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HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES NUTT, A. B. 
 
 Former Editor and Publisher of The Worcester Spy; 
 Author of "The Puffer Genealogy"; "History of the 
 First Regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteers"; " History of the Crompton & Knovvles Loom 
 Works": and various Biographical and Historical Works 
 
 ILLUSTRATED 
 
 VOLUME IV. 
 
 LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 
 NEW YORK CITY 
 
 1919 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 449 
 
 Mr. Savcis has taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry, and is a member of 
 Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; 
 Goddard Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester County Conmiandery, 
 Knights Templar; Massachusetts Consistory, Supreme Princes of the Royal Secret; 
 Boston Shoe Trades Clan, Appalachian Mountain Club, the Rotary Club and the 
 Worcester Country Club. In politics he is a Republican. He is a lutmbcr of the 
 First Universalist Church. 
 
 Mr. Savels married, in this city, February 20, i8y(>. Nellie D. Stocking. :ind 
 they have two children: Orvis Mendun, Jr., born April 28, 1903; Margaret, burn 
 August 6, 1905. 
 
 ROBERT LELAND PRENTICE, Late of Midgley & Prentice (Inc.), was 
 born in this city, November 21, 1888, son of Charles Henry and Isabel (Cibbs) 
 Prentice. Charles Henry Prentice was born in this city, April 5, i860, died here 
 December 17, 1905, aged forty-five years. He was a wholesale dealer in beef. He 
 married, in this city, .A,pril 13, 1882, Isabel Gibbs, who was born in Worcester, and 
 is now living here. They had two sons : Harrison Gibbs and Robert Lelaud. 
 
 Robert L. Prentice received his education here in the public and high schools, 
 and after completing his high school course attended the Bryant and Stratton Busi- 
 ness College in Boston for one year. He was but eighteen years old wlien he be- 
 came manager of the Standish, a finely appointed apartment hotel, and he continued 
 in this responsible position until the property was sold, April 19, 1917. From that 
 time until his death, which occurred on CJctober 16, 1918. aged twenty-nine years, he 
 was with Midgley & Prentice (Inc.), offices at No. 16 Foster street, Worcester, and 
 No. 30 Church street. New York City, dealing in steel and other metals. His 
 former partner, Henry F. Midgley, has charge of the New York office, while Mr. 
 Prentice was manager of the Worcester office. Mr. Prentice was a member of the 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Commonwealth Club, Worcester Country Club, 
 and Piedmont Congregational Church. In politics he was a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Prentice married, in Boston, April 14, 1914, Helena Mitchell, who was born 
 in Medfield, Massachusetts, daughter of Edwin V. Mitchell, who died in Worces- 
 ter, January 12, 1917, aged sixty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. Prentice had twin sons, 
 born March 4. 1916, Leland Mitchell and Henry Gibbs Prentice. 
 
 WALTER NICHOLAS DROHAN, Captain of Police, was born in this city, 
 January i, 1849, son of Nicholas and Hannah (Toole) Drohan. He attended the 
 public schools here, and from 1866 to 1869 was an apprentice to the trade of ma- 
 chinist in the employ of the New York Steam Engine Company, which at that time 
 had a shop on Washington street. He was afterward employed at his trade in the 
 factory of the L. W. Pond Machine Company. In the meantime he became a call- 
 man of the old Worcester Fire Department, and was clerk and treasurer of Ocean 
 Hose Company No. 2 (see history of company), located on Grafton street. He went 
 to Boston with the company at the time of the great fire, November 9, 1872. 
 
 Mr. Drohan was appointed to the police force of the city by Mayor Edward L. 
 Davis, in October, 1874, but with a change of administration, January i, 1875, he 
 was dropped from the force, in accordance with the custom of the times. Until 1877 
 he worked at his trade as a machinist, and he was again appointed a police officer 
 by Mayor Charles B. Pratt, and since that time he has been on the force continu- 
 ously. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant by Mayor A. B. R. Sprague, April 
 5, 1895; to lieutenant by Mayor John T. Duggan, in April, 1907; captain by Mayor 
 George M. Wright, May II, 1915. 
 
 In politics Captain Drohan has always voted the Democratic ticket. In religion 
 he is a Catholic, a communicant of St. John's Catholic Church. He was form- 
 erly a director of St. Joseph's Industrial School of Millbury. He is a member of 
 Division Three. Ancient Order of Hibernians, of which he was formerly secretary 
 and vice-president and has been treasurer for forty-one years (1918). He is also a 
 member of Quinsigamond Court, Foresters of .America, and one of its founders. 
 He is a charter member and was first warden of Alhambra Council, Knights of Co- 
 lumbus, He is a member and has been president of the Police Relief Association; 
 is a trustee of Bay State Savings Bank. He took part in the Fenian invasion of 
 Canada in 1866. Two companies of Fenians, composed of men of Irish birth or 
 descent, were formed in Worcester. His home is at No. 15 Beach street. 
 
 Captain Drohan married, in tliis city, January i, 1873, Margaret M. Hanlon, 
 who was born in this city. They had no children. 
 
 Nicholas Drohan, father of Captain Drohan, was a native of County Water- 
 ford, Ireland. He came to this country when a voting man and located in this 
 
 W.— ir-29. 
 
^.Q HJSTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 citv where he married Hannah Toole, also a native of County Watcrford. He was 
 employed for many years as a gardener by Samuel H. Colton (see biography). Mr. 
 Colton had a nursery at the corner of iMam and Austin streets; later in South 
 Worcester Mr. Drohan died in 1878; his wife in 1895. They had six children: Ellen 
 C who died in Hubbard, Ohio; Walter Nicholas; John F., a plumber in this city; 
 Patrick H., cigar maker. Louisyille, Kentucky, deceased; Nicholas J., Catholic 
 priest rector of a church in Hubbard, Ohio, graduate of the Worcester High School 
 and Holy Cross College (.\. B. 1881I, died at Hubbard, February 28, 1912; Mary A., 
 married Maurice E. Rourkc, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 EDWARD JOSIAH CROSS, Contractor and builder, was born in this city, 
 January 25, 1866, son of Courtland Hoxie and Mary Jane (Henshaw) Cross. 
 Courtland Hoxie Cross was born in Connecticut, May, 1825, and died in Septem- 
 ber, 1918. He was a carpenter during his active years. Mary Jane (Henshaw) 
 Cross was born in West Brookfield, died in January, 1904. They had three chil- 
 dren, all now living: i. Mary C, widow of Oscar J. Keeney, of Springfield, Massa- 
 chusetts. 2. Charlotte Elizabeth, married Edward H. Parker, now of Newark, New 
 Jersey. 3. Edward Josiah. mentioned above. 
 
 The parents of Edward J. Cross moved to West Warren when he was a year 
 old, and he attended the public schools of that town. After he came of age he re- 
 turned to Worcester, learned the trade of carpenter and worked as an apprentice 
 and journeyman in this city for seven years. Since 1894 he has been in business as 
 a builder. In 1910 he incorporated the Inisiness under its present name, the E. J. 
 Cross Company, of which he is president and treasurer. The offices of the com- 
 pany are at No. 82 Foster street. Mr. Cross has erected many of the finest resi- 
 dences in the county and the most important public buildings. He was the con- 
 tractor for the entire plant of the Norton Company; the Spencer Wire Company; 
 the Wyman-Gordon Company, mills of the Woven Cartridge Belt Company, the 
 residence of Austin P. Cristy, Lyman F. Gordon (now owned by L. J. Knowles), 
 Harry W. Goddard, and Frank O. Woodland (now owned by John Jeppson). He 
 is a director of the Mechanics National Bank, the Merchants & Farmers Insurance 
 Company of Worcester, and the Contractors Mutual Liability Insurance Company 
 of Boston. Mr. Cross is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons ; the Commonwealth Club, Worcester Rotary Club, Tatassit Canoe 
 Club, Economic Club, Worcester Country Club, Automobile Club. Chamber of 
 Commerce, Worcester County Mechanics Association, Worcester County Fish and 
 Game Association, Worcester Builders Exchange, Massachusetts Master Builders 
 Club, and is president of the Worcester County Employers Association. 
 
 Mr. Cross married, in this city, February 25, 1891, Mary O. Upton, who was 
 born in St. John, New Brunswick. They have two children : i. Ralph LTpton, born 
 .'^lugust 16, 1892. in this city; graduate of the English High School, 191 1, and of 
 Tufts College, 1916; now first lieutenant in the Quartermasters Corps in the United 
 States Army. 2. Frank Edward, born June 30, 1901, student in the New York Mili- 
 tary Academy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Cross reside at 
 No. 130 Burncoat street. 
 
 ALBERT HENRY MIRICK, Wholesale dealer in fruit and produce, was born 
 in Princeton, Massachusetts, January 22. 1849, son of Paul M. and Eunice (Bea- 
 man) Mirick. He is descended from many of the pioneers of Massachusetts. The 
 first of his paternal line of ancestry was John Mirick or Merrick, as some branches 
 of the family spell the surname. The immigrant ancestor was born in 1614 in 
 England, and came to Charlestown in 1642, or earlier, locating in that town, where 
 he died February 15, 1675. He was a cooper by trade. (See Merrick Genealogy and 
 Princeton town history). 
 
 Mr. Mirick had a common school education in his native town, and his boy- 
 hood was spent for the most part on his father's farm there. When a young man 
 he came to this city, and for more than fifty years has been engaged in the fruit 
 and produce business. For many years he had his place of business at No. 7 Park 
 street, Worcester, Massachusetts later removing to No. 17 Blackstone street. His 
 brother, Clarence W. Mirick, has been associated with him as a partner, the firm 
 name being \. H. Mirick & Company. The name of Mirick has stood for the best 
 in his line of business for half a century, and the reputation of the firm stands sec- 
 ond to none for honorable dealing. Mr. Mirick's home is at No. 130 Beacon street. 
 Mr. Mirick is one of the oldest merchants in this line of business in the city, and 
 he was one of the pioneers in the wholesale trade here. In politics he is a Republi- 
 can. 
 
 Mr. Mirick married .^nita L. Henry, who was born in Winchester, New Hamp- 
 
W. L. UOUSOUET 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 451 
 
 shire. They had four children : Florence, who married Paul R. Wild, now of Soni- 
 erville, Massachusetts; Richard H.. George Hammond (see biography), L. Louise. 
 
 GEORGE HAMMOND MIRICK, Lawyer, was born in this city, September 7, 
 1885, son of Allicrt Henry and .^nita L. (Henry) Mirick. He attended the public 
 schools, completing the grades at Woodland street school in 1900, and after a year 
 in the Classical High School entered the South High School, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1904. He became a student in Clark College and was graduated in 1907 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then began the study of his profession in 
 the Harvard Law School, and in 1910 he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. 
 He began practice in this city in the offices of Smith & Gaskill. On December i, 
 1917, he entered into partnership with Albert W. Blackmer and the firm's offices are 
 at No. 801 State Mutual Building. In politics he is a Republican. He was elected 
 to the Common Council from Ward Eight in December, 1916, and has been a mem- 
 ber of several committees of that body. He has also served as a member of one of 
 the Local Selection Boards, Division No. 5, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a mem- 
 ber of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; the Economic Club 
 and the Barristers Club of this city. 
 
 Mr. Mirick married, Octnl.cr 11, 1915, Ruth Lois Goodnovv, of Keene, New 
 Hampshire. 
 
 WILLIAM LEVI BOUSQUET, Business Manager of "L'Opinion Publique," 
 former president of the Board of Aldermen, was born in Marlborough, Massachu- 
 setts, October 10, i86g, son of Jean Levi and Adele (Marchessault) Bousquet. He 
 has resided in this city, however, since he was four years of age and was educated 
 here in the public schools, graduating from the Lamartine street school in 1884. He 
 then learned the printer's trade and was employed for twelve years in the compos- 
 ing rooms of the "Worcester Telegram," "Gazette," "Spy" and "Post." 
 
 Since February 10, i8g6, he has been with the Belisle Printing and Publishing 
 Company of Worcester, first as advertising manager of "L'Opinion Publique," 
 the daily newspaper published in French, and later as business manager, and one 
 of the owners. (See history of "L'Opinion" in Chapter 1). He is now among the 
 oldest advertising men of the city among the daily newspaper men ; is widely known 
 and highly esteemed by the merchants of the city. In politics he is a Republican. 
 He served two years in the Board of Alderman. 1900 and 1901, and in the latter 
 year was the president of the board. In 1910 and 191 1 he was a member of the 
 Board of License Commissioners of the city. Since July. 1917. he has been chair- 
 man of division four of the local board of exemption. He is a member of all the 
 principal French societies, the Knights of Columbus and the Worcester Chamber of 
 Commerce. He is a communicant of the Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Bousquet married, in this city, June 16, 1890, Malvina Emma Desrosiers, 
 who was born here, July 2, 1872. daughter of Leon and Emma (Progin) Desrosiers. 
 Her father was born in Canada, died in Brockton, Massachusetts. Her mother was 
 born in this city, and died in Natick, Massachusetts. They have had eleven chil- 
 dren, of whom nine are living, all born here: Florence Ina, born April 30, 1891, died 
 May 30, 1907; Eulalie Rose, July 19, 1894; Hector Albert. April 5, 1896; Louis Jo- 
 seph, March 21, 1897; Charles Edward, August 10, 1898; X'almore Adelard. April 8, 
 1900; Leo Eugene, July 21, 1902, died February 12. 1903; Beatrice Malvina. born 
 August 8. 1905: Ferdinand Gilbert, October 20, 1906; Claire Corinne, September 3, 
 1909; Victor Alfred, December 28, 1910. 
 
 Jean Levi Bousquet, father of William L. Bousquet, was born in St. Denis. 
 Province of Quebec. Canada, May, 1846; has been in the employ of the Hudson Belt- 
 ing Company for thirty-five years (1918). Adele Marchessault was born in St. 
 Rock, Canada, and is now living in this city. They had thirteen children, of 
 whom seven are living: William Levi, mentioned above; Ovide. a machinist; Frank 
 J., car repairer; Georgiana, who married Edmund Primeau, Jr.; Clara, who mar- 
 ried Michael Miller; Odina. who married Aniedee Cormier; Anna, who married 
 Thomas Newell. All reside in this city excepting Mrs. Cormier. 
 
 Mr. Bousquet is descended from the pioneers of Canada in various lines of 
 ancestry. In the paternal line, Hyacinthe Donat Bousquet, father of Jean Levi 
 Bousquet, was born in St. Denis, Canada, August 7, 1808: the preceding ancestors 
 in this line were: Hyacinthe, born at St. Denis, November 11, 1781 ; Julien, born in 
 \'arennes, Canada, October 6, 1739; Jean-Baptise, born at Varennes, November 26, 
 1702; Pierre, born in Montreal, January 22, 1679; Jean Bousquet. born in Touneins, 
 Agenois, France, in 1646, a master-armor, who came to Montreal, and married there. 
 May II, 1672. 
 
^3j HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 HARRY ARVA COOKE, Department head of the New England Telephone & 
 Teleijraph Company, former member of the Common Council and Board of Alder- 
 man" representative to the I.eneral Court, was born August 8, 1875, at Alstead, New 
 Hampshire son of Oliver Arva and Nettie Ella (Taylor) Cooke, Oliver Arya 
 Cooke was born in Alstead, January 19. 1857, and is now hvmg there, a retired mill- 
 wright- his wife was born in Acworth, New Hampshire, March 4. 1858, 1 hey had 
 two children ■ Harry Ar\ a, mentioned before, and Dean Orren, born January 24, 
 1878, who died at Alstead, October 14, 1894, Mr. Cooke is descended from pioneers 
 of New Ensjland: earlier generaticms located in Tolland, Connecticut. 
 
 He rect^ived his educalinn in the public schools of his native town and the 
 ■S'oung Men's Christian Association school of Worcester. At the age of nineteen 
 he began to serve an apprenticeship in the plumber's trade at Leominster, Massa- 
 chusetts. In 1897 he entered the employ of the New England Telephone & Tele- 
 graph Company as a cal)!e expert with headciuarters at Lowell. Massachusetts. In 
 1906 he was appointed district foreman of the company in this city, and he has 
 continued with the telephone company as head of a department to the present time. 
 Mr. Cooke is a Republican and has always taken an active part in politics. In 1915 
 he served the city as member of the Common Council, and in 1916-17 as an alder- 
 man. In I9i8-I9"he was a representative from his district in the General Court. In 
 1916-17 he was a trustee of the Worcester City Hospital and served on the commit- 
 tee on training school for nurses. He was chairman of the committee on public 
 buildings in 1916-17, and of the fire department, 1916. He is now serving a two year 
 term on the City Planning Board appointed by the mayor. He is a member of St. 
 Paul's Lodge, Ancient Free and .A.ccepted Masons, of Alstead; the Washington 
 Cha|)ter. Royal Arch Masons, of Salem; and the Winslow Lewis Commandery, 
 Knights' Templar, of Salem; of the Tatnuck Club; the Telephone Pioneers of 
 America, the Worcester County Repuldican Club and the Tatnuck Improvement So- 
 ciety. He is a director of The Telephone Employees Association of New England. 
 He "attends the Tatnuck Congregational Church. His home is at No. 23 
 Wrentham road, Tatnuck. Mr. Cooke is a lover of trout and bass fishing, ai\d his 
 vacations are spent at his summer camp in Washington, New Hampshire, where his 
 Worcester friends are frequent visitors. 
 
 Mr. Cooke married, at Saxonville, Massachusetts .February 22. 1903, Mabel 
 Lucv Tillotson. born at Milford, Massachusetts, February 12. 1882, daughter of 
 Fred Selwin and Amy (Marshall) Tillotson, the former named born in Medway, 
 Massachusetts, January 15, 1851, now living in Milford, and the latter named born 
 in Milford, Massachusetts, January 29, 1857, died there, September, i88b. 
 
 JOHN ALEXANDER MAC FADYEN, Physician, surgeon, was born in the 
 parish of Malagawatch, Inverness county. Nova Scotia, Canada. He is descended 
 from "The Celts." Scotch Highlanders, who originally lived in the mountains of 
 Scotland, and he speaks their language fluently, "The Gaelic Language." 
 
 It was on March 25. 1873. that Esq. Donald MacFadyen and his beloved wife, 
 Mary MacKenzie, were blessed by their first born son, John Alexander. His moth- 
 er on seeing him exclaimed in Gaelic "Eain Alistair an Dochtair Mohr;" meaning 
 "John Alexander the Great Physician." "This is my wish for my son, that he be- 
 come a physician." -Augmented by that unflinching and never-quitting spirit in- 
 herent in .Scottish peoples, John Alexander MacFadyen made his own way from 
 boyhood to manhood — from school to college, thus carrying into reality his mother's 
 early wish for him and indeed her final prayer, though she did not live to see it. 
 Leaving him a boy of eight, she passed on in the flower of her life, only thirty-four. 
 Esq. Donald MacF'adyen was born in the same parish, Malagawatch, where he 
 held the office of magistrate. He read law during the winter nights. He was a 
 farmer, and took an active interest in local politics, was a trustee in the Presby- 
 terian church, superintendent of the Sunday school, and studied international law. 
 He died at the age of fifty-nine. 
 
 Esq. MacFadyen's father was born upon the high sea on the passage from 
 Invernesshire, Scotland. His name was also Donald MacFadyen. Dr. MacFadyen's 
 great-grandfather was a cavalryman in the Duke of Wellington's army. The 
 British Government gave him a grant of land in Canada. He received his allot- 
 ment on river Dinnies. Inverness county. Mary (MacKenzie) MacFadyen, Dr. 
 MacFadyen's mother, a tall, poetic type, was born in Middle River, Victoria county, 
 Nova Scotia, Canada. Her father, Alexander MacKenzie, was county sheriflf in 
 Invernessshire, Scotland. He played the violin with excellent mastery of Scot- 
 tish music. From him Dr. MacF'adyen has inherited a very delightful appreciation 
 of music. Of the six children born to Esquire and Mary (MacKenzie) MacFayden, 
 three children passed on, two in early infancy, and one, Annie Bell, who married 
 
.IND ITS PEUPLE 
 
 45.5 
 
 Alexander Campbell. Mary Barbara MacFadyen, sisu-r of Dr. Macl-'adycn. is a 
 trained nurse, a member ot tbe L'nited States .Army Corps of Xnrses. Slii- lives in 
 New York City. Donald MacKtnzie MacFadyen. brtJiber of Dr. .\lacl''adyen. a 
 graduate of Pbillips E.xeter Academy and Bachelor of .Arts at Princeton Universit\. 
 is an oil chemist, president of The Viscosity Company, Incorporated, Xo. ,^4 Wall 
 street. New York City. He is called for his great-,t;reat-grandfatlK'r. w li.i w.is .1 
 veteran of the battles of the Nile and Trafal.ttar, and who contrilniK'd llie first 
 money toward building the first Presbyterian churcli at Malagawatch. 
 
 On landing in the United States, and meeting and admiring tlie .\mrrican ]ko- 
 ple, Dr. MacFadyen at once declared his intentions, and at the earliest possililo 
 date became an enthusiastic and loyal American citizen. The Littir Harbor Gram- 
 mar School in the Parish of Malagawatch gave Dr. MacFadyen his first introduction 
 into the rudiments of his education, from whence he entered the school of practical 
 business, until his own mature judgment directed him to jiursue the medical pro- 
 fession as his life work. He prepared for college at the Boston English High 
 School. In this connection Dr. MacFadyen always voices his very sincere grati- 
 tude to the memory of his friend. Robert Burke, of South Boston, a Harvardnian, 
 who was his preceptor while at and before matriculating at the University of \'er- 
 mont, where be graduated with tbe degree of Doctor of Medicine in lijoO. Tlie 
 three years following his graduation. Dr. Macl-'adyen spent in intense study in med- 
 icine and surgery, taking at the Long Island Hospital, Boston, a term as interne. 
 At St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, New York, he studied one year and a lialf, until 
 1909. Since then he has taken post-graduate courses at various hospitals. On .Au- 
 gust 29, 1909, he hung the modest sign bearing his name at Xo. 118 Belmont street, 
 in this city. He is a member of Worcester District Medical Society: the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society; the American Medical .Association; the Washington 
 Lodge, Free and .Accepted Masons, of Burlington. Vermont; and the Worcester 
 Order of Scottish Clans. 
 
 PLUMMER JOEL HENDERSON, Business man, heatin.g engineer and con- 
 tractor, of the firm of P, J. Henderson Companv. was born in Rollinsford. New 
 Hampshire, July 19, 1858, son of Charles H. anil Mary .Ann (Cater) Henderson. 
 Charles H. Henderson was a farmer, born in Strafford. Xew Hampshire, died in 
 West Chelmsford when past forty years old, having movid from bis birthplace 
 when his son, Plummer J., was a small boy. 
 
 The boyhood of Plummer J. Henderson was spent on the homestead. He re- 
 ceived his education in tbe public schools of Lowell, Massachusetts, and of Dover, 
 New Hampshire. When he was sixteen years old, he began an apprenticeship in the 
 shops of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company at Portland, Maine, and advanced 
 step by step to the post of locomotive engineer. He left railroading. May 15, 1887, 
 to enter the employ of E. G. & E. Wallace Shoe Manufacturing Company, of Ro- 
 chester. New Hampshire, as chief engineer in charge of the mechanical plant, and 
 retained that position until he came to Worcester, May 21, IQ04, to become manager 
 of the local branch of the steam heating and supply house of Braman, Dow Com- 
 pany. He continued in charge of this business for eleven years, resigning finally 
 to engage in business on his own account. He estalilished his present business at 
 No, 171 Foster street, in April, 1915, under the name of P. J. Henderson Comiiany, 
 heating engineers and contractors in partnership with Raymond W. .Stearns. Tlie 
 company deals in steam, gas and water supplies, radiators, valves, etc., and installs 
 steam, water, and vapor heating plants, making a specialty of factory-heating ap- 
 paratus. He is a member of Motelena Lodge, X'o. ji. .Ancient Free and .Accepted 
 Masons, of Rochester, New Hampshire; Stella Chapter. Order of the Eastern Star, 
 of Worcester; and Aletheia Grotto of this city. He is a communicant of Piedmont 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Henderson married at Lowell, Massachusetts. September 30. 18S0, Sadie A. 
 Randall, daughter of Jeremiah and Lois J. (Clark) Randall. Mr. and Airs. Hender- 
 son had one son, LeRoy Plummer, bom May 16. 1S84, who cbed m bis eighteenth 
 year while a stuiUiit at high scliool. 
 
 HAROLD ALBERTUS JOHNSON, Treasurer of 'fhe Bancroft Textile Com- 
 pany, manufacturers of tapes and other narrow fabrics, was born in Jewett City, 
 Connecticut, .August 8, 1877, son of Samuel X. Johnson, a farmer, who was born in 
 Montville, Connecticut, September i. 1852. 
 
 Mr. Johnson's early education was received in tlie common schools at Mont- 
 ville Center and in the evening schools of the Young Men's Christian .Association, 
 stipplemented by a thorough course in textile designing in the Internation.il Cor- 
 respondence Schools, completed, according to the date of his diploma. March 25, 
 
454 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 1904 He had previously entered the textile business in 1892 in the mills of the 
 Massasoit Manufacturing Company in Oakdale, Connecticut and for two years was 
 a cotton spinner. For a short time he worked in the Brooksidc Mills in Uakdale. 
 In 1895 he began to learn the silk business at the mills of the Brainerd & Arm- 
 strong Company, in New London, Connecticut. He was then seventeen years old. 
 After two years as office boy and assistant, he entered the weaving department and 
 learned to weave broad silks, continuing in this department for nine years, during 
 seven of which he was the assistant superintendent. He resigned this Position to 
 become inspector of silk looms for the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works of Wor- 
 cester. After the death of Henry \l. Witter and his son, the owners of the mill 
 conducted for many years under the name of H. M. Witter & Company at No. 470 
 Park avenue in this city, Mr. Johnson took advantage of the opportunity to engage 
 in business as a manufacturer, and organized a new corporation known as The 
 Bancroft Textile Companv to purchase the plant and business. Since then he has 
 been treasurer of the companv and general manager. This concern manufactures 
 tapes, webbings and other narrow fabrics in great variety. The new corporation 
 has enjoyed a high degree of prosperity and shown a steady growth. Mr. Johnson 
 is also treasurer of the J. B. Sales Company, a partnership recently formed in this 
 city to deal in and manufacture braids, cotton yarns, waste and other merchandise 
 of similar kinds. The office of both concerns is at No. 470 Park avenue. 
 
 Mr. Johnson married Elizabeth Whittaker, who was born at St. John, New 
 Brunswick, March 27, 1877. They have one child, H. Earl, born May 10, 1903, now 
 a student in the Worcester High School of Commerce. Mr. Johnson's home is No. 
 24 Westfield street. 
 
 HARRY CHERRILL COLEY, Secretary and treasurer of the Howard Broth- 
 ers Manufacturing Company, was born in this city. April 5, 1885, son of Henry and 
 Ellen (Cherrill) Coley. He received his education here in the public schools, grad- 
 uating from the grarnmar school in 1899, and beginning his business career in the 
 same year as office boy for Howard Brothers Manufacturing Company, at 44 Vine 
 street. He was promoted step by step, eventually becoming book-keeper and hav- 
 ing charge of the office. In 191 1 he was elected secretary of the corporation and 
 since 1916 he has been treasurer. This company manufactures card clothing. Her- 
 bert Midgley is president (see biography). Mr. Coley is prominent in musical cir- 
 cles. He was the first boy chosen for the choir of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church 
 when it was organized in 1895, and he has been actively connected with the choir of 
 that church since then. At present he is the choir master. In other departments of 
 that church he has been an earnest worker, and has been a teacher in its Sunday 
 school, was a former director of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. He is a member 
 of the W'orcester Rotary Club ; the Credit Men's Association, of which he was one 
 of the founders and the first president; of Morning Star Lodge, Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons. 
 
 Mr. Coley married, in this city, January 24, 1910, Florence M. Dodge, who was 
 born in this city, a daughter of Walter E. and Margaret (Waring) Dodge. Her 
 father is a retired grocer. Both parents reside in Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Coley 
 reside at No. 48 Kenwood avenue. They have four children : Virginia, born Janu- 
 ary 7, 1911; Margaret Cherrill, born August 11, 1912; Elizabeth, born September 2, 
 1913 ; Harriet, born May 12, 1916. 
 
 Henry Coley, father of Harry C. Coley, was born at Kidderminster, England, 
 and came to this country in 1882, locating in this city; always in the carpet business 
 and now with M. J. Whittall, carpet manufacturer, of W^orcester ; married, in Eng- 
 land, Ellen Cherrill, and had five children, all of whom are living: I. Nellie, mar- 
 ried D. C. Macdonald, of this city, and has two children, Dorothy and Paul. 2. Alice, 
 married John W'ade, of this city, and has a son, Paul Wade. 3. Harry C, men- 
 tioned above. 4. Ida May, married Harold De.xter, and has a son, Henry ; now 
 living at Akron, Ohio. 5. C. Howard, graduate of the South High School, 1918; 
 now clerk with the Park Trust Company. 
 
 WILLIAM ARTER, Mechanical and electrical engineer, former chief engineer 
 of the Bradley Car Works, president and general manager of the Arter Machine 
 Company, was born in 1879 in Lancashire, England. He attended the Manchester 
 Technical School and the Horwich Technical Institute, in Lancashire, .'\fter leav- 
 ing school he gained invaluable experience and training in the shops of the Lan- 
 cashire & Yorkshire Railway Company, working in the forge, machine shop, erecting, 
 rnotor and telegraph departments. He was then promoted to the mechanical en- 
 giiieering department and after a time transferred to the electrical department. 
 W'hile here he was of material assistance in installing the electric system of the 
 
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 Liverpool & Southport Railway. He was also at this period appointed lecturer on 
 electrical and mechanical engineering at the Horwich Railway Mechanics' Insti- 
 tute. 
 
 In the hope of finding a better field for his profession, he catne to this country 
 in February, 1908, and began work immediately as a machinist for the Westing- 
 house Company in the installing of the electric power system on the New N'ork. 
 New Haven & Hartford Railroad, from New 'Sork to Stamford, Connecticut, but 
 in less than four hours he was sent to the drafting room and within three weeks 
 was made a special engineer on the new electric locomotive work, engaged in de- 
 veloping new ideas ; in two months he was appointed assistant to G. L. Crouse, 
 chief inspector for the Westinghouse Company. Mr. Arter resigned his position in 
 the Westinghouse Company in 1909 to become chief draftsman for the Long Island 
 Railroad, and in 1910 he came to \\'orcester as chief engineer of the Bradley Car 
 Works at the time of the great expansion of this company in the new plant at 
 Greendale. He resigned in 1914 and associated himself with Bernard E. Delle in 
 developing a rotary valve engine for the Prentice Brothers Company of this city. 
 While awaiting results from this new en.gine, he was for a time engaged as designer 
 for the Heald Machine Company of this city. Here he Iiecame impressed with the 
 possibilities of the grinding machine, and in 1914 organized'the Persons-Arter Ma- 
 chine Company, which in February, 1918, became the Arter Machine Company. The 
 factory and offices are at No. 72 Commercial street in this city. In December, 1914, 
 a rotary surface grinder was designed and it was perfected and put on the market in 
 June. 1915. Its success was instantaneous, and in two years the new" company sold 
 machines of this pattern to the value of about $200,000. The conii)any has a very 
 promising future. 
 
 Mr. Arter seems to have inherited his mechanical skill and inventive abilities. 
 William Arter, his grandfather, organized the Society of Boiler-Makers of Man- 
 chester, England, and was number one of the lodge. In appreciation of his services 
 to this society, he was given an illuminated address and a large silver medal. He 
 was a skillful artisan, and was in later life general manager of the arsenal at 
 Genoa. Italy. In recognition of his work for the government he received from the 
 king of Italy a bronze medal that he highly prized. He died and was buried in 
 Genoa. 
 
 William Arter, of Worcester, is a member of Morning Star Lodge. Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons, and of Eureka Chapter. Royal Arch Masons, of this 
 city; also of the Steam Engine Makers Society (England). In religion he is an 
 Episcopalian. 
 
 Mr. Arter married, at Blackrod Lance, England, in 1903. Annie Tattersall, who 
 was born in Middleton. England, daughter of Samuel and Emma (Barlow) Tatter- 
 sall. Her father was also a native of Middleton. an accountant for the Lancashire 
 & Yorkshire Railway Company: retired from active life since 1914. Her mother 
 was a native of Middleton. Mr. and Mrs. Arter have three children : Harry, born 
 July I, 1904. at Horwich. England; Norman. June 24, 1905, at Horwich; William, 
 Jr., February 11, 1917, in this city. Mr. Arter resides at No. 540 Salisbury street. 
 
 WilliaiTi Arter's father, of the saine name, was born in Patricroft. Lancashire, 
 and served an apprenticeship with the famous Nasmyth concern, afterward gaining 
 experience in various other large manufacturing works and the Lancashire & York- 
 shire Railway in the locomotive works. He married Jane Dower, a native of Corn- 
 wall. Their children were: Harry, deceased; Fred, was in this country at the lie- 
 ginning of the war. went to England to enlist, served in the Dardanelles campaign 
 in the navy, now in the Navy Corps in Scotland; Albert, deceased. 
 
 WILLIAM ALLEN UNDERWOOD, .Assistant treasurer and general inanager 
 of B. S. Roy & Son Company. No. 775 Southbridge street. Worcester. Massachusetts, 
 manufacturers of textile and paper mill grinding machinery, was born in Worces- 
 ter. .A.ugust 29. 1888. son of John Amos and Ellen Josephine (Ryan) L'nderwood. 
 
 The surname L'nderwood is of ancient English origin, derived from a descrip- 
 tive name of a locality, and therefore probably not confined to one family. The 
 coats-of-arms of the Underwoods are similar and the armigerous L'nderwoods are 
 probably related. The armorials of the Underwood family of Bixley is described: 
 
 Arms — Sable on a fess ermine between three annulets or a lion passant guardant 
 sable. 
 
 Cresl — A hind's head or encircled by wreath vert. 
 
 The Underwoods of Bixley are traced as far as 1177 in the Harleian Manu- 
 script. Bixley is in County Norfolk, and 1177 is about the period when surnames 
 were coming into use in England. A branch of the family located in Weston, Hert- 
 fordshire, about 1350. and bore a similar coat-of-arms. Branches of the f;miily lo- 
 
456 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 cated early in London, in Ireland and elsewhere in England. There were no less than 
 six pioneer families of Underwood in Xew England, namely: i. The Watertown 
 family descended from Joseph Underwood, the immigrant settler in Hingham, ad- 
 mitted freeman in Watertown in 1645. 2. The Lincoln family, mentioned below. 3. 
 The Chelmsford family, descendants of William Underwood, of Concord, 1652. 4. 
 The Boston family, descendants of John L'nderwood, who first appeared in the rec- 
 ords in Boston in 1680, had descendants in Rhode Island and Connecticut. 5. The 
 Newcastle, Xew Hampshire, family descended from John Underwood and wife 
 Temperance. They probably came from England. He was in Newcastle in 1714. 
 6. The Rhode Island familv, descended iTinn Henrv L'nderwood, of Newport, in 
 1665. 
 
 Thomas Underwood, of AVatertown, brother of Joseph Underwood, born in 
 England, came to this country in 1635, first settled at Hingham, later at Dorchester, 
 and finally in Watertown in 1651. He was admitted a freeman in 1637, and was 
 deputy to the General Court in 1636 and 1638 from Hingham. In 1656 he was elected 
 selectman from Watertown. His will was dated February 15, 1668, and proved 
 April 7, 1668. 
 
 (Ij Thomas Underwood, progenitor of the Lincoln fainily, was doubtless re- 
 lated in some degree to Thomas L'nderwood, mentioned above. At any rate he 
 came to the same town about 1660, and in 1669 married Magdalen Underwood, widow 
 of Thomas Underwood, mentioned above. Various accounts of the Underwood 
 family have confused the Thomas Underwoods one with another and the genealogi- 
 cal puzzle that they left to the family historian is almost unique. Magdalen has 
 two husbands of the same name, but children by neither. In his will Thomas Under- 
 wood is designated as a gentlemen, a word that at that time indicated high social 
 position of some sort. 
 
 (II) Thomas (2) Underwood, only son of Thomas (i) Underwood by his first 
 wife, was born in England. Almost the entire information we have of this man is 
 contained in his father's will, and in a deed of his farm in Lexington, March 10, 
 1718, to his son Joseph, mentioned below. Thomas Underwood died at Lexington, 
 February 16, 1743, and his wife Mary, January 15, 1742. 
 
 (III) Joseph Underwood, son of Thomas (,2) Underwood, was born about 
 1695-98, and died intestate, April 27, 1760. The probate papers relating to his estate 
 mentioned Peter, Joseph, mentioned below, Joshua, Elijah, Israel, Moses and Ruth, 
 children of Joseph. His widow Ruth died June 23, 1775, at Lincoln, Massachusetts. 
 
 (IV) Joseph (2) Underwood, second son of Joseph (i) Underwood, was bap- 
 tized at Lexington, March 3, 1723. and died April 25, 1760. He married (first), 
 February 26, 1746, Anna Baker, of Waltham, who died May 30, 1749. He married 
 (second) Eunice Smith, June 4. 1750, who was admitted to the church in Lexington, 
 July 6, 1760. Children of first wife were: Samuel, mentioned below, and Joseph. 
 Children by the second wife were four girls and one boy. 
 
 (V) Samue! Underwood, son of Joseph (2) Underwood, was born at Waltham, 
 Massachusetts, November 21. 1747. bajitized at Lexington. November 29, 1747. He 
 removed to Halifax, Vermont, and followed farming there until he died. May 23, 
 1819. His home, however, was near Colerain. Massachusetts. His children were: 
 Subraitty, born 1770; Joseph. 1772-1790; Hannah, 1773; Eunice, 1775; Betsy, 
 1777-1785; Sally, 1779; I'olly: Nathan; Moses, mentioned below; Abi, and Amos, 
 1791. 
 
 . ^y^'' M"ses Underwood, s..n of Samuel Underwood, was born 1785, and settled 
 m North Heath, Massachusetts, about the time of his first marriage. He was a 
 farmer. He died February 10. 1871. He married (first) in 1816, Sarah Winn. He 
 married (second) Diana Harris. Children bv first wife were: Rhoda. 1818-1855; 
 Samuel. 1819-1844; Eunice, 1821-1865: Levi, mentioned below. Children by second 
 wife w-ere: John H., 1844: Henry Martin, 1850; Mary Maria, 1858; Jennie Elizabeth, 
 i860: Charles Edward, 1862; Rose Minerva, 1864. 
 
 (VII) Levi Underwood, son of Moses Underwood, was born March 10, 1829. at 
 North Heath, Massachusetts, and died at Readsboro, Vermont, October 13 1871. 
 He was a farmer at Readsboro. He married Mary E. Davis, who was born at 
 yv-hitinghani Vermont, daughter of Moses and Betsy (Doane) Davis, who came 
 from Cape Cod. Children were : William Lewis, born in i8'^3 ; Martha Louisa, born 
 1856. died in 1902; Flora: John Amos, mentioned below; and .A.nna, who died aged 
 five years. 
 
 (^'^'^^^ John Amos X'nderwood, son of Levi Underwood, was born in Reads- 
 boro Vermont, January 30, 1864. A part of his boyhood was spent in the town of 
 Readsboro, Vermont. He attended the public schools of Colerain. At the age of 
 eighteen years he came to Worcester. Massachusetts, where he has since resided. 
 He IS with the W. H. Sawyer Lumber Company and has been in the employ of the 
 
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 Sawyer interests tor over thirty years. In iiolilics he is a Kr|nililicaii. He married, 
 August 25, 1887, Ellen Josephine Kyan. The children, all horn in Worcester, were: 
 William Allen, mentioned below; Andrew Ambrose, born November 8, lH8g, who 
 is with the Frank Mossberg Company, Attleboro, Massachusetts, press steel manu- 
 facturers; Mary FU)ra, born March Ji, 189J, graduate nurse of Massachusetts Gen- 
 eral Hospital, Boston; Ruth Anna, horn October 25, 1893. school teacher in the 
 public schools of Worcester; Kathcrine Florence, b<irn February 19, 1903; (irace 
 Helen, born May 13, 1908. 
 
 (IX) William Allen Underwood, son of John Amos Underwood, attended the 
 public grammar schools, and was graduated from the English High School with 
 the class of igoO. He than took a course in the Worcester Business Institute. He 
 began his business career in the cost department of the F. E. Reed Comi)any, ma- 
 chine builders, where he contiiuied for six months. During the next half year he 
 was employed as stenographer in the office of the Goes Wrench Company of Wor- 
 cester. In !Marcli. 1908, he entered the employ of the Riverside Mills, spinners of 
 worsted and mohair yarns, at No. 775 Southbridge street, Worcester, bcgimiing as 
 stenographer. He was gradually given a large degree of responsibility, and in 
 1914 was made general manager of the business. The firms of B. S. Roy & Son 
 and Riverside Mills were controlled by Sylvanus B. Roy, and on account of it being 
 closely allied Mr, Underwood gradually assumed the management of B. S. Roy & 
 Son. The firm of B. S. Roy was founded in 1868, and on admission of the son, 
 Sylvanus B. Roy, it was known as B. S. Roy & Son. In 1915 it was incorporated, 
 and Mr. Underwood was made assistant treastirer. Mr. Underwood has from time 
 to time made improvements in machinery, designing in particular the U & Z Portable 
 Calender Roll (irinder for the purpose of grinding paper mill calenders without 
 dismantling the machines. This machine is now bein.g manufactured by the B. S. 
 Roy & Son Company. 
 
 Mr. Underwood is a memlier fi Moiuacute Lodge, .\ncient Free and Accepted 
 Masons: Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch I^Iasons ; Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters: Worcester County Commandery. No. 5: the ."Metheia Gmtto, No. 13, M. 
 O. V. P. E. R. ; Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; 
 Central Lodge, No. 168, Independent Order of Odd Fellows : the Tatassit Canoe 
 Club, the United Commercial Travellers Association, the Worcester Chamber of 
 Commerce, the Lakeside Boat Club, the Worcester Fish and Game .'\ssociation, the 
 Rotar\- Club. In piilitics he is a Republican. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY LINCOLN, Writer, historian, was born in Millbury, 
 Massachusetts. .-Kpril 22. 1869, son of Dr. William Henry and Eunice Ann (Read) 
 Lincoln. Dr. William Henry Lincoln, father of Dr. Lincoln, was horn August 19, 
 1825, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and died October 14, 1892, in Millbury. He 
 graduated from Bowdoin Medical School in 1856, and practiced medicine at Turner, 
 Maine, and Hubbardston, Massachusetts, until 1862 ; enlisted. May 27, 1862, and 
 served as surgeon of the Seventh Regiment, Alassachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 
 until discharged June 27, 1864: then settled in Millbury where he enjoyed an ex- 
 tensive medical and surgical practice until the time of his death; married Eunice 
 Ann Read, who was born in Rutland. Massachusetts, February 7, 1837. Dr. Lincoln 
 is a descendant of early Massachusetts stock: in the paternal line froni Thomas 
 Lincoln, "the miller." wJio came to Hingham, Massachusetts, from Knyhind. in 
 1635- 
 
 Charles H. Lincoln attended the public schools in Millbury and Worcester 
 Academy, from which he graduated in 1889. He entered Harvard College, grad- 
 uating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1893. In 1894 he received the degree 
 of Master of Arts from Harvard L'niversity, and in 1896 the degree of Doctor of 
 Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He has devoted his life to work 
 in the field of American history. After graduating he taugh history and economics 
 at Bates College. Lewiston, Maine, ni 1894 and 1895: afterward he served two 
 years as senior fellow in American history with work of instruction in the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania. Afterward he was in the manuscripts division of the Library 
 of Congress at Washington, D. C. from 1898 to 1907, engaged in arranging, calen- 
 daring and editing for publication historical manuscripts. In 1907 he was engaged 
 by the American .■\ntiquarian Society for similar work upon the manuscripts of that 
 institution, since which time he has supervised the publication of some of its most 
 valuable documents. Since 1910 Mr. Lincoln has been engaged as archivist and 
 historian along the same lines, but in a broader field of work. Among his published 
 books are : "The Revolutionary Movement in Pennsylvania :" "Naval Records of the 
 American Revolution ;" "A (Zalendar of John Paul Jones Manuscripts ;" "Manu- 
 script Records of the French and Indian War;" "The Correspondence of William 
 
458 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts:" "Early Narratives of the French and Indian 
 Wars;" beside various magazine articles in history. During 1914 and 1915 he 
 gathered for the National government the originals or secured photostat copies of 
 the original manuscripts in Massachusetts concerning its participation in the Revo- 
 lutionary War. In 1916 and 1917 he began to arrange and calendar for the Univer- 
 sity of Illinois its collection of historical manuscripts, a work interrupted by the 
 entrance of the United States into the world war and the consequent limitation of 
 the activities of the university along this line. Mr. Lincoln has also assisted vari- 
 ous other authors in gathering material for historical publications, and written re- 
 views of numerous volumes of like character. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the executive committee of 
 the Worcester branch of the National Security League ; member of the University 
 Club of Washington; the Worcester Congregational Club; Worcester Economic 
 Club; Harvard Club of Worcester; the American Historical Association; Associa- 
 tion of Doctors of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania; Naval History 
 Society; Worcester Society of Antiquity; the Historical Manuscripts Commission 
 of the American Historical Association ; also of the Central Congregational Church, 
 and of its pulpit supply committee, and treasurer of the committee on Soldiers and 
 Sailors from Central Church lately in the service of the United States. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln married, in Lewiston. Maine, August 28, igoi, Mary Frances An- 
 gell, who was born at North Scituate, Rhode Island, July 29, 1868, daughter of 
 Thomas L. and Emily (Brown) Angell. Her father was born in Greenville, Rhode 
 Island, November 10, 1837; graduated from Brown University in 1862; studied 
 abroad; was for thirty years Professor of Modern Languages in Bates College. 
 Her mother. Emily (Brown) Angell. was born at Johnston, Rhode Island, Novem- 
 ber 22. 1836, died December 23, 1901. 
 
 SAMUEL H. KIMBALL, Mason and contractor, was born on his father's farm 
 on May street in tliis city, January 22, 1845, son of Leonard and Harriet (Sturte- 
 vant) Kimball. Leonard Kimball came here when a boy with his parents; attended 
 tlie public schools here ; had a farm of twenty-five acres on May street, where he 
 followed farming all his active life. In politics he was a Whig, active in public af- 
 fairs. He was a member of Old South Church. He married Harriet Sturtevant, 
 of this city, March 8, 1831. They had four sons: David, born July i, 1832; Henry 
 Daniel. October 27, 1837; Jusiah, October 16, 1839; Samuel H., January 22, 1845. 
 His line of ancestry was Leonard (7), Daniel (6), Thomas (5), Ephraim (4), 
 Ephraim (3), Richard (2), Richard (i). Richard Kimbal, the pioneer, was from 
 Rattlesden, County Suffolk, England, coming to this coimtry in 1634 in the ship 
 "Elizabeth" with wife and children. He was then thirty-nine years old. He set- 
 tled in Ipswich, after a shiirt stay at Watertown. He died in 1675. (See Kimball 
 Genealogy). 
 
 Samuel H. Kimball received his education here in the public schools, and then 
 learned the mason's trade as apprentice to Alvin Burgess. He has followed this 
 trade, as apprentice journeyman and master mason, to the present time. He worked 
 when a young man on many of the buildings that now are classed among the old 
 buildings of the city. He was employed in the building of the county jail, and the 
 Parker building. Main street. During most of his life he has been in business on 
 his own account as a mason and general contractor. He has had the contracts for 
 the foundations and plastering of a very large number of the dwelling houses erect- 
 ed in the city in the past forty or fifty years. His office and residence have always 
 been on the homestead at No. 81 May street. Mr. Kimball has always been a Re- 
 publican, and been active in the support of his party. He is a man of public spirit. 
 He is a member of the Dewey Street Baptist Church. 
 
 Mr. Kimball married (first), in this city, Helen F. Spring, who died in 
 1910, a daughter of John W. Spring, a shoemaker of Sterling. Children: 
 
 I. Henry, deceased. 2. Mabel E.. born April ig. 1866; married. May 12, 1887, Alon- 
 zo F. Hoyle; children: Ralph A., born March 20, 1888; Grace E., July 30. 1890; 
 Everett S.. May 22, 1894; Chester S., August 14, 1903. 3. Arthur W., born October 
 24, 1869; resides in Boston; married, 1891, Sadie Feyit, one daughter living, born 
 September 10, 1895. 4. H. Fannie, born September 11. 1872; married, July 26. 1893, 
 Joseph H. Clarkson ; children: William H., born May 10, 1896; Raymond J., August 
 
 II, 1902; Harold K., June 2, 1904; Walter W., January 22, 1906; Mvron H., March 
 16, 1907. 5. Mamie S., born March 27, 1875; married, 'May 2, 1907. Herman S. Ser- 
 pent; she kept house for her father until her death. November g, 1915. 6. Charles 
 H., born December 31, 1877; married, January 2, 1899, Lillian Rogers. Mr. Kimball 
 married (second) March, 1915, Josephine (Hughes-Andrews) Burke, of Boston, 
 widow of Andrews and Burke, having had two children bv her first 
 
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 marriage: Herbert C. Andrews, deceased, and Harriet Andrews, wlw inarriod 
 
 Thompson, of this city. 
 
 GEORGE IRA ALDEN, President of the Norton Company atiil tlie Norton 
 Grinding Company, former professor in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was 
 born in Templetoii, April JJ. 1843. He is a descendant of John and Priscilla (Mo- 
 lines) Alden, who came in the "Mayflower," and of other of the first settlers in the 
 Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies. 
 
 He attended tlie public schools of his native town and prepared fnr college there 
 in the high school, entering the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, from 
 which he was graduated in the class of 1868 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 Subsequently he received in 1891 from Sibley College, Cornell University, the de- 
 gree of Master jMechanical Engineer. Before he received his technical training at 
 Cambridge, however, he learned the wood-w-orkers trade and worked in various 
 shops. After graduation he was for a time in the summer and autumn of 1868 assist- 
 ant to Professor Winlock, director of the Harvard College Observatory. In No- 
 vember, 1868, he came to Worcester as a teacher in the Worcester County Free 
 Institute of Industrial Science, later known as the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
 From that time until 1896, a period of twenty-seven years, he was the head of the 
 mechanical engineering department of that institution. He made the plans for the 
 buildings and equipment of the engineering, power and hydraulic laboratories, erect- 
 ed at the institute in 1895. He was twice made acting president. He sliared with 
 the late Milton P. Higgins and others the honor of placing the institute among the 
 foremost technical schools of the country. Professor Alden was gifted by nature as 
 a teacher ; he loved the work and he won the esteem and love of the students that 
 came under his instruction. But he was more than a mere teacher; he was an in- 
 ventor and creator, blazing his way along new paths, a pioneer in the field of techni- 
 cal education, combining science and industry, putting theories into practice in his 
 laboratories. 
 
 Mr. Alden and Mr. Higgins were the founders of the Norton Emery Wheel 
 Company, an outgrowth of F. B. Norton's pottery in Worcester, developed into a 
 great industry, the history of wdiich is given elsewdiere in this work, now known as 
 the Norton Company. Subsequently they organized the Norton Grinding Company. 
 Both plants are located at Greendale. near Barber's Crossing. In 1893 the Inisiness 
 of the Grant Corundum Wheel Manufacturing Company of Chester was purchased 
 by the Norton Emery Wheel Company. Subsequently a large plant was erected 
 at Niagara Falls, New York, operated by electric power, manufacturing newly-in- 
 vented materials for making grinding wheels. A branch of this business was also 
 established at Chippewa, Canada, and a grinding wheel plant at Wesseling, Ger- 
 many. Since 1896 Mr. Alden has been actively connected with the Norton Company 
 as a director and for several years he was treasurer. He is now (1917) president 
 of the Norton Company and of the Norton Grinding Company and general manager 
 of the latter. From 1896 to 1901 he was a director and treasurer of the Plunger 
 Elevator Company, an industry originating in the Polytechnic Institute. The manu- 
 facture of elevators in the Washburn shops of the institute had become too exten- 
 sive an industry for an educational institution, in the opinion of the trustees, and 
 when it was decided to sell the business Mr. Higgins, who was chiefly responsible 
 for creating the business, became the purchaser, and with Mr. .A.lden continued it in 
 a factory at Greendale. The business was incorporated in 1896 with a capital of 
 $50,000 and Professor Alden was the first treasurer. This business was sold to the 
 Otis Elevator Company. Mr. Alden is at present (1917) a director of the Norton 
 Company, the Norton Grinding Company, the Mechanics National Bank and of 
 the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a trustee of the Worcester 
 Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 His interest in education did not cease when he resigned his chair at the insti- 
 tute. For many years he was a member of the school committee ni Worcester and 
 for two years was chairman. In various educational societies he has been an active 
 and prominent member. He is at present a trustee of the Worcester Trade Schools, 
 in the founding, and development of which both he and Mr. Higgins were keenly 
 interested and influential. 
 
 Mr. Alden has travelled extensively in this country and abroad. In 1889 he 
 made an extended visit in Europe, studying technical schools and other institutions 
 in England and Germany and the Paris Exposition. He is a member of the American 
 Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Worcester County Branch of the National 
 Metal Trades Association, and of the Worcester County Employers .Association. He 
 has been for many years a member and deacon of a Congregational church, and at 
 one time was superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics he has always been 
 a Republican. 
 
46o HISruRY OF Jl'ORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Alden married (first) Mary Elizabeth Lincoln, born July i8, 1853, died 
 November, 1876, daughter of William and Maria Allen Lincoln. He married (sec- 
 ond), Martha A. Broad, born 1843. died May, 1898, daughter of Lewis P. and Martha 
 (Sawin) Broad. He married (third). May 29. 1900, Leah Warren, a native of Bris- 
 tol, England, daughter of Franci.s William and Eliza B. Warren. He has one daugh- 
 ter, Clara Louise, born .April 26, 1873, graduate of Wellesley College in 1897. His 
 home is at \o. 48 Queen street. Worcester. 
 
 FRANKLIN BLACKMER NORTON, Inventor of the Xorton Emery Wheel, 
 was born in Bennington, Bennington county. \'ermont. May 23, 1829, died in this 
 city, January 6, 1886: son of John and Persis (Smith) Norton.' His grandfather, 
 John Norton, established the first pottery in \'ermont in 1793. and at last accounts 
 it was still owned and operated by his descendants. It was known as the United 
 States Potterv. and located in Bennington. The Norton ancestry extends in various 
 paternal and 'maternal lines to the pioneers of New England. Norton is an ancient 
 and honored English family, the first settler of which came to New England before 
 1640. John Norton, Sr. was a soldier in the Revolution and took part in the battle 
 of Bennington. John Norton, Jr. was a general merchant and prominent citizen of 
 Bennington, where he died on his farm in 1850. Captain Jonathan Buel, another an- 
 cestor of Mr. Norton, was also a soldier in the Revolution, descendant of a line of 
 prominent men. 
 
 Franklin B. Norton spent his boyhood on his father's farm, and attended the 
 district school of Bennington. He was afterward a student in Union Academy in 
 that town. At the age of si.xteen he began to work in the office of the "Benning- 
 ton Banner." Two years later he began to learn the potter's trade in the employ of 
 C. \^'. Kenton at East Bennington. He came to this city in 1858, and in partnership 
 with Frederick Hancock established a pottery at Washington square, manufactur- 
 ing stoneware of all kinds. The firm name. F. B. Norton & Company, became widely 
 known and prospered. In 1876 Mr. Hancock retired and Mr. Norton was sole pro- 
 prietor until the time of his death. In 1866 he moved the pottery to Water street. 
 In 1876 he began to manufacture an emery wheel patented by him in that year and 
 this department of his business became important. He sold his patents to the Nor- 
 ton Emery Wheel Company. After his death the stoneware business was continued 
 by his sons, Myron P. and John F., for eight years. He was active in public affairs ; a 
 Republican in politics, and served in the Common Council in 1861, 1862 and 1865. 
 
 Mr. Norton married, in 1850, Jane C. Fenton, daughter of Richard Lucas Fen- 
 ton, of Bennington, The Fentons were also potters. Children : i. Alida J., married 
 George E. Rice ; Myron P., afterward in the emery wheel business in Philadelphia ; 
 John F.. manager of his father's estate for many years ; Flora J., married F. A. 
 keyes, of Philadelphia; Arthur H., of the .Abrasive Material Company, Philadelphia; 
 Frederick, died in 1896; George, of Boston. 
 
 The Norton Company, The Norton Grinding Company. Norton Emery Wheel 
 Company. 
 
 A corporation composed of Milton P. Higgins, George I. Alden, Walter L. 
 Messer, Horace A. Yoimg and Fred H. Daniels, organized June 20, 1885. bought the 
 patents of Franklin B. Norton and began to make emery wheels. (For further de- 
 tails see biographies of the founders and Mr. Norton). In July, 1886, the com- 
 pany began to erect works at Barber's Crossing and the building was occupied in 
 the following winter. W. L. !Messer was general agent. In 1887 the company ad- 
 vertised in the city directory: "Manufacturers of Emery and Corundum \Mieels, 
 Emery Wheel Machinery, etc." "These wheels contain nothing but cutting prop- 
 erties. Free from dust or smell. Will not glaze or fill up. Are of great endurance 
 on hard work. W'ill work equally well wet or dry." Factory and main office (cut 
 shows the original building) West Boylston street. City office with Kinnicutt & 
 Company. 420 Main street; New York office, 39 John Street. The plant had 17,280 
 feet of floor space and two kilns. 
 
 Changes in 1892 made the list of officers as follows : President. Milton P. Hig- 
 gins ; treasurer, George I. Alden ; secretary and general manager, Charles L. Allen 
 (see biography) ; John Jeppson, general superintendent (see biography). Since then 
 Aldus C. Higgins, George N. Jeppson and R. Sanford Riley (see biographies) have 
 been added to the board of directors. The Norton Emery Wheel Company changed 
 its name to The Northern Company in 1906, capital S20.000. In 1917, capital $3,000,000. 
 Charles L. .Mien is treasurer and general manager. The plant has been extended 
 from time to time and is now one of the largest in the city, thoroughly modern both 
 in buildings and equipment. The company employs 4,500 hands in 1917, of whom 
 3.665 are in the Norton Works, the others in tlie Grinding Company works. 
 
 In addition to the Worcester Works, the Norton Company operates two elec- 
 
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 trie furnace abrasive plants, une at Niagara Falls, New York, the otlu-r al Chip- 
 pewa, Ontario, Canada; a plant at Bauxite. Arkansas, for the preparation iM" P>aux- 
 ite ore, and a grinding wheel plant at Wesseling, Germany. In lyiO tliese plants 
 produced 26,000 tons of abrasives, alundum and crystolon, and an additional eipiip- 
 ment in 1917 will raise the capacity to about 50,000 tons. The Norton plant in this 
 city had a Hoor space of 1,214,940 square feel in 1917, and additions in the course 
 of construction of more than 125,000 feet. There are eighty-two kilns in use. 
 
 The Norton Company has led in the modern movement to care for the health 
 of employees, providing medical service and supervision and guarding against acci- 
 dents. (See Earl B. Morgan). The most unique among its welfare projects is the 
 Indian Hill Community which has resulted in a colony of attractive houses owned 
 by employees at Indian Hill. Greendale. Garden lots are furnished for employees 
 and this department of the work is in charge of the Norton Agricultural Society. In 
 1917 some 480 lots were cultivated. Since the death of Mr. Higgins, Mr. .Mdcn has 
 been president of the Norton Company. 
 
 ' The Norton Grinding Cimipany. incorporated by the owners of the Norton 
 Company in 1900, is closely affiliated with the original concern. Mr. .Mden is presi- 
 dent. It manufactures machines for cylindrical grinding, for grinding plain sur- 
 faces, roll grinding, car-wheel grinding, car-axle grinding, tool and cutter grinding 
 and bench and floor stands. A recent grinding machine made by the company 
 weighed 110,000 pounds. In early years emery and corundum were the abrasives 
 used; in 1906 an artificial abrasive alundum superseded them, and another artifi- 
 cial product, crystolon, has come into use since 1910. The Norton Company is 
 the largest concern in the world manufacturing grinding wheels ; the Norton Grind- 
 ing Company is the leading concern manufacturing grinding machinery. The plants 
 are on New Bond street, Greendale. The company has excellent railroad facilities. 
 
 ALFRED ROY, Undertaker and dealer in Catholic books and pictures, was 
 born in St. Michael's parish, Belchasse County, Province of Quebec, Canada, son 
 of Francois Xavier and Cienevieve (Fortin) Roy. He received his education in the 
 common schools of his native place, at St. Michael's College and the College of the 
 City Lauzon, Levis county, Quebec. His people were devout Roman Catholics, and 
 when he was only fourteen years old he left home with one of the Mission Fathers, 
 accompanying him on his long mission trip through the wilderness, from one set- 
 tlement to another. After leaving college he taught school for a short time. But 
 he preferred business to pedagogy, and went to Toronto, where he held various po- 
 sitions and obtained a useful training. Returning to Montreal he was for seven 
 years clerk in a hardware store. During that time he served in the Si.xty-fifth Regi- 
 ment, Canadian Militia, and was mustered out as first sergeant of his company. In 
 1879, 3t the end of his term of service, he gave a grand military ball attended by 
 many prominent military men. 
 
 He came to the United States in 1879, and until 1886 was a clerk in the store 
 of Corning & Company, wholesale hardware merchants, of Albany. New York. 
 Then he made an important change in vocation, coming to Worcester to learn the 
 business of undertaking and embalming. Having served an apprenticeship in this 
 business, he passed the examination of the State Board and received his license as 
 an embalmer. Within a year he was prepared to engage in business on his own 
 account. He purchased the undertaking business of Jean T. Vigent, then located 
 at No. 105 Franklin street, and he has continued the business in the same building to 
 the present time. In addition to the business of undertaking, Mr. Roy opened the 
 first Catholic book store in Worcester, dealing also in Catholic pictures and add- 
 ing a picture-framing department. He was the first to deal in Polish Catholic books 
 in Worcester. For many years Mr. Roy has been the senior French undertaker of 
 the city, for many years the leading undertaker among the French-speaking popu- 
 lation, and but one other undertaker in the city has been in business longer than he. 
 His books in the spring of 1917 show that in this city alone he has had charge 
 of 5,125 funerals, and outside of the city his business has been considerable during 
 all the years he has been in business. 
 
 For a period of twenty years Mr. Roy was superintendent of Notre Dame 
 Cemetery, the ground for which was originally purchased from the old Curtis es- 
 tate. He is a communicant of Notre Dame (Roman Catholic) Church and has al- 
 ways been a man of piety and strong religious convictions, faithful to his beliefs and 
 loyal to his church. He gave important help in founding the parish of St. Joseph, 
 the parish of Holy Name of Jesus, and St. Anne's Orphanage. In politics he has 
 always has been a staunch Republican. He is a member of the .Artisans Canadiens 
 Francais and was the first to join that society in this country; member of Levis 
 Conclave; of the Improved Order of Heptasophs ; of the Louis Joseph Papmeau 
 
46j history Of WORCESTER 
 
 Societe and of Court Notre Dame, Catholic Order of Foresters. He has been pres- 
 ident or principal executive of all the important French clubs and organizations in 
 the city. He is grand senior warden of the Grand Court, of Massachusetts, For- 
 esters of America. „ „„ ■ n .. 
 
 Mr. Roy married, at .-Mliany, Xew York, October l8, 1881, Aurelie Brouilette, 
 a sister of Rev. Fr. Brouilette. of Worcester. They had three sons and three daugh- 
 ters : Joseph A. (see biography); Alfred, Jr. (see biography); Wilfred (Brother 
 Louis of Alexin Brothers) of Chicago; Aurelie, Emma, and Blanche (deceased). 
 
 JOSEPH A. ROY, Undertaker, associated in business with his father, was 
 born hily 2o, 1882, ;it Rensselaer, New York, son of Alfred and Aurelie (Brouil- 
 lettc) ' Roy. He attended the public schools in Worcester, St. .Anne's Boarding 
 School, and the English High School. Immediately after leaving school he became 
 associated in business with his father and learned the art of embalming and the 
 business of undertaking. He was the first young man to take the examinations and 
 qualify as an embalmer. He has continued to the present time in business with 
 his father. In igi2 he visited England, France, Germany, Italy and other foreign 
 countries, studying their methods of embalming. While in France he assisted E. 
 Levsseyre, the American consul, who was also sexton of the American Episcopal 
 church at Paris, and embalmed for him the body of a distinguished townsman. He 
 is a member of the Artisans Canadiens Francais, and a communicant of the Holy 
 Name of lesus Church (Roman Catholic), South Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Roy married, at \\'orcester, Octolier 18, 1906, Caroline V. Messier, daugh- 
 ter of Elie' and Caroline (Harbour) Messier. They have four children, Marie, 
 Beatrice, Grizella and Eveline. 
 
 ALFRED ROY, JR., Son of .Alfred Roy, was born in Rensselaer, New York, 
 March 6. 1884. He came with his parents to Worcester when but two years old, and 
 received his education here in the public schools, St. Anne's Boarding School and 
 the English High School. He learned the art of embalming and was among the 
 first young men to pass the state examination. He is associated with his father 
 and brother in the undertaking business. He is a member of the Louis Joseph 
 Papineau Societe ; the Artisans Canadiens Francais, Notre Dame Branch, No. 171, 
 and a communicant of Notre Dame Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Roy married. October 8, 1912, Eva L. Morin, of Spencer, daughter of Moise 
 and JiUie (Leclair) Morin. They have one son, Louis Alfred. 
 
 JOHN CHESTER BUSHONG, Photographer, was born near Columbus Grove, 
 Ohio, September 12, 1870, and received his early education there in the public schools. 
 When he was ten years old, his father and the family moved to Texas, locating at first 
 in McKinney, Collin county, and later on a school claim at Celina in the same county. 
 Here he also attended the public schools. During his boyhood he developed a talent 
 for drawing and while still in school was making crayon portraits at ten dollars each. 
 At the same time he was keenly interested in mechanics and built a toy steam engine, 
 a windmill to operate his mother's churn and a mechanical device to shift the labor 
 of sawing wood from himself to the old family horse, doing in a day what would have 
 taken all his spare time during the whole winter. He was one of the best bronco- 
 riders of his age in the township, and later the champion bicycle rider of that section. 
 
 His first business venture was a magic lantern show, in partnership with his 
 uncle, Hiram Bushong. The venture ended in calamity, owing to a crowd of drunken 
 cowboys who stampeded the audience, ruined the apparatus and made way with the 
 gate receipts. He was but a boy when he became interested in photography, bought an 
 outfit and opened a small studio. His self-education in the art brought disappointment, 
 and he went to Denton, Texas, where he learned the business, and afterward re- 
 turned to his native town to demonstrate his ability. He established a thriving and 
 successful business, but soon afterward sought a larger field. He leased a studio 
 at McKinney, Texas, removed later to Jefferson in that State, and in 1889 went to EI 
 Paso as manager of the studio of Francis Parker. Afterward he purchased the 
 business. While in that city he organized the Commercial Bicycle Club, of which he 
 became president, and won the championship road race between Ysleta and El Paso 
 three times in succession. After visiting the World's Fair in 1893 he decided to gain 
 sorne experience in Chicago studios, leased his own studio, and not only worked in 
 Chicago, but in St. Louis, New York, Boston and Worcester, remaining in each city 
 for a few months. He took a course of study in the Chicago .^rt Museum. Returning 
 to El Paso, he formed a partnership with Fred J. Feldman, who had conducted his 
 studio in the meantime, and the firm added a line of photographic supplies and art goods 
 to their business. In 1900 he opened a very artistic studio on Elm street. In 1905 he 
 
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 was elected vice-president of the New P'nj»land Pliotographers Association, and was 
 nominated for president the following year, but declined. He was again nominated 
 and elected the president for the association in igij. The building in which his studio 
 was located was demolished to make way for the Slater building in lyod, and at that 
 time he consolidated his business with that of Herman Schervee at No. j_'8 Main street. 
 The firm continued until 1910. when it was dissolved. Since then Mr. Bushong has had 
 a studio in the Central E.xchange building, No. 311 Main street, which has recently 
 been enlarged and improved to take care of the increased growth of business. Mr. 
 Bushong was one of the founders of the Tracy Motor Company for the manufacture of 
 gas engines, and was president of the corporation, afterward reorganized as the Paso 
 City Foundry and Machine Company. Four years after his return to El Paso, he sold 
 his interest to his partner and located in this city. He is a member of the Worcester 
 Country Club, Worcester Automobile Club, Kiwanis Club and Worcester Lodge of 
 Elks. 
 
 Mr. Bushong inarried. .August i, 1906, Kathryn Pauline Ryan, daughter of Michael 
 Henry and Pauline (Essig) Ryan, of West Boylston. They have one daughter, Pauline 
 \'yletta, born in igog, and a son, John Richard, born in igu. Their home is at No. 
 ^o Fiske street. 
 
 John Stout Bushong, father of John C. Bushong. was born at Columbus Grove, 
 Putnam county, Ohio ; became a school teacher when a young man ; then a general 
 merchant and later an itinerant merchant. He removed to Celina, Te.xas. where he had 
 a ranch, and finally to Portales, New Mexico, where he followed farming and had a 
 nursery, making a specialty of fruit trees. He w-as at one time postmaster at I.ockncy, 
 Texas. He has been deacon and elder of the Christian church. He married (first) 
 May 29, 1862, Mariah C. Roberts; (second) March 24, 1864. Samantha Vyletta Ricf, 
 daughter of Jatnes and Cecilia (Blodgett) Rice, granddaughter of Moses' and Amy 
 (Dunsha) Rice. .Aaron Rice, father of Moses Rice, was the pioneer of the family 
 in Ohio, coming from Charlemont in this State; his father, Aaron Rice, was of Charle- 
 mont ; a soldier in the French and Indian War, and delegate to the Massachusetts 
 Constitutional Convention. Captain Moses Rice, father of .■\aron Rice, was a tavern 
 keeper in Worcester. (See Early Settlers). 
 
 James Bushong. grandfather of John C. Bushong, was born in 1818, in Coluinlnis 
 Grove, Ohio, son of George Washington Bushong. who was born in Pennsylvania, in 
 1786. His father. Captain John Bushong, was a pioneer of Ohio in 1801, coming from 
 the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. The family settled early in Virginia and Peini- 
 sylvania, and the name appears often spelled Buchon in early records, indicating that 
 the family was of French descent. 
 
 WILLIAM BULKLEY CROMBIE, Printer, president of The W. B. Cromhic 
 Company, located on Foster street, Worcester, has developed a growing industry wdiich 
 he founded in this city. He is of Scotch and English ancestry, a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, born .April 8, 1871, in Rouseville, Venango county, and was two years of age 
 when his parents removed to their former home in Cromwell, Connecticut. When 
 he was twelve years of age they located in Lincoln. Nebraska, and in the schools of that 
 city Mr. Crombie found his most effective educational influence. There he was made 
 an apprentice to the printing business, and after completing his apprenticeship engaged 
 in business on his own account for a period of seven years. At the end of thi.s time 
 he sold out and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was again associated 
 with printing, writing and compiling special work, and as art critic for printing trade 
 journals. For seven years he was superintendent of the printing establishment of E. L. 
 Hildreth & Company, at Brattleboro, Vermont. While there he won first prize in an 
 international type design contest, and later second prize in a National cover design 
 contest. In April, 1905, Mr. Crombie located in Worcester, and for four years was 
 estimator for the Blanchard Press, a large printing establishment of this city. \t 
 the end of this titne he became a member of the firm, of which he was vice-president 
 until the establishment was sold to the Commonwealth Press. In April, 1913, Mr. 
 Crombie organized and incorporated The W. B. Crombie Cotnpany. of wdiich he is 
 president and treasurer, Frances N. Crombie, vice-president, and E. M. Johnson, secre- 
 tary. This establishment is well-equipped for all kinds of printing, and supplies 
 catalogues, stationery and miscellaneous work, including binding and engraving, to a 
 large circle of customers. In the comparatively few years of his residence in Worces- 
 ter, Mr. Crombie has built up a reputation for skill and good taste, and the new 
 business which he established has grown rapidly, and is among the prosperous con- 
 cerns of the city. He is a man of enterprise and energy, and is appreciated by the 
 business men of the city as a useful force in promoting its growth and development. 
 He is a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, Worcester County Mechanics 
 Association, Young Men's Christian Association, United Typothetae of America, and 
 
464 HISTORY OF irORCESTER 
 
 is affiliated with the Masonic Brotherhood, being a member of Brattleboro (Vermont) 
 Lodge, No. 102, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of Park Con- 
 gregational Church, and is ever found ready to support the elevating and ennobling 
 influences of society. 
 
 Mr. Crombie married, June 8, 1898, Frances Niles, of West Springfield, Massa- 
 chusetts, and they are the parents of four children : Thelma Elizabeth, Ramona Isa- 
 belle, Russel Edwin, and William Francis. 
 
 JOHN FAY, Undertaker and founder of the business now conducted as Fay 
 Brothers, was born in Waterford County. Ireland, and died in Worcester, Septem- 
 ber I, 1880. He came with the tide of emigration to this country and was among 
 the first to locate in Worcester. He was educated in his native land, and after 
 coming to this country worked for a time as cook in the Bay State House. He ac- 
 quired a practical knowledge of the undertaking business, as conducted at that 
 time, and in 1870 established himself in that profession in a building on Winter 
 street on the site of the present St. John's Parochial School. As he made headway 
 in business, he sought better quarters at No. 19 Temple street, living next door to 
 his place of business. At this location he and his sons continued in the under- 
 taking business with substantial success for forty-four years. Then the present 
 offices and quarters at Xo. 22a. Trumbull street were occupied by Fay Brothers. 
 Besides the undertaking establishment, Mr. Fay was a dealer in newspapers, and 
 his office was a sort of headquarters of the neighborhood, to which his friends re- 
 sorted for daily exchange of news and discussion, an interesting forum for many 
 years. He was one of the first communicants of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 
 and a charter member of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society. 
 
 His son, William J. Fay, was admitted to partnership in 1872, and from that 
 time the firm name has been Fay Brothers, and from 1880 to 1894, when James E. 
 Fay died, these two were partners: after 1894 until 1916, William J. Fay was sole 
 proprietor and manager of the business. He was well known, popular and success- 
 ful in business. He died in Worcester, December 1, 1916, much lamented by him- 
 dreds of families to whom he had been a friend and counselor in time of need. 
 
 John Fay married Mary Quinn, a native of Ireland, then living at Putnam, 
 Connecticut. Their children were: Mary, wife of Morris Cunningham; William J.; 
 Catherine, wife of J. T. Cahill : Bridget, wife of T. J. McCarty ; Ellen, wife of 
 Charles T. Thompson ; Edward T. ; and James E. 
 
 JAMES E. FAY, Son of John Fay, and for many years a partner in the firm of 
 Fay Brothers, undertakers, was born in Worcester, February 13, 1853, died there, 
 May, 1894. He was educated in the public schools of Worcester. After leaving 
 school he tried a variety of occupations before choosing to enter the business in 
 which his father and uncle were occupied, but finally became a partner and one of 
 the most gifted of the family in the delicate duties of his profession, a skillful em- 
 balmer, acknowledged to be one of the best funeral directors in the section. Nat- 
 urally kind and courteous, thoughtful and generous in dealing with the unfortunate, 
 he accomplished much in life. His heart was I)ig, his ideals high and all men came 
 to love him. After the death of his father in 1880 he was in partnership with his 
 uncle, William J. Fay, who survived him. He was a communicant of St. John's Church. 
 In politics he was a Democrat. He was a member of Washington Social Club. 
 
 Mr. Fay married (first) Mary McGrath, of Worcester, born 1852. died 1885, 
 daughter of Michael McGrath, who was a general contractor. He excavated the 
 cellar for St. Paul's Church. He married (second) Mary Kelly, of Worcester, born 
 1856, daughter of Patrick and Susan Kelly. Mr. Fay had three sons : John J. (see 
 biography); Dr. William, now a physician practicing in Hartford, Connecticut; 
 James E., Jr., born April 9, 1891, educated at public and high school of Worcester, 
 who succeeded with his brother to the ownership of Fay Brothers' business in 1916; 
 he married in September, 191S, Anne McDonough, and they have one son, William J. 
 
 DR. JOHN J. FAY, Undertaker and funeral director, partner in the firm of Fay 
 Brothers, was born in Worcester, September 23, 1883, son of James E. and Mary 
 (McGrath) Fay. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and Classi- 
 cal High School, studying medicine for three years in 'the Baltimore College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, and taking his senior year in the Louisville Medical 
 School at Louisville, Kentucky, graduating there in July, 1904, with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine. For two years afterward, from September, 1904, to 1906, he 
 was house physician in St. James Hospital, Newark, New Jersey. At the time he 
 graduated his uncle was alone in the business and needed assistance, so he 
 abandoned practice for a time and entered the firm that his grandfather had estab- 
 
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 lished. Since 1916 the firm has consisted of he and his hrother. Janie* K. I-' ly. 
 The opportunity for him to leave the firm and practice medicine has not yet ar- 
 rived. In politics Dr. Fay is a Democrat; in religion a Roman Catholic, a mem- 
 ber of Sacred Heart Parish. 
 
 Dr. Fay married, June, 1912, Nora C. Sullivan, of Worcester, daugliter of John 
 and Catherine Sullivan. Their home is at No. 9 Montrose street. 
 
 EVERETT WEBSTER DURGIN. The name Durgin is fairly nuniorous in 
 New Hampshire, but under various spellings, Durgin. Durgen, Durgan, Durgain and 
 Dirgin, is often found in early records. The founder was William Durgin, who came 
 from England in 1690, and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts. Durgans and Durgens 
 appear as soldiers of the Revolution from Massachusetts, and on the maternal side 
 (Emerson) a great-great-grandfather of Everett W. Durgin. of Worcester. Massa- 
 chusetts, fought with the Revolutionary troops. He was born in Haverhill. West 
 Parish, the saine place as Hannah Dustin, who was an Emerson, came from ; the 
 grandfather of Everett W. Durgin, Emerson, was born in Sutton, New Hamp- 
 shire; was an old stage driver in the days of stage coaches; he was the first station 
 agent in Boscawen. continuing as such until coinpelled to resign on account of his age. 
 Other ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War were: Winthrop Carter, en- 
 listed in April, 1775, and his son, Daniel Carter, enlisted in 1776; fought under General 
 Stark in the battle of Bennington. 
 
 This branch of the family settled in Boscawen. New Hampshire, where Ezekiel 
 Webster Durgin was born, and there died aged sixty-four years. He married Mary A. 
 Emerson, also born in Boscawen, who survives him and maintains her residence on the 
 old homestead farm. Ezeziel W. Durgin was a wheelwriglit and a blacksmitli. a fine 
 mechanic and a good citizen. 
 
 Everett Webster Durgin. son of Ezekiel W. and Mary A. (Emerson) Durgin. was 
 born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, and there resided until twenty-two years of age, 
 obtaining a good education in Boscawen schools and Procto"- Acadetuy at .-Xndover, 
 New Hampshire. He then came to Worcester, Massachusetts, where lie entered the 
 employ of Eugene Tolman, a jeweler at No. 498 Main street. He remained with Mr. 
 Tolman until his death in 1894. then for three years continued the business, rei)resenting 
 Mrs. Tolman. the widow. In 1897 he purchased the business from Mrs. Tolman, and 
 has since conducted it under his own name. He has greatly enlarged the scope of the 
 business, the stock now carried probably exceeding that of twenty-five years ago ten- 
 fold. Mr. Durgin has built up this business by close attention, and by the progressive, 
 modern spirit with wdiich he has perineated it. He has brought the best of everything 
 to his trade, and obviated the need of going to Boston or New York shops for even 
 the finest in jewelry or precious stones. He was one of the organizers of the Massa- 
 chusetts and Rhode Island Retail Jewelers Association, was chosen its first president, 
 and is now serving as treasurer. He has also since its organization been president of 
 the Worcester Retail Jewelers Association. 
 
 Mr. Durgin is a prominent Free Mason, belon.gin.g to Athelstane Lodge. Free and 
 Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and 
 Select Masters ; and Worcester Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member 
 of Anchoria Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; the Kiwanis and Congrega- 
 tional clubs. He is an active luember of Old South Congregational Church of Wor- 
 cester, has been a trustee for the past ten years, and is iiresident of the Meti's Club. 
 He is fond of out-of-door recreations and enjoys his vacations amid country or sea- 
 side scenes. 
 
 Mr. Durgin married, in Worcester, November 2,;, 1897, Mary F. Tolman, ilaughter 
 of Eugene and Mary F. (Powers) Tolman. Mrs. Tolman yet survives her husband 
 and resides in Worcester at the residence of her son-in-law. No. 11 Charlotte street. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Durgin are the parents of three daughters and a son: Ruth Tolman, born 
 May 14. 1901. died April 24. 1903; Mary Priscilla. March 20. 1906; Lawrence Webster, 
 September 27. 1910; and Bldith Emerson. September 10. 1912. 
 
 HARRY O. ANDERSON, Chemist, in chart:e of a division of the Lal.or:itories 
 of the Norton Company, was born in tin's city. .April 3. 1887. son of Olaf :ind .Au- 
 gusta (Anderson) Anderson. He attended the Cireendale public school, and after 
 completing the grammar grades took a course in chemistry. For a few months 
 previous he worked at the trade of carpenter. In 1902 he became a clerk in the 
 testing room of the Norton Company, and since November of that year he has 
 been employed in the chemical laboratory of that concern. He is now in charge of 
 one of the divisions of the research laboratories of the Norton Company. He re- 
 sides at No. 49 Whitmarsh avenue, in tin's citv. 
 
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466 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Anderson is a member of the Scandinavian Federation of America; for 
 two years on the board of directors of the Swedish National Federation ; member of 
 the American Chemical Society; the Norton Mutual Benefit Society and the Green- 
 dale Improvement Society. He has taken an active part in public afifairs, being for 
 three years a member of the Republican City Committee and secretary of the Swed- 
 ish-American Republican League for five years. He is also a member of the Wor- 
 cester County Republican Club. During the past eight years he has been a trustee 
 of the First Swedish Lutheran Church of this city. 
 
 Mr. Anderson married, in this city, September 4, igi2, Alice Elfrida Thunman, 
 born June 2. 1885. daughter of August and Emma Thunman. They have one son, 
 Hilding Hugo, born October 19. 1913. 
 
 Olaf Anderson, father of Harry O. Anderson, was a native of Sweden, died in 
 this city, April 7. 1916; married, in New York City, Augusta Anderson, who was 
 also born in Sweden, now living in Worcester. He was one of the pioneers from 
 Sweden to locate here. For twenty-six years he was employed in the works of 
 the Norton Company. He was active in upbuilding and supporting the First Swed- 
 ish Lutheran Church in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson had three other chil- 
 dren: Hulda Emelia (Anderson) Ekwall ; Albert and Emil F. Anderson, both now 
 holding positions with the Norton Company. 
 
 August Thunman, father of Mrs. Harry O. Anderson, was born in Nordland, 
 Sweden, March 6, 1859; came to this city in 1880 among the pioneers from Sweden, 
 and in the same year married Emma Renhult, who was born July 2i, 1853, in Verme- 
 land, Sweden, and also came in the year 1880 to this city with her parents. They 
 had three children: Alice Elfrida (Mrs. Anderson), Emily A., and Edith, who mar- 
 ried Philip Spongberg. 
 
 THOMAS EDWARD STERNE, President of the Scranton Coal Company and 
 of the F. A. Mann Coal Company, was born in Chatham, New York, September 5, 
 1858, son of Sanford Kingsbury and Waity E. (Reynolds) Sterne. Mr. Sterne is 
 descended from the Sternes who settled early in this city (see Early Families), 
 and from Judge William Jennison (see Early Families). Mary Jennison, daugh- 
 ter of William Jennison, married Captain Thomas Sterne, of Worcester, proprie- 
 tor of the King's Arms Inn. 
 
 Thomas E. Sterne was educated in the public schools and the Albany Business 
 College. Before coming to this city he was in business in Chatham. New York, 
 with the Mesick Paper Company. He is president and treasurer of the Scranton 
 Coal Company of this city and of the F. A. Mann Coal Company. The offices of 
 both concerns are at No. 29 Main street. He is a director of the State Bank of 
 Chatham, New York ; a member of the Worcester Club, Tatnuck Country Club, 
 Worcester Society of Antiquity and the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. He 
 attends Union Congregational Church of this city. 
 
 Mr. Sterne married, December 24, 1884, at Brainard, New York, Margaret Me- 
 sick Shufelt, daughter of John D. and Abigail M. (Mesick) Shufelt. Their home 
 is at No. 911 Pleasant street, and they have a summer residence. Gleemont, in Lei- 
 cester. They have three children: i, Thomas Edward. Jr.. born October 17, 1885: 
 secretary of the Scranton Coal Company ; member of the Worcester Club, Tatnuck 
 Country Club and Quinsigamond Boat Club. 2. Sanford Kingsbury, born Septem- 
 ber ig, 1887; member of the Tatnuck Country Club and the Worcester Club. 3. 
 Gladys Louise, born .August 16. 1889. 
 
 WILLIAM JAMES MC KEE, Assistant to the president of the Osgood Brad- 
 ley Car Company, was born at Beaver Falls. Pennsylvania, May 16, 1876, son of Cyrus 
 P. and Agnes (McKibben) McKee. His father was a native of New Sheffield, Penn- 
 sylvania, and his mother of Green Garden in that State. 
 
 William J. McKee attended the public schools of his native place and Piersols 
 Academy in Beaver. He was a student in Clarion College. Clarion. Pennsylvania, but 
 did not graduate. He began his business career in the employ of the Pressed Steel 
 Car Company, of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, December i, 1898. as clerk in the office, 
 and was promoted to the office of chief clerk, June i, 1902. He resigned, March r, 
 1903. to become chief clerk of the Standard Steel Car Company in Pittsburgh and was 
 promoted to the position of superintendent of stores in that company, December i, 
 1903. He resigned to accept his present position. May is. 191 1. Since then he has been 
 assistant of President John E. Bradley, of the Osgood Bradlev Car Companv. He is a 
 member of the Worcester Country Club, the New England Railway Club, 'Worcester 
 Economic Club, director of Young Men's Christian Association, and member of Ionic 
 Lodge, .Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In politics 
 he IS a Republican. He is a communicant of the Adams Square Congregational 
 Church. 
 
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 Mr. McKee married, at Pittsburgh, 1899, Clara V. Little, who was born in that 
 city. They have four children: Mary E., born 1905; William J.. 1907; Robert C, 
 1909: Jane E.. 191 1. Their home is at No. 45 Kenwood avenue in this city. 
 
 LEANDER M. DRURY, Retired hotel proprietor, was durinj.; his active years 
 in that business recognized as one of those projjrietors whose guests were welcomed 
 with a spirit which invariably brought them back. His success was marked by the art 
 he cultivated of exerting extra eflfort in making iieople comfortable and by his innate 
 business ability. 
 
 Mr. Drury was born in 1850. at Readsboro, Vermont, where he was educated in the 
 public schools. His earliest years in business were spent in connection with hotels, so 
 that he inay be said to have had a most excellent training for what became his life 
 work. He came to Worcester from Winchendon. where he had been carrying on the 
 hotel business. Upon coming to Worcester, he leased the Hotel Langdon on Front 
 street and was proprietor of that establishment for thirty-one years. During that 
 time his was the city's only temperance commercial hotel, and Mr. Drury was known 
 by the many and distant travellers who stopped there as a most pleasing and congenial 
 proiirietor. At the expiration of his thirty-one years of proprietorship here he retired. 
 He purchased a tract of land on Davidson road, where he built two houses, one for 
 a home for hiinself and the other to rent, but the latter was finally sold. Mr. Drury 
 owns other property in the city. He is a man of public spirit and is esteemed by those 
 who know him. He is a thirty-second degree Mason; a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows; and in politics is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Drury married, at South Royalston, 1879, Ellen E. Day, a native of that place, 
 whose father still lives there at the age of ninety-one years. They have had one 
 daughter, Meyrtice M.. wife of Burton E. Loring, of the Cabinet Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, and the mother of one son, Russell D. 
 
 FRANKLIN ALLEN CASWELL, Undertaker, was born at Ricehvirg. Province 
 of Quebec. Canada, May 6, 1857, son of Ira and Jane (Lambkin) Caswell. His 
 fathere was a woodworker and carriage builder in Riceburg and a carpenter and 
 builder in Fitchburg. He is a descendant of Thomas Caswell, one of the first set- 
 tlers of Taunton, a native of England. 
 
 Franklin A. Caswell attended the schools of his native town and the Eastwood 
 Private School at Stanbridge. Canada, and after the family came to Fitchburg in 
 1872 he continued in the public schools there. For a few years after he left school 
 he worked at the trade of carpenter in the employ of his father, and afterward 
 learned the pattern maker's trade in the Putnam shop at Fitchburg. But he soon 
 entered upon another field of usefulness in the employ of M. W. Cummings. un- 
 dertaker, and acquired a thorough knowledge of the business. In i8go he engaged in 
 business in Worcester at No. 34 Pearl street, as undertaker and embalmer, in part- 
 nership with John Masterson, of Anthony, Rhode Island, but at the end of ten months 
 purchased the interests of his partner and became sole owner of the business, which 
 he has continued to the present time with substantial success. In 1898 Mr. Caswell 
 moved from his original location to his present quarters in the old post office 
 building opposite No. 21 Pearl street. It is proper to say that Mr. Caswell holds a 
 position second to none in this section of the State in the performance of his duties. 
 He possesses those qualities necessary for the proper management of the last ser- 
 vices to those who have departed, the tact, sympathy, courtesy and resourcefulness. 
 
 Mr. Caswell is well known in social and fraternal life; a member of Morning 
 Star Lodge. .Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester County Connnandery, 
 Knights Templar; Worcester Lodge of Perfection; Goddard Council, Princes of 
 Jerusalem; Lawrence Council, Rose Croix; the Massachusetts Consistory and the 
 Aletheia Grotto. He is past noble grand of Quinsigamond Lodge, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows ; member of Wachusett Encampment, and trustee of the Odd 
 Fellows Charitable .Association, which owns the new Odd Fellows building. Main 
 street, Worcester. He is past president of the Shaflfner Society. Mr. Caswell is active 
 in church affairs, member of the prudential committee of the Pleasant Street Baptist 
 Church. He is a member of the Massachusetts Undertakers' .Association, and of the 
 Massachusetts Social Club. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Caswell married. December 15, 1881, Louisa Freeland Brewster, daughter 
 of Sydney Brewster, of Fitchburg. She is a lineal descendant of Elder William 
 Brewster, born in 1566-67 in England, graduate of Peterhouse College. Cambridge 
 University; one of the Pilgrims who went to Holland and afterward settled at 
 Plymouth, coming in the "Mayflower" in 1620 ; was elder of the church and chief 
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 stock Mr and Mrs. Caswell have had five children: Frank Robert, born Novem- 
 ber 7 1882- Gertrude Brewster, born March 20. 1893; Marion Hovvard, November 
 7 1894- Chester Freeland, August 20. 1897, student m Dartmouth College; Harold 
 Allen, May 20. 1900. Mr. Caswell's home is at No. 664 Pleasant street. 
 
 ROBERT EDMOND NUGENT, Captain, salesman for The Barrett Company 
 of Boston was born in Whitinsville. Massachusetts, June 24, 1888. son of John F. and 
 Ellen (Somers) Nugent. John F. Nugent was born m Longlord, Ireland, m 1S41, 
 and died in this city, September 5. 1917- His home was at No. 19 Preston street, 
 where his familv is now living. He was an expert machmist, employed tor many 
 years in the works of the Whitin Machine Company of WhitmsviUe, Massachusetts. 
 He came to this city in 1892, organizing and conductmg a tack and nad manutacturmg 
 business in partnership with Edmond J. Somers, his brother-in-law. Subsequently 
 he sold his share in this business, and after a few years m the Crompton & Knowles 
 Loom Works, he retired, and from 1907 to the time of his death he was occupied in 
 the care of his real estate. He married Ellen Somers, who was born in Waterford, 
 Ireland, in 1844, and who is now living in this city. Captain Nugent's brother, Dr. 
 Arthur J. Nugent, is a practicing physician and surgeon, with an office at No. 19 
 Preston street, and at the present time is police surgeon of the city of Worcester 
 
 He received his education in the public schools here, graduating from the South 
 High School in 1907, and in the University of Pennsylvania. He was aUerward em- 
 ployed as traveling salesman and promotion traveller for The Barrett Company, No. 
 17 Battery place. New York Citv, in New England territory, having his headquarters 
 in the Boston office of the company at No. 35 Wendell street; he continued with this 
 concern from igii until he was ordered into active service. May 12, 1917. He was 
 commissioned second lieutenant of infantry in the United States army, April 28, 1917; 
 was promoted to the rank of captain, .August 15. 1917. and assigned to the Seventy- 
 sixth Division, then forming at Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts. He was honor- 
 ably discharged by order of President Wilson, April 29, 1918, for disability incurred in 
 line of duty. Upon recoverv, he returned to the employ of The Barrett Company and 
 was salesman until September, 1918, when he returned to the service, now with the 
 United States Shipping Board, New York. 
 
 He prepared for his military service at Plattsburg, beginning in June, 1916, as a 
 private; took the winter course at the Harvard Club of Boston in the winter of 1916-17, 
 and in due course was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry. Officers Reserve 
 Corps, United States Army, April 28, 191 7. He was ordered into active service, May 
 12, 1917, with orders to report to the Cominanding Officer at Plattsburg Barracks, 
 New York, for duty; was assigned to the Eleventh Company, New England Training 
 Regiment; was transferred June 12th to Third Company, First Provisional Training 
 Regiment; August 15, 1917, being promoted to captain and assigned to the Seventy- 
 sixth Division at Camp Devens. He commanded Company C. 303d. Infantry. In 
 politics Captain Nugent is a Democrat ; in religion a Roman Catholic, a communicant 
 of St. Paul's Church of this city. 
 
 WILLIAM H. KING, Colonel, late of Worcester, Massachusetts, whose death 
 occurred August 21, 1882, in Los .Angeles, California, was a native of the State of 
 Maine, where he was born in the City of Portland, in the year 1843. There his 
 childhood was passed, and there he received his education, attending for this pur- 
 pose the local public schools. As a young man he left his native city and came to 
 Berlin, Massachusetts, where he was residing at the outbreak of the Civil War. He 
 enlisted, at Berlin, in Company G, of the Thirty-sixth regiment of Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, as a private, and for three years was at the front serving his 
 country. He was promoted to the post of sergeant, and his regiment served under 
 General 5urnside and took part in many of the most important engagements of the 
 war. Throughout these battles and those dreary periods of marching or waiting 
 which intervened, Mr. King behaved himself with gallantry and courage, and at the 
 end of three years received his honorable discharge. In the year 1865, he came to 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, and there secured a position as book-keeper with C. B. 
 Knight, later with the Baker Lumber Company. He continued thus employed for a 
 nimiber of years. Mr. King never lost his interest in military matters, but joined 
 the Home Guard of Worcester and became captain of that organization. For seven 
 years he continued in this capacity and then became major of the Second Regiment, 
 Massachusetts National Guard. He was still later made colonel of this regiment 
 and served his country through the Spanish-American war. Mr. King was also an 
 active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was commander for two 
 years of Post No. 10 of this organization. Mr. King was also prominent in the 
 local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and held the position of no- 
 
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 ble grand therein. He had a jifrsDnality vvliich made him a great favorite and won 
 him many friends, so that he enjoyed a very unusual degree nf poijuhirity. 
 
 William H. King was united in marriage, February 12, 1865, at Berlin, Massa- 
 chusetts, witli Percy Carter, a daughter of Amory and Percy (SpolTard) Carter, old 
 and highly honored residents of that place, of which they were botli natives. Mrs. 
 King is a descendant of both the Carter and Sawyer families, whicli have held prom- 
 inent places in the esteem and regard of the community since early Colonial ti\Mes. 
 
 Mr. Amory Carter, father of Mrs. King, caine to \\'orcester in the year 1844, 
 with his family, and here engaged in the contracting business, building many of tiie 
 fine homes of the city. He built among others practically all the old residences on 
 West street, and his business extended beyond Worcester into the surrounding 
 towns. He also did a large business of the same kind in Brooklyn, New York. His 
 death occurred at Worcester, at the age of seventy-four years, and he was survived 
 by his wife, who continued to reside here until she had reached the age of eighty- 
 five. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were members of the cdd aristocracy of tlie city in those 
 days, and occupied a very ])roniinent place in its life. Mr. Cartel" was very active 
 and public-spirited, and attended the Old South Church here. .Mrs. Carter's daughter, 
 attended in her childhood the old brick school on the common. 
 
 To Mr. and Mrs. King the following children were born : i. Grace L., who be- 
 came the wife of Albert Scott of Worcester, to whom she has borne one son, Lewis 
 King Scott, who during the World War was in the service of his country as a 
 member of the signal corps. 2. Maliel I-., who resides with her mother at the idd 
 King home in Worcester. 3. William H., who is now engaged in business as an 
 electrician at Everett, Massachusetts, served his country through the Spiinish- 
 American war and married Miss Lena Culver, by whom he has had one son. Wil- 
 liam H.. Jr. 4. Leslie Burnside, who is now assistant foreman in the plant nf the 
 Heald Machine Company. He married Hannah Peterson. 
 
 Energy, self-confidence, and a strict adherence to the moral law, were tlie 
 traits which seemed to lie at the bottom of Mr. King's character, and shape and 
 guide its whole development. His success, as luust all true success, depended quite 
 as much upon his character as upon his knowledge, which was a later acquire- 
 ment. It was this element which differentiated his career from a kind of success 
 common enough to-day, and which, because it has no such basis, is apt to be looked 
 upon, and justly, with disfavor. In all that he did for himself Atr. King kept the 
 interests of those about him ever in sight and made no step, however conducive to 
 his own ends, if, to his candid judgment, it appeared inimical to others. 
 
 RODNEY M. RICE, Agriculturist, was b^.m in W.ircester. March 17, 182;. and 
 died in Shrewsbury, Massadiusetts. July 24. 1883. He was the son of Jabez and Mary 
 (Pierce) Rice. On both his paternal and maternal lines he was descended from historic 
 old New England ancestry, his paternal .-\merican ancestor, Edmund Rice, born in Eng- 
 land in 1594, was one of the early settlers of the old town of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 
 before 1639, where he was made a freeman. May 13. 1642. 
 
 Rodney M. Rice obtained his early educational training in the schools of his native 
 town and at Leicester Acadeiuy. and was reared on the paternal homestead, engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits. At the time of his inarriage. in 1861, he purchased a farm in 
 West Boylston. which he successfully conducted for a period of ten years. Disposing 
 of this farm, in 1871. he returned to Worcester, where he engaged in the grain business 
 with his brother-in-law. George Wingate. in which business he was engaged some time. 
 In 1881. he purchased the Elder Jefferson Haskell place, in Shrewsbury, which he con- 
 tinued to cultivate until his death. Thrifty and prudent. Mr. Rice was a worthy 
 descendant of a time-honored and highly respected family. He was a member of the 
 Congregational Church, and while a resident of Worcester, was a member of the 
 Piedmont church, of which he was a faithful and valued member of the church choir. 
 He was also an active and interested luember of the Grange. Patrons of Husbandry. 
 In political faith he was a Whig in early life, later becomin.g a Republican, but being 
 of a quiet and retiring nature, did not aspire to public ofifire. 
 
 On June 27. 1861, Mr. Rice was united in marriage to .Anne Susan Wingate. 
 daughter of Deacon .\aron Wingate and his wife. Phehe T. Lamos. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Rice was born one son. Frank Wingate Rice, who died in infancy. Mrs. Rice is a 
 graduate of Mount Holyoke .Seminary, class of 1849, and at the age of fifteen years 
 began teaching school, continuing thus en.gaged until her marriage. She resides at the 
 Rice homestead in Shrewsbury. 
 
 ALONZO MENDALL BUTTERFIELD, Gn.cer, was born in Oakham. Mas- 
 sachusetts, Deceiuber 21, 1875. son (if Marcus .\I. and Mary Haskell (McCullook) 
 Butterfield. His father was in the trucking husnie^s in (Jakliam, and he received his 
 
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 HISTORY UF WORCESTER 
 
 early schooling at Coldbrook Spring Grammar School. He began his business career 
 in this city as traveling salesman for E. T. Smith Company, wholesale grocers. In 
 1900 he engaged in business as a grocer in this city, and has continued to the present 
 time. Since 1910 his store has been at the present location. No. 887 Main street. He 
 is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; Central Lodge, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows; the Worcester Continentals; the United Commercial Travelers of Ameri- 
 ca, of which he was secretary three years ; the Worcester Retail Grocers and Provision 
 Dealers Association, of which he was secretary three years, and is now president and 
 has been since his election. May i, 1918, and the Worcester Retail Credit Men's .Asso- 
 ciation, of which he is the president at the present time (1918). He is a member of the 
 First Baptist Church, and president of the Men's Association of that church. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Butterfield married, December 5, 1899, in this city. Nellie Emerson Hartwell, 
 daughter of Clarence L. and Emeline M. (Morse) Hartwell. They have two children: 
 Mendall Morse, born September 11, 1904. and Alonzo Emerson. January 5, 1912. Their 
 home is at No. 57 Hollywood street. 
 
 ANDREW PETER LUNDBORG, Jeweler, was born September 20, i8;j2, in 
 Afton, Washington county, Minnesota, son of Johannes and Christina (Larson) 
 Lundborg. He was an infant when the family left his native place on account of 
 Indian hostilities and removed to Carver county, Minnesota. During this uprisin,g 
 three uncles were killed by the Indians. In Carver county he attended the public 
 schools, and when si.xteen years of age he entered the academy connected with Gus- 
 tavus .Adolphus College, at St. Peter, Minnesota. He was afterwards a student in 
 Augustana College, at Rock Island, Illinois, graduating in 1887 in the classical 
 course. He came to Worcester in January, 1889, and opened a jewelry store at No. 
 212 Main street, and Trom the beginning he enjoyed a flourishing business. In igoo 
 he removed to the present store at No. 315 Main street. In politics Mr. Lundborg is 
 a Republican, and he has taken an active part in public affairs. He served the city 
 as member of the Common Council from Ward Two in 1906-07 with fidelity and 
 efficiency. He is a member of the First Swedish Lutheran Cluirch, and was sup- 
 erintendent of the Sunday school for fourteen years. 
 
 Mr. Lundborg married, in this city, in 1901, Hilda M. Ekendahl, of Winchester. 
 Massachusetts. Her parents both died in Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Lundborg have 
 one daughter, Alfhild Marie, born in tliis city, September 12, 1903, a graduate of 
 the Bancroft School, Worcester, 1918, and now a student in the North High School. 
 They reside at No. 12 Einhorn road in this city. 
 
 Johannes Lundborg, father of Andrew Peter Lundborg, was born in Sweden, 
 died in Carver county, Minnesota, whither he went directly after coming to this 
 country in 1857. His wife came two years later; she also died in Carver county. 
 They had eleven children, of whom nine are now living: Andrew P., mentioned 
 above; Charlotte, married G. A. Anderson, of Cologne, Carver county, Minnesota; 
 August, a farmer of Cokato county, Minnesota, married and has a son, Albin. in 
 the United States Army ; Johanna, died at the age of twenty-eight, unmarried ; 
 Theodore, a farmer in Nisswa, Crow Wing county, Minnesota; John, a farmer, lives 
 on the old home in Carver county ; Anna, resides with her brother Theodore ; Esther, 
 died aged twenty-six ; Samuel, jeweler, Braddock, Pennsylvania, married and has one 
 child; Elfreda. a nurse, died at the age of nineteen; Joseph, lives with his brother, 
 Theodore. 
 
 HENRY STEPHEN MC CREA, Undertaker, senior partner of McCrea & 
 Flanagan, was born in Bennington, \'ermont, September 4, 1871, son of Edwin D. and 
 Ellen F. McCrea. His father was born in 1823 in Williamstown. and served in the 
 Civil War in Company H. Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; his 
 mother was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1846. He has two brothers; Edward C, 
 born October i, 1865, at Bennington, Vermont, a veteran of the Boer War in which 
 he served as trooper in Lord Roberts' horse (cavalry) regiment with the rank of 
 sergeant; now agent of the National Cash Register Company, residing at Durban, 
 South Africa; and Arthur L.. born November 4, 1867, at Bennington, Vermont, now 
 an electrician at Turners Falls. 
 
 When Henry S. McCrea was very young his father moved to North Adams, 
 where he began his schooling. He completed his education in Turners Falls High 
 School. His business career began in Brooklyn. New York, where for two years he 
 was employed as clerk in the store of the William H. Douglas Drug Company. While 
 there he decided upon his profession in life, and left to study embalming at the United 
 States College of Embalming in New York City. Having completed the course he had 
 practical e.xperience for two years as assistant to the late Professor Auguste Renouard 
 
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 at the college. In the March. 1917, number of "The Issue," the undertakers' magazine 
 published in Worcester. Mr. McCrea wrote: "I would be remiss in my duty did I not 
 at this time give credit to one who above all others stands out preeminently as the 
 pioneer authority on this subject (embalming) and to whose memory a grateful ]iru- 
 fession throughout the entire world has erected a memorial shaft in Woodlawn Ceme- 
 tery, New York, where sleeps all that is mortal of the late Professor Auguste 
 Renouard." Someone has said: "If everyone to whom he did some loving service 
 bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep 'mid a wilderness of flowers." He gave 
 "the best years of his life to the higher education of the American embalmer, who 
 owes whatever measure of success he has attained to the characteristic zeal and energy 
 of this great scholar." 
 
 Mr. McCrea's experience in his chosen profession was further extended by several 
 years of experience in the employ of the George Sessions Sons Company, funeral 
 directors and embalmers. of Worcester. He came to this city in 1894. Mr. McCrea 
 engaged in business on his own account in 1909 at \'o. 120 Franklin street in this city, 
 and six months later admitted to partnership John T. Flanagan, formerly representative 
 to the State Legislature, under the present tirm name, McCrea & Flanagan. The tirm 
 has been highly successful from the beginning. In politics Mr. McCrea is an In- 
 dependent and has never aspired to public office. His principal recreation is music 
 and he is an accomplished singer and pianist. For four years he was organist of 
 Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus. He is treasurer of Father Fitton Court, 
 Catholic Order of Foresters. 
 
 He was president of the Massachusetts Embalmers Association from 1901 to 1904, 
 and during his administration introduced the first legislation regulating the registration 
 of embalmers in Massachusetts. In 1905 his friends presented his name as a proper 
 person for the governor to appoint on the Board of Registration in Embalming. At the 
 annual convention of the Massachusetts Undertakers Association at Springfield, June 
 28-29, 1916, he was elected secretary. He established the quarterly magazine. "The 
 Issue," of which he is editor and publisher in behalf of the association, a publication 
 devoted to the interests of the undertakers of the State. The "Telegram" said of him 
 at the time of his election : "Mr. McCrea is conceded to be the most active and suc- 
 cessful secretary the association has had in years, despite the fact that he has been in 
 office but a short time. He has earned statewide prestige among undertakers by his 
 work as editor of the Issue." 
 
 "The funeral director's profession" Mr. McCrea writes in the .March, 1917, Issue, 
 "is unlike any other. It is possibly more closely allied with that of the pharmacist. The 
 druggist must have a technical education in pharmacy in order that he may success- 
 fully compound the physician's prescriptions. He makes a business of selling drugs, 
 but in order to do so he must be a professional man. The selling of coffins and 
 caskets, robes, linings, etc., represents the business end of the undertaker's business. 
 The professional side is shown by his skill as an embalmer and sanitarian. Ushered 
 into our homes to care for the dead comes the trained embalmer and sanitarian, whose 
 dignity and mora! character is above reproach, and whose ability to perform his duties 
 properly is unquestioned by reason of his knowledge gained by a course of studies, 
 and a rigid examination before state boards of examination. Obviously the funeral 
 director and embalmer has made marvelous strides during the past few decades ; 
 and every step in advance serves to force upon the public the realization that it owes 
 a debt of gratitude to the men who 'hitched their wagon to the star' of high ideals 
 and worked untiringly to bring about conditions which were not dreamed of twenty- 
 five years ago. It is an established fact that the American undertaker leads the world 
 to-day. At no time in the history of the world has embalming reached a higher state 
 of perfection than at present. It has become universally accepted as a sanitary 
 measure, protecting the living and also preserving the dead until complete disintegra- 
 tion has taken place." Mr. McCrea is a communicant of St. John's Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. McCrea married. October ~. 1903, Eva M. Martin, who was born in 1870, in 
 Worcester, daughter of Andrew and Margaret (O'Brien) Martin. Her fatlier was 
 born in Dublin, Ireland; her mother in Kilkenny. Ireland, and she died July 15, igo8. 
 Their home is at No. 61 Vernon street. Mr. and Mrs. McCrea have two children: 
 Paul Gordon, born October 12, 1904, and Edwin Andrew, born October 31, 1906. 
 
 CHARLES HERBERT SPARRELL, Purcliasing agent and traffic manager of 
 the Spencer Wire Company, former secretary of the Mercantile and Credit Bureaus 
 of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. 1916-17, first secretary of the Retail Credit 
 Men's Association, was born in this city, July 4, 1873. son of Herbert Kirkwood and 
 Louisa (Kerber) Sparrell. Herbert Kirkwood Sparrell is president and treasurer 
 of B. S. Roy & Son Cumpany and the Queensbury Mills of this city. His home is at 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
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 No 941 Main street. He has a summer residence at Scituate. He is a member of 
 the Odd Fellows, the Worcester Commercial Travelers' Association, the Harvard 
 Club of Worcester and the Speedway Club. , , . , , , , . 
 
 Charles H. Sparrell attended the public schools and high schools here and 
 Hinman's Business College. He began business in the office of the Wheelock En- 
 gine Company, and after four years with this concern entered the employ of Nor- 
 cross Brothers Company. He was with the Norcross Company for a period of 
 twenty years and during the time they ranked as the largest building concern of 
 North America, was general paymaster and auditor of payrolls, purchases and ac- 
 counts at their various offices, works and building operations. He resigned in 1916 
 to take charge of the Mercantile and Credit Bureaus of the Chamber of Commerce. 
 In December, 1917, he resigned his position with the Chamber of Commerce to be- 
 come affiliated with the Spencer Wire Company of Worcester. He was secretary 
 of the Retail Credit Men's Association of Worcester from the beginning to Janu- 
 ary, 1918. (See Retail Credit Men's Association). He was one of the charter mem- 
 bers of the Wellington Rifles (q. v. I and served a term of three years as corporal 
 and sergeant. He is a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, the Wor- 
 cester County Farm Bureau, the Worcester County Republican Club, the Worces- 
 ter County Fish and Game Association, of wdiich he was one of the founders and 
 second president, the \\'orcester Fox Club, the Retail Credit Men's Association of 
 Worcester, the Retail Credit Men's National Association, the National Association 
 of Mercantile Agencies, the Kiwanis Club, the Wellington Rifles Veteran Associa- 
 tion, the Worcester Young Men's Christian Association, and the First Universalist 
 Church. His home is at No. i Bishop avenue. 
 
 Mr. Sparrell married, January 4, 1898, Lavinia Elizabeth Strong, daughter of 
 Albert Randolph and Alice (EdgecombI Strong. Mrs. Sparrell is an untiring work- 
 er in the charitable activities of the First Universalist Church, Worcester Chapter 
 of tlie Red Cross, and tlie Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the 
 American Revolution. They have two children : Herbert Kirkwood, 2d, born Feb- 
 ruary 26, 1899, graduate of the New York School of Agriculture, an expert in fruit 
 and poultry; Lester Strong, born Feljruary 12, 1904. 
 
 TIMOTHY HENRY MURPHY, Undertaker, was born in Worcester, Sep- 
 tember 5. 1846. His father, Dennis Murphy, was born in Ireland, coming among 
 the first from that country to this city in the year 1843 and marrying in St. John's 
 Roman Catholic Church, Worcester. Mary J. Cahilan. Rev. Father Gibson officiat- 
 ing. Father and mother are deceased. 
 
 Mr. Murphy's schooling began in the old Thomas street public school and con- 
 tinued until he was fifteen years old. In 1861 he began to learn the machinist's 
 trade in the shops of the Ethan Alien Company, manufacturers of firearms, in Wor- 
 cester, and he remained in the employ of this concern for nearly twelve years, 
 leaving finally to accept the position of superintendent in the Johnson & Bye Fire 
 Arms Factory. Afterward he was employed as superintendent and expert machin- 
 ist in the Roller Skate department, and later in the boot-tree department of the 
 Colby & Porter Last Company, also of Worcester. Being ambitious to have a bus- 
 iness of his own. he tried the real estate and insurance field for a time, but 
 eventually determined to qualify himself as an undertaker and embalmer. Accord- 
 ingly he became a stulent in Clark's School of Embalming, Boston, and received 
 his certificate July 18. 1892. He began business in the same year with a partner, 
 under the firm name of Reynolds & Murphy, having headquarters in the Scott 
 building. Main and Franklin streets. In 1897 this firm was dissolved and Mr. Mur- 
 phy resumed the undertaking business alone at No. 96 Park street, starting with 
 meagre capital, liut soon gaining a strong foothold. His natural tact, dignity and 
 courtesy, attractive personality, as well as his thorough training and skill in all 
 the details of his profession, and business ability, served to bring into demand his 
 services, especially among the families of his religious faith. Since 1901 he has 
 occupied his present quarters at Nos. 132-34 Franklin street. In 1914 he pur- 
 chased the building and land occupied by his business. In recent years his son, 
 Timothy Henry Murphy. Jr.. became associated with his father in the business. Mr. 
 Murphy possessess what many men in his business lack, a careful training in book- 
 keeping and Inisiness system. His penmanship is like engraving and his accuracy is 
 shown by the fact that in earlier life he kept a set of books for si.x years without 
 making an error or erasure. 
 
 Mr. Murphy is keenly interested in public affairs, a citizen of fine public spirit. 
 He served on the school board, representing Ward 3, 1873-1876. He is devoted to 
 his family, and gives to his children his confidence and support, the best things ob- 
 tainable in life within his means, and is providing for their future to the best of 
 
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 his ability. Perhaps after all nothing shnws the character of a man better than liis 
 domestic life, his love and care for his children. Faithful to the religion of his 
 fathers, he has been a generous and loyal supporter of St. Paul's Roman Catholic 
 Church, of which he has been for many years a communicant. He is one rif the 
 oldest members of Alhambra Council. No. 88, Knights of Columbus; member of 
 Worcester Council, Royal Arcanum; and for eleven years treasurer of William E. 
 Russell Council, now Worcester Council, No. 12, Royal Arcanum; member of Cnurt 
 City of Worcester, Massachusetts; Catholic Order of Foresters; of Divisicm 35, 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians; and Knights of Robert Emmet. In politics he is a 
 Democrat. For seven years he was a member of the e.xecutive board of the Massa- 
 chusetts Undertakers Association and for three years cliairman. 
 
 Mr. Murphy married, in May of 1871, Mary A. Ryan, who was burn in Ireland, 
 a daughter of Thomas and Catharine (Maher) Ryan. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy liave 
 three sons and three daughters: 1. Dr. Joseph B., born in Worcester, graduate of 
 Columbia College, now practicing in New York City. 2. Timothy Henry, Jr., now 
 associated with his father. 3. Frank J., now in business in .'^;in Diego, California, 
 with Smith, Murphy & Randall. 4. Mary Edward. 5. Minnie C. (p. Elizabeth R., 
 now teaching in the Worcester public schools. 
 
 JAMES A. GALLAGHER, Public official, is a grandson of Peter C.allagher, 
 born in the North of Ireland, settled early in life in New Brunswick, and engaged in 
 trucking, farming and lumbering. He also lived for a few years at Richmond, Maine. 
 He married Rhoda Jackson, who was also a native of Ireland. Children: Francis, 
 mentioned below; Michael, John, James, Daniel, George, Jeremiali, Peter, William, 
 Sarah, Mary, Kittie. 
 
 Francis Gallagher, son of Peter (iallagher. was born in 1830 at Richmond, Maine, 
 and went with his parents from his native town to New Brunswick, locating in the 
 town of Newbury. He died in Worcester, whither he came in 1870, shortly after his 
 marriage. He was a carpenter by trade, and for forty years was in business as a 
 contractor and builder in Worcester, Massachusetts. He built the first of the type 
 of apartment house known as the three-decker, and during the course of his business 
 life constructed a large number of these dwelling houses. He continued in active busi- 
 ness until shortly before his death in 1914. at the age of eighty-four years. He mar- 
 ried Theresa McElheny, daughter of James and Ellen (Burns) McElheny, -who were 
 both natives of Ireland. Her parents came to Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, but moved 
 afterward to New Brunswick. Her mother died and is buried in Boston, Massachu- 
 setts. Children of James and Ellen McElheny: Mary, deceased; Ellen, deceased; 
 Julia, deceased ; Hugh, deceased ; Theresa, mentioned above, now living in Worcester. 
 Children of Francis and Theresa (McElheny) Gallagher: i. Annie. 2. Agnes, married 
 William H. Brady, a police inspector of Worcester. 3. Augusta, was for twenty years 
 Superior of Notre Dame Order at the Star of the Sea Convent. East Boston, and 
 Notre Dame Convent, Chicopee; died in 1916 at Fond-du-Lac Convent, Worcester, 
 where she spent the last six months of her life. 4. Peter, a carpenter by trade; was 
 for two years a member of the Common Council of the City of Worcester from Ward 
 Four; married (first) Nora Brady; (second) Nellie Brady. 5. Louisa, unmarried. 
 6. Mary, unmarried. 7. Sarah, a grammar school teacher. 8. Gertrude, married Tim- 
 othy F. Larkin, lawyer, of Worcester; she is an accomplished pianist and teacher of 
 music. 9. Frank, deceased. 10. Julia, deceased. 11. James A., mentioned below. 
 
 James A. Gallagher, son of Francis Gallagher, was born at Newbury, New Bruns- 
 wick, July 22. 1868. He attended the public schools of Worcester, but in his thirteenth 
 year, when in the seventh grade, left school to begin work as errand boy in a ma- 
 chine shop. He served an apprenticeship of four years in the machinist trade, but 
 abandoned it finally in favor of his father's occupation. For the past thirty years 
 he has followed the trade and business of carpentering. For twelve years he was 
 contract superintendent for J. J. Higgins & Company. During the past twelve years 
 he has been in business as a contractor and builder in Worcester. He has made a 
 specialty of the three-decker which his father introduced and made popular. It is said 
 that James A. Gallagher has built more of this style of residence than any other man in 
 Worcester. He has devoted much attention also to building houses to sell and develop- 
 ing real estate. He developed nearly all the side of the hill on Houghton street. At 
 times he has fifty carpenters in his employ. In addition to his extensive real estate and 
 contracting business he has given much time to public service. In politics he is a 
 Democrat, one of the local leaders of his party, keenly interested in municipal affairs. 
 He represented Ward Four in the Common Council of the City of Worcester in 1911 
 and 1912. Since 1915 he has been a member of the Board of Aldermen of the city. 
 He has served on some very important committees, including streets, police, public 
 buildings, legislation, street lighting, mayor's inaugural and untinishe<l business, of 
 
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 which he was chairman. He was also on the Committee on Assessments for Street 
 Betterments and chairman of tlie Committee on Elections and Election Returns. He 
 gave his support to the pav-as-you-go policy of the city, established in 1915. and now in 
 satisfactory operation. He was a member of the city government when the grade 
 crossing ordinance was passed and the Lake Quinsigamond Bridge finally voted. He 
 is given credit for having acted in good faith and consistently on all measures in the 
 interests of the people and municipality. He was the first alderman elected from his 
 ward without opposition. He has been chairman of the Democratic City Commitee, 
 and is well known in business and political circles throughout the State. His per- 
 sonality, cordiality and good nature have won a host of friends for him. His energy, 
 shrewdness and ambition have won him success in business. As a public officer he has 
 been efficient, zealous and faithful. Personally he is deservedly popular among all 
 classes of citizens. He is a meinber of the local order of the Knights of Coluinbus, 
 the -Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Eagles. He has a very attractive residence at 
 No. 69 Mav street. 
 
 Mr. Gallagher married. October 28, 1896. Elizabeth Leonard, daughter of John and 
 Catharine (Rooney) Leonard, of Worcester. His wife is a native of Worcester, 
 educated there in the parochial schools. Children: Marian, graduate of the Worces- 
 ter Parochial Schuol. igiO: Loretta : Rlioda. deceased; Leonard. Catharine. Frank, 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 REV. CHARLES EDWARD SIMMONS, Clergyman, was born in this city. 
 October ij. 1834. where he died May 5. 1912. son of John and Hannah (Howe) Sim- 
 mons. John Simmons was a contractor and manufacturer in this city from 1830 to 
 l8;6; was lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment, 1827-29. 
 
 Charles E. Simmons attended the public schools, the Worcester Academy, the 
 Shelburne Falls Academy (Massachusetts), Madison University, now Colgate Uni- 
 versity, at Hamilton. Xew York, graduating in 1861 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts.' He graduated from the Hartford Theological School in 1871. He was pastor 
 of the North Spencer Baptist Church in 1868; of the Baptist church at Southwick, 
 Massachusetts, 1871-76: at Thompson. Connecticut, 1876-77; South Windsor, Connecti- 
 cut, 1877-81. He became blind as a result of army life, but continued to preach most of 
 the time. In 1891 he recovered his sight. In politics he was a Democrat. For twenty- 
 five years* he was chaplain of the Worcester County Jail and for five years of the 
 Worcester Home Farm. He was superintendent of schools in Southwick, Massa- 
 chusetts, from 1872 to 1874. During the Civil War, 1861-65. he was a private and 
 hospital steward of the Twenty-first Massachusetts Regiment, Volunteer Infantry; was 
 shot through the left leg; a prisoner in Libby. He was secretary of his regiment for 
 a number of years, and was succeeded by his daughter, Mrs. Flora A. Chapin, who had 
 been his assistant. She is now the daughter of the regiment, the third to receive that 
 distinction, succeeding the late Clara Barton. Dr. Simmons was a charter member of 
 George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic, and served as its chaplain; 
 also a memlier of the Union Veteran Legion. He was a member of the First Baptist 
 Church of this city. 
 
 Dr. Simmons married, at Hamilton, New York. August 28. i860. J&ne Victoria 
 Waldron. daughter of George Richard and Mary Elizabeth (Crisman) Waldron. 
 Children; I. Charles Gilbert, born July 6. 1864. died September 8. 1902; clergyman, 
 pastor of Baptist churches in Rowe. Charlemont and Northborough, Massachusetts, 
 and New Woodstock. New York ; married Annie Given Perkins, and had two chil- 
 dren ; Margaret Perkins, now assistant bacteriologist for the New York Board of 
 Health, and Robert Henry, student at Colby Academy. 2. Henry Durant. born April 
 22. 1868. foreman of the Whitcomb & Blaisdell Machine Company ; married Mary 
 Hyde Evans, and had three children; May Victoria, died in infancy; Charles Warren, 
 now in France with the One Hundred and Fourth United States Infantry ; and Harold 
 Edward, corporal in the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment. United States Infantry, 
 also in France. 3. Flora .'Xmorette, born September 21. 1871 ; graduate of the Wor- 
 cester School; of Vassar College, 1895; Professor of Latin and Greek in the Huguenot 
 College, South Africa, 1895-1900; teacher in the Worcester High Schools; married 
 Edwin Thaddeus Chapin, of this city, and has one child, Dorothy Eunice Chapin, born 
 October 6, 1907; she is now department president of the Massachusetts Woman's Relief 
 Corps. 1918-19. 4. Dr. Hannah Coralynn (see biography). 5. Dr. Edward Burnside 
 (see biography). 
 
 Jane Victoria (Waldron) Simmons, mother of these children, was born in Hamil- 
 ton. New York, October 6, 1838; attended the public schools there and the Hamilton 
 Female Seminary. She is a member of the George H. Ward Woman's Relief Corps 
 of this city; Stella Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Union Veterans' Au.xiliarv. 
 of which she was the national president in 1898-99. Her father was a publisher i'n 
 
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 Hamilton; librarian for many years of the State Senate, Albany, Xew ^■orl<; post- 
 rnaster of the Assembly, State Capitol, New York. He was captain of the One Hun- 
 dred and Fifty-seventh Xew York Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. 
 
 Dr. Hannah Coralynn Simmons was born in Thompson, Connecticut, February 14. 
 1877; graduated from the Classical High School in 1897, and from Tufts College 
 Medical School in 19OJ. She was resident physician at the Massachusetts Reformatory 
 Prison for Women, 1901-02, and since then has practiced in this city. She has been 
 assistant sister in the Red Cross since 1898. She is a member of Stella Chapter, ()r<ier 
 of the Eastern Star; George H. Ward Woman's Relief Corps, of which she is the 
 physician; Naomi Rebekah Lodge, Odd Fellows; Clara Barton Tent, Daughters of 
 Veterans ; the Worcester District Medical Society ; Massachusetts Medical Society ; 
 American Afedical Association, and the First Baptist Church. 
 
 EDWARD BURNSIDE SIMMONS. Physician and surgeon, was b.irn in tliis 
 city, February 8, 1882. He attended the public schools here, graduating from the 
 English High School in 1901, He entered Colgate University, from which he graduated 
 with the degree of Bachelor of -A.rts in 1906. He then became a student in the Colgate 
 Theological School, graduating in 1909, He decided to study medicine, however, and 
 entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 
 1913, He received the degree of Master of Science from Col.gate in 1914 and the 
 degree of Master of Arts from Columbia in 1915. In 1913-14 he served as house 
 officer of the Worcester City Hospital, and in 1914 began to practice in this city, con- 
 tinuing until called into service. May 25. 1917. 
 
 He was ordained for the ministry in Worcester, in 1909, the first tu be ordained in 
 the new Baptist church, and was acting pastor of the First Baptist Church in 1915 
 and 1916. He served as assistant pastor of the Judson Memorial Church of New York 
 City, from 1910 to 1913, and he was pastor of the Baptist church of Watertown, New- 
 York, in 1908. In politics Dr. Simmons is a Republican. While living in Hamilton he 
 was town surveyor. He is a member of Willie Grout Camp, Sons of \'eterans, of this 
 city; the Masonic Lodge at Hamilton ; Worcester District Medical .Society, Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, the Madison Club of Colgate 
 University, First Baptist Church. He began his army service as first lieutenant of 
 -Ambulance Company No. 13. at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Indiana; was promoted cap- 
 tain, and is now major with Sanitary Train No. 317, Division 92, Cam]) Funston, Kansas. 
 
 Dr. Simmons married, at Hamilton, June 24. 1915. Ruth Benedict Ingalls, daughter 
 of Walter and .\ngela (Benedict) Ingalls. They have one child, Ingalis Howe, born 
 June 9, 1916. 
 
 ERNEST LEROI HUNT, Physician, was bnrn in Al.ingti.n, Massachusetts, 
 November 11, 1877, son of Washington and Mary (Nickersim) Hunt. Washington 
 Hunt was born in Abingtnn, Massachusetts, in what is now Rockland, February 27, 
 1827, died in Abington, May 8, 1893. His wife. Mary Hunt, was born June 10. 1834, 
 in Mercer, Maine. The other children of Washington and Mary Hunt were: Charles 
 W., born November 17, 1855: M. Ella, December i, 1859; Frank E., January 31, 
 1863: Brenelle, February 27, 1875. 
 
 Ernest L. Hunt attended the public schonls of his nati\e t'lwn. leaving the high 
 school in his senior year to take a special course in chemistry in the Massachusetts 
 College of Pharmacy. Afterward he became a student in the Medical School of 
 Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1902 with the degree of Doctor 
 of Medicine (cum laiidc). After serving as interne in the Worcester City Hospital 
 from March i, 1902, to June 30, 1903, he began to practice in this city in July, 1903, 
 with offices at No. 2 Wellington street. In May. 1905, he m ived to his present offi- 
 ces in The Standish, No, 771 Main street; since 1909 he has resided at No. 120 Lov- 
 ell street, in the Columbus Park district. He was appointed assistant pathologist 
 to the Worcester City Hospital in 1903 and has continued in this service to the 
 present time. He was appointed surgeon to out-patients of the City Hospital in 1908. 
 and in 1918 assistant surgeon. Since 191 5 he has lieen consulting anethetist to 
 Memorial Hospital. From 1908 to July 25. 1918. he was associate medical examiner 
 for the Eleventh Worcester District, when he resigned to enter the military ser- 
 vice of the United States; from June 21, 1917, to July 25, 1918, he was the medical 
 member of the Local Board for Division Four, City of Worcester, United States 
 Selective Service. He was commissioned captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, 
 United States Army, June 17, 1918. and entered active service, July 25, 1918. at Camp 
 Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, where he was assigned t'l duty in the Base 
 Hospital. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Dr. Hunt is a member of the Worcester Economic Cluli ; Ridgeley Lodge. In- 
 dependent fjrder i.f Odd Fellows; Quinsigamond Lodge. .Ancient Free and .Accepted 
 
476 HISTORY OF JVORCESTER 
 
 Masons; and the First Universalist Church, of this city. He was formerly super- 
 intendent of the First Universalist Sunday school of Abington. He is a fellow of 
 the Massachusetts Medical Society and was elected a councillor in May. 1918; 
 member of the Worcester District Medical Society, of which he was secretary 
 from 1912 to 1918 ; member of the American Medical Association, and fellow of the 
 American College of Surgeons. 
 
 Dr. Hunt married, June 4, 1907, at Worcester, Isabel Girling, born October 21, 
 1876, daughter of James and Eliza (Rayforth) Girling. Her father was born in 
 England. August 3, 1845; her mother also in England, November 7, 1854. Dr. and 
 Mrs. Hunt have three children: Isabel, born Marcli 7, 1908; Ethel Dorothy, born 
 July 14, 1911; Mildred Elizabeth, born January 12, 1913. 
 
 SAMUEL HORTON COLTON, Publislier. was born in Longmeadow, Massa- 
 chusetts, November 24, 1804, and died September 12, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois, son 
 of Reuben and Rozana (Atkins) Coltun. 
 
 His ancestry is: Reuben (5), Aaron (4), Benjamin (3), Isaac (2), and George 
 (i) Colton, founder of the American family in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He 
 came to New England among the early pioneers about 1644. 
 
 Samuel H. Colton received his early education in the public schools and served 
 an apprenticeship in the printing office of the Hampshire Gazette. About 1825 he 
 came to Worcester and soon afterward entered into partnership with John Milton 
 Earle in the publication of the Worcester Spy, a newspaper founded in Boston by 
 Isaiah Thomas, in 1770, published in Worcester from 1887 to 1904. It was owned 
 by the founder and his son until 1814. Mr. Earle and Anthony Chase bought the 
 business in 1823. Under the name of S. H. Colton & Company the paper was pub- 
 lished for twenty years. This was a period of intense political feeling. The Spy 
 was a Federal organ early in the nineteenth century and under the management of 
 Mr. Colton it was vigorous and aggressive. In 1845 failing health compelled Mr. 
 Colton to retire from the newspaper business, and he afterward engaged in the 
 nursery business at the corner of Main and Austin streets and at South Worcester. 
 He was afterward in the insurance business in Worcester. He was active and suc- 
 cessful in business and prominent in public affairs. He served the town as select- 
 man and the city as a member of the Common Council. He invested extensively in 
 real estate in Worcester and the growth of the city vastly increased the value of 
 his holdings. He was for many years treasurer of the People's Fire Insurance Com- 
 pany. He was a faithful member of the Society of Friends in Worcester. He was 
 prominent in the anti-slavery movement., and in later years a Republican politically. 
 Mr. Colton did much to promote the interest in agriculture and horticulture in 
 Worcester county. His work in arbor culture is especially mentioned by Arabella 
 H. Tucker in her book, "Trees of Worcester" (1894). 
 
 Mr. Colton married (first) Anna Earle, of Leicester, who died soon after her 
 marriage, leaving no children. He married (second), December 14, 1843, Ann 
 King, born in Flushing, Long Island, daughter of John and Mary (Bowne) King. 
 Her father was a London banker, who emigrated to New York about 1791, and be- 
 came treasurer of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of New York City, where 
 he died. Her mother, Mary (Bowne) King, was born in Flushing, Long Island, in 
 1777, daughter of James and Caroline (Rodman) Bowne, and was the mother of 
 three sons and seven daughters. The only son who grew to maturity was Dr. John 
 Bowne King, for many years a prominent physician of Nantucket, Massachusetts. 
 Mrs. Colton died March 30, 1902. Children of Samuel Horton and Ann Colton : 
 1. John Bowne, born November 17, 1844, died February IS, 1901 ; for many years was 
 with the Bay State Shoe Company ; married Louisa Holt, daughter of Robert and 
 Constance (Burrill) Holt, of New York City and Summit, New Jersey ; child, Ann 
 King. 2. Mary R., died in infancy, February 2, 1850, on date of birth of next child. 
 3. Mary Rodman, born February 2, 1850; now living in Worcester. 4. Reuben, 
 born November 27, 1855; educated in the public and high schools of Worcester, the 
 Friends School, Providence, and at Haverford College, from which he graduated in 
 1876, assistant librarian of the American Antiquarian Society, 1877 to 1890; land- 
 scape gardener and architect, now retired, residing in Boston; married Grace Cleve- 
 land, daughter of Edwin and Anna Cleveland, of Worcester. 5. Samuel Horton (see 
 biography). 
 
 SAMUEL HORTON COLTON, JR.. Manufacturer, was born at Worcester, 
 August 17, 1857, and died July 2, 1913, in Millbury, Massachusetts, son of Samuel 
 Horton and .^nn (King) Colton. 
 
 He attended the Friends' School, now the Moses Brown School of Providence, 
 also the public schools of Worcester including the high school. When a young man 
 
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 he went to California and there entered the United States Navy, serving as pay- 
 master's clerk on the man-of-war, "Alaska." He returned to Worcester and for 
 several years was with the Bay State Shoe Company. He left this husiness to 
 engage in the manufacture of wire and wire cloth as partner in the firm of Wright 
 & Colton Wire Cloth Company, of which he was treasurer for ten years. The com- 
 pany bought an established business at Palmer, and established a factory also in 
 Worcester, soon becoming one of the largest concerns in this line iif business. .At the 
 present time the business is conducted under the name of \\'right Wire t.'oinpany, 
 of which George M. Wright, ex-mayor of Worcester, is president and general 
 manager. After Mr. Colton retired from the Wright & Colton Wire Cloth Manu- 
 facturing Company, he devoted his attention to agriculture, and had an estate of two 
 hundred acres at Millbury. Mr. Colton was fond of nature and out-door sports. 
 He was a member of the Tatnuck Country Club, the Grafton Country Club, the 
 Union Club of Boston, Massachusetts, the ^\'orcester Club, and the New England 
 Horticultural Society. He traveled extensively, and in igii, in company with Fred 
 C. Daniels, of Worcester, made a triji to British Columbia. He attended .Ml Saints 
 Protestant Episcopal Church, and was a member of the Union Bible Society. 
 
 Mr. Colton married. November 28. 1891, Elizabeth Slater Howe, born March 
 31, 1864, daughter of James H. and Elizabeth Hamilton (Slater) Howe, of Webster, 
 granddaughter of George Bassett Slater. Mrs. Colton was educated under private 
 tutors and at the private school of Miss Williams in Worcester and Miss Sanger in 
 Boston. She is active in church and charitable work in All Saints parish. Cliildren: 
 
 1. Katherine, born September 4, 1892; attended Dana Hall, Wellesley; married 
 Loring Coes ; three children, Elizabeth Slater, Loring, Jr., and Rufus Putnam Coes. 
 
 2. Samuel Horton, Jr., born February 2, 1894 ; graduate of the Worcester High 
 School ; served in the aviation corps in the World War. 3. James Howe, horn July 
 26, 1895; graduate of the Worcester High School, and of Dartmouth College, class 
 of 1916; served in the United States Navy in World War. 4. John Bowne. born May 20, 
 1897; graduate of Bordentown Military Institute. New Jersey, served in the United 
 States Navy in World War. 5. Sydney, born June 15, 1899; attended Moses Brown 
 School, Providence. 6. Rodman, born October 10, 1902 ; attended the Worcester 
 High School, and the Moses Brown School. Providence ; also served in the World 
 War. 7. Susanna Boylston. born February 25, 1905. 8. Eleanor King, born .April 
 I. 1907. 
 
 CHARLES A. WILLIAMS, Banker, who died in this city, October i, 1906. was 
 a man of honest purposes, to which he always diligently applied himself. He was 
 held in the highest respect and love by many loyal friends throu.ghout his life, and 
 his memory among them shall be forever dear. 
 
 Warren Williams, father of Charles .A. Williams, was born in Woolwich, 
 Maine. July 2. 181 1, and died in this city. May 4, 1896. He was a direct descendant 
 of Richard Williams, who was one of the early settlers of Taunton, Massachusetts, 
 and who in turn was descended from Oliver Cromwell, the Protector. The Williams 
 family is one of great antiquity in both England and Wales. When a young man, 
 Warren Williams came to Worcester, where he found employment with the firm of 
 L. & A. G. Coes, manufacturers of woolen machinery, which business was after- 
 ward conducted by Henry Goulding. In tliis concern Mr. Williams advanced from 
 journeyman to superintendent of the factory. In 1851 he became a partner in the 
 business, under the firm name of Willard, Williams & Company, the factory being 
 located at the corner of L'nion and School streets. In 1854 Mr. Williams withdrew 
 from the firm and retired to a farm in North Worcester. In 1858 he bought the 
 interests of Charles Ballard in the firm of Ball & Ballard, manufacturers of wood- 
 working machinery, and the firm of Ball & Williams continued tlie business for 
 some years. During the Civil War this firm was engaged in manufacturing the 
 Ballard breech-loading rifle, invented by Charles Ballard. After the war Mr. Wil- 
 liams sold his interests in the liusiness to his partner, later becoming appraiser for 
 the People's Savings Bank, for which he procured the charter and served on its 
 board of trustees for more than twenty years, also on the finance committee, and as 
 vice-president. For more than fifty years he was a member of the Union Congre- 
 gational Church, in the work of which he took a very prominent part, having been 
 treasurer of the building committee when the present church edifice was erected. 
 For more than thirty years he was a member of the Mechanics' Association, in 
 which he also held various offices. For a period of over fifteen years he was a di- 
 rector of the Worcester Safe Deposit and Trust Company, later the Worcester 
 Trust Company, and now the Worcester Bank and Trust Company. For many years 
 he was chairman of the Board of Trade and a director of the Protective Union 
 Company. He was also for a number of years an auditor of the Providence and 
 
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 HISTORY UF iroF^CllSTER 
 
 Worcester Railroad Company. He was also active in public affairs, and repre- 
 sented Worcester from Ward Eight in the Genera! Court in 1863-64 and 1868-69, 
 serving on the committees on finance and claims. In political faith he was a stal- 
 wart Republican. 
 
 On May 16, 1838. Mr. Williams married Harriet Minerva Whittaker. whu was 
 born at Princeton. Massachusetts. March 17. 1815, and died in this city, July 6, 
 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Williams lived to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their 
 wedding. To them were born two children : Charles Austin, mentioned below ; and 
 Mary Elizabeth, who died, unmarried, in 1899. 
 
 Charles .A.ustin Williams, son of Warren and Harriet Minerva (Whittaker) 
 Williams, was born at Worcester. August 17, 1847. He attended the public schools, 
 the high school and the Highland Military Academy of his native city, being a 
 drummer boy at the latter school during the period of the Civil War. At the age 
 of eighteen years he began his business career in the City National Bank as a clerk. 
 He was advanced through the different departments until he became assistant 
 cashier, remaining with this uistitution for a period of thirty-two years, until i8;8. 
 when, owing to the decision of the bank officials to discontinue the office of assist- 
 ant cashier. Mr. Williams retired. He was a director of the Worcester Trust Com- 
 pany for many years, and the following memorial was adopted by his associates on 
 the board of directors : 
 
 "In the death on Monday. October ist. of Charles A. Williams, this institution 
 has lost an able and conscientious director, and the members of the board, a warm, 
 personal friend. His long experience in banking qualified him especially f^r the dis- 
 charge of the arduous duties of auditing the accounts, which service I^e rendered 
 with great fidelity and efficiency. He was possessed of a genial and courteous per- 
 sonality, an unfailing cheerfulness and a kindness of heart which revealed a readi- 
 ness to perform all the offices of friendship and affection. His standard of personal 
 character and honor was the highest. Of absolute and unquestioned integrity, he 
 secured and retained the confidence of the community. In his home, to which he was 
 devotedly attached and where his loss will be most keenly felt, he was the ideal 
 husband and father. The directors desire to extend to the widow and children of 
 Mr. Williams their heartfelt sympathy and to assure them that they will long 
 cherish his memory." 
 
 He was also a director of the Protective Union Company, of Worcester, suc- 
 ceeding his father, and at a meeting of the board of directors, held October 2, 1906. 
 the following tribute to his memory was adopted: 
 
 "In the death of Mr. Williams, we each feel a personal loss. He was endeared 
 to us by long and pleasant association, and it is hard, indeed, to feel that he has 
 gone from our midst. He always met us with a cheery greeting and made our 
 meetings seem for friendly as well as for business purposes. Geniality, kindness, 
 generosity and justice were qualities ever manifested by him in our business rela- 
 tions. He was wise in counsel and loyal to the interests of the store, in which he 
 took commendable pride. He won the respect and love of the employees of the 
 store, by his courtesy and kindness. If a day passed, and Mr. Williams did not call 
 in to spend an hour, all noticed his absence, and missed the cheerful salute which 
 all received from him. We know we speak the sentiments of the clerks, one and all, 
 when we say that Mr. Williams will long be remembered and loved by them. For 
 ourselves, we feel his loss very keenly. We have lost a loved associate and co- 
 worker, and the company has lost a faithful and efficient officer." 
 
 Mr. Williams was a valued member of the Worcester Club, the Quinsigamond 
 Boat Club, and the Tatnuck Country Club. He regularly attended the Union Con- 
 gregational Church, and had entire charge of the Iniilding fund of the present church edi- 
 fice on Chestnut street. In political faith he was a firm believer in the principles of 
 the Republican party. As a result of his genial, affable manner, Mr. Williams en- 
 joyed the acquaintance of a very large circle of friends, whom he never failed to 
 greet with a cordial smile. He was very fond of horses and all dumb animals, 
 and his love for them and their welfare was most marked. 
 
 Mr. Williams was united in marriage, October 10, 1878, to Josephine C. Has- 
 kell, who was born at Canton, Illinois, June 30. 1856, and who was the daughter of 
 William Henry and Aurelia Bulkeley (Lord) Haskell. To this union were born 
 three sons: i. Charles .^ustin. Jr., l)orn February 27. 1881, who died in infancy. 
 2. Haskell, born November 15. 1883. 3. Warren, horn May 14. 1885. The two latter 
 attended the public schools of this city, and completed their education at Harvard 
 University, both graduating therefrom in the class of 1906. with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Science. Haskell then became engaged with the Dennison Manufactur- 
 ing Company, of Framingham, Massachusetts, and after two years with this organ- 
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 tlie piircliasing (ii-partmcnt of that corporatitin for two years, wlien he Hecaiiic identi- 
 fied with the Massachusetts Employees Insurance Association, of Boston, taking 
 charge of the Worcester office. At the entry of the United States into the World 
 War, he resigned his position to attend the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg, 
 New York, froin which he was commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry, I'nitcd 
 States Regulars, and sent for special instruction to France. After six months' ill- 
 ness in the army hospital in France, he was ordered back to the United States, on 
 account of partial blindness, and honorably discharged from the service, as disableil 
 in line of duty. He is a member of the Phoenix Club, of Harvard, and of the Quin- 
 sigamond Boat Club, of Worcester. Warren, while at Harvard, was coxswain of 
 the 1906 freshman crew, .^fter leaving college he went to New Haven, Connecti- 
 cut, where he entered the employ of the Seamless Rubber Company, remaining 
 with that company until 1913, when he became identified with the Acme Wire 
 Company, of New Haven, of which he is now assistant sales manager. He is a 
 member of the Harvard Club of New York, of the Phoenix Club, of Harvard, and 
 of the Quinnipiac Club of New Haven. He married Mary Rice Banister, daughter 
 of Charles H. and Ada (Bush) Banister, of this city, and they are the parents of 
 two children, Nancy, born August I, 1913, and Warren, Jr., born March 15, 1917. 
 
 EDWARD MINTON WOODWARD, Principal of the South High School, 
 was born in Paxton, Massachusetts, .August 13, i860, son of .Mbert E. and Lizzie ( Min- 
 ton) Woodward. His father was a farmer and for many years conducted the Wetherell 
 farm located in the vicinity of Newton Square and including Newton Hill, and during 
 his boyhood the son attended the public schools here and assisted his father. He 
 graduated from the Worcester Classical High School in 1881, and entered Amherst 
 College, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 
 1885. Since then he has been constantly engaged in teaching in the public schools. 
 
 His first experience, in 1886, was at Hubbardston, and from the fall of that year 
 until 1903 he taught mathematics and the sciences in the Classical High School of this 
 city. Since 1903 he has been principal of the new South High School. It is the in- 
 variable testimony of his pupils that Mr. Woodward possesses exceptional gifts as an 
 instructor, and his personal qualities win the love and stir the ambition of students. 
 No public school principal has a more loyal body of pupils and alumni to testify to his 
 success as a teacher and principal. The standing of the graduates of the South High 
 School in higher institutions of learning year after year has deiuonstrated his executive 
 ability and efficiency. His relations with the school committee and superior officers 
 and with the teachers under him have been characterized by the utmost harmony and 
 good feeling. 
 
 Mr. Woodward's social relations have been unusually pleasant, not only in educa- 
 tional circles, but in fraternal and other social organizations. He is one of the very 
 few Masons of the city of Worcester to attain the thirty-third degree. He has been 
 a member of the highest Masonic body in the country since 1906. He belongs to all 
 the intermediate bodies of the City and State. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram 
 Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, No. 5, Knights 
 Templar; Worcester Lodge of Perfection; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem; 
 Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; the Massachusetts Consistory (thirty-second de- 
 gree), of Boston. He is also a member of Stella Chapter. Order of Eastern Star. 
 He has held office in all of the various Masonic organizations of which he is a member. 
 He is a charter member of the college fraternity, Theta Delta Chi. He is a member 
 of the Economic Club of this city, the Congregationalist Club, the Massachusetts 
 Schoolmasters Club, the National Educational Association, and is a former president 
 of the Worcester Principals Club and of the Worcester County Teachers Association. 
 In religion he is a Congregationalist, and in politics a Republican. Mr. Woodward is 
 a director of the Worcester Co-r)[)erative Bank, and of the Home Co-Operative Bank. 
 
 Mr. Woodward married, August 4, 1887, Sarah Emma Hemenway, who was born 
 in Barre, June 17, 1864, daughter of Chauncey C. and Sarah Elizabeth (Parker) 
 Hemenway. Their home is at No. 736 Pleasant street. They have five children: i. 
 Harold Edward, born July 5, 1888; graduate of the Classical High School; of Amherst 
 College (A. B. 1910) ; of Columbia University (Ph. D. 1912) ; now chemist for the 
 United States government, located at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; married Ethel 
 Catherine Willcox, and they have one son, David Willcox Woodward. 2. Ruth Lizzie, 
 born July 14, 1890; graduate of the Classical High School and of Mt. Holyoke College 
 (A. B. 1912) ; now a teacher in the High School of Commerce in this city. 3. Geraldine 
 Mary, born December 27, 1891 ; married Frederick W. Flint, and they have one daugh- 
 ter, Helen Elizabeth Flint. 4. Ethel Frances, born July 18, 1902. 5. Albert Hemenway, 
 born September 8, 1904. 
 
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 HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 SYLVANUS B. ROY, Late president and treasurer of the Riverside Mills and 
 B. S. Roy & Son Company, and one of the representative manufacturers of Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts, was a native of Rockville, Connecticut, where his birth occurred 
 September 21, 1877, and his death occurred at his home, No. 200 Lowell street in this 
 city, April 7, 1916. 
 
 He was a son of Basil S. Roy, who was born at Ellenburg, New York, August 13, 
 1837, who by dint of unusual ability and perseverance raised himself from a very 
 humble position to a place of esteem in the community. Mr. Roy, Sr., was an extremely 
 ambitious young man, and when eighteen was made foreman of a woolen mill in 
 Northern New York. Here he remained for seven years and then resigned that 
 position to accept a better one with the Riverside Mills at Providence, Rhode Island. 
 He was a man of unusual inventive genius and devised a number of improvements 
 for the machinery used in the manufacture of woolens. It was while with the River- 
 side Mill that he invented his first improvement of the carding engine. A few years 
 later he was called to the New England Company of Rockville, Connecticut, a concern 
 which manufactured fine woolen goods, where he invented the Traverse grinder for 
 carding engines, which bears his name and which revolutionized the method of grind- 
 ing carding engines. He subsequently obtained above thirty patents on card-grinding 
 machinery alone, as well as a number of others for other devices. Several of these 
 were for improvements in looms and steam engines. He was known as the father of 
 the card-grinding machinery business in the United States, and wherever the name 
 of Roy is mentioned it stands for the finest machinery in this line in the world. He 
 was doubtless the first authority on this branch of the process of manufacturing wool 
 in the world, and machinery bearing his name has been sent to every country on the 
 globe containing textile mills. Basil S. Roy was a man of strong domestic instincts and 
 spent as much of his time as is possible with his family. He was a lover of fine animals 
 and up to within a few years of his death, when his health began to fail, he kept one 
 of the finest stock farms in Worcester county. This farm was situated on Fowler 
 street, near the Tatnuck Country Club, and consisted of more than three hundred 
 acres, which were stocked with the finest Jersey cattle. He was very successful in his 
 business operation and organized the highly successful firm of B. S. Roy & Sons. He 
 was also the owner of the mills at South Worcester, known as the Riverside Mills, 
 and came to this city to live about the year 1880. He married Helen Hicks, a daugh- 
 ter of Hantny Hicks, and they were the parents of eight children, as follows: Mary, 
 who became Mrs. Fred L. Alden ; Lena, who became Mrs. Edward A. Richmond; 
 Harriet L., who became Mrs. Fred Wildes; Clara; Gertrude, and Sylvanus B., with 
 whose career we are here especially concerned. 
 
 Sylvanus B. Roy was educated at the schools of Worcester, to which town he 
 came with his parents in the year 1880, when just three years of age. Upon completing 
 his studies he became associated with his father in the firm of B. S. Roy & Sons, 
 and continued thus until his father's death in 191O. when he became the sole proprietor 
 of the business. The concern was incorporated in the year 1915 under the name of the 
 B. S. Roy & Son Company. He also became interested in the Riverside Mills, where 
 he manufactured worsted and mohair yarns, and this concern he also incorporated in 
 the year 1907. For more than fifteen years he was intimately connected with the 
 woolen manufacturing business in this region and became a very prominent figure 
 therein as president and treasurer of these two large concerns. Mr. Roy inherited to 
 a marked degree his father's mechanical ability and inventive genius, and was him- 
 self the originator of a number of ingenius devices, among others mechanisms that 
 by which the doors of his garage and its lighting system were regulated by the weight 
 of the front and rear wheels of his automobile as he entered with the car. The weight 
 of the forward wheels opened the doors of the garage and when the doors opened the 
 whole interior lighted, while the weight of the rear wheels closed the doors behind 
 him. Mr. Roy held patents on a chain traverse grinder used by him, and also on an 
 apparatus for producing power, and on many other appliances and devices. At one time 
 in his life Mr. Roy was a member of many clubs, including the Lakeside Boat Club, 
 Boston Athletic Club, Boston Market Club, New England Poultry Club, Army and 
 Navy Club of New York, and the Worcester .Automobile Association. He was an 
 extensive real estate owner in Worcester and his property in this city was one of the 
 large sources of his fortune. He was perfectly devoted to open-air pastimes of all 
 sorts and was a great sportsman. Indeed his tastes were manv and one of these which 
 kept him in the open air a great deal of the time was that which he had for fancy 
 poultry. He devoted much attention to this matter and his poultry yard was considered 
 one of the finest in the Eastern States. He spent a very considerable sum of money 
 in bringing this yard to the perfection which he desired for it and was very proud of his 
 birds. His chief pride, however, was the white crested black Polish, which he imported 
 from abroad and which attracted wide attention at all poultrv shows. Mr. Roy sought 
 
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 ardently for perfection in everything lie attempted and was never satislied until he had 
 brought whatever it was that claimed his attention within measurable distance of this 
 ideal. He gave much of his time to the breeding and raising of bantams, not only the 
 diminutive game bantam, but also the larger breed. As a judge of birds he was much 
 in demand at all large poultry shows in New England and was considered without a 
 superior in this line. He held the Boston Hub cup for two consecutive years. He was 
 a member of the Fish & Game Association and the Boston Athletic Association. 
 Beyond doubt Mr. Roy was a man of very remarkable ability and possessed a mind far 
 above the average, so that his death, when at the very height of his career, was felt as 
 a severe loss, not only by his personal friends and associates, but by the community- 
 at-Iarge. 
 
 Sylvanus B. Roy was united in marriage, March 31, 1904, with Sadie Sparrell, of 
 Worcester, a daughter of Herbert K. Sparrell. vice-president of the Bowler Brewing 
 Company. To Mr. and Mrs. Roy three children were born, as follows: Helen, Cath- 
 erine Elizabeth and John Robert. 
 
 In the death of a brilliant young man such as Mr. Roy, whose career seems to have 
 barely more than entered upon the course destined for it, the community instinctively 
 feels that it has sustained a loss, but when that career is not concerned purely with 
 private affairs and plans, and is directed towards the benefit of his fellows, that feeling 
 is most legitimately increased until it becomes a more personal sorrow than it is the 
 privilege of most men to enjoy from others than their personal friends. But it might 
 be said that a very large proportion of his fellow citizens felt themselves in a measure 
 the friends of Mr. Roy, whose truly democratic attitude towards other men attracted 
 all and repelled none. He was unusually easy of approach and there was no one so 
 mean but that his hand was held out to him in friendship and ready assistance in any 
 trouble. This unusual amiability of manner was supplemented by a very real concern 
 for the welfare of others less fortunate than himself which made him the leader 
 in many movements undertaken for the common weal, for the betterment of conditions 
 in the city orthe promotion of social relations among the people. He was universally 
 loved and universally mourned, and most certainly he deserves to be universally 
 remembered. 
 
 The success of men in any vocation depends upon character as well as upon knowl- 
 edge. Business demands confidence, and where that is lacking, business ends. In every 
 community some men are known for their upright lives, strong common sense, and 
 moral worth, rather than for their wealth or political standing. This is especially 
 the case with professional men. Their neighbors and acquaintances respect them, and 
 the younger generations heed their example. Among such men was the late Mr. 
 Roy, a man of modest, unassuming demeanor, well educated, largely through his own 
 efforts, a fine type of the reliable, self-made American, a friend to the poor, charitable 
 to the faults of his neighbors, and always ready to unite with them in every good work 
 and active in the support of laudable enterprises. He was a man who in every respect 
 merited the esteem in which he was universally held, for he was a man of public spirit 
 and exemplary character. 
 
 JOHN EMBERT WILLIS, Physician and surgeon, was born at East Bridge- 
 water, Massachusetts, January 28, 1875, son of Galen and Celia Augusta (Bates) 
 Willis, grandson of Cyrus Willis, and a descendant of various early settlers of Dux- 
 bury and Plymouth. Dr. Willis' ancestry is of the old Mayflower stock, being 
 named for one of the pioneer ancestors, two brothers, John and Daniel, who it is 
 claimed were members of the Mayflower party, and who settled in Plymouth and 
 Duxbury. Richard Willis was in Plymouth in 1634, Henry Willis was in Plymouth 
 in 1637, and Jeremiah Willis in Duxbury in 1638. 
 
 Cyrus Willis, grandfather of Dr. Willis, died in 1915, aged ninety-five years, at 
 Charlton, Massachusetts. He served in the Civil War, and Dr. Willis has his can- 
 teen, knife, fork, and spoon, which he carried during his service. He was the father 
 of two children, Galen, of whom further, and a daughter, Mrs. Welcome Reed, of 
 East Bridgewater, and she has one son, Edmund Reed. 
 
 Galen Willis, father of Dr. Willis, is a retired farmer, and has always resided 
 in East Bridgewater. His wife, Celia Augusta (Bates) Willis, died December 29, 
 1914. aged sixty-seven years. Of their seven children four are living, namely : Hat- 
 tie Augusta ; Louis Barton, married Delia Harris, and has two children, Raymond 
 and Leon; Chester Vernon, married Rose Houghton, and they have three children, 
 Louise, Lawrence, and Howard ; John Embert, of whom further. 
 
 John Embert Willis attended the public schools of his birth-place, and gradu- 
 ated from the high school in 1893. During the following year he studied under pri- 
 vate tutorship, and then entered Boston University School of Medicine, from which 
 
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 HISTORY OF U'ORCESTliR 
 
 he graduated m iSrhS. with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He continued his stud- 
 ies attending the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in igoo. 
 During the following eleven years he was engaged in private practice in Scmers- 
 worth. Xew Hampshire, and was physician in a private hospital there. He is an 
 ex-president of the New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical Society. In igii he left 
 S'omersworth and located in this city, where he has continued in general practice to 
 the present time, his office and residence heing at No. 5 Hawthorne street. Dr. Wil- 
 lis is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Libanus Lodge, No. 49; Edwards 
 Chapter, No. 21, Royal Arch Masons : Orphan Council, Royal and Select Masters ; 
 Saint Paul Conimandcrv. Knights Templar; the New Hampshire Consistory; and 
 Aletheia Grotto, No. ij.' He is also a member of the Worcester Homoeopathic Med- 
 ical Society, the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the American Insti- 
 tute of Homoeopathy, the Volunteer Medical Corps of the United States .Army, the 
 Worcester Chamber of Commerce, the Worcester Country Club, and the Worcester 
 Automobile Club. In religion he is a Congregationalist, and in politics a Repub- 
 lican. 
 
 DWIGHT REED, Merchant, missionary, was born in New Braintree, Massa- 
 chusetts, August 25, 1817, youngest of the ten children of Colonel Micah and De- 
 borah (Thurston) Reed, of New Braintree, and died in this city, February 4. 1889. 
 
 He received his education in the public schools, Leicester Academy and Wil- 
 braham Academy. When a young man he lived in Brookfield and Rutland. Massa- 
 chusetts, where he was engaged in preaching. In the early fifties he came to this 
 city as city missionary and from time to time filled various pulpits here. He after- 
 ward engaged in business with his nephew, T. H. Reed, who had a general store on 
 Pleasant street. He was always active in religious work and charity. He was 
 one of the founders of Piedmont Congregational Church and gave liberally to its 
 building fund and support. His greatest work was to originate the Young Women's 
 Christian Association, which was founded in his horne. and for many years he de- 
 voted his most earnest and contant efforts to its upbuilding. He contributed a thou- 
 sand dollars to the building fund and bequeathed a generous legacy of $4,000 at the 
 time of his death. He was eminently charitable, devoting his life mainly to helping 
 others, in ministering to the sick and needy. He was exceptionally public-spirited 
 in every way. In politics he was a Republican. ^ 
 
 Mr! Reed luarried, in 1842, Susan Luthera Vaughan, who was born in Pres- 
 cott, Massachusetts. March 17. 1817, and died in this city, July 7, 1893, daughter of 
 Josiah and Lois Vaughan, of Prescott, Massachusetts. They had three children: 
 I. George Dwight, died in infancy. 2. Susan Ella, who married Christopher Law^ton ; 
 she resides at No. 10 Institute road ; member of the .American Red Cross Society, 
 .'\rmy Relief Corps, ./American Homecraft Association of Chicago, American Uni- 
 tarian .Association, Women's Suffrage Association of Boston, National Civic Fed- 
 eration, and fellow of the .American Geographical Society. Mrs. Lawton is a gifted 
 musician. They had one son, Dwight Barker Lawton, in service in the Si.xteenth 
 Infantry, died in this city, November 23, 1914. 3. Mary Emma, a graduate of the 
 Oread Institute of this city ; a charter member of the Young Women's Christian 
 Association and for many years a member of the executive board; for many years 
 was a member of the Worcester Society of Antiquity and of various social clubs. 
 
 LUCIUS LAWTON BRIGHAM, Successful and prominent rnerchant, dealer 
 in flour and grain, was born in Wayland, September 1, 1832, and died in this city, 
 November 25, 1904, son of Colonel Ephraim and Mary (Hubbard) Brigham. His 
 father was engaged in business in Wayland and was a large owner of real estate in 
 Marlboro. His mother was a native of Leicester. 
 
 In the public schools of Wayland Lucius L. Brigham received his early education, 
 but his father died when he was but fourteen years old and he then left school. His 
 first position was that of clerk in Holman's Hotel in Bolton and he remained there for 
 two years. He was afterward employed by Stone &: Warren in Bolton, and for two 
 years was sole buyer for this firm. At the age of nineteen he engaged in business on 
 his own account, and he spent the following four years in Westboro. He disposed of 
 his business in Westboro and came to this city in October, 1854, after working for a 
 short time in Boston, and here he entered into .partnership with Hiram Fobes, The 
 firm continued successfully for twelve years. Mr. Brigham was also a member of the 
 firm of Houghton, Brigham & Gates for eleven years. When the firm was dissolved in 
 1885 he engaged in the flour and grain business at No. 105 Front street and remained 
 there until 1896, when he located at No. 57 Foster street, continuing in active business 
 to within five years of the time of his death. He was not only highly successful as 
 merchant, but he also dealt in real estate from time to time and built a number of 
 
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 houses and other buildings for investment. He was at one lime a suhstanlial stock- 
 holder in the AUen-Higgins Company. 
 
 Mr. Brigham was a man of exceptional public spirit, keenly interested in municipal 
 affairs. In politics he was a Republican. He served the city in the Hoard of Alder- 
 men, representing the fourth ward in 1886 and 1887. He was afterward a member 
 of the license commission of the city. He was a member of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons. For a number of years he was an ollicer of the First 
 Universalist Church. 
 
 Mr. Brigham married, at Lawrence, jinu' 5, 1861, .\bbie H. Ha\es, dautjiiicr nf 
 Dr. Elijah Drew and Maria Freeman (Prescott) Hayes. They had four children: 
 I. Annie Hubbard, born January 3, 1863 ; married James H. Wheeler, of Boston, and 
 had two sons. Donald and Lucian Wheeler. 2. Clara Lawrence, born October 15, 1866; 
 married Louis W. Southgate, patent lawyer of this city, and has one son, Richard 
 Southgate. 3. Kate, born December 9, 1870. died June 24, 1872. 4. H. Prescott, born 
 August 19. 1877, formerly a woolen manufacturer at Danielson, Connecticut, now in the 
 automobile business. Mrs. Brigham resides at No. 30 Fraticonia street in this city. 
 
 HADWIN BROWN JENKS, Sh..e manufacturer, was l)orn in Xnrth Bn)ok- 
 field, Massachusetts, June 24. 1818. and died in this city, .April 17, 1891, son of 
 Oliver A. and Eliza (Brown) Jcnks. The Jenks ancestry has been traced to the 
 year A. D. 150. beginning witli the ancestry of one of the royal houses of Wales. 
 After Wales was subjugated the family moved to England. The cat-of-arins is de- 
 scribed : 
 
 Anns — .\rgent, three boars' heads couped salile. a chief sable indented. 
 
 Crest — .\ lion rampant, regardant, or, holding defiantly a boar's head ni Ins paws 
 sable. 
 
 Motto of the Shield: Modo l>o,uutns adsit. 
 
 Motto of the Crest: Aiida.v at Cautits. 
 
 Hadwin B. Jenks received his education in the public schools of his native town. 
 He learned the trade of shoemaker, and early in life engaged in the manufacture of 
 boots and shoes in North Brooktield. He was in partnership for a time with his 
 brother. James Jenks. and afterward with Mr. Miller. In i860 he came to this city, 
 where he continued in business as a shoe manufacturer until 1871. His factory was 
 on Park street, now Federal street, near the railroad. He brought with him to this 
 city fmni North Brookfield twenty workmen and their families. He l)ought the 
 Sprague place, and made his home at No. 11 Sycamore street for many years. After 
 he gave up the manufacturing business he became a salesman for various boot and 
 shoe manufacturers and travelled throu.gh the Southern States. He became associated 
 with the Wa,lker Ice Company, of wdiich his brother-in-law, Benjamin Walker, was the 
 founder (see biography of Air. Walker). He was a Congregationalist in religion; 
 a stalwart Republican in politics. 
 
 Mr. Jenks married, October 6, 1841, Mary Lee Walker, who was born in P)arre, 
 Massachusetts, daughter of Benjamin Walker. She died at her home on Sycainore 
 street, January 23, 1904, aged over ninety years. She was a member of Salem Street 
 Congregational Church. They had one child. Mary Louise, born at North Brookfield, 
 January 2. 1844, married Shepard K. Robbins (see biography). 
 
 Joseph Jenks, of the fortieth generation in the Welsh and English pedigree, son of 
 Arthur Jenks, was born in England in 1602, and emigrated from Colebrook, Bucking- 
 hamshire, 1643. settling in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he had charge of the iron 
 foundry. He was the first to take out a patent in the colony; receiving letters patent 
 on mill improvetnents in 1646; beginning the manufacture of an improved scythe and 
 snath in 1647, giving the snath the doble curve used since that time. He made the dies 
 for the first coins, the Pine Tree shilling; built a fire engine for Boston, in 1654, the 
 first built in this country; established a wire factory in 1657; cast the first hollow ware 
 in this country. 
 
 Joseph Jenks, Jr., removed from Lynn to Warwick, Rhode Island, thence to 
 Pawtucket, where he built an iron forge ; became wealthy; was assistant and counsellor 
 of the governor. His son, William Jenks, was on the committee to fi.x the line between 
 Rhode Island and Connecticut; was president of the County Court. Jonathan Jenks, 
 fourth in the line in this country, located in North Brookfield late in life. His son, 
 Nicholas Jenks, was born in Pawtucket, June 13. 1752, died 1836 in North Brookfield. 
 Oliver A. Jenks, son of Jonathan Jenks, was born May i, 1790. married Eliza Brown. 
 They were the parents of Hadwin Brown Jenks, mentioned above. 
 
 SHEPARD K. ROBBINS, Dealer in furs and hats, was born in Thomaston, 
 Maine, November 9, 1840. died June 3. 1906, in this city, son of Oliver Robbins; de- 
 scendant of an old Colonial family in the paternal line. He was educated in the public 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 schools. When a young man he engaged in business on Bromfield street, Boston, deal- 
 ing in furs and hats, and he continued in business until 1892. He came to this city 
 in that year and made his home in the old Jenks residence on Sycamore street. For a 
 number of years he was associated in business with Dr. Julius Garst. He retired 
 several years before his death, however, on account of ill health. He was a member 
 of Joseph Warren Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Boston. In religion 
 he was a Congregationalist. „ ,, , • t 1 1 u-u r tt j ■ 
 
 Mr Robbins married. January 20, 1875, Mary Louise Jenks, only child of Hadwin 
 Brown and Marv Lee (.Walker) Jenks. She was born in North Brookfield, January 
 2, 1844, and educated in the public schools in that town and in this city. She has taken 
 a' lifelong interest in genealogj- and antiquities and has made a large and interesting 
 collection of minerals, china, silver, furniture, many articles being family heirlooms of 
 great age. In 1917 she sold the homestead on Sycamore street, and is now living at 
 No. 7 Charlton street in this city. She is a Unitarian, a member of the Church of the 
 Unity. 
 
 GEORGE HULL WARD, Colonel of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment, 
 Brevet Brigadier General, was born in this city, April 26, 1826, and died July 3, 1863, 
 son of Colonel Artemas and Sarah H. (Fife) Ward. (See Asa Ward (5) in Early 
 Settlers). His parents were married in this city, October 5, 1817. 
 
 George H. Ward attended the public schools, and early in life was apprenticed as a 
 machinist. He joined the City Guards and won promotion from grade to grade. At 
 the beginning of the Civil War he commanded a brigade of the Massachusetts militia. 
 It became his duty in 1856 to suppress the Dorr Riot, mentioned elsewhere in this 
 work. He went to the front as lieutenant-colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment, and in the 
 first battle, at Ball's Bluff, October 21, 1861, he fell with a shattered leg, which was 
 subsequently amputated. Having recovered from his wound. Colonel Ward joined 
 his command in February, 186i3. "During much of the following period of his life 
 he was in command of a brigade, and it was while thus engaged he received his mortal 
 wound, "but the brigade included his own beloved Fifteenth and life-long friends were 
 near him when the fatal moment came. The fatigue of the long march from the 
 vicinity of Falmouth. Virginia, to Southern Pennsylvania had been particularly trying. 
 In addition to the regular duties of the campaign he had conducted a detour to 
 Thoroughfare Gap, thus adding to the labors which at the best were all that a man 
 in his physical condition could endure. The stump of his amputated leg did not take 
 kindly to the artificial continuance, and much of the time when on the march he rode 
 with this strapped on the saddle, but his wonderful nerve bore him up, and he pressed 
 on when men of less endurance would have asked leave of absence. Then when the 
 moment came on the second day of Gettysburg, and he was ordered to take his brigade 
 of two regiments out toward the Codori house, we must confess to seeing very little 
 of the pomp and circumstance of war in the manner he was compelled to lead his 
 men. It was no place for a horse, yet the painter always places the leader on horse- 
 back. 
 
 "Over that plain the next day, where the Rebels swept in their terrible charge, 
 there were no men mounted. So here for a distance equaling that separating the Bay 
 State House and Franklin Square, Colonel Ward presented the singular spectacle of 
 a leader directing his followers, yet painfully leading them, leaning on a large, crooked- 
 handled cane in one hand and in the other the sword in its scabbard. . . . Amidst the 
 storm of bullets that soon rained upon them, there is little wonder that he did not 
 stand long upon his supports, and shot in his sound leg, the bone above the knee 
 shattered, he was borne from the field, in a few brief hours to close his eyes in the final 
 sleep into which all must some day fall. 
 
 "On the eighth of July the funeral of Colonel Ward was held in the Salem Square 
 Church, Rev. Mr. T. E. St. John, pastor of the First Universalist Church, officiating. 
 Perhaps at no time in the history of Worcester had the popular heart been so stirred. 
 All his life he had gone in and out among the people." 
 
 The Worcester Grand Army Post was named for him. On the field where he fell 
 a monument was erected in 1886, dedicated June 29, 1886; General Devens presided 
 and General Sprague made the address; Major Church Howe and Hon. W. W. Rice 
 also spoke. Where his regiment stood another monument was erected. His portrait 
 is in Mechanic's Hall. A monument over his grave in Rural Cemetery was dedicated 
 by the Grand Army of the Republic Post, May 30, 1896, and from the oration by Hon. 
 Alfred S. Roe on that occasion the quotations in this article have been made. 
 
 "About us are graves of illustrious dead— governors of the Commonwealth, sol- 
 diers of renown, distinguished jurists, the historians of America, divines on whose lips 
 have hung so many listening thousands— but nowhere shall we find a more inspiring 
 lesson than that which this figure teaches. . . . This monument, the gift of comrades 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 485 
 
 in arms, associates, friends of his early days, we dedicate to the memory 'jf Gen. 
 George H. Ward." 
 
 General Ward married Emily E. Mayo, datighter of Deacon WilHam and Sarah 
 (Dennis) Mayo, a descendant of the famous Rev. John Mayo, of Governor Prince and 
 Governor William Brewster, who came in the "Mayflower." She was born October 
 28, 1830, died September 24, 1917. She was active in the Woman's Relief Corps, and 
 in the First Universalist Church. General and Mrs. Ward had two sons : George W. 
 (see biography) and Robert L., now living in Providence, an accountant. 
 
 Henry C. Ward, a brother of General Ward, was a lieutenant in the Civil War, 
 afterward captain in the regular army and brigadier-general. General Ward was a 
 member of Morning Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. His brevet 
 as brigadier-general was dated July 2, 1863. 
 
 GEORGE WILLIAM WARD, General insurance agent, was born in this city, 
 December 9, 1858, son of General George H. and Emily E. (Mayo) Ward. He received 
 his early education in the public and high schools. At the age of fifteen he entered the 
 employ of John D. Baldwin & Sons, publishers of the Worcester Daily Spy. His first 
 work was in the mailing room. In the course of time he became the advertising man- 
 ager, and for many years was one of the best-known newspaper men of the city. He 
 was with the Spy for a period of twenty-five years. In 1898 he became associated with 
 the late Charles L. Gates in the real estate and insurance business. Since the death 
 of Mr. Gates, in 1910, Mr. Ward has continued in the same line of business on his own 
 account. His offices are in the Slater building. No. 390 Main street. 
 
 Mr. Ward is an associate member of George H. Ward Post, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and for many years has been secretary and treasurer of the Fifteenth Regi- 
 ment Association, composed of the survivors of his father's old command. He is also 
 secretary and treasurer of the Company F. Association of this regiment. He is 
 popular among all the Grand Army men, whom he has served with love and zeal from 
 boyhood. He has been with the veterans on many excursions and reunions ; spoken 
 often at their gatherings ; and co-operated with them in every way. He was adopted 
 by the veterans as a representative of his father, and he has performed his part faith- 
 fully from boyhood. He is a member of the First Universalist Church, and for many 
 years has been active as an officer in the church and Sunday school. Mr. Ward has 
 been for several years a director of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce and chair- 
 man of its entertainment committee. He is a member of Montacute Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons; and of the Worcester County Mechanics Association. 
 
 Mr. Ward married, November 7, 1884, Carrie S. Lamb, daughter of Thomas M. 
 Lamb (see biography). Mrs. Ward is a member of the Woman's Club and of the 
 First Universalist Church, in which she is active in various societies. They have no 
 children. Their home is at No. 688 Pleasant street. 
 
 THOMAS MELVIN LAMB, Merchant, was born in this city, June 26, 1830, and 
 died here December 29, 1881, son of Isaac and Betsey (Boyce) Lamb, and a descendant 
 through both paternal and maternal lines from the pioneers of Massachusetts. His 
 father lived in a small farmhouse on the Jo Bill Road. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools and entered the hi.gh school in May, 1846, 
 attending four terms, but did not graduate. He was a member of the Young Men's 
 Rhetorical Society and was known as an able debater. He edited a small paper pub- 
 lished by this society. In 1851 he was its president. He learned the trade of jeweler 
 in the store of S. P. Champney, and in 1856 bought the business of his employer and 
 conducted a jewelry store for many years at No. 421 Main street, near the location 
 of the Champney store, adjoining the corner of Main and Front streets. He acquired 
 an enviable reputation for sterling honesty in business. In early life he was a Baptist, 
 but afterward attended the Universalist church. He served three years on the school 
 committee of the city. He was a member of the bbard of trustees of the Worcester 
 County Mechanics' Association, and was keenly interested in its library, being a 
 member of the committee in charge. He was a tnember of the Worcester Society of 
 Antiquity. He was made a Mason in Morning Star Lodge, Novetnber r, 1859, and 
 was its secretary several years. He was a member of Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons (from April 8, 1864) ; of Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters (1864); 
 of Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar (1865) ; of the Worcester Lodge 
 of Perfection (1867) ; of the Order of Eastern Star (1869) ; a member of Stella Chap- 
 ter (1871), of which he was worthy patron in 1877-81. He was elected grand secretary 
 of the Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, at its organization, December 11, 1876, 
 and held the office until May 13, 1879; was grand patron, 1878-80. He was chairman of 
 the committee that compiled and published the ritual of the order. He was secretary 
 of foreign correspondence of the Grand Chapter, 1879-82. 
 
486 HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Lamb married, in i860. Laura A. .Stebbins. daughter of Zebina and Ruby 
 (Graves) Stebbins, of Deerbeld. They had two daughters: Carrie S., born June 28, 
 1862, married George W. Ward (see biography) ; and Alice B., born May 10, 1868, 
 died March 2,?. 1876. (See proceedings of Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1882, 
 P- IS). 
 
 CHARLES BENONI PERRY, Lawyer, was born in Leicester, August 29. 1858, 
 and died October 13, 191 5, in this city, son of Benoni E. and Martha (Anthony) 
 Perry. His ancestry on his mother's side traced back to Amos Southgate, a dis- 
 tinguished Revolutionary soldier, and also to Ralph Earle, an eminent member of the 
 Society of Friends; and on his father's side to the Commodore Perry family. 
 
 "He was not born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, .nor were his 
 prospects such that any great success in life could have been predicted.' But he was 
 born with a far better equipment, the golden spur of poverty — not the poverty of the 
 city which stunts the body and retards the development of the mind, but the honorable 
 poverty of the yeoman of America, which never lacks for food, clothing and shelter, 
 and which rests confident in the proud superiority that as it has won these scant ad- 
 vantages from a hostile soil and intemperate climate, so here and there it 'breaks 
 its birth's invidious bar, and grasps the skirts of happy chance, and breasts the blows 
 of circiimstance, and grapples with its evil star.' 
 
 "His heritage, too. was powerful in the sturdy traits of character of his parents, 
 and in their encouraging sympathy and assistance in any plan of advancement. There 
 were few books then in the farm houses of our communitv. but those few were of the 
 best. ... Mr. Perry had a thorough knowledge of the Bible and Shakespeare, and was 
 always ready with an apt quotation from one or the other to clinch an argument or 
 illustrate a point. No better education could be desired and, if he was deprived of the 
 completion of the usual course of instructions, I do not think he would suflfer by 
 comparison with the mental output of the voung gentlemen who graduate from our 
 universities. 
 
 "At an early age, the youthful muscles began to grow under the strain of work 
 upon the farm, for every one must do his share, and from then on his interest was 
 constant and assiduous. When an assistant clerk of the Central District Court, he 
 always took part of his vacation in assisting his father in getting in the hay crops, 'and 
 later, as his parents declined in years, he supervised to a large extent the work of the 
 tarm, and after their death he continued his interest in it, improving it gradually and 
 visiting It often. ^ o o j 
 
 "When still a child, his parents removed to the farm in Paxton, where they passed 
 the rest of their lives, but Charles continued to receive his earlv training in the schools 
 ot Leicester, walking four miles each way. Leicester Academy was in the early 
 seventies a school well-known for its military training, and for its thorough prepara- 
 tion for college. Charles took the college course and graduated from the Academv but 
 was unable to undertake a college course on account of the expense. About this 
 time there was a competitive examination for West Point, which he passed successfully 
 but failed of appointment on account of defective eyesight, which even then compelled 
 him to wear glasses. y '^^^ 
 
 .f p,"|"™^'''3t^'j-"Pon. graduation he began teaching school. He had already taught 
 mo?e p'ii'tbnH'H 1" T!'"^ ■'^'' °'^' "^^"^^ ^^''' '^"g'^' ^t Auburn. Webster, Sa|a- 
 Came nr nr n l^'f '^^^''l^'' ,u^' principal, Westborough Reform School, and finally 
 
 ^^if-i JP'^l"' the Millbury Providence Street School for several ^ears 
 and finaliv under' ff t ? ''"A'u *^o j^'^.r^^^'^ between terms he had 'studied law. 
 Court he ^rpnl H f \u°\°^ J°^" ^^ ^^^'^^"^ Esquire. later Justice Ratigan of thi 
 20 188, H. fY i°^ ?^ ^^' ^"'',?^,??"^ "^"^ examination. He was admitted, June 
 Burke ■'sn^..r;,r.f ',1'''""^ ■" M-Hbury, for a short time associated with Edmund 
 whose fi ,W 1;.= ^ Kr^'iT'' brilliant of the younger members of the bar, but 
 nror^ise o fJr^ °'^''«'^d >!,„,, „ go West, and whose early death cut shor the 
 
 conHnued te^cl^i^g i^^MHlbuo'^' ' "" "'""' '° ""^ °" '''' '^™'^ "'''''''• ^""^ 
 
 the officVTf'Buck Rriif "'•■;,°'""''!f'' -'■»,' '^^"' J"""^"^ L. Powers, a bookkeeper in 
 1^1 ^ . r ■_ '^i'- 'brothers, the noted tool manufacturers of Millburv She is a de- 
 
 SquarT Bos on' fst" '"f '?.'''^°'r'?'!,^^ '"'"'''■ C°'°-' Scollay Tr whom Scolty 
 was closed or 'a ?fmT J\r\^°Z^l'^ ""'^ the career he had chosen for himself 
 But he marHed a hZ,;.? '''f ,''" ^u^'^ '<^"'"'' ^°^^" *° '^e life work of a teacher, 
 over the rouTh Blare TnH; ^"'^ "'u- ^"'^^'-'■^ ^'"^ "°""^«' ^'^'"^^ ^'^^=^^5 *» ^arry him 
 anv man Z^ I " '° ^"'^ him conhdence and courage-for I have never met 
 
 mu'ch modestl" as toTsT,''' =^''l^' ^'"' ""i i° '■"'^ -"^^-'^ '" himself and so 
 from n"w on^ *'"' '''°'''^- "*= ""^^^^ encouragement and this he received 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 487 
 
 "At last the opportuiiily arrived. . . . For tivt- years Mr. Perry was assistant clerk 
 of the Central District Court. There he tlioroiighly familiarizeil himself with the 
 technicalities of pleadings and procedure, hecame acquainted with the Worcester 
 lawyers, who with one or two exceptions practiced in that court, and also extended 
 his knowledge of law by study. 
 
 "During this period too he was active in his fraternal societies. He was already 
 a member of Morning Star Lodge, of Millbury, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 and later became a member of Bcthesda Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and Mt. X'ernon Fncampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He wa.s 
 elected grand master of the Odd Fellows of Massachusetts, 1909-10, the higliest office 
 in the gift of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the State, and in 1909 was its 
 representative to the Sovereign Grand Lod.ge at Seattle, and in igio to Atlanta, 
 .Georgia. His Masonic affiliations were membership in Olive Branch Lodge, of Mill- 
 bury, of which he was past worshipful master: in Tyrian Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 
 of Millbury, of which he was past high priest; Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar; Aletheia Grotto; the 
 Mystic Shrine; and the Massachusetts Consistory (thirty-second degree). Besides he 
 was a Knight of Pythias. Interest in these organizations carried with it naturally 
 interest in the individuals who composed them and for whose benefit they were 
 formed. Therefore, in cooperation with the late Nathan Taylor, of Worcester, he 
 organized the Ridgely Protective Association, out of which grew the Masonic Protec- 
 tive Association for the benefit of Odd Fellows and Masons respectively. These two 
 associations are now the largest fraternal insurance cinnpanies in America, if not in 
 the world. With one or the other of them, Mr. Perry was associated as an official 
 until his death. 
 
 "By the permutations of politics Mr. Perry and his official chief (John A. 
 Thayer) were retired from the Central District Court in 1897, and opened law offices 
 in the State Mutual building, where they practiced until Mr. Perry's death. Here 
 begins the better known part of Mr. Perry's career, for which all that had gone be- 
 fore had so well equipped him. His practice grew steadily, and he liecame a well- 
 known figure in the trial of cases and a dreaded antagonist. Nature had endowed 
 him with a stalwart physique and a magnificent voice, which he used effectively, 
 now in colloquial familiarity with the jury, and then in tones of sonorous eloquence. 
 His success with the jury and his power as an advocate were pre-eminent among 
 the Worcester county lawyers. Frequently, after a session was ended, he received 
 letters from the jurymen complimenting him upon his conduct of cases. Mr. Perry 
 was always very modest about his knowledge of law, but the clever way in which 
 he marshaled his evidence in harmony with the law in the case showed that his mod- 
 esty was too excessive and like 'Brer Rabbit' he was lyin.g low. Of all the cases 
 which he carried to the Supreme Court he was overruled in but two — one of them 
 by a majority court in a case which he had advised against ajipealing and the other 
 decided on judge-made law, now happily abrogated by the Legislature. To the 
 younger lawyers and less experienced members of the bar. Mr. Perry was always 
 ready with a kind word of advice and assistance. He w'ould gladly talk over their 
 cases with them, and frequently 'steer' them through a trial. 
 
 "It was inevitable that in his trial of cases, lawyers from other counties should 
 oppose him occasionally. I remmeber with amusement, twice, at least, when tw'o 
 paladins of the Suffolk county bar entered the lists with the avowed intention of 
 overthrowing this county champion. However, they returned with broken spears 
 and dented shields. 
 
 "He was of a charitable disposition and relieved many a case of destitution. 
 The poor of Millbury will especially miss him. 
 
 "Mr. Perry was a memlier of the school board of Millbury for one term of 
 three years, and was always so keenly interested in the welfare of the town that he 
 became the watchdog of the treasury. For twenty-five consecutive years he served 
 as town moderator. When convinced that he was right, he spared neither time nor 
 effort, sometimes alienating his friends by his stand for what he considered the 
 good of the town. The time he devoted to the civic affairs of Millbury is immeasur- 
 able. If to this be added that of free advice to the poor, who constantly sought his 
 door for legal advice, and his professional duties, it seems as though the twenty- 
 four hours of the day were not enough for his work. A trait of his, which grew 
 upon him, was his habit of carrying his cases, whether of town affairs or of his pro- 
 fession, with him all the time. His mind was always active from the time lie en- 
 tered his office, the earliest of all lawyers, to the time he left, about tlie latest. His 
 long evenings at home and in the silent watches of the night, he was always think- 
 ing a solution of important questions. He lived intensely and wore himself out by 
 doing twice the work of an ordinary man. 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 "In addition to these matters, he was eagerly sought as an orator on anniver- 
 sary occasions and as after-dinner speaker. In both of these he excelled. His last 
 public appearance was as historian and orator at the 150th anniversary exercises 
 of the town of Pa.xton, June 30, 1915. He also kept abreast of the political devel- 
 opment of the county — nay, not abreast, but ahead. In his lectures on public own- 
 ership of public utilities he confounded his adversaries; from his experience as an 
 advocate he knew that he must show and he did. Besides his qualities of intensity 
 and thoroughness should be noted that of honesty. No one doubted his integrity 
 nor his sincerity." 
 
 The quoted parts of this sketch are taken from the address of Mr. Perry's part- 
 ner, the late Hon. John Alden Thayer, at a session of the Superior Court, March 31, 
 1916. 
 
 The very gentlest of human nature 
 He joined to courage strong; 
 . . And love outreaching unto all God's creatures 
 
 With sturdy hate of wrong. 
 
 And now he rests; his greatness and his sweetness 
 
 No more shall seem at strife, 
 -A.nd Death has moulded into calm completeness 
 
 The statue of his life. 
 
 "One brief year ago, at the session of this Grand Lodge, Charles Benoni Perry, 
 past grand master, sat with us and zealously participated in the business and pleas- 
 ure of the meeting. We conversed with him, charmed as always by the sparkle of 
 his wit and the keenness of his wisdom. We listened to his voice in debate and we 
 unanimously elected him to a position of honor and trust in this body, tliinking 
 many years for service and happiness were before him. But his work here was 
 accomplished and all too soon we were sadly summoned to bear him to 'the low 
 green tent whose curtain never outward swings.' 
 
 "Those who were privileged to enjoy the friendship or the intimate acquaint- 
 ance of Charles B. Perry realized instinctively that his was an acquaintance that 
 it was an honor to enjoy, his a friendship which enriched the life of the possessor. 
 He was endowed with a kind-hearted, generous nature, loyal and true to those 
 foundation principles upon which the true gentleman establishes his character; 
 fearless yet ever courteous in debate, a staunch champion of the cause of the un- 
 fortunate and oppressed, an earnest worker for the advancement of our order, which 
 he dearly loved, a respected and honored citizen of his town, a loving husband, who 
 was devoted to his home and his fireside friends. These are some of the charac- 
 teristics which endeared him to us, his brethren, and to all who came within the 
 circle of his kindly influence and helpfulness. . . . 
 
 "In January, 1898, he was installed as noble grand of his lodge, and in the Au- 
 gust following was admitted to this Grand Lodge, where he at once took an active 
 part and was recognized by the membership as a brother of ability and promise. He 
 also worked faithfully in the Encampment and Rebekah branches of this Order. 
 In 1904 he served as grand conductor, and in 1906 he was appointed grand marshal. 
 The dignity and ability with which he performed the duties of the important office 
 of grand marshall so favorably impressed the brotherhood that the following year 
 he was elected grand warden, and in 1909 he was installed grand master. He also 
 twice represented the jurisdiction of Massachusetts in the Sovereign Grand Lodge. 
 Brother Perry entered into the performance of the duties of these several positions 
 of honor and trust with his usual thoroughness and enthusiasm, and our Order 
 flourished under his wise guidance." 
 
 The foregoing was abstracted from the memorial adopted by the Grand Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, September ", 1916. 
 
 Mr. Perry was a member of the Massachusetts Society, Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion, and an associate member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, of this city. 
 
 Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Perry has made her home in Worcester 
 and resumed her occupation as an accountant, in which she is an expert. At present 
 she is in the office of Denholm & McKay Company. She is a member of various 
 musical and charitable organizations and active in musical circles. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HARRINGTON, Farmer, was born in this city, Sep- 
 tember 2, i8j8, son of Captain Benjamin and Lucretia (Flagg) Harrington (see biog- 
 raphy of his brother, H. Augustus Harrington). He was the fifth generation of his 
 
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 family on the old homestead, where he was born, and where he has always lived. He 
 attended the public schools and Worcester Academy. After his father died he suc- 
 ceeded to the ownership of part of the farm. He maintained a model dairy farm for 
 many years and conducted the milk route that his grandfather established. In 1891 
 he erected a new dwelling house and modern farm buildings in place of the old land- 
 marks. He and his wife are members of the Union Congregational Church, and he has 
 been librarian for a number of years. 
 
 Mr. Harrington married, here, November 18, 1875, Harriet Ann Harrington, a 
 cousin, daughter of Francis and Harriet W. Harrington. (See biography of Francis 
 Harrington). She is a graduate of the Wcstheld State Normal School. They have 
 one son, Francis Benjamin, born September 4, 1878, now a farmer, living at the home- 
 stead, No. 271 Harrington Way. 
 
 HENRY AUGUSTUS HARRINGTON, .Mderman. overseer of the poor, farmer, 
 was born in this city on the old Harrington homestead, September 8, 1846. and died 
 January 23, 1914, son of Captain Benjamin and Lucretia (Flagg) Harrington. 
 
 During his youth he assisted his father on the farm, and attended the public school 
 at Bloomingdale and the Worcester Academy. He succeeded to more than a hundred 
 acres of the old homestead, and during" his active life cultivated the farm, having one 
 of the finest dairies in the city. A few years before he died he sold a hundred acres 
 of land on Harrington Court to Warren & Moody who laid it out in house lots. Mr. 
 Harrin,gton gave to the city the land for the extension of Hainilton avenue to Lake 
 Quinsigamond, and he was instrumental in securing the extension of the street car 
 line to this section of the city. He resided in the old house on the Harrington home- 
 stead to the end of his life. Mr. Harrington was a man of public spirit, a Republican 
 in politics, keenly interested in municipal affairs. He served on the Board of Alder- 
 men in 1900 and 1901, and was a member of important committees. For nine years 
 he was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor. He was chairman of the 
 Republican City Committee for a number of years. He was fond of travel, and in 
 1883 made a hunting trip to the Indian Territory. He was a member of Worcester 
 Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Union Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Harrington married in this city, October 15, 1872, Delia Maria Griggs, who 
 was born in Grafton, a daughter of Salem and Maria (Cleveland) Griggs. Her father 
 was a native of Sutton; had a tannery at West Millbury for several years; afterwards 
 was a shoe manufacturer, interested in the Bay State Shoe Company; died at the age 
 of ninety-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Griggs had eight children: Delia Maria, who 
 graduated from the Oread Institute (Mrs. Harrington, mentioned above); Alice E., 
 married Lucius E. Eldred (see biography) ; Gertrude, who taught in the Worcester 
 schools; Carrie E., married .lohn B. Scott, a well known lawyer of this city; John, 
 graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, later superintendent of a mill in 
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died at the age of twenty years; George, who was superin- 
 tendent of Lapham's Mill in Millbury; Emma, who died aged fifty-one years; Margaret, 
 who died at the age of twenty-eight years. Mrs. Harrington is descended from 
 Stephen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower," and from many other pioneers of 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Lucretia (Flagg) Harrington, born in this town, July 15, 1805, died in 1891, was a 
 daughter of Abel and Susanna (Harrington) Flagg; granddaughter of Phineas Flagg 
 (see Early Settlers). Her line of ancestry is: Lucretia (6), Abel (5), Phineas (4), 
 Benjamin (3), Benjamin (2), Thomas (l). Phineas Flagg was a soldier in the 
 Revolution. Captain Benjamin Harrington, father of Henry Augustus Harrington, 
 was born April 5. 1805, in this town, and died August 13, 1873. in this city. He married, 
 March 18, 1834, Lucretia Flagg. He established a milk route that was continued for 
 many years by his son and grandson ; was a captain in the state militia. Their children 
 were: Mary Elizabeth, who married Samuel (j. Curtis (see biography) ; Benjamin F. 
 (see biography): Hannah, died a.ged two years, six months; Henry Augustus, men- 
 tioned above: Sarah Amelia, married Gonzalo Edward Buxton. M. £).. of Providence, 
 Rhode Island. 
 
 Captain Benjamin Harrin.gton was a son of Jonathan Harrington, born October 
 3, 1779, and Molly (Flagg) Harrington, grandson of Jonathan and Ruth (Stone) 
 Harrington (see Early Settlers). 
 
 SAMUEL GUSTAVUS CURTIS, Farmer on the old homestead, was born here 
 June 10, 1838, died here May 6, 1913, on the farm. No. 370 Plantation street, son of 
 "Benjamin Franklin Curtis (see Early Settlers). His line is: Benjamin Franklin (7), 
 Samuel (6), Samuel (5), Ephraim (4), Ephraim (3), Joseph (2). Henry (i). He was 
 educated in the public schools. During his active years he conducted the homestead 
 with marked success. He was a member of the Union Congregational Church. He 
 
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 married April 15, 187?, Marv Elizabeth Harrington, daughter of Captain Benjamin 
 Harrington. She was "born January 25. 1836. They had two daughters: Mabel, who 
 lives on the homestead, and Sarah Edith, who died young. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Curtis, father of Samuel G. Curtis, was also born m Worcester, 
 September 7, 1800. and died there 1858. He was always a farmer. He married, April 
 4, 1831. in Auburn. Hannah S. Wakefield, born in Vermont, daughter of Henry Stone 
 Wakefield, of Montpelier. Vermont. Of their five children, four are as follows: 
 Two daughters died voung ; Charles P.. enlisted in Company H. Twenty-fifth Massa- 
 chusetts Regiment, died in the service in the Civil War; Albert W., graduated from 
 Yale. 1871. studied law in the office of Judge Thomas L. Nelson and at the Harvard 
 Law' School, located in Spencer, was town clerk, trustee of the Spencer Savings Bank, 
 selectman, magistrate; married Mary R. Morse, of Spencer, and had five children. 
 
 LUCIUS E. ELDRED, Insurance underwriter, was born in Fairhaven, November, 
 1845, son of Edwin and Elizabeth J. (Knowlton) Eldred. He died in this city. October 
 7. 1904. He was educated in the public schools. For about thirty-five years he was 
 engaged in the fire insurance business in this city and had a very e.xtensive business. 
 He was in partnership with his father, whom he survived but a few years. The agency 
 was sold after his death to Charles E. Grant. He was a member of the Worcester 
 Board of Underwriters and of the Board of Trade. He married Alice E. Griggs, 
 daughter of Salem Griggs, and sister of Mrs. H. .Augustus Harrington. She is now 
 living at No. 7 Oxford street. They had no children. 
 
 JAMES ALMON FULLER, Manufacturer of lathes, was born in Coventry, Rhode 
 Island, February 7. 1824. and died in this city. June 2. 1912, aged eighty-nine years, 
 son of James and Susan M. (Montgomery) Fuller. He came to this city with his 
 parents when very young. His father was a machinist, employed many years in the 
 shops of Wood & Light. 
 
 James A. Fuller attended the public schools there and a seminary in Connecticut. 
 He learned the trade of machinist in the shops of Wood & Light, and worked after- 
 ward in the shops of P. Plaisdell & Company, Rice. Barton & Fales and others. He 
 worked on the first steam calliope ever made and on the first Howe Sewing Ma- 
 chine, which was perfected in his home on Chandler street. He owned that sewing 
 machine for many years and finally presented it to the Worcester Society of Antiquity, 
 in the museum of which it may now be seen. 
 
 About 1880, at No. 3 Cypress street, he began to manufacture lathes, machinists' 
 tools, planers, bench-gears and later made small dynamos, under the firm name of 
 J. A. Fuller & Company. He continued in active business until he was eighty-two years 
 old. He was a skillful workman and the product of his shop was always of the best. 
 He was a life-long student and reader of substantial books, as a well-selected library 
 of thirteen hundred volumes attests. He lived for more than sixty years in the same 
 house on Chandler street. He was a typical self-made man of his generation, capable, 
 public-spirited, thrifty, of e.xceptional skill as a mechanic. He was a Republican in 
 politics, after that party was formed. He attended the old Salem Street Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 Mr. Fuller married Mary Elizabeth Kenyon. who was born in Rhode Island, daugh- 
 ter of David and Thankful (Barker) Kenyon. They had five children: i. Helen, who 
 died aged twenty-two years. 2. Eleanora. became the wife of Harrison Cady, of 
 Brooklyn, New York. 3. Susan E.. born in Utica. New York, where her parents re- 
 sided for a short time; became the wife of Albert Chase, in 1876; he was a native of 
 Hubbardston. Massachusetts; at first a bookkeeper, and later a traveling salesman for 
 several firms ; he died in 1903 ; his widow resides at No. 6 Richmond avenue ; she is a 
 member of the Twentieth Century Club; they were the parents of three children: 
 i. Albert Chase, born in Worcester, was manager of the Ranch Supply Company of 
 Magdalene, New Mexico, was connected with the Central National Bank for seven 
 years, and for the following fifteen years was associated with the Safety Deposit & 
 Trust Company; he married and had four children: Frances, Stephen, Neal and 
 Helen; his death occurred in 1912, ii. Helen M. Chase, became the wife of the Rev. 
 Solon Johnson: resides at Salmon. Idaho, iii. Mildred Chase, a trained nurse, 
 residing in Worcester. 4. Harry, who died aged twenty-two years. 5. Mary, de- 
 ceased, was the wife of George Camp and the mother of three children; the family 
 resides in Utica. 
 
 EDWARD EASTMAN FROST, Dentist, youngest son of Jesse and Sophia Alice 
 (Tyler) Frost, was born in Vernon. Vermont. November 8. 1849, and died October 31. 
 1915, in West Boylston, Massachusetts. He attended the common schools of his 
 native town until the age of eleven years, when he went to the city of New York and 
 
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 was placed in a private scliool there. By constant stiiiiy he successfully passed ex- 
 aminations for the Xew York College, but through illness was compelled to Kive up 
 his collegiate course. He came to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1869, and entered the 
 dental office of J. B. Waller, and there studied for one year. In 1871 he entered llar- 
 vard Dental College, from which institution he was graduated with high honors in 
 1874. Returning to Worcester he entered the dental office of Dr. John Gould, and after 
 serving there for two years opened his own office on Elm street, where he continued 
 for twenty-three years, building up a very lucrative practice. As an investor of 
 real estate Dr. Frost was very successful, he having entered into that line of work in 
 1878. In 1882 he purchased the old Exchange Hotel, which he owned up to the time 
 of his death. For some time he conducted it himself, and afterwards leased it to good 
 advantage. He also bought and sold many pieces of property. He was the owner of 
 several blocks in Worcester, several tenement houses, and some unimproved property, 
 and of the Lincoln House, one of the leading hotels of Worcester, which he purchased 
 in 1893, and which he conducted for a long time. He owned a beautiful estate in West 
 Boylston, overlooking a number of townsliips. which he purchased in 1902, and where 
 he and his family resided in the summer seasons; it is one of the oldest landrnarks in 
 the township and the county. 
 
 As a lover of high-bred horses and an expert judge. Dr. Frost had no equal. He 
 owned and operated a number of track horses with success. He was lirst lieutenant 
 in Battery B of Worcester. Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in 1884. and was con- 
 nected with the organization for four years. He was a member of the Worcester 
 Board of Trade, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was a 
 Republican in politics, and loyal in his support of its chosen candidates. He was a 
 Congregationalist in religion, having been reared in that faith. He was a self-made 
 man in the truest sense of the word. He entered liis profession against the wishes 
 of his father, and therefore did not look to him for aid, but defrayed his own ex- 
 penses. 
 
 Dr. Frost married, August 24, 1903. Mabel A. Richardson, daughter of Charles O. 
 and Mary (Faulkner) Richardson (see biography), and they had four children: 
 Kathan, born July 4, 1904; Edward Eastman, Jr., born September 2, 1905; Charles 
 Richardson, born November 22, 1907; and Mary Elizabeth, born Marcli 26,' 1909. 
 
 CHARLES O. RICHARDSON, Railway contractor and paver, was born at Hills- 
 boro. New Hampshire. September 26, 1834. and died at his home in this city. No. 6 
 Woodland street. July 7, 1898, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 
 
 His younger days were passed on a farm, and when he left there to go to Lowell, 
 Massachusetts, it was to begin his fight with the world. He knew nothing of the ways 
 of the city, but was industrious, honest and quick-witted, and it was not long before he 
 had made a fair start to success. Lowell could not afford him the extensive field he 
 wished to work in, and he went to Boston. For several years he carried on the 
 business of a paver and railroad contractor in that city, and made money and friends 
 rapidly. In 1868 he was asked to come to Worcester and consider contracts for paving 
 its streets, and this city was afterwards his hoine. He laid most of the pavements 
 now on the streets of Worcester, and also built the first street car lines of this city. 
 Early in their existence he became connected with the Worcester Construction Com- 
 pany, and the Boston Paving Company, and his advice had been valuable on inany 
 important works which those corporations undertook. He was for many years 
 treasurer of the former and a director of the latter corporation. Mr. Richardson was 
 widely-known and had been closely identified with many public works, and in carrying 
 out his contracts was always considered conscientious to the last degree. 
 
 Although business cares took up a great deal of his time he never forgot the early 
 Christian training he was given, and identified hiinself with the Laurel Street Metho- 
 dist Church soon after coming to Worcester. He gave liberally to aid the cause of 
 Christianity, and some of the Methodist houses of worship in this city and on its 
 outskirts received financial aid from him. For many years he had been one of the 
 most prominent meinbers of the church, of which he had been treasurer for several 
 years. There never arose any financial emergencies in the church that his purse was 
 not always ready. 
 
 He had only a common school education, but was not one of those who thought 
 that was enough for any one. He took a particular interest in the educational in- 
 stitutions under the control of the Methodist church, and contributed to many of them. 
 He was a valued member of the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Montacute 
 Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, which he joined in 1882; Eureka Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and .Select Masters ; Worcester County Com- 
 mandery. Knights Templar; and of Massachusetts Consistory (thirty-second degree). 
 He was also a member of Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. 
 
492 HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 He was also a member of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, and an 
 honorary member of the Wellington Rifles. He always had a soft spot in his heart 
 for the firemen, and was active in the formation of the volunteer companies of the 
 days when such organizations were all the protection Worcester had from fires. He 
 possessed a genial, whole-souled nature, which made him hosts of friends. He could 
 tell a good story and tell it well, and he had a way of making himself popular with 
 every one. 
 
 Mr. Richardson married Mary Faulkner, of Andover, Massachusetts, who died 
 January 19, 1910, and to this union were born three children: Charles A., now deceased; 
 Mabel A., who became the wife of Dr. E. E. Frost, of this city; and Morton O., who 
 resides in West Boylston, Massachusetts. 
 
 COLONEL PHINEAS LEMUEL RIDER, Dealer in rubber goods, was born in 
 Southbridge, Massachusetts, son of Thaddeus Read and Fanny (Waldron) Rider. His 
 father was a railroad contractor, and shortly after the son was born removed to Ohio 
 to engage in railroad construction there, dying a few years later. 
 
 His mother returned to Worcester and here he received his education in the pub- 
 lic schools. He was a mere lad when he becaine a messenger for the American Tele- 
 graph Company. When he was but thirteen he had become an efficient operator and 
 was sent to Hyannis, Massachusetts, as an operator. Having filled that station sat- 
 isfactorily for several months, he was assigned to the station in the Bay State House. 
 A few years later he became the Associated Press operator on the night service for 
 the Worcester "Daily Spy" in the employ of the Western Union. Then he was sent to 
 Columbus, Ohio, as associated press operator, returning later to this city to take 
 charge of the day service of the Associated Press for the "Evening Gazette." He left 
 telegraphy in 1889 and engaged in business on his own account as a dealer in all kinds 
 of rubber goods. His store was in the old Brinley block, where the State Mutual 
 building now stands. Subsequently he moved to the Lincoln House building, and in 
 1904 to his present location, No. 317 Main street. His business has been uniformly 
 prosperous. 
 
 He became a private in the Light Infantry in 1877, and grade by grade won pro- 
 motion. For nearly ten years he was captain. In 1905 he was commissioned major 
 of the Second Regiment. He had been retired three years prior to the beginning of 
 the World War. He was retired with the rank of colonel, having served continuously 
 for thirty years. (See history of Light Infantry and Spanish War). When his regi- 
 ment returned from Cuba, he made the trip to Montauk Point to furnish any aid that 
 was needed. He found the provisions for the Worcester soldiers ample enough, un- 
 der the care of the Worcester Soldiers' Relief Association, but discovered great 
 need among the regular troops. In twenty-four hours, August 23, 1898, he raised 
 the sum of $1,207.96 for necessities not obtainable in Cuba, including stockings, 
 handkerchiefs, tobacco, cigarettes, fruits, sweets, pickles and other food as well as 
 hospital supplies, amounting to several tons, and shipped them at once by express 
 to New London, and from there to Montauk by tug-boat, dividing them among six 
 regiments of regulars. He started the movement to have the bodies of Worcester 
 soldiers brought home for burial, September 6, 1898. Other cities joined in the 
 movement, and Secretary Alger at length decided to have all the bodies brought 
 home. Colonel "Rider had charge of raising the funds for the statue in memory of 
 the soldiers who died in the Spanish War, dedicated April 19, 1917. In the collec- 
 tion and disburseinent of the funds for public purposes. Colonel Rider was scrupu- 
 lously careful not to exceed in expenditures the amount of the funds in hand ; to 
 pay all the bills promptly and to render a careful account, following the same ac-' 
 curate method that he has always adopted in his private business. 
 
 He became a member of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 in 1876, and has taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry. He is a member of 
 Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; 
 Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar ; and Massachusetts Consistory, 
 (thirty-second degree.) He was eminent commander of the Knights Templar in 
 1898 and 1899. He is a member of the Worcester Economic Club. He attends the 
 Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. He was a candidate for 
 nomination for the Common Council, without his knowledge or consent, and made 
 no eflfort to secure his election, but he came within thirteen votes of winning. Colo- 
 nel Rider is umuarried. 
 
 JOSIAH BRITTAN SHATTUCK, Proprietor of Worcester Trucking Company, 
 was born in Worcester, August i, 1863, son of Rufus Watson and Sarah M. (Brittan) 
 Shattuck. Mr. Shattuck is descended in all his lines of ancestry from pioneers of 
 New England. The paternal line is: Josiah B. (g), Rufus Watson (8), Benjamin (7), 
 
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 Jonathan (6), Jonathan (5). Dr. Benjamin (4), Rev. Benjamin (,^). WiUiam (2), 
 William (i). The immigrant was born in England, 1622; came when a young man 
 to Watertown, of which he was a proprietor in 1642; a shoemaker and weaver by 
 trade; died 1672. William Shattuck (2) was a brickmaker in Watertown: a magistrate 
 and town officer. Rev. Benjamin Shattuck (3) was a graduate of Harvard College in 
 1709; a school teacher at Watertown; first minister of the church at Littlctcjii. His 
 son, Dr. Benjamin Shattuck (4), practiced in Littleton. Jonathan Shattuck (5) re- 
 moved from Oxford. Massachusetts, to Chesterfield. New Hampshire, in 1781, and to 
 Jaf?rey or Townsend, Vermont, 1787. Mr. Shattuck's father was a merchant and 
 farmer in Worcester. He was born in Bakersfield, Vermont, June 17, 1824; married, 
 in 1856, Sarah M. Brittan, daughter of Josiah Brittan, Jr. The Brittan line of ancestry 
 is: Sarah M. (6), Josiah (5), Josiah (4), William (3), Samuel (2), John (i). John 
 Brittan (i) was born about 1680. and seems to be the third generation in this country. 
 He settled in Marlborough in 1724. 
 
 Josiah Brittan, Jr., was born in Rutland, died here April 30, 1863; married, August 
 25, 1834, Sarah Maria Hulbert, at Somers, Connecticut. He came here and manu- 
 factured bricks at Tatnuck and other parts of Worcester; furnished the brick for the 
 first insane hospital. Summer street. He was the first to store ice for use in simimer. 
 At one time he was proprietor of the old Worcester House on the site of the Bav State 
 Hotel. 
 
 About the house at Brittan square occupied by Josiah B. Shattuck in recent years 
 Caleb A. Wall wrote: "Lydia Chadwick kept a hotel many years subsequent to 1797 
 in the large dwelling afterwards owned and occupied by Josiah Brittan." John Chad- 
 wick, wdio came here from Watertown and bought several lots of land in 1740 and 
 large tracts in later years, may have built this house on the farm. This plot was a 
 lot of forty acres that he bought of the attorneys of John Brooks, of London, Eng- 
 land, in 1^50, and there were buildings on the lot at that tiine. David Chadwick 
 inherited the house in 1768. He died in 1794, and his widow Lydia kept a hotel there 
 afterward. The present house was built about 1770. It remained in the Chadwick 
 family until February 16, 1822, when David Chadwick sold it to William Eaton, who 
 in turn sold it to George W. Brooks in 1826, with one hundred and thirty acres of land. 
 In the same year it was sold to Alfred Dwight Foster, who sold it, June 27, 1833, to 
 Josiah Brittan, Jr. It was inherited from the Brittans by the present owner, in 1887. 
 
 Josiah B. Shattuck attended the Worcester public schools and the high school. He 
 inherited a part of the old Brittan homestead at Brittan square, Worcester, mentioned 
 above, and Washington stopped there on his way to Boston. It was the first public 
 house on the road to .Shrewsbury, Marlboro, Framingham and Boston. Shortly after- 
 ward he bought out the other heirs; when he secured it it was virtually a farm. Mr. 
 Shattuck immediately laid it out in lots, laying out and improving streets. In fact, 
 Mr. Shattuck developed that part of the city known as Brittan square. He built many 
 houses which he sold, retaining the old Brittan home, which he has remodeled. Mr. 
 Shattuck has built up in Worcester an extensive trucking business under the name of 
 the Worcester Trucking Company. His place of business is at the corner of Com- 
 mercial and Foster streets. He has one of the largest and most complete outfits in this 
 section for hauling heavy freight and machinery. He has made a specialty of handling 
 heavy and difficult freight. 
 
 Mr. Shattuck is well-known in Masonic circles and is a member of Athelstan 
 Lodge, Eureka Chapter, and Hiram Council. He is one of the inost active and efficient 
 Republicans in the city. Although he is not himself an office seeker he has always 
 taken an interest in city affairs and the welfare of the party to which he belongs. He 
 served two terms in the City Council from ward two, city of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Shattuck married, 1886, Anna Maria Howe, daughter of William Howe. She 
 was born April 27, 1867, was educated at Burlington, Vermont, and resided there until 
 her marriage. Their children are: I. Marion Brittan, born September 24, 1887; grad- 
 uate of the Worcester High School, IQ04, and the Bradford Academy; married, June 
 26, 1909, Dwight S. Brigham, son of John S. Brigham, of this city (see biography) ; 
 graduate of Harvard College (A. B., 1908) ; engineer with the Boston & Albany 
 Railroad Company; now major, commanding the Second Battalion, Fourteenth Rail- 
 way Engineers, since August, 1917, on the staff of the general superintendent of War 
 Railways in France ; residence in Newton Center, Massachusetts ; children : Nancy 
 Shattuck Brigham, born August 9, 1910, and Mary Stillman Brigham, born June 6, 
 1915. 2. Ruth Howe, born in this city. May 13, 1889, died here, June 30, 1892. 3. 
 Anna Woodbury, born November 20, 1893 : graduate of the Classical High School, 191 1, 
 and of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1913. 
 
 HARRISON SOUTHWICK PRENTICE, Real estate dealer and operator, was 
 born in this city, August id, 1836, and died at his home on Chestnut street in this city, 
 June 24, 1909, son of Henry and Tabitha Leiand (Southwick) Prentice. 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 He received his education here in tlie public schools and in Leicester Academy. At 
 the age of eighteen he engaged in business as a buyer of cattle and in the meat and 
 provision business. When the western meat packers succeeded the local dealers, he 
 became a representative of the Nelson Morris Company. He finally withdrew alto- 
 gether from the meat and provision business and devoted his attention to real estate, 
 buying and selling. an<i erecting liusiness buildings on Front, Main and Pleasant 
 streets. Among others, he erected a brick block on Franklin street, known as the 
 New Park Hotel, the Kenmore Hotel on Main street, the Carlyle Hotel on Pleasant 
 street, and the Bellmar Hotel on Main street. He continued to develop real estate 
 for more than thirty years and became one of the largest owners of business prop- 
 erty in the city. Oii account of his expert knowledge of building and of real estate 
 values, he was appointed on one of the commissions that built the City HaU. In poli- 
 tics he w^as a Republican. He attended Plymouth Congregational Church, and was 
 a member of the Commonwealth Club. 
 
 Mr. Prentice married, in 1859, Emeline Nancy Bowen. who was born in North- 
 bridge, A'lassachusetts, daughter of Charles and Urania (Mowry) Bowen. Mrs. 
 Prentice and her daughter reside at the old home, No. 24 Chestnut street. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Prentice had seven children: i. Charles H., who died in 1907; married Isa- 
 bel Gibbs, and had two children : i. Harrison Gibbs, who married Joy Aldrich, of 
 Boston, children, Charles Harrison and Rosamond Prentice; resides at No. 11 Ot- 
 sego road in this city : member of the Chamber of Commerce, Economic Club, Wor- 
 cester Country Club; Mrs. Harrison G. Prentice is also a member of the Country 
 Club, ii. Robert Leland. married Helena Mitchell; resides at No. 7 Waconah road, 
 and has twin sons, Leland Mitchell and Henry Gibbs. 2. Edward, died aged five 
 years. 3. Elizabeth Helen, died in 191 1 ; married Dr. R. W. Swan, of this city (see 
 biography). 4. Daughter, died in infancy. 5. Harrison Bowen, died in yotmg 
 manhood, aged twenty-six years; married Mary Webster Wing, of Uxbridge, and 
 had one daughter Dorothy, who resides with her grandmother, Mrs. Harrison S. 
 Prentice. 6. Clara Emma, died aged two years. 7. Emma Louise, who resides with 
 her mother. The family arc members of the Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 
 JOHN COMRIE MAC INNES, Foimder of the John C. Maclnnes Company, and 
 
 its president, was born July 3, 1849, in Autchterinuthill farm on the Drummond Castle 
 estate in Scotland, a farm occupied by his paternal ancestors since 1745. Owing to the 
 sympathy of the Earl of Perth with the cause of the Pretender, the Drummond Castle 
 estate was confiscated, but the Maclnnes family leased their farm until the death 
 of the father of John C. Maclnnes in 1861. Mr. Maclnnes died in this city, February 
 24, 1915, aged sixty-five years, seven months, twenty-one days. 
 
 He was educated in Scotland, and began his business career there, serving four 
 years as apprentice in a dry goods business in Glasgow. He came to this country in 
 1868 and entered the employ of the firm of Callender, McAuslan & Troup, of Provi- 
 dence, Rhode Island. He came to this city in 1873 and engaged in business as a dry 
 goods dealer with a store at No, 462 Main street. At the beginning he had but a small 
 floor space, twenty-five by one hundred feet, and employed eight clerks. He advertised 
 flannels, linens and cottons at wholesale and retail. In 1888 he advertised as a retailer 
 and jobber of hosiery, underwear and small wear, dry goods and fancy goods, silk 
 shawls and cloaks in his enlarged store, Nos. 458 and 462 Main street. From time to 
 tiiTie he increased the number of departments and leased more space in the building. 
 In 1892 the business was incorporated as the John C. Maclnnes Company. Mr. Mac- 
 lnnes became president and treasurer ; Albert A. Spaulding, vice-president ; Charles 
 A. Homer, clerk; Alexander J. Moir and James D. Robertson, directors. The capital 
 stock at that time was $100,000. The Gorham building on the north, the Buttrick & 
 Whipple building on the south, and the Stoddard building in the rear were leased, one 
 after another, and the floor space increased 11,000 feet, becoming one of the largest 
 department stores of the city. At the time of his death the company employed three 
 hundred and fifty clerks. 
 
 It is conceded that much of the success of Mr. Maclnnes in business was due to 
 his kindness and fairness in dealing with his employees. He had their welfare always 
 in mind and retained their loyalty at all times. In all kinds of trouble he was their 
 friend, adviser and helper. His charity was not confined to his clerks, however, he 
 having given liberally to every worthy organization. He was interested in various 
 industries n the city, president of the Allen-Higgins Wall Paper Company, and for 
 many years a director of the Worcester Electric Light Company. In his later years 
 he took keen delight in the cultivation of his farm, Overhill. on Pakachoag street, an 
 estate of about three hundred acres. His stock farm was a model. He was at one 
 time president of the Dutch Belted Cattle Association of America. He was a lover of 
 horses and raised many thoroughbreds. He was a member of the Commonwealth 
 
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 Club and the Worcester Country Club; trustee of the People's Savings Bank; member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce, and Quinsiganiond l.iKlge. Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and a trustee of Union Congregational Church. He was always a Republican, 
 but never active in politics, declining to accept public honors. Keen business judgment, 
 unflagging energy and integrity of character were the foundations of liis success. He 
 left a large fortune accjuired in the business that he developed and in which he was 
 active at the time of his death. Few of the many self-made men of WOrcestur have 
 had as great success or deserved it more. 
 
 The action of the Chamber of Commerce fittingly expressed the feeling of the 
 city in its resolutions ; 
 
 "The members of the Committee on Mercantile .-MTairs of the Worcester Chamber 
 of Commerce, mourning the loss of their late fellow member, John Comrie Maclnnes, 
 places this memorial on its records as a tribute to his memory, and a token of the 
 respect and love felt towards him by his associates. During his long business career, 
 he was best known as a merchant, and thousands of people in the community who 
 did not have the pleasure and honor of a personal acrjuaintance with him. learned to 
 revere, respect and honor the name of John Comrie \laclnnes, because of his honor- 
 able and straightforward methods of doing business with the public. His business 
 associates will miss him in their councils as an adviser of rare abilities and sound 
 judgment. Those who enjoyed the honor and good fortune of a personal acquaintance 
 and friendship with him, will miss him as the true friend who was always kindly in 
 word or deed. .'Kn honorable business man, a true, generous hearted friend and a useful 
 and respected citizen. 
 
 "The Worcester Chamljer of Commerce deplores his loss and oflfer to those C(^n- 
 nected with him by ties closer than those of business associates and personal friends, 
 its tenderest sympathy, at the same time recalling to them the consolation that of his 
 life's work it can truly be said. 'Well done, good and faithful servant,' " 
 
 Mr, Maclnnes married (first) .Vbbie White, of Charlton, Massachusetts, daughter 
 of Moses P. and Mary ( Haskell ) White, and had one daughter, Jessie Comrie, who 
 married, in Sei)tember, 1915, John Tuck, of this cit\. He married (second) June ,^0, 
 1896. Eva M. Eaton. Mr. Maclnnes' home was at Xo. .4-> Harvard street. 
 
 JOHN P. FAY, Late of Worcester, Massachusetts, where his death occurred 
 June 15, 1916, at the age of si.xty-five years, was a well known figure in the life of 
 tliis city, to which he came as a youth of but eighteen years old. He was born in 
 1851 at Lancaster, Massachusetts, where his childhood and early youth were passed 
 and where he secured his education at the local public schools. As soon as he had 
 reached an age to shift for himself, Mr. Fay left his native town and came to 
 Worcester, where he started to learn the trade of wheelwright and worked with 
 Mr. Atkinson in this business for a number of years. Mr. Atkinson proved an ex- 
 cellent teacher, and after serving his apprenticeship witli him, Mr. Fay engaged in 
 business on his own account, opening an establishment on Walker street, where he 
 remained for a time. Later, however, he worked in the North Wire Mill, and it was 
 during this time that he made the acquaintance of Mr. Chadwick, with whom he 
 shortly afterwards formed a partnership. The two young men engaged in the 
 trucking business, at first in a small way, but later Mr. Fay bought out Mr. Chad- 
 wick's interest and continued in the same line, under the name of J. P. Fay, and 
 eventually built up a large and prosperous business. He continued very actively 
 engaged in this line until his death, and the establishment which he built up is still 
 operated under the old name by his son. Mr. Fay did contract work for heavy 
 hauling and his trade extended all through the city. At first horses were used as 
 the motive power, but since the introduction of motor vehicles the old trucks have 
 been replaced by automobile trucks and these are now well known upon the streets 
 of Worcester. Mr. Fay built large stables and barns on Fay street, and afterwards 
 erected there his handsome three-story dwelling, where he made his home until 
 the time of his death. 
 
 Besides his business activities, Mr. Fay was also well known in the public life 
 of the community and he always felt a keen interest in the various departments of 
 the municipality. He was particularly interested in the fire department, which he 
 joined, and was a member thereof for nearly a cjuarter of a century during the time 
 wdien they had the call men. Mr. Fay also was a member of the Light Infantry for 
 three years. Politically he was affiliated with the Democratic party and took a 
 very active part in political work in Worcester. He was elected to the City Coun- 
 cil and continued a member of this body for four years, during which time he was 
 very prominent in the government of the city. In his religious belief Mr. Fay was 
 a Roman Catholic and for many years was a member of St. Paul's Church of this 
 denomination in Worcester, and took a conspicuous part in the work of his parish. 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 John P. Fay was united in marriage, April 22, 187S, at Worcester, with May 
 Power, a daughter of Lawrence and Bridget (Power) Power, of this city. Of this 
 union five children were born, as follows : i. Peter J., an engineer on the Boston & 
 Aroostook Railway, and a member of the City Fire Department up to the time of 
 his death, which occurred in 1916. 2. Edward L., who is at the present time carry- 
 ing on his father's business. 3- John J., who resides in Worcester. 4. Paul R., 
 member of the Sixty-Xinth Regiment of the New York National Guard, now the 
 One Hundred and Sixty-Fifth of the United States Army, now serving in France. 
 5. Ella M., wife of T. J. Sammon, of Worcester. 
 
 The personality of Mr. John P. Fay was one that will not be quickly forgotten 
 by the great host of those who called him friend. He was a man who combined 
 gentleness with firmness, yielding easily where his sense of right and justice were 
 not concerned, but inflexible enough where his conscience had rendered its deci- 
 sion. He was a delightful companion, as he remembered and recounted with vivid 
 power the many interesting experiences he had passed through during his long 
 career. Mr. Fay was a strongly religious man, an efficient and disinterested public 
 servant, with the affairs of the community ever uppermost in his mind, and at the 
 same time most devoted to his own family and in all ways a faithful husband and 
 a wise father. Mr. Fay was indeed a model citizen and one that any community 
 might hold up as a type for its youth to imitate. 
 
 EBEN KEASER COOK, Carpenter and builder, was born in Parsonsfield, 
 Maine. April 19. 18,^0. died October 28, 1900, in this city. He was educated in the 
 public schools of his native town, and his early years were devoted to farming in 
 Auburn, Maine, until 1870, when he made his home in this city. He engaged in business 
 as a carpenter and had a reputation for skill and thoroughness. From 1878 to 1880 
 he lived in Kansas, but returned to this city and lived here to the end of his life. He 
 was a member of Central Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he 
 was a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Cook married (first) in Auburn, Maine, Rachel Davis, who died, leaving one 
 daughter, Grace, who married Clarence Hanson, of Lewiston, Maine. He married 
 (second) Elizabeth C. Wingate, who was born at East Weare, New Hampshire, a 
 daughter of Aaron and Phebe T. Wingate (see biography). Mrs. Cook resides with 
 her sister, Mrs. Samuel Porter, at No. 875 Main street. She attends the Pilgrim 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 AARON WINGATE, Farmer and blacksmith, was born in Madbury, New 
 Hampshire, December 21, 1796, died in this city, September 2, 1880, son of John and 
 Sarah (Garland) Wingate, descendants of early pioneers of New England. He was 
 brought up on a farm in his native town, educated there in the district schools, and 
 learned the trade of blacksmith, He moved to East Weare, New Hampshire, where 
 he followed farming and had a blacksmith shop until 1852, when he came to Upton, 
 Massachusetts. After two years in that town, he removed to Uxbridge, and three 
 years later to East Douglass. Two years later he located in West Boylston. In 
 1864 he made his home in this city and lived a retired life the remainder of his days. 
 He was a Congregationalist and deacon of the church in New Hampshire. In politics 
 he was a Whig, later a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Wingate married, in 1826, in Madbury, New Hampshire, Phebe T. Lamos, who 
 was born in Dover, New Hampshire, daughter of Nathaniel and Keziah Lamos. His 
 wife died in this city, November 15, 1885. Both Mr. Wingate and his wife were buried 
 in Hope Cemetery. Their children were: I. Sarah, who died while a student in Mt. 
 Holyoke Seminary (now college). 2. Anne Susan, married Rodney M. Rice, of 
 Shrewsbury (see biography). 3. George, resided in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he 
 died March 24, 1918. 4. Martha Ann, died in infancy. 5. Edward, died in infancy. 6. 
 Elizabeth C, married Eben K. Cook (see biography). 7. Emma G., married Samuel 
 Porter (see biography). 
 
 SAMUEL PORTER, Manufacturer of shoe lasts, was born in Stoughton, Mas- 
 sachusetts, June 27, 1833, and died February 16, 1904, son of Ahira and Rachel D. 
 (Swan) Porter. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. 
 When a young rtian he came to Worcester and engaged in the woodworking business 
 here. He established the business of manufacturing lasts for shoe manufacturers, 
 with which his name is still associated, and he continued in business until 1903, when 
 he sold his interests to his son, Walter C. Porter, ^nd Walter E. Bigelow. The firm 
 became a corporation later under the old name S. Porter & Company (Inc.). Mr. 
 Porter was a Free Mason. In politics he was a Republican. He attended the Pied- 
 mont Congregational Church. 
 
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 Mr. Porter married (lirst), November 26, 1857. Sarah Cliambfrlin. who ilieii May 
 18, 1865, daughter of Benjamin and Patience Chamberlin, of Marion, Massacluisetts. 
 She was born in Avon. Massachusetts. He married (second), June i, 1870, Helen 
 Frances Kendall, of Portland, Maine. He married (third), July 4, 1894, Knniia G. 
 (Wingate) Putnam, daughter of Aaron and Phebe T. (Lamos) Wingate (see biog- 
 raphy). She married (first) Edward J. Putnam, of North Grafton, Massachusetts^ 
 who died August 28, i8gi. Children of Samuel Porter: Addie Lester, born July g, 
 1859, died September 24, 1865; Walter Chamberlin (see biography); Marian Kendall, 
 born September 28, 1874, married Albert J. Gifford. and resides in Shrewsbury, and 
 they are the parents of two daughters, Barbara and Lydia Gifford. Mrs. Porter 
 resides at No. 875 Main street with her sister, Elizabeth C. Cook, widow of Eben K. 
 Cook. She is an attendant of the Pilgrim Congregational Church. 
 
 WALTER CHAMBERLIN PORTER, Member nf the lirni ..i S. P.irter & 
 Company, manufacturers of ladies' shoe lasts, was born in this city, Alay 13. 1865, son 
 of Samuel and Sarah (Chamberlin) Porter. He w^as lost in the Titanic disaster, April 
 15, 1912, and his body brought to land, April 30, in the cable sliip, "Mackay-Bennett." 
 His name is inscribed in the list of honored dead among those who voluntarily stepped 
 aside to obey and see that it was obeyed the rule of the high seas in time of trouble, 
 "Women and children first in the life boats." His body was among the two hundred 
 and seventy found floating about the wreck ; he was fully dressed and wore a life- 
 belt, and evidently died of cold in the icy water. He was returning from his first busi- 
 ness trip abroad. He sailed from Boston, February 20, and visited the trade centers of 
 England, Germany, France, Austria and other countries. 
 
 Mr. Porter received his education in the public schools of this city, and afterward 
 entered the employ of his father in the last-making business. At the age of twenty 
 years he took a cruise in South American waters in a large sloop-rigged yacht, and 
 at that time he had a narrow escape from shipwreck. Upon his return he entered his 
 father's factory and there continued until 1891. Then he decided to try mercantile 
 business and opened a grocery store in Holden, but a few years later he returned to 
 his father's business. The founder of S. Porter & Company retired in 1903, selling 
 to his son and Walter E. Bigelow. Mr. Porter took charge of the sales department 
 and Mr. Bigelow managed the factory and office. The business expanded and the 
 sales territory included not only this country but many foreign countries where shoes 
 are manufactured. The factory is at No. 25 Union street. 
 
 Mr. Porter married (first) Louisa Phillips, who died January 4, 1905. He married 
 (second) Mabel N. Sanford, who resides at No. 10 Lenox street. By his first wife 
 Mr. Porter had two children: i. Helen Irene, born June 24. 1889, who married Carl B. 
 Fitton, and they have one son, Lawrence Porter Fitton. 2. Oscar Stanley, born October 
 3, 1891 ; after graduating from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute he became asso- 
 ciated with S. Porter & Company, Inc., and at present is in service in the World War 
 in the aviation corps: he married Esther Rudkin, of Middletown, Connecticut, and has 
 one child, Walter Rudkin Porter. 
 
 Mr. Porter w-as descended from early pioneers of Massachusetts. The line of 
 ancestry on the paternal side is: Walter C. (9). Samuel (8), Ahira (7). Cyrus (6), 
 Joseph (5), Sainuel (4), Samuel (3), John (2), Richard (i). Richard Porter, the 
 pioneer, was born in England, came to this country in 1635, settled in Weymouth, 
 Massachusetts, where his descendants have been numerous. Sanuiel Porter (3) 
 located in Abington and several generations of the line lived there. Joseph Porter 
 (5) was a lieutenant in tlie Revolution, lived in Stoughton, which was tlie home of the 
 fainily until Samuel Porter came to this city. 
 
 ROBERT H. CHAMBERLAIN, Civil War veteran and public official, was born in 
 Worcester, June 16, 1838. youngest child of Thomas and Hannah (Blair) Chamberlain, 
 and died in this city, June 28, 1910. 
 
 He was a great-grandson of Jacob Chamberlain, who came from Newton. Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1742. to Worcester, and bought a tract of land on Salislniry street, of 
 which seventy-two acres were handed dow-n by his son, John Chamberlain, to his son, 
 Thomas Chamberlain, and by him to his sons, Robert Horace and Thomas Chamber- 
 lam. Thomas Chamberlain, born in Worcester. March 6, 1873, inherited and conducted 
 part of the farm owned by his father and grandfather, and in its cultivation advanced 
 the science and art of horticulture; was one of the founders and trustees of the 
 Worcester Horticultural Society, in 1840, and in the hall of the society on Front street, 
 this city, his portrait adorns the walls. He was the first president of the Common 
 Council after the incorporation of the city of Worcester; was crier of the Worcester 
 Court for seventeen years ; filled most ranks in the State militia from corporal to 
 
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498 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 brigadier-general. He attended the Old South Church. He married (first) Nancy 
 Woods, the daughter of Colonel Sampson Woods, of Groton, Massachusetts. She 
 died July 25, 1831, and he married (second), October 30, 1832, Hannah Blair, daugh- 
 ter of Robert and Elizabeth (Harrington) Blair, of Worcester. She was born Febru- 
 ary 19, 1793, and died August 23, 1873. He died September 5, 1855. 
 
 Robert H. Chamberlain acquired his early educational training in the public schools 
 of his native city, which was followed by a course at Worcester Academy. At the age 
 of eighteen years he began an apprenticeship with Ball & Ballard, machinists, School 
 street, where he remained until the breaking out of the Civil War. He enlisted in 
 Company A, Fifty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, September 25, 1862, 
 for nine months, and was appointed a sergeant of his company. He was in the cam- 
 paign in North Carolina, taking part in the engagements of Goldsboro, Whitehall and 
 Kingston, and was afterwards at Fortress Monroe, White House, Baltimore, Harper's 
 Ferry and with the Army of the Potomac after Gettysburg in pursuit of General 
 Lee. He was mustered out July 27, 1863, and re-enlisted, July 20, 1864, in Company 
 F, Si.xtieth Regiment, and received a lieutenant's commission, being subsequently 
 promoted a captain. The regiment was assigned to Indianapolis, Indiana, on special 
 guard duty at a camp of five thousand Confederate prisoners. He was mustered out 
 with honorable discharge, November 30, 1864. 
 
 Returning to Worcester, he resumed work at his trade of machinist, at which he 
 continued until 1870, when he was appointed by Mayor Blake, superintendent of 
 sewers, which position he held for eighteen years, from 1870 to 1888, during which 
 time the system was developed and widely extended. In 1888 he was appointed master 
 of the House of Correction, and filled that office until 1892, in which year he was 
 elected to the position of high sheriff of Worcester county, which ofBce he held until 
 his death. For twelve years after the war he was active in the State militia. In 1865 
 he re-organi?ed the Worcester City Guards, and was the first captain of that company 
 for two years. He also re-organized a battery of artillery in Worcester, and it was 
 called the Chamberlain Light Battery. He received the commission of major and 
 afterwards of colonel of the Tenth Regiment, and was made brigadier-general of the 
 Third Brigade, December 31, 1868. He resigned and retired from the service in 1878, 
 but always retained his interest in the citizen soldiery of the State and Nation. 
 
 In political faith. General Chamberlain was a staunch Republican, although not a 
 violent partisan, placing citizenship above party, and giving to every man credit for 
 honesty of purpose. He was faithful to every trust reposed in him, whether public or 
 private, and was as highly-regarded by his political adversaries as by his party friends. 
 From 1867 to 1870, before becoming superintendent of sewers, he served as a member 
 of the Common Council of the city. He was a Congregationalist in religion, being a 
 member of the LTnion Congregational Church. 
 
 General Chamberlain's standing in the Masonic fraternity was of the highest, 
 and brought him the friendship of eminent men of the order from all over the states 
 of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he having been grand commander of the Grand 
 Commandery of Knights Templar of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, having been 
 elected to that ofiice in 1892. He was made a Mason in Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free 
 and Accepted Masons, September 9, 1862. He was also a member of Worcester 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council. Royal and Select Masters; Worcester 
 County Commandery, Knights Templar; and Massachusetts Consistory (thirty-second 
 degree). He was a member of the board of trustees and treasurer of the Masonic 
 fraternity, and also of the Masonic Mutual Relief Association for a number of years. 
 His association with his comrades of the army was ever one of the joys of his life, 
 and in George H. Ward Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was a 
 charter member, and in the Loyal Legion of the United States, he maintained that 
 association until the end of his life. He was also a member of the Hancock Club, 
 of Worcester, and of the Worcester Board of Trade. General Chamberlain was one 
 of the best-known men of the city of Worcester, the city of his birth and scene of his 
 life's activities. He was as favorably-known in every department of life he touched, 
 and everywhere his name stood for honesty and uprightness. 
 
 On January 10, 1865, General Chamberlain was united in marriage to Esther 
 Browning, who was born July 12, 1841, daughter of Joshua and Lavinia (Morse) 
 Browning, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, and to this union were born two daugh- 
 ters, namely: i. Flora Browning, born August 16, 1868; married, June 12, 1894, Charles 
 B. Wetherby. and they reside at Ware, Massachusetts, the parents of three children, 
 Esther Sherman, Olive Benedict and Jean Chamberlain Wetherby. 2. Mabel Susan, 
 born March is, 1872; married Dr. Perley P. Comey, and they reside at Augusta, 
 Georgia. 
 
 LUCIAN ARNOLD TAYLOR, Consulting engineer, was born in Burrillville, 
 
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 Rhode Island, June 20, 1846. and died X'ovember ly, 1914. in tliis city, son iif Jared and 
 Catherine (Truesdell) Taylor. 
 
 He attended the public schools of his native town and those at Woodstock. Connec- 
 ticut, whither the family moved during his boyhood. At Woodstock he went to school 
 in a building that his grandfather erected for the town. He was only sixteen years 
 old when he enlisted in the Eighteenth Connecticut Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, 
 for three years. He was not seventeen years old when he was captured in the battle 
 of Winchester and imprisoned by the Rebels at Belle Isle and T.ibby. .'^fter under- 
 going great suffering for want of food and clothing, he was finally exchanged. lie 
 served in various campaigns under Generals Milroy, Sigel. Hunter, Crook and Sheri- 
 dan. He was at Lynchburg and in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. He was mustered 
 out in June. 1865, and returned to Woodstock, completing his course in Woodstock 
 Academy. He came to this city in 1866 and took a course in Howe's Business College. 
 
 In April, 1867, he became the first assistant employed in the office of the city 
 engineer. He continued in the office for seventeen years, becoming highly proficient 
 in his profession, having charge of the work in the sewer and water departments for 
 many years. In 1884 he was elected water commissioner and served until 1886, when 
 he resigned to enter into partnership with William McCIellan, a civil engineer in 
 Boston. Two years later Mr. McCIellan died and he continued in his profession as 
 consulting civil engineer alone. He made a specialty of public works, such as reser- 
 voirs, dams, water-works and sewer systems. He had charge of the plans and con- 
 struction of water works for many of the principal towns and cities in New England, 
 and was consulting engineer for various cities and towns. He built reservoirs at St. 
 Albans, Vermont, Hanover, New Hampshire, New Haven. CoTuiecticut, Kingfield, 
 Maine, and elsewhere. He continued in business until the time of his death. His 
 office was in Boston, but he resided at No. 8 Dean street in this city, the present home 
 of his widow. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 
 Boston Society of Civil Engineers, the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, the New 
 England Water-works Association ; George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the 
 Republic; the Worcester County Mechanics Association, and Plymouth Congrega- 
 tional Church. In politics he was a Republican. He was a self-made man. acquiring 
 by practical experience and private study a place of distinction in a difficult profession. 
 He possessed a strong public spirit and took an active part in public afifairs. 
 
 Mr. Taylor married. August 29, 1868, Jeannette Arnold, daughter of Alexander and 
 Nancy E. (Bellows) Arnold, of Putnam, Connecticut. They had three children: 
 I. Edwin Alexander, graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute; formerly with 
 the Atlantic Coast Railway ; now an engineer in charge of the water system of 
 Denver, Colorado; served in the World War as Major of Engineers; married Maria 
 Broad, of this city, and has a son Robert. 2. Harris .'Arnold, died in infancy. 3. 
 Eva May, married Charles M. Allen, professor in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 Jared Taylor, father of Lucian A. Taylor, was a native of Scituate, Rhode Island, 
 and a farmer at Woodstock. Connecticut. By his wife. Catherine (Truesdein Taylor, 
 he had children : i. Henry Fenner. 2. John Erskine, who was employed in the Wor- 
 cester water department for twelve years, now deceased ; married Emma Thurber, of 
 Putnam. Connecticut, and had four children: Mary L., married Edward Whitney; 
 Arthur J.; Grace E., married Lewis Lincoln; and Willard L. Taylor. 3. Sophia Trues- 
 dell. 4. Elizabeth Elvira. 5. Andrew Harris. 6. Lucian A., mentioned above. 7. 
 Arthur, who died in infancy. The line of ancestry to the first settler is: Lucian A., 
 Tared. Stephen. Richard. John. John. John. Robert. Robert Taylor, the immigrant, 
 was born in England about 1620: came to Scituate. and later to Newport, Rhode 
 Island; a rope maker by trade; was keeper of the prison in 1673; died 1688. 
 
 CHARLES METCALF ALLEN, Professor of experimental engineering in the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was born in Walpole. 1871. son of Melzar Waterman 
 and Martha (Metcalf) Allen. He graduated from the Institute in 1894 with the 
 degrees of bachelor of science and master of science. He was afterward an instructor 
 in experimental mechanical and hydraulic engineering, and is now professor of ex- 
 perimental engineering in the Institute. He has experimented e.xtensively in hydraulic 
 plants and in testing machinery used in modern water power plants for developing 
 electricity. 
 
 He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; the Society for 
 Promoting Engineering Education ; the National Geographic Society : an associate 
 member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineers Club of Boston; 
 also of the Worcester .'\utomobile Club; the Chamber of Commerce; the Troopers 
 and Trappers Club of Walpole: the Worcester Congregational Club: the Public Educa- 
 tion Association; the Worcester Polytechnic Alumni Association. His home is at 8 
 Dean street; his summer residence at Megansett. 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 He married Eva May Taylor, daughter of Lucian A. Taylor (see biography). 
 They have three children: \irginia, Lucian Taylor, Jeannette Allen. 
 
 DAVID ANDREW SCOTT, Proprietor of the Union Laundry, was born in 
 Gait, Ontario. Canada, November 20, 1853. Adam Scott, father of David A. Scott, 
 was born in Scotland, January 10, 1803, and died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, August 
 12, 1869. He was purchasing agent for the Grand Trunk Railroad Company in 
 Canada. He married Ellen Morris, who was born in Scotland, in 1818. and died in 
 Lawrence, June 12, 1892, aged seventy-four years. They had twelve children, of 
 whom but the two younger are now living : David A., and James R. Scott, a drug- 
 gist in this city, one of whose sons, Charles H., is in the United States Navy, the 
 other. Chester, is in business in this city. Adam Scott came with three brothers 
 and a sister to Gait, Canada, in 1831, and settled there in what was then a wilder- 
 ness. Their grandchildren are now among the leading citizens of that town. 
 
 David A. Scott attended the public schools of his native town until 1866, when 
 the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he continued in the public 
 schools for a short time. He then became a clerk in the grocery store of his brother, 
 Adam, in Lawrence, after working for three years in the mills and driving a baker's 
 wagon for two years. For a year or so he was in the retail tea business on his own 
 account. 
 
 Mr. Scott came to this city in October, 1886, and inaugurated the clean towel 
 supply business, of which he was a pioneer in this section of the country. He began 
 on a small scale for want of capital. His laundry was equipped with one wash- 
 board, a tub and wringer. At first he made the rounds on foot to serve his patrons, 
 carrying the towels on his shoulder. As business grew, his equipment increased 
 and he moved from the small tenement at No. 8 Smith court to No. iii Chandler 
 street, later to a small store on Prescott street. Here he added space from time to 
 time, as his business grew, until he occupied the three floors of the building. In 
 1892 J. H. Dawson became a partner in the business, but retired therefrom in i8g8. 
 In 1890 Mr. Scott established a mechanics laundry to clean and repair overalls and 
 blouses. For many years the business has been conducted under the name of the 
 Union Laundry and Clean Towel Supply Company. The business is incorporated, 
 Mr. Scott being president; Janet A. Cairns, treasurer. In 1907 the present location 
 was occupied at No. 115 Exchange street. Mr. Scott has a modern laundry in every 
 respect, perhaps the largest in the city, employing at present one hundred and seven- 
 teen hands. The building has a frontage of ninety-five feet and the business occupies 
 four spacious floors. 
 
 In politics Mr. Scott is a Republican. In 1913 and 1914 he was a member-at- 
 large of the Board of Aldermen of Worcester and in this position gave further 
 evidence of his business ability, his love for the city and his interest in its prosperity. 
 Few men have given more loyal and useful service in the Board of Aldermen. In 
 social life Mr. Scott has been popular. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Worcester Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; Hiram 
 Council. Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar; Massachusetts Consistory (thirty-second degree); and Aleppo Temple, Order 
 of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Quinsigamond Tribe, Improved 
 Order of Red Men ; Freedom Lodge. Knights of Pythias ; Central Lodge, Mt. Vernon 
 Encampment, and Canton Worcester, Patriarchs Militant, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. He is assistant inspector general of the Massachusetts Patriarchs Militant 
 with the rank of major. He has been chief of the Order of Scottish Clans and 
 grand chief of the Clan of Massachusetts ; member of the Royal Clan, representing 
 the International body. He is past commander of the Bay State Commandery, 
 Knights of Malta. He is past chief of the Worcester Caledonia Club. He has 
 been president of the Worcester Laundrymen's Club ; is a member of the National 
 Laundrymen's Association, the Massachusetts Laundrymen's Association, the Wor- 
 cester Chamber of Commerce, and is also a contributing member of the Young 
 Men's Christian .\ssociation. 
 
 Mr. Scott married, February 8, 1880, Mary Elizabeth Ware, who was born in 
 Amesbury, Massachusetts, daughter of William and Rebecca (Healey) Ware, both 
 natives of England. Mr. and Mrs. Scott reside at No. 34 Midland street, and have 
 a summer residence, "Bonnie Doone Cottage," No. 53 Seafoam avenue, Winthrop, 
 Massachusetts. They have one daughter, Ellen Rebecca, widow of W. J. Nason, 
 now living with her parents ; she was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, March 9, 
 1885; Mrs. Nason has a daughter, Mary Victoria, born May 24, 1909, at Winthrop, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 GEORGE ERNEST DUFFY, President and treasurer of the George E. DuflEy 
 
 Manufacturing Company, was born at Franklin, New Hampshire, September 7, 1870, 
 
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 son of Michael and Mary (Fawdrey) Duffy. His father was born in Ireland, March 
 22, 1843, and was a hosiery manufacturer in Franklin, where he died January 18, 
 1918. His mother was born January 18, 1846. 
 
 Mr. Duffy attended the public schools in his native town, and graduated from 
 the Franklin High School in 1888, and from the Tilton Seminary at Tilton, New 
 Hampshire, in 1890. He then entered Dartmouth College, from which he was grad- 
 uated in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He entered the employ of 
 M. T. Stevens & Sons for the purpose of learning the woolen manufacturing business 
 and, after a thorough training in every department, was made superintendent of the 
 mills of this concern at North Andover, Massachusetts, in 1899. From 1900 to 
 1907 he was general manager of the Charles River Woolen Company Mills at Belling- 
 ham and Franklin, Massachusetts. During the year 1909 he was agent of the mill 
 property of E. D. Thayer Company, owned by the estate of Edward D. Thayer, of 
 Worcester. Mr. Duffy bought the Thayer Mill at Cherry Valley, No. 151 1 Main 
 street. Worcester, of the Thayer estate, January I, 1910, and has conducted it since 
 that time under the corporate name of the George E. Duffy Maimfacturing Company, 
 of which he is president and treasurer. The business has grown constantly and in 
 recent years the mills have been enlarged and are constantly run at full capacity. 
 This mill is the eleventh privilege on Ramshorn stream. At first there was a grist 
 mill here, built by one Adams, owned later by Wadsworth & Fowler ; afterward a 
 satinet mill was built. Ashworth & Jones- bought the privilege and erected a mill 
 fifty by one hundred and seventy feet, four stories high, and made Iieaver cloth here. 
 In 1886 the property came into the possession of Edward D. Thayer, Jr., who manu- 
 factured woolen goods in the mill. Mr. Duffy has continued the woolen business, 
 employing two hundred hands or more in the manufacture of overcoat and cloak 
 goods. It now has nine sets of cards and a hundred broad looms in operation. 
 This is perhaps the finest mill on the stream and one of the most stable industries 
 of the city. 
 
 Mr. Duft'y is vice-president and a director of the Park Trust Company of this 
 city and a member of its board of investment. In politics he is a Republican. He 
 and his family attend the Old South Congregational Church. He is a member of 
 the Masonic bodies, holding membership in the Lodge. Chapter and Worcester 
 County Conmiandery, Knights Templar, and is also a member of .\leppo Temple, 
 Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 of Dartmouth; the Commonwealth Club and Dartmouth College Club of this city; 
 the Worcester Country Club and the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Mr. Duffy married, in Rochester, New Hampshire, October 21, 1896, Grace 
 Mary Whipple, who was born at Newton. Massachusetts, July 5. 1873, a daughter 
 of Charles S. and Sarah T. (Henderson) Whipple. She is a member of the Woman's 
 Club. They reside at No. 5 Claremont street. Her father was born at Newton, 
 November 5. 1850. died April 18, 1886. Her mother was born at Rochester, New 
 Hampshire, December 20, 1849, and died November 8, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Duffy 
 have three children: Eunice M., born January 20, 1898, graduate of the South High 
 School, and now a student in Smith College ; Ralph E., born September 7, 1900, 
 student in the Abbott School, Farmington, Maine ; Gladys I., born October 29, 1902. 
 
 ALBERT HARRIMAN MOSS, Construction engineer, general manager of the 
 Eureka Construction Company, was born in this city, November 30, 1880. He at- 
 tended the schools here and after completing the grammar grade attended the 
 English High School. At the age of fifteen he entered the einploy of Thompson % 
 Wheeler, civil engineers, and through their office was engaged on many engineering 
 projects throughout central Massachusetts, later passing the State civil service 
 examination, worked as an assistant engineer on the construction of Holden Dam, 
 No. 2, for the city of Worcester. In 1899 he obtained an appointment with the Chicago 
 Great Western Railroad on their new road then being built from Fort Dodge. Iowa, 
 to Omaha, Nebraska. For the following five years he supervised construction work 
 throughout the middle and south-west, being connected during that time with J. L. 
 Fulton & Company, general contractors of Chicago, then with the Chicago-Milwaukee 
 Electric Railway Company, and later with the city of Waukegan, Illinois, (sanitary 
 sewers), John W. Alvord, consulting engineer (dam at Des Moine. Iowa), William 
 Kenefick Company, M. O. & G. Railroad in Indian Territory. Finally returning 
 to Worcester he associated himself with various contracting concerns, and has been 
 actively identified with many large construction projects throughout New England, 
 having taken contracts for all kinds of paving, excavating, concrete construction, 
 railroads, sewers, water works and bridges. He is a typical out-of-doors man, 
 versed in wood craft and things pertaining to nature, and takes his recreation in 
 hunting, fishing, automobiling, and all open-air sports. In politics he is a Republi- 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 can In 1914 he was elected to the Common Council of the cit3' from ward nine, 
 and in 1916 was re-elected for a term of two years. He is a member of the joint 
 standing committees on finance and on water. He is a member of Piedmont Con- 
 gregational Church. „ . , . . ,- , , „ , 
 
 Mr Moss married, February 15. 1908, ui this city, Kathryn A. Kooney, who 
 was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, July 22, 1890, daughter of Robert and 
 Frances (McGinley) Roonev, now living in this city. Her father is a contractor, 
 born in England. Her mother was born in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Moss have one 
 son, Robert Harriman, born in this city, December 18, 1908. (See biography of 
 brother, E, A. D. Moss, for paternal ancestry). 
 
 CHARLES BASSETT EATON. One of the well known citizens of the City 
 of Worcester, Massachusetts, whose death there on the first Sunday of April, 
 1914 was felt as a severe loss by a large section of the community, was a native 
 of Phillipston, Massachusetts, and a son of William and Lydia (Brown) Eaton, 
 old and liighly respected residents of that neighborhood, where Mr. Eaton, Sr. was a 
 farmer during his entire life. 
 
 (Tharles B. Eaton was born on his father's farm, June 20, 1831, and the early 
 years of his childhood were spent in the midst of that wholesome rural environment. 
 For his education the lad was sent to the schools of Petersham, and after com- 
 pleting his studies in these institutions, was placed as a clerk in the general store 
 of that town. He remained thus employed until after his marriage, when he removed 
 to Athol, Massachusetts, and there for a time worked with Captain Charles Bassett, 
 for whom he had been named. Five months later, however, he came to Worcester, 
 where he secured a clerical position in a dry goods store. Not long afterwards he 
 became associated with Mr. William H. Sanford, a dealer in books in Worcester, 
 and worked in that gentleman's establishment until the latter's death. Mr. Eaton 
 then decided to engage in business on his own account and accordingly opened a 
 fancy goods store in Worcester, in which he met with considerable success. Later, 
 however, he engaged in the paper business, his establishment being situated where 
 the Park building now stands. In this enterprise he was associated with a Mr. 
 Dixon, the firm name being Eaton & Di.xon, and a large and prosperous business 
 was soon built up. Mr. Eaton's remarkable organizing and executive ability were 
 in a large measure responsible for the great development which the business enjoyed 
 and which placed it among the front ranks of enterprises of this kind in the region. 
 Eventually, however, Mr. Eaton disposed of his interest in this line to a Mr. Lewis 
 and retired from active business life, although he continued to engage in real estate 
 operations on a large scale. He also looked after his own valuable property and 
 that of his wife in the city and continued thus employed up to the time of his death. 
 In the year 1872-73 he built a handsome house at No. 5 La Grange street, and here 
 it was that he made his home and that his family contniued to dwell since his 
 demise. Mr. Eaton was exceedingly prominent in the general life of Worcester, 
 and was a member of a number of societies and organizations, among which should 
 be mentioned the Antiquarium and Horticultural societies of Worcester. Mr. Eaton 
 was reared in the L'nitarian church, but later joined the Piedmont Church. He was 
 at one time a member of the Salem Street Church at Piedmont, but afterwards joined 
 the Old South Church and became active in the affairs of the Sunday school there. 
 
 Charles B. Eaton was united in marriage, November 14. 1854, ^t Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, with Mary Caroline Cheney, a daughter of Edson D. Cheney, of 
 Worcester, and a native of Barre. where her birth occurred February 23, 1834. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Eaton two children were born as follows : i. Alice Carrie, who 
 became the wife of Frederick Norton Cooke, to whom she has borne one son, 
 Frederick Norton Cooke, Jr., w'ho is quartermaster of the Boy Scouts of New York. 
 2. Cora Bell, who became Mrs. William H. Nelson, of Worcester, and is the mother 
 of four children : Winthrop, Earl, Dorothea and Carolyn Inez. Edson D. Cheney, 
 father of Mrs. Eaton, was born in the year 1812 at Milford, and was a son of Ebenezer 
 Cheney, of Barre, Massachusetts. He was engaged in the occupation of farming 
 during practically his entire life, and was also a Mason of high order. He removed 
 from Milford to Barre in the year 1834, and later to Petersham, Massachusetts, 
 where he had a wheelwright shop. From there he came to Worcester and worked 
 at the carpenter's trade for a time. He also engaged in business as a contractor 
 and builder and erected many dwellings in Worcester. During the war he went 
 into the wholesale flour business quite extensively and made a very considerable 
 fortune, which he invested in real estate, so that he owned considerable property in 
 this city at the time of his death. He was an active and public-spirited citizen and 
 a member of the Piedmont Church, later of the Old South Church. He married 
 Sarah B. Shattuck, of Barre, Massachusetts, and both he and his wife died in 
 
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 Worcester, Mrs. Cheney died June 4, 1886. and Mr. Lliency died April 13. 1894. 
 They were the parents of one child. Mary Caroline, who is nuw Mrs. l-:atv.n. Their 
 old homestead was at No. 695 Main street. 
 
 Energy, self-confidence and a strict adherence to the moral law were the tr;iits 
 which seemed to lie at the bottom of Mr. Eaton's character and shape and guide 
 its entire development. His business success, as must all true success, depended 
 quite as much upon his character as upon the knowledge which was a later accnure- 
 ment. It was this element which diiTerentiated his career, so similar in external 
 appearance, from a kind of success, common enough today, which as already re- 
 marked is popularly regarded with so much disfavor. In all that he did for hmi- 
 self, Mr. Eaton kept the interest of those about him ever in sight, and made no step, 
 however conducive to his own ends, if to his candid judgment it appeared inimical 
 to theirs. It was in line with this — it should not be called policy, for it was too 
 spontaneous for that— but in line with this instinct, his behavior in his family. He 
 would not allow the extremely exacting demands of his business to interfere with 
 what he considered due his wife and children any more than he erred the other 
 side and allowed domestic ties to interfere with his discharge of his obligations 
 to the outside world. Indeed the only person whose inclinations and comfort he 
 consistently sacrificed to the rest of the world was himself, for he rose early and 
 retired late to fulfill his obligations to others, and minister to their desires. After 
 retiring from active business, his sole recreation was in caring for his garden, 
 flowers and trees. The city of Worcester has the best reason to regard him as its 
 benefactor. 
 
 JOHN TOWNSEND, Assistant foreman and foreman of the assembling de- 
 partment of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, from 1877 to 1917, was born 
 in Ramsey, England, February 5, 1847, son of Thomas and Ami (Thompson) Town- 
 send. Thomas Townsend was overseer in a cotton mill in England. Both he and 
 his wife were born at Ramsey. 
 
 John Townsend received his education in the Abney British School at Mossley, 
 England. He began to work in Mayo's Cotton Mill when fifteen years of age, and 
 afterward for a number of years was employed in the works of Hutchinson, HoUing- 
 worth & Company at Dobcross, England, the foreign representatives of the Cromp- 
 ton & Knowles Loom Works. He came to this country in 1871 and entered the 
 employ of the Fall River Iron Works at Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1873 he 
 came to this city and began to work in the assembling room under Albert B. Whipple. 
 In 1877 he became assistant foreman of the department, and when Mr. Whipple 
 retired he succeeded him as foreman. In addition to the work in the factory he was 
 often engaged in erecting plants in mills throughout New England, New York and 
 Pennsylvania, installing new looms and putting them in running order. He invented 
 various devices and assisted in the perfection of many patents used in the manu- 
 facture of looms. He retired in 1913. but has remained in the employ 
 of the company in an advisory capacity. His service was marked by efficiency and 
 fidelity. He is a skillful mechanic and he contributed throughout his period of 
 service in the works to maintain the high standard of workmanship and the repu- 
 tation of the Knowles Looms and the Crompton & Knowles looms for sending out 
 looms of uniform excellence. Mr. Townsend is a member of Athelstan Lodge. Free 
 and Accepted Masons, and of the Sons of St. George. In religion he is a Congre- 
 gationalist; in politics a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Townsend married, in Ashton Parish Church, October 2, 1870, Hannah 
 Chapman, who was born at Mossley, July 19, 1850, daughter of Joseph and Rachel 
 (Ward) Chapman, both of whom were natives of Mossley. Their children are : 
 
 I. Mary Emma, born July 6, 1871 ; married, in 1895, Charles Buckley; children: John, 
 Thomas, George. 2. Alfred, born August 9, 1872, deceased. 3. Florence Gertrude, 
 born February 4, 1874; married, April 29, i8g6, Fred W. Eastman; children: Ger- 
 trude and Donald Townsend. 4. Ava Ann, born April 26, 1877; married, November 
 
 II, 1903, Frank H. Ellis; child, Reginald. 5. George Chapman, born June 6, 1879; 
 married, September l, 1917, Hazel Stough. 6. Albert Edward, born July 11. 1881, 
 deceased. 7. Charles Frederick, born June 12. 1883. 8. Maud May, born September 
 27, 1884; married Allan K. Burrows, November 9, 1910; child, Betty Frances. 9. 
 Grace Darling, born .\pril 6, 1887, deceased. 10. .^my Louise, born October 21, 
 1889; married Ernest N. Adams; child. Priscilla. II. Madeline Ruth, born July 11, 
 1895 ; married, August 8. 1916, Albert W. Jordan. 
 
 GEORGE THWAITES AITCHISON, Inventor and manufacturer, was born July 
 5, 1826, in Ossining, New York, son of William H. and Harriet (Thwaites) Aitchi- 
 son, descendant of an old family of Glasgow, Scotland. His father, William H. 
 
504 HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 Aitchison came to this country in 1824 and located in Ossining: was a niercliant. 
 Both parents of Mr. Aitchison died when eighty-eight years old. 
 
 Mr. Aitchison attended the public schools until he was fourteen years old. He 
 was then sent to Peru, Illinois, to study civil engineering under Colonel Burnett, 
 of the United States Army, who surveyed the canal fr^mi Chicago to Peru. He 
 traveled mostly by stage oii the journey of nine hundred miles thither. After a few 
 years, however, he returned East and was employed in various lines of business 
 until 1845, when he began to serve an apprenticeship in carriage making at Newark, 
 New Jersey. During his three years as apprentice he was to receive $25 a year 
 and board, but in a few months he was given piece-work and soon liad the repu- 
 tation of being the best craftsman in the shop. 
 
 He came to Worcester when he was twenty-one years old and entered the 
 employ of M. T. Breck, carriage builder, School street, remaining in the shop for 
 five years. In 1852 he began to build vehicles in a shop on Canal street, having as 
 a partner George W. Wilder. From the outset the business prospered. In i860 he 
 bought the business of Mr. Breck and afterward enlarged it to include the making 
 of all kinds of vehicles then in use. He designed and built the first top sleigh used 
 in this section, and invented one of the first watering-carts used in this country. 
 In 1895 he invented and put into use one of the greatest and most valuable inventions 
 used in street sprinkling. By means of this device, simple, durable and compact, 
 the water from a horse drawn vehicle is distributed for a width of twenty-five to 
 thirty feet. In addition to the carriage-making plant he also conducted a repairing 
 business. He was the owner of valuable real estate on School street and in other 
 sections of the city until 1912. For a number of years he conducted a storage and 
 warehouse business on School street, disposing of it in 1912. He is or has been a 
 member of the following organizations: The Worcester .Agricultural Society; Wor- 
 cester County Mechanics Association ; Montacute Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, 
 which he joined in 1854. In politics he is a Republican; in religion a Unitarian. 
 
 Mr. Aitchison married (first), August 29, 1852, Catherine Henrietta Case, daugh- 
 ter of Zelah and Jeannette (Benton) Case. She died in September, 1901, and he 
 married (second), June 19, 1902, Elizabeth Ann Bartlett, of Shrewsbury. She was 
 born January 8, 1857. Mr. Aitchison's home is now at No. 117 Lincoln street. 
 
 ALBERT LAMB, Market gardener, was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, June 
 I, 1833, son of Jesse and Mary (Stevens) Lamb. The family moved to Charlton, 
 Massachusetts, when he was a boy and he attended the public schools there. Leav- 
 ing home when he came of age, he started in life as a farmer on his own account 
 in Leicester, Massachusetts. After eleven years he sold his farm there and located 
 in Tatnuck (Worcester), where he bought a small farm and engaged in market 
 gardening, following this business with uniform success for a period of forty-five 
 years. He also devoted himself to the cultivation of fruit. He retired from active 
 business in 1909, though he is still active in body and mind at the age of eighty-five 
 years. He attributes his long life and good health in large measure to abstinence 
 from tobacco and liquor of all kinds and to regular habits, to moderation, in fact, 
 in everything. In politics Mr. Lamb is a Republican, but he has never accepted 
 public office. His life has been devoted almost exclusively to his business and his 
 family. In his relations with other men, he has been kindly, courteous and upright, 
 observing to the letter the Golden Rule in both business and social relations. 
 
 Mr. Lamb married (first), Nancy Kingsbury, who died without issue. He mar- 
 ried (second), Sophia Kingsbury, who bore him si.x children, of whom three died in 
 infancy, the survivors being: i. Anna Maria, married David Grosvenor, now of 
 Auburn, Massachusetts. 2. Mary, married George P. Tuttle, who now conducts the 
 homestead and market gardening business at Tatnuck. 3. Arthur A., the owner of 
 a cattle and sheep ranch of 5,000 acres at Upton, Wyoming. He married (third), 
 Rebecca Merriman, who died without issue. He married (fourth), Lucy Miles, who 
 also died without issue. He married (fifth), Elizabeth (Wayne) Shipman, widow of 
 Lewis H. Shipman. 
 
 Lewis H. Shipman was born in Saratoga, New York, in 1840, son of Joseph 
 and Elizabeth (Van Pelt) Shipman. He was a carriage trimmer in business in 
 Fonda, New York, and later in the upholstering business in Worcester. He died 
 at his home on Pleasant street in this city, July 17, 191 1. He was a Free Mason, 
 a Methodist in religion, and a Republican in politics. He married, at Broadalbin, 
 New York, in 1872, Elizabeth Wayne, and they had three children : i. Frank B., 
 now a prominent business man in Cincinnati, Ohio, having a large bakery and con- 
 fectionery store ; married Grace Mills, and they have four children : Elizabeth, 
 Frank B., Jr., Grace and Beatrice Shipman. 2. William L., a well-known dentist of 
 this city; married Fannie Hamilton, and has a son, Lewis Hamilton Shipman. 3. 
 
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 Wayne F., dentist, of Worcester; married Hilda Felix, and has had three children: 
 Dorothy, who died aged two years; Wayne F., Jr. and Lee Shipnian. 
 
 CALEB COLVIN, Founder of the Caleb Colvin foundry which became the L. 
 W. Pond Machine & Foundry Company, of which he was president and treasurer 
 until the time of his retirement, was born at Cranston, Rhode Island, January 10, 
 1829, and died at his home. No. i Castle street, Worcester, F"ebruary 16, 1914, son 
 of Caleb and Dolly (Burgess) Colvin, and brother of James A. Colvin (see biogra- 
 phy). 
 
 Caleb Colvin was educated ui his native town, and learned the trade of moulder 
 in the Orebed Iron F'oundry there under Lovvdic Brayton, who had a reputation in 
 those days as a master iron worker. F'rom 1S50, when he became a journeyman, to 
 1863 he was employed at his trade in Whitinsville. In 1863 he and his brother 
 James A. started in the foundry business at Danielson, Connecticut, .^bout two years 
 later, having sold out to his brother, he came to Worcester and in tlie same year, 
 1865, established the foundry which has been conducted under his name since then 
 except for a time when he was in business with his brother. In 1868 he again 
 entered partnership with his brother, but in 1879 the firm was dissolved and the 
 business continued at the old stand after January i. 1880, under the name of the 
 Caleb Colvin Iron Foundry. From time to time he enlarged his plant until it became 
 one of the largest in this city. He established a wide reputation for his high grade 
 gray castings. In 1887 the business was incorporated under the name of the L. W. 
 Pond Machine & Foundry Company, Francis B. Knowles, Charles B. Pratt, H.C. 
 Fish being associated as directors and stockholders with Mr. Colvin. He outlived 
 all his associates. The L. W. Pond Machine and F'oundry Company not only carried 
 on the foundry business, but manufactured iron planers, pulley-turning and boring 
 machinery. The factory was at the corner of Gold and Assonet streets. It became 
 one of the important industries of the city. Mr. Colvin was president and treasurer 
 until 1905. when on account of failing health he retired. 
 
 In politics he was a Republican. He was elected to the Common Council in 
 1876 and to the Board of Aldermen in 1883 and 1884 from Ward Seven. Fie was a 
 member of Morning Star Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Worcester 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; and the 
 Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, being one of the oldest members 
 of that body at the time of his death. He was a director of the Worcester Mutual 
 Fire Insurance Company ; trustee of the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank ; 
 associate member of George H. Ward Post, Grand Army of the Republic ; and mem- 
 ber of the Worcester County Alechanics Association. After he retired he made a 
 study of local history and genealogy, preparing a chart of the Colvin family, which 
 refers back to John Colvin, the first of the Colvins in America, the Rev. James Colvin 
 and George Colvin, of Coventry, Rhode Island, who fought in the Revolution, as 
 well as to others of the family. 
 
 Mr. Colvin married Nancie Sabina Brown, and they had three sons, and one 
 daughter, Minnie Sabina, died in infancy. The sons were: i. C. Henry, born March 
 S, 1861, in Whitinsville, Massachusetts; was in the iron foimding business with his 
 father until his death, March 16, 1914, in Worcester, Massachusetts; married (first), 
 Mabel Forehand; married (second), Alice Stone. 2. Edwin R., born February 10, 
 1864, in Danielson, Connecticut; was in the iron founding business with his father 
 until his death, October 1, 1889, in Worcester, Massachusetts. 3. Arthur B.. born 
 October 7, 1876. in Worcester, Massachusetts; was in the iron founding business with 
 his father until his retirement; married (first) Gertrude Ottestad : married (second) 
 Dora Burbank. 
 
 JAMES ANTHONY COLVIN, Iron founder, brother of Caleb Colvin (see 
 biography), who was for thirty-six years in the foundry business in this city, was 
 born in (Zranston, Rhode Island, June 20, 1833, and died in Enfield, Connecticut, 
 July 4, 1915, son of Caleb and Dolly (Burgess) Colvin. He attended the public 
 schools in his native town, and his boyhood was spent on his father's farm until he 
 was eighteen years old. He left home to learn the trade of moulder. In January, 
 1862, he started in business in partnership with his brother Caleb at Danielson. In 
 1865 he bought his partner's share in the foundry and continued in business there 
 for two years and a half, his plant being destroyed by fire. In May, 1868, he re- 
 sumed business in Worcester, again in partnership with his brother Caleb, having 
 a foundry on the site of the L. W. Pond Machine & Foundry location on Gold street. 
 The firm continued for eleven years. From that time he was in the foundry business 
 on his own account at No. 52 Jackson street, the present location of the Colvin 
 Foundry, until his death. 
 
3o6 HISTORY OF IJ'ORCESTER 
 
 Though his name was best known hi the foundry business, he became interested 
 in various other lines of industry. For several years he manufactured machine tools 
 as the proprietor of the Warren Machine Tool Company, but about 1896 he sold 
 his interests in this concern to German manufacturers. He was also the owner of 
 the G. H. Bushnell Press Company, of Thompsonville, Connecticut, acquired in 1894, 
 manufacturing all kinds of oil mill machinery, presses, filters, screw, knuckle joint 
 and hydraulic machinery for bailing purposes. He was the founder of the Standard 
 Metalwork Company of "Thompsonville, Connecticut, for the manufacture of all kinds 
 of bent pipe and tubing and various specialties for manufacturers of automobiles. 
 At the time of his death he was owner of the Jackson Street Foundry and president 
 of the Standard Metalwork Company. He was a member of the Worcester County 
 Mechanics .■\ssociation and the National Metal Trades Association. In religion 
 he was a Unitarian; in politics a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Colvin married (first) Amy Ann Johnson, daughter of John C. Johnson, of 
 Natick, Rhode Island, January 21, 1854. He married (second) Anna Lee, daughter 
 of Francis Lee, of Montpelier, Vermont, January 20, 1869. By his first wife he had 
 two sons: James B. and Lewis A. (see biographies), and a daughter, Theresa, By 
 his second wife he had two daughters: Anna L. and Dorothy F. 
 
 JAMES BYRON COLVIN, Proprietor of the Jackson Street Foundry, was born 
 in Wliitinsville, Massachusetts, May 31, 1856, son of James .'\nthony and Amy Ann 
 (Johnson) Colvin. He attended the public schools in Danielson, Connecticut, whither 
 his parents moved in 1863, and at Worcester, where he completed his education in the 
 high school. He began his business career in the foundry conducted by his father 
 and uncle, in 1872, and was afterward associated with his father in the Jackson 
 Street Foundry. Since the death of his father he has conducted the business. He 
 married, April 27, 1882, Carrie Carpenter Bascom, of Greenfield. They have one 
 son, Percy J. Colvin, born Januar5' 22, 1883, educated in the Worcester public and 
 high schools, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now associated in business 
 with his father; married, November 14, 1914, Eleanor Whiting Sharp, of Brookline. 
 and they have one daughter, Madeline Jasper Colvin, born September 29, 191 5. 
 Percy J. Colvin is a member of the Tatnuck Country Club and the Worcester 
 Economic Club. 
 
 LEWIS ANTHONY COLVIN, Who was engaged in the foundry business with 
 his father, was born in Danielson, Connecticut, October 5, 1864, son of James Anthony 
 and Amy Ann (Johnson) Colvin. He was educated in the public schools of his 
 native town and Worcester. He married. May 23, 1900, Sara Hale Colvin. Chil- 
 dren: Kenneth H. and Amy L. Mr. Colvin died April 8, 1913. 
 
 MICHAEL A. O'ROURKE. Partner in Curran & O'Rourke's "Toggery Shop," 
 and former baseball umpire in the Eastern League, was born in Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, May 17, 1870, son of Michael and Ellen (Flynn) O'Rourke, who were 
 among the pioneer settlers of South Worcester, and witnessed the growth of that 
 section from a small village to the prosperous city of today. 
 
 Michael O'Rourke was born in Leitrim, Ireland, and left his native place in 
 April, 1854, with the flood of immigrants of that time, all of whom sought to better 
 their chances of success in life's struggle in the New World. The journey was 
 made in a sailing packet, and they were as many weeks on the water as is now 
 required in days for a similar trip across the Atlantic. Mr. O'Rourke was endowed 
 with courage, indomitable perseverance and those sterling qualities that go to make 
 good citizens, faithful to church and loyal to country. He married Ellen Flynn, 
 also a native of Ireland, who came to this country during her childhood. She was 
 one of those gentle, motherly women, known to her neighbors by her many acts of 
 kindness, and of whom they said : "None knew her but to love her." They were 
 closely identified with the Church of the Sacred Heart in South Worcester from its 
 inception, and were untiring in zeal in the work of the society and church, Mr. 
 O'Rourke being a familiar figure to all attendants at every service for the past 
 forty years, he serving in the capacity of collector. His death occurred May 26, 
 1917. Mr. and Mrs. O'Rourke were the parents of eight children, si.x of whom 
 survive andare living in the family residence. No. 597 Cambridge street. I. Hugh 
 H., a druggist for twenty-five years at No. 360 Millbury street, and president of the 
 Worcester Pharmacists' Association for the past three years ; he is a charter and 
 fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus, member of Worcester Musicians' 
 Association, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Royal Arcanum, and dictator of Worcester 
 Lodge of Moose; he has served the city as 'alderman for two years and the State 
 for seven years, six years in the House of Representatives and one year as senator 
 
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 at Boston: he was the Democratic candidate for mayor at the last city election. 
 2. Joseph T., an optician in the Park bnilding; member of the Knights of Columbus, 
 and the Washington Club, of which he is president. 3. Edward J., also an uplician 
 in the Park building, and a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Washnigtou 
 Club. 4. Michael A., of whom further. $. Nellie F., resides at home. 6. Mary A., 
 for many j'ears assistant principal at the Millbury street school. Those deceased 
 are: Bernard J., who was a callman in the City Fire Department for tvve:ny-fivc 
 years, died April 26, 1914; he is survived by his widow and three ciiildrcn, John, 
 Irene and Eleanor. John F., died April 26, 1908; he is survived by a widow anil 
 two children: Edward and Helen. Mrs., Ellen (Flynn) O'Rourke died in ^^4orceslcr, 
 December 27, 1909. 
 
 Michael A. O'Rourke attended the Cambridge street and Washington street 
 public schools of Worcester, also the Classical High School of that city, where he 
 was a student for three years. He then entered the employ of Thomas H. Hall, 
 Xo. 82 Front street, dealer in men's furnishings, with whom he remained for eight 
 years. The following two years he served as clerk for Finn & Kelley, Iiatters, in 
 Boston: the following fifteen years he was a salesman in the store of F. J. Char- 
 bonneau, of Worcester: and the following five years was a salesman in the clothing 
 store of Besse-Bryant Company, of Worcester. On October 6. 1914, the firm of 
 Curran & O'Rourke engaged in business at No. 6 Front street, Worcester, and have 
 enjoyed an excellent trade from the beginning, owing largely to the wide acquaintance 
 and extended experience of Mr. O'Ri^urke in all lines of men's furnishings. It is 
 known as the "Toggery Shop," and there the latest and smartest in men's hats and 
 up-to-date haberdashery may be found. 
 
 Mr. O'Rourke is one of the best known men among those interested in baseball 
 in this section, baseball having always been his chief recreation. As a boy he was 
 for nine years catcher of an amateur baseball club in Worcester ; for a period of 
 five years he was umpire for the Holy Cross team ; for three years was local umpire 
 for the Eastern League, and he umpired the historic game between the local club 
 and Pittsburgh, won by tlie Worcester nine. He is a charter and fourth degree 
 member of the Knights of Columbus, a charter member of Alhambra Council of 
 that order; member of Worcester Lodge, No. 243, Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks, in which he holds ofiice, and a member of the Washington Club. He is a 
 communicant of the Church of the Sacred Heart (Catholic). 
 
 Mr. O'Rourke married, in Worcester, June 19, 1900, Elizabeth B. Mullins, a 
 native of Worcester, who died March 14, 1907. She was a daughter of Patrick 
 Mullins, who for half a century was a leading merchant and large real estate owner 
 of Worcester. 
 
 CHARLES A. HILL, Manufacturer, was born June 17. 1834. in Maiden, Massa- 
 chusetts, son of Benjamin G. and Martha Mirick (Teal) Hill, and died at his home, 
 ^o. 39 Queen street, this city, January 20, 1908. 
 
 He secured a good education, and spent the earlier years of his business life 
 as a bookkeeper, coming to Worcester in 1861, entering the employ of the late 
 Jerome Marble, with whom he was associated first as bookkeeper and later as part- 
 ner. They continued as partners until 1870, when Mr. Hill with H. M. Hedden 
 organized the Phenix Plate Company, for the manufacture of ferrotype plates and 
 japanning supplies, with a factory on Park avenue. This partnership continued 
 successfully for a period of eighteen years, when, in 1888, Mr. Hedden retired from 
 the business. Mr. Hill then re-organized as a corporation the Pheni.x Plate Com- 
 pany, of which he was elected treasurer, a position he continued to hold until his 
 death, at the age of seventy-four years. The new company took over the old plant, 
 and as the years passed it was enlarged as the business broadened and prospered 
 under the able management of Mr. Hill. Although he was deeply engrossed in the 
 care and development of the business which he had founded, Mr. Hill had various 
 other interests, and served the Mechanics' National Bank as director, and the 
 Mechanics' Savings Bank as trustee for a number of years. 
 
 Mr. Hill was a Mason oj high rank, having attained the thirty-second degree 
 in that organization, holding membership in the various bodies including Boston 
 Commandery, and the Massachusetts Consistory. He was a member of the Com- 
 monwealth Club of Worcester, and a constant attendant of the Piedmont Congre- 
 gational Church. Possessed of an afTable and genial nature, he commanded the 
 esteem of a large circle of staunch friends, and no man was more truly appreciated 
 by those who were in a position to know how great was his worth and how untiring 
 his energy, for none could be more loyal to the trusts imposed upon him. Mr. Hill 
 was a seif-made man in all that the word implies, and his career again points the 
 way to honor and success. 
 
5o8 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Hill was married November 17, 1868, to Emily J. Aldrich, who was born 
 in Willington, Connecticut, daugliter of Hosea and Mary (Chard) Aldrich. To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hill were born three children, namely : i. A daughter, who died in infancy. 
 2. Charles G., who died in infancy. 3. Charles G., born August i, 1881, in Wor- 
 cester; he was educated in the public schools and the Classical High School of his 
 native city, graduating from Harvard College with the class of 1905 ; after leaving 
 college he became associated with his father in business, and since the death of the 
 latter has succeeded him as treasurer of the Phenix Plate Company ; he is also a 
 member of the Masonic bodies ; he married Lena M. Bowker, daughter of Charles 
 W. Bowker, of this city, and they have one son, Charles Augustus, born June 12, 
 1917. Mrs. Hill survives her husband, and resides at the homestead. 
 
 ELLERY BICKNELL CRANE, Former state senator, for many years librarian 
 of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, was born in Colebrook, Coos county, New 
 Hampshire, November 12. 1836. son uf Robert Prudden and Almira P. (Bicknell) Crane. 
 His parents removed to Beloit, Wisconsin, when he was an infant, and he at- 
 tended public and private schools there, the Beloit Academy, the preparatory depart- 
 ment of Beloit College, and then pursued a course at a commercial school. He 
 began his business career as bookkeeper in the office of a lumber and grain merchant 
 in Beloit. In i860 he went to California by the overland route, with private teams, 
 starting on May 4 and reaching Sacramento October 12, after a trip made interesting 
 and exciting by the hostility of the Indians at that time. He remained in California 
 and Oregon until the winter of 1862, returning East by way of the Isthmus of 
 Panama. He secured a position as bookkeeper in Boston in a wholesale and retail 
 lumber concern and remained for four years. 
 
 He came to Worcester in 1867 and started in business on his own account in 
 the lumber trade with a yard and office on Madison street, near Southbridge, in 
 partnership with Jonathan C. French, but within three months he bought the interests 
 of his partner, and during most of the succeeding thirty-four years conducted the 
 business under his own name as sole proprietor. His stock and buildings were 
 destroyed by fire, July 8, 1900, and as a change in the building laws prevented the 
 erection of wooden buildings on this location, he decided to retire. Since then he 
 has devoted his time to historical and genealogical work. He was one of the early 
 members of the Society of Antiquity and for many years its president, also its 
 librarian. (See Society of Antiquity). Through his personal efforts large acces- 
 sions have been made to the library. He was the supervising editor of the great 
 four-volume work entitled "Historic Homes 'and Institutions and Genealogical and 
 Personal Memoirs of Worcester County" (1906). He is the author of "The Rawson 
 Family Memorial" and "The Crane Family Genealogy" (two volumes). He has 
 written a large number of historical papers published in the proceedings of the 
 Society of Antiquity. He is one of the advisory board of this work. He has been 
 one of the board of editors of various genealogical and historical works of the Lewis 
 Historical Company. 
 
 For many years Mr. Crane was prominent in the Republican party and municipal 
 affairs. He has served in the Common Council and Board of Aldermen; as repre- 
 sentative in the General Court two terms and state senator two terms. In the House 
 he was a member of the committee on constitutional amendments and election laws, 
 and in the Senate a member of the committees on election laws, street railways 
 and taxation, the latter of which he was chairman, and he was also chairman 
 of the committee on parishes and religious societies. He was for several years a 
 director of the Worcester Board of Trade; for three years president of the Builders 
 Exchange ; for several years president of the Sons and Daughters of New Hamp- 
 shire ; president of the Worcester County Mechanics Association in 1890 and 1891, 
 and for many years a trustee of the Worcester County Institution for Savings. 
 
 Mr. Crane married, in 1859. Salona A. Rawson, daughter of George and Lois 
 (Aldrich) Rawson, a descendant of Edward Rawson, secretary of the Massachusetts 
 Bay Colony. They had one son, Morton Rawson Crane. Mrs. Crane died April 4, 
 1900, of heart failure following an attack of the grip. 
 
 Robert Prudden Crane, father of EUery B. Crane, was born in Colebrook, April 
 17, 1807, died in Florida, November 3, 1882; active in the settlement of Beloit, 
 Wisconsin, 1836-37; married Almira P. Bicknell, daughter of Captain John W. and 
 Keziah (Paine) Bicknell. She died in Beloit, January 6, 1854. 
 
 Eleazer Crane, father of Robert P. Crane, was born December 28, 1773, died at 
 Beloit, June 14, 1839; married, December 9, 1798, Anna Prudden, daughter of Fletcher 
 and Sarah (Treat) Prudden. He settled at Colebrook, New Hampshire, and built 
 a saw mill there; removed to Beloit in 1836. 
 
 The Crane line of ancestry is: Ellery B. (7), Robert P. (6), Eleazer (s'>. 
 
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 Robert G. (4), Silas (3), Henry (2), Henry (i). The Pioneer, Henry Crane, was 
 born in England, settled with his brother Benjamin in Wcthersfield, Gonnecticut, 
 where they engaged in tanning. Henry Crane removed to Guilford before lOfio, and 
 later to Killingworth in what is now Clinton. Connecticut. He was the school- 
 master and captain of the train band. Henry (2) Crane was one of the founders of 
 Durham, Connecticut; deacon of the church: captain: deputy of tlie General Assem- 
 bly. Silas Crane served in the French and Indian War, and was prominent in town 
 and church. 
 
 SETH RICHARDS, Singer, musical director, leader in musical organizations, 
 merchant, was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, November 21, 1829, died 
 here, September 22, 1905. son of Luther and Jane Richards. He came to this city 
 in 1854 and shortly afterward entered the employ of S. R. Leland & Company, 
 dealers in music and musical instruments, .\fterward he was junior partner in the 
 firm of Fay & Richards in the same line of business and senior partner of the suc- 
 ceeding firm, Richards & Metcalf. Mr. Richards withdrew from the firm when ap- 
 pointed director of music in the public schools, a position he filled for twenty-five 
 years. His work was that of a pioneer in many ways, and his success brought him 
 into national prominence. After he resigned as director of music in 1902, he re- 
 sumed business under the firm name of S. Richards & Company in partnership with 
 Harvey E. King. His place of business was at No. 571 Main street. He continued 
 in this business to the end of his life. 
 
 He was prominent in musical organizations all his life. For twenty-one years 
 he was director of music of the Church of the Unity and afterward of Piedmont 
 Congregational Church. In the early days he was secretary of the Mozart Society, 
 later of the Choral Union, and to the time of his death active and prominent in the 
 Worcester Musical Festivals and an honorary member of the Worcester Coimty 
 Musical Association. There was perhaps no man in Worcester better known nor 
 better loved by the school children than was Mr. Richards. Every year, just before 
 Memorial Day, he taught them to sing patriotic airs. To him it was a labor of love; 
 to them it was obedience to a man whom they loved for his treatment of them. 
 Genial, whole-souled, fearless, he was a close student of human nature as he was 
 of music. He gave the best years of his life to teaching music, and was rewarded 
 with the confidence of every pupil and of these he had thousands. In the days of 
 the stage coach, Mr. Richards conducted singing schools all over Worcester county. 
 These he visited once or twice a week and his coming was an event in the history 
 of the town. He was always welcomed by a large gathering, and many of his pupils 
 in the days of old are now among the best vocalists and instrumentalists in Central 
 Massachusetts. In fact, there was hardly a better-known musical man in Central 
 Massachusetts than Mr. Richards. During the days in Worcester when the Schu- 
 mann Club was in existence, the male quartette connected with it was noted far 
 and wide. Mr. Richards was director of the organization. 
 
 In his funeral eulogy. Dr. Willard Scott said of Mr. Richards : It has been 
 said of Mr. Richards by one of Worcester's citizens that his was tlie finest tenor 
 voice that Worcester ever owned. When Piedmont church was built he cast his 
 fortunes with it and for twenty years served it and for fifteen years was director of 
 its music. His love for music was for the voice rather than instrumental, and he 
 was always in contact with voices and with the voices of many, thereby gaining 
 sociability. Those of you who have seen him before a chorus certainly never saw 
 anyone more transformed. . . . Day by day and year by year his contact with 
 young people, many under fifteen, before the crystaling age. fed his youth. It has 
 been said of him that he was the best-known man in Worcester. In face and 
 personal character he certainly was such. Children have not forgotten him and he 
 was known by thousands and tens of thousands. . . . He had his music in 
 trust for service and he was the most liberal of all givers of what he had, for surely, 
 for what he has done he was the least-favored and the least-rewarded and what he 
 had was for the enrichment of others. The lover not only of music but of song 
 and of those who sang, and never did rivalry or greed embitter his life. 
 
 Mr. Richards married (first) Louise Todd, and (second) in East Douglass, 
 October 3, 1871, Harriet A. Hutchins. who was born in Hebron, Pennsylvania, June 
 15, 1844, daughter of Charles and Harriet Newell (Hunt) Hutchins, and sister of 
 Charles H. Hutchins and George F. Hutchins of this city (See biographies). In 
 recent years she has made her home at the country place of her brother, Charles 
 H. Hutchins, in Shrewsbury. By his first marriage Mr. Richards was the father of 
 two children: Frederick; and Cora Louise, who married George M. Basset (See 
 biography). 
 
 EDWIN H. HILL, Manufacturer and inventor, was born in England, September 
 
510 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 3, 1834, and died in this city. November 4, 1916, aged eighty-two years. He was 
 the son of Richard Hill. The arms of the family is as follows : 
 
 Arms — Sable a fess argent between three leopards passant or, spotted sable. The 
 fess is charged with three escallops gules. 
 
 Supporters — Dexter a leopard gules, spotted or, ducally collared or. Sinister, a 
 stag, azure, attired gules. 
 
 Crest — A stag's head and neck azure, attired gules, on a wreath, over a ducal 
 coronet. 
 
 Motto — Per Dciim et fcrnim obtiiiui. 
 
 The parents of Edwin H. Hill came to this country in 1840 \yhen he was but 
 six years of age, and he attended school in New York City until he was fifteen 
 years of age, when he came to this city and entered the employ of Washburn & 
 Moen, wire manufacturers, as office boy. He proved himself unusually bright, and 
 from office boy worked his way to better positions, and as the years added experience 
 to his natural ability he became very valuable to the firm. He finally became foreman 
 or manager of the barbed wire department of the works and so continued until his 
 retirement from active business in 1885. Mr. Hill possessed marked inventive genius, 
 and during his long career with Washburn & Moen developed and patented several 
 inventions which have proven valuable to the barbed wire manufacturers, and which 
 are now in universal use in that industry. 
 
 Mr. Hill was a valued and honored member of the Masonic fraternity, having 
 attained the thirty-second degree in that organization, holding membership in 
 Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons : Eureka Chapter. Royal Arch 
 Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, 
 Knights Templar; and the Massachusetts Consistory, (thirty-second degree). He 
 was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a charter 
 inember of the Plymouth Congregational Church, a member and generous friend of 
 the Young Men's Christian Association and all good and worthy causes. Possessed 
 of a charitable and hospitable nature, he was kindly and friendly in disposition, 
 a man of strong and upright character, and a lover of his home and its surround- 
 ings. 
 
 In June, 1865, Mr. Hill was united in marriage to Mary Ellen Whitcomb, daugh- 
 ter of Joseph and Sally (Whitcomb) Whitcomb, of Swansea, New Hampshire, who 
 survives him, and resides at No. 12 Channing street, this city. In 1884, Mr. Hill, 
 accompanied by his wife, made his first visit to California, and after retiring from 
 active business cares made seven trips across the Continent, also going northward 
 to Tacoma, Seattle and British Columbia cities. Mr. and Mrs. Hill passed a happy 
 wedded life of over fifty-one years, which was only broken by the death of Mr. Hill. 
 
 S. ALPHONSE DAUDELIN, M. D., B. M., a graduate ciiin sumiiia hude in 
 medicine and surgery of Laval University, Montreal, Canada, and holder of grad- 
 uate diplomas awarded by medical institutions of France. Germany and ."\ustria, 
 was born February 13, 1870, at Sutton, Province of Quebec, Canada, son of Casimir 
 and Flavie Daudelin. nee Thibault, both belonging to some of the oldest and most- 
 respected French-Canadian families. For thirty-six years his father held a re- 
 sponsible office under the Federal Government of the Dominion of Canada. Dr. 
 Daudelin is one of a family of sixteen children, all of whom have attained to emi- 
 nence -in professional and business life. 
 
 Dr. Daudelin received a sound educational training, fitting him for a successful 
 business and professional career. His boyhood and youth were spent in Montreal, 
 where he pursued primary, preparatory and academic courses. He also took a 
 special business course at Montreal Business College, and afterwards entered Laval 
 University and was graduated therefrom with the degrees of M. D.. B. M. in 1895. 
 Through all these years of student life his school, academic and university attain- 
 ments were of the highest. He was a popular leader in fraternal circles, and was 
 even then acknowledged to be an artist, author and public speaker of merit. Im- 
 mediately upon his graduation. Dr. Daudelin established a successful practise within 
 an area covering a considerable part of Northern Maine. In spite of great efforts 
 on the part of his fellow-citizens of Maine to retain him in their midst, he decided 
 to accept the broader opportunities offered at Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1898 
 opened an office in the latter city and acquired a reputation for professional skill 
 which soon extended over Southern New England, At Worcester, his activities 
 have been numerous and varied from the beginning. Not only has he practised his 
 profession, but he has made his influence felt in various fields of civic, patriotic 
 and educational endeavor, in local and national politics and in international 
 diplomacy. 
 
 His ability as a public speaker brought him to the attention of the people, and 
 
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 both State and National Republican committees have for years called iiii. .n him to 
 address important gatherings in many part of the United States. Civic bodies, 
 patriotic organizations and educational institutions likewise lay claim cnnunually 
 to his services for the purpose of voicing ideas and ideals requiring compcient and 
 forceful expression. By the year 1907 Dr. Daudelin had become a national figure. 
 It was then tliat the late Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, 
 appointed him high commissioner and plenipotentiary of the United States to I-'rance 
 on a special mission. He was engaged in the performance of Iiis studies as a liigh 
 commissioner and plenipotentiary of the United States for a period of si.x months, 
 and he carried the tasks of his mission to such a successful issue that the Govern- 
 ment of the French Republic itself placed upon his services the seal of its official 
 recognition by bestowing upon Dr. Daudelin the decoration of the Cross of the 
 Legion of Honor. Upon the completion of his official mission. Dr. Daudelin re- 
 mained in Europe and devoted his efforts to post-graduate, research and hospital 
 work. He pursued these professional studies for four years before returning to 
 the United States. During these years he specialized in branches of the medical 
 profession relating to the eye, ear, nose and throat. His work in Europe brought 
 him marked recognition and he was elected to membership in the leading European 
 Ophthalmological and. Oto-Rhino-Laryngological societies. He was for the greater 
 part of this period assistant to Professor de Lapersonne, of Paris, and Professor 
 Fuchs, of \'ienna. 
 
 Upon his return from Europe, he resumed the practise of his prnfes-.i(in at Wor- 
 cester, where his ability as a specialist was soon recognized and led him to rapid 
 advancement in the ever-widening field of his activities. Dr. Daudelin is a mem- 
 ber of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the 
 Worcester District Medical Society, etc. He has been a medical examiner in the 
 schools of Worcester, a member of the W'orcester Reiniblican city committee, and 
 an officer in many civic, religious and fraternal organizations. Dr. Daudelin is a 
 member of the Roman Catholic church, a linguist, a scholar, an earnest worker in 
 all fields of human endeavor, and a citizen respected by the entire conununity in 
 which he lives. 
 
 JOHN FRANCIS TINSLEY, \'ice-president and general manager of the 
 Crompton & Knowlts Loom Works, was born in Hampton Junction, Hunterdon 
 coimty. New Jersey. July 4. 1880. son of Robert and Elizabeth (Ahern) Tinsley. 
 
 Air. Tinsiey received his early education in the public schools of his native 
 village, and prepared for college in the Battin High School of Elizabeth, graduating 
 in 1896. He entered Rutgers College, from which he was graduated in rgoo with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1904 he received the degree of Master of 
 Science from that institution. At graduation he took first scientific honors. From 
 1900 to 1902 he was foreman of the switchboard cable deiiartment of the Western 
 Electric Company in New York City ; in 1902-03 he was in the engineering depart- 
 ment of the United Electric Company at Newark, New Jersey. He resigned to 
 become assistant electrical engineer in the Signal Corps of the United States Army, 
 and remained in the service until the fall of 1905. He was stationed in New York 
 City, San Francisco, Seattle and elsewhere during his service. During the years 
 1905-06 he was an electrical engineer for the American Steel & Wire Company in 
 the plant at Worcester ; from 1906 to 1909 he was assistant to Clinton S. Marshall, 
 district manager: from 1909 to 191 1 he was superintendent of the Electrical Cable 
 Works of the American Steel & Wire Company, and from 1911 to June, 1916, super- 
 intendent of the South Works and Specialty Works of the company in Worcester. 
 In 1916 he was assistant general superintendent of Crompton & Knowles Loom 
 Works. He was made general manager at the annual meeting in 1917, and vice- 
 president at the annual meeting in 1918. Mr. Tinsley was selected for his present 
 position on account of his exceptional executive ability, his energy and force of 
 character, as well as his thorough technical training and varied experience in manu- 
 facturing. In every position filled by Mr. Tinsley in the past he has shown a re- 
 markable fertility in ideas, success in securing el'flciency. and an appitude for secur- 
 ing system. 
 
 He is a member of the Chi Phi and Phi Beta Kappa college fraternities; the 
 Worcester Club ; the Worcester Country Club ; Worcester Chamber of Commerce ; 
 the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ; the American Society for Testing 
 Materials ; the American Iron and Steel Institute. He holds ihe rank of major of 
 ordnance in the Reserve Corps of the United States Army. From time to time Mr. 
 Tinsley has contributed articles to various magazines. At the meeting of the Iron 
 & Steel Institute in New York City, in 1914. he read a paper entitled "Practical 
 Importance of Heat Treatments in the Steel \\'ire Industry." In an article entitled 
 
HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 "Under the Sea to Alaska" in the Sunset Magazine, he described the new Govern- 
 ment cable svstem. with which he was connected 
 
 Mr. Tinsley married. November 26, 1910, Helen Munroe. daughter of _John 
 Perley Munroe. Her father was formerly an editor of the Worcester "Spy," and 
 State' Senator for a number of years, they have one child, Mary Munroe, born 
 February 2, 1914. Their hcmie is at No. 8 Montvale road. 
 
 JOSEPH EDGAR DICKSON, Manufacturer, merchant, credit manager of the 
 Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 
 June II, 1841, died in this city, January 8, 1916, son of Oliver and Sarah C. (Mitchell) 
 Dickson. 
 
 He attended the public schools of Charlestown and Somerville. and fitted for 
 college in the high schools of those towns. He was a student in Amherst College 
 from 1859 to i86i, and then for a year taught in the public schools of Newport, 
 Rhode Island. He was professor of Ethics and English Literature at the United Stales 
 Naval Academy at Newport. Rhode Island. 1862 to 1865. and at Annapolis, Mary- 
 land, 1865 to 1872. He was also engaged in practice as a patent attorney in An- 
 napolis in 1870 and 1871. From 1872 to 1873 lie was superintendent and chemist 
 of the Massachusetts Frear Artificial Stone Company of Worcester. In 1873 he 
 engaged in business on his own account as a dealer in books and stationery in this 
 city and continued for five years, under the firm name of Sanford & Dickson. He 
 became credit manager for the firm of Graton & Knight in 1882 and remained with 
 the firm and the Graton •& Knight Manufacturing Company (see its history) until 
 his death. He was an expert in his line of work and highly valued by the concern 
 which he served faithfully for a period of thirty-three years. Amherst College gave 
 him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1865. In politics he was a Republican. In 
 religion he was a Congregationalist, and was deacon of the Pilgrim Congregational 
 Church for several years. He was the author of "Treatise upon the Manufacture of 
 Artificial Stone and Concrete." Throughout his life he made a study of minerals, 
 in which he was an authority, and he made a very large and ■ valuable collection, 
 most of which was presented to Amherst College by Mrs. Dickson since his death. 
 
 Mr. Dickson married, October 26. 1862. Ellen A. Rice, born in West Roylston. 
 Massachusetts, daughter of Asa and Catharine (Davis) Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Dick- 
 son's married life lasted over fifty years. They had no children. Mrs. Dickson is 
 a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, progenitor of the first settler in Worcester 
 (see Early Settlers). Her home is at No. 138 Woodland street, in this city, 
 
 WARD PARKER DELANO. 3rd, Architect, partner in the firm of Fuller 
 & Delano, was horn in this city in 1883, son of Ward Parker Delano (see biogra- 
 phy). He attended the public schools here: the Tabor Academy at Marion, Massa- 
 chusetts, graduating in igoi, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. 
 S. 1905). From 1905 to 1908 was employed in various architects' offices in Boston 
 and New York, and since then he has been with the firm of Fuller & Delano, and 
 a partner since 1915. The offices are at No. 44 Front street. Mr. Delano is a 
 member of the Worcester .Automobile Club; the Worcester Tennis Club and the 
 Worcester Economic Club. Mr. Delano resides at No. 66 Pleasant street. 
 
 Ward Parker Delano 2nd, father of Ward Parker Delano 3rd, was born in 
 Marion, Massachusetts, in 1851. He was educated in the public schools, and went 
 South for a northern coal and iron industry during the reconstruction period fol- 
 lowing the Civil War. Returning North he engaged in the building business, being 
 employed by builders and architects in Boston and Worcester for several years. 
 With James E. Fuller he was one of the original partners in the firm of Fuller & 
 Delano Company, architects, and continued in this connection the remainder of his 
 life, during which the firm designed many important business buildings, institutions 
 and residences in this city and elsewhere. Mr. Delano was a member of various 
 clubs and societies, and Iiad a wide acquaintance in Worcester. He died in 1915. 
 
 In 1881 he married Elizabeth Holmes Sparrow, of Mattapoisett. Massachusetts, 
 and they had five children: Ward Parker, mentioned above: Frank S., died in in- 
 fancy: Frank S.. a dentist in New York Citv. married Caroline R. Flynn : Gertrude 
 H.. married James F. Leslie, of the Fore River Ship Building Company: Elizabeth 
 LeB.. died aged four years. 
 
 The Delanos are of Pilgrim stock. Philip Delano, the immigrant ancestor. 
 The ancestry has been traced in France for more than a thousand years. The name 
 is derived from the town of Lannoy. near Lille. In various lines the ancestry is 
 traced to the French royal families. Philip Delano was a French Huguenot, born 
 in Leyden, Holland. 1602, but was reared in the Puritan faith ; came to Plymouth 
 in the ship "Fortune" in 1621. The family has an authentic coat-of-arms. In various 
 other lines Mr. Delano is descended from pioneer stock, both Pilgrim and Puritan. 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 FRANK A. KRIM, Ccncral manager and vicc-prt-siili-nt ui tli< Denliolni & 
 McKay Company, was born in Boston, October 26, i8()8. son 'li I'rederick and 
 Margaret (Freese) Krim. Frederick Krim, a native of Alsace, dud m Bi.vton in 
 1892, aged fifty-seven years: a caliinetniaker, in business in Hi.sion ior inaii> years. 
 Margaret (Freese) Krim, a native of France, died in i'.dstim, Marcli, njM. ;>gt-d 
 seventy- four years. 
 
 Frank .A.. Krim received his education in the public schools of his native city, 
 attending the evening schools for four years after he began to be a wage-earner. 
 He entered upon his business career in 1882, when he was fourteen years old, as 
 a clerk in the store of the Cary-Fulton Company, on Summer street, Boston, and 
 for five years was in the employ of this concern. During the next five years he 
 was a salesman for the Metropolitan Rubber Company of Bostim. His next position 
 was as buyer for William Filene Sons of Boston. Here he was successively buyer 
 for ten of the most important departments of the great Filene store, such as the 
 women's wearing apparel, misses and children's wearing apparel departments, etc. 
 ■Then for two years and a half he was associate merchandise manager of the store, 
 making eleven years altogether with this house. He resigned to become merchan- 
 dise manager of the department store of Stix, Baer & Fuller, of St. Louis, Missouri, 
 and continued in this position for four years. Returning to Boston, he was general 
 merchandise manager of the E. T. Slattery Company, dealers in women's, misses 
 and children's apparel, Tremont street, until he resigned in January, 1917, to come 
 to the Boston Store in this city. 
 
 Mr. Krim was elected a director of the Denholm & McKay Company, May 29, 
 1917. At the time of the reorganization of the company, April 12, 1918, Mr. Krim 
 was elected general manager and vice-president of the company. President ^^■llite's 
 duties are confined chiefly to the financial affairs of the corporation, leaving Mr. 
 Krim to the management of the store and the merchandising, in whicli he has had 
 such extensive experience. Mr. Krim is a member of the Worcester Country Club, 
 the Worcester Rotary Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Mr. Krim married, in Boston, November 18. 1896. Ida Belle Wood, who was 
 born in Boston, daughter of John E. and Katharine Wood. Her father was for 
 fifty-three years sales manager of the New England Dressed Beef and Wool Com- 
 pany. Mr. and Mrs. Krim have three children : i. Charles Frederick, born .August 
 23, 1897 ; educated in the public schools and Phillips Academy, Andover ; buyer of 
 the women's ready-to-wear department of the Boston Store ; now in the service. 
 2. Claire Gertrude, btirn April 19, 1899; graduate of the Manhattanville Academy, 
 1917. 3. Elizabeth Wood, born September 30, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Krim reside 
 at No. 4 Newton avenue. 
 
 HANNIBAL HAMLIN HOUGHTON, Inventor and manufacturer, was born 
 in North Paris, Maine. April 5. 1827, died in this city. September 21, 1898, son of 
 Richard W, Houghti>n. Needless to say, he was named for a vice-president of the 
 United States, Hannibal Hamlin, who was attorney for Richard W. Houghton in a 
 vexatious suit at law and won the case. 
 
 The family moved to Steep Falls, Nurway, Maine, when Hannibal H. was 
 four years old, and his father built a factory there and engaged in the manufacture 
 of firearms. By the time the son was fifteen he had made a gun complete in every 
 detail. He had a common school education, but preferred the work in his father's 
 factory and the experiments that he began as a boy to the school room. When 
 he was sixteen he worked in Boston for a short time, putting in place the iron 
 sash, doors and shutters on the new Custom House. Upon returning to his home, 
 he bought his time of his father for $220 and came to this city, January 11, 1846, 
 finding employment in the shop of I. S. Chapman in the old Court Mills. The 
 business of Mr. Chapman was bought, April i, 1846, by A. & S. Thayer and Mr. 
 Houghton worked for this firm for several years, developing inventions and per- 
 fecting machinery. He went to the shop of 'Ooddard, Rice & Company to perfect 
 a crude sewing machine for the market. There he devised the rough-surface feed 
 for the sewing machine, a device that made the machine practical, and for the com- 
 pleted machine he was awarded a silver medal at the Worcester Countv Mechanics As- 
 sociation Fair in the fall. At this point his employers were threatened with a law- 
 suit by Elias Howe and they left the field, but a year later Singer applied Hough- 
 ton's rough-surface feed to liis machine, defying Howe and ignoring Houghton's 
 rights. Dr. Russell L. Hawes, who had employed Houghton to perfect the sewing 
 machine, gave him the plans for the envelope machine, and Houghton built the 
 mechanism on the fourth floor of the shop of Goddard, Rice & Company on Union 
 Street, opposite the fire department headquarters. A third invention of Dr. Hawes, 
 
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HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Derfected bv Houghton, was a machine for maknig paper bags. Mr Houghton the 
 e^ea-ed in business as a partner in the firm of A & S. /hayer at the t,me Sewall 
 T^faN^er retired. Thanks to the financial aid ot saac L. W adle.gh, then a loco- 
 mobile enginee;, Mr. Houghton took his share in the new hrm ot 1 haver Houghton 
 & Companv E C. Cleveland was the third member of this firm, which was en- 
 gaged in manufacturing machinists' tools. After an auspicious beginning, the firm 
 met wi h Ttotal loss of its property in the Merriheld fire, June 14. 1854. Business 
 was Resumed at once in a new location. In .857 Mr Cleveland retired from the 
 Irm During the Civil War the business was sold |o the Stover Machme Company. 
 latTr known as the New York Steam Engine Company. Mr. Houghton retired from 
 active^buMness^^^^ was one of the founders of the Worcester Safe Deposit & Trust 
 Company (now the Worcester Bank & Trust Company). He served four years in 
 the Board of Aldermen. He was for many years a director of the Worcester Saie 
 Deposit & Trust Company, the Protective Union and the Worcester County Me- 
 chanics Association. He invested in real estate in the city, and among other build- 
 ings that he erected was "The Evans," an apartment house, at the corner ot Main 
 and Hamilton streets. , ,, . r~, -j 1 u u 
 
 Mr Houghton married (first) Mary Harrington Flagg. a widow, by vvhom he 
 had one son, Charles Evans, born July 23, 1855, who died August 29, 1866. He 
 married (second) Anstis Houghton, daughter of Samuel H. Houghton, of this city. 
 She was born .August 5, 1835, and died June 9, 1907, without issue. 
 
 RICHARD HENRY MOONEY. The Mooney family, represented in the pres- 
 ent generation in Worcester by Richard Henry Mooney. A. M.. and John Francis 
 Henry Mooney, was founded in this country by Richard Mooney, farmer, who come 
 from' Carrick-Beg. (bounty of Waterford, Ireland, in 1840, and settled in Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts. He was accompanied by his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. 
 and Mrs. John Blade, and his two sons, Richard and Nicholas, his wife. Nancy 
 (Hagerty) Mooney. having died in Ireland. Richard Mooney. accompanied by Mr. 
 and Mrs. John Blade, went to Wisconsin, where he engaged in farming, and sub- 
 sequently became the owner of one of the largest and most productive farms in 
 his region, which he cultivated and improved, and upon which he resided to the 
 time of his death at the age of eighty-eight years. Nicholas Mooney, mentioned 
 above, died in Worcester, June 12, 1848, being the first person buried in St. John's 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Richard (2) Mooney, son of Richard (i) and Nancy (Hagerty) Mooney, was 
 born in Carrick-Beg, Ireland, and came to Worcester, Massachusetts, with his 
 father while still a young man. He was a builder and contractor, learning his 
 trade in Ireland, where he served an apprenticeship of seven years. He was for 
 one year a student in Trinity College, where he was fitted as a practical surveyor 
 and architect. He was continuously engaged in his business up to the time of 
 his death, February 16, i860, and built a large number of houses in Worcester. 
 His home on Irving street was a center of information for the Irish people, and 
 he not only received letters from Ireland, but often wrote their replies. Richard 
 Mooney was married, in 1845, at St. John's Church, in Worcester, by Rev. Matthew 
 W. Gibson, to Margaret Doyle, of County Waterford, Ireland. Their children are: 
 I. Julia A., who died May 9, 1885 ; married James H. Mellen, a distinguished labor 
 leader and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for twenty-five 
 years. 2. Nicholas Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Annie Statia, who died September 
 24, 1874. 4. Richard Henry, mentioned below. 5. John Francis Henry, mentioned 
 below. 6. Margaret Elizabeth, married John J. Foley, who was for many years 
 organist of St. Anne's Church, Worcester. Margaret (Doyle) Mooney, widow of 
 Richard Mooney, died at her home, No. 75 Madison street, Worcester, December 
 19, 1905, aged eighty years. At the time of her death, she was the oldest Irish 
 Catholic in Worcester in point of residence, coming here in 1840 at the age of 
 fifteen years. The funeral services were conducted at St. Paul's Church, of which 
 she was a benefactress. She was present at the laying of the cornerstone of the 
 College of the Holy Cross, in 1843, and was one of the original members of St. 
 John's parish, being present at the exercises of the laying of the cornerstone of that 
 church in 1846. 
 
 Nicholas Joseph Mooney, son of Richard and Margaret (Doyle) Mooney, was 
 born in Worcester, October 10, 1848. He attended the public schools of this city, 
 and after completing his studies worked as a carpenter, machinist and boot crimper. 
 In 1877 he was appointed a member of the police force of Worcester by Hon. Charles 
 B. Pratt, mayor of the city. After a service of fifteen years on the police force, 
 he resigned to engage in the fire insurance business as general local manager of 
 
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 the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New \ork, and as agent for the Reliance 
 of Philadelphia; Commercial Union of New York; American Insurance Company 
 of Boston- the Worcester Mutual and the Merchants & Farmers of Worcester. 
 He was one of the original incorporators of the Bay State Savings Bank. lie was 
 a member of the Common Council for two terms, always serving on the committee 
 
 on finance. ,^. ^ ■ ■ ■ o if »t 
 
 During the famous strike of the Knights of Saint Crispin, in 1870. Mr. Mooney 
 was secretary of the organization, and was a prominent factor m the management 
 and direction of the affairs during that troublous time. He was a member of the 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians, and of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence and 
 Mutual Benefit Society, of which he was president five consecutive terms, and was 
 serving in that office' when the society presented a testimonial to the late Hon. 
 George Frisbie Hoar, United States Senator from Massachusetts, in recognition 
 of his public services, and was selected to make the presentation speech. Mr. 
 Moonev was married, in 1885, and died in 1912. 
 
 Richard Henry Mooney, A. B., A. M., scholar, orator, author and schoolmaster, 
 son of Richard and Margaret (Doyle) Mooney, was born in Worcester and has 
 always lived here. He attended the public schools of his native city, and entered 
 the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, from which he was graduated, in the 
 class of 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During his college course he 
 took a very high rank in his class, gaining prizes for excellence in English com- 
 position, elocution, mathematics, the classics and physics. He entered the Grand 
 Seminary of Montreal. Canada, where he took a post-graduate course in moral and 
 dogmatic theology; sacred scripture and history of sacred writings; literature; 
 ancient, mediaeval and modern history ; history of education ; psychology and phil- 
 osophy. He then became a special student in the State Normal School in Wor- 
 cester, under the direction and supervision of Professor E. Harlow Russell, prin- 
 cipal of the school, a recognized authority in pedagogy and child study. In June, 
 1881, he received his diploma from the State Normal School, and his degree of 
 Master of .^rts from his alma mater. 
 
 In September, 1881. he began his work of teaching in the .\danis square school, 
 Worcester, then an ungraded evening school, where he taught everything from the 
 alphabet through to algebra. In September, 1882, he was appointed by the scliool 
 committee principal of the Quinsigamond school, where he remained until 1910, 
 when he was transferred to the largest elementary school in Worcester, the Lamar- 
 tine street school, of which he is now principal. The graduates of the school over 
 which Mr. Mooney has presided are now engaged in the various active pursuits 
 of life, in shop, office, store, school, in the army and navy, in public service and in 
 various departments of the city and county, in the legislative department of the 
 State government, and in the civil service of the United States government. He 
 does not leave them on the threshold of the school room, but meets them out in the 
 world in the various walks of business, professional and social life, and cheers and 
 helps them on their undertakings by counsel and direction. In his career as a 
 teacher he has manifested diligence, industry, executive ability of a very high order, 
 decision, energy, and a careful preparation of every detail in school organization, 
 management, discipline and teaching. In school economy, methods of culture, his- 
 tory of education, psychology, in all that goes to make a thorough and complete 
 master of pedagogy, and in the science and art of teaching, he holds high rank. 
 Many of the methods and devices now put forward as new were original in all the 
 schools under Mr. Mooney 's charge for many years. Especially is this so in regard 
 to promotions, individual work with pupils, open-window rooms for delicate chil- 
 dren, small classes, classes for non-English speaking pupils, and adult classes for 
 foreigners, continuous and generous use of the blackboards by pupils and teachers, 
 teachers' meetings at their own buildings, and principles of teaching citizenship. 
 In patriotic, physical and military education, Mr. Mooney's pupils always excelled. 
 Mr. Mooney's collateral work has been along the lines of educational thought, 
 activity, and philanthrophy. He has organized many societies which he foresaw 
 would do much good. In 1887 he was elected secretary of the Alumni Association 
 of the College of the Holy Cross, his alma mater, and served in that office for 
 twenty-five years, laying the foundation for its future growth. He organized many 
 temperance societies throughout Worcester county, the Quinsigamond Boys Club, 
 and^ the Quinsigamond Improvement Society, which has been instrumental in se- 
 curing many improvements in the southern section of Worcester. During the win- 
 ters of 1886-87-88-89-90, Mr. Mooney lectured before the pupils of the various eve- 
 ning schools on historical, scientific and other subjects. In 1895, while serving as 
 president of the Worcester County Teachers' Association, he presided over the 
 largest convention of that association ever held up to that time. 
 
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 He delivered the Mem<irial Day Address in St. John's Cemetery in 1887, and 
 on behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic and the citizens of the city in gen- 
 eral, was orator at the Soldiers' Monument on the Common on Memorial Day in 
 1895, delivering one of tlie most eloquent and patriotic addresses ever heard there. 
 In May, 1899, he spoke under the auspices of the Men's Union of Trinity Methodist 
 Episcopal Church on the Catholic Religion in a symposium on religion, in which 
 Hon. Rockwood Hoar spoke for the Unitarians and Hon. Henry L. Parker for 
 the Episcopalians. In 1895 Mr. Mooney was chairman of the committee which 
 organized the Schoolmasters' Club of Worcester County, of which Dr. C. Stanley 
 Hall, president of Clark University, was the first president. Mr. Mooney was presi- 
 dent of the club in 1899. • 
 
 Mr. Mooney is a life associate member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand 
 Army of the Republic, and always a welcome speaker at its gatherings. He was 
 a member of the committee of fifteen chosen at a meeting of citizens to arrange 
 for a reception and dinner in honor of Worcester soldiers who returned from the 
 Spanish War. In 1896 he was chairman of the committee which inaugurated the 
 first course of lectures for teachers ever given in Worcester. In September of the 
 same year, as editor and proprietor, he began the publication of the School Register, 
 a monthly, devoted to the interests of education. He was the first grand marshal 
 at the graduating exercises of the State Normal School at Worcester, and intro- 
 duced the custom ; he was superintendent of the Sunday school of the Sacred Heart 
 Church for ten years ; one of the organizers of the vacant-lots cultivation associa- 
 tion in igo8; was president of the Principals' Club of Worcester in 1915-16, and 
 is an incorporator of St. Vincent Hospital, House of Providence, Worcester. Mr. 
 Mooney has organized many social and literary societies in Worcester and Wor- 
 cester county, and has lectured extensively on patriotic and educational topics. 
 He is always a welcome speaker at home festivities, and is introduced as the "silver- 
 tongued orator." 
 
 Mr. Mooney has published several books as aids in the work of teaching. In 
 1891 he published "One Thousand Questions and Answers on United States History, 
 Civil Government, Literature and Finance;" also "One Hundred Questions and 
 Answers on Alcohol." In 1892 he published historical papers containing with notes 
 the "Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution 
 of the United States, Washington's Farewell Address, and At the Table of the 
 Presidents." In 1892. by a vote of the Worcester County Teachers' Association in 
 convention assembled, he prepared a classified list of books for supplementary read- 
 ing by grades for the public schools. In 1893 he published "Patriotic Prose and 
 Poetry." All of these books have had an extended circulation. He was chairman 
 of the committee in behalf of the Supervisors of Public Schools to prepare an 
 exhibit for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893. In 1904 he was 
 chairman of the committee on Exercises Commemorative of United States Senator 
 George F. Hoar. 
 
 In 1892, Mr. Mooney married Edith Genevieve Loring, of Westborough, Massa- 
 chusetts. The ceremony was performed by his college chum, Rev. John F. Redican, 
 at St. Luke's Catholic Church. Mrs. Mooney was graduated from the Westborough 
 High School, and from the State Norma! School at Worcester, and prior to her 
 marriage was a teacher in the Worcester public schools, as was her mother before 
 her. She comes from one of the old New England families, and one of her an- 
 cestors was president of Harvard College. She is a member of the Worcester 
 Woman's Club and was for two years chairman of the literary committee, and 
 vice-president of the club for one year. She is a member of the Equal Franchise 
 Club, and has often served as delegate to State conventions. She is interested in 
 all the social activities which the club promotes for the betterment of social con- 
 ditions. She has spoken on various topics in connection with club work in the city 
 and county. Their children are : Margaret Loring, graduate of Wellesley College ; 
 Richard Henry, Jr., lieutenant in the National Army; Miles and Edith Loring, 
 students in the high school. The family home is on Vernon street, in the southern 
 part of the city. Mr. Mooney is a member of no organizations nor societies other 
 than those connected with his profession of teaching. Everything is subordinated 
 with him to the great work of turning out good, intelligent and patriotic citizens. 
 
 John Francis Henry Mooney, A. B., son of Richard and Margaret (Doyle) 
 Mooney, was born in Worcester. After his graduation from the public schools, he 
 entered the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, where he was graduated in 1879 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He immediately took up journalism as re- 
 porter on the Worcester Times, going thence to the Worcester Evening Gazette, 
 with which he was connected for twenty years. He was also local correspondent 
 for the Boston Globe and many New York papers. He is now engaged in the in- 
 
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 surance business as agent. In 1884 he was elected a ineinl)er ui tlie I.o.nislature 
 from Ward Five, and served on the committee on education, which resxirted the 
 free te.xtbook bill, which was passed that year. He served si.x years as a nieiulier 
 of the Worcester Light Infantry, and retired with the rank of sergeant. He is a 
 member of the .^ncient Order of Hibernians; the Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks: Alhambra Council. Knights of Columbus. Mr. Mooncy is, in fact, one of 
 the best-known men in Worcester. 
 
 Richard Henry Mooney. Jr., Lieutenant, was Imrn in Worcester, June 12, 1806. 
 After a course in the public schools of his native city, he entered the College of 
 the Holy Cross, where he spent two years. He tlien entered the L'niversity of 
 Maine in order to take u|) military training, which is an important department in 
 that institution, being under the charge and direction of the .Secretary of War of 
 the United States. This course is in connection with the classical and literary 
 courses of the college, which Lieutenant Mooney also took. When Congress de- 
 clared that a state of war existed between the United States and (jermany. Lieu- 
 tenant Mooney, then in the junior class, immediately enrolled as a student in the 
 Plattsburg Reserve Officers' Training Camp, reporting there May 4, 1917, On August 
 15, 1917, he was commissioned as second lieutenant and reported for duty at Camp 
 Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts, August 24. He was selected among other officers at 
 Camp Devens, February 17, 1918, to go to Fort Ethan .Mien, Burlington, \'ermont, 
 to train cavalry, to be among the first of that branch of the service to go over to 
 General Pershing in France, .\fter some months the cavalry division was converted 
 into field artillery and soon after ordered to Camp Jackson. South Carolina, wdiere 
 it arrived November 1, 1918, in preparation to go "across." But the armistice came, 
 Noveiuber 11, 1918, and he asked to be relieved of liis command. He was hon- 
 orably discharged, December 10, 1918. 
 
 HENRY JAMES KETTELL, President of the Johnson & Kettell Company, was 
 born in this city, .April 19, 1869, son of James Frederick and Sarah J. (Metcalf) 
 Kettell. He attended the old Woodland street public school and was in the 1887 
 class of the English High School. He entered the employ of E. T. Smith, whole- 
 sale grocer, No. 203 Summer street, as clerk, and was salesman until he cn.gaged 
 in business in 1899 as secretary of the Johnson & Kettell Company, in partnership 
 with Henry B. Johnson. Their place of business is at No. 21 Bridge street, 
 corner of Mechanic, and the company has continued at this location to the present 
 time. Mr. Kettell is president and Mr. Johnson is treasurer. .-As the business has 
 increased the quarters have been extended. The company are also roasters of coffee 
 in addition to carrying all kinds of groceries at wholesale. Mr. Kettell is a promi- 
 nent Mason, member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Free and .\ccepted Masons ; Eureka 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons : Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Wor- 
 cester County Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Com- 
 monwealth Club, the Worcester Country Club, the Tatnuck Country Club, and the 
 Commercial Travelers Association. He and his family attend Piedmont Congre- 
 gational Church. 
 
 Mr. Kettell married, June 5, 1895, Mary Goodwin, daughter of Maji'r I'rancis 
 E. Goodwin. They have two children : Katherine. born 1905 ; Henry James, Jr., 
 born 1 91 2. 
 
 John P. Kettell, grandfather of Henry James Kettell, was born in Boston. Jan- 
 uary 16, 1797, died in this city. May 21, 1874. He was in business in this city for 
 nearly si.xty years. He came from Boston and established a hat. cap and fur store 
 and factory here in a wooden building over Mill Brook at Lincoln Square, in 1818, 
 In 1844 his store was at No. 183 Main street, and he lived on Thomas street. On 
 the completion of Goddard's Row between School and Thomas streets. 1829, he 
 took one of the six stores. In 1835 he moved to the Butman block, and in 1843 to 
 the corner of Main and Foster streets, where he was located for thirty-one years. 
 He was living on Thomas street in 1871. In 1874 he advertised in the city directory 
 as a "dealer in hats, caps, furs, gloves." (See I. Thomas Diary. \'ol. I. p. 406'). 
 His brother, James S. Kettell, married (first) Sarah W. Merrifield, May 15, 1833; 
 (second) October 4, 1842, Sarah (Tower) Pratt. He was clerk in the hat store; 
 died about 1886. Daniel G. Kettell, another brother, was also a clerk in the store. 
 Thomas J. Kettell died here March 24, 1885, aged eighty-two years, John P. Kettell 
 married (first) in Boston, October 29, 1820, Maria Vose; married (second) October 
 19, 1831, in Boston, Elizabeth F. Wheeler. Children: Joshua Vose, born July 18, 
 1821 ; Maria Lovell, July 12, 1823, died March 3, 1831 ; Mary Elizabeth, March 28, 
 1828; Susan Ann, September 19. 1830, died 1831 ; Hannah Pierce, November 16, 1832 ;• 
 John P., November 16. 1832, died October 18. 1844: James Frederick, mentioned 
 below; George Gookins, Februarv 15, 1836; Samuel Burt Scott, baptized June 4, 
 
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 1839, died February 19, 1840: Anna Frances, January 28, 1841 ; Ellen Louise, Jan- 
 uary 10, 1843; Elizabeth F., died December 25, 1845, aged two days. 
 
 James Frederick Kettell, father of Henry J. Kettell, born October 12, 1834, was 
 educated in the Worcester schools. He was associated in business with his father 
 and continued the business a few years after his father died. For a short tirne 
 he was a manufacturer of speed indicators at No. 5 Maple street. He died in 
 1885. His widow, Sarah J. (Metcalf) Kettell, is living at No. 20 Ripley street. 
 Thev had two sons : Henry James and Frank. 
 
 The Kettell family is traced to Richard Kettle or Kettell, who was born in 
 England, and settled as early as 1633 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, with wife 
 Hester (Ward) Kettle or Kettell. He was a cooper by trade; was admitted a 
 freeman. March 4, 1634-35 ; died at Charlestown. June 28. 1680, leaving sons : John, 
 Joseph, Samuel, Nathaniel and Jonathan, and a daughter, Hannah Call. 
 
 GEORGE ROLLAND BLISS, Merchant, was born in the town of Gill, Massa- 
 chusetts, July 17, 1846, second son of Abel Ballou Bliss, and eldest child of his 
 third wife. Rhoda Allen (Deane) Bliss. Mr. Bliss is descended from historic old 
 New England ancestry, both on his paternal and maternal sides, the Bliss family 
 being one of the oldest in this country. 
 
 The boyhood days of Mr. Bliss were spent on the paternal homestead, taking 
 advantage of the limited school privileges which the town afiforded. Later he took 
 a course at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, from which institu- 
 tion he was graduated in 1869. The early death of his father, at the age of forty- 
 one years, left the family with but limited resources, and the education of Mr. 
 Bliss" was acquired solely' as a result of his own efforts, he defraying the expenses 
 thereof by his own earnings received from teaching district schools and conducting 
 boarding school clubs. Following his graduation from Williston Seminary, Mr. 
 Bliss came to this city where he became a clerk in the clothing store of A. P. Ware 
 & Company, with whom he continued for three and one-half years. The following 
 year he became the junior partner in the firm of Henry Valentine & Company, 
 dealers in clothing and furnishings, with a store on Main street. This association 
 continued until 1876, when Mr. Bliss withdrew therefrom, and in 1877 established 
 his present business, that of dealer in hats, caps and gentlemen's furnishings, 
 locating at No. 522 Main street, and the business has experienced a steady growth, 
 requiring several removals and enlargements. In 1892 the business was removed 
 to larger quarters at the corner of Main and Austin streets, and in 1902 the adjoining 
 store was leased, giving an additional floor space of twenty-five by ninety feet in 
 area. In 1899 Mr. Bliss admitted his son, Walter Stoughton Bliss, as a partner, 
 and the business has since been conducted under the firm name of George R. Bliss 
 & Son, carrying a full line of clothing, hats, caps, and all the accessory of furnish- 
 ings for gentlemen. On February i, 1917, the business was incorporated as George 
 R. Bliss & Son, Inc., Mr. Bliss becoming president and treasurer, and his son secre- 
 tary and assistant treasurer. From a modest beginning in 1877, this house has, 
 by strictly honorable dealings and never a compromise of a business obligation, 
 combined with a courteous treatment of its patrons, steadily grown during this 
 period of over forty years to be one of the best-known and most-prominent of the 
 clothing houses of the city. While advancing his business by energy and sound 
 management, Mr. Bliss has always been active in furthering the public interests. 
 Outside of his home life he has found his greatest enjoyment in travel, both he 
 and Mrs. Bliss having been extensive travellers both in this country as well as in 
 various foreign lands. Mr. Bliss is a member of the Economic Club; the Congre- 
 gational Club; and the Worcester County Musical Association, of which he lias been 
 treasurer since 1896. In religion he is a Congregationalist, having been an active 
 member of the Old South Church since 1871. In political faith he is a Republican. 
 
 On February 28, 1871. Mr. Bliss was united in marriage to Anna E. Stoughton, 
 daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Spaulding) Stoughton, of Gill, Massachusetts. Mrs. 
 Bliss was born in Gill. Massachusetts, March 26, 1844, and is also descended from 
 a long line of distinguished ancestry. She is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, 
 South Hadley, Massachusetts, in the class of 1867, and for several years prior to 
 her marriage was a teacher of mathematics in Westerly Institute, at Westerly, 
 Rhode Island. To Mr. and Mrs. Bliss have been born three children, namely: 
 Walter Stoughton; George Rolland, Jr.; and Edith Georgianna Bliss. 
 
 Walter Stoughton Bliss, eldest son of George R. and Anna E. (Stoughton) 
 Bliss, was born May 21, 1872, in this city. He attended the public and high schools 
 of his native city, graduating from the latter in 1890. After a year and one-half 
 course in Hinman's Business College he became associated with his father in busi- 
 ness, in which he became a partner in 1899. He is a talented musician, possessing 
 
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 a well-cultivated tenor voice, and has been director of the music in various Wor- 
 cester churches for a period of over fifteen years. ?Ie is an active tncndier of the 
 various Masonic bodies, being past master of Morning Star Lodsc. Ancient Free 
 and Accepted Masons, of this city. He is also a member of the Kiw.inis. an active 
 business men's club. He married. May 21, igoi, Winnie Mayers, dauj^htcr ui iJcacon 
 Albert F. and Charlotte E. (Rawson) Mayers, of this city, and they are the p.irents. 
 of three daughters, namely: Dorothy May, Virginia and Louise Marietta Uliss. 
 
 George Rolland Bliss. Jr.. second son of George R. and Anna E. (Stoughton) 
 Bliss, was born in this city, August 16, 1874. After graduating from the Worcester 
 Classical High School in 1892, he entered Amherst College, from which he was 
 graduated in 1896 with the degree of A. B. For seven years he was a traveling 
 salesman, representing the Royal Worcester Corset Company, of this city, of which 
 he was later the sales manager. In 1907 he became treasurer of the O. C. White 
 Company, manufacturers of adjustable lighting fixtures and other metal specialties, 
 of this city. Mr. Bliss is also affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and is a 
 member of various organizations and clubs. 
 
 Edith Georgianna Bliss, only daughter of George R. and Anna E. (Stoughton) 
 Bliss, was born December 24, 1878, in this city. After graduating from tlie Wor- 
 cester High School she became a student at Mt. Holyoke College, continuing for 
 two years. She married. September 16, 1902, William De.xter White, assistant man- 
 ager of the Holyoke Machine Company, of this city, son of William W. White. 
 
 ERNEST C. MULVEY, Real estate and insurance agent, was born in Brook- 
 field. Massachusetts, June 18, 1883, son of James and Margaret C. Mulvey. He 
 attended the public schools of Brookfield and Worcester and graduated from Dean 
 Academy, Franklin, Massachusetts, in the class of 1902. For two years afterward 
 he was a student in Tufts College. He left college to enter business as clerk in 
 Mechanics Savings Bank in this city, and during the next five years occupied 
 positions of trust and responsibility in that institution. He resigned to accept an 
 appointment on the board of bank examiners of the Commonwealth, and during 
 his two years in this position gained a wide acquaintance among the banking men 
 of the State, and valuable business training. During the years igi2 to igi.S, he 
 was in the real estate business in partnership with his brother William E. Mulvey, 
 with offices at No. 527 State Mutual building. 
 
 Since 1915 Mr. Mulvey has been in the insurance and real estate business on 
 his own account. His offices are at Nos. 842 and 844 in the Slater building. He 
 has an extensive business in renting and selling real estate; and negotiating loans 
 and mortgages. His brother continues in business in the State Mutual building. 
 Mr. Mulvey is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; the Kiwanis Cluli; Athel- 
 stan Lodge. .-Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Aletheia Grotto ; Worcester Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias; and he is a trustee of the Knights of Pythias Charitable and 
 Educational Association, and president of the board. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican. He is a communicant of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Mulvey married. April 10. 1917, Rachel Mason Gordon of Shrewsbury, a 
 daughter of John P. and Emma J. Gordon. 
 
 JOHN FRANCIS BICKNELL. From 1872 until his lamented death in 1899, 
 Mr. Bicknell was connected with the lumber trade in Worcester. Massachusetts, 
 and from June, 1882, conducted a successful business under his own name. He 
 was a native son of Wisconsin, but of the Rhode Island Bicknell family, a son of 
 Dr. George W. Bicknell. born in Barrington. who was of the seventh generation 
 of the family founded in New England in 1635 by Zachary and Agnes Bicknell, from 
 England. John Wilson Bicknell. of the sixth generation, and grandfather of John 
 Francis Bicknell, left home when a lad and for thirty years followed the sea, rising 
 from cabin boy to captain, sailing in and commanding deep water ships, and going 
 to all parts of the world. About the year 181 7 he moved his family from Barring- 
 ton. Rhode Island, where they had made their home during his voyages, to Canter- 
 bury, Connecticut, going thence four years later to Canaan, Vermont, where he 
 purchased a farm which he cultivated for twenty-two years. He then sold his farm, 
 and with a now grown-up family went to the State of Wisconsin, settling at Beloit, 
 where he died in 1859. His wife. Keziah (Paine) Bicknell. was a daughter of 
 Sergeant Peleg and Joanna (Vial) Paine, he a soldier of the Revolution. 
 
 George Wilson Bicknell, son of John Wilson and Keziah (Paine) Bicknell, 
 was born in Barrington, Rhode Island, and was there educated. He learned the 
 jeweler's and silversmith's trade in Providence, followed it for a few years at the 
 bench, and in spare hours and nights studied and read medical works under the 
 guidance of Dr. Jacob Fuller, an uncle by marriage, to whom he recited. In course 
 
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 of time he acquired the legal right to practice medicine and went to Canaan, there 
 joining his father and family, and together they joined the New England Emigrating 
 Company, which settled the colony in Rock county, at Beloit. There Dr. Bicknell 
 practiced about four years, then went further west to Potosi, in Grant county. 
 Before going to Potosi, he wrote for his fiancee, who joined him, and after their 
 marriage ceremony at Beloit they proceeded to Potosi, where he practiced until 
 1847, when he returned to Beloit and took over the practice of Dr. Horace White, 
 deceased, with whom he had been associated in practice before going to Potosi. 
 In 1849 he joined the "Gold Hunters," went to California, and did not return to 
 Beloit until 1852. During the Civil War he enlisted and was appointed surgeon 
 to the Twenty-second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, retired from the service 
 on account of ill health, but was assistant-surgeon at Camp Douglass, Chicago, 
 until that camp was abandoned, when he resigned and returned to private practice 
 in Beloit. He died there June 16, 1870. His wife, Abigail (Rawson) Bicknell, died 
 December 26, 1867. 
 
 John Francis Bicknell, second son of Dr. George Wilson and Abigail (Rawson) 
 Bicknell, was born in Potosi, Grant county, Wisconsin, November 4, 1846, died in 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, November 15, 1899. In 1847 his parents moved to Beloit, 
 Wisconsin, and in the public schools and in Beloit College Preparatory School 
 he obtained a good English education. He intended to enter Beloit College, but 
 as soon as his age would permit he enlisted in a company of nine months men and 
 served his term in the Union Army battling to preserve intact the federation of 
 states. At the expiration of his term he returned to Beloit, but with the oppor- 
 tunities and desire for a college education gone, never to return, his first position 
 was with a hardware firm in Chicago, with whom he remained until the historic 
 fire of October, 1871, swept that city. He then went West and in the State of Kansas 
 took up a quarter section of prairie land under the Homestead Act. He settled 
 upon his quarter and complied with the law, governing soldiers allotments, but the 
 quiet and monotony of life on the lonely prairie discouraged him, and early in 1872 
 he sold his equity in his homestead and during the following summer located in 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, He secured a position as bookkeeper with the firm, 
 E. B. Crane & Company, lumber merchants, and seven years later, in 1879, was 
 admitted a partner, succeeding William S. Perry, retired. He continued a partner 
 of this company until June, 1882, when he withdrew his interest and established 
 in the lumber business under his own name. He continued a successful lumber 
 dealer of Worcester until his death, seventeen years later, his son, Roscoe Gibbs 
 Bicknell, succeeding to the business and becoming its managing head immediately 
 upon graduation. Mr. Bicknell was a man of worth, one of the factors in the 
 growth of his city, and a fine type of the American business man. He built up a 
 large business which endures, and left to his family the record of an honorable and 
 well-spent life. 
 
 Mr. Bicknell married, June 16, 1875, Harriet M. Spring, who died January 17, 
 1917, daughter of Joseph W. and Nancy Harrington (Gibbs) Spring, of Weston, 
 Massachusetts. They were married at Fall River, Massachusetts, by Rev. William 
 W. Adams, D. D., at the home of the officiating clergyman. After a wedding tour 
 they resided in Worcester with Mrs. Bicknell's mother until the fine residence was 
 completed which Mr. Bicknell caused to be erected at No. gio Main street. There 
 he resided until his death, there his only child was born, and there his widow 
 resided tor many years. Mr. and Mrs. Bicknell were the parents of an only son, 
 Roscoe Gibbs, born December 11, 1881. He was educated in the public schools, 
 Worcester Academy, finishing at Dean Academy, Franklin, Massachusetts, with 
 the graduating class of 1900. He at once succeeded to the lumber business founded 
 by his father. He is a member of the Worcester Country Club, Commonwealth Club, 
 and AH Souls' Universalist Church. He married, January 25. 1905, Harriet West 
 Kellough, of Boston. Has two children : John Francis, born March 30, 1908, and 
 Roscoe G., Jr., born November 9, 1912. 
 
 ALFRED GODDARD WESSON, Treasurer of the Howard- Wesson Company, 
 was born in this city, July 18, 1863, son of Rufus Wesson. He received his edu- 
 cation here in the public schools. At the age of sixteen he went to work on a farm, 
 but two years later began an apprenticeship to the trade of wood engraving in the 
 shops of Kyes & Woodbury in this city. He continued as apprentice and journey- 
 man with this firm for eight years. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Wood- 
 bury and engaged in the engraving business under the firm name of Woodbury & 
 Company. The firm made a specialty of process engraving. In 1910 Mr. Wesson 
 withdrew from the partnership with Mr. Woodbury and formed the present firm 
 of Howard-Wesson Company, now a corporation, of which he is treasurer. The 
 
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 present firm does a great variety of coinincrcial work, mainly by the half-tone process. 
 Mr. Wesson is associated witli .Artlnir E. Howard, who is president of the com- 
 pany. The original location of the business was in the Day building. Since igi2 
 the concern has occupied a Hour of the Graphic Arts building. No. 25 I'oster street. 
 It is the largest engraving plant in the city and the third largest in New England. 
 Its growth has been phenomenal. Mr. Wesson is a member of Morning Star Lodge, 
 Free Masons; Worcester Council, Royal Arcanum: the .Advertising Cln!) of Wor- 
 cester, the Economic Club, Worcester Country Cluli, and Piedmont Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Wesson married (first) June 22. 1887, at Worcester. Ella R. Daniels, wlio 
 died August 9, 1909, in this city. He married (second) Grace N. Daniels, January 
 21. 1911, in \\'orcester. They reside at No. 15 South Lenox street. By his first 
 wife he had two children: i. Laurence Goddard, born July 17. 1888: graduated 
 from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with the degree of B. S. in igio; for the 
 following year was a student in German universities : following this for two years 
 he was with the Bureau of Standards stationed at Washington, D. C, and the fol- 
 lowing two years a graduate student at Harvard: he then accepted a position as 
 teacher at the Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland. Ohio, after which he 
 entered the service of the Government, and is now a chemist in the United States 
 Chemical Warfare Service, commissioned captain in igi8. He married Elizabeth 
 Matthews, of Jackson, Ohio, and they have one child. Laurence Goddard. Jr. 2. 
 Philip Daniels, born October 7, 1890; graduated from Clark College, 1910, spent a 
 year in German universities, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1914; 
 he began the practice of law in Worcester and continued until he entered the service 
 of the Government: he was a product of the first Plattsburg camp, and ri.ise from 
 second to first lieutenant, then captain, and at the present time C1918) is personal 
 adjutant of the Forty-second Regiment. Twelfth Army Division, stationed at Camp 
 Devens. He married Marion Warren, of Worcester. 
 
 JOHN D. CURTIS, Treasurer of the Richardson Manufacturing Company, of 
 which Edwin P. Curtis is president, is a son of Tyler Prentice and .\melia (Riley) 
 Curtis; and a descendant of the pioneer, Henry Curtis, whose son. Epliraim Curtis, 
 was the first settler of Worcester. For the early generations of this family see the 
 chapter on Early Settlers. The line is continued, as follows : 
 
 JOHN CURTIS (6), Tyler (5). Captain John (4). Ephraim (,;). Joseph (2t, 
 Henry (i), born December 23. 1783. died August 3. 1S26. He married, March 16, 1807, 
 Nancy Stowell, daughter of Captain Thomas Stowell and granddaughter of Cor- 
 nelius Stowell (See Early Settlers in this work). Children: George Thomas 
 Stowell. born September 22. 1808; Tyler Prentice, mentioned below; Sarah .-Xnu, 
 born June 7. 1812 : Harriet Newel, born September 4. 1814. died June 24, 1818; John 
 Edwin, mentioned below. 
 
 TYLER PRENTICE CURTIS was born in Worcester. June 16, 1810, died June 
 16, 1896. He married Amelia (Riley) Curtis, daughter of Calvin and Eunice (Miller) 
 Riley, of Alton, Illinois, a descendant of John Riley, who settled in Wethersfield, 
 Coimecticut, in 1645 (Calvin, .Asher, Nathaniel, Lieutenant Isaac, John). Tyler P. 
 Curtis lived on the Curtis homestead and followed farming. Children, born in Wor- 
 cester : Kate, born December 9, 1848, died aged two years ; John D.. mentioned 
 below; Kate, born September 29. 1852, married William T. Brown; William C. born 
 December 14, 1854, succeeded to the homestead. 
 
 JOHN EDWIN CURTIS was born in Worcester, October n, 1816. on the 
 Curtis homestead, occupied by his ancestors since 1673; went West when a young 
 man and became a merchant. He married. May 26, 1841, Amelia Riley, who was 
 born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1822. He died in St. Louis. Missouri, October 
 14, 1843. Children : Elnora, born March 14, 1842, married Jared Whitman, and 
 died June 6, 1889: Edwin P.. mentioned below. His widow. .Amelia (Riley) Curtis, 
 married (second), February 18. 1846. his brother, Tyler Prentice Curtis, mentioned 
 above. 
 
 EDWIN P. CURTIS, Son of John Edwin Curtis, was born at St. Louis, February 
 18, 1844. He was educated in the Worcester schools and at Worcester .\cademy. 
 After leaving school he lived here two years, then went to Cincinnati. During the 
 Civil War he served in the quartermaster's department. In 1864 he entered the 
 business of A. P. Richardson, manufacturer of agricultural implements in this city, 
 remaining with the A. P. Richardson Company and with the corporation, the Ricli- 
 
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 HISTORY OF IVORCHSTER 
 
 ardson Manufacturing Company, of which he has been president, treasurer and 
 director for many years. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married. January i, 1868, Harriet Bigelow. daughter of Walter and 
 Mary (Hyde) Bigelow. and descendant of David Bigelow. who took a prominent 
 part in public affairs here in the Revolution, a brother of Colonel Timothy Bigelow. 
 (See Bigelow in Early Settlers). Mrs. Curtis was descended also from Jonas Rice, 
 the first permanent settler of Worcester ; from Phinehas Heywood. from Deacon 
 William Trowbridge of this town (See Early Settlers) and from Samuel Hyde, of 
 Newton, of the fourth generation from Deacon Samuel Hyde, born 1610, came 
 thither in the ship "Jonathan" in 1639, becoming the second settler of Cambridge 
 Village (Newton). Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have one daughter Elnora Whitman, grad- 
 uate of Burnham School of Northampton, of Smith College, class of 1892. 
 
 JOHN D. CURTIS, Son of Tyler Prentice Curtis, was born in Worcester, June 
 12. 1850. He received his early education in the public schools of this city and 
 graduated from the Worcester High School. His was one of the first classes in 
 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and graduated in 1871 with the degree of 
 mechanical engineer. He began his career as a draftsman and for two years and 
 a half was in the employ of the Centennial Commission in charge of the Philadelphia 
 Exhibition of 1876. Afterward he entered the employ of the Washburn & Moen 
 Manufacturing Company of this city, became overseer of .the barbed wire depart- 
 ment, and later superintendent of the Quinsigamond works of that company. After 
 the business was purchased by the American Steel & Wire Company he was the 
 superintendent for a short time. In 1902 he was elected vice-president of the Rich- 
 ardson Manufacturing Company of this city; since 191 1 he has been vice-president 
 and treasurer. The company was incorporated in 1870 and in that year bought the 
 business of Alzirus Brown, making, besides the Buckeye mowing machine, the Union 
 mower, the Bullard hay-tedder and the Whitcomb horse rake. The business was 
 located first on Central street in an old brick building owned by Otis Warren; in 
 1866 the concern bought a building on the opposite side of the street ; since 1868 
 the company has occupied the factory at No. 84 Prescott street, built by Stephen 
 Salisbury (2d). The company employs about one hundred and fifty hands and makes 
 a large variety of agricultural implements. In politics Mr. Curtis is a Republican; 
 in religion a (Tongregationalist. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married, June, 1876, Clara A. Nash .of Fitchburg, daughter of Na- 
 thaniel H. and Sarah (Snelser) Nash. Her father was a native of Whitman, Massa- 
 chusetts, and her mother was of a New Orleans family. Their children are: Philip 
 N., and Ruth, who married (first) Captain Edward Hill, and (second) Charles Baker. 
 
 MICHAEL JOHN O'CONNELL, Rector of the Church of Our Lady of the Holy 
 Rosary, was born in IbilvMkf. -Massachusetts. November 9. 1879. He attended the 
 public schools there and graduated from the Holyoke High School in 1896. He 
 became a student in the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1900, and received his 
 seminary training in St. Bernard's at Rochester, New York. He was ordained June 
 II, 1904, at Southbridge, Massachusetts, in St. Mary's Church, and was a curate 
 there until June. 1906. He was afterward stationed at St. John the Baptist's Church 
 in Buffalo for a year and a half: at St. Joseph's in Pittsfield. Massachusetts, for 
 three years ; at St. Thomas' Church in Palmer, Massachusetts, for two years. In 
 1913 he was appointed rector of the Church of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in 
 Worcester and has had charge of this parish since that time. (See history of the 
 church). 
 
 Father O'Connell is an able preacher and popular not only in his own parish 
 but throughout the city. He takes his recreation in golf. He is a member of 
 Alhambra Council, Kniglits of Columbus. 
 
 Patrick O'Connell, father of Michael J. O'Connell. was born in County Limerick, 
 Ireland, and married before coming to this country at the age of thirty-six years. 
 He made his home in Holyoke. this State, and was employed in the paper mills 
 of that city until he retired. He resides in Holyoke. He married Catherine Falvey, 
 who was born in County Limerick. They had eleven children, five of whom are 
 now living in this country: i. James, paper-maker, Holyoke, married Mary Mori- 
 arty, and has one son, James F. O'Connell. 2. Bridget, resides in Holyoke. 3. 
 Patrick, employed by the Holyoke Rubber Company, rnarried Ellen Finn, and has 
 four children: Catherine, John, James and Francis. 4. Mary, married William 
 Carney, of Lockport, New York. 5. Rev. Michael J. 
 
 MICHAEL FRANCIS FALLON, M. D.. student and specialist in surgery, of 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, is one of those who believe that a study once begun may 
 never be completed but may forever be the source of development. 
 
Rev. Mirlutcl J. O'Connell 
 
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 His father, Tame? Fallon, was born in Ri.'sci>mmon. Irclaml, frcim which place 
 he came to America during his early manhood, and settled in Quincy. Massachusetts. 
 He married Mary Dyer, also formerly of Ireland, and they moved in 1850 to Wor- 
 cester. Their five children were : Thomas B., who died young ; James 1)., who 
 also died at an early age; John J., who died when past his forty-lilth year; Theodore, 
 who is now (1917) fifty-six years old; and Michael Francis, M. D., who is the 
 youngest. 
 
 The latter was horn in Worcester, Massachusetts. July 16, 1863. In 1881 he was 
 graduated from the Worcester High School, and three years later from Holyoke 
 College. He finished the course at Harvard Medical Scliool in 1887, after which 
 he spent two years of study at Vienna and Heidelberg. Upon returning to his native 
 land he began his practice in Worcester, and in 1902 he gave himself over entirely to 
 the specialty of surgery. He now spends at least two weeks out of every year in 
 research work, particularly with the Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. 
 Fallon has served on the School Board of Worcester. He is a member of the Wor- 
 cester Country Club. He has been president of the Worcester County Medical Society 
 since June, 1917, and is a member of the New England Surgical Society, and the 
 College of Surgeons. He belongs to the Roman Catholic church. 
 
 In Springfield. Massachusetts, 1895, Dr. Fallon was married to Ella J. Ford, 
 daughter of Humphrey and Mary Ford, both of whom are deceased. The only child 
 of this marriage is John H. M.. born September 17. 1901. He is now a junior at 
 Holy Cross College where he is the youngest to be a junior at that institution. 
 The young man is very prominent in the .college activities, being sub-editor of the 
 college paper, the "Chronicle," as well as a bo.xer and swimmer of reputation. 
 
 FRANCIS ALMON GASKILL, Lawyer, district attorney, justice of the Superior 
 Court, was Iiorn January 3, i84(). in Mendon, in what is now Blackstone, and died 
 in this city in 1909, son of Albert and .^nna Smith (Comstock) Gaskill. 
 
 Francis A. Gaskill attended the public schools in his native town and the 
 Woonsocket High School, and entered Brown University, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1866 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the following year he 
 was a private tutor for a family in Newport. He then became a student in Hari'ard 
 Law School, but after a year and a half left the school, continuing his study of 
 law in the offices of Hon. George F. Verry (See biography). He was admitted to 
 the bar in 1869. and was afterward law partner of Mr. Verry under the firm name 
 of Verry & Gaskill until the time of Mr. Verry's death in 1883. Afterward he was 
 in partnership with Horace Berry, a stepson of his former partner, for a period 
 of ten years. In 1889 Mr. Gaskill was appointed associate justice of the Superior 
 Court of the Commonwealth and remained on the bench to the end of his life. His 
 public career began in 1875 when he was a member of the Common Council, and 
 he also served in 1886. He was elected district attorney for the middle district of 
 Massachusetts in 1886 and held that office by successive re-elections until he re- 
 signed to go on the bench in 1895. He was for several years a director of the Free 
 Public Library of Worcester and president of the board in 1888. He was a trustee 
 of Worcester Academy and of Brown University. He was a member of the Club 
 of Odd Volumes of Boston, the LTniversity Club of Boston, the Worcester Club and 
 the Tatnuck Country Club. He was vice-president of the People's Savings Bank, 
 and director of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company. From his alma niaier. 
 Brown, he received the honorary degree of LL. D. in 1899. and afterward it made 
 him a Fellow of the University. 
 
 Before his judicial office removed him from politics he was an active and 
 earnest Republican. He was a popular campaign speaker and frequently was orator 
 on important public occasions. As a trial lawyer he was eminently successful. 
 His knowledge of law, his persuasive speech, his dignity and conscientious treat- 
 ment of his cases, were not the only factors in his success in court. His personality 
 was one of his greatest assets; it won confidence and friendship among jurors and 
 other audiences ; he was kindly, democratic and open-hearted. The writer remem- 
 bers well an instance when Judge Gaskill. then district attorney, took the trouble 
 to climb to the old editorial rooms of the Worcester "Spy" for the purpose of learn- 
 ing the name of the reporter who covered the famous Kimball trial in 1891, and to 
 compliment the young man on his accurate work. That was characteristic. Judge 
 Gaskill was a gentleman first of all. No man on the bench was better qualified by 
 disposition, natural gifts and education than Judge Gaskill, and no judge possessed, 
 after years of service, to a greater degree than he, the confidence and esteem of the 
 lawyers practicing in the court over which he presided. 
 
 Judge Gaskill married (first) 1869, Katherine M. Whittaker, wdio died in 1889. 
 He married (second) Josephine L. Abbott, daughter of Joseph and Phebe Abbott, 
 
524 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 iif Providence. By his first wife he had two children: I^Iary M., and George A. 
 (See biography). Judge Gaskill and his family attended the First Baptist Church. 
 Their home was at No. Ii6 Lincoln street. 
 
 Judge Gaskill had one sister, Alice K., who married Charles Wilson. He was a 
 descendant in the ninth generation from the pioneer of the family, Edward Gaskill, 
 a ship carpenter, who came from England to Salem in 1636 or earlier. The line 
 of ancestry is: Francis A. (9), Albert (8), Lebbeus (7), Peter (6), Ebenezer (5), 
 Samuel (4), Samuel (3), Samuel {2), Edward (i). Samuel (2) Gaskill was a Quaker 
 and one of the builders of the second Quaker meeting house in Salem and also of 
 the third. Samuel (4) Gaskill came to Mendon. In all his lines of ancestry Judge 
 Gaskill was of the original English Puritan stock of New England. 
 
 GEORGE A. GASKILL, Lawyer, was born in this city. June 4, 1877. He at- 
 tended the public schools here and the Worcester Academy, from which he was 
 graduated in 1894. He then entered Brown University, graduating there in the 
 class of 1898 witii the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For two years afterward he Was 
 a student in the Harvard Law School. In 1901 he was admitted to the bar and 
 since then has been practicing law in this city. At first he practiced in the offices 
 of Herbert Parker, former attorney-general of the Commonwealth. Later he formed 
 a partnership with Frank C. Smith. Jr., under the firm name of Smith & Gaskill. 
 The firm had offices at No. 801 State Mutual building. Subsequently he became a 
 partner in the law firm of Thayer, Smith & Gaskill, with his former partner and 
 Charles M. Thayer. Their offices are No. 509 State Mutual building. Mr. Gaskill 
 has been a trustee of Worcester Academy since 1905. 
 
 Mr. Gaskill married, June i, 1905, Caroline Dewey Nichols, daughter of Dr. 
 Charles L. Nichols (See biography). Mr. Gaskill's home is at No. 30 Fruit street 
 in this city. 
 
 FRANK M. HEATH, State senator, merchant, treasurer of the Ridgley Pro- 
 tective Association, and the Masonic Protective Association, was born in Nashua, 
 New Hampshire, September 8, 1852, son of Joseph Heath, and descendant of early 
 New England pioneers. 
 
 When a mere boy of twelve years of age, he left home to seek a living for him- 
 self, and began to earn his own boarding and schooling in Manchester, New Hamp- 
 shire, attending the schools there what little he could up to the age of fourteen, 
 when he commenced to learn the painting business. He continued his education 
 in the way of attending an evening school, the tuition for w'hich he was obliged to 
 pay out of his own small earnings. Wishing to act and to trade for himself, at the 
 age of fourteen he purchased his time from his father, a necessary transaction under 
 the law, and became his own master. After working as an apprentice in the paint- 
 ing business for three years, he was made foreman of the shop in which he was 
 employed, and at the age of twenty-four the entire business was turned over to him. 
 Mr. Heath came to Worcester in 1880, and a little later bought the painting busi- 
 ness of Salem Pratt, an old Worcester resident, continuing in that business until 
 1892, when he opened a painting and oil store at No. 40 Southbridge street. With 
 him were associated two of his three sons under the firm name of F. M. Heath & 
 Company. A few years later Mr. Heath turned his business over to his sons and 
 took up the financial end of the Ridgley Protective Association, an insurance com- 
 pany for Odd Fellows only, and the Masonic Protective Association, membership of 
 which is exclusively for Free Masons, he being one of the organizers of both con- 
 cerns. He continued in the capacity of treasurer in each company up until the time 
 of his death, which was on March 7, 1914. 
 
 Mr. Heath gave freely of his time and money to Odd Fellowship and Free 
 Masonry. He was one of the charter members of the Ridgley Lodge of Odd Fellows 
 and its third noble grand, also being actively interested in Mt. Vernon Encampment. 
 Indpendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Worcester. He spent a large amount of 
 time in Masonry as the following record will show; he being a past master of 
 Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; past high priest of Eureka 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; generalissimo of the Worcester County Commandery, 
 Knights Templar; past master, wise master of Lawrence Rose Croix, and second 
 lieutenant commander of the Massachusetts Consistory, and was elected to the 
 highest degree in Masonry, namely, that of the thirty-third. To those who were 
 closest to him it was one of the saddest features of his sudden death that he could 
 not have lived to see completed the beautiful new temple to the success of which 
 he had so materially contributed during the last years of his life. Although Mr. 
 Heath devoted much time to Masonic and Odd Fellows circles, yet he found time 
 to represent his City and State in politics. He was elected a member of the city 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 government in 1896 and re-ekcted in 1898. While there lie ser\iil du the com- 
 mittees of finance, claims, street lighting and enrollment. He was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Legislature in igoi. While in that position he made friends readilj' and 
 exerted a, strong and wide influence. During his short term he was on th<' com- 
 mittee on railroads. He was re-elected to that position for two more terms, and 
 the following year was promoted to the State Senate. He at once became a leading 
 figure in the Senate on account of his strong influence among the legislat<irs, and 
 his ability as an organizer and harmonizer. Few men ever had a larger personal 
 following and more political friends in the State House than Senator Heath. 
 
 On September 4, 1870, Mr. Heath married Sarah L. Holt, of Manchester, New- 
 Hampshire. They have three sons: Volney L., Austin A., and Melville F. 
 
 \'olney L. Heath, son of Frank M. and Sarah L. Heath, was born in .Manchester, 
 December 20, 1872. He attended the public schools and a business college of Wor- 
 cester. When Mr. Heath was still young, his father took him into the business 
 with him. the firm being F. M. Heath & Company, doing a painting and oil business 
 in Worcester. He sold out this business to engage with his father in the insurance 
 business as assistant treasurer of the Ridgley Protective Association, and became 
 treasurer of that organization at the death of his father, March 7, 1914. Mr, Heath 
 is a member of the Masonic fraternity, although never sought oflice in that organi- 
 zation, he being of a quiet and retiring nature and preferring his home to club life. 
 
 Mr. Heath married Maud Partridge, of Marlboro, April 21, 1897. They have 
 three children : Frank M., Verna L., and Margaret E., all of whom attend school. 
 
 Austin A. Heath, son of Frank AI. and Sarah L. Heath, was born in Man- 
 chester, New Hampshire, August 26, 1874. After attending the public schools of 
 Worcester and graduating from business college, he worked, for a few years in the 
 Worcester Banking Institutirm, leaving that position to become assistant city treas- 
 urer of Worcester, a position which he filled with credit for three years, and was 
 then elected city auditor of Worcester, from wdiich position lie became associated 
 with his father in the insurance business as treasurer of the Masonic Protective 
 Association, which he held until the death of his father in 1914, when he became 
 treasurer. Mr. Heath is also general manager of the Ridgely Protective Associ- 
 tion, an organization which furnishes health and accident insurance to Odd Fellows 
 only, and although a very busy man in these two positions he had found time to 
 serve the Masonic fraternity in many oflicial capacities, among them master of 
 Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; high priest of Eureka Chap- 
 ter, Royal Arch Masons ; commander of Worcester County Commandery ; connected 
 with all three orders of the Scottish Rite Masonry located in Worcester ; district 
 deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and was recently nomi- 
 nated as a thirty-third degree Mason. Mr. Heath's services have often been sought 
 in the conducting of Masonic affairs in Worcester, and his time and money have 
 been freely given for a number of years past. On December 18, 1912, Mr. Heath 
 married Helen Kendrick, of Worcester. 
 
 Melville F. Heath, son of Frank M. and Sarah L. Heath, was born at Bedford, 
 New Hampshire, January 5, 1877. He attended the grammar and high schools of 
 Worcester, and then entered the painting business with his father, where he re- 
 mained for a few years, when he became associated with his father and brothers 
 in the insurance business and now holds the position of vice-president and general 
 manager of the Masonic Protective Association, the largest organization in the 
 world furnishing health and accident insurance to members of the fraternity. The 
 growth of this business has been largely due to Mr. Heath's ability as a salesman 
 and manager, his untiring efforts and his willingness to work hard. Mr. Heath is 
 a member of the Masonic fraternity and has served that organization in the capacity 
 of master of Montacute Lodge of Worcester. He has never been an office seeker, 
 believing that what time he was not absolutely obliged to spend in his business 
 should be devoted to his family, which consists of a wife and four children. 
 
 Mr. Heath married Emily L. Sparrell, January 15, 1902. The names of their 
 four children are: Gordon S., Milan A., Melville F., Jr., and Barbara. 
 
 HENRY C. TAYLOR, Business man, well known dealer in beef, and a sub- 
 stantial and public-spirited citizen of Worcester, Massachusetts, where he is now 
 living in retirement from active business, was born in Philadelphia, -\pril 8, 1844. 
 His father was Samuel B. Taylor, born in Springfield, lilassachusetts, and his 
 mother, Mary A. (Buckins) Taylor, of Philadelphia, and on both sides descended 
 from Revolutionary families. His parents moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where 
 his childhood and early youth were passed, and there he gained his education, 
 attending the local public schools for this purpose. After leaving school he became 
 bookkeeper for J. H. Brainard in the coal business and continued until 1862, when 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 he enlisted from that city on September 5, 1862, with the Twenty-fifth Regiment of 
 Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He served in Louisiana and was present at the 
 engagements of Irish Bend, Port Hudson, and other well known actions, and con- 
 tinued in service until he received his honorable discharge, August 26, 1863. Upon 
 his return to Hartford he entered the employ of J. H. Brainard. Later he secured 
 an excellent position in the general freight office of the New York, New Haven & 
 Hartford Railroad. Leaving the railroad he entered the employ of Smith, Northam 
 & Robertson. 
 
 It was in the year 1877 that Mr. Taylor came to Worcester and smce that time 
 has made his home here. At Worcester he built a large storage warehouse on the 
 line of the railroad at No. 69 Shrewsbury street, and here engaged in the meat 
 business, handling Chicago dressed beef for the wholesale market. Mr. Taylor 
 was the first man in this country to build a warehouse with refrigerator capacity 
 exclusively for handling Chicago dressed beef. This enterprise was for the purpose 
 of convenient loading and unloading of refrigerator cars. His plant, while he was 
 engaged in the wholesale meat business, had a capacity for storing two carloads 
 of beef; he thus instituted a custom which has come into very general use since 
 then. His business grew to large proportions and he handled all of the G. H. Ham- 
 mond Company's packing house products, and supplied a large percentage of the 
 Worcester trade, as well as the surrounding towns. He continued thus engaged 
 until the year 1904, when he sold out his business to x^rmour & Company. Mr. 
 Taylor then took up an entirely different line and spent some four years in the 
 manufacture and sale of the Simplex Player Piano. In igoS he finally retired from 
 active business life and has since that time been enjoying a well-earned leisure. 
 
 Besides his prominence in the business world, Mr. Taylor has also been ex- 
 ceedingly active in the general life of the community, and has identified himself with 
 many important movements in Worcester. He was a member of the Board of Trade 
 of tliis city for a number of years, and has been very active in promoting its general 
 interests in this capacity. He is also a member of a number of prominent clubs, 
 among which should be mentioned the Commonwealth, the Worcester and the Tat- 
 nuck Clubs of this city. Mr. Taylor has been conspicuous in fraternal circles also 
 and is affiliated with the Masonic order in which he has taken the eighteenth 
 degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and with the local post of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic. He is a member of the Piedmont Congregational Church and has served 
 as a member of its financial committee for many years. Mr. Taylor has always 
 been a most loyal and public-spirited citizen, and every movement undertaken for 
 the welfare of the community receives his aid. 
 
 Henry C. Taylor was united in marriage, April 23, 1884, at Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, with J. Gertrude Hutchins, of this city. Mrs. Taylor died in 1886. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor two children were born, Edward H. and Gertrude A. 
 
 FRANK HENRY DEAN, Dentist, was born in this city, September 19, 1885, 
 son of Henry Ellsworth and Bertha May (Chadbourne) Dean. He received his 
 early education in the public schools here and graduated from the English High 
 School in 1905. After a post-graduate year here and a special course of one year 
 in the Merit High School, he became a student in the Tufts Dental School in 
 Boston, and was graduated there in 1910 with the degree of D. M. D.. He began 
 to practice dentistry in this city, July 4, 1910. and since that time has had 
 offices at No. 311 Main street in the Central Exchange building. He has made a 
 specialty of X-ray and dental diagnosis. Dr. Dean is well-known among the ath- 
 letes of the city. He was captain of the high school crew in 1904 and 1905 and 
 coach of the crews in 1910, 191 1 and 1912. He has also had charge of the crews 
 of the Lakeside Boat Club. He coached five winning crews that won forty-five 
 medals. His high school crews were the winners of gold watches presented as 
 prizes by the city government. At present he is coach of the club crews of the 
 Lakeside Boat Club. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks ; the Delta Sigma Delta fraternity ; the District Dental Society, the Massa- 
 chusetts Dental Society, the New England Dental Society, the American Dental 
 Society, the American Medical Association (section of Stomatology). 
 
 Dr. Dean married, June 8, 1912, in Worcester, Pearl G. Snow, daughter of 
 Charles Snow, of Springfield. Her mother, Clara (Bailey) Snow, was a native of 
 Northampton, Massachusetts ; now living in this city. Dr. and Mrs. Dean had one 
 child, Priscilla, who died February 9. 1917, aged two years, one month. 
 
 Henry Ellsworth Dean, father of Dr. Dean, representative, manufacturer of wire 
 goods, was born in Oakham, Massachusetts. His pioneer ancestor in this country 
 was Walter Dean, who came from Chard, England, and before 1638 settled in Taun- 
 ton, Massachusetts. Walter Dean was deacon of the church; selectman of the 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 town eight years; a tanner by trade; died a1)out 1693. Deacon James Dean, the 
 third of the same name and the fourth generation from the immigrant, \va=; the 
 founder of the family in Oakham; deacon of the church; soldier in the Revohnioii ; 
 married (first) Agnes Mclntire ; (second) Sarah Hardy; (third) Estlier I'artridge. 
 His descendants have been numerous and prominent in Oakham. 
 
 Mr. Dean came to this city when a boy. He established himself in business 
 as a manufacturer of general hardware and household goods, elevator and window 
 guards and all kinds of steel-vvire brushes, at No. 180 Austin street, and continued 
 in business under the name of Henry E. Dean & Company until his retirement. The 
 business was incorporated as the Dean Wire Goods Company, of which Philip 
 Viaille is now president. Mr. Dean resides at No. 182 Austin street. Mr. Dean 
 has always been a staunch Republican. He was a member of the Common Council 
 in 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905, and representative to the General Court in 1907, 1908, 
 1909, 191 7 and 1918. He also served on the school committee. 
 
 Mr. Dean married Bertha May Chadbourne, who was born in Maine. Of their 
 six children, one died in childhood. Bertha May; the others are: Dr. Frank Henry, 
 mentioned above; George Ellsworth, a traveling salesman; Winifred, a trained 
 nurse, served one year with the Harvard Unit in France in the European War; 
 Charlotte (Irace, a teacher of music; Edward Stanley, student in the high school. 
 
 WINFRED S. GRIFFITH, Inventor, manufacturer, was born in Keene, New 
 Hampshire, July, 1875, son of Daniel Delaney and Sylvia Maria (Leonard) Griffith. 
 His father was a contractor and decorator, now retired, living in Claremont, New 
 Hampshire; his mother was born in Hollis, New Hampshire. 
 
 Mr. Griffith received his education in the public schools of Claremont, New 
 Hampshire. He learned his trade as a machinist in the Sullivan-McKay shops 
 there, and after three years went to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he worked 
 another year for the same employers. In 1894 he came to this city, working after- 
 ward successively for Curtis & Marble, the American Card Clothing Company and 
 other machine shops. Having invented in the meantime a very successful magnetic 
 chuck, he began to manufacture it at No. 47 Hermon street under the firm name 
 of the Worcester Magnetic Chuck Company. A year and half later, however, he 
 accepted a substantial sum and sold his patents to the Heald Machine Company of 
 this city. At the same time he gave up his own business and became a designer 
 and salesman for the Heald Company. He again enga,ged in business as half-owner 
 of the Worcester Machine Company, organized December 16, 1915, to make special 
 machinery. His partner is Cyrus N. Cowan, who was previously the factory man- 
 ager for the Heald Machine Company. The factory is located at No. 25 Bartlett 
 street. The company is now making parts for other manufacturers, machine tools 
 and fixtures. Mr. (jriffith is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In politics he 
 is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Griffith married, November 25, 1899, in this city, Theresa N. Ohlin. They 
 have one son, Clifford Ohlin, born 1903. Their home is at No. 44 June street in 
 this city. 
 
 MARCUS LLEWELLYN FOSTER, Lumber dealer, officer of various large 
 real estate and lutnbcr -corporations, was born December 8, 1871, in Oswego, New 
 York, son of Llewellyn and Marion (Carpenter) Foster. His father was a soldier 
 in the Civil War, enlisting at the age of eighteen in the One Hundred and Eighty- 
 fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, taking part in the battles of Cedar Creek, 
 Petersburg and many other engagements. Eli Foster, grandfather of LlewUyn 
 Foster, was an early settler at Malta on Saratoga Lake, New York. He was of 
 the sixth generation from tlie immigrant ancestor, Christopher Foster, who was 
 born in England, came in the ship "Abigail" in 1635 and settled at Lynn, but ten 
 years later removed to Southampton, Long Island. John Foster, son of Christopher 
 Foster, moved to Middletown, Connecticut, where the family was located for several 
 generations. 
 
 Marcus L. Foster received his education in the public schools of his native 
 city. He came to Worcester when sixteen years of age, and for nine years was 
 in the employ of William H. Sawj-er, lumber dealer. Then he was for one year 
 treasurer of the Howe Lumber Company of Lowell. In the spring of 1898 he estab- 
 lished the firm of Stone & Foster, having its place of business at tlie corner of 
 Central and Union streets. Worcester. In 1906 he bought out his partner and has 
 since continued the business alone, being president and treasurer of the Stone & 
 Foster Lumber Company, the original corporate name. From time to time Mr. 
 Foster has become interested in various other corporations in Worcester and in 
 the timber section of the South. He is president of the Ravenel Company, which 
 
528 HISTORY Of Jl'ORCESTHR 
 
 owns six thousand acres of pine timber lands in Soutli Carolina, having a capital of 
 $100,000. organized in igii; treasurer of the Highland Spruce Company, whichowns 
 9,000 acres of spruce timber land on the eastern slope of the Black Mountains in 
 North Carolina, including Mount Mitchell, capitalized at $350,000; treasurer of the 
 Dickey & Campbell Company, Inc., which owns 18,000 acres of spruce timber land 
 in the Black mountains of North Carolina, capitalized at $600,000, and is an oper- 
 ating concern, having twenty-five miles of its own railroads for transporting logs 
 and lumber. Mr. Foster is president of the Foster .Associates, the capital of which 
 is $125,000; treasurer of the W. L. Dines, Jr. Company, a Worcester corporation en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of machinery for e.xporting to cofifee, sugar and cocoa 
 plantations in the tropical countries, having its plant at No. 172 Union street, 
 capitalized at $10,000. He is one of the principal owners of the Park building, the 
 latest modern office building erected in Worcester. Mr. Foster is vice-president of 
 the corporation owning the building, known as the Park Building Company, of which 
 the capital is $350,000. It is an eleven-story stone building containing six stores 
 and two hundred offices. Mr. Foster was a director of the Worcester National 
 Bank until the recent consolidation with the Worcester Trust Company, and is now 
 a director of the Trust Company. He is a trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank; 
 a director of the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers' Association; member of 
 the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Worcester Club, 
 the Worcester Country Club, of which he is one of the board of governors; the 
 Tatnuck Country Club, and the Quinsigamond Boat Club, of which he is president. 
 In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Foster married, at Worcester, March 2. 1897, Alice Hathaway Baldwin, 
 daughter of .John Stanton Baldwin (See biography). They have four children : I. 
 Marcella Hathaway, born December 8. 1897. 2. Alicia, born December 21, 1898. 
 3. Ellen Frances, born August 9, 1800. 4. Marcus Llewellyn, Jr., born March 8, 1910. 
 
 NICHOLAS J. MOONEY, Insurance underwriter and city official, was born 
 in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 10. 1848, the son of Richard and Margaret 
 (Doyle) Moone3', and died in this city, March 31, 1915. 
 
 Mr. Mooney acquired his early educational training in the public schools of 
 this city, and after leaving school was variously engaged as carpenter and ma- 
 chinist. At the age of twenty-nine, in 1877, he was appointed a member of the 
 Worcester police force by* Mayor Charles B. Pratt. He served faithfully and 
 eiificiently on the force for a period of fifteen years, from 1877 to 1892, when he 
 resigned to become a local agent for the Germania Fire Insurance Company of New 
 York. In 1902 Mr. Mooney was appointed general city agent for this company, 
 at which time he established himself in a general insurance agency business. In 
 addition to the Germania, he represented the Reliance Fire Insurance Company of 
 Philadelphia, the Commercial Union of New York, the Firemen's of Newark, the 
 Worcester Mutual, and the Merchants and Farmers of Worcester. He also repre- 
 sented accident indemnity companies and those writing the varied forms of modern 
 insurance. The agency bearing his name became one of the largest and best- 
 known in the city, and in its upbuilding Mr. Mooney gained high reputation as a 
 man of sound judgment, whose advice on real estate values was valued and safe 
 to follow. 
 
 Mr. Mooney was one of the founders of the Bay State Savings Bank and a 
 member of its board of investment, his associates relying strongly on his judgment. 
 In political faith he was a staunch Democrat, and took a deep interest in municipal 
 afifairs. He was elected to represent his ward in the Common Council of the city 
 for ten consecutive terms, serving in that body on various important committees 
 including that on finance. 
 
 Although the founder and head of one of the most important fire insurance 
 agencies of this city, Mr. Mooney was perhaps better known for his public service 
 as a city official and as a member of city organizations. He was a pleasing and 
 forceful public speaker, often rising to heights of eloquence, and on one occasion, 
 when the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society presented a testimonial to the 
 late Senator George F. Hoar in recognition of his long life and valuable service, 
 the society chose him president to make the presentation, which he did in a graceful 
 and eloquent speech. Mr. Mooney was a member of the Knights of St. Crispin 
 and in 1870, the year of the "strike," conducted by that organization, was its secre- 
 tary, and took a prominent part in the management and direction of the organiza- 
 tion's side of the controversy. He was also a member of the Ancient Order of 
 Hibernians, the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society, and the Mutual Benefit 
 •Association of Worcester. In religious belief he was a Catholic, a member of St. 
 Paul's Roman Catholic Church. 
 
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 Mr. Mooney married, in 1885. jnanna M. Healcy, of t'aniliridm-, Massacluisclts, 
 who passed away June g. 1914. To this union were born the follownii; children: 
 John J., who was associated with liis father in the insurance Inisiness. died April 
 8, IQ15; Richard .).. who died in igo?, aged sixteen years; Frances C; Ka<hel A.. 
 who is the wife of Francis J. M\dcahy. of Worcester; Anna '1'.. Sheila. 
 
 CHARLES HILL MORGAN, Manufacturer, founder of the Morgan (."onstruc- 
 tion Company and other Worcester industries, was born in Rochester. \e\v York,. 
 January 8. 1831, died in Worcester, January 10, igii. son of Hiram, and Clarissa 
 Lucina' (Rich) Morgan. He was a descendant in the eighth generation of Miles 
 Morgan, who came from Bristol, England, in 1636, to Boston, and shared the honor 
 of founding the town of Springfield with William Pynchon. .\ statue in his honor 
 was erected in Court Square, Springfield, in 1879, just two hundred years alter liis 
 death. Deacon David Morgan, son of David Morgan, and grandson of Sergeant 
 Miles Morgan, came from his native town to Brimfield and was town clerU tliere 
 in 1731. Sergeant Joseph Morgan, son of David Morgan, was horn in Si)ringfield, 
 August 19, 1705, and went to Brimfield with his father; served in the expedition 
 against Louisburg in 1758, and at the age of seventy years marched with his com- 
 pany in response to the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. Sergeant .^aron Morgan, 
 son of Joseph Morgan, was one of the foremost men of Brimfield for many years, 
 serving the town repeatedly as moderator, selectman, assessor and tinvn clerk, and 
 was a soldier of the Revolution. Calvin Morgan, of Brimfield, son of Aaron Morgan, 
 was father of Hiram Morgan, and grandfather of Charles Hill Morgan. Hiram 
 Morgan lived in Brimfield, Rochester, New York, and finally in Clinton. Massa- 
 chusetts, where he died June 29, 1866. In all his other lines of ancestry Mr. Morgan 
 was descended from the pioneer English stock. Among his ancestors were the 
 Clarks, Coltons, Coopers, Cooleys, Wolcotts, Shermans, Stones, and many others^ 
 prominent in the Bay Colony, and especially so in Springfield and vicinity. 
 
 Charles Hill Morgan received his early education in the public schools of 
 Clinton and at Lancaster Academy. At the age of fifteen he went into the shop of 
 his uncle and soon developed skill in mechanical drawing. In 185J, when he was 
 but twenty-one years idd. he was placed in charge of the dye house of tlie Clintoti 
 mills, a position for which he had fitted himself by studying chemistry during his 
 spare time. He returned to mechanics, however, and was employed for some time 
 in the offices of the Lawrence Machine Company and by Erastus P. Bigelow. When 
 with the Lawrence Machine Company he was sent to Worcester to install the steam 
 engine in the Merrifield building on Union street, and made his first acquaintances 
 in the city where the best part of his life was spent. In i860 he joined his brother 
 in a manufacturing enterprise in Philadelphia, but remained there only a short time. 
 In 1864 he came to Worcester as general superintendent of the Wasliburn & Moen 
 Wire Works, a position he held for more than twenty-three years, and for eleven 
 years he was also a director of the corporation. During this time he designed 
 the first hydraulic elevator introduced in New England. He made many trips to 
 Europe to study the steel and wire mills of England. Belgium. Germany, France 
 and Sweden, and he kept the Washburn & Moen mills in the front rank among 
 similar industries of the world. He introduced a reel operated by steam power, and 
 from time to time designed other improvements in methods and machinery. He 
 designed a new mill to supersede the Bedson mill. In 1886 he received patents on 
 automatic reels. In 1887 he was called to Cleveland, Ohio, to become consulting 
 engineer of the .'\merican Wire Company and there he continued to produce in- 
 ventions improving the processes for making wire. In 1889 he completed and placed 
 in operation at Dollar Bay, Michigan, a large copper mill at the Tamarack mine. 
 His career as manufacturer on his own account began in 1888, when he established 
 the business which was incorporated three years later as the Morgan Construction 
 Company. He manufactured rolling mill machinery at first, and afterward wire 
 drawing and hydraulic machinery. A description of the plant will I)e found else- 
 where. From the outset he was successful, and within a few years had taken his 
 place among the leading manufacturers of the city. He also established the Morgan 
 Spring Company in 1881 and was president and principal owner. He began to 
 make springs in the plant of the Morgan Construction Company, Lincoln street. 
 In 1896 the extensive plant of the Morgan Spring Company was erected at Greendale. 
 
 To Mr. Morgan more than any other man is due the credit for the successful 
 development of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Ichabod Washburn died 
 before the Washburn shops at the Institute were completed, and Mr. Morgan had 
 charge of the construction and equipment of tliese shops which have proved a vital 
 part of the institution to which thev were given. Through the important period when 
 
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530 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 the shops were an experiment in education, he guided them to a profitable basis 
 and made them models for the technical schools of the entire country to copy. He 
 was a director of the First National Bank. He was one of the founders of Ply- 
 mouth Congregational Church and one of its first deacons, a director of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association, and a member of the Congregational Club of Wor- 
 cester. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers, and the British Iron and Steel Institute. 
 
 Mr. Morgan married (first) June 8, 1852, Harriet C. Plympton, born November 8, 
 1831, died July 28, 1862. He married (second) August 4, 1863, Rebecca Ann Bea- 
 gary, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Children by first wife: i. Charles Henry, born 
 February i, 1854, resides in Worcester. 2. Hiram Plympton, born and died in 1862. 
 By his second wife : 3. Harriet L., born June 9. 1864. married Dr. Winthrop D. 
 Mitchell, of East Orange, New Jersey. 4. Charlotte, born July 10, 1866, married 
 Frederick M. McFadden, of Philadelphia. 5. Paul Beagary (See biography). 6. 
 Ralph Landers, born September 5, 1872, consulting engineer, Worcester; married 
 Alice, daughter of William H. Sawyer, of Worcester (See biography). 
 
 PAUL BEAGARY 'MORGAN, President of the Morgan Construction Company, 
 the Morgan Spring Company and the Heald Machine Company, was born in Wor- 
 cester, May 7, 1869, son of Charles Hill and Rebecca Ann (Beagary) Morgan. He 
 attended the public schools of his native city and Worcester .\cademy, from which 
 he graduated in 1887, and entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which 
 he was graduated in the class of 1890. Then he went abroad to study the iron and 
 steel industry and took a special course in metallurgy and chemistry in the Royal 
 School of Mines at Stockholm, Sweden. He also gained some practical experience 
 in the celebrated Munkfors Works of the Uddeholm Company in Sweden. Return- 
 ing to Worcester, he became associated in business with his father, whom he suc- 
 ceeded as president of the Morgan Construction Company and the Morgan Spring 
 Company. Under his management the business of both companies have been greatly 
 extended and various additions made in the buildings and plant. He is also presi- 
 dent of the Heald Machine Company, a sketch of which appears elsewhere. He 
 stands second to none among the younger heads of industry in Worcester. From 
 1904 until the consolidation in 1917, Mr. Morgan was a director of the Worcester 
 National Bank, and is now a director of the Worcester Trust Company. He is also 
 a trustee of the People's Savings Bank and of the Memorial Hospital of Worcester. 
 As president of the Worcester County Musical Association he has been active in 
 promoting the high reputation of its annual festival. He is a member of Plymouth 
 Corigregatpnal Church, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Congre- 
 gational Club ; trustee of the Worcester Academy and president of the board of 
 trustees since 1910. He has been president of the Alumni Association of the Wor- 
 cester Polytechnic Institute, and vice-president of the Alumni of Worcester Academy. 
 His interest has been in evidence not only in religious, educational, charitable, 
 musical, financial and social organizations, but in every movement designed to make 
 for progress and public welfare. He is an honorary member of George H. Ward 
 Post, Grand Army of the Republic ; a member of the Sons of the .American Revo- 
 lution ; of the Worcester Club, the Quinsigamond Boat Club, the Tatnuck Country 
 Club, and the Engineers' Club of New York. In politics he is a Republican. His 
 home is at No. 21 Cedar street, Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Morgan married, June 15, 1893. at Worcester, Lessie Louise Maynard, 
 daughter of William and Mary (Adams) Maynard, of Worcester. Children: I. 
 Philip Maynard, born April 13, 1896. 2. Charles Hill, born September 19, 1902. 
 3. Paul Beagary, Jr., born June 11, 1904. 4. Vincent, born February 2, 1906. 5. 
 Elizabeth, born July 2, 1909. 
 
 NAPOLEON PETER HUOT, Retired business man, a well-known figure in 
 French-Canadian circles in Worcester, and fonnerly a wholesale dealer in eggs 
 and produce, but now retired, was born in St. Cesaire. Province of Quebec, Canada, 
 January 9, 1844, son of Prudent and Flavie (Leduc) Huot. 
 
 When but eight years old he came with his parents to the village of Three 
 Rivers, Massachusetts, and soon afterwards began to work in the cotton mill. After 
 three years the family moved to Mittineague, where he was employed as a general 
 utility boy in a cotton mill until it shut down in iS6r, returning then to Canada 
 with the family. With this early introduction to the serious work of life his edu- 
 cation was limited to a few terms at the public schools. Soon after his return to 
 Canada he left home to learn the carriage maker's trade at St. Mary's. Merriville, 
 Canada, and in a short time became an expert in this business. In 1864 he came 
 to Chicopee, Massachusetts, where he worked at his trade and within a month was 
 
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 made a foreman of the shop. He subsequently worked at his trade in Springfield, 
 Massachusetts, and at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, up to 1870. During the following 
 three years he was engaged in a grocery and meat business which he established 
 in Central Falls, Rhode Island. In 1873 he came to this city and with his savimis 
 started in business in a small building formerly a blacksmith shop on School street 
 near the railroad tracks, and began dealing in eggs and farm produce, selling both 
 at retail and wholesale. His brother, Godfrey D., was his agent in St. John, Canada, 
 and was his buyer of eggs. Mr. Huot with his one horse and wagon delivered his 
 goods to the grocers of the city. He soon needed larger quarters and moved to 
 No. 7 Allen court; later he took another store, doubling his space. In 1880 lie 
 moved to a store on Front street, between Bartlett and Trumbull streets. In 1885 
 he built the block at Nos. 7 and 11 Bartlett street and occupied it until 1903, when 
 he retired from active participation in business. In later years he added to his 
 stock butter, beans, hay and grain, and had two other retail grocery stores, one 
 on Bloomingdale road and another on the corner of Hamilton and Orient streets. 
 From 1885 to 1895 he also had a general store in North Grosvenor Dale. Connecticut. 
 For years he was rated as one of the largest dealers in eggs at wholesale in this 
 city, and was in a position at times to control the market. He entered business 
 again, and for seven years conducted a plumbing business with success, having at 
 one time a dozen mechanics in his employ. His store was at Nos. 7 and 9 Bartlett 
 street. Mr. Huot is perhaps the most successful business man of Canadian birth 
 in the city of Worcester. 
 
 In politics he is a Republican. He was for three years a member of tlic Board 
 of Aldermen (1897-98-99) and became widely-known. In appreciation of the honor 
 he received at the hands of his people, and of his services in their behalf, his 
 French-Canadian friends presented to him at the end of his term in the City Council 
 a life-size oil portrait. For many years he was a leader in his ward, and he often 
 won elections in a Democratic ward. He was the fovmder of a naturalization club 
 that did excellent service for years, and his work on the committees on public build- 
 ings and street lighting was of value to the municipality. He is a communicant of 
 St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and his home is at No. 34 Orient street. 
 
 Mr. Huot married, in June. 1870, at St. Cesaire, Eliza Guiderman Hebert, who 
 was born at St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec. Their children are: i. and 2. 
 Sons who died young. 3. Corinne. born at Central Falls, Rhode Island, married 
 Henry Latourneau, of the firm of Corveil & Company in this city, and they have 
 two children: Roland Huot and Hivet. 4. Oscar, deceased. 5. Martha E., mar- 
 ried Dr. Ovila Celinau, now of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. 6. Albert, died 
 in infancy. 7. Alma, married Dr. Joseph A. Lalande. and has one child, Lucilde. 
 8. Cora. 9. Flora. 
 
 Mark Huot, the great-grandfather of Napoleon P. Huot. came from France to 
 Canada with his wife, and settled at Chambly, in the Province of Quebec, dying 
 very soon after his arrival. Prudent Huot, son of Mark Huot. and the father of 
 Napoleon P. Huot, was born at Chambly, but at the age of twenty years located 
 at St. Cesaire in the same province and followed farming there until 18.S3. when 
 he removed to Three Rivers, Massachusetts, and found employment in the cotton 
 mill of Joseph Brown as a mechanic, carpenter and machinist. After six years he 
 returned to Canada and took charge of several farms which he had bought. He 
 operated some of these and leased the others. He died at St. Cesaire at the age 
 of eighty. His wife was a native of St. Cesaire, and died at the age of eighty-eight 
 at Albertsford, in the Province of Quebec, where she was living with a daughter. 
 Prudent Huot and his wife had seven children: i. Prudent, for many years a 
 grocer at Central Falls, Rhode Island, and wdio died there at the age of sixty-one 
 years. He married Mary Nadau, deceased, and left two children, George and Emma. 
 2. Amanda, married Philip Dupuis, deceased, a farmer of Albertsford. They h^d 
 a large family, tliose now living being: Alvira, Emma. Wilford, and Vilbon. 1 Mrs. 
 Amanda (Huot) Dupuis resided in Montreal, and died in March. 1918. 3. Napoleon 
 Peter, mentioned above. 4. Celanie. deceased, rnarried (lirst) Napoleon Paradis. and 
 after a widowhood of twenty-four years she married (second) Alexandre Belisle, of 
 St. Cesaire. She died in Montreal. 5. Godfrey D.. former partner of N.apoleon 
 Peter Huot, of previous mention. He married' Philanise Chabot, and resides at 
 St. John, Province of Quebec. They have four children : Arthur, Emma, Eva and 
 Sarah. 6. Hubert, a merchant at Whitinsville. Massachusetts. He married Emma 
 DuFrenne. and they have four children: Albert. Arthur. Emma. Gladys. 7. Vilbon, 
 a shoe merchant of Lawrence. Massachusetts. He married Lydia Marose. He has 
 occupied the same store for forty-seven years. 
 
 SAMUEL UTLEY, Justice of the Central District Court of Worcester, was 
 born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts. September 29, 1843, son of Thomas Knowlton 
 
532 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 and Theodocia (Knox) Utley, descendant of Samuel Utley, who came from England 
 and settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1637. Judge Utley attended Williston 
 Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, from 1858 to i860; Wesleyan Academy, 
 Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 1862-64; and Harvard Law School (LL. B. 1867). He 
 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 18C7 and began immediately to practice 
 in Worcester. Since September 13, 1882, he has been justice of the Central District 
 Court (See history of the court). He is a member of the Association of District 
 Judges; the council of the American Antiquarian Society; American Unitarian As- 
 sociation ; Harvard Club of Worcester. 
 
 Mr.' Utley married, December 8, 1875, Julia M. Martin, of this city. Mrs. Utley 
 is a member of the Worcester Art Museum. Their home is at No. 14 William street. 
 
 JOSEPH J. ROBERTS, Carpenter and builder, was born in St. Jean Baptiste, 
 Province of Quebec. Canada, March 28, 1865, son of Theophile and Mathilde (Ala- 
 guisse) Roberts. Theophile Roberts was a carpenter by trade; came here from 
 Canada and died here August 6, 1899, aged sixty-one years. His wife was also a 
 native of Canada; she died here November 17, 1917, aged seventy-five. 
 
 Eight of the nine children of Theophile and Mathilde Roberts are living: I. 
 
 Theophile Victor, resides here, married Lucier and has three children. 
 
 2. Joseph J., mentioned above. 3. Rosanna, married William Billings, of Wor- 
 cester, and has five sons. 4. Baline L., resides in Shrewsbury, a sausage maker; 
 married Esther Sibley and has three daughters. 5. Victor, resides in New Bedford, 
 Massachusetts, a hotel proprietor. 6. Georgianna, married Nelson Lavigne, of this 
 city, now an alderman ; they have three children. 7. Jennie, married Alphonse Heno, 
 now of Boston, and has two children. 8. Evelyn, resides in this city. 
 
 Joseph J. Roberts was educated there in the public schools. At the age of 
 seventeen he came to this city and found employment in Osgood Bradley's car 
 shops, remaining for two years. Afterward he worked as a journeyman carpenter 
 for about fifteen years, and during part of this time was foreman. Since September, 
 1903, he has been in business on his own account as a master builder. He has 
 made a specialty of mill construction and has erected many large and important 
 buildings for various manufacturing companies in this section. He undertakes all 
 kinds of building, however, including brick and stone work, and general contracting. 
 His office and shop is at No. 4 Wall street. Mr. Roberts makes a hobby of thorough- 
 bred horses and he has owned some of the best. Among them may be mentioned, 
 "Jack London" (2:07^): "H. Will-Tell" (2:0554 on a half-mile track); "Hale B." 
 (2:iiJ4). He is a member of the Worcester Club; the French-Canadian organiza- 
 tions and various clubs and societies of horse owners. He is a Republican ; a com- 
 municant of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. He married at Webster, Massa- 
 chusetts, 1888, ■ . Their home is at No. 4 Wall street. 
 
 JOHN L. MURPHY, Representative citizen, who is now living retired in the 
 city of Worcester, Massachusetts, which was for so many years the scene of his 
 active business career, is a native of Boston, born August ig, 1831. He remained 
 in the city of his birth until between eleven and twelve years of age, when his par- 
 ents removed to Lowell, and when about thirteen years of age his parents took up 
 their residence at Saxonville. Massachusetts. Such education as he enjoyed was 
 gained at the public schools of Boston, and he was admitted to the Lowell High 
 School when twelve years of age. Upon going to Saxonville he abandoned his 
 studies, however, and worked for a time in the woolen factory there. At the age 
 of sixteen, however, he was apprenticed to the firm of A. & S. Thayer, who were 
 engaged in business as machinists, and there learned that trade. He remained for 
 three years in this apprenticeship and was afterwards employed as a journeyman 
 in the same line with Samuel Flagg. He remained with this employer for the two 
 years following, and then began to work for the Thompson & Skinner Company on 
 the manufacture of machinists' tools. It was but a short time that he remained 
 there, however, and then entered the employment of C. Whitcomb & Company, where 
 he worked for several years. Mr. Murphy's next move was to the West and for a 
 time he resided in Detroit, Michigan, taking a position in the Detroit Locomotive 
 Works there. From Detroit he went to Davenport, Iowa, to work for the Davenport 
 Engine Works, and he was also employed as engineer in the Burgess House there. 
 After this experience in the West, Mr. Murphy returned to Massachusetts and took 
 up his abode in the city of Worcester and at the same time resumed his old trade. 
 His first employment in Worcester was with George Crompton, manufacturer of 
 looms, with which concern he was foreman of the planing and tool-making de- 
 partment, where he was employed for seventeen years. Mr. Murphy next traveled 
 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became associated with the firm of L. 
 
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 Power & Company, manufacturers of wood-working machinery. His association 
 with this concern lasted twenty-two years, and he was admitted into partnership 
 and given the position of general superintendent of the work. He also traveled 
 throughout the United States in the firm's interest, and became very well-known 
 all over the coimtry in connection with this business. Eventually, however, Mr. 
 Murphy disposed of his interest in the firm of L. Power & Company and returned to 
 Worcester, where he has since lived in a well-earned retirement. 
 
 Besides his activity in the business world, Mr. Murphy has always displayed 
 the keenest interest in the general affairs of the community and has won the repu- 
 tation of being a most public-spirited and loyal citizen. He is a Roman Catholic 
 in his religious belief, was active in -St. John's Church and St. Ann's Church, and 
 was one of the most active of those interested in the organizing and founding of 
 St. Paul's Church, Worcester. He presided at the meeting held in Washburn I fall 
 when this organization was formed, and after the erection of the church building 
 his was the first voice ever heard within its walls. This was on the occasinn of a 
 fair that was held in the church before its dedication. Mr. Murphy has held i)rac- 
 tically all the minor offices in the gift of the city and has been ward inspector, 
 member of the school board, a i)ost which he held for three years, and member 
 of the City Council. He was elected alderman from the Fourth Ward and held 
 that position in 1878 and 1879, being the first Catholic ever elected in Worcester. 
 It was Mr. Murphy wdio was instrumental in introducing and having passed in the 
 Legislature of the State a law that the Bible should be read in the public schools 
 of the State without comment, this law having the distinction of being the shortest 
 on the Massachusetts statute. Mr. Murphy was elected to the State Legislature 
 in the year 1861, and during his membership in that body was a most energetic 
 factor in procuring reform and good government. He is now a member of St. 
 Peter's Roman Catholic Church at Worcester, and was formerly a member of the 
 Irish Catholic Benevolence Union, which is now dissolved. 
 
 John L. Murphy was united in marriage, January 27. 1853, in St. John's Church, 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, with Joanna Kavanagh, a native of Ireland, who died 
 March 9, 1893, at Philadelphia. To them were born ten children (two of whom 
 are living) as follows : Mary E.. who attended Clark University, and is a .i;ra<luate 
 of tlie Worcester Normal School : and Ellen C, who is a graduate of the Philadelphia 
 Normal College, and Simmons College, class of 1912. Both are engaged in teaching. 
 Among the children now deceased was Charles A. Alurphy, born at Worcester, and 
 educated in this city and at Philadelphia, where he graduated from the Newton 
 Grammar School, and was then associated with his father in business there until 
 the time of his death which occurred when he was but twenty-nine years old. He 
 married Mattie Miller, of Boston, who survives him, with one son. John L. Murphy, 
 who is now a graduate of the Boston public schools, of the Mechanics Arts School, 
 Lowell Institute, and other institutions, and is now teaching manual training at the 
 Dorchester High School. Dorchester, Massachusetts. He is also at the present 
 time taking a course of study in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 
 Boston, where he is one of the first flight A, of the Aviation Corps, and is now an 
 ensign in the United States Navy Aviation. 
 
 WILLIAM DODD CHENERY, Suiicrintendent of the Bradstreet Company in 
 Worcester, was born in New York City, January 21, 1845. son of Cyrus and Mary 
 T. (Hubbard) Chenery. When he was eight years old he left the city with his 
 parents and a year later went to live on the farm at Holden. where he attended the 
 public schools, the hi.gh school and select school in that town. At the age of nine- 
 teen he began to teach school and for three winters was a teacher in the district 
 schools of Holden. In 1873 he came to this city and became a clerk in the office 
 of Edward Russell & Company. This was an old-established mercantile agency. 
 In various capacities Mr. Chenery was with this concern for a period of twenty-five 
 years, until Edward Russell & Company merged with R. G. Dunn & Company, of 
 this citv, and he became manager of the local Dunn office. After fifteen months 
 he resigned and became identified with the Bradstreet Company, and since 1909 
 has held his present position as superintendent. Perhaps no man in Worcester has 
 a more comprehensive knowledge of ratings, credits, of the history of mercantile 
 and industrial business, of the men who have created and developed business m all 
 kinds in the citv. In politics Mr. Chenery is a Republican. His residence is in 
 Holden. He is a member of the Town Club of Holden; the Holden Community 
 House; the Worcester Rotary Club. In religion he is a Congregationalist. 
 
 Mr. Chenery married in Holden, March 17, 1880, Laura E. Putnam, daughter 
 of Archelaus and Laura E. Putnam, both of that town. Mr. and Mrs. Chenery had 
 three children: Laura Louise, married Chester L. Thorndike, professor of the 
 Technical High School of Springfield; Mary Frances; WiUietta, died in nfancy. 
 
534 HISTORY UF WORCESTER 
 
 Cyrus Chenery, father of William D. Chenery, was born in Boylston, Massa- 
 chusetts, April 13, 1798, son of Thaddeus and Mary D. Chenery. He was a mer- 
 chant all his active life in New York City, retiring on account of ill health to his 
 farm in Holden, where he died at the age of seventy-three years. His wife died 
 there at the age of eighty-three. Of their eleven children but two are living, William 
 Dodd, and Henry Clay," a clerk in the office of the State Mutual Life Assurance 
 Company in this city, residing in Holden. Dr. Isaac Chenery, father of Thaddeus 
 Chenery^ was born in.Medfield in 1742, and died in Holden, October 20, 1822; his 
 wife Susanna died there January 27, 1820, aged seventy-three years. He was a 
 surgeon in the Revolutionary War. Lambert Chenery, the immigrant ancestor, was 
 born in England in 1593, and died in Dedham, Massachusetts, January 30, 1675. 
 He was a prominent citizen in Dedham. 
 
 FREDERICK JAMES DOON, Grain merchant, was born in this city. May 
 13, 1867, son of James W. and Ellen (Rowley) Doon. James W. Doon was born at 
 Underbill, Vermont, March 25, 1842. He came to Worcester in 1863 and has always 
 been in the grain business since that time. He married Ellen Rowley, in this city, in 
 1870, and they had two children; Frederick J., and Aloysius, who is now manager of 
 the Natick business of J. W. Doon & Company, married Mary Grady, and has five 
 children. 
 
 Frederick J. Doon attended the public schools here, graduating from the high 
 school, and entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 
 1888. For three years he was in the employ of the Edison Electric Light Company of 
 Boston. Since then he has been in the grain business. He was associated with his 
 father in business at Willimantic, Connecticut, four years. Since then he has been in 
 partnership with his father in the wholesale hay, grain and straw business in Worces- 
 ter. The firm has also a grist mill and retail grain and hay business in Natick, Massa- 
 chusetts. The Worcester offices of the firm are at No. 311 Slater building. Mr. Doon 
 has always been interested in athletics. At school he took part in various track events 
 and won the quarter and half-mile races and stood second in the high kick. He is a 
 member of Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus; the Washington Club, and the 
 Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters, Court No. 59. He is a communicant of 
 St. John's Catholic Church. 
 
 Mr. Doon married. October 25, 1892, in New York City, Helen T. Short, of Bos- 
 ton. She died September 25, 1893. 
 
 JOSEPH BEALS, Clerk of the school committee, was born in Chester, Massa- 
 chusetts. January 12, 1864, son of Luther Hamilton and Sarah Harriet (Milliken) 
 Beals. Luther Hamilton Reals was born at Goshen, Massachusetts, in 1837, and is now 
 living in Westfield ; a retired whip manufacturer; former chairman of the Board of 
 Health of Westfield. He married Sarah Harriet Milliken, who was born in New 
 York State, and died in Westfield in 191 1, aged seventy-one years. Three of their 
 children lived to maturity : Charles H., whip manufacturer, Westfield ; Joseph, mention- 
 ed above; and Bertha M., who married William C. Shute, of Denver, Colorado, but 
 formerly of Westfield, where he was born. 
 
 The parents of Joseph Beals moved to Westfield in this State when he was an 
 infant and he went to school there, graduating from the Westfield High School in 1881. 
 He entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1885 with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Science, receiving honors, and being the valedictorian of 
 his class. After a short time in the employ of the Deane Steam Pump Works and 
 various other concerns, he was engaged in manufacturing whips in partnership with his 
 father and brother in Westfield. In the meantime he taught in the evening high school 
 in Westfield and was principal for several years. In 1889 he became a teacher in the 
 Fall River High School. After two years there he came to this city and became in- 
 structor in mathematics and physics in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Soon 
 afterward he was appointed assistant professor of physics, continuing until January, 
 1900, a period of nine years, as teacher in the Institute. Since January, 1900, Mr. Beals 
 has been clerk of the school committee of this city, an executive position of great 
 responsibility and detail. He is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Free Masons; the 
 Rotary Club; and the Worcester County Republican Club. He is a member of Union 
 Church, of which he has been a deacon for many years, and was formerly a teacher 
 in the Sunday school. 
 
 Mr. Beals married, in this city, October 27, 1887, Grace D. Houghton, who was 
 born in Worcester, December 27, 1866, daughter of Henry H. and Susan E. (Rawson) 
 Houghton. (See biography of father). Children of Mr. and Mrs. Beals: i. Geoffrey 
 Houghton, born July 24, 1892, graduate of Dartmouth College (A. B., 1914) ; now in 
 the United States Army (1918). 2. Helen, born May 20, 1894, student in Cornell 
 
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 University, class of 1919. 3. Katherine, born November 2, 1904. Thcii- liome is at 
 No. 4 Marston way in this city. 
 
 ALLAN N. DAVIS, Manager of the Packard Motor Car Company, was born in 
 this city, November 25, 1887, son of Arthur Eugene and Alice L. (Nichols) Davis. He 
 attended Miss Fitch's Oread Kindergarten; the Woodland street public school; the 
 Adams square and Belmont street public schools and the Classical High School, from 
 which he graduated in 1906. Since then he has been connected with the automobile 
 business. For a year or more he was in the employ of John S. Harrington, who had 
 an automobile station at No. 31 Central street. During the next four years he was a 
 chauffeur in Gardner and Worcester. In 1910 he entered the employ of Alvin T. Fuller, 
 sales agent for the Packard Motor Cars, Park square. Boston. For six months he was 
 a demonstrator of used cars; then salesman in the new car department, Thence he 
 went to the office in Providence, remaining for six months, later to New Bedford and 
 Fall River, where he remained for a time, and after a few months returned again to 
 Boston. He came to Worcester in 1913 as manager of the Worcester branch of the 
 Packard Motor Car Agency, then at No. 185 Commercial street, occupying 7,000 
 square feet of floor space and employing four persons. In 1915 Mr. Davis moved to 
 new quarters at No, 75 Central street and a year later to No. 36 Central street, includ- 
 ing the quarters formerly occupied by John S. Harrington. Later the station was at 
 No. II Warren street and while tliere he began the building now occupied at No. 495 
 Shrewsbury street. The building was occupied on .A.pril 19, 1917. The sales room and 
 service station are considered as the finest in this country, having every modern 
 convenience. There is a floor space of 39,000 square feet. During his first year in 
 Worcester Mr. Davis sold nineteen cars; in the year 1915 he sold two hundred and fifty. 
 At the present time he employs six persons in this business. He is a member of 
 Gemma Sigma fraternity ; the Tatnuck Country Club ; the Worcester Club ; the 
 Kiwanis Club; the Navy League. He is a communicant of St. John's Protestant 
 Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Republican, and a member of the Young Men's 
 Republican Club of this city. 
 
 Arthur Eugene Davis, father of Allan N. Davis, was born in Princeton, Massa- 
 chusetts, March 19, 1859. died here, December 26, 1901, son of Henry Wilson Davis. 
 He came to this city when four years old with his parents, and was educated in the 
 public schools here. He began life as errand boy in the clothing store of Davis & 
 Lytic, and in time became member of the firm, under the name of Davis & Company, 
 at No. 223 Main street. In later years he was in business on his own account as a 
 custom tailor in the State Mutual building, continuing to the time of his death. He 
 was a member of the Hancock Club, the Commonwealth Club, and Quinsigamond 
 Lodge, Free ^Masons. He married Alice L. Nichols, of Auburn, Massachusetts, now 
 living in Brookline, a descendant of Colonel Timothy Bigelow. Children: Allan N., 
 mentioned above; Helen D., born December i, 1889; Catherine, born May 22, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Davis is descended from tlie same family as Governor Davis (see Early 
 Families). The line of ancestry is: Allan N. (10), Arthur E. (9), Henry Wilson (8), 
 Samuel (7), Silas (6), Samuel (5), Deacon Ephraim (4), Daniel (3), Samuel (2), 
 Dolor (l). Henry Wilson Davis (8) was born August 14, 1833, died December 24, 
 1888; married (first) Lois R. Bigelow; (second) Emma M. Gleason. Samuel Davis 
 (S) came from Bedford to Princeton in May, 1783, and died there September 13, 1800. 
 
 HANS TRULSON, former publisher of "Svea," the Swedish newspaper of 
 Worcester, was born in Sweden, August 25, 1846, and died here March 26, igo8. 
 He was educated in his native land and was one of the first half dozen coming 
 from Sweden to locate in Worcester. He landed in America in 1869, going west 
 to Kansas City, Kansas, where he was located for three years. He moved to 
 Worcester in 1872 and lived here the remainder of his life. He was employed by 
 the Washburn & Moen Company, now the American Steel & Wire Company, for 
 a number of years, being foreman in his last five years with this concern. In 1880 
 he opened up the first Swedish grocery store in Worcester, located in the Salisbury 
 building, Lincoln square, which business he conducted successfully for over 
 sixteen years. His place of business became headquarters in a sense for 
 the Swedish people and a bureau of information. To those of his people coming 
 to this city as strangers Mr. Trulson was invariably a friend. In every possible 
 way he gave them aid and comfort. 
 
 In every movement inaugurated by the Swedish residents here he took an active 
 part, and he was a charter member of most every Swedish club and society or- 
 ganized in the city. He came to know the Swedish people of the city, almost without 
 exception, but to" the end of his life, even after the number had reached into the 
 thousands, he made friends among all classes cf people. He was essentially a man 
 
536 HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 of large public spirit, though nn^dest in manner and bearing and not ambitious for 
 distinction on his own account. He realized the value of the public press, and 
 when he sold his grocery business in 1897. he established a printing office, from which 
 he issued the "Svea," at first a monthly periodical printed in the Swedish language 
 and widely distributed. Later the publication was changed to a weekly newspaper, 
 now managed by his son. His son Francis became associated with him as soon as 
 he had graduated from high school, and soon took over the business management. 
 It was largely through his proficient management and hard work that the "Svea" 
 was able to rise through its two disastrous fires, which entirely wiped out the 
 "Svea's" plants on both occasions. A year and a half after the last fire Francis 
 passed away, which was a heavy blow to his father and his family. The newspaper 
 was an expensive experience, but Mr. Trulson persisted and eventually built up a 
 valuable property. The "Svea" was circulated in all parts of the country and is regarded 
 as a substantial and reliable journal. Besides giving the current news and the 
 special news of the Swedish people, not only of this city but of many other towns 
 and cities where Swedish people had settled, it had much miscellaneous reading. After 
 the first fire he had located his plant in the building at the rear of E. G. Higgins' 
 wall paper store, and the "Worcester Spy" printing plant occupied the ground 
 floor of the same building. The second fire destroyed, in March, 1905, the fine new 
 printing plant located at the Polish building on Front street. But he persisted and 
 in the course of a few months he moved back to the new buildnig of John E. Day, 
 erected in the rear at No. 274 Main street. 
 
 Mr. Trulson married, in Worcester, September 20. 187J, ./Kuna Carlson, of this 
 city, daughter of Nils Carlson. They had seven children, four sons and three 
 daughters. Albert, the oldest son, died in infancy ; Flora, the yoimgest daughter, 
 died in 1906 ; Francis, the manager of the newspaper at his death, November, igo6 ; 
 Mrs. Hulda Osterberg, living at No. 15 Devens road, Worcester; Mrs. Clara Fredin. 
 living at No. 10 Perkins street, Worcester ; Anton Herman (see biography) ; and 
 Harold H.. one of the present owners of the Svea Publishing Company, proprietors 
 of the "Svea" ; Harold H. Trulson, the youngest son, was educated in the schools 
 of Worcester, graduating from the Post Business Institute in 1915. He is at the 
 present time associated with his brother, Anton H. Trulson, in conducting the 
 management of the paper. 
 
 Anton Herman Trulson. editor and publisher of "The Svea," was born in this 
 city, February 6, 1885, son of Hans and Anna (Carlson) Trulson. He was educated 
 in the public schools and the English High School of Worcester. He learned the 
 printing business in his father's office, step by step, gradually sharitig the responsi- 
 bilities of the management, and since the death of his father in 1908 he has been 
 the manager and head of the Svea Publishing Company. The business was incor- 
 porated at the time of the father's death and is a close corporation, the stock being 
 held by his heirs. "The Svea" has grown and prospered in later years and has a 
 wide circulation in all parts of New England with branch offices in Boston and 
 Providence. The services of exceptionally able editors have been secured. It has 
 more than fifty correspondents in New England. In addition to the newspaper the 
 company has a very complete printing plant and is favored with a large part of the 
 job printing in Swedish, publishing many pamphlets and books in that language, 
 and also much job printing in English, for which it is equally well equipped. 
 
 Mr. Trulson is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; 
 Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; 
 Worcester Lodge of Perfection: Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Aleppo Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine, and the Massachusetts Consistory; also the -Automobile Club of 
 Worcester; the Svea Gille Association; John Erickson Lodge, No. 10; Carl the Fif- 
 teenth Lodge, S. F. of A.; Thule Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Mas- 
 sasoit Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, and Sw^edish Masonic Club, of Boston. 
 In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Trulson married, June 27, 1913, Gertrude Erickson, daughter of Mr. and 
 Mrs. Carl P. Erickson, of Worcester. .They have two children, Evelyn A. and 
 Anton H. Jr. 
 
 FRANKLIN STUART HODGE, Dealer in motor trucks, was born in Glou- 
 cester, England, November 25, 1885, son of William and Margaret Elizabeth (Frazacer- 
 ly) Hodge. He was but two years old when his parents came to this country, locating 
 at first in Chicago, but returning East after a short time. He attended the public 
 schools in Philadelphia; entered Cornell University, graduating with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Laws in 1908. He engaged in construction engineering in various sections 
 in the West, coming to Worcester in 1915 and establishing here the motor truck busi- 
 ness in which he has been engaged since that time, in partnership with his brother, 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 William Washington Hodge. His brother is now in the United States Army. Mr. 
 Hodge was active in athletics in college, especially in running and swimming, lie is a 
 member of Pennsylvania Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and of the 
 Church of Christ, Scientist. 
 
 Mr. Hodge married, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. June 19, 1918, Mabel Estelle 
 Coho, born in Lancaster, and both her parents, Frank P. and Nellie Coho, now live in 
 Lancaster, he a retired coal operator. 
 
 William Hodge, father of Franklin S. Hodge, was born in Chicago, Illinois, 1847, 
 and is now living in Harrisburg, Peinisylvania ; a mill engineer; served in the Indian 
 campaigns when a young man ; was a pioneer in California and was five years in 
 Australia in pioneer work ; married Margaret Elizabeth Frazacerly, who died in Phila- 
 delphia in 1892, aged thirty-two years. They had four children, of whom two died in 
 infancy. 
 
 FRANK EDWARD DODGE, Cashier of the local office of the Northwestern 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Manslield, 
 Massachusetts, April 10, 1884. After completing the course in the public schools of his 
 native town, he came with his mother to Worcester in 1898 and entered the English 
 High School, specializing in accounting and bookkeeping. He started in his business 
 career at the age of sixteen as clerk in the office of the Washburn & Moen Mainifactur- 
 ing Company. Afterward he was employed as clerk or bookkeeper successively in the 
 Mechanics National Bank and the First National Bank; as assistant payinaster for the 
 Norton Emery Wheel Company two years and a half; and as accountant for the 
 American Steel & Wire Company for eleven years. Since 1914 Mr. Dodge has been 
 cashier in the Worcester office of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company 
 of Milwaukee. Mr. Dodge served three years in the Worcester Light Infantry. Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Militia. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion an Episcopalian. 
 He is a vestryman of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. For a number of years 
 he was a teacher in the Sunday school. 
 
 Mr. Dodge married, in this city, June 22, 1904, Bessie Mae Allen, who was born 
 here, a daughter of Captain George L. and Lenette (.Sisson) Allen. Her father was 
 of the well-known firm of boiler makers (see biography). He died in iyo2. Her 
 mother is living. Mr. and Mrs. Dodge have three children: i. Russell Allen, born 
 April II, 1906. 2. Karl Sisson, born November 4, 1909. 3. Frank Edward, Jr., born 
 January 6, 1917. They reside at No. 24 Elbridge street. 
 
 William Dodge, father of Frank E. Dodge, came originally from Lowell, Massa- 
 chusetts. He was a wholesale produce merchant in New York State ; married Lillian 
 Isabelle Day, who was born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, August 6, 1861. She is now 
 living with her son in this city. They had two children. Karl Henry and Frank E. 
 Karl H. Dodge resides in Winthrop. Massachusetts; is cashier of the State Mutual 
 Life Assurance Company there ; married Bessie M. Overand, of Worcester. 
 
 ARTHUR JOSEPH RIENDEAU, Retail shoe dealer, was born in Dudley, 
 October 30. 1870. son of Charles F. and Phoebe M. (Daisy) Riendeau. Charles F. 
 Riendeau was born in St. Mary's, Province of Quebec, Canada, March 9, 1848, died in 
 Webster at the age of iifty-five years; came to Webster in 1866; was a merchant in 
 Webster. His wife was born in Canada, and died in Webster at the age of sixty-one 
 years. Of their six children five died in childhood. 
 
 The parents of Arthur J. Riendeau moved to Webster when he was rive years old 
 and from that time until he was sixteen he attended the public schools there. He 
 started upon his business career there as clerk in a retail shoe store, and continued for 
 a period of ten years. He was twenty-six years of age when he began in business for 
 himself as proprietor of a retail shoe store in Webster. He prospered and became one 
 of the best-known merchants of the town. At the end of twelve years he sold his 
 business to advantage, and in 1907 began on a larger scale in a more extended field in 
 this city. His store is at No. 513 Alain street and he has also a place of business at 
 Room 209, at No. 390 Main street, and two stores in the Park building, one on Main, 
 the other on Franklin street. He also has a retail store at No. 356 Main street, Spring- 
 field, Massachusetts. "Mr. Riendeau is a Republican, and for many years was a member 
 of the Republican town committee of Webster and of the Republican county com- 
 mittee. His chief recreation is music. He is the solo basso in the choir of St. Paul's 
 Catholic Church, of which he is a communicant. He is a member of the Imjiroved 
 Order of Red Men; Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus; and the Tatassit Canoe 
 Club. 
 
 Mr. Riendeau married, at Webster, September 3, 1893, Elnora M. Maynard, who 
 was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, daughter of Morris and Adelia (Woisard) 
 Maynard, residents of Webster. Her father is retired. Mr. and Mrs. Riendeau have 
 
538 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 four children, all living: i. Urbana, graduate of the Dental School at Farnhatn, 
 Quebec, with the degree of D. D. S. ; went in Battery B, One Hundred and Second 
 Massachusetts Regiment, to Mexico, and is now serving in France with that command. 
 2. Fernand M., student in Tufts Medical School, Boston. 3. Adelard J., associated in 
 business with his father. 4. Yolande M., student in High School. Mr. Riendeau's 
 home is at No. 3 Lenox street in this city. 
 
 WILLIE CLIFFORD SORENSON. Reed's Bird Store is a well-known Worces- 
 ter institution, and ever since graduation from grammar school in 1908, Mr. Sorenson 
 has been connected with it as clerk .and now as proprietor. Charles K. Reed es- 
 tablished the business and made it a regular Nature shop with birds, animals, beautiful- 
 ly illustrated books which he published, and special classes in field work which he 
 organized for Nature stud\-. This was the school in which Mr. Sorenson developed 
 his natural inclination for study and investigation of Nature and her works, and since 
 becoming proprietor he has continued along greatly-extended old lines and added new 
 features, until he has the largest business of its kind in Massachusetts. 
 
 He is a son of Andrew Sorenson, who was born in Denmark, July 3, 1864, came 
 to Worcester, Massachusetts, a young man of twenty, and there died, April 18, 1911. 
 For many years he was a mill worker, holding the position of foreman. He married 
 Anna Peterson, born October 7. 1865, who survives him, a resident of Worcester, now 
 aged fifty-three years. They were the parents of five children, all living; Annie Mary, 
 born in Worcester, married Clifford B. Guyette, of Worcester, and has children; 
 Willie Clifford, of further mention ; Frank Serenas, now a soldier of the United States, 
 belonging to Company C, Three Hundred and Twelfth Regiment of Engineers, Amer- 
 ican Expeditionary Forces in France, unmarried ; Pauline Florence, residing at home ; 
 and Marie Patrina, also at home, both unmarried. 
 
 Willie Clifford Sorenson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, August i, 1892. 
 He completed the public school course of grammar school study, then entered the 
 employ of Charles K. Reed, proprietor of Reed's Bird Store, headquarters in Wor- 
 cester for Nature enthusiasts of whom Mr. Reed was chief. The stock included a wide 
 variety of birds and animals, wild and domestic, and in this environment the young 
 man spent nine years, 1908-17, becoming thoroughly in sympathy with Mr. Reed and 
 his Nature work both as a merchant and as a scientist and publisher of Nature works. 
 On January I, 1917, he bought Mr. Reed out and has since been its sole owner and 
 manager. He has been very successful from a business point of view and won for his 
 store high reputation and wide notoriety of a most pleasant character. He is much 
 abroad in the open air, usually in his auto, motoring being his most favored re- 
 creation. He is a member of Grace Episcopal Church, but has no club nor society 
 affiliations. 
 
 Mr. Sorenson married, September 17, 1917, Irene Beatrice Delude, born in Worces- 
 ter, who died in Worcester, May 10, 1918. 
 
 JEREMIAH FRANCIS REGAN. From Roscommon, Ireland, came Michael H. 
 Regan, born there Christmas Day, 1838. In the United States he settled in Woon- 
 socket, Rhode Island, but he ended his days at the home of his son, Jeremiah F. Regan, 
 in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Michael H. Regan married Margaret Mc- 
 Cabe, born in Boyle, Ireland, in 1840, who yet survives him (1919), a resident of 
 Worcester. Michael H. and Margaret Regan were the parents of two sons, Jeremiah 
 F., whose name heads this review, and Patrick H. Regan; the caterer, at No. 23 
 Mechanic street, Worcester. Both of these sons serve the public as proprietors of 
 houses of public entertainment, Jeremiah F. being the popular manager of Regan's 
 Bay State Hotel Company, operating the Bay State Hotel at No. 283 Main street, 
 Worcester. 
 
 Jeremiah F. Regan was born at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, June 19, 1861, and 
 there spent the first five years of his life. The family then moved to Providence, 
 Rhode Island, and there he was educated and resided until 1877. He then became a 
 professional baseball player, continuing as such until 1891, when he retired with a good 
 record as a baseball player of ability and honor. In 1893 he Jocated in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, there establishing a restaurant at No. 23 Mechanic street, which became 
 famous as the home of good food and the abode of hospitality. He continued pro- 
 prietor and head of the restaurant until 1914, when he purchased the Bay State Hotel, 
 an old landmark among Worcester hotels, having been erected in 1854. The hotel has 
 been modernized under Mr. Regan's managementship, and is run upon the principle 
 "The best of Everything." Consequently the house is popular and well-patronized. Mr. 
 Regan served as a member of City Council of Fitchburg. Massachusetts, from January 
 I, 1889, to January 1, 1890, he there being proprietor of the old Colony House for a 
 time prior to coming to Worcester. He is a member of the Elks Club, and St. Paul's 
 
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 539 
 
 Roman Catholic Church, and in poHtics an Independent. Genial and iriendly, he has a 
 host of friends and is an ideal host. 
 
 Mr. Regan married, in Worcester, April 22, 1907, Ellen Powell, born in Cork, 
 Ireland, who in 1887 crossed the ocean alone, taking up her rcsidcnie in Kcene. Xew 
 Hampshire. Her father, John Powell, died several years ago, her niollier yet living 
 in Cork, Ireland, aged eighty years. 
 
 FRANK ALFRED SANDERSON, Proprietor of billiard nH.nis. cafe and bowling 
 alleys, was born in tliis city, June 12. 1873. and was educated here in the Walnut street 
 public school and Becker's Business College. At the age of twenty he entered the 
 employ of Norcross Brothers, contractors; was sent to New Orleans where he spent a 
 year, thence to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was occupied for another year, and 
 to Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained for a short time, engaged in contracts under 
 way in those cities. Pie returned to Worcester and during the ne.xt ten years was in 
 business on his own account as a dealer in wall paper and paints. He then went to 
 Northfield, Vermont, and conducted a hotel for seven years, and is still the owner of 
 the property there. Since 1910 he has conducted a cafe, billiard room and bowling 
 alleys at No. 17 Foster street under the firm name of F. A. Sanderson & Company. 
 Mr. Sanderson's recreation for many years was found in horses. He was formerly 
 the owner of some of the finest racing stock in the city. He has been a member of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1893, and is also a member of the Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks; the Rotary Club; Tatnuck Canoe Club; the Wor- 
 cester Continentals; and Newton Center Square Baptist Church. 
 
 Mr. Sanderson married, in Boston, June, 1906, Adelaide L. Linn, who was born in 
 Newton Center, January 7, 1885, daughter of George L. and Ida Linn, both of whom 
 are now Iviing in Newton Center, They have no children. Their home is at No, 56 
 Beeching street. 
 
 Alfred Augustus Sanderson, father of Frank A. Sanderson, was born in Rutland, 
 Massachusetts ; was on the Worcester police force many years, now retired, residing 
 in this city; served in the Civil War in the Fifty-first Massachusetts Regiment of 
 Volunteer Infantry; member of George H. Ward Post. No. 10, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, now the oldest living Worcester Academy student. He married Roselle 
 Fairbanks, who was born in Holden. Their three children are all living: Frank A., 
 mentioned above; Nellie B., married George Flagg, of this city, and has two children, 
 Stanley and Lincoln Flagg ; Caroline, now living in Worcester. 
 
 MATTHEW J. KENNEDY, Hotel proprietor and wholesale merchant, now re- 
 tired, was born in West Lloylston, Massachusetts, July 8, 1855, son of Patrick and 
 Ellen (Yates) Kennedy. Patrick Kennedy was born in Ireland, and came to this 
 city when a young man. He removed soon to West Boylston, where for thirteen years 
 he had charge of the grounds and residence of Mr, Holbrook. He then bought a farm 
 in Sterling and followed farming to the end of his life. He died in 1897 at the age 
 of eighty-three years. Patrick and Ellen Kennedy had six children, of whom four are 
 
 now living: . who married Kirby, of West Boylston; Elizabeth, who 
 
 married Welch, of this city; P. H., now living in Sterling; and Matthew J. 
 
 Matthew J. Kennedy attended the public schools in West Boylston and Sterling, 
 and during his youth learned the trade of shoemaker in the factory of Henry Boyn- 
 ton, West Boylston. He worked as a journeyman in that town and in Sterling, then 
 went West, remaining for five years. In 1877 he came to this city and since then has 
 made his home here. For a time he was employed in the shoe factory of J. W. 
 Green and later in the Winslow skate factory. He engaged in business as a grocer and 
 for si.v years conducted a store on Suflfolk street. He then became proprietor of the 
 Rialto Hotel, which became popular among traveling salesmen visiting Worcester. He 
 continued in business for fourteen years. At the time of changing the grades of the 
 railroads, the property was purchased for railroad purposes. Since then he has been 
 at the head of the firm of M. J. Kennedy & Company, wholesale merchants, but the 
 management of the business has been left to his son, and son-in-law, Michael J. 
 Lahiff. He is practically retired. Mr. Kennedy is a man of public spirit, an inde- 
 pendent Republican in politics. He is a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians 
 and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 Mr. Kennedy married, in this city, 1882, Sarah J. Curley, daughter of John and 
 Katherine (Louder) Curley. both of whom were born in Ireland. Her father was a 
 shoemaker; died here in 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy have two children: Martha, who 
 married Michael J. Lahift'. partner in M. J. Kennedy & Company; Elizabeth, married 
 Vincent J. Jacobs, now- of Brookline, Massachusetts, and they have one son, Vincent. 
 
 JAMES CHARLES SULLIVAN, Real estate and insurance agent, was born in 
 Worcester, August 12, 1848, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (McNally) Sullivan, Daniel 
 
540 HISTORY OP Jl'ORCESTER 
 
 Sullivan was born in Cork. Ireland, and died in this city. He came hither when a 
 young man and followed the trade of stone mason. He married Elizabeth McNally, 
 who was also born in Ireland. They had three children: James Charles; John D., now 
 of Newark, New Jersey, a hatter; Margaret, who married Charles Hayden, of Boston, 
 where she died. . . r -.it 
 
 James C. Sullivan received his education m the public schools of Worcester, 
 leaving at the age of thirteen to become a drummer boy in the army, at the beginning 
 of the War for the Union. Afterward he enlisted in Company E, Fifty-seventh Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantrv, and served to the end of the war (see sketch of this 
 regiment). He was taken 'prisoner at Petersburg, July 30, 1864, and confined three 
 months in Libby prison ; then exchanged ; took part in Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, 
 Cold Harbor, and every other important battle of the Army of the Potomac. After 
 the war he learned the trade of shoemaker, and for a number of years worked at this 
 trade in various boot and shoe factories. In 1888 he engaged in his present business, 
 opening an insurance and real estate office. For many years he has been at his present 
 location, No. 58 Front street. He is now one of the oldest men in this line of busi- 
 ness in the city. He is a member of the American Order of Foresters; George H. 
 Ward Post, No. 10. Grand Army of the Republic. His home for thirty-five years 
 (1918) has been at No. 3 Glen street. He is a communicant of St. Anne's Roman 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan married, in this city, January 3. 1868. Mary A. .'Arthur, who was born 
 in Lowell, Massachusetts, died in this city in July, 1913. They had nine children, of 
 whom eight are living: Rosanna: Mary A., who married John J. Cross, of Worcester; 
 Margaret G., married Thomas Duggan, of Worcester; James C, mentioned above; 
 Charlotte: Catherine V.. who married James Carroll, of this city; Lucy Grace, who 
 married Ivlichael Flemming, of this city; Loretta A., who married Perley Trask, of 
 Worcester; John J., died in this city, aged twenty-eight years. 
 
 JOSEPH P. E. LAJOIE. Now among the prosperous young business men of 
 Worcester and fairly launched upon a career of business success. Mr. Lajoie, as a 
 member of the firm, Lajoie & Lajoie, is in a position to reap a reward from his long 
 years of educational preparation in school and college, both in his native Canada and 
 his adopted State of Massachusetts. He is a son of Louis David Lajoie, born in the 
 Province of Quebec, Canada, who came to the United States in T88g, and is now 
 engaged in the grocery business, his store located at No. 174 Ingleside avenue, Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts. He is now sixty-three years of age, and for twenty-five years 
 has been in the grocery business in Worcester. He married Azilda Thibodeau, born in 
 the Province of Quebec in 1852, died in Worcester in 1905, the mother of seven chil- 
 dren, three of whom died in infancy. One of these children died in Canada, the other 
 two in Worcester. The living children are : Mary Louise Margaret, now the father's 
 store assistant; Joseph P. E., whose career is hereafter traced; John Louis, now a 
 clerk in the post office at Montreal, Canada ; and Avila Joseph Edmund, a clerk in his 
 father's store. 
 
 Joseph P. E. Lajoie was born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, January 31, 
 1884. When five years of age he was brought by his parents to Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, and there attended the public schools until thirteen years of age. He was 
 then sent to Assumption College in Quebec, and there pursued the course of preparatory 
 and classical study for eight years until graduated Bachelor of Arts, class of 1906. The 
 following year was spent in post-graduate work at Tufts College, Boston, after which 
 he entered business life as head of the firm, Lajoie & Lajoie, heating contractors and 
 agents for Canton Steel cutting and laths. This business is located at No. 256 Grafton 
 street, Worcester, and covers a wide range, heating, contracting, tin roofing, sheet 
 metal work, and other allied branches being a part of the business. Like the true 
 American that he is Mr. Lajoie is very fond of out-of-door sports, and at Assumption 
 College was the regular short stop on the college baseball team. He is a member of the 
 Artisans Order of Protection, and of Franchere Lodge, and of St. Joseph's Roman 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 Mr. Lajoie married, in Worcester. Massachusetts, September 6, 1909, Clara Gen- 
 dron, born in Worcester, daughter of Alphonse and Henrietta (Carriere) Gendron, both 
 deceased, her father a wire mill worker. Mr. and Mrs. Lajoie are the parents of four 
 children: Adelbert Pascal, born in Worcester, April 16, igii ; Roland Joseph, March 
 9, 1912; Marcel Leo, April 22, 1913, died September 3, 1918; and Robert Francis Ber- 
 nard, born September 24, 1915. 
 
 HARRISON GIBBS PRENTICE, Violoncellist, of the Lincoln & Parker Film 
 Company of Worcester, was born in this city, January 20, 1886, brother of Robert L. 
 Prentice (see biography for family data). He attended the public schools of Wor- 
 
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 cester and completed his education in Harvard College. Alter leaving college lie went 
 abroad for study and travel, and was a student in Paris and Munich. He studied tlie 
 violoncello, became a professional player and traveled throughout the country giving 
 concerts. He is al present associated with the Lincoln & Parker Film Company of 
 Worcester, engaged in the manufacture of moving pictures of an educational variety, 
 designed eventually for use in schools. The company has offices at No. 399 Main street 
 and studios in Decatur avenue, borough of the Bronx, New York City. Mr. Prentice 
 is fond of mountain climbing for recreation and has ascended most of the high jieaks 
 of the world, particularly those in Switzerland. He is a member of the Ancient Free 
 and Accepted Masons; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Worcester 
 Country Club; the Chamber of Commerce; the Economic Club. He attends Piedmont 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Prentice married, in Boston, November 6, 1907, Joy Aldrich, who was born in 
 that city, daughter of Edward I. and Mary (Joy) Aldrich. Her father is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Hodd Rubber Company of Boston. Her parents reside in Boston. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Prentice reside at No. 5 Fenimore road. Mrs. Prentice is a member of the 
 Worcester Country Club. They have two children: Rosamond, born July ir, igii, and 
 Charles Harrison, born April 4, 1912. 
 
 JEREMIAH JOSEPH DONOHUE. Physician, surgcn. was b..rn in County 
 Kerry, Ireland, February 26. 187;, son of Daniel J. and Mary (Lucey) Donohuc. 
 He came to this city from Ireland with his parents in 1888,' attended the public 
 schools here, entering Holy Cross College, from which he graduated in 1898. He 
 was a student of medicine one year at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and 
 then at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, from which he grad- 
 uated in 1907 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 He began to practice medicine in this city in 1907 with offices at No. 15 Trum- 
 bull street, and has continued to the present time. His offices at present are at 
 No. 31 Trumbull street; liis residence on Forest street. Cherry Valley. He is a 
 member of the Worcester District Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical So- 
 ciety and the American Medical Association. Dr. Donohue takes his recreation 
 in outdoor sports, fishing, hunting and baseball, and in cultivating his garden. In 
 politics he is a Democrat. He was a member of the school committee of Wor- 
 cester for three years. He is a member of Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus ; 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians; the American Order of Foresters; the Irish Order 
 of Foresters ; Aerie. No. 203, Order of Eagles, and the Emmet Associates. 
 
 Dr. Donohue married, in this city, November 11, 191 1, Rose M. Burke, who was 
 born in Cherry Valley. 1885. daughter of William and Catherine (McLaughlin) 
 Burke. Her father was a soldier in the Civil War in a Ohio volunteer regiment. 
 Both parents were born in Ireland; both are now deceased. Children of Dr. and 
 Airs. Donohue: Mary Bernardine. born August 20, 1912; Catherine Louise, born 
 March 15, 1914; Eleanor, born April 9, 1916. 
 
 Daniel J. Donohue. father of Dr. Donohue. a native of County Kerry, Ireland, 
 died in this city in 1909, aged sixty-five years; his wife, Mary (Lucey) Donohue, also 
 born in County Kerry, died in this city. They had eleven children, of whom eight 
 are living in this city: i. Mary Agnes, widow of Cornelius McCarty, now living 
 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, ancl has four children, Henry, Nora, Daniel and Mary 
 McCarty. 2. Bridget T., widow of Patrick Sullivan, lives in this city, has a daugh- 
 ter, Loretta. 3. Timothy P., of Lawrence, Massachusetts, superintendent of the John 
 Hancock Life Insurance Company; has nine children. 4. Florence, died aged twenty- 
 five years. 5. Daniel, manager of the Donohue Laundry; has five children. 6. 
 James, died aged twenty-four years. 7. Dr. Jeremiah J., mentioned above. 8. Michael 
 T., of Albany, New York, superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- 
 pany there; has four children. 9. Cornelius F., of this city, an agent of the John 
 Hancock Life Insurance Company. 10. Jolin, died in infancy, u. Ellen 1., of Wor- 
 cester. 
 
 FRANK RICHARDSON, Broker, was born in Holden, March 3, 1861, sonof 
 John Dexter and Hannah W. (Davis) Richardson. He attended the public and high 
 schools of this citv. After leaving school he became messenger boy in the Qtim- 
 sigamond National' Bank. Two years later he began to assist in the bookkeepmg. 
 Afterward he was bookkeeper in the City National Bank, teller m the Citizens 
 National Bank, and after that bank was absorbed by the Worcester Trust Company 
 he mas made paying teller, a position he filled for ten years. Later he resigned to 
 engage in the brokerage and investment business. His offices are at No. 427 Slater 
 building. He is a member of the Commonwealth Club. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican. 
 
542 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Richardson married, June 2, 1888, Edith Hale Davis, daughter of Avery 
 Davis. She is a member of Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri- 
 can Revolution. Avery Davis, born at Holden, March 6. 1820, was a son of Paul 
 and Millea (Clapp) Davis, grandson of Paul and Lydia Davis, and a descendant of 
 the immigrant, Dolor Davis, in the seventh generation. Mrs. Richardson is also 
 descended from Robert Jennison, a pioneer of Watertown (See Early Settlers) ; 
 from Thomas Gould, who settled in Salem, and his descendant, Ebenezer Gould, 
 who came to Sutton about 1740; from Nicholas Clapp, of Venn Ottery, Devonshire, 
 England, and his son, Thomas Clapp, born in 1599, a pioneer of Scituate, Massa- 
 chusetts, and his descendant, Seth Clapp, of the sixth generation, who served in 
 the Revolution. Millea Clapp, daughter of Seth Clapp, married Paul Davis, Jr. In 
 all her paternal and maternal ancestry, Mrs. Richardson is descended from the 
 original English pioneers of New England. The same may be said of Mr. Rich- 
 ardson. 
 
 John Dexter Richardson, father of Frank Richardson, was born in Holden, 
 June 6, 1828, son of John and Sarah (ChafSn) Richardson. He was a farmer in 
 his native town. John Richardson was born there also, July 15, 1805, married there, 
 November 27, 1826. 
 
 Heman Richardson, grandfather of John D. Richardson, was born in Woburn, 
 January 21, 1766; a tanner and farmer; bought the Watson tannery at Holden; died 
 June 5, 1844; married (first) Mary Parker, of Bedford; (second) Lydia Davis. 
 
 Edward Richardson, father of Heman Richardson (1743-1837), married Sarah 
 Tidd ; was son of Edward Richardson and grandson of Jacob and Hannah (Con- 
 verse) Richardson. Lieutenant John Richardson served in King Philip's War; was 
 selectman and a prominent citizen of Woburn; married Elizabeth Bacon. Samuel 
 Richardson, the pioneer, was one of the founders of Woburn (See Early Settlers). 
 He was the progenitor of various other families of this surname in the city and 
 county. 
 
 GEORGE BEECHER BUCKINGHAM, Iron manufacturer, was born at Oxford, 
 Connecticut, March 20, 1848, died in Worcester, June 6, igo6, son of Colonel Philo B. 
 and Sally C. (Perkins) Buckingham. His father was also a native of Oxford, and 
 began life as a farmer, afterward in the railroad business and superintendent and 
 agent of a large chemical manufacturing company at New Haven, Connecticut. In the 
 town of Seymour, whither he moved in 1851, Philo B. Buckingham became a citizen 
 of prominence, chairman of the school visitors, treasurer of the Savings Bank, receiver 
 of the Bank of North America; state senator. While at Seymour he manufactured 
 car axles and various other articles. He went into the Civil War as captain and was 
 mustered out at the end of the war as lieutenant-colonel in command of his regiment, 
 and colonel by brevet, taking part in many of the great battles and numerous other 
 engagements. He wrote many of the chapters in the "Military and Civil History of 
 Connecticut During the War" (Crofut & Morris). Philo B. Buckingham was of the 
 eighth generation from the first settler in this country, Thomas Buckingham, who ar- 
 rived in the company of Davenport and Prudden at Boston, June 26, 1637, and at New 
 Haven, Connecticut, in April, 1638. Thomas Buckingham was one of the founders of 
 New Haven and of Milford. All of the ancestry of George B. Buckingham is traced 
 to the English pioneers who came to New England before 1650, and most of them were 
 prominent in the colonies of Connecticut. He is descended from the Baldwins, Clarks, 
 Andrews, Nortons, Beecher, Perkins and many other well known families. 
 
 George B. Buckingham attended the public schools in Seymour and New Haven, 
 and for about a year was a student in Russell's Military School in New Haven. He 
 began his business career in New Haven, where he was employed at various occupa- 
 tions for a number of years. At the age of twenty he came to Worcester to work for 
 the Sargent Card Clothing Company, as bookkeeper, but he proved well fitted and 
 trained for business and was soon placed in a position of responsibility. He re- 
 mained with this concern until he engaged in business on his own account, as partner 
 of his father-in-law, Warren McFarland, then owner of the Arcade Malleable Iron 
 Works. From 1873 to 1880 Mr. Buckingham had a third interest in this business; 
 afterward the entire business came into his hands in consequence of the advanced age 
 and illness of Mr. McFarland. In i885 he added to the business by purchasing the 
 Worcester Malleable Iron Works. Though the business had grown to large pro- 
 portions, he continued to operate it under his own name, and made it one of the most 
 substantial industries of the city. He manufactured "anything that can be made of 
 malleable iron" that anybody wants. The industries of Worcester furnished the larger 
 part of the business for many years, especially the manufacturers of looms and 
 wrenches. The foundry also turned out steel castings and semi-steel castings. The 
 Arcade Malleable Iron Works were for about sixty years at Washington square, but 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 when the Union Station was erected the plant was removed to its present location on 
 Albany street. The original buildings have all been remodeled and enlarged. The 
 Arcade Malleable Iron Company was established in the early fifties by Wood & 
 McFarland, and a silent partner, J. H. Huntington, a capitalist of Norwich, Connecti- 
 cut. Mr. McFarland conducted the business alone, after a few years, and became one 
 of the most prominent and successful manufacturers of the city in his day. 
 
 Mr. Buckingham for many years was one of the best known foundrymcn in the 
 country. He was president of the New England Foundrymen's Association in 1900- 
 01, and had previously served it for several years as a member of the executive com- 
 mittee and as vice-president one year. In 1902 he was first vice-president of the 
 American Foundrymen's Association, and at the time of his death he was serving his 
 second term as vice-president of the Foundrymen's Association of Worcester County. 
 
 It was said of him that "he was the leading Mason of Central Massachusetts and 
 one of the best known Masons in Masondom." He joined Athelstan Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons, of Worcester, January 29, 1872; Eureka Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons, April 9, 1872; Hiram Council. Royal and Select Masters, January 30, 
 1873; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, September 26, 1872; Worces- 
 ter Lodge of Perfection, February 16, 1874; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem, 
 April 9, 1885; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix. April 9, 1885; Massachusetts Con- 
 sistory, thirty-second degree, April 24, 1885; Supreme Council. Thirty-third degree, 
 Royal Order of Scotland, September 17, 1889. He was high priest of Eureka Chapter 
 in 1876 and 1877; eminent commander of Worcester County Commandery in 1887, 
 1888 and 1889, and most wise and perfect master of Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix 
 in 1888-89. I'l every office he held in these organizations he manifested special ability, 
 careful attention to every detail, thoughtful consideration and sound judgment. He 
 was an admirable presiding officer and a gifted executive. He was also a member of 
 the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston for twenty-seven years, being 
 declared a veteran after his . twenty-fifth year. He was a charter member of the 
 Worcester Continentals: an honorary hiember of the Worcester Light Infantry; presi- 
 dent of the Sportsmen's Club ; member of the Worcester Club ; the Wapiti Boat Club ; 
 the Tatassit Canoe Club and the Frohsinns. He was a director of the Citizens' Na- 
 tional Bank until it was absorbed by the Worcester Trust Company. In politics he was 
 always a Republican, but he declined to accept nominations or appointments t^i public 
 office. 
 
 Mr. Buckingham married. July 4, 1871, Abljie McFarland, daughter of Warren Mc- 
 Farland, Her father, who has been mentioned above, died in Worcester in No- 
 vember, 1884. He was in early life a blacksmith in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. He 
 served the city of Worcester for a time in the Board of Aldermen. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Buckingham had three children : i. Alice Perkins, born September 29. 1872, married 
 Dr. George M. Albee, of Worcester. 2. Florence E., born A.ugust 28, 1874, married 
 Dr. Irving W. Hollingshead, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3, Harold Paul (see 
 biography). 
 
 Harold Paul Buckingham, son of George Beecher Buckingham, and president of the 
 Arcade Malleable Iron Company, was born in Worcester, April 10, 1886, He received 
 his early education in the Worcester public schools and later attended the South High 
 School and Worcester Academy. In igo6, shortly after his father's death, he entered 
 the Arcade Malleable Iron Company, which became a corporation at that time, and 
 later was made president of the company, Mr. Buckingham is a member of the follow- 
 ing clubs : Worcester Club, Tatnuck Country Club, Worcester Country Club, Common- 
 wealth Club, Economic Club, Quinsigamond Lodge. Ancient Free and .Accepted 
 Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; and is a member of the executive 
 committee of the New England Foundrymen's Association. 
 
 Mr. Buckingham married, February 15, 191 1, Dorothy Dudley Harris, daughter of 
 Henry F. Harris, also of Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham have two children : 
 Dorothy, born January 4. 1912. and Warren McFarland, born July 26, 1913. 
 
 GEORGE E. WIRE, Deputy librarian in charge nf the Worcester County Law 
 Librarv, w-as born in Drvden. Tompkins countv. New York. February 6, 1859, son of 
 Rev. f . D. and N. B. W'ire. 
 
 He was educated in the Evanston High School and Northwestern University 
 Academy at Evanston, Illinois. He entered the Northwestern University Medical 
 School, graduating in 1883 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. But instead of 
 following the medical profession he devoted his attention to library work and became 
 a professional librarian. He took the course in the New York State Library School 
 at Albany, graduating in 1889. Afterward he was a student in the Kent College of Law, 
 graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1895. After an experience of 
 more than two years in the library of Northwestern University; two years and a half 
 
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 HISTORY OP WORCESTER 
 
 in Columbia University library ; more than five years in the Newberry Library, Chicago, 
 and two years and half as an expert in library work, he came to this city to take charge 
 of the Worcester County Law Library, August i, 1898. and has continued in that 
 position to the present time. He compiled law and medical classifications published by 
 C. A. Cutter, Forbes Library. Northampton. Dr. Wire has contributed to the Library 
 Journal and various other journals. He is a member of the American Library Asso- 
 ciation. Massachusetts Library Club, New York Library Club. Illinois Library Club, 
 Chicago Library Club. He married, April 16, 1903, Emma A. Clarke, of this city. 
 
 WORCESTER COUNTY LAW LIBRARY. The County Law Library came 
 into e.xistence with the fi.'rmation of the Worcester County Law Library Association. 
 June 21, 1842. under tlie provisions of a law passed that year. The association 
 consisted of the members of the bar of the county. From time to time amendments 
 have been made, but the law has provided from the beginning a fund for the pur- 
 chase and care of books from the fees paid to the county clerk. The library has 
 had quarters in the court house. From the beginning the clerk of the courts has 
 been librarian. For many years the collection was small. Credit for making it a 
 library of importance lielongs to Judge Thomas L. Nelson, who for thirty years 
 neglected no opportunity to build the library through gifts and purchase. In 1858 
 Charles D. Bowman, of O.xford, bequeathed 800 volurries to the library. William 
 T. Harlow was clerk of the association for many years. In 1888 there were about 
 11,000 volumes. When an addition was made to the court house in 1878 a large 
 room was provided for the library and it was occupied until the last remodeling 
 of the court house, when the present rooms in the old south wing were provided. 
 
 Since 1898 the library has been in charge of Dr. George E. Wire, as deputy 
 librarian, and its value and usefulness has been wonderfully increased by a card 
 catalogue, through the accession of many thousand volumes of carefully selected 
 books with the intelligent aid given to readers by the librarian. The aim of Dr. 
 Wire has been not to get as large a collectioir or as complete a collection as some 
 of the great law libraries, but to select books wisely for their value to workers. 
 When he took charge there were 19.500 volumes ; in 1917 there were 34.506. The 
 collection of course includes all the American law reports of value, text books, 
 statutes, English law works, and some historical works. The library is open to the 
 public as well as the courts and members of the bar. Dr. Wire's first assistant was 
 Miss H. C. Taft. Miss E. A. Clark was assistant from 1899 to 1903. Miss Lydia 
 L. Kirschner has been assistant since March 31, 1903. The directors in 1898 were 
 Francis A. Gaskill, Thomas G. Kent and Theodore S. Johnson. Willis E. Sibley, in 
 1907, succeeded Mr. Kent who had been a director from 1884; and Arthur P. Rugg 
 succeeded Mr. Gaskill in 1910. Mr. Gaskill was elected in 1898. From 20,000 to 
 25,000 books are used annually in the library by about three thousand persons. 
 On the walls of the library are portraits of Pliny Merrick, Benjamin F. Thomas, 
 Charles Allen, Dwight Foster, Peter C. Bacon, George F. Hoar, P. Emory Aldrich, 
 W. S. B. Hopkins, Thomas B. Nelson. Other portraits belonging to the law library 
 have been hung in the court rooms. .A-mong the notable gifts of later years were 
 the briefs of the late Frank P. Goulding. covering the period from 1868 ti> 1900. 
 
 WILLIAM ADDISON SMITH, Lawyer, manufacturer, insurance agent, was 
 bom in Leicester, Massachusetts, March 2, 1824, and died September 25, 1913, son 
 of John A. Smith, manufacturer. Through his mother he was descended in the 
 seventh generation from William Sargent, W'ho came from England to Maiden in 
 1638. The Sargent line: John (5), Jonathan (4). Nathan (3). John (2), William (t). 
 
 Mr. Smith was educated in Leicester Academy, and Harvard College, from 
 which he graduated in 1843. He studied law in the office of Emery Washburn 
 and Francis H. Dewey, and practiced with the latter until 1848, when he took a 
 position in the office of the clerk of courts of this county, serving as acting clerk 
 until 1850, when he was made assistant clerk and continued in that office until 
 1865, when he went abroad on account of ill health, resigning after he returned. 
 From 1866 to 1869 he was engaged in manufacturing. He became agent of the 
 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in May, 1869. He was elected clerk 
 and treasurer of the Worcester County Mechanics Association in 1870, and filled 
 those offices until the time of his death, a period of forty-three years. 
 
 Mr. Smith was the first clerk of the Common Council. 1848, serving for a period 
 of thirteen years. He was for eight years a director of the Free Public Library, 
 from the opening of that institution, and during that time was secretary of the 
 board. He was on the school committee in 1876; for many years a justice of the 
 peace; commissioner to fix and take bail in criminal cases and to qualify civil 
 officers. He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Wor- 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 tester Society of Antiquity. Mr. Smith was the first master of M.mtacute Lr,diie. 
 Free and Accepted Masons; district deputy grand master, eleventh district. 1874; 
 grand master of the Grand Councih Royal and Select Masters of Massachusetts', 
 1867; grand junior warden and grand senior warden of the Grand Encampment of 
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island: was once elected eminent commander of the 
 Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, but declined the office. He was 
 for several years the only thirty-third degree Mason in the city. 
 
 Mr. Smith married, April 18, 1849, Eliza Adeline Howe of this city. They had 
 the following children: i. William Sargent, born March 27, 1850; salesman for 
 the H. M. Waite Company: formerly hardware dealer under the name of William 
 S. Smith. Married Mary Lucinda Staples, daughter of Samuel E. Staples. Chil- 
 dren: i. Edith Bertha, married Dr. George T. Little of U.xbridge, now first lieu- 
 tenant at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. Children: Courtney William and Marrion. 
 ii. Frederick Addison, educated at the Classical High School and Clark College; 
 Y. M. C. A. secretary at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia. Married Cora Wheeler. 
 2. Charles Edwin (see biography). 
 
 CHARLES EDWIN SMITH, Manager of the heavy chemical department of 
 Brewer & Company, wis born in this city, December 16, 1857, son of William A. 
 Smith (see biography). He attended the public schools here, the Highland Mili- 
 tary Academy, and the Worcester Academy. He began his business career as clerk 
 in the book store of Grout & Bigelow, afterward the firm of Putnam & Davis. He 
 was then bookkeeper for G. S. & A. J. Howe, dealers in chemicals and dyestuffs 
 in this city, and was later treasurer of the company. After this concern retired 
 from business, about 1905, Mr. Smith became manager of the heavy chemical de- 
 partment of Brewer & Company, bringing this line of business to Brewer & Company 
 as a new department. Through this department Brewer & Company has grown to 
 be one of the largest chemical houses in the country. (See Brewer & Company). 
 
 Mr. Smith is a member of the Commonwealth Club and the Worcester Country 
 Club. In politics he is a Republican: in religion a Congregationalist, attending 
 Plymouth Church. 
 
 Mr. Smith married (first) October, 1882, in this city. .'Mice Marble, who died 
 in April, 1887; she was a daughter of John Putnam and Ruth Anw Marble. He mar- 
 ried (second) Vida Newton, daughter of Samuel Tyler and Abbie (Dillingham) 
 Newton. Her father was for many years with the Washburn & Moen Manufac- 
 turing Company. Mr. Smith has one daughter, Ruth Lista, born October 19, 1883, 
 enlisted in the service : was a United States Army Reserve nurse at the army hos- 
 pital, Williamsbridge, New York City; left for France, August 29, 1918. 
 
 AMBROSE T. MATTHEWS, Manufacturer and inventor, was born September 
 26, 1843, at Whitefield, Maine, son of Captain Edmund and Maria (Dunton) Matthews, 
 and died in this city, December 3, 1914, in the seventy-second year of his age. 
 
 His schooling was begun in the district schools of his native town, which he 
 attended until ten years of age, when his parents removed to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 
 where he continued his studies, and where he remained until 1864, when he came to 
 Worcester to enlist for service during the Civil War. He became a member of Com- 
 pany D, Fourth Heavy Artillery, which company was mustered into the service in this 
 city, and with which company he served during the remainder of the war, being 
 mustered out of service with his comrades at the close of the war, in 1865. Mr. Mat- 
 thews was a man who believed in utilizing all his spare time, and after the war, while 
 working days, he entered B. G. Howe's Business College, of this city, from which 
 he was graduated in the same class with the late Frederick E. Reed, who was after- 
 wards his partner in business for so many years. He then went to Portland, Maine, 
 where he was bookkeeper in a large clothing store, which business was destroyed 
 in the great Portland fire on July 4, 1866, and he then went to Boothbay, where he was 
 employed in a general store. On January i, 1867, he returned to this city, and for some 
 time was a partner in the stove store of G. W. Williams & Company. Later Mr. 
 Matthews entered the employ of the L. W. Pond Machine Company, where he continued 
 for several years. Being a natural born mechanic, he invented various improvements 
 to machinery and patented various articles of his own invention, among them the 
 original hollow steel stove knob, and for a time he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 these knobs and other novelties, in partnership with John H. Bennett, under the 
 name of the Worcester Ferrule Company. Later he was in partnership with the late 
 Edward Converse, under the firm name of the Worcester Ferrule and Manufacturing 
 Company, which business was finally sold to John Higgins. It was shortly after his 
 re'- — ^ '■ t'-; ''t':- -y;;--: t'-at M;-. Matthews dlscovei-ed tlie n;;;th >ils ut 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 stamping steel, which methods he introduced to the different steel rolling mills, and 
 finally succeeded in interesting Ely & Williams Company, now the American Tube and 
 Stamping Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in this new process of shaping steel 
 by stamping. This' stamping of steel opened up a new held to industries in this Hne. 
 
 In 1889, in company with the late Frederick E. Reed, and his father, the late John 
 Reed, Mr. Matthews organized the Matthews Manufacturing Company, and engaged in 
 the manufacture of stove trimmings, steam pipe collars, bicycle fittings, ferrules and 
 other sheet metal specialties. This company started business with a small floor space 
 •at No. 116 Gold street, with one lathe, one press and three employees. The business 
 prospered from the beginning, and from time to time more floor space was added. In 
 February, 1894, the business was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts as the 
 Matthews Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of $10,000, F. E. Reed being 
 president, John Reed, treasurer, and Mr. Matthews, general manager. In 1896 the 
 business had again outgrown its quarters, and the capital stock was increased, and a 
 new three-story brick factory was erected by the company at Nos. 104-108 Gold street, 
 the new factory being fitted with the latest and most improved machinery. As the 
 business has since expanded several additions have been added thereto, and a thoroughly- 
 equipped nickel plating department installed. During the bicycle craze this concern 
 did an extensive business in the manufacture of small parts used in the assemblying 
 of these machines, and as the use of bicycles waned and roller skating became so 
 popular the manufacture of the steel wheels, ball bearings and cups for the latter 
 became an important part of the business of this concern, of which Mr. Matthews con- 
 tinued the general manager until his death. Upon the death of John Reed, in 1902, 
 Mr. Matthews became treasurer of the company, which office he also held until his 
 death. 
 
 Mr. Matthews was a self-made man in the truest sense of the word. Beginning 
 his business career in this city with no capital, as a result of his untiring energy, 
 conservative and cautious business methods, he created a business enterprise which is 
 to-day one of the most prosperous manufacturing concerns of the city, giving employ- 
 ment to over one hundred and fifty hands. Mr. Matthews attained an enviable 
 reputation; starting with a capital of $10,000, their promises were never broken and 
 they never borrowed a dollar. He was a man of the highest business integrity, and in 
 all his business dealings won an enviable reputation with the trade for the quality of the 
 goods he manufactured and in the promptness in the delivery of the same. Although 
 quiet and unostentatious in manner, Mr. Matthews possessed an affable disposition, 
 which won him hosts of staunch friends. In political faith he was a Republican, but 
 preferring the quiet of his home life and its surroundings, never aspired to public office. 
 He was a devoted member of the George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and was formerly a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was a firm 
 believer in business organizations, and was a member of the Metal Trades Association 
 and of the Chamber of Commerce. He attended the First Universalist Church, and 
 was liberal in his support of all worthy projects. 
 
 Mr. Matthews was united in marriage on June 24, 1866, to Maria J. Tyler, daughter 
 of George and Mary A. (Winn) Tyler, of this city, and to this union were born the 
 following children: i. Cora A., who was born in Portland, Maine, married Frank L. 
 Church, of Herkimer, New York, and they have one son, Leon Church. 2. Clara L., 
 born in Worcester, where she resides, unmarried, was for twenty-six years a member 
 of the Alatthews Alanufacturing Company, of which she was assistant treasurer, suc- 
 ceeding her father at his death, as treasurer. 3. Josephine B., born in Worcester, who 
 married Wilfred F. Daggett, of Proctor, Vermont, where she died in October, 1917, 
 leaving two daughters, Geraldine and Lucille Daggett. 4. Frank E., born in Worces- 
 ter, who resides in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a machinist by trade; he is the father of 
 three children: Pauline, Robert and Winifred Matthews. 5. Lottie E., born in Wor- 
 cester, who married Fred F. Runnells, and they reside in Los Angeles, California, 
 the parents of three children : Frederick, Raymond and Hazel Runnells. Mrs. Mat- 
 thews survives her husband, and resides at No. 752 Pleasant street, this city. 
 
 WILLIAM H. COOK, Retired business man, was born in Grafton, Massa- 
 chusetts, November 23, 1857, son of Daniel Purinton and Harriet (Cromb) Cook, the 
 former named a native of Menden, Massachusetts, and the latter a native of the State 
 of Connecticut. Both were descended from the pioneers of New England, the dis- 
 tinguishing traits of character of those early ancestors being transmitted in full 
 measure to their descendants. 
 
 William H. Cook's parents moved from Grafton to Worcester when their son 
 was eight years of age, and the public schools of that city afforded him the means 
 of obtaining a practical education. His business career was almost entirely with 
 The George C. Whitney Company, manufacturers of valentines and similar goods, 
 
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 of which he in due course of time became treasurer and general manager, iiringing 
 to the performance of those duties keen business judgment, tireless energy and 
 honesty of purpose. After a service of many years duration in those capacities, 
 Mr. Cook resigned in 1910, and during the following years was engaged in busi- 
 ness as a broker and life insurance agent. For four years, from 1904 to 1908, he 
 was a member of the Worcester School Committee, in which he rendered faithful 
 and efficient service. He is a Republican in politics, to which great organization 
 he has given his allegiance since attaining his majority. 
 
 Mr. Cook has always devoted considerable time and attention to music, of 
 which he is especially fond, and for seven years served in the capacity of president 
 of the Worcester County Musical Association. He is an active and prominent mem- 
 ber of the First Baptist Church. He is a Free Mason, attaining the thirty-second 
 degree, affiliating with Morning Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Wor- 
 cester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council. Royal and .Select Masters; 
 Worcester Commandery, Knights Templar ; Goddard Coiuicil, Princes of Jerusalem ; 
 Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Massachusetts Consistory. Sublime Princes of 
 the Royal Secret, and Aletheia Grotto, Veiled Prophets of the Flnchanted Realm. 
 He is also a member of the Commonwealth Club, the Worcester Commercial Trav- 
 elers Association and the Worcester County Musical Association. 
 
 Mr. Cook married, in Worcester, October 4, 1883, Maroa Beatrice Smitli, who 
 was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, daughter of Asa F. and Carrie Beatrice 
 (Miller) Smith, of North Grafton. The family moved from Grafton to Somerville 
 and thence to Worcester. Mrs. Cook is a member of the Hall Club and tlic Wor- 
 cester Woman's Club. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are the parents of six children: I. 
 Douglas Purinton, whose sketch follows. 2. Roy William, died in infancy. 3. Mil- 
 dred Maroa. died aged six years. 4. Roland Miller, graduate of Harvard College, 
 receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1917; now lieutenant in the Three Hun- 
 dred and Fourth Regiment, Seventy-sixth Division, United States Army, in the 
 service; married Edith Faxon, of Brookline, Massachusetts. 5. Chester William, a 
 jimior at Harvard College when he entered the service of the government, now 
 lieutenant in the Three Hundred and First Infantry, Seventy-sixtli Division. 6. 
 Marion Maroa. a student at Smith College. The family home is at No. 10 Germain 
 street, Worcester. 
 
 DOUGLAS PURINTON COOK. In business, as in every form of activity, there 
 are both constructive and destructive forces. The competence built purely upon 
 speculation, or upon the suppression of remunerative industry in others, adds noth- 
 ing to the permanent w'ealth of mankind, and plays only a negative part in history. 
 The fortune whose basis is laid in the development of natural resources, whose 
 capital is increased by enlarging the opportunities for general wealth, is on the 
 positive side of civilization, and counts among its lasting and beneficient influences. 
 
 It is this creative and organizing quality that is the distinctive feature in the 
 career of Douglas P. Cook. He represents the most progressive element of a sturdy 
 race whose activities have spanned, moulded and cemented a great transitional 
 period in the world of modern industry, and although young in years, Worcester, 
 the State and Nation have already profited by his ability, farsightedness and public 
 spirit. 
 
 Douglas Purinton Cook was born in W'orcester, Massachusetts, July 8, 1884, 
 son of William H. and Maroa Beatrice (Smith) Cook. He attended the public 
 schools of Worcester and prepared for college in Worcester Academy, entering 
 Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. In 1907 he associated himself with the Boston Pressed Metal Company, 
 of Worcester, as vice-president, and in 1914 became general manager, positions 
 he has filled from that year to tlie present (1918), these being very strenuous years 
 in the history of the industry. Mr. Cook was elected president of the National 
 Pressed Metal Association at the annual convention in Detroit, Michigan, December 
 8, 1917, and is perhaps the youngest man ever elected president of this organization 
 or a similar national association of manufacturers. At a meeting of the members 
 of this organization, in March, 1918, it was hoped that the membership of firms in 
 the organization would reach twenty-five, and through the earnest, untiring efforts 
 of Mr. Cook there were eighty-seven represented from all parts of the country and 
 every one present became a member of the organization at once. 
 
 Mr. Cook is a member of the First Baptist Churcli, the Worcester Club, the 
 Worcester Country Club, the Harvard Club of Worcester, the Harvard Club of 
 Boston, the Harvard Club of New York, and the Worcester County Musical As- 
 sociation. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought nor held public 
 office. Mr. Cook is unmarried, residing at present with his parents. 
 
548 HISTORY OF IV ORC ESTER 
 
 FRANK J. KENNEY, President of the Kenney-Kennedy Company, was born 
 in this city, June 25, 1874, son of John L. and Margaret (Huborn) Kenney. His 
 father, John L. Kenney, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and died in this city, Janu- 
 ary 10, 1902, aged fifty-six years. He came to this country when a young man, locat- 
 ing at first in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and afterward in Worcester, where he Hved 
 after he was seventeen years old ; married in Lancaster, Margaret Huborn, who was 
 born in Ireland and died in Worcester in i8g2. They had seven children, of whom four 
 are living: Frank J., of further mention; Margaret E., resides with her brother 
 Frank J.; Gertrude T., music teacher in this city; Jean M., teacher of the violin, living 
 in Worcester. All were born in Worcester. 
 
 Frank J. Kenney attended the public schools here, leaving at the age of fifteen 
 years to begin work as a bundle boy in a department store. Later he organized the 
 Kenney-Kennedy Company, of which he has been president since that time. He is 
 associated in this business with Frederick J. Keiniedy. The corporation purchased the 
 retail clothing business of the W. A. Lytle Company, at the corner of Main and 
 Mechanic streets in the Walker building and has remained at this location. The store 
 is equipped in the most modern style, both as to stock and fixtures. In 1917 the owners 
 state that it had the largest volume of business ever received by a clothing store in 
 Worcester up to that time, a record that places it in the lead. Mr. Kenney is an active, 
 energetic business man, reading the public wants and catering to the men of the city 
 with phenomenal success; a past master of merchandising. He is a member of the 
 Worcester Country Club ; the Worcester Economic Club ; the Washington Social Club ; 
 Worcester Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Worcester Com- 
 mercial Travelers' Association; Chamber of Commerce; and the Church of the Blessed 
 Sacrament (Roman Catholic). His wife is also a member of the Country Club. 
 
 Mr. Kenney married, at Leominster, Massachusetts, November 25, 1898, Annie T. 
 Leonard, who was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, daughter of Patrick and Mary 
 (Lynch) Leonard. Both her parents were natives of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Kenney 
 have one son, George Leonard, born January 24, 1900 ; now associated in business with 
 his father. Mr. Kenney's home is at 9 Ivanhoe road. His hobby is golf. 
 
 WHELOCK A. CHENEY, Foimder of the Cheney Printing Company, a promi- 
 nent printer, was born in Gill in 1830, and died in this city, July 7, 1907, son of Amos 
 Cheney. His father was engaged in mercantile business in Athol for many years, 
 where the parents removed when he was very young. 
 
 After completing his education in the public schools of his native town, Whelock 
 A. Cheney served an apprenticeship in the composing room of the "Fitchburg Sentinel." 
 In 1854 he came to this city and was employed by E. R. Fiske, then one of the leading 
 printers of the city, and became foreman. A few years later he started in the printing 
 business in a modest way and gradually increased his facilities as his business ex- 
 panded. In the course of time he took rank among the foremost in his line of work, 
 acquiring an enviable reputation for accuracy, neatness and good taste. He was 
 straightforward and upright in business and a tireless worker. Kindly and generous 
 by nature he was highly-esteemed by all who knew him. Though he had a large circle 
 of friends he devoted himself mainly to his business and his home. In politics he was 
 a Republican. The business has been continued since his death by his son. He was a 
 member of Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Cheney married, at Hubbardston, in 1852, Lavinia Browning, daughter of Cap- 
 tain Joshua Browning. Her father was captain of the old Barre Artillery Company. 
 He was a carpenter and builder. Her father's mother was a Sherman, descended from 
 the same family as General William T. and Hon. John Sherman and of the late Vice- 
 President Sherman. The immigrant ancestor was one of the first settlers of the 
 Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Brownings settled early in Rutland. The first settler 
 was James Browning, who was born in Scotland, and with his wife Elizabeth brought 
 letters testimonial of their church fellowship in Ireland, and were received in the 
 Rutland church, May 24, 1728. The history of Rutland says "they were worthy people, 
 fruitful and prosperous in a strange land." Their descendants were numerous ; some 
 of the wealthy and honorable. He died February 3, 1749. His widow married (second) 
 Andrew Oliphant, in 1752, and lived to the age of ninety years. In many other lines of 
 ancestry both Mr. and Mrs. Cheney are descended from the early Puritan settlers of 
 New England. Through her mother, Lavinia (Morse) Browning, Mrs. Cheney is de- 
 scended from Samuel Morse, who came from England in the ship "Increase" in 1635 
 at the age of fifty years with his wife and family, and settled in Dedham, where he 
 died April 5, 1654. Mrs. Morse's father took part in the battle of Bunker Hill at the 
 -age of nineteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney had three children, born in Worcester: 
 I. Florence, who married, in 1878. Frank P. Kendall, born in Clinton in 1852, died in 
 this city, March 20, 1913, a resident of Worcester from 1859 until he died, and a 
 
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 graduate of the city schools. Mr. Kendall was a son of George II. KeiKlall, who was 
 for many years employed in the Washhurn & Moen Manufacturing Company. Frank 
 P. Kendall was first with the old People's Fire Insurance Company, but entered the 
 employ of the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company when it was organized, was 
 clerk, and later assistant secretary ; was a member of the Union Congregational Church, 
 and of Worcester Commandery, Knights Templar; treasurer of the Commonwealth 
 Club a number of years: children; George H. and Frank P. Kendall. 2. Alice, borni 
 July 8, 1859; married William Mitchell, of Guthrie, Oklahoma. 3. Wilfred Leroy. 
 
 CHESTER SWAN BAVIS, Assistant clerk of the courts for Worcester county, 
 was born at Calais. Maine, November 22, 1882, scm of Charles .Augustus and Emma 
 Ray (Bishop) Bavis. His father was also a native of Calais, a manufacturer of 
 fire extinguishers in Portland, Maine, at the time of his death ; he died in 1507, 
 aged fifty-two years. His mother, born at Eastport, Maine, July, 1857, is now 
 living with her son in this city, at No. 5 Haviland street. His only sister, Nellie 
 Harriet, born May 2. 1880, is now principal of the Mount Ida School for Girls at 
 Newton, Massachusetts. His grandfather, George Bavis, the first of the family 
 in this country, was a native of Ireland, born in County Armagh; a grocer in Calais 
 during most of his active life. He married Harriet Hiltz. wlio was of German 
 descent, and they had one son. George, wdio was killed in the battle of Antietam. in 
 the Civil War. 
 
 Mr. Bavis attended the public schools in his native town, and graduated from 
 the Calais High School in 1902. He then entered Bowdoin College, from which 
 he graduated in 1906 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the next two 
 years he was ticket agent in the New York offices of the Metropolitan Steamship 
 Company. In 1908 he became a student in the Law School of the University of 
 Valparaiso, Indiana, graduating in 1910 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He 
 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in the same year, and began to practice in 
 this city. During the following year he practiced in Fitchburg. From March, 1912, 
 to November, 1916, he was employed in the office of the Clerk of Courts in Wor- 
 cester; since then he has filled his present office, assistant clerk of the courts of 
 Worcester. He has had charge of the cases in the criminal sessions of the courts. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra- 
 ternity, and in college he was a baseball player. He is a member of the Barristers' 
 Club, of this city; Plymouth Congregational Church; Mount Hollis Lodge, of 
 Holliston. Massachusetts. Ancient Free and -Accepted Masons. 
 
 Mr. Bavis married, September 4, 1912. in Morgan. Minnesota, Mertle Ball, who 
 was born in that town, a daughter of Halbert and Charlotte A. (Hartwick) Ball. 
 Her father is a banker. Mr. and Mrs. Bavis have three children : Charlotte Brown, 
 born January 25. 1915; Eleanor and Elizabeth, twins, born April 13, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Bavis is the author of an exceedingly useful and well-known book, entitled, 
 "The Making of a Citizen," being a series of practical questions and answers deal- 
 ing with the law and process of naturalization, information as to the Government 
 of the United States, important events in its history and the text of the Constitution 
 of the United States, fifteen thousand copies having been sold; and a small book 
 called "Key to the Federal Income and Excess Profits Taxes," which was circulated 
 in large numbers by various banking institutions. 
 
 CHARLES FRANKLIN LIVERMORE, Retired merchant, was born in Pa.xton, 
 Massachusetts. November 11, 1832, son of Jason and Elmira (Brooks) Livermore. 
 His father was a farmer, also a native of Paxton ; his mother was born in Lincoln, 
 Massachusetts. Through both paternal and maternal ancestry he is descended from 
 the first settlers of the Commonwealth. Many of his ancestors were among the 
 pioneers of Watertown. John Livermore, the pioneer in his father's line, came from 
 England in the ship "Francis," in April. 1634. at the age of twenty-eight years, and 
 settled in Watertown, where he held various town offices and was a leading citizen. 
 He was a potter by trade. He died at Watertown, April 14, 1684. 
 
 Mr. Livermore received his early education in the public schools of Paxton and 
 was afterward a student in Leicester Academy and in an academy at Cambridge- 
 port, Massachusetts. During his boyhood he assisted his father, and wdien a young 
 man left home to learn the dry goods business at Waltham. Three years later he 
 came to this city and was employed as clerk in Martin Stowe's store. Then he was 
 clerk in the dry goods store of Deacon Sanford, whose business he and his partner 
 bought. The firm was dissolved in 1870. His next venture in business followed 
 soon. He opened a store at No. 552 Main street, dealing in blankets, quilts, under- 
 wear, corsets, jumpers and other lines of dry goods and clothing. He also made 
 a specialty of birds and bird cages. Twice he suffered large losses from fires, but 
 
550 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 continued in business. He removed his business finally to a building on South- 
 bridge street and continued there until he retired. He bought his present home 
 at No. 2 Berkmans street in 1895. and since then has made his home there. Since 
 retiring he has found recreation and congenial occupation in cultivating' his garden, 
 raising poultry and driving. He is a member of Trinity Methodist Church. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Livermore married, in Spencer, August 31, 1859, Lorette G. Randall, who 
 was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Jotham and Caroline (Ran- 
 dall) Randall. They have three children: i. \Valter, who is in the trucking busi- 
 ness. 2. Bert R., who married Clara Graton, of Paxton. and has two children : 
 Charles R., a student in Clark University, who went to France with the Clark Uni- 
 versity Unit, in the United States service, and was killed in France, having been 
 in the ambulance department. 3. Caroline, who lives with her parents at No. 6 
 Berkmans street. Mr. and Mrs. Livermore have lived together in married life for 
 nearly sixty years, having celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1909. 
 
 JAMES McDERMOTT, Dry goods merchant, was born in Ireland, August 
 8, 1840, son of John and Bridgett (Burke) McDermott. He attended school in Ireland 
 and in this city. He came to this country in 1852 with his parents, and after living in 
 Worcester for a few years went to Detroit, Michigan, in 1856. The family returned 
 to Worcester in 1857. 
 
 Mr. McDermott began his career in business as bookkeeper for the Chamberlain 
 & Burroughs woolen and cotton mills at North Oxford. After three years in this 
 position, he entered the employ of the Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company Depart- 
 ment Store, and for twelve years served that concern as bookkeeper. From 1872 to 
 1916 Mr. McDermott was in the retail dry goods business in this city. His store was 
 located either on Main street or Front street during that entire period. For many years 
 he was in partnership with Thomas B. F. Boland. Throughout his long and successful 
 career as merchant in this city, he has enjoyed the respect and confidence of the entire 
 community. Now one of the oldest merchants of the city, he has retired from active 
 business, the business now being conducted by his sons. The entire building at No. 
 517 Main street is occupied by the McDermott store, which now goes under the 
 popular name of the Baby Shop, making a specialty of infants' clothing. Mr. Mc- 
 Dermott is vice-president, trustee and auditor of the Bay State Savings Bank. In 
 politics he is a Democrat, and for three years was a member of the Worcester school 
 committee. He is an honorary member of the Emmet Guards and of George H. Ward 
 Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic; a communicant of St. Peter's (Roman 
 Catholic) Church. 
 
 Mr. McDermott married, in St. Paul's Church, Maria Moore, who was born in 
 this city, daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Maher) Moore. Mr. and Mrs. McDermott 
 have five children: i. James Thomas, born in this city, associated with his brother, 
 Edmund B., in the management of the McDermott store; member of Alhambra Council, 
 Knights of Columbus, the Washington Club and St. Peter's Catholic Church. 2. 
 Edmund Burke, born in this city, associated with his brother in the management of the 
 store; member of the Leicester Country Club, Washington Club, Knights of Columbus 
 and St. Peter's Church. 3. John Moore, born in this city, now general manager of the 
 National Telautograph Company of Detroit, Michigan, of which he has the agency in 
 Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. 4. Ellen Gertrude. 5. Maria Grace. 
 
 Mr. McDermott's father was a farmer and boot-maker, and Mrs. McDermott's 
 father was a brick manufacturer at Bloomingdale, of the firm of Moore & Hutchinson. 
 Mr. and Mrs. McDermott reside at No. 53 Maywood street in this city. 
 
 JAMES ALFRED SAXE, Lawyer, founder of the Worcester County Abstract 
 Company, was born in Troy, New York, December 2, 1863, son of Charles jewett and 
 Ellen (Griggs) Saxe. His father was born in Saxe's Mills, Vermont, in 1814; his 
 mother in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1824. On the paternal side he is descended from 
 German Colonial stock, and on the maternal side from the pioneers of Massachusetts. 
 
 James Alfred Saxe fitted for college in Wilbraham Academy, graduating in 1881, 
 and entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, graduating tliere with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1885 (Master of Arts, 1888). He afterward entered 
 Harvard, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1888. He received his 
 legal education in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1892. He began to practice 
 law in Boston and continued for three years. He came to this city in 1895 and began 
 to specialize in the examination of titles. In 1897 he founded the Worcester County 
 Abstract Company and since then has devoted his attention exclusively to this business. 
 In the course of time he has made a very large and valuable collection of data re- 
 lating to land titles in Worcester county. He is a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 of Wesleyaii, and the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard; tlie Worcester liar Association; 
 also of tlie Worcester County Harvard Club; the Worcester Club; the Economic Club; 
 Worcester County Musical Association ; the Tatnuck Country Club and the Worcester 
 Society of Antiquity. In jjolitics he is a Republican ; in religion a Unitarian. 
 
 Mr. Saxe married, in Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1892, Mary Wick, who was born 
 February 19, 1867, daughter of Alfred H. and Mary (Tennis) Wick. Her father was 
 born in 1836, at Voungstown, Ohio, and her mother in 1844, at Marietta, Ohio. Mr. 
 Saxe's home is at No. 20 Cedar street. 
 
 JOHN LADD SEWALL, Editor, clergyman, was born in Lunenburg, Vermont, 
 February 27, 1856, son of William and Caroline Heard (Titconib) Sewall, a descend- 
 ant of John Howland, who came in the Mavflower. He graduated from Dartmouth 
 College (A. B., 1877) and Andover Theologi'cal Seminary (S. T. B., 1882). He was 
 ordained in the Congregational ministry in 1882: was pastor ir, various towns in 
 Vermont, Missouri and Massachusetts ; pastor of Lakcview Congregational Church, 
 July, 191 1 to 1917. He was managing; editor of the "Worcester Magazine," 1907-09; 
 executive secretary of "Boston. 1915" in 1909-10; secretary of the summer conference 
 of Congregationalists, Isle of Shoals, 1914; and manager and secretary of the 
 National League for Protection of the Family. He served on the Worcester School 
 Committee from 1911 to 1914. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce 
 and the Congregational Club. 
 
 HERBERT MEADE SAWYER, Journalist, aulhnr, f..rmer secretary of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, was born in Bath, Maine. May 18, 1S63, son of Charles 
 E. and Lucy B. (Sylvester) Sawyer, both natives of Bath. lie attended the pulilic 
 schools of his native town and took a special course in Bowdoin College. He 
 engaged in newspaper work and from 1887 to 1890 was city editor of the "Daily 
 Leader" of Bloomington, Illinois. During the next two years he filled a similar 
 position on the "Times" of Davenport, Iowa. From 1891 to IQ04 he was on the 
 staff of the "Worcester Telegram." He was secretary of the Worcester Chamber 
 of Commerce (then the Board of Trade) and editor of the Worcester Magazine 
 in 1904-05-06-07. He was the permanent secretary of the Worcester Automobile 
 Club and in 1908 was secretary of the Massachusetts State Automobile Association. 
 Since 1910 he has been city editor of the "Worcester Telegram." He is the author 
 of a history of the Police Department of Worcester (1900) and of the history of the 
 Worcester County Musical Association (written in 1907 on the occasion of the 
 Fiftieth Annual Festival). 
 
 Mr. Sawyer served as a private in Company G, F':uirth Regiment Illinois Natii^nal 
 Guard, in 1884. In politics he is a Republican and he is a member of the Wor- 
 cester County Repitblican Club. He is also a meinber of the Worcester County 
 Mechanics Association. He has taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry, and 
 is a member of Worcester Lodge of Perfection ; Goddard Council, Princes of Jeru- 
 salem ; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic 
 Shrine, Boston; Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second de.gree. He was master 
 of Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1918. He is also a charter mem- 
 ber of Bloomington Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 Mr. Sawyer married, in Brunsw-ick, Maine, September 12, 1888, Annie C. Lunt, 
 who was born there January 29. 1862, a daughter of Robert and Jane A. (Gross) 
 Lunt. Her father was a native of Freeport, Maine, a sea captain engaged in foreign 
 trade, died at St. Thomas Island, West Indies, in 1864. Her mother, also a native 
 of Brunswick, died in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer reside at No. 2 Richardson 
 terrace, and have a summer place at Parker Head, Maine. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD SULLIVAN, Lawyer, son of Jeremiah Sullivan, was born 
 in this city, 1857, died February 10. 1918, in this city. He attended the public schools , 
 of Worcester and graduated from Holy Cross College in 1877. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1879, after study in Bacon & Hopkins and George H. Ball's law offices, and 
 from that time until his death practiced law in this city. For more than twenty years, 
 beginning in March, 1892, he was in partnership with Hon. David F. O'Connell, former 
 mayor, and the firm of Sullivan & O'Connell took rank in the criminal courts, par- 
 ticularly with the leaders of the bar in the State. The firm defended many indicted 
 for capital offenses. But in all other lines of practice Mr. Sullivan was well-equipped 
 as a lawyer, a pleader of ability, shrewd, resourceful and capable. He was a member of 
 Worcester Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and of the Gesang 
 Verein Frohsinn ; a charter member of the old Wachusett Boat Cluli. His fame as a 
 public speaker was widely-extended and he was often the oratm- at the Elks memorial 
 exercises, not only in this city but in all parts of the country. 
 
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 Mr. Sullivan married Anna O'SulIivan, daughter of Cornelius O'Sullivan, and he 
 left two daughters, Marion and Helen. 
 
 JACOB REED, Broker, was born in this city, September lo, 1890, son of Samuel 
 and Leah Reed, both of whom were natives of Russia. He attended the public schools 
 here, graduating at Ledge street school. 1904, and from the Classical High School in 
 1908. From igo8 to 1917 he was associated with Kinsley & Adams, bankers and 
 brokers, in this city. He is now in the service at San Diego, California, an ensign in 
 the United States Naval Reserve Flying Corps. He was enrolled in the navy, April 
 27, 1917. Mr. Reed is a member of the Independent Order B'nai Brith, the Common- 
 wealth Club. Worcester Country Club, Tatassit Canoe Club, Boston City Club, Worces- 
 ter Economic Club. He was president of the Young Men's Hebrew Association of 
 Worcester, 1916-17. 
 
 WILLIAM WATSON McKIBBEN, Physician, was born at Fort Smith, Ar- 
 kansas. August 22, 1874, son of Frank Reed and Elizabeth Minnie (Pape) McKibben. 
 Frank Reed McKibben was born in Mansfield, Ohio, died in Oklahoma, in May, 1901. 
 He was a merchant and proprietor of department stores; president of the bank and 
 of companies operating an ice factory, a canning factory and a cotton compress con- 
 cern. He married Elizabeth Minnie Pape, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their 
 children were: i. Frank P., born November 13, 1870. professor of civil engineering, 
 Lehigh University. 2. William W., mentioned below. 3. Bertha L., born January 29, 
 1887, married Raymond L. Williams, superintendent of schools, Waukesha, Wis- 
 consin. 
 
 William Watson McKibben attended the public schools of Van Buren, Arkansas, 
 graduating from the high school in 1888. He was a student for two years in the 
 preparatory department of Arkansas University and one year in the academic depart- 
 ment ; at Chauncey Hall School. Boston. 1891-92. He entered Harvard College in 1892, 
 and graduated in 1896 with the degree of Baclielor of Arts ; became a student in 
 Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1900 with the degree of Doctor 
 of Medicine. He was assistant resident physician of the Boston Floating Hospital in 
 the summer of 1899; house surgeon of the Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, 
 Massachusetts, in the winter of 1899-1900; superintendent and resident physician of 
 the Boston Floating Hospital in the summer of 1900; house physician and surgeon of 
 the Worcester City Hospital. 1900-01. He engaged in general practice, in November, 
 1901, in this city, and has continued to the present time, except for a period of hospital 
 practice and study, making a specialty of pediatrics (children's diseases) since 1904. 
 He was assistant resident physician in the Boston City Hospital, South Department, in 
 1903-04; student of diseases of children in England, France and Germany in 1904; 
 co-organizer and physician of the Green Hill Hospital for Infants, 1905-07. 
 
 Mr. McKibben is a member of the Worcester District Medical Society; Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society : American Medical Association ; New England Pediatric 
 Society ; Harvard Medical Alumni Association ; the Delta Upsilon fraternity ; Quin- 
 sigamond Lodge, Ancient Free .and Accepted Masons; Altheia Grotto of this city; 
 the Harvard Club of Worcester; Worcester Country Club; Worcester Tennis Club. 
 He is a member of Piedmont Congregational Church and was at one time teacher and 
 assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics he is a Republican. He 
 served on the Worcester school committee three years, 1906-09. Since June i, 1917, 
 he has been a member of the Local Exemption Board. He was for three years in 
 military training in the Universiay of Arkansas and was successively corporal, second 
 sergeant, first sergeant and acting adjutant, 1888-90. 
 
 Mr. McKibben married, in this city, in 1905. Olive Beatrice Flint, who was born 
 here in 1883, daughter of Charles W. and Cora Louise (Fay) Flint. Her father was 
 born in i860; her mother in Holden in 1863. Dr. and Mrs. McKibben have one child, 
 Darthea, born June 25, 1918. They reside at 45 Wachusett street. Mrs. McKibben is a 
 member of the Worcester Woman's Club and the Worcester Country Club. 
 
 CARL G. TIDEMAN. It is inadequately realized how great a part in the 
 development of mechanical inventions in the United States, and the mighty indus- 
 trial growth of recent years so largely dependent upon it, has been taken by men 
 of foreign birth whom the spirit of enterprise has driven hither from their native 
 lands in search of wider opportunities for self-expression. Among the nationalities 
 which pour their thousands of emigrants yearly upon the shores of the United 
 States, Sweden is to be numbered, although those who reach us from its moun- 
 tain-locked valleys are not so many as we could wish. For there is less reason 
 for the Swedes to stray abroad from their native land than for the people of other 
 places, which, although rugged in their natural aspect, are now so favored with 
 
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 the spirit of liberty wliicli. of all things, men hold dearest. Such of them ns do 
 find their way hither, however, are the more welcome, since we know them for what 
 they are, possessed of the simple and fundamental virtues, honor, courage, industry, 
 which above all others are important to a community in the persons of its mem- 
 bers. Such a man for instance was Carl G. Tideman. late of Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, whose death in this city, October ig, 1916, was felt as a distinct loss hy 
 the many personal friends and business associates which he had formed. 
 
 Born on March 12, 1857, in Sweden, Carl G. Tideman was a son of Carl Williclm 
 Tideman, who is still living at an advanced age in the old country. The lad was 
 educated at Degerfors Bruk in his native region, and while still young became 
 strongly imbued with the desire to seek his fortunes in the new world. Accord- 
 ingly, in the year 1897, he came to this country, and settling at Worcester secured 
 a position as foreman at the Washburn-Moen Company's plant, later the .American 
 Steel & Wire Company. He was also employed in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and 
 after a short time returned to Worcester, where he was associated with the Reed 
 & Prince Company. While thus associated Mr. Tideman, who was gifted with an 
 unusual inventive genius, devised a number of machines for the carrying on of t!ie 
 work. He also drew plans for a mechanical piano player and was the holder of 
 many patents on his invention. He was the designer of one of the bottle labeling 
 machines now in common use. Another of Mr. Tideman's important inventions was 
 that of the needle used in the sewing machine, which was epoch-making in its 
 efifect. He also invented a yarn guide holder for the firm of Howard Brothers, 
 Worcester. His ability to devise means for mechanical ends was extraordinary 
 and so well known that people used to come to him from far and wide to tell him 
 their needs. They would explain to him that such and such a machine was neces- 
 sary to their business, whereupon he would proceed to design one for them. His 
 latest invention was a machine for manufacturing nuts and screws, the raw material 
 being fed to the machine, which turned out the completed nuts and screws ready 
 for use. Besides his inventive genius, Mr. Tideman was also an excellent busi- 
 ness man and an unusual organizer, and shortly before his death he founded a 
 company known as the Worcester Nut Manufacturing Company, of which he was 
 president, and which is located at No. 17 Hermon street. Here a plant was already 
 equipped for business at the time of his death. Mr. Tideman had been for a num- 
 ber of years manufacturing piano tuning pins in large quantities, as he perceived 
 that there was a great opportunity for the parts of pianos which, since the outbreak 
 of the great World War, it was necessary to manufacture in this country to take 
 the place of the great European importation then brought to an end. He had been 
 making these pins on a smaller scale for twenty years before the war, but this 
 greatly stimulated the production and he was building up a large enterprise of this 
 sort when death cut short his career. Mr. Tideman was a conspicuous figure in 
 the general life of Worcester and was associated with a number of prominent 
 organizations here. He was a member of Thule Lodge. Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, the Swedish Engineers Society, the Englebrecht Club, and the Svea Gille 
 Association. In his religious belief Mr. Tideman was a Lutheran and attended the 
 First Swedish Church of that denomination in Worcester. In politics he was a 
 Republican, but although a public-spirited man and one who always kept the wel- 
 fare of his adopted community before his mind, he was in no sense of the word a 
 politician. 
 
 Carl G. Tideman was united in marriage. December 3, 1914. with Rose M. 
 Nakashian, a native of Worcester. They were the parents of one child, Carl Warren 
 Tideman, born June 16, 1916. 
 
 The assertion is sometimes made that, in spite of certain notable exceptions, 
 the type of mind possessed by inventive geniuses is. rarely capable of dealing with 
 the commercial or business aspect of life and we have the popular and familiar 
 picture of the unsuspecting ingenuous inventor, fleeced of the well-earned profit of 
 his devices by the sophisticated and scheming business man. If this be so.itis 
 strange enough, for to the layman at least, there seems to be no incompatibility 
 between the mind that can grasp the high practical problems of physical and me- 
 chanical science and the very similar problems of every day business relation, but 
 rather a parity, such as to suggest that they are of one and the same kind. How- 
 ever this may be, it is certain that the remarkable group of inventors of the gener- 
 ation just passed, of which Mr. Tideman may well be counted a member, were 
 not afflicted with anv such one-sidedness of character. They at least were not 
 prevented of their just desert, but were quite equally capable of producing their 
 masterpieces of mechanical skill and of marketing them to their own best advantage 
 and that of the world-at-large. And if they thus prove false this belief as to the 
 one-sidedness of genius, they no less dispose of another fallacy, namely, that such 
 
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 a union of abilities shows a man to have developed the material side of his nature 
 at the expense of the spiritual. Nothing could be further from the truth as such 
 men as Mr. Tideman have well shown in their lives, wherein were displayed the 
 fundamental virtues and those higher reaches of idealism expressed in religion. 
 
 ASA RICKER CREDIFORD, Merchant, now real estat-e and insurance agent, 
 was born in Kennebunkport, Maine, July S, 1862, son of Henry J. and Ruth (Ricker) 
 Crediford. 
 
 When he was four years old his parents moved to Shapleigh Corners and he 
 attended a private school there. At the age of fourteen he began his career as a 
 driver of teams in the woods for logging camps, and during the summer worked 
 on his father's farm and assisted his father in the cattle business. When he was 
 seventeen he began to drive a market wagon on the beach during the summer 
 season. Two years later he became a school teacher, but after three years decided 
 that teaching was not his forte. When he was twenty-two he became a clerk in a 
 general store in northern Maine and was manager for two years. He resigned 
 on account of ill health, and after a rest of six months became manager of a gen- 
 eral store in Milton, New Hampshire, remaining there for three years. He then 
 became the manager and principal stockholder of the largest grocery in Dover, New 
 Hampshire. At the end of nine years his health failed again and he withdrew from 
 the business. Afterward he was traveling salesman for the Beech Soap Company 
 of Lawrence, Massachusetts, continuing on the road for this concern for a period 
 of thirteen years. Since April, 1910, he has been in the real estate and insurance 
 business in this city. At first he had offices in the State Mutual building. He is 
 now located at No. 929 Slater building. He is agent for the United States Realty 
 Trust. Mr. Crediford is keenly interested in public affairs and an earnest advocate 
 of temperance measures. In politics he is a Republican. In religion he is a 
 Methodist. H has one daughter. Vera M., who married Lieutenant M. J. Gibson, 
 of Boston, Massachusetts, of the L'nited States Navy, located at Bumkin Island, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 LOUIS A. WHEELER, Member of the Colbert Last Company, was born in 
 Leominster, Massachusetts, March 7, 1872, son of Charles E. and Ella M. (Mead) 
 Wheeler. Charles E. Wheeler was born in Leominster, 1850; was a carpenter in early 
 life, then a farmer; retired in 190.4, coming afterward to this city, and is at present 
 with the Colbert Last Company. His wife died in iqot. They had but one child, Louis 
 A. 
 
 Louis A. Wheeler attended the public schools of that town and graduated from the 
 Leominster High School in 1888. He began his business career in the employ of 
 Merriam, Hall & Company, manufacturers of furniture in Leominster. He came to this 
 city in January, 1896, and entered the employ of the Mawhinney Last Company; after- 
 ward he came to the Colbert Last Company to take charge of the office and book- 
 keepin.g. He has for a number of years devoted much time to the development of the 
 model department. He is an expert in designing lasts. He is secretary and assistant 
 treasurer of the Colbert Last Company. Mr. Wheeler is a member of the Rotary Club, 
 the Worcester Country Club, the Worcester Automobile Club, the Worcester Com- 
 mercial Travelers Association, and the Chamber of Commerce, and he attends the 
 Church of the Unity. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler married, February 15, 1893, Mabel S. Brown, of Leominster. Their 
 home is at No. 760 Pleasant street in this city. Mrs. Wheeler is a member of the 
 Worcester Country Club. 
 
 JOHN BERNARD RATIGAN, Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, 
 was born in this city, December 20, 1859, died February i, 1915, son of Patrick E. 
 Ratigan. 
 
 He attended the public schools here, graduating from the Classical High School, 
 and entered Holy Cross College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts in 1879. He was class orator. He then entered Harvard Law School, from which 
 he graduated in 1883. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1883. in the Supreme 
 Court, Boston, and immediately after graduation began to practice law in this city. 
 While a student at Holy Cross he taught in the Worcester evening schools, and while 
 in the law school he was a teacher in the Boston evening schools. For five years he 
 taught commercial law in Hinman's Business College in this city. In politics Mr. 
 Ratigan was a Democrat, and early in life he took an active part in public affairs. 
 He served on the school committee of the city in 1887-88-89-90. He was a member of 
 the Board of Aldermen in 1903, and was often leader of his party as its nominee for 
 important offices. In 1904 he was candidate for Congress, and in 1910 candidate for 
 
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 attorney general. Judge Ratigan was a trustee, clerk and solicitor of the Hay State 
 Savings Bank, of which he was one of the founders; he was auditor of the Equity 
 Co-operative Bank, and was an officer of the Worcester Co-operative Bank. He was a 
 member of the Worcester County Bar Association. He was appointed to the licncii by 
 Governor Foss, in 191 1, and from the beginning evinced exceptional quahtications for a 
 judicial office. His experience as a lawyer, teacher, public officer and business man 
 gave him excellent training; his knowledge of law was sound: he had the respect and 
 confidence of both bench and bar. His personality was another important factor in his 
 success as an attorney and as a judge. His death in the i)rime of life was mourned 
 by the entire city. In religion he was a Catholic, communicant of St. Peter's Church. 
 Judge Ratigan was a member of the Worcester Country Club; the Commonwealth 
 Club ; the Washington Club ; and the Boston City Club. 
 
 Judge Ratigan married, June 27. 1893, Anastasia O'Halloran. who was born in 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, daughter of Dennis O'Halloran. To Judge and Mrs. Ratigan 
 were born two sons, namely, Russell, born February 3, 1895, who during the World 
 War served as an ensign in the United States Navy; and John E<iward, born October 
 31, 1898, who is a student of Holy Cross College. 
 
 FRANCIS ALDEN POOLE, Former pastor of Union Congregational Church, 
 was born in Salem. Alassachusetts. October 25, 1870. son of Edmund .Alden and Laura 
 Anna (Mackintosh) Poole. He attended the public schools of Peabody Woodman's 
 School, .Salem: Bangor Theological Seminary (B. D.. 1893) ; and took special courses 
 in Hartford Theological Seminary and Harvard Divinity School. He received the 
 degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Potomac University, Washington, D. C, in 1914. 
 He was ordained in the Congregational ministry in 1893; ^^'^s pastor at Sanford, Maine, 
 1893-94; at Topsfield, 1S94-99; East \\'eymouth, 1899-1901 ; E5arre, Vermont, 1901-09; 
 and pastor of the Union Congregational Church of this city from 1909 to 1917, when he 
 resigned to accept a call at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He is a member of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution; a Free Mason; member of the Congregational Club, of 
 which he was president in 1915. He is the author of "The Ministry of an Idealist" 
 (1900). 
 
 ELIAS HARLOW RUSSELL, Former principal of Worcester State Xornial 
 School, was born in Sanbornt'in. Xew Hampshire, Xovember 27, 1836, and died in 
 Sanbornton. April 3. 1017, son of Elias and Comfort (Rundlett) Russell. 
 
 His early education was received in the district schools of his native town, 
 and like every country boy he had more farm work than school in his boyhood. 
 He attended the Woodman Sanbornton Academy and the Literary and Biblical In- 
 stitution at New Hampton, New Hampshire. In 1853, while still a student there, 
 he began teaching, at the same time continuing his studying and preparation for 
 his profession. In 1856 he began the study of medicine, under the direction of 
 Professor Albert Smith, M. D., who was a' member of the faculty of Dartmouth 
 College. He continued bis teaching several years later, and among soine of the 
 institutions in which he taught were: Highland Military .'Vcademy, Worcester; 
 Eaton's Business College, Worcester; Professor Bushee's Private School, Wor- 
 cester; Nichols Academy, Dudley, Massachusetts, and various private schools, 
 including the teachers' institutes of Grafton and Coos counties. New Hampshire. 
 Elocution was the subject he usually taught. He gave several courses of lectures 
 in Harvard University, in 1861-62-63. He was principal of LeRoy .^cademy. New 
 York, for ten years. In 1874 he accepted the position as first principal of theWor- 
 cester State Normal School, which position he held for thirty-five years, resigning 
 in September. 1909. LInder his leadership and supervision a practical, interesting 
 and most helpful method of teaching was established. The apprentice system was 
 developed and has been one of the most attractive features of the school, giving 
 both the teachers and scholars the best of training. 
 
 Mr. Russell was a pioneer in the child-study movement and must be reckoned 
 among the foremost investigators of the subject. He was one of the earliest to 
 study the cliild after modern scientific methods, and his was the first Normal School 
 to engage in child-studv systematically. Mr. Russell wrote a number of papers, 
 printed in the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, among them a sketch 
 of a very intimate friend of his. Senator George F. Hoar. He wrote extensively 
 on educational subjects, and several times read addresses before the National Edu- 
 cational Association in Chicago in 1893 and in St. Louis in 1004. He published 
 several papers in the proceedings of the .American Antiquarian Society, of which 
 he was a member, and for a number of years was a member of the council. Few 
 literary honors in America are more highly appreciated than honors in the American 
 Antiquarian Society. Mr. Russell was a member of St. Wulstan Society from the 
 
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 time of its organization to his death and served as its president. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Colonial Society, Massachusetts ; Friday Evening Club, Boston ; Wor- 
 cester Art Museum Corporation; State Teachers' Association; Appalachian Moun- 
 tain Club ; former Worcester Fire Society. He vi?i.s a trustee of Leicester Academy, 
 and former member and president of board of directors of the Free Public Library 
 of Worcester. He was elected honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa in Massa- 
 chusetts notwithstanding the fact that he held no college degree. 
 
 Mr. Russell married. November ii, 1862, Harriet Thurston Lee, daughter of 
 George W. and Laura (Sanford) Lee, a native of Lancaster, Massachusetts. She 
 died October 22, 1900. Children: i. Lee, born at Le Roy, New York, January 8, 
 1865 ; graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, member of the faculty of State 
 Normal School; married Alice B. Woodworth, July 4, 1894, and had: Alan Wood- 
 worth, born January 27, 1898: Ralph, born January 14, 1900; Helen, born October 
 28, 1901 ; Walter, born April i, 1905; Sylvia, born May 18, 1906. 2. Olive, born at 
 Le Roy, New York, March 23, 1867 ; kindergartner, graduate of State Normal School, 
 
 3. Philip, born July 24, 1869, died September 16, 1895, at Worcester, unmarried. 
 
 4. Ernest. 
 
 His line of ancestry is as follows: Elias. his father; William; Benjamin; 
 John : Robert, who is said to have come from Scotland, and was the emigrant an- 
 cestor. He was in America probably as early as 1677, and settled in Andover, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 NATHANIEL PAINE, Financier, son of Gardiner and Emily (Baker) Paine, 
 was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, August 6, 1832. He was educated in the 
 public schools and academy of his native city. By reference to the early family 
 history it will be observed that he came of ancestors of prominence in revolutionary 
 days in town affairs, and that his grandfather was for many years judge of probate 
 in Worcester county. After leaving school he clerked for a time in a leather store, 
 and when seventeen years of age entered the Mclianics' Bank as a clerk. In 1854 
 he was made the assistant cashier of the City Bank, and three years later was pro- 
 moted to cashier, which office he held until December I2. 1898, when he was elected 
 president. When the banks were merged into the Worcester Trust Company, a 
 few years later, he became the vice-president and long held the position. He was 
 connected with many of the financial concerns of Worcester. He was vice-president 
 of the Worcester Five Cent Savings Bank, and chairman of tlie Clearing Associa- 
 tion. The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Harvard 
 College in 1898. He was from early youth possessed of a literary taste, and was 
 especially fond of history and art. He wrote much of local history, and many 
 articles from his pen appeared in different publications. Among the papers presented 
 by Mr. Paine were : "Early Paper Currency of Massachusetts," "Historical Notes 
 on the Town of Worcester," "The Drama in Worcester," and "Early American 
 Imprints in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society." He also edited with 
 notes the "Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Librarian of the Antiquarian 
 Society." He was also connected with many other societies. He was one of the 
 founders of the Worcester Art Society, and was once its president, and was a di- 
 rector of the Art Museum Corporation, and was also a director of the Free Public 
 Library for eighteen years. He served in the Common Council for one term. He 
 was a great lover of good books and possessed a fine library. The following list 
 will explain the prominent place he took in society matters : Treasurer of the 
 American Antiquarian Society ; treasurer of the Worcester County Horticultural 
 Society; treasurer for Home for Aged Men; treasurer of Devens Monument Asso- 
 ciation ; president of the Worcester Lyceum ; president of the Worcester Natural 
 History Association ; director of the Free Public Library and secretary for more than 
 a dozen years ; and director of the Worcester Art Museum. He held membership 
 in the Massachusetts Historical Society, New England Historic-Genealogical 
 Society, American Society for the Advancement of Science, Colonial Society of 
 Massachusetts, American Historical Association, Folk-Lore Society of Massachusetts, 
 Bunker Hill Monument Association, Worcester Society of Antiquity. Worcester 
 Art Society and was an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. 
 He was also corresponding member of the Long Island Historical Society, Numis- 
 matic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, La Societe Numismatique of Mon- 
 treal, Canada, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Melrose, Scotland, and the 
 Georgia Historical Society. He was one of the original members of the Club of 
 Odd Volumes of Boston. His was a busy life and many public institutions felt 
 the touch of his literary influence. 
 
 Mr. Paine married. June 14, 1865, Susan M. Barnes, daughter of Willett B. and 
 Henrietta (Nuttman) Barnes, of New Haven. Connecticut. No issue. Mr. Paine 
 died January 14, 1917, and was buried in Rural Cemetery. 
 
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 FRANK LOWE PHALEN, Fornic-r minister of the Lliurch of the Unity, was 
 born in WiUiamstown, New York, May 9, 1859, son of Patrick Connell and Emily 
 (Ayres) Plialen. He was educated in Alfred University (New York), Muadville 
 Theological Seminary (Pennsylvania) and Oxford University, England (1905-07). 
 He was ordained in the Unitarian ministry in 1886 ; was pastor at Wilton, New- 
 Hampshire ; Brattleboro, \'ermont ; Concord, New Hatnpshire ; at the Church of 
 the Unity, Worcester; Fairhaven, Massachusetts; and Waterville. Maine. He was 
 chaplain of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1896; chaplain of the 
 First New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish War; chaplain of the 
 Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Alilitia, 1898-1902. He is a trustee 
 of the Meadville Theological Seminary. He has published various poems and ser- 
 mons, written editorials for the Worcester "Spy," and contributed to various other 
 newspapers and periodicals. 
 
 Rev. Frank L. Phalen married, in 1880, Emma S. Stephens, of Brooklyn, New 
 Y'ork, and they had one son, Paul S., now a Unitarian clergyman, minister at 
 Hingham. Massachusetts, and Augusta, Maine ; chaplain of the First Motor Me- 
 chanics Regiment, Amet ican Expeditionary F^orces, in France ; a Plattsburg officer. 
 
 OTIS EARLE PUTNAM, President of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company, 
 was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, February 20, 1831, and died in this city, 
 June 9, 1911. son of Salmon and Tryphena (Bigelow) Putnam. His line of ancestry: 
 Otis E. (8) ; Salmon (7) ; Cyrus (6) ; David (5) ; Cornelius (4) ; Benjamin (3) ; 
 (see Early Settlers). 
 
 After a residence in Boston of some seven years, his parents came to Wor- 
 cester. He received his education in the common and high schools of Worcester, 
 and in 1847, at the age of sixteen years, began his career as clerk in the store of 
 John B. Wyinan. who in 1850 sold liis business to H. H. Chamlierlain. Mr. Putnam 
 remained in the employ of H. H. Chamberlain & Company and the succeeding firm. 
 Chamberlain, Barnard & Company, until 1857, when he w'as admitted to the firm, 
 then Barnard & Sumner, and later. Barnard, Sumner & Putnam. In 1892 the 
 business was incorporated. Mr. Putnam was successively treasurer and vice-presi- 
 dent of the company and finally president, in 1897. The business of the Barnard, 
 Sumner & Putnam Company has shown a steady and healthful growth from the 
 beginning. In 1901 the facilities of the company were increased by the erection 
 of a six-story addition to the spacious Main street building, extending to Waldo 
 street in the rear. Many new departments were added to the store. He was a 
 director of the Worcester Electric Light Company, the Sherman Envelope Company, 
 Eastern Bridge and Structural Company, the W^orcester and Holden Street Railway 
 Company, and trustee of the Worcester Five Cent Savings Bantc, and of the Wor- 
 cester Music Hall Association. He was a director of the City National Bank, and 
 of the Worcester and Marlboro Street Railway Company before the consolidation. 
 He was a member of the Worcester Club, the Commonwealth Club, the Board of 
 Trade, and an honorary member of the Worcester Light Infantry, Battery B, and 
 the Worcester Continentals. 
 
 Mr. Putnam married, (first) Harriet E. Waite. of ^^'orcester, who died in 1863. 
 He married (second) in 1866, Louisa Davis, of Lowell, who died March ->5, 1852. 
 They had one son, Arthur Davis Putnam. (See biography). He married (third) 
 in 1903, Florence V. Mace, of Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Putnam lives at No. 25 
 Harvard street. She is a member of the Worcester Wotnan's Club. 
 
 ARTHUR DAVIS PUTNAM was born at Worcester, February 16, 1868, son of 
 Otis Earle and Louisa (Davis) Putnam. He attended the common schools of tlie 
 city and was a student in the higli school of this city. He then entered the employ 
 of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam, as clerk, later became assistant treasurer, servmg 
 until 1903. He then went into the business of the Pepperell Card & Paper Company, 
 remaining for a few months. He w^as formerly director of the Barnard. Sumner 
 & Putnam Company. He attends Plvmouth Congregational Church of Worcester. 
 He served as its assessor for a period of six years. He is a member of the Rotary 
 Club, the Commonwealth Club, the American Association of Mechanical Engineers. 
 He is now associated with the Worcester Electric Light Company. He resides at 
 No. I Dix street. ^ ,, , , c r- 
 
 Mr Putnam married. Mav 21. 1890, Louise Frances Sartelle. daughter of Francis 
 K. and Deborah (March) Sartelle, of Worcester. Francis K. Sartelle was master 
 mechanic of Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company for years and their Canadian 
 representative until his death. Their children are Ethel Davis, born April 18 1891 ; 
 Otis Francis, born January 18, 1893; Arthur Davis, born June 21, 1898, died August 
 25, 1899; and Louise Davis, May 20, 1903. 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 ARTHUR DEXTER BUTTERFIELD, Professor of mathematics atid geodesy, 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was born in Dunstable. Massachusetts, October 
 13, 1870, son of Dexter and Georgianna (KenneyJ Butterfield. He graduated from 
 the Institute in 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Science and received the degree 
 of Master of Science in 1898 from the Institute, the degree of Master of Arts from 
 Columbia University in 1904. He was in the United States lighthouse service, 
 1893-94; instructor in surveying in the Institute. 1894 to 1898; instructor, assistant 
 professor and professor of mathematics and mechanics in the University of Ver- 
 mont. 1898-1908. He came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1908 as as- 
 sistant professor of mathematics and soon afterward was elected professor. Since 
 1914 he has been professor of mathematics and geodesy in the institute. He 
 spent the summers from 1895 to 1903 in topographical geodetic work under the 
 Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commission. From 1903 to 1911 he was engaged 
 in work for the water resource department of the United States Geodetic Survey. 
 He is secretary of the Worcester Polytechnic Alumni Association, and was active 
 in raising funds for the athletic field and the new gymnasium. He is a fellow of 
 the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is author of "His- 
 tory of Triangulation in Massachusetts;" "History of the Determination of the Figure 
 of the Earth from Meridian Arc Measurements." 
 
 Professor Butterfield married, in Shrewsbury. September 14, 1898, Fannie Louise 
 Day, and they have three children : Louise, Dexter and George. Their home is at 
 No. 10 Schussler road in this city. 
 
 CHARLES SALISBURY TURNER, Railroad president, was born in Bethle- 
 hetn. New Hampshire. June 28. 1825, died August 8, 1897, in this city. His boyhood 
 was spent in his native town and his education received there in the public schools. 
 He came to Worcester as agent of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Company, 
 having previously been agent in Putnam, Connecticut, and general agent of the 
 railroad and steamboat company. After fifteen years as agent here, he was elected 
 superintendent of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad in 1866 and was succeeded on 
 the Norwich road by his brother. William H. Turner, who w-as later superintendent 
 of the New Haven & Willimantic Railroad. Mr. Turner was the third superintendent 
 of the Nashua road and held the position longer than any of his predecessors. 
 Upon the death of Francis H. Kinnicutt he was elected president of the company 
 and general manager of the road, continuing in office until it was leased, December 
 I, 1883. becoming part of the Boston & Maine system in 1885. Mr. Turner retired 
 from business in 1883 and afterward devoted his attention to his private affairs. 
 For a time he had an office in the Adams Express headquarters, No. 375 Main street. 
 He was a director of the Worcester & Shrewsbury Street Railway Company; the 
 Worcester & Shrewsbury Railroad ; trustee of Mechanics Savings Bank ; charter 
 member of the Board of Trade ; honorary member of the Worcester Continentals 
 from 1876; and member of the Church of the Unity. He owned much real estate in 
 Worcester, including the brick building, Foster street, occupied by the Washburn 
 & Garfield Manufacturing Company. 
 
 Mr. Turner married Sarah Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of John and Susan 
 (Masson) Andrews, of Boston. Their only son died young. They had two daugh- 
 ters, Harriet Isabel and Helen Gertrude. They reside at No. 41 Harvard street. 
 
 HORACE BATCHELDER VERRY, Lawyer, was born in Saco, Maine, De- 
 cember 25. 1843, son of George F. Verry (see biography). He came with his par- 
 ents to this city in 1849 and attended the public schools here, graduating from the 
 high school in" 1861. He read law in the office of his father and w-as a student 
 for about a year in the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1863. 
 He was admitted to the bar. September 9, 1864. and since that time has been prac- 
 ticing in this citv. He was a member of his father's law firm from October, 1883, 
 until his father died, and afterward in partnership with Hon. Francis A. Gaskill 
 under the same firm name, Verry & Gaskill. 
 
 Colonel Verry attained a place of distinction in his profession and was promi- 
 nent for many years. For a number of years he has had to retire from the more 
 arduous labors of his profession and has been an assistant in the office of the clerk 
 of the courts. At present he has charge of some of the new activities imposed on this 
 office by war legislation. In politics he is a Democrat. He has held a commission as 
 justice of the peace since 1864 and is one of the oldest magistrates of the State. He 
 served as assistant quartermaster general on the staflt of Governor William E. Russell 
 in 1891-92-93, having the rank of colonel. Colonel Verry has withdrawn from most 
 of the organizations in which he was formerly active. He is a member of the Quin- 
 sigamond Lodge, Free Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and was a 
 
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 mmeber of Commonwealth Cluli ; W'asliington Club; Worcester Cluli; Tatassit Canoo 
 Club; Wapiti Boat Club; Gesang Vcrein Frohsinns ; charter member of the Sports- 
 men Club ; trustee of the Worcester Agricultural Society. Among the horsomcii 
 Colonel Verry was a popular and honored comrade. Though not given to racing, 
 he owned the finest driving horses in the city and was to be found wherever thorough- 
 breds were to be seen, whetlier at the fair grounds, the race course or tlie boulevards 
 of the city. 
 
 Colonel Verry married, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, April 12, 1899, Clara May Dex- 
 ter, who was born in Alilti'U, Xova Scotia, daughter of Captain Joscpli Dexter. They 
 have no cliildren. 
 
 AUGUST M. BERG, Treasurer of the Stone & Berg Lumber Company, was 
 born in Jonkoping Lan, Smoland, Sweden, February 22, 1868. He was educated in 
 the public schools of his native town. He came to this country in 1888 and located 
 first at Muskegan, later going to Chippewa Lake, where he was employed for two years 
 and a half in logging and the lumber business. He left Michigan and went eastward, 
 stopping for a few weeks in Chicago, and working fifteen months in Brockton, and a 
 year and a half in W'orcester. In 189,? he returned to his home for a long visit, but 
 eventually returned to America and soon afterward took up a homestead claim in 
 Alberta, Canada, but he was not satisfied with the prospects, and after eighteen months 
 in the wilderness he spent a few months prospecting in British Columbia, working in 
 lumber camps, cutting railroad ties. His former residence in Worcester had proved 
 happy and he decided to try that city again. He arrived, January I, 1896, and since 
 then has made his home here. Until the spring of 1898 he worked at the trade 
 of carpenter for various employers, and for nine years afterward was foreman for the 
 Stone & Foster Lumber Company, Worcester. 
 
 In May, 1906, Mr. Berg began business as a lumber dealer on a modest scale near 
 the present lumber yards of tlie Stone & Berg Lumber Company on Union street. 
 Two years and a half later he formed a partnership with Walter J. Stone, a veteran 
 lumber dealer, and the business which Mr. Berg had founded was incorporated under 
 the name of the Stone & Berg Lumber Company. Mr. Stone died March 10, 1917, 
 and since then Mr. Berg has become the sole proprietor of the business. Mr. Berg 
 was president and Mr. Stone treasurer of the cotnpany from the beginning. The 
 capital is $30,000 and the business has been highly prosperous. The office is at No. 
 181 Union street and the yard, Nos. 173 to 199 Union street. The company deals 
 in building and shop lumber of every description, kiln-dried flooring, sheathing, 
 roofing paper and asphalt shingles. Mr. Berg's home is at No. 17 Franconia street. He 
 is a member of the Swedish Congregational church and of the Benefit Society of that 
 church. He was a member of the Merchants Association, recently amalgamated with 
 the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Builders Excliange and of the 
 Chamber of Commerce. He is a director of the Scandinavian Credit Union. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Berg married, June 23, 1897, Emma C. Blanch, of Worcester, a daughter of 
 Magnus and Louise Blanch. They have one son, Harold C, a sophomore in the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (class of 1919). 
 
 DWIGHT FOSTER, Lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born in 
 Brookfield, Massachusetts, December 7, 1757, died there April 29, 1823, son of Jedcdiah 
 and Dorothy (Dwight) Foster. He graduated from Brown in 1774; studied law in the 
 ofiice of Joseph Hawley, of Northampton ; was admitted to the bar in 1780 and began 
 practice in Providence, soon removing to Brookfield; served as delegate in the State 
 Constitutional Convention in 1779 ; member of both branches of the General Court ; of 
 the Governor's Council ; for ten years chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. 
 In 1792 he was elected sheriff of this county and in the same year presidential elector. 
 He was congressman from 1793 to 1800, when he was elected to the LTnited .States 
 Senate. He retired from public life in 1803. He was a Federalist of national reputa- 
 tion; a great political factor and trusted leader. Mr. Foster married, in 1783, Rebecca 
 Faulkner, daughter of Colonel Faulkner, of Acton. 
 
 ROBERT FREDERICK HERRICK, President of the Reed-Prentice Company, 
 is a prominent lawyer and financier. He graduated from Harvard College in 1890, and 
 secured his legal training in the Boston University Law School. In college he was a 
 prominent oarsman and his interest in athletics and in his college has not abated. For 
 many years he was a graduate member of the committee on athletics, and to his 
 energy and coaching the success of the crews since 1905 is attributed in large measure. 
 Since 1908 he has been chairman of the Graduate Rowing Committee and he was in 
 charge of the Harvard Second Crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, 
 
56o HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 England, July 4, 1914. He is a member of the visiting committee of the Harvard 
 School of Applied Science and of the Board of Overseers of the College. He was 
 chief marshal at the College Commencement in 1915. He is a trustee of Milton 
 Academy. He is a director of some forty of the largest industrial and financial cor- 
 porations of New England, and but two or three financiers are connected with a 
 larger number of institutions. He is a director of the Walter Baker & Company 
 limited; the General Motors Company; trustee of the Ludlow Manufacturing Asso- 
 ciates ; chairman of the board of directors of the Saco-Lowell Shops. His law firm 
 is Fish, Richardson, Herrick & Neave, having offices at No. 84 State street, Boston, 
 and 5 Nassau street. New York. His clubs are : Beverly Yacht Club, Boston City 
 Club, the Commercial, Exchange. Harvard. New Riding, Tennis and Racquet, Univer- 
 sity, Union, Union Boat, all of Bi.iston; Harvard, University and the Yacht clubs of 
 New York; Country Club, Brookline; Eastern Yacht Club, Hoosic-Whisick Club, 
 Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C, Milton Club, New England Kennel Club, 
 Thames Club and University Club of Chicago. He resides in Brookline and has a 
 summer home at Wareham, Massachusetts. 
 
 ELIHU BURRITT, "The learned Blacksmith," linguist, editor, was born in New 
 Britain, Connecticut, December 8. 1810, and died there March 6, 1879. He learned the 
 trade of blacksmith and for several years worked at tlie anvil. At the age^ of twenty- 
 one he began the study of Latin and French and later learned Greek, while working 
 at his trade. He decided to become a surveyor and studied mathematics. In 1837 
 he was keeping a small grocery in Connecticut and failed during the crisis, losing all 
 he had. He walked from New Britain to Boston, thence to Worcester, where he 
 found employment and an opportunity to pursue his studies in the library oi the 
 American Antiquarian Society. .\ letter to William Lincoln soliciting employment at 
 translating was shown to Edward Everett, who soon heralded Mr. Burritt to the world 
 as the "learned blacksmith." For several years Elihu Burritt lectured before lyceums 
 and became interested in philanthropic and social reforms, established in Worcester 
 the "Christian Citizen," the first number of which appeared January 6, 1844, and was 
 published seven years. It gave strong editorial support to various causes. He devoted 
 himself for many years to advocating universal peace and resided abroad for a long 
 time. For some years he was consul of the United States at Birmingham. He ac- 
 quired a world-wide reputation. He made extensive tours in Great Britain on foot 
 and published several interesting volumes of travel and description of home life in 
 England and Scotland. As to his lingual attainments many exaggerated reports were 
 made. He was fond of languages and proficient in some, but his real ability was in 
 his reform work, his versatility as a writer, his leadership in social reforms. 
 
 EDWIN CONANT, Lawyer, was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, August 20, 
 1810, and died at his home on State street in this city, March 2, 1904. After pursuing 
 the usual course of academic training, he entered Harvard College from which he 
 graduated in 1829. He read law in the offices of Rejoice Newton and William 
 Lincoln in Worcester, and began to practice in 1832 in his native town, removing to 
 this town in 1833. After ten years of practice he engaged in business and continued 
 in various occupations the remainder of his life. He was prominent in the State 
 militia, held various staff and brigade commissions, and had been judge advocate. 
 In politics he was a Democrat, but before the dissolution of the Whig party he had 
 been a member. He was a Unitarian and held from time to time offices in the First 
 Unitarian Church, of which he was a member. For many years Mr. Conant resided 
 in the old Isaac Goodwin mansion on Lincoln street. His mansion at the corner of 
 Harvard and State streets he bequeathed to the Natural History Society, and since 
 his death it has been used as the museum and headquarters of that organization. 
 He was generous witli his wealth throughout life. In his church he gave liberally. 
 To his native town he gave a substantial building for a public library and offices for 
 the town authorities. The building was dedicated to the memory of his elder daughter, 
 Elizabeth Anne Conant. who died in 1883. At the time of his death, Mr. Conant was 
 the oldest member of the Worcester bar. 
 
 Mr. Conant married (first) in 1833, a daughter of Hon. Joseph Estabrook, of 
 Royalston, sister of Mrs. Isaac Davis. Two daughters, Elizabeth Anne and Helen 
 Maria, died before their father. He married (second) Elizabeth S. Wheeler, daughter 
 of Rev. Joseph Wheeler, a Unitarian minister, register of probate. 
 
 WILLIAM BENTLEY, First Baptist minister in Worcester, was born in New- 
 port, Rhode Island, March 3, 1775, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, December 24, 
 1855. 
 
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 He was apprenticed as a baker in Boston at tlie ase of lounern. Ai an early 
 age he experienced religion and joined the Baptist chiwcli. He stuilicd for the min- 
 istry and was licensed to preach, November 3, 1806; was ordained as an evangelist in 
 Salem in 1807, and became minister of the Baptist church at 'i'iverton, Rhode Island, 
 in 1808. Though his education was limited, he became through his (iwu efF^irts a 
 Biblical scholar of the first rank, and he was a gifted orator and successful evangelist. 
 In 1795 there were but three Baptists in Worcester, one of whom was Ur. John (ireen. 
 In that year James Wilson, a member of the Baptist church of Newcastlc-on-Tync. 
 England, came to this town and from time to time afterward there were meetings of 
 Baptists at his house, but there seems to have been no additions to tlie denomination, 
 and after the death of the three originals mentioned. James Wilson was the only 
 Baptist for a time. In 1812, however, Elder Green, of Newport, preached here in a 
 private house to a large congregation and from that time meetings were held in houses 
 and school houses from time to time. Elder Bentley preached three sermons. May .'?i. 
 1812, in the school house on the Common. Dr. Austin, of the Old South, characterized 
 the Baptists next Sunday as "a sneaking set who hovered about the suburlis, not 
 daring to come into the centre of the town." But in spite of all opposition the society 
 grew steadily ; the hall in the Centre school house was rented and on July ,^o regular 
 services began; Elder Bentley was engaged as minister. September 28. The Baptist 
 church of Worcester was formed November 5 and the church constituted December 9. 
 The installation was performed in Dr. Bancroft's church. Dr. Bancroft, in contrast 
 to Dr. Austin's discourtesy, was most courteous to the new minister and congregation, 
 not only granting the use of his church, but attending the services and dining with the 
 council at the home of James Wilson. The society began to erect a meeting house 
 east of the Common, May 29, 1813, and it was dedicated the following December. The 
 church grew rapidly under Mr. Bentley. but unfortunate differences arose between the 
 pastor and some influential members of the church, resulting in the expulsion of 
 James Wilson and William Lazell. They in turn made Mr. Bentley 's position so 
 uncomfortable that he resigned and was dismissed June 30. 181 5. Afterward he was 
 minister at Wethersfield. Connecticut, for six years, and then for a number of years 
 general missionary and evangelist in Connecticut: finally pastor iif tlie Second Baptist 
 Church in Middletown, Connecticut. 
 
 IRWIN PETER DORWARD, President of the Fuller Regalia and Costtmie 
 Company, was liorn near Slatington, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1874, son of Franklin 
 Peter and Amelia (Kern) Dorward. Franklin Peter Dorward was born in Slatington, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1855, and followed farming there. His wife was also born in Slat- 
 ington, 1856. Irwin Peter was their only child. 
 
 Irwin P. Dorward attended the public schools, graduating from the Slatington 
 High School in l8go, and from the Delaware (Ohio) Business College in 1892. At the 
 age of fifteen years he began h> teach school and for three winters taught in the 
 district schools of Lehigh and Carbon counties, Pennsylvania. During the summer 
 months he studied shorthand, typewriting and bookkeeping in the business college. In 
 the fall of 1893 he became a teacher of commercial subjects in the Elgin (Illinois) 
 Business College. In the spring of 1894 he returned to Slatington. and after working 
 four months in the freight office of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company there, he 
 entered the employ of the Slatington Slate Company, then and now the largest pro- 
 ducer and shipper of slate products in that region, remaining with the concern for 
 eight years. In 1902 he moved to Scranton, Pennsydvania, and was employed in the 
 accounting division of the International Correspondence Schools, being transferred 
 later to the Chicago office and taking charge of the accounting there. While living 
 in Chicago he met A. W. Shaw, publisher of the magazine System, and subsequently 
 went with him to his native town. Muskegon, Michigan, entering the employ of the 
 Shaw-Walker Company, makers of systems, as correspondent. While with this con- 
 cern he was recommended to take charge of the follow-up system of the Graton & 
 Knight Manufacturing Company of Worcester. He came to this city to undertake the 
 work, October i. 1903, and witli one assistant developed the system. It eventually 
 became the publicity department with Mr. Dorward in charge, employing a dozen 
 assistants. After seven years with the Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company, 
 Mr. Dorward resigned, Octol)er i, 1910, with the intention of engaging in business on 
 his own account. In the fall of that year he formed a corporation and purchased 
 the business of the Fuller Regalia and Costume Company of the estate of Charles C. 
 Fuller, wdio founded the business in 1885. John A. Sherman and his son Edward 
 were his associates in the new corporation, of which he was president and manager. 
 Since that time Mr. Dorward has conducted this business. The place of business was 
 for many years at No. ■; Pleasant street; later at No. 6^4 Main street and finally at the 
 
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562 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 present location. No. 55 Pleasant street. This concern has had virtually a monopoly 
 of the business of renting costumes for masquerades, theatricals and parties and has 
 a great variety of costumes and regalia in stock. Mr. Dorward is a director of the 
 Park Trust Company. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Worcester 
 Lodge, No. 56, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; the United Commercial Travelers 
 Association ; Worcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; the Rotary Club ; Advertising 
 Club, of which he is treasurer; the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. In religion he 
 is a Congregationalist. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school, teacher 
 of the adult classes, and member of the standing committee, and is at present deacon 
 and trustee of the Tatnuck Congregational Church, 
 
 Mr. Dorward married, in Delaware, Ohio, December 22, 1897, Mary Dale Metcalf, 
 who was born at Centerville, Ohio, August 4, 1875, daughter of Henry H. and Artha 
 Lindsay (Macomber) Metcalf. Her father was born at Jackson, Ohio, in 1847, and 
 was a farmer by occupation; her mother was born in 1849 at Vinton, Ohio, and died 
 April 12, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Dorward have had four children : i. Esther Metcalf, 
 born June 7, 1899; graduate of the Classical High School, 1916, student in Simmons 
 College, class of 1921. 2. Arthur Rex, born October 15, 1902; student in the high 
 school. 3. Alice Amelia, horn September 6, 1904, died January 7, 1906. 4. Mary Dale, 
 born December 13, 1906. Their home is at No. 823 Pleasant street. 
 
 MATTHEW J. McCAFFERTY, Major of the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regi- 
 ment in the Civil War, .•\ssociate Justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, was born 
 in Ireland, June 17, 1829, died in Boston, May 5, 1885. His parents came to this 
 country when he was an infant, and located in Boston, where he attended the public 
 schools. In 1841 the family went to Lowell, in this State, and he went to work at the 
 age of twelve years in one of the mills there, learning the trade of machinist, after- 
 ward in the Lowell Machine Shop, and in the meantime reading law during his 
 leisure hours. In 1852 he left his trade and became a clerk in the law office of Brown 
 & Alger, Lowell, remaining there two years. He came to this city in 1854 and re- 
 sumed work at his trade, but continued to study law- in the office of Peter C. Bacon, 
 and after a time entered Holy Cross College, but soon afterward his mother required 
 his savings for her support and but fur the timely aid of General Benjamin F. Butler 
 his ambitions for the future would have been checked. The aid thus given by General 
 Butler enabled him to spend three years in college, where he made a creditable record. 
 He then returned to the law office of Brown & Alger. In March, 1857, he was admitted 
 to the bar in Lowell; in June of that year he opened an office in Worcester. He had 
 been while a student here a member of the Emmet Guards, and afterward captain. 
 When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in that company. After serving his term of 
 enlistment in that command, he was commissioned major of the Twenty-fifth Regi- 
 ment. He resigned after the battle of Newbern, receiving a most flattering letter from 
 Colonel Sprague for his gallantry. Throughout the war Major McCafferty was es- 
 pecially useful to the Union cause in speeches at war meetings and in securing recruits 
 of Irishmen. His eloquence was of inestimable value to the Union cause in this city 
 and State. 
 
 Mr. McCafiferty was a member of the Legislature from this city in 1866-76-77-79, 
 serving as chairman of the committee on Probate and Chancery and as member of the 
 Judiciary Committee and others. He served on the Worcester School Committee and 
 in 1883-84 was a member of the Board of Aldermen. In 1880 he was the Democratic 
 candidate for Congress in the tenth district. He was appointed Associate Justice of 
 Ihe Municipal Court of Boston, January 17, 1883, and he filled that office to the time 
 of his death. In 1886 lie was the candidate of the People's party for governor, and 
 he made an e.xcellent showing at the polls. He was a delegate to the Democratic 
 National Conventions in 1880 and 1884. He was always a loyal friend of General B. F. 
 Butler, and entered the People's party after Butler's defeat for the Democratic nom- 
 ination at the National Convention. As early as i860. Major McCafferty was active 
 in the Democratic party, supporting Douglas in the convention at Charleston. He was 
 an earnest and intelligent student throughout life, and a most energetic and faithful 
 advocate. His practice was largely in the criminal courts and he gave his talents 
 without stint to the service of his clients. He was genial in manner, generous in his 
 confidence and friendship, and always companionable. At the time of his death, the 
 Boston Globe said of him : 
 
 The bench loses an upright, straightforward judge, and the Commonwealth a 
 citizen of sterling integrity, kind and generous impulses, and frank and manly bearing. 
 Although Judge McCafferty had been upon the bench but a brief two years, he had 
 already won an enviable distinction for the impartiality of his decisions. Without 
 fear or favor, he intended that justice should be done in every instance. A terror to 
 evildoers and a sincere friend and adviser of the unfortunate, he filled his position 
 
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 as few can. To those who liail tlie good fortune to know Jndyc AIcCamTtj- per- 
 sonally, his sudden death will prove a sad blow. He was a ready, witty, delightful 
 conversationalist, a genial companion and a sturdy uncomproniisini,' friend, whose 
 warm heart never failed to lieat in unison with the right as he saw it and which was 
 always tender and true tn every trust. 
 
 The Springfield Rcpulilican: 
 
 His death removes an interesting personality frorn the politics of Massacluisett.? 
 and Gen. Butler loses a staunch political ally and warm personal friend. — He was 3 
 ready and effective political speaker, and when the war broke out he placed the com- 
 munity under an obligation which it never forgot. Lawyer McC'afferty entered the 
 service and also took the stump for the Union, his appeals being especially potent in 
 securing recruits. Xo Democratic State Convention for a lon.g series of years was 
 complete without the imposing presence and resonant voice of the Worcester politician. 
 
 Mr. McCafferty married Theresa Carroll, who died June 16, 1886. 
 
 FRANK H. KELLEY, Physician and surgeon, mayor of the city, was liorn at 
 New- Hampton. Xew Hampshire, September 9. 1827: died in this city, October 26, 
 1890. He attended the district schools of his native town and for three years was a 
 student in the academy in that town. He then became clerk in a dry goods store until 
 1846, wdien he went to Boston. A few months later, he began to study medicine in the 
 olfice of Dr. Bethuel Keith, of Dover, New Hampshire. He attended medical lectures 
 at Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1847-48, and received his degree there. After practicing with 
 Dr. Keith, wdio had a private sanitarium, he was associated from 1849 to 1851 with Dr. 
 Aaron Ordway. of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He came to this city in 1851, and prac- 
 ticed in partnership with Dr. Calvin Newton, for a few years, continuing in practice for 
 a period of thirty-two years. He retired in 1883 on account of ill health. He became a 
 member of the Worcester District Medical Society, and the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society, in 1875, and delivered the annual address, before the local society in 1880. 
 He was the first president of the board of trustees of the Worcester City Llospital, 
 in 1870. and served for thirteen years, being on the medical staff several years. He 
 served on the school committee two years ; in the Coiumon Council six years, and the 
 Board of Aldermen eight years. He was mayor of the city in 1880 and 1881. During 
 his term the City Hospital building was begim and the Board of Health established. 
 
 Dr. Kelley married (first) in 1853. Lucy Ellis Draper, who died in 1873; (second) 
 in 1879, Mrs. Jennie P. Martin. By his first wife he had two children. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN THOMAS, .ludge of the Supreme Court, was born in 
 this city. February i_'. 1813. died in Beverly. Massachusetts. September 27, 1878, young- 
 est child of Isaiah. Jr.. and Mary (Weld) Thomas. He graduated from Brown LTni- 
 versity in 1830: studied law with his brother-in-law, Pliny Merrick, and at Cambridge 
 was admitted to the bar in 1834, before he was of age. Within a few years he acquired 
 a large practice in this county. In 1842 he was made cominissioner of bankruptcy and 
 judge of probate in this county, serving from 1844 to 1848. In 1853 he was appointed 
 to the bench. of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State, resigning in 1859 on account 
 of the inadequacy of the salary, and resumed practice in Boston. In 1868 he was 
 again appointed chief justice but for political reasons his nomination was not con- 
 firmed. Judge Thomas represented Worcester in the General Court in 1842: was 
 elector on the Taylor ticket in 1848; served a term in Congress in 1861. He was a 
 member of the council of the .\tuerican .Antiquarian Society in 1842 and 1843; secretary 
 for domestic correspondence from 1841 to 1867: vice-president 1867-78. 
 
 Mr. Thomas married. October 1, 1835. Mary .Ann Park, daughter of J'llin and 
 Agnes Park, of this city. 
 
 RICHARD O'FLYNN, Historian, book-seller, was born in the parish nf Newton, 
 township of Grenane. County Waterford. Ireland. February 27. 1829. died in this city, 
 December 24. 1905. son of Thomas and Margaret (Powers) O'Flynn. His education 
 began there in the primitive hedge-school to which in winter each pupil carried a 
 chunk of peat for the fire. Being the eldest of seven children, the portioii of hard 
 labor came to him very early in life, but his wages hardly counted as an addition to the 
 family income. He received but three dollars for a year's work herding stock. He 
 tells "us: "I received three shillings for a quarter besides cuffs, kicks and blows and. 
 these without stint or limit." He slept on a bed of straw in a loft and his food was 
 potatoes, milk and salt every meal in the year, excepting Christmas, when he had 
 cabbage and meat. After two years he changed employers and received eight dollars 
 a year. Next he becaine clerk' in a grocery in Portlaw at $1.50 a week, and he was 
 then twenty years old. He joined the exodus to America, sailing in the ship, 'Anne 
 Kenny," September 21. 1851. arriving in New York, October 29th. 
 
564 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 He came to this country, friendless and penniless ; found employment at the 
 wharves shoveling corn for $2.50 a day, wages that seemed fabulous to the young 
 man. He soon afterward made his way to this city, where an uncle, Michael Mc- 
 Grath, was living. Here he found work in railroad construction at first. It was a 
 period of hard times, however, and work was not steady nor were wages good. He 
 sought work in Webster and other places. At Danielson, Connecticut, he apprenticed 
 himself to Allen & Olds and learned the trade of molder. He worked for three years 
 for $225 and board. Returning to this city in January, 1856, he found work as a 
 journeyman molder in Wheeler's Foundry on Thomas street, but work was slack and 
 he again left the city. With John Duggan he worked his way from city to city, 
 visiting Philadelphia. Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston and other southern towns. In 
 March, 1858, he was again in Worcester, where he lived to the end of his life. From 
 that time he took a lively interest in municipal affairs. He became a citizen, Sep- 
 tember I, i860, and for many years was an influential Democrat. He served on the 
 school committee in 1884 and 1885, and was always a good friend of the public schools. 
 He was a pioneer in the advocacy of public playgrounds, calling a meeting to further 
 the idea, and presenting a petition to Mayor Stoddard asking for municipal action. 
 He was an earnest supporter of the policy of tree-planting in streets and public 
 places, and he lived to see Worcester noted for both playgrounds and shade-trees. 
 
 He was a powerful influence for good in the temperance movement. He became a 
 total abstainer, February 17, 1856, and took a life-pledge in 1861. For more than 
 twenty-five years he was secretary and treasurer of the Father Mathew Temperance 
 Society. In every organization and every society he was an influence for raising ideals 
 and improving the standards of life among his countrymen. He was a charter member 
 of the Tom Moore Club and of the Molders' Union ; and secretary of the United Irish 
 Societies of Worcester. He was prominent in his younger days in the Catholic De- 
 bating Society and the Independent Sons of Erin ; in later years in the Worcester 
 Society of Antiquity. He was a communicant of St. John's Catholic Church, and to the 
 end of his life occupied the same pew that he rented first, July 20, 1856. He took 
 particular interest in the history of the Catholics and collected a vast amount of data 
 relating to the men, churches and organizations of all kinds. He had been a member 
 of the Emmet Guards, and he saved the material from which their history is written 
 in this work. His natural taste for antiquities and books at length brought about a 
 change in his vocation. He opened an antique and book store near the viaduct on 
 Front street, and his business was highly prosperous as a dealer in textbooks until 
 the State law provided that towns and cities must furnish textbooks in the public 
 schools. He made a very complete collection of Indian implements, etc., and in 1903 
 it became the property of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. It numbers 1,500 pieces. 
 For many years he was agent for steamship companies and his books showed that 
 drafts amounting to more than $1,500,000 were sent through him to Ireland to aid 
 families there or bring relatives hither. He was ready with a hearty welcome to the 
 newly-arrived Irish people and a friend of all. Out of his collection he gave to the 
 Worcester Free Public Library 500 books of historical value, some in Celtic. He 
 preserved the inscriptions in the old Catholic Cemetery on Pleasant street near 
 Newton square, now obliterated. He read and spoke the Gaelic, and occasionally acted 
 as interpreter for a countryman in the courts. He paid but one visit to his native 
 land. In 1894, with his daughter and Miss Alice Hyland, he made a tour of Ireland. 
 In later years he left most of the details of business to his sons, and at the close of 1904 
 he retired. 
 
 Mr. O'FIynn married (first) in St. John's Church, April 21, 1861, Anne O'Neil, 
 daughter of Charles O'Neil, Rev. P. T. O'Reilly officiating. His home was at first 
 on Goddard street, later on Grosvenor street. His wife died in 1875. He married 
 (second) Ellen (Foran) White, who died in 1901. By his first wife he had four sons 
 and a daughter : Thomas Francis (see biography) ; Charles ; Richard, Jr., deceased ; 
 William E.j Mary, deceased. 
 
 William O'FIynn, a brother of Richard O'FIynn, was a soldier and pensioner of 
 the British army. Two other brothers, Nicholas and John O'FIynn. followed him to 
 this city. Five of the seven children of the family came to America. An extended 
 memorial of Richard O'FIynn was read by Hon. Alfred S. Roe before the Worcester 
 Society of Antiquity, of which Mr. O'FIynn was one of the four founders, at a meet- 
 ing held April 3, 1906, and subsequently published in the proceedings (p. 37, Vol. 22). 
 
 THOMAS FRANCIS O'FLYNN, Principal of the Ledge Street Public School, 
 was born in this city, August 28, 1862, son of Richard O'FIynn (see biography). 
 
 He attended the pulilic schools here and graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic 
 Institute in 1882 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1898 he graduated from 
 the State Normal School of Worcester. He has been teaching in the public schools of 
 
CARL A, CARLSON 
 
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 this city since 1899. From 1899 to 1903 he was a teacher in the Proviiicnce strcirt 
 school; principal of the Thomas street school, 1903 to 1906; of the Providence street 
 school, 1906 to 1911; and of the Ledge street school since 1911. He is the aullior of 
 the "Story of Worcester" — a text book of local history which is used in llie public 
 schools. Mr. O'Flynn is president of the Worcester County Schoolmasters Club; 
 and was the first president of the Worcester Branch of the Al. S. P. C. A. He is a 
 member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and of the Economic Club. In 
 politics he is a Democrat; in religion a Catholic. 
 
 Mr. O'Flynn married, in this city, April 11, 1888, Julia Mary Crowley, who was 
 born here, a daughter of John and Mary (Toomey) Crowley, both of whom were born 
 in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. O'Flynn have had two children : l. George Bernard, born 
 October 27, 1889: graduate of the Ledge street school; English High School (1908); 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College (B. Sc, 1912) ; Clark University (.'\. M.. 1913) ; 
 associated in 1912 with Dr. R. J. Floody in the Garden City as supervisor; instruc- 
 tor in the North High School, 1912-13; supervisor of gardens, playgrounds depart- 
 ment, Worcester, 1913-14; instructor, biology department, Classical High School, since 
 1914; member of Kappa Gamma Phi fraternity; Sigma of Clark University; of 
 Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus; and of Bishop P. T. O'Reilly Assembly, 
 fourth degree. Knights of Columbus ; Worcester County Teachers Association ; Massa- 
 chusetts Teachers Association; director of the High School Masters Club. 2. Gen- 
 evieve Gertrude, born January 18, 1892, died February 21, 1894. Mr. O'Flynn's home 
 is at No. 790 Pleasant street. 
 
 CARL AUGUST CARLSON, Superintendent of the Weber Piano Company, was 
 born in Sweden, November 11, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of his 
 native place and graduated from the grammar school. He learned the trade of 
 cabinet-maker in the shop of L. A. Larson at Wingaker, Sweden, and worked at 
 this trade until he came to this country in September, 1887. He came to this city 
 and found employment at his trade in the shops of Norcross Brothers, the builders 
 and contractors, and continued there until 1892. 
 
 From 1893 to 1900 he was foreman for the firm of Clemence & Searles, manu- 
 facturers of builders' finish at No. 74 Central street. He was foreman in the case- 
 making department of the Votey Organ Company, at Garwood, New Jersey, until 
 October, 1911, when he became superintendent of the case factory of the Weber 
 Piano Company, No. 57 Jackson street, Worcester, a position he has filled since 
 that time. This concern employs about two hundred skilled mechanics, mostly 
 woodworkers, in the manufacture of upright and grand piano cases and the cabinets 
 for the Aeolian Vocalions. 
 
 Mr. Carlson had military training in Sweden, serving in the infantry for periods 
 during the years 1884-8S. He is a member of Athelstan Lodge, A. F. and A. M. ; 
 Aletheia Grotto, No. 13,"^ AL O. V. P. E. R. ; Thule Lodge, No. 139, L O. O. F. ; the 
 Swedish Masonic Club of Boston, and the Svea Gille Association, of which he has 
 been treasurer since 1914. 
 
 Mr. Carlson married in this city, May 9, 1888, Emma Christina Carlson, who 
 was born in Sweden in 1864. They have four children: i. Edith, born May 25, 
 1889; graduate of the high school at Westfield, New Jersey; married, in June, 1912, 
 
 E. G. Anderson. 2. Elsie Elizabeth, born November 9, 1890; graduate of the State 
 Normal School, Montclair, New Jersey, 191 1. 3. Carl Roy, born April 28, 1901 ; 
 student in the South High School. 4. Russell William, born January 3. I9(jO. 
 
 ROLAND VINCENT MARSOLAIS, Treasurer of the Worcester Flexible Tub- 
 ing Company, was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, October lo, 1894, son of Joseph 
 
 F. and Julia A. (Nault) Alarsolais. Joseph F. Marsolais was born in St. fJclene, 
 Ontario, Canada ; began to peg shoes when but eleven years old ; came to the United 
 States when nineteen and learned the machinist's trade. He is a resident of Boston, 
 and at present superintendent of the Wheeler Reflector Company of Boston. He is 
 president of the Worcester Flexible Tubing Company of this city. His wife, Julia 
 A. (Nault) Marsolais, was born in St. Bartholomew, Province of Quebec, August 
 18, 1866. They had three other children: Beatrice S., Alice B. and Irene R. Marsolais. 
 
 Roland V. Marsolais attended the Greendale public school, completing the course 
 in 1908, and the English High School in this city, graduating in 1912. He began 
 his career in business at the works of the Norton Grinding Company, learning the 
 trade of machinist. At the end of a year and a half he left this concern and spent 
 the next two years as salesman in the Boston Store in this city. The Worcester 
 Flexible Tubing Company was organized January i. 1916, and he became treasurer 
 and manager at that time. The business was established in the_ building at No. 65 
 Beacon street. The company has valuable patents on flexible tubing and has already 
 
566 HISTORY OF IJ'ORCESrilR 
 
 built up an industry of importance, with a very promising future, ^[r. Marsolais 
 is a member of Sagatabscot Tribe. No. 59, Improved Order of Red Men. He is fond 
 of music, a skillful player himself, and for a number of years has been a member 
 of the Worcester Symphony Orchestra and' Battery B and Brigade Military bands. 
 
 Mr. Marsolais married, in Pontiac, Rhode Island, September 26. 1917, Elizabeth 
 E. Whittaker. who was born in Dover, New Hampshire, February 26, 1895, daughter 
 of James and Catherine Alice (Wint) Whittaker. Her father, born .'Vugust 18. 1868. 
 in Manchester, England, is a self-made man, starting at the age of ten in the cotton 
 mills ; moving to Canada when si.xteen ; now superintendent of the Pontiac Mills 
 of the B. B. & R. Knight Cotton Company at Pontiac, Rhode Island. Her mother 
 was born in Manchester, England, January i, 1871, died December 5, 191 1. 
 
 HENRY ODIN TILTON, Sales agent of the General Electric Company, was 
 born in Lexington, Massachusetts, June I, 1885. son of Josiah Odin and Hattie 
 A. (French) Tilton. Josiah Odin Tilton is a physician, practicing in Lexington, 
 Massachusetts ; served the town as chairman of the Board of Health and of the Park 
 Commissioners, and in various other offices of trust. 
 
 Henry Odin Tilton graduated from the Lexington High School in 1902, and from 
 Harvard College (A. B., 1907). From the month of graduating from college to the 
 present time he has been in the employ of the General Electric Company. He began 
 in the sales department of the Boston office; in 1910 he spent part of the year in the 
 factory at Lynn, and was again in the Boston office in 1910-11. Since then he has 
 been sales agent for the company in charge of the Worcester office. He is a member 
 of the National Electric Light Association ; Kappa Sigma fraternity ; Worcester 
 Rotary Club ; Harvard Club of Worcester ; Central Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Tilton married, September 30, 1914, Olive Northrop Fobes. of Lexington, 
 Massachusetts, daughter of Edwin Francis and Jessie (Burnell) Fobes. They have 
 two children; Edwin Odin, born August 2, 1915, and Harriet, born March 19, 1918. 
 
 STEPHEN IRELAND, Superintendent of agencies of the State Alutual Life As- 
 surance Company, was born in Somerville. Massachusetts, November 5, 1883. He 
 was five years old when the family moved to Winchester, Massachusetts, where he 
 attended the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1899. After com- 
 pleting a course in Comer's Commercial College in Boston, he entered the employ 
 of the Home Life Insurance Company, in Boston. Three years later he became a cashier 
 in the Boston office of the State Mutual Life .•\ssurance Company. In the service of 
 this company he came to Worcester, in 1908, and has been in the home office since 
 that time. Since June, 1916, he has been superintendent of agencies. (See history 
 of the company in this work). He is a member of the Worcester Country Club; 
 the Economic Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In politics he is a Republican, 
 and attends the Old South Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Ireland married, at Woburn, Massachusetts, August 10, 1908, Gertrude L. 
 Lord, who was born in Portland, Maine, daughter of Edwin G. and Latina (Guppill) 
 Lord. Her father was a restaurant keeper in Portland, and died in Boston, in 1909. 
 Her mother now resides in Parsonfield, Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Ireland have one child, 
 Russell Dana, born in Worcester, January 6, 1912. Their home is at No. 8 Ivanhoe 
 road. 
 
 Rasselas Warren Ireland, father of Stephen Ireland, was born in Watertown, 
 Massachusetts, and died in Winchester, December 26, 1892, aged fifty-two years. 
 He was a contractor and builder in Winchester; served three years and three months 
 in, the Civil War, in the First Heavy Artillery Regiment. He married Adeline Perkins, 
 who was born in Watertown, and died in Winchester, September 20, 1913, aged fifty- 
 nine years. They had nine children, five of whom are living; Addie, married 
 Robert G. Stevens (deceased) of Hyde Park; Ruth M., widow of Graham L. Bruce, 
 of Boston; Eunice, married Dr. Nathaniel R. Mason, of Boston, now in the military 
 service in France ; Sarah I., married Stanley B. Bowman, now second officer in the 
 United States merchant marine. 
 
 THOMAS MOORE ROGERS, Shoe manufacturer, 4ealer in shoe findings, 
 president of the Worcester Electric Light Company, was born in Holden, Massa- 
 chusetts, May ID, 1818, only son of Nathan and Mary Cheney (Moore) Rogers, though 
 both parents had children by previous marriages. 
 
 At the age of twelve he was doing a man's work, attending the district schools 
 in winter. He was a student in Westfield Academy one term. When he was seven- 
 teen years old he "bought his time" of his father for a hundred dollars, and by the 
 time he was of age he had saved a considerable sum besides paying for his freedom. 
 In 1840, when he was twenty-two, he came to Worcester and entered the employ of 
 
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 Blake & Trumbull, grocers, in the Butman block. In the following- year he engaged 
 in business with a partner under the firm name of Smith & Rogers in the manufacture 
 of goatskin shoes at the corner of Main and Mechanic streets, but the stock of the 
 new firm was destroyed two months after its store was opened. The firm could not 
 resume business. Afterward he was in business for a time in Oswego, New York, 
 having a retail shoe store. In 1842 he resumed the manufacture of shoes in Worcester; 
 in 1844 he entered into partnership with John P. Southgate in the leather and shoe 
 findings business. Their store at first was at the corner now occupied by the Piper 
 block; in 1850 they removed to the Rogers block at the corner of Main and Pleasant 
 streets. With several partners in succession Mr. Rogers continued in business until 
 1873, when he retired. His real estate holdings at that time were very large, de- 
 manding all his time. He purchased the Deacon Brooks farm at South Worcester, 
 through which he laid out Southgate and Canterbury streets, both of which are now 
 densely populated. He also bought valuable lots on Front and Trumbull streets wdien 
 land was cheap. In 1863 he built the first large brick block on Front street west of 
 Church street and east of Harrington Corner. In 1869 he built Rogers block. In 1880, 
 in partnership with Edwin Morse, he built the Odd Fellows block on Pleasant street; 
 in 1883 he erected a business building in Salem square. He built his residence at the 
 corner of High and Chatham streets in 1868. He became very wealthy, largely through 
 the shrewd investment of his capital in Worcester real estate. He was president of 
 the Worcester Electric Light Company until he died. In politics he was a Republican. 
 He was a member of Union Congregational Church. He was a member of the Common 
 Council in 1877-78, and in the Board of Aldermen in 1886-87. He died July 9, 1901. 
 Mr. Rogers married, April 19, 1843, in Worcester, Mary S. Rice, daughter of 
 Israel and Charlotte Rice, of Shrewsbury. Their children were: Ellen Frances, born 
 liere July 7, 1844; Walter Thomas, burn September 23, 1S47, died February 12, 1865. 
 
 JESSE PARTELOW TABER, Contractor and builder, real estate promoter, was 
 born in Upham, New Brunswick. April 15. 1850, son of George and Mary Jane 
 Taber. He was educated there in the public schools, and during his boyhood as- 
 sisted his father in the work of the farm and in lumbering. In 1871 he came to 
 Worcester and here he has made his home since then. He worked at the carpenter's 
 trade until 1877, when he started in business as a contractor on his own account. 
 He continued in business with uniform success until recently, when he retired to 
 devote all his attention to his real estate interests. He built many fine residences 
 in the city and has been very successful in developing real estate. Mr. Taber has 
 been prominent in municipal affairs. In politics he is a Republican. He was a 
 member of the Common Council in 1896-1908-09-10-11 ; of the Board of Aldermen, 
 1913; of the Republican City Committee, 1890-96. He is a member of Damascus 
 Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and a past chancellor; trustee of the Knights of Malta 
 and past commander; member of Improved Order of Red Men; trustee of Grace 
 Methodist Church. 
 
 Mr. Taber married, September 29, 1874, Nellie Almira Willoughby, of Hollis, 
 New Hampshire, born September 29, 1853. Their children are: i. Mary Elizabeth, 
 born March 31, 1877, married James Forrest Howe, of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, 
 a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 2. Nellie Florence, born No- 
 vember 22, 1881, married George M. Hardy, superintendent of the Electric Light 
 Companv. 
 
 Mr. Taber is of the eighth generation from Philip Taber, who was born m 
 England, in 1605, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as 1634; later of 
 Yarmouth, Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard and New London, Connecticut, and 
 Providence. He was a teacher by profession. The family was located at Dartmouth, 
 Massachusetts, for several generations. Jesse Taber (5) was born in Aloiimouth 
 county, New Jersey, where his father settled about 1738; was a Loyalist and went 
 to New Brunswick at the close of the Revolution. Mr. Taber is vice-president of 
 the Taber Family Association, of which Frederick Taber, of New Bedford, is presi- 
 dent. A history of the family is being compiled. 
 
 EUGENE FRANK GRAY. The ancestors of Eugene F. Gray, of Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, came from Great Britain to Northern New Y'ork, and there John C. 
 Gray father of Eugene F. Grav, was born in 1830. at Palatine. Montgomery county. 
 He settled in Watertown, Jefferson county, and there his son, Eugene F was born. 
 The Grays came to New York prior to the Revolution and served with the Colonial 
 forces against the King. John C. Gray, an ice merchant, married Isabelle Amelia 
 Kilborn, who yet survives him, a resident of Watertown, New \ork, where on October 
 12, 1918, she celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday. 
 
568 II IS 1 DRY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Eugene F. Gray, son of Jolin C. and Isabella Amelia (Kilborn) Gray, was born in 
 Watertown, Jefferson county. New York, June 6, i868, and there was educated in public 
 school and business college. He learned the business of interior decoration, and 
 at the age of eighteen began contracting in that line. He remained in Watertown 
 until reaching the age of twenty-one, then went to Scranton, Pennsylvania. He spent 
 two years from the fall of 1890 until the fall of 1892 with the Charles Griffin studio 
 on Wyoming avenue. On returning to Watertown he opened a studio on State street 
 and Public square in the new Smith building. He studied photography in his home 
 town, Watertown. New York, under A. A. Johnson, and at Watertown conducted a 
 photo gallery for eight years. He sold the Watertown business in 1899 and removed 
 to Hartford, Connecticut. January i, 1900, remaining there three years, managing the 
 De Larneter studio. While in Watertown, New York, he was the organizer and 
 originator of Corona Lodge, No. 705, of which he was the second presiding officer. 
 Since 1903 he has confined himself largely to home portraiture, a branch of his art 
 in which he has attained the highest reputation. From 1913 until 1915 he was vice- 
 president and manager of the Louis Fabian Bachrach Company, resigning to conduct 
 his own private business. His studio, originally at No. I Chatham street, was later 
 moved to No. 476 Main street, its present location. He is skilled in the technique 
 of his art, but more than all possesses the true artistic spirit. The spirit has not been 
 acquired, but is nature's gift, he having begun landscape painting when a lad of 
 thirteen, and before reaching his majority his work commanded good prices for 
 amateur work, several of his paintings selling for one hundred dollars each. 
 
 Mr. Gray is a member of the Photographer's Association of America ; the Photog- 
 rapher's Association of New England; Watertown (New York) Lodge, No. 49, Free 
 and Accepted Masons ; Watertown Chapter, No. 59. Royal Arch Masons ; is past noble 
 grand of Corona Lodge, No. 705. Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Aletheia Grotto, 
 M. O. V. P. E. R., of Worcester ; Worcester Chamber of Commerce ; Worcester Retail 
 and the National Credit Men's Association; the Grotto Club of Worcester, and the 
 Worcester Kiwanis Club. He joined the Blue Lodge of Masons in 1893 at Watertown 
 and the Chapter the following year. He is a member of All Saints Universalist Church 
 of Watertown, New York. 
 
 Mr. Gray married, in Watertown, New Y'ork, September 25, 1894, Sarah Emily 
 Hickok. born in Watertown, daughter of George Francis and Jennie Elizabeth (Jack- 
 son) Hickok. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are the parents of five children : i. Clarence Carl- 
 ton, died in infancy. 2. Leland Eugene, born in Watertown, New York, January 
 5. 1897 ; was in the United States Army, department of Photographic Aeronautics, 
 stationed at Rochester, New York; honorably discharged December 18, 1918. 3. 
 Isabelle, died, aged twenty-two months. 4. Henry Harold, born in Hartford, Connecti- 
 cut, January 11, 1903, a high school student. 5. Dorothy Adeline, born in Waterbury, 
 Connecticut, September 23, 1904. 
 
 CHARLES NUTT, Journalist, genealogist, historian, was born in Natick, Middle- 
 sex county, Massachusetts, September 26, 1868, and died September 26. 1918. at 
 Wareham, Massachusetts, the son of Colonel William and Abigail (Puffer) Nutt. 
 His preparatory education was acquired in the schools of his native place, he gradu- 
 ating from the Natick High School in 1886, president and valedictorian of his class. 
 He then entered Harvard University, took second-year honors in physics in 1887, 
 and was graduated in 1890 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, 
 both for general rank and for honors in physics. During his course in school and 
 college, Mr. Nutt did newspaper work for the Natick "Bulletin," Natick "Citizen" 
 and Boston "Evening Record." this experience laying the foundation for his after 
 career in journalism, he having been one of the best known men in that line through- 
 out his section of the State of Massachusetts. In 1890, the year of his graduation 
 from Harvard, he accepted a position as reporter on the staff of the Worcester 
 "Daily Spy," for many years the leading paper in that thriving city, and in the 
 following year, having gained additional experience, he founded "The Paragraph," 
 in New Rochelle, New York, and later became the owner of newspaper and printing 
 plants at New Rochelle and Mamaroneck, New York. On October I, 1899, he pur- 
 chased the Worcester "Daily Spy" and conducted it until June i, 1904, a period of 
 five years, when it passed out of his hands and was suspended. The plant was 
 destroyed by fire. May 21, 1902, and the loss was disastrous to the business. He 
 disposed of the New Rochelle "Paragraph," November i, 1900, and the Mamaroneck 
 "Paragraph" to Charles F. Rice. With thorough training, true journalistic instinct, 
 broad knowledge of affairs, he reflected honor upon his profession, and in his con- 
 duct of the various papers with which he was identified he made them the exponent 
 of the highest interests of the community, of the State and of the Nation. 
 
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 In addition to his journalistic work, Air. Xutt devoted coiisidcralilc tmie to 
 genealogical research, m which he was an expert, and from 1904 until his' (K-ath 
 was associated with the Lewis Publishing Company, of New York, and at the time 
 of his death was watching through the press the later pages of a monnnK-iUi.,1 work 
 which he had already completed— "A History of Worcester." which will be read with 
 great interest by his many friends and acquaintances in Worcester, his adopted citv 
 He completed a history of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery wliich wis 
 begun by the late Hon. Alfred S. Roe; wrote a history of the Crompton & Knowlcs 
 Loom Works, one of the largest enterprises in Worcester, and was the author of 
 several other books which received favorable comment from the press and from the 
 reading public. 
 
 Althoughso niucli of his time and tlionght were given to the duties above men- 
 tioned, Mr. Nutt was also an active i)articipant in !>oiitical affairs, in which he took 
 a keen interest, and was chosen by his fellow-citizens to serve as delegate to various 
 Republican conventions, including the State Convention when the late Theodore 
 Roosevelt was nominated for Governor of New York. He was the candidate of the 
 Republican party for the office of supervisor; during the presidential campaign of 
 1904 was in charge of the Speakers' Bureau of the Alassachusetts Republican State 
 Committee; w-as chairman of the Fourth Ward Republican Committee of Xew 
 Rochelle, New York, and treasurer of the Xew Rochelle Republican Club. Mr. Nutt 
 held membership in the Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution; the New 
 England Historic-Genealogical Society; the Worcester Society of Antiquity; Hugue- 
 not Council, Royal Arcanum ; and Huguenot Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, both 
 of New Rochelle; and during his collegiate course was a member of the Pierian 
 Sodality, in which he played the double bass, and he was also a member of various 
 other clubs, 
 
 Mr. Nutt married (first) August 26, 1891, .\da Sophia Robinson, born Alarch 
 5. l8;i. at Natick, died November 17, 1909. at Worcester, daughter of Walter Billings 
 and Ella Maria (Bullard) Robinson. He married (second) at Haverhill. New 
 Hampshire, November 28, 191 1, Lucia Jeanette Alorrill, born November 28, 1885, at 
 Benton, New Hampshire, daughter of Eben and Nancy (Holt) Morrill, of Haver- 
 hill, New Hampshire. Children by first wife; i. Isabel Ella, born at New Ro- 
 chelle, New York, June 27, 1892; married, February 15, 1919, Robert Trumen Bam- 
 ford. United States Navy, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. 2, Harold, born December 
 3, 1893, at New Rochelle, New York; graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
 class of 4916. 3. Arthur, born February 6, 1895, at New Rochelle, New York; grad- 
 uate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1916; married, November 29, 1917, 
 Anne Josephine Dewey, of Buffalo, New York, daughter of Frank Cline and Helen 
 May (Keon) Dewey. 4. Dorothy May, born August 23, 1897. at New Rochelle. New 
 York. 5. Charles Stanley, born at Worcester. November 10, 1899; seaman. United 
 States Navy, on United States Steamship "Kansas." Child by second wife, born 
 at Worcester: Ruth Nutt, born April 7, 1913. 
 
 In the death of Mr. Nutt the city of Worcester lost a man who had made a 
 name for himself in the city of his adoption, a man of courage and determination, of 
 untiring energy, who added to these qualities the courtesy of a gentleman. Burial 
 was in Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, Massachusetts. 
 
 ROGER FREEMAN UPHAM, President of the Worcester Mutual Fire In- 
 surance Company, was born in Worcester, September 15, 1848, died April to, 1917, son 
 of Freeman and Elizabeth (Livermore) L^pham. His father was born in Mansfield, 
 Connecticut, April i. 1805, died in Worcester, February i, 1876; for many years a 
 prominent builder and contractor in Worcester: married Elizabeth, daughter of David 
 Livermore, of Spencer, and Roger F. was the only child. Mr. Upham was a de- 
 scendant in the ninth generation from the first settler, John Upham, who was born 
 in England in 1603 and came to America Avith Rev. Joseph Hull's company in 1635, 
 accompanied by his wife Elizabeth, sister Sarah, and three children, locating at 
 Weymouth ; he served on the committee to acquire the Indian title to the lands in that 
 town ; was magistrate ; selectman in 1645, 1646 and 1647, and deputy to the General 
 Court; removing to Maiden in 1648, he was also selectman there, 1651-53, and com- 
 missioner (magistrate) ; moderator of town meetings ; deacon of the church twenty- 
 four years : and one of the grantees of Worcester at the time of the first settlement. 
 
 Lieutenant Phineas L'pham, son of the pioneer, and ancestor of Roger F. Upham, 
 was lieutenant of the Maiden company in King Philip's War and was mortally 
 wounded in the Great Swamp Fight. Nathaniel Upham, son of Phineas Upham, was a 
 sergeant and also an Indian fighter. Noah Upham, of the next generation, went to 
 Pomfret, Connecticut, and in that section the following generations lived until Free- 
 man Upham came to Worcester. Roger Upham, son of Noah Upham, was the father 
 of Roger Freeman Upham, born 1777, and grandfather of Freeman Upham, mentioned 
 
570 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 above. Through his mother Roger F. Uphani was descended from Oliver Watson, a 
 soldier of the Revolution, and from the pioneer, John Livermore, who settled in Water- 
 town, in 1638, and his son, John Livennore, also a lieutenant in King Philip's War, 
 and from David Livermore, a soldier in the Revolution, from Spencer. 
 
 Roger F. Upham attended the public schools of Worcester and was the saluta- 
 torian of the class of 1866 in the Worcester High School. Immediately after gradua- 
 tion he entered the employ of the People's Fire Insurance Company of Worcester as 
 entry clerk, and soon was promoted to the position of bookkeeper. A few years later 
 he became the assistant secretary, an office that he held until the company failed after 
 the disastrous losses in the great fire in Boston in 1872. Soon afterward he entered 
 the service of the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he was for 
 thirty-five years secretary, for about twenty-five years treasurer, and during the last 
 three years of his life the president. 
 
 The Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company is the oldest mutual fire insurance 
 company in the State, incorporated by act of the Legislature, February II, 1823, by 
 leading men of the town and county. Levi Lincoln, the first president, resigned during 
 the first year to become governor of the Commonwealth. Mr. Upham was elected 
 president, January 13, 1914. An account of the company is given in the chapter on 
 insurance in this work. Mr. Upham was among the foremost fire insurance men in 
 the State for many years, able, upright, tactful, and highly respected by all classes 
 of people. He had been president of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Union, 
 an organization of the managers of the fire insurance companies of the State, and 
 president of the Worcester Protective Department. For many years he was prom- 
 inent also in banking circles, as trustee, vice-president and member of the board of 
 investment of the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank. From early life he was a 
 faithful member of the church and for a long time deacon of the First Baptist Church 
 of Worcester and leader of the Olivet Men's Bible Class in the Sunday School of that 
 church. 
 
 In politics he was a Republican and influential in his party and in inunicipal 
 affairs. He was interested in various charities and benevolent organizations and 
 secretary of the Home for Aged IMen, and trustee of the Rural Cemetery Corporation. 
 
 Mr. Upham married, June 16, 1875, Clara C. Story, born April 2, 1850, daughter of 
 Simeon N. Story (see biography). They had one child, Edith Story Upham. His 
 W'idow and daughter reside at No. 38 Fruit street. 
 
 Home for Aged Men. An appreciation. Roger F. Upliam. Presented to. Board 
 of Directors, April 13th, 1917. 
 
 Tlie deatli of Roger F. Upham on April 10th, removes from this Board one who 
 has served it long and well. For more than twenty-four years he held the office of 
 secretary. His heart was in his work, and no one could have been more faithful in 
 the performance of his duties or more helpful to this Institution. It is a sad com- 
 mentary that he should pass away just at the time that the dream of his life is to be 
 realized by the erection of a new Home. He met the problems of life with courtesy 
 and kindness, combined with an earnestness and energy that was a constant inspira- 
 tion to his associates. He was a man of the highest ideals, of modest and un- 
 assuming manner, always a true and loyal friend and~citizen, who won the respect 
 of every one with whom he came in contact. He has left a void that it will be 
 hard to All, but he has left a record of a stainless character and an unselfish service 
 which will long continue as an example to his fellowmen. "We deeply mourn his loss, 
 and if words fail to adequately express our appreciation of his ^vorth, feelings of 
 esteem and affection for him are imprinted in our hearts and cannot be effaced. Our 
 sincerest sympathy is extended to the members of his family in their even greater 
 bereavement. 
 
 Tribute to the memory of our late President and Treasurer, Roger F. Upham. 
 
 The death of our President and Treasurer, Roger F. Upham, which occurred 
 April 10, 1917, calls for an exceptional testimonial to the faithful and efficient service 
 which he rendered to this Company. Entering its service in 1872, as Assistant Secre- 
 tary, he was elected Secretary in 1S80 and elected Treasurer in 1887, serving as Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer until January, 1914, when he was elected President and Treasurer, 
 which offices he held at the time of his death. In 1883 he was elected a Director. He 
 was connected with the Compan.v as an Officer for -15 years and as a Director for 34 
 years. In 1894 he was elected President of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance 
 Union, and served for three years. He was at the time of his death President of the 
 Worcester Protective Department which maintains the Fire Patrol and was also 
 identified with banking and charitable institutions. His one great desire was to give 
 his very best to the Company and he was always loyally devoted to its interests, and 
 under his able leadership the company has prospered. Certainly no man has been 
 more prominently identified with the interests of Mutual Fire Insurance in this 
 State, or wielded a more powerful influence for good underwriting than he. He was 
 recognized as a National figure in his chosen field. 
 
 His death means a great loss to the community in which he lived. His genial, 
 kindly nature and his uniform cordiality will not be forgotten by any who knew 
 him. We sincerely mourn his loss and honor the memory of his splendid character. 
 We extend to the family our sincere sympathy and desire to spread this testimonial 
 upon the records of the Company. 
 
 Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 
 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 May 9, 1917. 
 
AND ITS PEOPLL 
 
 5/1 
 
 SIMEON NORMAN STORY, Merchant and jeweler, was hdru in Xorwicli. Con- 
 necticut. January J4. 1817, died in Worcester. April y, iqoq. son of Isaac and Lucy 
 (Ross) Story. His latlier was a sailmakcr ; deacon ni the Baptist church; magistrate. 
 The pioneer ancestor of the Story family was William Story, who was born in 
 England, 1614, a carpenter by trade, coming to this country in 16.57 and locating in 
 Ipswich, where he afterward owned a mill, followed farming and held various town 
 offices. His son, Samuel Story, removed to Norwich. Connecticut, and in that town 
 and vicinity the ancestors of Simeon N. St^iry lived afterward. 
 
 Simeon N. Story was of. the seventh generation from the immigrant. He was 
 educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of fourteen left home 
 to learn his trade in the employ of P. & D. Goddard. watch-makers and jewelers in 
 Worcester. After serving an apprenticeship of seven years, he started in business in 
 partnership with Mr. Dunbar, one of his former employers. In 1840 he bought out his 
 partner and continued alone for a period of fifty-live years in Worcester. Few 
 merchants in the city have had so long and successful a record. His name was a 
 household word, standing for high business honor and integrity for three generations. 
 When he disposed of his business on account of advancing age, he contiiuied to occupy 
 himself at his trade by repairing watches and doing other fine work for some of his 
 old customers. 
 
 Joining the Baptist church at the age of fourteen, he was baptized by Elder Going 
 in 1831 in the baptismal pool in the Providence and Worcester canal at the corner of 
 Green and Temple streets. He served the church for a long series of years as its 
 treasurer and as superintendent of the Sunday school. In consequence of his forty 
 years' service as deacon, he was made deacon emeritus. From 1846 until the end of 
 his life he was a trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank, and during most of the time 
 its vice-president. In early life a Whig, he became a member of the Republican party 
 when it was organized and continued so until his death. 
 
 Mr. Story married. May _'i, 18.59, Eunice Howe, daughter of Levi Howe, of one 
 of the old Worcester families. Children : Emma M., and Clara C, who married Roger 
 F. Upham (see biograpliy^. 
 
 FREDERICK ANTON HAWES, President of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Com- 
 pany, was born in Oakdale, West Boylston, January 17, 1859. son of Lafayette and 
 Julia (Gilman) Hawes. Lafayette Hawes was born at Weld. Maine, February 
 12, 1826, and died at Oakdale, February 10, 1874. He was a Forty-niner, sailing 
 in the ship "Regulus" around Cape Horn and remaining in the gold fields three 
 years. During most of his active lite, however, he was a shoe manufacturer in 
 Oakdale. He married there, January i, 1852, Julia Gilman, who died in this city, 
 October 7, 1905, aged seventy-one years, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Bick- 
 lord) Gilman, both natives of New Hampshire, and descendants of early pioneers 
 of New England. She was born at Phillips. Maine, August i.;, 18.50. Mr. Hawes 
 has one brother, Arthur W., who tills a position of responsibility in the Barnard, 
 Sumner & Putnam store. Stephen Johnson Hawes, father of Lafayette Hawes, 
 was born in Goffstown, New Hampshire, December 6, 1784; removed to Weld, !Maine; 
 followed farming. His second wife, Betsey (Dalton) Hawes. mother of Lafayette 
 Hawes, died in Weld, Maine, January 26, 1865. Nathan Hawes. father of .Stephen 
 J. Hawes, was a soldier in the Revolution and took part in the battle of Bennington 
 when but sixteen years old. In 1840 he bought a farm at Farmington. Maine. 
 Obadiah Hawes, father of Nathan Hawes, was born at Stoughton, Massachusetts, 
 June 12, 1729; removed to Goffstown, New Hampshire. His father, also named 
 Obadiah Hawes, lived in what is now Sharon, Massachusetts; died January ,s, 1755- 
 Obadiah Hawes, father of Obadiah Hawes, was born in England about April, 1635, 
 and died in Dorchester in 1690, son of Richard Hawes, immigrant ancestor, who was 
 born in England, 1606, and came to this country in September, 1635, with wife .\nn 
 and two children in the ship "Truelove." In all his lines of ancestry Mr. Hawes is 
 descended from the early English settlers of New England. 
 
 Frederick A. Hawes attended the public and high schools of his native town 
 and Howe's Business College in Worcester. He began his career in business in the 
 employ of Denholm & McKay. After one year, however, he entered the employ of 
 Barnard, Sumner & Company, and since i88i has been with that house. He won 
 promotion from time to time ; became a buyer and in 1903 general manager. Two 
 years later be was made treasurer and manager of the company. In 1911 he was 
 elected president, after the death of Otis E. Putnam, and he has been at the head 
 of the company since that time. (See history of Barnard. Sumner & Putnam Com- 
 pany). Under his administration the business has continued to expand and pros- 
 per. Mr. Hawes is also director and vice-president of the Dry Goods Alliance of 
 New York, a buying syndicate composed of department stores in various large cities 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 of the country. He is a member of the Worcester Club, Commonwealth Club, Wor- 
 cester Country Club, Tatassit Canoe Club, the Chamber of Commerce, Worcester 
 Society of Antiquity, the New England Dry Goods Association, and the National 
 Retail Dry Goods Association, New York. Mr. Hawes is unmarried. He makes his 
 home at the Bancroft Hotel. 
 
 LUCIUS ADELBERT MURDOCK, Alerchant. life insurance agent, was born 
 in Hubbardston. August 28, 1837, and died January 29, 1905, in this city, son of 
 Elisha and Nancy (Temple) Murdock. Until he was eleven years old he lived in 
 his native town and attended the public schools there. He then went to work for 
 William Joslin, and soon proved that he was possessed of business ability and thrift, 
 as well as the capacity for hard labor. He was but fifteen years old when he bought 
 a farm in Hubbardston, and in three years he had cut wood enough to pay for the 
 property. He sold the farm and located in East Templeton, where he became sta- 
 tionary' engineer for the Derby Chair Company, and afterward was in the employ 
 of William Smith, manufacturer of tinware in Templeton Center. In 1861 the 
 business was moved to Worcester, and Mr. Murdock became a partner of his former 
 employer, under the firm name of Smith & Murdock. The store of the firm was 
 at No. 174 Main street. They made tinware, and dealt in silver and tin goods. 
 The firm was dissolved in 1873, and Mr. Murdock engaged in business with his son 
 Frank L., dealer in wool stock in a store in Eigelow court. In 1880 Mr. Murdock 
 was appointed general agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila- 
 delphia, with offices in Boston, and he withdrew from business in this city. For 
 twenty-five years he filled this position with the Penn company, and built up a large 
 business. 
 
 Mr. Murdock's home was at No. 21 Highland street, in this city. He attended 
 Plymouth Church, of which he was one of the founders. He was a charter member 
 of the Brookline Lodge of Elks; member of the Home Market Club. 
 
 Mr. ]Murdock married, November 25, 1858, Ellen Hagar, daughter of Charles 
 White and Lydia Parkhurst (Whipple) Hagar, of Hubbardston. Their children 
 were: Frank Lucius (see biography); William Herbert, born July 10, 1863, died 
 August 24, 1864; Mary Boyden, born March 17, 1870, married (first) Charles Cromp- 
 ton (divorced) ; and (second) Wilson T. Ide, now principal of the Manual Training 
 School, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Mr. Murdock was descended from the pioneer stock of New England. The 
 Murdock line is: Frank L. (7), Lucius A. (6), Elisha (5), Robert (4), Robert (3), 
 John (2), Robert (l). The immigrant, Robert Alurdock, was born in Scotland, 
 and came in 1688, with his brother John, to Plymouth. Robert Murdock came to 
 Roxbury in 1692, and removed to Newton in 1703. Robert (3) was a soldier in the 
 Revolution, a lieutenant. 
 
 FRANK LUCIUS MURDOCK, Salesman, vice-president, was born in East 
 Templeton, February 29, i860, son of Lucius A. and Ellen (Hagar) Murdock.^ (See 
 biography of father). He received his education in the public schools of this city, 
 leaving the high school at the end of his sophomore year to engage in business 
 with his father. Four years later, when his father left the mercantile business to 
 engage in another occupation, the son started in the wool business in the employ 
 of Tower, Wing & Company, of Lawrence, manufacturers of wool stock, and com- 
 mission merchants. He continued with this company until 1892, when he became vice- 
 president of the Busch & Greenfield Company, of Newark, New Jersey. 
 
 Mr. Murdock was formerly one of the board of governors of the Worcester 
 Automobile Club, and of the Home Market Club. Boston; chairman of the executive 
 committee of the National Wool Fibre Association. From 1877 to 1880 he was a 
 private in Company C. Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (the 
 Worcester Light Infantry). In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Murdock married. January i, 1880, Inez Estelle Budding, daughter of Ben- 
 jamin Quincy and Lucy .'^nn (Fessenden) Budding, of this city. She is a member 
 of Col. Timothy Bigelow Chapter, D. A. R., and was for many years a member of the 
 Home Club. Her father was a well known inventor of shoe machinery. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Murdock have one daughter, Alice Camille, born March 22, 1881 ; married George 
 B. Cutting (see biography). 
 
 GEORGE H. CUTTING, Contractor and builder, was born August 17, 1837, at 
 Lyme, New Hampshire, and died December 24, 1907, son of Hiram and Harriet Newell 
 (Chapin) Cutting. When he was quite young his father left the farm at Lyme and 
 removed to a new location at Newport, Vermont. Though never very successful in 
 accumulating money, Hiram Cutting was an able mechanic, such as New England 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 alone could produce. He drove an eisht-horse team between Qnincy and li.i-ion. 
 He shod his own horses and ironed his own sleds. He began to farm after lie was 
 married at thirty-five. He never confined hitiiself strictly to fanning. He fr.amed 
 houses for his neighbors and ironed their wagons and sleds. His mechanical skill 
 was called upon often by the pioneers in Vermont with whom he went to Newport. 
 Perhaps the art of doing things was inherited by George Cutting from his father and 
 other ancestors. He did not like farming. He did more farming than schooling 
 in his youth on the Newport farm. The old district school offered few advantages. 
 Here he learned to read and write and "cipher." That was about all. but he was a 
 persistent reader and early in youth formed a habit of reading at every opportunity. 
 There are few men in his business with a better education along the technical lines 
 necessary for success in constructing buildings. 
 
 But he did not break loose from the farm at once. He "worked out" a year at 
 Coventry for Loren Soper, whose farm was about two miles from the Cuttini; home. 
 At seventeen he went to work at Derby, Vermont, for William Norris, a carpenter, 
 and learned the trade in seven months. He told his father that he was not born to l>e 
 a farmer and the father consented to have him follow the trade he had learned. He 
 worked two years at the carpenter trade in St. Johnsbury, \'ermont. The following 
 two years he spent in the sash and blind factory of Orrin L. Stevens at St. Johnsbury. 
 Here he had excellent mechanical training and mastered the art of wood working in 
 its finer branches. After he left the Stevens factory he worked for John D. Chase, 
 who manufactured mill machinery. One of his first positions was to set up some mills 
 at Troy, Vermont, for May, .Aiken & Smalley. This firm did a general business. They 
 had saw mills, shingle mills, flour mills, an extensive plant. 
 
 George H. Cutting came to Worcester in 1863 and worked with his brother in the 
 wood-working shop of Russ & Eddy for about two years, when he had to give it up 
 on account of ill health. He went back to Troy, Vermont, and opened a shop where 
 he built all kinds of vehicles. After about two years he returned to Hartford, Con- 
 necticut, and became superintendent in the business of William S. White. He had 
 charge of a brick yard, lumber mill, grist mill, and general lumber and builders' 
 finish business. He remained in this position for about nine years. He then took 
 charge of the completion of a contract interrupted by the death of the contractor in 
 building the First Congregational Church in Meriden. Connecticut. 
 
 He then came to Worcester and entered into partnership with J. W. Bishop as 
 contractors and builders. .'Kfter a very successful business of a few years the firm 
 was dissolved and each partner went into business for himself. George H. Cutting 
 was at the head of the firm. Cutting, Bardwell & Company. His partners were Everett 
 T. Bardwell, Burton C. Fiske and William W. Carter. Among the large contracts of 
 this firm were: The construction c>f the Young Men's Christian Association building 
 at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the Leominster town hall. Unitarian church, Leominster 
 Bank building, four large mills at Ludlow, Massachusetts, for the Ludlow Company, 
 and handsome private residence in Boston, for. Mr. Hubbard of the Ludlow Company, 
 on Commonwealth avenue and, for Mr. Hubbard of the company, on Bay State road, 
 in all amounting to over a million dollars; the Grosvenor cotton mills, extensive brick 
 buildings at Grosvenor, Connecticut, and Cutting, Bardwell & Company constructed 
 the hydrant system at Grosvenor Dale, Connecticut. They built the Medford High 
 School buildirig, one of the first modern buildings for school purposes in Boston, 
 They built manv buildings in Boston, for the Boston Wharf Company, the plant of the 
 Norwood Press', established bv Grafton Gushing, of Norwood. Massachusetts, and the 
 New Pearl Street Baptist Church at Hartford, Connecticut, on Farmington avenue. ^ 
 
 In igoo Mr. Bardwell sold his interests in the firm to his partners. Mr. Cuttings 
 son, George B., entered the firm, and the name of the firm was changed to G. H. 
 Cutting & Companv with Mr. Fiske and Mr. Carter remaining partners. From that 
 time on the business has been one of the most successful. In the sprnig of 1900 Mr. 
 Cutting went South to begin the erection of a series of cotton mills and they achieved 
 unusual success in this new field. He built first at Gainesville. Georgia, one of the 
 largest cotton mills in the South. Besides the brick buildings he erected one hundred 
 and eightv tenements. The buildings form a village in themselves just outside the city 
 limits of Gainesville, near the New Holland Spring. The firm had the contr.act next 
 for the Gainesville cotton mills, about two miles from the Pacolet mills. Here a 
 modern brick mill with a capacitv of thirty thousand spindles was erected, and be- 
 sides eighty houses for the emplovees were erected. Mr. Cutting took personal charge 
 of this work in the South. He built a large new mill at Abbeville, South Caro ina, 
 then a mill with a capacitv of thirtv thousand spindles at Greenville, South Carolina. 
 This is known as the Woodside mill and the company had also seventy-five houses 
 for employees built by this firm. They also constructed the famous Bluck null ot the 
 Anderson Cotton Mill Companv. at Anderson, South Carolina. This mill has a ca- 
 pacity of thirty thousand spindles and is a new departure in mill construction in that 
 it is only one story high. 
 
574 HISTORY OF JVORCnSTER 
 
 When the plant at Gainesville for the cotton company was wrecked in 1903, Mr. 
 Cutting had the contract to restore the buildings. In the same year the same thing 
 happened to the Pacolet mills. Two mills were washed out, dams destroyed, and ware- 
 houses swept away. He restored the dam, rebuilt mill No. 3, and built on the site 
 of Mill No. I a forty thousand spindle mill, one hundred and seven by five hundred 
 feet. The damage done at Pacolet by that cloudburst amounted in less than an 
 hour to one million, five hundred thousand dollars. Among other buildings not 
 mentioned that this firm built in the South was the new Baptist church at Spartan- 
 burg, South Carolina, said to be the finest church in the State. It is yellow brick 
 trimmed with brown-stone. The firm has been carrying on an equally large business 
 in the North, They built the Weymouth. Massachusetts. Public Library. They built 
 two large buildings at Quincy for the Fore River Ship Building Company, one an 
 erecting room one story high, sixty by two hundred feet, the other a large galvanizing 
 room. They had the contract to build the Worcester and Southbridge Railroad at 
 Charlton, Massachusetts. They constructed new cjuarters for the woolen mills of 
 De.xter & Son at Newport, New Hampshire, replacing those built eighty years before. 
 They built three large mills at Ludlow, Massachusetts, for the Ludlow Associates, a 
 residence at Hudson for ex-Congressman Apsley, a spacious addition to the Grafton 
 fla.x works, ten tenement houses and storehouse at Barre for Wiley & Company, in 
 connection with their carding plant, a thirty thousand dollar summer home and seven- 
 teen thousand dollar stable and servants' quarters at Newport. Rhode Island. They 
 had a large contract at Winooski, Vermont, for two mills. The .'American Woolen 
 Company built one, the Burlington mills the other. 
 
 In addition to the business of G. H. Cutting & Company, Mr. Cutting was in- 
 terested in the granite business. With Peter Ross he bought the Milford Granite 
 Company with quarries at Milford, Massachusetts, and bought more land in Milford 
 until they owned some two hundred acres. The granite business was incorporated as 
 the G. H. Cutting Granite Company. This company joined forces with Norcross 
 Brothers. The Bay State Granite Company, the Milford Pink Granite Company, and 
 formed the Consolidated Milford Quarries, a corporation of which O. W. Norcross 
 was made president. B. C. Fiske. F. H. Dewey, Lois Britton, George O. Draper and 
 George H. Cutting, directors. Among the large contracts that Mr. Cutting's company 
 had at the time of merging was the State of New York monument on LonkoiU moun- 
 tain where was fought the "Battle above the Clouds" in the Civil War. This monu- 
 ment cost about seventy-five thousand dollars, and was three thousand feet above the 
 Tennessee river. In 1903 Mr. Cutting had his second serious illness. He had a 
 severe attack of nervous dyspepsia from which he slowly recovered. He loved his 
 business, was one of the best-informed men in his line of work, and was always a 
 student of papers and books that dealt with the art and science of architecture. He 
 was independent in both politics and religion. He was a Mason, having joined the 
 order when he was in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He was made master Mason in the 
 lodge at Troy, Vermont, and was elected secretary. He was senior warden and 
 master of the lodge, but left the town during his term of office. He took the chapter 
 and council degrees at Hartford. Connecticut, and joined the Worcester County Com- 
 mandery after he returned to Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Cutting married, September 19, 1863, Vamelia Houston, daughter of James 
 Houston, who was the son of James Houston, of Waterbury, Vermont. They have one 
 son, George B. Cutting, born at Troy, Vermont, July 16, 1864. Since 1889 Mr. Cutting 
 has resided at No. 67 Cedar street. 
 
 AMOS PORTER CUTTING, Architect, was born September 13, 1839, son of 
 Hiram and Harriet Newell (Chapin) Cutting. He died February 6. 1896, at Los 
 Angeles, California. He married Lora Jane Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith. 
 Children: I. Amos Walter, born February 7, 1870. 2. Nellis May, died young. 3. 
 Minnie Gertrude, born February 10. 1872: married. September 9, 1896, Nelson S. Pike, 
 of Worcester, resides in Worcester. 4. Frank Herbert, born May 3. 1874; married 
 Marion I. Gates, daughter of Edwin Gates, of Worcester, November 10, 1897. 5. 
 Jennie, born June 26. 1877: married Alfred E. Studley, October 8. 1901. 6. Harry 
 Smith, born November i, 1879; married Violet E. Craft, of Worcester, October 14, 
 1903, resides in Worcester. 7. Arthur Grover, born October 22, 1881 ; married Grace 
 A. Fisher, of Belchertown, Massachusetts, January i, 1902, resides in Springfield. 8. 
 Norman Seth, died young. 9. Florence, died young. lo. Daisy Lena, born November 
 I, 1886. 
 
 GEORGE BRADLEY CUTTING, Formerly partner of George H. Cutting & 
 Son, was born in Troy, Vermont. July 16, 1864. son of George H. Cutting (see 
 biography). His parents came to this city, March 17. 1865. when he was an infant, and 
 
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 he has resided here since then. He was cehicated in the public schools and cirailuatcd 
 from the Classical High School in 1884. After a business experience of two years he 
 studied arcliitecture in the office of his uncle, Amos Porter Cutting (see bioi?raphy). 
 After following the profession of architect for six years he was admitted to partner- 
 ship in his father's business under the firm name of George H. Cutting & Coiupany. 
 builders and contractors. The firm conducted a very extensive business in all parts of 
 the country and continued until the time of his father's death in 1907. Since then 
 he has been associated with F. W. Mark, builder and contractor. He is a thirty- 
 second degree Mason, a member of Athelstan Lodge; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Alasters; Worcester County Commandery, 
 Knights Templar ; the Massachusetts Consistory. He is also a member of the Wor- 
 cester Agricultural Society and formerly of the Automobile Club. In politics lie is a 
 Republican. He attends the First Universalist Church. His home is at No. 67 Cedar 
 street. 
 
 Mr. Cutting married (first), December 19, 1894, Janet Chapin, and had one child, 
 Ezra Chapin, born June 3, 1897. He married (second), Alice Camille Murdock, 
 daughter of Frank L. Murdock (see biography). They have one child. Mrs. Cut- 
 ting is a member of the Memorial Charity Club and of Colonel Timothy Bigelow 
 Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. 
 
 Mr. Cutting is a descendant in all his lines of ancestry from the pioneers of New 
 England. The Cutting line is: George B. (8), George H. (7), Hiram (6), Bela (5), 
 Isaac (4), Hezekiah (3), James (2), Richard (i). Richard Cutting, the immigrant, was 
 born in England in 1623 and came to New England in the ship "Elizabeth" of Ipswich 
 in 1634 iu charge of Henry Kimball; settled in Watertown ; was a wheelwright; died 
 March 21, 1695-96. Isaac Cutting (4) settled in Windham county, Connecticut. Bela 
 Cutting (5) located in Lyme, New Hampshire. Mr, Cutting is also a descendant of 
 Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the founders of .Springfield. The Chapin line is : 
 Harriet (7) (wife of Hiram Cutting); John (6), of Lyme; John (5), of Milford, 
 Massachusetts; John (4), of Milford; Captain Seth (3), of Milford; Josiah (2), of 
 Mendon ; Deacon Samuel (i). Thomas Wedge was another immigrant ancestor. 
 
 EARL B. MORGAN, Safety engineer of the Norton Company, was born in Moul- 
 ton, Iowa, November 14, 1884, son of A. R. Morgan. After attending the graded 
 schools of his native town, he became a student in the Manual Training and High 
 School in Memphis, Tennessee, and later of the St. Louis High School, from which 
 he graduated in 1900. After a few years he entered Washington University at St. 
 Louis, Missouri, and was graduated in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, 
 taking both civil and mechanical engineering courses. His graduation was delayed 
 on account of his need for funds to pursue the course. He won a scholarship through 
 his prominence in athletics. While a student he was away from college for fourteen 
 months in engineering work at Galveston, Texas, and lor two months in the West 
 in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad. 
 
 After graduating, he entered the employ of general contractors and was en- 
 gaged in the work of constructing large public buildings, such as that of the Seattle 
 Trust Company at Seattle, where he was engaged for two years. He was afterward 
 office engineer for the Rock Island Railways in charge of construction work. After 
 a year with the LInion Pacific Railroad Company in construction work, he was en- 
 gaged in contracting in St. Louis, and at this time began his research in the subject 
 of safety engineering. He taught various mechanical subjects in the evening high 
 schools of the city of St. Louis for three years. He was afterward in the engineer- 
 ing department of the Commonwealth Steel Plants at Gary, Indiana, and Granite 
 City, Illinois, as plants engineer. He continued the study of methods and devices 
 to prevent accidents in steel plants and finally organized a system there. 
 
 After the Morgan system was in satisfactory operation at the Commonwealth 
 Steel Company, he came to the Norton Company to put a similar system in opera- 
 tion. He has remained in the employ of this concern as its safety engineer. His 
 duties have extended not only to the protection of the workmen in the great plant 
 of the Norton Company, but in providing proper safeguards on the machines man- 
 ufactured by the Norton Company. In a booklet written by Mr. Morgan recently 
 there is a description of a great variety of appliances and methods to avoid danger 
 in using grinding machinery. It is entitled "Safety in Cutlery Grinding." In No- 
 vember. 1917, he issued a small folder entitled "Health and Safety for the Guidance 
 of Workman Who May Receive Slight Injuries." From time to time publications 
 of this character have been issued to supplement the work of guarding the machinery 
 in an effort to eliminate accidents of all kinds in the works. The movement to 
 protect the health of employees and to guard against accidents was tremendously 
 stimulated in the mills and factories by recent progressive legislation providing com- 
 
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 pensation for all injured workmen, and at the same time a great awakening in the 
 interest of employers in the sanitary condition of their plants, in proyiding physicians 
 and surgeons, establishing hospitals and in innumerable other provisions for keeping 
 workmen and workwomen healthy has been taking place in all parts of the country. 
 But no company has been more progressive in this respect than the Norton Company, 
 which has been a model for others to follow in recent years. 
 
 Mr. Morgan is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers j the 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the National Safety Council, and Kappa 
 Sigma fraternity. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Tuscan Lodge, 
 and Missouri Consistory, No. i. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Morgan married, June 2. 1915. Mary Alice Wimmer, daughter of Walter 
 Wimnier. They have one son, Earl B., Jr. Their home is at No, 37 Burncoat street. 
 
 ALBERT E. LYONS, President of the Allen-Higgins Wall Paper Company, is 
 a member of the Worcester Country Club. He married Blanche Brainard. Mrs. Lyons 
 is a member of the Woman's Club and of the Worcester Country Club. Their home is 
 at No. 34 Monadnock road in this city. 
 
 WALDO LINCOLN, President of the American Antiquarian Society, banker, 
 trustee, was born in this city, December 31, 1849, son of Daniel Waldo and Frances 
 Fiske (Merrick) Lincoln. (See Early Settlers). 
 
 He graduated from Harvard College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1870, 
 and studied for a year afterward in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard 
 University. From 1873 to 1893 he was engaged in the manufacture of chemicals and 
 paint in this city. Since then his time has been occupied by the various duties of his 
 positions in banks and other corporations, charitable organizations and historical 
 societies. He devoted much time to the compilation of the Waldo Genealogy, published 
 in two volumes in 1902. He has been engaged for many years in compiling material 
 for the Lincoln Genealogy, not yet published. Historical and genealogical research 
 has been his hobby. He has been a member of the American Antiquarian Society 
 since 1898 and its president since 1907. when he succeeded the late Edward Everitt 
 Hale. In the building of the present library structure, arranging the books, manu- 
 scripts and other material he has given in recent years a large part of his time. 
 (See American Antiquarian Society). He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the New England Historic-Genealog- 
 ical Society, and the American Historical Association. He is also a member of the 
 Harvard Club, the Natural History Society, the St. Wulstan Society, the Worcester 
 Club, the Worcester Horticultural Society, the Worcester Fire Society, all of this 
 city; the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Harvard Club 
 and the Tavern Club of Boston. He is a member of the First Unitarian Church. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln married, in this city, June 24, 1873. Fanny Chandler, a daughter of 
 George (6) (John Wilkes (5), Peter (4), Joseph (3), John (2), William (i)) and 
 Josephine (Rose) Chandler, of Worcester, born in Worcester, January 5, 1852. Mrs. 
 Lincoln is a member of the Alliance Francaise, the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, the Grandmothers Club, the Worcester So- 
 ciety of Antiquity, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the 
 Colonial Dames; the Art Museum and the Horticultural Society. Children, born at 
 Worcester: i. Merrick (see biography). 2. Josephine Rose, born February 28, 1878; 
 married Frank Farnum Dresser. 3. Daniel Waldo (see biography). 4. George 
 Chandler (see biography). 5. Dorothy, born March 4, 1890, died April i, 1909, at 
 Singapore. Their home is at No. 49 Elm street. 
 
 MEERICK LINCOLN, Physician, surgeon, was born in this city. May 25, 1875, 
 son of Waldo and Fanny (Chandler) Lincoln. He was educated in public and 
 private schools in Worcester and in Harvard University, graduating in 1896 with 
 the degree of A. B. and from the Harvard Medical School in 1900 with the degree 
 of M. D. Afterward he passed eighteen months as house officer of the Massa- 
 chusetts General Hospital and a year of study in Germany and Vienna. He settled 
 in Worcester in the general practice of his profession and continued until he en- 
 tered the service. From 1909 to 1912 he was city physician. Since 191 1 he has 
 been on the visiting medical staff of the Memorial Hospital. He has paid particular 
 attention to the feeding of young children. He is a member of the Worcester 
 District Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medi- 
 cal Association. From time to time he has contributed to various medical journals. 
 
 Dr. Lincoln enlisted in April, 1917, in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps and was 
 commissioned first lieutenant. Since August, 1917, he has been in active service and 
 is now (February, 1918) attached to the Three Hundred and Fortieth Infantry, sta- 
 tioned at Camp Custer, Michigan. In politics he is an independent Republican. In 
 
A\'I> ITS PlioPLIi 
 
 religion he is a Unitarian, and lie has hcen suin'rintendirnt ni the Sniiday schc.il ■>[ 
 the First Unitarian Chnrcli. He is a niemher of the Harvard (Inh, the 'i atntick 
 Country Club, the \\'orcester Cluli. tlie Worcester Agricultural Society, the Worcester 
 Fire Society, the Worcester Tennis Cluh, and the Tavern Club of Boston. 
 
 Dr. Lincoln married, in this city, .Ai)ril 29. igo8. Mary Bowker, daughter of 
 Charles H. and Mary (Grant) liou-ker. of Worcester. She was horn in this city. 
 March 23. 1884. Mrs. Lincoln is a nienilier of the Massachtisetts Society of (_<doni.'il 
 Dames of America. Their home is at No. di William street. 
 
 DANIEL WALDO LINCOLN, Lieutenant, lawyer, was born in this city, Sep- 
 tember 2, 1882, son of Waldo and I'anny (C'handler) Lincoln. He attended private 
 schools in Worcester an<l the Poinfret School, I'omlret. Connecticut. He entered 
 Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1904 with the de.gree of Bachelor of 
 Arts, and studied his profession in Harvard Law Scho.il, yr.idniitinH with the dej^ree 
 of Bachelor of Laws in 1907. Since then' he has been practicin.i» law in this city. I-'or 
 several years he was in partnership with Charles H. Derby, but afterward was alone. 
 He was at the Plattsburg camp for ol'licers from May to .August, igi". and was com- 
 missioned first lieutenant. He is now ( I'ebruary, iyi8i with the Three Hnndrcil and 
 First Infantry stationed at Camp Devens. .A\er. Massachusetts. In jiolitics he is a 
 Republican. He served in the Connnon Council in 1912-13, and in the Board of 
 Aldermen in 1914-15. He was rejiresentative to the General Court in 191O-17. In 
 religion he is a Unitarian, and has been clerk of the Second Parish. He is a member 
 of the Bohemian Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Harvard Club of Worcester, 
 the Tatnuck Country Club, the Worcester Club, the Worcester County Bar .Associa- 
 tion, the Worcester County Kepnldican Cluli. the Worcester Temiis Club, and the 
 Harvard Club of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Lincoln married, in this city. December 29. nnr. Harriet Brayton Xicbols, 
 daughter of Dr. Charles L. Xicliols. 
 
 GEORGE CHANDLER LINCOLN, Physician, surgeon, was born in tlii- city, 
 August 6, 1884, son of Waldo and Fanny (Chandler) Lincoln. He attendeil private 
 schools here and the Hackley School. Tarrytown, Xew York, enterin.g Harvard Colle.ge 
 from which he graduated in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of .Arts. .Afterward he 
 was a student in the Harvard Medical School, graduating in 191 1 with the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine. For two years al'ter graduating from college he was in the tele- 
 phone business in Kansas City, Missouri. He settled in Worcester and engaged in 
 the practice of medicine here in 191 1. making a specialty of obstetrics. He and his 
 brother. Dr. Merrick Lincoln, shared ofhces at Xo. 2 Linden street. He is a member 
 of the Worcester District Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society and 
 the American Medical Association. He enlisted, in April. 1917. in the Medical Officers 
 Reserve Corps and was commissioned first lieutenant. He has lieen in France since 
 July, 1917, at Base Hospital, Xo. loi. Dr. Lincoln is a member of the Harvar<i Club 
 of Worcester, the Worcester Club, the Tatnuck Country Club, the Worcester Tennis 
 Club, and the Harvard Club of Boston. 
 
 CARL GUSTAF WESTLUND, Presi<lent of the Carl G. Westlund Ce.mpany, was 
 born in Sweden, December 21, 1873. He received his education in the public schools 
 of Sweden and in the evening high schools of this city. He came to Worcester, 
 June 24, 1890. and followed his trade here in various shops. He was employed ahmit a 
 year in the Knowles Loom Works. .Afterward he worked for six months in the Whitin 
 Loom Works at Whitinsville, returning here in the employ of Rice. Barton & Fales 
 Machine & Iron Company, where he remained for four years ; then for three years 
 with the Crompton Company, Cambridge street, now the Reed-Prentice Company. 
 Afterw^ard he was employed for three years and a half by John J. .Adams in his ma- 
 chine shop, and by the Xorton Company for three years as assistant foreman of the 
 machine shop. He started in business for himself in September. 1909, at 47 Hermon 
 street, doing repairing under his own name. In 1910 his business was incorporated 
 under the present name of the Carl G. Westlund Company. He be,gan to manufacture 
 friction clutches and cut-otT couplings in 1912. In 1913 he moved to another building 
 on Cherry street, and in 1914 to the i)resent location, at 498 Millbury street. In 1915 
 he began to manufacture engine lathes in addition to his other business, and to make 
 special machinery of all kinds. His inventions have beeii the basis of the business 
 which has grown rapidly from the beginning. His home is in Auburn. 
 
 ELI THAYER,, was born in Mendon. Massachusetts. June 11. 1819. He was the_ 
 
 seventh in direct descent from John and Priscilla Alden, throu.gh Ruth, daughter of 
 
 Rev. Xoah .Alden. of Bellingham. who married Eli's grandfather, Benjamin Thayer. 
 
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 HISTURV Of iruKCliSTFJi 
 
 His early schooling was had in Bellingham Academy and in Amherst Academy, 
 but his immediate preparatory training for Brown University was in the Worcester 
 County Manual Labor High Scho(.l. which he attended for three years and from which 
 he was graduated in 1840. Even as his preparatory work was interrupted by a year's 
 service helping his father in the country store at Millville, so also was his college 
 career broken liy a year of teaching in the Boys' High School of Providence. This 
 school had need of a master hand to restore it to good discipline and the need was 
 filled .by Mr. Thayer, whose graduation at Brown was thus delayed until 1845. when 
 he took second honor; and in 1848 he received from his college the degree of Master 
 of Arts. He was inclined to study law, and did cjualify for the bar, but did not seek 
 admission. He felt a deep interest in education, and while in college formed certain 
 original ideas and plans regarding the development of an institution for instruction 
 of young women. Early in his senior year, his predecessor. Principal Wheeler, offered 
 him the assistantship in the Manual Labor High School at a salary of $500. This 
 sole assistantship he declined, but later accepted at $550 "with prospects of a raise." 
 
 During the summer of 1845 he purchased a barren and rocky eminence on the 
 opposite side of Main street from the school known as Goat Hill; subsequently added 
 to his original four acres until he possessed ten, extending from Piedmont street nearly 
 to King street, at $150 per acre. He began his assistantship in the fall of 1845, and 
 was regarded by Principal Wheeler as a loyal and competent helper and an accom- 
 plished teacher. These two men ever after entertained for each other the highest 
 regard and friendship. In 1847, when Principal Wheeler resigned to assume charge 
 of the Worcester High School, Mr. Thayer was elected his successor, though Thayer's 
 name has no mention in the trustee's records during his four years of teaching. 
 Jt is said of Mr. Thayer that he was invariably good-tetnpered and patient with his 
 pupils; condoning rather than condemning their shortcomings; helpful to those need- 
 ing assistance; direct, simple, and clear in his method of instruction. He governed by 
 a quiet contidence rather than by show of power, but the transgressor soon found that 
 offences could not be repeated with impunity. He tolerated no evasion of rules, but is 
 said by his diplomacy to have quietly settled an open rebellion against Principal 
 Wheeler to the satisfaction of the disputants. The catalogue of 1848, the second 
 issued under the new corporate name, Worcester Academy, bears the name of Princi- 
 pal Thayer and one assistant, George Capron, his brother-in-law. The total student 
 enrollment was one hundred and fifty-two, of which nearly one-third were in the 
 "Classical" and the remainder in the "English" department. As a scholar, Mr. 
 Thayer's attainments were high. He was familiar with English and classical litera- 
 ture. Though a man of great dignity and apparent reserve, he showed to those closely 
 associated with him warm feelings of friendship and affection, great benevolence of 
 heart, and practical charity. Taken all in all, he became one of the most eminent of 
 Worcester's citizens. 
 
 In the middle of Mr. Thayer's two-year jirincipalship (June, 1848) the trustees 
 entered upon the construction of the four-story brick-and-stone structure known as 
 Academy Hall, in alignment with the two original buildings, the "Mansion House" 
 and "Chapel." The brief life of this fine building is noted in this article. Later in this 
 year (1848), while still principal oi the Academy, Mr. Thayer began on Goat Hill 
 the construction of an edifice in which be was to realize his cherished plans for the 
 education of young women. Of this castle-like structure, the "Oread Institute," he 
 was his own architect and he personally supervised its construction. Originally de- 
 signed to form a quadrangle, the south facade only was built. The stone of which 
 the edifice was built was quarried from the rocky hill on which the Oread stands. 
 So reticent was Mr. Thayer as to his intentions that his purpose in building was not 
 known until the north tower was well under way. The enterprise was nicknamed 
 "Thayer's Folly." But early in 1849 the north tower was completed, and having now 
 resigned the principalship of the Academy, on May 14 of that year Mr. Thayer here 
 oi)ened a school with seven rooms and fourteen boarding pupils. He reserved the 
 remainder of the building for his family and for teaching rooms. Completing the 
 south tower in 1850 and the connecting ])art in 1852, he had in hand at once a popular 
 school, filled to its capacity with boarding pupils and with day pupils bringing the 
 total of one hundred and fifty names. Twelve teachers were on the staff in 1854. 
 Here Mr. Thayer embodied his long-cherished plans, and in the higher "collegiate" 
 department he offered a four-year course of study closely modelled after that of 
 Brow'n University. Here was given for the first time in New England education of a 
 collegiate type for women. No Sinith, no Wellesley, no Vassar, no Bryn Mawr had 
 heard the demand of women, and no college, save Oberlin, had opened its doors to the 
 sex. At no period of the school's history was it more prosperous than in these years 
 when Mr. Thayer was the active head of the school. It is worthy of note that as his 
 own chapel was too small for a proper audience, the first graduating exercises of the 
 
AXIJ ITS PIlOPLlL 
 
 Oread were held in tlic Aoadeniy Hall I'riiu-iiial rha\cr had a few years l.,i,,ro 
 been master. The spirit with which Mr. Thayer embarked nii ibis new enterprisr, and 
 the independence with wliich be assumed the entire burden of respunsibilily for its 
 success or failure, is shown in the following statement from one of its early eal.i- 
 logues : 
 
 "Individual effort oriuin.ileil and has so far sustained this instituti.m. Il has 
 received no endowments from iiri\ate nuniiticence or public lioinuy. except good wishes 
 and libera! patronage; and this is .ill ilie endow nunt it will receive in the future. 
 Whatever may be tlie result, it must stand on its own merits and the will of the 
 people. We hope that its patronage will ne\er be prompted by any feelings of com- 
 passion or condescension. We sell educati'in .at c.st. If oiir nu-nb.indise is in.i worth 
 our iirice. or if we li.ive br'iught our wares to a ni.irket l^r wliuli tlure is ikj demand, 
 we ask no one to share our loss. Oread Castle was founded in good faith under the 
 honest conviction that it might serve the country and the world, by advancing, in some 
 degree, the worthy cause to which it is devoted. Such we hope may be its destiny." 
 
 Of his enterprise he found cordial approval and moral support in such eminent 
 men as Presidents Wayland and Sears of P.rown. and in the iheii pastor of the 
 Church of the Unity, Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 Mr. Thayer's active mind was not content with solely educational m.illcis. .uid in 
 the midst of his successful enterprise, the Oread, he began taking active iiiti re st in 
 political life. He was elected a member of the .School Board in 1852. a iiosition which 
 he held for several years. He gav-e freely of his time and attention to jmblic atfairs, 
 leaving the school more and more to the care of his corjis of excellent teachers, and 
 in 1857 he retired from the principalshi]) jiermanently. In 1853 he became an alder- 
 man, and in the following year became a member of the State Legislature. 
 
 Mr. Thayer was always interested in beautifying and improving the city of 
 Worcester. Many of the streets in the neighborhood of the Oread and Academy were 
 laid out by him, and he had much to do with the develoimient of the southern part of 
 the city as a manufacturing district. The failing fortunes of the .Academy, his former 
 charge, led to his taking a ten-year lease of that school and assuming control, and in 
 1854 he purchased of the trustees the remainder, about one-quarter of their original 
 si-xty acres, with the building thereon. These buildings, with the exception of "'l"he 
 Mansion House." were demolished, and of the bricks of -Academy Hall, only six years 
 after its erection, were built the four brick tenements, even now known as "iSrick 
 City" on Canterbury street, the very first buildings in those open fields. 
 
 The lasting fame of Eli Thayer will not be due to his local reputation as an 
 educator, honorable as that is. His part in the stirring politics of the "Fifties" was 
 unique, efficient, and most valuable. On March 11. 1854. in the City Hall of Worcester, 
 he first divulged his plan to settle the disputed State of Kansas with emigrants from 
 the free states. Most historians have failed to make a clear distinction between the 
 agitation of this period against slavery, per se, and the sentiment of the North against 
 the advance of slave power. One was a mcjvement of so-called philanthropy, ex- 
 clusive of all other considerations. To this party belonged tiarrison and his fellow 
 agitators. The other body had to do, as its supi)orters believed, with the welfare ot 
 the Nation, the preservation of the Federal Union, and the maintenance of the true 
 principles of the Constitution and Republican government. To this body belonged 
 Thayer and his co-workers. There was as wide a difference between the Garrisonites 
 and the political workers for the anti-slavery cause as between the Ciarrisoii-men and 
 the slave holders. 
 
 Mr. Thayer secured from the Massachusetts Legislature the charter of the "Immi- 
 grant Aid Society." designed to foster organized emigration from the free states into 
 Kansas, and to utilize the provisions of the "Squatter Sovereignty Act," wdiereby the 
 question of legalizing slavery was left to the decision of local suffrage. This Society 
 was financed by efforts of Amos Lawrence, of Boston, and his work found permanent 
 recognition in the naming of Lawrence, Kansas, in his honor. And to Eli Thayer fell 
 the task of lecturing and preaching the gospel of organized emigration, a task which 
 he executed with such entire success as to enlist cordial and active support. 
 
 Beginning August i, 1854, when a party of twenty-nine set out to found Lawrence, 
 over five thousand men and women were sent directly by this company. Later Mr. 
 Thayer carried on a similar work in Western Virginia, founding the town of Ceredo. 
 and infusing such healthy sentiments into that part of the country that when the Civil 
 War ensued the State was saved to the Union. Mr. Thayer in his latter (lays cm- 
 bodied the record of these epochal years in a book entitle<l. "The Kansas Crusade," 
 a copy of which, bearing his autograph, was recently jdaced by his son in the Nelson 
 Wheeler Library. 
 
 In 185(1 Mr'. Thayer was elected to the X.ation.il Congress, retaining his seat 
 until 1861. The admission of Oregon to stateho,,d. in spite of much opposition, was 
 
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 brmight about almost wholly Ijy Mr. Thayer's untiring efforts, which found recognition 
 when he was sent as delegate fmrn that State to the famous National convention of 
 i860. Under President Lincoln Mr. Thayer was a special confidential agent of the 
 Treasury Department. 1861-62. and in the remaining years of the Civil War he was 
 active in councils of the National government. From 1864 to 1870. Mr. Thayer was 
 New York agent of western railroad interests. He was himself an expert in the 
 matters of invention and often acted as referee in such cases. His later years, in 
 Worcester, were occupied with private pursuits incidental to his land lioldings. He 
 spent much time in study and travel. 
 
 His long-time friend', the immortal author of "The Man Without a Country." Dr. 
 Edward Everett Hale, says : "Hi.m. Eli Thayer was a most remarkable person to whom 
 this country is more indebted than it knows. When the Southern leaders chose to 
 throw Kansas and Nebraska open to all emigrants, Mr. Thayer accepted the challenge, 
 in consequence of his prompt action, Kansas became almost immediately a free State, 
 and the pcjpulation of that State, to this hour, has been a body of self-respecting, 
 intelligent people, fit founders of a great republic." 
 
 E.\-President Taft, in his address at the semi-centennial celebration of the found- 
 ing of Kansas in 1904, says : "These two men, Robinson and Thayer, superintended 
 and guided the movement to preserve this State to the cause of freedom. With their 
 lives often at stake, nothing daunted or discouraged these two patriots. To their one 
 purpose they sacrificed everything but honor and honesty. There are no greater heroes 
 in the history of this country than Eli Thayer of Massachusetts and Charles Robinson 
 of Kansas, who, almost alone and single-handed, entered upon the work of peopling 
 a \ast territory with free and brave men so as to forever exclude slavery from its 
 limits." 
 
 The authiir cannot lietter conclude this monograph than by using the language of 
 the critic of the New York "Herald." directly after Mr. Thayer's death on April 15, 
 1899: "Eli Thayer is dead! Had this announcement been made four decades ago, 
 it would have convulsed a continent! But, coming as it does, at the latter end of the 
 century, people simply stop and ask. 'Who was Eli Thayer?' Charles Sumner shall 
 supply the answer : 'Kansas should have been named Thayer ! I would rather 
 have accomplished what he has done than to be the hero of the Battle of New Orleans.' 
 Nor was Sumner wrong ! What Eli Thayer accomplished directly or indirectly through 
 his work in and for Kansas was the final disruption of the Whig party, the birth of the 
 Republican party, the Civil War, the Emancipation of the slaves, the restoration of the 
 Union, and the manifold blessings accrued from these events. Lincoln, Stanton, and 
 tjrant were demi-gods compared to Eli Thayer. Yet, Eli Thayer was the humble 
 instrument who made these demi-gods possible to the United States. For it was Eli 
 Thayer, a luke-warm abolitionist, wdio snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and 
 who, when the slave oligarchy of the South seemed triumphant turned their triumph 
 into permanent defeat." — George O. Ward, M. D. 
 
 In August, 1845, Mr. Thayer married Caroline M. Capron. of Millville. To them 
 were born five daughters and two sons, one of the latter, John Alden, i>ostmaster of 
 Worcester (see biography). 
 
 JOHN ALDEN THAYER. Lawyer, later postmaster, former congressman, son 
 of Hon. Eli Thayer, was born in this city, December 22. 1857, and died in Boston, 
 July 31, 1917. 
 
 He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1879 with the de.gree of 
 Bachelor of Arts, ranking ninth in a class of two hundred. He became a teacher 
 in the Oread Institute, of which his father was the proprietor, and afterward was 
 a teacher in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1887 he entered Columbia Law School, 
 graduating in 1889. He was admitted to the bar in this city in i8go, and immediately 
 began to practice. For many years he was in partnership with Charles B. Perry 
 under the firm name of Thayer & Perry. Their offices were at \'o. 340 Main street. 
 In politics he was a staunch Democrat. He was a personal friend of Governor 
 William E. Russell and very active in the campaign that resulted in Mr. Russell's 
 election in 1890. The governor appointed Mr. Thayer clerk of the Central District 
 Court in 1891 and he held that office for five years. He was elected to Congress in 
 1910 and served one term. He was appointed postmaster, March 3, 1915, and held 
 that office at the time of his death. He was always held in high esteem by the leaders 
 of the Democratic party in City, State and Nation. He threw himself into the work 
 of the postoffice with characteristic energy and the strain affected his constitution, 
 which was never robust. He was a member of the Worcester Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Economic Club, the Harvard Club, the Worcester County Bar Association. 
 His home was at No. 7 Maplewood road. 
 
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 Mr. Thayer married, June J(i, iijud. j. Maude Allue. Iioni in H.^iikinton. Ma-'-a- 
 chusetts, daughter of Dr. (iecirgc S. and Klizabeth { .\lael lui.ald ) .XHnc. (liild;.-ii: 
 John Alden, Jr.. born March J_'. kju', and I'llizabeth .Mbce. b.irn January .'.'. hiij, 
 
 ALBERT SUTTON RICHEY, i:, i:, I'r. it^s^,,t-, ,1 natnr ..| tb< ( riitr.,1 
 West, is a son of Webster .Scoit and Julia I'lliomas) Kichej o! Muiuae. hub. ma. 
 Webster S. Kichey was a i>rivate in tlie l£i.t;htli (Jliio r,.itter\. i.St.i - lX'15. and aiublor 
 of Delaware C'lunty. Indiana. 1890-1894. .Allien S. l\iclu\ is .1 Kie.it-i;reat-,yr,ui(ls.'!i 
 of Major Benjamin Dennis. C'lmniissinned as captain of the birst I ouipany. Third 
 Regiment of Xew Jersey, b> llu' I'ro\ineial .Congress of .\\w J<T>ey. July 17. ir,"''. 
 Major Benjamin Dennis w.i^ at one time eonlined in the ]irison ship "Jersey," in Xew 
 York harbor, and vv.is killed by Lewi^ b'enton. ,'. noiornius rrfuyee and woods robbi-r. 
 whose outlaw friend. Fagan. had lieen brou,i;bl to lii>. nuiiled end llinMi,<.;h tin- in- 
 strumentality of Major Dennis. Mr^. I'lnjaiiiin Dinnis luic- narrowly rscaped 
 death, once at the han<ls of the outlaw, l-agan. raid ai;ain b\ a p.trly oi rii^viaiis. 
 
 Albert Sutton Kichey was born in Muncie. Indiana. April 10. 1874. Mr cor.i- 
 jiletcd public school courses, with .yraduation from .Muiiru- lliLdi School in iSijo. 
 passing thence to Purdue University. Lafayette, lndian,i, whirr lie was gradiraled 
 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, class of '04. In 1008 I'urdue conferred upon liim 
 the degree of Electrical Engineer. Innnediately aitti- ^raibialion be cntircd the 
 service of the Citizens Street Railway t'omiiany of .\luncie, Indi.ui.i, .i^ .111 elec- 
 trician, going three years later to the L'nion Traction tompany oi Indiana as elec- 
 trical engineer, later advancin.g to the post of chief engineer, lie contnnuil for 
 ten years with the last named company, then resigned on ()ctober i. IU05. lo come 
 to Worcester Polytechnic Instilute as l'roies-..r of b'.leclric Railway Kngineering. 
 a chair he has filled during llie fourteen \ears wbieb have snu'e intervened. 
 
 In addition to his duties as an instructor in Worcester Polytechnic lii-tilute, 
 Professor Richey has. during the same period, been iiraclicing as consulling electric 
 railway engineer, and in professional capacity has serxed many corijoralions .if 
 the business and transportation world. His clients include most of the larger street 
 railway companies of New England. He has attained nation.al reputation in his 
 profession, and was recently selected by the Premier of Xew Brunswick (t'anada) 
 under atithority of the Provincial Legislature as a member of a special commission 
 to investigate the affairs of the Xew Brunswick I'ower t'omp.iny ,in<l reeommend 
 legislation. 
 
 In the pursuit of liis profession he has liecome altiliated with many scientilic ami 
 professional societies and organi/ations. He is a fellow of the American Institute 
 of Electrical Engineers: member of tlie .American Electric K.iilway .Associ.ition ; 
 American Railway Engineering .Association: \'ation:il I'.lectric Light .Associ.ition: 
 and the New England Street Railway Club. The liter;iture of bis jirofession b.is 
 been enriched by his contributions, his "Electric Railway Handbook." piiblisbed 
 in 1915. being his most important work. I'or se\eral years be was an editorial 
 contributor to "The Electric Railway Journal." New ^'ork Cit\-; .mil is tlu' :iutbor 
 of numerous special reports, among them. "Trafiic and Oper.ition of llie Sprmglield 
 Street Railway;" and ".A Zone System of l-'ares for the Boston l-Jevated Railway." 
 His clubs are the Worcester Country. Engineers of Xew ^"ork. .and I'Lnginecrs of 
 Boston. H.is college fraternities are' the Phi Delta Thet.i and Tan Beta I'l. llie 
 latter an honorary fraternity. In the .Masonic order he holds all degrec-s of the 
 A'ork Rite, and is present senior warden of Worcester (.'ounty t/oinmandery. Knights 
 Templar. In the Ancient .Accciited Scottish Rite be has attained the tbirl\ -see.iiid 
 degree, and in 1916 was sovereign jirince of (ioddanl Council. Princes of Jenis.ilem. 
 Massachusetts Consistory, His religions afliliation is with ilie hirst Prisbvlenan 
 Church of Muncie, Indiana. 
 
 Mr. Richey married, in Worcester. .Massacliuselts. June 1 ;. ii;o7. Loilli H, 
 Kendrick. daughter of the late George .A. and .Mary ( Fl'agg 1 Isendnck .Mr. .iiid 
 Mrs. Richey are the parents of two daughters: I'rances. born J.iiiii,ir\ 14. loim. and 
 Janet, born October 6. 1911. The family residence, built by .Mr. .mil .Mrs. Kichey 
 in 1909, is at No. 9 Regent street. Worcester. .Mrs. Kichex is .1 member of Pied- 
 mont Congregational Church. The foregoing ri-veals a man so thormighly devoted 
 to his own line of work, and so welLgrounded and established 111 tb.it work :is to 
 merit his generally accepted jiosition .is ;m aniliority 111 the field of electric rail- 
 w'ay engineering. 
 
 WILLIAM SEYMOUR HARDY, Musical couihutor and composer, w.is born 
 in (iroveland. Massachusetts. .August _'[. 1874. son of .Allen anil Kllen (.Morsel 
 Hardy. .Allen Hardy was born in Croveland. .Mass.ichusetts. .M:iy 14. 1840. died 
 in Worcester. March 14, 1918: merchant; served •weiity-seven months m tlu- Third 
 
582 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery in the Civil War: married Ellen Morse, 
 who was born in Waterville, X'erniont, January 22, 1840. 
 
 William S. Hardy attended the public schools of Groveland, and for two years 
 was a student in the high school at Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from 
 the Mt. Hermon School at Mt. Hermon. Massachusetts, in 1893, and entered Dart- 
 mouth College in September of that year, leaving college in his sophomore year 
 to engage in musical pursuits. He taught music in Haverhill and Boston, arid 
 engaged in orchestral work until coming to this city in the fall of 1901. Early in 
 life he began to write music and he has composed many songs and instrumental 
 pieces. He wrote the class song at Mt. Hermon School. He was a member of the 
 College Glee Club at Dartmouth. He has published most of his compositions, but 
 some have been published by New York and Boston publishers. He writes both 
 music and verse. His best-known work is of a popular nature, well-known through- 
 out New England, and some of them throughout the country. His temperance ver- 
 sion of his patriotic song, "I Love the U. S. A.," has been sung by millions and 
 sold in large quantities by the organization known as "The Flying Squadron of 
 America," and the Anti-Saloon League of America, and the National W. C. T. U. 
 A chance meeting brought this song to the attention of Frank Whitbeck, manager 
 of Poll's TheatreT The song made a hit at Poll's, where Vera K. MuUin, soloist of 
 the Flying Squadron, heard it. After singing the song a few times she became en- 
 thusiastic over it and requested Mr. Hardy to write a temperance version for it. 
 Miss MuUin demons'trated the song before ex-Governqr J. Frank Hanly, of Indiana, 
 head of the Flying Squadron, and Congressman Wayne Stewart, of Illinois, member 
 of the executive committee. In consequence the song was adopted as the official 
 battle song of the Flying Squadron, and has since then been sung at all their meet- 
 ings in a campaign including all the large cities of the country. Among the singers 
 are D. V. Poling, Frederick Butler, who for several seasons sang a leading role -n 
 the Alice Neilson Opera Company, and \'era K. MuUin, who is among the leading 
 concert singers of the West. The Gazette said at the time Mr. Hardy produced 
 this song at Poll's: "I love the U. S. A. It has a swinging melody and there is just 
 enough of the martial pomp and red fire and a mingling of brass to make the num- 
 ber a splendid theatrical piece of property." Other successful songs by Mr. Hardy 
 are : "The School Where Lincoln Went :" "Starland, I Envy You ;" "That's Some 
 Honeymoon;" "Sister Louisa:" "A Moonlight Stroll:" "Billy Ballon." He organ- 
 ized Hardy's Orchestra in 1902, and since that time it has won a reputation second 
 to none in Central Massachusetts, if not in all New England. The orchestra con- 
 sists of from six to twenty men, Mr. Hardy acting as pianist, manager and director. 
 
 In politics Mr. Hardy is a liberal Republican, but has taken no active part in 
 public affairs and accepted no public offices. He is a member of Worcester Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; the Dartmouth Club of Worcester : Worcester 
 Rotary Club: Worcester Musicians Association: Theta Delta Chi fraternity; Omi- 
 cron Deuteron Chapter of Dartmouth. His wife and children are communicants of 
 the Catholic church in Notre Dame parish. 
 
 Mr. Hardy married, at the rectory of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, 
 January 2t„ 1902, Corinne Grace Benoit, who was born in Sherbrooke, Province of 
 Quebec, Canada, March 17, 1874, daughter of Narcisse and Sophie Benoit. Her 
 father was born at St. Jacques, Province of Quebec, September 16, 1834, died in this 
 city May 19, 1912; her mother was born in St. Philip, Province of Quebec, May 14, 
 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy have four children: Floyd Allen, born July i, 1905: 
 Ruth Corinne, born December 27, 1907; Helen Courville, born July 27, 1910: Jeanette 
 Seymour, born August 19. 191 1. 
 
 FREDERICK ELLSWORTH BARROWS, Partner in the firm of Irving B. 
 Barrows & Company, plumbers, was born in this city. May 29. 1861, at No. 19 Web- 
 ster street, where lie has always lived. William Dexter Barrows, father of Fred- 
 erick E. Barrows, was born at Fo.\borough, Massachusetts, in 1814, died in this 
 city in 1887; a machinist, employed in the factory of Curtis & Marble for forty- 
 seven years: married, in Oxford. Massachusetts, Lydia Ann Brown, who was a 
 native of that town and who died in this city. They had four children : .Achsah, 
 died in infancy; George P., now of Medford, Massachusetts, married Lenora Keene, 
 and had two children, George W. and Marion; Frederick Ellsworth: William Ander- 
 son, died in 1904, aged forty years, a Worcester merchant. William D. Barrows 
 erected, in 1844, the house in which his son Frederick E. is now living. His father, 
 William Barrows, was also a mechanic, and in his later years lived in Worcester. 
 
 Frederick E. Barrows received his education in the public schools of Wor- 
 cester, leaving at the end of his second year in the high school to become book- 
 keeper for Albert S. Brown, but he left this position in a short time to enter the 
 employ of Curtis & Marble, manufacturers of cloth-hnishing machinery, and for 
 
AND ITS PliOPLI: 5S3 
 
 a period of thirty-five years cmitinueil in tlie inecluinieal department ■■!' tliis enncern. 
 Since 1914 lie has been in partnership witli iiis son inider the firm name ol' Irvinj^ 
 B. Barrows & Company. i)himhers and dealers in hardware, paints and <iils at .\'i>. 
 1088 Main street. Mr.' Barmus is a inemtier ..1 tlie Trowhridf^e Meni.in.il t'hurch 
 and has been its treasnrer for the past tbn-t_\-nine \ears. In politics lie is a Re- 
 publican. 
 
 Mr. Barrows married, March 25. 1886. in this city. M Mabel Wheeler, wh.i was 
 1>orn in Wrentham. Massachusetts. Mardi 8. 18(17. danyhter of William .A. Wheeler, 
 who was born in Hardwick. Massachusetts, and died in this city at the a.sfe of 
 seventy-two years. Her mother. Ellen M. (Hawes) Wlieider. was born in Wren- 
 tham, died there at the age of fifty-two years. .\lr. ami .Mrs. Frederick h". I'.:irr. ^ws 
 liave two children: i. Irving F!rown. born December i<i. 1887; fonndi'd the linn uf 
 Irvin;-; B. Barrows S: Company in 11)14. -• Elmer Ellswiirth. burn l-'ebruary 10. 181/1; 
 n'lw in the Medical Cnrps of' the L'nited States -\rni\. slatinnecl at t'.im]. Merritt. 
 
 GILBERT GATES DAVIS. President and treasurer of the Davis Press. In- 
 ci'rpi irated. was born in Paxtun. .Massachusetts. January 2~. 1859. He attended 
 the public schools <jf that town until he was twelve years ol age, afterwards the 
 schools in this city, whither his parents reinoved. aiul he .graduated from the Clas- 
 sical High School in 1881. For five years he was clerk in the bnok store of Putnam 
 & Davis. He then entered into partnership with (ieorge L. Sanford under the firm 
 name of Sanford & Davis; the firm bought the business of the old F"ranklin print- 
 ing oftice and continued the printing business at .\'>. j8 Front street. The firm 
 continued until 1890. when Mr. Davis bought out his partner, and since then he 
 continued the business under his own name until it becaine the Davis Press. In- 
 corporated. In 1903 the corporation was formed under the name of the Davis Press, 
 of which Mr. Davis is president and treasurer. For many years the Davis Press 
 has been among the largest and best equijiped offices of the city and its work has the 
 best reputation for style, accuracy and artistic merit. Mr. Davis located his business 
 in its present spacious quarters. No. 25 F'oster street, when the Graphic .Arts build- 
 ing was erected. He is a member of the Cniterl Typothetae of .'\nierica. He is a 
 member of Morning Star Lodge, .Ancient Free and .-Xcceiited Masons; F^urcka Chap- 
 ter, Royal .Arch Masons; Hiram Council. Royal and Select Masters; Worcester 
 County Commandery. Knights Temidar; the Worcester Chamber of Commerce; 
 the Commercial Travellers' Association; the Worcester County Mechanics' .Ass'i- 
 ciation ; the Worcester Agricultural Society : the Commonwealth Club ; and the 
 Worcester Country Club. He is an active member of the First Baptist Church and 
 \vas superintendent of the Sunday school for fifteen years and has been treasurer for 
 twenty years. 
 
 Mr. Davis marrieii in this city. Jiuie 9. 1885. Sarah Miimie Warren, wlio was 
 born here, daughter of .Samuel Warren. Her father was born in .Auburn. .Massa- 
 chusetts, October ,?I. 181(1. and died in this city, Septenilier J.S, 1895. He was a 
 tanner and a manufacturer of card leather in Holden for fourteen years, and for 
 thirty-five years in Worcester. He was a Baptist and a Repuldican. Her mother. 
 Nancy (Flaggl Warren, was born in Holden, Massachusetts. .April 7. 1818. and 
 died in this city. September Jj. 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Davis reside at No. ir Catlierine 
 street. Mrs. Davis is a member of the Worcester Woman's Club and of the Wor- 
 cester Country Club. They have two children: Warren Gilbert, born December 
 19. 1887; graduated from Worcester .Academy in 190(1. and Yale University in 1910; 
 he is now lieutenant in the quartermasters department. United States .Army. Wash- 
 ington. D. C. 2. Inez Flagg. born July 20, 1890; graduate of the Classical High 
 School. 1910. and of Wheaton Seminary. 1912. 
 
 David Gates Davis, father of Gilbert Gates Davis, w^as born in I'.ixton, and 
 died in Worcester, aged ninety-one years. His active life was spent in his native 
 town, following farming, but afterwards he retired to make his home in Worcester. 
 His eldest son. Dr. William P. Davis, was assistant surgeon in the navv during 
 the Civil War. Two children of David G. Davis are now living: Dr. Elias W. 
 Davis, of Seymour. Connecticut, and Gilbert G. Davis, of the present mention. The 
 deceased children are: Dr. William P.. who died in North Reading, Massachusetts: 
 David, who lived in Wilkes-Barre, Pemisylv.mia. and Eliza .A., who nntrried John 
 D. Hudson, and lived at Mason City. Illinois. 
 
 David Davis, father of David Gates Davis. w:is also a farmer in Paxtcn; his 
 father, also David Davis, was a soldier in the Revolution, serving as a captain, 
 and his shoe buckles and spurs are n.iw in the possession of his great-grandson, 
 Gilbert G, Davis. David Davis was descended from Dolor Davis, the progeniUir 
 of Governor Davis and many other prominent men of this country and city. (See 
 Early Families). In various other lines of ancestr\ (iilbert G. Davis is descended 
 from the pioneers of Massachusetts. 
 
584 HISTORY OF ]J-URCliSrER 
 
 GEORGE MERRICK RICE, Manufacturer, one of the founders of the Rice, 
 Barton & Fales Machinery and Iron Company, was born in West Brookfield, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1810, and died in this city, November 9, 1894. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools. After serving as clerk for a few years in 
 a country store in Leicester, he came here in 1829 and became a partner in the firm of 
 Andrew, March & Company. The store was in Goddard's row between Thomas and 
 School streets, nearly opposite the Waldo store. The business was destroyed by fire 
 and the firm dissolved after a few years. He bought the dry goods business of Burt 
 & Merrick and his advertisement as a dry goods dealer, dated December i, 1830, was 
 found afterward in the "Spy." A few years later he had a flour and grain sti'ire near 
 the canal basin on Central street. In 1846 he became a partner in the firm of Howe, 
 Goddard & Company (H. P. Howe and Isaac Goddard) in the manufacture of paper, 
 calico printing and bleaching machinery. This concern became eventually the Rice, 
 Barton & Fales Machinery and Iron Company. He became president of the Worcester 
 Steel Works in 1882, succeeding George W. Gill, who died April 13, 1882, and siibse- 
 quently he became the sole owner. The original title of the company was the W'ash- 
 burn Iron Company, Nathan Washburn, president, George W. Gill, manager, Edward 
 L. Davis, treasurer. A Bessemer steel plant was installed and the first steel made in 
 June. 1884. Later an open-hearth furnace was added; four hundred men were em- 
 ployed, producing 230 tons of steel daily. For thirty years this industry was one of the 
 largest and at one time tlie largest single industry of the city. The business no longer 
 exists. Mr. Rice was for many years president of the Manufacturers Mutual In- 
 surance Company; president of the Worcester Safe Deposit and Trust Company. He 
 was president of the Common Council three years; state senator, 1869-70. He was 
 active in the temperance movement in his day. 
 
 Mr. Rice married, January 23, 1832, Rutha J. White, a sister of Mrs. Nathan 
 Heard. They lived to celebrate their golden wedding. They had four children : 
 (jeorge Merrick, born March 29, 1833, died at sea, unmarried. 2. Henrietta Heard, 
 born March 15, 1840. 3. Elizabeth Jane, born November 15. 1841. 4. Mary Louisa, 
 born August 4, 1848. The daughters married William Holmes, editor of the Boston 
 Journal of Commerce ; Dr. David Hunt, of Boston ; James H. Vassar, of Boston. 
 
 THOMAS LEVERETT NELSON, Judge, was born in Haverhill, New Hamp- 
 shire. March 4, 1827. He was the eldest son of a family of twelve children. His 
 father, John Nelson, was graduated from Dartmouth College in class of 1803, and 
 was a contemporary of Daniel Webster, whose class was 1801. John Nelson was a 
 lawyer, and, following the custom of country squires of his day, had other interests, 
 including farming. He studied his profession with Christopher Gore of Boston, and 
 practiced in Haverhill until his death, at the age of sixty years, in 1838. His wife 
 was Lois Leverett, the daughter nf John Leverett of Windsor, Vermont, who went 
 there from Middletown, Connecticut, after the birth of the daughter. The Leveretts 
 were prominent in Boston, previous to the Revolution. Governor Leverett, the lineal 
 ancestor of John, was knighted by the crown, and his dust now rests in the ancient 
 King's Chapel burying ground. 
 
 Judge Nelson prepared for college at the Kimball L'nion Academy in Meredith. 
 New Hampshire, and spent two years at Dartmouth College, leaving to go to the 
 University of Vermont, from which he graduated in 1846. This college later conferred 
 upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He engaged in civil engineering upon leaving 
 college, and was employed for some years in railway construction in New England. 
 New York. Ohio and Pennsylvania. C3wing to an injured knee, he was obliged to give 
 up this profession. During his confinement on accoimt of his injury, he began the 
 study of law, and later came to Worcester, where he finished his law studies in the 
 office of Judge Francis H. Dewey. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, and became 
 the iiartner of W. W. Rice, and later of Judge Dwight Foster. Upon the removal of 
 Judge Foster to Boston, he became associated with Senator George F. Hoar. He en- 
 joyed a large and lucrative practice, and won pronounced success in equity cases, 
 being considered one of the best equity lawyers in the State. He was one of the 
 committee appointed by the .Supreme Court which drafted the rules of equity now in 
 use in that court. 
 
 From 1870 to 1874 he was city solicitor, and during the year that George F. 
 Verry was mayor he did splendid work in upholding the assessment against a bitter 
 opposition, and succeeded in establishing the validity of the $450,000 assessment levied 
 upon the property holders. It was during this time that the Union Station act. which 
 changed the whole railway system of Worcester, was passed. The act was framed 
 by Judge Nelson. In iSrjg he represented ward 2 in the legislature, and was chairman 
 of the judiciary committee. He was appointed I'nited States judge for the district 
 
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 of Massachusetts liy PrcMdcnt Hayes m 1879, succeodiny the hitc JikIki' .l"iiii I,m«.I1. 
 \v!io was promoted ti^ the circuit court. 
 
 In 1872 he was elected a director of the I'ree Public Library, serving a lenu of 
 six years, during four of which he was president. The li.'cal Worcester Ciunil) law 
 library and very meagre. Judge Xelson became interested in it, and as managing dire, tor 
 devoted years to its iniprovement luuil it >taud>; as ■■ne of the best in \cw l-aigland. 
 He secured appropriations from the legi^lalure until the yearly income now a\ailable 
 for the purchase of books from all -.ourceN is .il.onl .?4,nno. The lilirary will st.iml a'- 
 a monument of his foresight and de\otion. 
 
 He was a member of the .American .Antiquarian Societw a chartir member and 
 director of the St. Wulstan Society, and was formerly a member of the Worcester hire 
 Society. He was elected director of the Central National I'.ank in October. iSo_'. and 
 was the senior member of the board. He wa^ a director of the State MiUual Life 
 Assurance Company, and a trustee of tlie Worcester Connty Institution for Sav- 
 ings. For years he was the connnis^ioner for .Massachusetts of the I'roxidence and 
 Worcester Railroatl. 
 
 Judge Xelson was twice married. His tirst wife was .Anna Hayw.ird of .\Lnrloii. 
 The two cliildren lif the union, Harry l.e\erett and Mar\ Hayward. are both dead. His 
 second wife was Louise Slocum of Millburx. The four children by this marriage are 
 ■John, of the editorial force of the "(jazette;" Louisa: William, an electrical engineer, 
 and Thomas Leverett. Jr.. a law student. 
 
 Quiet and studions in disposition, he cared little for soci.il life onlside of .1 sni.ill 
 circle of cultivated men. He read a great deal in the lilirary of bis liome ,uid kept 
 up his classics as well as matters ciu'reut with his pri'fession. He took bttle |i.nl in 
 politics, but always manifested a deeji interest in matters of pnldic interevt, lb- was 
 fond of nature and an ardent lo\er ••] liirds and Howers. He devcpte<l some- tune to 
 astronomj'. Many important cases were tried before liim, including the famous liell 
 telephone case, and in his ridings he established many precedents. Methodical in 
 liis habits, he made the trip to and from I'.oston each day as long as his he.ilth would 
 permit. His early church associations were with the Cougregationalists, but on com- 
 ing to Worcester he became connected with the iMrst Unitarian Church, and later at- 
 tended Central Church, donbtless .iwing to his personal friendsbiii with ke\ . Dr. 
 Merriman. 
 
 REUBEN H. SOUTHGATE, Dealer ni shoe hndings. son of John I', ami Sarah 
 (Swan) Southgate, was born in Leicester, December 8, l8ji3. and' died in this city. 
 In 1835 he came to this city with his parents and received his education here in the 
 public and high schools, and at the Worcester Academy. When he was ci,ghtecn years 
 old he liecame associated with his father in business, and in 1855 he succeeded his 
 father as partner in the firm of Southgate & Rogers, dealers in shoe hndings. the 
 firm becoming Rogers & Southgate. and continuing in business at the corner of .Main 
 and Pleasant streets until 1873. when Mr. Southgate became side proi)rietor. and 
 removed to Franklin .Siiuare wdiere he continued in business until Ajiril t, 1S88. .After 
 retiring at that time, he spent nnicli of his time in travel, visiting nfist of the countries 
 in Europe, .Asia and .Afric.i. 
 
 LOUIS WARREN SOUTHGATE, Patent lawyer, was born in this city, h'ebru- 
 ary 25, 1805. son of Reuben H. and si,\th in descent from Richard Southgate. who 
 settled in Leicester in 17 15. He attemled the public schools here, the Worcester 
 Polytechnic Institute, and the National L'niversity Law Sclitiol of W.ishingt.in. 1). C. 
 He "received the degree of Hachelor of Science frotn the institiue in 1885. ,ind the 
 degree of Master of Laws from the law scho(d in i8go. 
 
 From 1885 to 1887 he was employed as engineer in the office of the Pond .Machine 
 Tool Company of Worcester; from 1887 to i8go as assistant examiner in the I'nited 
 States Patent' Office, Washington. D. C. Since i8yo has been practicing.; as a jiatern 
 lawyer in New A'ork Citv and Worcester. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar 
 in 1890 and to the New York bar in 1805. He formed the firm of Southgate & SoiUh- 
 gate, in partnership with his brother, Philip W. Southgate. in l8y3,_ His brother died 
 in 1905. Since then the firm name has been continued, .Albert E. l-'ay, Charles '1. 
 Hawley and O. E, Edwards. Jr.. being associated with him. The offices of the lirm 
 are at No. 25 Foster street in the (irajihic Arts Building, and m the Woolworlh 
 Building in New York. 
 
 Mr. Southgate is a director of a ninnber <A New N'ork corporations, ,iud trustee 
 of the Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank. He is a member of the Worcester t. bib. 
 the Tatnnck Country Club, the Worcester Country Club, the Worcester Art iM nseum. 
 the Worcester Countv Bar Association, tlie Worcester County Republican Club, the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute .Alumni .Association, the Engineers Club and the 
 Aero Club of New York, and the Wianiio Club ..f Cotuit. Massachusetts. 
 
586 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Southgate married in this city, June i. 1892. Clara Brigham, who was born 
 here in 1868, daughter of Lucius L. an'd Abl>ie H. Brigham. (See biography). Their 
 home is at No. 84 William street in this city; their summer residence at Hyannisport. 
 Massachusetts. They have one son, Richard Brigham. born May 5, 1893, graduate of 
 Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1915); student afterward in the Harvard 
 Law Schoiil: now (1918) an attache cif the .'\merican Embassy at Paris, France. Mrs. 
 Southgate is a member nf the College Club and the Worcester Woman's Club. 
 
 PHILIP WOOD SOUTHGATE, Junior member of the original firm of South- 
 gate & Southgate, patent lawyers, was born in this city. May 14, 1868. died here No- 
 vember ,;o, 1905, son i>f Reuben H. Southgate. He attended the public schools here: 
 graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor of Science, 1889) and 
 the National University Law School (Master of Laws, 1893). 
 
 Mr. Southgate married, June 8, 1864, Anna J. Wood, daughter of Ichabod and 
 Anna (Warren) Wood, of Watertovvn. Children: i. Louis Warren, born February 
 25, 1865 (see biography). 2. Philip Wood, burn May to, 1808, died December 7, 1905 
 (see biography). 
 
 The Southgate line of ancestry is: Reuben H. (6), John P. (5), Samuel (4), 
 Isaac (3), Richard (2). Richard (i). Richard Southgate, the pioneer, came from 
 Coombs, County Suffolk, England, 1715, and settled in Leicester. Isaac Southgate (3) 
 was a card manufacturer in Leicester: was representative in the General Court, and 
 trustee of the Worcester Agricultural Society. 
 
 ELLIOTT TOLMAN SMITH, Merchant, was born in Rockland, Maine. July 31, 
 1833, and died March 8, 1913. son of Lewis and Maria (Rice) Smith. 
 
 He wa.s sixteen years of age when the fainily moved to Worcester, on his birth- 
 day, July 31, 1849. He spent his boyhood in Rockland, where he attended the district 
 schools, and learned his first lessons in business. He went to work for the Western 
 Railroad, as gate tender, now the section of the New York Central between Worcester 
 and Albany, and remained in this business for three years, most of the time in the 
 freight department. He was then employed by Hitchcock & Muzzy, manufacturers 
 of firearms in the Merrifield buildings, until 1857. The winter of 1857-58 he spent 
 in New Orleans in the lightning rod business. He started in business for himself 
 in Worcester at the corner of Shrewsbury and Millbury streets, where the Smith- 
 Green Company was located. That was in 1858, and for nearly fifty years he was in 
 business and was among the most successful merchants of this city. His grocery 
 store was in a building used by his father to store lime. The business grew steadily. 
 In 1868 he took up the wholesale department and found that more attractive than the 
 retail business. In 1870 he turned over the retail business to his brother and, there- 
 after, devoted his attention to joibing and wholesale business. At that time he took 
 as partner Charles A. Bigelow. For fifteen years the business continued under the 
 name of E. T. Smith & Company. LIpon the death of his partner, in 1885, Mr. Smith 
 formed a new partnership with Charles F. Bigelow. Frank A. Smith. Charles .\. King. 
 F, B. Waite, and Charles H, Robinson. The two latter soon withdrew from the firm. 
 The present E. T. Smith & Company was incorporated in 1896 with a capital stock of 
 $100,000, with Elliott T. Smith, president: F. A. Smith, his son, vice-president: C, 
 F. Bigelow, treasurer; and C. A. King, secretary. The large block erected by Mr. 
 Smith in 1874, in Washington square, was occupied until 1893, when the company 
 moved to its new building on Summer street, and the Smith-Green business then 
 occupied the older building. 
 
 Mr. Smith was a lover of nature and enjoyed fishing and hunting. He was a 
 member of the Worcester Sportsmen's Club. He was a member of the Board of 
 Trade, and was a well-known Free Mason, belonging to Worcester County Coni- 
 mandery. Knights Templar, and the other Masonic organizations of the city. He 
 lived at No. 839 Main street, where he had a handsome home. His liusiness ability 
 placed him in the front rank of merchants. His long and uniformly successful career 
 gave him a place among the foremost men of business in this section. His personal 
 character won him the respect and confidence of his associates and fellow-citizens to 
 an unusual degree. 
 
 Mr. Smith married, January 12. i860, Elizabeth C. Campbell, nf Worcester, and 
 their only child, Frank .A. Smith, born April i. 1864. is now conducting the business. 
 
 FRANK ALBERT SMITH, President of E. T. Smith & Company, was born in 
 Worcester, .April i, 1864. son of Elliott Tolman and Elizabeth C. (Campbell) Smitli. 
 
 He received his education in the public schools of Worcester, taking a two-year 
 course at Classical High School. In 1880 he went to work for his father's firm, E. T. 
 Smith & Company, then on Shrewsbury street, as clerk in the office, continuing until 
 
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 1885, when the new company was formed, after tlie death of Charles A. Iliyeli^v. Al 
 that time Charles F. Bigelow. Charles A. King. F. B. Waite and Charles II. Ki.liinscpn. 
 as well as Mr. Smith, hecame partners. Later Mr. Waite and Mr. Rnbins.iii withdrew 
 from the firm. In 1896, wdien the firm became a corporation, Frank .\. Smith was 
 elected vice-president and Charles F. Bigelow treasnrer. On the death of Mr. Bige- 
 low, in 1900, Mr. Smith became vice-president and treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Smith attends All Saints' Church. In politics he is a Reimhlican. He i^ .1 
 prominent Free Mason, member of Quinsigamond Lodge, .\ncieiu Free and .Xccejilod 
 Masons: Eureka Chapter. Royal Arch ^lason^: Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knl^:ht^ Templar; Nhissachusetts Con- 
 sistory, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite MasMiir\. He belongs to Aleppo Temi>le. 
 -Ancient Arabic Order. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; t'hamber nf Cimnnerce; Cnm- 
 mercial Travelers' ."Xssociation ; Economic Club; Talassit Caime t'lnb; T;unuck 
 Country Club; Worcester Club; Worcester tjunitry (.Tub. 
 
 Mr. Smith married (first), June 20. 1888. May L. Walworth, of Worcester, born 
 February IJ, 1865, daughter of George and Ella (Pierce) Walworth. Her father was 
 a merchant at Coventry, Vermont. He married (second!, March 4, 1902, Marie C. 
 Duval, of Springfield, who was born January j, 187J. daughter of Peter C. and Clara 
 Duval. Her fainily originally came from France. She is a member of the Tatnuck 
 Country Club, the Tatassit Canoe Club, and the Worcester Country Club. Their home 
 is at Xo, III \\'achusett street, and they h.ive ;i summer place at Eagle. Maine. 
 
 DWIGHT FOSTER, Lawyer, congressman. United States senator, was Ixirn in 
 Brookfield, Massachusetts. December 7. 1757, died there .April 29, 1823, snn nf Jede- 
 diah and Dorothy ( Dwight ) Foster. He graduated frotn Brown in 1774; stu<lied 
 law in the office of Joseph Hawley. of Xorthampton ; was admitted to the bar in 
 1780; began practice in Providence, soon removing to Brookfield; served as delegate 
 in the State Constitutional Convention in 1779; member of both brandies of the 
 General Court; of the Ciovernor's Council ; .for ten years chief justice of the Court 
 of Common Pleas; in 1792 was elected sheritf of this county, and in the same year 
 presidential elector; was congressman from 179.) to i8on, when he was elected to the 
 United States Senate. He retired from public life in 1803. He was a Federalist 
 of National reputatinn; a great political factor and trusted leader. He married in 
 1783, Rebecca Faulkner, daughter of Colonel Faulkner, of Acton. 
 
 WILLARD SCOTT, F(.>rmer pastor of Piedmont Church, was born in .\mstcr- 
 dam. New ^Crk, June 23, 1S50, son of Alexander and Louisa Jane (Clizbe) Scott. 
 
 He graduated front Williams College l.\. B.. 1875); from I'nion Theological 
 Seminary. New York (B. D.. 1878); and received the honorary degree of Doctor of 
 Divinity' from Beloit College in 1892. and from Williams in 1900. He was ordained 
 in the Presbyterian ministry, 1879; was pastor of Bethany Congregational Church, 
 New York, 1878-79; West Farms Presbyterian Church, New York, 1879-83; St. Mary's 
 Avenue Congregational Church. (Jmaha, Nebraska, 1883-91 ; South Congregational 
 Church, Chicago, 1891-98; Piedmont Congregational Church, of this city. 1898 to 1909. 
 Since 1910 he has preached from time to time, and has spoken frequently as an after- 
 dinner humorist, and has a National reputation. 
 
 He was trustee of Doane College. Nebraska. 1887-98; president of the Nebraska 
 Chautauqua, 1890-96, and superintendent of instruction and programs, 1892-96; presi- 
 dent of the Chicago Congregational Club. 1895; president of the Illinois State Congre- 
 gational Association, 1897-98; vice-president of the Boston Congregatii.>nal Club, 
 1902; president of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, and 
 chairman of the board of directors. 1899-1906. and also chairman of the publishing 
 committee of the Congregationalist. igoo-o(); chaplain of the Worcester Commercial 
 Travelers' Association and the Wr.ircester Continentals. He has been college preacher 
 at Williams and .'\mherst. 
 
 In 1901 he raised pledges to cover the whole accrued debt of Piedmont (. Iiurch 
 ($24,500) and the bills were paid and the mortgage discharged January 13. 1003. In 
 that year Piedmont became in membership the fmirth largest Congregational church 
 in Massachusetts. 
 
 It was in this citv that Dr. Scott began his career as a public speaker, a career 
 that he has followed with distinguished success to the present time In 1000 he and 
 Hon. Curtis Guild were the speakers at a dinner of the Republican Club. He presided 
 at the memorable meeting when Mrs. Ellen Stone returned from captivity to rebate 
 her story to a great audience in Mechanics' Hall. .A.t the Queen Victoria Memorial 
 he delivered the oration. Out <jf these preparations came his present vocation. In 1917 
 he spoke at 117 gatherings, forty-i.me i>f which were return engagements. He has 
 
588 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 declined many pasturates and college presidencies. He is a member of Phi Beta 
 Kappa. Bi'Ston City Cluli, Wintlirop Club of Boston, Apollos Club of Cliicago. 
 
 Mr. Scott married. (3ctober 3. 1878. Mary Bell Stewart, of Amsterdam, New 
 York. His home is in Brookline. Massachusetts. 
 
 DONALD BAXTER McMILLAN, Arctic e.xplorer, teacher, was born in Prov- 
 incetown, Xovcmber 10, 1874. son of Xeil and Rebecca (Gardner) McMillan. He 
 is a graduate of Bowdoin College (A. B.. 1898: A. M.. 1910). was in the Graduate 
 School of Harvard University, 1910-11. He taught school for several years; was 
 principal of the Levi High Sciiool, Gorham, Maine, 1898-1900; at Swarthmore Col- 
 lege, 1900-03 ; in Worcester Academy. 1903-08. He became well-known in this city. 
 In 1910 he went with the Peary Arctic E.xpedition that discovered the North Pole; 
 in 191 1 he was engaged in ethnological work in Labrador. In 1913 he was leader of 
 the Crocker Land Expedition. His home is at Freeport. Maine. 
 
 JOHN FRITZ HARTZ, Musician. Finland, formerly the northwest corner of the 
 Russian Empire, but now, through the results of the great European war, 1914-1918, 
 to become a free political division, was the birthplace of John F. Hartz, but since 
 his sixth year he has been a resident of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts. He 
 is a son of John Eric Hartz, who was born in Finland. September 12, 1850, who 
 came to Worcester in 1888 and is now in the employ of the Norton Grinding Com- 
 pany of that city. John Eric Hartz married Johanna Matilda Hendrickson. born in 
 Finland, and they are the parents of six children: i. Eric Augustus, born November 
 I. 1879; resides in Mt. Vernon. New York; married, and has four children, Edith, 
 Ellis, Herbert, and Linena. 2. Johanna Lena, born November 24. 1881 : married 
 John Hoagland, and resides in Worcester, and has a daughter, Helen. 3. John 
 Fritz, of further mention. 4. Hilda, born Alarch 16. 1884; married Charles Nygard, 
 of Worcester, and has two children. Edwin and Walter. 5. John Oscar, born Oc- 
 tober 6. 1886; of Worcester. 6. Anna. Irene, born June 23, 1S93 ; of Worcester. 
 All of these children were born in far away Finland exceiit the youn.gest. who was 
 born in Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 John Fritz Hartz was born in Finland, at the village of Napes, April 7, 1883, 
 and there passed the first six years of his life. In 1889 his mother got the message 
 for which she was waiting, and with her five children, the eldest but ten years of 
 age, set out on the long journey which was to end in a joyful reunion with her 
 husband in Worcester, Massachusetts. The journey was safely accomplished, and 
 the family reunited on American soil where peace and prosperity has attended them. 
 John F., the third child, after completing his public school education, decided to 
 cultivate the nuisical talent which had strongly developed with the years, and placed 
 himself under local instructors. At the age of twenty he entered Boston Conserva- 
 tory of Music, there spending two years. From Boston he went to Gustavus Adol- 
 phus College, located in St. Peter, capital of Nicollet county, Minnesota, and there 
 specialized 'in organ tnusic until graduated. He then returned to Worcester where, 
 for a time, he was organist of the First Lutheran Church. His next position was 
 with the First Lutheran Church of St. Paul. Minnesota, as organist, a position he 
 filled with equal acceptability for seven years. During this period he was also an 
 instructor in music in Minnesota College. He remained in St. Paul imtil 1916, then 
 returned again to Worcester, having accepted a recall from the First Lutheran 
 Church of that city. In connection with his duties as organist he instructs on both 
 piano and organ, having a studio at No. 542 Day Building for piano students, and 
 giving lessons on the pipe organ at the church. He is an accomplished musician 
 and a successful instructor, having the rare art of imparting to his pupils the finer 
 points which distinguish his own performance. He is also a member of the First 
 Lutheran Church of Worcester, and for a time was superintendent of the Sunday 
 school of that church, and is now a teacher in that school. He is a director of the 
 Swedish Oratorical Society of Worcester, a well-known and popular organization 
 throughout New England. Prof. Hartz is unmarried. 
 
 HENRY STUART MICHIE, Principal of the Worcester Art Museum, was born 
 in Fergus. Ontario. Canada, in 1871. son of Henry and Anne (Argo) Michie, both 
 of whom were born in Aberdeenshire. Scotland. 
 
 He was a student in Upper Canada College. 1888- 1900; in the Toronto University, 
 department of architecture, 1900-02 ; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1902-05 ; London County 
 Council Schools, England. 1906-07. He w^as an instructor in decorative design in the 
 McKinley Manual Training School. Washington, D. C, 1905-06; director of Arts 
 and Crafts School. George Washington University, 1907-08 ; instructor in design at the 
 Summer School of Columbia University, 1908. From 1908 to 1918 he was principal 
 
AND ITS riior/ji 
 
 of the Worcester Art Musouth (>ei- Art Miixt-uin and Scliin.l). rr.ile-si.r Micliir is a 
 member of the Boliemiaii CUil>. Htoiinmic Chih. WorcesU-r Natural History Society. 
 Public Education Association,. Tatnuck Ciumtry Club, and Worcfster Iriiiiis I'lnb. 
 
 Henry S. Michie marritil. June 4. looij. Jeanne Mary llatcli, of taindcii. New 
 Jersey, and they have three rhihlren : Henry S., Jeanne 11. and l-'orbes S. TlKir 
 home is at Xo. 10 Military road. 
 
 WALTER ANSLEY SWEET, .\ssistant treasurer of the Wiley-Bickford-Sweei 
 Company, was born at Kast I'utnain. Connecticut, October 30. l8(ij. s. m of l-".sek 
 Johnson and Eunice Caroline (Page) Sweet. Esek Johnson .Sweet was horn "i 
 Gloucester, Rhode Island. Xoveinlier jg. 1833. died January 5. HilS. He was the tenth 
 in line from the hrst settlers. \\z. : Esek J. (lol. Solomon (9). Timothy (S). Jrremiali 
 (7). Jol) (6), James (51. Ur. Benoni (4), James (31, John (J), Isaac (i). Ka.ie Swei^t 
 lived in Wales; his widow and children came to this country, and his son John was an 
 early settler in Providence, after a short stay in Salem. Massachusetts, whither he 
 came in 163.3. Dr. Benoni (4) was the tirst of a remarkable family of natural hone- 
 setters and many of his descendants have been surgeons. Job (O) was a disiinguisheil 
 bone-setter. Jeremiah (7) was ,1 soldier in the Revolution. Esek J. Sweet was a 
 merchant at Dayville. Connecticut, (jhmcester. Rhode Island. East Putnam. Connecti- 
 cut, and South Providence. Rhode Island. Erom 1879 to the time of his deatli he was 
 a mason and contractor in Stafford. Connecticut. He married (first) May (>. 1857. 
 Eunice Caroline Page, born September 2ji. 1833. died July 15. 18(15; married (second) 
 January 18, 1868, at Pascoag, Rhode Island, Mary Frances (Warner) Hopkins; (third) 
 October 26, 1876. Sarah Ann Kenyon, born .\ugust 2. 1839. Walter .^nsley Sweet was 
 born of the first marriage. ( For a fuller account of the .Sweet ancestry, see page 
 109, Vol. V, New En.gland F'amilies, .American Historical Society. 1916). 
 
 Walter Ansley Sweet received his early education in the public schools of Pascoag. 
 North Foster, East Providence and Providence, Rhode Island, and in the private 
 school of Miss Sally E. Ellery. at Stafford Springs. Connecticut. He also attended 
 the public schools at Stafford Springs. .After the death of his mother, he lived for a 
 short time at his grandfather's, and while at school he lived with an aunt. He began 
 his career as clerk in a dry goods store in Staft'ord Springs. In his si.xteentli and 
 seventeenth years he worked in a Hock mill and in the satinet mill of the Mineral 
 Springs Manufacturing Company. .Afterward he was employed in the Warren Woolen 
 Company mill at Stafford Springs, and later as clerk in a grocery store. When he was 
 nineteen his aunt died and lie went to Hartford. Connecticut, remaining there for a 
 short time. Since January. 1883. he has m.ide his home in Worcester. Massachusetts. 
 He was clerk for (Tharles V. Sampson & Company, lioi.n and shoe dealers, located in 
 the Clark building, now occupied liy the I'.oston Store. Mr. Sampson's store was 
 afterward on the site of the present Knowles Inhlding. Subsequently. Mr. Sweet 
 held a similar position in the employ of Charles E. Davis & Company, wdiose store 
 was in the Burnside building, and I't his partner. Ezra A. Day, who succeeded the 
 firm of (Tharles E. Davis & Company. He continued in this business until February 16, 
 1894, when he became a partner in the firm of Bickford & Sweet, slipper manufacturers. 
 The business of the firm was located first in Washington square, then on Cii;afton 
 street. Since 1912 the business has been located in the spacious factory built by 
 David Cuinmings for a shoe factory, at No. 60 King street. His partner. John Charles 
 Bickford, retired in January. 1900, and his son, Ernest .Armand Bickford. took his 
 place, the firm name remaining unchanged. The business has been highly prosperous, 
 and for a number of years the firm has lieen among the foreinost manufacturers in 
 its line of business, the largest producers of slipper soles of the kind they make in the 
 country. In 1916 a large brick addition to the factory was erected. In .April. IQ16, 
 the firms of Bickford & Sweet and William H. Wiley & Sons Conipany. aiiotlicr large 
 slipper sole and overgaiter concern of Hartford, joined forces, incorporating under 
 the name of the Wiley-Bickford-Sweet Company, having a capitalisation of $300,000, 
 common, and $50,000,' preferred stock. Of this new company, J. .Allen Wiley, of 
 Hartford, is president; Ernest A. Bickford. vice-president; William H. Corbin. of 
 Hartford, treasurer; Walter .A. Sweet, assistant treasurer and clerk; these four being 
 directors. This companv is the largest in the country making this class of goods. Mr. 
 Sweet is a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Club, the 
 Credit Men's .Association, the Publicity .Association, and is treasurer of the Na- 
 tional Felt Shoe Manufacturers' .Association. He is also a member of Worcester 
 Council, Royal .Arcanum. He has recently Imilt a new residence at Xo. 25 South 
 Lenox street. 
 
 Mr. Sweet married (first). Mav 22. 1884. .\nnie E. Sprout, daughter of ISraillord 
 E. and Lucia (Train) Sprout. She died December 22. 1886. He married (second). 
 .April 27, 1892. Lizzie EInora Batchellor. daughter ..f Silas H. and Sarah lield (Hoi- 
 
HISTORY OF U'ORCllSTER 
 
 man) Batchellor. Her father has heen a building contractor in Worcester for more 
 than fifty years, and her mother is one of the most wonderful planners and workers. 
 Child of the first marriage: Robert Bradford, horn March 13, 1885, died May 10. 
 1885. Children of second marriage: i. Ruth Page, born April 20, 1894, graduate of 
 the South High School and student for two years at Mt. Holyoke College, from which 
 she graduated Bachelor of Arts, igi6; now a student in the Boston School of Physical 
 Educati<in. 2. Clifford Batchellnr. born June 27, 1898, student in Mercersburg 
 Academy, Pennsylvania, class i.if 1919. 
 
 WILLIAM FRANCIS LITTLE, Grain dealer, was 1)orn in Glasgow, Scotland, 
 -August ,1. i8fii. sun <it James and Mary (McLeisch) Little. He came with his par- 
 ents to this ciamtry in September, 1865, and after living five years in Providence, 
 Rhode Island, came with them to Millbury, Massachusetts, where his father was 
 employed at his trade as spinner in the mills of that town. In 1874 the family moved 
 to Worcester. The father died here in 1890: the mother died in 1874. 
 
 Mr. Little attended the Thomas street public school in this city. Early in life, 
 however, he became a wage-earner, beginning in the W'ashburn & Moen wire mills, 
 where he worked three years. Afterward he was for ten years clerk and Jiookkeeper 
 successively in the freight office of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company in this 
 city. He entered the employ of the late George P. Rogers, grain merchant, in 1887, 
 and continued with him to the end of his life, succeeding then to the business of Mr. 
 Rogers, whose daughter he had married. The business has been continued by Mr. 
 Little under his own name, at Nos. 96-98 Franklin street, dealing in flour, grain, 
 baled hay and straw. He has a grist mill and elevator at No. 15 Grafton street. 
 
 Mr. Little is a member of Montacute Lodge, .^.ncient Free and .Accepted Masons ; 
 Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; 
 Worcester County Commandery. Knights Templar : Worcester Lodge of Perfection ; 
 Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Quinsiga- 
 mond Lodge, Odd Fellows. He is best-known for his musical career. He has sung 
 for thirty years in Worcester choirs and in the Shumann Quartette. For eight years 
 he has been a member of the choir of the Old South Church, and for the past three 
 years chairman of the music committee. He is a member of the Worcester County 
 Musical Association, and has sung for many years in its annual music festival. He 
 is treasurer of the Worcester Choral Union. He has been in concert work, 
 as soloist and in quartettes all over New England, singing first tenor. Mr. Little 
 studied under James A. Bartlett and Franklin P. White, of Boston, and Edward N. 
 Anderson, of this city. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Congregationalist, 
 From 1887 to 1891 he was a member of the Worcester Light Infantry, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Militia. 
 
 Mr.' Little married, October n, 1887, Josephine .'\lmira Rogers, who was born 
 August 14, 1865, died January 24, igi8, daughter of George P. Rogers. They had 
 t\yo children: i. Ruth McLeisch, married Dr. Leslie P. Leland, of Worcester, a 
 physician, and they have one daughter. Dorothy Leland. 2. Joseph Rogers, born 
 June II, 1906. Mr. Little's home is at No. 14 South Lenox street. 
 
 GEORGE PAINE ROGERS, Grain merchant, was born in Rutland, Massa- 
 chusetts, May 12, i8j4, died May 11, 1910, in Worcester, son of Jeremiah and Sally 
 Paine (Meade) Rogers. He attended the public schools here and Worcester 
 Academy. After leaving school he began to teach, and while working for his 
 father on the farm in North Worcester during the summer he taught school for 
 six years in winter. In 1865 the farm was sold and he went to work in the grain 
 store of Francis Harrington in Worcester. Four years later he went to farming 
 again, having Ijought the homestead in Shrewsbury where Charles H. Hutchins now 
 resides — .'\rd-na-Clachen. Again he was a clerk for Mr. Harrington, and in 1881 
 bought the business which he conducted to the end of his life. He was very suc- 
 cessful in business. Mr. Rogers was a Republican: a member of the Old South 
 Church and a deacon for eight years. 
 
 Mr. Rogers married, March 6, 1855. Almira W. Knight, of Leicester, daughter 
 of Horace Knight, and sister of Joseph A. Knight, one of the founders of the Graton 
 & Knight Manufacturing Company (see biography of Joseph A. Knight). Horace 
 Knight was a lumber dealer, bank director, prominent in town affairs. Children 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers : i. Charles Elmer, born September 24, 1856. 2. Sarah 
 Elizabeth, born May 28, 1859, died in 1900; graduate of the State Normal School, 
 married Edwin W, Sanderson. 3. Frank Knight, born January 23, 1864, professor 
 in Hampton Normal Institute. 4. Josephine Almira, born August 14, 1865, died 
 January 24, 1918: married October 11, 1887, William F. Little, who succeeded to 
 the business of Mr. Rogers. 
 
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 WILLIAM ARTHUR LYTLE, I'.inncr proiiloiit and treasurer c.f llif W . A. l.\ik- 
 Company, was born in BinKliamton, Xcw York, June Ji, 185,3, son of William 
 Joseph and Julia M. (Jackson) Lytic. His father died when Air. Lylle wa-. only 
 tour weeks old, and his mother loin- years later married Levi Kdwani liriyhani. of 
 Worcester, and they then removed to this city. 
 
 Mr. Lytle attended the Worcester public schools until l8()4, when with liis ]i.ir- 
 ents he removed to New Jersey, where he continued his education at the South 
 Jersey .\cademy at Vineland. He returned in 1870 to W'orccster. where he has 
 since resided, and where at the age of seventeen he began his mercantile life in a shoe 
 store located at No. 14 Frcput street. The following year Mr. Lytle secured employment 
 as a salesman in the clothing and custom tailoring establishment of Davis .\: foni- 
 pany, one of the oldest and most reputable clothing houses in Worcester couutv. 
 Mr. Lytle rapidly became a master of the business, and six years later was admitted 
 to a partnership in the firm under the name of Davis, Lytle & t'onipan>. His part- 
 ners were J. Edgar Davis and I-'rederick (roulding. and their place 'if business 
 was in the Flagg block. No. 2i>u Main street, ojiposite the Bay State House. .Nine years 
 later this firm was dissolved. Mr. Lylle retiring. He later became tlie senior p.irlner 
 and sole manager of a new lirni, \\ . .\. Lytle & Company, which was established 
 •August 1, 1886, in the Walker building at No. 40Q Main street. The new venture was 
 a success from the start, Mr. Lytle conducting it on ^ 'und business principles and 
 progressive methods. He believed in making his place .if Inisiness attr.ictive, .and in 
 1895 and again in igoo he made extenvive additions and alterations with tlii-. eml in 
 view, adding tnen's furnishing g.i.icls, li.iis .ind ^hoe^ to liis clothnig and lailonng bnsi 
 ness. 
 
 While all this was going on in Worcester, Mr. Lytle received a flattering oHer 
 in June. 1897, to assume the position of manager of the great clothing house of 
 Jerome Kennedy & Company, corner Westminster and Dorrance streets, Providence. 
 Rhode Island. For two years Mr. Lytle, besides keeping an eye on his own business 
 in Worcester, made the round trij) from Worcester to Providence almost daily. In 
 1900, with a view to expanding, he incorporated the business under the style of the 
 W. A. Lytle Company, continuing in full control as president and treasurer. In 190?, 
 in order to meet the demands of continued growth, the W. .A. Lytle Company leased 
 the large store in the Walker building at the corner of Main and Mechanic streets. It 
 was very tastefully and expensively fitted up, and carried one of the largest stocks of 
 clothing, furnishing, hats, boots and shoes and cloths for men's custom garments in 
 Central Massachusetts. The business was sold ti> the Kenney-Kenncdy Cotiipany. 
 
 The demands of Mr. Lytle's private business by no means absorbed all of his 
 abounding energy and rare administrative ability. As a public-spirited citizen he has 
 found time and inclination to take an active part in the political and social life of 
 the city. .Always a Republican, his political career has followed the fortunes of that 
 ])arty. He was for three years, 1891-92-1907, a member of the Board of .Aldermen, 
 where he served as chairman of the finance committee and of the important commit- 
 tees on fire department and water. He was also a member of the committees on 
 sewers, street lighting and claims. He made his influence felt in all these com- 
 mittees, and the reorganization of the fire department, effected in 1892 while he was 
 chairman of the fire department committee, and the establishment of a new public 
 lighting department are largely the result of his ability for organization. The 
 ordinances, which were drafted and adopted at that time, are regarded as models 
 of their kind. 
 
 In igoo Mr. Lytle was the Repulilican candidate fnr mayor, the nomination com- 
 ing to him by the indorsements of every ward caucas in the city with one exception. 
 In the campaign wdiich followed, in some resi)ects the most remarkable in the city, 
 he was less successful. It came directly after a bitterly-contested congressional cam- 
 paign in which the Republican candidate was defeated liy a narrow margin, and the 
 local Republican party was full of warring factions, and badly disorganized. On the 
 first count Mr. Lytle was apparently elected by a plurality of forty-one votes in a total 
 of over 16,000. Then an error in the tabulation was discovered in one of the wards, 
 which apparently gave the election to Phillii) J. O'Connell, his Democratic opimnent. 
 Finally a recount, followed by an appeal by the Democratic candidate to the Supreme 
 Court, decided that the vote \vas a tie between the two candidates, each being credited 
 with 8.061 votes. .\ special election followed, February 22. 1901, wdieii. although Mr. 
 Lytle's vote increased nearly 1,000, he was defeated. The Socialists did not nominate 
 a candidate at the special election, and their votes went to the Democratic candidate 
 for mavor. 
 
 Mr. Lytle's m.ist important public oifice was th.it of executive council from the 
 seventh district, which comprises the wh.de ..f W..rcester county. The n..mination was 
 tendered to him unanimously by acclamation in the Republican councillor convention. 
 
592 HISTORY OF WORCESTHR 
 
 l)Oth in 1904 and 1905, and at the polls the opposition to him was merely nominal. 
 Mr. Lytle's taste and capacity tor pnblic affairs found opportunity for e.xercise in the 
 work of the executive council, which decides many important matters of state ex- 
 penditures, advises with the governor upon all applications for pardon, and passes upon 
 all appointments to office made by the Governor. The good opinion which his asso- 
 ciates in the council entertained for Mr. Lytle was illustrated in the summer of 1905, 
 when in his first year they selected him as their representative to go to Portland, 
 Oregon, with the State delegation, made up chiefly of members of the two branches of 
 the Legislature, to assist at the dedication of the Massachusetts building at the Lewis 
 and Clark Centennial Exposition. Mr. Lytle's active participation in politics has 
 been by no means confined to campaigns in which he was a candidate. For fifteen 
 years he was a member of the Worcester County Republican Committee, and he served 
 on many other committees organized to advance the interests of Republican candidates. 
 Mr. Lytle was president of the Worcester Board of Trade. An illustration of his 
 public spirit is afforded in the active part he took in 1904 as a member of the Worces- 
 ter Merchants' Association to abolish the use of trading staiups. He never used stamps 
 in his ciwn business, and believing that their use was prejudicial to the interests -of 
 merchant and customer alike he led the crusade against them. Mr. Lytle was for five 
 years president of the Worcester Merchant Tailors' Association and had the honor 
 to represent the association at the National Convention held at Atlantic City in 
 February, 1904. He was vice-president of the National Merchant Tailors' Association. 
 
 Mr. Lytle is well-known in Masonic circles. He is a life member of Athelstan 
 Lodge, of Eureka Chapter, Hiram Council, and Worcester Commandery of Knights 
 Templar, and a member of Worcester Lodge of Perfection, Goddard Council, and 
 Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix. He took great interest in the movement for the 
 erection of a Masonic temple in Worcester, and for three years was president of the 
 Worcester Masonic Charitable and Educational Association, which had the charge 
 of building the temple. He is a member of Worcester Lodge, No. 56, Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and of Quinsigamond Tribe, No. 7, Improved Order of Red 
 Men. He has been for years a member of the Worcester Agricultural Society, and 
 with a full knowledge of his capacity and enthusiasm for work his associates made 
 him a member of the committee that had charge of laying out and building the trotting 
 track at the Greendale Fair Grounds. Mr. Lytle for nine years served as a trustee 
 of the P"irst LTniversalist Church. Mr. Lytle is a member of the Commonwealth Club, 
 the Economic Club, and of the Worcester Automobile Club since their organization, 
 also the Republican Club, and Lakeside Boat Club. 
 
 Mr. Lytle married, August 10. 1876. Alice Eva Jackson, daughter of Dwight Stacy 
 and Mahali (Kimball) Jackson. They have had five children, all of whom are living. 
 I. Alice May, born January 31, 1878; graduated from the Worcester High School in 
 1896; married, June 9, 1903, George Emery Williamson, a graduate of the Worcester 
 Polytechnic Institute, class of 1900, who is now mechanical engineer for the Strath- 
 more Paper Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. 2. Lora Marion, born March 24, 
 1884 ; was graduated from the South High School in 1903. 3. Harriet Jackson, born 
 July 8, 1886: was graduated from the South High School in 1905, from Smith College 
 in 1908; married Harry C. Bonney. manager of the Barrett Company in Canada, 
 residing in Montreal. 4. Frederick Myron, horn September 9, 1888; class of 1907 at 
 the Williston Seminary, Easthampton, and the Wharton School of Finance, Universi- 
 ty of Pennsylvania, 191 1, now ordnance sergeant in headquarters train. Three Hundred 
 and First Aiumunition and Military Police, now serving in France. 5. William 
 Arthur, Jr., born July 20, 1893. Mr. Lytle is descended from early Colonial ancestry. 
 
 FRANK ALLEN KNOWLTON, Dean of the jewelers of Worcester, was born in 
 Shrewsbury. June 7. 1850, son .if Joseph F. and Sarah Elizabeth (Johnson) Knowlton, 
 and descendant of many of the pioneers of New England. 
 
 He received his education in the public schools of his native town. He left the 
 high school at the age of sixteen years and began to learn his trade under the in- 
 struction of Benjamin Goddard, who had a jewelry store in the old Brinley Hall in 
 Worcester. Mention is made of Mr. Goddard and other jewelers in the chapter on 
 early merchants. Mr. Knowdton received as wages $50 the first year ; $75 the second 
 and $100 the third and last year of his apprenticeship. He had good instruction, how- 
 ever, and became a skillful craftsman. For more than fifty years he has followed his 
 trade, as employee or in business in this city. He was a partner of Mr. Goddard under 
 the firm name of Benjamin Goddard & Company until the death of Mr^ Goddard in 
 1873, when he succeeded to the business. From 1873 to 1876 Charles N. Scott was his 
 partner, the name of the firm being unchanged. He purchased the interests of Mr. 
 Scott in 1876, and since that year has conducted the business under his own name. The 
 store was formerly located at the corner of Main and Walnut streets ; then on the 
 
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 north orncr i.f the iircfent site of the State Mutual IniihiiuK, and f.)r many yeai^ at 
 the present location, No. 374 Main street. Mr. Knouhon is one of the few ti'ien in this 
 line of business who have never failed. His credit lias In-en of tlie liest always. This 
 is proof of his business ability. At tlie same time Iiis store has becMi at all limes the 
 liest in point of stock and equii)meiit. His repair and niatuifaclurint; department has 
 maintained the highest reputatiini. 
 
 Mr. Knowlton has always taken a keen ititerest in luiblie affairs and has a \ery 
 e.vtended acquaintance. Few men are betterdctiown nr itiore highly-esteemed in the 
 city and county. He is a member of the Worcester ('..untv Mechanics .Association, 
 the Worcester A,i>ricultural Society, and the Chamber of (;,,inmerce. He is a cli.irtei- 
 meiTi1)er of the Commonwealth Club and the Worcester Continentals. He attends the 
 Church of the Unity. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Knowlton married Lucy Jane Stratton, daughter of Jod )), Stralton. 'Iheir 
 home is at Xo. 10 Waconia street, and they have a summer" residence at l-'.ilmouth, 
 Massachusetts. They have three children: i, Maude Louise, who married Edward 
 Fuller, vice-presidetit of the .T. E. Fuller Construction Company of New ^■ork ; now- 
 residing in Brattle street, Worcester: children: Frances l-'uller, graduate of Smith 
 College. 1918, and Virginia Fuller, graduate of Wellesley, 1918. 2. Fred Murray, 
 graduate of the Worcester Classical High School ami Worcester Academy, now- 
 engaged in ship-building in the Hog Island yarils, .',. Clifton, graduate of the Classical 
 High School, studied dentistry in the Harvard Dental School, now salesman for a 
 paint concern in Boston. 
 
 SAMUEL ELIAS HULL, Merchant, was b..rn at Millbury. August ij. 184.;, and 
 died ^hi\ =,. loii. ni Worcester, Massachusetts, sun of h:iias .and Miriam (Wheeler) 
 Hull. 
 
 He resided ■■n the home farm .-md heliied his f:ither until he was twenty-one. He 
 attended the public schools of his native t'jwii .iihI the I--astman Business College at 
 Poughkeepsie, New- York. He enlisted. Ma.\. 1804. in Tenth (unattached) Company, 
 Massachusetts Militia Infantry, and served at Fort Warren, guarding among other 
 distinguished Confederate prisoners Hon. .\le-\ander H. Ste])hens. vice-])resident of 
 the Confederacy. He was honorably discharged frinn service in .August. 1864. He 
 entered upon business w-ith a saw- mill that had been owned by his grandfather and 
 father before him. and which he operated for aliout four years. He then catne to 
 Worcester and worked as a w-ood molder for five years for I. N. Keys, patternmaker. 
 From here lie went to Philadelphia, where he worked for about three years for the 
 Hale & Kilburn Manufacturing Com]iany ; was then em|doyed about eleven years by 
 C. D. Morse & Company; and was ■■ne year watchm:iii and guard in the Massa- 
 chusetts State Prison at Concord. 
 
 In April. 1871. Mr. Hull, by his quickness, courage and coolness saved live i)ersous 
 from drowning. He w-as on the bridge at Milllniry when a carriage containing five 
 persons w-as backed over the rail into the river by the frightened horse. Mr. Hull 
 managed to get all five out safely. The horse was drowned, and the town w-as obliged 
 to pay damages for the loss, but in recognition 01 the sum that the action of Mr. Hull 
 had saved tlie town and in appreciation of his achie\enient the town presented him 
 with a w-atch. It bears the inscription : "In .April. 1871, S. E. Hull rescued five persons 
 from drow-ning. This w-atch presented to him by the town of Millbury. Massachusetts, 
 as a testimonial of his services at that time." 
 
 In i88j he emliarked in trade for himself, buying the business of Briggs & 
 Company, dealers in cotton and wool, of Millbury. established some fifty years. _ In 
 189J he purchased of D. C. Sumner his wool business at No. 112 Front street. Wor- 
 cester. He was very successful in these enterprises, and developed a large trade with 
 the mills of New England. New Jersey, Pennsyhania and some Western States, ilr. 
 Hull also had large mining interests in .Alaska. He made a trip to .Al.-iska and 
 the West in 1905. and stayed at the mines for several weeks. He traveled extensively 
 in the United States, and made a triii abroad in igoj. He divided his time between his 
 business in Millbury and Worcester, although he always retained his residence in his 
 native town. He was president of the Millbury National Bank and trustee of the 
 Millbury Savings Bank, a director of the Millbury Water Company. 
 
 In politics Air. Hull was very active, being "a member of the Pepublican i^arty. 
 He w-as selectman for seven years, from 1892 to 1899. inclusive, and for lour of these 
 terms chairman of the board. In 1900 and 1901 he represented his district, compi'sed 
 of the towns of Auburn, Douglass. Sutton, and Millbury. in the general court. He was 
 on the committee on banks and banking, and on labor and prisons, and was a member 
 of the special legislative committee which went to (jeorgia to dedicate the moniiment 
 erected by the Commonw-ealtli in memorv of the Massachusetts soldiers buried in the 
 
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594 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 graveyard at the military prison at Andersonville during the Civil War. In 1905 and 
 1906 he served his district in the State Senate, representing the towns of Auburn, 
 Blackstone, Douglass. Grafton. Hopedale. Mendon. Milford. Millbury, Northboro, 
 Northbridge, Oxford, Shrewsbury, and Southboro, Surron, Upton, Uxbridge and 
 Westboro, containing about thirty thousand legal voters. He received large ma- 
 jorities at both his elections as State senator. In 1905 he was on the committee on 
 mercantile affairs ; chairman of the prison committee and committees on towns. In 
 1906 he was chairman of the committee on military affairs, and member of the com- 
 mittees on railroads and liquor laws. He was elected delegate to the Republican 
 National Convention at Chicago with Hon. Charles G. Washburn to represent the 
 Third Congressional District. He was a prominent figure in the convention on ac- 
 count of his stand for Charles W. Fairbanks for vice-president, the nominee of the 
 convention, and newspapers called Mr. Hull at the time the original Fairbanks man. 
 He was master of Olive Brancli Lodge, of Millbury; high priest of Tyrian Chapter, 
 Royal Arch Masons, of Millbury: member of Hiram Council, of Worcester, of Worces- 
 ter County Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Massachusetts Consistory, Lodge 
 of Perfection. He was an active member of George A. Custer Post, No. 70, Grand 
 Army of the Republic, of Millbury; of the Home Market Club of Boston-, Massachu- 
 setts Republican Club, Commonwealth Club of -Worcester, and various other organiza- 
 tions. 
 
 Mr. Hull married (first). May 8, 1866. Jane E. Gay, daughter of John and Mar- 
 garet (Gowen) Gay, of Millbury. and sister of Frank C. Gay, of Millbury. She died 
 June 6, 1902. He married (second). June 15, 1905. Mary F. (Cole) Bowen, widow of 
 Roland E. Bowen, late of Millbury. and daughter of Albert V. and Sophia Cole, of 
 Millbury. She was born December 21. 1845. The children of Samuel Elias and Jane 
 E. Hull were: i. Nathan R.. born at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. June 20, 1869; 
 educated in the public school and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College, Boston ; 
 married Annia Fisher; died July 10. 1904. 2. Harry C. (twin), born at Millbury, 
 December 23, 1874; educated at Slillbury public schools, Worcester Academy (1894); 
 Brown University (1898) in the mechanical engineering department; was connected 
 with the Worcester L'mbrella Company for a time ; has been for several years in the 
 cotton and wool waste business in Worcester ; married Helena L. Prentiss, daughter 
 of Frank E. and Mary (McGlathery) Prentiss, and they have one child, Samuel P. 
 Hull, born April 16, 1904. at Millbury. 3. Edward F. (twin), born December 23, 1874; 
 graduate of the Worcester Academy (1894) ; and of Brown University (1898) in the 
 mechanical engineering department; was for three years connected with the Millbury 
 National Bank ; since then has been in the cotton and wool business ; married Bertha 
 E. Sutton, daughter of Arthur E. and Eliza (Congdon) Sutton, born in East Douglass, 
 Massachusetts, and they liave one child. Jennie Phyllis, born in Millbury, October 14, 
 1902. 
 
 THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, Author, pastor of the Free Church of 
 this City, came to Worcester in 1852. His home was on Harvard street, corner of 
 Bowdoin. for about two years and at No. 16 Harvard street in the three years fol- 
 lowing. His congregation worshiped in Horticultural Hall and in Brinley Hall. No 
 attempt will be made to write his biography here, but the following quotation from 
 his "Cheerful Yesterdays" properly belongs in this history: 
 
 "Worcester was so important to me as a means of development, my connection 
 with the Worcester of fifty years ago was so active and varied, and I was connected 
 with so many of its early enterprises, that it has always remained near my heart. My 
 old friend. Dr. Hale, has described the Worcester of that period by calli.ng it 'a 
 western settlement in the Heart of Massachusetts.' Its business life, its social life and 
 its intellectual life were all springing up together, and I had, even before that time, 
 just enough childish recollection of it to feel myself not wholly a stranger there. I 
 still remember with delight certain drives I took thither in early childhood with my 
 father. Stephen Higginson, whose first wife had been a Salisbury, and who so cherished 
 his connection with the old Worcester families that he named my elder brother Waldo, 
 a name transmitted to my daughter. Our visits there were made primarily that he 
 might call on the Misses Waldo, and I might play with their celebrated kittens. My 
 subsequent life there accordingly seemed to connect itself with the old maidenly 
 household, although my reputation for serious radicalism might justly have led the 
 descendants of those kittens sometimes to show their claws. 
 
 "The society of Worcester was. at the time I removed there (1852) singularly 
 agreeable. The town was becoming very prosperous and yet retained its simplicity 
 of tone. There was a circle of very cultivated and active-minded people who worked 
 hard and were thrifty, and yet counted wealth as a secondary thing. Even the 
 aristocracy of employment counted for very little. Some of the most cultivated 
 
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 of hirth, but it cnnnted fur very little, because thuse who represen 
 cepted the prevailing tone. There was a great deal nf pleasant 
 indoor intercourse and great public and private activity. 
 
 "It seems to me on looking back, that innumerable' enter|)rises were tinderlaken 
 and that I had a hand in almost all of lliem. There was a brec' Clnircb, for inslaiua! 
 tlie first of various organi?ations of the kind that were started in Massachusetts in tlu' 
 spirit and on the platform of Theodore Parker, who was still under condemnation as 
 a heretic. Then I served on the schoid committee. Iielped organize tlie Public Library 
 and the Natural History Society, was president of a gymnastic club, a cricket clul'i, 
 a skating club and various minor organizations. It is a'wonder that 1 did not ludong 
 to a volunteer engine company, such as then existed evervwhere, and 1 was indeed 
 elected an honorary member of 'Tiger Engine Company. .\d. (>,' ,ind u.is otdy 
 prevented from accepting the appoiiument by the fact that tlie Tigers got into a 
 general fight meanwhile and were disbantled liy the city fathers. 
 
 "At any rate, when the storm of tlie CivilWar approached. 1 w.is fouiiil to li.iyc 
 popularity enough among the younger getieration in Worcester to enlist witliout 
 difficulty a company in the Fifty-first Massachusetts, and aflerw.ird 1 U.irm-d, as 
 I have always thought, from that admirable iitlicer, now General .\. 1'.. K. .Sprague, 
 enough of the rudiments of military life to carry me through two year-, of actnai 
 service without discredit. 
 
 "During my absence at the front, my wife remove<l to .Wvvpiirt, Rhode Island, 
 for her health and I ceased with some regret to be a resident '>f Worcester. 
 
 "It was during my life in Worcester that my literary career, such as it is, began. 
 It dates back, properly speaking, to a paper in the ■Atlantic Monthly,' March, 1858, 
 entitled, 'Saints and Their Bodies.' After this there followed a number of papers on 
 outdoor life and pursuits, the scene of all of which was laid in the vicinity of Worces- 
 ter, and which included 'April Days,' 'Water Lilies.' 'My (Jtitdoor Study,' ■The I^ro- 
 cession of the Flow^ers.' 'The Life of P.irds.' 'C.ymnastics,' and others' which were 
 published siilisequently under the n;ime of 'Outdoor Papers' in a variety of editions." 
 
 JOSEPH KNIGHT GREENE, Lawyer, was born in Otisfield. Maine, September 
 23. 185J. son of John and Elizabeth March (Knight) breene. His father was born 
 ill the same town, September 20, 1811 : his mother, December 6. 1812. 
 
 He attended tlie country schools. Bridgeton .Academy. Xorway ( Maine ) .Academy, 
 and South Paris (Maine) Academy, graduating in 1873. He entered Bowdoin Col- 
 lege, from which he graduated in 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He is 
 a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He studied law in Des Moines, Iowa, 
 and was admitted to the bar there in 1878. Returning to New England, he was 
 admitted to the Massachusetts bar in i87g and since that time has been practicing in 
 this city. His office is at Room 715, State Mutual building. He was commissioner 
 of insolvency for a number of years, appointed by Governor Oliver Ames. In jioli- 
 tics he is a Republican and for many years he served on the Republican city com- 
 mittee. Active in the temperance moyeinent all his life, he had charge of a number 
 of the no-license campaigns in Worcester. He has been for many years a trustee 
 of the Worcester County Horticultural Society and also of the Worcester County 
 Agricultural Society. For seventeen years he was a director of the Youn.g Men's 
 Christian Association of Worcester. He is a member of the Worcester Country 
 Club, the Economic Club, the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Bowdoin Alumni Associa- 
 tion. Worcester County Bar Association. He is past noble grand of Central Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past commander of Bay State Connnandery, 
 Knights of Malta, and was grand captain general of the Grand Commandery of 
 Massachusetts. He was a member of the supreme judiciary committee of the 
 American Protective Association: member of Regulus Lodge. Knights of Pythias, 
 and the .American Mechanics. ^Ir. (jreene is an active member of Trinity Methodist 
 Church; for five years he was suiierintendent of the Sunday school and for thirty- 
 three years (1918) he has been a member of the official board. 
 
 Mr. Greene married, in this city. December 12. l88g. Frances Lillian Xiwlon, 
 who was born in Providence. Rhode Island, February 28. i860, a daughter of Ed- 
 mund and Phebe (Wicker) Newton. Her father was born in Main.-. die<i here in 
 1865. Mrs. Greene died here in 1915. They had one son. Winthrop Stei>henson 
 Greene, born here May 16, i8yi, graduate of Bowdoin College. IQ13, now caiMain 
 of infantry in the National Army in active service. Captain Greene is a member of 
 the Appalachian Alountain Club. Mr. Greene's home is at No. 171 Highland street. 
 
596 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 MOSES MASON GARFIELD, Merchant, was born in Princeton, January 29, 
 1828, and died in Worcester, December 22, 1896, son of Moses and Hannah Maria 
 (Hoyt) Garfield. His father was also a native of Princeton, born April 6, 1794, son 
 of Moses and Abigail (Mason) Garfield. He was descended from Edward Garfield, 
 the immigrant (Moses M. (9), Moses (8), Moses (7), Daniel (C), EHakim (5), Samuel 
 (4), Captain Benjamin (3), Edward (2), Edward (i)). Edward Garfield was born in 
 England, about 1575, and came to Xew England about 1630, locating at Watertown, 
 where he died June 12, 1672, aged ninety-seven years. He was the ancestor of Presi- 
 dent James A. Garfield. 
 
 Moses M. Garfield received a common school education, and worked on his 
 father's farm in Princeton during his boyhood. When a young man he came to Wor- 
 cester and soon afterward engaged in the express business in partnership with David 
 F. Parker under the firm name of Garfield & Parker, operating a line between this 
 city and Barre. The firm afterward engaged in the ice business, purchasing the Wor- 
 cester Ice Company in 1871. and also in the coal business. This firm built the ice 
 house at Lake Quinsigamond. The firm became well-known and was prosperous. 
 After the firm was dissolved Mr. Garfield was a dealer in fire-wood for two years, 
 and for three years superintendent of streets under David F. Parker, his former 
 partner, who was street commissioner. In politics Mr. Garfield was a Republican. 
 In 1884 Mr. Garfield and Charles A. Harrington formed the firm of Garfield & Har- 
 rington and conducted an e.xtensive ice business. After his death the business was 
 consolidated with other firms in the Walker Ice Company. He remained in active 
 business until his death. In religion he was a Congregationalist, attending the Salem 
 Street Church. He was a member of Worcester Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and of the W"aclnisett Encampment. His home for many years was at No. 
 274 Lincoln street. Mr. Garfield was a thoroughly upright and highly esteemed man 
 of affairs, possessing the confidence of a very large number of friends and acquaint- 
 ances in all parts of the city. 
 
 Mr. Garfield married, November 25. 1864, Lucy Gilbert. They had one child, 
 Roy Mason (see biography). 
 
 ROY MASON GARFIELD, Dentist, was born in this city, June 14, 1876, son of 
 Moses Mason and Lucy (Gilbert) Garfield. He attended the public schools and the 
 Worcester High School and entered the Harvard Dental School, from which he was 
 graduated in i8g8 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He began to practice 
 here immediately after graduating, buying the office and practice of the late Dr. 
 James R. Fitzpatrick, and he has continued in active practice to the present time, 
 taking a high rank in his profession. He is a member of Worcester Lodge of Elks; 
 of Pakachoag Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men ; Worcester Lodge, Knights of 
 Pythias ; and of the Harvard Club of Worcester. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Dr. Garfield married, at Worcester, November 11, 191 1, Lula A. Ellis, born in this 
 city, August 18, 1873, daughter of George W. B. and Maria J, (Peck) Ellis. Her 
 father was born in Brighton (Boston), Massachusetts, and for thirty-five years was 
 superintendent of the annealing department of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing 
 Company ; died here at the age of sixty-one years. Her mother was born in Sutton 
 (recorded Elvira Mariah), March 13, 1832, daughter of Pomroy and Amanda Peck, 
 and died here at the age of fifty-six j-ears. Dr. and Mrs. Garfield reside at No. 405 
 Main street and his office is at the same location. 
 
 WILLIAM SWINTON BENNETT HOPKINS, Lawyer, was born in Charleston, 
 South Carolina, May 2. 1836. died in Pinehurst, North Carolina. January 14, 1900, 
 son of Erastus and Sarah Hannah (Bennett) Hopkins. Erastus Hopkins was a 
 prominent political leader of Western Massachusetts, in both Free Soil and Repub- 
 lican parties, a delegate to the convention that nominated Lincoln for President. 
 His great-grandfather, Dr. Samuel Hopkins, was minister of Hadley for fifty-four 
 years, son of Dr. Samuel Hopkins, of West Springfield, and Esther (Edwards) 
 Hopkins, a sister of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. The immigrant ancestor was John 
 Hopkins, who came from London, England, with Rev. Mr. Hooker, in 1633, and 
 located in Cambridge ; removing to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. Colonel Hopkins' 
 mother was a descendant of Thomas Bennett, who came from England to Charles- 
 ton, South Carolina ; married Mary Swinton, whose father came from Scotland, 
 and was of a very ancient Scotch family. Their son, Thomas Bennett, married (first) 
 Hayes Singletary, of St. Paul's Parish, and (second) Anna Hayes Warnock. Wil- 
 liam Swinton Bennett, son of Thomas Bennett, Jr., and grandfather of Colonel Hop- 
 kins, married Anna Theus. daughter of Major Simon Theus, a soldier of the Revo- 
 lution, and Rebecca (Legare) Theus. both of Huguenot ancestry. 
 
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 \\hcn Mr. Hopkins was very yuuiig his father returned to \nrlliamplon, 
 Massachusetts, where his boyhood was spent, and where he attended tlie public 
 schools and various private classical institutions. He entered Williams College and 
 graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1855. In iSgO he received Iroi'ii his 
 alma mater the honorary decree of Doctor of Laws. In i8iji, when tlie Centennial 
 anniversary was celebrated, he was chief marshal. He had 'served as president of 
 the Alumni Association. He studied law in the office of Hon. William Allen, of 
 Northampton, and in the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Jan- 
 uary, 1858. He opened an office in Ware, Massachusetts, the following August,' but 
 his practice was interrupted by the Civil War. Receiving a cai>tain's commission from 
 Governor Andrew, in October, 1861, he raised a companv fur the Thirty-first Regi- 
 ment. Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and went South' with Ids comm'and, landing 
 at New Orleans, May i, 1862. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenaiil-col,)iiel 
 soon afterward and commanded his regiment during the greater part of his term of 
 service, from November i, 1861, to April 8, 1864. He went through the Teche cam- 
 paign in 1863. ending with the capture of Port Hudson. He remained with his regi- 
 ment until December, when it was converted into cavalry. He resigned soon after- 
 ward, and began to practice law in May, 1864. in New ()rleans, where he remained 
 until September, 1866, acting during that time as special counsel for the United 
 States Treasury. Returning to Massachusetts he located in October, 1866, at Green- 
 field, wdiere he practiced seven years. In 1873 he came to this city and from that 
 time to the end of his life made his home here, attaining a place of leadership at 
 the bar, sharing for many years the highest honors in his profession with F. P. 
 Goulding, rivalled at no time in his ability and success but by few lawyers in the 
 Commonwealth. He was in partnership at first with Peter C. Bacon, later with 
 Henry Bacon and Frank B. Smith, under the firm name of Hopkins, Bacon & Smith, 
 and after the death of Henry Bacon with Frank B. Smith and his son, William 
 Swinton Bennett Hopkins, Jr., under the finn name of Hopkins, Smith & Hopkins. 
 He devoted himself to the profession he loved with zeal and earnestness and de- 
 clined to be drawn away by offers of promotion to the bench or great public service. 
 Interested always in public alTairs, he performed the duties of citizenshij) with a grace 
 and fidelity that was exemplary. He was on the stump for Fremont before he was 
 of age. He was later a staunch Republican and often presided at rallies in Mechanics 
 Hall. He was a delegate to the Republican Convention that nominated Garfield. 
 In 1897 he presided at the Republican State Convention. In later years he declined 
 the offer of a position on the bench of the Supreme Judicial Court. He was district 
 attorney of the Northwestern District, 1871-74. and of the Worcester District. 1S84- 
 87; city solicitor 1893-97. 
 
 As a public speaker, it can be said that Mr. Hopkins had no superior during the 
 riper days of his later life. Gifted as an actor, he made the most of his voice and 
 manner in his addresses. It was always a pleasure to hear him, even in the dry 
 discussion of legal points in court. He was fond of the theatre and often took part 
 in amateur theatricals. As an orator on Memorial Day. he was especially at hoine, 
 and his services were in wide demand every year. He made the presentation speech, 
 one of great eloquence, when the portrait of "Tom" Plunkett was placed in the 
 Hall of Fame in Mechanics Hall. Both Col. Hopkins and F. P. Goulding were 
 orators at the exercises in Mechanics Hall, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary 
 of the city. Mention of this event has been made in the civic history in this work. 
 But the present war makes one paragraph of Col. Hopkins' address pertinent at 
 this time. 
 
 "W'orcester has always been and is patriotically devoted to the country and the 
 flag, and in its defense in every time of need she has been ready to shed her young 
 blood. Under Bigelow, she promptly started her minutemen for Concord, and her 
 citizens stood for the flag with Washington through the Revolution and at York- 
 town ; her sailors and soldiers stood for the flag with Perry and Decatur on the sea 
 and with Tackson at New Orleans; under the lead of Lincoln she stood for the 
 flag with favlor at Buena Vista and Scott at Chepultepec ; under the lead of Devens, 
 another Lincoln and a Ward, she stood for the flag from Bull Run to Appomattox ; 
 and now again in army and navy she stands bravely for the flag which_ waves over 
 Dewey and Manilla, and Sampson and Schley and Shaffer at Santiago." 
 
 His erstwhile opponent at the bar. his personal friend outside the court room, 
 F. P. Goulding. delivered an eulogy, April 10. 1900. in tlie Court House. F"rom this 
 address, the following abstract is made: 
 
 "We shall say that he was, on the whole, equipped with the finest and best 
 trained powers fo'r the trial of causes of any displayed at this bar for a generation. 
 We shall say that if he was not the best beloved of our associates, no one was more 
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 day to day, in an association which lor the most part was one of antagonism — pro- 
 fessional antagonism — always strenuous and unyielding, and looking for a victory 
 on each side, yet friendly and constantly with mutual respect. Such a relation is 
 calculated to put the touchstone to character; and he must be a dull scholar who in 
 that school does not learn the limitations and infirmities of his opponent, whether 
 or not he learns the most difficult lesson of his own limitations and infirmities. I 
 think I knew the strength of this great lawyer, and knew also where the limits of 
 it lay, if any such were discoverable. In my estimate, the most striking characteristic 
 of his power was his readiness. Nobody ever crossed swords with our friend who 
 did not soon understand that he had met not merely an adroit master of legal fence, 
 but also one whose powerful stroke could break down any opposing force not based 
 on solid reason and fact. . . . There was something in that imperturbed equipoise, 
 that self-contained tranquility, in the manner of our friend, on the eve of a great case, 
 and in the midst of strife, where he was putting forth his utmost powers. Others 
 might fret and sputter with ill-suppressed nervous anxiety. He had no energy to 
 waste in that way. An over-anxious client, who did not know him well, might 
 think his counsel indifferent to his cause, and apprehend that this quiet gentleman 
 was hardly up to the grade of a more demonstrative antagonist; but when the en- 
 gagement was on, he would find that no resource of skill, no sagacity in choice of 
 position, no strength of argument, no eloquence of appeal, were wanting to bring 
 his cause to a prosperous conclusion, whatever the force might he which was ar- 
 rayed against him. 
 
 "He knew the law well, as he knew general literature well. His wide experience 
 of cases had necessarily acquainted him with the whole field of legal principles and 
 his legal intuitions were quick and sound, so that the bearing of authorities at once 
 was luminously clear to him. — Rarely did he, if ever, fail to concede what might 
 plausibly be claimed on the other side, and more rarely did he shun the hard places 
 in his own case. He had small skill in dust-throwing and befogging a subject. He 
 would fight his opponent in the open, squarely meeting the real case in dispute. His 
 attack or defense had rarely any finesse, except the legitimate finesse which is an- 
 other name for true art in expression and exposition. 
 
 "No man in the state was listened to with more interest and respect by the 
 higher courts. He wasted none of their time in irrelevancies, but got at the heart, 
 of the controversy at once, and treated it in a natural way, that could not but illumi- 
 nate the path to a just decision. 
 
 "With juries he was a power not easily matched. Possessed of a natural ease 
 and fluency of speech, he had encountered in youth some of the strongest men of 
 the Massachusetts bar and learned what Webster learned in his encounters with 
 Mason that success in forensic contests that depend upon rhetoric is short lived. 
 He eschewed rhetoric that did not advance his argument and he had ample supply 
 of the kind that is ancillary to logic, li ever a man in these modern days illustrated 
 by his work that the art of advocacy is a liberal art, he did so. The pettifogging 
 instinct was foreign to his nature and to his practice. With a patience not easily 
 sur|)rised, even by the annoying tactics of the most vexatious antagonist, he never 
 met such onsets by anything similar. And what was strong evidence of his just 
 valuation of his own powers, he was never unduly cast down by any defeat. 
 
 "He died possessed of a great reputation as a lawyer. What was said of him 
 by a distinguished friend of his and a member of our bar under the first shock of 
 bereavement that 'he was at the very head of the Massachusetts bar,' will be endorsed 
 after mature reflection by our whole fraternity." 
 
 Mr. Hopkins was a member of the Sigma Phi at W'illiams College: of the New 
 York and Boston University Clubs, and of the Worcester Club, of which he was at 
 one time the president. 
 
 Mr. Hopkins married, January 20, 1859, Elizabeth Sarah Peck, of Easthamptou, 
 and they had four children : Sarah Bennett, Erastus, Elizabeth Peck, married Alfred 
 L. Aiken; and William S. B., Jr., (see biography). 
 
 WILLIAM SWINTON BENNETT HOPKINS, JR., Lawyer, assistant clerk of 
 courts, was born in Greenfield, November 21. 1871, son of William S. B. Hopkins 
 (see biography) and Elizabeth Sarah (Peck) Hopkins. His mother, Elizabeth Sarah 
 (Peck) "Hopkins, born at Hatfield, Massachusetts, November 8, i8j7, died here Sep- 
 tember 24, 1915. was descended from Joseph Peck, who came from Hingham, Eng- 
 land, to New Hingham, Massachusetts. 
 
 William S. B. Hopkins, Jr., prepared for college in Worcester, and entered 
 Williams College, in the class of 1894, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts. In 1895-96 he was a student in Harvard Law School ; in 1897 in his father's 
 office, and was admitted to the bar, June 30, 1897. From 1897 to 1902 he was a 
 
AND ITS P HOP LI: 
 
 partner in the law tirm of Hopkins, Smith & Hopkins. practiciuK in Ihis ciiy ; I'nmi 
 1902 to 1907 he was in partnership with Edward T. Esty, under the linn iia'nu' <>t 
 Hopkins & Esty. Since 1904 he has been assistant clerk of conrts in this contity. 
 He is a trustee of the Worcester County Institution for Savings; vestryman and 
 clerk of All Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church; member of the Sigma I'hi fra- 
 ternity, the Chamber of Commerce, the Quinsigamond Boat Club, Worcester Society 
 of Antiquity, Tatnuck Country Club. Worcester Art Museum. Worcester County 
 Bar .Association. Worcester County Kcpublican Club, the Fay Club of Fitchburs, 
 the Williams College Club of Xew York. Mr Hopkins is unmarried. He resides 
 at No. 167 Pleasant street. 
 
 CHARLES ALLEN FISHER, Pa>tnr ..f the First Presbyterian Church, was born 
 at Lebanon. Pennsylvania, ( )ctober 15. 1874. son of John H. and Caroline M. iSinger) 
 Fisher. John H. Fisher wa^ l)orn at Lebanon, July 26, 1845; Caroline .\I. (Sin.ger) 
 Fislier was born at Hummelstown. Pemisylvania. September 17, 184,^ John Hcim, 
 Mr. Fisher's great-grandfather, served in the War of 1812 in Captain Mcllheny's 
 Company in a Pennsylvania cavalry regiment. .All his ancestors were of old Pemi- 
 sylvania pioneer stock. Frederick Hmnmel. fnumlcr of Hummelstown. PennsyKania, 
 was one of his ancestors. 
 
 Charles A. Fisher attended the public ^cbo,,ls of his native town, and entered 
 Lebanon Valley College, from which he was .graduated in 1903 with the degree of 
 Bachelor of .Arts. He then became a student in Princeton University, graduating with 
 the degree of Master of Arts in 1905 and from the Princeton Semiiutry in 190O. He 
 was ordained into the gosi)el ministry of the Presbyterian church, June 26, 1906, and 
 has held pastorates at Manalapan. New Jersey, 1906 to 1909; Second Presbyterian 
 Church at Providence, Rhode Island, 1909 to 1913; and of the First Presbyterian 
 Church in this city since December, 1913. Rev. Mr. Fisher is a Republican of the 
 Progressive wing of that party. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of .America. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Fisher married, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1906, Ellen S. Rupp. 
 who was born in Lebanon, February 27, 1877, daughter of deor.ge and Amanda (Sarge) 
 Rupp, Her father was a native of Lebanon; was a soldier in the Union Army. Third 
 Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, 1861 to 1865; died at Lebanon, December 28, 1891 ; her 
 mother was born at Fredericksburg, Pennsylvama. July 26. 1841. died December 24, 
 1905. Rev. and Mrs. Fisher have two children : Caroline Sarge, born 1-eIiruary j8, 
 1908, and Karl Singer, born .April r, 191,?. 
 
 SAUL ELIAS, Clothing mercliant. w.iv born in Pro\idence, Rhode Island, I-\liru- 
 ary 3, 1875, son of Simon and Rachel (Hellmani Elias. Simon Elias was one of the 
 pioneers ii'i tlie clothing business in Providence. He was born not far from Hirschberg, 
 near Breslau, Germany, the birthplace of his wife. Both came to this country when 
 young; married in Boston and had three children of whotn two survive, Saul, men- 
 tioned above, and Leon, a manufacturing jeweler in Providence. Simon Elias was a 
 dealer in men's clothing in Providence for lifty years, continuing to the time of his 
 death, after which the business was sold. 
 
 After completing the course in the grammar school of his native city, Saul Ehas 
 went to work in his father's store, at the age of fourteen years. Four years later he 
 became a salesman for Caesar Misch, a well-known dealer in men's and women's 
 clothing. After about two years of experience as salesman he became assistant 
 manager, and from time to time took charge of the various stores owned by Mr. Misch. 
 Mr. Elias managed the Misch stores in Fall River and Pawtucket, and on September 
 23, 1898, began the management of his store in this city. In 1898 the business of his 
 employer was incorporated under the name of Caesar Misch, incorporated. The 
 Worcester store was at No. 9 Pleasant street until .August i, 1900, when it was moved 
 to the present location. No. 282 Main street. Mr. Elias made his home here at that 
 time and became the resident manager of the Worcester business. He bought the 
 business, June 22, 1908, and since that time has been the proprietor. He carries an 
 e.xtensive stock of clothing for men. women and children and makes a feature of 
 extending credit to his customers. His store is the largest in this line of business m 
 the city. Mr. Elias is a member of .Athelstan Lodge. .Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons; Eureka Chapter, Roval Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters ; Worcester Lodge of Perfection ; Goddard Council of Princes of Jerusalem ; 
 Lawrence Chapter of the Rose Croi.x ; the Massachusetts Consistory; and Aleppo 
 Temple, Order of the Mvstic Shrine; also member of Binai Brith, the Worcester 
 Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, Economic Club. He is vice-president of the 
 Tuberculosis Relief Association, director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Children, member of Temple Bethel Reformed Jewish t hurch of Providence. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
6oo HISTORY OF JVORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Elias married, September 3, 1901. at Providence. Esther Helen Fox, who was 
 burn in Richmond, Virginia, a daughter of Samuel and Mina (Kleinmann) Fox. Both 
 her parents were born in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Elias reside at No. 320 Highland 
 street. They have three children : .Augustus Fox, born April 3, 1906; Wilhelmina. born 
 December 24, 1910; Dorothy Rose, liofn February 20, 1914. 
 
 SAMUEL REEVES LELAND, Foimder of the firm of S. R. Leland & Son, 
 music dealers, was born in Sherljorn, Massachusetts, May 12, 1817, and died in this 
 city. January 14, 1885. He was descended from many of the pioneers of New Eng- 
 land, his paternal immigrant ancestor being Hopestill Layland, who came from York- 
 shire, England, where he was born in 1580. He settled first at Weymouth; living after 
 1644 at Dorchester. About 1650 he removed to Bogistow (Sherborn) where he died in 
 
 1655- 
 
 Samuel Reeves Leland came to this city when twenty-two years old and resided 
 here the remainder of his life. He was self-educated in music and before he was of 
 age was recognized as a musician of ability and an authority on musical matters in his 
 native town, where the value of his work as an instructor had already received recogni- 
 tion. Upon coming to Worcester he added to his profession as teacher of music the 
 sale of musical instruments and musical merchandise, being one nf the earliest in this 
 line of business. The growth of the mercantile business made such demands upon his 
 time that he abandoned teaching finally, though he continued his work as churcli 
 organist. His store was originally in Brinley Row on Main street, later on the north 
 side of Front street; then on the Burnside property. Main street, and finally in a 
 brick building at No. 442 Main street, opposite the City Hall, where the business was 
 continued until shortly before the death of his son. 
 
 Mr. Leland was especially fond of military band music and he was an accom- 
 plished leader, said to be in his day the best bandmaster in New England. He was 
 best-known perhaps as an organist, being gifted in that direction. For twenty-one 
 years he was instructor of music in the College of the Holy Cross, and he also filled 
 the position of organist at the Church of the Lenity, the First Unitarian Church and 
 Central Congregational Church in this city. Mr. Leland also enjoyed an extended 
 reputation as a composer. He was one of the founders of the Worcester County 
 Musical Convention, October 2. 1863. being for several years one of the directors. The 
 name of the organization has since been changed to Worcester County Musical Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 At the time of his death, the "Spy" said of him : "To Mr. Leland Worcester and 
 Worcester County are much indebted. To his persistent and well-directed efforts is 
 largely due the prominence which this city and county have attained in musical 
 circles throughout the country. By his efforts musicians and musical organizations 
 were induced to visit Worcester. When the prospects of pecuniary reward were not 
 of the most encouraging character and when other inducements failed of success, Mr. 
 Leland personally assumed the responsibility. While always endeavoring to offer 
 Worcester people opportunity for hearing the best musicians, he was doing a work of 
 greater and more permanent value by his instruction. — Those in any way interested 
 in music found in Mr. Leland a valuable adviser and ready assistant. Naturally of a 
 retiring disposition he never forced himself into prominence, but was readily ap- 
 proachable and received all with courtesy and kindly consideration. 
 
 Mr. Leland married, at Worcester, May 26. 1844. Mary, daughter of Joseph 
 Draper and his wife, Polly (Colburn) Draper. She was born at Medfield, February 
 28, 1821, and died at Worcester, September 29, 1910. Their children were: Francis 
 Augustus (see biography) : Julietta. born November 8, 1848. died 1851. 
 
 FRANCIS AUGUSTUS LELAND. Son of Samuel Reeves Leland. was born at 
 Worcester, April 22, 184O. and died there May 15, 1915. He was educated in the 
 public schools, and at Worcester Highland Military .Academy where he had a captain's 
 commission. He was associated with his father in the music and piano liusiness under 
 the firm name of S. R. Leland & Son. He invented and manufactured the Eclipse 
 Cornet which he had patented. He was an accomplished player on the flute. He 
 always took an active part in the musical affairs in his native city. For several years 
 he was an officer of the Piano Dealers Association of America. His will was dated 
 December 30, 1907, and allowed June 2, 1915. 
 
 Mr. Leland married, at Worcester, November 3, 1873, Harriet Mowry, daughter of 
 Mowry Lapham, and his wife. Harriet (Thayer) Lapham. She was born at Black- 
 stone, October 16, 1853, and died at Worcester, August 29, 191 1. Their only child, 
 Hattie May, born February 27. 1879, married, December i, 1915, Daniel Kent. 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 REV. FREDERIC W. BAILEY, Clergvman, genealogist, was l.orn in I'.r.u.kivn 
 New York. January 31, iS.vS, snn of William Egbert and Jane ( Sliarpe ) r.ail.-v, " 
 
 Graduating irom the |jublic schools, he was for a time with 11. J. I'.aker & 
 Brother, wholesale druggists of New York. Under the pastoral care of Rev Dr 
 Almon Gunnison, then pastor of All Souls Church, F.rooklyn. he was led to think 
 of the ministry as his vocation. He graduated from St. Lawrence University. 
 Canton, New York, in 1878, with the degree of B. D.. and after serving in pastorates' 
 in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and Hightstown, New Jerscv, and pursuing a course 
 of study at the Boston School of Oratory under Professor' Moses True Brown, he 
 received a call from the new All Souls' Universalist Church on Kilby street. Wor- 
 cester, as its first pastor. For some three years he served tluis, in which tiine the 
 land at the corner of Woodland and Norwood streets was secured and plans for a 
 new brown stone church were drawn after designs prepared by James A. Norcross. 
 At this period Mr. Bailey found himself little in syini)athy with the prevailing thought 
 of the Universalist denomination, and in January, 1889, promptly withdrew therefrom 
 to seek orders in the Episcopal church. He was confirmed at St. lames' Church, 
 Cambridge, and after a special course at the General Theological -Seminary, Nevv 
 York, was ordained deacon by the Rt. Rev. B. H. Paddock, D. D., Bishop of 'Massa- 
 chusetts, at Christ Church, Brooklyn, Eastern District, in i88<j. and a priest in St. 
 Paul's Church, Natick, in 1890. Of tliis parish he remained in charge until i8gi, 
 establishing during that time St. .Andrew's Church in Wellesley. which became part 
 of his parish. In i8gi he returned to Worcester as the rector's assistant at All 
 Saints Church, and in 1893 was called to the rectorshi[i of the Church of the Ascen- 
 sion in New Haven, Connecticut. 
 
 In 1898 he was chosen secretary of the Commission on Paroeliial .'\rchives. 
 Diocese of Connecticut, and copyist, and did much to preserve the old church records 
 and papers there. Since T901 he has resided at No. 33 Harvard street, and has served 
 as a missionary of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, under his former associate. 
 Bishop Vinton. He had charge of Christ Church, Rochdale, in 1903. re-opened and 
 renovated the dormant Grace Church, Oxford, and in 1905 established Holy Trinity 
 Church at Southbridge. Mr. Bailey is widely-known as a genealogist and historian, 
 especially such as pertains to early Connecticut. He has himself published seven 
 books of early Connecticut marriages, all taken from church records, and three books 
 oi early Massachusetts marria.ges which have had wide circulation and been of great 
 service in establishing old family connections. In 1892 he copyrighted and patented 
 a book for the keeping of family records and tracing ancestry which is in such favor 
 that a fifth edition is now in circulation, greatly enlarged and improved. He is a 
 member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society in Boston, the Connecti- 
 cut Historical Society, and the Massachusetts Society of the .Sims of the ."Xnierican 
 Revolution. 
 
 Rev. Frederic W'. Bailey married, January 14. 1891, Lena Olive ^larble, born 
 August 9, 1870, died April 8, IQ18. daughter of Jerome and Susan Emeline ( Blanchard ) 
 Marble. Her father was born in Charlton. September 10, 1824. and died in W'or- 
 cester, February 14, 1906. Their children; John Marble, born October 17. i8gi, at 
 Worcester ; Nel'la May, August 25, 1897. at New Haven, Connecticut ; Frederic Starr, 
 October 18, iguo, at New Haven, C<innecticut. and Francis Howarth, born Feliruary 
 18. 1907. at Worcester. 
 
 ERNEST G. ADAMS, Member of the firm of Kinsley & .^danis, bankers and 
 brokers, was born in Honnlulu. Hawaiian Territory. September 15. 1874. son of Edward 
 Payson and Ellen (Fisher) Adams. His father was born in Castine, Maine, August 
 31, 1829; a merchant in Honolulu for many years; his mother was born in Yar- 
 mouthport, Massachusetts, August 8, 1848. 
 
 He prepared for college in the Cambridge Latin School and was a student in 
 Harvard College one year, 1899, He then entered the employ of E. Rollins Morse & 
 Brother, bankers, at No. 38 State street, Boston, remaining five years. During the 
 following four years he was a bond salesman for H. W. Poor & Company, brokers. 
 No. 52 Devonshire street, Boston, and then for two years in a similar position with 
 Fisk & Robinson of this city. In partnership with Edward W. Kinsley and his 
 brother, Charles P. Adams, he formed the firm of Kinsley & Adams, bankers and 
 brokers, in 1906. The firm has been highly successful. Their offices are at No. 15 
 Foster street. Mr. Adams is a director of the Worcester Bank & Trust Company and 
 the Worcester Cold Storage & Warehouse Company. He is treasurer of the Worcester 
 Bovs Club, in which he has been keenly interested since coming to Worcester. He 
 is a Republican and was elected alternate-at-large from the State of Massachusetts 
 to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1912. 
 
Cx>2 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 His military record began in May. 1898, when he joined Company A, First Corps 
 Cadets, Massachusetts National Guard, and he served until igo8, being advanced 
 grade by grade from private to corporal, sergeant, first sergeant, and second liuetenant. 
 He was first sergeant of the first company in the Worcester Military Training School, 
 •1915-16. April 14, 1917, he enrolled in the United States Navy Reserve Force and 
 was called into active service the same date, as a lieutenant (J. G.). Served at the 
 Boston Navy Yard under the district enrolling officer of the First Naval District 
 until July 2, 1917. Then made an aide to the commandant, First Naval District, 
 holding this position until Januarj- 19, 1918, when he was assigned to duty at Wash- 
 ington under the chief of naval operations. Admiral William S. Benson. During 
 various campaigns for raising money for the Boys Club, the Young Men's Christian 
 Association, the Red Cross and other public purposes he has served on important com- 
 mittees and given largely of his time and ability. He is a member of the Harvard 
 Club of this city, the Worcester Club, the Tatnuck Country Club, the Harvard Club 
 of Boston and the Boston Yacht Club. 
 
 Mr. Adams married, in Weston, Massachusetts, October 14, 1902, Mary Edith 
 Russell, who was born at Dnrand, Illinois, 1881, a daughter of Rev. Charles F. 
 Russell, pastor of the Unitarian church of Weston for more than thirty-three years 
 (1917). Mr. and Mrs. Adams have had four children: Margaret Germaine, born 
 August, 1903, died November 25, 1905; Elizabeth Fisher, born June 23, 1906; Edward 
 Payson, born June 4, 1907; Mary Rogers, born July 10, 1911. 
 
 DANIEL EDWARD DENNY, Senator, councillor, was born in Worcester, July 
 14, 1845, son of Edwards Whipple and Elizabeth D. (Stone) Denny. Edwards 
 Whipple Denny was born in Hardwick, \'ermont. He was a deaf mute, but not- 
 withstanding this handicap was very successful in business. He was educated in 
 the American Asylum at Hartford. Coiuiecticut. He married Elizabeth D. Stone, 
 who was also a deaf mute. They were both pupils of the famous Rev. Thomas 
 Gallaudet, who accomplished so much for the deaf and dumb during his lifetime. 
 Mr, Denny came to Worcester when it was a small village and bought a large estate 
 on Highland street, which has grown very valuable since. The residence of Daniel 
 E. Denny on West street stands on a portion of the old place. His line of ancestry 
 is as follows : Isaac, Colonel Samuel ; Daniel, who was the inunigrant ancestor, born 
 in Combs, England, came to America in 1715, to Boston; Thomas; Edmund; Edmund; 
 Edmund ; Robert ; to whom the line of Daniel Edward Denny has been traced, was 
 born in England about 1590. He was buried at Combs, Suffolk county, England, 
 February i, 1624. Colonel Samuel Denny, great-grandfather, was an officer at the 
 battle of Bunker Hill. His grandfather, Isaac Denny, enlisted at the age of fifteen 
 in the Revolution. 
 
 Daniel E. Denny attended the public schools of Worcester and Worcester Acade- 
 my. He learned the trade of machinist in the shops of Lucius W. Pond and worked 
 for twenty years at his trade, principally for Mr. Pond and at the Washburn shops 
 of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was a skillful mechanic, and perhaps 
 should be cited in a history of Worcester as a fine example of the combination of 
 brains and mechanical skill in the workshops of Worcester that have built up the 
 city and attracted new enterprises here. After twenty years of labor at the lathe and 
 drill, Mr. Denny accepted a position in the railway mail service. He was promoted 
 step by step until he was "clerk-in-charge." He retired at the end of twenty years 
 to enter the real estate and fire and accident insurance business. Since 1902, when 
 Mr. Deimy went into business for himself, he has been in public life and has served 
 the city creditably in several capacities. 
 
 He served the city in the Common Council in 1904 and 1905. He was elected 
 from ward one for a two years term. In his second year he was elected president 
 of the board, one of the highest honors in the city government. Some matters of 
 great importance have been acted upon since Mr. Denny has been in the City Council. 
 He has been on the committees on streets, sewers and on military affairs. The mak- 
 ing of a boulevard out of Shrewsbury street from the railroad station to Lake 
 Quinsigamond has been carried into effect. The Greenwood Street Park has been 
 acquired and the magnificent Green Hill estate has been acquired at a nominal figure 
 from the heirs. The water works have been extended along the Asnebumskit brook 
 in Paxton. The city has been redistricted, making ten wards instead of eight. He 
 was a member of the redistricting committee. Mr. Denny has been an active and 
 efficient councilman. His good record in the city government was recognized by his 
 constituents, and by a flattering vote he was elected to the General Court for 1906, 
 from ward one, the fifteenth district. He was re-elected from year to year, serving 
 until 1910, taking an influential part in legislation and serving on the most important 
 committee. In 1910-11-12 he was State Senator and he continued a most efficient 
 
AND ITS PROPLIl 
 
 legislator. In 1913-14-15 he was a member of the Governor's Executive t.nimil. 
 He is a trustee of the Soldiers' Home. Chelsea, Massachusetts. He served mi the 
 .State Committee at the dedicati(.in nf the soldiers monuments at Wiiiehcster, \ir- 
 ginia; Newbern, North Carolina, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Petersburg. \'ir- 
 ginia. He has been captain of the Worcester Continentals; was presiileiii of the 
 Worcester Mechanics Association and the County Republican Club. 
 
 Mr. Denny is best-known from his brilliant Grand .\rmy career. He entered 
 the service at the age of eighteen in Company E. Forty-second Kegiment. Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Militia. He joined the Worcester Grand .'\rniy Post in i8')i), 
 and has since then been an active member and held various offices from lime to time. 
 He was the commander in 1904 and 1905, and during those two years this post made 
 a remarkable gain in membership. Forty years after the Civil War and over forty 
 after the military service of the most of the men began, this post added to its mem- 
 bership one hundred and twenty-six members, bringin.g the total to seven hundred 
 and sixty-eight and putting the post in the first place in the country in point of num- 
 bers. Those who know the men believe tliis post stands at the head alsn in cli:iracter 
 and standing of the memliers. in their records as soldiers and as citizens. Mr. Denny 
 was commander of Department Massachusetts, Grand .Army of the Reprihlic, 1017 
 and 1918. 
 
 Mr. Denny is known all over the .State among the Knights of Pythias. He was a 
 charter member of Regulus Lodge of Worcester, No. 71, and was first master-at- 
 arms of that body. He was admitted to the Grand Lodge the year following under 
 the administration of Charles B. Newton and was appointed grand master-at-arms. 
 In 1891 he was elected grand prelate by a handsome vote. The year following he 
 was chosen grand vice-chancellor, and in 1893 was given a unanimous election as the 
 twenty-second grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. Mr. Denny 
 is a Free Mason of high standing. He belongs to Morning Star Lodge, Free and 
 Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal .Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and 
 Select Masters, and to Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar. He was 
 formerly a member of the Royal .Arcanum. He has attended Central Church since 
 a young boy. 
 
 Mr. Demiy married. .April 17. 1867. Martha .Alice Fisher, daughter of Knhert D. 
 and Alice (Russell) Fisher. She was born in Northbridge. Massachusetts. Octolicr 
 8, 1844. Their children are: i. Frank Edward, born September 9, 1869, died May 
 16, 1872. 2. Alice Elizabeth, born March 27, 1871, a graduate of the Worcester 
 Classical High School, 1890, and afterwards a teacher there for four years : married 
 Peter Robinson Culbert. who is a newsdealer at No. 334 Main street, Worcester, Jan- 
 uary II, 1900; they have one child, Janet Denny Culbert, born December 7. 1904. 3. 
 Edward Arthur, born in Worcester, December 16, 1872, graduate of the Worcester 
 Classical High School, 1892: married Bertha J. Griswold. September 17, igni, at 
 Worcester; he has been with the State Mutual Life Assurance Company for ten 
 years and is at present cashier. 4. Florence Isaliel, born November 11, 1881, graduate 
 of the Worcester Classical High School, clas> of igoo, now emiilnyed at the Wor- 
 cester County Registry of Deeds. 
 
 PERCY HAROLD EPLER, hornier pastor of Adams Square Congregational 
 Church, was born in Jacksnnville, Illiii.fis, July 19, 1872, son of Judge Cyrus and Cor- 
 nelia (Nettleton) Epler. 
 
 He graduated from the lllin.ds College, Jacksonville (.A. B.. 1892); was a student 
 in Yale University, 1892-93, and graduated from Yale Divinity School (B. D., 1896) 
 He was ordained in the Congregational Ministry in 1896; became associate pastor of 
 Phillips Church, South Boston, serving from 1896 to 1903; was pastor of the First 
 Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1903-05, and iiastor of the .Adams Square Congregational 
 Church from 1905 to 1916. He was a member of the Economic Club. In 190O he was 
 a lecturer at Yale. He has written various books and contributed to newsiiapers and 
 periodicals. He married, January i. 1903. Helen Esther York, of New Haven. I onnec- 
 ticut. 
 
 ED'WARD EARLE, Mayor of the city, merchant, card-clothing manufacturer 
 was born in Leicester, February 10, 1811, and died in Worcester, May 19. 1877, son of 
 Timothy and Ruth (Keese) Earle. His father died when he was eight years old and 
 his mother afterward married Henry Earle, her brother-in-law, who became an in- 
 valid and the management of the farm devolved on the son Edward at an early age. 
 He also had charge of a saw mill on the homestead. 
 
 Edward Earle attended the district schools of Leicester, Leicester Academy and 
 the Friends School in Providence, Rhode Island. He came to this city in 1832 and 
 engaged in business as a dealer in grain and flour. Subsequently he was admitted to 
 
6o4 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 partnership in the iron and steel business of Joseph Pratt, a pioneer in this business, 
 and he continued in the firm of Pratt & Earle for many years. In 1842 Mr. Earle 
 purchased the interest of his cousin, Timothy K. Earle, in the card-clothing business, 
 and in partnership with his brother. Timothy Keese Earle, continued in the business 
 until he retired in 1869. After that time he was occupied in the care of his real 
 estate and various public and private trusts. He was in his day one of the leading 
 business men here. His public career was highly creditable also. He was elected a 
 selectman of the town of Worcester in 1843; was representative to the General Court 
 in 1851 and voted for Charles Sumner for United States Senator; in 1853 he was an 
 alderman, and from 1861 to 1871 a member of the school committee. He was elected 
 mayor of the city in 1871 and served one term. He was an honest, faithful and con- 
 scientious executive. He was an anti-slavery man and during the war went South as 
 a member of tlie friends committee to look for the welfare of the Freedmen. He 
 was for many years a member of the Board of State Charities and its chairman during 
 the latter part of his service. He was one of the founders of the American Social 
 Science .^.ssociation. Throughout liis life he was a consistent member of the Society 
 of Friends. 
 
 Mr. Earle married, in 1835, Ann Barker, daughter of David and Susan Ann 
 (Butfum) Barker. Their only child, .A.nne Buffum, married, in 1865, James S. Rogers. 
 
 TIMOTHY KEESE EARLE. Business man. was born, January 11, 1823, in 
 Leicester, and died October i, 1881, in Worcester, Massachusetts, son of Henry and 
 Ruth (Keese-Earle) Earle. 
 
 His education was obtained at a common school, the academy at Leicester and 
 the Friends' School in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1842, in company with Reuben 
 Randall, he purchased the card setting machines previously operated by his uncle, 
 Silas Earle, then just deceased, and continued to operate them with success. The 
 interest of his partner, by purchase and sale, passed through several hands until at 
 last his half-brother, Edward Earle, came into the firm, which was known as T. K. 
 Earle & Company. They removed the business to Worcester where it rapidly grew 
 until it became the most extensive establishment of its kind in the United States. 
 In 1878 it was organized as the T. K. Earle Manufacturing Company with Timothy 
 K. Earle, as trustee, and Edwin Brown, agent and treasurer. Mr. Earle was never 
 a seeker of political honors, though he was active in every movement designed to 
 promote the progress and prosperity of the community. He was at one time a 
 member of the school committee of Worcester, which position he held for several 
 years. He was a consistent and firm advocate of temperance and prohibition of the 
 sale of liquor. In 1878 and 1880 he was the candidate of the Prohibition party of 
 Massachusetts for lieutenant-governor. He was a member of the Society of Friends 
 and in his later years often spoke at its meetings. 
 
 Mr. Earle married (first) September 12. 1849. Nancy Shove Hacker, born Sep- 
 tember 26, 1829, in Salem, Massachusetts, died January 24, 1864, daughter of Wil- 
 liam E. and Nancy (Shove) Hacker, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the 
 mother of six children, as follows; i. Mariana Mifflin, born August 24. 1850, mar- 
 ried Edwin Brown. 2. Lloyd M., born March 20. 1853, died May 18, 1868. 3. Helen 
 H., born November 16, 1854, died March 9, i860. 4. Hettie H., born April 16, 
 1859, died January 27, i860. 5. Caroline H., born June 18, 1861 ; died April 26, 1862. 
 6. Nancy Hacker, born in Worcester, July 22, 1863, died May 6, 1918. She attended 
 the public and high schools of Worcester and the Friends' School in Providence, 
 Rhode Island, a graduate of the class of 1881 of the latter school; married Frank 
 Bulkely Smith, born in Worcester, August 25, 1864, son of Charles Worcester and 
 Josephine Caroline (Lord) Smith. Mr. Earle married (second) October 10. 1867, 
 Caroline Cartland Osborne, of Dover. New Hampshire, daughter of Daniel and 
 Caroline (Cartland) Osborne. Children : i. Daniel Osborne, born September 3, 
 1869; married December 21, 1899, Grace Howard King, of Providence, Rhode Island; 
 their son. Osborne Earle, was born November 10, 1904. 2. Caroline, born March 19, 
 1873. 3. Henry Halleck, born May 31, 1874, died February 13, 1879. 
 
 SUSAN A. GIFFORD, Known as Mother Gifford, temperance leader and lecturer, 
 was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, March 2, 1826, died December 13. 1902, daugh- 
 ter of Richard and Lydia Mitchell. Her early cliildhood was spent in Scipio, Cayuga 
 county. New York. She married, in 1846. Samuel Gifford, of Fall River. She became 
 a resident of tliis city in the early seventies while her son was a student in the 
 Polytechnic Institute. She became a great power in the temperance movement in 
 1874 and was instrumental in establishing the Reform Club. Her activity in this work 
 is shown by the fact recorded in her diary that from 1876 to 1878, three years, she 
 receive_d 2,553 callers, made 770 visits and attended 532 meetings. She was a mem- 
 
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 ber of the Society of Friends and for tliirty years was a preacher in that deiiwuiiiia- 
 tion. From a tribute by Sarah B. Earle. we quote: "It was wonderful in a woman like 
 her, so brave yet always so womanly, so shrinking yet always dariiiir to do rii;ht, 
 so modest yet willing to face the greatest crowd if she could give (jod's message, so 
 meek yet defying in all opposition to her idea of justice, so weak yet so strong, so mild 
 and so gentle in manner yet so tirm and aggressive when the way was once made 
 plain." 
 
 ALLYN KING FOSTER, I-^.rmer pasL.r ..f the hirst lluptist (. hin-cli. wa~ h.,rn m 
 Baltimore, Maryland, April 14, 1808, s..n of Kol)ert Kdward and Josephine (Wilkinson) 
 Foster. 
 
 He graduated from llaltiinore City College in 1880 ; w.is a student in Johns 
 Hopkins, 1886-88. and in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 
 Kentucky, graduating in 1894. He received the degree of Master of .Arts from Vale 
 in 1901. He was ordained in the Baptist ministry in 1894, pastor of the Olivet Church. 
 New Haven, 1895-1901: headmaster of the Foster School for Boys, Cornwall and 
 Litchfield. Connecticut. iyoi-o8: acting [lastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian 
 Church. Brooklyn. New York, 1907-08; i)astor of the First Baptist Church of \\'or- 
 cester. 1909-16. \\'hile in Worcester his interest and influence centered in all move- 
 ments having to do with the settlement of civic life. On leaving Worcester, he 
 became pastor of the Washington Aveiuie Baptist Cluirch of Brooklyn, Xew York, 
 in January, 1916. He was given a year's leave of absence from the church to become 
 director of Religious Work at Camp Beauregard. Louisiana. In April, 1918. he re- 
 signed from the pastorate of the Washitigton .Avenue LJiurch and sailed at once to 
 do Young Men's Christian Association work in I'rance for the I^'rench Government. 
 He was chaplain of the Worcester County House of Correction; member of the 
 corporation of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Phi Gamma Delta; Worcester 
 Country Club, and the Ri>tary Club. Me was the author of "Making Religion Efticient" 
 (1912) ; "Cartoons in Character" (1015I; contributing editor of the Worcester "Even- 
 ing Gazette." 
 
 Rev. Air. Foster married Emily II, .ward Foley (Ph. D.. Yale) of Cincinnati. Ohio, 
 Octolier 28, 1902. They have two chihlren, .Allyn K., Jr.. and Cicely. 
 
 DANIEL DOWNEY, Merchant, was born in X..rth Brookfiebl. Massachusetts. 
 October 8, 1849, son of James Downey, one of the earliest Irish settlei s ni that town, 
 a substantial and successful farmer. 
 
 Mr. Downey received his education in the public schools of bis native town and 
 graduated from the high school there. He then caiue to this cit) and for several 
 years was a clerk in the dry goods store of Josiah H. Clarke. He went West, remainmg 
 for a year. Returnin.g to this city he became a clerk in the clothing store of .\. P. 
 W'are & Coiupany, now the Ware-Pratt Company, and continued with that concern 
 for a period of twenty-five years. He started in the clothing business on his i^wn 
 account in Septeiuber. 189,?. having a store in the Knowles building, corner of Main 
 and Chatham streets, and from that time until he retired from business in 1906 held 
 a leading place among the clothing merchants of the city. Since quitting the cloth- 
 ing business he has been a dealer in real estate, having offices in the State Mutual 
 building^ 'He is a vice-president of the Worcester County Musical Association; 
 direcTorof the Bay State Savings Bank : member of the Chamber of Conunerce ; 
 trustee of St. \'incent's Hospital; for many years director of the choir of St. Pauhs 
 Catholic Church. He has a unique record, having been fifty-one years in St, John's 
 and St. Paul's choirs. 
 
 Mr. Downey married, in Boston. .Au.uust Ji. |88.!. .Mary L. Power, dau.ubter of 
 Richard Power, who was at the tiiue of his death the oldest marble dealer in Massa- 
 chusetts, having been engaged in that business more than hft.v years. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Downey have three children: i. James Richard, married Theresa Douuellv ; bad one 
 son George. 2. Dr. George Charles, dentist, graduate of the Classic:il High School 
 and the University of Marvland, igio. now in the United States service; married 
 Eleanor M. Usher. 3. Marion Frances, married Edwanl P. h'ltzgerald. of Worcester, 
 an architect, and has a dau.ghter Paula Fitzgerabl. 
 
 ERNEST ARMAND BICKFORD, X'ice-piesident of The Wiley-l'.ickford-Sweet 
 Company, was liorn at Berlin. Massachusetts, Xoveinber 23. i8;2. son of John Charles 
 and Sarah Metcalf (Hebard) Bickford. 
 
 He attended the public schools in his native town, the Clinton High School, the 
 Worcester Classical High School, and was graduated from the Worcester Prdytechuic 
 Institute in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He became associatol with 
 his father in the slipper business in September. 1894. and succeeded him as partner 
 
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 in the firm of Bickford & Sweet, new The VViley-Bickford-Sweet Company of Hartford 
 and Worcester, in January, igoo. He is first vice-president and works manager. The 
 business of the firm was first located in Washington square, then on Grafton street. Since 
 I9i2the business has been located in tlie building erected by David Cummings for a shoe 
 factory at No. 60 King street. His father, John Charles Bickford. retired in 1900. and he 
 took his place, the name of the firm remaining unchanged. The business has been highly 
 prosperous, and for a number of years the firm has been among the foremost manu- 
 facturers in its line of business, the largest producers of slipper soles of the kind they 
 make in the country. In 1916 a large brick addition to the factory was erected. In 
 April, 1916, the firms of Bickford & Sweet, and William H. Wiley & Sons Company, 
 another large sole and overgaiter concern of Hartford, joined forces, incorporating 
 under the name of The Wiley-Bickford-Swcet Company, having a capitalization of 
 $300,000 common and $50,000 preferred stock. Of this new company J. Allen Wiley, 
 of Hartford, is president; Ernest A. Bickford, vice-president; William H. Corbin, 
 of Hartford, treasurer; Walter A. Sweet, assistant treasurer and clerk; these four 
 being the directors. This company is the largest in the country making this class of 
 goods. Mr. Bickford is a member of the Adams Square Congregational Church, of 
 which he has been a deacon and member of the standing committee for many years 
 and treasurer. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Bickford married, June 5, 1895, Alice Bertha Crossman, who was born in 
 Fitchburg, July 29, 1872, daughter of Frank Harrison and Lelia Ward (Farwell) 
 Crossman. Her father and mother are living at Berlin, Massachusetts. Children : 
 Dorothy, born March 2, 1896, student in Mt. Holyoke College, class of 1919; John 
 Crossman, born May 5, l8g8. student in Phillips .^ndover Academy, killed in an 
 automobile accident in Florida, April 25, 1918; Franklin Armand, born September 3, 
 1899; Miriam, born September 30, 1900; Sarah Marjorie, born March 19, 1902; Richard 
 Hebard, born -August 20, 1907; Roger Murray, born February 23, 1910; Harrison Howe, 
 born August 28, 1914. 
 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Bickford are descended from old Colonial stock. 
 
 ELWOOD ADAMS, Hardware dealer, was born in this city, April 15, 1856, and 
 died here April 11, lyiS, son of John Quincy and Harriet L. (Botume) Adams. 
 
 He was educated here in the public schools. He began his business career as 
 clerk in the hardware store of Henry W. Miller, and was later for a short time in 
 the employ of O. S. Kendall. Returning to the employ of Mr. Miller, he became 
 a few years later a partner in the firm of Smith & Adams, which succeeded to tlie 
 business of Mr. Miller. This store is the oldest in its line in the city, and ;iext to 
 J. Russel Marble & Company the oldest business in the city. It still occupies the 
 old site of the Waldo store, which was established in Lincoln square by Daniel 
 Waldo in 1782; continued by his son, Daniel Waldo. Jr., from 1791 to 1821, when 
 Henry W. Miller became the proprietor, as partner in the firm of Rice & Miller, and 
 later sole proprietor until he sold out to Smith & Adams. Mr. Adams conducted the 
 business for many years alone, after Mr. Smith retired in 1891. In recent years his 
 son has been associated with him, and has succeeded to the business. Mr. .'\danis 
 was a member of the Merchants Association, which became a branch of the Chamber 
 of Commerce, and was its treasurer for a time. He was a member and for many years 
 a director of the Builders Exchange, and director of the Mercantile Bureau of the 
 Chamber of Commefce. He was also a member of the Worcester Automobile Club, 
 the Tatassit Canoe Club, Worcester Lodge, Odd Fellows, and Worcester County 
 Mechanics Association. In politics he was a Republican; in religion a Universalist. 
 
 Mr. .'\dams married Carrie Pierce, and has one son, Robert P., and a daughter, 
 Gertrude Elizabeth .^dams. He was descended from the early settlers of the Com- 
 monwealth in various lines of ancestry. His home was at No. 13 Schussler road. 
 
 From a tribute adopted by the Builders Exchange, the following extract is taken : 
 "Becoming a member of the Builders Exchange in March, 1894, he has faithfully 
 performed the duties which have been placed upon him for a little more than twenty- 
 four years, during which period his wise counsel has often been sought as questions 
 of a perplexing nature have arisen. He served many years on the board of directors, 
 has filled the office of vice-president, and although the office of president had repeatedly 
 been offered him he always very modestly declined the honor, not, however, with 
 the idea of shirking a duty, but because he believed he could render more and greater 
 service to the association in a less conspicuous position. Should we not, therefore, 
 by word and deed seek to make our life here consistent, so that when the end comes, 
 we, like him, may deserve the kind, generous words of friends in paying final tribute 
 to our memory, as we today i)ay loving tribute to the noble character of El wood 
 Adams and to the high esteem in which he was held as a citizen, friend and member 
 of our organization." 
 
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 ROBERT PIERCE ADAMS, Hardware ck-aUr. |.r<suli-m ..f thr < ..rix.ration 
 Ehvood Adams, Inc.. was born in this rity. Seiitenibi-r i. 1S84. x.n m I-.Kv.i.mI Adam-' 
 He attended the Worcester public schools, .ijraduaiing from the Inyb scIkm.I in ic)02 
 and for two years was a student in the University of I'cnnsyh ania. Since Mjua 
 he has been in the hardware busine--s in tins cit\. "assmiated with hi- lather, and 
 since the death of his father at the head of tlie bnsiiK>s of Kl\V(pod .\dani-,. Inc.' He 
 is president, treasurer and clerk of the cori>orati(.n formed si.on after Klwoud 
 Adams died. The other directors of the company are his sister, (uilrnde 1'",. .'Vdams 
 and Norman E. Woodis. Mr. Adanis is a men'iber nf the Lakeside Moat'chih. of 
 which he has been the commodore: the Woree-ter kntar\ (.1iil>, ilie Chamber' of 
 Commerce, and the First Universalist lluireh. In ii.ilitics he is ,i 1>:< ihiIiIk an. He 
 is unmarried. 
 
 WALDO EMERSON BUCK, I'resident ami trea-unr ..f the WCreester Manu- 
 facturers Mutual Insurance Cc.mp.iny, was born in ,Stoneham, Massachusetts, l-'ebru- 
 ary 21, 185O. 
 
 He attended the public scliools and was for four \ears a s|ieci:il student in the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technoloi;y. He followed the professi.in of civil eiiKinecr, 
 serving as agent of a Water Power Company, then special inspector and adjuster foi^ 
 the Associated Factory Mutual Insurance Companies. In 1897 he was elected secre- 
 tary of the Worcester Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company, and two years later 
 he became president and treasurer, olfices that he has held since that time. Mr. 
 Buck is also a director of the L'nited States Envelope Coiupany and of the Mer- 
 chants and Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Ccjmpany. In politics 'he is a Republican, 
 He is a member of the American Society of Ci\il Engineers, the P.osfon Society of 
 Civil Engineers, the Worcester Cluli and the Tatnuck Country Club. He is a 
 Unitarian, a member of the Second Parish of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Buck married, at Woburn, Massachusetts. June o, 1894, Fr.ances S. Jones, who 
 was born in Woburn. They have two children: Sherwood Emerson, horn" December 
 18, 1898; Eleanor Frances, born March 18. 1901. 
 
 ELBRIDGE BOYDEN, Architect, was born in \ermont. and died in tliis city, 
 March 25, 1898, son of Amos Boyden. who was a soldier in tlie l\e\(iluli<in froin 
 Sturbridge, and Aliigail (Wood) Boyden. The father moved to Orange, where tlie 
 son received his eduation. At the age of si.xtcen he began to learn the trade of car- 
 penter in Athol and to study architecture. He came to this town in 1844. He became 
 an architect of prominence. His best known work is Mechanics Hall. A painting of 
 Mr. Boyden hangs in the hall. He was a member of the Massachusetts Society, Sons 
 of the American Revolution, (if which he was vice-president in 1807. ^Ir, Bovden 
 married Louisa L)a\is, of Royalston, who died in 1888. 
 
 GEORGE EVERETT BATCHELDER, Water registr:ir. w.is born in .Middletoii. 
 Massachusetts, Felirnarj 10, 18,50, and died March 12. 1899, son of Josepli W. Batch- 
 elder. 
 
 He received a public school education in !iis native town, and le.irncd the trade of 
 shoemaker. He came to Worcester in 1869 and until 1884 he was engaged in the shoe 
 and leather business in Worcester, foreman in the Bay State Shoe and Leather Com- 
 pany, He was a soldier in the Civil War, serving three years in Company F, Fortieth 
 Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, at Lynnheld. Massachusetts, was transferred to 
 Company B, Twelfth Regiment, Veteran Reserves, Au,gust 26, 1864; mustered out as 
 first sergeant. In politics he was a Republican. He served in the Common Council 
 of the city of Worcester in 1880-81-82; as representative in the General Court in 
 1883-84. resigning in February, 1884, to accept the office of water registrar of the city, 
 succeeding J. Stewart Brown, and serving until the time of his death in 1899, when he 
 was succeeded by his son, George W. Batchelder. the present registrar. He was a 
 member of Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and .Accepted Masons ; Worcester Lodge, 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks : and the Indeiiendent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 Mr, Batclielder married, in Georgetown, Massachusetts, Janu.iry i, 1857, Olive 
 M. Boardman, who was born at Marblehead. Massachusetts, March 18. 1836. a daugh- 
 ter of Daniel W. Boardman. Mr. and Mrs, Batchelder had two children: (irace E., 
 born Octolx-r 4, 1857. died in 1884. unmarried: and George W. (.see biography). 
 
 GEORGE WELLINGTON BATCHELDER, Water commissioner and water reg- 
 istrar, was born in tieorgetown, Massachusetts, March 17, 1864, son of George E. and 
 Olive M. (Boardman) Batchelder. He was educated in the imhlic schools of this city 
 and in the Worcester High School. I'roni 1878 to 1884 he was a clerk in the employ 
 of the Bav State Shoe "and Leather lompany of Worcester: from 18S4 to 1889 
 
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 reader of meters in the water department of the city; from 1889 to 1899 in the 
 railway mail service. He was elected water registrar of the city. March 20, 1899. 
 He became water commissioner, June 6, 1904, and has filled that office since. He has 
 also been water registrar since .March 20. 1917. He is a member of Quinsigamond 
 Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; 
 the Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth Club, Commercial Travelers Association, 
 Worcester Country Club, and Worcester County Republican Club. In politics he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 Mr. Batchelder married, at Ottawa, Illinois. September 17, 1890, Sarah \'. Hathe- 
 way, who was born at Ottawa. Illinois, January 3. 1868, a daughter of Stephen and 
 Ellen P. (Fay) Hatheway. They have one son, Robert Fred, born here March 27, 
 1895, graduate of the South High School, 1913, now in the service in the Naval Pay 
 Corps, ensign, assistant paymaster. Their home is at No. 3 Midland street in this 
 city. Mrs. Batchelder is a member of the Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the 
 American Revolution, the Woman's Club and Worcester Country Club. 
 
 JOHN G. BRADY, Water commissioner, was born in Norwich. Connecticut, 
 October 28, 1833, died in this city. May 27. 1904. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Norwich, and learned the trade of machinist in the shops of the Norwich 
 & Worcester Railroad there, Abtiut 1856 he became a locomotive engineer on the 
 Norwich Road and followed that occupation for twelve years. He made his home 
 in this city in i860. In 1868 he became foreman in the repair shops of the Worcester 
 & Nashua Railroad in this city, and afterward was master mechanic of the Port- 
 land & Rochester Railroad, and lived for a time in Portland. Returning to Wor- 
 cester in 1875 he was for eleven years afterward master mechanic for the Worcester 
 & Nashua Road. His public life began in 1881 when he served his ward in the 
 Common Council. He was councilman again in 1882 and alderman in 1883-84-85. 
 From April, 1886, when he succeeded Lucian A. Taylor as water commissioner, he 
 was in charge of the water system of the city until he died. He was a member ol 
 the Worcester Society of Antiquity. 
 
 LEON JEFFERSON BARRETT, of Barrett & Snow, general agents of the State 
 Mutual Assurance Company, was born at Ilion, New York, January 12, 1877, son 
 of John Bunyan and Adella Artherniise (Clough) Barrett. 
 
 He attended the public schools, and the private school of Joseph Gile, of New 
 Haven, Connecticut. He entered the employ of the Winchester Repeating Arms 
 Company as a machinist's apprentice, after he left school, at the age of fifteen, and 
 he followed his trade, and in 1902 he became mechanician in the Sheffield Scientific 
 School of Yale University. This proved his opportunity, as it opened a way to 
 obtain more education, and his associates also were of great benefit to him. In 1905 
 he decided to change his occupation and started upon his career in the insurance 
 business, as district manager of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company at New 
 Haven. A year later he became the agency director of the Underwriters Agency 
 Company in New Haven, a prosperous corporation, of which F. C. Bushnell and 
 R. S. Woodruff (the latter then governor of Connecticut) were his backers. -A year 
 later he resigned his position, but remained on the board of directors, and he ac- 
 cepted a more lucrative offer of the general agency of the Connecticut Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company, with headquarters at Bridgeport, Connecticut. A year and a 
 half later he was elected inspector of agencies of the Home Life Insurance Company 
 of New York. In this office his duties required him to travel extensively, and he 
 made a wide acquaintance among insurance men. In June, 1909, he entered into 
 partnership with Benjamin Bigelow Snow, under the firm name of Barrett & Snow, 
 as general agents of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts. The firm is one of the largest in New England, and the business has 
 steadily grown each year. His hobby is his machinist trade, in which he has always 
 kept up-to-date. He was one of the incorporators and vice-president and treasurer 
 of John Bath & Company, Inc., of Worcester, manufacturers of precision tools, 
 guages and grinding machinery. He is a past master of Corinthian Lodge, No. 103, 
 Free and Accepted Masons, Northford, Connecticut, and a member of all the Ma- 
 sonic bodies including Pulaski Chapter, No. 26, of New Haven, Connecticut ; Jerus- 
 alem Council, of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Hamilton Commandery, No. 5, Knights 
 Templar, of Bridgeport; Worcester Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree; (jod- 
 dard Council. Princes of Jerusalem, sixteenth degree; Lawrence Chapter, Rose Croix, 
 eighteenth degree ; Worcester, Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree, Bos- 
 ton ; Palestine Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Providence, Rhode Island; 
 Aletheia Grotto, No. 13, of Worcester. He is a member of the Adams Square Con- 
 gregational Church, and the Congregational Club of Worcester, and the Kcononuc 
 
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 Club. In politics he .is an liKk-pcndent. He is a member of the r.)mmi>ii',veallh 
 Club, Worcester Automobile Club, Worcester Country Club, Chamber ol C:ommere<'. .iml 
 Worcester County Mechanics .Association. 
 
 Mr. Barrett married. May 26. 1896, Martha Sackett Hyde, born at North Haven, Con- 
 necticut, January 13, 1877, daughter of Lyman Munsou and Elizabeth Gertrude Hyde 
 (adopted, name prior to adoption (iivens). Children: Ellen Elizabeth, born May'ig, 
 1898, at Westville, New Haven, Connecticut, now at Wellesley : X'irttinia I'.eriiice', 
 born March 17, 1900, at North Haven, Connecticut ; Leone Manila, born at North 
 Haven, Connecticut, September 7, 190,;. 
 
 EDWIN GRANT BARRETT, Lieulenant-CMl,„,el. deputv-sheritT. merchant, was 
 born June 29, 1868, in Springlreld, son of Jo>eph and .-\lvina ( Spencer ) I'.arrett' We 
 died in this city, June 3, 1917. 
 
 He received his education in the public schooK. For manv years he was a 
 retail shoe dealer with a store at .\'o. 171 Main street. In later years he wa^ a 
 deputy-sherifif with offices in the Slater building. He enlisted in 1888 in the City 
 Guards and at the end of three years held tlie rank 01 tirst sergeant His promotion 
 to second lieutenant, lieutenant and captain followed soon afterward. He was com- 
 missioned captain. April 5, 1894, and commanded his company until he was retired 
 in 1914 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His service in the Spanish War is 
 described elsewhere. He was the first commander of Colonel E. R. Shumway C'amp, 
 United Spanish War Veterans, in 1901, and in 1907 was made head of the' depart- 
 ment of Massachusetts in this organization. He was at one time active in municipal 
 politics and was president of the Board of .Aldermen. He was defeated for the 
 nomination for mayor by Walter H. Blodget. In politics he was a Kepublican. 
 
 Mr. Barrett married Florence G. Pond, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Bond) 
 Pond, of this city, and they had one son. Franklin Elliott, born December 24. i8(/), 
 who served in the United States Marine^ during the World War. His home was at 
 No. 5 Norton street. 
 
 DANA MARSH DUSTAN, Special agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company, was born in Tunliridge. \'ermont. June 14, 1859, son of (leorge 
 Dustan, who was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, November 28, 1828, died in Hart- 
 ford, Connecticut, March 27, 1902: married Lucy .A. Marsh, who was born in Orford, 
 New Hampshire. September 2, 1831, died September 14, 1802. 
 
 Dana M. Dustan attended the i)ublic schools ; graduated from the high school of 
 Peterborough. New Hainpshire, in 1874: from Kimball Union .Academy at Meriden, 
 New Hampshire, in 1876; and from Dartmouth College in 1880 with the degrees of 
 Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. He was principal of the People's Academy, 
 Morrisville, Vermont, 1880-82; of the high school. Groton, Massachusetts, 1882-83; 
 of the high school, Weston, Massachusetts, 1883-87: of Monson Academy, Monson, 
 Massachusetts, 1887-93; of Tabor .Academy, Marion, Massachusetts, 1893-1901. He 
 was connected with the New En.gland Publishing Company of Boston, 1901-02, and 
 since then has been the special agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, having offices in this city. In jjolitics Mr. Dustan is a Republican. He was a 
 member of the Worcester School Committee from 1906 to 1916; a meinber of the 
 Ward Ten Republican City Committee, 1904-06; president of the Worcester County 
 Republican Club. He is a member of the corporation of the People's Savings Bank; 
 of Quinsigamond Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; the Sons of Tem- 
 perance ; United Order of tlie Golden Cross ; Commonwealth Club ; Congregational 
 Club; Worcester Country Club; Dartmouth College Club; Worcester Cliamber of 
 Commerce, of which he is clerk; and the Plymouth Congregational Churcli. 
 
 Mr. Dustan married (first) at Weston, Massachusetts, December 22, 1885, Abbie 
 C. Fiske, daughter of Alonzo S. Fiske, who was born December 3, 1852, died at 
 Weston, Massachusetts, in 1893. He married (second) at Atlantic, Massachusetts, 
 July 2, 1901, Myra -A. Saflford, daughter of Roby R. Safifopd, who was born May 12, 
 1858. Mr. Dustan's onlv child, Helen C, born August 14. 1888, graduated from the 
 Classical High School in 1908, and from the Bridgewater State Normal School in 191 1 ; 
 married, January I, 1915, Tracy C. Buswell. 
 
 EDWARD ELLERY FRANKS, Jeweler, proprietor of the Moulton Store, was 
 born in Medfield, September 27, 1875, s.m of Ellery and Emma Franks. 
 
 He attended the public schools of his native town and the Bryant & Stratton 
 Business College in Boston. He began his business career in the employ of the 
 American Rubber Company of Boston, and for four years was a clerk and for six 
 years a traveling salesman for this concern. In 1901 he engaged in business on his 
 
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 own account in the retail jewelry business in Boston. He came to this city in igio, 
 and purchased the business of Edward Moulton (see biography). He has continued 
 the business at the old stand since that time, and maintained the high standards of 
 his predecassor. This is one of the largest and best-known jewelry stores in this 
 section. Mr. Franks has taken the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry, and is a 
 member of Quins igamond Lodge, Worcester County Commandery, Lawrence Chapter 
 of Rose Croix, Goddard Council of Princes of Jerusalem, and the Massachusetts 
 Consistory. In religion he is a Unitarian. He is a member of the Worcester Country 
 Club. 
 
 Mr. Franks married, May 14, 1902, Miriam Sugarnian, of Boston. They have three 
 children: Edward Ellery, Jr., born December 6, 1903; Robert Sherman, March i, 1907; 
 Lawrence Addison, October 7, 1913. 
 
 ELBRIDGE REED HOLMES, Alember of the Development Board, entered the 
 employ of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works in August, 1902, after about seven 
 years of experience as a maphinist and draftsman. He learned the trade of ma- 
 chinist in the shops of Pratt & Whitney, of Hartford, Connecticut, and for three 
 years and a half was employed as draftsman and designer in the works of the Bea- 
 man & Smith Company, manufacturers of machine tools. Providence, Rhode Island. 
 His specialty here has been drafting for the narrow-fabric looms, and he is at present 
 in charge of that branch of the work. In the course of his work he has taken out 
 five patents in his own name, and four others jointly, all assigned to the Crompton 
 & Knowles Loom Works. Most of these are improvements on the narrow-fabric 
 . looms; one is a box motion lor broad looms. For several years Mr. Holmes was a 
 teacher in the drafting classes of the Young Alen's Christian Association evening 
 schools. 
 
 Mr. Holmes was born in Erving, Massachusetts, August 21, 1876, son of Samuel 
 and Jane Elizabeth (Reed) Holmes. His father was a farmer and lumberman. In 
 the district schools of his native town and in the Salem (Massachusetts) Commer- 
 cial School, he received his early education. He married, February 14, 1900, Harriet 
 May Rhodes, daughter of Ralph Clifford and Mary Elizabeth (Cowles) Rhodes, of 
 Wethersfield, Connecticut, and they have two daughters, Marian Reed and Doris 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 DANIEL KINSLEY, Rftir;d. court messenger, was born in Fletcher, Vermont, 
 June 17, 1829, son of Ben Alvah and Catherine (Montague) Kinsley. Ben Alvah 
 Kinsley was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was wounded in the battle at LaCole 
 Mill, Canada. He wrote the history of the town of Fletcher for the "Gazzeteer." He 
 had five sons in the Civil War ; he died at Lowell, Vermont, December 6, 1870, aged 
 seventy-four years. The Kinsley line of ancestry is: Daniel (8), Ben Alvah (7), 
 Daniel (6), Daniel (5), Samuel (4), Samuel (3), Samuel (2), Stephen (i). The 
 pioneer, Stephen, was born in England, and came to Braintree about 1639. He set- 
 tled in Dorchester, but returned to Braintree, where he was an elder in the church, 
 and deputy to the General Court. He died in 1673. Daniel (5) Kinsley left Dor- 
 chester, where his ancestors had lived for a century, and settled in Charlemont ; his 
 brother Samuel died in this town on his way from Deerfield to Bridgewater, and 
 was buried here: Daniel (5) Kinsley and his son Daniel (6) both served in the 
 Revolution, and both removed to Bennington, Vermont, afterward, and later to Cam- 
 bridge, in that State. Through the Montague line, and many others, Mr. Kinsley 
 is descended from the original pioneers of Massachusetts. The Montagues were 
 among the most prominent families of Sunderland. 
 
 Daniel Kinsley was educated in the district schools. He came to North 
 Brookfield, and entered the employ of Bonum Nye, through whose influence as one 
 of the county commissioners he was elected messenger of the courts at Worcester, 
 June 21, 1853, and he filled this office for fifty years. In the early days of his service 
 at the Court House he planted a seedling elm. now known as the Kinsley elm. Hon. 
 Alfred S. Roe wrote an appreciation of Mr. Kinsley in the Worcester Magazine, 
 October, 1903. Mr. Kinsley has lived for many years on the old Isaiah Thomas 
 estate at the rear of the Court House. He is a member of Plymouth Church, and 
 was formerly active in the Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 Mr. Kinsley married, August 24, 1854, Harriet Newell Mudgett, daughter of 
 Jesse Mudgett. She died March 4, 1900. Their children were: I. Catherine Mon- 
 tague, born June 23, 1855 : married Charles A. Reed. 2. Fanny Amelia, born Sep- 
 tember 10. 1857, died January 17, 1863. 3. Florence Josephine, born October 26, 
 i86n. 4. Carrie Carleton, born ^larch 26, 1864, kindergarten teacher in the Gates 
 Lane School. 5. Sumner .'\lvah, born April 8. 1868. married Maybelle Pierce. 6. 
 Edward William, of further mention. 
 
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 EDWARD WILLIAM KINSLEY, Baiikt-r and broker, ot the rinii ..i Kiii.|,y & 
 Adams, was born in this city. January 12, 1871. He attended the old Dix Street dram- 
 mar School and the Classical Hish School. From i8yo to igoG he was in th<- employ 
 of Kinnicutt & DeWitt. bankers, rising to a position of resiionsibility and trust. Since 
 that time he has been senior partner of the firm of Kinsley & Adams. Their ollices are 
 at No. 15 Foster street. Mr. Kinsley is a trustee of the People's Savings Bank. In 
 politics he is a Republican. He is a metnbcr of the Worcester C!lub, the Worcester 
 Country Club, the Tatiuick Country (_'\uh, the Commonwealth Clul) and the Lakeside 
 Boat Club. 
 
 Mr. Kinsley married, in this city, December i. 1905. Edith Lancaster, who was born 
 here, December 12, 1883. a daughter of William and Catherine (C'hristopher) Lancaster. 
 Her father was born in England, July 11, 1845, died in this city, October 21. igo6; was for 
 many years general agent of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company. Her mother 
 was born at St. John, New Brunswick. June 5. 1861. died in tliis city, Juiie 22. 1915. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Kinsley have two children: Joan, born February 6. igij. and Edward Wil- 
 liam, Jr., born July 13. 1915. Their home is at No. 9 Cedar street. 
 
 EARL ELLIOT HOWARD, Vice-president, secretary and manager of one of 
 three sales departments of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, has been with the 
 company since November, 1899. For several years he was employed in ollice work, 
 being in charge of the cost dei)artment. When Deacon H. H. Merriam resigned in 
 1906, Mr. Howard succeeded him. Since July, 1910, lie has been in the executive office. 
 He became clerk of the cori)oration. February 28. 1912, and a director. February 26, 
 1913. In February, 1917, he was elected one of the vice-presidents. His department 
 as sales manager comprises the broad looms, both woolen and worsted, carpet, duck 
 and other looms of this class. His duties call him from time to time to the mills in 
 which Crompton & Knowles looms are used and to those in whicli he is seeking to 
 introduce the looms, giving him a wide acquaintance among the agents and manu- 
 facturers in all parts of the country. 
 
 Mr. Howard was born in Lynn. Massacliusetts. March 18. 1872. son of James 
 Elwin and Kate Elizabeth (Gilmaii) Howard. He received his educatii>n in Miss 
 Ayers's private school and the public schools of Milford, Massachusetts, being a 
 member of the 1890 class of tlie high school there. After taking a course in the 
 Hickox Commercial School, Boston, in 1891, he began liis business career in the 
 office of the George F. Blake Manufacturing Company, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
 This concern, it may be said, succeeded to the steam pump business established by 
 Lucius J. Knowles, as stated elsewhere in tliis book. For three years Mr. Howard 
 was the chief cost clerk of this company. From the time he left until he came to the 
 Crompton & Knowles Loom W'orks he was employed in (he offices of the Draper Com- 
 pany, at Hopedale. He is a member of the Worcester Country Club, the Tatnuck 
 Cottntry Club, the Worcester Club, the Commonwealth Club, the Chainber of Com- 
 merce, Carpet Association of America, National Cotton Manufacturers Association, 
 Textile Exhibitors Association, Home Market Club of Boston, Republican Club of 
 Massachusetts, Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is 
 past master; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters ; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar ; and the Massachusetts 
 Consistory; the Milford Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and an at- 
 tendant of the Adams Square Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. How^ard married, September 15, 1896, Elizabeth Heath, daughter of John M. 
 and Clara (Ambler) Heath, of Lynn, Massachusetts. 
 
 MARY J. STUDLEY, Physician and surgeon, was born in this city, and died 
 here in 1881. She was graduated from the New York Infirmary and Medical School 
 for Women in 1872. Returning to Worcester, she practiced medicine in this city 
 until 1876. Much of her time, however, was spent in lecturing on medical subjects, 
 as she preferred that service to the routine of general practice. In 1877 she was 
 appointed a teacher of hygiene at the State Normal School, Framingham, Massa- 
 chusetts, and while on duty there she wrote a book that became widely known, en- 
 titled "What Our Girls Should Know." Her last years were devoted to travel and 
 study abroad. Along the lines of hygiene, and preventive medicine and treatment, 
 she was far in advance of her times. 
 
 RUFUS BENNETT FOWLER, Patent Attorney, was born Decemlier 5, 1841, 
 in Northbridge, Massachusetts, son of Charles and Susan F. (Bennett) h'owler. 
 Mr. Fowler is a descendant of Philip Fowler, a native of Marlborough, England, 
 who came to Ipswich in 1634 at the age of forty-four years. His father, tharlcs 
 Fowler, who died in 189S at the advanced age of eighty years, was a farmer, and 
 was of the Quaker faith. 
 
6i2 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Rufus B. Fowler was graduated at the Barre Academy, Barre. Vermont, in the 
 class of 1861, and was for a time assistant superintendent of the Uxbridge Woolen 
 Mill, He later took a course in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, 
 New York, the first to adopt actual business methods in its course of instruction, 
 and at that time at the height of its popularity, having about fourteen hundred 
 students. At the close of his course, Mr, Fowler accepted the position of superin- 
 tendent and instructor in the banking department of Eastman College. In this 
 department two banks and a clearing house illustrated in a practical manner the 
 functions of banks in business life. In addition to his duties as superintendent and 
 instructor Mr, Fowler also studied law. In 1864-65 he became lecturer on commer- 
 cial law at the United States College of Business in New Haven, Connecticut, which 
 college was an ambitious undertaking of Thomas H. Stevens, for many years teacher 
 in the Claverack Institute, New York, to broaden the instruction in schools of this 
 class. 
 
 From 1865 to the time of the .great fire in Chicago, Mr, Fowler was a member 
 of the wholesale firm of Fowler, Stewart & Wilson, at No. 39 Lake street, Chicago, 
 From that time Mr. Fowler gradually drifted into mechanical pursuits and patent 
 law, urged both by his natural ability and his inclination in that direction. His 
 services as an expert in such matters were in constant demand. In 1872 he went 
 to Norwich, Connecticut, and was later for some time engaged in designing special 
 machinery at Worcester. He also at this tirne completed an invention of a ribbon 
 loom. Other inventions related to wire-working machinery, wool-carding engines, 
 and a mechanical piano player of unique capabilities, to which he gave the name 
 of Pianochord, After his marriage he conducted the manufacture of narrow wares 
 by means of looms of his own invention. In 1881 he returned to Worcester, and 
 took up the profession of patent attorney and expert in patent causes, with offices 
 in the Exchange building. On May i, 1915, he moved his offices to the New Park 
 building, corner of Main and Franklin streets, Worcester, where he is associated 
 with Mr. Kennedy, under the finn name of Fowler & Kennedy, patent attorneys, of 
 which Mr. Fowler is senior partner. 
 
 The nature of his profession is such that a comparatively few become acquainted 
 with his merits and ability, and although he ranks high in the profession he is 
 better known through his connection with various organizations devoted to public 
 service. He was president of the Worcester Board of Trade in 1900 and 1901, his 
 natural fitness and ability for the position and his public spirit and interest in the 
 public welfare of Worcester directing attention to hiin, and he was recognized as 
 a very capable and efficient executive. While at the head of the Board of Trade 
 there was a spontaneous movement to run Mr, Fowler for the office of mayor of 
 Worcester, and he could have had the Republican nomitiation with the support of 
 all the newspapers, but he declined the honor on account of the pressure of his 
 private business. The only public office he has accepted is that of park commis- 
 sioner of Worcester, which he held from 1905 until 1917. 
 
 He was a member of the coinmission appointed by Governor Foss to consider 
 the preservation of Lake Quinsigamond. He is a trustee of the Worcester Academy, 
 of the Worcester County Institution for Savings, director in the Weight Wire Com- 
 pany, the Morgan Spring Company, and other corporations. He is a member of 
 the Worcester Society of Antiquity, the Worcester Economic Club, the Public Edu- 
 cation Association of Worcester, the Worcester County Musical Association, the 
 Massachusetts Civic League, the Massachusetts Forestry Association, the National 
 Conference of Charities and Correction, the American Civic Association, the National 
 Municipal League, and the National Geographic Society, Mr. Fowler is also a 
 member of the Engineers Club of New York City, He is an honorary member of 
 the Worcester Continentals, Although Mr, Fowler was reared a Quaker, he and 
 his family are attendants of the Central Congregational Church, and he was active 
 in the building committee, the board of assessors and the music committee, while 
 Mrs. Fowler has served on the woman's committee. 
 
 Mr. Fowler married, November 17, 1875, Helen Maria Wood, a daughter of 
 Stillman and Harriet (Clark) Wood, of Barre, Vermont. Children : Flenry Wood 
 (see biography) : Susan Bennett, born in Worcester, January i, 1885, died in Wor- 
 cester, June 6, 1892, Mrs, Fowler is a descendant of Hugh Clark, who came from 
 England to Watertown about 1640. 
 
 Henry Wood Fowler, only son of Rufus B, Fowler, was born November 11, 
 1876, at Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and died in Boston, February 17, 1912, He 
 was educated in the Worcester schools and Worcester Academy, graduating in 
 1894, and in Harvard College, froin which he graduated in i8g8 (A, B. magna cum 
 laude) with honorable mention in Latin and History. He received his degree in 
 law at the Harvard Law School in 1901, and in the same year was admitted to the 
 Massachusetts bar. In 1903 he was admitted to practice in the LTnited States Cir- 
 
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 cuit Court, and in 1905 in the United States Sniirenic Cnn. After prartic ihl; two 
 years in the offices of Charles M. Thayer and Henry F. Harris lie became asM.eialed 
 with his father, continuing in practice as a patent lawyer to the end of his life, lie 
 bad literary gifts and was a student of English. I'rench and (lerman lileralnre. 
 For about a year he assisted in editing the "Worcester Magazine." lie was a 
 member of the Harvard Club of Worcester, the Worcester Clnli, the Ouinviganiond 
 Boat Club and the Winter Club. 
 
 Mr. Fowler married, Sei)tember 14. 1(104. Mabel Curtis Trice. ,ind Ihey liad three 
 children: Helen, born F'ebruary -'4, Ic;o(i; .Margaret, June 7. 11 100 : .\inie.' .Se|,Unilier 
 II. luio. 
 
 IRA B. HUBBARD, .Manufacturer, for many years acii\e in the ui.iiuifaciure 
 of textile macliinery. is considered, by nun faunli.ar with the different typ^ 
 machinery, to be an authority in that line of work, to which he h; 
 greater part of his life. Mr. Hubbard is of a disposition inclined U 
 what taciturn reserve. He always evinces an unniistakeble enmity 
 tion and executive strength. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard was born .Inly "• i*^.Si). i'l Hohlen. Massaclnisetls, wit 
 ceived his education in the common schools. ;\t an early age hi 
 nient. being first employed by Witherhy, Rugg & Richardson, of this city, willi 
 after serving an ai)prenticeship of three years, he continued as a journeyman ma- 
 chinist for seven years, following which he had charge of the liarb wire department 
 of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Compan> for two years. He then Ijecame 
 employed by the Lombard Machine Company. 1 f which he was soon made super- 
 intendent, in which capacity he continued for a i)erio(t of thirtx years, thi^ plaiU 
 then being located at the corner of School and I'nion streets. While there be 
 not only efficiently performed those duties set immediately before him, but with 
 the keen observation of youth which aspires to more than a common existence, he 
 took advantage of the opportunity afforded him to learn the business in its de- 
 tailed entirety. As a result he was for more than a (piarter of a century identified 
 with this organization, serving it the greater part of that time as superintendent. 
 He spent many long hours outside of business working in its behalf, and while 
 there he added many of his own mechanical devices and some new machinery to 
 the equipment of that plant. Afterwards the company was sold and re-organized 
 and then it was that Mr. Hubbard decided to enter into business for himself. When 
 the Lombard Company built and moved to the building in the south part of Wor- 
 cester, Mr. Hubbard started his business on a portion of the floor sjiace which 
 that company formerly occupied, with a hand drill, one man to help operate it. and 
 a comparatively small amount of capital. The announcement of the fact that he 
 was thus to be henceforward independently established proved the stimuljitiou of a 
 large and rapidly-increasing business which came in from all sections of the New 
 England States and elsewhere. This necessitated a speedy expansion of his plant, 
 which was immediately accomplished by the addition of both new and second-hand 
 machinery, together with a number of hands to inanipulate it. The idea which Mr. 
 Hubbard had in inind was to specialize in textile mill machinery which should be 
 different from others of its kind, because by the installation of proper shafting and 
 by the replacement of old friction bearings with new ball bearings a tremendous 
 amount of power might thus be conserved. Mr. Hulibard was the first to make 
 use of the ball hearings for the conservation of power in the use of luachines for 
 making cotton and woolen textiles in the United States. The company has since 
 the time it was founded been re-organized. It now operates a branch office in 
 Charlotte. North Carolina, which is in the very center of the cotton raising and 
 manufacturing belt of this country. A short time ago the introduction of what is 
 known as the S. K. V. Ball Bearings brought a contract for $19,000.00 for the in- 
 stallation of machinery in southern mills. Mr. Hubhard. himself, recently suiiervised 
 the installation of all the machinery in a new mill for the Merrit Woolen Company, 
 which mill is located at Webster. Massachusetts. He carries 011 his business activi- 
 ties in the same alert, intensive, vigorous manner in vvhich lie first began them. 
 Years seem to count for nothing with him, for youth is his today, as it was one- 
 half century ago. He has the profound respect, not only of the young and mature 
 men with whom he is most habitually associated, but of many others with whom 
 he has no business connections wdiatever. His reputation is not limited to his State 
 alone, but is known throughout the entire New England States, where his ingenuity 
 and untiring energy have played no small part in the develoimient d one of 
 .America's and one of the World's most vitally important industries. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard is a member of the Knights of Pythias, m which he has been a 
 captain of the Uniform Rank: the .Ancient Order United Workmen, and the ImU- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He attends the Universalisl church. 
 
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6i4 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 he is a Republican, and served for two years as a mcmher of the Common Council 
 from Ward 2. 
 
 Mr. Hubbard married, October 20, 1874, Josephine Chenery, of Holden, Massa- 
 chusetts, who died September 20, 1916, in this city. They have one daughter Ada, 
 now Mrs. Clifford A. Blake, of Worcester, who has two children : Richard and 
 Virginia Blake. 
 
 CALVIN FARNSWORTH, Founder and proprietor of the baggage transfer and 
 carriage service, and tlie baggage checking service at the Union Railroad Station, 
 was born at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, November 20, 1831, son of Calvin and 
 Pluma (Adams) Farnsworth. His father was born in Shirley, 1799, died in 1879; 
 for many years a manufacturer of band-boxes ; inventor of machinery for making 
 the material for his business. Jesse Farnsworth, father of Calvin Farnsworth, Sr., 
 married Sarah Sawtell, whose father, Obadiah Sawtell, was a soldier in the Revo- 
 lution, town clerk, selectman, delegate to the Provincial Congress and the first 
 constitutional convention of Massachusetts. Joseph Farnsworth, father of Jesse 
 Farnsworth, a native of Groton, was selectman ; he was a son of Jonathan Farns- 
 worth, grandson of Jonathan Farnsworth, Sr., and great-grandson of Matthias 
 Farnsworth, the pioneer, who was born in England and came to Lynn, Massa- 
 chusetts, about 1650, a weaver by trade. 
 
 Calvin Farnsworth attended the district schools of his native town, and at 
 the age of seventeen began his career as a driver of the stage between Lunenburg 
 railroad station and the village. Soon afterward he went to Fitchburg, where he 
 worked for a year in a restaurant. In spite of his youth he persuaded President 
 Phillips of the Fitchburg Railroad to give him a trial as baggage man on the train 
 between this city and Fitchburg. He proved competent and afterward became a 
 conductor, a position he held for four years. When he left the service of the rail- 
 road comjiany. President Phillips made him a present of a silver pitcher and salver 
 as a token of his appreciation of his faithfulness and tendered him a dinner. He 
 then became a brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad and soon became con- 
 ductor again. For several years after, he had the contract for carrying the mail 
 between the railroad station and post office in this city. After six years he took 
 charge of a drawing-room car line from Fall River to the White Mountains, but 
 this venture proved a failure and the service was discontinued. 
 
 What seemed at the time a misfortune proved eventually a boon to Mr. Farns- 
 worth. At that time he evolved the idea of a parcel room where packages could 
 be left safely in railroad stations. When he proposed his idea to President Lincoln 
 it was rejected, but his successor permitted a contract between the company and 
 Mr. Farnsworth to give the parcel room a trial. At the end of three months the 
 trial proved the idea was sound and the rental was fixed in accordance with the 
 volume of business. He was a pioneer in this field, his example being followed 
 elsewhere. Soon after he established the parcel room he added the baggage transfer 
 business, at first losing money, but later making it an important part of his busi- 
 ness. He added a hack service and before the day of taxis used forty horses in 
 this department alone. He now has taxis, but retains one horse for the few who 
 prefer the hack to the automobile. At the age of eighty-seven he is still in active 
 business. His stables are at No. 9 Piedmont street; his residence for many years 
 has been at No. 34 Benefit street. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce : 
 the Old South (Congregational) Chiirch, of which he was formerly a member of the 
 music committee. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Farnsworth married, April 12, 1854, Martha A. Hayward, born at Bedford. 
 Massachusetts, April 16, 1834, daughter of Ebenezer and Ann T. (Bingham) Hay- 
 ward. Her father was a railroad man. She died October 23, 191 5, after more than 
 sixty-one years in wedlock. They had three children: Caroline H.. Josephine M. 
 and George B. (see biography). 
 
 GEORGE BARTLETT FARNSWORTH, Proprietor of the School Street Stor- 
 age Warehouse, was born in this city, May 17, 1865, son of Calvin and Martha A. 
 (Hayward) Farnsworth. He received his education in the public schools of this 
 city, and in Hinman's Business College, from which he was graduated. For many 
 years he was associated in business with his father. In 1913 he purchased the 
 School Street Storage Warehouse of George T. Aitchison, and has conducted this 
 business since that time with offices at No. 44 School street. His home isat No. 
 68 Moore avenue. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; the Kiwanis Club, 
 and the Economic Club. He is a member of Old South (Congregational) Church of 
 this city. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Farnsworth married. October 5, 1899, at Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick. 
 Canada, Phebe Svkes, born August 17, 1871, daughter of Rev. Simeon and Hannah 
 
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 Sykes, both natives (if England. Her lather liad iiastorates ni Loii.L;ri;L;.iU..n.ii 
 churclies at Economy, Pleasant River ami Keswick Ridye in New l!nni>uici<. Mr 
 and Mrs. Farnsworth have two children: Calvin, horn March lo. 1901; 'rhi.rm.in 
 A., born Noveniber 19. lyoj. 
 
 WILLIS E. SIBLEY, Lawyer, was born December to, 1857, at .\ew Salem. 
 Massachusetts, son of Sylvanus and Abigail Elizalietii (lirigss) Sibley. He read 
 law and was admitted to the bar in March, 1887. Since then ho has becii in general 
 practice in Worcester, and is now the senior partner of the law firm of Sibley, Blair 
 & Young, his associates being his brother, Charles II, Sibley, Carl M. Blair an<l 
 Arthur J. Young. Mr. Sibley is a director of the Merchants National Bank; the 
 Worcester Electric Light Company; trustee of the Worcester l''ive Cents Savings 
 Bank; director of the Worcester County Law Library. He is a member of I'lvTnomh 
 Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Sibley married, December 21, 1892. Marion E. Chapin. daughter of Alfred 
 Chapin, of Shrewsbury, and has one son, Elbridge. born in Worcester, Sejitemlier 
 ly, 1903. 
 
 JAMES OLIVER MAGAY, (Jptician, was b.nn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
 October 24. 1884. He received his education in the imlilic schools of his native 
 city, graduating from the Washington Gramm.ir School in 1905. He left home at 
 the age of fifteen and was employed for four years in a wholesale jewelry business 
 in Boston; afterward for three years in the store of .\ndrew J. Lloyd & Company, 
 Boston, wdiere he learned the trade of optician. Mr. Magay came to this city in 1908 
 and was employed by the firm of Wheaton & Bowers, ojiticians, for four years. 
 In 1912 he engaged in business as partner in tlie firm of Magay & Barron, opticians. 
 His partner is Ralph T. Barron. For five years their place of business was in 
 the arcade of the Slater building; since Alay. 1917. the firm has been located at .\'o. 
 368 Main street. He served eight years in ■the Massachusetts militia, in Company 
 C. Eighth Regiment, Infantry. He is a member iif the Worcester Rotary Club and 
 of the ShafFner Societv of Odd Fellows; of Central Loilge. Independent Onler of 
 Odd Fellows. 
 
 Mr. Magay married in Cambridge, Xovend)er 9. 1909. .-Mice (iertnule ('onnor, 
 who was born in Cambridge, daughter of James W. anil Eli: abeth B. Connor. Her 
 father is a builder, living in Cambridge. Mr. and .Mrs. Magav have three chil- 
 dren: Robert Andrew, born September 28, 1910; Ruth Edna, born August 4. 191.?; 
 Gordon, born November g, 1914. Their home is at No. 114 Faine street. 
 
 Andrew B. Magay, father of James O. Magay, a native of the North of Ireland 
 was an upholsterer by trade, coming to this country in boyhood and living in Cam- 
 bridge the remainder of his life; died there in .August. 1895. His mother is livin.g 
 in this city. Andrew B. and Rebecca L. Magay had four children, of whom two 
 died in infancy. Besides James O. they had a son. William J., now of Erie, Petm- 
 sylvania, also an optician; has two children. Edith and Donald. 
 
 WALTER DANIEL ROSS, President and trea^urer of the Ross Brothers Com- 
 pany, was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, July 29, 1858, son of William J. 
 and Maria E. (Loring) Ross, both of Sterling. Massachusetts. 
 
 He received his educational training in the public schools of his native town. 
 In 1881 Mr. Ross came to this city, where he became a clerk for William H. Earle, 
 a dealer in grain, grass and vegetable seeds, and agricultural implemeiUs. the store 
 then being located in the (jranite block at Nos. 2-4-!) Washington square. In 1888 
 Walter D. and Henry F. Ross bought out the business of Mr. Earle. which was 
 continued under the firm name of Ross Brothers until 1906, when it was incorporated 
 as Ross Brothers Company under the laws of Massachusetts, the capital stock of 
 which is $100,000. The business was removed from Washington square to No. 
 162 Front street, which location it occupied for a period of ten years, when it was 
 then moved to Nos. 90 and 92 Front street, its present location, where it occupies 
 three blocks. These buildings consist of what is known as the (iranite block, the 
 Whitcomb block and the Bigelow court block, all three being the property of the 
 late G. Henry Whitcomb. and comprising fourteen floors. This company also has 
 a large storehouse extending along the 13oston & Maine Railroad tracks for about 
 one hundred feet. This company is extensive dealers in grass, field and flower 
 seeds, agricultural implements, fertilizers, poultry supplies, bidbs, etc.. etc.. in fact 
 everything for the farm from a hand weeded to a tractor. They import large quan- 
 tities of seed from across the water, and also ciMitract with the largest growers 
 in this country. Their sales cover every .State in the Union, also Canada and many 
 of the foreign countries. Some twenty years ago this company furnished the Jap- 
 anese Government with their outfit of seeds and iiniiKnu-nts for establishing their 
 
6i6 HISTORY OF U'ORCRSTllR 
 
 Agricultural College and Experimental Station at Sapora, Japan. The present 
 officers of the Ross Brothers Company are VN'alter D. Ross, president and treasurer ; 
 H. Wilson Ross, vice-president; Clifford T. Eldridge, clerk; all of whom also con- 
 stitute the board of directors of the company. 
 
 Socially and fraternally Mr. Ross is a prominent and active member of various 
 organizations. He is president of the Worcester Agricultural Society ; a member 
 of the New England Agricultural Society, the Worcester County Harvest Club, the 
 Worcester Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Travelers' Association, the Eco- 
 nomic Club, the Worcester Country Club, the Worcester Grange and the Kiwanis 
 Club. He is a Mason of high standing, holding membership in Athelstan Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; 
 Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester County Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, and the Massachusetts Consistory, (thirty-second degree). He is also 
 a member of Aletheia Grotto. In political faith he is a Republican, and in religion 
 a Congregationalist, holding membership in the Central Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Ross married (first) Mabel Newton, of Southington, Connecticut, daughter 
 of Daniel Newton, and to this union were born three children : Harold A. and 
 Howell E., both of whom died in infancy ; and Hazel A., who is a graduate of the 
 English High School in Worcester, and the Mary Hemmenway School of Household 
 Arts, of Framingham, Massachusetts, and is now a teacher in that branch at Ply- 
 mouth, Massachusetts. The mother of these children died in this city, April 9, 
 1895. He married (second) Mary E. Eldridge, of this city, daughter of Louis E, 
 Eldridge, and to this union has been born one daughter, Eloise E., a student of the 
 High School. 
 
 EDWARD JAMES SAWYER. Vocation counsel. As an expert relating Xo 
 commercial employment of every kind and in his professional capacity as a vocation 
 counsel, Mr. Sawyer has been of great value to both employers and employees, and 
 has established a unique and highly-necessary business. The vocation counsel is 
 one of the special positions arising out of the complications of modern commercial 
 life, and has proved so beneficial and so helpful that its permanence is assured. 
 Mr. Sawyer maintains regular office hours at his rooms. No. 4 Walnut street, Wor- 
 cester, and may be there consulted or by appointment elsewhere on all matters per- 
 taining to commercial employment. He has constantly registered the best class of 
 office workers for store, factory or corporation, and his clientele of employers is 
 equally large and of the best class. 
 
 Edward J. Sawyer is a son of Frank Clark Sawyer, born in Hanover, New 
 Hampshire, of ancient and honorable New England family, who died in Charlton, 
 Massachusetts, in 1905, aged seventy-three years, a veteran of the Civil War, serv- 
 ing four years in the United States Navy, and a long time woolen mill overseer and 
 superintendent. He was a son of Noah Sawyer, who died in Charlton, Massa- 
 chusetts, a farmer and a shoemaker, aged eighty-seven years. Frank Clark .Sawyer 
 married Mary Elizabeth Nutter, born in Portsmouth. New Hampshire, in 1832, died 
 in Rochdale, Massachusetts, in 1895. They were the parents of three children, two 
 dying young. Edward J., the eldest and only child to survive infancy. 
 
 Edward J. Sawyer was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 4, 1863. 
 and there the first ten years of his life were passed. In 1873 his parents began a 
 series of removals which, by way of Lake Village and Laconia, New Hampshire, 
 brought them to Worcester. The lad, Edward J., was educated in private and 
 public schools in these places, finishing with courses at Leicester (Massachusetts) 
 Academy. He began wage earning in Rochdale Mills, than for twenty-five years 
 was connected with the business department of the Worcester "Telegram." Three 
 years were next spent as employment manager for the .'\merican Optical Company 
 of Southbridge, Massachusetts, then in 1914 he established his own private busi- 
 ness in Worcester, and as vocation counsel has won for himself success and high 
 reputation. Mr. Sawyer is a Republican in politics, but has always been content 
 to serve in The ranks, political office holding no lure for him. He is a member of 
 and past noble grand of Worcester Lodge, No. 56, Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows ; is a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs, and an attendant of Old 
 South Congregational Church of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Sawyer married (first) June 5, 1895, in Worcester, Massachusetts, Flarriet 
 J. Morse, daughter of James H. and Mary E. (Spring) Morse, who died in Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts, August 13, 1913. He married (second) in Warner, New 
 Hampshire, September 4, 1915, Mrs. Eleanor (Hackett) CJolden, daughter of George 
 and Mary Frances (Bryer) Hackett. The present Mrs. Sawyer has one daughter, 
 Mildred Frances (Golden) Goodrow ; she married George A. Goodrow, of Wor- 
 cester. Massachusetts, October 17. 1916. 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 hi- 
 
 FREDERICK WARREN WHITE, Tn-aMiix-r ..f tlu- IV.plv's SaMny. Ilaiil-;, 
 was born in Milllinr\, Ma^sa(.■lulSl•ll^. Ani;nst i, i8^<). -.tm of Nathan ami l.i.in^i 
 Maria (Cole I White. 
 
 He attended the ]nil)lu- seho.iK of Worcester and entered the hit;h scIim,,! uitli 
 the class of 1879, leaving after his lir>i year to enter the employ .if the t'eojiU's 
 Savings Bank as clerk. From timt- \f tnne he was advanced to positions i>f .'.'reater 
 trust and responsibility. He served the bank as incssenfjer. bookkeein-r and teller, 
 and in l8g8 became assistant treasurer. I-'or a number of years lie was virtually 
 treasurer on account <pf the infirmities of Mr. Rent, the treasurer. Since lyi.^ he 
 has been treasurer. The People's fiank is one •■{ the largest in the c<iunty. (See 
 People's Bank in this work). From time to time Mr. White has been interested 
 in various business enterprises. He was nne of the founders with his brotlier- 
 in-law of the firm of White & Ragley. dealers and manufacturers uf oils, but is iii.t 
 now a partner. He was at one time a devebper of real estate on a large scale, 
 buying tracts of land in Worcester, laying out the property in house lots, building 
 attractive residences and selling them. In the aggregate he erected dwellings 
 valued at about a million dollars, a sulistantial addition to the ta.xable pniperty 
 of the city. In musical circles Mr. White has been i)rominent from boyhood. He 
 is a skillful organist and for thirteen years was chorister and organist of the First 
 Universalist Church. He was organist in the Old South Church many years. He 
 is a member of Quinsigamond T-udge. Free Masons, and lield in succession all the 
 offices; member of Eureka Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council. Koyal 
 and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery. Knights Templar, in which he 
 held office three years; Massachusetts Consistory; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine; 
 trustee of the Masonic Charitable and Educational .Association, and a member of 
 the house coinmittee of the Worcester Masonic Teitiple. He was a member of the 
 Commonwealth Club, and is a member of the Worcester Country Club, .and tin- City 
 Club of Boston. In politics he is a Republican. He served as member of the 
 Common Council in 1897-98-99 and was president during his last term. He is a 
 communicant of .All Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. White married (first) Cora Bagley. daughter of Hiraiu and Mary (Hoard- 
 man) Bagley. She died in 1914. He married (second) Marion Churchill, and they 
 have two children: Frederick \\'.. Jr.. born July 24. 1916; Howard Bradford, born 
 December 4, igiS. Their liMme is at X". 44 Fruit street. 
 
 DAVID EDWARD SHERIN, Clothing merchant, was born in Cxbridge, 
 Massachusetts, December y. 1808. The family came to this city when be was four 
 years old. and he attended the public schools here and in Crafton. attended the 
 Grafton High School and afterward attended the Hinman Business College in 
 Worcester. He started in life as a salesiuan. employed in various shoe and cloth- 
 ing stores of Worcester. Mr. Sherin has been in business as a dealer in clothing 
 on his own account since October i. igob. His first store was at No. 522 Main 
 street, and his business grew constantly and extended until it took rank among 
 the largest of the city. In 1916 he reiuoved to his present location at No. 412 Main 
 street in the heart of the retail business section. He made his home in Grafton 
 until 1910. In politics he is a Democrat, and while a resident of (Jraftou he was 
 active in town affairs, serving on the Board of Selectmen from 1907 to 1910 and 
 being chairman in 1909-10. His father had a farm at North (jrafton, and in his 
 youth he spent his spare time assisting his father with the work of the farm. .\t 
 the age of fourteen he began to work in the old Finlayson & Bousfuld mill. Mr. 
 Sherin is a luember of Alhambra Council. Knights of Columbus ; the .Ancient Order 
 of Hibernians: Pakachoag Tribe. No. 18. Improved Order of Red Men, of which 
 he is a past sachem. He is a director of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and 
 a communicant of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 Mr. Sherin married, in this city, .August 28, 1900, .Anna Frances Keenan. wIki 
 was born in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Patrick and Ellen Keenan. Her mother 
 is living in this city; her father died in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Sherin reside at 
 No. 76 Elm street. Thev have three children: i. Marion, born May 28. 1901. grad- 
 uate of the North High 'School. 2. Ruth F... burn December 8. 1902, now student in 
 the North High School, class of 1921. 3. David £.. Jr.. born August 17. iQcG- 
 
 David Sherin. father of David E. Sherin, was born in Limerick. Ireland, died 
 in Grafton. Tanuary 31, 1905: married, in i8(j6. in U.\bridge. Mary Dunlcavy, wdio 
 was born in" County Kerry. Ireland. He was a boot-maker by trade; afterward a 
 machine operator in a sho"e factory. He came to this country with his father wdien 
 but three years old and lived during boyhood in Keene. New Hampshire. In later 
 years he made his home in Grafton and I'.xbridge in this county. The children of 
 David and Mary Sherin were: i. John, wh.i died in infancy. 2. David V... men- 
 
6i8 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 tioned above. 3. John J., now living in Grafton. 4. Timothy F., a tinsmith, Whit- 
 insville. 5. William, died young. '). Francis, died young. 
 
 JAMES MONROE SCOFIELD, was a resident of Worcester during 
 the last six years of his life. He came here as general agent for Massa- 
 chusetts of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, 
 and had offices in the Mechanics Hall building which are now used for adminis- 
 trative purposes by the Mechanics Association. He developed a large business and 
 had many sub agents in Worcester and in other parts of the State.' He also estab- 
 lished his half-nephew, the late Lyman A. Ely, in the real estate business with 
 offices in the Rogers building at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets. In the 
 first two or three years of his residence here, he took the leading part in the re- 
 organization of the Street Railway Company, which then had tracks from Lincoln 
 square to Claremont street but had suspended operation, and he was one of the 
 organizers of the old Worcester Safe Deposit Company. 
 
 The late Hon. Joseph H. Walker once told the writer that if Mr. Scofield had 
 lived a few years longer, South Main street would probably have become one of the 
 most beautiful residence streets in New England. The Scofield plan was to have 
 unoccupied land from Wellington street to Webster square so restricted that the 
 houses on both sides of the street should be set back approximately one hundred 
 feet. At that time, about fifty years ago. when the Ethan Allen estate occupied most 
 of the Main street frontage from Wellington to Piedmont street, when the Oread 
 buildings were unobscured and when there were only three or four houses between 
 the Baptist church at the corner of Hermon street and the Walker estate at Main 
 and Ripley, the project seemed reasonable, and it should also be remembered that 
 from Ripley street to the two handsome residences of the Coes family at Webster 
 square the land on both sides of Main street was largely held by a few individuals. 
 For instance. Cook, the florist, occupied all the land between Loudon and Hawthorne 
 streets. The Heywoods owned the next block. John C. Mason's residence com- 
 prised all the land now occupied by Clark University. Mr. Scofield owned the land 
 between Wyman and Grand streets where St. Peter's Church and the Royal Wor- 
 cester Corset Company stand, and also that part of the Gates farm on Main street 
 between Crystal and Richard streets, while the Stone family owned nearly all the 
 land on both sides of the street on the long slope of New Worcester hill. Soon 
 after Mr. Scofield undertook this project he became ill and died at the age of forty- 
 seven, September 26, 1871. 
 
 James M. Scofield. in 1845. at the age of twenty-ijne was the proprietor and 
 editor of a successful newspaper in New London. Connecticut. He edited this paper 
 until 1849, when he was appointed collector of the port of Stockton, California. 
 While in Stockton, which was the doorway of the mining districts in that part of 
 the State, he transacted a profitable wholesale business in miners' supplies. He or- 
 dered a newspaper press sent out to him, probably the first press of this kind ever 
 purchased for the Pacific coast, but unfortunately it was lost in transit. The first 
 few years of his married life were passed in Stockton and liis oldest son, James 
 M. Scofield, Jr., was born there. He returned East after six or seven years in 
 California and founded the Hartford "Post." which he edited until he came to Wor- 
 cester, where, as already said, he passed the last six years of his short life. 
 
 James M. Scofield was the son of Nathan and Eunice (Plimib) Scofield, and his 
 branch of the Scofield family came originally from Lancashire, England. His wife 
 was Madilia Hoche, daughter of Dr. John B. Hoche and Mary (Brown) Hoche. He 
 left besides his widow, three children, James M., Florence M., and William B. Sco- 
 field. His widow lived until 1916, her home being at the corner of Main and Richard 
 streets. His oldest son died in 1878. at the age of twenty-two years, in Paris, France. 
 His daughter, the widow of the late Edward Davis Thayer, and his youngest son, 
 William B. Scofield, are still residents of Worcester, and his grandson, Scofield 
 Thayer, lives in New York. 
 
 WILLIAM BACON SCOFIELD. Manufacturer, was born in Hartford, Con- 
 necticut, February 8, 1805, son of James Monroe and Madilia (Hoche) Scofield. 
 The family moved to Worcester when he was about one year old. He attended the 
 public schools of Worcester, but fitted for Harvard at Adams Academy, in Quincy, 
 then under Dr. William Everett, the head master of the school. He entered Harvard 
 in the class of 1887 and remained in college less than three years and attended 
 the Law School for one year. While in college he was secretary of his class, 'manager 
 of the class nine, and a member of the first faculty-student advisory board on ath- 
 letics. He was a member of the D. K. E. and the Hasty Pudding clubs. The poems. 
 
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JND ITS FEUPLIl 
 
 "John the Orange Man," and "Harvard and the War." which lu- wrt.ic idr lUis-, n- 
 unions, were reprinted hy vote of the class. 
 
 After leaving college, he was a reporter on the Worcester "luciiini; I ..r/elu.' 
 then edited by the late Charles H. Doc. became city editor of the p.ipcr and \wM 
 the position until he became treasurer of the Worcester Thread Conip.uiy in i8i)_'. 
 This company was sold in 1900 to the Linen Thread Company of America. In njo.i. 
 with his brother-in-law, the late Kdward Davis Thayer, George Crompton and Ran- 
 dolph Crompton, he began the manufacture of weaving macliinery under the name 
 of the Crompton-Thayer Lomn Company. The business was sold 'in IQ07 to Cromp- 
 ton & Knowles Loom Wurks. In 1903 Mr. Scnhfld and Mr. Thayer also huught an 
 interest in the Standard Fibre Company of Si)nierville, mamifacturers of vulcanized 
 fibre, and Mr. Scofield is still actively interested in tliis company as a ilirector. 
 During the last few years he has given considerable attention to writing and to 
 sculpture, studying under the fammis sculptor, (iutzon liorglum. He has puldished 
 two books of verses, illustrated by photogravures of his work in clay. He is a mem- 
 ber of the corporation of the Worcester .Art Museum. He is a member of tlic Wor- 
 cester Club, the Worcester Fire .Society, the Onbisigamond lioat Club of Wor- 
 cester, the Harvard clubs of Worcester. Boston and Xew York, and of the Omar 
 Khayyam Club of America. During the World War he was chairman of tlie activi- 
 ties committee of the Worcester War Chest, was editor of the "Spy," a publication 
 issued by the war committee of the Wi:«rcesler Club during the latter part of the 
 war period, and was a member of the committee appointed by tlie mayor to welcome 
 Worcester's soldiers home. 
 
 FOSTER VERGUE YOUNG. This tine old Nova Scotia family is represented 
 in Worcester. Massachusett';, by five brothers trading as Young Brothers, a very suc- 
 cessful business house, and by a si.xfh brother, F'oster V. Young, formerly connected 
 with Y'oung Brothers, but now general manager of the B. F. Marsh Company, No. 
 22 Garden street. Worcester, Massachusetts. These brothers are sons of Obadiah 
 Parker Young, born in New Germany. Nova Scotia, who there spent his life until 
 near its close, when he retired and spent his last years in Worcester, Massachusetts, 
 where he died. He was a farmer most of his life, but for some years was also 
 postmaster at Lake Paul, Xova Scotia. He married Annie Cushman, born in Cale- 
 donia, Nova Scotia, died in Worcester. Massachusetts, in 191 1. They were the 
 parents of twelve children : Harris W.. now a farmer of Nova Scotia, married, and 
 has six children: Wallace H.. a member of the firm of Y'oung Brothers, married, 
 and has one child: William, of the firm I'f \ oung Brothers, married, and has no 
 children; George, killed in a railro;id accident 111 Worcester; Parker J., a plumber 
 of Worcester, married, and has three children; Cora B., a bookkeeper with Young 
 Brothers ; Clara, died in Xova Sc(jtia, aged eighteen years ; Frank, a farmer in Nova 
 Scotia, married, and has five children: La Mert. unmarried, a resident of Wor- 
 cester, in the employ of Young Brothers: Mary .\., unmarried, a resident of Wor- 
 cester ; Judson O., manager of the Springtield. Massachusetts, branch of Young 
 Brothers of Worcester, married, and has three children ; Foster Vergue, of 
 further mention. 
 
 Foster V. Young was born in .Aylesford. Xova Scotia. July I,?. 1886, and there 
 lived until the age of fifteen years when he came to Worcester. Massachusetts, which 
 has since been his home. He attended ,\ylesford schools until coming to Wor- 
 cester, and here in 1907 was graduated from Worcester Academy. He then spent 
 four years as a student at Brown L'niversity. whence he was graduated, B. Sc. class 
 of 191 1. Upon his return to Worcester after graduation, he entered the employ of 
 the firm of Young Brothers, a Worcester business house, organized, owned and con- 
 ducted by his five brothers : Wallace H.. William, George, Frank and Judson O. He 
 remained with Young Brothers three years, until 1914, then became traveling sales- 
 man for McAndrews & Forbes, of Camden. Xew Jersey. He contiiuied with that 
 house for two years, until July 15, 1916, when he became city salesman for the B. 
 F. Marsh Company of Worcester, wholesale and retail dealers in mason and sewer 
 supplies. He continued city salesman until June i. 1918, wdien he was promoted to 
 his present position, general manager, a post he ably fills. Mr. Young has a tract 
 at Millbury, Massachusetts, of three acres upon which he resides and enjoys to the 
 full his passion for gardenin,g. fruits and tlouers. the distance between his hoiue 
 and place of business being quickly covered in his auto. He is a member of Lincoln 
 Square Baptist Church, and in his political faith is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Young married, June 15, 1912, at Millbury. Massachusetts. Marian Williard, 
 born there, her father deceased, her mother. Mrs. Rachel Williard. yet a resident 
 of the same villa.ge. Mr. ami Mrs. Youn;.; are the parents of a son. D.mabl Wil- 
 liard. liorn June 18. 1916. 
 
620 HISTORY OP WORCESTER 
 
 LEON HAFFERD WETHERBEE. Although a native sou of Massachusetts,. 
 Mr W'ctherbeo spent the years prior to 1904 in other States and cities, returning 
 in that year and locating in Worcester, where he is well-established in business at 
 No. 64 High street, his specialty japanning, color enameling and striping of bicy- 
 cles, motorcycles, automobile parts, castings of all kinds, and stamped metal goods. 
 Air brush work of the most delicate and artistic character is a specialty, and along 
 these lines he ranks as one of the leading artists of the city. He is a son of Henry 
 A. Wetherbee, who after five years spent in the United States Navy settled in Boston, 
 Massachusetts, and there spent his after life, a painter and decorator. He married, 
 in Boston, Clarissa A. Matthews, of the old Matthews family of Maine, who died- 
 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged fiftv-three years. They were the parents of 
 three children: Leon F. and Corin Alfred, twins, the latter deceased, passing away 
 in Riverside. New Jersey, in 1918. The third child. George Oren, is a Wi>ol mer- 
 chant of Philadelphia, unmarried. 
 
 Leon H. Wetherbee was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 5, 1857, and there 
 lived until 1864, when the family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he 
 attended the. public school until thirteen years of age. He then secured a boy's 
 position in a shoe store, but soon went back to school, continuing until the age of 
 fifteen, when he became a clerk in a Philadelphia gentleman's furnishing store, but 
 a year later he began working in a lithographing plant, continuing in that line. He 
 then became an employee of the Wells & Hope Company, lithographed advertising 
 signs, a million dollar corporation, one of the largest in the United States. He be- 
 came assistant to the manager of that company, and later was in business m Buffalo, 
 New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New York City; continuing in the last-named 
 until 1904, when he located in Worcester, Massachusetts, his first connection there 
 being with the American Dry Plate Company. He did not begin business under 
 his own name until 1913. when he located at No. 64 High street, as previously stated. 
 Mr. Wetherbee is a past sachem and a past deputy of the Improved Order of Red 
 Men, and organized, as chairman of the committee, the first Red Men's parade 
 Worcester ever had. He is a member of the Knights of Maccabees, Knights of 
 Pythias, and Kiwanis Club, is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Epis- 
 copal church. He is very fond of reading, ancient history and scientific works his 
 favorite .books. 
 
 Mr. Wetherbee married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1878, Sarah 
 A. Johnson, born in that city, daughter of Rush and Mary Johnson, both deceased, 
 her father giving his life for his country in the Union Army during the Civil War. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wetherbee are the parents of four children; Clarissa, who died at 
 the age of four years ; Mabel May, married William Howes, pay teller of the Wor- 
 cester Bank Trust Company; Leon H. (2), of The George C. Whitney Company, 
 
 married . and has a son, Leon H. (3); C. Hyatt, with the Wright Company, 
 
 married . and has a son, C. Hyatt (2). 
 
 WILLIAM H. BALCOM, Business man, son of Abel Hartwell and Elizabeth 
 (Stevens) Balcom, was born in West Townsend. Massachusetts, January 29, 1862. 
 Abel Hartwell Balcom was born in Groton. Massachusetts, in 1826, and is now, at 
 the age of ninety-two, residing on an Iowa farm, having spent his active years en- 
 gaged in painting and farming. He is a veteran of the Civil War, serving in Com- 
 pany H, Fifth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, continuing on duty until mustered 
 out with an honoralile discharge at the close of the war. He married Elizabeth 
 Stevens, who died in Saundersville. Massachusetts, in 1866, aged thirty-six years. 
 They were the parents of five children, (all living except Sylvia, who died in infancy) 
 as follows : Frederick L.. of Providence, Rhode Island, associated with the New 
 York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, married, and has a family of six; Edward 
 E.. section foreman on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, a corpora- 
 tion with which he has been connected for over forty years, is a resident of Wor- 
 cester, married, and has four children: Estella Elizabeth, married John A. King, 
 of West Townsend. and has four children ; William H., of further mention. 
 
 A few years after the birth of William H. Balcom, the family moved to Saun- 
 dersville. and after the war moved to Worcester, then went West, in 1869. settling 
 on a farm in the State of Iowa, and there William H. spent his early youth. He 
 -attended the public school near the Iowa farm, continuing until January 1876, when 
 he came East with his brother and sister, arriving in Worcester, and attended 
 school here until sixteen. He entered the railroad employ, remaining with P. & W. 
 for eight years. On June 20, 1885, he established in the laundry business on Waldo 
 street, but three months later moved to his present location. No. 17 Church street, 
 vv'here he has been in business for thirty-three years. He conducts his business under 
 the name of the Bay State Laundry, Balcom & Drisko. proprietors. The business 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 is one of the oldest of its kind in tlie city, and lias a record nt uiiunmi excellence 
 for work. Mr. Balcom is a directnr of the Independent Cu-Opcrativc Hank. incn\hei 
 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, thirty-secoml des^rcc .Mason, the Ind.- 
 pendent Order of Cood Templars, Piedmont CmiircKationai I'hnrch. am! of ih..- 
 Men's Bible class of that chnrch. He is a t;ood mnsuian and very much attachc<l 
 to his violin. 
 
 Mr. Balcom married, in Worcester, December I, 1894, Nora A. Smith, born in 
 Pelham, Massachusetts, daughter of John .\. Smith, a veteran of the Civil War, n<i\v 
 deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Balcom have no children. 
 
 WARREN STILLMAN CHAMBERLIN, Busuiess man, was l)orn in Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, July 18, 1891. He lived in i)hi<. until eit>hleen years of age .vhen ho 
 came to Worcester with his parents, where he attended EnsHsh High .School, Irvin.g 
 street. On January I, 1910, he entered the employ of the H. M. \\'aite Hardware 
 Company, and after mastering the details of the various departments of the business, 
 he was elected a member of the lioard of directors, and in 1910 secretary of the 
 corporation. 
 
 He married in West Medway, Massachusetts. I'e.irl Klsie Taylor, daughter of 
 Rev. Lucius E. and Martha (Pierce) Taylor, her father now pastor of the .Xlethndist 
 Episcopal church of Orleans, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Chainlierliu are the 
 parents of Alden Warren, born June 20, 1916. 
 
 Warren S. Chamberlin is the only son of I"red Arthur Chamberlin, who was 
 born in Worcester, and here grew to manhood. His mother, Ida M. (Cummingsl 
 Chamberlin, was born in Shrewsbury. Massaclvusetts. He has two sisters, Edith 
 M. and Helen E. When a lad of fifteen Fred .-X. Chamberlin became an employee 
 of H. M. Waite, who had been long establislied in the hardware business. .Xfter 
 he was married he left Worcester and went to Cohmdnis. Ohio. .Xfter spendiiig 
 twenty years in Central Ohio, dealing in hardware, he returned to Worcester and 
 organized the H, M. Waite Hardware Company. He has been i}resident and treas- 
 urer since its organization. 
 
 GARRETT FLEMING. While Ireland has Kiven generously of her sons ami 
 daughters to enrich the blood of other lands, to no country has she been more gen- 
 erous than to the United States and to n(.) section more liberal than to New Eng- 
 land. Worcester has had many brilliant and .gifted Irishmen wdiose deeds have 
 added lustre to the city's fame, and among these Garrett Fleming was among the 
 most brilliant. He was a man of schidarly attainment, and the great aim of his 
 life w-as to place educational advantages within the reach of all the youth of his 
 race, and to this object his talents were ardently devoted. He came of ancient and 
 honorable family, all antiquarians agreeing that the family of Fleming is descended 
 from Archembald. a nobleman of I-'landers, in the train of William the Conqueror, 
 1066. He became possessed of valuable lands and titles in Cornwall, En.gland, 
 though chiefly connected with the town and Lordship of Bratton. in Cornwall. He 
 left a son. Sir Stephen Fitz-.\rcliembald. Lord Bratton, whose valor in war won 
 him a direct grant from Henry II. of the lordships of Astmayn and Eskertenen in 
 Tipperary, Newcastle and Slane, on the River Boyle in Ireland. The third Baron 
 of Slane' and son of Sir Stephen styled himself "Baldwyn le F'leming," and from 
 him sprang a line of noblemen and historical characters. Sir Christopher, thirteenth 
 Baron, was lord high treasurer of Ireland in 1513; the Right Honorable Sir Thomas 
 Fleming, eighteenth Baron, was a Roman Catholic bishop of Dublin: Sir Randall 
 Fleming, twenty-first Baron, was a man of great prominence and to him was re- 
 stored all the manors and estates taken from his father by Cromwell : Sir Chris- 
 topher Fleming, twenty-second Baron, was raised to the peerage by Queen Anne 
 as Viscount Longford; Sir Thomas Fleming was lord mayor of London in t.sfiS; 
 Sir Thomas Fleming was lord chief justice of Loudon in 1584. .\rmorial Ijearings 
 were granted to the lords of Slane in 1537. 
 
 Arms — Vair, a chief chequy or and gules. 
 
 Crest — A mortar piece casting out a bomb with flames all iirojier. Chains and 
 rings gold. 
 
 Supporters — Two greyhounds argent collared and armed gules. 
 
 Motto — "Bhear na righ gan." (^Lay the King live forever). 
 
 The ancient seat of the family, "Cumbernauld," still stands in Dnndiarton and 
 although in a ruined condition externally bears ample evidence within of the taste 
 and liberality of the owners. And well it should, for there was seated a long 
 line of illustrious Flemings, of the highest antiquity and purest blood in 
 all Scotland. Flemings intermarried with Robert. Duke of .Albany and regent of 
 
622 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Scotland ; Earl Douglas ; Lord Drummond ; Drummond Earl of Perth and with many 
 others of high rank. 
 
 From this ancient and noble family of Flemings through the Irish branch sprang 
 Garrett Fleming, born in Coolick in the Parish of Kilcummin, County Kerry, Ire- 
 land, in 1841, died in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, May 2, 1892, When a 
 lad of twelve years, in 1853, he was brought to the United States by his widowed 
 mother, his two sisters also being in the family party which sailed on the vessel 
 "Albert Gallatin." This slow-sailing vessel consumed fifty-one days in the passage 
 from Queenstown to Castle Garden, New York, and in Worcester, Massachusetts, 
 they joined two brothers and two sisters who had there located some time before. 
 The lad availed himself of W'orcester's fine educational advantages and became one 
 of the finely-educated men of his day. 
 
 Garrett Fleming became an ardent worker m the cause of labor and Irish free- 
 dom, beginning with the young, whom he encouraged by forming debating societies 
 where could be discussed the vital questions of the day, although history and other 
 subjects were taken up in turn. These meetings were often held in private homes, 
 the societies having no hall of their own, but great good was accomplished and there 
 are many men of mark in Worcester who as boys, received their first inspiration 
 from their friend, Garrett Fleming, .'\bout 1867 he gathered seven other Irishmen 
 and in the home of Patrick McCarthy on Pond street formed the first lodge of the 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians in Worcester. Mr. Fleming was an accomplished pen- 
 man, an art he had perfected while a student at the B. G. Howe Commercial Col- 
 lege. This led to his selection for the post of secretary of the new lodge, and the 
 minutes he recorded in those early years have been the admiration of all later sec- 
 retaries, for the lodge is yet in existence. 
 
 The "Fenian" movement also attracted him and he entered into it with all his 
 heart, giving freely of both time and money. He was a personal friend of Michael 
 Davitt, a great Irish leader in later years, and warmly supported the Irish Land 
 League, forming Women's Au.Kiliaries. instructing them in procedures and accom- 
 plished a great deal in building up a strong sentiment in favor of the league. He 
 was secretary of the Worcester branch of the Land League and was one of the 
 men whose influence was always against oppression. When the Order of Knights 
 of St. Crispin was formed in Worcester for the benefit of those employed in shoe 
 factories, Mr. Fleming was the unanimous choice of the organization in Worcester 
 to lead them in their contest for their rights. This was pioneer work in Worcester 
 and a long and bitter fight resulted. When the Knights of Labor appeared as the 
 champion of organized labor, Garrett Fleming affiliated with that order and when 
 it was absorbed by the newer American Federation of Labor he joined that organi- 
 zation. He was also one of the founders of the Worcester Central Labor Union. 
 He had no taste for political office and despised the self-seeking office holder. He 
 believed "public office was a public trust and the only duty was to serve." 
 
 .A. man of deep religious conviction, he was very useful in the work of his 
 church and he was a devout Catholic. He was superintendent of St. John's Sunday 
 school during the pastorate of Father Boyce, one of the first Catholic priests of 
 Worcester, and during the same pastorate his fine tenor voice was a wonderful 
 addition to the church choir. The leader of St. John's choir then was the talented 
 organizer, John Murray. A member of the choir was Captain Tom O'Neill, also a 
 tenor singer, who was killed at the battle of Cold Harbor in the War between the 
 States. Father Boyce, a man of great ability and the authdr of many books, was 
 a warm friend of Mr. Fleming. Later Mr. Fleming joined the parish choir of St. 
 Anne's, a new parish, the pastor. Rev. Dennis Scannel, asking it as a favor from 
 his personal friend that he lend his splendid tenor to the upbuilding of St. Anne's 
 choir. When St. Stephen's parish was about to be formed the Rev. R. S. J. Burke, 
 then a young priest, called on Mr. Fleming and asked him ot assist in forming the 
 new parish. Father Burke, known as the "silver tongued orator," was a man of 
 brilliant talents, a strong friendship existing between the two men. An organization 
 was effected, the people of the Union Hill and Oak Hill districts meeting in the 
 Grafton street school house and services were therein held until a church could 
 be built. Mr. Fleming was most useful in the upbuilding of the new parish, and 
 was the first se.\ton of the school house church. 
 
 Garrett Fleming married, in 1872, Mary Elizabeth Murphy, then residing with 
 Maurice Shahan, father of Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, president of the Catholic 
 University of America, who was her first cousin. The ceremony was performed by 
 Rev. Father Doherty in St. Bridget's Church in Millbury. Massachusetts. Mary 
 Elizabeth Murphy was born in Belvoir, Kilkishen, near Six-Mile-Bridge, County 
 Clare, Ireland, about seven miles from the city of Limerick, and came to the United 
 States when quite young, at the solicitation of Maurice Shahan, her uncle. She ar- 
 
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 rived in Bostun on the steamer "Buiphorus" in 1807, in care of I'utrieii I )..ii. )li,)e', 
 then editor of the Boston "Pihjt." J^ater she induced her lirother Miehael to i.,mc 
 to the United States, he and the future Bishop Shalian becoming rare friends. This 
 brother Michael later died and is buried in Millbury, and ii was Miss Muipliv's 
 intention to return to her native Ireland, but her acquaintance willi darrell bKin 
 ing, which began in Millbury, changed her plans. Mr. and iVlrs. hdcming were the 
 parents of seven daughters and a son : Mary A., Michael A., Margaret K., Ainia 
 G., Theresa. Helen M., Julia R., and Cora K. Four of these, Mary A., Helen M„ 
 Julia E, and Cora E. were graduates of Worcester State Xornial College and teach- 
 ers in the Worcester public schools. The son, Michael A., was for many years 
 connected with the telegraphy department of the Associated Press and was con- 
 nected with newspapers in different parts of the United States. He was one of llic 
 first "wireless" telegraph operators in the United States, and in 1904 w.as a delegate 
 to the Denificratic National Convention. reiire>enting the I hird Massacluisetts Con- 
 gressional District. 
 
 HERSCHEL FRANCIS DAVIS, Commercial photographer, is a s.m of brancis 
 U. Davis, wlio was born in Uakliam, near Dudley, England, and there spint tlie first 
 years of his life, coming to the United States about 1878. He finally located in Wor- 
 cester and is there now located and successfully conducting a real estate business at 
 No, 3 Enfield street. He married in Worcester, Lora McXeil, born in New Hampshire, 
 and they are the parents of three children : Herschel P., of further mention : .-Xmy 
 Ardelle. married Edwin L. Bliss, of Springfield. Massachusetts, .uid lias ,1 daughter, 
 Muriel ; Stanley G., of Worcester. 
 
 Herschel F, Davis was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 2;^, 1879, and lliere 
 completed grammar school courses at the public schools. He then entered the employ 
 of the Worcester Supply Company (Pliotographic Materials) remaining with that 
 company for three years. This finally led him into his present line of business, com- 
 mercial photography, and since 191 5 lie has been located at No. 571 Main street, Wor- 
 cester, specializing in commercial jihotography and out-of-door photography. He is 
 devoted to his work, it agreeing perfectly with his natural love of nature and out-of- 
 doors. He is a member of Pilgrim Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Davis married in Worcester, November 21, 1905, Annette Maria Mecorney, 
 born in Worcester, who here died tlie day prior to Thanksgiving Day, 1906, aged twen- 
 ty-four, a daughter of Herbert and .Alice ((iowerl Mecorney, lier parents yet living, 
 
 THOMAS BOND SHAW, Physician, surgeon. One of the most exacting of all 
 the liigher lines of nccupatinn to which a man may lend his energies is that of the 
 physician. A most scrupulous preliminary training is demanded, a nicety of judgment 
 but little understood by the laity. .Among the prominent representatives of that pro- 
 fession engaged in practice in \\'orcester is Dr. Shaw, who has made for himself an 
 excellent reputation as a physician and surgeon. 
 
 Thomas .Asa Shaw, father of Dr. Thomas Bond Shaw, was the only son of Asa 
 Shaw, and his birth occurred in Lyme, New Hampshire, April 27, 1827. He attended 
 the district schools of his native town, and Thetford and Hebron academies, Ver- 
 mont. His first business e.xperience was gained by service in his father's store, and 
 later he filled positions as clerk uf general stores in Buffalo, New York, and Newark, 
 Ohio. In 1864 he located in Hartford, Connecticut, and established a flour and grain 
 store, which he conducted with marked success for thirty-three years, during the great- 
 er portion of this time being the sole proprietor of the business. The business be- 
 came one of the largest of its kind in that section, his establishment being located at 
 No. 542 Main street, and at a store nearly opposite, near the corner of Trumbull street. 
 In 1884 he made arrangements to remove his business to Worcester, and he purchased 
 a residence in that city, but later he decided to conduct his business in Hartford, as 
 heretofore, with his residence in Worcester, and so continued until December i, 1897, 
 when he retired from active pursuits, and thereafter until his death, which occurred 
 February 9, 1917. spent his davs in comfort and quietness, reaping the reward of his 
 years of' toil and vigilance. He was an attendant of the Congregational Church, and 
 an adherent of the principles of Democracy. He married, October 11, 1865, Maria Per- 
 sis Bond, daughter of Thomas Bond. Their only child w-as Thomas Bond. 
 
 Dr. Thomas Bond Shaw was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, December ,-^, 
 1866. He attended public and high schools of Hartford, Connecticut, but took his last 
 year and was graduated from the Worcester Classical High School in 1886, after which 
 he matriculated at Yale University, from which institution he was graduated 111 the 
 class of 1890. For the following two years he was a student in the New York College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons, then entered Dartmouth College, from which he was 
 graduated in 1893. The knowledge thus gained was supplemented by training in the 
 
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 Roosevelt and other New York City hospitals, and during the year 1894 he served in 
 the capacity of surgeon on a Ward Line mail steamer to Cuba and Mexico, vi^hich 
 proved of great assistance to him in his subsequent career. For tlie two following 
 years, 1895-96, he received instruction in the Allgemeine Krankenhaus, Vienna, and the 
 Hotel Dieu, Paris, which courses of study, in addition to what he had already gained 
 thoroughly equipped him for his chosen line of work. Upon his return to his native 
 land, in 1897, he located in Worcester, opening an office at No. 47 Pleasant street, and 
 that city has been his home up to the present time (1917). By degrees he built up an 
 extensive practice, possessing the essential qualifications, skill, ingenuity, a cornpre- 
 hensive knowledge of disease and cure, and a ready sympathy which endears him to 
 those to whom he ministers in his capacity of physician and surgeon. His work is 
 in harmony with the most advanced and progressive thoughts and methods of the 
 day, and he keeps in touch with his professional brethren by membership in the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society, Worcester District Society and the American Academy of 
 Medicine. He is a life insurance examiner, and acts as stafT surgeon of the Second 
 Regiment Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He is a member of the Union 
 Congregational Church of Worcester, of th^ Yale Alumni Association of Central and 
 Western Massachusetts, of which he is secretary and treasurer; Dartmouth College 
 Alumni Association; Alumni Association of Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn; Han- 
 cock, Automobile. Tatassit Canoe, Commonwealth, Uptown, and Lakeside Boat clubs, 
 and Worcester Continentals. Dr. Shaw is a man of strong personality and sterling 
 worth, enjoying the high regard of many friends and patrons. 
 
 HAYDEN LEROY SMALL. Pnjprietor of Worcester Wet Wash Laundry, was 
 born in Lubec, Maine, July 24, 1872, son of Samuel and Damietta (Reynolds) Small. 
 Samuel Small was born in Lubec and died in that town by drowning; was a farmer 
 and fisherman ; married Damietta Reynolds, who is now living in Lubec. They had 
 eight children, of whom five are living: Nettie V., married David A. Gillis, of Lubec; 
 Hayden L.. mentioned below; Gustavus, of Portland. Maine, milk dealer; Milford W., 
 of Lubec, tinsmith and plumber; Silas G., of Boston, a traveling salesman. Three 
 brothers of Samuel Small served in the Civil \\'ar — Gregory, Nelson and John Small. 
 The Small family settled among the pioneers of Maine, and Hayden L. Small is de- 
 scended from many of the first settlers of New England. 
 
 Hayden L. Small received his education in the public schools of his native town, 
 and learned the trade of stationary engineer. In 1894 he engaged in the laundry busi- 
 ness in Lubec in partnership with a brother-in-law, whose interests he bought six 
 months after beginning business. After six years he removed to Eastport, Maine, where 
 he continued in the laundry business for another period of six years. Mr. Small came to 
 this city in December. 1906, and established his present business, which has been con- 
 ducted by him since that time under the name of the Worcester Wet Wash Laundry. 
 His place of business is at No. 48 Mason street. His business has been highly success- 
 ful. His recreation is hunting and fishing, and while living in Maine he had a camp 
 at Cathance Lake. He is a member of Anchor Lodge, Knights of Pythias. In politics 
 he is a Republican. He attends the Christian church, of which his wife is a member. 
 
 Mr. Small married at Lubec, Maine, June 29. 1892, Augusta Reynolds Thayer, who 
 was born in Lubec, daughter of Daniel and Hattie (Reynolds) Thayer. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Small have four children: i. Muriel H., born January 30. 1894; married Thomas Earl 
 Prouty, who was born in Spencer. Massachusetts. December 9, 1893, now in business 
 with Mr. Small; has one child. Madelyn Augusta, born May 8, 1916. 2. Agatha Louise, 
 born in Lubec. July. 1895 ; married Dr. George E. Deering, of Worcester, and has one 
 child. George E. Deering. Jr. 3. Harriet Evelyn, born at Eastport, Maine, April, 1906. 
 4. Oliver Hayden, born at Eastport, Maine, April, 1906. 
 
 FRANK EDGECOMB STIMPSON, Cashier, was born April 15, 1866, son of Jo- 
 seph Nickerson and Helen Josephine (Green) Stimpson. He received his early educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Worcester. He began his business career as a clerk in 
 the store of Macullar & Son. retail clothing dealers of this city, and remained with that 
 firm four years, being cashier and bookkeeper the latter three years. The winter of 
 1887-88 he was associated with tlie firm of Davis & Company, clothiers, of Worcester, 
 as a salesman. He entered the employ of the Knowles Loom Works in May. 1888, as 
 receiving clerk and served in that capacity until April. 1897, when he was appointed 
 cashier and paymaster, which position he held for two years, having been elected to 
 the office at the annual meeting of the corporation in February, 1917. He is a member 
 of the Worcester County Mechanics Association, and has been active in the Plymouth 
 Congregational Church for many years. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Stimpson married. December 6, 1893. at Worcester, Emily Gertrude Whitte- 
 
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 more, daughter of William Augustus W'liittemore. lurmerly a wcll-UMown Mam -ti.ot 
 merchant. Tliey have one cliild, Richard W'liittemorc, 
 
 LOUIS ARTHUR WHEELER. Since 1896 .Mr. VVlieeler lias heeii a resident ..t 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, and a year after his cnniinii he entered the service of the 
 Golbert Last Company, a corporation of which he is now secretary and assistant-treas- 
 urer. He is of the ancient and honorahle Wheeler family, liranches of which are fnund 
 in every State and Territory, a family of str.>ns. capable .men. Lnuis .'\. is a son of 
 Charles E. Wheeler, of Leominster, Massachusetts, i;r,-indson of Mason Wheeler, and 
 great-grandson of Russell Wheeler. Mason Wheeler was a farmer m<ist of his life, hut 
 later operated a market.- By his wife Sarah he had children: Mason (i); Dnra K.. 
 married Charles Foster, of Chicopee, Massachusetts; 1-rank .\.. who resides in Bolton, 
 Massachusetts ; and Charles E. 
 
 Charles E. Wheeler was born March jS, 1830. ,ind w,is for many years a farmer, 
 but is now residing in Worcester in the employ nf tin- (i.dbert Last Company. lie was 
 a member of the Massachusetts National Cuard for nine years, attaining the rank of 
 sergeant. In i)olitical faith he is a Republican, and in religions affiliation a member of 
 the Unitarian Church, Leominster. He married Ella M. Mead, daughter of Stillman 
 A. and Harriet Mead. Mrs. Wheeler die<l J.anuary 2}. 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler are 
 the parents of a son, Louis Arthur, of whom further mention is made. 
 
 Louis Arthur Wheeler was born at Leominster. Massachusetts, March 7, 187J. He 
 passed through all grades of the Leominster schools. com|deting the high school course 
 with the graduating class of 1888. He returned for a post-graduate course, then w-as 
 employed in a furniture factory until i8q(i. when he located in Worcester, where for 
 one year he was in the employ of the Mawhinney Last Company. In i8<;7 he began his 
 long connection with the Gcdbert Last Company, advancing through many promoti.ms 
 until 1905, when he became a member of the corporation. Later he was advanced to 
 the post he now fills, secretary and assistant-treasurer. He is a Reiiublican in politics, 
 a member of the Worcester Commercial Traveling Men's .Association, Worcester Coun- 
 try, Rotary and Automobile clubs. He is also a member of the Church of the lenity. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler married in Leominster. Massachusetts, h'ebruary 15, 1803, Mabel S. 
 Brown, born July 2^, 1877, daughter of L\inan W. and .\delia Brown, her father .1 vet- 
 eran of the Civil War. 
 
 GUY E. WHELPLEY, Sales agent of the ComiHometer. The ControlU-.l-key 
 Comptometer, adding and calculating machine, needs no introduction to the head of 
 any manufacturing or mercantile establishment employing an office force of any ap- 
 preciable size. It is as much at home in modern business as the telephone at your 
 desk — as much a part of modern office equipment as the tyjiewriter. Because of its 
 superior speed, positive accuracy, unquestioned durability, extreme ease of operation 
 and its ability to handle all forms of addition, multiplication, subtraction and division 
 either separately or in any interlinking sequence, the Comptometer is used by the rec- 
 ognized leaders in every branch of business. The operation of the Comptometer is 
 simplicity itself, all operations being completed by simple key depressions alone. With 
 the "Controlled-key" (an exclusive feature of the Comptometer) on guard, even a 
 novice cannot operate the Comptometer imjierfectly without being instantly aware of 
 it, because a slighted keystroke automatically locks the machine so that not another 
 figure can be added until the fault is corrected. Sales offices and agents of the Comp- 
 tometer are found in all the princii)al cities of the world. Guy E. Whelpley. Worces- 
 ter county sales agent for the Comptometer, assumed charge i.if the Worcester office in 
 March, 1913, coming to this city from the New York City sales office. During his six 
 years' residence, through close contact with the business men of Worcester county and 
 through his activity in the Liberty Loan campaigns and other public enterprises, as 
 well as his connection with various local organizations, Mr. W'helpley has become very 
 widely-known to the residents of the heart of the Conmionwealth and surrounding vi- 
 cinity. 
 
 Guy E. Whelpley was born December 6, 1886, in Brandi^n, Manitob.-i. Canada, came- 
 to Buffalo, New York, at the age of si.xteen, wdiere he resided for ten years, being 
 connected with the audit department of the Pennsylvania railroad offices of that city. 
 He joined the forces of the Comptometer organization in 191J, going to New York 
 City, where he received the mechanical and mathematical course given all Cijrn|)lo- 
 meter salesmen. He is married and has two children. 
 
 The three factories of the Felt & Tarrant Maiuifacturing Con-ipany. maiuifacturers 
 of the Comptometer, are located in Chicago. Illinois, aiul are devoted exclusively to 
 the manufacture of the Comptometer. The plants and their equipmem are the finest 
 that human ingenuity can devise and that unstinted invi-stmeni can buy. Many rif the 
 
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6j6 history of WORCESTER 
 
 machines were especially designed for their work. Others were adapted and made to 
 work to an accuracy before deemed impossible of attainment. Users of the Compto- 
 meter, and all investigating its use, are cordially invited to visit the factories and see, 
 first-hand, the quality of materials and workmanship. The hair-line accuracy that 
 underlies Comptometer efficiency and dependability will be plainly evident to the visi- 
 tor. Each Comptometer sales otiice has its factory trained demonstrators, who give 
 extensive instructions to users of the Comptometer, a free service that has proven in- 
 valuable as an efficiency producer to all Comptometer owners availing themselves of it. 
 The expert operation of the Comptometer is also taught in the company's many schools 
 maintained for that purpose throughout the coimtry, of which the school connected 
 with the company's office at Worcester is one. Comptometry and its application to all 
 forms of commercial mathematics is taught by a facto::y trained expert in Compto- 
 meter operation. Increasing sales of Comptometers (seven concerns in Worcester 
 county alone now using over two hundred of them) and the constantly-growing de- 
 mand for trained Comptometer operators made it necessary for Mr. Whelpley to re- 
 move his original office in tlie Slater building to a larger office and school space at No. 
 511 Slater building during the early part of last year, which is the present location of 
 the Comptometer agency, service bureau and school for Worcester county. 
 
 JOSEPH ADDISON KNIGHT, One of the founders of the Graton & Knight 
 Manufacturing Company and its president for many years, was born in Leicester, 
 Massachusetts, March 3, 1829, died in this city, at his home, No. 810 Main street, April 
 5, 1909. son of Horace and Sarah (Partridge) Knight. His education was obtained in 
 the pnlilic schools of Leicester and in Leicester Academy. In 1849 he began an appren- 
 ticeship in the card clothing factory of Earl Warner, at 92 Front street, in this city. 
 During his service here his wages were $110 for the first year, $125 for the second 
 and $150 for the third. He afterward worked for nine years as journeyman for Timo- 
 thy K. Earle & Company, manufacturers of card clothing, on Grafton street, in this 
 city. Mr. Knight entered partnership with Henry C. Graton, with whom he had worked 
 in the Earle factory, and began to manufacture leather belting. The partners knew 
 the leather business thoroughly and had received the best possible training. Their 
 capital was small, but they made up in energy and thrift what was lacking in a finan- 
 cial way. Both worked long hours, and gave to the business their utmost ability and 
 skill. The first date in the books of the new firm was February 13, 1861. The entire 
 capital of the partners was $1,057.29. The first stock of belt tools was bought of Mr. 
 Earle. The firm began business in the Earle factory but soon removed to two rooms 
 at 137 Front street, in the Harding block. They bought leather and made leather 
 belts. In 1867 the firm began to manufacture its leather in a tannery on Blooming- 
 dale road, having a capacity of one himdred and fifty hides a week. In 1872 the busi- 
 ness was incorporated under the present name, the Graton & Knight Manufacturing 
 Company, Mr. Knight, president, H. C. Graton, treasurer, and W. M. Spaulding, sec- 
 retary, with a capital of $100,000. In 1882 a department known as the Worcester 
 Counter Company was established in a building near the tannery for the manufacture 
 of counters (for shoes), soles, etc. In 1890 the tannery had been increased in capacity 
 to six hundred hides a week. The leather was carried from the tannery to the factory 
 on Front street, which had been enlarged from time to time. In 1893 a branch was 
 opened in Chicago, and soon afterward in other large cities. The factory at Bloom- 
 ingdale road was occupied in 1893. and in 1898 the entire plant and offices were located 
 there. (See biographies of Henry C. Graton and W. M. Spaulding). Mr. Knight was 
 president of the company from the time it was organized, which covered a period of 
 forty years. He continued active in business until the time of his death, and always 
 enjoyed good health. His death was caused by apoplexy. He was buried in Hope 
 Cemetery. He belonged to no organizations, excepting the Worcester County Me- 
 chanics Association. He was a member of no church but a regular attendant of the 
 Congregational church and a generous contributor to various charities in the city. 
 
 Mr. Knight married, in 1856. Sarah E. Trowbridge, daughter of Luther Trow- 
 bridge, of this city. She died April 5. 1908. Their only daugliter, Hattie C, married 
 Dr. William H. Raymonton. and died when her only child, Hewstone Knight Ray- 
 monton. was an infant. Dr. Raymonton was first lieutenant in Company K, 314th In- 
 fantry, in France, during the World ^^'ar. Dr. Raymonton was best known for his de- 
 voted service to the Worcester Natural History Society. 
 
 At the time of his death the "Gazette" said editorially : "Joseph Addison Knight 
 was one of the lovable old gentlemen of whom the city was proud and whom every 
 ambitious boy should emulate. Few lives close at eighty so satisfactorily. Perhaps 
 he was not talked about so much as others, on account of his retiring ways, but few 
 will be remembered so dearly by those who knew him well. Mr. Knight was one of 
 the old school of manufacturers, having started in 1861, when cruder methods were in 
 
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 use. but lie adapted himself to tlie times with the result that he ami his associaies. 
 Henry C. Gratcm. and W. M. SpauldiuK. wlm have been with bim all these years, 
 built up from nutbiuf,' line of the larsesl belling factories m the world The partners 
 for eight years and three executive ntticers for the follouini; forty years nmst have 
 possessed steadiness of purpose and firm faith in eaeh other to i<o aheail through f'>rty- 
 eight years without cliauKe and without backset. 
 
 "Mr. Knight would not countenance the slimmest dishoinsty in bnsimss. Tlie f.iilb 
 of his customers doubtless was based on this, lunjiloxus found him generous and 
 scpiarc and here again pri>si)erity was courted b\ him," 
 
 During life he was lilieral in his benefactions to many .irganizations and charities. 
 He bequeathed a large part of his estate to public institutions viz; .'Wiout $40,000 of 
 present worth, each to Memorial Hospital, the .Associated t_'harities, the Worcester 
 Children's Friend Society, and the Home for .\ged Women; about $30,000 each to the 
 Tempory Hoiue ami Day Nursery, the Worcest, r Koys' Club, the Worcester Society 
 for Dist'rict Nursing, the" Home for .\gcd .Men : about $20,000 each to the (lood Samar- 
 itans, the Worcester ICmploymenl I'nreau. the ^ onng .Men's Christian .'Association, the 
 i^'oung Women's Christian .Xssoci.ition. 'Ihe lot;il present value of these becpiests is 
 nearly $350,000. 
 
 CHARLES BRO'WN KNIGHT, l',r,,|her of b,s,i,h Addison Knight, was also a 
 successful manufacturer of this city. He was born in Leicester, .Atignst 6, 183(1, died 
 here, October 7, igoo. He was educated in the public schools and at I.eicester and 
 Worcester academies. Having learned the trade of shoemaker in his father's shop, he 
 left hoiue when he came of age, and worked as a journeyman for nine years or more 
 in Grafton. In 1866 he engaged in the lumber business in this city as a partner in the 
 firm of Chamberlain & Company. From 1871 to 1880 the I'lrm name was C. B. Knight & 
 Company. After withdrawing from business he tra\eled through the West and South; 
 in 1889 he bought a large tract of land in Xortheastern ( leorgia. and founded the town of 
 Demorest. In 1897 the Demorest Collegiate Institute was established here, in charge 
 of the South Methodist Conference. In politics. Mr. Knight was originally a Repub- 
 lican, but later a Prohibitionist, and he was active in the temperance movenu-ui. an 
 able and fluent speaker in great demand in the campaigns of his party. In religion he 
 was a Baptist. His home was at No. i O.xford street. 
 
 Mr. Knight married, in 1867, Abbie B. Sprague. widow, a daughter of Joseph Bry- 
 ant, of Leicester. His only son, Horace Joseph Knight, was a graduate of the Wor- 
 cester High School and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and was for some years 
 connected with the Graton & Knight Manufacturing Comiiany. He has one son, Ken- 
 neth Knight. 
 
 Horace Knight, father of Joseph A. and Charles B. Knight, was born in Leicester, 
 June 23, 1799. died there May 2, 1855. He was a prominent farmer there and a pioneer 
 in the manufacture of boots and shoes. Before the railroad was built he carted his 
 stock and goods between Leicester and Boston. He married (first) in 1823. Sarah 
 Partridge, of Paxton. She died August 20, 1833, aged thirty-three years. He married 
 (second) at Leicester, in 1834, Hannah Brown, of Rutland. She died July 20. 1882, in 
 her eighty-fourth year. By his first wife he had four children; Mary Elizabeth, who 
 married Swift Howe, of Paxton; Joseph Addison, mentioned above: Almira W.. who 
 married George P. Rogers, a merchant of this city; and another child that died 
 young. The only child by his second w'ife was Charles Brown, mentioned above. 
 
 Jonathan Knight, Jr.' father of Horace Knight, was born in Paxton, in 1773, and 
 was noted for his strength and energy, though not of large physique. He was a lieu- 
 tenant in the State Militia. He was a farmer in Paxton. but died in Leicester. May 
 22, 1849, aged seventy-four years, ten months. He married Polly Sprague, daugh- 
 ter of Timothy and Mary (Sargent) Sprague, and granddaughter of Jonathan Sargent. 
 
 Jonathan Knight, Sr.. father of Jonathan Knight. Jr.. died in Leicester, May 12, 
 1816, aged eighty-two years. In all his lines of ancestry Mr. Knight was descended 
 from the original stock in New England. ;uid he belonged to many very prominent 
 Colonial families. 
 
 HEDLEY FRANK BRANCWIN. As representative of the Ale\;ui<ler Ilamilpm 
 Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, Mr. Brangwin is aiding in the great work that 
 institution is doing in the United States in sjireading sound, economic thinking, sound 
 views on business matters and better understanding of business problems. 
 
 Hedley Frank Brangwin was born in England, and olitained his education in the 
 English school, and served a term in the British .Army. .After coming to the United 
 States he also served in the Massachusetts State fhiard. He is a member of the 
 Protestant Episcopal church, and interested in the work of that church. He is an en- 
 thusiast over out-of-door recreations, is very fond of horses. pUiys golf with ,1 great 
 
628 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 deal of enjoyment, but perhaps his garden is his real hobby and most favored recrea- 
 tion. Mr. Brangwin has represented The Alexander Hamilton Institute in Worcester 
 since January i, 1917. that institution dating its beginning only from the year 1909. 
 The object of the Institute is to furnish a modern business course and service to men 
 who are looking and moving ahead, to live, keen-witted, energetic men who are am- 
 bitious to attain liigher rank or position. It brings to such a man's office or home that 
 business knowledge and training which he needs. It matters not whether such a man 
 is wealthy, a college graduate, or whether he be of the great middle class in regard to 
 wealth, education or position, but he must have ability and enough serious purpose to 
 spend a portion of his spare time in reading and thinking. This Modern Business 
 Course and Service is the result of years of study and experience and represents the 
 best thoughts of a group of successful business and university men. and covers the 
 essential subjects on which every business man should be well-informed. Mr. Brang- 
 win is heartily in sympathy with the aims of the Institute, and is its strong, eloquent 
 advocate. He has been very successful in his efforts to bring its advantages to the 
 business men of Worcester, and is justly optimistic over the results which are to follow. 
 
 EZRA RAYMOND ROCKWOOD, Proprietor of the J. B. Brooks Company, piano 
 and furniture- movers of Worcester, Massachusetts, has built up a very large business, 
 the volume, now being treble what it was when he became its owner and managing 
 head, three auto trucks and six horses now being used in general trucking, teaming 
 and moving. He is a son of George Leland Rockwood, born in Sherborn, Middlesex 
 county, Massachusetts, died in Framingham, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy- 
 four years, a veteran of the Civil War, serving from its beginning until its end. He 
 married Amanda Johnson, born in Holliston, Massachusetts, and died in Hopkinton, 
 Massachusetts, in 1879. They were the parents of eight children: Newell, deceased; 
 Ellen, married Henry Stone, whom she survives : Florence, deceased ; Georgianna, mar- 
 ried Robert L. Andrews, and resides in Medway, Massachusetts: Susan, married 
 Charles Adams, of Bellingham, Massachusetts ; Arthur L., of Somerville. Massachu- 
 setts ; Ezra Raymond, of further mention ; Avery Ulyses, a grocer of Milford, Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Ezra Raymond Rockwood was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, January 27, 
 1870. He attended the public schools until eleven years of age, then began doing a 
 boy's work on the farm, his school attendance being thereafter limited to the winter 
 months. He continued a farm worker until twenty years of age, then became a free- 
 man m the employ of the Derby Desk Company, at Somerville, Massachusetts. At the ■ 
 age of twenty-three he came to Worcester, Massachusetts, and for some time was a 
 mill worker, becoming an expert operator of an automatic screw making machine, in 
 the employ of Reed & Curtis. He continued in that business until April 18, 1914, when 
 he succeeded to the ownership of the J. B. Brooks Company of Worcester. He has 
 been very successful in the management of the trucking and teaming business, and 
 now devotes his entire time to it. His business office is at No. 554 Main street, his 
 residence, No. 6 Piedmont street. He is very fond of a day's sport with rod and reel, 
 and thoroughly enjoys his long rides in his automobile. Mr. Rockwood is a member 
 of Old South Congregational Church of Worcester, and in politics is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Rockwood married, in Worcester, December 14, 1898, Grace Gertrude Brooks, 
 daughter of Joseph B. Brooks, born in Rutland, Massachusetts, but early in life came 
 to Worcester, where most of his years, seventy-four, were spent, and where he died, 
 in 191 5. He married Martha Gerals, born in Canada, now living with her daughter, 
 Mrs. Rockwood. in Worcester, aged seventy-three years. 
 
 CHARLES RALPH HOYLE. In his devotion to his profession and art Mr. 
 Hoyle lias not found it necessary to go beyond the limits of his native city. Worcester, 
 for either instruction or an appreciative clientele. Since 1910 he has practiced the pro- 
 fession of architecture in his city, and since 1904 has been an instructor of freehand 
 and architectural drawing in local schools and art institutions, his present connection 
 being with the Worcester Art Museum School, of which he is a graduate, and Wor- 
 cester Evening Drawing School. He is well-established in public favor as an archi- 
 tect, and his long connection with the schools of the city as an instructor is evidence 
 of his popularity and ability to impart his knowledge, a faculty or gift all teachers do 
 not possess. Charles R. Hoyle is a son of Francis and Elizabeth Jane (Cummings) 
 Hoyle. His father was a boot and shoe dealer of Worcester. 
 
 Charles R. Hoyle was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, June 2, 1879. After com- 
 pleting grammar school courses he entered English High School, whence he was grad- 
 uated, class of igoo. The same year he entered the office of Earle & Fisher, architects, 
 and for the following ten years was a student of architectural drawing and designing, 
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 graduation becamt- an instructor. In 1910 lie started in business lur iiiuiself and bas 
 practiced bis profession very successfully for tbe past eigbt years. He is tli'^r-uylily 
 skilled in arcbitecture, and as an exponent of tbe several orders and periods is hilly 
 capable and competent. He bas moreover originality and a nietbod of e.xpressioii 
 wbicli gives to bis work a defuiite character and value.' In igo; Mr. lloyle taught free- 
 hand drawing in Highland Military Academy. From ign4 until igio be was instruc- 
 tor in architectural drawing in Worcester Kvening Drawing .^eliool ; and fri.in igi4 
 until the present a director of drawing in that school. In igij be accepted an appniut- 
 nient as instructor in architectural drawing at the Worcester Art Museum .Scbiml, 
 and for the past three years he has most satisfactorily lilled that position as be ha.s 
 all others to which lie lias been appointed. He has served as a director and as treas- 
 urer of the .Art Students Club: is a member of Worcester Chapter, .\iiiericaii liivlitnte 
 of Architects, and of the I'irst Baptist Church (.f Worcester. .Mr. Hoyle is unmarried. 
 
 ERNEST WHITEHEAD, tieneral contractor and builder, was born in York- 
 shire. England. April 20, 1861, and received his education in Xorth Wales. He came 
 to this country at tbe age of nineteen years and made his home in Providence, Rhode 
 Island, finding employment at first in tbe cotton mills for a year. He came to Wor- 
 cester in 1885, beginning work as a car builder and carpenter." He began business as a 
 contractor and builder in 1889 and has continued to tlie present time. Year by year 
 his business extended and be has been highly successful. Some of the more important 
 buildings that he has remodeled for store purposes, a line in which be has made a 
 specialty, are: Harrington Corner block; Perkins & Butler's building. Federal street; 
 William J. Woods' store; Calder's Bakery; the Woman's Batlibouse at Lake Ouinsiga- 
 mond. He has offices and shops at Nos. iSg-igi Commercial street. Mr. Whilehead is 
 a member of tlie Free and Accepted Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Im- 
 proved Order of Red Men, Worcester Lodge of Elks, and PlvinoutJi Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Wbiteliead married, in Providence. Rhode Island, December .'4, i88j. Alma 
 Louise Jolinson. who was born in Sweden and came to America with her sister Jo- 
 sephine. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead have three children: i. Evelyn Maria, died aged 
 twenty years, eight montlis, June 27, 1915. 2. Ernest Parker, born November 21, 1899, 
 student at Harvard, class of 1920. 3. Robert Gladstone, born November 6, igo8. 
 
 Parker Whitehead, father of Ernest Whitehead, was born in Yorkshire, England, 
 and died in North Wales, 1904, aged sixty-four years; a railroad man; married Esther 
 Clift, who was horn and died in Y'orkshire. They had eight children, of whom five are 
 living: ^^'alter, .Andrew and William are decca'sed. Emily lives in Liverpool, Eng- 
 land; Albert, a macliinist, lives in India; Ernest, mentioned above; .Annie, of Ches- 
 hire, England, married .Arthur Lockett ; Lillian, of North \\'ales, widow of (leorge 
 Williams, has children : Mabel, .Arthur, b'rank, Walter and Lora Williams. 
 
 GEORGE SAMUEL BOUTELLE. A twentieth century representative of this 
 fine old French Huguenot family which settled south of the Mason and Dixon line, 
 George S. Boutelle, of Worcester, Massachusetts, has woil a business success in an 
 equality with his merits. He is bead of the firm, G. S. Boutelle & Company, No. 256 
 Main street, a house specializing in etching engravings and photogravures and agents 
 for fine photography, water colors and platinum prints. He has developed this busi- 
 ness from a small beginning and bas made it one of tbe necessities of Worcester's art 
 life. George S. Boutelle is a son of .Samuel Bowers Boutelle, a grocer of Shrewsbury, 
 Massachusetts, and his wife. Marietta Boutelle, his parents both deceased. 
 
 George Samuel Boutelle was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, December 24, 
 1857, and there completed public school study with high school courses. He was a 
 student for one year at Wesleyan Academy, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but at the 
 age of sixteen he entered business life with the wholesale grocery firm, E. T. Smith & 
 Company of \\'orcester, continuing with that house nine years. He established in 
 business for himself at Rochdale, Massachusetts, buying out an established general 
 store and continuing its operation for four years. For this same period he was post- 
 master of Rochdale, having tbe postoflice in bis store. He then returned to Worcester 
 and soon afterward established his present business. He is a member of the Masonic 
 Order, and an attendant of Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Boutelle married in Spencer, Massachusetts, August 26, 1885, Mary E. Jenks, 
 born in Spencer, November 19, 1863, daughter of George and Martha Spencer. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Boutelle are the parents of two sons and a dau.gliter : i. George Jenks. born 
 June 16, 1886, a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, C. E., class of 1908. now 
 successfully practicing his profession with the Cliester Construction Company of Ches- 
 ter, Pennsylvania; he married and has two children: Richard R. and Alar^- E. I'ou- 
 
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 telle. 2. Olive Jenks, burn June 16, 1890, residing at home. 3. Ricliard Samuel, born 
 February 20, 1904. The family residence is at No. 134 Elm street, Worcester. 
 
 GEORGE TUFTS DEWEY, Lawyer, was born in this city, September 12, 1858. 
 son of Hon. Francis Honshau and Sarah Barker (Tufts) Dewey, (See biography of 
 father). After taking courses of study in public and private schools in Worcester and 
 in the Fay School of Southboro. Massachusetts, he entered Mt. Pleasant Institute, at 
 Amherst. Massachusetts, in 1870. continuing there until graduation in 1875, when he 
 entered Williams College, from which he graduated with honors in 1879, receiving the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1882 the degree of Master of Arts. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He studied law in the offices of Bacon & Hopkins, 
 in this city, in 1879-81, and afterwards at Harvard Law School, where he completed his 
 studies in 1882. In tlie same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and be- 
 gan the practice of law in Worcester in the office of Hon. Frank P. Goulding. From 
 1883 to 1907 he was in partnership with Thomas G. Kent, under the firm name of 
 Kent & Dewey, in general law practice. Mr. Dewey's attention was early attracted 
 to business and corporation law, of which he has made a specialty. On the death of 
 liis father, in 1887, he was chosen his successor as director and general counsel for the 
 Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, and continued that connection until 
 1898, when the Company was absorbed by the American Steel & Wire Company. 
 
 Mr. Dewey has taken much interest in the industrial growth of Worcester and 
 during the last twenty years has been active in the organization and development of 
 several of its large industries. He has acted as counsel and director and also held 
 other official positions in many of these companies, among which may be mentioned : 
 the Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company (vice president). Worcester Electric 
 Light Company (a short time president), Wright Wire Company, (for some time 
 treasurer), Worcester Cold Storage & Warehouse Company (treasurer), Baldwin 
 Chain & Manufacturing Company (president), Massachusetts Corset Company (treas- 
 urer). Pure Ice Company (treasurer). He also has been a director of the Columbian 
 National Life Insurance Company of Boston since its organization. 
 
 In religious life Mr. Dewey has been connected with All Saints' Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church, of which he has been a vestryman for many years. He has also been 
 interested in the work of the Worcester Boys' Club, acting as president for a long time; 
 a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, and on the building committee 
 when the Association building was erected on Elm street, and on the advisory board of 
 the Young Women's Christian Association. He has been a member of the American, 
 the Massachusetts and the Worcester County Bar Associations, a member of the Wor- 
 cester (ilub, Tatnuck Country Club, Economic Club, Twentieth Century Club, Worces- 
 ter Country Club, Quinsigamond Boat Club, Harvard Club of Worcester, the Wil- 
 liams College clubs of Boston, New York and Worcester ; the Worcester Chamber of 
 Commerce, and being a Republican in politics, a member of several Republican clubs. 
 
 Mr. Dewey married, June 28, 1898, Mary Linwood Nichols, daughter of Dr. Lem- 
 uel Bliss and Lydia Carter (.Anthony) Nichols, of this city. Their home is at No. 
 54 West street, and they have a summer residence. "The Boulders," at Sunapee Lake, 
 New Hampshire. They have three children: I. Mary Linwood, born in Florence, Italy, 
 educated in the private schools of Worcester and for three years at Miss Porter's 
 School in Farmington, Connecticut. 2. George Tufts, Jr., born in this city, April 
 23, 1900; attended public and private schools here, and from 1913 to 1918 at Pomfret 
 School, in Pomfret, Connecticut: enlisted in the navy in the fall of 1918. and entered 
 the Students' Navy Training Camp at Williams College, from which on the termina- 
 tion of the war he was put on inactive duty and is now pursuing a college course at 
 Williams, in the class of 1922. 3. Charles Nichols, born in this city, July 7, 1903, at- 
 tended private schools at Worcester, the Fay School at Southboro for three years, and 
 the Pomfret School, Connecticut. 
 
 FRED WOODBURY HASKELL. Since 1895 Mr. Haskell has been in business in 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, and since 1900 has been a member of the successful grocery 
 and provision house, Regan & Haskell. No. /2 Green street. He is one of the city's 
 progressive, public-spirited merchants, honorable and upright in business, friendly and 
 genial socially and everywhere being well-liked. He is a son of Jacob Read Haskell, 
 born in Weathersfield, Vermont, in 1814, who there died in 1875, a farmer all his active 
 years. He married, in Weathersfield, Mariette Theasher, born, lived, and died in Ver- 
 mont, her life ending in 1883 at the age of fifty-seven. They were the parents of three 
 children : Albert Billings, died in 1895 ; Alice M., married Dr. George Weston, of 
 Springfield, Massachusetts ; and Fred Woodbury, of further mention. 
 
 Fred Woodbury Haskell was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, September g, 1867, 
 and there passed his youthful years in school attendance and in farm labor suitable to 
 
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 his years. In i88j lie left humo .md' went t'> Gillnrn\ ille. M.'is>iichinetts. ruul tlu-re 
 spent one year as clerk in a general store, after which lie returned to Weather.-t'ield. 
 remaining for one year. In 1884 he again went to (lilhertvillc, remaining in a general 
 store there for five years as clerk. These years Iiad given him the needi'd experience, and 
 in 1891 he availed himself of an npjHirtnnity to engage in hnsiness in Winds. >r, \er- 
 mont. and there for four years he condvicted a meat market. He closed ont the hnsiness 
 there in 1895 and the same year located in Worcester, Massachusetts, working the first 
 five years as clerk in a meat market, then estahlishing his own business with a jiart- 
 ner, and trading as Regan & Haskell. The store operated by this firm is located at 
 No. 72 Green street, and there a large and prosperous business is c. inducted in gro- 
 ceries and meats. He is a devotee of out-of-cloor sports, his iiarticul.ir and most 
 favored recreation being rod and reel. .^utomoliiUm. Ims -iNo won liis approval, .md 
 many are his hours with his "Reo" and his faniil>. 
 
 Mr. Haskell married in \\'orccster. .Viiril jj,. 1002. Kstellc Vaughan, liorn in I'res- 
 cott, Massachusetts, daughter of Walter S. and Sarah (White) \'auglian. Mr. \'augban. 
 a retired farmer, spends his summers in I'rescoit and his winters with his daughter] 
 Mrs. Haskell, in W'orcester. Mrs. Sarah (White) \ aiit;b.in dii'(l January i, 1915, aged 
 sixty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Haskell are the parents nf tour children: Frederick 
 \'aughan, born June i, 1903, now a high school student ; .\liblreil l-'.stelle. also a student 
 in high school, born January 5. 1905; Ko._;ir White.. nib. b..in M.i_\ 9. 190(1; .Mice Keba, 
 born October 5, 1909. 
 
 JOHN S. KEMPTON. .\lthotigh a y..nng man, Mr. Kempt.m is a veteran in bus- 
 iness, having from youth lieen engaged in ..perating for himself. He was always keen 
 for a business liargain, satisfied when he saw a profit t.. let the buyer have the p'ropt-rty 
 whether it be store, dwelling, land or stock. He started out from home at the age of 
 seventeen with a cash capital of twenty-five dolburs, and from that time he has made 
 his own way in the world and is rated one i>f the successful men of Worcester. He is 
 a son of John S. and Nora Kempton, of Grafton, his father horn there April 9, 1837. 
 John S. Kempton was very active during the Civil War. 11. .t as a soldier but in aiding 
 the war committee in financing loans, purchasing supplies and equipiiing troops, 
 
 John S. Kempton was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, January 9, 1882, and was 
 educated in the graded and high schools. In 1898 he came to Worcester aiul obtained 
 his first position, the agreement with the son of the owner of the business tli.at he 
 would pay him whatever he was worth. He received five d.dlars from the son for the 
 first week's work, which so disgusted the young clerk that he walked out. The owner, 
 however, interfered and gave him a nice present with some g.jod advice and kind 
 words that the lad never forgot. His ne.xt position was with Winslow S. Lincoln, of 
 Willow Farm, and for three years he was employed in delivering milk for Mr. Lin- 
 coln and with others. He acciuriulated al.iout three hundred dollars from his savings, 
 and with that capital opened a grocery store which he sold at a fair profit as soon as 
 a customer presented himself. His next venture was with a hardware and cutlery 
 store in the Warren Hotel block on Front street, and in due time that business was also 
 sold. In successiim he opened grocery stores and meat markets on Piedmont, Chan- 
 dler, .Austin, Washington and Grafton streets. W'orcester. operating each one until an 
 opportunity offered to sell out profitably. At about the titue he opened his first gro- 
 cery store he also began investing in real estate, and as his capital increased, mort- 
 gages and stocks attracted him. From 1906 until tlie present, 1919, he has dealt large- 
 ly and successfully, and as a real estate broker he has made some of the largest com- 
 mission sales made by any liroker in the city. He has bought for his own account 
 some of the large business blocks of the city, owning the Weston block. No. 891 Main 
 'street; Winslow block, No. 393 Pleasant street; Tuttle block on Lincoln street: Sco- 
 field block on Grafton street; Madison block on Madison street; Wellington block on 
 Wellington street, and has developed some residence property by the erection of new 
 buildings. These include West Side Manor building on Main street, a large garage 
 there, and in other sections of tlie city. He has bought and sold real estate in every 
 street and section of W^orcester and in all the surrounding towns, in Boston and vicin- 
 ity, in Connecticut, Rhode Island and \'ermont, has a large timber tract in Maine, and is 
 one of the largest individual taxpayers in Worcester. In the course of his business 
 he has held mortgages on property in nearly every street in Worcester and has always 
 taken frequent "fook in's" on the' stock market, sometimes profitably, sometimes dis- 
 astrously. He has also aided in financing new^ enterprises in Worcester that have 
 left him with beautifully engraved stock certificates as souvenirs, but these he packs 
 up with other losing ventures and charges it up to experience. Another form in trad- 
 ing has been in good horses of which he has owned tuany. He is a lover of the horse, 
 but when a particularly good one came into his possession a good offer was never re- 
 
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 fused. But as much as he admired the light harness horse he quickly adopted the au- 
 tomobile and owned one of the first "self starters" in the city. 
 
 In politics a Republican, Mr. Kempton has never sought office for himself but has 
 always been most active in behalf of his friends. He was deeply-interested in the elec- 
 tion of Mayor Wright and Mayor Logan of Worcester, and in the campaigns by Gov- 
 ernor Foss and Governor McCall he took a very active part. He is a justice of the 
 peace, appointed by Governor Foss, and a notary public, appointed by Governor Mc- 
 Call. Mr. Kempton was a member of the Worcester Training School, receiving an 
 honorable discharge, trained also at Plattsburg, New York, and did military duty in 
 guarding Worcester reservoir and dams. He is a member of the Worcester Rifle and 
 Pistol Club, and is an ardent sportsman enjoying hunting and fishing. In his motor 
 car he has visited about every sea shore and mountain resort of New England and the 
 Middle States and has toured the South. He was a member of the old Hancock Club 
 and of the Automobile Club. He belongs to Worcester County Club; Morning Star 
 Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; and was one of the enthusiastic workers in 
 all the war campaigns and served as captain of some of the teams, was very generous 
 in contributions to all war funds, and actively interested in the Young Men's Christian 
 Association Boys' Club. He is a member of Piedmont Congregational Church. Mr. 
 Kempton is unmarried. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CLOUGH, Physician and surgeon, born at Kennebunk 
 PiTt. Maine, February 4, i8j8, and died May 8, 1899, was a son of Arthur and Harriet 
 l(.ill>,itrick) Clough. His father was a farmer and brickmaker, son of David Clough, aiid 
 grandson of David Clough, Sr., who was a soldier in the Revolution and took part in 
 the battle of Bunker Hill, and in the attack on Quebec, where he was wounded, cap- 
 tured, exchanged, and later in life was pensioned. Noah Clough and his father, Sam- 
 uel Clough, lived in Kennebunk Port; Samuel was of the fourth generation (Samuel 
 (4). Samuel (3), Thomas (2). John (i) ). The first of the family, John Clough, was 
 born in England, in 1613, and came in the ship "Elizabeth" in 1635; settled in Salis- 
 bury, where he died in 1691. 
 
 Benjamin F. Clough attended the public schools and Berwick Academy, and then 
 learned the drug business in the store of Alexander Warren, Kennebunk, remaining 
 from 1856 to 1858. in a drug store in Biddeford from 1858 to i860, and in Boston from 
 April 12, 1861, to October, 1863, when he was appointed surgeon's steward in the navy. 
 He served on Porter's flagship, "Black Hawk," from October 23, until it was burned 
 April 22, 1865; then on the hospital ship, "Red Rover," to the end of the war; he was 
 mustered out August 12, 1865. Returning to Boston he worked in his old position in 
 the drug store at the corner of Tremont and Boylston streets until the fall of 1866, 
 when he entered Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1869. 
 He liegan immediately to practice in this city. His office was at No. 2 Myrtle street 
 until September 14, 1886, and from that time until he died at No. 46 Austin street. He 
 was a member of TrinityMethodist Episcopal Church; prominent as a Free Mason, 
 life member of Montacute Lodge: member of Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; 
 and Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters, and Stella Chapter, Order of the Eas- 
 tern Star; also of Charles Devens Council. American Mechanics. He joined George 
 H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic, during the first year that he lived 
 here and was mustered in May. 1869; elected post surgeon, December, 1891, and con- 
 tinued in this office to the end of his life. He was also president of the board of 
 trustees of the post, in charge of the relief work. He was a member of Farragut As- 
 sociation of Philadelphia, the Worcester District Medical Society, Massachusetts Med- 
 ical Society, and Harvard Alumni Medical Society. 
 
 Dr. Clough married, August 13, 1871, Adelia Jane Perkins, born September 13, 
 1845, daughter of John and Catherine (Sweetzer) Perkins, of Lynnfield. Their only 
 child was Bertha Frances, born August i, 1873, died November 16, 1884. Mrs. Clough 
 died in Wakefield, Massachusetts, December 25, 1918, and is buried in this city. 
 
 GEORGE SYLVESTER CLOUGH, Contractor and builder, was born in Ken- 
 nebunk Port, Maine, May 2, 1839, and died in this city. July 29. 1903, son of Arthur and 
 Harriet (Gilpatrick) Clough. 
 
 George S. Clough was educated in the public schools of his native town, and 
 there he learned the trade of shipwright. Late in the fifties he went South and located 
 in Galveston, Texas, but the outbreak of the Civil War caused him to come North in 
 June, 1861, by way of the Mississippi river. During the war he was employed at the 
 Kittery Navy Yard, and soon after peace was declared he came to this city. For three 
 years he was in the employ of J. C. French, a contractor and builder, and then he 
 formed a partnership with Thomas G. Earned in the building business. His partner 
 withdrew from the firm at the end of six years and Mr. Clough continued alone. He 
 
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 was an exceedingly cumpotetit hnililer and Iruni tin- tir>t was Micor»si\ii. He invistcd 
 slirewdly in real estate in varimis parts ni the city and built many luuises f.ir in\rst- 
 ment during dull seasons. 
 
 After retiring from active business as a ci'ntractur m 1.S85, Mr. ljl.;.usli became in- 
 terested more than ever in municipal affairs. He bad been snmewbat active and in- 
 fluential in the councils of tlie Republican party. In 1887 he was elected to the 
 Common Council and at the end of his term was elected a member of the I?oard i>f 
 Overseers of the Poor. In 1891 and i8i;_' he reiiresented the city in the General Court 
 from Ward Eight, being a member nf the comiuittee nn cities Imth years and known 
 as a hard and conscientious worker. In 189J he was appninted on the committee rc|ire- 
 senting Massachusetts at the dedication of the World's Columbian F..\bibition ni Chi- 
 cago, a very agreeable and interesting duty. He was elected to the school committee 
 in igoo, and at the time of his death was approaching the end of his term. In this of- 
 fice he exhibited the same faithfulness and ability that had distinguished him in other 
 offices of trust and honor. His knowledge and experience as a builder was csiiecially 
 valuable to the city in the course of the construction of various school houses. He 
 was a member of Athelstan Lodge, .\ncient h'ree and .Accepted Masons: Worcester 
 Chapter, Royal .Arch Masons: Hiram Council. Royal and .Select Masters; and of 
 Blake Lodge, ICnigh'ts of Pythias. He attended Piedmont Church. 
 
 Mr. Clougb married (first) in Saco, Maine, January 5, 1865, Mercy Stone March, 
 of Saco. They bad one daughter who died in infancy. He married (second) March 
 7, 1874, Sarah Jane Worth, of Kcnnebimk P<irt, born March 31, 1845, died August 24, 
 1917, daughter of Thomas Cleaves and Olive Littlefield (Hatch) Worth. Children: 
 John Arthur (see biography); Cora P)elle. Imrn Decemlier i, 1877. Their home has 
 been at No. i Alerrick street since 1885, 
 
 John Hill Clough, a brother of George S. (.'lough, alsci s<.ttled in this city and was a 
 school teacher; born November 7. 184(1. died March _'3. 1871 ; married, lanuarv 14, 
 1869, Abbie Elizabeth Redding, "f tliis city. 
 
 JOHN ARTHUR CLOUGH, L.iwyer. member of the Worcester scho,d commit- 
 tee, was born in this city, December jj. 1874, son of George Sylvester and Sarah Jane 
 (Worth) Clough. He attended the public schools here and graduated from the Eng- 
 lish High Schotd in 1895. He entered Brown I'niversity, from which he graduated in 
 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In lyoj he graduated from Harvard Law- 
 School and in the same year was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Soon afterward 
 he began to practice law in this city and has continued to the present time. His of- 
 fices are at Nos. 531-532 State Mutual building. In politics he is a Republican and 
 for a number of years he gave much time and energy to the local organization of his 
 party. Since January i, 1913. he has lieen a member of the Worcester school com- 
 mittee. He has been entrusted with places on the most imjKjrtant sul)-committees, in- 
 cluding high schools and teachers, having been chairman of the latter. In 1918, upon 
 the reorganization of the school board, he was a member of the special committee on 
 revision of the rules, and on the special committee on the selection of a new superin- 
 tendent. He has been interested in every phase of school activity ; has studied care- 
 fully and taken definite positions on every important school question. 
 
 Mr. Clough is a charter member of the Worcester Economic Club, and an attend- 
 ant of Piedmont Congregational Church. He has taken the thirty-second degree in 
 Masonry and is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; 
 Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hirain Council, Royal and Select Masters; 
 Worcester County Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar; the Massachusetts Consis- 
 tory; Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston; of Aletheia (irotto; of 
 Stella Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, of Worcester: also a member of Plii Beta 
 Kappa, of Brown L^niversity. He is unmarried, residing with his sister in the old 
 home at No. i Merrick street. 
 
 JAMES ATKINSON NORCROSS. C.nnractor and builder, partner in the firm of 
 Norcross Brothers, was born March 24, 1S31. in Kennebec countj', Maine, son of Jesse 
 Springer and Margaret Ann (Whitney) Norcross. He died in Worcester, August 4, 
 1903. His father was a carpenter and builder, and proprietor t.f the Norcross Mills at 
 Winslow, Maine; his mother was of a Westborougli family. His parents resided in 
 various Maine towns, and in 1849 his father joined the "forty-niners" and went to Cal- 
 ifornia, and died at Benicia in that territory in 1850. His mother was a daughter of 
 Jonah and Anne (Rider) 'Whitney, and granddaughter of Thomas Whitney, a soldier of 
 the Revolution from Shrewsbury and fifth in line from John and Elinor Whitney, the 
 pioneers who came from England and settled in Watertown with the first settlers and 
 founders, 1635 or earlier. 
 
 On the paternal side James A. Norcross. in tlic eighth generation, was descended 
 
634 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 from Jeremiah Norcross, who came from England in 1638 and settled in Watertown 
 as early as 1642. His home on the Charles river is now the site of the United 
 States arsenal. The later generations of the line lived in Watertown, Sudbury and 
 Newton until Jonathan Norcross, of the fifth generation, a soldier of the French and 
 Indian wars, removed to Georgetown, Maine. 
 
 In 1843, when James A. Norcross was six years old, his father moved to Salem, 
 where he attended the pul)lic schools and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1864 the 
 firm of Norcross Brothers was formed to carry on a contracting and building business 
 at Essex, but soon afterward the firm removed to Worcester. The Leicester Congrega- 
 tional Church was their first large contract. The business grew rapidly and extended 
 to all parts of the country. James A. Norcross attended to the clerical and financial 
 matters, while Orlando W. Norcross had charge of the building and execution of the 
 contracts. The firm became one of the largest and most successful in this line of 
 business in the country. No contract was too large or difiicult for Norcross Brothers 
 to execute, and there was scarcely a city of importance in the country in which sooner 
 or later the firm did not have large buildings to erect. In 1897 James A. Norcross 
 retired from business and his brother continued alone. . 
 
 Mr. Norcross built for himself at this time one of the finest residences in this sec- 
 tion. It is located on May street, near his former home on Claremont, and is known 
 as Fairlawn. It was first occupied in July, 1895, and at present is the home of his 
 son. After he retired from business he visited numerous cities to import the work 
 of the firm. In 1892 he went abroad, visiting England, France, Holland and Italy, and 
 during his last years traveled extensively. 
 
 In politics Mr. Norcross was a Republican. He served the city in the Common 
 Council in 1877. He was a member of the Worcester Board of Trade, the Common- 
 wealth Club, the Worcester Society of Antiquity, the Sportsmen's Club, the Worcester 
 County Mechanics Association. In religion he was a Unitarian and he contributed 
 libel^ally to the building fund of the South Unitarian Church. He was of a quiet, 
 .rather reserved disposition, perhaps conservative in his methods and judgments, a con- 
 stant reader of good books, a keen thinker, largely self-educated. His family ties 
 were the chief comfort of his life. By nature he was generous and sympathetic and he 
 gave freely to various charities and objects of public interest. 
 
 Mr. Norcross married Mary Ellen Pinkham. They had nine children: i. Julia 
 Ellen, born October 14, 1851 ; married, June 8, 1871, Thomas Seymour Osborne, of 
 Nova Scotia. 2. James Ephraim, born in Salem in 1853, died in 1855. 3. James 
 Franklin, (see biography). 4. Arthur Warren, (see biography). 5. Rosa Minerva, 
 born at Salem, June 2, 1863, died April 5, 1877. 6. William Ephraim, (see biography). 
 7. Mary Elizabeth, born at South Adams, October 31, 1868; married, September 20, 
 1892, William Lorin Davis, brick manufacturer, of Millbury. 8. Florence, born in 
 Worcester, 1871, died July 9, 1871. 9. Jesse Orlando, (see biography). 
 
 JAMES FRANKLIN NORCROSS, Son of James Atkinson and Mary Ellen 
 (Pinkham) Norcross, was born in Salem, January 8, 1856. He attended the common 
 schools there and in South Adams and Worcester, leaving school at an early age to 
 enter the employ of his father's firm, Norcross Brothers. After three years in the 
 contracting business, he went to East Longmeadow to learn stone-cutting and quarry- 
 ing, an important department of the business. He was made superintendent of the 
 plant at Longmeadow and continued there until April i, 1897, when he resigned to 
 engage in the quarry business on his own account, but after a year he sold his business 
 and removed to Springfield, December i, 1898. and has made his home there since 
 that time. He was engaged in caring for his father's business mainly until 1901, when 
 he bought an interest in the Westfield Marble and Sandstone Company, a corpora- 
 tion doing business in Westfield and having quarries there. He was vice-president 
 and general manager until 1905, when his widowed mother desired his assistance in 
 managing her afifairs, and he resigned as manager, continuing, however, as vice-presi- 
 dent. While in East Longmeadow, Mr. Norcross attended the Congregational church 
 and was a member of tlip parish committee. He was also for one year member 
 and secretary of the school committee. In 1882 he joined Hampden Lodge, No. 
 27, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Springfield. 
 
 Mr. Norcross married, March 7, 1878, Sarah Etta Robinson, born at East 
 Longmeadow, July 13, 1857, a daughter of Jonas and Martha (Bradbury) Rob- 
 inson. Her father was a quarryman also. Children : Jonas Walter, born May 
 23, 1879; Mary Etha, August 21, 1882. 
 
 ARTHUR WARREN NORCROSS, Son of James Atkinson and Mary Ellen 
 (Pinkham) Norcross, was born at Salem, July 27, 1861. He received his education in 
 the Worcester public school, the Classical High School and in Bryant & Stratton's 
 
AND ITS P top LI: 
 
 Business College, Buslmi. In i<S8i he eiitercil the eTiiiilny ui his liulier - nii:i. X-r- 
 cross Brothers, and was located in various cities in wliicli the luiii had c-i!iract>. 
 New York, Baltimore, Cleveland and elsewhere, until ahont iKy; wlu-ii lu- hr.-ainc a 
 partner in the iirni of Norcross & Cleveland, cmitraetors and Imilders. of Bnsi..n. This 
 firm huilt the Brewer building on I'Vont street. W'cjrccster. .Since the dissnliitiMii ot 
 this lirm Mr. Norcross continued in husiness as a contractor until ahotit 11J05. 
 
 Mr. Norcross rnarried, December 18. 1888. .Mice Willard Warren, adupted d;uigh- 
 ter of (-)tis and Caroline E. Warren, of Worcester. They have liad one child, I'aulnie, 
 born September 12, i8yo, died February 10, i8o_'. Mr. and Mrs. Norcross reside at No! 
 18 Dean street, Worcester. 
 
 WILLIAM EPHRAIM NORCROSS, Son of James .\tkinsoii and Mary h'.llen 
 (Pinkhani) Norcross, was born at Salem, May 11. i8<J0. He attended the public schools 
 in Worcester and the Classical High School. He was paymaster for Norcross lirotli- 
 ers for two years, then in the shipping department for three years, and in the drafting 
 department for two years and a half. .^Kbout a year before the firm of Niprcn^ss Broth- 
 ers was dissolved he took charge of the management of his fatlier's place. I"airlawn, 
 and in 1898 built his residence there near his father's mansion. Since 190.? he lias made 
 his home in the mansion house. He attends the Si>nth I'nitarian Church. He is a 
 member of the Wor'cester .^utonKibile Club. 
 
 Mr. Norcross married, November 23. 1800, Lillian Mabel IJlenus, who u.is horn 
 at South Dedhani. Junv 17, 18(17. daugliter of Ch.irles W. and \ esla (Catcs) Blenus, of 
 Worcester. Children; Hazel, horn .August 19. If^o.l: Kosemarv. horn November 26, 
 1899. 
 
 JESSE ORLANDO NORCROSS, Son of James .Atkinson and .Mary Ellen (Pink- 
 ham) Norcross. was born in Worcester. December 1, 1875. He attended the Wood- 
 land street school, Dalzell's private school for two years, and then engaged in-busi- 
 ness as a bookkeeper for his father's firin, Norcross Brothers. After two years in 
 the office, he became associated with his brother in the firm of Norcross & Cleveland 
 and learned the trade of carpenter. In 1901 he purchased a small farm just over the 
 line in Millbury and built a handsome residence. fonowiii,g farming and making- a 
 specialty of the poultry business. In January, 1905. he formed the firm of Norcross & 
 Shiland, to deal in automobiles, at No. 214 Summer street. Mr. Norcross was president 
 of the corporation wdien the business was incorporated. Mr. Shiland retired after six 
 months. In February, 1906, the business was removed to more commodious quarters 
 at the corner of Foster and Commercial streets and the name of the corporatioti 
 changed to its present form, the Norcross .Automobile Company. Tliis concern has 
 the agency of the Packard, Peerless, Autocar and other makes of automobiles. Mr. 
 Norcross resides at Fairlawn. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the 
 South Unitarian Church, of Worcester Grange, No. 22, Patrons of Husbandry, the 
 Worcester Automobile Club, charter member of the Wellington Rifles, Second Regi- 
 ment, enlisting May 2, 1894, and serving three years, 
 
 Mr. Norcross married, December lO. 1896. Maud Marie Smith, born July 1,1, 1877, 
 daughter of Marcus M. and .Ann Elizalieth (Butterfield) Smith, of Keene. New Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 ORLANDO W. NORCROSS, Contractor and buil.lcr. president of the Norcross 
 Brothers Company, was born at Clinton, Maine, October 25, 1839, son of Jesse S. and 
 Margaret Ann (Whitney) Norcross. The death of his father when he was a lad left 
 him largely dependent on his own exertions and his schooling was cut short. He 
 learned the trade of carpenter and worked as a journeyman before the Civil War. He 
 enlisted. July 5, 1861, from Salem in the Fourteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- 
 teer Infantry, afterward the First Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, as artificer 
 and took part in the many engagements of his command in the .Army of the Potomac. 
 He was discharged at the expiration of his three year term of enlistment. Jidy 8, 
 1864. On joining the Army of the Potomac, the twenty-four artificers of the regiment 
 joined the pioneer corps of the brigade and remained there during the following cam- 
 paigns. He counts the destruction of the bridge over the North .Anna river in June. 
 1864, under the fire of the Confederates as his most noteworthy service, saying "I 
 never expected to get out alive." Each man was a veritable Horatius at the bridge. 
 
 Upon his return from the front in 1864 he formed a partnership with his brother, 
 James A. Norcross, under the name of Norcross Brothers, and began husiness as a 
 builder and contractor in Swampscott. He Iiad charge of the building, his brother of 
 the office and finances. In 1866 the firm had the contract to erect the Congregational 
 church at Leicester and from that time the brothers prospered. .Their place of busi- 
 ness was reinoved to Worcester. In 1868-70 they built the Crompton block on Mechanic 
 
636 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 street ; the First Universalist Church, and what was formerly the Classical High 
 School, now part of the High School of Commerce in Worcester; All Saints' Church 
 was built later. The firm built the Hampden County Court House at Springfield in 
 1872; the Woburn Library, 1877; the Ames Library at North Easton ; the North Eas- 
 ton Town Hall ; Crane Memorial Library at Quincy ; Albany City Hall ; Alleghany 
 County Court House and Jail, Pittsburgh; Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce building; 
 Howard Memorial Library at New Orleans in 1887 ; Maiden Library in 1885 ; Union 
 League Club-house, New York, 1879 ; Boston Art Club, 1881 ; Algonquin Club House, 
 Boston, in 1886; building for the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1883; 
 Brownlow Hall at Wellesley College, 1883; Kellogg Terrace at Great Barrington; the 
 Latin High School, Boston; Harvard College Gymnasium; Sever Hall, Harvard Uni- 
 versity ; buildings for Vermont University ; school building at Lawrenceville, New 
 Jersey; B. C. M. Durfee High School building. Fall River; Crouse Memorial College, 
 Syracuse, New York; Memorial building at Yale University. 
 
 They also built the Cheney Block, Hartford, Connecticut; Ames Warehouse, Bos- 
 ton; Turner building, St. Louis, Missouri; Marshall Field building, Chicago; New 
 York Life Insurance Company building, New York City ; Burnside building. Worces- 
 ter ; Lionberger building, St. Louis; Fiske building, Boston; State Street Exchange 
 building, Boston; Ames Store building, Boston. Among the churches built by the 
 firm were the Congregational church at South .Adams ; the First Universalist Church, 
 Worcester ; Trinity Church. Boston ; Norwich Congregational Church ; South Congre- 
 gational Church. Springfield; All Saints', Worcester; Trinity Parsonage. Boston; 
 Winthrop Congregational Church. Holbrook ; Grace Church, New Bedford ; Presby- 
 terian church, Albany, New York ; First Spiritual Temple of Boston ; St. James 
 Protestant Episcopal Church. New York; Newton Baptist Church, Holy Trinity 
 Church, New York. The firm built the station of the Boston & Albany Railroad at 
 South Framingham in 1885; that at Springfield in 1888; at Hartford in 1888; the 
 Ames Memorial Monument at Sherman. Wyoming, at the highest elevation of the 
 Rocky Mountains crossed by the Union Pacific Railroad. 
 
 For many of these large public buildings the stone was taken from the quarries 
 of the firm at Longmeadow and Milford. The woodwork and builder's finish were 
 made in the shops of the firm on East Worcester street. In the early years of the 
 firm, many of their contracts were executed from plans of the late H. H. Richardson, 
 one of the leading American architects of his day. The list of even the larger con- 
 tracts of Norcross Brothers, and of the corporation, Norcross Brothers Company, 
 would be too lengthy for this work. Year by year the number and value of their con- 
 tracts increased. Their work is to be seen in almost every large city in the country. 
 Not only public buildings but elegant and costly private residences were built by the 
 firm and company. 
 
 In 1897 James A. Norcross retired and the younger brother continued alone under 
 the firm name until 1902 when the business was incorporated. Since then he has been 
 president of the Norcross Brothers Company. The company remodelled the White 
 House, Washington, 1902-03 ; erected the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, 
 and Tilden foundations, 1903-07; built the new buildings of the Harvard Medical 
 School, 1903-06. It had the contract for the removal by submarine excavation of 
 Henderson's Point at Kittery, Maine, navy yard, providing forty-five feet of water in 
 the channel where previously the rocks extended ten feet above the water. The Nor- 
 cross Brothers Company constructed by pneumatic caisson the foundations for the 
 New York Custom House, when the tower was added, concrete piers being carried 
 down to bed rock of ancient glacial river bed, one hundred feet below the grade, 
 1910-11. Another notable contract of recent years was that for the Marshall Field 
 Museum, Chicago. Mr. Norcross was a member of the commission to investigate and 
 report on the condition of the Chicago Custom House and post office, appointed by 
 Secretary of the Treasury Bristow in 1875. 
 
 Mr. Norcross is noted for his public spirit and his keen interest in municipal af- 
 fairs. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Norcross is a trustee of Clark University, 
 director of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, W'orcester. 
 
 Mr. Norcross married. May 27, 1870, Ellen P. Sibley, of Salem, Massachusetts. 
 Children : i. Walter .Abbot, born April 9. 1871, died October 21, 1871. 2. Alice Whit- 
 ney, born March 22, 1872 ; married Henry J, Gross. October 19, 1897. 3. Mabel Ellen, 
 born July 20, 1874; married William J. Denholm, April 10, 1898. 4. Edith Janet, born 
 October 8. 1878; married Charles F. Morgan, October s. 190S. 5. James Orlando, born 
 March 5, 1882, died July 28, 1882. 
 
 DAVID MANNING, Judge, well-known attorney and man-of-aflfairs of Worces- 
 ter, Massachusetts, where he had been identified with the community's life since his 
 youth, was born August 29. 1846, at Paxton, Massachusetts, a son of David Manning, 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 Sr., a. successful sliof inuuufacturor and Iiumhc.^s iu.im oI that t.jun aiu! a uuiu'k;- ..f 
 the well-known Freedom Club during the War ni the Rebellion. 
 
 The elementary education of David Manning. Jr.. was obtaiiud at the imlillc 
 schools of his birthplace and it was at the Worcester Hifjh Sch.xd that lu- was [ire- 
 pared for college, having graduated therefrom in 1865. lb- then inalriculaled at ^■ale 
 College, from which he graduated with the class of i8(ig with the degree of liacliolor 
 of Arts, after having established for liimself an unusually I'me reci>rd for good schol- 
 arship. He had in the meantime decided upon the law as his iirofession and accord- 
 ingly, upon his graduation, entered the Harvaril Law School, wliere he studied his 
 chosen subject as he did also in the oltices of Rice S: Ulackmer. well-known attorneys 
 of Worcester. He was admitted to the bar in tliis city in tlie year i8-j and immedi- 
 ately began his most successful practice here, distinguishing liimself highly in his iiro- 
 fession. He was also very active in iiublic alT.iirs and was affiliated with the Rcpulili- 
 can party, of which he was the successful candidate for the Massachusetts State Sen- 
 ate in 1901. He was re-elected to this body upon {hv coiiipletioii of his first term and 
 served here altogether two terms. Mr. Manning had alreadv been :i member of the 
 Lower House of the State Legislature and was most acti\e in b.itli .Assemldy and 
 Senate in urging reform legislation for the State, lii the Senate he was a member 
 of the judiciary and other committees and was active in drafting special legislation. 
 He was an unusually eloquent and forceful speaker and was recognized as one of the 
 leaders of the Senate during the terms which he served there. Mr. Manning was a 
 distinguished member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and was always active 
 in doing what he could to subserve the general welfare of his profession in the State. 
 He was a conspicuous figure in social circles in Worcester and was affiliated with the 
 local lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men. He was elected judge of the Central 
 District Court and his record on the bench was not less noteworthy than that before 
 the bar. In his religious belief Mr. Manning was a member of tlie Clnirch of Unity 
 and was active in the work thereof, serving as chairman of the parish committee for a 
 number of years. 
 
 Judge Manning was united in marriage. July Id. 1878, at Worcester, with Lizzie 
 E. Bigelow, a daughter of Alexander and Adeline (St.ickwell) Bigelow, old and higlily 
 respected residents <if this city, where Mr. Bigelow was engage<l extensively in the 
 manufacture of woolen goods and was the head of the Hopeville Manufacturing Com- 
 pany here. One child was born to Judge and Mrs. Manning, Alexander B., born No- 
 vember 9, 1879, who was educated at the Worcester High School, and now resides in 
 the .old Manning hoine on Woodland street, Worcester, Massachusetts. The death of 
 Mrs. JVlanning occurred .A.pril 8. 1908, at Washington, D. C. 
 
 David Manning, wdiose death occurred on Jamiary 5, 1905, at his home on Wood- 
 land street, Worcester, was a man of many virtues and talents. The basic virtue' of 
 honesty, strong common sense and an invincible will, the latter tempered by umisual 
 tact and judgment, were the basis of Mr. Manning's character, and incidentally of his 
 marked success in life. Men felt instinctively that he was a strong man. a man upon 
 wdiom they could lean in time of difficulty, and therefore the more willingly followed 
 his lead in those things wherein they might be associated with him. They felt also the 
 charm of a warm heart and charitable nature, with the result that few men in the com- 
 munity could boast of so large a followin.g of devoted personal friends, or exercised 
 a greater influence in that most direct of ways, the efifect of character upon character, 
 of personality upon personality in the common relations of daily life. Of the most 
 versatile talent and the broadest tastes, he was. nevertheless, able to concentrate with 
 the utmost singlemindedness on whatever he set before him as an objective, thus prov- 
 ing himself to have inherited the characteristic New England virtues of his ancestors. 
 Another virtue, doubtless derived from these same ancestors, was the strong love of 
 his home, a domestic instinct that found its expression in his desire to spend his time 
 by his own hearthstone, in the intimate intercourse of family life. A dev(.)ted and af- 
 fectionate husband and father, Mr. Manning's conduct in these close relations was not 
 less exemplary than that in public life 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON REID, Osteopath, was born at Spillertown. Williams- 
 town county. Illinois, February 2^. 1880. His father. William Michael Reid. was born 
 in Kentucky, and died in the spring of 1917, in Marion. Illinois, at the age of eighty- 
 one years: "he was a farmer throughout his long life; served in the Civil War; married 
 Bethany Jane Spiller, of Spillertown, which was named for her family, who were 
 pioneers in that section a century or more a.go. She is now living at Marion, aged 
 seventy-four years. William \L'and Bethany Jane Reid had ten children, of whom 
 eight are liviiig, viz: Zula. who married Judge W. 1'. Slater, of M.irion ; William Ed- 
 ward, married .^nna Goodall Barton, of Marion: Carrie, twin of William E.. married 
 Chester I. Pease, of Glasg.iw. Montana; Charles Clifton. marrie.I Laura .Argyll, re- 
 
638 HISTORY OF iroRCnSTER 
 
 sides at Denver, Colorado; James Franklin, married Gertrude Diblile. resides in War- 
 ren, Ohio ; John Monroe lives at Anchorage. Alaska ; George Washington, mentioned 
 above ; Gertrude, died in infancy ; Ella, married Dr. Edgar Austin, of Benton, Illinois ; 
 Nellie, deceased, twin of Ella. 
 
 Dr. George W. Reid attended the public schools in his native town and the high 
 school at Marion, Illinois. He entered Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, and completed 
 the preparatory course. He then began the study of Osteopathy and became a student 
 in the parent college, the American Institute of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, 
 graduating in igoi with the degree of D. O. He began to practice Osteopathy in 1901 
 at Warren, Ohio, but came to this city two years later and has been located here since 
 that time. His offices are at Nos. 411 to 415 in the Slater building. He is one of the 
 most prominent of this school of medicine in this section of the State. For a number 
 of years he has been a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts College of Osteo- 
 pathy at Cambridge. Massachusetts, and is editor and manager of the "Herald of Os- 
 teopathy," a monthly periodical for the laity, published at Kirksville, Missouri. This 
 journal has a large circulation in all parts of the country and is growing rapidly. He 
 is also editor of "Osteopathic Truth," a monthly magazine for the Osteopathic profes- 
 sion, published also at Kirksville. He is a member of the American Osteopathic As- 
 sociation, the Massachusetts Osteopathic Society, the New England Osteopathic So- 
 ciety, the Boston Osteopathic Society, and the New York Osteopathic Society. He has 
 devoted himself almost exclusively to his practice. He is a member of Morning Star 
 Lodge, .Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Stella Chapter, Order of the Eastern 
 Star, and Ridgely Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the First Church of 
 Christ of this city he has been an active member for many years, and is now a teacher 
 of the Girls' Bible class. Dr. Reid's home is at No. 42 Beeching street. He has a sum- 
 mer residence on an island in Webster Lake, known as Strip Island, and takes his 
 recreation there mainly in his motor boats. In politics he is a Progressive-Republican. 
 
 Dr. Reid married in this city, September 14, 1905, Eva Mae Greene, who was born 
 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Wellington S. and Elizabeth (Whitte- 
 more) Greene. Her parents reside at No. 2 Flagg street in this city. Dr. and Mrs. 
 Reid have two children: Rnth Elizabeth, born February 18, 1909; Jane Louise, born 
 January 31, 191 1. 
 
 HENRY BRANNON, Manufacturer of builder's finish, was born March 7, 1850, 
 in Nottingham, England, son of John and Margaret E. Brannon. 
 
 He came to America with his parents the year he was born and the family settled 
 in Princeton, where Henry Brannon received his early education. At the early age of 
 sixteen he went to work to assist his father in liquidating a mortgaged indebtedness 
 on their farm. His first employment was at the Crompton & Knowles Loom works, 
 then the Crompton Loom Works, in Worcester, where he remained for five years. He 
 then worked for some years in Taylor & Farley's organ factory in this city. In 1874, 
 having acquired a little money by dint of hard and energetic labor, he purchased the 
 turning and cabinet shop of John Goodell. in Worcester, and has been proprietor of 
 that shop ever since. Mr. Brannon has developed a business of considerable propor- 
 tions, one of the first in its particular line. His product includes all descriptions of 
 doors, sash and blind work, door and window screens, and fine house finishing wood 
 work. A specialty for which his factory is widely famed is artistic bank, office, store 
 and other fine hardwood cabinet work, made to order, and after special designs. The 
 establishment is equipped with the most modern machinery and employs twenty-five 
 operatives throughout the year. His place of business is now located at No. 37 North 
 Foster street, and is carried on under the name of Henry Brannon & Sons, his two 
 sons, Henry G. and Roger W., being in business with him. 
 
 Mr. Brannon is actively identified with various institutions of a semi-public na- 
 ture, and which largely enter into the life of the community. He is a member of the 
 directorate of the Worcester Co-operative Banks, being a director of the Equity Co- 
 operative; the Home Co-operative; and the Worcester Co-operative, and is also pres- 
 ident of the latter. He has served as a trustee of the City Hospital, a trustee of the 
 Mechanics' Association, and a director and treasurer of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association. Political honors have been bestowed upon him, and he has served with 
 tact, judgment, and efficiency for four terms as a member of the Board of Aldermen 
 from the fifth ward, and in his last term honorably filled the position of president of 
 the board, the most important in the gift of the citizens next to that of mayor. He 
 served in the Old State Guard, with the rank of orderly sergeant, and is an honorary 
 member of the Worcester City Guards, in which he served four years. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Union Congregational Church of Worcester, has been treasurer of the 
 church and parish and on the standing committee of the church for many years. He is 
 a member of the Congregational Club. Worcester Society of Antiquity, Chamber of 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 Commerce, and H'uiie Market Chib .if r,..ston. In Mas. .my lie l^ a KM.^ii;:, ;i::i:i!:.r 
 and a trustee of tlie permanent fund ..f the <.'iMnmander> ;' aU. . ;, ir|..-.u~ ..i il'. >.!'"i 
 sonic fraternity, and president of tlie Masonic ('liarity and l'.ducati..nal S..<;.i-. i;, 
 politics he is an unswerving Republican. He is deeply int.rc si< .1 m all ihinys iiii rmiL' 
 the community and has rendered efficient aid in behalf <.f niunuiiNiI nnpr. .wmiuius u" 
 well as religious, educational and benevolent institutions. 
 
 Mr. Brannon is a man of sterling business integrity. His wonl is as g..od as bi^ 
 bond. The popularity of Mr. Brannon among his fellow-citizens was demonstrated s.inie 
 time ago. wdien he had a unanimous re(iuest from the pr. unineiit Republicans ..f bis 
 ward to be tlieir nominee for the position of representative to ibe Legislature. His 
 probity of character, companionable disposition, and genius a>. a master worUman 
 have all tended to place him in an enviable position among his fellow-citi/xns. He 
 has taken his own full share in the duties of a public-spirited citixen, and all the in- 
 terests that have engaged his attention, included in the (irganizati..ns already men- 
 tioned, [)articularly has he rendered invaluable service to the church in which he is an 
 honored member and also in the Voung Men's Christian Association, in which or- 
 ganization he has received signal honors and done yeoman service f. .r the young men 
 of the city. 
 
 Mr. Brannon married, February 14, 1878, Gertrude (ioddard. oldest daughter (..f 
 Dorrance S. Goddard, who for many years was connected with the wire industry of 
 Worcester, and wliose sketch appears elsewhere. Their children were: I. Alice M., a 
 graduate of the Classical High School, and of -Smith College, now engaged in teach- 
 ing. 2. Mildred I., a graduate of the School of Domestic .Science of Boston; married 
 Frank S. Calhoun, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and they have three children; (iertrude 
 Eleanor, David Braiuion and FVancis Goddard Calhoun. 3. Olive Gertrude, born 
 February 4, 1883: graduated from the Classical Hill Sch.iol. 1902, and from the Amer- 
 ican School of Osteopathy, Kirksville. Missouri, lyig. She married, June 7, 1907, 
 George Harry Williams, wdio was born in Williamsville. Massachusetts, died in 
 Barre. Massachusetts, .August, 1915, aged thirty-seven years. He was a salesman for 
 the American Steel & Wire Company. They were the parents of two children : Har- 
 old Goddard, born April i, 1908; Carolyn Murdock. born March 11, 1912. 4. Henry 
 G., a graduate of the High School, and associated in business with his father; he is a 
 member of the State Guards ; he married Doris Harding, and they have two children : 
 Henry G., Jr., and Richard Harding Brammn. 5. Roger W.. associated with his 
 father in business, and during the World War served in the Naval Reserve h'orces, 
 being stationed at Newport, Rhode Island. 0. D. .rothy W., married Russell A. Lovell, 
 of this city, and they have one son, Russell A. Lovell. Jr. 7. Edna L.. a graduate of 
 the Classical High School, at home. 8. Marion L..uise. died in infancy. 9. Edith 
 Marion, died in infancy. 
 
 John Brannon, father of Henry Brann.jn. was a trunk maker in the city of X.it- 
 tingham, England, where Henry Brannon was born. He came to the United States in 
 the year in which his son was born. 1850, and the following year his wife and child 
 joined him and they settled in Princeton. In 1857. he bought a farm there and was 
 engaged in its cultivation for the reinainder of his life. He was a Republican in poli- 
 tics, and his first vote after his naturalizati(jn was cast f. .r .Abraham Lincoln, at the 
 first election of that immortal man. Mrs. Brannon died in 1892, and her husband five 
 years afterwards, in 1897. They had ten children, of whom two died in infancy, the 
 other children being: Henry (see biography), Margaret E.. James H.. William E., 
 Katie M., died aged eleven years, Charles F.. Sarah B., and .A. Gertrude. 
 
 CLARENCE EDGAR TUPPER, Lawyer. ,was b..rn in Oakland. Maine, July I, 
 1871, son of Sanford Jack and Alice L. (.Emerson) Tuiiper. Llis father was a grocer 
 during his active business career, and is now living in Watervillc, Maine, retired. He 
 was for a number of years superintendent of the Standard Oil Company at Water- 
 ville. He was active in town affairs and from time to time held various offices of trust 
 and responsibility in that city. Mrs. Tupper was born in Bathiirst. .\ew Brunswick. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Tupper had three other children: Alton F.. also a lawyer, now practicing 
 in Boston; Ethel L.. who married Professor Ma.xim of the Felton Scho.il, Boston, and 
 Jessie A., now of Boston. 
 
 The family is descended from Thomas Tupper. who was burn in England in 1578 
 and came to Lynn, Massachusetts, with his son. Thomas, who was a proprietor of 
 that town in 1637. The progenitor died March 28. i()76. aged ninety-seven years, one 
 month (ninety-eighth year, second month) and his widow. .Amie, died June 4, 1676, in 
 her ninetieth year. The family has lived mainly in Maine and Nova Scotia until the 
 past few generations. 
 
 Clarence Edgar Tupper attended the public sch.iols of his native town and gradu- 
 ated from the Oakland High School in 1888. He began to re:i(l hiw ni the office of 
 
640 HISTORY Of WORCESTER 
 
 Seiders & Allen, associated with Thomas PJ. Reed, one of the greatest lawyers the 
 country has ever had, the famous speaker of the House of Representatives, and at one 
 time one of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination for president. The 
 firm name at that time was Reed, Seiders & Allen. During this time he fitted for col- 
 lege, took advance work and finished his course at Colby College in 1894 ; then he en- 
 tered the law school of the Boston University in the fall of 1895 and graduated in 
 l8g6, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws. While he was a student at college he 
 studied law in the office of E. \V. Webb, general counsel for 'the Maine Central Rail- 
 road, and continued his studies with him after his college course in Waterville. after 
 which he was admitted to the Maine bar in May, 1895, at Skowhegan, Somerset county. 
 After practicing law at Waterville for a short time. Mr. Tupper went to Fitchburg in 
 this county and practiced there until 1906. when he came to this city and since 1906 
 he has been in active practice here. He is now constantly employed in the trial of 
 courses, legislative work and public hearings. The largest verdict ever awarded in the 
 Superior Court was won by Mr. Tupper at Fitchburg in November, 1914, in the case 
 of Perley R. Eaton vs. si.x fire insurance companies, $38,150, a sum ten times that 
 awarded by an auditor who heard the case originally. The verdict was sustained by 
 the Supreme Court, June 6, 1917. The suit was for insurance on limiber and timber de- 
 stroyed by fire and the most bitterly contested case ever tried in that court. Mr. Tup- 
 per is a natural orator, and possessing a strong voice and effective manner, is in popu- 
 lar demand as a speaker at public gatherings. He is a student of history, his exten- 
 sive knowledge on that subject enabling him to make graphic illustrations as an im- 
 promptu speaker. 
 
 Mr. Tupper is a Republican and has taken an active part in politics. In 1897 he 
 was a candidate for the State Legislature. He is a member of Ridgely Lodge, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows ; Cherokee Tribe. Improved Order of Red Men, of this 
 city ; the Worcester Economic Club, Men's L'nion of Trinity' Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, of which he is a communicant, and a life member of the Worcester Horti- 
 cultural Society. 
 
 Mr. Tupper married at Portland. Ocotber 8. 1896. Ella G. Webster, who was born 
 in that city, a daughter of John L. S. and Estella F. (Sherw-ood) Webster. For sev- 
 eral years prior to her marriage, Mrs. Tupper was a teacher in the public schools of 
 Portland, Maine. Her father was a wliolesale fish dealer, who died soon after the. 
 Civil War from injuries received in the service. Her mother is living with Mr. and 
 Mrs. Tupper. They have had two children : Sherwood Emerson, who died in infancy, 
 and Eleanor, born May 21, 1904. 
 
 GEORGE EDWIN ADAMS, Physician and surgeon, was liorn in Lawrence, 
 September i. 1857, son of Charles Edwin and Sophia Atwood (Perry) Adams, of Law- 
 rence. His parents moved to Lowell, when he was very young, and he attended the 
 public schools there, graduating from the Lowell High School in the class of 1876. He 
 entered Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1880 with the de- 
 gree of Doctor of Medicine, and in the month of June of that year opened an office in 
 this city. He has been in general practice here since that time, a period of nearly 
 forty years. His offices were at No. 974 Main street for twenty-four years, luitil June 
 I, 1918, when he removed to the Park building. He resides at No. 220 Stafford street 
 in this city. He has a.lso a farm of one hundred and forty acres, partly in this city and 
 partly in Leicester, and he finds profit as well as pleasure in conducting this place, in 
 raising fruits and vegetables and in his stock. He is a member of the Worcester Dis- 
 trict Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the American Medical 
 Association. In politics he is a Republican : in religion an Episcopalian, a member of 
 St. Mark's Church. 
 
 Dr. Adams married, at Millbury. in 1880. Fannie E. Farnsworth. daughter of Si- 
 mon and Cynthia E. (Baker) Farnsworth. Both her father and mother were descend- 
 ed from the original pioneers of the Massachusetts colony. Her father was for many 
 years postmaster of Millbury. Both parents are deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Adams have 
 two children: 1. Harold Farnsworth, born in this city, June 11, 1887: a draughtsman 
 by profession, now (1918) in the United States service in France. 2. Miriam Osgood, 
 born September 28, 1888; a student of music, both vocal and instrumental. 
 
 Charles Edwin Adams, father of Dr. Adams, was born at Farmin.gton, Maine, in 
 1832, and died in April, 1880, near Farmington. For many years he was a manufac- 
 turer of leather belting and other supplies for mills, his place of business being at 
 Lowell. He married Sophia Atwood Perry, born 1840, died August 11, 1878. She was 
 of the same family to which Commodore Perry belonged and in various lines descend- 
 ed from the original English settlers of -New En.gland. The .'\dams family was origi- 
 nally in what is now the city of New Bedford and they too were of pioneer stock. Dr. 
 Adams traces his ancestrv to a large number i:if the first settlers of Massachusetts. 
 
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 FRANKLIN DAY KEITH. Aclive manager uf the John E. Uav IMau- was born 
 in Webster, Massachusetts. December _'(>, 1875, sun ol" George I'ranklin and Emma 
 Augusta (Day) Keith. 
 
 He received his education in the pul)Iic and high schools of his native town. M 
 the age of nineteen he came to Worcester and entered tlie Worcester Academy, and 
 subsequently the olTice of his uncle, John E. Day. who was engaged in large real estate 
 enterprises in addition to an extensive law practice, (gradually Mr. Keith took over 
 a share of the management of the Day building and other office" l)uildings erected and 
 owned by his employer. Since the death of Mr. Day in lyo; Mr. Keith has had charge 
 of the property, as active manager for the Day Trust under the. will of John E. Day. 
 His office is in the Day building. No. 250. In politics Mr. Keitl'i is a Republican. He 
 is a member of the Tatnuck Country Club, the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and 
 of Union Congregational Church, in which he lias held various oftices. Mr. Keith is 
 fond of music and takes recreation in antomoliiling and fishing. 
 
 Mr. Keith married, June 8, igo4, in Washin.gton, D. C, Augusta Winifred Tren- 
 tiss, a daughter of Charles G. and Sarah Elizabeth (.Arnold) Prentiss, both now de- 
 ceased, residents of ^^■ashington at that lime. Mr. and Mrs. Keith reside at No. 187 
 Pleasant street. They have one child, Barker Dav, born in tliis city, .August 8, 1907. 
 
 George Franklin Keith, father of Franklin Dav ]\.eith, was 'horn in Raynham. 
 Massachusetts, September 20, 1841, died in Worcester, October 11, 1916. During most 
 of his active life he resided in Webster. Massachusetts. He served in the Civil War 
 and was discharged on account of wounds received in action while in tlic service at 
 Newbern, North Carolina. Fie was in Company G, Fifty-first Regiment, Massachu- 
 setts Volunteer Infantry. He was a singer and a member of the Grand Army quar- 
 tette of Webster, singing from time to time in various church chcjirs. He married 
 Emma Augusta Day, sister of John E. Day, of this city. She was born in Killingly, 
 Connecticut, July 14. iS45. died in Webster, December 6, 1894. Franklin Day Keith 
 was their only child. 
 
 Parmenus Keith, father of Geor.ye Franklin Keith, was born in Xortli Raynham, 
 Massachusetts, January 25, 1810. died in Webster. February 16, 1880. He was em- 
 ployed for many years in the Slater Mills. Webster; was 'a member of tlie Slater 
 Guards of that town: married at Dudley, l~ebruary _'. i8jj, Julietta Sly, who was born 
 there April 7. 1804. 
 
 Marcus Keith, father of Parmenus Keith, was a native of Raynham, Massachu- 
 setts, as was also his wife, Susanna. He was a descendant of Rev', James Keith, the 
 first minister of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, bcjrn in Scotland in 1643, died in Bridge- 
 water, Massachusetts, July 23, 1719. Rev. James Keith was educated in .Aberdeen, 
 Scotland, and came to this country in 1662; was ordained in 1664; married Susamiah 
 Edson, daughter 'of Deacon Samuel Edson. In various other lines of ancestry Mr. 
 Keith is descended from the pioneers of New England. 
 
 JOHN E. DAY, Lawyer and real estate owner, the son of .Augustus Eddy and 
 Lucy Ann (Short) Day, was born at South Killingly, Connecticut, March 26, 1851, and 
 died in this city, November 12, 1907. 
 
 He attended the public schools of his native town and of Webster. Massachusetts, 
 and prepared for college at Phillips .Academy. .Andover, Massachusetts. He then en- 
 tered Amherst College, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, 
 in the class of 1871. In the autumn of that year he was chosen principal of the West- 
 boro High School and continued in that position until 1874, when he was elected sup- 
 erintendent of the Westboro schools. At the end of the year he became a student in 
 the Boston LTniversity Law School, from which he graduated in 1876, having previously 
 begun the study of law in the office of Hon. George Frisbee Hoar. Soon after gradu- 
 ation he was admitted to the bar of Suffiolk county. He immediately opened a law of- 
 fice in Worcester, in the old postoffice building on Pearl street. He made a specialty 
 of real estate law, and early in his career came to be recognized as an authority on 
 the subject and an expert judge of values. He also had an extensive practice in the 
 Probate Court, being trustee of many estates. Gradually he came to devote practically 
 all of his time to real estate, in which he invested largely and wisely. He built a 
 number of large business blocks, in most cases being his own architect and builder. 
 When the State Mutual building was to be erected, his keen instinct, together with his 
 ability to judge real estate values, prompted him to buy from the Brinley Estate and the 
 other owners the present site which was finally selected. He built the Day building, one 
 of the largest office buildings in the city, wdiich extends from Sudbury to Walnut street, 
 with the exception of the Worcester Five Cent Savings Bank building on the corner 
 of Walnut street. He was also tlie owner of the adjoining property on Main street, the 
 Flagg and Higgins buildings, and in the rear of these, three spacious buildings now 
 
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642 HISTORY OF U'ORCIiSTJiR 
 
 used for manufacturing purposes. He was also the owner of considerable business 
 property throughout the city, including the building at the corner of Chandler and 
 Main streets and the large block at the junction of Foster and Summer streets. All 
 of this property under the terms of Mr. Day's will was placed in trust for the benefit 
 of his wife and children with the Worcester Bank and Trust Company as trustee. 
 
 Mr. Day enjoyed the conlidcnce of every one with whom he ever dealt whether in 
 small or large matters. He was also keenly interested in the welfare of the city and 
 assisted many a business through difficulties in its days of weakness. His contri- 
 bution to the prosperity and growth of the city can never be accurately measured, for 
 he worked ceaselessly although in a quiet way. In politics he was a steadfast Repub- 
 lican, and his influence was often used to induce men of high standing and importance 
 to consent to become candidates for municipal office., yet in no sense was he a politi- 
 cian. He had neither time nor inclination to serve in public office, though often urged 
 to become a candidate. In church matters he was earnest and active from early man- 
 hood and later became one of the most influential members of the Union Congrega- 
 tional Church. He was chairman of the special building committee and a lilieral con- 
 tributor to the building fund when the present edifice was erected. He afterwards 
 served for many years in important offices in the church and society. He contributed 
 generously to the building fund of the Young Men's Christian Association, and gave 
 to many of the leading charities and beneficent institutions of the city. He was a 
 member of the Congregational Club, the Tatnuck Country Club, the Amherst Club of 
 Worcester, and the Worcester Bar Association. 
 
 Mr. Day married, December 7, 1876, Abbie Frances Fay, daughter of Hamilton 
 Baxter and Hannah (Fairbanks) Fay. of this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Day were born six 
 children, namely : i. Editli Hamilton, who died at the age of three years. 2. Edna Frances, 
 a graduate of Smith College, class of 1905; married, in 1910, Professor George H. 
 FJlakeslee, of Clark University, department of history: Professor and Mrs. Blakeslee 
 have three children : George Day, Frances Hubbard and Edith Augusta Blakeslee. 3. 
 Alice Fairbanks, a graduate of Smith College, class of 1910. 4. Lucia Abbie, a grad- 
 uate of Dana Hall. Wellesley, class of 1910. 5. John Augustus, who attended Ban- 
 croft School and studied with tutors, travelling a year abroad, is a student of law 
 and one of the managers of the Day Trust. 6. Slildred Whitney, a graduate of Rose- 
 mary Hall, Greenwich, Connecticut, class of 1915, now a student at Smith College, 
 class of 1919. Mr. Dav was descended from the pioneers of New England. The Day 
 family line is: John Eddy (VIll), Augustus Eddy (VII), John Hancock (VI), Colonel 
 Jonathan (V), Jonathan (IV), Ralph (III), Ralph (II), and Ralph (I). The immigrant 
 ancestor, Ralph Day, was born in England, and coming to this country settled in 
 Dedham. In 1647 he married Susan Fairbanks, daughter of Jonathan Fairbanks, who 
 built the noted "Old Fairlianks House" still standing in Dedham, and to them both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Day trace their descent. 
 
 WILLIAM H. WENZ, President of the American Publicity Company, was Ijorn 
 in Passaic, New Jersey, and attended the public schools there and in Boston, where 
 he went to live when ten years old. At the age of fourteen he began to learn the 
 painter's and decorator's trade, and at the age of twenty he engaged in the business 
 of sign painting in Boston, continuing for three years. He then became a traveling 
 sign painter for advertising concerns, and decorated a large part of this country and 
 Canada with advertising signs. In 1908 he established the business in Worcester, 
 since conducted by him under the name of the American Publicity Company. It was 
 incorporated in 1915, witli Mr. Wenz as president. In 1917 the company was reorgan- 
 ized. Mr. Wenz spends much of his time on the road arranging the contracts for his 
 business. He makes a specialty of large electrical and display advertising signs. He 
 is the designer of many unique and artistic signs, especially in the modern electrical 
 styles now in vogue, for customers in all parts of the country. His place of Ijusiness is 
 at 64 High street. His home is in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He is a member of 
 the Worcester Chamber of Commerce : the Rotary Club, and the Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Wenz married in February. 1901, Elsa Nustedt, of Boston, and they, have 
 one daughter, Erna Carol. 
 
 Philip H. Wenz, father of William H. Wenz, was liorn in 1818, died in 1908: his 
 mother. Rose Theresa Wenz, was born in 1832, and is now living in Salem, Massachu- 
 setts. They had seven children: William H., mentioned above; Edward A., now of 
 Dedliam, Massachusetts: Fred J., now of Salem, Massachusetts: Philip, of New York 
 City; Anna, living in Passaic, New Jersey: Matilda W., of Passaic, and H. J., of Salem. 
 
 CLARENCE JOHN ABBOTT, District manager of the New England Tele- 
 phone and Telegraph Company, was born in Newtonville, Massachusetts, June 15, 
 1872, son of John Everett and Sarah (Everett) Abbott. 
 
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 He attended tin- imhlic schools and graduated fr.mi the \.\\t.)ii lli^;li Scli..,,! in 
 iSgi. He entered the Massachusetts Jnstitme ot" Teehii.ilony, 1ml hfl dnnn^; hix soph- 
 omorc year to enter the employ of the Thoniiison-Honston Company, l.ynn, Ma^Naelni- 
 setts. After completing his training there in the electrical course, he was en^jaticd 
 in installing electric lighlinK plants in all iiarts of the conrnry and was sent aliv.iad 
 to assist in the construction of the hrst electric railway ui I'rance, in the city cjf Havre. 
 Afterward he was with tlie Mather I'^lectric Company nf lioston for a short time, and 
 for a year in the government service as electrician on the training ship "iMiterprisc." 
 then loaned to the Stale of Miissachuselts. hut niamied hy federal ofhcers. He has 
 been with the Telejjhone Company since Ai)ril i, 1805. For eight years he was sta- 
 tioned in Boston and engaged in installing central ol'lices, switch-boards and a|)paratus. 
 He was afterward manager of the oHices in Ka^i r,o.,ton, Jamaica I'lain, Dorchester 
 and Hrookline. successively. Mr. .Abbott came to this city as manager of the local 
 office, Sei)tember i, lijof>. Since .•\ugust, 1008. be lias been district manager here. His 
 district comprises about thirty towns and cities of this county and Middlesex, Mr. 
 Abbott is a member of .\thelstan Lodge. .AncieiU l-'ree and .Accepted Masons; [•".ineka 
 Chapter, Royal .Arch .Masons; the Worcester Chatnber i>f Commerce; Commonwealth 
 Club; and the Telephone Kniployces .Association nf \cw Kngland. In jjolitics he is a 
 Republican. He and his family attend I'ark Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. .Abbott married in .Al'lston, Hostou. Massachusetts, June i,s, iSy;, Josephine 
 Epplcr, who was born in New \nrk City, daughter of .Andrew and Josephine (Mar- 
 tin) Eppler, botli ^'f whom were natives of New York. Her mother is now living in 
 Roslindalc, Hostnn. Mr. and Mrs. .Abbott reside at Xo. 19 Franconia street. I'hey 
 have one son, Clarence John, Jr., graduate of the Classical High Schocd, 1<)|8, and a 
 daughter, Josephine, student in tlie North High School, class of 1910, 
 
 John Everett Abbott, father of Clarence John .Abliott, descendant of one of the 
 most prominent families of Esse.x county, Massachusetts (.See Abbott (iene.alogy) and 
 many of the pioneers of the Commonwealth, was born in Barre. X'crmont ; for many 
 years was in the wliolcsale clothing business in Bostcin: his wife, Sarali (Everett) 
 .Abbott, was. born in England. They had four children: Clarence John, mentioned 
 above: Emma Everett, married .Arthur F. Pratt, of (Cambridge; Hattie !v\erett. li\ing 
 at Newtonville ; .Alice Mabel, married George Martin, of Newtonville. 
 
 JOHN WHITAKER, Manufacturer of l,„.m reeds, was liorn in Lowell, Massa- 
 chusetts. July 5, iS.iy, died March ,s, 1897 The fainil\ moved to Staten Island, New 
 York, when he was very young, and in 1849 his father went to California with the 
 gold-seekers and was never afterward heard from. By trade the father was a silk- 
 printer. -At the age of eleven, John Whitaker began to keep books for 'a coal dealer. 
 .Afterward he was sent to Worcester where he attended the puldic schools. He served 
 an apprenticeship in Brown's Machine Shop, Mechanics street, and followed that 
 trade until he came of age. He then began to manufacture loom reeds, and continued 
 in business to the end of his life. His business has been continued under tlie corporate 
 name of the Whitaker Reed Company, at 84 .Austin street. He was a good business 
 man, keeping in the front rank in his line of business, and acquiring a comiietence. He 
 was a thirty-second degree Mascm: a life member of the Worcester County Mechan- 
 ics' Association and the Worcester .Agricultural Society; trustee and treasurer of (irace 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Whitaker married (hrst) in 1873. Jeaiiette E. Waite ; (second) J;iiiiiary 6, 
 1890, Mrs. Mary A. Irwin, of Mechanicsburg, near Yazoo City, .Mississippi, By his 
 first wife he had one daughter, Nettie S. 
 
 HENRY WARD BATES, Insurance, was born at Brookfield, February i.^ 1863, 
 son of Dr. Henry Thomson and Charlotte Howe (Bush) Bates.^ He began his early 
 education in his native town, but soon removed to Norwich, Connecticut, where he 
 went to school for a time. He removed with the family to Worcester, and atteiuled the 
 public and high schools. In 1879 he entered the office of John D. Washburn. He 
 showed an aptitude for the insurance business and has been connected with this hrm as 
 clerk, and later partner, ever since. He was admitted to partnership in i8y6, and the 
 firm name becaine John D. Washburn, Willis, (ireene & Bates. Ujion the death of Mr. 
 Washburn and Mr. Willis, this agency became (ircene s<: Bates, one of the largest as 
 ■well as one of the oldest in the country. 
 
 Mr. Bates attends Central Congregational Church, and has been on its board 
 of assessors for several vears, and at present holds an official position. He was treas- 
 urer and clerk of the Worcester Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce for about 
 ten years, president of the Worcester Board of Underwriters several terms, member 
 of the corporation of the Worcester County Institute for Savings, _ member of the 
 Massachusetts Associaticm of Local Fire Insurance .\gents, the Worcester e'ounty 
 
644 HISTORY OF Jl'ORCESTER 
 
 Mechanics' Association, and otlier organizations of the city. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican. He served four years in the militia and was second sergeant of the Wor- 
 cester Light Infantry, Company C, Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. 
 Mr. Bates married. October 15, 1895. Mabel Washburn Jenkins, who was born Feb- 
 ruary 25, 1871, daughter of James E. Jenkins, of Vernon, New York, Children : Rachel, 
 born in Worcester, September 10, 1896; Hester, born in Worcester, June 9, 1900. Mrs. 
 Bates' father was General James E. Jenkins, son of L. Whipple Jenkins, and was horn 
 in 1842, in Vernon, New York. His father was one of the ablest lawyers in the State 
 in his day. His father's brother was a congressman for several years. When the war 
 broke out he enlisted and raised a company, of which he was to be captain, but after 
 the company was raised there was a long delay in mustering them in, so the men were 
 scattered. Mr. Jenkins then became first lieutenant of the Oneida Cavalry Company. 
 He was also in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth New York Infantry, known as 
 Fifth Oneida. He was soon made captain and was brevetted for special bravery at the 
 battle of Spottsylvania. After the war he was in business in Worcester. After a 
 short time he returned to New York, but on account of ill health due to exposure, etc., 
 in the army life, he had to retire. In 1887 he. was appointed adjutant general of Dakota, 
 and thus became known as general. 
 
 FRANK HENRY SLEEPER— GEORGE DOWNING HARTLEY, These gen- 
 tlemen, respectively president and secretary-treasurer of Sleeper & Hartley, Incor- 
 porated, spring from widely-separated families, one owning the Emerald Isle as his 
 birthplace, the other born in the Dominion of Canada. They met on the common 
 ground of self interest under the same flag in Canada, and there joined the personal 
 friendship which has drawn them into such intimate business relations — Mr. Sleeper, 
 the inventor and machine builder, Mr. Hartley, the typographical machine and patent 
 expert and patent attorney. Each won prominence in their own particular field, but 
 combined, they have achieved a wonderful success and served their adopted country 
 well in her recent trial of Iier military power. 
 
 Sleeper & Hartley, Incorporated, is a corporation which took over the business of 
 the partnership of Sleeper & Hartley, which partnership in turn took over in 1913 the 
 business of designing and liuilding special automatic machinery which vi-as inaugu- 
 rated by Frank H. Sleeper under his own name in October, 191 1. The business re- 
 ferred to has shown a remarkable growth, extending practically to very country in the 
 world except those with whom the united States is now at war. The number and va- 
 riety of high speed automatic machines furnished to the United States Government 
 and to the Allied Governments to assist in the prosecution of the war shows a remark- 
 able list. The arsenals and munition factories of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, 
 Canada, Australia, Japan and China have been equipped with high speed spring-mak- 
 ing machinery, and it is safe to say that there is scarcely a shell fired on any front 
 today which does not contain springs made on these luachines. In addition many new 
 and notable machines have been developed for various purposes, and when the his- 
 tory of the technical aspect of the war comes to be written it will be found that this 
 company has contributed notably to the final victory. One of the special divisions of 
 this corporation's activities was the establishment of a factory entirely devoted to the 
 manufacture of a new type of nail machine of very high speed and great productivity, 
 and practically noiseless in operation. A list of the various classes of standard ma- 
 chines manufactured by this company includes : Spring coiling and winding machines 
 of every description ; spring setting, grinding, hooking, and knotting machines ; wire 
 straightening and cutting ; straightening and bundling" ; flattening and forming ; and 
 coiling machines of every description. Tungsten filament coiling and resistance 
 coil winding machines; flexible shaft coiling machines; casing coilers ; metallic tub- 
 ing coilers ; staple, wire nail and double point tack machines ; and swagers for screw 
 wire and lock washer outfits. The main plant of the company is located at Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, a Canadian branch being located at Coaticook, Province of Quebec, 
 Mr. Sleeper's birthplace. Many of these machines, if not all, are the invention of 
 Frank H. Sleeper, whom it is safe to say heads Canada's list of mechanical inventors. 
 The company is a member of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Associa- 
 tion of Industries of Massachusetts, American Manufacturers' Export Association, and 
 the National Metal Trades Association. .^ 
 
 During his active working years he has invented, designed, and built approximate- 
 ly three hundred and seventy-five diflterent machines. The boldness and originality of 
 his conceptions is only equalled by the remarkable perfection of the mechanical de- 
 tails. In very field entered he has produced new types of improved machinery, mark- 
 ing radical advances upon anything previously done. In the early nineties he was a 
 pioneer on the development of electrical apparatus, including continuous current gen- 
 erators and motors with fields wound in series, shunt, and compound. He achieved 
 
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 the alinnst uiilioliv\ alilc m iiri.(Uiciiit; a mrus-wi.iind CMHslaiU-iiotcntial i;nK;i,it.ir. In 
 1891 he 1]uilt vvliat was iimliably the first self-starting. siiis;le-iihasf. allcrnatinc cur- 
 rent motor made in Canada, and also designed hoth alternating current generators and 
 motors of an induction type. Other electrical inventions include a great variety of 
 transfonners and automatic voltage regulators for three-wire systems and for indusiria! 
 generators subject to thtctuations of si)eed. He was the inventor ..f several lifting 
 jacks, amongst them the jack so well-known under the name of the "Norton lack." 
 In the field of machine tools he huilt new tyjies of engine lathes, uiiright drills, piinehes 
 and shears, and presses; in the typograiihical field he invented and Imilt printing 
 presses, paper cutters, etc. The rotary steam engines which he invented and huilt were 
 remarkable for their high sjjeeds and steam economy: <i|hcr inventions in this line 
 also include condensers and rotary punijis, but the held in which he will be remem- 
 bered longest is that of special automatic wire forming machinery. Here his inven- 
 tions include a very large nundier of special wire forming machines, wire rolling ma- 
 chinery of many kinds, sjiring coiling and siiring winding machinery, spring setting, 
 spring .grinding and spring hooking machinery. It is im]iossibIe to enumerate these 
 machines in detail, but-mcntion should be made of the remarkable flexible Metallic 
 Tube Coiling Machines; the equally remark.able 'I'ungsten filament Coiling .Machines 
 for producing Tun.gsten filaments of the coiU-il tyi>e used in incandescent lamps, 
 which Ikst machine proved !(■ lie the keystone in the nitrogen lamp industrx ; and a 
 new type of noiseless Xail Machine. 
 
 FRANK HENRY SLEEPER was born in Coaticook. Province of CJuebec, Can- 
 ada, Xovember _'(i. l8o_', son of Wright and Philanda (t'olei .Sleeper, his father a ma- 
 chine builder and an inventor of note. .After graduation from Co.aticook .Academy, he 
 embraced Iiis father's trade .and laid the foundations for his very successful career 
 under the capable instructicjn of that hoiujred father. .At the age cd' twenty-five he had 
 progressed so far that he started in business as a contracting engineer, a business in 
 which he continued for twenty years, devotin.g himself largely to special purjiose ma- 
 chinery, but also giving his attention to electrical and steam eugineerin.g. I'ntil ig07 
 he confined his business to his native Canada, and there brought out and placed in oper- 
 ation many of the three hundred and seventy-five machines with whieh he is credited 
 with having invented, designed and built. His reputation as an inventor and builder 
 of special purjiose machinery had far outgrown Dominion limits, aiul in 11J07 he re- 
 ceived a favorable proposition from the Morgan Spring Company of \\'(n-eestcr, 
 Massachusetts, wdtich he accepted, and that city has since been the scene of his busi- 
 ness activities and triumphs. He continued with the .Morgan .Siiring Comiiany as en- 
 gineer for four years. 1907-11, and in October. 1911, started in Imsiness in :i small 
 way under his own name. The object was to build the special automatic machinery 
 which he had invented, and for two years he coiUiiuied alone in his undertaking. 
 Then he was joined by George D. Hartley and the same business continued as a jiart- 
 nership frotu 1913 until its incorporation as Sleeper & Hartley, Incorporated, hV.ank 
 D. Sleeper, president, and (jeorge D. Hartley, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Sleeper is a 
 member of the Commonwealth and Leicester Country clubs, but his time is given to 
 his business, and he has few outside interests. 
 
 Mr. Sleeper married in Coaticook. Canada, December 3, 188.^, LiUa .Anne Ho])- 
 kinson, daughter of William Cuell and Clarinda Howard (Smitli) Hopkinson. They 
 are the parents of three children: Lotta Frances, born lune 11, i88fi, married Wil- 
 liam H. Blount: Ethel May. born January 22. 189-'. married Raymond b. Russell; 
 Verna Lilla. born Decemlicr ,^. 1903. 
 
 GEORGE DOWNING HARTLEY was born in Tullamore. the caiiital <if Kings 
 county. Ireland, September 2. 1875, He came to t aiiada in early life, and in .Montreal 
 public and professional schools fitted himself lor the trade and profession which he 
 has followed with such marked success. He began as mechanical draftsman. ]iassing 
 ne.xt to machine diJsigning, and in time liecame noted as an expert on typograiihical 
 machines. With his business he took up the study of the law governing p.ilents and in- 
 ventions, becoming a well-informed patent attorney, tie remained in Montreal, ('an- 
 ada, a mechanical exiiert and patent attorney until iguS. when he came to the United 
 States, locating in Xew York City, where for four years he continued along the same 
 line of work as in Montreal. In 1913 he joined Frank H. Sleeper in Worcester. Massa- 
 chu'setts, and each fully appreciating the talents and w.irth of the other they (|nickly 
 decided upon a plan of operation, ami the firm. Sleeper X- Hartley, resulted. With the 
 incorporation the partnershiii ceased, but there is the same frii-ndship and cominimity 
 of interest which has held them f.^r many years, liolh :ire m:istirs of the cr.ift and are 
 authorities. 
 
 Mr. Hartlev married in .\lontnaI. Canada. I.ili:in .Agnes Rutherford Craig, and 
 
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 they are the parents nf a daut;Iiter, Kathleen Elizabeth Morna. bi>rii in Montreal. May 
 4, 1904. 
 
 JOHN JOSEPH BROSNAN— When a young man of twenty, John J. Brosnan 
 left his native County Kerry, Ireland, and five years later became a resident of Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts, where he is head of the Brosnan Heating Company, No. 64 
 Green street. He is well-known in the business life of his city, and in the steam fit- 
 ting trade as the inventor of a valuable boring machine, "Brosnan's .Rapid Borer." He 
 is a son of Patrick and Margaret (Sullivan) Brosnan. his father deceased, but his 
 mother yet resides at the old homestead in Ireland. During his lifetime Patrick Bros- 
 nan was a farmer of County Kerry, and at the farm all his children were born. Pat- 
 rick and Margaret (Sullivan) Brosnan were the parents of nine children, seven of 
 whom came to the United States ; Delia, married Michael O'Shea. and resides in 
 Worcester; Thomas Michael, who still resides upon the old homestead farm in County 
 Kerry, where his aged mother also resides; John Joseph, of further mention; Maurice, 
 
 of New York City; Mary, married O'Connell, and resides in Ireland; Patrick, 
 
 a steam fitter of Worcester, now in the United States Army (1918) ; Thomas, a meat 
 dealer of Lowell; Cornelius; Margaret, a graduate nurse of Worcester. 
 
 John J. Brosnan was born in Dingle, on Dingle Bay, a seaport of County Kerry, 
 Ireland. September 14. 1877, and spent the first twenty years of his life there. He was 
 educate'd in the Dingle schools, and from youth was his father's farm helper, also was 
 at times employed by other fhrmers of his neighborhood. In 1897 he came to the 
 United States, settling in Lowell. Massachusetts, where he learned the steam fitter's 
 trade and remained five years. He then came to Worcester, and for ten years was em- 
 ployed as a steam fitter with diff'erent contractors of the city. In 1913 he began busi- 
 ness for himself by organizing the Brosnan Heating Company, steam and hot water 
 fitting. No. 64 Green street. He has developed a profitable business. He patented 
 Brosnan's Rapid Borer. July 16. 1918. a notable addition to machine shop equipment. 
 He is a member of the Roman Catholic church. 
 
 Mr. Brosnan married in St. Ann's Church, Worcester, June 7, 1905, Nora Teresa 
 Mahoney. daughter of Daniel and Ellen (Horan) Mahoney. Mr. and Mrs. Brosnan 
 are the parents of six children: Isabel, born June 2. 1906; John H., March 10. 1908; 
 Leo, July 2, 1911 ; Paul. October 11. 1913 ; Walter, June 4, 1916; Joseph H., July 
 II. 1918. 
 
 ALBERT ALDRED RIDYARD, Business man. is a son of Godfrey Aldred Rid- 
 yard, born in Manchester, England, who came to the United States at the age of twen- 
 ty-five years and located in Montreal, Canada. He is now a man of seventy, and after 
 a life of unusual activity is living retired, at Rock City Falls, Saratoga county. New 
 York. He married Sarah MacConnell. born in Shawbridge, Canada, and died in Otta- 
 wa, Canada, in 1879, aged twenty-five years. Their only daughter Sarah die(i in in- 
 fancy, their only son, Albert Aldred Ridyard, now a practical plumber in business at 
 Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 Albert Aldred Ridyard was born in Ottawa, Canada, October 16, 1876, but -when a 
 babe was brought to the United States by his parents, their first location being at 
 Swanton, Vermont. In 1885 the family moved to Willsboro, Esse.K county. New York, 
 two miles west of Lake Champlain. and there the lad obtained his education in the 
 public school. His father was a tinsmith, and at the age of sixteen Albert A. drove 
 a team and from his wagon sold tin utensils in several of the New England States. He 
 continued in that business for three years, finally in 1895 locating in Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, and becoming a plumber's apprentice. After becoming master of his trade, 
 Mr. Ridyard established in busmess under his own name and for many years has 
 successfully conducted a practical plumbing business. He is located at No. 7 Chandler 
 street, and although prosperity has come to him abundantly he gives to his business 
 close personal attention. His reputation for fine plumbing is widespread and he has 
 thoroughly won public favor and esteem. He is connected with the Park Trust Com- 
 pany as an investor, and has large holdings of real estate in the city, principally 
 tenements and store buildings. He conducts his business in the spirit of the "Golden 
 Rule" and has demonstrated that such a course is one that is both practical and profit- 
 able. Mr. Ridyard is of a deeply religious nature, and he has long been a leader in 
 Salvation Army work in Worcester.. He holds the rank of sergeant major in the 
 army and as a commissioned envoy attends officially, assemblies and meetings. 
 
 Mr. Ridyard married, at the Salvation Army Barracks in Worcester, Adjutant 
 Bertha E. Hill, of the army, born in Charleston, Staffordshire, England. From a child 
 Miss Hill had been in Salvation .^rmy work and has held many important oflices. In 
 San Francisco. California, she was in charge of a Training School for Girls, selected 
 for that post by Commander Booth Tucker. She had been previously stationed at 
 
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 Fall River and Lynn. .\!assaoluisi-tl>, I'aw tuvkt-t. klmdc Uland. and Woin-snr. Massa- 
 chusetts, her rank in the army at the time of her marriage heinK that mi' a<ijnlant. 
 Since her marriage she has continued active in army work as assistant junior sergeant 
 major. Mr. and Mrs. Ridyard are the parents of three daughters and two sons, all 
 horn in Worcester and attendiny tin- public schools; Kmh .\1.. Myrtle V... Howard .\,. 
 Mildred E., A. Horace. 
 
 EDWARD NAPOLEON LUCIER, I'.usiness man. i- a son of Joseph I.ucier. horn 
 in Canada, died in Iloiikinton. Massachusetts, in lijDO. a,s>ed si.xty-ei.i^ht. He was for 
 many years engaged in the wood and coal business in Leominster. Niassachusetts. but 
 at the time of his death was living retired from husines, cares. He married Margaret 
 LaBounty, born in Watertown, Massacliusctts. died in Westboro. .Massachusetts, .Au- 
 gust 28, 1912. aged tifty-eight years. Children: Catherine, married .1. K. Samiison. of 
 Leominster, Massachusetts; George L.. a clerk, residing in Worcester; Mary, married 
 Archer Yarter. of Worcester; Emma, married John .A. McCarty; Edward X., of fur- 
 ther mention: Fred R., a painter of Worcester; Josei)h li., a teainster of Worcester. 
 
 Edward X. Lucier, fifth child of Joseph and Margaret (Lal'ounty) Lucier. was 
 born in Townsend Center, Massachusetts. December j.;. 1878, but when very young 
 was taken to Claremont. Xew Hampshire, by his i)arents, they later moving to a farm 
 near Aeworth in that State. He attended the public schools until twelve years of age, 
 when his parents again moved, Leominster then becoming the family lionie and there 
 his studies were completed. As a boy he worked in the Leominster Opera House and 
 later he was variously employed, spending three years upon the road. In rgo6 he be- 
 came a member of the firm. Hall & Lucier. electric advertisin.g signs, with plant and 
 offices at Xo. 64 Southbridge street. The company's line includes advertising novel- 
 ties and souvenirs of all kinds and places. \VlK-n a youn.g man Mr. Lucier was a 
 member of the Leominster Base Ball Club, and has always retained a lively interest 
 in that sport. He is a member of the United Conuuerciai Travelers .Association, the 
 Kiwanis Club, and St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church. He is highly regarded as busi- 
 ness man and citizen, and has a very lar.ge circle of friends. 
 
 Mr. Lucier married in Boston, Massachusetts, .August i8. ic)i.i. Catherine Agnes 
 Dufl:'y, born in Worcester, \Lassachusetts, December 17. 188,5. daughter of J,,hn Duffy, 
 deceased. 
 
 WILLIAM JOSEPH O'BRIEN, Dentist,, was born in this city, August 7, 1888. 
 He attended the public schools at Windsor Locks. Connecticut, and graduated from the 
 high school there; the Villanova Preparatory School at Gerirgctown, D. C. and the 
 George Washington University, graduating with the degree of D. D. S., in 1916. He 
 began to practice dentistry in this city in June, 1916. He enlisted in the Medical 
 Corps of the Naval Reserves in May. 1918. He is a member of .Alhambra Council. 
 Knights of Columbus: of Psi Omega fraternity, of which he is editor; and a member 
 of the Iroquois Club of Windsor Locks. He is a communicant of St. Paul's Roman 
 Catholic Church of Worcester. 
 
 John E. O'Brien, father of William J. O'Brien, was born June 1,=;. 1857. at Bccket, 
 Massachusetts, and is a fanner in Windsor Locks. He was active in jiublic life; 
 served in the Connecticut State Senate. He married, in l-'itchburg. Massachusetts, in 
 1886. Mary A. Dooley. born in 1861, at Otter River, Massachusetts. They had seven 
 children, all except a brother, Edward J., who is in the Naval Reserves, are at home, 
 and one, John, who died in infancy. The others are: [•"rancis, Mary, Genevieve, Mar- 
 garet and Eleanor. 
 
 Dr. O'Brien stood ready to be called and fullv e.\|)ected to see service ni the 
 World War. 
 
 REV. OLOF P. PETERSON, Pastor of the First Swedish Evangelical Congre- 
 gational Church of this city since 1906, was born in Gothland. Sweden, h'ebruary 10, 
 i860, son of Gustaf O. and .Anna M. (Thonelll Peterson. His father was born in 
 Sweden. March 20, 1832, and died there at the age ■■! eighty-tive years : his mother was 
 born there February 3, 1841 ; she is now- living in California. 
 
 Mr. Peterson attended the public schocds in Sweden, entering the I'.utorx- ;uid 
 Trades Institution at the age of eleven years, and tinishing the ' 
 
648 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 three-vear course in two years, graduating in 1884. He took a post-graduate course in 
 Bethel Seminary at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1885. Returning to this country he was 
 installed pastor "of the church at Moline, Illinois. He resigned in i8qo to become pas- 
 tor of the church at Brockton, where he preached from April to September ; from 1890 
 to 1905 he was pastor at St. Paul, Minnesota: from 1905 to 1906 at Rockford, Illinois; 
 since then he has been pastor of the First Swedish Evangelical Congregational Church 
 of Worcester. He served in the National Guard at Wisby, Sweden, 1879-80. 
 
 Rev. Olof P. Peterson married, at Moline. Illinois. December 9, 1885, Anna A. 
 Kling. who was born at Orebro. Sweden. March 18. i860, daughter of John O. and 
 Kaim (Larson) Kling. Her father was born in Sweden, died in New York City, Au- 
 gust, 1882; her mother was also a native of Sweden, died in 1899. Children: Dr. Hugo 
 O., (see biography) : Ruth Ainanda ; Phyllis Agnes ; Florence Angelica ; Gordon Frank, 
 sergeant quartermaster Reserve Corps Motor Truck Company, No. 53, United States 
 Army: Gladys Anna Kling. born December ig. 1901. died October 12, 1907. 
 
 DR. HUGO OLIVER PETERSON, Graduate in medicine from Harvard Medical 
 School, and since Feliriiarv, 191 5. city physician of Worcester, was T)orn in Moline, 
 Illinois. Octolier 14, 18811. the S021 of the R"ev. Olof P. and Anna A. (Kling) Peterson, 
 both natives of Sweden. 
 
 Hugo Oliver Peterson received a portion of his primary education in Moline, his 
 native place, and he later attended the Cleveland High School, St. Paul, Minnesota. 
 There he graduated in 1904. after which he proceeded to the University of Minnesota, 
 Minneapolis, where he w^as an undergraduate for three years, taking the academic 
 course. Then he applied himself exclusively to medical studies, matriculating at the 
 Harvard University Medical School. From that leading medical college he gradu- 
 ated in 191 1, gaining the letters M. D., Cum Laiidc. Thus well qualified to enter the 
 practice of medicine. Dr. Peterson decided to open an office for general practice in 
 Worcester. This he did in February, 1912, since which time he has been steadily en- 
 hancing his medical standing among the practitioners of Worcester. On February 25, 
 191 5, Dr. Peterson was appointed city physician, and appointment he still holds, 
 though at the outbreak of war between the United States and Germany he volunteered 
 for active service in professional capacity, applying for a commission in the Medical 
 Reserve Corps, United States Army. Dr. Peterson is a popular physician with good 
 prospect of reaching a leading place and an extensive practice in Worcester. He has 
 many outside associations, most of which emphasize his interest in his fellow-towns- 
 men and the community-in-general. He is politically a Republican, fraternally identi- 
 fied with all the Masonic bodies, with the Odd Fellows, the Red Men, and the 
 Knights of Pythias organijations, and socially he holds membership in the Harvard 
 Club of Worcester and the Worcester Economic Club. He is a trustee of Salem 
 Square Congregational Church. Dr. Peterson rriakes much use of the autombile. He 
 is also an enthusiastic philatelist, and had a good collection of pistols. 
 
 Dr. Peterson on May 19, 1915, was married, in Worcester, to Marie E. Dahlstrom. 
 She was born in Sweden. Feliruary 11, 1889. the daughter of the Rev. L. J. and Mar- 
 garet (Johansen) Dahlstrom. the former, like Dr. Peterson's father, also being a Con- 
 gregational clergyman in this country. The marriage was solemnized at Salem Square 
 Congregational Church, of which both Dr. and Mrs. Peterson are active members. 
 They have one child, Mae Hildegarde. who was born February 16, 1916. 
 
 JOHN FRANCIS HARRIGAN, Treasurer and manager of Harrigan Press, Inc., 
 printers and publishers, of Worcester, was born in County Louth, Ireland, February 
 4, 1870, son of Edward and Rose (Byrne) Harrigan. His mother died in Worcester in 
 1912. Besides his brother. Mr. Harrigan has four sisters, Ellen, who married O. J. 
 Kindelon. of New York: Margaret, who married Henry McQuilliam, of Worcester; 
 Minnie and Annie J., also of this city. 
 
 John F. Harrigan received his early education in the Ravensdale national schools 
 in Ireland. He came to New York City, in 1883, when a boy, and was apprenticed to 
 the printer's trade in the office of the "New York Home Journal." Two years later, 
 July 4, 1885, he came to Worcester, and has made his home here since then. He worked 
 as a journeyman at his trade in various printing offices until February 4, 1894, when 
 he engaged in business on his own account as partner in the firm of Harrigan & 
 King. The printing office was first in Franklin square, but was moved shortly after- 
 ward to the corner of Southbridge and Myrtle streets. In September, 1897, he bought 
 out his partner and admitted his brother, Benjamin E. Harrigan, to partnership, and 
 the firm name was then changed to Harrigan Brothers. In 1912 it was incorporated 
 and is now known as the Harrigan Press. At first the business was small, but its 
 growth was steady and in the course of time it became one of the largest in New 
 England. The firm now has one of the most extensive plants in the city. While the 
 
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 office turns out cvc-ry suvi nf job ami lini>k iirintin;^. the firm iias ukuIc a ^jicciallv ■>( 
 school and college work and include^ anmng it^ custi^iuers the Harvard Dental t'ol- 
 lege. Boston Cidlejie. Holy Cross, Worcester I'cilylechnic Institute. Dartmouth, the 
 EiTierson School of Oratory. Wellesley. Rosemary. .Mibntt Academy, anrl se\er;i! 
 other colleges. Mr. Marrigan is a thirti owner and treasurer i>f the Hart Reiitins; & 
 Power Company, a holding company, ownitig the buildings at t!ie corner of iliwh and 
 Austin streets, in which the priming plant and office are located, l)e^ides (.llier valua- 
 ble real estate. The building \\a> purchased in miiS. He i^ a director of the Park 
 Trust Company. 
 
 Mr. Harrigan is a memtier of the .American Irisli Historical Society; the .Mhaiu- 
 bra Council, Knights of Columbus: Worcester Lodm- of Elks; .Ancient' Order o| Hi- 
 bernians; Fraternal Order of Eagles; the Washington Club; the Irish Charitable So- 
 ciety of Boston ; trustee of St. X'incent Hospital, and communicant of St. Paul's Roman 
 Catholic Churcli. He is a charter meiuber of McCafTerty Court. No. 100. Catholic Or- 
 der of Foresters, organized in 1894. In 1807 he was elected chief ranger, and in lyofi 
 to the high standin.g committee, being promoted from year to year until he became 
 high chief ranger, the highest office in the or.uanization of the st.ite. In honcn- of his 
 election a banquet was tendered to liiiu. July 18. igoij. 
 
 Mr. Harrigan married. Ocp.ber i_'. loM- Mary ,A. C. Roberts, daughter of John and 
 Johanna (O'Connor) Roberts, of Worcester. 
 
 BENJAMIN E. HARRIGAN, I'resident of Harrigan Press. Inc.. printers, son of 
 Edw-ard and Ri^se (l!r\nil Harrigan, was horn in Ci'tmty Louth. Ireland, June 4, 1875. 
 He attended the Ravenschde .X'ational Schools in Ireland imtil he came to this country 
 with his family. Afterward he attended the i)ublic schools in Leicester for a year. He 
 followed in the footstejis of his elder brother and learned tlie printing trade in Wor- 
 cester oflices. In September. 1807. he was admitted to partnership by his brother, who 
 bought out his former partner for the purpose of givin.g an opportunity to him. To- 
 gether they have worked in the utnifist hariuony and most efficiently in building up 
 the extensive business that tlie tirm now enjoys. Mr. Harrigan is president of the 
 corporation, which was forined in igu. under the n;ime of Harrigan Press. Inc. He 
 is one of the principal owners of the High Street I'.owling Alleys. Bowling is one of 
 his principal recreations. 
 
 Mr. Harrigan is popular in social and business circles. He is a member of .Al- 
 hambra Council. Knights of Columbus; the .Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Rostrever 
 Club, and Frohsinns. He is a commimicant and faitblid supporter of .St. I\'iurs Rmuan 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 JAMES MARCUS DRENNAN, 1-drnier City Marshal and Chief of Police, was 
 born in Ireland, Deceiuber 25. 18,^4. and died in this city. Xovember 6, igo4. sou of 
 Martin Dremian. His faflier was a fariuer. settlin.g in Rutland. Massachusetts. He 
 received his education in the Worcester public schools and in Leicester Academy. He 
 then learned the trade of carpenter, and worked as an apprentice and journeyman, and 
 for two years prior to the Civil War was engaged in contracting. 
 
 Mr. Drennan enlisted as a private in Company K. Twenty-fifth Massachusetts 
 Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, and rose through the various grades to the rank of 
 lieutenant, and later captain of Company E. of Fitchburg. (See history of this regi- 
 ment). The regiment was mustered into service October 31. 1861. and took part in 
 nine battles and various other engagements. We was commissioned second lieutenant. 
 October 12. 1861; first lieutenant. August 27. 1862: captain, June 4, 1864. and was 
 mustered out October 20. 1864. After the war he was active in the State militia, and 
 rose to the command of the 'Tenth Massachusetts, with the rank of C(donel. 
 
 Soon after his return from the service, he was appointed by Mayor Pliinehas Hall. 
 in 1865. a deputy marshal, and he held tliis oflice during the administrations of Mayor 
 Ball and during the first year of Mayor Blake's administration. In the f.dlowing year 
 he was made city marshal, as the chief of police was then called. ;uid he served mitil 
 January, 1872, under Mayors Blake. (, hapin :uid Earle. In 1872 he became a member 
 of the state police force and contimied in that office until the time of reorganization 
 of the state police in 1879. In January. 18S2. he w.is again appointed city marshal of 
 ■W^orcester by Mayor Kelley. and in 1882 was reappointed by Mayor Stoddard. Leav- 
 ing the police force again he was api)ointed depiUy sheriff and held that office under 
 SherilTs Sprague, Nye and Chamberlain, from i88,f to 1897. I^hayor Sprague reap- 
 pointed Mr. Dremian. chief of police, and he served for three years. 1897-99. iM-om 
 1900. until he died, he was by aiipointment of the Justices of the Superior Court, the 
 Probation officer of this county. 
 
 Mr. Drennan was jierhaps the most iiojiular chief of police in the hist()ry of the 
 citv. He was tactful and conscientious in the enforcement of the law; considerate of 
 
650 HISTORY OF IV ORC ESTER 
 
 prisoners, but alerl in detecting criminals and keeping crime at the minimum. His mil- 
 itary training served to make him enforce good discipline in the police force, and he 
 made every efifort to eliminate politics and favoritism in appointments and promotions. 
 He suggested and made many reforms and improvements- in the police department, 
 and was the first chief. His military record was highly creditable. He was a brave 
 and efficient officer. He was one of the charter members of the George H. Ward 
 Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic, and a faithful member to the end of his 
 life. Mr. Drennan was a communicant of i\ll Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 He was the founder of the Lakeview Improvement Society, and its first president. He 
 was generous in his support of church and charity; devoted to his home and family; a 
 man of conspicuous public spirit. 
 
 Mr. Drennan married in Boston, October 9, 1856, Sarah E. Leseur, who was 
 born in Hartford, Connecticut, a daughter of Dr. Francis Leseur. Her father came to 
 this city as president of the Mutual Benefit Association, the first mutual benefit life 
 insurance company organized here. His offices were on Foster street, later in the 
 Harrington block, Harrington corner. He died about three years after coming to 
 Worcester; his wife, mother of Mrs. Drennan, was Mary Metcalf. She was a native 
 of Hartford, ' and her maternal grandmother was Martha Tudor Porter, of Hartford. 
 Mrs. Drennan is descended in all her lines from early settlers and well known Con- 
 necticut families. She resides at No. 118 Coburn avenue, this city. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Drennan had five children: i. Mary Elizabeth, married Alfred S. 
 Lowell ; she died in Rome, Italy, leaving a son and two daughters. 2. Lillian, mar- 
 ried Irving E. Bigelow, of this city (see biography). 3. Sarah Porter, married Albert 
 H. Lange, of this city, and has a son and daughter. 4. Ada Barton, married Frederick 
 G. Dews, and has two daughters. 5. Francis Burnside, died at the age of seven years. 
 
 GEORGE LEO CHANDLEY. .\ native son of Worcester, educated in her pub- 
 lic schools, and developed in her business institutions, George L. Chandley in turn 
 became one of the supports of Worcester's commercial structure as sole owner and 
 executive head of The Chandley Company, manufacturers of mattresses and pillows, 
 Nos. 274-276 Shrewsbury street, Worcester. This has been his sole business since 
 completing his school years, his beginning being as a clerk, a position from which he 
 advanced to that of manager, then in 1905 becoming head of his own business. This 
 has been accomplished within the limits of a life not yet in its prime through native 
 ability, industry, and close attention to the details of the business in which he had em- 
 barked, 
 
 George L. Chandley is a son of George Bernard Chandley, born in Leeds, Eng- 
 land, who was brought to the United States by his parents when a boy, they locating in 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, where he died January 30, 1901. He early learned the ma- 
 chinist's trade with Rice, Barton & Fales of Worcester. He served in the Union Army 
 with the Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment V'olunteer Infantry during the four 
 years of war between the states, 1861-65, enlisting as a private and returning a captain. 
 He was engaged in many of the great battles of the war including Gettysburg and 
 Cold Harbor, was with General Sheridan in the "Valley" and saw the hardest kind of 
 military service. After the war he returned to Worcester, and was employed at his 
 trade with the exception of ten years of active service in the city police force. He mar- 
 ried, in Worcester, Mary Theresa Brophy, born in Waltham, died in Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, aged forty-seven years. They were the parents of five children, three of 
 whom are living, all residents of Worcester. Children : A child who died in infancy ; 
 Nathaniel Joseph, married Annie MuUaney, and they are the parents of six children : 
 George, Mary, Nathaniel, Jr., Margaret, Anna and John Chandley; Mary Ellen, de- 
 ceased, who left a son, Walter Chandley HetTern ; Gertrude Frances, married Edwin 
 M. Whalen, and has a son, George Chandley Whalen ; George Leo, who is of further 
 mention. These children are of the third generation of Chandleys in the United States, 
 their grandfather. Nathaniel Chandley, being the first of his family to cross the seas 
 from Leeds, England, to seek a home in this country. His son, George Bernard, was 
 also English-born, thus the children named constitute the first American-born gen- 
 eration. 
 
 George Leo Chandley was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 19, 1875. 
 He completed full courses of public school study with graduation from Worcester 
 High School, class of 1893. and at once entered the employ of John J. Griffin, a mat- 
 tress manufacturer of Worcester, beginning as a clerk. He continued with Mr. Grif- 
 fin until the latter's death in 1903, gaining an expert knowledge of mattress manufac- 
 ture from every angle, having reached a very confidential position in his employer's 
 business. His fitness was recognized by the executors of the Griffin estate, and for two 
 years he was managing head of the business by their appointment. In June, 1905, Mr. 
 Chandley began business as a mattress manufacturer under liis own name at Nos. 
 
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 8-10 Hardiny street. Worcester. There he ei>ntiiuieil tor three year-;, iiioxinu: w: i loS 
 to No. 4 Seward street with offiees and salesrooms at Xos. zy^-lyh Slirewshnry sinei. 
 He has been very successful in his business. Iiis leading article oi inanutacture. ""I he 
 Famous Kepose" mattress, with an accoinpanyiiiK line of Iii.i;h ^radt' pillows. 
 
 While wholly devoted to his l)usiiiess, Mr. ("handley i^ not a "cjui- idea" man. hut 
 caters to his social nature by club inemberships and by a wliole-hearted interest in 
 ont-of-door sports of all kinds, ijarticnlarly golf and ba.seball, bowling also being one 
 of his favored recreations. He is a fotu'th degree member of the Knights of Colum- 
 bus, member of Worcester R.)tary t'liib, W'.ircester Country Clnli. Roy.il .Arcanum, 
 the United Commercial 'I'ravelers. and tlie Church of the Itlessed Sacrament. In poli- 
 tics he is an independent tliinker ami voter. 
 
 Mr. Chandley married in Worcester. January 24. 100,=;, Kstella Louise SclilcnUer, 
 born in Worcester. November 17. 1870. daughter ..f Christian Scblenker, born in Cer- 
 many, died in Worcester, July ig, 1011, ageil se\eiU\ three years, a polisher in the em- 
 ploy of the Harrington, Richardson .Arms (_(.mpany for many vears. .\lr. and Mrs. 
 Chandley have no children. 
 
 CHARLES O'NEILL, .Ancestor <.f the (I'.Xeill family, was b..rn in Ireland about 
 1723, was a carpenter Ijy trade, married .Mice .Mctiee. and si.\ sons and live daughters 
 were born to them, hve of whom died in infancy, and among tlie surviving members 
 were the following: .Arthur (s('e biography); John, born May 24, 1787, was killed at 
 Trafalgar under Nelson, October 21. iSos: lames, liorn in Ireland. May 29 1789; 
 Charles. Jr. (see bioyraphy). and Thomas." 
 
 ARTHUR O'NEILL, Son of Charles and .Alice (.\lc(,ee) O'Xeill. was born in 
 Dundalk. County Louth, Ireland, Octolier. 1785. 'This family gave live of its sons, Ar- 
 tliur. James. Ciiarles. John and Thomas, to their country's call, and joined the forces 
 of Wellington, Blucher and Nelson. .Arthur O'Xeill enlisted in Septemlier. 1804. and 
 was assigned to duty under Nelson, upon the seventy-fonrth gunship. "'Terrible." which 
 proved its name, and he wa.s killed by a cannon ball a few mouths after enlisting in an 
 engagement which took place near the coast of Tfolland between bis Majesty's fleet 
 and the French naval force. His brother. James, enlisted in May, i8o(). He was as- 
 signed to the Royal .Army of George I\', in the .Xinety-si.\th Re.giment of l-'oot. .After 
 two years and seven months of service, in Dccemln'r, i8nS. he was with Sir John Moore 
 on his retreat, and in July. 1809, was killed in the blooily battle of 'i'alavera. 
 
 CHARLES O'NEILL, Son of Charles and .Alice (Mc(.ee) O'Xeill. was born June 
 21. 1793, and died June 16, 1852. .At the age of seventeen years he enlisted at Belfast. 
 Ireland, was assigned to the Eighth Regiment of I'oot. and after several enlistments 
 completed eight years I'f service, being honorably discharged at Chelsea. England, in 
 1818. at which time he was under Colonel McCabe. The horrors of war tirst presented 
 themselves to this young recruit twelve months after enlistment when, at Cibraltar, 
 he received three hundred lashes for not attending divine services at the Church of 
 England. The Duke of York heard of his treatment, and upon investigation, finding 
 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 i8ii, 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 1815; the bloody battle of Barossa ; the 
 memorable siege of Badajos ; and the historic battle of Waterloo, which terminated 
 with the overthrow of the great and mighty Xapoleon. 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 Iiis left arm which rendered him practically helpless. Not content to re- 
 main idle, he resolved to continue his fighting and had gone but a few hours when a 
 second ball entered his right tbigli 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-si.x hours 
 altogether, until removed to the liospitaTat Brussels, where he remained for several 
 months, until the regiment was transported back to England, receiving his discharge 
 as above stated. For twelve years following. Charles O'Neill remaini'd at home in Ire- 
 land, and in 1830 he petitioned the government to commute his life iiension as he 
 wished to sail for .America. This the .government allowed and adjusted his pension to 
 a four-year settleinent. payable in advance, together with a clear deed for two hundred 
 and eighty acres of land in Upjier Canada, which he accejited and then sailed for Que- 
 bec, and in turn came to Worcester. Massachusetts, where he died. June 1(1. 1852. 
 
 Prior to leaving Ireland he married Bridget O'Riley, daughter of 'Thomas and 
 Mary (Collins) O'Riley, and had thirteen children, four of wliom died in infancy. 
 The surviving members of the family were: John: .Arthur, born February 10, 1831. died 
 about 1892; Charles, born .April 12 i'83.'. died April 7, i8(j8: t'aptain 'Thomas (see biog- 
 
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 raphy) ; Mary, bom October lo. 183O (Hviiig): Lieutenant James, born April 19, 1838 
 (living); Annie, born 1840, died June 4, 1875; Ellen, born 1841, died 1844; and Cath- 
 erine, born August 23, 1843 (living). These children were all born in Worcester. 
 
 Of this family, volumes could be written, for it is seldom, if ever, a family gives 
 five sons to its country's cause, and who distinguish themselves as have these five 
 boys. When, the War of the Rebellion broke out they immediately responded to the 
 call of President Lincoln for 75,000 troops and enlisted at Worcester. Enlistments, as 
 follows : John, the eldest son, enlisted July, 1861, and was assigned as teamster in 
 Company E. Twenty-fifth Regiment, under his brother. Captain "Tom," and received 
 an Iionorable discharge at the close of the war; Arthur, second eldest son, enlisted, 
 1862, as private in Company E, Twenty-fifth Regiment, honorably discharged, 1865; 
 Charles, 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; wlien the war broke out he enlisted this time in the army with Com- 
 pany F, Nineteenth Infantry, as corporal, in the fall of 1861, and was honorably dis- 
 charged at the close of the war, 1865: he was twice wounded, but fully recovered. 
 
 THOMAS O'NEILL, Captain, was born ni Worcester. August 17. 1835. and died 
 June 4. 1864. son of Charles and Bridget (O'Riley) O'Neill. He attended the public 
 schools at Worcester. When a mere boy. possessing all the military ardor of his 
 family, he enlisted with the Jackson guards, an Irish military com])any of Worcester, 
 remaining in that organization until the disbandment by Governor Gardner, January 
 9, 1855. In 1861 the Emmet Guards received a charter from the State and Thomas 
 O'Neill attached himself to that organization, 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 Regi- 
 ment. The 30th of October, 1861, was made memorable by a visit to Camp Lincoln by 
 Governor Andrew, accompanied by Colonels Kitchie and John W. Wetherell. In the 
 afternoon His Excellency reviewed the various regiments in the presence of a multi- 
 tude 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 Regi- 
 ment was the handsomest 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. 
 
 He was Captain "Tom" O'Neill, of Company E, Twenty-fifth Regiment, and was 
 known the country over for his bravery and daring, also from the immortal words 
 that fell from his lips, which have been 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 flag: teach them to our children; instil! them 
 upon tlie 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 difliculties." Captain "Tom" 
 was shot through the abdomen at the bloody battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, at 
 five A. M.. and died the following day, June 4, 1864, .at five o'clock. The words of the 
 dying hero were: "Bi^ys! 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 I 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 hand, and a rosary, scapular, and agiius 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 Worcester, where he was buried with full military honors, June 13, 1864. It was at- 
 tended by members of the city government, all Irish societies, and a concourse of peo- 
 ple. Escort duty was by the state guards. The funeral mass was celebrated at St. 
 Jolm'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. 
 
 It was during these trying hours that a fond mother, up North, was worrying and 
 weeping for her five sons, who were figiiting so bravely in the South for the cause of 
 their country. I'nable 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. 
 Upon her arrival at Washington, she tried hard and unsuccessfully to procure a pass- 
 port to Fortress Monroe, and was sternly informed that "the office was closed yester- 
 day, and no more passports will be given." .\fter repeated refusals, she determined to 
 
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 make one last and fervent elVort, and s"nit; n|i t'l tlu- oiiiccr in cItaiKe. she ^aid "S\i. 
 I)lease listen to my story, and then refuse me if yuu will" "What is it. my little Hirl." 
 She began by saying, "Sir, my mntlier has given live s<ais to her eotmlry. and oik- .rf 
 them is lying at the point of death in that h^^SI)ilal ; the fourth was killed at the battle 
 of Cold Harbor, aiici she (my mother) has sent me here to see him befure he dies." 
 The officer was tenderly afflicted by her story, and inquired who she was, aiul she re- 
 plied: "I am a sister to Captain "Tom" O'X'eill. He was killed three weeks ago at the 
 battle of Cold Harbor, and my other brother— but befi>re she had tinished 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 passjiort she still had another obstacle 
 to overcome, as it was ditlicult to procure a boat, but at last she was successful in get- 
 ting aboard a collier, and after a long, dreary night of riding was landed at Fortress 
 Monroe the following morning. L'pon incpiiry at the hospital for her brother, the at- 
 tendant told her that her brother James bad just stepped out and would ri'turn soon. 
 This made her happy, but after a half hour's wait the fellow returned, only to inform 
 Iter that he was James O'Xeill from a X'ew N'ork regiment. Keenly disappointed, she 
 then set out to Inid her brother James .iiid w.is successful. He w.is deathly sick and 
 requested her to stay with him until be was well. She did so, remaining three weeks 
 and nursing him. The passport is now tenderly ]ireserved by the surviving members of 
 the family, together with other relics of the memor:ible conflict. ( )ne relic in particu- 
 lar is a sword presented to Capt:iin "Tom" by the citizens of Worcester, and another, a 
 vest pocket prayer book, many leaves of wllicli are licsmeared with his life's blood, 
 for during the succeeding twenty-four hours after he received his mortal wound this 
 prayer book, together with other sacred relics, w:is his cmstant companion and silent 
 adviser. In life and health his thoughts were of his country as \vell as his Maker, 
 and in bis dving hours when health .uid strength both failed liim. his mind was with 
 his God. 
 
 JAMES O'NEILL, Lieutenant, son of Ih.irlcs ,uid Bridget (O'Kiley) O'Xeill, was 
 born in Worcester, April 19, 1838. He enlisted. July. 1861, in Company K. Twenty-fifth 
 Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, as corporal under his brotlier. Captain "Tom" 
 O'Neill, and went from Worcester to Annapolis, leaving that city three montlis later 
 and going to Roanoke Island, with the Burnside E.xpedition. He was corporal of the 
 color guard, and during the sickness of the regular color bearer he took the colors and 
 carried them through the fight at Roanoke Island, again at Xewbern took the colors 
 through the fight, and was the first man to mount the intrencluiient, planting the Cnited 
 States colors on Fort Thompson, the rebel fort, for which distinction 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 appropri- 
 ately and speedily recognized, and at Goldsboro. i86j, under Major-Cleneral 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 having 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. 
 
 After the war was over, James O'Neill established a school for physical culture at 
 Wood's Gymnasium, New York City, which he conducted for two years. He then ac- 
 cepted 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 wlnmi were developed under his super- 
 vision. 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 twen- 
 ty minutes, nineteen and one-half seconds for "dead" water, three miles with a turn. 
 In all of his boat races he was defeated but three times ; his winnings include singles, 
 doubles, four-oared and si.v-oared races. Another world's record of his is the "hand- 
 lift" in dumb bells, lifting 1,325 pounds three inches o({ the floor, in a match against 
 "Charlie" Foster. Still another feat is that of lifting a dumb bell wdth one hand. 185 
 pounds from floor to full length over head, while he himself wei.ghed but 154 pounds. 
 
 He married Delia Covell, of Saratoga, New York, and had two children, one dying 
 in infancy, and the other Bertha, born ii; New York City, May 29, i8C)7. She is a highly 
 accomplished lady; she received a convent and private school education at New York, 
 then went to Italy for four vears, taking, with other studies, a complete course in music. 
 She was afterward a dramatic soprano, receiving her musical training from Madam 
 Gillitie, of Milan. She traveled extensively in Europe and North and South .America, 
 
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 having toured these continents with the International Grand Opera Company for sev- 
 eral years, bearing the role of star in such important presentations as "Favorita," 
 "Carmen," "Faust," "Bohemian Girl," "Huguenots," "Mignon," "II Trovatore," etc. 
 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, nepr Fresno, and 
 consists of six hundred and forty acres of land. She too, like her father and her uncles, 
 her grandfather and her granduncles, has seen considerable of the "horrors of war," 
 and is now the possessor of a very costly girdle made from various coins of the Repub- 
 lic of Argentine, South America, which was presented to her by the soldiers of Buenos 
 Ayres, Argentina, South America. The following is the free English translation of the 
 inscription which is written in Spanish on the girdle : "Presented to Mrs. Benito Ni- 
 chols as a reward for kindness to the soldiers in the time of war. We shall always 
 be imder obligation to her and shall always hope for her prosperity and happiness. 
 Buenos Ayres, Argentina, A. A." This reward of merit came as a recognitiori of her 
 services during the revolution of 1890 in .^rgentina. 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 her home into a veritable hospital and tenderly cared for the wounded and dy- 
 ing, 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, Englisli. 
 
 She married Benito Nichols, son of John Nichols, of Randolph, Vermont, the 
 former named being judge of the Supreme Court of Randolph, Vermont. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Nichols, who reside in California, are the parents of one child, George B. Nichols, 
 born 188;. 
 
 CATHERINE (O'NEILL 1 KANE, the youngest member of this illustrious family, 
 was born August 23, 1843, in Worcester. She received a public school education. She 
 married Owen M. Kane, July 29, 1873, and their children are : i. Mary B., born Sep- 
 tember 20, 1874; received her education in private schools in Connecticut, graduated 
 from the convent on Vernon street, Worcester, taking a special course in music; re- 
 sides at home with her mother. 2. James M., born December 12, 1875, died January 12, 
 1876. 3. Eugene J., born July 30, 1877 ; educated in the Worcester public schools, going 
 thence to work in the Steel and Wire Company, and by close application and attention 
 to his duties has risen rapidly to the responsible position of foreman in the Ensley 
 Mills in Alabama. 4. Annie T., born July 30, 1878; received her education in the 
 public and high schools, graduating from the latter in the class of 1897. 5. Katherine 
 A., born January 11, 1880, died November 18, 1883. 6. Charles M., born November 23, 
 1883: graduated from the Worcester public schools, going thence to work in the Steel 
 and Wire Company where he too advanced rapidly. 7. Catherine J., born September 
 30, 1886; educated in the Worcester public and high schools, graduating from the lat- 
 ter in the class of 1905. 
 
 MORTIN M. MILLER, Manufacturer. Tlie first know-n record of the Miller 
 family in New England chronicles the fact that in tlie year 1637 Richard Miller, a 
 descendant of Nicholas Miller, a one time sheriff of County Kent, England, and his 
 wife, Eleanor, had joined the Massachusetts Colony of Puritan adventurers, and was 
 located in Charlestown. A year later Richard and his wife moved to Cambridge, 
 where they received a grant of land. They were the parents of Joseph Miller, who 
 was their eldest son, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1638. He married Mary 
 Pope, and in 1674 moved to West Newton. In that same year he was one of the peti- 
 tioners to the General Court for the new town of Newton. Joseph and Mary (Pope) 
 Miller were the parents of a son, Samuel Miller, born in Cambridge in 1678. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Childs, of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1708. He was a man of educa- 
 tion, and after moving to Newton, kept a school in his own home. Later he gave the 
 land and helped build the schoolhouse in Newton. He was not only a lifelong friend 
 of education but was one of the leaders in all town affairs. 
 
 Joseph Miller, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Childs) Miller, was born in Newton, 
 Massachusetts, in 1716. He located in Westminster, Massachusetts, then called 
 "Narragansett No. 2," as early as 1740. He was one of the proprietors of that town 
 and was one of the first to settle on the town lands. He with two others surveyed and 
 plotted the township, cleared a road through it, and actually made settlement. He 
 
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 was one of the pelitionors fnr tlie iiieoriinrati<in of the town, and lu-rsonallv drew np 
 tlie papers which were suhinittecl In the aiitliorities. He aided in or^anizinu the ehureh 
 in the new town, and for lialf a centnrv, tliercafter. was one of its deaeons. He alsn 
 held town oftiee most of his life. He 'was a soldier of the French and Indian War. 
 and was third in the list of signers to the Covenant to snpport the Continental C.n 
 (■[ress. Four of his sons served in the Revolutionary Army, and he was a ineml>er nf 
 the Massachusetts Legislature which adopted the lirst State Cnustitiiti.m. j(.se|ih 
 Miller, the patriot, married Mar\ Willi.ams. daughter of Isaac and Martha (Whilnian) 
 Williams, and they were tlie i)arenls oi a large family. Joseph Miller died in I7g.}. 
 one of the most active men in the dewlcipnient of tlie new tnwn of Westminster. 
 
 Samuel Miller, seventh child ni jnseph and Mary (Williams) .Miller, was l),.rn at 
 the Miller homestead in Westminster. Massachusetts. July 20. 1751. died Oetolier _'o, 
 1820. He receivi-d the liesl edueatinii the times al'fnrded. hut little is Uudwu of his alter 
 career further than that he was one of tlmse who enlisted to repel Burgoyne's invasion 
 of New \'ork State. Mr. .Miller married. October JJ. 1775. Lydia Cutting, and they 
 were the parents of John Cutting .Miller, head of the next generation in this brancli. 
 
 John Cutting Miller was horn at the C'utting Miller farm near Westminster Cen- 
 ter, J^nie ,?. 1785. During his early nianh.md he was a popular and snceesslul seliool- 
 master. but after his marriage he settled on a farm near Waehusetts Lake, thai 
 property being known for a long Inne thereafter as the "Cai)tain John C. Miller ]ilace." 
 He served for several years as a eai>tain of militia, his service happily being of ik. 
 more w-arlike charaeler th.an leading his company on general training days. Captain 
 Miller married Tabitha Whitney, eldest daughter of Deacon David and Elizabeth 
 (Barron) Whitney, she a lineal descendant i^f John and Eleanor Whitney, who came 
 from England to New England in l').;5, and founded the numerous and intluential 
 Whitney families of the United States. The Whitneys trace their English ancestry to 
 the time of the Norman Coiu|nest. 10(16. Tabitha Whitney was born and lived 'in the 
 "old Whitney place" near Westminster. .Massachusetts, that old home still possessing 
 historic interest, as there ma\' be seen main' things dating hack to pre-Kevolutionary 
 (lays, wdien her grandfather drilled his troops under the elm trees in the yard, and 
 wdiere Hessian officers were held as jirisoners after the battle of Trenton. 
 
 Calvin Miller, youngest son of Captain John C. and Tabitha (Whitney) Miller, 
 was born at the ^HUer homestead in \\'estminster. Massachusetts, in 1837. and there 
 lie spent his boyhood. Mr. Wyman operated a large paper mill, a general store and 
 the postoffice in Westminster, and with him Calvin Miller began his business life, 
 starting as clerk and bookkeeper. There he gained intimate knowledge of the business 
 methods and management, also became familiar with manufacturing, and was rated 
 a young man of fine business ability. From the Wyman's plant and store he went to 
 Templeton, Massachusetts, there, establishing in business under his own name, later 
 selling out to take a position with the firm. .\. T. Stewart & Comiiany, New \'ork 
 City. He was for a time also interested in a clothing store in Milwaukee. From the 
 latter business he returned to Massachusetts and entered the employ of S. K. Pierce, a 
 chair manufacturer of Gardner, Massachu,setts. Soon afterward he formed the lirni of 
 Cardney & Miller, and began the manufacture of furniture, at Athol, Massachusetts, 
 the company doing both a wholesale and retail business. Mr. Miller later became sole 
 proprietor of that business, continuing it very successfully for many years. He also 
 conducted a coal yard, and a bakery was later added to his many business activities. 
 In his later years Mr. Miller moved to Worcester, where he was engaged in real 
 estate development. One of these was that of Westland street, where he made his 
 home. He was deeply interested in public aflfairs both in Athol and Worcester, and was 
 one of the active, useful men of his day. Calvin Miller married, in (iardner. Massa- 
 chusetts. Amelia V. Alger, daughter of C. C. and Sabrina (Balcon'i) Alger, of Winclun- 
 don, Massachusetts. C. C. Alger was one of the leading men of his town and on 
 both the Alger and Balcom lines Mrs. .Amelia \'. {.Mger) Miller traced her .•uicestry ti> 
 the early Colonial settlement .>f New England. They had two sons: Morliii M.. of 
 further mention ; and Allan B. 
 
 Mortin Melvin Miller, oldest son of Calvin and Amelia \'. (Alger) Miller, was 
 born in .Athol. in 1873. He atten<le(l the schools of the town, and after graduation from 
 the .Athol High School he attended Cushing Academy and continued w-ith courses in 
 accounting and drafting, also at the Worcester .Art Museum classes. In business life 
 he first assisted his father in real estate development, and later entered the estimating 
 office of a builder's finish manufacture. Then he changed to the employ of the Cromp- 
 ton & Knowdes Loom Works as draftsman and machine designer, where he remained 
 for about ten years. It was while in this place that he became interested in wire weav- 
 ing, and w^ith another employe he decided to build some looms and enter this line of 
 manufacture. It was from this beginning that the Miller Wire Cloth Company was 
 developed. With some machines that he designed and built, and others that he bought. 
 
656 HISruRV OF ir()RCBSTI:!< 
 
 he lias developed one of the best equipped plants fur the weaving of sieve and strainer 
 cloth in the country. After about ten years as president and treasurer of this company 
 he formed a combination with the Morgan Spring Company, who also control the Na- 
 tional Manufacturing Company, thereby making a continuous development from the 
 rod down, through wire drawing, wire weaving and the forming of the cloth into the 
 finished product of sieve and strainers ready for the domestic use in the kitchen. 
 
 Mr. Miller has always been a Republican in politics, but has never sought or held 
 office. He is a member of several Masonic bodies, more especially interested in the 
 Worcester County Commandery of Knights Templar ; also a member of the Worces- 
 ter Economic Club, and Worcester Congregational Club ; and was for some years 
 treasurer of the Worcester Art Students Club ; and a member of Worcester Chamber 
 of Commerce. He has always been interested in the work of the church in the com- 
 munity, and he and his family are members of Old South Church. 
 
 Mr. Miller married, on December 29, 1906. Mary Lillian Arrtiitage, whose parents, 
 David and Marie (Mills) Armitage, have long lived in Worcester. Mr. Armitage be- 
 ing for many years one of the owners and managers of the "Evening Gazette" as well 
 as one of the organizers of and directors in the Co-Operative Banks in this city. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Miller have two daughters : Marjorie Armitage, and Elizabeth Alger, who 
 are in school. 
 
 THE KENDALL FAMILY. The family came to Boylston in 1792 from Ashbiirn- 
 ham. Caleb Kendall, the Revolutionary ancestor, was born in what is now Sterling, 
 lived in Shrewsbury and Ashburnham and finally in Winchendon and Boylston, then 
 part of Shrewsbury. He served in the Revolution from Shrewsbury in Captain Ezra 
 Beaman's company. The immigrant ancestor. Francis Kendall, was the progenitor of 
 all the Kendalls of this section ; came from England before 1640 and settled in Wo- 
 burn;.was for eighteen years selectman; owned a grist mill; was one of the foremost 
 citizens. Samuel Kendall, son of Francis Kendall, settled in Lancaster, where the 
 family has been prominent to the present time ; Samuel Kendall, of the fourth genera- 
 tion, was a soldier in the French and Indian wars. Horace Kendall, father of Charles 
 D., Sanford C. and Frederick H. Kendall, was for many years an auctioneer and dealer 
 in furniture in this city. His place of business was in the Mechanics building. He 
 came here from Boylston, his native town, in 1871. 
 
 CHARLES DAVID KENDALL, President of the Warren Leather Goods Com- 
 pany of this city, was born in Boylston, November 10, 1854, son of Horace and Sarah 
 A. (Maynard) Kendall. He received his education in the public schools of his native 
 town. When his father started in business in 1871, the son became clerk in the store. 
 From 1880 to 1888 he lived in Grafton, returning then to engage in business with his 
 father. He and his brother Frederick, who were partners with Sanford C. after their 
 father died, sold their interests in 1902, and with Bamford Elliott and Wm. H. Hayden 
 organized the Warren Leather Goods Company, of which he is now president. The 
 Warren Leather Goods Company was incorporated in 1902 with a capital of $30,000, 
 and in 1916 was increased to $300,000. The original officers were J. J. Hickey, of 
 Shrewsbury, 'president ; Charles D. Kendall, vice-president; William H. Hayden, sec- 
 retary ; and Frederick H. Kendall, treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Kendall married. June 26, 1884, Kate Elizabeth Lindsay, of Grafton, born Jan- 
 uary 16, i860, daughter of Ira and Mary (Estabrook) Lindsay. Children : Horace 
 Clayton, born in Grafton, Septeml)er 26, 1885, graduate of the English High School, 
 1904, YVorcester Polytechnic Institute, 1907, now assistant manager of Rockwood 
 Sprinkler Company; Herbert Lindsay, born. here June 22, 1889; Charles Donald, born 
 here August 14, 1899. Mr. Kendall's home is at No. 84 Burncoat street. He also has 
 a summer home and large farm in Grafton. 
 
 SANFORD CLAYTON KENDALL. Furniture dealer, was born in Boylston. Oc- 
 tober 6, 1856, son of Horace and Sarah A. (Maynard) Kendall. He was educated in 
 the pu])lic schools of his native town and came to this city with his parents in 1871. 
 He was associated in business with his father until his death in 1899, managing the 
 business during the last years of his father's life. Under the name of the Kendall 
 Furniture Company, the three sons, Charles D., Frederick H. and Sanford C. Kendall, 
 continued the business their father had established. In 1902 two of the brothers with- 
 drew, leaving Sanford C. as sole proprietor. The Kendall store is well-known to 
 buyers of antique and modern furniture. Mr. Kendall became one of the leading auc- 
 tioneers of this section, and widely known. The store is still located at No. 319 Main 
 street, in the Mechanics building. Mr. Kendall was prominent in municipal afifairs for 
 a ntmiber of years. He was elected to the Common Council in 1895. and was president 
 in 1900, and served until elected an alderman. In the Council he was on the commit- 
 
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AND ITS PROri.li 
 
 tees on charities, street liKlitiiiK. military affairs and vari<.u-; rnlicr coiiiiai;in>. He 
 served on the Aldermanic Coininiltce nn Klecticms. In iinl.iiics he is a Keinililieaii. 
 
 Mr. Kendall married. Oecemlier 24. 18;,-, Jennie I'.rnce. Tliey have "ne chil.,1. 
 Clayton. Their residence is .'it No. .^o W'aeluisett street. 
 
 FREDERICK HORACE KENDALL, Treasnrer ..f the Warren Leather f,,,,,,!. 
 Company, of this city, was liorn m W..rcesti-r. January 2i). 1875. son of Hiiracc and 
 Fanny (Buck) Kendall. 
 
 Frederick H. Kendall was eihieated in the public schools of Worcester, and at 
 Cushin.s; Academy, of .Ashburnham, from which he was gradnated in 181)4. He im- 
 mediately engaged in Inisiness with his father, and afterward was in partnership in 
 the furniture business with his brothers, under the name ui the Kendall Furniture 
 Company. He sold his share nf the business, however, in n;o_'. and in the following 
 July bought an interest in the Warren Leather (loods Company, becoming the treas- 
 urer, a position he has fdled to the present time. This company was formed to take 
 over the business of the J. T. Warren Company. The business has been enlarged from 
 year to year and now occupies the spacious factory at Xo. 80 .Austin street, manufac- 
 turing suit cases of every description, traveling bags and a great variety of leather 
 and canvas goods. Mr. Kendall is a memljcr of the Connnonwealth. Worcester Comi- 
 try, Automobile and Economic Clubs, [n religion he is a t'ongregationalist ; in poli- 
 tics a Republican. His hoiue is on Qninaiio.xet lane near Mountain ICast. 
 
 Mr. Kendall married. December 7, 1900. b'anny K. Chambers, daughter of Calvin 
 M. and Frances (Keyes) Chamlurs. of Red Wing. Mimie>.ota. Children: l-'.leanor, 
 born April 17. 11)04: Jean, born March 2,^. loio. 
 
 HENRY ERASMUS SHAW, Cigar manufacturer and .lealer in cigars an<l to- 
 bacco, was born in Wales, Massachusetts, Jami.iry ,v 1844. He attended the ])ublic 
 schools there and when he came of age engaged in business as a retail shoe dealer in 
 that town. After a year or more he went to the adjacent town of Hardwick, where he 
 conducted a general store for three years. He came to \\ Hreester in 1880 and bought 
 a half interest in a cigar store at No. T44 Front street, where he has been in business 
 for thirty-eight years. His store is one of the landmarks of the mercantile business 
 of 'Worcester, and he ranks now as the oldest cigar merchant, in point of years, in bus- 
 iness. His business has been large and prosperous and \ear by year has grown. He 
 has the largest stock, both wholesale and retail, in the city, and the wdmlcsale depart- 
 ment has occupied quarters on the opposite side of Front street, the old store havin.g 
 been outgrown. The Shaw cigar has grown in popularit> and is in great demand 
 throughout New England. It is to be found on every cigar counter in this section. Its 
 manufacture requires constantly increasing space. The business was incorporated in 
 1909 under the name of the H. E. Shaw Company, of which Mr. Shaw is president. In 
 politics Mr. Shaw is a Republican. He has devoted himself all these yiars to his home 
 and business, though at times he has indulged his fondness tor good horses, also music 
 and dancing for recveation. He has preserved his health ,ind looks twenty years 
 younger than most men of his age. 
 
 Mr. Shaw married at Wales, Massachusetts, Xovember 27. 1869. .Adella J. Church, 
 who was born in Wales, a descendant of various pioneers of New England. She is a 
 member of Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Dau.ghters of the .American Revolution, 
 and of the Worcester Woman's Club. She is a daughter of Sherman and Josephine 
 (Shaw) Church, of Wales. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw reside at No. 1017 Main street. They 
 have no children. 
 
 Erasmus Darwin Shaw, father of Henry E. Shaw, was born in Wales, died there 
 aged sixty-three years. He married Martha J. Moulton. also a native of Wales; she 
 died at the age of eighty-nine years. lioth parents of Mr. Shaw were of Colonial 
 stock. They had tw-o children, lioth living. The elder son, Edward Randohib Shaw, 
 now lives in the same house in Wales where he was l]orn, and the homestead is cidti- 
 vated by him. He has a son Randolph, now living in this city. 
 
 EDWIN WALLACE WHEELER, .Agriculturalist, was born in this city. X.ivem- 
 ber 13, 1848, being born in the same house in which he had made his home and where 
 he died, January 14, 1916. He was the son r>f Erastus Williams and Sarah (I'ollard) 
 Wheeler, and was descended from a long line of distinguished -Xew Englaiul ancestry. 
 Obadiah Wheeler, the emigrant ancestor of this branch of the Wheeler family, was 
 born in England, in 1608, and came to New England, settling in Concord, as early as 
 1638, of which colony he was made a freeman. June 2. 1O41. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler acquired his educational trairdng in the public schools of his n.itive 
 town, after which he took up the occupation of agricultur;ilist on the liome farm, which 
 comprised about sixtv-hve acres, and which he continued to successfullv conduct un- 
 
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658 HISTORV OF WORCllSTER 
 
 til his death. Fi.ir over twvnty years he also ccjiiducted a milk mute in the city, which, 
 together with the home farm, he inherited from his father. He was a member of the 
 Worcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and took a keen interest in all matters per- 
 taining to farming. He was also a valued member of the Worcester Agricultural So- 
 ciety. In political faith he was a Republican, hut being of a quiet and retiring nature 
 never cared for public office. 
 
 On April 4, 1872, Mr. Wheeler married Clara A. Black, of Salem, Nova Scotia, 
 daughter of Edward Baker and Matilda A. (Freeman) Black, and to this union were 
 born the following children: I. Edward Williams, born in this city. May i. 1873, 
 who is engaged in the contracting business; he married Cornelia Blanchard. and 
 they are the parents of one daughter, Dorothy, born January 27, 1917 : he has always 
 been keenly interested in military affairs, having attained the commission of major 
 in the First Battalion. Light Artillery. Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; during the 
 World War he enlisted for service with the American Forces, and was assigned to the 
 supervising of construction work, having his headquarters at Washington, D. C. 2. 
 Henry Clifford, liorn April ig, 1875, unmarried, at home, conducting the homestead 
 farm. 3. Sarah Matilda, born May 9, 1877, died January 22, 1892. 4. Alice Abbie, 
 born Jiine 10, 1888, who was engaged in teaching domestic science, in which she had 
 achieved marked success, died December i, 1918. 5. Wallace Sumner, born April 30, 
 1893, at home, unmarried. Mrs. Wheeler, who is a direct descendant of William 
 Black, who was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1727. and settled in Nova Scotia, in 
 1775. where many of his descendants still reside, survives her husliand, residing on 
 the Wheeler homestead. No. 47 Forest street. 
 
 AUGUSTUS FREDERICK TIMME. The business now owned and conducted by 
 Augustus F. Timme was founded in Worcester. Massachusetts, by his father, Ernest 
 Augustus Timme, who was born in Hanover, Germany, October 10, 1826. Ernest A. 
 Timme spent the first twenty-six years of his life in Hanover, then in the year 1852 he 
 came to Worcester, where he found employment with the Ethan Allen Fire Arms 
 Company, being connected with the engraving department of the company. Later he 
 was in the employ of J. B. Knox, but in 1864 he bought the business now known as 
 E. A. Timme & Son. and was its head until his death. March 23, 1900. He married 
 (first) Esther Read, who died in Hartford. Connecticut. leaving two children, now 
 also deceased. He married (second) Anna Henrietta Albinus, who died in 1890, the 
 mother of seven children, one of whom died in infancy. The living ones are : Agnes 
 Louise, married Henry C. Meyer, of Worcester, and has two children, Ernest and 
 Anna; Augustus Frederick, of further mention; Johanna H., married Louis C. Gilbert, 
 whom she survives, residing in Natick, Massachusetts, with three children, Alton, 
 Emil and Stanley; Louise Caroline, married William H. Fisher, of Worcester, whom 
 she survives with children : Charles, George, now with the American Expeditionary 
 Forces in France, Willard, now serving in the United States Navy, Edna, Albert, 
 Henry and Ada Fisher; .'Mbert Sigisniund. last maker; Minna Catherine, married Clif- 
 ford E. Piatt, of Denver, Colorado, and has a daughter, Caroline Piatt. 
 
 Augustus Frederick Timme was horn in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 5, 
 1865. His father owned a farm at Holden, Massachusetts, which he bought in 1870, 
 and there the lad spent his youth, acquiring his education in Holden's public schools. 
 In 1864 Ernest A. Timme bought the business in Worcester, which he conducted until 
 his death, and into this business the elder Timme induced his son, after school years 
 were completed. In course of time .Augustus F. was admitted a partner, the firm name 
 then becoming E. A. Timme & Son. die sinkers and engravers, manufacturers of steel 
 stamps, stencils and seals, stamped and embossed plates, tags, and embossing dies, and 
 a line of kindred goods. In 1900 the senior partner died, and from that time A. F. 
 Timme has been the managing head of the business which still carries the name. E. A. 
 Timme & Son. the location No. 554 Main street. Worcester. He has been connected 
 with the business since 1884, when he entered it a young man of nineteen, and as as- 
 sistant partner and head he has passed his entire business life, 1884-1919. He has won 
 business success and high reputation, the product of his plant being in great demand 
 for its beauty of design and quality of workmanship. For several years Mr. Timme 
 was a member of Battery B. of the Massachusetts National Guard, and he is very 
 fond of out-of-door sports and recreations. Both his father and mother were mem- 
 bers of the Lutheran church. 
 
 ROBERT LESURE FULLER, .Architect, partner in Fuller & Delano, was born 
 June 29. 1871, on Quincy street, Worcester, son of James Edward and Clara (Gould) 
 Fuller, both of whom were born in Warwick, Massachusetts, and both buried in that 
 town. Mr. Fuller's father was one of the founders of the Fuller & Delano business. 
 
AND ITS PI-OFLJi 
 
 Tlie Fuller family i> (U>cincU'<l frmii |)iiiiucr> of Ww iiuHlaiul ii<>l duly in iIr- iialriiial 
 line but in many ollicrs. lie is ilireilly (K-sci-U(U-<l fmni Dr. Sauiucl iMillcr. uIm rami 
 over in the "MayHovver." 
 
 He attended' the Oxfnrd street public soIuhiI, the Walnut street and WashiuKt-Mi 
 street public schools, and graduated iu 1891 from the Classical I[it;h School of this 
 city. He then entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, >;ra(lnatiun iu i8<)i> 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. .After spending part of a year in ban'ope, he 
 became associated with the Inui of I'uller X- Delano, architects of this city. In Kjoo 
 he went to the Paris b'.xpositi.rn as representative of the (ieorge .-\. b'ldler l.onslrucii..n 
 Company of New ^■ork. .After his return iu IQOI he became a partner in the bnller & 
 Delano Company, archittcts. II1-. Iirm ranks auioug the foremost of tliis secliou. 
 Soine of the recent important bnildnigs designed by the firm are: The (iraftou State 
 Colony for the Insane; the Inbercidosis Hospital (iieluiont) of Worci-ster ; the State 
 Armory; .American Woolen Mills, Rochdale; residence of Charles 11. IhUchins of 
 Shrewsluu'y, residence of Edward C. Harriu.i;ton .and many others. Mr. |-"uller is a 
 member of the I'hi iieta Hpsilou fraternity, Worcester .Automobile Club, Worcester 
 Kotary Club, Technology Club of New ^■ork, Worcester Chapter, .American Institute 
 of .Architects. During the latter period of the war he was corjioration representative 
 for the United States Housing Cc^rporatiou at Quiucv. Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. Fuller married (first) Mary W. White, of 'Worcester. He married (second) 
 July 22. 1914. Luella Morrow, who was born in Holden. Massachusetts, .September 28, 
 'l88'5, daughter of Hugh and I'riscill.i dispel Morrow, lioth now living iu Worcester. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Fuller reMde .11 .\o 4 |;,,,nle street. X,.rth Worcester. His oOice is at 
 No. 44 l-Vfint street. Mr, luller li.cd l.\ liis lust wile two children: Cecile Wentworth. 
 born May J,;, ujoi ; Robert l!raclle\. lioni .M,iy 1 5, igo,;. 
 
 MARTIN PATRICK BOWES. J..lni Ilowes. father of .Martin I'. Howes, was 
 born in Leeds, England, and his wife, .Mniira (.Atwell) Howes, was born iu I'.ostou, 
 Massachusetts. John i'.owes died in Westboro. his wife in Worcester, and both are 
 buried in Worcester, Massachusetts. John I'xnves was a mill foreman, but later be- 
 came a boot and shoe factory man, and became an e.xjiert in that business, also holding 
 the position of foreman. John and Almira Howes were the jiarents of si.x children: 
 Elizabeth and Sarah, deceased; Ellen, now the widow of Eugene Lebeau, of Westboro, 
 Massachusetts; Martin P., of further mention; John W., now a street railway man of 
 Worcester, inarried Katherine T. Heron, and has three children; Marion, .Anna and 
 Francis; James D., a violin instructor and machine foreman; married Elizabeth !•'. 
 Palmer and has two children; Charles and Frances. John Bowes was the only child 
 of nine that was born outside of Ireland; his youngest brother. Patrick Bowes, settled 
 in Australia and was a large real estate owner and hotel man in .Melbourne when he 
 was killed, being thrown off a horse while following a pack of hounds: he left no chil- 
 dren and his widow is carrying tm the hotel business since he died. .Another brother, 
 Dennis Bowes, settled in Rock Island, Illinois. .A sister inarried Michael Brennen, 
 who also settled in Rock Island. 
 
 Martin P. Bowes, son of John :iiid .\lniir.i f.Atwelli H..wes. was born in W.sihoro, 
 Massachusetts, May 7, 1870. He cinupleted grammar school courses anil attended 
 Westboro High School for one year. At that time his father owned a farm at West- 
 boro, and in the intervals of school life Martin P. was employed in farm work, later 
 securing a position in a shoe factory at Westboro. Later still he took up advertising 
 and was quite successful. E'rcim advertising to real estate dealiu.g was not a far cry, 
 and for many years he has been in the latter business in Worcester operating as the .M. 
 P. Bowes Real Estate Comiiany, real estate, mortgages, and insurance, Nos. 7,18-740 
 Slater building. He was twenty years of age when he came Worcester, and for a few- 
 years he was employed with (ioddard. F'ay t*c Stone, shoe manufacturers. He is well- 
 known in the business world and has won honorable stan<ling iu that particular field. 
 In lyi-' he established under his present style and title. Mr. Bowes is an Indeiiendent 
 Democrat and a former precinct officer in Ward g. He is a fourth degree member of 
 the Knights of Columbus, member of the Heuevoleiit and Protective Order of I'Tks, and 
 a communicant of St. Paul's Rom;iii t.atholic Church. His favorite recreations are 
 checkers and bridge-whist, his real hobby, liowewr, is liaseball. Mr. Howe~ is un- 
 married. 
 
 ROBERT ZOLVEY SARGENT, Business m:iii. was born m Swauton. \ erinont, 
 (.)ctober 18, 1885. He there attended pulilic schiiols until l8gy, when he came alone to 
 Worcester, a lad of fourteen, and Worcester has since been his Jiome. He was em- 
 ployed by the Spencer Wire Company for seven years, after wdiicli he was with the 
 DeHaven Manufacturing Company for :i time. He then returned to Worcester aiul 
 became an expert in elev:itor repairing. Iu .Xugust. 1017. he started iu business for 
 
66o HISTORY OF JV ORG ESTER 
 
 himself as a member of the firm of F. H. German & Company, Nos. 65-67 Thomas 
 street, Worcester, elevator repairers. He enjoys vacation periods out-of-doors, his 
 recreation being his favored sports, hunting and fishing. 
 
 Mr. Sargent married, October 14. 1918, Christina Julia Germain, daughter of John 
 and Julia (Dolan) (iermain, her father a pioneer contractor of Worcester, her brother, 
 F. H. Germain, her husband's partner in the firm, F. H. Germain & Company. The 
 family home is at No. 4 Queen street. 
 
 DANIEL SILVESTER, as violinist, teacher, composer, and for twenty-five years 
 conductor of Silvester's Music Studios, Daniel Silvester has won the highest stand- 
 ing in Worcester's musical circles. He is a son of William and Eliza (Jackson) Sil- 
 vester, of English birth, life and death. William Silvester, born in 1825, at or near 
 West Bromwich, England, died at Netherton, Dudley, England, in 1906. He Nvas a 
 well-know musician of high merit, a conductor of church and choral music, and for 
 many years a noted bandmaster. Eliza (Jackson) Silvester was born near Bromwich, 
 England, in 1827, died at Rugby, England, in 1904. They were the parents of three 
 sons, who have attained celebrity as musicians : i. Daniel, whose career is herein 
 traced. 2. John Silvester, an organist and choir master and for many years a teacher 
 of music in the public schools in the State of Wisconsin ; he retired on account of ill 
 health, took up his residence in Santa Barbara, California, where he died. 3. William 
 Silvester, the third son, a member of the London Symphony Orchestra, London, Eng- 
 land, as is a nephew, John Silvester. 
 
 Daniel Silvester was born in West Bromwich, near Birmingham, in Staflfordshire, 
 England, November 3, 1863. His parents moved to Scotland in 1870, and the lad Dan- 
 iel was educated, in the public schools of Glasgow, which he attended until eighteen 
 year.= of age. He also began the study of music in Glasgow, studying the violin and 
 orchestration under John Daly and Alfred Haines, two of Glasgow's leading performers 
 and teachers. Another of his teachers was Vincent Akeroyd, a member of the Bos- 
 ton Symphony Orchestra, but that instruction came later, after coming to the United 
 States. After becoming proficient he became a member of the Royalty Theatre Or- 
 chestra in Scotland, in which he played until 1887, he also playing in concert, and 
 teaching music. In 1887 Mr. Silvester came to the United States and for two years 
 traveled with the J. C. Duff Opera Company and with the Gilbert Opera Company. 
 After two seasons with these companies on the road he located in Boston, where he 
 became a member of Baldwin's Cadet Band and Orchestra. In addition to his duties 
 with Baldwin's he did general musical and theatre work, continuing in Boston until 
 1893. In the latter year, 1893, Mr. Silvester located in Worcester, and until the present, 
 1919, has continued his residence and his interest in music. He has directed the or- 
 chestra in various theatres, leading at Lothrop's, now the Pleasant Theatre, for eight 
 seasons ; leader at the Franklin, now the Grand, nine seasons ; since then, and now, 
 1919, conductor of the Worcester Theatre Orchestra. He organized the Worcester 
 Symphony Orchestra, May 3, 1914, and has since been its manager and conductor. 
 During this period he has also taught many private pupils, composed many pieces for 
 violin and piano, also several songs and orchestral numbers. Music has been his 
 sole interest, and he is highly rated as a violinist as well as a conductor and composer. 
 Politically, Mr. Silvester is a Republican, and in religious faith he is a member of 
 Jamesville Baptist Church. His fraternal affiliation is with Grant Commandery, 
 Knights of Malta, his club the Worcester County Republican. He is a member of the 
 Worcester Musicians' Association; Music Festival Association; and the Symphony 
 Society, serving the latter as musical director and agent. 
 
 Mr. Silvester married, in Lowell, Massachusetts, April 18,1892, Mary Louise Pad- 
 dock, born May 5, 1866, in East Barnard, Vei-mont. daughter of Augustus and Celender 
 (Culver) Paddock, her parents lifelong residents of Vermont, and both deceased. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Silvester are the parents of four children : i. William Henry, born October 6. 1893, 
 was in the United States Aviation service, ranking as sergeant," fourteen months, and 
 was honorably discharged, January 19, 1919; he married, November 24, 1917, Bertha 
 Bosworth. 2. Hazel Eliza, born May 29, 1895, a graduate of South High School, was 
 engaged in business as a stenographer ; married John Clarke Thomas, who was in the 
 United States Tank Service and was promoted to sergeant before being honorably 
 discharged. 3. Daniel Augustus, born January 21, 1897, a fine violinist and concert 
 master of the Worcester Symphony Orchestra, was a soldier in the United States army, 
 ranking as sergeant and assistant bandmaster, with the First Regiment, Field Artil- 
 lery Replacement Depot; was honorably discharged in February, 1919, after six 
 months' service at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. 4. Marion Louise, born March I, 
 1898. a graduate of Worcester High School of Commerce, class of 1917, a pianist and 
 teacher. 
 
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 CHRISTIAN NELSON, Rq,rc><-nl;itive in ihc Caural Cnirl, |:uniarv 27. 1S6;. 
 was born m Denmark, at Tliistcd, son nf Xcils Scrt-nscn and Xilsino Mario Xi-ls'.n! 
 He came to this country in 1887, landing in Xew Y<irk Citv with Init three dolUirs, but- 
 making his own way llierealttr and winning higli honors in business and public lii'e. 
 In 1887 he came to this city and secured eniploynunt in the Grove strict wire mill of 
 the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing C^ompaiiy, now the works of tiie American 
 Steel & Wire C(jmpany, beginning witli wages of $I.J5 a dav. lie wi>n promotion step 
 by step and became a foreman. At the end of seven \ears he left tlie wire mill to 
 engage in the grocery business, establishing a store at X\i. 58J West P.ovlston street in 
 the village of Greendale. Subseciuently lie opened anotlu-r grocery at Xo. 70 Sterling 
 street. His natural business abilit.\- and his magnetic personality attracted custoniers 
 and made for him a host of friends, hew nu-rchants are lietter known or more poini- 
 lar than Mr. Xelson. 
 
 ;Mr. Nelson's public career lias been highly creditable. In iiolitics lie h.is always 
 been a Republican. He was four years a member of the Republican City t'oinniittee. 
 He was a member of the ("oinmon fomicil three years, and of the ISoard'of Aldermen 
 for a similar period. He served on the water cominittie three years, Iieing chairman 
 two years, and he was cliairmaii of the sewer committee for one year. He is now 
 (tgiS) representative to tlic General Court, serving on the committees on Roads and 
 Bridges, and is this year (1919) on same committee, and on committee on land and 
 harbor. He is a member of the Danish Brotherhood: Massasoit Tribe, Improved t)r- 
 der of Red Men; Carl XV Lodge; Kronah Lodge, .S. 1',. of .-X. ; Montaeute Lodge, An- 
 cient Free and Accepted Masons; l-'.ureka Chapter. Royal .Arch Masons; Hiram Cloun- 
 cil. Royal and Select Masters; and .Aletheia Grotto. Mr. Xelson married, in Worces- 
 ter, November 8, 1889, Else .M. .\'i-lsoii, born in l)enni;irk. December 8, 1807. 1 Ic 
 has four children: i. George Washington, born on \\ashington's birthday, 189.'. and 
 has been with the aviation work in France; he graduated from the Worcester I'oly- 
 technic Institute as an electrical engineer when but twenty-two. j. (dad>s ,\i;nes. 
 born March 5. 1893. a stcnograplier. 3. iulith, liorn June (1, 1894, :it home.' 4. K.alpii 
 Ernest, born Octolier 8, 1897, assisting bis father in the store. 
 
 OSCAR SVEN SVENSON, D. D. S.. was born in A'ermland, Sweden, October 
 30, 1869. and lived in his native town until he w:is siNtien years old, receiving his early 
 education there. He came to this city in 1885 and has made his home here since that 
 time. During his first years here 'he was employeil in various occui>ations. He at- 
 tended the evening Schools, perfected liis knowledge of the English language, and 
 continued afterward the various high schoiil courses l)y private study. After workin.g 
 in a dental office for a few years, he decided to study dentistry for a profession, and 
 became a student in the Philadelphia Dental Coll(;ge, Garrettson Hospital of Dental 
 Surgery, and Philadelphia School of Anatomy, graduating in 1900 witli the degree of 
 Doctor of Dental Surgery. Since igon he has been practicing his profession in this 
 city. His office is at No. ,311 Main street. Dr. Svenson is a member of the sujiervisory 
 committee of Skandia Credit I'nion. member ni Alassasoit Tribe, Improved Order of 
 Red Men. and of the Second Swedish Methodist Church, of which he is a member 
 of the official board. In politics he is a Republican. He served for four years on the 
 school committee of the city. Dr. Svenson takes his recreation in the woods, hunting 
 rabbits and other game in winter, fishing in the summer. 
 
 Dr, Svenson married, in this city, November 23, 1895, Hannah Anderson, who was 
 born January 14, 1875, at .Svarta, Sweden, daughter of Andrew and Christina Soiiliia 
 (Olson) Anderson, both deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Svenson have six children : Violet 
 Seraphia, born September 2, 1896; Adora Cecelia, born June 6, 1899; Linnea Hannah 
 Albertina, born February 27, 1906; Sven Oscar, l)orn .May 13, 1908; Lillian Christina, 
 born October to, 1910; Virginia Louise, born (October j, 1915. Dr. .Svenson resides 
 at No. 36 Holden street. 
 
 Sven Svenson. father of Dr. Svenson, was born in Vermland, Sweden, where his 
 ancestors lived for many generations. He married, in .Sweden, Helena Bjorn, and 
 they came to this country in 1887. He was an iron worker, now retired from business. 
 They had eleven children, of whom si.x are living: John .Adolph, one of the owners of 
 the Ornamental Iron Works, Green street, Worcester; Sophia, married Leonard Fag- 
 erstrom, a foreman in the Reed & Prentice works; Albertina, married Carl Osther.g, a 
 master plumber. Main street, Worcester; Otto, machinist, in this city; Charles, a 
 dentist, practicing in Lewiston, Maine, and Oscar S., aforementioned. 
 
 CARL HUGO LAURENTIUS BOCK, Lawyer, alderman, was born in Luleo, 
 Sweden, August 9. 1881, son of Lars and Sarah Maria (Bagge) Bock. His father 
 was a pioneer in the iron and steel industry in Sweden and came here in 1890 as an 
 expert artisan. He died in this city in 1905, at the n.ee of eighty years. The Ragge 
 
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 family was of Swedish origin, locating in France, and taking part in the French Revo- 
 lution. Mrs. Bock died in this city in 1912. aged seventy-two years. Lars Bock was the 
 father of fourteen other children. 
 
 When the family came to this country, Carl H. L. Bock was a boy of eight, and he 
 immediately entered the public schools of this city, completing the grammar school 
 course in 1896. He then engaged in the life insurance business for a period of fifteen 
 years, and for a considerable time was cashier of the local office of the New York 
 Life Insurance Company. In pursuance of a long-cherished purpose, he entered the 
 law school of Boston University, from which he was graduated in 1914, and was ad- 
 mitted to the Massachusetts bar in the same year. Since then he has practiced law in 
 this city. His offices are at 931-932 Slater Building. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
 was but twenty-two years old when elected to the Board of Aldermen of this city, in 
 1904, and no younger man has ever been elected to that office. It should be noted also 
 that he was the first native of Sweden elected to the board. Mr. Bock takes his recrea- 
 tion out-of-doors and is well known among the fox-hunters, having a record of two 
 pelts in one day in 1916; is a metnber of the Worcester Fur Club, and he is also a 
 baseball enthusiast. He is a member of Thule Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and of the principal Swedish organizations of the city. 
 
 Mr. Bock married at Hartford, Connecticut, July 12, 1909, Bertha Frances Millen, 
 who was born in Boston, daughter of Frank and Margaret Millen. Mr. and Mrs. Bock 
 reside at No. 54 Beeching street. 
 
 ALFRED CHARLES N. PETERSEN, Physician, surgeon, was born in Copen- 
 hagen. Denmark, January 12, i8t)8, son of Michael Abraham and Hansine Petersen. 
 He came with his parents to this city when three months old and attended the public 
 schools here, graduating from the high school in 1888. He received his medical educa- 
 tion in the L-niversity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1896 with the degree of Doctor 
 of Medicine. Afterward he was an interne in the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadel- 
 phia, for a year. Since 1897 he has been practicing medicine in this city, and since 
 1903 his offices have been at No. 692 Main street. 
 
 While a student. Dr. Petersen took a prominent part in athletics ; was captain of 
 the freshman crew and rowed in the varsity crew for four years. He played right end 
 on the Pennsylvania football team. He has been coach and stroke oar of the Wor- 
 cester crew for several years : coach of the Holy Cross football team and active in 
 various athletic organizations in this city. Dr. Petersen served a term of enlistment in 
 the Worcester City Guards, Massachusetts National Guard. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican. He served for six years on the board of trustees of the Worcester Free Public 
 Library. He is a member of Central Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 the Englebrecht Society. 
 
 Dr. Petersen married, in this city, October 12, 1899, Anna H. Lucke, daugiiter of 
 Herman F. Liicke, the pioneer jeweler. (See biography). Dr. and Mrs. Petersen have 
 three children: Alfred Herman, born in this city, September 9, 1900; Bradley Hus- 
 ton, born June 12, 1905 : Dorothea Helen, born October i, 1908. 
 
 - Both parents of Dr. Petersen were born in Copenhagen. His father died in this 
 city in 1888, at the age of fifty-three: his mother is living here. Dr. Petersen has one 
 sister, Emily E., wife of Edward S. Fuller, No. 421 Park avenue. The Petersen family 
 have lived for many generations in the city of Copenhagen. Dr. Petersen's home is at 
 No. 821 Pleasant street, Worcester. 
 
 CHARLES HJALMAR OSLUND, President of the O. & J. Machine Company, 
 was born in Sweden, Septeinber 26, 1869, son of Erick W. and Marie (Ogren) Oslund. 
 He evidently inherited his mechanical ability, for his father and seven generations of 
 his paternal ancestors were blacksmiths and machinists in the old country. His father 
 died wdien he. was but twenty-five years old: his mother died in Sweden in 1902. 
 
 Mr. Oslund received his education in the public schools and the extension schools 
 of his native place. At the age of fourteen years he was apprenticed in the trade of 
 machinist. For nine years he worked at the trade of machinist and blacksmith, as 
 apprentice and journeyman in Sweden, receiving a most useful and varied training. 
 He had wide experience in steam engineering, setting up rolling mills, steam ham- 
 mers, and general machinery work, such as autotnatics, etc. With his wife and two 
 children, Mr. Oslund came to this country in April, 1893, and made his home in this 
 city. For a few months he was employed as a machinist in the Crompton & Knowles 
 Looin Works. For three years he was engaged in making firearms in the factory of 
 the Harrington & Richardson .\rms Company in Worcester. After a short time in 
 the employ of George L. Brownell, manufacturer of twisting machinery in this city, 
 and of the Plunger Elevator Company, he was with the Hobbs Manufacturing Com- 
 pany for three years and with the American Steel and Wire Company of this city for 
 
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 a period of fifteen years. In the wire works lie began as a macliinist. tlien became a 
 die-maker, and eventually foreman of the spring mill in the machine shop. Here b.- 
 developed inventive talents and he devised various si)ecial to.ds for the spring milU 
 and rail bond departments, iiatenicd and assigned to his emplovers. In the course 
 of time he was transferred ti. the rail bond department of the wire works. Here he 
 took charge of the mechanical work for six years and continued to experiment and 
 invent apparatus of various kmds. I-'rom this [losition he was transferred to the 
 North Works of the American Steel & Wire Company and placed in charge of the 
 experimental shop, devoting himself exclusively to the development of new niachiiiery 
 and the perfecting of apparatus of the works. .-Xt the end of three years. h<.wever. he 
 resigned to engage in business on his own account. 
 
 He entered into partnership in 1914 with .1. F:manuel Johnson under the tirm name 
 of the Charles H. Oslund Company with a sliop at Xcj. 87 Mechanic street, building au- 
 tomatic machinery. The first product of the new tirm was an automatic labeling ma- 
 chine. In .August. 1914, the business was inc.irporated under the title of <). & J. Ma- 
 chine Company, of which Mr. Oslund was president and Mr. Johnson secretary and 
 treasurer. The business extended soon to large projiortions. beginning with eight 
 hands and within three ye^rs employing rnie hundred and fifty skilled mechanics. The 
 growth of the concern has been almost unprecedented. The company owns valuable 
 patents on labelling machinery, and has recently placed on the market a labeling ma- 
 chine that labels both sides and places the seal label 'm the stopper in one oi)eration. 
 (See biography of Mr. Johnscm). Mr. Oslund is a Keiniblican in pivlitics. He is a 
 member of no social organizations, having spared no time from his busy life for recre- 
 ation of this sort. 
 
 Mr. Oslund married, in i888. in Sweden. .Anna Louisa W'ennberg. who was born in 
 that country. They were neighliors and aci|uaintances from early childhood. They 
 have nine children: Fritz H.. born 1889, became foreman in the O. &• J. shops, now in 
 the United States Aviation Corps during the war: Edwin Carl, born iSiji. married Kuth 
 Lundberg. of Worcester; Harry Ellis, liorn i8y4. foreman in the O. & J. factory, now of 
 the Torpedo Station. Newport. Rh^jde Island: Elmer, born 1896, also in the'Torpedo 
 Station. Newport, Rhode Island: Mabel, born 1899: Walter. lyoi : .\lice. 1903: Ernest. 
 1906: Robert. 1912. Five of the sons have already learned the trade of machinist. Mr. 
 Oslund's home is at No. 500 Lincoln street. 
 
 JOHN JULIUS ADAMS. Manufacturer, was Ix.rn in Holden. .Massachusetts. 
 January i. 1858. son oi Gabriel and Margaret .Adams. The same year his parents 
 moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, that city having formerly been their home. The 
 lad began his school life in the old Sycamore street school, passing thence to High 
 School which he attended until thirteen years of age. He then began as a wage 
 earner, even his small contribution t'> the family being needed. Five years were spent 
 with his first employers. Gross-Strauss Company, his next employer being Fish & Com- 
 pany, corner of School and Union streets, where he remained three years. He was 
 next with E. Fisher & Company, at No. 85 Mechanic street, with whom he remained 
 an employee until 1881. In that year he bought the employers plant at .\o. 85 Me- 
 chanic street, and remained at that location until his death, February 7, 1918. He was 
 a manufacturer of boot and shoe machinery. He built up a prosperous business and 
 continued his single line of manufacture until 1897. when lie purchased the business of 
 A. M. Howe, manufacturer of cutting dies and chisels of every description for leather, 
 paper, cloth and rubber. That business was located at No. 81 Mechafiic street, and 
 soon afterward was combined with Mr. Adams' shoe machinery business in the fac- 
 tory at No. 85 Mechanic street. In 1914 he erected the fine plant and building at No. 87 
 Mechanic street, where the business is now conducted by John Jacob .Adams, son of 
 John Julius Adams. The business of .A. M. Howe was established in 1859 and both 
 that business and the Adams original business is owned and conducted by John Jacob 
 Adams, under the firm name John J. .Adams. John Julius Adams was prominent in 
 the Mascmic Order, having been a thirty-second degree mason and Knights Templar. 
 He was also a member of Aletlieia (irotto. .Aleppo Temple, and of Central Lodge, In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a life member of the Massachusetts Me- 
 chanics Association. 
 
 Mr. Adams married. May i, 1889, .Amelia .A. Krumsick. born in Westboro. Mas.sa- 
 chusetts. December 7. 1869. They were the i>arents of an only son : John Jacob, born 
 June 26, 1892. at Shrewsbury. Massachusetts, who has succeeded his father in busi- 
 ness. Mrs. Adams survives her husband, a resident of Shrewsbury. 
 
 AUGUST ERNST DICK, Proprietor of the firm <if Thomas & Company, wood 
 workers, was born in Colnberg, Saxony, (iermany. March 13, 1858, and died in this city, 
 September 25, 1913, son of Frederick A. Dick. His father was a weaver. 
 
664 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 August E. Dick was educated iu the schools in Germany and in the North Ameri- 
 can Gymnastic Seminary, from which he graduated in 1879. He started for this 
 country, July I, 1872, with his parents, and began work in the Washington Mills in 
 Lawrence, JMassachusetts, where the family first located. At the age of nineteen he 
 began to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner. As a journeyman he was employed 
 by Cutting & Bishop, builders and contractors of this city, for a period of eleven 
 years. Then he accepted a position with Thomas & Company, of which he w^as after- 
 ward a partner, and, after the death of Mr. Thomas, sole proprietor. The business was 
 established about 1870 by Carl C. T. Thomas and Elisha Witherell under the firm name 
 of Thomas & Company, cabinet makers. A year later Mr. Witherell died. In 1871 
 Anton Burckel, a comrade of Mr. Thomas in the First Heavy Artillery Regiment in the 
 Civil War, and a fellow worker and craftsman, became a partner under the same firm 
 name. The shop was then at Xo. 91 Exchange street and the firm made a specialty of 
 wood-carving and machine cabinet work. The business was afterward removed to 
 the Baker building, where the firm enlarged its cabinet-making department. When 
 Mr. Burckel withdrew from the firm, Edward Minault succeeded him, remaining two 
 years. Mr. Thomas continued the business alone afterward until his son was old 
 enough to enter the firm. This son John died July 11, 1893. In November, 1897, Mr. 
 Dick was admitted to the firm. The shop was then at No. no Exchange street. From 
 1902 to the time of his death, in 1913, Mr. Dick was sole proprietor. His sons, Rich- 
 ard G. Dick and August W. Dick, succeeded to the business, which was incorporated, 
 March I, 1914, Richard G. Dick becoming president and treasurer, and August W. 
 Dick, secretary, of the corporation known as Thomas & Company, Inc. August E. 
 Dick was a member of the Worcester Socialer Turn Verein, the Lawrence Turn 
 Verein, and was president of the former from 1900 to 1910. 
 
 Mr. Dick married, in 1887, at Lawrence, Anna Ottilie Behrmann. who was born in 
 that city, March 7, 1866, daughter of Henry A. Behrmann, born at Buxtehude, Hano- 
 ver, Germany, in 1837. They had four children: i. Minna Helene, born August 21, 
 1887; graduate of St. Lawrence University, A. B.. 1908; married, in 1914, William 
 E. Curtis, Dartmouth, B. S., 191 1, and has a daughter, Eleanor Louise Curtis, born 
 February 14, 1916. 2. .Anna O., liorn May 8, 1889; graduate of St. Lawrence Universi- 
 ty, 1911; married, in 1915, Walter E. Safford. 3. Richard George, born February 9, 
 1891 ; graduate of Amherst College (A. B. 1912) ; now president of Thomas & Com- 
 pany; married, in 1916, FTorcnce E. Eggleston. 4. August W., born October 23, 1892; 
 superintendent of the factory of Thomas & Company, Inc. 
 
 CARL F. FREDERIC KSON, Pattern manufacturer, was born in Sweden, July 28, 
 1874, son of Frederick L. and Anna G. Gustavson (named according to the Swedish 
 system of patronymics). His mother is living in this city; his father is deceased. 
 Carl was one of ten children ; his brothers, John F. and Gustavus E., and his brother- 
 in-law, Gustavus S. Peterson, are associated in business with him. The other children 
 of Frederick L. and Anna G. Gustavson were: Joseph L., A. Ferdinand, A/xX E., 
 Anna S., Josephine E., Emma T. and Mary E. 
 
 Carl F. Frederickson received his education in the Swedish school, and in his 
 youth learned the wood-working trade under the instruction of his father and worked 
 as a journeyman until he came to this city in 1893. He was employed here first by 
 Hatch & Barnes in their wood-working shops, then by Norcross Brothers, and after- 
 ward in the wood-working department of the Norton Company. In 1899 he began in 
 business on his own account. He opened a model and pattern shop in that year at No. 
 155 Union street and also manufactured cabinet work. After a year and a half he 
 sold this business and went to Detroit, Michigan, in the employ of the Parkard Mo- 
 tor Car Company. In 1912 he returned to this city, however, and again engaged in 
 business, opening a small shop at No. 164 Union street, having no help at first. From 
 the beginning he has prospered in this venture, and in 1915 he was obliged, on account 
 of the increase in business, to seek larger quarters. He located at his present quarters, 
 No. 180 Union street, where he has a thoroughly modern and efficient plant, making 
 not only models and patterns, but turning out excellent cabinet work of every descrip- 
 tion. His shop is a very busy place, employing a large force of skilled men. Mr. 
 Frederickson is a member of the Skandia Credit Union. Thoroughly domestic in his 
 tastes he has joined no other organizations, however, and divides his time between his 
 office and home. He married. December 25, 1898, Beda Seablom, who was born in 
 Sweden. 
 
 JOHN R. ABRAMSON, Manufacturer of architectural sheet metal work, was 
 born in Sweden, September 9, 1870, son of Ephraim and Sarah Abramson. His father 
 came to this country in 1882 and located first at Manchester, New Hampshire, and 
 finally in Worcester, where he died in 1911 ; his mother died in Sweden; they had eight 
 
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 children, several of wlioni are living in W'oriH^ier : Jnhn K., i>l' whom lintiie: : i arl 
 Ahranison, at No. 346 Oeenwood ^treet. and Ada. wife of Charles Aldrien. at ( hiin- 
 sigamond. Erick, Hulda and Jennie are deeeased. Ilel.ua married Frank Oiai'nnan, 
 of Grovedon, New Hampshire, Herlha resides at I.elianon, New Hampshire. 
 
 John R. Ahramson attended school in .Manchester, after tlie family came P.. this 
 country, and when still a small hoy went to work in the Amoskeag Mills. Snhse- 
 quently he learned the sheet-metal hnsiness in tlie sliops of W. H. Lawson, Manches- 
 ter. He then came to \\'orcester an<l found employment in the shojjs of (Jeorge A. 
 Barnard as a sheet metal w<.rker. In the same line of work he was for three years 
 afterward in the employ of W. H. Robinson, and later still in the shops of theXew 
 England Steel Rooting (.lompany. I'.y the time lie had saved a little capital t.i start 
 in business on his own account, his experience in met.al work was varied and he was 
 accounted a workman of unusual skill and proficiency in his trade. His lirst shop was 
 located at Xo. ufi Commercial street. He began^husincss there January i, 19(J5, and 
 continued in that location until 1916. when he mo\ ed to his present quarters. No. 146 
 Union street. His principal Inisiness has been from tlic beginning architectural sheet 
 metal work and metal rooting and ceiling. In addition he manufactures coffee urns and 
 other equipment used by the l'.uckle\- l.unch Car Company and the Worcester Lunch 
 Car Company; also fenders and radiators tor automobile manufacturers. His business 
 has grown constantly and has been higlily prosperous during the recent years in which 
 the building industry has tl(.urishe<l. In religion he is a member of the Lutheran 
 church. In politics lie is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Al>ramson married, in 180,". Mary Callahan, liorn in Worcester, daughter of 
 Johan and Margaret (Collins) C.allahan. Their home is at Xo. lOti Massasoit road. 
 They have five children: Crace. Marguerite. May. John, and 1-lorence. 
 
 CARL AXEL ANDERSON, Manufacturer, i.aniier in the Worcester I'attern & 
 Model Company, was born in Lindeslierg. Sweden, July y, 1884, son of Carl Johan 
 and Christina Louise (Anderson) .Anderson. He received liis education in the schools 
 in Sweden and in the Worcester evening schools. He was apiirenticed to the trade of 
 pattern maker in Sweden. .After following his trade for a few years in Lynn, Massa- 
 chusetts, where he and his brother located in 11)0?, he travelled extensively in this 
 country, workin.g as a journeyman in various cities, and living from time to time in 
 Worcester. Since iqii he has l>een in partnership with his brother in tlie Worcester 
 Pattern & Model Company. No. 93 Foster street. Mr. Anderson is a member of the 
 Worcester Chamber of Commerce, the Worcester Employers' Association, the Skan- 
 dia Credit L'nion, and the First Swedish Congregational Church. In politics he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 Mr. Anderson married. Sei>tember i. lyog. Marie .Asplund. wh-> was born in Snerlen. 
 June. 1878. daughter of Andrew .\sidund. His home is at No. jo Westview road. 
 
 ANDREW AUGUST ANDERSON, Manufacturer, inventor, partner in the firm 
 known as the Worcester Pattern & Model Company, was born in Lindeslierg, Sweden, 
 August 18. 1888. son of Carl Joliau and Christina Louise (.Anderson) Anderson. He 
 received his early education in Sweden and learned his trade there, serving two years 
 as apprentice in a pattern making shop. In 1903 he came to this country, and followed 
 his trade here for nearly five years, afterward working for six months in liridge- 
 port, Connecticut. In 1910 he came to this city and since then has made his home here. 
 After working for six months as pattern-maker in the works of the Morgan Construc- 
 tion Company, and for a similar jieriod for Albert L. Pemis, he started in business on 
 his own account. In partnership with his brother. Carl A. Anderson, he formed the 
 Worcester Pattern & Model Company, at No, 93 Foster street. F'rom the beginning 
 the business has prospered and from lime to time more machinery has been installed, 
 the shop enlarged and more hands employed. The company makes patterns and 
 models for the various industries of the city. At present fifteen pattern-inakcrs are 
 employed. In igi6 Mr. Anderson invented the Anderson Grinder and a machine shop 
 was added to the pattern shop to manufacture this machine. It is designed for grind- 
 ing keen-edged tools used by woodworkers. It is easy to operate, simple in adjust- 
 ment and adapted for both wet and dry grinding, Mr. Anderson is a member of the 
 Skandia Credit Union, the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, the Worcester Employ- 
 ers' Association, and the First Swedish Congregational Church. Salem Square. In 
 politics he is a Rpublican. 
 
 Mr. Anderson married, in this city. May 4. ip!2. Olga Cecilia Pearson, wdio was 
 born Au.gust 13, 1890. daughter of 01i>f A. and Clara (Nelson) I'e.arson. Tlie\- have 
 two children: Doris Gwendolyn, born May 5, 1913: Lloyd Rudolph, born July 9, 1915. 
 Their home is at No. 151 Belmont street. 
 
666 HlsroRY Of WORCESTER 
 
 JOHN ALBEN ALSTEN, President of the Alsten & Gmilding Company, dealers 
 in ruMier tires, was horn in Wolsjo. Sweden, s<in of Olaf and Annie Alsten. His father 
 learned the trade of wire-dravvint». and when still a young man came to this country, 
 in 1885, locating first in Brooklyn, New York. In 1886 he entered the employ of the 
 Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, and during the remainder of his active 
 life he followed his trade in the wire mills in this city. He retired and is now living 
 on a farm. His family came to this country in 1888 and made their home with him. 
 
 Mr. Alsten's education began in the schools of his native place, and continued in 
 the public schools of this city. After leaving school he became a helper or apprentice 
 in the Morgan Spring Company's factory, learning the art of winding springs and 
 manipulating wire, and at the end of two years was counted among the experts in his 
 line of work. He was afterward in the employ of the Iver Johnson Company, manu- 
 facturers of firearms and bicycles, in this city, as a inachinist on delicate lathe work 
 and gunstock cutting. When the factory was moved to Fitchburg, he went with the 
 concern, but remained for a sliort time only. He was afterward in the employ of the 
 Forehan Arms Company, located at the corner of Taintor and Gardner streets, until 
 the business was sold to Hopkins & Allen, He was associated with Lud C. Havener 
 in the bicycle business on Main street for a year, and then opened a shop on his own 
 account in Franklin square for bicycle repairing. A year later he was induced to give 
 up his business, and for two years was in the employ of Dunn in tlie bicycle business, 
 Salem square. 
 
 Mr. Alsten again started in business for himself in the same location, Franklin 
 square, having for a partner William Krafvee, in the bicycle business, but nine months 
 later moved to No. 212 Main street. After two years in this location the business was 
 again moved to Franklin square. The bicycle repairing business fell off with the de- 
 cline in popularity of the wheel, and he finally sold out. He retained the tools and fi.\.- 
 tures, however, and started a shop in an upper floor of a building with John Watson, 
 but the firm was dissolved the following spring, and in 1897 Mr. Alsten went to work 
 for the Lovell Arms Company in this city, continuing until January i, 1900, as a me- 
 chanic in the repair department. 
 
 At that time the firm of Alsten & Goulding was formed. They started business at 
 No. 34 Waldo street. Their repairing business flourished and they were obliged to 
 take larger quarters, moving to No. 36 Foster street, and a year later they leased the 
 other half of the store, adding the second floor of the building the year following and 
 a floor each year until they occupied the entire building. To their original business of 
 repairing bicycles and tires of all kinds, they added a stock of automobile supplies, 
 and became wholesale as well as retail dealers. The firm became a corporation in igio, 
 Mr. Alsten being president and his partner treasurer; P. G. Morgan, the third director. 
 At the present time the company employs a dozen clerks, salesmen and mechanics, and 
 at times a force of about forty hands has been employed. It is the largest supply house 
 in this line in New England. Mr. Alsten has devoted hiinself exclusively to this busi- 
 ness. He is a member of Central Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Sve 
 Gille Association; The United Commercial Travelers of Worcester; and the Swedish 
 Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Alsten married. May 26, 1893, Hannah Berggren Sandin, of Worcester, daugh- 
 ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sandin. They have five children: Martha, who married 
 W. C. Cranston, of this city; Aurora, who married F. W. Greene, of this city; Henry 
 Irving, student in Post Business College; Irene T., student; John A. Their hoine is at 
 No. 17 Andover street. 
 
 HORATIO CLARK GOULDING, Treasurer of the Alsten-Goulding Company, 
 was horn in this city, .'\pril 18, 1870, son of Edwin and Isabelle (Dana) Goulding. 
 
 During his youth he attended in succession the public schools on Thomas street. 
 Woodland street. Chandler street and Belmont street. He was as a boy eager to go 
 to sea, and in 1893 he entered the Massachusetts Nautical Training School on the 
 ship "Enterprise," but at the end of two years he decided to return ashore as at that 
 time there was not the opportunity at sea for advancement as at present. He was em- 
 ployed in the tool room of the Spears Manufacturing Company for two years. After- 
 ward he was clerk in a store in the Bay State Building for the same cotnpany, then 
 for three years in the sporting goods store of the Lovell Arms Company at the corner 
 of Foster and Main streets, as clerk and traveling salesman. After this firm failed, 
 he entered into partnership with J. A. Alsten, in February 1900, under the firm name 
 of Alsten & Goulding. On account of the growth of the business a corporation was 
 formed in 1910, as is given in the biography of Mr. Alsten. 
 
 Mr. Goulding is a member of Central Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; 
 of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of Aletheia Grotto, No. 13; 
 of the United Commercial Travelers ; the Rotary Club ; the Advertising Club ; the Re- 
 
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 tail Credit Mtn's Association; Aiiionioliilc c'lulj; and llu- Massachusrtts Alunnii As- 
 sociation of the Nautical School, llr is an attendant of the First Universalist t'hunh. 
 In ])oIitics he is a Kepuljlican. 
 
 Mr. Goulding married, Xovernhcr J^. 1899. Pearl Cliarlotte Adams, of Cnilfonl. 
 Vermont, daughter of Simeon and Mary ,|ano (Squarcsl Achims. Cliildren : Dorothy, 
 horn October g, igoo; Donald Clarke, horn Decemher 13, lyoO. 
 
 Edwin Goulding. father of Horatio C. (joulding, was horn in this city, .April 3. 
 1844, died in May, 1907. He was a machinist hy trade, employed in the Sjiears Ma- 
 chine Shop, for Prentice Brothers, as tool maker: in the Kurlingame shop and in the 
 envelope factory of John A. Sherman, m.aking enVelo|)e macliinery. He enlisted in 
 Company D, Fifteenth KeginuMU, N'ohmteer Infantry, in the Civil War: was mus- 
 tered into service, February 6, 1862, at the age of eighteeen ; was wounded in the 
 back in the battle of (jettysburg. He re-enlisted. Fet>ruary 15. 1864, and wa? trans- 
 ferred to Company (j. Twentieth Regiment, serving to tlie end of the war. He mar- 
 ried Isabelle Dana, of Killingly. Connecticut. Besides the son, Horatio C, they liad 
 a daughter who died in infancy. 
 
 Peter Goul(iin,g, father of Edwin (joulding. was born in HoUUn. March ,50. 1811): 
 married Melinda Hubbard. He built a house at Xo. 28 Hanover street in this city. 
 He was at one time owner of what is now the Hudson Belling Company. He had sons: 
 Edwin, Mark and John, and a daughter F!;ila. His father, Clark (joulding, is given 
 in the Early Settlers. His line is: Peter (5), Clark (4), Peter (3), Pahuer (21, Peter 
 (i). His brother, Henry (jmilding, was a manufacturer of woolen machinery; was 
 selectman of the town: iiresident of Meclianics Hank: built the mansion at No. 26 Har- 
 vard street: his son, \\'illiam H. (joulding, founded the drug store later owned by 
 E. D. Buffington. 
 
 GEORGE FRANCIS HUTCHINS, Superintendent of the L. J. Knowlcs S: Broth- 
 er's Loom Works from 1873 to 1885. general superintendent of the Knowles Loom 
 Works from 1885 to 1897, general superinten<lent of Croniptcjn & Knowles Loom Works 
 from 1897 to 1917. was born in Hepburn, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1841, son of Charles 
 and Harriet N. (Hunt) Hutchins. He caiue naturally by the talents that lie has utilized 
 so ingeniously and profitably in the development of the loom mechanism, to which he 
 has mainly directed his energies througliout his long career. His father and his fath- 
 er's brothers were mechanics of exceptional skill and inventive ability. 
 
 Charles Hutchins, father of (jeorge V. Hutchins, was horn in Biddeford, Maine, 
 June 7. 1814, son of John and Hannah (Stacy) Hutchins, and descended througli both 
 paternal and maternal lines from sturdy farmers and mariners of the original pioneer 
 stock. An accident in early life, when he was a lad of ten, proved to be the turning 
 point of his career and consequently in those of his sons. He was saved from drowning 
 by Jarvis Manly, a prominent contractor of Pennsylvania, engaged at that time in the 
 manufacture of heavy machinery, and it was natural for the man to take special inter- 
 est in the future career of the boy, taking him under his patronage and a few years 
 later giving him the training as a mechanic that developed him in the line of his great- 
 est ability. In the employ of Mr. Manly for-a number of years, Charles Hutchins was 
 engaged in setting up inachinery and installing rolling mills in different parts of the 
 country. In the early thirties, still in the employ of Mr. Manly, he came to East 
 Douglas to set up improved machinery for cutting bar iron in the famous old Douglas 
 Axe Works. In 1834 he returned to Hepburn, Pennsylvania, and remained there until 
 1846, when he again came to the Douglas A.xe Works as master mechanic, a po.ition he 
 filled to the end of his life. As an inventor he was one of the foremost contributors to 
 the improvement of machinery for manufacturing axes and many of his devices have 
 been in constant use to the .present day. The greater part of his life was spent in de- 
 signing and perfecting machines for manufacturing axes. It was while experimentmg 
 on a new buzz-wheel that he lost his life. The wheel burst under the strain and he was 
 fatally injured by one of the fragments. He died a few hours later, .April it, 1867. He 
 was a man of blameless character, a useful citizen, serving as representative in the 
 General Court, active in the church and Sunday school, of which he was superintendent, 
 prominent in the temperance movement, of attractive iiersonality. gifted as an inventor, 
 persistent, indefatigable, determined, his life was cut short in the nudst of Ins useful- 
 ness. 
 
 He married, at East Douglas, November 2, 1834, Harriet Xcwell Hunt, a native of 
 that town, born November 21, 1814, the youngest of six children of Deacon Oliver and 
 Phebe (Balcom) Hunt. Her father and his brother Joseph were the fouiulers of the 
 axe industry in Douglas in 1795. Their business was incorporated in 1835 as the Doug- 
 las Axe Company and became the leading concern in this line of business m the I nited 
 States. Her brother. Deacon Warren Hunt, who succeeded his father m the business, 
 was for many years the foremost citizen of East Douglas. Deacon Oliver Hunt was 
 
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 the sixth generation of the family in this country. His father, Ezekiel Hunt, was a sol- 
 dier in the Revolution, from Douglas, in Captain Job Knapp's company and served in 
 various other companies, mainly in Rhode Island. His father, also Ezekiel Hunt, was 
 born in Ipswich, July 15, 1710, and died there December 12, 1747, son of Sergeant Wil- 
 liam and Sarah (Newman) Hunt, and grandson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Redding) 
 Hunt. The pioneer of the family, father of this Samuel, last mentioned, was born in 
 Halifax, Yorkshire, England, in 1604, son of Robert Hunt, and came to this: country 
 before 1635, locating in Concord, removing later to Marlborough, where he died in 
 1667. Through all her ancestry, paternal and maternal, the mother of George Francis 
 Hutchins was descended from the original English Colonial stock, settling the colonies 
 of Massachusetts and Plymouth before 1650. 
 
 The family returned to East Douglas from Hepburn when George F. Hutchins was 
 a lad of five years, and his education began in the public schools of Douglas. He com- 
 pleted the high school course at the age of seventeen. He was already a well-trained 
 machinist, for his vacations and spare liours, when free from studies, had been devoted 
 to work in the a.xe factory in which his father was the master mechanic. After a year 
 or more under his father, he accepted a position in the shop of Harrington & Heald, in 
 Millbury, manufacturers of bayonets. A year later, at the beginning of the Civil War, 
 when the demand of the government for firearms suddenly increased far beyond the fa- 
 cilities of the manufacturers, he went to Boston, where he was employed in the manu- 
 facture of Spencer rifles in the old Chickering building at the South end. Under the 
 supervision of an old German artisan, who had been trained to the utmost exactness in 
 work, Mr. Hutchins acquired the skill, precision and thoroughness that ever afterward 
 characterized his mechanical work and doubtless contributed to his success as an in- 
 ventor. Under the strain of overwork, extra hours and constant pressure in this busy 
 plant, Mr. Hutchins broke down and had to go home, where he spent a year or more re- 
 gaining his health. 
 
 In the fall of 1862 he enlisted as drummer boy of Company I in the Fifty-First 
 Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Augustus B. R. 
 Sprague. This company was composed of men from Douglas and Grafton ; the regi- 
 ment was raised in Worcester county in the fall of 1862 and went to the front in No- 
 vember. Colonel Sprague's command was assigned to duty at Newbern, North Caro- 
 lina, under General Foster, and took part in the battle of Whitehall in the following 
 month. At White Oak Creek the regiment was again in action in tlie same month. 
 The companies were later distributed along the railroad between Newbern and More- 
 head City on guard duty and Company I under Captain Thayer was detailed to guard 
 the line of communication in Newport, South Carolina, and vicinity. In May the regi- 
 ment returned to Newbern and after remaining in the old barracks from May 4 to 22, 
 went into camp near the junction of the Trent and Neuse rivers, at Camp Darlington. 
 Late in June Colonel Sprague with his regiment sailed for Fortress Monroe, leaving 
 behind 183 sick men and proceeded to White House, Virginia. Soon after the regi- 
 ment had returned to Fortress Monroe, Colonel Sprague ofifered the services of his 
 command to the government for additional service as the term of enlistment was about 
 to expire at the critical time of the war when the Confederates were taking the offen- 
 sive in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the Fifty-first regiment was transported to Balti- 
 more and assigned to the defenses at this point. The ravages of malaria, the hardships 
 of forced marches and other strenuous duty reduced the regiment to 275 effective men. 
 Though Mr. Hutchins remained on duty throughout the eleven months that the regi- 
 ment served, he contracted malaria and came home a physical wreck. It took a year 
 for him to struggle back to a condition for any kind of labor. He finally went back to 
 work in the Douglas Axe Factory as a machinist. At that time he was a good machin- 
 ist and was receiving the ma.ximum wages he could expect at his trade, but he was 
 ambitious for something better. While assisting a civil engineer in laying out the 
 cemetery at Douglas, he learned that he received seven dollars a day ; his own wages 
 were but a fraction of that amount, and after considering the matter seriously he re- 
 solved to abandon the factory and study civil engineering. The bounty money he had 
 received at the time of enlistment, together with a few hundred dollars he had saved, 
 he decided to spend on education, and he entered a Technical Training School at Provi- 
 dence, Rhode Island, studying higher mathematics and civil engineering. By the most 
 rigid economy he managed to make his funds last until he had completed the course in 
 two years. At that time the beginners in the offices of surveyors and civil engineers 
 were usually paid nothing, but Mr. Hutchins was allowed the munificent salary of four 
 dollars a week l.iecause of his value as a machinist, and his duties included the care and 
 repairs of the instruments of his employers, Gushing & DeWitt, of Providence. In a 
 few years, however, he, too, was getting the coveted seven dollars a day that had at- 
 tracted him into this profession. But the work was not steady and he sought a better 
 field. There was a demand for surveyors in the West, where much railroad construe- 
 
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 tioii was uiuk-r way. and he cotiipleleil liis plans !<■ u" t'ncrc. He went home lor a 
 week's visit, aiul durins,' thai week the aeci<lent that eaused liis father's death tip-ei Ins 
 plans for the future and again changed his occupation. Tlie dying request of his fath- 
 er was that lie remain at home and take care uf his motlier as Iniiij as she lived. 'I'liis 
 he promised to do. The agent of the Douglas Axe Company gave him the pe'siiion of 
 master mechanic of the works, made vacant by his father's sudden death. He tilled the 
 position with credit, but when his mother died, about four years later, he made plans to 
 resume work as a civil engineer and surveyor. Then came an unexpected opportunity 
 to engage in another business. L. J. Knuwles & Brother had inove<l their shop to Wor- 
 cester and were perfecting the loom which the senior partner had invented and they 
 needed a competent foreman and expert machinist to take charge of the shop and assist 
 in the perfection of the loom. Mr. Iliuchins was, offered this position and accepted it. 
 
 He came to Worcester in h'ebruary, i8r,f. and his comiection with the Loom Works 
 has been continuous since that time. He |)ri.verl to be the right Tu.in in the riglit place; 
 he put into form the ideas of the Imim in\entor ami from time lo time contributed de- 
 vices and improvements of his own. While Mr. Lucius J. Knowles lived he was his 
 right-hand man. foreman and superintendent of the factory, constantly engaged in de- 
 veloping new models and perfecting and in\cnting many new features relating to 
 looms. He has taken out no less than ninet\ -six patents all relating to the loom indus- 
 try and most of them are in use at the present time. Under his supervision he has seen 
 the business grow from a small beginning employing about ;o men to a large business 
 employin.g 2500. At the present time, having retired fri'ui the active management of the 
 works, he is giving all his attention to the furllier development of this industry. 
 
 Mr. Hutchins was made a member of Solomon's Temiile Loilge, .Ancient Free and 
 Accepted ALasons, of Lixbridge, Massachusetts, when about tweiity-tive years of age 
 and is still a member of that lodge, lie also has the distinguished honor of being a 
 Thirty-third degree Mason. He is a commiuiicant of .All Saints, Protestant Kpiscopal 
 Church, of which he was a \estryman for man\' years. When a young man he sang in 
 the choir. He was a teacher in the Smiday scbocd of .St. Matthew's Church, having a 
 class of boys for six or seven years. At the time the old buildin.g of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association was erected he was one of the ccdlectors and contributors and 
 raised a substantial sum. He is a member of The .Xmerican Society of Mechanical 
 Engineers, the Worcester Club, the Tatnuck Country t'lub. Worcester Country Club, 
 the Commonwealth Club, the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and the Worcester 
 Mechanics Association. In politics always a Republican, he has been urged to accept 
 public office, but on account of the burdens and responsiljilities at the works, uniform- 
 ly refused. 
 
 Mr. Hutchins married (first), December 28. 1869. .\niiie Louise Bodkin, a daugh- 
 ter of Washingt^'U Lee and Catherine (Harper) Bo(lkin. of Alexandria, Virginia. She 
 died June 3. 1874. and he married (second) May u. 1875, Edna Porter Fairbanks, a 
 daughter of Franklin and Susan (Stewart) Fairbanks. She died August 30, 1884. and 
 he married (third) June 12. i88y, Jennie Maria Kettell. daughter of James and Sarah 
 J. (Metcalf ) Kettell. i<i \\'orcester. Children by tirst wife: i. Charles Francis, a direc- 
 tor of the Crompton S: Knowles Loom Works, and one of the proprietors of the Stand- 
 ard F'oundry : married Helen Julia Wheeler, daughter of Marcellus and Julia (Sheldon) 
 Wheeler, of Rutland. \'ermont : children: Helen Jirfia. (leorge Francis and Charles 
 Wheeler. 2. William Lee, wdio was accidentally killed at the age of twenty^seven 
 years while launching a boat, was at the time of his death in charge of the Providence 
 branch of the Crompton c& Knowles Loi^m \\'orks ; he married Nettie Ella Willis, 
 daughter of Samuel and Clara (Thayer) Willis; children; F'rancis Willis, at present 
 private in United States army, and Harriet, Children by second wife: 3. Dr. Henry 
 Talliot, graduate of .Amherst College and of the medical department of Johns Hopkins 
 University: he specialized in C.ynecedogical Surgery and after two years at the Hospi- 
 tal in P.aftimore and six months abroad, he located in Boston; he is Major M. C. with 
 American Expeditionary Force in France: married Else Hardi.nburgh. d:iuginer of 
 Charles and Mary (Lee) Hardenburgh. of Minneap>:>lis, Minnesota ; children : Mary 
 Lee, Margaret and Jane. 4. Edwin Donald, died at the age of fourteen years. Child 
 by third wife: 5. Richard Kettell. iireviously employed in the carpet department of 
 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works; at present he is lieutenant 303rd !■". .'\. with .Anieri- 
 can Expeditionary Force in France, married I'lorence Brakelev, daughter of Philip F. 
 H. and Mary K. "(Smith) Brakeley; child. Richard Brakeley, 
 
 ERIC KNUTSON, I\;blisher of Skandinavia. w:is born in Halland. Sweden. De- 
 cember 28, 1852. and died in this city. December _>i. 1004. He was educated in Sweden. 
 He came to Worcester in i88j, and in .August. 1880, established the Sk:uulinavia, a 
 weekly newsiiaper. which in time became one of the leading journals of the Swedish 
 language in this country. He w:is active in all the ie:i<ling Swedish organi^atiiUis and 
 
6;o HISTORY OF IVORCBSTER 
 
 one nf tlie best known and most popular men of Swedisii birth. He belonged to the 
 Svea Gille. the Gesang Verein, the Frohsinns and other clubs and societies. 
 
 Mr. Knutson inarried in Providence. Rhode Island, June 2j, 1897, Lina Uhrbom, 
 daughter of John H. and Caroline (Sjoberg) Uhrbom. Her father lived and died in 
 Sweden; he was an electrical engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Knutson had one daughter, Elsa 
 K. Knutson, born May 11, i8g8. now a student in Sargent's Physical Culture School, 
 Boston. 
 
 Mrs. Knutson became tlie publisher of Skandinavia after her husband died, and 
 managed the printing business and the newspaper with unbroken success for several 
 years. (See history of newspapers in this work I. She is a member of the Svea Gille, 
 the Ladies' Society of the First Swedish Church (Lutheran). Mrs. Knutson learned 
 the English language after coming to this country at the age of twenty-four, joining 
 her lirother, Carl Uhrliom. who was then living in this city. She resides at No. 38 
 Orne street. 
 
 NARCISSE J. LA VIGNE, Business man, is a member of a family who traces in 
 France back to the Xapoleonic wars, when they were banished to Canada. Narcisse J. 
 is a sun of Xarcisse J. (i) La Vigne, who married Armeline DeLorme, daughter of 
 Narcisse and Philomene (Lamoureu.x) DeLorme. Narcisse DeLorme was a bootmak- 
 er, but later was in the nickel plating business with his son George. He was the father 
 of Narcisse, Armeline, Delia, George, Lydia, Louis, Elizabeth. Emma. Joseph, and 
 Flora. Narcisse J. (i) La Vigne was a last maker, Imt later was engaged in mercantile 
 business as a drygoods and shoe merchant. He married .Armeline DeLorme, and they 
 were the parents of eleven children : Narcisse J. (2). of further mention ; George, Napo- 
 leon, Alma, Arthur, Albert, Wilfred, Walter, Cora, Oscar and Henry. 
 
 Narcisse J. La Vigne was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated in the 
 parochial and grammar schools of Worcester. ."Vt the age of seventeen he began work 
 as a printer, his first employer being Kirschner & Son, of Worcester. He did not re- 
 main with that firm but a few' months, leaving to enter the einploy of W. A. Cheney, 
 with whom he remained twelve years, becoming thoroughly familiar with every detail 
 of the printing business. During this period he was also part owner of a newspaper 
 and confectionery store, but soon bought his partner out and was sole owner. After 
 twelve years with Mr. Cheney he bought out Kirschner & Son, and now has a prosper- 
 ous printing establishment, located on Federal street. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. La Vigne has taken active part in city politics, was a 
 member of the City Committee in 1897, 1898, 1899, representing his ward. Was elected 
 alderman-at-large, and served in that office in 1917-18-19. For years he has been a 
 member of the Chamber of Commerce, Worcester Rotary Club. Typothetie, Advertis- 
 ing Club, United Commercial Travelers' Association ; president of the Franco-Ameri- 
 can Dispensary; member of the Catholic Order of Foresters. Ward Four Naturaliza- 
 tion Club; Improved Order of Red Men; societies of St. Jean de Baptiste of America, 
 and is a communicant of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 Mr. La Vigne married, in Worcester. October 8. 1900. Georgianna Roberts, born in 
 St. Mary, Canada, in 1877. daughter of Theophile Roberts, a wheelwright. Mr. and 
 Mrs. La Vigne are the parents of three children: Thelma, born July 18, 1902, now a 
 student in high school; Robert, born December 18, 1904. and Germaine, burn March 31, 
 1906; the two younger now in grammar school. 
 
 PARNAG ADAM ADAMIAN, Physician, surgeon, was born in Aintab. Armenia, 
 .August 28. 1869. son of .'Kdam and Khatoun (Nazarian) .Adainian. He graduated from 
 the Central Turkey College. -Aintab, in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 
 practiced law for a time before coming to this country. He entered the Episcopal Theolog- 
 ical School at Cambridge. Massachusetts, graduating in 1901 with the degree of Bachelor 
 of Divinity, and afterward became a student in the Harvard Medical School, from 
 which he graduated in igo6 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1912 he received 
 from Odesa University the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. 
 
 Dr. Adamian has practiced medicine in Boston since 1905. and in this city since 
 1912, and was professor of pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bos- 
 ton, from 1908 to 1917. He is now entering upon the third profession that he has fol- 
 lowed in this country, that of law. In 1917 he graduated from a law school and is pre- 
 paring to practice law in Worcester. Many Armenians have need of legal advice and 
 services, especially in the probate courts, owing to the European war. His knowledge 
 of Armenian law is of special value in settling the estates of persons dying in this 
 country, or in the United States service. His law practice is in the nature of a contri- 
 bution to the public service of his own country and of the Llnited States. 
 
 Dr. Adamian is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society; the Armenian 
 .Apostolic Church, and all the other .Armenian clubs and societies of this city; the Har- 
 
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 vard Alumni Assuciatinii. Ik- \va> liiniifrly chairniaii nt tlu- Central ('nnnnissHiii of 
 Armenian Churclu-s of the United States. His office and residence are at \i>. 55 Lau- 
 rel street, in this city. Mis Boston oHicc is at No. 181 Harrison avenue. 
 
 He married. Denndier J.s, igiJ. Hais>anoisli Shaninian. dauKliter of (ialiri<d. of 
 Smyrna, Turke\. I lu y have two cliildren : 1. I'aroulii. horn Jaiuiary 10, I'ji.}. 2. 
 Parnag, horn .\la> 1;. Kill). 
 
 His father. .Xdam .\dannan. was horn in .Mnt.ah, and lived there all his life: a 
 merchant: prominent in husiiiess and pulilic life, serving on tlie K(.ivernmeiit eouneil ; 
 died there. His widow came to this city and lived with her son: died here May t.j. 
 1916. They had six children, of whom two are living : i. Khrouhi, came witli her 
 mother to Worcester in lyoo. married X'azaret Panjarsian, a hoot and slioe mantifac- 
 turer of Middlehorough. Massachusetts, and has four children: Jacob. Lucy, Mary and 
 Krikor. :ill horn in .Aint.'ih. J. I'.irn.ig .\dam. mentioned above. 
 
 GUSTAVE LEONARD STENBERG, President of Stenberg X- f..mpany. Incor- 
 porated, interior dei-orators, was born in I lelsinjjborg. Sweden, July J5, 185,?, >on of 
 Johan Stenberg. who was born near Helsingborg, Sweden. He was a tailor liy tr.ide. 
 He married Katrina Sofia, who died in Boston :it the age of forty-eight years, jle died 
 in Hoston at the a.ge of si.\ty-two years. They had eleven children, of whom the fol 
 lowing are living: Mary, married J. Tjernblom. deceased, and she resides in Cam- 
 bridge, Massachusetts; Hlenda, of Camliridge: Clara, of Cambridge; (lertrude. mar- 
 ried l-'red l.add. of Quincy, Massachusetts; (nistave L., and Franz. 
 
 (iustave L. Stenberg received his education in his native city, graduating from the 
 third class in the preparatory school for college in Helsingliorg. He came to this coun- 
 try in June, i86g, joining his father who came two years earlier. He was accompanied 
 by liis mother and her other children. Tlie fatlicr located in Boston and engaged in 
 business there as a custom tailor, (iustave L. worked for four years for an interior 
 decorator in Boston. He came to this city in iSgj and has been in business since then, 
 locating first in a store on Ple;^sant street; afterward his place of business for several 
 years was at No. 4 Elm street, and since 1913 at the present location. No, 6 Walnut 
 street. His brother Franz is associated in business with him in a corporatifin known 
 as Stenberg & Company, Inc. The brothers have enjoyed the best of work in their line 
 and have held a place among the leading <lecorators in this sectii>n of the St.-ile. .Mr. 
 Stenberg is a member of ,^theIstan Lodge, .Xncient Free and .Accepted Masons; the 
 Worcester Continentals: the Worcester Commercial Travelers' Association; Cmimnn- 
 weallh Club; the Swedish Masonic Club; Swedish Engineers' Club: Worcester Rotary 
 Club; Piedmont Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Stenberg married. November .^8, 1878, in Cambridge, Jennie .Mbertina Daniel- 
 son, daughter of Ciustaf and .'Xnna Catrina Danielson, They have one son, I-r.-uiklin 
 Harold, born October 14. i8yo, married Julia Estes. 
 
 SELDEN BICKFORD LIBBY, Manager of the Libby Electric Comi)aiiy. was 
 born in LJeblois. .M.iine. September i. 1865. He attended the public schools there until 
 he was fifteen years of age, wdien he entered tlie Providence Polytechnic School. Provi- 
 dence, Rhode Island. .After leaving school in 1882, he entered the employ of the 
 American Bell Telephone Company, working for several years at various places in 
 New York State, and for seven years at the central station in Haverhill, Massachusetts, 
 as superintendent of the Haverhill Electric Company. From this position he was 
 transferred to that of superintendent of the Boston Industrial Company. .After ten 
 years he resigned his position with this company in Boston to become superintendent 
 of the electric plant of the north works of the .American Steel and Wire Company in 
 W'orcester. Thence he went to the Carpenter Steel Works at Reading. Pennsylvania, 
 of wdiich he was superintendent of electrical works for two years. Mr. Libby returned 
 to Worcester in 1907 and engaged in his present business under the name of the Libby 
 Electrical Company, of wdiicli he is manager. The concern is engaged in general elec- 
 trical business, electrical construction and supplies, agents for General Electrical Com- 
 pany motors and lamps; dealers in new and second liand dynamos, motors and gas(dine 
 engines, shafting, pulleys, hangers and belting. The place of business is No. too Me- 
 chanic street, corner of L'nion street. Mr. Libliy is a member of Council. 
 
 Royal .Arcanum, of this city. He takes his recreation in out-donr sports and is espec- 
 ially devoted to baseball. 
 
 "Mr. Libby married at Haverhill. .Massachusetts. October 30. 1888. Lucy Emma 
 Barton, who was born at Pembroke. .Maine. .August 4. 1866, daughter of .Alonzo and 
 Mary Ann (Pineo) Barton. Her father died at the age of fifty-four years; her mother 
 at sixty-nine. Mr. and Mrs. Libby reside at No. 8 Dodge avenue. They have one child. 
 Royal Barton, born October 30. 1889. graduate of the Worcester Classical High School, 
 student for two years of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, now lieutenant in the 
 Ordnance Department, stationed at the Karitan .Arsenal. .New Jersey. 
 
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 Mr. Libby's father, Daniel Farnsworth Libliy, was born in Baddington, Maine, 
 September 5, 1826, and died at tlie age of seventy-nine at Deblois, Maine. He was a 
 millwright. He married Caroline Amelia Joy, who was born October 20, 1826, at 
 Gouldsboro, Maine, and died at Deblois, aged eighty-one years. They had the follow- 
 ing children : Floristine ; Artel, deceased, leaving a son Harry, of Columbia Falls, 
 Maine; Judith Abigail, deceased; Alma E., lives in Seattle, Washington; Howard Joy, 
 resides at Columbia Falls, Maine, and has one son; Earl, engaged in the electrical 
 business in Lynn, Massachusetts: ^lary Ada, deceased; Selden Bickford, mentioned 
 above. 
 
 CHARLES O. JOHNSON, Manufacturer of wire, head of the firm of C. O. John- 
 son & Sons, was born in Orebro City, Sweden, August 3, 1866, son of John O. and 
 Cathrina (Malstrom) Johnson. John O. Johnson was born in Sweden in 1838: came to 
 this country with his family in 1883, and has been employed since then in the wire 
 mills of the city; he is now with the Spencer Wife Company. He resides at No. 21 
 Coes street. He married Cathrina ^Malstrom. They had four children. Besides the 
 son there were three daughters : Amanda. Emily, and ."Knna, who married John Bas- 
 trom, now of New York City. 
 
 Charles O. Johnson received his education in the schools of his native place, and 
 learned the trade of cabinet-maker there. He worked at this trade as apprentice and 
 journeyman from the time he left school until he came to this country. He came to this 
 city. May 6, 1883, among the early Swedish settlers, and his first employment, like most 
 of his countrymen, was in the wire works of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing 
 Company. He became a wire-drawer and in the course of time was made foreman of 
 the tine wire department. In 1904 he resigned to accept a similar position in the 
 works of the Spencer Wire Company, for which he organized the line wire department, 
 making card wire, rope wire and other special kinds of wire. He continued as fore- 
 man of this department until May i. 1917. After resigning" he engaged in the business 
 of manufacturing wire at No. 22 Lakewood street under the firm name of C. O. John- 
 son & Sons. His sons, Charles D. and Bernard A., are his partners. The factory is 
 now under construction on a spacious lot at Jamesville Station and will be ready for 
 occupancy early in 1918. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Scandia Credit Union and 
 one of its board of directors. In politics he is a Republican. He is chairman of the 
 deacons and superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Swedish Congregational 
 Church and also vice-president of the society. 
 
 Mr. Johnson married, June 25. 1885, Emma Matilda Bengson. Tlieir home is at No. 
 22 Lakewood street. They have four children : Charles D. and Bernard A., now in 
 partnership with their father in the firm of C. O. Johnson & Sons ; Florence H., grad- 
 uate of the Domestic Science School ; George G., now a student in the High School. 
 
 MATTHEW NIGOHOS NAHIGAN, Physician and Surgeon, was born in Har- 
 
 poot, Turkey, (Armenia), January 28, 1876. son of Nigohos and Sirpoohi (Rustigian) 
 Nahigan. He attended private schools in his native city, the missionary school and 
 the Euphrates College at Harpoot. He came to this coimtry and located in Worcester 
 in 1895. For several years he worked in various factories. For some time he was em- 
 ployed in a cordage factory in Newburyport, Massachusetts, at five dollars a week. 
 He worked in Boston and Hartford. In April, 1898. he enlisted in Company C, First 
 Connecticut Regiment, Volunteer Infantry; served through the Spanish War, and re- 
 ceived an honorable discharge at the end of the war. 
 
 Returning to Hartford he entered the Hartford High School, and at the same time 
 worked for his former employer during his spare time for fifteen cents an hour in the 
 Woven Wire Mattress factory. He graduated from the high school in 1902. Though 
 in debt ?8o at that time, he had paid $125 of debts during his high school course and 
 he entered Yale College determined to work his way through. After a year in the aca- 
 demic department, however, he became a student in the Yale Medical School in 1903, 
 graduating in 1907, with the degree of doctor of medicine. He then became an interne 
 in the Seaton Hospital, New York City. Subsequently he took a graduate course in 
 Harvard Medical School. He began to practice in this city in 1908, and has continued 
 here to the present time. His office is at No. 26 Lincoln street. 
 
 Dr. Nahigan is intensely interested in public affairs. Until 1912 he was a Republi- 
 can. He followed Colonel Roosevelt in the Progressive party movement, and was one 
 of the most active leaders in the campaigns of 1912 and 1913. He is a member of the 
 Church of the Martyrs and its treasurer. He is surgeon of Col. E. R. Shumway Camp, 
 No. 28, United Spanish War Veterans. 
 
 Dr. Nahigan's father and mother were both natives of Harpoot. His father was 
 self-educated, studying at night, acquiring a knowledge of English, and fitting him- 
 self so well that he became a teacher at Harpoot. He came to this city in 1876. and 
 
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 was employed for ten years in the Crompton Loom Works. He returned to Harpoot in 
 1886, and engaged in business as a banker and broker. Botli lie and liis wife wore mas- 
 sacred by tlie Turks in Har])oot. lie was seventy-five years olil ; liis wife was sixty- 
 six. 
 
 ALFRED WEBSTER ROSE, Accountant, was born January 31, 1829, in Bridge- 
 water. New \'cirk. Son of .Mir.diani and Margaret (Edw-ards) Rose. 
 
 He lived in his native town until 1853, when he went West and was employed for a 
 number of years as cashier of one of the largest dry goods stores in Milwaukee, Wis- 
 consin. He catne to this city in 1861, and for a period of twenty-nine years he was ac- 
 countant and paymaster at the Albert Curtis Woolen Mill, which was located on the 
 present site of the power plant of the Worcester Electric Light Company on Webster 
 street. For the past eighteen years he has been retired. He is a Democrat in politics, 
 casting his first vote for Franklin Pierce for president and voting since then for every 
 Democratic presidential nominee. He is a member of Worcester Lodge, Xo. 56, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, which he joined in 1874; Canton, Worcester, the Wor- 
 cester County Odd Fellows Relief Association. He filled the various chairs of the En- 
 campment. He was formerly a member of Worcester Lodge, Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of F:iks ; and the Worcester Continentals. His home is at No. 4 Crown 
 street. 
 
 Mr. Rose married Sarah E. Eaton, and they had two children: i. Marion H., 
 graduate of Smith College (A. B., 1884), now a teacher in the High Scliool of Com- 
 merce. 2. Lydia H. (deceased) married Walter H. Allen, and had two children: 
 Walter .-\. Allen, graduate of Beloit College and of Vale University (B. S., 1917), pro- 
 fessor of Pomona College. Claremont, California: and Marguerite R. Allen, graduate 
 of Miss Wheelock's School, Boston, now teaching in Los Angeles, California. 
 
 HELEN A. GOODSPEED, Physician and surgeon, was b.>rn in Southbridge, 
 Massachusetts, in 1844. and died in this city. January j^. 1913. She attended the public 
 schools of Webster, Massachusetts, and Putn.am, Connecticut. At the age of twenty 
 years she began the study of medicine in tlie office of Dr. Manning, a woman pliysician 
 of Norwich, Connecticut. Thence she went to New ^'ork City and became a student in 
 the New York Eclectic Medical School, from whicli she graduated in 1870. In the 
 same year she located in this city, where she practiced medicine to the time of her 
 death. She was a member of the Massachusetts State Eclectic Society, which she rep- 
 resented at the medical congress at the World's Fair in Chicago. She made a valuable 
 and interesting collection of Japanese curios, and had a library of unusual quality. She 
 bequeathed liberally to Clark University and the Art Museum. 
 
 ALBERT B. F. KINNEY, Merchant, was born in Barnston, Stanstead county, 
 Canada, 1831, and died in Worcester, July i, 191J. He had a common school education 
 in his native place. At the age of eighteen lie came to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and 
 engaged in business with a brother; afterward lie went to Portland. Maine, becoming a 
 salesman for the Dillingham Paper Company until 1873. when he came to this city 
 and entered the employ of Blacknier & Davis, brokers. He eventually became a part- 
 ner in this firm and the name became Blacknier & Kinney. The place of business was 
 at No. 12 Front street, later at No. 44 Front street. After moving to these larger quar- 
 ters the firm extended its business to include firearms, ammunition and all otlier kinds 
 of sporting goods. In 1901 larger quarters became necessary, and the business was 
 moved to No. 539 Main street. Chester W. Doten becoming a partner at that time and 
 the name of the firm being A. B. F. Kinney & Company. He continued active in Inisi- 
 ness to the time of his death. 
 
 The Worcester Magazine said of him : "As a rule one docs not associate with the 
 same name a person who has gained equal recognition in the affairs of the church and 
 sporting world. But in the achievements of Mr. Kinney this is true to the last letter 
 of the word. His interest and work, financially and otherwise, in the progress of the 
 Methodist faith in Worcester and the county at large made him one of the most wide- 
 ly known laymen in New England, .^t the same time his love for the open country- and 
 all that goes with it for sport — hunting, fishing and trapping — brought him recognition 
 as one of the most experienced and best informed sportsmen in the East. In his death 
 Trinity Church and kindred organizations of Worcester lose one of the leaders, a man 
 who not only gave time, energy and strength to broaden the church field in the heart 
 of the Commonwealth, but who came forward with financial aid at times when ad- 
 ditional funds were necessary to carry the church organizations over the crisis in their 
 early lives. 
 
 "Probably one of the best examples of the lovaltv and labor of Mr. Kinney in his 
 
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 church work was his activity in the Worcester Methodist Mission and Church Exten- 
 sion Society. Accepting the presidency of this organization in 1891, after repeated so- 
 licitation and urging on the part of other church workers in the city, he carried on the 
 work to such a successful end that three churches were huilt. at a cost of $46,000, one 
 eacli in Leicester. Lake View and on Park Avenue ; dedicated and then turned over to 
 the Methodist General Conference entirely free of debt. As president of that group of 
 church officials banded together to increase the holdings of the Methodist Church in 
 America by $20,000,000 to pay off church indebtedness and erect new churches, he stim- 
 ulated the local field to such an extent that Trinity M. E. Church reduced its debt from 
 $18,000 to $8,000 in two years and is now entirely free from debt. As a member of the 
 Methodist General Conference and the World's Methodist Home Mission Board he 
 had opportunity to assist in the national extension work of the church society. 
 
 "Some idea of the many associations which he had in the sporting world and the 
 value placed on his knowledge of the hunt may be secured from the fact that he had 
 a record of being either a president or member of the executive committee of fifty-two 
 different sporting organizations throughout the L'nited States." 
 
 JAMES A. HEALEY. JR., Sealer of weights and measures of the city of Wor- 
 cester, was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 6, 1880. He was educated 
 in the public schools of this city, and graduated from the English High School. He 
 •vas afterward, for fourteen years, engaged in the plumbing business here. After a 
 tivil service examination he was appointed deputy sealer of weights and measures in 
 1914, and in the following year to his present office as sealer of weights and measures 
 of the City of Worcester. This department is of great importance in regulating the 
 standards of weights and measures, effectually preventing fradulent methods by un- 
 scrupulous merchants in weighing goods and measuring. There are two assistants in 
 the office. These deputies. Charles Ross and Patrick A. Nolan, co-operate with the 
 chief and the department is constantly on the alert, making the rounds of the city for 
 inspection and standardizing weights and measures and regulating all kinds of weigh- 
 ing machines. The office is at No. 2 City Hall. The office of sealer of weights and 
 measures is as old as the New England town meeting, where it was established. Mr. 
 Healey is at present second vice-president of the Massachusetts Sealers Association. 
 He is a communicant of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, and a member of Alham- 
 bra Council, Knights of Columbus. 
 
 Mr. Healey married, in this city, February 6, 1918, Marion I Creeden, who was 
 born in Lewiston. Maine, in 1887. 
 
 James .\. Healey, Sr., was born in Cork, Ireland, and came with his parents to this 
 country when an infant. He attended the public schools, and learned the tailor's trade 
 in New York City: removed to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and finally to this city, 
 where he died in 1901. He enlisted in the Si.xty-ninth New York Regiment, Volunteer 
 Infantry, in the Civil War, and later in the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 
 serving through the Civil War, taking part in the battles of Fredericksburg, the siege 
 of Petersburg and other important engagements. Mary A. (Ronayne) Healey, his 
 wife, was born in London, England, and came with her parents to this city when a 
 young child. Mr. and, Mrs. James A. Healey, Sr., had three children: A daughter, 
 died in infancy: Alice M., now living with her mother in this city; and James A., Jr. 
 The Healey family lived in Cork. Ireland, for many generations. , 
 
 SIMON VARTON PAZEIAN, Dentist, was born .'August 15, 1870, in Van, 
 Armenia, and living tliere until he was twenty-five years of age, graduated in 1887 
 from the high school of his native place. Afterward, from 1888 to 1895, he was a 
 teacher in this school, giving instruction in physics, geography and the local languages. 
 In October, 1895, he caine to this coimtry, and after spending a short time in New 
 York City and Boston made his home in Worcester. For four years he was employed 
 in the wire mills of the American Steel & Wire Company. In 1902 he became a student 
 in Tufts College, but left that institution to study his profession in the Harvard Dental 
 School, from which he graduated in 1905 with the degree of D. M. D. Since then he 
 has been practicing dentistry at 183 Main street, in this city. In politics he is a 
 Republican: in religion a Congregationalist. 
 
 Dr. Pazeian married, in this city, January 28, 1911, Rose Der Kervorkin, who 
 was boi'n in Van. Armenia. Her parents escaped to Egypt after the first massacre in 
 Armenia and died there. Dr. and Mrs. Pazeian have three children: i. Alice, born 
 November 30, 191 1. 2. Isabelle, born December 12, 1912. 3. Bessie, born April 18, 1915. 
 
 Vartan Pazeian, father of Dr. Pazeian, was born in Van, Armenia, and died there 
 in 1887, aged fifty years: was a well-to-do farmer: later an itinerant preacher: mar- 
 ried Bessie Bazigian, who died in this city, August 6, 1916. They had four children : 
 
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 Simon v., mentioned aliove ; Moosliegh, baker in this city, ^ervc(l one year in the ]\ns- 
 sian army: Sedrag, died in tliis city. December. 1917; Helen, married Dr. .Arsha^ Der 
 Margosian. of Providence. Rliode Island, 
 
 HERMAN STAKE, \ice-president and general manager of the Kcononuc .\la^ 
 chiiiery Company, was born in Norway. He eame to this country when live years old 
 and located in this city with his parents. He attended the public schools of this city, 
 leaving at the age of thirteen years. After working in various machine shops of Wor- 
 cester, he then entered the employ of the Kconomic Machinery Company in 1906. He 
 won rapid promotion and since 1916 has been vice-president. This comi)any was or- 
 ganized by Frank O. Woodland and Horatio (iates in the year 1901. Frank O. Wood- 
 land died in the year 1916. .'\fter his death the business was reorganized to contiinic 
 the manufacture of labeling machines that he invented. The company now has the 
 largest business of this line of machinery in the world, employing one hundred aiui 
 twenty-five hands. Its principal business is the making of the four types of labeling 
 machines, the World Automatic Rotary Labcler, the World Labeler Improved, the 
 World Lalieler Junior, the World Can Labeler, covering practically all the uses to 
 wdiich automatic labeling machines can be used ff)r bottles, cans and other purposes, 
 but the comiiany manufactures under various patents other automatic labeling ma- 
 chinery for special purposes. Daniel W. (lurnett. of Boston, is ])resident of the com- 
 pany, and Edward h. Moor, of Worcester, is secretary and treasurer. 
 
 CARL JOHAN ROLANDER, ResiH.nsible and respected niercliant of Worcester, 
 in which city he has lived for tbirt\-four years, was born at Nora, Sweden, January 
 28. 1864, the son of Johan and Johanna (.Anderson) Rolander. both natives of Sweden. 
 in which country the former was born on August 2~. i8j8, and the latter in .August, 
 
 Carl J. Rolander was educated in the iniblic schools of liis native town. He came 
 to America in the year 1883. an<l since June 2, 1883, has resided and worked in Wor- 
 cester. At riie outset he found employment with the Worcester firm of Washliurn & 
 Moen, remaining with that company until 1887, when he entered the emjiloy of Pren- 
 tice Brothers, of Worcester. I"or twenty-three years he was foreman of the machine 
 shop of Prentice Brothers, and during the period became a man of snbstaiUial means. 
 In February, 191 1, he formed association with Carl J. Ekstedt for the purpose of en- 
 gaging in retail merchandisin.g, in the branches of shoes and jewelry. In 1914 Mr. 
 Ekstedt sold his interest to Charles J. Larson, the firm bein.g now Rcdander & Larson; 
 the partners opened a retail store at No. 231 Main street. Worcester, where the com- 
 pany has since conducted a satisfactory and increasing business, dealing exclusively 
 in hats and shoes. 
 
 Mr. Rolander has for many \ears taken active interest in community affairs, and 
 has, particularly, been promineiitl\ identified in .American organizations comjjosed 
 chiefly of citizens of -Swedish liirtli or antece<ients ; he has been a director of the 
 Swedish National Federation, and is a past president of the Swedish Charitalde Asso- 
 ciation ; and he has held like executive office in the John Ericson Lodge, of the (.)rder 
 of Vasa, of which organization he is at present district grand master of Massachusetts, 
 District Lodge, No. 2. In municipal matters Mr. Rolander has concerned himself for 
 many years, and his popularity with the voters and his standing in the city has intlii- 
 enced the voters to elect him to city office on more than one occasion; he has been a 
 member of the Common Cotmeil of the city of Worcester, as a representative of Ward 
 No. 6, since 1915; and at the general election of December, 1917, he was elected a mem- 
 ber of the Board of .Alderman by a handsome majority. His prominent identification 
 with political affairs of Worcester dates back to 1900, in which year he first became a 
 member of the Republican City Committee, from Ward No. 4. .Among the fraternal 
 organizations with which Mr. Rolander is affiliated are the Order of Vasa, before 
 mentioned: the Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons: tlie Thule 
 Lodge of Odd Fellows ; and the Massasoit Tribe of Redmen. 
 
 Carl J. Rolander is one of five brothers, all now responsible United States citizens, 
 and successful men of business. Three of his brothers, Pehr G., Victor E. and Emil 
 T., reside in Worcester, and one, Oscar A., is in business in New York City. One 
 sister, .Albertina Olivia, has remained in .Sweden, 
 
 On September 10, 1887, at Worcester, Mr. Rolander married Agda M. Bcrgstrom, 
 who was born in Sweden, January 7, 1861. She is the daughter of John W. and Anna 
 B. (Ramstedt) Bergstrom, both natives of Sweden, wdiere both died, the former in 1864, 
 and the latter in 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Rolander have two children: i. Mabel bTorence, 
 born September 3, 1888; a graduate of the Worcester public school, the English High 
 School, and Beckers Business College of Worcester; she married Emanuel Bergland, 
 October 26, 1910. 2. Oscar Albin, born August 28, 1890; attended the Worcester public 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 schools, eventually graduating from the English High School ; he is at present em- 
 ployed as a mechanic at the Reed Prentice plant, Worcester, in which his father was 
 for so many years foreman. 
 
 VICTOR EMMANUEL ROLANDER, Superintendent and Vice-President of the 
 Vernon Machine Company, was born in Sweden, March 8, 1871, son of John and Jo- 
 hanna (Anderson) Rolander. His father was born in Sweden, January 10, 18^7, and 
 followed farming with success all his active life. His mother was born August 12, 
 1834, in Sweden. He has three brothers in this city: Emil T., of the Carlson- Rolander 
 Furniture Company; Carl J., of the Rolander-Larson Shoe Company, and Pehr J., en- 
 gaged in the real estate business in Worcester. 
 
 Victor E. Rolander received his early education in the public schools in Sweden, 
 and in the evening schools of this city. He arrived in Worcester, May i, 1887, and 
 became an apprentice in the trade of machinist. In 1904 he became foreman in Pren- 
 tice Brothers Machine Shop in this city. He was afterward for two years in a similar 
 position in the works of the Coppus Engineering Company. He is now superintendent 
 and vice-president of the Vernon Machine Company, manufacturers of engine lathes at 
 No. 54 Hermon street. Harry V. Prentice is treasurer and manager of the company. 
 Mr. Rolander is also a director of the First Swedish Co-operative Store, and of the 
 Swedish Cemetery Corporation. In politics he is a Republican, keenly interested in 
 municipal affairs. Since 1914 he had been a member of the Republican city com- 
 mittee. He has been a member of Ragner Lodge of the Vasa Order since 1899 and 
 held all the offices in succession. He is also a member of Massasoit Tribe, Improved 
 Order of Red Men, and of Athelstan Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons. 
 
 Mr. Rolander married, in this city, February 14, 1891, Edla B. Holm, who was 
 born in Sweden, December 8, 1869, a daughter of Jacob and Marguerite (Petterson) 
 Holm. Her father was born in Sweden, September 12, 1824, and died in this city, 
 April 19, 1909. Her mother was born in Sweden, January 2y, 1825, and died here, 
 March 27, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Rolander have two children: Bernie Emmanuel, born 
 July 19, 1891 ; Ruth Eugenia, born May 11, 1896, graduate of the Worcester Business 
 Institute, 1912. Their home is at No. 3 West Upsala street. 
 
 EMIL THEODORE ROLANDER, Partner in the firm of Carlson, Rolander & 
 Company, furniture dealers, was born in Sweden, July 4, 1873, son of John and Johanna 
 (Anderson) Rolander. wdio had five sons, all of whom have attained stations of im- 
 portance in life. The others are : Victor (see biography) ; Carl (see liiography) ; Pehr 
 J., real estate operator, Worcester; Oscar, an automobile dealer. New York City. 
 
 Emil T. Rolander completed the course in the grammar school of his native place 
 in 1886 and in the preparatory school in 1888. He came to this city and soon after- 
 ward, in 1900, became a clerk in the store of Carlson Brothers, dealers in furniture and 
 household furnishings. After the death of the senior partner in 1907, he was. admitted 
 to partnership in the firm and the name became Carlson, Rolander & Company, as at 
 present. The store is at No. 137 Millbury street. He is a director in the Skandia 
 Credit Lhiion ; president of the Swedish National Federation; secretary of the board 
 of trustees of the Swedish Cemetery; member of the Exemption Board under the 
 compulsory military service draft of 1917; e.x-president of John Erickson Lodge, Order 
 of Vasa; president of the Chicago Aid Society, the Worcester division, and member of 
 the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. He is local preacher and. superintendent of the 
 Sunday school of Thomas Street Methodist Church, and has been president of the 
 Epworth League. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Rolander married, in this city, in 1896, Hilda C. Ribb, who was born in Swe- 
 den, August 18, 1875, daughter of Olave Ribb. Her parents were natives of Sweden. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Rolander have one son, Clarence T., born September 25, 1897, graduate 
 of the Classical High School, 1916, now in United States Radio Service. 
 
 LOUIS EDWARD FEINGOLD, Prominent lawyer, was born March i, 1880, at 
 Kadane, Province of Kovno, Russia, son of John and Rebecca (Katz) Feingold, who 
 immigrated in 1882 and 1884, respectively. To Mr. and Mrs. Feingold. Sr.. there were 
 born eight children, five in Russia and three in America : David. Charles M., Louis E., 
 Elizabeth, Etta G., Fanette, Pauline M. and Aida E. 
 
 Louis E. Feingold received his early education in the public schools of this city, 
 and was graduated from the old English High School in the class of 1900, being one 
 of the honor pupils. He entered Brown University, from which he was graduated in 
 1904 with the degrees of Ph. B. and A. M. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa. His 
 professional training was received in the Harvard Law School, from which he was 
 graduated in 1906. He was admitted to the bar, February 15, 1907, and began to prac- 
 tice in this city, continuing with marked success to the present time. His offices are at 
 
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 XdS. 420-4-'i-4J-'-42jA and 4,50 State Mutual building. He has won a higli and iK.nor- 
 able place m his pnjfessicin and enjoys the esteem and confidence of l)enih an<l bar and 
 a wide circle of clients. In pulilic affairs he has taken a keen interest and lias con- 
 tributed a considerable part of his time to the service of the municipality. In |)olitics 
 he is a staunch Republican. I'or a number of years he was a member of the Republi- 
 can city committee, and is now serving his seventh year as its treasurer. He is also 
 a member of the executive board of the Worcester Republican Club, and on the execu- 
 tive committee of the Worcester Economic Club. 
 
 His election as trustee of the Worcester I^ree Public Library was notable, as he 
 was the first man of the Jewish race to hold this office in Worcester. Mr. l-'eiuKold has 
 been specially interested not only in the library but in other lines of public education. 
 Perhaps his most useful and important work has been in the Hebrew Sabbath Scliool 
 of Worcester, of which he is the founder and superintendent. This school has a regu- 
 lar attendance of more than tliree hundred children and it has been pronounced of 
 great educational as well as ethical value. Not only in this work but wdierevcr oppor- 
 tunity has offered Mr. Feingold lias demonstrated his public sijirit. His kindly dispo- 
 sition, his wide accpiaintance and numerous friends among all classes of people, his 
 willingness to give his time and ability in movements designed for the jiublic wel- 
 fare, and especially his influence among the Hebrew people of this section have made 
 him one of the leaders of the city. He is a member of the Worcester Economic Club 
 and of the Young Men's Hebrew .Association, of which he is a member of the advisory 
 board. He is also a member of every other Jewish social organization in the city. He 
 is a director of the New England Credit Union. During the great world war in Eu- 
 rope and other places which has involved so many nations, Mr. Feingold has been ac- 
 tive and most patriotic in his adopted land, .America, in the various camjiaigns such as 
 the Lilierty Loans, Red Cross and United War Work, and is a member of the Public 
 Information Bureau as a "Four Minute Speaker." 
 
 BERNARD ERIC WALBERG, Manuf.icturer of Drums and other .\l usual In- 
 struments, was liorn in Sweden. .April ig, 1877, son of Eric and .\u!.;nsla (Tengdilus) 
 Walberg. both natives of Sweden. 
 
 He came with his parents to this city and received his education here in tlie public 
 schools. He followed the profession of musician for fifteen years, being trombone 
 soloist in some of the best bands and orchestras of the country. He bought a half- 
 interest in the business of Taylor & Auge, of which A. L. .Auge was then the sole 
 proprietor, October i, 1903. Tlie place of business was at that time in the Cromjiton 
 building. No. 13 Mechanic street. No help was employed and the business was con- 
 fined to repairing and dealing in musical instruments. After Mr. Walberg entered the 
 firm, the manufacture of drums and other instruments was begun. In order to secure 
 larger quarters, the Inisiness was moved to the Bigelow building at the corner of Me- 
 chanic and Mercantile streets, tlic present location. Two floors and a half arc occu- 
 pied. Since the death of Mr. .Auge in August, 1910, Mr. Walberg has been the sole pro- 
 prietor, but the firm name Walberg & Auge has been retained. At the present time he 
 employs a force of sixteen people. A number of inventions and improvements on 
 drums and appliances for which letters patent have been granted have been instru- 
 mental in building up the business, which is now the largest of its kind in the East. 
 Mr. Walberg is a member of the Worcester Musicians' Association. He is unmarried. 
 His home is at No. 4 Intervale road. 
 
 CARL C. T. THOMAS, Cabinetmaker, was born in Pomerania, Prussia, June 22. 
 1838, and died in Worcester. .May 31, 1905, son of I'rederick C. T. and Mary Frederika 
 (Sass) Thomas. 
 
 He started in life under the most depressing conditions, being left alone in a 
 strange country, with a younger brother and sister unprovided for. He knew some- 
 thing of the wood-working business and found employment in the cabinet shop of 
 Shaeffer & Suckow, manufacturers of fine furniture. He and Anton Burckel, wlio was 
 afterwards his partner in business, learned the trade together. The shop was at u; 
 Anthony street, later on Mulberry street. New York. 
 
 In 1859 he removed to Beverly, Massachusetts, in order to be with his brother and 
 sister and he contributed to their support. He enlisted in July, 1861, in Company D, 
 Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment, and served three years. He was wounded June 
 19, 1864, in the battle of Spottsylvania, and sent home by the way of Fredericksburg. 
 His regiment was in the Second Army Corps, in General Birney's division. General 
 Mott's Erigate, General Hancock commanding. .Anton Burckel was in the same com- 
 pany and lioth were transferred to the heavy artillery. .After the war he worked at his 
 trade in Beverlv, Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and finally decided to locate 
 in Worcester. 'He worked first for Wm. (i. Anderson & Co., cabinetmakers, corner 
 
678 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 of Union and Exchange streets, for a short time. He did wood carving for various 
 furniture makers and builders. In the early seventies he formed a partnership with 
 Elisha Witherell, under the firm name of Thomas & Company, and established his 
 business as cabinetmaker. A year later his partner died. In 1873, his old friend and 
 comrade Anton Burckel became his partner, the firm name remaining the same. Their 
 shop was then at 91 Exchange street, and they made a specialty of wood-carving and 
 machine work; later they removed to the Baker building where they carried on cabi- 
 netmaking on a larger scale. His father, Frederick Carl Thomas, was a native of 
 Mecklenberg. Germany, and came to America in 1853. He died on the way. The moth- 
 er, who was Mary Frederika (Sass). a native of Sweden, was sent to Ward's Island 
 with a baby and three children. 
 
 After Mr. Burckel left the business, Mr. Thomas took another partner, Edward 
 Minault, who was a member of the firm two years. After that he was alone in busi- 
 ness until his son was old enough to join the firm.. This son, John Thomas, died July 
 II, 1893, again leaving the senior partner sole proprietor. His shop was then at iio 
 E.xchange street. He took in Novemlier, 1897, as his last and surviving partner, Au- 
 gust E. Dick, whose sons now conduct the business. 
 
 The firm of Thomas & Company has done the finest interior wood-work such as 
 church altars and pews, in the churches of Worcester, and, in fact, all over New Eng- 
 land. The firm always prospered and never met with failure in business. 
 
 Mr. Thomas was a member of George H. Ward Post Grand Army; Athelstan 
 Lodge of Free Masons ; Encampment 83, Union Veterans ; and Stella Chapter, Order of 
 Eastern Star. 
 
 He married, December 11, 18(15, Luuisa D. Allen, daughter of Samuel Allen. She 
 was born September 4, 1839, and resided at the home, 66 Jacques avenue, whicli place 
 has since become the nurses' home for the City Hospital. Their children were : i. John 
 Carl, born January i, 1868; educated in Worcester; was his father's partner; died 
 July II, 1893. 2. Louise .'Vugusta, born October 3, 1870; married Charles Amos Black, 
 January 23. 1895; their three children are Arline Mildred, born August 15, 1897, now 
 deceased, Harold Everett, born October 27, 1899, and Bertha Louise, born July 27, 1913. 
 3. Bertha Allen, born September 9. 1872: educated in Worcester schools and promi- 
 nent in the Old South Church; died at Pine Bluflf. North Carolina, March 30, 1906; 
 buried in Worcester. 4. Talbot, died in infancy. 5. Susan Anna, born August 9, 1877, 
 died April 6, 1890. All the children born in Worcester with the exception of the oldest 
 who was liorn in Beverly. Massachusetts. 
 
 DICKRAN MUGERDICK KONJOYIAN, Dentist, was born in Harpoot, Ar- 
 menia. May 15, 1890, son of Mugerdick and Altoon (Terzian) Konjoyian. He attended 
 school in his native place, and was a student in the American Missionary College there 
 until he was seventeen years old, when he came to this country, landing in New York 
 City, where he remained for seven months, then coming to this city. He was a student 
 in the English High School one term. In various factories he was employed in Wor- 
 cester until 191 1, and in the meantime h-e attended the Classical High School. In 
 1912, after receiving special mention in physics, Latin and chemistry at the comple- 
 tion of his courses in the Classical High School, he was admitted to Harvard Dental 
 School, from which in due course he graduated in 1915 with the degree of Doctor of 
 Medical Dentistry. Since then he has been practicing dentistry in this city. His offi- 
 ces are at No. 44 Front street. 
 
 Dr. Konjoyian is active in public affairs. He was a Progressive and is now an 
 adherent of the Progressive wing of the Republican party. In 1916-1917 he was secre- 
 tary of the Armenian National Benevolent Association. Since 1917 he has been sec- 
 retary of the Armenian Congregational Church. He has been representative to the 
 Armenian National L'nion from the Church of the Martyrs of this city since 1917- He 
 has been president of the Y. P. S. C. E. of the Church of the Martyrs for two years. 
 He is a member of the Harvard Dental School Alumni Association, and of the Har- 
 riet Lowell Dental Research Society. 
 
 His father, Mugerdick Konjoyian, was born in Harpoot, and died there in 1901 at 
 the age of forty-eight years ; was a Liutcher by trade and had a market in Harpoot ; 
 married there Altoon Terzian, who was born in Harpoot, came to this country in 
 1914, and now lives in this city with her son. Dr. Konjoyian, No. 20 Edwards street. 
 They had seven children, four of whom reside in Worcester: Mrs. Egsa Zamanigian, 
 Mrs. Prapion Tufenkjian, Rose Konjoyian. and Dr. Konjoyian. Mrs. Konjoyian, by 
 a previous marriage, had Sarkis Sarafian, who has resided in this city since 1893. 
 
 JOHN BORG, Undertaker, was born in Sweden, September 29, 1873. He received 
 
 his education in the schools of his native place. At the age of twenty he came to the 
 L'nited States and made his home in this city, entering the employ of the Holyoke 
 
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 Machine Crmiiiany. wlu-rc lie vva^ rniployiil for tivi- wars as a iiiechaiiu-. Ir. iA,8 !ie 
 started in business un liis ciuii aecuunt in pannersiiip with Inlm '1. ICkni'in ji, i|,o 
 grocery and provision trade ni a store at No. 149 Hehimnt street. During th.- u>uv 
 years and a half that lie remained in this line of business, lie devoted bis evenini^s and 
 spare hours to study, attending evening schools and business eolleue. OccidiiiK upon 
 undertaking as his future business, he disposed of his interests in the grocery business, 
 and went to New York to attend the Massachusetts follege of Knibalniing. Having 
 completed the course of instruction there, he entered the employ of the Steiihen Mer- 
 ritt Coini)any of New \nrk. undertakers, to gain practical experience in llie business. 
 Afterward he was employed in another large undertaking concern in Boston. 
 
 His business as undertaker and cnibalmer was established October 10. ii;o,j. at 
 No. 21 Thomas street. His services were immediately in demand among the Swedish- 
 speaking people of the city. He foresaw the opportiinity for business when he began 
 to study the art of embalming, and he came to the business thorouglilv equii)ped by 
 study and iiractical experience. His business was extensive from the beginning, atul he 
 demonstrated his natural aptitude for the work. In personality and in character he 
 had the qualifications that must supplement training and experience in this business to 
 command success. The growth of his business from year to year finally caused him 
 to seek larger quarters and in 1915 he bought the brick buildmg, Nos. 13-17 Thomas 
 street, remodeling the ground floor for his business and equipiiing it in the finest man- 
 ner for his purposes. He was the pioneer Swedish undertaker in this section (.1 the 
 State, and retains his place as the foremost among the people of that race. 
 
 He was formerly a director of the Skandia L'liion Trust and is a member of the 
 credit commission of that organization. He is a member and trustee of the Second 
 Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church. He is also a member of .-Xthelstan Lodge. A. 
 F. and A. M. ; of Thule Lodge, L ( ). O. F. ; lohn Ericson Lodge. V. O. ; Carl Fifteenth 
 Lodge, S. F. of A.: \'iking Council. I. O M. B. ; Gustavas Adolphus Commandery ; 
 Gustavas Adolphus Lodge, Knights of Malta: the Engelbrckt Society: Massasoit Trilie, 
 Independent (Jrder of Red Men. In politics he is a Republican, and' he is u member of 
 the Worcester County Republican Club. 
 
 Mr. Borg married, June 7, 1905. Emma J. Berge. of Worcester. They have on? 
 child. Ruth Aleredith. liorn iqoti. Their home is at No. 150 W'riion street. 
 
 ALEXANDER BIGELOW. Woolen manufacturer, was born in Xatick. Mas. 
 sachusetts, December u, 1814, died January 22. 1S87. in this city, son of Colonel 
 Abraham and Louisa (Train) Bigelow. 
 
 He had a common school education, and went to work in a woolen mill at the age 
 of fifteen years. About 1850. in partnership with George Barber, he started in business 
 in this city in a mill on the site of the Whittall Carpet Mills at South Worcester. The 
 firm of Bigelow & Barber manufactured woolen goods. In 1853 the firm bought the 
 mill and water privilege at Hopeville on Middle river below the present power station, 
 building a new mill. Twice their mill was destroyed by fire and rebuilt. In 1870 Mr. 
 Barber withdrew from the firm and Mr. Bigelow became associated with F.dward D. 
 Thayer in a stock company which continued the business under the present name, the 
 Hopeville Manufacturing Company. Mr. Thayer was president: Mr. Bigelow, treas- 
 urer, and Edward Gould, the third director of the corporation, .\fter ten years Mr. 
 Bigelow bought the other interests in the company and remained the sole owner until 
 the time of his death. He started in life without capital, built up a large business, 
 acquired a very creditable competence, and won high rank among the manufacturers of 
 the city and county. He was prudent, thrifty, upright and industrious. He w;is a mem- 
 ber of the Church of the Unity. In politics he was a Republican 
 
 Mr. Bigelow married (first). April 5. 1845, .Adeline Stockwell. who died in ibis city, 
 December 24, 1879, daughter of Cyrus Stockwell. He married (second). Octcpber 18. 
 1881, Sarah M. Goodwin. Children by first wife: Elizabeth, born here. iiKirried Davicl 
 Manning, Jr.; George Alexander. ( See biography ) . 
 
 Mr. Bigelow was a descendant in the seventh generation from John Bigelow, whose 
 descendants have been very numerous and prominent in this town and city. (See 
 Early Settlers). The line of ancestry is: .Mexaiuler (7). .■\braham (6). William {3), 
 Lieutenant Josiah (4). Thomas (3), Samuel (2), John (1). The first \\\i: generations 
 lived in Watertown and the towns formerly part of that town. William Bigelow (5) 
 went to Natick in 1778; was a soldier in the Revolution, aiul the original of the char- 
 acter known as Deacon Badger in Mrs. Stowe's "Old Town Folks." Colonel .\braham 
 Bigelow (6) held a commission for many years in the State militia, and was com- 
 mander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. 1827-28. 
 
 GEORGE ALEXANDER BIGELOW, President and treasurer of the Hope- 
 ville Manufacturing Company, was born in this city, July to. 1853, and was educated 
 
68o HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 in the public schools here and Worcester High School, class of 1870. Beginning in 
 1871 he had a few years of experience in the banking business as clerk in the Central 
 National Bank. He engaged in the wool business in 1875 in partnership with George 
 W. Coombs, of Worcester, and Joseph Hyatt, of Delaware. Ohio, under the firm name 
 of Hyatt, Coombs & Company. Tlie firm's place of business was at No. 184 Front 
 street. Mr. Hyatt retired from the firm in 1879 and the name became Coombs & Big- 
 elow. In 18S3 the business was tnoved to Boston and the office was on Federal street. 
 Mr. Bigelow retired from the wool business, January i, 1887, and since that time has 
 been one of the principal owners of the Hopeville Manufacturing Company of this 
 city, serving since 1887 as president and treasurer of the corporation. Mr. Bigelow is 
 a director of the Hahnemann Hospital ; a member of the South Unitarian Memorial 
 Church, of which he was treasurer for ten years and member of the standing com- 
 mittee. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Commonwealth Club, 
 Worcester Country Club, Economic Club, Worcester Chamber of Commerce. Wor- 
 cester County Mechanics Association, and the Manufacturers Textile Association. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow married, at Norwich. Connecticut, October 10, 1877. Dora L. Tucker, 
 who was born at Norwich. September 21. 1854. daughter of James and Ellen (Wal- 
 bridge) Tucker. Her father was born in Griswold. Connecticut, February 29, 1828, 
 and died January 4, 1916; her mother was born in Bennington. Vermont. September 7, 
 1832, and died November 28, 1902. Mrs. Bigelow is a member of Colonel Timothy 
 Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the .\merican Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow have 
 four children, i. Adelaide W., born July 27. 1878; married, in 1905. Asa Merrick Parker; 
 children: Edward Harrison Parker, born February 4, loo); Ruth Bigelow Parker, 
 born June 6, 191 1. died March 12. 1912; Paul Remscn. born October 22, 1913; Fred- 
 erick Parker, twin of Paul R., died October 24. 1913. 2. Helen Louise, born August 5, 
 1880; married, in 1904, George D. Church; children: Helen Elizabeth Church, born 
 July 7. 1905, and Adelaide Bigelow Church, born February 27, 1907. died July 25, 
 1910. 3. Edward Alexander (see biography). 4. Dorothy Elizabeth, born September 
 10. 1891. 
 
 EDWARD ALEXANDER BIGELOW, Manager of the Hopeville Manufac- 
 turing Company, woolen manufacturer, was born in this city. May 5. 1885. son of 
 George Alexander and Dora L. (Tucker) Bigelow. He received his early education in 
 the public schools of this city, attended Worcester Academy, .-Vbbott School, Farm- 
 ington, Maine. After taking the course in the Lowell Textile School. Lowell. Massa- 
 chusetts, he became associated in business with his father in t!ie mills at Hopeville. 
 Since he has been manager of the Hopeville Manufacturing Company. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Commonwealth Club; Economic Club; Young Men's Christian Association; 
 Heatherly Golf Club, North Scituate. Massachusetts; Worcester Country Club, Textile 
 Manufacturers Association, Delta Kappa Phi. Lowell Textile Club, and director of 
 Associated Charities. His home is at No. 9 Otsego road in this city. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow married Mary .'\bbott Ball, of Kcene. New Hampshire. November 
 10, 1909. One daughter, Katharine Abbott, born in Worcester, December 8, 191 1. 
 
 CHARLES ELROY BURBANK, Principal of the North High School, is a 
 thorough student of English and .American literature and a man of scholarly pen 
 and speech. His is a personality of balance between the love of rigid mental e.xercise 
 and the keen enjoyment of outdoor sport. These characteristics make him indubitably 
 popular not only among the students of the North High School, Worcester, of which 
 he is principal, but among men of maturer years with whom he is thrown in contact 
 by his many affiliations with various organizations. 
 
 Charles Elroy Burbank was born March 6. 1866. in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, 
 the son of Daniel E. and Anna (White) Burbank. both natives of that place. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Fitzwilliam and later in the Belmont street grammar 
 school of Worcester. He then attended the Worcester Classical High School. The 
 year following his graduation from the latter institution he attended the L^nited States 
 Military Academy at West Point. He then entered Amherst College, from which he 
 received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1892. In 1897 he received the degree of 
 Master of Arts at Amherst College. Prior to this, however, he had spent some time 
 teaching school. From 1885 to 1888 he taught in the grammar schools at Leicester 
 and Rutland. Massachusetts. From 1892 to 1895 he taught in the Worcester English 
 High School. He then became principal of the Clinton Liberal Institute and Military 
 Academy at Fort Plain. New York, which position he held for two years. He then 
 taught in the Worcester Classical High School until 1911. when he was appointed 
 principal of the North High School, which position he now holds (1917). Outside of 
 the ordinary routine school work Mr. Burbank has edited and published study pamph- 
 lets of Milton's "Minor Poems" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Lie also edited Haw- 
 
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 thorne's "Mosses From an Old Manse." pockcl edition, for MacMillan Company, lie 
 gave the address at the dedication of the memorial tahlet to the memory nf' lonas 
 Rice, founder of Worcester. He was first captain of Wellington Riflfs and is now 
 captain of E Company, Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts State Guards, He is 
 president of the Worcester Congrcgationalists' Cluh, a member of the Worcester 
 Economic Club, the Worcester Schoolmasters' Club, the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' 
 Club, the .Amherst Alumni Association, the Worcester Societ^v of Antiquity; he is past 
 vice-president of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, deacon of the West 
 Boylston Congregational Church, and chairman of the public safety committee of 
 West Boylston. He is a tnember of the chapter at Amherst of the Chi Phi fraternity. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He owns the old Burbank farins in New Hampshire 
 and has devoted his spare hours during the last few years in bringing them back 
 to a profitable state of cultivation. He is an enthusiastic tennis jilaycr and keenly 
 enjoys sailing and motoring. 
 
 Mr. Burbank married. June 25. iSg6, .\lice Greene .\rnold. wlio was born in 
 Worcester, June 24, 1868. Their children are: Alice Lvdia, born March 2-1. t.Sv;, now 
 a senior at Wellesley College; and Harold Addison, born January 20, i8'j<j. now a 
 freshman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
 
 JOHN LEWIS ELLSWORTH, President of the Worcester County Farm 
 Bureau, vice-president and treasurer of the Park Trust Company, former president of 
 the Chamber of Commerce, and secretary of the State Board of Agriailture, was 
 born in Earre, November 8, 1848. son of Samuel and Harriet (Proctor) Ellsworth. 
 Both paternal and maternal ancesti;y of Mr. Ellsworth is of the original pioneer stock 
 of the New England colonies. His father was born in Brookline, followed farming 
 in Barre, and later in Worcester. His grandfather was John Ellsworth for whom he 
 was named. His maternal grandfather. Squire Joseph Proctor, was one of the fore- 
 most citizens of Athol. Massachusetts, a magistrate there for many years. 
 
 Mr. Ellsworth attended the district schools of bis native town and went through 
 the Barre High School. After the fainily came to Worcester he entered Worcester 
 Academy, where he completed his education. From early youth he worked on his 
 father's farm, and from early manhood he has made farming not only his occupation 
 but his avocation. He attacked the problems that beset the Worcester county farmers 
 with indomitable energy, adopting advanced methods and encouraging others by his 
 enthusiasm and confidence to become progressive. From the beginning he demon- 
 strated the value of modern methods, of utilizing the discoveries of science and ex- 
 periments in agriculture, and he made his farm profitable. He believed in organiza- 
 tions among farmers, and for more than forty years he has been active in promoting 
 organization and he has good reason to take pride and satisfaction in the progress 
 made and the results achieved. First of all J. Lewis Ellsworth is a farmer. His 
 success has brought to him many positions of trust and responsibility in later years; 
 lie has given useful service to the Commonwealth as well as the city : he has aided 
 the farmers of the State in every struggle for improved conditions both in legislation 
 and by means of co-operation and other methods. When he was a young man he was 
 one of the founders and most active inembers of one of the pioneer organizations of 
 farmers, known as the Chamberlain District Farmers' Club, and from 187,^ to i8<S3 
 was its president. That club became known throughout the State for its activity, its 
 entertainments to promote social life, its meetings for mutual help in business, its 
 success in getting results, for its influence became extensive. He joined the Worcester 
 Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, an organization in which he has since been prominent 
 and in whose value he has the greatest confidence. He was one of the charter mem- 
 bers of the above organization. 
 
 Naturally he became active in the Worcester County A.gricultural Society, and 
 ever since he became a member he has been one of its mainstays, always supporting 
 progress and believing in usefulness and importance of agricultural exhibitiims, help- 
 ing materially to bring that society in later years to a new era of popularity and 
 prosperity. He was its president during a very important period, when many changes 
 were made, from 1888 to i8g,?. He became widely acquainted with men of similar 
 faith in Massachusetts agriculture, and in the course of time it w;is natural th;it he 
 was called to a position of the highest honor in the State. From i8ij6 to 1913 he was 
 a member of the State Board of Agriculture and its secretary from 1903 to 1013. In 
 1913 he was appointed on the American Commission sent abroad to study agriculture. 
 A history of his activity during the ten years he served on the State Hoard would be 
 a summary of the work accomplished by the State in developing and assisting agri- 
 culture in the Commonwealth. In this office he became widely known and widely 
 respected for his earnest, indefatigable efforts to further the cause of the farmer and 
 perform his duties as a State officer. .Since he retired from the State Board his 
 
68-' HISTORY OF U'ORCESTRR 
 
 activity in local affairs has increased. He organized the Worcester County Farm 
 Bureau while president of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce^ and has been its 
 president since its organization in 1915. From the first this bureau proved practical 
 and useful, and since the realization of the necessity of providing for the food of the 
 world was placed upon this country early in 1917 this bureau has been the center 
 of great activity, providing land for those willirig to cuhivate it, taking charge of this 
 work throughout the country, giving information needed to the public, tremendously 
 expanding its scope of work in every direction. On every hand the opinion is ex- 
 pressed that the county was fortunate in having already well organized the machinery 
 for doing the work now entrusted to the Farm Bureau and in having as its executive 
 a man of Mr. Ellsworth's practical experience in market gardening and farming and 
 in administrative offices. The formation of this bureau was but one of many fields 
 of growth of the Chamber of Commerce while he was its president in TQ14 and 1915. 
 He gave to his office the most scrupulous attention and lost no opportunity to make 
 the Chamber of Commerce of service to its members and to the community. He has 
 been a director and active in this organization for many years. 
 
 In politics Mr. Ellsworth is a Republican. His first public office was that of 
 member of the Common Council in 1880 and he was re-elected, serving also in 1881- 
 82-83-84. During 18^5-86-87-88-89 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen, and 
 in the City Council he served faithfully on many important committees. In 1899-1900- 
 01, he represented his district in the State Le,gislature. He served on the committees 
 on agriculture. While he was serving as president of the Chamber of Commerce he 
 was elected a director of the Park Trust Company, which was organized at that time, 
 and since then has been its vice-president, his duties at the bank occupying a large 
 part of his time. Mr. Ellsworth is a member of Athelstan Lodge. Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons. He is a member of Central Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Ellsworth married, at Worcester, January 11, 1882, Emma L. Richmond, 
 daughter of Willard Richmond. They had one child, Caro, now the wife of Horace 
 Cristy, of Worcester. Mr. Ellsworth resides on the farm, No. 325 Salisbury street. 
 
 HERBERT ELBRIDGE CARLTON, President and treasurer of The Carlton 
 Engraving Company, was born at Newark, New Jersey, September 21, 1859, son of 
 Luther and Elizabeth (Gilmore) Carlton. His father was a native of Townsend, 
 Massachusetts, and was a stationary engineer by trade ; his mother was born in Fitz- 
 william. New Hampshire. Mr. Carlton had one brother. Louis E., who died in 1912, 
 president of Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Company and of the First National 
 Bank of Gardner, Massachusetts, and a director in the Safe Deposit & Trust Com- 
 pany, of Fitchburg. 
 
 Mr. Carlton received his early education in the public schools, graduating from the 
 Gardner High School in 1S76. He then attended the Slate Normal Art School in 
 Boston from which he graduated in 1879. Immediately after graduation he began 
 his business career in the employ of the Lithotype Publishing Company, of Gardner, 
 and had charge of the art work of this concern until 1886. From that time until 1890 
 he was at the head of the cane-cutting department of the Conant & Bush Chair Com- 
 pany of Gardner. Then he returned to the Art Printing Company as superintendent. 
 In 1893 fie resigned to engage in gelatine printing at Gardner, Massachusetts, under 
 the firm name of the H. E. Carlton Company. Many offices throughout the East are 
 adorned with splendid bird's-eye-view reproductions of factory plants, testifying to 
 Mr. Carlton's skill as a maker of gelatine plates. In 1902 the business was united with 
 a similar concern in Worcester known as the Woodbury Company under the name of 
 the Woodbury-Carlton Company. Subsequently the business was moved to this city. 
 In 1908 Mr. Carlton withdrew from the Woodbury-Carlton Company and the cor- 
 poration was dissolved. Mr. Carlton immediately organized a new company. The 
 Carlton Engraving Company, of which he is president and treasurer. His plant at 
 No. 418 Main street is splendidly equipped for producing all kinds of halftone en- 
 graving plates. The concern makes a specialty of commercial work ; that is, engrav- 
 ing to be used for the illustrations of catalogues, books, newspapers and advertising 
 folders. Many well-known posters in color arc the products of the Carlton Engraving 
 Company's workshop. The business has had a steady growth, and throughout New 
 England the halftone plates of the Carlton Engraving Company have won for them- 
 selves a well-deserved reputation for excellence. Mr. Carlton is a member of the 
 Worcester Council of the United Commercial Travelers, the Kiwanis Club, the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and Advertising Club. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Carlton married Isabelle Hassam, of Northfield, Vermont. Two 
 daughters, Louise Elizabeth and Blanche Margery, were born to them. 
 
 THOMAS FRANCIS FOLE'V, Major, former captain of Company G, One 
 Hundred and First Regiment, now in France, where he has received his promotion as 
 major, was born in this city, December 27, 1879, son of John and Mary (Carroll) 
 
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 Foley. Jolin Foley was born in Irt-land: came tn lliis city ulicii a vnimy man ami 
 for many years was in the teaming Imsiness. His wile was Imrii in Ireland: is n.>w 
 living in VVorcester. 
 
 Thomas 1". Foley attended the pnblic schools here and the eveninfi hii>h scIiomI. 
 He learned the trade of interior decorating and followed it until he was appointed to 
 the police force in July, lgo8. Since 1912 he has been assigned lo special duty in the 
 liquor squad for the enforcement of the liquor laws. Major l"oley enlisted in the 
 Emmet Guards soon after the compatty returned from the Spanish War; served as 
 corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant and first lieutenant. He w-as commissioned 
 captain. February 5. 1012. and conmianded the comi>any during the service on the 
 Mexican border in 1916, and is. now in command of the company in the service in 
 France. (See history of the Euunet (lUards an<l list of first sohliers in France). Tlie 
 Emmets were formerly in the Ninth Regiment. .Second Brigade. It is now Company 
 G. One Hundred and First Regiment, United States Infantry. His command did 
 valiant service and won high honors in the trenches held by the American .\rmy. The 
 following is an account of the military service of Major i-"oley. taUen fmm the "Tel- 
 egram," of January 23, 1919: 
 
 Major Thoma.s F. Foley. lOl.st Inf., formerly eaptfiin of 1; To., IDIsi Inf., tlie 
 Emmet grtiards, w;is- woundwl ami tfassed in action at Cli.itiMi 'I'hiiTry in .luly, and 
 besiiU" beins; nw m(1..i the distinguislied service eros.s fur i\ 1 r i.r.i 111,1 ly heroism was 
 honored on 1 1, 1 1 -r rii,i .lay by being invited to dine with I'li^i.i.nT .md Mrs. Wood- 
 row Wilson .It ' "Ii.i ii tiiont. l>eing the only Worcester soMi.r |.iiv,-nt as an invited 
 guest. aoeordiriK I" a It-tter received from Maj. Foley by Mrs, Foley yesterday. Maj. 
 Foley's letter clears up all reports regarding- his being wounded. He writes that the 
 wound in one of his arms, w-as slight,' but as it w-as not given immediate attention. 
 It required longer to heal when ttie injury was brought to the attention of the 
 doctors. 
 
 For repeated acts of e.xtraordinary heroism in .-letions, Maj. Foley was awarded 
 the distinguished service cro.ss. These actions w-ere .July 15 and .Inly 22. the first 
 when the German third offensive was started, and the second when the gi-eat .-Xmer- 
 ican drive was well on its way. He never has written of these exploits, but return- 
 ing members of the 2fith division have brought back the stories. 
 
 It was in one of these actions that he was str\iek by shrapnel. It is evident 
 from his letter, although he does not say so. that he went right on leading his com- 
 mand after being wounded. It is surmised that an infection set in. and that this 
 caused a long: stay in a hospital. Now that the w-ound is healed, Maj. Foley has 
 written his wife of the injury. 
 
 Only winners of the distinguished service cross and French war cross among the 
 officers of the 2fith division, w-ei-e guests at the Christmas dinner which President and 
 Mrs, Wilson attended to honor the 26th division, and Maj. Foley was tlie only Wor- 
 cester soldier who w-as invited. 
 
 In his letter he also tells of meeting Col. Etlw-ard L, Logan, deposeil commander 
 of the 101st Inf., and he states that Col. Logan w-ill regain his command. The letter 
 to Mrs. Foley, written Christmas night, foilows. in part: 
 
 "Attended mass at 9.30 Christmas morning, celelirated by one of our chai>Ialna. 
 Fr. Nittier. Just as mass -n'as finished the elerk notified me that I was invited 10 
 be present at the dinner of the 26th division, at which President Wilson was to be a 
 giiest. I had planned to eat dinner on Christmas day with the Emmets, and w-as 
 greatly disappointed that this should piev-ent. 
 
 "However, when I arrived at the dinner, I realized that I w-as the only person 
 present from Worcester, so felt pleased that someone from the Heart of the common- 
 wealth was a guest at such an occasion. 1 felt mighty proud. It is a fact, also that 
 I was the only old-timer from the regiment there, w-ith the exception of Fr, O'Con- 
 nor, who is now attached to division headiiuarters. The dinner was an informal 
 affair, w'ith no attempt at decorations, and all officers of the division w-ith the 1>. S. C. 
 or croix de guerre were invited. 
 
 "After dinner Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cole asked me to return n-ith him to his 
 headquarters, saying that Col. Logan w-as there, and he was anxious to see me. It 
 was a treat to see Col. Logan again: he w-as looking fine. We are all in hopes, and 
 he is very optimistic, of returning to the regiment soon, as he believes his case w-on. 
 and that he will soon return to duty. A great injustice has been done to him ami 
 others, and this can only be righted, in part, by returning him to his command. 
 
 ".\s long as you have heard of my being wounded, f might as well say that tliere 
 is no cause for worry whatever. Last July, in a hot scrimmage, a piece of shrapnel 
 nipped me in the arm. but not giving it proper attention ^t tlie time, it gave ibe 
 some trouble. However, they did a fine job at the hosi)ital and removed the shrapnel, 
 healed the w-ound in sucli fashion that hardl.v a scar will show- when I get home." 
 
 Maj. Foley is a member of .\lhambra Council. Knights of Columbus. In religion 
 he is a Catholic, a communicant of St. Peter's Church. His residence is at Xo. 84 
 Lovell street. 
 
 Major Foley married, in this city. Deceniber 27. I'lOi), Mary I-".. O'Donnell. daughter 
 of Michael and Mary (Burke) O'Donnell. Her father was iiorn in Mil ford. Massa- 
 chusetts; her mother in this city. Major an<l Mrs, Foley have three children: John 
 Joseph, born .August 10, 1911 ; Thomas F. Jr., born March 7. igi.5; :ind Kubert I-"nimet, 
 born March 7. 1915, all born in this city. 
 
 HAMILTON BROOKS WOOD, Secretary and assistant treasurer of The 
 Commonwealth I^ress, was born in Worcester. May 28, 18S9. son of Oliver Brooks and 
 Jennie Chase (FlaggJ Wood. 
 
68-!. HISTORY OF IVORCIlSinR 
 
 Hamilton B. Wood attended the public schools of his native city and graduated 
 from the South High School in 1906. He entered Williams College, from which he 
 was graduated in the class of 1910 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In high 
 school and college he was prominent in athletics and music. F'or two years he played 
 center in the college football team and for three years was on the college track team. 
 He was leader of the College Glee Club in igog-io; member of the Mandolin Club, 
 the Banjo Club, the college orchestra, and was the author of several college songs. 
 He has continued from time to time to compose and publish music since graduation. 
 He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity and the Gargoyle Society. He was one 
 of tlie editors of the "Williams College Song Book." He was marshal of his class 
 at Commencement, and is its permanent secretary. 
 
 In lOoO he became associated with his father in the printing business, and since 
 1912 has been secretary. .A large share of the management has been gi\en over to him 
 in recent years. He has been active in musical organizations. From the fall of 1914 
 to the spring of 1916 he sang in the choir of the Westborough Congregational Church. 
 He is a member of the Worcester County Musical Association, director of the Pub- 
 licity Association, clerk of the Quinsigamond Boat Club; member of the Worcester 
 Economic Club, the Worcester Country Club, the Worcester Fish and Game Club, the 
 Worcester Commercial Travelers Association, and the Worcester County Horticul- 
 tural Society. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Wood married, November 26, 1912, Helen Osgood Bradley, who was born in 
 Worcester, June 16, 1888, daughter of John Erving and Emma M. (Uingley) Brad- 
 ley. She graduated with first honors from the Worcester High School in 1906, and 
 from Smith College in the class of 1910. She was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Society, 
 and was president of the College Settlement one year. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have a 
 daughter, Elizabeth, born January 18, 1915. They reside at No. 67 Lancaster street, 
 Worcester. 
 
 OLIVER BROOKS WOOD, President and trea^^urer of The Commonwealth 
 Press, was burn in .Ashburnham, February 7, 1857, son of Eliphalet S, and Susan H. 
 (Farrar) Wood. His father was also a native of Ashburnham, where he lived until 
 1866, when he became express agent at Winchendon, a position he held until i8?6. He 
 was appointed deputy sheriff in 1870 and held that office many years, was constable 
 and overseer of the poor. George Farrar Wood, a brother of Oliver B.. is a prom- 
 inent merchant in Winchendon, and Ernest Freeman Wood, another brother, suc- 
 ceeded his father as express agent and deputy sheriff. Isaac Wood, grandfather of 
 Eliphalet S. Wood, was a soldier in the Revolution, selectman of Rindge, New Hamp- 
 shire. He was a son of Michael Wood, who was born in Concord, and settled in 
 Lunenburg, the fourth in line from the pioneer of the family in this country, William 
 Wood, who settled in Concord, author of "New England Prospects," one of the first 
 books written in America. 
 
 Oliver B. Wood attended the public schools of Winchendon. At the age of twelve 
 years he began his career as apprentice in a printing office, and with the cxceptirn of 
 five terms in school he has been constantly engaged since then in the printing business. 
 When a young man he became foreman of the' newspaper and job printing ofiice of 
 tlie "Franklin County Times" at Greenfield. He worked afterward in printing offices 
 in Fitchburg and Chicago. In 1878 he returned from the West and took charge of 
 the job printing establishment of Edward R. Fiske, then one of the largest in the city. 
 In 1880 he became foreman of the printing department of Sanford & Company, sta- 
 tioners and printers of Worcester. Two years later he bought a half interest in the 
 business, which was conducted afterward under the finn name of Sanford & Wood, 
 and shortly afterward he became sole proprietor. 
 
 In 1894, having outgrown the quarters on Maple street, Mr. Wood removed his 
 plant to Foster street and again in 1913 to the Graphic .Arts building, No. 25 Foster 
 street, where his business occupied the w^hole fifth and sixth floors. His imprint. The 
 Commonwealth Press, is widely known. At the time of moving to the present location, 
 Mr. Wood purchased the plant and business of F. S. B'anchard & Company. In 191 1 
 the business was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts under the name of 
 The Commonwealth Press, of which Mr. Wood is president and treasurer, E. H. 
 Marsh, vice-president, and Hamilton B. Wood, secretary and assistant treasurer. The 
 company has a large business in law, catalogue, book, and mercantile printing. A 
 branch office is maintained in Boston at No. 44 Bromficid street. Mr. Wood is a 
 director of the Merchants National Bank. He is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Free 
 Masons; also has received the thirty-second degree. He was formerly president of 
 the Worcester Typothetae, an association of master printers. In politics he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 Mr. Wood married, October 19, 1882, Jennie Chase Flagg, born March 23. 18,7, 
 daughter of Samuel Curtis and Elizabeth Wood (Merriam) Flagg, of Grafton. Her 
 
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 great-graiulfather. Colonel Benjamin Flagg-, was in command of a comi)any of miniile- 
 men that marched on the Lexington Alarm. (See earlv families in this work). .Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wood have had fonr children: Olive Marguerite; Roger Hamilton, de- 
 ceased: Hamilton Brooks (see biography) and Gladvs Tfancttc. Mr Wood's h..me 
 is at No. 36 Richards street. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY HEYWOOD, Was a descendant of John Hevwn,„l. who 
 was probably Imrn in Lond.iii, Kngland, about 1620. Later he settled in Concord, 
 Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman in 1670. He married (lirst) .Angnst 17, 
 1656, Rebecca Atkinson, daughter of Thomas .Xtkinson. She was probablv not his 
 first wife unless his age is estimated wrongly. She died in 1665. He married' (second) 
 
 August 5, 1665, Sarah Simonds. He married (tliird) Priscilla , who survived 
 
 him. The children of John and Rebecca (.Atkinson) Heywood, born in Concord, 
 were: Rebecca, died young; Rebecca; John, Jr. (see bingraiihy) ; Persis: Benoni! 
 died young. The children of John and Sarah (Simonds) Heywood: Sarah, Judith^ 
 Mary, Abigail, William, Huldah, James, Joseph and Benjamin. 
 
 Deacon John Heywood, third child of John Heywood, w;is born in Concord, 
 Massachusetts, .April 3, 1662. where he also settled and lived, and where, [anuary 2, 
 1718, he died. In 1676 he was a constable. He was keeper of an ordinary' at Concord 
 
 in his later years. He married Sarah . Their children were: Sarah, Thomas, 
 
 Samuel, Edmund, Josiah, Daniel, Eleazer, Nathan, Sarah, John, Mary, Phin'chas (see 
 biography), and Benjamin. 
 
 Phinehas Heywood, son of Deacon John Heywood. and brcither nf Major 
 Daniel Heywood of Worcester, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, Tnly iS, 
 1707, and died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, March 26, 1776. He married Elizabeth 
 Moore, daughter of Nathaniel and Grace (Rice) Moore. (Jonas Rice, of Sudbury, 
 brother of Grace Rice, was the lirst settler of the town of Worcester). Elizabeth 
 Moore was born June 23, 171 1, and died in Shrewsbury, June 2, 17()7. 
 
 Phinehas Heywood settled in Shrewslniry in 1730, "being selectman of the town, 
 representative of the General Court, delegate to the Provincial Congress; Committee 
 of Safety and Correspondence, 1774 and 1775. On May 2, 1774. Phinehas Heywood. 
 Isaac Temple, etc., were chosen a committee to examine Rev. Ebenezer Morse and 
 others suspected of Toryism. Phinehas Heywood's estate with its spacious residence 
 and ample barns _ was a noted one along the great road from Worcester to the west- 
 ern part of the State. It was over this highway that the captive Burgoyne passed in 
 going from Sar.atoga to Cambrid.ue after his surrender. It is an historical fact that 
 in making his journey Burgoyne and his officers were frequentlv permitted to be 
 entertained by prominent residents along the route. .At Rutland the soldiers of the 
 conquered army vyere left in permanent quarters while the officers continued the 
 journey to Cambridge. On their arrival at tlie Phinehas Heywood place the officers 
 and .gtiards tarried foi^ several days and this circumstance has always been remem- 
 bered in connection with the estate. One of the legends of the place is that Bur- 
 goyne and several of his officers planted some chestnuts near the house from wdiich 
 grew seven trees that attained great magnitude. This tradition cannot he true for 
 the trees were giants and centuries old at the time of Burgoyne's entertaimnent. The 
 seven trees were irregular as regards their locality, I)Ut all were in the innnediate 
 vicinity of the residence. 
 
 The children of Phinehas and Elizabeth (Mnore) Heywood were: r. Klizabeth, 
 born September 14, 1732. married John Curtis, of Worcester; died May 16, 1777. j. 
 Mary, born December 10, 1733. married Samuel Jennison. of Worcester; died Septem- 
 ber 8, 1820. 3. Deborah, born .April 11, 1736, m.arricd David Bigelow, of Worcester; 
 died May 23, 1822. 4. Seth, born December ^. 1737; married" Martha Temple, of 
 Shrewsbury; died August 2-1, 1826. 5. Timothy, born February 12, 1740; married 
 Patience Stebbins, of Shrewsbury: died .August 11, 1825. 6. Kezia, born .April 30, 
 1742; married (first) Bezaleel Howe, of Xorthhoro. Massachusetts; second. Lieu- 
 tenant Jonas Temple, of Boylston, Massachusetts; died .August 22. 1788. 7. Phinehas, 
 born July 29, 1744; married Kezia Snow, of Westboro; died .April 29, 1821. 8. Ben- 
 jamin, born October 25, 1746; married Mehiiable Goddard, of Sutton, Massachusetts; 
 died December 6. 181C). g. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 10. John, born May 5, 1751 ; 
 died October 19, 1756. it. Levi, born May 12, 1753; died April 4, 1774. 
 
 Nathaniel Heywood, son of Phinehas Heywood, was born in Shrewsbury, Massa- 
 chusetts, November 5, 1748, and died November 18, 1834. Lieutenant Nathaniel Hey- 
 wood was corporal in Captain Timothy Bigelow's company. Colonel .Artemas Ward's 
 regiment, .April 19, 1775, at Lexington, and also in Captain Jonas Hubbard's company. 
 Colonel Ward's regiment, in 1775. He was lieutenant under Captain William C.ates 
 in 1777, and served in New York in Jonathan Hohnan's regiment. He m.irried (first) 
 -April 23. 1777, Hannah Heywood. of Worcester, daughter of .Abel and llanii.ih ('".od- 
 
686 HISTORY OF JVORCESTER 
 
 dard) Heywood. She was born December 12, 1756, and died in Shrewsbury, March 
 25. 1702. He married (second), July I, 1793, Mary Chamberlain, of Worcester, 
 daughter of Jacob and Lydia Chamberlain. She was born July 13, 1763, and died 
 November 21. 1802. The children of Lieutenant Nathaniel and Hannah (Heywood) 
 Heywood were: i. Levi, born September 21, 1778; married Hannah R. Leland, of 
 Grafton; died September 17, 1804. 2. Nathaniel, born February 6, 1780; died, unmar- 
 ried, October 4, 1836. 3. Benjamin, born March 20, 1782; married Hannah R. (Le- 
 land ) Heywood, widow of his brother Levi ; died January -18, 1855. 4. John, born 
 August 24, 1784; died, unmarried, August 16, 1833. 5. Phinehas. born May 4, 1788; 
 married (first) Alice Pratt, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; (second), Dolly Wil- 
 liams, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts; died April 30, 1863. 6. David, born November 
 17, 1790; died December 20, 1802. The children of Lieutenant Nathaniel and Mary 
 (Chamberlain) Heywood were: 7. Hannah, born February 9. 1794; died, unmarried, 
 October 28. 1873. 8. Daniel, mentioned below. 9. Marietta, born March 9, 1802; mar- 
 ried Elijah Stowe, of Grafton, Massachusetts; died June 28, 1853. 
 
 Daniel Heywood, son of Nathaniel Heywood, was born in Shrewsbury, Massachu- 
 setts. Marcli 9, 1796, and died February 16, 1875. He married, October 21, 1824, Maria 
 Brooks, of Princeton, Massachusetts, daughter of John and Rachel (Savage) Brooks. 
 She was born October 19, 1802. and died in Shrewsbury. F'ebruary 5, 1866. Their 
 children, born in Shrewsbury, were: i. John Brooks, born August 8, 1825; married 
 Mary R. Andrews, of Boylston, Massachusetts. 2. George Chamberlain, born June 18, 
 1827; died November 12, 1829. 3. Charles Leland, mentioned below. 4. George Cham- 
 berlain, born June 17, 1832; died November 9, 1850. 5. Edwin Chapin, born Septem- 
 ber 27, 1836; married Louisa A. Chadwick, of Natick, Massachusetts; died December 
 12, 1905. 6. Henry .\dams, born July 23, 1842; died, unmarried, April to, 1888. 
 
 Charles Leland Heywood, son of Daniel Heywood, was born in Shrewsbury, 
 Massachusetts, October 2J, 1828, and died in 1906. He married, February 14, 1855, 
 Mary Ellen Stone, of Errol, New Hampshire. She was born in Wentworth, New 
 Hampshire, May 15, 1831, and died in Errol, October 10, 1887. Their children were: 
 I. George Herbert, born November 15, 1855. 2. Levi Stone, born September 13, i860. 
 3. Charles Henry, mentioned below. 4. Clara Arvilla, born October 8, 1863. 5. Mary 
 Ellen, born September 8, 1865. 6. Daniel Ellworth, born May 3, 1869; died, unmar- 
 ried, July 4. lou. 7. Maria Estella, born January 31, 1871; died, unmarried, January, 
 21, iSgo. 
 
 Charles Henry Heywood, son of Charles Leland Heywood, was born in Errol, 
 New Hampshire, February 21, 1862. When an infant he was taken to Shrewsbury 
 by his grandfather, Daniel Heywood. LTpon his grandfather's death lie came to Wor- 
 cester, and two years later became shipping clerk at the Whitcomb Envek'pe Com- 
 pany. David Whitcomb soon discovered his mechanical ability and aided him to 
 oI)tain a knowledge of the different departments. When the Logan & Lowe Envelope 
 Company was organized in 1882 he was employed to liave charge of the machinery, 
 but when the company dissolved he returned to the Whitcomb Envelope Company. A 
 few years later Frederick Kellog, of the P. P. Kellog Envelope Company, induced him 
 to go to Springlield. Massachusetts, where, as superintendent, he redesigned and altered 
 its machines. In 1890 the National Envelope Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was 
 organized by Nathan D. Bill, George D. Dutton and Charles H. Heywood. The fol- 
 lowing year Mr. Heywood went to Hartford where he designed and built his first 
 envelope machine of the type now in use by this company. Here he made the neces- 
 sary machinery for the new company which started operations in Milwaukee, May 8, 
 1893, proving such a success that five years later it was absorbed by the United States 
 Envelope Company as one of the ten largest plants in the country. Later Mr. Hey- 
 wood invented a card machine and organized the Leader Card Works, which was 
 incorporated for the manufacture of die and hand-cut cards, Mr. Heywood being 
 president and manager. He invented another envelope machine, and in connection 
 with the card business manufactured envelopes until this interest was bought by the 
 United States Envelope Company in 1904. At this time the Leader Card Works was 
 moved to Waukegan, Illinois. In 1910 Jslr. Heywood withdrew and the company was 
 reorganized. In 1904 the National Envelope Company was moved to Waukegan, 
 where Mr. Heywood installed the plant, and later, when the enterprise was well under 
 way, devoted his time to the invention of special machines. His home was in Lake 
 Forest, Illinois. Owing to failing health Mr. Heywood retired from business in 1912, 
 and died in Worcester, June 11, 191 3. 
 
 Mr. Heywood married, November 22, 1886. Cora Maria, only child of Amos Mad- 
 ison Eaton (see biography), of Worcester, Massachusetts. The children of Charles 
 H. and Cora M. (Eaton) Heywood are: Muriel Clio, Vincent Eaton and Charles 
 Errol. 
 
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 JOHN EATON, Emigrant .inccstor of Amos Madison Eaton, of Worcester, 
 was t!ic snii of Xicholas and Katlicrinc (Marston) Katon, and was baptized in 1-'.m«- 
 land, August -'i, idii. Kioliolas Eaton was a curate and church warden. John l''.,-itoii 
 received a liequest of ten pounds from his stepmother's will dated April lo, [(\^$. 
 
 John Eaton is believed to have come with others of the family on the ship "b'li/.a- 
 beth and Ann" in April, 16.35. He settled first in Watertown, Alassachusctts, where 
 he was a proprietor, and where May 2$, 1636, he was admitted a freeman. He removed 
 to Dedbam a year later .and was a proprietor there in 1637. He had .({rants 01 land at 
 Watertown, July, 1(1.3(1, and l'"ebruary 28, i(i3()-37-38. He .ioined the Dedhani church 
 in 1(141 and signed the famous Covenant there. He bought the rights of Thomas 
 Hastings when he went to Dedbam. May 11, 1637. He was first present at the l)e<lham 
 town meeting, November >H, 1(137, although he was one of a committee in 1(137 to cut 
 pines for the meeting house. He helped build the first foot-bridge across the Charles 
 River. He was on a committee to lay out land for settlers and survey highways. He 
 was wood reeve for several years; had the delicate task in 1647 of deciding who were 
 behind on the highway work; in 1650 be was on the committee to repair the foot- 
 bridge. He had numerous grants of land. He married, in England, .Abigail Damon, 
 or Dammant, who had two children, John and Jane, by her previous marriage. He 
 died Novendier 17. i(),;8. His will was made Xovember 2, 1658, and proved December 
 
 16, 1658. The cliildrcn of John and .Abigail Eaton were: i. Mary, baptized in Dover, 
 England, March 20, 1(130-31 ; married. May 5, 1651, John Mason. 2 John, baptized in 
 Dover, England, October i, 1633, liuried there January 27. 1734. 3. Thom.is, born in 
 England, 1634, died in Dedhain. September 10, ihjg. 4. John (sec biograiihyl. .:;. 
 Abigail, born in Dedhani, Janiiary (1. 1(140. marrictl Robert Mason, of Medlield. (>. 
 Jacob, born in Dedbam, June 8, 1(142, died March 2(5. 1646. 
 
 John I^aton. fourth child of John h'.aton, was born probably in 103(1, in Watertown, 
 Massachusetts. He inherited the homestead at Dedbam. His wife .Mice died May 8, 
 1694. Children: John, born July 1,5, i6b^, died October i.:;. 1(1(15: John. September 
 
 17, 1671 ; Thomas. July 23. 1675; William, .August 11. 1677; Juclith, Se]itember 17, 
 167Q. died April 2(1. 1780; Jonathan (see biographv); David. March 8. 1(183. died 
 March 2>^. 1683; Ebenezer, May 3, 1(187, died May 23. i(j88 
 
 Jonathan Eaton, son of John h'aton, was born in Dedbam. -\la>s,'icliusetts. Sep- 
 tember 3. 1681. He went to Connecticut in 1703. and bought lanil in Woodstock in 
 the jiart now Putnam. Connecticut. In 1702 he paid ta.xes in Dedham. in 1704 in 
 Woodstock; in 1705 he paid in Dedbam only, being "eased from all rates" in \\'ood- 
 stock by special vote of tlie town. He attended church at Woodstock until the estab- 
 lishment of a church at Killingly. January 28. 1730. of wdiich be was chosen- the first 
 deacon. This churcli is now the North Society of Thompson. Connecticut. He mar- 
 ried the second dangliter of Comfort and Mary Starr, of I3edham. Comfort Starr was 
 the son of John Starr and the grandson of Dr. Comfort Starr, of r)edham. Massa- 
 chusetts. .Abiah (Starr) Eaton was born I'Vbruary 8, 1687-88. .Mthough her name 
 was Abiah she was baptized Lydia, June 17, 168S. Her sister, Mary Starr, married 
 her husband's brother, William Eaton. L^eaeon Jonathan Eaton died June 25, 1748, 
 aged si.xty-seven years. His gravestone is at Putnam, Connecticut. His wife died 
 March 4, 1751. Children, all recorded at Woodstock: Lydia, born November 5. 1707, 
 married Philemon Cliandler; Keziah, May 24. 1710; .Alice. November jS, 1712; Susan- 
 nah. April 8, 1715; Jerusha, .'\pril 16, 1717; Hannah, .August 17, !7ig: Jonatb,-ui, Nov- 
 ember 10, 1721; John, May 18, 1724, settled at Adams, Massachusetts; Penelope, 
 March 21, 1727; Comfort, September 25, 1729; Marston (see biography). 
 
 Marston Eaton, youngest child of Jonathan Eaton, was born in Killingly, Con- 
 necticut, in the section now Thompson. He removed to Belchertown, Massachusetts, 
 in 1776, and shortly after his arrival there he died, May 3, 1776. He and his brother 
 Comfort operated a mill on the Quiunebaug river on land given them by their father. 
 He married Elizabeth Lyon, of Woodstock, January 7, 17(12. Children: C'lmfort. and 
 Marst<in ( see biography ) . . . 
 
 Marston Eaton, second child of .Marston b'atnn, was born at Killingly, Connecticut, 
 April 13, 1767. When a young boy be moved with his parents, in 177(1, to Belchertown. 
 Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools. He also lived and went to school 
 in the adjoining town of Pelham, Massachusetts. In 1804 he moved to .Amherst, 
 Massachusetts, and established a store there, removing to Pelham in 1806. He was 
 prosperous and had what was for his day and location a fortune The loss of $10,000 
 of convention money embarrassed him, and be finally retired to his farm, where he 
 spent the later years of his life. His farm in Pelham, where, October 10. 1845, he was 
 accidentally killed by a tree which he cut and which fell upon him. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Universalist church. He was a Whig in politics and influential in town 
 affairs. He was collector of taxes in Pelham for many years and held other 
 town offices. He was a Free Mason .At the time of Shay's Rebellion he and other 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 citizens in that vicinity started for Worcester to join the ranks of the malcontents, but 
 he failed to carry out his purpose and went to Connecticut until the trouble was at 
 an end. He married Charlotte Dutton, of Ludlow, Massachusetts. December 22, 1793. 
 Children: Rufus, born in Belchertown, Massachusetts. May i, 1794, married Fannie 
 Holden; Mary, born in Belchertown, December 29, 1796, married David Abercrombie, 
 of Pelham, and had seven children; De Marcus, September 10, 1798, married Ora 
 Austin, of Canterbury, Connecticut; Lily. June 29, 1800, married Asa Briggs, of North 
 Adams, Massachusetts, and had eight children; Walter, July 24, :8o2, married Jerusha 
 Austin, of Canterbury, Connecticut; Jefferson, June 26, 1804; Marston (see biog- 
 raphy) ; Hannah. September 25, 1808. died at the age of three; Madison, August 23, 
 181 1, died October ly. 1836, married Orinda Hall, of Shutesbury, Massachusetts; Cal- 
 vin button, October 20, 1814, married Harriet Dudley, of Dudley, Massachusetts, and 
 had five children; Monroe. July 24, 1817, married Clarissa Boyden and had three 
 children. 
 
 Marston Eaton, seventh child of Marston Eaton, was born in_ Pelham, Massa- 
 chusetts, May 26, 180O. He received his early education in the district schools of his 
 native town, but he was a self-educated man in the proper sense of the word. He was 
 a life-long student. He began to teach school when he was about nineteen years old, 
 working at home on his father's farm during the summer seasons. For about fifteen 
 years he was a school teacher in Pelham, Amherst and vicinity. During this time he 
 worked two summers for his brother De Marcus, in Canterbury, Connecticut, in his 
 axe factory. He then returned to his home and resumed teaching and farming for 
 two or three years. In 1847 he came to Worcester with his family and settled near 
 Millstone Hill. Later he bought a farm in Holden and lived there for six or seven 
 years, during which time he had charge of the quarries at Millstone Hill. He finally 
 exchanged his Holde'n property for a farm at the corner of Belmont and Elizabeth 
 streets, as the location is now known. He built two dwelling houses there, and lived 
 there and in other parts of the city. In 1869 he retired from active business and 
 went to Shrewsbury, where he bought another farm, on which he spent the remainder 
 of his days, and where he died January 3, 1873. He was a member of the Baptist 
 cliurch. He was a Republican in politics. He served in the militia in his younger 
 days and was drummer of the Pelham Company, being very expert with the drum- 
 sticks. He married (first). May 23, 182Q, in Millbury, Massachusetts, Betsey, daughter 
 of Sylvanus and Alice (Sprague) Joslyn, of Douglas, Massachusetts. Sylvanus Jos- 
 lyn was a fanner. He was drowned in a pond on his own farm. Marston Eaton 
 ■married (second) Sarah Whitney, of Boylston, Massachusetts. He married (third), 
 Abigail Winter, of West Boylston: He married (fourth) Angeline L. Bond, of Wor- 
 cester. Children of first marriage: i. Rufus Joslyn, born in Pelham, Massachusetts, 
 1831, married Julia Sampson, of Brookfield, Massachusetts, who died February, 1905; 
 they had four children. 2. Amos Madison (see biography). 3. Marston Monroe, born 
 in Worcester, June 14, 1836; married (first), Emily Thayer, of Barre, Massachusetts; 
 they had two-children; married (second). Marietta Knowlton, of Spriiigville, New 
 York; they had two children. 4. Calvin Jefferson, born in Worcester, June 3, 1839, 
 killed at battle of Gettysburg, July 4, 1863; he was in Company B, Fifteenth Massa- 
 chusetts Infantry. 5. Elizabeth Dimmis. born in Worcester, April 14, 1841, died in 
 1873, married Augustus D. A. Guild, of Worcester, who was killed in the battle of 
 Spottsylvania ; married Thanksgiving Day, 1858, and had one child. 6. Mary Harriet, 
 born in Holden, Massachusetts, March 7, 1847, lives at No. 24 Maywood street, Wor- 
 cester, unmarried. 7. Orinda, born in Holden, Massachusetts, April 6, 1849, married 
 Benjamin T. j\larsh, of Worcester. Children of fourth marriage: 8. Walter Fayette, 
 died young. 9. Lily Luthera, married Edward A. Bartlett. of Shrewsbury, Massachu- 
 setts ; they had five children. 10. Annie Eliza, married Charles A. Bacon, of Worcester, 
 and they had five children. II. Carrie Belle, married William T. Pratt, of Shrews- 
 bury, Massachusetts. 12. Annie Frances, married Fred C. Pratt, of Shrewsbury, and 
 had one child. Annie Frances Pratt died December 25, looi. 
 
 Amos Madison Eaton, second son of Marston Eaton, was bom in Pelham, Massa- 
 chusetts, October 21, 1833. At the age of ten or twelve years he came to Worcester 
 • with his father's family,. who soon afterward went to Holden, where he attended the 
 district schools. After receiving a common school education he attended the Clare- 
 mont (New Hampshire) Academy. His first employment was driving a baker's cart 
 for George T. King, of Orange street, Worcester. Then, after a year or two in the 
 bakery business, he went into partnership with Oran A. Kelley, on School street, in 
 the retail grocery business. After two years he bought out his partner, and for 
 twenty-five years he carried on the business there, at No. 19 School street. After re- 
 tiring from the grocery business he carried on a real estate business for about thirteen 
 years, and cared for his own real estate interests. He was also in the sand business 
 
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 for a few yi-ars, and died while enKase<l in that hne of husinrss. |uly 4. i!<^i5, at his 
 home in Worcester. No. 807 Main street. Mr. Matnn hail a kindly social disposiiir,!! 
 that won him many friends. He was a man of upri.sjhtness and inle;^rity. He won 
 the esteem of his friends hy his frankness, honesty .md Kood nature-. He was a 
 niemher of the Unitarian church. In politics he was a Reiiublican, lie niarned I'liza 
 Maria Kelley, daughter of Oran A. Kelley, of Worcester (see Kelley faTuily). The 
 only child of .\mos Madison and l^liza Maria (Kelley) ICaton was Cor.i Maria, who 
 married Charles H. Heywood, of Worcester, Novemlier jj. 1KS6 1 see Heywood). 
 
 ROBERT KELLEY, PrORcnitor of Oran .Mian Kelley. in Worcester county, 
 was probably a descendant of the Kelley family of iloston. which was amcing tlie 
 earliest in that town. Edward Kelley came to liostoti on the "Hopewell" in .\pril, 
 1635, and settled in Boston. He had a son Edward, born Xoveinbei 4. 1604. He was! 
 very likely, a relative of David Kelley. also of Boston. Elizabelh was the name of 
 the wives cf both. There was a Robert Kelley ( Calley I in Charlestown about the 
 same time, who left descendants, and who for several .generations used this spelling, 
 which was eonnnon in the Worcester comity family also down to recent times. 
 
 David Kelley settled first on Hog Island in Boston Harbor, but bought a place in 
 town. May 13, 1656. He died in 1(162. His widow married Robert ,'^mitli. seaman, of 
 Boston. The children of David Kelley were: David, born December iK. 1(147; Wil- 
 liam, horn 1(153. died young; Samuel, born (October (), 1(157, died young; .Samuel, bom 
 November .^o, 1(161. Five children were living in i66_>. Henry Kelley and wife I'.liza 
 had three children, in Boston: Henry, born May 13, 1701): Elizabeth, born March 18, 
 1711-12; Robert, born .\pril 26, 1714. Robert Kelley. of Boston, trader (probably this 
 Robert), bought land east of Lake Quinsi.ganiond in and near Worcester, November 
 2, 1734, of Wigglesworth Swectzcr, and sold it, August 25, 1738, to James Moore, of 
 Grafton, for five hundred pounds. It was Richard Moore. Jr., who sold 'o Robert 
 ^^oore of Charlton, the three hundred acre homestead in Ch;irlton. where he liveil and 
 died. 
 
 Robert Kelley. of Charlton, was the great-gr:indf:ither of Oran .\, Kelley. of 
 Worcester. He bought the farm. Novemlier 27, 17(14, but seems to have lived in 
 Charlton before purchasing this place. He had relatives there, as Richard Kelley was 
 witness of some of his papers, .and David Kelley. of Upton, the adjoining town. There 
 were Kellcys in Hopkinton, early: Hopkinton adjoins Upton. 
 
 .\lthongh it is difficult and perhaps impossible to trace the line from Robert 
 Kelley to the emigrant, there is no 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 Middlese.x county from 1730 to 17^10, when the movement of 
 population from the old colonial towns was going on activtly. 
 
 Robert Kelley was a leading citizen of Charlton. \\'hen the Revolution broke 
 out he was lieutenant of the militia company of which Benjamin Richardson was cap- 
 tain. They were drafted from General Jonathan Warner's brigade to serve in the 
 siege 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 regiment, September 26, 
 1777. to reinforce the Continental army under General Gales, in the northern depart- 
 ment. He served during the greater part of the war. He married (first') Ruth Whcel- 
 ock (intentions declared September 22), 1756. He married (second) Lydia Marrs, 
 of Western (Warren), Massachusetts (intentions dated September 5), 1770. The 
 children of Robert and Ruth (Wheelock) Kelley: .Abigail, born 1757; Chapin born 
 1759, married Sally Thompson, 1703 (intentions dated StDtembcr 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 --\sa Newell, October 24, I7<K>; Mary, born 1772. married Thomas 
 Town, April 27, 1794; Lydia, born 1774, married Isaac Patrick, of Western; Robert, 
 born 1776; Henry, born in 1778; William, born in 1780; .^bner Kelley (see biography) 
 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, was a witness of the will and, to jud.ge from the handwriting, was a very 
 aged man. 'The guardian for the younger children was appointed at the same time. 
 Tlie records of the family were obtained from the probate records, the town records 
 not giving birth, though it seems probable that the children were all born in Charlton^ 
 certainly all but one or two of the older ones. 
 
 A'bner Kelley, son of Robert Kelley, 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 Warren. In 1805 
 
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690 HISrORV OF WORCESTER 
 
 he and other heirs of Robert Kelley made a quitclaim deed of land of his father, in 
 Sturbridge. Abner Kelley was a carpenter by trade. The first name of his wife was 
 Eliza. Their children were: Eliza, borr. at Warren, 1806, died 1832; Lydia Ann, bom 
 September 18, l8og, married Charles Parkes, of Stowe. Massachusetts; Oran Allan, 
 born at Warren, September I, 1812; Abner, Jr., born 1814, married Susan M. Whitte- 
 more, of Leicester, May 31, 1839; she was the daughter of Amasa and Senta Whitte- 
 more, born March 13, 1818, in Leicester; he had a farm on the road from Brookfield 
 to Warren. 
 
 Oran Allan Kelley, son of Abner Kelley. was bnrn in Warren, Massachusetts. He 
 married, in 1833, Maria Bacon, who was born in Charlton in 1815, and adopted when 
 young by her uncle. Her father's name was Lafling. They settled first in West Win- 
 chester, New Hampshire. They moved to Worcester in 1846. Mr. Kelley built a 
 house on the corner of Arch and Hanover streets ; 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 builder in the early days of the 
 city, at a time when its growth was 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. In politics Mr. Kelley was a Republican; served the city in 
 the Common Council, and in other positions of honor and trust. He was an earnest 
 temperance advocate ; was highly esteemed as a citizen, and was a leader in the 
 church as well as in public affairs. He was a member of the Methodist church and 
 active in the building of the Laurel Street Church. He died in Worcester, July 2, 
 1881. his wife September 16, 1892. Children: Eliza Maria, born 1837, married Amos 
 M. Eaton (see Eaton) ; Louisa, born 1839, died 1840; Oran Allan, Jr., (see biography) ; 
 Emma Louisa, born 1844, married Samuel D. Houghton, real estate dealer of Wor- 
 cester, and has a son, Ernest R. Houghton, and a daughter, Grace M. Houghton. 
 
 Oran Allan Kelley, Jr., son of Oran Allan Kelley, was born in West Winchester, 
 New Hampshire, September 2, 1842. He was 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, all traded with 
 Mr. Kelley. He came to Worcester with his parents when only three years of age, and 
 he had 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 Arch street, Wor- 
 cester. A few years later ht started the stock farm, which his father formerly owned, 
 and with which his name was afterwards associated. His farm, which at first comprised 
 forty acres, was increased to about four hundred 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 produced more milk than any other dairy 
 in the city. The entire product was taken by the Worcester Insane Asylums, and he 
 furnished them with milk for thirty-two years. His stock were prize winners at the 
 fairs and the dairy farm a model in every way. He lived on the farm, giving it his 
 personal supervision. 
 
 In 1886 he opened a sales stable on Supiner street, and established a large busi- 
 ness. He bought stock in Vermont and the West by the carload, and his judgment in 
 buying has made this line of business very successful. As a dealer in horseflesh, Mr. 
 Kelley stood at the head in Worcester. In 1899 he bought the property on Foster 
 street, where his stables were located. He had built up also a very large trade in 
 carriages, harnesses, blankets and sleighs. He was a good advertiser, and shrewd 
 enough to tell nothing but the truth in his advertisements. His success was due to 
 upright dealing with men, thus retaining them as his customers year after year, and 
 bringing to him new customers all the time. His thorough knowledge of his business 
 and his magnetic personality contributed largely to his business success. He 
 was tactful and clever in his dealings with men in social as well as in business life. 
 Another and important field of Mr. Kelley's activities had been in real estate in Wor- 
 cester. He had some four hundred acres within the city limits and from time to time 
 had put building lots on the market, notably a section of May street, one of the most 
 attractive residential streets in the city. He loved good horses and always owned some 
 fast ones. He had bred some that became famous. "Don Pedro" trotted in 2:16; 
 he was sold in Australia. For years Mr. Kelley had contributed to the interest of the 
 frequenters of the Worcester Boulevard, where the winter racing took place when the 
 sleighing permitted. He knew and always had an artistic rig. Mr. Kelley was a 
 Republican and had always taken an interest in public affairs. He served the city in 
 Common Council and as an overseer of the poor. He was a prominent Free Mason, 
 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 
 
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 was a prosperous lariiu-r. He lived to the advanced a.ye n|' tiuluy-iiir.r a-.-.l ;,\ vjfc 
 to the age of eighty-one. They reared a family of two sons and i'onr ilaifdii-r^ Th'- 
 children of Oran Allan and Mary S. (Bond) KcUev were: i. ( )ran A.. Vd Iiorn iti 
 Worcester, May 8. iSYif): married l-"rances llcwett. daiiRhter of ('.cor^e iiew'ti: he is 
 associated w^ifh his father in business, kecpinj; hooks and sharing ilie nianayement of 
 the stable business; they have one son, Oran Allan, Jr. 2. Herbert R.. born September 
 24, 1867; married Anna Leverett; was formerly a clotliina mcrch;int in Worcester; is 
 now associated with his father in business. 3. I'lorence ('.., bfirn in Worcester, Tune'ii 
 1870; married J. Howard Joynes. of Worcester, and they Ii;ive one dauybier. "Marion 
 Joynes. Mr. Kelley died in this city. July 5, iijio. 
 
 JOHN CARLSON. Head of the firm nf Carlson, Robmder .'t Company, furni- 
 ture dealers, was born in the Province of .Skona, Sweden. April 2, 1S58, son of Carl 
 and Kerston (Anderson) Carlson. His father, who was a seafaring man all his life, 
 died in Swxden in 1867; his mother died in this city in 1S02. His only brother, Peter' 
 died here in April, icx)7. 
 
 John Carlson was educated in the public scliools of this city. .At the age of fifteen 
 he went to sea and for nine years was a sailor, visiting Sweden, lingland, Germany 
 and various other countries on his voyages. In 1880 he arrived from Nova Scotia 
 at the port of Charleston. South Carolina, intending to stay there, but soon afterward 
 he shipped on a steamer for Liverpool, returning on the same vessel to Charleston. 
 Afterward he was with Commodore Watrous, a "Forty-niner." on his yacht, cruising 
 along the Atlantic coast one summer. He was advised by his employer to take a 
 course in a business college. He followed the advice and afterward worked as book- 
 keeper in lumber yards in New York City. From 1883 to 18S5 he lived at Palmer, 
 Massachusetts. In May, 188.=;, he came to Worcester and entered the employ of the 
 Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company in the wire mill. Later he became a 
 salesman in the furniture store of Flint & Barker in this cit>'. He started in Inisiness 
 in partnership with his brother Peter in i88f> on Millbury street, dealing in furniture. 
 After the death of his brother in nxv, he admitted to partnership F.mil T. Rolander 
 and the present brni name, Carlson, Rolander & Company, was adopted. The store 
 of Mr. (Tarlscn's tirni was originally at No. 133 Millbury street and is now at \'os. 
 133 to T37 Millbrry street. Mr. Carlson built, in HK)/, a "building on the lot adjoining 
 his store and the business now occupies two floors in both buildings. He is a member 
 of the Skandia Credit Union, John Erickson Lodge, and North .Star Lodge. He has 
 been treasurer of the Thomas Street Methodist Episcopal Church f(pr twenty years. 
 In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Carlson niarried, in New 'N'nrk City, July 12, 1883, Hann.ih Pearson, who was 
 born in Sweden. They have seven children: Mamie; John P., married, in IQ17, 
 Lillian Hedberg, of this city, and has one child, Mae Lillian; Henry J", now in the 
 United States Navy; Esther C., assists her father in the store in the capacity of book- 
 keeper; Ruth Gladys; and Myrtle. Mr. Carlson resides at No. 50 Marsh avenue. 
 
 CARL JOSEPH HAZELTON. From the year in which he left school until 
 the present, loio. Mr. Hazelton has been connected with the manufacturing interests 
 of New England, his iirst e.xperience bein.g with Warner Brothers, of Bridgeport, 
 Connecticut, his present position being as president and general manager of the .'Viner- 
 ican Narrow Fabric Company, a business founded in igo6. 
 
 Carl J. Hazelton was born in Waitsfield. Verinont, July 15. 1880. He completed 
 graded and high school courses, continued \\h education at Montpelier .\caden.iy. and 
 completed his studies at Union Business College at Bridgeport. Connecticut. He began 
 his business career with Warner Brothers, the large niamif.acturcrs of Bridgeport, 
 Connecticut, continuing with that well-known corporation imtil I'lofi, when he foimded 
 the American Narrow Fabric Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, and for the past 
 thirteen years has been intimately connected with the growth and development of 
 that most successful manufacturing enterprise, being its cfllcient and capable general 
 manager. Mr. Hazelton is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, b'ree and .\cceptcd 
 Masons: Aleppo Temple. Boston: Worcester Rotary. Commonwealth. Country and 
 Automobile clubs, and Worcester Chamber of Commerce. In politics he is a Repub- 
 lican, and in religious affiliation, a member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
 Bridgeport. 
 
 Mr. Hazelton married, at Brid.gei)ort, Connecticut, September 20, ioo~, .\ima Rus- 
 sell Zeller, born at Hagerstown, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Hazelton are the parents 
 of a son, Russell, born'.\ugust iS, \rio(); and a daughter, K'uth Frances, born May 4, 
 1910. 
 
 CHARLES ARTHUR HARRINGTON. Worcester has long been the home 
 of this branch of the Harrington familv. h'r.uicis Harrington, a grandson of Robert 
 
692 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Harrington, the founder, purchasing a farm in Worcester in 1741. It is believed that 
 he settled on his purchase the same year and gave to Worcester the first Harrington to 
 appear on the books as a settler. Robert Harrington settled in Watertown, Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1634, coming from England in the ship, "Elizabeth." He married, Octo- 
 ber I, 1648, Susan George, daughter of John George, of Watertown. .She died July 
 6, l6g4, her husband surviving her until May 11, 1707, his age then being given as 
 ninety-one years. He was the owner of 647 acres which he disposed of by will and a 
 house and a mill. Descent is traced in this branch from the founder's son, Edward 
 Harrington, who was a selectman of Worcester, 1716-1730-1731. He married (first) 
 Mary Osington, and they were the parents of Francis Harrington, the first owner of 
 the old Harrington homestead farm in Worcester. 
 
 Francis Harrington was born June 11, 1709, and in 1736 married Prudence Stearns, 
 of Watertown, who died in Worcester in August, 1751, aged about thirty-eight years. 
 He settled with his bride in Grafton. Massachusetts, and there their eldest child, 
 Francis (2) Harrington, was born. In the spring of 1741 he bought of Joseph and 
 Mary Dana, of Pom fret, Connecticut, the farm in Worcester, previously referred to, 
 which became his home. He held many town offices and founded a worthy family. 
 This line traces through his second son, Nathaniel Harrington, the first of the family 
 born at the old homestead in Worcester, his birth occurring in 174J, 
 
 Nathaniel Harrington grew to manhood at the homestead, and from there marched 
 away as sergeant with that band of immortals, the "minute-men of '75," who made 
 such glorious history at Lexington. Later he was a first lieutenant in Captain Timothy 
 Bigelow's company. He first held office in 1777, and served continuously thereafter 
 until 1809, in some office, his last public service being the running of a boundary line 
 between Worcester and Shrewsbury. He died in February, 1831. aged eighty-nine 
 years. Lieutenant Harrington married Ruth Stone, July 2, 1776. she born in 1748, 
 died August 24, 1817. This line continues through Captain Francis Harrington, their 
 eldest child. 
 
 Captain Francis Harrington was born at the old homestead in Worcester, May 15, 
 1777, and there passed his life. He was a captain of militia, and while not prominent 
 in public affairs held several town offices. He married. May 13. 1801, Lydia Perry, and 
 died October 17, 1841. They were the parents of Captain Daniel Harrington, grand- 
 father of Charles Arthur Harrington, of Worcestei. 
 
 Captain Daniel Harrington was born at the homestead, which later he inherited, 
 October 4, 1802, and died there September 11, 1863. He was a member of Worcester 
 Common Council in i840-.io, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1851. He married 
 Clarissa Gray, born August 23, 1809, died June 6, 1885. They were the parents of nine 
 children including a son, Francis Alfred Harrington, their seventh 
 
 Francis .Mfred Harrington was born at the homestead, which he later possessed, 
 November 17. 1846. In addition to the management of his farm he look a deep interest 
 in public affairs, serving as councilman, alderman, mayor (three terms), and State 
 Senator. Fie attained high prominence in the State Grange. Patrons of Husbandry; 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and the Masonic order; he and his two sons 
 all being past masters of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and 
 past commanders of Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, a coincidence 
 which probably has no duplicate anywhere. He married (first) Ro.xanna M. Grout, 
 who died December 24. igoo; (second) Mrs. Lillia (Dudley) Leighton. Children: 
 Charles A., of further mention; Frank C, prominent in the insurance business, mar- 
 ried Leora Leighton (see biography) ; and May Emily, who married James P. Gray. 
 
 Charles Arthur Harrington, of the eighth American generation, eldest son of 
 Francis Alfred and Roxanna M. (Grout) Harrington, was born January 26. 1874, and 
 has ever since been a resident of that city. He was educated in the public schools of 
 the city and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, completing his studies with the gradu- 
 ating class of 1895. From i8g6 until 1900 he taught mathematics in Worcester High 
 School, then entered the insurance field as assistant manager of The Ridgely Protective 
 Association, becoming general manager in 1909. In 1915 he resigned to accept the 
 office of secretary of a similiar health and accident insurance association. The Masonic 
 Protective, and in 1918 became general manager of that association. He also is _a 
 member of the corporation of Worcester County Savings Bank. He is a Republican in 
 politics, and for five years was a member of the Common Council, presiding over that 
 body as president for two of those years. He, as well as his father, has taken all 
 degrees of the York and Scottish Rites of Free Masonry, including the thirty-third, a 
 degree only conferred for "distinguished service rendered the order." He is a past 
 master of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and .A.ccepted Masons, and was district 
 deputy grand master for two years. He is past commander of Worcester County 
 Commandery, Knights Templar ; past sovereign Prince of Goddard Council, Princes of 
 Jerusalem; past grand warden of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of 
 
ANP ITS PEOPLE f,g3 
 
 Massachusetts and Rhode Ishmd; mcml)cr of Quinsigainond I,odt;f, IiKlcpcndent 
 Order of Odd Fellows; was master of Worcester Grange, Patrons of Hushandry. 
 for two years; and archon of the college fraternity, Sigina Alpha Epsiloii. He is a 
 memher of the Worcester Country Club. The family are members of Piedmont Con- 
 gregational Church. 
 
 Charles .A. Harrington married in Columbus, Ohio, June -7. looo, Luella P.lanche 
 Crook, daughter of David and Frances (Cushing) Crook, her father a pnblir works 
 contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Harrington are the parents of two daughters and a son; 
 Ruth .\nna. born July 2,5. looi ; Mildred Eli/abelh, March 4, kioj; and I-'rancis .Mfred, 
 2nd. .-\ugnst Jt<. moij- 
 
 FRANK CHESTER HARRINGTON, Youngest son of Francis Alfred and 
 Roxanna M. (Grout) Harrington, was born in Worcester. Massachusetts, and was edu- 
 cated in Worcester public schools and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He began busi- 
 ness life with the Chandler Company, manufacturers of special machinery at .\ycr. 
 Massachusetts. In igod he was elected secretary of the Masonic Protection Associati<m, 
 a health and accident insurance company, is at present its treasurer, also treasurer of the 
 Wells Chemical Bronze Works, founders of brass, bronze, aluminum, etc. He is also a 
 member of the corporation of the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank. Mr. Harring- 
 ton is a mendier of all bodies of the York and Scottish Rites of Masonry and in the 
 latter has attained the thirty-second de.gree. He has held many offices in these bodies. 
 and is a past master of Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted lilasons, as is his father, 
 and his brother, Charles A. Harrington, all being also past eminent commanders of 
 Worcester County Commandery. Knights Templar. Frank C. Harrington is also 
 past thrice potent master of Worcester Lodge of Perfection, and past sovereign prince 
 of Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem. He is affiliated with Quinsiganiond 
 Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Worcester Grange. Patrons of Hus- 
 bandry; his clubs the Worcester Country and Commonwealth, both of Worcester, his-. 
 college, fraternity the Sigma ,'\lpha Fpsilon (Worcester Polytechnic). The family 
 are attendants of Central Congregational Church. 
 
 Frank C. Harrington married, in Worcester, in T'TOO, Leora Leighton. daughter 
 of I-'rank and Lillia H. ( Dudley') Leighton, of Peppcrcll. Massachusetts, her father 
 a shoe manufacturer, now deccasetl. Mr. and Mrs. Plarrington are the i)arents of 
 two sons and two daughters: Frank L., born January i;. inoj. now a student of 
 Phillips Exeter .\cademy ; Robert D., born October 17. 1903; Lillia L., born Xovember 
 4, 1904; and Anna G., born March 6. I(K)6. 
 
 CHESTER E. WILLIAMS, Youn.g and enterprising business man, recently 
 appointed secretary an.I treasurer of the Hubbard Machine Company, of Worcester. 
 which is of more tlian sectional, interstate reputation and industrial prestige, was gifted 
 with an innate executive ability. This, together with his early mechanical training 
 and the hopes of youth, was sjinrred on by his ambitions which in turn have been 
 augmented by the realization of his Iiope of making for himself a place of importance 
 and responsibility in a great industry of the country. 
 
 The family name of Williams is one of the very oldest names of ancient h^nglish 
 families. It is a derivative of the personal name of William, and has been acquired 
 by usin.g the latter with the possessive, in accordance with an old traditional habit 
 common to the Welsh, of indicating in a man's name that of his father. The prac- 
 tice is peculiar to Slavic peoples to-day. F'or instance in the name Nikolai Alexan- 
 drovitch Petrosky. it is meant that Nikolai, to whom the name applies, is the son of 
 Alexander Petrosky. It is in other words a patronymic. So it was the Welsh custom 
 to use a name such as Richard John's, meaning Richard, the son of John, the latter 
 evolving into Jones; or John David's, which gave rise to the names" of Davies and 
 Davis. Thus was the name of Williams similarly derived. 
 
 The father of Chester E. Williams, Eugene .A. Williams, w-as born in lulv. tS.m, 
 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was reared on a farm there, where as a lad he 
 cherished the possibility of going some day to the city to seek a livelihood. When he 
 had reached bis twentieth year he came to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he began 
 this undertaking. With a steadfastness of purpose and a zealous disposition he 
 applied himself. He is now the foreman of the highway department of the city of 
 Worcester. He married, in 1877. l'"annie Josephine Cook, a native of that city. They 
 became the parents of four children: Dr. F. R. Williams, of Worcester; Everett C., 
 of Riverton. New Jersey ; Chester E., of whom we make further mention ; and Amy 
 J., wife of Frank C. Smith, attorney of Worcester and president of the Hubbard 
 Machine Company since its recent incorporation, and with whom Mr. Chester E. 
 Williams is associated on that account. 
 
 Chester E. Williams, son of Eugene .\., and Fannie Josephine (Cook) Williams, 
 was born May 31, 1885, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Here he received a common 
 
694 HISTUR]- ()!■ U'OKCESTI-R 
 
 school education which was followed by intermediary work and attendance at the 
 English High School there. Upon leaving the high school he set himself to the work 
 of what constituted for him a valuable and anticipatory mechanical training. For six 
 years he was engaged as a stationary engineer. By the year iQii he had so availed 
 himself of every opportunity which offered a possibility of advancement and progress, 
 and he was so equipped as to warrant his entermg into partnership with Ira B. Hubbard, 
 forming what is now known as the Hubbard Machine Company. This organization is 
 one of the most conspicuous, and justly so, in its success in tlie manufacture of ma- 
 chinery used in the making of cotton, wool and other textiles. It was also distinguished 
 as being the first to introduce ball bearings in their machinery, promoting the highest 
 possible degree of efficiency to be got from the use of such machinery. This inno- 
 vation revolutionized the industry of textile machinery in the United States, and it was 
 for this organization largely the means of creating an extensive and steadily increas- 
 ing demand on the company's output. Consequently this business of this concern has 
 since been one of great growth. It also manufactures attachments for woolen cards. 
 In July, 1917, the company was incorporated with its officers named as follows : Frank 
 C Smith, president; Chester E. Williams, secretary and treasurer; Luke Nakasliian, 
 vice-president and manager of the southern territory with headquarters at Charlotte, 
 North Carolina. In December, 1917, this company became affiliated with the S. K. F. 
 Ball Bearing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Williams is a member of the 
 Credit Men's Association; Mt. Zion Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Barre, Massa- 
 chusetts; the Kiwanis Club; and attends the Congregational Church. In politics he is 
 affiliated with the Republican party. 
 
 Mr. Williams married, September I, 1908, Susie E. Johnson, of Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 LOUIS N. WILSON, Librarian of Clark L^niversity, was born in Yorkshire, 
 England, September 4, 1S57; educated in St. Petersburg, Russia; came to this country 
 in 1871 ; engaged in business until 1884; librarian of Clark University since April, i88g. 
 He is author of a "Bibliography of Child Study." He received the honorary degrees 
 of A. E. from Clark University and Litt. D. from Tufts College. 
 
 CHARLES FRANK HILL CRATHERN, Former pastor of Park Cungrega- 
 tional Church, was born in Worcestershire, England, son of George Frederick and 
 Louisa (Parsons) Ciathern. He was educated in the public schools of Aylesnury, 
 Howard Academy, Thame, Oxford; Cambridge Univerjity and Nottingham Tlieolog- 
 ical Seminary. 
 
 He came to this country several times on a visit during his college career and 
 preached for a year in 1886 in Mason, New Hampshire, when he was ordained. He 
 ■came again in 1889. In 1893 he was installed as pastor of the First Parish Church of 
 Charlestown, Boston, and remained three years. Owing to the changed conditions in 
 that city, he accepted a call to the South Church of Braintree where he was pastor 
 for fifteen years. In igio he removed to Worcester and was pastor of Park Church 
 until 1916, in which place he organized the First Children's Church in America. In 
 1916 he organized "The Mission of the Master" and with the aged artist, Darius 
 'Cobb, of Boston, went on a mission to the Pacific coast with the famous painting, 
 ■"The Master." speaking and lecturing on "Christ in Art" in many of the churches of 
 thirty or more States of the Union. On his return from the Mission, he accepted a 
 call to the Old First Church of Bennington, Vermont, which is the oldest religious 
 organization in the State. For several years Mr. Crathern was chairman of the Board 
 of Education in Braintree and an active worker in all civic affairs. In politics he is a 
 Republican. He is a Free Mason, a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club of 
 Boston and the Green Mountain Club of Vermont. He has traveled and studied ex- 
 tensively in Europe, and is a well-known lecturer before Women's clubs on "Travel 
 in Foreign Lands" and on historical and literary subjects. He was assigned to 
 Young Men's Christian Association work overseas and was attached to the secretarial 
 . contingent in France. 
 
 Mr. Crathern married, in 1893, Sadie G. Tarbell, of Brooklyn, New York, and 
 they have live children: Alice Tarbell, Mt. Holyoke, 1916; Helen Goodwin, Worcester 
 Art School, 1917; Lieutenant Charles F. H., jr., Dartmouth, 1920; Louise- Parsons, 
 \Wheelock School, Boston, 1920; and Marion Hill, Middlebury, 1922. 
 
 FAIR WORCESTER. 
 By Rcr. C. f. Hill Crathern, Pastor of Park Church. 
 
 Fair Worcester, tliy name and thy glory we sing. 
 
 As we crown thee, the Queen of the years, 
 Our love and allegiance we gratefully bring 
 
 For with thee are our hopes and our fears. 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 605 
 
 O! "Heart of the Commonwcrtlth." tentler and strong. 
 
 As it throbs with the passion of life. 
 For thy peace and prosperity ever we long. 
 
 And the end of all discord and strife. 
 
 We remember with pride how our fathers of old, 
 
 Saw the star of hope shining on high. 
 How they followed the gleam of its silver and gold. 
 
 As it shone and illumined the sky; 
 With the plow and the ax. with a courage divine. 
 
 They wrested their bread from the sod. 
 They laid their foundations, with plummet and line. 
 
 As they builded the City of God. 
 
 Through the forests primeval they walked in the light 
 
 Of a faith that was noble and grand, 
 'Neath the roof of the stars by their watch Area at night; 
 
 They dreamed of the long Promised Land; 
 From the scenes of their youth and their childhood so dear. 
 
 In the pioneer days of the state. 
 They turned to the hills with a song and cheer. 
 
 And their hearts all aflame and elate. 
 
 In the church and the school, in the home of our birth. 
 
 We will honor their zeal and their love. * 
 
 We will treasure their names at the altar and hearth. 
 
 While they rest from their labors above; 
 O! valleys and hills where their footsteps once trod. 
 
 Shout aloud your glad triumphs, nor cease. 
 Where the wilderness stood blooms the garden of God, 
 
 With the Angels of love and of peace. 
 
 May the future be bright as the glorious past, 
 
 And our sons be as sreat as our sires; 
 May Righteousness. Justice and Truth ever last. 
 
 To inspire and control our desires; 
 May the Stars and the Stripes ever wave o'er our land. 
 
 And our watchword "Pro.sperity" be, 
 Mav "Obedience to l.,aw" with true liberty stand 
 
 For "Fair Worcester." the home of the free. 
 
 EUGENE M. MORIARTY, Editor atid publi.sher of the "Worcester Evening 
 Post," Democratic leader .md Icsislator, was Iwrn in Castlemaine, County Kerry, 
 Ireland, April 15. 1849, 'ItI f'i<^<1 '" ''"s city, August 27, 1007. He received the equiva- 
 lent of a high school education in his native land. ."Xt the age of seventeen he came 
 to this country and made his home in Worcester. 
 
 He began his career here in the employ of the Boston & Albany Railroad Com- 
 pany, as a checking clerk, then he became a clerk in the main office and later in the 
 train despatcher's office. His interest in public affairs soon drew him away from 
 the railroad business. He became active in the local organization of the Democratic 
 party as soon as he came of age. if not before. He was but twenty-three years old 
 when he was elected in 1872 to the Common Council froin Ward Three, serving two 
 years. 1873 and 1874. His energy, force of character and zeal for service and the 
 public welfare were in evidence here. He was elected to the school committee, serving 
 from, 1878 to 1896, a period of nineteen years from Ward Three, and during most of 
 that time was the leader of the Democratic members. At the time of his death the 
 school committee placed on record the following tribute : 
 
 The members of the School Committee place on record this tribute to the per- 
 sonal character and devoted public service of Eugene M. Moriarty. who for nineteen 
 years was an active and very useful member of this board and whose death on the 
 twentv-seventh day of August. 1907. is a public bereavement. 
 
 From his first position in his adopted country, he steadily advanced until dcattt 
 found him editor of one of our evening papers. He was a natural-born student and 
 was all the time acquiring the education which made him one of the best-re.ad men 
 In Worcester county. He served the schools of the city of Worcester, all its ptiblic 
 interests, and activelv identified himself with every uplifting and refining local 
 effort of a public character. He was one of our best citizens. The best years of his 
 life were devoted to the service of the public schools. He was ever firm in his con- 
 victions, lo'fty In his ideals, steadfast in his principles, and always endeavored to 
 do what, as he saw it. was for the best interests of the schools. No amount of per- 
 suasion, no Influence of friends, could ever cause him to deviate from the path whlcB 
 he thought was right. He was a good man; may his memory live. 
 
 Mr. Moriarty was particularly active in the support of General Butler in the his- 
 toric campaign in 1884, and was appointed bv Governor Butler to a clerkship in the 
 insurance department under Commissioner John J. Tarbox. In 1885 he was appointed 
 bv President Cleveland deputy collector of internal revenue for Worcester. He was 
 elected to the State Legislature in 1879 from Ward Three and served four successive 
 years; was elected again in 1889 and served until 1807, when he withdrew f rom^^ the 
 legislative contest to assume the editorship of the "Worcester Evening Post, of 
 which he became one of the owners at that time. Some of the very best laws on the 
 
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 statute books of the Commonwealth were enacted through the influence, perseverance 
 and zeal of Mr. Moriarty. During ten years in the House of Representatives, he was 
 a leader among his colleagues, serving on committees that investigated and reported on 
 matters of vital interest to all sections of the State. The act in which he justly took 
 the greatest pride and satisfaction, and which links his name everlastingly with the 
 liberality and progress of the Commonwealth, is the measure providing free textbooks 
 for the pupils of the public schools, a measure that has been adopted by other States, 
 one after another, throughout the country. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
 called Mr. Moriarty "the father" of this bill. During the first four years of his legis- 
 lative career, Mr. Moriarty was incessantly agitating the subject of free textbooks, 
 nor did he conrtne his elTorts to the House; he wrote constantly in support of the bill 
 to newspapers all over the State and never lost an opportunity to speak in public in 
 its favor. Year by year, during the nine years that he served, his power grew and he 
 became more successful, sharing the leadership of a minority party, in procuring legis- 
 lation in the interests of the laboring people, of whom he was always a champion. He 
 was a member of the committee that investigated the big Boston gas combination in 
 1893, and was a prime mover in securing a reduction in the price of gas in Boston. 
 In 1890 he originated and put through the measure appropriating $10,000 annually for 
 the aid of the Massachusetts Firemen's Association. 
 
 He was an able public speaker, quick of wit, ready in repartee, a keen debater on 
 the floor of the house or in committee, and a popular after-dinner and campaign 
 orator. His political campaigns were lively. He was fond of politics and always 
 struck straight from the shoulder. There was no cunning or finesse about 'Gene 
 Moriarty. In politics as in everything- else he played a fair, square but strong game. 
 He told the truth bluntly. Defeated again and again in measures he believed just, he 
 renewed the fight and generally fought to a successful finish. He advocated the bill 
 to make the poll-tax a prerequisite for voting; the Eight-Hour Bill for women and 
 children : the Weavers' Fine Bill, the Anti-Pinkerton Detective Bill ; the Ten-Hour 
 Bill for Street Railway Employees and every other measure designed for the benefit 
 of the people-at-large and especially wage earners. He was largely instrumental in 
 securing the legislation providing the two-cents-a-mile railroad rate, being the origi- 
 nator of that law. It was through his efforts that a law was passed in 1892 giving 
 better protection for policy holders in insurance companies. His reply to a speech 
 reflecting upon the supporters of legislation for the benefit of railroad employees in 
 1892 was not only characteristic, but was a bit of eloquence well worth preserving. 
 In the course of this speech, he said: 
 
 I have done some manual work in my life, Mr. Speaker, but I never belonged to 
 a labor organization, because the opportunity did not present itself to me. 1 yield 
 to no man, however, in an earnest desire to advance tlie interests of the working 
 people by proper legislation. I have advocated this hill and kindred measures with 
 all the zeal of my soul, and if for doing that the gentleman from Belchertown classes 
 me as a demagogue or an anarchist, let me tell him that in all that goes to make up 
 integrity, character and manhood I am willing to he weighed in the balance with him 
 every day in the week and I do not think I will suffer by any comparison that can 
 be instituted between us. • • • 
 
 The House has twice put itself upon record in favor of this bill. It is the only 
 surviving remnant of all the labor legislation which was proposed this year. It is 
 the onlynieasure which has passed through the legislative Dismal Swamp where the 
 ten-hour bill for railroad and street railway employees perished and where other 
 measures in the interest of the people were stricken with disease and death. Upon 
 the tombstones which mark the graves of all these good legislative measures the 
 same monotonous epitaph "rejected by the Senate" has been inscribed. 
 
 In this speech he urged the adoption of the Saturday half-holiday. In the same 
 year he made an historic speech in support of the municipal coal yard legislation. As 
 early as 1890, the "Boston Traveler" commended Mr. Moriarty in an editorial that is 
 typical of the support given to him by the more progressive newspapers at that time. 
 
 Mr. Moriarty's record in the Legislature as a champion of tlie laboring class and 
 especially of railroad employees, has been creditable in all respects, while his manly 
 independence and sterling integrity on all matters of legislation during his year's 
 service has been such as to merit the esteem and commendation of all his associates, 
 irrespective of party. Last session iie was the particular opponent of the lobby, and 
 ■was one of the first to demand a thorough investigation of the charges with refer- 
 ence to the West End investigation. If any Democrat in Worcester deserves to be 
 returned it is Eugene M. Moriarty. 
 
 Mr. Moriarty made a name for himself as a writer as well as a speaker. When he 
 became editor and publisher of the "Worcester Evening Post" in 1889 he had had 
 long experience as "Globe" correspondent for this city, and for twenty years had 
 been a close student and an active participant in public aff'airs. He had a wide 
 acquaintance among public men and an intimate knowledge of events in the city. His 
 training for the editorial chair could hardly have been more thorough. In the news- 
 paper he found a powerful weapon of usefulness. His editorials became the strong 
 
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 feature of the paper. I)iit he vahici! the news wisely and mack- the "Post" attractive to 
 all classes of readers, '^'car by year he made his newspaper better and stronKer, and 
 at the time of his death he had it securely placed on a successful financial basis. 
 
 As a fellow publisher, the writer came into close personal relations with him for 
 five years and came to know his '-.terling worth. .At that time all his other ambitions 
 had been subordinated to attain his ideal for the newspaiier and to make it serve to 
 the utmost not only his party and the legislation in which he believed but the city of 
 Worcester in all possible ways. There was no narrowness in his policy, no sectarian- 
 ism ; he detested bigotry, shams and snobs. (See history of the "Kvening Post"). 
 
 Mr. Moriarty took pleasure in social life. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians in Worcester: was county and state president of this 
 order and gained a national reputation for his service and devotion to it. He was a 
 charter member of .-Mhambra Council, Knights of Columbus, and member of the 
 Round Table Club, an exclusive social organization composed of kindred spirits. He 
 w'as kind of heart, liberal with his means, giving generously in charity and various 
 worthy objects, regardless of creed, politics or race. He was a faithful C.itliolic and 
 for many years a communicant of St. Paul's Catholic Church. 
 
 His death came suddenly, while he was in the zenith of his powers, apparently in 
 the enjoyment of his usual vigorous health. He was taken by an attack of heart 
 disease while swimming in Lake Quinsiganiond, off the landing at the Waclmsctt 
 Boat Club, where he had been participating in an outing with friends. Twice he had 
 been to the middle of the lake and started again, but when about twenty feet from 
 shore was seized with a fatal attack. Life was extinct when he was brought ashore, 
 after it was seen that sonietliing was wrong. His funeral at St. Paul's was largely 
 attended by the most iirominent citiz.ens. Rev. John .A.. Nu.gent, of .\rdmore, I'eim- 
 sylvania, a cousin of Mr. .Mori.irty, olTiciated, and Rev. Dr. John J. McCoy pronounced 
 the eulo.gy. 
 
 Mr. Moriarty married, in Xovember, l<So-'. Julia F.. Carroll, (laughter of David 
 Carroll (see biography l. They had no children. 
 
 DAVID CARROLL, Pioneer and last survivor of the Irish settlers who came 
 to Worcester in the first half of the nineteenth century, was born in Brurec, County 
 Limerick, Ireland, ;-\ugust 15, 1814, and died in this city, March 21, 1911, son of David 
 and Ellen (Fitzgerald) Carroll, both of whom were natives of Ballincarry in the same 
 county. 
 
 David Carri)ll learned the trade of cabinet-maker in his n;itive country. With his 
 brother James and sister Mary, he left P.rurce. a parish of Rockbill, in .April, 1840, 
 and after a voyage of about thirty days, landed in Mirimichi, on the northeast coast 
 of New P.runsw'ick, where they remained about four months, the boys being employed 
 at shipbuilding and the sister as a domestic. In October, 1840, all three came to 
 Boston, and on November Q, 1840, came to this city. James and David were etnployed 
 in the meantime repairing brid.ges on the Boston & .Albany Railroad. David became 
 a real estate owner as early as 1842 in this towMi, and was the first of Irish nativity 
 to pay a real estate ta.x in Worcester. In that year he worked at his trade, and was 
 the first carpenter of Irish birth employed in building Holy Cross College, .\bout 
 the same time he was employed in the construction of the north wing of the insane 
 asylum. Summer street, and on the Dr. Joseph Sargent house. Main street. He 
 worked for Raymond & Tower, (Tilly Raymond and Horatio N. Tower) and was 
 employed in erecting many public buildings and residences. He came to know such 
 men as Governor Lincoln, Oovernor John Davis, Isaac Davis, and other such prom- 
 inent men three-quarters of a century a.go. 
 
 His first purchase of land here was a lot bounded by Southbridge, Madison .and 
 Portland streets at a cost of $300. Soon afterwards he sold half of this lot for more 
 than he paid for the whole and the buildings he erected are still standin.g, forming parts 
 of the present structures. He also bou,ght land on Orange street where the school house 
 now stands, but before he took possession sold his contract at a profit. .Xbinn 1854 
 he bought half an acre in the Island district and was preparing to erect buildings 
 there, when he decided to try farnfing. bought a 400 acre place in Charlton, and re- 
 mained there for seventeen years, during which time he prospered in business, not 
 only in farming, but by shrewd dealing in real estate and lumbering. During the 
 Civil War he was one of the few who took advantage of the depreciation in paper 
 money, turned his property into gold coin and held it until the gold dollar was worth 
 $2.50 in paper. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Carroll sold his farm and returned to Worcester, making his home 
 on what is now known in his honor as Carroll Hilt. In January, 1875, he bought the 
 homestead at No. 125 Central street, where he passed the remaining years of his life, 
 with the exception of a brief period previous to his death in the mansion at No. 18 
 Crown street, owned by the David Carroll heirs. 
 
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 Mr. and Mrs Carroll were among the first conlributors to the fund for building 
 St. John's Church. They were communicants of the old original Christ Church. He 
 contributed si.xty days of his time, working on the old St. Anne's Church on Shrews- 
 bury street. Mr. Carroll was selected by the pastor of St. John's Church in 1846 to 
 buy land in some convenient location for a cemetery and had struck a bargain for a 
 lot of land on Cambridge street, between the Norwich & Worcester and Providence 
 & Worcester railroads, when the owner, discovering the purpose for which the prop- 
 erty was to be used, refused to give the deed. The present cemetery was finally 
 purchased by Mr. Carroll from Hon. Eli Thayer, sixteen acres at $100 an acre, and 
 $400 paid down, the remainder being paid in instalments. (See St. John's Cemetery). 
 
 When he was ninety-two years old. the "Post" published an account of his life, 
 saying : 
 
 David Carroll is now undoubtedly the oldest resident Irishman in Worcester. 
 • • • Though now in his ninety-second year, he is in good health and does some- 
 thing for exercise almost daily at his trade of carpentering. He never was sick a 
 day in his life until five years aso. He was ill then for twelve weeks and for a time 
 his life was despaired of. He rallied, however, and has since enjoyed as good health 
 as any man of his years could expect to enjoy. During his whole life, although not 
 a teetotaler at any time, ho used very, very little stimulants of any kind. He is no 
 believer in the power of stimulations to brace up the human system. Tobacco he 
 began to use in early life. hO"wever, and uses it today. He likes the weed and enjoys 
 the pleasure of his daily smokes no-w as much as he ever did, ♦ * • jje never 
 w^ore glasses until a few years ago and he can even now with good light read with- 
 out tliem. His memory is still clear and he rolls stories of the olden times off the 
 reel without apparent effort. 
 
 Mr. Carroll married, October 6, 1842, Margaret Purcell, who was born near Lim- 
 erick, Ireland, daughter of James and Mary (Quinh) Purcell, the former being an 
 uncle of Archbishop Purcell. Their children are: Thomas E., John P., Margaret A., 
 Mary J., and Julia E., widow of the late Eugene M. Moriarty. The grandchildren are: 
 Adeline M., Florence G.. wife of William N. McLaughlin, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; 
 Tulia C, Charles A., David Chester, and Mildred M., sons and daughters of Mr. and 
 "Mrs. Thomas E. Carroll. 
 
 GEORGE EDWARD STIMPSON. In 1898 Mr. Stimpson came to Worcester, 
 establishing at the corner of Pleasant and Chestnut street:-, the business which as the 
 G. E. Stimpson Company has grown into a very large and prosperous office outfitting 
 business. As head of the company he founded Mr. Stimpson has outlined its plans and 
 policies, and it is due to his vision and wise management that so great a degree of 
 success has been reached. The G. E. Stimpson Company holds the exclusive Wor- 
 cester agencies for the Standard Furniture Company ; Globe-Wernecke Company ; 
 Safe Cabinet Company; Art Metal Construction Company; B. L. Marble Chair Com- 
 pany; all of these being leaders in the manufacture of their special lines. 
 
 Mr. Stimpson is a son of Edward Sutton Stimpson, born in Fredericton. the cap- 
 ital of New Brunswick, Canada, in 1834, but spent his entire life in Hopedale, Wor- 
 cester county, Massachusetts, a city noted for its loom "and spindle manufacturing. 
 There he has been in the continuous employ of the Draper Company, and is yet (1919) 
 in charge of the experimental department maintained by the company. He has pat- 
 ented one hundred and twenty-five different machines and attachments to machines 
 used in the manufacture of cotton mill machinery, and is one of the wonderful men of 
 a wonderful industry. Mr. Stimpson married, in Hopedale, Isabella A. Farnum, born 
 in Vermont, and died in Hopedale. Children: Wallace I., now agent of the Draper 
 Company in Hopedale; George Edward (see biography); Harry F., proprietor of 
 Wheelock, Lovejoy & Company, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Warren D., an officer 
 of the G. E. Stimpson Company; two other children who died in infancy. 
 
 George Edward Stimpson was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts, February 7, 
 1867, and there spent the first twenty-one years of his life. He was educated in Hope- 
 dale grammar and Milford high schools, finishing his courses in both with graduation, 
 from the latter in 1887. He acquired an expert knowledge of stenography, and in 
 1800 secured a position in Boston which he filled for three years. He then returned 
 to Hopedale and entered the employ of the Draper Company, continuing until 1898 
 when he resi,gned to engage in business for himself. He organized the G. E. Stimpson 
 Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, and engaged as oflr:ce outfitters, a line of busi- 
 ness he has successfully developed and brought to a most satisfactory degree of pros- 
 perity. The original store has been again and again enlarged until it now occupies 
 seventy-five feet frontage on Pleasant street, and is the largest business of its kind 
 in New England. Mr. Stimpson is one of Worcester's progressive, enterprising 
 merchants who have won fame for their city in a commercial sense, and individually 
 have gained high reputation and the favors of fortune. He is a member of the Wor- 
 
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 cester Country Clul), is an enthusiastic motorist. bcloiHMng lo ilic Aiitoninliilc Ciiili. 
 and represents the office outlltting business in the membersliip of the Kisvanis Chilj 
 His favorite recreation is lishine. 
 
 LAWRENCE BATES JENCKES, Director, lias been with the (.rompton i't 
 Knowles Loom Works since IW5, having charge of tlie draftint; during most of the 
 time, nosv a member of the Development IJoard. 
 
 Mr. jenckes has had a wide and extensive experience in cnKincering and manu- 
 facturing. Preparing for college in H. \V. King's School, at Stamford, Connecticut, 
 he was graduated from the Sheffield Scientilic Scliool of Vale University in 1887. with 
 the degree of liaehelor of Phdosophy, and during the following two years was em- 
 ployed as civil engineer in various localities. I'Vom 1880 to i8()2 he was in the employ 
 of Cheney I'.rothers, silk manufacturers. South Manchester, Connecticut; from i8"j2 
 to 1804 of the New York, Xew Haven & Hartford Railroad Comijany and city engineer 
 of Stamford. I''rom iSgs to |X(>H he was purchasing agent of the C H. Hammond 
 Company, of Hammond, Indiana, and of allied companies. In i8go and KXX) he was 
 superintendent of public works of Stamford and general manager of the Electric 
 Light &• Power Company. From njoo to nxi.^ he was assistant purchasing agent of 
 the Westinghonse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and in iiXJ-l manager of the 
 cable department of Waterbury & Company, of New York. He is a member of the 
 American Society of Civil Kn.gineers ; the American Society of Mechanical ICngineers; 
 the Worcester Chamber of Commerce; the Squantum .Association, of Providence; 
 the .'\tlantic Tuna Club; the Tatnuck Country Club. Pie is a communicant of All 
 Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church, of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Jenckcs was born at Millville. Massachusetts, March 23. 1867, son of Marcien 
 and .\melia Marian (Bates') Jenckcs. He married, in Boston, in iSV), .Mice Goddard 
 Child, daughter of Calvin Goddard and Mary Catherine (Godfrey) Child. They have 
 two children: .Marcien. born I'KX), and .Mice Child, born iqor. 
 
 ALBERT TOLMAN, (Carriage manufacturer, was born in Lincoln, Massachu- 
 setts, December 23. 1808. baptized in the Concord clnirch, Decendier 25, 1808, died at 
 his home, Catherine street, this citv. October 21, i8()i. The Tolman line of ancestrv is: 
 Edward K. (8). Albert (7). Elisha (6), John (p. John (4), John (.?), John ■(2), 
 Thomas (1). Thomas (i) Tolman was born in England about 1608. and was an early 
 settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, owing land there as early as i6.i(). Six genera- 
 tions lived in Dorchester. Elisha Tolman moved to Concord. .Mbert Tolman was 
 descende<l from many promintnt families of Dorchester, including Nicholas Clapp. 
 John Pope, and LieiUenant Richard Hall. (See p. ito. \'oI. Ill, Genealogical and 
 Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, 11XJ7). 
 
 The i)arents of .Mbert Tolman move<i to Concord when he was ([uite youn.g and 
 he attended the public school there. He was twenty-two years old when he came here. 
 He engaged in business as a manufacturer of carriages in a building on Exchange 
 street in partnership witli Samuel L. Ilunstable, who died a few years later, and after- 
 ward, until about 1880, he continued alone, building up a large and flourishing trade 
 and a high reputation for square <lealiii.g and reliable vehicles. The firm name was 
 Albert Tolman & Company. The place of business was No. 10 Exchange street. Al- 
 bert Tolman devised the vehicle known as the jinrikisha in Japan and made the first 
 one in his shop here. The carriage was made for a missionary, whose wife was an 
 invalid. She had to be carried in a sedan chair when in China. Rather reluctantly 
 Mr. Tolman complied with the missionary's request that lie build a vehicle that could 
 be drawn by a man. for he was ojjposed to anvthing tint might add to the biirden of 
 the slave or coolie. The lirst jinrikisha was shipped to the west coast of .\frica, where 
 other missionaries saw it and realized its value in such countries as China and Japan, 
 where it was soon afterward introduced and where it eventually came into universal 
 use. The carriage was made in 1846, and b> 1854 the jinrikisha was very popular 
 in Japan and also in China. 
 
 Few men took a more active part than he in the development of Worcester from 
 a country village to a thriving city. He was one of the last Board of Selectman of the 
 town; member of the Common Council of the city; member of the School Committee; 
 representative in the General Court, in which he served on a committee to revise the 
 statutes and at one session cast the only vote in favor of receiving a petition of the 
 anti-slavery people. He was one of the charter members and founders of the Wor- 
 cester County Mechanics Association and was its first secretary; one of the founders 
 of Hope Cemetery and a commission -r from the beginnin.g to the time of his death; 
 trustee of the Home for Aged Women and also of the Home for .Aged Men from the 
 time these institutions were organized until he died. He was one of the original mem- 
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HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 superintendent of the Sunday school. He was a charter member of the Worcester 
 Society of Antiquity and at one time vice-president ; member of the Worcester Ly- 
 ceum and the Natural History Society ; one of the founders of the Worcester Free 
 Public Libran.', having the enviable distinction of offering the resolution establishing 
 the institution while a member of the Common Council, and later serving on the 
 board of trustees. He was one of the original members of the Book Club (See Book 
 Club) and served as treasurer. He was one of the founders of the Reformatory for 
 Girls at Lancaster, served on the first board of governors and later as treasurer. 
 
 Active in the anti-slavery movement, he was successful in preventing the prejudice 
 against negroes from gaining headway in the public schools. Believing the Mexican 
 War unrighteous, he refused to make wagons and ambulances for the Government 
 for use in that war. He was treasurer and disbursing agent of a fund for the relief 
 of widows and families of soldiers during the War for the Llnion. f-Ie was one of 
 the engineers of the famous Underground Railroad before the war and his house and 
 barn sheltered many escaping slaves on their way to Canada. He was one of the 
 founders of the Free Soil party and afterward a Republican. To the end of his life 
 he maintained his interests in politics. He was trustee, vice-president and member of 
 the board of investment of the .Worcester County Institution for Savings. 
 
 Mr. Tolman married (first) .-^pril 2. 1830, Lusanna R. Hunstable, widow of his 
 partner, daughter of Gardner and Lucy (Cook) Whiting. She was born May 27, 
 1813, died October 21, 1858. He married (second) .August i, 1861, Olive N. Flagg, 
 born August ,?i, 1819, died October 10, 1874. His children, all by first wife, were: 
 I. .Albert Hunstable, born May 12. 1841, died October 3, 184T. 2. James .Albert, born 
 May 2, 1842, died July 13, 1857. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born March 24, 1844, died July 22, 
 1844. 4. Mary Lusanna, born October 10, 1847, married Benjamin N. Bradt. 5. Ed- 
 ward F. (see biography). 6. Sarah Lucretia Pike, born September 28, 1852, died 
 December 26, 1857. Lusanna R. Tolman was descended from the early settlers 
 of Massachusetts and Plymouth. .Among her ancestors were James Whiton or Whit- 
 ing, who came from England to Hingham, Massachusetts, before 1647; and Francis 
 Cook, who came in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth. 
 
 EDWARD F. TOLMAN, Manufacturer, trustee of various institutions, treas- 
 urer of many organizations, was born in Worcester, Jime 13, 1850, died January 2, 
 1910, in this city, son of .Albert Tolman. 
 
 He was educated in the public and high schools of Worcester and in the Wor- 
 cester Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1871 in the first class receiv- 
 ing degrees (S. B.). He began his career as a mechanical engineer in the employ of 
 the Flushing & Northside Railroad Company at Flushing, Long Island. In 1872 he 
 was in the employ of the Globe Nail Works at South Boston, Massachusetts: in 1873 
 with the Hoskins Steam Engine Company of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; in 1875-76 in 
 the machinery department of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. In 1874-76 he 
 was an instructor in mechanical drawing in the Worcester evening schools ; in 1877-78 
 instructor of mechanical drawing in the Clinton evening schools. He became a partner 
 of Edward K. Hill in 1S74, opening an office here and doing business as mechanical 
 engineers under the firm name of Hill & Tolman. The office was in the Harrington 
 buildin.g, Harrington Corner. The firm was among the first to make use of blueprints 
 on a large scale in duplicating drawings, photographic negatives and plans used in their 
 work. Mr. Tolman was a pioneer in the bicycle business. In 1877, in partnership with 
 William R. Pierce, he introduced the bicycle, not only riding the high wheels and 
 selling them, but building them for a time. This firm continued in business until 
 1885-86 and was discontinued on account of the other business interests of the 
 partners, both of whom had become interested in the Wheelock Engine Company, of 
 which Mr. Tolman was treasurer. Mr. Tolman remained with the engine works as 
 its mechanical engineer and treasurer until the business was sold in 1895 to the 
 -American Wheelock Engine Company. The factory was on Union street for many 
 years, later on Southgate street. Subsequently, owing to various consolidations of 
 engine works, the business was removed from Worcester. 
 
 .\fter 1895 Mr. Tolman was largely occupied in the settlement of estates and in 
 administering various other private and public trusts, but he followed his profession 
 also. He was executor of the estate of his father and of his wife's father, William 
 H. Heywood. For more than thirty years he was clerk of the parish of the Church 
 of the Unity and for several years its treasurer. He succeeded his father as trustee 
 of the Home for Aged Women in 1891, and also was treasurer to the end of his life. 
 For more than twenty-five years he was an active and influential member of the 
 Worcester County Mechanics Association, a trustee for several years, vice-president 
 two years, and president two years. He was a trustee of the Worcester County In- 
 stitution for Savings, also its auditor. From i8go to the time of his death he was 
 
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 secretary and treasurer of the ancient Worcester Book Cln)). He succeeded J')hn C. 
 Otis as treasurer of the Worcester Unitarian Conference in i8fJ2 ■\\\A served until he 
 died. He was for many years treasurer of the Sunday school -f the Church of the 
 Unity, a member of the l)oard of advisers of the ChiUlren's Friend Society, and was a 
 memlier of the American .Society of Mechanical luiKineers. In politics he was a 
 Republican, an intimate friend and next-door neighbor of Senator Ge'irj;e !■". H>iar. 
 He served for five years on the Worcester school ci>mmittce. 
 
 Mr. Tolnian married. November 12. 1884. Kmily .-Xnn Hcvwnod, born Septenibcr 
 1, 1852, daughter of William H. and Mary G. (Sutton) Heywood. The ilcywood line 
 of ancestry is: William H., Henry, Abel, ."Miel. (See Heywood in Karly Settlers). 
 The Gates ancestry: Mary Sutton, Sarah (Gates) Sutton, Simon, Siinnn, Simon, 
 Simon. Stephen Gates, who was born in England, and settled in Hingham. (See 
 Gates in Early Settlers). Mrs. Tolman is also a descendant from various other 
 pioneers of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Tolman had two daughters: Ohve, born 
 December 18, 1885, graduate of Smith, \go-, teacher in North High School; and Mary 
 Heywood. born March 2. 1893, graduate of Smith College; after graduation from col- 
 lege she did social service work with John Wanamaker's store. New York; in Knck- 
 ford, Illinois, 1014, in conuiiunity service work under the (^lovernnient. 
 
 EDWARD LEE DUNN, Meclianical and electrical engineer. wa> l>orn in Lex- 
 ington, Missouri, July 8, i8()8, son of Kev. John W. and .\nne Maria Dunn. Rev. 
 John W. Dunn was born in Pennsylvania, died at Independence, Missouri, July 4. 
 1902; was a Episcopal clergyman, in active service for about tlfiy-three years; married 
 
 Anne Maria , who was born in \'irginia. Their children : Howard, Lizxie, 
 
 Minnie A., Sally \'., Ivah I... Florence, John, Reginald H., and Edward Lee. 
 
 Edward L. Dunn received his education inthe public scliools nf Le.xingtnn and in 
 Woodland College, Independence, Missouri. liefore graduating he had learned the 
 trade of machinist in the shops of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad at 
 Kansas City, Missouri, and worked at liis trade after leaving school for six or eight 
 years in various western cities — -Kansas City; Pocatello, Idaho; Helena, Montana; 
 Marysville, Mimtana; and Chicago. During 1896 he entered the employ of the Hurdett- 
 Rountree Manufacturing Company of Chicago and w.'.s jiromoted step by step to 
 erecting foreman, shop foreman and finally to the position of factory superintendent. 
 After eight years with this concern, he came to Worcester in September. i<K)4, as 
 mechanical engineer for the .Standard Plunger Elevator Company and has been in 
 the engineering department of this company since then. During this time he has been 
 granted twenty patents for improvements on automatic elevator machinery. He has 
 served as clerk of the corporation, director and chief engineer. Mr. Dunn entered 
 the government service. May 16, igl8, as mecbanicil and electrical engineer in the 
 ordnance department. He is a memlier of the Commonwealth Club, the Worcester 
 Automobile Club, the Leicester Country Club, the .\merican Society of Meolnmical 
 Engineers. In politics he is independent. He is .1 vestryman of St. .\Iark's Protestant 
 Episcopal Church of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Dunn married, in Kansas City, Missouri. June j. 1802, Marion I'.urdett 
 Perkins, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee. July 10, 1872. a daughter of Edward 
 and .\nn \'. (Potts) Perkins. Her father was born in Ripley, Illinois; was superin- 
 tendent of the public schools in Nashville, Tennessee, and Clarksville in that State for 
 about ten years; died April i, 1914. Her mother was born at Pulaski, Tennessee, died 
 February 5, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn have had four children: i. Edward Lee, Jr., 
 graduate of the .South High School. 1913, now in the aviation service. 2. Marion 
 Valencia, graduate of the South High School. 1914, a graduate nurse. 3. Francis 
 Whttelaw. 4. Janet, tw'in of Francis W. 
 
 JOHN JAMES LEWIS. Prior to 1914 Mr. Lewis was associated with his 
 father in the cleaning and dyeing business in Salem, Massachusetts, there thoroughly 
 mastering the secrets of the art. Since 1914 he has been one of the most successful 
 men of his business in Worcester, each year of the five which have since passed 
 having witnessed a one hundred per cent, increase in patronage. There can be but 
 one explanation of such a record and that is the excellent service rendered patrons. 
 Mr. Lewis is a son of John Henry and Elizabeth (Lowe) Lewis, his father propri- 
 etor of The Lewis Cleaning & Dyeing Company of Salem, Massachusetts. John H. 
 Lewis is one of the devoted Christian men of his city whose time outside of business 
 hours has largely been given to church work and civic affairs. 
 
 John J. Lewis was born in Milford. Massachusetts, J'uly 29. 1883. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools, and completed his studies with graduation from Water- 
 town High School, class of 1904, then and lor three years engaging in the wholesale 
 
HISTORY Of JVORCESTER 
 
 fruit and produce business in Boston. In 1907 he entered the employ of his father 
 in Salem. Massachusetts, and under him spent seven years in the cleaning and dyeing 
 business. In 1914 John J. Lewis came to Worcester, Massachusetts, and purchased 
 the cleaning and dyeing business which was then operated as The Xaptha Laundry. 
 He at once put the establishment on a true basis, and with his thorough practical 
 knowledge of his trade soon brought it into public favor. Quality of work and 
 excellent service has been maintained through the years which have followed, and 
 Mr. Lewis may view his business record with a great deal of satisfaction. His place 
 of business is at No. 85 Gardner street. He is a Republican in politics, and in Salem 
 was a member of the Republican City Committee in 191,3. He is a member of Starr 
 Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Salem, and in Worcester is a member of the 
 Kiwanis Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Commonwealth, and the 
 Leicester Country Clubs. His church affiliation is with the Plymouth Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 Mr. Lewis married, in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 9, 1907, Blanche Ella" 
 Moore, daughter of Frederick Kenneth and Leona (Dodge) Moore. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Lewis are the parents of a son, Jolin Kenneth, born in Salem, May i, 1910. 
 
 GEORGE BUTMAN DOWLEY, President of the Ware-Pratt Company, was 
 born in Newport, Rhode Island, April 26, 1864, son of John Elisha and Julia M. 
 (Barker) Dowley. John Elisha Dowley was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His 
 father was killed in action in the Mexican War. John Elisha Dowley was a "Forty- 
 niner." Julia M. (Barker) Dowley was a native of Rhode Island. They had four 
 children, of whom three are living. Children: Mary, died young; .Amelia, married 
 John W. Murray, Jr., of Plainfield, New Jersey; Levi B,, resides in Newton Center, 
 Massachusetts: and George B. 
 
 When (icorge B. was seven years old the family moved to Plainfield, New Jersey, 
 where he attended the public schools. At the age of seventeen he left the high school 
 and entered the employ of the well-known firm of Chamberlain & Currier, of Boston, 
 May 3, 1881. He was with this c<mcern in various positions for nine years, and 
 acquired a thorough knowledge of the clothing business. He began business on his 
 own account in 1900 at Hyde Park under the name of George B. Dowley Clothing 
 Parlors. Two years later his business required larger quarters, and he opened his 
 first store on the ground floor on River street, Hyde Park. In 1909 another exten- 
 sion was made, and in iqi6 the present spacious store was occupied in Cleary square. 
 Mr. Dowley has been in business in this city since December 16, 191 1. when he 
 bought the controlling interest in the Ware-Pratt Company, then conducting the 
 oldest and largest clothing store in the city. Since 1917 his son, Leroy L. Dowley, 
 has been general manager. George B. Dowley is president of the Ware-Pratt Com- 
 pany. Mr. Dowley bought the Wells-Coverly Company and incorpurated the busi- 
 ness, April I, 1914. This company operates stores in Troy, Syracuse and Oswego, 
 New York. George B. Dowley is president of this corporation and his son is treas- 
 urer. Mr. Dowley added to his string of clothing stores by purchase, May 2, 1918, 
 another place in Springfield, Massachusetts, buying an old established business, 
 which will be run by the Ware-Pratt Company of Springfield. Mr. Dowley's exten- 
 sive interests in the clothing business place him among the foremost merchants of 
 the city and State. 
 
 Mr. Dowley is a member of the Worcester Country Club and of the Country 
 Club at Martha's Vineyard, where he has a summer residence. He is active in the 
 church, and was for fourteen years president of the Hyde Park Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association, for which he erected a building and left an ample endowment for 
 its maintenance. He is a member of Hyde Park Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons; Royal Arch Masons: Royal and Select Masters: Hyde Park Commandery, 
 Knights Templar. In politics he is a Republican; in religion a Baptist, a member 
 of the First Baptist Church. He is keenly interested in civic work. 
 
 Mr. Dowley married at Canton, Massachusetts, October 20, 1887, Augusta Len- 
 tell, who was born at Weston, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Dowley have four chil- 
 dren: I. Leroy L. (see biography). 2. Miriam Gladys. 3. Kenneth C, now in the 
 United States service in France: has been under fire since July. 1917, (August, 1918, 
 date of writing). 4. Hazel Arline, who prepared for duty as nurse in the service. 
 
 LEROY L. DOWLEY, General manager of the Ware-Pratt Company, was 
 born in Hyde Park. He attended the public schools in Hyde Park, then he spent 
 two years at Dartmouth College, leaving to go into business with his father. He has 
 been manager of the Ware-Pratt Company, the oldest and largest clothing store in 
 
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 ster, since 1917, and under liis ;i<lministration the store has continued to grow 
 tend its business. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary 
 nd the Worcester Country Club. 
 
 Worcester, 
 and extend 
 CUib and tht vv«.^in.-Mci »..,iiuiiiiy v^iuo. 
 
 Mr. Dowley married Marion Curtis, of Saratoga Springs. New York, an<l they 
 have one child, George B. 2d. Their home is at Xo. 36 William street. 
 
 JAMES HARVEY CURTIS, Insurance, is a grandson of John W. Curtis, who 
 was born in 1S15. and came from his native country, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, to 
 the United States about 1.S40 and settled in Massachusetts. He died in Gaysvi'lle, 
 Vermont. June i,?, 1875. He was a woolen spinner by occupation, and a member of 
 the Protestant Episcopal church. He married Fannie Hollenswortli, also born in 
 Leeds, England, in iSiS, and died December 24, 1879. at West H.irtford. Vermont, 
 and they wore tlu- p.irents of: Ann Elizabeth, also born in Leeds. England, in 1S39; 
 Sarah Siddles. born in Leeds, England, in 1840; Matilda ((hirtis) Weston, born in 
 Billerica. ^^^ssachusetts. in 1844: Edward James (see biography): WilliamH., born 
 in Lowell. Massachusetts, in 1850, still living in Lowell: Martha (Curtis) Badger, 
 born in .'\ndover, Massachusetts, in 1851, now living in West Hartford, Vermont; 
 Alfred, born in Andover. in 185a, died in the Civil War from eating food poisoned liy 
 Southern women; Lucy (Curtis) Haley, born in Gaysville. Vermont, in 1856, anil 
 died in White River Village, in ion. 
 
 Edward James Curtis, son of John W. and Fannie (Hollensworth) Curtis, 
 became a mill worker at the age of eight years in a woolen mill at Danvers, Massa- 
 chusetts, working fourteen hours daily, even at that tender age. At the age of seven- 
 teen and one-halt years he enlisted in the Eleventh Vermont First Heavy .'\rtillcry, 
 which later became a part of the Sixth Corps and took part in all of the .Shenandoah 
 Valley campaigns. He was in fifteen of the hardest battles and over eighty minor 
 engagements. He had bullets go through his hat and clothes, but was never 
 wounded. After the war he returned to the te.xtile trade, becoming overseer in a 
 woolen mill, a postion he held for thirty years. For the past twenty years he has 
 been a janitor in the \\'orcester schools, only being off duty three hours in that 
 entire period. Recently he has retired and been pensioned by the city. In 1874 he 
 married Lucy Minard. who was born in Queens county. Nova Scotia, .'\pril 18. 1S50, 
 and who died in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 25. 1917. She was a daughter 
 of Lewis and Jane (Sanders) Minard. Lewis Minard died in 1802, and Jane 
 (Sanders) Minard died in 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Curtis were the parents of 
 three children: James Harvey (see biography); William Edward born June 21, 
 l88,s, in .Saugns, Massachusetts: Inez B., born July 10, 1888, in .Saugus, Massachu- 
 setts: the two latter leaching school in Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 James Harvey Curtis, eldest son of Edward James and Lucy (Minard) Curtis, 
 was horn in Littleton, New- Hampshire, June 17, 1875. He completed his preliminary 
 education with graduation from Leicester Academy, class of 1894. and from Worces- 
 ter High School in 1895. the two and n half years following being spent as a student 
 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After finishing his school years, Mr. Curtis 
 began business life as an insurance solicitor, a line of business with wdiich he has since 
 been continuously connected, being widely known as "Curtis the Insurance Man." 
 He continued a solicitor until 1908, when he became a general agent for a casualty 
 and surety company, and established a business for himself with offices in the Slater 
 building, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a Republican in politics, a member of 
 Piedmont Congregational Church. Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Country 
 Club; Rotary Club and Economic Club; Athelstan Lodge, .Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter: Hiram Council; Aletheia Grotto: Central* 
 Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Young Men's Christian Association, 
 which he serves as director and chairman of its membership committee; Chamber of 
 Commerce, of w'hich he was a director for four years and chairman of its membership 
 committee for two years; Worcester Oratorio Society, of wdiich he is a director and 
 secretary. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married, in Worcester, January 12, 1904, Mabelle .A. Pierce, born in 
 Middlebury, Vermont. October 9. 1880. daughter of George Leland Pierce, a former 
 confectioner of \\'orcester, and Olive .\. Pierce. 
 
 WILLIAM FRANCIS BURBANK. The 'surname Burbank. spelled Bower- 
 bank, is found in Domesday Book. At a later date the spelling is Bowbank, while 
 some of the American families use the form Burbancke. Most, if not all, of the New 
 England families use the spelling Burbank, and are descended from John Burbank, 
 born in London, about the year 1600. He settled in Rowdey, Massachusetts, where 
 he was admitted a freeman, May 13, 1640. and the same year recorded a proprietor. 
 
704 HISrORV OP WORCESTER 
 
 He left many descendants, among them Abijah Burbank, the pioneer manufacturer 
 of Worcester county, producing his first paper in June, 1776. Almost all the children 
 and grandchildren of Abijah Burbank became paper manufacturers, and many of 
 the name served in the lievolution. The holy calling has attracted many of the 
 name, three of the sons of Samuel Burbank, o'f Newfield, Maine, being clergymen. 
 Rev. John F. Burbank, grandfather of William Francis Burbank, of Worcester, was 
 a Baptist preacher, active in the ministry until his death. Rev. John F. Burbank, 
 was a son of Colonel John Burbank, of Bridgton, Maine, born May 17, 1774, died 
 October 21), iiS.ji ; niarrie<l. January 2(1, 1806, Sarah Felch. born June 22. 1778, died 
 September 3, 1845. Colonel Burbank was a son of Colonel Burbank. who fought in 
 the French and Indian War in Maine, and later was an officer in the Revolutionary 
 Army. 
 
 Rev. John F. Burbank was born December 4. 181 1, in Saco, Maine, died at Roch- 
 dale, Massachusetts, November 15, 1853. He was a minister of the Gospel, and at 
 the time of his death was pastor of the Baptist church at Rochdale. He married, 
 March 10, 1840, his wife dying about 1845, leaving two children: George L-, born in 
 1842. died 1017; and Charles William, of further mention. 
 
 Charles William Burbank was born in Webster, Massachusetts, August 9, 1844, 
 died in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 16, 1900. He was a man of education, 
 and for a time taught school at Worcester Academy: later he finished a special 
 course at Laurence Scientific School. Harvard University, qualifying as a civil engi- 
 neer and surveyor. He conducted professional business in Worcester until he died, 
 and also was interested in the printing and publishing business. He was a Baptist in 
 religion, and in politics a "sound old-'fashioned Republican." He married, in Wor- 
 cester, November 4. 18(18. Persis Eliza Cheney, born .August 26, 1848. daughter of 
 Leonard and Persis W. (Hemenway') Cheney. Leonard Cheney was horn in Barre, 
 Massachusetts, November 27, 1821, died December 10, 1902. He married Persis W. 
 Hemenway, June i, 1846. He was superintendent of a department of the American 
 Steel & Wire Company, a corporation in whose employ he continued for more than 
 fifty years. He was a member of the Church of Unity. Children of Leonard and 
 Persis W. Cheney: Leonard Warren, born March 25, 1847, died August 6, IQ17; 
 Persis Eliza, born August 26, 1848, yet living (1919), widow of Charles W. Burbank; 
 Mary Elizabeth, born May 21, 1850, died April 4, 1855: Ellen Sophia, born September 
 12, 1853, yet living; Ida Elizabeth, born September 22, 1858, died August 2, 1907. 
 Leonard Cheney was a son of Artemas Cheney; son of .Artemas Cheney, son of Caleb 
 Cheney, son of William Cheney, son of William Cheney, son of William Cheney, son 
 of William Cheney, who came from England, and settled in Roxbury, Massachu- 
 setts, about 1630. In England the Cheney family traces back to about the year 1200. 
 
 Charles W. and Persis Eliza (Cheney) Burbank were the parents of four chil- 
 dren: Lillie, born March 28, 1871, died April 5, 1918: William Francis, of further 
 mention; .Albert, born May 16, 1876, died 1878; Minnie Tamar, born December 
 16, 1877. 
 
 William Francis Burbank. son of Charles William and Persis Eliza (Cheney) 
 Burbank, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 10, 1873, and there has 
 spent his forty-six years. After completing grammar and high school courses of 
 study in Worcester, he studied civil engineering and surveying under his honored 
 father, and after becoming proficient was -admitted to a partnership, the firm oper- 
 ating as Charles W. Burbank & Son, civil engineers and surveyors. Later father and 
 son both became interested in the printing business of Charles W. Burbank & Com- 
 pany, the son entering both of these firms as a partner in 1804. After the death of 
 Charles W. Burbank in 1900, William F. sold the civil engineering business, and has 
 since devoted himself entirely to the printing business, purchasing all other interests 
 in that business and now is its sole owner and active head. 
 
 Mr. Burbank is a member of all bodies of the York and Scottish Rites, and holds 
 all degrees up to and including the thirty-second. He is atifiliated with Montacute 
 Lodge, Free and .Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram 
 Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Tem- 
 plar; Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the M^-stic Shrine; Stella 
 Chapter, No. 3. Order of the Eastern Star, of which he is past patron; and with 
 all bodies of Massachusetts consistory. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; other orders 
 with which he is affiliated are: Cherokee Tribe, No. 16, Improved Order of Red 
 Men; Worcester Council, No. 136, United Commercial Travelers of America, serv- 
 ing in all chairs and now senior counselor ; Worcester Commercial Travelers' Asso- 
 ciation ; Green Mountain Commercial Travelers' Association^ Worcester Typo- 
 thetae, fifteen years its secretary, two years president; Worcester County Mechanics 
 Association, Worcester Agricultural Society and others. He is a member of the 
 First Baptist Church. 
 
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.L\J> ITS PliOPLE 
 
 Mr. Bill-bank married, Fel>riinry 6. igtX), at Worccsti-r, MaiuiL- E. F. Tail, born 
 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. May 18, 1884, daughter ni Hoiirv F. and (~..ra E. 
 (Prouty) Talt. 
 
 ARTHUR WILLIAM BEAMAN, Secretary and treasurer of the Stockliridge 
 Machine Company, was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, July G. 1871). He 
 attended the puldic schools of iiis native town and tlie Murdock School, completing 
 his education in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He began his business career 
 in this city in the employ of the Shredded Wheal I'>isciiit Company, then located on 
 Jackson street, and during the year that he was with this concern assisted in the 
 removal of the plant from this city to the new quarters at Xiagara Falls. He then 
 spent a year and a half in the Middle West and West. For some time he was 
 employed by the Denver Iron Works and tlie Detroit Iron Works. 
 
 Returning to Worcester for family reasons, he was in tlic employ of the Bay 
 State Stamping Company of this city, in 1902-0,?. resigning his position in 190,^ to 
 become secretary and treasurer of the Stockbridgc Machine Comp.iny, and he has 
 filled these offices and been active in the management of this cnmpany since that 
 time. Mr. Beanian is also the sole proprietor of the .\. B. Manufacturing Company 
 of this city, a concern engaged in making safety-razor blades, sheet-metal crank 
 handles and other specialties. This company was organized in 1909, and has been 
 very prosperous, having an excellent market for its products in this country and 
 abroad. .\1I the products are inventions or designs of Mr. Beaman. He is treasurer 
 of the Worcester County Employers' Association; member of the National Manu- 
 facturers' Association; the Commonwealth Club; .\thelstan Lodge, .Xncient Free 
 and Accepted Masons, and of Plymouth L' Migregational Churcli. In politics he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 John Webster Beaman, father of Arthur W. Beaman, was born in Winchendon, 
 September 18, 1S55, died December .i 1888. Educated in the common schools and 
 trained in the office of E. Murdock & Company, he afterward worked for his father 
 in the manufacture of vvoodenware, became general manager of the business; from 
 1884 to 1888 was traveling salesman for Slade, Gordon & Company, of Gloucester, 
 fish products. He married. January 20. 1876, Calle .'Mice Wood, of .-Xshburnham, 
 dau.ghter of Eliphalet S. and Susan (Farrar) Wood, (See sketch of her brother, 
 O. B. Wood). She is now living in this city at No. 8 Shepard street. Besides the 
 son, Mr. and Mrs. Beanian have a daughter Gertrude .\.. born .\pril i, i88r. now 
 living here with her mother. 
 
 William I'eaman, father of John Webster Beaman, was born in Wiiichendon, 
 September 16, 1818; engaged in business there in 1847 in the manui.uture of pails, 
 tubs, firkins, matches and other woodenware; retired in 1887 on accpunt of ill health; 
 was selectman of the town and assessor. He married. F'ebriKiry 27, 1848, l-'Iiza 
 Caroline Whitney, daughter of Webster and Eliza Parks (Whitman) Whitney, of 
 Winchendon. 
 
 David Beaman, father of William Beam;iii, a farmer, prominent citizen of Win- 
 chendon, captain, selectman. 
 
 Gamaliel Beanian, father of David Beanian, was the first in that town, buying 
 a farm of James Otis, the Patriot. He was with General Washington at Valley 
 Forge, died in the service, October 11, 1777, in the Continental Hospital at Bethle- 
 hem, Pennsylvania. Gamaliel Beaman was the fourth generation from the pioneer, 
 also Gamaliel by name, who came from England in 1635 at the age of twelve in the 
 ship "Elizabeth and .\nn," settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, but removed to 
 Lancaster soon; died March 28, 1678. Gamaliel Beaman, of the third generation. 
 was the first inhabitant of what is now Sterling, Massachusetts. 
 
 GEORGE BERNARD O'FLYNN, A. M. Three generations of O'Flynns 
 were contemporary in Worcester for several years, until 11)05, when the eldest of the 
 group, Richard O'FIynn, called by Hon. Alfred S, Roe, in a memorial read for Wor- 
 cester Society of Antiquity, Worcester's Irish Old Mortality, was called to his 
 reward. He was the father of Thomas Francis O'F'lynn, educator and author, and 
 grandfather of George Bernard O'FIynn, educator, the last-named ci'iiiing upon the 
 scene of action after the death of his grandfather, but spending the first sixteen years 
 of his life under the influence of that fine old Irish scholar and gentleman. 
 
 The history of the family is traced to O'Flainn of Munster, a brother 01 
 Ealathach, and who was of the ninety-ninth generation in the "line of Heber," 
 according to O'llart. This name w-as anglicised O'FIynn and Flynn. The O'Flynns 
 of Connaught bore arms: 
 
 W.-Il'-45. 
 
yob HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Argent, a dexter arm couped between two swords in pale all proper. 
 
 Richard O'Flynn was born in County Waterford, Ireland, February 27, 1829, 
 died in Worcester, Massachusetts, December 24, 1905, son of Thomas and Margaret 
 (Powers) O'Flynn. He came to Worcester in 1865, and for many years kept a book 
 store at No. 244 Front street. He was also long an agent for steamsliip lines and 
 was known in all parts of Ireland. He was a lover of books, an antiquarian in the 
 best sense of the term. He was an authority on American Indian relics, old coins 
 and stamps. His collection of Indian relics, valued as one of the finest private collec- 
 tions in Worcester county, is now the property of The Worcester Society of 
 Antiquity, an organization founded in January, 1875, by Samuel E. Staples, John G. 
 Smith, Franklin P. Rice and Richard O'Flynn. In 1895 Richard O'Flynn visited 
 Ireland and was most cordially entertained in many of the large cities, while in 
 Ireland his antiquarian proclivities led to his discovery of a very old stone in the 
 Abby Yard at Waterford. This stone, exquisitely carved, is evidently of great 
 antiquity, but the secret of its inscription is yet unsolved. It is now carefully placed 
 in the British Museum at London, Mr. O'Flynn having a linen rubbing of the stone 
 made which he presented to the Worcester Society of Antiquity. 
 
 While he collected and sold many books, there were some of the choicest of 
 which were never offered for sale but retained for his own private library. These 
 he finally presented to the Worcester Public Library, his gift comprising eight hundred 
 valuable volumes. Many of these were volumes bearing upon the story of Ireland, 
 and only to be found in few private libraries, also a considerable part were printed 
 in Gaelic. He copied and presented to the Society of Antiquity the inscriptions on 
 all the tombstones in the old Catholic Cemetery in Tatnuck, and also copied the 
 inscription on the old part of St. John's Cemetery. Richard O'Flynn was the Irish 
 histori.m of Worcester. He wrote the history of the Einet Guards, and left four 
 large volumes of clippings and records which but for his love of the work would 
 have been lost. He wrote sketches of all the Catholic parishes which existed in 
 Worcester up to the time of his death, and fully justified in his life and work the 
 title bestowed upon him, "Worcester's Irish Old Mortality." He was one of the 
 founders of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society in Worcester, was its 
 secretary-treasurer for twenty-five years, and for a long time its honored president. 
 In politics he was a Democrat, represented his ward on the city school committee 
 in 1884 and 1885, and for a number of years was an assessor of his ward. 
 
 Richard O'Flynn married, April 21, 1861, Anna O'Neil, who died in Worcester, 
 June 2, 1875, daughter of Charles O'Neil, a veteran of the British Army, who fought 
 Wellington at Waterloo. While stationed at Gibraltar he was ordered to attend 
 the Church of England service, but taking the ground that being a Catholic he 
 should have the privilege of worshiping after the manner of his own faith, he refused 
 to obey. This was deemed insubordination, and according to the manner of punish- 
 ment then sanctioned in the British Army he received three hundred lashes as 
 punishment. Later he wrote to the Duke of York, who ascended the English throne 
 subsequently as William IV., stated his grievance and lived to have the satisfaction 
 of knowing he set in motion the sentiment which resulted in British soldiers wor- 
 shiping, each according to the dictates of his own conscience. Charles O'Neil 
 was tiie author of "Military Adventure," published in 1851. His brother, Arthur 
 O'Neil, was killed on the ship "Terrible" in a battle with the French off the coast of 
 Holland in 1807. Another brother fell at Talavera de la Reina in New Castile, Spain, 
 Wellington there defeating the French, July 27-28, i8og. Charles O'Neil had five 
 sons, all of whom enlisted in the L'nion Army at the outbreak of the War between 
 the States. One of the sons. Captain Thomas O'Neil, commander of the Emmet 
 Guards, was killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. Another son, Lieu- 
 tenant James O'Neil, served in the same regiment (Twenty-fifth Mass.) and later 
 was an aide on the staff of General Marshall, of New York, ranking as colonel. 
 Richard and Anna (CJ'Neil) O'Flynn were the parents of four sons and a daughter: 
 Thomas Francis, of further mention; Charles, deceased; Mary, deceased; William 
 and Richard J., deceased. 
 
 Thomas Francis O'Flynn, eldest son of Richard- and Anna (O'Neil) O'Flynn, 
 was born in Worcester, August 28, 1862, and there yet resides, a highly-esteemed 
 educator and school principal. He is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
 class of 1882, and of Worcester State Normal School. He chose pedagogy as his 
 profession, and won his way to high position in the Worcester schools, holding suc- 
 cessively the principalship of the Thomas street. Providence street and Ledge street 
 public schools of the city. He is highly-regarded among educators, and is president 
 of the Worcester County Teachers' Association. He is the author of "The Story of 
 
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 Worcester," and has otherwise enriched tlic literature nf his profossioii. lie is a 
 Democrat in politics, and in religious faith a Roman Catholic. He mariioil Julia 
 M. Crowley. 
 
 George Bernard O'Flynn, son of Thomas Francis and Julia M. (Crowley) 
 O'Flynn, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 27, 1889. He began his 
 education in Worcester schools, and in 1908 was graduated from the English High 
 School. He then entered Massachusetts Agricultural College, completing courses 
 there with graduation, class of 1912, and the degree of T'. S. He continued his 
 studies at Clark University, there receiving the degree of A. M., class of 191.1. He 
 chose the profession of pedagogy, and in the fall of iqi,^ began as a teacher of 
 biology at North High School, Worcester, and in the fall of 1914 became head of 
 the biological department in Classical High School and teacher of the same study. 
 During I9i.?-I4-I5, he was supervisor of playground garden work in Worcester. 
 
 Mr. O'Flynn is a memlier of the Alumni Council, and of the college fraternities, 
 Kappa, Gainma Phi (Massachusetts Agricultural College); Sigma Fraternity (Clark 
 University); Alhambra Council, No, 88, Knights of Columlius; Bishop O'Reilly 
 Assembly, Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus; member of the National .Security 
 League; Worcester Red Cross; director of Worcester High School Masters' Club; 
 Worcester County Teachers' Association; Massachusetts School Masters' Club; 
 is a Democrat in politics, and a member of Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 HORATIO CLARK GOULDING. When tin- tide of battle rolled back and 
 Pickett's men in despair retreated from the bloody field of Cettysburg, one of the 
 men who repelled that terrific charge paid for the honor with a severe wound. That 
 man was Edwin Goulding, of Company D, Fifteenth Regiment, Massachusetts 
 Volunteer Infantry, a toolmaker of Worcester, and father of Horatio Clark Gould- 
 ing, of the Alsten & Goulding Company, automobile supplies of Worcester. Kdwin 
 Goulding married Isabclle Dana Miller, and at the time of the birth of their son, 
 Horatio Clark, they were living in Worcester. Mr. Edwin Colliding was an expert 
 toolmaker, and with the exception of his three years' service in the Union .Army 
 followed his trade in Worcester. 
 
 Horatio Clark Goulding, son of Edwin and Isabelle Dana (Miller) Goulding, 
 was horn in Worcester. Massachusetts, .April 18, 1876. After completing public 
 school grammar courses he completed a two years' course in the Massachusetts^ 
 Nautical Training School, maintained on board the ship "Enterprise." After com- 
 pleting the nautical course he entered the employ of the Spears Manufacturing 
 Company, manufacturers of bicycles, and for two years continued with that com- 
 pany. The next three years were spent as a salesman of bicycles and sporting goods,, 
 he representing the J. P. Lovell Arms Company, In 1900 Mr. Goulding begani 
 business for himself by forming a partnership with J. A. Alsten. and in a store,, 
 thirty by fifteen feet, they conducted a bicycle repair shop and sold bicycle acces- 
 sories. The business proved a success, and in 1910 was incorporated as the .'\Isten 
 & Goulding Company, capital stock $75,000. The business was then enlarged to 
 include automobile tires and accessories, and tire vulcanizing, seven thousand eight 
 hundred square feet now being devoted to the diiTercnt departments; four floors and 
 basement of a city business building being used. Mr. Goulding is a Republican in 
 politics, and an attendant of the First Universalist Church. His fraternal relations 
 are with Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Alethia Grotto, M. O. V. P. 
 E. R. ; Central Lodge, No. 168, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is con- 
 nected with the United Commercial Travelers' and Worcester Travelers' associa- 
 tions, his clubs the Rotary and Automobile of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Goulding married, in Worcester, in November, 1899, Pearl Charlotte Adams, 
 daughter of Simeon Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Goulding are the parents of two children: 
 Dorothy, born October 9, 1900; and Donald Clark, Decemljer 13, 1906. 
 
 CHARLES ALBERT LATIONS, Proprietor of the Lations Manufacturing 
 Company and of the C. A. Lations Aulo Company, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, 
 June 13, 1867, son of John P. and Marie S. (Merrill) Lations. John P. Lations was 
 born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and is now living at Manchester, in this State, 
 aged eighty-seven years. He was a carriage builder all his active life. He married 
 Marie S. Merrill, who was a native of Newburyport, and died aged sixty-one years. 
 They had two children : Louis C, now living in Manchester, and Charles Albert, 
 mentioned above. Charles A. Lations attended the public schools of his native city 
 until he was thirteen years old, then he began an apprenticeship in the making of shoe 
 patterns. After learning his trade he became a traveling, salesman at the age of 
 
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 eighteen in the employ of the J. S. Smith Shoe Company, of Beverly, Massachusetts. 
 After three years with this company he filled a similar position with, the Smith Made 
 Suspender Company of Boston, gnd continued with that concern for a period of 
 si.xteen years, being manager during the last three years. He came to this city in 
 1907, buying at that time an interest in the Narrow Fabric Company, manufacturing 
 hose supporters and similar goods in Worcester. In iQio he sold his holdings in this 
 company and established the Lations Manufacturing Company. The factory is at Xo. 
 142 Green street. The company manufactures hose supporters, suspenders, garters 
 and webs, and make a specialty of double-life suspenders, long-life suspenders and 
 secret-service garters. He is also an owner in the Lations-Sons Company, repairers 
 of automobiles. No. 152 Green street, and president of the C. .\. Lations .\utomobile 
 Company, No. 739 Main street. He has always been keenly interested in athletics and 
 was the owner of the first polo team organized in this city. In his younger days he 
 was a noted roller skater, giving exhibitions of his skill in rinks in all parts of the 
 country. He took part in numerous six-day skating matches. .\s a professional and 
 semi-professional bicycle rider, he was also known throughout the country. At present 
 his recreation is found mainly in his automobile. Mr. Lations possesses great inven- 
 tive ability and has to his credit various valuable patents. He is a member of New 
 Haven Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Worcester Rotary Club; 
 ' Worcester Chamber of Commerce ; Commercial Travelers of Worcester, and United 
 Commercial Travelers. In politics he is a Republican, and while living in Beverly 
 was a nominee for representative on the Republican ticket. 
 
 Mr. Lations married, at Springfield, Massachusetts, June ,30, 1892, Sophia M. 
 Frese, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a daughter of .August and .\nna 
 (Frank") Frese, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Lations have two children: Pliyllis 
 M., and Karl W., who is now serving in the United States Navy. The former is a 
 member of the faculty of the HuItman-McQuade School of Music in this city. 
 
 MICHAEL PHILIP QUARREY. Displaying as a motto the assertion that. 
 "Quarre\'s Qualitv in Fluwers Stands for the Best," the Quarrey Floral Company. No. 
 150 Franklin street, Worcester, makes their strong plea for public confidence, and in 
 the generous patronage which has rewarded his efforts Mr. Quarrey finds his great 
 encouragement for the future. The business he has conducted for the past six years 
 is one to which he was naturally attracted through his intense love of nature and the 
 out-of-doors. He enjoys a ramlile in the woods above all other forms of recreation, 
 while long drives in his automobile are almost an equal source of delight, not for the 
 pleasure the swift motion affords Init for the constant panorama nature enfolds to 
 his view. 
 
 Mr. Quarrey is a son of William Quarrey, born in Dungarven, a seaport and 
 watering place of Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland, on the Collegan river near 
 its mouth, in the bay of Dungarven. William Quarrey spent the first twenty-one 
 years of his life in his native town then, accompanied by his mother, he came to the 
 United States, locating in Worcester, Massachusetts. He became a well-known truck- 
 man of Worcester, and there resided until his death, April i, 1904, a.ged fifty-two 
 years. He married, in Worcester, Mary Kearney, born in County Waterford, Ireland, 
 who survives him, a resident of Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Quarrey were the parents 
 of six children : William S., a fiorist of Worcester, employed by his brother, Michael 
 P.; Bridget, died in Worcester, aged fourteen years; Joanna, died at the age of seven 
 years; Michael P. (see biography); Charles, died aged three years; John Francis, 
 born in 1890, a soldier of the Forty-second Massachusetts Regiment, stationed at Camp 
 Upton. 
 
 Michael Philip Quarrey was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 15, 
 1885. and until fifteen years of age attended the public schools. He then entered the 
 employ of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam, as cash boy, and a year later began a con- 
 nection with McClouds Screw Works. He was next engaged with the American 
 Steel & Wire Company of Worcester, beginning as a ganger, and at the end of 
 three years being promoted to the post of foreman, so continuing until 1912, when he 
 established in business as a florist at No. 14 Front street. He prospered in his under- 
 taking from the first, and soon found larger quarters necessary. These he found at 
 No. 542 Main street, where he remained until 191,3, when he moved to his present 
 location. No. 150 Franklin street. There he is conducting a most satisfactory business 
 under the firm name, the Quarrey Floral Company, a business which is founded on 
 the soundest principles of commercial honor, and on a genuine love for every plant 
 and flower that passes through its owner's hands. Mr. Quarrey is a member of St. 
 Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Father Matthew Association, Knights of Columbus, 
 and the Improved Order of Red Men. 
 
 Mr. Quarrey married, September i, 1 91 5, Amastasia Mary Raymond, born in 
 Worcester, September i8, 1885, daughter of Robert and Joanna (Powers) Raymond, 
 
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 street railway accideiii in Worcester, March la 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Quarrey are tlie 
 parents of two children: WilHani I'hihp, who died in infancy; Patricia, horn Inly 14, 
 1918. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY SHIPPEE, Real estate, formerly of the city p.dice force, 
 was horn in Colerain. Massachnsetts, Octoher 9, 1846, son of Jesse and jane R. (Don- 
 aldson) Shippee. Jesse Shippee was a native of Colerain; a fanner there until 1855, 
 when he moved to Barrc, Massachusetts. Afterward he located in .X'orth Dana, in 
 this comity. He followed farniin.t; and teaming all his active years. Jane R. (Don- 
 aldson) Shipi)ee was also horn in Colerain. She died in North Dana. They had 
 thirteen children, of whom seven are living. Four of them reside in this city — Herbert 
 K.. is a member of the Fire Patrol: tieorge VV., of tlie Fire Department; Eva May, 
 widow of Charles lirigham; and Charles Henry, of further mention. 
 
 Charles Henry Shippee lived in his native town and attended the district schools 
 there until he was ten years of age, when he went with the family to Harre. Massa- 
 chusetts, where he completed his education in the public scliools, and was associated 
 with his father in the work of the farm until he came of age. He came to this city 
 in i8()7, and worked for a time for the firm of (jarford & Parker. Later in the year 
 he was appointed driver of Steamer No. 2, in the City Fire Department, and he filled 
 this position until 1877, when he was appointed instructor at the county jail, after- 
 ward being made steward. From 1882 until he retired in igi6 he was a patrolman on 
 the city police force, liy shrewd investment and untiring industry Mr. Shippee ac- 
 quired a competence durin.g his lon.g years of service. He is now occui)ied in the 
 care and improvement of his real estate. His residence is at No. 68 Merrick street. 
 Mr. Shippee is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Worcester Lodge. In- 
 dependent Order of Foresters; of the .American Order of L'nited Workmen, the Wor- 
 cester Police Relief Association, and the First Universalist Church. 
 
 Mr. Shippee married. October i, 1888, HUa F. Worth, who was born in Kenne- 
 bunk, Maine; was educated there and in the public scliools of ['..rtlaiid. .Maine. 
 She is a daughter of Thomas Worth, a farmer of Kennebunk. Mr. and Mrs. Shippee 
 have three children, all born in this city; I. George Elmer, automobile de.iler. Spring- 
 held, Massachusetts; married Ruth Carpenter. 2. Charles Worth, enlisted in the 
 L'tmed States .Army, May. 1018, now in the service. 3. Hazel Jane. 
 
 DAVID WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, Superintendent of the Worcester Boys- 
 Club and probation 'officer for juveniles, was born in North .Adams, Massachusetts, 
 November 19, 1885, son of David and Leah (Busierre) Annstrong. His father was 
 born in Canada in 1869; his mother in New F>edford, 1867. 
 
 David W. Armstrong attended the public schools, evening school and a business 
 college in Pittsfield. The greater part of his education, however, was secured in study 
 outside of schools. He began business as a newsboy; then became messenger and 
 collector for the Western Union Telegraph Company ; worked a few months in a shoe 
 factory; was office boy for the Berkshire Life Insurance Company; office clerk of the 
 Pittsfield Young Men's Christian .Association. He then became a clerk in the loan 
 .and policy departments of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company, and assistant super- 
 intendetit and physical director of the Boys' Club of Pittsfield, whence he came to 
 this city at the age of twenty-one years in iiX)7 as superintendent of the Boys' Club 
 (see lioys' Club). He was subsequently appointed probation officer for juveniles of 
 the Central District Court. Since then the Boys' Club has grown from an organiza- 
 tion of eight hundred boys to one of thirty-one hundred boys, and the value of its 
 property and endowment has grown from $8,000 to $200,000. He is a nicmbir of the 
 Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Monday Evening Club, the Twentieth 
 Century Club, the Boy Scouts Council, the Motion Picture Censorship Board; the 
 Massachusetts Child Welfare Committee. He was formerly a member of the execu- 
 tive council of the Boys' Club Federation of the United States, and is now a member 
 of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Federation of Boys' Clubs. He is a 
 communicant of All Saints' Church. During the World War he was director o{ two 
 membership campaigns for the Red Cross in the W'orcester county district, was as- 
 sistant chairman in two war fund camjiaigns. and a member of the executive com- 
 mittees of several others. He was assistant chairman for New England for the Red 
 Cross Christmas Roll Call. 
 
 Mr. .Armstrong married, in this city. May 3. 1911, .Antoinette Whittle, who was 
 b.irn here. December 13. 1887, a daughter of James H. and Louisa Burnetle (St:irrett) 
 Whittle. Her father was born in Lewiston, Maine, May 15, 1859, a manufacturer; 
 her mother was born in Millville, Massachnsetts, May 3, 1862. died 1904. Mr. and 
 Mrs. .Armstrong have one child. Robert Whittle, born March 30. 1917. 
 
710 HISTORY OF WORCESTER. 
 
 HENRY WAYNE GUY, With the Guy Furniture Company, was born in this 
 city, Octfiber 4, i860, son of Henry Martin and Hattie Myria (Cleveland) Guy. Henry 
 Martin Guy was born in Dover, Massachusetts, October 10, 1837, and died in this city, 
 April 18, 1912. He was an expert woodworker by trade and was employed in this city 
 for more than fifty years. He served in the Civil War, Company D, Forty-third Regi- 
 ment, Volunteer Infantry. He married, June 26, 1864, in Medfield, Massachusetts, 
 Hattie Myria Cleveland, born in said town. October 29, 1840, daughter of Captain 
 Anthony Wayne Cleveland, and had four children ; Helen A., born in Medfield, May 
 2, 1865, died in Worcester, July 10, 1909; Henry W. (see biography) ; Alfred M., bom 
 in Worcester. December 15, 1873, and is a traveling salesman; Nettie J., born in Wor- 
 cester, January 16, 1879. a bookkeeper. All the living children reside in the family 
 home at No. 21 Ball street. Mr. Guy is a descendant in various lines from pioneers 
 of New England, and from ancestors who fought in the War of the Revolution. He 
 is a direct descendant of Timothy Guy, of Boston Tea Party fame. 
 
 Henry W. Guy was educated in the public schools. When he was seventeen years 
 old he entered the employ of the Guy Furniture Company of Worcester, and e.xcept- 
 ing a period of five years, when he held an executive position in the store of Bell, 
 Orme & Burrill, house furnishers, located in the Knowles building, he has been with 
 the Guy Furniture Company as salesman and in other positions of responsibility to 
 the present time. In politics Mr. Guy is a Republican, and he has always taken an 
 active part in the Republican organization. He served three years on the Republican 
 city committee; was vice-chairman two years, and acting chairman at the time of the 
 municipal election in 1905. He represented Ward Seven in the Common Council in 
 1914 and 1915, serving on several of the more iinportant committees, and has 
 been a member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor of the city. He finds recreation 
 in keeping stock, and farming on a small scale. He is one of the charter members of 
 the Worcester Poultry Association; member of the Worcester Grange, Patrons of 
 Husbandry; the Worcester County Republican Club; and Bethany Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Guy was married in this city, June 21, 1893. to Cora E. Bruso, by Rev. W. N. 
 Richardson, pastor of the Webster Square Methodist Episcopal Church. They were 
 the parents of two children : Alfred Henry, born .April 14, 1896, died .August 7. 
 1897; and Waldo Wayne, born May 17, 1907. 
 
 EDWARD MILTON WOODWARD. During his earlier manhood Mr. Wood- 
 ward was a resident of Worcester, engaged as a machinist. The demand of his posi- 
 tion as a mechanical expert took him from Worcester for a period of seventeen years. 
 Then in 1887 he returned, organized a company and established an industry which has 
 added to the manufacturing prestige of the city and of which he is still the honored 
 executive head. The Woodward & Lowell Plane Company, 
 
 Edward M. Woodward was born in Marlboro, New Hampshire, November II, 
 1846, son of William A. and Louisa J. (Whitcomb) Woodward, his father a builder 
 of Winchendon, Massachusetts. Edward M. Woodward attended the public schools 
 of Marlboro, later completing his studies at New Hampton (New Hampshire), Liter- 
 ary Institution. On arriving at suitable age he began learning the machinist's trade 
 with his uncle, Charles Buss, of Marlboro, a manufacturer of wood-working machin- 
 ery. After completing his years of apprenticeship he came to Worcester, entered the 
 employ of Lathe & Morse as a journeyman machinist, continuing in Worcester until 
 1870. In that year he located in Baltimore. Maryland, where he was mechanical ex- 
 pert at the Southern headquarters of the Weed Sewing Machine Company, filling that 
 position for ten years. In 1880 he resigned to accept a position as salesman with E. P. 
 Bullard and for seven years made New York City his headquarters. During that 
 period he was admitted to partnership with Mr. Bullard and together they operated 
 until 1887, when they dissolved, Mr. Woodward then locating in Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts. Soon afterward he organized the Powell Plane Company, which later was 
 incorporated as the Woodward & Powell Plane Company, of which he is president 
 and treasurer. The history of the company is one of continued success, and as 
 executive head Mr. Woodward has been the principal contributing cause of that 
 success. 
 
 He is a member and is an ex-president of the National Tool Builders' Associa- 
 tion, being third in the lists of presidents of that body. He is also an ex-president of 
 the National Metal Trades Association, the Worcester County Mechanics' Association 
 (1902-03-04) and Worcester Chamber of Commerce (1911-12). These honors, held 
 by the favor of his contemporaries of business and mechanical circles, indicates the 
 high regard in which Mr. Woodward has long been held and as the years progressed 
 these feelings of esteem have but strengthened. In politics he is a Republican, and in 
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 the Board of AldcniK-n. and in i0O5-(j()-o- was cliairman of the citv board, Ovirscers 
 of the Poor. He has given freely of his time, energy and ability to the public service 
 and has always been fonnd among these public-spirited, progressive citizens to whom 
 communities are always indebted for their forward movements. 
 
 Mr. Woodward m.irried Elsie A. (Jones) Woodward, who died in lOii. 
 
 CLARENCE EDWIN WAKEFIELD. Two generations of Wakeficlds have 
 been engaged m the manufacture of wrenches in Worcester, John H. and Clarence E. 
 Wakefield, father and son, the latter succeeding to the business founded by the father. 
 The Wakelields early appeared in New England, John Wakefield, the founder, born 
 in Hertfordshire, England, coming in 1632. He was an inhabitant of Marblehead, 
 Massachusetts. January i, 1637, but in 1642 he had a grant under the authority of the 
 Ligonia patent whicli was later known as the Great Hill Kami in Maine. He settled 
 in the town of Wells. Maine, and there was a man of considerable prominence. He 
 made several moves in the State of Maine, finally locating in that part of Biddeford 
 now known as Saco, where he died, February 15, 1764. He married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Edmund and .\nnie I^ittlelield, of Wells, and had sons. Tames, John, William, all 
 of whom married and reared children. From him sprang George Wakefield, a veteran 
 of the Civil War, and a jewelry merchant, living at Lewiston and Lisbon, Maine, and 
 the father of three sons, John E., Otis J., and Arthur Wakefield. John E. Wakefield 
 married Ella M. Wood, at Winchendon, Massachusetts, and they were the parents of 
 Clarence Edwin Wakefield, of Worcester. Jolm E. Wakefield ified in 1910, and was 
 succeeded by his only son, Clarence E., now head of the business conducted luider the 
 firm name, Clarence E. Wakefield. 
 
 Clarence Edwin Wakefield was born in Worcester, February 28, 1878. Graduating 
 from the High School, class of 1808, in Worcester, he entered Pratt Institute, Brook- 
 lyn, New York, and there was graduated with the class of 1901. After completing 
 his school years he became associated with his father, a manufacturer of wrenches in 
 the city of Worcester. Like his forbears Mr, Wakefield is a Kepublican in politics, 
 but is essentially a business man, public office holding no allurement for him. lie is a 
 member of Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and Shrine of the Masonic 
 order, the Worcester Country Club, Commonwealth Club and Economic Club. 
 
 Mr. Wakefield married, in 1005, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Mary I. Hickey, 
 daughter of Thomas Hickey, of the Gretn & Hickey Leather Company. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wakefield are the parents of a son, John Thomas, born October 7, 191 1, in Worcester. 
 
 LUCIUS WALLACE BRIGGS, Architect, was born in Worcester, Massachu- 
 setts, son of Conulius Winters .ind Lucy Ryder (Wallace) Briggs. Cornelius W. 
 Briggs was a veteran of the Civil War and was by occupation a mechanical engineer. 
 
 Lucius W. Briggs completed public school courses of study at Worcester Classical 
 High School, going thence to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he took 
 a special architectural course. After studying a number of years with prominent 
 architectural firms he established in business in 1806 as Lucius W. Briggs, architect, 
 so continuing until 1899 when he became a member of Frost, Briggs, Chamberlain, 
 firm dissolved in 1912, and Mr. Briggs reorganized his business as the L. W. Briggs 
 Company, Incorporated. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, 
 Boston Society of Architects, Society for the Preservation of New England Anti- 
 quities, the Worcester Country Club, Kiwanis Club, and Union Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Briggs married Lillian Eraser Vickers, of Portland, Maine, daughter of 
 Captain John Randolph and Janet (Eraser) Vickers. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs are the 
 parents of four children: Carlyle Wallace, died in infancy; Janet Eraser; Kathryn 
 Barbara ; and Stuart Wallace, a student in Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 EPHREM GIRARD. When Maxine Girard came from France he settled in 
 St. Germain, Province of Quebec, Canada, and there reared a family, wdiich consisted 
 of nineteen living children, .\mong his children, Severin Girard, was the first bom, 
 and he married Angele St. Pierre. They had thirteen children, six of whom survive. 
 Among these survivors but one came to Massachusetts, Ephrem, a contractor of steam, 
 water and gas heating systems, at No. 90 Fairmont avenue, Worcester. 
 
 Ephrem Girard was born at St. Germain de Grantham, a village of Drutnmond 
 county, province of Quebec, August, 1867. There he spent his years of minority, ob- 
 taining his education and assisting his father in the cultivation of the home farm. 
 Upon arriving at legal age he was given a farm by his father, and during the follow- 
 ing three years of his life he cultivated that property. He was then twenty-four years 
 of age, but not content to remain a farmer he closed up his Canadian aflfairs and 
 came to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1891. Here he learned the steam fitter's trade 
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 completed. He then started in business for himself, opening a shop at No. 99 Fair- 
 mont avenue, where he has built up a prosperous business in steam, water, and gas 
 heating construction. His home is also at the same location, and everything around his 
 place of business and his home bespeaks the progressive, prosperous business man. Mr. 
 Girard is a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, and is very fond of 
 the out-of-door sports, hunting .ind fishing, sports inbred in every true French- 
 Canadian. 
 
 Mr. Girard married (first) Rose Duhamel, who died in 1904, who bore him six 
 children. He married (second) Malvina Louise Roy (King), in Worcester. May 28, 
 1904, daughter of Alitchell and Florence (Amelotte) Roy (King), both born in Can- 
 ada. His children : Fred E., born March 9, 1889, now serving in the Aviation Corps, 
 United States Army, with the rank of sergeant: Eveline, born May 26, 1891, married 
 Joseph Boyer Leicester, and has two sons, Edmund and Joseph ; Joseph R., born Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1892, unmarried; Evangeline, died March 18, 1912, aged nineteen years; 
 Leda, born in September, 1895, married Harold Baer; Henry, born April 13, 1899, 
 now a soldier of the L^nited States in the Medical Corps. 
 
 CHARLES ARCHIBALD MIDDLEMAS. When a young man of twenty-two, 
 Mr. Middlemas left his Nova Scotian home and came to Worcester, Massachusetts, 
 where he has since resided. That was in 1880, and four years later he had perfected 
 his knowledge of the plumber's trade, bought out the Sisson plumbing shop and 
 established in business for himself. Since 1884 he has been continuously engaged as 
 a plumber, and since 1912 has been located at the present headquarters of his business. 
 No. 40 Southbridge street. He is a son of John S. Middlemas, horn in Middleton, 
 Nova Scotia, Canada, died in Los Angeles, California, and his wife, Rebecca (Parker) 
 Middlemas. born in Middleton, Nova Scotia, April 19, 1830, and there yet resides in 
 her eighty-ninth year. Children: David W., an ice and coal dealer, Helena, Montana, 
 married, and has three children, George. Ethel, and May; George E., a machinist of 
 New York City, married, and has sons, George and Raymond; Henrietta E., married 
 Albert Reals, of Middleton, and has two children, Robert and Maud; Charles Archi- 
 bald, of further mention; Isaac N., deceased; Jerusha T., deceased; Parker J., a 
 plumber of Worcester, married, and has three children, Mary, Newton, and .'\lice. 
 The Middlemas family came to Nova Scotia from Scotland, Peter Middlemas, grand- 
 father of Charles A. Middlemas, being the founder of the family in Middleton, Nova 
 Scotia. 
 
 Charles /Vrchibald Middlemas was born in Middleton. a port of entry of Annap- 
 olis county. Nova Scotia, one hundred and one miles west of Halifax, November II, 
 1858. He obtained a good education in his native town, and there resided until he 
 was twenty-two years of age. He then came alone to Worcester, Massachusetts, where 
 for a short time he was a grocer's clerk. He then became a plumber's apprentice, 
 and when "out of his time" bought the Sisson plumbing plant formerly owned by 
 his employer and trade instructor. Since that year, 1884, Mr. Middlemas has steadily 
 pursued his successful way as a contracting plumber and has gained honorable stand- 
 ing among the substantial business men of his city. He conducts his business at No. 
 40 Southbridge street under the firm name, Charles A. Middlemas, practical plumber. 
 He is an expert workman himself, a good business man, well-liked and highly-esteemed. 
 Mr. Middlemas is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to lodge, chapter and 
 commandery of Knights Templar: is an Odd Fellow-, member of the Grotto, the Ki- 
 wanis Club, Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, and in politics a Republican. He is 
 fond of hunting and has brought many deer out of the Maine North woods and one 
 Caribou. 
 
 Mr. Middlemas married in Spencer, Massachusetts, November II, 1885, Clara 
 Josephine Prouty, born in Spencer, June 19. 1865, daughter of Francis N. and Sarah 
 J. (Hill) Prouty. both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Middlemas are the parents of a 
 daughter, Sibyl Frances, born January 15,' 1895, married Glen Vernon Powers, and 
 has a daughter, \'irginia, born in 1916. 
 
 DAVID BERNARD ISENBERG, Real estate and insurance agent, was born 
 in Hull, England, December 25, 1878. He came with his parents to this country when 
 eighteen months old. They located in .Albany, New York, and lived there until he 
 was five years old. Since then his home has been in Worcester. He attended the 
 public schools here until he was thirteen years old. As a boy he worked in a mill 
 and afterward learned the trade of stone carver in the employ of T. J. MacAulifFe in 
 this city, continuing as apprentice and journeyman in this trade for a period of five 
 years. He left his trade to accept a position as solicitor for the Equitable Life In- 
 surance Company, and having an aptitude for this line of business he opened an office 
 in 1906 at No. 733 State Mutual building, engaging in the real estate and insurance 
 
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 business and year by year cxteniHiig liis business, auainui>; marked success in botii 
 branches. He is a director of the Aletropohtan Mutual (''ire Insurance Company of 
 Boston. He is one of the most prominent underwriters of life, lire and other insur- 
 ance in the city. In politics Mr. Isenberg is a Democrat, keenly interested and active 
 in public affairs, and in his party organization in the city and State. He is prominent 
 in the various Hebrew organizations: was a vice-president of the Maccabees; president 
 of the B'nai lirith for two years. He is a member of Worcester Lodge, Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks; the Worcester Board of Underwriters; the Massa- 
 chusetts Fire and Life Underwriters. He is a member of Shara Thora Synagogue. 
 
 Mr. Isenberg married, at Providence, Rhode Island, November 14, igil. .Anna 
 Klein, who was born in Russia, coming to this country in infancy with lier parents, 
 Simon and Fannie (Priest) Klein, and spending her girlliood in Providence, where 
 her parents are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Isenberg have one child, Harvey .Mton, 
 born .August 2G, 1913. 
 
 Bernard Isenberg, father of David li. Isenberg, was a native of Russia; removed 
 to England where he lived for ten years before coming to this country. He is now a 
 resident of this city, a retired contractor and builder, now in the undertaking business 
 at No. 2 Rice lane. He married, in England, Sarah Rainwater, also a native of 
 Russia. They had eight children of whom seven are living: Moses, died in infancy.; 
 David B., mentioned above ; Myer P., a music dealer in Boston ; Harry, a ship builder, 
 resides in Worcester; Samuel, of this city, is in tlie installment business in Portland, 
 Maine; Frances, married Louis Hahn, and resides in Boston; Alfred C, of Worcester, 
 is now in the United States Navy; Ethel, resides with htr parents. IJavid B. Isen- 
 berg's home i at No. 19 June street. 
 
 GEORGE LEMUEL TUPPER. While the early life of (;e..rge L. Tuppcr. of 
 Worcester, was largely spent m the State of Maine, he located in Worcester in 1S87, 
 and has been a resident ever since. He began life a farmer boy, and after many 
 attempts at other occupations he returned to his boyhood occupation, and on his 
 farm, six miles from Worcester, maintains a herd of twenty-three cows whose product 
 he disposes of daily to the Worcester public. His father, also George Lemuel Tupper, 
 w-as born in Oakland, Maine, died in Fairfield Center, Maine, aged tifty-six years. He 
 was a farmer all his active years, a kindly, considerate man, a hard worker, and an 
 honorable, upright citizen. He married Cordelia Clements, born in Fairfield Center, 
 Maine, where she yet resides, nearing her eighty-seventh birthday. They were the 
 parents of nine children, six of whom are living; George L. and Fred, both living in 
 Worcester, the latter a member of the police force; Harry, of Augusta, Maine; Veiza, 
 of Fairfield Center; Alta, of F'airfield Center, widow of Charles Fuller; Lillian, mar- 
 ried Edward Blake, and resides at Bangor, Maine. 
 
 George Lemuel (2) Tupper was born in Fairheld Center, Maine, .\pril 20. 1865. 
 He resided at the home farm until he was of legal age, obtaining his education in the 
 public schools. As his father's assistant he became well informed in agricultural 
 matters, but tiring of the farm he left home and for one year engaged as a teamster 
 with his brother in Woonsocket. In 1887 he located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and 
 there secured a position as driver with the street car company. F'or eight years he 
 remained in that position, then from his savings bought a livery business on Central 
 street and there he continued for six years. He then sold out and bought his present 
 place of business. No. 83 Charlotte street, and has since conducted a retail milk busi- 
 ness. In May. 1917, he bought a farm at Leicester, Massachusetts, six miles from 
 Worcester, which he cultivates and makes a home for his herd of cattle and his other 
 stock. It will be noted that Mr. Tupper has never had a position or conducted a busi- 
 ness in which a horse was not a necessity, and this fact arises from his love for the 
 horse as a racer, that being his favorite recreation. Nevertheless he has discarded 
 that animal and has substituted the motor car, driving a Buick. He has invested his 
 profits in Worcester real estate, owning his own residence on Park avenue, and a three 
 tenement house at Shirley and Park avenues. He is a member of the Independent 
 Order <if C)dd I-"ellows. an Independent in politics, and a member of Wo(jdland Street 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Tupper married in Worcester, Alassachusetts. in 1000. .Minnie L. Twiss, born 
 in Worcester, daughter of .Amos and Sarah (Cummings) Twiss, both deceased. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Tupper have no children. 
 
 CHARLES ANDREW POFF, Business manager of the Worcester "Evening 
 Post." was born in Liindonderry. .New Hampshire, April 6, 1870. After graduating 
 from the high school at Nashua. New Hampshire, in 1888. he w-as employed in the 
 business office of the "Nashua Daily Telegraph," and frcjm 1889 to 1898 was its busi- 
 ness manager. He resigned during the Spanish War tn enter the service, b'rom i8(J9 
 
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 to 1900 he was business manager of the Gardner "Daily News," and from April, 1901, 
 to September i, 1913, advertising solicitor of the Worcester "Telegram." He nego- 
 tiated the sale of the Worcester "Evening Post" to John H. Fahey, former owner of 
 the Boston "Traveler." acting for Mrs. Julia Moriarty and the Conlon estate, in 1913, 
 and became business manager. Under his management the circulation was increased 
 about fifty per cent, and the advertising rates have been advanced twice. He arranged 
 for the new quarters of the newspaper in the Burgess-Lang building on Federal street 
 Here in August, 1916, the "Post" occupied quarters planned for its special use and at 
 that time new machinery was installed. 
 
 Mr. Poff became a private in Company C. First Regiment, New Hampshire 
 National Guard, in 1887 ; was made corporal, then sergeant, commissioned second 
 lieutenant in 1890, first lieutenant in 1S96. During the Spanish War he was ordnance 
 officer, adjutant, quartermaster and engineering officer. He resigned from the National 
 Guard in 1900. He is a member of Worcester Lodge, No. 56, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Montacute Lodge, 
 Worcester Lodge of Perfection, Goddard Council, Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix, 
 and the Massachusetts Consistory. In religion he is a Congregationalist. In politics 
 he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Poff married in Nashua, 1892, Annie Wynn, who was born in Truro, Nova 
 Scotia, a daughter of Joseph and Bessie Wynn. Tliey have no children. 
 
 ADRIAN VAN LEEUWEN, Park commissioner, landscape gardener, was 
 born in Amsterdam, Holland, December 15, 1867, son of Adrian and Antje (De Kort) 
 Van Leeuwen. Adrian \'an Leeuwen was born in Boskoop, Holland, and like his 
 father and grandfather was ft gardener. He died September 15, 1917. Antje De 
 Kort was born in Leiderkorp, Holland, and died June 13, 1912, in Franklin, Massa- 
 chusetts, aged seventy-six years. Of their children, three are living : Adrian, men- 
 tioned below; Mathew Jacobus, a nurseryman at Franklin, Massachusetts; Janette, 
 who married Abraham Groeneweg, of Rotterdam. 
 
 When Adrian Van Leeuwen was two years old his family moved to Rotterdam, 
 where he was educated. W^hen eighteen years of age he was appointed assistant gar- 
 dener to the Emperor of Austria. Returning from Austria, a year later, he was drafted 
 in the Dutch army, where he served twenty-two months with the Royal Guard, at the 
 Hague, and attained the rank of sergeant. After his release from the service, he came 
 to this country, in 1888, landing at Passaic, New Jersey, October 14. He spent the 
 next five years in Passaic, where he was employed as a gardener and florist, and was 
 afterward in the same line of business in Bridgeport and New Haven, Connecticut. 
 He came to this city in looi and has since that time been in business as a landscape 
 gardener and expert in horticulture. His gardens and residence are at No. 17 Hey- 
 wood street. He has choice nursery stock of every kind ; ornamental and fruit trees, hardy 
 garden plants and bulbs. As a landscape architect Mr. Van Leeuwen is well known 
 throughout the State. His business is conducted under the name of the Horticultural 
 Company. He is also known as a writer on landscape topics and horticulture. He 
 had an illustrated article in the Worcester Magazine in 1916. He was appointed to 
 the Worcester Park and Playgrounds Commission in 191 7, and was reappointed for 
 a term of three years in 1918. While in Holland he was a member of the Royal 
 Sharpshooters and aftervv'ards took a first prize while a member of the Korps Konin- 
 klyke Scherp-schutters. He is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Aletheia Grotto; the Wor- 
 cester Rotary Club. 
 
 Mr. Van Leeuwen married at New Rochelle, New York, June 21, 1893, Helen 
 Marie Weeda Schrieken, who was born in Amsterdam, Holland, daughter of Nick- 
 olas Schrieken. Both her parents are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Van Leeuwen have 
 five children: I. Henry A. H., born May i, 1894; served in the World War; now at 
 home recuperating from shell-shock suffered in the trenches while fighting in France. 
 2. Anita Helen, born July 17, 1897; married June 11, 1917, in Springfield, Massachu- 
 setts, Carleton Russell Wheelock, of Millbury, Massachusetts, who is now a sergeant 
 of the Medical Corps, now serving in the United States army in France; they have a 
 daughter, Helen Marion, born March 17, lOlS. 3. Adrian James, born May 6, 1907. 
 4. Helen Isabelle, born July 22, 1909. 5. John Kenneth, born August 12, 1912. 
 
 ARTHUR JAY WALLACE, Former general manager and treasurer of the 
 Economic Machinery Company, was born in this city April 21, 1881, son of W. C. 
 Wallace. He attendea the old Winslow Street School and the English High School. 
 He began his business career as architect's apprentice in the employ of Lucius W. 
 Briggs, and was afterward draftsman for the, Vocalion Organ Company, of this city. 
 He was, subsequently, for a short time, employed in the drafting department of the 
 
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 Flexible Door and Shutter Company of Worcester, and f(;r five years in the mst and 
 estimating department of the George W. Carr Company, contractors, of this lity. 
 Since 1907 Mr. Wallace has been with the Economic Machinery Company, manufac- 
 turers of labelling machinery of all kinds. At the time he came into the concern it 
 was at the beginning of a period of great growth and lie was engaged to system.it ize 
 the business. The company had very valuable patents on machines for applying labels 
 to bottles and other containers. So great was the saving of laljor effected by these 
 machines that the demand in this country and abroad created a very extensive business 
 in a very short time and there were unusual difliculties to be overcome in the plant, 
 in the operation of the factory, and in fdling orders. Mr. Wallace adopted the most 
 approved systems in office and shop and made the plant a model of efficiency and 
 order. After the work was well systematized, he took charge of the correspondence 
 and advertising, and from time to time assisted in the selling department, lie was 
 eventually made assistant to the general manager :;nd business manager. After the 
 reorganization of the company, in 1915, Mr. Wallace was made secretary, treasurer 
 and .general manager of the company. The factory is at No. yj .School street. The 
 labelling machinery has been constantly improved under the adnu'nistration of Mr. 
 Wallace, and has reached a high state of perfection. "The machines that do the 
 world's labelling" is the motto of the company, well-justil'ud by the universal demand 
 for the product of the factory. The company makes the World Labeller, improved, 
 for body and neck labels applied at one operation and also the World Labeler, Junior, 
 that applies body labels on bottles and jars of all shapes and sizes. The World Cigar 
 Bander is another wonderful machine manufactured by this company. Another device 
 is the Center Gum World Labeller, adapted for bottles having tlat surfaces, and this 
 machine has a practical monopoly of the field. .-Vn entirely new machine called the 
 World Automatic Rotary Labeler does the work of three standard type hand-fed 
 machines, with a capacity of labelling body and neck of 120 bottles a minute. The 
 company maintains a service department, and its inspectors make periodical visits to 
 all plants using the machines and make the necessary repairs. D. W. Gurnelt, of 
 Boston, is president of the company; Herman Stake is vice-president and manager of 
 the works; George Putnam and Carl Bonney are directors. Offices are maintained in 
 the principal cities of the country. 
 
 Mr. Wallace is a member of the Worcester Chan;ber of Commerce, and one of the 
 board of governors of the Worcester Country Club. He served five years in Company 
 C, of the Second Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard, and is now a member of 
 Company 56. of the Nineteenth Regiment, State Guard. He is a member of the Rock- 
 port Country Club, of Rockport, Massachusetts; and of the Worcester Rotary Club, 
 of which he was vice-president for two years. In politics he is a Republican. He is 
 a member of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city and one of its board 
 of directors. 
 
 Mr. Wallace married. November 5, 1905, Martha Fletcher Haselden. They have 
 one son, Arthur Jay, Jr. Mr. Wallace now resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, hav- 
 ing severed his connection with Worcester affairs. At present he is in Paris on War 
 Relief Work. 
 
 JOHN HAROLD DODGE, General Manager of the Lowell Wrench Company, 
 manufacturers of reversible ratchet wrenches, fills a responsible position with the com- 
 pany to which he came a young man of twenty-five, in the year 1O04. He is a son 
 of Rev. John E. Dodge, a Congregational minister, grandson of Rev. John Dodge, 
 born in Brooksville, Maine, great-grandson of Benjamin and Mary (Veasey) Dodge, 
 and great-great-grandson of Ephraim Dodge, a private in the Continental army, serv- 
 ing in 1775 and 1776. This branch of the family springs from John Dodge, of Somer- 
 setshire, England, and through his son, Richard Dodge, who came from England 
 to New England in 1638. Richard Dodge, the American ancestor, settled in "Dodge 
 Row," North Beverly, Massachusetts, where he built a house whicli was occupied 
 and owned in the family for two hundred years. His wife, Edith, whom he married 
 in England, survived him seven years, dying June 27, 1678, at the age of seventy- 
 five years. 
 
 Rev. John Dodge, of Brooksville, Maine, was a Congregational minister. He mar- 
 ried Ann Godfrey, and they were the parents of four children: Rev. John Edward, of 
 further mention ; George S., Mary, and Ella. 
 
 Rev. John Edward Dodge was born October S, 1S50, at Waldoboro, Maine, died in 
 Westboro. Massachusetts, May 6, 1908. He studied theology and became a minister 
 of the Congregational church, serving congre.gations at Paxton, Sterling, Worcester, 
 Harvard and West Boylston. He married (first") October 12, 1876, Emma Backus, 
 born October l8, 1847, "in Hebron, Connecticut, died January 26, 1901, in Worcester, 
 
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 Massachusetts, daughter of Ezra anil Jane ( Bears) Backus. They were the parents 
 of two sons: John Harold, of further mention; Rowland B., horn in Westboro, Massa- 
 chusetts, a minister of the Gospel. 
 
 John Harold Dodge, son of Rev. John Edward and Emma (Backus) Dodge, was 
 born in Westboro, Massachusetts, October 7, 1879. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Sterling and Worcester, Massachusetts, and when school days were over he 
 began business life with the Newton Company, wholesale grocers, continuing with 
 that company for six years. In iqo^ he entered the employ of the Lowell Wrench 
 Company of Worcester, manufacturers of reversible ratchet wrenches, and for fifteen 
 years has been continuously in the service of that company, having been general man- 
 ager since 1008. Mr. Dodge is a men^ber of the Worcester Country Club, the Ki- 
 wanis Club, Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and .\dams Square Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Dodge married, in Worcester, September J, 1903, Helen Sinclair, daughter 
 of Professor John E. Sinclair, of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and his wife. Mari- 
 etta (Fletcher) Sinclair. Mr. and Mrs. Dodge are the parents of four children: John 
 Sinclair, born December 17, 1904: Helen Chadwick, born July 30, 1908; Richard Sin- 
 clair, born October 7, 191 1 ; and Elizabeth Ann, born .A.pril 3, 1916. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY SAGAR, General agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life 
 Insurance Company nf Milwaukee, was born in ."Mbany, New ^'ork, September ly, 
 1856. His parents moved to Baldwinsville, New York, when he was but five years old, 
 and he attended public and select schools there until he was sixteen years, when he 
 went to work. Afterward he was employed in Syracuse, New York. In 1879 he 
 established a drug store in .\uburn. New York. That business prospered and is still 
 continued under his name. He sold it in 1892, however, and founded another whole- 
 sale drug business at Duluth, Minnesota, continuing there for five years. Afterward 
 he was in the wholesale business for several years in Chicago, and during part of that 
 time conducted a manufacturing laboratory. Finally disposing of his interests he 
 engaged in the life insurance business with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of Milwaukee. He came to this city in the employ of that company in 1912, 
 and is now its general agent for Central and Eastern Massachusetts, with offices in 
 the Day building in Worcester. For eight years Mr. Sagar served in the Wheeler 
 Rifles, an independent military company, while living in New York State. He is a 
 member of the Commonwealth Club, Chamber of Commerce, Economic Club. Leicester 
 Country Club, the Worcester Country Clul), Worcester .Automobile Club. Congrega- 
 tional Club. In religion he is a Presbyterian, hut at present is a member of the Pied- 
 mont Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Sagar married, at Baldwinsville, New York, Charlotte Elizabeth Dyer, of 
 Vermont, daughter of David and Eliza (Breckinridge) Dyer, both of whom are now 
 deceased. Her parents were of the pioneer stock of New England. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sagar reside at No. 232 Highland street. Their children are: Clara, who was drowned 
 at the age of seven years; Carlotta, who married C. W. Lummis, of this city; Frances, 
 who married Milton C. Knight, of this city; C. Louise, who married R. C. Morenus. 
 of Chicago, now captain in the United States Field .Artillery, stationed ( 191S) in Okla- 
 homa. 
 
 William H. Sagar, father of Charles H. Sagar. was born in Albany county. New 
 York, son of Peter Sagar. He died in 1872, aged forty-four years, a cabinet maker by 
 trade. He married Catherine Bradt, who was born in Albany county, and died Decem- 
 ber, 1916, aged eighty-six years. They had three children: Charles Henry (see biog- 
 raphy) ; Ella S., married Frank \'an Ness, and died in 1915, aged forty-eight years; 
 George R., a real estate dealer in Portland, Oregon, having two sons, Paul and Charles 
 F. Sagar. 
 
 A. WALFIRD HJELM. .\t the age of twelve years Mr. Hjelm began his 
 career, starting as an office boy in his native Sweden. This was more than a mere 
 beginning as a wage-earner, it was the opening of a new world to the lad, a world of 
 which he knew nothing. From that period began his interest in those things which 
 were to become of such importance in his life. He has already progressed since that 
 beginning, nearly half a century ago, his Swedish home being exchanged for one in 
 the United States, and the boy of twelve is now the veteran of his own business 
 located in the city of Worcester. Massachusetts. 
 
 .\. Walfird Hjelm was born in Christinehamn, a town of Sweden in Vermland, 
 twenty-five miles from Karlstad on Lake Vener, October 13, i86o. He is a son of John 
 and Mary (Anderson) Hjelm, natives of Sweden, emigrated to .America in 1882, locat- 
 ing imrnediately in Worcester, Massachusetts. John Hjelm worked for the American 
 
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 Steel & Wire L'Mmpaiiv lor over tuenty-eislit years, and lii^ death occurred mi Wor- 
 cester, in iyi6, a^ed seventy-live years. His wife snrxives liini, residiiiK at tlie present 
 time in Worcester, over eiglitv years of age. 
 
 .■\. Wallird Hjclm attended the pnbHc schools until twelve years of awe, then hccanic 
 an office hoy in a local liusiness house, a place he filled for four years. He next spent 
 t\\-o years employed in a steel mill, then with the consent and advice of his parents 
 he decided to come to the L'nited States. Me was eighteen years of age when, on lan- 
 uary 13, i,«So. he hade .yood-bye to family, friends, and native land, arriviii.i^ at" his 
 destination in due time, reacliin.u; Worcester the day of his arrival in this country. 
 Fehriiary 4. i.SSo. lie secured employment in tlie Washburn & Moen Wire Works! 
 beginning in lowly position in the galvanizing plant and during the nc.\t four vears 
 gained valiial>le experience in about every department of the works. In 1SK4 he went 
 to Troy. Xew ^■ork. where he was in charge of the galvanizing plant of the Griswold 
 Wire Mill, a position he tilled most acceptably until i888. when ho returned to Wor- 
 cester, and the same year formed a partnership with Albert Whalberg and I.eandcr 
 .Anderson, and under the lirm name, .A. W. Hjelm & Company, they operated for two 
 years, when Mr. Hjelm bought his i>artners out, and until iwj continued a successful 
 business under the original tirm name. In the latter year the firm was re-org;mized 
 as .-X. W. Hjelm & Son. a new partner being admitted. David .Arthur Hjelm. son of 
 the founder. In ion. Mr. Hjelm. the senior partner, sold his interest in the business 
 and moved to Denver, Colorado, lioping that in that health-giving clim;ite his wife 
 and only son might regain their health. Hut they failed to obtain the hoped-for bcn- 
 clit. and both, sleep in the Swedish Cemetery of Worcester. In n)i2 Mr. Hjelm 
 returned to Worcester with his two danghters, Ellen and Ebba. In IQ14 .-\. W. Hjelm 
 and .lohn .Anderson began business in Worcester. In igij the linn was re-organized, 
 and the following year Mr. Hjelm purchased the entire interest, and continues the 
 business under the lirm naiue. .A. W. Hjeltu. Mr. Hjelm is a member of Thule Lodge, 
 \o. 2.19. Independent Order ol Odil Fellows: John Ericson Lodge, Xo. 2S. N'asa 
 Orden; Thule .Mutual Sick P.enetit Society: Swedish Mutu.al Sick Bcnelit Society; 
 Idun Kebekah I.od.ge. Kepnblican State League. Ward Xo. Two. Repuldican City Club. 
 ^^ Mr. Hjelm married, in March. 1885. at Worcester. \nna Charlotte .Anderson, who 
 died in Denver. Colorado, in i'»i.> Children: David .Arthur, born in Worcester, his 
 father's business associ:ite until toll; he died in Denver. Colorado, loi-'; ICllen and 
 Ebba, residing in Worcester. 
 
 FRANK EDWARD COLESWORTHY, As>istant purchasing agent of the 
 Croiupton & Knowles Loom Wdrks, was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, .Ai)ril 7. 1875, 
 son of George E. aiul Nellie (Powers) Colesworthy. His father was proprietor of a 
 book store on Cornhill. I'.oston, established by his grandfatlicr, Daniel Colesworthy, a 
 poet and writer of some distniction. (k-orge E. Colesworthy died in 1015, aged seventy 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Colesworthy attended the public schools in North Chester. Massachusetts, 
 until he was thirteen years old. ar.d afterward was a pupil in the schools of this city. 
 He began his cireer in business as clerk in the grocery store of White & Fylce, No. 
 143 Main street, l-'our years later he became clerk and cashier in the office of lh« 
 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in this city, a position be filled for two years. 
 After spcndin,g a year in the South he entered the employ of the Crompton &• Knowles 
 Loom Works, as clerk in tlie stores department. Suljsequcutly he became an assistant 
 to Thomas T. Booth, purchasing agent, and since February. 1017, he has been assistant 
 purchasing agent. Mr. Colesworthy was one of the founders of the Cro-Kno Club 
 and its first president. He is a member of Ridgely Lodge. Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, and a past noble grand; member of the Shatfner Club; the Massachusetts 
 Society. Sons of the .\merican Revolution. He served for four years in the Welling- 
 ton Rifles. Massachusetts \'olunteer Militia, and is a member and former president of 
 the \'eteraii Association of that company. In religion he is a Congrcgationalist, a 
 trustee of Bethany Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 ■ Mr. Colesworthy married. January 17, 1806. Jennie 1. Lewis, daughter of Jaiucs 
 E. and Eliza (Albro) Lewis. They have three children: 1. l-'rances, born June ,io, 
 1897, .graduate of the South High School. 1914. and of the course in household arts, 
 Framingham State Normal School, 1918; now teaching sevvin,g in the Worcester pub- 
 lic schools. 2. Edward Herman, born May 17, 1901, graduate of the South High School, 
 1918, now student in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 3. Chester Lewis, born 
 May 30, 1902, student in the South High School, class of 1920. 
 
 LOUIS HENRY ELLIOTT, Manager .)f Worcester Boiler Works, came to 
 Worcester in the year Kmt to accept a position with William .Allen Sons Company, 
 operating the Worcester Boiler Works, and has never since severed that connec- 
 
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 tion. He is a son of Charles Loring Elliott, born in Danvers. Massachusetts, 
 February 27, 1850, a shoe manufacturer of Danvers, He married Almira P. Trask, 
 born in Danvers, December 14, 1851, daughter of Elbridge P. and Mary Trask. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Elliott are the parents of seven children, all living: Louis Henry, of 
 further mention; Helen, married Abner P. Kelly; Bessie, married James A. Perry; 
 Charles Loring (2), a coal merchant; Edith, married Charles R. Dudley; Wilbur 
 P., in the milk business. All these children reside in Danvers except Louis H., the 
 eldest, who resides in Worcester, and the youngest, Wilbur P., of Swampsiott, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Louis Henry Elliott was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, December 1.3, 1873, 
 and there acquired a public education, finishing with graduation from High School 
 in June, 1891. His first business position was as delivery clerk in a broker's office 
 in Boston, four years being spent in that employ. He then was with the Beacon 
 Trust Company, as bookkeeper and teller, until 1900, his connection with the Wor- 
 cester Boiler Works beginning in that year as a bookkeeper. He has been con- 
 tinuously with that industry until the present (1919) and is now manager of the 
 plant. Mr. Elliott is an enthusiastic gardener and florist, and takes full advantage 
 of all the opportunity his home on Paxton street, Leicester, affords him to indulge 
 his tastes. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows, the Economic Club, the Congregational Club, and Leicester Congrega- 
 tional Church, he formerly being secretary and treasurer of the Sunday school of that 
 congregation. 
 
 Mr. Elliott married (first) in Danvers, Massachusetts, February 11, 1895, Grace 
 E. Haynes, who died February i, 1908, aged thirty-five years, leaving three chil- 
 dren: Dorothy P., born November 17, 1897, now a graduate nurse in Hartford, 
 Connecticut, Hospital; Grace E., born July 2, 1902, now a student in Leicester 
 Academy; Louise M., born March 7, 1905, now attending grammar school in 
 Leicester. Mr. Elliott married (second) in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 
 25, 1912, Harriet E. Whittum, born in that city, daughter of Charles N. and Sarah 
 Whittum, her mother a widow, residing in Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are 
 the parents of a son, Charles Henry, born January 22, 1916. 
 
 JOHN EMANUEL JOHNSON, Secretary and treasurer of the O. & J. 
 Machine Company, was born in Sweden, May 30, 1883, son of Carl Johan and Caro- 
 lina Albertina (Person) Johnson. His father was born in Sweden, in 1849, and was 
 educated there in the public schools. Throughout his active life he followed farming, 
 but is now retired, living on his estate in Sweden. 
 
 John E. Johnson attended the grammar school of his native place, and after- 
 ward the extension school and the high school, from which he graduated in 1899. 
 He learned the trade of machinist and at the same time studied engineering. He 
 was later employed in the office of the superintendent of the factory, where he 
 gained much useful information relating to business. In this factory he had experi- 
 ence also in the rolling mill as well as the machine shop. After two years with this 
 concern, he was called home to manage his father's farm and remained at this 
 occupation for a year and a half, during a serious illness of his father. He left 
 home again in 1902 and came to this country, locating in Worcester, where for a 
 short time he was employed in a small machine shop on Union street. His next 
 position was in the works of the Morgan Construction Company in this city. For a 
 short time afterward he was employed by George L. Brownell, Union street, manu- 
 facturer of twisting machinery, but he returned to the Morgan Construction Com- 
 pany to take charge of the erection of rolling mills. At the end of two years he 
 was engaged by the Reed & Prince Manufacturing Company to follow experimental 
 work, and a few months later was promoted to the drafting room. In the meantime 
 he never relaxed his study of mechanical engineering. In this country he pursued the 
 courses of the International Correspondence School, and for three years was a 
 student of drafting and advanced mathematics in the school of the Young Men's 
 Christian Association. After leaving the Reed & Prince Manufacturing Company 
 and working for a year for the American Steel & Wire Company as draftsman, he 
 became a designer in the employ of the Wire Goods Company of this city and for 
 two years and a half was engaged in designing automatic machinery. He returned 
 to the American Steel & Wire Company as mechanical drafting engineer at the 
 North Works in this city and held this position for a year and a half. During the 
 next two years he was expert designer of gas engines and labeling machinery for 
 the Economic Machinery Company in Worcester. During the past two years he 
 has been associated with Charles H. Oslund in the O. & J. Machine Company. The 
 
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 success of tlicir business has been iihcnomcual. Tliey formeil an acquainlaiuc and 
 friendship while employed in the wire works together; their tastes were alike and it 
 was natural that they should linally come together as partners in business They 
 formed the hrm of Charles H. Oslund Company and opened a small machine shop 
 March 14, 1914, at No. 87 Mechanic street, where thev began to manufacture 
 machinery. The first machine to be built there was an automatic lal)eling machine 
 Within six months the business had grown wonderfully and it was incorporated 
 August 3, 1014, as the O. & J. Machine Company of which Mr. Oslund was president 
 and Mr. Johnson secretary and treasurer. The quarters were soon outgrown and in 
 March, 1916, the business was moved to the present building at No. 116 Gold street. 
 Beginning with eight men, the company now employs one hundred and fifty skilled 
 mechanics. The O. & J. Machine Company own several valuable patents relating 
 to labeling machinery. The latest model of "this concern is an exceedingly ingenious 
 machine that labels both sides and the stopper of a bottle in the same ojieration; also 
 can labeling machines which labels a can all around in one operation; also engaged 
 in manufacturing crowning machines for putting caps on all styles of bottles. The 
 company is driven with orders from the largest bottling concerns of the country. 
 All the above machines have been invented by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Oslund. Mr. 
 Johnson is a member of Thule I.odge,. Independent Order of Odd Fellows; John 
 Kricson Lodge, and the Rotary Club of Wtircester. In politics he is a Republican. 
 He is a communicant of St. John's I'rotcstant Episcoiial Church. 
 
 Mr. Johnson married. April 15, 1908, riihna Elizabeth Johnson, damihtcr of 
 Nils P. Johnson, who resides at No. 19 John street in this city. They have two sons, 
 Richard Lawrence and Norman Emanuel Johnson. 
 
 JAMES JOSEPH TORPEY, Treasurer and manager of the Independent Ice 
 Company, was horn in this city, January 8, 1871, son of Maurice an.l Mary (McEnery) 
 Torpcy. Maurice Torpey was born in Ireland; came to this city when a young man; 
 died here in 1876. Mary (McEnery) Torpey was born in Ireland; came to this city 
 early in life, and died here in 1877. They had ten ctnldren, of whom two are living: 
 James .1., mentioned below; and lOizabeih, who married L. IF. Ilartuell. of New ^'ork 
 City, and has a son, L. H., Jr. 
 
 James J. Torpey attended the public schoids of Holdcn, and Ilinman's Business 
 College in Worcester. At the age of seventeen years he entered the employ of tlie 
 Maple Springs Ice Company. A year later he became the manager and continued 
 in charge for twelve years. In October, 1900, he established the Independent Ice 
 Company, and since then has been its manager and treasurer. This concern owns 
 ice houses in Hubhardston, having a storage capacity of 20,000 tons; houses at 
 Tatnuck.in this city, with a capacity of 10,000 tons. The company is also extensively 
 engaged in handling ice from Moosehorn Lake in carload lots. The offices are at 
 30 Charles street, in this city. Mr. Torpcy is a member of the Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks; a communicant of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament 
 (Roman Catholic). 
 
 Mr. Torpey married, at Holden, April 24, 1895, Catherine Agnes Nugent, who 
 was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, October 25, 1875, daughter of James and 
 Catherine (Salmon) Nugent. Her father was for many years a foreman in the 
 Houghton Shoe Factory; her mother is living in Boston. Their five children are 
 all living: Grace Elizabeth, born March 15, 1896; Maurice Edward, born April 2, 
 1897; was in service in the Naval Reserve Aviation Corps, in the World War; 
 James Ralph, born December 18, 1900; Katherine Agnes, born October 26, 1907; 
 Mary Alice, born November 30, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Torpey reside at No. 34 West- 
 land street, in this city. 
 
 JOSEPH JACQUES BOUTHILLIER, Automobile repairer, was born in Day- 
 ville, Connecticut, November 2, 1873, son of Jacques and Mary (Rondeau) Bou- 
 thillier. 
 
 Jacques Bouthillier was born in Longucil, Province of Quebec, Canada, in 1846; 
 a brick manufacturer, now retired, living in West Warren, Massachusetts; came 
 to this State in 1878; married Mary Rondeau, who died at West Warren, April i, 
 1918, aged sixty-seven years. They had three children: Rose Delina, married John 
 Baptist Belrose, of West Warren, and has five children, Hyacinthe, Rose, Ida, 
 Yvonne and Camille; Joseph J., of further mention; Louziase, died at the age of 
 four years, ten months. The Btjuthillier family came to Canada among the early 
 settlers from Northern France. 
 
HISTORY OF IVORCHSTHR 
 
 When Jdseph J. BouthilHer was five years old his parents riioved to West 
 Brimfield, Massachusetts, where he became a pupil in the puldic schools, and after- 
 ward a student in Hitchcock Free Academy. After leaving school he learned the 
 trade of machinist in Providence, Rhode Island, and afterward he also learned the 
 carpenter's trade. He came to this city in 1898 and entered the employ of the 
 Reed & Curtis Machine Company, continuing there for five years, and with the 
 Baldwin Chain Company for five years. He engaged in business on his own account 
 in 191 1 at No. 220 Chandler street, opening an automobile repair shop, and has 
 continued there to the present time, building up a flourishing business. He is fond 
 of out-door sports, and a member of the Worcester County Fish and Game Associa- 
 tion. He is also a member of Circle Jacques Cartier, of Central Falls, Rhode Island; 
 Sagatabscot Tribe, No. 59. Improved Order of Red Men; Freedom Lodge, No. 21, 
 Knights of Pythias; the United Commercial Travelers of America; 'Bay State 
 Company, No. 3, Uniform Rank; Worcester Lodge, No. 234, Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks. He is a communicant of the Holy Name of Jesus Roman 
 Catholic Church. 
 
 Mr. Bouthillier married, in this city, June 10, 1901, Malvina Firdinande Paquette, 
 who was born here, September 14, 1877, a daughter of Peter L. and Rosalie (LeCour) 
 Patjuette. Her father was born at St. Pie, Province of Quebec, Canada, October 9, 
 1840, and died in this city, July 21, 1896; mason and contractor; married Rosalie 
 LeCour, who was born in St. Hyacinthe, Canada, March 20, 1842, and is now living 
 in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Bouthillier have one daughter, Lucille Malvina, born 
 November 10, 1905. Their home is at 222 Chandler street. 
 
 EDWARD FRANCIS GOGGIN, Head clerk of the railway mail service, was 
 born January 15, 1856, son of Richard and Mary (Bransfield) Goggin. and brother of 
 Rev. Dr. William H. Goggin, rector of St. Paul's Catholic Church. Richard Goggin 
 was born in Cork, Ireland, died in Worcester in 1876; was for twenty-two years in 
 the employ of Hoppin, the grain dealer. Mary (Bransfield) Goggin was also a 
 native of Cork; died here in i860. The only survivors of their seven children are 
 Rev. Dr. Goggin and Edward P., mentioned below. 
 
 Edward Francis Gog.gin attended the public schools here and graduated from 
 the Worcester High School in 1872. He began his career as salesman in the art 
 store of .\. E. Peck and was in his employ from 1872 to 1885. At that time Mr. I'eck 
 retired and Mr. Goggin engaged in the same line of business in a store at No. 336 
 Main street. Two years later, April i, 1887, he entered the United States railway 
 mail service. He was promoted step by step and became head clerk in the service 
 between New York City and Boston. In a railroad wreck, October 3, 1912, at West- 
 port, Connecticut, he received terrible injuries that were at first presumed to be 
 fatal, but slowly he recovered. Nothingbut a marvellous physique, a lifelong atten- 
 tion to health, temperance and good habits saved him from death. At the present 
 time Mr. Goggin appears to have recovered entirely from his injuries, though he 
 has not resumed active business. All his life Mr. Goggin has been fond of out-door 
 sports. In his youth he was one of the first ball players among the amateurs who 
 made their mark in this city. To him the writer is indebted for inforination regard- 
 ing the amateur baseball teams of the seventies. In politics Mr. Goggin is a 
 Democrat. He is a communicant of St. Paul's Church. 
 
 Mr. Goggin married, in St. John's Catholic Church in this city, May 28, 1879, 
 Bridget .A. Cooney, born here July 23, i860, daughter of Andrew and Elicia (McKeen) 
 Cooney. Her father was borh in County Monaghan, Ireland; was a moulder 
 by trade; died here in 1865; her mother was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 
 and died here in 1874. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Goggin: i. Mary, died in infancy. 
 2. Elicia Gertrude, died aged thirty-five years, unmarried, December, 1917; was a 
 graduate of the Worcester High School and the State Normal School; teacher in 
 the High School of Commerce. 3. Cora Agnes, died May 30, 1913; graduate of the 
 Classical High School and Becker's Business College. 4. Ellen, died aged five years. 
 5. Caroline, graduate of English High School; was stenographer in the American 
 Steel & Wire Company oflice; married Charles H. Keenan, now living at No. 12 
 Abbott street. 6. Edward, died aged eight months. 7. Grace Monica, graduate of 
 the English High School; stenographer in the office of the American Steel & Wire 
 Company. 8. Teresa Elizabeth, graduate of the English High School and Becker's 
 Business College; now stenographer in the Norton Company's office. 9. Isabella 
 Bransfield. graduate of the English High School and Becker's Business College; 
 stenographer in the office of the American Steel & Wire Company. 10. Son, died in 
 infancy. 11. Frances Margaret, graduate of the Classical High School and Domestic 
 
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 Science School; now tcaohiiig in tlu- Worcester (iirU' Trade School. 12. Kichara 
 Andrew, graduate of tlie Classical High School; student in Holy Cross College, class 
 of 1919. 
 
 HARRISON PRESCOTT EDDY, Fornurly superintendent of sewers, Worces- 
 ter, was born in Millhurv, April 29, 1S70, son of William Justus and Martha A. 
 (Prescott) Eddy. 
 
 He graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1891, and from 189,' 
 to 1907 was superintendent of sewers of Worcester. Since then he has been a partner 
 in the firm of Metcalf & Eddy, consulting engineers. No. 14 Beacon street. 
 Boston. Before resigning his office he was in demand in all parts of the 
 country as an expert in sewerage, sewage disi)osal and otlier fields of sanitary 
 engineering. He had been consulting engineer for the commissioners ot sewerage 
 of Louisville, Kentucky, the Massachusetts Metropolitan Water Board and the 
 cities of Gloversville, \ew York, and Boston and Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and for 
 various other towns and for corporations. He is member of the American Society 
 of Civil Engineers, the .'Vnierican Institute of Consulting Engineers, the American 
 Society for Testing Materials, the American Public Health Association, .Xmerican 
 Chemical Society, Society of Chemical Industry (of En.gland), etc., etc. He is a 
 Free Mason, and a member of the Engineers' Club of Boston, Brae B.urn Coiuitry 
 Club of Newton, and the Beverly Yacht Club. 
 
 Mr. Eddy married, June i, 1892, Minnie Locke Jones, of this city, and they have 
 had four children: W'illard Jones, deceased; Harrison Prescott, Jr.; Randolph 
 Locke and Charlotte Frances. Their residence is at No. 65 Gray Cliff road, Newton 
 Center, Massachusetts. His office is at No. 14 Beacon street, Boston. 
 
 JAMES FISHER FERRE, Manager of the Worcester and Providence offices 
 of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, was born in Springfield, 
 Massachusetts, February 4, 1871, son of Charles D. and Fannie C. (Fisher) Ferre. 
 Charles D. Ferre was born in .Agawam, and died in 1904 in Boston. He was a mer- 
 chant. Fannie C. (Fisher) Ferre resides in Springfield. 
 
 James F. Ferree received his education in the Springfield public schools. His 
 entire business life thus far has been in the service of the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company of New York, beginning in 1888 as a clerk in the office at Springfield. In 
 1903 he left this office to enga.ge in field work, and in 1904 came to Worcester as 
 manager of the company's direct agency for Central Massachusetts. In 1914 the 
 State of Rhode Island was added to the agency and since that time he has been 
 manager of both Worcester and Providence offices. The Worcester offices are at 
 No. 507 Main street. Mr. Ferre is a member of the Commonwealth Club, the Wor- 
 cester Economic Club, and the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Mr. Ferree married, in Springfield, 1897, Lillian H. Warner, of that city. They 
 reside at No. 3 Einhorn road. 
 
 ALBERT 'WOOD, Physician, surgccm, was horn February 19. 1833, in Nurthboro, 
 Massachusetts, the third child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bowman) Wood. Dr. Wood 
 w-as descended from early Ccdonial English stock, his pioneer American ancestor, Wil- 
 liam Wood, born in 1582, coming to Matlock, Massachusetts, in 1638, with his wife, 
 son, Michael, and daughter, Ruth. 
 
 Albert Wood acquired his early educational training in the public schools, the 
 classical school of West Newton, the State Normal School, at Bridgewater, and 
 Dartmouth College, graduating from the later institution with the degree of P.achelor 
 of Science, in the class of 1856. During the next three years he taught in the public 
 schools of the county and at Cape Cod. and in 1859 entered Harvard Medical School, 
 graduating therefrom with the degree- cjf Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1862. After 
 a term of hospital service as interne, he enlisted for service during the Civil War, and 
 went to the front as surgeon, serving from July 7. 1862, until July 7, 1863, as assistant 
 surgeon of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and from 
 1863 until November 30, 1864, as surgeim of the First Regiment, >Iassachusetts Cav- 
 alry. In November, 1864, he became active surgeon in the regular United States army, 
 serving in the hospitals at City Point until honorably discharged. May 17, 1865. He 
 saw much hard service, was w^ith his regiment in many of the hardest-fought battles 
 and often operated under difficult as well as dangerous conditions. After receiving 
 his discharge from the service, in 1865, Dr. Wood took up the practice of his chosen 
 profession in this city, and continued in active and successful practice until within a 
 few years of his death. Professionally he was a giant, his four years of service as 
 
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HISTORV OF WORCESTER 
 
 surgeon in tlie army and his wide experience as a practitioner bringing him into close 
 toiTch with every ailment to which humanity is subject. He was also intimately con- 
 nected with the great philanthropic institutions and hospitals of the city. He was 
 city" physician for five years and surgeon in the City Hospital for ten years. For more 
 'than twenty-five years he was a trustee of the City Hospital and continued in that office 
 until his death. In this hospital he took a great interest and to him is due in large 
 measure the development and great usefulness of that institution. From 1874 to 1910 
 Dr. Wood was treasurer of the Worcester State Hospital, and from 1877 to 1910 treas- 
 urer of the Worcester State Asylum, and was one of the most useful and efficient offi- 
 cers is these great institutions. In 1874 he was appointed superintendent of the Wash- 
 burn Free Dispensary, and served efficiently for a number of years in this office. For 
 many years he was trustee of the Memorial Hospital, of Worcester, taking a deep in- 
 terest in this institution, being vice-president and trustee until his death. For six 
 years he was a director of the Worcester Free Library. He was a member of the 
 Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity one year. He became 
 medical director of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, January 15, 1889, and 
 served in that capacity until his death. He was a director of the State Mutual from 
 January 3, 1883, until his death. For more than forty years he was on the United 
 States Pension Board of Examiners in this district through both the Republican and 
 Democratic administrations. He was a valued member of the Worcester Medical So- 
 ciety ; the Worcester County Medical Society ; the Massachusetts State Medical So- 
 ciety, of which he was for several years a councillor; the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, and the American Association of Medical Directors of Life Insurance Companies. 
 He was a member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic, of 
 which he was surgeon for many years, and a member of the Massachusetts Comman- 
 dery. Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In politics he was a Republican; in religion 
 a Unitarian, and was treasurer of the church for a number of years. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Worcester Club until his death. 
 
 Dr. Wood married (first), July 7, 1868, Emma Allen, who was born September 13, 
 1833, in Pomfret, Connecticut, and died in this city, February p6, 1892, and to this un- 
 ion were born two children: Albert Bowman, born June 28, 1869, and Emily Chandler 
 Wood. Dr. Wood married (second), July 13, 1893, J. Isabel Cleveland, who was born 
 September 11, 1861, daughter-of Edwin Clarence and Anna Rebecca (Goddard) Cleve- 
 land, of this city. Mrs. Wood was educated in the public and high schools of Worces- 
 ter and at the Roswell Parish School. She is communicant of All Saints' Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, in which she has been an active worker, a member of various com- 
 mittees, and was a member of the board of visitors of the Old Ladies' Home for sev- 
 eral years. She is a member of the Worcester Woman's Club. She resides at No. 58 
 William street. 
 
 ALBERT BOWMAN WOOD, Son of Dr. Albert Wood, was born in this city, 
 June 28, 1869. and died December 9, 1900. He acquired his early educational training 
 in tlie public schools of this city, being prepared for college at Phillips E.xeter Acad- 
 emy. He then entered Harvard where he took the four years' course in the Lawrence 
 Scientific School, but did not attempt to cover the number of courses requisite for tak- 
 ing a degree. Immediately after leaving Harvard he began to study the loom business 
 in the Green street shop of the Crompton Loom Works, where he thoroughly mastered 
 the details of the business. Later he was made manager of the Cambridge street shops, 
 and this position he held up to the time of his death, through the two changes resulting 
 from the organization of the loom business — the combination which established the 
 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, and the subsequent transfer of the Crompton in- 
 terests to those formerly at the head of the Knowles side of the corporation. (See his- 
 tory of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works in this work.) He was an active and 
 energetic business man, and a popular member of various organizations of the city. 
 
 Mr. Wood married. May 24, 1899, Georgietta F. Crompton, daughter of George 
 and Marv C. Crompton, of this city. 
 
 THOMAS KINNICUTT. Lawyer, judge of probate, was born in Warren, Rhode 
 Island, in 1800, died in this city, in January, 1858, son of Thomas and Amy (Wight- 
 man) Kinnicutt, and brother of Francis H. Kinnicutt. He graduated from Brown 
 • University in 1822, and read law in the ofifice of Hon. Francis Baylies, of Taunton, 
 Massachusetts, and in the Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut. 
 
 He came to this city and began to practice law in 1825, associated' with Hon. 
 Isaac Davis. He became a leader at the bar and one of the foremost citizens of his 
 day; representative to the General Court in 1835-37-41-42-43, and speaker of the House 
 of Representatives; state senator from Worcester county, 1838-39; selectman in 1836; 
 trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital. From 1848 to the time of his death in 1858, he 
 
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 was judge of pruhaU- of tins ooimty. He was president of the Central Bank, and vice- 
 president of the Worcester C.tnny Institution for Savings: meiuber of the old Fire So- 
 ciety. 
 
 In the memoirs of tlie hire Society, Hon. John 1). Washburn says of him : '"He had 
 a refined and discriminating mind, but tlie controversies of the bar and the rugged of- 
 fices of political life had little attraction for him; and his physical powers were never 
 of the strongest. He was a man of wimiing presence, and his matmers had 'that sweet 
 attractive kind of grace" which was characteristic of the best speciiucns of the gen- 
 tlemen of the old schocd. Hence, and especially from the air of moral purity which 
 surrounded him and in which he always seemed to move, and the genial sympathy 
 which diffused itself from and about him, he was a man greatly beloved aiul 'bore 
 without abuse the grand old name of gentleman.' " 
 
 Mr. Kinnicutt married Harriet Burling, and they liad a son Thomas, born here 
 July 13, 1835; graduated at Harvard in 1856; studied law in the offices of Devens, Hoar 
 & Hill ; took the degree of LL.B. in Harvard Law School ; began to practice in this 
 city in September, 18O0; was afterward in business in Xew York City. Harriet Burl- 
 ing, only daughter of Judge Thomas Kinnicutt, resided in this city; died here unmar- 
 ried, 
 
 FRANCIS HARRISON KINNICUTT, Hardware merchant, was br.rn in .See- 
 konok, Rlinde Ishvnil, .\|)ril j;, 181 J, died September \2. 1885, son of Thomas and 
 Aiuy (Wightraan) Kinnicutt. 
 
 Francis H. Kinnicutt came to Worcester in 1828, and two years later entered tlie 
 emjiloy of George T. Rice as clerk in the hardware store at the corner of Main and 
 Walnut streets. Soon afterward he was admitted to partnership, and a few years lat- 
 er he and his brother Thomas bought the business and Mr. Rice took up cloth manu- 
 facturing. Samuel Woodward succeeded Thomas Kinnicutt in the firm. an<l in later 
 years assumed the active management of the store, giving Mr. Kinnicutt time to at- 
 tend to other duties. He was a director of the Citizens Bank from 1842 and its presi- 
 dent from i860 until he died. He was a director of the Worcester & Nashua Railroad 
 Company from 1855 and its president from 18(16 to 1881, wdien he resigned. For nearly 
 a quarter of a century he was a member of the bnard of investment nf the Wurcester 
 County Institution for Savings. 
 
 Mr. Kinnicutt married Elizabeth Waldo Parker, who was born in Charlcstown, 
 Massachusetts, May g, 1817, died 1891, daughter of Hon. Leonard Moody Parker, of 
 Shirley, granddaughter of Levi Lincoln, Sr., and great-granddaughter of Daniel Wal- 
 do, Sr, They had six children: i. Rebecca Newton, born September 17. 1838; ruarried 
 Dr. George E. Francis, June 23, 1868 {See biography), 2. Elizabeth Waldo, born Au- 
 gust 18. 1840; married Dr. William H. Draper, of New York, October 15, 1861 ; she died 
 October 15, i86g, leaving two children : William and Martha Draper. 3. Julia Burling, 
 born July i, 1843: luarried John M. Barker, of Worcester. 4. Frank Parker, born 
 July 13, 1846: luarried Eleanor Kissel, of New York, November ig, 1875; a prominent 
 physician in New York ; children : Frank Harrison and Gustave Herman Kimiicutt. 5. 
 Lincoln Newton (see biography). 6. Leonard Parker (see biography). 
 
 LINCOLN NEWTON KINNICUTT, Banker, formerly of the firm of Kinnicutt 
 & DeWitt, was born in this city, March 14, 1849, son of Francis H. and Fllizabeth Wal- 
 do (Parker) Kinnicutt. He was educated in the public schools of Worcester and in 
 Europe. At the age of seventeen he became a clerk in the hardware store of his father, 
 and when he came of age was adiuitted to partnership. In 1877 he entered the ofTice 
 of George T. Rice, banker, and in 1884 formed a partnership with Alexander DeWitt 
 under the name of Kinnicutt & DeWitt. This firm for many- years conducted the larg- 
 est banking and brokerage business of any private concern in the city. It was later 
 dissolved. He was a director of the Citizens National Bank, the VVorcester Trust 
 Company, the Worcester National Bank, and Worcester Consolidated Street Railway 
 Company. He is a trustee of the Worcester County Institution for Savings, the Wor- 
 cester Art Museum, of which he is treasurer, and the W'orrrester Polytechnic Institute, 
 of which he was formerly its treasurer. He is a member of the Massachusetts Histor- 
 ical Society; the American Antiquarian Society; the Colonial Society of Massachu- 
 setts, the Worcester Society of Antiquity ; the Bohemian Club, the Bay Tree Club ; 
 Economic Club; Natural History Society; Tatnuck Country Club; Twentieth Century 
 Club; Worcester Club; Worcester Fire Society; Union Club of Boston; Tavern Club; 
 St. Botolph Club; the Club of Odd Volumes of Boston, and the Century Association of 
 New York. He is the author of: "Indian Place Names of Worcester County;" "Indian 
 Place Names of Plymouth County ;" "To Your Dog and to My Dog." Mr. Kinnicutt is 
 active in many benevolent organizations, among which are the Children's Friend So- 
 ciety, the W'orcester Employment Society and the Home for .^ged Men. In politics he 
 is a Republican; in religion a L'nitarian. 
 
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 Mr, Kinnicutt married, in this city, October lo, 1878, Edith Perley, who was born 
 in Concord, New Hampshire, April 9, 1856, daughter of Hon. Ira and Mary (Nelson) 
 Perley. Her father, born 1799, was chief justice of New Hampshire; her mother was 
 born at Haverhill, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Kinnicutt have one son, Roger, 
 born February 12, 1880, graduate of Harvard College (A. B. 1902; M. D. 1905), gradu- 
 ate of Harvard Medical School, Pathologist of Worcester Memorial Hospital, now 
 serving in United States Army Hospital in France with rank of captain; married, in 
 191 S, Margaret Struthers Moen, daughter of Philip W. Moen (see biography) ; resides 
 at No. 56 Cedar street. Dr. Kinnicutt is a member of the Worcester Club, the Tatnuck 
 Country Club, Tavern and Union clubs of Boston. 
 
 Mrs. Kinnicutt is a member of the Society of Colonial Dames. Mr. and Mrs. Kin- 
 nicutt reside at No. y2 Cedar street. 
 
 LEONARD PARKER KINNICUTT, Chemist, professor in the Worcester Poly- 
 technic Institute, was born in this city. May 22, 1854, died here, February 6, 191 1, son of 
 Francis H. and Elizabeth Waldo (Parker) Kinnicutt. He attended the public schools 
 here, and after three years in the high school entered the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology, graduating in 1875 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. The following 
 year he spent at the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under Professor Bun- 
 sen ; then for two years and a half he was at the University of Bonn under Professor 
 Kekule, the great chemist. During this period he formed lifelong friendships with such 
 men as Anschutz of Bonn, Hempe! of Dresden and Treadwell of Zurich. Returning 
 from Germany in January, 1879, he completed that school year in post-graduate study 
 at Johns Hopkins University, and in the autumn became private assistant to Professor 
 Wolcott Gibbs, professor of chemistry. In the following year he was made instructor 
 of quantitative analysis, receiving the degree of Doctor of Science in 1882. In Septem- 
 ber, 1882, he came to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute as instructor of chemistry, 
 and in January following was made assistant professor, becoming professor in 1886 
 and continuing in this chair to the end of his life. In 1892 he was appointed director of 
 the chemical department. 
 
 He was indefatigable in study and research, and his reputation extended through 
 this country and Europe. He published many valuable reports and papers on chemi- 
 cal subjects. His last important work was entitled "Treatment of Sewage by Inter- 
 mittent Filtration," published in 1910, and adopted as a te.xt-book in various institutes 
 and universities. He was one of the foremost authorities in sanitation. He had been 
 frequently called upon to aid in solving the problem of disposing of the sewage of this 
 city. He was a member of the Worcester Medical Commission which investigated the 
 milk supply of the city. He was one of the leaders in the movement to secure pure 
 milk for the infants in families of tlie poor and destitute. To this and other charita- 
 ble and philanthropic work he gave his time and money without stint. From his own 
 resources or through his influence and the aid of wealthy friends, many a struggling 
 student at the Institute was given substantial assistance. His attitude toward the stu- 
 dents was such that he gained their confidence and friendship. He believed in school 
 and class spirit and entered into the affairs and interests of the students year after 
 year with real enthusiasm and enjoyment. 
 
 He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of 
 which he was vice-president in 1904; member of the American Chemical Society, and 
 president of its northeastern section in 1902; member of the Society of Bacteriology; 
 of the England Waterworks Association; the Boston Society of Civil Engineers; the 
 American Antiquarian Society ; the German Chemical Society, the London Chemical 
 Society; and the Association of Managers of Sewage Disposal Works of England. 
 In his home city he belonged to the Worcester Club, the Bohemian Club, the Harvard 
 Club, the Tatnuck Country Club, and the Board of Trade. He was also a member of 
 St. Botolph Club of Boston. 
 
 Professor Kinnicutt married (first), June 4, 1885, Louisa Hoar Clarke, who died 
 January 22, 1892, daughter of Dr. Henry Clarke. He married (second), July 9, 1898, 
 Frances Ayres Clarke, daughter of Josiah H. Clarke. He had no children. Mrs. Kin- 
 nicutt resides at No. 50 Elm street. 
 
 The Kinnicutt family is descended from Roger Kinnicutt, who came from Devon- 
 shire. England, about 1650, and settled in Maiden, Massachusetts,' removing later to 
 Swansea, Massachusetts, where he died in 1696. The line of ancestry is : Lincoln N., 
 and Leonard P. (7), Francis H. (6), Thomas (5), Shubael (4), John (3), John (2), 
 Roger (i). 
 
 DANIEL ELLINWOOD, Mason, was born in Athol, September 13, 1814, son of 
 James and Rebecca (Higgins^ Ellinwood. Daniel Ellinwood was of the seventh gener- 
 ation from the first settler of the family. The line is : Daniel (7), James (6), Dr. Daniel 
 
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 (S), Thomas (4), Thomas (3>, Ralph (2), Ralph (i)- The immiiirant, Ralph Ellin- 
 wood, came from Kngland in 16,55 in the ship "'JVuclove" and settled in Beverly ; died 
 in 1674. Thomas (3) Ellinwood settled in Woodstock, Connecticut, and later in Urim- 
 field, Massachusetts. Dr. Daniel Ellinwood was the first of the family in .'\thol. 
 
 Daniel Ellinwood attended the district schools of his native town, and was bound 
 out when about six years of age as apprentice to the mason's trade, wliich he followed 
 throughout his active life. He was a workman of unusual skill, noted especially for 
 his fine stucco modeling. For tw'o years he lived in this city, moving thence to Michigan, 
 but returning soon. In 1850 he settled in Athol. and soon afterward bought a farm 
 there, but continued to follow his trade. lie died in Athol, March 16, 1877. Me was 
 one of the founders of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of this city, afterward 
 a member of the Second Advent Church of Athol and for many years a deacon. He 
 was a member of Worcester Lodge, No. 56, Odd Fellows ; a Republican in politics ; a 
 man of exemplary character; a useful and honored citizen. 
 
 Mr. Ellinwcjod married, October 6, 1835. Dulcenia Chase, a daughter of Moses and 
 Miriam (Twitchcll) Chase, of Athol. Her father was a blacksmith. In al! her lines of 
 ancestry she was descended from the first settlers of New England. Children; I. 
 Leroy Sunderland, born August 17, 1837, died .\pril 18, 1839. j. Miriam, born Janu- 
 ary 17, 1839; married Franklin Sawtelle, of Athol. 3. Leroy, born December 4, 1840; 
 married Emily Hoiner. of Westborough. 4. Sarah, born January 17, 1842; married 
 Samuel F. Parsons, of Woodstock, New Brunswick. 5. Hannah Maria, born July 30,- 
 1843; married Eliphas S. Gage, of this city. 6. Edwin, born March 29, 1845; married 
 Clara Welister. of Athol. 7. Daniel Webster (see biography). 8. Dr. Eugene (see 
 biograi)hy). 9. Eva Rebecc;i. txirn February 8, 1854; married Harry H. Lcland, of 
 this city. 
 
 DANIEL WEBSTER ELLINWOOD, Mason and contractor, was born in Athol, 
 February 21, 1847. son of Daniel Ellinwood. He was educated in the schools there, 
 and came to this city at the age of ei.ghteen and served an apprenticeship under .\. T. 
 Burgess, mason, remaining in his employ several years. In 1869 he engaged in business 
 as a mason, in partnershi]) with Anthony Potter. Init after six months the firm was dis- 
 solved and Mr. Ellinwood continued in business alone. Among the many buildings of 
 which he has been the contractor for the masnnry are the Salisbury street and Abbott 
 street school-houses; the Millbury street school house; the business buildings of the 
 late John E. Day and G. Henry Whitcomb and tlie Heywoods of Gardner. In religion 
 he is a second Adventist. He is a member of Damascus Lodge, Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Mr. Ellinwood, A])ril 29. 1869. Anna Eliza Withington, daughter of Josiah Muzzy 
 and Isabella Babcock (Smith) Withington, of Harvard, Massachusetts. They have two 
 children; Hattie Dulcenia. born b'cbruary 24. 1S70, and George Francis, born March 
 30, 1873, school superintendent, married Lois M. M;igonn. daughter of Rev. John S. 
 Magoon. 
 
 EUGENE ELLINWOOD, Dentist, was born in Athol. May 29, 1851, son of Dan- 
 iel Ellinwood. He attended the public schools of Iiis native town, and at the age of 
 seventeen entered New Salem Academy at New Salem. Massachusetts. He began the 
 training for his profession in the dental office of Dr. James Henienway, qf .\thol, and 
 after two years of study and practice went to Woodstock, New Brunswick, where he 
 had an office for two years. He then became a student in the Pennsylvania College of 
 Dental Surgery at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1872 with the degree of 
 Doctor of'Dental Surgery. 
 
 Immediately after graduation he opened an office in Clinton. Massachusetts, and 
 resumed the practice of dentistry. A year and a half later he took advantage of an op- 
 portunity to buy the practice of Dr. J. B. Walker, whose oflice was at the corner of 
 Main and Elm streets in this city. Since then Dr. Ellinwood has jjracticed here and is 
 now one of the oldest practicing dentists of the city, having been in active practice over 
 fifty years. He has ranked high in his profession. His home is at No. 47 Piedmont 
 street. He attends Park Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican, and 
 in former j-ears was often a delegate of his party to nominating conventions and oth- 
 erwise active in the party organization. He was one of the founders and a director 
 of the Fraternal Aid Society, afterward called the Massachusetts Benefit Association; 
 he was treasurer of the Single Tax League of this city; assistant treasurer of the 
 Basin Mining and Milling Company of Portland. Maine. He is a member of the Dis- 
 trict Dental Society, the Massachusetts Dental Society, and was formerly a member of 
 the old Connecticut Valley Dental Association before it was merged with the Massa- 
 chusetts Society. He has been a inember of the Worcester County Mechanics Associa- 
 tion, and is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Odd Fellows. 
 
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 Dr. Ellinwood married, February 3, 1876. Abbie Priest, daugbter of Ira and Sarah 
 Jane (Brocklebank) Priest, of Lancaster, Massacliusetts. Her father was an oftncer 
 of the Massachusetts State Prison for many years. Dr. Eu.gene and Mrs. Ellinwood 
 have one son, Ralph Waldo, born February 21, 1883, graduate of Worcester High 
 School, and of Harvard College, class of 1907, degree of A. B. Then engaged in teach- 
 ing for a time, and is now connected with the engineering department of the New 
 England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Dr. Ellinwood's offices are at No. 368'/ 
 Main street ; his home is at No. 47 Piedmont street in this city. 
 
 WILLIAM HART, Real estate, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 25, 
 1842, the son of Andrew and Ellen (Lawton) Hart. 
 
 His early educational training was begun in the public schools of Andover, Massa- 
 chusetts, where his parents removed when he was three years of age. Subsequently 
 he entered Phillips Academy, of Andover, and while a student of that academy the 
 Civil War broke out, and lie enlisted for service in Company H, Fourteenth Massa- 
 chusetts Infantry, and with his company went to Fort Warren. The following year 
 this company became the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and with this battery he 
 served for three years, being wounded in the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Upon being 
 honorably discharged from the service, he entered the employ of a firm of file-makers 
 in Ballardsvale, Andover, where he continued for a time, finally going into business in 
 Boston, on his own account. In 1866 he sold out his business in Boston, and came to 
 Worcester, locating at Washington square. For many years Mr. Hart did the largest 
 business in hand-cut files of any factory in New England, having in addition to his 
 plant in this city another in Springfield. He continued engaged in the file-making in- 
 dustry until appointed special sherifif of Worcester county by Sheriff S. D. Nye. After 
 serving in this capacity for several years he then entered the real estate business, in 
 which he has since continued with success. 
 
 Mr. Hart has taken a prominent and active part in the affairs of the city. He was 
 one of the incorporators of the Bay State Savings Bank, and served as president of 
 the same for a period of eigliteen years. He was a member of the grade crossing com- 
 mission appointed by Mayor Rufus B. Dodge, and also served for seven years as a 
 member of the Park Commission. He was for a number of years a member of the 
 Board of Trade, now the Chamber of Commerce, and haS served on the boards of a 
 number of charitable organizations. He is an active member of the George H. Ward 
 Post, No. ID, Grand Army of the Republic, in which he has held various offices, and 
 has served as aid-de-camp on the staff of several of the National commanders-in-chief 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic. In political faith Mr. Hart is a staunch Democrat, 
 having given valued service to the party as a member of the city committee, of which 
 he was at one time chairman. Mr. Hart and his family are prominent in Catholic 
 church and social circles, being members of the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed 
 Sacrament of this city. 
 
 On January 28, 1865, Mr.. Hart was united in marriage in St. Mary's Church. Law- 
 rence, Massachusetts, to Julia Ann Keating, who was born September 9, 1845, the 
 daughter of Thomas Keating, and this union has beeen blessed with seven children, 
 two surviving infancy, namely : I. Adelaide, now Mrs. Edmund S. McGrail, of this 
 city, and they have nine children. 2. Mina, who resides at home with her parents. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hart celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage on January 28, 
 1919, at their home No. 26 Lenox street, upon which occasion their hosts of friends 
 called to extend hearty congratulations. 
 
 OAKLEY SMITH WALKER, Founder, president and treasurer of the O. S. 
 Walker Company, was born at South Rutland, Jefferson county. New York, February 
 14, 1857, son of Benjamin F. and Ursula C. (Smith) Walker, both of whom were natives 
 of South Rutland. His father was a cooper by trade and also followed farming. He 
 served three years in the Civil War, dying of typhoid on his way to the front in 1864, 
 leaving the mother with five young children without means of support. 
 
 Oakley S. Walker was adopted by an uncle, and worked on a farm until he was 
 /ourteen years old, when he began to work at the trade of wood-turning in a feather 
 
 • duster factory. Having saved a hundred dollars he bought "his liberty" of his uncle 
 and since then has been self-supporting. He attended school at odd times, and at 
 lengfth apprenticed himself to learn the trade of machinist, serving three years, his 
 pay averaging in that time less than dollar a day. Then, after two terms in the high 
 school, he worked at his trade. In the meantime his mother had qualified herself as a 
 school teacher by attending the State Normal School and was teaching in the gram- 
 
 ; mar grade. Afterward she was appointed to a Staie position. His next position was 
 
 • with the Eames Vacuum Brake Company of Watertown, New York, and he remained 
 •with this concern five years, the last of which he spent in England in charge of an ex- 
 perimental shop for testing railroad brakes. 
 
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 Upon his rctuni from ahriiail lie ui-nt West aiicl spciil a year or mure in various 
 shops in Indiana and Ohio, tlii-nco Roinj; to Xi-w \'ork City, remaining tor a time, and 
 finally to VVatertown, liis native city, where he heRan to manufacture drill grinding 
 machinery of his own design in a small shop. In 1887 he came to this city to arrange 
 for the manufacture of some of his machine tools in the Washburn Shops of the Wor- 
 cester Polytechnic Institute, wlien he accepted an attractive offer to enter the employ 
 of the Wasliburn Shops, and he has made his home here since that time. He was for 
 three years engaged in designing and develojiing machinery here. In the course of his 
 work he perfected a successful twist drill grinding machine that has had a wide sale 
 under the name of tlie Worcester Twist Drill Grinder. In 1890 he entered the cm- 
 ploy of the Norton limery Wheel Company and remained seven years as designer, in- 
 ventor and master mechanic. While there lie designed machinery for truing emery 
 wheels and also designed a tool grinding machine, the latter of which is now in univer- 
 sal use. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Walker embarked in Iiusiness with little capital, but with the nucleus 
 of success in the invention of a magnetic chuck that holds machine parts while they 
 are being finished on lathes, planers or grinding machines. It was the first device of 
 its kind, and proved highly successful wlicn finally introduced. He has from time to 
 time added the manufacture of other machines of his invention. From a one-man shop 
 in rented (piarters. the business has grown to large proi)ortions. The business was 
 moved from the Washburn Shojjs to tlie Porter Last Factory and in four years out- 
 grew the two floors occupied there. In 1910 a large factory of concrete construction 
 was built at (jrccndalc. At that time Mr. Walker bought out his partner and in 1914 
 the business was incorporated under its present title, the O. S. Walker Company, of 
 which he is i)resident and treasurer; Isaac !■'. Williams, secretary and manager. The 
 factory is spacious, well-lighted and thorou.ghly modern. Mr. Walker is a member 
 of the Worcester Country Club, and attends St. Jolm's Protestant Episcopal Church, of 
 which his family are members. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Walker married, in Watertown, New York, December 22, 1880, Mary A. 
 Cutler, of Carthage, New York, liorn at LaCrossc, Wisconsin, .August 2S, -[M), d.r.igh- 
 ter of Orvillc 1.. and Delia (Babcock) Cutler. Her father was a carpenter *ind builder, 
 and was a lieutenant in the Civil War, born at Bennington, \'eHnont, January 16, 1821, 
 died December 12, igiJ; her mother was born at Champion, New York, July 7, 1831, 
 died December 2.^, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. W'alker have three children: i. Mildred A., 
 born Sei>tenibcr 15, 1890: graduate of the Worcester High School. 2. Dorothy A., born 
 June 8, 1893; graduate of Smith College, 1915. 3. Oakley Cutler, born June 19. 1894; 
 graduate of- the Worcester High School; student in the engineering course at Michi- 
 gan University for two years; tried to enlist in the navy after the European War began 
 but was refused ; later was drafted and accepted and served for over a year in the avia- 
 tion corps, and has now resumed his studies at the Michigan University, class of 1920. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY PAGE, Retired electrical contractor, was born in Montour 
 Fallj, New York, November 20, 1850, son of Henry and Jennie (Ayers) Page. Henry 
 Page was for many years in the furniture business in Montour Falls, New York. He 
 came to Worcester about 1874 and worked at the trade of cabinet-making. He was 
 also in the undertaking business. During the last year or more of his life he was a 
 grocer. He was born in W'aterbury, Connecticut, and died in this city, July 7, 1889. 
 His home was on Alvarado avenue. His wife was born in Watcrbury, Connecticut, 
 died in this city at the age of seventy-six years. 
 
 Charles H. Page attended the public schools and Cook's College in his native town. 
 In 1872 he came* to this city and was employed at first by the Monroe Organ Company, 
 having charge of the organ reed department for about five years. He then took a 
 contract to make water meters for the Union Water Meter Company, in sizes varying 
 from an inch to four inches, and his brother, Lucius S. Page, was associated with him 
 in manufacturing these meters during the following six years. He left this line of 
 business to become a pioneer in the electrical construction business. In 1885 he began 
 to take electrical contracts for wiring and as the electric lighting business was ex- 
 tended his business increased to large proportions. For three years he was in part- 
 nership with Frank Reed under the firm name of Reed & Page. His store was at Na 
 28 Pearl street. From 1889 to 1895 he continued under the firm name of Charles H. 
 Page & Company. This firm was succeeded by the Page Electric Company. A fewr 
 years later he withdrew from the Page Electric Company, and the new proprietor 
 moved to No. 24 Pearl street. Mr. Page remained at the old stand. No. 28 Pearl 
 street, doing business under the name of the Columbia Electric Company. The Cogh- 
 lin Electric Coiupany is the present title of the company formerly known as the Page 
 Electric Company and established by Mr. Page. Mr. Page did a large part of the 
 electrical wiring and other installation in the early years of the electrical appliances. 
 
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 He had contracts throughout New England. The company installed many large elec- 
 tric lighting and power plants. He was one of the founders of the William L. Browne 
 Electric Company and built up a very flourishing business. After withdrawing from 
 that" company, he became manager of the Henry D. Temple Compatiy, dealing in elec- 
 trical supplies, established by his son and Mr. Temple. He retired in 1915, and since 
 then has been living quietly and enjoying life at his home. No. 4 Englewood avenue in 
 this city. He was formerly a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 
 attends Trinity Methodist Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Page married, in 1873. at Montour Falls. New York, Martha Hosier, who was 
 born in Switzerland, and came in childhood to New York State. She has always been 
 an energetic and useful assistant to her husband in business, and he gives credit to her 
 judgment for the success he scored in his business career. They have one son, Carl 
 Henry (see biography). 
 
 CARL HENRY PAGE, Business man, son of Charles Henry Page, was born in 
 this city and educated here, graduating from the English High School. After being 
 associated with his father for a short time, he entered the employ of the Locomobile 
 Company of America for the purpose of learning the automobile business. He was for 
 a few months at the branch office at Framingham ; then at Westborough for a few 
 weeks. For the ne.Kt three years he was in the office in New York City, Broadway and 
 Seventy-second street. At this time he had a most attractive assignment to investi- 
 gate the conditions and possibilities of trade in automobiles in all parts of the world, 
 and he made a circuit of the world in the interests of employers. Three years after- 
 ward he established the branch office at Paterson, New Jersey; and another in Brook- 
 lyn, retaining an interest in the Brooklyn business. He established on his own ac- 
 count a garage at Broadway and Fifty-eighth street for the White Automobile, and 
 afterward had several agencies. He opened eight branches for the White Company in 
 New York State. At the present time he is sole agent for the Jordan Automobile in 
 New York City and the Metropolitan District. He is one of the best-known and most 
 successful automobile men of New York City. He is a Free Mason. 
 
 Mr. Page married, in New York City, Hattie Baer Burdell, and they have one son, 
 Carl Henry, Jr. 
 
 ARCHIBALD MOSES HILLMAN, Lawyer, was born in Montreal, Canada, Au- 
 gust 6, 1882, son of Alexander S. and Eva (Goldstein) Hillman. His father, a native 
 of Russia, came to that city in the early eighties with his wife, who was born in Kov- 
 no, Russia. Both were of prominent Russian families, his grandfather, Joseph Hill- 
 man, being a man of distinction there, and his uncle, Meyer Hillman, a gifted Rabbi. 
 A brother of Alexander S., named Adolph, was a noted musician of the Conservatory 
 of Strasburg. Alexander S. Hillman was the father of seven children: i. Archibald 
 M. (see biography). 2. Belle, who married Philip Nanes, graduate of Brown Uni- 
 versity, 1905, now instructor of history in the Bushwick High School, New York City. 
 3. Gertrude. 4. Edith, who is engaged in recreation work in Brooklyn, New York. 5. 
 Mildred. 6. Satnuel, who was graduated from Clark College in the class of 1918, 
 and was a member of the debating team, which defeated the Tufts College debating 
 team at Medford, in 1917. It is interesting to note that he spoke from the same plat- 
 form and in a contest similar to that which his senior brother engaged in twelve years 
 ago. He enlisted in the S. A. T. C. at Clark College in September, 1918, and was sent 
 to the Officers' Training School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, receiving his honorable dis- 
 charge in December of 1918. 7. Ruby, a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of 
 1918. and while a student there specialized in mathematics, now being engaged in the 
 actuarial department of the State Mutual Life Insurance Company of this city. The 
 father of these children died in this city. May 14, 1916. 
 
 Archibald M. Hillman was nine years of age when the family came to this city, 
 in 1891, and he has lived here since that time. He completed the course in the Ledge 
 street' public school in 1897, and then entered the English High School, where he 
 studied for a time. Leaving" school he was employed in the factory of an_ underwear 
 manufacturer in this city for five years. In the meantime he studied ev'enings and 
 fitted himself for the position of bookkeeper. In 1904 he left ledgers to carry out his 
 purpose of going to college. In seven months in the high school he mastered six full 
 courses, and in the fall of 1904 entered Clark College, graduating in 1907 with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Arts, with honors. In 1906 he was a member of the Clark debating 
 team which won the debating contest with the Tufts College team; and in 1907 he was 
 again on the debating team and took part in the debate with the Bates College team, 
 and was highly compliinented for his part in the contest. He became a student at Har- 
 vard Law School, and graduated therefrom in 1910 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Laws, not only paying his own way, but at the same time aiding others in the family. 
 
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 He is at tlie present time president uf the Alumni Associaticm of ClarW CdleRe. After 
 graduatinH from the law school he passed liis bar examinations, and since then has 
 been practicing law in tliis city. His offices are at Nos. -37-73y .Slater building. 
 
 Mr. llillinan has been active in various Jewish orKanizations, and is cliairman of 
 the committee on general fund and cliaritable objects of the District (irand Lodge, 
 No. I, Independent Order B'nai Brith. This district includes New \'ork-. Massachu- 
 setts, Connecticut. Rhode Island, Maine, and Canada. He is and has been for ten 
 years Sunday school instructor in the Lyman School for Boys at Westborougli, Massa- 
 chusetts. In politics he is a Republican, and his services have been in constant demand 
 during recent political campaigns as a speaker. He is a member of the Harvard Club 
 of this city: the Barristers Cluli; the Lconomic Clul) : the Clark College Alumni Aa- 
 sociation; the Worcester Lodge, No. 600, 1. O. B. B., and other social organizations. 
 He is frequently called to act on important committees lor civic and welfare purposes. 
 Mr. Hillman was one of Worcester's four minute speakers during the war, and was 
 very actively engaged in every campaign for war drives. He was chairman of the 
 Worcester liranch of the Jewish Welfare Board. This Iiranch kept complete statistics 
 of the Jewish boys out of VN'orcester in the service, held public send-otTs lor the b(.ys as 
 they left for the front, welcomed them upon their return and engage<l in a program of 
 social and religious service at Camp Hevens. 
 
 Mr. Hillman's mother passed away in this city, .\ugust 12, iyo6, while he was a 
 student at Clark College. 
 
 CHARLES ALEXANDER STEWART— Long and circuitous was the rcjute trav- 
 eled by Charles A. Stewart, president of llie Stewart, .Skinner Company, from liis birth- 
 place in Scranton, Petmsylvania, ere Worcester, Massachusetts, became his permanent 
 home. The trip embraced thirty-four years on the Pacific Coast, several years in \'an- 
 couver, British Columbia, the .State of Washington, a return to San hVancisco, finally, 
 in igo8, locating in the city of Worcester, where he is a successful business man. a 
 manufacturer of hardware specialties, including the speedy stitcher, of whicli Mr. 
 Stewart is the patentee, and the Stewart, Skinner Comjiany the sole manufacturers. 
 The main office and factory of Stewart, Skinner Company is at Worcester, Massachu- 
 setts, the company maintaining a New "^'ork office at Xo. jy Murray street. 
 
 Mr. Stewart is a son of Donald .McOary Stewart, born in Scoll.and, who came to 
 the United States at the age of twenty and settled in New York State. He learned 
 the trade of an iron molder in the United States and contimied at that trade in various 
 parts of the country, but later he settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he 
 now resides, a prosperous real estate dealer, aged seventy-three years. He married 
 Charlotte l^'ord Cook, who died in Vancouver in 1908. aged si,\ty-two years. Donald 
 McCrary and Charlotte Ford (Cook) .Stewart were tlie parents of tliree children : Anna, 
 wife of Charles Fiddick, wlio resides in Xanimo, Britisli Cohmibia ; Charles Alexan- 
 der, of wliom further mention is made; rhoche, wife of Charles Carnwath, who resides 
 at Vancouver, British Cidumbia. 
 
 Charles -Mexander Stewart was born in the city of Scranton. Pennsylvania. F'eb- 
 ruary 21, iS/.S- .Shortly afterward his parents moved to San Francisco, California. 
 which city was the family home for about two and one-half years. In 1878 the .Stewarts 
 moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and there the lad obtained his education in 
 the public schools, from which he was graduated in iSyo. At the age of sixteen he 
 joined a crew and was engaged in lumbering in the State of Washington. FVom the 
 lumber camp he made an exchange to life on the sea, and for one year was employed 
 on the Pacific coast steamers. He then learned the wood worker's trade, and with 
 that trade as his capital he traveled over a goodly portion of the United .States. \\'ith 
 wood working he took up architectural. drawing in San Francisco, and as a draftsman 
 was employed during the rebuilding of that city. In igo8 he secured a patent for the 
 Speedy Stitcher, a tool which has no rival in leather stitching of every kind. The 
 same year he located in Worcester. Massachusetts, where he organized the Stewart, 
 Skinner Comjiany for the manufacture of his invention. Charles A. Stewart is presi- 
 dent and treasurer. F'rom a small begimiing the company has developed into one of 
 the important industries of Worcester, the Speedy Stitcher Awd being sold over the 
 United States and in foreign countries. They manufacture other hardware specialties, 
 and during the Kuropean War brought out the Lightning Butter Machine by which a 
 pound of Ijutter and one pint of milk was made into two pounds of table butter. The 
 factory and office is now a very large four-story factory building, recently completed, 
 where every modern convenience or method is installed to insure efficiency, health and 
 comfort. Mr. Stewart is a member of the Kiwanis Club, and for the past five years has 
 been a deacon of Pilgrim Congregational Church of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. .Stewart married, October 12, 1905, Lily Wilson, daughter of Thomas and 
 Annie E. (Cundell) Wilson, her father dying in the Klondike in 1898, her mother now 
 
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 residing in Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are the parents of three 
 sons : Walter Grant, born June l8, 1906; Herbert Arnold, born February 2, 1909; Fran- 
 cis Noonan, born July 28, 1916. The family home is at No. 30 Woodbine street, Wor- 
 cester. 
 
 GEORGE ALEXANDER MC KENZIE. As the author of that widely-read story 
 of theatrical life, "The Stage Baby," and as an amateur photographer Mr. McKenzie is 
 widely-known and appreciated. Photography may be termed his "hoppy," and so far 
 has he progressed that he possesses one of the finest amateur outfits, a "Graflex 3 A." 
 His reputation far exceeds local limits, and his services as a skilled Graflex operator 
 were asked for by the United States Government. Mr. McKenzie is a son of Kenneth 
 McKenzie, who w'as born in Prince Edwards Island, and grandson of Duncan McKen- 
 zie, who came from Scotland to the Maritime Provinces. Kenneth McKenzie was a 
 contractor all his active years, and died in St. John, New Brunswick, aged seventy 
 years. He married Malinda Porter, who died in 1882. They were the parents of four 
 
 children : George A., of further mention ; Ida, married , and died at the age of 
 
 forty-three years, leaving two sons : Harry and Stanley ; William, of Sussex, New 
 Brunswick, Canada, a farmer ; Laura, married Henry Matherson, of St. John, and 
 they are the parents of nine children. 
 
 George Alexander McKenzie, eldest son of Kenneth and Malinda (Porter) Mc- 
 Kenzie, was born in St. John, the commercial metropolis of the province of New_ Bruns- 
 wick, Canada. After the death of his mother, in 1882, he went to Bangor, Maine, and 
 there attended school, also beginning his business life as a printer in that city. In 1888 
 he left Bangor and came to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was in the employ of 
 various printing houses until 1902, when he established in business for himself. He 
 has occupied his present location. No. 554 Main street, since 1906. His business, music, 
 amateur photography and his home fills his measure of life and enjoyment to the brim, 
 and he has no club, society nor political connections. He is an accomplished cornetist 
 and a member of the Worcester Brass Band and the Eighteenth Regiment Band. Both 
 he and his wife are communicants of Old South Congregational Church and members 
 of the church choir. 
 
 Mr. McKenzie married, in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, September 4, 1902, Anna 
 Louise Crawford, born in St. John, New Brunswick, February 12, 1871, daughter of 
 William Wallace and Charlotte Mary (Brown) Crawford, both deceased, her father 
 dying in Gagetown, New Brunswick, aged eighty-six years, he the son of the Crawford 
 emigrant from Scotland. Mrs. McKenzie learned the printing trade with her husband 
 and has been his business partner ever since. The family home is at No. 6 Glendale 
 street, a house recently purchased by them. 
 
 ABRAHAM BURLINGAME, Inventor and manufacturer, was born August 4, 
 1841, in Killingly, Connecticut, the son of Harris and Sarah Avis (Warren) Burlin- 
 game, and died in this city, February 8, 1900. 
 
 After acquiring his early educational training in the district schools of his native 
 town, he became apprenticed to the machinist's trade. In 1865 he came to Worcester, 
 and worked for Bellows & Whitcomb. and later in the Washburn Steam Works. Upon 
 the death of Mr. Washburn a few years later, Mr. Burlingame bought out the business, 
 which was thereafter conducted under the name of A. Burlingame & Company. The 
 business was first located on School street, and in 1882 was removed to No. 22 Cypress 
 street. The steam engines made by A. Burlingame & Company were of the best, and 
 many of them are still in use in this city and giving the utmost satisfaction. The busi- 
 ness continued to grow under the management and untiring energy of Mr. Burlingame, 
 who besides devoting himself to the manufacture of steam engines also gave muchof 
 his attention to the perfection of an idea of his own for an improvement in machine 
 pulleys. As a result of long months of experimenting the Burlingame pulley, so called, 
 became a valuable and much-demanded property. The factory, while not a large one 
 as compared with those of other steam engine building firms, became known through- 
 out the country. The Burlingame steam engine and the Burlingame pulley made the 
 plant famous throughout New England, and gave employment to sixty skilled hands. 
 Mr. Burlingame was a natural born mechanic, and possessed an unusual manual dex- 
 terity and mechanical ingenuity. In manner he was modest and unpretentious, but pos- 
 sessed a genial nature which won him lasting friendships. In political faith he was a 
 Republican. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 Mr. Burlingame married (first) in 1861, Emily J. Wade, who was born in Glou- 
 cester, Rhode Island, the daughter of Isaac and Sylvia (Young) Wade, of Killingly, 
 Connecticut. By this union there was born one daughter, Lillian, who is unmarried, 
 formerly engaged in teaching in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mrs. Burlingame died in this 
 city, in November, 1875, and Mr. Burlingame married (second) July 7, 1881, Emma J. 
 
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 Burton, daugliter of Dr. I'utiiam and Rusenicr (I'uffcr) Burton, ol Ludlow, X'crniont. 
 To this union was 1)orn one dauKluer, Alice B.. who married, March 22, 1910, .Arthur 
 K. Graves, of Leicester, Massachusetts, who is connected with the (iraton & KuiKht 
 ManufacturiuK Company, of this city, and they are the parents of one daughter, Avis 
 Lillian Graves. l)orn June 14, lyu. Sirs. BurliuH.iine survives her liushand, and resides 
 at No. -(8 W'achusett street, this city. 
 
 CORNELIUS STEPHEN MANNIX. When a youth eye trouhle caused a serious 
 hrcak in tlie schoid life of Cornelius S. Maimi.v. lliat likewise being the cause of his 
 early entrance into the real estate field, he being yet a minor when he made his first 
 deal. Out-of-door life has always appealed to him, and the opportunities which his 
 lifelong business affords him to indulge his natural tastes, have in an unusual degree 
 bound in close ties the man and his calling. .'\ feature of this out-door life has been 
 the growing of roses. Mr. Mannix lieing one of Worcester's amateur florists. He has 
 caused some wonderful results to ajipear from his e.\periments in rose culture, among 
 others being the growin,g in the open of bushes supposed to have been only possible to 
 propagate under glass. Mr. Manni.\ is a Wnrcester boy, son of Cornelius H. Mannix, 
 ln)rn in County Kerry, Ireland, another of the sons of Erin who, inspired by the long- 
 ing for liberty, sought .American shores, and from the strength of their manhood con- 
 tributed to the development and growth of the l.ind which gave them such generous 
 welcome. 
 
 Cornelius H. Manni.K came to the I'nited States in 1847, settled in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, where in 1849 he was proprietor of a grocery store located on Front 
 street near the viaduct on the present site of the "Express" building, the projierty then 
 being owned by Iiis great-aunt, Joanna Sullivan. Mr. Manni.x continued in business 
 until 1870, then retired, having prospered and accumulated considerable landed estate. 
 He died in 1878. aged fifty-eight years. Cornelius H. Mannix married Margaret Cro- 
 nin, born in Ireland, who was brought to the L'nited .States by her parents at the age of 
 six years. She died in Worcester, Massachusetts, in April, i88g. aged fifty-two years. 
 Cornelius H. and Margaret (Cronin) Mannix were the parents of seven children, and 
 of these are livin.g: Cornelius .Stephen ; Mary T. and Catherine L. ; the youngest, Myra 
 M., died March 22. 1915. The sisters reside with their brother at No. 70 (ireen street. 
 The home is located in the same city block in wliich at Nos. 84-86-88-90, Cornelius H. 
 Mannix erected a large building in 1873. i'lc intervening property consisting of five 
 houses is also owned by C. S. Mannix and sisters. 
 
 Cornelius Stephen Matiiii.x was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, December 26, 
 1861, and has ever continued his residence in the city of his birth. He attended the 
 public schools until the age of sixteen, being a student in high school when eye trouble 
 developed and he was obliged to desist from his studies. Later he was a student at 
 Holy Cross College. This enforced school absence left the lad with a great deal of 
 leisure which he desired to profitably employ, and he drifted into a line of real estate 
 work, finally adopting the real estate operating as his own business. He located in his 
 present offices, room 11, Walker building, as a real estate dealer in 1898, and there 
 conducts a prosperous business. Mr. Mannix is a Democrat in politics, and during the 
 term of Mayor Logan represented Ward Five on the lioard of .Aldermen. He is a com- 
 municant of St. John's Roman Catholic Church. an<l a member of Washington Social 
 Club. 
 
 WILLIS EDWARD PUTNAM. From 1875 until the present. 1919. Mr. Putnam 
 has resided in Worcester, and since 1S92 he has ci^nducted his present business, build- 
 er's finish and cabinet work; his mill at the corner of Union and Exchange streets. 
 He is himself an expert work worker, and gives to each order his personal supervision, 
 the motto of the shops being "Quality." He is a son of Edw'ard Sibley Putnam, born 
 in Sutton. Massachusetts, who died at the early age of thirty-four, proprietor of a 
 meat market. He married Josephine Denison, and they were the parents of two sons : 
 Willis Edward, of further tnention; and Charles Sibley, now cashier of the Merchants' 
 National Bank, of Worcester : he married Mary Emmons, of O.xford, Massachusetts, 
 and they are the parents of three children : Emmons, Stewart and Charles Sibley (2). 
 
 Willis Edward Putnam was born in Sutton. Massachusetts, December 14, 1868, but 
 in 1875 his parents moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has ever since re- 
 sided. He was educated in the public schools of the city, and was constant in his at- 
 tendance until attaining his sixteenth year, when he apprenticed himself to a carpenter 
 and Imilder, who taught him the carpenter's trade. He became a finished workman, 
 and for eight years applied himself closely as a journeyman carpenter and cabinet- 
 maker. He then began business under his own name, and is thoroughly well-established 
 as a manufacturer of all forms of builder's finish, and also of the finest cabinet work. 
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 city. Mr. Putnam is a member of the Worcester Builders' Exchange, and Worcester 
 Country Club ; his favored recreations are golf and fishing. He is a Republican in 
 politics, and in religious faith a Universalist, belonging to the First Church. 
 
 Mr. Putnam married, in Worcester, March 15, 1893, liarriet Washburn Cook, 
 born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1869. Her father died in Hartford, Connecti- 
 cut ; her mother, Mrs. Jennie (Delano) Cook, surviving him, a resident of Worcester, 
 aged eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam are the parents of four children : Harold 
 F., born March 10, 1897, a graduate of Worcester High School, 1916, now serving with 
 the United States Naval Reserves, stationed at Newport, Rhode Island; Hazel, twin 
 with Harold F., married William Earl Shumway, of Worcester; Willis Edward. Jr., 
 born December 23, 1904; Harriet, born December 7, 1908, died April 13, 1916. The 
 family home is No. 45 Midland street, Worcester. 
 
 JAMES FRANCIS TIMON. On both paternal and maternal lines James F. Ti- 
 mon traces his ancestry to Ireland, his grandparents, Charles and Mary (Graham) 
 Timon. residing in County Sligo. His father, John Timon, came to the United States, 
 settling in Worcester, Massachusetts, where his son, James Francis Timon. was born. 
 He married Mary Ann Dougherty, daughter of Francis and Nancy (McNulty) Dough- 
 erty, of Ballybofey, Donegal. Ireland. John Timon was a moulder by trade, and a 
 man of influence in Worcester, serving in the city government and sitting on the school 
 board. 
 
 James Francis Timon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, June I, 1868. He 
 was graduated from Worcester Classical High School in 1888, Holy Cross College, 
 A. B., 1891, Boston University Law School, L.L. B., 1893, Holy Cross College, A. M., 
 1894. After completing his law studies he began practice in Worcester, and has at- 
 tained high rank at the Massachusetts bar. He is a member of the Worcester Bar As- 
 sociation, and is held in high regard by his professional brethren. He is a Democrat in 
 politics, and has served his city as a member of the Council, and on both the old and 
 the new school boards. He is a member of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, and 
 the Knights of Columbus, but is oftenest found in his library engaged in literary and 
 classical study, that being one of his favored recreations. His sports are those of 
 the open air, baseball, swimming and golf most appealing to him. 
 
 Mr. Timon married. October 18, 1898, Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Conaty, bishop of Los 
 Angeles, officiating, Catherine A., daughter of James L. and Bridget E. Cooney. They 
 are the parents of two sons and a daughter: James Francis, Jr., born April 28, 1902; 
 Grace Theresa, born August 18, 1904; John, born October 7, 1908. 
 
 M. EDWARD SKELLEY— When M. Edward Skelley, proprietor of "The Skel- 
 ley Print," came to Worcester, he had five years experience as printer's devil and ap- 
 prentice with the "Barre Gazette," but the fourteen years he spent with the Harrigan 
 Press in Worcester completed the finished artistic printer and gave him wide experi- 
 ence and thoroughly finished him for the business he now conducts under the name of 
 "The Skelley Print." He began that business in a very modest way, but his trade has 
 increased until it is most satisfactory to him in its volume. 
 
 M. Edward Skelley is a son of Michael Skelley, who was born in County Long- 
 ford, Ireland, and came to the United States when a young man and settled in Barre, 
 Worcester county, Massachusetts, where he yet resides, a retired farmer. He tnarried, 
 in Barre, Mary Healy, born in Ireland, who came to the L'nited States alone, found a 
 home in Barre, and there died, aged seventy-five years. They were the parents of six 
 children: John, a Boston & Albany Railroad employee; M. Edward (see biography); 
 James, a machinist of Barre, Massachusetts; Elizabeth, residing at home with her 
 father; Lena, married Benjamin Green, of Barre, and has a son, Benjamin (2) Green; 
 Louise, residing at home in Barre. 
 
 M. Edward Skelley was born in Barre, Massachusetts, June 7, 1878, and there at- 
 tended the public school until fourteen years of age. He then decided that he would 
 be a printer, and for five years was employed by the "Barre Gazette." He there com- 
 pleted his apprenticeship and remained until 1897, when he moved to Worcester and 
 secured a position with the Harrigan Press. He continued with that company for. four- 
 teen years, then, in 1911, he established "The Skelley Print," and with one man 
 launched that now prosperous printing enterprise. He is widely known as a printer of 
 skill and ability. The Skelley Print giving not alone fine printing but aiding the buyer 
 to determine quality and design. The drawing power of his printing is recognized, 
 and now a large force is required to keep pace with the demand made upon The Skel- 
 ley Print. Mr. Skelley is a member of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, the Knights 
 of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the United Typothetae of 
 America, and the Octagon Club. He takes pleasure in bridge whist as an indoor recre- 
 ation, and in golf as an out-door sport. He is well-liked by a numerous circle of 
 friends, and as a business man he stands high. 
 
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 Mr. Skelley married, in East Providence. Rhode Island. (Jctobcr i, 1908. Marv G. 
 Ryan, daughter of Lawrence Ryan, of East Providence, her mother deceased. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Skelley arc the parents of a son, Edward, born ,\|)ril 18, 1914. Mr. Skelley 's 
 presses and print rooms are in the (;ra|)hic Arts Imilding, Xo. 2^ Foster street. Wor- 
 cester, his residence, Xo. 2 Pelham street. 
 
 SUMNER PRATT, Manufacturer, was born at Oxford. Massachusetts. .September 
 30. 1809. and died in Worcester, January 6. 1887. son of Captain Elias and Sally (Co- 
 nant) Pratt. Sumner Pratt was descended from the i)i«)neers of Xew England'. The 
 Pratt line of ancestry is: Sumner (6), Captain Elias (5). Captain Elias (4), Jonathan 
 (3), Jonathan (2). Thomas (i). The immigrant ancestor. Thomas Pratt, was born in 
 England and came to this country about 1637; lived in Watertown and Framingham; 
 Jionathan (2) Pratt located in Oxford and was selectman of that town. Captain Elias 
 (4) Pratt was a captain in the Revolution from Oxford; selectman <if that town: his 
 son. Captain Elias Pratt, was in the State Militia: also a selectman: removed to Wor- 
 cester: inarried Sally Conant. 'J'hc Conant line: Sally (9), Dr. E/ra (8), Ezra (7), 
 Benjamin (6). John (5"), Lot (4^ Roger (3), Richard (2), John (1 ». K<igcr (3) Conant 
 was the immigrant: the first governor of Massachusetts: justice: selectman: one of 
 the founders of Beverly; John (5) Conant served in King Philip's War; Benjamin 
 (6^ Conant, was one of the founders of Dudley: Ezra (7) Conant. was town clerk and 
 selectman of Warwick: Dr. Ezra (8) Conant was of Warwick, later of Oxford. 
 
 Sumner Pratt was born on the farin where his ancestors lived for three genera- 
 tions, and there he lived during his yoinh. He received his education in the public 
 schools of Oxford, and Sutton, whither liis parents went to live in 1817. He worked 
 on a farm until he came of age. In 1831 he left home and engaged in the manufacture 
 of loom shuttles at Xorth (irafton and Wilkinsonville until 1835, and during tlie eight 
 years following sold loom shuttles and cotton yarn on commission. In 1843 he came 
 to Worcester, transferring the machinery from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, to a mill 
 in W'orcester. where for two years he manufactured cotton threa<l. In 1845 he sold 
 this business to Albert Curtis, and in the same year he e>tablished an agency for cotton 
 and wool machinery and mill supplies in Worcester, and under the well-known name of 
 Sumner Pratt & Company continued in business until he retired in 1883. In 1851 he 
 occupied the liuilding at Xo. 22 Front street. I lis business increased rapidly and he 
 became one of the most prominent and successful dealers in his line in Xew l^ngland. 
 He took a keen interest in municipal afi'airs and served the city in the Common Coun- 
 cil in 1869-70-71-72, and in the Board of Aldermen in 1876-77. He was a member of 
 the Board of Trade and at one time its |)resident. He was a trustee of the Worcester 
 County Institution for Savings: a director of the Worcester Safe Deposit and Trust 
 Company (now the Worcester Bank and Trust Company) : vice-president of the Peo- 
 ple's Savings Bank. In early life he was a Whig, later a Republican in politics. In re- 
 ligion he was an Episcopalian and for many years was vestryman and warden of All 
 Saints' Church. He was highly-esteemed in the community, of exemplary character, 
 the highest ideals, sound judgment and sterling common sense. In his social and do- 
 mestic life he was beloved for his kindness and attractive personal qualities. 
 
 Mr. Pratt married (first). May 19. 1836, Serena Chase, born .'\pril 4, 1815, died at 
 Worcester. June 19, 1848, daughter of Caleb Chase, of Sutton. He married (second), 
 August 5. 1850. at W'orcester. .'\bby Curtis Read, born .'Vpril 28, 1818, died April 29, 
 1896, daughter of Ebenezer and Sally (Curtis) Read. Children by first wife: l-'reder- 
 ick Sumner (see biography) : Emma Amanda, born May 8, 1848, unmarried. Child by 
 second wife: Edward Read, born May i, 1851, died October 31, 1880. 
 
 FREDERICK SUMNER PRATT, Artist was born in Worcester. September 21, 
 1845, son of Sumner and Serena (Chase) Pratt. He attended the public schools, and 
 graduated from the Worcester High School in 1862. After four years of service in the 
 W'orcester Xational Bank, he liecame associated in business with his father and re- 
 mained a member of the firm of Sumner, Pratt & Company until 1896. when he retired. 
 Since then he has devoted much time to portrait and landscape i)ainting, in which he 
 had soiTic training in early life, and many of his works are highly prize<l by their own- 
 ers. Mr. Pratt is a trustee of the Worcester County Institution for Savings : trustee of 
 the Worcester Art Museum: member of various local clubs, and Salmagundi Club, 
 Xew York. He is senior warden of .All Saints' Protestant Episcopal Cluifch. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Pratt married. January 19, 1871, at Worcester. Sarah McKean Hilliard. born 
 in Boston, (Roxbury) Massachusetts. Deceinber 21. 1841, died at Worcester, December 
 27, 1897, daughter of Francis and Catherine Dexter (Haven) Hilliard. Children, born 
 in W'orcester: i. Francis FJilliard. born Xovemlier 3, 1871, died Xovember 4. 1871. 2. 
 Frederick Haven, .A. M., M. D.. born July 19, 1873: graduate of Harvard College and 
 
734 HISTORY OF ll-QRCHSTER 
 
 the Harvard Medical School ; has published papers on scientific and educational sub- 
 jects; Professor of Physiologj-, University of Buffalo, and member of the American 
 Association fur the Advancement of Science, and the St. Botolph Club, Boston ; he 
 married. June 12, 1912, Margery Wilerd, daughter of George D. and Leora Davis, of 
 West Newton. Massachusetts; children, born in Buffalo: Frederick Sumner. June i^, 
 1913 ; Margery. December 4, 1914; Roger Conant, born June 6. 1917. 3. Katherine 
 Chase, born December 29, 1875; married, June 2, 1896, Dr. Alfred Lindsay Shapleigh, 
 of Boston; both went to China as missionaries in 1896 and again in 1904; Dr. Shap- 
 leigh and two of tlieir children, Samuel Brooks and Stephen, 'died of small-pox at. 
 Ngankin. a third son, Frederick Gordon, had died in 1900, in Worcester; Mrs. Shap- 
 leigh continued her work in China, however, and was located at Yang Chow until 1907, 
 when she returned for a period of rest. 4. Robert Gage (see biography). 5. Elizabeth 
 Hilliard, born July 27, 1882; married, June 23, 1906, Dr. William Irving Clark, of New 
 York City; settled in Worcester; children; Katherine Irving, born January 14, 1908, 
 and William Irving, born July 2. 1910. 
 
 Frederick S. Pratt was a descendant also in the maternal line from Aquila Chase, 
 and Mrs. Pratt from Emanuel Hilliard, Sergeant Richard Haven, William Davis. Tim- 
 othy Foster, and other pioneers, and many of his ancestors served in the French and 
 Indian War and the Revolution. 
 
 ROBERT GAGE PRATT, Manufacturer, was born in Worcester, October 17, 1877, 
 son of I'^rederick Sumner and Sarah McKean (Hilliard) Pratt. He attended the pub- 
 lic schools of this city. Fish's Private School, the Dalzell School in Worcester, and 
 entered Harvard College in the class of 1900. After three years as a Harvard student 
 he left college to engage in business. He spent a year in the office of Earle & Fisher, 
 architects, in Worcester. He then entered the employ of the Crompton and Knowles 
 Loom Works, starting in the weave room and mastering the details of the business. 
 For two years he was assistant of George F. Hutchins, in the office of the company. 
 In 1907 he established his present business in Worcester, engaging in the manufacture 
 of textile machinery for narrow fabrics. The manufacturing of narrow fabrics has 
 been growing rapidly in this country in late years, and Mr. Pratt has been highly suc- 
 cessful in his business. The plant has been enlarged from time to time and the busi-/ 
 ness has grown steadily. He began at No. 100 Beacon street, removing to No. 43 La- 
 grange street in 1916, its present location. Mr. Pratt is -an incorporator of the Wor- 
 cester County Institute for Savings ; member of the Chamlier of Commerce, the Wor- 
 cester Club, the Worcester Agricultural Society, the Tatnuck Country Club, the Wor- 
 cester Tennis Club, the Quinsigamond Boat Club, the Worcester Harvard Club, and 
 All Saints' Church. In politics he is a Republican. He is interested in music and 
 while a student was leader of the Harvard University Banjo Club. 
 
 Mr. Pratt married, July 9, 1906. Edythe McCord Coleman, born May 8. 1880, at 
 Toronto, Canada, daughter of F'rederic G. and Edith (McCord) Coleman, of Toronto, 
 Canada. Her Grandfather McCord was for many years treasurer of the city of Toron- 
 to. They have one child, Sarah, born at Worcester, July 17, 1915. 
 
 WILLIAM JAMES JAMIESON, Superintendent of Barnard, Sumner & Put- 
 nam Company, was Imrn in this city. October 15. 1886. He attended the public schools, 
 English High School and the Stnne School in Boston. He began his business career 
 in the Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company department store in this city and has been 
 with that concern to the present time. He was first office clerk, then collector and 
 bookkeeper, and since 1909 has been store superintendent.. Few men have won their 
 way to a position of such responsibility so early in life. Mr. Jamieson resides in Hol- 
 den, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Holden Congregational Church. In politics 
 he is a Republican. Mr. Jamieson has been prominent in public affairs in Holden; was 
 elected selectman of that town for three years in February, 1918; is president of the 
 Holden Hospital (Inc.) ; director of the Holden Community Corporation, organized in 
 1914; captain of the Holden Military Training Company since 1917, when, the organ- 
 ization was formed ; member of Company H, Nineteenth Regiment, State Guard. He is 
 a member of the Commonwealth Club of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Jamieson married, October 18. 1910, Helen Marion Brierly, daughter of Jnhn 
 T. Brierly. of this city (see biography). They have one child, Dorothea Woodbury, 
 born March 9, 1913. 
 
 Mr. Jamieson's father, Thomas H. Jamieson, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, died 
 in Worcester, March 26, 1904. aged forty-eight years ; married Mary Riddell. also a 
 native of Scotland, born 1853. died 1898 in this city. Thomas H. Jamieson was edu- 
 cated in Scotland ; became an interior decorator in Glasgow, and after serving an 
 apprenticeship of seven years worked also as a journeyman in Edinburgh and London. 
 After coming to this country in the eighties he located in Fitchburg, then in Wor- 
 
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 cester. He was for some twelve years foreman of the painting department of the 
 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works. He was a memher of Qninsigamond Lodge. Free 
 Masons; Ridgely Lodge, ()d(l I-"elIows: served on the Repuhlican City Committee ahont 
 five years from Ward Kight. He was one of the founders of tlio Presbyterian cliurch, 
 Kilhy street. Thomas H. and Mary Janiieson had four children: i. Jennie, married 
 William Hctiry IJrown, of iJunds. Ontario, Canada: resides at East Haven, Connecti- 
 cut; manufacturer of special machinery; have four children. 2. Sadie, married Harry 
 R. Colby, now of Millbury, a general contractor; has two children. 3. William James, 
 mentioned above. 4. Joseph Andrew, born January 29, i8gi, now credit man for 
 Brewer & Company; married Lida Gilbert, of Millliury. 
 
 CHARLES DARIUS LLOYD, Superintendent of ilie W. }'.. Crombic Company, 
 was born in I'Vamingham, ALassachusctts, November i, 1858, son of Curtis Brewer and 
 Ruth Willis (Puffer) Lloyd. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, 
 and early in lit'e learned the printing trade there. In the course of time he became 
 foreman of the "Lakeview Press," at South Framingham. He came to this city in 
 1889 to take charge of the printing oflicc of F. S. Blanchard, wlio was for many years 
 one of the leading printers and publishers of this city, and he continued as foreman 
 of the "Blanchard Press" until 1907. when he resigned to accept a similar position 
 with the "Maqua Press," in Sclienectady. After five years with the "Maqua Press," he 
 returned to his former position witli the "Blanchard Press." and contiiuied until Mr. 
 Blanchard retired, in 19:3. With two partners who had been with the "Blaiirhard 
 Press," for many years, Mr. Lloyd formed the W. B. Crombie Company (see biography 
 of W. B. Crombie), and established a printing business in the new (jraphic Arts build- 
 ing. The new concern has prospered from the start. Mr. Lloyd has had charge of the 
 mechanical part of the business, and is superintendent of the company. In politics he 
 is a Republican; in religion a Congregationalist. He is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional Club and the Mechanics' Association. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd married, December 21, 1881, Jennie Janes, born December 19, 1858, died 
 July 12, 1916. daughter of David W. Janes. They had three children: i. Edna, born 
 at Framingham, October 3, 1882, graduate of the Worcester High School, 1901 : mar- 
 ried, June 17, 1908, at Schenectady, Harold Barnes Larned. son of James Edward and 
 Hattie (Barnes) Larned. a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, now a civil 
 engineer in New York City; they have two children. 2. Kenneth Janes, born March 
 20, 1900, graduate of the Classical Higli School, igi8. 3. Gertrude, born July 3, 1901, 
 died young. 
 
 HENRY PEELE SAVORY, Agent of Adams Express Company, was- born in 
 Salem, Massachusetts, May 15, i860, son of Benjamin and Hannah B. (Peele) Savory, 
 and died March 17, 1918. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools. He left the high scliool at the end of 
 one year, and for several years was employed in the wholesale and retail newspaper 
 trade in Fall River by George D. Johnson. In 1882 he entered the service of the Adams 
 Express Company, and except for a few years was with that company to the time of 
 his death. .\\ first he was messenger on the express cars, making a round trip from 
 Providence to Fall River daily. He was transferred to other runs from time to time 
 until 1885, when he was appointed agent at Westboro. Massachusetts, a position he 
 filled until 1889. During the next thirteen years he was agent or route agent for the 
 company, making his headquarters at Westfield, Massachusetts. From 1901 to 1905 he 
 was division agent at Putnam. Connecticut. Mr. Savory was appointed agent of the 
 Adams Express Comi)any in Worcester in 1905. In 1911-12 he was engaged in other 
 business in this city, and in 1912-15 he was agent of the company in Springfield, but 
 after that he filled his former position as agent in Worcester. It is proper to say that 
 his personality and business ability, his thorough knowledge of the express business, 
 and the requirements of customers won the confidence and esteem of the business inen 
 of the city. 
 
 In politics. Mr. Savory was a Republican, but he never sought public office or ac- 
 cepted it. He was a member of Quinebaug Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 of Putnam, Connecticut, and took the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite; he 
 was also a member of Metacomet Tribe, No. 28, Imjiroved Order of Red Men. of 
 Westfield, in which he filled, successively, the various chairs: member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, Westfield Lodge, No. 114; and of Benchley Conclave of 
 Heptasophs, of this city. He was formerly a member of the Worcester Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 Mr. Savory married in Newton, February 25, 1885. .Xdele Louise Houston, daugh- 
 ter of Enoch and Louisa (Farnham) Houston of Newton. They had two children: 
 1. Robert Henry, graduate of the Putnam High School, now with the Coglin Electric 
 
736 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Company, Worcester. 2. Helen Louise, married Henry Chapman Swain, of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. a draftsman in the government service, formerly with the United States 
 Envelope Company. Springfield. 
 
 HAROLD JOHNSON NEALE, Former superintendent of parks, was born in this 
 city, November 20, 1886, son of Charles E. and Adelaide E. (Riggs) Neale. Charles 
 E. Neale was born in Worcester, October 15, 1866, and his wife, October 21, 1865. 
 They had four sons: Harold Johnson, Albert Sweetser, Ralph Milton and Charles 
 Howard Neale. 
 
 Harold J. Neale attended the puljlic schools here and the Worcester Academy, 
 graduating in 1904. He tlien entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College, from 
 which he graduated in lyog with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He entered the 
 employ of the park department of the city of Worcester in July, 1909, as a civil engineer 
 and made topographical maps of all the city parks. He was appointed city forester in 
 April, 1910, serving until April, 1917, when he became superintendent of parks. He re- 
 signed in January, 1918, to accept his present position as superintendent of Audubon 
 Park, New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Neale enlisted in July, 1917, in the Massachusetts 
 State Guard, and was commissioned first lieutenant of Company H, Nineteenth Regi- 
 ment. He was discharged in January, 1918, on leaving the city. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican. He is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
 and was junior warden in 1918; member of Worcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; 
 the Worcester Country Club; Green Hill Golf Club, of which he was secretary, 1916- 
 18; the American Association of Park Superintendents; Massachusetts Tree Wardens 
 and Foresters Association, of which he was secretary and treasurer, 1913 to 1918; 
 American Academy of Arborists, of which he was director, 1916-18; the Massachusetts 
 Forestry Association ; the First Universalist Church of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Neale married, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, June 26, 191 1, Dorothy Whit- 
 more, who was born in Worcester, April 25, 1888, daughter of Edwin W. and Elizabeth 
 (Scammell) Whitmore. Her father was born in Milford, Massachusetts, January 22, 
 1853; her mother at Milford, February 19, 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Neale have two chil- 
 dren: Richard Whitinore, born August 27, 1912, and Robert Chapin, born June 12, 1915. 
 
 AUGUSTUS NELSON CURRIER, Insurance agent, was born in Andover, New 
 Hampshire. June 5. 1820, died in this city, son of Ebenezer H. Currier, who was a shoe 
 manufacturer in Holliston and a prominent citizen. 
 
 Augustus N. Currier attended the public schools and academy in Holliston. As 
 soon as he came of age he was elected town clerk, soon afterward town treasurer, and 
 in 1853 representative to the General Court. He was in the flour business on Long 
 Wharf, Boston, in the firm of Towne, Currier & LIpham for a few years. He came 
 to this city in 1857 to take charge of the People's Fire Insurance Company, and 
 from that time to the end of his life was in the insurance business here. He was gen- 
 eral agent of the Lancashire Insurance Company of England for New England for 
 seven years. Afterward he was in the general insurance business. He admitted to 
 partnership his son, Herbert A. Currier, under the firm name of Augustus N. Currier 
 & Son. William E. Lincoln was also a partner for several years. After he retired 
 the son continued the business under the old name until his death. Mr. Currier was 
 director of the Central National Bank; vice-president and one of the founders of the 
 People's Savings Bank; director of the Worcester Safe Deposit & Trust Company; 
 director of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company; manager and trustee of many 
 important estates. He was in the Common Council in 1868. 
 
 He represented the Eighteenth District in the Genera! Court in 1885-86. He was 
 a member of the Worcester Agricultural Society, the Worcester County Horticultural 
 Society, and of L^nion Congregational Church ; trustee of the Rural Cemetery and 
 the Home for Aged Females, and secretary of the Old Men's. Home. 
 
 LABAN BOARDMAN FISKE, Founder and president of the Fiske Bill Posting 
 Company, was born June 23, 1849, in Hooksett, New Hampshire, the son of Allen and 
 Mary A. (Parmenter) Fiske, and died in this city, September 4, 1910, in the sixty-sec- 
 ond year of his age. 
 
 W'hen he was seven years of age his parents removed to Holden, Massachusetts, 
 and he there gained his early educational training in the district schools of that town. 
 Leaving school he came to this city to learn the job printing trade, at which he later 
 worked in Providence. Subsequently he became interested in the theatrical business 
 and went on the road for the Van Amburgh circus known as the Golden Menagerie. 
 In 1865 Mr. Fiske returned to this city and joined partnership with Nathan Harkness 
 in the bill posting business under the firm name of Harkness & Fiske. Mr. Harkness 
 died in 1873, and Mr. Fiske continued the business alone, later establishing the Fiske 
 
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AMD ITS PEOPLE 
 
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 Bill PostiiiK Company, wliicli business was a success from the beginning, acquiring 
 large contracts for outdoor advertising, Mr. Fiskc continuing president of this concern 
 until his death. In addition to the hill posting business he, during the seasons of 1879- 
 80-81-82 was associated with Robert Reynolds in the management of the Worcester 
 Theatre. During the following five years Mr. Fiske successfully managed the Harry 
 W. French lectures, which were similar to the Stoddard lectures. 
 
 Mr. Fiske was one of tlie well-known business men of this city, in the interests and 
 welfare of which he was alv^ays interested. In political faith he was a Republican, but 
 never cared for nor sought public office. He was one of the original members of the 
 Boston Lodge of Klks, he and William C. Gale being the only two men from Worcester 
 who were cliarter members of the Boston Lodge. He was also a veteran Odd Fellow, 
 having joined Quinsigamond Lodge, of this city, when it was organized, and being ad- 
 mitted to membership in Wacluisett Encampment in 1875. A valuable contribution to 
 the Worcester Society of .Xntiquity was made by Mr. Fiske when he presented to that 
 society fifteen volumes of theatrical |)osters to which he devoted much time and pains 
 in collecting. He acquired considerable properly, building his house on I'leasant 
 street, which he had occupied for over twenty-six years. He had always lived in that 
 neighborhood, having resided on Dewey street for a number of years. 
 
 Mr. Fiskc married. March 7, 1869, Julia E. Trimm, who was born in Franklin, 
 Massachusetts, July 18, 1851, daugliter of Arnold K. and Harriet (Richardson) Trimm, 
 and to this union were born four children: i. Gertrude E., who is the wife of Harry 
 H. Bloss, who was connected with the editorial department of the "\ew York Herald," 
 and is now editor of the Westboro, Massachusetts, "Chronotype ;" one son, Harold 
 Fiske Bloss, served in the United States Navy during tlie World War, being assigned 
 to service w'itli the large naval guns used in France. 2. Herbert L., proprietor of the 
 West Brimfield, Massachusetts, Brick Company: he married Ethel Davis, of Spencer, 
 and they have one son, Allen L. Fiske. ,•?. Etta V... who is the wife of William R. 
 Hamill, of Worcester, and have two daughters, Selina E. and Eleanor J. Hammill. 4. 
 Ralph T., residing in Northboro, Massachusetts: lie married Maude Crowell, and 
 they have five sons, Chesterfield, Stanley M., Richard IL, Stuart C, and Ralph T., Jr. 
 
 CHARLES MATTHEW BOOTH, Sales agent, American Steel and Wire Com- 
 pany, was born January 28, 1S59, son of Benjamin and Betsey (Charnley) Booth. He 
 was educated in the public and high schools of Worcester. He began business as 
 clerk in Kinnicutt's hardware store. In 1884 he entered Washburn & Moen's offices 
 and rose through various positions to sales agent, and head of the flat wire and 
 specialty department of the .American Steel and Wire Company. He is a member of 
 Montacute Lodge of F'ree Masons : Hiram I'ouncil, Eureka Chapter, Worcester Coun- 
 ty Commandery, the Tatassit Canoe Club, the Automobile Club, Worcester Club, Wor- 
 cester County Mechanics' .Association, and the Worcester Country Club. He is a Re- 
 publican. 
 
 Mr. Booth married Nellie Florence Pcvey, November t6. i88r. .She was the 
 daughter of Edward Payson Pevcy, and was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, Novem- 
 ber 20. 1859. Their children are: Edith Florence, born in Worcester, December 12, 
 1884, died .August 2, 1885; Martha Pevey, born in Worcester, December 23, 1890. Mrs. 
 Booth is a member of the Home Club and Worcester Woman's Club. The family resi- 
 dence at No. 284 Highland strict. 
 
 ALBERT LAKE SMITH, Member of the scliool committee, bookkeeper and sales- 
 man for the George C. Whitney Company, was born in Cayuga county. New York, Au- 
 gust 29, 1836. He attended the public schools in Tilton, New Hampshire, and the Bos- 
 cawcn Academy at Boscawen, New Hampshire. He began to work in a cotton mill at 
 Panacook, New Hampshire, when but ten years old and continued for ten years e.xcept- 
 ing for an occasional term of three months in school in winters. While he was a stu- 
 dent in the academy, he taught school in East Concord, New Hampshire, and in the 
 following winter at Hookset, New Hampshire. In the spring of 1859 he came to Au- 
 burn, Massachusetts, and found employment as clerk in a general store: in 1864 he 
 came to Worcester and since then has made his home here. Since 1884 he has been 
 with George C. Whitney, valentine manufacturer, and the corporation, George C. Whit- 
 man Company, as bookkeeper and salesman. Mr. Smith has served for more than nine- 
 teen years without interruption on the school committee, being elected first in Decem- 
 ber, 1895. His long and faithful service in the board has been equalled by few in the 
 history of the city. In arduous committee work as well as the general duties of the 
 board he has served with the utmost fidelity and ability. In politics he is a Republican. 
 He is a member of Morning Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. For 
 many years he was a member of the Worcester Choral Union and of the Music Festival 
 Chorus. He is a communicant of Old South Congregational Church. 
 
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738 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Smith married, in Auburn. March 20, i86r, Maria A. Knowlton, who was born 
 in Auburn. April 6, 1840, died August 31, 1915, daughter of Swan and Sarah (Eddy) 
 Knowlton. Her father was a farmer ; deacon of the Auburn Congregational Church for 
 many years; born at Newfane, Vermont, April 21, 1804, died November 27, 1883. Her 
 mother was born in Auburn, January 26, 1799, died June 29, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Knowlton had three children : i. Sarah A., born January 4, 1832. 2. Nathan M., born 
 December 5, 1836. 3. Maria A., mentioned above. Mr. and Mrs. Smitli liad one 
 daughter, Anna L., now the wife of Wilton ,H. Merriam. 
 
 GUY ERNEST STEPHEN, Superintendent of the gas appliance department of 
 the Worcester (iasliglit Company, was born in Durham, Province of Quebec, Canada, 
 February 17, 1875, son of William and Margaret (Nick) Stephen. His paternal an- 
 cestry was Scotch: his maternal German. He attended the public schools, and gradu- 
 ated from the Durham Academy in 1891. Mr. Stephen came to Worcester in 1892, 
 and entered the employ of the Wire Goods Company. Two years later he became an 
 assistant in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute laboratories under Professor Kinni- 
 cutt. He was employed in the stock room and attended lectures in various departments 
 for three years. When the g.as appliance store was opened by D. P. Cortis, of Boston, 
 he left the institute to become his assistant. In 1898 the Gaslight Company took over 
 the business. Since 1905, Mr. Stephen has been superintendent of the gas appliance 
 department. The store and service department is at No. 286 Main street. Mr. Stephen 
 is a member of the Worcester Country Club and the Gas Salesmen's Association. He 
 is a communicant of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican. 
 
 Mr. Stephen married. Jime 2y, 1908, Bessie Frances Atherton, daughter of Frank 
 A. Atherton. They have one child, Barbara, born February 27, 1913. His home is at 
 No. 10 Mimroe avenue. 
 
 THOMAS PLUNKETT, Sergeant, was born in Mayo, Ireland. 1841. died in Bos- 
 ton, March 10, 1885. But few men who served in the Civil War became better known. 
 He came to America when a boy, and in 1861 enlisted for three years from West 
 Boylston, where he and his brother, Francis Plunkett, were then working in a shoe fac- 
 tory. He made a good record from the start. He entered as a private in Company E 
 of the Twenty-first Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers. The regiment entered the bat- 
 tle of Chantilly with 400 men, of whom 140 were killed, wounded or taken prisoners. 
 The call came from headquarters for volunteers to go in and look for the wounded and 
 one of the first was Plunkett. His friend, Louis Moultie, was missing. He went with- 
 out his musket, and he came to a Confederate leaning against a tree. Plunkett had the 
 opportunity, however, of approaching the Rebel picket unobserved: and he jumped 
 upon him, seizing him by the arms. Getting possession of the Rebel's gun, he marched 
 his prisoner into camp. For this exploit he received his warrant as sergeant. He took 
 part also in the battles of Roanoke Island, Newbern. Camden, the Second Bull Run 
 and South Mountain. His last fight was at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. He was 
 with his regiment in the second line, wliich stopped a retreat by a gallant charge. The 
 official report of the adjutant general of Massachusetts, states : "Color-sergeant Col- 
 lins of Company A was shot and fell to the ground. Sergeant Plunkett of Company E 
 instantly seized the colors and carried them forward to the farthest point reached by 
 our troops during the battle. When the regiment had be,gun the delivery of its fire 
 about forty rods from the position of the Rebel infantry, a shell was thrown with fatal 
 accuracy at the colors, which were again brought to the ground, wet with the life- 
 blood of the brave Plunkett." A piece of this shell struck his right arm, nearly sever- 
 ing it from his body: it then struck a book which had thick covers, a book that he 
 picked up that morning on the battlefield and placed inside his coast. This obstacle di- 
 verted the bullet, which wounded his left arm above the wrist in passing from his body. 
 Colonel William S. Clark saw Plunkett wounded and sent him to the rear in charge 
 of a comrade. In the field hospital his woimds were pronounced fatal and he was left 
 unattended two hours before his arms were amputated. But he rallied rapidly, and on 
 Christmas Day the whole regiment turned out in his Iionor to escort him to tlie station 
 on his way home. He was assigned to Emery Hospital, in Washington, and remained 
 there until the following May. On his way home he received an ovation in New York 
 and Boston and finally at his home in Best Moylston. After the war. Congress 
 awarded him a medal of honor and a total disability pension of %y2 a month. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Plunkett was appointed a messenger at the State House, Boston, and 
 placed in charge of the coat room. He was later for a time messenger at the Custom 
 House. Sergeant Plunkett came to have a very large circle of friends. He had a 
 strong liking for politics. He was a member of but one organization, George H. Ward 
 Post, No. 10, of Worcester. At one time he was an officer of the Massachusetts De- 
 partment of the Grand Army. In spite of the loss of both arms he was always brave 
 
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 and cheerful and found a way to An many acts of kindness and benevolence. 
 
 Mr. Plnnkctt married, in 1865, Helen Lorimer, of this city, daughter of Alexander 
 Lorimer. then proprietor of a rope-walk here. They had two sons, Thomas Walter and 
 Harry Cliflford Plunkett. 
 
 ARTHUR JACKSON MARBLE, Civil enKincer. was born in (irafton, Massachu- 
 setts. May 18. 1850. He attended tlic public schoids. tlie Grafton Academy and the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His first engineering work was on the St. Louis 
 & Iron Mountain Railroad, where he was in charge of the construction of a seven 
 hundred foot bridge over the Bayou C'ashe, later engincecr in charge at the end of the 
 track. He was sulisecjuently field engineer in the surveys for the I-'itchburg (Massa- 
 chusetts) waterworks ; field engineer in the surveys for the Worcester & Webster Klec- 
 tric Railway, the plans being made in his office: field engineer for a large pt)wer reser- 
 voir at Hadley, New York, the plans for whicli he made and the design for the dam. 
 He was the engineer in charge of rebuilding the dam anil constructing the reservoir 
 near the Oxford-Charltcm town line, the plans for which were filed with the county 
 commissioners, Worcester. He was engineer for the Worcester postofficc (Fe<leral) 
 building; field engineer for the water-shed surveys of Lake .Singletary, Sutton. Massa- 
 chusetts. His offices arc at No. 393 Main street. He is a member of the Worcester 
 County Horticultural Society and was one of its trustees, and a member of the library 
 committee. For many years he has been interested in horticulture and is an authority 
 in this subject, widely known throughout New Kn.gland among horticulturists. He was 
 a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce : Worcester T^conomic Club ; the 
 Wapiti Club: the \\'orcester Automobile Club, and the LTnitarian Club, and was a 
 member of the old Hancock Club. He was exalted ruler of the Worcester Lodge, Be- 
 nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 1899-1900. Ife is a thirty-second degree Ma- 
 son; member of Montacute Lodge, Ancient l''ree and Acceiited Masons, Worcester 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons: Worcester Lod.ge of Perfection: (joddard Council, 
 Princes of Jerusaleiu; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Massachusetts Consistory, 
 Boston. Massachusetts. He was for six years a trustee of the Worcester County Me- 
 chanics Association and was president of the Worcester County Society of Engineers 
 for four years. In religion Mr. Marble is a Unitarian; was chairman of the building 
 committee of the South Unitarian Church ; chairman of its finance committee and for 
 twelve years moderator. 
 
 Mr. Marble married (first) in this city, in 1875, Georgie F. Dadmun ; (second) irt 
 1882, Abbie S. Maynard. born April 13. i860, in Worcester, Massachusetts, a daughter of 
 Joseph A. and Maria A. Maynard. By his first wife he had one child Georgie Alice, 
 born October 8, 1876, married J. W'illiam Patstone. and has one daughter, Muriel L. 
 Patstone. His home is at 36 Birch street. 
 
 WILLIAM THOMAS CARROLL, Inventor, was born at Easton. Massacluisetts, 
 June 29, 1829, and died May 14, 1917, son of John and Emily (Phillips) Carroll. 
 
 He was educated in the public scliools of Easton and Middleboro. He theti went 
 to work in the thread mill of Charles H. Morse, at Easton. Two years later the family 
 moved to Canton. He worked there in the Neponset Cotton Mills for ten years. He 
 started his career as machinist and inventor in the shop of L. R. Wattles, at Canton, 
 and three years later was foreman of the shop. He started in business for himself in 
 the town of Stoughton. which is near Canton, Later he removed to Newton Lower 
 Falls, where he had a machine shop. He manufactured spinnin,g rings and spindles. 
 He was very prosperous at this business, and moved to Medway, where he manufac- 
 tured various devices used in cotton mills. While there he invented a new form of 
 spinning ring, which he patented and sold to the Drapers of Hopedale. In May. 1874, 
 he moved to Worcester, and opened a machine shop at No. 17 Hermon street, where 
 he remained until 1905. He devoted his time chiefly to experimental work here. He 
 had over fifty patents on different improvements and inventions for cotton machinery. 
 Almost all of these patents have been bought by the Drapers of Hopedale. He is the 
 inventor of the oilless bearing patents owned by the Massachusetts Oilless Bearings 
 Company. In 1896, he was awarded the John Scott Medal for his non-metallic bear- 
 ings on the recommendation of the Franklin Institute. 
 
 Mr. Carroll married, January 23, 185.7, in Canton, Frances Cedelia Taft, daughter 
 of Dr. Caleb S. Taft. then of Canton. She was born at Walton, New York, August 20, 
 1836. Mr. Carroll was a Baptist. He was a member of the Order of United American 
 Mechanics, and of the Ancient and Illustrious Order of Knights of Malta. Their chil- 
 dren were: Hattie Lodema Frances, born at Canton, October 22, 1858; Ada Estelle, 
 born at Canton, March 11, i860; William Eugene, born at Medway, March 28. 1862, 
 died there, September 28, 1862; Edgar Judson, born at Medway, July 17, 1864: Elbert 
 
740 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Henry (see biography) ; Emma Lavilla, born at Medway, February i6, 1869; William 
 Edward, born at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, November 18, 1872; Herbert F., born in 
 Worcester, August 21, 1874, died September 11, 1874. 
 
 ELBERT HENRY CARROLL, Chief engineer of the Morgan Construction Com- 
 pany, was born at Medway, Massachusetts, April 7, 1867, the son of William Thomas 
 and Frances C. (Taft) Carroll. 
 
 He was seven years of age when his parents removed to this city, and he attended 
 the Woodland, New Worcester and Dix street public schools here. He left school at 
 the age of fourteeen years and went to work, but continued his studies in the evening 
 schools during the winter terms in the drawing courses. He afterward returned to the 
 Dix street school and prepared to enter the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he 
 continued a student for six months with the class of 1890. After spending a year in 
 Michigan, he returned to this city, and during the following four years was employed in 
 the engineering department of the Holyoke Machine Company. Mr. Carroll had charge 
 of building of the Hydraulic Testing Laboratory of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
 at Chaffins. Since February, 1895, he has been connected with the Morgan Construc- 
 tion Company, as superintendent and chief engineer. At the age of seventeen years Mr. 
 Carroll perfected improvements in spinning machinery, for which he received patents. 
 Since then he has received a number of patents and is constantly devising new machin- 
 ery and processes. He has taken out various patents, many of which have proven to 
 be valuable and useful. Mr. Carroll is president of the Hill Clothes Dryer Company, 
 director of the Morgan Construction Company and the Worcester Syndicate, and a 
 stockholder in the Alsten & Goulding Company, and the Bancroft Hotel Company, of 
 this city. He is a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commer<!e ; the Worcester 
 Country Club ; the Commonwealth Club : Quinsigamond Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons; Stella Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Anchoria Lodge, Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows ; Mt. Vernon Encampment, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows ; and Utopia Rebekah Lodge. In political faith he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Carroll married, in September, 1893, Elizabeth C. Moore, who was born in 
 Worcester, June 4, 1872, the daughter of Luther and Mary Caroline (Reed) Moore. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Carroll reside at No. 3 Rutland terrace, in this city, and have a summer 
 residence in West Boylston, Massachusetts. 
 
 JOHN MAY RUSSELL, Treasurer of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, 
 was born in Oakdale. in the town of West Boylston, Massachusetts, August 31, 1857, 
 and died in Pittsburgli, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1910. He was a son of Samuel and 
 Anna E. (May) Russell, both of whom were descended in various lines from the 
 pioneers of New England. 
 
 John M. Russell attended the public schools in his native village and entered the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1876 with the degree of 
 Bachelor of Science. At one time he was president of the Alumni Association of the 
 Institute. After graduating he was employed for a number of years in the offices of 
 the L. M. Harris Manufacturing Company and the West Boylston Manufacturing Com- 
 pany at Oakdale, and developed unusual ability as an accountant. He came to the 
 employ of the firm of L. J. Knowles & Brother in this city in 1882, and during the 
 next three years was head bookkeeper. In 1885 he was one of the incorporators of 
 the Knowles Loom Works, and filled the office of cashier with marked ability during 
 the existence of that corporation. In 1897 when the present corporation, the Cromp- 
 ton & Knowles Loom Works, was formed, he became the assistant treasurer, after- 
 ward treasurer, an office he held until he resigned in 1903. From that time to the end 
 of his life he was engaged in expert work as accountant and as a salesman of high- 
 grade securities. Mr. Russell was popular in social life; a member of the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Royal Arcanum and other clubs and organiza- 
 tions. In politics he was a Republican. He was chairman of the board of directors 
 of the Free Public Library for a number of years, and a member of the Greenhalge, 
 Middlesex, Republican and Home Market clubs, well-known and important political 
 ./organizations. In religion he was a Congregationalist,_member of the board of trus- 
 •tees of Pilgrim Congregational Church and was at one time superintendent of the 
 : Sunday school. 
 
 Mr. Russell married, at Gorham, Maine, July 22, 1879, Martha L. Roberts, who 
 was born at Gorham, September 13, 1857, daughter of John H. and Martha (Worces- 
 ; ter) Roberts. Her father was born at Gorham, January 21, 1838; enlisted in 1862 in 
 ■ Company I, Seventeenth Regiment, Maine Volunteers, in the Civil War ; died from 
 ;the effects of wounds received in the battle of Spottsylvania, in Washington, D. C, 
 ;September 15, 1864; married Martha Worcester, who was born in Gorham, Septem- 
 ber 9, 1819, died January, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Russell had three children: I. Earl 
 
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 Spencer, born November _>8, 1883, died May 17, 1894. 2. Madeline, born April 8, 
 ]8oo: married, September, lyij, Ralph Temple; now residing in Rutland, Massa- 
 cbnsetts. 3. Genevieve, born April 15, 1892; graduate of the Worcester Classical 
 High School. i9io;()f Mount HolyoUe College (B. A., 1914): of Columbia Uni- 
 versity (A. M., 1916); now engaged in editorial work in New York City; residing 
 with her mother at No. yu Morningside Drive, New York. 
 
 HERBERT MYRON WILSON, Court stenographer, was born in Spencer, 
 Massachusetts. December 24. 1857, son of John Abner and Angeline (Livermorc) 
 Wilson. He attended the public schools of his native town. H.istoii and R.'xburv, 
 and studied shorthand in a business ccdlege in Boston and in Howe's Business Col- 
 lege in this city. He was afterward employed as a stenographer in various ollices in 
 Boston until he was appointed olTicial stenographer of the Superior Court in Wor- 
 cester county, November 18, 1885. b'roni that time to the present he has filled that 
 ofTice, being now in point of years of service one of the oldest court stenographers in 
 New England. He is a member of Spencer Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and 
 Worcester Chai)ter, Royal Arch Masons. In politics he is a Republican. For eighteen 
 years he served on the Worcester school committee. He attends the Congregational 
 church. 
 
 Mr. Wilson married, in 1884, Sarah F. Beniis. who died in 1898. Both Mr. and 
 Mrs. Wilsdu are descended from pioneers of New England. 
 
 WILLIAM LANCASTER, General agent of the State Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company, was born in Newton Moor, Cheshire, England. July 11, 1845, died in this 
 city, October 21, 1906. He received a limited education in the common schools, at- 
 tending half-day sessions from the age of eight to eleven years, and working the 
 other half-day in a carding room. He learned the weaver's trade, working full 
 time after he was eleven years old, attending night school for several years. He 
 came with his mother to this country and was employed at first in the Worcester 
 Bleach and Dye Works in South Worcester for a year and a half. In 1870 he be- 
 came a clerk in the store of C. Foster & Company, hardware dealers, predecessors of 
 the Duncan-tioodell Company, and for about fourteen years was bookkeeper for 
 this concern. He entered the life insurance business in 1884 and developed sjiecial 
 aptitude for this kind of work, achieving distinction early and winning promntion 
 rapidly. For many years he was general agent of the State Mutual Life .*\sstn-ance 
 Company. He was a member of Atlielstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- 
 sons: Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Roya! and Select Mas- 
 ters ; Worcester County Conimandery, Knights Templar ; and the Worcester Lodge of 
 Perfection. From 1898 to 1904 he was secretary of Worcester Lodge. Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks. He was also a member of Gcsang Verein Frohsinn. the 
 Lakeside Boat Club, the Hancock Club. Commonwealth Club. Worcester County 
 Mechanics .■\ssociaiion. He was the first treasurer of St. Matthew's Protestant I*4iis- 
 copal Church. His family were communicants of St. John's Church. 
 
 Mr. Lancaster married, in 188.?. Catherine A. Christopher, daughter ui lienry 
 Christopher. Their children were: 1. Edith Clare, born December 12, i8<S,;; mar- 
 ried Fldward William Kinsley. 2. Richard Christopher, born in Worcester. May 9, 
 1887; graduate of the English High School and of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute; now assistant traffic manager of the -American Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
 pany. New York, residing in Rutherford, New Jersey; married, in 1914. Miriam Rus- 
 sell, and has a daughter Katherine. born November 18, :gi6. 3. Olive Haworth. born 
 January 5, 1891 ; graduate of the Classical High School, 1908. and of Vassar College, 
 1912; married, September, 1912, William Wallace Smith, 2d, of Poughkeepsie, New 
 York, manufacturer, now ensign in the Naval Reserve, stationed at Newport. 
 
 Mr. Lancaster's father, Jolm Lancaster, was born at Padiham. England. May 15, 
 1838. died in England, i860, and is luiried at Newton Moor. His motlier. Catherine 
 (Haworth) Lancaster, was born in England, January 15, 1838. and died in Worcester 
 in November, 1874. She came to this country with six children in 1864. locating in 
 Dodgeville, Massachusetts, removing l.iter to Lonsdale, Rhode Island, and finally to 
 Worcester. George Y. Lancaster, of this city, was a brother of William Lancaster. 
 
 RT. REV. PATRICK THOMAS O'REILLY, First Bishop of SpringfieM. was 
 born in County Cavan, Ireland, December, 18 53. son of Philip and Marv (Conaty) 
 O'Reilly. 
 
 He studied under a famous schoolmaster, father of Rev. Charles Boylan of this 
 diocese ; completed his academic education at St. Charles College, Baltimore, and 
 studied theology at St. Mary's, Baltimore; was ordained in the Cathedral of the Holy 
 Cross, Boston, by Bishop Bacon. .August 15, 1857. He founded St. Joseiih's Church, 
 
74^ HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Boston, but soon afterward became rector of St. John's in this city. He was conse- 
 crated Bishop at the age of thirty-seven years and filled that office twenty-one years, 
 confirming 77,000 persons, ordaining hundreds of priests, laid nearly a hundred 
 church corner stones, dedicated forty-five new churches; opened many hospitals and 
 orphanages. He died May 28, 1892. 
 
 REV. DENIS SCANNELL, rector of St. Anne's, was born in County Kerry, Ire- 
 land. July, 1846, died August 20, 1899. His great uncle, a distinguished priest and teach- 
 er of classics, prepared him for college. After coming to this country at the age of 
 eighteen. Father Scamiell attended St. Charles College, Maryland, and the theologi- 
 cal seminary at .'\lleghany. New York, where he was ordained in October, 1870. He 
 was for a short time in charge of the Blackstone parish, succeeding Father William 
 Power, and became an assistant to Father John Power of St. Anne's in October, 
 1870. Two years later he was appointed rector of St. .Anne's. Father McCoy writes 
 of him : "Father .Scannell was an unatifected, kind-hearted man, honest in every 
 thought and act. It might be said of him that no priest in New England was more 
 beloved by his fellow priests than he. He found in St. Anne's a small wooden 
 church at his coming, but he left it with a magnificent temple of brick and stone with 
 a splendid presbytery and grounds adjoining. No man ever had an unkind thought 
 or word to say against Father Scannell." 
 
 HARLAN PAGE DUNCAN, Merchant, was born in North Brookfield, January 
 31, 1837, died in tliis city, Feliruary 2, 1905. His father, Charles Duncan, was a gro- 
 cer in North Brookfield. Mr. Duncan had two sisters, Emma Frances, who married 
 Hon. Theodore C. Bates, and Ellen Tryphosa, who married Dr. Albert G. Sprague, of 
 Providence, Rhode Island. 
 
 Harlan P. Duncan was educated in the public schools of his native town. He 
 came to this city in 1854 and entered the employ of Calvin Foster & Company, hard- 
 ware dealers. Main street, and as employee and owner of this concern he continued to 
 the end of his life. He lived to celebrate his fiftieth anniversary in the business. 
 With John B. Goodell, he became a partner in the firm in 1866, and in 1881 the firm 
 name of Duncan & Goodell was adopted. .A.fter the incorporation in 1887 the name 
 became the Duncan-Goodell Company (see history of this business). It was the first 
 of all the mercantile companies in Massachusetts to be incorporated. Mr. Duncan 
 was president and general manager until shortly before his death. He took rank for 
 more than a generation among the leading merchants of the city. His firm held the 
 foremost place in its line of business in the city and county. He himself was held in 
 the highest esteem. His ability, integrity and character were widely recognized and 
 appreciated in the business world. He was a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, An- 
 cient Free and Accepted Masons, and for several years was its treasurer. He was a 
 member of the Commonwealth Club and of the Board of Trade. 
 
 Mr. Duncan married .\nna H. Strong, and they had two children, Frank Edgar, 
 and Charles Henry, who died in infancy. 
 
 DR. REBECCA BARNARD was born in Harvard, and was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Worcester. She taught in the Worcester schools about twenty years 
 and was principal of the Salem street school at the time she began to study medicine 
 with Dr. Helen Goodspced. In 1874, she entered the New York Infirmary and Medi- 
 cal Scliool for Women, and began to practice in Worcester in July, 1878. She died in 
 1905. 
 
 GEORGE H. NUTT, Expert workman for thirty-five years in the employ of L. J, 
 Knowles & Brother and the corporations succeeding the firm, as toolmaker and fore- 
 man, began his work in .'August, 1879, when the business was located in Allen Court. 
 At that time seventy-five men were employed in the works. He started the first ma- 
 chines in the Junction shop a few weeks later. 
 
 "I had been there only a few weeks," Mr. Nutt writes, "when Mr. G. F. Hutchins, 
 the superintendent, came to me and said that business had increased so much that they 
 had to have more room and that the Junction Stone Shops had been hired. He wanted 
 me to go down there to do some work. I asked him what kind of a job he wanted 
 done. He said I had better take plenty of tools. I picked up a lot of handy tools and 
 went with him and I will say that I was rather set back when we entered the build- 
 ing, for all there was on the floor was one engine lathe and one speed lathe. 'Well,' 
 I said, 'what do you want done?' 'I want these machines started,' he said. He told me 
 to order what I needed and promised to send a carpenter to help me. In a few days I 
 had the machines running and men were hired to run them and materials sent from 
 the other shop to make. For a long time we were setting up new machines, which 
 were put into operations as soon as they were ready. It was not long before Mr. A. B. 
 
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 Whipple started to set up looms, some of tlie parts beiiiK broiiKlit Ir.im tlie old shop. 
 There was no end of niniiing from the new shop to the old for tools inuil 1 had lime 
 to procure them at the new shop. 
 
 "After the |)lant was moved, about February. 1880. I resumed niv place as tool- 
 maker, haviiiK also charge of the repairs. 1 built new tools and made special ma- 
 chinery and I also served as timekeeper and, when Mr. Wattie was awav. 1 look his 
 place. 
 
 "When tile new shop was built on (iraiul ."Street, there were a lar.ye munber of 
 changes in departments and 1 was phued in eharye of the tool deiiartmetit, making re- 
 pairs, building new UKuliinery, making the i>:itterns and doing certain parts of the 
 loom-making." 
 
 In this department Mr. Nutt served the Knowlcs Loom Works aTid the present 
 corporation faithfully to the end of his active life, retiring on account of ill health in 
 1910, but returning after a period of rest to the tool room and later to the experimental 
 department tmder Mr. Kyon. In I<)14 he had to give up work. He is now living in 
 Thomaston, Maine. 
 
 In an account of his life written b\ request and quoted above. Mr. Xiitt says: 
 
 "Before closing, 1 think it my duty to say a few things in regard to some of the 
 men 1 was under. 1 think there were no finer men in Worcester than the Knowles 
 brothers. 1 had a lot of work to do that brought me in contact with Mr. L. J. Knowles. 
 He had a way of making his men feel at home. After he had been away for a time, 
 he used to go out in the shop to see the men. He would go to the men that he knew 
 and ask them how they were getting on and about their families. The men appreciated 
 this personal interest in their affairs and in talking of him would say: 'That man 
 thinks something of his heli>.' He got the best there was in his men. 
 
 "While my work did not bring me in contact with Mr. F. B. Knowjes as much 
 as with L. ].. as we always called him. I always found him very pleasant and kind to 
 us all, and he was always a liberal given when any of the men needed help. 
 
 "1 think there was no other sliop in Worcester where the men were so well as we 
 were. .And we could always get all the men we wanted at any time, because of the 
 good treatment and the good wages. The feeling of the men toward the employers wa? 
 important in the building of such a large business in a few years. 
 
 "There is another man about whom I must say a few words. Ho had marked abil- 
 ity as a mechanic. He is one of the most genial men I have ever known. He was al- 
 ways ready to listen to a suggestion from the men, to hear a complaint or consider a 
 request. Whether he acceiited tlie suggestion or granted the request or not. the men 
 were pleased at the kindly way he talked with them. I think that if all the old hands 
 read this description, they will all recognize the man as (ieor.ge F. Hutchins." 
 
 (ieorge H. Xutt was born in Tiverton. F^ngland. near Bath, August 7. 1844. son o\ 
 James and Eliza (Silcox'i Nutt. His grandfather. William Xutt, served in the I'iritish 
 navy for fifteen years and was a warrant officer under General Nelson at the battle of 
 Trafalgar, winning two medals for bravery in action. James Nutt was a wool-finish- 
 er by trade. In 1847 he and his brother Henry began to manufacture files at Clare- 
 mont, New Hampshire; in 1861, after the death of his brother, James removed to St. 
 Johnsbury, Vermont, where he continued in business as a file manufacturer until his 
 death in 1882. 
 
 George H. Nutt came to this country in 1850 with his uncle. William Nutt. After 
 the death of his mother, when lie was but seven years old. he was bound out to a 
 farmer named Robinson, with whom he went to Wisconsin, where he lived until he 
 was fourteen. Soon after his return to New lingland he began an apprcnticesliip of 
 seven years at the gunsmith's trade in Cornish, New Hampshire, under D. H. Hilliard. 
 Coming to VV'orcester in .April. 1866, he was employed as tool-maker and foreman by 
 the Ethan Allen Company and afterward by Forehand & Wadsworth. .After doin.g 
 contract work for one year for the .American .Arms Company he entered the employ 
 of L. J. Knowles & Brother in 1870. 
 
 As a mechanic Mr. Nutt was second to none in his line of work, and he possessed 
 inventive talent, receiving a number of patents of value. He was especially successful 
 in devising the machine tools and operations for manufacturing looms and attach- 
 ments, and every new mechanism called for new tools. He was constantly at work 
 also in simplifyin.g methods and reducing the cost of production. Good judges have 
 said that he was tlie most remarkable man in Worcester in getting a lar.ge output from 
 his men, and that was before the word efficiency was heard in the factories. He surely 
 got his results with the best of feeling on the part of the men. He always felt that 
 his interests and theirs were identical. In this matter he followed the example of L. J. 
 Knowles in dealing with his help. 
 
 Mr. Nutt is a Republican in politics. He represented Ward Seven in the Common 
 Council of Worcester in iijou and ic>oi In both years he was chairman of the com- 
 
744 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 mittee on bills in second reading, member of the committee on lighting streets, mayor's 
 inaugural and unfinished business, and in his second year on the committee on sewers. 
 He made a firm stand against junketing and is credited with saving the city a sub- 
 stantia! sum by his opposition to this custom. 
 
 Though his schooling was limited to a few terms in the district schools, he has al- 
 ways been a great reader and is remarkably well posted on historical and other lines 
 that might be thought quite outside his own. Since he retired in 1914, he has lived at 
 Thomaston,, Maine. He is a member of the lodge, chapter and council of Worcester; 
 County Commandery, Knights Templar; Worcester Lodge of Perfection; Goddard 
 Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; and Aleppo Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine, Boston. 
 
 Mr. Nutt married, August 6, 1868, Mary Lizzie Harper, daughter of James C. and 
 Julia G. (Morse) Harper. Her father was a soldier in the Mexican War and died of 
 disease contracted in the service. Mr. and Mrs. Nutt have three children : i. George 
 Herbert, born June 29, 1869, graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, now pro- 
 fessor of manual training and drafting at Newtown, Pennsylvania. 2. Arthur Chase, 
 born September 19, 1874. graduate of Ohio State University, Bachelor of Arts, 1897; 
 Fargo College, Master of Arts; graduate student at Cornell and Harvard; imw a 
 teacher in the North High School, Worcester. 3. Harry Garfield, born April 19, 1881, 
 graduate of Dartmouth, sociological worker; died October 7, 1906. 
 
 HARRY LAIRD STOCKWELL, Business manager of the "Worcester Telegram" 
 for nineteen years, was born in Alleghany, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1866, and died in 
 this city, February 28, 1907. 
 
 He came to New England when a boy, and soon afterward went to Columbus, 
 Ohio, where he became a student in the Ohio State University and the Columbus Busi- 
 ness College. He came to this city in 1886 and for two years was bookkeeper in the 
 Worcester Woolen Mills. In t888 he entered the employ of the "Worcester Telegram" 
 in the advertising department. This newspaper was then in its infancy and much of 
 the credit for securing the business that brought its subsequent prosperity belongs to 
 Mr. Stockwell. His energy knew no limit. He was faithful to his employer and in- 
 defatigable in his efiforts to increase the advertising in his newspaper. A few years 
 later he became business manager. Until about a year before he died he held this po- 
 sition. In 1906 he became business manager of the "Worcester Evening Post," which 
 position he held at the time of his death. 
 
 In politics Mr. Stockwell was a Republican. He was elected an alderman in 1906 
 from Ward Nine. As, a member of the finance committee it was necessary for him to 
 make a tour of inspection on one of the coldest days of the winter, and he contracted 
 a severe cold, developing into pneumonia, which caused his death. 
 
 Quiet and modest in his methods of doing business, he always accomplished his 
 purposes and made for himself a reputation for fair dealing, honesty of purpose that 
 brought from his former employer, Austin P. Cristy, one of the most complimentary 
 tributes that could be given any man. Similar expressions of respect and esteem came 
 from many other prominent citizens. Few men were better known or more popular. 
 He had a very attractive personality and made many friends in all walks of life. In 
 the Masonic societies he was especially popular, being a thirty-second degree Mason. 
 He was past noble grand of Worcester Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; 
 member of the Worcester Automobile Club. Mr. Stockwell was interested chiefly in 
 the newspaper business, but he invested at times in real estate and built several houses 
 in the city. His home was at No. 30 Russell avenue. 
 
 Mr. Stockwell married, June 20, 1888, Rosa M. Brown, who was born in Trow- 
 bridge, England, daughter of the late Henry J. Brown. (See biography.) Mr. and 
 Mrs. Stockwell have two children : Mabel fl., who married Hiram B. Gibbs, of this 
 city, and has two children, Barbara Helen and Robert Henry Gibbs ; Edith M., who 
 married Leroy W. Ware, of this city, and has two children, Priscilla and Cynthia 
 Ware. 
 
 HENRY JOHN BROWN, Woolen manufacturer, was born November 24, 1849, in 
 Westburg, Wiltshire, England, one of the three children of John and Matilda (What- 
 ley) Brown, He died in this city, April 17, 1916. 
 
 As a boy he was apprenticed to the cabinet-maker's trade, but soon gave that up 
 to learn the trade of weaver, which he partly learned in his native land. Coming to 
 this country, he went to work at Mapleville, Rhode Island, for his uncle, James Legg. 
 It was not long, however, until he was offered the position of boss weaver of the 
 Sayles Mill at Pascoag, Rhode Island, which position he filled for a period of six 
 years. He then came to this city and became superintendent of the Worcester Woolen 
 Mill, which was then operated by James Legg, Jr. After remaining in this position 
 
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 for some time he became aKCiit of the Frost & Greeley woolen mills, at Huntington, 
 Massachusetts, continuing in that capacity for several years. The following year he 
 spent in travel in Europe, and upon his return to this country spent the following five 
 years as agent for Dickey & Sons, at Baltimore, l^cturiiing to Massachusetts, he en- 
 tered into partnership with Otis Davis, under the firm name of Davis & Brown, en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of woolens at Dayvillc, Connecticut. Later this firm leased 
 the Chase Mill at Killingly, Connecticut, and still later purchased the Mill at Uxhridge, 
 Massachusetts. Although not engaged in business in this citv during the later years 
 of his life, Mr. Brown made his home in this city, residing at Xo. 55 Moore avenue. 
 Mr. Brown was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Wor- 
 cester Country Club. He was of a musical turn of mind, and in his younger days 
 sang in various church choirs. lie attended Trinity Methodist Church of this city. 
 In political belief he w;is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Brown married I'riscilla Matthews, daughter of Robert and Mary Ann Atat- 
 thews. Mrs. Brown was one of twelve children— six sons and six daughters— and was 
 born in Trowbrige, Wiltshire, England, coming to this country in her youth. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Brown were the parents of two daughters, namely: f^osa M.. widow of Harry 
 L. Stockwell, of this city (see biography) ; and Henrietta, who died in Huntington, 
 Massachusetts, aged twenty years. 
 
 HARRISON NEWHALL ARTHUR, Overseer, who has been since lyo- with the 
 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, assisting in the development and introduction to 
 the trade of automatic filling replenishment devices for multiple-shuttle looms, has had 
 a long and varied experience in cotton and woolen mills, from bobbin boy to overseer 
 in charge. He was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, September 18, 1877, son of An- 
 drew Sherman and Caroline May (Richardson) Arthur. He attended the public 
 schools of the city of Lawrence. Upon leaving the high school he worked for a year in 
 the silk-finishing business, and for two years as timekeeper, cost clerk and general 
 bookkeeper in the offices of the Bostcju & Maine Railroad car shops. Since then he 
 has been employed in cotton and woolen mills and at the Loom Works. It was natural 
 that he should enter this business, for his father had been foreman of the weaving de- 
 partment in a cotton mill. Mr. Arthur is an Odd Fellow; member of Trinity Congre- 
 gational Church of Lawrence. 
 
 Mr. .Xrthur married, at Lawrence. July 11. 1899, Martha Elizabeth Wainwright, 
 daughter of Thomas Grace and Catherine Elvira (Whitehouse) Wainwright, and 
 they have two children: David Eaton, born .August i, 190,^, and George Whitehouse, 
 born February 25, 1909. 
 
 ALBERT HENRY SHEFFIELD, Captain. First Illinois Engineers, was born in 
 this city, December 8, 1876, son of William and Margaret Jane (Brocklchurst) Shef- 
 field. \\'illiam Sheffield was born in England, April 7, 1849; married Margaret Jane 
 Brocklchurst, who was born in England, .'\pril i, 1852. They had three children: Al- 
 bert H., mentioned below ; Clara Gertrude and Jane. He attended the Cambridge street 
 and Millbury street public schools in this city and the English High School, from 
 which he graduated in 1895, being the, class poet and orator. He entered Brown Uni- 
 versity, and graduated with tlic degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1899. While in college 
 he was captain of the track team. AiXa graduating he was engaged in the building 
 and contracting business, and at the time he entered the United States ."Vrmy was part- 
 ner in a contracting firm in Chicago. He entered the service as first lieutenant in the 
 First Illinois Engineers, Company D, and shortly afterward was commissioned cap- 
 tain in the same regiment, now tlie One Hundred and Eighth United States Engineers, 
 in the service somewhere in l-'raiue. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity 
 of Brown I'liiversity. 
 
 Mr. Sheffield married, in this city, June 16, 1903, Dora Claire Tosi, who was born 
 in this city, of Italian ancestry. The family home is at No. 18 Caro street, in this city. 
 
 BROR F. STENMAN, Business man, coming to America from Sweden, a man of 
 steady, driving, persistent personality, met witli disappointment and unemployment 
 during the whole of his first year, which he spent in Worcester, Massachusetts. Once 
 given the start, however, he has accomplished more in the few years since than many 
 who strive and fail to accomplish in a life-time. Mr. Stcnman is keen, quick to grasp, 
 to react, to create and re-create. Such men as he are invaluable to the world today. 
 
 Bror F. Stcnman was born at Westergotland, Sweden, October 3, 1888. He was 
 educated in the grammar schools there, and then began to work on a farm. He later 
 returned to the city, where he served an apprenticeship in the manufacture of gasoline 
 engines for a period of four years, until he was able to get the papers of a first-class 
 mechanic, lu December of 1907 he came to .America, settling in Worcester, Massa- 
 
746 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 chusetts. That entire winter he was unable to find employment. His first work there 
 was that on a farm. He later secured a position in the department where machines 
 are completed at the Crompton-Knowles Company. He then was engaged to work on 
 the presses with the Spencer Wire Company, and later in the trueing department of the 
 Norton Grinding Company. Still later was he employed in the tool room of the Mor- 
 gan Spring Company. He left this to go to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he re- 
 mained for si.x months with the Bay State Elevator Company. Upon his return to 
 Worcester he entered the National Manufacturing Company as tool-maker. He then 
 was with the Stenman Wire Specialty Company, inventing and building machinery. 
 Following this he went to New York in charge of the Concreter Steel Company, manu- 
 facturers of specialties in re-inforcement concrete work. He returned to Worcester to 
 work for Reed & Prince on inventions. He then was identified for a time with the 
 Rockwood Sprinkled Company. This varied employment was fitting Mr. Stenman with 
 the most valuable experience in all branches of mechanical work and in the building of 
 machinery. During his early years in Worcester he spent his spare time working out 
 various ideas in a little workshop in the cellar of his own home. At first he had only 
 a bench, later securing a vice and lathe. He kept at this original kind of work, outside 
 of his regular employment, until he entered in partnership with Albert W. Larson in 
 a macliine shop where inventions were worked out that are of vital interest to this 
 country and to the world. The Worcester "Daily Telegram" gave an e.xcellent idea of 
 the things accomplished by this firm and the part which Mr. Stenman played in their 
 accomplishment, as follows: 
 
 "Mr. Stenman has been working five years on various inventions, several of which 
 are bringing him returns. He began on the gasoline engine some time ago but is not 
 devoting all his time to this particular invention, as he was called upon to perfect ma- 
 chinery which Uncle Sam is using in turning out ammunition. 
 
 "Within three weeks, young Stenman completed a working model of a machine 
 which is used in the manufacture of shrapnel. It is a routing cutter and is used in 
 cutting a ring in the time fuse device of the shrapnel shells. The American Ammuni- 
 tion Company, formerly of Worcester, used several of these machines and others are 
 used by the Detroit Lubricant Company. This machine was among the first success- 
 ful inventions perfected by the Worcester man and served to bring him to the attention 
 of several large manufacturers of Worcester and other cities. Shortly after completing 
 that invention, Mr. Stenman turned his attention toward perfecting a device for the 
 grinding of valves in automobile engines. This device consists of a miniature electric 
 motor and a secret arrangement which does the work formerly done by hand machinery 
 or a screw driver, worked back and forth in the valves. The invention for which Mr. 
 Stenman has just received patents is compact and weighs less than two pounds, being 
 made almost entirely of aluminum. He plans to manufacture these devices at his 
 shop and in this way have an income that will allow him to perfect other inventions, 
 principally the gasoline motor. 
 
 "A new principle is involved in his invention, there being no cylinders. The 
 mechanism is of tlie turbine effect and takes up little room. The engine is of the ex- 
 plosive type, and is expected to prove valuable for aeroplanes, in view of its compact- 
 ness and light weight. Owing to the fact that it has not yet been patented, Mr. Sten- 
 man refrains from exposing the working parts. The model is about eight inches long 
 and si.x inches high, and according to Mr. Stenman, when it is perfected, the engine of 
 this size will develop ten horsepower. The whole device is not as large as the ordinary 
 half-horsepower gasoline engine of the type used in motorboats and automobiles. To 
 the uninitiated in the intricate machinery, the invention appears to be a plain casting 
 with two projecting parts on top. Sparks plugs are' used and Mr. Stenman feels that 
 when completed it will not be necessary to use a fly wheel. The elimination of this 
 feature will lessen the weiglit of the engine to a great extent. 
 
 "He has perfected a corset protector, a device which protects the wearer from injury 
 resulting in the stays penetrating the part of the corset under the arm. 
 
 "Mr. Stenman, besides working out several of his own inventions, is planning to 
 carry to completion work begun by the late Carl Tideman, proprietor of the Worcester 
 Nut Manufacturing Company. Shortly after Mr. Tideman died Mr. Stenman bought 
 several of his incompleted machines. Being an intimate friend of Mr. Tideman, Mr. 
 Stenman realized he would be in a position to complete some if not all of the work 
 started by Mr. Tideman, who was a widely known inventor." 
 
 In March, 1918, Mr. Stenman disposed of his interest in the Stenman Electric 
 Valve Grinder Company, and in April, igi8, established the B. F. S. Manufacturing 
 Company, making improved grinder and electric drills. He expects to have his engine 
 ready in the near future. Mr. Stenman is a member of Thule Lodge, Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows; Carl the Fifteenth; and the First Swedish Lutheran Church. In 
 
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 politics he is a Kcpnblican. He is a stockliolder in tin- Mill. in I'duiilaiii Mop Company, 
 for whom he manufactures working models. 
 
 Mr. Stcnman married. June. 1913. Nannie Johnson, of Worce>ter. They liavc two 
 children: I.inea X'iola, and Edith IJorety. 
 
 LOUIS DEMITRIOU LIOLION. .Xs founder and publislier of •■Xati.,nal Pro- 
 gress," a newspajier printed in the (Ireek lanfjua.^e. now enjoyin^j national reputation 
 and circulation, Air. Liolion has attained sreat inlluence among his countrymen, and 
 has been able to aid them in their endeavors to adjust themselves to their new environ- 
 ment. He is a son of Dimctrius G. Li<dion. who died October 4. 1913. aged sixty-three, 
 a lifelong mercliant. His three brothers and one of his sons were soldiers in the Oeek 
 Army, one of tlie family being Constanline. wlio was killed in action, 
 and Sotezios. wlio is still a captain in the army. Oimefrius G. Lio- 
 lion married Maria A. Steplianon. born in Greece, wliere slie yet resides, a widow, aged 
 sixty-two. They were the parents of nine children, the four hereinafter named being 
 their only .living children: Katherine. married .Nicholas Gogos ; Basileius, married, 
 wdio at the outbreak of the Kuropean War in 1914 left Worcester, and is now in 
 Greece; Louis D., of further mention: .-Mexander. living in Worcester, a boy. 
 
 Louis D. Liolion was Iiorn at Mourcie. Delvinon, (ireecc. May 15. 1892. and tliere 
 remained imtil 1909. He was educated in his native land, attending grammar and high 
 school until entering the college of Corfu, whence lie was graduated in the year 1909. 
 That same year he came to the United .States, locating at once in Worcester. Afassa- 
 chusetts. He attended the Worcester scliools to gain a better knowledge of the 
 English language, and then for three years was in the employ of the .Xmerican Steel 
 & Wire Company. In 1914 he bought an interest in a grocery store at Xo. 125 Green 
 street, which he retained until 191", when he fouiuled "National Progress," a weekly 
 Greek uewspajier which has proven a very successful venture. The oftices of the paper 
 are at No. 112 Front street. Worcester. Air. Liolion is a member of the various (.ireek 
 societies of the city, and in 1917 was elected president of The National Epirotio .So- 
 ciety. .At present he is a vice-president i>f that society, and of the fireek Community. 
 He is a member of the Greek orthodox church. St. L])yridon. The I'aii l'",i)irotic LJiiion 
 of America. St. Tlieodore Society, and St. (ieorge Siiciet\. 
 
 THURE HANSON, State commissioner of standards, was born in Landskrona, 
 Sweden, March .^fi. 1883. son of Carl Olof and Hulda (Peterson) Hanson. He came to 
 this country with his parents in 1885, and since then has resided in Worcester. He at- 
 tended the public schools here, the evening high school and Hinman's Business Col- 
 lege. He also studied tinder private tutors. As a young man he took a keen interest in 
 public afTairs, and was active in the Republican organization of the State and city. He 
 served on the school committee of the city, was appointed state commissioner of 
 weights and measures, and has held that office since that time, the name being changed 
 by virtue of an act of the Legislature. May 29, 1918, to its present form, commissioner 
 of standards. His office is in the State House. Boston. He has been especially ac- 
 tive and vigilant in enforcing the law, and has won a high reputation for etTiciency. 
 While holding this office he read law and he graduated May 22, 1918, from the Suffolk 
 Law School with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. Hanson is a director of the 
 Park Trust Company of this city. He is a member of Thule Lodge. Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows; Idun Rebekah Lodge; Engelbrekt Society; Carl X\' Lorlge. 
 S. F. A.; Ragnar Lodge. V. O. ; Worcester Economic Club: Gethsemene Lutheran 
 Church, of which he is a deaccm. Mr. Hanson is unmarried. His residence is at \o. 
 125 Eastern avenue. 
 
 Mr. Hanson's father. Carl Olof Hanson, was born in Landskrona, Sweden, in 1851, 
 and died in this city, April 18, igi8; a carpenter by trade; married, in Sweden. Hulda 
 Peterson, who is now living in this city. They had three children : i. Anna, died 
 in infancy. 2. Thure. mentioned above. ,^. Adhil E.. born .August 14. 1886. 
 
 ANDREW PETERS WERME. Mechanical engineer, was born in 1876, in \\'erm- 
 land, Sweden. He attended school there until the age of fifteen, when he came with 
 his mother to this country and made his home in this city. Here he attended the even- 
 ing schools, worked in the factory of the Harrington & Richards<m Arms Company, 
 afterward in tlie wire mills of the Wasliburn & Moen Manufacturing Company. In 
 the meantime he pursued the study of mechanical engineering. He was a machinist 
 for the Morgan Construction Comjiany seven years, later as draftsman with the Otis 
 Elevator Company, the B. F. Sturtevant Company, Hyde Park, and the Homestead 
 Steel Company, Pennsylvania. He again entered the employ of the .'\merican Steel & 
 Wire Company (formerly Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company) and contin- 
 ued in responsible positions with that concern until January 15, 1918. when he re- 
 
748 HISTORV OF II'ORCHSTER 
 
 signed to enter into partnership with Arthur R. Petterson (see biography) in the me- 
 chanical engineering firm known as the Petterson Engineering Company. The offices 
 are in the Central Exchange, No. 311 Main street. Mr. Werme is fond of athletics, in 
 which he excelled in his younger days, winning many prizes and trophies, especially in 
 jumping and swimming contests. He is a member of the Young Men's Christian As- 
 sociation ; Thule Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Montacute Lodge, An- 
 cient Free and Accepted Masons ; the Fairweather Club of the American Steel & Wire 
 Company; the First Swedish Lutheran Church. 
 
 Mr. Werme married, June 26, 1907, in this city, Hilda J. Nelson, who was born in 
 Sweden, daughter of Nelson and Mary (Hendrickson) Nelson. Both parents died in 
 this city, and she received her education here. Mr. and Mrs. Werme have two chil- 
 dren : Irene Marie, born November 23, 1910; Irving Andrew,' born January 15, 1914. 
 Their home is at No. 428 Chandler street. 
 
 His father, Andrew Werme, was born in Sweden, and died there when the son 
 was four years old; was a Lancashire smith; married Anna Bloomstrom, who was born 
 in Sweden, died in this city, February 15, 1915, aged seventy-six years. They had the 
 following children, of whom four are now living, all in Worcester: Anna, died aged 
 forty-four years in this city; Sophia, died in 1890 in Worcester; Raindhold, now in 
 charge of a rolling mill of the American Steam & Wire Company; Clara, married 
 Clarence McCall. of Worcester; Andrew P., mentioned above; Hannah, of this city; 
 Carl O., died here in igii. 
 
 EDWARD DICKINSON WARD, General Contractor, was born in West War- 
 ren, Massachusetts, March 6. 1864, son of Charles Rockwood and Julia Ann (Reed) 
 Ward. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools of Enfield, Massachusetts, leaving the high 
 school to work in the Warren Cotton Mills. From the glazing room he was trans- 
 ferred after a time to the carpenter shop, where he learned his trade during a period of 
 three years. For two years he was employed as a journeyman by Charles Knapp, of 
 this city, and then he engaged in business on his own account as a carpenter in this 
 city, employing a half dozen men, having his office on Alvarado avenue. In i8gi he 
 formed a partnership with Willis F. Blanding, under the firm name of Ward & Bland- 
 ing, and this firm continued in business for five years, building many residences and 
 other buildings in this city. Since that partnership was dissolved Mr. Ward has con- 
 tinued alone in business, extending his field of operations year by year and becoming 
 one of the leading general contractors of New England. Since 1902 his office and 
 headquarters have been in the Baker building. No. 82 Foster street. In recent years 
 he has employed regularly a force of about three hundred men. Mr. Ward erected 
 such buildings as the Church of Christ (Scientist) of Worcester; the plant of the 
 Wright Wire Company in Palmer; the mills of the Hamilton Woolen Company at 
 Southbridge, Massachusetts; mills of the Worcester Machine Screw Company; various 
 buildings for the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works and Matthew J. Whittall, the 
 carpet manufacturer; buildings of the Central Supply Company. In July. 1918, the 
 business of Mr. Ward was incorporated under the laws of this State under the name 
 of the E. D. Ward Company with a capital stock of $75,000, with the special purpose 
 of enlarging all branches of the business, including painting. The officers are : Presi- 
 dent and treasurer, E. D. Ward ; vice-president, Burt Leroy Knowles ; clerk, Harry M. 
 Winchester. Mr. Knowles has been a draftsman and Mr. Winchester bookkeeper for 
 Mr. Ward for several years. Mr. Ward is a Republican in politics, and a Congrega- 
 tionalist in religion. His home is in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Mr. Ward married, 
 December 9, 1891, Mabel E. Kibbe, daughter of Eugene Hudson and Mary E. (Hickey) 
 Kibbe. Children : i. Mildred May, married, September 8, 1915. Frank Hickey, and 
 they have one daughter, Nancy Hickey, born April 23, 1917. 2. Ethel Mabel, married, 
 November 10, 1915, Russell Webb, and they have a son, Russell D., born February 7, 
 1917. 3. Irene Belle. 
 
 P. WALTER FAY. Treasurer of the Warren Garage Company, was born in Gal- 
 way, Ireland, .August 10, 1882, son of Paul and Helen (Fahey)- Fay. He came to this 
 country in childhood with his mother and sister Delia in 1888. 
 
 The family located in this city and he attended the public schools here, graduating 
 from the Upsala street school in i8g6. Afterward he attended the Quinsigamond even- 
 ing school for two years, and the Hinman Business College for two years. He was 
 for nine years in the employ of the American Steel & Wire Company in the wire mills 
 of Worcester. His career in the automobile business began on June i, 1906, when he 
 entered the employ of the first garage established in this city, known as the Pond 
 Automobile Station, and he has been in the garage business since that time. He be- 
 came associated with the Warren Garage Company in 1910, and since then has been its 
 
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 treasurer and manaKcr. Tlie place of business is at Xo. \2 \'ine street. He is also 
 the owner and manaKer <it the sarajje at Lake aveiuie and lielnnint street. 
 
 Mr. Fay graduated from the Military 'JVaining Sehnol in this city, June 6, 1915. 
 He is a member of Worcester Lodge, Benevolent and IVotective Order of Elks ; the 
 Worcester Chamber of Conunerce ; tlie Boston City Club. His li.>lil)y is baseball and 
 football. He was formerly catcher of the Maxwell .Xthletic Baseball Club of Worces- 
 ter. He has been a justice of the peace since August 11, 191 1, when he was appointed 
 by Governor b'oss. 
 
 His father, Paul Fay, was born in dalway, Ireland, and was killed in an accident 
 when Paiil Walter was an infant. He was a farmer. Helen (Fahey) Fay was also 
 born in Gahvay: she is now living in this city: she married (second) in Worcester, 
 Frank H. Buckley, a contractor. Paul and Helen Fay had but two children: P. Wal- 
 ter, mentioned above, and Delia, married (Jeorge M. Doyle, now of Providence. Rhode 
 Island, and has four children. By her second marriage, Helen (Fahey-Fay) Buckley 
 bad two children : Dennis Bucklev, now in the United States navy, and Margaret 
 Buckley. 
 
 DAVID GOGGIN, C.mtractor and painter, retired police officer, was born in 
 Killarney. County Kerry, Ireland, September ii, 1840. He received his education in the 
 schools of his native place. In 1866 he came to this city and made his home here until 
 his death. He found employment as a painter and for a number of years worked for 
 E. R. Estabrook, whose shop was located at the corner of Waldo and Exchange streets. 
 He then engaged in business on his own account as a painter and contractor. He was 
 appointed a patrolman on the police force of this city. January 5, 1873, and excepting 
 for two years remained on the force until he died. During those two years he was 
 again in the painting business. He died January 31, 1908. He was at that time one of 
 the officers longest in the service of the city and widely known among all classes of 
 people. After 1892 he was on permanent diUy with the Board of Health, and he was 
 very active and efficient in tlie work of the health (lei)artment. In all his long service 
 he never bad charges of any kind against him. He was kindly, just and charitable, 
 doing his utmost always to relieve the suffering and distress of which he was a daily 
 witness for so many years. He was a zealous worker for temperance and president 
 of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society. He was a member of Alhambra 
 Council, Knights of Columbus. At various times he w'as a parishioner and communi- 
 cant of St. Anne's. St. John's and St. Paul's Roman Catholic churches. He was a mem- 
 ber of the American and French War Board. Naturally thrifty and saving, he invested 
 his earnings in real estate. He was one of the founders of the Bay State Savings 
 Bank and a trustee to the time of his death. He was a Democrat all his life, and at 
 times took an active part in politics. 
 
 Mr. Goggin married, in Ireland, in 1865, Catherine M. Sullivan, whose father came 
 to this country in the forties and became a railroad bridge contractor. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Goggin had no children. His widow resides at the old home, Xo, 81 Portland street. 
 
 MAURICE HIGGINS, One of the pioneer employees in the railroad world, is a 
 man of straiglitforward and upright principles. His early ambitions, which brought 
 him from Ireland, served him through many years of diligent endeavor to bring him at 
 last to a w-ell-carned retirement. 
 
 Mr. Higgins was born in the County of Cork. Ireland, in the year 1830. In 1851 
 he embarked from there on a sailing vessel for America, spendin.g forty-two days at 
 sea. L'pon arriving in America he came first to Worcester, where he secured em- 
 ployment with the Boston & Albany Railroad, shovelling snow. He continued under 
 the employ of that company until 1887 as switchman and fireman. He often pulled 
 the passenger cars out of the station with horses. He was the first to throw the 
 switch in the old passenger station of that railroad in Worcester. For a time he was 
 watchman for that road at the Foster street station. Mr. Higgins has always been in- 
 terested in the city of Worcester. He is a member of St. Ann's Roman Catholic 
 Church, Worcester, being a regular attendant. He is a member of the Holy Name So- 
 ciety of the church and was for many years a collector there. He is a member of the 
 Half Century Club. In politics he is a Democrat. He has lived in his present home on 
 Lake avenue for over thirty years. 
 
 Mr. Higgins married, April 15, 1855, Margaret O'Kccfe, also a native of the Coun- 
 ty of Cork, Ireland, who came to Worcester, previous to the arrival of Mr. Higgins. 
 She died in 1908, not, however, before the happiness of celebrating with her husband 
 their golden wedding. She was a woman of great intelligence, a beloved wife and 
 mother. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins were the parents of ten children, of whom eight are 
 living. They are: William F., a conductor on the Boston & Albany Railroad, has one 
 son; James P., of Worcester, an insurance agent with the Mutual Life Insurance 
 
750 HISTORY OF IVORCESTHK 
 
 Company ; Thomas J., principal of the Canterbury street school, Worcester, has six 
 children; Margaret, Mrs. John J. Kitteridge. who has four children; Anna M., living 
 at home ; John B., operator for the Chamber of Commerce, at Providence, Rhode 
 Island, has one son; Mary E., teacher in the Bloomingdale school; and Katherine A., 
 a bookkeeper. 
 
 MICHAEL JOSEPH FOLEY. Merchant, police officer, was born in County 
 Roscommon, Ireland, July i, 1845, son of John and Ann (Petitt) Foley. He went with 
 his family to Liverp(jol and lived there for several years when a boy. In 1849 his father 
 came to this city and found employment at his trade in the blacksmith shop of Ethan 
 Allen. In the following year his mother came with her two children, Michael and 
 Mary. His father spent the remainder of his life in this city, and died here. 
 
 Michael J. Foley attended the Worcester public schools until he was eleven years 
 old, when he went to work in the Fox Mills. Afterward he was employed for several 
 years in the Allen Wheelock Pistol Shop. He enlisted in Company I, Fiftieth Massa- 
 chusetts Regiment of Infantry, in the Civil War, in 1862, and served thirteen months as 
 a private. He is the only surviving member of Company I. In 1864 he enlisted again 
 in Company F, Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and was mustered out with the 
 rank of gunner. In his first enlistment he served under General Nathaniel P. Banks in 
 Louisiana. After he was mustered out at the end of the war, he returned to this city 
 and again found employment in the Pistol Shop, where he worked until 1867. He then 
 entered the employ of Charles Peck, who was building the First National Bank Build- 
 ing, and he worked as a carpenter on that and other buildings. In 1873 he engaged in 
 the grain business as partner of the firm of Chandley & Foley. His service on the 
 police force began in the days when even police officers were appointed for political 
 reasons. In 1874 he was appointed first by Mayor Edward L. Davis and served one 
 year. He was appointed the second time by Mayor F. H. Kelley in 1881. His number, 
 48, he retained as patrolman for more than thirty-two and a half years. He retired in 
 1912. For si.xteen years he was on the same patrol, between Walnut and Highland 
 streets. Since then he has devoted himself to the care of the property in which he in- 
 vested his savings. He resides at No. 25 Wyman street. In politics he has always 
 beeen a Democrat, and when not on the police force has taken an active part in af- 
 fairs. He served in the Worcester City Guards. He has been for forty years an active 
 member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and was at one time its president. He was 
 a charter member of Court Quinsigamend, American Order of Foresters, and is still an 
 active member. He was a charter member of the Worcester Police Relief Associaiton. For 
 thirty years he has been a communicant of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. He has 
 been president of the Gratton Literary Association and for many years its treasurer. 
 Since 1868 he has been a member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of 
 the Republic. 
 
 Mr. Foley married, in this city, October 17, 1872, Catherine L. Cavanaugh. of 
 Greenfield, Massachusetts. Children : i. Agnes, principal of a public school at Lenox, 
 Massachusetts, graduate of the Worcester High School and of the State Normal 
 School at Framingham. 2. George P., of this city. 3. Captain Edward, now in the 
 United States service at Camp Dix, Wrightstown, New Jersey, doubtless will be in 
 France before this work is in print. 4. Francis A., a printer, of Worcester. 5. Walter, 
 graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, now chemist for the American Can 
 Company, Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN, Librarian of the American Anti- 
 quarian Society, was born in Tenipleton, August I, 1800, died in Norwich, Ohio, Au- 
 gust 20, 1835, son of Eden and Abigail (Force) Baldwin. He prepared for college in 
 Leicester Academy ; entered Harvard with the class of 1823, but owing to a disturbance 
 in his class in the senior year, did not receive his degree. He studied law in this 
 town in the offices of John Davis and Charles Allen and was admitted to the bar in 
 Oct(jber, 1825. In 1825-6 he and William Lincoln edited and published the Worces- 
 ter Magazine and Historical Journal. 
 
 Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, October 20, 1827, he was 
 appointed temporarily librarian and cabinet keeper at the same time. He was editor 
 of the National Wegis from July, 1829, to May following, when he removed to Barre, 
 resigning as lilirarian. In the fall of the same year he formed a law partnership with 
 Jonas L. Sibley of Sutton and located there until 1822, when he returned to Worcester 
 and again took charge of the Antiquarian library as its permanent librarian. His death 
 was caused by an accident. While on his way to Zanesville, Ohio, the stage was upset 
 and he was mortally injured. 
 
 JESSE JOHNSON COBURN, Pioneer in the development of Lake Quinsigamond, 
 was born at Northfield, Vermont, October 15, 1832, and died in this city, June 13, 1883, 
 son of Ira and Clorinda (Claflin) Coburn. 
 
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 He was educated in tlie district scIidoIs of !iis native town, and left liimie at the 
 age of eighteen years, going to California witll the Forty-niners, joining relatives who 
 had gone tliither in searcli of gold. He worked in the mining camps and had many 
 thrilling experiences, heconiing an e.x[)ert rifle shot, one (jf the hest, and spending 
 much time hunting for hig game. .After three years he returned, hriiiging with him 
 some savings. For several years afterward he was engaged in the old iron and metal 
 business in this city. He was one of the first to sec the possibilities of Lake Quin-. 
 sigamond for a pleasure resort and a site for summer homes, and he proceeded to de- 
 velop his ideas to tlie extent of his means and ability. He bought Ramshorn Island 
 and thirty acres on the west shore, including what is now Lincidn I'.ark, and extending 
 for a mile, over the tracks of the P.oston & .Albany Railroad. He revived the old 
 name, Quinsiganiond, to take the place of Long Pond; he cleared away tlic forest, laid 
 out streets and sidewalks and sold lots. .Among tlie tirst streets were .Agate avenue 
 and Lakeview street. Houses were built, then school houses and churches, for which he 
 gave the land, and the thriving village of Lake \'iew was established. The growth has 
 continued in very direction about the lake and it is now one of the most attractive 
 parts of the city, most of the residents making their homes there the year round. But 
 along the lake front tlic summer cottages have multiplied wonderfully in recent years. 
 
 Sir. (.'oburn built on the island the old Quinsi.gamond House, later called Hotel 
 Belmont, and managed it for years. He developed Lincoln F'ark into a playground and 
 picnic resort. .As the lake grew in favor he put steamboats into cimimission. the first 
 of these lieing the "Phil Sheridan." a side-vvlieeler. commissioned in i86f). In 1879 one 
 of his steamers was overturned and several passen.gers drowned, an accident that 
 proved a severe shock to Mr. Coburn and one from which he never fully recovered. In 
 1872 he organized a company to build a narrow-gauge railroad fmm the city to the lake 
 under the name of the Worcester & .Shrewsbury Railroad. 'I'he road was built and op- 
 .erated by smal! steam engines and the road became popularly known as the "dummy." 
 It was afterward equipped with electric power and finally leased to the Worcester 
 Consolidated Company and is now operated as part of the city system. He was a 
 pioneer in letting boats on the lake and the business that he established has become 
 very large in recent years. In 1883 he sold his interests at the lake to Horace H. 
 Bigelow, and on account of ill health retired from active business, turning his boat- 
 letting -business over to his son who has continued it to the present time. Sir. Coburn 
 was genial, generous, popular; fond of good fellowship and had many friends. To the 
 city he gave twelve acres of land for the building of the Boulevard intended to con- 
 nected all tlie parks of tlie city. Through his inlluence the site at Bloomingdale was 
 chosen for the State Hospital, at the time that the present site of tiie Odd Fellows 
 Home was being favorably considered for that institution. He was a member of the 
 Worcester Gun Club and extremely fond of him'ting. 
 
 Mr. Coburn married (first) Helen Peebles; (second) Susan B. Lunt ; (third) .Anna 
 C. Perry, daughter of Josiah G. Perry, of this city, and Martha (Homer) Perry. By 
 his first wife he had one son, Alvarado Alonzo. His only child by his second wife died 
 in infancy. By his third wife he had four children; i. Jesse Johnson, born October 8, 
 1872, married Belle Curtis, of Brookdale, St. Lawrence county. New York, December 
 21, 1905. 2. Clara Martin, born .April 2, 1876. graduate of Wellesley College, married 
 Professor Edgar James Smith, of Washington L'niversity, of St. Louis, Missouri. 3. 
 Charles Bertrand. born July 27. 1878. 4. Arny, born October 11, 1883, graduate of 
 Wellesley College, married Sutton S. Lyseth, of this city. 
 
 ALVARADO ALONZO COBURN. proprietor of a fleet of boats and canoes on 
 Lake Quinsiganiond, was born in Oakdale Village, W"est Boylston, Massachusetts, 
 June 8, 1855. Two years later his mother died and he was taken to live with his 
 grandparents in South Royalton, Vermont. He. attended the public schools and worked 
 on the farm there until he was ten years old. then became a student in the Friends 
 School at Providence, Rhode Island. .At the age of fourteen he returned ti his 
 father's home in Worcester and attended the high school here for two years. When 
 he left school he assisted his father in his various projects, and when he came of 
 age he was given the boat letting business. 
 
 He had at first only four Whitehall boats, keel boats with smooth seams. The 
 boats were kept at first on Wachusett Island, where the boat house is now located. 
 The next place used by his father for letting boats was where the bowling alleys are 
 situated in Lincoln Park; later at the site of the dancing pavilion, and then where 
 the old footbridge led to the island. Before 1876 there w-as no boathouse and the 
 Coburns had only a small building in which to keep oars, etc. Mr. Coburn built 
 the first boathouse between the site of the theatre at Lincoln Park and the present boat 
 house. This building was two stories in height, the lower floor being used for storing 
 boats and the upper for building and repairing boats. Not until 1898 were canoes 
 
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 in use to any extent. In that year he added a number of canoes to his outfit, but 
 ten years later there were fully fifty canoes on the lake. In 1917 Mr. Coburn owned 
 238 boats and canoes and had storage room for 172 others. Especially in winter 
 the boat-building department has been prosperous and active. Mr. Coburn has built 
 boats for customers in all parts of the country.. The boat repairing is always done in 
 the winter. The main building used by the Coburn Company was built in 1891 by 
 the Street Railway Company. Mr. Coburn has charge of leasing the bowling alleys, 
 dancing pavilion and other concessions. The business was incorporated in 1904 under 
 the name of A. A. Coburn Company, of which Mr. Coburn is principal owner, presi- 
 dent and treasurer. His business is the oldest and largest of any of the boat liveries 
 or boat builders on the lake. Besides the Worcester business Mr. Coburn has a 
 similar plant at Lake Whalom, Fitchburg, which, in years past, has been even more 
 popular than Quinsigamond as a resort for canoeing and boating. He has a large 
 fleet of canoes and boats there. 
 
 Mr. Coburn resides at No. 108 Lake avenue. He is a member of Montacute Lodge, 
 Free Masons; Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council; Worcester 
 Lodge of Perfection ; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; Lawrence Chapter of 
 Rose Croi.x; Stella Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Worcester Lodge, Indepen- 
 dent Order of Odd Fellows ; Worcester Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of 
 Elks ; the Wachusett Boat Club ; the Lakeside Boat Club. He attends the Universalist 
 church. 
 
 He married November 21, 1881, Addie Jane Booth, daughter of James and Mary 
 Booth of this city. Her father was a manufacturer of reeds, Union street. They had 
 two children: Alvarado Booth, born September 28, 1882, died young; Charles Jesse, 
 born November 2y, 1885, died January 10, 1899. 
 
 ELIJAH BRIGHAM STODDARD, Lawyer, Mayor, State Senator, Banker, was, 
 born in Upton, Jime s, 1826. died in tliis city September 27, 1903, son of Colonel Elijah 
 and Zilpah (Nelson) Stoddard, and a descendant of the pioneers of the Commonwealth. 
 His grandfathers, Ezekiel Stoddard and Isaac Nelson were soldiers in the Revolution. 
 His father was a farmer and at one time in partnership with William Knowlton, hat 
 manufacturer, of Upton. He fitted for college in Phillips Academy, Exeter, and grad- 
 uated from Brown University in 1847. He then began to read law in the office of J. C. 
 B. Davis, of Worcester, and in 1849 he was admitted to the bar and began to practice 
 here. Soon afterward he became a partner of Hon. Isaac Davis, his father-in-law, con- 
 tinuing until 1855. 
 
 Early in life he began to take part in public affairs. He was district attorney, city 
 solicitor, served in the Common Council in 1854 and in the board of aldermen in 1863- 
 64 and was Mayor in 1882. He served in the House of Representatives, the State Sen- 
 ate ; was on the Governor's Staff with the rank of Colonel ; served in the Council. He 
 served on the school committee of the city for nine years and was chairman a number 
 of years of the high school committee; was a trustee of Brown University and for 
 twenty-four years a member of the State Board of Education. In politics he was a 
 Republican. He w-as captain in the militia before the Civil War. 
 
 The greater part of his time in later years was devoted to the Quinsigamond Na- 
 tional Bank, of which he was president and to the Merchants and Farmers Fire Insur- 
 ance Company, of which he was secretary. He was influential in financial as well as 
 public affairs. He was a faithful member of the Church of the Unity, for many years a 
 member of the old Fire Society and of many other business and social organizations. 
 
 He married Mary E. Davis, daughter of Hon. Isaac. She was a generous benefac- 
 tor to many of the charities of the city. Their only son, Edward D., died shortly before 
 his father. 
 
 HON. JOHN DENISON BALDWIN, Editor and publisher of the Worcester 
 "Daily Spy" for many years, congressman, was born in North Stonington, Connecti- 
 cut, September 28, 1809, and died in Worcester, July 8, 1883, son of Daniel and Han- 
 nah (Stanton) Baldwin. 
 
 He traced his ancestry to Richard Baldwin, who held the manor of Dunbridge 
 in Aston-Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England, early in the sixteenth century. Syl- 
 vester Baldwin, the American immigrant, was of the fourth generation, but he died 
 on the voyage, and his son John, born in England in 1635, settled in Stonington, 
 Connecticut, in 1664. In New London and vicinity the family lived for five genera- 
 tions. Among the ancestors of Mr. Baldwin were many other of the pioneers of 
 Connecticut. All of his ancestry were of the original English stock. Among other 
 notable ancestors were Captain John Mason, the Indian fighter, Rev. Peter Hobart, 
 minister of Hingham, Massachusetts, Colonel George Denison, Thomas Stanton. 
 
 When John Denison Baldwin was seven years old the family moved from his 
 
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 native town to Chenango cunnty, New York, at tliat time a wilderness, and for 
 seven years he labored with his father and others of the family in tlie task of clcar- 
 inp; the farm. There he learned to shoot straight and to love nature and he grew to 
 manhood strong and vigorous in physique. He returned with the family to Stoning- 
 ton when he was fourteen, attended school there and studied diligently for three 
 years. At the age of seventeen he began to teacli school. He entered Yale College, 
 where he pursued his course from time to time as his other duties permitted. He 
 did not graduate in regular course. Hcginning the stiidy of law, he soon aband- 
 oned it and took tii) theology. For a short time he preaclied in a Methodist church, 
 but later entered tlie Divinity School of Yale College and graduated in 1834. In 
 1839 he was granted the degree of Master of Arts at \'ale, out of the regular course. 
 He was ordained, September 3, 1834, and was i>astor of the church at West Wood- 
 stock, Connecticut, until July 25, 1837. I'rom Jaiuiary 17. 1838, to May, 1845, he was 
 pastor of the church at Xorth Hranford. Connecticut, and from April 29, 1846, to 
 September 17, 1849, at Xorth Killingly. He made his mark as a preacher, and took 
 an active part in public life. He was elected to the (ieneral Assemlily of the State 
 of Connecticut by the Free Soil party, and as chairman of the committee on educa- 
 tion reported a bill to establish state normal schools, a bill that was enacted in 
 1850. and he was one of the first board of trustees. The site was selected at New 
 Britain. While in the Legislature he became more than ever interested in the 
 Free Soil party and the anti-slavery movement, and sought a larger field to advance 
 the reforms in which he was interested. Turning to journalism he became editor 
 of the "Charter Oak," a Free Soil newspaper (afterward "The Republican,") of 
 Hartford. The work was congenial and he exerted a powerful influence through 
 his editorials. In 1852 he became one of the owners of the "Daily Commonwealth" 
 of I'.oston. and its editor and manager. At the time of the formation of the Re- 
 publican party he gave the movement vigorous support, and was intimately asso- 
 ciated in politics with Sumner, Wilson, Claflin, Howe, Alley, Spooncr, Theodore 
 Parker and other leaders. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin bought the Cambridge "Chronicle" and edited it for a few months. 
 In 1859 he bought the Worcester "Spy," and under !iis management, assisted by his 
 two sons, John S. and Charles C. Baldwin, it grew rapidly in prestige and circula- 
 tion. The Civil War wrought great changes in the newspaper business; the tele- 
 graph came into daily use and comparatively dull and stagnant dailies became real 
 newspapers. The "Spy" prospered, and a brick building was erected opposite the 
 City Hall. A history of tliis newspaper is given elscwliere. Mr. Baldwin contin- 
 used as editor to the time of his death. He w-as a journalist of the old school, but a 
 sagacious business man, progressive, keen, able and upright. He left the manage- 
 ment of the counting room and mechanical plant largely to his sons, and devoted 
 himself to editing the pajjcr. He was a clear and forcible writer with high ideals, 
 and a leader of public opinion. 
 
 To further the principles that he advocated as an editor he entered public life. 
 In 1850. the year after he came to Worcester, he was elected delegate^to the Re- 
 publican National Convention, and it was upon his suggestion that Hannibal Ham- 
 lin, of Maine, was nominated for vice-president. In 1862 he was elected to Con- 
 gress by a large majority; re-elected in 1864 and in 1868 by even greater majorities. 
 In Congress he served on the committees on expenditures, on public buildings, on 
 the District of Columbia, on printing and on the library. He spoke frequently and 
 some of his speeches were published. He spoke March 5, 1864, on state sovereignty 
 and treason, the house being in committee of the whole, and he made a brilliant 
 speech, April 7, 1866, on Congress and Reconstruction, and another, January 11, 
 1868, in reply to James Brooks, of New York, on the negro race. He worked in 
 vain for an international copyright act. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin will be remembered not only for his prominence in Congress, not 
 only as one of the great editors of the Civil War period and later, but as an au- 
 thor. In his autobiography written during his last years, he confessed that he had 
 never known a time when it w^as not a pleasure for him to study. While he was a 
 preacher he acquired the French and German languages and made a special study 
 of archaeology. He was one of the first to make portraits by the daguerreotype 
 process and some of his work has been preserved. His book on "Prehistoric Na- 
 tions" was published by Harper Bros, in 1869. His work on "Ancient .America" 
 was published in 1872 and had a large sale. In 1880 he published his genealogy 
 of the descendants of John Baldwin, of Stonington, Connecticut. In 1881, in col- 
 laboratitm with Rev. William Clifton, he published a Record of the Descendants of 
 Captain George Denison, of Stonington, and in 1882 he published a partial genealogy 
 of the descendants of Thomas Stanton, of Stonington. Early in life he was inclined 
 
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754 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 to poetry, and in 1847 published a collection of his poems entitled. "The Story of 
 Raymond Hill and Other Poems." He was a member of the American Oriental 
 Society, of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, of the American 
 Antiquarian Society, and an honorary member of the Worcester Society of Anti- 
 quity. 
 
 One who knew him well wrote at the time of his death : 
 
 "Mr. Baldwin was a man of imposing stature, much exceeding six feet in height, 
 of large frame and great muscular strength. In his early manhood, his massive head, 
 erect figure, and stalwart proportions, indicative of activity and power, gave an aspect 
 of uncommon force and dignity. His mind like his body was large and vigorous. 
 His political sagacity was highly esteemed by those who had long associated with him. 
 Though so much of a recluse, especially in later years, he knew human nature well 
 and could foresee with great accuracy the political effect of any measure or event. 
 His election forecasts were in general singularly near the truth, and his judgment of 
 men, their character, capabilities and popularity was rarely at fault. His advice in 
 political matters was often sought and highly valued. It was delivered confidently, 
 but without arrogance, and more than once those who had refused to be guided by it at 
 an important juncture had cause to regret that it had been rejected. As a writer Mr. 
 Baldwin was direct, clear and forcible. His style had no ornament. It was some- 
 times rugged, but always strong and sincere. His wide range of reading and retentive 
 memory gave him a vast store of facts, and his knowledge of political history was 
 especially large and accurate. But though his profession of journalism kept his mind 
 occupied much with such subjects, his favorite pursuit was the study of antiquity, both 
 the dim past of which authentic history gives only hints and suggestions, and the less 
 remote but almost as difficult field of family genalogy, to which most of his later 
 years, while his health allowed, was devoted." 
 
 Mr. Baldwin married, April 3, 1832. Lemira Hathaway, daughter of Captain Eben- 
 ezer and Betsey (Crane) Hathaway. They had four children : I. Ellen Francis, born 
 in Dighton, January 19, 1833. died in New Orleans, March, 1854. 2. John Stanton (see 
 biography). 3. Charles Clinton, born in Woodstock, Connecticut. May 4, 1835 (see 
 biography). 4. Mary Jane, born at Woodstock, May 6, 1836, died in Hartford, Con- 
 necticut, December 29, 1850. 
 
 JOHN STANTON BALDWIN, Captain, editor and publisher of the "Spy," was 
 born in New Haven, Connecticut, January 6, 1834, son of John Denison and Lemira 
 (Hathaway) Baldwin. He was educated in the public schools and graduated in one 
 of the first classes of the State Normal School at New Britain, Connecticut. He learned 
 the art of printing in the newspaper offices with which his father was connected in 
 Hartford and New York. The Republican office at Hartford had a job printing de- 
 partment, and when his father bought the "Spy," Mr. Baldwin was well equipped in 
 both the business and mechanical departments, as well as the editorial. During the 
 larger part of the time that the "Spy" was owned by the Baldwin family, from 1859 
 to i8g8, he was the active and responsible head of the business. After his father's 
 death in 1883, the firm of John D. Baldwin & Sons continued for five years. The Spy 
 Publishing Company was formed April 23, 1887, with Mr. Baldwin as president; 
 Charles C. Baldwin, his brother, as treasurer, and Robert S. Baldwin, his son, as sec- 
 retary. In 1892 when Charles C. Baldwin withdrew from the business, John D. Bald- 
 win, another son of John S. Baldwin became a director. 
 
 In the Civil War Mr. Baldwin was captain of Company F of the Fifty-first Massa- 
 chusetts Regiment. He was a member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army 
 of the Republic, and of the Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion. He was a representative to the General Court in 1871, and served the city 
 also in the Common Council, on the school committee and in the board of license com- 
 missioners. After he retired from business in 1898 he devoted a large part of his time 
 to his siunmer place at Marion on Buzzards Bay. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin married, October 19. 1863, Emily Brown, daughter of Albert and 
 Mary (Eaton) Brown. Children : I. Mary Eleanor, born November 25, 1864, teacher 
 for several years in the Worcester High School, married Professor Frederick Dunlap, 
 teacher of chemistry in the University of Michigan. 2. Robert Stanton, born Decem- 
 ber 17, 1865, graduate of Harvard, 1891, on the editorial staff of the "Spy" until i8g8 
 and since tlien a school teacher. 3. Alice Hathaway, born November 26, 1867. married 
 Marcus L. Foster. 4. John Denison, (see biography). 5. Emily Brown, born March 
 27, 1873, died May 24, 1874. 6. Rosamond, born September 24, 1874, died September 2. 
 1876. 7. Henry Brown, born August 9, 1877. 8. Emily Clinton, born January 28. 1884, 
 a trained nurse, married (first) Wallace B. Goldie, and they had one son, Wallace; 
 she married (second) Ernst Arrowsmith. 
 
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 JOHN DENISON BALDWIN, Business manafier of tlie Worcfstcr 'TJaily 
 Spy." was Imni in this city. May Jd, 1871, and died here, Dcccinl)er 8, 191 j, son of 
 John Stanli>ii and lunily (Itr.iwn) Baldwin, He attended the [uiblic scliools of this 
 city, and graduated from the High School in 1889. He tlien entered Harvard Col- 
 lege, from which lie graduated in 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He 
 became a director of tlie Spy Publishing Company in 1892, and after graduating he 
 was business manager of tlie "Spy" until 1898. Mr. Baldwin was a member of 
 many social organizations, including the Worcester Club, Harv.ird Club and the 
 Worcester Tennis Club. In politics he w-as a Republican; in religion a Unitarian. 
 He possessed a singularly attractive personality, and was popular among all classes 
 of people. 
 
 Mr. Baldwin married, June 9, 1896, Mary Fiske Katon. a daughter of Thomas 
 B. Eaton (see biogra[)liy ). They had two children: Charlotte, born March 20, 1899, 
 and John Denison, Jr., iiorn November 28, 1902. 
 
 THOMAS B. EATON, Successful business man and public-spirited citizen, 
 has been urupiestinnably throughout his long career one of the most conspicuous 
 figures in the life of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, identified as he has been 
 with well nigh the entire corporate life of the community, both as a town and later 
 as a city. He came of good old New England stock, and was a son of Thomas B. 
 and Sally F. (Bond) Eaton, both natives of this city, where Mr. Eaton was himself 
 born, January 15, 1840. Mr. Eaton was the last male descendant of eight genera- 
 tions of Eatons, his forebears having lived in New England from early Colonial 
 times. 
 
 The childhood of Thomas B. Eaton was spent in his native city, and his edu- 
 cation was gained at the public schools here. After leaving school he entered the 
 employ of Josiah H. Clarke and was set to work in a clerical capacity in that 
 gentleman's dry goods store in Worcester. .So quick and alert was Mr. Eaton's 
 mind and so readily did he grasp the details of what he applied himself to that 
 it was not long before he found himself in line for promotion and was advanced 
 to the positi<m of bookkeeper. It was just at the close of the Civil War that Mr. 
 Clarke went abroad and left Mr. Eaton in charge of his establishment. The 
 business was so well carried on by the younger man that upon his return to this 
 country Mr. Clarke admitted him into partnership, and this association was contin- 
 ued until the year 1885, when the growing demands upon him in connection with 
 other duties and tasks caused him to retire entirely from the mercantile line. Early 
 in his life he had become identified with the banking interests of the community 
 and with the public-service corporation, and was one of the prime movers in connec- 
 tion with the organization and development of some of these. Mr. Eaton for fully 
 thirty years was a director in the Mechanics National Bank of Worcester, and he 
 was a director, a trustee and the vice-president of the Mechanics Savings Bank 
 of this city. These responsible places he held until his death. He was also a di- 
 rector of the Worcester Trust Company, the Worcester Gas Light Company, the 
 New England Investment and Securities Company, the Norwich and Worcester 
 Railway Company, the New London and Northern Railway Company and the 
 Peterboro Railway Company, and held these positions until October 13, 1916, when 
 a federal law was passed forbidding interlocking directorates. It then became 
 necessary for him to resign his position in these concerns, althovigh he still retained 
 an interest in them. He was also president of the Rural Cemetery Association, and 
 formerly a director of the Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Company. It 
 was Mr. Eaton who was chiefly instrumental in bringing about the consolidation 
 of those banks which came together to form the Worcester Trust Company, and in 
 this and in a score of other ways he worked for the advancement of financia.1 and 
 business interests here. Mr. Eaton was a conspicuous figure in the social life of 
 Worcester, and was a member of prominent clubs and orders. Among these should 
 be mentioned the Quinsigamond Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; the 
 Worcester and Tatnuck Country clubs, of Worcester, and the Union Club of Bos- 
 ton. In his religious belief Mr. Eaton was a Unitarian and attended the First 
 Church of that denomination in this city. 
 
 Thomas B. Eaton was united in marriage, December i, 1864. with Charlotte M. 
 Gill, of Worcester, a daughter of George W. and Sarah (McFarland) Gill, old and 
 highly-respected residents of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton were the parents of 
 two children, as follow s : Mary Fiske, who became the wife of John D. Baldwin, 
 of Worcester, and Emily Brown, who became Mrs. George T. Keyes, of East Pep- 
 perell. Massachusetts. 
 
 The simple account of his life and the various activities engaged in, tells far 
 more eloquently than any formal praise of tlie remarkable powers possessed by 
 
756 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Eaton, especially if it be remembered that his conscientious nature would not 
 permit his imdertaking anything which he was not prepared to do, any obligation 
 which he did not observe to the fullest. His labors were great, but his powers were 
 equal to their adequate performance. Perhaps it was for this ideal of conscientious 
 and enthusiastic energy that the personality of Mr. Eaton stood in the minds of his 
 fellows, yet it was only one of many commendable qualities for which his life might 
 serve as an example. He was a man of strong domestic instincts who found great 
 happiness in his family. He was also a devoted and faithful friend, and one whose 
 attitude towards his fellow generally was open and candid, yet genial in the ex- 
 treme, so that he easily won and retained the friendship and respect of those who 
 came in contact with him. His personality was an unusual one, extremely distinct 
 and vivid, so that it could not help impressing those about it for good, and it may 
 well be hoped that the memory of it shall be preserved in records such as this to 
 serve as a fair example to those who follow him. 
 
 ARTHUR HENRY BOYDEN, M. D. Among the younger physicians of Wor- 
 cester Dr. Boyden has won a prominent place, and his large practice faithfully reflects 
 the confidence the public reposes in him. He is the son of Charles O. and Sarah J. 
 (Kennington) Boyden, his father born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and long a 
 yardmaster for the Boston and Albany Railroad. Later he settled in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, where his son, Arthur Henry Boyden, was born, September 29, 
 1879. After completing public school study in Worcester and Boston grade and 
 high schools the young man decided upon a college course, entered Tuft's College, 
 and after receiving his Bachelor's degree entered the Medical Department of Tuft's 
 College, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine at graduation, class of 1909. 
 After a period of service as interne at Worcester City Hospital Dr. Boyden opened 
 offices in Worcester, Massachusetts, at No. 875 Main street, and there has since been 
 engaged in the successful practice of his profession. He is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, Massachusetts State Medical Society, and a member 
 of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is highly esteemed as both physician and 
 citizen. 
 
 Dr. Boyden married, in Worcester, June 15, 1917, Contence I. Bottomly, and 
 they are the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth, born August 21, 1918. 
 
 CHARLES CALVIN LOWELL. The Lowell store in Worcester is one of 
 the attractive resorts of the city, Mr. Lowell carrying a line of artists' materials, 
 painters' supplies, and a full stock of china for decorative purposes. He is a master 
 of the business, takes a great pride in it, and is one of the most popular merchants of 
 his city. He traces his lineage from Percival Lowell, who at age of sixty-eight 
 came to New England, dying in Newbury, Massachusetts, January 8, 1664, aged 
 ninety-three. Percival Lowell was of the tenth generation of Lowell's, tracing in 
 direct line to William Lowle, of Gardley, Worcestershire, England. He was the 
 great-great-grandfather of Richard Lowle, who is buried in Gardley, his coat-of- 
 arms being displayed on his tomb: Sable, a dexter hand couped at the wrist grasp- 
 ing three pointless darts, one in pale, two in Saltire argent. This coat-of-arms 
 appears in Herald's Visitations of 157.3-1591-16.^2: that Richard Lowle was the great- 
 great-grandfather of Percival Lowell, head of the family in New England, Charles 
 Calvin Lowell being of the nineteenth recorded generation. 
 
 Percival Lowell was not the first Lowell to come, his sons, John and Richard, 
 having preceded their father. He was a inan of means and education, his poem on 
 the death of Governor Winthrop being one of merit, and generally circulated. The 
 line of descent from Percival and Rebecca Lowell is through their son, Richard 
 Lowell, and his wife, Margaret; their son, Percival (2) Lowell, of Newbury, and his 
 wife, Mary Chandler: their son. Captain Greleon Lowell, a sea captain, and his 
 wife, Miriam (Uary) Swett, of Newbury; their son, Moses Lowell, a soldier of the 
 French and Indian War, and his wife, Frances Colby; their son, Moses (2) Lowell, 
 and his wife, Miriam Knowlton. who in the year 1800 moved to New York State, 
 finally settling in the town of Grove, in Alleghany county. He was a soldier of 
 the Revolution, fighting at Bunker Hill, as did his eldest son Thomas. The line 
 continues through Daniel Lowell, son of Moses (2) and his wife, Lucy Porter, who 
 settled in the Maine wilderness at East Denmark, there cleared a farm and resided 
 until death ; their son. Arable F. Lowell, a farmer of East Denmark, Maine, all 
 his life, and his wife, Mehitible Dodge; their son, Ezra P. Lowell, who left his home 
 in Worcester, Massachusetts, June 19, 1865, for a trip through the West, and since 
 a letter from Salt Lake City, in the spring of 1866, has never been heard from. He 
 
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 married, November 17, 185^, Almira P. GoDilell, born May i, 1827, and died June 19, 
 1881. They were the parents of a son, Cliarles Calvin Lowell, of further mention. 
 
 Charles Calvin l-owell was horn in Worcester, Massachusetts, August 9. 1856, 
 and there yet resides, an honored merchant. He was educated in the public schools, 
 and finishing high school study he began business life as clerk under John C. White, 
 dealer in paints, oils and painters' supplies, then located at No. 8 Front street. This 
 was in 1875, and since that year he has known no other business. He continued with 
 Mr. White until the iatter's death, ip i88q, then purchased the business from his 
 estate and has since been the successful owner and manager. Mr. White had moved 
 from No. 8 Front street to Pearl street, February i, 1882, and in 100.? Mr. Lowell 
 moved into the old Post OiTTice building, on Pearl street, securing larger and more 
 attractive quarters. He has one of the largest stores in the country dealing in 
 painters' supplies and artists' materials, his Inisiness continually growing larger. He 
 is a good business man, just and upright in all his dealings, and highly esteemed. 
 Mr. Lowell is a Republican in politics, and a meml)er of Old South Congregational 
 Church. He is also a member of the Economic and Rotary clubs. 
 
 Mr. Lowell married (first) April 7. 1881, Fannie Jane Moore, who died February 
 26, 18S8, aged thirty years, daughter of James D. and -Sarah J. Moore, of Worcester. 
 They were the parents of two children: Florence Almira, born November 15, 1883, 
 a graduate of Classical High School, igo2, later a student at Bradford .Academy; 
 James Everett, born May 2,^, 1887, a graduate of high school, Lowell Textile School, 
 class of ipo8. Mr. Lowell married (second) May 20. 1889. Mrs. Cora W. (Pierce) 
 Shepard, daughter of Charles L and Lucy .\. Pierce, of West Boylston, Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 
 JOHN AMES SHERMAN, President and treasurer of the Sherman Envelope 
 Company, of which he was the founder, was born in Brimfteld. Massachusetts, June 
 6, 1852, son of John and Sophia (Prince) Sherman. Mr. .Sherman descends from a 
 long line of ancestry, tracing his family back to the middle of the thirteenth century, 
 while in this country his branch of the Sherman family is traced in direct line to 
 Edinund Sherman, the emigrant ancestor, who came to America from Dedham, 
 Essex county, England, and settled at Watcrtown, Massachusetts, about l6.;2, of 
 which town he was one of the early settlers and founders. 
 
 Mr. Sherman attended the public schools of his native town and the Hitchcock 
 School, from which he was graduated in i8tjg. At the age of sixteen years he came 
 to this city, where he worke<l at the State Insane Asylum, on Summer street, but at 
 the end of three months left there to again attend school. For a few months he was 
 engaged in the slate-roofing business in this city, when he became a clerk in a 
 grocery store at Northbridge, Massachusetts, where he continued for seven years. 
 Returning to this city, in 1877. for a period of five years he was employed by the 
 Ames Plow Company. In 1882 he went to Boston, where he was employed by the 
 Norton Door Check and Spring Company, the first manufacturers of an automatic 
 door check, remaining with this concern for about two years. On March 17, 1884, 
 Mr. Sherman returned to this city to accept the position of bookkeeper for the 
 Whitcomb Envelope Company, which was incorporated, January i, 1884, and for 
 which he got out the first balance sheet. Being possessed of a natural-born 
 mechanical ability, he rapidly acquired a thorough knowledge of the details of the 
 envelope manufacturing business in all its branches, and during the fifteen years that 
 he continued with this corporation, of which for several years he was superintendent, 
 he had invented new machinery and improved the old, taking out patents on his 
 various inventions. On July ,^i, 1898, the United States Envelope Company was 
 formed, of which the Whitcomb Envelope Company became a part on November 3, 
 1898, when Mr. Sherman resigned, and immediately began to prepare to engage in 
 the envelope manufacturing business on his own account. In December, 1898, he 
 began to construct the machinery for his own plant, which began operations on Feb- 
 ruary I, 1899. The offices and factory were located on Winona street, corner of 
 Nebraska street. The Sherman Envelope Company was incorporated in 1899. with 
 Mr. Sherman as president and treasurer; Josiah H. Clarke, the dry goods merchant, 
 vice-president; and Francis H. Bigelow, secretary. Mr. Sherman built seven 
 machines of his own invention, with which he began work, later adding thirteen 
 machines of the same pattern. The first quarters were outgrown in one year, and 
 on February l, 1900, the business was removed to Nos. 73 and 75 School street, in 
 the Paine building, where three floors in the rear of the building were occupied. The 
 business developed and expanded rapidly, and in five years larger quarters were again 
 required, and the present brick building, located at No. 60 Prescott street, was 
 
758 HISrORV OF jrOKCESTER 
 
 erected and occupied in 1905. Mr. Sherman raised the original company in three 
 weeks, getting subscriptions for $65,000. The original capital was $50,000, but was 
 increased to $75,000 at the time the present factory was erected. The Sherman 
 Envelope Company at present has 80,000 feet of floor space, and owns land adjoining, 
 upon which it is planned to erect another brick building of equal dimensions. The 
 improvement in envelope machinery in less than twenty years is best shown by the 
 fact that the Sherman machines make 90,000 envelopes a day each, whereas the best 
 machines at the time Mr. Sherman was superintendent of the Wliitcomb factory 
 made a maximum of 37,000 a day. The Sherman machines are universally used by 
 other makers of envelopes. The Mercantile Manufacturing Company, of Dayton, 
 Ohio, the concern now holding the contract for printing the stamped envelopes for 
 the United States Government, have in operation forty-seven of these machines. Mr. 
 Sherman has developed this great business practically alone, and now employs a 
 regular force of about 225 hands. The present ofticers of the Sherman Envelope 
 Company are: John A. Sherman, president and treasurer: Walter H. Davis, vice- 
 president; J. Edward Sherman, clerk; John T. Moore, of Belli iws Falls, Vermont, 
 and Benjamin Taft, of Ayer, Massachusetts, directors. 
 
 Mr. Sherman is also the inventor of an oil burner which is capable of burning 
 oil in an ordinary house heater. The system is so perfected that one may go away 
 and close his house for a week or more and have it heated to any desired tempera- 
 ture while he is gone. He can set a small thermostat arrangement so that the 
 burner will automatically increase the temperature to the desired degree of heat a 
 few hours before he e.xpects to return home. The whole system is very simple, and yet 
 its success and importance promise to become international, an important feature 
 of the invention being that the burner does not burn steadily, but is automatically 
 lighted and turned off as the temperature of the house falls or increases. Mr. Sher- 
 man is a director of the Park Trust Company, of this city; treasurer of the 
 Combination Orchard Company, of Winona, Texas, with ofBces in Boston: treasurer 
 of the Mutual Rubber Production Company, of Mexico: and treasurer of the 
 Excelsior Gold Mining Company, of California. He has been especially active in 
 religious work, having been for a number of years a member and active worker in 
 the Union Congregational Church, of which he has served on the standing committee, 
 as a member of the board of trustees, and as deacon. He is also a member of the 
 board of directors of the Memorial Church of Worcester. He was instrumental in 
 establishing three Sunday schools in the city, which have since become churches, 
 namely, the Belmont Congregational Church, the Bethany Church, and the People's 
 Church at Grcendale. He is a member of the Congregational Club; the Worcester Fed- 
 erated Church Brotherhood; the Worcester Mechanics' Association of which he was 
 president during the fiftieth anniversary of this organization. He is also a member of 
 and vice-president of the Worcester City Missionary Society. He is a valued member 
 the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he was a director for several years, 
 of the Masonic fraternity, having attained the thirty-second degree in that organiza- 
 tion, holding membership in Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; 
 Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Worcester County Commandery, No. 5, 
 Knights Templar; and the Massachusetts Consistory. He is also a member of 
 the Worcester Society of Antiquity; the Economic Club; and the Worcester County 
 Manufacturers' Association. In political faith he is a Republican. He has taken a 
 keen and active interest in all forms of modern welfare work, and has kept pace with 
 the foremost in providing modern methods and conveniences in his factory, where the 
 utmost harmony among his employees has prevailed. 
 
 Mr. Sherman married, November 27, 1873, Helen E. Greene, of Northbridge 
 Center, Massachusetts, daughter of Emerson and Eliza Greene. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sherman have been born two sons, namely: John Edward (see biography); and 
 Marvel Taft, who died in infancy. For a number of years Mr. Sherman has resided 
 at No. 24 Dean street. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD SHERMAN, Clerk of the Sherman Envelope Company, was 
 
 ;born October 2, 1874, at Northbridge Center, Massachusetts, son of John Ames and 
 Helen E. (Greene) Sherman. He acquired his educational training in the public 
 schools of his native town, the English High School, and Hinman's Business College, 
 .of this city. After leaving school he became associated with his father in the offices 
 lof the Whitcomb Envelope Company, and upon the incorporation of the Sherman 
 Envelope Company, in 1899, he became identified with the latter corporation, of which 
 he is now clerk, and has been active in the management of the business. Like his 
 father, he is an active member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has also 
 
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 attained the thirty-second degree, holding membership in Hoylston Lodge, Ancient 
 Free and Accepted Masons; Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Worcester 
 County Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar; and the Massachusetts Consistory. 
 He is also a member of the Economic Club; the Congregational Club; the Worces- 
 ter Mechanics' Association, of which he has served on the board of directors; and 
 the Young Men's Christian Association. He has served as supply surgeon of Com- 
 pany E, Nineteenth Regiment, Massachusetts State Guards. He is a member of 
 the First Congregational Church of West Boylston. 
 
 Mr. Sherman married (fust) Hattie Peacock; and (second) Emma Adams, 
 daughter of Dr. Edson Adams, of this city. Mrs. Sherman is a member of the Wor- 
 cester Woman's Club, and of the West Boylston Reading Club. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sherm.-m are members nf the Baldwinsville Cottages .\ssociation. Their home is at 
 West Boylston, Massachusetts. 
 
 HERBERT EUGENE DAVIS. With Walter Hull Davis, great-grandfather of 
 Herbert Eugene Davis, of William L. Davis Company, Incorporated, druggists, the 
 Worcester history of tlic family begins. Walter Hull Davis came to Worcester 
 from tlie old homestead at Holden, Massachusetts, a young man of tvi'enty years. 
 He engaged in fanning for perhaps forty years, but he invested iiis savings and 
 prolits in XVorcesler tenement building, tinally retiring from the farm to devote all his 
 time to liuilding and caring for his proiJcrty, owning at the time of his death sixty 
 tenements in the city. He married Roxanna Adams, of Harvard. Massachusetts, 
 and they were the parents of two sons and a daughter, the oldest son, John Walter 
 Davis, being next in line of descent in this branch. Walter Hull Davis was of the 
 sixth generation of the family founded in New England by Dolor Davis, who came 
 from England and settled in Cambridge prior to August 4, 16.34, as on that date he 
 received a grant of land. He was a carpenter and builder, living in Cambridge, Con- 
 cord and Barnstable, Massachusetts. He died in Barnstable in June, 167,1. The line 
 of descent from Dolor Davis is through his son, Samuel Davis, who settled in Con- 
 cord, Massachusetts; his son. Lieutenant Samuel Davis, one of the most prominent 
 citizens of Rutland, Massachusetts; his son, Eleazer Davis, a Revolutionary soldier 
 of Holden, Massachusetts; his son, James Davis, a farmer of Holden, Massachu- 
 setts; his son, Walter Hull Davis, the founder of the family in Worcester. 
 
 John Walter Davis, son of Waller Hull and Roxanna (Adams) Davis, was born 
 in Worcester, .-\ugust 21, i8jy, died August 17, 1906. For twenty-five years he was a 
 successful manufacturer of refrigerators in Worcester, and likewise was a successful 
 contractor and builder. He was a man 01 high standing in his community. He 
 married, November 29, 1849, Myra W. Kilburn. of Holden, Massachusetts, daughter 
 of William and Nancy Kilburn, her mother, Nancy, living to the wonderful age ol 
 one hundred and three years. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were the parents of a son, William 
 Loren (see biography) and of a daughter, Mary A., who married John A. Sears. 
 
 William Loren Davis, only son of John Walter and Myra W. (Kilburn) Davis, 
 was born in Worcester, October 19, 1856, died in the city of his birth, July 18, iqo8. 
 After finishing public school courses of study he obtained a position with the drug 
 firm of Harlan Fairbanks & Company, then located on Southbridge street at the 
 corner of Myrtle street. In 1880 he. established in the drug business on the present 
 site of the Federal building between Southbridge and Main streets. When the 
 Government bought the property for the post office site, Mr. Davis moved to a store 
 built for him at No. 602 Main street, where his business has since been continued, 
 and since January i, 1908, has been operated as a corporation. The William L. Davis 
 Company, Incorporated, the founder being connected with the company as president 
 and treasurer until his death at the age of fifty-two. Mr. Davis was an emir.ent 
 Free Mason, affiliated with all Worcester Masonic bodies of the York and Scottish 
 Kites as follows: Athelstan Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, 
 Royal .Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County 
 Commandery, Knights Templar; Worcester Lodge of Perfection; Goddard Council, 
 Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; and Massachusetts Con- 
 sistory, .Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. 
 
 Mr. Davis married (first) Jennie Spring, born in Worcester, and they were the 
 parents of a son. Herbert Eugene (see biography). He married (second) Annette 
 Steadman, and they were the parents of two daughters, Florence M. and Grace M., 
 twins, born May 20, 1889, died, respectively, October 10 and 20, 1918. 
 
 Herbert Eugene Davis, only son of William Loren and Jennie (Spring) Davis, 
 was born in Worcester, February 17. 1878, and here was educated in the public 
 schools, completing the third year of high school study. He was then eighteen years 
 
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 of age and left school to become a clerk in his father's drug store. He has since 
 been continuously connected with the business, which since 1889 has been located at 
 No. 602 Main street, corner of Austin. The store was once destroyed by fire, but 
 was rebuilt and reopened March 3, 1891. On January I, 1908, the business was 
 incorporated as tlie William L. Davis Company, Incorporated, William L. Davis, 
 president and treasurer, Herbert E. Davis, secretary and clerk, the third member of 
 the company being John A. Sears, an uncle, who died November 12, 1918, Herbert 
 E. Davis now being in full control. He is a registered pharmacist, passing the State 
 Board of Pharmacy Examinations, June 12, 1907. 
 
 Mr. Davis is a Republican in politics, but is extremely independent in his 
 political action. He is affiliated with Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; 
 Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and a past high priest; Hiram Council, Royal 
 and Select Masters; past thrice illustrious master, Worcester County Commandery, 
 Knights Templar; VVorcester Lodge of Perfection; Goddard Council, Princes of 
 Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient 
 Accepted Scottish Rite (thirty-second degree); Aleppo Temple (Boston) Ancient 
 Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Aletheia Grotto (Veiled Prophets); 
 Cherokee Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men (charter member); Worcester United 
 Commercial Travelers' Association; Worcester County Pharmacists' Association, 
 president 1912-13. Mr. Davis is unmarried, his residence the old Davis home, No. 18 
 Dale street, Worcester, which is also the home of Mrs. Annette (Steadman) Davis. 
 
 H. EUGENE WATKINS, D. M. D., Dentist, was born April 6, 1878, in this 
 city. He attended public schools here and graduated from the old English High 
 School in 1898. After putting in one year's study in the dental office of Dr. H. W. 
 Watkins, his father, he entered Harvard Dental School in September, 1899, from 
 which he graduated in 1902 with the degree of Dentariae Medecinae Doctoris. He 
 succeeded to his father's dental practice upon his graduation and has since practiced 
 his profession in this city. His suite of offices, located in Pleasant Chambers, 28 
 Pleasant street, are large and equipped with all the modern dental furniture, includ- 
 ing all the apparatus for X-ray examination. Dr. Watkins is a Republican and has 
 been and is keenly interested in all pitblic affairs. He was president of the Tatnuck 
 Improvement Association for two years, after serving three years as secretary of 
 the organization. On September 17, 1917, he was appointed one of the members of 
 the Ward 10 representatives on the war aid committee by Mayor P. G. Holmes. He 
 is a member of Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Aletheia 
 Grotto, Mystic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm; and Cherokee Tribe, 
 No. 16, Improved Order of Red Men; and the District, State and National Dental 
 societies. 
 
 Dr. Watkins married, Deqember i, 1902, in this city, M. Edith Chase, the daugh- 
 ter of Otis and Georgia (Gibbs) Chase. They have two children living, Adelbert 
 Eugene, born March 3, 1906, and Henry Willard. 2nd, born February 17, 1908. 
 
 Dr. Watkins' father, Henry W. Watkins, began the practice of dentistry in 1875, 
 when he was associated with the late Dr. A. O. Dickey in this city at the corner of 
 Front and Main streets. Since that time he has been in constant practice up to June, 
 1902, when he retired and began practice in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, where he is 
 now located. 
 
 HERMANN FREDERICK ALBERT LANGE, Leading florist of his day, was 
 born in Hamburg, Germany, May 11, 1847, and died in this city, November 24, 1909. 
 His father, Johan Heinrich Carl Lange, who was born in Mechlenburg, Germany, 
 was a market gardener and florist in Hamm, a large village two miles east of Ham- 
 burg. His mother, Anna Hamrs (Menck) Lange, was of Hanover. He had one 
 sister, Henrietta, who married Amandus Punger, and had five children. 
 
 After graduating from school in Hamburg at the age of thirteen, Hermann F. A. 
 Lange was apprenticed to a firm of gardeners for a term of seven years, but at the 
 end of five years he ended his apprenticeship and resolved to make a start in America. 
 He went to Liverpool, whence he sailed for New York, embarking on Christmas 
 Eve in 1866, and arriving in January. In February, 1867, he came to this city to take 
 charge of the conservatory of Dr. Benjamin F. Heywood at the Heywood farm on 
 Heywood street. After two years a partnership was formed by Mr. Lange and John 
 G. Heywood to conduct the business, and during the next eight years they raised 
 vegetables and flowers for the market. In 1878 the firm was dissolved and he con- 
 tinued the business at the old stand until 1882. In that year he bought the T. W. 
 Wellington place in Grant square and during the first year put five thousand feet 
 
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 under glass in his grconhouses there and Iniilt a suhstantial residence. His business 
 flourished and he soon had one of the hirgest estahlislunents in his line in the country. 
 He devoted his attention entirely to (lowers and ornamental plants, and cultivated 
 them in an endless variety. He kept pace with the progress of cultivation under 
 glass and stood second to none in the quality of Ins llowcrs. He liad a retail store on 
 Main street in this city. His sons became associated with him in his later years 
 and eventually succeeded to the business. Since his death the business has been 
 contiinied muler the name of Hermann !•". A. Lange Instate. The present retail store 
 is at No. 371 Main street. Mr. Lange started the hrst floral store in this city, which 
 was then located nl the corner ot Main and Kim streets, opposite the site of the 
 present store. 
 
 He was a trustee of the Worcester County Horticultural Society: member of 
 the Worcester .Agricultural Society; Athelstan Lodge, .Xncient I'Veeand Accepted 
 Masons; Worcester Chapter, Royal .\rch Masons; Hiram Council. Royal and Select 
 Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar; Lawrence Chapter of 
 Rose CTroix; Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Huston; Worcester 
 Council, No. 12, Royal .Vrcanum; charter memlier of the Worcester Lodge, Benevo- 
 lent and Protective Order of Elks: member of RiuigkeU Lodge. D. O. H.; and the 
 Frohsinn Singing Society. In religion he was a Lutheran. He loved nature and 
 enjoyed his occupation: he was fond of travel. 
 
 Mr. Large married. September 15. 1870, Lena ^Llyberger. who was born in 
 Northampton, and died in this city, January 7, 1807. They liad two sons: .Mliert H. 
 and Carl C. (See biographies). 
 
 ALBERT HERMANN LANGE, Florist, of the Hermann F. A. Lange Estate, 
 was born October i_'. 1S71. son of Hertuar.n V. A :ind Lena ( Maylierger) Lange. He 
 attended the public schools of tins city, tlie high school and Worcester .-\cadeiny. At 
 the age of si.xtecn he left scliool and became the manager of his father's business. 
 Since the fatlier's death he and his brother have managed the estate and continued 
 the business with great success. Mr. Lange resides at No. 40 Chanmng street. The 
 Lange store at Nos. .37i-.^7,s Main street is the largest and most artistic in their line 
 of l)usiness in tlie city. The Langes now have fourteen acres of land under cultiva- 
 tion and I25,cxx) square feet of glass in their greenhouses. He is a member of the 
 Worcester Country C'lidi; the Worcester Horticultural .Society, of which he is a 
 trustee; aiul the Tafassit Canoe Club. In politics he is a Repul)lican. In reli.gion 
 he is an Episcopalian, attending all Sai'nt's Church. 
 
 Mr. Lange married, October 11, lSg4, Sarah H. Drcnnan, born in this city, 
 daughter of James M. Drcnnan (see biograplty). They have two children; I. 
 Hermann F. A., born June ,?o, rSg?: now associated with his father in the business; 
 during the World War, he enlisted for service. May 15, 1917, becoming a submarine 
 gunner. 2. Helen Frances, born June g, i8()6. 
 
 CARL CENTENNIAL LANGE, Florist, of the Hermann F. A. Lange Estate, 
 was born in this city, September 26. 187(1, son of Hermann F. A. and Lena (May- 
 berger) Lange. He received his education in the public schools and at a Llorticul- 
 tural Establishment. After leaving school he became associated with his father in 
 the management of the florists' business and has continued to the present time. He 
 is a member of the Worcester Lodge of Elks; the Speedway Club; the Frohsinn 
 Singing Society; the Kiwanis C'lub, and the Boston Social Club. 
 
 Mr. Lange married Sarah Ci. Buchanan, daughter of James K. Buchanan, of 
 Buffalo, New York. They reside at No. n Mt. Vernon street. 
 
 GEORGE SUMNER, Business man, was born in 1824, and died in 1893, son of 
 Erastus and Lavinia (Royd) Sumner. The Sumner line is: (jeorge (7), Erastus (6), 
 Joseph (5), Samuel (4). George (3), George (2). William (l). The pioneer was born 
 in England, in i(»2, and settled at Dorchester about 1(135. Among his distinguished 
 descendants were Governor Increase Sumner, Senator Charles Sumner and General W. 
 H. Sumner. Rev. Joseph Sumner C5) was minister in Shrewsbury. In all his lines 
 George Sumner was descended from the early Puritans of New England. (See 
 history of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company in this work). 
 
 The first entrance of George Sumner into mercantile life was at the age of fifteen 
 years, in the store of Bigelow & Goodnow, in the "Old Tavern House," in Shrews- 
 bury. After two years of training there he came to Worcester as a clerk for Henry 
 H. Chamberlin, founder of the house of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company. His 
 ability rapidly advanced him until he was made a partner in the growing business 
 
762 HISTORY OF IV ORC ESTER 
 
 and continued as its head throughout his life, and his son, Edward P., is still an active 
 partner in the concern. Before his marriage he made his home with Allen Rice, 
 and was thrown into the company of men who have left footprints on the business 
 and social ways of Worcester, including the "Sixteen Associates," a society of 
 social and literary character. He was an active member of the Worcester City 
 Guards, as well as of the old State Guards in time of the Civil War. In the financial 
 circles of the city his judgment was often sought. He became director in the Wor- 
 cester Safe Deposit & Trust Company, and vice-president of the Five Cents Savings 
 Bank. He was a regular attendant of the Church of the Unity. He had no taste 
 for political preferment, but had deep concern for the business welfare of the city. 
 He was a liberal contributor to the library and museums of the Worcester Society 
 of Antiquity. In 1888 he published a work entitled "Memorials of the Rev, Joseph 
 Sumner, D. D., Minister of Shrewsbury. 1762-1824." 
 
 Mr. Sumner married, in 1854, Sarah E. Richardson, born in Nashua, New Hamp- 
 shire, January 13, 1827, and died at Worcester, September 7, 1907, daughter of 
 Charles and Mary (Locke) Ricliardson, who afterward lived in Manchester, New 
 Hampshire. Their children were: i. George R., born May 30, 1861 ; married Louisa 
 Ford, of Portland, Maine; had one child, George Sumner. 2. Mary Locke, born 
 February 5, 186,?; married William D. Sewall, of Bath, Maine; had four children: 
 Arthur, Margaret, Dorothy and Sumner Sewall. 3. Edward Prentiss, born January 
 18, 1866; attended the public schools and Adams Academy of Quincy, Massachusetts, 
 graduating in 1886; since then he has been actively engaged in the business of 
 Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Company, and for many years has been a director and treas- 
 urer; member of the Massachusetts Society, Sons of the American Revolution; Worces- 
 ter Society of Antiquity, Tatnuck Country Club, Quinsigamond Boat Club, Worcester 
 Club, Shrewsbury Club: married, June 10, 1890, Bertha Perry, daughter of Charles L. 
 Perry; they reside at No. '46 Elm street, and have a summer home in Shrewsbury; 
 Mrs. Sumner is a member of the Wellesley Club and thfe Worcester Woman's Club; 
 their children are: Frances, and Katharine, who married Eveleth V. Hill, of Wor- 
 cester. 4. Caroline .Allen, born April 12. 1867; married .'Mbcrt G. Liscomb, of 
 Worcester (deceased); she resides at No, (5o Chatham street in this city. 
 
 EDWIN AUGUSTUS BUCK. The E. A. Buck Company, Inc., of Worcester, 
 oils, naphtha and gasoline, is owned and officered by George E. Buck, president, gen- 
 eral manager and principal owner, his sons, Edwin A. Buck, assistant treasurer and 
 assistant general manager, and George E. (2) Buck, vice-president and manager. But 
 much farther back dates the name of E. A. Buck & Company. That name was first 
 given to a lumber and glass manufactory at Wcstford, Connecticut, during the Civil 
 War, founded by Edwin Augustus Buck, of a former day and generation. He, with 
 John S. and Charles L. Dean, bought an established glass factory. This was operated 
 for many years under the name of 'E. A. Buck & Company. In 1877 George E. Buck 
 and his father, E. A. Buck, established a hardware and oil business at Stafford 
 Springs, Connecticut. A younger son, William A. Buck, was a partner with his father 
 in the grain business in Willimantic, they too trading as E. A. Buck & Company. This 
 head of a firm (which name endures to a third generation), Edwin A. Buck, was a 
 man of unusual business ability and sound judgment, holding many positions of trust 
 and having exceedingly wide and varied interests. He was also prominent in politics, 
 a Democrat, member of the General Assembly of Connecticut, State Senator and 
 State Treasurer in 1876. He was not a member of any church, but contributed liber- 
 ally to the support of all. He helped many men over hard places, and was ever an 
 open-handed benefactor of those in need of a helping hand. Edwin A. Buck married, 
 March 9, 1855, Delia A. Lincoln, daughter of George and Laura (Ashley) Lincoln, 
 of Ashford, Connecticut. She was a very active church and social worker, a member 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and very popular. They were the 
 parents of seven children : George E., the eldest, his father's business associate and 
 partner in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and Palmer, Massachusetts, now head of 
 another E. A. Buck & Company, associated with his sons. 
 
 This branch of the Buck family was founded in New England by William Buck, 
 who came from England in the ship "Success," which arrived in Boston, in May, 1635. 
 At that time he gave his age as fifty years, and the age of his son Roger, who accom- 
 panied him, as eighteen. He settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died, 
 January 24, 1658. The line of descent is through his son, Roger Buck, who settled 
 in Woburn, Massachusetts; his son, Ephraim Buck, of Woburn ; his son, Samuel 
 Buck, of Woburn ; his son, Samuel (2) Buck, of Killingly, Connecticut ; his son, 
 David Buck, of Killingly; his son, Aaron Buck, of the same place; his son, Augustus 
 Buck, of Ashford, Connecticut; his son, Edwin Augustus Buck, of Ashford, Stafford 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 763 
 
 Springs ;ind Williniantic. Connecticut ; his son, Oenrgc E. Ruck, of Stafford Springs, 
 Connecticut, nnd I'aliner and Worcester, Massachusetts; his sons, Edwin Augustus 
 Buck and Ccorge 1{. (2) Buck, of the twentieth century I'lrin, E. .A. Buck Company, 
 Inc., and of the eleventh generation of the Buck family in New F.ngland. During all 
 tliese generations farming was the family occupation until Edwin Augustus Buck, of 
 the ninth generation, started, at the age of twenty- fom-, as a luniher and glass manu- 
 facturer and dealer, wdio quickly outgrew local liounds and became one of the most 
 prominent business and public men of his day. His business genius and energy were 
 transmitted to his son, George IC, and his to his sons, the ancient name being worthily 
 borne by these descendants, 
 
 George Eilwin Buck was liorn in \\ estfnrd, C.>miecticnt. in 1S58, located in 1877 
 at Stafford Spring';. Connectic\it, ;uul in 1889 ;it I'.dmer, Massachusetts, in the hard- 
 ware and oil business, and in njoi) came to Worcester, where he established the oil 
 business which later was incorporated as the E. A. lUick Company, of which he is 
 president. The company is one of the large oil companies in New England, operating 
 their own line of tank cars, and having important oil fu-ld connections. George E. 
 Buck married Kate Sturtevant, born in Keene, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Buck 
 are the parents of nine children, three of whom died in infancy: Katherine, married 
 Henry X. Hollirook, of Palmer, Massachusetts: Helen S., married Joseph L. Irwin, 
 of Ardmore, Pennsylvania; Edwin A., of further mention; Marjorie L., married 
 Robert Wilder, of I'almer; George li. (2) vice-president of E. \. Buck Company, 
 Inc., was in the Second f)rdnance Supply Companx, United States army, honorably 
 discharged, February 15, tgig; Dorothy, residing with her parents. 
 
 Pvdwin .Augustus Buck was born at Stafford Springs, Connecticut, November 13, 
 1884, but a few months later Palmer, Massachusetts, l)ecamc the family home. At the 
 age of seventeen he completed public school study, with graduation from Palmer High 
 School, and at once beg:m business life as a traveling hardware s.ilesnian, continuin.g 
 "on the road" for three years. He then was with the same wdiolesalc house, E. A. 
 Buck Company, in Palmer, until 101 1, when he came to Worcester and joined his 
 father. George V.. Buck, who, for two years, had established there in the oil business, 
 Edwin .\., acting as clerk. In 1916 the business was incorporated as E. A. Buck Com- 
 pany, Inc., the president, general manager and principal owner, George E. Buck, his 
 son, Edwin .\., assistant treasurer and assistant .general manager, and George E. 
 Buck. Jr., vice-president and manager. The company docs a general oil business as 
 agents for Pennsylvania and Oklahoma refineries, their lines including burning oils, 
 gasoline and lubricating oils. The company's specialty is "Powero," a high grade 
 gasoline, the best know'u product of its kind in Central Massachusetts. The plant is 
 located at .'\lbany and Casco streets, Worcester, with Iiranches at Palmer, Greenfield, 
 Milford and Webster, Massachusetts. George E. Buck, ,Sr., is also interested in the 
 E. A. Buck Company, of W' illimantic, Connecticut. The company is an important one, 
 and in addition to the foregoing lines deals in sundries of kindred purpose, and tarks 
 of all kinds, surface and underground. Edwin .X. Buck is a member of the Kiwanis 
 Club, United Commercial Travelers' Association, Worcester Commercial Travelers' 
 Association, Improved Order of Red Men, and the First Congregational Church at 
 Palmer, Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. Buck married, in Worcester, May 15, 191-'. Mabelle (or Mabel) Bertha Oakes, 
 bom in Worcester, Dec. 24, 1886, daughter of Collin and Emma Jane (Wood) Oakes, 
 now of Kansas City, Missouri, her father an old Worcester man, engaged in the wire 
 manufacturing industry. Mr. and Mrs, Buck are the i),irents of four children : Jane 
 Sturtevant, Barbara Oakes, Priscilla, and Kate Sturtevant. 
 
 JOHN CUTTING BERRY, Physician, w.is born Jamiary 16, 1847, in the dis- 
 trict of Small Point, I'liii)psburg, Sagadahoc comity, Maine, son of Stephen Decatur 
 and Jane Mary (Morse) Berry. 
 
 He was but five years old when his father died and he and his mother made their 
 home with her father, Deacon Elijah Morse, of Phippsbur.g. In this home the boy 
 came under the influence of a strong religious life which did much to shape his char- 
 acter and subsequent career. At the age of seventeen years he united with the church 
 and much of his life since has been devoted to religious work. He was sent to the 
 public schools of his native town, and then to Momnouth Acadetiiy (Maine). He be- 
 gan to study medicine at the Medical .School of Maine (Bowdoin), was student interne 
 at the United States Marine Hospital at Portland, Maine, and finally completed his 
 undergraduate studies at Jefferson Medical College at the age of twenty-four years. 
 The finances of the family obliged him to support and educate himself after the age 
 of fifteen years. 
 
 On his graduation he was appointed by the .\merican Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions to its newest mission field, as medical missionary, and after a 
 
764 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 year of practice in this country he reached Japan in 1872. This nation was just 
 emerging from her great poUtical revolution, and her contact with the civiUzation of 
 the West so emphasized her own backwardness and darkness as to make her eager to 
 receive the rich gifts which the science and religion of the Occident held out for her 
 acceptance. What later developed into the largest of the Christian missions to Japan, 
 with all its Christian, humanitarian and educational work, had but just begun, and 
 thus at the early age of twenty-five years Dr. Berry found himself the medical mem- 
 ber of this great missionary organization, and in a country eager to adopt the Cau- 
 casian civilization and the customs and ideals of Christian nations. Never was there 
 more to stimulate a young man to large activity during those early years. 
 
 In 1870, in order to open up and establish a mission station in the interior of the 
 country, he left Kobe, and became adviser to the Okayama Prefectural Hospital and 
 Board of Health, where he remained until he came to America in 1884. During the 
 last two years of his connection with the Okayama Hospital the number of patients 
 treated annually in the hospital was over ten thousand. After a year of special study 
 in New York, he returned to Japan in 1885 to establish the Doshisha University Hos- 
 pital and Training School for Nurses in Kyoto, of which institution he became medical 
 director. He held this position for ten years, during six of which he also filled the 
 chair of Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the University. 
 
 For twenty-three years, during the period of national development of New Japan, 
 he was closely identified with the religious, humanitarian and educational movements 
 of the country. The triumph of sanitation, hygiene, nursing, and surgery during the 
 late war with Russia,, when the Japanese made by far the best record ever known in 
 the world's history in the prevention of disease and saving of the sick up to the 
 present time, is indirectly a personal triumph for Dr. Berry, one of the pioneer workers 
 along these lines. His active professional labors and interest in the general work of 
 the mission prevented much attention to writing, though he gathered abundant ma- 
 terial in his work in Japan. Among the more important contributions of Dr. Berry to 
 the literature of medicine are : A monograph on the "Climate of Japan," written for 
 the Congress of Hygiene at World's Fair, Chicago, by request of the Japanese Ad- 
 visory Conmiittee; and the "Kyoto Memorial for the Abolition of Licensed Prostitu- 
 tion in Japan," a document presented to the National Parliament after wide circulation 
 among the Christian communities of the Empire. Referring to him and his recent 
 speedies on the subject of Christian Missions, the "Portland Daily Press" said: 
 
 Tn 1S85, while in America, Dr. Berry took post-graduate study in New York, and 
 in 1894 he studied in Vienna. After leaving Japan he came to Worcester and since 
 then has resided in this city, making a specialty of eye and ear diseases. Dr. Berry 
 was welcomed in the professional, social and church life of this city, and has taken 
 a leading position in religious, charitable and humanitarian work. He has been presi- 
 dent of the Worcester City Missionary Society for ten years, since 1896. He has been 
 a deacon of Plymouth (Congregational) Church since 1900. He is a corporate mem- 
 ber of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and a member 
 of the board of directors of the Worcester Young Men's Christian Association. He 
 is president of the Memorial Home for the Blind, Worcester. He was president of 
 the Worcester Congregational Club, of which he is still a member, as also of the 
 Worcester Economic Club. He was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Third 
 Order of the Sacred Treasury (the highest order of its kind given to foreigners), on 
 account of his humanitarian services to Japan, among which was prominently men- 
 tioned his prison reform work. He has been ophthalmic and aural sureeon to the 
 Worcester City Hospital, and visiting ophthalmologist to the Baldwinsville Hospital 
 Cottages. He is a member of the New England Ophthalmological Society, of the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, also of the Jefferson 
 College Alumni Association. 
 
 In January, 1918, Dr. Berry returned to Japan as one of a committee of three 
 representing the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. At the 
 present writing (April, 1918) this committee is making an extended inspection tour 
 of all the Mission's activities. The visit has been made the occasion of a very warm 
 reception by government officials, native churches, and American missionaries, and the 
 effect of the committee's visit promises to be very important and far-reaching, in 
 which the furtherance of friendship between Japan and the United States plays no 
 small part. On account of Dr. Berry's peculiar services to Japan, he has been especially 
 singled out to be made the recipient of much attention and honor. 
 
 Dr. Berry married, April 10, 1872, Maria Elizabeth Gove, youngest daughter of 
 Hartley and Eveline (Hill) Gove, of Bath, Maine. Their children are: i. Edward 
 Gove, born at Kobe, Japan, January 6, 1874, died at birth. 2. Evelyn Morse, born at 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 765 
 
 Kobe, Japan, April 22, 1S76, died .lanuary 4. 1877. 3. Kalherine Fiske, born at Rath, 
 Maine. August 31, 1877. 4. Gordon (see bioKraphy ). 5. Helen Gary, born at Oka- 
 yama, Japan, November 24, iS,S2. (i. Almira iMeld, born at Kvoto, lapan, April 17, 
 1887, died March 31, igoi. 
 
 His line of ancestry is as follows: Stephen Decaiur. Samuel Rerrv. I,ii-uteiiant 
 Thomas, who fouslit in the Revolution, Major George, fought in the French and Indian 
 War, John George, John William, the immigrant ancestor, is presumed to have de- 
 scended from tile Norfolk family, mainly because he came to N'cw h'.ngland in tlie 
 service of Captain William Mason, vv-liose native place was in Xorfolk county. 
 
 GORDON BERRY, Physician, son of Dr. John C. and Maria Eliz.abetb (Gove) 
 Berry, w.is b.irn Al.inh 7, iS.^'o, in Okayam;i, Japan, where bis parents were then 
 located as mendjcrs of the Japan Mission of the American Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions. In 1893 he came with them to the fjnited States, where after 
 a preliininary schooling he entered Amherst College, graduating in 1902. Deciding 
 on a medical career he entered the University of Michigan, graduating in 1906. He then 
 carried on the following supplementary study: Assistant in Ophthalmology, University 
 of Michigan (1906-07) ; house officer in the Worcester City Hospital (lQ07-o8"t ; aural 
 house surgeon at the Massachusetts Charitable Rye and Ear Infirmary (iqog-io); 
 nose and throat house officer at the Massacluisett.s General Hospital (1910-11); 
 assistant in Otology at the Harvard Medical School (1912-14); fellow in Laryngology 
 at the Harvard Medical Graduate School (igi4-i8"). He began the practice of his 
 specialty (ear, nose and throat diseases) in 191 1 in Worcester, Massachusetts, where 
 he has since been. He is aural and laryngological surgeon to the Memorial Hospital, 
 assistant aural surgeon to the Worcester City Hospital, member of the New England 
 Otological Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the American Medical 
 Society; also member of Plymouth Church, of the Congregational Club, the Eco- 
 nomic Club, the Worcester Tennis Club, the Worcester Country Club, and the 
 Worcester Club. In November. 1917. he received Ids commission as captain in the 
 Medical Reserve Corps. 
 
 JEREMIAH W. CALLAHAN. When William Callahan came from his native 
 Ireland he obtained railroad employment, and married, in Keene. New Hatnpshire, 
 Mary A. Barnett. also born in Ireland. Jeremiah W. Callahan was born in Keene, 
 New Hampshire, January 27, 1853, and there completed grammar school courses of 
 public instruction. He remained for some time in the employ of Davis & Wright, 
 sheet metal workers. He then came to Worcester, where he obtained employment 
 with the J. H. Murphy Company, remaining witli that company sx months. He 
 then in succession was with the following sheet metal firms: Rohey Brothers, one 
 year: a firm in Millbiiry, Massachusetts, two and one-half years; Clark & Kendall, 
 of Worcester, seven years; John W. Green, si.xteen years, being foreman for Mr. 
 Green eight of those sixteen years. He then began business under his own name, 
 first being located on Thomas street, later moving to a shop in the Baker building 
 on Foster street, No. 84. wdnere he was located for three years, then removed to the 
 Foster block. No. 35 Waldo street, wdiere he has been located for the past twelve 
 years engaged in sheet metal manufacturing. He is a thorough master of his busi- 
 ness and has developed a most satisfactory trade in the heating and ventilating of 
 public buildings and many of the best residences in the city. Mr. Callahan is a 
 Democrat in politics, and a member of St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Churcli. For 
 three years he served in the Massachusetts National Guard; is a member of the 
 Catholic Benevolent Association, being their national delegate in four successive 
 conventions, and a member of the Knights of Columbus, also an honorary member 
 of the Emmett Guards. 
 
 Mr. Callahan married, September 3, 1873, at Worcester, Mary A. Butler, d.augh- 
 ter of James Butler, a cabinet maker. Mrs. Callahan died October 21, 1916. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Callahan were the parents of nine children: John B.. employed in the auditing 
 department of the United States Government; William J., a sheet metal and heating 
 contractor: Mary E.; Hugh J., manager under his father: Lewis J., a member of 
 Worcester's police force; Gertrude T.. deceased; Ralph R.. a United States Marine; 
 George, deceased; Edward F., deceased. 
 
 CHARLES H. PERRY. There were several families of this name early in New 
 England, and there seems to have been several in Sandwich, Massachusetts, at the 
 same time. In the early records of that town appears mention of a widow, Sarah 
 Perry, supposed to have been the widow of Edmund Perry, of Devonshire, England, 
 and four persons, supposed to be her children, namely: Ezra, Edward, Margaret 
 and Deborah. 
 
766 HISTORY OF Jl'ORCESTER 
 
 EZRA PERRY, Born about i6.?o, was an early settler at Sandwich, Massachu- 
 setts, and "Freeman's History of Cape Cod" states that he was ancestor of all the 
 Perrys of that town. His son Ezra's name appears on the list of freeman, June 25, 
 1702, with his other sous, Edward, John and Samuel. The name of Ezra Perry, Sr., 
 is on the list of those contributing to support the minister, July i", 1657. He mar- 
 ried, February 12, 1651, at Sandwich, Elizabeth Burge. Children: Ezra (see biog- 
 raphy) ; Edward, owned a town right in Sanwich, 1676, was a Quaker, and was fined 
 with other Quakers; Deborah, born November 28, 1654; John, January i, 1656; Sam- 
 uel, March 15, 1667; Benjamin, January 15, 1670; Remembrance, January i. 1676. The 
 will of Ezra Perry was dated October, 1689, proved April 18, 1690. bequeathing to wiie 
 Elizabeth and son Ezra. 
 
 EZRA (2) PERRY, Son of Ezra (i) Perry, was born February 11, 1652, at 
 Sandwich, and died there, January 31, 1729. He owned land in Rochester, Massa- 
 chusetts, devised to son Ebenezer. He married Rebecca . Children, born at 
 
 Sandwich; Ebenezer, born November 18, 1673, married Judith Savory, and their 
 son Ebenezer removed late in life to Hardwick, Massachusetts, and by his first 
 wife was grandfather of Dr. Marshall S. Perry, of Barre (see Barre "Centennial 
 History"); Mary, December 21, 167s; Hannah; Ezra; Samuel: Rebecca, married 
 Jonathan Washburn; Patience; Freelove. His will was dated October 21, 1728, 
 and proved February 10, 1729, bequesting to wife Rebecca and children. 
 
 One of the sons of Ezra (2) Perry was father of Elijah Perry (see biography). 
 A search of the available public records has failed to find the birth record of Elijah. 
 In the census of the families of Sandwich in March, 1730, the following are reported 
 as heads_ of families: Ebenezer, Timothy and Desire: Widow Perry, .\bner, I?enja- 
 min, Benjamin, Jr., Samuel, Samuel, Jr., Ezra, Jr., Elisha and John Perry, all 
 descendants of Ezra (i) Perry. (See N. E. Reg,, 1859,- p. 30). 
 
 ELIJAH PERRY, Third in descent from Ezra (i) Perry, was liorn al>out 1700, 
 in Sandwich, and appears to have lived there all his life. We find the record of 
 marriage of an Elijah Perry to Hannah Damon in the First Church at Scituate, 
 March 7, 1723 (town records, 1722). Elijah Perry, of Sandwich, bought twenty- 
 two acres of land in Barre, Massachusetts, of Lewis and Sarah Turner, of Boston, 
 December i, 1757. It was part of Great Farm No. 29 on the Hardwick line. He 
 was called deacon in the deed. (Book 39, p. 463). He appears to have sent his son 
 Phineas to clear the land and make a home there. Another deed dated July i, 1773, 
 over fifteen years later, shows that Elijah Perry, then of Sandwich, for 100 pounds 
 and other valuable considerations conveyed to "my son Phinehas Perry," of llutland 
 District (Barre) land and buildings, being the place he now lives on, bought oi 
 Lewis Turner and wife. He refers to deeds of part of this land to Chipman and 
 Dennison Robinson. Elijali Perry's wile did not sign the deed. 
 
 PHINEAS PERRY, Son of Elijah Perry, was the pioneer in Worcester county. 
 He was born at Sandwich, about 1735, and came when a young man to the place his 
 father bought in Barre. Near by in Hardwick, as we have shown above, relatives 
 settled and others of the family appear to have been in Barre for a time. One 
 branch has been mentioned. A sketch of the Perry family in the Barre "Centennial 
 History" is very obscure and misleading. It states that one branch under considera- 
 tion came from Martha's Vineyard, but the absence of the name in the vital record 
 shows that the family was not there long and probably not at all. All of them were 
 from Sandwich. Phineas Perry, yeoman, bought of James Black, of Mansfield, 
 Hampshire county, Massachusetts (so described in the deed), land in Rutland 
 District adjoining John Wallace's place. This deed was dated March 12, 1773. In 
 the same year he received from his father, as already stated, a deed of another farm 
 there on which he was living. (Book 70, p. 29: Book 71, p. 127). These deeds 
 unlocked a genealogical puzzle of some difficulty. Phineas Perry married at Barre, 
 May 15, 1760, Esther Gates. Children, born at Barre: Justus, liorn July 30, 1761; 
 DanieC March 17, 1763; Thomas, October 2, 1764; Hannah, March 25, 1766; Wil- 
 liam, February 12, 1768; Luther (see biography); Lucretia and Luke, twins, February 
 9, 1772; Calvin, April 21, 1774: Hemon, May 24, 1776; Martha, .April 17, 1778; 
 Hemon, December 31, 1780; Phineas, May 27, 1783. "The will of Phineas Perry was 
 dated July 11, 1796, bequeathing to children: Calvin, Luke, Luther, Justus, Daniel, 
 Thomas, Phineas, William, Hemon, Hannah, Lucretia Nye and Martha. 
 
 LUTHER PERRY, Son of Phineas Perry, was born at Barre, February 14, 
 1770, and died there, July 2, 1845, aged seventy-six >ears. He was a delegate to 
 
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 tlie Rutland. Convention, January 6, i8ot. lie married, at Barre, March 15, 1801, 
 Harriet Howes, who died there in March, 1810, aged twenty-six years, of spotted 
 fever (church records). Children, born at Barre: Harriet Howes, born April 5, 
 1802, died young; Charles Howes (see bioRraphy) : Mary Bourne, March 18, 1806. 
 
 CHARLES HOWES PERRY, Son of Luther Porry, was born at Barre, January 
 18, 1804. His sister. Mary B. I'erry, deeded to him her share in the estate of Edmund 
 Howes, their grandfather, April 5, 1828. Other deeds show that he was living in 
 Phillipston in 18,^4, and that lie was a tanner and currier by trade. He and his wife 
 Mary deeded the Iiomestead on the north side of the turnpike in Phillipston, June 
 28, i8?7, to Jonathan Bowker, Jr. Mr. Perry married (first) (intention dated 
 November 6, 18.^0, at Phillipston) Comfort H. Bates, born September 11, iSil, died 
 at Phillipston, March, 18,^4. aged twenty-four years. He married (second) (inten- 
 tion dated April 4, 18.3s, at Phillipston) Mary B. Pcckham, of Petersham, born 
 1815, died 1896. Children liy first wife: Susan, born July 16. l8,?2; Comfort IL, born 
 March 10, 1834. Children by second wife: Charles M. (see biography); Caroline, 
 born January 4, 18.39, married Mason Whitney; Matilda, born April ,30, 1841, married 
 J. Monroe Kich, member of Company D, Thirty-sixth Regiment. Massachusetts 
 Volunteers; Luther, born October .30, 184,3, resides in Athol, Massachusetts; Mary, 
 born March 30, 1S46, married Henry II. Coolidge. of .\thol. Massachusetts; Anson, 
 born June 8, 1848, resides in Providence, Rhode Island; Henrietta, born April 5, 
 1850, died September 29, 1851; Henry II.. born February 20, 1852, died August 
 15, 1859- 
 
 CHARLES M. PERRY, Son of Charles Howes Perry, was born in Phillipston, 
 November 9, 1837, and died at Worcester, May 22, 1897. He received his education 
 in the public schools of his native town, and during his youth followed the trade 
 of shoemaking there. He removed to Worcester and entered the employ of N. W. 
 Holden & Company, grocers, as a clerk, a position he filled for a number of years. 
 Subsetpiently he engaged in the street sprinkling business and was among the first in 
 this line of industry in the city of Worcester. At the present time the streets are 
 sprinkled or oiled by the municipality and the cost assessed on the abutting property. 
 At that time the sprinkling was a private enterprise and the properly owners along 
 the route paid for the service voluntarily. Mr. Perry and C. W. Clapp entered into 
 partnership, their place of business being at the City Stock Yard, No. 216 Summer 
 street, Worcester, where they conducted a sales stable, dealing in horses and cattle. 
 A few years later Mr. Clapp sold his share of the business to B. W. Abbott and 
 the name .of the firm was changed to B. W. Abbott & Company. During the last 
 twenty years of his life Mr. Perry was the owner of the High Street Boarding 
 Stables at No. S9 High street, Worcester. He leased the building there and con- 
 ducted the business in a highly successful manner. ."Xs the city population grew, his 
 business extended and he became widely-known in the community. He was 
 accounted an excellent judge of horses and was skillful in their care and training. 
 During the Civil War he served in Company H, Thirty-sixth Regiment, Massachu- 
 setts Volunteer Infantry. He was a member of George H. Ward Post, No. 10, of 
 Worcester. In religion he was a Methodist and for many years an attendant of 
 Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. He married (first) at Phillipston, Hannah E. 
 Gill>ert, born January 29, 1841. died at Hubb.irdston. l^ebruary T, ]8f)(). He married 
 (second) November 27. 1867, Ellen M. Garfield, born June 4, 18,39. Children by first 
 wife: Flora A., born in Phillipston, November 5, 1859; Warren, born February 18, 
 1862, died August 18, 1864. Children by second wife: Charles H. (see biography); 
 Lillian M., born September ,30, 1874, married George H. Howland; Alice, born 
 November 26, 1877, died October 28, 1884. Mr. Perry was generous, kind, pains- 
 taking and honest, and while he was a man of many cares, lie was i)ossessed of one 
 dominant ambition and that was to see his son, Charles H., graduate from Harvard 
 College, but the fates decreed differently. ff)r he died May 22. 1897, while his son was 
 taking his examinations preparatory to receiving his degree. 
 
 DR. CHARLES H. PERRY, .Son of Charles M. Perry, was born in Worcester, 
 May 10, 1869. He received his early education in the public schools of his native 
 city, beginning in the old ".Summer Street" school, which he attended for four 
 years, then sjient a similar period of time in study at the "Thomas Street" school. 
 Brought up under the watchful guidance of a painstaking father, who knew the full 
 value of early training. Dr. Perry knew the meaning of hard work long before his 
 school boy friends, for during many years of his grammar scliool training he deliv- 
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 school hours, selling newspapers during the early evenings and later assisting his 
 father in and around the stable, each successive day seeing the same routine. Early 
 in life Dr. Perry's fondness for animals, and horses especially, was very marked, 
 and at the age of twelve years he was a jockey, and during the following four years 
 he successfully rode the celebrated "Peacock" for a private Worcester family, win- 
 ning many races and taking many coveted purses of a substantial size. Dr. Perry's 
 successes stimulated him as the years went on, and from private riding he engaged in 
 driving professional race horses, continuing imtil he was twenty-five years of age. 
 Then came the turning point in Dr. Perry's life, through an accident to one of his 
 fancy horses. It was at a meet at the old Agricultural Fair Grounds that "Koon 
 Kan," the pride of the lot, was overcome by sunstroke and removed from the track. 
 While watching the veterinary surgeons work, he stoutly declared that he could 
 save the horse if allowed to, but because of his youth and non-professional knowledge 
 of horses, at that time, he was not allowed to do so, and then he vowed to "take up 
 medicine," the success of which is here given, and attested to, not only in Worcester, 
 but all over the State of Massachusetts. Dr. Perry trained a string of fifteen or 
 sixteen professional race horses. 
 
 Dr. Perry entered the Veterinary School of Harvard University in 1894, and 
 graduated in the class of 1897. Immediately afterward he began to practice, opening 
 an office at No. 59 High street, and resided at No. 22 Wellington street. His wide 
 acquaintance among the owners of horses and stock in this section paved the way 
 for an excellent business, and from the beginning he enjoyed a substantial patronage. 
 Two years later he moved to his present location, No. 82 Park avenue. In 1904 Dr. 
 Perry took a post-graduate course in the Chicago Veterinary College. Since 1894 
 he has been the local officer of the Massachusetts Cattle Commissioners, afterward 
 known as the Massachusetts Cattle Bureau, and now the Department of Animal 
 Industry. The duties of this office have grown from year to year and its responsi- 
 bilities have increased as the laws have been made more stringent regarding the 
 inspection of cattle in dairies and all kinds of meat offered for sale. For fourteen 
 years Dr. Perry held the office of inspector of animals in the city of Worcester. At 
 times, when epidemics attacked the animals of the city. Dr. Perry's duties became 
 extremely important to the public health and to the farmers whose stock was 
 threatened. During the recent epidemic of the foot and mouth disease, he handled 
 a trying and difficult situation with tact, energy and efficiency, and received the 
 commendation not only of his superior officei^s but of the owners of infected stock 
 and of others whose property was saved by the prompt suppression of the disease 
 in this section. While the disease threatened. Dr. Perry worked day and night to 
 stay its progress. At other times, when epidemics of lesser magnitude have 
 appeared, his efforts have been equally prompt and thorough. His work in inspecting 
 the meat supply of the city has been an important factor in guarding the public 
 health. His office represents more than is realized by the public, for it is charged 
 with the application of scientific knowledge to the problems of providing a healthful 
 food supply, and to detect and stamp out diseases of all kinds among the animals. 
 
 In his private practice, Dr. Perry has been highly successful. He has a modern 
 hospital for the care of sick animals of all kinds, and it is equipped with the latest 
 apparatus and appliances for surgical and medical treatment, and with a pharmacy 
 in which the drugs and medicines are kept. An inspection of his hospital shows 
 that better provision is now made for animals than were available for human beings 
 fifty years ago. The owners of horses, cows, dogs and other domestic animals have 
 found by experience that it is not only proper and humane to give treatment to 
 animals in times of sickness but that it is wisdom from an economical standpoint. It 
 saves money to fight disease with modern scientific knowledge and equipment. Dr. 
 Perry ranks among the foremost of his profession in this country and is widely- 
 known through the State. He is a member of the Massachusetts Veterinary 
 Association, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Harvard Club and 
 other social organizations of Worcester. He served as house surgeon at Harvard 
 College during his last year, 1896-97. 
 
 Dr. Perry married, June 27, 1892, Mary J. Newton, daughter of Seth S. and 
 Flenrietta (Frary) Newton, of Greenfield, Massachusetts. She was a native of 
 Greenfield, and attended the public schools there, graduating from the Greenfield 
 High School in the class of 18S4. She entered the State Normal School in Worces- 
 ter, in February, 1885, from which she was graduated in due course in 1887. She 
 followed the profession of teaching for a number of years, having schools at Shel- 
 burne, Massachusetts, one term, at Sunderland High School, Sunderland, Mas- 
 sachusetts, one term, and then came to Worcester, where she held a position 
 in the Quinsigamond School for four years. Her last position as teacher 
 
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 was in the Salisbury Street Scliool. She resigned shortly lu-lorc (lie expiration oia 
 year in order to prepare for her approaching marriage. Mrs. Perry is prominent in 
 social life. Or. and Mrs. Perry are members of Plymonlli Congregational Church. 
 They are tlie parents nf one child. Roger N'cwton (sec bi^'graphy). 
 
 ROGER NEWTON PERRY, Son of Dr. Charles H. Perry, was born March 12, 
 1894, in Worcester. He is widely-known as the "Boy Florist." lie attended the 
 public schools quite irregularly, owing to sickness, but graduated from Becker's 
 Business College in i()0<). His further study was cut short and his i)roicssional 
 career that had been planned abandoned on account of the loss of his eyesight as 
 the result of illness. He began his llower gardens as a means of occupying his 
 time, and as his health and sight improved he extended his gardens and operated 
 on a commercial scale with marked success. .Vt the present time (1917) with his 
 eyesight fully restored and in the enjoyment of excellent lu-allh, he linds himself the 
 owner of a substantial business and a large plant. He has also wdiat counts most. 
 a thorough knowledge of plants and flowers and skill in tlieir cultivati^in. In a 
 recent book Dr. Woods Hutchinson cited the Worcester "I'.oy Fh>rist" as an example 
 of wdiat courage, persistence and hope will (\o for the afllicted. In igi.? lie look the 
 extension course of Amherst .Agricultural College. His greenhouses extend from 
 Park avenue to Montvale road and co\er an area of oue acre. Half the si)ace is 
 devoted to the cultivation of bulbs for wliicli he has built substantial concrete beils. 
 The flowers from his greenhouses stand comparison with those from the most lifted 
 conservatories of the State. He has proved a valuable assistant to his father in the 
 management of the animal hospital and the care of its i)aticnts. 
 
 HORACE H. BIGELOW, Manufacturer, developer ..i Worcester 
 capitalist, one of the most widely-known and progressive citizens of Wr 
 many years, was born in Marlboro, June 2, 1S27. and died in this city, June ,\. ton 
 son of Levi and Nancy (.-Xmes) Bigelow, and of the eighth generation from the first 
 settler in this country of this surname, John Bigelow. John Bigelow was limp in 
 ■England, in 1617, and his ancestry in this country in the Ba.guley or Bagley line 
 (Bigelow is the American spelling) has been traced for several centuries, according 
 to the Bi.gelow genealogy. The pioneer was in Watertowit as early as 1642. and 
 married there. October 30. 1642, Mary Warren, who was born in England, daughter 
 of John and Margaret Warren. He was a blacksmith by trade. He became a leading 
 citizen, serving the town as highway surveyor, constable and selectman. He married 
 (second) in ]<«)-i. Sarah Bcmis. daughter of Joseph Bemis. He died July 14, 1703, 
 Not only in the paternal line but probably in every line of ancestry was Mr. Bigelow 
 of the original Puritan stock that came to Xew England before 1650. 
 
 As a lioy, Mr. Bigelow divided his time between the brief terms in the district 
 schools, the work on his father's farm, and peg.ging shoes in the little shop on the 
 farm originally built to shelter the family chaise. At that time the shoe shop was 
 to be found on nearly every farm in certain sections of this State. In winter the 
 farmer made shoes in the shop, assisted by his sons, if he had any. All the work 
 was done by hand. There were no shoe factories. Mr. Bigelow. as a boy, was one 
 of the first to discern the possibilities of greater economy and efficiency in manufac- 
 turing shoes. The Bigelows introduced first the idea of subdividing the work in 
 shoemaking. and their business prospered and was widely imitated. Horace H. 
 Bigelow and his uncle. Lambert Bigelow, soon had a force of sixty men in their 
 employ, divided into departments of four or five each. That was the beginning of 
 the modern shoe factory, with its highly specialized division of labor. Machinery 
 for making shoes came into use very rapidly after the Bigelow idea came into prac- 
 tice. Mr. Bigelow himself was the inventor of many machines used in the early 
 days of factory production. The first of major importance was invented in 1S47, 
 to cut heels and prepare them for nailing. Twenty years later he brought the 
 machine to a high state of developtnent, making it one of the most important cost- 
 reducing devices for which his genius was responsible. His heel-compressing and 
 heel-attaching machines alone were the means of bringing to him a considerable 
 fortune. In 1850 Horace H. Bigelow and his uncle. Charles D. Bigelow, engaged 
 in the shoe business in New York, locating in a factory at No. 270 Pearl street. 
 Five prominent men of New York City each contributed a thousand dollars to aid 
 in establishing the business there. These men were Aaron Clallin, Alanson Trask, 
 William Smith Brown. Mark Ward and a Mr. Pitkin. The firm manufactured a 
 heavy shoe called the New York brogan. In the same year Mr. Bigelow had his 
 first experience with prison labor in the New York House of Refuge. An effort had 
 
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HISTORY OF IV ORC ESTER 
 
 previously been made there to utilize the labor of prisoners to manufacture furniture, 
 skates, window curtains and other things, but without success. Mr. Bigelow made 
 such a success in using this labor for manufacturing shoes, however, that for many 
 years he was in demand to install similar factory systems in prisons in all parts of 
 the country. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow returned to Marlborough in 1854, and for three years devoted his 
 time to various occupations, farming, building, and speculating in real estate among 
 other things. In 1857 he was engaged to give einployment for the convicts in the 
 penitentiary at Albany. New York, making brogans, used largely by Southern 
 negroes. In the meantime he was at work in perfecting his pegg:ing machine, and he 
 conceived the idea of using a long ribbon of wood from which his machine sliced the 
 pegs as used and then drove them into the sole. The first of these machines was 
 set up in the prison at Troy, in 1858, while he was engaged in starting the prison 
 shoe factory there. Afterward, for about three years, he was in charge of the shoe- 
 making plant of the prison in Providence, Rhode Inland. When the Civil War 
 created a .greatly increased demand for shoes for the army, he left Providence and 
 began to manufacture shoes for the government in a factory installed in the prison 
 at Trenton. New Jersey, and in partnership with his brother-in-law, Harvey T. 
 Buck, continued to make these shoes and women's hand sewed shoes there until 
 1868. But at the same time he had become interested in a new business in Worces- 
 ter. In 186,^ the Bay State Shoe Company was organized. In this enterprise Mr. 
 Bigelow was associated with Charles D. Bigelow, Lambert Bigelow. Samuel Colton, 
 L. B. Howe and others. Horace H. Bigelow was superintendent of the factory, its 
 manager, and owned a controlling interest in the company. From 400 to 500 hands 
 were employed for many years, and in connection with three prison factories the 
 company had about a thousand hands. 
 
 At the Vienna Exposition of 1873 Mr. Bigelow made a very impressive exhibit 
 of boot and shoe machinery. .\ team of shoemakers there made an average of a 
 pair of shoes in five minutes. That was a remarkable reduction in the time taken to 
 make shoes compared with the time required under the methods prevailing belore 
 the Civil War. When Emperor Francis Joseph stood by and saw the result of the 
 team work, he exclaimed: "Were I in the shoe business. I should hate to have 
 you for a competitor." Mr. Bigelow received the medal of progress for this exhibit. 
 Among the earlier inventions of Mr. Bigelow was the gang-punch, which made 
 several holes in leather at the same operation. He substituted a knife for the saw 
 formerly used in pegging machines. While at Trenton he invented the channeling 
 and heel-trimming machines and numerous other improvements in shoe-making 
 machinery. He was constantly on the alert to avoid waste in manufacturing. In 
 1869 he made an enormous saving by using the waste leather cuttings for making 
 heels, and in that year he obtained patents for an improved heel and heeling 
 machine. Out of a by-product he made a more durable heel than had been previ- 
 ously used. In 1870 the Bigelow Heeling Machine Association was formed. His 
 machines came into use in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Switzerland. Austria and 
 Spain, as well as in this country. In 1875, after a period of litigation, the McKay 
 Heeling Machine Association and the Bigelow concern were consolidated under the 
 name of the McKay & Bigelow Heeling Machine Association. 
 
 When Mr. Bigelow withdrew from active management in the shoe business and 
 other manufacturing concerns, he plunged with characteristic energy into an invest- 
 ment and development career that made him one of the best known men of the city. 
 Long before others saw the advantages and possibilities of Lake Quinsigamond he 
 made plans on a large scale for its development as a summer resort and a center of 
 amusement. He bought from J. J. Coburn the Worcester & Shrewsbury Railroad, 
 the old narrow gauge steam road between the city and the lake, and also the land 
 at Lake View and what is now called Lincoln Park. He continued from time to 
 buy more land about the lake, until he owned a large part of the property along both 
 shores. Mr. Coburn had made a beginning in the development of Lake View and 
 Mr. Bigelow continued the work, laying new rails and buying new cars and engines 
 for the railway, building an attractive station, and stimulating travel. As early as 
 1878 he built a summer home on the shores of the lake. In 1885 he gave to the city 
 sixty acres for a park at Lake View out of a tract of 300 acres that he bought of 
 Colonel Isaac Davis's heirs. To this gift Honorable Edward L. Davis added a 
 tract of fifty acres, giving the city what has since been one of the most desirable 
 parks m its system. In later years his vision has been realized. Hundreds of 
 cottages have been built in this section. The lake has become one of the most 
 popular summer resorts in New England. Though he himself carried out but a 
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 join him in the effort to make this hcantiiul section oi the city properly appreciated 
 and utilized. 
 
 lie was the founder of tlie old Worcester skating rink. In 1KS2 he boug'it a tract 
 of land between Mechanic and Foster streets with the intention of erecting for 
 business purposes the finest building of the kind in New England. He sent archi- 
 tects to Europe to l)ring back the best ideas for this structure. But he was ahead 
 of the times and failed to secure sufficient support in his project. Instead of the 
 business building, he erected on this land a big skating rink, and alone and unaided 
 succeeded in breaking up a roller-skate monopoly. As a result of his initiative, 
 roller-skating became for some years one of the most popular sports in the country. 
 He also made use of this building as an exliibition hall. In 1S87 he held the first 
 electrical exhibition and had the first electric car in operation in this city. He also 
 established here the first electric light and i)ower station in the city. Subsequently, 
 he sold his plant to the present Worcester Electric Light Company. He operated 
 the railroad to the lake until 1896, when he leased his rights to tlie Consolidated 
 Street Railway Company, now operating the lines as part of its system. 
 
 Of preeminent public spirit, Mr. Cigelow supported all kinds of movement 
 designed for the pid)lic welfare. Broad and liberal in his views, he lost nti oppor- 
 tunity of affording freedom of thought and speech for others. .\t tlie time of his 
 death the following was published in the Worcester Magazine: 
 
 .\lmn.st every husiiiesK man in Worcester knew lioraee H. Biselow. .\ full gen- 
 eration before most men ho saw the coming- greatness and influence of the Heart of 
 the Coninionwealth. and many who at that day called him .a visionary, have lived to 
 see his predictions more than fullilleii. 
 
 Mr. riim-low was an observant, keen, energetic and successful business man. 
 He gave hi.-^ i-onfidence to but few; yet there were many men .ind nianv causes that 
 had occasion to learn that his purse was deep and his friendship permanent. 
 
 lie was a man of strong likes and dislikes; a vigorous and uncompromising 
 fighter for his principles. He cared little which way the tide of public sentiment 
 flowed, altliough he was not insensible to it. He was often the champion of some 
 unpopular reform and liis forceful personality on se\eral occasions enabled him to 
 lead a small minority to eventual victory. Several public onteriu'ises felt so heavily 
 the weight and intluence of his opposition that they were abazidoned by their 
 projectors. His course was not dicl.'ited by enmity to any jierson or because of 
 some petty spite: rather was it bec;nise of that I.irger vision which enabled him 
 to foresee tlie size, the importance and the beauty of the Worcester of the ne.xt 
 generation and caused him to demand that the public works should be b«ith adequate 
 and whenever possible attractive. 
 
 Mr. Higelow was a typical New I'lngland genius. He originated many things 
 and many meihods. He brought into tlie manufactui'e of boots and shoes the idea of 
 team work that blossomed out in later years into that etili-ient factory system that 
 has made New England the greatest shoemaking section in the world. In early life 
 he made his own tools; in succeeding years he brought out machine after machine, 
 many of them so successful that they entirely changed the method ot shoe manu- 
 facture. 
 
 His fertile mind found time to conceive many plans for the betterment of social 
 conditions and for the beautifying of the city. To such projects he gave unstintedly. 
 and opposition only made him more determined and inore g'enerous. He was one of 
 the incorporators of the first cooperative bank, and he tirst introduced the profit- 
 sharing to the employees in the mannfacttiring of shoos between isiin and 1S7II. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow was one of the largest real estate owners in Worcester, and carried 
 through several big deals. He was prominent in the early transportation problem* 
 of the city. * • • He was unostentatious in dress, lived ]>lainly and always 
 avoided display. He never used tobncco nor liquor, and was temperate in all other 
 things. He accepted no religious creed nor doctrine as a whole, hut had strong ideas 
 and high ideals of what constituted an upright life and was noted for his sincerity 
 of thought and purpose. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow married (first) ill 185:;, Lucy Ann Howe, who died in 1857. He 
 married (second) June i, 1850, Adelaide E. Buck, of Portland, Connecticut, daughter 
 of James F. and Adeline (Taylor) Buck. She was a member of the Worcester 
 Wotnen's Club, and a parishioner of All Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church, the 
 oldest member of the parish at the time of her death, February i.s, 1914, aged 
 seventy-six years, one month and thirteen days. Mr. Bigelow's children by his 
 second wife were: Adelaide Frances, who married George A. Stevens, a merchant 
 of this city: Irving E., and Francis H., who have continued in the real estate business 
 of their father, and have been engaged chiefly in the management of his estate. 
 Their offices are in the Graphic Arts building, No. 25 Foster street. 
 
 IRVING ELLSWORTH BIGELOW, Real estate, was born in Trenton, New 
 Jersey, November 11, 1S62, son of Horace H. Bigelow. (See biography). He was 
 but a year old when his parents came to this city, and he received his early educa- 
 tion here in the public schools. After leaving the high school he attended the 
 Eastman Business College at Poughkcepsie. New York. He began his business 
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HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 as "Tlie Dummy," of which liis lather was tlie principal owner, and be contniiied in 
 this position for a period of thirteen years. Afterward he was with the Speirs 
 Manufacturins Company, of whicli he was the treasurer for six years. This concern 
 was also one of his father's enterprises. In later years he was associated in business 
 with his father, and since his lather died he has had charge of the estate, one of the 
 largest in the c'ity. His office is in the Graphic Arts building. No. 25 Foster street. 
 Mr. Bigelow finds recreation and pleasure in farming. He has a country place and 
 stock farm in Princeton, Massachusetts, and lives at Lake Qumsigamond, in Shrews- 
 bury. His sons arc also interested in stock raising and own a prime herd of Hol- 
 stein cattle. He is a member of the Lakeside Boat Club and of .A.11 Saints' Protes- 
 tant Episcopal Churcli. In political faith he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Bigelow married, in this citv, November 17, 1887, Lillian A. Drennan, who 
 was born in this citv, daughter of Colonel James M. and Sarah E. (Leseur) Drennan. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow have four children: I. Chester E., born May 13, 1889; 
 graduate of the Powder Point & Biltmore Forestry Schools, and now an engineer 
 for the New England Power Company, located in Worcester; married Beda C. 
 Wickman, and has three children, Robert, Chester and Marjorie. 2. Hora_ce_ H., 
 born lune r, i8q2, now inspector of wires under Superintendent Henry .■\. Knight, 
 superintendent of wires of the city of Worcester; married Ethel D. Reagan; resides 
 at N'l. 22 ,\shton street; during the World War served with the American Expedi- 
 tionary Forces in France. 3. Barbara, born June 8, 1894, graduate of the Classical 
 High "School: married Donald W. Ormsbee; resides in Atlanta, Georgia; has one 
 son, Richard Tudor. 4. Irving E., Jr., born June 5, 1896, graduate of the Classical 
 High School, 1017: served in the United States Aviation service during the World 
 War. 
 
 FRANCIS HORACE BIGELOW, Real estate, was born in this city, February 
 8, 1875, son of Horace H. Bigelow. (See biography). His educational training 
 was begun in the public schools of his native city, after which he entered the Wor- 
 cester High School, being graduated therefrom in 1894. He then became a student 
 at Harvard University, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1898. with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts. Since leaving college Mr. Bigelow^ has been associated 
 with his father in the improving and developing of real estate, and since the death 
 of his father has been one of the trustees of the latter's estate. Since boyhood Mr. 
 Bigelow has been keenly interested in athletic sports, taking an active part in all 
 the athletic contests while at the high school, in his youth being a very swift runner, 
 and while at Harvard was captain of the track team of that university, his team 
 defeating the Yale University team, being the only team which defeated Yale from 
 1894 until 1899. He still retains his interest in various athletic sports, in which he 
 finds recreation and pleasure. Mr. Bigelow is a member of the Harvard Club of 
 this city; the Harvard Club of New York; the Institute of 1770: and of the Phi 
 Eta College Fraternity. In political belief he is a Republican. In religious faith 
 he is an Episcopalian, being a member of All Saints' Episcopal Church of this city. 
 
 On October 18, 1898, Mr. Bigelow was united in marriage with Edith Jourdan, 
 of Westborough, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles Herbert and Charlotte Eliza- 
 beth Plympton Bigelow Jourdan. and they are the parents of three children, namely: 
 Charlotte Elizabeth, born November 21, 1901 ; Frances, born January 0. 1903; and 
 Nancy, born July 7, 1910. Mr. Bigelow resides at No. 2r Institute road. 
 
 RAY WOODVILLE GREENE, Physician and surgeon, was born at Yarmouth, 
 Maine, July 29, 1857, son of Alvin and Maria (Arnold) Greene. The family returned 
 to Westerly, Rhode Island, when he was very young, and he attended the public 
 schools there. In 1876 he entered the Worcester Academy, graduating in 1879. He 
 theru became a student in Brown University, from which he was graduated in 1883 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1886 he graduated from Harvard Medical 
 School with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and was afterward an interne at the 
 Children's Summer Hospital at Winthrop, and afterward for a year in the Worcester 
 City Hospital, and for four months in the Boston Lying-in Hospital. He began to 
 practice in this city, November i, 1887, having offices at No. 30 Pleasant street. Since 
 (900 his offices have been at the present location. No. 21, West street, and his home 
 is also there. He is a member of the Worcester District Medical Society, the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is one of the 
 oldest physicians in active practice in the city. He is physician to Memorial Hospital, 
 and regular visiting physician of the Worcester City Hospital, and has been in the 
 service of both these institutions for more than thirty years. Dr. Greene is a member 
 of the Worcester Country Club, where he devotes much of his spare time to golf; 
 
AND ITS PEUPLR 772, 
 
 member of the Shakespeare Ckib ; the Public Educatimi Assuciatinn ; the Wi.rcestor 
 Economic Club; the Worcester ]''ish and Game Association. Another diversion of 
 which the doctor is fond of is fishing. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Dr. (ireene married, June j, 1892. in Worcester. .Mila V. Whitney, born in this 
 city, daughter of George C. Whitney. Mrs. Greene died .April -27, igo-'. They had 
 three children: t. Amy Whitney, a graduate of Smith College, ini.^; recently secre- 
 tary to the principal of the North High School, Worcester, Init at present engaged in 
 Y. M. C. A. canteen work, stationed in France. 2. Alila Frances, graduate of Wheaton 
 College, 1018; is now a reporter on the "Gazette." },. Ray W., jr., student in P.rown 
 University, class of ig^o; served in the United States Signal Corps Aviatimi, and 
 received his commission of lieutenant, November 18, 1018. 
 
 .Mvin Greene, father of Dr. Greene, was a native of Killingly, Connecticut ; died 
 at \\'esterly, Rhode Island, in iqoi, a,ged eighty years; was a mill superintendent in a 
 cotton industry at Westerly for many years. He married. May 2. i8-|j, in Rhode 
 Island, Maria .-Xmold. who was descended from many of the pioneers of Rhode 
 Island. They had seven children: i. Kev. Benjamin .Allen (jreene, D. D., died aged 
 seventy years, a Baptist clergyman. 2. Stephen, died aged fifty years, a mill engineer, 
 and organizer of the Lockwood Greene Company, of Bosfim, mill engineers. 3. Rev. 
 Albert, a Baptist clergyman. 4. Alvin, Jr., now living in <'ireenville, New Hampshire, 
 superintendent of a cotton mill in that town. 5. F.nnna, died in infancy. 6. Susan, died 
 in infancy. 7. Dr. Ray W.. mentioned above. 
 
 .Mien Greene, grandfather of Alvin Greene, was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 War; died in 1833. The immigrant ancestor of the family in the paternal line was 
 John Greene, who came early to Narragansett in the family of Ricliard Smith; settled 
 in Wickford as early as ifi3ij; was conservator of the peace, 1678-9; died about 1695, 
 leaving live sons, who have numerous descendants in Rhode Island and other parts of 
 the country. 
 
 WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE FORBES, Judge ..f FroI,atc, was born in West- 
 borough, May 2-|, 1850, son of I'^phraim Trowliridge and Catharine (White) Forbes. 
 The Forbes line of ancestry is: William T. (7), Deacon F.phraim Trowbridge (6), 
 Captain Jonathan (.s). Deacon Jonathan (4), Deacon Jonathan (3), Deacon Jonathan 
 (2), Daniel (1). The immigrant, Daniel Forbes, was a Scotchman, born probably at 
 Kinellar, Scotland. He lived in New Scotland. Maine. Camliridge, Cimcord, and Marl- 
 borough, where be died in October, 1687. 
 
 William T. Forbes prepared for college in ibc ptdilic schools there and in the 
 .Allen Classical School, West Newton. He also received private instruction under Rev. 
 James Tufts, of Monson, He entered .A.mherst College, from which he was graduated 
 in 1871 with the degree of Bachelor of .Arts. He won a first prize in inathematics in 
 his sophomore years and a German scholarship in his junior year. At commencement 
 he was class historian, and on the editorial board iif "The Amherst Student" in his 
 senior year. He rowed in his class crew in the regatta of 1870 on the Connecticut 
 river. After graduating from college he went to Constantinople in Turkey, and for 
 three years was instructor in mathematics in Robert College. While there he and Dr. 
 George Washburn, president of the College, made a gctdogical survey in that section, 
 collecting about 2,000 specimens of fossils, many of which were new discoveries. The 
 collection was exhibited afterward in the Vienna E.xposition. 
 
 Returning to this country in 1874, he began to study law in the oliices of Bacon & 
 Hopkins. He was admitted to the bar in 1877. He was appointed standing justice of 
 the First District Court of Eastern Worcester in 1875. He resigned in 1879 and 
 engaged in the practice of law in Westborough until he was appointed to his present 
 office as judge of the Courts of Probate and Insolvency in 18S8. Judge Forbes held 
 various town offices in Westborough, and was representative to the General Court in 
 1881 and 1882, and State Senator in 1886 and 1887. He served on the legislative 
 committee on liquor law'S and was senate chairman of the committee on education, 
 also on the committees on the judiciary, probate and insolvency and election laws 
 (chairman). In 1887 he prepared and carried through to enactment the law abolishing 
 taxation for church purposes and providing for the incorporation of churches without 
 parish or society. He has taken a keen interest in local history and was the author of 
 the history of Westborough in the W'orcester County History (Hurd). He has trav- 
 elled mucb in the near East and has deli\ered numerous addresses on subjects relating 
 to the Balkan States. Judge Forbes is now: the Senior Probate Judge of the State. 
 
 Judge Forbes is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the New England 
 Historic-Genealogical Society, the Worcester Natural History Society, the Shakespeare 
 Club, the Worcester Society of .Antiquity, the Mas.<achusetts Society, Sons of the 
 Revolution, the Worcester Art Museum, the Public Education .A.ssociation, the Eco- 
 nomic Club, the .'\mherst Alumni Association, the Worcester County Bar .Association. 
 
774 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, the 
 Worcester Association for Detecting Thieves, the Worcester Rotary Club, the Chamber 
 of Commerce, the Tatnuck Country Club. In many of these organizations he has taken 
 an active part and held offices. He is a member of Union Congregational Church, and 
 of the Worcester Congregational Club of which he was formerly president. He is a 
 trustee of Leicester Academy, Memorial Home for the Blind, Worcester Home for 
 Aged Men, and an officer of many other charitable and business corporations. 
 
 Judge Forbes married, February 5, 1884, in this city, Harriette Merrifield, daugh- 
 ter of William Trowbridge Merrifield (see biography). They have had six children: 
 I. William Trowbridge Merrifield, born April 23, 1885; graduate of Amherst College 
 (A. B., 1006) ; instructor in Robert College, Constantinople, two years; Ph. D., Clark 
 University, 1910; now instructor in biology at Cornell University. 2. Allan White, 
 born lunc 20, 1886; graduate of .Amherst (A. B., 1908); Worcester Polytechnic (B. S., 
 1910)'; member of the firm of Forbes & Myers, manufacturers of electric driven machin- 
 ery at No. 172 Union street; member of the Economic Club, the Rotary Club and the 
 Worcester Tennis Club. 3. Cornelia Brigham, born July 14, 1888; graduate of Vassar 
 College (A. B., 1910). 4. Katherine Maria, born September 23, 1889; graduate of 
 Vassar, 1911, took post-graduate course in hygiene and physical education, Wellesley, 
 and for three vears was instructor in this department at Wisconsin University; married 
 Linwood M. Erskine. Esq., of Worcester, 1918. 5. Esther Louise, born June 28, 1891 ; 
 graduate of Bradford Academy, 1912. 6. Malcolm Stuart, born November 32, 1S92, 
 died February 4, 1893. Judge and Mrs. Forbes reside at No. 23 Trowbridge road. 
 
 Mrs. Forbes has been in recent years engaged in compiling a Bibliography of 
 New England Diaries, which will be published soon by the American Antiquarian 
 Society. She has made an exhaustive search not only for printed diaries of date 
 before 1800, but of manuscript diaries in the possession of libraries and individuals in 
 all parts of the country. The value of this work to genealogists and historians is 
 incalculable. Mrs. Forbes is a member of the advisory board of this history and has 
 given invaluable assistance to the author. She is the author of "The Hundredth 
 Town," historical sketches of Westborough, Massachusetts, and of many pamphlets 
 and papers prepared for various literary societies and women's clubs. She edited the 
 "Journal of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman.'' Mrs. Forbes was one of the early regents of 
 Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and from 
 the beginning has been one of the most active workers and staunchest supporters of 
 the chapter. She has served on the State Council of the Massachusetts Daughters of 
 the American Revolution. She is a member of the Shakespeare Club, the Woman's 
 Club, the Worcester County Horticultural Society, New England Historic-Genealogi- 
 cal Society, Worcester Society of Antiquity, Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daugh- 
 ters of the American Revolution, Society for Preservation of New lingland Antiquities. 
 Mrs. Forbes is a graduate of the Old Oread Institute, 1873. 
 
 WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE MERRIFIELD, Contractor and builder, owner 
 of the Merrifield buildings in which many of the industries of the city were established, 
 was born in Worcester. April 10, 1807, died December 26, 1895. He had a common 
 school education. .At the age of fifteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade and 
 served seven years in the employ of his father. When he came of age he started in 
 business as a contractor and builder, and from the beginning was uniformly successful. 
 He was the contractor for many of the important structures erected here in his day, 
 including the Worcester .Academy, the Lancaster Mills, and many of the mansion 
 houses. In 1839 he bought land on Union and Exchange streets and erected brick 
 buildings four stories high covering two acres, renting them according to the needs 
 of his tenants for manufacturing purposes and furnishing steam power to such as 
 wished to hire it. Deacon Ichabod VVashburn laid the foundation of the wire industry 
 here. The biographies of Worcester manufacturers in this book give scores of cases 
 where the business began in the Merrifield building. In 1854 the first buildings were 
 burned, causing a serious setback to the industrial growth of the city. But Mr. Merri- 
 field erected new buildings and to the present time he and his descendants have 
 maintained successfully his original idea in supplying quarters for the smaller industries 
 of the city. How important this idea was in determining the industrial growth of the 
 city cannot be estimated, but it was certainly of great value. He was a member of 
 the first Common Council of the city in 1848, and for several years was a representative 
 to the General Court. He was for ten years a trustee of the State Lunatic Hospital, 
 and for several years president of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association. 
 
 Mr. Merrifield married (first), April 27, 1830, Margaret Brigham, daughter of 
 Jabez and Nancy (Kingsbury) Brigham. They had four children, two daughters and 
 two sons ; the sons were : William Frederick, born in Worcester, August 30, 1837, 
 lives in Brookline, Massachusetts; and Henry Kingsbury, born July 21, 1840, resides 
 
.MRS. llAKRIKTll': MKKKIFIKI.IJ I'ORI'.KS 
 

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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 in this city. Mr. Merrilield married (second), March o, 1847, Maria Camlinc ['>righam, 
 daughter of Charles and Susannah (Baylies) Brigham, of Grafton. Their daughter 
 Harriette married Hon. William T. Forbes (see hiograi)hyK 
 
 The MerriMeld line of ancestry is: William T. (4), .'Vlpheus (3), Timothy (2), 
 Thomas (i). Thomas Merrilield was not the immigrant; the lirst settler doubtless 
 came with the Puritans, from Kngland. Timothy (2) Merrilield and his brother Asaph 
 came from Sherborn to Holden. in the section now in West Uoylston, in 178.1. Their 
 old house is still standing. It was built aliout 1731), when the land was purchased of 
 Benjamin Flagg. Jr., by Joseph Woolley. In 1786 Timothy Merrilield sold his share of 
 this place and bought the farm on Mountain street, where he lived the remainder of his 
 days, and where his son, William T., was born. He diicl in 1806. He served as a 
 private in the Revolution. He married (first) Lydia Cheney, and (second) Mercy 
 Perry, daughter of John and Mercy (Nelson) Perry. Besides .Vlpheus, Timothy Merri- 
 lield had two daughters, Caroline and Chine. .Alphcus Merrilield lield various town 
 offices in Worcester; was selectman five years; deacon of tlie First Unitarian Church. 
 He was a contractor and builder here and also had a btisiiiess in South Carolina and 
 Georgia. He married, November 12, 1804, Mary Trowbridge, daughter of William and 
 Sarah (Rice) Trowbridge. Her father, William Trowliridge. was a soldier in the 
 Revolution. (See Trowbridge in Early Settlers). 
 
 LYMAN FRANCIS GORDON. Were one to attempt to ascribe the success 
 Lyman F. Ciordon attained as a manufacturer to any one particular trait oi character, 
 he would go sadly astray, but if it were possible to base his success upon a single 
 attribute it would be upon his clear vision and cnnstant habit of preparedness. Just 
 how true this estimate is may be best seen in his judgment on the future of the auto- 
 mobile. In its early day the automobile was derided as a "rich man's plaything" and 
 manufacturers gave it the laugh, then dismissed it from strinus consideraliiin. Not so 
 Mr. Gordon, he saw in it not an expensive toy for the rich but a public utility and the 
 beginning of a great business. He saw its great benefit to the commercial world as 
 well as to the pleasure seeker, and no amount of ridicule could drive liim from his 
 belief. Had he simply believed it, it would have availed him little, but lie put his belief 
 into practice, and with the courage of his convictions prepared his pl.ant fur the 
 business he was sure would come. .\nd it did come, but it found the plant of Wyman 
 & Gordon thoroughly prepared with not a department but what had been remodeled 
 and specialized to play its part in the future greatness of the company. When the 
 parent plant in Worcester was unable to meet the demand for drop forgings, a branch 
 plant was ready in Cleveland, Ohio, in the very heart of the automobile manufacturing 
 district, and equally amazing has been the story of growth and expansion there. 
 To-day the Wyman & Gordon Corporation stands supreme in the manufacture of 
 drop forged parts for automobiles. The plant met the early demand because Lyman 
 F. Gordon foresaw its coming, and the hold the firm gained on the trade has never 
 been broken, on the contrary has tightened and the name is known the world over. 
 Mr. Gordon was never a follower, but always a leader, an indefatigable worker, but 
 his forces were intelligently directed and he obtained a maxinnim of result with a 
 minimum of effort. He died in the prime of his splendid powers, but left a record men 
 much older inay envy, and his monument is the Wyman & Gordon Corporation which 
 he founded as a small firm, and saw expanded into a great corporation of which he 
 was the executive head until his death. 
 
 The Gordon clan has a record extending to the days of Malcolm IIT. of Scotland, 
 a record of distinguished service in every department of national life. Eighty-five 
 coats-of-arms are credited to the family, the most ancient being : .Azure, three boars' 
 heads couped or. The three boars' heads appear in most of the Gordon arms. The 
 head of the clan is the Marquis of Huntley, one of whose ancestors first raised that 
 famous regiment, the Gordon Highlanders. Gordon Castle is the family seat, the 
 family badge the Ivy, the war cry: A Gordon 1 .A Gordon' The C'>at-of-arms of the 
 Gordon family of this review is as follow'S : 
 
 Anns — .\zure, three boars' heads couped or. 
 
 Crest — Stag's head and neck afFrontee pro|)er attire<I with ten tynes or. 
 Mnttocs — Over the crest: Bydand (Remaining). Under the .shield: Aninui non 
 Astutia. ( lly courage, not by stratagem). 
 
 The Ainerican ancestor of Lyman Francis Gordon was .Alexander Gordon, born in 
 Scotland, a soldier under General Monk, who while fighting for King Charles at the 
 battle of Worcester was captured by Cromwell's forces and sent to this coimlry. He, 
 with others of Cromwell's prisoners, came in the ship "Liberty," commanded by Captain 
 John .Allen, a shipmaster of Charlestown. .Alexander Gordon first bought land at 
 
776 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Concord, Massachusetts, but in 16O0 went to New Hampshire, settling in the township 
 of Exeter on Little river. He married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Lysson, a townsman of 
 Exeter, and died in 1697. The line of descent is through his son, Thomas Gordon, born 
 in Exeter, New Hampshire, who there resided and gave name to Gordon Hill in the 
 western part of the town. During Queen Anne's War, 1710, he was a soldier in 
 Captain John Gilman's company. He died in 1760, aged eighty years. He married 
 (first) November 22, 1699, Elizabeth Harriman, of Haverhill, born November 20, 1675, 
 died 1 721. He was succeeded by his son, Timothy Gordon, born in Exeter, New 
 Hampshire, March 22, 1716, died March 30, 1796, a resident of Brentwood, New 
 Hampshire. He remained a Loyalist during the Revolution, but took no active part in 
 the war. During the latter years of his life he was blind. He was a member of the 
 Baptist church. He married Maria, daughter of Abraham Stockbridge, of Stratham, 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 Timothy (2) Gordon, son of Timothy d) and Maria (Stockbridge) Gordon, was 
 born at Brentwood, New Hampshire. December 30, 1757, died January 16, 1836, and 
 was buried in the cemetery at Newburyport, Massachusetts. At the beginning of the 
 Revolution, although a minor, be with three other lads of the town joined General 
 John Stark's regiment. He fought at Bunker Hill, there exchanging his fowling piece 
 for the musket of a dead British soldier. Later he fought at Bennington, White 
 Plains and Saratoga, and in his later years was in receipt of a Revolutionary pension. 
 He married, January 23, 17S2. Lydia Whitmore, born October 10, 1763, died January 
 12, 1835, daughter of David and Lydia (Giddinge) Whitmore, a descendant of Joseph 
 Whitmore, John Giddinge, Richard Eartlett and Gershom Flagg. After his marriage, 
 Timothy Gordon resided in Newbury, Massachusetts. 
 
 Ebenezer Gordon, son of Timothy (2) and Lydia (Whitmore) Gordon, was 
 born in Newbury. Massachusetts. February 28, 1797, died in Madbury, New Hamp- 
 shire, December 29, 1855. and was buried according to the rites of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows of which he was a member. His death was accidental, caused 
 by a fall from his sleigh. Altholigh a machinist by trade, he followed farming for 
 several years in Franklin county, Maine. He married, March 20, 1827, in Dover, New 
 Hampshire. Sophronia Anderson, born in Freeport, Maine, February 28, 1807, died 
 May 7, 1888, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Pote) Anderson, granddaughter of 
 James and Mary (Dill) Anderson, great-granddaughter of Jacob Anderson, the 
 family coming to New England from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland. Elizabeth 
 Pote was a daughter of William and Mary (Washburn) Pote, and granddaughter of 
 Gamaliel and Aliriam (Irish) Pote, Gamaliel Pote, a soldier in the Louisburg Expe- 
 dition. 
 
 Albert Anderson Gordon, son of Ebenezer and Sophronia (Anderson) Gordon, 
 was born at Farmington, Maine, January 30, 1836, and since 1859 has been a resident 
 of Worcester, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools of Dover, New 
 Hampshire, and learned the machinist's trade at Lewiston, Maine, until coming to 
 Worcester in 1850, he was employed at his trade in New York City and Mansfield, 
 Connecticut, becoming an expert machinist, an inherited talent from his father which 
 he transmitted to his sons. During his life in Worcester, he has been connected with 
 the Compton Loom Works the greater part of the time; was foreman and superin- 
 tendent for many years, and is still active in the present corporation. He is a member 
 of Montacute Lodge, Free and .Accepted Masons; Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester Society of Antiquity, 
 and Worcester Horticultural Society. He married, at Worcester, January 6, 1861, 
 Ann Eliza Bridges, born March 17. 1840, at Leicester, Massachusetts, youngest child 
 of Sumner and Nancy (Draper) Bridges, the latter a great-granddaughter of James 
 Draper, fifth of the same name in direct line from the Puritan ancestor. Sumner 
 Bridges was a son of Martin, son of Benjamin, son of Hackaliah, son of Caleb, son 
 of Edmund (2), son of Edmund (11 Bridges, the American ancestor, born in England 
 in 1612, came to New England in the ship "James" in 1636, and died January 13, 1684, 
 Albert Anderson and .A.nn Eliza (Bridges) Gordon were the parents of four sons and 
 two daughters: Lyman Francis, of further mention; Nancy Gertrude, Albert Ander- 
 son, George Crompton, Charles Sumner and Isabel Wyman. 
 
 Lyman Francis Gordon, son of Albert .Anderson and Ann Eliza (Bridges) Gordon, 
 was born in Worcester. Massachusetts, November 14, 1861, and died there December 
 20. 1914- He was educated in the city public schools, Worcester .Academy and Wor- 
 cester Polytechnic Institute, his courses at the last named ending with graduation, 
 class of 1881. In 1882 he went to California in the engineering service of the United 
 States Central Railroad, later was professionally connected with F. A. Robins & 
 Company, of San Francisco, manufacturers of presses and dies. He remained with 
 that company until November, 1883, then returned to Worcester. The experience with 
 Robins & Company had been valuable and there he had developed the idea of a some- 
 
AXD ITS PEOPLE 
 
 what similar plant in liis native city, a plant liis clear vision saw would sucooc.!. A 
 month after his return from the West he formed a partnership with an e(|nally prac- 
 lieal yonng man, his friend and fellow student. H. Winficld Wynian. and the tirm 
 \\ yman & Gordon was born. The yoimK men began a drop forging business in a very 
 small way, Mr. Gordon once relating how sm.nll as follows: "]-"or many months Mr. 
 Wyman and I shared all the responsibilities and work, janitor, foreman, engineer, 
 bookkeeper and salesman." Less than a dozen workmen were employed by the- infant 
 concern in a frame building. 40 x 60 feet, bnt ample in size for all their needs, that 
 original shop now bnt a corner in the group <if buildings wliich conjprisj the Wor- 
 cester plant of the company. 
 
 For many years Wyman & Gordou was the only drop forging plant in Worcester, 
 and each twelve months saw an incre;ise in business, a growth which was steadily 
 maintained. As they proved their ability to turn out forgings of the required quality 
 and established a reputation for integrity, the W'orcesler manufacturers gave them 
 their drop forging orders and by gradu;d stages a fairly sizable plant was kept fully 
 occupied and the young men saw their venture was a success. They flid a general 
 drop forging business with mill men. liicycle manufacturers, wagon builders and rail- 
 roads, but with the advent of the automobile. Mr. Gordon saw the great opportunity of 
 his life, thoroughly remodeled the plant and prepared for what he saw meant a won- 
 derful increase in business for Wyman & Gordon. He specialized every department, 
 and with the former good reputation of the company as an introduction and with the 
 knowledge that his plant was "prepared." he went out for orders, visiting the manu- 
 facturers in every part of the eoiuUry where automobile manufacture had begun. Soon 
 orders began flowing in from him to the Worcester plant and from that time new 
 additions to the plant have been cr^ntiiuious. The increased demand for droj) forgings 
 finally compelled the company to erect a branch plant at Cleveland. Ohio, and with its 
 completion Wyman &• Gordon reigned supreme in the manufacture of drop forgings 
 for automobiles, live hundred men being employed at the Worcester plant. In 1005 
 Mr. Wyman died and shortly afterward the Wynian & Gordon Company was incor- 
 porated with a capita! of $3(K).ooo, Lyman F. Gordon, president and treasurer. ITarry 
 G. Stoddard, vice-president, George F, Fuller, secretary and general managtr. Mr. 
 Gordon remained executive head of the corporation until his death in IQ14. and also 
 had other large business interests. He was a director of the .\merican Thermos Bottle 
 Company of New York City, the Library Bureau of Niw York, and the Merchants' 
 National Bank of Worcester, and member of the Chamber of Commerce of Worcester 
 and Cleveland. 
 
 He was a tireless worker, but in the midtiplicity ct his business cares he did not 
 forget his duty as citizen, friend and neightinr He was a trustee of Worcester 
 .Academy, an active member of the First Baptist Church and the Yoiuig Men's Chris- 
 tian Association, gave liberally of his means to church and charity and freely of his 
 time and experience to every moveinent to make a better, happier Worcester. His 
 clubs were the Union of Cleveland, the Worcester. Tatnuck Country, Worcester Auto- 
 mobile and Worcester Country. He held all degrees of the >"ork Rite in .Masonry, 
 belonging to Morning Star Lodge, Worcester Chapter, Hiram Council, Worcester 
 County Commandery, and in the Scottish Rite held the thirty-two degrees of Wor- 
 cester Lodge of Perfection, Go<ldard Council of Rose Croix and Northern Massachu- 
 setts Consistory. For many years he resided on German street, and from TO05 had a 
 summer home on the old Norcross estate at Grafton. He had nearly completed a 
 magnificent mansion on Salisbury street. Worcestir. in wliich he tnnk deep pleasure, 
 but never was its occupant. 
 
 Mr. Gordon married, February 10. if^o. Prue Louise Cox, daughter of G.irland 
 and Charlotte Ann (Borden) Cox. a descendant of William Cox, who was of Pema- 
 quid, Maine, as early as 1625, The line of descent to Mrs. Gordon is thrcumdi the 
 founder's son, John Cox, 1658-1742. who married Susanna Pope; their son. John (2) 
 Cox, 1600-1747, killed in battle with the Indians, who ni.irried Tabitha Davenport; 
 their son, John (3) Cox. 1719-1802. a Loyalist, who married Sarah Bodkin; their son, 
 Captain Henry Cox, who married Susannah Eaton ; their son. Garland Cox, born 1810, 
 who married Eliza Keziah Pineo ; their son. Garland Pineo Cox, 1838-1S.S0, who mar- 
 ried Charlotte Ann Borden, they the parents of Prue Louise Cox, wife of Lyman 
 Francis Gordon. Through her inother Mrs. Gordon descends from Richard Bordon, 
 of ancient English family, bearing arms: 
 
 Anns — ."Xzure a chevron engrailed ermine, two bourdens or pilgrims staves proper 
 in chief and a crosslet in base or. 
 
 Crest — A lion rampant above a scroll argent on its sinister foot holding a battle 
 ax proper. 
 
 Motto— Paiina Vertuii. 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Richard Borden was a member of the Society of Friends, and a prominent man in 
 Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he settled in 1636. The line of descent is through 
 his son, Matthew Borden, 1638-170S, married Sarah Clayton; their son, Richard 
 Borden, 1671-1732; his son, Samuel Borden, i705-i7;8, married Peace Mumford; 
 their son. Perry Borden, born November 9, 1739, married (second) Mary Ellis; their 
 son, Joshua Borden, 1774-1854, married Charlotte Fuller; their son, Joshua 
 W. Borden, 1813-1891, married Lavinia Martin; their daughter, Charlottee Ann 
 Borden, born May 25, 183S, married, November 17, 1S58, Garland Pineo Cox. they 
 the parents of Mrs. Prue Louise (Cox) Gordon, who survives her husband with 
 two sons: Winfield, born November 28. 1889, Forrest, February 5, 1893. 
 
 From a leading newspaper of his city, from an association in which he was deeply 
 interested, and from his alma inatcr came fitting testimonials of the honor and respect 
 in which Mr. Gordon was held. Said the Worcester "Gazette" editorially: 
 
 One of the most commanding figures in Worcester's industrial life passes from 
 its activities by the death a$ Lyman F. Gordon. He was a master builder among 
 master builders. His ability was recognized by all his associates. It was through 
 his talents and untiring devotion that the city came to possess an industry which 
 has attained a name nation-wide because of its high grade products. When we 
 reflect tliat the Wyman & Gordon Compan.v grew from the humblest of beginnings 
 and consider the place which it has won. talent seems hardly the characterization 
 to give Mr. Gordon's abilities. There was genius in his business methods. They were 
 a blessing to Worcester. His death gives a sharper poignancy to tho.'^e who knew 
 him best, for Mr. Gordon was still a young man. but fifty-three, and in the natural 
 prospect his years of usefulness should still have been many and of greater fruit- 
 fulness even than those that preceded. Bare bu.«iness ability was not, however, Mr. 
 Gordon's sole characteristic. He was indeed something more than the man of busi- 
 ness, absorbed in its details to the shutting out of the larger things in lite. H« 
 was the citizen always interested in the things that good citizenship signifies in 
 its larger aspects. He believed in and worked for the church as an institution which 
 advances human welfare. The charitable side of his nature was great and most 
 sympathetic but never displayed to win the multitude's applause. It was rare indeed 
 that his left hand knew the good which his right liad wrought. His early going 
 from the activities of men leaves a void in the social and industrial lite of Worcester 
 that prompts depressing reflection. But "God fills the gaps of human need." If th» 
 loss which Worcester has sustained through the death of L,yman F. Gordon shall 
 be made good through the years to come, it will be because of the high example as 
 a worker and a citizen which he leaves as an inspiration to us all. 
 
 Said the Young Men's Christian Association by resolution : 
 
 We miss his kind and cheerful presence. His courtesy and helpfulness toward 
 all those with whom he came in contact are cherished memories. His calm and 
 unrutfled spirit was a potent example. His firm grasj) of essential facts and his 
 quick and accurate judgment have been a most valued guide and help. His true 
 Christian character, his modesty and self-forgetfulness have been a constant inspira- 
 tion. His work in this association was always done with efiiciency, promptness and 
 great joy. His liopes and plans for the future were high and broad. The Lord will 
 not suffer his work to fail, but we cannot but feel that the future of our association 
 would have been more perfectlj- accomplished had he remained longer with us. In 
 his personal relations with his fellow-workers he was always the Christian gentle- 
 man. In civic life he was ever a force for rigliteousness and clean living. In business 
 life he was diligent, resourceful, successful. In the church, he was faithful to his 
 high calling in Christ Jesus. 
 
 Said the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Journal : 
 
 Mr. Gordon was very much interested in all developments of the Institute and 
 was for two years a member of the executive committee of the Alumni Association, 
 resigning a year ago in order that he might be released from as many cares as possi- 
 ble. While on the committee he always took a strong positive position on all 
 questions that would mean the greater upbuilding of the Institute, and was especially 
 interested in Alumni Development work. It was in a measure due to his advice 
 while a member of the committee that the purchase of the two pieces of Art Museum 
 property, ad.ioining the Institute propert.v along Pttrk avenue, was made by the 
 Alumni, thus making it possible to have a separate ijaseball field in connection with 
 the development for physical exercise at the Institute. He was also one of the few 
 men who came forward at the last moment and increased their subscriptions to the 
 alumni movement so that it was made possible for the secretary to announce at the 
 June commencement in 1913 the completion of the $200,000 pledging. 
 
 DONALD TULLOCH, Journalist, was born in the Highlands of Scotland, 
 claiming- Fochabers, in Morayshire, as his birthplace, September IQ, 1862, son of 
 Donald and Flizabeth (Campbell) Tulloch, whose children are: Hugh A., William, 
 Donald, Jolm and James. 
 
 .Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Inverness, the capital of the High- 
 lands, where the young man was educated in Dr. Raining's School. Early in life 
 he displayed a desire for newspaper work, and in order to secure a solid foundation 
 for his profession, he served a seven-years apprenticeship as a printer in the "Inver- 
 ness Advertiser" office. During that time he acquired a knowledge of shorthand, 
 purchasing the first two books of Isaac Pitman's system. He studied at home even- 
 ings, and when his apprenticeship was concluded he was promoted to the reportorial 
 
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 staff of the newspaper, fulfilling a pledge given him by the proprietor, Williai.i li. 
 Forsyth, that if he was able to write one hundred and twenty-five words a niiiinte he 
 would make him a reporter. In this capacity he served his paper faithfully inr a 
 number of years, reporting many of the big events of that city and community.includ- 
 ing addresses by Lord Rosebery, Michael Davitt, Henry Campbell riannerm.in, Tohn 
 Dillon. Attorney-General Finley and men of that prominence. Mr. Tullocii was 
 trained in Scotch journalism where accuracy of reporting is the cliicf (pi.-ditv 
 demanded of a newspaper man. He became manager of the "Scottish Highlander," 
 a ncws[)aper whicli at that time was regarded as the leading paper in Scotland, urging 
 the enactment in Parliament of land laws for the betterment of crofters and cottars 
 of the Scottish Highlands. In connection with this establishment there was also an 
 extensive job printing department, as well as the puljlication of a monthly, tlie 
 "Celtic Magazine," much of which was printed in the Gaelic language. Tliose'men 
 of the Fourth Estate, who know what it is to publish a magazine in a foreign tonglie. 
 not knowing much about it, will appreciate some cif the dit'ticulties wliicli Mr. Tnlioch" 
 experienced in his early journalistic career. 
 
 Like most Scotchmen, he early displayed a fondness for athletics .and was one 
 of the prominent members of the then famous Inverness Crown Football and Cricket 
 Club, which won many of the championships of the North of .Scotland. He was 
 mainly instrumental in introducing the .Association or Soccer game into the northern 
 part of his native country, which finally displaced the old Rugby game, as it was 
 played in Scotland. In order to bring this about he was the leader in inducing to 
 come to Inverness such crack south-country clubs as the Glasgow Rangers, the 
 Glasgow Celtic. Queen's Park. Third Lanark, and an All-Scotland Eleven which 
 played a team representative of the North of Scotland. The outcome of this cam- 
 paign was that the North of Scotland Football Association was organized in Inver- 
 ness in 1882 with Mr. Tulloch as its first secretary. A magnificent silver challenge 
 cup was purchased, standing three feet high, and the Crown Club, of which ^Ir. 
 Tulloch was the secretary, won it the first year of its existence. It has been played 
 for every year since that time, and the soccer game is the only style played in the 
 North of Scotland now. 
 
 Mr. Tr>noch became secretary tn Mr. Thomas G. Henderson, agent for the 
 famed Northern Meetings, the most influential and exclusive summer athletic and 
 social gatherings attended by the elite of the British people in the Flighlanils, and 
 also agent for deer forest and .grouse shootings in Scotland. Mr. Henderson is 
 widely-known in this country by sportsmen of the Bradley Martin type. While Mr. 
 Tulloch occupied this position for two years prior to coming to the L^nited States, 
 as a side issue he owned and published the first sporting paper ever published in the 
 North of Scotland — the "Inverness Football Times." This was a weekly newspaper 
 which was issued Saturday evenings and was progressive in those days, inasmuch as 
 it gave telegraphic reports of all the big football, cricket and athjetic events which 
 took place in Great Britain on the evening of the day they occurred, something 
 which was much appreciated by the people in that section of the country who, 
 previous to Mr. Tulloch's efforts, had to wait until Monday before they knew the 
 results of games. That newsp.apcr now is one of the most popular in the North of 
 Scotland. 
 
 Looking for a wider sphere of inlfuence. Mr. Tulloch cast his ej'es towards the 
 United States, with California as his objective, but relatives persuaded him to stay in 
 Massachusetts, and so in June. 18S7. along with his wife and two children he left 
 Glasgow for Boston. He applied for work for his first position in the "Milford 
 Journal" office and secured it. He was hired on the spot by State Senator William 
 H. Cook, since deceased, wdio was editor of the paper, and remained with the 
 "Journal" for two and a half years. In December. 1891. he became a reporter on 
 the city staff of the "Worcester Telegram." on which he was used extensively in 
 reporting the addresses of brilliant speakers like Bishop Phillips Brooks. ex-Presi- 
 dent Theodore Roosevelt. ex-President William H. Taft. Henry Cabot Lodge, and 
 scores of the leading men of the country who visited Worcester. He had as a regu- 
 lar assignment general charge of Protestant church work. Young Men's Christian 
 Association, indoor athletics. British sports, and was regarded among the clergy 
 as the best-known newspaper man in Central Massachusetts, .\fter eight years of 
 this work. Hon. James Logan invited him to become his private secretary and he 
 remained with hini and the United States Envelope Company, then just organized by Mr. 
 Logan, for fifteen months, until the olTice of the general manager was removed to 
 Springfield. Mr. Tulloch again associated himself with "The Telegram," and he 
 remained six years, making fourteen years of service on "The Telegram." 
 
 In May. 1906. he was invited to become secretary of the Worcester Metal Trades 
 
HISTORY UF WORCESTER 
 
 Association, and he has occupied that position nearly thirteen years, up to the present 
 time. Through his aggressive work this Association, which is now the Worcester 
 Branch, National Metal Trades Association, has more than doubled in membership 
 and expanded all over Worcester county. He was also instrumental with others, 
 five years ago, in organizing the Employers' Association of Worcester County, which 
 has an extensive membership in Central Massachusetts. He is the secretary of both 
 associations which have for their purpose the creating and maintaining of equitable 
 relations between employer and employee. The existence of the principle of fair 
 dealing between employer and employee in industrial life must be evidenced in this 
 community judging from the lack of industrial disturbance in the past few years. 
 Perhaps no one is better-known among the rank and file of both the employers and 
 employees of Worcester county than he is, as tho=e two associations with which he 
 is connected employ some 50,000 men and women. 
 
 The Worcester Branch of the National Metal Trades Association was organized 
 in 1902. It has had offices since then at No. 4-) Front street. Its membership includes 
 all the principal manufacturers of metal products in the county. Donald TuUoch, the 
 general secretary, is in charge of the business of the association. It has proved 
 highly useful in furnishing competent labor when needed by its members, through 
 the Worcester Free Labor Bureau, which it has operated at No. 44 Front street 
 since its organization. The main object of this Association is to maintain good 
 industrial conditions in the plants of its members. Through the work of this organ- 
 ization, the industrial conditions generally are regarded among the best in the coun- 
 try. The officers for 1919 are: President, William H. Gates, Baldwin Chain & Man- 
 ufacturing Company; vice-president, A. J. Gifford, Leland-Gifford Company, treas- 
 urer, A. W. Beaman, Stockbridge Machine Company; secretary, Donald Tulloch. 
 Its previous presidents were: Clarence W. Hobbs, Frederick Reed (both deceased), 
 George F. Brooks, Edward M. Woodward, A. E. Newton, Charles E. Hildreth, John 
 W. Higgins, John W. Harrington, Jerome R. George. 
 
 The Employers' AssoriatioTi of \Vorcester County was formed in 1914 to support 
 the principle of the "Open Shop," to prevent industrial strife, to conduct an employ- 
 ment bureau and foster a spirit of friendliness and cooperation between employer and 
 employee: headquarters at No. 44 Front street. The officers for 1919 are; Hon- 
 orary president, George I. Alden; president, E. J. Cross; vice-presidents, George F. 
 Brooks, John A. Sherman and Virgil W. Spaulding: secretary, Donald Tulloch; 
 treasurer, Arthur W. Beaman. Its presidents have been George I. Alden and John 
 W. Harrington. 
 
 Mr. Tulloch, soon after arrival in this country, allied himself with the Republi- 
 can party and he has been an enthusiastic follower of that party e\cr since. He is 
 not an office seeker and has confined his interest to being a member of the Repub- 
 lican City Committee for three years, during the last one of which he was chairman 
 of Ward Ten Committee. He has also represented his ward several years at the 
 Republican State conventions. He was secretary of the Worcester County Football 
 League, which he had a good deal to do in organizing in 1903, and which is still in 
 existence. 
 
 Mr. Tulloch organized in 1918 the Worcester Curling Club, of which he is 
 president. He also is regarded as the "Father" of the Anglo Saxon Club, of which 
 ' he is secretary. He is a member of the Worcester Rotary Club and of the Boston 
 Scottish Society and the \'ictorian Club of Boston. He is secretary of the Victoria 
 Club of Worcester, which contributed $3,000 to the relief of the World War sufferers 
 of England. 
 
 The Worcester Curling Club was organized January, 1918, with the following 
 officers: President, Donald Tulloch: vice-president, H. Stuart Michie; secretary 
 and treasurer, James Mitchell. Curling is a Scotch game introduced to Worcester 
 sports by Donald Tulloch. The club has played for two winters on rinks at Elm 
 Park Lagoon, and is considered one of the best of winter sports. 
 
 The Anglo Saxon Club, Worcester, came into being, December 15, 1917. The 
 purpose of the club is to weld together the people of Worcester who were born 
 under the British flag or their descendants, to assist British subjects to become 
 American citizens, to honor distinguished British Empire citizens by inviting them 
 to Worcester to speak, and to hold cultural meetings among the members. The 
 officers for 1919 are: Honorable president, Matthew J. Whittall; president. Rev. Dr. 
 Archibald McCullagh; vice-presidents, Hon. James Logan and Alfred Thomas; sec- 
 retary, Donald Tulloch; treasurer, Charles J. Simeon. 
 
 Mr. Tulloch was made secretary of the Worcester Vacant Lot Cultivation Soci- 
 ety. He was the first secretary of the Worcester Safe and Sane Fourth Committee, 
 when that city began a campaign for a saner celebration of the Glorious Fourth. He 
 
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 is also a member of the Wnnesti'i- W-ir ri,.,-» i- -.. , ■ , 
 
 for the relief of the \V. rcester ..kltrs n ^'T'"""^-'=' ^^'^'^'^ ! ^■"^^<' ■■>'""" $37,000 
 dependents. Mr. Tuiw'h mil si 1 tX/l nnL^^^'^"^^^^^ "'" ^^ "-^'^ ^^'" =>"'' ""^i-- 
 IP., ancr-Thc Songs am, ,':::!;i':'of''t,;^^Gre:^°\VorS U^-"^,^ ''^' " ^^"^""■'^■" 
 
 and Christine (Ross) \Iicken/i. th .n, ' '^•,"^'-\- 'l'i"&l>t." 01 Alexander Ross 
 and their clul Ire° ,re El ' ,Vk mXh e'" '(f ^ '""p '"'P'^'r'."' "•anufacturer. 
 Donald Hugh Campbell Horlu I,;. If. ,\,^ ?''''"■• ^'"^'l <- '^r--^""^* Ka.herine, 
 tair Ross marriecl Ruth VViX,' K /J,'^ ■''"^ James Logan. Mis-' 
 
 They live in Sprinylield, Massadn se^ts Chr ,, r T" ■ "''" ''"'^'' "-•"■'"''■•» '^"ih- 
 ney. of New ^L.rtford an 1 tl Wr ch dren nr^ .M/i 'r""! '"^''^'^ .p"y ^' Whit- 
 '.oth. They live in James.mvn Rhode Islanl^ ''"' '"^ ^'""'^"ne Eiiza- 
 
 acti.f ™ ^;.!;^^;^^tn^°,^^^;\^lr,:;^?;;"VTi--^" V °"^ ~r^^ -'- 
 
 S^r ^?e.^-- '^--ll^S'-f I -^'h- -" !"^n ^ima^S.lf ^-^l^ 
 
 that they have been able to rg u % i 1 ,V , . , ' .'"n"' '° '^"dowed by nature 
 Company, a corporation with which he has been c u ected as clerl ,?fr.^ "^ 
 
 execufve he has attained the highest rank. " ''"^mes.s man and 
 
 Curtis is a distinctive Worce'^ter n-nn^ -m/i .->.«;i.. t? i - ^ 
 
 ties found that the five hundred acresu-^ d? he had Ca ed n^^^^ m"" "'' •''""^°''; 
 
 said Sena or Hoar ,n his note to his address delivered at tlie tvvo hundVedth In; 
 
 tiersman. His exploit in saving the besiege, garlson of RrncfkhVM T!,^'""- 
 th.ng Cooper has imagined of fhe Leathe?s-toct1ng.'°" ujon t e o d h^ tead"^'; 
 \Vorcester Curtis' descendants yet reside, and until the removal nfnfnKH ? 
 P"curt?s 'Jf ^hretln^A""' "'"" ■'' "'""' '"■^"' '"^^ i-n-diT anc to ' 'of f^ 
 
 first of the name to permanently settle there ^^ °'^"'"' ^"^ appearing to be the 
 
 The name Curtis is derived from a Norman-French ward_,-„rf„;o . . • 
 
 meaning courteous, civil. The family settled early rEnFn"^an^^^^ or courtois- 
 the coat borne by the families in Kent and Susse.x Ling idfntkal'' '"' ''"'' "'"■'"'• 
 
 r/Jl'r's'^^"^ ^ '''''^'"°" '^''''-■; ^'-'^^'"'" 'hree bulls' heads cabosscd gules 
 ^t. r-'^ ."""^orn passant or, between four trees proper 
 
 The line is traced to Stephen Curtis, of Appledore Kent about n-r^ c 1 
 
 of h.s descendants were mayors of Tent^rden, ^a tov ,'C^"';,fi^,^" , „^f ^^Se^-«"> 
 
 t^us deJct^be^dr' '"" '"" ""'" °' J""^" ^"^''^' °f ^^^'-t°<='^-- aforesaVd G'ent " il 
 ^Jrwj— Azure a fesse dancctte between three ducal coronets or. 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 HENRY CURTIS, The American ancestor, was born in England, in 1607, and 
 came to New Kiiglaiid from London with six other passengers (all certified to be mem- 
 bers of the Cliurch of England and, to have taken the oath of allegiance and suprem- 
 acy) in 16,35 ill the ship "Elizabeth and Ann." He settled at Watertown, becoming 
 a proprietor there in 1636. bnt in 1639 he was a proprietor and settled in Sudbury. 
 He married, about 1640, Mary Guy, daughter of Nicholas and Jane Guy. of South- 
 ampton, England, who with their daughter and two servants came to Massachusetts 
 in the ship "Confidence" in 1638. and settled at Watertown. Henry Curtis died May 
 8, 1678, leaving three children: Ephraim, born March 31, 1642, known as "lieutenant," 
 founder of Worcester, a noted scout, hunter and soldier of King Philip's War. John, 
 born 1644. died unmarried in Sudbury, December 31, 1678; and Joseph (see biography). 
 
 The line of descent from Henry Curtis, the .American ancestor, is through 
 Joseph Curtis, his youngest son, born July 17, 1647, in Sudbury, and died there 
 November 26, 1700. In 1675 he served in the Mount Hope campaign against King 
 Philip's Indians in Captain Thomas Prentice's company. His will, dated three days 
 prior to his death, disposed of property at Worcester, probably inherited from his 
 father, and part of the original five hundred acres. He married, in Sudbury. Febru- 
 ary 5, 1677, Abigail Grout, born October 14. 165S, died April 28, 1745, daughter of 
 Captain John and Sarah (Busby) Grout. They were the parents of two sons, 
 Ephraim and Joseph. 
 
 MAJOR EPHRAIM CURTIS, Eldest son of Joseph and Abigail (Grout) Curtis, 
 was horn in .Sudbury, September 4. 1680. died November 17, 1759, his gravestone in 
 that jiart of tlie town now Wayland. He held the rank of major in the militia, was 
 justice of the peace, representative to the General Court, and a special justice of the 
 Court of Common Pleas, appointed in 1741. He married, in Sudbury, May 10, 1705, 
 Mary Stone, of Sudbury, born February 19, 16S2, died February 22, 1761, daughter 
 of David and Susanna Stone. They were the parents of four sons, Ephraim, John, 
 Josepli and .Samuel. 
 
 CAPTAIN JOHN CURTIS, Second son of Major Ephraim and Mary (Stone) 
 Curtis, was born in Sudbury, September 20, 1707, settled in Worcester, and there 
 died June 29, 1797, in his ninetieth year. He was captain of a company which went 
 to the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757. He was a Loyalist prior to the begin- 
 ning of the war, and signed the Tory protest in 1774. But later he decidedly chan.ged 
 his views and was restored to the favor of his neighbors. From 1754 to 1774 he 
 was proprietor of a Worcester inn; was selectman, i754-5,S-56; surveyor of highways, 
 1756; overseer of the poor, 1758: and member of the school committee. He married 
 (first) in Sudbury, June 4, 1729, Rebekah Wight, of Sudbury, daughter of Benjamin 
 and Elizabeth (Newell) Wight. He married (second) in Lancaster, Massachusttts. 
 November 13, 1755. Elizabeth (Prentice) Robbins, daughter of Rev. John and Mary 
 Prentice, widow of Daniel Robbins. By his first marriage nine sons and five daugh- 
 ters were born: Jonathan, died young; John (2), Jonathan (2) ; Sarah, died young; 
 Elizabeth; William, died in boyhood; Rebekah; Joseph, deceased; James; Mary; 
 Sarah (2) ; William (2) ; Joseph (2) ; and Tyler; all born in Worcester except the 
 eldest. William and Joseph served in the Revolutionary army. 
 
 TYLER CURTIS, Youngest son and child of Captain John Curtis and his first 
 wife, Rebekah (Wight) Curtis, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, April 28, 1753, 
 and there died April 16, 1807. He resided upon the Curtis homestead in Worcester, 
 and there his children were born. He married. September 5, 1776, Lydia Chamber- 
 lain, born in Worcester, October 8, 1755, died there October 5, 1841, aged eighty-six 
 years. She was a daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Stone) Chamberlain, of Worces- 
 ter. Children: Tyler, died young: Rebecca: John, died young; John (2) (see biog- 
 raphy): Sally, died young; Dolly, died young; Elizabeth; Nathaniel; Samuel; Tyler. 
 Tyler Curtis' brother, John Curtis, was grandfather of the distinguished writer, 
 George William Curtis. 
 
 JOHN CURTIS, Son of Tyler and Lydia (Chamberlain) Curtis, was born in 
 Worcester, December 23, 1783, and there died August 3, 1826. He married, March 
 16, 1807, Nancy Stowell, born 1783, daughter of Captain Thomas and Anna (Stone) 
 Stowell of Worcester, and granddaughter of Cornelius Stowell, of Watertown. 
 Children; George Thomas Stowell. Tyler Prentice, Sarah Ann, Harriet Newell, died 
 young, John Edwin (see biography). 
 
 JOHN EDWIN CURTIS, Youngest son of John and Nancy (Stowell) Curtis, 
 was born at the Curtis homestead in Worcester, October 11, 1816, died in St. Louis, 
 Missouri, October 4, 1843. He was educated in Worcester schools and grew to man- 
 hood at the farm. He chose mercantile life, and when a young man went West, 
 finally locating in St. Louis, continuing in business there until his death. He mar- 
 
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 ried, May 26. 1841, Amelia Rilt-y, born in Middlctown. Connecticut, in 1822, (iaiiRhter 
 of Calvin and Eunice (Miller) Riley, of Alton. Illinois. Amelia Curtis was a hneal 
 descendant of John Riley, prominent in both the colonies of Connecticut and New 
 Haven, who came with his wife ('.race to Wethcrsl'icld, Connecticut, in 1645. an<l there 
 died in 1674, his widow Grace surviving him until November 26, 170,^ The line of 
 descent from John .and Grace Riley to Amelia (Riley) Curtis was throush their son. 
 Lieutenant Isaac Riley, a commissioned officer in the service of Connecticut, born 
 1670; his son, Nathaniel Riley; his son. Ashcr Riley; his son. Calvin Riley; his 
 daughter. Amelia (Riley) Curtis. Amelia Curtis was also descended from the. Sage, 
 Montague and other well-known Connecticut families, and counted among her ances- 
 tors Lieutenant Chilcah .Smith, of Ipswich, England, who came to Walertown in 
 i6.?4 -^nd was later a representative to the General Court of Hartford; Richard Treat, 
 of Pitminstcr, England, a leading citizen of Wethersfield. Connecticut, and one of 
 the patentees of the charter granted by Charles II. to that colony in 1662; Sergeant 
 John Hurlburt, named in the Ch.irter of Connecticut; and Deacon Richard Rutlcr, 
 of Braintree, England, deputy to the General Court. 
 
 John Edwin Curtis was a young man of great promise. b\it died at the early age 
 of twenty-seven leaving two children: Hlnora, born .March 14. 1.S42, married lared 
 Whitman, .^(l died June 6, i8(>(); Edwin V. (see biography). Mrs. Amelia Curtis 
 married (second) Tyler I'renlice Curtis, her husliand's brother, who died June 16, 
 l8g6. They were the i)arents of John 1).. married Clar.i Nash; Kate, married William' 
 T. Brown ; William C, who owns and resides U])on the old Curtis homeste.-id inherited 
 from his father, Tyler P. Curtis, who lived there all his life. 
 
 EDWIN P. CURTIS, Only --on of John Edwin and Amelia (Uilcy) Curtis, an.l 
 of the eighth generation from the American ancestor, was born at St. Louis, Missouri, 
 February i.S. 1844. a few nioir.h-. after the death of his father. He was brought up by 
 his step-father, Tyler Prentice Curtis, on the old Curtis estate in Worcester, which 
 has l)een held in the family since i()7o. He was educated in the public schools of 
 Worcester and at Worcester Academy, and although a minor served in the quarter- 
 master's department of the Union .Army during the Civil War. stationed at (Cin- 
 cinnati. Ohio. He returned to Worcester in i8()4. and the same year entered the 
 employ of A. P. Richardson, of Worcester, manufacturer of mowing-machines and 
 other agricultural implements. He began in the office, but as time went on held 
 position after position of greater importance, until the incorjioration of the business 
 as the Richardson .Manufacturing Com[)any. when he was elected secretary of the 
 company, later becoming director, treasurer and president successively, the last of 
 which offices he still holds, rounding out a period of service covering fifty-five years. 
 The company is an important one among Worcester's manufacturing industries and 
 under both the Richardson individual ownership and under its corporate manage- 
 ment has pursued a uniformly successful existence. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married. January i. 1S68. Harriet .Vugusta Bigelow, daughter of 
 Walter and Mary (Hyde) Bigelow. a lineal descendant of David Bigelow, of 
 Worcester, prominent there during the Revolution, and brother of Colonel Timothy 
 Bigelow. of famous memory. She is a descendant also of Deacon Edmund Rice, 
 of Phineas Heywood, and Deacon William Trowbridge, early settlers of Worcester; 
 and of Deacon John Jackson, first settler of Cambridge Village (now Newton), 
 Massachusetts, and of Deacon Samuel Hyde, second settler of Cambridge Village. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have one daughter. Elnora Whitman Curtis, who graduated 
 from Smith College, and later received the degree of Ph. D. from Clark University. 
 On both paternal and maternal line? she traces to the earliest beginnings of 
 Worcester. 
 
 THE BIGELOW LINE. Bigelow is a name found in New England at a very 
 early date, and has been well-represented both as to nuiubcrs and in the cli;iracter of 
 citizenship throughout the Union. The Worcester family in this branch trace to David 
 Bigelow, a prominent patriot of Independence days, a brother of Colonel Timothy 
 Bigelow, a brave officer of the Revolution. They were descendants of John Bigelow, 
 baptized in England, February 16, 1617. died in Waterlown, Massachusetts, July 14, 
 1703. He married (first) in Watertown, October ,30, 1642, Mary Warren, also of Eng- 
 lish birth, who died October 19, itxii. He married (second) in 1694, Sarah Bemis. 
 He had six sons and six daughters, and was the ancestor of mnnerous Bigelow fam- 
 ilies in New England. His sons were j John, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Joshua, and 
 James. The line of descent is through Joshua Bigelow, born in Watertown. November 
 5, 1655, lived at ^^'atertown most of his life, but at the age of eighty-six removed with 
 his son Eleizer, in 1742, to land grantedthem in Narragansctt. now Westminster. He 
 died there February i, I74,s. his the first adult death in the town. He served in 
 Captain Ting's company in Kin.g Philip's War, was engaged in conflict and received 
 
784 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 wounds. Joshua Bigelow married Elizabeth Flagg. daughter of Thomas and Mary 
 Flagg. They were the parents of sons: Joshua, Jonathan, John, Benjamin, Jabez, 
 David. Jnseph, Daniel, Ebenezer, Gershom and Eleizer. Descent is traced through 
 Daniel, "the eighth son and ninth child. 
 
 DANIEL BIGELOW was born in Watertown, his baptizmal date August 29, 
 i6y7. and died in that part of Worcester known as Pakachoag Hill, about 1789, aged 
 ninety-two. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Mercy Whitney, and 
 after his marriage settled in Worcester. They were the parents of sons: Daniel (2); 
 David (see biography); Xathaniel ; Elijah, died young; Timothy, the Revolutionary 
 officer ; and Silence. 
 
 DAVID BIGELOW, Of Worcester, second s<:>n of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whit- 
 ney) Bigelow, was born in Worcester, September 19, 1730, died May 10, 1810. He 
 was a very influential patriot during the Revolution, and although physically unfit, 
 owing to a fall which left him a cripple, did yeoman service of a civil nature. He was 
 a member of the Conmiittee of Public Safety ; selectman ; representative to the Gen- 
 eral Court in 1777; member of the convention to ratify the Constitution of the United 
 States; deacon of the First Unitarian Church of Worcester; a man of purity of 
 speech, manners and life. He married (first) May 21, 17.S2, Sarah Eaton, who died 
 October 22, 1761. He married (second), March 8, 1764, Deborah Heywood, who sur- 
 vived him until AJay 23, 1822. Their home was in the northeast part of the town on 
 the old road to Boylston. Children : David, married Hannah Wellington ; Sarah, 
 married Joshua Harrington; Elizabeth, married John Haw; Lydia, died young, born 
 seven days before her mother's death. By second marriage: Lydia (2), married 
 Zachariah Childs; Lucretia, married William Goulding: Dorothy, married Joseph 
 Chadwick ; Silas, married Arathusa Moore ; Levi, married Nancy Goodhue ;, Walter 
 (see biography) ; Tyler, married Clarissa Bigelow, and was the father of Chief Jus- 
 tice General Tyler Bigelow. 
 
 WALTER BIGELOW, Next to the youngest son of David Bigelow and his 
 second wife, Deborah (Heywood) Bigelow, was born in Worcester, November 18, 
 1775, died May 17, 1857. He was a prominent farmer of Worcester, and held several 
 local offices. He married, November 18, 1799, Judith Trowbridge, daughter of William 
 and Sarah Trowbridge. She died March 13. 1863. aged eighty-five years, four months. 
 Children: Sarah Rice, married John (2) Barnard; Andrew, died unmarried; Dolly, 
 died aged nineteen years; Walter (2) (see biography); Mary Elizabeth, married 
 George C. Davis. 
 
 WALTER (2) BIGELOW, Younger son of Walter (i) and Judith (Trow- 
 bridge) Bigelow, was born in Worcester, August 22, 181 1, died February 17, 1880. He 
 was a well-known and influential citizen of Worcester, and in 1861 served as alder- 
 man. He married, January 15, l8-|0, Mary King Hyde, of Newton, daughter of Samuel 
 and Lucy Hyde. She was born in Newton, Novetnber 29, 1816, died in Worcester, 
 June 26, 1871. Children: George; Harriet Augusta, married Edwin P. Curtis (q. v.); 
 Mary Frances; Sarah, married Dr. Charles H. Davis; Walter Samuel; Charles 
 Pelham. 
 
 THE TROWBRIDGE LINE. Mrs. Curtis' Trowbridge ancestor. Deacon 
 William Trowbridge, was a son of James, son of William, son of Lieutenant James, 
 youngest son of Thomas Trowbridge, of Taunton, England, who married Elizabeth 
 Marshall, and is the progenitor of all of the family in New England of early Colonial 
 ancestry. Lieutenant James Trowbridge was lieutenant, selectman, clerk of writs, 
 deputy to the General Court, commissioner, and deacon. His son, William, born 
 November 19, 1684, married Sarah Ward; their son, Jtmes Trowbridge, the first of 
 this name to settle in Worcester. 
 
 JAMES TROWBRIDGE was born at Newton, Massachusetts, April 21, 1717, 
 died July 21, 180(1. He came to Worcester in 1739 and bought of Matthew Clark his 
 farm of sixly acres and his house on Tatnuck hill, this farm now the property of the 
 Tatnuck Country Club. He lived on that property until 1747, then sold to Richard 
 Flagg, and bought the farin near the Auburn line which for many years was in the 
 possession of himself and his son, the central part of which is now called Trow- 
 bridgeville. He also owned a saw mill and a mill for grinding corn, the old house 
 standing on the farm until the present century. He married, in 1740, Jerusha, daughter 
 of Richard and Sarah (Fuller) Park. Of their nine children but one, Deacon William, 
 seems to have reinained in Worcester. 
 
 DEACON WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Of the fifth generation, was born in 
 the homestead at Trowbridgcville, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 20, 17.^1, died at 
 the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lewis Chapin, just over the line in Auburn, September 
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 when I'ostcr street was cnntiinied tliroiiuli to tlic Union Station, his remains and those 
 of his family were removed to tlic old Trinvbridge farm and laid in that part now 
 Hope Cemetery. He served as a corporal in the early Kevoluti.mary days, was a 
 member of the committee on correspondence, and held the otTices of constable, warden, 
 collector of highway taxes, school committeeman, and in other ways served his day and 
 generation. He was a deacon of the First fniiarian Church for twenty years, and in 
 1798-99 built his mansidii at Trowbridgeville. which, owini; to its line wainscoting and 
 interior finish, was considered one of tlie haiids"mest in W'n'cester. The manf^ion is 
 still standing. Deacon \\'illiam Trowbridge married. Oeciinlier \2. \y-fy. Sarah Rice, 
 daughter of Thomas and Judith fSteari.s') Rice. Judith, daughter of Deacon William 
 and Sarah (Rice) Trowbridge, married Walter (i) liigeliw. they the parents of 
 Walter (2) Bigelow, and grandparents ni Harriet .\. (Bigel.nv'i Curtis, wife of Edwin 
 P. Curtis. 
 
 THE HEYWOOD LINE. The Heyw-od family, under various spellings, 
 Haward, HeywDod, Heyoixl, Heyward, Howard, and oilier forms, at the fancy of 
 the owner, first appeared in Worcester Cduiity with Rhiiieas Hevwood. who came with 
 his family about 1739. He w'as a son of John ( j) Heywood. son of John ( i ) Hey- 
 wood, who married Rebecca .Atkinson in 1050. and is known to have lived in Concord 
 as early as i6,=;o. John (2) fleywood married Sarah Simnnds. who Ijore him thirteen 
 children, including Phiiieas, the twelfth. 
 
 PHINEAS HEYWOOD was born in Concord. Ma<-^achusett? July iS, 1707, 
 came to Shrewsbury in Worcester county abnul 1730. and ilied March 20, I77'i. His 
 widow, Elizabeth, died June u, 1707, aged eiglity-six. Phineas Heywood was pniminent 
 in town affairs preceding the Revolution, a delegate in tl;e Provincial congresses, etc. 
 He left a large family of children among whom were: Hon. Benjamin Heywood, 
 was settled in W'orcester, served as captain in the Rividu;ioii. was judge of the Court 
 of Common Pleas and held various iiiiportar.t ortices : Elizabeth, bnrii in Worcester, 
 September 13, 1732, died in Shrewsbury,' Afassacbusetts. May 16. 1777, married, May 
 15. 17.5s. John Curtis, son of Captain John and Rebekah (Wight) Ciu'ti- and father 
 of David Ctirtis. who was the grandfather of the writer, (!"ieorge William Curtis; 
 Deborah, born in Worcester, April it, 1736, married. March S. 1764, David Bigelow, 
 ancestor of Harriet A. fP.igelow) Curtis, wife of Edwin P. Curtis. 
 
 THE RICE LINE. The name Rice is of Welsh origin, but there is no record 
 of Deacon Eilmund Rice prior to the year 1627. when !ie. with his family, was living 
 at Berkhamslead, in Hertfordshire. England. He came to Xew b'ngland in 163S with 
 His wife Taniazine and seven children, one born on the voyage .and one dying. They 
 settled at Sudbury in 1639, going thence to Marlboro, where he died ^Iay 3, 1663. 
 Four children were born to them in New England. 
 
 THOMAS RICE, Son of Deacon Edmund Rice, the i<iunder, was born about 
 1622, in Buckinghamshire, England, and resided at Sudbury and Marllioro, Massachu- 
 setts, settling in llie latter town about 1664, and there died November 16, j6Hi. He 
 married Mary King, who bore him nine sons and four daughters. Ephrahim being the 
 seventh child; Jonas, "the father of Worcester," being the eleventh. 
 
 EPHRAHIM RICE, Son of Thomas Rice, born .April 15. 1665, was a proprietor 
 of Worcester, and had thirty acres granted iiim there in 171S. but so far as known 
 he never lived there. He was a brother of Jonas fxice. the first permanent settler of 
 Worcester. [".phrahim Rice married Hannah Livermore. daughter of John and 
 Hannah Livermore. of Watertown. who died at Sudbury. Ma\- 21. 172-I. 
 
 THOMAS RICE, Son of Ephrahim Rice, was born March 21, 1701, died at 
 Worcester, December 17, 17S5. He married (lirst) Mary Hall, who die<i at Wor- 
 cester, Septembers, 1749. He married (second) Judith Stearns, who died Xovember, 
 1811, aged eighty-one. the mother of Sarah Rice, wife of William Tmubridge. 
 
 SARAH RICE, Born .August 22, 1756, married William Trowliridge, she a 
 daughter of Thonias and Judith (Steams) Rice. 
 
 JOHN GOLDTHWAITE JOHNSON, Honored public official, is esteemed 
 and respected by all. There are few men hi Worcester who occupy a more enviable 
 position in industrial, commerci.il ;ind political circles than John G. Johnson, repre- 
 sentative of the Thirteenth \\ orcester District in the Massachusetts Legislature. He 
 is a man of untiring energy, quick perception, forms his plans readily and is determined 
 in their execution, and his close application to whatever he undertakes is responsible 
 for the success which he has achieved in his active careei . 
 
 On the paternal side, Mr. Johnson traces his ancestry to William Johnson, who 
 went out from Charlestown in 1698 and became one <<i the first builders of ships in 
 Newburv, afterwards known as Newburvport. and famous a, one of the great ship 
 
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 building centers of the entire country. Tliis line of the family lived in the old town 
 from 1698 to i8t)8. William Johnson, born February 12, 1678, died August 3, 1732, 
 married Martha Pierce. Their son, Isaac Johnson, was born in 1710, died m 1782, 
 married Martha Greenleaf. who was born March 18, 1714, and died May 30, 1782. In 
 the third generation, their son, Isaac J. Johnson, was born March 29, 1752, married 
 Frances Holmes, who was born at Ncwburyport, January 24, 1762. In the fourth 
 generation, their son, Isaac Johnson, was born October 10, 1784, and died October 8, 
 1863. He married Sarah Broadman Goldthwaite, born October 12, 1791, and died 
 March 25, t868. In the lifth generation their son, John G. Johnson, was born in New- 
 buryport, September 23. 1818, and died July 26, 1864. He married Malinda D. Swain, 
 who was born at Northwood, New Hampshire, January 10, 1821, and died March 24, 
 1903, at the age of eighty-two years. They were the parents of the John G. Johnson, 
 an account of whose life is the subject of this biography. 
 
 On the maternal side the line of the Swain family in America is as follows : Rich- 
 ard, WilliaiTi, John, William, Phineas, Reuben, Malinda D. On April 6, 1635, William 
 and Francis Swain, sons of Richard Swain, came to America in the "Rebecca," John 
 
 Hedges, master, and later William Swain and his wife (Bassett) Swain, sailed 
 
 from London, England, on the "True-love," John Gibbs, master. They settled at 
 Rowley, Massachusetts, but later, shortly after the settling of Hampton, New Hamp- 
 shire, removed thither. Phineas Swain, above mentioned, was born in Epping, New 
 Hampshire, October 2, 1762, and died at Northwood, New Hampshire, August 20, 
 1840, aged seventy-seven years, ten months, ;aid nineteen days. He enlisted in the 
 Revolutionary War when fifteen years of age, and was at West Point at the time of 
 Benedict Arnold's treason. His first enlistment was for six months, and he served 
 from June to July, 1777: his second enlistment was for nine months, from March, 
 1778; his third enlistment was for six months, from July, 1779; his fourth enlistment 
 was for three months, from July, 1780, under Simeon Marston. He served under 
 Captain Ezekiel Worthen. Captain Henry Butler, Colonel Senter, Colonel Stephen 
 Peabody, Colonel Hercules Mooney, and Colonel Thomas Bartlett. All his enlist- 
 ments were from Epping, New Hampshire. He married, January 19, 1784, Jane Carr, 
 born May 27, 1765, died January 24, 1838. Their son, Reuben Swain, was born in 
 Northwood, New Hampshire, October 9. 1787, and married Sallie Carswell, born June 
 9, 1790, died February 4. 1846. Their daughter, Malinda D. Swain, was born at North- 
 wood, New Irlampshire. January 10, 1821, and died March 24, 1903, aged eighty-two 
 years. She became the wife of John G. Johnson, of previous mention. They were the 
 parents of another child, Emma Frances, born in Exeter, Massachusetts, March 15, 
 1859. She was educated at the Portsmouth High School, and when sixteen years old 
 began teaching school and so continued for twenty-two years, teaching in the New- 
 tonville High School, and in the schools of Nashua, New Hampshire, in which city 
 she is now residing. 
 
 John G. Johnson was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 23, 1864, the 
 son of John G. and Malinda D. (Swain) Johnson. He attended the public schools 
 of his native city, completing his studies at the grammar school when fourteen years 
 of age. His first employment was in the Government Navy Yard at Portsmouth, where 
 he remained for one year. He then went to Nashua, New Hampshire, and secured 
 employment in a machine shop, after which he became an employee of the railroad, 
 performing the duties of fireman, and at the expiration of that time he was promoted 
 to the position of engineer, serving in that capacity on a passenger train before he had 
 attained the age of twenty-two years. He had charge of an engine for only one year 
 before he was pullitig a passenger train, this fact demonstrating his ability and skill. 
 In i8q3 he resigned his position as an engineer on the railroad, and removed to Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts, and there accepted the position of engineer in the Worcester 
 County Mechanics' Association building, and later became chief engineer of the State 
 Mutual Life Insurance Company building, his term of service extending over a period 
 of four years and seven months, when he resigned in order to enter the employ of the 
 Electric Storage Battery Company of Philadelphia, with which concern he remained for 
 one year. He then engaged in business on his own account, conducting a bakery and 
 confectionary store located at the corner of Highland and West streets. Worcester, 
 for a number of years, and since 1912 has conducted a wholesale business in peanuts, 
 in which he has been highly successful. 
 
 Mr. Johnson has always taken an active interest in the political affairs of Wor- 
 cester, of which city he has been a resident for twenty-three years, and has been 
 chosen by his fellow-citizens to fill offices of trust and responsibility. He served for 
 four years on the Republican City Committee; for two years, 1913-14, as a member of 
 the Common Council, serving on the committee of sewers and legislative affairs; in 
 191 5 as a member of the Board of Aldermen, serving as chairman of the legislative 
 committee and the committee of sewers and assessments, and as a member of the com- 
 
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 mittcc tit hnance and (irdinanci-s ; was. chosen to reprostiit tlu- 'riiirtei-nth Worcester 
 District in the Massaclnisetts Legislature and has heen n'-noniinated for the 1017 
 term, during his period of service beini^ a member of the conmiitlee of cities, a very 
 important committee. He is a meniher of the Wnrci-ter C'ount.v Chil), and of tlie 
 Worcester County Kepiddican Chib. 
 
 Mr. Johnsi'n married, .April i. iS'Qt). Lula b'rances Merrick, born in lloIcU'n, Massa- 
 chusetts. 'dau>,diter of Deputy SlieritY ICdward Wallace Mtrrick, of Iloblen, Massachu- 
 setts, and of his wife. Mary .\. (Chapman) Merrick, and one child \v;is born of 
 this marria.sje, K'.iliih Merrick lohnson, born in Worcester, Massaclnisetts. .lannary 
 28. l8(i-i. He sradujited from the public an<l liiKh schools of W(.rcester. and from 
 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, cl;iss of loi.s. He is employed as a chemist at 
 the Norton Comi);my works in Worcester. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge^ 
 Free and .Accepted Masons, ;ind also of the Council. He married Doris Louise White, 
 daughter of OtTiccr Clinton S. and Louise .T. White, of Worcester, 
 
 Edward Wallace Merrick, father of Mrs John O. Jolmson. was born in Rut- 
 land. Massachns'etts. May 22. iS.),?, and died December it. 191-I. aged seventy-two 
 years. He was enyaHed in the insurance business: served as <leputy-sherifT for 
 twcnt\-live years, and was overseer of the poor lor forty years. His wife. Mary A. 
 (Chapman) Merrick, was borii in New Ipswich, N'ew Hampsliire. .August .21. 1848. 
 Edward Merrick, fatlier of Ivlward W.allace Merrick, was born at Sterling, Massa- 
 chusetts, July t6, 1816, and died at Princeton. Massaclms( tts. July jo. i8<).>. He mar- 
 ried, November 11. 1841. I'annie Clark, of Hulibanlston. .Massaclnisetts. born in 1821, 
 died in Worcester. Massachusetts, October 7, 191-1. b".dwar<l Merrick, wdio bad his 
 name changed to Merrick by the Legislature or the Courts. w;is a son of Jesse 
 Partridge, born at Walpole, I^lassachusetts, Febru;iry 2.;, 1784, died at Princeton, 
 Massachusetts, October i, 1882, and his remains were interred in a cemetery at Holdcn, 
 Massachusetts. He married Lydia Maynard. He :s a son of Jesse Patrid.ge, Imrn 
 February 28, 17.17, died March 2g, 1838, and buried in the old cemetery at Holdeii, 
 Massachusetts. He was ninety-one years old at the time of his death. He married 
 Kcziah Clapp, born May 2, 17.^3, died September i, i8i(). Jesse Patridge served as a 
 soldier in tbc Revtdutionary War. Mrs. .Mary ,A. (Cli.aiiman ) Merrick was a daughter 
 of Gates, Jr. and Sophia (.Adams) Chapman, who were married .Septendicr 0, 1847. 
 He was born .April 27, 1825, died January 23, l8()6, and she was born .August 21, 1829, 
 died September 7, 1871. Gates Cliapman, Sr., father of Gates Chapman, Jr., was bom 
 Fel)ruary 8, 171)8, and died March 25, 1873. He married, .April 24, 1824. Mary P.urn- 
 ham, born June 16, 1807, died March 2.s, 18 — . Dudley Chapman, father of Gates 
 Chapman, Sr., was born May ig, 1765, died October 17. 1832. He was a soldier of 
 the Revolutionary War, and a leading bass singer of the Peterboro church. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth VVheaton, born November 12. 17(10, died November 28, 1826. Mrs. 
 John G. Johnson, and her mother, Mrs. Edward W. Merrick, were charter members of 
 Captain George Webb Chapter, Daughters of the .American Revolution, through the 
 Revolutionary services of their ancestors. 
 
 In studying the lives and characters of prominent men. we are naturally led to 
 inquire into the secret of their success and the motives that prompted their action. 
 When we trace the career of those highest in public esteem, we tlnd in nearly every 
 case that they are those that have risen gradually, fighting their way in the face of all 
 opposition. Self-sacril'ice. conscientiousness, energy, honesty, these are the traits of 
 character that insure the highest emoluments and greatest success. To these we attri- 
 bute the success that has crowned the efforts of John G, Johnson. 
 
 JOHN JOSEPH HAYDEN, Physician and surgeon, as born in this city. .April 
 23, 1878. sou of William ,ind H.innab ( Nagle ) Hayden. William Hayden was born 
 in County (Jueens. Ireland. December 8. 1843. '"id came to this country in 1872, making 
 his home here. He is now living in this city, retired. He married, here. Hannah 
 Nagle. and they had four children: Michael, the eldest, f<irenian in the employ of 
 the Worcester Gas Li.ght Company; Mary, died at the age of two years; John Joseph; 
 and Hannah .A., who lives with Dr. Hayden. The Hayden family has lived in Ireland 
 for many generations in and about County Queens. 
 
 John J. Hayden attended the public schools here, continuing with the English 
 High until he was nineteen years of age, when he entered the employ of the Graton 
 & Knight Manufacturing Company, remaining with this concern for seven years. He 
 then became a student in the Baltimore Medical College, from which he graduated with 
 the degree of E)ocfor of Medicine in 11^38. He was afterward an interne in the b'arren 
 Memorial Hospital. Montague City. Massachusetts, and then in the House of Provi- 
 dence Hospital in Holyoke. Since looq he has been in jirivate jiractice in this city. 
 His oifice is at No. 3fKi Grafton street, where hi- also resides, erecting his residence in 
 1917- He is a member of both the State and Worcester District .Medical societies. 
 
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 Alhanibra Council, No. 88, Knights of Columbus; Lodge, No. 59, Massachusetts 
 
 Order of Foresters; and a communicant of St. Stephen's Catholic Church of this city. 
 Dr. Hayden married, in this city, September Q, 1914. Katherine P. Bane, who was 
 born in Worcester, June 29, 1883, daughter of John and Anna (Regan) Bane. Her 
 father was born in Galway. Ireland ; served in the Civil War, was wounded in action, 
 under General George A. Custer, who was afterward killed in battle by the Indians. 
 Her mother was a native of St. John's, Newfoundland, died in this city, March 21, 
 1911. Dr. and Mrs. Hayden have two children: John William, born in this city, 
 August 12, 19T5; Marion, born in this city, November 17, 1918. 
 
 JOSEPH CONVERSE ELLIS, Merchant and real estate operator, was born 
 in this city, September 30, 1850, and died here March 9, 1906. He was the son of 
 Sylvester and Mary Ann (Boynton) Ellis, being one of nine children, he and his 
 sister, Jennie A., being the only two to survive to maturity. 
 
 Mr. Ellis received his education in the public schools of this city, and after leaving 
 school becatne associated in business with his father, who was a dealer in meats and 
 provisions. He succeeded to the business and subsequently entered into partnership 
 with Luther Baker, under the firm name of Baker S: EUis. This firm was located on 
 Park street, now I'ranklin street, and built the brick building in which the business 
 was conducted. Gradually the firm became more interested in the development of 
 real estate, and finding it more profitable gave up the market and provision business, 
 opening a real estate office on Front street. This firm built several houses and apart- 
 ments, among them the Boynton and Windsor Apartments, which were among the 
 first apartments in the city. Mr. Ellis was a shrewd judge of land values, and served 
 many years as appraiser and trustee of the People's Savings Bank, of this citv. He 
 was often chosen as appraiser and expert in suits at law and in land damage cases. 
 He was also a commissioner on the widening of Shrewsbury street. He was a trustee 
 of the Old Men's Home, and a commissioner of the Hope Cemetery Corporation. 
 Fraternally, he was a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. 
 
 On May 8, 1880, Mr. Ellis married Minnie C. J. Salter, who was born in St. John, 
 New Brunswick, Canada, daughter of A. C. A. and Elizabeth H. (Knight) Salter. 
 Mrs. Ellis survives her husband, and resides at the homestead, No. 1200 Main street. 
 To Mr. and INIrs. Ellis were born the following children: i. Elizabeth Boynton, who 
 is a graduate of the Worcester High School, and is now a clerk in the office of the 
 Register of Deeds in this city. 2. Harold Baker, who is a graduate of the Worcester 
 High School, spent one year at Mercersburg (Pennsylvania), Academy, and two years 
 as a student at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, after which he became connected 
 .ifith the Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company, in the purchasing department, 
 where he was employed until his enlistment, December 3, 1917, in the United States 
 Army for service in the World War. 3. Mildred Salter, a student at school. 4. Edith 
 Carolyn, a student at school. Mr. Ellis was descended in various lines from the 
 pioneers of New England. Mrs. Ellis is also descended from early Colonial stock. 
 
 LEON JOSEPH KREFT. Although a young man Mr. Kreft has from youth 
 occupied such a place in the public service and life of his town that a record of his 
 achievements indicates a man of far greater years. As town official, newspaper writer, 
 reporter, advertising specialist and war worker, he has won high standing among 
 journalists and business men, while his numerous fraternal affiliations have brought 
 into strong relief his admirable social qualities. He is a native son of Worcester 
 county, Massachusetts, born in Webster, a town in which he has always retained his 
 residence although his business interests are centered in Worcester and Boston. He 
 is a son of N'aleryan Kreft, also born in Webster, Massachusetts, and there yet resid- 
 ing, having for a quarter of a century been connected with the Boston store of that 
 town. .Valeryan Kreft married Kate F. Roche, born in Ware, Massachusetts, and they 
 are the parents of three children : J. Raymond, now an accountant with the Wash- 
 burn & Garfield Company ; Louis F.. of Rockland, Massachusetts, engaged in shoe 
 manufacturing; Leon J. (see biography). 
 
 Leon J. Kreft, youngest son of Valeryan and Kate F. (Roche) Kreft, com- 
 pleted his studies with graduation from the St. Louis High School, and has since 
 been actively engaged in business as an advertising man, journalist and special writer. 
 He is now treasurer of Leon J. Kreft Company, Incorporated, newspaper advertising 
 specialists. No. 310 Slater building, Worcester. For two years he was a member of 
 the reportorial stalf of the "Worcester Telegram," and for two years has been a 
 special writer of labor articles, strikes, etc., for Boston newspapers. For four years 
 he was a member of the Webster Democratic Town Committee and for three years 
 its secretary; member and secretary of the Webster Board of Health three years; 
 
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 member of the M.-issaohusetts AsM'ciatt il I'.ojirds ol hUaltli; niciiibcr uf ilio Massa- 
 chiisetls Anti-Tiibcrculosis Lt'ai;tu-. Mr. Krt-tt was i-Kclfil mi Marcli 2^, 1911), for an 
 additional three years as menil)er of the Board ol Health in Webster. Since the out- 
 break of war with ('lennany. he enlisted for war service in the I'nited Slates Public 
 Service Reserve. Xalinnal War Work Council, Voiin« Men's Christian Association, 
 United States I.tepartTuent of Labor. United States (Civilian) Department ol Ord- 
 nance, and has served as secretary of the publicity Inward of W'ebster Home Defence 
 Committee. In these varied activities Mr. Krcft has borne an important part, and in 
 no Miiall measure h.-is contributed to tl'.eir success. He is a member of the Pfdonia 
 Political Club, and in i(iif< was the candidate of the Democr;ttic party for represen- 
 tative from the .^ixtli Worcester District. He is a member and ev-secrcl;iry of the 
 Webster Automobile Club; member and cx-lrustee of Webster .Xeric, b'raternal Order 
 of Eagles; p.iember of Lakesiile Lodsic. Loyal Order of Moose; Court Friendship, 
 Foresters of .\merica; and Klias P. Morton Cam]), Sons of Wterans. 
 
 Mr. Kreft m.irried. October 2;, lOi-'. Jessie L. To-,irtellotte, a granddau.iflUer of 
 Judge Tourtellotte, of Thompson. Connecticut, now deceased, and a daughter of J. 
 Burton and lunma (Ledoux) Tourtellotte. both residing in Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kreft are the parents (.f two children: Leon Joseph. Jr., born July 
 20, K)i4; Paidinc Jessie, Jtuie Ji, 1015. 
 
 WALTER ALAN HARRINGTON. The Harringtons of this branch arc of 
 an ancient Shreuslmr) f.-unily. ihe proucnitors early settling in Xew Kngl;mil. W.allcr 
 Alan Harrington is a son of Janus Her.ry H.arrington. son of W.altcr Harrington, son 
 of Martin ,ind I.ucinda (Templci Harrington, slie.a daughter of Joseph S. Temple, 
 also of ancient Colonial family. Walter Harrington was born in Siirewsbury. .Massa- 
 chusetts. July 12, iSUi. died in Xorth Grafton. Massachusetts, in 1X05. He was a con- 
 tractor of n.>te. a man of high character and inlbieiice. In politics Mr. Harrington 
 was a Democrat of the Jeffersoni.an .-Uid Jacksoni.m t\ pe and always stood by that 
 belief. He married Melissa Taber, of Topsham, \'ermont, who bore him two chiblren: 
 Waller, born in Grafton, died aged fourti'cn years; James Henry, mentioned below. 
 James Henry Harrington was born at Xorth (irafton. Massachusctls. January 
 24. iS-ii. and there died, November 5, igoj. He learne<l the ti.ol m.iker's Irade, 
 becoming a thoroughly expert workman. In 1865 he went to California, and for tliree 
 years was employed by the Pacific Iron Comp.any at bis trade in San I'rancisco. He 
 then returned East and was employed in shops in ^>e^v \'ork. Xew Jersey. Massachu- 
 setts, and Uhode Island. .-Xt one time lie was employed ;it the United States .Arsenal 
 at Waterlown, Massachusetts, and again at the Arsenal of Springfield. Massachusetts. 
 Later he settled in Pioston, wdiich was his home for twenty-nine years, in that city 
 he was employed by the J. T. Hancock Company and by the John I,. Wliitin I'lrush 
 Company, for twenty-one years. He wi.s a member of the Masonic Order, and polit- 
 ically a Republican. Mr. ilarrington niarrie<l, in iS/,^. b'.lla J. Kirby, born in VVor- 
 cestcr. .•\ugust o, J852. daughter of Frank .\. and Rebecca (Piper) Kirby. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Harrington .are the parents of two children : Mildred IClla, born Xovember 20, 
 1876, married George T. Woodward, a journalist of Worcester, and died in 1908, 
 without children ; Walter Alan. 
 
 Walter .Man Harrington was bcprn in Boston. Massachusetts. May it, 1S82. 
 He attended the Boston public schools and linishcd his studies with graduation 
 from Grafton Center High School in 1901. l''or eighteen months after .graduation 
 he was in the employ of Frost. Briggs & Chamberlain, architects of Worcester, after 
 which he entered the service of the Worcester Manuf.acturers Mutual Insurance Com- 
 pany as a clerk. On March 17, 1911, lie \\;as promoted to the post of assistant-secretary, 
 and on March 6, 1912, was elected secretary of the company, an important office which 
 he still fills most acceptably.' The company was incorporated in 1855, and is one of the 
 most successful of mutual companies. Mr. Harrington is a Republican in politics, and 
 for two years has represented his ward on the Republican City Committee. He is a 
 member of the Commonwealth Club, is fond of a game of billiards, and of a day with 
 rod and reel by a trout or bass stream or lake. 
 
 Mr. Harrington married, in Grafton, Massachusetts, July 20, 1912, Blanche 
 Rebecca Ripley, born at Coldbrook Springs, Worcester county, Massachusetts, daugh- 
 ter of Walter L. and Florence Nightingale (Duffy) Ripley, her father deceased, her 
 mother yet residing in Grafton, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Harrington are the 
 parents of a son, Walter Alan, Jr., borr April 10, 1914. A second child died at birth. 
 
 WALLACE HERBERT YOUNG, Treasurer of Young Brothers Company, was 
 born in New Germany, Lunenburg courity, Nova Scotia, November 20, 1867. When 
 he was two years old his parents moved to Kings cotmty, where he received his 
 education in the public schools. He came to this city at the age of twenty-five. Here 
 
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 HISTORY OF IVORCRSTEli 
 
 he foiin.l emuloMiieut with W. D. Craves, ladder dealer. No 490 West Bovlston 
 street. Four "years later, in iS'96. he ai;d his brother. George F. Young, succeeded to 
 the ladder business and carried on the sale of ladders. In the first winter they made a 
 few extension ladders as an experiment. In 1897 their business had grown and they 
 employed their brother, H. W. Young, and added another wagon for the sale of their 
 ladders. Another brother, W. E. Young, was employed in l8g8 selling ladders, and 
 one year later became a partner in the firm, which was afterward known as Young 
 Brothers. In 1900 they engaged another brother. F. M. Young. By 1906 the firm had 
 six wagons employed in selling their product in summer, and later they had eight. 
 In 1902 the firm acquired all of the property of W. D. Graves, and Judson O. Young, 
 another brother, entered the employ of the firm. In 1903 G. F. Young sold his interests 
 to F. M. and J. O. Young, but a year later George F. again became a partner. He v/as 
 killed in a railroad accident. Novtinber 3, 1906, at Barber's Crossing, Worcester. In 
 1910 F. M. Young sold his share in the business. The business was incorporated, 
 April -. 191 1, with W. E. "^'oung as president; Wallace H. Young, treasurer; J. O. 
 "S'oung, assistant treasurer and manager of the Springfield branch, which '^'oung 
 Brothers have carried on since igofj. The site of the jiresent factory at Greendale 
 was purchased in 1907, and the factory erected. In 1913 the company added the coal 
 and wood business, with spacious buildings and facilities, and a large trade has been 
 built up in a few years. Mr. Young is a member of the People's Church of Green- 
 dale. 
 
 Mr. Young married (first) .^pril 15, 1900, Mrs. Lucy (Holmes) Kunzelman, of 
 Vermont; she died August i, 1909. He married (second) September 25, 1912, Maud 
 A. M. Brennan, of Lake George, Kings county. Nova Scotia. Mrs. Young was a 
 daughter of William and Marcia .-Mice (Ward) Brennan. Children by first wife: 
 Henrv P. Kunzelman, graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1915; Francis 
 J. Kunzelman, of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1918. Children by second mar- 
 riage: Benjamm Herbert, died in infancy, 1913; and Florence Marcia, born July 21, 
 1914. 
 
 Mrs. Young (Maud A. M. Brennan) was a high school teacher, and was grad- 
 uated from Truro Normal School, Nova Scotia, Truro School of Science, and Mac- 
 Donald Institute. Guelph, Ontario. She specialized in nature study, and made a com- 
 plete collection of ferns native to Nova Scotia; also collected a large herbarium of 
 mounted mosses, plants of fungous growth and flowering plants : studiedand collected 
 many insects of different orders, and showed them in different stages of life history; 
 was a deep student of ornithology and could identify nearly all the land birds of the 
 Maritime provinces of Canada. Her father was born in Nova Scotia, in 1829, son of 
 Patrick Brennan, who was an aide-de-camp to a General in the British army, born 
 in Kilkenny, stationed in London, England; in York, Canada, and Halifax, receiving 
 200 acres for his military services." William Brennan married, in Nova Scotia, in 1871, 
 Marcia Alice Ward, and had Jessie, Maud, Blanche, Florence, Julia, William, Joseph 
 (deceased), Benjamin (deceased), Edward and Laurie. He was keenly interested in 
 politics, in temperance and other reform movements; a strong Conservative in politics; 
 member of the Good Templars and Sons of Temperance ; a land surveyor, much em- 
 ployed in surveying the old lines of grants, and in placing the bounds for the farms 
 in that section ; the best authority on old landmarks ; familiar with every lake and 
 river; a veteran of the Fenian Raids, receiving a grant for his military service, and 
 having an excellent stock farm ; member of the Methodist church. Joseph L. Ward, 
 the mother's father, was born in North Alton, Nova Scotia, September, 1813; married 
 Caroline Eliza Calkin, who was born at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, in 1816. He was of 
 English stock. The Calkin family has been very prominent in Nova Scotia. One of 
 the family compiled the system of bookkeeping taught in the public schools; wrote 
 histories and geography text-books. (See Geography of the World, by J. B. Calkin, 
 brother of Mrs. Young's grandmother. He was inspector of schools for several years 
 in Nova Scotia, and principal of Nova Scotia Normal School, at Truro, for thirty 
 years). 
 
 Obadiah P. Young, father of the Young brothers of this city, was born in 1839, 
 in Nova Scotia, died in this city, January 27, 1916. He spent his last years in Wor- 
 cester. He married, in 1862, Annie Cashman, of Nova Scotia. Their children were: 
 Harris W. ; Wallace H., inentioned above; George F. (deceased); Parker J., of this 
 city; Cora B.; Frank M. ; Lamert L. ; Mary A.; Clara (deceased); Judson O. ; Foster 
 v.; William E., mentioned below. 
 
 William E. Young, president of the Young Brothers Company, was born in Nova 
 Scotia, April 29, 1872, son of Obadiah P. Young, mentioned above. He attended the 
 schools of his native place, and completed his education here in the evening schools. 
 Since the firm of Young Brothers became a corporation he has been president. He is 
 
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 a member of Central Lodge, Independent Order oi 0(U1 Fellows; of the Gremilale 
 Baptist Church and of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce 
 
 WILLIAM H. LELAND, Tanner of the Leland-CitTurd Company, was l.orn 
 on Granite street, in tliis cily, heliniary 22. iS6(), son of R. I-". and jane Iceland, lie is 
 descended from Henry Leland, the pioneer of "the family, vvlio was born in l'".ngland 
 about i(i,?o. married iVlarsaret lial)cock, came to this cuuntry in \ti-.2, and died in 
 Sherborn, April 4, i(i<So. He he.sjan his school life in the old Dix street building, 
 where he was a pupil until he was ten years old. When a small boy he assisted his 
 father, who was a teamster, taking long drives, .and early in life became accrustomed 
 to hard, manual work. He worked also in the cutton n\ills at Xorlhvillc when a mere 
 lad, and in the Worcester .Slipper Shop, on Mechanic street. .\t the age of thirteen 
 he entered the cmjiloy of Charles G. Washburn, in the Wire Goods Cnmp.any shops, 
 in Allen Court, and there he learned the tr.ide nf machini^t, remaining with the con- 
 cern when it moved to Union street. Dtiring his .ijjprenticeship he remodeled and 
 built the threading macliines, and was placed in charge of tliem. He left the Wire 
 Goods Company to enter the employ of Lester l'<ase. of M. C. I'ease tS; Company, 
 but was soon asked to return by liis former employers .and accc|ited the opportunity. 
 Soon afterward he jierfected the (irst machine for manufacturing wire nails in this 
 city. Afterward he was employed in the shops of L. W. Pond, and by Prentice 
 Brothers, for whom he worked sixteen \ears, beginning as a i)laner hand, and then 
 working in various departments, linally becoming superiiHendenl of tlu' factnrv. 
 
 In 1001 he formed a partnership with .\lbert J. Giffnrd. with whom he liad been 
 associated in the factory of Prentice P>rothers. Mr. t'.ifford was a draughtsman 
 there. The tirtn titled up a machine shop in a small barn ,at the rear of Mr. GifTord's 
 home. Oread street, and worked days, nights and Sundays \i> (lerfcct a screw m.achine; 
 in IQ02 Mr. Leland built a small shop at his residence, and the busincs was moved 
 thither. They did a jobbing business at this time to meet their expenses, and while 
 grinding some crank-shafts for a Detroit concern. Mr. Leland thought he saw an 
 opening lor future business. The tirm set to work then to build a machine fnr grind- 
 ing crank-shafts and abandoned the screw machine. In 1003 a crank-pin grinding 
 machine was perfected, the first in this country. From that time the success of the 
 business was assured. The old quarters were nutgrown. and in Kiof) the plant was 
 located in the present quarters. No. 1025 Soiuhbridge street. The building has been 
 repeatedly enlarged, and the capacity of the plant increased Subbo N'ikolalT. a skil'ful 
 machinist and inventor, became a member of the lirm in 1004, and since then the firm 
 name has been the Leland-Gitifbrd Company. In addition t" the crank-shaft grinding 
 machinery manufactured by the lirm, various other machine tools are being manu- 
 factured at the present time. 
 
 Mr. Leland married. November J7. iS'oj, Idli.umali Mahnncy, of this cily. They 
 have three sons: William F., born 1S114, stuileiil three years in the Worcester Poly- 
 technic Institute, now associated in l)usiness with lii^ f.itlier; Henry, born nio.?; Walter, 
 born 1907. Tlicir home is at No. (> Sheridan street. 
 
 NATHAN AUSTIN LOMBARD, Pioneer in the manufacture of textile 
 machinery in this city, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Ai>ril 16, 180S, died in this 
 city in 1894, aged eighty-six years, son of Nathan and Delight (.-Mien) Lombard. His 
 father was a cabinelniaker in Sutton, and he employed a number of journeymen and 
 apprentices. In front of the house on the old homestead there were four large syca- 
 more trees "the most noble of their kind, affording the most .grateful shade for man 
 and beast; for in their day before railroads and iron horses came into nsi', loaded 
 teams and tired droves of panting cattle passed under their extended branches and 
 were rested and refreshed; many weary droves from beyond the Connecticut have 
 halted there to cool their parched tongues. Even the droves from Kentucky have 
 been refreshed by their shade." These trees were cut down for yoke timber many 
 years ago. Mr. Lombard's shop was made into a dwelling house, taken down, rebuilt 
 and finally burned in 1875 (p. 212-1,3, History of Sutton). The Lombards were de- 
 scended from early settlers of New England. Nathan Lombard was the first to locate 
 in Suttcn. His children were: Alanson Allen, born January 2,s, 1S03; Adaline Ma- 
 rinda, born August 5, 1804, drowned May 29, 1822; Hervey F'aulkner, born May 3, 
 1806; Nathan Austin, mentioned below; Julia Ann, born .August 8, 1814; Emily, born 
 May 9, 1817; and Loring, who died in New York. 
 
 Nathan Austin Lombard spent his boyhood in Sutton, workin.g on farms, in his 
 father's shop and attending the public schools. He came to this city about 1838, and. 
 made his home here during the remaimler of his life. He was employed in various 
 shops until 1851, when the firm of Willard, Williams & Company was formed, consist- 
 ing of Fitzroy Willard, Warren Williams, Nathan A. Lombard, Charles A. Whitte- 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 mure and H. VV. Conklin. Thi^ firm, April i. 1851, bought the business of Henry 
 Goulding, who succeeded Goulding & Davis, November 15, 1844. The business had 
 previously been conducted by Henry Goulding & Company, 1837-1844, who were then 
 building woolen machinery valued at $60,000 a year; succeeding a number of firms, 
 dating back to the year 1822. when the business was established by Ichabod V.'aih- 
 burn. Mr. Lombard's firm became F. Willard & Company, April 2, 1855, and the 
 partners were : Fitzroy Willard, Charles A. Whittemore, H. W. Conklin. and Mr. 
 Lombard. This lirm in turn was succeeded by Bickford & Lombard, April i, 1861, 
 and finally I\Ir. Lombard became the sole proprietor. From 1823 this business had 
 been confined to the manufacture of woolen machinery of various kinds, carding 
 machinery, spinning machinery, spinning jacks, pickers, dusters, willowers, etc. The 
 location of the business was at the southeast corner of School and Union streets. Mr. 
 Loinbard was highly successful in business and never suffered a financial reverse. He 
 owned much real estate here. 
 
 Mr. Lombard married in Worcester, May 6. 1834. Sarah Wiswell, and had four 
 children: George Austin, born at Sutton. September 9, 1837; Catherine Curtis. April 
 5, 1840. in Worcester; Edward Kirk, mentioned below; Sanuiel Wiswell. baptized 
 December 2t, 1844. 
 
 Edward Kirk Lombard, son of Nathan .Austin Lombard, was born in this town, 
 January 25, 1843, and died here in IQ14. He was educated in the public schools of this 
 city, and after leaving school' was associated in business with his father. He succeeded 
 to the ownership of the business. He enlarged the factory and increased the busi- 
 ness. He sold some of the adjoining real estate. He was in active business for fifty 
 years, and retired shortly before his death, after selling the plant to the Economic 
 Machinery Company. At tlie time of the sale, the business had been in existence for 
 nearly a century and was one of the oldest industries in the city with a wonderful 
 record of achievement in developing machinery and manufacturing machines for the 
 textile mills. Mr. Lombard was a member of Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons. Like his father he was kindly, charitable and generous in his 
 dealings with all men ; loved his home city and lost no opportunity to work and con- 
 tribute to its prosperity and welfare. He was a Republican, but not active in politics. 
 
 Edward K. Lombard married. November 22. 1865. Malvina A. Foster, who was 
 born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, coming to this city at the age of eleven years. 
 Her father. Charles M. Foster, came here at that time to make his home in this city. 
 Mrs. Lombard had a brother. Walter R. Foster, who served as drunnner boy in the 
 Civil War, afterward station agent of the old LInion Station, Foster street. Edward 
 K. Loinbard had but one child, who survived infancy. His daughter, Ella D. Lom- 
 bard, who was born in this city, married, in 1902. in Worcester, Edwin L Storer, who 
 was born in Brunswick, Maine, in 1876. and came to Worcester in 1803 as a student 
 in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1897. After finishing, he entered the 
 employ oT Curtis & Marble. He was afterward employed in various gas companies. 
 In IQ08 h^ returned to Worcester, where he was employed as draughtsman and engineer 
 until the time of his death in February, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Storer had two children: 
 Irving L. and Philip \'. Storer. Their home is at No. 3 Chamberlain parkway, 
 Worcester. 
 
 CARL REED BROWNELL. The Brownells, father and son, have f-or several 
 years been business contemporaries and associates. The father, George Loomis 
 Brownell, is the inventor and manufacturer of the Brownell Twister, a machine made 
 exclusively by him, the son, Carl Reed Brownell, being associated with his father in 
 the Twister business, and both are interested in the Worcester Tire Fabric Company, 
 C. R. Brov.'nell being president of this company. George Loomis Brownell has his 
 factory at Union and Market streets, Worcester, there specializing in the manufacture 
 of the Brownell Twister, a machine for making hard or soft twines, lines and cordage 
 from either cotton, linen, hemp, manilla and paper. He is a successful business man, 
 highly valued as a man of ability and integrity. He married Elizabeth Reed, and they 
 are the parents of Carl Reed Brownell, of further mention. 
 
 Carl Reed Brownell was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. November 21, 1889. 
 After completing public school course, graduating from the Classical High School, 
 class of 1907, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale L^niversity, whence he 
 was graduated in June, 1910. .\fter graduation from Sheffield Scientific School, Mr. 
 Brownell became associated with his father, George L. Brownell, in the manufacture 
 of the Brownell Twister, and has maintained that connection until the present, 1919. 
 In 1913 he was active in forming the Worcester Tire Fabric Company, a Massachu- 
 setts corporation, of which he is now president. He is a member of the Economic, 
 Rotary, Tatnuck Country, and Worcester Country clubs, of Worcester, the Akron City 
 Club, of Akron, Ohio, the Yale Club, of New York City, United Commercial Trav- 
 elers' of America, and in political faith is a Republican. 
 
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 Mr. Brouncll married, at Haver ford. I'eniisylvaiiia, June (\ 1014, ^■|ldi^.•i Cmsby 
 Hanckel. daugliter of Kdvvard Keed anc! Augusta (Watsi'Ul Ilauckcl. Mr. and .Mrs. 
 Brownell arc tlie parents of ;i son. (".cnrin' I.ooniis 12 ), bmn in Worcester, I )iccr.dicr 
 3. ")17- 
 
 GEORGE ROBERT BRYANT. Kot.ert Bryant, a larnur, died in Berkshire, 
 X'ertii.int, at tlie age of twenty-live vcars. He married l'".li/a Cowan Bryant, and left 
 two children: Klla Jane, now the wife of Carlos H. Cornish, of Worcester, he a retired 
 pattern-maker. Tliey have two children, Cora and ('■ertrudc Cornish; George Kohert 
 Bryant is of further mention. 
 
 George Koliert Bryant, only S"n of Koherl and l'',li/,i (I'.iwan) Bry.int, was horn 
 in Worcester, Felirnary id, 1856, his p.irents s.mn theri.ifter moving to Berkshire, 
 Vermont. He passed the I'lrst tw-cnty ytars of his life in ihat St.atc, ojjtaining a puh- 
 lie school education, and following various occuiiations. Ir. 1876 he retiuMied to \Vnr- 
 cester and tor eleven years was employed with Washburn &■ Moen. He begin busi- 
 ness for himself in 1887 and has been very successf\d in the m.inagenieiu df ii. Mr. 
 Bryant is a Republican in politics, is a memlier of the Independent Order <jf Odd 
 Fellows, and of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. lie has been very active in 
 church work, and for several years a Irustee .ind also assislaiU superintend! lU of the 
 Sunday school. 
 
 Mr. Bryant married, in Worcester, Septeni])er (', iNXf, Henrietta Cl.ipp. horn in 
 Springfield. Vermont, December Jo. iSoi, daughfer .if Cliarles Wesley and l''li,-:a 
 (Gould) Clapp, her father a millwright of \ ermoiit, who died in igi-,?. aged seventy- 
 two years, her mother dying in Worcester, June 17, \itoy. also aged seventy-two years. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bryant ,ire the parents of five children, three dying in childhood; the 
 eldest one, Kverett Charles, was liorn December J8, 1805, ;inil entered Worcester Poly- 
 technic Institute, class of uiio. He is now in the service of his country, .a second 
 lieutenant of Field /Vrtillery. The second child. Kc'imeth .Myron, was born .\pril 13, 
 1900. and is a graduate of VVorccster Higli Sclioul, class of i()i(j. 
 
 ROBERT EDWARD WESSON, JR. ;\s a consulting interior decorator and 
 furnisher. Mr. Wesson li;is won a large clientele of persons of taste and appreciation. 
 Interior decoration now means the dil'ference between a house and a home, and has 
 pas.sed to the dignity of an art. Mr. Wesson in his storerooms in the S.'iwyer luiilding 
 displays specimens of the antic|ue, histi ric and modern in furniture and furnishings, 
 and is thoroughly pre|)are(l to give ex[)ert advice to both the one wlio has unlimited 
 means and to those who must count the cost. Robert F.dw.ird Wesson, Sr.. was born 
 in Saundersville, Massachusetts, h'ebruary 5, 1853. He m;irricd Harriet Kmily Cary, 
 born in Peterboro, New Hamiisliire, Septemlier 3, 185(1. Mr. and Mrs. Wesson arc the 
 parents of an only. son, who bears his fatlier's name. 
 
 Robert Edward Wesson, Jr., wa^ born in Nashua, New Hainpshire, l''ebruary >o. 1881, 
 but ei.ght months after his birth his parents moved to New \'ork City, and there he was 
 educated in the public schools. In looo he became a book publislier, but the same 
 year he located in Worcester, Massachusetts, wlicre, until 1017, he was engaged as 
 an art dealer, beginning with the Schervee Studio. This artistic experience led to his 
 present business, and in 1917 he opened show rooms and offered his services to the 
 public as a consulting interior decorator and furnisher. His line includes furniture, 
 draperies, rugs, lamp shades and lighting fixtures, all important to have in harmony 
 in the home. Mr. Wesson is devoted to his art, but is very fond of out-of-door sports, 
 particularly hunling and hshing. He is a member of .\\\ Saints' Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, and in New York was intcrestid in mission work among the se.-imen. He is 
 unmarried. 
 
 ROSS C. PURDY, Ceramic engineer, one of the representative and wide-awake 
 citizens of this city, is a native of Jasper, New York, born March x 187.=;. He is the 
 son of Rev. .Andrew Purdy, also a native of that town, who for fourteen years was 
 a well-known physician, and later a Methodist minister, serving in that high calling 
 lor soinc eighteen years. Mr. Purdy's mother was Mary E. Coffin, of Brookfield, 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Mr. Purdy obtained Iiis preparatory education in the public and high schoids of 
 Bufifalo, New York, and then studied for one year at the Syracuse University, taking 
 a general science course, following which he became a student at the Ohio State 
 University, at Columbus, Ohio, where he took a special course in ceramic engineering, 
 and after two years, in a competitive examination, won the scholarship given by the 
 National Brick Manufacturers' Association, which gave him a third year at the Ohio 
 State University. He then went to Zanesville, Ohio, where he was chemist, and later, 
 assistant superintendent of the Mosaic Tile Company, engaged in the manufaeiurc of 
 
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 floor tiles, and while associated with this concern he developed a successful line of 
 glazed wall tile. He then became associated with the Roseville Pottery Company, of 
 that city, as a chemist, remaining there for one year in charge of the glazing and 
 coloring of art and majolica pottery. Mr. Purdy's next business connection was with 
 the Buckeye Pottery Company, at Macomb, Illinois, developing a line of stone-ware 
 specialties. After six inonths with this enterprise, however, he was called by the Ohio 
 State University to became assistant in the Ceramic Department. Here he remained 
 for three years, engaged in teaching, and at the same time continuing his studies. In 
 the fall of 1005, Mr. Purdy was called to the University of Illinois, with the rank of 
 Instructor, to inaugurate a Department of Ceramics Engineering, a position which he 
 occupied for two years, during which time he was also employed in the United States 
 and Illinois Geographical surveys. He again returned to the Ohio State University 
 as Associate Professor in Ceramics, and at the same time continued his studies so 
 that he was enabled to complete the requirements and receive the degree of Ceramic 
 Engineer at the close of the year iQoS. He then advanced to the rank of Professor 
 of Ceramics, and occupied that chair at the Ohio State University until 1912. In the 
 latter named year Mr. Purdy came to Worcester as research engineer for the Norton 
 Company, manufacturers of grinding wheels and grinding machines, having full charge 
 of their research laboratories, in which responsible position he has since continued. 
 
 Mr. Purdy is very well known in ceramic circles throughout the entire country 
 and abroad, on which subject he is a recognized authority, at one time holding the 
 office of president of the American Ceramic Society, contributing largely to its devel- 
 opment, and being still active as chairman of important committees in that organiza- 
 tion. He ranks second as author of articles on this subject to the various periodicals 
 in this country, and has also contributed largely to chemical magazines and journals. 
 Mr. Purdy is one of those men who naturally take a leading and influential part in 
 whatever activities they are engaged in. He was president of the Ohio State Univer- 
 sity Chapter of the Sigma Xi fraternity, having recejved his election to this honorary 
 fraternity in recognition of researches made and published. He is actively engaged in 
 the work of the American Society for the Testing of Materials as a member of the 
 refractory committee, and is also engaged in a consulting capacity for the American 
 Refractories Association. Mr. Purdy is also a member of the American Chemical 
 Society; the Psi Upsilon College fraternity; and the Masonic organization, holding 
 membership in York Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Columbus, Ohio; 
 Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; and Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters, of this city. In his political faith he is a Republican, and served the City of 
 Worcester as a member of the Common Council in 1917, and in 1918 as a member of 
 the Board of Aldermen, in both of which bodies he was a member of important com- 
 mittees. In religion he is a Congregationalist, being a member of the Central Con- 
 gregational Church. Socially he is a member of various clubs, having been commo- 
 dore of the Tatassit, Canoe Club; also a member of the Rotary, the Economic, the 
 Twentieth Century, the Worcester Commercial Travelers', the Grotto, and various 
 political clubs. During the World War Mr. Purdy took an active part in the various 
 war drives, and was popular as one of the "Four Minute Men" of this city. 
 
 Mr. Purdy married, on June 27, 1901, at Zanesville, Ohio, Myra J. Watts, of that 
 city, but a native of Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Purdy have been born three children, 
 namely : Reliance Spencer, Constance Hopkins, and Lois Brewster. 
 
 DAVID WHITCOMB, Envelope manufacturer, was born at Hancock, New 
 Hampshire, May 30, 1808, son of Abner and Abigail (Boynton) Whitcomb. His 
 father was a Groton minute-man in the Revolution, descendant of John Whitcomb, 
 who was born in England and settled in Dorchester as early as 1633, later of Scituate 
 and Lancaster. Jonathan Whitcomb, son of John Whitcomb, was also born in 
 England, was the great-grandfather of Abner Whitcomb, and both father and grand- 
 father were also named Jonathan. 
 
 David Whitcomb, one of the great figures in the industrial history of the city of 
 Worcester, began life under conditions of unusual hardship. At the age of seven he 
 was bound out in a family that treated him harshly, and at the age of nine he 
 became chore-boy in the family of another farmer, where conditions were not much 
 better. All his schooling was received in a few winter terms. At the age of eighteen 
 he left his native town on foot and found employment at Gill, Massachusetts, on a 
 farm located on the present site of Moody's Mount Hermon School, remaining until 
 September, 1829, when ill health drove him back to Hancock. When his health 
 improved he returned to Gill, remaining for a few weeks, then went to Templeton, 
 hoping to engage in business as a tin peddler in the employ of a cousin, John Boyn- 
 ton, but his mission failed. He worked for a time in Northampton and Ware at odd 
 jobs until January, 1830, when John Boynton sent for him and started him on his 
 
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 career as a tin peddler. He iiroved his aliility nii his lirsl ui|i and alter hi^ ^e.. .iid 
 trip was hired for a year. His pay wa-- a Inmdred dollars, his board and a ■■ve>i" 
 pattern. From time to time he worked at tlie hcneh in tlie tinsmith's shop, hi iS.u 
 Mr. Boynton took him into partnership. ,ind in iS.ij lie look charge of .i lir.inch ..f 
 the business in Leominster. The partnership cimlinueil for tiileen years ujth the 
 utmost harmony and substantial success, in iS-|o .Mr. lloynlon retired. 'I'wo years 
 later Mr. WhitcomI) admitted t.'olonel Henry S. .Smith to partnership, and in 1X5,^ 
 he sold his share of the business to liis partner. reliriiiL; with wdiat then sicmed ail 
 ample fortune. In the spring of 1854 he came t.i \\'>rccster. and m J.muary lollovv- 
 ing became a partner in the firm of (_'. lo .ster iS; Company, hardw.are dealers.' During 
 the Civil War he had the coiirase and forcsi.qht to Iniy heavily at ii.'inic prices ami 
 the firm iirolitcd handsomely. In J.inuary. iSo*). he withdrew from the lirm. which 
 was afterward Duncan & (ioodel! and is n..w the Duncan & (iiiodell Company. 
 After twenty years in the tinsmith and i>edilliiiji business and another period of ten 
 years in the hardware Inismess. he entered tinall\-. in middle life, upon the career 
 that has made his name one of the foremost in the history of manufacturing in 
 Worcester, He furnished capital to bis scin to estalilisb the envelope industry, and 
 during his later years devoted his wisdom and e.Nperience to the business that George 
 Henry \\'hitcoinb founded. 
 
 Mr. Whitcomb was a de\out Chrisliaa, ioniiiig the Trinitarian C. ■nt;ri'L;.itional 
 church of Tcmideton in t8,W and Ijecomin.n the chief pillar of that church, miintain- 
 ing l;is faith throughout life. He bef,'an early in life to give freely and re.gularly to 
 church and bcnev(deuces of variipus kinds. He set an example of liberal .giving that 
 was perhaps more important to the community than the funds he ccmtributed. The 
 largest sums were for educational purjioses, and his favorite form of gilt was to 
 establish scholarships. The total amount of his gifts, including jmblic l)e(|uests, 
 amounted, it is estimated, to more than half a million dollars. 
 
 Mr. Whitcomb was one of the foundcj's of ilu. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
 originally called the Worcester C.nmty I'ree Institute of Industrial Science. John 
 Boynton, his former partner, had decided to give the Larger part of his fortune to 
 promote industrial education, and Mr. Whitcomb persu.adcd him to establish a school 
 in Worcester. Having fonnulatc<l no scheme of liis own, Mr. Hoynlon left the task 
 to Mr. Whitcomb, placing $100,000 in his bands for the purpose.' Cooperating with 
 Ichabod Washburn, who had a similar project in mind, and later with Stephen Salis- 
 bury, 2nd., who contributed liberally, Mr. Whitcnmb saw his i)urpose accomplished 
 in 1869 and served as a trustee and treasurer of the institution, giving of his own 
 means liberally and having a large sh.are in pl.mning and developing this model 
 school of technology. His gifts amounted to more than $-'7,000. He 'died July 8, 1887. 
 Senator Hoar said of him: "He was one of the best types of the Xew England 
 character, faithful and true and strong and wise." 
 
 Mr. \Miitcomb married, April 9, 18,1,^, Marg.iret Cummings, who w.is horn at 
 Littleton, New Haiupshirc, November i. 1808, and died at Templcton, .\ugust i. t8S^i. 
 Children: i. Abby P.oynton. born January 7, 18.54, died May 7, i8<j8; married C'donel 
 Henry S. Sinith, of Boston. 2. Ellen Margaret, born March 31, 1841, died, unmar- 
 ried, April iS, 1S82. .?. George Henry (see biography). 
 
 GEORGE HENRY WHITCOMB, Envelope manufacturer, was born at Tem- 
 pleton, September 26, 1842, died at Worcester, February 1,?, 1916, son of David and 
 Margaret (Cummings) Whitcomb. He came to Worcester with his father in 185,3 
 and attended the Thomas street public school. In i860 he graduated from Phillips 
 Academy, Andover. and entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 
 1864. He was gymnasium captain of bis class and orator at Commencement. On 
 account of ill health he made a trip to Europe in a sailing vessel in the summer of 
 1863 and returned nnich improved. In 1867 he received the honorary degree of 
 Master of Arts from Amherst. He was a member of Gamma Chapter of the Psi 
 Upsilon fraternity, and was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. 
 
 During the summer after he graduated he was employed in the hardware store 
 of C. Foster & Company, in which his father was a partner, but in the fall he went 
 W'est seeking a business opportunity for himself. In Ohio he investigated the man- 
 ufacture of straw board and writing paper and there he conceived the idea of manu- 
 facturing envelopes, an idea that he proceeded immediately to put into effect. With 
 capita! advanced by his father, he began in a small way late in the year 1864 to manu- 
 facture envelopes in a shop on the site now occupied by the fire department on 
 School street, Worcester, using a primitive machine designed by James G. Arnold in 
 1858 and doing business imder the name of the Bay State Envelope Company. He 
 was clerk, cutter, machine tender, packer and shipper, and his wife was the book- 
 
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 keeper. During the first year lie lost Sl.ooo, but in the second year he saved $ioo 
 and in the third vear made a profit of $2,000. In November, 1864, the business was 
 moved to the Pa'rtridge building at the corner of Walnut street, and in 1865 a new 
 building was erected in Bigelow court by his father, and during that year his father 
 became a partner under the firm name of G. Henry Whitcomb & Company. In 1884 
 the business was incorporated as the Whitcomb Envelope Company with capital 
 stock of $150,000, David Wliitcomb being president and the son treasurer and gen- 
 eral manager. After the death of David Whitcomb. G. Henry Whitcomb became 
 president, serving until 1894 when M. F. Dickinson succeeded him At the same time 
 Henry e! Whitcomb, son of G. Henry Whitcomb, became secretary, and G. Henry 
 Whitcomb continued as treasurer and was also vice-president. In August, 1898. the 
 business of the company was sold to the United States Envelope Company and Mr. 
 Whitcomb retired from active management, though he continued as a director and 
 vice-president of the new corporation. .\ sketch of the business will be found else- 
 where. Mr. Whitcomb seems to have had a talent for discovering and developing 
 men of ability in his business. Among the prominent men in the envelope industry, 
 trained in the Whitcomb factory, may be mentioned Henry D. Swift, D. V/heeler 
 Swift, James Logan, John S. Brighani, Charles W. Gray. John A. Sherman, Charles 
 Heywood, Byron Emerson, Frederick A. Bill and Ezra Waterhouse. 
 
 From 1S9S imtil illness compelled him to relinquish his grasp, G. Henry Whitcomb 
 devoted himself to various financial, educational and benevolent interests. He had 
 already heavily invested in Worcester real estate, erecting the Whitcomb building on 
 Front street iii 1877, the Cummings block on Main street in 1879, and the granite block 
 at Nos. 82-84 Front street in 1883. His residence at No. 51 Harvard street was the 
 first granite dwelling house erected in the city. But he found large opportunity for 
 profit in real estate in the West, and he developed much of the business sections of 
 Pueblo, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington. Within a few years he invested a million 
 dollars in real estate in Seattle alone and his confidence in the future of that city was 
 amply justified. He was also interested in various transportation enterprises, among 
 • which was the Worcester & Marlborough Street Railway Company, of which he was 
 at one time president. He was one of the principal owners of the West End Land 
 Company of Boston: director of the Columbia Paper Company; director of the First 
 National Bank of Worcester, of the State Bank of St. John, Kansas, and of the 
 Massachusetts Loan & Trust Company ; director of the United States Coal & Oil 
 Company, the Hartford Manufactory Company and the Equitable Securities Com- 
 pany, of New York; president of the Standard Cattle Company, of Wyoming, and of 
 the Boston Raisin Company ; member of the corporation of the People's Savings Bank 
 of Worcester and of the Worcester County Institution for Savings. 
 
 The activity of Mr. Whitcomb in religious and educational atifairs, considering 
 the magnitude and engrossing nature of his business, was marvelous. Religion he 
 placed foremost in the duties of life. He was for many years a member of Central 
 Congregational Church and afterward of Plymouth Church, where he taught in the 
 Sunday school, served on the board of assessors and as deacon. He was a director 
 of the Children's Friend Society and of the City Missionary Society. From i8go to 
 1906 he was a member of the prudential committee of the American Board of Com- 
 missioners for Foreign Missions, and was chairman from 1003 to 1905. Lie also served 
 on the executive and financial committees of the American Missionary Association. 
 
 Few men of his ability and wealth have devoted themselves more heartily and 
 usefully to the advancement of public education. "He served two years on the school 
 committee of Worcester. He succeeded his father as a friend and trustee of the 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and in the early eighties was the prime mover in 
 providing a trade school for boys at the institute, the first of its kind in this country, 
 it was under the auspices of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, of which 
 Mr. Whitcomb was then president. He was also a trustee of Amherst College from 
 1884 to the time of his death, and he was treasurer of the college from 1895 to 1897. 
 He founded a scholarship at Amherst. He was a trustee of Mt. Holyoke College and 
 of Oberlin College, Ohio. He had been president of the Amherst College Alumni 
 .'Association; treasurer of the Gamma Chapter of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and vice- 
 president of the Andover .A.lumni Association. In memory of his daughter Emma he 
 erected and endowed the School of Music, Whitcomb Conservatory in Doane College, 
 Crete, Nebraska, in igo8, and he erected the Whitcomb Chemical Laboratory at Drury 
 College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1909. In politics he was a Republican. He used his 
 influence constantly for progress and the public welfare. He served as trustee and 
 vice-president of the Worcester Board of Trade. 
 
 Mr. Whitcomb married (first), October II, 1865, Abbie Miller Estabrook, who was 
 born April 8, 1842, died June 11, 1900, daughter of Francis Chaffin and Caroline 
 (Miller) Estabrook. He married (second), January 22, 1902, Elizabeth (Shannon) 
 
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 Wickware, of Seattle. Wasliingtnu. Cliiliiicn by first \vil\ : i. Fraiuis Cli.ifrin. born 
 March 5. 1867, died Ausust 12, 18(1;. _>. Anne Boynton, Ixirn October 22. iSiVS, died 
 March 28. 1871. 3. Henry Kstalimok (sec biography*, 4. Mari-aret. h.irn Inly 12, 
 1873, died July 12. 1873. 5. Emma Caroline, burn b'ebni.-iry 26, 187(1. died May 29, 
 igo2. 6. David, born January 22. 1870; graduate of the b'.nglish High School, \\'or- 
 cester; Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Amherst College, A. R.. i<;)oo, A. M., icK)5; 
 Jena University. IQ03; (icorge \\';ishingtnn I'niversity. LI,. P.., 1905: president of the 
 Arcade Building &■ Realty Company. Seattle. Wasliington, and a prominent a'.lorney in 
 that city; was fuel aduiinistrator for the State of Washiiigton, 1917-18, and from April, 
 1918. to January. 1010, executive secretary .>f the fuel administration .it Washingion, 
 D. C. ; married, September 1,3, 101 1. Mildred Osgood ; one son. David, Jr.. born in Seattle. 
 February 19. 1017. 7. b'rnest Miller, born February 28. 1882; graduate of Classical 
 High School, Worcester : Aiuherst College, .\. B., 1904; .\. M.. 1907; president of the 
 First National Bank. .Xmherst. Massachusetts; a director in several fiduciary, manu- 
 facturing corporations and savings banks; was commissioned captain of the American 
 Red Cross, July. 1918; located in I'rance. .\ugust, 1018. iu ch.arge of Base Hospital at 
 Toul until armistice was signed. Xovember 11. loi.'^; returned to \merica and was 
 discharged. January r. iQio; ni:irried. Aiiril 2T. 1901). Anna t'.jnuitlett. Ith.aca. New 
 York; one son, i^tephen, l>orti December 10, 1916. 
 
 HENRY ESTABROOK WHITCOMB, Envelope tnanufaclurer, trustee of the 
 estate of Oeorge Henry WhitciiniK, was born in Worcester, .Vugust 18, 1871; son of 
 George Henry and Abhie Miller ( l''.slabrncik I Whitconib. He received his education 
 in the Worcester Acadciuy, the Worcester High School and Amherst College, from 
 which he was gniduated in 1804 with the degree .)f Bachelor of .\rts While a student 
 he was manager of the musical clubs and .•irrange<l and carried out a tour in England 
 in the summer of 18(14, taking forty stmlents abr<i.id and giving concerts all over 
 England, He is one of the editors of the 1804 Bugle, a graduate periodical of his class, 
 and is the penuanent class secretary. In .\ugust, 1894. he began his business career in 
 the olTice of the Whitcomb Envelope Conip.any and was soon afterw.ard elected assist- 
 ant treasurer and secretary of the corporation. In 189S he became manager of the 
 Whitcoiub plant, after its consolidation, the business being conducted under the name 
 of the Whitcomb h'.nveloi)e Company division. I'nilcd Sl.ites lunelope Company. In 
 March, 1003, he shared a half interest in the patent of an envelope- folding device 
 invented by George H. Hallop. 
 
 In 190') he became treasurer of the Morgan Cmipany, manufacturers of motor 
 trucks, .-Sfter a year and a half he left that concern and established the Greendale 
 Lumber S; .'^upiily Company, manufacturers of wooden boxes and cases, selling out the 
 business in 1012 to Henry H. Dyke. Since io<*>, when he resigned as division man- 
 ager of the Uniteil Slates Envelope Company, he h;is devoted his time mainly to the 
 care of his investments and the administration of his father's estate. Under tlie will 
 he and his two brothers are the executors, sole bcnelici:iries and trustees. He is sec- 
 retary of the W'.ichusctt Investment Company; jiresident of the Estabrook Investment 
 Company; vice-president of the Arcade Building and Realty Company. He was one 
 of the organizers and is president of the Worcester .\ssociation of Building Owners 
 and Managers, representing .about ,*2o,ono.o<)o of assessed real estate in the city. He 
 was one of the founders of the Merchants Xational Bank and one of the original 
 board of directors; also founder and vice-president of the North Brooktleld National 
 Bank; an incorporator of the Worcester County Institution for Savings and of the 
 People's Savings liank of Worcester. He is president of the Worcester High School 
 Alumni .Association, and has been successively secretar\, vice-presideiU and president 
 of the .Amherst .Mumni Association i>f Central Massachusetts. In 1915 he was one of 
 the prime movers in forming the Worcester Militar> 'riainin,g School, aiul a charter 
 member of the Worcester Branch Ix'aguc to Enforce Peace. He is a member of the 
 Worcester Chapter, .Sons of the .American Revolution. h;;ving had no less than nine 
 ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted, July. 1917. in Company 
 H, Nineteenth Regiment. Massachi.isetts State Ouani; served with his company during 
 the war. and was honorably discharged. March, 1919- In jioliiics he is .1 Kepublican, 
 and in 1898-1900 was vice-chairman and treasurer of the Republican City Committee. 
 For a number of years he has been an assessor and treasurer of Plymouth Congre- 
 Rational Church. He is a life member of the .American Board of Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions, and the Young Men's Christian .\ssociation. He is also a member 
 of the Worcester Society of .Antiquity, Worcester Natural History Society, \\'orcester 
 Art Museum, Worcester A.gricultural Society, the I'niversity Club of Boston, the 
 Economic Club, the Tatnuck Countrx Club of' Worcester, the Tatassit Canoe Club of 
 Worcester, the Psi Upsilon fraternity and the Psi Upsdon Club of New ^■ork. He 
 is a director of the Coluiul>i:in Paper Compan>. Buena X'ista and I'.ristol, \"irginia. 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 In war work was vice-chairman of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Liberty Loans 
 in the Brooklield district. Was vice-chairman of Worcester County in the Red Cross 
 Campaign, May, igi8, also in L'nited War Work Drive in November. Was chair- 
 man of the Red Cross Christmas Roll-Call. December, 1918. Chairman of the mate- 
 rial committee on decorations for the "Soldiers and SaUors and .Airmen Welcome 
 Home Committee." City of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Whitcomh married, June 20, 1805, at Newton, Gertrude Elouise Dowling, who 
 was born at Providence, Rhode Island, December 27, 1872, daughter of Rev. Dr. 
 George Thomas aiul Mary Hatfield (Justin) Dowling. Mrs. Whitcomb is a member 
 of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Friday Morning Club, the Woman's 
 Club, Civic Federation, and the Mothers' Club of Worcester. Their home is at No. 
 6 Harvard street. North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Cliildren, born in Worcester: 
 1. Henry Dowling, born June 22. 1897: student at .\mherst College, 1921 ; enlisted in 
 United States Naval Patrol, United States Steamsiiip, "Gurkha," April, 1917; com- 
 missioned ensign in United States Naval Reserve Force, June 6, 1918, and detailed to 
 armored cruiser. United States Steamship, "San Diego;" later was deck officer when 
 vessel was torpedoed, July 19, 1918. off Fire Island, New York., the only American 
 battleship destroyed by the Germans during the war; he was subsequently stationed at 
 Brooklyn Navy 'i'ard, Ellis Island, the new receiving ship at Bay Ridge Barracks 
 until released from service, December, 1918; he married, July 21, 1918, Florence 
 Miriam Martin, of Boston, daughter of Bertram T. and Florence Martin, of Win- 
 chester and Boston. 2. Douglas, born January 18, 1899; graduated from Milton 
 Academy, 1917; entered Amherst College, 1917, class of 1921 ; enlisted in armv in 
 June, 1918, left for Platfsburg, received commission as second lieutenant in September, 
 1918, placed in charge of military instruction at Georgia Technical Institute, Atlanta, 
 Georgia, discharged in December, 1918; returned to college in January, 191Q. 3. George 
 Francis, born August 24, 1900; student in Worcester Academy, 1919; passed physical 
 and other tests for motor transport service, October, 1918, was to enter service, 
 November 14, but as the armistice was signed on November II it made his anticipated 
 entrance into the service unnecessary. 
 
 HON. PHILIP JOSEPH O'CONNELL, Justice of the Superior Court of 
 Massachusetts, was born in Worcester. December 18, 1870, son of Philip and EUen 
 (Skehan) O'Connell. His father was born in Ireland in 1830; came to Worcester 
 in 1849; died there in 1907; served in tlie Civil War in Company I, Fiftieth Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteers. His mother was born in Ireland in 1839, and died in Worcester 
 in 1009, 
 
 Philip J. O'Connell attended the Worcester public schools, graduating from the 
 high school in 18S9, and entered Boston University Law School, from which he was 
 graduated, magna cum laiidc. in 1895. with the degree of LL. B. From 1889 to 1893 
 he was employed in the department store of the John C. Maclnnes Company, Wor- 
 cester. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and immediately began to practice law in 
 Worcester, continuing until he was elevated to the bench. His prominence as a 
 lawyer and his success in his profession is indicated by his appointment as judge, by 
 the universal approbation of the governor's selection at that time, and by the testi- 
 mony of prominent citizens, quoted below. In politics he is a Democrat, and when but 
 a boy he took a lively interest in public affairs and political campaigns, serving early 
 in life on various political committees of his party, as delegate to nominating con- 
 ventions and as campaign speaker. His first public service was in the Common 
 Council of the city in 1896, and he was re-elected to the Council of 1897 and 1898. 
 He was an alderman from his ward in 1899 and 1900. Though the city was Repub- 
 lican, a division in the party gave the opposition an opportunity, and after a mem- 
 orable campaign Mr. O'Connell was elected mayor of the city for the year 1901. He 
 was one of the youngest mayors that the city ever had, but he had served an appren- 
 ticeship of five years in the City Council, serving on the most important committees of 
 the Common Council and Board of Aldermen, knowing well the heads of depart- 
 ments, and understanding fully, not only the routine business, but the needs of the 
 city. Against their wills, he soon won the commendation of the best men of the 
 other party, and his administration proceeded with the utmost harmony from begin- 
 ning to end, notwithstanding the fact that for political reasons some members of the 
 Republican majority in the Council attempted to cripple his work for the sake of 
 making political capital for the future. In his public addresses, his personality and 
 natural eloquence won for him great popularity, and as the representative of the 
 municipality on many public occasions he raised the respect and regard for the city 
 in the minds of visitors as well as residents. His legal training as well as his public 
 service proved valuable to the city. Of quick vision, sound judgment, prompt in 
 decision, impartial, considerate oi every interest, he was in every respect a model 
 
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 executive. No <lep;irtiiK'nt intorcstfil Mayor O'CnniuU more tlian piiMic educaiion. 
 From IQII to 1015 lie was a director of the I'"rec I'liblic Library. He was apiioinled 
 justice of the Superior Court by Governor Walsb. b'ebruary 24, 11)13. .mil since then 
 has served in that office with un(|ualilicd success and fidelity. 
 
 The public estimation of Judije O'Conncll was admirably expressed .at iiuelinKS 
 held in his honor at the time of his appointment. .\ social cjrganization, known as the 
 Poison Club, of which be is a member, composed of prominent men of both parlies, 
 gave him a bancinel at the Worcester Ci-untry Club, l-'ebruary 25, 1015. Conk'ressnian' 
 Winslow wrote ; 
 
 His reeorcl is a si)bii.l..l illustralicii of tlu- fact tliat opportunities to rise are 
 still within the reacli oi ih. .rDilniious ami persisirnt. We are rather Inclined to 
 think in these days thai ih. si^.ii.s i>f the l.onl Mayor of Ixindon, Abraham I.ineoln 
 and hosts of others of earlier times are not to be rejieated, nowadays. Yet when we 
 look about, it i.s possible to note the evidences on every hand of a similar develop- 
 ment of men about us, even in our own small e<imnninlty. As a matter of fact. I 
 fully believe that more credit is due to a man who comes to the top from small 
 beginninKS In these days than in earlier days when eompetUion was less keen Phil 
 O'Connell started in life with a good family name and good health, hut with nothins 
 to assist him in his career other than tliat wliieh was natively in him. lie has spent 
 all his life with us and has gained his education in Worcester iiublic school" and 
 the higher institutions of learning of Massachusetts. From his bovhood until now, 
 he has been a persistent seeker for that which is best in life and he has undertaken 
 and accomplished his obligations as a boy and a man in a thorough and Inspiring 
 way. He has sought to be trusted and has merited the trust imposed in him bv all 
 who knew him or had to do with him. II is not strange but natural indeed that he 
 should be honored by appointment to the Superior Court bench of Massachusetts. 
 His friends, of which I am glad to be one. can. I am sure, imagine nothing other than 
 a continuance of his splendid career which has been forward and upward from the 
 beginning. « » • i am sure we shall all want to take a moment of silent recol- 
 lection of our other good friend similarly worthy and honored, the late Judge Uat- 
 igan. His usefulness as a judge, his simplicity as a man and his loval good fellow- 
 ship among us will long remain in our memorv. The rather unique associations of 
 those who have made up our little club are calculated, I believe, to inspire every 
 one of us to take on broadness of view, earnestness of purpose, pride of accomplish- 
 ment and loyalty toward one another. 
 
 Former Mayor James Logan addressed these words to the guest of honor: 
 
 We value and prize your integrity, sterling manhood and sense of right and wo 
 know that no willful act of yours will ever taint or tainish the good name you now 
 have, and the good name and honor of Massachusetts will be safe in your kee])ing. 
 • ♦ • Accepting the position of .judge closes the door to anything more tlian a 
 modest competence' when measuring values in terms of the mart. It does not limit 
 the accumulation of those larger assets of life, friendship and honor, and, as the 
 years fly past you into the great storage reservoir of the years, we feel that vou will 
 grow rich in the possession of the imperishable assets of life. 
 
 Judge O'Connell was greeted and congratulated by fifty or more members of the 
 Worcester bar at the time he took his seat on the bench for the first time in Wor- 
 cester, Judge O'Connell is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church : member of 
 the Knights of Columbus, .\ncient Order of Hibernians and American Order of 
 Foresters, 
 
 Mr. O'Connell married, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 18, IQ04, Katharine 
 T. Power, born April 8, 1875, in Philadelphia, daughter of Law-rcnce and Katharine 
 (Magennis) Power. Her father was in early life a resident of Worcester, a native of 
 Ireland; for many years a manufacturer of wood-working machinery in Philadelphia, 
 where he died. Children of Philip J. and Katharine T, O'Connell: Katliarine M., 
 born July 21, 1903: F.leanor M., June 25, 11107; Philip J., .August 7, icjo'i: I.,awrence P,, 
 April 28, 191 -). 
 
 JOHN ELBRIDGE SINCLAIR, Professor of mathematics in the Worcester 
 Polytechnic Institute, i8(x) to ii:k)8, was born at Brentwood, New Hampshire. March 
 28, 1838, and -lied September 12, 1915, son of Harry and Ann Kliza (Robinson) .Sin- 
 clair. He graduated when twenty years old from the Chandler Scientific School of 
 Dartmouth College. After teaching foi a time at .Adrian, Michigan, and for four 
 years in Washington LTniversity, St. Louis, he was made assistant professor of math- 
 ematics, in 1863, in the Chandler Scientific School, and three years later professor, 
 resigning in 1869 to become professor of mathematics in the institution now known as 
 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, continuing in this chair until he resigned, ,\pril 
 7, iyo8. He was appointed Professor Emeritus, the trustees declaring at the time that 
 they desired to express their appreciation "of a service distinguished alike by its length 
 and by its high quality. To have served for lifty years in the honorable profession in 
 which he has been so conspicuous and sc successful and at the same time to have won 
 the respect and affection of his associates and pupils make a life work of great satis- 
 faction and in recognition of his service and attainments Prof. Sinclair is appointed 
 Professor Emeritus."" 
 
HlSrORV OF WORCESTER 
 
 At Uie fiftieth anniversary comineiicenient the chair of mathematics was named 
 "The Sinclair Professorship," in his honor. He received the degree of Master of 
 Arts from Washington University in 1863, and from Dartmouth in 1S79; and Doctor 
 of Philosopliy from Dartmouth in 1883. 
 
 Mr. Sinclair married (first), November, 1864. Isabelle Aiken Noyes, who died in 
 1868. lie married (second), Novembei' 21, 1870, in this city. Marietta S, Fletcher, 
 who was an instructor in French and German at the Institute. He had one son, 
 Harry R. (see biography), and six daughters: Annie Noyes. Smith; Isabelle Aiken, 
 now dead; Mrs. L. C. Smith, of Newton Center; Mary E. Sinclair, of Oberlin, Ohio; 
 Mrs. R. B. Dodge, of Hawaii; and Mrs. John H. Dodge, of this city. 
 
 HARRY R. SINCLAIR, President of the Worcester Stamped Metal Company, 
 was born in this city, .Kugust 31. 1872. son of Professor John Elbridge Sinclair (see 
 biography). He attended the public schools here, and entered the Worcester Poly- 
 technic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1893. His first business position 
 was assistant to the superintendent of the foundry department of the Builders Iron 
 Foundry, Providence, Rhode Island. In 1894 he returned to this city to engage in the 
 manufacture of various tools now made by the Lowell Wrench Company, and after 
 this business was successfully established he engaged in the heating business, devoting 
 himself to the highest class of residence and manufacturing installations under the 
 firm name of the Sinclair .Company. 
 
 In 1906 he bought a half-interest in the firm of Wilson & Smith, metal stampings, 
 and gave up the heatmg business. In November, igio, lie also bought the interest of 
 his partner, J. Fred Wilson. In December, 1916, the business was incorporated under 
 the name of the Worcester Stamped Metal Company, of which he is president. The 
 plant is at No. 9 Hunt street, off Shrewsbury street. 
 
 Mr. Sinclair is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; the Worcester County 
 Mechanics Association; the Commercial Travelers' Association; the Worcester .Art 
 Museum ; the Worcester County Alumni Association of the Worcester Polytechnic 
 Institute; the Worcester Club and the Tatnuck Country Club. Since 1903 he has been 
 secretary of the Worcester County Musical Association. He is a trustee of the Union 
 Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Sinclair married, in this city, June 28. 1905. Florence Marion Eastman, who 
 was born in Concord, New Hampshire, daughter of Charles L. and Sarah (French) 
 Eastman. Her father was for many years the erecting engineer for the Brown Steam 
 Engine Company, of Fitchburg. He was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire. Sep- 
 tember 7, 1826, died in this city, December 26, IQ07. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair have no 
 children, 'i'heir home is at No. 9 Moreland street. 
 
 GEORGE HENRY COAXES, President and treasurer of the Coates Clipper 
 Manufacturing Company, was born in Windsor, \'ermont, June 2t„ 1849, son of Henry 
 Moss and Orra Natalie (Cone) Coates. His father was a blacksmith. 
 
 George H. Coates was educated in the public schools of Windsor and Windsor 
 Academy. In 1869 he came to Worcester in the employ of the Ethan Allen Fire 
 Arms Company, having charge of the construction of the first self-cocking firearm, 
 and for nearly eight years filled the position of foreman in the works. He was a 
 mechanic of more than ordinary skill and gifted with inventive talent. He was a 
 great lover of horses, and in the course of his getting ready to exercise his horse, he 
 found a man by the name of Hildreth clipping a horse and he was having considerable 
 trouble with his clippers in cutting. He had just got them from New York, where 
 he had sent them to be repaired. Unfortunately, he had broken four or five teeth out 
 of the lower plate and he naturally thought they were a total loss as they were made 
 in England and were quite expensive. At his solicitation, Mr. Coates took them and 
 inserted new teeth, re-hardened and ground them. It required exceptional skill to insert 
 new teeth, temper and grind these clippers. Messrs. McCoy & Saunders, of New 
 York, having heard of Mr. Coates doing such work, came to see him and saw some of 
 the work he had done and they immediately sent all their repairs to him. In the course 
 of time Mr. Coates patented a far better clipper than had been previously made to 
 avoid the objections found in these imported machines, and when he showed this 
 device to the firm of McCoy & Saunders, for whom he had been repairing foreign 
 clippers, he was promptly given an order for five hundred clippers. That was in 1876. 
 From that time to the present he has been engaged in the manufacture of clippers on 
 his own patents. His first clipper was designed for hair cutting and it is likely many 
 of that first order are still in use among American barbers. He began with a small 
 plant, buying a few machine tools of Hill Clark & Company, of Boston, and installing 
 a five-horsepow-er engine, located in a basement of a dwelling house on Dewey street. 
 A year later he w-as able to build a one-story shop, forty by fifty, on a lot at N^o. 237 
 
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 Cliandlcr street, where his Imsincss has I)een located since that time. In 1878, soon 
 afterwards, he was obliged tn make a forty-foot addition. In 1884 he extended the 
 building to one hmidred and fifty feet, adding another story and installing an engine of 
 one hundred and fifty horsepower. In i(X)3 another addition was erected on the Dewey 
 street end. The factory now has more than an acre of lloor space. His clippers grew 
 rapidly in popularity, and he was kept busy from tlie outset in keeping his factory 
 capacity large enough to supply the demand. From time to time he devised other 
 clippers for various purposes. He has received more than forty patents im clippers 
 and other mechanisms that will be described later. 
 
 The later clippers are models of simplicity, usefulness and artistic work, fitted 
 with ball bearings, with teeth beautifully cut and hardened, each blade ground with 
 diamond dust to a perfect edge. The power clipper, equipped with his patented flexible 
 non-heating shaft, is the best instrument yet devised for clipping horses and shearing 
 sheep and other animals. Special sheep-shearing machines, operated cither by hand 
 or power, are in use all over the world. The Coatcs grooming brush, operated by 
 power, is warranted to groom twenty-live horses an hour and is obviously a great 
 labor-saving device. The flexible shaft invented by Mr. Coates is one of the most 
 important devices recently introduced in the mechanical world. It is made for varied 
 purposes and in many sizes, large enough to transmit twenty horsepower or more, 
 small enou.gh for the most delicate dental work. It is of great value in the construc- 
 tion of automobile and motor boat, in various forms of grinding machinery. Its use 
 is being extended to m.-iiiy industries. The flexible shaft is becoming more important 
 than the clipper. 
 
 Another important department of the company is the manufacture of the Coates' 
 housed-gear breast drill and the Coates drill press, ingenious devices in which the 
 fle.xible shafting is used with an electric motor for power and a magnetic hold-on and 
 Coates drill for use in marine work, bridge work and elsewhere. It is portable, may be 
 used under water, and is a great time saver in all kinds of drilling. The Coates angle 
 drive is designed to transmit power at right angles. The Coates screw driver is used 
 by chair builders and others. It is also operated by the fiexishaft. Other articles 
 made by this company are : The Coates chain feed ; the Coates electric drill and 
 grinder; the Coates old man, which affords a novel and rigid method of holding a 
 drill in position; the Coates variable speed drill press; variable speed drills; the Coates 
 ideal motor drilling outfit; the Coates radial drill; the Coates bracket-boring machine; 
 the Coates ideal foundry equipment; the Coates surfacing head; the Coates hand- 
 piece for porcelain manufacturers; the Coates droi)-forgcrs engine; the Coates belt- 
 driven silversmith outfit; the Coates special carborundum wheels; the Coates elec- 
 trically-driven stove polisher, designed for stove manufacturers; the Coates drafting 
 room eraser; the Coates counter shafts; the Coates heavy universal couplings; the 
 Coates mechanical hammer; the Coates electrically-driven diesinker's hammer; the 
 Coates concrete grinder and the Coates augur head. These devices patented by Mr. 
 Coates represent very important contributions to American industry. They mean 
 saving of time and labor in innumerable factories and mills; they represent progress 
 in arts and civilization. I\lr. Coates must take rank among the great inventors of the 
 present century. He is one of the inventors who have also possessed business ability 
 and profited from his own patents. 
 
 In politics Mr. Coates is a Republican. He was a member of the Board of Alder- 
 men of the city for five years and president one year. He was formerly a member 
 of the Worcester Continentals, lieutenant several years and member of the staff for 
 three years. He has taken all the degrees of Free Masonry in both York and Scot- 
 tish rites, and is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Eureka Chapter, Iliram Council, 
 Worcester County Commandery and AUeppo Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also a 
 member of the Economic Club, Commonwealth Club, Worcester County Agricultural 
 Society, Worcester County Mechanics Association, of which he was president in 1912 
 and 1913, and of the Home Market Club, of Boston. 
 
 Mr. Coates married. June 23, 1872, Adelaide Long, dau.chter of William and Mary 
 A. (Carter) Long, of Worcester. Her father was an expert machinist. They have 
 had two children : Beatrice, wdio died aged two years, and B. Austin (see biography). 
 
 B. AUSTIN COATES, Vice-president and manager of the Coates Clipper 
 Manufacturing Company, was born in Worcester, June 2, 1877, son of George Henry 
 and Adelaide (Long) Coates. He received his education in the public schools, grad- 
 uated from the Worcester High School in 1900. and after a course in the School of 
 Technology, became associated in business with his father and was admitted to 
 partnership soon afterward, taking an active part in the management of the business. 
 Since the firm became a corporation he has been its vice-president and manager. He 
 
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 is a member of the Commonwealtl* Club ; the Worcester Automobile Club; Quinsiga- 
 mond Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, 
 Knights Templar; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix and the other bodies of Scottish 
 Rite Masonry. He attends St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Coates married, June 5, 1901, Louisa Boyden Coe, daughter of S. Hamilton 
 Coe, of Worcester. They have two children: Helen, born December 15, 1906, and 
 B. Austin, Jr., born May 15, 1913. 
 
 CHARLES McILVAINE BENT. In the year 1849 Charles M. Bent, then a 
 lad of fourteen, came to Worcester. Massachusetts, with his parents, his father, Rev. 
 Nathaniel T. Bent, a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church, having accepted a 
 call as rector of All Saints Church. From 1849 until his death in his eighty-third year, 
 he was a resident of Worcester, honored in business life, in the church and in social 
 life. His connection with the Peoples' Savings Bank covered a period of half a cen- 
 tury, but his connection with All Saints' Church continued through a period of sixty- 
 nine years, during which time he was treasurer, clerk, vestryman, choirmaster, organ- 
 ist, precentor and junior warden. He was among the last of those through whose 
 untiring efforts the Episcopal church obtained a secure place in the somewhat uncon- 
 genial atmosphere of a New England community of sixty years ago. He was a man 
 of great refinement of feeling, which seemed to pervade his rather frail physical 
 presence. He loved to see things done "decently and in order" and approached all 
 matters relating to the service of the church in a spirit of deep reverence. He was an 
 authority in all ecclesiastical matters, and frequently contributed to the local church 
 papers articles upon the history of All Saints parish. His love of music was another 
 striking characteristic, and his own talents brought him into close association with 
 musicians and artists all over New England. Music became his chief recreation and 
 to the development of a high order of musical culture he gave many years of official 
 service. He was a son of Nathaniel Tucker and Catherine Eliza Donaldson (ATet- 
 calf) Bent, and a descendant of that John Bent who settled in Sudbury, Massachu- 
 setts, in 163S. having arrived from England with his wife Martha and five children on 
 the ship "Confidence." 
 
 Charles Mcllvaine Bent was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. October 5, 
 1835. and died in Worcester. Massachusetts, May 18, 1918. In 1849 his father became 
 rector of All Saints Church in Worcester, continuing until 1852, and from the former 
 year Charles M. Bent's residence in Worcester dated. He was educated in the public 
 schools, and he was but a lad in his sixteenth year when he began his long and hon- 
 orable career as a banker. He entered the employ of the Worcester Bank, in June, 
 1850, as a clerk, and for fourteen years he continued with that institution, leaving in 
 1864 to accept a position as treasurer of the People's Savings Bank. He served that 
 bank without interruption as head of its financial department for forty-nine years, 
 1864-1913, then to his special pride and satisfaction, at the age of seventy-seven, he 
 was advanced from treasurer to managing president, with increase of salary, and he 
 continued in that high and responsible office until January, 1918, when he retired 
 from executive control, the years beginning to weigh too heavily. He accepted the 
 post of senior vice-president, and held that office and title until his death a few months 
 later. Fifty-four years was the span of years he accomplished with the People's 
 Savings Bank, but adding the fourteen prior service with the Worcester Savings Bank 
 and the wonderful term of sixty-eight years of active service is found to have been 
 his record. The next great interest of Mr. Bent's life, or perhaps a greater, was All 
 Saints Episcopal Church, in which he was confirmed when a boy. He was elected 
 treasurer of that parish upon arriving at legal age in 1856, and held many important 
 offices therein throughout a long life, with ability and honor. His relation with the 
 musical department of the church was most intimate and long continued. He was 
 choirmaster and organist in 18.S7, ^nd '" 1871 was appointed precentor by the rector, 
 Rev. William R. Huntington, D. D. He held that exacting office for many years, per- 
 forming its duties with rare tact and ability. He introduced the first "boys choir" in 
 that section of Massachusetts and brought it to such a high condition of excellence 
 that it became a most important feature of the church services. Mr. Bent was many 
 times a delegate to the Diocesan Convention of Massachusetts, and when in 1901 the 
 , diocese was divided he was elected treasurer of the diocese of Western Massachu- 
 setts, an office he held for thirteen years. He was treasurer of the Archdeaconry of 
 Worcester. For sixty-nine years, 1849-1918, he was connected with All Saints Church, 
 and while the parish may confidently look forward to a work of constantly increasing 
 usefulness, it should not be forgotten that this is made possible by the unselfish and 
 untiring labor of that group of men among whom Charles M. Bent was prominent. 
 The vestry prepared suitable minutes of the death of their colleague, spread them upon 
 
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 the records of the vestry, piiblislicd tlit-tii in the iiarisli iiaprr and sent to Miss I'.cnt 
 a true copy. From that minute the story of Mr. Bent's cnmiection with .Ml Saints 
 has been taken in preparing tliis review. 
 
 Music was one of the passions of Mr. Bent's life, and he contributed niiich time 
 and effort toward creating a musical atmosphere and making Worcester a recogni/e<i 
 musical center. His work as choirmaster, organist and lay precentor of .Ml Saints 
 ' has been referred to, but that was but a fraction of his work. He gave freely of his 
 ability as a musician to the Worcester Music Festival for many years; was a member 
 of the first board of directors of the Worcester County Musical .Association and served 
 continuously for seventeen years, i87(>-q6. He was elected president in iSiiTi, serving 
 until 1903. declining another re-election. Prior to the formation of the association, 
 he had been a member and president of Worcester Choral Union. He devoted his 
 energies unstintedly to making the annual festivals events of city pride and no man 
 could have done more than he in that direction. His executive ability, sound judg- 
 ment, high ideals and tactful harmonizing of the various interests, and bending all 
 toward the one idea was shown in increasing success of the music festivals year by 
 year. The following is taken from a testimonial of regard passed by the Worcester 
 County Musical Association and forwarded to Miss Bent by the secretary, Harry K. 
 Sinclair : 
 
 Devotion to business did not prevent Mr. Bent from seelting and cultivating the 
 higlier ideals of life. He was an ardent lovei" of music, Ixdieving in its refining 
 influence and in its power to uplift both tlie individual I and the community, when 
 expressed in its higher and nobler forms, lli- \\.i.-^: pn sulent of the Worcester Choral 
 Union in tlie time of its activity, before this ,i^ m( i.ith.n was iirBanized. • • • Ue 
 was a charter member of this association, n dii.. imt i-m many vcar's and its president 
 from 1S96 until 1903. He was progressive in in.ilio.i and lent his influence to the 
 attainment of a high and constantly advancing staiulard of excellence in tlie work 
 of the association, and any suggestion of sacrifice of merit to box office demands 
 met with his hearty disapproval. At a time when opinion lioth inside ;ind outside 
 of the board of management was divided on tlie subject of festival policies, he stood 
 staunchly for maintaining and still improving tlie standard of its work, advocating 
 the engagement of a now evenly balanced coriioration of artists for the performance 
 of festival works and less prominence to the star feature which had been for a long 
 time considered necessary to the success of the festival. • « • Believing that 
 onl.v the best either in music or art of any kind is wortli wliile cultivating lie solely 
 was responsible for tlie change in policy wiiich resulted in the construction of more 
 dignified and homogeneous festival programs, a policy which the association wisely 
 continues to maintain. * « » His life of strict business integrity, his faithful 
 work in the church and tiis constructive and efficient service as a memlier of the 
 board of management of this association tlirough many years will cause his name to 
 be held in appreciative and lasting memory. 
 
 GEORGE R. BLISS, 
 ARTHUR .1. BA.SSETT. 
 
 Committee. 
 
 A copy of this testimonial was spread upon the records of the board of manage- 
 ment of the association and a copy sent to Miss Bent. 
 
 So too his associates of half a century in the People's Savings Bank met and thus 
 voiced their sentiments concerning their fallen comrade. The board of tnistces of 
 the People's Savings Bank in a meeting held July 25, 1918, passed this resolution: 
 
 It is given to few men to serve a public institution for a period of more than 
 fifty years. Charles M. Bent became identified with the People's Savings Bank in 
 1864, and from that time until 1913. he was Treasurer of the Bank, at which time, he 
 was elected to the Presidency, which office lie held until his retirement in January 
 of this year, at which time he became Senior Vice-President. 
 
 During more tlian half a century, he fulfilled with credit to the Bank, city and 
 community, all duties that devolved upon him. He was a leader in fact as well as 
 in name, and to a large extent, the steady and ever increasing growth of the Bank 
 In material resources, and in esteem, is due to liim. 
 
 We miss his kindly presence, and his memory will ever be an inspiration to U3 
 as an example of conscientious and faithful service. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 GEORGE CROMPTON, 
 Secretary, Board of Trustees. 
 
 At a meeting of the board of investment of the People's Savings Bank, held May 
 27, 1918, the following resolutions were passed : 
 
 The Board of Investment of the People's Savings Bank keenly feels the loss to 
 the Bank in the death of Charles M. Bent, its Vice-President, who so faithfully served 
 the Bank since its establishment in 1864. 
 
 Over this long span of years, Mr. Bent, as Treasurer, and later as President of the 
 Bank, was responsible more than anyone else, for its constant and consistent growth. 
 His administration was marked by devotion, and a keen appreciation of tlie highest 
 business ideals. Added to this, he impressed his Christian personality upon all his 
 duties, and his example was always an inspiration to the officers and employees of 
 the Bank. 
 
 The Board will miss his kindly presence, and will hold his memory In deepest 
 esteem. 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Resolved. That these resolutions be adopted and spread upon the records of the 
 Bank, and a copy sent to his daughter, Miss Catherine M. Bent. 
 
 GEORGE CROMPTON, 
 
 Secretary, Board ot Investment. 
 
 Other organizations and philanthropies which benefited through his great heart 
 and kindly nature were Worcester Dispensary, of which he was president ; Worcester 
 Homeopathic Hospital Association and Hahneman Hospital. He was a member of 
 the Art Museum, the Association of Mutual Aid for Detecting Thieves. Worcester 
 County Horticultural Society, Worcester County Republican Club. Thus the business, 
 religious and musical institutions eulogized the man as they knew him. But it was in 
 the home circle that he was the most truly appreciated and tliere his virtues shone 
 brightest. 
 
 He married. October lo, 1867, Helen Maria Kennedy, daughter of James L. and 
 Helen Maria (Clark) Kennedy. They were the parents of a son, Robert Metcalf, 
 who died in infancy, and a daughter, Catherine Metcalf, who survives her parents, 
 residing in the family home at No. 36 Fruit street, Worcester. 
 
 CHARLES JOHN HICKEY. In the year 1900 Mr. Hickey began the practice 
 of law in Worcester, and during the years which have since intervened he has won 
 his way to honorable rank among the lawyers of the Worcester County Bar. He is 
 tiie son of William Hickey, born in County Waterford, Ireland, who came to the United 
 States in the fifties, locating in Worcester. Before and after the Civil \Var, Wi'liam 
 Hickey worked at his trade as moulder, until he was appointed truant officer for the 
 city of Worcester. Subsequently, he was appointed to the police force, and was pro- 
 moted to the rank of sergeant, in which capacity he served until his retirement on 
 pension at the stipulated age. He was a "Minute Man of '61." having enlisted with 
 the old Emmet Guards of Worcester as a company of the Third Battalion of Rifles, at 
 the first call of President Lincoln. At the expiration of this enJistment he joined the 
 navy and served v/ith Admiral Dupont, at Charleston, and subsequently with Admiral 
 Farragut at the taking of the Gulf and Mississippi forts, and continued his service in 
 the navy until the end of the war. William Hickey married, in Worcester, Margaret 
 Troy, born at Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland, in 1842, died in Worcester, 
 October 27, 1907, daughter of David Troy, born in Ireland, died in Worcester, a 
 custom boot-maker, with a shop on Mechanic street for years. William Hickey died 
 in Worcester, December 30, 1916, aged seventy-six. He was the son of John Hickey, 
 who lived and died in Ireland. William and Margaret (Troy) Hickey were the 
 parents of five children : Frank D. Hickey, municipal accountant for the State Bureau 
 of Statistics, married Alice M. Hyland, of Worcester; Right Rev. William A. Hickey, 
 Co-adjutor Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island (Roman Catholic), Tracy, died in in- 
 fancy ; Anna T., married Dr. David B. Lovell, eye specialist, of Worcester ; and 
 Charles John, of further mention. 
 
 Charles John Hickey, youngest child of William and Margaret (Troy) Hickey, 
 was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 25, 1873. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Worcester, and graduated from the Classical High School in 1892; 
 Holy Cross College, 1895; Boston University Law School, 1899. He engaged in the 
 active practice of law in 1900, with an office in the State Mutual building, and in igoi 
 associated with ex-Mayor Philip J. O'Connell. with offices in the Walker building. 
 This association lasted until 1908, when Mr. Hickey removed his office to the Slater 
 building, where he has since been enga.ged in the practice of law alone. He is a 
 member of the Worcester County Bar Association and the Massachusetts State Bar 
 Association, and is held in high regard by his brethren of the profession. In politics 
 Mr. Hickey is a Democrat. He has served on the city, Slate and national local cam- 
 paign committees of his party and has ever been identified with the workers and 
 leaders of the same. In civic affairs he has always recognized his duty as a citizen, 
 and has given freely of his time and labor toward the promotion of the municipal, 
 state and national welfare. During the late World War, for the period of twenty 
 months, and to the exclusion of his own private practice, he was engaged in the selec- 
 :tive service system or draft as chairman of Local Board, Division No. 3, of Wor- 
 cester, Massachusetts, and devoted himself most faithfully to that tremendous task. 
 He has never entered the political arena for election to public office. He is a member 
 of the Washington Club, Worcester Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus, 
 Worcester County Bar Association, Massachusetts State Bar Association, and the 
 Church of the Ascension, Worcester. 
 
 ALFRED NATHANIEL WHITING, Cotton manufacturer, was born at 
 Woonsocket, Rhode Island, December 10, 1844, and died at Worcester, February 26, 
 1916, son of Alfred and Mary Smith (Harris) Whiting. Alfred Whiting was born 
 
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 in Washington, New Hampshire. September iS, 1817. In 1S45 lu- fmmdeil ilie Ini'iiness 
 in Oakdale, Massachusetts, in partnership with his brotliers-in-law. Ch;irles Morris 
 Harris, Linus M. Harris and Gideon Harris, under tlic firm name of L. M. Harris & 
 Coinpany. cotton manufacturers. The liusiness flourished until the water privilege was 
 taken by the Metropolitan Water Board. He w:;s a member of Mont.icutc Lodge. 
 Free and Accepted M.isons. the Chapter, Council, and Worcester County Commandcry, 
 Knights Templar He died at Oakdale, January 14, 1890. He married, October 21, 
 1841, Mary Smith ?larris, who was born March 14, 1820, died in this city, April 16, 
 1904, a daughter of Henry and Waty (Smith) Harris. Her line of ancestry to the 
 immigrant: Henry CO), Gideon (5), Charles (4). Thomas f.^"), Thomas (2), Thomas 
 (l), who came to Rhode Island with Roger Williams. Children of Alfred and Mary 
 Smith (Harris) Whiting: i. John Henry, born August 0, 1842, at Woonsocket, died 
 young. 2. .Mfred Nathaniel, oi further mention. 3. George I'.dwin, born at CJakdale, 
 June 4, 1847, died young. 4. Mary Eliza, born September 16, 1850, resides with her 
 nephew, Winfred H. Wliitin.g. at No. i()7 Pleasant street; active in the Church of the 
 Unity and in social and charitable work; member of the Woman's Club and of Colonel 
 Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. 5. Clara Waty, 
 born Fcbruarv 2. 18^7. died voung. The Whiting line of ancestrv is: Winfred H. (9), 
 Alfred N. (8), Alfred (7).' Nathaniel (6). Nathaniel (5), Isaac (4), Nathaniel (3), 
 Timothy (2), Nathaniel (i), who was born in Kngland, in ifKX), came to Lvnn as 
 early as 1638, moved to Dedham, where he died, in 1683. Timothy (2) and Nathaniel 
 (3) were millers in Dedham. Nathaniel ((>) was the first of the line to leave Dedham. 
 
 Alfred N. Whiting received his early education in the public schools of West 
 Boylston. the East Douglas Academy and Woodstock .Academy, Woodstock. Vermont. 
 He graduated in 1865 from the Eastman Business College at I'oughkeepsie. New York. 
 In 1870 he was placed in charge of the Bell Cotton Mills at I'etcrboro. New Hamp- 
 shire, but he returned a year later to become superintendent of the L. M. Harris 
 Company, at West Boylston. Subsequently, he became treasurer and geni'ral manager, 
 and continued in these olTices until the dissolution of the corporation, in 1902. He did 
 not again engage in active business. From iQoo until his death he was a resident of 
 Worcester. In politics Mr. Whiting was a Republican, and thou,gh he took a keen 
 interest in public affairs he never held public office. Like his father he devoted him- 
 self unreservedly to business and allowed no other interests to interfere. He was but 
 twelve years old when he began to work in a cotton mill, and about forty years of his 
 life were passed in that business. As a manufacturer he mastered every detail of the 
 cotton industry and took high rank among his business associates. After lii« retire- 
 ment he made many friends in Worcester, and especially in the Church of the Unity, 
 of which he was a faithful member. 
 
 Mr. Whiting married, June 5, 1867, Mary Clarcmond Holt, of West Boylston. His 
 wife died January 22. i8q8. TIrv had two children, one of whom died in infancy, 
 and Winfred Holt. (See biography). 
 
 WINFRED HOLT WHITING, Lawyer and magistrate, was born at Oakdale, 
 West Boylston, July 26, 18S0, son of Alfred Nathaniel and Mary Claremond (Holt) 
 Whiting. He attended the public and high school, graduating from the latter in i8<;>7, 
 in his native town, and entered Brown University, from which he was graduated in 
 I90I with the degree of Ph. B. Three years later he graduated from Harvard Law 
 School, in 1904. He w-as admitted to the bar in February, i'X)4, and immediately 
 afterward engaged in practice in Worcester. For a short time he was in the office of 
 Henry F. Harris and Charles M. Thayer. His present office is in the Slater building. 
 He was admitted to the bar of the Lhiited States Circuit Court in August, 1905. He 
 was appointed associate justice of the Central District Court of Worcester in Novem- 
 ber, 1910. and has continued to the .present time in this position. In piditics he is a 
 Republican. He was a member of the Republican City Committee from 1908 to 191 1, 
 inclusive, and chairman of Ward Ten Republican Committee in looij-io-ii. He was 
 elected to the Common Council in 1911. re-elected in 1913. and 191.=?, and in ]9!()-i9i7 \yas 
 president. Mr. Whiting was treasurer of the Church of the Ihiity, and has taken an 
 active part in the work of the church. He is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Free 
 and Accepted Masons, of the Tatnuck Country Club. Economic Chd), and the Church 
 of the Unity. He has a country home at West Boylston. 
 
 OSGOOD BRADLEY, Founder of the business now conducted by the Osgood 
 Bradley Car Conipany in this city, was born at .^ndover, January 15, 1800, and died 
 in this city. May 11, i884, son of Thomas Osgood and Mehitablc (Carleton) Bradley. 
 Thomas Osgood Bradley was born at North Andover, September 28, 1774, died at 
 Andover, October 12, 1811; lived at Andover and Bradford; married, June 2, 1796, 
 Mehitable Carleton. His sons John and Osgood moved to Worcester; John died 
 
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 here. August 31, 1840, aged thirty-eight years, married Nancy Webb, of Exeter, New 
 Hampshire; Sarah, married, November 13, 1843. Leonard Runnels, of Bradford. 
 Thomas Osgood Bradley was a son of Jonathan Bradley, a soldier in the Revolution 
 from Andover. Jonathan was of the fourth generation of the family in this country, 
 son of William, grandson of Joseph. His father aided the cause of the patriots during 
 the Revolution by contributing clothing for the soldiers. The wife of Joseph (2) 
 Bradley was one of the captives taken at the same time Hannah Dustin was captured 
 by the Indians, and she remained in captivity two years. The immigrant of the fam- 
 ily, bom in England about 1640, settled in Haverhill ; was selectman ; was killed by 
 Indians, August 13, 1689. 
 
 Osgood Bradley received a high school education, and left home to learn the 
 trade of carriage making in Salem. In 1822 he began to build carriages and coaches 
 in this town, in a small building at the rear of the Parker building. In the same year 
 he moved to larger quarters in Atchison's carriage shop on Scliool street, where he 
 manufactured coaches, chaise, gigs, sleighs, cutters and other vehicles. For a few 
 years John Manning was associated with him. Afterward Mr. Manning was in busi- 
 ness in the same line on his own account. In 1826 Mr. Bradley began to make coaches 
 for the large stage line owners of New England and New York and for many years 
 made the larger part of the stage coaches used in this section of the country. In 1833 
 he began to build railway coaches and made the first passenger cars used on the steam 
 railways. The first cars were hauled to Boston over the turnpike. In 1837 he sold his 
 carriage making business and thereafter devoted his attention exclusively to making 
 railroad cars. Very early he began to export cars. In 1839 Edward E. Rice became a 
 partner and continued until 1849, after which Mr. Bradley was alone until his sons 
 were admitted to partnership, under the firm name of Osgood Bradley & Sons. Just 
 before the Civil War he had a large contract for the Egyptian railroads. During the 
 war the works were employed in the government service, making carriages and cais- 
 sons, in addition to cars. Late in the sixties he began to make sleeping cars, and his 
 son, Osgood, Jr., was in charge of one of the first sleeping cars used in the West, at 
 the same time George M. Pullman was a conductor on another road. The Osgood 
 Bradley Car Works were moved to the corner of Water and Winter streets, and in 
 1844 to the corner of Franklin and Grafton streets. In 1881 Henry O. and Osgood 
 Bradley. Jr., became partners of their father. 
 
 Mr. Bradley was a man of sterling character, progressive and enterprising, gen- 
 erous with his means and active in promoting the public welfare. He was no incon- 
 siderable factor in the upbuilding of the city in its critical days. In 1845 he purchased 
 the mansion on Front street, at the present site of the Chase building, and he was 
 living there when he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday with a remarkable gathering 
 of friends, including railroad magnates from all parts of the country. He was one 
 of the charter members of the Plymouth Congregational Church, in the support of 
 which he was very generous. He was on the building committee when the present 
 meeting house was erected. He married (first), October 16, 1823, Fanny Sanger, of 
 Framingham ; she died June 21, 1846, and he married (second), February 9, 1849, 
 Sarah Jane Makepeace, of Warren. She died April 30. i8g8. Children by first wife: 
 Elizabeth Mehitable. born September II, 1824, married General John B. Wyman, who 
 was killed in the Civil War at the siege of Vicksburg; John, born April 10. 1827; 
 Henry Osgood, of further mention; Daniel Sanger, born February 9, 1834; Osgood, 
 Jr., born December 26, 1836 ; Sarah Olivia, born November 2, 1839. The only child by 
 the second wife was Abbie Jeanie. born October 13, 1851. 
 
 HENRY OSGOOD BRADLEY, Partner in Osgood Bradley & Sons, was born 
 in this city, September 17, 1828, and died here, October 22, 1901, son of Osgood Brad- 
 ley. He received a liberal education and early in life became associated in business 
 with his father and brother in the firm of Osgood Bradley & Sons, taking charge of 
 the office and accounts. He was a "Forty-niner," sailing in the first vessel bound for 
 the, California gold mines from Boston, and he remained in the West for a year. He 
 devoted himself during the rest of his life very closely to the business, which con- 
 tinued to expand year by year. After 1884, when his father died, he was in partner- 
 ship with his brother, Osgood, Jr., continuing until the brother died, in 1896, and after- 
 ward with his son, John E. Bradley, now head of the concern. Mr. Bradley was fond 
 of travel, made several trips abroad for pleasure as well as business, and visited all 
 parts of this country. His mind was richly stored from extensive reading, close 
 observation and study, and his judgment was sound. In politics he was a Democrat, 
 and he possessed much public spirit, but refused to accept political honors. 
 
 Mr. Bradley married (first), in 1853, Sarah L. Stockbridge, of Hanover, Massa- 
 chusetts. She died November 22, 1867, and he married (second), Alice Wetherell, of 
 Providence, Rhode Island. She died in February, 1895. Children by first wife: I. 
 
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 Fanny Sanger, burn October I,?. 185-1; marrietl. October jN. i8}^o. Dr. (',eori;c I-'. Mar- 
 wood, born Feliriiary 5. 1847, died July 11, U)\2. j. John Erviiig. 
 
 JOHN ERVING BRADLEY, President of tbe Osgood Bradley Car Company, 
 was born in this city, February 2O. i8(X), son of Henry Osgood and Sarah I,. (Stock- 
 bridge) Bradley. He attended the public schools and the private school of Mrs. 
 Wheeler, Sunnner street. ^ He graduated from the Classical Hi.gh School in 1.S77, and 
 entered .Amherst College in the class of 1881. .\i the end of his freshman year, liow- 
 ever, he left college to begin his business career. F'or four years he was a clerk in 
 the store of Jerome Marble & Company, dealers in paints, oils and mill supplies He 
 was about to start on a trip as traveling salesman for the firm when he resigned to 
 become connected with the I'lrm c^f Osgood Bradley & Sons, in which his father was 
 a partner. After the death of his uncle, in i8<X), lie became general manager of the 
 car works, and five years later sole owner of the business. The high reputation of the 
 car works has been maintained under his administration. ;iiul the business largely 
 expanded. The old plant at Washington Square had to he abandoned in i<xx> on 
 account of changes in the construclion of the new I'nion Railroad Station and abol- 
 ition of grade crossings. The Bradley Works were movcil to a magnilicent new plant 
 at Greendale. .^t the old location the firm occu|>ied an .icre and three-quarters: ;it the 
 present location, tifty-two acres. At that time more capital was put into the business 
 and the present corporation formed. The great concrete and steel buildings have about 
 eighteen acres of floor space, and are eipiipped with the latest and most efficient ma- 
 chinery. Next to the Pullman Company this company is the largest concern building 
 passenger cars exclusively. Steel and wooden cars for steam and electric roads are 
 made for railroads in all parts of the world. The plant has a capacity of six hundred 
 cars a year. Fifteen hundred hands are employed under normal conditions. The 
 Bradley works are among the largest of the city, doing an annual business of about 
 $8,000,000. On the old site Mr. Bradley erected, in 1014, an eight-story lireproof 
 building for commercial and manufacturing purposes, fronting on Grafton street, 
 100 by 200 feet, known as the Osgood Bradley building. It was soon fully occupied 
 by tenants. 
 
 Mr. Bradley is a director of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce. He is a 
 member of the Canadian Railroad Club of Montreal; the New York Railroad Club; 
 The Traffic Club of New England; the Engineers' Club of Boston; the .American 
 Electric Railway Manufacturers' .'\ssociation ; the National .Association of Manufac- 
 turers; the .American Railroad .Appliance .Association; the New England Steam Rail- 
 road Club; the New England Street Railroad Club, of which he was formerly mem- 
 ber of the executive board; the Worcester County Mechanics' .Association; the Amer- 
 ican Society of Mechanical Engineers; the .American Electric Railway Association. 
 He is also a member of the Worcester Club, in which he has served on the member- 
 ship committee; the Worcester Country Club; the Tatnuck Country Club; the Tatassit 
 Canoe Club, of which he has been the commodore; the Uptown Club, of which he has 
 been president. He served three years in the Light Infantry, in the State Militia, and 
 is a member of the Veteran .Association. He has taken the thirty-second degree in 
 Masonry, and is a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of 
 this city; Eureka Chapter, Royal .Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar; .Aleppo Temple, Order 
 of the Mystic Shrine, and the Massachusetts Consistory. He is a member of the finance 
 comrnittee of Piedmont Congregational Church, and one of the board of assessors. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Bradley married, October 13, 18S7, Emma M. Dinglcy, bnrii September 24, 
 1859, daughter of Honorable James B. and .Maria (McKeniiey) Dingley. Her father 
 was prominent in business in 'Gardiner. Maine, the first mayor of that city, serving 
 several terms. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have two children: Helen Osgood, born June 
 16, 1888, graduate of Smith College, 1910, married Hamilton B. Wood; and Kath- 
 arine, born April 2, 1895, student in Smith College, class of 1918. 
 
 Mr., Bradley's home is at No. 21 Richards street, in this city. 
 
 BENJAMIN THOMAS BURLEY, Physician, was born in North Epping, New 
 Hampshire, November 26, 1874, son of Joseph Cilley and Sarah Elizabeth (Haley) 
 Burky. He is a descendant of Giles Burley ( Burlei.gh), who was born in I'^ngland, 
 and settled in Ipswich as early as 1648. Giles Burley was a planter in that town during 
 the remainder of his life. His widow. Elizabeth, married (second), .Abraham I'ilts, 
 of Ipswich. Governor Burleigh, of Maine, was a descendant of this pioneer, as were 
 all the Colonial families bearing the surname of Burley, or Burleigh. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin T. Burley attended the public schools of his native town, and pre- 
 pared for college in Phillips Exeter .Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, gniduat'iii': 
 
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 in the class of 1893. He entered Harvard University, from which he received the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1897. He received his medical training at the Harvard 
 Medical School, from which he graduated, cum laude, m 1901. Having received, his 
 medical degree, he continued his hospital work in Boston, Worcester, Vienna, and 
 London, for three years. In 1904 he began to practice in this city, making a specialty 
 of the diseases of the nerVous system, a subject in which he had made original re- 
 searches and investigation. Two years later he established neurological departments 
 at the Worcester City Hospital, and at The Memorial Hospital. He has continued his 
 practice here since that time, and is visiting neurologist to The Memorial Hospital, 
 and to the Worcester City Hospital, and consulting neurologist to the Holden Hos- 
 pital. In 1917 he was appointed by the President to the Medical Advisory Board of 
 Worcester, to aid in sifting out the draftees for the War Department. He was 
 elected secretary of that board, and continued his activity in these affairs until October 
 I, 1918, when he was appointed captain in the medical corps of the army. Through the 
 early cessation of hostilities. Dr. Burley did not see active service, and later received 
 his honorable discharge from the army. 
 
 Dr. Burley is a member of the Worcester District Medical Society; the Massa- 
 chusetts Medical Society; the American Medical Association; the New England 
 Psychiatrical Society; the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the Amer- 
 ican Association for the Advancement of Science. Among his written works are: 
 "Parathne Injections for Bilateral Facial Atrophy;" "Subacute Polymyositis;" "Inter- 
 cranial Tumors," and various others on neurological subjects. Dr. Burley is a mem- 
 ber of the Worcester Club; the Tatnuck Country Club; the Harvard Club of Boston; 
 the Authors Club of London. England. During his college life he was active in 
 athletics, and was captain of the Harvard Lacrosse Team, in 1897. He has not lost 
 his love for outdoor sports, especially tennis, golf, and horseback riding. 
 
 CALVIN HENRY ANDREWS, Educator, has the training and experience, 
 
 together with a love of outdoor sports and recreations demanding companionableness, 
 that go to make a student and teacher of indubitable efficiency, who inspires respect, 
 but who has a feeling in common with those of more youthful years with whom his 
 profession constantly throws him. 
 
 Mr. Andrews was born June i, 1871, the son of John Thomas and Henrietta 
 Martyn (Brigham) Andrews, of Boylston, Massachusetts. He attended the public 
 schools of Boylston, and later the Worcester High School in the same building in 
 which he is now principal of the High School of Commerce. He was graduated from 
 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with the degree of B. S., in the year 1893; took 
 a special course in pedagogy and mathematics at Clark University from 1895 to 1896. 
 He entered the English Classical High School as teacher of physics in 1803, which 
 position he held until June, 1901. In September of the latter year he entered the faculty 
 of the South High School as a teacher of physics, and continued there until June, 
 1914, and in that year was appointed assistant principal in the High School of Com- 
 merce, and in August, 1916. became the principal there. This position he fills at the 
 present time (1917). He is a member of the Boylston Congregational Church, of 
 which he is chairman of the board of trustees and deacon; he is a member of Morn- 
 ing Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Worcester Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; a member of the Economic Club, of which he 
 was treasurer from 1906 until 1914; a member of the Eastern Association of Physics 
 Teachers, of which he was president for one year; a member of the Congregation- 
 alists' Club; and a member of the Worcester Mechanics' Association. In politics he 
 is a Republican. Mr. Andrews' enthusiasm for outdoor recreation .*inds expression in 
 his activities in farming on the old home of his parents, in swimming, skating and 
 tennis. In college he played half-back on the celebrated Worcester technical football 
 team of 1892. 
 
 On August 21, 1896, Mr. Andrews was married to Martha Esther Reed, born in 
 Boylston, Massachusetts, November 20, 1878. They have one child, Martha Henrietta, 
 born November 22, 1904, who is now a student at Adams Square School. 
 
 HENR"y HERBERT DYKE, Lumber dealer, was born in Plymouth, Massa- 
 chusetts, March 4, 1857, son of Anthony and Christiana (Soule) Dyke. Anthony Dyke 
 was born in North Easton, Massachusetts, September 21, 1818, and died May 28, 
 1916, at South Braintree; a locomotive engineer in the employ of the New York, New 
 Haven & Hartford Railroad Company more than fifty years; married Christiana 
 Soule, of Kingston, who was born October 31, 1835, now living with her son in this 
 city. Henry Herbert was their only child. Anthony Dyke's father and grandfather 
 bore the same name, Anthony. Captain Anthony Dyke, his ancestor, was a soldier in 
 
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 the Revolution. Samuel Dyke, the first of the family in this country, was one of the 
 pioneers at Salem, Massachusetts, before 1635. The Dyke family was originally from 
 Scotland. 
 
 When Henry H. Dyke was a year old his parents moved to South Braintree, 
 Massachusetts, and he attended the public schools there, graduating from the South 
 Braintree High School in 1876. He began his business career as clerk in a grocery 
 Store in South Braintree and continued in that business until he was twenty-seven 
 years of age. He was then employed in Boston until i88y, when he came to this city. 
 For five years he was a bookkeeper in the office of the firm of Reed & Prince, and 
 for ten years he tilled a similar position in the office of the J. F. Bickncll Lumber 
 Company. In 1912 he engaged in the lumber business on his own account and since 
 then has been in business in this city at the head of the H. H. Dyke I^uniher Company. 
 His office and yards are at No. 701 West Boylston street. His home is at No. 76 June 
 street. 
 
 Mr. Dyke is a prominent Free Mason, a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, of which 
 he is a past master, and is also a past district deputy of the Twenty-lirst Massachu- 
 setts Masonic IDistrict ; also a member of Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Wor- 
 cester County Commandcry, Knights Templar; Worcester Lodge of Perfection; God- 
 dard Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croi.\ ; Massachu- 
 setts Consistory, and Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is 
 also a member of the Commonwealth Club, Builders E.xchangc, VN'orcester Rotary Club, 
 Worcester Chamber of Commerce. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a 
 Universalist. 
 
 Mr. Dyke married, at South Braintree, April 4, 1878, Jennie A. Willis, who was 
 born in Vermont, and died in this city, July 12. igog. aged fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Dyke had two children: i. Harold Curtis, born April 2, 1884, an artist, now living at 
 El Paso, Te.xas; married Lillian R. Ware, of Newton, Massachusetts, and has one 
 child, Jennie Randall Dyke. 2. Zylpha Wadsworth, resides at home. 
 
 GEORGE WARRINGTON DAVIS, Woolen manufacturer, was born in Troy, 
 New York, June 23, 1859, died in this city, June 2(1, 1917, son of Charles Davis, who 
 was born in 1835, died .\pril 4, 1897, in California. Early in life he learned the trade of 
 carder, and in the early seventies was working at his trade at the mills in Valley 
 Falls, Leicester, becoming superintendent of Hunt's Mill there as early as 1873. After- 
 ward he operated this mill, manufacturing satinets. In the eighties he was a satinet 
 manufacturer in Athol, Massachusetts, but resided at No. 6 Walnut street, Worcester. 
 In 1888 he began to maiuifacture satinets in this city, and about that time made his 
 home at No. 200 Beacon street. His mill was at No. 32 Southbridge street. The busi- 
 ness was incorporated in i8<)4, Charles Davis being president, and his son, George W. 
 Davis, who had been in partnership with him, became treasurer. He had seven child- 
 ren : George VV'., mentioned above; Charles Eugene; Otis H., now of Hopedale, 
 Massachusetts ; Leander ; .'\lonzo G. ; Alvin S., now of Oxford ; Mary A., of this city. 
 
 George W. Davis came to this city with his parents in early childhood, and 
 received his education here in the public and high schools. He began his business 
 career in his father's mill in this city, beginning as a bobbin boy and learning the 
 business thoroughly in its various departments. For a number of years he was asso- 
 ciated in business with his father. When the Southgate Woolen Company was formed 
 in iSi)4, he became treasurer, and his father was president. After the death of his 
 father in 1897, he continued the business. It was subsequently incorporated under the 
 name of George W. Davis, Inc. He continued in busmess until the mill at No. 32 
 Southgate street was destroyed by fire in 1915, when he retired Mr. Davis was 
 widely known and highly esteemed. He was a member of the Commonwealth Club, 
 the Worcester Automobile Club, the Worcester Country Club, the Commercial Trav- 
 elers Association, the Tatassit Canoe Club, and the .Vncient Free and Accepted Masons. 
 In politics he was a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Davis married, April 29, 1S84, in Rochester. New York,' Marion R. Davis, 
 who was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, a daughter of Dr. Daniel and Harriet 
 ( Newell- Woodwar'd) Davis. Her father was the oldest physician practicing in New 
 York State at the time of his death. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Davis died in 
 infancy. Mrs. Davis resides at No. 8 Loudon street. 
 
 EDWARD JUSTIN RUSSELL, Colonel, warden of the Massachusetts State 
 Prison, was born ni Hadky, Massachusetts. October j^. 1833; died in this city, Decem- 
 ber 16, 1917. He was educated in the public schools; learned the trade of carpenter, 
 in Northampton, Massachusetts, and came ni 1854 to this city, where he followed his 
 trade, but a few years later removed to North Brookfield, and from that town he 
 enlisted in Company F, Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment. Although he was given 
 
8io HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 a commission as second lieutenant, he relinquished it in favor of a man who had more 
 military experience. He was soon made corporal, then sergeant, and July 24, 1862, 
 commissioned second lieutenant; September 24, 1862, first lieutenant, and January 22, 
 1863, captain. Among the engagements in which he took part were the battles of 
 Fair Oaks, Second Bull Run, Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, first and second, 
 South Mountain and Savage Station. He was afterward in the Third Massachusetts 
 Regiment of Heavy Artillery, in which he was commissioned second lieutenant. May 
 4, 1864; first lieutenant. May 24, 1865, and captain, July, 1865. He was in command 
 of four companies at Fort Stevens, D. C, serving as judge advocate of a General 
 Court Martial there. He was mustered out, October I, 1865. 
 
 Returning to his home in this city, he began a career in the public service that 
 continued until he was seventy-five years old, when he retired. In 1866 he was ap- 
 pointed deputy State constable, serving in this county for the greater part of his term. 
 In 1871 he resigned to accept the office of deputy sheriff under General A. B. R. 
 Sprague, and in the same year he was made keeper of the Worcester House of Cor- 
 rection. He was deputy sheriff until 1884, and keeper until 1886. In July^ 1886, he 
 was appointed warden of the Massachusetts State Prison by Governor George D. 
 Robinson. His administration of the prison was highly commended. His military 
 training, executive ability and sterling character gave him exceptional qualifications 
 for the dutes of this responsible position. From 1884 to 1887 he was on the staff of 
 Governor Robnson as aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel. He was for many years 
 active in the Worcester Continentals, and was the second lieutenant at one time. From 
 1867 to 1885 he was a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Common Council 
 in 1895. and was elected to the Board of Aldermen in 1898. For a time he represented 
 North Brookfield in the General Court, after the Civil \\'ar. He was appointed pro- 
 bation officer of the Central District Court in 1891, and served in that office for seven- 
 teen years, resigning in i(X)8, when he was seventy-five years old. The "Gazette" said 
 of his service: "He worked untiringly in the interests of the men and women placed 
 under his care by the court, and seldom has any city or town had a better probation 
 officer than Colonel Russell. Men still live who came under his influence at that time 
 and whom he helped in his position." Colonel Russell served for five years, from 
 1896 to 1901, as a director of the Free Public Library. He was also at various times 
 a bail commissioner and agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Child- 
 ren, while he was probation officer. From the formation of George H. Ward Post, 
 Grand Army of the Republic, Colonel Russell was a member, active and influential in 
 its affairs. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Commandery, Order of the 
 Loyal Legion; president of the Fifteenth Regiment Association; president in 191 1 of 
 Company F, Association of the Fifteenth Regiment. After resigning from office, he 
 went abroad, and spent his winters in Daytona, Florida, thoroughly enjoying his free- 
 dom from business and the cares of office. He always had a large circle of intimate 
 friends, and was popular among all classes. He was modest, genial, attractive in 
 manner and speech, upright and honorable in all his relations of life. 
 
 Mr. Russell married Lucenia Prouty, and they had a daughter. Bertha Lucenia, 
 who married Colonel Samuel E. Winslow. (See biography). 
 
 EDWIN TYLER MARBLE, Founder of the Curtis & Marble Machine Com- 
 pany, was born in Sutton. ,\ugust 18. 1827. died in this city, July 3, 1910, son of Royal 
 Tyler and Ann Bailey (Clement) Marble. He attended the public schools in his 
 native town and for several terms was a student in the Worcester County Manual 
 Training School (now the Worcester Academy). He came to this city with his 
 father's family in 1841, and at the age of eighteen years entered the employ of Albert 
 Curtis, serving an apprenticeship of three years at the trade of machinist. Afterward 
 he worked in various machine shops in this city, as journeyman, foreman and super- 
 intendent. He was in the employ of A. & S. Thayer; was for several years foreman 
 for Thayer, Houghton & Company, manufacturers of machinists' tools; and was super- 
 intendent of the works of E. C. Cleveland & Company, manufacturers of woolen 
 machinery. In 1849-50 he worked about a year in Shelburne Falls. 
 
 In .^pril, 1863. he entered into partnership with Albert Curtis in the manufacture 
 of woolen machinery for finishing woolen, silk and cotton goods, under the firm name 
 of Curtis & Marble. Mr. Curtis built the first machines for shearing or trimming 
 cotton cloth built in this country; they were used to remove the fuzz. In old times 
 this was accomplished by singeing. They began business in the same shop where Mr. 
 Marble learned his trade in New Worcester and at first employed about twenty men. 
 This shop was on the present site of the electric light power station. From the be- 
 ginning, however, the business flourished and the plant was enlarged again and again. 
 The firm continued very successfully for thirty-two years. In April, 1895, Mr. Curtis 
 retired and j\Ir. Marble became sole proprietor of the business, which was incorpor- 
 
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 ated December 31 of that year as the Curtis & MarbU- Machine Coinpany. Tlie cap- 
 ital was $75,000. Edwin T. Marble was president and treasurer to tlie end of his 
 life. Mr, Marble built the present factory at No. 72 Cambridee street in 1897. Since 
 the death of Mr. Marble the business has been conducted by his four sons. The 
 officers of the company are: Edwin H. Marble, president; William C. Marble, vice- 
 president and secretary; Charles F. Marble, treasurer; .\Ibert C. Marble, superintend- 
 ent. The company has acquired the business of the Atlas Manufacturing Company of 
 New Jersey and the shearing department of the WoonsocUet Napping Machinery 
 Company. The company employs about one luindred and fifty men at the present 
 time and manufactures wool burring, picking and mixing machinery and cloth finish- 
 ing machinery for cotton, woolen, worsted and felt gonds. velvets, plushes, corduroys, 
 silks, embroideries, carpets, rugs and mats. 
 
 Mr. Marble was of great public spirit and keenly interested in pulilic affairs, es- 
 pecially in municipal politics. He supported the Republican party from the tiine it was 
 organized. He was a member of the school committee in iSCio and from 1872 to r88o. 
 He was a member of the Common Council in 1866, 1867 and i8(j8; alderman in 1869, 
 1870, 1871 and 1872; representative to the Cjcncral Court in 1870; state senator in 
 1887 and l888; member of the board of directors of the Free Public Library from 
 1887 to 1892 and president during his last year. He was a director of the Worcester 
 Safe Deposit and Trust Company (afterward the Worcester Trust Company) for 
 many years, and trustee and vice-president of the People's Savings Bank of this city. 
 He was vice-president and member of the board of trustees of the Home for .\ged 
 Men, and later its president. For a period of thirty years he was a deacon of Pied- 
 mont Congregational Church, and was made deacon emeritus for the remainder of his 
 life. He was a member of the Worcester Pioard of Trade and a director, 1891-94. 
 and of the Worcester .Agricultural Society. He was one of the most influential and 
 active members of the Worcester County Mechanics Association and was its president 
 in 1877 and 1878. His residence at the corner of Main and Clement streets was built 
 in 1890. 
 
 Mr. Marble married Harriet Hamilton Chase, ..f Shelburne FalN. She had been a 
 school teacher in this city. She <iied in this city, .\pril 28, 1892, aged >ixty-one years. 
 She was a descendant of the pioneer, Aquila Chase, and of many other of the first 
 settlers of New England. Their children are: Edwin Henry, Harriet Anne, died 
 1906; William Clement, Charles Francis and .\lbert Curtis (see biographies of the 
 sons). 
 
 Mr. Marble was descended from earlv Puritans, all his ancestrv lieing of the 
 original English stock. The first settler of the Marble family, Samuel Marble, lived 
 in Andover; Freegrace Marble, his son. was one of the early settlers in Sutton and 
 was the ancestor of nearly all the old Marble families in this county. The line of 
 ancestry is: Edwin Tyler (6), Royal Tyler (5), Andrew- (4I, Malachi (3), Free- 
 grace (2), Samuel (l). Andrew Marble was for many years the m.ail carrier be- 
 tween Boston and Hartford, and the family still possesses his whip. 
 
 His father, Royal Tyler Marble, was born in Sutton, March 13, 1797, died in 
 Worcester, October 13, 1861. He was a farmer on the old Marble homestead in 
 Sutton ; came to this citj' and lived in the old Captain Bigelow house on Vernon 
 street. He was greatly interested in the Agricultural Society and took many premiums 
 for his high-grade cattle. He was a lieutenant of the Fifth Regiinent, First Brigade, 
 Sixth Division, commissioned September 20, 1828; proinoted captain, August 7, 18,30, 
 of the Sutton Rifles; discharged May 30, 1831. at the time his company was disbanded. 
 He married, September 27, 1825, Anna Bailey Clement, of Worcester, daughter of 
 Moses and Sarah (Bailey) Clement. She died .April 8, 1885, aged eighty-six years. 
 She was a member of Old South Congregational Church. Besides Edwin T. they had 
 one other son, Francis Russell, born May 30, 1833, in Sutton, died .\prii, 1908. He 
 was associated in business from i860 with his brother and after tlie business was in- 
 corporated w-as one of the directors. He married Sarah Ely (Holt) Clement, widow 
 of Luther Clement. He left no children. He was a Republican, and a member of the 
 Worcester County Mechanics .Association. (See Sutton History for ancestry). 
 
 ALBERT CURTIS, Manufacturer, founder of the firm of Curtis & Marble, was 
 born in the city, July 13, 1807, died here July 27, 1898, son of Samuel (6) and Eunice 
 Curtis, (Samuel (5), Ephraim (4), Ephraim (3), Joseph (2), Plenry (i)). (See Early 
 Settlers). He was one of a large family and early in life had to make his own way 
 in the world. His schooling was brief. His youth was passed mostly on the farm of 
 an elder brother in Tioga county, New '\'ork, and on his uncle's farm in .Auburn, Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 
 At the age of seventeen, he was apprenticed to White & Hoyden, manufacturers of 
 woolen machinery at South Worcester near the present site of the Whittall Carpet 
 
8i2 HISTORY OP WORCESTER 
 
 Mills. After learning this trade he continued in the employ of the firm for three years, 
 his wages being $1.75 a day. In December, 1.^29. he wont to Pittsburgh, returning in 
 January, 1831, to the employ of White & Boyden. Soon afterward he started in 
 business in partnership with John Simmons and Abel Kimball under the firm name of 
 John Simmons & Company, manufacturing machinery for woolen mills. This firm was 
 soon succeeded by Simmons & Curtis, who continued to make shearing and other 
 machinery. In 1833 he became the sole proprietor of the business, but in 1834 admitted 
 William Henshaw to partnership, the name of the firm lieing Curtis & Henshaw. This 
 firm outgrew the little shop at New Worcester and for a time leased quarters in the 
 wire mill on C.rovc street. The firm was dissolved January 8, 1830. In 1841 the factory 
 was destroyed by fire but rebuilt. About 1840 Mr. Curtis bought the old Hale building 
 of Clarendon Wheelock, the Ramshorn water privilege, building and satinet machinery, 
 consisting of two full sets. He had previously bought the Lewis Thayer water privi- 
 lege where the old dam was located on Tatnuck brook, to operate his machine shop. Mr. 
 Curtis leased the old building to John Metcalf and William C. Barber, but it was 
 burned in 1842, together with the machine shop of Mr. Curtis. Mr. Curtis again 
 rebuilt the machine shop. The new building was thirty by fifty-two feet, three stories 
 in height. In 1842 he also built a factory on the site of the old Hale Mill, leasing a 
 part of it to Sumner Pratt, with whom he was afterward in partnership, making sewing 
 thread, and in 1844 bought him out and began to make cotton sheetings, continuing 
 for several years. Then the mill was converted into a satinet factory. In 1845 the 
 South Mill was built for manufacturing cotton sheeting and drilling; in 1870 it was 
 changed to a woolen mill, making blankets, shawls and dress goods. At the north end 
 of Curtis bridge was the old wheelwright shop of E. Graves, whom Mr. Curtis bought 
 out in 1837, continuing the wheelwright business for three years. In 1852 Mr. Curtis 
 bought the factory at Trowbridgeville and made cotton sheetings until it was burned 
 in i860; after it was rebuilt in part he made woolen goods there. He also changed 
 the mill erected in 1845 to a woolen mill in 1871 and made a specialty of horse blankets. 
 The mill built in 1842 was changed to a satinet mill in 1857.' The firm of Curtis & 
 Marble was formed in 1863. (See biography of Edwin T. Marble). The firm con- 
 tinued until April, 1895, when Mr. Curtis sold out to his partner and retired. 
 
 Mr. Curtis was upright, charitable and public-spirited. He was a generous bene- 
 factor of the Home for Aged Men, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young 
 Women's Christian Association, and Union Congregational Church, of which he was a 
 member for many years. He built the Curtis Chapel in Hope Cemetery and presented 
 it to the city. He was for a number of years vice-president of the \^'orcester Society of 
 Antiquity and much interested in the history of Worcester, of which his ancestors were 
 among the first settlers. He was a lifelong student, a reader- of substantial books, well- 
 informed in many subjects. He became the owner of much real estate in the city. He 
 was a selectman of the town in 1840-41 ; member of the first Common Council in 1848 
 and alderman in 1857. In politics he was a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married (first) in 1833. Sally K, Griffin, a widow, of Sterling. He 
 married (second) in 1880, the widow of Rev. David Bancroft. He had no children. 
 
 WILLIAM CLEMENT MARBLE, Vice-president and secretary of the Curtis 
 & Marble Machine Company, was born in Worcester, December 4, 1861. son of Edwin 
 Tyler and Harriet Hamilton (Chase) Marble. He attended the public schools of 
 Worcester, and graduated from the Classical High School in 1881, in which year he 
 began his connection with the company with which he is now identified. He is a 
 Republican in politics, and a member of Piedmont Congregational Church, Worcester 
 Chamber of Commerce, Worcester Congregational Club, Worcester County Mechanics' 
 Association, Worcester Country Club and Economic Club. 
 
 Mr. Marble married, October 23, 1890, in Worcester, J.Iary Rosina Hapfoldt. 
 Children: Edwin Tyler, born August 15, 1894; Frances Elizabeth, July 16, 1900; 
 Harriet Clement, May 13, 1903; Eleanor Mary, February 25, 1914. 
 
 CHARLES FRANCIS MARBLE, Manufacturer of textile machinery, treasurer 
 of the Curtis & Marble Machine Company, was born in this city, February 17, 1865, 
 son of Edwin Tyler and Harriet Hamilton (Chase) Marble. He attended the public 
 schools here, and graduated from the high school in 1882. He entered Amherst College, 
 from which he was graduated in 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After 
 graduation he became associated in business with his father in the firm of Curtis & 
 Marble. He has been an officer of the Curtis & Marble Machine Company since the 
 firm became a corporation, and is now the treasurer. He was the first cashier and a 
 director in 1895. Since 191 1 Mr. Marble has been a director of the Worcester Trust 
 Company, now the Worcester Bank & Trust Company, a director of the Worcester 
 Morris Plan Company, and is a trustee of the Peoples' Savings Bank. 
 
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 He is a Republican in his political \icws and has always takt-n a keen inti icm in 
 the common school system of the municipality. From i<;ki4 to igi6 he scrve<i on the 
 school committee, serving as the chairman the last year. He is a trustee oi the Wor- 
 cester Independent Industrial wScIiools. and is the clerk and chairman of the C.irls' 
 Trade School Committee. He is a member of Alpha Delta Phi and P'hi Beta Kappa 
 fraternities of Amherst, and of the Amherst Alumni Association, and holds member- 
 ship in the Eccinnmic Club, the Coiisregational Club and was president in iQio, in 
 the Chamber of Commerce, in the Public Education Association, in the Worcester 
 County Mechanics' .'\ssociation, in the Worcester County Republican Club, in the 
 Worcester Country Cluli, and in the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial 
 Education. 
 
 He married. November i8, i8i», .Annie M, Russell (see biography). Thrir home 
 is at No. 4 MLirble street. They are members of Piedmont Congregational (..'burch. 
 Their children are: .Anna Bell, born April 12. 1905; Paul Francis, born December 
 II. 1906. 
 
 ANNIE M. (RUSSELL) MARBLE (Mrs. Charles F. Marble), Author, was 
 born in this city, August 10, 1864, daughter of Isaiah Dunster and Nancy M. (Went- 
 worth) Russell. She is descended from the first president of Harvard College, Henry 
 Dunster, and the famous Governor Wcntworth. of New Hampshire, and in various 
 lines, both paternal and maternal, from other pioneers of New England. ,She attended 
 the Ledge Street Public School and the Classical High School, from which she gradu- 
 ated in 1882. with honor. She entered Sinith College and was graduated in 1886 with 
 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1895 she received the degree of Master of Arts 
 from Smith College. 
 
 She taught in the Classical High School fiir lliree years before her marriage, 
 November 18, 189D, to Charles F. Marble. Afterward she resumed teaching English 
 to a class of high school graduates at her home nn Freeland street, and for three 
 years at the hall of the Young Women's Christian Association. At one time her 
 classes in English and American literature had an attendance of one hundred and 
 fifty. During these years she delivered many lectures in this city, Providence, Lowell, 
 Hartford, Lynn, Fitchburg and elsewhere, before women's clubs and similar organiza- 
 tions; later she made a lecture tour to Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond, Pitts- 
 burgh and several places in Tennessee. 
 
 In her home study classes she had given critical attention to Carlvle's "Heroes 
 and Hero Worship" and an annotated edition of this book was her first publication in 
 1897. In 1899 she published "Nature Pictures by American Poets" (MacMillan). She 
 then edited for Houghton, MifBin & Company, an edition of the "Marble Faun" in the 
 Riverside Series. Her next work was "Books that Nourish Us," in the What is Worth 
 While Series of Thomas Crowell & Company, New York. In 1905 she published 
 "Thoreau — His Home, Friends and Books" and "Books in Their Seasons;" in T907, 
 "Heralds of American Literature." She had been a regular contributor to "The Dial," 
 "The Critic" and other New England magazine and literary journals. She edited the 
 "Thoreau Calendar," 1909, "Whittier Year-Book," 1910, "The Optimist's Year- 
 Book," 1911. She compiled a pageant, "Heroines of Literature," 1915. She is a 
 member of the Public Education Association, tlie Smith College Club, the Wonian's 
 Club, the Boston College Club, .Association of Collegiate Alumnae and the Boston 
 Authors' Club. She was president of the Worcester Woman's Club, 1916-191S. 
 
 HERBERT AUGUSTUS MAYNARD. This is an ancient Shrewsbury Massa- 
 chusetts family, coming thence from Marlboro. Herbert A. Maynard, a twentieth 
 century representative, resides in Shrewsbury, his business being in Worcester. lohn 
 Maynard was one of the forty-seven settlers who shared in the division of Sudbury 
 Meadows in 1638. He was a selectman and one of the petitioners for the grant of 
 Marlboro in 1656, removed from there, and died in 171 1. By his wife, Mary, he had 
 three sons: John, born in 1661 ; Simon, bom 1666, of whom further mention; Zacha- 
 riah, born in 1672; all born in Marlboro. 
 
 Simon (l) Maynard was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, died there, Taniiary 19, 
 1747. His wife, Hannah, died April 5, 1743. Children: Simon (2), of further men- 
 tion; Elisha, and John. 
 
 Simon (2) Maynard, known as "Sergeant" Maynard, was born in 1695, died in 
 Shrewsbury, and is said to have lived to the age of ninety. He married Sarah Church, 
 November 18, 1718, and moved to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where both joined the 
 church. His wife died in 1781, aged ninety-one vears. Children: Mary, Benjamin, of 
 further mention ; Simon, Abner, Seth, and Sarah. 
 
 Benjamin Maynard was born in Shrewsbury,' Massachusetts, September 15, 1721. 
 He married (first) March 7, 1744, Submit Lee, who died at the birth of their daughter 
 
8i4 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mercy, born January 15, 1745. married David Brigham. Deacon Maynard married 
 (second) December 29. 1746, Abigail, daughter of Luke Rice. Children: Seth, Submit, 
 Sarah, Abner, Jonah, died young; Jonah (2), Benjamin (2), of further mention; Abi- 
 gail, Lucy, and Simon. 
 
 Benjamin (2) Maynard was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, January 18, 1760, 
 and there his death occurred. He married, in 1783, Martha Earle, of Bo.xford, who 
 died in Shrewsbury, in August. 1846. Children; Joseph and Benjamin, twins, bom 
 January 4, 1785; Oliver, born July 14, 1787; Abner, born February 11, 1790, of further 
 mention; Martha (twin with Abner"! married Dr. Joseph Stone, in 1816. 
 
 Abner Maynard was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, died in 1836, in North- 
 boro. Massachusetts. He married Hannah Hall, of Sutton. Children: .\ugustus 
 Ferdinand, of whom further; Lorenzo, died young; Harriet, died young; Harriet 
 VV^ard, born December 26, 1821, married Daniel Chamberlain; Lorenzo Abner, born 
 December 25, 1825 ; Fayette, born February 29, 1829. 
 
 Augustus Ferdinand Maynard was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, December 
 20, 1815, died July 23, 1897. He learned the painter's trade after finishing public school 
 study and followed that occupation for many years. He was a member of a rifle com- 
 pany in his younger years, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for 
 many years town sexton. He was a well read man, very intelligent and highly 
 esteemed. He married. November 8, 1838, Roslin Flora Allen, born January 22, 1813, 
 died June i, 1881, daughter of Liberty and Mary (Aniidon) Allen, of Fitzwilliam, New 
 Hampshire. Liberty Allen was a farmer, and a member of the Congregational church. 
 He was a son of Elnathan Allen, born November 18, 1728, married INLay 31, 1753, 
 Thankful Flastings, of Waltham, Massachusetts, and died October 2, 1805. Elnathan 
 Allen was a son of Israel Allen, a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Allen were 
 the parents of: Lucius S., born September 2, 1801 ; Augusta A., born August 29, 1802; 
 Thankful H., born August 15, 1804; Sophonia, born December 6, 1805; Mary E., bom 
 March 21, 1807; Cleora K., born January 9, 1811 ; Roslin Flora, born January 23, 
 1813, married Augustus F. Maynard; Caroline C, born July 31, 1815; Liberty G., born 
 November 24, 1817; Appleton J., born June 12, 1819; Henry Edwards Whipple, born 
 September 12, 1822. Augustus F. and Roslin Flora (.Mien) Maynard were the parents 
 of four children: Ellen M.. born July 28, 1839; Caroline A., born May 14, 1841 ; 
 Mary H., born January 21, 1844; Herbert Augustus, of further mention. 
 
 Herbert Augustus Maynard was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, the ancient 
 home of his sires, March 10, 1854, his birth occurring in the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, of which his father was long the sexton, he and his family occupying rooms in 
 the church basement. He was educated in the grade and high schools of Shrewsbury. 
 At the age of seventeen he was taught house painting, paper hanging and decorating 
 by his father, and for three years they worked together. He then became bookkeeper 
 and confidential clerk for Thomas Rice & Company, tanners and curriers of leather 
 at Shrewsbury, Mr. Rice being an uncle of the young man by marriage. For twelve 
 years, 1873-1885, he remained with that firm, then from 1885 to 1897 he engaged in 
 business for himself as a general merchant at Shrewsbury Center. During that period 
 he increased the annual volume of business from $7,000 to $25,000. In 1897 he retired 
 from the mercantile business and for. two years engaged in the sale of real estate. In 
 1889 he was elected secretary and treasurer of the V\'orcestcr Brewing Corporation, an 
 office he has held until the present, 1919. He is on the board of incorporators of the 
 Worcester County Institution for savings, and has other business interests. A Repub- 
 lican in politics, Mr. Maynard in Shrewsbury took an active part in public affairs. He 
 was assistant postmaster of Shrewsbury, 1885-1889, and postmaster 1890-1894. He was 
 chairman of the Republican town committee for many years ; representative from 
 Shrewsbury on the district committee several years; served on the board of selectmen, 
 and was chairman of the school board ; a trustee of the public library, trustee of the 
 Cemetery Association, member of the Electric Light and Water Commission, and 
 served on many public- committees. He is now a member of the finance committee and 
 trustee of the public library, and a cemetery trustee. During the recent conservation 
 campaigns he was chairman of the fuel committee. He is a member of Ridgely Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Worcester; Queen Esther Lodge, Daughters of 
 Rebekah; was one of the founders and is a member of the Shrewsbury Club; was an 
 organizer of the Shrewsbury Historical Society and its first president. 
 
 Mr. Maynard married (first) September 22, 1874, Helen Augusta Morrill, born in 
 Brookfield, Massachusetts, March 10, 1854, died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, March 
 27, 1896, daughter of Ebenezer and Dolly (Pratt) Morrill. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard 
 were the parents of two daughters : Mabelle Agnes, born June 27, 1875, a graduate 
 from Shrewsbury High School, married Frank A. Rand, of Worcester; Flora Evelyn, 
 born May 2, 1881, a graduate of Shrewsbury High School, married Bertram C. Bart- 
 
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 lett, of Worcester. Mr, Mayiianl married (sici.tuH May 10, 11K15. I'.llcn T. Keet'an, 
 born in Mirewsbiiry. l-'ehruary 10. i.'^n^, dauKliter of Mieliacl and C^atlicrine (l-"Uv) 
 Keegan. 
 
 WILLIAM SLOCOMB DADMUN, Merchant, was born in IToIlistnn, Angnst 
 20, 1848. son of Jediithan and Lncy ( Davis) Dadinun His fatlier was a shoemaker by 
 trade; was a clerk in a Worcester slnre for a lime; proprietor of a general slorc in 
 Grafton, and later in Springfield as partner in the tirni of Dadnuni & Putnam; his 
 last years were spent in this city at the home of his son William. His mother was 
 born in Rutland. September 24, iSii, daughter of Isaac and Betsey ( K'ice) Davis, 
 descendant of Dolor Davis (see Early Settlers). 
 
 Jeduthan Dadnnm, Sr.. father of Jeduthan Dadmnn. Jr.. was born in bV.aniing- 
 ham, December 23. 1775, and died iH'bruary 14, 1825. He married. Deceinl)er 18, 1801, 
 Lois Jones, a descendant of John .Mden, who c.ime in tlie "Maytlower." Xathan 
 Dadmnn, father of Jeduthan Dadmun, Sr., was a soldier in the Kevolution from b'ram- 
 ingham. His father, Samuel Dadmun, Ji., served in the Frencli .-ind Indian War from 
 the same town. Samuel Dadmun, Sr.. born about itmo. is said to have liern of Scotch 
 ancestry. The first settler came to Essex county. 
 
 William S. Dadmun went with his parents to l.unenliurg at the age of live years, 
 removing thence to Orafton, where he attended the public schools, leaving the high 
 school before he completed the course. He went to Springticld with the family, and 
 for a few montlis assisted his father in the grocery store, being .afterward a clerk in 
 the store of L. J. Holt, a drygoods dealer there. He came to Worcester and entered 
 the employ of Simeon Clap]). Subsequeiuly Charles Haven was admitted to partner- 
 ship under the lirm name of Clapp & Haven, and when the senior partner died he 
 became sole proprietor, louring all these changes Mr. Dadmun remained with the 
 concern. Mr. Dadmun eng.aged in business on his own account, in partnership with 
 James H. Howland, under the lirm name of Dadmun & Howland, dealing in boots and 
 shoes in this city, .\fter two years, b'rank J. Dadmun. a brother, bought the interests 
 of Mr, Howland and the name of the lirm became Daclmun Rrothers. When this lirm 
 dissolved, William S. Dadmun entered the employ of J. O. Bcmis, shoe dealer in this 
 city, but about two years later he again started in the shoe business under his own 
 name at No. ^4<) Main street, .\fter two years he admitted to partnership Henry E. 
 Putnam, and the firm name became Dadmun & Putnam. Charles H. Heywood repre- 
 sented the interests of ^fr. Putnam in the store, and later when the store was removed 
 to the basement of the old City Hall, he became a p;irtner and the firtn name became 
 Dadmun, Heywood & Company. When the old City Hall was vacated in i8y8, the 
 store was at No. 520 Alain street, in the Knowlcs building. In the meantime the 
 Putnam interests bad been acquired by others, and the present lirm name Dadmun & 
 Heywood was adopted. The store at No. 520 Main street was occupied until Febru- 
 ary I, 1013. when the firm moved to Xo. 517 Main street. The present quarters at No. 
 559 Main street were occupied, March i, 1917. The Dadmun & Heywood firm is one 
 of the oldest mercantile houses on Main street. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun died May 28, 1918. He was a Republican, but never entered 
 politics to any e.xtent. He was one of the best-known Free Masons of the city. 
 He joined Athelstan Lodge, June i, 1870: Eureka Chapter, Royal .'\rch Masons, 
 April 9. 1872; Hiram Council. Royal and Select Masters, June 12. 187.3; Worcester 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, September 4, 1874, and had been its recorder since 
 1876. He was eminent commander in 191 1. He was also a member of the Scot- 
 tish Rite bodies to the eighteenth degree, and a trustee of the Masonic Fraternity 
 (corporation). He was a member also of .-\letheia Grotto, Mystic Order of 
 Veiled Prophets, and of the Worcester County Mechanics' .Association, of which 
 he was a trustee for three years; and a director of the Home Co-operative fiank. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun married. December 31, 1868, Lydia Lathrop, born April i, 1845, 
 daughter of Samuel and Julia Ann (Wheelock) I.athrop. Their children were: 
 Alice Gertrude, born December 0, 1869, died November 29, 1871: Wilton Wells (see 
 biography); Walter Robbins. liorn August 23, 1878. Mr. Dadmun's home was at 
 No. 28 Oread street. 
 
 WILTON WELLS DADMUN, Manager of the Worcester Machine Screw 
 Company, No. 79 Beacon street, was born in this city, December 27, 1872. son of Wil- 
 liam Slocomb and Lydia (Lathrop) Dadmun. He received his education here in the 
 public and high schools, and began business as clerk in the office of the Crompton 
 & Knowles Loom Works. After six months there he entered the employ of the Pierce 
 National Fire Insurance Company and continued there for a period of six years. In 
 1893 he became a clerk in the office of the Worcester Machine Screw; Company. From 
 time to time he was advanced to positions of greater responsibility, and after the 
 
gi6 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 death of E. B. Dolliver, Julv 6, Tgio, he was made manager of the business. This 
 concern was founded bv A. W. GifTord in 1866, and he owned the business until April 
 I, 1900, when he sold to the Standard Screw Company, a holding corporation, which 
 at that time also purchased the properties of the Chicago Screw Company and the 
 Detroit Screw Works, and afterwards various other concerns in this line of business. 
 Mr. Gifford was second vice-president, and E. B. Dolliver, of this city, treasurer of the 
 Standard Screw Company. Since Mr. Dadniun has been in charge the plant has been 
 enlarged. In 1913 a three-story building was added. He is a member of the Worcester 
 Country Club, the Worcester Automobile Club, the Rotary Club, the Worcester Eco- 
 nomic Club, the Chamber of Commerce. He is past eminent commander of Worcester 
 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, and a member of ■ — Lodge, Chapter and Council 
 
 of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member and trustee of the First 
 Church of Christ. Scientist, of this city. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Dadmun married, at Worcester, October 8, 1898, Alice W. Gifford, and they 
 have one son, Chester Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Dadmun reside at No. 34 Oread street. 
 
 JOHN STILLMAN BRIGHAM. The prosperous city of Worcester owes, as 
 does every city, its present pro.-pcrity to the enterprise and vision of the men of yes- 
 terday, who invested in new enterprises and inaugurated new movements, often at the 
 risk and sometimes at the cost of their fortunes. Twentieth century conditions develop 
 new avenues of investment and prosperity, but such are yet in their infancy; the real 
 solid prosperity of the present comes from the old-established industries which were 
 founded and developed by men of the long ago. One of the men in his day and gen- 
 eration, who aided in the upbuilding of the city of Worcester through his connection 
 with the commercial interests of the city, was John Stillman Brigham, a native son. His 
 life was cut short in its prime, covering barely half a century, but was full of useful- 
 ness and earnest effort with practical result. Thirty-one years of that life was spent 
 in the envelope manufacturing business, and through the long experience gained as a 
 subordinate he was persuaded that he himself could become a manufacturer. From 
 that belief sprang the Logan, Swift & Brigham Envelope Company, of which Mr. Brig- 
 ham was treasurer until his sudden death, thirteen years after the incorporation of the 
 company. He was a man of tine business ability, energetic, progressive, upright and 
 honorable. While the years have dulled the grief caused by his untimely death, the 
 memory of his quiet, unselfish, devoted life is fondly cherished by those with whom he 
 was bound by ties of business, friendship and family. 
 
 lohn Stillman Brigham, son of John Mason and Arminda (Stillman) Brigham, 
 was "born in Worcester, Massachusetts, May 12, 1847, and died in Colorado Springs, 
 Colorado, February 19, 1897, in the fiftieth year of his age. He completed his public 
 scliool studies in the Worcester High School" at the age of eighteen years, and at once 
 began a business career which continued without interruption until his decease, thirty- 
 two years later. His first position was as bookkeeper for J. H. Clark, and then for 
 D. H. Eames, the well-known clothier in the store at Harrington Corner. At the same 
 time he kept books for the old Worcester Horse Railroad Company, doing their work 
 evenings. In 1867 he entered the employ of the Whitcomb Envelope Company as 
 office clerk, and for eighteen years remained with that corporation in constantly- 
 advancing position. These eighteen years were years of development, and the very 
 young man of twenty emerged the seasoned, experienced business man. They were 
 also years of great development both in a mechanical and business sense. Mr. Brigham 
 became thoroughly familiar with the business from the office standpoint, and was 
 highly-regarded by the officials of the Whitcomb Company. In 1884 he resigned his 
 position and became one of the organizers of a new corporation, the Logan, Swift & 
 Brigham Company, of which he became the first treasurer. The company prospered 
 abundantly, developed strength as the years progressed, and won an important place 
 in the industrial world. In the treasurer's department the ability, industry and sound 
 business judgment displayed by Mr. Brigham contributed largely to the prosperity^ of 
 the company, and to the high rank they attained among financiers. The manufacturing 
 department, also under the care of men of skill and ability, gave forth a product of 
 high grade, and with both departments, factory and office, working in perfect harmony, 
 the financial results were most satisfactory. In .1897 Mr. Brigham's health failed to 
 such an extent that he visited Colorado to recuperate, and there met his death. 
 
 Although essentially the man of affairs, Mr. Brigham was not unmindful of his 
 duties of citizenship, but met every demand made upon him. He preferred the quiet 
 of private life, never seeking public office, but when called upon for service in Common 
 Council served two terms, ending in 1890. He also rendered efficient service on the 
 Board of Overseers of the Poor for several years. He was a prominent member of the 
 Central Congregational Church and deeply interested in its work, aiding with his 
 means and personal effort to advance all good causes. He was devoted to his family 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE S17 
 
 and his beautiful home, and there his happiest liours were spent. There was nothing 
 meteoric or spectacular in his life, his rise to fortune was one of daily progress; each 
 day's work was faithfully performed and brouRht its deserved reward. He was of 
 friendly, social, but quiet nature; men were attracted to him by his sterliiit;, manly 
 attributes, and he possessed a wealth of true friends. 
 
 On June 26. 1879, Air. Brigham was united in marriage to Nellie J. Spurr, daughter 
 of Elijah and Helen Maria (Gleason) Spurr, of Worcester. To Mr. .uul Mrs. Brig- 
 ham was born one son, Dwight Stone, born in Worcester. .August 24. i8.H«). who married 
 Marion Brittan Shattuck, daughter of Josiah B. Shattuck, and they have two children, 
 namely: Nancy Shattuck and Mary Stillman Brigham. Mr. Brigham. during the 
 World War, served as major of engineers in the department of Light Railways (Four- 
 teenth Engineers Regiment), with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. 
 
 MATTHEW GAULT, Superintendent of the Sewer Department, was born in 
 Hookset. New Hampsliire. .August 18, 1867, son of Norris C. and .Ann H. (Mitchell) 
 Gault. Norris C. Gault was a native of Hookset: a farmer and manufacturer of 
 brick; captain in the State Militia, and member of the .'\moskeag \"etcr,-ins. Of the 
 four children of Norris C. and Ann H. (Mitchell) (lault, Emma C. married .Anson S. 
 Paine (deceased) and is living in this city; Clara married Robert W. Skellon, and 
 resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; John Gault, graduate of Dartmouth, 1.S95. principal 
 of the Webster Grammar School. Manchester. New Hampshire. The Gaults settled 
 in lower New Hampshire before the Revolution, and in the paternal line one of Mr. 
 Gault's ancestors fought in the Revolution. 
 
 Matthew Gault attended the public schools of his native town until i.X>^2, when he 
 entered Pembroke .Academy, at Pembroke, New Hampshire, graduating in 1886. He 
 then became a student in Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in i8(X> with 
 the degree of Bachelor of .Arts. In July, i8go, he entered the office of the city engineer 
 as an assistant, and held this position until .April, 1907, when he was elected superin- 
 tendent of the Sewer Department, a position he has since filled with exceptional ability. 
 In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Athelstan Lodge, .Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons, of which he is past master; Eureka Chapter, Royal .Arch Masons; 
 Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Comtiiandery, Knights 
 Templar, of which he is a past eminent cominander: .Aletheia Grotto, of which he is 
 treasurer. He is a member of the Dartmouth Club and of Old South Church, of 
 which he is the collector; While in college he played on the baseball team, and he is 
 still greatly interested in outdoor sports, especially baseball. 
 
 Mr. Gault married, in this city, December 9, 1896, Grace Warren Stetson, who was 
 born in Marlborough, .August 20, i860, daughter of Warren I. and Clara T. (Rich- 
 mond) Stetson. Her father is deceased; her mother is living at No. 13 Blossom 
 street, in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Gault have two children: i. Warren Stetson, born 
 March 14, 1898, graduate of W^orcester .Academy, 1916; in the recent war commissioned 
 a lieutenant in the Coast ,\rtillery branch of the service; now a student in Dartmouth, 
 class of 1920. 2. Helen N., born April 17, 1904. 
 
 FRANK CHANDLER HAYES, D. D. S. After graduation from Taft's Col- 
 lege Dental School in 191 5, Dr. Hayes located in Worcester, where he has acquired 
 professional skill and reputation. He is a son of Robert W. Hayes, born in Freedom, 
 New Hainpshire, March 2, 1838, died February 22, 1916, a farmer all his active years. 
 Robert W. Hayes married Oceania Hayes, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 
 August, 1851, and they were the parents of three sons: Willis p., born in Haverhill, 
 Massachusetts, March 2, 1882; Charles, born March 3, 1885; Frank Chandler, of 
 further mention. 
 
 Frank Chandler Hayes was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, June 13, 1892, 
 and there completed grade and high school courses of study. He learned the 
 machinist's trade in Haverhill, but later decided upon a profession, entered Taft's 
 College Dental School, and was graduated from that institution with the degree of 
 Doctor of Dental Surgery, class of 1915. He has since been engaged in practice in 
 Worcester, where he is building up a good clientele. He is a member of tlie Knights 
 of Pythias, and the Protestant Episcopal church. 
 
 Dr. Hayes married, in Waltham, Massachusetts, May 15, 1917. Ruth A. Dins- 
 more, born in Waltham, May 30, 1894, daughter of Arthur Edward and Jane Dins- 
 more, her father a watchmaker. Dr. and Mrs. Hayes are the parents of a daughter, 
 Marion Ruth, born in Worcester, February 19, 1918. 
 
 ARTHUR NATHANIEL WHITTEMORE. Froiri youthful manhood Arthur 
 N. W'hittemore has been connected with the grain business in the City of Worcester, 
 W.-II-52. 
 
8i8 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 beginning as bookkeeper, but since 1889 as either partner or sole owner, the firm 
 A. N. Whittemore & Company, of which he is sole owner, having existed since 1899. 
 He is one of Worcester's successful business men, and has borne his full share in 
 the upbuilding of this commercial center. Mr. Whittemore is of the eighth American 
 generation of the family founded in New England by Thomas Whittemore, who 
 traced his genealogy back through sixteen generations in England to Peter de 
 Bolvel, of Strafifordshire, and the year iioo. In the third English generation there 
 was an intermarriage with the Whitmore family, and Whitmore became the 
 family name, going through several changes before finally becoming Whittemore, 
 the form used in this branch, Hertfordshire became the family seat, and at Hitchin, 
 in that shire, Thomas Whittemore. son of Roger and grandson of Thomas Whitte- 
 more of the same town and shire, was born. 
 
 Thomas Whittemore came to New England prior to 1640, owned land in Maiden, 
 which remained in the family for more than two hundred years. The line of 
 descent from Thomas Whittemore, the American founder of the family, is through 
 his son, Daniel Whittemore, and his wife, Mary Millins; their son, Daniel Whitte- 
 more, and his wife, Lydia Bassett; their son, Jonathan Whittemore, and his wife, 
 Sarah Woodcock; their son, Jonathan (2) Whittemore, a soldier of the French 
 and Indian War and a veteran of seven years' service in the Revolution: his son, 
 Arnold Whittemore, and his wife, Betsey Dascomb: their son, Charles Preston 
 Whittemore, and his wife, Clara Goddard: their son, Arthur Nathaniel Whittemore, 
 of Worcester, Massachusetts, to whom this review is inscribed. 
 
 Charles Preston Whittemore. of the seventh generation, was born in Fayette, 
 Maine, August 25, 1834, but later his parents returned to Massachusetts, settling in 
 Hopkinton. He learned the shoemaker's trade and came to Worcester and became a 
 shoe manufacturer, also a retail shoe merchant. He was a veteran of the Civil War, 
 enlisted in Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 
 and returned from the war with his health shattered. He was a member of Monta- 
 cute Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Worcester; and in politics a Republican. 
 Arthur Nathaniel Whittemore, son of Charles Preston Whittemore, was bom 
 in Worcester, October 7, 1859. He was educated in Worcester public schools, and 
 after completing his studies became an employee of Johnson, Bye & Company, 
 manufacturers of pistols, at No. 44 Central street. He did not like that work and 
 soon left it to enter the employ of Robert L. Smyth, a shoe manufacturer. He 
 remained with Mr. Smyth several years, then was employed in other shoe factories 
 in the city, finally leaving that line of work to go with the Hammond Organ Reed 
 Company, remaining with that company four years. From the Hammond Company 
 he went to C. W. Sears, a grain dealer, acting as bookkeeper during that entire 
 period. That was the last position he ever filled as an employee, his next change 
 being in 1889, to a partnership with H. H. Houghton, formerly senior partner of 
 the grain firm, Houghton, Garland & Sears. The new firm. Houghton & Whitte- 
 more, purchased the business of C. W. Sears and continued grain dealing at No. 525 
 Main street, in the Holbrook store. In 1895 the business so increased that new 
 quarters were necessary and a brick building was erected at Nos. 5-7 Beacon 
 street. In addition the firm owned elevators and store houses at two railroad yards 
 in the city, and became very prosperous. In 1899 Mr. Houghton withdrew, Mr. 
 Whittemore continuing the business alone, reorganizing under the firm name A. N. 
 Whittemore & Company. There has been a constant increase in the volume of 
 business transacted each year, the lines carried including hay, grain, feed, straw, 
 and a general line of similar goods used by farmers and horse owners. Mr. Whitte- 
 more is a member of Central Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Trinity 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, which he has served officially since 1895 1 Worcester 
 County Mechanics' Association; Worcester Board of Trade; and in his political 
 faith is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Whittemore married, at Worcester, June 2, 1880. Louise H jntley, daughter 
 of James and Margaret (Scott) Huntley. Mr. and Mrs. Whittemori are the parents 
 of four children: I. Flora Isabelle, married, June I, 1905, Howard D. Brewer, a 
 wholesale druggist of Worcester. 2. Ernest Arthur, born June 8, 1891, now a lieu- 
 tenant in the United States army. 3. Carl Leslie, born May 9, 1894, now a machin- 
 ist's mate in the United States navy. 4. George Stanley, born May 12, 1895, a lieu- 
 tenant in the United States army. 
 
 FRANK DEXTER PERRY, General superintendent of the American Car 
 Sprinkler Company of this city, and dealer in coal and wood, was born in this city, 
 July 25, 1856, in the house where he has always lived, at No. 963 Millbury street, son 
 of Dexter H. Perry, who was born a few rods away on Greenwood street, June 14, 
 1814. In early life the father and his brother, Josiah G. Perry, operated a grist mill 
 
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 on the spot when- tlicir f.-ithcr, Natlian Perry, had been encaged for manv veirs in 
 miHing. continnniK nntil 1855: in iHCn they dissolved partnership as farnurs and 
 divided the old homestead. Nathan Perry, born March 24. 1781, was a son of Josiah 
 and Prudence Perry, mentioned in the Old Families in this work. Dexter H Perry 
 was at one time a member of the Common Council, elected by the Republicans He 
 married, December 17, i8>S, p:iizabeth A. Baker, who was born at Phillipston Sep- 
 tember 21, 1815, daughter of James Baker, and a sister of Charles and William J 
 Baker, prominent lumber dealers of this city: she was a member of Old Soutli 
 Church: she died here April 10, 1S77. Dexter H. Perry died March ifi, 1872. His 
 children were: Georse Herbert, born May 2, 1841; Klniina Augusta, April 21, 
 1843; Lenora F.lizalicth, January 16. 1845, married Samuel VV. T..ackey, removed to 
 Stanton, Nebraska: Frances, February 17, 1847; Marv. January -jo, 1849, drowned 
 with Frances, December .^o, 1852, in the mill pond near the home; Frank Dexter 
 (see biography): Edward C, June 29, 1859, local superintendent of the American 
 Car Sprinkler Company, living in this city. 
 
 On account of the death of his father. Fr;mk D. Perry left tlie Worcester 
 High School before he finished the course, and for five years worked at home 
 on the farm. In 1876 he started in business as proprietor of a line of omnibusses 
 and as a general contractor. His business grew rapidly. He has been in the 
 coal and wood business since 1880, beginning on a small scale and increasing 
 his facilities from year to year. His main office and yards are at No. 965 
 Millbury street. He was in jiartnership with Henrv W. Carter, of Millbury, 
 under the name of Perry & Carter, and this firm "had the contract for con- 
 structing the roadbed for the electric street railway to Millbury and making the 
 foundations of the power station, car barns and other masonry, and later for a 
 number of years he was in partnership with Horace Pike under the firm name of 
 Perry & Pike, engaged in constructing streets in the Salisbury extension and various 
 residential parks in the city, in constructing street railways and other large con- 
 tracting, fn 1887 Mr. Perry began the street sprinkling business with two carts, 
 soon afterward increasing the number to fifteen, and for a number of years before 
 the American Car Sprinkler Company took over the business he had contracts with 
 the city for nearly all of its street sprinkling. He was active in the organization 
 of the American Car Sprinkler Company in 189.1. became clerk of the company and 
 from the beginning was its general superintendent. The American Car Sprinkler 
 Company has become an important industry. Its cars, operated at the present time 
 by electricity, (lush the streets perfectly, being regulated as to quantity of water and 
 pressure. It has contracts with numerous cities throughout the country. The office 
 is on Brussels street, this city. The present officers are: Matthew J. Whiltall, 
 president; Alfred Thomas, treasurer; M. Percival Whittal, vice-president: Frank 
 D. Perry, general superintendent: Earl D. Perry, assistant general superintendent. 
 
 Mr. Perry is a member of Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons: Eureka Chapter, Royal .•Xrch Masons: Hiram Council, Royal and Select 
 Masters: Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar: and .'\leppo Temple, 
 Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is also a member of Worcester Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was treasurer for five years. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Perry married. June 14, 1878, Elizabeth A. Carpenter, daughter of Joseph 
 W. and Elizabeth (Fisher) Carpenter, of Putnam, Connecticut. Children: Eliza- 
 beth, died in infancy: Earl Dexter, born May i, 1881, educated in the schools of this 
 city, has been associated in business with his father, and is now assistant general 
 superintendent of the American Car Sprinkler Company, residing with his parents; 
 Frank Godfrey, born January 28, i8no, died Octcilur 2. iniS. 
 
 EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Author, was born at Blackstone. Massachusetts, 
 December 2f>. 1854. daushler of Rev. Edmund March and Lucrelia (Logec) Tappan, 
 descendant of .Abraham Tappan, one of the pioneers at Newbury, Massachusetts, 
 in 1637. 
 
 Miss Tappan attended the public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, and 
 entered Vassar College, graduating in 18-.^ with the degree of Bachelor of .'\rts. 
 During the next five years she was a teacher in Whcaton Seminary at Norton, Massa- 
 chusetts, followed by teaching in various private schools. Afterward she resided 
 for twelve years in Philadelphia, and during this period was a graduate student in 
 'he University of Pennsylvania, 1893-96: fellow in i89.>-96, receiving the degree of 
 Master of Arts in 1895 and Doctor of P'hilosophy in 1896. She then came to Wor- 
 cester and since then has made her home here. In 1897 she was elected head of the 
 English department of the English High School, continuing until 1904. 
 
820 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 In later years she has devoted all her time to literature. She is author of the 
 following books: "Charles Lamb, the Man and the Author" (1896); "In the Days 
 of Alfred the Great" (1900); "In the Days of William the Conqueror" (1901); "In 
 the Days of Queen Elizabeth" (1902) ; "Old Ballads in Prose" (1901); "England's 
 Story" (1901); "Our Country's Story" (1902); "The Christ Story" (1903); "In the 
 Days of Queen Victoria" (1903); "Robin Hood His Book" (1903); "A Short His- 
 tory of England's Literature" (1905); "A Short History of America's Literature" 
 (1906) ; "A Short History of England's and America's Literature" (igo6) ; "American 
 Hero Stories" (1906); "America's Literature with Selections from Colonial and 
 Revolutionary Writers" (1907); "Letters from Colonial Children'' (1908); "The 
 Story of the Greek People" (1908); "The Chaucer Story Book" (1908); "European 
 Hero Stories" (1910); "Dixie Kitten" (1910); "A Friend in the Library," 12 vols. 
 (1910): "The Story of the Roman People" (1910); "An Old, Old Story Book" 
 (1910): "Old World Hero Stories" (1911); "When Knights Were Bold" (1912); 
 "The House with the Silver Door" (1913); "The Farmer and His Friends" (1916); 
 "Diggers in the Earth" (igi6); "Makers nf Many Things" (1916); "Travelers and 
 Traveling" (igi6) ; "The Little Book of the Flag" (1917); "Our European Ances- 
 tors" (1918); "The Little Book of the War" (1918) ; "Food Saving and Sharing" 
 (1919); "The Little Book of Our Country" (1919). She edited the following 
 works: "Selections from Emerson" (1898); "The Children's Hour" {10 vols. 1907, 
 S vols. 1917); "The World Story" (14 vols. 1914); "The Words of a Man" (1915). 
 Many of her books are in use as textbooks of history and literature in the schools 
 of the country. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Boston Authors' 
 Club. Her home is No. 15 Mnnadnock road in this city. 
 
 ABRAM A. RHEUTAN, Envelope manufacturer, was born in Paterson, New 
 Jersey. August 20. 1837, the son of Abraham D. and Mary (Storms) Rheutan. His 
 boyhood was spent in New Jersey and New York, and upon coming to this city 
 he became superintendent of the envelope manufacturing plant of Hill, Devoe & 
 Company, continuing in the same capacity with Wade H. Hill, when the latter 
 purchased the Devoe interests in the business. In 1892, upon the death of Mr. Hill, 
 the Ijusiness was incorporated as the W. H. Hill Envelope Company, of which Mr. 
 Rheutan then became a member, continuing actively identified with this concern 
 until it was sold to and absorbed by the L^nited States Envelope Company, in July, 
 1898, at which time Mr. Rheutan retired from active business cares. In political 
 faith Mr. Rheutan was a stalwart Republican, and was a member of the Worcester 
 County Republican Club. He was elected a. member of the Board of Aldermen 
 from Ward Four, at that time residing at No. 41 Providence street, and served in 
 that body with efificiency during 1894 and 1895. 
 
 On May 22, 1861, Mr. Rheutan was united in marriage to Mary H. Young, who 
 was horn in New York City, daughter of Robert and Louisa Thomas Young, and 
 to this union were born the following children, namely: i. Ellie S., who is the 
 wife of George E. Ryan, assistant treasurer of the People's Savings Bank, of this 
 city. 2. Alice M., who is the wife of Fred A. Bigelow, of Cleveland, Ohio. 3. 
 Isaac L., who is engaged in business in Richmond, Virginia: married Gertrude 
 Everett. 4. Winfield D., who is engaged in business in Cleveland. Ohio; now in 
 France. 
 
 On May 22, 191 1, Mr. and Mrs. Rheutan observed their fiftieth wedding anni- 
 versary, at their home. No. 314 Highland street, where they had made their home 
 for some years, and where Mrs. Rheutan, who survives her husband, still resides. 
 
 ARTHUR OSGOOD YOUNG, President of the Claflin-Sumnpr Coal Com- 
 pany, was educated in the public schools of his native place. He has been connected 
 with the Claflin-Sumner Coal Company and its predecessors since he began his 
 business career. Mr. Young was associated with Charles L. Claflin. the founder, 
 who came to this city and established a coal yard at Central street in the early seven- 
 ties, and with his son, Charles L. Claflin, and Mr. Young was a partner in the 
 original firm of C. W. Claflin & Company. In 1875 C. L. Claflin was at the 
 head of the Worcester business. A wholesale department was afterward estab- 
 lished in Boston. The firm was composed of C. L. Claflin. Mr. Young, and 
 Edward W. Pierce, of Brookline, for many years. Mr. Pierce had charge of the 
 Boston office. The present corporation, known as the Claflin-Sumner Coal Com- 
 pany, was chartered April i, 1910, when the Claflin Coal Company, which succeeded 
 C. W. Claflin & Company, was merged with the Sumner Coal Company. Mr. 
 Young is president. The main office is at No. 9 Pleasant street. There are yards at 
 No. 5 Grafton street. No. 241 Southbridge street, No. 301 Shrewsbury street, and at 
 
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HERBERT S. RA.MSDELL 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE 8ji 
 
 Jamesville, on Ludlow street. Mr. Young is a member of ihc CommonwoaUli Chib, 
 the Chamber of Commerce, the Tatnuck Country Club, and the Worcester Couiury 
 Club. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Young married, January i6, 1890, Mary Valentine Claflin, who was born at 
 Hopkinton, November 3, 1855, daughtei of Charles Winslow and .Anna Maria (\'al- 
 entine) Claflin. They have three children: 1. Charles Claflin, born December 5. 
 1893, member of the Tatnuck Country Club, the Worcester Country Club, the Atlver- 
 tising Club of Worcester, and the Kiwanis Club; now a director, assistant treasurer 
 and secretary of the Claflin-Sumner Coal Company; married Edna T. Smith, and 
 they reside at No. 18 Pownin.g street. Mrs. Young is a member of the Worcester 
 Country Club and the Tatnuck Country Club. 2 Margaret X'alcntine, born h'ebruary 
 1. l897. 3- Arthur Osgood, Jr.. born November 5, 1808. Mr. and Mrs. Young reside 
 at No. 26 Institute road; she is a member of the Woman's Club and the Worcester 
 Country Club. 
 
 Mrs. .Arthur O. Young is descended from Robert Claflin. a Scotch soldier captured 
 by Cromw'ell and sent with other prisoners of war to New Kngland aI)out 1*^150; 
 settled in Wcnham ; died September if), i6<X). H. B. Claflin, the New York merchant, 
 was a descendant. The name was originally spelled McClaflin, McLaughlin, etc. 
 Daniel Claflin, son of the pioneer, was born in Wenham, moved to Hopkinton, mar- 
 ried Sarah Edwards, and from about 1715 to the present time the Claflins iiave been 
 one of the leading families of Hopkinton. Isaac Claflin, of the fifth generation, was 
 a soldier in the Revolution. In all her lines of ancestry Mrs. Yoimg is descended 
 from the early English settlers of the old Bay Colony. 
 
 HERBERT SUMNER RAMSDELL. At the age of eighteen Herbert S. 
 Ramsdell entered the employ of the Duncan & Goodell Company, wholesale and retail 
 dealers in hardware, cutlcr\. and null sr.pplies of Worcester, Massachusetts, and from 
 the junior clerkship which he held then he has .idvaiiced through all the grades of 
 promotion to meml>ership in the lirm, now a corporation. He is a son of Horace 
 Ramsdell, born in New Vineyard. Maine, April 27, 18.47, <'ied in Worcester, .April 15, 
 iS&i. He was of early Colonial English ancestry, and after coming to Worcester was 
 for many years proprietor of a flourishing livery business. He married, in Wor- 
 cester, ^iarch 8, 1876, Elizabeth Pollack, born in Leicester, Massachusetts, August 16, 
 1854. They were the parents of two sons: Elerbert S., of further mention; and 
 Edgar Lyon, born March 11, 1871;, now Worcester County Treasurer. 
 
 Herbert Sumner Ramsdell was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 2, 
 1877. He attended the grade and high schools of the city until i8<)5, then began his 
 connection with the Duncan & Goodell Company, whicli still continues. His service 
 as junior clerk actually began May 19, 1895, and his connection has always been with 
 the sales department. He has in his rise to a partnership touched about every branch 
 of that department, and has a strong grip on every detail of that branch. The Duncan 
 & Goodell Company store is located at No. 404 Main street, Worcester, there con- 
 ducting a large business in both wholesale and retail hardware, cutlery, and mill 
 supplies. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell is a Republican in politics, a member of Lodge, Chapter, Coin- 
 mandery and Consistory of the Masonic order, holdiii.g the thirty-second degree of 
 the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the United Commercial 
 Travelers' Association, Worcester Country Club, Worcester Fish and Game Club, 
 Worcester Mechanics' Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, Commercial 
 Travelers' Association, and other business and social organizations. He is an active 
 member of the Church of Christ, and for many years treasurer of the Sunday school. 
 As his club memberships indicate, he is fond of out-of-door sports, golf, skating and 
 skiing particularly appealing to him. 
 
 Mr. Ramsdell married, in Worcester, Massachusetts, January 27, 1903, May Back, 
 bom in Worcester, April 24, 1881, daughter of John K. Back, now living retired in 
 Worcester, formerly a member of the firm, V. E. Reed & Company. Her mother, 
 Frances (Parker) Back, died in Worcester, in July, 1914, aged sixty-two years. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Ramsdell are the parents of two children: Herbert Francis, born July i, 
 1904, and Dorothy, born May 3, 1909. 
 \ 
 
 LEWIS BARNARD. Four generations of Barnards were residents of Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, Lewis Barnard, his father, Captain Lewis Barnard, his grandfather. 
 Captain John Barnard, and his great-grandfather, Isaac Barnard, the latter born in 
 Watertown, Massachusetts, son of James Barnard, son of John (2) Barnard, son of 
 John (i) Barnard, the American ancestor. 
 
 Lewis Barnard broke away from family traditions, although born and reared on 
 the farm, and at his death held the distinctive honor of being the oldest dry goods 
 
822 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 merchant in Worcester, head of the Barnard. Sumner & Putnam Company. His 
 years, eighty, were spent wholly in Worcester, and his connection witli the dry §oods 
 business began at the completion of his school years, continuing until his death. He 
 developed rare business quality, becoming the honored head of one of the large mer- 
 cantile houses of his city, also serving that city in legislative halls, municipal and 
 state. His public spirit was intense and there were few men who left their individ- 
 uality more deeply impressed upon their community than he. Public spirit and devo- 
 tion to the Unitarian church has distinguished each of the four generations of Bar- 
 nards in Worcester, beginning with Isaac Barnard, who, before his coming to that 
 city, donated a part of his farm in Old Sutton, now West Millbury, the Old Common, 
 for a training ground, school or church. The line of descent from John Barnard, 
 the founder, to Lewis Barnard, of the seventh American generation, follows. 
 
 John Barnard, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, in 1604, and came to 
 New England at the age of thirty, with his wife Phebe. aged twenty-seven, and chil- 
 dren, Thomas, John and Samuel. The name was spelled either Bernard or Barnard. 
 They sailed in the ship "Elizabeth," from Ipswich, England. April 30. 1634. The 
 wife Phebe and her sons John and Samuel were legatees of her mother Anne, widow 
 successively of Anthony Whiting, of Dedham, Essex, England, clothier, and of 
 Thomas Welson, of Dedham, in will proved December 13, 1638. John Barnard settled 
 in Watertown, and was a proprietor in 1636, admitted a freeman, September 3, 
 1634, and was selectman, 1644. He died in June. 1646, and was buried June 4 at 
 Watertown. His widow Phebe died August I, 1685, leaving considerable property. 
 Children : i. John, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born in England, 1633, died 1685, 
 without issue. 3. Hannah, married, June 25, 1655, Samuel GoiTe. 4. James, married, 
 October 8, 1666, Abigail Phillips. 5. Mary, born November 7. 1639; married. June 
 16, 1662. William Barrett. 6. Joseph, born November 12. 1642. 7. Benjamin, born 
 September 12, 1644. 8. Elizabeth, married, January 7, 1670-1671, John Di.x. 
 
 John (2) Barnard, son of John (i) Barnard, was born in England, in 1631. He 
 was admitted a freeman. May 31, 1671. He married. November 15, 1654. Sarah Flem- 
 ing, born September I, 1639, daughter of John and Anne Fleming, of Watertown. He 
 and his wife sold land, July 31, 1668, to James Barnard, of Sudbury, three hundred 
 acres in the western part, first granted to John Barnard. Children, born at Water- 
 town : I. John, born August 24, 1656, died young. 2. John, born October 30, 1657; 
 married (first), March 5, 1682-1683, Sarah Cutting; (second), November 17. 1692, 
 Elizabeth Stone; (third), July 2, 1694, Mary Morse. 3. Sarah, born September 19, 
 1659, died young. 4. Samuel, born March 25, 1664. 5. Sarah, born February, 1665- 
 66, died in March. 6. James, mentioned below. 7. Anne, born September, 1670; mar- 
 ried Captain Nathaniel Bowman. 8. Phebe, born August 8, 1673. 9, Jane, born 
 March 17, 1678; married John Smith. 
 
 James Barnard, son of John (2) Barnard, was born at Watertown, January 14, 
 1667-68, and died January 23, 1726. He married, December 16, 1692, Judith Jemiison, 
 who married (second), in May, 1726, John Bemis. Children; i. James, born Augu«t 
 3, 1696. 2. Samuel, July 19, 1699. 3. Isaac, mentioned below. 4. Hannah, born July 
 I, 1705- 
 
 Isaac Barnard, son of James and Judith (Jennison) Barnard, was born at Water- 
 town, Massachusetts, March 13, 1701-02, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts, March 
 18, 1788. In 1726 he married Sarah Stearns, who died April 9. 1806, at the exti-eme 
 age of ninety-six. In 1730 they moved from Watertown to that part of Old Sutton 
 now West Millbury, wdiere he purchased a farm including what is known as the "Old 
 Common," previously alluded to as having been donated for a "training ground, 
 school or church" purposes. There his eight children were born and there Mr. and 
 Mrs. Barnard resided until 1781, when they moved with their son. Captain John 
 Barnard, to Worcester, settling first on the old estate on Lovell street, later owned 
 by Perry Thayer and others. 
 
 Captain John Barnard, son of Isaac and Sarah (Stearns) Barnard, was born 
 August II, 1743, and died at the old homestead on Lincoln street, Worcester, Septem- 
 ber 30, 1830. He moved from the original Barnard home on Lovell street to his own 
 home on Lincoln street, later owned by O. A. Kelley, and now occupied by his son 
 and grandson bearing the same name. Captain John Barnard married Sarah Bigelow, 
 and they were the parents of several children. 
 
 Captain Lewis Barnard, son of Captain John and Sarah (Bigelow) Barnard, was 
 'born at the Lovell street home of his father and grandfather in Worcester. He 
 moved with his parents to the Lincoln street home and there resided until his death. 
 He married Bathsheba Lovell. daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Lovell, of Revolutionary 
 fame, whose estate on Lovell street adjoined the old Barnard farm. 
 
 Lewis Barnard, son of Captain Lewis and Bathsheba (Lovell) Barnard, was born 
 .at the homestead farm on Lincoln street, Worcester, Massachusetts, the home of his 
 
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 father and his grandfather, May 15, 1816, and die<i at liis honu- in Worcester, March 
 31, 1897. He grew to manhood at the paternal farm, and pvirsued a Inll course of 
 public school study. He made his entrance into business life as clerk in the dry 
 goods store owned and managed by Henry Chamberlin, with whom he was afterward 
 associated in the old dry goods firm, Chamberlin, Barnard & Company. Henry H. 
 Chamberlin established the business in 1833 in the Paine block, his first partner being 
 his cousin, L. C. Clark. After a year in business as partners, Samuel Hathaway 
 and John B. Wyman were admitted, tliose four comprising the firm until 1851. During 
 the period 1833-51, Lewis Barnard and tJeorge Sumner had been clerks under the dif- 
 ferent forms of partners, and when in 1851 the firm was again reorganized they were 
 admitted as partners. The store was continued in the Paine block until 1852, when 
 it was moved to the building directly opposite, which has been erected by Mr. Barnard 
 and had just been completed, h'roni that year until Mr. Barnard's death the business 
 was located in the same building, additions being made to tlie store area until the 
 vast proportion the business assumed demanded tlic entire block for its accommoda- 
 tion. Tlie building, five stories in height, had been planned to accommodate three 
 stores, but in the end barely sufficed to accommodate the business of Barnard, 
 Sumner & Putnam. The years brought changes in the personnel of the firm, flenry 
 Chamberlin retired in July, 1857, Otis E. Putnam, a former clerk, being admitted 
 a partner in his stead, the firm name continuing The Charaberlin-Barnard Company. 
 Later there was another reorganization wdien the firm became as it ever continued, 
 Barnard. Sunmer & Putnam. While Mr. Barnard was essentially a business man and 
 ever gave the business of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam his best efforts and guided its 
 afifairs with wisdom, as evidenced by its great and continued success, he was not 
 unmindful of his obligations and responsibilities as a citizen. .-Mso other corpora- 
 tions of the city appreciated the value of his services and called him to their boards 
 of direction. He was a director of the City Bank from 1855 until his death; was 
 a director of the Bay State Fire Insurance Company; director of the Manufacturers' 
 Mutual Fire Insurance Company; trustee of the Mechanics' Savings Bank; trustee 
 of the Five Cents Savings Bank, and for several years was a director of die old 
 Boston, Barre & Gardner Railroad Company. 
 
 His public official service began with his election as alderman in 1870, and 
 continued by re-election in 1871. In 1872 he was elected to the Massachusetts House 
 of Assembly, serving with honor as a legislator and with esi)ecial merit as one of the 
 working members of the committee on railroads. He was re-elected to the Legisla- 
 ture in 1873 and as chairman of the committee on insurance reported all bills 
 promptly, thus facilitating the dispatch of public business. In 1874 he was again 
 elected alderman and re-elected in 1875. 
 
 After passing the three-quarter century mark in years. Mr. Barnard's physical 
 vigor perceptibly diminished, and during his latter years he was far from robust in 
 health. He, however, was daily seen at his place of business except during the two 
 years he spent in Europe with his family, and during the last winter of his life he 
 was confined to his home. The three generations of his family preceding him in 
 Worcester has been devoted supporters of the First Unitarian Church, and Lewis 
 Barnard, of the fourth generation, while a regular attendant and a generous sup- 
 porter, was not a member of any church nor a subscriber to any creed. 
 
 Mr. Barnard married, in 1839, Mary Anna Parkhurst, W'ho died February 4, 1897, 
 preceding her husband to the grave but a few weeks. She was a daughter of Roland 
 and Anna (Clark) Parkhurst, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, and a woman of 
 strong, beautiful character. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard walked life's pathway as man 
 and wife for fifty-eight years, and were the parents of eight children, two of whom 
 survive them, Mary F. and Helen J. Barnard, who occupy the old home in Worcester, 
 hallowed by memories of the past. 
 
 FRED W. BARNES. The business with which Mr. Barnes is connected, the 
 manufacture of builders finish, is one w-hich has claimed him for the past thirty 
 years. As president of the Hatch & Barnes Company, he is in full management 
 of one of the important firms engaged in that line of manufacture, and is considered 
 an authority in the trade. 
 
 Fred W. Barnes was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, 1857. He was educated 
 in the public schools of Hardwick and Barre, Massachusetts. He then became 
 actively engaged in business enterprises, becoming connected with his present line of 
 activity about i8go. He is now president and treasurer of the Hatch & Barnes 
 Company, manufacturers of builders finish. He is a Republican in politics, -s an 
 attendant of Old South Congregational Church, and a member of the Economic Club 
 and the Worcester Country Club. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Barnes are the parents of a daughter, Helen J., wife of Roland E. 
 Pierce, of Worcester. 
 
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HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 JAMES MILES, now president of James Miles & Son Company, reviews a 
 long and honorable career as a builder and head of constructive enterprises, in which 
 he may take an honest pride. He is a son of James Miles, who was born, lived, and 
 died in England. He married Jane French, who survived him until the age of sev- 
 enty-four, coming to the United States after being left a widow. But two of their 
 children are living, James, of further mention, and William, a farmer of Dakota. 
 
 James (2), Miles was born in Oxfordshire, England, May 24, 1847, and there 
 resided until the age of twenty-four years. He learned the bricklayer's trade, which 
 he followed in England until 1871, then came to the United States, finding a location 
 at Blackstone, Massachusetts. He was employed at his trade in various places until 
 1880, when he settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, which city has since been his 
 home and the seat of his business activities. During the years, 1877-80, his home 
 was in Grafton, Massachusetts. He became deeply engaged in contracting in Worces- 
 ter, and in 1890 incorporated as James Miles & Son Company, general building 
 contractors, James Miles, president, Walter Miles, treasurer. The business is a 
 large and prosperous one, and as its founder and head Mr. Miles has contributed 
 largely to the development of Worcester. He is a member of the various builders 
 and business associations, and is held in high regard in the business circles in which 
 he moves, and has a wide acquaintance among all classes. He is a member of the 
 Second Adventist Church, and in his political preference is a Republican. 
 
 James Miles married, at Blackstone, Massachusetts, Ella E. Boyden, born in 
 Athol, Massachusetts, and died in Holden, December, 1915, daughter of W. H. Boy- 
 den, now residing in Worcester, retired for many years, now being aged eiglity-three 
 years. He married Elizabeth Rogers, who died in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Miles are the 
 parents of two children: i. Walter James, born at Northridge, Massachusett.^, July 
 9, 1873 ; he was educated in Worcester public schools, finishing in Classical High 
 School, then learned bricklaying under his father's direction, and is now treasurer 
 of the James Miles & Son Company of Worcester; he married, March 15, 1898, in 
 Adams, Massachusetts, Rhoda A. Blanchard, born in Hawley, Massachusetts ; they 
 are the parents of five children: Dorothy and Marjorie, twins, born July 19. 1899; 
 Priscilla, born June 29, 1904; James Donald, February, 1910; Robert Francis, March, 
 1914. 2. Grace E., who married Howard W. Raddin, of Holden, Massachusetts. 
 
 WILLIAM CHARLES RADCLIFFE. Since his coming to Worcester in 1916, 
 Mr. Radcliffe has been prominently in the public eye as executive secretary of the 
 Worcester Chapter, American Red Cross, a position of responsibility which his 
 previous training and experience in journalism, advertising and chamber of commerce 
 work peculiarly fitted him. He is a native son of Toledo, Ohio, son of Charles Kellv 
 Radcliffe, born in Mentor, Ohio, March 22, 1845, and now living in Detroit, still 
 performing his duties as a United States postal clerk. He is a veteran of Company F, 
 One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Ohio Vokinteer Infantry, his service covering three 
 years of the war between the states. He was engaged in the battles of Perryville 
 (where he was wounded in the shoulder), Milton, Hoover's Gap, Chicamauga, Mis- 
 sion Ridge, Ringgold, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, and Kenesaw Mountain. The hard- 
 ships of the "Atlantic campaign" (called the "Hundred Days' Battle" by his division 
 commander) put him in the hospital for some months, causing him to miss "Sherman's 
 march to the sea," in which his regiment participated. Charles K. Radclifte married 
 Mary Elizabeth Kinsley, born in Albion, Pennsylvania, and now living in Detroit. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Radclifife are the parents of five children: William Charles, of further 
 mention ; Howard K., Elsie C, and Kenneth Elbert, all of Detroit, and Chester Gar- 
 field, died in infancy. 
 
 William Charles Radcliffe was born in Toledo, Ohio, February 6, 1873, but while 
 he was still an infant his parents moved to Baldwin, Michigan, and there he obtained 
 the larger part of his education. His father, while living in Baldwin, published the 
 "Lake County Weekly Star," and in the office of that journal William C. learned the 
 printer's trade. In 1889 the family removed to Detroit, Michigan, where the father 
 was appointed to a clerkship in the United States railway mail service, a post he 
 still fills after thirty years of continuous service. In Detroit, William C. Radclifife 
 attended high school for two years, then secured a position with the Detroit "Tribune," 
 and for upwards of twenty years continued in Detroit journalism, being connected 
 with the editorial departments of the Detroit "Tribune," "Evening News" and 
 Detroit "Free Press," being for a time assistant city editor of the "Evening News." 
 In 1903 and 1904 he was assistant secretary of the Detroit Board of Commerce. In 
 1910 he became advertising agent for the Pere Marquette Railroad, remaining in 
 that position two years, during which time he was chosen president of the Detroit 
 Adcraft Club, and also was active in the Advertising Affiliation, composed of clubs 
 in great lakes cities. In 1912 he was elected general secretary of the Birmingham 
 
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 (Alal)ama) Chamber <if Commerce, holding tliat position for four years, lie was sec- 
 retary one year of the Soutlierii Commercial Secretaries Associatiim. In i(;i6 he 
 came to Worcester, and later was elected executive secretary of Worcester Chapter, 
 American Red Cross, his present position. Mr. Kadcliffe is a member of the Knights 
 of Pythias, of Birmingham, Alaliama ; charter member of Court Detroit, (_)r(ier of 
 Foresters; memlier of Worcester Kiwanis Club, and Worcester Chamber of Com- 
 merce. He is an olficial member of Trinity Methodist ICpiscopal Church, and a 
 department head in the .Simday scliool. He also is chairman of the .Methodist Minute- 
 Men of Worcester District. In politics he is a Repulilican. 
 
 Mr. RadclifTe married in Detroit, Michigan, September 29, 1903, Blanche Milross 
 Brownell, born in Kincardine, province of Ontario, Canada, August ii, i8-<;, daugh- 
 ter of John H. and Eva B. (Rastall) Brownell. Mr. and Mrs. RadclifTe are the 
 parents of a son, Kllis Brownell KadclitTe, born July 14, 1904. 
 
 CHARLES LEWIS RUNDLETT. Moore & Company was incorporated under 
 the laws of the State of Massachusetts, on October 5. 1915, as maiuifacturing chemists; 
 manufacturing Pharmaceuticals, oHicial U. S. 1'. and Xational l-drnuilary. Pharma- 
 ceutical Specialties, Homeopathic Preparations and Surgical Dressings. The company 
 is now in its fourth year, and its business has steadily increased from the start. 
 
 Charles Lewis Rundlett is tlie president, treasurer and general manager. He is 
 the son of Charles Lewis Rundlett. a veteran of the Civil War, who was born in Ray- 
 mond, New Hampshire, and died in Newliuryport, in 1916. His mother, Sarah E. 
 (Weeks) Rundlett, was born in Boston, and died in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1898. 
 
 Charles Lewis Rundlett was born in F.xeter, New Hampshire. June 18, i8fiS, and 
 there passed his youth, after attending the public schools. He studied ph.uniacy 
 and chemistry in Br)ston. and finally took this up as his life's work. He :pcnt 
 several years in the retail dru.g business as assistant pharmacist, finally starting 
 into business for himself in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1902. where he continuecl 
 for about seven years. He then sold out and became associated with Daggett 4 
 Miller, manufacturing chemists, <if Providence, Rhode Island. In 1908 he became 
 associated with the Buftington Pharmacy Company of Worcester, acipiiring an inter- 
 est in this corporation. In 1915 he resigned and took a posi,tion with .Moore \' (Com- 
 pany, Inc., which company was just entering the field. He was the first vice-presi- 
 dent and assistant to tlie general manager, was made general manager in July, 1917, 
 treasurer on July 18, 1918, and president, as well as treasurer, on July J5, 1918. 
 
 Charles Lewis Rimdlett is a member of the various Masonic bodies from the 
 Blue Lodge to the Knights Templar, a member of the Rotary Club of Worcester, past 
 counselor of Worcester Council, Xo, 136, of the U. C. T. of .\.. past president 
 of the Past Counselors .Association of 1918-19, past president of the Worcester Com- 
 mercial Travellers' Association, and also a member of the Worcester Country Club. 
 In religious faith he is an lipiscopalian, a member of old Trinity Church of Xe'vport, 
 Rhode Island. 
 
 Mr. Rundlett married, in Worcester, Crace L. Crawford, born in Worcester, 
 daughter of Ossian T. and Vesta Elvira (Morey) Crawford. Mr. aiul Airs. R\mdlett 
 have one son. Raymond Crawford, born March 11, 18(19, now a jimior at the Massa- 
 ■husetts Institute of Technology. 
 
 ALBERT GOODNOW WAITE, Manufacturer, was born in Worcester, April 
 7, 1882, son of ."Xlbert H. and Helen E. Waite (sec biography). He attended various 
 private and public schools in this city, and graduated from the Classical High 
 School in 1901. He received from Harvard College in 1905 the degree of Bachelor 
 of Arts, cum laudc, with honorable mention in history, govenunent and economics. 
 He completed the usual four year course in three, and during the fourth year earned 
 the degree of Master of Arts wdiich was conferred in 1906. 
 
 In October, 1905, he started his business career in overalls in tlie factory of the 
 Spencer Wire Company, in Worcester, and during the ensuing four years advanced 
 through various positions to the managership of the Wire Fence Department. In 
 November, 1909. he became manager of the Fence Department of the Wright Wire 
 Company and later Advertising Manager as well. Since September, 1918, he has 
 been Sales and .-Xdvertising Manager of the American Textile Soap Company of 
 ■^jiringfield. Massachusetts. 
 
 In politics Mr. Waite is a Republican and has served two years on the Republican 
 City Committee of Worcester. He is an incorporator of the Worcester County Insti- 
 tution for Savings, and of the Worcester Five Cent Savings Bank, and a member of 
 the Church of the Unity. He is a member of the Worcester Club, the Tatnuck Coun- 
 try Club, the Worcester Automi>bi!c Club, the Advertising Club of Worcester, the 
 Harvard Club of Worcester, the Harvard Club of Boston, the Harvard Club of Xew 
 
826 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 York, the Nayasset Club of Springfield, and the Advertising Club of Springfield. 
 He is a Free Mason, a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Ancient, Free and Accepted 
 Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, and Worcester 
 County Commandery, Knights Templar, of Worcester, and of the Scottish Rites bodies 
 of Springfield. He resides at No. i6 Cedar street. His principal recreations are 
 travel and outdoor sports, such as golf, tramping, snow shoeing and automobiling. 
 
 Albert Harrison Waite, President of the First National Bank, father of .\lbert 
 G. Waite, was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. March 25, 1845, son of Horace 
 and Lucy W. (I'ollett) Waite, of that town. He died in Worcester, September 17, 
 1902. He attended the schools of his native town, and after graduating from school 
 worked for a time in various occupations. In 1874 he came to this city where he 
 engaged in banking. He proved apt in his profession and made rapid progress. In 
 the spring of 1879 he was elected cashier of the First National Bank, and became an 
 important factor in financial circles. He succeeded E. A. Goodnow as president of 
 the bank in 1894, and continued at its head to the end of his life. The directors 
 placed in his hands the widest possible powers, and during his administration the 
 bank showed constant growth and prosperity. He was a member of the Church of the 
 Unity, and very active in its work. He was a member of the Worcester Club, Tatnuck 
 Country Club, and the Worcester Board of Trade. In politics he was a staunch 
 Republican, and a member of the Home Market Club. He was a prominent Free 
 Mason, a member of the Lodge in Gardner, Massachusetts, of Eureka Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons, and of Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, of Worces- 
 ter. 
 
 Mr. Waite married, June 21, 1870, Helen Emerson Morse, of Hubbardston. They 
 had two children: Albert G. (see biography), and Helen A., graduate of Worcester 
 Classical High School, and of Burnham School, Northampton, Massachusetts. 
 
 Horace Waite, father of Albert H. Waite, was born in Hubbardston, October 
 S, 1809, and died there October 15, 1850; he married. May 24, 1836, Lucy W. FoUett, 
 who died August 17, 1879. The Waite line of ancestry is : Albert G. (9), Albert H. 
 (8j, Horace (7), Moses (6), Joseph (5), Josiah (4), Amos (3), John (2), Richard (l). 
 Richard Waite, the pioneer, was born in England, and died at Watertown, Massachu- 
 setts, January 16, 1669, aged sixty years. Amos (3) Waite settled in Framinghara; 
 Joseph (5) moved to Marlborough and was a soldier in the Revolution. (Moses (6) 
 came to Hulibardston. 
 
 JOHN BENJAMIN MOSS, Assistant district manager of the American Steel 
 & Wire Company, was born in Slaterville, New York, July 19, 1867, son of John Wesley 
 and Roxie R. (Hill) Moss. 
 
 John Wesley Moss was born in Sterling, New York, lived in Slaterville and 
 Mecklenburg ; married, July 6, 1864, Roxie R. Hill, daughter of Benjamin and Samatha 
 Hill ; had children : John B., Hattie E., Edward C, William L., Charles H. and Emma 
 S. John Moss, father of John Wesley Moss, was born in Braintree, England, 1819, 
 died October, 1882 ; came with his parents to New York State ; settled in Illinois, but 
 returned to Sterling, New York; a miller by trade; married, December 9, 1841, Emily 
 Ingersoll, daughter of John IngersoU, who was a soldier in the Revolution. James 
 Moss, father of John Moss, was born in Braintree, England, son of John Moss; 
 removed to Chelmsford, England; came to this country in 1836 with wife and children; 
 located in Rose, Wayne county, New York ; married Sarah Galaway. 
 
 John B. Moss attended the public schools of Waterburg and Mecklenburg, New 
 York. He then began an apprenticeship in the Treman-Waterman shops in Ithaca, 
 serving three years at the trade of machinist. He afterward worked as a journeyman 
 in that city and in Peru, Indiana. He then came East again and for three years was a 
 planer hand in the shops of Brown & Sharpe, Providence, Rhode Island, becoming 
 foreman of the planing department, a position he left at the end of two years to take 
 a similar one in the shops of H. C. Pease & Company, of this city, tool manufacturers. 
 Two years later, in 1892, he became foreman and later assistant master mechanic in 
 the South works of the American Steel & Wire Company (then the Washburn & 
 Moen Manufacturing Company) in this city. In 1900 he was made foreman of the 
 blooming mill, in. 1902 superintendent of the rolling mills, and a year later assistant 
 superintendent of the South and Central works. In August, 1904, he was made super- 
 intendent of the South and Central works. In 191 1 he was promoted to his present 
 office, that of assistant district manager of the Washburn & Moen Division of the 
 American Steel and Wire Company. He is a director of the O. & J. Machine Company, 
 of this city. Mr. Moss is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the 
 Worcester County Mechanics Association, the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and 
 the Worcester Club. In politics he is a Republican, and served in 1893-94 on the Re- 
 publican city committee. In religion he is a Methodist. 
 
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 Mr. Moss married, August 2, 1887, at Waterburg, \e\v York, Renha \an Dine, 
 daughter of William H. and Lucy (Newman) Van Dine (sec Van Dine). Ihcy re- 
 side at No. 21 Clear View street in this city. They have one son, Earlc Chester, born 
 December 16, 1892, who is a member of the managers' staff, American Steel & Wire 
 Company; now in the United States army. Mrs. Moss is a member of the Worcester 
 Woman's Club. 
 
 GERRET CORNELLISSEN VAN DUYN, ilie immigrant ancestor ..f the Amer- 
 ican family of Van Duyn or \ an Dine, to which Mrs. John B. Moss, of Worcester, 
 belongs, came to .America in 1649 from Nieuwerperk in Zeeland, and probal)Iy settled 
 first in Xew Amsterdam (New York). He was a cariienter or wheelwright by trade. 
 He removed from New Amsterdam to Brooklyn, where, April g, 1658, we find him 
 paying a fine for obstinately refusing to pay his (|unta of Dominie Polhcmius' salary. 
 After living in America twenty years, he returned to Holland and was given permission, 
 August 10, 1670, by the director-general, to return on the ship, "Fort of .Ml.any," 
 of which Jacques Cousseau was master. Next year. May 15, 1671. a pass w.is given 
 his wife and three children and she went back to Holland on the ship "Duke of 
 York." of which Johannes Luych was the master. The ccmiing of the h^iighsh 
 was perhaps the reason for the return of the Dutch to Holland. The Van Duyns 
 kept house at Zqollc, a city on the Zwarte or Black Water and the Willemsvaart in 
 Overyssel. but were not prosperous, so they decided after nine years to return to 
 America. In 1679, in the ship "Charles," with such notables as Peter Shiytcr, Jasper 
 Dankers. De Labidists, whose journal of the voyage, etc., has been printed, they 
 returned to New York. They settled on Long Island between New Utrecht and 
 Flatbush, buying a farm, August 23, 1680. of Jacques Cortelyou, his brother-in-law. 
 Cortelyou bought the place of \'an Werckhoven, who had it under patent and Indian 
 deed. Cortelyou's land comprised originally the main part of the present town of New 
 Utrecht. The farm is now owned by the heirs or successors of Cjeorge Martense. 
 
 VanDuyn took the oath of allegiance to the English government in 1687, and was 
 a magistrate in 1687-88, and justice of the peace in 1689-90. He purchased, January 12, 
 1686, of Lowrentz Jansen. son of Jan Lowrentz. the farm at New Utrecht, and February 
 24,' 1690-91, land of Anthons DuCeen. These two parcels of land he deeded to his s<m, 
 Cornelius, April 16, 1705. He also deeded the Cortelyou farm to his son. Denyse, June 
 6, 1698. His will, dated June 30. 1705, was proved June 14. 1706, and it included lands 
 bought of Peter Cortelyou in liutchess county. New York. These were equally divided 
 between his children. He joined the Dutch church at New Utrecht during Dominie 
 \'an Zuren's pastorate by Certificate from the church at Zwolle and he was later deacon 
 of this church. 
 
 He married Jacomina or Jacomynchy Swartz, dau.ghter of Jacob Swartz, of New 
 .Amsterdam, about 1660. Their children: i. Cornelius. 2. Denyse, married. 1601, Maria 
 Huyken, and settled at Raritan. New Jersey, but returned to Long Island and died at 
 Flatbush, 1729: he had the Martense farm and his son Gcrret after him; he had sons, 
 William and Denyse. who settled in Raritan. also Jacobus and Davi<l. 3. .Abraham, 
 born about 1670, married Geertie Martense, of Wallabout ; resided at Mespat Kills, but 
 removed 1706 to Cecil county, Maryland. 4. Aeltis or .\ske. 5. (ierret. 6. Dirck. 
 
 JOHN FREDERICK DONNELLY. The Donnelly Studin. N.i. 476 Main street, 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, is a well-known musical center, Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly, 
 both accomplished musicians, being engaged in teaching and ranking very high as 
 professional artists. Mr. Donnelly studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, 
 locating his i)resent studio in Worcester in 1903. Mrs. Donnelly's voice, a pure mezzo 
 contralto, was trained by American teachers, and for two years she has been a student 
 under Herbert Witherspoon, of New York, a famed festival soloist and teacher. In 
 commenting upon a recent appearance in a song recital given by the Catholic Women's 
 Club, a Worcester musical critic said : 
 
 Her future must .still offer even Kreali-r lieiKlit.s of art. for stie is imlef.-itinahle In 
 tier studies, and witfi such a genius for song as her program mivc last night there seems 
 no pinnacle of succe.ss which she niav not attain. Then" was the lilting qu.ility in her 
 ballads as other groups soon showed, a tenderness in her love songs, a fine dramatic 
 forcefulness in her more pretentious nuTiihers. There is a bigness, a volume in her \'oice 
 that in earlier appearanees seemed to tie the onl.v end for which she need strive. In the 
 lighter- numbers her sprightliness of interpretation took none of that smoothness from her 
 tunes, and in the highest mezzo as well as the deeper contralto, this charming Worcester 
 singer displayed not the slightest hesitancy of harshness. 
 
 The paternal grandparents of John Frederick Donnelly lived and died in Ireland, 
 their son, John Donnelly, being born in Dundalk. cai)ital of the county of Louth, one of 
 the seats of the linen industry in Ireland, fort\-hve miles from Dublin. There John 
 Donnelly lived until attaining man's estate, then came to the United States, settled in 
 
828 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Worcester, and here lived for fifty years. He enlisted in the United States Navy as a 
 marine during the Civil War, and was on board the wooden vessel, "Congress," when it 
 was sunk by the "Merrimack." He served all through the war and for another year 
 was with the South Atlantic squadron stationed principally at Rio Janerio. He died in 
 Worcester, aged seventy-four. John Donnelly married Catherine Doherty, born in 
 County Roscommon, Ireland, but came with her parents, Martin and Bridget Doherty, 
 to Worcester, when a girl. Mrs. Catherine (Doherty) Donnelly died in 1915, aged 
 sixty-seven. They were the parents of four sons: James J., of Worcester, married 
 Nellie Power; John Frederick, of further mention; Dr. William H., who died in 1912; 
 Joseph, who died at the age of seven years. 
 
 John Frederick Donnelly, son of John and Catherine (Doherty) Donnelly, was 
 born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was educated in St. John's parochial school, 
 and Holy Cross College, Worcester. He early developed strong musical talent which 
 he cultivated under good instructors, finally completing his musical education at the 
 New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. In 1903 he established in Worcester 
 as a teacher of music, his studio being located at No. 476 Main street. He is an 
 accomplished musician and a popular teacher. Since 1903 he has been organist of St. 
 John's Roman Catholic Church, that parish being one of the largest in New England. 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Donnelly represented his ward on the Board of Education 
 for several years. He is a member of the Washington Social Club, and several pro- 
 fessional societies, his favorite recreation motoring, and his particular fad a great love 
 for dogs, especially the Russian wolf hound and the Airedale. 
 
 Mr. Donnelly married, in Worcester, Massachusetts, June 23, 1909, Helen A. 
 O'Gorman, born in Worcester, daughter of John J, and Ann (O'Brien) O'Gorman, both 
 deceased. John J. O'Gorman was a fashionable tailor of Worcester for many years, 
 and prominent in politics, serving in City Council, and State Legislature. Mrs. Donnelly 
 was educated at Notre Dame High School and later at Harvard Summer School in 
 Boston. She cultivated her musical talent and was appointed assistant superintendent 
 of music in Boston public schools, but never actively filled the duties of that position. 
 She taught in Worcester schools, and assisted Superintendent Rice of the musical 
 department of the Worcester schools. She is now a professional singer, has won the 
 favor of critics and serious musicians, and is proving one of the most popular of 
 singers. She has appeared professionally before the Philomathia Club of Boston; 
 Charitable Irish Societies of Boston; Players'Club of Washington; Civic Club of Fitch- 
 burg; Choral Society of North Adams; Patriotic Societies of Springfield; Woman's 
 Club of Pittsfield; Woman's Club of Worcester. Mrs. Donnelly's splendid success 
 has been attained wholly through merit. Wherever she sings she wins her public by 
 the quality of her voice, her beautiful phrasing and fluent technique. She is also 
 associated with the Donnelly Studio, No. 476 Main street, as a teacher. 
 
 GEORGE ALLEN SARGENT. In 1895, just after graduation, Mr. Sargent 
 entered the employ of The Hill Dryer Company, a firm manufacturing balcony, lawn, 
 and cabinet clothes dryers under the Hill patents. From that time he has been con- 
 tinuously connected with the company, and when, in 191 1, the business was incor- 
 porated as The Hill Dryer Company, Mr. Sargent was elected secretary. He is a 
 son of Lucius Manlius Sargent, and a descendant of tlie ancient Sargent family 
 founded by William Sargent in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1638, later was in the 
 town of Maiden, Massachusetts, and still later in Barnstable, where he was a preacher, 
 became prominent, and died December 16, 1682, the father of seven daughters and 
 two sons ; Samuel, the youngest one, died unmarried, the eldest son and seventh 
 child being the ancestor of all the Sargents claiming lineal descent from William 
 Sargent. 
 
 Lucius Manlius Sargent was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, September 12, 1836, 
 and died in California, in December, 1896. He was a machinist of North Grafton, 
 and later in Worcester worked at his trade. He became deeply religious, studied for 
 the ministry, and was ordained a clergyman of the Baptist church. He was a suc- 
 cessful organizer of Baptist churches and continued in the active ministry until his 
 death. While living in Grafton he was a member of a military company, holding the 
 rank of first lieutenant, but ill health kept him from active Civil War service. He 
 married Clara Fatina Allen, a sister of the distinguished Boston journalist, Walter 
 Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent were the parents of five children, of whom tour are 
 living: Walter, of Chicago; George Allen, of further mention; Edith Clara, now 
 residing in North Scituate, Massachusetts; Wilson Warren, of New York City; 
 a son Frederick, who died in infancy. 
 
 George Allen Sargent was born in Worcester, December 6, 1871. In 1874 his 
 parents moved to North Grafton, and there he attended the public schools until four- 
 teen years of age. He then became a worker in North Grafton shoe factories, con- 
 
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 tinuing four years, when he came to Worcester and pursued a two years' ciTntner- 
 cial course at Hininan's Business CollcKe, graduating in 1891. During ilio next 
 four years he accomplished the courses of \\'orcestcr Academy, finishing with grad- 
 uation, class of 1895. These courses were not continuous, hut were interrnpted 
 by periods of employment, they being financed from his own earnings. In 181J5, after 
 graduation, he entered the employ of The flill Dryer Company of Worcester, and has 
 never left that company, being its present ctTtcient secretary, elected in 1911. He is 
 now also treasurer of the company, and since 1917 has been general manager. The 
 company manufactures patent clothes dryers of varied size and i)urpose, also a patent 
 ash sifter. They are located in Worcester at Xos. 340-350 Park avenue, have a 
 branch office at No. 92 State street. Boston, and a New York office and factory at Xos. 
 83-85 Sixth street, Long Island City. Success has attended the company and it is 
 one of Worcester's stable concerns. Mr. Sargent represented his ward in Common 
 Council for four years, and has served on the city central committee of his party. 
 He is a member of Worcester Commercial Travelers' .Association; Kiwanis Club, 
 Dewey Street Baptist Church: and for eighteen years he has contiiniously served 
 the Sunday school of that church as superintendent. 
 
 Mr. Sargent married, in Worcester, October 13, 1896, Winifred E. Hill, daughter 
 of Joseph G. Hill, founder of The Hill Dryer Company, and a veteran of the Civil 
 War, now living retired in Worcester, aged seventy-five years. Joseph G. Hill mar- 
 ried Evelyn Blanchard Hill, wdio died in Worcester at the a.ge of si.\ty-six. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Sargent are the parents of three children: Edith Evelyn, born Novemlier 24, 
 1897, a graduate of Worcester South High School and of Rossc Normal School of 
 Gymnastics of Boston, and is now a teacher in the Rosse school ; Carmeta Eliv.alieth, 
 born July 29. 1903, a student in South HikIi ScIim,,!; Phillips Hill, born Septenilier 
 16, 1908. 
 
 WILLIAM JOSEPH THAYER, Business man, is a s..n of Ebcr Herbert Thayer, 
 a merchant and creamery proprietor, was born in Northfield. Vermont, came from 
 there to Worcester. Massachusetts, in 1895, and established the business now con- 
 ducted by his son, William Joseph Thayer, known as the Wachusett Creamery, dealers 
 in butter, cream and eggs, their products going directly from producer to ccjiisumer, 
 the trade both wholesale and retail. He continued in successful business until his 
 death. February 12, 1914. He married, in Northfield. .-Mice M. Doty, born there, who 
 survived him and is yet residing in Worcester, aged sixty-four years. Thcv were 
 the parents of three sons : Homer A., born October 18. 1881, married, and is now 
 residing in Providence, Rhode Island: William Joseph, of further mention: and 
 Cary A., born March 31, 1894. now interested in business with his brother, William 
 J. in Worcester : he married and has a son. Donald. 
 
 William J. Thayer, second son of Eber H. and Alice M. (Doty) Thayer, was 
 born in Northfield, Vermont, May 28. 1884, and there spent the first eleven years of 
 his life. In 1895 his parents inoved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he continued 
 his public school studies until 1904, then pursued a course of study at Post's Business 
 College, finishing with graduation in 1905. During these school years he had e;irned 
 quite a considerable sum of money by raising pigeons and berry picking, these occu- 
 I)ations, however, not interfering with his school attendance. In 1906 he was sent 
 to Providence. Rhode Island, by his father to open a branch butter and creamery 
 manufactory business, and this branch is still in existence. Upon the death rf the 
 father the sons succeeded to the ownership and management, and are conducting it 
 on the same high plane of efficiency and quality. William J. Thayer is also a direc- 
 tor of the Park Trust Company of Worcester, and is one of the leading young busi- 
 ness men of his city. He is interested in the New England Fair Association, and 
 at its annual fair in Worcester was superintendent of the swine and sheep exhiliiling 
 department. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Worcester Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Commonwealth Club, the Rotary Club, and Philemon club. His favorite 
 sport is fox hunting, and he greatly enjoys a day with rod and reel. Mr. Thaxer is 
 tmmarried. 
 
 CHARLES H. STEARNS, Former Iiusiness man, was liorn June 19, 1833. in 
 Westminster, Massachusetts, son of Stephen and Mary (Mcrriam) Stearns, and died 
 in this city, at his home. No. 2 Crown street, .'\ngust i, 1909. aged seventy-six years. 
 Mr. Stearns was descended froin historic old New England ancestry, Isaac Stearns, 
 the immigrant ancestor, eiubarking at Yarmouth, England, in the ship "."Xrabella," 
 April 12, 1630, and arriving on the Massachusetts coast in coiupany with Governor 
 Winthrop, Sir Richard Saltonstall. and Edward Garfield, ancestor of the martyred 
 president. He came from Nayland. England. acc')mi)anied by his wife Mary, and 
 
830 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 daughters, Marj' and Ann. He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and was am^ng 
 the first freeman there in 1631, of which town he was for several years selectman, 
 and where he died June 19, 1671. 
 
 Mr. Stearns acquired his early educational training in the district schools and 
 the academy of his native town. His business career was begun as a clerk in a 
 clothing store at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he remained until i860. In the 
 latter named year he came to this city and purchased the Crane Bakery, at the corner 
 of Pleasant and Newbury streets, which he successfully conducted for a period of 
 about thirty years, when he disposed of the business and retired from active busi- 
 ness cares. He was a Republican in political belief, but being of a quiet and retiring 
 disposition never cared for nor sought public office, preferring to give his undivided 
 attention to his business, in which he met with marked success, and to his home and 
 its surroundings to which he was much devoted. Early in life he became a member 
 of the Westminster Congregational Church, and after coming to this city became 
 affiliated with the Plymouth Congregational Church, of which his widow is also an 
 active member. Mr. Stearns was charitable and benevolent, but always gave with a 
 modest and unostentatious hand. 
 
 Mr. Stearns married (first) Nellie McClure, by whom he had tw^ children, 
 namely: Addie L.. who died at the age of nineteen years; and .\rthur McClure, who 
 died in infancy. He married (second) December 4, 1866, Sarah H. Lamson, daughter 
 of Eli B. and Deidamia (Prouty) Lamson, of this city. Mrs. Stearns survives her 
 husband, without issue, and resides at No. 11 Monadnock Road, this city. 
 
 GEORGE F. SMITH. As head of the wholesale milk dealing firm, operating as 
 the George F. Smith Creamery, Mr. Smith has reached a leading position in the busi- 
 ness with which he has been connected since boyhood, his father having been in the 
 same business. George F. Smith is a son of Walter H. Smith, and a grandson of Ben- 
 jamin Smith, of Rutland, Massachusetts. Walter H. Smith was born in Rutland, 
 Massachusetts, in 1863. He married Mary A. Whitehouse, daughter of a Civil War 
 veteran, and his wife, Louise E., born in 1825. Walter H. Smith was for many years 
 engaged as a milk dealer; was a Republican in politics. His children were: Clifford 
 Austin, Arthur Kendall, Louise Ermine, George F., of further mention ; Mamie V., 
 Elsie A., and Roy. 
 
 George F. Smith was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, in 1883, and was 
 educated in the public schools of that town. He early Became familiar with the milk 
 business and has known no other business activity. He is now engaged as a wholesale 
 milk dealer under the name of The George F, Smith Creamery, with headquarters in 
 Worcester. He is a Republican in politics, and affiliated with all Worcester's Masonic 
 bodies, of both the York and Scottish Rites, and holding the thirty-second degree. In 
 religious faith he is a Congregationalist. 
 
 Mr. Smith married, in Worcester, February 10, 1912, Margaret E. Parnell. daughter 
 of Charles C. and Mary Parnell, her father, a machinist. 
 
 STEPHEN MACKIN. With the rapid increase in the cost of all that goe^ into 
 the upkeep of a motor car, every device which tends to decrease repair hills is hailed 
 with delight by car owners, and finds a ready market. Such is the mission of the 
 Mackin Oil Gauge, invented by Stephen Mackin, of Worcester, an expert on me- 
 chanical engineering and a lifelong student of lubrication and lubricants. As all 
 internal combustion engines run necessarily under great heat a momentary failure of 
 the oil field produces excessive heat with disastrous efifects. The purpose of the 
 Mackin Oil Gauge is to show the driver his oil flow at all times and to warn him 
 when the oil supply runs low. 
 
 Stephen Mackin. son of Stephen and Nancy (Keenan) Mackin. attended Worces- 
 ter public schools until fourteen years of age, then began learning the machinist's 
 trade, serving an apprenticeship of several years. He worked as a journeyman ma- 
 chinist for several years, becoming an expert in his particular line. He started in 
 business for himself about 1913. and has been very successful. The use of the gasoline 
 motor and the important part it plays in transportation and power problems has opened 
 a wide field for inventors, Mr. Mackin taking up as his especial study, lubrication. He 
 knew, as does every mechanical engineer, that in the successful operation of the gasoline 
 motor it is essential that every part of the motor exposed to friction be continually 
 covered with a film of oil. To accomplish this it is imperative that the oil supply be 
 reliable, constant, and large enough for extended service. Such is the mission of the 
 Mackin Oil Gauge, invented by Stephen Mackin, and manufactured by the Mackin 
 Oil Gauge Company, of No. 33 North Foster street, Worcester, Massachusetts. The 
 plant is a modernly equipped one, where the large demand for the gauge is fully met 
 
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 by Mr. Mackin and his assistants. He is also the patentee of the Mackiii Metal Gauge, 
 which he also manufactures. He does a general machine shop business, and is rated 
 one of the expert authorities in his business. 
 
 Mr. Mackin married, in Worcester, in 1887, Elizabeth Corbett, who died in Worces- 
 ter, April 22, 1890, leaving a daughter, Catherine M. 
 
 JAMES D. ROBERTSON. The history of the life of James U. Robertson in 
 Worcester is the liistdry of Iiis connection with the old-established and well-known 
 firm of John C. Machines Company, and in the time that he has attained to responsible 
 position with this house he has also taken worthy place in the social and civic life 
 of Worcester. Mr. Robertson left his Scotcli birthplace at the age of seventeen 
 years, and from that time his fortunes were identified with the firm of which he is 
 now treasurer, and although he cherishes warm memories of the rmcestral home of 
 his family all of his ties have been to his adopted Iiome mitil tlie European War 
 called one of his sons to the fields of France. 
 
 James D. Robertson is a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Drummond) Ri)hcrtson, 
 and was born on Whitehill Farm, in the Parish of Blackford, Perthshire. Scotland, 
 November 29, 1870. He had but finished a course in the grammar schools of his birth- 
 place when, a youth of seventeen years, after working for four years in Ediiil)urgh, 
 Scotland, he came to the United States. In the fall of 1887 he formed with the John 
 C. Maclnnes Company a connection that has ever since endured with strong mutual 
 satisfaction and profit. His first work was as salesman, a department of the business in 
 which he came into the closest possible touch with tlie needs, wants, and conditions 
 of the market, so that when be was made purchasing agent for the ready-to-wear 
 garment departments it was with an accurate and comprehensive knowledge of the 
 general tastes and prejudices of the buying public. The fidelity and value of his ser- 
 vices to his house won him the opportunity, in 1904, of becoming financially inter- 
 ested in the enterprise as a stockholder, an opening that he at once embraced, and 
 until 1912 he continued in the capacity of purchaser. In that year he became assistant 
 treasurer of the company, and upon the death of Mr. \faclnnes in 1915 and the sub- 
 sequent reorganization of the company he became treasurer. This is the office that he 
 occupies at the present time, although he has never relinquished his supervision of the 
 department purchasing ready-to-wear garments, his long experience and keen obser- 
 vation of market conditions making his advice much sought by tliose of his employees 
 who have assumed the management of that branch of the business. In the intimate 
 business relations he has had with his fellows in \\"orcester Mr. Robertson is held in 
 high consideration because of the straightforward principles and upright standards 
 he has constantly adhered to in every mercantile transaction. He is of the progressive 
 type of business man and citizen, and gives willingly of his time and service to any 
 movement benefitting or improving his city. Mr. Robertson holds membership in the 
 Commonwealth Club and the Worcester Country Club, in both of which he is active, 
 and with his family he is a member of the Congregational church, 
 
 James D. Robertson married, in Worcester. Massachusetts, April 3. 1894, Louise 
 E., daughter of Edward and Miimie E. (Thenius) Snyder. They are the parents of 
 two children: i. Marion E., born July 17, i8g6; a graduate of Simmons College, class 
 of 1918, now connected with the Packer Collegiate Institute of P.rooklj'n, New York. 
 2. Gordon R.. born April 14, 1898; entered Wenonah Military .Academy, in .\'ew 
 Jersey, after attending tlie Worcester High School, and early in 1917 left school to 
 enter the service, shortly thereafter being sent to France with the .-\iiierican Expedi- 
 tionary Force. 
 
 JAMES THOMAS McDERMOTT. When Tames McDcrmntt. in 1916. retired 
 from the management of the business he had founded and made a center for the 
 shoppers of \\'orcester and surrounding towns, McDermott's Dry Goods .Store, he was 
 succeeded by his sons whom he had trained in the business, James T. and Edmund B. 
 The store was formerly located at No. 100 Front street, Worcester, and until 1898 
 was conducted as a general dry goods business. With the advent of the new manager, 
 James T. McDermott, special lines were introduced, principally confined to hosiery, 
 underwear and infant's wear. In 1916, owing to the increase of business and the lack 
 of room, the store was moved to Nos. 517-519 Main street, next to the Park building, 
 the firm, still James McDermott. now occupying the entire five floors and basement. 
 The lines have been still further restricted until the great business is known far and 
 near as "The Baby Shop," children's garments, children's toilet articles, and nursery 
 furniture dominating almost the entire store. 
 
 James Thomas McDermott was born in Worcester, and after completing his years 
 of public school study decided to avail himself of the fine opportunity offered by his 
 father's dry goods store to enter mercantile life under peculiarly favorable conditions. 
 
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 The store, then located at No. too Front street, Worcester, was conducted by James 
 McDermott as a dry goods store, and was exceedingly well-known and very popular. 
 James T. began as a clerk in 1890, and in 1898 became store manager and buyer. Ten 
 years later, under the policy of special lines, the business was moved to a larger and 
 more modern store at No. 542 Main street, Franklin square. In 1916 James McDermott 
 retired from the business, James T. and Edmund B. McDermott, succeeding their 
 father. In 1917 the change was made to the present five story building on Main street, 
 next the Park building, and "The Baby Shop" is there riding upon the crest of a 
 tide of public favor. James T. McDermott is a member of the Knights of Columbus 
 and the Washington Social Club. 
 
 CORNELIUS MONROE GARBUTT, Real Estate and general insurance agent, 
 partner in Garbutt Brothers, was born in Cowansville, Province of Quebec, Canada, 
 May 28, 1880. He was but three years of age when the family moved to Montreal, 
 where he attended school for about five years. He completed his education in this city, 
 whither the family moved when he was a boy of thirteen. He began his business career 
 at the age of eighteen as clerk of his father's real estate office, remaining there for a 
 period of five years. Since then he has been in partnership with his brother under 
 the firm name of Garbutt Brothers, in the real estate and mortgage business. The 
 office of the firm was originally at No. 339 Main street, now being in the Park build- 
 ing. No. 507 Main street. In addition to the business of the firm, Mr. Garbutt repre- 
 sents various insurance companies and is a well-known underwriter. His partner 
 in business is J. Ralph Garbutt. Mr. Garbutt is a Republican in politics, and keenly 
 interested in public affairs. In religion he is an Episcopalian. His recreation is outdoor 
 sports, and he is especially fond of automobiles and horses. His home is at No. 28 
 May street. 
 
 Mr. Garbutt married, in this city, December 19, 1907, Lora Marion Lytle, daughter 
 of Honorable William A. Lytle. Mr. and Mrs, Garbutt had a daughter, Evelyn Alice, 
 who died in infancy, July, 1913. 
 
 William Garbutt, father of Cornelius M. Garbutt, was born in Liverpool, England, 
 son of John Garbutt, a seafaring man. William came to Canada with his father when 
 sixteen years old ; became a merchant at Cowansville, Quebec ; later moved to Montreal 
 and finally to Worcester, where he conducted a large real estate and mortgage business; 
 died in Worcester, in June, 1907, aged fifty-two years. He married, in Cowansville, 
 Jane A. Pharaoh, who died January 10, 1906, aged forty-nine years. William and Jane 
 A. Garbutt had nine children : William A., a merchant tailor, in business in this city for 
 twenty-five years {William A. Garbutt & Company, No. 18 Pleasant street) ; Maud B., 
 married Frederick H. Richardson, an electrical engineer, in business in Pittsfield, 
 Massachusetts; Tempest C, a real estate broker (W. Garbutt & Company, No. 340 
 Main street) ; Cornelius M., mentioned above; J. Ralph, of Garbutt Brothers, mentioned 
 above; Lila M., married Geoffrey M. LeHain, of Hove, England, now of Montreal, 
 Canada; Jane A., who resides in this city: Hazel G., also of Worcester; Leon Ran- 
 dolph, born here, died in infancy. The Garbutts are of an old English family. 
 
 THOMAS FRANCIS HURLEY. Since 1912 Mr. Hurley, under the firm name, 
 T. F. Hurley, has been in business at No. 369 Park avenue, Worcester, dealing very 
 successfully in coal, wood, hay and grain. He is a native son of Worcester, educated 
 in city schools and developed in her business houses to a point where he could with 
 safety and profit conduct a business enterprise under his own name. He is a son of 
 Thomas Francis Hurley, born in Ireland, who came to the United States in youthful 
 manhood, accompaning his parents, the family locating in Worcester. Thomas Francis 
 Hurley died in 1891, aged about forty-five years. Many of his years in Worcester 
 were spent as coachman for Mrs. Charles F. Washburn, being in her employ at the time 
 of his death. He married, in Worcester, Margaret T. Lynch, born in Ireland, and now 
 living in Worcester, aged sixty-six years. Two of her children died in infancy, the 
 five living being herein named: Catherine A., married George F. Thacker, of Grand 
 Forks, North Dakota ; Mary E., residing with her mother in Worcester, at No. 5 Reid 
 place; Thomas Francis (2), of further mention; Rev. George J., a priest of the 
 Roman Catholic church, a member of Springfield Diocesan Bank, resides in Auburn, 
 and performs missionary service all over the diocese; Margaret T., a teacher in the 
 Edgeworth street public school, Worcester. 
 
 Thomas Francis (2) Hurley was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, December 27, 
 1878. He completed grammar school courses and entered high school, but completed 
 his studies at Becker's Business College as a student in the night classes. In the mean- 
 time he was employed by John A. Hartigan, the grocer, later transferring his services to 
 George F. Hewitt, with whom he remained eleven years. In May, 1912, Mr. Hurley 
 purchased the business of James A. Kane, at No. 369 Park avenue, and there he con- 
 
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 tinues in successful business, a dealer in coal, wood, grain and hay. Mr. Ilurlcv is a 
 careful, energetic merchant, industrious and enterprising, and highly-esteemed. Me 
 is devoted to his business and spares no effort to promptly and honorably serve his 
 patrons. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the city central committee 
 of his party; is a member of St. Paul's Roman CathoHc Church, the Holy Name 
 Society of that church, and is a Knight of Columbus. He is fond of a good horse and 
 a good horse race, and in his list of recreations fishing easily comes first. Mr. Hurley 
 is unmarried. 
 
 ALONZO FRANCIS HOYLE. On April 19, 1896, Mr. Hoylc established liis pres- 
 ent business in Worcester, and the Hoyle Press has since pursued a most successful 
 career, the motto being "Quality" and "Everything from a Card to a Catalogue." In 
 May, 1918, the business was moved to its present quarters, Austin and High streets. 
 Mr. Hoyle is a son of Francis Hoyle, born in Thompson, Connecticut, June 24, 1838, 
 now living retired in Worcester, Massachusetts, approaching his eighty-first birthday. 
 He was long connected with the shoe business, and has spent liis h.ng life nmst worth- 
 ily. Francis Hoyle married Elizabeth Jane Cummings, born in Belfast, Maine, and 
 died in Worcester in 1915, aged seventy-five years. They were the parents uf nine 
 sons: One who died in infancy; Alonzo Francis, of further mention; Harrison, super- 
 intendent of the Standard I-^oundry ; Sanford C, died in 1888; Frank C, of Chester, 
 Vermont, a retired fireman, now living on a farm; Rufus, died in infancy; .A.llie, died 
 aged ten years; Rufus (second) now a foreman in the employ of the iN'ew I''.ngland 
 Envelope Company; Charles R., an architect of Worcester. 
 
 Alonzo Francis Hoyle was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 16. 1861, 
 eldest of the sons of Francis and Elizabeth Jane (Cummings) Hoyle. He attended 
 public schools "until reaching the age of sixteen, then began work in a shoe shop, 
 continuing until 1880, when he spent three years in business college and in the employ 
 of a grocery. In 1883 he entered the employ of the Boston. Barrc & (lardner Railroad 
 as a clerk, remaining with that road and its successor, the Fitcliburg Railroad, until 
 1895, then being freight cashier. After a term of service with the Gtasgo Thread Com- 
 pany, he began learning the printing business, establishing the Hoyle Press in Wor- 
 cester, April 19, 1896. In the business which has now held him for nearly a ""(iiarter 
 of a century he has been very successful, the reputation of the Hoyle Press neing 
 very high. In politics Mr. Hoyle is a lifelong Republican, and in 1905-06-07-08 rep- 
 resented Ward two, Worcester district, in the Massachusetts Le.gislature. From 1900 
 until 1905 he represented Ward two on the Republican city committee. He is a 
 member of the Masonic order, member of Worcester Mas'jnic Charity and Educational 
 Association, secretary and treasurer of the Charity Committee, member of the 
 Improved Order of Red Men. and interested in social rooms of the order at No. 19 
 Pearl street. In religious faith he is a Baptist. 
 
 Mr. Hoyle married, in Worcester, Alay 12, 1887, Mabel Elizabeth Kimball, born in 
 Worcester, April 19, 1865, daughter of .Samuel H. and Helen (Spring) Kimball, the 
 latter deceased, her father a contractor of Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle are the 
 parents of four children : Ralph Alonzo, born March 19, 1888, married Lena Taylor, 
 and has two children ; Grace Elizabeth, born July 30, 1890, married Frank B. Smith, of 
 Worcester, Massachusetts, and has two children; Everett Sanford, born May 3-3, 1894, 
 married Lucille Rawson, and has two children; Chester Sannicl, born August 14, 1903, 
 now (1919) a student in Classical High School. 
 
 EDGAR EVEREST CONOVER. With the incorporation of Linehan. Conover 
 Company, corset manufacturers of Worcester, Massachusetts, Edgar E. Conover be- 
 came its vice-president and secretary. He had long been engaged in the selling de- 
 partment of the corset manufacturing business in New York City and in Boston, coming 
 to Worcester in 1908. He is of the ancient Conover family of Monmouth county. New 
 Jersey, a family which sprang from Wolfert Gerretsen Van Couvenhoven, the common 
 ancestor of the Couvenhoven, Kouwenhoven, Conover family in this country. A 
 grandson of the old Hollander, William Gerretsen Couvenhoven (which name later 
 became Conover), located on land he purchased in Monmouth county. New Jersey, 
 about July, 1727, Freehold in that county becoming later the home of many of this old 
 and important Dutch family. Along the maternal line of ancestry Mr. Conover traces 
 to English and Mayflower families. 
 
 A descendant of the Hollander, Van Couvenhoven, was James Scott Conover, 
 grandfather of Edgar E. Conover, of Worcester. He was born in Freehold, New 
 Jersey, died at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1895, aged seventy. He was the founder 
 and head of J. S. Conover & Company, New York City, manufacturers of mantels 
 and grates. He married Elizabeth Meeker, born in Stamford, Connecticut, who died 
 
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834 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 in New York City in 1897, aged sixty-seven years. They were the parents of ten 
 children, but only two grew to mature years, Alonzo Edward and William Edgar, the 
 last named being head of the generation next considered. 
 
 William Edgar Conover, son of James S. and Elizabeth (Meeker) Conover, was 
 born in New York City, November 10, 1850, died in Greenwich, Connecticut, February 
 13, 1902. He was a graduate of Columbia Law School, L.L. B., 1872, and practiced law 
 in his earlier years. But he was associated with his father in the manufacture of 
 grates and mantels, and after the death of the founder continued the business of J. 
 S. Conover & Company until his death in 1902. He was an able business man of 
 strong executive ability, successfully conducting his business through a long term of 
 years. He was at one time much interested in New York City, Tammany at that 
 time being under the control of Tweed and New York City under the control of 
 Tammany. William E. Conover married, in New York City, December 9, 1873, Sarah 
 Louise Holly, born in Salisbury, Connecticut, August 9, 1853, and is now living in 
 Greenwich, Connecticut. Children: Edgar E. (see biography); William Edgar, born 
 September 10, 1875, died in infancy; James Scott, born September 6, 1877, now living 
 in Greenwich, Connecticut; Frances Elizabeth, born March 15, 1882, residing with her 
 mother in Greenwich; Lawrence Seymour, born in 1885, died in 1904; Marjorie, born in 
 April, 1889, now and since May, 1917, in overseas Red Cross service, stationed in 
 France. 
 
 EDGAR E. CONOVER, eldest son of William Edgar and Sarah Louise (Holly) 
 Conover, was born in New York City, September i, 1874, and there resided until 
 fifteen years of age. His education, begun in Barnard SchonI, New York, was con- 
 tinued in King's School, Stamford, Connecticut, until graduation in 1892, and then at 
 Princeton University, class of 1896. He began business life in New York City with 
 George C. Batchellor & Company, corset manufacturers, continuing with that house in 
 New York until 1899. He then located in Boston, becoming their New England man- 
 ager in 1902, so continuing until 1908, when he resigned. On July I, of that year, he 
 came to Worcester as sales manager for the Linehan Corset Company and secretary of 
 the company. This company was succeeded by the present Linehan, Conover Company, 
 corset manufacturers, incorporated under Massachusetts laws, John J. Linehan, presi- 
 dent and treasurer, Edgar E. Conover, vice-president and secretary. Mr. Conover is a 
 Republican in politics, and in religious faith an Episcopalian. He is a member of 
 Madison (Connecticut) Country Club; the Fly Fishers Club of Brooklyn; Worcester 
 Country Club; Princeton Alumni Association of New England, and is fond of all 
 forms of out-of-door sports, particularly hunting, fishing and golf. 
 
 Mr. Conover married, in Madison, Connecticut, July 14, 1898, Irene Scranton, born 
 in New Haven, Connecticut, daughter of Charles Woolsey and Marietta (Palmer) 
 Scranton, her father deceased, her mother yet a resident of Madison. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Conover are the parents of two children: Helen Scranton, born July 14, 1900, and 
 Woolsey Scranton, born July 27, 1902, now a student at Worcester Academy, class of 
 1921. 
 
 WALTER SCOTT CHASE. When a young man of nineteen. Walter S. Chase 
 came to Worcester, a journeyman gasfitter. That was in 1889, and in 1902 he began 
 business for himself. In May, 1916, he opened his present place of business at No. 
 560 Main street, where he specializes in hot water heating, heating by vacuum with- 
 out patented or other contrivances, and installing systems of heating which will 
 reduce coal bills from 30 to 40 per cent, but he conducts a general gas piping, steam 
 and hot water heating, and general repair business as well. He is a descendant of 
 the ancient New England families, Chase and Huntington, one of his Huntington 
 ancestors a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Walter S. Chase is a son 
 of Oscar Francis Chase, born in Smithville, Rhode Island, June 4, 1831, a woolen 
 manufacturer. He married Catherine Brown Howard, born in Jamaica, Vermont, 
 who survives him, residing in Worcester, aged eighty-eight years. They vvere the 
 parents of two children : Bessie, died aged thirteen months, and Walter S., of further 
 mention. 
 
 Walter Scott Chase was born in Eastford, Connecticut, June 5, 1870, his parents 
 moving to Dudley, Massachusetts, in 1875. He attended the public school there, at 
 Wilsonville, Connecticut, and North Oxford, Massachusetts, but at the age of fifteen 
 his school attendance ceased, but later added to his advantages a course in the 
 Scranton International Correspondence School. At Webster he began learning the 
 gas fitter's trade with John Gum of Webster, and from that time has been engaged 
 in the same business. He came to Worcester in 1889, and worked as a journeyman 
 for Braman Dow & Company, gas and steam fitters. He established in business for 
 himself in 1902 on Westfield street, and in May, 1916, opened his present business at 
 
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 No. 560 M;iin street, trading as Walter S. Chase, steam and hdt water lieatiiis and 
 ventilation, gas piping, bronzing, and pipe covering. He is a specialist in healing 
 systems, and is winning converts to the vacuum system. He is a member "f the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but his pleasure cuitside uf his business is in 
 his garden. He is a member of the Congregational church at Lake \iew, and in 
 politics is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Chase married, at North Grosvenor Dale, Connecticut, June 29, 180,?. .Stella 
 Maude Buckley, born there, daughter of James and Martha Henthorn Buckley, both 
 parents born in England, and both deceased ; her father a former liotcl proprietor 
 and liveryman, of North Grosvenor Dale. Mr. and Mrs. Chase are tlie parents 
 of three children: Lillian May, died in infancy; Walter Minot, born May 12, 1899, 
 now at the United States Submarine Base, at New London; Hiram Howard, born 
 June 16, 1905. 
 
 OLIVER MILO DEAN. In 1910 tlie businos otablisbed in Wciroestcr by 
 Oliver Milo Dean in 1885, under his own name, was reorganized as Oliver M. Dean 
 & Sons, the father associating with him his two sons. Tliis firm does business in a 
 modern factory, Nos. 314-316 Shrewsbury street, their business the manufacture of 
 brooms, brushes and wooden ware and dealing in janitor and dairy supplies. 
 
 Oliver M. Dean was born in Oakham, iXIassachusetts, October 11, 1864. When 
 a lad of eiglit years he came to Worcester and from that year, 1872, he lias been a 
 resident of Worcester, although in 1917 he made Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, his 
 home, although retaining his Worcester business interests. He was educated in the 
 public schools of the city, finishing with high school, then began business life as an 
 employee of Soulan, Bryant & Company, going thence to the L. J. Knowles & Company 
 Loom Works. Upon coming of age in 1885 lie began business under his own name, so 
 continuing very successfully for a quarter of a century, winning a strong position in 
 the market through the excellence of his product and honorable standing among 
 business men for his upright life and sterling, manly qualities. In 1910 he admitted 
 his sons. Elroy B. and Carlton R. Dean, as partners, the business now being conducted 
 under the firm of Oliver M. Dean & Sons. 
 
 Mr. Dean is a Republican in politics and a member of Old South Congregational 
 Church of Worcester. He is a past grand of Central Lodge, Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and a member of the Massachusetts tirand Lodge of that order, is 
 affiliated with the Knights of Malta, and is a metnber of Worcester Chamber of Com- 
 merce. His club is the .Shrewslmry of Shrewsbury, Massacliusctts, that town having 
 been his home since 1917. 
 
 Mr. Dean married. February 22. 1887, Sarah Gertrude Bruce, born in Hudson, 
 Massachusetts, daughter of Horatio and Sarah Elizabeth l^)ruce, her father .n shoe 
 manufacturer, of Hudson. Mr. and Mrs. Dean are the parents of two sons, Elroy 
 Bruce and Carlton Randall, both members cif tlie (inn of Oliver .\1. Dean &• Sons, 
 and of a daughter, \'era Gertrude. 
 
 JOHN FRANCIS MURPHY, Manufacturer, is a son of riumias Murphy, born 
 in County Carlow. Ireland, who came to tlie United States with his parents in 1849. the 
 family locating in Worcester, Massachusetts, where Thomas Murphy died in 1872, aged 
 fifty-two years. He was among the pioneer Irish families of the city, and spent his 
 years engaged in farming. He married, in Ireland, Ann Doyle, born in 1820, in County 
 Carlow, who long survived him, dying in Worcester at the great age of ninety-four 
 years. She retained her vigor and vitality most wonderfully, and was really beloved, 
 especially by the children and those in need of a friend. They were the parents of 
 three sons: i. James W., now superintendent and general manager of the Kecne 
 Manufacturing Company of Keene, New Hampshire; he married, and has four chil- 
 dren: Maud A., Charles W., with the Army of Occupation in Germany, Frank W., 
 Theodore F. 2. John Francis, of further mention. 3. F. Henry, died in 1890, aged 
 thirty years. 
 
 John Francis Murphy, second son of Thomas and Ann (Doyle) Murphy, was bom 
 in Boylston, Massachusetts, May 29, 1867, his family moving to Worcester in 18(10. He 
 attended Bumcoat Plain, and Adams Square public schools, thence Belmont street 
 school, completing grammar courses at the age of fourteen. He then served a full 
 term as plumber's apprentice with Shields & Moody, following that trade as a 
 journeyman for a few years. In 1890 he embarked in a line of manufacture confined 
 to wood working machinery, continuing very successfully in that line until 1909 when 
 he added lasting machines. Mr. Murphy is the inventor of a special die, a wonderful 
 tool that stands up to the cutting, and he also originated and manufactured the dies 
 used by the Bradley Car Company in cutting the trail box cover for the 155 M. M. gun 
 for the United States Government. Colonel White, of the United States Ordnance 
 
836 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Department, declared Mr. Murphy to be the most efificient man in his division. He is a 
 Democrat in politics, and a member of Holy Rosary Church. Mr. Murphy conducts his 
 business under the firm name, Greendale Manufacturing Company, and makes a high 
 grade door, window, porch, casement and bo.x screen, his plant located at No. 21 Rock- 
 dale street. He is unmarried. 
 
 JOSEPH DE KEYSER FEINGOLD, Lawyer, was born in Wirballen, govern- 
 ment of Suwalki, Russian Poland, March 16, 1890, the son of Saul Harris and Golda 
 Mollie (Dickheiscr) Feingold. Wirballen is on the frontier between East Prussia and 
 Russia, as the boundary lines existed before the outbreak of the Great War, and was 
 the terminus of one of the Russian railways. This town suffered the ravages of war 
 during the world conflict, and most of it was destroyed by the onward and backward 
 march of the Russian and German armies. 
 
 Saul H. Feingold was born in Rossieny, government of Kovno, in December, 1856. 
 Tradition has it that the family emigrated from France to Russia towards the end 
 of the fifteenth century and that its original name was derived from the French, 
 "Juif." He is descended from a long line of scholars and rabbis, most of whom lived 
 and labored in the governments of Kovno and Vilna, forming part of Lithuania in the 
 Russian empire. Mr. Feingold married, in August, 1880, Golda M. Dickheiser, who 
 was born in the aforenamed town of Wirballen in August, 1858. She likewise is de- 
 scended from an old family of rabbis, scholars, and merchants, whose activities took 
 and Mrs. Feingold eleven children, Joseph being the sixth child. Of the eleven children, 
 them to the western part of Russia, Poland, and East Prussia. There were born to Mr. 
 all but one are living, namely, Solomon, a lawyer of this city until his death, was born 
 February 5, 1885, and died December 9, 1913. He was a graduate of Harvard Law 
 School in 1910. The other children are: William, born February 2, 1882; Israel H., 
 born November 7, 1883 ; Bernard, born November 23, 1886 ; Esther Jeannette Edinburg, 
 born April 2, 1888, formerly a teacher in the public schools of Auburn, Massachusetts, 
 and Newark, New Jersey ; Joseph D. K., mentioned below ; Louis Stanley, born Septem- 
 ber 2y, 1893, a graduate of Clark College and of the Harvard Law School in 1918, now 
 a sergeant, first class, in the Lhiited States Army ; Rebecca, born November 27, 1894, 
 a teacher in the Worcester schools; Ruhammah, born June i, 1896, also a teacher in 
 the Worcester public schools ; Ephraim, born August 28, 1898, a student at the Tufts 
 Medical School, and late a member of the Tufts College, S. A. T. C. ; and Nathaniel 
 Aaron, born January 6, 1900. 
 
 Joseph D. K. Feingold was brought over from his native town when but two 
 years old, and the family settled on a farm in Millbury, Massachusetts, just across the 
 line from Worcester. He spent his boyhood on this farm until ten years of age. Since then 
 he has made his home in Worcester. He graduated from the Ledge street grammar 
 school in 1904; from the Classical High School in 1908, from Clark College in 1911, 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Leaving Clark, he did graduate work at Columbia 
 University, which granted him the degree of Master of Arts in 1912. After teaching 
 school in Westboro and in the Worcester evening schools, he became private tutor in 
 Brooklyn, New York, attending the New York Law School at the same time. He then 
 entered the Harvard Law School, receiving in 1917 the degree of Bachelor of Laws 
 from that institution. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar on September 11, 1917, 
 and has been practising law in the city since then, being connected with tlie office of 
 Marvin M. Taylor, No. 340 Main street. Joseph D. K. Feingold makes his home 
 with his parents at No. 58 Providence street, Worcester. He is ardently fond of the 
 theatre, and is a lover of the out-door life and nature. He is a member of the Congre- 
 gation, Tower of Truth, and of the executive committee of the Worcester Zionist 
 District, the Maccabees, Young Men's Hebrew Association, the Clark College Alumni 
 Association, the Harvard Club of Worcester, and of the Worcester County Bar Asso- 
 ciation. He was an associate legal advisor during the war under the selective service 
 system. He has since enlisted for service with the Jewish Welfare Board, as a secre- 
 tary in the overseas and transport service of the American Expeditionary Force and 
 is now in France. 
 
 ALBERT EDWARD JEWELL, Senior partner of the firm of Albert E. Jewell 
 & Company, retail grocers, was born in Chard, England, June 19, 1874, son of John 
 and Rosa M. E. (Davey) Jewell. He had a common school education. He began 
 to work in the office of Cory Brothers, Ltd., at Cardiflf, Wales, when he was but eleven 
 years old. Two years later he went to work for his father, who was a retail merchant 
 in Wales. In July, 1890, he came with his father to this country. The family located 
 immediately in this city, and John Jewell engaged in business as a grocer and dealer 
 in meats and provisions in South Worcester. In this store Albert E. Jewell was a 
 clerk until February 10, 1898, when he was admitted to partnership under the firm 
 
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 name of J. Jewell & Scm. Fcnir years later tlie fallier retired nti areounl of ill healtli 
 and removed to Denver, Colorado, where he lived for live years. The ;.oii eoiuimicd 
 the business alone until the fall uf 1908. when Arthur H.' Sawyer was admitted to 
 partnership under the present firm name of Alliert K. Jewell & Company. The store 
 is at No. 570 Southbridge street. Mr. Jewell is now one of the veterans in mi-rean- 
 tile business in .Scnith Worcester, having been in business twenty- seven years (in 
 1918). He is a member of the Worcester Retail Grocers and I'r'ivision Dealers .Asso- 
 ciation, of which he was for four years the president. He is a member and fnr the 
 past twenty years has lieen treasurer of Hope Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Jewell married, in this city, August _'?, i8y8, Carrie Kdn.a .Sampson. daunlUer 
 of Bushrod White and Nellie V.. (Reynolds)" Sampson. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell liave 
 three children: Kdith I-"lorence. born July 9, l8i)y: John .Mbert, born 'I'Vbriiary 9, 
 1903; Arthur (ieorge, born Dteemlier 10, 1905. Their home is at No. I Home- 
 stead avenue. 
 
 EDWARD PHILIP CROSBIE. A well-known musician ..f W.Mcester f..r sev- 
 eral years, Mr. Crosbii- lias come more prominently in the imlilic eye as .\lassach-isetts 
 olTficer of the .Xmerican I'edcralion i>f .\l\isiciaiis. an oliice he has field since lot.]. He 
 has been head of the local Union ever since its organization, and is highly-esteemed 
 among all classes of musicians. He is a son of William and Sarah Jane (l:'.rady) 
 Crosbie, l>oth born in Liverpool, England, who were the jiarcnts of ten children, four 
 of whom are living, all sons .and all nuisicians. residing in Worcester. Massachu- 
 setts, namely: Edward Philip, Thom.as James, Herbert I-'., and .\rthur \Villiam. 
 
 Edward Philip Crosbie was born in London, I'aigland, l-'ebrnary j, 1880, and there 
 attended public schools until 1892, when he beg:in work with his father, a i)ainting 
 contractor. In May, 1893, the family came to the United St.ates, locating in Worces- 
 ter, Massachusetts, where William Crosbie again established in business as a paint- 
 ing contractor. Edward P. Crosbie entere<l the emi)loy of the t.'rompton I,o(>m Works 
 of ^^'orcester, there remaining one year before transferring his services to the Whit- 
 tall Carpet Company, with whom he continued seven years. Musical talent was 
 bestowed freely upon the Croshies, the elder Crosliie being a musician and teaching 
 his art to the children as tliey began disjilaying any signs of nnisical inelimition, 
 Edw-ard P, began very early taking lessons on the cornet and even before leaving 
 En.gland had played to a London audience with his father. At the age of eight years 
 he had marched and played in parades, and all through his years of mill service he 
 had kept up his study and practice. He made his first apjiearance before a Worcester 
 audience about 1898 at a Hag raising, and since that time he has been constantly 
 engaged as a public performer. About 1902 he began giving music lessons, his 
 studio now being at No. 10 Southbridge street. He organized Crosbie's Orchestra 
 in 1897, that organization giving its initial performance at Hibernian Hall. This 
 orchestra is now inider the leadership of Arthur Willam Crosliie. Since 1911 r'.dward 
 P, Crosbie has been leader of the Family Theatre Orchestra, and in aildition has a 
 large class of private scholars. He is a member of the local Musicians Union and 
 its president; American Federation of Musicians; Catholic Order of b'oresters ; 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians: Washington Club; Knights of Cohmilnis ; Royal 
 Arcanum ; and a communicant of St. Peter's Church. 
 
 Mr. Crosbie married, in Worcester, October 17. 1906, Catherine Klizalieth Hanni- 
 gan, born in Worcester, daughter of James and ^^argarct (l''arley) Hannigan, her 
 mother livin.g in Worcester, her father dying October 10, 1918. .\lr. and Mrs. Crosbie 
 are the parents of five children: Mary Catherine, born December 6, i<;<)7 ; Edward 
 Aloysius, born June 20. iQio; William, born Novemlier 25, 1913: James and Jane 
 Margaret. 
 
 JACOB F, PENNEY, Proprietor of the Tatnuck Ice Company, .if Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1873, and there was educated in the 
 public schools. He was the son of a farmer, and the first eight years of his life, after 
 school days were over, were spent in the lumber woods. He came to Worcester in 1898, 
 and soon obtained employment with the Walker Ice Company, continuin.g with that firm 
 four years. In 1902 he took over the Tatnuck Ice Company, wiiich has develi>pcd into 
 one of the strong substantial ice companies of the city. Mr. Penney is proiirietor and 
 general manager of the company, and has long been its practical managing head. 
 In politics he is a Republican; a member of Montacutc Lodge, Free and .-Xccepted 
 Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council. Royal and .Select 
 Masters ; Worcester County Goinmandery, Knights Templar, and The Tatnuck Club. 
 
 Mr. Penney married, in Nova Scotia, Alma Veinot, and they are the parents of two 
 s<^ns, Cyril F., and Karl W. Penney. 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 NILS BJORK, Millinery merchant, one of the pioneer Swedish business men of 
 the city, was born in Rydsgord, Sweden, March 13, 1871, son of Pehr and Kierstein 
 (Nilsson) Bjork. He received his education in the public schools of his native place. 
 Very early in life he determined to go to America. He was but twelve years old 
 when he began to learn the tailor's trade, deciding for himself that a trade of this 
 kind would provide him with the means of journeying whither he pleased later in 
 life, whether he spoke the language of the country in which he lived or not. At 
 fifteen he was a journeyman tailor, and he left home to find employment in Copen- 
 hagen, Denmark, where for two or three years he worked at his trade in various 
 large stores. 
 
 He came to this country in the fall of 1888 and located on Thanksgiving Day in 
 Gardner, where he obtained his first employment in the chair factory of the Heywoods. 
 His capital in hand at that time consisted of thirty dollars that his father gave him. 
 His passage and expenses had taken all his savings. That gift of his father he 
 deposited in a savings bank and there it has remained untouched to the present time. 
 It may be said here that Mr. Bjork has never had an idle day since he began work 
 in this country. In the spring of i88g he came to Worcester and until he came 
 of age followed his trade here, being for the greater part of the time in the employ 
 of Davis & Davis, tailors. He was a skillful workman and his knowledge of Swedish 
 was of value to his employers. That asset proved useful not only when he was a 
 boy clerk, but throughout his career in business. He became the Swedish clerk in 
 the furniture store of Gately & O'Gorman, now the Atherton-Fowler Furniture Com- 
 pany, Front street. In the meantime he studied English assiduously. He took courses 
 in the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, while he 
 was in Gardner. and attended the evening schools. 
 
 His ambition to engage in business, to which all his energies, education and 
 savings had been directed, was realzed in 1898. In business partnership with his 
 wife, who was a milliner by trade, he opened a millinery store at No. 212 Main street. 
 By a curious coincidence this store was occupied previously by Kronoff, the tailor, 
 who gave to young Bjork his first job in this city. From the beginning" the 
 store proved profitable; attracting not only the trade of the Swedish women, but 
 those of all classes and races. Mrs. Bjork took charge of the designing and selling; 
 Mr. Bjork of the buying and management of the office. Within a year it was neces- 
 sary to have larger quarters and the store at No. 214 Main street was leased. Soon 
 afterward the second floors above both stores were taken and in time the entire build- 
 ing was occupied. Six enlargements were made to the store space while the firm 
 was in this building. Finally, in 1914, when the Worcester Trust Company building 
 on Franklin street was completed very attractive and spacious quarters were leased 
 there and occupied until after the Trust Company was merged with the old Worces- 
 ter Bank in 1917. The bank then required all the floor space in its building, bought 
 the lease of Mr. Bjork, and he leased the present building, formerly occupied by the 
 Putnam & Thurston restaurant and hotel, Nos. 379 to 393 Main street. Four floors 
 of the building are used for the business, which is exclusively millinery, both whole- 
 sale and retail. 
 
 The Bjork Store is the largest devoted exclusively to millinery in Massachusetts. 
 Mr. Bjork incorporated the business under the laws of Massachusetts in 1913, and 
 is president and treasurer of the company. Herman Bjork is secretary, and Hans 
 Wickstrom the third director. Mr. Bjork and his wife have made a record in busi- 
 ness of which any merchant might be proud, starting with their small savings as cap- 
 ital and extending the business year by year to its present proportions. Needless to 
 say, this success has been achieved by hard work, incessant application to business 
 and a thorough knowledge of the trade. The career of Mr. Bjork, however, is typical 
 of the Swedish man of affairs, coming without a knowledge of the English lang\iage 
 and with no assets but his trade, his vigorous constitution, ambition and natural busi- 
 ness ability. His success affords an inspiration for every penniless boy, native or 
 immigrant. 
 
 Mr. Bjork is a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce; chairman of 
 the board of trustees of the First Swedish Baptist Church : a director of the Park 
 Trust Company; and treasurer of the Skandia Credit Union, tlie largest Credit 
 Union in the United States. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Bjork married, in New York City, August 14, 1892, Hannah Elizabeth Dah- 
 lin, who was born in Falun, Sweden, a daughter of Pehr Jacob and Sarah Elizabeth 
 (Wickstrom) Dahlin. Her father died in Sweden ; her mother in this city. They 
 have no children. Their home is at No. 52 Holden street. 
 
 Pehr Bjork, father of Nils Bjork, was born in Anderslof, Sweden. For twenty- 
 seven years he was a soldier in the Swedish army. The family name implies that 
 men were soldiers, as they were, for several generations. In later years he was a 
 
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 grain dealer at Rydsgnrd. Kjcrstein (Xilss.)M) I'.j.>rk. niutlicr of Xil^. Kjiru. was 
 born at Arsjo, Sweden. Pelir Rjork died in Sweden in 191. 1; his widow aii<i daiiabter 
 Anna are living in Sweden. Nils and Herman are living in Worcester. .Xnolher 
 danghter Maria married Nils Nelson, now of I'itcldiuri,'. 
 
 JOHN FENDERSON KYES, I'ornur manager and treasurer (.f tlir Reed J-onn- 
 dry Company, retired, was born in Nortli Jay, Maine, Inbrnary 2.1. 1855, son of War- 
 ren and Mary Warren (Fenderson) Kyes. His father, a farn'ier, wa.sborn in North 
 Jay, April 4, 1822; his mother in Bn.xton, Maine, January _',!, 1825. .\lr. Kyes had five 
 sisters, all older than himself and all now deceased. The imigrant ancestor of 
 the Kyes family was Robert, one of the founders of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 
 1633. In many other lines of ancestry Mr. Kyes is descended from the early I'uritan 
 settlers of New England. Of his four Revolutionary ancestors, Elisha Jackson, of 
 Gardner, commanded a company that marched on the Ix-xington .Mann, in the little 
 red schoolhouse at North Jay Mr. Kyes began his education. Later he was a stu- 
 dent in the .Academy at Wilton, Maine, and in the Worcester jniblic scliools. He 
 entered tlie Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which Ik- was graduated m 1876 
 with the de,gree of bachelor of science. 
 
 His business career was varied. For two years he was a 'farm hand, and for 
 three years a carpenter. After .graduating from tlie institute he was principal of the 
 high school of the city of Fairibault, Minnesota, for two years; then he was con- 
 struction engineer for two years, jdanning and erecting tiour mills in .Vlinneapolis, 
 Minnesota. Returning to this city he became a partner in the firm, Kyes & Wood- 
 bury, engravers and designers, and continued in this business for a period of nine- 
 teen years. After he left this firm he spent two years on the public idatforni as a 
 lecturer. He again entered business in iq(ji as treasurer and manager of the Reed 
 Foundry Company in this city, whose plant he planned and built, and continued for 
 eleven years, retiring in May, igi2. Since then lie has not been in active business. 
 He has been a director of the Reed Foundry C'ompany (now part of the Reed Pren- 
 tice Company); of the Sanford-Putnam Company: llie Worcester 'Taxicali .Service; 
 the Worcester Collateral Loan .Association and the Reed-Prentice Cumpanv. In 
 politics he is a Republican. Durin.g two no-license years, igo8-oq, he was a license 
 commissioner of the city. Mr. Kyes has been a student of local history and genealogy, 
 and is a member of the New England Historic (jene.'ilo.gical Society and of the 
 National Geographic Society. He is a member of the First Church of Christ, of 
 this city, and was superintendent of the Sunday schonl one year, clerk of the church 
 six years, treasurer of the church ten years, and deacon fifteen years. l-"or twelve 
 years was a director of the Young Men's Christian .Association and treasurer one 
 year: treasurer and secretary of the New England Christian Missionary .Society. 
 
 Mr. Kyes married (first) in Minneapolis. Minnesota, .Seiitember .vi. 1879, Fanny 
 Louise Smyth, wdio was born in this city, died in 1882, daughter of Roliert I., and 
 Angie (Braman) Smyth. Her father, Robert Leach Smyth, was born in Portland, 
 Maine, in 1822, son of Joseph Smith, a sea captain, a descendant fr<iin Go\ern<irs 
 Winslow and Bradford, who came in the '"Mayflower"; from James Starr, a member 
 of the Boston Tea Party, his great-grandfather. He was a cabinet maker in Wilton 
 and Dixfield, Maine; was representative in the Maine Legislature; for many years 
 was partner in the firm, Smyth Brothers, of this city, manufacturers and at that 
 time largest jobbers of boots and shoes in the State outside of Boston. He died 
 here. April 14, 1880. His wife, Angie, died in 1877. Mr. Kyes married (second) in 
 this city. October 28, i888, Angie Eli?a Pearson, who was born in Wilmington, Mas- 
 sachusetts, dau.ghter of James K. and Ellen (Pierson) Pearson. Her fallu-r w:is Vmrn 
 in Wilmington; her mother died in 1895. By his second wife Mr. Kyes h;id 'hree 
 children: i. Frances, born December I, i88g, a graduate of Worcester High School, 
 1907; married, in 1915, George D. Robertson. 2. Margaret, born .\]n\\ 8, T891. a -j-rad- 
 uate of the Worcester High School. IQOQ. .^. John Fenderson. Jr., Ix.rn Drcembcr 30, 
 1897. a graduate of Worcester High School, 1914, and of t!ie Worcester P. ilMechnic 
 Institute, class of 1918. 
 
 LUKE K. DAVIS, Door-keeper of the State Senate, soldier in the Ci\il War. 
 was born at JafTray, New Hampshire, h'eliru.iry 23, 1845, son i.f James S. an<l Hannah 
 (Kendall) Davis. 
 
 He was but a year and half old when his father died, and was t.iken to l-'uch- 
 burg. Massachusetts, to the home of Benjamin Lovett. Two years later Mr. L.yett 
 died, and he was then placed in the home of Lucius .Aldridge, of Richmond, New 
 Hampshire, where he lived until he was six years old. .'\fter two years in the family 
 of A. L. Osborne, he returned to his mother, wdio had married Samuel .Saunders, and 
 located in Fitchburg, but removed two years later to this city. He received his edu- 
 
840 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 cation in the district scliools, and was but a lad when he began to learn the trade of 
 machinist in the Ames Plow Works in this city. He lacked six months of being 
 eighteen years old when he enlisted in Company C. Thirty-sixth Regiment, Massa- 
 chusetts Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Arthur Bedell and Colonel Henry Bow- 
 man. In the Civil War he took part in ten battles and was wounded at the battle of 
 Spottsylvania Court House, May 12. 1864. From that time until January i, 1865, 
 he was confined to the hospital in Washington. He then joined Company C, Ninth 
 Veteran Reserve Corps, and served to the end of the war, being mustered out May 
 29, 1865. . ^ 
 
 After the war he returned to the employ of the Ames Plow Company in this 
 city, and later became foreman of the woodworking department, continuing with 
 this concern for a period of twenty years. In 1887 Mr. Davis left the plow business 
 to accept the appointment of messenger at the State House, and he filled that posi- 
 tion until he was appointed to his present office, door-keeper of the State Senate of 
 Massachusetts, Annually since then he has been re-appointed. He has been for 
 thirty-one years in the service of the Commonwealth and is at the present time (1Q18). 
 He has in that time enjoyed the acquaintance and in many cases the personal friend- 
 ship of the leaders in public life, the legislators of the State, the State officers and 
 many men of distinction throughout the country. In politics he is a Republican, 
 though for many years his office has precluded him from taking an active part in 
 political affairs. Though his daily occupation has taken him to Boston for so many 
 years, he has lost none of the interest that he took' in earlier years in the municipal 
 affairs of the city in which he has continued to live. With one exception he has 
 known all the mayors of the city, which was incorporated in 1848. In the growth and 
 prosperity of Worcester no man has taken more interest or more pleasure. He is a 
 member of the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Mr. Davis married, in Holden, Massachusetts, Mary Jane Ruth, daughter of James 
 Ruth. She died in this city, July 7, 1913. They had six children: i. Frederick, 
 who died in infancy. 2. Luke K., Jr., now residing in Lynn, Massachusetts. 3. 
 Oscar A., car inspector in the employ of the Boston & Worcester Street Railway 
 Company. 4. Milo D. Csee biography). 5. Orlo, (see biography). 6. Willie A., now 
 '•* »his city. 
 
 MILO D. and ORLO DAVIS, twin sons of Luke K. Davis, were born in this 
 city, February 22. 1874, and both educated in the public schools here. They engaged 
 in business as furniture and piano movers with stables at the rear of No. 161 Main 
 street, and built up a substantial and profitable business. The business established 
 by the twin brothers was continued and is now owned by Mrs. Milo D. Davis and 
 conducted under the management of T. F. Cronin at the old stand, under the name of 
 the Davis Brothers Company. Orlo Davis served in the Spanish-American War. 
 He died in this city in the prime of life. 
 
 Milo D. Davis was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and Improved Order 
 of Red Men. He married, in this city, Mary H. Ryan, who was born in Vermont. 
 They had three children : Orlo E., student in the high school ; Emery M. and Royal 
 F. Mrs. Davis resides at No. 16 Kendall street in this city. Mr. Davis died in the 
 prime of life. 
 
 JAMES WILSON, Credit manager, secretary and treasurer of the Denholm & 
 McKay Company, was born in Paisley, Scotland, December 16. 1868, son of James 
 and Martha (Kelso) Wilson. James Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, April 
 13, 1845, and died in Worcester, January 27, 1896. He married Martha Kelso, who 
 was born in Paisley, August 22, 1845, now living in this city. They had five children: 
 
 I. James, of this review. 2. Jessie T. K., born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 
 
 II, 1872, died January 14, 1914; married, in Worcester, Eugene Van De Mark. 3, 
 Margaret H.. born at Cambridge, May 3, 1878, married, in Worcester, Dwight Bar- 
 rows, of Medford, Massachusetts. 4. Bessie A., born in Utica, New York. February 
 20, 1880, married Walter W. Fiske, of Worcester. 5, Annie F., born in Rockville, 
 Connecticut, June 23, 1884, married, in Worcester, Chester A. Bland, now of Detroit, 
 Michigan. 
 
 James Wilson came to this country with his parents when two years old and 
 received his education in the public schools of Rockville, Connecticut, leaving the high 
 school there at the end of his second year to begin work in his father's dry goods 
 store. He came to Worcester, July 18, 1886, and on the same day entered the employ 
 of Denholm & McKay as office boy. Afterward he became successively collector, 
 bookkeeper, cashier, paymaster, credit manager, assistant treasurer, secretary and 
 treasurer of the Denholm & McKay Company. He was elected a director of the 
 company in 1913, and from 1916 to 1918 was director, secretary and treasurer of the 
 
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 Denholm & McKay Realty Company, the corporation IioldiiiR ihc real oMalc^ otciiiiicil 
 by the Boston Store. He is at present credit manager, secretary and treasurer oi the 
 Denholm & .\[cKay Company. He was formerly director and' secretary of tin- Fi- 
 delity Mercantile Agency, the business of which was bought by the Worcester i ham- 
 ber of Commerce in 1915 and became tlic foundation of its' credit bureau. In his 
 younger days Mr. Wilson was a well-known athlete, especially in bicycle racing. In 
 1888 he won the two-inile championship of Worcester county on the high-wheel 
 bicycle; in 1892 he won the championship of Worcester c<iunty on the safety bicycle 
 and in many other bicycle races he won prizes. Mr. Wilson is not onlv prominent 
 in business circles, but is well-known as a lecturer and speaker on the subject of credit 
 and other economic topics. He is a member of the faculty of the Xorthcaslern Col- 
 lege, department of business administration and finance of the Worcester Young 
 Men's Christian Association. In politics he is a Republican, but he has never accepted 
 public office. He is a member of Worcester Council, Royal .Arcanum. He has been 
 vice-president and director of the Worcester .Association of Credit Men; vice-presi- 
 dent of the .'\ssociated Retail Credit Men of Worcester: member of the advisory 
 Board of Credit Reporting Bureau, Worcester Cluunber of Commerce; member of 
 Piedmont Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Wilson married, in this city, April 19, 1894, Mary E. Winn, who was born 
 here December 12, 1870, daughter of Henry A. and Ellen (Medvillc) Winn. Her 
 father was born in Grafton, July 12, 1845; enlisted in Company C, Fifty-first Regi- 
 ment, Massachusetts Infantry, August 15, 1862, and was discharged July 27, 1863; 
 re-enlisted August 9, 1864. in Comi)any F, Fourth Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, 
 and was discharged June 17. 1865; was commander of (George H. Ward I'ost. N'o. 
 10, Grand .^.rmy of the Republic, 1914 and loi.s. Her mother was born in i^IilUiury, 
 February 6, 1849. M""- ^'"l ^'rs. Wilson have no children. Their hcpme is at Xo. i 
 Lucian street in this city. 
 
 RALPH BURRILL JACOBS. As manager of The Hcnley-Kimball Company, 
 agents for Hudson and Esse.x cars, Worcester. Mr. Jacobs occupies a position in the 
 automobile trade to whicli he has won his way in a comparatively short time, for he is 
 one of the young men of the business. He is a son of Harry Winfred Jacobs, a chief 
 clerk of the Boston & .Albany Railroad Company in Boston, and a descendant of that 
 Nicholas Jacob who is thus recorded in the Cushing Manuscript: "Nicholas Jacob 
 with his wife and two children and their cousin, Tliomas Lincoln, weaver, came from 
 Old Hingham (England), and settled in this Hingham 1633." He left a widow Mary, 
 several daughters, and two sons John, born in England, and Joseph, born in Hing- 
 ham, Massachusetts. The name Jacolis is found in England as early as the fifteenth 
 century, the ancient arms of the family being thus described: 
 
 Arms — A chevron s-ules between three wolves' heads erased proper. 
 Crest — A wolf prissaiit proper. 
 
 Harry Winfred Jacobs, of this ancient Hingham family, one of the first twelve 
 to settle in the town, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts. .August 2r, 1868, and is 
 now residing in Boston, a chief clerk of the Boston & .Mbany Railroad Company. 
 He married Helena Marie Conant. born in Cliftondale, Massachusetts, March 13, 
 1870, a descendant in direct line from Roger Conant, who although not universally 
 recognized as the first governor of Massachusetts is fairly entitled to that honor^ for 
 the colony of which he was the head (The Dorchester Company Colony at Cape 
 Ann), was the first permanent settlement in the Massachusetts Bay territory. He 
 came to the Plymouth Colony in 1623, but owing to religious difTerences he followed 
 Rev. John Lyford to N'antas'ket (Hull). In 1625 he was chosen by the D(jrchester 
 Company to govern their colony at Cape Ann. .-Xfter a year at the Cape he moved 
 with those colonists to Naumkeag, later called Salem, his house the first one built 
 in Salem. Roger Conant was a grandson of John Conant. of East Budleigh, Devon- 
 shire, England, and a descendant of that ancient Conant family wliich has existed in 
 England for more than si.x centuries. No less than thirty-two forms of spelling the 
 surname have been found in the records. The name is derived from the Celtic Conan, 
 meaning chief or leader, and Conan and Conon is found at a very early period among 
 the various tribes of Celtic origin including the Britons, Welsh, Irish, Goels and 
 Bretons. Harry W. and Helena Marie (Conant) Jacobs were the parents of four 
 children, all now living: Ralph Burrill, whose career is reviewed at length; Harold 
 D., a salesman of Boston, Massachusetts ; Helena M., married Glen Crandall, a gov- 
 ernment inspector at Springfield, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of a daugh- 
 ter, Claire; Alice D., residing with her parents in Boston. 
 
842 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Ralph Burrill Jacobs was born in Roxluiry, Massachusetts, October 3, 1888, Dor- 
 chester, Massachusetts, becoming the family home a few months later. He was edu- 
 cated in the public schools of Dorchester, finishing with high school graduation, class 
 of 1903. After graduation he took a secretarial position with William Filene Sons 
 Company of Boston and there spent one year. His next position was as salesman 
 with the T. B. Jeffrey Automobile Company of Boston, spending two years with that 
 company. He was for brief periods engaged in the same capacity with two other 
 Boston automobile houses, continuing until 1916, when he came to Worcester as man- 
 ager of The Henley-Kimball Company, Worcester agents for Hudson and Essex cars. 
 He is highly regarded by the company he serves and very popular with his business 
 associates. His business record as salesman and manager is one of high efficiency, 
 and the future holds for him brilliant promise. He is a member of the Worcester 
 Country Club, Commonwealth Club, Kiwanis Club, Pistol and Rifle Club, and the 
 Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 Mr. Jacobs married at Stafford Springs, Connecticut, November 25, 1909, Mary 
 Mitchell, born in Aberdeen. Scotland, February 12, 1886. She came to the United 
 States in 1898 with her parents, who are now residing at Montpelier, Vermont, where 
 her father, James Mitchell, is a pattern maker. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs are the parents 
 of two children: Barbara Mitchell, born November 28, 1910; and Marjorie, July 
 22, 1917. 
 
 MORRIS SHELDON WRIGHT, Manufacturer and prominent citizen, to whom' 
 this narrative in part refers, is president of the Wright & Sons Company, the M. S. 
 Wright Company and the Pneuvac Company, all of this city. These well-known 
 companies and their products have carried the name of Worcester to far-reaching 
 ends of the world, and much credit is due the leading spirit of these Wright indus- 
 tries and as a record in this work, it is well-deserving. 
 
 Mr. Wright came from pioneer stock, (Reference, Wright genealogy). His grand- 
 father, Henry Wright, was born in the early part of 1800 near Batavia, New ^ork, 
 married Abigail Childs, and had thirteen children amongst whom was Octavius 
 Augustus. He left New York State about 1845. and went to Emerald Grove, Wiscon- 
 sin and there followed the occupation of a farmer. 
 
 Octavius Augustus Wright, father of Alorris Sheldon Wright, was born Novem- 
 ber 10, 1830. in Batavia. New York. He married. 1856. at Emerald Grove, Margaret, 
 daughter of Samuel Harlow, descendant of William Harlow, who came wiili the 
 pioneers to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Samuel Harlow was an inventor of decided 
 talent, a blacksmith and locksmith, and previous to 1859 he left Sacketts Harbor, New 
 York, where he had lived a number of years, and went to Emerald Grove, Wisconsin, 
 where he became the leading mechanic of the section as well as a manufacturer, 
 active in public affairs, chairman of the school committee, successful in business, 
 a sturdy, upright and honored citizen. He erected a Congregational church there and 
 gave it to the parish in which he belonged. Octavius Augustus Wright became a 
 successful carpenter and builder at Jamesville, Wisconsin, near Emerald Grove. To 
 him and Margaret (Harlow) Wright were born the following children : Frank H., 
 Morris S.. of whom further; Bertha and Charles S. 
 
 Morris Sheldon Wright was born June 11, 1859, at Emerald Grove, attended the 
 public school at Appleton, Wisconsin, came to Worcester. Massachusetts, August 
 28, 1878. and here he found employment in the shops of the Carpenter Organ Company. 
 At first he did the humble work of an apprentice in the action department, and in nine 
 months acquired such knowledge that he was made a foreman. He remained with 
 this concern five years, removing to Foxcroft, Maine, in 1883, where the business 
 was taken, and to Brattleborough, Vermont, the following year, becoming superin- 
 tendent and filling that position during the last two years with this company. 
 
 He returned to Worcester in 1886 to take charge of the action department of 
 the Vocalion Organ Company, and when the concern failed in 1887 he was appointed 
 keeper, having charge for nine months. When the business was re-organized as the 
 Mason & Risch Vocalion Organ Company, he became superintendent and continued 
 for nine years unfil 1898, when the company was absorbed by the .'\eolian Company of 
 New York, Mr. Wright being in charge of the Worcester branch for the ne.xt five 
 years in the new building erected under his supervision. He was constantly making 
 improvements in the construction of organs and other musical instruments up to this 
 time and received fourteen patents with five others then pending. Many of his patents 
 are in use by all the organ manufacturers at the present time. When he left the 
 Aeolian Company, his patent on metal piano players was contested by that concern, 
 but he finally won the suit. He was the pioneer manufacturer of piano players in 
 1893. In that year he constructed a player controlled by perforated paper sheets, and 
 in about three months perfected his system of pneumatic operation of musical instru- 
 
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 meats on which he received a number of patents. He ccmtractcd for llie maniifariure 
 of the piano player with the Farrand Company of Detroit. Michigan, and tliis concern 
 still makes the metal action players known as the Cccilian, an excellent instrument for 
 damp climates. He constructed the Aeolian Orchestrelle, designed to imitate a full 
 orchestra, while with the Aeolian Company, and this wonderful meclianism found a 
 market in all parts of the world at a cost of from fifteen hundred to five thousand 
 dollars each. In the spring of 1906 Mr. Wright began another series of experiments 
 in the hardware used in piano players and was granted several i)atents. To meet 
 the demand for piano i)layers and parts under his inventions, lie decided to maiuifac- 
 ture them on his own account and in a room forty feet sijuare at Xo. 3.4 Soutidirid.ge 
 street, Worcester, began business. In iyo6 his plant was destroyed by fire. He then 
 located at No. 49 Hcrmon street, having five thnu^and s(|uare feet of space. .At first 
 his only help was his son Henry H.. but it was n.n long before he liad forty hands 
 at work in his shop. .Soon afterward he nivented a vacuum cleaner, and in the spring 
 of 1908 began to manufacture it. 
 
 In igog the business was incorporated under the name of the M. .S. Wright Com- 
 pany, of wdiich he has since been president; his son, Henry Harlow Wright, treasurer, 
 and another son, Clifford L. Wright, clerk. In the spring of that year the business 
 was removed to No. 51 Jackson street, where twenty-eight thousand square feet were 
 rented, and within a year the space was doubled, tlie business occupyinig a four-story 
 building. At present the company employs about five hundred hands. Seven styles of 
 vacuum cleaners are made and more than five Innidred thousand have been manufac- 
 tured and sold through the Pncuvac Company of Boston. The market for the cleaners 
 has been found not only in all jiarts of this country but in Canada, Mexico, New Zea- 
 land, Australia, Brazil, England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Russia, 
 Norway, Sweden, Austria, Hungary and the Transvaal. The first year's busmess in 
 1908 amounted to $13,000 and since has grown in volume t'l amazing amounts, and in 
 the past year, igi8, the output was about $1,000,000. This company makes the well 
 known "Sweeper-Vac" which is operated both by hand and electric. 
 
 In the spring of X914 the company, began making metal piano player actions and 
 the newly-devised automatic pipe organ actions under Mr. Wright's patents. Among 
 the most valuable patents are the following: Organ-stop action; device for leach- 
 ing music on keyed instruments ; reed organ ; reed board ; pneumatic piano-player ; 
 pneumatic action for organs; tone-sheet regulating device; organ sole pneumatic 
 action; folding pedal on piano player; spring valves for pneumatic action; machine 
 for making pneumatic diaphragm; enclosing case for automatic music rolls; primary 
 action for piano-players ; pneumatic action for musical instruments ; metal pneu- 
 matic actions for pianos; imiiroved metal pneumatic action for musical instruments. 
 He has patents in the United States as well as in practically all foreign countries. 
 His inventions are the result of constant experimentation. He has a wide artpiaint- 
 ance among manufacturers of musical instruments, many of whom have brought their 
 prolilems to him for solution. 
 
 Mr. Wright is a director in the Mechanics' National Bank, and Worcester Cham- 
 ber of Commerce; member of the National Metal Trades Association; National Man- 
 ufacturers' Association; Congregational Club; Economic Club; Piedmont Brother- 
 hood and the Young Men's Christian .Association. He is a deacon of Piedmont Con- 
 gregational Church ; chairman of its board of assessors and of the organ committee, 
 and formerly member of the music committee. 
 
 Mr. Wright married Ella M., daughter of Joseph E. and Lucy (Drury) 
 Drury ; descendant of Hugh Drury, who was one of the pioneers of Sud- 
 bury, Massachusetts; of Captain John Drury, who served in King Philip's War; of 
 Captain Thomas Drury, the fi'rst deputy to the General Court from Framingham ; of 
 Moses Drury, of the sixth generation, who served in the Revolutionary War. Her 
 father was one of the leading builders and contractors of this city, and was one of 
 the founders of Piedmont Church. Children : i. Henry H., born November 20, 1883, at 
 Foxcroft. Maine, educated in the public and South High schools of Worcester, and 
 afterward attended a business college; he began his business career with his father 
 and in time was made treasurer of the Wright Companies, in which he has laken a 
 verv active and responsible part; married, February 24, 1910. Gertrude, daughter of 
 the Rev. Thomas E. Babb. of Holden, Massachusetts. _'. Alice M.. born b'ebruary 19, 
 1885, at Brattleborough, Vermont; educated in the public and South High sciiools 
 of Worcester, and Lasell Seminary; married. .April 2, 1914, Ernest M., son of John 
 Watson, of Providence, Rhode Island, graduate of the Cranston High school and 
 president of his class; graduate of Brown University (Ph.B. 190;; M. .A. igog) and 
 of Johns Hopkins (M. D. 1913) ; interne at Ancon Hospital at Panama for six months, 
 and at Massachusetts General Hospital for fifteen months; author of many papers on 
 medical and scientific subjects ; practising at Buffalo. New York, and is a member of 
 
844 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 the faculty of the Medical School at the University of Buffalo; issue: Beverly. 
 
 3. Clifford L., born July 22, 1888, in Worcester, Massachusetts ; educated in the pub- 
 lic and South High schools of Worcester, Worcester Academy, and at a business col- 
 lege ; now manager of the sales and credit departments of the Wright Companies ; 
 married, June 19, 1912, Blanche M., daughter of Dr. Melvin G. Overlock. of Maine. 
 
 4. Clayton M., born August 15, 1890, in Worcester; educated in the public and South 
 High schools of Worcester and at a business college; now superintendent of the 
 Wright Companies ; married. May 23, 1914, Alice M., daughter of John L. Rodgers, 
 of St. Louis and Baltimore ; issue : Shirley Virginia. 5. Elvin Stanley, born Jan- 
 uary 14, 1893, in Worcester ; educated in the public and South High schools of Worces- 
 ter and the Massachusetts .'Vgricultural College, B. A. ; now in the Wright Companies 
 as chief of the cost department; enlisted August 17, 1917, in the Naval Reserves of 
 the United States Navy; in January, 1918, he was transferred to the Nava! Air 
 Service as an observer and went into overseas duty and flew for nine months on 
 anti submarine patrol work and night homing. 6. Helen Mildred, born June t2, 1894, 
 at Worcester; educated in the public and South High schools of Worcester ?nd at 
 Simmons College ; married Clifford W., son of Charles W. Kennedy, of New Haven, 
 Connecticut. 7. Frances Ella, born August 2, 1896, in Worcester; educated in the 
 public and South High schools of Worcester, Lasell Seminary, and the Worcester Art 
 School. 8. Gertrude Lucy, born August 26. 1898, in Worcester ; educated in the 
 Worcester public and South High schools and Worcester Art School. 
 
 OLNEY DRAPER PHELPS, M. D.— In 1907, with all the dignity a newly-ac- 
 quired medical degree confers upon its owner. Dr. Phelps came to the city of Worces- 
 ter, Massachusetts, and began his professional career. The years have brought him the 
 rewards of that profession, and he has gained a leading position in public confidence 
 and esteem. He came rightly by his natural inclination for medicine, his father, a 
 graduate M. D. (^1877). being yet a practicing physician of Warren, Massachusetts, his 
 mother, Mary Draper Phelps, matron of Vermont Asylum, and his uncle. Dr. Joseph 
 Draper, chief physician at that institution. Dr. Phelps is a lineal descendant of Wil- 
 liam Phelps, who sailed in the ship "Mary and John" from Plymouth, England, in 1630, 
 and landed at Nantucket, now Hull, Massachusetts, May 30, of that year. The colony 
 with which he came had organized a church, prior to leaving England, selected a 
 tninister, and upon arrival at once settled in a body in Dorchester, Massachusetts, gain- 
 ing the distinction of being the first colony in New England to form a town govern- 
 ment. William Phelps was an important man in that town, and was a member of the jury 
 on the first jury trial in New England, November 9, 1630. He was a deputy to the 
 General Court in 1634-35, later moving to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was one 
 of si.x who formed the first town meeting ever held there. There, too, he became 
 prominent, being governor of Windsor Colony in 1641, deputy in 1651, and magistrate 
 1630-1643, 1645-1649, 1656-1662. He was a man of property, judging from the pew 
 rent he paid. He died at Windsor, July 14, and was buried July 15, 1672. He had 
 sons, from whom sprang a numerous family distinguished in the professions, in civil 
 life and in the business world. One of these descendants of William Phelps, the 
 American ancestor, was Captain Bissell Phelps, born in Hebron, Connecticut, Feb- 
 ruary 16, 1754, who during the Revolutionary War served as an officer under Lafayette. 
 Later he became one of the first settlers of Waitsfield, Vermont, serving that town as 
 selectman and treasurer, 1801-1808. He was the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Olney 
 Draper Phelps. 
 
 Dr. Olney Draper Phelps is a son of Dr. Olney Windsor and Mary (Draper) 
 Phelps, and a grandson of Alexander Steel and Laura (Waterman Phelps. Dr. Olney 
 W. Phelps who was born in Waitsfield, Vermont, February 11, 1848. He is a graduate 
 of Dartmouth College, Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine, taking the latter 
 degree at graduation, 1877. While assistant physician under Dr. Joseph Draper, he 
 married Mary Draper, the doctor's sister, who was then matron of the institution. Dr. 
 Phelps located in Brattleboro, Vermont, where his son, Olney D. Phelps, was born, and 
 later he located in Warren, Massachusetts, where he is still in practice. Mary Draper 
 is a daughter of Ira Draper, born June 11, 1815. died August 24, 1882, a highly-esteemed 
 resident of the town of Warwick, Massachusetts, where he was born, held many town 
 offices and served as Representative in the .State Legislature, 1847-1848. He married 
 Emily Ball, and their only son. Dr. Joseph Draper, born February 16, 1834, served as 
 physician to Vermont Asylum for the Insane, 1859-1865 ; Worcester Lunatic Asylum, 
 1865-1870, as associate and assistant to Dr. John Merrick Bemis ; 1870-1873, assistant at 
 the New Hospital for the Insane at Trenton ; recalled to Vermont Asylum in 1873, 
 as superintendent, and there served as superintendent until his death, March 17, 1893. 
 
 Dr. Olney Draper Phelps, son of Dr. Olney Windsor and Mary (Draper) Phelps, 
 was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, January 22, 1881. He was educated in the public 
 
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 schools of Bellows Falls. \'criiiont. ami Warren. Massaclnisetts. linislimK his pni.ira- 
 tory studies with graduation froni Warren Hish School, class of i(>oo lie then 
 entered Dartmouth College, whence he was Rraduated Bachelor of Art^ class of i>m 
 foUowuig this with study m the medical department of the same colieRe lie com- 
 pleted the full course oi medical study, and in i<)o; was graduated with the degree 
 of Doctor of Medicme. Immediately after graduation, he located in Worcester. Masva- 
 chusctts, serving St. Vincent Hospital as interne until the fall of i(jo8. when he was 
 appointed police amhulancc surgeon, a position he held for two ve;irs. in c.nnectir.n 
 however, with an office of his own. During that period he hegan the study of his 
 specialty, genito-urmary diseases, under the preceptorsliip of Dr. John 11. Ouiinmg- 
 ham, Jr., of Boston. Since lyio he lias heen attached to the staffs uf Mem.rrial 
 Worcester City and Holdcn hospitals. He is a memher of the .Xmerican L'n. logical' 
 Society; New England Society of Dermatology and Svphilis; .American .Medical 
 Association, and Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 During the winter of 1^15-1916, Dr. Phcl|)s' attended Worcester Military Training 
 School. He is a Republican in politics, a memher of Plvmouth Congregational Church, 
 and finds his recreation in motoring and photographv. His ofTice is at \o. 452 Main 
 street, \\ orcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 EDWIN STEARNS CLARKE, who for more llian thirtv vears has been respon- 
 sibly connected with a well-known Worcester hardware linn, that now trading as 
 tlie W. H. Willard Company, of which corporation Mr. ClarUe is now president, 
 treasurer and general manager, was born in the city on July 16. 186.', the son of Hiram 
 and Virginia M. (Wakefield) Clarke, both now deceased'. Hiram Clarke was born 
 July 2, 1832, and died in Worcester in 1910. He came to Worcester at the age of 
 twenty-five years, and for more than forty years, until he had reached the age of 
 sixty-seven years, was well occupied in technical capacities. He was a stationary 
 engineer in Worcester until his retirement in his si.xly-seveiith vear, and was a much 
 respected citizen. His wife, whom he married in 185;, was \'i"rginia M. Wakefield; 
 she was born at Richmond. Virginia, on June 25, i8.;4. and her demise occurred at 
 Worcester, in 1898. They had two children: Edwin Stearns, of further mention; 
 Fannie D., who married Laurence G. BigeUnv. of Worcester, where slie still has 
 residence. 
 
 Edwin Stearns Clarke was educated in tlie common schools and at Hinman's 
 Business College, Worcester, and at the age of twenty years he, then well-equipped 
 theoretically for a successful career in business, entered the store of E. M. Woo<l & 
 Company, and his connection with that firm, through its various changes ot desig- 
 nation, has continued to the present, to liis advantage and much to the advantage 
 of the company which has substantially developed its business during the period of his 
 participation in its management. The hardware business now conducted by the W. 
 H. Willard Company was first established in 1861. under the trading name of White 
 & Conant. In 1869 Edward M. Wood came to Worcester and entered the employ of 
 White & Conant for the purpose of learning the hardware trade. He continued in 
 their employ until 1872, in wliich year the White & Conant business was trans- 
 ferred to a new block on Main street. Mr. Wood, however, resolved to remain at 
 the old location, and tliere conduct a hardware business inde])cndently, or in partner- 
 ship. The latter mode of trading was the one eventually eftected. his partner being 
 David Brown. The partnership took the firm name of Brown & Wood, and as such 
 the store was conducted until 1879, when Mr. Wood purchased the interest in the 
 business of David Brown, the re-arrangement occasioning the change in trading name 
 to that of E. M. Wood & Company. The business was thus constituted when Edwin 
 Stearns Clarke became associated with it. as an employee, in 1882. Two years 
 later, in 1884, Warren H. Willard secured the interest of Mr, Wood in the business, 
 and thereafter conducted it, retaining Mr. Clarke in responsible executive capacity. 
 In its subsequent development Mr. Clarke may be considered to have had appreciable 
 part, which part was duly recognized by his employer. Eventually, in 1903, the 
 increasing volume of business done by the company decided its principals to avail 
 themselves of the added facilities for expansion possible under corporate powers, 
 and having secured certfiicate of incorporation the firm took corporate existence as 
 the W. H. Willard Company, with W. H. Willard, president and treasurer, and E. S. 
 Clarke, manager. For many years prior to the retirement of Mr. Willard. in 1913, 
 the burden of the direction of the business rested mainly upon the shoulders of Mr. 
 Clarke. In 1913, when Mr. Willard definitely retired from all active participation in 
 the business and removed to Pasadena, California. Mr. Clarke became treasurer of 
 the corporation, as well as general manager, and in this year, 1917, the total sever- 
 ance by Mr. Willard of his connection with the firm caused Mr. Clarke to become its 
 president, treasurer, and manager, in fact its main owner. 
 
846 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Clarke is a man of strong personality, and with all generous and broad- 
 minded. He takes much interest in the growth of Worcester, and is generally recog- 
 nized as in good place among the leading business men of the city. He finds much 
 pleasure in the recollection that he was able to induce his father to spend the last 
 years of his life in comfortable retirement. 
 
 Politically Mr. Clarke is a Republican, but has not had time to take active part 
 in national affairs of that party. However, in the local government, he was for some 
 years prominent; for five years, 1901-05, he was a member of the Common Council 
 of Worcester, and in other ways has manifested his interest in the affairs of the city. 
 He is an active member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and of the Old 
 Merchants' Club. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, affiliated with Central Lodge of 
 Worcester; and he has many connections with the Masonic orders, being identified 
 with the Atherton Blue Lodge, the Eureka Chapter, Worcester County Commandery, 
 Scottish Rite Masons. Militarily Mr. Clarke has been a member of Company C, of 
 the Second Regiment of the Massachusetts National Guard. 
 
 Mr. Clarke did not marry until 1908, on August 18th of which year his marriage 
 to Stella M. Perkins, of Hartland, Vermont, was solemnized. 
 
 FREEMAN MICHAEL SALTUS— As a leader of the labor movement, with 
 which he has been connected for twenty-five years. Freeman M. Saltus has become well- 
 known among the leaders, his connection with the press aiding him materially in the 
 work to which he is devoted. In igo6 he established the "Labor News" in Worces- 
 ter, a paper which has been a great force for good in the cotnmunity. He is a born 
 optimist, always working for a better day for all, and in his business a success. He 
 is a son of Freeman Saltus, born in Burlington, Massachusetts, June $, 1841, who for 
 fifty-six years was an employe of the Central Vermont Railroad, beginning at the 
 age of twenty-one years as brakeman. Later he became a conductor, then, until his 
 retirement, in charge of the railroad yards at Burlington. Freeman was one of the 
 twenty-one children of Anthony Saltus (originally Salway) who came from Var- 
 renes, Province of Quebec, Canada, to Vermont, in 1830. But three of these twenty- 
 one children are now living: William, Xazarus and F'reepian M., of further mention. 
 The family came to Canada from Scotland. Freeman Saltus married Victoria Fournier, 
 born in Burlington, Massachusetts, who died in February, 1890, aged forty-six. 
 
 Freeman M. Saltus, son of FVeeman and Victoria (Fournier) Saltus, was born in 
 Burlington, Massachusetts, November 13, 1866, and there spent the first thirty-four 
 years of his life. He was educated in the parochial schools and later, in business col- 
 lege, completed his years of school life.' He early became a wage earner, beginning as 
 a boy in a department store, and later spent three years in the lumber business as an 
 employe. In 1882, when but sixteen years of age, he started the Burlington "Free 
 Press," which he successfully conducted until 1889, when he succeeded to his mother's 
 grocery business, and sold the paper. He remained in the grocery business three 
 years, then became New England agent for the "International Monthly," continuing in 
 that position two years. He then returned to the printer's business, settling in Spring- 
 field, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1903. In that year he inoved to Worces- 
 ter, and for three years worked on the "Telegram." In 1906 he organized the News 
 Publishing Company and began the publication of the "Labor News," his brother, Fred 
 L. Saltus, his partner and associate editor. While publishing is his business, Mr. 
 Saltus' deep interest is in the labor movement, and to it he has given his best thought, 
 and to it has devoted his life and his talents. His position as editor of the "News" 
 gives splendid opportunity to study and comprehend the movement as concerns the 
 country-at-large, and from the high view-point he forms those broad opinions of the 
 conditions and needs which distinguish him. He was chosen by Governor Draper as a 
 member of the Homestead Commission, and there he was able to voice his vievvs and 
 plans for bettering conditions by increasing the number of home owners. 
 
 Mr. Saltus is a member of the Twentieth Century Club, Worcester Publicity Asso- 
 ciation, Worcester Press Club, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Fraternal Order of 
 Orioles, Benevolent Order of Buffalo, Notre Dame Branch of Artisans, Wage Earners 
 Club, Court Mt. Tom, Foresters of America; Worcester Merchants' Association, 
 Worcester Typographical Union, delegate to Worcester Central Labor Union, and its 
 president in 1905; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Holy Name Society, and 
 in politics an Independent Democrat. He is an original thinker, has the courage of 
 his convictions, and wields a wide influence for good, both personally and through his 
 paper. He was the Independent Democratic candidate for Representative at one time, 
 and has always taken an active part in the city campaigns. 
 
 Mr. Saltus married, in Burlington, Massachusetts, September 18, 1888, Melbina 
 Mary Beaulieu, born in the Province of Quebec, daughter of Louis and Adele (Pothier) 
 Beaulieu, her parents now residing in Worcester, her father a retired baker. Mr. and 
 
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 Mrs. Saltiis arc parents of foil, .wing children: Albert. Patrick. Delia Vi.tcria \iru.ria 
 Marguerite, Urban Freeman. Rebecca Dora. Amasc Wilbnrn. Pauline Wallace Cecile 
 Antia, Louis De Goesbnaiul, Lillian Alexandra, luelvn lilaiuhi', .Mlrcd Arthur Helen 
 Vivian, Samuel Gonipers, and Louis D., who died at the age ol" tour years. When a 
 candidate for the Legislature, Mr. Saltus used as a campaign document, a group pic- 
 ture of himself and wife, surrounded by thirteen 01 their splendid children. 
 
 SAMUEL BAYARD WOODWARD, M. D., I'irst supernitendent ..f the Massa- 
 chusetts State Lunatic Hospital, of \\'<n-eester. was born in Torringford. Connecticut, 
 June 10, 1787, son of Dr. Samuel and Mary (Griswold) Woodward. His father was 
 a student in Yale College when the Revolution broke out; Yale College was broken 
 up in 1779, owing to raids by the British on the coast towns. He studied medicine, 
 and practised at Torringford the rest of his life; for twenty years he served in the 
 State Legislature, where as the oldest member lie was long known as the "falb.er of 
 the house," and in 1800 and for ten years later was the nominee of the r:)emocratic 
 party for Congress. Mary (Griswold) Woodward was a daughter of Captain Shubael 
 Griswold, an officer in the French and Indian War; one brother was a State Senator 
 .many years; another was Governor of Michigan and United Stales Senator from Ohio. 
 
 Captain Israel Woodward, father of Dr. Samuel Woodward, was born at Lebanon, 
 Connecticut, settled in Watertown, Connecticut; was captain of a trainband. His 
 father, John Woodward, was a prominent man in Lebanon; selectman many years; 
 deputy to the General Assembly: justice of the peace and deacon. John Woodward 
 was a son of John Woodward, of Northampton, and grandson of Henry Woodward, 
 the first settler, who came from Lancashire, England, in 1635, settled iii Dorchester, 
 and later was one of the original settlers of Northampton. rhr)mas Woodward, 
 father of Henry Woodward, never caine to America. 
 
 Samuel Bayard Woodward was one of four brothiTs who studied medicine under 
 the instruction of their father. In i8og he was licensed to practice, and after a year 
 with his father located in Wethcrsfield, Connecticut, remaining there until he came 
 to this town in 1832. In 1822 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine 
 from Y'ale. He was instrumental in founding the Retreat for the Insane in Hartford, 
 and while working on this project traveled in his gig over tlie wdiole State of Connecti- 
 cut. From 1827 to 1832 he was physician to the Connecticut State Prison. Dr. Wood- 
 ward was appointed superintendent of the Massachusetts .State Lunatic Hospital, es- 
 tablished in W'orcester for the care of the criminal and pauper insane through the 
 unceasing exertions of Dorothea Dix and Horace Mann, and he held this position froin 
 December, 1832. to June, 1846. He made the institution a model of its kind. In 1846 
 the trustees said in their report: "The success of the hospital is due to the profes- 
 sional skill, persona! address and energy, conscientious fidelity and pure ardent philan- 
 thropy of Dr. Woodward." In accepting his resignation they added ; "We feel that 
 we are bound to bear our unqualified testimony tO' the justice of your claims to be 
 recognized and remembered as one of the most distinguished benefactors of the Com- 
 monwealth." After resigning, he retired to a beautiful estate in Northampton, where 
 he received a few private patients, but he never recovered his health. He died January 
 3, 1850. 
 
 Honorable Stephen Salisbury describes Dr. W'oodward's personal appearance and 
 character as follows: "His person was a rare model of strength and manly beauty. 
 On his brow sat courtesy and command in entire harmony, and it is no exaggeration 
 to say that his form and carriage were majestic. His stature was six feet, four inches, 
 and without the deformity of obesity, his weight was 260 pounds. His temi)or was 
 benevolent, liberal, sanguine, decided and persevering. He understood readily the 
 character of men, had great power over their feelings, and easily gained their confidence 
 and love. His mind was of a practical character." 
 
 While in Connecticut Dr. Woodward was secretary of the Connecticut Medical 
 Society, and one of the examiners of the Medical College at New Haven. He was a 
 fellow' of the Albany Medical College; first president of the Association of Insane 
 Asylum Superintendents and one of its founders; member of the Ohio State Medical 
 Society and the Ohio Historical Society. He wrote extensively for medical and scien- 
 tific journals. He served in the Connecticut State Senate from Hartford district in 
 1832. 
 
 Dr. Woodward married, in 1815, Maria Porter, of Hadley, Massachusetts, a de- 
 scendant of the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards; she died in this town October to, 
 1873. Children born at Wethersfield : i. Charles S., born April 17, 1816. 2. Urania B., 
 born June 16, 1817, died October 7, 1857. 3. Rufus, born October 3, i8lfl. 4- Stanley 
 Griswold, born June s, 1821. 6. Henry, born September 2, 1822 (see biography). 
 -. Samuel, born January II, 182s (see biography). 8. Maria Porter, born August 3, 
 -S26. 9. Edwin, born June 9, 1828, died in 1829. 10. Catherine Todd, born March 30, 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 1831, died in 1849. 11. Edwin Porter, born July 16, 1832; served in the Fifteenth 
 Regiment in the Civil War ; a druggist in this city after the war, in partnership with 
 David Scott, and later a broker in New York City ; spent his last years at Summit, 
 New Jersey; married Helen M. Musgrave. 12. Algernon Sidney, born June 6, 1835, 
 died in February, 1836. 
 
 HENRY WOODWARD, Artist, treasurer of the Mechanics' Savings Bank of this 
 city for forty-nine years, was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, September 2. 1822, 
 son of Dr. Samuel Bayard and Maria (Porter) Woodward. He attended the public 
 schools here and when he was in the high school he was allowed by his father to 
 choose between a college education and the study of art. He chose art and developed 
 fine natural gifts under good masters. Throughout his life he continued to paint, to 
 study and his pictures were frequently exhibited. But he was a banker and his time 
 for painting was limited. He was one of the organizers of the Worcester Art Students' 
 Club, and was its president, always keenly interested in its work and welfare. When 
 a young man he taught drawing and painting at the College of the Holy Cross, and 
 at one time had a studio in the business section. But his studio for most of his life 
 was at his home, No. 43 West street, where he devoted all the hours not claimed by 
 business and other duties to painting. He loved nature, and many of the pictures in 
 which he excelled were landscapes. His portraits were also extremely good. His 
 business career began early. He worked for a time as clerk in the dry goods store 
 of Henry Pettis in Boston, but after a few years he returned to this city to accept the 
 office of secretary to his father, who was superintendent of the Worcester Insane Hos- 
 pital. A few years later he entered the Worcester Mechanics' Savings Bank and in a 
 short time won promotion to the office of treasurer in 1854, continuing for almost half 
 a century. He was a member of the Worcester Horticultural Society and the Wor- 
 cester Agricultural Society. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the 
 Church of the Unity. 
 
 He married (first) in May, 1853, Mary Hunt, born in Milford, died here, January 
 24, 1872, daughter of Eben and Mary (Abbey) Hunt. He married (second) Amelia 
 (Gerry) Wells, of Boston, December 21, 1875, widow of Benjamin Wells, of Boston. 
 Children by first wife : Henry, died yoimg ; Catherine Burns, died young : Alice Hunt; 
 Maria Phillips'; Harry Andrews, president of the Chapin National Bank, of Spring- 
 field; Norman Porter, salesman, Boston; Mary Hunt, kindergartner. 
 
 SAMUEL WOODWARD, Merchant, was born at Wethersfield. Connecticut, 
 January 11, 1825, son of Dr. Samuel Bayard and Maria (Porter) Woodward. He 
 came to this town with his father in 1832, attended the schools here, and began his 
 career as clerk in the post office, and a year later became clerk in the hardware store 
 of Kinnicutt & Rice. He became a member of the firm in 1847, when he was but 
 twenty-one years old, and was for forty years the managing partner under the name of 
 Kinnicutt & Company. He served for a number of years as a director of the Citizens 
 Bank and of the Worcester Gas Light Company. He was one of the original free 
 sinking fund commissioners and served on the board until his death. 
 
 Mr. Woodward married, September 14, 1852, Lucy E. R. Treadwell, of Ipswich. 
 Child: Samuel B., born August 24, 1853 (see biography). Mr. Woodward died in 
 March, 1857. 
 
 SAMUEL BAYARD WOODWARD, M. D., Son of Samuel Woodward, is a 
 leading physician and banker. He was born in Worcester, August 24, 1853. He grad- 
 uated from the high school in 1870, entered Harvard College in the same year, and 
 graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1874. He graduated from the 
 Harvard Medical School in 1878, served as interne in the Boston City Hospital for 
 eighteen months, and then went abroad for further study. For three months he was 
 an interne at the Rotunda Hospital, in Dublin, Ireland, and afterwards spent two 
 years in study in Germany, Austria and France. Since 1881 he has been in general 
 practice in this city. He has been visiting and consulting surgeon of the Memorial 
 Hospital, of the City Hospital and of St. Vincent's Hospital, and was for fourteen 
 years a trustee of the Worcester Insane Hospital and Worcester Insane Asylum. He 
 has been president of the Worcester District Medical Society, of the Alumni Associa- 
 tion of the Boston City Hospital, of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, and 
 since June, 1916, of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He is a member of the 
 American Medical Association, a fellow of the American Academy for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, and president of the board of trustees of the Memorial Hospital. 
 Dr. Woodward has for many years been a trustee of the Worcester County Institution 
 for Savings, a member of the board of investment, and since 1912 has been its presi- 
 dent. He is a director of the Worcester County Gas Light Company, vice president 
 
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 of the Washington Mills Emery Company, a director ot the Worcester Hank .-.lul 
 Trust Company, now serving in its executive committee. He is also a director 01 the 
 Worcester Chamber of Commerce, and treasurer of the American Antiquarian Sociciv 
 
 In politics Dr. Woodward is a Republican. Though keenly interested in imblic 
 affairs, and writing often in support of public improvements, he lias never held elective 
 office. He has earnestly supported movements for proper hospital facilities for tubercu- 
 lar patients, for those afflicted with contagious disease, proper jail facilities, a suit- 
 able police station, and the protection of children from cruelty and abuse. He lias been 
 active in various public charities, serving on advisory committees, and is president of 
 the Worcester Branch of the ^Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Children. He is president of the Worcester Club, and a member of the 'latmick, 
 Worcester Country, the Bohemian and Harvard clubs, and of the St. Hotolpli. L'nion 
 and Harvard clubs of Boston. 
 
 Dr. Woodward married. September id. 1884, Margaret Ferley. born at Cnncord. 
 New Hampshire, daughter of Hcmorable Ira Perley, chief justice of the Supreme Court 
 of New Hampshire. They have no children. 
 
 NAUBERT OLIVER SIMARD— The Simard family came to Worcester from St. 
 John. Province of Quebec. Cana<la. but originally they were citizens of France. In 
 Canada, agriculture was the family business, the family usually being well-to-do land 
 owners and farmers. But in the United States, business and the professions have 
 appealed to the sons of the family, and in Worcester, John B. Simard (q. v.) and 
 his son, Naubert O., are well-known, the former for his activity in the business world 
 as founder and owner of the Bay State Coal Company, the son fur liis connection with 
 the Worcester county bar and his official connection with the Bay State Coal Com- 
 pany, now a corporation. 
 
 Naubert O. Simard, only son of John B. and Agnes (Harper) Simard. was born 
 in Worcester. Massachusetts, March 22. 1882. He completed all grades of the jiublic 
 school, with graduation from Worcester Classical High School in ignb. He tlien 
 entered the classical department of Harvard University, receiving his degree Bachelor 
 of Arts, class of 1906. He continued at Harvard in the law department, being awarded 
 the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with the graduating class of 1909. He was admitted 
 to the bar August 2. 1909. and on October i. following, he began the practice (jf his 
 profession in Worcester. He has grown in public favor with the years, and has a 
 well-established law business. In September. 1915. he entered Plattsburg Officers' 
 Training Camp to prepare for his ])art in the great World War. He is a member 
 of Notre Dame Roman Catholic Churcli ; is fond of (nitdoor life and his motor car 
 tours. 
 
 HAROLD CARLISLE MORGAN, D. D. S. Called to the colors, July 2^. 1018, 
 Dr. Morgan sailed overseas, Septemlier 3. iyi8. and at this date. igig. is still on duty 
 at a base hospital in England. He is a son of Delbert Dean and Olledine (Double- 
 day) Morgan, grandson of Charles Edward Morgan and his second wife. Lncinda 
 (Gorsuch) Morgan, and great grandson of Johnson McKenzie and Ami (Th(jmpson) 
 Morgan, and it is believed a great-great-grandson of Thomas Morgan who married 
 a widow. Charity Briggs, all of Johnstown, Fulton county. New York. Johnson M. and 
 Ann (Thompson) Morgan were the parents of sons. John, and Charles Edward, the 
 last named the grandfather of Dr. Harold C. Morgan, of Worcester. .'Xnn (Thompson) 
 Morgan, born in 1814, died in Johnstown, in 1858. She was the daughter of Ward and 
 Gertrude (Martin) Thompson, and one of a family of eight children. Her grandi)ar- 
 ents were Nathaniel and Ann Thompson, her grandfather a Revolutionary soldier, 
 born March 15, 1752, at Coventry, Connecticut, died at Manchester. \'erniont. Sep- 
 tember 9. 1826. Nathaniel Thompson was a son of Nathan and Hannah (Dodge) 
 Thompson, who were married March 29, 1745. Johnson M. Morgan, liorn February 
 5, 1809. died November 2, 1844. He married .\m\ Thompson. March i. 1829, 
 
 Charles Edward Morgan was born April 30, 1833. died September 7. 188). He 
 married (first). June 9. 1851, Sarah Gorsuch, born April 12. 1833. died Jamiary 22, 
 i860. They were the parents of three children : Thompson, married Eunice iJougle- 
 ton; Stella, married James Hillabrandt; .Annette, married Henry W. Potter. Charles 
 E. Morgan married (second) July 25. 1861. Lncinda Gorsuch. a sister of his first wife, 
 born April 25. 1842. died in 1863. They were the parents of a son. Delbert Dean, of 
 further inent'ion. Charles E. M'organ married (third). May 14. 1868. Eunice Curtice 
 Steele, born January 19. 1839. They were the parents of two daughters. Jessie Steele, 
 born January 27. 1872. died Feliruary 22. 1874; Josie Eunice, born December 29. 1873, 
 married, October 18. 1898. lohn L. Potter. 
 
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850 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Delbcrt Dean Morgan was born in Johnstown, New York, January 21, 186:;, and 
 is now (1919) living in Poughkeepsie, New York, local manager for the Fleischman 
 Yeast Company. He married Olledine Doubleday, born at Hudson Falls, New York, 
 October 4, 1858, died February 28, 1905, the mother of two sons : i. Eugene Leslie, born 
 October 14, 1887, now an architect of Somerville. Massachusetts; married Alma 
 Holden, of New Y'ork City, and has a son, Harold Doubleday, born in April, 191 7. 2. 
 Harold Carlisle, of further mention. 
 
 Harold Carlisle Morgan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, July 13, 1889, 
 and there was educated in the grade and high schools. At the age of seventeen 
 he became interested in automobile driving and repairing, but six years later he again 
 entered school that he might prepare for professional life. He became a student at 
 Berkeley Preparatory School, Boston, later entering Baltimore College of Dental 
 Surgery, whence he was graduated D. D. S., class of 1916, In June, 1916, he passed 
 the tests of the State Board of Dental Examiners, and in July of the same year 
 opened offices at No. 509 Park building, Worcester, and there practiced his profession 
 until called to the colors, July 24, 1918, he having volunteered his services previously 
 in the United States Army. He is at this date still in the service of his country. He 
 is a member of Xi Psi Phi and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities, Worcester District 
 Dental societies, Massachusetts State Dental Society, Worcester Country Club, Fish 
 and Game Association, Worcester Pistol and Rifle Club. Hunting and fishing are his 
 favored recreations. 
 
 Dr. Morgan married, March 11, 1918, Lola Mae Miller, of Gloucester, Massa- 
 chusetts, and four months later was called to military service. 
 
 Olledine (Doubleday) Morgan descended from Elisha Doubleday, of Y'orkshire, 
 England, who came to Boston. Massachusetts, in 1676, bringing sons, Elijah and 
 Elisha, descent in this line being through Elisha. 
 
 Elisha (2) Doubleday married and was the father of children: Nathaniel, Milan, 
 Elisha (2), Jonathan, Mary, Sally, and Anna. Descent is traced through Elisha. 
 
 Elisha (3) Doulileday, in 1736, at the age of twenty-three years, married (first) 
 Margaret Adams, aged nineteen years. She died May 22, 1747, at the birth of her 
 seventh child, and he married (second), October 2, 1748, Hannah Bailey, aged 
 eighteen. She died November 17, 1774, at the birth of her twelfth child, and he 
 married (third), February 26, 1775, Mary Law, aged twenty-eight years, and they 
 were the parents of six children. Descent is traced through Elisha, second child of 
 Elisha and his first wife, Margaret (Adams) Doubleday. 
 
 Elisha (4) Doubleday was born April 15, 1740, died August 6, 1796. He was a 
 minute-man of the Revolution, and was called into action in 1781, upon the landing 
 of the British under the traitor Arnold, when New London was burned. He married, 
 January 30, 1761, Keziah Phelps, then aged eighteen, he twenty-one. She died April 
 8, 181 5, surviving her husband nineteen years. They were the parents of eight chil- 
 dren including a son. Dan, fifth child and third son. 
 
 Dan Doubleday was born November 17, 1773, died July 28, 1854. He was a boy of 
 eight years, in 1781, and an eye witness to the burning of New London by the British. 
 He married, January 14. 1804, Elizabeth Matteson, died October 30, 1874, and they 
 were the parents of ten children: Lucinda, born November 5, 1805; Oran, May 12, 
 1808. died July 24. 1831 ; Horace L., August 12, 1810; Danvers, March 31, 1813 ; Eliza 
 W., July 23, 1815. died June 6, 1836; Collins B., November 29, 1817; Oscar, June 28, 
 1820, died July 28. 1822: Hervey M., April 10, 1822; Minerva B., September 12, 1825, 
 died August i. 1865 ; Emerine C. October 5, 1828, died July 27, 1851. The line of 
 descent is through Danvers. 
 
 Danvers Doubleday was born March 31, 1813. He married (first), September 27, 
 1841, Olledine Stere, then aged nineteen years, who died March 28, 1856, the mother 
 of four children : Charles S., born July 22, 1842, a veteran of the Civil War, wounded 
 at the battle of South Mountain and promoted lieutenant for bravery; Emma, died 
 young; Mary, born August 9, 1848; George, died aged seventeen years. Danvers 
 Doubleday married (second), January 17, 1857, Anna' Chalk, aged twenty-three, and 
 they were the parents of two children : Olledine. born October 4, 1858, married 
 Delbert Dean Morgan, of previous mention ; Anna C, died June 22, 1869. 
 
 ALFRED LAWRENCE AIKEN, President of the National Shawmut Bank of 
 Boston, was burn in Xnrwioh. Connecticut, July 6, 1870, son of William Appleton and 
 Eliza Coit (Buckingham) Aiken, and grandson of the War Governor of Connecticut, 
 William Alfred Buckingham. 
 
 Mr. Aiken attended the Norwich public schools and the Norwich Free Academy, 
 from which he graduated in 1887. He then entered Yale College and was graduated 
 in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1918 the honorary degree of Master 
 of Arts was conferred upon him by Yale in recognition of his service in connection 
 
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 with the establishment and operation of the Federal Reserve r^ankiiiK System. Mr. 
 Aiken began his life in Worcester as a clerk in the offices of tlic Stale Mutual Life 
 Assurance Company, upon his graduation from college in i8yi. Three years Intrr lie 
 resigned to become assistant manager of the Xevv England Dei)artnu'nt nf the Xew 
 York Life Insurance Company. In 1899 he became assistant casliicr of tin- X.itional 
 Hide and Leather Bank of Boston, and when it was consolidated with llie Slate 
 National Bank of Boston, he continued as assistant cashier of the larger hank until 
 he returned to \^'orcester in 1904. succeeding Charles .•\. Chase as treasurer nf the 
 Worcester County Institution for Savings. In 1908 he became president of the 
 Institution for Savings and continued at the head of it until 1913. when he suecieded 
 the late James P. Hamilton as president of the Worcester National Bank. While 
 president of the Worcester County Institution for Savings he was invited by r'resi- 
 dent Taft to become assistant secretary of the treasury, but declined tlie Iionor. Upon 
 the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in the fall of iqi_(, Mr. .-Xikeii was 
 elected governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston by its directnrs, and as the 
 first governor was responsbile for the organization and operation of the bank. He 
 was for some time chairman i:)f the Conference of Covernors of the twelve Inderal 
 Reserve Banks and took a very active and important part in establishing and devel- 
 oping the Reserve Banks as a practical working part of the banking system of the 
 country. 
 
 At the time he was elected governor nf iju- Federal Reserve Bank, tin- "Cazette" 
 said editorially : 
 
 The choice of Alfred L. Aiken a.s .t'lvt- nun- of the Federal Kist-ive Bank in }!o.stoti 
 is a token that AVorce.ster ha.s men of the caliber to take their ip:i?t in iniportant national 
 affairs. Mr. Aiken will be one of twelve to serve in these positiims. That is to sav ho 
 will be one of twelve men in a nation of inO. 000,000 to direct actively the new ordering of 
 its financial affairs. The work is one wliicli refiuires initiative of a i)eeuliar order of 
 ability bred of experience. Tliose who liave watched the work of Mr. Aiken as ;t bank 
 head in Worcester have reason to believe that he will iirove equal to the new and impor- 
 tant dutv for which he has been cliosen. He knows his htisiness. There will lie re<?rets 
 that Mr. Aiken is to end his intimate relations with the li:iiil:iii_- hn^iTM-s;- of VVoi. ester, 
 but they will he tempered by the knowledge that tie i:n, ~ 1., ,! lI : .1 liMnMt.ihl." posi- 
 tion. The fact tliat he was chosen for this place will i>. :;. ■ ■. ^ i-.l.-d js a case 
 where merit wins and Worcester may be excusefl a iaiL-- le.iu-i -.i im i<i< ih.o -he eould 
 furnish a man for sucli a place from the ranks of th.-se \\\u> ii.ive .ie\.,Lt.-d rln-inselves 
 to the field of finance. 
 
 As governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of iinstnn. he took an acti\e part in 
 the government financial operations incident to the conduct of the war, and was chair- 
 man of the New England Liberty Loan for the first and second Liberty Loan cam- 
 paigns and established and directed the organization which has since been success- 
 fully maintained through all subsequent Liberty Loan Campaigns. 
 
 Mr. Aiken resigned in December, 1917, to liccome president of the National 
 Shawmut Bank of Boston, succeeding Mr. W. A. Gaston. The bank is one of the larg- 
 est banks in the country and he was chosen for the presidency because nf Ins suc- 
 cessful administration of the affairs of the h'ederal Reserve Hank. He has retained 
 his home at No. 40 Elm street in this city. 
 
 Mr. Aiken is a meinber of the Board of Investment of the Worcester County 
 Institution for Savings, a trustee of the Worcester Art Museum, a director of the New 
 York Life Insurance Company of New York, and local director of the Guaranty Com- 
 pany of North America. He is a member of the Worcester Club, the Ihiion Cltib 
 and Algonquin Club of Boston, the Metropolitan Club iif New York and the Meti;o- 
 politan Club of \^'ashington, D. C, the American .'\ntiquarian Society, the Saint 
 Wulstan Society, the Worcester Fire Society, and the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion; he has' taken an active part in the affairs of the American Bankers' Associa- 
 tion, having been persident of the Savings Bank Section of the organization, and for 
 some years a member of the Executive Council of the association; he has also been 
 president of the Massachusetts Bankers' .Association. Mr. Aiken is a member of All 
 Saints' (Episcopal) Church.' In politics he is a Republican. He has a summer resi- 
 dence at Sunapee. New Hampshire. 
 
 Mr. Aiken married, November 2^, 189*1, in Worcester, Pllizabeth Peck Hopkins, 
 daughter of W. S. B. Hopkins (see biography). They have one son, William .Apple- 
 ton, born March 21. 1907. 
 
 GENERAL WILLIAM APPLETON AIKEN, father of Alfred I.. Aikm. was 
 born at Manchester. Vermont, .April 18, 1833. He served in the Civil War; was ap- 
 pointed paymaster in the navy, August 10, 1861 ; he was commissioned qnartermas- 
 ter-general of the State of Connecticut with the rank of brigadier-general by Gover- 
 nor Buckingham, Tulv 10, 1862. He married, .August 22. 1892, Eliza Coit Bucking- 
 ham, born December' 8, 1838, daughter of Ciovernor Buckingham. They had seveti 
 children. The eldest, Eliza Buckingham, married Professor Benjamin W. Bacon, of 
 
852 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Yale. Phineas Aiken, grandfather of General William A. Aiken, was a soldier in the 
 Revolution. The line to the first settler is; Alfred A. (7), William A. (6), John 
 (S), Phineas (4), John (3), Nathaniel (2). Edward (i). The pioneen, Edward B. 
 Aiken, came from Ulster. Ireland, with other Scotch-Presbyterians about 1720. and 
 settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, where he died in 1747; his wife. Barbara 
 (Edwards) Aiken, died there in August, 1744, and both are buried in the old grave- 
 yard at Derry. 
 
 Governor Buckingham was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, May 28, 1804; was 
 a manufacturer in Norwich, mayor of that city, elected governor in 1858. and re- 
 elected seven times, serving through the Civil War and during that time enjoyed the 
 intimate friendship and confidence of President Lincoln; for six years a LTnited States 
 Senator. His wife Eliza, a daughter of Dr. Ripley, was also descended from many 
 of the leading old families of the original pioneer stock. The Buckingham ancestral 
 line is; Governor William A. (6). Samuel (5), Daniel (4), Daniel (3), Rev. Thomas 
 (2), of Saybrook, Thomas (i). The pioneer, Thomas Buckingham was born in Eng- 
 land, one of the founders of Hartford. Rev. Thomas Buckingham of the second 
 generation, was one of the group of men who founded Yale College at Saybrook, 
 Connecticut, and he was himself the first pastor of the College. 
 
 ELLIOTT EARLE CUNNINGHAM. The Cunningham family originated in 
 Ayrshire, Scotland, where the ancestors had lived since A. D., 1140. Several branches 
 of it emigrated from there to County Londonderry, Ireland, at various dates, and there 
 founded the .Scotch-Irish families. At the town of Coleraine in Londonderry, in the 
 year 1677. one Robert Cunningham was born, who later, in the year 1717, in com- 
 pany with a brother Hugh and a sister Margaret, came to America and landed at 
 Boston. 
 
 Robert Cunningham passed his youth and early manhood in his native place, but 
 when about forty years old determined to take his family to America that they might 
 escape the religious persecution of the Scottish settlers in Ireland. He was in the un- 
 fortunate position, however, of not having the money for his passage, so he hired 
 himself as a sailor on a ship bound for Boston and thus made his way to the American 
 city. Upon his arrival here he secured work in a shipyard, where he remained sev- 
 eral years, and then removed to Spencer, Massachusetts, in the year 1731. Here he 
 purchased land of Colonel Joshua Lamb, who was one of the original proprietors of 
 the town, and settled thereon, making it liis permanent home. He died May 13, 1766, 
 at the age of eighty-nine years. His children were as follows: John, mentioned below; 
 Hugh, who married Elizabeth Scott, December 2, 1742, and resided near the Cunning- 
 ham homestead, where he died in 1754; Robert, Jr., who settled at Barre. Massachusetts, 
 and died March 30, 1784; James, who settled at Rutland, and died February 20, 1786, at 
 the. age of seventy-three years ; and Jane, who married John Traine, and settled in 
 Weston, Massachusetts. 
 
 John Cunningham, son of Robert Cunningham, was born in Coleraine in the 
 Province of Ulster, Ireland, about 1700. He came with his father to Spencer. Massa- 
 chusetts, about 1731, and added the town lots Nos. 10 and 14, containing about five 
 hundred acres, to the paternal estate which he later inherited. He was a man of 
 sound judgment, unimpeachable moral character, frequently honored with offices of 
 trust by the town, and prominent in church affairs. He died February 9, 1789, at 
 the age of eighty-nine years. He married Ann Sinclair, who died November 3, 1775, 
 at the age of sixty-three years. They were the parents of the following children: 
 Robert, mentioned below; John, born February 28. 1746; Jonathan and David, twins, 
 born June 6. 1748; Nathaniel, born March 16. 1752; William, born November 15, 1754. 
 
 Robert Cunningham, son of John and Ann (Sinclair) Cunningham, was born at 
 Spencer, Massachusetts, March 25, 1740. He inherited the Cunningham homestead and 
 lived all his active life at Spencer. He served as a soldier in the Revolution. He 
 married Martha Blair, of Warren, Massachusetts. To them the following chil- 
 dren were born: Ann, born June 8, 1765; Elizabeth, born in 1766, married Silas 
 Allen; Simeon, born April 14, 1767; Reuben, born January 5, 1769; Jonathan, mentioned 
 below; Sarah, born March 28. 1773. married John Monroe; Susannah, born January 
 28, 1775, married Ivory Allen; Nathaniel, born September 20, 1777; Robert. Jr.. born 
 March 11. 1780; and John, born November 19. 1782. 
 
 Jonathan Cunningham, son of Robert and Martha (Blair) Cunningham, was born 
 March 6, 1771, at Spencer, Massachusetts, and died April 5. 1858. at Leicester, aged 
 eighty-seven years. He built a house near the Baptist church in that part of Spencer 
 joining Paxton. He lived at Spencer until after his children were born, and the family 
 then removed to Leicester. He married Deliverance Earle. Their children were: 
 Willard, born 1800; Lyman, born 1802; Theodore W^illiam. born 1803; Elizabeth, born 
 1805; Adeline, born 1807; Elliott Prouty, born 1809; Jonathan Earle, mentioned below; 
 
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 Marniadukc Xewell, horn 1813; lloim-r. lu.rii 1S1I1; ri>..inas. Iiovn jSiS; \Vnuhr,)ii 
 Russell, born 1820. 
 
 Jonathan Earlc Cuiniingham, son of Jonathan and Deliverance (Karle) t'niniiii'- 
 ham. was born November 15, 181 1. at Spencer, Massachuseds. went with his parent 
 to Leicester about 1825, and moved to VVorcester in 1855. lie was a carpenter, lie 
 and his family were Baptists. He married Wealthy Ann WoodrutT, a native 01 Cran- 
 ville, Massachusetts, who died in Worcester in 1893, a.ued seventv-eiyht. lie died in 
 Worcester in 1874, aged sixty-three. They were the parents of: Marv Warren, bcrn 
 1834, died 1836; Elliott Earle, mentioned below; Mary Warren, born 1838; Herman \i., 
 born 1840; Jane E.. born 1841 ; Hiram Iv. born 1843: tiara J., born 1845; Horace E.[ 
 born 1847: and Emmons F., born 1851. 
 
 Elliott Earle Cunningham, son of Jonathan Earle and Wealtliy .Xnn (Woodruff) 
 Cunningham, was born February 27. 1835. at Auinirn. Massachusetts, but in one year 
 or less the family returned to Leicester. In 1855 he came to Worcester. Massachusetts, 
 and here worked at the carpenter's trade, which lie followed for a number of years! 
 Later he engaged in the business of manulaclnring band saw blades and saw' sets, 
 and built a factory on Hudson street, Worcester, in the rear of his home. His en- 
 terprise was started on a small scale. He invented a brazing machine and new types 
 of saw sets and several other valuable devices, wliich he manufactured at his shop, 
 and continued thus in business until his death in 1905. Since that time tlie business 
 has been carried on by his son. Ashton E. Cunningham. Elliott Earle Cunningham 
 was a fine influence in the connnunity. a man who stood for all that is best and highest 
 in life. He was much resjjccted and honored by his fellow citizens In his religious 
 belief he was a Baptist and attended the Pleasant Street and the Dewey .Street churches 
 of that denomination at Worcester, He married .Ahbie Cornelia Howe, of Spencer, 
 but a native of Shrewsbury, who died at Worcester, in the same year as her husband. 
 They were the parents of the following children: Jennie T., mentioned below; Leila 
 O., educated at the local public schools, and since her graduation has taught school, 
 first at Stafford Springs.' Connecticut, later at Spencer. Massachusetts, and now at 
 the Midland street school at Worcester; .'\shton Elliott, educated at the public schools 
 of Worcester, entered his father's business, which he li;is conducted >uccesslully, ami 
 married Rosa ^L Gilbert, of Auburn. 
 
 Jennie T. Cunningham, now Mrs. Benjamin II. Lane, of Worcester,- was liorn in 
 this city. December 22, i860. She received her education at tlie local public schools 
 and at the Xormal School at Worcester. .She tau.glit for a time in the schools of 
 Barre, Massachusetts, and then at Stafford Springs. Connecticut. .At the latter place 
 she met and married Wilton C. Miner, a painter by trade, and a prominent figure in 
 the Methodist church there. His death occurred in the year 1S91. and shortly after- 
 wards his widow took up the study of medicine at the .Medical School of the Boston 
 University, from which she graduated with tlie class of 1896, taking her degree. For 
 three years thereafter she practised her profession at Worcester and then, in 1899, 
 married the Rev. Benjamin H. Lane, of Antrim, New Hampshire. In 190J they moved 
 to Rockland, Massachusetts, where he was iiastor of the Baptist church until the 
 time of his death. He had previously been pastor of the Dewey Street Baptist Church 
 at Worcester. Mr. Lane died in the year 1905, and two years later Di;. Lane resumed 
 her practice in this city, and since then has been actively engaged in this manner. She 
 is a member of the Worcester Homeopathic Medical Society, the Massachnsetis State 
 Medical Society and the Massachusetts Surgical and (lynaecological Society. 
 
 EDWIN AVERY BREWER, Proprietor of I'.rewer & Company, ^wh.ilesale and 
 retail druggists, was borrr in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, October _'S, 1853, S'.n of 
 Edwin Bliss and Eliza (Spencer) Brewer. 
 
 He attended the public schools of his native town, and \\ ilhrah.im .Academy, from 
 which he graduated in 1874. After teaching for a short time he came to Worcester 
 and entered the drug business as a clerk, thoroughly learning the business. S(kmi he 
 entered the employ of Bush & Company, which was established in 1852 by th.- late 
 William Bush who at that time made a specialty of the botanical pan .>f the business. 
 .\ beginning had been made in the manufacture of i.roprietary medicines and :i start 
 in the wholesaling of essences and like products. In 1887 Mr. Brewer purch.ised a 
 half-interest in the store and later, in 1893. became the sole owni-r of the interests 
 of Bush & Company, but the firm name was not changed. 
 
 In 1897 the city decided to widen Carlton street, now Commercial stri'ct. :iii(l the 
 present modern wholesale drug building at tlie corner of I'ront and Commercial 
 streets was erected and the firm name change<l to Brewer & Company. Later smother 
 story was added to this building and still later a second building was added. ;n.iking 
 one large five story building with frontage on l-"ront. Commercial and Mecli:inic 
 streets. Most of this building is occupied h\ the various departments of Brewer & 
 
854 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Company. When Mr. Brewer started in the cumpany only three or fonr were em- 
 ployed in the store. It has since grown to its present size, being today one of the 
 largest wholesale and retail manufacturing drug and chemical concerns in the coun- 
 try. In the laboratory, where they manufacture a complete line of pharmaceuticals 
 and proprietary medicines, and in the retail department, where they have a large 
 prescription trade, the company's watch word is "Care, accuracy and reliability." 
 The business has grown until Brewer & Company have drug and chemical offices 
 at Worcester, Boston, Fall River, Providence and New York. Mr. Brewer gave per- 
 sonal attention to all the details of his extensive interests, and his care, integrity 
 and conscientious methods were the foimdation of his success as a business man. 
 
 He was a prominent leader in church activities in Worcester, and an ardent 
 supporter of every movement which would improve the city of his choice. He was 
 a member of Grace Methodist Church for more than thirty-five years, having joined 
 under the pastorate of Dr. David Ela. In that time he had held every important 
 office in the gift of the church, such as Simday school superintendent, steward and 
 trustee. At the time of his death he was president of the board of trustees, ife was 
 also one of the trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was liberal 
 in support of the church and all worthy benevolences. Few that ever came to him with 
 a worthy cause went away empty handed or empty hearted, for he gave himself as 
 well as his money. He died after a brief illness at his smnmer home, Duxbury, July 
 l8, 1917. 
 
 He had been twice married. In 1879 he married Elsie L. Dickinson, of Gilead, 
 Connecticut, who died in 1885. In 1889 he married her sister, Mary A., who with a 
 son, Howard Dickinson and a daughter, Mary Ethel, survives him. Elsie Mabel, the 
 older daughter, died in 1900 in her eighteenth year. Howard D: Brewer was ad- 
 mitted to the partnership with his father in 1903, soon after he graduated from the 
 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, and after the death of his father suc- 
 ceeded to his interests. 
 
 ALBERT ELMER CROSS, M. D. is a son of John Kimball Cross, of Clinton, 
 Massachusetts, and a grandson of Parker Cross, carpenter and builder, who lived and 
 died in Clinton, but most of his life a resident of Montpelier, Vermont. John Kimball 
 Cross was born in Berlin, Vermont, December 17, 1844, and died November 25, 1917. 
 He enlisted in the Union Army at the age of eighteen, and served with Company C, 
 Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and was engaged at Gettysburg 
 and in other hard-fought battles of the Civil War. After his return from military duty 
 he entered the employ of the Bigelow Carpet Works at Clinton, Massachusetts, where 
 he became foreman in due course of promotion, and spent the greater part of his 
 after life in that position of responsibility. He married Sarah Elizabeth Saunby, who 
 was born March i, 1846, in La Colle, Canada, and who survives her husband, and now 
 lives in the home of her son. Mrs. Cross is now (1919) in her seventy-fourth year. 
 To John K. and Sarah E. Cross were born three children : Albert E., mentioned below; 
 Edward Marvin, of W^est Somerville, Massachusetts, manufacturing secretary of The 
 Ahierican Woolen Company; and Ada Mildred, wife of Clarence M. Lowd, who re- 
 sides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Albert Ehner Cross, M. D. was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, August 23. 1872. 
 He passed through the grades of the Clinton public schools, finishing with higli school 
 graduation in the class of 1889. The same year he began a four years' apprenticeship 
 to the jewelry and optical trade with a Clinton jewelry merchant, and after completing ■ 
 his term of service remained three years longer in the employ of the company. Dr. 
 Cross married, in Grafton, Vermont, April 29, 1896, Maude Alice Jellison. who was born 
 in Francestown, New Hampshire, April 11, 1876, daughter of Charles H. Jellison, born 
 in Old Town, Maine, and Minnie A. Potter, born in Ellenburg, New York, both of 
 whom are buried in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dr. and Mrs. Cross are the parents 
 of two children: Pauline Mildred, born August 22, 1904; and Marjorie Evelyn, born 
 August 29, 1906. 
 
 In 1896 Dr. Cross began the study of medicine in Boston University, from whence 
 he was graduated, in the class of 1900, with magna cum laude. He then pursued post- 
 graduate work at The Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York City, until De- 
 cember, 1900, when he located in Worcester and began the practice of his profession. 
 Dr. Cross is a specialist in the treatment of the eyes, being the only physician in Wor- 
 cester devoting himself entirely to this branch of his profession. During his eighteen 
 years' residence he has won for himself the highest reputation as a man, and as a most 
 devoted and skillful specialist. 
 
 He is a member of The American Academy of Ophthalmology, Otology, and 
 Laryngology, and of The American Homeopathic, Ophthalmological, Otological and 
 Laryngological Society. The latter he served as treasurer in 1910-1915, and first vice- 
 
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 cieties; The American Medical Association; Tlie American liistituti- oi lloync..iiatiiv • 
 The New England Ophthalmological Society, in all of wbuli In- takes an acme ajv! 
 deep interest. He served as a member of the advisory board ti> the Draft ILpard^ of 
 Worcester, and gave to the government fifteen months of willin.i; and elTLcieiil pro- 
 fessional service. Dr, Cross is a member of the staff at Worcester, Ilahnema}in and 
 Westboro State hospitals as ophthalmologist. He is also a member of the Masonic 
 order, Worcester Country, Commonwealth, Rotary and Kconomic elnbs. and the Wor- 
 cester Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of the boarcl of directors of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association since igi2, and Worcester Ilahneniami Hospital, 
 was a member of the school committee in 1917, and has been a member of the oflieial' 
 board of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church since Kjoj, and chairman of the lin.inre 
 committee for ten years. 
 
 HENRY E. DEAN. For tliirty years .Mr. Dean was a 
 goods in the city of Worcester, succeeding to the business • 
 Louis Dean, who also manufactured wire goods in Oakham, 
 long life of business activity he has added iniblic service of 
 city and State. Louis Dean married Eleanor Heggs, and the 
 three children; Henry E., of further mention, Oliver M.; an 
 
 Henry E. Dean was born at Oakham, Massachusetts, .Septeml)er jg. 180.'. I'lit at 
 the age of seven years Worcester became his home. He was educated in tlie pulilic 
 schools, finishing with graduation froin high schoed. and later adding a course in 
 Herman's Business College. This coinpleted his studies and after business ecdlege 
 graduation he began his thirty years comiection with the manufacture of wire 
 goods, a business founded by his father and conducted by the son under the (irni 
 name, Henry E. Dean & Coinpany. .After his long connection with the business 
 Mr. Dean sold his business to the Dean Wire (ioi.ids<t Company ;tnd retired. Mr. 
 Dean is a Republican in politics, and during the years, I(joi-o_'-o,;-o4, was a city 
 official. He represented his district in the State Legislature during the years igo-- 
 08-09, and from the years 1911 to 1916, inclusive, was a member of the Woicestcr 
 School Board. In 1917 he was again a meinber of the Massachusetts House i.f Rep- 
 resentatives, serving also in 1918-ig. He is a meinber of Blue Lodge, .\thclstan Lodge, 
 Free and Accepted Masons; Worcester Chapter, Royal .Arch Masons; the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows; the Benevolent and Protective Order of I'^lks ; the 
 Worcester Continentals; Worcester Mechanics' .Association, and for the past twelve 
 years a trustee; County Republican and Boston City clubs. He is an attentlant of 
 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Dean married, in Worcester, in 1884, Bertha M. Cbadbourne. and tliev are 
 the parents of three sons and two daughters; Dr. l-'rank H. Dean; I ieorge 10.. now 
 serving in the United States Army; Charlotte (J.; Winifred M., a graduate nurse, 
 now in service in France ; Edward Stanley. 
 
 LLOYD FRANCIS MARSHALL, Jr., Dentist, was born in Newton, Alassachu- 
 setts, March 7, 1890, son of Lloyd Francis and Matilda (Carter) Marshall. His father 
 was a native of Ohio, born October 2, 1853, caterer in Newton, wdiere he has resided 
 for the past thirty-five years; educated in the public schools of Washington, D. C, and 
 when a young man he taught school for several years in Virginia; married in Newton, 
 Matilda Carter, who was born in Greensburg, North Carolina, and had four children, 
 of whom Lloyd Francis is the eldest. Leon M. Marshall, another son, was born Feb- 
 ruary I, 1892, now in partnership with his father ; married Berline M. Moore. Ethel 
 D., is a school teacher in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The youngest son, William 
 Marshall, born November 28, 1896, is a student. 
 
 Dr. Lloyd F. Marshall attended the Newton public schools, and graduated from the 
 Claflin Grammar School in 1906, and from the Newton Hi.gh School in 1910. He en- 
 tered Tufts Dental School in Boston, and was graduated in 1913 with the degree of 
 Doctor of Dental Surgery. He began to practice in Worcester immediately afterward, 
 and has continued since then in this city. His offices are at No. 405 Main street. When 
 a student he was active in athletics and became proficient in "putting the shot" and in 
 swimming, and was a member of a football team. He has not lost his interest in these 
 sports, and can still defend his rank as a swimmer. Dr. Marshall is a member of Zion 
 Methodist Church of this city. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Dr. Marshall married, at Boston, March 4, 1913, Wilhelmina Henrietta Vick, who 
 was born in Washington, D. C, September 14, 1893, daughter of Ernest L. and Sarah 
 (Foster) Vick. Her parents reside in Washington. Dr. and Mrs. Marshall have three 
 children; Lloyd Francis (3), born December 20, 1913; Robert Foster, born November 8, 
 1915; Ralph Owens, born August 27, 1917. 
 
856 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 ARTHUR B. TAYLOR, Vice-president of the Goll>ert Last Company, was born 
 in Bridgton, Maine, January 11, 1872, son of George H. and Eliza J. (Thorp) Taylor. 
 George H. Taylor was born in England; a woolen manufacturer, now retired; married, 
 in England. Eliza J. Thorp, and came to this country when a young man. Besides 
 Arthur B.. they had another son, Edric R., who was for fourteen years a salesman with 
 the Golbert Last Company, now a last manufacturer on his own account in Lynn. 
 
 Arthur B. Taylor attended the public schools of his native town and of Brock- 
 ton, whither his parents moved when he was ten years old. At the age of sixteen he 
 entered the employ of Woodward & Wright, last manufacturers in Brockton, and 
 learned the business. He came to this city a few years later as last maker in the shops 
 of the Mawhinney Last Company; was soon advanced to the position of model-making. 
 Afterward he accepted a position in the factory of R. L. Golbert (see biography). Two 
 years later, in 1899. he became model maker for the George E. Belcher Last Company 
 of Stoughton. In 1902 he returned to Worcester and formed a partnership with Mr. 
 Golbert. and when the Ijusiness was incorporated in 1905, he was elected vice-president, 
 an office he has held since that time. He lived until recently at No. 47 Beeching street 
 in this city, but his home at present is in Brookline. His office is at the factory of the 
 Golbert Last Company, No. 54 Commercial .street. 
 
 He is a member of Worcester Lodge. No. 56, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 of which he is past noble grand; of Wachusett Encampment. No. 10, of which he is 
 past chief patriarch; of Athelstan Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Eureka 
 Chapter. Royal Arch Masons ; Hiram Council. Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester 
 County Commandery. Knights Templar ; Massachusetts Consistory ; Alleppo Temple, 
 Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Boston Shoe Trades Club, Boston, Massa- 
 chusetts. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Taylor married, in 1890, Fannie M. Tibbetts, of Brockton, Massachusetts, a 
 daughter of Daniel B. and Georgiana (Leighton) Tibbetts. Mrs. Taylor is a member 
 of Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution. They 
 have one daughter. Mrs. Winifred A. Henderson, now residing in Brookline; she has 
 one daughter, Naida Panin. 
 
 HOMER PIERCE LEWIS, Superintendent of -schools, was born at Claremont, 
 New Hampshire. July 28. 1849, son of George Gilbert and Adeline (Labareie) Lewis; 
 descendant of George Lewis, who was born in England, came to Plymouth about 1630 
 and settled in Scituate : also descendant of Samuel Fuller, who came in the "May- 
 flower." 
 
 He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1874 with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts. He was principal of Pinkerton Academy at Derry, New Hampshire, from 1874 
 to 1876; principal of the grammar and high schools in Davenport, Iowa, from i%y6 
 to 1883; principal of the high school of Omaha. Nebraska, from 1883 to 1896, and of 
 the English High School in this city, from 1896 to 1901. In 1901 he was chosen 
 principal of the new South High School, resigning in 1903 to accept the office of 
 superintendent of schools of this city. He retired from this office in August. 1918. 
 During his leisure Mr. Lewis finds diversion in walks through woods and fields and 
 in travel. Besides these he is a- constant reader. He is a member of the National 
 Society for the Scientific Study of Education, the National Educational Association, 
 the American Institution of Instruction, Phi Beta Kappa, Economic Club, Dartmouth 
 College Club, Chamber of Commerce, and Congregational Club. He is joint author of 
 "Lippincott's School Readers" ; assistant editor of "Larned's History of England" 
 (1900) ; editor of an edition of "The Courtship of Myles Standish" (1914). In politics 
 he is a Republican ; in religion a Congregationalist. 
 
 Mr. Lewis married (first), in 1878. Kate Roberts, of Boston. She died in 1880, 
 and he married (second), March 30, 1891, Elizabeth Goodson, of Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 GEORGE CROMPTON, Inventor and manufacturer. The power loom invented 
 in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright and improved and perfected by others during the next 
 thirty or forty years, was only capable of weaving plain fabrics. It was what is 
 known as a plain loom. All fabrics of complicated design or pattern were woven — 
 long after Edmund Cartwright's invention, as they had always been woven — on hand 
 looms. The intermittent motions which are characteristic of the loom and which 
 were looked upon by the early textile machinery inventors and pioneers as insur- 
 mountable obstacles to the application of power to weaving were produced on Cart- 
 wright's loom and the looms of his immediate successors by cam motions. This was 
 and still is entirely satisfactory as far as the pick is concerned. A cam motion is 
 still universally used for the pick motion, that is, for the throwing of the shuttle from 
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 In 1836 William Crompton, father of (ieorge Croini>ton, an Kngli^hman by liinl: 
 then a resident of Taunton, Massachusetts, iiuenled a loom in which ilu- piiiuiiiai 
 improvement was the harness motion. In this loom tlie ligure or pattern could In- 
 set up on what is known as a chain. This chain is a series of bars or lags connected 
 together by links so as to form a cliain of bars, hence the name. On these liars or 
 lags are rollers or pins placed in sucl\ positions that ,is the chain revolves ii lifts. 
 at pre-determined intervals, levers, which in turn cause the harnesses to be raised 
 in stich order that the required design is pnxluced upon the loom. This was the I'lrst 
 fancy power loom. It was now possible to weave by power fabrics of complicated 
 design or pattern. The success of this loom was demimslrated in 1840 when the first 
 piece of fancy woolen cloth ever woven by power in the world was woven at the 
 Middlesex Mills on looms equipped witli \\'illiain trompton's device. This was a 
 great step in the manufacture of cloth, by power. 
 
 George Crompton. son of William and .Sarah (Low) Cromplon. was born at 
 Holcombe near Bury, Lancashire, England, March Jj. iKjo, and died in Worcester. 
 Massachusetts, December 2y, 1886. He came to Taunton. .Massacluiseits. with his 
 parents in 1839, and was educated in the public sclioi.ls of Taunton and \\'orcester. 
 He also attended Millbury Academy. On completion of his schooling he svorke<l in 
 his father's office, and later was connected with the (.'olt Pistol h'actory in Hartford, 
 Connecticut. In 1851, having by a personal visit to V\asliington secured an extension 
 on his father's patent for seven years, he formed a partnership with Merrill \\. i-'ur- 
 bush, and this new firm began the manufacture of looms in the Merrifjeld biiihtir.g in 
 Worcester. The first looms built by this concern were like the looms made b\ those 
 who manufactured under licenses granted by William Crompton. 'I'lux wire narrow 
 looms and ran at a speed of forty-five ])icks per minute, ih.ii is, each imnnte forty- 
 five weft or cross threads of the fabric were woven. 
 
 In 1857 George Crompton constructed and patented an improved loom nearly 
 double the width of the old loom, and demonstrated that tliis new loom could lie 
 run at the then extraordinary speed of eighty-five picks per minute, thus (piadrnpling 
 the production, for both the width and speed of the loom had been doubled. This 
 was a great improvement. No imjirovement before or since has so increased ihr- pro- 
 duction. Moreover this loom was the first fancy loom made in the general form and 
 proportions wdiich have since proved, by experience, to be the inost satisfactory. 
 .Shown at the great Paris Exposition of 1867 tliis machine, in competition with tlie 
 products of the best textile inachine manufacturers of England, Germany, France and 
 Belgium, was awarded the only medal. Its proportions and prmcipal mechariisms 
 were from that time to a consideralde extent adopted by most ICuropean miimfac- 
 turers. 
 
 On .August I, 1859, the firm of Furbush & Crompton was dissolved with the tinder- 
 standing that the territory covered by the jiatents owned by the firm shoidd be divided. 
 Mr. Crompton to hold the New England States with New N'ork, Mr. F'urbush to 
 have all the rest of the territory of the Cnited States. Mr. Crompton continued mami- 
 facturing looms, bought the Red Mill property, and in 1860 erected a new Iniilding 
 with room to expand up to sixty hands. During 1861-65 I'l^ added to his line of man- 
 ufacture tools for inaking gun stocks, but after the Civil War curtailed the pro- 
 duction of guns he again directed his energies to building weaving machinery. He 
 took out over one hundred patents for improvements on looms and for devices i>ut- 
 side his own business. In 1876 he won a medal by exhibiting his improved loom at 
 the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In the late seventies he introduced the 
 Keighley Dobby to the American manufacturer, and in association with Horace 
 Wyman improved this harness motion, simplifying it and clian.«ing its position from 
 the center to the arch, as on English looms, to the end of the arch. .Mso in associa- 
 tion with Mr. Wyman he invented and improved the Crompton .uingham loom, now 
 the standard gingham loom in the country. Few men have accomplished more impor- 
 tant and useful work for mankind than George Crompton. .\t his death the Cromp- 
 ton Loom Works employed nearly one thousand men. 
 
 Not only was George Crompton deeply concerned in his own priv.ite atTairs. but 
 he also reached out and aided in Worcester's development. He was the founder and 
 president of the Crompton Carpet Company, the predecessor of the Whittall .Mills, 
 now one of the largest carpet mills in this country, and one of Worcester's foremost 
 industries. He was for many years a director of the Worcester National Bank, and 
 was one of the founders and directors of the Hartford Steam P.oiler Insurance Com- 
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858 HISrORV OP WORCESTER 
 
 i86j and 1864 he was an alderman of the city. He was chairman of the Soldiers' 
 Monument Committee. It was largely through his efforts that Randolph Rogers was 
 secured as the designer of this monument. At its dedication, July 15, 1874, he made 
 the presentation speech. 
 
 Mr. Crompton married, January 9. 1853, Mary Christina Pratt, daughter of 
 Charles Pratt, of Hartford. Connecticut. They were the parents of nine children: 
 Isabel S.. Cora E., Stella S.. Georgietta F., married Albert B. Wood; Mary K., 
 Charles, Mildred D., married Harry W. Smith; George (see forward), Randolph (see 
 forward). 
 
 At the time of Mr. Crompton's death the Worcester "Spy" said : 
 
 George Crompton was one of the foremost of Worcester manufacturers. He 
 came of a race of mechanics and inventors, and was as ingenious and successful as 
 any of them. His sagacity as a man of business was as remarkable as his meclianical 
 faculty, and his uprightness and fidelity to his engagements were not less con- 
 spicuous traits of his character. He had not much time for public affairs, but he was 
 for some years an active and useful member of the board of aldermen, and in other 
 ways his influence' was distinctly felt in the business of the city. But in general, 
 his life was that of a private citizen, active and strenuous in business, having not 
 many intimate friends beyond his liome circle, but enjoying domestic pleasures with 
 a keen zest and having a cultivated taste for art in all its forms. He will be sadly 
 missed in the business circles of Worcester, and as to his family his death is an 
 exceedingly -sore blow. 
 
 GEORGE CROMPTON, son of George and Mary Christina (Pratt) Crompton, 
 was born in Worcester, June 7, 1872. He was educated at private schools in Wor- 
 cester and prepared for college at the Worcester Academy, from which he graduated 
 in 1891. He entered Harvard College in the fall of the same year and graduated in 
 1895. 
 
 Shortly after his graduation he entered the employ of the Crompton Loom Works, 
 of which he had been for several years a director. In 1896 he was elected president 
 and treasurer of the Crompton Associates, a real estate corporation. In 1897, upon 
 the formation of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, he was elected treasurer and 
 a director of the corporation, from which positions he resigned in the fall of 1900, 
 when the Crompton interest in the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works was sold. In 
 the spring of 1900 he entered into a partnership with Edward D. Thayer, William B. 
 Scofield, and his brother, Randolph Crompton, and under the name of the Crompton- 
 Thayer Loom Company this partnership began the manufacture of looms. In 1907 
 the Crompton-Thayer Loom Company was sold to the Crompton & Knowles Loom 
 Works, and Mr. Crompton again became a director of the Crompton & Knowles 
 Loom Works. In 1912, upon the consolidation of the F. E. Reed Company and Pren- 
 tice Brothers' Company, both manufacturers of machine tools, into the Reed-Prentice 
 Company, Mr. Crompton was elected a treasurer and director of the new corporation. 
 He resigned from this position on January 1, 1916. Mr. Crompton is a director ot the 
 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, the Merchants' National Bank, the Worcester 
 Gas Light Company, the Morris Plan Company, and a trustee and member of the board 
 of investment of the People's Savings Bank. He is vice-president of the board of 
 trustees of St. Vincent's Hospital, secretary of the board of trustees of Worcester 
 Academy, a corporator of the Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton, Massachu- 
 setts, vice-president of the Associated Charities of Worcester, and a trustee of Rural 
 Cemetery. Mr. Crompton is a member of the Worcester Club, Tatnuck Country Club, 
 the Worcester Country Club of Worcester, Massachusetts, the Union Club and Har- 
 vard Club of Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard Club of New York, and the Pocas- 
 set Golf Club, Pocasset, Massachusetts. Mr. Croinpton is a Roman Catholic. In 
 politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Crompton married Alice Hastings, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William H. H. 
 Hastings, of Boston, April 11. 1896. He has two sons; George, Jr., born May 7, 
 1897, Lieutenant S. G., V. S. N., R. F. C, and Davis Hastings, born February 6, 
 1909 
 
 RANDOLPH CROMPTON, Formerly a director of the Crompton Loom Works, 
 and former president of the Crompton-Thayer Loom Company, was born in Worces- 
 ter, July 12, 1874, son of George and Mary Christina (Pratt) Crompton. He attended 
 various private schools in his native city and prepared for college at Concord,' Massa- 
 chusetts. After three years in Cambridge under tutors, he entered the loom works 
 and learned the business, becoming a director in 1897. But in the same year the two 
 great corporations consolidated under the present name. Crompton & Knowles Loom 
 Works. Randolph Crompton became assistant superintendent of the company and 
 directing head of the Crompton plant on Green street, and later was vice-president 
 of the combined company. In 1900, when the Knowles interests acquiretl nil the 
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 known as the Crompton Associates. He was chief executive and general Mv.ii.i.'cr 
 of the Crompton-Thaycr Loom Company until the Imsiuess was sold \,, the ('r'ninr. 11 
 & Knowles Loom Works in iyo7. He is a meniber .>f tlie Worcester I lul', the Tatiiiick 
 Country Club, the (Irafton Ctnmtry Club. Keiiublicaii ( Itih ni Mas>acluisetts and -..icial 
 organizations. 
 
 Mr. Cromptoiv married, .\pril _\^, iS()(i, .Miriam \an I-'.i;ni..ii<l .Sears dau'diter ..t 
 Willard T. and Marian (.M..tte) .Sears, an.l they \\a\c .me cinhl. Rosamond S.-irs, 
 born November 12, 1898. 
 
 JOSEPH IRA LINDSAY, I'hysiciau and sur^cn, was h.irii at \o, 4i Orchard 
 street in this city, September 21, i86,^, sou of Ira and Mary Catherine ( l-Utahrook) 
 Lindsay. Ira Lindsay was born in South Leeds. Maine. He was a !)rivale of Com- 
 pany A, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Rejjiment. Most of his active life was spent in 
 this city. He was a machinist by trade. He was killed .lime ,!. 18(14, in the battle of 
 Cold Harbor. He married Mary Catherine Estabrook, wlio was liorn in Princeton, 
 Massachusetts, January 18, i8,-;o, and is now liviuK in this city. She was a daughter 
 of Captain W'ashington Estabrook, of Princeton. Site is descended in various lines 
 from the pioneers of Massachusetts. They liad two other children: l^llcn, born May 
 6, 1858, married Albert B. Curtis, now proprietor of a machine shop at Millbury Junc- 
 tion. Kate Elizabeth, married Charles I). Kendall, president of the Warren Leather 
 Goods Company (see biography). David Lindsay, the first of the family in this 
 country, came from Scotland in 1745 and located for a time in the north of Irelaml, 
 but settled in Maine in 1750. Robert Lindsay, grandfather of Hr. I.indsav, came from 
 Maine to Grafton. 
 
 After the death of his father, in 1S64, Joseph I. Lindsay wem to live with his 
 grandfather in Grafton and attended the i)ublic schools there until he was eighteen 
 years old. He then went West and was employed in the office of the city engineer of 
 Denver, Colorado, for a year. He then be.gan to study medicine in the ofTice of Dr. 
 George W. Cox, afterward entering the University of \ermoiit Medical Schoid, from 
 which he graduated in 1888. Afterward he was ambulance stngeou at P.ellevue Hos- 
 pital, New York City, for several months. He began to practice in Paris. \ew York. 
 in i88g. After five years in that town, he located in Te.vas where he jiracticed during 
 the iic.Nt five years. Since 1897 he has been practicin.g medicine in this city. His office 
 and residence are at No. 7 Oberlin street. He is a member of the Worcester District 
 Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the .American Me<lical .-Xsso- 
 ciation. He is also a member of Sanquist Lodge, No. 150, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons, of New York City; Eureka Chapter, Royal .'\rch Masons, of this city; the 
 Congregational Club; the Economic Club; and the Rotary Club. 
 
 Dr. Lindsay married, October 8, 1883. in Colorado Springs, Alena M. Wheeler, 
 who was born in New York State, daughter of Cyrus and Eliza (Richards) Wheeler. 
 Mrs. Lindsay is a member of the Worcester Woman's Club. Dr. and Mrs. Lin<lsay 
 have had two children: i. Julian Ira, born May 2>. 1886; now instructor in luiglish 
 in Harvard College; living at Watertown : married Elizabeth luiright. who was born 
 in Burlington, Vennpnt, where he was a teacher for six months; they have a daughter 
 Elizabeth, born 1915. 2. Maynard Clare, died in inf:uicy. 
 
 BENJAMIN ELBRIDGE MARTIN, Member of one of Massachusetts' oldest 
 families, gave up business in 1004 in order to again devote his energies to the iiuerests 
 of education. This has proved of great value to those institutions with wdiich he has 
 been associated, and to all those attendant on such instittitions who have felt his in- 
 fluence, 
 
 John Elbridge Martin, father of Benjamin V.. Martin, was born at Reboboth, 
 Massachusetts, Februarv i, 1841, on one of the old !\l;irtin homesteads. He married 
 Mary Elizabeth Read, born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1840. She died in .'\pril, 
 1882. 
 
 Benjamin Elbridge Martin was born January 28. 1871, at Swansea, Massachusetts, 
 on the farm and in the same house that has been in the family for a period of two hun- 
 dred years. This place was recently bought by Susan Martin Allien, a relative, and 
 deeded to the Colonial Dames as a perpetual Martin memorial. He attended the public 
 schools of Swansea, and later the high school at Harrington, Rhode Island, from which 
 he was graduated in 1888. In 1890 he was graduated from the University Grammar 
 School in Providence, Rhode Island, in which he later taught for four years. In 
 1894 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Brown University. After finishing 
 his services at the Universitv Grammar School he entered business and was for a 
 time engaged in the real estate business in Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1904 he gave 
 
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 up business and became principal of a school at Lincoln, Rhode Island. In 1905 he 
 went to East Hampton, Connecticut, where he was engaged as principal of the Center 
 schools. The following year he became principal of the high school and supervisor 
 of the grade schools at Old Saybrook, Connecticut. In 1907 Mr. Martin was made 
 superintendent of schools and continued as well in the position of principal of the high 
 school there. In 1909 he went to Fall River, Massachusetts, as a departmental teacher 
 in the B. M. C. Durfee High School. The following year he went to Chelmsford, 
 Massachusetts, as superintendent of schools in a district comprising three towns. He 
 remained at Chelmsford as superintendent five years. In 1915 he accepted the position 
 of principal of the Belmont Street Grammar School, at Worcester, which position 
 he still holds (1919). Mr. Martin is a member of Siloam Lodge, No. 32, Ancient Free 
 and Accepted Masons, of Old Saybrook, Connecticut. He is past vice-president of 
 the Worcester County Sons of Brown University; treasurer of the Worcester Princi- 
 pals Club; member of the National Geographical Society; member of the Twentieth 
 Century Club; member of the Public Education Association; and a member of the 
 Pilgrim Congregational Church. While a resident of Swansea Mr. Martin was a 
 trustee of the Public Library, town moderator for several years, as well as holding 
 other town offices and serving as a delegate to state and county Republican conven- 
 tions. 
 
 On October 30, 1905, Mr. Martin was married to Bertha Francis Chace, of Somer- 
 set, Massachusetts. To them have been born two children ; Anna Chace, born October 
 13, 1907; and Benjamin E., Jr., born January 9, 1909. 
 
 WILLIAM ROBERT McLOUGHLIN, Electrician, was born in Worcester, Mas- 
 sachusetts, April 25, 1881, son of John and Margaret McLoughlin, his father a grocer 
 of Worcester. 
 
 William R. McLoughlin was educated in the grammar and high schools of the 
 city, and in evening classes at the Institute of Technology. Upon entering business 
 life he received a position with the Coghlan Electric Company, continuing with that 
 firm as expert electrician for twelve years. He then began business upon his own 
 account, and for the past six years. 1912-18, has held the office of treasurer of the 
 Coghlan-Wilson Electric Company and of the Franklin Square Electric Company. 
 He is a member of the Worcester Chamber of Commerce; Worcester Metal Trades 
 Association ; Worcester Electrical Contractors Association, member of the executive 
 committee ; Worcester Retail Credit Men's Association ; and with his family attends St. 
 Stephen's Church. 
 
 Mr. McLoughlin married, June 20, 1909. at Worcester, Anna Gertrude Donahue, 
 daughter of Timothy Donahue. 
 
 FRED J. THURSTON, Insurance agent, son of Daniel C. and Lois K. (Taft) 
 Thurston, was born in Worcester, June Z2, 1849. He received his education in the 
 public schools of his native city, became a machinist, then was in hotel business and 
 eventually entered the employ of the Farrar & Gates Real Estate and Fire Insurance 
 Agency in April, 1889, and continued with this firm until October, 1910, when he pur- 
 chased with his son, Louis C. Thurston, the interest of this agency. He married, 
 September 12, 1872, Carrie Ward, daughter of Hosea and Sophia (Lackey) Mac- 
 farland. To Mr. and Mrs. Thurston were born the following children : Louis C, of 
 whom further ; Robert J., Carrie L., Alice "M., Fred C. and Charles H. 
 
 LOUIS C. THURSTON, Insurance agent, was born in this city, November i, 
 1874. He attended the public schools here and graduated from the English High 
 School in the class of 1892. He then entered the employ of the Whittall Carpet Mills, 
 in the designing room, and continued there for four years. Subsequently he moved 
 to Hartford, Connecticut, and entered the employ of the Hartford Fire Insurance 
 Company as a clerk, advancing through the several departments of this large insurance 
 company which gave him a wide experience and the necessary qualifications as an able 
 insurance underwriter. In October. 1910. he purchased a part interest in the Charles 
 L. Gates Insurance Agency at Worcester and has continued in this business, associated 
 with his father, Fred J. Thurston, under the firm name, Thurston & Thurston. This 
 firm represents some of the largest companies in the world, being well-qualified to 
 handle all classes of insurance and one of the best-known and leading agencies in 
 Worcester. In politics Mr. Thurston is a Democrat. He is a member of the Common- 
 wealth Club, the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, and the Kiwanis Club, a 
 communicant of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Thurston married, October 24, 1899. Jessie H., born in Worcester, daughter 
 of James and Elizabeth (Stewart) Young. They have four children: Stuart, Judson, 
 Barbara and Ann. 
 
 CHARLES L. GATES, Insurance and real estate agent, was born in Petersham, 
 Massachusetts, son of Larkin Newton and Mary Lewis (Cocker) Gates; brother of 
 
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 William H Gates (see biography). He died at S(>a. I!el.t;iimi. Seiitenihcr j. igio. uhorc 
 he went with Dr. Elisha S. Lewis, of Princeton, in hope of lienelitinK liis heallii Ill^ 
 father was a builder in this city. 
 
 He w^as educated here in the public and liiRh schools. When a vouuk man he 
 engaged in the fire insurance business and for many years was in iiartncrshi])' with 
 Henry T. Farrar under the firm name of l-'arrar & ("■ates. building up a larne and 
 extensive real estate and fire insurance business, perhaps the lar.i^est in ihi- line in the 
 city. After Mr. Farrar died, the firm name was retained fur a i)eriod, hut tmallv Mr 
 Gates conducted the business, of which he was the sole proprietor, under his' own 
 name. After his death it was sold by Mrs. Gates to Thurston X- Thurston. Mr. 
 Gates was an expert jud.sje of real estate values. He was a factor in many large real 
 estate transactions and was one of the prime movers in secnrint; the Slater building in 
 this city, representing the executors and trustees of the estate of H. \. .Slater from 
 the tiiTie the building was planned until the time of his death. 
 
 Mr. Gates was one of the oldest members of the Worcester lioard of Under- 
 writers, of which he had been president. "He was painstaking in his elTorts to sec that 
 every client was dealt with fairly, and was held in higli re.gard by the companies he 
 represented. As a man among men he was universally-respected and highly-esteemed. 
 He had an air of reticence, which came from a modest aiJjH-eciation of his own ability 
 and an inclination to withhold his opinions until they were sought, but when his 
 judgment was asked, it w-as found that his mind had grasped all sides of the question 
 and his expression was both forceful and convincing." Mr. (jates was a member of the 
 Board of Trade and one of the directors at the time of his death. He was a life mem- 
 ber of the Worcester County Mechanics' .'\ssociation ; member of Montacute Lodge, 
 Free and Accepted Masons: Eureka Chapter, Royal .Arch Masons; Hiram Council] 
 Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester County Comniandery, Knights Templar ; and the 
 Aletheia Grotto. He was president of the F(|uity Co-operative Bank, and one of tlie 
 directors of the Home Co-operative Bank. 
 
 Mr. Gates married, in 1872, Emma Blood. They liad no children. He liad a sum- 
 mer residence in Princeton. 
 
 GRANVILLE STANLEY HALL, President of Clark Cniversity, was !,orn in 
 Ashfield, Massachusetts, Feliruary i, 184'), son of Granville liascoin and .\bigail 
 (Beals) Hall. Dr. Hall is descended in both paternal and maternal lines from the 
 pioneers of New England. He is a descendant in the ninth generation from Klder 
 W'illiam Brewster, who came in the "Mayflower"; from John Hall, whi.i came in 1630 
 from England to Charlestown ; from John Lillie. Richard Willard and Richard Sears, 
 pioneers, whose descendants have been prominent in e\ery generation. His mother. 
 Abigail (Beals) Hall was a descendant of John and Prisciila .Mden, who came in the 
 "Mayflower." 
 
 'Granville S. Hall prepared fur college in Samlerson's .\cademy in .Xshlield and 
 in Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He graduated from Williams Ccdlcge with 
 the degree of Bachelor of .■\rts in 1867, and received the degree of .Master of .'\rts 
 in 1870. He was a student in the Union Theological Seminary, 1867-68 and 1870- 
 71. In 1869-70 he was abroad, a student in the University of Berlin and Bonn Uni- 
 versity, and in 1871-72 was a student in the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, 
 Germany. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1878. In 
 1878-81 he was a student in Leipzig. Berlin and Londo?i. He received the degree of 
 LL.D. from the University of Michigan in 1888; from Williams Ccdlege in i88(j: 
 from Johns Hopkins University in 1902. 
 
 Dr. Hall was professor of psychology in .Antioch Lidlege. \ellow Springs, (.)hii>. 
 1872-76; instruct(.>r in English. Harvard College. 1876-77; lecturer on psycliology 
 at Harvard and Williams colleges in 1880-81 ; professor of psychology in John; Hop- 
 kins University. 1881-88. Since May i, 1888. he has been president of t'lark Univer- 
 sity and professor of psychology. (See Clark University). He was the founder and 
 editor of the "■'\merican Journal of Psychology" since 1887: editor of the "Pe<lagog- 
 ical Seminary" since 1,892; of the "American Journal of Religions Psychology and 
 Education" since 1904; of the "Journal of Race Development" since 1910. He is a 
 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; member of the Massaclmsetts 
 Historical Society, .^merican Psychological .Association, and .American Philoso))hicaI 
 Society. He has written "Aspects of German Culture"; "Hints toward a Select and 
 Descriptive Bibliography of Education" (Cidlaborating with lohn M. Maiislieldt ; 
 "Adolescence" (two vols.); "Youth's Education. Regimen and Hygiene" (1907): 
 "Founders of Modern Psychology" (1912) ; and "Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of 
 Psychology" (1917). He has contributed to m.any journ.ils a vast number of articles 
 on a great variety of subjects. Dr. Hall has an international rei)UtatioTi as an author, 
 as a teacher and writer on psychology and especially ir cliild study, in which he has 
 made special researches. He is a member of the .Amercan .\nti<|uarian Society. Wor- 
 cester Chaml^er of Commerce, St. Wulstan's Society. Worcester .Art Museum, the 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 University Club of Boston, University Club of New York. He was appointed a trus- 
 tee of the Massachusetts State Library, 1915. 
 
 Dr. Hall married (first) in Berlin, Germany, in 1879, Cornelia Fisher, daughter 
 of James and Julia (Brigham) Fisher. They had two children : Robert and Julia. 
 He married (second) Florence Smith. Mrs. Hall is a member of the Hall Club. 
 
 ALDEN H. SEARS, Former president of the Walker Ice Company, was born in 
 Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 19, 1822, and died in this city, at his home. No. 
 27 West Boylston street, November 4, 1918, aged ninety-six years. Mr. Sears was the 
 son of Philander and Berthias Sears, from whom he inherited his longevity, the former 
 having lived to the advanced age of ninety-two years, and the latter dying at the age 
 of ninety years. Mr. Sears was descended from an historic old New England family, 
 Richard Sears, the emigrant ancestor of his family, being of record as a tax-payer of 
 the Plymouth Colony in 1632, and later as one of the earliest settlers of Yarmouth, on 
 Cape Cod, where he died in 1676. 
 
 Mr. Sears received a common school education, after which he was a student at 
 the Leicester Academy. * As a young man he came to Worcester, where he made his 
 own way in the world without help or influence, being first employed in various manu- 
 facturing establishments in and about this city. Later he was engaged in the grocery 
 business, in which he continued for a time. In 1848 he established himself in the ice 
 business in a small way, which business has since been broadened and expanded, and 
 is now known as the Walker Ice Company, of which he was president for a number 
 of years, up to the time of his death. He was always well and favorably known among 
 agriculturalists for the good crops he planted on his farm, and particularly for rais- 
 ing the best and earliest crops of peas. He made a specialty for many years of raising 
 sweet corn, the size of which won him many blue ribbons at the New England fairs. 
 He was an energetic and thrifty business man, and continued in active business alTairs 
 up to the time of his death. Mr. Sears was a regular attendant of Trinity Methodist 
 Church, and was one of the oldest and stanchest Methodists of this city. He always 
 . took a leading and active part in the activities of the church, and for many years was a 
 member of the choir and the singing committee of the church, and for over fifteen 
 years was a member of the official board. For a period of years he had been a director 
 of the Worcester Hahnemann Hospital. In political belief he was a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Sears had been three times married, his first wife, who was Laura McNiel, 
 living only six months after their marriage. He married (second) Hannah A. Corbin, 
 who died in January, 1902, the inother of three sons, namely: John Alden (see 
 biography) ; Frederick A., who is engaged in the real estate business in this city; and 
 Walter H., who is a practicing dentist of this city. Mr. Sears married (third) Mrs. 
 Sarah J. Stone, of Sutton, Massachusetts. 
 
 JOHN ALDEN SEARS, Former director and manager of the Walker Ice Com- 
 pany, was born in this city, June 12, 1849, and died here, November 12, 1918, eldest son 
 of the late Alden H. and Hannah A. (Corbin) Sears. He acquired his early educa- 
 tional training in the public schools of this city, which was supplemented by an at- 
 tendance at Wilbraham Academy. After leaving school he was for a time engaged 
 as a clerk in a clothing store, but soon became associated with his father in the ice 
 business, under the firm name of A. H. Sears & Company. This association with his 
 father continued uninterrupted until the death of the latter. He continued a member 
 of this firm until it was merged with other companies engaged in the same business 
 into what has since been known as the Walker Ice Company, of which he was long a 
 director and superintendent of their West Boylston street plant, continuing in these 
 capacities until he retired, in June, 1918. Mr. Sears had been actively connected with 
 the ice business of this city for more than fifty years, during which time he had seen 
 it developed and expanded from a small beginning to the present large proportions of 
 the company, which is the result of the consolidation of a number of ice companies of 
 this city. 
 
 Mr. Sears was prominent and active in the business and social life of the city. 
 He was a member of the Board of Aldermen for a time, and was always active and 
 much interested in matters pertaining to the welfare and prosperity of the city. In 
 political faith he was a Republican. In fraternal organizations he was a popular and 
 influential member, having attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry, in the various 
 bodies of which he had passed through the chairs, holding membership in Athelstan 
 Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was past master; Eureka 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester 
 County Commandery, Knights Templar, past most high of Rose Croix, and Massa- 
 chusetts Consistory (thirty-second degree). He was also a member of Aleppo Temple, 
 Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston, and of Aletheia Grotto, of this city. He was 
 
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 also active in Odd Fellow circles, lioldiiij; meniliership in Wiirceslcr l.mlj^e. IikUikiv;- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows; Waclnisett Kiicaiii|imenl, liidciieiuloiil Order o'l Odif !■",■!- 
 lows; and Canton Worcester. Fatriarclis MilitaiU. Indeiu-ndent Order oi Odd rrllmv'-. 
 in all of which bodies he had also held ofVues. lie was also a mumiIhv n\ tlic I'.ciievdleni 
 and Protective Order of Elks, ot this city. 
 
 On October 12, 1870, Mr. Sears was nniu-d in inarriaKC lo Mary .\. Davis, .>t this 
 city, danghter of J. Walter and Myra W. ( Killmrn) Davis, and ,10 liiis miion was born 
 one son. Alden Harry Sears, who died in infamy. .Mr. Sears' home was at .\o. 44 
 West Boylston street, this city. 
 
 GEORGE FLETCHER WRIGHT, W ne Manulactnr.r. s.m ni j-'.i.hraini and 
 Asenath (Fletcher) Wriylu, u ,1.^ burn ni Wesilnnl, Massaclnifitt-. July -'. 1.S.51. and 
 died in Worcester, May 30, 1903. During his ycutli he attended the public scli..,.|s of 
 Westford. In 1850 he was the senior partner of the linn cf WriKlit i\: Hurt, manu- 
 facturers of treadmills operated by liorse power. Tbe factory was nriginally at Har- 
 vard, Massachusetts, but eventually the business w.is jncali-ti at (bnton. b'nr a per- 
 iod of twenty years he was master mechaiiiv- at ibi- Clinton Wire Clcith Ciiin|)any, 
 the pioneer concern in the m:inufacture of wiri- cji.tb in tliis country. In 18K3 lie 
 engaged in the inanufacture of wire cloth and wirr netting on a small scale in I'al- 
 mcr, Massachusetts, under the firm name "f ihr Wright Wire ("loth Conii)inv, in 
 partnership with his two sons, (u'orge M. and Herbert M. Wright. .'\t the start but 
 six men were employed and the firm had but a few thousand dollars of working cap- 
 ital, but within five years si.xty men were employed .•uid the business was on a sidid 
 foundation. At that time the platit was removed to Worcester and tlie firm name 
 became the Wright & Colton Wire Cloth Company, b'our years later the comi)any 
 bought a large wire drawing i)lant in Palmer, and since that time business lias been 
 carried on extensively liotli in Worcester and I'.almer and is now knowti as the 
 W'right Wire Company. 
 
 Mr. Wright married. Septend)(.r 13. 1800. Harriet b'.li/.ilnth Wright, who was born 
 April 16, 1841, at Littleton, Massachusetts, a danghter of Kzekiel Conant and Susan 
 (Stevens) Wright. She was descended from John W'right. who was born in Kngland 
 in 1603, a pioneer of Woburn, Massacliusctts, of which he was selectman many years, 
 deputy to the General Court and deacon of the Woburn cliurch. His son, Joint 
 Wright, Jr.. born 1630, was one of the first settlers of Clitdinsfi>rd. .Massachusetts. 
 a selectman there and a leading citizen. Tbe line continues through Jolm (3). and 
 Mary (Stevens) Wright: Henry (4) and Esther (.-Xdams) Wright; Henry (51 and 
 Sarah (Spaulding) Wright; Stephen (6) and Sarah (I'rescott) Wright to iCzekiel 
 Conant Wright, who married Susan, daugltter of Sampsiui Stevens. Mr. Wright was 
 descended also froin the same Jolin Wright, the pioneer, his son John (2), and grand- 
 son John (3). then his line continues: Jacob (4), F.phraim (5) ;uid .-\bigail (Whitte- 
 more) Wright; Ephraim (6) and Marv (Blodgett) Wright ; Ephraim (7) and .•\senath 
 (Fletcher) .Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Wright li:id two children: (k-orge Merrill (see 
 biography), and Herbert X.. mentioned elsewhere. 
 
 HON. GEORGE MERRILL "WRIGHT, Former may<.r of Worcester, wire manu- 
 facturer, was born in Clint<.n. Massachusetts. April 12. 1865. son of George Fletcher 
 and Harriet Elizabeth (Wright) Wright. He received his education in the |)ubhc 
 schools of his native town, in Foster's Business College. Worcester, and at Monson 
 Academy. In 1882 he became a draughtsman in the office with his father, formerly 
 master tnechanic for the Clinton Wire Cloth Company for twenty years. From early 
 youth he displayed a talent for mechanical drawing, as shown by two specimens ipt liis 
 work that have been preserved, one of a locomotive, cojiied from an old |)rint when he 
 was eleven vears old. the other an original design of a granite monument made m 
 1876. at the 'age of eleven. Within a year from the time he left scliool he was ex- 
 perimenting in the construction of machinery from his own designs. He was asso- 
 ciated with his father, and brother. Herbert X.. in establishing the wire cloth busi- 
 ness at Palmer when he was twentv vears old. and when he became of age he was 
 made general manager of the business, a position lie has held from that time to the 
 present. In 1902 he became treasurer of tlie company, after the retirement ol Samuel 
 H. Colton, and since that time the business has been conducted under the corporate 
 name of the Wright Wire Companv. He was afterward vice-iiresidcut, and since IQ03 
 has been president of the companv. In 1017 an addition to the plant. «)4 by 2.?o. and 
 a boiler house was erected on Canterbury street, near Hammond, lor the wire tence 
 department and ornamental iron department lormerly 111 the Haminond street plant. 
 Further mention of the business will be I'.nind in the cha|iter on Worcester industries. 
 
 The public career of Mr. Wright began m 1000. when be was elected to the Lom- 
 mon Council of Worcester from War<l Six. He served llie committee on education. 
 
864 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 water and finance. After two years in the Council he was elected alderman in 1902, 
 and served on, the committee on water, fire department, military affairs, street light- 
 ing, and as trustee of the City Hospital. In 1912 he. was the Republican candidate for 
 mayor and was elected by two thousand three hundred and thirty, the largest plurality 
 ever given a candidate for his first term. He was re-elected December 9, 1913, by five 
 thousand eight hundred and forty-three, the largest plurality ever given a candidate for 
 mayor in the history of the city. He was re-elected in 1914 and 1915. During the 
 four years of his administration he pursued a broad, liberal, progressive policy, favor- 
 ing the extension of necessary public work in all departments, enforcing economy, re- 
 ducing the municipal debt and conducting the city business with the utmost efficiency 
 and proper dignity. No mayor came into office with better training, and no mayor 
 made a more uniformly creditable record, or left the office with more real friends. 
 Among the many social organizations of which he is a member are Athelstan Lodge, 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Hiram 
 Council, Royal and Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar, 
 and the Massachusetts Consistory; Central Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows; the Worcester Automobile Club; the Worcester Continentals, and the Rotary 
 Club. His wife and family, as well as he himself, are members of Bethany Congrega- 
 tional Church. 
 
 Mr. Wright married Minnie F. Searle, daughter of John F. and Emeline Searle. 
 Children; i. George Francis, born June 1, 1892. 2. Ralph Wyman, born August 12, 
 1894. 3. Florence Marian, born November, 1895. 
 
 ALBERT CURTIS, Manufacturer, who departed this life on July 27, i8g8, at his 
 home in the city of Worcester, a venerable monagenarian, was an active man of 
 business here for nearly seventy years, beginning in May, 1831, as a member of the 
 firm of John Simmons & Company, manufacturers of cloth finishing machinery, and 
 ending as president and treasurer of the Curtis Manufacturing Company, founded 
 by him in January, 1897, seven months before his death. He was widely-known as 
 Albert Curtis, one of Worcester's oldest and most successful manufacturers, and also 
 one of her most worthy and respected citizens. 
 
 Mr. Curtis was born July 13, 1807, on his father's farm in Worcester, on what is 
 now Plantation street, within two miles of his recent home. Ephraim Curtis, his 
 great-grandfather, came from Sudbury, and is said to have been the first white settler 
 in Worcester. As the town grew, Ephraim Curtis became prominent in local affairs. 
 The farm on which he settled comprised one hundred and ninety acres. It remained 
 in the family, coming down from father to son until lately, when it was purchased 
 and converted mostly into city lots. 
 
 Samuel Curtis, born in 1725, son of Ephraim Curtis, was a participant in the 
 Revolution. He became a member of the Legislature, and was prominent in town 
 affairs. His wife was Mary Ward. They had eleven children, six sons and five 
 daughters, nine of whom lived to be very old. The mother died at ninety-five years 
 of age. 
 
 Samuel Curtis, Jr., son of Samuel, Sr. and Mary (Ward) Curtis, was born in 
 Worcester, near Auburn, in 1761. He served in town offices, and was a captain of 
 artillery in the State militia. He married (first) Eunice Flagg, who died leaving 
 eight children. He married (second) Mrs. Eunice (Taft) Stowell, daughter of Josiah 
 Taft and widow of a Mr. Stowell, by whom she had two sons — Alexander and David. 
 Alexander Stowell went to Tompkins county. New York, and thence to Elmira, in 
 that State, where he lived to old age. Of this second union were born three children: 
 Albert; William, who died at sixty-five years of age in Caroline, Tompkins county. 
 New York; and Eunice, who became the wife of Charles P. Bancroft, and died in 
 1893 in Brooklyn, leaving two children. Mrs. Eunice Curtis was a sincere Christian 
 and a member of the Congregational church. She died before 1861. Her mothe/ lived 
 to be ninety-five years old. 
 
 Albert Curtis obtained his education in the common schools, which he attended 
 in his boyhood as he had opportunity. He was but nine years old when his father 
 died, and from that time on he partly earned his own living. For a while he was in 
 his uncle's family at Auburn, and afterward he worked on the farm of an elder brother 
 in New York State. Returning to Worcester at the age of seventeen, he went to learn 
 the trade of machinist with the firm of White & Boyden, serving three years. For 
 the first year he received sixty dollars, for the second eighty dollars, and for the 
 third one hundred and twenty dollars, being allowed three months' schooling each 
 year. After that he continued with the same firm over six years, receiving a dollar and 
 a half a day, being considered a skilled mechanic. At the end of a year he thought 
 of going to Cincinnati, but returned instead to work for his old employer. The next 
 May, 1831, he became one of the firm of John Simmons & Company, Albert Curtis 
 
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 and Al)el Kimball ln'in.t; tin- c.'nipuiiw Tin- lirm in,uiiifai.liirr(I maiLnui ■> {i^r :im-li- 
 ing woolen gouds. Mr. Kinihall k-ll tin- linn witlnn a \i:ir. and hi i.S^i Mr. I miis 
 purchased the interest of Mr. Siinnmiis, and liciaiiu' the ■...|,j nuaier niVlic i)Uuii and 
 business, which he continued tn develop until in pnjsperr.us \rars the sales a!n'i.,]nterl 
 to millions. For four years Mr. William Ili-nshaw uas uuh Mr. Cnrlis. tlu- lirm iiiiii" 
 Curtis & Henshaw. Kdwin T. MarliK- served an apprrntierslnp uilli Allurt ', uriis 
 from 1845 to 1849 :iii'l returned in 1801 as iiartner. wliuh avs.nritiiin coiuiini'-d until 
 1895 under the firm name of Curtis \- Marble. In 18(^5 the lirm dissolved, and fr...n 
 that time Mr. Curtis was engafied in inannlaclnnn.t; wcidcii j;»,ds for men's v.iar. 
 He also for the last thirty of forty years inannfaelnrc-d >liti.liim, drillini,', and >atinels 
 with various brands. In January, 1898, Mr. I nrlis l.iok into p.irtnersliip Clnirles G. 
 Stratton and F. B. Durfee. or.naniziiiK the Curtis .Manut.u tin iiii; tompany. Mr. Cur- 
 tis be.sjan. in 1840, to acquire property and water rights .iIoiil; the Ramshorii strL.im. at 
 New Worcester. Trowbridge\ ille mill was pnreli.isi-d later, in 185J, ;md besiilcs the 
 machine business referred to three mills wen- m.iiiufaeturin^' .at various times 
 satinets, cotton sewiiiK thread, cotton sheetiitys. blankets .and sliawK, to wliieli indus- 
 tries during- and after retiring from the m.aehinist line Mr. Curtis devoUrl hi; ener- 
 gies. Part of the buildings were at times leased to others. L. & .X. (i. Ci>es liegan the 
 wrench business, and L. J. Knowles started his lirst loom in leased room.-, .>f .Mr. 
 Curtis. Remarkably well presiTved mentally and physically, after entering his ninety- 
 second year, he continue(l to go to liis olliee every day to look .after the liu^iiuss. 
 He had some heart trouble, but not so serii'us as to cause .anxiety to his frieiuls. 
 On the 26th of July he was feeling, it is said, uniisiially well, and he went on a lisliing 
 trip to Trow-bridgeville. which lie evidently eiijoyvd, as he spoke of going again. 'I'he 
 evening he spent chatting pleasantly with friends on his pia/z.i. In the morniny of the 
 27th he was found lifeless in bed, his death having been caused by aecidentallv escap- 
 ing gas in his room. 
 
 Mr. Curtis married his first wife in i8,!J. She was tluii a widow. Mrs. li.inrroft, 
 before her marriage Sally K. Houghton. .Sliu had one daugliter, Jane, wife of (.'liarlcs 
 T. Stratton. of New Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis had a fi'ster-daughter. whom 
 they reared and educated. She is now the wife of Dr. ( leorge 1". lialci'in. .-\iter the 
 death of his first wife Mr. Curtis was again married, his second wife being the widow 
 of Charles Griffin, in maidenhood Rosella I'errin. She was the mother of three chil- 
 dren by her first husband. She died .-Xpril 16, i8i)(i, aged seventy-two. Mr. Curtis 
 resided in his' spacious and pleasant lionse at No. ,?S Webstrr street, which lie built in 
 1846 and remodelled in 1878. 
 
 Mr, Curtis was the latest survivor of the last Hoard of Selectmen of the town 
 for the year 1848. He was a member of the first City Council, and in 185- he was an 
 alderman. He was for thirty-si.x years commissioner of Hopi- Cemetery. He was 
 one of the promoters and incorjiorators of the first street railway. He had ,gi>od 
 financial reasons to remember the fact, as it cost him o\er eight thousand dollars, 
 much work, and some worry. He was i)resident of the ( )ld Men's Home, of wliich 
 he was one of the leading promoters. Fie gave one-liali of the land for the (Tld 
 Ladies' Home. The lovely little chapel of l:bTi)e Cemetery ,iKo was given liy him. 
 He was the largest contributor of the Union Congregation.il t'lunch. Mr. Curtis 
 and the Coes family combined gave tlie land for the Webster street school lii>usc. 
 The fine library in the City Hospital was his gift to the city, and he was the largest 
 contributor to the Young Men's Christian .Association and a large e(jntributor to 
 the Young Women's Christian .Association buildings. Most of the fine trees in this 
 part of New AVorcester were planted by Mr. Curtis. The first dam at Curtis Pond, 
 built in 1831 by Charles Hensey. stood' but forty-eight h.iurs. The preseiU d.im. a 
 solid and expensive stone structure, was built by NIr. Curtis in 1877, and was a r,>con- 
 struction of the first one built liy him in i8()8. which was damageil badly by the 
 bursting of the city reservoir. Mr. Curtis' life, it is thu^ seen, was a Inisy am! n.;cful 
 one, as well as successful from a worldly ]ioint of view, l-'ew men have made a 
 better record. His works and lienefactio'ns will remain as lasting momiments *o 
 his memory, 
 
 WILLIAM JOHN CONLON, Former general secretary of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, now vice-president of the Merchants' Natir)nal i'.ank. was born in Gardner, 
 Massachusetts, July i, 1887. He attended the public schools of that town and graduated 
 from the Gardner High School in ic)o6. He be.gan his career as a news writer on 
 the Gardner "News," a dailv owned bv Hon, Levi Greenwood, ex-president of the 
 Massachusetts Senate. Afterward he had charge of the northern section of the 
 countv for the Worcester "Telegram." 
 
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866 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 In 191 1 he came to this city on the staff of the "Telegram," covering the state 
 house and public utilities hearings and later was detailed to the City Hall. He was 
 appointed assistant secretary of the Board of Trade in 1912, and was the first assistant 
 secretary of the Chamber of Commerce after the change in name. Subsequently he 
 became secretary of the Mercantile Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. In February, 
 1916, he was elected general secretary. He resigned in May, 1917, to become vice- 
 president of the Merchants' National Bank of this city, his present position. He is a 
 member of the advisory board of this work. He was one of the organizers and first 
 secretary of the Worcester County Farm Bureau, and is a director of the Travelers' 
 Aid Society and general chairman of the National War Savings Committee for Wor- 
 cester. He is a member of the Worcester Advertising Club, the Rotary Club of Wor- 
 cester, the Worcester Association of Retail Credit Men, the Worcester Chapter of the 
 American Banking Institute, the Commonwealth Club, the Worcester Country Club, 
 the Chamber of Commerce, the Worcester County Farm Bureau. He is also a member 
 of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch 
 Masons ; Hiram Council. Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester County Commandery, 
 Knights Templar ; and the Aletheia Grotto. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Conlon married, in Rockland, Maine, July g, 1914, Ruby Wilson Sanderson, a 
 native of Roslindale, Massachusetts. 
 
 CLEVELAND JOSEPH CRAHAN. Since a youth of eighteen, Mr. Crahan has 
 been connected with the publishing business in some capacity, since 1913 has been 
 publisher of the "Catholic Messenger" of Worcester, arid since 1914 has also published 
 "Landlord and Tenant." He is well-known in the publishing world and has fairly won 
 the high reputation he enjoys. Cleveland J. Crahan is a son of Charles Joseph and 
 Janie A. (Ball) Crahan, his father a tobacco and cigar merchant of St. Louis, 
 Missouri. 
 
 Cleveland Joseph Crahan was born in St. Louis, Missouri, March 23, 1866, and 
 there spent the first eighteen years of his life. He was educated in the parochial school 
 of the parish of St. Rose of Lima and St. Louis High School, finishing in 1884. In 
 that year he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, and there made his first venture in journal- 
 ism in connection with a newspaper of that city. From that year until the present 
 he has continued along the same line of business, his principal connections having been 
 with the Publishers Service Circulation Company of New York City, a newspaper 
 circulation promotion of which he was manager ; The De Luxe Circulation Company, 
 a similar enterprise, of which he was the founder, operating in Canada during 1911-12, 
 and his publishing business in Worcester, 1913-18, which includes the publishing of the 
 "Catholic Messenger" and "Landlord and Tenant" previously referred to. Mr. Cra- 
 han is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and a past lecturer of that order, and of 
 Blessed Sacrament Parish of Worcester. He is fond of hunting big game in far 
 woods, but also enjoys a day's sport with rod and reel. 
 
 Mr. Crahan married, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Louise Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, born 
 in Providence, Rhode Island, daughter of Thomas Francis Fitzsimmons, a retired 
 hardware merchant, and his wife, Catherine Ann (Reilly) Fitzsimmons, who died 
 in 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Crahan are the parents of two children : Cleveland Joseph, 
 Jr., and Helen Louise. 
 
 GEORGE CLIFTON BRYANT, Merchant, of the firm of Besse. Bryant Com- 
 pany, clothiers and gent's furnishers, was born in the town of Wareham, Massachusetts, 
 January 22, 1858, the youngest of nine children of Ebenezar Bryant, of Middleboro, 
 Massachusetts, and Sophia Sampson Bryant, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. His ancestry 
 is traced to Miles Standish. The sterling characteristics of the Pilgrims, who landed 
 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. his friends agree, are reflected in him. His 
 benevolences are felt near and far. He is one of the trustees of Trinity Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, Worcester. Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools 
 of the town and left school at the age of sixteen years to work on his father's farm. 
 At the age of twenty-two, showing business ability, he went to Bridgeport, Connecticut, 
 to work as clerk in the clothing store of Foster, Besse & Company. After three years 
 as clerk, he and L. W. Besse formed a partnership and opened a clothing store in 
 Norwalk, Connecticut. Here, by close attention to business, he was successful. At the 
 end of six years in Norwalk, he looked arotmd for larger opportunities. The cities 
 of Providence and Worcester seemed to offer such opportunities. Mr. Bryant liked 
 Worcester, and said he would rather locate there even if less business was done, so 
 in the fall of 1889 the store of Besse, Bryant Company was opened in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts. Success has followed him. He has one of the best appointed clothing 
 stores in Worcester, occupying five floors. He has built himself a house, where he still 
 resides, at No. 130 Woodland street. He has started two of his nephews in the business 
 world. 
 
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 In January, 1883, Mr. Bryant marntil Ia/aw Oluc Slu-rnian. a tcacluT .n ilic unl>lic 
 schools of Wareham. born in Wari-hani, Massaiinisctts. \ovi-inl)cr 6 18^8 daut'liifr 
 of the late Samuel Trescott Tisdalc and Olive fhinnev ( Besse) Shcrniaii and m.ce 
 of Lyman \V. Besse, of SprinKficld. Massachusetts. They have llirce cliiidnii i 
 CliiTord Trescott, one of the partners of the firm of Hesse, liryant I'omp.iuv In.rn 
 in Norwalk, Connecticut. September 2, 1888: married, in .\\n\\. 1914 Anrelii Iikz 
 Seavey, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and they have one son. (ieorj;e ciiftoM ( m burn 
 in Worcester, Massachusetts, in August, K^i;. 2. Olive Sherman, born in WoTr'ester 
 Massachusetts. October 30, 1896, a Rradnatc of Wellesley ("ollegc. class i()i--i8 1" 
 Lyman George, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, JanuarV 6, iHtx), and a graduate of 
 The Abbott School, Farmington, Maine; he enlisted in the service of "Uncle Sam" 
 in February, 1918, and received an honorable discharge in Jamiary. lyiy. 
 
 TIMOTHY DESMOND. The life of Tinioihy \h-sm,,w\ was live.l under two 
 flags, but when a lad of nine years he came to tlie United Stales, and when in 1862 
 the flag of his adopted country was fired upon, he enlisted for service in the Union 
 Army and for three years participated in the struggle for supremacy between the 
 states of the North and South. He was engaged in some of the hardest-fought battles 
 of that war, but he came through safely and lived to the age c.f si.\ty-fiiiir. He 
 located in Worcester in 1875, and there si)ent the last twenty-seven years' of his life. 
 He was successful in his business and was highly-regarded by'all who knew him. 
 
 Timothy Desmond was born in County Cork. Ireland, j'ainiarv 21, 1838. and there 
 lived until 1847, when he came to the United States. He worked at the leather business 
 for several years, then, in 1862, enlisted in Company H. .Xinth Regiment, ilassachusetts 
 \'olunteers. and served until the close of the war in 1865. when he was honorably dis- 
 charged and mustered out. In 1875 he located in Worcester, where for several years 
 he was engaged in the leather industry. He began dealing in real estate, about 1885. 
 and built several houses in the residence district around Shirley. W'diulluul and 
 Florence streets. He then abandoned the leather business, opened an ofliec in the then 
 new State Mutual building and gave liimself entirely to the real estate business. He 
 purchased the Henry Greaney Estate on William street near West, and there erected 
 the Gladstone, an apartment block, and other buildings. He earnestly supported every 
 movement which promised to promote the welfare of his city and was beliifid in many 
 ways. 
 
 Mr. Desmond was a devout Catholic, one of the benefactors of St. Paul's Church, 
 and treasurer of St. Vincent De I'aul's Society. He was always interested in public 
 affairs and strong in his support of the principles of the Democratic party, bin never 
 sought nor desired office for himself. Outside his real estate operations he had few 
 business interests, but he was one of the incorporators of the Hay .State Bank, and 
 aided in the establishing of other enterprises in which he held an interest. He was a 
 member of George H. Ward Post, No, 10, Grand Army of the Republic. He lived an 
 honorable, upright life, and passed away holding the respect and esteem of every man 
 w'ho knew him. He died in Worcester, March 23, IQ02, and was laid at rest in St. 
 John's Cemetery, escorted there by a guard of honor from his Grand Army post. 
 Funeral services were held in St. Paul's Church, requieum high mass being celebrated 
 by Rev. P. H. Boland. The flag of George H. Ward Post rested upon the casket, and 
 the floral tributes were many. The bearers were; Michael Bergim, of Waltham ; 
 Daniel J. Sweeney, of Providence: Dennis Dimeen, of Hopkinton; John F. Sweeney, 
 of New Bedford; Matthew J. Lamb, Jeremiah F. Healey, C. F. Maher, and John 
 Brophy, of Worcester. 
 
 Timothy Desmond married, November 25, 1869, Ellen Mead, of Hopkinton, Massa- 
 chusetts, and they were the parents of two sons: Clarence F., born January 21, 1872, 
 a graduate, M. D., of Harvard, No. 19 Portland street, Worcester; and Walter J., 
 born February 3, 1876; graduate of Harvard, law, now post master df Long Be:ich, 
 California. 
 
 The following appreciation appeared in the Worcester "Telegram," March 25, 1902: 
 
 TIMOTHY DESMOND. The heart of Timothy Desmond has parted from Its life- 
 span of g-enial warmth, and the cold, black gloom of the grave now encircles It. 
 That countenance, so uniformly lightened by the spirit of a Catholic Christian, a man 
 and a gentleman, is quietly betaking itself Into the dust from whence it sprang. 
 
 Not once again, except in memory, shall it be given to grasp his hand in that 
 truly kind, respectf ■! manner which none could otherwise feel who know him. The 
 story of his remark ible life he tells no more. Some of history's blomhcst battle.s 
 had him as Its participant. Well indeed may America he proud of him and grateful 
 to him, and such as he, who stood unflinchingly by her from the beginnmg to the 
 end of her time of sorest trial, and freedom, that which he knew not on the dear old 
 sod which bore him, he fought for here that the black man might enjoy. 
 
 Because of his ability and industry, the trade he pursued lay mastered at hW 
 feet. That keen discernment which viewed to him his worth on earth as a man, and 
 the redemption he wrought in the hereafter as a child of God. coupled with that 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 lieaveiiboin gift, a masti-iful will, enabled him to shun the dangers of life, and to 
 make sueiess truly his own. in its truest and broadest sense. 
 
 That fresh iriade mound itiforms that all is over. The winds of springtime mingle 
 among the leafless boughs and sing a plaintive dirge. Spring and summer, autumn 
 and winter will come and go in regular order, but our dear friend moves not; earth 
 makes that stilled frame its own. Let us hope, however, that one of Heaven's 
 many mansions is the dwelling place of his spirit. 
 
 Holy angels are his companions; and now the Beatific Vision fills him with 
 supremist delight. His body is now as nothing; his soul everything, and his coAint- 
 less good acts of a lifetime are its ornaments, T. A, W, 
 
 THOMAS SMITH, Manufacturer of bolts, nuts and washers, was Ijorn in Rindse, 
 New Hampshire, May ii, 1815, and died in this city, December 3, 1896, son of Thomas 
 and Hepsibath Jewett (Piper) Smith, His father was born in Leominster, January 10, 
 1786, and his mother in Rindge, January 2/, 1787. He was descended froin pioneer 
 stock in various ancestral lines. 
 
 Thomas Smith established the business which he conducted for many years in 
 partnership with William Conkey. in the Phelps & Bickford shop on Prescott street 
 in 1854, This shop was afterward a part of the Washburn & Moen wire mill. In 
 1855 the business was moved to the Merrifield building, where it has since been 
 located. The firm built its own presses and also built some for sale to other manu- 
 facturers. The principal product of the Thomas Smith Company from the beginning 
 was nuts, bolts and washers. For some years the firm made mowing machine knives 
 also, but finally sold that part of the business. In 1861 E. W. Nichols was admitted 
 to the firm, remaining a partner for ten years. After the death of Mr, Conkey, Mr. 
 SiTiith contiiuied in business alone under the old firm name until the time of his death. 
 He was a Republican in politics and served the city in the Common Council. He was 
 a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. 
 
 Mr. Smith married (first) at Ware, September 30, 1841, Phebe Grover ; (sec- 
 ond) at New Ipswich, New Hainpshire, December 10, 1846. Mary Ann Wheeler, 
 who was born at New Ipswich, March 12, 1823. daughter of Richard and Rebecca 
 (Wilson) Wheeler, Her father was born at New Ipswich, June 20, 1791, died there 
 May 25, 1882; her mother was born there July 19, 1795, died there May 18, 188.2, 
 Children by first wife : i. Dora Jane, born September 20, 1842, married, November 19, 
 1868, Amos P, Cutting, 2, Walter Willey, born October 2^, 1845 (deceased). By 
 second wife: 3. Ella Marianna, born December 11, 1855, married Frank W, Foye, 
 
 JOHN P, COGHLIN, President and treasurer of the Coghlin Electric Company, 
 was born in Milford, October 5, 1869, son of James Joseph Coghlin and Catherine A. 
 (Taft) Coghlin, and the eldest of ten children, all living (1918), He _ attended the 
 public schools of his native town and the high school of Southboro, frotu which he 
 graduated in 1888. He then took a special preparatory course at Worcester Academy, 
 and in i88g entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 
 1893, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In 1905 he was given the degree of 
 Electrical Engineer. While a student, he made part of his expenses by designing and 
 making electric motors and generators. Immediately after his graduation, he formed 
 the Columbia Electric Company, to manufacture dynamos and motors, and to install 
 electric plants, having its place of business at 180 Union street, and afterward having 
 an office in the Burnside Building. In 1897 he sold out his interests in this company, 
 and soon afterwards organized the Central Electric Company, with headquarters at 
 311 Main street, dealing in electric supplies and apparatus, and installing electric plants. 
 Subsequently he bought the Page Electric Company, which was established in 1885, 
 the pipneer concern in this business, located on Pearl street. He consolidated the 
 two concerns and incorporated the business under the name of the Page Electric Com- 
 pany, removing soon afterwards from 28 Pearl street, to 24-26 Pearl street, Mr. 
 Coghlin was the principal owner, president and treasurer of the company. The business 
 was afterward located at 234 Main street, but since 191 1 has been in its present building, 
 257-259 Main street. The corporate name was changed from Page Electric Company 
 to Coghlin Electric Company, in 1907, 
 
 During the first year, after acquiring the business of the Page Electric Company, 
 the total business amounted to ten thousand dollars. In the year 1917, the total was 
 nearly half a million dollars. At first he employed ten or twelve men, now the com- 
 pany has a regular force of about one hundred. Four floors of the building are 
 occupied by the company for offices, show rooms, stock, work and assembly departments. 
 In 1902 a jobbing department was added and several traveling salesmen covered the 
 New England States. At that time it was the only jobbing house in electrical supplies 
 in New England outside of Boston and Providence. The wholesale department has 
 grown to large proportions. In 1907 Mr. Coghlin added an electric fixture department, 
 and in 1913 an electric appliance department. 
 
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 The contractiiiH work of Mr. Coulilm's c.Tiii.anv has bii'ii virnti in 
 Among some of the electric jilants tliat he m^talh-il are the lollcu,,,,. ' ",),,. \v.,r- i r 
 Sewerage Plant; the factory of Isaac I'routv Com|,aiiv. at Spencer'^ ihe Si-u- H 
 pital at Westhoro; the l^iyal Worcester Ccirsct ('oni]iaii>: ami the Sii.uiir.l' IMi '-' 
 Elevator Company. • . < irii,'er 
 
 He had the contract, ainountnif; to aliout live Inimlred tlum^and .l,.ll-ir~ i „ ih 
 electric system of the Worcester & .Southhrid.i;e Street Kadwav Cimpanv tlie InM hieh 
 tension system m this section ol the country; the |.lant oi ihe Xationai Food Com- 
 pany at Niagara Falls, amounting to ahont two hniidred thousaiul dollars- the Sao 
 & Pcttee Machine Works, now the Lowell Textile Company of IJidd'elord M-ni,,- 
 Lowell & Newton. Upper F'alls. Massachnsetts ; the X..rton Company al Worcester it 
 a cost of about one hundred thousand dollars; the Hopkins & .Mlc'n Nrnn Comp-'inv 
 ai Norwich, Connecticut; the Muttertield t"om|janv al Rock Mand Oiiebec • Mills 
 Woven Cartridge Belt Company, al Worcester; and Boiler Plant for the~Lihertv Plaiit 
 at Squantum which made torpedo boat destroyers. <his plant being erected in' Provi- 
 dence, the electrical contracting of which amounted to about seventy-tive thousand 
 dollars, and was installed in six weeks, reipiiring al times one hundred and liitv iVicn 
 Mr. Coghhn had the contracts for electrical wiring, tixture- and equiimient for the 
 Houghton Block. Front street; the I'ederal Building; Union Church- St |„liii's 
 Church; St. Joseph's Church; Si. Vincent's Hospital; part of the Citv 1 1.. -pital 'build- 
 ings ; the Wellington Hotel. North .Adams, .\Iiiss., tliree liigli school bu'ildings m Provi- 
 dence, R. I., the high school Imilding in Cardiner. the "Nelson Theatre, Si>ringbel(l 
 the Worcester Insane Asylum. Summer street; the (irafton State Hospital; Slater 
 Building; Polls Theatre, Kim street, llie I'laza Theatre; the Tluile Building- the 
 Alumni Building at the College of Ihe Holy Cross; the Castro Theatre, h'all River 
 Massachusetts; the Mohican Building, now the .Moliicaii Hotel, at .\ew London! 
 Connecticut; the residences of M. j. Whittall, Mrs, l-~. 11. Kiiowles. .-X. 1'. Cristy Mr-;" 
 F. P. Goulding, C. A. Hill, Hon. Joseph H. Walker, that of L. !•". Gordon, now'owm-d 
 by Lucius J. Knowles ; Worcester Polytechnic Insiiiute. .-Munini Building. Worcester 
 Country Club, and hundreds of others throughout the city. .\ew l-'nglaiid. New \'ork 
 State and Canada. 
 
 Mr. Coghlin's thesis at the lime of receiving his degree of l-;iectrical l-jigincer at 
 the W'orcester Polytechnic liislitule was based on the experience gained during the 
 construction of the Southbridge h^lectric Road, considering the c<inimercial engineering 
 point of view in work of this kind. 
 
 Mr. Coghlin purchased the property <iccuiiie<l by the business at J.s.;--'')7 Main 
 street, and Nos. t-ig Central street, in loi.?. The building covers a lot loo by jno 
 feet. The property was originally part of the Heywoi'd estate. ;ind in ni.ikin'g the 
 transfer Mr, Coghlin purchased the second mort.gage exer issued by the State Mutual 
 Life .\ssurance Company, issued January 25, 1847. 
 
 From time to time Mr. Coghlin has delivered public addresses on subjects per- 
 taining to his profession as electrical engineer, ami has contributed to various news- 
 papers and periodicals. A paper that he read at Siiringfield, September. 1015. at the 
 New England Electric Contractors' Convention on. "How to Estimate Cost and Keep 
 Accounts," attracted w-idespread attention among electrical engineers and contractors. 
 He was obliged to keep tw-o stenographers busy for some linn- in answering the cor- 
 respondence which this paper elicited. 
 
 He was one of the founders of the Worcester .Auti ■mobile t'liib, and for several 
 years a member of the board of directors; vice-president and president, and continues 
 to be one of the most enthusiastic members. He has been an officer and president 
 in the State Association of Automobile Clubs, and a member of the executive com- 
 mittee of the American .Automobile .Association, Mr. Coghlin has made the acquaini- 
 ance of the racing judges and ofhcers of the various automobile associates in this 
 country and Europe, having made nine trips abroad, and taking a keen interest in the 
 development of the automobile. 
 
 ^^r. Coghlin is a rnemher of various scientilic organi/alions and has l)eeii vice- 
 president of the National Electrical Contraclors' .'\ssociation. and president of the 
 Electrical Contractors' -Association of jMassachusetts. He is a member also of the 
 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the .American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
 neers, the Engineers' Club of Boston, the Boston .Athletic Club. He is a director of the 
 Worcester County Employers' Association, and was a director of the Merchants' .A.sso- 
 ciation, now part of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member ol the Wor- 
 cester Country Club, the Comrnonw-ealth Club; the Worcester Coniincntals ; of the 
 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Builders' Kxcliange ; the Chamber of 
 Commerce; the Tatassit CTanoe Club; the Economic Club, the L'nited Commercial 
 Travellers' Association of Worcester, and many (jlhcr organizations. He has been 
 president of the Worcester Branch of the .Alumni .Association of the Worcester 
 
870 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Polytechnic Institute. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Roman Catholic, a 
 communicant of St, Peter's Church, Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 He married, July 28, 1896, Josephine A. Callahan. Their home is at 25 Richards 
 street. Children: John, born in Worcester. May 4, 1897; Caroline, January 2, 1901 ; 
 Edwin, October 19, 1902. 
 
 WILLIAM WALKER JOHNSON, Former president of the Ware-Pratt Com- 
 pany, was born in Slirewsbury, Massachusetts, July 25, 1847, son of George Washing- 
 ton and Alona (Walker) Johnson. Mr. Johnson is descended from the early pioneers 
 of the Commonwealth. The paternal line of ancestry is: William W. (9), George 
 Washington (8), Thomas (7), Peter (6), Solomon (5), Daniel (4), John (3), Solomon 
 (2), Solomon (i), (see early settlers). He is descended from the Eatons who were 
 among the earliest permanent settlers here. 
 
 When he was six years of age his parents cama to Worcester and he attended 
 the Worcester public schools for several years. Later the family moved to Holden, 
 Massachusetts, and he attended school there until he was seventeen years old. He 
 then entered the employ of Trowbridge & Weatherby, of Westboro, clothiers and 
 tailors. After one year with that firm he removed to Worcester, in 1865, and entered 
 the employ of A. P. Ware & Company, clothiers and tailors. In 1871 he was admitted 
 to partnership in this firm. The firm of A. P. Ware & Company had been established 
 in 1847 and were pioneers in Worcester in the ready-made clothing business. In 
 January, 1866, a branch firm under the name of Ware & Pratt was formed and was 
 managed by Henry S. Pratt who was for many years a partner in the Ware-Pratt 
 Company. At the end of three years the two firms, which had been located in the old 
 Paine block, were united and moved to the store in the new First National Bank 
 building, Nos. 408 and 412 Main street. At that time the manufacture of clothing for 
 the retail trade was begun on a much larger scale than before. Mr. Ware retiring 
 from the business in 1871, a new firm was formed under the old name, consisting 
 of Henry S. Pratt, Edward T. Wardwell and Mr. Johnson, and continued thus for 
 seven years, when Mr. Johnson sold his interest to his partners. Two years later 
 Mr. Wardwell died and Mr. Johnson again became a partner. The business contmued 
 as a partnership until January 25, 1888, when it was incorporated under the present 
 name, the Ware-Pratt Company, of which Mr. Johnson was president, Mr. Pratt, 
 treasurer, and Charles E. Black, clerk. Some of the stock of the company was 
 apportioned among the salesmen and other employees of the concern. The company 
 at that time manufactured most of the goods sold in its store and maintained also 
 a large business in custom tailoring. The place of business was moved to the State 
 Mutual building upon its completion, October i. 1898, occupying half of the street 
 floor and a large workshop in the rear. In 1908 even more commodious quarters 
 were taken in the Slater building and the business removed thither to the present 
 location. No. 400 Main street, when that building was erected. In 191 1 Mr. Johnson 
 retired from business and has devoted his time since then to the care of his real estate 
 and other investments. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is vice-president of the People's Savings Bank, and has been a mem- 
 ber of the board of investment for twenty-five years. He is a member of Athelstan 
 Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; 
 Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester County Commandery, Knights 
 Templar, of which he was ancient commander in 1902-03 and has been for many years 
 one of the trustees of the permanent funds. He is also a member of the Woi-cester 
 Lodge of Perfection ; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem, of which he was elected 
 sovereign prince in 191 1; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croi.x; the Massachusetts 
 Consistory; Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has been grand commander 
 of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 
 to which office he was unanimously elected in 1913. In politics he is a Republican 
 and for many years was active in the organization of his party, serving as delegate 
 to State and other nominating conventions. He attends Union Congregational 
 Church. He is a member of the Worcester Club ; Tatnuck Country Club ; The Wor- 
 cester Agricultural Society; Chamber of Commerce; Massachusetts Society, Sons 
 of the Revolution ; Worcester Art Museum ; Worcester County Mechanics' Asso- 
 ciation. He was president in 1906 of the Worcester Merchants' Association, which 
 was afterward made part of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of 
 the board of trustees of Worcester Academy for many years. 
 
 In his business career in Worcester, extending over a period of fifty years, Mr. 
 Johnson has exhibited unusual business initiative and ability and has acquired a 
 reputation for sound judgment in business and financial circles. His firm, the Ware- 
 Pratt Company, became under his leadership the largest and most progressive firm 
 of its kind in this part of the Commonwealth. In business and banking organizations 
 

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 :mne 
 
 Mr. Johnson married. May 24. 1871, at Westhnn.. Ma<^aclulSl•tt< Mary Luv 
 A. Trowbridge, Imrn July 28, 1848. dauRliter of l.,?cpli .-X. and Marv I'" \ (Cl'irk) 
 Trowbridge, ot Westboro, Massacluisctts. Children: i. Marv Luvanne; born -Xnri 
 ^\^]^J?' "I^T'fd November 20, 1895. Kl'on Franei. TI„„„pson (sec biography). 
 2. Walter Trowbridge born September 25. 1876, nmv with the Ware-I'ratt Company, 
 married Catherine L. Whipple, children : N'anov and Waller '1' Ir 5 Fdith Clark 
 born February 5, 1879. married, June 10. ic)o8, l.ilm h'.irquhar. ' ' ' ' 
 
 CHESTER TAPLEY PORTER, Educator, has for twentv-one years been asso- 
 ciated with the Worcester Classical High School. Mr. Porter xvas ho'rn December -jo 
 1874, m Daiivers, Massachusetts. His parents were loseph Franklin and Ella lacolis 
 (Tapley) Porter, both of whom were also born in Danvcrs, Massachusetts. "There 
 he was educated in the public and high schools, graduating from the Danvers High 
 School in 1891. In 1802 he was graduated from the Worcester .Academy. He then 
 entered Amherst College where he took part in different college activities. In 1894 
 he accompanied the Cdee Club on its trip to England. He was leader of tlie (;iee 
 Club in his Senior year and for his whole course was a member of tlie class quartet, 
 an organization famous in its day in Amherst. In 189(1 he received the degree of 
 Bachelor of Arts from that institution of learning and immediately following he 
 secured a position as Principal of the Slirewsbury High School, where he remained 
 two years. He then became an instructor in malhematics at the Worcester Classical 
 High School which position he held until 1914 when he was apiiointed assistant 
 principal of that institution. In 191 7 he was made the Principal. Mr. Porter was for 
 three years bass soloist at the Pilgrim Congregational Church. He then served in that 
 capacity from 1899 to 1900 at the First Baptist Church and from tliat time to the 
 present (1919) he has been the bass soloist and director at the First L'nitarian Church. 
 He is a past master of the Morning Star Lodge of Ancient h'ree and .\ccepted Masons 
 and District Deputy Grand Marshal of the Tvventy-lirst Masonic District for the years 
 of 1917 and 1918. He has been president of the Worcester Oratorio Society since 191 1. 
 He is a member of the W'orcester Club; the Tntnuck Country Club; the Worcester 
 County Teachers' Association; the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club; the Worces- 
 ter Principals' Club; and of the Worcester Tennis Club. Mr. Porter is a very en- 
 thusiastic player of tennis and has held cliampionships in "singles" and in "doubles" at 
 various times in local tournaments in this state and in New Hampshire and N'ermont. 
 He is second lieutenant of Company H. Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts State 
 Guard, organized for local service during the war. 
 
 On June 29. 1909. Mr. Porter was married to Ciertrude Dunton Stone of Worcester. 
 They have '>ne son. Jolin Wolcott l^orter. born June m. igio. who is now in school. 
 
 ARTHUR WILLIAM CROSBIE. When a cbil.l of twelve months Artlin-- W_. 
 Crosbie was brought from his English home by his pareiil> who settled in the city of 
 Worcester, Massachusetts. That was in 1893. and in Worcester Mr. Crosbie has won a 
 unique place as an accomplished musician and professiiiiial coach for minstrels, 
 cabarets, musical comedies, and all amateur productions. He is a son of William 
 Crosbie, born in Liverpool. England, July 18, 1854, and now a painting contract ir of 
 Worcester. He married Sarah Jane Pirady, born in Liverpool. England. Scpteniher 
 28, 1853. died in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 22. 1018. Foiir_ of their ten 
 children are living, all sons and musicians and resicients of Worcester: Iulwaril_ Pliilii), 
 a musician, married Katherine E. Hannigan, and has live children : Mary. Kilward, 
 William, James, and Margaret; Cr<rporal Thomas James, now a bandinan in the 
 One Hundred and First Regiment, United States Infantry, in France, unmarried: 
 Herbert F., a musician, married Isabelle R, Gaffiiey, and has live children: Isabclle, 
 Eleanor. Mary, William, and Thomas; Arthur William, of further mention. 
 
 Arthur William Crosbie was born in London, England. February 7. i8g2. but a year 
 later the family came to the United States, locating in Wcn-cester, Massachusetts, 
 which city has since been the family home. He attended public sclniol until the age 
 of fourteen, when he became a clerk, being then a student in South High School. His 
 
872 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 first position was as a grocer's clerk, but later he was for two years a student at Holy 
 Cross College. The family musical talent early developed in Arthur W.. and at the 
 age of five years he began taking lessons on the cornet. He first played in public in 
 Pilgrim Church at the age of six. at the age of eleven began the study of the piano, 
 and on May 5, 1915, took part in a musical extravaganza given by the Knights of 
 Columbus, and has since been continually in the public eye as a musical .entertainer, 
 instructor and professional coach. He is the leader of Crosbie's Orchestra. No. 10 
 Southbridge street. Worcester, maintains a studio at Room 9. He is an adept in his 
 art, which he perfected in the New England Conservatory of Music, and under the 
 instruction of Arthur J. Bassett. Modiste Alloo, and Emil MoUenhauer. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Worcester County Music Association, and is highly-regarded by his pro- 
 fessional associates and music lovers. Mr. Crosbie's instruments are the piano and 
 cornet. He organized the Eighteenth Infantry Massachusetts State Guard Band under 
 Captain N. J. Skerrett and Colonel John F. Hurley. He conducted the third and 
 fourth Liberty Loan community sings on City Hall plaza. 
 
 Mr. Crosbie is a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church ; the Knights of 
 Columbus; Holy Cross Court, Catholic Order of Foresters: Worcester Lodge of Elks. 
 He is a member of Company G, Ninth Infantry Massachusetts National Guard for 
 six years. He served on the Mexican border from June until November, 1916. Was 
 appointed assistant bandleader of the Ninth Infantry Massachusetts National Guard 
 band. He is a member of the Worcester Brass Band. 
 
 Mr. Crosbie married, in Worcester, July 11, 1917, Mae Isabelle Goodwin, born there, 
 daughter of William and Ellen (Burke) Goodwin, her father born in Providence, 
 Rhode Island, her mother in Ireland, both now residing in Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Crosbie are the parents of a daughter, Barbara Jane, born in Worcester, March 30, 
 igi8. The family home is at No. 45 Chatham street. 
 
 RICHARD CHESTER CLEVELAND, Head of the Smith-Green Company, was 
 born in Danville, Quebec, September 30, 1871, son of Clarence Chester and Fluvia E. 
 (Cleveland) Cleveland. When fourteen years old he went to Beloit, Wisconsin, to 
 school and there fitted for college. He entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
 where he was graduated in 1893. He returned to his home in Canada and worked for 
 a time for the Rand Drill Company of Montreal. In 1894 he came to Worcester and 
 associated himself with the Smith-(jreen Company. After the business was incorporat- 
 ed he became treasurer of the company, and in 1897, after the death of Jesse Smith, 
 he became president and treasurer. The retail meat and grocery business was sold 
 a few years later to Walker Armington and the entire attention of the company given 
 to the lime and cement business. The other officers of the corporation were: Mrs. 
 Jesse Smith, and Mrs. Cleveland, who was clerk of the corporation. Mr. Cleveland is 
 a member of Quinsigamond Lod.ge, Free Masons, Hiram Council. Royal and Select 
 Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar: of the Tatassit Canoe 
 Club, the Automobile Club, Cirafton Country Club, the Uptown Club, the Tatnuck 
 Country Club, the Worcester Club. Quinsigamond Boat Club, Boston Athletic Club. 
 Lambs Club of New York. He is a director of the Merchants National Bank of 
 Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Cleveland married Gertrude Elizabeth Smith, born in Worcester, April 13, 
 1872, daughter of Jesse and Jane (Hopcroft) Smith. Their home is at No. 9 Ashland 
 street. Children: Bruce Cleveland, born May 31, 1897: Chester Bissell, May 22, 1962, 
 now ( 1917) in the Ambulance service in France. 
 
 GEORGE TILTON RICHARDSON, Editor of the Worcester "Evening Post," 
 is a native of Boston, and was educated at the Highland Military Academy, Worces- 
 ter, the Boston Latin School and the College of Libera! Arts of Boston University. 
 He has been city editor of the Boston "Advertiser" and Boston "Evening Record" ; 
 managing editor, chief editorial writer and dramatic critic of the Boston "Traveler" ; 
 managing editor of the Providence, Rhode Island, "Daily News"; editor of "Human 
 Life Magazine" and of the "Boston Chamber of Commerce News." He has been 
 editor-in-chief of the Worcester "Evening Post" since 1914. He is the author of 
 various books, plays and magazine stories. He is a member of the Theta Delta Chi 
 fraternity, of the Rotary Club, Worcester Chamber of Commerce and the Worcester 
 Country Club. He was on the stafif of Major George S. Merrill, commanding the 
 First Battalion of Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He is a Democrat 
 in politics. Mr. Richardson married Cara Barnard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 
 May 24, 1901. Their home is at No. 7 Haviland street. Worcester. 
 
 HENRY BARNES JOHNSON, Business man. son of Henry O. and .A.nn E. 
 (Barnes) Johnson, was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, December 12, 1864. He was 
 
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 educated in the public schools ,,t Uplcii. Massachusrits. Wlioii a v.nnii; man m the 
 age of eighteen years, he hecame connected with Ihe Wick- Mamifaclunii" Cnniniiv 
 in Worcester in a minor position, remaining with this concern alxnil ihree'~ veir^' In 
 the fall of 1885 he was given a position with E. T. Smilli X- Company whoksak -mccrs 
 of this city, in the clerical de])artineiit, and alter a year's time was" given a 'l.o^i'ti,.n a- 
 salesman, m which he continued until 1805. Subseqneiulv lie went to Wlnie River 
 Junction. Vermont, as treasurer and manayer <,f tlie Crois-Ahbott fompaiiv whole- 
 sale grocers, remaining there until 1800". and then return. -d to Worcester Viid with 
 Henry J. Kettell and Charles II, R..binsou l.irnud the |,,hn>on & Ket'tell Companv 
 wholesale grocers, which sldl contmues. He is a meinbcr of the Commonwealth Club 
 Worcester Economic Club, Chamber of Commerce, ami the Masonic order 
 
 Mr. Johnson married .^della 1.., daughter 01 Harrison H. and Catharine (Xicob) 
 Shuniway. of Douglass, Massacliiisetts. Children: Kalluririe 1... .\. Louise. .-\bbv and 
 Laura S. 
 
 JAMES ARTHUR FOSTER, Well-kn.mn lumberman, while not a lifelo,,- resi- 
 dent of Worcester, is suf'tuienil\ known, however, and has become ideiitibed wiVh one 
 of the city's leading trades which jilaces him in the ranks of the active young business 
 men here. It would seem from the fact that he and his brother. Marctis L.. wdio also 
 follows the lumber business in this city, that it is an inherited tendency, as his father 
 likewise dealt in building material and was a contractor. 
 
 James .Arthur Foster, son of Llewellyn and Alarion (c:arpenter) Foster, and 
 brother of Marcus L.. Grace j. and Garrett H. Foster, was born in Oswego. Xcw York, 
 July 28. 1884. where the family lived and were well known residents, .-Kfler receiving 
 a good education in the iiublic and high schools, also a business ctdlege of his native 
 city, he became connected in igoi with the (Jeneral Electric Comiiany at Schenectady, 
 New York, as a clerk in the production department, remaining here seven years, gain- 
 ing a wide experience in the knowdedge of electrical apparatus. Subsetiucnlly he 
 studied law for about a year and a half at Oswego in the offices of Co<ni & Coon, 
 well-known attorneys, and while here he was offered a ijosition as claim adjuster with 
 the Xew York Safety Reserve Fund, an insurance coriioratioii at Syracuse. .\ew York. 
 After two years in the insurance business he removed lo Worcester. Massachusetts, 
 in 1911. where he became mana.ger of the Stone & Foster Lumber Company, in wdiich 
 his brother. Marcus L,. was president and treasurer. In February, I<jl8. this coin|>any 
 discontinued business, and a month later he became associated with the J. I', liick- 
 nell Lumber Company here and has continued since. He was a member of the Worces- 
 ter Country Club and now is a member of the Shrewsbury Club and the Sons of 
 Veterans. In politics he is a staunch Kepnblican. He and his family are members of 
 the Baptist church. 
 
 Mr. Foster married Helen L.. daughter of .'Xugiistus and Jennie 'I". (Thompson) 
 Mosher. of Schenectady. Xew York. They have one child. Jane C. 
 
 ■WILLIAM JAMES DENHOLM, P.usiness man. was born in Worcester, \iassa- 
 chusetis. .April 24. 1873. son of William .'Mexander and (irace (McLay) Deiihcdm. He 
 was educated in the public schools of Worcester, graduating from tbe high school in 
 1891, He then entered the building business of Xorcross Brothers for a year and half, 
 leaving same to attend Dalzell's School in iirejiaration for college. He graduated from 
 Harvard College, Bachelor of .Arts, class of iSy;. After graduating he re-entered 
 the business of Xorcross Brothers, and on its incorporation, in igtH, became its vice- 
 president, which office he held for fifteen years, retiring from this company in 1916. 
 
 In 1917 Mr. Denholm with others organized the Xational Sales Machine Coiiii)any. 
 of which he was chosen vice-president. In 1018 the Xational Sales Machine Company 
 absorbed by purchase The Hobbs Manufacturing Company of Worcester, running the 
 two companies as separate concerns. 
 
 Mr. Denholm was a trustee of Worcester Public Library for six years, froui 1906 
 to 1912. and during the last year of his term was iiresident of the board. In iiohtics he 
 has always been a Republican. In religious connection he is a member ol Old South 
 Congregational Church. Mr. Denholm has been greatly interested in .Masonic matters. 
 being a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Free and .Accepted Masons; Kureka C haii- 
 ter. Royal -Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest; Hiram Council. Royal and 
 Select Masters; Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar; Worcester Lodge 
 of Perfection; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; Goddard Council, Princes 01 Jeru- 
 salem ; Massachusetts Consistory. .Ancient .Aceeiited Scottish Rite; .Aletheia Grotto. 
 Veiled Prophets, and Alleppo Teinide. Xobles of the .Mystic Shrine. He is a member 
 of the Worcester Club. Tatnuck Country Club, and the Harvard Clubs of W orc.ster. 
 Boston and Xew York. 
 
874 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Denholm married, in Worcester, April 17, 1898, Mabel Ellen Norcross, daugh- 
 ter of Orlando W. Norcross, of Worcester. They have one daughter, Margaret, born 
 April 17, 1900, who was educated in the Worcester public schools and Miss Porter's 
 School of Farmington, Connecticut. 
 
 CHARLES SUMNER HOLDEN. Captain John Holden. of Holden, Massa- 
 chusetts, was an officer of the Revolutionary^ Army, and grandfather of John Holden, 
 born in Holden, who married Mary Julia Stetson, born in Old Town, Maine, and they 
 were the parents of Charles Sumner Holden, born in Holden, Massachusetts, May 2, 
 1859. 
 
 Charles S. Holden was educated in Holden public schools, and until 1889 was a 
 textile mill worker. Since that year he has been continuously engaged in the manu- 
 facture of hosiery, being now president and manager of the Aetna Hosiery Company 
 of Worcester, also president of the Aetna Waste Company. Mr. Holden is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, serving his ward in Common Council, 1900-04, and in 1903 sit- 
 ting as president of that body. He was a charter member of Company H, Second 
 Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard, and in the service of the State, 1889- 
 1900. He was a member of Company C five of those years, serving as a private, 
 promoted sergeant in 1894, second lieutenant in 1896, and in 1898 was in Cuba with the 
 American forces, captain in command of the Massachusetts National Guard; he was 
 honorably discharged and mustered out in 1900. He is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional Club, Kawanis Club, and Congregational church, and of the Directors & 
 Employees Association. 
 
 Captain Holden married, in Holden, May 2, 1881, Emma Louise Morse, born in 
 Natick, Massachusetts, daughter of Horace B. and A. Elizabeth Morse, her parents 
 both born in Natick. Captain and Mrs. Holden are the parents of five children: Alice 
 M. Harlan, of the United States Army Aerial service, holding a captain's commission; 
 Elizabeth, Louise B., Roger M. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD KENNEY. When Thomas Kenney, grandfather of John E. 
 Kenney, came from Galway, Ireland, to the United States, he located in West Boylston, 
 Massachusetts, in May, 1847, and there his son, Thomas Henry Kenney, was born. 
 Thomas Kenney married Julia Narin, also born in Ireland, and both died in West 
 Boylston. Thomas Henry Kenney moved from West Boylston to Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, where he was variously employed until the last five years of his life, when 
 he retired to his farm near Sterling. He married Elizabeth Moriarity, born in Fitch- 
 burg, who survives him, residing with her son, John E., at his home in Leicester. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Kenney were the parents of six children: Mary E., residing with her mother 
 and brother; Edward A., an attorney of New York City, married Jennie Linkletter; 
 John E., of further mention; Julia E., residing with the family in Leicester. Two 
 children died in infancy. 
 
 John E. Kenney, son of Thomas Henry and Elizabeth (Moriarity) Kenney. was 
 born in Worcester, February 25, 1891. Until the age of sixteen he attended St. John's 
 school at Clinton, Massachusetts, then entered Holy Cross College, at Worcester, 
 continuing a student there until 1909. He then began legal study at Georgetown 
 University, Washington, D. C, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Laws, class of 
 
 1912. He was associated in practice with Senator David I. Walsh, of Fitchburg, until 
 
 1913, then returned to Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar, and has since 
 practiced his profession continuously, his offices at No. 925 Slater building. 
 
 Mr. Kenney since 1916 has been solicitor for the town of Leicester; is a member 
 in the Massachusetts State and Worcester County Bar associations ; Worcester Lodge, 
 
 No. 243,. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Council, No. 88, Knights 
 
 of Columbus; Georgetown University, Society of New England; St. Joseph's Roman 
 Catholic Church, Leicester. He is well-established in practice, and one of the well- 
 known young men of the Worcester bar. The family home is in Leicester, Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 CHARLES FOSTER DAVIS, Civil engineer, was born in Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, December 20, 1882. He completed the grade and high school courses of pub- 
 lic school study with graduation, class of 1902, then entered Worcester Polytechnic 
 Institute, whence he was graduated, class of 1907, with the degree of C. E. He 
 began his professional career as an engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road, and was assigned to tunnel B., under the East river, connecting New York 
 with their Long Island system. He was engineer in charge of a portion of this con- 
 struction as long as he remained with the Pennsylvania. His next position was with 
 the Kiwanee Water Supply Company (a New York corporation), as engineer in 
 charge of work east of the Mississippi river. In 1914 he was elected president of the 
 
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AND ITS PEOPLE 
 
 Stafford Iron Works, a Worcester corporation. He is a nieniher oi il\c S. A. V.. fra- 
 ternity, the Mechanics' Association and Worcester t"i>unlry (hib. 
 
 Mr. Davis married, in New York, in IQIO. Grayce W. Wrjrcester. and thcv are 
 the parents of a son, Charles Edward, liorn in igii. 
 
 JULES EDOUIN OFFNER, Theatrical manager, general aK'ent of the Colum- 
 bian National Life Insurance Company in this city, was born in Memphis, .'-^nelhv 
 county, Tennessee, February 14, 1865, son of Gustav and Sophia (Kppinger) (Jffner. 
 His father was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and his mother of Alsace, Germany! 
 Both Mr. Offner's father and mother came to this country when very yoiing. They 
 met here and were married in Cincinr.ati, Ohio. 
 
 Jules E. Offner received his education in Memphis, later at Cincinnati, where 
 he went with his parents, and afterwards in the high school at .'\vondalc, Ohio. He 
 continued his studies alone, learning French and (ierman, for many years reading 
 and studying during the evenings, and in time lilted himself, by this .study, to a well- 
 satisfying degree. His career has been varied and interesting, he being in the bakery 
 business in Cincinnati; then became interested in anatomy, which he studied under 
 Albert Bernstein, and on which he afterward lectured in various parts of the country. 
 Subsequently he located in business in various cities on his own account and in coii- 
 nection with others in St. Joseph, Missouri. .Xtchisou, Kansas. Chicago, Illinois, Bos- 
 ton, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rliode Island. He came to Worcester from 
 Providence, August i, 1897; leased the I'ront Street Opera House, changed the 
 name to the Bijou Theatre, and showed first-class vaudeville at popular prices, 
 installed the first moving picture machine here, and continued in the theatrical busi- 
 ness until his building was destroyed by fire, February 18, 1898. He and his wife 
 had a narrow escape from the flames. He then became connected with Zaeder's 
 Restaurant, E. S. Pierce Company, both of this city, and the Howe Comb Company 
 of Leominster, Massachusetts, and about 1913 he went into the insurance busniess in 
 this city. Mr. Offner is general agent for the Columbian National Life Insurance 
 Company, having offices at No. 311 Main street. He resided in Leominster for a ntmi- 
 ber of years, and then moved to West Auburn, Massachusetts, near Worcester, and 
 has followed farming for a number of years in West Auburn, as well as looking after 
 his business affairs in Worcester. 
 
 During the Spanish War Mr. Offner and his wife originated the One-Cent Sub- 
 scription Fund for the Volunteers' Aid .Association. He is a member of Morning 
 Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; he has filled all the chairs iii 
 succession of the Improved Order of Heptasophs except the higliest, which h'> de- 
 clined. He is a member of the United Commercial Travelers' Association of America, 
 of which he is past senior councillor; was founder of the l'"itcliburg Council, and has 
 a past councillor's jewel presented by that organization. He is a memlier of the Wor- 
 cester Cham1)er of Commerce, and a member of the official board of Grace Methodist 
 Church in Worcester, of which he is steward, also a teacher of tlie men's class in the 
 Sunday school of Grace Church. Gifted with tnusical ability, he has sung in various 
 choirs and musical clubs of the city. In politics he is independent. 
 
 !Mr. Offner married, .April 19, 1893, Dr. Emma I'Vances b'erguson, of Monroe 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 JAMES J. RAE. In 1905 an important iinpr.ivement in woolen cards was given 
 to the textile manufactures, the inveiUion of James J. Rae. a practical carder. This 
 invemion is designed to increase the capacity of a card, tests showing that increased 
 production and improved efficiency has resulted from the "Kae system." 
 
 James J. Rae was born in Scotland, October 9, i8-f). Wlien a lad of six years he 
 was brought to the United States, located in Xorthlield. \'ermont, and there was edu- 
 cated in the public schools. He became a textile worker, and as a practical carder saw 
 the necessity for an improved card. For twelve years he was sui>erintendent of the 
 Chapel Mills Manufacturing Company at Cherry Valley, Massachusetts, holding that 
 position until 1913. Later he came to Worcester and became associated witli the 
 Lombard Machine Companv. founded in 1840, a corporation of which he is now 
 treasurer. The Lombard Machine Company are the maiuifactm-ers of the Lombard 
 New Centurv Card, Mr. Rae's invention, and of many forms of carding machines and 
 textile mill luachincs, appliances and attachments. Their plant in Worcester is located 
 at the corner of Stafford and Heard streets, ami their business is an imporl.ant one. 
 These macliines were known oidy in Worcester ccmiity when this concern was taken 
 over (1913), but now they have a reiiutation not only in tliis country but in Canada, 
 and for the past two years have been affiliated witli the W. R. Grace Company, .New 
 York City, Lombard cards are now doing good work in the South American countries 
 and also in Japan. Mr. Rae is a Republican in i.nlitics, aiul a member 01 Worcester 
 Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order ot l-.lk^. 
 
876 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 Mr. Rae married, in June. u/j4. in Manchester, Xew Hampshire, Armie C. Qtsir.- 
 lan. The>- are the parents of five children : Dorothy, Harriet. Rita. Doozld, ar. '. 
 Marjorie. 
 
 PLUHMER J. HENDEBSON, Heating engineer and o^rtttractor of the firm. P. ,' 
 Henderson Company, war born in Hollinsford. Xew Hampshire, July 17 '^5^ ?•'" 
 01 Charles H. and Mary il. 'Cater; Her.derson. His father was a fi- 
 boyhood wa.s spent on the homestead. 
 
 He received ?if; -r-li^i^icr- :r l!^<: puW?- ='->:'::!? o- T^TrefT. ifs.= ; 
 Dover, Xew Ki ■ 
 
 in the shops 
 advanced step 
 
 1887, to enter ■ •.h- E C-. :--. 
 
 of Rochester. . re. as chie: -^ '. zrA 
 
 retained that p- t came *o " i;<er of 
 
 the local branch of ;h'; ir'ra.m hea' - i 'Jompanr. 
 
 He continued in charge, of this bu- :o ^ingage in 
 
 business on his own ac^ •::-• H :r: F -t*r 
 
 street in April, 1915. i". j. Her-lerior. ' \- 
 
 and contractors, in - . : mond W. Stearr 
 
 steam, gas and wate- ' valve- •;■-- ir': : 
 
 vapor heating plants. ma^;r.^ i. i;,ti:i.l:y of fac* .zzJL^- 
 
 of Humane Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted ^ -^hire; 
 
 Stella Chapter. Order of the Easter- -tar. -' f th i s 
 
 cit>-. He is a communicant of P> 
 
 Mr. Henderson married, at I- - .?». 1880. Sadie A. 
 
 Randall, daughter of Jeremiah an -1 ir i 3.rr- Henderson 
 
 had one son. LeRoy Plummer. born V.c. ;5. ZA?.;, iici Au^u*i :o. 
 
 WILLIAM WALKER WHITE. :.:ir.ii;er .:' -r.r H :. •;■: 1[. as 
 
 born in ' " ■ r 
 
 receivec ^ 
 
 Xew Ha- . 
 age of sLcitcii rtiur: 
 manufacturer of wc 
 
 entered the employ c: , 
 
 pleted the trade of a maciuuisi. From here he 
 
 Company, in East Webster, where at the age : 
 
 department, having thirteen men tmder his c;: ,.. . ;: -^ :. . : ■" 
 
 Jaffrey. Xew Hampshire, and for one year had ciiargc 01 liie V» hue Dr-xher? cmiL 
 From there he went to Fitchburg and took charge of one of the departments -;-f the 
 Union Machine Company. In 1881 he accepted a position with the Rodney Hunt 
 Machine Company, of Orange. Massachusetts, as general superintendent, and remained 
 with that company during the rebuilding of their plant. His next objective point 
 was the citj- of Worcester, where he engaged with the Holyoke \^ ■-'-■-- ■' —'-.-- 
 and after being in their employ in the shop for six m-inths wai 
 agent, and on the retirement of Charles Ranlet was made ager 
 shop, including his former duties as salesmac. ' '- ■-- ------- 
 
 man, in 1901, the financial part of the Worcest 
 upon Mr. White. Januarj' 17. 1906, he was chc - 
 
 pany. Mr. \Miite attends the Baptist church, ii.^ .- ■=. .,._ i ,1: _r. .. ..i? 
 
 not been identified with other affairs outside of bnsmess and iiis hooie. 
 
 Mr. White married. December 23. 1871. Jennie V. Moore, daughter of Dexter M. 
 and Mar>- E. (Dodge) Moore bf Webster. Massachusetts -^■-" ■ - = — '— :*. 
 1853. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War. serving i 
 
 Massachusetts Regiment: he also was a mechanic and m;l, rr 
 
 ^STiite had one son. William Dexter ^^"hite. bom August 24. i -.--•. .»ii ■ :- i^- -£d.i:cd 
 with his father in bizsiness. He married. September 16, 190?. Edith G. Bliss, of Wor- 
 cester, daughter of George R. Bliss. 
 
 Mr. White is descended from Thomas WTiite ' — - — -: - — : 
 
 John (4), Thomas (51. Thomas (61. Joseph (7), a- 
 
 hii father. Windsor Xewton \\"hite (8). after beir.- 
 
 time, became interested in the manufacture of cotton :-i:r;;-: a: . i-:-i-e. ^.: - 
 
 setts, the firm being known as the West Boylsti^n Manufacturing Company: 
 
 he sold his controlling interest here, and move^ t" WinchendotL where he 
 
 into partnership with his brothers. Xelson D ' "- f W. ^\"hite, in the -;-:- 
 
 manufacture, retiring in three years because c: :h. Deacon Joseph White 
 
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 (7), grandlather <>I William W. \\"hit<-. had umi^uaj r:K-< liamcal ]...v,- 
 qualities: at the age 01 eighteen he set up in Wi-si r..,yl-t .11 ;■ iactMrV 
 factiire of wire, employing eighteen hands: two vears later. 1^1 ' he -t'n 
 facture of cotton yarns, and later cottMH wares, h'eing ani..im the'L-arlit-M 
 to manufacture cotton goods, an indu-trv which t.ecame hi- lii'-wrk 
 successful in his husiness life. 
 
 H'ENRY MILTON SHAUGHNESSY. .-^iner iSS;. uhen !,<• r „„.■ 
 Massachusett-. a country hoy reared on the home farm. Hciir\ v' ^hauyhne--v ha 
 been a resident ol that city, now heiiig a iiractual |)himhcr wiih'-t,,rf aiifl -h..ii at .\'m 
 15 .Austin street. He is a son of William Shau,^hnt^^v. hr.rn m dalwav Irclm.! who 
 came to the United States, a stone mason bv trade, settled at Boston ' .\li„-,ei,usfit' 
 became a farmer, and there died in 1880. aged sixlv-hve vear- He iiiarricfl' in r.,n' 
 cord, Massachusetts, in 184.;. Margaret Dugan. horn in (;alwav. Ireland who' survives 
 him. a resident of Clinton. .Massachusetts, aged ninetv vears." Willie^m and Margaret 
 Shaughnessy were the parents of ten children: .Anna.' married I. H. Whalen .if Ian- 
 caster. Massachusetts: John, whose whereabouts are unknown." his s,,,, paul a sailor 
 in the United .States Xavy : Edwin, died in infancv: Captain William F Shaiighnessv 
 of Company K. .Ninth Regiment. Massachusetts .Vational Guard, of Clinton Mass^.! 
 chusetts: Kose. married John J. Brennan. of F'n.vidence. Rhode Island- Thomas I 
 of Clinton. Massachusetts, married, and has three sons in the United .States Arni'v 
 Harry, Maurice. Leo; Edward, died in Worcester. Massachusetts, in iyi6: Jani^s. of 
 Clinton. Massachusetts; Mary, married .Andrew G GritVin. of Clinton, and has a 
 son Edward in the United States Xavy; Henry Milton, of further mention. 
 
 Henry Milton Shaughnessy, youngest child of William and Margaret (Dugan) 
 Shaughnessy. was horn in Bolton. Mas.sachusetts. November 30. 1871. He attended 
 school and remained at the home farm until his father's death, when the family left 
 the farm and moved to Clinton. Massachusetts. Henry M.. however, at the age of 
 fourteen, came alone to Worcester and entered the employ of Eldridge Reed, the plum- 
 ber, who taught the lad his trade. He worked as a journeyman [dumber until 190.;. 
 then began business under his own name. He has been very successful in business 
 and has a well-established trade, which is centered at his store. No. 15 .Austin street. 
 He is a contractor of all forms of plumbing and gives to his business his personal 
 supervision and care. Mr. Shaughnessy is a Democrat in politics and for the past 
 fifteen years, 1903-18, has been treasurer of the Worcester Democratic City Com- 
 mittee. He was the candidate of his party for school commissioner in igi8. and has 
 always taken an active interest in city politics. He is an e.\-president of the Wash- 
 ington Social Club: founder of St. Paul's Cadets, composed of small boys of St. 
 Paul's Church: member of the Knights of Columbus: is treasurer of the war com- 
 mittee since war broke out and has been active in the great work done by that com- 
 mittee in taking care of every soldier who came to Worcester. He is a member of the 
 Master Plumbers Association of Worcester, and in all his relations with his business 
 associates as well as those in his employ, he holds the friendliest relations. He is a 
 communicant of St. Paul's Roman Cathcdic Church, and is deeply interested in all 
 forms of parish work. 
 
 Mr. Shaughnessy married, in North Brookfield. Massachusetts: October 19. rgoo, 
 .Alice Mary MacCarthy. born there, daughter of John G. and .Annie ( Doyle I Ntac- 
 Carthy. both now living in North Brookfield. her father a government inspector of 
 leather. Mr. and Mrs. Shaughnessy are the parents of two sons: John Henr>-. born 
 October 31. 1911: \Villiam Josejjh. born December 24. 1913. 
 
 DANIEL F. ROURKE, Insurance agent, was born ..n Fr.>nt street in ihi- city. 
 Octul)er 15. 1862. and has been a resident since his tiirth. He attended thi.> puldic 
 schools here, and graduated from the higli school in the class of 1881. .At that time 
 roller skating was at the height of its popularity, rinks had been built in every large 
 tow-n and city, and Mr. Rourke became an expert in fancy skating. His services 
 for the purpose of giving exhibitions and attracting crowds to the skating rinKs were 
 in great demand. From the high school he went into business as a professional 
 skater, visiting all parts of the country, and continuing f'r four years. Though he 
 has been in business since then and devoted his attention constantly to his office, he 
 has not lost his love for the sports and athletics in which he excelled in boyh-od. 
 
 In 1886 he started in the Fire insurance business with Captain E. .A. Harris, and 
 continued until 1889. when he opened an insurance office on his own account at Xo. 
 438 Main street. People's Savings Bank building, remaining there until 1901. .After 
 six years he moved to his present office in the Slater building. No. 390 Main street. 
 He was the second tenant to occupy offices in that building. His business is varied. 
 He insures dwellings, household furniture and merchandise in stock or mutual fire 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 insurance companies, furnishes surety bonds of all kinds, and makes a specialty 
 of auto, fire and liability insurance. His home is at No. 12 Lagrange street. He is a 
 charter member of Alhambra Council, No. Eighty-eight, Knights of Columbus ; and 
 Court Quinsigamond, Foresters of America ; Worcester Aerie, Fraternal Order 
 Eagles ; Lodge No. 243, Benevolent Protective Order Elks ; and Father Mathew Total 
 Abstinence Society. He has been a communicant of St. Paul's Catholic Church since 
 1890. He served in the Worcester Light Infantry from 1886 to 1890, and reached the 
 rank of first sergeant when mustered out. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has 
 always been active in the councils of his party, not seeking office for himself, but 
 merely for the love of the game and his zeal for the success of the candidates and 
 policies of his own party. He has been a member of the Democratic city committee, 
 cliairman of the Democratic county and congressional committees, and a member of 
 the Democratic State committee, and member of the executive committee for five 
 years. 
 
 Mr. Rourke married, February 7, 1889, Annie G. Fitzpatrick, born in Shrewsbury, 
 Massachusetts, and has a son, Daniel Joseph, and a daughter, Lalah May. Mr. Rnurke 
 resides at No. 12 Lagrange street, Worcester, Massachusetts. 
 
 MARTIN TRULSON, Retired hotel operator, was born October 4. 1857, at Munka 
 Togarp, Torsterup Parish. County Ingelstad, Province of Skone, Sweden, son of Truls 
 Rasmusson and Signa (Persdaughter) Trulson. Truls R. Trulson was born at 
 Qualstad Parish, Sweden, and his wife in the same place. To this union there was a 
 large family of eleven children. He followed the occupation of a farmer, and was a 
 well-known and highly-respected man in his community. Both he and his wife re- 
 mained in their native land and died there. 
 
 Martin Trulson received a good education in the public schools of Sweden. He 
 left his native country and embarked for New York City, November I, 1879. Imme- 
 diately after arriving here he went to Kansas City, Kansas, and found employment with 
 one of the large packing concerns. He remained in the West only a short time, and 
 in February, 1880, came to Worcester and went to work for the Washburn & Moen 
 Manufacturing Company, large wire manufacturers, March I, 1880, continuing there 
 for a period of eight years, during the last six of which he was assistant foreman in 
 the Howe Department. In 1888 he engaged in business as proprietor of a cafe at No. 
 18 Thomas street; two years later he moved his place of business to No. 55 Union 
 street, and after a time there he built the Hotel Du Nord, which became one of the 
 well-known hotels at that time. He opened it for business. May i, 1896, and conducted 
 it until he retired. April 21, 1917. This hotel is at Nos. 39-43 Summer street, and has 
 been for many years a favorite meeting place for the Swedish citizens of Worcester. 
 Mr. Trulson is a Republican in politics, and has always been keenly interested in Na- 
 tional, State and City issues; is an active voter. He is an honorary life member of 
 General George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic; he was a member 
 of the Swedish-American Republican Club for a number of years; a member of the 
 Worcester Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Englebrekt 
 Society. He lives retired at his home, No. 24 Germain street. To the Swedish people 
 of Worcester, Mr. Trulson is a well-known figure, as well as having hosts of friends 
 other than his own nationality. 
 
 Mr. Trulson married, February 12, 1885, in this city, Johanna Christine Sjogren, 
 who was born in Sweden, and came here when a young woman. They have four chil- 
 dren : I. Rudolph, born November 12, 1885, in Worcester, educated in the public and 
 high schools. 2. Mabel, born August 31, 1893, in Worcester, educated in the public 
 schools and Tyler's Business College. 3. Henry F., born March 31, 1896, in Worcester, 
 educated in the public and Worcester Trade schools. 4. George, born September 30, 
 1899, in Worcester, educated in public and high schools, and now a student in the 
 Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Amherst. 
 
 JOHN J. MONSEY. Locally the owner of the Pearl street bowling alleys, and 
 part owner of the Commonwealth alleys, John J. Monsey is known nationally as the 
 founder of the Duck and Candlepin Congress and its first president. No man is more 
 responsible for the elevation of the game of bowling from an adjunct of the saloon to a 
 national sport and to a place in the best clubs and societies than John J. Monsey, of 
 Worcester, Massachusetts. He has given years of his life to the development of the 
 game through wise rules which govern length of alleys, size and character of ball and 
 pins, and the conduct of the players. He is the author of the rules governing the 
 candlepin game, and there are few rules now in force for the regulation of either the 
 regular game, duck pins or candlepins, which this dean of the bowling fraternity has 
 not had a hand in framing. He first became interested in bowling at Savin Rock, 
 Connecticut, in 1885, and from that time his connection with the game has been con- 
 
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 slant. The Pearl street alleys, of vyhich he is the ,.\viu-r, have been in operation lor 
 sixty years, and ni that time have chaiiKed hands but three times 
 
 John J. Monsey was born m Hadley, Massachusetts, Novemlier ly ig-n and there 
 attended public school. He was but a lad when he first began playing in th'e ten i)in 
 game, and in 1888 was manager tor General Justin P. White (the inventor of the 
 game of candlepms), and in 1906 entered into partnership with General liisiin P 
 White. It was a team from his Pearl street alleys which won the world's champion- 
 ship in 1900, and many high grade bowlers have graduated from the same allcvs Mr 
 Monsey was the first president of the National Duck and CaiuUepin Congress in- 
 corporated in 1905, declining a re-election, and is now a member of the board of 
 directors. He is very popular and is as highly esteemed as he is widely-known. 
 
 ALFRED DWIGHT PERRY, Wholesale and retail milk dealer, was born in 
 Auburn, Massachusetts, October 12, 1858, son of Josei)h .S. and Lucy (l)av) Perrv 
 Joseph S. Perry was born in Worcester, November ,3, i8-'8, and died here in lunc 
 1902. He was a farmer; served the city as street commissioner, and was once a candi- 
 date for mayor of the city. He married Lucy Day, who was born in I.udlow Massa- 
 chusetts, April 6, 1835, and died in this city, March 7, 1919. They had six children- 
 Adelle, now living in Millbury witli her son. William (Irout. of Afillbury; .'\llred 
 Dwight, mentioned above; Helen, married Frank P. Johnson (deceased), resides in 
 this city at the old homestead, and has three cliildren": Perrv, Lincoln ai'id Berkeley 
 Johnson ; Lucy, died in 1894, leaving two sons, Franklin and \VaIfcr Green, the former 
 of whom resides in Seattle. Washington, the latter in Waterbury, Connecticut; Jose- 
 phine, married Dr. Elias Porter, of Medford, Oregon, and has f(nir children; Francis, 
 died in infancy. For the early generations of the Perry family see the chapter on 
 Early Settlers. Mr. Perry is a descendant of Moses and Xatlian Perry. 
 
 When Alfred D. Perry was ten years old his parents moved to \\'orcester and he 
 attended the public schools here, graduating from the Worcester High School in 1876. 
 He entered tlie Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, leaving at the end of 
 his sophomore year to assist his father on the farm in this city. He continued in this 
 occupation until he was twenty-six years old, then went West, where he spent ten 
 years in various localities and vocations. Upon his return to Worcester he took charge 
 of the homestead and conducted the farm until after the death of his father in 1902. 
 Since that time he has been engaged in the wholesale and "retail milk business in this 
 city. His place of business is at No. 2 Lawrence street. In politics Mr. Perry is a 
 Republican; in religion a Congregationalist. He is a member of Alontacute Lodge. 
 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; the \^'orcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry; 
 the Kiwanis Club; W'orcester Agricultural Society. 
 
 Mr. Perry married, in Barre, Massachusetts, May 21, 1890, Louella Cleveland, 
 daughter of Albert Cleveland, a farmer of Barre. Mr. and Mrs. Perry reside at No. 
 154 \'ernon street. They have no children. 
 
 LOUIS H. BUCKLEY, Assistant manager of the I'nited States Knveb.pc Com- 
 pany, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, a son of William T. and Fniily J. Buck- 
 ley. He completed all grades of Worcester's public school systems, finishing with high 
 school graduation, class of 1883. The same year he entered the emidoy of the Richard- 
 son Manufacturing Company (mowing machines) continuing with that comjiany for 
 three years. He then transferred his services to the Logan, .Swift, Brigham luivelope 
 Company, which later became a constituent part of the United States Envelope Com- 
 pany. When that merger was effected Mr. Buckley was retained as manager of the 
 Logan, Swift, Brigham division, and in 1910 he was appointed to his present position, 
 assistant manager of the United States Envelope Company. 
 
 In politics Mr. Buckley is a Republican, and for three years was president of the 
 Worcester Common Council. He is a member of the Masonic order, holding the thirty- 
 second degree. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and is afifiliated with Central Lodge, 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His interests are widely diversified and are 
 fairly indicated in his memberships in the Worcester Chamber of Commerce; Com- 
 monwealth Qub; Commercial Travelers' Association; Economic Club; Patrons of 
 Husbandry; Society of Antiquity; Worcester Agricultural Society; Worcester Me- 
 chanics' Association ; Worcester Republican Club ; Worcester Country Club, and Cen- 
 tral Congregational Church. 
 
 During the World War (1917-1918) Mr. Buckley was chairman of the local 
 selection boards of Worcester, and during 1918 was the federal food administrator 
 of Worcester county. 
 
 Mr. Buckley married Vesta L. Whitcomb. Mrs. Buckley is a member ot the 
 Worcester County Jlorticultural Society, Worcester Country Club, and the Patrons 
 of Husbandry. 
 
88o HISTORY OF JFORCESTER 
 
 JOHN STEPHEN GERETY, Manager ,,f the Metropolitan Storage Company, 
 was born in Hartford. Connecticut. October 12. 1884. The family moved to New 
 Haven, in that State, when he was an infant, and he attended the public schools there, 
 graduating from the Union High School in 1899. He began to work for a piano com- 
 pany in New Haven, but most of his active life has been spent in construction work 
 in Central and South America, developing the wireless telegraph, in association with 
 R. A. Fessenden. He came to this city in 1915. and since then has been manager of 
 the Metropolitan Storage Company. This concern was established by the late John W. 
 Knibbs. and has large store-houses at No. 6 Barton place, containing three hundred 
 separate rooins. Mr. Gerety is a member of Alhambra Council. Knights of Columbus, 
 and a communicant of St. Paul's Catholic Church, of Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Gerety married, in El Paso. Texas, December 5. 1910. Lila I. Knibbs. daughter 
 of the late John W. Knibbs. Mr. and Mrs. Gerety have two children: John S., Jr., 
 born July 17, 1913. and Elizabeth, born December 26. 1916. 
 
 Mr. Gerety's father, John J. Gerety, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, October 
 12, 1854; died at Plymouth, in this State, March 21, 1918; a construction engineer in the 
 service of the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company during the 
 greater part of his life; married Mary A. Hallinan, who was born at Bakersfield. Ver- 
 mont, now living in Plymouth. Massachusetts. Of their seven children. John S., 
 mentioned above, was the eldest ; Anna, married Harold Sears, of Plymouth, and has 
 three children; Philip B., now of Boston, a salesman, is in the United States army; 
 George, died in August, 1915; Ruth J., resides in Washington, D. C. ; Francis, resides 
 in Plymouth ; Margaret H.. a stenographer. 
 
 HENRY FORREST LITTLEFIELD, Florist, was born in Natick, Massachusetts, 
 August 20, 1859, son of George H. and Lavina C. (Swan) Littlefield. George H. 
 Littlefield was a shoemaker. He was a private in Company I, Thirty-ninth Regiment, 
 Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, and was killed in action, August 
 19, 1864. 
 
 Henry F. Littlefield received his education in the public schools of Natick. From 
 1894 to the present time he has been in business in this city, having a florist's shop at 
 No. 552 Main street. His greenhouses are at No. 188 Coburn avenue, and his busi- 
 ness is one of the most extensive in his line in this city. Mr. Littlefield is widely- 
 known, not only in his own line of business but as a Free Mason. He is a member 
 of Montacute Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons: Eureka Chapter, Royal 
 Arch Masons ; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Worcester Lodge of Per- 
 fection ; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; 
 Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, and .A.letheia Grotto, of this city. He 
 is also a member of the Commonwealth Club. 
 
 Mr. Littlefield tnarried. in this city, February 16, 1887, Caroline E. Batchelder. 
 daughter of Gardner and Mary Jane (Mascroft) Batchelder. Mr. and Mrs. Littlefield 
 have no children. Their home is on Coburn avenue. 
 
 CHARLES FRANCIS STOWELL. The Stowells of Worcester, Massachusetts, 
 descend from Samuel Stowell. an En,glishman, who was in Hingham, Massachusetts, 
 as early as 1649. John Stowell. a grandson of Samuel, about 1740, seems to have 
 hesitated between Sturbridge and Worcester as a residence, but in 1744 he was of 
 Worcester, and sold land to his son-in-law, Davis Curtis, of Sturbridge, November 
 26, 1744. He bought his first land in Worcester in 1743. of Abisha Rice, who inherited 
 it from Thomas Rice. John Stowell deeded the old homestead in Worcester to his 
 son, Benjamin, who contracted to support and care for his father the remainder of his 
 life. John Stowell was living in Worcester at the time of his death, in 1762, but as 
 he had given away most of his property the estate he left was small. Charles Francis 
 Stowell resides upon the farm bought by his father, a property long known as "The 
 Old Cow Tavern." Charles F. is a son of Francis Palmer Stowell, grandson of 
 Samuel Stowell, great-grandson of Thomas Stowell. Samuel Stowell, born at the 
 paternal farm in Northville, married Abigail Haywood, who died in Worcester, Massa- 
 chusetts, all other members of the family also dying there. Children of Samuel and 
 Abigail (Haywood) Stowell: Harriet, Frederick, Charles, Francis Palmer, of further 
 inention ; Laura, Abigail, and Eliza. 
 
 Francis Palmer Stowell was born at his father's farm in Worcester, Mas- 
 sachusetts, now West Boylston street, April 20. 1820, died at his own farm. No. 
 274 Salisbury street, in March, 1892. He was a member of the firm, Stowell, 
 Maynard & Company, and conducted a produce stand and market under the old City 
 Hall. In 1864 he bought the farm on Salisbury street, and there resided until his 
 death. He was a member of Worcester Coinmon Council, elected as a Republican, 
 and was a man of influence in his coinmunity. He married, October 30, 1855, in Wor- 
 
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 cester. Lucy Brown, born in \\ urcivlcr. Junr 2.). iSu). anil dii-.l Di-a-nilH-r ii i,S.S8 
 They were the parents of two chiUh-en : i. Charles Francis. ,.i' whom fnrtl'u-r '-• 
 Eliza Putnam, married Charles K. liryden. of Wdrceslcr, Mr. I'.rydcn a ri.mr ileali-r 
 doing business in Boston. They are the parents of a dauiilucr. Liicy S..' born Xii^ust 
 13, 1886. who married October 3. 1014, Alexander 1',. Cainiiltell. an attorney 01 W..r- 
 cester, a son, Charles B. Campbell. 
 
 Charles Francis Stowell, only son of Francis Palmer and Lucy (Brown) Stowell 
 was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 27. 1850. and until nineteen years ol' 
 age attended the grade and high scliools of the city. ' He .urew up at the .Sal'isburv 
 street farm and early became familiar with farm work and with the details of bis 
 father's stand and produce market. For two year- lie was einploved in llie lolin I'. 
 Bartlett meat market, but he then returned to the home lariii, and has ever siiicc been 
 engaged in the cultivation of its acres. In course of tinu- he became its owner, and is 
 one of the substantial prosperous farmers of the W'orcestir district. The old hoiiiesii-ad 
 in which he has lived since 1864 is located at No. J74 .Salislnny street. .Mr. Stowell 
 is a Republican in politics, ami unmarried. 
 
 JOHN JEPPSON, Superintendent of tlie N..rt.)n ( .inpany. ;,nd mir- ,,1 the foun- 
 ders of the business, the dean of the Swedisli people if this city, was born in Hoganas, 
 Sweden, July i, 1844, son of Godman and Bengta (Person) Jeppson. His father was 
 a carpenter by trade, and many of Iiis ancestors were mechanics. 
 
 John Jeppsoli attended school in his native town, hut when he was a boy of twelve 
 began to work in a pottery and firebrick works. \i ihe a.ue of sixteen he w.is an 
 apprentice in the trade of architectural work in clay, and after lie had learned this 
 trade he continued to work as a journeyman until he vas twenty-four years old. Mr. 
 Jeppson was near twenty-five years old when he decided to seek his iortune in this coun- 
 try. He started with the intention of finding employment al his trade in the p iileries 
 at Trenton, New Jersey, but when he arrived in New ^^lrk, he learned the iio"ers in 
 Trenton were on strike and he then came to Worcester, where four of his couiiii\men 
 had preceded him, Sven Poison, his brother-in-law-; .\ndrew Person; and ( iusiaf 
 Ahlstrom, another brother-in-law; and John Wenner: irom. all from llMiiana- and 
 all potters. He secured employment first in the foundry of Xathan Washburn, who 
 was then making steel tires for locomotive wheels. Sion afteruard. however, .Mr. 
 Poison secured a position for him in the jiottery' of 1". B. .Vortmi. who was then 
 manufacturing stoneware and otlier kinds of pottery in this city, and he worked there 
 for the following five years. Leaving here in 1873 he went to Tauntnii, Mas>-;iclui- 
 setts, where he worked for Wright & Son at his trade, until 18-7. .-Xfter this he 
 went to Portland, Maine, and worked for si.K months in a pottery that made all kinds 
 of vases. Later he removed to West Sterling, Massaclius;-tts. and was employe<l there 
 in a pottery for Snow & Coolidge until the spring of 1880. He was a skillful artisan 
 and was generally employed in the decorative part of the work, and he recei'.i.l the 
 highest wages paid at that time to workmen in this indu .try. 
 
 When he returned to this city in 1880, after working in varion- iiotteries in other 
 towns and cities for seven years, he had added to the si iil he had avxpiired i'l his 
 native land and had a thorougli knnwdedge of the business, as then dcvelnped in this 
 country. He again entered the emjdoy of Mr. Xorton. vliii had been meantime 
 experimenting with grinding machinery and emery wheels. > 11 v^hicli lie bad secured 
 patents. The improvement that J\Ir. Norton first made was in adoptin.g a vitritied 
 process, whereas the wheels had previously been made of emery and silicate. The 
 superiority of this grinding wheel soon created a business. Mr. Jeppson mad.- some 
 of the first wheels produced by the Norton concern at the p >tlery on W.iter street, 
 every part of the machine, including the drawings, being his work 
 
 in 1884, Mr, Jeppson was one i.f the founders of the No-t m Kmer.\ Wheel (om- 
 pany, the others being George L .^Iden, Milton P. Higgins, Ch;ir!is I,. .Mien. K'ld H. 
 Daiiiels and Horace A. Young. (See the Norton (7oiii])any and hingrapliies or those 
 mentioned). This company purchased the emery wheel patent "f Mr. Xnrion and was 
 incorporated, June 20, 1885. Mr. Jcpjjson has been suiierinti-mU-nt of this c .miiany, 
 its successors and subsidiary corporations from the beginniii;.; lo the present time; 
 has taken his full share in the development, progress and exp.insioii of one ol the 
 most unique, successful and important industries in this corntrv. In i8S() he had 
 charge of the erection of the first buildings of the plant at Greeiidale. .\t that time 
 the company employed only sixteen hands. The concern began with two kilr- and 
 now has more than eighty'. The business has increased froir this small beginning 
 until it now employs about five thousand men in this city alo:;e and many liundreds 
 of men at its plants in other cities. Mr. Jeppson year after year brMught out new 
 models of grinding machinery, using new materials, new dev:.c-. until the v.irietv 
 
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HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 seems numberless. Tlie Norton Grinding Company, anotlier corporation closely lUied 
 with the first company, was organized to make the grinding machinery. Both cor- 
 porations are now merged in the Norton Company. In recent years he has withdrawn 
 from the more arduous duties of the office of superintendent, but is constantly giving 
 his advice, and his decisions are in constant demand and his service perhaps never 
 more important and valuable to the great corporation to which he has given the best 
 of his mental and physical strength for the past forty years. 
 
 Outside of the Norton concern, he has given little time to other affairs, though 
 ever ready to assist his countrymen and at times to lead them in movements of 
 importance. A Lutheran in religion, he has been a steadfast supporter and consistent 
 member of the Hethsemane Swedish Lutheran Church, now the First Swedish Luth- 
 eran Church, Belmont street. When he helped organize this church, there were few 
 people of the denomination in the city. (See sketch of church in this work). Mr. 
 Jeppson has taken the thirty-second degree in Masonry, and enjoys a wide acquaint- 
 ance and friendship among the Free Masons of New England. He is a member of 
 W. Boylston Lodge; Royal Arch Masons; Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters; 
 Worcester County Commandery and the Worcester Lodge of Perfection ; Goddard 
 Council of Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix, and the Massa- 
 chuetts Consistory. Mr. Jeppson was an intimate friend of the late editor of "Skan- 
 danavia," Axel J. L. Tode, who died in Sweden in 191 5, and for many years served 
 with him as treasurer of the Swedish Publishing Company, publishers of this well- 
 known Swedish weekly, of which Mr. Jeppson was one of the founders. In politics 
 Mr. Jeppson is a staunch and lifelong Republican. The engrossing nature of his 
 duties at the works have prevented him from accepting the many opportunities offered 
 to him during the past thirty years or more to enter public life, but that does not 
 mean that he has lacked interest in public affairs. As a counsellor of his people, 
 adviser of the Republican organization, and of municipal officers, his judgment has 
 been of great value to the city and abundantly appreciated. Few men in the city are 
 more honored and beloved than he. 
 
 The city owes to John Jeppson an obligation it can never meet, for bringing here 
 a substantial part of its best population, and guiding and influencing them in the right 
 way during the years of their apprenticeship in American ways and speech. An 
 even greater debt is that of the Swedish people who have come here, poor and 
 bewildered by the conditions of a new home in a strange country, but found in him a 
 kind friend and adviser. Those in need, the sick and friendless have never sought 
 his aid in vain. The extent of his charity is not known, for his own modesty and 
 reticence prevents his best friend from estimating it, but the affection in which he 
 is held, the stories of kindness and beneficence told by the immigrants themselves 
 indicate how useful a citizen he has been. This service to his countrymen, his influ- 
 ence in keeping their ideals high, their purposes good, their character and man- 
 hood examples for new-comers of all other races, was perhaps as important as his 
 prominence in the manufacturing world, his achievements in business, his friendship 
 among the great men of this country and Sweden, in bringing to him the decoration 
 bestowed by the King of Sweden, the Order of Wasa, one of the most ancient and 
 coveted orders of his native land. 
 
 Mr. Jeppson married, June 27, 1872, in All Saints' Church in this city, Tilda 
 Ahlstrom, a sister of Gustaf Ahlstrom, one of the four Swedish pioneers of the 
 city. Mr. and Mrs. Jeppson have one son, George N. (see biography). 
 
 GEORGE N. JEPPSON, Works manager of the Norton Company, was born in 
 this city. April 14, 1873, son of John and Tilda (Ahlstrom) Jeppson. 
 
 He attended the public and high schools here and the old Highland Military 
 Academy on Salisbury street. While a student in the academy he attained the rank 
 of lieutenant in its military company. For some time he was a student in the Worces- 
 ter Polytechnic Institute, leaving there to learn the business in the Norton works. 
 Having mastered the details of the business he went to Stockholm, Sweden, in l8g6. 
 and became a student of chemistry in the Stockholm Institute, for the purpose of 
 fitting himself for the duties he has had since then in tlie Norton works. Upon his 
 return he was given a position of responsibility in the Norton business. Since igo2 
 he has been assistant superintendent of the plants now operated by the Norton Com- 
 pany, and intimately associated with his father in the management. In later years he 
 has taken upon himself much of the burden formerly carried by his father as super- 
 intendent. He has had a large share in the great expansion of the works in the past 
 twenty years or more, and is widely-known among the manufacturers of the coun- 
 try. 
 
 In public affairs Mr. Jeppson has exerted a great and wholesome influence. 
 Politically a Republican, he has always served his party with his time, money and 
 
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 influence with marked loyalty. He lias het-n .mi .iIi....,., 
 
 importance with the leading men of the cil\. He i. a tneiiiber <,i iln- 
 
 County Republican Club and the Chamber ' ' 
 
 public 
 
 Lounty KepuDlican Llub and the Chamber of Cdninirrce Mr Ii-ppson repn > iit ■ 1 
 his ward in the Common Council in lyoj. igo.?. and in the Hoard of \ldevmen in ulm 
 and 1910. and was president of the Hoard of Aldermen both yearv His service in 
 the City Council was characterized by cxcei>tional ability and" faithfulness md wis 
 highly appreciated. Had he been willing, he could havJ no doubt held the h'.du'st 
 offices of the Worcester City Ciovernment. He is a thirty second decree .\li.;on- 
 member of the Quinsigainond I-odKC Royal .Vrch Masons;' Royal and Scleci Mis- 
 ters; Worcester Commaiidery. Kni,yhts Teniplar; Worcester Lodjie of Perfection 
 Goddard Council of Princes of Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix and tilt- 
 Massachusetts Consistory. 
 
 Mr. Jeppson married. May i, igio. in this citv Ula. daughter of John and I'.ctiv 
 (Ahlstrom) Swanston. of Worcester. '1 hey have two children, Hreta and Join; 
 
 All of the Swedish pioneers in Worcester were from Hoganas. Sweden' The 
 first five were potters by trade. They were: Sven Poison, brother-in-law of [ohn 
 Jeppson, employed in F, B, Norton's pottery, making the first emery wheels in Vw.r- 
 cester, later proprietor of a small pottery, now living in Philadelphia (1915); Andrew 
 Person, also a potter, now deceased, who afterward owned a small i)ottery in Bangor 
 Maine; Gustaf Ahlstrom. another brother-in-law of Mr. leppsoii, now living in'piiis- 
 burgh, Pennsylvania; John Wennerstrom, now living in Trenton, New Jersey; and, John 
 Jeppson, still the foremost Swedish citizen of Worcester. Mr. leppson was accom- 
 panied to this country by John Engstrom and Samuel Hanimar. who also came to 
 Worcester. 
 
 HENRY ASHLEY KNIGHT, Superintendent of ^trect lighting, and supervisor 
 of wires of the City of Worcester, was born in this city, August 21, 18.S4, son of .'\lden 
 Bradford and Mary J. (White) Knight. He received his education here in the public 
 schools and was associated with his brother for a number of years after leaving school, 
 in the retail milk business. For a few years he was a law student, afterward becoming 
 a member of the firm of Mann & Knight, dealers in wood and coal in this city, f<.r a 
 period of thirteen years. 
 
 When the office of superintendent of street li.ghting was created in 1891. he was 
 elected the first to fill it. and has continued in office by successive re-elections since 
 that time (1892). He has also been supervisor of wires since that office was estab- 
 lished in 1895. Both positions have grown in importance year by year, as the city has 
 grown and public service corporations have multiplied their wires. His duties in en- 
 forcing the law requiring the wires to he put under ground were especially onerous. 
 The City Street Lighting Department, of which he is by virtue of his otiicc practically 
 the director, has been extended in importance very materially in recent years. The 
 service has been incomparably better in later years. Old methods have been discarded 
 and new ones adopted from time to time. In politics he is a Rei)iil)licaii, and is a 
 member of Union Congregational Church. 
 
 He married. May 11, 1881, Effie Jane Phelps, who was born in West P.oylston. 
 daughter of Thomas V. and Emily Phelps, of Plojikinton, Massachusetts. I'.eiore her 
 marriage she was a school teacher. She died May 9, 1909, in this city. They bad one 
 son, Henry Rockwood. His home is at No. 10 Clark street in this city. Mr. Knight is 
 a prominent Free Mason, a meml)er of Athelstan Lodge; Past Higli Priest of bhireka 
 Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Past Thrice Illustrious Master of Hiram Council, Royal 
 and Select Masters; Past Eminent Commander of Worcester Commandery, Knights 
 Templar; member of Worcester Lodge of Perfection, Coddard Council. Princes of 
 Jerusalem; Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix; the Massachusetts Consistory and Past 
 Monarch of Aletheia Grotto, No, 1,?, of Worcester. He is a member of tlie executive 
 committee of the National Association of Municipal Inspectors; a member of the W'or- 
 cester Agricultural Society; trustee and cliairman of Relief Committee of tlic Wor- 
 cester Masonic Charity and Educational Association ; vice-president of the trustees 
 of the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 LIEUTENANT HENRY ROCKWOOD KNIGHT, -Killed in action." with his 
 face to the foe, thus Lieutenant Henry Rockwood Knight, of Company H, UMth Reg- 
 iment, United States Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces, completed gloriously his 
 earthly career, the first commissioned oflicer from Worcester to fall in the holy cause in 
 which' his country is engaged. Although beyond the age named as the selective draft 
 limit, and being also exempt through family responsibilities, he waived all his rights, 
 and with a glad heart engaged in the combat on the side of justice and huinanity. 
 
 There are no particulars as to bow Lieutenant Knight met his fate, but tho-,- who 
 knew him realize that he "went through" that last iiame.l ordeal as lu- bail bravely 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 and effectively met every crisis of his life, for there was no finer type of the American 
 volunteer officer than tliis brave Worcester man, who sailed for France with a smile 
 on his face, but with deep determination in his heart to worthily uphold the honor of 
 his country on foreign battle fields. Lieutenant Knight was awarded the Croix-de- 
 Guerre for his gallantry at Apremont Woods on April 12, 1918, by the commanding 
 general of the French Army Corps with which his regiment was serving at the time. 
 The citation is as follows: "For conspicuous coolness, judgment and gallantry in 
 leading his platoon through an enemy barrage to reinforce the front lines. He fell 
 gloriously at the head of his men. whom he was leading in counter attack." 
 
 Henry Rockwood Knight, only son of Henry A. and Effie Jane (Phelps) Knight, 
 was horn in Worcester. Massachusetts. January 9, 1886, died in battle at Apremont 
 Woods, in France, April 12, 1918, fighting with the American Expeditionary Forces. 
 He was educated in the grade high schools and Worcester Academy of the city, in 
 1903, his last year at high school, was a member of the champion track team. At the Acad- 
 emy he won the mile run, establishing a record which held for several years. Aftet 
 completing his school years he entered the employ of the New England Telephone and 
 Telegraph Company, and at the time of leaving for the Mexican border in 1916 with 
 his regiment, was a construction foreman. He had a record of loyal, efiicient service 
 with the company, and his friends were many among the telephone workers with whom 
 he came in contact. 
 
 Lieutenant Knight began his military career with the Wellington Rifles of Wor- 
 cester, enlisting in 1908, and won promotion through all the grades from the ranks to 
 a lieutenant's commission. He was admired and respected by his comrades of the 
 Rifles, his superior officers regarding him as a soldier who could be called upon for 
 any service with a certainty that no matter how arduous and hazardous the duty might 
 be, it would be performed if humanly possible. In 1916 came the "Call to the Colors," 
 and at the president's call he left his civilian duties and went with his company to the 
 Mexican border as second lieutenant, and there spent the summer in arduous training 
 and war service with the American troops. Later he enlisted in the United States 
 army. Company H, 104th Regiment of Infantry, was commissioned second lieutenant, 
 sailed for France, was there promoted first lieutenant by General Pershing's request, 
 and in that rank led his men to the battle which was to give him immortality. He was 
 a good soldier, won his rank through honest soldierly effort and ability, and on the 
 page of his military history there is neither spot nor stain, the record ending as a sol- 
 dier would wish it, "Killed in Action," and beneath this should be written the words of 
 his father: "If he had to die, I am glad he died under the American flag and with his 
 face toward the Hun." 
 
 Lieutenant Knight married Margaret M. Buckley, who survives him at the home. 
 No. 16 Clark street, Worcester, with two children: Clifford, born in 1911, and Effie, in 
 1914. He was a member of Union Congregational Church, and Worcester Lodge. In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and on the service flags of both church and lodge is a 
 golden star standing alike for sorrow and pride, reflecting the feeling in Worcester for 
 Lieutenant Henry Rockwood Knight, the city's first commissioned officer to give his 
 life in France for Liberty's holy cause. He was buried in the French Military Ceme- 
 tery at Vignot. France. April IS, 1918. 
 
 Lieutenant Knight was well known in City Hall circles, he and his father. Super- 
 visor Henry A. Knight, being very fond of each other's society, and often "chummed" 
 in the supervisor's office. As a mark of respect to both Lieutenant Knight and his 
 father. Mayor Holmes, with members of City Council and heads of departments, met at 
 City Hall, and in a body attended a memorial service held in Union Church, April 28, 
 1918. 
 
 His men said of him: "He was a soldier, an officer, and a gentleman. He was 
 what we soldiers call a white man." 
 
 S'WAN J. LARSON. Without question there is something in the character of 
 the Swedisli people that fits them peculiarly for success in material affairs, a some- 
 thing which is made up of many factors and elements united in such happy propor- 
 tions that both the theoretical and practical sides of these callings seem to offer them 
 a most congenial realm for their efforts. 
 
 Swan J. Larson, son of Lars and Celia (Jacobson) Larson, and brother of Nils, 
 Hilda, and Ida Larson, one of the representative business men and citizens of Wor- 
 cester. Massachusetts, is a native of Skone, Sweden, where he was born Sep- 
 tember 12, 1884. His childhood was spent in his native country and it was 
 there that he obtained a good education. In 1897, however, when he was 
 but thirteen years of age, he came to the United States and located in the 
 city of Worcester. He at once applied himself to learn the trade of carpenter, 
 which he mastered very quickly, and being of an unusually alert and enterprising 
 
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 character began at once lu aii\aiK-i- 111 ilir uorlil, 1-, ,,- mo ytui--, wink- In- \\ l^ ^nll 
 a mere youth, he was supcnntciulint ..| iho n.iiiraitiiii; finii of Macks.. n & r..iiii.aTiv 
 and during this period lu- was ivir . .n ihr alert 1.. I,c.-..iiu iii(lr|iciidiMt and lu- w ./tin- 
 ally able to gratify his wislu-s. At tlu- tn.l ..t ilic- lu.. y^-ar^ Mr. I.ai->..n hi-c.i-iu- a 
 contractor himself, and his vi-nturi- in thiv hiu- nut wilh an iniiiK-diati- siicn-^s' Tlu- 
 excellent workmanship and material which he put int.i all In^ w.vk! aiul his ..In inns 
 intention to deal fairly with those who patmni/e.l hnn, gained him a hearty rccoj;nilion 
 and he soon began to d.i a Iar,i;c lnisnKs>. He has, sirue that time, well' inhilled the 
 early promise that he made ,-ind has erected m.-uiy l)nililin,i;s in Worcester. e>pi-cially 
 dwellings, of which he has built ah.iut three hundred. sUuated m all jiarts ..I ihe citv. 
 He built whole streets of houses, and tmally became interested ni develoiiment jir.'.- 
 jects and constructed as many as sixty dwellin.us fi.r luniseli. .Ml ..f these lie has 
 sold, the transaction bein,M- a bi.yhly n-numerative one. (Jiu- nf his larg<-sl contracts 
 was to build sixty houses f.ir the .\ortoii (.ompany in their great Indian Hill d.-v:-l(.p- 
 ment plan. In all these ..perati.ms he has pr.m-.l himsi-lf eNceedniLjIy public-spirited 
 and has kept the welfare ..f tlu- Cininunnty .and its nu-inli(-rs e\er .it heart. This 
 was well illustrated in his acti.ni in cniiecli. .11 with the (ireeiidah- Swe.lish l.iu:;,-ran 
 
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 one of his comparatively youthful ai^e. fur Mr. Larson is just ]iassed his thirty- 
 fourth birthday, while his Jiusiness is as lirinly esiablished as tlumyh it hail been 
 the result of a long lifetime of h.-ird work. .\ career that has begun tluis lirilliaiuly 
 contains a still more brilliant promise for the future, and it reipiires \er) little ..f the 
 prophetic ability to foresee for Mr. Larson a long career ni success and useful ser- 
 vice. Mr. Larson has made himself a cnnspicuous figure in the yeneral life ..f the 
 coitimunity as well as in the realm of business, and has identitied himself with naiiy 
 movements undertaken for tlie city's welfare. He is also well-known in fraternal 
 circles, and is a prominent member of the Masonic order. He is a member ..f the 
 Republican Party. 
 
 Swan J. Larson was united in m,irriai;e. .\ugusl 7. igo;. at IListon. with l-!mma, 
 daughter of Gustaf and .-\ugnsta ( .\iuU-rsoii 1 (llsi.n. like himself a native ..f .'^weden, 
 from which country she came t.. ilu- I'liited Slates at an early age. .Mr. and Mrs. 
 Larson are the parents ..f tw.. cbilihen. Kx.ins W. aiul I.i.raine M. 
 
 CARL B. BENSON. This well-known Worcester merchant, son ..f Martin and 
 Gustafva Bcns.m. was born in Falkenberg, .Sweden. .August 3. 1880. In the year i8i;o 
 his ])arents and hve children. .Alma S., Carl B,, .-\lhert. George, and I'".dwin. came to 
 the United States, arriving in \ew York, but going on immciliatcly to Worcester. 
 
 Carl B. Benson was educated in the public schools, taking his higher courses in 
 Worcester evening high school. He also attended Worcester Business Institute. In 
 the year 1902 he entered the employ of the M. C. Boyd & Brother Coal Company, as 
 bookkeeper, remaining with that company four years. The two following years were 
 spent with the Xorthboro Woolen Company in similar capacity, after which he traveled 
 through various states of the West on business. In April, 1911, he returned to Wor- 
 cester, and soon afterward established in business in partnershii. with .Andrew I-ree- 
 manzon, their line, men's furnishings goods, they purchasing the well-known store 
 owned by the A. \V. Hjelm Company at No. 265 Wain street. In September. 1914, 
 their business having so prospered cluring its short life of three \ears that larger 
 quarters were a necessity, their store was moved to No. 27i Main street, a location 
 formerly occupied by the Anderson & Swenson Company. There the lirm, Benson & 
 Freemanzon, carry a complete line of gentleman's clothing and furnishings, and with a 
 custom tailoring department. Mr. Benson is manager of the S. L. Hanson Ticket 
 Company; director of the Skandra Credit Union; member of .-Xthelstan Lodge, .-\ncicnt 
 Free and Accepted Masons; Thule Lodge. Xo. .v,9. Indeiiendent Order 01 Odd l-el- 
 lows; Worcester Lodge, Knights of Pythias; .lobn Hricsson Lodge, \. 1).; \ iking 
 Council, Independent Order Alystic Brethren; Carl XV, Scatidavaiiian hraiermty ol 
 America; Idun Rebekah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is 
 a Republican, and with his family Mr. P.enson attends the Swedish Lutheran church. 
 
 Mr. Benson luarried .\nnie 1... daughter of Oliver Longvall. of Worcester. 
 
886 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 ANDREW FREEMANZON, of the well-known Worcester mercantile firm, Ben- 
 son & p'reemanzon, was born in Ponifret, Connecticut, June 29, 1879, son of Axel and 
 Mary Freemanzon. He was educated in the public schools of Pomfret and at Wood- 
 stock Academy. He here became connected with Norcross Brothers, contractors, and 
 for ten years was in the employ of that firm in the construction department. The next 
 two years he was with the Richardson Manufacturing Company, and in 1909 became 
 acquainted with Carl B. Benson, and traveled with him through the West until April, 
 191 1, when both returned to Worcester and became business partners under the firm 
 name. Benson & Freemanzon. That relation still exists, and the business founded in 
 191 1 is still their mutual interest. 
 
 Mr. Freemanzon is a member of Athelstan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons ; Thule Lodge. No. 239, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Svea Gille Asso- 
 ciation ; Wellington Rifles, Company H., 1901-06. He enlisted in the United States 
 Army, June 15. 1917. and was honorably discharged, February 15, 1919. He was a 
 first-class sergeant at the Remount depot in Ayer, Massachusetts. In politics he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 CARL HJALMAR STYFFE, Foreman in the Norton Company Works, was 
 born in Sweden. May 6. 1870. He received his education in the public schools of his 
 native place. From the age of fourteen to the time he came to this country, when 
 seventeen years years old, he worked in the coal mines at Billerholm. He located at 
 Worcester immediately after coming to this country and found employment in the 
 pistol shops of Iver Johnson. For two years he attended the evening school in this 
 city. He left the Johnson works to become a clerk in the grocery store of Martin 
 Trulson. In 1890 he entered the employ of the Norton Emery Wheel Company as 
 stock clerk. At that time this company employed but thirty-five hands. As the 
 business increased his position became one of greater importance and responsibility. 
 He had charge of the grading department and was its foreman for many years. 
 Except for a .few months when he served as patrolman on the Worcester police force 
 during the administration of Mayor F'letcher he has continued in the Norton works 
 to the present time, and as foreman during most of the time. 
 
 Mr. Styffe has taken an active part in public affairs. He has been an active 
 Republican, serving the city for twenty years as election precinct officer. His first 
 vote was for Benjamin Harrison for president. He has been especially useful to 
 his fellow-countrymen in aiding them to secure their naturalization. He could have 
 been elected to the Common Council, but declined the offer of the nomination. He 
 has been a member of Massasoit Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, since 1890, 
 and has occupied all the chairs of that body in succession. He was a communicant 
 of the First Swedish Lutheran Church for many years, but since 1914 has been a 
 memlier of Zion Swedish Church. Greendale. and its treasurer. He is a charter mem- 
 ber of the Swedish Republican Club. He was a delegate to the 'Grand Lodge in 1914 
 and 1915 at Chicago, and in 1917 at Cleveland. He was a delegate to the State Lodge 
 at Lynn. He has been a member from the beginning, of the Norton Mutual Benefit 
 Society, its clerk, president and member of the board of directors, respectively, for 
 a number of years; he has been president since 1914. This organization began with 
 sixty-five charter members and now has 1.600. The membership doubled during the 
 year 1917. 
 
 Mr. Styffe married. October 10. 1892. in this city. Amanda Walker, who was 
 born in Sweden. Their home is at No. 38 Fairview terrace in this city. They have 
 no children. 
 
 ORESTE CLAUDIO SABINO ZIROLI. Through his recent election to the 
 directorate and vice-presidency of the Samuel H. Pitcher Company, Incorporated, 
 civil engineers and architects of Worcester, Mr. Ziroli came prominently into the pub- 
 lic eye as an architect of recognized ability, as he is in charge of that branch of the 
 company's business dealing with the design and construction of buildings. For the past 
 ten years the Samuel H. Pitcher Company has devoted itself to civil and municipal 
 engineering, generally, but with the addition of Mr. Ziroli, with his extensive follow- 
 ing, the new department prospered from its beginning. Mr. Ziroli prior to his enter- 
 ing the firm has designed many buildings in Worcester, including the Worcester mar- 
 ket house, the Christian Science church, and the Packard service station on Shrews- 
 bury street. 
 
 He is a son of Nicholas A. Ziroli, born in Montenero, Italy, a sculptor, now re- 
 siding at Fall River, Massachusetts. His mother, Marcia C. (Di Fiorre) Ziroli, was 
 born in Scapoli, Italy. They are the parents of eight children: Genevieve G., married 
 Vincent Ciaburri, and resides in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Oreste C. S., of further 
 mention ; Sylvester A. S., of Leicester, Massachusetts, engineer with the East Bridge 
 
EUGENE F. GRAY 
 
AND ITS PEOPLE ^ 
 
 Construction Company; Luinina. niarrieri I'aiistino Carnsclli. ami ^(-.itle^ al 1'>.1I Kivc 
 Massachusetts; Louis, died in infancy; Lillian, married .\inonio Del T'ozz.! nml^licd' 
 in New Bedford. Massachusetts, in r(ji8; Theresa, died a.ued live year-- HunilHrl W 
 a Heutenant of the senior grade. United States \avy. a graduate of Annapolis I'nitcd 
 States Naval Academy, class of iyi2; he sailed with the Fn>t .\Tnerican lleet to k-ive 
 for the seat of the great World War. being assigned to the Ikig^hip of that division ■ 
 for nmeteen months he was on active sea duty: he is now ( miy) supervising the con- 
 struction of, the destroyer, "Hopewell." at Newport Xew^, 
 
 Oreste C. S. Ziroli was born at .Scapoli. Italy. September J4. 1881. and there the 
 first nine years of his life were passed. In 1800 his parents came to the United States 
 and located at Fall River, Massachusetts, there the father ojicning a studio and engaging 
 in his art as a sculptor. At Fall River the boy, Oreste C. S.. passed the grammar 
 school grades of the public school, linishing in 1897. .^fter leaving school he was 
 with several building firms of Fall River, and took special courses in the study of 
 architecture. In 1902 he came to Worcester, there securing a iiosition as clraiightsman 
 with J. W. Bishop, a general contractor, and for six years he contiinicd in Mr. Bishop's 
 employ, becoming skilled in drau,ghting and advancing in rank as a doigning architect 
 and superintendent of construction. 
 
 He then resigned his position with Mr. P.ishoi) and opened an office in Worcester, 
 oflfering his services to the public as an arcliitect. He gained a strong position in the 
 business, and until the entrance of the United States into the World War be was very 
 successful in his profession. He then closed up his business and entered the Gov- 
 ernment service at Muscle Shoals, .Alabama, where he was in charge of the draughting 
 and scheduling departments at the plant of the United States .\ir N'itrate Corpora- 
 tion, which was being built by the (lovenmient. This was the first large nitrate plant 
 built in the United States, covering Several square miles. ein])loying live thousand 
 operatives, and costing $30,(K)0,()00. The plant Iiegan oi)erations just before the sign- 
 ing of the armistice which put a stop to further construction work. Mr. Ziroli returning 
 to Worcester. 
 
 Shortly afterward he formed an association with the Samuel H. Pitcher Company, 
 and in January. 1917. was elected a director and vice-president of the company, his 
 special held the newly-created department of architecture. In politics Mr. Ziroli is a 
 Republican. He is a past sachem of Wampus Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men; 
 member of the Worcester Rifle Club; Worcester County Fish and Game .-Kssociation ; 
 Newbury Grange; W^orcester Commonwealth and Country clubs; ami Leicester Club 
 of Leicester, Connecticut. While living at Fall River he was fond of military drill and 
 discipline, belonging to Company M. of the Alassachusetts Heavy Coast .Artillery, and 
 was one of the experts of the range finding corps. He was also a qualified sharp- 
 shooter, one of the best in the company. He continued his military life until removing 
 from the State, and from under the jurisdiction of the regiment. He was honorably 
 discharged and mustered out, his comrades i)arting from him with regret. Hunting, 
 fishing and golf are favored recreations with him, and he misses no opportunity to 
 enjoy the sports of the open air. 
 
 Mr. Ziroli married, at Fall River. Massachusetts, .April ,^o, 1905. Rose Amia Plante. 
 born at Fall River, died in Leicester, Connecticut, December 31, 1918, daughter of 
 Alfred and Mary (De Montigny) Plante, both now residents of Fall River. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ziroli were the parents of five children: Elena A., Oresta C, Nicholas V... .Mfred 
 E., Silvia L. 
 
 EUGENE FRANK GRAY— The ancestors of Eugene Frank Gray, of Worce>ter, 
 Massachusetts, came from Great Britain tip New l''.ngland in the Ijtb century. They 
 settled in New York prior to the Revolution and served with the Colonial forces 
 against the King. John C. Gray, an ice merchant, father of Eugene Frank, was born 
 in 1830, at Palatine, Montgomerv countv, .\. V.. died January 5. 1889. He married Isa- 
 belle Amelia Kilborn, who yet survives him. a resident of Watertown. X. V.. where on 
 October 12. 1918, she celebrated her eightv-eigbth birthday. 
 
 Eugene Frank Gray, sixth son of John C. and Isabelle .\mclia (Kdborn) Gray, 
 was born in Watertown', JefTerson county. New York. June 6. 1808. and there was edu- 
 cated in the public schools and later at a business college. .At an early age he showed 
 remarkable ability as an artist, leading his school in free-hand drawnig and writing. 
 As a lad of thirteen his talent for art developed into landscape paintiii.g. and before 
 reaching his majority his work commanded ready sale, several of his paintings bring- 
 ing the hundred dollar mark. He also studied the art of interior decorating, and at 
 the age of eighteen years began contracting in that line. At the age oi twenty, he 
 studied photography in his home town. Watertown, N. Y.. under A. A. Jobnson In 
 the fall of 1890 he went to Scranton. Pennsylvania, where he spent two years with the 
 Charles Griffin Studio on Wvoming avenue. On returning to Watertown. he opened 
 
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 a studio on State street and Public square in the new Smith building, where he con- 
 ducted business for eight years. He sold the Watertown business in 1899 and removed 
 to Hartford, Connecticut'. January i, igoo, remaining three years, managing the De 
 Lameter Studio. 
 
 Since 1903 he has made a careful study in the technique and art of photographing 
 people in their own homes, and is ore of the pioneers in this branch of his profession 
 in which he has attained the highest reputation. Later he located at New Haven. Con- 
 necticut, where he confined his work to home portraiture exclusively. From 1913 to 
 1915 he was vice-president and manager of the Louis Fabian Bachrach Company, 
 resigning to conduct his own private business. His studio, originally at No. i Chat- 
 ham street, was later moved to No. 476 Main street, its present location. He is skilled 
 in the technique of his art, but more than ail possesses the true artistic spirit, nature 
 having endowed him a natural born artist. 
 
 Mr. Gray is a member of the Photographers' Association of America and the Pho- 
 tographers' Association of New England. He joined Jeflferson Union Lodge, L O. 
 O. F-. ill 1890, at the age of twenty-one, and was the originator and organizer of 
 Corona Lodge, No. 705, I. O. O. F., Watertown, N. Y., of which he was the second 
 presiding officer and in which he still holds his membership as past noble grand. He 
 joined Watertown Lodge. No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1893 ; Watertown 
 Chapter, No. 59, Royal .\rch Masons, the following year; is also a member of _ Hiram 
 Council of Royal and Select Masters, of Worcester, Massachusetts; Aletheia Grotto, 
 M. O. v. P. E. R., Worcester. Massachusetts; Worcester Chamber of Commerce; 
 National Retail Credit Men's Association, Worcester Retail Credit Men's Association ; 
 Worcester Grotto Club, and the Worcester Kiwanis Club. He was baptized in All Saints' 
 Universalist Church of Watertown, New York. 
 
 Mr. Gray married, in Watertown, New Yo/k, September. 25, 1894, Sarah Emily 
 Hickok, born in Watertown, daughtei" of Georg; Francis and Jennie Elizabeth (Jack- 
 son) Hickok. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are the parents of five children: i. Clarence Carl- 
 ton, born August 2~, 1805, died in infancy. 2. Leland Eugene, born in Watertown, 
 New York, January 5. 1897; enlisted in the I'nited States army, February 28, 1918; 
 was sent to Camp Jackson, South Carolina; was later transferred to the United 
 States School of Aerial Photography at Rochester. New York; honorably discharged 
 December 18, 1918. 3. Isabelle Elizabeth, born in Watertown. May 7, 1899. died aged 
 twenty-two months. 4. Henry Harold, born in Hartford, Connecticut, January 11. 1903; 
 a high school student. 5. Dorothy .Adelene, born i., Waterbury, Connecticut, September 
 23, 1904 ; a high school student. 
 
 MICHAEL EDWARD McGADY— In 1501 M -. McGady built the Vernon Square 
 Hotel in Worcester, and has, as its proprietor, been very successful. He is a son of 
 Michael and Rosa ( Derry.) McGady, his father a "ative of Donegal, Ireland. After 
 coming to Worcester Michael McGady entered the employ of the Ames Plow Com- 
 pany, and for forty-hve years faithfully served that corporation. 
 
 Michael E. McGady was born in Worcester. Massachusetts, March 23, 1866, and 
 educated in the public schools. He found his first employment, after school days were 
 over, with the Knowles Loom Works, remaining wih that company two years. The 
 next two j-ears were spent as clerk with the Cooperative Store on Pleasant street, after 
 which he entered the liquor business, having a store on Mulberry street until 1901. 
 He then purchased the lot containing eleven thousand square feet upon which he 
 erected the four-story building with forty rooms, known as the Vernon Square Hotel. 
 This property he still owns, and as the popular lardlord of the Vernon Square Hotel 
 Mr. McGady is known far and near. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protec- 
 tive Order of Elks, and of the Roman Catholic church. 
 
 Mr. McGady married, in February, 1896, Sarah A. McCarthy, daughter of Patrick 
 and Hannah (Conlon) McCarthy. Mr. and Mrs. McGady are the parents of six chil- 
 dren : Francis J.. Blanid. Beaven. Rosa, Katherine an 1 Anna. The family home is 
 a beautiful residence. No. 80 Salisbury street, Worcester. 
 
 JOHN HOHANNES (YAZIJIAN) WRITER, First Armenian in this city, retired 
 wire worker, former manufacturer and merchant, was born in Alexandropol, Russia 
 (Russian .'\rmenia), Decemlier I. 183(5. His surname Yazijian, meaning scribe or 
 writer, was .'^inericanized after he came to tliis country. He received his education 
 in Erzerum, Turkey, and at Euphrates College in Harpoot, Turkey, and in the 
 Missionary College of Turkey. He became a missionary worker among the .Armen- 
 ians, teaching and preaching, though not ordained. 
 
 In 1874 he came to this country, and after working for two years in New York 
 City came to Millbury, Massachusetts, where he was employed in a factory. In the 
 following year he came to Worcester and by general c nsent is given the honor of 
 
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HOX. PEHR G. HOLMES 
 
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 being the first iK-riiianent AniK'iii.iii sctlU'r lion-, lie rcimil a snrill si,,i>- ,„■ ,|„- it 
 of tlie present federal l.nilduit;. S,inthhrul«e slreei. and l.eyan t.. nnki' rre^' i '-r^ale 
 he had learned in Armenia. His family |..ined him here in iSS- vlu-r yivim.' u,,'|,i 
 rug busmess he entered the emi)lo\ ,,i the \\a,hhurn &■ M(,ni Manuia>iiniim ('..m 
 pany and contnnied ni the wire mill until kkm. when he was retired and n<.nsi..iu il 
 being incapacitated by accidem- t..i- active lali.ir. Hi- di,-,| i„ tins c'iiv Much •-' 
 igil. The home ni the fanuly i- at No, 17 Cunland sinel. Tla- lir-l pra'ver inert" 
 ings were held m the home of Mr. Writer, in i8,Sj. which farmed the niicien^ ir..ni 
 which came the Clun-ch of Marlxrs. ..f which Mr. Writer was a deacii and active 
 member np to the time <.l his death, benii; the l'r..tr.lant Armenian church in \v..r- 
 eester. . 
 
 .MrWriter married Sarah SarKavakian, at llarp..,,i, Tnrkev. Decemi.er 14. 
 1865. She was born ni llarp.)..!. daii.t.hter ..f H..hannes and .Mariam (/arkarian* 
 Sargavakian. Her father was horn in Diarhrkr, .\rnienia : her mothi-r in llarp.',..! 
 Mr. and Mrs. Writer had eight childr.n. of whom six are livin-.; : 1. Marv n'larricd 
 John H. Shaljan, ph.)toj;rapher, of this ciiy, an.l has ,.ne child." Knth' .May Slialian 
 2. Richard Dickran, married Minnie Harsaiinan. of Troy. \\w \ ork. ami has iw.> 
 children: Hazel Sarah and Herbt-rt .\rsen. ,(, ( ,vori;e Aram, Inst .\rineniai'i child 
 born in this city and lirst to graduate fr..m the W.ircester High School: born March 
 n, l88j: married Mabel Smith, of I'.arre, .Massachusetts. 4. IKiirv H;iig. n..\v with 
 the Wyinan-Ciordon Company, .v l.illi.in .Maud. 0. Kdward Ih-nianiiii.' vnlisn-il in 
 Battery E, One Hnndred ami Secnd kegmu-nt, I'iel.l .\rtillcrv. L'liited States .\rmy. 
 now- in the service in France. Mr. Writer's f:itlu-r. Harootooii Armer Khanian. was 
 liberally educated, and for many years was an accountaiu in ihc Turkish government 
 service; later a resident of .\lc.\andropol. in Rnssi.an .ArmeiiKi. I'.oih he and his wife. 
 Aznive Harootian, were n:ilives of Frzeruni, Turkey. 
 
 PEHR GUSTAV HOLMES. Ihe persistent an.l untiring industry and high 
 moral character of tiie Swedish citi/ens of tlif I'niivil Slates have contributed in 
 no small degree to the advancement of the gener:il w.-lfare. Independent in 
 thought and action, they are never found a charge upon llie public, and li;i>e been 
 ever useful in the development of industry. 
 
 John J. Holmes resided in Wermliind. Sweden, and there marri.-d (.'aroline bihn- 
 son. In 1885 they removed to the United States and settled at Worcester, Mass'ichu- 
 setts, where Mr, Holmes has been employed for many years in a manufactiiriiig 
 establishment now known as the American Steel & Wire Company. They were the 
 parents of three children: .A son, Carl William, associated with his brother in the 
 electroplating business in Worcester; a daughter, Martha, immarrieil: and Pehr 
 Gustav, of this review. 
 
 Pehr Gustav Holmes was born .April .), i.S.'^i, in'AWrmlaiid, Sweden, :md was four 
 and one-half years of age when he c:ime with his p.irenis to this country. With a 
 keen mind and an ambition to rise in the world he gave diligent attention to his 
 studies in the Millbury street public school of Worcester, until fourteen years .if age. 
 when the force of circumstances required him to leave school and engage in some 
 gainful occupation. His first occupation was at the Reed .St Prince Screw l-'actory, 
 which position he held only a short jieriod. h'or the following two years he w:is 
 employed as errand boy and junior clerk in a store, after which he be.gan an af.pren- 
 ticeship at the trade of electrotyping, engraving and electroplating. He continued 
 as a journeyman at this occupation until lyotj, when he engaged in business for him- 
 self, with a shop at No, 19 Church street, W"orcesler. The working force at the 
 beginning consisted of himself and two assistants, but his energy, close attention to 
 business, careful business methods and ujiright dealings soon dcvelojied a business 
 which required additional aid. The enterprise prospered from the beginning, arid now 
 employs sixteen men and serves customers throu,ghout New Kngland. The business 
 was established without borrowed capital, being financed with the sa\iiigs ..f Mr, 
 Holmes' previous activity. He has merited success by his close application and 
 careful attention to the wants of his ciislomers. (_)n attaining his majority, .Mr, 
 Holmes began to take an active interest in the pr.igress of affairs, and was s. 1.1:1 very 
 active in politics, allying himself with the Republican party. For si.x years he was 
 a member of the Republican city committee of Worcester, and for four years was a 
 member of the Common Council, from Kjotj to loi-'. inclusive, represeming ward six. 
 In 1913 and 1914 he represented that ward on the li.iard of ,'\ldernieii, and in 1915 
 and 1916 was alderman-at-large, serving also as iircsident of the hoard and chair- 
 man of its two principal committees, those on finance ami streets. During the eight 
 years that he has been connected with the municipal legislative bodies he has served 
 on all of their principal committees, and in nd.i and 191-I he was chairman ..f the 
 water committee, when the great devel.jpmeiU of the W.^cester Water Works and 
 
HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 the construction of the Pine Hill Dam were inaugurated. By this .the water supply 
 of the city has been doubled, and Mr. Holmes has been active in promoting all the 
 various undertakings of constructive work during the past few years in and about 
 Worcester. He has been especially active in connection with the building operations 
 for the past three years, which includes school houses, hospitals and the water 
 works. Although only thirty-five years of age, Mr. Holmes is the oldest in point of 
 service now connected with the city government of Worcester. His connection with 
 public affairs and his various social organizations of his home city has very widely 
 extended his acquaintance, and all who know him may be counted among his friends. 
 He is a member of the Worcester Publicity Association, the Worcester Rotary Club, 
 the Worcester Country Club, Tatassit Canoe Club, the Worcester Continentals, and 
 several fraternal organizations, including Athelstan Lodge, Free and Accepted 
 Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Massasoit Tribe, Improved 
 Order of Red Men, and John Erickson Lodge. He is a member of the Worcester County 
 Republican Club, of which he was three years president. In his political activities 
 he has ever aimed to promote an honest and efficient government and to maintain 
 for himself a clean record. He is a member of the First Swedish Congregational 
 Church of Worcester, and endeavors to live up to his religious profession. He is a 
 man of fine personal appearance, and excellent address ; of cheerful disposition and 
 cordial manners. Most of his spare time is devoted to the development of his fine 
 orchard, embracing four acres of ground, mostly set in apple trees. His residence 
 is at No. 27 Holden street. 
 
 Mr. Holmes married. May 26, 1903, in Worcester, Freda C. Johnson, daughter of 
 Andrew G. Johnson, of Worcester. They have two children : Wilfred Kennith, born 
 October 8, 1912; and Stanley Burton, August 15, 1914. 
 
 CARMINE ZAMARRO. Born in Vallata. Italy, May 3, 1888, Carmine Zamarro 
 was brought by his parents to Worcester, Massachusetts, when a child of five years, 
 and here he has since resided and won his way to honorable standing as a business 
 man. He is a son of Michael Zamarro, born in Italy, who died in Worcester in 1903, 
 aged forty-three. For ten years prior to his death Michael Zamarro was engaged 
 in business in Worcester as a grocer and was also a banker for the Italian colony, 
 transacting their financial business and conducting a steamship ticket office for their 
 benefit. He married Anna Palmisano, who survives him. residing in Worcester 
 aged sixty years. They were the parents of nine children, five deceased. The four 
 living are : Fannie, married Dominick Caccialino, of Clinton, Massachusetts ; Car- 
 mine, of further mention ; Mary, married Michael Terlizzi, of Worcester ; Clara, 
 married Primo Antonelli, of Worcester. 
 
 Carmine Zamarro attended Worcester school from his first coming until reaching 
 the age of fifteen years, then began working in a carpet mill. Later he opened an 
 office for the sale of steamship tickets, using his mother's name as head of the busi- 
 ness. He first located at No. 114 Shrewsbury street, and was very successful from the 
 beginning. In time he expanded his lines and now is located at No. 127 Shrewsbury 
 street, doing business under his own name as banker, broker and steamship agent. 
 He is also a notary public and a justice of the peace. He has gained the confidence 
 and respect of his country-men by his just and fair dealing with them, and is highly- 
 esteemed by all who know him. "Squire" Zamarro is a member of the Benevolent 
 and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Sons of Italy and 
 the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. He is very fond of auto- 
 mobiling and enjoys the recreation of the open air. 
 
 Mr. Zamarro married, in Worcester, February 18, 1909, Erminia Ferretti, born 
 in Italy, who came to Worcester in October, 1907, with her parents, Pasquale and 
 Clementina Stella Ferretti, who now reside with their daughter in Worcester. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Zamarro are the parents of seven children, one of whom died in infancy: 
 Velia, Aurelia, Michael Angelo, Dante, Dora, and Victorio Armando. 
 
 ROBERT CARL OLSON, President and treasurer of the Olson Manufacturing 
 Company, was born in Norway, April 26, 1884. He was the son of Carl John and 
 Anna K. (Anderson) Olson, both born in Sweden. He was three years old when he 
 came with his parents to this city. He received his education here in the Belmont 
 Street School, the Abbott Street School, the Evening High School, and in Post's 
 Business College. After serving an apprenticeship in the factory of the McCloud, 
 Crane & Minter Company, afterwards the Anthony Screw Company, he was made 
 superintendent of the factory. He left the manufacturing business for a time, and 
 was traveling salesman for the Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Company, manufacturers 
 of Gasoline engines and scales. In July, 1913, he started the manufacture of auto- 
 matic screw machine products, under the name of the Olson Manufacturing Com- 
 

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 pany, at No. 31 Nortli 1-nstor siroct. I h<- Inisiiio, rk-vcl.,|,ol r.-ipullv aiul ,n lui- 
 uary, I9l5,.it was ncci-ssary to move to larger (niartcrs ai Xo, :;4 C.nnnnixial ,'rfrt 
 As the business grew Ins brothers, KaKiiar l'.. Hug.. P., (;,,ttirio'il () -mil Kii-lia-cl I ' 
 and his father, Carl J. ()ls.,n. bccanu- associated with him. In laiiuarv i.,|- ib'e 
 business was incorporated under the same name and niuUr the laws'..] Ma'ssachi'isells 
 Their products went |.. vari.uis maiuilactmers tlir..nKli..m tlie cuiilrv' cfiiedv the 
 automobile industry. The |jlant is e.iui|.ped with the late^t machinerv.' iiiid empl..vs 
 about thirty men. ' ' 
 
 When war was declared .111 Cermany. torp,.ral Kannar F. Ols.,n v,.Uimeered 
 with Battery B, One Hundred and Secnd hiel.l .\rtillerv. Tweniv-sixth l)ivisi,,n serv- 
 ing fourteen months in hVance. Me was woniide.l and gassed. (')cl.iher i; KjiH ' \tter 
 spending three ni.mths in the hospital he was sent lumie and discharged Kieh.-rd I 
 Olson volunteered in the .\viati.Mi l)ivisi..n the latter part ..f 191;, and at the lime 
 the armistice was signed he was awaiting deliarl<ati..ii orders at HcnipsU-ad. Long 
 Island, as a flying cadet. Beth l.n'thers returned u, their f.irmer p.isiti..ns after being 
 discharged. 
 
 Robert C. 01s..n is a niemher ,if Kiilgelv l.<ulge. liideiieiident Order ..f Odd 
 Fellows: the Kiwanis Club, the Worcester Ciintrv Club and tlie Chamber >>i C.jm- 
 merce. In politics be is a Kepuhlicaii. He is a cmmnnuaiu .il the .Swedish Lutheran 
 Church of this city. 
 
 Mr. Olson was marrie.l, here, \..\ember ii». i.ji;. p. derda Charl..ttc Hammer- 
 strom, who was horn in Swe.len. Thev ha\e a ilanyhter. leannette Charlotte h.irn 
 October 3, 1918. 
 
 ALBERT W. LARSON, Member ..f the St.nmaii \- I.ars..n .Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, was born l-el.ruary to, i8.ji. at C..ht..nberg. .Sweden, s.in of (liistaf A. Larson, 
 who has been for many years a machinist in the wire works of the .-Xmcrican Steel 
 & Wire Company. By his wife Carolina he had eleven cliildreii : I'eter. Charles, 
 Ellen, Elfred, Sieger, Albert W., Rudolph. Knute. Edward. Lowell and George. 
 
 Albert W. Larson was but a year old when his parents came to this country and 
 located in Newport, Rhode Island, and soon afterward in this city. He received his 
 education in the public schools of Worcester. .\t the age of nine years he became 
 a newsboy, delivering the "Spy" and "Gazette." Later he worked in a dru.i,' store 
 in his spare hours, out of school, and at thirteen became a clerk in a meat market, 
 where he continued for two years and a half. He began soon afterward t.) drive 
 a fish wagon and later became the owner of the outfit. T.i his fish business he added 
 the manufacture of sausage at his home, dealing in poultry and jiroduce, and in a 
 few years he built up a prosjirous and extensive business for himself. He s.dd the 
 business and formed the Stenman & Larson Nfainifacturing Comi)any. now doing 
 business at No. 42 Southbridge street (see biograiihy of Mr. .Stenman). He is a 
 member of Carl XV. Lodge, and of the First Swedish Baptist Church. In jioli- 
 tics he is a Republican. 
 
 PETER JOEL STYFFE, Noted athlete, was b..rn in Billeshohn, Sweden. hVh- 
 ruary 6, 1873. He attended the common schools there, and when in 1887 his parents 
 removed to America, he completed his grammar scliool education in the schools <.<i 
 Worcester. He is employed by the Norton Company and lias been in tlieir service 
 for twenty-five years. In 1890 he began riding the high-wheeled bicycle and t!ie fol- 
 lowing year was winner of the one mile club championship race, the two mile and the 
 half mile open races on Columbia Bicycle Club Field I)ay. Won second prize in 
 the two mile Worcester County Championshiii. May 31, i8g_'. on high wheel. On 
 Memorial Day, 1894, he finished first in a seven mile roa<l race and w.in the time 
 prize; won the one mile handicap race. One year previous to this he had lowered the 
 record time for the run from Worcester to Boston I.. tw.> hours and tweiity-cighf 
 minutes. In Maiden. Massachusetts. 1894. he finished sixth in a twenty-five mile road 
 race in which the time of the world's rece.rd was br.iken. .\l Providence. Rhode 
 Island, July 7, 1894, he finisb.ed eighth in a twenty-five mile race. .-\t Siiencer. .Mas- 
 sachusetts, July 4, 1895, he won tlie mile and half-mile open races. He has been 
 wniner of various other such races. \Ir. Styffe is a member of the credit c.imniittee 
 of the Scandia Credit Union, a member of the Massasoit Tribe, Imjiroved Order of 
 Red Men; Tula Lodge, Independent Order ■->{ Odd Felh.ws; (Juiiisi.gamond Lodge, 
 Free and Accepted Masons ; and the Swedish Lutheran cluirch. 
 
 Mr. StyfTe married, November 25. 1897. J..sepliine Anderson, and they have one 
 son, George Vincent, born May 2. 1900. 
 
 AXEL EDWIN EHNBORG. Painter and dec.irator. of the firm of Sandgrcn 
 & Ehnborg, was born at Karlsborg. Sweden. August 22. 1869, son of J.^han Johanson 
 
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 and Clara (Swensonj Elinborg. His father was a native of Dalsland, Sweden, born 
 in 1835; his mother was born in the same State in 18^9. 
 
 He received his education in the common and high schools of his native place 
 and in the School of Technology and a business college of Stockholm, Sweden. He 
 came to this city in 1892. He entered into partnership with Anders G. Sandgren under 
 the firm name of Sandgren & Ehnborg. Their places of business was at No. 440 
 Main street and at the rear of No. 241 Main street. Since the retirement of his part- 
 ner in 1915, he has continued the business as manager. The firm made a specialty 
 of interior decorating and painting. The shop was moved about 1902 to No. 146 
 Central street, the office being retained at No. 274 Main street. Since 1908 Sandgren 
 & Ehnborg have had their office and shop at No. 55 Central street. In politics Mr. 
 Ehnborg is a Republican. He is a member of U. S. Grant Lodge, Knights of Malta ; 
 of Thule Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was formerly a member of 
 the Worcester Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce. He is a communicant 
 of the First Swedish Lutheran Church. While in Sweden he served in the army 
 under the compulsory military training system. 
 
 Mr. Ehnborg married in this city, March 16, 1898, Marie Perman, who was 
 born at Hammerby, Sweden, July 22, 1878, daughter of Johan P. and Carolina (Wann- 
 berg) Perman. Her father was born at Verneland, Sweden, September 23, 1839; 
 her mother in the same State, October 8, 1843, died October 4, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Ehnborg have two children : .\strid Margaret, born June 22, 1899, graduate of the 
 Adams Square public school, 1913, of the North High School. 19:7: Elsa Marie, born 
 February 18, 1905. 
 
 PROSPERO TRUDA, Business man. is a son of Sanerio Truda, born in Naples, 
 Italy, came to the United States, and died in Ayer. Massachusetts, a grocery man of 
 Ayer, and an accomplished harpist. He married Mary Barratta, also born in Naples, 
 came to the United States with her husband, and died in Ayer. They were the parents 
 of seven children : Lenora. married J. B. Valva, of Worcester, and has seven children ; 
 Joseph N., of Worcester, a musician and leader of the Grand Theatre orchestra ; Vin- 
 cent, died aged forty-eight years ; Dominick A., of New York City, interested in 
 steamship ownership and operation ; Prospero, of further mention ; Angelo, of Wor- 
 cester, a musician at the Strand Theatre; Frank S., of Boston, employed with a 
 motion picture company. 
 
 Prospero Truda was born in Naples, Italy, July 29, 1865, and in 1867 was brought 
 to the United States by his parents who settled in Richmond, Virginia. A year later 
 the family came North to Massachusetts, settling in Ayer, where the father and 
 mother both died. Prospero was educated in Ayer public schools, there learned the 
 carriage painter's trade, and resided until 1896, when he came to Worcester and 
 established his present business at No. 104 Thomas street. He makes a specialty of 
 automobile and wagon painting tops and body repairing. He is an expert in his 
 line, and has built up a prosperous business. The Truda boys inherit the musical 
 talent ,of their father, and three of the sons are professional performers, Prospero 
 being a good performer on violin and trombone, holding a position in the Worcester 
 City Band. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Unitarian church. 
 
 Mr. Truda married at Montpelier, Vermont. February 23, 1895, Ella M. McCol- 
 lester, born in Massachusetts, daughter of John Quincy and Georgia (Hunt) McCol- 
 lester, of Waltham, Massachusetts, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Truda have no 
 children, but have opened their hearts and hoiue to two children whom they adopted, 
 educated and provided with a good equipment for life's battle. These children 
 were: Helen P. and Lewis W. Clough, the former still residing with her adopted 
 parents, the latter a graduate of Williams College, a post-graduate of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, now a teacher in Loomis Institute of Connecticut. 
 
 NELS AUGUST PEARSON. "Pearson the Printer" is a familiar character 
 in Worcester, Massachusetts, a city to which he came alone unheralded at the age 
 of sixteen years, direct from his native Sweden. He is a son of Lars Peter Pearson, 
 born in Halland. Sweden, May 26, 1838, and there established a general store busi- 
 ness with which he was connected for half a century. He then joined his son in the 
 United States, and is now living in Worcester, an octogenarian. He married Assa- 
 rina Larson, born in Halland, Sweden, November I, 1840, and there died in 1916. 
 They were the parents of eight children : John Ludwig, residing in Worcester, mar- 
 ried Sophie Anderson, and has two children, Edith and Hilding; Alma, married Ber- 
 nard Rinquist, of Worcester, and has, George, Agda, Eignar, Bertha, and David; 
 Anton of Fostoria, Ohio, married Clara Anderson, and has children : Lillian and 
 Vivian; Carl J., of Worcester, married Frida Nordstrom, and has a daughter, Alva; 
 Olof J., of Worcester, married Anna Lundblad, and has a son, Carl Olof; Nels Au- 
 gust, of further mention; Emma C, married Ernest .H. Nordstrom, of Worcester, 
 
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 and has four cIiilclriMi : F,b,a, T..ra, Rciia aii"! Ki-uiki'i- i.u-lil \ .,i Sii'lui • \l- 
 chusetts, married Allies Mc<liiK-. and lias, l'aiil/l),,n- TIlk-Ik- ' I'hiMis' I'l?' i '"T''' 
 Phillis being twins. ' ' ' ''""-'' ■""■ 
 
 Nels August Pearson was horn in llalhuul. Sueden. April r, l^rS. ami ihcre .ihuI 
 the first sixteen years ot his lite. In iS.^ he eame to tlu- L'nifd .St ues in i i, i, 
 way to Worcester, and here has resided until the present, nm. He at'tended tl,'. ni«lu 
 schools of the city, thereby greatly addnig to ll,^ edueational e.|uipmeiil he heiuL- a 
 once employed during the ilaytime hv ('. \V. I'.urhank the |)rniter lii^ sal irv a ■ 
 "devil" u'as $J.5o weekly, hut he thoroughly mastered the pruitnig huMiiess widiWir'. 
 Burbank, and later with the Swedish |oh Prinlini; Companv In i<w(. he estah 
 lishcd m business for himself at .\o. too Commercial street, moving te. No 11 1 Main 
 street, his present location, in 1910. ills business is steadilv increasing aiid under 
 the firm name of 'Pears.m the Printer" he had built liimself s,',li,llv into tlu- coniidence 
 of the buyers of commercial and s.ieial iirinting, which means' that he is widelv- 
 known and patronized. He is very friendlv. genial, and companional)le lond of his 
 home and his garden, and of a <lay's sport' with r..d and reel. He is ;i member of 
 Salem Square Congregational Church, now being a teacher of a class of bovs in the 
 Sunday school of that church. 
 
 Mr. Pearson married at Orange, Massachusetts. Marv K. Anderson born in 
 Geneva, Illinois, daughter of August L. Anderson, a minister of the Swedish Mission 
 Church, now stationed at Crompton, Rhode Island, where, altlii>ugli aged seveiilv 
 he is yet in the active ministry. Mr. and .Mrs. Pearson are the parents of tw'o 
 daughters, Muriel .Mae, liorn in Worcester, and luhelyn h'linice. 
 
 CARL W. SUNDH. In the town of Plnlipstad. Sweden. Carl \V. Smidh was born 
 May 26. 1868, son of Lars jonson and .\nn.i .Maria ( Peterson 1 Sundli, his father a 
 carpenter. 
 
 Carl \V. Suiidh attended the grammar sclu.. il until fourteen vears of ag'-, then 
 began learning the trade of tailor and until the age i>f seventeen he remained in his 
 native towm so employed. He then spent two years working at this trade in Stock- 
 holm, there remaining until the year 1888, when he came to the Cnited States, locating 
 first in New York City. But very soon he removed to Worcester, Massachusetts, 
 where he was employed for five years with the leading custom tailor of the city. In 
 the fall of 189s Mr. Sundh established in Imsiness for himself, oiiening a shop 'where 
 the Slater building now stands at the corner of Pearl and Main streets. He remained 
 in that location for three years, then in 1898 he moved to his jiresciit jdace of business 
 at No. 274 Main street, wdiere for twenty years he has enjoyed the patronage of the 
 leading business men of his city. He holds their coniidence and respect, his repu- 
 tation as an exceptionally good tailor bidding rank with excellent ch.iracter as a man 
 and citizen. Mr. Sundh is a member of Tluile Lodge, Independent Order if Odd 
 Fellows, member of the Scandinavian Lake .Association, is a former president of the 
 North Star Society, and during his term of olTice the membership roll increased to 
 its greatest length, eiglity-seven members bein.g admitted. He was one of the founders 
 of the Swedish Gymnasium Club, designed and made the uniforms, and was very 
 active in the club. He is a number of the .Second Swedish Methodist Episcopal 
 Church of Worcester, has held about all the oflices of the church, and is iimv vice- 
 president of the lioard of trustees. 
 
 Mr. Sundh married, .April 11, 1891, at Xo. 25 Dix street. Worcester. Ida Carolina 
 Lundberg, daughter of Johan and Christina (N'illson) LundberiJ. .Mr. and .Mrs. Sundh 
 are the parents of two children: Alice Maryone. born .April 2.^, 189O, married Oreii 
 A. Persons, now with the .American Steel & Wire Company; Ciiiist,ince F.'eanor, 
 born December 7, 1897, now a student at Smith ColK-ge. Xorthamiiton. Massachuietts. 
 
 MORRIS ARONOVITZ. b'rom X'iliia (also Wilna), a city of Russia, cii.ital 
 of the Government of \'ilna in Lithuania, came .Morris .\roiiovit?. of Worcester, head 
 of the Morris upholstering house, Xos. ib-iS Green street. He was born in \iliia, 
 and there lived until his eleventh vear, then was lirought by his parents, H.irris Keu- 
 ben and Annie (Kaden) Aronovitz, to the Cnited States. His father, Harris Reuben 
 Aronovitz, a cabinet maker, was born in X'ilna. Russia, and died in Hoston, .Massa- 
 chusetts. November 21, 1916. His widow yet survives him. a resident of P.oston. 'riiey 
 were the parents of nine children, six of whom are li\iiig: .Max. now a sold-er of 
 the United States in the division of aeri.il iibotography. he a photographer in bu-iness 
 in Boston; Hvman S., in the Cnited States Xavy; Louis, residing in I'.oston; Har- 
 ney, in the United Stales Postal Telegraph Service, stationed at Manchester. New 
 Hampshire; .Anna, and Henrietta, both residing in I'.oston. 
 
 When the familv arrived in the United States they settled 111 Hoston, M '-sa- 
 chusetts, where the bov, Morris, resumed his studies in the public schools. V the 
 age of fifteen he began learnini.; the uplioKierer's trade, and lor five years be coMtmued 
 
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 an apprentice and journeyman ni tlie city of Biiston. At the age of twenty he moved 
 to Worcester. For two years he was employed by the Highland Mattress Company, 
 but in 1904 he established in business for himself as the Morris Upholstering Com- 
 pany, and has so continued until the present, 1919. In 191 1 he moved to his present 
 location, Nos. 16-18 Green street, his specialties, mattress and cushion upholstering. 
 He is a skilled upholsterer and a business luan of ability, both departments of his 
 business being managed along the best modern lines. His recreations are good 
 books and music, his religious afifiliation with the new Hebrew church, Sharitorali, 
 located on Providence street, Worcester. 
 
 Morris Aronovitz married, in Worcester. July 26. 1904, Eva Rebecca Goldstein, 
 born in Vilna, Russia, daughter of Nathan and Frances Goldstein, the latter deceased, 
 but Nathan Goldstein now residing with his daughter in Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Aronovitz are the parents of three children: Lillian Florence, born April 29, 1905, 
 now a student in commercial school, and her father's office assistant; Edward, born 
 January 30. 1912; Charles Nathan, October 27, 1914. 
 
 JOHN HENRY APPELKVIST. The Modern Print Shop, No. 274 Main street, 
 Worcester, is the business enterprise established in the city by John H. and Erik 
 Appelkvist, both of whom learned tlie printer's trade in their native Sweden. Tlie 
 specialties of the Print Shop is good commercial printing in both the English and 
 Swedish language, and society printing. The "Shop" is well-equipped for modern 
 printing, and the twenty years' experience of its owners guarantee the quality of 
 work turned out. 
 
 John Henry Appelkvist was born in Borgholm, Sweden, December 26, 1885, and 
 there passed the first twenty-four years of his life. He obtained a good education and 
 learned the printer's trade in Sweden, and when finally, in 1909, he came to the 
 United States he was master of his trade and experienced in the printing business. 
 He settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, and soon found an association with the Svea 
 Publishing Company, remaining with that company for three years. He then accepted 
 a position as foreman of a Swedish newspaper print shop located in Jamestown, New 
 York, and for four years he remained in that city. He then returned to Worcester, 
 as assistant editor of La Svea, remaining with that paper for two years, and in .April, 
 1918, he established The Modern Print Shop as his private business enterprise. He 
 is an ardent temperance advocate and his deepest interest is the welfare and advance- 
 ment of that cause. He is a member of the Independent Order of Good Templars, 
 Quinsigamond Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Studio Club E.xcel- 
 sior, an organization for the promotion of temperance and the study of other social 
 questions. Mr. Appelkvist's place of business is at No. 274 Main street. Rooms 4.S-46. 
 
 •KAZAR SARKIS MELIKIAN. In Kharput, a town of Turkish .America, in 
 the Vilayet of Mamuret-Ul-.^ziz, sixty miles from Diarbeker, Kazar, Sarkis Melikian 
 was born, and spent the first nineteen years of his life. Kharput, a city of note, 
 is situated at an elevation of more than four thousand feet near the Murad Su 
 (Eastern Euphrates), and has a Jacobite convent, with a rich collection of manu- 
 scripts. There also the college of Armenia, founded by American missionaries, is 
 located. Kazar S. Melikian is a son of Sarkis M. and Hoodik (Hovzepian) Melikian, 
 both natives of Kharput. Since the war in Europe started in T914, he has had no 
 word from his parents. They are the parents of six children ; one of these, Maediras, 
 residing in Worcester, proprietor of a second-hand furniture store at No. 83 Summer 
 street. This review deals with another member of the family, Kazar S.. a photo- 
 graphic artist of Worcester. 
 
 Kazar S. Melikian was born in Kharput, Turkish Armenia, Asiatic Turkey, ^pril 
 18, 1890. There he obtained a good education, and learned the cabinetmaker's 
 trade at which he was employed until 1904, when he came to the United States, find- 
 ing a home in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was employed at his trade until 
 October 15, 1916. He had accumulated sufficient capital during his years in Worces- 
 ter to justify him in desiring to engage in a business for himself, and having the 
 opportunity to purchase the Duke Photographic Studio he made the investment and 
 has been very successful. Mr. Melikian is possessed of a decidedly artistic nature, 
 gifted in sketching and drawing. His studio at No. 411 Main street is well patronized, 
 and business is steadily increasing. He is a member of the Armenian Constitutional 
 Democratic party and of four different Armenian "societies. He has liberally sup- 
 ported the Red Cross, is a member of the Church of Our Saviour and interested in 
 Sunday school work. 
 
 CARL E. R. NORDGREN— Stockholm, Sw^eden, was long the home of the Nord- 
 grens, but in i88g Eric Henry Nordgrtn, with his wife, Maria Charlotte (Gronquist) 
 
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 8.J5 
 
 Nordgren, and their eldest child, Carl E. R. X,,rduTeii. came i,. ihc liiii.'.i s.-,t, ., ui.l 
 made Worcester. Massachnsetts, their iiennanent lumie Fric 11 X-rdTm mi'1 
 resides in Worcester, as <lnes the s.,n, Carl V.. K. Xordnren, funeral .lireCMr \o j. 
 Belmont street, but the mother has passed to lu-r reward. Eric H \..rdi;reii w ■ U^n 
 m Sweden, November x,. i85(>, an<l is now a steel wire w.rker in the emnlov .• the 
 United States Steel Cmpany at Worcester, lie married, in Sweden \lana tlrir- 
 lotte Gronquist, born m i8()-, died m Worcester, Inne i.?, nji;. Children- Carl E K 
 of whom further mention is made; .Xrllmr W., of Sprinijtield, Mas>acluisetts • "x.xei 
 William, born November ?,. i8c)6, a wire worker with the Cni'ted St,ati-s Steel' Com- 
 pany, unmarried; and Ellen C., resiiliny in Worcester. 
 
 Carl E, R. Nordgren was b.irn in Stockholm, Sweden, Mav 4, l88(>, bni was 
 brought to the United States by his parents in iKH(), his home having since ben in 
 Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended the public sch..,,ls until twelve years of age, 
 then began his coimection with the undertaking business as an errand boy in the 
 employ of Sessions, the undertaker, and lor twenty years continued in that' emiiloy 
 He became an e.xpert in the modem art of caring l,if the dead, and in Inlv, igij, beg.-i'n 
 business under his own name, purchasing tlie undertaking establishment of Beir I 
 Bernstrom, at No. 10 Belmont street. There he continued in business until .March 
 I, 1918, when he moved to his present modernly eipiipped mortuarv establishment at 
 No. 42 Belmont street. He is tliorough master of the embalming an. and as a fun- 
 eral director meets all the requirements of a most difficult business. 
 
 Mr. Nordgren is a Republican in politics, but is independent in political action. 
 He is a member of Thulc Lodge, No. 230. Independent Order of f)dd Fellows; 
 Massasoit Tribe, No. 6, Improved Order of Red .Men; lohn Eticson 
 Lodge, No. 25, Swedish Order of Vasa ; Viking Council; Independent Order .\lvstic 
 Brothers; The North Star and Per Brahe Swedish clubs; .Massasoit Relief .Asso- 
 ciation; Monitor Lodge; Massachusetts I'lidertakers' .Association; Massachusetts 
 Embalmers' Association; The Court Fjigellirekt. Society of Foresters; and the 
 Swedish Lutheran Church. 
 
 Mr. Nordgren married, September _>(), i(;o(i, in Worcester, Jennie Eleanor Bro- 
 berg, born in Gottenburg ((iothenburg), next to Stockholm the most important city 
 of Sweden, May 3. 1879. She came to the United Slates in 1899. making her lv:me iii 
 Worcester from that year. SIic is a daughter of Eric and Mathilda (Soderstrom) 
 Broberg, both now (1919) living in (iottenburg, Sweden, her father an expert in drop- 
 forging. Mr. and Mrs. Nordgren are tlie parents of four children: N'iola Elizabeth, 
 born May 14, 1907; .Xrthur Rudol|ih. b.irn June .'_', 1909; Carl (lottfried. liorn March 
 22. 1913; Elsie Olivia, born NovenilK-r 28. 1910, 
 
 ISRAEL M. ULLIAN— In Mohilev, a town of Russia, capital ..f the (iovernment 
 of Mohilev, on the Dneii)er river, Israel M. Ullian. of Worcester. Massachusclls. was 
 born, January 15. 1887. At the age of nine years he came to the. L'nited States, landing 
 in Boston, and there attended Phillips C.ranimar School English High School, from 
 which he graduated in 1904. and fnjm the Young .Men's Christian .Association Law- 
 School in 1910. He passed these courses with honor, leaving grammar school after 
 completing the eighth grade and immediately i)assing a special examination for 
 entrance to high school. With his high school education finished in 1904. Mr. L'llian 
 entered business life as cashier with L. Starr & Company. Tremont Row. liostou. and 
 in the summer of 1905 was assistant ledger clerk with Jordan. Marsh & Company 
 of Boston, later becoming claim clerk. Later, in 1905. he returned to I,. S;arr & 
 Company. Winter street, Boston, as auditor, gradually rising in rank until readiing 
 the position of office superintendent and manager. The law- courses given by the 
 Young Men's Christian .-Xssociation was completed in 1910. as addition.al intellectual 
 equipment, not with the intention of practicing. In 1912 L. Starr &- Company sold 
 out to A. Hailpam, Mr. IHlian then becoming assistant manager, .-idvancing to the post 
 of business manager six months later. In Sei)tember. 1914. he resigned. and_ came 
 to Worcester, where he bouglit a one-third interest in the Laskey Company, No. 349 
 Main street, w-hich he yet holds, acting as local manager. His jiartners are Louis 
 E. and Abraham L. Laskey, trading under the hrm name, Laskey's. .Adhering to a 
 strict policy of fair dealing, and the best modern methods of merchandising, and 
 specializing in prompt, efficient service, the Inisiness has steadily increased, the origi- 
 nal floor space having been trebled, the public responding liberally to the evident 
 excellencies of the store. The lines dealt in. in the various departments, are women s 
 and misses' suits, coats, dresses, waists, skirts, furs and lur coats, petticoats and 
 camisoles. 
 
 CHARLES FREDERICK HANSON, .Music dealer, music teacher and conduc- 
 tor, the first Swede t.. settle 111 tins c.iy. w.i^ born in Uddevalla. Sweden. September 
 
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 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 9, 1849, son of John and Christina A. Hanson. He attended school there and remained 
 a student in the High School until he was sixteen years old, when he came to this 
 country. He was employed during the next three years in a piano factory in Boston. 
 
 He came to Worcester, September 28, 1868. and it is conceded that he was the 
 first Swedish citizen of this city. He was employed at his trade in piano repairing 
 and tuning for S. R. Leland & Son, but engaged in business on his own account about 
 eighteen months after coming to Worcester and he has continued to the present 
 time, dealing in pianos and other musical instruments, music and musical merchan- 
 dise of all kinds. For many years his store was at No. 242 Main street; since 1914 
 he has occupied several floors of the building at No. 260 Main street. After the 
 Thule building was erected, he was located in a large store there, but to allow the 
 better renting of the property to the Stearns Furniture Company, removed to his 
 present location. 
 
 In many ways Mr. Hanson is one of the best known Swedes of the city. From 
 the time he came to the present he has been active in musical organizations, the 
 founder of several very successful societies, leader of many, conductor of many 
 orchestras and instructor on various musical instruments, being musical director of 
 several churches in Worcester for many years. Not only among the Swedish musical 
 people, but' in all musical organizations of the city, he has been prominent. Mention 
 is made of his activity in the account of the various Swedish societies in another chap- 
 ter. He has taken part in every movement for the welfare of his fellow-citizens, 
 whether charitable, reform or political, and has served on a g:reat number of public 
 committees from time to time. As a merchant his standing is high. In politics he has 
 always been a Republican, and though often requested to accept nominations he has 
 always declined public office. He was the originator of our evening schools, which 
 started in 1879. His recreation, as well as his business, is music; his musical gift 
 was inherited, and all the Hanson family are musicians. He is especially skillful 
 with the violin-cello and piano. He is a member of Atherston Lodge, Ancient Free 
 and Accepted Masons ; Thule Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; and the 
 First LIniversalist Church. Mr. Hanson owns considerable real estate, including his 
 residence at No. iy Kendall street. 
 
 Mr. Hanson married, in Boston, November 28, 1867, Eliza Ann Hazall, who was 
 a native of Boston, daughter of Charles and Ann (Palmer) Hazall. Four children 
 were born to them, namely: Lillian Ann, a famous singer, wife of Herbert J. Russell, 
 of this city ; Charles Arthur, piano maker ; Frederick T., died aged twenty-six years ; 
 Flora M.. died at the age of thirteen years. 
 
 Mr. Hanson's father, John Hanson, was born in Sweden, and died there at the 
 age of forty-four years. He was a professional musician. He married Christina A. 
 Hanson, who died in Belmont, Massachusetts, aged eighty-one years. They Iiad six 
 children, of whom two are living: Charles F., mentioned above, and Mathilda, who 
 married James Sargent, of Belmont. 
 
 CHARLES E. SANDBERG, Business man, son of John E. and Christina (Ander- 
 son) Sandberg, was born in Sweden in 1878, his father a machinist. He came to 
 the United States at the age of nine years, attended grammar school through three 
 grades, then learned the sheet metal trade, locating in Worcester, Massachu- 
 setts, his present home. Since 1909 he has been engaged in the sheet metal and 
 welding business, and has won a secure position in his particular line of industry. 
 He is a Republican in politics, and in 1916 represented his ward in Common Council. 
 He is a member of Cherokee Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men ; Leicester Country 
 Club; Lakeside Boat Club; Svea Gille Association; Swedish Engineers, and in 
 religious faith is affiliated with All Saints' and Swedish Lutheran Church. 
 
 Mr. Sandberg married, June 22, 1904, Agnes Elizabeth Malm. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sandberg are the parents of three children: Gladys Helen, liorn July 24, 1905; 
 Stanley Andrew, April 8, 1908; Carl Edward, June 7, 1915. 
 
 SAMUEL MARCUS, Dealer in cloaks, suits and furs, was born in Gorodock, 
 Vetapsk, Kubana, Russia, August 9, 1870, son of Max and Freda (Kazaarnovsky) 
 Marcus. He received the equivalent of an American grammar school education in 
 his native place, where he was later engaged in the wheat and flax trade. 
 
 At the age of twenty-one he came to this country, and after living for nine 
 months in New York City, came to Boston, where he engaged in the fur trade for 
 nine years. In 1900 he started in the fur business in this city in a small way, having 
 his place of business at No. 546 Main street. At first he employed no clerks, but 
 was his own workman and salesman. His business grew so rapidly under his careful 
 management that in 1902 he removed to larger quarters at No. 65 Pleasant street 
 and remained in this location until 1908, when his business had outgrown the capacity 
 
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 of this store and he rom.>VL-<l to X... m(, M.iin str.el hw i.re-ent . ir rt r r ■ 
 is located in the Ix-st business section ol'llie city. To his' already lar«c- 'mocU he "dlled 
 coats and suits, and also n.anutactnrcd furs, and l.v lilx-ral advertisiny ati<l e-u,-r- 
 pnsing methods he built up a laru'c trade and once more was compelled to eid'arcc 
 his floor space At the present time he occupies three lloors of the huildin ■ '\nd 
 carries a very large stock of cloaks, suits, millinery and furs, and employs se'venty 
 people In lyiO the business was incorporated under the name of the S Marcus Com- 
 pany, of which he IS president and treasurer, his wife is vice-president, and I-lorence 
 C. Brown Toomcy IS secretary^ Mr. Marcus is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce; Knights of Pythias: Benevolent and Protective Order of Klks • the Inde- 
 pendent Order Brith Abraham ; the Credit Men's Association, and the Orthodox 
 Synagogue Church. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Marcus married, in Boston, Decemher 25, 1897, Anna Cilburce, who was 
 born in Russia. 1 hey have three children: Bertha, a student in Welleslev College 
 class of 1921 ; Mildred, student in the North High .School, class of ly'o-'Saul ~ ' 
 
 Max Marcus, father of Samuel Marcus, was a native of Russia- died vvheii his 
 son was very young; married Freda Kazaarnovskv, and bail si.x children- Samuel- 
 Isaac, employed in his brother's store here: Sau'l. employed here; .-\nna married 
 Joseph Aranson, living in Somerville: .^\da, married Harry Xovack. of Srmierville- 
 Ethel, married Louis Cohn. of this city. His mother is living with a sister in Som- 
 erville. Mr. Marcus resides at Xo. 16 Chamberlin Parkway, in this city. 
 
 ARTHUR GOTHARD SWANSON. The largest exclusive bread baking plant 
 m New England is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is operated bv tlie Wor- 
 cester Baking Company, of which .Xrthur (i. Swanson is treasurer and general man- 
 ager. The capacity of the i)lant is one-quarter of a million loaves weekly, the leader, 
 "Town Talk," a loaf found in about every grocery, hotel or restaurant in Worcester. 
 The building from which "Town Talk" issues in such volume is on Mason street, 
 two stories in height, with basement, the ground plan, 100x250 feet. Eighty-five men 
 are employed, and every modern improvement in baking machinery is operated under 
 the best conditions that sanitary and health consideration demands. Mr. Swanson 
 is a son of Gunnar Swanson, born in Skane, Sweden, who died in Xew York City 
 at the age of sixty-three, a builder of wijid and water mills and wheels. lie married 
 Eliza Anderson, also born in Sweden, who died in New York City at the age of sixty. 
 They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are living, seven of them 
 coming to the United States. None of this family except .Arthur (i. resides in Wor- 
 cester, four of the sons and a daughter now residing in New Y'ork City. 
 
 Arthur G. Swanson was born in .Skane, Sweden, August 10, 1875, and there 
 li\-ed until the age of fifteen years, obtaining his education in the local schools. In 
 l8ga he came to the United States w-ith his parents, the first six years of his .-Xmcrican 
 residence being in New York City. In 1896, being then of legal age, he left the home 
 group and located in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he was associated with his 
 brother, Charles O., in the baking business. In 1912 he came to Worcester, where 
 he organized the Worcester Baking Company, Charles O. .Swanson, president, Arthur 
 G. Swanson, treasurer and general manager. In 1913 the present plant was erected 
 and the leading brands, "Town Talk" and "Swansons Butter Wheat," placed upon 
 the market in quantity. The company is one of the prosi)erou5, substantial enter- 
 prises of Worcester, and its success speaks volumes for the business ability and 
 genius of the men who have made it. Arthur (j. Swanson is a member of the Rotary 
 Club of Worcester, is independent in politics, and a member of Pilgrim Congrega- 
 tional Church. He is a man of strong character, very progressive and public-spirited, 
 always willing to bear his share in any enterprise for Worcester's advancement 
 He has many friends, and is held in high esteem in the business world in which he 
 moves. 
 
 Mr. Swanson married in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, December 29. 1898. Gertrude 
 O. Olson, daughter of John and Christina Olson, both now residing in Fitchburg, 
 her father being with the Iver Johnson Company. Mr. and Mrs. Sw-anson are the 
 parents of thre« daughters: Elna. born February 28. 1900: Mildred. March 6, 1903; 
 and Gertrude, November 25, 1905. 
 
 BERNARD PRESS. When a young man of nineteen years. Bernard Press came 
 to the United States from Russia. A year later he was in business for himself and 
 now, although but thirtv-five years of age, is one of the large individual taxpayers 
 of the city of Worcester. This is a wonderful record and stamps Mr. Press as a 
 voung man of great business ability. He is a son of Joseph Press, w-ho spent hii 
 iife in Corna. Russia, a farmer during all the active part <if his seventy year-. Hif 
 
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898 HISTORY OF WORCESTER 
 
 wife, Rose, also lived and died in Corna, Russia, the mother of five children, two of 
 whom, Bernard and Louis, came to the United States. Louis Press locfated in New 
 York City, where he now resides, the owner and proprietor of a clothing store m the 
 borough of Brooklyn. 
 
 Bernard Press was born in Corna, Russia, in 1883, and there spent the first nine- 
 teen years of his life. In 1902 he came to the L'nited States, located in Worcester, 
 Massachusetts, and found employment with a junk dealer of the city. He continued 
 for one year an employe, carefully treasuring his earnings, and at the end of his first 
 year was possessed of sufficient capital to purchase a horse and wagon with which 
 he started collecting and dealing in junk. That first year he laid the foundation 
 of his future success, and no year of his life had so important a bearing upon his 
 future fortunes as that year of hard work and self sacrificing economy. For three 
 years he conducted his junk business very successfully, then at the age of twenty-three 
 established a clothing business, selling on the partial payment or installment plan, 
 covering territory in and around Worcester with horse and wagon. In 1912 he began 
 business as a real estate dealer, but his business is mostly confined to his own per- 
 sonal dealing. He is an e.xcellent judge of property values and has bought most 
 judiciously, his largest holding being on North Main street, his real estate on that 
 being valued at a half million dollars. He is a shrewd, careful buyer and has the 
 reputation of being one of the liest-informed men on real estate and its values in his 
 business. He has thoroughly inbibed Worcester's spirit of progress, is one of the 
 large patrons of insurance in the city and employs all modern aids in business and 
 office. Mr. Press is a member of the church. Sons of Israel, of the Bnai Brith Society, 
 and is a Republican in politics. 
 
 Mr. Press married, in Worcester, Sarah B. Machinist, born in Russia, but 
 brought to the L^nited States in her second year. Both her parents are deceased, her 
 mother dying in Worcester, her father in Jerusalem. Mr. and Mrs. Press are the 
 parents of three children: Joseph, born in 1907; Beatrice, born in 191 1; Ruth, born 
 in 191 5. 
 
 JACOB GAUCH, President and manager of the Central Machine Works, No. 
 19 Church street. Worcester, known as "Jake" Gauch, is widely and favorably known 
 for his fine mechanical ability and genial nature. He is a son of Jacob Gauch, who 
 lived and died in Germany, a stone cutter by trade. He married Charlotta Soffel, 
 who died in Worcester. Massachusetts, in 1914, aged fifty-five years. They were 
 the parents of seven children, all of whom are now living in the LJnited States : 
 Elizabeth, wife of Jacob F .Adams; Charlotta. married Charles Kesseli ; Catherine, 
 married Anthoine Waize ; Caroline, married Joseph Dasen ; .'Knnie, married Max 
 Rebstock, of Meriden, Connecticut; Margaret, married Walter Brueggemann, of 
 Boston ; the other daughters all reside in Worcester ; Jacob is the only son. 
 
 Jacob (2) Gauch was born in Germany, February i, 1873, and at the age of fifteen 
 came to the United States with his mother and sisters, finding a home in Worcester. He 
 attended night school in Worcester for two years, and for five years was a carpet 
 weaver. He then changed trades and began learning the machinist's trade wirh John 
 J. Adams by whom he was employed for twenty-six years. During the last eight 
 years of this period he was manager of the Adams machine shops. He became a 
 skilled worker in metal, but until the present years has employed his skill and talents 
 largely for the benefit of others. On September 10, 1918, he established in business 
 for himself as manager of the Central Machine Works, No. 19 Church street. Wor- 
 cester, there occupying an entire second floor and employing about a dozen men in 
 general machine work, automobile parts, and a line of special machine manufacturing. 
 He is a member of the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Society, and the D. O. H. 
 He enjoys out-of-door sports, and is an ardent fisherman and automobilist. In poli- 
 tics he is a Republican. 
 
 Mr. Gauch married in Worcester, June 28, 1898, Lena Wagner, born in Germany, 
 who came to Worcester alone at the age of fifteen, her parents, Joseph and Barbara 
 (Train) Wagner, dying in Germany prior to her coming. Mr. and Mrs. Gauch are the 
 parents of three children: Earl Wagner, born June 19, 1900, mechanical dentist; 
 Edna Charlotte, born June 21. 1903, stenographer and bookkeeper; and Ernest Carl, 
 born November 20, 1908, attending grammar school. 
 
 A. WILLIAM SVENSON. The large business transacted by The Svenson- 
 Lindstrom Heating & Engineering Company, of No. 142 Green street, Worcester, is 
 under the direct management of A. William Svenson, president of the company, sec- 
 onded by C. O. Lindstrom, secretary-treasurer. This company, established in 1914, 
 has developed a large business as heating engineers and contractors, water supply 
 outfits, power plant equipment, gas engines and allied lines. Mr. Svenson has been a 
 
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 worker from bdybcod, and iii tliesc viars lias «aim-(l tlio >-\perii'iuf iiul i-xooiitlvr 
 ability whicb. added m Ins practical knowledge oi macbim-rv and ii^ nperation ren<lef; 
 him peculiarly wcll-fittcd tor the position he holds. He is a son of Iver Svens.m 
 born in Sweden, who catne tti the United States in 1882 located in Worcester Mis' 
 sachusetts and for a third of a century has been in the cniph.v of the Harr'in"t..n 
 & Richardson Arms Company, and still continues with that crpoVation He mirried 
 in Worcester. Louise Olscn. born in Sweden, wbo came alone to the L'nite.l '^t ales 
 one year «fter her father. Mr. and Mrs. Svensi>n were the parents ol" a di'i-liter 
 Alice, now a vocal instructor, with a studio In the Knowles IniildiiiK'. anil a ;i"li .\ 
 William, of further mention. 
 
 A. William S\enson was b..rn in W.>rcester, Massaeluisetls. lami.iry _'i 1S88 
 and until thirteen years of age lie attended the eilv public sch.>ols. In looi'he eiiiered 
 the employ of the Harringlnn S: Ricliards<in .Xrms Company of Worcester, reni.iininc 
 two years. He then was emiiloyed by George T. Tribe, architect, for another two 
 years, and then having reached the age of seventeen, he took up the heating I'lisiness 
 and was employed in some ol its many branches until 1914. In that year, wiili C. 6. 
 and W. T. Lindstrom, he organized the Svenson-Lindstrom Heating &• kngi:ieering 
 Company, and in a modest way the present large business of the comiiany was begun. 
 They have since greatly extended tlieir lines, and arc one of the well-known and 
 widely-patronized firtris of Worcester, their customrs found all over New Kngland. 
 Mr. Svenson is a Unitarian in religious faith, is a Republican in politics, and very 
 fond of fishing as a recreation and sport. 
 
 He married, in Worcester. Ellen Lindstrom. born in Hidden. MassacluiseMs. a 
 sister of his business partners, C. (J. and W. T. Lindstrom. Her mother is yet living 
 in Holdcn. her father deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Svenson are the parents of a daughter, 
 Louise Ellen, and of a son, .)ohn William. The family home is at Holden, a house 
 he purchased in the spring ol 1918. 
 
 JOHN OLOF HELLSTROM, Insurance agent, was boni in Grafback. Sweden, 
 State of Bydes, Province of Westerbotteii, January 22. 1874. He lived in his native 
 place, and was educated in the schocds there, but at the age of eleven years was 
 thrown upon his own resources and since then has made his own way. He supple- 
 mented his education by courses in commercial schools in Sweden and again after 
 coming to this country. 
 
 He came to this city from .Sweden when he was twenty-si.x years old. working 
 at first at the trade of shoemaker, and then for seven years as clerk in a retail shoe 
 store in Greenfield. Massachusetts: afterward in Quincy and F.rockton, and while 
 in Brockton he engaged in business as an insurance broker. In 1915 he opened an 
 office in this city, doing a general insurance and real estate business. His offices at 
 present (1918) are at No. 507 Main street. In jiolitics Mr. Hellstrom is a Republican. 
 He is a member of the First Swedish Baptist Church and is a teacher in the .Sunday 
 school. While in Greenfield he was superintendent of the Sunday school for several 
 years in the Pierce Street Baptist Church. 
 
 Mr. Hellstrom married, in Sweden. July 10. 1908. Ida Caroline Lundin, who was 
 born at Olofs-Fors, Bruk, County Nordnarling. Province of Westcrbotten. educated 
 there, graduating from the grammar school. They have one child, John Paul, born 
 September 2. 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Hellstrom reside at No. 24 Westminster street. 
 
 His father. Nathaniel Hellstrom. was born in Grafback, and followed the trade 
 of carpenter there. His mother. Corin Magdalene Hellstrom, died when he was a 
 child. His parents had five children, of whom he was the eldest. The others were: 
 Jonas, who died at the age of eighteen years : Carl August, now living ,in Sweden, 
 a master plumber in the northern city of Umeo. is married and has two children; 
 Erick Oscar, a mechanic, residing in Boston: Anna Magdalen, who married .Anders 
 Carlson, now of Alinnesota, and has six children. 
 
 August Lundin. father of Mrs. Hellstrom. was a native of Sweden: sinte 
 1900 in the ornamental iron and construction work, associated with Richard l-'rencb 
 in this city. His wife. Caroline (Swanson) Lundin. was born in Sweden, liesidcs 
 Mrs. Hellstrom, there were seven children: I'.eniard. William, Oscar. Godfrey, Anna 
 and two deceased. 
 
 GUSTAF ADOLPHUS OLIN, President and treasurer of the Commercial W'eld- 
 
 ing and Machine Companv, was born in Hoganas Skone. Sweden, August j8. 1869, 
 son of Nils and Petronella Oliii. His father was a sculptor. He received bis edu- 
 cation there in the public schools. After coming to this city from Sweden, he le:tnied 
 the trade of machinist, and later became a foreman in the factory of the Norton Com- 
 pany, and was foreman for the Riley Sanford Stoker f ompany. He is now serving as 
 president and treasurer of the Commercial Welding & Machine Company, No. 21 
 
900 HISTORY OF ll'OKCESTIlR 
 
 Commercial street. In politics Mr. Olin is a Republican. He represented his ward 
 in 1913-14-15 in the Common Council; in 1916-17 in the Board of Aldermen. He 
 is a member of Vasa Order af Amerika ; Swedish Brotherhood of America ; Engel- 
 brekt Society ; Improved Order of Red Men ; Norton Mutual Benefit Association ; 
 Hogans Society; the Worcester County Republican Club; the Swedish-American 
 Republican Club, of Ward One; the Swedish-American Republican Club of .Massa- 
 chusetts. He is a communicant of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 Mr. Olin married, in this city, June 4, 1898, Betty Moberg, daughter of Ca'M and 
 Elna Moberg. They have three children: Muriel Beatrice, born June u, 1899; 
 Florence Valentina, February 14, 1901 ; Gladys Lillian, June 6. 1902. 
 
 CHARLES CHRISTIAN MINSCH. On February 18, 1853, Charles C. Minsch 
 was born in Kiel, Germany, srm of Dietrick Delef Minsch. a jeweler, who lived 
 and died in Germany, his age at death forty-one years. He married Catherine Rorh- 
 back, born in Germany, who died in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy- 
 six years. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living : Charles 
 Christian (see biography); Dietrick D., a book-binder of New York City; Rosa C, 
 unmarried ; Minnie, married Adolph Licfield, and has two sons, both with the Amer- 
 ican Expeditionary Forces in France. 
 
 Charles Christian Minsch was educated in his native land, and lived in Kiel 
 until twenty years of age, there obtaining his education and learning the trade of 
 painter. In 1873 he was called for service in the German Army, which he avoided by 
 coming to the United States. He located in New Haven, Connecticut, later going to 
 New York City, and in 1887 locating in Worcester, Massachusetts. In all these places 
 he followed his trade, and in Worcester has completed the full half century at that 
 trade, he but a lad of fifteen when he began as an apprentice. He is fond of the 
 theatre and things theatrical, is .a member of the Baptist church, and a man greatly 
 respected by his neighbors. 
 
 Mr. Minsch married in New Haven, Connecticut, August 2, 1875. Louisa F. Lie- 
 field, born in New Haven, daughter of Herman Liefield, her parents both deceased. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Minsch have four children: Minnie Dorothy, born in New Haven, and 
 residing with her parents in Worcester; Sylvia Louisa, also residing at home ; Wal- 
 ter Cornelius, a mining engineer of San Francisco. California ; and William Joseph, 
 a bond salesman of New York City, connected with the Lee, Higginson Company. He 
 married Neva Reynolds, and has three children, Dorothy, William J. Jr., and Elizabeth. 
 
 FREDERICK VICTOR HUGO— Charles Hugo, born in Germany, came to the 
 United States, prior to 1888, and is the present superintendent of the Whittall Carpet 
 Company of Worcester. His wife, Alvira Hugo, was born in New York State. 
 They are the parents of seven children: Frederick Victor, of further mention; 
 Margaret Helen, deceased; Minna, Louise, Carl, who served in the Lhiited States 
 army ; Albert, and Theodore. 
 
 Frederick V. Hugo was born in Worcester, June 13, 1888. After completing gram- 
 mar and high school courses he entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute, whence he 
 was graduated, class of 1911. He entered business life as an employee of the Taylor 
 Envelope Company, as assistant manager, remaining until 1914, when he resigned to 
 form an association with the Colonial Envelope Company, of which he is the present 
 treasurer. The company are manufacturers of envelopes, and job printers, occupying 
 10,000 square feet of floor space in their plant at No. 4 Cherry street, Worcester. 
 Mr. Hugo is a Republican in politics, and member of the Worcester Chamber of 
 Commerce. He married, in Worcester, Lora Inez .\therton, and they are the parents 
 of two children: Frederick \'icti.^r (2), and Elsie Inez Hugo. 
 
ADDENDA AND ERRATA 
 
 Bishop, p. j(j,S. Dr. l;,sli,,p ,s ,i thiriv-svcond dtyrrr \las..ii 
 
 '^"""'Holcn"*r ''"'""■"' "■"""■ '" ■"^''■- " ■'- "">■ ^'•""'•1 ''^ M-"y T. insica.l of 
 
 Hodge, p. 537: rriiiis.\ Ivaiiiu l.od.yc sliould In- l.rwiMon I.od>;o. Xo. jo?. of Lcw- 
 iston, I'cnnsylvania. 
 
 McDermott, p. 550: John Moorr. third m.h of hiiiu> McDi-rmoU. cidisU'd in the 
 830th Ac-ro .Sqiiadroii, Anurican l-.xpcdilionar.v Forces, for scrvicf m l-'raiice. 
 
 O'Coniu-Il. p. 5J->; Following sketch should he read instead of thai which appears on 
 that page: Michael John O'Connell. Rector of the Church of Our I.ady of the 
 Angels, was horn in Holyokc. Massachusetts. Xoveniher g. iSjg. He .attended 
 tlie pnhlic schools of Holyoke. and in 1800 entered the University of Oltowa, 
 graduating in igoo, and received his seminary training in St. Bernard's at 
 Rochester, New York. He was ordained at the Cathedral of Rochester. He 
 was stationed at St. Mary's Church in Southhridge, Massadiusetts. from 
 July, 1904, to April, 1905, and \v:is then sent to St. Mary's Cathedral of Fall 
 River, remaining there from June, 1905. to June, 1906. From there he was 
 sent to St. Mary's Church, 'lauiittJii, ami in Septemher, 190(1, was sent to Buf- 
 falo, New York, where he was stationed at the Immaculate Conception Church 
 and the Church of St. John the Baptist until March, 1908. Then returning to 
 the Diocese of Springheld. Massachusetts, he was stationed at St. loseph's 
 Church, Pittsfield, from May. 1908, to May, 191 1. He was then sent to St. 
 Thomas's Church, Pahiier, wdiere he remained until .April, 1913. going then to 
 St. Peter's Church, Worcester, wdiere he serve<l as curate until his api)oiiitmeiit 
 as rector of Our Lady of the /Xngels, Septemher. 1916. F'ather O'Connell is a 
 inemlier of .Mhamhra Council. Knights of (."ohimhiis. 
 
 Stetson, p. 119: Mrs. Flora D. SteKon is n^w deceased: Mr. Stetson married (sec- 
 ond) .'\ngust 31. 1918. -Anna .\dams Himt. of W'aynesville, Xorth Carolina. 
 
 Wire, p. 543: Mr. Wire received the degree of 1'.. I.. S. from Xew \\>vk Lihrary 
 school in 1913; is also a member of .\ppalachian Mountain Chili. 
 
 Worcester County Law Lihrary. p. 544, 6th line: After "county clerk" should be 
 added: "and from the ta.x levy of the county:" 24th line, after "statutes" should 
 be added: "Canadian, English, Irish and Scotch reports and statutes" instead 
 of "English law works;" same line, after "liistorical works" should he added: 
 "valuable collection of law periodicals and United States and Massachusetts docu- 
 ments ;" 25th line, after "liar" should he added: "and is a circulating as well 
 as reference library ;" 34th line, Thomas B. Xelson should he Thoinas l. Xel- 
 son ; 3f)th line after "1900" should he added: "and those of G. A. Torrey. 1859- 
 1901, the latter being acquired by purchase in 191 1." 
 
INDEX 
 
 Note.— An asterisk (*) preceding name in Index is to call attention to supplementary 
 data in Addenda and Errata above. 
 
 Abbott, Clarence J., 642 
 John E.. 642. 643 
 .losephine. 643 
 Abercrombie. Daniel W.. 56 
 
 Emily F.. 57 
 Abramson. Ephraim, 664 
 John R.. 664, 665 
 Mary. 665 
 Adamian, Adam, 670, 671 
 Haiganoish, 671 
 Parnag A., Dr., 670 
 Adams, Amelia A., 663 
 Carrie. 606 
 Charles E.. 640 
 Clara M.. 398 
 Edward P.. 601 
 Elwood. 606 
 Ernest G.. 601 
 Ezra, 398 
 Fannie E., 640 
 Frank L.. 398 
 Gabriel, 663 
 George E.. Dr., 640 
 George W., 398 
 Harold F.. 640 
 John J., 663 
 John Q.. 606 
 Marv E., 602 
 Robert P.. 607 
 Aiken, Alfred L.. 850 
 Elizabeth P., 851 
 William A., Gen., 850. 851 
 William A.. Gov.. 850, 852 
 Aitchison, Catherine H., 504 
 Elizabeth A., 604 
 George T., 503. 504 
 William H.. 503 
 Alden. George I.. 459 
 
 Leah. 560 
 
 Martha A.. 460 
 
 Mary E.. 460 
 Aldrich. Charles F., 170 
 
 George. 169 
 
 Peleg. 169 
 
 Peleg E.. 169 
 
 Sarah. 169 
 Alexander. Lydia M., 235 
 
 Nathaniel. 234 
 
 Warren, 234 
 
 Warren P., 235 
 Allen, Alice, 149 
 
 Charles L,., 447 
 
 Charles M.. 499 
 
 Cornelia. 149 
 
 Elizabeth. 148 
 
 Eva M., 500 
 
 Harold G., 149 
 
 Helen L., 448 
 
 Lam^on. Dr.. 195 
 
 Leonard H., 195, 196 
 
 Martha R.. 195 
 
 Melzar W., 499 
 
 W^alter B., 148 
 
 Walter D.. 149 
 
 William. 148 
 
 William P.. 149 
 Alsten, Hannah B., 666 
 
 John A., 666 
 
 Olaf. 666 
 Amidon, Edward P., 233 
 
 Fayette A., 233 
 
 Lucy E.. 234 
 Amiot, Amede, 173 
 
 Amede J.. 173 
 
 William F., Dr.. 172 
 Ander.son, Alice E., 466 
 
 Andrew A.. 665 
 
 Carl A., 665 
 
 Carl J.. 665 
 
 Harry O.. 465 ' 
 
 Marie, 665 
 
 Olaf. 465. 466 
 Olga C, 665 
 Andrew.s. Calvin H.. 808 
 John T.. 808 
 Martha E.. 808 
 Appelkvist, John H., 894 
 Armington, Alice H., 266 
 James H., 265 
 Lucy M., 266 
 Rebecca F., 266 
 Walker. 265 
 Walker. Jr., 266 
 Armour, James W., 357 
 Joan G., 357 
 John W., 357 
 William, 357 
 William W., 357 
 Armstrong, Antoinette, 709 
 David. 709 
 David W.. 709 . 
 Aronovitz, Eva R., 894 
 Harris R.. 893 
 Morris, 893 
 Arter, Annie. 455 
 
 William. 454 
 Arthur. Andrew S.. 748 
 Harrison N., 745 
 Martha E.. 745 
 Asher. Abraham I., 59 
 
 Jacob. 59 *■ 
 Aspinwall. Aurelia. 427 
 William. 427 
 William B., 427 
 William F., 427 
 Atherton, Alfred, 232 
 Frank A., 232 
 Inez L.. 232 
 Ralph E.. 232 
 Atwood. Harrv H., 172 
 Louise H., 172 
 Walter A., 172 
 Auger, Abina. 338 
 Charles L., Dr., 338 
 Desire L.. 338 
 Louis L.. Dr., 338 
 Marie, 338 
 Averill. Charles M., 190 
 Charles S., 190 
 Edgar. 190 
 Jennie E., 190 
 Lloyd B.. 190 
 Aver,v, Adelia R., 360 
 Adoniram J., 359, 360 
 Wesley N., 359 
 Ayers. Charles E., Dr 27' 
 John B,. 272 
 Peter. 273 
 
 Bailey. Frederic W., Rev., 
 
 Lena O.. 601 
 
 William E.. 601 
 Balcom, Abel H.. 620 
 
 Alexander, 352 
 
 Augustus, 351 
 
 Caroline A., 352 
 
 Joseph, 352 
 
 Lillian M., 352 
 
 Lucius A., 352 
 
 Nora A., 621 
 
 Samuel. 351, 352 
 
 Samuel E.. 352 
 
 William H.. 620 
 Baldwin, Charles C. 164 
 
 Christopher C, 750 
 
 Daniel, 752 
 
 Eden, 750 
 
 Ella L. T.. 164 
 
 Emilv. 754 
 
 Henry B.. 754 
 
 John D., 164. 752, 755 
 
 John S.. 754 
 Lemira. 754 
 Marv F., 755 
 Robert S., 754 
 Ball. Helen A.. 215 
 Manas.seh S.. 214 
 Phinehas, 214 
 Sarah A.. 215 
 Barber, Joseph R.. 444 
 
 Silas. 444 
 Barnard. Cyrus G., 210 
 Prank P., Dr.. 210 
 Frederick F.. 210 
 Grace L.. 210 
 Hiram E.. 210 
 Isaac, 822 
 James. 822 
 John. 822 
 John. Capt., 822 
 Lewis, 821, 822 
 Lewi.s. Capt.. 821. 822 
 Mary A.. 823 
 Rebecca, Dr., 742 
 Barnes, Fred W.. 823 
 Barrett. Edwin G., 609 
 Florence G.. 609 
 John B.. 608 
 Joseph. 609 
 Leon J.. 608 
 Martha S.. 609 
 Barrows. E. Mabel. 583 
 Elmer E., 583 
 Frederick E., 582 
 Irving B.. 583 
 William D., 582 
 Bartlett. Charles A., 230 
 Charles P., 217 
 Jennie L.. 217 
 Marshia A., 230 
 Melzar A., 217 
 Ralph N.. 217 
 Barton. Clarissa H.. 65 
 
 Stevens. Capt.. 65 
 Bassett, Arthur J.. 300 
 Cora L.. 72 
 Elizabeth A.. 71 
 George M., 71 
 Joseph M., 71, 300 
 Mary E., 301 
 Batchelder, Frank R., 72 73 
 George E.. 607 
 George W., 607 
 James W. R.. 72, 74 
 Joseph W., 607 
 Mabel E.. 73 
 Olive M.. 607 
 Robert P., 608 
 Roger, 73 
 Sarah V.. 60S 
 Bateheller. Francis. 14 
 
 Tryphosa D.. 14 
 Bates. Elijah. 11 
 Emma P., 13, 14 
 Henry T., Dr.. 643 
 Henry W., 643 
 Mabel W.. 644 
 Theodore C, 11 
 Bavis, Charles A., 549 
 Chester S.. 549 
 Mertle. 549 
 Beals, Geoffrey H., 534 
 Grace D.. 534 
 Joseph, 534 
 Luther H., 534 
 Beaman, Arthur W., 705 
 David, 705 
 Gamaliel. 705 
 John W., 705 
 William, 705 
 Belisle, Agnes C, 76 
 Albini, 76 
 
INDEX 
 
 Alpxaiuier. 75 
 
 Alex^inder. Jr.. 75 
 
 Aiitoinc L. v.. 75 
 
 Charles E.. 77 
 
 Dora C 77 
 
 Kugene 1^.. 71; 
 
 Felix A.. 71; 
 
 George E.. 7t". 
 
 Grace M.. 77 
 
 Hei-tor U., 77 
 
 Marie. 75 
 Bellovv.s. Dexter C. 312 
 
 Edith. 313 
 
 Franklin H.. 313 
 
 John. 312 
 
 Lyman H.. 313 
 
 Warren S.. 312 
 Bcini.s. Adeline O.. 331 
 
 Alliirt L., 334 
 
 Caroline A.. 218 
 
 Edwin A.. 334 
 
 Fannie B.. 2i:i 
 
 John M.. Dr.. 219 
 
 Joseph. 334 
 
 Merrirk. Dr.. 21 it 
 
 Samuel V.. 217 
 Benners. .Vrnold L.. 213 
 
 Helena D.. 213 
 
 Herman L., Dr.. 213 
 Bennett. Celia E.. 316 
 
 Conrad R.. 316 
 
 Georgianna. 316 
 
 John H.. 315 
 
 Jonathan S.. 315 
 Benson. Annie L.. SS5 
 
 Carl B.. 885 
 
 Martin. 885 
 Bent, Catherine M., 171 
 
 Charles M.,, 170 
 
 Helen M.. 171 
 
 Nathaniel T.. Rev.. 17 
 Bentley. William. Rev., 
 Berg-. August M.. 559 
 
 Emma C.. 559 
 Berry. Gordon. 765 
 
 John C, Dr., 763 
 
 Maria E., 764 
 
 Stephen D., 763 
 Beveridge. Arthur M.. 
 Lillian E., 329 
 Robert, 329 
 Willis C, 329 
 Bickford, Alice B.. 606 
 
 Ernest A., 605 
 Franklin A.. 606 
 John C. 605 
 Biclcnell, George W., ) 
 519 
 Harriet M.. 520 
 John F.. 519, 520 
 John W., 519 
 Roscoe G., 520 
 Eigelovv, Abraham, Col., 
 Adelaide E., 771 
 Adeline, 679 
 Alexander, 679 
 Chester E., 772 
 Daniel, 784 
 David, 784 
 Dora la.. 680 
 Edith, 772 
 Edward A., 680 
 Francis H.. 772 
 George A.. 679 
 Horace H., 769, 772 
 Irving E., 771 
 Irving E., Jr., 772 
 Lewis, Capt., 401 
 Levi. 769 
 Lillian A.. 772 
 Lucy A.,, 771 
 Mary A., 680 
 Sarah M., 679 
 Walter, 784 
 Bildt, Carl W., 106 
 Bill, Frederic L., 191 
 Gurdon, 190 
 Joshua. 191 
 Ledyard, 190 
 
 rhilip. 192 
 
 I'.i.hard. 191 
 
 Sophia R.. 191 
 Risco. Anna K.. 214 
 
 I 'Wight, 2 13, 244 
 
 Kdward, 241 
 
 I'Mward K., 243 
 
 ,1'ihn, 244 
 Rishop. John W., 78, 79 
 
 •1.,-vvis .M., I),-., jns 
 
 M.iry V... 209 
 
 Sarah A.. 79 
 
 Simoon. 20s. 209 
 
 William. 78 
 Rjork. Hannah E., 83S 
 
 .\'ils, 838 
 
 I'ehr, S3S 
 Black. Charles A 678 
 
 Louise A.. 678 
 Blacker, Kiaiicis W., 209 
 
 Helen F., 297 
 
 iiriana F., 297 
 Blake, Carrie H., 279 
 
 Ethel. 279 
 
 Kordyce T.. 27D 
 
 <;e<>rKe P.. 277 
 
 George F.. Jr., 277, 278 
 
 Increase, 278 
 
 ,Iames, 278. 313 
 
 James V... 313 
 
 Louisa. 314 
 
 Louisa S.. 313 
 
 Thomas D.. Dr., 278 
 
 William, 278 
 Blanchard, .\lbert D ISO 
 
 Curtis R.,. 186 
 
 Jessie O., 187 
 Bliss, Ahel, 340, 341 
 
 Abel B., 518 
 
 -Anna E., 518 
 
 George R.. 518 
 
 George R.. Jr.. .il9 
 
 Harrison. 340 
 
 Sarah H.. 341 
 
 Walter S.. 518 
 Bock. Bertha F., 662 
 
 Carl H. L.,, 661 
 
 Lars, 661 
 Boland, Albert M., 188 
 
 Benedict F.. 188 
 
 Charles B., ISS 
 
 Eleanor, 189 
 
 John, 189 
 
 Leo P., 188 
 
 Margaret E., 188 
 
 Marion G., 188 
 
 Minnie L., 188 
 
 Thomas B. F., 187 
 
 Tobias, 187, 188 
 
 William. 189 
 Bonney. Carl, 134 
 
 Guy W., 134 
 
 Seth, 134 
 Booth, Albert E.. 392 
 
 Alfred H., 392 
 
 Benjamin, 737 
 
 Charles, 391. 392 
 
 Charles M., 737 
 
 George, 397 
 
 George F., 80 
 
 Hannah, 392 
 
 Lewis E., 392 
 
 Marv, 397 
 
 Minnie L., 81 
 
 Nellie F., 737 
 
 Thomas T., 397 
 
 William, 391 
 
 William H., 80 
 Borg, Emma J.. 679 
 
 John, 678 
 Bousiiuet, Hvacinthe D., 451 
 
 Jean L., 451 
 
 Afalvina E., 451 
 
 William L., 451 
 Boutelle, George J., 629 
 George S., 6211 
 Mary E.. 629 
 Samuel B., 629 
 Bouthillier. Jac«ines. 719 
 
 Joseph J., 719, 7 
 Malvina F., 72o 
 
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 Edwin H. 
 
 . 356 
 
 
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 Luther C 138 
 
 Mariana M.. 356 
 
 Mary F., 365 
 
 Priseilla. 745 
 
 Samuel. 400 
 
 Theodore P., 377 
 
 Thomas, 136 
 
 Virginia, 139 
 
 William, 400 
 
 William H., 247 
 Brownell. Carl R.. 792 
 
 Eva B.. 434 
 
 George L., 792 
 
 John H., 431. 432 
 
 Jo.seph B.. 431 
 
 Ynclita C. 793 
 Br.vant. ClilTord T., 867 
 
 Ebeiiezer, 866 
 
 Everett C, 793 
 
 George C, 866 
 
 George R.. 793 
 
 Henrietta, 793 
 
 Lizzie O., 867 
 
 Lyman G.. 867 
 
 Robert. 793 
 Buck, E. A.. 762 
 
 Edwin A.. 762, 763 
 
 Frances S.. 607 
 
 George E., 762. 763 
 
 Mabelle, 763 
 
 Waldo E.. 607 
 Buckingham. Abbie, 543 
 
 Dorothy D.. 543 
 
 George B., 54 2 
 
 Harold P., 543 
 
 Philo B.. Col., 542 
 Buckley, Dennis. 749 
 
 Prank H.. 749 
 
 Helen, 749 
 
 Louis H., 879 
 
 Vesta L,, 879 
 
 William T.. 879 
 Bullard. Henry, 322 
 
 Jason, 322 
 
 Samuel, 322 
 Bullock, Alexander H.. Gov., 
 16 
 
 Alexander H., Jr., 18 
 
 Augustus G., Col.. 17 
 
 Chandler. 18 
 
 Elvira, 17 
 
 Hugh, 16 
 
 Mabel, 19 
 
 Mary, 18 
 
 Richard, 16 
 
 Rockvfood H.. 18 
 
 Rufus. 16 
 Burbank, Alice G.. 681 
 
 Charles E.. 680 
 
 Charles W., 704 
 
 Daniel E., 680 
 
 John. 703 
 
 John P.. Rev.. 704 
 
 Maude E. F., 705 
 
 William P.. 703, 704 
 Burleigh. Charles H.. 177 
 
 Charles L.. 177 
 
 Emily G.. 177 
 
 John O.. 177 
 
 Nellie H.. 177 
 
 Riiialdo. 177 
 
 William P., 177 
 Burley, Benjamin T.. Dr., 
 807 
 
 Joseph C. 807 
 Burlingame, Abraham. 730 
 
 Emily J., 730 
 
 Emma J., 730 
 
 Harris, 314, 730 
 
 Ida P,, 315 
 Lydia C. 315 
 Marion P., 315 
 
 Sheldon P., 314 
 Burritt. Elihu, 560 
 Burton. Arthur H., 288 
 Leonard A., 393 
 Leonard D.. 393 
 Minnie. 393 
 Russell H.. 393 
 
 Bush, Henrv H.. 187 
 
 Josiah, 187 
 
 Nellie. 187 
 
 Roy A., Dr., 187 
 Bushnell. Fordis O.. 352. 353 
 
 Mary A.. 353 
 
 Pardon. 353 
 Bushong, James. 463 
 
 John C. 462 
 
 John S.. 463 
 
 Kathryn P.. 463 
 Butler. Edwin C, 231 
 
 Francis J,, Dr.. 168 
 
 George S.. 231 
 
 Guy R., 231 
 
 James W.. 168 
 
 Jennie L., 231 
 
 Katherine, 168 
 
 Walter G.. 231 
 Butterfield, Alonzo M.. 469 
 
 Arthur D,, 558 
 
 Dexter. 558 
 
 Fannie L.. 558 
 
 Marcus M.. 469 
 
 Nellie E., 470 
 Buxton, Anthonv. 291 
 
 Azro L. D., 291 
 
 Edward. 291, 292 
 
 Eva L.. 292 
 
 G. Edward, Dr., 291 
 
 Julia C. 291 
 
 Lillian C, 293 
 
 Philip L., 292 
 Walter A.. 292 
 
 William S.. 292 
 Winifred A., 292 
 Byrne, Claudius, Rev.. 234 
 
 Claudius J.. Dr.. 234 
 
 Lillian M.. 234 
 
 Margaret L, 234 
 
 Callahan, Daniel, 335 
 
 Daniel P., 335. 336 
 
 Hugh J.. 765 
 
 Jeremiah W., 765 
 
 John B.. 765 
 
 Lewis J., 765 
 
 Mary A., 765 
 
 Marv M., 336 
 
 Ralph R.. 765 
 
 William. 765 
 
 William J.. 765 
 Campbell. Alexander J.. 376 
 
 Edith J,, 376 
 
 Walter W., Dr.. 376 
 Candlen, Elizabeth E., 395 
 
 Philip. 395 
 
 Philip P.. 395 
 Carberry. James F.. 389 
 
 Mary J.. 390 
 
 Patrick J., 389. 390 
 Carleton, Elbridge G., 423 
 
 Elbridge S.. 423 
 
 Mary A.. 423 
 Carlson, Carl. 691 
 
 Carl A., 565 
 
 Emma C. 565 
 
 Hannah. 691 
 
 Henry J.. 691 
 
 John, 691 
 
 John P.. 691 
 Carlton. Herbert E., 682 
 
 Isahelle, 682 
 
 Luther, 682 
 Carney. Emma P.. 381 
 
 Patrick. 381 
 
 Patrick J.. Dr.. 381 
 Carroll. David. 697 
 
 Elbert H.. 740 
 
 Elizabeth C. 740 
 
 Frances C, 739 
 
 John, 739 
 
 Katherine H., 272 
 
 Margaret, 698 
 
 Mark O.. 272 
 
 Owen, 272 
 
 Owen H.. 272 
 
 William T.. 739 
 Carter. D. William. 305 
 
 George H.. 305 
 
 Lillian M., 306 
 Caswell, Franklin A., 437 
 
 Ira, 467 
 
 Louisa P., 467 
 
 Thomas, 467 ■ 
 Chamberlain, Ephraim P.. 
 113 
 
 Esther. 498 
 
 Francis M., 399 
 
 Fred J.. 399 
 
 Frederick H., 113 
 
 Jacob, 497 
 
 John, 497 
 
 John A., 399 
 
 .Tohn E.. 399 
 
 Robert H., 497, 498 
 
 Thomas, 497 
 Chamberlin, Fred A., 621 
 
 Pearl E., 621 
 
 Warren S., 621 
 Chandley, Estelle L., 651 
 
 George B., 650 
 
 George L., 650 
 Charron, Dennis, 392 
 
 Henry P., 392 
 
 Norma B., 393 
 Chase. Albert, 490 
 
 Anthonv. 9, 339 
 
 Caleb, 9 
 
 Charles A.. 9 
 
 Hannah. 339 
 
 Israel, 9. 339 
 
 Lydia. 339 
 
 Marv T., 10 
 Maud E., 340 
 
 Oscar P., 834 
 
 Stella M., 835 
 
 Susan E.. 490 
 
 Walter M., 835 
 
 Walter S., 834 
 
 William, 9 
 Chenery. C^TUS, 533. 534 
 Laura E.. 533 
 
 Thaddeus. 534 
 
 William D., 533 
 Cheney. Amos, 548 
 
 Emma M.. 389 
 
 Lavinia. 548 
 
 Whelock A.. 389, 548 
 
 Wilfred L.. 389 
 Cherie. Archelus. 379 
 
 Edwin P., 378, 379 
 
 Frank L.. 379 
 
 Fred R.. Dr., 379 
 
 Sarah E.. 379 
 Chittenden, Abbie, 154 
 Collins W.. 153 
 Thomas. 154 
 Clark. Abbie J., 150 
 Eunice, 303 
 Jonas G.. 15 
 Leonard, Capt,, 303 
 Lucretia, 303 
 Mary C. 303 
 Nancv, 303 
 Susan. 16 
 Timothy, 150 
 Walter W., 150 
 William B.. 150 
 William L., 303 
 William S.. 15 
 Clarke. Edwin S.. 845 
 Hiram, 845 
 Stella M.. 846 
 Clerpence, Anna E., 314 
 George H., 314 
 Henry. 314 
 Richard H., 314 
 Clement, Albion S., 126, 127 
 Bertha M.. 126 
 Merton W.. Dr., 126 
 Cleveland. Bruce C, 872 
 Chester B., 872 
 Clarence C, 872 
 Gertrude E., 872 
 Richard C, 872 
 Clinton, Ada M., 277 
 De Witt. 277 
 
IN DUX 
 
 Ira D. W., 277 
 Lawrence. 277 
 Clough. Adelia J., G32 
 Arthur. 632 
 Benjamin F., Dr.. C.'!'' 
 David. 6.'i2 
 George .S., C32 
 John A., (13.3 
 Mercy ,S.. 833 
 Sarah J., 633 
 Coates. .Adelaide, ,Si11 
 B. Au.stin. 801 
 Georsre H., 800 
 Henry M.. SCO 
 Louisa n.. 802 
 Coburn. .\ddic .T., 7.')2 
 Alvarado A.. 751 
 Anna C, 751 
 Augu.stus A.. 23,") 
 Charle.s B., 751 , 
 George A., 235 
 Helen. 751 
 Ira. 750 
 
 Jesse J., 750, 751 
 Jesse J., Jr.. 751 
 Lillian A., 235 
 Susan B., 751 
 Coghlin. Charles C, 324 
 Edith M., 324 
 James J., 324, 868 
 John P., 868 
 Josephine A.. 870 
 Cogswell. John B. U. ''06 
 Mary A.. 207 
 Nathaniel, Rev.. ''07 
 Cole. Hugh, 216 
 Wilhelmina, 216 
 William A., 215 
 William F., 215, 216 
 Colesworthy, Prank E 717 
 George E., 717 
 Jennie I.. 717 
 Coley, Florence M., 454 
 Harry C. 454 
 Henrv, 454 
 Colton. Ann, 476 
 Anna, 476 
 Elizabeth S., 477 
 James H., 4 77 
 John B., 477 
 Reuben, 476 
 Rodman, 477 
 Samuel H., 476 
 Samuel H., Jr., 476 477 
 Sydney, 4 77 
 Colvin, Amy A., 506 
 Anna. 506 
 Arthur B.. 505 
 Caleb. 505 
 Eleanor W., 506 
 James A., 505 
 James B., 506 
 Lewis A., 506 
 Nancie S., 505 
 Sara H., 506 
 Conant, Edwin, 5 60 
 
 Elizabeth S., 560 
 Conger, Ardelia E., 420 
 
 H. G., 420 
 Conlon, Ruby W., 866 
 
 William J., 865 
 Conovei'. Edgar E.. 833. 834 
 Irene, 834 
 James S.. 833 
 William E., 834 
 Converse. Brigham, 444 
 Frederick S., 444 
 Mary C. 44 4 
 Myron F.. 444 
 Cook, Daniel P., 546 
 Douglas P., 547 
 Eben K., 4fi6 
 Elizabeth C. 496 
 Maroa B.. 647 
 Rachel. 486 
 Roland M.. 547 
 William H., 546 
 Cooke. Harry A.. 452 
 Mabel L.. 4 52 
 
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 5»S 
 
 Uev.. 6'J4 
 George F.. 6;ii 
 Sadie G.. (,:i\ 
 Crawford, .-\amii. 236 
 Ale.xaiuler, 236 
 Ellas K.. 235 
 Harrv C.. 236 
 
 !36 
 
 >36 
 
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 \Villiain H.. 235. 236 
 ■dilorit, Asa It. 554 
 
 He 
 
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 Cn-rie. .-Vrchelus. 37ri 
 
 Edwin P.. 378. 3 7 it 
 
 Frank L.. 3711 
 
 Fred R.. Dr.. 379 
 
 Sai-ah E.. 37!) 
 Cristy, Au.stin P.. 84 
 
 Horace. 84 
 
 John. Capt., 84 
 
 John B.. 84 
 
 Katharine V.. 84 
 
 Mary E., 84 
 
 Rnser H.. 85 
 Croiiihie, Fi-ance.s, 4 64 
 
 William B., 463 
 Cmnipton. Alice, 858 
 
 Ceiirge, 856. 857. 858 
 
 George, Jr.. 858 
 
 858 
 
 nishie. Arthur W.. 871 
 ll'atlierine E.. 837 
 Edward P.. 837 
 
 Ma. 
 
 William. 837, 871 
 Cross, Albert E., Dr.. 854 
 
 Courtlaiid H.. 450 
 
 Edward J., 450 
 
 Frank E.. 450 
 
 Jdhn K.. 854 
 
 Marv (>., 450 
 
 Ralph W.. 450 
 Cr..tt.\ . Ellen G.. 293 
 
 Janii-s A.. 293 
 
 Martin P.. Dr.. 293 
 
 Mii-liael, 293 
 Ciiiiiiiiiiigs, Kllen G., 139 
 
 .lohn J., Dr.. 139 
 
 Margaret. 139 
 
 Thomas ('.. 139 
 Cunninghani, Abbie C, 853 
 
 l-:ilio(t E.. 852. 853 
 
 .Inlll 
 
 S52 
 
 Jonathan. 852 
 
 .lonathan E.. 853 
 
 Kob.-rt. 852 
 'uriitr. .■\ugustus X.. 73 
 
 F.\„u,-/.,-v H., 736 
 mil.- Alli-il, S64 
 
 I:. 1,1 iiiiiii !-• , -189, 490 
 
 l':|-lir;nii 
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 .billl 
 
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 ;m 
 
 782 
 
 .lobn P 
 
 |»- 
 
 '1 5' 
 
 .lobi 
 
 1 I-; 
 
 
 .21 
 
 
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 :03 
 
 .Mab 
 
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 70 
 
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 490 
 
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 lanii-ls. 
 iHvighl 
 
 i-;ie 
 
 89 
 
 l-:stber. 
 
 Fred H., 86, 88 . 
 .laiiet M.. 88 
 Joseph. 86 
 Robert. 86 
 Sarah L.. 88 
 William P.. 86 
 Darling, Cassius H.. 
 Ebenezer. 251. 252 
 Mary !•;., ' 
 
 Mary J. 
 
 252 
 
 Daudelin. Casimir, 510 
 
 S. Alph.inse. Dr., 510 
 Davenport, Charles H., 186 
 
 Dorothy. 180 
 
 Holten. 186 
 Davies. Thomas P.. Rev., 7 
 Davis. Allan .\.. 535 
 
 Annette. 759 
 
 .\nnetle .\.. 623 
 
 Arthur E.. 535 
 
 Arthur O.. 319 
 
 Benjamin K. W.. 322 
 
 Charles, 809 
 
 Charles E.. 321 
 
 Charles F.. 322, 874 
 
 David. 583 
 
 David G.. 583 
 
 Dennis, 319 
 
 Dolly H., 322 
 
 Elizabeth. 319 
 
 L-is r 
 D . 
 
 623 
 319 
 
 319 
 . 809 
 583 
 
 W., 875 
 
 Gilbei 
 Grayc 
 
 Herbert ii:., 759 
 Her.schel F.. 623 
 JiUiies S.. 839 
 Jennie. 759 
 John \V.. 759 
 Luke K.. 839 
 Luke K.. Jr.. 840 
 
 H. 
 
 so;. 
 , 840 
 840 
 840 
 
9o6 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Sarah L., 313 
 
 Sarah M., 583 
 
 Walter H.. 759 
 
 Warren G., 583 
 
 William L., 759 
 Day. Abbie F.. (142 
 
 Augustus E.. G41 
 
 John A.. 642 
 
 John E.. 641 
 Dean, Bertha M.. 855 
 
 Carlton R., 835 
 
 EIroy B.. 835 
 
 Frank H.. 526 
 
 Frank H., Dr., 855 
 
 George E., 855 
 
 Henry E.. 526. 855 
 
 Louis, 855 
 
 Oliver M., 835 
 
 Pearl G., 5 26 
 
 Sarah G.. 835 
 Delano, Philip, 612 
 
 Ward P.. 512 
 
 Ward P., Jr.. 512 
 De Long, Mabel, 247 
 
 Philip H., 247 
 
 William H.. 246 
 Denholm, Grace, 435 
 
 Edith L., 436 
 
 John, 434 
 
 John A.. 435 
 
 Mabel E.. 874 
 
 William A., 434, 873 
 
 William J.. 873 
 Dennv, Daniel E.. 602 
 
 Edward A.. 603 
 
 Edwards W., 602 
 
 Isaac. 602 
 
 Martha A., 603 
 Desmond. Clarence F., Dr. 
 867 
 
 Ellen, 867 
 
 Timothy, 867 
 
 Walter J., 867 
 Devens, Charles, 4 
 
 Charles, Gen., 4 
 
 David, 4 
 
 Philip, 4 
 
 Richard, 4 
 Dewev. Charles A.. 341 
 
 Daniel. 341 
 
 Dorothy P., 343 
 
 Frances A., 342 
 
 Francis H.. 341. 630 
 
 Francis H. (2). 342 
 
 Francis H. (3), 343 
 
 George T., 630 
 
 George T.. Jr., 630 
 
 Lizzie D., 343 
 . Mary L., 630 
 
 Sarah B.. 342 
 Dexter, Eliza A.. 20 
 
 John B.. 20 
 
 William H.. 20 
 Dick. Anna O.. 664 
 
 August E.. 663, 664 
 
 August W., 664 
 
 Frederick A.. 663 
 
 Richard G., 664 
 Dickson, Ellen A., 512 
 
 Joseph E.. 512 
 
 Oliver. 512 
 Dodge. Alice H., 399 
 
 Augusta. 112 
 
 Bessie M., 537 
 
 Clarence C 399 
 
 Frank E., 537 
 
 George S., Rev., 399 
 
 Gibbs, 112 
 
 Helen. 716 
 
 John. Rev.. 715 
 
 John E., Rev., 715 
 
 John H., 715, 716 
 
 Mary C, 112 
 
 Moses, 112 
 Rufus B.. 112 
 Rufus B., Jr., 112 
 William. 537 
 Dolan, Elizabeth M., 373 
 Michael. 373 
 
 Patrick T., 373 
 William E., Dr., 372 
 DoUiver, Augusta O.. 193 
 Edward B.. 193 
 Samuel B., 193 
 Donnelly, Helen A., 828 
 John. 827 
 
 John F.. 827, 828 
 Donoghue, Jeremiah R,, 202 
 
 John F., 200 
 
 John J.. Dr.. 202 
 
 Theresa R., 202 
 
 Thomas S., Rev., 200 
 Donohue, Daniel J., 541 
 
 Jeremiah J., Dr., 541 
 
 Rose M., 541 
 Doon, 'Frederick J., 534 
 
 Helen T.. 534 
 
 James W., 534 
 Doray, Frank L., Dr., 441, 
 442 
 
 Onesiphorus P., 441 
 Dorward, Franklin P., 561 
 
 Irwin P.. 561 
 
 Marv D., 562 
 Doubledav. Dan, 850 
 
 Danvers. 850 
 
 Elisha, 850 
 Dowlev. Augusta, 702 
 
 George B., 702 
 
 John E.. 702 
 
 Kenneth C. 702 
 
 Leroy L.. 702 
 
 Marion. 703 
 Downey. Daniel, 605 
 
 George C. Dr.. 605 
 
 James. 605 
 
 James R., 605 
 
 Mary L.. 605 
 Doyle, James E., 238 
 
 John E.. 238 
 Draper. Alice G., 223 
 
 James. 222 
 
 James E.. 224 
 
 Josephine C. 223 
 
 Sophia A.. 224 
 
 William A.. 222, 224 
 Drennan, James M., 649 
 
 Martin. 649 
 
 Sarah E.. 650 
 Dresser, Frank F., 340 
 
 George K.. 340 
 
 Josephine R.. 340 
 Drohan. Margaret M., 449 
 
 Nicholas, 449 
 
 Walter N.. Capt., 449 
 Drury, Alvah, 205 
 
 Ellen E., 467 
 
 Ellen S.. 277 
 
 Frank A.. 276 
 
 Franklin. 276, 277 
 
 Hugh, 204 
 
 John. 204 
 
 Leander M., 467 
 
 Percival P.. 277 
 
 Thomas. 205 
 Duffy. George E., 500, 501 
 
 Grace M.. 501 
 
 Michael. 501 
 Duncan. Anna H., 742 
 
 Charles, 742 
 
 Harlan P.. 742 
 Dunn. Edward L., 701 
 
 Edward L.,. Jr.. 701 
 
 John W.. Rev.. 701 
 
 Marion B.. 701 
 Durgin. Everett W., 465 
 
 Ezekiel W.. 465 
 
 Mary F.. 465 
 
 William. 465 
 Durkee. Frank L., 323 
 
 Lila R,. 324 
 
 Martha A., 324 
 
 Ralph. 323 
 
 Ralph E.. 324 
 
 Samuel D., 324 
 Dustan. Abbie C, 609 
 
 Dana M.. 609 
 
 George. 609 
 
 Myra A.. 609 
 Dyke, Anthony. 808 
 Harold C, 809 
 Henry H., 808, 809 
 Jennie A., 809 
 
 Earle, Amos S.. 89 
 Ann, 604 
 Caroline C, 604 
 Charles B., 90 
 Daniel O., 604 
 Edward. 90, 603 
 Henry. 604 
 Marv L., 90 
 Nancy S.. 604 
 Ralph. 90 
 Richard B., 90 
 Stephen C 89 
 Timothy, 603 
 Timothy K.. 604 
 Earlv. Edward. 143 
 James, 143 
 Mary. 143 
 Mary A.. 143 
 Easton. Fergus A., 390 
 George. 390 
 Jean. 391 
 Mary E.. 391 
 Eaton. Amos M.. 687, 688 
 Charles B., 602 
 Charlotte M.. 755 
 Eliza M., 689 
 John, 687 
 Jonathan, 687 
 Marston. 687, 688 
 Mary C. 502 
 Thomas B.. 755 
 William, 502 
 Eddy, Harrison P., 721 
 Minnie L., 721 
 William J., 721 
 Ehnborg, Axel E., 891 
 Johan J,, 891 
 Marie. 892 
 Ekstrom, Andrew W.,. 393 
 Earl v.. 394 
 Nils. 394 
 Thilda. 394 
 Eldred, Alice E., 490 
 Edwin, 490 
 Lucius B.. 490 
 Eldridge, Clifford T., 387 
 Lewis E.. 387 
 Violet F.. 387 
 Elias, Esther H.. 600 
 Saul. 599 
 Simon. 599 
 Elkind. Boris J.. 343 
 Henrv B.. Dr., 343 
 Lena. 344 
 EUinwood, Abbie, 726 
 Anna E.. 725 
 Daniel, 724. 725 
 Daniel W., 725 
 Dulcemia. 725 
 Edwin, 725 
 Eugene, Dr.. 725 
 George F.. 725 
 James. 724 
 Leroy, 725 
 Ralph W., 726 
 Elliott, Charles L., 718 
 Grace E., 718 
 Harriet E.. 718 
 Louis H.. 717. 718 
 Ellis. Harold B.. 788 
 Joseph C, 788 
 Minnie C. J.. 788 
 Svlvester. 788 
 Ellsworth, Emma L., 682 
 John L., 681 
 Samuel, 681 
 Emerson, Oliver C, 402 
 Susie. 403 
 William A., 402 
 Epler. Cyrus, 603 
 Helen. 603 
 Percy H., Rev., 603 
 Erskine, Christopher, 220 
 
INDEX 
 
 007 
 
 Georf^e B.. 220 
 
 Katharine M.. 221 
 
 I^iinvond M., 220 
 Estabrijcik. Alice M.. 208 
 
 Herbert \V., 208 
 
 William B.. 208 
 Esty. Kilward T.. 77 
 
 William C. 77 
 Everett, Lewis W.. 340 
 
 Mabel. 34!! 
 
 Nathaniel W., 348 
 
 Otis W., 348 
 reliil.l, Bvron. 309 
 
 Le 
 
 rri ■( 
 
 JI.. 310 
 Fallon. Ella J., 523 
 
 James, 523 
 
 Michael F.. Dr., 522. 523 
 Fanning. David H,. 211 
 
 Edmund. 211 
 
 Ro-samond H.. 213 
 
 Thn 
 
 .'11 
 
 Farnsworth. Calvin. (U4 
 
 George B.. fil4 
 
 Jesse. 614 
 
 Joseiih. t;i4 
 
 Martha A., 614 
 
 Phebe. 614 
 Farnum. Charles Ij.. 420 
 Faucher. Joseph. 32il. 330 
 
 Joseph E.. 3211 
 
 Maglorine. 239. 330 
 
 Marv, 329 
 
 Ovida, 329 
 
 Simeon J., 329 
 
 Xavier. 329 
 Faulkner. Charles E.. 146 
 
 Ralph L.. Dr., 146 
 Pay. Albert E.. 173 
 
 Alii 
 
 238 
 
 Edward L.. 496 
 
 Frank S.. 237 
 
 Hiram E.. 237 
 
 James E., 464 
 
 John. 464 
 
 John J.. 496 
 
 John J.. Dr., 464 
 
 John P.. 495 
 
 Mary. 464 
 
 Marv E.. 173 
 
 Mav. 496 
 
 Nora C. 465 
 
 P. Walters. 74 8 
 
 Paul. 748. 749 
 
 Paul R.. 496 
 
 Willard W.. 173 
 Feingold. John. 676 
 
 Joseph D. K.. 836 
 
 Louis E., 676 
 
 Saul H., 836 
 Pelton. Arthur I.. 220 
 
 Fannie M.. 220 
 Ferre. Charles D., 721 
 
 Jan 
 
 721 
 
 Lillian H. 
 Fisher. Charles A.. Rev.. 599 
 
 Ellen S.. 599 
 
 John H.. 599 
 Fiske. Allen. 736 
 
 Bessie A.. 374 
 
 George W.. 374 
 
 Herbert L.. 737 
 
 Julia E.. 737 
 
 I.,aban B.. 736 
 
 Ralph T.. 737 
 
 Walter W.. Dr.. 374 
 Fitzgerald. Agnes H., 344 
 
 Charles R.. 344 
 Flagg. Clara M., 213 
 
 Jonathan, Dr., 213 
 
 Nathaniel B.. 213 
 Fleming, Garrett. 6il, 622 
 
 Marv E., 622 
 
 Michael A.. 623 
 Fletcher. Ed"-ard F.. 91, 92 
 
 Elias J.. 325 
 
 Florence M., 93 
 
 Helen. 93 
 
 Mary E.. 93 
 
 L., 
 
 Mary M.. Dr.. :;■•: 
 
 Robert. 92, 325 
 
 Rtil'us l:.. ill 
 
 Sarah J.. 325 
 Fobes. t 'elia !■: 11' 
 
 Hiram. 117 ' 
 
 John. 117 
 
 Perez. 117 
 Foley, cath. 
 
 Edward. 
 
 Fr-ancis A 
 
 George I'.. 75o 
 
 John. 683. 7511 
 
 Marv E.. 6S3 
 
 Michael J.. 7511 
 
 Thomas K.. 682, 683 
 
 Walter. 750 
 Forbes 
 
 Ephi 
 
 a],l. 
 
 7t 
 
 Hai 
 
 ette 
 
 William T. 
 William T. M.. 
 •orsl.erg. Hugo ( 
 
 Wilhelm. 79 
 'orstedt. Kdla. 
 
 Jame.s. 1116 
 'oster. Alice H 
 Allyn K.. Uev 
 Anna T,.. 122 
 Calvin. 121 
 
 Dwight. 559 
 
 Emiiv H.. 605 
 
 Helen I... 873 
 
 James A.. 873 
 
 Jedediah. 559 
 
 Llewellyn. 527. 873 
 
 Marcus L.. 527 
 
 Martha P.. 121 
 
 Rebecca. 559 
 
 Robert E.. 605 
 
 Timothv. 122 
 Fowler. Charles. 611 
 
 Helen M.. 612 
 
 Henrv \V.. 611 
 
 Ida W.. 311 
 
 Lome R.. 31 1 
 
 Mabel C, 613 
 
 Philip. 312 
 
 Rufus U . 611 
 
 William F.. 311. 312 
 Franks. Edward E.. 6|i 
 
 Fre 
 
 610 
 
 881! 
 
 Andri 
 
 886 
 
 Frederickson. Beda. 664 
 
 Carl F.. 664 
 
 Frederick L., 664 
 Frost. Edward E.. Dr.. 490 
 
 Harold P.. Dr.. 372 
 
 Helen R.. 372 
 
 Jesse. 4110 
 
 Jo.shua JI.. Rev.. 372 
 
 Mabel A.. 491 
 Puller, Annie J., 297 
 
 Frederick E.. 297 
 
 Frederick L.. 297 
 
 James. 490 
 
 James A., 490 
 
 James E.. 658 
 
 Luella. 659 
 
 Marv E.. 490 
 
 Marv W.. 659 
 
 Rnliert L.. 658 
 
 Walter P.. 297 
 Gage. Alice. 83 
 
 Amos. 81 
 
 Anna M.. 83 
 
 He 
 
 Dr 
 
 83 
 
 81 
 
 Homer. Maj., 8 
 Leand 
 Mabel C.. 84 
 Mabel R.. 83 
 Thomas H.. Dr. 
 Thomas li,. Jr.. 
 
 "^"'r'nic'"!' 'l!.'^'''""'. l"-i 
 
 William. 832 
 arlieUI. Lucv 
 I.ula A.. 596 
 
 M.. 
 
 Hoy M . Dr.. 596 
 lailaiid. Annie v., 383 
 
 Gordon i'.. 383 
 
 Louis K.. 382. 383 
 
 Moses K.. 382. 383 
 .arrepy. Archibald \.. 242 
 
 Catherine L, 242 
 
 Delvica. 243 
 
 Wi 
 
 G.oig,. .\.. 524 
 .los.iibine L.. 523 
 Kalh.iine M.. 523 
 
 .\h 
 
 243 
 
 Hurtoii .v.. l;i4 
 
 Charles K.. 194 
 
 Charles 1... 860 
 
 Emma. 861 
 
 Emma \.. 394 
 
 Frederick L.. 394 
 
 Ida !•;.. 194 
 
 Joel. 195 
 
 John. 19 t. 195 
 
 Laikin .\.. 243. 860 
 
 S.iniiiel. 195. 394 
 
 Thuinas. 243 
 
 William U. 213 
 Gauch. Earl W.. 898 
 
 Jacob. 898 
 
 .lacoh. .?r.. 898 
 
 Lena. 89S 
 G.ault. Grace W., 817 
 
 Matthew. 817- 
 
 .Vorris C 817 
 
 Warren S.. 817 
 George. Edward W.. 335 
 
 Ethel M.. 335 
 
 I me 
 
 .(oh I 
 
 John J.. 880 
 S.. S811 
 Lila 1.. SSii 
 Gibson. Bradford A.. 
 lOdilh A,. 227 
 George S.. 226 
 Gifford. Albert J.. 49 
 M.-iri.m K. 4:'7 
 Samuel. 61H 
 
 Sus 
 
 Gilbert. Jessie. 308 
 John F.. 308 
 John W.. 308 
 
 Girard. Eplireni. 711 
 Fred E.. 712 
 Henry. 712 
 Joseph H.. 712 
 Malvina I,.. 712 
 
 Ma 
 
 ine 
 
 711 
 
 Rose. 712 
 
 Severin. 711 
 Gleason. Alson H.. Dr.. 144 
 
 Charles H . P.ev , 144 
 
 Maud E.. 144 
 Goddard. Benjamin. 20 
 
 Delano A.. 22 
 
 Dwight. 
 
9o8 
 
 Eugenia D. C, 21 
 Fanny W.. 193 
 Grace. 23 
 Harold C, 103 
 Harry W., 23 
 Henry. 21 
 Joseph B.. Rev,. IJ12 
 Lucius P., 1!I2 
 Mary A., 192 
 Mary H.. 22 
 Samuel. 20 
 Sarah. 21 
 Goggin. Bridget A.. 7'> 
 Catherine M.. 749 
 David. 749 
 Edward F., 72n 
 Richard. 94, 72n 
 William H., Rev., 94 
 Golbert. Adam. 366 
 Mary E,. 367 
 Robert L.. 366 
 Good.speed. Helen 4 
 
 673 / 
 
 Gordon. Albert A,, 383 
 776 
 Albert A.. Jr.,. 385 
 Alexander. 775 
 Ann E.. 38'4 
 Carrie M,. 385 
 Charles S., Dr.. 385 
 Ebenezer. 383, 776 
 George C. 384 
 Isabel W., 384 
 Lyman F., 775, 776 
 Prue L.. 777 
 Timothy, 383. 384 77 
 Thomas. 383 
 Winfleld. 385 
 Gould. Corinne L., 409 
 George H., 409 
 Henry G.. 409 
 Goulding, Edwin, 707 
 Horatio C, 7U7 
 Pearl C„ 707 
 Grad.v, James W„ 424 
 Jeremiah, 424 
 Margaret A., 425 
 Grant. Barton H., 271 
 Charles E.. Capt., 270 
 Edith. 271 
 Edward. 270. 271 
 Luella, 271 
 Malcolm M.. 271 
 Matthew. 271 
 Graton. Henry C. 26 2; 
 Lucretia M., 28 
 "William. 26 
 Gray. Eugene F., 887 
 John C, 887 
 Leiand E.. 888 
 Sarah E.. 888 
 Green, Charles F.. "48 
 Edward F,, 248 
 Florence G.. 248 
 James, Dr.. 6 
 Samuel S.. 6 
 Thomas, 6 
 Greene, Allen. 773 
 Alvin. 772, 773 
 Charles C. 200 
 David. Rev,. 85 
 Edith P.. 201 
 Frances L.. 595 
 Jeremiah E.. 85 
 John. 595 
 John. Dr., 201 
 Joseph K.. 595 
 Mary A.. 85 
 Mila P., 773 
 Ray \V., Dr., 772 
 Ray W.. Jr., 773 
 Richard W.. 200. 201 
 Winthrop S.. 595 
 Greenwood. Aaron, 336 
 Burt W.. 337 
 Charles. 336 
 Ella E.. 337 
 Harold J.. 337 
 Griffith. Daniel D.. 527 
 
 Theresa N.. 527 
 Winfred S.. 527 
 Gruver. Benjamin F.. 374 
 Harvev S.. 374 
 Mary A., 375 
 Guerin. Arthur L.. 221 
 Ellen. 221 
 Louis. 221 
 Guy. Cora E,, 710 
 Henry M., 710 
 Henry W., 710 
 Hadley. Edward M., 260 
 
 Laura E.. 260 
 Hagerty. Dora H.. 294 
 Frank H.. 294 
 Harry J.. Dr.. 294 
 -on ■^^"- Abbie A.. 354 
 '-» Alice M.. 355 
 
 Annie L., 230 
 Cornelia. 862 
 Florence. 862 
 Dr., Granville B.. 861 
 ,„. Granville S.. 861 
 
 "">;>. James E.. 355 
 Josiah. 355 
 Josiah B.. 353 
 Lyman. 355 
 Ogden. Rev. 354 
 Robert J., 230 
 William E., 229 
 William J.. 229 
 Halnon, Lsabella, 372 
 John. 372 
 John P.. 372 
 Patrick, 372 
 ' Hamel. George S. 377 
 
 Joseph. 377 
 Zephrine B., 377 
 Hamilton, Alice C. 161 
 Asa. 169 
 Calvin W.. 159 
 Charles A.. 159 160 
 Eliza. 160 
 Eliza A.. 159 
 Elizabeth. 159 
 Hannah M., 159 
 James P.. 160 
 John. 159 
 Reuben. 159 
 Sarah A.. 160 
 Hamm. Alexander J,. Dr 
 161 
 Etta C. 161 
 James. 161 
 Hainmond, Andrew H 157 
 Ezra, Rev., 157 
 Rhoda M., 158 
 Richard H.. 158 
 Hanson, Carl O.. 747 
 Charles A., 896 
 Charles F.. 895, 896 
 Eliza A., 896 
 Henry L.. 375 
 John. 896 
 Olaus. 375 
 Thekia C. 376 
 Thure. 747 
 Hardy. Allen. 581 
 Corinne G.. 582 
 W;illiam S., 581. 582 
 Harkins. John F.. Dr 158 
 
 William. 158 
 Harney. Jenny D. 329 
 
 John J.. 328 
 Harrigan, Benjamin E.. 64 9 
 Edward. 64 8 
 John F., 648 
 Mary A. C, 649 
 Harrington, Adeline E. 239 
 Benjamin, Capt.. 488. 489- 
 Benjamin F.. 488~ 
 Blanche R.. 789 
 Charles A.. 34 
 Charlotte M.. 288 
 Christine I., 288 
 Clarissa. 32 
 Daniel. 692 
 Daniel. Capt., 32 
 Deborah. 31 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Delia M.. 489 
 Edith. 288 
 Edward. 31 
 Edwin C, 288 
 Francis, 31 
 Francis, Capt.. 32 
 Francis A.. 33 
 Francis B.. 489 
 Frank C. 35 
 Gilbert H.. 287 
 Harriet A.. 489- 
 Henry A.. 489- 
 Henry H., 287 
 James H.. 789 
 Jonathan. 489- 
 Leora. 35 
 Lillia. 34 
 Luella B., 35 
 Lydia. 32 
 Myrtis S.. 288 
 Nathaniel. 32 
 Norman A.. 238 
 Prudence, 31 
 Robert. 31 
 Roxanna M.. 34 
 Ruth. 32 
 
 Thomas. 238, 239 
 Walter, 789 
 Walter A., 789 
 Hai-ris. Benjamin F., 141 
 Bessie W.. 240 
 Charles P. 24 
 Charles H.. 141 
 Charles M., 90 
 Emma F., 91 
 Henry F.. 90 
 Ida M., 141 
 Olive. 141 
 Thomas. 90 
 William G., 240 
 Harrison, Agnes L . 447 
 
 Harry. 447 
 narrower. David. 378 
 David. Dr., 378 
 Francis D.. Lieut.. 378 
 Gordon. Lieut., 378 
 Mary D., 378 
 Norman. Capt.. 378 
 Hart. Andrew. 726 
 Julia A.. 726 
 William. 726 
 Hartley. George D.. 644. 645 
 
 Lillian A. R,, 645 
 Haitwell. Benjamin F.. 198 
 Ebenezer. 198 
 Effle M. F.. 198 
 Gladys P.. 198 
 Harold H.. 198 
 Harrie C. 198 
 John, 198 
 Norcross N.. 198 
 Samuel. 198 
 William. 198 
 Hartz. Johanna M.. 688 
 John E., 588 
 John F., 588 
 Haskell. Estelle. 631 
 Fred W.. 630 
 Jacob R., 630 
 Hatch. Arthur D. 172 
 George. 171 
 Nellie A., 172 
 William, Maj., 171. 172 
 Hawes, Frederick A 571 
 
 Lafayette, 571 
 Hayden. John J.. Dr 787 
 Katherine P.. 788 
 William. 787 
 Hayes. Frank C. Dr 817 
 Frederick A.. 396 
 Nina M.. 397 
 Noble O.. 396 
 Raymond N.. 397 
 Robert W.. 817 
 Ruth A.. 817 
 Hazelton. Anna R.. 691 
 
 Carl J.. 691 
 Healey, James A.. 674 
 James A.. Jr.. 674 
 
INDI-.X 
 
 Mn 
 
 He;ith, Austin A.. 525 
 
 Kmily L.. S25 
 
 Frank M.. 524 
 
 Helen. 525 
 
 Joseph. 5 24 
 
 Maud. 525 
 
 Melville F.. 5 25 
 
 S.n-ali 1,.. 525 
 
 Vc.lne.v L.. 525 
 llellslrolll. Ida C. 8',l!t 
 
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 Henchey. Kinily (i.. 411 
 
 Felix H.. 411 
 
 Hein-v C. 4U 
 Henderson. tMiarles II., 
 876 
 
 riuinmer J.. 871; 
 
 Sadie A.. 4 5S, 876 
 Herrick. Kohert F.. 55D 
 Heywood. Albert S., 267 
 
 Charles H.. 685. 686 
 
 rharles I... 686 
 
 Chester li.. 267 
 :)ra ^1. 
 
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 ]';zra. 266 
 Frank K.. 267 
 Harriet R. 26'; 
 Harriet P.. 261 
 .lohn, 685 
 Laura C 268 
 Xalhaniel. 685 
 4'hili|. H.. 267 
 ]'hine:is. 7 85 
 riini.'li.is iA:. 
 S;irriiirl K , J'. I 
 
 Hick.v-, < ■h.irl.s , 
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 Hie^ins, Aldus C 
 Benjamin, 38 
 
 42 
 
 Edgenie, 41 
 Klon G., 125 
 Francis E.. 126 
 Freeman, 38 
 Henrv F.. 125 
 James P.. 749 
 John B.. 750 
 John \V.. 41 
 Jonathan. 125 
 Katharine K.. 40 
 I^ew 
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 38 
 M.. 12 
 
 Prince. 38 
 
 Richard. 38 
 
 Sarah C. 126 
 
 Thomas J.. 760 
 
 Timothy, 38 
 
 William F.. 74n 
 HigKinson, Thomas W.. 5114 
 Hildreth. Carlisle E.. 141 
 
 Charles E.. 140 
 
 Matilda C, 140 
 
 Royal. 139 
 
 Samuel E.. 139 
 
 Sarah E., 141 
 Hill. A.sa. 408 
 
 Benjamin <;., 5()7 
 
 Charles A.. 507 
 
 Charles G., 508 
 
 Cornelius, 408 
 
 Edwin H.. 509, 510 
 
 Emily J., 508 
 
 Mary E., 510 
 
 Richard, 510 
 
 Susan A., 408 
 Hillman, Alexander S., 728 
 
 Archibald M., 728 
 
 Joseph. 728 
 Hjelm, A. Walfird. 716, 71 
 
 Anna C.. 717 
 
 John, 716 
 
 SiiTiiu.^l 'I-. 129 
 
 WlllKun W. 128 
 1I..,Il;...' Fraidvlin S.. 536 
 
 iMal..l E.. 537 
 
 William. 536 537 
 Hol.lni. Charles S.. S74 
 
 Emma P.. S7 1 
 
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 Hoyev. Ava G.. 331 
 
 Daniel. 330 
 
 Ethel M., 332 
 
 George R.. 332 
 
 Henry A.. 330 
 
 Henry P.. 331 
 
 James, 330 
 
 Julia B,, 332 
 
 Mary, 330 
 
 Prudence A.. 330 
 
 William. 330 
 Howard, Alice M.. 333 
 
 ir Frank, 333 
 
 Earl E., 611 
 
 Elizabeth. 611 
 
 Eugene. 116 
 
 Frank H.. 333 
 
 Frederick S.. 430 
 
 Gladys. 431 
 
 James E.. 611 
 
 James J.. Rev., 116 
 
 William. 430 
 Hoyle, Alonzo F.. 833 
 
 Charles R., 628 
 
 Francis. 628, 833 
 
 Mabel E., 833 
 Hubbard, Ira B.. 613 
 
 .lo.sephine. 614 
 Hudson, Fred M., 350 
 
 Horace O.. 350 
 
 Isabella. 350 
 
 Pvcia P., 350 
 
 Xathan, 350 
 Hugo. Charli-s. 900 
 
 Frederick B. 900 
 
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 acques. Joseph H \V,, 
 l.ouis P. O.. Pr., 355 
 
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 111 
 
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910 
 
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 Ebenezer. 364 
 Elizabeth. 454 
 Emma M., 672 
 George W.. 870 
 Hannah. 365 
 Harold A., 453 
 Henry B.. 872 
 Henry O.. 872 
 Hilma B., 719 
 Iver. 10 
 John. 10 
 John B., 718 
 John G.. 786 
 John G., Jr.. 785. 786 
 John O.. 672 
 Jonathan. 364 
 Lula F.. 787 
 Marv. 48 
 Marv E.. 11 
 Mary L. A., 871 
 Ralph M.. 787 
 Samuel N.. 453 
 Silas. 46 
 Solomon. 46 
 Susie, 48 
 Temperance. 365 
 Theodore S.. Col., 46 
 Theodore W.. 46 
 Walter T.. 871 
 William. 364, 785 
 "William W.. 870 
 Joynes. Florence G., 298 
 J. Howard. 298 
 John. 298 
 
 Kane. Catherine. 654 
 
 Charles M., 654 
 
 Eugene J., 654 
 
 Owen M.. 654 
 Keith. Augu.sta W., 641 
 
 Franklin D.. 641 
 
 George F.. 641 
 
 Marcus. 641 
 
 Parinenus. 641 
 Kelley. Abner. 689 
 
 David. 689 
 
 Prank H., 563 
 
 Herbert B.. 691 
 
 Jennie P., 563 
 
 Lucy E.. 563 
 
 Mary S.. 690 
 
 Oran A.. 690 
 
 Oran A. (2). 690 
 
 Oran A. (3), 691 
 
 Kohert. 6S9 
 Kempton. John S.. Jr., 631 
 
 John S., Sr.. C31 
 
 Nora. 631 
 Kendall. Caleb. 656 
 
 Charles D.. 656 
 
 Clayton, 657 
 
 Fannie E., 657 
 
 Francis. 656 
 
 Frederick H.. 657 
 
 Herbert L., 666 
 
 Horace, 656 
 
 Horace C, 656 
 
 Jennie. 657 
 
 Kate E.. 656 
 
 Sanford C, 656 
 Kennedy. Matthew J., 539 
 
 Patrick. 539 
 
 Sarah J.. 539 
 Kennev. Annie T., 548 
 
 Frank J.. 548 
 
 John E., 874 
 
 John L.. 548 
 
 Thomas. 874 
 
 Thomas H., 874 
 Kent. Daniel. 93 
 
 Daniel W., 93 
 
 Ebenezer, 93 
 
 Georgia,, 94 
 
 Hattie M., 94 
 
 John. 93 
 Kenvon, Fannie, 379 
 
 Wallace N., 379 
 Kettell, Henry J., 517 
 
 James F., 517, 518 
 
 John P.. 517 
 
 Marv. 517 
 
 Richard. 518 
 Kimball. Andrew J., 262 
 
 Arthur W., 458 
 
 Charles H.. 458 
 
 Helen F.. 458 
 
 Herbert A.. 262 
 
 Josephine. 458 
 
 Leonard. 458 
 
 Samuel H.. 458 
 
 Sarah C. 263 
 King. Leslie B.. 469 
 
 Percv. 469 
 
 William H., 468 
 
 William H., Jr., 469 
 Kinney, Albert B. F., 673 
 Kinnicutt. Edith, 724 
 
 Elizabeth W.. 723 
 
 Frances A.. 724 
 
 Francis H.. 723 
 
 Frank P.. Dr., 723 
 
 Harriet. 723 
 
 Leonard P., 724 
 
 Lincoln N, 723 
 
 Louisa H.. 724 
 
 Roger. Dr.. 724 
 
 Thomas. 722 
 Kinsley. Ben A., 610 
 
 Daniel, 610 
 
 Edith, 611 
 
 Edward W., 611 
 
 Harriet N., 610 
 
 Sumner A.. 610 
 Kneeland. Asa L., 127 
 
 Clara L., 127 
 
 Francis E., 127 
 
 Herbert L., 128 
 
 Sarah E.. 127 
 Knibbs. Charles H., 409 
 
 Charles L.. 408 
 
 Etta E., 409 
 
 John W., 408 
 
 John W,, Jr., 409 
 Knight, Abbie B., 627 
 
 Alden B., 302. 327 
 
 Charles B.. 627 
 
 Edward, 303 
 
 Effie J., 883 
 
 Eleanor C, 327 
 
 Frank H., 302, 327 
 
 Henry A.. 883 
 
 Henry R., Lieut., 883 
 
 Herbert B.. 303 
 
 Horace. 626. 627 
 
 John H.. 302. 303, 327 
 
 Jonathan, 627 
 
 Joseph A., 55. 626 
 
 Margaret M., 884 
 
 Mary J., 302 
 
 Sara^h E.. 626 
 Knowles. Alice J., 53 
 
 Ann E.. 52 
 
 Francis B., 50 
 
 Frank P.. 53 
 
 Hester A., 52 
 
 John. Col.. 50 
 
 Joshua. 50 
 
 Laura. 52 
 
 Lucius J.. 52 
 
 Simeon. 50 
 Knowlton. Agnes. 317 
 
 Clifton. 593 
 
 Frank A.. 592 
 
 Frank J., 316 
 
 Fred M., 593 
 
 Joseph F., 592 
 
 Joseph P., 316, 317 
 
 Lucy J.. 593 
 
 Richard, 317 
 
 William, Capt.. 317 
 Knutson. Eric. 669 
 
 Lina, 670 
 Konjoyian. Dickran M.. Dr., 
 678 
 
 Nugerdick, 678 
 Kreft. Jessie L., 789 
 
 Lton J., 788 
 
 Valervan, 788 
 
 Krim. Charles F., 513 
 
 Frank A., 513 
 
 Frederick, 513 
 
 Ida B.. 513 
 Kyes. Angle E., 839 
 
 Fannv L., 839 
 
 John F.. 839 
 
 Warren, 839 
 
 La Rue. Arthur A., Dr., 221 
 
 Eva v.. 221 
 
 Omer. Dr.. 221, 222 
 La Vigne. Georgianna, 670 
 
 Narcisse J.. 670 
 
 Narcisse J.. Jr., 670 
 Lajoie, Clara, 540 
 
 Joseph P. E.. 540 
 
 Louis D.. 540 
 Lamb. Albert, 504 
 
 Elizabeth, 504 
 
 I.saac. 485 
 
 Jesse, 504 
 
 Laura A.. 486 
 
 Lucy, 504 
 
 Nancy, 504 
 
 Rebecca, 504 
 
 Sophia. 504 
 
 Thomas M., 485 
 Lancaster. Catherine A., 741 
 
 John, 741 
 
 Richard C, 741 
 
 William, 741 
 Lancey, Angle M.. 386 
 
 Henry W., 385. 386 
 
 Isaac H.. 385. 386 
 Lane. Benjamin H.. Rev., 853 
 
 Jennie T.. Dr.. 853 
 Lange. Albert H.. 761 
 
 Carl C. 761 
 
 Herman F. A.. 760 
 
 Johan H. C. 760 
 
 Lena. 761 
 
 Sarah G.. 761 
 
 Sarah H.. 761 
 Larkin. Mary F.. 136 
 
 Paul W.. 136 
 
 William. 135. 136 
 
 William J., 135 
 Larson. Albert W., 891 
 
 Emma. 885 
 
 Gustaf A.. 891 
 
 Lars. 884 
 
 Swan J.. 884 
 Lations. Charles A., 707 
 
 John P.. 707 
 
 Karl W., 708 
 
 Sophia M., 708 
 Leach. Herbert N.. 352 
 
 Humphrey S.. 352 
 
 Myrtle A., 352 
 Legg. Betsey. 24 
 
 Henry H., 26 
 
 James, 23, 24 
 
 John, 23, 25 
 
 John F.. 26 
 
 Joseph W.. 26 
 
 .Sarah C. 26 
 Leland. Francis A.. 600 
 
 Frederic H.. 412 
 
 George R., 426 
 
 Harriet M.. 600 
 
 Henrv, 791 
 
 Henry F.. 411 
 
 Johannah. 791 
 
 Leslie P., Dr., 426 
 
 Mabel. 412 
 
 Mary. 600 
 
 Nancy P., 412 
 
 R. P.. 791 
 
 Reuben, 411. 412 
 
 Ruth M.. 427 
 
 Samuel R., 600 
 
 William P.. 791 
 
 William H.. 791 
 Lemaire. Charles W., 153 
 
 Edna L.. 153 
 
 Noah. 153 
 Lewis, Blanche E., 702 
 
 Elizabeth. 856 
 
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 John J., 701 
 Kate. 856 
 Libby, Daniel F., 672 
 Lucy E.. 671 
 Royal B.. 671 
 Selden B.. 671 
 Lincoln. Charles H.. 457 
 Daniel W.. 576. 577 
 Fanny. 576 
 George I'.. Dr.. 57 7 
 Harriet B.. 577 
 Mary, 57 7 
 Marv v.. 458 
 MtTii.k. Dr.. 576 
 Wal.l.i. .'.76 
 William M.. Dr.. 457 
 Lindsav. AU-na M.. 85il 
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 Julian I.. 859 
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 Elizabeth J., 302 
 John. 301 
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 John J., 301, 302 
 Liolion. Dimetrius C, 747 .M.i -r.;.. lOdwiii D., 470 
 
 Louis 1).. 747 |.:va .M.. 471 
 
 Little, James. 500 H.^iiin- S.. 470 
 
 Josejihine A., 5110 Milieniiotl. I'lilimmd H.. 
 
 William F.. 590 831 i'lmilv G 97 
 
 Littlefield. Caroline. 880 Jain.-s. 550. 831 Gi-i)r«i.. F 739 
 
 George H.. 880 Jami'S T., 550. 831 Harriet H.. 811 
 
 Henry F.. 880 Jenni.^ K.. 222 Jerome. 177 
 
 Livermore. Charles F.. 549 John. 550 J.din I'.. 97. 178 
 
 Jason. 549 John B., 222 Joseiih K.. 96 
 
 Loi-ette G.. 550 •John .%!.. 550 Marv K.. 812 
 
 Walter. 550 Maria. 550 .\ellk M.. 178 
 
 Livingstone. Mabel M.. 381 McDonash. Hugh, 395 Koval T., 81ii. 811 
 
 Walter K.. 381 Himli H.. 395 Itussel. 96. 97 
 
 Walter R., Jr.. 380 Jain.'S. 395 Susan E. ,M.. 178 
 
 Llovd. Charles D., 735 Marv. 395 Thaddeu.s. 178 
 
 Curtis B.. 735 Susan. 395 William C, 812 
 
 Jennie. 735 M.Ca.lv. .Micliael. 888 Mari'us. Anna. 897 
 
 Logan. Alice. 364 Mi.h.i.'l K., 8S8 Max, 896, 897 
 
 Annie D., 364 Sarah A,. S8S Samuel. 896 
 
 David. 361 MrGilliruddv, C. Eugene. Marsh. Anna M.. 411 
 
 Donald B.. 364 1S5 Arthur \V.. Dr., 40 
 
 James. 361 
 Lombard. Edward K.. 79 
 
 Malvina A.. 792 Daniel F., !tev.. 18 
 
 Nathan, 791 Johanna, 185 
 
 Nathan A.. 791 John T.. Dr., 185 
 
 Sarah, 792 Josephine M., 185 
 
 Loring. Annie E., 245 Margaret. 184 
 
 Burton E.. Dr.. 246 Marv A.. 1S4 
 
 Clara A.. 245 Marv E.. 186 
 
 Clara T.. 245 Timothy. 184 Clinton S.. 54 
 
 Elmer. 244 M. Govern, .\niiie E.. 308 David. 55 
 
 p;imer H.. 245 .lames, 308, 309 Floretta A.. 5 1 
 
 John. 244 Jam.-s F.. 308 George C. H.ij.. 54 
 
 John W., 244 M.-riown. Andrew 1!.. 349 Lloyd F., 855 
 
 Mvrtice M., 246 .l.jspph, 349 Lloyd F., Dr., 855 
 
 Lowell, Charles C, 756. 757 l.etti.-,.. 350 Wilhelmina H.. 855 
 
 Cora W.. 757 Marv H.. 350 Marsolais. Elizabeth E., 56 
 
 Fannie J.. 757 JlcGumness. Benjamin F., .loseph F., 565 
 
 James E., 757 334 Roland V.. 565 
 
 Percival, 756 Daniel, 334 Martin, Benjamin E., 859 
 
 Lucier. Catherine A., G47 Marv F., 335 Bertha F., 860 
 
 Edward N.. 647 Sarah J., 335 Charles, 230. 231 
 
 Joseph. 647 MeKee. Clara \'., 467 Frank c.. Dr., 230 
 
 Lucke. Frederick H., Maj., Cyrus 1'., 466 John, 859 
 
 379 William .1.. 460 \-irginia S.. 230 
 
 Grace E.. 380 McKenzie. Ann.a L., 730 Mason. John C, 324 
 
 Hermann. 379 Geors.- A.. 730 John F.. 324 
 
 Hermann F., 380 Keiineili, 730 Robert 1... 324 
 
 Sarah A.. 380 McKil.b.'n. I.'r.iiik l;.. 552 Matthews. Ambrose T., 54 
 
 Lundborg, Andrew P.. 470 iiliv,- i:.. 5.".2 Clara L., 546 
 
 Hilda M.. 470 William W.. Dr.. 552 David A.. 317 
 
 Johannes. 470 ll<-Laughlin. Patrick J., 236 Edmund, Capt., 545 
 
 Lussier. C. Arthur H.. 162 Thomas H., Rev., 236 Frank E., 546 
 
 Charles A., Dr., 161 iMcLoughlin. Anna G., 860 George R., 317, 318 
 
 Georgianna, 162 John. 860 Maria J,. 516 
 
 Louis E.. 162 William R., 860 Marietta, 318 
 
 Pierre, 161 McMillan, Donald B., 588 Mary A., 318 
 
 Ralph W., 162 .Veil. 588 Kicliard. 318 
 
 Roland P., 162 Rebecca, 588 Mawhey, George, 14.i 
 
912 
 
 INDEX 
 
 John H.. 145 
 John W., 145. 146 
 Mav, Charles, 306 
 Florence M., 308 
 John, 307 
 John C, 306, 307 
 Joseph, 307 
 Joseph S., 306 
 Maynard, Abner, 814 
 Augustus F., 814 
 Benjamin, 813, 814 
 Ellen T., 815 
 Helen A., 814 
 Herbert A., 813, 814 
 Simon. 813 
 Meagher, Dennis W., 306 
 John H., 306 
 Margaret L., 306 
 Melikian, Kazar S., 894 
 
 Sarkis M., 894 
 Merriam, Arthur H., 338 
 Henry H.. 337 
 Joseph. 337 
 Marielle E., 338 
 Noah K., 337 
 William. 337 
 Wilton H., 338 
 Merrick. Edward W., 787 
 
 Mary A.. 787 
 Merrifiekl. Margaret, i74 
 Maria C. 775 
 William T.. 774 
 Michie, Heni-y, 588 
 Henry S.. 588 
 Jeanne M.. 589 
 Middlemas. Charles A., 712 
 Clara J., 712 
 John S.. 712 
 Peter. 712 
 Mldglev, Georgianna. 30o 
 Grace E., 305 
 Herbert. 304 
 Sam. 304 
 Miles. Ella E., 824 
 James. 824 
 James, Jr.. 824 
 Walter J.. 824 
 Miller. Calvin. 655 
 George H., 388 
 Henry L.. 388 
 John C. 655 
 Joseph. 654 
 Mary L... 656 
 Mortin M.. 654, 655 
 Nettie M., 3?8 
 Nicholas. 654 
 Richard. 654 
 Samuel. 654. 655 
 Mills. Errold V., Dr.. 154 
 Jesse. 155 
 Reuel R.. 154 
 Minsch. Charles C. 900 
 Dietrick D.. 900 
 Louisa P., 900 
 Walter C, 900 
 William J., 900 
 Mirick. Albert H.. 450 
 Anita L,.. 450 
 George H., 451 
 John. 450 
 Paul M., 450 
 Ruth L.. 451 
 Mix. Clifton H.. Rev., 117 
 Donald G., 118 
 Hiram A.. 117 
 Miriam A.. 118 
 Moen. Augustus R.. 29 
 Eliza A.. 30 
 Louis, 29 
 Maria S.. 30 
 Margaret B.. 31 
 Philip L., 29 
 Philip W., 30 
 Moir. Alexander J.. 442 
 Bertha M.. 443 
 James. 442 
 Monsev. John J.. 878, 879 
 Mooney. Edith G.. 516 
 Frances C. 529 
 
 Joanna M.. 529 
 John F. H., 514. 516 
 Nicholas J.. 514. 528 
 Richard. 514, 528 
 Richard H.. 514. 515 
 Richard H., Jr., 517 
 Moor. Edward B., 142 
 Mary C 143 
 Thomas S.. 142 
 Moore. Edith. 2-93 
 John F.. 293 
 Robert L , 293 
 Morgan, A. R., 575 
 Alice. 171 
 Charles E.. 849 
 Charles H.. 171. 529 
 Charles H.. Jr., 530 
 Delbert D.. 850 
 Earl B.. 575 
 
 Harold C. Dr.. 849, 859 
 Harriet C. 530 
 Hiram. 529 
 Lessie L.. 530 
 Lola M.. 850 
 Marv A.. 576 
 Paul B.. 530 
 Ralph L.. 171 
 Rebecca A.. 530 
 Moriartv. Eugene M., 695 
 
 Julia E.. 697 
 Morgan. Charles B.. 849 
 Delbert D., 849, 850 
 Harold C. Dr., 849, 850 
 Lola M.. 850 
 Morse. Maria. 401 
 
 Mason H.. 401 
 Morton. Florence E.. 369 
 Fred S.. 368 
 John G.. 368 
 Moss. Albert H.. 501 
 Bertha. 827 
 Edward. 157 
 Edward A. D., 157 
 John B.. 826 
 John W,. 826 
 Josephine G., 157 
 Kathryn A.. 502 
 Moulton. Edward. 209, 210 
 Hattie M.. 210 
 Stephen. 210 
 Mullan. John. 248, 249 
 John J.. 248 
 Julia L., 249 
 Mulvey. Ernest C. 519 
 James. 519 
 Rachel M., 519 
 Murdock. Elisha, 572 
 Ellen. 572 
 Frank L.. 572 
 Inez E., 572 
 Lucius A.. 572 
 Murphy. Anna F., Dr., 300 
 Dennis. 472 
 Ellen C. 533 
 Frank J.. 473 
 Hannah M.. 300 
 Joanna. 533 
 John F.. 835 
 John L.. 532 
 Joseph B.. Dr., 473 
 Mary A., 473 
 Mary E.. 533 
 Patrick. 300 
 Thomas. 835 
 , Timothy H.. 472 
 
 Timothy H., Jr.. 473 
 Murray. Francis W., 294 
 Frank E.. 295 
 George B., 294 
 Henry, 294 
 Henry J.. 294 
 John F.. 295 
 Julia M.. 295 
 Kathryn T.. 295 
 Margaret. 294 
 Margaret A.. 295 
 Mvers. Ellen. 406 
 ■p. T., 405 
 Stephen J.. 406 
 
 Thomas F., Jr., 406 
 
 Nahigan, Matthew N., Dr., 
 672 
 Nigohos. 672 
 Neale. Charles E., 736 
 Dorothy, 736 
 Harold J.. 736 
 Nelson. Anna. 585 
 Christian. 661 
 Else M., 661 
 George W.. 661 
 John. 584. 585 
 Louise. 585 
 Neils S.. 661 
 Ralph E.. 661 
 Thomas L.. 584 
 Thomas L.. Jr., 585 
 William, 585 
 Newton, Albert E., 95 
 Alice M., 96 
 
 Charles, 413 
 
 Charles I., 412 
 
 George B.. 95 
 
 Margaret H.. 412 
 
 Minnie E.. 96 
 
 Richard, 413 
 Nichols. Benito, 654 
 
 Bertha. 653 
 
 Caroline C 102 
 
 Charles L.. Dr.. 101 
 
 George B.. 654 
 
 John, 654 
 
 Lemuel B.. Dr., 101 
 
 Lvdia C. 101 
 
 Mary J., 102 
 Norcross. Alice T.. 256 
 
 Arthur W.. 254, 255 
 
 Ellen P., 636 
 
 James A.. 254. 633, 634 
 
 James P., 634 • 
 
 Jeremiah, 634 
 
 Jesse O., 635 
 
 Jesse S., 633 
 
 Lillian M., 635 
 
 Marv B.. 634 
 
 Maud M., 635 
 
 Orlando W.. 635 
 
 Sarah E., 634 
 
 William E.. 635 
 Nordgren, Carl E. R., 894, 
 
 Eric H.. 894 
 Jennie E., 895 
 Norman. Edwin G., 149 
 Louise H.. 150 
 Thomas P.. 149 
 Norton. Arthur H., 460 
 Charles H.. 413 
 Franklin B., 460 
 George, 460 
 Grace D.. 414 
 Jane C. 460 
 John, 460 
 John C, 413 
 John F., 460 
 Julia E., 414 
 Mary E.. 414 
 Myron P.. 460 
 Nugent. John F., 468 
 
 Robert E., Capt., 468 
 Nutt, Ada S.. 569 
 
 Arthur. 569 
 
 Arthur C. 744 
 
 Charles, 568 
 
 Dorothy M., 569 
 
 George H., 742 
 
 George H., Jr.. 744 
 
 Harold, 569 
 
 Lucia J., 569 
 
 Mary L., 744 
 
 William, Col., 568 
 
 O'Brien, Bernard, 371 
 John E.. 647 
 John H.. 371 
 Philip T.. 371 
 Sara T.. 371 
 
INDEX 
 
 913 
 
 William J., Dr., 017 
 O'Connell. David P., 103 
 
 Ellen T., 104 
 
 Katharine T., 799 
 
 •Michael J., Rev.. 522 
 
 Patrick. 103. 522 
 
 Philip. 798 
 
 Philip J., 798 
 O'Connor, Andrew. 404. 405 
 
 Andrew, Jr.. 404 
 
 Herbert. 405 
 O'Flynn. Anne, 564 
 
 Ellen. 564 
 
 George B.. 705, 707 
 
 Julia M., 565 
 
 Richard, 563, 705. 706 
 
 Thomas, 563 
 
 Thomas F., 564, 705. 706 
 O'Leary, M. Thomas, 322 
 
 Mary H.. 323 
 O'Neil. Charles A., 396 
 
 William B., 396 
 O'Neill, Arthur, 651 
 
 Charles. 651 
 
 Delia. 653 
 
 James. 653 
 
 Thomas. 652 
 O'Reilly. Patrick T., Rt. 
 Rev.. 741 
 
 Philip, 741 
 O'Rourke. Elizabeth B., 507 
 
 Michael, 506 
 
 Michael A., 506, 507 
 O'Shea, Frank P., Dr., 376 
 
 Joan, 377 
 
 Patrick, 376, 377 
 Oftner, Emma F., Dr., 875 
 
 Gustav, 875 
 
 Jules E., 875 
 Olin, Betty, 900 
 
 Gustaf A., 899 
 
 Nils, 899 
 Olson, Carl J.. 890 
 
 Gerda C. 891 
 
 Robert C, 890 
 Oslund, Anna L., 663 
 
 Charles H., 662 
 
 Edwin C, 663 
 
 Elmer, 663 
 
 Erick W., 662 
 
 Fritz H., 663 
 
 Harry E., 663 
 
 Page, Carl H., 728 
 
 Charles H., 727 
 
 Chase. 104 
 
 Cora M., 105 
 
 Hattie B.. 728 
 
 Henry. 727 
 
 Henry C, 104 
 
 Martha. 728 
 Paine, Gardiner, 556 
 
 Nathaniel, 556 
 
 Susan M., 556 
 Parker, Alice, 253 
 
 Alice R.. 253 
 
 Arthur H.. 252 
 
 Edith M.. 253 
 
 Ethel M. M.. 253 
 
 Eva M.. 253 
 
 Helen F.. 166 
 
 Henry. 252 
 
 Henry B., 252 
 
 Henry L.. 166 
 
 Henry L.. Jr.. 167 
 
 Isabel H.. 166 
 
 Mary. 167 
 
 Thomas. 166. 253 
 
 "Waldo D., 253 
 Parmalee. Arthur W., 65 
 
 Horace. 65 
 Parsons. Eber. 331 
 
 George. 331 
 
 John, 331 
 Paterson. Charles D., 166 
 
 Charles V., Dr., 166 
 
 Veda, 166 
 Pazeian. Rose. 674 
 
 Simon V., Dr., 674 
 
 w.— 11-58. 
 
 Vartan, r,7! 
 I'oarson. Lars P., SH' 
 
 Mary K., 893 
 
 Nels A.. 892, 893 
 Peckham, Fenner H. Dr 
 
 165 
 Penney. Alma. S37 
 
 Jacob F.. 837 
 I'erkin.s. Kdmund. 231 
 
 Frederick W., 231 
 
 Susan E.. 232 
 Porman, Alhina, 156 
 
 John O., Dr., 156 
 
 John v., 150 
 Perry. Alfred D., 879 
 
 Alice A.. 312 
 
 Arthur ("., 312 
 
 Benoni E.. 486 
 
 Charles B., 486 
 
 Charles H., 705, 767 
 
 Charles 11., Dr., 767 
 
 Charle.s M.. 767 
 
 Dexter H., 818 
 
 DwiKht L., 312 
 
 Earl D.. 819 
 
 Elijah. 766 
 
 Elizabeth A.. 819 
 
 Ezra. 766 
 
 Frank 1)., 818, 819 
 
 Jeannette L., 486 
 
 Joseph S., 879 
 
 Kenneth H., 312 
 
 Louella. 879 
 
 Luther. 766 
 
 Mary J.. 768 
 
 Nathan F.. 312 
 
 Phi 
 
 766 
 
 662 
 
 Anna H., 662 
 
 Michael A., 662 
 Peterson. Anna A., 648 
 
 Gustaf O., 647 
 
 Hugo O., Dr., 648 
 
 Marie E., 648 
 
 Olof P., Rev., 647 
 Pfaftmann, Helen, 254 
 
 Martin, 253 
 
 Philip M., 253, 254 
 Phalen. Emma S.. 557 
 
 Frank L.. Rev., 567 
 
 Patrick C, 557 
 
 Paul S.. 557 
 Pharoah. Charles F.. 251 
 
 John. 251 
 
 Miiniie J.. 261 
 Phelps, Alexander S.. 844 
 
 Olnev D.. Dr., 844 
 
 OInev W.. Dr.. 844 
 Pike. Emma K., 174 
 
 Herbert A,. 197 
 
 Hezekiah. 197 
 
 Horace S.. 173 
 
 Julia M.. 198 
 
 Mary E., 198 
 
 Nathan C, 197 
 
 Nelson S.. 174 
 
 Svlvanus R.. 173, 174 
 PinklKun, Adeline A., 346 
 
 Charles H.. 346 
 
 Janie.s S., 346 
 Pitcher. Jennie V. W., 442 
 
 Samuel H., 442 
 I'lummer, Diana. 291 
 
 Frank O., 291 
 
 Mi<ajah S.. 289 
 
 <iSK">od. 389 
 
 Stella H.. 291 
 PUmkett. Helen. 739 
 
 Thomas, 738 
 Poft. Annie. 714 
 
 Charles A.. 713 
 Pond, Lucius W.. 323 
 Poole. Edmund A.. 555 
 
 FiMuiis A.. Rev.. 555 
 I'Drt.r. Ahira. 496 
 
 (•lu-:,ler T., 871 
 
 'Icrtrude. 871 
 
 Helen F.. 497 
 
 .loseph F . 871 
 
 l-.ui.sa. 497 
 
 Mabel .\., 497 
 
 I iscar S., 4;i7 
 
 Samuel, 496 
 
 S^irah. 497 
 
 Waller <;.. 497 
 l'<'!il. Benjamin. 268. 269 
 
 Charles B.. 268 
 
 Klla. 269 
 I'ower. John J.. Rev.. 100 
 Powers. Alfred F.. 196 
 
 Alfred U.. i;i6 
 
 Kiiuene H.. Iit7 
 
 196 
 
 Julia N.. 196 
 Pratt, Abby C. 733 
 Edythe M., 734 
 Ellas. Capt., 733 
 Frederick H., Dr.. 733 
 Frederick .S.. 733 
 RolK-rt c, 734 
 Sarah M., 733 
 
 Ser 
 
 ■33 
 
 Sumner, 733 
 Prentice. Charles H.. 449 
 
 Kineline .\.. 494 
 
 Ennna L.. 494 
 
 Harrison C... 540 
 
 Harri.«on S.. 493 
 
 Helena. 449 
 
 Henry. 493 
 
 Joy. 541 
 
 Robert L.. 449 
 Pre.-is Bernard. 897, 898 
 
 Jo.selh. 897 
 
 Saial, B.. 898 
 Previist, Eugenie, 246 
 
 Jo.seiihine, 246 
 
 Naiioleon K., 246 
 Punlv Andrew, Rev., 793 
 
 M.\ra J., 794 
 
 Boss C, 793 
 Putnam. Alice E., 445 
 
 Arlliur [>., 567 
 
 Daiius A.. 445 
 
 lOdward S.. 731 
 
 Floience V.. 557 
 
 Harold F.. 732 
 
 Harriet !■;.. 557 
 
 Harriet W.. 732 
 
 Isabella. 115 
 John. 114. 115 
 John J.. Rev.. 114 
 
 John P.. liev.. 115 
 
 Loui.sa. 557 
 
 Louise F,. 557 
 Martha R.. 445 
 (His E.. 557 
 
 Salmon, 557 
 Sunmer. 445 
 
 Willis E.. 731 
 Quarrev. Amastasia M., 708 
 Michael P.. 708 
 William. 708 
 Radcliffe. Blanche M., 825 
 Charles K.. 824 
 William ('.. 824 
 Rae. Annie C., 876 
 
 James J.. 875 
 Ram.sdcll. Kdg-ar L., 443 
 Herbert S., 821 
 Horace. 443, 821 
 Marv E.. 444 
 Mav. 821 
 Rand. Frank P.. 430 
 Harriet M.. 429 
 John P.. Dr.. 429 
 Lena M.. 429 
 MarKarita. 430 
 Thomas P.. 429 
 Randall. Anna E., 337 
 Harrv 1.. 337 
 Harvey K.. 337 
 Ratiean. An.astatia, 565 
 .lohn B.. 554 
 John E.. 555 
 
914 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Patrick E., 554 
 
 Russell, 555 
 Reed, Charles W.. 368 
 
 Dwight, 482 
 
 Frederick E, 367 
 
 Jacob, 552 
 
 John, 367, 368 
 
 Mary E., 482 
 
 Micah, Col.. 482 
 
 Samuel, 552 
 
 Samuel. Rev., 368 
 
 Sarah M,, 368 
 
 Susan L.. 482 
 Regan, Ellen, 539 
 
 Jeremiah F., 538 
 
 Michael H., 538 
 Reid, Eva M., 638 
 
 Georg-e W., Dr., 637, 638 
 
 William M.. 637 
 Eeidy, Eunice M., 98 
 
 Maurice F,, 97 
 Eheutan, Abraham D., 820 
 
 Abram A., 820 
 
 Isaac L... 820 
 
 Marv H., 820 
 
 Winfield D., 820 
 Khodes, Albert T., 310 
 
 Edith M., 311 
 Rice, Albert W., 103 
 
 Anne S., 469 
 
 Edmund. 300 
 
 Ephrahim, 785 
 
 Frances H., 103 
 
 Franklin P., 104 
 
 George M., 584 
 
 Herbert M., 300 
 
 Jabez, 469 
 
 Jonathan, 300 
 
 Lucy, 103 
 
 Maude B., 300 
 
 Rodney M.. 469 
 
 Rutha J.. 584 
 
 Thomas, 785 
 
 Walter C, 300 
 
 William, 102 
 
 William E., 102 
 Richards, Calvin H., 445 
 
 Earl C, 445 
 
 Eben C, 445 
 
 Elsie I.. 446 
 
 Frederick. 509 
 
 Harriet A., 509 
 
 Louise. 509 
 
 Luther, 509 
 
 Seth. 509 
 Richardson, Albert F., 326 
 
 Alonzo F., 326 
 
 Cara, 872 
 
 Charles O., 491 
 
 Edith H.. 542 
 
 Edward, 542 
 
 Frank. 541 
 
 George T.. 872 
 
 Grace M. E., 327 
 
 Heman. 542 
 
 John D., 541, 542 
 
 Mary, 492 
 
 Mary A., 105 
 
 Morton O., 492 
 
 William A,. 105 
 
 Wyman, 106 
 Richey, Albert S., 581 
 
 Edith H., 581 
 
 Webster S., 581 
 Rider, Phineas L., Col.. 492 
 
 Thaddeus R,, 492 
 Ridler, Charlotte, 376 
 
 Robert. 376 
 
 Robert W.. 376 
 Ridyard. Albert A., 646 
 
 Bertha E., 646 
 
 Godfrey A.. 646 
 Riendeau, Arthur J,, 537 
 
 Charles F., 537 
 
 Elnora M.. 537 
 
 Urbana, 538 
 Riggs. Albert E.. 220 
 
 Calvin H.. 219 
 
 Harriet A.. 220 
 
 Rilev. Frank L.. 407 
 
 James, 407. 408 
 
 Katharine E., 109 
 
 Lulu A.. 408 
 
 Robert S., 109 
 
 Robert T., 109 
 Robbins, Alanson P.. 269 
 
 Alonzo E., 270 
 
 Lorenzo. 270 
 
 Martha I., 270 
 
 Marv L., 484 
 
 Oliver. 483 
 
 Peter C. 269. 270 
 
 Ralph A,, 270 
 
 Shepard K., 483 
 Roberts. Joseph J.. 532 
 
 Theophile. 532 
 Robertson. Gordon R.. 446 
 
 James D.. 446 
 
 Louise E., 446 
 
 Robert. 446 
 Robson. Alice L.. 423 
 
 Frank H.. 422 
 
 William N., 422, 423 
 Rochetord. Delia M.. 407 
 
 Lezime M., 407 
 
 Moses, 407 
 Rochette, Edward C, Dr., 
 217 
 
 Joseph, 217 
 Rockwood, Edward O., 122 
 
 Ellen T., 123 
 
 Ezra R., 628 
 
 George I., 122 
 
 George L.. 628 
 
 Grace G., 628 
 
 Otis. Rev.. 122 
 Rogers. Almira W., 590 
 
 Charles E.. 590 
 
 Frank N.. 590 
 
 George P., 590 
 
 Jeremiah. 590 
 
 Mary S., 567 
 
 Nathan. 566 
 
 Thomas M.. 566 
 Rolander. Agda M.. 675 
 
 Carl J.. 675 
 
 Edla B., 676 
 
 Emil T.. 676 
 
 Hilda C. 676 
 
 Johan, 675 
 
 John, 676 
 
 Oscar A., 675 
 
 Victor E.. 676 
 Rose, Abraham, 673 
 
 Alfred W., 673 
 
 Sarah E., 673 
 Ross, Hazel A., 616 
 
 Mabel, 616 
 
 Mary E.. 616 
 
 Walter D., 615 
 
 William J.. 615 
 Rourke. Annie G.. 878 
 
 Daniel F., 877 
 Roy. Alfred, 461 
 
 Alfred, Jr., 462 
 
 Aurelia. 462 
 
 Basil S.. 480 
 
 Caroline V., 462 
 
 Eva L.. 462 
 
 Francois X., 461 
 
 Joseph A., 462 
 
 Sadie. 481 
 
 Sylvanus B,. 480 
 Rugg. Arthur P., 36. 144 
 
 Charles B., 144 
 
 Charles F.. 224 
 
 Florence M., 37 
 
 George W., 224 
 
 Marjory L.. 144 
 
 Mary E., 224 
 
 Maud E., 36 
 
 Oliver W.. 35 
 
 Prentice M., 35 
 Rundlett. Charles L.. 825 
 
 Charles L.,, Jr., 825 
 
 Grace L.. 825 
 Russell. Charles. 419 
 
 Daniel. 419 
 
 Edv 
 
 rd J.. 41S 
 
 Blias. 555 
 Elia.s H., 555 
 Harriet T., 556 
 Hubbard, 331 
 Isaiah D., 813 
 Jason, 331 
 John. 418 
 John M.. 740 
 Jonathan. 419 
 Lucenia. 420 
 Martha L.. 740 
 Noah. 331 
 Philip, 419 
 Samuel, 740 
 William, 331 
 Ryon, Eppa H., 249 
 Georgia. 250 
 James H., 249 
 Tracy B., 250 
 
 Sagar, Charles H.. 716 
 
 Charlotte E., 716 
 
 William H., 716 
 Saltus, Freeman, 846 
 
 Freeman M.. 846 
 
 Melbina M., 846 
 Sandberg. Agnes E., 896 
 
 Charles E.. 896 
 
 John E., 896 
 Sander.son, Adelaide L.. 539 
 
 Alfred A.. 539 
 
 Frank A., 539 
 Santord, Edmund C, 42 
 
 Edmund P., 42 
 
 Florence, 42 
 Sargent, Christian J.. 660 
 
 George A., 828 
 
 Lucius M.. 828 
 
 Robert Z.. 659 
 
 Winifred E.. 829 
 Savels. Nellie D., 449 
 
 Orvis M., 448 
 Savory, Adele L., 735 
 
 Benjamin, 735 
 
 Henry P., 735 
 
 Robert H., 735 
 Sawyer, Annie C, 551 
 
 Bertice F., 147, 148 
 
 Charles E., 551 
 
 Cora E., 148 
 
 Daniel H., 147 
 
 Edward J., 616 
 
 Eleanor, 616 
 
 Frank C 616 
 
 Harriet J., 616 
 
 Herbert M.. 551 
 Saxe, Charles J., 550 
 
 James A.. 550 
 
 Marv. 551 
 Scannell. Denis. Rev., 742 
 Scofield, James M., 618 
 
 Madilia, 618 
 
 Nathan, 618 
 
 William B., 618 
 Scott, Abigail F., 366 
 
 Adam, 500 
 
 Alexander, 587 
 
 Brigham M., 365 
 
 David A.. 500 
 
 George N., 366 
 
 Harriette E., 365 
 
 Lydia J., 366 
 
 Manly, 366 
 
 Mary B., 588 
 
 Mary E., 500 
 
 Richard. 366 
 
 Willard, Rev.. 587 
 Sears, Alden H., 862 
 
 Hannah A., 862 
 
 John A., 862 
 
 Laura, 862 
 
 Mary A.. 863 
 
 Philander, 862 
 
 Sarah J.. 862 
 Sessions. Anna J.. 261 
 
 Frank E., 261 
 
 Ceorge. 260 
 
 Josephine. 261 
 
INDIiX 
 
 '>^S 
 
 Samuel. 260 
 
 Waldo E.. 2f)l. 262 
 Sewall. John 1^.. liev.. 551 
 
 William. 551 
 Seward. Kenjaniiii F.. 2";i 
 
 Edwin J.. 27;i 
 
 Minnie M.. 28iJ 
 
 Solomon. 279 
 
 William. 27!) 
 Shaffer. David I., 228 
 
 Elizabeth J., 228 
 
 I.sahella G.. 228 
 
 Stillman L.. 228 
 Shannalian, Kathleen, 225 
 
 Richard. 225 
 
 Richard J.. Dr.. 225 
 Shattuck. Abbv S.. 4(17 
 
 Albert M.. Dr.. 406. 407 
 
 Anna M.. 4H:i 
 
 Grant W,. 406 
 
 James F.. 406 
 
 Josiah B.. 4!I2. 4!I3 
 
 Miln H,. 406 
 
 Rufus W.. 4:i2 
 ShauKhnessy. Alice M., 877 
 
 He 
 
 M., 
 
 William. 
 Shaw. Abraham. 174 
 
 Adella J.. 657 
 
 Asa. 623 
 
 Bertha M.. 176 
 
 Eliza A.. 175 
 
 Erasmus D.. 657 
 
 Henry A.. Dr., 175 
 
 Henry E.. 657 
 
 Joseph A.. 174 
 
 Linus H.. Rev., 174 
 
 Maria P.. 623 
 
 Robert K.. 175 
 
 Thomas A.. 623 
 
 Thomas B.. Dr.. 623 
 Shea, Cornelius. 403 
 
 Peter O.. Dr.. 403 
 Sheehan. Ellen A.. 142 
 
 John W.. 142 
 
 William. 142 
 Sheffield, Albert H., 745 
 
 Dora C. 745 
 
 William. 745 
 Sherer. Charles T.. 207 
 
 Charlotte M.. 208 
 
 Joseph. 207 
 
 Joseph F.. 2(18 
 
 Marion. 208 
 Sherin. Anna F.. 617 
 
 David. 617 
 
 David E.. 617 
 Sherman. Charles L.. 386 
 
 Emma. 759 
 
 George W.. 386 
 
 Hattie. 759 
 
 Helen E.. 758 
 
 John, 757 
 
 John A.. 757 
 
 John E.. 758 
 
 Rebecca. 386 
 
 Seth. 386 
 Shippee. Charles H.. 709 
 
 Charles W.. 709 
 
 Ella P.. 709 
 
 George E.. 709 
 
 Jesse. 709 
 Sibley, Alice C. 372 
 
 Charles H., 189 
 
 Emma C. 189 
 
 Everett L.. 371 
 
 John. 371 
 
 John O.. 371 
 
 Marion E.. 615 
 
 Maud W.. 189 
 
 Sylvanus, 189. 615 
 
 Willis E.. 615 
 Silvester. Daniel. 660 
 
 Daniel A.. 660 
 
 Mary L.. 660 
 
 William. 660 
 
 William H.. 660 
 
 Jane V.. 474 
 John. 474 
 Ruth B., 475 
 Sinclair. Florence M,. SOO 
 
 Ha 
 
 799 
 
 Han 
 
 Isabelle A., 800 
 
 John E., 799 
 
 Marietta S.. 800 
 Skelley. M. Edward. 732 
 
 Mary G.. 723 
 
 Michael. 732 
 Skillings. Arthur H., 309 
 
 Clara. 309 
 
 Seward K.. 309 
 
 Charles A.. 192 
 
 lOli: 
 
 elh 
 
 19: 
 
 Frank 11.. 644. 645 
 
 ijeorge A.. Dr., 192 
 
 Lilla A.. 64 5 
 
 Wright, 645 
 Small, Augusta R., 624 
 
 Hayden L.. 624 
 
 Samuel. 624 
 Smith. Abigail C. 132 
 
 Albert K.. 4 4. 45 
 
 Albert L.. 737 
 
 Alice. 545 
 
 Andrew. 194 
 
 Anjeanette. 45 
 
 Benjamin. 131 
 
 Channing. 44. 45 
 
 (.'harles E.. 545 
 
 t-harles W., 283 
 
 Chester VV.. 132 
 
 Edwin W.. 133 
 
 Eliza A.. 545 
 
 Elizabeth, 194 
 
 Elizabeth C, 282 
 
 Elliott T.. 281 
 
 Frank A., 282 
 
 Fred H.. 389 
 
 George, 3 44 
 
 George P., 830 
 
 Harriet. 345 
 
 Harriet A.. 345 
 
 Harriet M.. 46 
 
 Harry, 448 
 
 Harry \V., 283 
 
 Helen W.. 389 
 
 Henry E.. 131. 345 
 
 Henry N., 132 
 
 John, 283, 344. 448 
 
 John A.. 544 
 
 John H.. Dr., 194 
 
 Joseph W., 132 
 
 Lewis, 281 
 
 Margaret, 448 
 
 Margaret E.. 830 
 
 Maria A., 738 
 
 Mary A.. 868 
 
 Mary (;., 132. 282 
 
 May B., 46 
 
 May L.. 282 
 
 Mildred. 286 
 
 Oliver H., 389 
 
 Phebe. 868 
 
 Ruth L., 545 
 
 Samuel, 344 
 
 Sophia G.. 133 
 
 Thomas, 868 
 
 Vida, 545 
 
 Walter H., 830 
 
 William A.. 544 
 
 Woodbury C. 345 
 Snyder, John E., 280 
 
 Lizzie M., 281 
 
 Milton C. 281 
 
 ."Mirensoii. .\ndrew. .'.lis 
 
 Irene H,. 5.18 
 
 Willie C. r.3S 
 .Soullierc. John B.. Hlf, 
 
 John B.. Jr.. 316 
 
 Joseph H., Dr.. 316 
 
 -Marie E., 316 
 
 Paul E.. 316 
 Souihgale. Addle F.. 351 
 
 .\nna J.. 586 
 
 Clara. 586 
 
 Francis W.. 351 
 
 J. Francis. 351 
 
 .lohn 1". 351, 585 
 
 Louis W.. 585 
 
 Philip W.. 586 
 
 Reuben H.. 585 
 
 Richard. 585 
 
 Richard B, 586 
 
 Sarah. 351 
 Sparrell, Charles H. 47 
 472 
 
 Herbert K.. 471 
 
 Lavinia E.. 472 
 Spaulding. Edward. 56 
 
 Lora H.. 56 
 
 Sarah A.. 56 
 
 Walter. 55. 56 
 
 Walter M.. 55 
 
 Walter V., 56 
 Sprague, Alice A., 59 
 
 Augustus B. R., 57 
 
 Elizabeth J.. 59 
 
 Fred F., 59 
 
 Lee, 57 
 
 Mary J.. 59 
 Spurr, Elijah, 414 
 
 John. Col.. 414 
 
 Marv A.. 414 
 
 Samuel D., 414 
 
 Samuel D., Col.. 414 
 Stake. Herman, 675 
 Stark, Alice M., 388 
 
 Edward H.. 388 
 
 William N., 388 
 Stearns, Charles H., 829 
 
 Nellie, 830 
 
 Sarah H.. 830 
 
 Stephen. 829 
 Stenberg. Gustave L., 671 
 
 Jennie A., 671 
 
 Johan, 671 
 
 Stenina 
 
 Br 
 
 Xanni 
 Stephen. Bessie F.. 738 
 
 Guy E.. 738 
 
 William. 738 
 Sterne, Margaret M., 466 
 
 Sanford K., 466 
 
 Thomas E, 4 66 
 
 Thomas E.. Jr.. 466 
 Stetson. Flora D., 119 
 
 •Orlando S., 119 
 Stevens, Ada S., 228 
 
 Adelaide F., 164 
 
 Charles B.. Dr.. 273 
 
 Charles F.. 163 
 
 Charles P., 162 
 
 Daniel, 162 
 
 Frank O., 273 
 
 Genery, 227 
 
 George A., 163 
 
 George G., 163 
 
 Hannah J., 162 
 
 Helen W.. 273 
 
 Jonathan, 162 
 
 Lewis 
 
 E., 
 
 Lewis H., 
 
 Mary B., 163 
 
 Samuel M., 227 
 
 William A., 228 
 Stewart, Charles A., 729 
 
 Donald M., 729 
 
 Lily. 729 
 Stimpson, Edward S, 698 
 
 Emilv G., 624 
 
 Frank E.. 624 
 
 George E., 698 
 
Joseph N., 624 
 Stockbridge. Abijah W 
 Ernest L.. 260 
 Fred M., 260 
 George L.. 260 
 Ida A.. 260 
 John, 259 
 Perley T., 260 
 Radford, 259 
 Stockwell. Harry L.. 744 
 
 Rosa M., 744 
 Stoddard, Elijah, Col, 75'. 
 Elijah B.. 752 
 Ezekiel, 752 
 Mary E.. 752 
 Stone. Albert, 319, 320 
 Albert H.. 319 
 Annette. 320 
 Arthur C, 320 
 Arthur M,, 320 
 Mary L., 321 
 Story. Eunice, 571 
 Isaac. 571 
 Simeon N.. 571 
 Stowell. Charles F 880 i 
 Francis P., 880 
 Frederick E.. Dr. 370 
 Frederick T., 37o' 
 John. 880 
 Mary A.. 371 
 Samuel. 880 
 Stratton. Albert L.. 346 
 Helen M.. 346 
 Joseph. 346 
 Streeter. Clarence H.. 323 
 Hosea B.. 323 
 Isabel A.. 323 
 Studley. Marv J.. Dr 611 
 Styfte. Amanda, 886 
 Carl H.. 886 
 Josephine. 891 
 Peter J.. 891 
 Sullivan. Anna. 552 
 Daniel. 539 
 James C. 539. 540 
 Jeremiah. 551 
 Jeremiah T.. 373 
 John E.. 551 
 Mary A.. 373, 540 
 Thomas H.. 373 
 Sumner. Edward P 76' 
 Erastus. 761 
 George. 761 
 George R.. 762 
 Sarah E.. 762 
 Sundh. Carl W.. 893 
 Ida C. 893 
 Lars J.. 893 
 Suntlin, Rudolph, 106 
 Svenson, A. William, 898 
 
 Elleri. 899 
 Hannah. 661 
 Ivor. 899 
 
 Oscar S.. Dr., 661 
 Sveii, 661 
 Swanson, Arthur G 897 
 Gertrude O.. 897 
 Gunnar. 897 
 Sweet. Annie E., 589 
 Esek J.. 589 
 Lizzie E.. 589 
 Walter A.. 589 
 Syme, Prances M. 441 
 Inez J.. 441 
 James B., 436 
 James P., 441 
 John B.. 441 
 Taber. George. 567 
 Jesse P.. 567 
 Nellie A.. 567 . 
 Philip, 567 
 Tappan. Edmund M.. Rev., 
 
 Eva M.. 819 
 Tatman. Anna C 109 
 Charles T.. 108 
 Jabez. 107 
 John. 107 
 
 Reuben, 107 
 259 Reuben J., 107 
 Susan M.. 108 
 Taylor. Arthur B.. 856 
 Edwin A.. 499 
 Fannie M.. 856 
 George H.. 856 
 Hector J.. 146 
 Henrietta E., 147 
 Henry C, 525 
 J. Gertrude, 626 
 Jared. 499 
 Jeannette. 499 
 Laura G.. 147 
 Lucian A., 498. 499 
 Marvin C. 147 
 Marvin M., 146 
 Roland H,. 147 
 Samuel B.. 525 
 Terrill. Carrie B., 351 
 Leroy I., 351 
 Lewis J.. 350 
 Lewis W.. 350. 351 
 »i T- Stanley K., 351 
 81 Tetrault. Julia. 286 
 Octave. 286 
 Thayer. Alice M., 829 
 Anna E.. 429 
 Anstis H., 50 
 Bertha J.. 429 
 Caroline M.. 580 
 Eber H.. 829 
 Edward D.. 130 
 Edward D.. Jr.. 130. 131 
 Eh. 577. 578 
 Ellen M.. 130 
 Ferdinando. 428 
 Florence. 131 
 Henry. 130 
 J. Maude. 581 
 John A.. 580 
 John M.. 49 
 John R.. 48 
 Lora C. 49 
 Mowry R., 48 
 Samuel. 427 
 Thomas. 48. 428 
 Webster. 4 27 4 "8 
 William J., 829 
 Thomas, Benjamin F,. 563 
 Bertha A.. 678 
 Carl C. T.. 677 
 Frederick C. T 677 
 Isaiah. 563 
 John C. 678 
 Louisa D.. 678 
 Mary A., 563 
 Thompson. Eben P ■>89 
 Francis H.. 289 " 
 - Mary L.. 289 
 
 Thurston. Carrie W, 860 
 Daniel C, 860 
 Fred J.. 860 
 Jessie H.. 860 
 Louis C. 860 
 Tideman. Carl G.. 552 553 
 Carl W.. 553 
 Rose M.. 553 
 Tilton. Henry O.. 566 
 Josiah O.. 566 
 Olive N., 566 
 Timme, Anna H., 658 
 Augustus F,, 658 
 Ernest A.. 658 
 Esther. 658 
 Tnnon. Catherine A 73 ■> 
 James F.. 73'> 
 John. 732 
 Tinsley, Helen. 512 
 John P.. 511 
 Robert. 511 
 Titus. Bertha G,, 226 
 Joseph A.. Col,. 225 
 Vernon. 225 2'6 
 Tolman. Albert. 699 
 Edward P., 700 
 Elisha. 699 
 Emily A.. 701 
 Lusanna R., 700 
 
 Olive N.. 700 
 Tomlinson. Clarissa A., 370 
 Dewitt C. Rev.. 370 
 Ruth. 370 
 
 Vincent E.. Rev., 370 
 lorpey. Catherine A., 719 
 James J.. 719 
 Maurice, 719 
 Maurice E. 719 
 Torrey. Ann A.. 264 
 Annie L.. 264 
 Ebenezer. 263 
 Eliza. 264 
 Joseph R.. 263 
 Lewis H.. 264 
 William. 263 
 Townsend. Charles F.. 503 
 George C, 503 
 Hannah. 503 
 John. 503 
 , Thomas. 503 
 Tracy. Howard E., 297 
 
 Marion, 298 
 Trowbridge. Carrie L. 147 
 Edward H.. Dr., 147 
 James, 784 
 Parker. 147 
 William, 784 
 William S.. 147 
 Truda. Ella M.. 892 
 Prospero. 892 
 Sanerio. 892 
 Trulson. Anna. 536 
 Anton H.. 536 
 Gertrude. 536 
 Hans. 535 
 Johanna C. 878 
 Martin. 878 
 „ Truls R.. 878 
 Trumbull, Charles P 906 
 George A., 205 
 John, 206 
 Joseph, 205 
 Louisa P.. 206 
 Susan. 206 
 Tuck. Jessie C, 495 
 
 John. 495 
 Tucker. Calvin. 200 
 Elmer G.. 199 
 Emma A., 199 
 Ephraim, 199, 200 
 Frederick E., 199 
 Lauretta C, 200 
 Robert, 200 
 Tulloch, Donald, 778 
 Isabella. 781 
 
 '^H?,'?*"''„*^''^''«"ee E.. 639 
 Ella G.. 640 
 George L.. 713 
 George L., Jr.. 713 
 Minnie L.. 713 
 Santord J.. 639 
 Thomas. 639 
 Turner. Charles S.. 558 
 James. 421 
 John J.. 422 
 Joseph, 421 
 Joseph H., 422 
 Sarah A.. 421 
 Sarah E.. 558 
 William. 422 
 Tyler, Albert, Rev., 202, 203 
 Christine C, 203 
 Job, 203 
 John, 203 
 Joseph, 203 
 Solomon. 203 
 Timothy. 203 
 Walter D., 202, 203 
 
 UUian. Israel M., 895 
 Underwood, John A. 455 
 456 ' 
 
 Joseph. 456 
 
 Levi. 456 
 
 Moses. 456 
 
 Samuel. 456 
 
 Thomas. 456 
 
 William A., 455, 457 
 
INDEX 
 
 9^7 
 
 Upham. Clara C, 570 
 
 Edith S., 570 
 
 Freeman, 569 
 
 Rogrer P., 569, 570 
 Utlev, Julia M., 533 
 
 Samuel, 531, 532 
 
 Thomas K., 531 
 
 Van Duyn (Van Dine), Ger- 
 ret C. 827 
 
 Lucy. 827 
 
 William H., 827 
 Van Leeuwen, Adrian. 71-1 
 
 Adrian. Jr.. 714 
 
 Helen M. W., 714 
 
 Henry A. H., 714 
 Verry. Clara M.. 559 
 
 George P.. 558 
 
 Harriet P.. 199 
 
 Herbert W.. 199 
 
 Horace B.. Col., 558 
 
 Irving H., 199 
 Voorhi.s. Kathalyn, Dr„ 229 
 
 Silas R., 229 
 
 Waite, Albert G., 825 
 
 Albert H., 825, 826 
 
 Helen E., 826 
 
 Horace, 826 
 Wakefleld, Clarence E., 711 
 
 John E., 711 
 
 Mary I., 711 
 Walberg, Augusta. 677 
 
 Bernard E., 677 
 
 Eric, 677 
 Walker, Benjamin P., 726 
 
 Cephas N., 303, 304 
 
 Ebenezer, 304 
 
 Elizabeth L., 304 
 
 Mary A.. 727 
 
 Nathan S.. 304 
 
 Oakley C. 727 
 
 Oaklev S.. 726 
 Wall, Elizabeth, 163 
 
 James H., 163 
 Wallace, Arthur J., 714 
 
 Martha P.. 715 
 
 W. C, 714 
 Walls, Arthur \V.. 282 
 
 Cornelius W., 283 
 
 Cynthia. 283 
 
 Maria, 283 
 
 Richard. 282 
 Ward. Artemas. Col., 4 84 
 
 Carrie S.. 485 
 
 Charles R., 748 
 
 Chester W.. 129 
 
 Earl. 130 
 
 Edward D.. 748 
 
 Emilv E.. 485 
 
 George H.. Gen.. 484 
 
 George O.. Dr., 133 
 
 George W.. 4 85 
 
 Henrv C, 485 
 
 Hezekiah. 130 
 
 Mabel E.. 748 
 
 Mary A.. 129 
 
 Roy J., Dr.. 129 
 
 Willard. 133 
 
 William. 130. 133 
 
 Winona. 134 
 Warden, Ella M., 347 
 
 John, 346. 347 
 
 John D., 347 
 
 Narcissa, 347 
 
 Sallie. 348 
 
 Samuel, 347. 348 
 
 Tamasin, 348 
 
 William A.. 346 
 Wardwell, Carolyn P., 349 
 
 Thomas, 349 
 
 William E., 349 
 
 William T., 349 
 Warren, Caroline, 135 
 
 Isabel, 13.T 
 
 John P., 134 
 
 John W., 134. 135 
 Washburn. Alice, 68 
 
 Ann G.. 62 
 
 .\nna F.. 62 
 Caroline V., 63 
 Charles, 62 
 Charles F., 62 
 Charles G., 63 
 Charles W., 68. 69 
 Dorcas L., 65 
 Elizabeth B.. 62 
 Elizabeth L., 67 
 PreiU-ric B.. 68 
 Ichabod. 60 
 Ichaboil. I'apt.. 60 
 Jessie A.. 69 • 
 
 .Mberl W.. 123 
 
 John. 60, 67. 69 
 
 
 John D., 201 
 
 
 John E., 67, 68 
 
 
 John H., 67 
 
 
 John M., 201. 202 
 
 
 I.oella M.. 68 
 
 
 Lovisa. 67 
 
 
 Mary E.. 63 
 
 
 Mary F.. 202 
 
 
 Reginald, 64 
 
 
 Robert M., 64 
 
 
 Slater. 63 
 
 
 Zibeah ('., 62 
 
 
 Waterhouse. Ezra P.. 
 
 296 
 
 John B.. 296 
 
 
 Miriam N.. 296 
 
 
 Richard. 296 
 
 
 Watkin.s. H. Eugene. Dr 
 
 .. 760 
 
 Henry W.. Dr.. 760 
 
 
 M. Kdith. 760 
 
 
 Wattie, Elizabeth. 184 
 
 
 Emma S.. 184 
 
 
 Forbes. 179 
 
 
 William. 179 
 
 
 W( 
 
 KIs 
 
 642 
 
 Philip H.. 642 
 
 William H., 642 
 Werme. Andrew. 748 
 
 Andrew P.. 747 
 
 Hilda J.. 748 
 We.sson. Alfred G.. 520 
 
 Ella E.. 521 
 
 Grace N.. 521 
 
 Harriet E.. 793 
 
 Laurence G.. 521 
 
 Philip D.. 521 
 
 Robert E., 793 
 
 Robert E.. Jr.. 793 
 
 Rufus. 520 
 AVestlund. Carl G., 577 
 Wetherbee. C. Hvatt. 620 
 
 Henry A., 620 
 
 Leon H.. 620 
 
 Leon H.. Jr.. 620 
 
 Sarah A.. 620 
 Whalen. Edward H., 332 
 
 Edward M.. 332 
 
 George A.. 333 
 
 Lina. 332 
 
 Mary E., 332 
 
 William L.. 332 
 Wheeler. Abel. 113 
 
 Almira W.. 121 
 
 Aurelius P.. Dr., 141 
 
 Charles A.. 120 
 
 Charles D.. Dr.. 120 
 
 Charles E.. 625 
 
 Clara A.. 658 
 
 Edward W.. 658 
 
 Edwin W.. 657 
 
 Elizabeth B.. 113 
 
 Erastus W.. 657 
 
 Fannie L.. 120 
 
 Florence L.. 142 
 
 Henry C. 658 
 
 Herbert, Dr., 141 
 
 Leonard, Dr., 113 
 
 Louis A.. 625 
 
 Lvman A.. 141 
 
 Mabel S.. 625 
 
 Mason. 625 
 
 Obadiah. 657 
 
 Russell. 625 
 
 Wallace S., 658 
 
 "SVilliam A., 120 
 Whelpley, Guy E.. 625 
 
 Helen .M.. 123 
 Jearii-lte E.. 613 
 .bihn. 613 
 .Mary A.. 613 
 .Samuel, Rev.. 124 
 
 Wbitconib. Abl.le M 
 AhiuT. 791 
 .\lic.-. .IS 
 '•lara I'.. 53 
 forydon C. 53 
 David. 794. 797 
 Douglas. 798 
 Elizabeth. 796 
 Ernest Xf.. 7;i7 
 George F.. 798 
 George H.. 795 
 Gertrude E.. 798 
 Henry D.. 798 
 Henrv E.. 797 
 Lottie. 53 
 Margaret, 795 
 
 White. Cora. 617 
 Frederick W.. 617 
 Jennie V.. 876 
 John E.. 70 
 John M.. 70 
 Joseph. 876 
 
 Mil 
 
 n W.. 8T6 
 ■ r .v.. 876 
 d. Alma L 
 
 Whiting. Alfred. 804 
 
 Alfreil N.. 8114, 805 
 
 Marv ('.. 805 
 
 Winfn-d H.. 805 
 Whitnev. Amy E.. 152 
 
 Edward, 152 
 
 Uleanor H.. 151 
 
 Emma L,. 152 
 
 George C. 151 
 
 John. 151. 152 
 
 Nathan. 153 
 
 Susan 1... 152 
 
 Warren A.. 151 
 Whittemore. Arthur N., 
 818 
 
 Carl L.. 818 
 
 Charles P.. 818 
 
 Ernest A., 818 
 
 George S.. 818 
 
 Louise. .SIS 
 
 Tli..ni:is, SIS 
 Wile.irulr. lOdgar H . 264 
 
 Kibe. 264 
 
 Frank F., 264 
 Willard. Amelia H., 361 
 
 Charles 1!.. 287 
 
 Eiibrami. 286 
 
 Frank II.. 360 
 
 Itii'bard. 360 
 Snnon. Maj.. 360 
 Sl.-.im.ni A.. 360 
 William H.. 286 
 Williams. Charles A.. 
 478 
 Chester E.. 693 
 Dwellev. 124 
 Eugene A., 693 
 Frank T.. 124 
 George H.. 639 
 Haskell. 478 • 
 Josenhine C. 478 
 Leiia 
 
 Oli' 
 
 639 
 
 Susie F... 694 
 Warren. 477. 478 
 William.son. Arthur M., 
 Bessie A.. 325 
 Frank E.. 333 
 George E.. 333 
 
9i8 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Hiram R.. 325 
 
 Ida M., 333 
 
 Milton W., 333 
 
 Sarah. 325 
 Willis, Cyrus, 481 
 
 Galen, 481 
 
 John E.. Dr., 481 
 Wilson. Herbert M., 741 
 
 James, 840 
 
 James, Jr.. 840 
 
 John A., 741 
 
 Louis N., 694 
 
 Mar.v E., 841 
 
 Sarah F.. 741 
 Wingate, Aaron. 496 
 
 John. 496 
 
 Phoebe T., 496 
 Winslow, Bertha L., 418 
 
 Edward, 415 
 
 Eleanor R., 417 
 
 James, Col., 416 
 
 Josiah. Capt.. 416 
 
 Kenelm. 415 
 
 Samuel. 417 
 
 Samuel E.. 414. 418 
 
 Shadrach, Dr.. 416 
 
 Thomas. 414 
 
 William. 414 
 Wire, Emma A.. 544 
 
 •George E., 543 
 
 T. D.. Rev.. 543 
 Wood, Abial W.. 257, 25S 
 
 Adelaide, 382 
 
 Albert, Dr.. 721 
 
 Albert B.. 722 
 Aurin. 369 
 C. Eugenia, 117 
 Charles H., 117 
 Charles W., 116 
 Cyrus G., 381 
 Eleanor, 369 
 Eliphalet S.. 684 
 Eliza K.. 369 
 Emma, 722 
 Ernest H.. 382 
 Eugenia K.. 117 
 Georgietta P., 722 
 Hamilton B., 683 
 Helen O., 684 
 J. Isabel, 722 
 Jennie C, 684 
 
 John, 369 
 
 John P., 382 
 
 Lizzie M., 117 
 
 Lottie E.. Il7 
 
 Lucetta, 382 
 
 Marion E., 259 
 
 Slary L., 258 
 
 Mary U. P.. 382 
 
 Oliver B., 683. 684 
 
 Pliny W., 257 
 
 Pliny W., Jr., 258 
 
 Reuben, 381 
 
 Samuel, 721 
 
 Simeon. 369 
 
 William, 721 
 Woodbury, Jennie, 402 
 
 John C. 402 
 Woods. Simon W., 256 
 
 William J.. 256 
 Woodward, Albert E., 479 
 
 Amelia, 848 
 
 Caroline I., 359 
 
 Charles E., 119 
 
 Edward M., 479. 710 
 Elizabeth M., 169 
 Elsie A., 711 
 Francis G., 357 
 George W., 359 
 Harold E.. 479 
 Harold S., 359 
 Henry, 848 
 Hervev L., 168 
 Hosea L., 168 
 Israel, 357 
 Israel, Capt., 847 
 John. 847 
 Le Roy A., 118 
 Lucy E. R.. 848 
 Margaret. 849 
 Mary, 848 
 Mary H.. 358 
 Ruth L., 479 
 Samuel, 848 
 Samuel, Dr.. 847 
 Samuel B., Dr., 847, 848 
 Sarah E.. 479 
 Walter P., 359 
 William, 358 
 William A., 710 
 •Worcester County Law 
 
 Library, 544 
 Workman, Daniel S.. 19 
 
 John, 19 
 
 Sarah P.. 20 
 
 William. Dr., 19 
 Wright. Burton H., 55 
 
 Clayton M., 844 
 
 Clifford L., 844 
 
 Edith A.. 155 
 
 Ella M., 843 
 
 Ephraim. 863 
 
 George P., 155, 863 
 
 George M., 863 
 
 Harriet E., 863 
 
 Henry, 842 
 
 Henry H.. 843 
 
 Herbert X., 155 
 
 John B.. 55 
 
 Margaret M.. 55 
 
 Minnie F., 864 
 
 Morris S., 842 
 
 Octavius A.. 842 
 Writer. Edward B., 889 
 
 George A., 889 
 
 Henry H., 889 
 
 John H.. 888 
 
 Richard D.. 889 
 
 Sarah. 889 
 
 Young, Arthur O.. 820 
 Arthur O., Jr.. 821 
 Charles C, 821 
 Foster V.. 619 
 Harriet E.. 272 
 James P.. 271 
 Lucy, 790 
 Marian, 619 
 Mary V., 821 
 Maud A. M., 790 
 Obadiah P., 619, 790 
 Wallace H., 789 
 Walter S., 271 
 William E., 790 
 
 Zamarro, Carmine. 890 
 
 Erminia, 890 
 
 Michael, 890 
 Ziroli, Nicholas A., 886 
 
 Oreste C. S.. 887 
 
 Rose A., 887 
 
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