.
When he had completed his apprenticeship he de-
cided to seek his fortune in America, and in 1879
went to Philadelphia, fennsylvania. There he lived
for eight years, working in various meat markets
and stores. After a short stay in New York he
came to Worcester, in 1S88, to work for Morrill,
the sausage manufacturer, at 220 Shrewsbury street.
Having saved enough money to make a modest start
in business on his own account he opened a store
at 30 Millbury street in the fall of i8gi. He made
a specialty of delicatessen manufactured on the
premises. The business prospered and grew rapidly.
In 1899 he added the establishment at 600 Mill-
bury street, where he resides, and has a large pro-
vision and grocery store. This store is near the
wire mills at Quinsigamond, and the excellent qual-
ity of Boepple's goods have attracted a large trade
there. In addition to the two retail stores he has
built up an extensive wholesale trade in cooked
meats, sausages and delicatessen that are manu-
factured at the factory in the rear of the store at
600 Millbury street. He has an extensive and grow-

ing trade all over New England. Mr. Boepple has
again illustrated the possibilities of establishing a
prosperous business by dint of hard w^ork and thor-
ough knowledge of his trade, and by thrift and en-
terprise in the management of his affairs.

Mr. Boepple is fond of good society and good-
fellowship. He belongs to the Frohsinns. He has
taken the Masonic degrees in the Scottish Rite.
He belongs to Montacute Lodge, A. F. and A. M.
He is a member of Freedom Lodge, Knights of
Pythias; of Court Damascus, Order of Foresters;
of the Workingmen's Benefit Society ; of the D. O.
Harugariu Society ; of the Worcester County Man-
nier ; of Worcester Lodge No. 243, Elks. He is an
honorary member of the Worcester Light Infantry.
He has never interested himself to any extent in
politics. He married, November 28, 1889, Mary
Kanz, of Worcester.

COPELAND FAMILY. Lawrence Copeland
(l), the immigrant ancestor of Charles Augustus
Copeland, of Blackstone, Massachusetts, w-as born
in Scotland, 1599. The family tradition as to the
Scotch origin of the immigrant seems reliable.
The Scotch family of Copeland has been located
in Dumfriesshire since before the year 1400. He
came to this country about the time that Cromwell
sent over his Scottish prisoners of war, many of
whom became settlers and prosperous citizens in a
few years. He settled in Braintree, where he mar-
ried soon afterward, Lydia Townsend, December
12, 1651. She died January 8, 1688. He
died December 30, 1699, at Braintree, aged
one hundred years, according to other testi-
mony, besides Marshall's Diary and the town re-
cords. One statement of a contemporary makes
him even older; but if he were born in 1599 he was
over fifty years old when he married and seventy-
five when his youngest child was born ; which rather
tends to support a family tradition that he brought
his first wife with him, in which case she must
have died soon afterward. Copeland's name sel-
dom appears on the records. He was a quiet sort
of a citizen, evidently a farmer. The children of
Lawrence and Lydia Copeland : Thomas, born May
10, 1652, died young; Thomas, born August 12,
1654, or February 8, 1655. soldier in King Philip's
war; William, born November 15, 1656; John, born
February 10, 1659; Lydia, born May 31, 1661 ;
Ephraim, born January 17, 1665, died of small pox
in the Phipps' expedition to Canada in 1690 before
sailing: Hannah, born February 25. 1668; Richard,
born July II, 1672; Abigail, born 1674, married,
November 23, 1715, .

(II) William Copeland, son of Lawrence Cope-
land (i), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts,
November 15. 1656, died in 1716, at Braintree. He
married, April 13, 1694, Mary (Bass) Webb, widow
of Christopher Webb, Jr., and daughter of John and
Ruth (Alden) Bass. Ruth Alden was the daughter
of Hon. John and Priscilla (MuUins) Alden, the
"Mayflower" immigrants, made celebrated by Long-
fellow's poem. "The Courtship of Miles Standish."
All the Copeland descendants named below are,
therefore, eligible to the Mayflower Society. Mary
Bass was also descended from Samuel Bass, of
Boston and Braintree, deacon, freeman May 10,
1634, and deputy to the general court in 1643 ;
Deacon Bass died December 30, 1694, aged ninety-
four years, father, grandfather and great-grand-
father of one hundred and sixty-two persons.

William Copeland settled in Braintree. He is on
record in 1691 as dissenting with Samuel Thompson.
Jr.. from the vote of the town to pay the minister his
full salary of eighty pounds, half in money, half in

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farm products at the meeting of March 2. 1690-91.
lie was elected fence viewer ni 1690. He signed the
agreement to conlril)Utc to pay the expenses of de-
lendmg the title of the proprietors of Braintrce to
their land January 10, 1O97-98. Children of William
and Mary (.Bass) Copeland : William, born March
7, 1695; liphraim, I'^cbruary i, 1697; Ebcnezcr, Feb-
ruary 10, lOgS; Jonathan, August Ji, 1701 ; David,
April 15. 1704; Joseph, May 18, 1706; Benjamin,
October 5, 1708; Moses, May 28, 1710; Mary, May
28, 1713.

(,111) William Copeland, son of William Cope-
land (.2), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts,
March 7, 1695. He settled in Braintree, where he
was elected a. hogreeve in 1724, tithingman in 17JO-
31, highway surveyor in 1734-35 ^"<J constable in
i737- He married Mary Thayer, June 15, 1718, who
was born February, 1689, daughter of Richard and
Rebecca (Micall) Thayer. Her father was born
August 31, i6ti5. His father was Richard Thayer,
the immigrant. (See Thayer Family.) Children of
William and Mary (Thayer) Copeland: Rebecca,
born :\larch 16, 1718; Lydia, October 25, 1720; Will-
iam, August 19, 1722, died June 29, 1727; James,
March ly. 1724; Mary, May 31, 172O; Anna, August
4, 1728; William, December 6, 1730, see forward.

(IV) William Copeland, son of William Cope-
land (3), was born at Braintree, Massachusetts,
December 6, 1730. He married, about 1752, Sarah
Smith. He removed to Connecticut. Their chil-
dren : Jonathan, born about 1753, soldier in a Con-
necticut regiment in the revolution ; Phineas, born
1755' see forward; daughter, married Benjamin
F"errit.

(V) Phineas, son of William Copeland (4),
was born in Thompson, Connecticut, May 14, 1754,
died there 1813, aged fifty-eight years. He was a
soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Jo-
seph Abbott's company. Ninth Connecticut regiment
of militia, and served in New York under Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Mead in 1776. Mrs. P. A. Ryemit,
of North Grosvenordale, Connecticut, a descendant,
has in her possession a cane or stick which he,
Phineas Copeland, is said to have cut and polished,
with which he killed a wild cat and which he car-
ried during his war service. He settled in Thomp-
son, Connecticut. He married there, about 1781,
Rachel Prince, born in 1757, died 1812, daughter of
Joseph and Maria (Berry) Prince. Both are buried
in a private cemetery near the old homestead at
Thompson. Their children: I.Joseph, born January
IS, 1783, see forward. 2. Abiel, settled in New York
state. 3. Abner. 4. Rachel. 5. Asa, married Cyrena
Green and they had — Jared ; Warren, father of Asa
Byron Copeland, born in New York ; married Lily
Fisher, of New York state ; he is superintendent of
schools at Greeley, Colorado; Warren's widow mar-
ried (second) Rev. Samuel Wasne, of Loraine, New
York; Rachel; Anson F'., Methodist minister, had
four children — Wilbur, Blaine, Mark, Rena. 6.
Sally. 7. Alvion, father of Harriet, Sally, Harvey,
Mark, Nellie, and Mary M. Thompson. 8. Thank-
ful, married Savory ; their daughter, Charlotte

Savory, married Charles Irons, parents of Etta L.
(Irons) Humes. 9. Anna, twin of the preceding.
10. Hannah, born 1804.

(VI) Joseph Copeland, son of Phineas Cope-
land (5), was born January 15, 1783. He married,
September 30, 1807, Lucy Cook, at Thompson. Con-
necticut. She is buried at Pascoag, Rhode Island.
Children of Joseph and Lucy Copeland: I. Augus-
tus Bundy, born October I, 1805. married Rhoda
Cruff and had two children — Mary and Lucy Ann
(twins) ; he married (second) Sarah Lamed Will-
iams, and they had three children — Charles A.,

George H., Leonora A., all buried at Newport,
Rhode Island. 2. Lyman Prince, see forward. 3.
Maria B., born June 6, 1809. married Benjamin B.
Slade and they had a son named Joseph; she died
May 30, 1830; the son died August 13, 1830; he
married (second) her sister, Lucy A„ Copeland. 5.
Lucy Ann, born May 26, 1814, marrikl .Benjamin B.
Slade and they had two daughters — Lucy M., died
January 13, 1841, Georgiana A., married Edward F.
King, October 18, 1864, and they have had six chil-
dren, of whom two died in infancy. 4. Georg<; H.,
born November 5, 181 1, married (lirst) Sarah
F'uller, who had no children; married (second)
Sally Copeland, daughter of Alvin Copeland and she
had four sons — George H., died young; F'rederick
A., of Providence ; William, died young ; Lewis A.,
resides in Providence, Rhode Island ; married
(third) F'anny Crook, and had — Fred, Lewis; he
died January 28, 1892. .s. Lucy Ann, born May 26,
1814, married Hazael H. Cooper, had a daughter
and twin sons who died in infancy; Lucy A., died
January 28, 1897, and was buried at Pascoag. 6.
Mahala Potter, born September 10, 1815, died April
2, 1880; married Stephen A. Aldrich, had one son
died in infancy. 7. Joseph, born November 3, 1818,
drowned at the age of six. 8. Alfred (twin), born
May 14, 1821. 9. Alfred (twin), born May 14.
1 82 1, died young.

(VII) Lyman Prince Copeland, son of Joseph
Copeland (6), was born at Essex Junction, Ver-
mont, August 25, 1807, died May 26, 1883. aged
seventy-six years. He removed with the family to
Thompson, Connecticut, at an early age. Later
they went to Slatersviile, Rhode Island, where he
operated the grist mill and saw mill. He ahso lived
in Woonsocket and Pascoag, Rhode Island. In
Pascoag he was a successful manufacturer, and at
one time he operated the Hecla Mills in Uxbridge
in partnership with Mr. Seagrave under the name
of Copeland & Seagrave. He was a highly re-
spected citizen of Uxbridge, was selectman for a
long period, representative to the general court
or assembly. He was an active member of the
Congregational Church. In politics he was a Re-
publican. He died at Millville, May 26. 1883.

He married Phebe Thompson, born in 1807,
died September 7, 1886. Their children: Albert
P., see forward; Manah B., born May 3, 1831 ;
Harriet A.. September 13, 1834; Joseph P., Novem-
ber 24, 1836; Phebe P., April 21, 1839; Henry L.,
April 2, 1843; Danford, July 26, 1843; Charles A.,.
December 19, 1846, see forward ; Lucy A., January
13, 1843; Ella Slade, May 4, 1852.

(VIII) Charles Augustus Copeland, son of
Lyman Prince Copeland (7), was horn in Pascoag,
Rhode Island. He attended the public schools until
he was sixteen years old. Then he went to work
in his father's mill and learned the various de-
partments of the work. He then went to Provi-
dence and had a position as loom fixer in the
Wainscott Mill in that city, and remained there for
several years. He returned to Glendale and was-
bookkeeper in the mill office for three years. In
1886 he started as a hardware merchant in Black-
stone, Massachusetts, and has built up a prosperous
business. He is a prominent Republican and has the
unique distinction of being the first man of that party
elected to the office of overseer of the poor in the
past twenty-six years. Blackstonc is overwhelm-
ingly Democratic as a rule. Mr. Copeland has fre-
quently served his party at state, county and coii-
gressional conventions. In fact, for many years his
name has not been missed in the lists of delegates-
elected each year. He is a Congregationalist ir»
religion.

HORATIO C. CHASE

WORCESTER COUNTY

He married, December 25, 1864, Ruth Marion
Davis, daughter of Barnabas Davis, of one of the
■old New England families. Their only child was
Annis B., who married, May, 189.3, Mary L. Bull-
ard, and they have Marian, born Alay, 1896.

(VIII) Albert B. Copeland, son of Lyman Prince
Copeland (7), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts,
May 7, 1829, and educated in the public schools
of Uxbridge and at the Maconibcr Academy. .\t an
early age he went to work with his father in the
mill, learning the business from top to bottom in
a practical way, and taking charge of it in 1847.
When the mill at Pascoag was sold to Frank Car-
penter, Mr. Copeland went to Amesbury, Massa-
chusetts, to take charge of a large woolen mill there.
After a few years he accepted the position of super-
intendent at Glendale mills for Mr. Carpenter. He
also had charge of mills in Mohegan. Plainville.
For a short time he operated the Happy Hollow
Mill at Uxbridge. In 1880 he retired from busi-
n^^s after forty years of active life as a manufact-
urer. He is a Republican in politics and a Con-
gregationalist in religion.

He married, July 4, 1848, Sarah Salisbury. He
■ married Csecond) Harriet Jearald. Children of
Albert B. and Sarah (Salisbury) Copeland;
Eugenia, Leonora, Julius, Danforth. Children of
Albert B. and Harriet: Albert H., born i\Iay 24,
1867 ; Maria, born April 22. 1873, married George
A. F'arnum and had : George A., Helen, Mildred
Farnum.

CHASE FAMILY. The Chase family of
America, descended from Aquila Chase and his
brother, Thomas Chase, trace their ancestry to a
remote period of English history. The family has
taken a distinguished part in the history of England
.and America. The coat of arms of the family is :
Gules four crosses patence argent on a canton
azure a lion passant, or.

(I) Thomas Chase, the first progenitor to whom
the line has been traced, lived in Chesham, England,
was born about 1400.

(II) John Chase, son of Thomas Chase (i),
also resided at Chesham.

(III) Mathew Chase, son of John Chase (2),
was of Chesham. He married Elizabeth Bould,
daughter of Richard Bould. Their children : Rich-
ard, married Mary Roberts and has inany descend-
ants ; Francis, John, Mathew, Thomas, see forward ;
Ralph, William, Bridget.

(IV) Thomas Chase, son of Mathew Chase (3),
was of Hundrich, parish of Chesham, England. His
children; John, baptized November 30, 1540;
Richard, baptized August 3, 1542; Agnes, baptized
January 9, 1551 ; Wiliam Christian.

(V) Richard Chase, son of Thomas Chase (4),
baptized August 3, 1542, married. April 16, 1564.
Their children, born at Chesham, England; Robert,
baptized September 2, 1565; Henry, baptized Au-
gust ID, 1567; Lydia, baptized October 4, 1573;
Ezekiel, baptized April 2^. 1576; Dorcas, baptized
March 2, 1578; Aquila, baptized July 18, 1585, see
forward; Abigail, baptized January 12, 1588;
Mordecai, baptized July 31, 1591.

(VI) Aquila Chase, son of Richard Chase (5),
was baptized in Chesham, England, August 14,
1580. His children : Thomas, emigrated to New
England, settled first in Hampton, later in New-
bury. Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Philbrick ;
Aquila, born 1618, see forward. The brothers were
seafaring men employed probably by their uncle.
Thomas Chase, who in 1626 was a part owner of
the ship "John and Frances."

(VII) Aquila Chase, son of Aquila Chase

(6), was born in Chesli:im. iMigland, in i'6iS. He
was a mariner and is first found in this country at
Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1640. He settled
later at Newbury, where in 1646 he was granted
four acres of land for a homestall and six acres
of marsh on condition that he go to sea and do
service in the town with a boat for four years. He
was evidently not a very formal Puritan, for lie,
his wife and David Wheeler were fined for "gath-
ering pease on the Sabbath," admonished and the
fines remitted. He married Anna Wheeler, of
Hampton, daughter of John Wheeler, who came
from Salisbury, England. Mr. Chase died at New-
bury, December 27, 1670, aged fifty-two years. He
was a ship master and made many voyages. His
will was dated September 19, 1670, two months be-
fore his death. His widow married, June 14, 1672,
Daniel Mussilovvay; she died April 21, 1687. Chil-
dren of Aquila and Amia Chase ; Sarah, married.
May 15, 1666, Charles Annis, who was born in 1638
in Ireland; Anna, born July 6, 1647, married, April
28, 1671, Thomas Barber; Priscilla, born March 14,
1649, married, February 10 1671, Abel Merrill;
Mary, born February 3, 165 1, married, March 9,
1670, Jonathan Stevens ; Aquila, born Septetnber
26, 1652; Thomas, born July 25, 1654, married, No-
vember 22, 1677, Rebecca Follansbee ; John, born
November 2, 1655, married. May 23. 1677, Elizabeth
Bingley; Elizabeth, born September 13, 1657; Ruth,
born March 18, 1660, died May 30, 1676 ; Daniel,
born December 9, 1661, married, May 25, 1683,
Martha Kimball ; Closes born December 24, 1663,
see forward.

(VIII) Moses Chase, son of Aquila Chase (7),
was born in Newbury, December 24, 1663, died Sep-
tember 6, 1743. He married, November 10, 1684,
Ann Follansbee, daughter of Thomas Follansbee.
He married (second), 1713, Sarah Jacobs, of Ips-
wich. He settled in West Newbury, on the main
road a hundred rods above Bridge street, on the
farm owned in recent times by Samuel Carr, his
great-great-grandson. The children: Moses (twin),
September 20, 1685; Daniel (twin), September 20,
1685, see forward; Moses, January 20, 1688; Sam-
uel, May 13, 1690; Elizabeth. September 25, 1693;
Stephen, August 29, 1696; Hannah, September 13,
1699: Joseph, September 9, 1703; Benoni.

(IX) Daniel Chase, son of Moses Chase (8),
was born at Newbury, Massachusetts, September
20, 1685, died at Sutton, Massachusetts, May 28,
1769, aged eighty-four years. He married, J-anuary
2, 1707. Sarah Marsh, daughter of George Marsh.
They resided until 1725 at Newbury, then went to
Littleton, settling finally in Sutton. His wife died
there December, 1771, aged eighty-eight years. The
town records show that he owned a corn mill in
Sutton, March 26, 1733. According to Deacon
Leland. Daniel Chase built the first corn mill at
Pleasant Falls, whence his name "Miller" Chase.
He and his wife were admitted to the Sutton church
by letter from the Littleton church in 1736. In 1751
he and his wife were among the separatists from
the Sutton church. The Chase mill was tended
afterward by Nathaniel Hall and his son, Willis
Hall, next by Solomon Whipple, then by Captain
Marsh Chase. It is at present the site of the mills
of the Sutton Manufacturing Company at Pleasant
Falls. Children of Daniel and Sarah Chase ; Sam-
uel, born September 28, 1707, married Mary Dudley,
settled at Cornish, New Hampshire; Daniel, Jr.,
September 18, I709.' see forward; Joshua. Novem-
ber 9, 17JT; Ann. November 13. 1713, married. May
25. 1736, David Lilly; Sarah, April 22, 1716; Nelie-
miah. June 27. 1718, died unmarried; Judith. Sep-
tember 7, 1720. married, September i.s. 17.37. Thomas

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Hall; Caleb, November 2% 17JJ, clictl October 2,
1808; Moody, September 3, 1723, married. Janu-
ary 17, 1749, Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Jonathan
Hale; Moses, March, 1726, married Hannah Brown,
daughter of Jonas Brown, Sr., removed to New
Hampshire.

(X) Daniel Chase, Jr., son of Daniel Chase (9),
was born in Newbury, Massachusetts. September
19, 1709, died 1799. He married (first) Hannah
Tuttle. of Littleton; (second) Martha Fletcher, of
Grafton, January, 24, 1782. Their children, all born
at Sutton, where they settled, were: Hannah, born
October 15, 1733, died December 11, 1733; Paul,
March 13, 1735, see forward; Hannah, January 11,
1737, married, July 3, 1759, Eliakim Garfield, of
Leicester; Lucy, January 30, 1739, married, Novem-
ber 15, 1764, Benjamin Garfield, of Leicester; Anne
(twin), May I, 1741 ; Judith (twin), May i, 1741 ;
Anne, November i, 1745.

(XI) Paul Chase, son of Daniel Chase (10),
was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, March 13, 1735,
died there in 17S9. He married April 17, 1759,
Lucy Richardson. Their children, all born at Sut-
ton were: Joshua, born November 26, 1760;
Thaddeus, February 10, 1763, see forward; Lucy,
May 18, 1766, married Daniel Greenwood, Jr.

(XII) Thaddeus Chase, son of Paul Chase (11),
was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, February 10,
1763, died at Millbury, November 26. 1834, ^ged
seventy-two years. He married, October 4, 1787,
Persis Marble, of the Sutton family of Marble.
Their children: Polly (Mary), born at Sutton,
January 25, 1791, married Moses Batchelder;
Charles, Septeiuber 17, 1793, see forward.

(XIII) Charles Chase, son of Thaddeus Chase
(12), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 17, 1793. He lived in Sutton and Millbury, the
adjoining town all his life, and died at Millbury,
March 9, 1829.' He was a captain in the state
militia and a prominent citizen in his day. He mar-
ried (intentions dated March 26, 1814). Their chil-
dren: Charles Slater, born at Millbury, April 23,
1815; Mary Jane, August 8, 1817, died February
24, 1829; Horatio, born about 1820, see forward;
Betsey Slater Monah (twin, born at Millbury,-
March 14, 1822; Persis Sarah Martha (twin), born
March 14, 1822,

(XIV) Horatio C. Chase, son of Charles Chase
(13), was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, about
1820. He was educated there in the public schools,
and chose a mercantile career. He was a travelling
salesman for many years for dealers in silks and
satins of the finest grades. He settled in North
Uxbridge and established a general store there, dur-
ing the civil war, in 1862. He prospered in busi-
ness and continued actively in his daily work to
the time of his death. He died at North Uxbridge,
June 7, 1892. He was a Democrat in politics and
a leader in town afTairs and in his party. In Octo-
ber, 1885, he was appointed postmaster of that vil-
lage, and after his death his daughter was made
postmistress. He attended the Baptist Church.

He married Mary Marie Brown. Their chil-
dren : M. Maria, see forward. Sanford H., educated
in the public and high schools and Uxbridge school ;
he has a secret process for roller covers manufact-
ured at Holyoke, Massachusetts, and in use in all
the mills of Blackstone valley; married Elizabeth
E. Humes and they have children — Edith Maud,
Alice Blanche. Charles Sanford, Etliel Adelia, Bessie
Irene. Pearl Maria. Angie A., educated in the pub-
lic schools and L'xbridge .Academy; married George
W. Knight, and they Iiavc four children — Dora E.,
William H., Gladys B., Emillie Gertrude. George

A., attended the public schools and Uxbridge
school, was clerk and mail messenger, is now as-
sistant postmaster.

(XV) M. Maria Chase, daughter of Horatio
C. Chase (14), was born at Grafton, Massachusetts.
She attended the public schools and graduated from
Uxbridge Academy. She studied music at Worces-
ter of E. Thayer and B. D. Allen, and has been
a church organist for thirty years, twelve years in
the Uxbridge church and eighteen years at North
Uxbridge. She has pupils on the organ and piano.
She taught schools for two years at U.xbridge and
Sutton. Her father died in June S, 1892, and she
was appointed postmistress to succeed him in July,
1S92, by President Cleveland, and has been re-ap-
pointed from time to time. She has given the ut-
most satisfaction to the patrons of the postoffice at
North Uxbridge.

FORREST E. BARKER. Thomas Barker and
his brother James, the immigrant ancestor of For-
rest E. Barker of Worcester, were among those
twenty Puritan heads of families who came from
England under the leadership of Rev. Ezekiel
Rogers, and who were described by him as "Godly
men and most of them of good estate." They ar-
rived in Salem in December, 1638. In April of the
iollowing year, having joined with them some forty
others, they bought out the former proprietors of
lands adjacent to Newbury and Ipswich, and es-
tablished a township which they called Rowley,
after the parish which had been the charge of the
Rev. Rogers in Yorkshire, England. This town-
ship included in its limits, besides the present town
of Rowley, the towns of Georgetown and Bradford.
The act of incorporation was dated September 4,.
1640, and the settlers labored in common for about
five years. Thomas was made a freeman May 13,
1640, and James on October 7 of the same year.
Thomas died without children in November, 1650,
and his widow Mary, who came from England with
him, became July 16, 1651, the third wife of the
Rev. Rogers. He died January 23, 1660, in his
seventieth year, leaving Mary as his widow.

(I) James Barker was a native of the parish
of Stragewell, in Suffolk county, England, and
brought with him to Salem his wife Grace. He
shared in the first and later divisions of lands in
Rowley, and his home was on Weathersfield street,
on land granted to him in 1643. His wife Grace
died in February, 1665-6. He married. May 22, 1666,
Mary, widow of John Wyatte, one of the early set-
tlers of Ipswich, and a freeman there in 1635. His
will was dated September 3, 1678, and he was buried
on the 7th of the same month. He was a tailor
by trade, but seems to have been also a success-
ful farmer, and was active in town afifairs. He was
for several years a judge of delinquents under the
law which fined those who refused to attend when
summoned to town meetings, served frequently as
juryman and in November, 1677, was one of the
first tythingmcn selected by the town under the
act of that year authorizing the appointment of
such officers. His children were: I. Barzillai. men-
tioned below. 2. James, born 1641. married. May
10. 1667. Mary, daughter of William Stickney. They
moved to Sufiield, Connecticut (then a part of Mas-
sachusetts, and later settled in Springfield. Massa-
chusetts. 3. Eunice, born June 2, 1642, died May,
1645. 4. Nathaniel, born October 15, 1644. married

Mary . died in Rowley, November 10. T722.

5. Eunice, born February 11. 1645-6, married John
Watson. 6. Grace, born .April i, 1650. married No-
vember 3. 1680. James Cannady. died February 19,

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1723-4. 7. Taniar, born December 13, 1652, died
the same month. 8. Stephen, born September 10,
1653, died December, 1653.

(II) Barzillai Barker, son ef James Barker (i),
was born at Rowley, in 1640. He married in Row-
ley, December 5, 1666, Anna Jcwett, daughter of
MaximiHan and Ann Jewett. She was born in Row-
ley, February 26, 1644. MaximiHan was one of the
original twenty wlio came with the Rev. Ezekiel
Rogers, bringing his wife with him. He was one
of the first deacons of the church in Rowley, and
for twenty years represented the town in the gen-
eral court. Barzillai was a farmer and an active
churchman. His orthodoxy v<ia.s illustrated when
he became one of the thirty-three who formally
protested against the settling of Jeremiah Shepard
as preacher in 1674, because he had not been regu-
larly ordained. He died intestate November 16,
1694, and his real estate was divided April 15,
1697. Anna his widow died May 12, 1727. Their
children were: i. Jonathan, born November 5.
1667, died in Rowley, May, i6Sg. 2. Ebenezer, born
December 16, 1669, died April 10, 1711, probably
never married. 3. Hannah, born January 5, 1671-2,
married June 30, 1693, Joseph Johnson, Jr., of
Haverhill. 4. Lydia, born May 13, 1674, died De-
cember, 1675. 5. Ezra, born January i, 1675-6, died
November 6, 1697, never married. 6. Esther, born
May 31, 1679. 7. Ruth, born November I, 1681.
8. Enoch, born October 21, 1684, married Bridget
Cate, October 20, 1709; he moved to Portsmouth,
and about 1715 settled in Greenland, New Hamp-
shire. 9. Bethiah, born March 8, 1686, died Sep-
tember. 1688. 10. Noah, mentioned below.

(III) Noah Barker, the youngest child of
Barzillai (2), and Anna Barker, was born in Row-
ley, August 23, 1689. He was admitted to the church
in Rowley, January 15, 1709. He learned the trade
of weaver. On April 29, 1712, his mother Anna
deeded to him all her real estate in consideration of
support during her life. Very soon after, he moved
to Ipswich and married there in May or June,
1715, Martha Figgett (or Fickett) born August 23,
1(396. daughter of Peter and Mary (Bondiield)
Fickett, of Marblehead. In 1719 they moved to
Stratham, New Hampshire, and settled near the
centre of the town on land purchased from Jona-
than Wiggin in 1718, in which year he was also
granted the privilege of building a pew in the new
meeting house. He died there January 3, 1749.
His widow died December 10, 1772. He was a pros-
perous farmer and a leader in the affairs of church
and town. In 1743 he %\-as one of a committee of
three w-ho reported adversely upon the petition of
residents in the north part of Brentwood to be made
a separate parish. In 1731 he was chosen one of
the two tythingmen for that year. He was elected
constable in 1737, but was allowed to procure a
substitute. In 1739 he was one of those protesting
to the crown against a union of the province with
Massachusetts. In 1743, influenced by the preach-
ing of Whitefield, he began with a few others the
agitation which resulted in establishing a new
church in Stratham. He continued his interest in
this society until his death, and left it iioo by
his will. He was selectman of Stratham in T735,
1736, 1738. 174^, 1743. 1744. and 1745. He was one
of the original proprietors of the township of Bow
under a royal patent, and later acquired the rights
of certain others. At the time of his death he
owned lands in the towns of Stratham, Enping,
Bow and Exeter and a fulling mill on Little River,
in the last named town.

The children of Noah and Martha were: I.
Ebenezer, born in Ipswich, May 4, 1716, married

Mary, daughter of Simeon Rundlett, removed to
Caruville, Maine. 2. Susannali, born in Ipswich,
December 25, 1718. 3. John, born in Stratham,
May 14, 1720, married and settled in Epping, New
Hampshire. 4. Ezra, born July 20, 1722, married
second, Abigail Mordough. Was a member from
Stratham of the third provincial congress, which,
met at Exeter April 21, 1775. Later removed to-
Sanbornton, died March 29, 1802. 5 . Elizabeth,
born November 10, 1724. 6. Josiah, mentioned be-
low. 7. Benjamin, born November 3, 1729, mar-
ried Deborah Pottle, died August 14, 1801. Was
major in the first regiment of the provincial militia
under Col. William Whipple ; member of the
provincial congress which met in Exeter, December
21, 1775, and January 5, 1776, resolved itself into
a house of representatives. Although he protested
against this change, he was on a committee of the
house later in January to commission a privateer.
He was a member again in 1776 and 1777, and
a member of the committee of safety in both those
years. In June 28, 1781, he was made first major
of a regiment to be commanded by Col. Daniel
Reynolds. 8. Nathaniel, born February 18, 1732,
died young. 9. Ephraim, born April 30, 1734, mar-
ried Mrs. Mary Manning, of Ipswich, February,
1760. Removed to Amherst, New Hampshire. His
wue died February 19, 1771. He died in 1800. 10.
Nathan, born February 7, 1741, married Anna Wig-
gin, who was born January 21, 1742, and died No-
vember 8, 1809. He died February 11, 1820.

(IV) Josiah Barker, the sixth child of Noah
Barker (3), was born in Stratham, March 30, 1727.
When a boy he went to Ipswich to learn the trade
of clothier. He married there in March. 1746,
Mary Heard, born March. 1725, a daughter of Dan-
iel (a deacon of the first church) and Mary (Baker)
Heard, of Ipswich. He moved to Exeter, New
Hampshire, early in 1848, purchasing land there,
and for more than forty years carried on his trade
and operated the fulling mill which was given
to him by his father's will, jointly with his brother
Benjamin, who was also a clothier. His account
books still preserved contain the autographs of
nearly all the men prominent at the time in that
vicinity, annexed to memoranda of settlements of
their accounts. He died in 1808. Influenced by
the preaching of Whitefield, he joined in the move-
ment for a second parish in the town of Exeter,
and was active in the long struggle which resulted
in I7S5 in a grant from the provincial assembly
establishing the new parish. He signed in 1776
the complaint against Maj. Daniel Tilton for re-
fusing to sell goods, and was on the committee
to enforce the non-importation agreement appointed
December 28, 1774. He served in the revolution in
1777, in Capt. Weare's company of Col. Scammell's
regiment (the third New Hampshire). The chil-
dren of Josiah and Mary were: i. ]\Iary, married

first, Weeks, second Kimball. 2. Lydia,

married Oilman .Leavitt, of Brentwood, New Hamp-
shire. 3. Tamosin, born August, 1753, married Jona-
than Norris, of Waterford, New Hampshire. 4.
Daniel, born April 22, 1754, married Anna Hill.
He was one of the men from Exeter who went to
Cambridge on the first call, April 20, 1775, and re-
maining there when others returned, he was one
of several Exeter men who joined Capt. Isaac
Sherman's company in Baldwin's (Mass.) regiment,
September 26. 1775. He was a member of Capt.
Daniel Gordon's company in Col. Thomas Task's
regiment, being one of the two authorized in Sep-
tember, 7776, to reinforce the army in New York.
After the close of the war he removed to Limerick,
Maine, and in March, 1805, became one of the first

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settlers of the township whicli is now Exeter, Maine.

5. Josiah, who went into the army in 1777. and died
in the service when ahoiit twenty years of age.

6. John, died young. 7. Nathaniel, who went to
Limerick, Maine, and later settled upon land
owned by his father in Cornish, Maine (then in
Massachusetts), and died there in 1844. 8. Noah,
mentioned below. 9. Ezra, who also went to
Limerick, and later to Cornish, Maine.

(V) Noah Barker, son of Josiah (4) and Mary
Heard, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Sep-
tember 8, 176,^ He was a farmer, and had the
farm of his father. He married first, October 7,
1789, Marv, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Col-
cord) Philbrook (Philbrick) of Rye. New Hamp-
shire. She was born June 19. 1763, and died at
Exeter, May 17, 1800. He married second, October
21, 1800, Deborah Gilman. who was born June 29,
1773- He died May 10. 1858, in his ninety-fifth

year, his wife Deborah surviving him. The chil-
dren of Noah and Mary were: i. Josiah, mentioned
below. 2. Benjamin, born May 28, 1792, married
Lydia Scamnion : served in the war of 1812; died
November 4, 1863. 3. Noah, born March 22, 1794,
died in Exeter in June, was never married. 4.
Lydia, born May 21, 1796, married Swain Ander-
son. 5. John, born July 3, 1798, died in Lisbon,
Maine, had no children.

The children of Noah and Deborah were:, i.
Mary Gilman. born September 17, 1801. Married
John Scammon of Stratliam. 2. Deborah, born Au-
gust I, 1803, died .\pril 15, 1804. 3. Deborah, born
January 28. 1805. died February 3. 1805. 4. Deborah,
born February 4, 1806, drowned August 9, 1807.
5. Gilman, born March i, 1808, married first January
10, 1839, Emeline Smith of Brentwood. Second
Lucy Ann Russell. 6. Susan Gilman, born April
27, 1810, married Nathaniel Shute of Exeter, New
Hampshire. 7. Deborah, born July 16, 1812. mar-
ried Lawrence Boardnian of Stratham. died Sep-
tember 3, i860. 8. William, born November 5, 1815,
married Ann Kendrick of Elgin, Illinois. Died in

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(VI) Josiah Barker, son of Noah (5) and Mary
Barker, was born in the house built by his grand-
father Josiah in 1770, on the old Brentwood road,
on July 25, 1790. He died in Exeter on ."Xpril 18,
1874. in his eighty-fourth year. He followed his
father on the hoinestead, and was a farmer during
his active years. He married in March, :820, Bet-
sey, daughter of Zebulon and Mary (Gilman) Dur-
rell. of .'\cton. Maine. She died March 9, 1838.
Their children were: I. Josiah Gilman, mentioned
below. 2. Elizabeth, born September 20, 1822, died
September 14. 1825. 3. John, born January 17,
1824, died January 18, 1825. 4. Mary Philbrook,
April 2, 1825, married John Yurann. 5. Noah, born
January 17, 1827, married June 6. 1885, Emma
V. Durrell, of Kenncbunk, Maine. 6. Lydia Ander-
son, born June 16, 1829. married Barlow. Bar-
low was a member of a Rhode Islan_d regiment. 7.

Julia Ann, born December 14, 1830, married

James Wilkinson, of Exeter. He was a member
of the nth New Hampshire regiment, civil war.
He died at South New Market (now New-fields),
New- Hampshire. 8. Elizabeth, born Mary 28, 1832,
died January 9. 18,^3. 9. Harriet Newell, born
March 30. 1833, married Moses H, Stickney, of
Exeter. He was a member of the nth New Hamp-
shire Volunteers, and was killed in the mine ex-
plosion in the assault before Petersburg, Virginia,
July 30, 1864. 10. John James Durrell, born Jan-
uary 7. 183;: was a member of the nth New
Hampshire Volunteers, and died of fever at Vicks-
fcurg, Mississippi, during the siege, June 29, 1863.

( Vn ) Josiah G. Barker, son of Josiah Barker
(6), was born at Exeter, New Hampshire. August
24, 1821, and died at Worcester, Massachusetts,
May 9, 1902, aged eighty years, eight months, fifteen
days. He was educated in the public schools of
Exeter, and spent his early life there. In 1856
Ik- removed to Worcester. He was a carriage
builder, having served an apprenticeship of seven
years at his trade, which he followed in Exeter.
He started in business on his own account in
Worcester. He w-as an expert and consmentious
craftsman, having the reputation of not being able
to turn out a bad job. The best trade of the city
fell to his lot. His place of business was for most
of the time on Union street, where the building of
the Baker Box Company is now. At that time
this section, which is now crowded with manufac-
turing plants, was largely marsh land. He was
associated for many years with Henry C. Fish, of
Worcester, and was in active business until about
1892, when he retired on account of ill health.

He was a total abstainer, and advocated temper-
ance when the drinking habits of the people were
different and the teetotaler a rarity. He joined the
fire engine company in Exeter, known in that vicin-
ity as the "Stiff Dickey" company, all the mem-
bers of which were total abstainers, and the nick-
name was intended as a slur. When he came to
Worcester he left the fire department, declining
to join any Worcester company. Mr. Barker en-
listed in the Twenty-second unattached artillery
company, afterward Company F. of the Fourth
Regiment Massachusetts Heavy .Artillery, in the
civil war, and was mustered out after eleven months
service by reason of the close of the war. Dur-
ing the service his health was undermined, and he
never entirely recovered from the injury to his
constitution. He became a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Exeter. New- Hampshire, in
1842. During the anti-slavery agitation, having
strong convictions on this subject, and deeming the
attitude of his church too favorable toward slavery,
he withdrew with many others and joined the
Wesleyan branch of the Methodist denomination
aliout five years before coming to Worcester. In
Worcester he was first a meinber of Laurel Street
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was later a
member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
of Worcester. w-hen the Congregation wor-
shipped in the old building on Park street,
and was a member of the official board
when the present church building on Main street
was erected. He maintained his membership and
interest until his death. In politics Mr. Barker
was always an ardent Republican, and he preached
and practiced loyalty to that party. He never lost
but one opportunity to vote for president after
he came of age. That w-as due to a change of resi-
dence when he came to Worcester. He was a man
of strong opinions and high principles, of business
ability and integrity, thoroughly respected by his
townsmen and beloved by his friends.

He married first, December 4. 1842, Betsey Kent,
born December 24. 1817, daughter of Moses and
Polly (Rowland or Roland) Kent. She came of
good old New England stock, though she w-as born
over the line, at Hatley, Canada. Province of Que-
bec, whither her parents moved from Vermont. Her
grandfather was a soldier in the Quebec Expedition
under Benedict .Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Barker cele-
brated their Golden Wedding, December 4. 1892.
in the presence of a large partv of frie'ids and
relatives. She was a member of Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church, having affiliated w-ith that denom-
ination in 1838. She died, after a long illness, .August

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5, 1895, at Gay Head, Massachusetts, where she had
spent several summers. She was seventy-seven
years of age. Josiah G. Barker married second,
January 12, iSgg. at North Brookfield, Massachu-
setts, Mrs. Elizabeth Caroline Gilbert Southworth.
widow of Albert E. Southw-orth. The children of
Josiah and Betsey were: r. Charles Roland, born
at Exeter, New Hampshire, March 13, 1845, mar-
ried first. Mary Dixon Clark, who died April 12,
i8gi, in Washinglon, D. C. ; second, October 29,
1895, Mabel L. Drake, daughter of Jeremiah W.
and Ellen L. (Prouty) Drake, born April 11, 1862.
He died December 4. 1897, at Washington. D. C.
He served in the civil war in the 60th Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers. He was ^ memher of
Morning Star Lodge of Freemasons, of Worcester
County Commandery of Knights Templar, and of
Worcester Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite, being
for a time the secretary of the last named body.
For several years prior to and at the time of his
death he was employed in the War Department,
having charge of the files in the Record and Pen-
sion Division under Col. (now Gen.) Ainsworth.
Before going to Washington he was in the retail
grocery business in Worcester. 2. Forrest Edson,
mentioned below.

(IX) Forrest Edson Barker, son of Josiah G.
Barker (8), was born at Exeter, New Hampshire.
September 29. 1853. When three years old he came
to Worcester with his parents, and was educated
there in the public schools. He graduated from the
Worcester Classical High School in 1870, and en-
tered Wesleyan L^niversity at Middletown, Con-
necticut, where he was graduated in 1874. valedic-
torian of his class, though unable to appear on the
platform commencement day on account of illness.
He began the study of law in the office of W. W.
Rice & F. T. Blackmer, in Worcester, and attended
the Boston LTniversity Law School, taking the two-
year course in one. He was admitted to the bar
in Worcester county in the spring of 1876. He re-
mained in the office with Rice & Blackmer until
he opened" an office at the corner of Main and
Front streets. A few years later he moved to an
office building on Pearl street and later to the
Walker building.

Mr. Barker is a Republican in politics. He
served six years on the Worcester school board and
two years ( 188.? and 1884) as representative to the
general court from Worcester. He served on va-
rious campaign committees of the Republican party,
and was for a time chairman of the congressional
district committee. He was appointed in 1885 a
member of the original Gas Commission of the
Commonwealth for one year by Governor George
D. Robinson, in 1886 reappointed for three years,
and has held the office ever since by successive re-
appointments. He has been chairman of the board
since the first year of Governor Greenhalge's ad-
ministration, in 1894. The present title of the com-
mission is the Board of Gas and Electric Light
Commissioners. He went abroad in the summer
of 1892 in his official capacity to study the problems
of public lighting in foreign countries. In 1896
he was in' Europe again on a similar errand, and
again in 1900 and 1905. His last trip w-as made for
special inquiries ordered by the general court of
the commonweath. The work of his board has been
in new fields. He has become an expert in his line
of duty, and his commission is a model for other
states and countries.

Mr. Barker is one of the most prominent and
best known Freemasons in the state. He was for
two years the first officer of Montacute Lodge, and
held a like position for a similar period in Eureka

Chapter, Hiram Council R. and S. M.. and Worces-
ter L. of P. of the Scottish Rite, and for a much
longer period in Goddard Council P. of J. He
served for several years in subordinate positions in
all of these bodies. He is a member of Boston
Commandery Knights Templar, and of Massachu-
setts Consistory, He is a life member of the Gen-
eral Grand Council of the United States and of all
the state grand bodies except the Grand Command-
ery. He was grand king of the Grand Royal Arch
Chapter in 1894 and for three years prior was the
representative of that body in Worcester, with im-
mediate supervision over nearly all the bodies of
that grade in Worcester and Franklin counties. He
has been senior steward of the Grand Lodge, grand
deacon and district deputy grand master with super-
vision of the lodges in Worcester and vicinity, and
served one year as senior grand warden. He was
for three successive years (1903-4-5 grand master
of the Grand Council of the State. He is a mem-
ber of Centra! Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is a member
of the Middlesex Club, the Republican Club of
Massachusetts, the University Club of Boston, and
the Wesleyan University Alumni Club of New Eng-
land, and has been president of the last named. He
is a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.
He was made a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity soon after entering college, and of the
Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year.

He married, August 11, 1881, Flora I. Hovey,
who was born at Worcester April i, 1853, the
daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Janes) Hovey, of
Worcester. She was graduated from the Worces-
ter Classical High School in 1870. After studying
at the Worcester Training School for Teachers for
a year, she was a student at the Gannett Institute
in Boston. She taught at the Thomas Street
School, Worcester. Children of Forrest E. and
Flora I. (Hovey) Barker: i. Luliona May, born
October 20, 1884: attended the public and high
schools, graduating in 1902 in the first honor list ;
graduate of Smith College, class of 1906 ; now
teacher of physics in the high school. Newton. Mas-
sachusetts. 2. Stanley Oilman, born November 26,
1887. at Worcester; educated in public and high
schools of his native town : graduating from the
high school in 1905, one of the two male com-
mencement speakers of his class ; student at
Wesleyan L'niversity, class of 1909.

DENNIS \VHEELER. Obadiah Wheeler (i),
the progenitor in this country of Dennis Wheeler,
of Leominster, Massachusetts, was the founder of a
large and distinguished family. He was born in
England in 1608. He settled in Concord, Massa-
chusetts, in 1638, and was made a freeman there
June 2, 1641. He died in Concord, October 29,

1671. He married (first) Susannah and the

first six of his children w'ere borne by her in Con-
cord. He had a second wife whose name is not
preserved, who was the mother of the last two
children. He was a farmer. His children were:

Joshua, bom in England, married Elizabeth ;

John, January 29. 1640, died young : Ruth, April
2j, 1642 : a son. November 25. 1643, died Novem-
ber 29. 1643 ; Samuel. February 22. 1644-5, married
Mary Perry: John, born 1647; Susannah, March

16. 1649. married Shepley; Obadiah. 1651 or

1652. married Elizabeth White: Josiah. died .\pril
21. 1676. killed by Indians at Sudbury. Massachu-
setts.

(II) Obadiah Wheeler, son of Obadiah Wheeler
(t). was horn 1651 or 1652. He married Elizabeth
White, daughter of William and Judith (Vassall)
White. William White was the son of Resolved

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White, who came in the "Mayflower," the brother
of Peregrine White, first child born in the colony,
and son of William and Amia While, both of whom
came in the "Mayflower." Judith Vassall was the
daughter of William and Ann Vassall, born 1619.
William Vassall was an officer of the Massachu-
setts Bay Company and a gentleman of distinction.
The children of Obadiah Wheeler, all born in Con-
cord, were: Obadiah, born September 21, 1673,
married Hannah Fletcher; Josiah, born October 22,
1675, died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, December

8, 1738; married (first) Martha , who was

born 1679; he died May 21, 1748, and she married
(second) Captain Peter Joslyn, of Lancaster; Uriah,
born April 13, 167S, died December 9, 1750; mar-
ried, December 28, 1704, Abigail Rice, of Sudbury;
who died June 10, 1754; he settled in Sudbury; his
descendants are Elisha 2, Caleb 3, Caleb 4, Ashael
5, George W- 6; Samuel, born January 23,' 1680-81,
married Joanna Walcott, settled in Carlisle, Massa-
chusetts ; Jonathan, born July 28, 1683, died about

1747, married Mary , settled in Lancaster,

Massachusetts; Elizabeth, born February 7, 1685-86;
Joseph, born March 7, 1690-91 ; Benjamin, born
September 29, 1693, died 1759, at New Marlboro,

married Hannah , who was born 1698, had

five children; Joshua, born April 9, 1696, died April
II, 1778, married about 1720, Annah — —, who died
October 26, 1761, had four children.

(HI) Jonathan Wheeler, son of Obadiah
Wheeler, son of Obadiah Wheeler (2), was born

July 28, 1683, died about 1747, married Mary .

He settled on a farm in Lancaster. His children
were: Mary, born about 1709, died July 20, 1795,
married Jonathan Moor, had no children ; Hannah,
baptized May 24, 1713; Obadiah, baptized May 26,
1717, died 1805, married Hannah Gaskill, and had
eight children ; Jonathan, born July 3, 1720, died
August 10, 1791 ; married. May 9, 1751, Thankful
Baker, daughter of Abraham and Mehitable Baker,
of Swansea, Massachusetts.

(IV) Jonathan Wheeler, son of Jonathan
Wheeler (3), was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts,
July 3, 1720. He married Thankful Baker, daugh-
ter of Abraham and Mehitable Baker, of Swansea,
born April 19, 1727. He died August 10, 1791. Their
children were: I. Jonathan, born April 6, 1752,
married, 1775, Mary Buffum, of Smithfield, Rhode
Island. 3. Stephen, born Marcli 13, 1756, died Feb-
ruary 4, 1827; married (first) Miriam Barker (sec-
ond) Amity (Aldrich) Brown. 4. Peregrine, born
July 4, 1759, died 1824; married Sarah Carter, of
Berlin, Massachusetts, who died 1803; he was prob-
ably named for Peregrine White, his father's great-
uncle. 2. Mary, born August 5, 1754, died January

1, 1807; married Thomas Watson. S- Dinah, born
June 10, 1761, died February 8, 1839; married, ]\Iay
7, 1789, William Aldrich, of Bolton. 6. Levi, born
April 29, 1768, died February 27, 1833; married,
April 12, 1792, Mary Carter; married (second), July

2, 1814, Olive Colburn, who died November 25,
1875; the youngest daughter of Levi and Oliv-e
Wheeler, Olive Colburn Wheeler, born in Berlin,
April 4, 1829, married September 25, 1848, Elijah
Carter Shattuck, of Berlin, who was born August
27, 1820, in Marlboro. 7. Thankful, married, Jan-
uary 12, 1784, Jonathan Baker, her cousin, and had
eight children.

(V) Jonathan Wheeler, .son of Jonathan Wheeler
(4). was born April 6, 1752. He married, 177s,
Mary Buffum. of Smithfield, Rhode Island. (For
full list of his children see the history of Berlin.
Massachusetts). One of his sons was Daniel, of
whom later.

(VI) Daniel Wheeler, son of Jonathan Wheeler

(5), was born in Berlin, Massachusetts, November

1, 1776, died January 17, 1853. He was raised on the
farm and learned the carpenter's trade. He married
.■\bigail Fry, daughter of John Fry, of Bolton, Massa-
chusetts. She died May 24, 1875, at the age of
ninety-two years, four months and eighteen days. He
died January 17, 1853, at the age of seventy-si,\. They
lived on Wheeler Hill in Berlin on the old home-
stead of Jonathan Wheeler. Their children were:
John, born June 17, 1803; Elizabeth, June 9, 1806,
died young; Mary, February 22, 1809; Sabra, No-
vember 8, 181 1, married William W. Wheeler; Mer-
riam, died 1828; Daniel, June i, 1814; Jonathan
Fry, born November 8, 1815; Melissa, June 20,
i8ig, married Jonathan Wheeler, son of Levi
Wheeler, married (second) John D. Merrill, cap-
tain in the militia; Alpheus, April 8, 1822;
Abby, September 9, 1826, married Joseph Merrill,
married (.second) James B. Hartley.

(VII) John Wheeler, son of Daniel Wheeler
(6), was born in Berlin, Massachusetts, on the old
homestead on Wheeler Hill. He married Betsey
Jones, of Leominster, Massachusetts, October 12,
1828. She died February 7, 1872; he died June 13,
1856. He settled on Wheeler Hill on part of the
old hoinestead and there built himself a house which
is or was recently occupied by Thomas C. Berry.
In addition to running the Wheeler farm he was
a contractor later in life until compelled by ad-
vancing age to retire. His children were: Delita
A., born July 12, 1828, married Abraham G. Bige-
lovv, of Princeton, Massachusetts, November 27,
1850; Amasa Gilbert, October 6, 1830, died 1839;.
Luke Marshall, June 10, 1833, married Harriet F.
Fitch, of Sterling, resided in Fitchburg, Massachu-
setts ; Carrie E., September 29, 1835, married Elliot
Ball. September 20, 1855, resided in Boston ; Abby
F., June 7, 1838, married Andrew Fitch, of Sterling,
died March 21, 1893; Oriana E., December 17, 1844,
married Wyman C. Fickett, a high school teacher,
graduate of Tufts College, superintendent of schools
at Spencer, Massachusetts ; Amanda M., February

2, 1847, married George A. Ellis, resides in Leom-
inster, i\Iassachusetts ; Mary L., January 29, 1840,
died February 25, 1844; Dennis E., February 28,
1S51, married Mary Dilly Carter, daughter of Oliver
Carter, April 22, 1875, resides in Leominster, Massa-
chusetts; Albert B., May 5, 1843, died February 28,

1844.

(VIII) Dennis E. Wheeler, son of John Wheeler
(7), was born February 28, 1851. He was raised
on the old homestead where he was born, in Ber-
lin. He attended the schools of his native town.
L'ntil 1868 he conducted the Wheeler farm on
Wheeler Hill in Berlin. Then he moved to Leom-
inster, Massachusetts, where he bought an excel-
lent farm and where he has since then made his
home. A few years ago he had the misfortune to
have his barn destroyed by lightning, but he replaced
it with a very fine new structure. Years ago he
made a specialty of stock and his dairy became well
known. He established a milk route which has-
grown to a large business. He has made a reputa-
tion for the production of high grade milk and
for the excellent service given his customers.

Mr. Wheeler is a Mason and is greatly interested
in the work of the local lodge to which he belongs.
He is interested in town afl'airs and has the con-
fidence of his townsmen to an unusual degree. He
has held the offices of assessor and tax collector
and for ten years has ■ been an overseer of the
poor. He and his family attend the Unitarian
church. He is a Republican in politics and active
in the party councils. His circle of friends is
unusually large. His character in public oflice and

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MARY WOODMAMCY

WORCESTER COUNTY

private life has won the respect and esteem of every-
body, regardless of political divisions or other dif-
ferences.

He married Mary Dilly Carter, daughter of
Oliver Carter, April 22, 1875. She was born in
Berlin. Their children are : Florence E., Harry E.,
Walter E.

WOODMANCY FA^HLY. Robert Wood-
mancy was the pioneer ancestor of the family in
America. He was born in England and educated
there. He was a school master by profession. As
early as 1635 he was a proprietor of the town of
Ipswich, Massachusetts. In 1644 he removed to
Boston and arranged to teach school there on an
annual salary of tifty pounds. He was living in
the town's house and keeping the school in 1652,
and he appears to have been the schoolmaster until
his death, August 13, 1667. Daniel Henchman was
engaged by the town to assist him in the grammar
school, IMarch 26, 1666. He gave land in Ipswich
to Joseph Emerson as a marriage portion with his
daughter Elizabeth. This land was sold September
14, 1652, and he sold the remainder of his farm at
Ipswich, December 18, 1655.

He married in England Margaret and

some of their children were born there. He died
August 13, 1667 ; she died about 1670. His will is
dated July 5, 1667, and proved November 15. The
estate was left to wife and daughters Martha and
Bethia, not naming the other children. Their chil-
dren: I. John, born about 1628, married Margaret
, who died December 19, 1660; married (sec-
ond). May I, 1662, Elizabeth Carr, eldest daughter
of George Carr. of Salisbury, Massachusetts ;
(third), July 23, 1672, Elizabeth Clark, daughter
of Jonas Clark, of Cambridge ; his widow married
George Monk ; the children of John Woodmancy
were: Margaret, born October 17, 1660, married,
June 22, 1690, John Richardson ; John, born Feb-
ruary 2, 1663, died February i, 1663-64 ; James,
born December 7, 1665, the only male descendant to
remain in Boston, married Abigail Mely^n; she
married (second), 1706, William Tilley, and
(third) Samuel Sewall, chief justice of the su-
perior court of Massachusetts ; she died May 26
following; Woodmancy died February 26, 1693,
leaving Elizabeth and Jacob, but has no male de-
scendants known ; Elizabeth, born August 13, 1674,
died 1675 ; Elizabeth, born March 3, 1675-76 ; Sarah,
baptized January i, 1680; John, baptized January
29, 1682, born January 28; Mary, born July 16, 1683,
Ann, born July 20, 1684, all born at Boston, where
the fatlier was a merchant. 2. Martha. 3. Eliza-
beth, married, September 14, 1652, Joseph Emery,
Ipswich. 4. Mary, married, August 20, 1653. John
Tappin. 5. Ann, married John Cutler, of Charles-
town, at Boston. 6. Seth, born at Boston, March
26, 1644. 7. Joseph, baptized April i, 1649, see
forward. 8. Bethia, born December 15, 1650.

(II) Josepli Woodmancy, son of Robert Wood-
mancy (i), was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 28, 1649, baptized April I, 1649. He left
Boston and settled probably at Westerly, in the
vicinity of which his family appears on the records.
The birtlis of his children and name of his wife
have not been found. Very little is know-n of the
pioneer settler in Rhode Island and the Rhode
Island history of the family begins after King Phil-
ip's war. His children, born between 1676 and 1700,
are found first at Charlestown, Rhode Island, where
four of them were married, viz. : i. Joseph, see
forward. 2. ]Mary, married, April 25, 1729, Thomas
Lillibridge : recorded both at Westerly and Charles-
town. 3. Mary, married, April 25, 1729, Richard

Bailey, recorded both at Charlestown and Westerly,.
Rhode Island. 4. Zcrviah, married October 3, 1734,
Thomas Rogers, at Westerly.

(III) Joseph Woodmancy, son of Joseph Wood-
mancy (2), was born about 1690. He was with his
father at Westerly and Charlestown, Rhode Island.
He settled in the latter town, where his children
were boni. He was of Westerly when he married,
July 7, 1719, Hannah Lyster, of Westerly (by Rev.
Christopher Allen). Their children: Keziah, born
August ID, 1719, married at Charlestown, December
21, 1738, Joseph Eanos, Jr.; Joseph, born July 28,
1722, see forward ; Hannah, born June 25, 1724,
married, September 12, 1742, James Webster; John,
married, April 10, 1754, Mrs. Esther Heath, resided
in Swansea, Rhode Island ; descendants found in
Warren.

(IV) Joseph Woodmancy, son of Joseph Wood-
mancy (3), was born in Charlestown, Rhode Island,
July 28, 1722. He married, August 17, 1741, at
Charlestown, Mary Webster (by Stephen Hoxsie,
magistrate) and probably married (second), Sep-
tember 27, 1750, Alice Ciosson. Their children, all
born in Richmond, were : Joseph, born June 14,
1742, see forward; Mary, born February 7, 1744,
married, December 29, 1763, Jonathan Maxson;
John, born February 13, 1746, settled in Rich-
mond; ensign in the Ninth company in 1775 in
revolution, lieutenant in Richmond company, 1777;
Penelope, born February 15, 1749, married, Septem-
ber 24, 1769, Joseph Nichols; James, born June 12,.
1752, married, January 7, 1773, Abigail Kenyon;
Sarah, born September 5, 1755; David, born June
16, 1759; Abigail, born June 27, 1764; Hazard, born
February 4, 1769.

(V) Captain Joseph Woodmancy, son of Jo-
seph Woodmancy (4), was born at Richmond^
Rhode Island, June 14, 1742; married at Richmond,
January 19, 1769, Mary Lewis (by Edward Perry,,
magistrate). He was a prominent citizen of Rich-
mond, captain of the military company in the revo-
lution and justice of the peace for many years. He
was local magistrate and performed many mar-
riages. His regiment was the first Kent county
regiment. He or his son located in Scituate. The
births of his children are not recorded. All the
records during the revolutionary war and after-
ward in that vicinity are deficient.

(VI) John Woodmancy, presumed to be son of
Captain Joseph Woodmancy, and certainly a near
relation, was born about 1780. He resided in North
Scituate, Rhode Island, and presumably was born
there. He married Mary West, a descendant of one
of the early settlers in Rhode Island. Their chil-
dren, born at North Scituate, w^ere : John, born
December 18, 1815, see forward; Phebe, married
Brown, of North Scituate.

(VII) John Woodmancy. son of John Wood-
mancy (6), was born in North Scituate, Rhode
Island, December 18, 1815. He was educated in the
public schools, and learned the trade of stone
mason. About the time his son Henry settled in
Whitinsville, he made his home there also and for
thirty years was in charge of the mason work for
the late John C. Whitin on his large country place
at Whitinsville. He died there April 24, 1897, aged
eighty-one years, four months and six days. He
had a sunny temperament and was a great favorite
with all who knew him. He was familiarly known
for many j-ears as "Uncle John Woodmancy," and
he won the respect of all the people with whom he
came in contact. He was a Republican in politics
and a Congrcgationalist in religion. Rev. John R.
Thurston, of the First Congregational Cliurch, of-
ficiated at the funeral. The Congregational quartet.

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consisting of Mrs. S. A. Carr, Mrs. F. W. Rrownin,
A. J. McAland and F. A. Halcom, .sang. The
bearers were: George M. Blanchard, C. E. Pollock,
Robert F'oster and George C. Kidd. The interment
was at Pine Grove cemetery.

He married Mary Jones. Their children :
Emily F., died young; Henry I'"., who died young;
Henry F., see forward; Jeremiah VV. ; Charles A.,
was a machinist in charge of the spindle department
of the Whitin Machine U'orks, Whitinsville, Massa-
chusetts; Ida 1., born in Scitiiate, Rhode Island,
educated in the public and high schools of Whitin.-.-
ville, attends Congregational Church, resides at the
late home of lier brother, Church street, Whitins-
ville.

(VHl) Henry F. Woodniancy, son of John
VVoodmancy (7), was born April 4, 1843, at North
Scituate, Rhode Island. He was educated in the
public schools of East Greenwich, Rhode Island,
and apprenticed to learn the trade of macliinist in
the Hopkins Machine Works at Pascoag. Rhode
Island. From there he went to Holyoke, Massachu-
setts, to work for the Whitin concern there and
later came to Whitinsville to work under his brother
Charles in the spindle department of the Whitin
Machine Works. When his brother gave up his
position on account of failing health. Henry Wood-
mancy succeeded him, and held the position the re-
mainder of his life. He was in the employ of the
Whitins altogether a period of thirty-two years. In
partnership with the late Gustavus E. Taft, he se-
cured a patent on a self-oiling spindle, called the
Whitin-Rabbeth spindle, and it practically revolu-
tionized cotton spinning by frame. That the in-
vention was one of the most remarkable of the age
has been demonstrated by the fact that the spindles
have found their way into every country on the
globe where cotton is manufactured. Mr. Wood-
mancy's royalty on the patent amounted to a large
sum and his heirs still receive it. He accumulated
a handsome property. The patent rights are re-
corded in every civilized country.

Mr. Woodmancy was very fond of hunting and
fishing, and passed many of his vacations in the
Maine woods. He organized the Whitinsville Fish
and Game Club of thirty members, obtained control
of Wall is pond in East Douglass and stocked it with
trout. He enjoyed the respect and esteem of all his
townsmen and the entire confidence of his employ-
•ers. The careful manner in which he attended to
his duties shows that their confidence was not mis-
placed. He always took great pride and satisfaction
in his work, and throughout his life was eminently
practical. He was a Republican in politics, but
never cared for public office. In religion he was a
Congregationalist. He died after a painful illness
with inflammatory rheumatism. February 20, 1899,
aged fifty-five years, nine months and twenty-seven
days. The funeral was in charge of Rev. J. R.
Thurston, of the First Congregational Church, who
spoke in his eulogy words of high praise and ap-
preciation of the life, character and services of Mr.
Woodmancy. The floral contributions from the
employees of the Whitin Machine Works gave evi-
dence of the respect and esteem of the community.
The Schumann quartet assisted. The bearers were :
Emery B. Burbank, Bertram S. Sweet, Robert
Sproat, Robert Foster, W. Eugene Johnston and
Oscar Owen. The interment was in Pine Hill
cemetery, Whitinsville.

HENRY S. SAWYER, who has followed vari-
ous occupations in the course of his life, and is now
( T906) a prosperous and well known farmer at
Sterling Junction, Worcester county, Massachusetts,

is a representative in the seventh generation of the
Sawyer family in this country.

Edward. William and Thomas Sawyer, three
brothers, came to this country about 16,35-36. They
were passengers on the ship of Captain Parker, and
came from Lincolnshire. England. Edward and
Thomas each had a tract of land given them at Row-
ley, the bounary being specified, and one side being
on the ocean. William settled in Newbury, now
Newburyport. in 1645. and in 1647-48. removed to
Lancaster, whche he settled permanently. He was
one of the first four who subscribed to a covenant
entered into for themselves, heirs, etc.

( I ) Thomas Sawyer, the pioneer ancestor of all
the Sawyers in Lancaster, Sterling and Bolton, was
born in England in 1616. He heard of the purchase
in the Nashua valley by Thomas King, repaired to
Watertown, saw King, and went thence to the
Nashua valley, where he remained until his death
at the age of ninety years in 1706. He was one of
the first settlers in Lancaster, and his garrison was
in that part known by the name of New Boston,
and a little north of the house of Jolm G. Thurston.
Esq., formerly Samuel F'lagg's. He married Mary

. and had children : Thomas, born July. 1649,

was. with his two sons — Elias and John Bigelow,
taken captive by the Indians and carried to Canada,

October 15. 1705. He married Mary , and had

children : Bezaleel, Mary, who married a Mr. Rice ;
Hannah, who married a Mr. Moore; William, Jo-
seph, and Elias. Ephraim, born January. 1651, N.
S.. was killed by the Indians at Prescott's Garrison,
February, 1676. Mary, born January. 1653. N. O.
Elizabeth, born January, 1654. Joshua, born March
1655. James, born March. 1657. Caleb, born April,
1659- John, born April, 1661. Nathaniel, see for-
ward,

(II) Nathaniel Sawyer, seventh son and ninth
and youngest child of Thomas (l) and Mary Saw-
yer, was born November, 1670. He had ten chil-
dren: I. Samuel, born 1697, was one of the first
settlers of Sterling. His farm was owned and oc-
cupied in 1850 by a great-grandson of his. It is
situated on a hill about two miles from Sterling
Meeting House. He married Deborah Rugg, of
Lancaster, and they had children : Mary, who mar-
ried J. Kilburn; Azubah, married Nathan Burpee;
Samuel, born January 2. 1740. O. S.. was a captain
married Phoebe Cooper, daughter of Moses Cooper,
and they had children : Cooper, born November 14,
1768. died October, 1830; Samuel, born October It,
1770. died November. 1848; Martha, born October
30. 1772. died March. 1853; Phoebe, born September
I. 1774. died July, 1793; Putnam, born August 23,
1776. died October, 1843: Ruth, born November II,
1778. died October, 1857; Mary, born November 10,
1781. died March, 1864; Moses, born April 27. 1784,
died January, 1870; Sally, born February 14. 1786,
died March. 1792. Lucy, married a Mr. Brooks.
Deborah, married Jonas Wilder. Betsey, married
Silas Wilder. Joshua, married Esther Jewett. Ruth,
married David Jewett. 2. .^nios. lived in Lan-
caster. 3. Ezra, see forward. 4. Thomas, born
171 1, settled west of the Washacum pond. 5. Eph-
raim. settled a little south of the Redstone School
House, on the farm lately owned by Moses Thomas,
Esq. 6. John, settled in the northeast part of Sterl-
ing but left the town and went to the west. 7.
Phineas. 8. Nathaniel. 9. Jonathan. 10. Eunice,
married a Mr. Gates.

(HI) Ezra Sawyer, third son and child of
Nathaniel Sawyer, was horn in 1702. He settled in
the eastern part of Sterling, a quarter of a mile
south of tlie Redstone School House on the farm
formerly owned by Moses Thomas, Esq. He mar-

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ried Rebecca Wliitcomb, and had children: Prud-
ence, born September i, 1720, married Joseph house ;
iihzabeth, born July 2, 1728, marriea a Mr. Kich-
ardson; Ezra, see lorwara; Rebecca, born -february
14, 1736, married Levi Moore, of boylston ; Keziaii,
born May 9, 1737, married John May; h-stner, born
May s, 1739, married Josiah Kendall; Natnamcl,
born March I, 1741, died young; Major Menassan,
married Lucy Ricnardson.

(1\ ) Captain tzra Sawyer, third child and
eldest son 01 Ezra (,3; and Rebecca (W'hitcomb;
Sawyer, was born August 18, 1730. He lived lu
Sterling and owned a larm there which is stih in
the possession ot a member ot the tamily. He had
command of a company of soldiers at the commence-
ment of the revolution and went to Dorchester to
join the army stationed there, when he was taken
sick and diea suddenly. His remains were brougnt
to Sterling and his grave is a tew rods south ot
the gate in the old part of the burying ground m
Sterling. He married Keziah Sawyer, daughter 01
Abner and Mary Sawyer, and they had cnildren :
Abner, born November 3, 1762, was a soldier in the
army at the time of the revolution, when he w-as
but sixteen years of age ; the trials and hardships
of camp life were too severe for his constitution
and he was taken sick and died at Albany. Ezra,
see forward; Thomas, born April 15, J766, married
Elizabeth Houghton, January S, 1789, and died Au-
gust 16, 1825; his wife was born January i, 1769,
died May ib, 1856; Nathaniel, born September 10,
1768 or 1769, died unmarried March, 1835.

(Y ) Captain Ezra Sawyer, second son and child
of Captain Ezra (4) and Keziah (Sawyer) Sawyer,
was born March 20, 1764. He went to the state ot
New York when a young man and purchased a traa
of land on the Mohawk river, and resided there for
two OT three years. He then sold it and returned
to the homestead of his father, which he and his
brother Thomas owned, and with the addition of a
part of the Seaver farm, they made two very ex-
cellent farms. His death occurred March i, 1853.
He married Martha Sawyer, daughter of Samuel
and Phoebe Sawyer, and had children: Samuel,
see forward ; Ezra, Jr., born February 20, 1804, died
October 4, 1806; Martha, born January 28, 1808,
married Augustus G. Hill, of Harvard, January 15,
1837, died July 31, 1837.

(VI) Samuel Sawyer, eldest child of Ezra and
Martha (Sawyer) Sawyer, was born November 13,
1800, on the old homestead in Sterling, Worcester
county, Massachusetts. He was engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits all his life and was a man of
influence in the public afifairs of the townships,
holding a number of public offices at various times.
He was representative to the general court in
1833-34 : was a selectman, member of the school
committee, and assessor. He was a member of the
Unitarian Church, in w'hich he filled the office of
deacon for the long period of forty-one years, and
was superintendent of the Sunday school for six-
teen years. His death occurred December 9, l86g.
He married, Eunice Houghton, born December 17,
1803, died June 18, 1884. They were the parents
of children, as follows : Jane E., born December
15. 1824, married George Goss, October 18, 1855.
Ezra, born April 8, 1827, lived on the old home-
stead in 1862; he joined the army, starting from
New York on the steamer "Continental," January
18. 1863. and was detailed clerk to acting Brigadier-
General Gooding; he belonged to the Fifty-third
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and went to
New Orleans. The regiment arrived in Fitchburg.
August 24, 1863; Frederick A., born April 4, 1832,
was a physician and surgeon and left New York,
iii

Tuesday, December 2, 1862, on the steamer "Illinoi.s,"
one of General Banks' fleet, as surgeon of the Fifty-
second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and
arrived in New Orleans, December 14, and Baton
Rouge, December 17; Mary, born January 20, 1834;
Henry S., see forward.

(VH) Henry S. Sawyer, third son and fifth andi
youngest child of Samuel (6) and Eunice (Hough.-
ton) Sawyer, was born on the Sawyer iiomestead,..
in Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, July-
's. 1843. His early education was acquired in the
common schools of his native town, and this was
supplemented by courses in Lancaster Academy and:
the Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hamp-
shire. Upon the completion of his education he be-
came a salesman in the lumber business for Ebeni
S. FuUen, at the same time teaching school during::
the winter months. He has been engaged in genera!
farming and makes a specialty of fruit growing:
since 1867. He has taken an active part in the
public affairs of the town, doing much to advancer
it in various ways. He has always taken a special
interest in educational matters, and has served as
a member of the school committee for a period of
sixteen years, and as a member of the library com-
mittee for si.x years. He is a member of Lancaster
Lodge, No. 89, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,.
of Lancaster, and both he and his wife are con-
sistent members of the Congregational Church o£
Sterling.

He married, October 3, 1866, Mary L. Burpee,
born in Sterling, April 20, 1845, daughter of James
and Eunice (Goss) Burpee, and they have children:
I. Arthur H., born July 19, 1868. He was educated
in the public and high schools of Sterling and is
also a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College of Amherst, Massachusetts. He is a civil
engineer by profession, and served as engineer of
the cement department of the Wachusetts dam, and
now resides in East Orange, New Jersey. He mar-
ried. February 14, 1900, Alice Harrington, of Nortli-
boro, daughter of George Harrington, and they have
children : Edris H. and Norman E. 2. Mabel Jane,
born December 19, 1870, resides at home with her
parents ; she has been a teacher in public schools of
Sterling. 3. Ezra Warren, born December 17, 1872.
was educated in the public schools of Sterling and
was then apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade.
For many years he conducted a general contracting
and carpenter business in Sterling. He is assessor
and tax collector, is a member of the Unitarian
Church and of Clinton Lodge. Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. He married Mary Florence Priest,,
of Sterling, daughter of Henry Harrison Priest,,
and has no children. 4. Elsie Eunice, born Septem-
ber 26. 1877, is a teacher in the public schools of
Webster. 5. William Francis, born September 20,
1888, is a student in the Massachusetts Agricultural
College at Amherst. The residence of Henry S.
Sawyer is the one celebrated in song and stor}- as-
the home of "Mary, who had a little lamb with
fleece as white as snow," etc.

ALDEN WHITE PAINE. Stephen Paine (i),
the immigrant ancestor of Alden White Paine.
(if Whitinsville. Massachusetts, came from Great
Ellingham in the Hundred of Shropshire, near
Hingham, Norfolk county, England. He was a
miller by trade. He came to this country in i6,?S
in the ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, John Martin,
master, with his wife Rose, three sons, and four
servants. One of the sons probably died soon after-
ward. He settled first in Hingham, Plymouth
colony, and was admitted a freeman in 1639. He
was deputy to the general court at Plymouth in

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1641. In 1641-42, he had leave "to sit down" at
Seacunk (Scckonk) and he removed there in 1643-
44. The place was later called Keholioth. Massa-
chusetts, and Paine was one of the original grantees,
the fifth on the list. He held many positions of
honor and trust, and was one of the wealthiest
men of the town, being third on the list in 1643,
rated at 535 pounds. He served as tow-nsman from
1644 several years and was deputy to the general
court from 1645 to 1660 and at various times after-
ward until 1671. When the common lands were
divided in June. 1645, he was the first on the list
of fifty-eiglit proprietors who drew land. He was
appointed one of the three magistrates for the town
in 1656. He, his sons Stephen and Nathaniel Paine,
and Captain Thomas Willett, who suhsequently be-
came the first mayor of New York city under Eng-
lish ownership, with others bought the large tract
of land now Attleboro, Massachusetts, of Wamsutta
and other Indians. Paine was also a proprietor of
Warren, Rhode Island (Sowains). He was on a
committee to divide land in 1666. He died August,
1679, leaving a will, mentioning wife and children
as given below. He married (second) Alice Parker,
in 1662. She was the widow of William Parker,
of Plymouth and Taunton ; she died December 5,
1682. In some records her name is unaccountably
given as Elizabeth. Children: Stephen, see for-
ward : Nathaniel.

(II) Stephen Paine. Jr., son of Stephen Paine
(i), was born in Norfolk county. England, in 1629.
He came over when nine years old with his parents
and settled with them at Hingham. He went to
Rehoboth with the family in 1643 a"d became a
promineiit citizen of that town and a. large land-
owner. He took the oath of fidelity in 1657. He
•was a tanner by trade. He held several town offices
at various tim'es. He and his father were early
proprietors of Swansea, and one or 60th may have
lived there. In January g. 1671-72, the selectmen
of Swansea granted Stephen Paine, Sr., a house
lot there adjoining land of Stephen, Jr., on the east
side of Mendon river. In 1667 Stephen, Jr., was on
a committee appointed by the general to have charge
of the disposal of land and ordering of other af-
fairs in Swansea. He fought in King Philip's war,
in 1675, and contributed the sum of ten pounds,
eleven sliillings. five pence to the fund for carrying
on the war. He served under Major William Brad-
ford. He died at Rehoboth, 1677-78, leaving a wife
Anna, who died December, 1679-80. She had mar-
ried (second) Thomas Mctcalf, of Rehoboth. He
left a non-cupative will, disposing of his property.
iTis wife was .^nne Chickering, daughter of Francis
Chickering, of Dedham. Massachusetts. Their chil-
dren : Stephen, born September 29, 1654. married
(first) Elizabeth Williams; (second) Mary Brint-
nall, August 12, 1707; he was deputy to the gen-
eral court, etc. Rebecca, born October 20. 1656.
married. December 24, 1673, Peter Hunt, Jr., and
(second) Samuel Peck, November 21, 1677. John,
born April 3, 1658. see forward. Mary, born May
II. 1660. married, October 29, 1678-79. Enoch Hunt,
of Relioboth. Samuel, born at Reheboth. May 12.
1662. married. December 16. 1685. .\nne Peck; (sec-
ond) Abigail Fussell, of Woodstock, where he set-
tled; died May 11. 1735. Elizabeth, born August
27, 1664, married February 10, 1685. Sarah, born
October 12, 1666, married November 2.3. 16SS. Daniel
Aldis; died .^pril 17. 171 1. Nathaniel, torn Sep-
tember 20. 1667. married May 1. 1694, Dorothy
Chaffee, resided in Rehoboth. Benjamin, born
March 9. 1674-7.S. owned land in Rehoboth. l68g.
died at Bristol, Rhode Island, 1698; unmarried, will
bequeathed to brother. John Paine, of Swansea,

"long exercised by sickness" twenty pounds and di-
vided his land among his brothers.

(III) John Paine, sun of Stephen Paine. Jr.
(2), was born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, April.
,?, 1658, died at Providence, Rhode Island, Septem-
ber 26, 1718. He resided at Swansea in 1683; re-
moved to Providence, Rhode Island, about the time
of his brother Benjamin's death in 1698. In 1686
he was a highway surveyor of Swansea. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Belcher, of Rehoboth: married (sec-
ond) Martha and she married (second), April

17, 1719, Abel Potter, in Rhode Island. Accord-
ing to the genealogy by Hon. Nathaniel Paine, of
Worcester, John Paine had fifteen children, viz. :
Elizabeth, born July 12, 1682, at Rehoboth ; John,
Jr., born at Swansea, February 16, 1683, died July
19. 1723; Stephen, born June 5, 1686. married, Oc-
tober 13, 1715, Sarah Vallett, in Rhode Island ;
Josiah, born March 17. 1687; Joseph, born May 3,
1693; Rebecca, born May I, 1694; Solomon, born
June 21, 1696, married, March 13, 1718, Abigail
Owen. Rhode Island; Benjamin, baptized 1699, see
forward; Nathaniel, baptized 1701 ; Gideon, bap-
tized 1703; Urania, born and baptized 1706. Chil-
dren of John and Marth.T : William, born at Provi-
dence. November 18, 171 1, baptized at Swansea;
Abijah, born at Providence. October 18, 1713;
Ezekiel. born at Providence, August 26, 1715; Sam-
uel or Lemuel, born July 22, 1716, at Providence.
The last-named nine were baptized at Swansea, ap-
parently after the family removed to Rhode Island.

(IV) Benjamin Paine, son of John Paine (3),
was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and baptized
in 1699 in Swansea, Massachusetts. He settled in
Smithfield, formerly part of Providence, Rhode
Island, where his twenty-eight children were born.
He married (first) Elizabeth : (second), De-
cember 24, 1731. at Smithfield. by Valentine Whit-
man, Anna Arnold. He married (third), by Thomas
Sayles, November 2. 17.34, Annie Mowry. at Smith-
field. He married (fourth), by John Smith, April
,30. 1751. at Smithfield. Jemima Eston. Children
of Benjamin and Elizabeth Paine: Priscilla. born
June 5, 1722, married, August 21, 1740, Samuel
Aldrich; Dorcas, born July 29, 1724; Nathan, born
June 18, 1726; Benjamin, born March ly. 1727;
Jehu or John, born September 2, 1729: Arnold, born
February 12, 1733. Children of Benjamin and
.\nna:, Amie, born August 31, 1735, died young;
.•\my, born March 7, 1736-37 ; Elizabeth, born .'\pril
27. 1738; Mary, born July 27, 1739; Sarah, born
March 14. 1740; John, born December 21. 1742. died
.Vugust 27. 1746; Abigail, born May 20. 1744; Mar-
garet, born May 17. 1746; Joseph, born .-Uignst 17,
1747. married. December 20, 1781, Ruth Wilbur,
daughter of Daniel Wilbur ; Benoni. born April 25,
1749. married. April 10, 1774. Martha Wilbur, daugh-
ter of Daniel Wilbur. Children of Benjamin and
Jemima: Jonathan, 'born February 8, 1753: Abi,
born September 12, 17.S4; Jemima, born December
8. 1756: Obed. born December 31. 1758. married,
November 7, 1784. Lenina Smith, daughter of Rufus
Smith; Bela. born January 26, 1761-2, see forward;
Laadan or Ladon, born June 21. 1765. married. No-
vember 15. 17S7, Elizabeth Westcott. daughter of
Nathan 'VV'estcott ; Abel, born June 20. 1767; .Mden
(twin), born June 30. 1767; Benak. Cyrus, married.
May I. 1794. Elizabeth Mowry, daughter of Philip
Mowry: Leruah (Serviah), born March 17, 1770;
child, died young, not named.

(V) Bela Paine, son of Benjamin Paine (4).
was born in Smithfield. Rhode Island. January 26.
1 761 -2. He married there, November 7, T784, Ruth
Latham, daughter of Joseph Latham, by Uriah Al-
verson. Their children born in Smithfield, were:

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Ephraiin, born December 8, 1785, see forward;
:Sarah, born January 13, 1788; Sterling, born April
15, 1790, married, July 28, 1808, Sarah Eston ;
Michael, born March 13, 1792.

(VI) Ephraim Paine, son of Bela Paine (5),
was born at Smithfield Rhode Island, December 8,
1785. He was a farmer and became the largest
land owner of the town of Smithfield, where he
lived. He was able to give or bequeath to each of
his eight children a farm. He married Cynthia
Mowry, born in 1784, at Glocester, Rhode Islana,
died April 26, 1861, at Smithfield. Children of
Ephraim and Cynthia Paine: Nelson, see forward;
William M. (twin). Waity (twin), Mercy, Ephraim,
Jr., Ruth, iMarvin M., Mary Ann M.

(VII) Nelson Paine, son of Ephraim Paine (6),
was born at Smithfield, Rhode Island, about l8ia,
and died at Northbridge, Jilassachusctts, in 1889.
He came when a young man from Smithfield to
Northbridge, and in 1840 bought land of Charles
White, a relative. He married, February 15, 1839,
Annie White, daughter of Alden White; she was a
cousin of Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, wife of the
great preacher. Mr. Paine's will is dated September
II, 1874. filed September 17, 1889, shortly after his
death. He was of a musical temperament. He left '
his violin to his grandson in his will. Children of
Nelson and Annie Paine : Mary L., born January
23, 1841, died August 17, 1874, left one daughter,
Mary M. Aldrich ; Alden White, born January 17,
1850, see forward.

(VIII) Alden White Paine, son of Nelson
Paine (7), was born at Northbridge, Massachusetts,
January 17, 1850, died there November 17, 1888.
He followed in his father's footsteps on the farm
at Northbridge, then learned the trade' of black-
stnith in the Whitin Machine Works and rose to
the head of his department in the works. He was a
man of high character and unusual skill and ability
in his trade. He was a Republican in politics and a
Congregationalist in religion. He married, October
22, 1872, Sarah Anna Clarke, of Hubbardston,
INIassachusetts, daughter of William G. and Lois
(Stone) Clarke. She was born January 7, 1850, and
educated in the public and high schools of her
native town, and at the State Normal school at
Framingham, where she graduated in l86g. She
taught school in the towns of Hubbardston, Sutton
and Northbridge, IMassachusetts. They resided at
Plumniers corner in the village of Whitinsville,
town of Northbridge. Their children: Nelson
Clark, born at Northbridge, April i. 1874, died De-
cember 13, 1889; Lois Lilian, born July 2, 1876,
graduate of the Whitinsville high school and had
passed her entrance examinations for the State
Normal school, Worcester, when November 19,
1895, she was killed in a runaway accident ; Charles
Eugene, born September 13. 1S78, educated at
Whitinsville high school, Phillips Academy at
Exeter, New Hampshire, and Bates College ; Her-
bert Eugene Wing, born November 7, 1883, gradu-
ate of Whitinsville high school and Easthampton
Academy, studied physical culture under McFadden,
pitchef for the Worcester baseball club.

OR AN ALLAN KELLEY. Robert Kelley (l).
the progenitor of Oran Allan Kelley, in Worcester
county, was probably a descendant of the Kelley
family of Boston, which was among the earliest in
that town. Edward Kelley came to Boston on the
■"Hopewell" in, April 1635. and settled in Boston.
He had a son Edward,, born November 4. 1664. He
was, very likely, a relative of David Kelley, also
of Boston. Elizabeth was the name of the w'ives of
both. There was a Robert Kelley (Calley) in

Charlestown about the same time, who left descend-
ants, and who for several generations used this spell-
ing, which was common in the Worcester county
family, also down to recent times.

David Kelley settled first on Hog Island in Bos-
ton Harbor, but bought a place in town. May 13,
1656. He died in 1662. His widow married Robert
Smith, seaman, of Boston. The children of David
Kelley were: David, born December 18, 1647;
William, born 1653, died young; Samuel, born Oc-
tober 9, 1657, died young; Samuel, born November
30, 1661. Five children were living in 1662.

Henry Kelley and wife Eliza had three chil-
dren, in Boston: Henry, born May 13, 1709; Eliza-
beth, born March 18, 1711-12; Robert born April
26, 1714.

Robert Kelley, of Boston, trader (probably this
Robert), bought land east of Lake Quinsigamond
in and near Worcester, November 2, 1734, of Wig-
glesworth Sweetzer, and sold it, August 25, 1738, to
James Moore, of Grafton, for five hundred pounds.
It was Richard Moore, Jr., who sold to Robert
Moore, of Charlton, the three-hundred-acre home-
stead in Charlton, where he lived and died.

(I) Robert Kelley, of Charlton, was the great-
grandfather of Oran A. Kelley, of Worcester. He
bought the farm, November 27, 1764. but seems to
have lived in Charlton before purchasing this place.
He had relatives there, as Richard Kelley was wit-
ness of some of his papers. David Kelley, of Upton,
the adjoining town. There were Kelleys in Hop-
kinton, early; Hopkinton adjoins Upton.

Although it is difficult and perhaps impossible
to trace the line from Robert Kelley to the emi-
grant, there is no great doubt that the family is
of English descent, that the Charlton settler was
descended from the Boston family, and that other
members of the family settled in Middlesex county
from 1730 to 1760, when the movement of popula-
tion from the old colonial towns was going on
actively.

Robert Kelley was a leading citizen of Charl-
ton. When the revolution broke out he was lieu-
tenant of the militia company of which Benjamin
Richardson was captain. They were drafted from
General Jonathan Warner's brigade to serve in the
seige of Boston. In 1776 he was lieutenant of the
same company, in Colonel Nicholas Dike's regiment.
The records show that he marched with his regi-
ment, September 26. 1777, to reinforce the Conti-
nental army under General Gates, in the northern
department. He served during the greater part of
the war.

He married Ruth Wheelock (intentions declared
September 22), 1759. He married (second) Lydia
Marrs, of Western (Warren), Massachusetts, (in-
tentions dated September 5.), 1771. The children
of Robert and Ruth (Wheelock) Kelley were:
Abigail, born 1757; Chapin, born 1759, married Sally
Thompson, 1793 (intentions dated September 12) ;
Rachel, born about 1761 ; Joel, born 1764; he became
a prominent man and dealt extensively in real
estate, as the records show. The children of Robert
Kelley and Lydia, his wife, were : Ruth, married
Asa Newell, October 24, 1790; Mary, born 1772,
married Thomas Town, April 27, 1794; Lydia, born
1774, married Isaac Patrick, of Western; Robert,

born 1776, married Lucretia • , at Barre; Henry,

born in 1778; William, born in 1780. Abner Kelley,
born 1783, mentioned below, (was a baby at the
time of his father's death. Edward Wheelock,
relative of their mother, was appointed guardian
of Joel, Chapin and Abigail Kelley. The father's
will was dated May 30, 1783, and proved July I,
1783. Richard Kelley, possibly Richard's father.

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was a witness of the will and, to judge from the
handwriting, was a very aged man. 1 lie guardian
for the younger children was appointed at the same
time. The records of the family were obtained
from the probate records, the town records not
giving birth, though it seems probable that the chil-
dren were all born in Charlton — certainly all but one
or two of the older ones).

(.11) Abner Kellcy, son of Robert Kelley (i),
was born in Charlton, .Massachusetts, in 1783. His
father died when he was an infant in arms, and he
was reared by relatives. He settled in Western,
Massachusetts, an adjoining town, now called War-
ren. In 1805 he and other heirs of Robert Kellcy
made a quitclaim deed of land of his father, in
Sturbridge. Abner Kelley was a carpenter by trade.
The lirst name of his wife was Eliza. Their chil-
dren were: Eliza, born at Warren, 1806, died 1832;
Lydia Ann, born September 18, 1809, married
Charles Parkes, of Stowe, .Massachusetts; children:
Abijah, Caroline Elizabeth, Adelaide .\ugusta,
Clara Josephine, Mary Louise. Nellie Frances; Oran
Allan, born at Warren. September i, 181 j; .Abner,
Jr., born 1814, married Susan .M. Whittemore, of
Leicester, May 31, 1839; she was the daughter of
Amasa and Senta, born March 13, 1818. in Leices--
ter ; he had a farm on the road from Brookfield to
Warren.

(III) Oran Allan Kelley, son of .\bner Kellcy
(2), was born in Warren, Massachusetts. He mar-
ried in 1833, .Maria Bacon, who was born in Charl-
ton in 1815. and adopted when young by her uncle.
Her father's name was Lafling. They settled lirst
in West Winchester, New Hampshire. They moved
to Worcester in 1846.

Mr. Kelley built a house on the corner of .Arch
and Hanover streets. He opened a grocery store
and was known as a prosperous merchant. He was
a carpenter by trade, and in addition to carrying on
his store was a prominent contractor and hudder
in the early days of the city, at a time when its
growth w^as rapid. He became interested in real
estate and built and owned many houses. He was a
shrewd judge of the value of real estate and dealt
extensively in it.

Mr. Kelley was a Republican. He served the
city in the common council, and in other positions
of honor and trust. He was an earnest temper-
ance advocate. He was highly esteemed as a citi-
zen, and was a leader in the church as well as in
public affairs. He was a member of the Metho-
dist Church and active in the building of the Laurel
Street church. He died in Worcester, July 2, 1881.
His wife died September 16, 1892.

The children of Oran Allan and Maria (Bacon)
Kelley were : Eliza Maria, born 1837, married Amos
M. Eaton; their daughter Cora married Charles H.
Heywood, envelope manufacturer, Milwaukee, and
has seven children ; Louisa, born 1839, died 1840 ;
Oran Allan, Jr., born September 2, 1842; Emma
Louisa, born 1844, married Samuel D. Houghton,
real estate dealer of Worcester, and has a son,
Ernest R. Houghton, and a daughter Grace M.
Houghton.

(IV) Oran Allan Kelley, son of Oran A. Kelley
(3), was born in West Winchester, New Hampshire,
September 2, 1842. He is perhaps the best known
horse dealer in Worcester, and one of the best
known in New England. The stock dealers of the
west, as well as the horse dealers and farmers of
New England, have all traded with Mr. Kelley. He
came to Worcester with his parents when only
three years of age, and he has grown up with the
city. He was educated in the Worcester schools.
At the age of eighteen he became a clerk in his

father's grocery store on .-Vrch street, Worcester.
A few years later he started the stock farm, which
his father formerly owned, and with which his
name has since been associated. His farm, which
at hrst comprised forty acres, has been increased to
about four liundred acres. It is located on Lincoln
street and is all in the city of Worcester, near the
Worcester almshouse. It is one of the best dairy
farms in the state. He produces more milk than any
other dairy owner in the city. The entire product is
taken by the Worcester Insane .Asylums, and he has
furnished them with milk for thirty-two years. His
stock are prize winners at the fairs and' the dairy
farm is a model in every way. He lives on the
farm and still gives it his personal supervision.

In 1886 he opened a sales stable on Summer
street, and established a large business. He bought
stock in 'Vermont and the west by the carload, and
his judgment in buying has made this line of busi-
ness very successful. .As a -dealer in horse flesh,
Mr. Kelley stands at the head in Worcester. In
1899 he bought the property on Foster street, where
his stables arc now located.

He has built up, also, a very large trade in car-
riages, harnesses, blankets and sleighs. Fie is a
good advertiser, and is shrewd enough to tell noth-
ing but the truth in his advertisements. His suc-
cess is due to upright dealing with men that re-
tains them as his customers year after year, and
brings to him new customers all the time. His
thorough knowledge of his business and his mag-
netic personality have contributed largely to his
business success, of course. He is tactful and clever
in his dealings with men in social as well as in busi-
ness life. Another and important field of Mr.
Kelley's activities has been in real estate in Wor-
cester. He has some four hundred acres within the
city limits and from time to time has put building
lots on the market, notably a section of May street,
one of the most attractive residential streets in
in the city. He loves good horses and always owns
some fast ones. He has bred some that have been
famous. Don Pedro trotted in 2:16; he was sold in
Australia. For years Mr. Kelley has contributed
to the interest of the frequenters of the Worcester
Boulevard, where the winter racing takes place
when the sleighing permits. He knows and always
has an artistic /ig.

Mr. Kelley is a Republican and has always taken
an interest in public affairs. He served the city in
the common council and as an overseer of the
poor. He is a prominent Free i\Iason, having taken
all the degrees to and including the thirty-second
in the Scottish Rite.

Mr. Kelley married, January 19, 1864, Mary S.
Bond, of Boylston, Massachusetts. She was the
daughter of Thomas and Harriet (Slocum) Bond,
of Boylston, and was born there, March 2, 1842.
Her mother was a native of Shrewsbury. Thomas
Bond was a prosperous farmer. He lived to the
advanced age of eighty-three, and his wife to the
age of eighty-one. They reared a family of two
sons and four daughters. The children of Oran
Allan and Mary S. (Bond) Kelley were: Oran
A., 3rd. born in Worcester. May 8, 1866; married
Frances Hewett, daughter of George Hewett; he is
associated with his father in business, keeping
books and sharing the management of the stable
business. They have one son, Oran .Allan, Jr.
Herbert B., born September 24. 1867 ; married Anna
Leverett ; was formerly a clothing merchant in Wor-
cester ; is now associated with his" father in busi-
ness. Florence G.. born in Worcester, June 11,
1870; resides with her parents.

BOND FAMILY. Jonas Bond was one of the

WORCESTER COUNTY

English ancestors of Mrs. Oran Allan Kellcy, of
Worcester, and her sister, Mrs. A. \V. Andrews.
He lived at Bury St. Edmunds after the birth of his
second child about 1590. The other children were
baptized there. He may have removed from Haw-
ley or Woolport, where according to his will he
owned real estate. He was buried August 5, l6oi.
He married Rose Wood. Their children were :
Oliver, the eldest; John, called the elder; John,
called the younger, two sons of the same name being
living at the same time (similar instances have been
noted elsewhere in this work) ; he was baptized
December 26, 1591, married, June 28, 1612, Lydia
Tixtott, had eight children ; Bartholomew, men-
tioned in will; William, baptized December 28, 1695;
Thomas, born in Bury St. Edmunds, baptized Sep-
tember 8, 1697, heir to house in Woolport ; maltster ;
Elizabeth, baptized March 12, 1699, married (sec-
ond), February 8, 1625, Deacon Ephraim Child, of
Watertown, Massachusetts ; Margaret, baptized De-
cember 10, 1600.

Thomas Bond, son of Jonas Bond (l), was
baptized at St. James Church, Bury St. Edmunds,
England, September 8, 1797. He received from his
father's estate the house at Woolport. He was a
maltster by trade. He lived at Bury St. Edmunds.
His children were : Thomas, baptized September
22, 1622; John, baptized February 5, 1624; William,
baptized September 3, 1625 ; Henry, baptized April
5, 1628; Elizabeth, baptized ^larch 12. 1630; Francis,
baptized May 31, 1632, not ihentioned in father's
will; Mary, baptized January 31, 1636; Jonas, bap-
tized August S, 1638, grocer at Bu'ry St. Edmunds.

(I) William Bond, son of Thomas Bond, was
the emigrant ancestor. He was baptized September
3, 1625. He came to Watertown probably with his
father's sister's family, as he was there in 1631, ap-
parentl}-, when only six years old. Elizabeth, wife of
Deacon Ephraim Child, was his aunt, sister of his
father. He became one of the leading citizens of
the colony and province. He was selectman, town
clerk, captain of the militia company of Watertown,
justice of the peace, on the council of safety in 1689.
He was long a deputy of the general court and
speaker in 1691-92-93-95. He was the first speaker
of the general court under the new charter unit-
ing Plymouth and Massachusetts. He was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1682 and joined the church in
full communion March 27, 1687. He was on the
committee to rebuild the town of Lancaster which
was destroyed during the Indian wars. The other
members of this committee were Captain Thomas
Prentice and Deacon John Stone. He died Decem-
ber 14, 1695. '^^ agreement dividing the estate
signed by the heirs was filed January 23, 1696.

He married, February 7, . 1649-50, Sarah Bisco,
daughter of Nathaniel Bisco, "the rich tanner." (Sec
sketch of Bisco Family in this work.) She died
February, 1692-93. He married (second), 1695,
Elizabeth Nevinson, widow of John Nevihson. The
children of William and Sarah (Bisco) were: Will-
iam, born December i, 1650, jdied 1724: lieutenant
and deacon; admitted freeman March 22, 1689;
John, born December, 1652; freeman April 18, 1690:
sergeant of the home-guard ; Thomas, born Decem-
ber 23, 1654, died December 17, 1704: Elizabeth,
born November 30, 1656, died December 23, 1729;
married Captain Nathaniel Barsham ; Nathaniel,
born January 19, 1658-9; Nathaniel, born January
9, 1659-60; admitted freeman April iS, 1690; lieu-
tenant; died April i, 1700; Sarah, born July 27,
1661, married, January 29, 1689-90. Dr. Palgrave
Wellington; Jonas, born July 13, 1664; lieutenant-
colonel; justice of the peace; died April 21, 1727;
iii — 7

Mary, married, June 22, 1693, Richard Coolidge;
died 1699.

(H) Thomas Bond, son of William Botid (i),
was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, December

23, 1654. He married, September 30, 1680. Sarah
Woolson, born 1661, daughter of Thomas Wool.son,
of Newton. Thomas Woolson married, November
20, 1660, Sarah Hyde, and settled in Newton, Massa-
chusetts, later in Weston where he kept a tavern
from 1686 to 1708. He died about 1713. His widow
died at Sudbury, September 11, 1721. Administra-
tion was granted his widow Sarah and son Thomas
January 22, 1704-5. Their children were: Thomas,
born April 29, 1683, died May 17, 1737; Sarah,
December 2, 1685, married, February 12, 1781-2,
Jane Treadway ; William, February i, 1687-8; Mary,
Weston, baptized December 7, 1790, married, De-
cember 29, 1719, Isaac Bigelow ; John, July 14, 1695;
Isaac, June 22, 1698, cordwaincr, settled in Sherborn,
Sudbury and Natick, Massachusetts.

(Ill) Thomas Bond, son of Thomas Bond (2),
was born in Weston, Massachusetts, April 29, 1683,
married August 25, 1706, Lydia Spring, born Au-
gust 12, 1686, daughter of Henry and Lydia (Cut-
ting) Spring. Henry Spring was born March i,
1662, son of Henry, who married, January 7, 1657-8,
iNIehitable Bartlett. Henry Spring was the son of
John and Elinor Spring, of Watertown, and all of
the families of his surname are to be counted among
his descendants. Henry was born in 1628, admitted
a freeman May 30, 1660.

Thomas Bond died May 17, 1737, His widow
married (second) Deacon John Warren, of Weston,
Massachusetts. The children of Thomas and Ly-
dia (Spring) Bond were: Thomas, born May 3,
1708, probably the Thomas who settled in Newton;
Jonathan, November 7, 1710, at Westboro, died
January 11, 1789; Henry, September 6, 1712; Amos,
August 24, 1714, died September 29, 1762 ; Thaddeus,
January 15, 1716-7, married in Marlboro, March

24, 1740-1, Mary Rice; married (second), April 11,
1745, Prudence Warren, of Weston; Lydia, May 21,
1718, married, March 21, 1744-5, Samuel Fiske ;
Phinehas, January 8, 1724-5; Abigail, November 28,
1727.

(I\ ) Jonathan Bond, son of Thomas Bond (3),
was born November 7, 1710. He resided at

Waltham, Mendon and Westboro. He married,
April 13, 1732, Mary Harrington, and died at West-
boro, January 11, 1789. He was admitted to the
church in Westboro in full communion February
22, 1752. His wife was admitted from the Mendon,
he from the Waltham Church. He was lieutenant
in the French and Indian wars, in 1755. in Captain
Benjamin Wood's company; in 1756 in Captain Ben-
jamin Flagg's company.

Their children were : Mary, born in Watertown,
December 2, 1732, married Aaron Warner, of Up-
ton, and settled in Westboro ; Jonathan, born in
Waltham, .•\pril 22, 1736; Thomas, born January 30,
^739', Eunice, born in Waltham, February 18, 1742,

married Newton, of Westboro ; Joseph, born m

Mendon, July 6, 1744, married Hepsibah Pratt,
settled in Westboro, thence removed to Bondstown,
now Hampden, Ohio, where he died ; Lydia. born in
Mendon, January 12, 1747, married Moses Wheeler:
Elizabeth, born at Westboro, March 28, 1752, died
1756; Lucy, born June 22, 1755.

(V) Lieutenant Thomas Bond, son of Deacon
Jonathan Bond (4), was born in Westboro, Massa-
chusetts, January 30, 1739. He was the first of the
name to settle in North Brookfield, Massachusetts.
His house was on the site of that now or was lately
occupied by Deacon L. S. Thurston, built by Amos

WORCESTER COUNTY

Bond. Thomas Bond, of Wcslhoro, was first
lieutenant in Captain Ednnnul Brigliani's company
■of minute men in Major-General Ward's regiment
"which went to Lexington on the alarm April 19.
1775. Jle was first lieutenant in Captain Muses
Wheclock's company, General Ward's regiment,
^775- iic was connnissioned lieutenant in the Mas-
■sachusetts militia April 5, 1776, and marched to re-
inforce the northern army under General Gates, hut
their orders were countermanded when they reached
Hadley, Massachusetts.

He married, May 22, 1 765. Lydia Newton, of
Westboro, born May 22, 1744, died' March 20, 1824.
Their children were : Elizabeth, born in Westboro,
March 26, 1766, married, November 4, 1790, Hum-
phrey Gilbert, of Nortli Brookfield ; she died May
15, 1861 ; Josiah, born January, 1768. was a physi-
cian ; married, 1835, i^lrs. Forbes, of Shrewsbury;
died there December 13, 1852 ; John, born in West-
boro,, February 5, 1770; Lydia, born December 22,
1771, married, February 26, 1793. Dr. Jeremiah Kit-
tridge, of Walpolc, New Hampshire, she died Sep-
tember 4, 1837; Amos, born February, 1774; Sarah,
born December 9, 177s, married, April i, 1799,
Silas Haskell, of North Brookfield ; died at Perry,

•Ohio, January 8, 1852; Thomas, born September 17,
I777i merchant, settled at Springfield, Massachu-
■sctts ; married, October i, 1804, Jemima H. Bush,
■of Brookfield ; Lucy, born in North Brookfield,
September 19, 1780, married. May 2, 1802, Dr. Wil-
bur Southworth, of Rochester, Massachusetts ; died
at I\iattapoisett, April 16, 1859; Eli, born in North

Brookfield, March 18, 1782, married, December i,
1813, Sarah Ely Pomeroy, of Cleveland ; died in
Painesville, Ohio March 18, 1830; served in the war
of 1812; became major-general of militia; Moses,
born April 5, 1784, married Lucy Fisk, died F'ebru-

.ary 14, 1804: lived in Sterling and Templeton ; Jo-
seph, born May 16, 1787, physician; married, Octo-

'ber 29, 1817, Eliza Drew, of Drewsville, N. H.,

lidicd at Walpole, New Hampshire, July 7, 1832.

(VI) John Bond, son of Lieutenant Thomas
Bond (5), was born in Westboro, Massachusetts,
March 5, 1770. He settled in North Brookfield and
Rutland, Massachusetts. He married, 1791, Ruth
Bond, a distant relative, who died November 2,
1794. He married (second), April I, 1798. Judith
Fisk, daughter of Colonel Fisk, of Barre. She died

'October 25, 1837. Other members of the Bond fam-
jly settled in Rutland also about 1775, and later.
Captain John Bond settled about the time of his
marriage in 1798 in Boylston, Massachusetts. His
wife Judith was the daughter of David and Sarah
Fiske, of Boylston, Massachusetts. David Fiske
•was a revolutionary soldier in Captain Ebenezer
Belknap's company. Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regi-
ment, in 1778. David, Jr., seems also to have been
in the service. The only child of Captain John and
Ruth was Tyler, born April S, 1792, died February
12, 1833. The children of Captain John and Judith
Bond "were: Ruth, born July 22, 1799, died August
.9. 1822; Sally F., born January 6, 1801, married,
May 22, 1833, Captain Thomas Eaton, of Worces-
ter, father of Thomas B. Eaton. (See sketch.)
David Fisk, born October 6, 1802, died October 27,
1833, unmarried, colonel of militia regiment ; Louise,
borii November 26, 1805, married, August 19, 1830,
Colonel Aaron Gibbs, of Leominster, Massachusetts ;
Thomas, born August 14, 1807, married, August
19, 1834, Harriet Slocum ; John B., born February
•6, 1810, died December 16, 1853; married, November
5, 1834, Elmira Hathaway, of Worcester, and had:
Samuel Hathaway, Jane, married William B. Mc-
Iver, of Worcester ; he died 1905.

tVH) Thomas Bond, son of John Bond (6),

was born in Boylston, Massachu.setts, August 14,
1807. He inherited the homestead in part, buying
out the interests of the other heirs. He sold the
farm on Bond Hill later to the late John B. Gough,
the temperance orator, and it is to the old Bond
place in Boylston that many admirers of the elo-
quent Gough make the pilgrimage to see his old
home.

Thomas Bond married Harriet Slocum, August
19, 1834 (or October 16). She was the daughter
of General Slocum, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts,
the adjoining town to Boylston. He was a farmer
and tavern keeper at Shrewsbury. Their children
were: Maria Persis, born in Boylston, August 6,
183s, married Thomas A. Shaw of Hartford, Con-
necticut; their son, Dr. Thomas B. Shaw, is prac-
ticing medicine at Worcester. Their home is on
King street; Elizabeth Wright, born in Shrewsbury,
September 12, 1837, married Albert W. Andrews,
341 Lincoln street, Worcester ; they have three
■children: Harriet B., Ferdinand, Arthur; George
Calvin, born in Boylston, March 3, 1841, married
Abby Holbrook, of Shirley, Massachusetts ; he is
a farmer of Holden, Massachusetts ; they have
twelve children, viz.: Nellie, Herman, Harry, Fred,
Samuel, Etta, Lena, Bernice, Grace, Edward and
two unnamed infants ; Mary, born March 2, 1842,
married Oran Allan Kelley, of Worcester (see
sketch) ; Harriet, born November 10, 1846, married
George F. Hurlburt ; Henry, born December 15,
1848, died at the age of fifteen years. .

MORTON E. CONVERSE. The Converse
family to which Morton E. Converse, of Winchen-
don, ^Lassachusetts, belongs, is of ancient French
■origin. The early seat of the family was in Na-
varre, France, whence Roger de Coigneries, emi-
grated to England with William the Conqueror in
the eleventh century.

(I) Roger de Coigneries, to whom the ancestry
■of the American family has been traced, was born
in France, about loio. To him the Bishop of Dur-
ham gave the constableship of Durham.

(H) Roger de Coigneries, son of Roger de
■Coigneries (i), lived also at Durham, England.

(HI) Roger de Coiners, son of Roger de
Coigneries (2), lived in Durham and Sockburn,
England.

(IV) Galfred Conjers, son of Roger de Coiners
(3), lived at Sockburn.

(V) John Conyers, son of Galfred Conyers (4),
settled and lived at Sockburn, England.

(VI) Sir Humphrey Coigners, son of John
Conyers (s), lived at Sockburn.

(VII) Sir John Coigners, son of Sir Humphrey
Coigners (6), settled at Sockburn.

(VIII) Roger Coigners. son of Sir John
Coigners (7), resided at Sockburn.

tlX) Sir John Coigners, son of Roger Coig-
ners, lived at Sockburn, died 1395.

(X) Robert Coigners, son of Sir John
Coigners (9).

(XI) John Coigners, son of Robert Coigners
(10), lived at Hornby, England.

(XII) Sir John Coigners, son of John Coig-
ners (11), resided at Hornby.

(XIII) Sir John Conyers, son of Sir John
Coigners (12), resided at Hornby.

(XIV) Sir John Conyers, son of Sir John
Conyers (13), resided at Hornby.

(XV) Reginald Conyers, son of Sir John
Conyers (14), resided at Wakerly.

(XVI) Richard Conyers, son of Reginald
Conyers (15), resided at VVakerly.

(.XVII) Christopher Convers or Conyers, son

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of Richard Conyers, was baptized 1552 at Wakerly,
county Northampton. He married Aiary Halford.
Their cliildren were: Edward, see forward; Mary,
born 1590; John, 1593; Moses, 1595; Lucy, 1595;
Josliua, 1596; Samuel, 1597; Noah, 1599.

(XVIII) Edward Convers, son of Christopher
Convers or Conyers (17), was born at Wakerly,
county Northampton, 1590, died in Woburn, Massa-
chusetts, August 10, 1603. He came to New Eng-
land in 1630 with wife and three children, and his
name is fourth on the list of thirteen inhabitants
of the new town of Charlestovvn. All these settlers
united with the First Church of Boston. He was
also one of the charter members of the Charlestovvn
Church, organized November 2, 1632. He estab-
lished the first ferry at Charlestown, for which he
paid a rental of forty pounds a year in 163 1 and for
a number of years after, until he linally surrendered
his rights for the benefit of Harvard College. He
was at the head of the commission of seven from
Charlestown appointed by the Church to arrange
for the settlement of Charlestown village, later Wo-
burn. The church in Woburn was organized be-
fore the town and he was one of the tirst deacons.
He was one of the most prominent citizens of
Woburn as long as he lived. For nineteen succes-
sive years he was elected on the board of select-
men. He was appointed commissioner to end small
causes by the general court in 1660. His house was
situated on Main street, Woburn, and was thirty
by thirty-five with nineteen windows, at a time
when widows were lu.xuries. On the opposite side
of the street was the Convers mill, which was con-
ducted by several generations of his descendants.

He married Jane Clark, of Theckenham, Eng-
land, who died before 1617. He married (second)

Sarah , in England. She died January 14, 1662.

He married (third) Joanna Sprague, Septemjjer 19,
1662. She died February 24, 1680. His children
were: Josiah, born in England, 1617, died Febru-
ary 3, 1689; married, March 26, 1661, Esther Champ-
ney ; James, see forward ; Mary, born 1622, married
Simon Thompson; (second) John Sheldon; Samuel,
baptized January 12, 1637, married, June 8, 1660,
Judith Carter ; their son was the founder of Thomp-
son, Connecticut.

(XIX) Lieutenant James Converse, son of Dea-
con Edward Converse (18), was born in England,
1620, died May 10, 1715. He was a deputy to the
general court in 1679-83-84-85-86-89. He was an
officer in King Philip's war. He had a long and
honorable military record. He was appointed ser-
geant in 1658, promoted to ensign 1672, to lieuten-
ant in 1688, serving until his death. May 10, 1715,
a period altogether of about sixty years. He mar-
ried October 24, 1643. Anna Long, born 1625, daugh-
ter of Robert and Elizabeth Long. She died Au-
gust 16, 1691. He married (second), 1692, Anna
(Sparhawk) Cooper, widow of Deacon Nathaniel
Sparhawk, of Cambridge, widow of Deacon John
Cooper. His children were: Anna, born July 15,

1644, died January 30, 1645 ; Jane. November 16,

1645, died July 8. 1706; Deborah, July 25, 1647, mar-
ried, July I, 1663, John Peirce ; Sarah, April 21,
1649; Rebecca, May i, 1651, married Enoch More;
Lydia, March 8, 1653, died May 20, 1655 ; Edward,
February 27, 1655, married Sarah Stone ; Mary,
December 29, 1656, married Nathaniel Davis ; Abi-
gail, October 13, 1658, married Jonathan Kettcll ;
Ruth. February 12, 1661, married Philemon Dean.

(XX) Major James Converse, son of Lieuten-
ant James Converse (tg), was born at Woburn,
Massachusetts. November 16, 1645. He was one of
the most prominent men in the IMassachusctts Bay
colony. He served in the general court as deputy

from 1679 to 1692 and was speaker three years,
1699, 1702-03. He was the commander at the fam-
ous defense of Storer's garrison at Wells, Maine,
in 1691-92, and for his conduct there was promoted
to the rank of major. He was placed in command
of all the military forces in Maine. In 1692 he was
attacked by a force of French under Labocree and
Indians under Moxus, JMadccawando, Egeremet and
others. The French leader was killed and the as-
sault repelled. For his services in this campaign
his heirs received a grant of land at Ashburnham,
Massachusetts, "on condition that within five years
after the date of the grant two families be settled
on the premises, each with a house and at least four
acres of land under cultivation. Major Converse lived
in what is now Winchester, east of Winter Pond.
All of his descendants are eligible to the Society of
Colonial Wars. He married, January i, 1668-69,
Hannah Carter, born January 19, 1650-51, daughter
of Captain John and Elizabeth Carter, of Woburn.
His wife died August 10, 1691. Their children
were : James, born September 5, 1670 ; John, see
forward; Elizabeth, April 26, 1675, died July 27,
1694; Robert, December 29, 1677, died July 20,
1736; Hannah, June 12, 1680; Josiah, May 24, 1683,
died young; Josiah, September 12, 1684; Patience,
November 6, 1686, died July 23, 1707; Ebenezer, De-
cember 16, 1688, died young.

t,XXI) John Converse second son of Major
James Converse (20), was born in Woburn, Massa-
chusetts, August 22, 1673, died there. He lived
at Woburn except during the period from 1708 to
1728. He married, May 22, 1699, Abigail Sawyer,
born March 17, 1679, daughter of Joshua Sawyer.
His children: James, born February 26, 1700, died
175- ; John, February 3, 1701 ; Joshua, January 3,
1704; Abigail, 1705; Patience, May i, 1707; Josiah.

(XXII) Joshua Converse, son of John Con-
verse (21), was born in Woburn, January 3, 1704.
He became a prominent citizen in Dunstable, now
Nashua. He was moderator of the town meetings
1740 and 1741 and selectman in 1741 at Naticook,
now Merrimac, where he moved in 1729. He was
also assessor and constable. He was a representa-
tive agent in the great and grand court at Ports-
mouth in 1741. In 1744 he was drowned in the
Merrimac river. He married, at Dunstable, July
31, 1729, Rachel Blanchard, born March 23, 1712,
daughter of Joseph and Abiah (Hassell) Blanchard,
and sister of Colonel Joseph Blanchard, the agent
of the Masonian Proprietors. His estate was valued
at 1205 pounds or $60,000, a large amount for a
farmer particularly at that time. His widow mar-
ried (second) Joseph Fitch and (third) John Page.
Children of Joshua and Rachel Converse were : Jo-
seph, born November 13, 1739, died February 16,
1828; married Elizabeth Davis, settled at Bedford,
Massachusetts; Jesse, born December, 1741, fought
in Captain Lovewell's company ; Zebulon, see
forward.

(XXIII) Zebulon Converse, son of Joshua Con-
verse (22), was born in Merrimac, New Hampshire,
March 21, 1744, the year his father was drowned.
He was taken to Bedford by his mother who had
married Joseph Fitch, of Bedford, brother of John
Fitch of Fitchburg. He settled in Rindge, New
Hampshire, in 1773 or 1774, and lived on the first
lot of the first range until 1778, wdien he sold to
Ebenezer Muzzey. Later he lived at Converseville.
In 17S6 he removed to the farm now of Hon. Alfred
C. Converse, of Rindge. where he died November
10, 1805. His wife died May 28, 1805. less than three
weeks later. He married, 1773, Sarah Merriam,
born October 10, 1753, daughter of Nathaniel and
Olive (Wheeler) Merriam, of Bedford, Massachu-

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setts. Their children were: Nathaniel, horn No-
vember 17, 1774, removed to Beaufort, South Caro-
lina, where he died unmarried April to, 1815;
Sarah, horn March 15, 1776, married Eliakim Rus-
sell, son of Natnaniel; Rachel, born July 3, 1777,
died young; Olive, born May 15, 1779, married
Solomon Sawtelle ; Joshua, horn April 2, 1781, died
young; Ira, born May 28, 1783, died young; Joshua,
see forward; Rachel, born October 12, 1788, mar-
ried Daniel Jones; Rebecca, born February 18, 1794,
married Charles Stearns; Zebulon, born October 8,

1795-

(.XXIV) Joshua Converse, son of Zebulon Con-
verse (23), was born in Rindgc, New Hampshire,
April 23, 1781. He was a farmer in his native town
and a successful manufacturer of lumber and
wooden ware. He was frequently elected to pub-
lic office. He was a representative in the state leg-
islature of New Hampshire in 1840 and 1841, a
member of the state constitutional convention in
1850, and for seventeen years a selectman, a longer
period than that of any otlier man in this oltice.
His sons Zebulon and Omar D. were associated
with him in the business during his later years.
With generous foresight he engaged in several en-
terprises from which he neither hoped nor expected
remunerative returns. One was a system of flow-
age, secured through his efforts and influence, and
the capacious reservoirs for which were built largely
at his expense. He helped other public improve-
ments that aflfected the material interests of the
whole town. He bought the mills at Converseville
and started there in 1845.

He married, May 6, 1808, Polly Piper, born Feb-
ruary 13, 1791, daughter of Thomas and Hepsibath
(Jewett) Piper, and granddaugliter of Ezekiel and
Hannah (.Platts) Jewett. She died February 7,
1840. He married (second), May 20, 1841, Polly
Kimball, born September 25. 1789, daughter of Will-
iam and Abigail (Hamlet) Kunball, of Rindge. He
died November i, 1862; his widow September 10,
1866. Children of Joshua and Polly (Piper) Con-
verse were: Lucius Manlius, born July 20, 1809;
Ebenezer Hartshorn, see forward; Joshua, June
15, 1813; Christopher Columbus, December 20, 1814;
Mary, September 11, 1816, married David Stowe ;
Abraham Jewett, August 18, 1818; Levina Piper,
May 21, 1820, married Reuben Richardson; Zebulon,
May 20, 1822; Omar Duane, March 9, 1824; Alfred
Collins, March 17, 1827; Amanda M., February 11,
1829, married. May 15, 1850, Edward Miller, of New
York city, resided at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; George
Washington, August 29, 1830; Gustavus Adolphus,
January 21, 1833.

(XXV) Captain Ebenezer H. Converse, son of
Joshua Converse (24), was born in Rindge, New
Hampshire, November 14, 181 1. He resided at
Rindge, except for a few years spent in New Ips-
wich, New Hampshire. He was actively engaged
in the lumber business, blacksmithing and farming.
Soon after the firing in Fort Sumter in April, 1861,
notwithstanding his exemption from service by rea-
son of age, he raised a company in Rindge and vi-
cinity of which he was captain. This company be-
came a part of the Sixth New Hanip.shire Regiment
of Volunteers, and accompanied General Burnside's
expedition to North Carolina.

He tnarricd, October 8, 1835, Sarah ' Darling,
daughter of Jewett Boynton and Hannah (Mur-
dock) Darling, of Winchendon, Massachusetts. (See
sketch of the Darling family for her ancestry.)
Her maternal grandparents were James and Deb-
orah (Williams) Murdock, of Winchendon. (See
Murdock family sketch.) She died July 10, 1875.
Captain Converse married (second), June 2. 1877,

Harriet E. (Leland) Dearborn, daughter of James-
and Hannah (Kidder) Leland. She died July 16,
1888. Children of Captain Ebenezer H. and Sarah
Converse were: i. Morton E., see forward. 2.
Nettie S., born August 29, 1841, died August I,
1903; married. May i, 1871, Albert A. Spear, son of
Palmer j\I. and Elizabeth (Proctor) Spear, of War-
ren, Maine. She was prominent in charitable work
and at the time of her death was president of the
Woman's Exchange in Chicago. 3. Oscar Irving,
born August 9, 1843, now dead ; married, March 8,
1867, Corolie S. Mix, daughter of Hon. James D.
Mix, of Walla Walla, Washington, an officer in the
United States army. He enlisted as a private at
the age of seventeen, in the volunteer service of
the rebellion, served three years. 4. Clarence M.,
born in Rindge, New Hampshire, November 19,
1853. Now in heating business in Chicago. He de-
votes a great deal of time to city missionary work
and was for several years superintendent of Armour
Mission Sunday school, said to be the largest in the
United States.

(XXVI) Morton E. Converse, eldest child of
Ebenezer H. Converse (25), was born in Rindge,
New Hampshire, September 17, 1837. He was edu-
cated in the public schools of his native town and
at several academies in the vicinity. He had been
in the clothing business for two years at Salmon
F'alls, New Flampshire, when the civil war opened.
In response to the first call of President Lincoln
for three-year volunteers, he enlisted in the Rindge
company, of which his father was captain, and
served first in the Burnside expedition to North
Carolina. In July, 1862, his regiment joined the
army in Virginia and participated in the battle of
Bull Run (second), the battles of Chantilly, South
Mountain and Antietam. In the spring following
it was ordered to the army of General Grant in
Mississippi and was in the siege of Vicksburg and
m arduous service during the months ensuing in
Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. Early in 1864
the regiment returned to the Army of Virginia and
took part in the battle of Cold Harbor, the mem-
orable assault on Petersburg and other historic
engagements. In the autumn of that year he was
mustered out at the end of his term of enlistment.
While with the regiment and sharing its duties and
fortunes, he was an acting commissary of subsist-
ence. Although he escaped the rebel bullets he
suffered severely from exposure and hardships and
for two years was in poor health and not actively
employed.

In 1867 he began at Converseville, in Rindge,
New Hampshire, the manufacture of pyroligneous
acid, iron liquor, acetic acid and other products of
wood acid, and continued it with success for eight
years. In 1873 '^^ bought and retitted a mill at Con-
verseville for the manufacture of light wooden ware.
Out of this beginning the business of toy manufact-
ure, with which Mr. Converse has been connected
for many years, originated. He removed to
Winchendon and entered partnership with Orlando
Mason, a prominent citizen and successful manu-
facturer of that town, and under the firm name of
Mason & Converse the manufacture of toys and
light wooden ware was continued. In 1883 the
partnership was dissolved and Mr. Converse
continued the business in partnership with
his uncle, Hon. Alfred C. Converse, ex-mayor of
Chelsea, Massachusetts, under the firm name of Con-
verse Toy and Woodenware Company. They pur-
chased the Monadnock mill, a commodious and sub-
stantial building, forty by one hundred feet, three
stories high, with steam pow-er. From year to year
the business increased steadily and the capacity o£

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the works has been correspondingly increased. In
1887 tlic firm became jNIorton E. Converse & Com-
pany, the partners, remaining the same. A new
mill was erected forty by one hundred feet, four
stories high, for the manufacture of reed and rattan
chairs. This business was later removed to the
New Hampshire state prison, where Mr. Converse
conducted it with Wilbur F. Whitney, and the
building was used for the addition of toys. Another
new mill of the same dimensions was built in 1891.
Several others have been added to the plant since
then. One of the mills was destroyed by fire. June
.30, 1896, together with a large amount of lumber
in the yard, but new buildings were erected at once.
The factories have exceptional railroad accommo-
dations. They have be^n kept up to date in every
sense, being heated by steam, lighted by electricity
.generated in the power house of the plant, equipped
with automatic sprinklers and the modern devices
for protection against fire, including the thermo-
stat tire alarm system.

Mr. Converse manufactures wooden toys in in-
finite variety, children's and dolls' furniture and
various novelties. Special departments are devoted
to popular toys in constant demand, such as drums
and dolls' trunks. Constant attention to new no-
tions in the toy business is essential to success.
Mr. Converse has a special aptitude for anticipating
the wants of Young America, devising himself and
securing from others the toys that attract not only
the children of the United States but of, the
whole world, and he has built up the largest busi-
ness of the kind in the United States and demon-
strated the superiority of American toys in compe-
tition with the whole world. Many of the products
are protected under the patent laws. At the World's
Fair in Chicago the Converse Company received
the highest awards for exhibiting the finest toys
in the world. In other competitions of this kind,
as well as in the direct competition for the trade
of the world, the Converse toys have won the
prizes. The business now employs nearly three hun-
dred hands and produces annually a vast amount of
goods. To the ability and resourcefulness of Mor-
ton E. Converse more than to any other single cause
may be attributed the success of this business. He
has been the manager and chief owner during the
years of its greatest growth and development.

Mr. Converse has been active in the public affairs
cf Winchendon, taking upon himself his full share
cf the duties of citizenship. He is a Republican in
politics, a member of the Republican Club of Massa-
chusetts, and of the Home Market Club of Boston.

In 1890-91 he was a representative to the gen-
eral court and was chairman of the house com-
mittee on banks and banking and member of the
•committee on water supply. In 1903 he was elected
to state senate and re-elected in 1905. He was
chairman of the committees on public service, water
supply, parish and religious societies, and in 1905
was a member of the committees on drainage, mili-
tary affairs and street railways. He was one of the
■organizers and a director of the Winchendon Light
and Power Company, also served as its president.
He was treasurer of the New England Baby Car-
riage Company, which is now merged into the Mor-
ton E. Converse Company & Son. president of the
New England Lock and Hinge Company, was a di-
rector of the Granite State Manufacturing Company,
but has now sold his interest, director of the
Winchendon Board of Trade and president of the
'Village Improvement Association. He is active in
the church and in various social organizations. He
\s a thirty-second degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a
member of the local tribe of Red Men. of the local

Grand Army Post and of the local camp of Sons
of Veterans, called after him Morton E. Converse
Camp.

He married, August 19, 1869, Hattie M. Ather-
ton, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Peacock)
Atherton, of Lowell, Massachusetts. She died Oc-
tober 28, 1886, leaving two children. He married
(second), September l", 1889, Bertha E. Porter,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Porter, of Chicago. Chil-
dren of Morton E. and Hattie M. (Atherton) Con-
verse were : Grace Atherton, born November 17,
1873, married Ur. Louis Cross (see Cross family).
Atherton Darling, born January 7, 1877.

DARLING FAMILY. George Darling, the im-
migrant ancestor (on his mother's side) of Morton
E. Converse, of Winchendon, Massachusetts, was
born in England, in 161 5 or 1620. He made an
affidavit in 1670, giving his age as fifty years, and
again in 1681 he gave his age as about sixty-six
years. Possibly the clerk should have made this
read si.xty. The date 1620 seems more probable
than the other. He settled in New England, first
at Salem, then at Lynn and finally at Marblehead.
He was a yeoman or farmer by occupation. He
and his wife Kate were witnesses in the Hathorne
case in 1657. His wife Katherine was the daughter
of Richard Gridley, and Darling was mentioned in
Gridley's will in 1674. His wife was a witness to
the will of Robert Hawes in 1641. George Darling
died at Salem and the inventory of his estate was
dated September 13, 1693. His will was dated April
12. and proved October 9, 1693. It mentions his
wife Katherine and the children as given below.
Many of his children and descendants lived at
Marblehead. It is believed that John Darling and
Dennis Darling, who settled first in Braintree and
then removed together to Mendon, were brothers
of George Darling. (See sketch of the Mendon
Darlings in this work.) George was much older
than either of them.

Children of George and Katherine Darling were:
James, born 1680, married. May 16, 1683, at Marble-
head. Hannah Maine; John, born about 1652, mar-
ried Elizabeth Muzzey, February 4, 1680; only son
Thomas was ancestor of Framingham family ; Dan-
iel, Thomas, Benjamin, Henry, married Joanna
Mitchell, at Marblehead, 1697-98; Hannah, Sarah,
Margaret.

(II) Thomas Darling, son of George Darling
(i), was born in Essex county, Massachusetts,
about 1765. He was living in Salem, Massachu-
setts, in 1690. He probably married Joanna .

They had a son John, baptized March I, 1702.

(III) John Darling, grandson of George Darling
(i), and believed to be the son of Thomas Darling
(2), was baptized March i, 1702. at Salem, Massa-
chusetts, where he probably lived in his early days.
He married Lois Gowing. March 10, 1721-22. at
Lynn. Massachusetts. Both Gowing and Darl-
ing families settled later at Westford, Massa-
chusetts, a town in the vicinity. He was a
carpenter by trade. He settled for a time
in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, where some of his
children were born. He removed to Westford,
Massachusetts. In 1741 he removed to Lunenburg.
He purchased a farm there June II, 1741. of Eleazer
Tarbell. He established a saw mill there. He
bought more land. May 3. 1749, of Benjamin Bel-
lows. Jr. This farm was on Flat Hill, Lunen-
burg. The deeds for these two lots were recorded
at the same time that the deed dated February 7,
1761. from Jonathan and Elizabeth Hartwell, was
recorded. John Darling deeded the mill and farm
on Flat Hill to his son, Benjamin Darling, shortly
before his death, dated .\ugust 8, 1768. Children

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of John and Lois Darling were: John, sec forward;
Benjamin, baptized April 28, 1728, mentioned in
deed of mill at Lunenburg; Timothy, baptized at
Lynnfield, March 21, l/Ji ; Joseph, baptized at Lynn-
field, August 5, 1733; Lois, baptized August 31,
1735.

(IV) John Darling, Jr., son of John Darling
(3), was born in Lynnlield or vicinity, about 1725,
and probably came with his father and the re-
mainder of the family from Westford to Lunen-
burg, Massachusetts, in 1741. He married, at Lunen-
burg, Ruth Boynton (sometimes spelled Boyington
and various other ways), October 13, 1744. After
the custom of the time his fellow citizens honored
him the year after his marriage with the ofiice of
hogreeve. He was elected five warden in 1748-49-55
and other years. He was highway surveyor in
1763 and other years. He and his brother Timothy
removed to Winchcndon in 1761. Timothy and
Joanna Darling had foilr children born in Lunen-
burg and three in Winchendon, the first after their
removal being Daniel, born July 19, 1761. Timothy's
service in the revolution, credited to Lunenburg,
may have been Timothy, Jr.'s service, although a
Timothy of Grafton was surgeon in the revolu-
tion.

The history of Winchendon says the brothers
were there as early as 1754, but the records of
births in the two families tix the date as 1761.
It is related that the Indians were afraid of John
Darling and lost a chance to take his scalp when
he was mowing in a distant meadow because they
were afraid of his big and glaring eyes. The broth-
ers were tythingmcn, highway surveyors and deer-
reeves at Winchendon in 1764 and afterward. The
farm of Henry Darling is now known as the Henry
Keith place. John Darling is credited with service
in the revolution in Captain Moses Hale's company,
Colonel Nathan Sparhawk's regiment; also in Cap-
tain Jonathan Holman's company. Colonel Ephraim
Doolittle's regiment, together with his two sons,
Jewett Boynton and John, Jr. It is difficult to
distinguish the further service of father and son
of the same name. Both seem to have served later
than 1775-

Children of John, Sr. and Ruth (Boynton)
Darling were : John, Jr., born at Lunenburg, De-
cember II, 1744, died August 27, 1746; Ruth, borii
at Leominster, December 21, 1746, married Levi
Bixby. October 2, 1766; Lois, born June 26, 1749;
John. Jr., born October i, 1751. soldier in the
revolution ; Unity, born at Lunenburg, July 12,
1755; Amity, born in Lunenburg, October 28. 17571
Jewett Boynton (Juet Boyington), born in Lunen-
burg, February 23, 1760; Joseph, born in Winchen-
don, July 26, 1762; Priscilla (twin), born at Win-
chendon, June 13, 1765; Calvin (twin), born June

I3i 1765-

(V) Jewett Boynton Darling, son of John
Darling, Jr. (4), was born in Lunenburg, Massachu-
setts, February 23. 1760. He removed to Winchen-
don with the family when he was an infant in
arms. He was a soldier in the revolution, first a
private when only fifteen years old in 1775 in the
company of Captain Jonathan Holman, the regi-
ment of Colonel Fphraim Doolittle, with his brother
John. Jr. and his father John Darling. Sr. In 1776
he was in the company of Captain Richardson and
regiment of Colonel Israel Hutchinson. He was
reported taken prisoner by the British, November
II. 1776. at Fort Washington, by his commander.
Captain Richardson.

He married (first) Deborah Murdock: (second)
a sister, Hannah Murdock. He died at Winchendon
in 1830. Cl^Id of Jewett Boynton and Deborah

Darling was: Nancy, born Winchendon, 1794, mar-
ried her cousin, Boynton Darling, son of John, Jr.,
and lived in Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Chil-
dren of Jewett Boynton and Hannah Darling were:

Sarah, see forward; , married James Perry.

(VI) Sarah Darling, daughter of Jewett Boyn-
ton Darling (5), was born in Winchendon, Massa-
chusetts. She married, October 8, 1835, Captain
Ebcnezer Converse, of Rindge, New Hampshire.
She died July 10, 1875.

NICHOLS FAMILY. Richard Nichols, the im-
migrant ancestor of the Nichols family of West-
boro, Massachusetts, was an early settler in the
town of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and he was one of
the proprietors of that town as early as 1648. He
appeared before the generaj court December 1, 1640.
He removed to Reading, Massachusetts, and his
wife "Sister Nichols" was admitted to the Reading
Church by letter from the Ipswich Church in 1666,
probably soon after their removal. Judging from
similarity of the names of children, Richard was re-
lated probably to Randall (or Randolph) Nichols,,
of Charlestown, who, it is known was the son of
William Nichols, of Uxbridge, Middlesex county,
England, where Randolph owned lands, inherited
from his father, at the time he made his will Decem-
ber 4, 1688. Thomas Nichols, another immigrant,
resided at Cambridge and Hingham, Alassachusetts ;
came from Coggeshall, Essex county, England,
where his brother George and father Walter
Nichols, lived. The Nichols family was numerous
in England even in those days. Richard Nichols
left few traces on the public records. He died No-
vember 22, 1674. His will was dated November
22, 1674, and proved December 11, 1674; bequeathed
to wife Ann, sons John, Thomas and James ; daugh-
ters Mary and Hannah. The births of the children
have not been found recorded.

(II) John Nichols, son of Richard Nichols (l),.
was probably born at Ipswich. He went to Read-
ing with his family and settled there when he came
of age. He was admitted a freeman in 1691. show-
ing that he was a member of the Reading Church.
His home was in the West Parish. He married,
1676, Abigail Kendall, daughter of Deacon Thomas-
Kendall and niece of Francis Kendall, the progeni-
tor of all the Kendall families of early date. Both
John and his wife died in 1721 ; he aged seventy
years, she aged sixty-six years. Children of John
and Abigail Nichols were : John, born 1677, died
1721 ; Richard, 1679, died young; Richard, 1O82;,
Kendall, 1686; James, 1688; Nathaniel, 1691, see
forward; Abigail, 1694, married, 1713, William
Flint; Samuel, 1696; Benjamin, 1699; Joseph, 1702.

(III) Nathaniel Nichols, son of John Nichols
(2), was born in 1691 at Reading, Massachusetts.
He removed to Framingham after 1721. He was a
constable in that town. He died in Framingham
in 1745 and his will was proved May 20, 1745. The
inventory shows the estate valued at 684 pounds.
He married, 1715, Isabel Hay, daughter of Peter
Hay. She was born in Charlestown, now Stoneham,
August 31, 1691. Their children were: Mary, born
at Reading, April 20, 1717, perhaps married, March
25, 1743, Joshua Train; Nathaniel, March 6, 1719,
married, September 12, 1745, Mary Philips, of South-
boro, died same year; Abigail, July 13, 1721, mar-
ried, March, 1743, William Marret, of Southboro.
The following were born at Framingham: Joseph,
mentioned below. April 6, 1727; Benjamin. August
8, 1729; Isabel, about 1731 ; Anna. July 4. 1733.

(IV) Joseph Nichols, son of Nathaniel Nichols
(3), was born at Framingham, Massachusetts,
April 6, 1727. He was well educated for his day and

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was teaching in Needliam when he married a Fram-
ingham girl, Judith Mixer, October 28, 1755. She
is descended from an old Watertown family. Jo-
seph taught school also in Framingham in 1776 and
1783, and at one time in Weston. Joseph and his
wife were admitted to the church at Framingham
November 24, 1763. Their home was on what is
known as _the Gideon Bridges place. They removed
to Weston in 1783. He died at Weston, September
IS. 1796; she died at Weston, August 21, 1796. Their
children, all born in Framingham, Massachusetts,
were: Joseph, born December ig, 1755, was in
Shrewsbury, 1804, returned to Weston 1812; mar-
ried, August 26, 1779, Thankful Winch ; Anne, No-
vember 30, 1757, married Jesse Cheney of East Sud-
bury; Fortunatus, January 30, 1760, see forward.

(.V) Lieutenant Fortunatus Nichols, son of Jo-
seph Nichols (4), was born at Framingham, Massa-
chusetts, January 30, 1760. He was a soldier in the
revolution in the company of Captain Silas Gates
when only seventeen years old, early in 1777. He
became a lieutenant in the militia afterward. He
settled in Westboro, adjoining the town of his birth.
He was one of the first Methodists in the town. He
was exempted from paying rates to the support of
the parish or Congregational Church from 1798 to
1802, together with Joseph Nichols, his brother,
Phinehas Hardy, and Shadrach Miller, on the cer-
tificate of a Methodist elder. There the record of
early Methodism in Westboro ceases for a period
of forty-two years. He died April 15, 1843, at
Westboro, leaving one son. Children of Lieutenant
Fortunatus and Sarah Nichols were : Horatio, born
May 25, 1799, died young; Fortunatus, see for-
ward.

(VI) Fortunatus Nichols, Jr., son of Lieutenant
Fortunatus Nichols (5), was born at Westboro, Mas-
sachusetts, March 17, 1804, and died there September
6, 1867. He inherited his father's farm and was a
farmer all his life. He was active in town affairs
and held some town offices. He married Irene
Bullard, of a well known Westboro family, and they
had seven children, all of whom were living except
Sarah, at the time of his death, viz.: Rebecca, born
August 3, 1832, married E. P. DaboU, of Northboro ;
Mary Sophia, June 26, 1834, married V. Searles ;
Horace M., March 5, 1836, see forward ; Sarah C,
August 29, 1838, died December 28, 1846; Charles
C, December 8, 1840, resided at Westerly, Rhode
Island; j\Iaria Louisa, born in Washington, Massa-
chusetts, May II, 1843, married F. Faulkner, Jr.;
Augustus Fortunatus, July, 1846, resided in West-
boro.

(VII) Horace M. Nichols, son of Fortunatus
Nichols (6), was born in Westboro, Massachusetts,
March 5, 1836. He was educated in the district
schools of his native town. He worked as the
farmers son in his day had to work early and late
on the old homestead. After his school days also
he remained on the farm and helped his father.
He made farming his business and in time succeeded
his father as the owner of the homestead in West-
boro. He has been among the most successful farm-
ers of the town, able, energetic, hard-working and
thrifty as all successful New England farmers have
to be. Mr. Nichols has voted with the Republican
party and always taken an intelligent interest in
public affairs, doing his full duty as a citizen. In
a quiet way he has exercised much infiuence for
good in the community. He attends with his family
the Orthodox (Congregational) Church. He mar-
ried, 1859, Nancy M. Knowlton, of Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts. Their children are: Walter F.,
born June 6, 1862, see forward; Herbert, November

12, 1869, married Bfcrtha Copp and they have throe-
children.

(VIII) Walter F. Nichols, son of Horace M-
Nichols (7), was born in Shrewsbury, where his-
parents were living for a short time, June 0, 1862.
He acquired his early education in the public schools
of Westboro and at the same time assisted his father
in carrying on the farm. After he came of age
he went to farming on a place of his own and has
already given substantial proof of his knowledge of
agriculture and business. In politics he is a Re-
publican. He is a Free Mason, a member of the
Westboro Lodge, and he belongs also to the West-
boro Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He is an act-
ive member of the Congregational Church. Mr.
Nichols married, 1888, Pauline Atchne, born ia
Canada, September, 1867, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Fitts) Atchne. Her parents removed to-
Grafton, Massachusetts, a town adjoining Westboro-.
Children of Walter Fortunatus and Pauline Nichols
were: George Horace, born 1890; Herbert Guy,
1892, died in infancy; Laura Maria, 1896; Hattie,
Frances, Arthur Walter, 1898; Frederick Knight,
1904.

MERTON WALLACE CLEMENT. Robert
Clement (i) was the emigrant ancestor of Mertou
Wallace Clement, of Worcester. He came from
England to America in 1642. He was born in
England about 1590. In 1643 he removed from
Salisbury or Andover and settled in Haverhill,
Massachusetts, where he became a prominent citi-
zen. He was deputy to the general court from 1O47
to 1653 inclusive. His family came with him prob-
ably, except his youngest daughter who remained
in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, until 1652,
when she too came to Haverhill and soon afterward
married John Osgood, of Andover. Robert Clem-
ent became associate judge of the county court.
He was early appointed to give oath of fidelity tc^
the inhabitants of Haverhill. He was frequently
appointed on committees to set off land and fix
limits for the pioneers. His record shows him to
have been a man of rare integrity and superior
talents. He must have been an mn keeper in 1653,
when he was given permission by the Salisbury
court to sell wine. He owned the first grist mill
built in Haverhill. He died on the farm where he
first settled in Haverhill, September 29, 1658. His
will was dated September 6, 1658, when not all of
his children were in New England. Children of
Robert Clement were : Job, see forward ; John,
married, 1648, Sarah Osgood; Robert, married, 1652,
Elizabeth Fawne ; Abraham, Daniel, Sarah, Lydia,
Mary, born about 1637, indicted for witchcraft in
1692, living in 1695.

(II) Job Clement, eldest son of Robert Clement
(i), was born in England, about 1620. He came
to Haverhill with his father, and his first marriage
to Margaret Dummer, December 25, 1644, was the
first ever performed in Haverhill. She was the
daughter of Thomas Dummer. Job Clement mar-
ried (second), before 1658, Lydia . He mar-
ried (third), July 16, 1673, Joanna Leighton, widow
of Thomas Leighton, who is supposed to have come
from Ipswich to Haverhill in 1640. Robert Clem-
ent was admitted a freeman in 1647. He became
a councillor of the province in 1682. He died the
same year. His will was dated September 4, 1682,.
and was proved at Exeter, New Hampshire, No-
vember 9, 16S2. He was living in Dover, New
Hampshire, at the time of his death and had been,
for some years. His son Job settled there. His-
widow Joanna died January 15, 1704. Children of

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Job and Margaret (Dumnicr) Clement, born in

Haverhill, were: , November 17, 1645;

John, November 17, 1646, died young; Job, see
forward; Mary, December 12, 1651.

(HI) Job Clement, third child of Job Clement
(2), was born in Haverhill, Massaclnisctts. April
17, 1648. He lived in Haverhill or the vicinity.
He married Abigail Heard, Febrnary 28, 1688-89, at
Dover, New Ilampsliire. His will mentions his wife
Abigail and five children. It was dated October 8,
1716, proved December 3, 1716. His children were:
Job, see forward ; James, born at Dover, New Hamp-
shire. March 26, 1693-94 ; John ; Daniel ; Margaret.

(IV) Job Clement, eldest son of Job Clement
(3). was born in Haverhill or Dover, New Hamp-
shire, about 1690. He married Hannah . They

settled at Dover, New Hampshire. She joined the
church there October 3, 1725. They had two chil-
dren of record : Samuel, see forw-ard ; Job, born
Novemlier 19, 1722, baptized March 18, 1723, died
November 13. 1799.

(V) Samuel Clement, eldest son of Job Clem-
ent (4), was born in Dover, New Hampshire, May
4. 1717. baptized July 31, 1720, at Dover. His chil-
dren were: Samuel, Elijah, Lydia, Hannah,
Elizabeth.

(VI) Samuel Clement, eldest son of Samuel
Clemeiit (5), married (first) Sarah Austin and had
six children. He married (second) Judith Knox
and they had seven children. Children of Samuel
and Sarah (Austin) were: Phebe, Benjamin, see
forward; Moses, Sally, Lydia, Jeremiah. The chil-
dren of Samuel and Judith (Knox) were: Eben-
ezer. Samuel, Lydia, Mary, Abbie, Louis, James.

(VII) Benjamin Clement, second child of Sam-
uel Clement (6), was born in Berwick, Maine, April
}3' ^773,^ died October 24, 1848. He was brought up
in Berwick and went to school there. He married
Mary Fernald. Their children, all born in Berwick,
Maine, were : John, born December 4, 1796 ; Sarah
P., June 3, 1798; Benjamin, Jr., March 18, 1800;
Mary. June 19, 1802; Samuel, see forward; Melinda,
February 28. i8ro; Oliver, December 4, 1812.

(VIII) Samuel Clement, fifth child of Benjamin
Clement (7), was born in Berwick, Maine, March 5,
1805. He was educated in the common schools of
that town and began life as a shipbuilder. He fol-
lowed his trade for several years and then moved to
that part of the state now called Palmyra, then sim-
ply a wilderness. This was about 1830. He made
a clearing and erected a house and barn and there
he lived during most of the remaining years of his
life, cultivating his farm. He was the pioneer set-
tler in the town. For many years after he went
there he was known as the only framer or builder
in the region. He traveled long distances through
the forest by blazed trails to frame houses for his
distant neighbors. He was prosperous in business
and developed an excellent farm, which he sold in
1884. He removed to Arlington, Massachusetts,
and later to Boston, where he lived but eighteen
months. He died March 25, 1889. He was a mem-
ber of the IMetbodist Episcopal Church of Newport,
Maine, an active worker, deacon for many years.
He was a Republican in politics and served his
party as delegate to congressional and state con-
ventions while living at Palmyra. He was town
treasurer for eight vears and town agent for twenty
years. He served the town also as assessor, over-
seer of the poor and selectman, having been chair-
man of the board for nineteen years. He was rep-
resentative to the general court at Augusta, Maine,
for two terms. During the civil war he served as
enrolling and enlisting officer. In his younger days
he was active in the state militia.

He married (first) Catherine .Xppleby, of Ber-
wick, Maine, March 13, 1827. He married (second)
Melinda Brackett, daughter of Samuel and Jane
(Fernald) Brackett, of Berwick. Children of Sam-
uel and Catherine (Appleby) Clement were: i.
Benjamin, born June 7, 1828, died December 24,
1888; married Sarah Scruton, of Strafford, Vermont,
and had two children: Mabel, born July. 22, 1861,
married Charles F'oster, of Dover, New Hampshire,
and they had three children: Waller H. Foster,
born September 14, 1887; Phillip C, born b'ebru-
ary 19, 1892; Arthur, born August 8, 1885. died
October 4, 1885; Walter H., born May 14, 1864, died
February 13, 1897; married Amelia Lohbiller, of
Boston, Massachusetts. 2. George A., born Sep-
tember II, 1830, died December 23, 1830. Children
of Samuel and Alelinda (Brackett) Clement were:
3. Charles W., born March 3, 1835. 4- Justin S.,
bornAIay 6, 1836, married Carrie E. Perkins, of
Pittsfield. Maine, and had one child. Ina E. Clem-
ent. S. Joseph F., born May 25, 1837. died May 17,
1886; married Maria C. Keenc, of Atkinson, Maine,
and had three children : Isabelle M., born Novem-
ber 16, 1870, died April 26, 1872; Charles J., born
February 10, 1872, married Alice E. Parker, of
Farmingdale, Maine, and have children, Joseph F.,
Jr., and Louis Clement ; Carrie M., married Lyle
Waterbury, of Denver, Colorado, and had one child,
Esther Waterbury. 6. Martha A., born June 6,
1840, married Charles D. Bowman, of Detroit,
Maine, and has one child, Charles Vernon Bowman.
7. Mary A., born June 6, 1840, died April 11, 1876,
married James F". Worthing, of Palmyra, Maine,
and had three children: Bertelle F., Louis W.,
Carrie N. 8. Charles W., born Jime 15, 1843. mar-
ried (first) Myra L. Brackett, of Detroit, Maine,
and (second) Emma L. Perkins, of Pittsfield,
Maine. 9. Sarah I., born May 31, 1845, died April
18, 1905 ; married Edward S. Goodwin, of South
Berwick, Maine, and had five children : Wesley
D., Maybelle, Harold C, Roy, Guy Goodwin. 10.
Albion Samuel, see forw-ard. 11. Ella M., born
April II, 185s, married William J. Creighton, of
Lynn, Massachusetts, and had one child, Irving C.
Creighton.

(IX) Albion Samuel Clement, tenth child of
Samuel Clement (8), was born in Palmyra, Maine,
February 24, 1852. He lived at home on the farm
wdiere he was born until he was twenty-one, help-
ing his father. He attended the public schools to
the age of sixteen. When he was of age he came to
Boston and entered the employ of F. Shaw & Bros.,
wholesale dealers in leather, where he worked for
two years. He returned to Maine, however, and en-
gaged in farming w'ith his father and practised civil
engineering for seven years in the towns of the
neighborhood. He went to Boston again in 1882
and started with his brother, Charles W. Clement,
in the manufacture of shoes, acting as traveling
salesman and superintendent of the factory for nine
years. He retired from the shoe business to engage
in the trucking business in Boston as a member of
the Waterhouse & Clement Trucking Company. He
was a director of the company for nine years. In
1901 he came to Worcester as manager of the shoe
factory of David Cummings. incorporated. In 1903
the company was re-organized under the name of
The Cummings Company and Mr. Clement was a
stockholder, vice-president and treasurer. He is
at present holding this position and is the superin-
tendent of the factory.

Mr. Clement is a Republican in politics, and
while in Palmyra was assessor, overseer of the poor
and selectman for four years. He was chairman of
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agent for two years, a position requiring some
knowledge of law, as all the legal affairs of the town
are in his hands. He served tlie Republican party
as delegate to various conventions. He is a
Congregationalist and belongs to Piedmont Church.
He is a member of Longfellow Lodge, L O. O. F.,
of Roslindale ; Sebasticook Encampment of Pitts-
field, Maine; Lafayette Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of
Boston ; Mt. Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, of Boston,
and Joseph Warren Knights Templar, No. 26, ot
Boston. He married, in Boston, December 24, 1874,
Lizzie A. Demerritt, daughter of James M. and
Albina (Buzzell) Demerritt, of Ossipee, New
Hampshire. Her father was a leather inspector in
Boston, now retired. Children of Albion Samuel
and Lizzie A. (Demerritt) Clement were: Merton
Wallace, see forward ; Albina Melinda, born Octo-
ber 20, l8gi, now living at home with her parents
and attending the Worcester high school.

(X) Merton Wallace Clement, eldest child of
Albion Samuel Clement (9), was born in Palmyra,
IMaine, April 26, 1S79. He lived there until five
years of age when he came to Boston with his par-
ents. He attended the public schools of Boston and
graduated from the Roxbury high and preparatory
school in 1897. He entered Tufts Medical College,
from which he graduated in 1901 with the degree
of M. D. He was connected with the Boston City
Hospital and Boston Polyclinic Hospital for about
eighteen months. He began to practice in Worces-
ter in 1902. He opened his office first at 804 ]\Iain
street, but removed after a time to 811 Main street,
which he purchased in December, 1903, and in
which he has liis office at present. He belongs to
]\Iontacute Lodge, A. F. & A. j\L, and to Eureka
Royal Arch Chapter. He is a member of Quinsiga-
mond Lodge of Odd Fellows, a Knight Pythian,
being a medical examiner of the endowment rank,
a Red Man, holding the position of surgeon in that
body since 1903. Besides a membership in several
smaller societies, he is clerk and director of the
Worcester Consumptive Home Association, a med-
ical examiner of the Boston Mutual Life Insurance
Company, surgeon for the Commercial Travelers'
Eastern Accident Association for Worcester county,
fellow of the Worcester District Medical Society,
and a member of the Worcester Board of Trade.
Dr. Clement is a student and scholar. His ability
and skill as a physician and surgeon have won him
the respect and confidence of his professional breth-
ren as well as that of his patients and friends.
He has enjoyed an excellent practice and his friends
predict for him a brilliant future.

He married, June 3, 1903, Bertha Marguerite
Macauley, daughter of George W. and Marguerite
(Wagner) Macauley, of Boston. George W.
Macauley is a manufacturer and dealer in build-
ers' finish. He is prominent in Masonry, and a di-
rect descendant of Benjamin Franklin.

CALEB W. DAY. Anthony Day (1). the im-
migrant ancestor of Caleb W. Day, of Royalston,
Tilassachusetts, was born in England, 1616, and be-
longed to an ancient English family. He came to
Gloucester, Massachusetts, and settled there per-
manently before 1657. He was a proprietor before
1645. He signed the mill agreement in 1664 and de-
posed about the matter in 1695, giving his age then
as eighty years. He bought house and land in
Gloucester near the Poles in 1657. He married
Susanna Ring, born in England, 1623, died Decem-
"her 10, 1717, aged ninety-four years, at Gloucester.
Anthony Day died April 23. 1707, aged ninety-one
j-cars. The bond of his administrator, Ezekiel Day,
ivas signed May 13, 1708. Children of Anthony and

Susanna Day were: i. Thomas, born 1651, mar-
ried, December 30, 1673, Mary Langton ; she and
her daughter Mary were killed by lightning, July
15, 1706; he died January 29, 1726, aged seventy-
five years. 2. Timothy, born 1633, married, July 24,
1678, Phebe Wildes; she died April 8, 1723, aged
seventy years. 3. John, born April 28, 1657, had a
house in Gloucester near the Poles ; married Abi-
gail Lead, December 12, l58i ; she died February 9,
1726, aged sixty-three years. 4. Ezekiel, born March
12, 1659, died 1662. 5. Ezekiel, born May 19, 1662,
had grant of land at Lobster Cove and Hogskin
Cove, 1694, and w'as one of the first settlers in
that place of poetic names; married, January 27,
1690, Mary Rowe ; died February 18, 1725, leaving
children — Pelatiah, Samuel, Nathaniel and Jona-
than. 6. Nathaniel of Attleboro, ancestor of Corne-
lius R. Day, of Blackstone, born 1665, died at
Attleboro, February 5, 1735; married, February 13,
1690, Ruth Row, born 1671, died May 10, 1736. 7.
Elizabeth, born April 2, 1667. 8. Samuel, born
February 25, 1669-70, also settled at Attleboro, Mas-
sachusetts. 9. Joseph, born April 4, 1672, see
forward.

(H) Joseph Day, son of Anthony Day (i),
was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, April 4,
1672. He lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and
probably moved to Attleboro after his brothers
Samuel and Nathaniel, as his sons are found there
also. He married, August 15, 1695, Elizabeth Gouge.
Their children were : Jeremiah, William, Joseph,
Jr., see forward; and several daughters.

(HI) Joseph Day, Jr., son of Joseph Day (2),
was born in Gloucester, IMassachusetts, about 1710.
He came to Attleboro, probably with his uncles,
Samuel and Nathaniel Day, from Gloucester, and
with his father. He married at Attleboro, Massa-
chusetts, January 13, 1731-32. Their children, born
in Attleboro, were: Nathan, born January i, 1734-
35 ; Oliver, February 17, 1736-37 ; Isaac, January 29,
1738-39; Othaniel, November 2, 1740.

(IV) Othaniel Day, son of Joseph Day, Jr. (3),
was born in Attleboro, November 2, 1740. He was
a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain
Oliver Capron's company. Colonel Ephraim Doolit-
tle's regiment (the Twenty-fourth), June 24, 177S,
at the siege of Boston, and presumably fought at the
battle of Bunker Hill. He removed to Richmond,
New Hampshire, and settled on the farm occupied
later by John Day and Lewis Fisher (lot 22, range
i), next the Warwick line. He died at Richmond,

New Hampshire, June 10, 1820. He married

. Their child: John, born December 29, 1795,

see forward.

(V) John Day, son of Othaniel Day (4), was
born in Richmond, New Hampshire, October 12,
1795, died there October 12, 1832. He settled in
Richmond and married there, January 30, 1821, Sally
Weeks, daughter of Caleb Weeks, of Warwick, Mas-
sachusetts. She married (second) Lewis Fisher.
The children of John and Sally Day, all born at
Richmond, were: Abigail, born June 14. 1821 ;
Hymeneus, February 12, 1823, died April 7, 1852;
Philetus, November 15. 1825, died December I, 1843;
Caleb W., October 12, 1827 ; Josephus, November
23, 1829: John. Jr.. January 11, 1832, died Septem-
ber 6. 1852.

(VI) Caleb W. Day, son of John Day (5), was
born in Richmond, New Hampshire, October 12,
1827. When he was five years old his father died
and his mother removed to Massachusetts, where
he received his early education in the public schools.
He went to work in the Bullock woolen mill about
1S43, at the age when many hoys of his day had
to become wage earners. He worked in the mill

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and went to school in Royalston. He worked after-
ward in mills in Winchester, New Hampshire, and
Northfield, Massachusetts, but finally returned to
Royalston. Bemis & Jones, who had been manu-
facturing shoe pegs, dissolved partnership, and Mr.
Day joined Mr. Jones in that business. He after-
ward bought out Mr. Jones and began the manu-
facture of brush woods, as the trade calls the wood
used in the manufacture of brushes, such as handles,
backs, etc. His mill, which was located at South
Royalston, was destroyed by fire in 1884. He re-
sumed business after the fire in a factory which he
hired, located near the New Hampshire line, in
Winchendon. He continues to live, however, in
Royalston, although he has had a large and pros-
perous business develop at his new stand in the ad-
jacent town of Winchendon. He took his two sons
into partnership when thev became old enough and
the present name of the firm is C. W. Day & Com-
pany. The same line of goods is produced, though
in larger variety. The mill turns out a large quan-
tity of wooden handles. His firm employs many
hands and is one of the substantial industries of the
town. His sons, John W. and Charles L. Day, have
taken the more burdensome duties of the business
from him, although he is still the active head of
the firm.

Mr. Day is a Republican in politics and has
always taken a keen interest in town affairs. He
was for more than ten years in succession on the
board of selectmen of Royalston, was assessor for
ten years and on the school committee for nine
years. He has also held other positions of trust
and honor. He has been a member of the Free
Ma.sons of Athol since 1886. He has for many years
been an active member and deacon of the Congre-
gational Church of Royalston, and is generally
known by his friends as Deacon Day.

He married. November 15, 1848. Mary M. Up-
ham, daughter of John Upham, of Templcton, Mas-
sachusetts. Her father was a mechanic. Mrs. Day
died December 3, 1893, at Royalston, aged seventy-
five years. Children of Caleb W. and Mary M.
Day: i. Martha C, born February 20. 1850, married
J. E. Lyman, of Northfield, Massachusetts, a rail-
road contractor, and they reside in the west. 2.
Ellen, born February 24, 1854, married L. M. Drury.
proprietor of the Langdon Hotel, Worcester. (See
sketch of the Drury Family in this work.) 3. John
W., married McCoIley, of Winchendon, a part-
ner in the firm of C. W. Day & Sons, resides in
Winchendon. 4. Charles I., married Sarah Smith,
of Deerfield, Massachusetts ; he is a partner in the
firm of C. W. Day & Sons of Winchendon, where
he resides. 5. Webster D., died at the age of two
years, five months. 6. Harry L., died at the age of
five months.

VAN OSTRAND FAMILY. Jan Van Nor-
strandt d), of Holland, is the progenitor of the
old Dutch family of Van Nostrand. from which
Henry Van Ostrand, of Millbury, Massachusetts,
traces his descent.

(H) Jacob Jansz Van Norstrandt, son of Jan
Van Norstrandt (l), was born in Holland, emi-
grated to this country in 16,^8 and settled in the
colony of Rcnsselaerwyck, New York, then New
Netherlands. He took the oath to the Patroon there
May 2, 1652. He was by trade a brewer. He ob-
tained a patent of land in .Albany in 1652 under the
name of Jacob Janse Van Nostrandt, the brewer.
He had also a patent for a lot on the east corner
of Beaver and South Pearl streets, Albany, nine
rods by eight and a half, on the same block on
Beaver street, and at the other corner adjoining an

alley, on lots five and six, was his brewery. In
1O5O he was appointed inspector of beer barrels. He
was in Esopus at the time of the massacre by the
Indians, June 7, 1663. He signed a petition with
other inhabitants of Esopus in 1676 for a minister.
The Dutcli Church was founded in Bevenwyck, now
Albany, about 1640.

(Ill) Aaron Jacobse Van Noorstrandt, as he
spelt his name, was son of Jacob J. (2) and jannetje
(Jacobse) Van Norstrandt, and was born in Albany,
New York. He married, in Kingston, September 4,
1687, Aeltje Van Stanwyke, by Dominie Van den
Bosck. Aeltje died after September 12, 1708. His
will was dated June 12, 1745, and proved June 18,
1751-

(IV) Moses Van Noorstrandt, son of Aaron (3)
and Aeltje (Van Stanwyke) Van Noorstrandt, was
born in Elatbush, New York, 1705. He was baptized
in Jamaica, Long Island, an adult, aged twenty-
eight, November 9. 1733. He removed to Philips-
burg, thence to Clarktown, Rockland county. New
York, and died there in 1806, aged one hundred and
tliree years.

(V) Aaron Van Nostrand, son of Moses (4)
and Abigail Van Nostrand, was baptized August
5, 173 1, at Jamaica, Long Island. His children:
Aaron, see forward ; Charles, resided in New York
and Connecticut ; Stephen, was captured by the
French while he was on a voyage to the West Indies
and never heard from afterward ; Polly, married
Northrup, of New York ; Jemima, born January,

1757, married Thompson and lived near Mt.

Morris, New York ; Betsey, married Brister

and lived in Milford, Connecticut.

(VI) Aaron Van Nostrand, son of Aaron Van
Nostrand (s). was born in 1754. and died in Milton,
New York, November 24, 1S44, aged ninety years.
He was baptized March 14, 1754, and one of the
witnesses at the ceremony was his grandmother,
Abigail Van Nostrand. He removed from Bridge-
port, Connecticut, to Milton, Saratoga county. New
York, soon after the revolution. He married Han-
na Vangeline. a French woman, born 1757, died
March 13, 1827. Their children : Zacheus, Isaac,

Sally, married Penoyer ; Rebecca, married

Whalen : David, see forward ; Polly, married

Stone; Aaron, Hannah, married Palmer; De-
borah. Amy, married Crapo ; Rufus.

"Uncle" Aaron Van Nostrand (6), as he was
called, was a carpenter and left his mark on build-
ings considered in their day especially fine. He
was employed as superintendent in laying out and
building the Ballston Centre Presbyterian church,
which was of heavy timber. At the time of the
Second Advent excitement in 1843, at an evening
lecture by Mr, Miller, this church was densely
crowded, above and below, and some of the con-
gregation began to be fearful of a crush under the
weight. The commotion w-as assuming panic pro-
portions when Uncle .Aaron rose and said : "You
can't break it down. I know, for I helped build it."
The panic subsided. He also helped build the Epis-
copal church at Milton Hill, erected on a square
supposed to be in the very centre of the town ; and
in early days town meetings wehe held there.

(Vin David Van Ostrnnd. son of Aaron Van
X'ostrand (6). was born in Huntington. Connecticut,
.Vugust 4. 1787. He moved with his parents to Mil-
ton. Saratoga county. New York, near Rock City
Falls. He married Rosanna Smith, born in Scho-
harie county. New York, in 1796, died August 26.
T84r, David succeeded his father on the farm and
in a large cooperin.g business; retired from active
life in 1854 and died at Rock Citv Falls, March 17,
1S76. Their only child was Harlow, see forward.

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David modified the spelling of the name to its pres-
ent form, Van Ostrand.

(VIII) Harlow Van Ostrand, son of David Van
Ostrand (7), was born in Milton, New York. De-
cember 12, 1817, died there June 27, 1879. He at-
tended the district schools and the Ballston Spa
Academy of wdiich Rev. Deodatus Babcock was
then principal. He entered mercantile business in
early life as clerk for Frink & Kellogg at Milton
Centre, New York. After a year with them he se-
cured a like position in Whalen's Store at Whalen's
Corner, Milton. He was appointed postmaster at
Whalen's Corner, January 20, 1841. He was em-
ployed as clerk in the store of Robert Speir at West
Milton from April 11, 1844, to 1849, when he moved
to Rock City Falls, in Milton, and built a store
in which he engaged in business on his own account.
He also built what was known as the Commodity
Rooms. He built lime-kilns, mills, shops, etc. and
carried on an extensive business in lime, lumber,
wagon-making, blacksmithing, wood and charcoal.
He lost all his property in the financial crash of
1857. He was appointed postmaster of Rock City
Falls, June, 1849, and held the office until his death,
June 27, 1879. He was head bookkeeper for Buch-
anan & Kilmer and their successors. Kilmer &
Sons, for their seven large paper mills, for over
twenty-two years. These mills were in Rock City
Falls and vicinity. He was for forty-five years a
consistent member of the Methodist Church.

He married, September 15. 18.^9. Eleanor Tall-
man, born January i, 1819, still living, in Ballston
Spa, New York. Their children: i. Cornelia, born
July 26, 1840. died June 15, 1854, at Rock City Falls,
New York ; buried there in the cemetery near
Grcnells, headstone marked only with word Cornelia.
2. Henry, see forward. 3. Mary R., born Septem-
ber 18, 1847. married J. H. Broughton, lives in Hart-
ford, Connecticut. 4, David C, see forward. 5.
Emma A., born August 14, 1851. not married, lives
in Ballston Spa, New York. 6. Ella Belle, born
January 5, 1854, married C. H. Streever, lives in
Ballston Spa, New York. 7. Colin C, born August
2.3, 1855, died July 12. 187,3, at Rock City Falls,
New York ; buried in the Rock City Falls cemetery.
8. Cora A., born December 25, 1858, married F. C.
Dunnell, lives in Sioux City, Iowa. 9. Lizzie, born
September 27, i860, died April 30, 1902. at Logans-
ville. New Jersey; buried at Baskin Ridge ceme-
tery. New Jersey ; married George Tuttle.

(IX) David C. Van Ostrand, son of Harlow
Van Ostrand (81, was born in Milton, Saratoga
county. New York, .'Vpril 4, 1849. He was educated
in the public schools. He established himself in
the business of house painting at Millbury, Massa-
chusetts. He married Abbie Torbit. He died at
Millbury, May 25, 1892. The funeral services were
under the auspices of Worcester County Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, of which he was a mem-
ber. The singing was by a male quartet of Wor-
cester. W. F. Little. Charles I. Rice, J. N. Morse,
Jr. and C. J. Marshall. The services were con-
ducted by Rev. George P. Eastman, pastor of the
Second Congregational Church, assisted by Rev.
H. G. Buckingham, pastor of the Methodist Church.
The services began w-ith a selection, "Rock of Ages"
by the quartet, following with scripture reading by
Mr. Eastman, who also made a brief address in
which he paid a glowing tribute ta the life and
character of Mr. Van Ostrand. Mr. Buckingham
also gave a fitting eulogy, closing with prayer. The
quartet sang "Abide with Me," after which the im-
pressive Masonic burial ser\'ice was held at the
home. It was conducted by Acting Eminent Com-
mander W. A. Farnsworth and Prelate Henry God-

dard, assisted by the quartet, who sang several selec-
tions. At the close of the Masonic service the re-
mains were viewed by the large number present.
There were many flowers, including a Maltese cross
from the Worcester County Commandery, a key-
stone from Tyrian Royal Arch Chapter, a square and
compass from Olive Branch Lodge, a pillow with
three links from Morning Star Lodge, No. 120, Odd
Fellows. A most beautiful and appropriate design
was contributed by the former employes of Mr. Van
Ostrand, consisting of a floral ladder, brush and pail.
The funeral was attended in a body by Morning
Star Lodge and Olive Branch Lodge, acting as escort
to the Worcester County Commandery. The remains
were interred in the Central cemetery and the pro-
cession was formed as follows: Morning Star Lodge,
A. Alden Coftin, marshal ; Olive Branch Lodge, T.
A. Winter, marshal, as escort to a delegation of
Worcester County Commandery in carriages, and
in this manner the procession proceeded to the grave,
where a large crowd had assembled to witness the
burial services. They were conducted by Prelate
Henrv Goddard. The bearers were : Sir Knights
N. H. Sears, S. E. Hull, E. J. Humphreys, H. W.
Sweetser, James H. Ferguson and E. E. Wood.

(IX) Henry Van Ostrand, son of Harlow Van
Ostrand (8), was born in West Milton, Saratoga
county. New York, March 31, 1842. He attended
the public schools at Milton and Rock City Falls
the Academy at Penfield, Monroe county. New York.
He served in the civil war, three years in the Satter-
lee United States General Hospital at West Phila-
delphia from 1862 to 1865. He was one year hospi-
tal postmaster and two years as chief clerk of the
extra diet department, acting some of the time as
commissary steward. He has the permanent pass
given him at that time by Dr. Isaac Hayes, surgeon
in charge, granting him the privilege of going and
coming from the hospital from 12 M. to 12 M. This
hospital was built by the government and occupied
thirteen acres of land. Mr. Van Ostrand has in his
possession copies of accounts showing the expenses
of his department on October 25, 1864, and on IMay
10, 1865. On the first date there were 3,962 in the
hospital and they used 4,531 pounds of beef, mutton
and ham, 3,965 loaves of bread, 1,572 pounds of
vegetables, 982 quarts of milk, 100 pounds of coffee,
385 pounds of sugar, 264 pounds of dried apples,
250 pounds of hominy, besides other articles of food
such as eggs, farina, corn starch, oysters, chickens,
etc., costing $1,363.12. The cost of extra diet ra-
tions was forty-nine cents per diem and the average
of all thirty-four and four-tenth cents per diem. The
immber of patients in this hospital May 10, 1865,
was 2,992 ; the cost for extra diet forty-seven cents
and a half, and the average cost of all twenty-nine
and one-tenth cents.

This hospital was built something like the letter
"H;" the sides were corridors each nearly 1,000 feet
long, serving as dining rooms for patients, the wards
being connected on side, of which there were 34,
from 60 to 100 feet long, each had a bath room,
hot and cold water, w-ardniasters' room, and Sisters
of Charity room. The wards were known by each
letter of the alphabet, with an addition of XX —
O. K. and Nos. i, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6. Also a smallpox
camp, located outside. The buildings were en-
closed by a picket fence 12 feet high. The parade
grounds were on opposite side from smallpox camp,
about three acres. The north and south kitchens
were connected with two corridors, and an extra
diet kitchen on the south side of the grounds.

There were the commissary office and store
rooms, quartermaster's office and store room^
laboratory, printing office, reading room, etc., scpa-

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rate quarters for the officers, clerks, cadets, stewards,
guards, fatigue corps, with separate mess rooms for
each. The whole building was supplied with city
water and lighted with gas. The capacity of build-
ing was about 4,500. One of the wards was occu-
pied by colored soldier patients, and one (ward
2) for Rebel invalid prisoners. There were forty-
two Sisters of Charity who had their chapel and
mess rooms. A laundry was connected with the
hospital, female help being employed. While Mr.
Van Ostrand was the hospital postmaster he came
in contact with many nationalities ; some of the
names are still fresh in his memory.

Mr. Van Ostrand was assistant postmaster at
Rock City Falls for twenty-one years, from 1855
to 1862 and from August, 1865, after the war, to
July, 1879. He was a school trustee tliere from 1873
to 1882. He served two years as inspector of elec-
tions. He was appointed notary public, serving
from 1878 to 1882 inclusive. He was engaged in
the saw mill, cider and vinegar, and wagon making
business for a number of years, selling out finally
in 1876. He succeeded his father as bookkeeper for
C. Kilmer & Son, paper manufacturers. He came
to Millbury, Massachusetts, in 1882. He moved his
family there in 1883 and since then has made his
home there. He was associated with his brother
David in the painting business, which David had
established there in 1874, and after the death of his
brother, succeeded to the business. The Van
Ostrand Brothers carried on an extensive business
in painting, paper hanging and kalgomining in Mill-
"bury and vicinity. They had the contracts for paint-
ing all the churches in Millbury, all the school
houses, the town hall. Masonic Block, the Bank
Block, all the property of the various mill corpora-
tions, the Worcester and Millbury electric car barn
and power house, ten tenements now owned by the
Worcester Consolidated Co., and mills at North Ox-
ford, Farnumsville, Saundersville, Fishersville,
Wilkinsonville and Crafton Centre. The firm did
■considerable work also in Worcester. In 1901 Mr.
Van Ostrand had the contract to paint the twenty-
five tenement buildings of the Worcester & Black-
stone Valley Railroad. In igo6 he had the painting
for this electric road, now owned by the New Haven
Railroad Company, under the title of New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the car barn, of-
fice, power station, inside and outside. In 1903 he
went into the real estate business, in addition to
liis painting business, and he deals in paints, oils,
varnishes, putty, glass and wall paper. His shop
and residence are at the corner of Miles and Hamil-
ton streets.

Mr. Van Ostrand is a man of strong social pro-
clivities and belongs to many orders and societies.
He joined Amity Lodge, Odd Fellows, Broad and
Spring streets, Philadelphia, 1863; Saratoga Lodge,
Ko. 15, of New York, February 20, 1866. and Morn-
ing Star Lodge of Millbury, January 4. 1887; was
its treasurer from 1888 to i8g6. He was made a
Master Mason in Franklin Lodge, No. 90, Ballston
Spa. New York, in 1866; joined Warren Chapter
of Royal Arch Masons at Ballston Spa, 1866, and
■was admitted June i, 1886. to Tyrian Chapter of
Millbury. He took the Eastern Star degrees in
1866. He became a member of Hiram Council,
Royal and Select Masters, at Worcester, September
25, 1890. He is also a charter member of General
Scott Castle, No. 21. K. of G. E., Millbury, which
Tie joined in 1892. and of which he was treasurer
four years. He is a charter member of Quartette
Lodge, No. 93, A. O. U. W., joining in i88g, two
years secretary and its treasurer since 1903. He
has never been a member of any church but is

deeply interested in the Millbury Methodist Epis-
copal Church and has been its treasurer since March,
1894. and trustee since 1886. In politics lie is a Re-
publican ; he served as overseer of the poor in Mill-
bury .eleven years, from 1893 to 1904. Mr. Van
Ostrand is one of the best known and most popular
business men of Millbury. He is a man of many
friends, not only in his own town where he is
best known but ihrougout the county.

He married, May 12, 1869, Mary Sherwood, born
at Rensselaer, l'"ebruary 20, 1842, daughter of Sam-
uel and Sally Sherwood, of Rensselaer, New York.
Their cliildren: i. Harry True, see forward. 2.
.\rthur Sherwood, see forward. 3. Nellie B., born
at Rock City Falls, New York, November 29, 1880,
attended public school and three years in high school
in Millbury, graduate of tlie English high school,
Worcester, 1899, also Becker's Business College,
attended a year at Boston University, for three years
past employed in the office of the Hill envelope
Company, division of the United States Envelope
Company, Worcester, as stenographer and type-
writer ; she was worthy matron of Ada Chapter,
No. IS, Order Eastern Star, Alillbury, from 1902
to 1904, the youngest ever elected in that chapter,
she being the youngest member that ever held the
office of worthy matron. She joined Alpha Chapter,
Delta-Delta-Dolta, Boston L'niversity, 1900.

(.X) Harry True Van Ostrand, son of Henry
Van Ostrand (9), was born at Rock City Falls,
New York, October 26, 1872. He attended school
there and at Millbury, whither he moved with his
parents in 1883. He also attended the Worcester
Academy, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
where he took a course in inechanical engineering
and was graduated in 1895 with the degree of
Bachelor of Science. He was very much interested
in natural history from early childhood and his
school vacations were spent largely in collecting
and mounting specimens. He has a large collec-
tion of birds, bird eggs, reptiles and insects. He
learned the art of taxidermy of Charles K. Reed,
of Worcester, for whom he worked parts of vaca-
tions. Conducted a class in Ornithologj- at Worces-
ter Natural History Society for two seasons. In
1896 he went to Morganza, Pennsylvania, where he
organized and for three years had charge of the
industrial department of the Pennsylvania Reform
School. In company with T. B. Lee, of Pittsburg,
he built up some of the first independent telephone
companies in the Pittsburg district. Afterward en-
tered the engineering department of the .\merican
Bridge Company, also with the Pittsburg Coal Com-
pany a short time. For four years past employed
by W. G. Wilkins Company, engineers and archi-
tects, has charge of designing many coal mining
plants, building coal tipples, bridges, coal mine ven-
tilating fans, coke oven plants, etc. He belongs to
the Masonic fraternity, the Odd Fellows, and the
Elks, No. II, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He mar-
ried, June 25, 1902, Edith M. Dudley, daughter of
George J. and Jennett P. (Daniels) Dudley, of Sut-
ton, Alassachusetts.

(X) Arthur Sherwood Van Ostrand, son of
Henry Van Ostrand (9), was born at Rock City
Falls, New York, May I, 1876. He moved with
his parents to Millbury, Massachusetts, in October,
1883. He attended the public schools and was grad-
uated from the Jilillbury high school. He attended
the English high scliool of Worcester and Becker's
Bus^iuess College there. He entered the Worces-
ter Polytechnic Institute in 1895, was graduated as
a chemist in 1899, was president of the class and
wrote his class prophecy. -He entered the employ
of the Carnegie Steel Company at Braddock, Penn-

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sylvania, in the following October. lie niailc a
specialty of chemistry and since 1901 he has been
employed as chief chemist for the Braeburn Fine
Tool Steel Company at Braeburn, Pennsylvania. He
is a member of the Delta Chapter of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon of the Polytechnic Institute. He joined the
Benevolent Protective Order Elks, No. 577, at Wil-
kinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1801. He married, July
27, 1904, Effie Way Cheney, of Hudson, Massa-
chusetts, born at Clinton, December 23, 1876, daugh-
ter of Levi Raymond and Mary Elizabeth (.Billing-
ton) Cheney, descendant of John Cheney, who came
from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1635.

EBEN DRAPER BANCROFT. John Bancroft
(l), the immigrant ancestor of Eben Draper Ban-
croft, of Hopedale, JMassachusetts, came to America
in 1632 and died very soon after. His widow Jane
had land assigned to her in Lynn in 1638, though
she was living there as early as 1632. Children of
John and Jane Bancroft were ; John, Thomas, see
forward.

(H) Lieutenant Thomas Bancroft, son of John
Bancroft (i), was born in England about 1622 and
probably came to Lynn with his parents in early life.
He was a townsman of Dedham in 1648 and built
his house near the Beaver dam. He removed to
Reading about 1653 and settled in the west parish.
In 1655 he hired a farm of 500 acres from Samuel
Bennett. The farm was in that part of Lynn now
Saugus, three of four miles south of Reading, where
he attended church. He had no part apparently in
the common lands of Reading and may never have
lived in that town. In 1670 Lieutenant Bancroft
bought seventy acres of land in Lynntield, Massa-
chusetts, three miles easterly from the Reading
church, which he continued to attend. He died at
Lynn, August 19, i6gi, and the inventory of his
estate, filed November 24, 1691, by his son Ebenezer
shows land at Reading as well as at Lynn, etc. An
agreement of division was filed later signed by the
widow, Elizabeth, sons Thomas, John and Ebenezer ;
Joseph Brown, who married the daughter Elizabeth
Bancroft, and Sarah Bancroft, the youngest daugh-
ter, then unmarried. His widow Elizabeth died
^lay I, 1711.

He married, March 31, 1647, Alice Bacon, daugh-
ter of Michael Bacon. She died March 29, 1648.
He married (second), July 15, 1648, Elizabeth Met-
calf, (daughter of Michael and Sarah Metcalf), who
was admitted to the Dedham Church, December 14,
1651, and joined that of Reading, being dismissed
from Dedham, November 22, 1669. The only child
of Lieutenant Thomas and Alice Bancroft was :
Thomas, born and died in 1648. The children of
Lieutenant Thomas and Elizabeth Bancroft were :
Thomas, born about 1649; Elizabeth, born and died
1650; John, born February 3, 1651-52; Elizabeth,
born at Reading, December 7. 1653. married Joseph
Brown ; Sarah, born 1660. died 1661 ; Raham, born
1662, died 1683; Sarah, born 1665, married John
Woodward; Ebenezer, born 1O67 ; Mary, born 1670,
died unmarried 1691.

(Ill) Deacon Thomas Bancroft, son of Lieu-
tenant Thomas Bancroft (2), was born about 1649
at Reading or Lynn. He was lieutenant in King
Philip's war in 1675-76, and was for several years
selectman of the town of Reading. He built the
fourth house in the West Parish of the town and
lived there. It was near what is called the Ahraliam
Temple place. The place is known as the old Ban-
croft farm. He married. 1673. Sarah Poole, daugh-
ter of Jonathan and Judith Poole. Children of
Deacon Thomas and Sarah Bancroft were : Thomas,
born 1673 ; Jonathan born and died 1675 ; Sarah,

born 1676, married Abraham Bryant; Mehitable,

born 1678, married Parker;' Jonathan, born

1681, married Sarah — — , died 1702; Rahum, born

1688, married Parker, Samuel, born

1691, died 1692; Samuel, see forward; Elizabeth,
born 1696, married, 1713, John Lamson.

(IV) Captain Samuel Bancroft, ninth child o£
Deacon Thomas Bancroft (3), was born in Read-
ing in 1693. He was captain of the military com-
pany, captain in French war, 1755, selectman, deputy
to the general court. He died 1772, aged seventy-
nine years. He married (first), 1713, Sarah Lam-
son, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Nichols) Lam-
son. She died 1733, aged forty-three years. He
married (second), 1733, Sarah Leathe. He married
(third) Mehitable Fitch. Children of Captain Sam-
uel and Sarah Bancroft were: Samuel, born 1715;
William, 1717; Edmund, 1718, died 1740; Nathaniel,
1720; Sarah, 1722; Jacob, 1723; Jeremiah, 1725;
Caleb, 1731.

(V) Samuel Bancroft, Jr., son of Samuel Ban-
croft (4), was born in Reading, Massachusetts,
1715. He was deacon of the church, justice of the
peace, selectman, and deputy to the general court.
He died 1782, aged sixty-seven years; his widow
died 1813, aged ninety-eight years. Samuel Ban-
croft married, 1735, Lydia Parker, daughter of
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Parker. Children of Sam-
uel and Lydia Bancroft were : Samuel, born 1736,
see forward; Lydia, born 1738, married, 1761, Z.
Johnson of Andovcr ; Sarah born 1740. married,
1761, Daniel Howe, of Andover; Mary, born 1742,
married. 1765, Reverend Francis Lovejo'y, a descend-
ant of tlie martyr Lovejoy; they settled in Maine or
New York ; Mehitable, born 1744. married, 1767,
John NichoUs; Elizabeth, born 1746, married, 1769,
Nathaniel Cheve; Ann, born 1749; Edmund, born
1751, married, 1770, Sarah Pool. Caleb, born 1753,
married, 1776, Susan Fay; Rev. Aaron, minister, at
Worcester, father of George Bancroft, the historian;
Lucy, born 1758, married, 1780, Dr. Joseph Gray.

(VI) Samuel Bancroft, eldest child of Samuel
Bancroft (5), was born in Reading, Massachusetts,
in 1736. He lived at Medway, Massachusetts, and
for a time at Marblehead. He was not in sympathy
with the revolution in the colonies and removed to
Nova Scotia, where he became a judge. He mar-
ried Sarah Holt, of Andover, in 1758. Among their
children were : Samuel, born about 1760, see for-
ward ; John, removed to JNIedway, Massachusetts.

(VII) Samuel Bancroft, son of Samuel Ban-
croft (6), born about 1760, married Mary Warren,
of Marblehead, March 20, 1781. had one son Samuel,
see forward. Samuel Bancroft (VII) was reported
to have died at sea.

(VIII) Samuel Bancroft, only son of Samuel
Bancroft (7), was born in Reading, Massachusetts,
March 2, 1784. He was in the navy in the second
war against Great Britain and was taken prisoner
and confined in the infamous Dartmoor prison to
the irreparable loss of his health. He died at
West Medway, in 1844. aged sixty years. He moved
from Marblehead to Uxbridge. Like his father he
followed the sea. He married. January 15. 1807,
Mary Bubier, of Marblehead. born January 12. 1786,
died at West Medway, April 8, 1873. aged eighty-
seven years. Their cliildren : Mary, born 1807,
died 1836; married Waterman Hopkins; Helen B.,
born 1809, died 1896; married Phineas Boyle;
Elizabeth M'., born 1810, died 1894; married Eliakim
Adams ; Samuel, born 1812. died 1879 ; married
(first) Abigail Fairbanks, (second) Mary E. Rog-
ers, (third) Eliza Paine; John B., born 1817. died
1S74; married (first) Amy F'isk, (second) Harriet
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Paine; Louisa A., born 1820, married Albert W.
Fink; Joseph 15., see forward; Tabitha, born l8_>4,
died 1SJ5; William M., born 1826, married Sara
J. Stanley.

(IX) Joseph Biibier Bancroft, one of the ten
childrtn of Samuel Bancroft (.8), was born in Ux-
bndgc, October 3, 1821. His educational opportuni-
ties were limited to the somewhat primitive public
school sjstem then in vogue, but his superior mental
faculties enabled him to make use of these meagre
advantages. At an early age he went to work in
one of the mills of the neighborhood, but having a
•decided preference for mechanical pursuits, subse-
quently served an apprenticeship at the machinist's
trade, and his natural ingenuity enabled him to thor-
oughly master that calling in an unsually short
period. For various lengths of time he was em-
ployed as a journeyman in Woonsocket, Rhode
Island ; Putnam, Connecticut ; and in Medway, Slat-
ersville, Uxbridge, Whitinsville and Worcester,
Massachusetts. Joining the Hopedale Community
in 1846, he became connected with the Hopedale Ma-
chine Company when the operative force of that con-
cern consisted of three men. This force was gradu-
ally increased as business advanced in prosperity,
and the concern eventually came into the hands of
Messrs. Thwing and Bancroft. Shortly afterward
Mr. Bancroft entered into partnership with Messrs.
Eben and George Draper, and for some years was in
charge of the cotton machinery department of the
Draper works. Soon after the close of the civil
war. General William F. Draper entered the firm
and Mr. Bancroft took the responsible position of
general superintendent of the entire Draper plant,
which increased in magnitude until its regular vol-
iime of business necessitated the steady employment
of three thousand five hundred employees. Some
years ago he retired from the active superintend-
ency, retaining, however, a continued interest in
the works, of which he is now the vice-president,
and although he has become an octogenarian he
possesses the agility and mental vigor of a much
younger man. In addition to the Draper Company
he is interested in other business enterprises, being
president of the Milford Gaslight Company and a
director of the Home National Bank.

Prior to the separation of Hopedale from Mil-
ford (1886), he participated actively in the civic
affairs of Milford, being for a number of years
chairman of the board of selectmen, and in 1864
represented his district in the lower branch of the
state legislature, serving upon the committee on
engrossed bills. No man possessed a larger share
of the public confidence than Mr. Bancroft. After
the incorporation of Hopedale, he was chairman of
the new board of selectmen, of the road commission-
ers and of the overseers of the poor. In politics
he is a Republican, and has frequently been chosen
a delegate to party conventions. In early manhood
h? joined the Masonic fraternity and is well ad-
vanced in that order, being a member of Mont-
gomery Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Mount
Lebanon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Milford
Commandery, Knights Templar. He has always
taken an active interest in church affairs and for
many years was an officer of the Unitarian parish.

Mr. Bancroft married, September 11, 1844, Sylvia
Willard Thwing, born in Uxbridge. June 26, 1824,
daughter of Benjamin and Anna (Mowry) Thwing.
Of this union there were ten children, namely :
Eben Draper, Charles Eugene, Minerva Louise,
William, Walter, Anna Minerva, Mary Gertrude,
Charles Frederick, Lilla J. and Lura Belle. Eben
Draper, born August 27, 1847, married Lelia Coburn
and has two children : Alice and Joseph. Charles

Eugene, born 1849, died in infancy, .Minerva Louise,
William and Walter (.triplets), born in 1851, died
in infancy. Anna Minerva, born February 9, 1853,
was for several years engaged in educational pur-
suits, teaching in the high schools of Hopkinton,
Fairhaven and Milford. She is deeply "interested
in literature and a member of educational and lit-
erary clubs in Hopedale, Milford, Worcester and
Boston. Mary Gertrude, born December 2, 1856,
wife of Walter P. Winsor, president of the First
National Bank of New Bedford, Massachusetts, one
of the most prominent and influential citizens of
Fairhaven. They have four children : Walter P.,
Jr., Anna Bancroft, married, October 10, 1905, Carl
C. Shippee, of New York ; Bancroft and Allen Pell-
ington Winsor. Charles Frederick, born April 30,
1801, died September 14, 1868. Lilla Jo, born Au-
gust 25, 1863, graduated from the Greenfield Acad-
emy and taught in the Hopedale high school for
some time. She married Howard W. Bracken, as-
sistant superintendent of the Draper Company. Lura
Belle, born December 27, 1865, was educated in the
schools of Milford, Prospect Hill school, Green-
field and Art School of Boston. She married
Charles M. Day, general superintendent of the
Draper Company ; he was for several years chair-
man of the board of selectmen, secretary of the town
board of streets and highways, Hopedale, and held
other positions of honor and trust. He died Feliru-
ary 21, 1903. Mrs. Sylvia W. Bancroft died April
20, 1898, and her memory has been fittingly perpet-
uated by a handsome memorial library, erected and
presented to the town by her husband.

Eben Draper Bancroft, eldest child of Joseph
Bubier Bancroft, was born in Hopedale, Massachu-
setts, August 27, 1847. He was educated in the
public schools of Milford, and in a private school
in Providence, where he took a course in civil en-
gineering, expecting to make that his life work. He
was, however, called to Hopedale to take charge of
accounts in the office of his uncles, E. D. and G.
Draper. Later was elected a director and made as-
sistant treasurer of the Hopedale Machine Company,
one of the several corporations merged later into the
Draper Company. At the time of the consolidation
he was elected a director and made purchasing agent,
manager of the company's offices, and assistant clerk
of the corporation, and at the present time is still
occupying said positions. He was for many years
treasurer of the Glasgo Yarn Mills Company of
Glasgo, Connecticut, large manufacturers of fine
yarns for thread and knitting trade. Also of the
Glasgo Thread Mill of Worcester, and of the Hope-
dale Elastic Goods Company of Hopedale, all of
which positions he held until the business was dis-
posed of, as in the case of the two first mentioned
corporations, or the corporation dissolved and the
the property sold to make room for the expansion
of Draper Company, as in the case of the last named
industry. He was for years and is now a director
of the Milford Water Company, and treasurer of the
town of Hopedale since its incorporation in 1886.
He was for a short time treasurer and manager of
the American Architect, a well known architectural
paper, and for several years auditor of the accounts
of the Shaw Stocking Company of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts.

Mr. Bancroft is a member of the Unitarian
Church, and treasurer of the Hopedale Unitarian
Parish. He has also been active in politics, and is
one of the influential Republicans in his section of
the state. Has served on various committees and
as delegate to conventions since becoming of age.
Has been active in management of various sena-
torial campaigns in his district, and was manager of

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the two successful campaigns of his kinsman. Gen-
eral Draper, when he sought congressional honors.
He is a well known Free Mason, a member of
IMontgoniery Lodge, Mt. Lebanon Chapter, and Mil-
ford Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he
■was for two years a very active commander, his
service in this direction making him a member of
the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar.

He married, September g, 1874, Lelia Coburn,
born September 14, 1846, daughter of Alonzo and
Eliza Curtis Jones Coburn. Their children are :
Alice Coburn, born at Hopedale, July 3, 1876; Jo-
seph Bubier, horn at Hopedale, February 26, 1880, a
graduate of Harvard University, class of 1903, and
now assistant treasurer of the Portland Iron &
Steel Company rolling mill at Portland, Maine.

JAMES BUTTERICK. The late James Butter-
ick, for many years a prosperous citizen of the town
of Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, was
a descendant in a direct line of one of the old
Colonial families of the state of Massachusetts, the
earliest known ancestor being William Butterick,
one of the founders of Concord. The an-
cestors in order of generation were William,
John, John, Francis, Jonathan and Francis, father
of James Butterick. One of the descendants of
William Butterick was Major John Butterick, who
commanded the Minute Men who drove back the
British troops at Concord Bridge, April 19, 1775.

Jonathan Butterick, grandfather of James But-
terick. was born in Groton, Middlesex county. Mas-
sachusetts, in 1750. He married, in 1772, Hannah
Sawyer, of Lancaster, a descendant of John Pres-
cott, one of the founders of Lancaster, and among
his children was a son, Francis.

Francis Butterick, son of Jonathan and Hannah
(Sawyer) Butterick, was born Tune 4, 1778. He
was a well known carpenter and builder of Sterl-
ing in his day, and married Ruhamah Buss, born
January 20, 1786. This marriage was solemnized
April 4, 1810. and they had children : John, Francis,
Ruhamah M., Jonathan Sawyer, James, George
and Ebenezer.

James Butterick, fourth son and fifth child of
Francis and Ruhamah (Buss) Butterick, was born
in Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Sep-
tember 23, 1819. He received his education in his
native town. He early realized the importance of
the chair manufacturing industry and started a bus-
iness in West Sterling wliich he operated very suc-
cessfully for a number of years. He later engaged
in business in Clinton, in the same county, then a
new and rapidly growing manufacturing town. His
Ijusiness ability enabled him to attain prosperity,
and for many years he was at the head of an exten-
sive provision establishment. Like many members
of the Butterick family he was possessed of unusual
business acumen and foresight, and was interested
to his advantage in many enterprises. He finally
withdrew from active business life on account of
poor health and retired to his farm in Sterling, to
the cultivation of which he henceforth devoted his
time and attention. In his younger years his politi-
cal affiliations were with the Democratic party, but
upon the outbreak of the civil war he became an
adherent of the Republican party, and from that
tiine gave it his support. He attended the Univer-
salist Church at an early age but subsequently at-
tended the Unitarian Church.

August 13, 1843, he married Elizabeth H. Roper,
daughter of Henry and Betsey Roper, of Sterling,
wdio died September 20, i860. The children of this
marriage are Mary Frances, married Charles T. Os-
good, of Sterling; Luella, married H. M. Haywood,

of Sterling, and Jane, died in infancy. December
24, 1861, he married Mary A. Rugg, daughter of
Luther W. and Mary (Hager) Rugg. Two daugh-
ters were born of this marriage ; Grace Ruhamah,
married Henry A. Macgowan, of Worcester, and
Carrie Rice, died in infancy. James Butterick died
January 27, 1895, at the age of seventy-five. His
widow, Mrs. Mary A. Butterick, still resides at the
Butterick homestead in Sterling, Massachusetts.

LYMAN NICHOLS FAIRBANKS. Jonathan
Fairbanks (i), the immigrant ancestor of Lyman
Nichols Fairbanks, of Westboro, Massachusetts,
was born in Sowerby, in the West Riding of York-
shire, England, before 1600. He is named in the will
of George Fairbanks, of Sowerby, in Halifax, Eng-
land, under date of May 28, 1650. (See N. E. Reg.
VII, 303.) Jonathan Fairbanks came with his fam-
ily to New England in 1633 and, after living three
years in Boston, settled in Dedham, being one of the
pioneer settlers there. He signed the famous Ded-
ham covenant. His house, built between 1636 and
1654, is the oldest house in the country that has
been continuously occupied by the builder and his
descendants to the present day. The F"airbanks As-
sociation has bought the old place and has taken
steps to preserve it indefinitely.

He died December 5. 1668. and his will was
proved January 26, following. It mentions his chil-
dren, as given below. He married Grace Lee in
England. She died December 28. 1673, or May 19,
1676. Their children were: John, born in Eng-
land, died November 13, 1684; George, died Janu-
ary 10. 1682-83 ; Mary, born April 18, 1622, mar-
ried Michael Metcalf and had five children ; Susan,
married, October 12, 1647, Ralph Day, of Dedham,
and had six children ; Jonas, killed by the Indians,
see forward; Jonathan, died January 28, 1711-12.

(II) Jonas Fairbanks, son of Jonathan Fair-
banks (l), was born in England and came to Amer-
ica with his parents and settled first in Dedham,
where he was one of the signers of the Covenant
March 7, 1659, and was called one of the "Fathers
of the Town." He removed to Lancaster in 1657.
He was a carpenter as well as a farmer. In 1652
he was in court charged with wearing "Great
Boots" before he was worth 200 pounds, contrary to
the sumptuary regulations and statutes in such
cases made and provided. This law was passed in
1651. Fairbanks was found guilty and fined. If all
his descendants had to pay fines for wearing ''great
boots," not even the distinguished descendant from
Indiana, the vice-president of the United States,
would escape the penalty, except on the ground that
he Iiad over 200 pounds saved up, Jonas Fair-
banks was killed by the Indians, February 10, 1676,
when King Philip himself and one thousand five
hundred braves attacked the town of Lancaster.
Fifty or more were massacred and others taken pris-
oners. Jonas Fairbanks and his son Joshua were
among the victims.

He married. May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott,
daughter of John Prescott, who also came from
Sowerby, Parish Halifa,x, England. She was born
in Watertown, Massachusetts. August 15, 1641.
,'\fter her husband was killed she married (second)
Ellis Barron, of Watertown, later of Groton and
Lancaster. The children of Jonas and Lydia Fair-
banks were: Marie, born June 20. 1659; Joshua,
born .April 6, 1661, killed by the Indians, February
ID, 1676; Grace, born November 15, 1663; Jonathan,
born October 7. i6(56. see forward ; Hasadiah, born
February 28, 166S. married John Moore, of Con-
cord. January I, 1698; Jabez, born January 8, 1670-
71 ; Jonas, born May 6, 1673, was of Watertown,

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1695-96, wlicn he sold to brother Jabcz land form-
erly of their father ; died September 13, 1697, and
was buried in brother Jonathan's lot.

(Ill) Captain Jabez Fairbanks, son of Jonas
Fairbanks (2), was born at Lancaster, January 8,
1670-71, and he resided there, except when driven
aw-ay by Indian wars, until he died March 2, 1758,
aged eighty-seven years (reported eighty-four years
on gravestone). He was a very efficient soldier and
oflficer in the Indian wars and "was no doubt in-
cited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father
and brother in 1676 and his only surviving brother
in 1697. During the raid on the town of Lancaster
in 1697, when his brother Jonathan was slain with
one of his children. Captain Fairbanks was the
means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives
including that of his little son, probably Joseph.
The Indians killed twenty-one persons, wounded
two and carried off as captive six, of whom live
were returned later, including tlie wife of his brother
Jonathan. In the year 1700 he received grants of
land on both sides of Dane's brook above Thomas
Sawyer's sawmill. This site became the home of
the I'^airbanks family of Lancaster for more than a
century. Captain Fairbanks was deputy to the gen-
eral court in 1714-21-22-23.

He married JNIary Wilder, daughter of Thomas
and Mary (Houghton) Wilder. She died Febru-
ary 21, 1718, aged forty-three years. He married
(second), March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who
died May 11, 1755, aged eighty years, seven months.
Children of Captain and Mary Fairbanks were:
Joseph, born 1693 ; Jabez, Elizabeth, married, De-
cember 24, 1718, Deliverance Brown; Jonas, Thomas,
Abigail, married Major Henry Willard, of Ash-
burnham, descendant of Major Simon Willard, the
famous pioneer settler; Jonathan, see forward;
Grace, baptized February 27, 1712, married, March
27, 1733; Joshua, born 1714, baptized March 28,
1714; Anna, born 1716, baptized November 18, mar-
ried, April 5, 1738, Simon Butler and had twelve
children.

(FV) Jonathan Fairbanks, son of Jabez Fair-
banks (3), was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts,
and baptized June 18, 1710, and settled in his native
town. He died 1798, aged eighty-nine years. His
will was filed August 20, 1798. He made bequests
to wife Submit; sons Lemuel, Seth, William and
daughter Rebecca Morse. Jonathan married (first),
April 8, 1735, Thankful Sawyer, who died March,
1882. He married (second), December 2, 1784, in
Sterling, and she died January 30, 1799. Children of
Jonathan and Thankful Fairbanks were : William,
born March 2, 1736, was killed by French and In-
dians, September 8, 1755, at Lake George; was
drummer in the service; Jabez, born March 2, 1738;
Jonathan, born January 25, 1740, died September
14, 1741 ; Jonathan, born January 29, 1743, died
October 19, 1747; Joshua, born February 23, 1746,
died October 21, 1747; Jonathan, born May iS, 1748,
died December 14. 1750; Lemuel, born May 8, 1751 ;
Thankful, born July 12, 1753, married William
Brooks; Seth, born December 7, 1755, see forward;
William, born March 7, 1759; Rebecca, born June
20, 1761, married Moore.

(V) Seth Fairbanks, son of Jonathan Fairbanks
(4), was born at Lancaster, December 7, 1755. He
settled in that part of Lancaster that became later
the town of West Boylston. He was a soldier in
the revolution, in a Lancaster company on the Lex-
ington Alarm, April 19, 1775. and again in the com-
pany of Captain Fortunatus Eager in 1777. He died
December 31, 1833. He married Relief Sawyer,
daughter of Amos Sawyer, March 5, 1778; she w-as
born December i, 1758, and died June 10, 1839.

Their children were: .Amos, horn September 25,
1779; Lucy, born March 12, 1782, married Luthcr
Taylor and had two children — Miranda E. Taylor,
married, October 14, 1830, Justus Kittridge; Eunice
Sophia, married Lewis Toombs, April, 1834; he
died February 7, 1851; married (second), July 2,
1861, John Lynch. Cynthia, born July 10, 1784;
Sally, born June 13, 1786, married Eleazer Johnson,
December 20, 1810. Lydia, born September 19, 1788,
married Henry Keyes Holt, of West Boylston, No-
vember 16, 1813; he died September 8, 1828, aged
forty years; married (second) Nathaniel Daven-
port, September 25, 1844 ; he had two children^
Henry b'airbanks Holt, l)orn November 25, 1816;
Lucius Keyes Holt, married, October 10, 1843, Re-
becca Frost. Isaac, born December 5, 1790. Eunice,
born May 5, 1793, married, November 30, 1826,
Lemuel Nichols, of Brookline, New Hampshire.
Aretas, born March 11, 1797. Seth, born October
6, 1799. Asa, born November 11, 1802, resided in
Springfield, Massachusetts.

(VI) Seth E'airbanks, Jr., son of Seth Fair-
banks (s), was born in West Boylston, Massachu-
setts, October 6, 1799. He settled in Sterling, an
adjacent town, until 1837, when he removed to
Lancaster, where he died November 9, 1843. He
was a carpenter. In politics he was a Whig. He
married, December 25. 1828, Nancy Nichols, who
died in Westboro, March 12, 1888, aged seventy-nine
years, three months and fourteen days. The chil-
dren of Seth and Nancy Fairbanks were : Lyman
Nichols, born August 12, 1830, see forward ; Lucy
Dodge, born October 6, 1833, married Frank C. Gill,
of Hartland, Vermont, a dentist, and she died at
Worcester, June 17, 1876. Nancy Nichols, born
June 3, 1836, married, in Fitchburg, June 4, 1854,
Solon Oscar Richardson, who was born July 3, 1828,
and died March 31, 1872; she married (second)
Julius K. Gates, of Ashby, where she resided after-
wards. Ellen Ward, born February, 1839, married,
in Fitchl)urg, James E. Clarke, foreman in the Put-
nam foundry, and they have two children — Herbert
Ellsworth Clarke, born August 26, 1661 ; Ray Clarke,
born December, 1880.

(VII) Lyman Nichols Fairbanks, son of Seth
Fairbanks, Jr. (6), was born in Sterling, Massachu-
setts, August 12, 1830. He was educated in the
district schools and then served an apprenticeship
in the carpenter's trade under his father. He worked
some at his trade all his life, but more of his time
was given to farming. He sailed for California
January i, 1849, before he was of age, going by the
Cape Horn route and arriving June 8, 1850. He
worked at his trade and at prospecting for about
two years, and returned to Fitchburg, February,
1852. He lived in a house in Fitchburg built by him-
self before his marriage until November 3, 1854,
when he removed to a farm owned by his uncle
then called the Prospect farm, now the site of the
Burbank Hospital, Fitchburg. He removed to West-
boro, where he bought a farm in October, 1870, and
where he resided until February 27, 1889, when he
returned to Fitchburg to the farm on which he had
formerly lived and remained there five years. At
the end of this period he sold the property to the city
of Fitchburg for the Burbank Hospital and re-
turned to Westboro, where his son was conducting
the farm he had owned there. He has not taken up
the cares of business again. He resides with his son
in Westboro. Mr. Fairbanks is a Republican in
politics and has served for a number of years as
road commissioner of Westboro. He attended
Baptist Church.

He married, 1853, Eliza Ann Hutchinson, daugh-
ter of Silas and Eliza (Lowe) Hutchinson, of Lun-

SAMUEL FOWLER

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in Salem, Massacliusetts. later in Rhode Island.
Among his children was Samuel, see forward. His
sister Sarah married Morris Tucker, of Tiverton,
Khode Island, January l6, 1717, according to the
friends' records.

(V) Sanuiel Fowler, son of Ezckiel Fowler
(4), was born about 1740, in Rhode Island, proba-
•bly, possibly in Salem, before the family removed.
He was a Quaker, and lived in the district of which
Smithfield is the centre. He married Hannah
Bowen. He died in Northbridgc, May, 1819, and
his will was dated April 6, 1819. His sons John
<md Bernard were made the principal legatees.
Twelve children all lived until after their father's
death. The first child was born at Swanscy. He
settled in Warren, Rhode Island, in 1754, and re-
moved to Uxbridge, between April 3, 1762, and
April 2, 1764. He lived in that part of the town
that became the district of Northbridge, in 1772.
The children of Sanuiel and Hannah Fowler were:
1. Sarah, born at Swansea, Massachusetts, where
presumably Ezekiel lived, record also at Smithfield,
and Warren, Rhode Island, born October 20, 1753,

married Southwick. 2. Ezekiel, named for his

grandfather, Ezekiel Fowler, at Warren, December
^3. 1754- settled in Worcester ; married Sarah
Mowry, daughter of Ananias Mowry, of Smithfield,
August 5, 1784; (second) Hannah Colbiirn, May 2,
1820, daughter of Ebenezer and Anna Colburn, of
Mendon. 3. Mary, born at Warren, August 23,

1756, also called Mercy in the records; married

Folsom. 4. Isaac, born at Warren, August 3, 1758.
5. Olive, born at Warren, June 23, 1760, married
at Warren, Gideon Luther, March 24, 1782. 6.
.Barnard (sic), see forward. 7. John, born at Ux-
Ibridge, Massachusetts, April 2, 1764. 8. Martha,

ll)0rn at Uxbridge, March 16, 1766, married ■

Legg. 9. Elizabeth, born at Uxbridge, February 2,
17S. ID. Hannah, born at Uxbridge, May 7, 1771,

married Baker. II. Peace; born at North-

:bridge. May 12, 1773. married Watson. 12.

Phebe, born at Northbridge, September 16, 1775,

.■married Baker.

(VI) Bernard Fowler, son of Samuel Fowler
(5). was born in Warren, Rhode Island, according

:to Quaker records, April 3, 1762. He settled in
Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was a Quaker,

.also, and his marriage is recorded on the Quaker
records. He married (first), March 4, 1790, Re-
becca Mowry, daughter of Jonathan and Deborah
Mowry, of Smithfield, Rhode Island. Her mother
was born at Gloucester, Rhode Island, May 27,
1750. Deborah was the daughter of Jabez and Anna
Wing, of Plymouth. Jonathan Mowry was born
October 3, 1741, died March 25, 1814, son of Uriah
and Orania Mowry. Bernard married (second)
Abigail Steere, daughter of Enoch and Serviah
Steere, of Glocester, December 5. iSio. In his
•will he mentions land in Holden. Children of
Bernard and Rebecca Fowler were: i. Mary,
married Shadrach Steere. 2. Robert, died sud-
<ienly before his father. 3. Willis, (non compos at
time father's will was made). 4. Phebe, married
Timothy McNamara. 5. Caleb. 6. Samuel, execu-
tor, see forward. Children of Bernard and Abigail
(Steere) Fowler were: 7. Thomas, born at North-
bridge, October 28, 181 1, died at Troy, New York,
February 9. 1856 ; unmarried. 8. Rebecca, born
at Northbridge, December 3, 1812, died at Barre,
Vermont, 1864 ; married Obadiah Wood. 9.
■Cliarles, born at Northbridge, January 17. 1815 ;
died at Worcester, January 31, 1895; father of
Rufus B. Fowler, attorney-at-law, Worcester (see
sketch). 10. Nancy, born at Northbridge, March

20, 1817; died at Grafton, .'\pril 29, 1901 ; married
Stephen R. White.

(VH) Sanuiel Fowler, son of Bernard Fowler
(6), was born at Northbridge, Massachusetts, May
18, 1S03. He was a farmer in Northbridge. He
married Eliza Murphy, of Vermont, born April 5,
1844. Mr. Fowler wa a member of the Quaker
church, and was a Democrat in politics. He died
November 5, 1881. Children of Samuel Fowler
were: i. Bernard, born in Hoosic, New York,
September 28, 1841. 2. Francis E., born July 26,
1843. 3. Harry A., born July 9, 1845. 4. Samuel,
see forward. 5. Edna I., born January 2, 1850;
married Jerome II. Collins, have no children. 6.
George T., born June 7, 1853, has no issue. 7.
Charles I., born June 19, 1859, is a broker in Chi-
cago, married Jessie B. Fowler; resides in Omaha,
Nebraska ; they have one daughter, Madeline, born
May 26, 1892.

(VIII) Samuel Fowler, son of Samuel Fowler
(7), was born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, April
8, 1847. He was educated there in the public schools,
and then went on a farm, until twenty-seven years
old. Is a stone mason. He has been in the busi-
ness of contracting mason for many years, building
docks, dams, sea walls, and similar kinds of ma-
sonry, exclusively. He has carried through suc-
cessfully many important contracts. He built a sea
wall at Winthrop, Massachusetts, a mile and a half
in length. He constructed the mill dam for the
Fisherville mills, and many other similar structures.
He built almost every bridge on the Providence &
Worcester Railroad. He is an Independent, and has
been active and influential in politics in the town
of Northbridge where he was born and has always
lived. He has been elected to various positions of
trust and honor. He has served on the board of
assessors ; overseer of the poor, and for three years
on the board of selectmen of the town. He is well
known in Masonic circles being a Knight Templar,
a member of the Order of the Mystic Shrine, and
Grand Lodge, Whitinsville. Mr. Fowler is active
in good works and generous in his contributions to
charities. He donated the land for the Rockdale
Congregational Church, a plot one hundred and
fifty by one hundred feet, and in 1898 contributed
to the funds of the church $SOO.

He married June 4, 1894, Orianna Grant, daugh-
ter of Smith Grant, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
They have no children.

BURRAGE FAMILY. Josiah Burrage, grand-
father of Josiah K. Burrage, of Lancaster. Massa-
chusetts, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts.
He was a farmer and lumber dealer. He married
and had a son Josiah, see forward.

Josiah Burrage, son of Josiah Burrage, and
father of Josiah K. Burrage. was born on the home
place in Leominster, and during his active career
was engaged in the lumber business in Boston. He
married Abbic Hindley, and by this marriage the
following children were born: Cordelia E., William
W., Josiah K., see forward ; Martha A., Fred-
erick E.

Josiah K. Burrage, son of Josiah and Abbie
(Hindley) Burrage. was born in Cambridge, Mas-
sachusetts, July 13, 1838. He was educated there
and after his graduation from the high school en-
tered into the lumber business with his father,
remaining for a number of years. In 1S89 he moved
to his present home in Lancaster, Massachusetts,
where tie has since lived a retired life, devoting
part of his time to real estate transactions. He is
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Company, rendering efficient service in that capacity.
He is a Republican in politics, but has never aspired
to office. He married, October 14, 1874. Laura A.
Doe, daughter of Joseph M. and Laura (Page)
Doe, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their children
are: Edith M. and Marion. Mr. Burrage and his
family attend the Unitarian Church.

CHARLES H. DOE. Nicholas Doe (i) came
from England and settled at Oyster Bay, later Dur-
ham, New Hampshire, among the earliest settlers.
His name appears in a list of taxpayers at Oyster
River, New Hampshire, in 1667. The birth of the
first child of Nicholas was recorded 1669, but as
the marriage is not recorded and he seems to have
sons Samuel, Simon, and Daniel, older than John
he probably came to the Dover settlement about
1665, bringing his family probably from England.
His wife's name was Martha. Three of their chil-
dren are shown on the records of births at Dover.
They were: John, born at Dover, August 25, 1669,
married Elizabeth and had John, Daniel, ALiry,
Elizabeth, Martha; Samson, born April i, 1670;
Elizabeth, born February 7, 1673 ; Samuel ; Simon ;
Daniel. Nicholas Doe was the emigrant ancestor
of Charles H. Doe. late editor and owner of the
Worcester Evening Gazette.

(H) Samson Doe. son of Nicholas Doe (i),
was born at Oyster River, Dover, now Durham,
New Hampshire, April i, 1670. He appears to
have had two wives, !Mary and Temperance. Their
children were : Samuel, born August 5, 1701 ;
Temperance, born 1709; Martha; Nathaniel, bap-
tized March 2, 1717-8; Elizabeth, baptized 1722-3;
Zebulon, infant, baptized July 15, 1725. The fore-
goin.g are probably not in the order of their birth.

(HI) Samuel Doe, son of Samson Doe (2),
was born at Durham, New Hampshire, August .=;,
1701 ; married Abigail , and among their chil-
dren was Jonathan, of whom later.

(IV) Jonathan Doe, son of Samuel Doe (.i),
was born November 16, 1740. He married Molly

, and among their children was Samuel, of

whom later.

(V) Samuel Doe, son of Jonathan Doe (4),

was born January 8. 1780. He married Eliza ,

and among their children was Joseph Merrill, of
whom later.

(VI) Joseph Merrill Doe, son of Samuel Doe
(=;). was born at Meredith, now Laconia, New
Hampshire, March 26. i8og, where the family for
several generations has been located. His father
was a farmer and he worked with him in his
youth while attending school. Later he went to
Lowell. ^lassachusetts, where he learned the trade
of upholsterer and then opened a furniture store
there. In 1836 he removed to Boston and organ-
ized the firm of Doe, H.Tzelton & Co., furniture
dealers, at the head of which he continued for many
years, and the business of the house gr^w steadily
until it became one of the best known in Boston.

He married Laura. Page, of Meredith, New
Hampshire. September 29, 18.^4. She was born in
Meredith. March 30, 181 1, a daughter of Dr. David
Page, of that town, and of Sally Durgin, his wife,
Tjoth of whom were of English ancestry. Dr. Page
received his education at the academy at Salisbury,
New Hampshire, and was a practicing physician in
Meredith at the time of his marriage, afterwards
moving back to Salisbury, however, and he died
there October 20, 1816. a.ged thirtv-?ix years. He
-was a son of Onesiphorus and Mehitable (Doty)
Page, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. A few years
after his birth the familv moved from Massachu-
setts to Salisbury. New Hampshire. Joseph M. Doe

died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2, 1871.
His wife died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March
9, 1884. They had two sons and a daughter.

(VII) Charles H. Doe, son of Joseph Merrill
Doe (6), was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts,
November 28, 1838. He graduated from the Chaun-
cey Hall school in Boston and entered Harvard
College in 1857 in the sophomore class, graduating
in i860. At the wish of his father he started to
learn the furniture business in his father's store,
but finding business life uncongenial gave it up
and began newspaper work, in which he continued
to the end of his life. He was connected first
with the Williamsburg. New York, Daily Times
as reporter. He was later connected with the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser first as a reporter and for sev-
eral years as night editor. His health broke down
m 1S68 and he took a year's vacation. He came
to Worcester and on May 3, 1869, bought the
Gazette, a daily evening newspaper. The Gazette
was founded January 24, 1838, by Henrv Rogers.
William Lincoln was the first editor. Both pub-
lisher and editor had been connected with the first
newspaper named Gazette thirty years before. The
original Gazette had a checkered existence. It was
absorbed January i, 1834, by the Palladium started
by John S. C. Knowlton, and whatever identity the
old Gazette retained was inherited by The Worces-
ter Spy which absorbed the Palladium in 1876.

The present IVorcester Evening Gazette had sev-
eral changes of ownership before Mr. Doe ac-
quired it. March i, 1842. it was bought by Alex-
ander H. Bullock, subsequently governor of the
state. In 1858, after several changes, the name had
been changed to the Aegis and Transcript.- In
1864-66 Caleb A. Wall, the late newspaper veteran
and historian, was the publisher. It was known
as the Aegis and Gazette when Mr. Doe bought
it in 1S69. The name Aegis was finally dropped
and for many years it has been the 'Worcester
Evening Gazette. Mr. Doe made an excellent news-
paper. His partner was Charles H. Woodwell, who
died January 30, 1871. Mr. Doe was obliged to
retire from business a few years before his death.
Few newspaper men have had a longer or more
honorable career than Mr. Doe. For twenty-five
years he exerted a quiet but powerful influence
in Worcester. In politics he was a Republican and
his paper gave strong support to his party. The
only public office Mr. Doe ever held was trustee
of the Worcester Public Library, a position he liked
and was well qualified to fill. He was trustee for
a long term of years. He attended the First Uni-
tarian Church at Worcester.

He married, at Salem, Massachusetts, June I,
1870. Mary Waldo Archer, daughter of Augustus
J. Archer, a dry goods merchant of Salem. Charles
H. Doe died August 15, 1900, in St. John, New
Bruswick, where he had gone for the summer
months with his family. Their children were:
Harry Waldo, born April 11, 1871, died January
24. 1905; Mary Archer, June 17, 1873; Alexander
Wadsworth, August 21, 1875.

(VIII) Harry Waldo Doe, son of Charles H.
Doe (7), was born in Worcester, April it, 187:,
died in New Jersey, January 24, 1905. He was
educated in the Worcester high school and at Har-
vard College. He was a reporter and editor on the
Gazette until tSog. He was extremelv popular in
Worcester, especially among the members of the
soci.-il clubs. He was known as a talented writer
of light opera, and many of the famous amateur
productions of the Tatassit Boat Club were the
product of his brain. He was not married.

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THE GILMORF. FAMILY of Wesilioro went
there from the town of Greenwich, Hampshire coun-
ty, wliich was originally settled by immigrants
from the north of Ireland, and their ancestors were
among these pioneers. They were a persevering
company of devout Christian people, and, although
the soil was almost unlit for agricultural purposes,
they succeeded through severe physical exertion in
making it productive, and became prosperous under
exceedingly adverse circumstances.

The fannly was established in WSestboro by
Thomas Smitli Gilmore, who was a son of Robert
and Betsey or Elizabeth (.Fay) Gilmore, of Green-
wich. Thomas Smith Gilmore was born in Green-
wich about the year 1812. For many years he car-
ried on extensive farming operations in his native
town, and was prominently identified with civic
affairs, serving at different times as selectman, high-
way surveyor, overseer of the poor, etc. In 1866
he removed to Westboro and continued to follow
agriculture there for the remainder of his life,
which terminated March 30, 1S83, at the age of
seventy-four years. He was a man of decisive
opinions which were rigidly adhered to, and in
addition to careful foresight and sound judgment
in business transactions, his dealings were char-
acterized by a desire to preserve intact his personal
integrity, which he valued in excess of all other
worldly possessions. Thomas Smith Gilmore mar-
ried Eliza .Adeline Bailey, daughter of Eber Wil-
lard and Elizabeth (Powers) Bailey, the latter a
descendant of one of the original propiietors of
Greenwich. Thomas S. and Eliza A. Gilmore were
the parents of seven children, namely : Edward
Thomas, Elizabeth Adeline, Mary Frances, Stephen
Albert, Henry Augustine and Hervey Augustus
(twins), and Myron Walter.

Edward Thomas Gilmore was during the civil
war employed by the United States Government in
the gun-stocking department of the armory in
Springfield, this state. He subsequently became ex-
tensively engaged in the transplanting and whole-
sale distribution of oysters, was later a commission
merchant in New York city, and in 1872 engaged in
the manufacture of spring beds in Westboro, where
he has ever since resided. F'or many years he was
actively identified with the business interests of that
town. He was formerly superintendent of the water
works and a member of the board of assessors. He
was married in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, January
3, 1865, to Mary Melissa Harris, who was horn
^larch I, 1836, in Vernon, Vermont, known as the
Gretna Green of New England. She is a daughter
of Austin and Polly (Clark) Harris, and her
maternal great-grandfather was a revolutionary
soldier. They have had three children : Gertrude,
deceased ; Maude Adeline and Alice Clark, who
became teachers in the Westboro public schools.
Elizabeth .■\deline Gilmore is now residing in
Florida. Mary Frances is the wife of D. Guilford
Groundwater, of Cottonwood, Chase county. Kan-
sas. Stephen A. will receive a more extended no-
tice presently. Henry A. is an auctioneer and cat-
tle inspector in Westboro. Hervey A. is the sub-
ject of another sketcli in this work. Myron W. is
the owner of a cattle ranch in Elmdale, Kansas.

Stephen Albert Gilmore was born in Greenwich.
December 4. 1843. He was educated in the Green-
wich public schools, and after the completion of his
studies assisted his father in carrying on the farm.
In i86j he enlisted as a private in the Fifty-second
Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and
served with credit in the civil war, participating in
the memorable seige of Port Hudson. When twenty-
five years old lie came to Westlxiro and enga^.d

in mercantile bu>inlss. Subsequently he conducted
business in Springfield, Massachusetts, and New
York city. Returnmg to Westboro he established
himself in the manufacture of brick, investing a
large amount of capital in the erection of a modern
plant fully equipped with all of the latest improve-
ments and having a capacity for producing two mil-
lions of brick amiually. He has ever since con-
ducted a large and successful business, and his pro-
ducts arc extensively used in the bulding operations
of this neighborhood. In politics he is a Republican.
He is a comrade of the local post, Grand Army
of the Republic.

Mr. Gilmore has been three times married. His
first wife, whom he married in 1866, was Miss
Addie A. Cooley, daughter of Barnamus Cooley,
a native of this state. She became the mother of
three children, namely : Earl N. and Annie A.,
who are no longer living; and Laura W., who mar-
ried Harry C. Kinnetson and has one son, Amos.
He married (third) August 20, 1S93, Nora L.
Casey.

JOHN WESLEY LOWELL. Percival Lowell
(i), the immigrant ancestor of John Wesley Lowell,
of Holden, jMassachusetts, was born in England,
in 1571. He resided in Kingston, Seymour, Clive-
don, Portbury and Weston-Gardano, all in Somer-
setshire, England, also in Bristol in Gloucestershire.
He was si.xty-eight years old when he emigrated to
America in the ship "Jonathan" in 1639. In 1597
he was an assessor of Kingston-Seymour, England.
The family has a pedigree dating back several
centuries in an unbroken line, as given in the
sketch of Charles C. Lowell, Worcester, and the j
descendants of Percival Lowell have the right to
his coat-of-arms — Sa. a dexter hand couped at the
wrist, grasping three darts, one in pale and two
in sattire argent. Crest — a stag's head cabossed,
or, between the attires a pheon azure. In Bristol,
Lowell was at the head of a large mercantile estab-
lishment owned by the firm of Percival Lowell &
Co., composed of Percival, his son John, probably
Richard, and possibly William Gerrish, who came
over with the Lowell family and subsequently mar-
ried Percival's sister. Percival and John Lowell
were of the ninety proprietors of Newbury in 1642.
He took the oath of allegiance required of all citi-
zens of Massachusetts in 1678. He was well edu-
cated and wrote a poem of some merit on the death
of Governor Wintlirop. He died January 8, 1664,
aged ninety-three years. His wife Rebecca died in
Newbury. l\Iassachusetts, December 28, 1645. Their
children, born in England: i. John, see forward,
2. Richard, born 1602. 3. Joan, born 1609. died in
Newbury, June 14, 1667, aged fifty-eight years ;
married, 1639, John Oliver, born in Bristol, Eng-
land, 1613. died at Newbury, Massachusetts, June,
1642, leaving many descendants.

(II) John Lowell, son of Percival Lowell (i),
was born in England. 1595. .died at Newbury. July
10, 1647. He came to New England in 1639 with his
wife and his father and family. He was well edu-
cated and became a man of prominence and in-
fluence in New England. He was admitted a free-
man February 2, 1640, was elected a constable,
December 10, 164T. to the general court, March 7,
1644, one of the three commissioners to end small
causes May 14, 1643, an office he held until his death,
and was town clerk of Newbury. He was a glover
by trade, having served an apprenticeship under
Richard Rough, of Bristol, England. He married

(first) Margaret , who died in 1639, after

hearing five children. He married (second). 1639,
Elizabeth Goodalc, born at Yarmoutli, in Norfolk

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county, died April 23, 1651, daughter cf John
Goodale. The children : 1. John, born in England.
1629, died January 7, 1694; married Hannah Proctor
and (second) Elizabeth Silvester. 2. Mary, born
in England, 1633, married Thomas Wyburn. 3.
Peter, born 1635. 4- James, born 1637. 5. Joseph,
see forward. The children of John and Elizabeth
Lowell were: 6. Benjamin, horn at Newbury,
September 12, 1642, died there October 22, 1714.

7. Thomas, born June 4, 1644, probably died young.

8. Elizabeth, born February 16, 1646, at Newbury,
died at Rowley, December 14, 1703.

(Ill) Joseph Lowell, son of John Lowell C-)>
was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, November
28, 1639, died at Boston, August 19, 1705. and was
buried ni the Old Granary burying ground, beside
the Park Street Church. Joseph Lowell was ap-
pointed administrator of the estate of his "nephew,"
John Lowell, of Bristol, England, deceased on the
ship "Amity," Boston. This nephew was probably
the son of his brother, John Lowell. In 1695 the
records show that he bought a negro of Benjamin
Pemberton. He married, iNIarch S, i6(k>, Abigail
Proctor, born 1635, died June 27, 1707, aged seventy-
two years, sister of Hannah Proctor Lowell, wife
of John Lowell, and daughter of George Proctor,
of Dorchester, cooper. The children of Joseph
Lowell : l. Joseph, died young. 2. Hannah, born
January 31, 1662-63. 3. Joseph, see forward. 4.
Abigail, born February 4, 1667, died young. 5.
James, born March 27, 1668, died August 25, 1718;
married, August 12, 1688, Elizabeth Guston. 6.
Abigail, born March 9, 1671. 7. Samuel, born July
13, 1678. 8. Benjamin, born November 5, 1679.

(IV) Joseph Lowell, son of Joseph Lowell (3).
w^as born in Boston, November 19, 1665. baptized

June 21, 1670. He married (tirst) Patience ,

who died January 3, 1714. He married (second)
March 9, 1720, Sarah M. Prescott, born January 20,
1701, died June 12, 1746, daughter of Deacon James
Prescott, Jr., deacon of the church af Hampton
Falls, New Hampshire, born September I, 1671,
married. March i. 1695, Maria Marston. She was
the daughter of William and Rebecca (Page) Mars-
ton. James Prescott, the immigrant, (see sketch
elsewhere in this work), was born in England,
1643, came to New England from Dryby, Lan-
cashire, 1665, and settled at Hampton on the old
road to Exeter about two miles north of Hampton
Falls Academy. He was admitted a freeman in
1678; married Mary Boulder, born at E.xeter,
May 16, 1648, daughter of Nathaniel and
Grace Boulder. James Prescott, Sr., moved
to Hampton Falls, 1694. and died there November

25, 1728. Sarah Lowell, wife of Joseph, was ad-
mitted to the church in full communion April 19,
1725. His occupation is given as mariner in 1726-
27. He removed from Boston to Hampton Falls
about 1726. He was there several years. He sold
a lot of land there July 12, 1727, to Samuel Scldon.
He was a member of the second foot company of
Newbury, Massachusetts, under Captain Hugh
March, January 15, 1710-11.

Children of Joseph and Patience Lowell were :
I. Joseph, Jr., born at Boston, January 3. 1696, died
July 10, 1697. 2. Abigail, died at Boston, August

26, 1663. The children of Joseph and Patience
Lowell : 3. Jeremiah, born at Hampton, New
Hampshire, April 15, 1722. 4. David, born at
Hampton Falls, November 19, 1723, died before
March 8, 1798; was a soldier, resided at Salisbury.
Epping and New Hampton, 5. James, see for-
ward. 6. Lucy, born 1727. died April 21. 181 1;
married Deacon Abner Sanborn. Jr. 7. Mary, bap-
tized May 10, 1730.

(,V) James Lowell, son of Joseph Lowell (4),
was born at Hampton Falls, March 20, 1725, died
JS20. He married Mary Clark, of Falmouth, Maine,
lie was apprenticed to Caleb Sanborn, of Hampton
IviUs, settled at Salisbury, New Hampshire, and is
the ancestor of the Lowells of that place. He deeded
land at Salisbury to his son Oliver, January 15,
1803, in consideration of which the son was to sup-
port his parents the remainder of their days. James
Lowell's will mentions his wife Mary, daughters
Sarah Brown, Mary Fowler and son Joseph. James
had been a soldier of the Crown Point expedition
in 1756 in Colonel Thatcher's regiment, and before
that, in 1747, fought at Louisburg under Captain
Prescott from Hampton Falls. He was a private
also in the Continental army in Captain David
Quimby's company. Colonel Joseph Gale's regiment,
together with his brother, David Lowell. Children
of James and Mary Lowell were: i, Oliver, see
forward. 2. Sarah, born August 22, 1750, died at
Seabrook, New Hampshire, December 29. 1824;
married John Brown, of Seabrook, born there Janu-
ary 3, 1747, died August 12, 1739, aged ninety- '

three years. 3. Mary, married, Fowler.

4. Joseph.

(VI) Oliver Lowell, son of James Lowell (5),
was born in 1747, died probably before June 17,
181 1, when his father's will was made. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Huntoon and she married (second)
Samuel Viezee, of Salisbury. Oliver was a yeo-
man, and always lived at Salisbury, except perhaps
a year or two at St. Albans. Children: i. James,
resided at Fletcher, Vermont. 2. John, yeoman,
Salisbury, transferred land there and lived in
Andover, Massachusetts, 1821-25. 3- Joseph, born
at Salisbury, New Hampshire, died at Swanton,
Vermont, Alarch 10, 1888; married in Fairfax. Ver-
mont, xA-nna Webster, of Grand Isle, Vermont, and
died at Fairfax, ;\Iarch 22, 1873, farmer. 4. Oliver,
see forward. 5. Molly. 6. Betsey. 7. Ursula, died
at St. Albans, Vermont, October 16. 1887 ; married '
at North Fairfax, Vermont, June 21, 1826, Theron
Webster, born at North Fairfax. March 12, 1805,
died at St. Albans, May g, 1884; she had children —
Madison Webster, Ozro C. Webster. Helen

Webster, who married Fay ; Adelaide L.

Webster, born August 7, 1843, married at St.
Albans, September 20, 1871, Sheldon S. Allen, born
at Royalton, Vermont, March 27, 1842.

(VII) Oliver Lowell, son of Oliver Lowell
(6), was born at Salisbury, New Hampshire, July
2, 1808. His father died when he was very young
and he went to live with Rev. Dr. True at St. Al-
bans. He attended the district schools and learned
the trade of carpenter, which he followed during his
active life. In 1833 'le went to New Bedford. Mass-
achusetts, where he stayed for about si.x months,
going thence to Worcester where he entered the
employ of a builder named Gleason and worked
there at his trade many years. He was employed in
building the tirst houses on Thomas street, now one
of the old-fashioned streets of the city. He re-
moved to Barre, where he became superintendent of
a saw mill. In a deed of land at Salisbury, New
Hampshire. July 3, 1829. and another December
29, 1829, his residence is given as Fairfax. Ver-
mont, though at that time he was located in
Worcester.

He remained at Barre five years, getting out
lumber for William B. Otis, and then returned to
Worcester where he lived a year or two and where
he built himself a home, near what is called the
Summit. In March, 1845, he went to Holden, buy-
ing of Oliver and Cornelius Nash the old Nash farm
of'one hundred and thirty acres in the soutlieast

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part of tlie town near the Worcester boiuulary.
Here he farmed in connection with his carpentering
and building the the remainder of his life. He built
several houses in the vicinity. While in Worcester
he was a member of the Park Street Methodist
Episcopal church, later he was a member and ofticer
of the church at Oakdale, Massachusetts. In poli-
tics he was a Republican and served the town as
highway surveyor and on the school committee. In
his younger days he was a member of the state
militia at St. Albans, Vermont.

He married, July 2, 1836, Catherine Mnorc. of
Worcester. She was born April 30, i8og, daughter
of Colonel George and Hannah (Brooks) Moore,
of Princeton, Massachusetts. Her father was a
farmer. The children: i. Elizabeth Maria, born
November 18, 1838, married, May 30, 1866, James
Horace BuUard, of Holdcn, Massachusetts. 2.
Henry Harrison, born at Barre, December 22, 1840,
enlisted in Company F, Forty-seventh Regiment,
and died at Alexandria, Virginia, October 5, 1864,
wliile in the service. 3. Ellen Whitman, born May
15. 1843, married Joseph Henry Knowlton, of
Shrewsbury. 4. John Wesley, see forward. 5. Julia
Albertine, born September 7, 1846, died September
4, 1848. 6. Julia Albertine, born August 12, 1850,
married, September 20, 1883. Frederick Taylor Holt,
of Holden and had — -Clara Lowell, born November
12, 1885, married Orin L. Potter and has one child,
Everett Holt, born December 29, 1905; Henry
Ernest, born i\Iarch 20, 1889.

(VHI) John Wesley Lowell, son of Oliver
Lowell (7), was born October 22, 1844, in the
northern part of Worcester at the Summit, on what
is known as the Chamberlain farm. He was an
infant when his parents settled in Holden and was
educated there in the public schools and high school.
He was engaged in the duties of the farm with his
father while getting his education and afterward
• until his father's death. He then bought out the
other heirs and became sole owner of the home-
stead and has since then carried on general farm-
ing. The Lowell farm is on the old turnpike from
Vermont to Boston, and the six horse stage used
to stop at the house on its way each day. The
Lowell farm is one of the best in the town and Mr.
Lowell has prospered in his affairs. He has a dairy
of twelve cows and raises produce for the markets
of Worcester. He has some fifty acres of excellent
woodland. He attends the Holden Congregational
church. In politics he is a Republican, has been
active in that organization, having frequently served
as delegate to nominating conventions. He has
been overseer of the poor, member of the school
committee, highway surveyor. He was a member
of Holden Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, No." 78,
and was at one time the master. He is a member of
the Holden Farmers' and Mechanics' Club.

He married, May 22, 1889, Abbie Malinda Bryant
born January 29, 1857, daughter of Charles and
Mary J. (Bryant) Bryant, of Holden. Massa-
chusetts. Children: l. Mary Elizabeth, born July
8, 1890. 2. Helen Gertrude, born April 17, 1892.
3. Wesley Harrison, born November 16, 1895.

D.WID N. TAFT. Robert Taft (i), one of the
first settlers of Mendon and progenitor of most
of the Taft families of the vicinity, was the emi-
grant ancestor of David N. Taft, of Oxford. Massa-
chusetts. He was born, probably in England, about
1640, and came to Braintree, Massachusetts, re-
moving soon to Mendon, Massachusetts. His house
■was on the Fort field near the Mendon pond. His
wife Sarah came with him. They were in Mendon

in 1679 with their sons and they secured many
grants of land. Mendon pond was often called
Taft's pond as the Tafts owned the land all around
it, a tract two and a half miles square. In 1713,
he was a tenth owner in the tract eight miles square
which became Sutton, Massachusetts. Robert Taft
was prominent in the early days of Mendon. He
was one of the lirst selectmen in 1680. He was ap-
pointed on a committee April 4, 1680, "to take care
that the minister's house be done by Dec. 25."
Mr. Taft and his sons built the first bridge over
Great river to their land on the west side of the
river, and the town in payment for the use of the
bridge exempted Taft and his descendants from
working the highways, a contract that the town
was sorry for and eventually voted to abrogate.
In 1729 the Tafts built the second bridge across the
river, a short distance from the first, and the town
of Uxbridgc helped pay for it. Part of the origmal
farm is still owned by descendants of Robert I'aft.
He died February 8, 1725.

The children of Robert Taft were : Thomas, born
1671, married, 1692, died 1755; Robert, Jr., 1674, died
April 29, 1748; Daniel, 1677, died August 24, 1761;
Joseph, 16S0, died June 18, 1747; Benjamin, 1684,
died 1766.

(II) Thomas Taft, son of Robert Taft (i),
was born in 1671. He married Deborah Genery,
of Dedham, jMassachusetts, in 1692. Pie died in
1755- He came to Mendon, Massachusetts, with
his parents and settled there. He was associated
with his father. His children, all born at Mendon,
were : Joseph, born May 26, 1693 ; Sarah, Alarch
29, 1695; Eleazer, April 5, 1697, was a captain, son
Moses graduated from Harvard, 1751, and was a
minister; Hannah, April 17, 1699; Rebecca, March
IS. 1701; Deborah, November 14, 1702; Rachel-,
October i, 1704; Martha, June 15, 1708; Isaac, July
IS, 1710; Susannah (twin) March 15, 1713;
Ihonias (twin), March 15, 1713.

(HI) Thomas Taft, son of Thomas Taft (2),
was born at Mendon, Massachusetts, March 15, 1713.
He married Lydia Thompson. Of their first seven
children all but Lydia died young. He became some-
what prominent because of his falling out with the
minister. Rev. Mr. Willard. Taft was suspended
from communion "for repeatedly refusing to hear,
and casting contempt upon the church, particularly
upon the pastor of said church, until he make
manifest repentance and reformation." Mr. Wil-
lard was tried on charges made by the Taft faction
and acquitted but was soon afterward dismissed.
The chddren of Thomas Taft were : Nathaniel,
born February 13, 1750; Deborah, p'ebruary-iS, 1751,
died young; Thomas, October 30, 1753 ; Genery,
1756, died young; Lydia, and six who died young,
aforesaid.

(IV) Nathaniel Taft, son of Thomas Taft (3),
was born at Mendon, Alassachusetts, February 13,.
1750. He married Abigail Holbrook, May 31, 1768.
He settled at Mendon. His children were; Polly,,
born December 20, 1768; Genery, June 29, 1770;
Deborah, 1772, died young; Deborah, December 22,
1775; Benjamin, 1777, died young; Abigail, 1779;
Lydia, 1780; Elkanah, October 20, 1784, married
Ruth Benson; Benjamin, .'\ugust 3, 1786; Thomp-
son, October 22, 1788; Reuben, April 18, 1791 ;
Nathaniel, July 18, 1793; Chloe, August 8, 1796.

(V) Elkanah Taft, son of Nathaniel Taft (4),.
was born at Mendon, October 20, 1784. He mar-
ried Ruth Benson. He married second —

."Mdrich. He settled at .Mendon. His children
were: Allen, born December 10, l8i0; Chloe .•^nn,
September 17, 1812; Ruth Sibley, October 12, 1814;

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Lucy Benson, March 31, 1817; Henry, September
13, 1819; Charles, June 30, 1822, resided in North-
bridge, Massachusetts, now deceased.

(,VI) Allen Taft, son of Elkanah Taft (s),
born December 10, 1810, at Mendon, Massachusetts,
died April 24, 1847. He married, September 21,
1834. Zilpha Allen, of Sutton, daughter of John
and Patience (Lee) Allen. She died April 30,
1876. Their children were : John Allen, born July
I, 1836, now living in North Oxford, Massachusetts;
Caroline, November 10, 1838, died October 27, 1896;
married Albert William Cargill, of Worcester;
Nathaniel Elkanah, December 21, 1841, died October
27, 1896; Clarissa Ann, March 17, 1847.

(VH) Nathaniel Elkanah Taft, son of Allen
Taft (6), born at Alendon, Massachusetts, Decern-,
ber 21, 1841, died October 27, 1896. He married.
May 30, 1873, Chloe Ann Fitts, daughter of David
and Chloe (.Nichols) Fitts. Chloe was the daugh-
ter of J. P. Nichols, a soldier in the war of 1812.
She is still living (1906) at the age of ninety-four.
His parents removed to Blackstone when he was
a boy and he attended school there. Learning the
shoemaker's trade at Sutton, Massachusetts, he
followed it until the war broke out in 1861. He
enlisted as a private in the Twenty-fifth Massa-
chusetts Regiment. He served until within si.x
months of the close of the war, when he was honor-
aby discharged on account of disability. He spent
the following year in the effort to regain his health.
When able to go to work, he found employment as
a wool sorter in a Rochdale mill. Later he entered
partnership with Edward Thayer in the woolen
waste and junk business in Worcester. On the
death of Mr. Thayer soon afterward, he was suc-
ceeded in the firm by his brother, F>ederick Thayer.
The firm of Thayer & Taft, however, was finally
dissolved and the business discontinued. Mr. Taft
bought a water-power privilege at North O.xford,
Massachusetts, in 187S, and engaged in the manu-
facture of shoddy woolen. Business prospered and
in 1886 he bought the Bernon mill privilege at Ox-
ford Plain and established a satinet factory there.
This factory was burned in 1891. In 1895 it was re-
built and resumed business, Mr. Taft having en-
tered a partnership with his son, David N. Taft,
who undertook the management of the satinet mill
and has continued and developed the business since
then. Nathaniel E. Taft was an unusually energetic
and capable man. He did much to revive the busi-
ness interests of the town of Oxford and to develop
its industrial resources.

His children were : Robert Fitts, born July 12,
1874, died December 10, 1877; David Nathaniel,
born at Oxford, May 21, 1876.

(VIII) David Nathaniel Taft, son of Nathaniel
Elkanah Taft (7), was born at Oxford, Massa-
chusetts, May 21, 1876. He attended the Oxford
schools, Worcester Academy and a Worcester busi-
ness college. At the age of nineteen he entered
business in partnership with his father as manager
of the satinet mill at Oxford Plain, which was re-
built 111 189s, and he was only twenty years old when
his father died and he succeeded to all his business
interests. He is now the owner and manager of the
satinet business at North Oxford which his father
established as well as the satinet mill at Oxford.
The latter mill makes a specialty of satinet skirtings
and suitings. In the past ten years Mr. Taft has
developed the business rapidly. He is one of the
most prominent and promising of the younger busi-
ness men of the vicinity. Mr. Taft is a member of
Oxford Lodge, A. F. and A. M., also Tyrian Chap-
ter (of Millbury) R. A. M., and Worcester County
Commandery, K. T.

He married, September 16, 1902, Maude Russell,
daughter of Walter and Lillian (Munyaii) Russell,
of Shrewsburj', Massachusetts. She was born in
Northboro, Massachusetts, April 24, 1879.

McDERMOTT FAMILY. Henry McDermott,
father of James A. McDermott, was born in Dublin,
Ireland, May 28, 1828, son of Andrew McDermott,
of Ballurgan, county Louth, Ireland, and Elizabeth
McDermott, of Dublin, county Dublin, Ireland. Af-
ter living in Dublin for three years, Andrew Mc-
Dermott with his young Dublin wife and son Henry,
then two years old, and one daughter, Mary, a child
of a few months old, returned to Ballurgan, in
county Louth, and settled on tlie farm where he was
born and which was held by the McDermott family
for several generations, and is still owned by one of
the same family. Here three more children were
born, a sou James, a daughter Fannie, and a son
Peter, who still resides on the old homestead in
Ballurgan.

James McDermott, when quite a young man,
expressed a great desire to come to America, and
after pleading with his mother for some time to be
allowed to take such a long and dangerous trip
across the ocean, he got her consent to come, and in
1851 started on the journey across the Atlantic.
Two or three weeks after leaving Liverpool a storm
arose that partially disabled the vessel and they
had to return to Liverpool for repairs, and James,
not caring to remain there while the ship was be-
ing repaired, which took about a month, returned
to his home in Ballurgan, Ireland, and remained
there until the ship was repaired and ready to sail
when he again started for America. After nearly
three months the voyage was ended and he landed
in New York, but did not stop long there, but came
to Leicester, Massachusetts, where he met some
friends from his native town in Ireland. Here he
got work on a farm and worked one year, then be-
ing out of work went to Auburn, iNIassachusetts,
and again procured work on the farm of Elbridge
and John Warren. From here he used to write
encouraging letters to his brother Henry, who was
still at home in Ireland. Flenry, finding his brother
was doing well in America, began to think seriously
of leaving home and joining his brother in Amer-
ica, and after about two years, when his younger
brother Peter was able to manage the farm at home,
he made preparations to come to America, and the
most important part of these preparations was to
get married. He married Bridget Hagan, of
Faughart, county Louth, Ireland, who was born in
1828, daughter of Peter and Mary Sands Hagan,
who had had a family of eleven children, seven
sons and four daughters, of which only four are
now living: Thomas Hagan, wlio is living on the
old homestead in Faughart, county Louth, Ireland;
James Hagan, who is an engineer and living in
Enniskillen, Ireland; John Hagan. who lives in
Liverpool, England, and Susan Traynor. now living
in Dundalk. county Louth, Ireland.

Henry McDermott, after writing to his brother
in America to inform him that he would start at
a certain day for America, took his bride wife, who
was accompanied by her mother and brother, Ber-
nard Hagan, to Liverpool, where they boarded a
ship that brought them to America, .\fter parting
with Mrs. McDermott's mother and brother, who
wished them God speed and a safe voyage, they set
sail and after a long voyage of seven weeks, en-
during many hardships, they landed in New York
in July, 1853. After stopping in New York for a
day of two, they took passage in a boat to Provi-
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started out to find his brother James, whom he had
previously notified of his coming before he left home
in Ireland, lie took the train to Worcester Junclion
and there changed cars and went to Auburn, Massa-
chusetts, and after walking several miles found his
brother, who was unloading a load of hay in tlit
barn of KIbridge and John Warren, and as Kiic
young Irishman approached the farm-yard, the hay
makers at once recognized him as the brother uf
James, and a Mr. Barnard, wlio was assisting in un-
loading the liay, sung out to James, saying, "Jim,
your brother has come;" then the brothers who had
been separated for about three years met and tljcy
were botli happy once more to meet in America.
Henry started the next day for his wife who was
left in Providence, and glad she was to hear that he
had found his brother alive and well. They both
returned to Auburn, Massachusetts, and started
house-keeping, and Mr. McDermott secured work
in the neighborhood, and after a year or two he se-
cured steady employment with the linn of Elbridge
and John Warren, with his brother. Here he was
employed on the farm and in the tan-yard, which
the tirm operated, for a period of about thirty years.
A year or two after settling in Auburn he, in com-
pany with his brother, bought a farm and later built
a house where they lived until l88g, when he moved
to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he still lives at
No. 17 Jefferson street, in a house he had built a
few years previous to coming to Worcester. In the
summer of 1905 he and his son, James A. McDer-
mott, and his daughter Margaret went abroad. It
was Mr. McDcrmott's lirst visit to the home of
his childhood since he left it fifty-two years before.
While the party was at Balkirgan, Mr. McDermott
renewed his youth showing his son and daughter
many interesting places familiar to his boyhood.
They visited the graves of their ancestors and Mr.
McDermott very readily pointed out the family lots
in Faughart cemetery. While at Dundalk, four
miles from Balhirgan, he led the way showing hi-^
son and daughter all the places of interest in the
town, which has a population of about fifteen thous-
and. While in Dundalk Mr. McDermott had the
pleasure of meeting many friends of his youth, and
while driving past a wheelwright shop, where he
used to get repairs done when a boy, he readily
recognized the old wheelwright who used to do re-
repairs for him fifty years before and called him by
name. During Mr. iVIcDermott's stay in Ballurgan,
he and his son and daughter stopped with his
brother, Peter McDermott, who resides on the old
homestead. Here he recognized some things that
were in the house when he left, among them a clock,
on which he first learned to tell the time, and a
mahogany dining table, at which he once more
had the pleasure of sitting at and tasting some of the
good things that grew in the same fields which he
used to cultivate when a boy.

The children of Henry and Bridget (Hagan)
McDermott were: James A.; JNIary A., who died
April 10, 1899; Eliza J.; Margaret E. ; John B..
married Jane E. McKenna, of Worcester, and has
one child, Henry McKenna McDermott. John is a
in business with his brother, James A.. McDermott,
under the lirni name of McDermott Brothers, gen-
eral building contractors. Frank E. is a dentist,
practicing in Webster, Massachusetts, and graduated
at the Northwestern University of Chicago. He
married Fannie Prescott, of Webster, and has one
child Dorothy. Charles R., a graduate of the Phil-
adelphia Dental College, practices in Worcester. He
married Delia Lawton. of Whitinsville, Massachu-
setts ; he and his brother Frank reside at No. 17
Tirrell street. Worcester.

Jarnes McDermott, brother of Henry McDermott,
mentioned above, came to America, married Cath-
ernie Comerford, in New York, she being also a
native of Ballurgan, county Louth, Ireland. He
also settled in Auburn, Massachusetts, before his
brother came to this country. His children are:
Elizabeth, Flenry, Thomas, Edward, married Mary
Maher, of Leicester, Massachusetts, and they had
three children : Frances, Elizabeth and Edward,
who with their mother and grandmother reside in
Leicester, Massachusetts. The other children of
James and Catherine Comerford McDermott were
.\nne, Augusta, and William. James McDermott
died in Auburn, Massachilsetts, February, 1885; all
of his children above mentioned are also dead.
Peter McDermott, brother of Henry and James Mc-
Dermott, still resides on 'the old homesead in
Ballurgan, Ireland. He married Caherinc Hanlon
and their children are Mary, Bridget, James, Eliza-
beth, Henry and Margaret. They all reside at home
except James, who is in South Africa.

James A. McDermott, son of Henry McDermott,
was born in Auburn, Worcester county, Massachu-
setts. He attended the public schools there, and
then learned the carpenter trade with David Whit-
ney, a carpenter and builder of Auburn; He worked
in Worcester, a short time and then entered the em-
ploy of William Sibley, of Worcester, and worked
for him in Auburn, Oxford, and Millbury, and af-
ter entering into business his former employer,
Mr. Sibley, was employed by him for a time. After
leaving the employ of Mr. Sibley, in 1885, he went
into business for himself and built his first house
for his father at No. 17 Jefferson street, Worcester,
Massachusetts, where his father, .with his daugh-
ters, Eliza and Margaret, still live. Mrs. McDer-
mott, his wife, died here June 27, 1904. Mr. Mc-
Dermott, after building his father's house, continued
with the business as a general buildmg contractor,
and in company with his brother John, has built
up a large business since he came to Worcester in
1885. Among some of the buildings the firm have
constructed are the presbytery of St. Stephen's Par-
ish, Grafton street, for Rev. Richard Burke, pastor;
the presbytery and stable at St. Anne's Parish, East-
ern avenue, for Rev. Dennis Scannell, pastor ; a resi-
dence for George F. Blake, Jr., on Salisbury street;
all the interior finish and pews of St. Anne's Church
on Eastern avenue was done by McDermott Broth-
ers, for Rev. Dennis Scannell, pastor, as was also
St. Peter's Church on Main street for Rev. Daniel
H. O'Neil, pastor; the interior finish of the St.
John's Parochial school on Winter street for Rev.
Mgr. Thomas Griffin; the school building on Mid-
land street for the city of Worcester ; the Notre
Dame Convent on Vernon street, for Rev. INIgr.
(iriftin, which is one of Worcester's fine buildings;
the Industrial School building; shops and stable
for the Xavereian Brothers at Millbury, Massachu-
setts; the Sacred Heart .Academy on Gage street
for the Rev. Jarnes P. Tuite, pastor, which contains
si.xteen class rooms, two society rooms and a large
assembly hall, and is one of the fine school build-
ings of Worcester; the A. O. H. hall building on
Trumbull street for the A. O. H. Societies of
Worcester, Massachusetts, which contains the sec-
ond largest hall in Worcester; the Vernon hotel on
Vernon square; the Gardan block, Vernon square,
Worcester ; the Martin block on Green street ; the
Thomas Kenney's block on the corner of Summer
and Exchange streets, Worcester ; all the carpenter
work in the remodeling of St. Paul's Church, cor-
ner of Chatham and High streets, for Rev, William
Goggin, pastor, which is considered one of the most
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Normal Institute on Plantation street, formerly the
old Swan farm estate for the Notre Dame Order of
Sisters, which is a large and beautiful building of
brick with stone and terra cotta trimmings and
contains one hundred and twenty-live rooms, and
many residences and tenement houses in Worcester
and surrounding towns, and has just completed the
building of the St. Mary's Catholic Church and
presbytery on Richland street for Rev. Jolm Maneto.
pastor, which was dedicated November 29, 1906.
The Worcester Daily Telegram, in the issue of No-
vember 30, in describing the dedication ceremonies
at the church the previous day, say that the people
of St. Mary's Church can be proud of the work ac-
complished, as the church can justly be ranked
among the foremost churches of Worcester.

Mr. McDermott married Catherine Lavin, of
■Worcester, Massachusetts. He lives at No. 18
Cedar street, Worcester. He is a member of Wash-
ington Social Club ; a charter member of the Knights
of Columbus ; a trustee of the Bay State Savings
Bank since its incorporation, and has been for many
years a member of the Worcester Builders' Ex-
change.

HOSMER FAMILY. James Hosmer (i), the
immigrant ancestor of the Hosmer family of Massa-
chusetts and of the late Henry F. Hosmer, of Lan-
caster, was born in England, 1607. He came to
America in the ship "Elizabeth." sailing April 9,
l635> aged twenty-eight years, with his wife Ann,
aged twenty-seven years, and children, Marie, aged
two years and .Ann, aged three months, and servants
Marie Donnard, aged twenty-four years, and Marie
Martin, aged nineteen years. He was a clothier by
trade. He settled at Cambridge and was admitted
a freeman INlay 17, 1637. He sold land there before
1638. He removed to Concord, where the name has
been common. James had a brother, Thomas Hos-
mer, who also settled in Cambridge, where he was
a proprietor as early as 1633 ; was admitted a free-
man Alay 6, 1635 ; was a town officer there, but re-
moved to Hartford and is progenitor of many of the
Connecticut family of this surname. These two
were the only early emigrants of this surname.
James Hosmer died February 7, 1685. He bad a
second wife, Mary, who was buried May 11, 1641.
His wife "Elinne" died March 3, 1664-65. His
children were: Mary, born 1633, died young;
Ann, born 1635, died young; James, born 1637,
slain in the engagement with the Indians at Sud-
bury, April 21, 1676. in King Philip's war; Mary,
born January 10, 1639. died August 18, 1642;
Stephen (by wife .Mice), see forward; Hannah,
born 1644, died December 15. 1675, married, Octo-
ber 26, Joseph Hayward ; Mary, born April 14,
1646, married Thomas Smith, son of Thomas Smith.

(II) Stephen Hosmer, son of James Hosmer
(l), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 27, 1642. He settled in Concord and was ad-
mitted a freeman of the colony, 1690. He died there
December 15, 1714. He married, March 24. 1667,
Abigail Wood, of Concord, daughter of Michael
and Mary Wood, and granddaughter of William
Wood, the immigrant. Concord. The children of
Stephen and Agibail Hosmer were : Mary, born
May 2, 1668, married (first) Samuel Wheeler,
(second) John Bellows; Abigail, born November
6, 1669, died December 27, 1717; married George
■Wheeler; John, born August 31, 1671, died 1751;
married Mary Billing; Ruth, born August 28, 1675;
Dorothy, born December 10, 1677, married John
Wheeler ; Stephen, see forward ; Hannah, born
December 9, 1682 ; James, born June 27, 1685 ; died
September 28, 1685.

(III) Stephen Hosmer, son of Stephen Hos-
mer (2), was born at Concord, Massachusetts, June
27, 1680. He removed from Concord to Acton,
where many of his descendants have lived, lie
married, February 26, 1707, Prudence Billings, who
died 1770, daughter of Nathaniel and Jane (Ban-
nister) Billings. Children of Stephen and Prudence
Hosmer were : Prudence, married Thomas Hose-
mer; Captain Stephen, Jr., married Melicent Wood,
married (second) Elizabeth Farrar; Jonathan, see
forward; Josiah ; Jane; Ephraim.

(IV) Jonathan Hosmer, son of Stephen Hos-
mer (3), was born in Acton, Massachusetts, March
29, 1712. He settled in Acton and married, at Con-
cord, April 25, 1734, Martha Conant. Among their
children was Jonathan, see forward.

(V) Jonathan Hosmer, son of Jonathan Hos-
mer (4), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, Aug-
ust 28, 1734. He settled in Acton. He married,
January 31, 1760, (by Rev. Mr. Bliss) Submit Hunt,
of Concord. Among their children was Simon,
see forward. One of the victims of the Concord
fight, April 19, 1775, was Abner Hosmer, a relative
of the family, a native also of Acton.

(VI) Simon Hosmer, son of Jonathan Hos-
mer (5), was born in Acton, in 1774. He married

Sally and among their children was Hiram,

see forward.

(VII) Hiram Hosmer, son of Simon Hosmer
(6), was born in Acton, Massachusetts, July 26,
1815. He was educated there in the common
schools. His occupation was farming. He married
Mary Fletcher, of West Acton, where they settled
also. Their two children were : Henry, see for-
ward ; Warren Elbridge, see forward.

(VIII) Warren Elbridge Hosmer, son of
Hiram Hosmer (7), was born in West Acton,
Middlesex county, Alassachusetts. He married, Janu-
ary 27, 1S67, Indiana C. Woodhouse, in Havre de
Grace, Maryland. His widow is now living at
Logansport, Indiana. He died July 2, 1894. Chil-
dren of Warren E. and Indiana C. Hosmer, born
at Havre de Grace, were: Mary Belle, born Octo-
ber 29, 1867 ; Bertha Elizabeth, born January 22,
1870; Rose Woodhouse, born May 16, 1872; Blanche
Morrison (twin), born May 18, 1875; died at
Havre de Grace, November 12, 1879; Grace Lillian
(twin), born May 18, 1875; Percy Raymond, born
February, 1878. The children born at Logansport,
Indiana, were: Herbert Henry, born July 4, 1882;
Forrest Deene, born September 16. 1884, died at
Leominster, Massachusetts, .April 19, 1900; Harold
Felton, born January 19. 1887.

(VIII) Henry F. Hosmer, son of Hiram Hos-
mer (7), was born in West .Acton, December 31,
1836. He was educated in the public schools of
his native town and then took up farming on the old
homestead with his father. He left home in 1862
and was overseer of the George A. Parker farm in
So,uth Lancester, Massachusetts, for eleven years.
He then worked at Eben S. Fuller's sawmill in Clin-
ton for two years, when he bought the retail grocery
business in South Lancaster, Massachusetts, of
William G. Wilder, in which he was engaged at
the time of his death. He was postmaster at South
Lancaster, Massachusetts, for more than twenty
years. After his death the business was sold and a
new postmaster appointed. When the civil war
broke out, Mr. Hosmer enlisted, but he was re-
jected by the board of examiners. He was an active
and earnest Republican. He was a Free Mason, a
member of tlie Lancaster Lodge of Free Masons,
which at the time of his death adopted appropriate
resolutions of appreciation of his character and of
sympathy for his family. Mr. Hosmer died at his

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home in South Lancaster, March 9, 190J. He mar-
ried, May, 1858, Carohnc Fuller, daughter of Alden
Fuller, of Acton, Massachusetts. His widow re-
sides at South Lancaster. They had no children.

HAMBLET B. FISK, a successful merchant
of Hopedale, whose recent demise was the cause
of general regret, was a son of James J. Fisk, a
prosperous farmer and a well-known resident of
Bellingham, Norfolk county, in his day. For a
number of years James J. Fisk divided his time
between farming and shoemaking, but he devoted
his principal energies to agriculture, which in his
hands was a profitable employment.

Hamblet B. Fisk was born in Bellingham, March
27, 1838. He pursued the primary branches of his
education in the public schools of his native town,
and completed his studies in South Milford.
When a young man he was attracted to mercantile
pursuits, for wliich he was especially qualified, and
he established himself as a general storekeeper in
Hopedale. His natural aptitude for trade to-
gether with an earnest desire to acquire a reputa-
tion for reliability, formed the basis of his long
and honorable career as a merchant, and he re-
tained the confidence and patronage of a large
number of regular customers for many years. His
life was far from being devoted wholly to the
accumulation of wealth, as it is well known among
his fellow-townsmen that his kindly deeds of charity
and benevolence were frequent, though unostenta-
tious, and there were not a few who. while suffer-
ing temporary misfortune, found in him a sym-
pathizing friend and benefactor. He continued in
business until his death, which occurred in 1904,
and was succeeded by his clerk, William Gaskill,
who has as a partner Mr. J. S. Cox.

In 1874 Mr. Fisk was united in marriage with
Mrs. Elizabeth Hawes Cook, widow of Elisha
Cook, who survived him and is still residing in
Hopedale. She is a daughter of Samuel Hawes,
late of this town. Of this union there is one
daughter, Ida, who is now the wife of Dwight C.
Dewing. Mr. and Mrs. Dewing are the parents
of six living children : Hamlet E., Marion E.,
Lina, Hazel, Earle and Gertrude; another child
died young.

THE HALE FAMILY, to which Alfred Ran-
dall Hale, of Royalston, Massachusetts, belongs.
has spelled the name Hale for more than a hun-
dred years, but before the settlement in Worcester
county the name was variously spelled Haild, Hald,
Halde and Heald, being pronounced, however, we
are told, the same as at present.

(I) John Heald, the immigrant ancestor, was
one of the earliest settlers of Concord, Massachu-
setts. He was from Berwick, on the Tweed, Eng-
land, and is said to have come to New England
in 1635. He was admitted a freeman June 2, 1641.
He removed to Roxbury, then to Cambridge. He
died in Concord. May 24, 1662. His will, made
by his own hand, was dated April 19, 1662, and
proved June 16, 1662. He bequeated to his second
wife Dorothy, to children John, Timothy and Han-
nah and five younger, not named. He married

(first) Dorothy . The children were: i.

John, Jr., born in England, settled in Chelmsford,
married Sarah Dean, daughter of Thomas and
Elizabeth Dean, June 10, 1661 ; died at Concord,
June 17, 1689; wife died July 17, 1689, leaving four
children. 2. Timothy. 3. Dorcas, born May 22,
1645, 4. Gershom. born March 2'!. 1647, died at
Stow, 1717 ; married, 1673, Ann Vinton. 5. Doro-
thy, born October 16, 1649. 6. Dorcas, born May

I, 1650. 7. Israel, born July 30, 1660, see forward.

8. Isaac, died 1717, married Elizabeth , had

sons Jonathan and Joseph and only daughter Mary
Snow. Some authorities give also: Hannah, Amos^
Ebenezer. Samuel, Ephraim, Thomas, Benjamin.

(II) Israel Hale (Held or Heald), son of John
Heald (i), was born in Concord, Massachusetts,
July 30, 1660. He settled in Stow, March 13, 1682.
According to a statement made in his will, which
was proved November 6, 1738, he disposed of most
of his real estate by deed. He bequeathed to wife
Martha, to sons Benjamin and Oliver and daughter
Dorothy. The children of Israel and Martha
Heald: Benjamin, Oliver, see forward; Dorothy,

married Davis, and they had a son, Joseph

Davis; Israel, born December 2. 1687.

(III) Oliver Hale (Heald), son of Israel Hale
(2), was born in Stow, Massachusetts, September
8, 1686. He bouglit land in Stow and vicinity,
October, 1728, of James Whitcomb. His son,
Bezaleel Hale, sold the land back to Whitcomb,
April 10, 1753. Oliver Hale was one of a company
of forty-five who bought land in 1776 in Leomin-
ster. In the division he had Lot 16 and Samuel
Hale, Jr. had lot 10. He bought land in 1753 near
Monosnook brook. Stow. Children of Oliver Hale :
I. Bezaleel, born about 1725, deeded land in Bolton
and Stow to James Whitcomb; bought land in-south
part of Bolton. 1774; married, April 17, 1748, Abi-
gail Marble, born May 13, 1716, daughter of John
Marble, of Stow. 2. Jacob, see forward. 3. Oliver,
Jr., of Leominster. 4. Benjamin, probably. (A
child of Oliver Hale was baptized at Lancaster
December 11, 1757.)

(IV) Jacob Hale, son of Oliver Hale (or
Haild) (3), was born about 1730, at Stow. He

was living in 1786. He married Elizabeth ,

who survived him. He and his brother, Bezaleel
Hale, of Stow, bought land in Narragansett No. 2,
sixty-two acres, mostly in Athol, October 5, 1758,
of Peter Howe, of Marlborough, Massachusetts.
He conveyed to his son, Reuben Hale, land in
Athol formerly owned by William Oliver on Millers
road and bounded by the land of John Murray, April
I, 1777. He was in Stow, February 27, 1777, when
he deeded to his brother Oliver (possibly father),
of Leominster, and Eleazer Davis, of Hubbardston,
land formerly of Benjamin Hale, deceased, late of
Stow, bought originally of Nathan Davis. Jacob,
Jr., married a Sudbury woman and sold land there,
June 16, 1789, to John Osborn, of Royalston. Jacob
died about 1803. His estate was divided among his
heirs, September 9, 1803. The land in Athol was
located on Walnut hill ; all the heirs deeded their
rights to Daniel Eveluth. The children: I. Silas,
see forward. 2. Reuben, born 1754, settled in

Princeton ; married Olive , who was born

1764 and died March 30, 1827, aged sixty-three
years: he died October, 1828, aged seventy-four.
3. Jacob, settled in Boylston, married at Sudbury,
August 26, 1788. Thankful Smith. 4. Hannah, mar-
ried Jonathan Fairbanks, of Harvard. 5. Mary,
married Cyrus Fairbanks, of Ashburnham. 6. Sally,
married John Eveluth, of Augusta. Maine. 7.
Charles, settled in Stow. 8. Daughter, married
Daniel Eveluth.

(V) Silas Hale, son of Jacob Hale (4), was
born in Stow. October 13, 1748, died in Royalston,
18.S2. aged eighty-three years. He settled in the
south village at the corner of Templeton and Phil-
lipston roads. The farm used to he in Phillipston,
later in Royalston. and had a high reputation. It
became the property later of .'\nan Stockwell, who
married a daughter of Silas Hale, Jr. Her sister
married Dr. Gould, a physician of Royalston. Silas

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Hale deeded land to his father, April I, 1777, and
on the same date the father deeded land to his sofi
Reuben. Silas was of Athol, April, 1780, when he
deeded five hundred and nine acres on the south
bank of Millers' river there to John Caldwell, of
Barre. He bought of Samuel Buck, of Sutton, land
on the south side of the river, June 24, 1784, in
Royalston. He deeded land to his mother, the
widow Elizabeth Hale, at Athol. July 7, 1786. He
bought land at Athol, 1788. of his brother Reuben.
He sold land October 12, 1803, sixty acres, at Tem-
pleton. The history of Royalston mentions a mag-
nificent elm planted on the homestead by his son
Stephen about 1790. Silas Hale was a soldier in
the revolution, a private in Lieutenant Samuel
Stickney's company, Colonel Abijah Stearns' regi-
ment, in 1777. to re-enforce General Gates. He was
under Captain William Henry at Castle and Gov-
ernor's Islands in 1779; represented the town of
Leominste;}- in the army in 1780.

He married (first), at Stow, Lydia Stowe, July,
1778. She died June 5, 1800, at Phillipston. He'
married (second)^ (intentions October 3, 1801)
Hopa Rich .at jxoyalston. His will was dated
October 27, 1818, and filed October 3, 1832. It
mentions a horse and shay ; bequeaths to the chil-
dren, viz : Silas. Jr., married, September 20, 1823,
Betsey B. Batchelder: Stephen, see forward; Lydia,
inherited the Beals farm in Royalston bounded by
land of Silas Jones, T. Cutler and Isaac Gale.

(VI) Stephen Hale, son of Silas Hale (5), was
born about 1782, in Athol or Phillipston. He mar-
ried (intentions February 7, 1802) Sukey Waldron,
of Dover. New Hampshire. Their children, born
in Royalston, were : John Waldron, born April i,
1804. see forward; Eliza, born November 30. 1805,
married, June 22, 1820, Abel Manning; Mary Re-
becca, born August 24, 1807, married, April 8, 1835,
Silas Hale, of Stow ; Stephen. Jr., born January
16, 1813, married Mary G. Brooks; Susanna, born
June 26, 1815. married William C. Brown; daugh-
ter, born April 16. 1S21, died next day.

(VII) John Waldron Hale, son of Stephen Hale
(6), was born in Royalston, April i, 1804. He set-
tled in Royalston and there married, March 27,

1839, Betsey Evans. Their children, all born in
Royalston. were : John Randall, born May 24,

1840, see forward : Charles Silas, born January 30,
1842, died March 7. 1899; Stephen Winn, born
January 22, 1844. died January 21, l88g ; Samuel
Walker, born April 27, 1850, died August I, 1888,
in Ravenna, Nebraska ; Emma Jane, born March
14, 1852. died August 2, 1896, buried at Swamp-
scott, Massachusetts. She married Walter F. Ellis,
and at her decease was survived by her husband,
two sons and two daughters.

(VIII) John Randall Hale, son of John Wald-
ron Hale (7), was born at Royalston. Massachu-
setts. May 24, 1840, died there March 17, 1905.
He was educated in the district schools of his native
town. He followed farming with his father in
early life and became a highly prosperous farmer.
He was also a successful auctioneer. He was a
Republican in politics, and served the town in vari-
ous positions of trust and honor. He was an over-
seer of the poor, assessor and for eight years a
selectman. He belonged to the Athol Lodge of
Odd Fellows. He married. December 23, 1868,
Edna Elvira Boynton, daughter of Alfred Boyn-
ton. Their child. Alfred R.. see forward.

(IX) Alfred Randall Hale, son of John Ran-
dall Hale (8), was born in Royalston, Massachu-
setts. August 4, 1875. He received his education
in the common schools of his native town and at
Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts.

He began to work on the farm at an early age and
has followed farming as a business in his mature
years, now at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he
has resided since April I, 1906. He is an active
member of the Royalston Congregational Church,
and is clerk of the parish. He is active in town
affairs and since 1900 has been a member of the
school committee. He is a Republican.

He married. June 30, 1902, Carrie Graham, of
Richmond. Quebec. Canada, daughter of John Gra-
ham. The only child of Alfred Randall and Carrie
Hale is Stuart Graham, born September 19, 1894.

LEONARD EZRA TURNER. Ezra Turner,
grandfather of Leonard E. Turner, was an indus-
trious farmer of Phillipston prior to the introduc-
tion of modern agricultural machinery and appli-
ances. His son, John Turner, married Sally New-
ton, daughter of Edmund Newton, of Phillipston,
She became the mother of five sons and one daugh-
ter, namely : Charles, Lydia, James, Leonard E.,
Lysander and Frank.

Leonard Ezra Turner was born in Phillipston,
July ir. 1845. After concluding his attendance at
the public schools, he turned his attention to
mechanical pursuits and was employed in a toy
factory for a period of fourteen years. He then
established himself as a plumber at Templeton. and
in that field of usefulness has met with gratifying
success, having built up and maintained a large and
lucrative business. He gives his particular atten-
tion to the sale and adju.nment of w-indmills, and as
the exclusive representative of a prominent western
manufacturer of these economical generators of
motive power has introduced many of them in this
section of the state.

For nearly thirty years Mr. Turner has served
with marked efficiency as a member of the fire
department of Templeton. serving fourteen years
as fireman and eight years in the department in
Baldwinville. Aside from the natural feeling of
satisfaction resulting from the successful efforts to
protect property from the ravages of the flames, he
has derived inestimable benefit from the strenuous
physical exercise which necessarily attends the
work. The exciting amusement of the old-fash-
ioned "playout," so dear to the heart of all firemen,
has been to him the source of much enjoyment.
He is well and favorably known among veteran
firemen of this and other states, as on various oc-
casions he has led his dauntless fire laddies to vic-
tory, and at one memorable general muster they
outplayed all of their competitors. In addition to
his share in more than three thousand dollars in
prize money, he possesses numerous badges and he
evinces no little pride when exhibiting them to
stranger.s. In politics he is a Republican. He is
a prominent member of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, having held the principal offices
in the local lodge, and he also belongs to the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mr. Turner marritd. February 29, 1864. for his
first wife Josephine Norcross. daughter of Ora B.
Norcross. of Templeton. She died May 31, 1893,
and he subsequently married Eva L. Duck, a native
of Prince Edward Island. The children of his first
union are: William J., born February 16, 1865,
carries on an extensive business in Providence,
Rhode Island, as a manufacturer of steam and hot
water heating apparatus, is a man of prominence
in that city and as such is frequently caricatured
in the daily newspapers. He married, January 25,
1893. Nellie E. Lovering. of Putnam. Connecticut.
2. Ora Norcross. born August 5, 1866. resides in
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l8, 1H89, had six cliildren, of whom three survive:
Arthur Waters, Bertha Alice and Doris. 3. John
L., horn April 2, 1870, holds the position of sliip-
ping manager of the American Radiator Comi)atiy
with Jicadqartcrs in Bt)Ston ; he resides in Dor-
chester. He married, Novemhcr 18, 1892, Abbie
Fairbanks, of Sterling, this county, and they are
the parents of a daughter, Florence Esther. 4.
Harry Austin, born February 6, 1874, a plumber in
Fall River, married, June 16, 1897, Carrie Ling,
and they had two children, one surviving, Dorothy
Ling. 5. Josic Ann, born June 16, 1877, died June
15, igoo; she married Elmer Afton Fitch, by whom
she had a child, Ralph. 6. Leonard E., Jr., born
December 6, 18S1, employed as chief engineer in
Bishop & Dickenson's extensive manufacturing
plant in Templeton. He married, June I, 1904,
Albert A. Bragg. 7. Minnie Alice, born December
6, 1883, is employed as bookkeeper in the office of
her brother, William J. Turner, in Providence. 8.
Ruth Hstella, born January 23, 1889, attends the
Templeton high school. Mr. Turner had one child,
Nettie Eleanor, by his second wile, born May 2T,
1901, died September 22, 1901.

ARTHUR ROBERT TAFT. The Taft family
of Uxbridge, which is one of the oldest families
in that town, was established prior to the separa-
tion from Mendon in 1727, and was therefore
among the original incorporators. The family is
of Scotch origin and found its way to America by
the way of Ireland, whither it went in the early
days of the Covenanters. Some of its members
came to New England about the year 1680, and one
of these immigrants, Robert Taft, settled in Men-
don. Robert became the progeniror of a numerous
posterity, many of whom are still to be found in
Mendon. Uxbridge and the neighboring towns, and
the various Tafts mentioned in this work are all
descended from him.

Arthur Robert Taft is a lineal descendant in the
seventh generation of Robert Taft, the Mendon
settler, and the line of descent is through Robert
(2), Israel (3), Jacob (4), John (5) and Robert
(6) Taft. John Taft, grandfather of Arthur R.,
was a prosperous farmer of Uxbridge during the
first half of the last century. He married Lucretia
Newell and among his children was Robert Taft,
Arthur R. Taffs father.

Robert Taft was born in Uxbridge, May, T819.
When a young man he engaged in the manufacture
of wooleii goods and established a profitable busi-
ness, with which he was identified for the re-
mainder of his life. He also cultivated a valuable
farm and had large real estate interests in Ux-
bridge and other localities. His death occurred in
iSgt. He married Mary Balcom. a native of Doug-
las, this county, daughter of Ebenezer and Polly
Balcom, of that town.

Arthur Robert Taft. only child of Robert and
Mary (Balcom) Taft, was born in Uxbridge. Feb-
ruary 19, 1859. He began Jiis education in the
pulilic schools of Uxbridge, graduating from the
high school in 1876. and completed it at the English
and Classical School in Providence. Rhode Island.
In 1879 he entered mercantile business in partner-
ship with E, B. Hayward under the firm name of
Hayward & Taft, but a year or two later he was
compelled, on account of his father's feeble heSlth.
to withdraw from that concern and he disposed of
liis interest to his partner. From that time forward
until the death of his father he was closely associ-
ated with the latter in managing the industrial,
agricultural and real estate interests of the elder
Taft. He subsequently retired from the manufac-

turing business in .order to devote his time exclu-
sively to the large investment interests left by his
father, and also to the management of the home-
stead farm. In addition to his extensive real estate
holdings, which includes valuable property in Bos-
ton, he is actively identified with the financial and
banking interests of Uxbridge, being a director of
the Blackstone National Bank, and clerk, vice-
president, trustee and a member of the finance
committee of the Uxbridge Savings Bank, and was
a .director and president of the Uxbridge and North-
bridge Electric Light Company. Politically he is
a Republican. F'or a number of years he has served
as a selectman and also as clerk of the board ; has
served as moderator at town meetings since 1901,
and in 1898 represented Uxbridge in the lower
branch of the state legislature with marked ability.
He is particularly interested in the Uxbridge Public
Library and is a life trustee of that institution.

In September, 1880, Mr. Taft married for his
first wife Mary A. Seagrave, daughter &f Charles
• E. and Abigail (Carter) Seagrave, of Uxbridge.
She died in 1886, leaving no children. In May,
1889, he married for his second wife Rosa F.
George, daughter of Nathan R. and Rosanna (Taft)
George, of Mendon. Of this union there was one
child who died in infancy.

DANIEL BOWMAN INGALLS. a dentist of
note of Clinton, Massachusetts, was born in Sut-
ton, Vermont, May 25, -1S29. He is the son of
James Ingalls, a man of prominence of Vermont,
born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, June 24, 1791,
and Mary (Cass) Ingalls, born in Lyman, New •
Hampshire, January 16, 1797, daughter of Jacob
and Sallie Cass. Their children were: Mary Ann,
born in Lyman, New Hampshire, October 4, 1814,
died in Chicopee, Massachusetts, May 23, 1846;
Sarah Cass, born in Lyman, February 4, 1817: John
Edson, born in Lyman, February 4, 1819, died in
Detton, Wisconsin, November 11, 1882; ALargaret
Jane, born in Lyman, January 3, 1S21 ; Adeline
Manerva, born in Lyndon, Vermont, April 15, 1823,
died in Excelsior, Wisconsin, March 13, 1869;
Mariam Maria, born in Lyndon, July 22. 1827 ;
Daniel Bowman, born in Sutton, Vermont, May 25,
1829 : LIrania Edesa, born in Sutton, April 10, 1832,
died in Sterling. Massachusetts, August 17, 1862;
James Monroe, born in Sutton, January 25, 1837,
died in Madison, Wisconsin, October 11. 1866.
Daniel B. Ingalls is grandson of Samuel Ingalls,
who was a native of New Hampshire, born in Can-
terbury, September 28, 1763. He married Anna
Shepherd, born in Canterbury. New Hampshire,
February 8, 1767, and they had children, namely:
Abigail, born in Canterbury. New Hampshire,
March 4, 1787, died May 9, 1788; John, born in
Canterbury, May 4, 1789, died in Danville, Ver-
mont, June 16, 1792; James, born in Canterbury,
June 24. 1791 ; Samuel, born in Danville, Vermont,
September 4, 1793. died in Ryegate, Vermont, De-
cember 14, i8r4; Elizabeth, born in Ryegate, Ver-
mont, December 5. 1796; Hannah, born in Ryegate,
April 10, 1798; Mary, born in Ryegate, June 28,
t8oo, died in Canterbury. November 10. 18,^3 ; Anna,
born in Ryegate. September 3, 1802, died in Rye-
gate, December 20. 18,4; Morrell. hnrn in Rye-
gate, August 13, 1804 ; Susan, born in Ryegate, July
6. t8o6; .\bigail. hnrn in Ryegate. April 25. 1808;
Jemima, born in Ryegate, July 17. 1811 ; Nancy,
died in Boston. Massachusetts. February 22, 1835.

Daniel Bowman Ingalls obtained his education
in the common schools of Connecticut, and on leav-
ing the schoolroom learned the trade of a machinist
at Norwich. He followed that occupation until

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he was twenty-six years of age, when he entered
into the study of dentistry in Clinton, Massachu-
setts. He was graduated from the Boston Dental
College in 1874, but practiced dentistry in Clinton
from 1856 until 1903, when he retired from active
life and lives in his pretty home in Clinton, sur-
rounded with every comfort. In 1851-52 he was
on a trip to California, and on his return associ-
ated himself with Jeremiah Fiske, of Clinton, in the
dentistry business, and the firm was well known
throughout the county.

In politics Mr. Ingalls is a strong Republican.
He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature
for three years; in the house in 1880 and in the
senate 1881-82. Served on committees on public
health, state house and claims, was chairman of the
latter for 1882 and wrote the minority report on the
"Shanley" claim for that year. He was a member
of the Republican state committee for the second
Worcester district for 1895. He is a member of the
investment committee of the Clinton Bank, director
in the Lancaster National Bank, and president of
the Clinton Co-operative Bank. He is a man who
is held in high esteem by his fellow townsmen, and
is regarded as a shrewd business man. He is, a
member of Clinton Lodge. F. and A. M. In mat-
ters of religion, Mr. Ingalls accords with the doc-
trines of the Baptist Church.

Daniel Bowman Ingalls was united in marriage
to Rebecca Nelson Randell in Newbuy, Vermont,
October 22, 1850. She was born at Newbuy, Ver-
mont, January 27, 1830. To this union six children
were born : Herbert Clinton, born at Clinton,
Massachusetts, May 13, 1854, died May 9, 1870;
an infant; Cora Lilian, born at Clinton, Massachu-
setts, July 14. i86i. died August 10, 1861 ; Urania
E., born at Clinton, July 6, 1863, died July g, 1863;
Helen, born at Clinton, October 16, 1865, died July
18, 1869; Maud Alice, born at Clinton, Massachu-
setts, January 16, 1869, died August 8. 1870.

ROBERT KNOX BROWN, whose name car-
ries weight in the financial circles of Whitinsville,
and who has for many years been thoroughly iden-
tified with the best interests of that town, is a
grandson of Alexander Brown, who was born in
the province of Ulster, Ireland, about in the middle
of the seventeenth century, and there passed his
entire long life. His wife was Jennie Mcllveny.
The Browns were known as Scotch-Irish, although
family tradition has it that the founders of the race
in Ireland went over with the English Protestants
instead of with the Scotch settlers. On the maternal
side the family was of Scottish origin.

The ancestors of Alexander Brown were in
Londonderry during the famous siege of 1689,
w'hen the sufferings of the citizens were surpassed
only by their fortitude. .After the siege was ended
by the arrival of relief for the city's heroic de-
fenders, the Browns, with the exception of the
branch to which Alexander belonged, became separ-
ated and were scattered over the British Isles.
Eventually they emigrated to the American colonies,
and are supposed to have settled in Massachusetts
and New Hampshire.

John Brown, son of Alexander and Jennie (Mc-
llveny) Brown, was born in Ireland, and married
Sarah McNeil, who was descended, on the maternal
side, from the Campbell and Stewart families of
Scotland. He also passed his entire long life there
on the old homestead. Their children were ten in
number, their names being as follows : Rebecca S.,
now living in her pleasant residence in Whitins-
ville. Massachusetts ; Sarah, Mary Ann. Margaret,
Elizabeth, wife of Hiram C. Colwell ; Matilda,

Robert Knox, of whom later ; David, one son, John
J., James S., and one who died in infancy. Of
these children, Matilda is the wife of Edward Wood
and the mother of three children ; David, of Des
Moines, Iowa ; Sarah, wife of Edward Harvey,
now of Boston, one son and one daughter; Hiram
C, machinist in Whitin Machine Works. Whitins-
ville ; James S., is a machinist at Whitinsville, and
has three children: Rebecca G., Mary J., and
Robert K. ; all graduates of the Whitinsville high
school.

Robert Knox Brown, son of John and Sarah
(McNeil) Brown, was born June 22, 1846, in
Aghadoe, county Derry, Ireland, and attended the
public schools of his native place. At the age of
twenty he decided to seek his fortune in the United
States, and in 1866 settled in Worcester, where he
supplemented his education with a course of study
at Howe's (now Hinman's) Business College, an
institution in which many of the manufacturers
and business men of Worcester county received
their early training. In 1867 he became bookkeeper
in the Whitin Machine Works at Whitinsville.
His usefulness to the Whitins is shown by the fact
that for nearly forty years he has been retained in
a position of trust and responsibility. He has the
entire confidence of his employers, and is at pres-
ent the general bookkeeper of the company, having
assistants.

He is a trustee of the Whitinsville Savings Bank
and a member of its finance committee. For many
years he has been a student of finance and bank-
ing, the latter having had for him peculiar fasci-
nation. The success which has attended the invest-
ment of his own surplus funds has caused his ad-
vice on the subject of finance to be sought by his
friends who have followed it with gratifying re-
sults. He has been four years a justice of the peace
and fourteen years a notary public, having been
appointed by successive governors. In connection
with his office as notary he has acquired some
knowledge of law as applied to the common afifairs
of life as well as to the business in which he has
been so long engaged. Though not assuming to
practice, his counsel has been sought by his friends
and has always been freely given without charge.
He has never been known to charge soldiers, their
widows, or his neighbors for any legal advice or
service. He belongs to the I. 0. O. F., and in
politics is a Republican. He and his wife are mem-
bers of the Congregational Church and are greatly
interested in its work. He holds the office of senior
deacon.

Mr. Brown married Matilda Steele, born in
Dublin. Ireland, and is the descendant of Scottish
ancestors. They are the parents of six children :
Stuart F.. born September 10, 1888. graduate of
Whitinsville high school, class of 1906, now a
student in Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine ;
Josiah S.. born September 23. 1890. student in
Whitinsville high school : Ethel, born July 15. 1892,
also a student in Whitinsville high school: Grace
May. born May 16. 1895 : John .-Xrcliibald, born
April 19, 1898; and Alice, born May 4, 1902.

LAWSON SEAGRAVES. for many years
librarian of the Uxbridge Public Library, and a
veteran of the civil war, is a son of Lawson A. and
Priscilla (Beals) Seagraves. of Uxbridge. His
grandfather. Bczaleel Seagraves. was born and
reared in L^xbridge, where his active years were
spent in tilling the soil, and he was one of the
prosperous farmers of his day. Lawson A. Sea-
graves. who was also a native and lifelong resident
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woolen mill, and after following that occupation
for some years he engaged in farming. He subse-
quently returned to the woolen industry as a manu-
facturer. Law.son A. and Priscilla (Beals) Sea-
graves had a family of si.x children, namely : Olive,
Frank, William, Edgar, Jennie and Lawson.

Lawson Seagraves was born at Uxbridge, Janu-
ary 26, 1840. His education was acquired at the
public schools of Uxbridge and in Rhode Island.
Having learned the trade of machinist he engaged
in the manufacture of needles, and although trans-
acting a profitable business at the breaking out
of the civil war in 1861, he suspended operations in
order to join in the defence of the Union. En-
listing as a private in Company H, Fifteenth Regi-
ment. Massachusetts Volunteers, he participated in
the battles of Balls BlufT, Malvern Hill, the Wilder-
ness and Antietam, in which latter engagement he
was wounded, and he served in the army con-
tinuously for three years, acquiring an honorable
record for personal bravery and the faithful dis-
•charge of his duties. Upon his return from the
service he resumed his business as a needle manu-
facturer and continued it successfully for a period
of thirty years. For the past ten years he has de-
voted much of his energy to the cultivation of
his farm, an excellent piece of agricultural prop-
erty situated upon the outskirts of the town, but
he still retains his interest in public afifairs, with
which he has long been identified. For fifteen years
he served with marked ability as librarian of the
Uxbridge Public Library, but gave that up and
now farms. He held the office of overseer of the
poor for a number of terms, had charge of the
school building and town hall, and in politics is
an ardent supporter of the Republican party. He
is a member ■ of the Masonic Order, the Knights
of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic.

In 1868 Mr. Seagraves married Mary Fox, of
Uxbridge, who died in 1886. The children of this
union were : Olive. Willard, Bradford. Mary, Jean,
deceased ; Edgar, Chauncey. In 1894 Mr. Seagraves
-married for his second wife Stella Clark, daugh-
ter of Edward Clark, also of Uxbridge.

FRANK SUMNER PARMENTER. Ancestors
of the Parmenters were among the founders of New
England and the family was identified with the
early history of Boston, immigrants of this name
having settled there and in Watertown. It is a re-
grettable fact that available records relative to. their
early history are wanting, but such is the case and
the writer is unable to trace with accuracy the
Worcester county branch of the family back to its
original source.

Frank Sumner Parmenter, of Athol. is a son of
the late J. Sumner Parmenter, and a grandson of
Joseph G. Parmenter. According to the Petersham
town records Joseph G. Parmenter and his brother
Horatio were prominent residents there in the early
part of the last century. Joseph G. Parmenter mar-
ried Elvira Clapp, April 4, 1826; a daughter born of
this marriage, Elizabeth Parmenter, became the wife
of George S. Grosvcnor, an educator, and subse-
quently a lawyer of Trenton, New Jersey. She died
when forty-four years of age. J. Sumner Parmen-
ter was born in Petersham, May 7, 1827. Francis
C. Parmenter, brother of J. Sumner, was born in
Petersham, October 17, 1830; he acquired his early
tusiness training in Athol with Messrs. Bassett,
Chickering & Company, and later entered the employ
of Thorpe & Parmenter, who will be again referred
to. He was subsequently for ten years engaged in
business for himself in Petersham, but at the ex-
piration of that time he returned to Athol and asso-

ciated himself with Lewis Thorpe at Athol Centre,
remaining there for two years. For the succeeding
five years he was in company with his brother, J. S.
Parmenter, at Athol Village, and from 1870 to about
1892 was a member of the dry goods firm of Par-
menter & Tower, which transacted a profitable busi-
ness during its entire existence. Francis C. Par-
menter died October 28, 1893. He was a director of
the Athol National Bank and at one time its audi-
tor, and was interested in several of the local manu-
facturing enterprises. As deacon of the Congrega-
tional Church and superintendent of its Sunday
school he exercised a far-reaching influence in be-
half of the moral and religious welfare of the com-
munity, and he was also an earnest advocate of the
temperance cause. On October 17, 1852, he married
Elizabeth J. Goodenough, of Athol. His daughter
Stella became the wife of Hon. S. P. Smith ; died in
1905.

J. Sumner Parmenter began the activities of life
at the age of fourteen years as a clerk in the gen-
eral store of Messrs. Witherell & Hamilton of
Petersham, and two years later he moved to Athol,
where he entered the employ of Messrs. Thorpe
and Simonds in a similar capacity, at the same time
being allowed to attend school. His excellence of
character and business ability were unusual and in
1848, when he was twenty-one years old, he became
well established in mercantile business as a member
of the firm of L. Thorpe, which was subsequently
known as Thorpe & Parmenter. After a prosperous
existence of seventeen years that partnership was
dissolved, and he became associated in business with
his brother, Frank C, under the firm name of J. S.
and F. C. Parmenter. Upon the latter's withdrawal
in 1870, the senior Parmenter admitted his son,
Frank S;) to partnership and continued in business
until 1874, when he retired. Those familiar with
his long and honorable mercantile career will un-
doubtedly concede without reserve that J. Sumner
Parmenter's activities in the commercial, industrial,
financial, political and religious interests of Athol
equalled and perhaps surpassed those of any other
citizen of his day. His untimely death, which oc-
curred in the prime of an upright, conscientious life,
December 7, 1881, was the cause of sincere regret,
not only by his fellow-townsmen who were familiar
with his sterling characteristics from an intimate
acquaintance with them, but also by a large num-
ber of warm personal friends residing beyond the
limits of his immediate sphere of action. He was
vice-president of the Athol Savings Bank, clerk of
the Aliller's River Manufacturing Company, a trus-
tee of the Upham Machine Company, and treasurer
of the Athol Library Association, and was interested
in various other organizations calculated to be of
benefit to the town, all of which profited by his
sterling integrity and sound judgment. Politically
he was a Republican and in addition to serving as
town clerk for a period of seven years, he repre-
sented his district in the state legislature in 1878.
His religious affiliations were with the Congrega-
tionalists and he not only acted as a deacon of that
church, but officiated as superintendent of the Sun-
day school. On June 7, 1848, he married Caroline B.
Baker, of Troy, New Hampshire. She became the
mother of two sons, Frank S., the immediate sub-
ject of this sketch, and William H. Parmenter.

The birth of Frank Sumner Parmenter took
place in Athol, October 26, 1849. His early edu-
cation was acquired in the Athol public schools
and he completed his studies at the Trenton (New
Jersey) Academy. In 1867 he entered the employ
of J. S. and F. C. Parmenter as a clerk, and three
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■concern. After bis father's retirement he was asso-
ciated for a short time with C. A. Carruth. He
subsequently conducted dry goods stores in Spring-
field, St. Albans, Vermont, and Orange, this state.
Returning to Athol he engaged in tlie clothing busi-
ness as a member of the firm of Parmenter and
Kendall, which continued in trade for four years,
and at the expiration of that time he visited some
of the western states. His next business venture
was as dry goods merchant in Orange, where he had
previously conducted a llourishing trade, and he re-
mained there until 1897, since whicli time he has
resided in Athol. Mr. I'armentor has evidenced his
public spirit by contributing of his time and means
in the establishment of various of the manufactur-
ing interests of Athol. He was one of the origi-
nal stockholders and directors of the Co-operative
Bank of Athol. Mr. Parmenter is quite active in
local civic afifairs, having served as town auditor a
number of years. He served two terms as chair-
man of the Republican town committee and has been
delegated to many of the party conventions. Being
a man of advanced ideas, especially in religious mat-
ters, he is deeply interested in "Christian Science,"
and is a leading spirit among the followers of that
doctrine in Athol. He is a Free Mason of long
standing and a member of the Eastern Star.

On August 26, 1873, Mr. Pannenter was joined
in marriage with Miss Adele C. Ellis, daughter of
Edwin Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. Parmenter have no
children.

William Hale Parmenter, born July 29, 1855, re-
ceived his initial schooling in Athol, entered Yale
and subsequently attended Harvard Law school and
was admitted to the bar. He entered upon practice
of his profession in Boston, where after a short
time he became interested in investment brokerage
lines and entered into that business in a large way.
He removed to New York city in 1891, where he
continued in the same line of business for several
years. In 1895, having tested by personal experi-
ence the benefits of faith in Christian Science, he
entered heartily and wholly into the practice of
Christian Science and in that field of labor accom-
plished much and marvelous good for his fellow-
men. His sudden decease from apople.xy in De-
cember, igo2, left a void in many hearts and de-
prived the cause which he had espoused of a most
enthusiastic and capable disciple, apostle and worker.
He married Evelyn, daughter of F. B. Moore, shoe
manufacturer of Lynn, Massachusetts. One child
born of this marriage, Evelyn, married Harry E.
Tolman, of the Tolman Printing Co., Brooklyn.
One child of this marriage is Natalie Tolman.

REV. MICHAEL A. O'KANE, S. J. The peo-
ple of Spencer may be justifiably proud of the
honor and distinction which has been earned by
Rev. Michael A. O'Kane, S. J., as the town may
with propriety call him one of her sons, though
the first three months of his existence were spent
in a small township in county Clare, Ireland. The
influences of heredity and careful parental train-
ing were manifested in the life and character of
this distinguished priest.

Michael O'Kane (or Kane, as the name is fre-
quently abbreviated), was of the best type of
Irish immigrant — industrious, frugal and honest.
He came to America in the spring of 1849, and was
one of the first of his nativity and religion to
settle in Spencer. He immediately made prepara-
tions for sending for his family, and they came
in the following year, for at that time he pur-
chased the property at the corner of Chestnut and
Valley streets, which he has ever since continued to

be the home of members of the O'Kane family.
His first employment was as a farm hand with
Otis Howland, but he shortly changed this pursuit
for a position in the finishing department of one
of the woolen mills, and pursued this occupation
until old age obliged him to resign active work.
He was a shrewd man of business, and made con-
siderable money by his excellent investments in
real estate. He was the first in that section to
possess a piano, and the entire family had musical
inclinations. He was noted for his charity, and
gave ready welcome and assistance to all immi-
grants from his native land, sheltering them until
he had put them in the way of helping themselves.
He died at his home in Spencer in 1877. He inar-
ried Bridget Casey, born in i8ro, noted for her
piety and her devotion to her faith and her family.
She survived her husband until 1891. Their chil-
dren were: Rev. Michael A.; Patrick; Sarah;
John; Mary, married Hugh Kelly; Bridget;
Thomas ; Richard Martin ; and Eliza.

Rev. Michael A. O'Kane, eldest child of Michael
and Bridget (Casey) O'Kane, was born in county
Clare. Ireland, July 12, 1849. He was but three
months old when his mother crossed the .Atlantic
with him. He acquired his preliminary education
in the common and high schools of Spencer, and
then entered Holy Cross College. He had always
been studiously inclined, and early showed great
aptitude for mathematics, in which he was a recog-
nized authority in later years, when he acted in
the capacity of teacher. The O'Kane household
was the headquarters of the pioneer priests of that
section, and young Michael may have drawn some
of his inspiration from this source; at any rate
he was, in early youth, one of the sanctuary boys
in old St. Mary's Church. His father would have
had him become a secular priest, for Michael early
showed an inclination toward the church, but he
had an ideal formed in his mind and would accept
no financial aid towards his education, and helped
himself through college largely by teaching. He
left Holy Cross College in 1867 and joined the
Society of Jesus, in which organization the mem-
bers give up all title to things temporal and are
devoted exclusively to the service of the Master —
tasks that are by no means in the nature of a si-
necure. He pursued his philosophical and theologi-
cal studies at Woodstock College, Maryland, and
spent nine years in this part of his education. He
was sent to Georgetown College in 1876, to take the
position of professor of classics, and remained
there six years; during the next four years he
was prefect of studies at Georgetown, and for two
years vice-president. He was made rector and
master of novices at the novitiate at Fredericks-
liurg, Maryland, the home of the Jesuits, in August,
1887. This position he held for two years, and was
then appointed president of Holy Cross College
at Worcester. During Father O'Kane's administra-
tion of four years great strides and a number of
radical changes were inade in the policy of this in-
stitution. When he entered it the college had two
hundred and fifty students; he saw the student roll
grow to the number of three hundred, and the
great addition which doubled the facilities and
equipment of the institution was planned and begun.

Father O'Kane was and is a great lover of
athletics, and as a result the fine baseball ground
and grand stands at the west of the college were
built and a magnificent gymnasium completed in
the new buildings, including swimming tank. etc.
These extensive additions and improvements to the
college building had been completed when Father
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the Mission band, and the new structure of Holy
Cross College is called the O'Kane Building. He
joined tliis band in 1893, and has traveled through
all parts of the United Slates, reviving dormant
religion in the hearts of the Catholic people. The
following year Father O'Kane was made leader of
the band, with headquarters at Sixteenth street,
New York city. His influence in this work is
tremendous. He held a mission in Ontario, Canada,
not long ago, and the papers paid a magnificent
tribute to him and his helpers, nine hundred rnen
having taken the total abstinence pledge from him.
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, the papers recently re-
ported that, after one week's mission, four hundred
and sixty people were confirmed and thirty con-
verted. Father O'Kane has a deep, powerful voice,
and a manner so honest, convincing, eloquent, fer-
vent and spiritual, that he is recognized as one
of the greatest powers in the church mission work
of the present day.

The work at the Holy Cross College probably
brought Father O'Kane more notoriety, and placed
his talents before the public in a more prominent
manner, but the work in which he is engaged at
present is the greatest of his life, and seems to be
achieved with apparently little effort. The work of
a mission priest is constant and unremitting, day in
and day out. with long hours and little time for rest
or recreation. Father O'Kane, however, seems to
have the equable temperament which makes light of
all work, the mental power to understand, the in-
centive to push forward, and the vitality to endure.
This harmonious balance and combination enable
him to accomplish an amount of work which would
sap the strength of mind and body of the majority
of men. In few words— he is a great, good and use-
ful man.

MARK A. PUTNAM. The Putnam family in
America was founded by John Putnam early in the
colonial period, and the Worcester county branch
was established by his grandson, Captain Benjamin
Putnam, who went to Sutton as a pioneer. John
Putnam, the immigrant, of Aston Abbotts, Buck-
inghamshire, England, born about the year 1580, ar-
rived in Massachusetts in 1634, and settled in Salem
village, now Danvers. With him came his wife,
whose maiden name was probably Priscilla Gould,
and his three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel and John.

Nathaniel Putnam, second son of John, was bap-
tized at Aston Abbotts, October 11, i6ig, died in
Salem village, July 23, 1700. He was a man of
considerable prominence, serving as constable tor
some time, and in 1690-91 was a representative to
the general court. His wife was before marriage
Elizabeth Hutchinson, daughter of Richard and
Alice Hutchinson. .

Captain Benjamin Putnam, son of Nathaniel
Putnam, was born m Salem village, December 24,
1664 As a young man he witnessed the exciting
scenes enacted during the famous witchcraft dehi-
sion and at least one of his relatives, a young girl,
was 'supposed to have been afflicted, but fortimately
no serious consequences resulted therefrom. He ac-
quired a tract of wild land in what afterward be-
came the town of Sutton, and cleared froin the
wilderness a large farm, upon which he resided for
the remainder of his life. He died 111 1715. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas lutnam
To this branch of the family belonged General
Israel Putnam, of revolutionary war fame, and the
latter's cousin, General Rufus Putnam, who also
distinguished himself in the war for independence
both Is an officer in the field and as an engineer
having erected the fortifications around Boston, and

those at West Point. He was for some time a
resident of Rutland, and the house he occupied will
be referred to at greater length presently.

The first of the Putnams to settle in Rutland was
Archaelus Putnam, who went there from Sutton,
and was the ancestor "of Mark A. Putnam, whose
name heads this sketch. Archaelus married Ruth
F'uller, a native of Sutton. Sumner Putnam, Mark
A. Putnam's grandfather, who was born in Rutland,

married Newton, of Sutton. Their son Daniel,

Mark A. Putnam's father, who was also born in
Rutland and is now residing in Shrewsbury, this
county, married Louise Avery.

Mark A, Putnam was born in Rutland, January
8, 1S72. He acquired his education in the public
schools of Rutland and was reared to agricultural
pursuits, in which he is now quite extensively en-
gaged. As his farm is especially well adapted to
the pasturage of stock, he devotes much of his at-
tention to dairy products, and in that branch of
agriculture he has attained a most gratifying suc-
cess. Although Mr, Putnam does not consider him-
self a highly educated man in the literal meaning of
that term, his natural intelligence enabled hini to
make good use of his educational opportunities, and
having accumulated a good knowledge of the ordi-
nary branches of study he has, on various occasions,
acted as a substitute teacher at the county reform
school in the absence of some of the regular in-
structors. In politics he is a Republican ; has served
as constable for two years, and is at the present
time serving as local mail carrier. In his religious
belief he is a Congregationalist, and in addition to
being a trustee of that church acts as assistant
superintendent of the Sunday school.

Mr. Putnam married, July 2, 1895, iMary Rockett,
born in 1873, daughter of J. M. Rockett, of Hing-
ham, Massachusetts. Of this union there are two
children, namely: Avery W., born in 1896; and
Walter C., born in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam re-
side at Rutland on a farm purchased in 1905 and
now under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam for
some years occupied the historic General Rufus
Putnam residence in Rutland, which aside from
its antiquity and patriotic associations is of much
interest to strangers, as within its walls is a veritable
museum of valuable relics of by-gone days, consist-
ing of spinning-wheels, hand-looms, clocks, swords,
muskets, Indian bows and arrows, fireplaces, full
sets of cooking utensils, high post bedsteads and
other valuable furniture and implements. Upon the
front of the house near the sun dial the Daughters
of the American Revolution recently placed a hand-
some bronze tablet, artistically designed and bearing
the appropriate inscription :

Here from 1781 to 1T88

dwelt

Gen. Rufus Putnam

soldier of the old French wars.

Engineer of the works

which compelled the British army

to evacuate Boston,

and the foriiticalions at West Point;

founder and father of Ohio.

In this house he planned and matured

tlie scheme of the Ohio company, and

from it issued the call for the convention

which led to its oieanization.

Over this threshold he went to lead

the company which settled Marietta April 7,

178f.

To him under God is owint' that the great

North West territory was dedicated forever to

P'reedom, Educaton and Religion, and

that the United btates of America is not a

great slave-holdiny empire-

BOWES FAMILY. William J. Bowes (i),
father of an enterprising and prosperous family at
Blackstone, Massachusetts, was born in Dublin, Ire-

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land, November 20. 1842, died at Blackstone, Massa-
chusetts, March i8, 1900. At the age of fourteen
years he emigrated to the United States, landing
in New York in 1856. He went to Boston a few
months later and finally located in Lawrence, Mas-
sachusetts. His scanty opportunities for school in
his native land wxrc supplemented in the public
schools of Lawrence. He started in his business
career as an operative in the Pacific Cotton Mills
and was in the employ of that corporation for two
years. He worked in the finishing department of
the Washington Mills at Lawrence and later in the
factory of Methuen Woolen Company, where he re-
mained for seven years. He became the superin-
tendent of the factory of the Lawrence Felting Com-
pany, was later advanced to the responsible posi-
tion of agent and became a stockholder in the cor-
poration. Some five years after he became a mem-
ber of the compan}', a plant was erected at Millville
in the town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, and in
1877 he removed to JMillville and took charge of the
mill. He remained the agent until 1893, when the
plant was sold to the United States Rubber Com-
pany, and under the new ownership he continued
to manage the mills. The mill manlifactures felt
of all kinds. The raw material comes from Boston,
New York and Philadelphia and the entire product
of the mills is used by rubber companies for lining
rubber boots.

Mr. Bowes was a director of the Woonsocket
Rubber Company for fourteen years. In religion
he was a Roman Catholic, an active member of St.
Augustine's Parish in Millville. The church bell
was his gift in memory of his parents and his
wife's parents. He was always active in public
affairs. In politics he was not a partisan, especially
independent in town matters. He was town treas-
urer, selectman, chairman of the commilttee on
building the new alms-house, and also on the com-
mittee to provide fire protection some years ago
when the facilities were inadequate.

Mr. Bowes had one of the finest residences in the
town, and as his sons married they have built resi-
dences near their father's, making an interesting
group of houses belonging to the family. The sons,
who have succeeded their father in the business
world, have established a high reputation for their
tactful and generous treatment of employees. At
the present time the felt mills employs several
hundred hands and the little village is exceedingly
prosperous.

Mr. Bowes married, in 1868, Elizabeth J. Kavan-
augh, daughter of Michael Kavanaugh, a native of
Ireland. She is a very capable and enterprising
woman, held in the highest esteem by all who know
her. Their children were; i. Robert J., born 1871,
married. October 27, 1897, Fanny J. Lanphere. 2.
Annie F., born 1874, married John J. McGovern. 3.
Mary C, born 1876, married T. T. Buckley. 4.
Michael J., born 1878, married Annie Bousquet and
they liave one child, Francis Bowes. 5. William
Joseph, Jr., born 1883. 6. Francis A., born 1884.
died at age of fifteen. 7. .\lphonsus L., adopted,
resides in Fall River.

DANIEL W. TAFT. of Uxbridge, is a de-
scendant in the seventh generation of Robert Taft.
an early settler in Mendon, and the line of descent
is through Robert (2), Israel (3). Jacob (4), Jacob
(5) and Orsmus (6) Taft. The descendants of
Robert the immigrant are numerous and widely
distributed throughout New England and the
western states. Many of them, however, are still
to be found in Mendon, Uxbridge, Westboro and
other Worcester county towns, and for further in-
iii — 9

formation relative to the early history of the fam-
ily the reader is referred to a sketch of Arthur
R. Taft, which appears upon another page fo this
work.

Jacob Taft, grandfather of Daniel, was in early
life engaged in farming in Mendon, his native town,
but later turned his attention to manufacturing.
His son Orsmus, Daniel W. Taft's father, was bnrn
in Mendon in 1795. In early manhood he identified
himself with the manufacturing interests of Ux-
bridge. and he resided there for the remainder of
his life, which terminated in 1880. He married
Margaret Smith and had a family of eleven chil-
dren.

Daniel W. Taft was born in Uxbridge. July
26. 1833. His education, which was begun in the
public schools, was concluded at the Worcester
Academy, and he subsequently took a position as
clerk in a dry-goods store in Worcester, remain-
ing there for five years. The succeeding ten years
he devoted to the manufacture of woolen goods in
Blackstone, this county, from whence he returned
to Uxbridge as manager of a woolen mill, and he
shortly afterward secured the control of that estab-
lishment, which he operated successfully on his
own account for fourteen years. He was subse-
quently for seventeen years engaged in the wool
goods business in Boston. In 1901 he withdrew
from active business pursuits, retiring to his pleasant
home in Uxbridge. He is, however, actively con-
cerned in the financial interests of Uxbridge, being
a director of the local National Bank. He was
formerly quite active in civic affairs, 'having served
upon the board of selectmen, and in 1887 repre-
sented Uxbridge in the lower branch of the state
legislature.

In 1856 Mr. Taft was united in marriage with
Henrietta Goulding. daughter of Eli Goulding, of
Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Taft had seven children,
four of whom died in infancy, and the surviving
children are: Jennie, widow of Henry Wheelock ;
Martha, wife of Edward Clapp, having two chil-
dren : and D. Wendell Taft, who married Mary
Wilcox and has two children. The family attend
the Unitarian Church.

ROBERT TAFT. This well-known Uxbridge
business man is a son of the late Dadbridge E.
Taft, and a descendant of Robert Taft, who immi-
grated from Ireland about the year 1660, settling
in Mendon in 1679 or So. Robert, who was ac-
companied by his five sons, built his house in the
vicinity of Taft's pond (now Mendon pond).

Samuel Taft. great-grandfather of Robert Taft,
the principal subject of this sketch, was a native
of Uxbridge and a prosperous farmer of that
town. For his first wife he married a Miss Mur-
dock. and his second marriage was with Experience
Hines.

Walter Taft, son of Samuel and Experience
(Hines) Taft. and grandfather of Robert Taft.
was born in L'xbridge in September, 1789. The
active period of his life was devoted to agriculture
and his death occurred in 1833. He was married
in 1821 to Mrs. Mary (Taft) Lake, a daughter of
Israel Taft. of L'pton, Massachusetts, and the widow
of Arby Lake. The children of this union were :
Samuel, Arby L., Lucy C, Dadbridge E., Mary
.•\.. Harriet M. and Sarah A.

Dadbridge E. Taft, father of Robert Taft. was
a life-long resident of L'xbridge, and like his an-
cestors acquired a comfortable prosperity as a
tiller of the soil. Fie was also engaged in the ice
business. He was a man of strict integrity and en-
joyed the good will of his fellow-townsmen. His

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wife was before marriage Abbie Whipple, also a
native of Uxbridge. She became the mother of
nine children. , , ■, , . i

Robert Taft was born at the family homestead
in Uxbridge, May 9. i87S- After the completion

five years, and being observing and quick to learn,
he soon mastered the intricacies of vehicle build-
ing, and in 1852 estalilishcd himself in business on
Canal street with George W. Wilder. There he
engaged in the manufacture of light carriages, and

of his studies, which were pursued in the public his busmess was ^highly successful from ^the outset
schools, he became associated with his father in ' -'"' '- ' ''

the ice business. After his father's death he suc-
ceeded to the business and subsequently admitted
his brother to partnership. He also deals quite
extensively in coal and carries on a farm. In
politics he is a Republican. His fraternal aflilia-
tions are with the Independent Order of Odd Bel-
lows. He attends the Congregational Church.

In 1900 Mr. Taft was united in marriage with
Mary E. Lovett, daughter of Samuel Lovett, of
Uxbridge. Mr. and Mrs. Taft have had three chil-
dren namely: Robert, Jr., who died in infancy;
Pearl E. and Dora M.

In i860 he purchased the business of his former
employer on School street, and from this date he
conducted the business on a broader scale, en-
gaging in the manufacture of all styles of vehicles.
He designed and built the first top-sleigh ever con-
structed in his region, and was one of the original
inventors of street water carts in the United States.
In 189s he completed one of the greatest inven-
tions that has ever been put on the market for ap-
plication to horse-drawn street sqrinklers. It is
a distributer of the water, covering twenty-five to
thirty feet in width, is simple, durable and com-
pact, and distributes the water directly downward

and upward at right angles with the length of the
GEORGE T AITCHISON, for many years one cart. This invention is looked upon as one of the
of the leading and substantial business men of most practical street sprinklers now used. Besides
Worcester Massachusetts, and an inventor and his carriage-making business, he conducts a large
manufacturer of carriages, was born July 5, 1827, and profitable repair and jobbing house. He owns
in Ossining New York. He is a son of William and occupies five buildings on School street. The

'• " ■ ■ '•'-' ^'-^ a:»„i,;.,„„ -,„ri ic a Hp- largest of these structures was built in 1896, is

made of brick and iron, four stories high, and
measures fifty by one hundred and thirty feet.
In addition to his other enterprises he is largely
interested in real estate, and owns much valuable
property in Worcester. Mr. Aitchison may well
look upon his business career as a highly success-
ful one. He is pre-eminently a self-made man.
Thrown upon his owmi resources when yet a child,
working among men many years his senior, and

H and Harriet (Thwaits) Aitchison, and is a de-
scendant of one of the oldest and leading families
of Glasgow, Scotland, and Leeds, England, re-
spectively. They emigrated to this county ; set-
tling in Ossining, New York, in 1824, where VViU-
iam Aitchison followed the occupation of merchant
tailor being very skillful and proficient in his trade.
Their children were : Ann, born in England in ibi8,
mow resides at Brooklyn, New York; John A., born

in England in 1819, now . lives in Ossining, New _ „ . , , ■ , k , • ^

York- William H., born in London in 1821, died being compelled to do a mans labor, he acquired

ness
to duty, close attention to details, fair business deal-
ing, and foresight and enterprise, constitutes the
secret of his success. He is a member of the
Worcester Agricultural Society, the Worcester
County Mechanics' Association, and in February,
1854, joined the Montacute branch of Masons. In
matters of religion, he accords with doctrines of
the Unitarian faith. Is a Republican and a strong

in Tarrytowai, New York, February 18, 1905; Mar- a courage of conviction and proper confidencf

tha L born in England in 1824, died in Ossining his own ability, which, taken with his faithful

about "1900; George T., of whom later; Abraham, - -'■— -' — ■- '- -^— = '" ^-.■- ^..-:-— -

born in Ossining in 1829; Harriet, born in Ossining

un 1831 ; Alfred, born 1833. in Ossmmg, died there
in iS'ss: Mary, born in Ossining in 1836, died in
Vineland, New Jersey, about 1880. The parents of
these children both died at the age of eighty-eight
years

George T. Aitchison obtained his education in , , n: , , -

the common schools of his native town, which he supporter of his party, but no office seeker. August
attended until he was fourteen years of age. He 29, 1852, Mr. Aitchison married Catherine Hen-
was then sent to Peru, Illinois, to become a civil rietta Case, a daughter of Zelah and Jeannette
engineer under Colonel Burnett, United States (Benton) Case. She died in September, 1901.
armv who surveyed the canal from Chicago, which June ig. IQ02, he married Elizabeth Ann Bartlett,
•was then but a small village with no railroads, to daughter of Soloman and Emeline (Parker)) Bart-
Peru along the Illinois river. George T. Aitchison lett, of Shrewsbury, who was born January 8, 1857.
tnvp'led most of the nine hundred miles journey

bv stage being able to travel from New York to O'NEILL FAMILY. The history of times, the

Ambov bv boat then on to Harrisburg, Pennsyl- events of men, and their characters, must ever be
vania by'rail Y'oung Mr. Aitchison remained in replete with interest and instruction. Chronicles
Illinois for some time, and while there won the of the great and the wise, the noble and the learned,
resncct and confidence of his employers, by the dili- are often presented to the world, and the military
eence and faithfulness with which he performed hero and chieftain finds everywhere his biographer.
the duties allotted to him. After he returned east We read of campaigns that his mind has traced out,
•lie was variously employed until about 1845, when of battles which his plans have won, and we for-
he entered into an apprenticeship with a carnage get, in our admiration of his skill and power, those
and stage builder in Newark, New Jersey. His by whom the heroic deeds were done and the victory
'- ■ ■ ■' -■--' ^^ ,-o-o;,.,.rl gained. "Generals." says one author, "oft^n calcu-

late upon men as though they were 'blocks of wood'
or 'movable machines.' " Yet every one of these
nameless soldiers has feelings just as acutely alive
to suffering and to honor as those who look upon
them thus. It is well sometimes to turn away from
the glare and tinsel of rank, from the glitter of

term of' indenture was three years, and he received
twenty-five dollars a year with board. After a few
months service young Aitchison was given piece
■work this kind of work being usually done by
older' and more experienced men. He was in-
dustrious and energetic, and soon won the reputa-
tion of doing more work than any man in the shop. , ,. , , . r „ ",
When he was twenty-one years of age he came arms and the pagentry of war. to follow the corn-
to Worcester Massachusetts, and was employed in mon soldier in his partings and wanderings, to cast
the shop of M. T. Breck, whose business was !o- the glance of pity upon his sufferings, and allow
cated on School street. Here he remained for the heart to be moved with compassion while re-

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garding the temptations which must ever beset his
path.

It is only thus that a true knowledge of the
evils and miseries of war can be obtained, and only
when this knowledge is spread far and wide, that
we may hope to see the banner of peace unfurled,
and the olive-branch waving in quiet, where now
the sword spreads its desolation, and the vulture
feasts on the unburied dead. The history of the
individual who bore the heat and burden of the
day, and played his part in the brunt of battle,
is too often lost sight of by an indulgent public
because lack of birth, of rank and fame has caused
his memory to fade into obscurity. Of the follow-
ing families much can be truthfully said that will
awaken the interest of their fellow-beings, and
perpetuate the lustre of that halo which rarely
fails to surround the victor's name, but which is
all too soon forgotten. For generations back the
ancestors of this family, as well as the sons of
today, were warriors of no little ability in the de-
fense of their respective countries, and won the
respect of all for the faithful discharge of their
personal duties.

Charles O'Neill, the ancestor, was born in Ire-
land about 1723, was a carpenter by trade, married
Alice McGee, -and six sons and five daughters were
born to them, five of whom died in infancy, and
among the surviving members were the following :
Arthur, born in Dundrflk, county Louth, Ireland.
October, 1785; John, born May 24, 1787, was killed
at Trafalgar under Nelson, October 21. 1805; James,
born in Ireland, May, 17S9 : Charles, Jr., born June
21, 1793, died June 16, 1852; and Thomas,

When all Europe resounded to the din of arms
and the glory of martial life, amid the confusion
of carnage and battle, when Napoleon, the mightiest
of Iieroes and conquerors, was ascending to the
zenith of his glory, when the crowned heads of
Europe were terrified by the magic power of his
name, and tried to save themselves and their
thrones, this family gave five of its sons. Arthur,
James, Charles, John, and Thomas, to their coun-
try's call, and joined the forces of Wellington.
Blucher and Nelson ; which forces later witnessed
the downfall of that mightiest of warriors
(Napoleon) on the field at Waterloo.

Arthur O'Neill enlisted in September, 1804. and
was assigned to duty under Nelson upon the sev-
enty-fourth gunship "Terrible," which prove its
name, and he was killed bj- a cannon ball, a few
months after enlisting, in an engagement which
took place near the coast of Holland, between his
Majesty's fleet and the French naval force.

Two years after the death of Arthur O'Neill',
bis brother, James, enlisted. This was in May,
1S06. He was assigned to the Royal army of George
IV, in the Ninety-sixth Regiment of foot. After
two years and seven months of service, in Decem-
ber, 1808, he was with Sir John Moore on his
retreat, and in July, 1809, was killed in the bloody
battle of Talavera.

After the death of Arthur and James! another
brother, Charles, resolved to take up arms against
the French and, consequently, in February. 1810. at
the age of seventeen years, enlisted at Belfast, Ire-
land, and was assigned to the Eighth Regiment of
foot, and after several enlistments, completed eight
years of service, being honorably discharged at
Chelsea. England, in 1818. at which time he was
under Colonel McCabe. The horrors of war first
presented themselves to this young recruit twelve
months after enlistment when, at Gibraltar, he re-
ceived three hundred lashes for not attending divine
services at the Church of England. The Duke of York

heard of his treatment, and upon investigation, find-
ing he was a Catholic, immediately issued an order
to allow "liberty of conscience" to the soldiers, to
worship as they saw fit, etc. This was in 1811,
and he was confined to the hospital for four months.
He saw service during the memorable Peninsular
war and the Continental Campaigns from 181 1 to
181 5; the bloody battle of Barossa, the memorable
seige of Badajos, and the historic battle of Water-
loo, which terminated with the overthrow of the
great and mighty Napoleon. In all of the above
battles he was an actor, but did not receive a wound
until on the field at Waterloo, when a ball penetrated
his left arm which rendered him practically help-
less. Not content to remain idle, he resolved to
continue his fighting, and had gone but a few hours,
when a second ball entered his right thigh, from
which he fell and was compelled to lie in the
spot where he fell all that day and night, into
the next day. or about thirty-six hours altogether,
until removed to the hospital at Brussels, where he
remained for several months, until the regiment was
transported back to England, receiving his dis-
charge as above stated. For twelve years follow-
ing Charles O'Neill remained at home in Ireland,
and in 1830 he petitioned the government to com-
mute his life pension, as he wished to sail for Amer-
ica. This the government allowed, and adjusted
his pension to a four-year settlement, payable in
advance, together with a clear deed for two hun-
dred and eighty acres of land in Upper Canada,
which he accepted, and then sailed for Quebec,
and in turn came to Worcester, Massachusetts,
where he died June 16, 1852. Prior to leaving
Ireland he married Bridget O'Riley, daughter of
Thomas and Mary (Collins) O'Riley, and had thir-
teen children, four of whom died in infancy. The
surviving members of the family were: John, born
March 27, 1828. died July 12. 1863; Arthur, born
February 10. 1831. died about 1892 ; Charles, born
April 12, 1832, died April 7, 1S98; Captain Thomas,
born August 17, 183s, died June 4, 1864; Mary,
born October 10, 1836 (living) ; Lieutenant James,
bnrn April 19, 1838 (living) ; Annie, born, 1840.
died June 4. 1875; Ellen, born, 1841, died, 1844;
and Catherine, born August 23. 1843 (living).
These children were all born in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts.

Of the above family volumes could be written,
for it is seldom, if ever, a family gives five sons
to its country's cause, and who distinguish them-
selves as have these five boys. When the w'ar of
the rebellion broke out they immediately responded
to the call of President Lincoln for 75.000 troops,
and enlisted at Worcester, INIassachusetts. Enlist-
ments as follows : John, the eldest son, enlisted
July. 1861. and was assigned as teamster in Com-
pany E. Twenty-fifth regiment, under his brother.
Captain "Tom." and received an honorable discharge
at close of the war ; Arthur, second eldest son,
enlisted. 1862. as private in Company E, Twenty-
fifth regiment, discharged honorably, 1865 : Charles,
the third son. saw more service than his other
brothers, as three years previous to the war of the
rebellion he enlisted in the United States navy,
entering the service in the fall of 1857. When the
war broke out, he enlisted this time in the army
with Company F. Nineteenth Infantry, as corporal,
in the fall. 1861, and was dischargee! honorably at
close of the war, 1865. He was twice wounded
but fully recovered. Captain "Tom" O'Neill, the
fourth son, was captain of Company E, Twenty-
fiftli regiment, and is known the country over for
his bravery and daring, also from the immortal
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quoted and requoted by eminent statesmen time
and time again, notably among whom was our own
beloved Senator, George Frisbie Hoar, who very
frequently remarked: "Let the dying words of our
brave Captain "Tom" O'Neill be emblazoned on
our Hag; teaeh them to bur children; instill them
upon the minds of our growing youth, and in the
time of need our country can look for the kind
of material needed to help it through its difficulties."
Captain "Tom" was shot through the abdomen at
the bloody battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864,
at five o'clock A. M., and died the following day,
June 4. 1864, at five o'clock A. M. The words of
the dying hero were : "Boys ! I am dying. Let the
Union flag be wrapped around me, and place a fold
of it under my head. Write to my dear mother,
and tell her 1 die for my country, and I only wish
that I had two lives to give." Not a dry eye could
be seen in that remnant of the regiment. The flag
was produced, and the brave and dying hero
tenderly kissed it, then, placing it to his bleeding
wound consecrated its folds with his life's blood.
His dying request was carried out, the flag was
wrapped around him, and with blood-stained prayer-
book in his hands, and a rosary, scapular, and
agnus dei around his neck the brave Captain
awaited the final call of his Maker, a hero in the
eyes of his country, and a Christian in the eyes
of God and man. His body was brought to Worces-
ter, where he was buried with full military honors,
June 13, 1864. It was attended by members of the
city government, all Irish societies, and a large
concourse of people. Escort duty was by the state
guards. The funeral mass was celebrated at St.
John's Catholic Church by the late Bishop P. T.
O'Reilly, then pastor of St. John's Church, and
obsequies at the cemetery were conducted by the
late Rev. John J. Power.

Captain "Tom" O'Neill attended the public
schools at Worcester. Massachusetts. When a mere
boy, possessing all the military ardor of his fam-
ily, he enlisted with the Jackson Guards, an Irish
military company of Worcester, remaining in that
organization until the disbandment by Governor
Gardner, January g, 1855. In 1861 the Emmet
Guards received a charter from the state, and
Thomas O'Neill attached himself to that organiza-
tion, was elected second lieutenant, and went to the
war as such. He returned after a three months'
enlistment, and immediately re-enlisted, returning
to the field of battle as captain of Company E,
Twenty-fifth regiment. The .^oth of October. 1861.
was made memorable by a visit^to Camp Lincoln
by Governor Andrew, accompanied by Colonels
Ritchie and John W. Wetherell. In the afternoon
His Excellency review the various regiments in the
presence of a multitude of people. After the review
the governor addressed the battalion, saying he had
seen all the regiments which the state had sent
to the field, but the Twenty-fifth was the hand-
somest one he had ever set his eyes upon, and was
composed of the noblest looking body of men he
had ever seen assembled in a body.

James O'Neill, the fifth son of this illustrious
family, enlisted July. i86r. in Company E, Twenty-
fifth regiment. United States Volunteers, as cor-
poral under his brother, Captain "Tom" O'Neill.
and went from Worcester to Annapolis, leaving that
city three months later and going to Roanoke
Island, with the Burnside expedition. He was
corporal of the color guard, and during the sick-
ness of the regular color bearer he took the colors
.•■nd carried them thrnueh the fight at Roanoke
Island and again at Newberne took the colors
through the figlit and was the first man to mount

the intrcnchment, planting the United States colors
on Fort Thompson, the rebel fort, for which dis-
tinction he was promoted to regimental color bearer,
with rank of sergeant. Continuing to serve his
country and his regiment with repeated distinctions,
his valuable services were very appropriately and
speedily recognized, and at Goldsboro, 1863, under
Major-General Foster, of the Ninth corps, he was
promoted to lieutenant. Having gone successfully
through a number of campaigns, he was yet to meet
the worst, the battle of Cold Harbor, the battle in
which his brother, Captain "Tom," together with
thousands of others lost their lives. Although he
never received a wound, he was not without hav-
ing experience with the horrors of war. and was
confined at the Chesapeake Hospital, at Fortress
Monroe while his brother. Captain "Tom," lay dead
on the field of battle. It was during these trying
hours that a fond mother, up North, was worry-
ing and weeping for her five sons, who were fight-
ing so bravely in the South for the cause of their
country.

Unable to stand the strain any longer, Mrs.
O'Neill instructed her youngest daughter, Catherine,
who was then but twenty-one years of age, to go
South and see "my loving boys." Although it was
heart-breaking to leave a loving and heart-broken
mother, this young girl, started on her sad errand,
little dreaming of the many obstacles that were to
confront her, this being her first trip away from
home. LTpon her arrival at Washington, she tried
hard and unsuccessfully to procure a passport to
Fortress Monroe, and was sternly informed that
"the office was closed yesterday, and no more pass-
ports will be given." After repeated refusals, she
determined to make one last and fervent effort,
and going up to the officer in charge, she said :
"Sir! please listen to my story, and then refuse me
if you will." The officer was kind to her, and
said: "What is it, my little girl?" She began by
saying: "Sir! my mother has given five sons to her
country, and one of them is lying at the point of
death in that hospital ; the fourth was killed at the
battle of Cold Harbor, and she (my mother) has
sent me here to see him before he dies." The of-
ficer was tenderly affected by her story and in-
quired who she was. and she replied, "I am a
sister to Captain "Tom" O'Neill. He was killed
three weeks ago at the battle of Cold Harbor, and
my other brother — " but before she had finished the
officer said : "Come with me, and I will give you
a 'general passport which will take you wherever
you want to go.' " After receiving the passport
she still had another obstacle to overcome, as it
was difficult to procure a boat, but at last she was
successful in getting aboard a collier, and after a
long, dreary all-night ride was landed at Fortress
Monroe the next morning. Upon inquiry at the
hospital for her brother, an attendant told her that
her brother, James, had just stepped out and would
return soon. This made her happy, but after a
half hour's wait the fellow returned, only to inform
licr that he was James O'Neill from a New York
regiment. Keenly disappointed, she then set out
to find her own brother James, and was success-
ful. He was deathly sick, and requested her to
stay with him until he was well. She did so,
staying three weeks, and nursing him. The pass-
port is now tenderly preserved by the surviving
members of the family, together with many other
relics of that memorable conflict. One relic in
particular is a sword presented to Captain "Tom"
bv the citizens of Worcester, and another, a vest
nocket prayer book, many leaves of which are
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succeeding twenty-four hours, after he received his
mortal wound, this prayer book, together with other
sacred rehes, was his constant companion and silent
adviser. In life and health his thoughts were of
Tiis country, as well as his Maker, and in his dying
hours, when health and strength both failed him,
his mind was with his God.

James O'Neill, after the war was over, estab-
lished a school for physical culture at Woods'
gymnasium, in New York city, which he conducted
for two years. He then accepted a position with
the New York Racquet and Tennis Club, remaining
for nineteen or twenty years. During this period
of time he was instructor to a large number of the
prominent citizens of New York, including James
Gordon Bennett. Herman Oelrichs and members of
the Vanderbilt family, all of whom were developed
under his supervision. As an athlete in various
branches, his fame was known not only in America,
but in the countries across the water. In 1875,
at Troy, New York, on Saratoga Lake, he made a
world's record in a single scull, which still holds
good, the time being twenty minutes nineteen and
one-half seconds for "dead" water, three miles
with a turn. In all of his boat races he was de-
feated but three times: his winnings include singles,
doubles, four-oared and six-oared races. Another
world's record of his is the "handlift" in dumb-
bells, lifting L.^ij pounds, three inches off the floor,
in a match against "Charlie" Foster. Still another
feat is that of lifting a dumb bell with one hand
(185 lbs.), from floor to full length over head,
while he himself weighed but 154 pounds. He mar-
ried Delia Covell, of Saratoga, New York, and
Tiad two children, one dying in infancy, and the
other. Bertha, born in New York city. May 29,
1867. She is a highly accomplished lady; she re-
ceived a convent and private school education at
New York, then went to Italy for four years, tak-
ing, with other studies, a complete course in music.
She is now a dramatic soprano, receiving her musi-
cal training from Madam Gillitie, of Milan. She
lias traveled extensively in Europe and North and
South America, having toured these continents with
the International Grand Opera company for several
years, bearing the role of star in such important
presentations as "Favorita," "Carmen," "Faust."
"Bohemian Girl," "Huguenots," "Mignon," "II
Trovatore." etc. Recently she gave up the stage
to join her husband, who is the owner of Sunset
ranch, one of the largest fruit-growing ranches in
•California, located at Dinuba. near Fresno, and con-
sists of six hundred and forty acres of land. Al-
though still a young woman (thirty-eight years of
age) she too, like her father and her uncles, her
grandfather and her granduncles, has seen con-
siderable of the "horrors of war," and is now the
possessor of a very costly girdle made from various
coins of the Republic of Argentine, South Amer-
ica, which was presented to her by the soldiers of
Bu€nos Ayres, Argentina, South America. The fol-
lowing is the free English translation of the in-
scription which is written in Spanish on the girdle :
"Presented to Mrs. Benito Nichols as a reward for
kindness to the soldiers in the time of war. We
shall always be under obligation to her and shall
always hope for her prosperity and happiness.
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, .S. A." This reward of
merit came as a recognition of her services dur-
ing the revolution of i8go in Argentina. At that
time she was residing in a modern two-story house,
occupying the upper story. In the lower story
lived the vice-consul of Belgium. The house faced
on a square where the insurrection broke out. and
in less than a fortnight over eight hundred soldiers

were killed, and more than that number wounded.
Grasping the situation at the very start, Mrs.
Nichols turned to her home into a veritable hospital,
and tenderly cared for the wounded and dying,
bestowing upon each, care and devotion, and her
services were recognized by the presentation of the
above girdle, with the inscription. During this
battle Mrs. Nichols was shot in the fleshy part of
the arm. from a stray bullet, while caring for the
wounded on the street, but she recovered in time.
Mrs. Nichols is thoroughly versed in several
languages, and fluent in Italian, French,' Spanish,
German, Portugese and her own native tongue,
English. She married Benito Nichols, son of John

and Nichols, of Randolph, Vermont, the

former named being a judge of the supreme court
of Randolph, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Benito
Nichols, who reside in California, are the parents
of one child, George B. Nichols, born 1887.

Catherine (O'Neill) Kane, the youngest mem-
ber of this illustrious family, was born August 23,
1843, at Worcester, Massachusetts. She received
a public school education. She married Owen M.
Kane, July 29, 1873, and their children are : Mary
B., born September 20, 1874: received her educa-
tion in private schools in Connecticut ; graduated
from the convent on Vernon street, Worcester,
Massachusetts, taking a special course in music;
resides at home with her mother ; James M., born
December 12, 1875. died January 12, 1876; Eugene
J., born July 30, 1877 : educated in the Worcester
public schools, going thence to work in the Steel
& Wire Company, and by close application and at-
tention to his duties has risen rapidly, and now
holds the responsible position of foreman in the
Ensley Mills in Alabama: Annie T., born July 30,
1S7S. received her education in the Worcester pub-
lic and high schools, graduating from the latter
in the class of 1897 ; resides at home with her
mother; Katherine A., born January 11, 1880, died
November 18, 18S3 ; Charles M., born November
23. 1883 : graduated from the Worcester public
schools, going thence to work in the Steel & Wire
Company, where he too. has advanced rapidly, hold-
ing the responsible position of stocktaker ; Catherine
J., born September 30. 1886: educated in the
Worcester public and high schools, graduating from
the latter in the class of 1905 ; resides at home with
her mother.

THOMAS WALTER HOWE. John Howe, the
immigrant ancestor of Thomas Walter Howe, of
Holden, Massachusetts, was born in England and
is said to have been son of John How, of War-
w'ickshire, descendant of John How, of Hodinhall.
LTntil a comparatively recent date the name has
been spelled How. John Howe settled in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, as early as 1639. He was one of the
petitioners for the Marlboro grarrt in 1657. He was
admitted a freeman in 1640, was selectman of Sud-
bury, 1642, was appointed on committees there. He
removed to Marlhoro in 1657 and was the iirst set-
tler. He died there in 1680. His wife Mary died
about 1687. Their children: i. John, born August 24,
1640, see forward. 2. Samuel, born October 20,
1642, married, June 5, 1663, Martha Bent. 3. Sarah,
born September 25. 1644, married. June. 1667. Sam-
uel Ward. 4. Mary, born June 18, 1646, died 1647.
5. Isaac, born August 8. 1648, married. June 17,
1671. Frances Wood. 6. Josiah, married. March 18,
1671, Mary Haynes, of Sudbury. 7. Mary, born
January 18, 1654. married, September 18, 1672, John
Witherbee. 8. Thomas, born June 12, 1656. mar-
ried Sarah Hosmer; (second) Mary Barran. 9.
Daniel, born June 3, 1658, died young. 10. Alex-

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ander, born December 29, 1661, died the January
following. II. Eleazcr, born January iS, 1662, mar-
ried, 1683, Hannah How, daughter of Abraham
How.

(H) John Howe, son of John Howe (i), was
born August 24, 1640. He married, January 22,

1662, Elizabeth and settled in Marlboro where

his three children were born. He was killed during
King Philip's war by the Indians, April 20, 1076,
at Sudbury. His "housings" were also destroyed by
the enemy. The children: i. John, born Septem-
ber 9, 1O71, see forward. 2. David, born April 9,

1674, died same year. 3. Elizabeth, born July lO,

1675, married, June 23, 1699, Thomas Keycs. In
1692 she was taken captive by Indians at the time
the family of Peter Joslin, where she was visiting,
were slain; she was redeemed after three or four
years of captivity; she died August 18, 1764, aged
eighty-nine years.

(HI) John Howe, son of John Howe (2), was
born in Marlboro, September 9, 1671. He married

Rebecca , who died September 22, 1731. He

married (second), June 18, 1740, Ruth Eager. His
will mentions all his children, as given below. The
children, born at Marlboro, were: i. Peter, born
May 8, 1695, see forward. 2. John, born July 16, 1697,
married, 1724, Thankful Bigclovv. 3. Sarah, born
July 12, 1699, married Pelatiah Rice. 4. Ebenezer,
born May i, 1701, died in the army. 5. Rebecca,
born March 19, 1703, married, 1728, John Bigelow.
6. Mary, born July 24, 1705, died 1724. 7. Hannah,
born November 20, 1706, married Jacob Rice. 8.
Seth, born April 13, 1708, married Mary Morse. 9.
Elizabeth, born September 13, 1710, married, July
31, 1732, Matthew Howe. 10. Eunice, born July
22, 1712, married John Sherman, of Grafton. 11.
Dorothy, born January 31, 1715, married, February
4. 1735. Joseph Perry.

(IV) Peter Howe, son of John Howe (3),
was born at Marlboro, May 8, 1095. He married,
March 26, 1747, Mary Smith, who died June 4, 1806.
He and his son William bought land in Gerry (now
Petersham) in 1791. The children : I. Lovell, born
May 17, 1756, married (second) Nabby Parker. 2.
Ebenezer, born January 12, 1761. 3. John, born
June 4, 1763. 4. Lucy, born December 17, 1765. 5.
William, born April 3, 1768, see forward. 6. Levi,
born July I, 1777.

(V) William Howe, son of Peter Howe (4),
was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts. April 12,
1790, Joseph Howe, of Marlboro, deeded land to
him in the eastern part of Bolton. This is believed
to be the William Howe who settled in Princeton.
He was a carpenter by trade and made coffins for
all the towns in the vicinity. Among his children
were: i. Israel, died December 25, 1847; his wife
Sally made her will November 14, 1857. 2. Daniel.
3. William, see forward.

(VI) William Howe, son of William Howe
(5), was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, about
1790. He was brought up on his father's farm, the
old Dodge place, and was educated in the district
schools of his native place. When a young man he
learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for
more than fifty years. He was in business as a car-
penter and builder in Princeton and Sterling. He
was of good physique and strong constitution and
used to take a heavy tool box on his back and carry
it five or six miles to work. About i8jo he removed
to Leominster and built his home there. After
moving he worked for a number of years for .A.llcn
& Litchfield of Leominster. He nearly lost his
hand in an accident while using the circular saw,
and the injury incapacitated him for follov.-ing his
trade. He lived in Leominster until his death, Jan-

uary 9, 1866. He was a member of the Baptist
Church of Princeton and was deacon for many
years. He worked on the church when it was build-
ing and contributed generously to the building fund.
He was extremely religious and devout and he
brought up his children according to the old-fash-
ioned ideas of religious faith and practice. In poli-
tics he was a Whig and Free Soilcr. He trained
with the early militia company. In his early days-
he was a Free Mason, but finally withdrew, as-
Masonry was being savagely attacked and he felt
that his church associations were more important
than his Masonry.

He married (first) Eunice Robbins, March 27,
i8ii. Their children: i. Eunice Carter, born at
Princeton, August 23, 1812, died June 4, 1900; mar-
ried, November 28, 1833, Frederick Parker, born in
Princeton, June 19, 1810; their children — i. Charles
William Parker, born February I, 1837, married,
October 12, 1859, Inez Bullard, of Littleton, New
Hampshire, (and had Charles Frederick Parker, born
March 25, 1863, died September 13, 1863) ; ii. Amos
Milton, born September, born September 12, 1839^
married (first) Anna J. Frizzell, of Norwich, Con-
necticut, (and they have — Frederick Melville, born
December 20, 1863, married, July 13, 1892, Kittie
H. Cranston, of Bellefontaine, Ohio; Henry Wal-
ford, born April 2, 1868, died August 27, 1868;
Henry Nichols, born June 3, 1872, married, April
20, 1S98, Carrie E. Parker, of Champaign, Illinois,
and have daughter, Helen Hamilton, Ijorn February
7, 1899) ; Amos Milton Parker married (second),
September 18, 1889, Esther A. Holt, of Denmark,
Maine ; iii. Henry A. Parker, born June 12, 1843,
died June 6, 1862; iv. Eunice Hannah, born July S,
1851, married, October 22, 1889, Levi Cushman, of
Buckfield, Maine. 2. Adeline, born September 2,
1814, died October 6, 1890; married, May 14, 1863,
William A. Joslin, of Rindge, New Hampshire, and
had children — i. Sarah Hill, born December 18,-
1845, at Boston, died January, 1867 ; married, No-
vember 15, 1866, Vernon Woodward, of East
Thompson, Connecticut ; ii. William Albert, born at
Chelsea, January 10, 1847, married, June i, 1871,
Alice Howe, of Bethel, Maine, (and had Grace
Eleanor, born March 18, 1872; Florence Elizabeth,,
born June 4, 1875, a'ld Mary Alice, born August
28, 1883, died September l, 1889) ; iii. Laura Jane,
born Chelsea, August 4, 1850, married, October 4,
1870, George Bruce, of Leominster, and had Waldo
Arvine, born October 4, 1872; iv. Adeline, born
January 29, 1854, died May 19, 1856. 3. Israel, born
April 29, 1817, died iSIarch 21, 1893, at Hartford,
Connecticut; married, November 16, 1841, Deborah
M. Parker, born September 9, 1879, died March 12,
1889 (and had — Ella R., born December 12, 1848,.
married Benjamin W. Kcnyon and, had Addie, born
June 16, 1880, married, October 18, 1899, Burton
Bartlett). 4. William, born October 14, 1819, mar-
ried, June 8, 1848, Parmelia Everett; he died at Mill-
bury, October 29, 1S94 ; children — i. George W., born
June 14, 1849, died Xovember 9, 1869; ii. Charles
M., born August 28, 1851, died November 7, 1891 ;
married. May 5, 1885, Fanny D. Lord, of Kingfield,
Maine (and had: — ^James L., born May 24, 1887;
Charles William, born August 6, 1888) ; iii. Alberta
E., born October 27, 1853, died August 20. 1808;
iv. Israel Everett, born Alarch 19, 1856; v. Norena
P., born June 9, 1858, died .■\pril 20, 1879; vi. Minnie
E., born January 26, 1868. died January 31, 1887.

5. Thomas R., born September 30, 1821, see forward.

6. Charles S., born November 11, 1823, died January
3, 1824. 7. Charles S., born December 8, 1824. died
November 3, 1853, at Leominster. 8. Milton Keys,.
born September 7, 1827, married (first), April 12,

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1854, Mary Louisa Walker, of West Boylstoii, born
February 24, 1824, died Septen;ber 30, 1862, (and
they had — i. Edgar Parker, born June 19, 1855; ii.
Walter Arvine, born August 25, 1858, died April 6,
1863) ; Milton Keyes, married (second), November
24, 1864, Sarah Ann Parker, born March 14, 1839
(and had : iii. Mary Louise, born November 6, 1868,
died September 16, 1869).

(VII) Thomas R. Howe, son of William Howe
(6), was born at Princeton, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 30, 1821. He was educated in the common
schools of Princeton. At the age of fourteen he
started to learn the carpenters trade with his father
and worked with him for a number of years, becom-
ing a proficient craftsman. He decided to seek a
larger field and moved to Worcester in the fifties
and entered the employ of R. Ball & Company, man-
ufacturers of wood-working machinery. Union street,
where he worked for a number of years, and when
the firm removed to new quarters on Grove street,
where the Hobbs Manufacturing Company is now
located, he continued with the firm. He was also
employed by Contractor Ross in building the Eyrie
at Lake Quinsigamond. He also was employed by
H. W. Eddy, contractor and builder. He bought
his farm at Holden and moved there July 4, 1867, but
continued to work at his trade in Worcester. Later
he devoted his attention to his farm and to car-
pentering in Holden until his death, July 3, 1904.
He was a Baptist in religion and a Republican in
politics. He was overseer of the poor and highway
surveyor of the town.

He married, June 8, 1858, Lucy Maria Parker,
born in Princeton, November 8, 183S, daughter of
Charles Augustus and Sylvia (Moore) Parker, of
Princeton. Her father was a miller and manufact-
urer. The children : i. Waldo Emerson, born in
Worcester, May 13, 1859, died October 27, 1865. 2.
Thomas Walter, born October 17, 1866, see forward.

(Vni) Thomas Walter Howe, son of Thomas
R. Howe (7), was born in Worcester, October 17,
1866. He went with his parents to live in Holden
when he was an infant and he received his education
there, graduating from the high school in 1884.
During his school days and for a year afterward he
worked on his father's farm, taking charge of it
after leaving school at the age of eighteen. He then
went to work in Worcester as clerk in the hard-
ware store of White & Conant. After a few years
he accepted a position with the E. T. Smith Com-
pany, wholesale grocers, Sumner street, and re-
mained with them about seven years. He was head
shipping clerk for three years. He finally decided
that he preferred farming to trade and assisted his
father on the farm until he died in 1904. He has
conducted the farm alone since then. It is situated
in the south part of the town on Salisbury street and
comprises about a hundred acres. It was formerly
called the Tilly Cliaft'in farm. In religion he is a
Congregationalist ; in politics a Republican and has
been often a delegate to nominating conventions of.
his party. He is on the board of overseers of the
poor and member of the school committee. He is
a member of Holden Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
No. 78, and was its master for two years. He was
a member of Quinsigamond Tribe of Red Men,
Worcester, and filled various chairs in that body.

He married, June 7, 1893, Maud Elima Graham,
born November 4, 1871, daugliter of George S. and
Martha (Lewis) Graham, of Townsend, Massachu-
setts. Her father is a fanner. The children : i.
Alice Gertrude, born August 6, 1894. 2. Edith
Marion, born May 27, 1896. 3. Clifford Parker,
born January 28, 1898. 4. Mildred Evelyn, born
March 5, 1903.

JAMES H. BRAMAN. The immigrant ances-
tors of the Bramans came from England about the
middle of the seventeenth century and settled in
Massachusetts. In the early records the name is
spelled Beamont, Beament, Beman and Braman, but
the latter form of spelling has long been universally
adhered to. The Bramans of Worcester county are
the descendants of Gamaliel Braman, who was the
first white settler in what is now the town of Sterl-
ing, going there as early as the year 1720, but,
owing to the obscurity of the records relative to his
descendants, the writer is unable to establish with
certainty James II. Braman's full line of descent.
His grandfather was Gardner Braman, and his
parents, Henry A. and Cordelia C. (Rcardon) Bra-
man, who resided in Providence, Rhode Island,
reared two children, of whom James H. was the
eldest.

James H. Braman was born in Providence,
Rhode Island, in 1849. He acquired his education in .
the public schools of his native city and learned
the trade of silversmith. He followed that occupa-
tion as a journeyman continuously for a period of
thirty-five years, chiefly in Providence, Rhode
Island, and was well and favorably known in that
city as an expert artisan. He at length found it
advisable to relinquish the close confinement to
which his calling had so long subjected him, and re-
moving to Petersham he turned his attention to agri-
culture. He owns a well located and exceedingly
productive farm of one hundred and fifteen acres,
which he is carrying on with profitable results, and in
spite of the arduous character of his new occupa-
tion he derives both pleasure and benefit from the
independent and invigorating mode of life. In piol-
itics he is a Democrat with independent proclivities,
preferring to support such candidates as are in his
estimation the best qualified bv ability and personal
character to hold public office.

Mr. Braman married for his first wife Ruth
Thomas, a native of Maine, and she died leaving
no children. For his second wife he married Mrs.
Ervinia R. Jilay (nee Emerson), daughter of Wins-
low and Abbie K. (Groton) Emerson. By her
former marriage Mrs. Braman has one son, Edwin
N. May, who was born January 12, 1885. He is
residing with his mother and stepfather in
Petersham.

FRANKLIN HORATIO GODDARD. Edward
Goddard (i). father of the immigrant ancestor of
Franklin Horatio Goddard, of Royalston, Massa-
chusetts, was a wealthy farmer of Ingleshani, Nor-
folk county, England. During the civil war in Eng-
land his house was demolished by the Cavaliers, as
he sided with the Puritans, and he lost most of
his property. He married Priscilla D'Oyley. They
had twelve children grow to maturity, viz. : Richard,
baptized June 3, 1625 ; William, baptized February
25, 1627, see forward ; Josiah, baptized March 30,
1630; Benjamin, born March 20, 1631 : John, Ed-
ward, James, Vincent, Thomas, and three daugh-
ters. Sedgwick, Rathband and one unknown, one
of whom married Alderman King and her son re-
sided in Boston.

(II) William Goddard. son of Edward God-
dard (l), was baptized in Inglesham. England, Feb-
ruary 28, 1627. He traded in wholesale groceries,
but is said to have lived beyond his means and
lost his fortune. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Foot,
had lent a hundred pounds to her brother in New
England and she gave the debt to Goddard who
came over to collect it. He found nothing but
mortgaged real estate. As the plague was raging
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and the following year, 1666, brought over his wife
and three sons. They settled in VVatertown, Massa-
chusetts, were admitted to full connnunion in the
church there January 8, 1687-88. He was admitted
a freeman December. 1677. He died October 6,
l6gi. He was a teacher of English and Latin in
addition to his farming. He married Elizabelh
Miles, who died about 1697, daughter of Benjamin
Miles. Her mother's third husband left them a
legacy of four hundred pounds. Three of their si.\
children born in England died there. The children
were: William, Jr., born in London, 1653, married,
December 10, 1685, Leah Fisher, of Sherborn ; Jo-
seph, born in London, 1655, died in Brookline, July
25, 1728, aged seventy-three years; Robert, born in
London, a weaver, married, February 23, 1713-14,
Elizabeth Shattuck ; Thomas, born at Watertown,
June 8. 1667, died July 9. 1667; Benjamin, born
August 17, 1668, admitted full communion at Water-
town church, July 31, 1687; Elizabeth, born Janu-
ary 22, 1670-71 ; Josiah, born in Watertown, mar-
ried, January 28, 1695-96; Rachel Davis, of Rox-
bury; she died .-Xpril 23. 1740, he died November
14, 1720; Edward, born March 24, 1674, see for-
ward.

(HI) Edward Goddard, son of William God-
dard (2), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,
« March 24, 1674-75. He was admitted to full com-

munion in the church, April 27, 1701. He resided
in Watertown and was school master there from
April 12, 1697, to about 1707, when he moved to
Boston to teach school there. He went to Fram-
ingham as schoolmaster. March 25, 1714, and was
admitted to the church there by letter. April 9,
1718. He was elected deacon April 14, 1725, but
declined the office. He was several times the mes-
senger of the church to ecclesiastical councils, and
took a prominent part in both civil and religious
. affairs of the town of Framingham. He was town
clerk in 1720 and for twenty years afterward, and
left proof on the records of his beautiful penman-
ship. He was selectman for ten years, treasurer
two and deputy to the general court eight years
after 1724. He was justice of the peace, and in
173.3 was chosen to His Majesty's council, in w^hich
he served three years. He was lieutenant and after-
ward captain of the troop. He was the local magis-
trate and was skilled in drawing conveyances and
other legal papers. In religious opinions He was a
Calyinist. He and others withdrew from Mr.
Swift's church without dismission and were re-
ceived in the Hopkinton Church, January 13,
_«7'^2 :^3. He was afterward instrumental in plant-
ing the second church in Framingham. but after
liis death it declined and finally ceased to exist.
He was a ready writer and many of his manu-
scripts of sermons, journals and papers have been
preserved. He published some controversial papers.
He was a zealous and decided man of undoubted
integrity and possessed considerable talent, exer-
cised chiefly in theological research. He was a per-
haps more strenuous as a defender of religious free-
dom than as an advocate of religious toleration
and Christian harmony. He had many friends,
among whom were Rev. Mr. Bridge, of the First
Church. Boston ; Rev. Dr. Prince and Secretary
Willard. An interesting notice of his death was
published in the Boston Gacelte, February 16, 1754.
(See also Alden's Collections ni-40.) He died
February 9, 1754. aged seventy-eight years, ten
months, four days.

He married. June. T697, Susanna Stone, of New-
ton. She died February 4, 1754. aged seventy-eight
years, two months, during the "Great Sickness."
The old farm at Framingham is the one now or

lately occupied by William Temple, and Barry states
that the cellar hole is still in evidence. The chil-
dren : I. Edward, born May 4, i<)98, married Hepzi-
bali Hapgood, and died at Shrewsbury, 1777. 2.
Susanna, born February 25, 1699- 1700. married at
Framingham, May 21, 1719, John Drury; (second)
Joseph Haven, December 5, 1760; resided at Fram-
ingham and Athol. 3. Simon, born F'ebruary 18,
1701-02, see forward. 4. Benjamin, born August
15. 1704. married Grace Fisk, of Shrewsbury. 5.
David, born September 26, 1706, graduate of Har-
vard, 1731. married Mercy Stone, of Watertown,
.Vugust I, 1736; (second) Mrs. Martha Nichols,
of Framingham, December 20, 1753 ; ordained at
Leicester, June 30, 1736; died January 19, 1764,
and widow married Deacon Daniel Stone, of Fram-
ingham. 6. William, born March 22, 1708-09, died
June 6, following. ' 7. Mary, born June 4, died Au-
gust 5, 171 1. 8. Ebenezer, born November 12. died
December 24, 1713. 9. Ebenezer, born in Boston,
January 7, 1713-14. 10. William, born in Framing-
ham, December 10, died December 17, 1720. II.
Hepzibah, born in Framingham, May 8, 1723.

(IV) Simon Goddard, son of Edward (Joddard
(3), was born February 18, 1701-02, died Novem-
ber 3, 1758. aged fifty-six years. He belonged to
the Hopkinton Church when he settled in Shrews-
bury, about 1731, although his home had been in
Framingham. He had a farm southwest of the
meeting house in Shrewsbury, near where the Bap-
tist Church once stood. He married Susannah
Cloyes, of Framingham, November 2, 1727. She
died at Athol, where some of her family settled,
November. 1798. aged ninety-four years. Their
children : Edward, born 1729, died September 19,
1742, aged thirteen years: Susanna, born July 28,
1731. baptized next month in Shrewsbury, died Au-
gust 8. 1740: Simon. Jr.. born March 11, 1734, died
1735: Martha, born December 29, 1735. died 1740;
Simon, Jr., born June 4, 1738, died 1740; Elizabeth,
May 27, 1740, married James Goddard. of Athol,
June 24, 1767. died May 30, 1807: Simon, Jr., born
March 29. 1742: Edward, born March 15, 1744;
Josiah. born December 25, 1745, see forward ;
Susanna, born January 18, 1748, died unmarried
at Athol.

(V) Josiah Goddard, son of Simon Goddard
(4), was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, De-
cember 25, 1745. He settled in Athol. Massachu-
setts. He married Ruth Raymond. November 8,
1774, at Athol. He became a prominent citizen,
was magistrate, coroner and representative to the
general court. He was a prosperous farmer. He
died at .'\thol, October 23, 1801. All that remains
of his house is the cellar hole. The children:
Henry. Nathan. Susannah, baptized at Royalston,
May 12. 1787: Sally, Nahum. Ashbel, see forward;
Eber. Daniel. Rhoda, Nabby.

(VI) Ashbel Goddard. son of Josiah Goddard
(5), was born in Athol, Massachusetts, about 1787.
He married at Royalston, November 21, 1810, Bet-
sey Pierce. He followed his father's occupation
and was a well-to-do farmer of Royalston. His
children, all born at Royalston. were: Saltv. born
March 21. 1812: Royal. January 8. 1814; Charles,
November 19, 1S15: Mary Ann, June 2, 1818;
George Nelson. Fcbruarv 18. 1821 ; Elizabeth. Sep-
tember I, 1825: Franklin Horatio. November 25,
1828. see forward; William Bailey, July 13, 1832.

(VII) Franklin Horatio Goddard, son of .Ash-
bel Goddard (6). was born in Royalston, Massa-
setts. November 25. 1828. He was educated in the
public schools of his native town and at Royals-
ton Academy. When not in school he worked on
his father's farm and in winter in the manu-

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facture of straw for hats. When a young man he
left home and went to St. Louis, where he en-
gaged in manufacturing. In the trying period just
before the civil war, when feeling ran high and
outbreaks were frequent, he enlisted in the citizen
militia under General John C. Fremont and took
an active part in the brief struggle which really
kept .the state of Missouri in the Union when the
secession sentiment seemed about to win. He was
a prisoner of war in St. Louis for a short time.
While in the west Mr. Goddard taught school for
a short time. He returned to Royalston to live.
In politics he is a radical Republican and has
taken an active part in Royalston town affairs. For
many years he was highway surveyor, but retired
on acount of deafness, and is at present living on
his farm, retired from active business. He is an
active and exemplary inember of the Congregational
Church and the order of Good Templars, being an
earnest temperance worker.

He married Sarah Mellen. of Nashua, New
Hampshire. He married (second), August 24,
1898, Ada Smith, daughter of Levi G. Smith, of
Winchendon. She was born in Winchendon, April

3, 1858. No children were born to either marriage.

TIMOTHY HATHAWAY SPOONER. of
Barre, is a son of Grover Spooner. and a grandson
of Zephaniah Spooner, of Hardwick. His great-
grandfather was Amaziah Spooner, son of Samuel.
Samuel Spooner was a son of Samuel and the lat-
ter was a son of William Spooner, of Plymouth,
who was in all probability the original American
ancestor of the family.

William Spooner, who was residing in Plymouth
as early at 1637, married twice, first to Elizabeth
Partridge, who died April 28, 164S, and second to
Hannah, daughter of Joshua Pratt, March 18, 1652.
He removed to Dartmouth about the year 1660,
settling in that part of the town which is now
Acushnet, and his death occurred there in 1684.
Plis children were: John, Sarah, Samuel, Martha,
William, Isaac, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer.

Samuel Spooner, son of William and Hannah
Spooner, was born in Plymouth, January 4, 1655,
died in Dartmouth, 1739. He was a weaver. In
1680 and 1684 he served as constable in Dartmouth.
The maiden name of his wife was Experience Wing,
and his children were: William, Iilary, Samuel,
Daniel, Seth, Hannah, "Joshop" (perhaps Shear-
jashub), Anna, Experience, Beulah and Wing.

Samuel Spooner, son of Samuel and Experience
Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, February

4, 1692-93. and died in 1781. He was a farmer
and a lifelong resident of Dartmouth. He was
married for the first time April 10, 1717, to Re-
becca Weston, who died January 28, 1728. and on
March 8, 1729, he married for his second wife Deb-
orah, daughter of Isaac Pope. The children of
his first union were : Elnathan, Abigail, Seth and
Amaziah.

Amaziah Spooner. son of Samuel and Rebecca
Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, May 15. 1724.
He was one of the early settlers in Hardwick. going
there from Dartmouth some ten years after its
incorporation (1737), and he lucatcd on the north
side of the turnpike, just west of Muddy brook. He
survived the revolutionary period, witnessing the
successful establishment of republican institutions,
and his death occurred July 8, 1798. On February
28. 1749-50, he married Lydia Fay, daughter of Dea-
con James Fay, of Hardwick, and w-as the father
of Lydia, Samuel, Charles, Rebecca, Thomas.
Zephaniah, Lucy, Elizabeth, Hannah and Seth. The

mother lived to be eighty-seven years old and died
August 10, 1817.

Zephaniah Spooner, son of Amaziah and Lydia
Spooner, was born in Hardwick, October i, 1753,
and resided there his entire life, which terminated
June 13, 1810. He married Sally Church, November
5, 1789, and she died August 30, 1833, aged sixty-
eight years. The children of Zephaniah and Sally
(Church) Spooner were: Bradford, Barnabas,
Grover and Charles C.

Grover Spooner, son of Zephaniah Spooner, and
the father of Timothy H. Spooner, was born in
Hardwick, May 19, 1798. He was a cabinet maker
and settling in Barre he followed his trade there
until his death, which occurred August 19, 1858.
He married. May 28, 1829, Ruth Hathaway, daugh-
ter of Timothy Hathaway. She became the mother
of three sons, namely : Charles, Timothy and
Lucius. Mrs. Ruth Spooner died October 17, 1894.

Timothy Hathaway Spooner was born in Barre,
October 6, 1837. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town, including the high school,
and from early manhood to the present time he has
carried on the furniture and undertaking business
with prosperous results. Mr. Spooner was made a
i\Iason in Mount Zion Lodge in 1867 and is well
advanced in the order, being a member of the Royal
Arch Chapter, Athol Commandery, Knights Temp-
lar, and Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine.

He married (first) Flora Johnson, from whom
he was divorced, and they had one child, Grace
Lillian, born April 15, 1866, wife of F. E. Will-
iams. For his second wife he married his second
cousin, Harriet A. Hathaway, who bore him two
daughters, namely : Maude Ruth, born May 17,
1880, residing at home ; and Belle Eleanor, born
September 29, 1884, now attending the State Normal
school at Westfield, Massachusetts, preparatory to
engaging in educational pursuits.

MAURICE MAYNARD, a retired real estate
broker of Webster, Worcester county, Massachu-
setts, was born in Marysville, Connecticut, Decem-
ber 9, 1848, son of Maurice and Onasime ( Maynard)
Maynard, and grandson of Joseph Maynard, who
was born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, and died
in Marysville. Connectucut, previous to 1848.

Maurice Maynard, Sr., son of Joseph Maynard,
was a native of Marysville, Connecticut, born Alarch
27, 1820. His wife was Onasime Maynard, who
was born February 25, 1827. She bore him thir-
teen children, among them being Maurice, Jr. Mr.
Maynard died December 10, 1890, and his wife
survives, living in Wauregan. Connecticut.

Maurice Maynard attended the common schools
of his native place until he was thirteen years of
age, when he learned the trade of tanner. In 1867
he moved to Danielsonville, Connecticut, remaining
there for four years. His next removal was to
Webster, Massachusetts, where he found employ-
ment as clerk in a general store, continuing there
until 1877. He then decided to engage in business
on his own account, and accordingly opened a
bakery, which he conducted with much success for
sixteen years, when he turned his attention to real
estate. He is now living a retired life in Webster.
He may well look upon his business career as one
of the most gratifying success. His educational
advantages were meager, but being naturally ob-
serving and ambitious to learn, he soon became well
informed, and the rare energy and determination
with which he performed all his duties soon won
for him an enviable place in the ranks of success-
ful men. He is a supporter of the Democratic party.

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but takes no active interest in party affairs. In
1890 he served his town as selectman. He and his
family are members of the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church. Mr. Maynard was one of the founders
of St. Jean Bapliste Society of Webster, and its
president for twelve years. He is one of the board
of trustees of Webster Savings Dank.

December 25, 1871, Maurice Maynard was united
in marriage to Delia Woisard, dau.nlUer of Clothilda
(Maellot) Woisard, of Louiscville, Province of
Quebec, who was born December 16, 1850. Their
children were : I. Eda, born November 30, 187-',
died January 7, 1875. 2. Elnora, born November 27,
1874, a graduate of the Ascension Academy, Juliette,
Connecticut; married A. J. Riendeau, of Webster,
September 3, 1893; they have five children, Urban,
born July 26, 1894; Fernand, September 6, 1895;
Nympha, November 25, 1896, died August 7, 1897 ;
Adelard, August 16, 1898; Yolande, July 16. 1901.
3. Oscar, born December 25, 1876, died December
29, 1876. 4. Maurice, born April 8, 1878, died March
21,. 1883. 5. Adelia, born November 16, 1880, mar-
ried, February 16, 1903, Joseph Chabot, of Webster ;
two children, Roland and Juliette. 6. Joseph A.,
born December 6, 1882, died August 5, 1903. 7.
Norbertha, born October 11, 1884, died February 6,
1887. 8. Aline, born July 16, 1887. 9. Leopold,
May 25, 1894.

THE PEABODY FAMILY is said to have
originated in England about the year 61, at the
time that Nero ruled Britain as well as the rest
of the Roman empire. The ancient Britons, who
were tribes of the more ancient Cambri. were
vassals of Nero. Parsutagus in the right of Queen
Boadicea, his wife, was the reigning king of Icena,
Britain. When he died, although he gave half his
vast estate to the Emperor, the rapacity of the
tyrant was not satisfied and he seized the whole.
When the Queen interfered with his officers in their
confiscation he ordered her publicly whipped. A
rebellion followed. Boadie, a Patriarch of one of
the tribes, fought for the Queen and killed a Roman
officer, Galbuta, whose armor he took as a trophy.
The Britons were finally subdued and Boadie re-
tired to the hills. Hence the name Pea or Pay
meaning hill — Peabodie or Paybodie. The name
was variously spelled, but means man of hills.
The Peabody arms contain the insignia from the
arms of Galbuta, two suns. The arms are de-
scribed : party per fess. nebule Gules azure ; two
suns proper with a garb ; a crest, scroll and motto,
"Murus Aereus Conscientia Sana." The arms are
very ancient.

(I) John Peabody, the immigrant ancestor of
all the American branches of the Peabody family,
came to America, about 1635, probably with his
son William, as their names are mentioned to-
gether in the list of original proprietors of the town
of Plymouth. John Peabody owned ten acres at
Bluefish in the Plymouth colony in 1637. He vvas
admitted a freeman January 2, 1637-8, and ^yith
William Peabody, his son. was one of the original
proprietors of Bridgewater in 1645. He lived in
Duxbury. His will is dated July 16, 1649, at Dux-
brook, Plymouth colony, and proved at Boston,
April 27, 1667, but recorded at Plymouth. He died
at Bridgewater in 1667, aged seventy-seven year?.
He married Isabel, who survived him. Their
children were : Thomas, mentioned in will in 1667 ;
Francis, of whom later; William, born 1619-20,
came to Plymouth colony and settled in Rhode
Island: married Elizabeth Alden : Annis (Agnes),
married John Rouse, who was with William Pea-

body, one of the original proprietors of Little Comp-
ton, originally Seaconet.

(II) Francis Peabody, son of John Peabody (i),
was born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England,
in 1614. He migrated to New England in the ship
"Planter," Nicholas Frarice, master, sailing April
2, 163s, and first settled in Ipswich, where he was
a proprietor in 1636. In 1638 he was one of the
original settlers in Hampton, New Hampshire, then
Norfolk county, with Rev. Stephen Bachilor and
twelve others, and they resided there several years.
He was on the grand jury, also the trial jury there.
He was admitted a freeman there May 18, 1642.
He sold his estate at Hampton, May 25, 1650, and
removed to Topsfield, Massachusetts, in order to
be nearer Boston. His new farm was adjoining
those of Richard Dorman and Mr. Simonds. He
became a very prominent man there, both on ac-
count of his property and influence. He owned
large tracts of land in Topsfield, Boxford and
Rowley. He lived to be eighty-three years of age.
His will is dated January 20, 1695, and was proved
August 7. 1698. He died February 19, 1697-8; his
widow died April 9, 1705.

He married Mary Foster, daughter of Reginald
Foster, of the family named in Scott's "Marmion
and Lay of the Last Minstrel." The children of
Francis and Mary Peabody were : John, born 1642 ;
Joseph, of whom later; William, born 1646; Isaac,

born 1648; Sarah, born 1650, married How,

of Ipswich; Hepsibah, born 1652; Lydia, born 1654,
married Jacob Perley : Mary, born 1656, married
John Death, of Framingham ; Ruth, born May 22,
165S; Damaris. born January 21. 1660, died Decem-
ber 19. 1660; Samuel, born January 4, 1662, died
September 13, 1677; Jacob, born July 28, 1664; Han-
nah, born May 28, 1668; Nathaniel, born July 29,
1669.

(III) Joseph Peabody, second child of Francis
Peabody (2), was born in Hampton, New Hamp-
shire, in 1644. He settled in Boxford, Massachu-
setts. He was admitted a freeman in 1677. He
married Bethiah Bridges, October 26, 1668. She
joined the Boxford Church October 20. 1709. His
will is dated March 20, 1721, the year of his death.
Their children were: Joseph, born April 16, 1671 ;
Jonathan, of whom later ; Sarah, born September
4. 1676, married Benjamin Smith, May 22, 1703;
Samuel, born April 8, 167S; Bethia, born April 8,
i68t : Lydia, born February 4. 1683, married Jacob
Perley; Alice, born January 4. 1685, married
Thomas Hall, of Andover.

(IV) Jonathan Peabody, second child of Joseph
Peabody (3), was born at Boxford, Massachusetts,
in 1673. He settled there. He married Alice-
. They were admitted to the church at Tops-
field, an adjoining town, to which they removed
He died April 18, 1741. Their children were:
Alice, born April 29, 171 1, married, 1736. Henry
Gray; Elizabeth, born October 28, 1712. died young;.
John, of whom later; Joseph, born December 13,
1718: Mchitable. born May 23. 1721 ; Anna, born,
July 31. 1723: Jonathan, born February 25, 1725;
Lydia, born November 18, 1729.

(V) John Peabody, third child of Jonathan Pea-
body (4), was born in Boxford, Massachusetts,
December 30. 1713, and lived in that town. He was
baptized in the Boxford Church with his sister
.Mice. June 24, 1716. He married Sar;di Dorman,
May 18. 1736. and died in 1758. aged forty-five
years. His will was dated .'\pril 17. 1755, and
proved December 4. 17.^8. Their children: Allen,
born June 24. 1736. died November, 1738; Eliza-

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betlT, born February 2, 1738, died April 17. 1730 ;
Daniel, born May 4, 1739, married Anne Stickney,
daughter of James Stickney ; Jonathan, born April
24, 1744. married Mercy Kimball ; Aaron, of whom
later.

(VI) Aaron Peabody, youngest child of John
Peabody (s), was born in Boxford, April 3, 1747.
He lived also in Topsfield. In fact it is hard to
tell from the records which Peabodys were living
in Boxford and which were over the line in Tops-
field. He removed to Milford, New Hampshire,
when about twenty-five years old and settled in
that part of the town known as Mile Slip, making
a home there for himself, wife and three children.
He died there September 19, 1826.

He married, May 4, 1769, at Topsfield, Massa-
chuse,Its, Susanna Hobbs, daughter of Deacon
Humphrey and Anna (Simonds) Hobbs. She was
born in Boxford or Topsfield, September, 1745. and
died in Milford, New Hampshire, August 7, 1827.
Their children, all born at Milford, were: Aaron,
Jr., born January 15, 1774, farmer, resided in the
Mile Slip, married (first) Polly Miles, (second)
Betsey Lovejoy, and (third) Polly Eaton; Samuel,
born June 20, 1776; Betsey, born September 29.
1778, married, January 2, 1825, Asa Elliott ; Humph-
rey, of whom later; John, born February 3. 17S2;
Joseph, born July 13, 17S4, died January 31, 1808;
Amos, born July 25, 1786.

(VH) Humphrey Peabody, fourth child of
Aaron Peabody (6), was born in Milford, New
Hampshire, November 18, 1779. He was a farmer
on the old homestead, where he died June 20. 1865.
He married. March 17, 1808, Keziah Smith, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Ruhamah (Cutter) Smith. She
was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts, February 15,
1782, and died there March 8, 1855. Their children
were : Joseph Hobbs, of whom later ; Daniel
Hiram, born April 20. 1811, married, December 16.
184T, Emeline Peabody, daughter of Amos and
Sally (Wright) Peabody; resided in Jefferson City.
Missouri, where he died ; Humphrey Calom. born
September i, 1813, was a cabinet maker, resided in
Canaseraga. New York, where he died December-
19, 1884; married, December 29, 1836, at Bedford,
New Hampshire, Elvira Atwood. daughter of
Thomas and Susanna (Holmes) Atwood; Mary,
born December 31, 1815, tailoress, resided at Cana-
seraga, New York; Luther, born April 28, 1818,
died at Wilton. New Hampshire, June 24, 1891 ;
Caroline, born May 4, 1821, died May 22, 1842, at
Milford: Newton, born December 11. 1823. painter
by trade, resided at Wilmington. Delaware ; mar-
ried, at Milford, February 27, 1848. Mary Kirby,
the daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Veneas)
Kirby. of New Hampshire.

(VHI) Joseph Hobbs Peabody, eldest child of
Humphrey Peabody (7), was born in Milford, New
Hampshire. February 12, 1809. He removed to
Fitchburg. Massachusetts. He married, at Milford,
Edna I. Flinn. daughter of Laommi and Betsey
(Stiles) Flinn, of Milford. He died in Fitchburg,
September 27. 1882. Their child was : Friend B.,
of w'hom later.

(IX) Friend B. Peabody, son of Joseph Hobbs
Peabody (8), was born in Nashua. New Hamp-
shire, August 8. 1846. He moved to Fitchburg with
his parents when a young boy and went to school
there. He learned the trade of machinist and be-
came a skillful machanic. He worked for many
years for the Putnam Machine Company and was
filling a responsible position for this concern at the
time of his death. He died June 20, 1892, at the
prime of life, aged forty-five years, ten months and
ten days.

He attended the Universalist Church of Fitch-
burg. In politics he was a Republican. He was
interested in public affairs, but never cared to hold
public office. He was a man of good business
judgment, sterling character and strict integrity, a
model citizen in every way. He was fond of his
home and loyal to his home city. He enjoyed the
confidence of employers and a large circle of
friends.

He married, 1878. Anne M. Woodward, daugh-
ter of Stillman Woodward, who was a prominent
citizen of Marlborough, New Hampshire, descend-
ant of a distinguished family. She resides in the
homestead, 79 Prichard street, Fitchburg, with her
only child, J. Edmund, who was born in Fitchburg.

JAMES EDWARD BARR. At the breaking-
out of the war of 1812-15 Harvey and Eunice Barr,
James E. Barr's grandparents, were a newly mar-
ried couple enjoying the peace and tranquallity cf
rural life in New Braintree, undisturbed by the
fever of excitement which was then raging among
the inhabitants of the more exposed sea-board
towns in anticipation of a second conflict with Great
Britain. Harvey was quietly pursuing his routine
duties upon his farm when the call to arms, through
the interior' towns by means of a courier, reached
his ears, and quickly exchanging the utensils of
industry for the arms and accoutrements of a soldier,
he hurried away with his companions in arms to
join his regiment, which had been ordered to the
field for immediate action. They were a sturdy lot
of "New Englanders. mostly tillers of the soil, who
marched forth on that memorable occasion to meet
the British in mortal combat for the last time, and
although of a younger generation they were spurred
into action by a zeal as ardent as that which ani-
mated their fathers, the patriots of seventy-six.
Harvey Barr held a lieutenant's commission and
served' with credit until honorably mustered out at
the close of hostilities. He returned to his family
in New Braintree and resumed the ploughshare,
but was not long permitted to enjoy the era of
prosperity which followed the treaty of Ghent, as
his death occurred prior to his thirtieth birthday.
His widow, who survived him many years, married
for her second husband a Mr. Granger. She died
August II, 1854, aged sixty-seven years. Harvey
and" Eunice Barr were the parents of six children,
namely: Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Field and
went to reside in Ware, this state, and died at the
advanced age of ninety-seven; Sarah, who resided
for many years in the last-named town, died at the
age of ninety-one ; James H., who will be again
referred to; Micah R.. who was a life-long resident
of New Braintree ; Deborah and Rebecca, both of
whom died in childhood.

James Harvey Barr. James E. Barr's father,
was born in New Braintree, 1812. In March. 1835,
he settled upon the farm now occupied by his son,
and he resided hteer for the remainder of his life,
which terminated in March. 1897, at the advanced
age of eighty-five years. In his later years he sup-
ported the Republican party, and for a number of
terms was a member of the board of selectmen. He
was married in West Brookfield to Hannah Water-
man, and the children of this union are: Jane, who
became the wife of George F. Snow and resides in
New Braintree ; Sarah E.. who married John W.
Cummings. and is residing in Ware ; Eliza, who
married W. W. Grey, of Greenwich, and James
Edward Barr. ]\Irs. Hannah (Waterman) Barr
died .August 9. 1S74. aged sixty-six years. The
parents attended the Congregational Church.

James Edward Barr was born in New Braintree,

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WORCESTER COUNTY

July 23, 1844. His preliminary studies were pur-
sued in the pulilic schools of his native town and
he concludcil his education with a course in the
higher branches of study at the Westfield (Massa-
chusetts) Academy. From his youth to the pres-
ent time he has devoted his energies to general
farming at the homestead, and has attained grati-
fying success. He does not, however, depend upon
agriculture exclusively as a means of livelihood, as
he has had at different time interests in other direc-
tions, and for the past fourteen years has operated
a saw and grist mill, which is the only establish-
ment of its kind in the neighborhood and in con-
nection therewith has a grain store. His machinery
is propelled chiefly by water-power, but he has in
reserve a fifty horse-power gas engine for use in
case of emergency, and having a natural genius for
mechanics, he is consequently enabled to keep his
mills in good running order, thus avoiding the
necessity of sending for an expert. He is quite
active in local civic affairs, having served as a
selectman since icSga, and was formerly a inember
of the board of assessors. Politically he is a Re-
publican. His interest in the Patrons of Hus-
bandry is of long standing and for many years he
has been officially connected with the local grange.
In his religious belief he is a Congregationalist.

On December 15, i86g, Mr. Barr was joined in
marriage with Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of Byron
Hervey, of New Braintree. Mr. and Mrs. Barr
have had three children — Charles Hervey, born in
1871, one of the board of assessors of New Brain-
tree, married Fanny White, of Hardwick. Charles
Hervey Barr has a son James, the seventh of the
name in seven direct generations. James Arthur,
born in 1878. is unmarried and resides at home.
A daughter who died in infancy.

LEROY JEAN UPHAM. John Upham (i)
was the emigrant ancestor of LeRoy Jean Upham,
of Webster, Massachusetts, and probably of all the
Upham families in New England. He embarked
at Weymouth. England, with the Hull colony be-
fore March 20, 1635, with his wife Elizabeth, aged
thirty-two. and children: John, aged seven; Na-
thaniel, aged five; Elizabeth, aged three; also Sarah,
aged twenty-si.K. probably John's sister. John Up-
ham was born in 1600. He settled at Weymouth.
He was a husbandman, yeoman, farmer as desig-
nated in various records. He was deputy to the
general court, deacon of the church. He was ad-
mitted a freeman September 2, 1635. He removed
to Maiden, Massachusetts. Before his death he
gave lands to Elizabeth, widow of his son Nathaniel,
in 1662; to his son John in 1664; and to son
Phineas February 2, 1670-T.

He married (second) Katherine Hollard, widow
of Angel Hollard. she renouncing her claim to Hol-
lard's estate at the time of this marriage. He was
a brother-in-law of Robert Martin. He died Feb-
ruary 25, i68r, aged eighty-four, according to the
gravestone. His children were: John, born in
England, 1628; Nathaniel, born 16.W. in England:
Elizabeth, born in England, 1632 ; Phineas, born in
Weymouth ; Thomas, born in Weymouth ; Mary.
born at Weymouth, married John Whittemore, died
Jtme 27, T677. had si.x children: Priscilla. married
Thomas Crosswcll. died a widow in 1717. having
twelve children, she was probably born in 1642.
(For other information about John Upham see
sketch of Roger F. Upham, of Worcester, in this
work.)

(IT) TJeutenant Phineas Upham, son of John
Upham (i), was born probably in 1635, at Wey-
mouth, Massachusetts. He was the only son of

John Upham, who left posterity, consequently he
too is progenitor of all the Uphams of colonial
ancestry. He has always been known as Lieutenant
Phineas, for the reason that he held that rank and
rendered important service in King Philip's war.
He married. April 14, 1658, Ruth Wood, at Maiden.
He settled at Maiden, where the records show
frequent references to him as purchase of land,
etc. Lieutenant Upham was wounded in the battle
of the Great Swamp Fort in December, 1675. He
never recovered from his injuries. He was taken
back to Maiden, however, where he died in October,
1676. The widow was left with a large family and
little means, and the general court voted her a
small allowance for temporary needs. She died at
the age of sixty years, January 18, 1696-7. Her
gravestone is to be seen at the old burying ground
in Maiden. She may have been the daughter of
Obadiah Wood, biscuit maker, of Ipswich, who died
there in 1694. His will probated December 3, 1694,
bequeathed to his wife, children, and to the children
of his daughter Ruth, deceased, but there is an
apparent discrepancy in the dates. (See R. F. Up-
ham sketch for children, etc).

(HI) Richard Upham, son of Lieutenant
Phineas Upham (2), was born in Maiden, Massa-
chusetts, 1675. He married Abigail Hovey, of
Topsficld, Massachusetts, May 19, 1698. She died
September I, 1764, in her eighty-fifth year. Richard
Upham owned land at Reading, although he was
probably located all the time on the old family
homestead in Maiden, which was set off in the new
town of Reading. The north part of Maiden in-
cluded ten families was annexed to Reading in 1727.
This annexation included the families of Green,
Upham and Evans with their farms. This section
is now known as Greenwood and was southerly of
the old Smith farms. He purchased land in Thomp-
son, Connecticut, of Isaac Jewett in 1726, and con-
veyed it together with other subsequent purchases
of land there to his son. Ivory. He was a farmer.
In 1 7.1s he was one of a committee to treat with
Rev. Mr. Hobbs, the minister. He is mentioned in
the history of Reading thus: "1734. Richard Up-
ham, whom Parson Hobbs calls a saint in deed,
died this year, of stranguary." He died according
to the church records. May 18, 17.S4. A stone marks
his grave in the burying ground at South Reading.
The children of Richard and Abigail Upham were:
Richard, died 1700: Ivory, born 1701 ; Abigail, born
1703, died January 7, 1713-14; Dorcas, born 1707,
died January 22. 1715-6; Hepzibah. born 1710-11,
married Nathaniel Longley. of Dorchester. Massa-
chusetts. January 29. 1756; Mary, spinster, of Mai-
den: Ruth, born 1714, baptized December 6, 1714,
died July 7, 1769: Richard, born 1716, baptized
December 0, 1716: Luke, born 1710, baptized March
20, 1 710. probably died young: Luke, born 1721,
died April 23. 1731; Abi.gail. born 1721. died No-
vember, 1738: Susanna, married Ephraim Weston,
December 5, 1748.

(IV) Ivory Upham, son of Richard Upham (3),
was born at Maiden, Massachusetts, 1701. He mar-
ried Tabitha , who died March 13, 1744. He

married (second) Jane . who was admitted to

the church September 28. 1746. from Sutton. Massa-
chusets, and died in Killinglr, Connectucut, Jau-
ary 23, t7.so-';i. He married (third) Mary Haskol,
of Beverly. Massachusetts, July 2, 17.^2. He had
a tract of land at Killingly left to him by his father
and accordingly he settled there. He conveyed
a parcel of land to his son Ivory, Jr., February 9,
17.S6. twenty acres for five pounds according to the
Killingly records. On January 18, l7,-?o. Ivory Up-
ham was one of twenty-eight persons to join the

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church. He served the town on a committee to
audit the accounts of Captain Howe respecting the
land tax. Ivory Upham died about 1756. His will
proved 1756, mentions his sons: Ivory, Samuel and
Luke only, indicating that the four youngest sons
were not then living. The children of Ivory and
Tabitha Upham were : Ivory, born at Charlestown,
Massachusetts, baptized at Reading, October 4, 1724,
married Jerusha Stone and lived in Thompson,
Connecticut ; Samuel, born June 14, 1726, in Mai-
den, Massachusetts, married Esther Colburn, at
Dudley, November 7, 1850; Tabitha, baptized Oc-
tober 27, 1728; Abigail, born September 19. 1730,
of Killingly. Connecticut, published at Dudley with
William C'oburn, February 17, 1759; Luke, born
June I. 1733, married Lois Sabin and lived at
Killingly; Richard, born March 24, 1734-5; John,
horn February 9, 1736; Phineas, born April i, 1739;
Ebenezer. born March 15, 1740-1.

(V) Luke Upham, son of Ivory Upham (4).
was born in Killingly, Connecticut, June i, 1733.
He married Lois Sabin, March 28, 1759. She died
June 14, 1804. He died November 7, 1815. Follow-
ing the capture of Fort William Henry by Mont-
calm_a company w-as raised coinposed of men ad-
vanced in " life, showing that most of the young
men were already in the service. Luke L^pham was
in the company in the French and Indian war.
He was corporal in Captain Chandler's company
(the Eleventh) in revolution. The children of Luke
and Lois LTpham were : Abigail, born January 7,
1761, died November 27, 1829; Isaac, born Septem-
ber 7, 1762, died November 23, 1815; Chester, born
June 2. 1764. died August 27, 1829; Nehemiah, born
April 20, 1766, died .A.pril 15, 1799; Lucy, born
March 13, 1768. died May 16, 1834; Ephraim, born
November 22, 1770, died November 22, 1850; Eliza-
beth, born November 23. 1772, died October 25,

1802, married TrimbuU and moved to Mun-

son, Massachusetts ; Hepzibah, born October 24,
1774; Chloe. born February 14, 1777, died March

24, 1842; Phebe, born February 24, 1778, married
Daniel Taylor, of Worcester, Massachusetts ; she
died at Canton, Connecticut, March 27, 1842 ; Hul-
dah. born January 23, 1783. died February 5, 1824.

(VI) Nehemiah Upham. son of Luke Upham
(5), was born at Killingly, Connecticut, August 20,
1766. He married Mary Town. He died April 15,
1799. He was a farmer at Killingly. The children
of Nehemiah and Mary were: Archelaus, born
June 14, 1792, married (first) Betsey Robinson,
married (second) Nancy Morris, and lived in Kil-
lingly: Betsey, born October 22, 1793, died March
14, 1799: Dyer, born November 26. 1795, married
Esther Arnold, lived in Thompson. Connecticut, and
afterward in Wilsonville, Connecticut ; Ichabod.
born April 29, 1798, married Abigail Copeland, and
lived in Union. Connecticut : Nehemiah, born Oc-
tober 22, 1799, died February 24. 1800.

(VII) Dyer LTpham, son of Nehemiah Upham
(6), was born in Killingly, Connecticut, November

25, 1795- . He married Esther Arnold, March 19,
"1820. She died in Thompson. Connecticut, Sep-
tember 7, 1824. He married (second), November
20. 1827. Cynthia Arnold, who died in Thompson,
February 13. 1875. He was a farmer living at
Thompson, and died at his son Dyer's house Janu-
ary 17, 1885. in Thompson. Connecticut.. The chil-
dren of Dyer and Esther were : George Preston,
born June 25, 1821, in Hampton, Connecticut, mar-
ried Mercy T. Morris : Dyer Arnold, born August
7. 1824, married Lucy Stone, and lived in Thomp-
son.

(VIII) Dyer Arnold Upham, son of Dyer Up-
ham (7), was born in Thompson, Connecticut, Au-

gust 7, 1824. He married, November ir, 1849,
Lucy Stone, daughter of Reuben Stone, who was
born in Dudley, Massachusetts, November 10. 1829,
and died in Thompson, August 3, 1885. He was
a farmer and store keeper, living at Thompson.
He is now living at Wilsonville, Connecticut (1905).
The children of Dyer Arnold and Lucy Upham
were: Leroy J., born March 23, 1851, in Thomp-
son, married, August 16, 1877, Nora Janette Jos-
lin : Earl Hammond, born January 14, 1855, in
Thompson, married, November 14. 1883, Alice M.
Hall, living at Providence, Rhode Island, 1889, had
no children then; Burton Stone, born March 27,
1870, in Thompson, living there 1889.

(IX) LeRoy Jean Upham, son of Dyer Arnold
Upham (8), was born at Thompson, Connecticut,
March 23, 1851. He attended the Thompson
schools, the Nichols Academy at Dudley, Massa-
chusetts, and the Woodstock Academy at Wood-
stock, Connecticut. Being stricken with typhoid
fever he had to withdraw from school at the age
of eighteen. The next year he accepted a position
as teacher in the Thompson schools and continued
there for four years. Then he taught for four
years at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. After eight
years experience as a public school teacher he left
to enter business with his uncle, Robert Humphrey,
dealing in hides, etc.. at Webster. Massachusetts.
The success of Mr. Upham in business places him
in the front rank of prominent men in Webster.
He has taken an active part in town affairs in
Webster, and has been town clerk and overseer of
the poor since 1890. The length of his term of office
in a town of rather variable political choice and
principles shows his political strength and personal
popularity among his townsmen. He is the official
clerk of all the town boards. He is a member of
the local lodge of Odd Fellows and has served it
as secretary for fourteen years. He is a trustee of
the Five Cents Savings Bank of Webster. He is
a member of the Universalist Church. He married,
August 16, 1877, Nettie Joslin, daughter of John
and Caroline Joslin, who was born August 11, 1856.
They have no children.

FRANK W. POTTER, one of the most pro-
gressive among the younger generations of farmers
in New Braintree, went there from North Brook-
field in his youth and has ever since been identified
with the agricultural interests of that town. He
is the son of the late Robert Potter and a lineal
descendant in the ninth generation of Nicholas
Potter, an early resident of Lynn, Massachusetts.
From Nicholas the line of descent is through Robert,
Sr.. Robert, Jr., Ephraim, Theophilus, Silas, John-
and Robert.

Nocholas Potter was residing in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, in 1651, and was employed in the iron
works there. In 1660 he removed to Salem, where,
according to the records, he followed the trade of
a bricklayer. His will was made October 10, 1677:
his death occurred the iSth, and an inventory of his
estate was taken the 25th of that month and year.
Whether he was the immigrant ancestor of this
family or not cannot he ascertained. The Oiris-
tian name of his first wife was Emma (Savage says
Mary). It is quite probable that his second wife
was Alice, daughter of Thomas Weeks, of Salem,
who died January 26, 1659. and he afterward mar-
ried Mary Gedney, also of Salem, daughter of John
Gedney. His children, some of whom were born
in Lynn and others in Salem, were : Hannah,
I^Iary. Samuel. Robert. Eliza. Sarah. Lydia. Bethia,
Samuel (2). Lydia (2), Benjamin and Joseph.

Robert Potter, son of Nicholas Potter, resided

WORCESTER COUNTY

in Lynn and was a carpenter. He married for his
second wife Ruth Driver, and as there seems to
be no record of his former marriage in Lynn, it
is quite probable that he married his first wife in
some other town. His children were : Samuel (of
his first union), Robert, Nathaniel, John, Elizabeth,
Elizabeth (2), Ruth, Joseph, Benjamin and Samuel
(2). The list of the children of Robert, Sr. is as
authentic as can be obtained from records which
are exceedingly vague.

His son Robert Potter the next in line of de-
scent, who also resided in Lynn, married Martha
Hall, January 9, 1682, and had Ephraim, Martha
and probably other children.

Ephraim Potter, son of Robert, Jr., and Martha
Potter, w-as born in Lynn, February 5, 1683. He
settled in Marlboro, Massachusetts, in or prior to
1708, which was the year of his marriage. The
maiden name of his wife was Sarah Witt, and his
children were : Mary, Martha, Joseph, Ephraim,
Sarah, Theophilus. and Elizabeth, all of whom
were born in Marlboro.

Theophilus Potter, son of Ephraim Potter, was
torn in Marlboro, January 26, 1725. He settled in
Brookfield at the age of about thirty years, and
resided there until his death, which occurred Sep-
tember 13, 1814. when he was nearly ninety years
old. In 1748 he married Lois Walker, of Sudbury.
She became the mother of twelve children, four of
w'hom were born in Marlboro, and the others were
natives of Brookfield. Their names were : Silas,
Ephraim, Barnabas, Hannah, Thomas, Abigail,
Lois. Thaddeus, Esther, Elizabeth, Luke and Aaron.

Silas Potter, son of Theophilus Potter, was
"born in Marlboro, June 17, 1749. He learned the
trade of a gunsmith and followed it during the
active years of his life, which terminated in North
Brookfield, September 30, 1828. He married, Feb-
ruary 3, 1775. Tabitha Harvey. Their children, all
of whom were born in North Brookfield, were:
Silas, Betsey, John, Achsah, Silas (2), Edmund,
Nalium. and Polly. The parental desire to rear a
son Silas seems to have been contrary to the decree
of destiny, as both children of that name died in
childhood, and Betsey also died young.

John Potter, second son of Silas Potter, and the
grandfather of Frank W. Potter, was born in North
Brookfield, September 23, 1780. Early in the last
century he went to Bakersfield, Vermont, and re-
sided there until his death. On December 25, 1808,
he married Sarah Hunter, of New Braintree. and
had a family of twelve children, namely: Achsah,
Rhoda, Silas, Aaron, Dolly, John Hunter. Edward,
Robert, Robina, Betsey. Persis and Royal. Royal
Potter served with an Illinois regiment in the civil
war. and subsequently settled in Iowa.

Robert Potter, fifth son of John Potter, and
Frank W. Potter's father, was born in Bakersfield.
He resided in North Brookfield for some years, but
in 1883 removed to a farm in New Braintree, and
died in Fairfield. Vermont. The maiden name of
his first wife was Caroline Stone, and of this union
there is one son, Eliot Potter, who is residing in
Royalston, this county. His second wife, whom
he married in 1866, was Addie A. Smith. She bore
him but one son, Frank W. After the death of
Mr. Potter she married for her second husband a
Mr. Thrasher.

After concluding his attendance at the North
Brookfield public schools, Frank W. Potter ac-
companied his parents to New Braintree when nine-
teen years old. and began the activities of life by
assisting his father in farming. Succeeding to the
ownership of tlie property after his father's death,
lie has ever since carried on general farming with

prosperous results, and is keenly alive to the ad-
vantages obtainable by the application of improved
agricultural methods and appliances. He is actively
interested in the work of the Patrons of Husbandry
and is past master of the local grange, having oc-
cupied all of the subordinate chairs in that body.
Politically he acts with the Republican party. In
his religious belief he is a Congregationalist. Mr.
Potter married Sadie Goodfield, daughter of Will-
iam Goodfield, of Gilbertville, this county.

MRS. CAROLINE ELIZABETH MANNING,
nee Woods, widow of Theodore Manning, and a
resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is the daughter
of the late Charles and Sarah Church (Spooner)
Woods, of Barre, the former of whom was a son
of Isaac Woods, of New Braintree. On the ma-
ternal side she is of the eighth generation of descent
from Wiliam Spooner, great-grandfather of .^ma-
ziah Spooner, who came from Dartmouth to Worces-
ter about the middle of the eighteenth century and
was one of the early settlers in Hardwick after
its incorporation.

William Spooner, who was in all probability the
first of that name in America, was a resident and
an apprentice of Plymouth in 1637. In 1654 he was
admitted a freeman, and some six years later went
to reside in that part of Dartmouth which, two
hundred years later, was incorporated as the town
ofAcushmet. His first wife was Elizabeth Part-
ridge, who died at Plymouth, April 28, 1648, leaving
one son. John. March 18, 1652, he married for his
second wife Hannah Pratt, daughter of Joshua
Pratt. She became the mother of eight children,
namely : Sarah, Samuel, Martha, William, Isaac,
Hannah, Mercy, and Ebenezer. William Spooner,
Sr., died in 1684. The line of descent to his great-
grandson, Amaziah, the Hardwick settler, is through
Samuel (2), and Samuel Spooner (3).

Samuel Spooner, son of William Spooner, was
born in Plymouth, January 4, 1655. and died in
Dartmouth in 1739. In 1680 he served as constable
and was again chosen for that office in 16S4. His
wife was before marriage Experience Wing, and his
children were : William, Mary, Samuel, Daniel,
Seth, Hannah, Joshop, whose name was probably
Shear-jashub ; Anna, Experience, Beulah and Wing.

Samuel Spooner, son of Samuel and Experience
Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, February 4,
1692-3, and died in 1781. His marriage to Rebecca
Weston, his first wife, took place April 10, 1717,
and she died January 28, 1728-29. He was married
the second time I\Iarch 8, 1729-30, to Deborah,
daughter of Isaac Pope. His first wife was the
mother of Esther. Hannah, Thomas, Zephaniah and
Amaziah. The children of his second union were:
Elnathan, Abigail and Seth.

Amaziah Spooner. son of Samuel and Rebecca
Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, May 15, 1724.
Shortly after attaining his majority he wandered
from the family fold and acquired possession of- a
tract of wild land in Hardwick, located west of
Muddy brook, on the northerly side of the old
turnpike. This property he cleared and improved
for agricultural purposes, and resided there for
the remainder of his life, which terminated July
8, 1798. He was married in Hardwick, February
22, 1749-50, to Lydia Fay, daughter of Deacon
James Fay. She was eighty-seven years old at the
time of her death, which occurred August 10, 1817.
Amaziah and Lydia Spooner were the parents of
ten children, namely : Thomas. Zephaniah, Lucy,
Elizabeth. Lydia, Samuel, Charles, Rebecca, Han-
nah and Seth.

Zephaniah Spooner, son of Amaziah Spooner,

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"vvas born in Hardwick, October I, 1753. He was
^Irs. Manning's great-grandfather and resided upon
tile homestead farm until his death, which occurred
when he was fifty-six years old, June 13, 1810.
Zephaniah Spooner was one of the company of
minute-men organized by Captain Samuel Billings,
Jr. When the first blow was struck, April ig, 1775,
he enlisted a company of fifty-nine men, fifty-seven
of them Hardwick men. to serve eight months from
May 4. .1775. He belonged to Captain Timothy
Paige's company. Colonel John Rand's regiment of
Massachusetts militia. This company was raised
for three months and did duty at West Point,
New York; commenced service July 5, 1780; con-
sisted of one hundred and two men, thirty of them
Hardwick men. Sally (Church) Spooner, his wife,
whom he married November 5, 1789, became the
mother of Bradford, Barnabas, Grover and Charles
C. Sally, the mother, died August 30, 1833, aged
sixty-eight years.

Bradford Spooner, son of Zephaniah Spooner,
was born at the homestead in Hardwick, April 5,
1791. He was a prosperous farmer and resided on
the east side on ^luddy brook. On November 30,
1821, he married Arathusa Earl, daughter of John
Earl. She became the mother of nine children,
namely : Sarah Church, born November 18, 1822 ;
Alden Bradford, born November 12, 1824; John P.,
born in 1826, died December 26, 1873 ; Harmon C.
baptized May 11, 1S29 ; Caroline E., born about the
year 1830; Henry, born in 1832, died February 19,
1834: Maria, born in 1835, died May 22. 1836: Jane,
M.. born about the year 1839; and Henry Albert,
horn July I. 1840. Alden Bradford Spooner mar-
ried for his first wife Sarah A. Morton, and for his
second Julia A. Alden. Caroline E. became the wife
of Geor,ge R. Paige. Jane M. married A. Lyman
Barr, of New Braintree. Bradford Spooner died
November I, 1872, surviving his wife, whose death
occurred April 7, of the same year, at the age of
seventy-two years. Sketches of Stephen Henry, son
of Alden Bradford, Timothy H. and Henry A.
Spooner. will be found elsewhere in this work.

Sarah Church Spooner was married August i,
1851. to Charles Woods, of Barre. The children
of this union are : Caroline Elizabeth, of whom
later: Charles B. and John G. Woods, both of
whom are residents of Springfield, Massachusetts.

Caroline Elizabeth Woods was born in Barre,
August 6, 1852. Her preliminary studies were pur-
sued in the Hardwick public schools, from which
she entered the Oread Institute, Worcester, with the
class of 1872. In January, 1875. she was united in
marriage with Theodore Manning who was at that
time a resident of Worcester.

Theodore Manning was born in Paxton. this
countj', October 14, 1844. His father was David
Manning and his mother was before marriage Lucy
Grosvenor. His business training was acquired in
Worcester and he was connected with the S. R.
Heywood shoe manufacturing establishment for
some time. He subsequently became a member of
the firm of Manning Brothers. Worcester. Some
years later he organized the Manning Shoe and
Rubber Company of Boston, which transacted a
large and profitable business. In politics he was
a Republican. His religious affiliations were with
the Congregationalists, and he was one of the
original members of Plymouth Parish, Worcester,
which was organized in 1869. He died in Worces-
ter, April 28, i8g8.

Mrs. Manning is still residing in Newton. She
is the mother of eight children, all of whom are
living, namely : Frederick Theodore, born Decem-
ber 25, 1877 ; Charles Arthur, born December 7,

1879; Grace Woods, born September 5, 1881 ; Flor-
ence Elizabeth, born January 23, 1884; David Ralph,
born September 28, 1885 ; Robert Henry, born Au-
gust 25, 1887; Harold Grosvenor, born July II,
1889; and Clarence William, born June 2, 1892.
Frederick T. and Charles A. Manning are conduct-
ing a large retail boot and shoe establishment in
Bucyrus, Ohio. The others are residing with their
mother in Newton, and the sons, with the exception
of the youngest, are engaged in mercantile pursuits
in or near Boston.

GEORGE RUSSELL MARBLE. Samuel
Marble (l), the emigrant ancestor of the late
George Russell Marble, of Webster, Massachu-
setts, came to America before 1660, probably from
Scotland, though there seems to be nothing but
tradition to indicate whether he was from England,
Scotland, or Wales. He was a bricklayer by trade,
and Joseph Marble, who was a settler in Andover
at about the same time and may have been a brother,
was listed as a mason. Both married in Andover,
though Samuel appears to have had a wife when he
came. His son Samuel was born in 1660. His twins.
Job and Rebecca, were born in 1695 of the second
marriage.

Samuel married, November 26, 1675, Rebecca
Andrews, of Andover, Massachusetts. He took
the freeman's oath February 11, 1678. The children
of Samuel Marble by his two marriages were :
Samuel, born 1660; Enoch; Freegrace ; Noah, set-
tled in Andover; Daniel; Job (twin), born 1695;
Rebecca (twin), born 1695.

(II) Freegrace ^larble, son of Samuel Marble
(l), born in Andover, Massachusetts, about 1699,
died in Sutton, April 21, 1799, aged about one hun-
dred. He was among the first settlers of Sut-
ton, and his marriage is said to have been the first
in the new town. He married Mary Sibley. He was
a mason, like his father, and is said to have worked
on the construction of the old State House- on
Washington and State streets, Boston. He was on
a committee in 1741 to enlarge the capacity of the
meeting house ; was on the committee in 1718 ap-
pointed to build the first meeting house ; in 1725
was on a committee in charge of the school lot;
in 1728 was on a committee to treat with Mr. David
Hall to supply the pulpit. His old homestead is that
lately occupied by Rufus Harback. Freegrace Mar-
ble is buried in a graveyard on his homestead near
the house lately occupied by Ezra P. Marble. The
children of Freegrace and Mary (Sibley) Marble
were : Mary, born April 4, 1721 ; Samuel, born
April 27, 1723; Enoch, born November 25, 1726;
Rebecca, born March 10, 1729 ; Malachi, born Sep-
tember 25, 1736.

(III) Malachi Marble, son of Freegrace Mar-
ble (2), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Septem-
ber 25, 1736. He married (second), April 26, 1786,
Abigail Keyes. He built the present house on the
Marble place about 1788. The children of Malachi
Marble were : Andrew, born November 17, 1761 ;
Mary, February 24, 1763; Moses, February 2, 1765;
Lydia, October 18, 1767; Simon, April 29, 1769; De-
borah, March 15, 1771 ; Hannah, July 10, 1774;
Peter, February 15, 1776; Simeon, November 5,
1777; Ezra, February 25, 1780; Sukey, April 28,
1787 ; Cyrus, January 3. 1789.

(I'V) Andrew Marble, son of Malachi Marble
(3), was born November 17, 1761, at Sutton, Massa-
chusetts. He married Sarah Harback, July 28,
1789. Andrew settled on part of the original farm
of Freegrace Marble, his grandfather. The chil-
dren of Andrew and Sarah (Harback) were: Sally
Harback, born November 17, 1790; Simon L., Octo-

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ber 5, 1792; Jolin Slillmaii. September 2, 1794;
Royal Tyler, March 13, 1797; -M'iry H., June 2, 1798,
drowned May 29, 1822; Hannah Greenwood, Novem-
ber 27, 1799, drowned May 29, 1822; Jonas Russell,
January 7, 1803, died same day; Simeon Russell,
November 5, 1807.

(V) Simeon Russell Marble, son of Andrew
Marble (4), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts,
November 5, 1807. He married Carolyn Brown. He
was a wheelwright and carriage maker. The chil-
dren of Simeon Russell and Carolyn (.Brown)
Marble were : Carolyn Louise, born in Sutton,
April, 1844, married Charles Bacon, of Worcester,
resides at 124 Beacon street; has children: Wil-
liam, the cashier of the American Steel & Wire Co.,
Worcester; Elizabeth, resides with her parents in
Worcester ; Frederick, employed by the Brown
Manufacturing Company, Providence. George Rus-
sell, of whom later. William Irving, born in Sut-.
ton, September, 1848, was with B. A. Corbin &
Sons Company for years; has been postmaster of
Webster for eight years ; married Emma Chase,
of Webster.

(VI) George Russell Marble, son of Simeon
Russell Marble (5), was born December 2, 1846,
in Sutton, Massachusetts. He was but ten years
old when his father died, and he came to Webster
to live with Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Corbin.
Mrs. Corbin was his aunt. He attended the district
schools of his native town and of Webster, also
attended Dudley Academy. After graduating from
the academy he went to work in his uncle's shop
and learned the business in all the departments.
About 1876 he became the superintendent, a position
he filled to the satisfaction of the firm and the em-
ployes up to the hour of his death. When the
business was incorporated in 1898 he was made
president of the company. For many years he was
the active head of the manufacturing business, buy-
ing the stock and selling the product as well as
superintending the manufacture. The Corbin shoe
factory is well known in Worcester county and
among all shoe manufacturers and dealers of the
country. Three hundred hands are employed there,
and it is one of the largest industries of the town.

He died suddenly of heart disease in the Adams
House, Boston, September 10, 1901, while in the
prime of life. His death practically ended the con-
nection of the original owners of the business with
the company. Chester C. Corbin, who was treas-
urer of the "company, was in Europe at the time of
Mr. Marble's death. He came home immediately,
but was not in good health and in December sold
his stock, together with that of Mr. Marble, which
he had purchased of the latter's estate, to Parning
& Lapham, who have since conducted the business
under the old name. Mr. Corbin died March 14,
1903, also of heart disease, in the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York. James E. Maguire, who was secretary
of the corporation, remains with the company and
continues in charge of the books.

Mr. Marble was a sterling Republican, and gave
freely of his time and money in the interests of the
Republican party. He was for many years chair-
man of the Republican town committee. He was
often called upon to serve at the various conven-
tions, county, congressional and state. In 1900 he
represented his congressional district at the Repub-
lican national convention at Philadelphia. He was
a member of the Republican state co