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serving on his ninth year as superintendent of the Sunday school. He has been one of the directors of the Young Men's Christian Association since its organization, is a member of Tully Lodge of Odd Fellows and Mount Pleas- ant Encampment, was one of the charter members of Athol Grange. and is a corresponding member of the Fitchburg Historical Society. For many years he was a member of the Democratic town committee, and several years the chairman. He was married Jan. 2, 1877, to Mary Eliza- beth Keyes of Melrose.
ISAIAH L. CRAGIN was born in Alstead, N. H., Aug. 22, 1819. His parents moved to New Ipswich when he was one year old, and this was his home until 1831. After attending the public schools he pursued his studies at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, and Lawrence Academy, Groton. In 1837 he went to Boston and was employed in a shoe store on Hanover Street, where he remained un- til he had an appointment in the Navy as assistant surgeon under Commodore Stewart at the Washington Navy Yard. In 1843 he went to Groton and engaged in farming, but owing to ill health he was obliged to give up the business. He again went to Boston and was engaged in business, being for a year or two in the firm of J. Nourse & Co., dealers in agricultural implements. About 1866 he went to Philadelphia and had the agency of Dobbin's Electric soap for about a year, when with his son he purchased the business, and developed an extensive and profitable busi- ness, which is now carried on by his son. In 1877 Mr. Cragin came to Athol and purchased the old Humphrey
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homestead on "Athol Street," which he greatly improved. He is one of the owners of the Cragin Cattle Co., in the Indian Territory which has had at times nearly twenty thousand head of cattle. He has been deeply interested in the agricultural interests of Athol, and was for three years president of the Worcester Northwest Agricultural Society.
ADIN H. SMITH, son of Joshua and Hannah (Fish ) Smith, was born in Athol, June 18, 1815, on the farm known as the "brick yard farm" in the west part of the town, where his father was also born. His great grand- father, Lieut. Ephraim Smith, was one of the earliest settlers of Athol, who came from Hatfield when twenty- one years old built a log house, where the house of Charles L. Goddard now stands. He was one of the minute men who marched on the Lexington alarm in the Revolution, and his son Caleb was also a sergeant in the same com- pany. Caleb Smith had eleven children, all of whom with the exception of Joshua, Adin's father, went to Vermont and New York and settled around Lake Champlain. Adin lived on the farm where he was born and engaged in farm- ing and brick making until 1874, when he removed to the village, which was ever after his home. He continued to carry on his farm and brick business until 1889, when he retired from the latter. The bricks from the Smith yard were considered among the best manufactured in the state and were used extensively by the Vermont & Massa- chusetts Railroad Co., and in Worcester, Fitchburg, Athol, Orange and other places. He was interested in the intro-
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duction of gas and water into town, and was the first president of the Athol Gas Light Co., and one of the first directors of the Athol Water Co. He woul never accept of town office, though he took an active part in town affairs. He was a member of Star Lodge of Masons and Athol Commandery Knights Templars. He was married Nov. 10, 1837, to Miss Mary C. Adams of Orange by whom he had two children, Martha J., the wife of Jonathan W. Sawyer, and Ellen, who married Jonathan Davis of Sterl- ing, and died in 1883. He was married a second time, March 2, 1843, to Louisa M. Adams, a sister of his first wife. By this marriage there were three children, Mary A., who married Edgar Hanson, Lucy M., widow of L. C. Parmenter and H. Waldo. Mr. Smith died of pneumo- nia. Jan. 21, 1898.
AZOR S. DAVIS was born Sept. 26, 1830, in Kingston, R. I, and when two or three years old came with his par- ents to Athol, who made their home on Chestnut Hill on the farm now owned by George A. Merrifield. He attend- ed the district school in that part of the town, working evenings and on Saturdays making boots. His school life closed when only twelve years old, and he continued to work for his father until about twenty years of age, when he came to the village and went to work for his uncle, Ozi Kendall. After working for him three or four years a co-partnership was formed between Ozi Kendall, Geo. N. Kendall, and A. S. Davis with the firm name of O. Ken- dall & Co., for the manufacture of calf boots. This part- nership was continued until about the time of the civil war,
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when Mr. Davis enlisted in August, 1862, as a musician in Co. E, 25th Mass. regiment, and served until the ex- piration of his term of enlistment, Oct. 20, 1864. On his return to Athol from the war he commenced making cus- tom work at his home on Walnut street, employing two or three hands until about 1870 when he opened a retail boot and shoe store on Exchange Street, where he contin- ued until about 1883, when he removed his business to Stockwell's block on Main Street, where he remained until 1898, when he moved to his present location in the Academy of Music block. Mr. Davis is one of the trustees of the Methodist church, and has been a member of its choir since the society was organized in 1851, except while absent in the army, serving most of the time as leader. He married Elizabeth M. Morse, April 7, 1853. . They have one daughter, Florence, the wife of N. S. Beebe.
HIRAM C. DUNTON was born in Phillipston, Nov. 4, 1855. He attended the district school until fourteen years of age, and remained at home on the farm until twenty- one years old. The following year he entered the employ of J. D. Parker & Co. of Goulding Village in Phillipston, working on the farm and in the chair shop for three years. Desiring to enter mercantile business, he took the hard- earned money of those three years and attended Glenwood Classical Seminary at Brattleboro, Vt., for one year, pay- ing his tuition by caring for the school buildings. He then took a six months' course at French's Business College at Boston. In 1879 he became clerk in the store of N. L. Johnson at North Orange where he remained until the
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following April, and then entered the employ of Charles T. Hudson in the grocery business at Springfield, com- mencing at the bottom and working up to be head clerk. He continued there until 1882, when he went to Orange as clerk for Chas. Towne, where he was engaged until the fall of 1885, and then came to Athol to work for J. B. Cardany. with whom he remained until Mr. Cardany's death in 1888, and continued to work for C. F. Dow, who pur- chased the business, until September 1890, when he bought the Henry Cook crockery and furniture business, and has increased it until it has become one of the largest complete house furnishing establishments between Boston and Troy. He is also the leading undertaker of the town. He is a member of Tully Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the Knights, of Pythias and is one of the cemetery commission- ers of the town. He was married in January, 1882, to Miss Mary E. Newton, a teacher of large experience. They have two daughters.
HENRY F. PRESTON was born at Peterboro, N. H. Dec. 8, 1848. He attended the common schools and later the Academy in that place, after which he was employed in several wood working shops, and was also assistant over- seer in the cotton mill there. When seventeen years of age he joined the Peterboro Cornet Band as cornetist, and was chosen its leader three years after, which position he held until January, 1874, when he became leader of the East Jaffrey Band, and was engaged by the Winchendon Band from January, 1875, to October, 1878, when he came to Athol as leader of the Citizens Band, which he conducted
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until the breaking up of that organization eight years later. He has been temporary leader of nine other bands, and has filled engagements with thirty four bands, among which are the Fitchburg, Medford, Metropolitan of Boston, two in Newburyport, Manchester, N. H., Brattleboro, Vt., and other places. He has filled summer engagements at Lake Pleasant, the Isle of Shoals, White Mountains, Bar Harbor, while his band engagements have extended from St. Al- bans, Vt., to Martha's Vineyard and from North Adams to Portland, Me. In 1892 he bought and has since carried on the Highland photograph studio. He is a member of Athol Lodge of Masons. He was married Nov. 11, 1875, to Belle L. Bartlett, a native of Monroe, Wisconsin.
JOHN W. DONOVAN was born in Athol, June 8, 1857. He attended the public schools from the lowest grade through the High school, and after leaving school went to work for H. R. Barber, making buckle straps, where he was employed for two years. He was then clerk in the grocery store of S. E. Fay for three years, and worked at the Athol Machine shop for two years, after which he learned the business of a barber, in which he has continued since 1880, having been in business for himself with the exception of the first three years. He was married Nov. 23, 1884, to Miss Joanna Fitzgibbons of Athol. They have one daughter. Mr. Donovan has been superintend- ent of the Sunday School of St. Catherine's church four years, and is a member of Court Athol, Foresters of Amer- ica and of the Knights of Pythias.
ENOCH T. LEWIS was born in Royalston, Sept. 6, 1830.
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His father, Timothy Lewis, was a native of Athol and lived here during his early life, being a surveyor and Just- ice of the Peace. Enoch lived at home until about four- teen years old when he went to Warwick and worked on a farm, but soon came to Athol and learned the trade of marble worker of Whitman T. Lewis, who carried on busi- ness at the Centre. He worked at Laconia, N. H., and Marlboro about four years. He married Almira M. Jen- nison of Prescott. July 4. 1852, and the next year started the marble business in Athol which he carried on until about 1873, when he sold out to L. M. Wellman. He was appointed sexton in 1853, and engaged in the under- taking business in 1869 which he continued until 1884. As sexton and undertaker he officiated at the burial of over eighteen hundred persons. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. E. Fifty-third Mass. regiment, and was with the regi- ment in all its marches and engagements. He has served in many public offices. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1863. and has by successive reappointments served to the present time; has been a Notary Public since 1874, was one of the Trial Justices from 1878 to 1884, and a coroner from 1870 to 1877. He was one of the enumer- ators of the United States census of 1880 and the state census of 1875. He served the town as constable for nine- teen years, tax collector seven years, auditor for two or three years and treasurer one year. He has been one of the most prominent members of the Worcester Northwest Agricultural Society, serving as secretary from 1864 to 1880, with the exception of one year and was also secre_
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tary in 1883; represented the Society as delegate to the State Board of Agriculture three years, and was its presi- dent in 1882. Since retiring from the undertaking busi- ness in 1884, he has engaged in the settling of estates and in looking after his extensive real estate interests. He has one daughter, the wife of Dr. E. Ward Cooke of Cam- bridgeport.
JOHN SWAN, son of John and Polly (Lovering) Swan, was born in Phillipston, March 2, 1833. His mother was killed by lightning when he was about six years old, and he went to live with an uncle until ten years of age, when his father married again and the family moved to Ham- mond, St. Lawrence County, New York. John lived there until fifteen years old, when he came to Athol, which has since been his home. He engaged in butchering and had a market under the old Pequoig House for ten years or more. His market was also located for a number of years under the old Bassett & Chickering store, where Starr Hall block now stands. Soon after the old block was burned he moved his market to the building on Exchange St., where it has ever since been located, and where it is now carried on by his son, W. L. Swan, Mr. Swan retiring from the business in 1887. About 1861 he purchased the farm known as the Partridge place, on an elevation west of the village, which has since been his home, and where in addition to the market business, that he carried on so long, he has engaged extensively in farming. He has devoted much attention of late years to the raising of horses, and is also the owner of several noted trotting horses. His first
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venture in this line was the celebrated trotting mare, Lady Sheridan, which in 1891 won five more races than any other horse in the country, besides numerous ice races in which she participated in Canada and New York, where she won every race in which she engaged. Her fastest time is 2.15 1.4, Other trotters owned by him are Checo and Claremont. Mr. Swan is one of the few men of the present day who does not belong to any secret organiza- tion. He was married in June, 1858, to Augusta S. Fox of Wilmington, Vt. They have three children, Minna, the wife of Albert Ellsworth, and William L. and Everett L.
MOSES HILL son of Asa and Anna (Ballard) Hill, was born in Athol. Aug. 15, 1822. His grandfather, Moses Hill, was one of the first settlers of Chestnut Hill. The family have now in their possession an old deed dated June 21, 1765. in which Aaron Jones of Weston deeds to Moses Hill of Spencer, in consideration of Ninety Pounds, land in the northerly part of Athol, containing by estimation two hundred and forty-five acres. Moses Hill probably came to Athol about 1767 and built a house on Chestnut Hill about twenty feet square. This farm has ever since been in the possession of the Hill family, and is now the home of Moses Hill and his son-in-law, Oren M. Lawton, who married his daughter, Lucy Hill. Mr. Hill has always been engaged in farming. He is a member of the Congregational church.
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"I will pick up a few straws here and there over the broad field and ask you a few moments to look at them."
EARLY all of the secret societies of the country are represented in Athol, many of them with large and flour- ishing lodges.
FREE MASONS. The earliest Free- masonry in Athol of which any rec- ord has been preserved was about the year 1790 : when the names of a few brethren from this town appear on the rolls of two or three of the older lodges of the County. They went long distances to attend the meetings without railway or decent road facilities, and at great expense of time and labor. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge, Sept. 13, 1802, a charter was granted for a lodge named "Harris" to be held in this town. Harris Lodge was duly constituted and conse- crated. and its officers installed by the M. W. Isaiah
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Thomas (the Patriot Printer of the Revolution), on Oct. 13, 1803. The Grand lodge was formed in the Crosby tavern, where the house of Winfield H. Brock now is, and after the private work was over a grand procession was formed, headed by a coach drawn by two black horses, which had brought the Grand Master and his aids from Boston, and a band of clarinets and bugles, which wended its way to the only meeting house in town upon the com- mon at the Centre where an appropriate sermon was preached by Rev. Bro. Elliott of Watertown. The lodge was composed of the Athol Masons together with those of Gerry, Templeton. Petersham and Orange. In 1812 the lodge was removed to Gerry, and a year or so later to Templeton, where meetings were held until 1834. For more than half a century there was no Masonic institution of any kind in Athol, until July 4, 1864, when Star Lodge was chartered, with Andrew Atwood as the first Master. The first meetings were held in the lower village, but the place of meeting was soon changed to the upper village. The first Mason raised in Star Lodge, and consequently the first in Athol for more than fifty years was Charles W. Bannon.
As showing the feeling against Masonry during the great Anti-Masonic excitement prevailing during the first half of this century, we quote a verse from a song pub- lished in "Freedom's Sentinel," Athol's local paper in 1829 :
"Mourn, mourn, ye mystic sons of woe,
In sadness bow the head;
Bend every back in sorrow low,
Poor Masonry is dead."
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Union Royal Arch Chapter received its charter March 13, 1866, with Rev. George L. Hunt as the first High Priest. Athol Lodge was chartered Sept. 12, 1872, with Erastus Smith as the first Master. Athol Commandery of Knights Templars was instituted Jan. 23, 1874 with Dr. V. O. Taylor as the first Commander, It has had a total membership of two hundred and forty-six.
Themis Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star was instituted Oct. 3, 1890, with fifty-six charter members, and Mrs. George F. Lord as Worthy Matron.
ODD FELLOWS. Odd Fellowship as a permanent or- ganization in Athol dates from Oct. 15, 1884, when Tully Lodge, No. 136, was instituted, with Lewis Sanders as the first Noble Grand. Previous to this several in Athol had been members of Social Lodge of Orange. Mount Pleas- ant Encampment was instituted April 23, 1889, and Can- ton Athol was organized Sept. 6, 1889.
Banner Lodge No. 89, Daughters of Rebekah, was instituted April 17, 1890, under most favorable circum- stances with Mrs. Maria L. Morse as the first Noble Grand.
WORCESTER NORTHWEST AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANI- CAL SOCIETY. The first cattle show in Athol was held Sept, 28, 1858, on the common at the Centre. The next month, Oct. 27, the Athol Agricultural and Mechanical Society was organized. The first officers were: President, Dr. J. P. Lynde ; secretary, Samuel Lee; treasurer, Moses H. Wood; trustees, Elias Bassett, Calvin Kelton, Joseph F. Dunbar, Lyman W. Hapgood. The new society started
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off with ninety-eight members. The society existed as a town organization until April 2, 1867, when it was incor- porated as the . Worcester Northwest Agricultural and Mechanical Society, and was admitted to the sisterhood of agricultural societies, enjoying the bounty of the state. During the years it was a town society the fairs were held on the uptown common, and the vestry of the Congrega- tional church was used as a hall. The first annual fair of the newly incorporated society was held Sept. 25, 1867. In 1868, the present fair grounds were purchased and in 1869 a half-mile track was built, and the hall and other buildings erected, and the grounds were enclosed by a fence. On the completion of these improvements the society found itself in debt to the amount of fourteen thous- and dollars. The first fair held on the new grounds was Oct. 5 and 6, 1869. The fairs of this society have become noted throughout the State, and especially the dinner and after-dinner speaking have become famous. Among the speakers at the dinners have been some of the most noted agriculturalists, politicians, clergymen, business and liter - ary men, not only of the state, but of the nation. Nearly every governor of the state for thirty years or more has honored the society with his presence at the fairs.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. As in all the wars of our country in the past Athol nobly did her duty, so in this the latest conflict for the rights of humanity, the sons of Athol went to the front in the thickest of the fight and did their duty bravely. Although the town did not have the honor of sending a full company to the war, it was well
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represented in the company raised in our sister town of Orange, Co. E, of the Second Massachusetts Regiment U. S. Volunteers. The Athol boys in this company were as follows : Sergeant Harry L. Doane, Corporal Joseph T. Bemis, Corporal Adolphus C. Sweezey, Corporal Elwin W. Barton, Corporal Harland H. Knight, Corporal Herbert F. Burdick, Corporal Lester L. Luey, Corporal James D. Smith, Musician, Frank H. Rainey ; Privates, Fred J. Betters, Sylvester O. Cheney, Ernest L. Coburn, Oliver D. Cook, Harry E. Dennis, Hugh G. Davis, George L. Davis, Frederick A. Hastings, Ernest W. Haskins, Albert Little- wood, Thomas McRae, Halbert V. Morse, William L. Pike, William H. Rivett, William L. Smith, Frank E. Wheeler, Byron J. Whitcomb.
Co. E was the first to put foot on Cuban soil, and was in the thickest of the fight at El Caney and San Juan. Although none of the Athol boys were killed on the field of battle or died from wounds received there, yet four gave up their lives, two having died at Santiago, and two a short time after reaching home.
WILLIAM L. PIKE was the first Athol boy to give up his life in the war. He was born in Worcester, July 8, 1874, a son of Albert L. Pike. When about four years old his parents moved to Athol and William attended the Athol schools, completing his education in the Grammar school, after which he was employed in different shops in town. He was a popular member of Athol Hose Co., No. 3. When war was declared and volunteers called for, he en- listed in Co. E, at Orange. He died Aug. 7, 1898, at San- tiago of malarial fever.
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HUGH GODDARD DAVIS was born in Royalston Aug. 10, 1878. He came to Athol with his parents when about fourteen years of age and entered the High school from which he graduated in the class of 1896. After graduating he immediately entered his father's box shop where he was engaged in work until that business was closed. When the war broke out he was among the first to enlist at the Orange recruiting station in Co. E, and passed a high med- ical examination. He was a prominent member of the Y. M. C. A .. and took an active interest in the athletic sports of that organization. He died Aug. 11, 1898, at Santiago of embolism.
WILLIAM H. RIVETT was born in Hinsdale, N. H., Dec. 25. 1874. He attended the public schools and was then employed in the Kauffman woolen mill, and for about four years in the Bates Bros. wallet shop where he was at work at the time of his enlistment. For nearly a year previous to the outbreak of the war he had been a member of the militia in Co. E, at Orange. When the call for volunteers came he enlisted and went with Co. E to Fram- ingham and through the campaign in Cuba. He came home from Camp Wikoff with others of his company a little in advance of the regiment, suffering from the deadly typhoid fever, and died at his home Aug. 31, 1898. He was a brave soldier and a noble young man.
HARLAND H. KNIGHT, the last of the Athol boys who died, was born in Phillipston in January, 1877. He moved to Athol with his parents when very young and attended the public schools until he reached the High
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School, when he entered Hill & Greene's shoe factory. When the war broke out he was employed at the C. M. Lee shoe shops. He had been a member of Co. E for over two years and was considered one of the best shots in the company, having represented it at State tourna- ments on several occasions. Soon after reaching Cuba he was taken sick with malarial fever, from which he never fully recovered. He was one of the last to return home and died Sept. 21, 1898.
Other Athol boys serving in the war were Everett Young and Leon H. Crosman, who were members of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and Harry Hutchins, who served on the Government dispatch boat Huntress.
SAMUEL FRENCH CHENEY was born in Orange in 1802. He married Laurinda Battle, also a native of Orange, and settled in Athol Factory village in 1825. Four children were born to them, all of whom grew up: Elizabeth, who died at the age of eighteen ; Nathan, who died in 1871 at the age of thirty-nine ; George S. and C. Warren, who still survive. He worked at his trade of shoemaker, and built up a wholesale business, employing a number of workmen until 1840, when having suffered severe losses in the financial crash of that period, he abandoned the business and engaged with his brother Amos, and later with Amos L. Cheney in the manufacture of cotton batting, first in the old mill on the spot where Starrett's shop now stands, and afterwards building a dam on Mill Brook and flowing Cheney's Pond. He spent the later years of his life not engaged in active business, except as he built vari-
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ous houses on the land which he purchased when a young man. He was a man of kindly disposition and genial companionship. He died April 17, 1874, and his wife survived him until 1885.
GEORGE S. CHENEY, son of Samuel F. and Laurinda Cheney was born in Athol, May 19, 1834. He attended the schools in town and New Salem Academy, and after teaching several terms in the district schools of Athol, he fitted at the Boston Music school for the avocation of music teacher, which he followed succcessfully about twenty years, teaching singing schools in the towns of Worcester, Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties and spending seven years in Amherst, where he taught in both the old college and the Masssachusetts Agricultural college. In 1875 he entered the employ of Hunt Bros., who were then general agents for the sale of Estey organs, and in 1878 went with them to Boston. He was for some time mana- ger of the business of the Estey Organ Co., for New England and the Lower Provinces, and has for several years been connected with the A. M. McPhail Piano Co. His residence is Brookline. He was married Nov. 2, 1865, to Francelia E. Perkins of Woodstock, Vt. They have three children, Grace Perkins, Jessie May, who married Almon J. Fair- banks, and Nathan.
AMOS CHENEY was born in Orange, Nov. 2, 1793. He resided for a few years in Weare, N. H., where he was engaged in the manufacture of cotton batting. Later occu- pied a Connecticut River farm in Gill and came to Athol about 1846. He was for a time engaged in the manufac-
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ture of cotton batting, and then served as clerk in the stores of Col. Nickerson, Alvin Houghton and P. C Tyler. He was an enthusiastic lover of Free Masonry, having joined the order in his early manhood. He was married May 7, 1826, to Elvira, daughter of Solomon and Anne (Wheelock) Mallard of Gill. They had five children. One died in infancy, and the others, all of whom are now living, are Wheelock A., of Worcester, Ann Maria, who married George A. Flagg, Hiram W., of Cambridge, and Mary A., who married the late Col. George H. Hoyt. He died Dec. 5, 1871.
WHEELOCK A. CHENEY, son of Amos and Elvira (Mal- lard) Cheney, was born in Weare, N. H., April 22, 1830. He came to Athol with his parents when a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old. His first employment was in the printing office of the Mandell's, who published Athol's sec- ond paper, the "White Flag." He then went to Fitchburg, where he was employed in a printing office for several years, and from there to Worcester, where he was for some time foreman and manager of the Edward Fiske printing office, after which he established a printing office of his own, which has grown to large proportions. He was mar- ried May 22, 1852 to Lavinia Browning of Hubbardston. They have three children, two daughters and a son. The son, Wilfred Leroy, is in the office of his father, the oldest daughter, Florence Lilla, married Frank P. Kendall, and Alice, the youngest daughter, lives at home.
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