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(VIII) Henry Daniel, the elder of the two sons of Daniel Jay and Harriet M. (Gay) Marsh, was born in Springfield, March 15, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Springfield. At nineteen years of age he took a clerkship in the Third National Bank, and was employed there about a year. He then became a clerk in the Five Cents Savings Bank, and after passing through various posi- tions was made assistant treasurer and has held that place ever since. He has also been for some years a member of the corporation and a trustee of the bank. In politics he is a Democrat, and as such was elected to the com- mon council in 1896, and to the board of alder-
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men in 1900. While serving in the latter capacity he was chairman of the police com- mittee and a member of the committee on fire department and other committees. He is a member of the Savings Bank Treasurer's Club of Massachusetts; George Washington Chap- ter, Sons of the American Revolution; the County, the Nayasset, the Canoe clubs ; and the American Canoe Association. Mr. Marsh married (first) March 16. 1896, Anna Frances Lillis, born August 22, 1874. She died April 28. 1898. leaving two children : John Ather- ton. born January 7, 1897; and Harriet, born 1898, died 1898. He married (second) May 20. 1902. Edith Sherwood Hall, born in Am- herst. daughter of Dr. Charles W. Hall. They have two children : Elizabeth, born December 16. 1904 ; and Daniel Jay, (second), born Jan- uary 20, 1907.
The surname Aldrich is of ALDRICH ancient English origin, and the spelling varies considerably. In the early records it was spelled Aldridge and Oldridge and some branches of the family still prefer the spelling Aldridge. The famous Rhode Island family and their descendants have for many generations used the spelling Aldrich.
(I) George Aldrich was born in Derby- shire. England, about 1605. He married, in England, November 3, 1629. Katharine Seald, and came to New England in 1631 with his wife. She was born about 1610, according to her deposition made June 18, 1670, that she was sixty years old. He was a tailor by trade. He settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and belonged to the church there about 1636. He was admitted a freeman December 7, 1636. In 1663 he was one of the first seven persons to arrive in the township of Mendon, Massachu- setts. He sold his land in Braintree to his friend, Richard Thayer, of Braintree, June 9, 1663. He died at Mendon, after the re-settle- ment following King Philip's war, March I, 1682. His wife died January 11, 1691. His will, dated at Mendon, November 2, 1682, proved April 26, 1683, bequeathed to wife; to children Joseph, John, Jacob, Mary, Sarah Bartlett, Mercy Randall and Martha Dunbar. Children : 1. Abel, born 1633. 2. Joseph, June 4, 1635 ; married Patience Osborne. 3. Mary, June 16, 1637, died 1683. 4. Miriam, June 29, 1639 ; died May 10, 1652. 5. Experi- ence, September 4, 1641 ; died February 2, 1642, at Braintree. 6. John, April 2, 1644; married (first) Sarah Thompson; (second)
Sarah Leach. 7. Sarah, January 26, 1646; died February 17, 1685. 8. Peter, April 14, 1648. 9. Mercy, June 17, 1650 ; married Randall. 10. Miriam, died March 16, 1652. II. Jacob, born February 28, 1653 ; mentioned below. 12. Martha, July 10, 1656.
(II) Jacob, son of George Aldrich, was born in Braintree, February 28, 1653. He set- tled in Mendon, and was a farmer there on the homestead all his life. He died October 22, 1695. He married, November 3. 1675, Huldah Thayer. Children, born at Mendon : I. Jacob, May 28, 1676. 2. Abel, January 27, 1677. 3. Seth, July 6, 1679. 4. Huldah, born 1680. 5. Rachel, 1682 ; died young. 6. Sarah, 1683. 7. David, May 23, 1685; mentioned below. 8. Peter, October 17, 1686. 9. John, November 27, 1688. 10. Moses, April 1, 1691. II. Mercy, February 17, 1692 ; died same year. 12. Rachel, born December 27, 1694.
(III) David, son of Jacob Aldrich, was born in Mendon, May 23, 1685. He settled in Mendon, and died there in 1758. His will is dated March 18, 1758. He married Hannah, daughter of Banfield Capron. She died Feb- ruary 17, 1732. He may have been the David Aldrich who married, July 6, 1733, at Smith- field (where most of his children were mar- ried) Mehitable Mann. He bequeathed to David, Edward, Peter, Jonathan, Margaret, Abner and Levi, his children, and to his grand- son Benjamin Aldrich, son of his eldest daugh- ter Elizabeth, who married Abel Aldrich. Children : 1. David Jr., born July 6, 1711. 2. Edward, September 7, 1713 ; probably married at Glocester, Rhode Island, July 17, 1732, Dinah Aldrich. 3. Elizabeth, December 20, 1715 ; married Abel Aldrich, born January 16, 1705, son of Seth. 4. Jonathan, April 21, 1717 ; died young. 5. Peter, March 19, 1719. 6. Jonathan, August 31, 1721; mentioned below. 7. Margaret, April 25, 1723 ; married at Smithfield, July 2, 1741, Edward Thomp- son ; (second) George Smith. 8. Abner, No- vember 17, 1727 ; married, at Smithfield, De- cember 10, 1747, Elizabeth Cook. 9. Levi, December 19, 1729; married, at Smithfield, February 27, 1745-46, Abigail Hunt. 10. Icha- bod, February 5, 1732 ; died before his father.
(IV) Jonathan, son of David Aldrich, was born at Mendon, August 31, 1721. Like his brothers he went to Smithfield, and married there, March 17, 1742, Patience Gaskill, also of Mendon. He settled immediately afterward in Cumberland, Rhode Island. The Capron genealogy is doubtless in error in stating that he married, November 2, 1747, Abigail Salis-
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bury. Jonathan and Patience Aldrich, of Men- don, deeded land in Uxbridge that before her marriage Eliphalet Wharfield had deeded to her, fourteen acres of upland and twenty of woodland, to Eliphalet Wharfield, the former owner. Jonathan Aldrich, son of Seth, was the only other man of the name found at this period in the real estate records, in Mendon or Uxbridge. Children of Jonathan and Patience, born at Cumberland: 1. Asa, May 10, 1744; mentioned below. 2. Artemas, May 21, 1746; married, September 10, 1767, Hannah Bishop. 3. Anne, February 7, 1749. 4. Alice, Novem- ber 6, 1752. 5. Amey, December 8, 1754; married, May 29, 1777, Andrew Greene. 6. Abigail, May 21, 1757. 7. Squire, June 14, 1760 ; married, March 3, 1787-8, Mary Whip- ple. 8. Patience, April 16, 1763 ; died August 31. 1763. 9. Henrietta, August 20, 1764 ; mar- ried, July 24, 1788, Russell Ballou. 10.
Patience, July 16, 1767 ; married Asa Harris.
(V) Asa son of Jonathan Aldrich, was born at Cumberland, Rhode Island, May 10, 1744, and died there. He was brought up on the farm, and the first money he ever earned, ten cents for a partridge he had snared on his father's farm, was the nucleus of his first farm money. Afterwards he became owner of four farms in and around Cumberland and Wrentham, each valued at three thousand dol- lars. To each of his sons except David he gave on their marriage one of these farms. To David he gave the equivalent in the form of a college education at Brown University, with some land besides. He married, June 28, 1770, Lucy, daughter of Abner Haskell, of Cumber- land. He was a member of the Baptist church. Children : I. Nathaniel. 2. Nathan. 3. Abi- gail, married Barnes, and died aged ninety-nine years five months. 4. David, born 1780 ; mentioned below. 5. Amos. 6. Samuel, died at Attleborough. 7. Amy, born 1775; died 1855 : married Samuel Hancock.
(V1) David, son of Asa Aldrich, was born at Wrentham, or Cumberland, in 1780, and died at Cumberland, in 1879, aged ninety-eight years five months and twenty-nine days. After a common school education he prepared for college at Williams Seminary and entered Brown University in 1803 with advanced standing, graduating in 1806. He studied theology under Dr. Guno, of Providence, and commenced to preach in a Baptist church in Connecticut, where he remained three years. He then settled, at the time of his marriage, in his old home at Cumberland, Rhode Island, where he took up the study of law. He served
as justice of the peace, and was known as "Squire" Aldrich. He and his wife were at the time of their death the oldest couple in Rhode Island. His farm was on Cumberland Hill, and was considered one of the best in the town. He was a successful farmer, and his wife was a most capable woman. She was a tailoress and a maker of straw bonnets. In religion he was a Baptist and in politics a Whig. He married Jemima Rhodes, of Wrent- ham. Children: I. Eliza, married Lewis Freeman. 2. Amy Ann, born 1817 ; died 1845 ; married George Sheldon. 3. David Benedict, born 1819; mentioned below. 4. Henry De Wolf, 1820; died 1854. 5. Emulus Austin, October 15, 1822; married, May 1, 1850, Pris- cilla M. Hanney ; children : i. Clarence Alberta, born April 7, 1851, married December 31, 1878, Lucy F. Hill, and had Bertha Idella, born March 12, 1881, and Clarence Alberta, born December 11, 1883; ii. Idella Estella, born May 6, 1854, married December 22, 1872, Charles H. Spooner, and had Emma E. Spooner, born July 18, 1874, and Carrie I. Spooner, born June 25, 1877, died February 21, 1899 ; iii. David Emulus, born March 27, 1861, married January 6, 1887, Laura J. Per- kins, and had Charles Anderson, born March 4, 1888, Louis Palmer, born October 20, 1890, David Carleton, born February 21, 1893, and Richard Warren, born September 22, 1898; iv. Bertha Idella, born June 7. 1873, married February, 1895, Horace A. Jenkins, and had Clarence A. Jenkins, born November 30, 1895, E. Louise Jenkins, born February 20, 1898, and Idella Jenkins, born March 10, 1901. 6. Amos, born 1824: died 1905 ; married Char- lotte Dunbar, and had Julius, died aged four- teen years. 7. Emeline, born 1826; died 1835. (VII) David Benedict, son of David Ald- rich, was born at Cumberland in 1819, and died there. He was educated in the district school at Cumberland Hill, attending during the winter months and working on the farm in the summer. He learned the trade of ship carpenter. After his marriage he settled in Sheldonville, a part of Wrentham, for a year, following his trade in Sheldon's boat shop. He then returned to Cumberland and built a house on a part of his father's farm, with a boat shop in the lower part of the large barn. He sold his boats in Providence. In 1849 he joined the seekers after gold and made the trip around the Horn to California. He remained in the mines two years, and while there was injured by a premature blast, which rendered him partially blind. He returned cast and
Frederick E. Aldrich
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resumed farming, and also sold Yankee notions among the farmers in the vicinity. It is said that though he was blind, no one ever took an unfair advantage of him in a trade. While returning from one of these trips, when he was within sight of his home, the boy who was driving struck the horse with the whip, causing him to turn suddenly, throwing Mr. Aldrich to the ground and inflicting fatal inju- ries. He died twelve days later. He was a Baptist in religion, of high ideals and exem- plary character. In early life he was a Whig, later a Republican. He married, at Wrent- ham, Sarah Rachel Huntley, born at Clare- mont. New Hampshire. Children: I. Henry Leland, born at Wrentham, died at Cumber- land; married, at Attleborough, Jennie Bald- win. 2. Frederick Eugene, born June 4, 1849 ; mentioned below. 3. Frank Albro, born at Cumberland ; married Orpha Smith, of White- field, New Hampshire. 4. Sarah Samantha, born December 20, 1854; married, August 17, 1883, William Converse Chase; children: i. Sarah Mary, born February 6, 1888; Flora Alwildia, June 5, 1890. 5. Mary Flora, born March 12, 1856; married Moses Clark ; child : George Benedict Clark. 6. Mary, died young.
(VIII) Frederick Eugene, son of David Bennett Aldrich, was born at Cumberland, June 4, 1849, and died at Franklin, Massachu- setts, January 19, 1900. He acquired a com- mon school education, and at the age of four- teen, shortly after the death of his father, came to Chestnut Hill, Blackstone, Massachu- setts, to work on the farm of Caleb Thayer. Afterward he was employed by Dr. Jesse Miller, manufacturer of proprietary medicines, as salesman, and traveled extensively. He learned the business of manufacturing shoddy and flocks in the mill of Frederick Thayer at Millville, was for several years traveling sales- man, and afterward a partner of Mr. Thayer. The product of the mill was sold to the woolen mills in New England. About 1886 he with- drew from the firm and established himself in business as a wholesale dealer in flocks, waste and shoddy. In July, 1888, he removed his business from Millville to Franklin, where he purchased the Fremont Richardson property at 47 Summer street, remodeled it for his purposes, added a large store-house for his goods, and maintained one of the most pros- perous establishments in the town. He pos- sessed a thorough knowledge of his business and the confidence of all with whom he had dealings. He was quick to perceive and prompt in taking advantage of his opportuni-
ties in business, and amassed a comfortable fortune. He retired from active business in 1898, on account of failing health, but con- tinued in the management of his private affairs to the last, exhibiting great fortitude and endurance in the presence of pain and weak- ness. He had no ambition to fill public offices, and declined to accept nominations for any positions. In politics he was a Republican. He was a Baptist in his younger days, but later attended the Universalist church, in which his good judgment and sterling character were highly appreciated. He held various offices in the church. He belonged to no clubs or secret societies. loving his own fireside and family best, though he made many friends in all walks of life. He was cheerful in speech, democratic in his ways and never turned a deaf ear to those in need of help. He was upright, con- scientious and frank. He despised all forms of deceit and gave an admirable example of right living. He married, October 31, 1878, Emily Frances Mann, born at Walpole, De- cember 27, 1845, daughter of Charles and Anna Maria (Green) Mann, (see Mann). Children: 1. Mabel Huntly, born March 1, 1881 ; died June 9, 1903. 2. Emily Maria, born August 13, 1882 ; resides with her mother.
MANN William Mann, immigrant ances- tor, was born in England, prob- ably in county Kent, about 1607, and was the youngest of eleven children. He may have been the son of Sir Charles Mann, of Hatton Braddock, county Kent, who was knighted in 1625 by Charles I. In that case he was the eldest son; but what is supposed to be the private record of Rev. Samuel Mann says that his father ( William) was the young- est of eleven. He was a proprietor of Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, in 1634. He married (first) 1643, Mary Jarred, who came from England ; (second) June II, 1657, Alice Tiel. His will, dated December 10, 1661, proved April 1, 1662, unsigned, bequeathed to his wife and only son Samuel. Child: 1. Samuel, mentioned below.
(II) Rev. Samuel Mann, son of William Mann, was born in Cambridge, July 6, 1647. He graduated from Harvard College in 1665, and May 13, 1667, began to teach at Dedham and taught five years there. He preached to the small society in that part of Dedham now Wrentham until March 30, 1676, when the people fled from the town on account of Indian attacks. He was again in Dedham as teacher in 1676-77-78. In the fall of 1677 the town
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of Rehoboth voted to invite him to become their minister for that winter, and early the following spring he was engaged to preach at Milton, but returned to Wrentham in the sum- mer of 1680. Here he continued his minis- terial labors until a church of ten persons was gathered, and April 13, 1692, he was ordained and preached his own ordination sermon. On October 26, 1699, "in dead of night" his dwell- ing house with the church records were burned. It is said that he was much afflicted with in- firmities, and for twenty-five years before his death did not go out of his own town. One of the first men of the province said that "he was not only a very good, but a very great and learned man." He wrote a work containing ad- vice to his children who were soon to enter the married state. "His ordinary sermons were fit for the press," and yet such was his humility that he thought nothing of his worth publish- ing. He was beloved by his people. His last sermon was from the text, "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and be- hold all is vanity and vexation of spirit." He died at Wrentham, May 22, 1719. He married, May 19, 1673, Esther Ware, born September 28, 1655, died September 3, 1734, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Hunting) Ware, of Dedham. Children, born in Wrentham and Milton: 1. Mary, April 7, 1674 ; married, May 4. 1708, Samuel Dearing. 2. Samuel, August 8, 1675; died 1732. 3. Nathaniel, born in Milton ; died at Wrentham, May 11, 1756. 4. William, born in Milton, May 1, 1679. 5. Theodore, born February 8, 1680; mentioned below. 6. Thomas, born October 24, 1682; died September 10, 1756. 7. Hannah, born January 12, 1685: married, April 30, 1707, Samuel Davis. 8. Beriah, born March 30, 1687; married Daniel Hawes. 9. Pelatiah, born April 2, 1689 ; married Jemima Farring- ton. 10. Margaret, born December 21, 1691 ; married. April 18, 1711, Nathaniel Whiting. 11. Esther, born June 26, 1696; married, De- cember 30, 1719, Isaac Fisher.
(III) Theodore, son of Rev. Samuel Mann, was born February 8, 1680, and died July 29, 1761. He was a deacon in the Wrentham church, and served the town as selectman, and was representative in 1722. He married, Feb- ruary 28, 1702, Abigail Hawes. Children: I. Theodores (daughter), born August 9, 1703 ; died September 1, 1703. 2. Mary, born July 16, 1704. 3. Phebe, February 16, 1706; mar- ried, March 22, 1732, John Gould. 4. Theo- (lore, March 6, 1708; mentioned below. 5. Abigail, September 16, 1710; married, March
7, 1733, Eliphalet Whiting. 6. Margaret, Oc- tober 15, 1712. 7. Sarah, May 6, 1714. 8. Daniel, September 8, 1716. 9. Beriah, April 27, 1719; married, November 3, 1737, Daniel Kingsbury, Jr. 10. Deacon Thomas, October II, 1721 ; married, October 11, 1744, Mary Blake. II. Jerusha, November 12, 1724; mar- ried, October II, 1751, Gamaliel Gerauld.
(IV) Theodore (2), son of Theodore (I) Mann, was born at Wrentham, March 6, 1708, and married, February 22, 1738, Abigail Day. Children: I. Joseph. 2. Benjamin (twin), mentioned below. 3. Elias. 4. Jabez. 5. Timothy. 6. Daniel. 7. Seth. 8. Ralph. 9. Theodore.
(V) Benjamin, son of Theodore (2) Mann, was born March 8, 1755, and died at Walpole, January 16, 1835, aged eighty. He married, November 20, 1777, Deliverance Kendall, who died December 4, 1834, aged eighty. He was a soldier in the revolution, from Walpole, in Captain Jeremiah Smith's company. Colonel John Smith's regiment, 1775. Children, born at Walpole: I. Samuel, October 20, 1779; mentioned below. 2. Fanny, May 29, 1783. 3. Susanna, July 18, 1785. 4. Cynthia, Febru- ary II, 1788. 5. William, June 28, 1789. 6. Benjamin, July 16, 1791. 7. Joseph, Septem- ber 16, 1793. 8. Lewis, June 15, 1796.
(VI) Samuel, son of Benjamin Mann, was born at Walpole, October 20, 1779. He mar- ried (intentions dated October 27) 1805, Lydia Fairbanks, of Walpole. Children: 1. Charles, born July 15, 1809: see forward. 2. Sally Fairbanks, born March 5, 1813, in Sharon ; married Newell Morse. 3. Samuel, born April 10, 1815, in Sharon. 4. John, born in Sharon.
(VII) Charles, son of Samuel Mann, was born in Walpole, July 15, 1809, and died April 21, 1888. He was first employed in a woolen mill in Melville, Massachusetts, and returned to his native town in 1876, where he spent the rest of his life, being one of its prominent citizens. He married Ann Maria Green, born October 4, 1817, died March 8, 1895. Chil- dren : 1. Ellen Maria, born December 31. 1839: died 1852. 2. Charles Lewis, born in Foxboro, June 24, 1842; died 1905 ; married, February 22, 1866, Elizabeth Lyon Schofield ; one son, Arthur Lewis, born November 18, 1866, died December 2, 1887. 3. Emily Fran- ces, born in South Walpole, December 27, 1845 ; married Frederick Eugene Aldrich (see Aldrich ). 4. Augustis E., born October 14, 1848: graduate of Providence, Rhode Island, Normal School; taught at Westerly, Rhode Island, for twenty years ; now principal of the public school of Lancaster, Massachusetts.
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