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Daniel Simmonds
HISTORIC HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS
AND GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS
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WORCESTER COUNTY
MASSACHUSETTS
WITH A HISTORY OF
WORCESTER SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITY
PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF ELLERY BICKNELL CRANE
Librarian of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and Editor of its Proceedings, Author of "The Rawson Family Memorial," "Crane Family," two vols., Etc.
"Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient families deserveth the highest fraise. Herein consisteth a part of the knowledge of a man's, own self. It is a great spur to virtue to look back on the work of our lines."-Lord Bacon.
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DANIEL SIMONDS. Samuel Simonds (1), the pioneer ancestor of Daniel Simonds, of Fitchburg. Massachusetts, was one of the Puritan leaders of the early days in the Massachusetts Bay colony. He settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor. He was called Gentleman in the earliest records, indicating that he belonged to the gentry. He was a proprietor of the town, was admitted a freeman March, 1637-8. was deputy and assistant to the governor June 6, 1638, and was deputy governor of Massachusetts. He was a man of large ability and excellent record as a citizen and public official. He mentioned his cousins Gallop, Waite and Harris in a letter to John Winthrop, Jr., in 1652, and in another letter in 1662 he mentions his only brother, "who dwells at Much Yeldham, Es- sex County, England."
His will was dated February 16, 1673, and Jan- uary 8, 1677, and was proved November 6, 1678; he bequeathed to his wife Rebecca all that belonged to her in England before marriage with him, made ample provisions for her also at his farm in Ips- wich called Argilla, or elsewhere, if she prefer ; bequeathed to sons Harlakenden and William; to son and daughter Epps, she to have the "damaske sute which was the landy Cheynies if she desire ;" bequeathed also to daughter Martha and her hus- band John Denison, to daughters Baker and Dun- kin; to son Chute; to granddaughter Sarah Sym- onds; to wife's granddaughter Rebecca Stace; to the son of John Hale or son John Hale, one of the overseers. The will refers to
Hon. Samuel Simonds' brother, Mr. Richard Fitz Simonds, from whom a legacy is expected for son Harlakenden. The widow Rebecca died July 21, 1695; her in- ventory showed articles marked W. R. and others marked R. H .; her son and daughter Hall are mentioned. Mrs. Martyn is one of the children among whom Mr. Simonds' estate was divided Oc- tober 15, 1679.
Samuel Simonds married (first) Dorothy Har- lakenden; married (second) Martha Reade Epps, daugliter of Edmund Reade and widow of Daniel Epps, Sr .: married (third) Rebecca Hall, widow of John Hall, of Salisbury. His children were : Samuel, died in 1654 (will on file) ; John, of whom later : Ifarlakenden, William, Martha, Ruth, Pris- cilla, Dorothy, married Thomas Harrison, of the parish of Dunstans in the East, London. England, and they sent a power of attorney February 10, 1653, to her brothers, Samuel and William Simonds, for the collection of anything due them.
(II) John Simonds, son of Hon. Samuel Simonds (I), was born in England about 1615; he was a proprietor of Salem as early as 1636 and was
admitted freeman March, 1637-8. His wife Mary was a member of the Salem Church in 1638. He married (second) Elizabeth His presence in England in 1653 indicates that the lack of de- tails about him on this side may be due to his living much of the time in the old country. He died before his father. His will was proved September 19, 1671; it bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth; to. sons James and Samuel; refers to deceased daugh- ter Ruth Swinnerton, and servant John Pease. His children were: Samuel, baptized November 4, 1638; James ; Ruth, married Swinnerton. Savage thinks that Samuel just mentioned who settled in Boxford was the grandson of the Hon. Samuel Simonds and the details from Pope's Pioneers given above seem to indicate that he is correct. Kath- rine Simonds, who married Jacob Towne. June 26, 1657, in Boxford, was perhaps a sister of Sam- uel of Boxford.
(III) Samuel Simonds, son of John Simonds (2), was born January. 1638, and baptized Novem- ber 4, 1638, at Salem, Massachusetts. He settled in Boxford, a neighboring town, and married Eliza- beth Andrews, daughter of Robert and Grace An- drews, carly settlers in Boxford, Massachusetts; Simonds was there in 1663 and was admitted a' freeman March 22, 1689-90; served as selectman: and in other offices of trust and honor. His house lot was that just west of the house now or lately of George W. Twitchell, in Boxford. He died August 14, 1722, aged eighty-four years, seven months ; his wife died March 17, 1725, aged eighty- two years.
Their children were: Elizabeth, born July 12, 1663; Hannah, December 27. 1665; Grace, October 14, 1667, married Zerubable Endicott, of Boxford; Mary, February 26, 1669, married Joseph Peabody; Samuel, April 6. 1672, settled in Middleton, was deacon of the church, had twelve children, died July 7, 1755; John, of whom later; Ruth, Decem- ber 24, 1676, married Andrew Eliot; Rebecca, May 31. 1679, married Jacob Smith; Phebe, October 2, 1682: Joseph, May 24, 1685, settled in Boxford; married Mary Peabody : Nathaniel, January 26, 1687.
(IV) John Simonds, sixth child of Samuel Simonds (3), was born in Boxford. Massachu- setts, March 29. 1674. He married, February 13. 1705-8, at Boxford, Hannah Hazen, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Howlett) Hazen. Both Hazen and Howlett families were pioneers in Boxford. John Simonds appears to have been a modest farmer of Boxford all his life. The children of John and Ilannah (Hazen) Simonds were: Jacob, born June 30. 1712: Allis, April 13. 1714, died young ; Allis, September 1, 1715: Sarah, August 26, 1717; Lidia,
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October 12, 1720; Phebe, February 28, 1722-3; John, of whom later.
(V) John Simonds, youngest child of John Simonds (4), was born in Boxford, Massachusetts, March 11, 1725. He settled in Boxford, but the records indicate that he lived also in the adjoining towns of Topsfield and probably elsewhere. He bought land at what is now Petersham in 1637 from Jacob Perley, of Boxford, and sold it the saine year, June 17. He married Ruth - - when very young. He was in Lunenburg, May 10, 1763, when warned as a newcomer usually was to leave town. The same John Simonds was in Holden in 1762 apparently. The children of John Simonds, as recorded at Topsfield, were: John, baptized at Topsfield, February 26, 1743-4; Mary, born July 21. 1745: Mary. September 7. 1746; Joanna, baptized April 3, 1748: Josephi, baptized October 29, 1749. (VI) Joseph Simonds, son of John Simonds (5). was born 1745-1749, baptized October 29. 1749, at Topsfield, Massachusetts. He removed with his father to Lunenburg about 1750. He was living there in 1770 and probably lived there during his active years. Hle signed a deed in 1770 with the other heirs of his wife's father. Job and Elizabeth Colman, of Ashburnham, Johan and Hannah Gip- son, of Ashby, Joseph and Mary Simonds, of Lun- enburg, and one unmarried daughter, Martha Mar- tin, of Lunenburg. Joshua Martin, brother of Mrs. Simonds, was the purchaser, April 13, 1770. Joseph Simonds served for eight months in the revolution. He was in Captain Burt's company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment. He died October 10, 1820, aged about seventy-five years.
Joseph Simonds; son of Joseph Simonds, of Boxford, was also interested in land in Lunenburg through the rights of his wife. Sally Gould. With Samuel L. Smith, Joseph Gould, Daniel Bixby, of Top-field. Joseph Simonds, Jr. and Mary Gould, of Topsfield. he bought February 2, 1753, the rights of lot No. 28 owned by Joseph Gould and sold out October 8, 1781, to Amos Dresser. This Joseph Simonds, Jr. was then living at Boxford and per- haps never lived at Lunenburg.
Joseph Simonds, then of Fitchburg, married. Oc- tober 17. 1767. Mary Martin, of Lunenburg. Their only child known to the writer was Joseph, born 1768 or 1769, of whom later.
(VII) Joseph Simonds, son of Joseph Simonds (6), was born in 1768 or 1769; he came to Fitch- burg from Lunenburg when he was quite young and spent the remainder of his days in Fitchburg, uni- versally respected, being for many years connected with town affairs as selectman and treasurer. Few men have been more often and continually honored with positions of trust and honor in the town or city of Fitchburg.
He married Sally Downs (published May I, 1704). She died September 24. 1818, aged forty- nine years. He married (second) Mrs. Polly Bou- tell. June 15. 1820; she died October 18, 1846. aged seventy-five years, nine months. He died at Fitch- burg, November 0, 1839. See gravestone for records. The children of Joseph and Sally (Downs) Simonds were : Artemas, born November 15, 1704. settled in Fitchburg : Sally, March 6, 1797, died Septem- ber 7 or Q. 1800. aged three years. six months, three days : Polly, February 6. 1800: Levi, April 23, 1802, was a town officer; Abel, of whom later: Alvan December 10. 1807: Eliza, February 22, 1814.
(VIII) Abel Simonds, son of Joseph Simonds
(7), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 10, 1804, on the old homestead in the south part of the town. The house is now known as the Elijah C. Farwell place. In later childhood he lived in the house under the shade of the great elm oppo- site the new cemetery. Froni the age of ten until he was thirteen he lived with an uncle in New Hamp- shire, after which he returned to Fitchburg to learn the trade of scythe making. He served an ap- prenticeship of seven long years. earning his board and clothes with a bonus of $50 when he ended his seven years. His school days were brief. After he was ten he attended the district school for six weeks each winter until he was too old to continue. He worked at his trade at Fitchburg and Chelms- ford until he was thirty years old, when he pur- chased the mill privilege later occupied by the Buckeye Mowing Machine Co. in West Fitchburg and built there his first scythe shop. Deacon John T. Farwell and L. C. Sanborn, who later removed to Iowa, where afterwards associated with Mr. Simonds, and for many years they carried on the business, not only in the original shop, but also on the location where the Hanna Mill owned by Crocker, Burbank & Co. now stands, and on still another mill on the site later occupied by Whitman & Miles. In 1851 the firm dissolved partnership and Mr. Simonds continued until 1864 alone and in partnership with his son, Joseph F. Simonds. When he retired from business in the year last named he leased the shop to Simonds Bros., his successors in business. He was the founder of the present Simonds Manufacturing Co., or rather of the concern from which the company grew. He died April 22. 1875, in Fitchburg.
The Sentinel said of him: "He was one of the oldest and most generally known and esteemed members of the community. There are compara- tively few men of whom we can say that their his- tory is so completely identified with that of the city as was his. We can most sincerely say that his (leath is the removal of a very familiar and promi- nent social landmark. Mr. Simonds was a man of quiet. sober, industrious habits." When a young by he learned some lasting lessons in temperance while doing his duty as an apprentice serving the regulation grog to the workmen daily. He was an earnest temperance leader. His apprenticeship
taught him the lesson of industry also. He believed in work. From his youth to the end of his life he wished to be active. Idleness was a wearincss to his flesh. He was a man of integrity. His ability was recognized by his fellow citizens who elected him often to fill important town offices. He was a trustec of the Fitchburg Savings Bank from the date of its organization. He was for more than thirty years a member of the Calvinistic Congre- gational Church. In an unobtrusive, thoughtful way he tried to exemplify the christian rules of conduct, to deal justly. love mercy and to walk humbly before God. Like so many New England fathers he was quiet, earnest, firm and faithful. He strove to be just in all his dealings. He was naturally cheerful, kindly. wishing his neighbor well and his face showed forth the pleasant feeling which ruled within. He was a good citizen, good neighbor and good friend.
He married (first). November 29. 1827, Eliza- beth T. Farwell, who was born November 17, 1807, and died September 28. 1829. She was the daughter of Deacon John Farwell. He married (second),
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September 2, 1830, Jane Todd, daughter of Captain Moses and Jane ( Whitman) Todd, of Rindge, New Hampshire. Her father died August 10, 1840, aged seventy-six years; her mother December 2, 1858, aged eighty-seven. She 'died June 24, 1886, at Fitchburg. There was one child by the first marriage, Joseph Farwell, born October 5, 1828, died October 26, 1896; married, November 19, 1851, A. Annette Howe. Children by second marriage were: Charles H., born January 19, 1831, died June 24, 1832, aged one year, five months; Mary Caroline, born October 27, 1832, married, April 28, 1852, A. W. Bullard : mar- ried (second) Robert McMasters; Thomas Todd, born May 17, 1834; William Henry, born June 17, 1836, died August 14, 1863, in New York : married. November 22, 1859, Lizzie Howard, of Amhert, New Hampshire; John, born . November 27, 1838, married. December 6, 1865, Hattie E. Beaman, of Winchendon, Massachusetts; Alvan Augustus, born January 28, 1841, married, February 14, 1865, Marcella E. Wil- lard, of Leominster; George Frederick, born Janu- arv 12, 1843, died at Scranton, Kansas, November 5, 1894; married, November 15, 1866, Mary D. A. Hatch. of Marshfield, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Jane, born October 3, 1844, married John F. Hatch, of Marshfield, June 12, 1866; Daniel, born Sep- tember 18, 1847, of whom later; Edwin Franklin. born October 22, 1849, married, January 12, 1882, at Culumbiana, Ohio, Myra C. Flaugher.
(IX) Daniel Simonds, is a son of Abel (8) and Jane Todd Simonds. He attended the public and high schools of his native town and Comer's Commercial College of Boston. He went to work for his father, who was at that time manufacturing scythes and edge tools in West Fitchburg, a busi- ness he had carried on since 1832. About the time that Daniel Simonds entered the business his father began to manufacture mowing machine knives. Abel Simonds had taken as a partner his eldest son, Joseph F. Simonds, and the firm name was A. Simonds & Son for several years. In 1864 the busi- ness was sold to two other sons of Abel Simonds, Alvan Augustus Simonds and George F. Simonds,. who with Benjamin Snow. Jr. organized the firm of Simonds Bros. & Co. Daniel Simonds worked for the new firm. Machine knives, mowing ma- chines and reaper sections were manufactured and the business prospered and grew rapidly.
In 1868 the Simonds Manufacturing Company was incorporated to take over the business. The capital stock was $50,000 and the works were removed from West Fitchburg to their present loca- tion on Main and North' streets. The same line of work was continued until 1878, when on account of the consolidation of the mowing machine and reaper interests by western manufacturers, the Simonds company sold that department of its business and began to make saws by a new method of manufac- ture and tempering. The Fitchburg concern found the field well occupied by older firms. but the new method gave them a start, and against all competi- tion the Simonds saws made rapid headway in the markets. The company has for many years had branch works and office in Chicago and San Francisco. John Simonds, who was treasurer of the Simonds Manufacturing Company from the time Alvan A. Simonds withdrew in 1876 until 1886, is now at the head of the Simonds Saw Company of San Francisco, a company that handles the prod- ucts of the Fitchburg concern in the west. John Simonds was one of the sons of Abel Simonds. The
company has just acquired control ( 1906) of four plants in Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, and has consolidated them under the corporate name of the Simonds Canada Saw Company, with the main office in Montreal. Daniel Simonds is presi- dent of the new company. Daniel Simonds held various offices in the company from time to time as the business grew and the active members of the company changed. In the eighties he was the su- perintendent of the manufacturing and vice-president of the company. In 1888 he succeeded George F. Simonds as president of the company, and in 1893 the latter retired from business.
From a modest beginning the business of the company has grown until eight hundred hands are employed and an annual product of $2,000,000 turned out. The capital stock is at present $500,000. The present officers are: President, Daniel Simonds ; treasurer. Gifford Kingsbury Simonds ; vice-presi- dents, Edwin Franklin Simonds, Charles F. Braf- fett, Alvan Tracy Simonds : directors, the president, vice-presidents, and Henry F. Coggshall. B. N. Bul- lock, C. A. Hubbell. During the years 1904 and 1905 a magnificent new plant was constructed on the site of the old one in Fitchburg at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars. The new shops are three in number. On North street the first of the new structures has been extended sixty by one hundred and seventy-five feet, making the main building three hundred and forty feet in length, basement and three stories of substantial brick con- struction. At right angles is another shop sixty by one hundred and twenty-eight feet, basement and three stories. The new power plant is behind these buildings. Between the old shop and the first of the new buildings is the smithy, eighty by one hun- dred and thirty-three feet. The equipment is of the best, as durable, permanent and efficient as seems possible to make it. The firm have better and larger facilities than ever before. The new plant means a great deal to Fitchburg, for this company is one of its most flourishing industries. The new shops alone have a floor area of 100,000 square feet. Be- sides this plant and the allied Canadian company's plants in Montreal. the Simonds Manufacturing Co. has a large manufacturing plant in Chicago. The old shops in Fitchburg are to be torn down, and in every particular the new plant will be new, neat and modern in its appointments. The office force and headquarters of the company will occupy the basement and three stories at the extreme north of the main shop, a section forty hy sixty feet, with large safety storage vaults and safes on each floor. In January, 1906, when a large part of the new plant was occupied, the event was celebrated by a rather unusual demonstration. The officers and em- ployees of the company gathered in the evening of January 17, 1906. on the second floor of the main shop which had been appropriately decorated with laurel, Florida moss, paper flowers, etc. The em- . ployees and their friends were received by Presi- dent and Mrs. Daniel Simonds, Miss Marietta Simonds, Mrs. T. F. Howarth and Mrs. H. B. Mc- Donald. The affair was managed by committees of employees and their families. The building was dedicated with feasting, music and dancing. When the first building was completed a year before, a similar celebration was held, and the employees showed their appreciation of the good will toward the company by presenting to Mr. Simonds a hand- some solid silver loving cup.
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Mr. Simonds is especially proud of the new power plant. In addition to the old steam plant of four hundred and twenty-five horse power capac- ity, the new boilers have a joint capacity of seven hundred horse power, and the three new steam en- gines have a combined capacity of six hundred horse power. The power plant is a model of neat- ness and efficiency. But a unique feature of the plant is its electrical equipment, too technical to be described in detail here. It is sufficient to say that the electrical power is, developed two miles away from a water privilege having a one hundred and thirty-five foot fall and transmitted at high tension to the factory to be used for power or lighting. The prediction is freely made by electrical engineers that mills and factories may be located without re- gard to the water fall used for power as the motor system is being generally adopted by New England mills even where they are already built at the source of their water power. The Simonds Manu- facturing Company has recently published a book- let entitled "Simonds' Guide for Carpenters," con- taining much useful information for the men who use the products of this company.
Mr. Simonds is also president of the Simonds File Company, a new and prosperous concern. He is president of the Wanoosoc Power Company of Fitchburg, another new concern, allied with the Simonds companies. He is a director of the Fitch- burg National Bank and of the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Mr. Simonds has a villa at Larchmont Manor, New York, on Long Island Sound, and is a mem- ber of Larchmont Yatch Club. He is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, Park Club and the Manufacturers' Club of Fitchburg, and was the founder and first president of the latter. He is a member of Aurora Lodge of Free Masons and of Jerusalem Commandery, Knights Templar. In poli- tics he is a staunch Republican, and though too busy to accept political office has been an efficient leader and an earnest worker at critical times. He and his family attend the Calvinistic Congregational Church.
Mrs. Daniel Simonds was Ellen Maria Gifford, daughter of Eli and Abbie (Tracy) Gifford, of Fitchburg. Their children are : Alvan Tracy, born December 23, 1877, married Susan Gansevoort Lansing, April 16, 1901, and they have two children : Robert NicClellan Simonds, born April II, 1902, and Daniel, second, born February. 1906. Alvan T. is manager of the Chicago office and vice- president of the Simonds Manufacturing Co .; he is a graduate of the Fitchburg high school, Excter Academy and Harvard. 1899, and had a year of special study in the analysis of iron and stecl at Sheffield, England. Gifford Kingsbury, born in
Fitchburg, November 29, 1881, educated at the Mili- tary School at Ossining, New York, and at the Hopkinson School, Boston; is treasurer of the Simonds Manufacturing Co. Harlan Kenneth, born January 5, 1883, in Fitchburg, educated at the Mili- tary School at Ossining, New York, and at the Hopkinson School, Boston; is with T. A. Mclntire, broker, Congress street, Boston.
DR. CHARLES H. RICE. Edmund Rice (I), one of the founders and leading citizens of Stid- bury, Massachusetts, in the early days, was the emi- grant ancestor of Dr. Charles H. Rice, of Fitch- burg, Massachusetts. Edmund Rice was the an-
cestor of the founder and first settler of Worcester, and his descendants have been very prominent in the New England towns, especially in Worcester county. He was a proprietor and selectman in 1639: was admitted a freeman May 13, 1642; and was a deputy to the general court, 1643. He was born about 1594, in England, according to a deposi- tion made April 3, 1656. He was a member of the committee to convey lands at Whip Sufferage in 1657. He removed to Marlboro, being one of the petitioners for the grant. He was a deacon of the Sudbury church. His wife Tamazine died in Sud- bury. June 13. 1654. He married (second), March I. 1655. Mercy ( Heard) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham, the emigrant. Edmund Rice died in Marl- boro, May 3, 1663. and was buried in Sudbury. His widow married (third) ), 1664, William Hunt, and died December 28, 1693. Children of Edmund and Tamazine Rice; Henry, married Elizabeth Moore ; Edward, born 1618, married Anna -; Thomas, of whom later; Mathew, married Martha Lamson; Samuel, married Elizabeth King; Joseph, born 1637, married Mercy King; Lydia, married Hugh Drury : Edmund; Benjamin, born May 31, 1640; Ruth, married September 29, 1659. S. Wells; Ann. married N. Gerry; Daniel, born about 1632; Mary.
(11) Thomas Rice, son of Edmund Rice (1), was born in England. He married Mary King, daughter of Thomas and Ann King. They removed to Marlboro in 1664. They had thirteen children, and the family was remarkable for the longevity of the children. He died in Marlboro, November 16, 16SI. She died March 22, 1715. (See Boston Gasette, December 26, 1768.) Children of Thomas and Mary (King) Rice: Grace, died 1653-54; Thomas, born June 30, 1654; Mary, born September 4, 1656, married Josiah White; Peter, born October 24, 1658, married Rebecca How; Nathaniel, born January 3. 1660, married Sarah -; Sarah, born January 15, 1662, married Adams, died at age of eighty : Ephraim. born April 15, 1665, mar- 'ricd Hannah Livermore: Gershom, born May 9, 166 ;. married Elizabeth Haynes : James, born March 6, 1669. married Sarah Stone; Frances, born Feb- ritary 3. 1670-71 : Jonas, born March 6, 1671, mar- ried Mary Stone; Grace, born January 15, 1675, married Nathaniel Moore; Elisha, born December II, 1670.
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