Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 94

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924

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(XVI) Gideon, son of Robert Hayden, suc- ceeded to the Cadhay and Ebford estates ; mar- ried Margaret, daughter of John Davy, of Creedy. The author of the family history says: "They had seven sons and five daugh- ters. Several of the sons grew to manhood, and were living in 1630. The eldest son, Gideon, succeeded him. The names of the others do not appear. I take it there must have been a John, William and James, and that they were the John, William and James who emigrated to Boston in 1630-31." Gideon Hayden owned the ship "Dove," of Lymston, in 1628, and it was commanded by his son Gideon. The son John Hayden commanded the "Phoenia," of Dartmuth, also in 1628. In any case, the American branch seems closely connected with the Devon family, and the lineage seems to be correct.

(XVII) John, son of Gideon Haydon, is said to have come to Boston in 1630, and was a proprietor of Dorchester in 1632. He was admitted a freeman May 14, 1634. On June 8, 1639, his "fine for entertaining an unlicensed servant, as he did it ignorantly, was remitted to him." In 1640 he was in Braintree. He married Susanna - -. His will, dated Octo- ber 31. 1678, proved July 26, 1682, bequeathed to widow Susanna, sons Ebenezer, Joseph, Nehemiah and John; daughter Hannah; and the children of deceased son Samuel. Chil- dren: I. John, born 1634. died 1718; married Hannah Ames. 2. Joseph. 3. Samuel, married Hannah Thayer. 4. Jonathan, born May 19, 1640 : married, April 20, 1669, Elizabeth Ladd. 5. Hannah, born April 7. 1642. 6. Ebenezer, born September 12, 1645, died February 13, 1718. 7. Nehemiah, mentioned below.

(XVIII) Nehemiah, son of John Hayden, was born February 14. 1647-8, and died Janu- ary 12, 1717-8. He was a prominent and influ- ential citizen of Braintree, and served as select- man ten years, 1706-1716, and on important committees. He and his wife were members of the Middle Precinct church at the time of Mr. Niles' ordination in 1711. His will, dated January 16, 1717-18, proved February 28, 1717- 18, mentions all the children except Mary. He married Hannah, daughter of Henry Neale. Children: 1. Nehemiah, born May, 1680. 2. Hannah, July 16, 1681 : married Ste- vens. 3. Mary, married Samuel Hayden. 4. Samnel, mentioned below. 5. Benjamin, Feb- riary 22, 1685-6: married Elizabeth Faxon. 6. Rachel. married Samuel Paine. 7. John, mar- ried Margaret (Curtis) Thayer, widow. 8. Ebenezer, married, November 30, 1719, Mary

Hollis. 9. Jonathan, married, December 22, 1719, Sarah Copeland.

(XIX) Samuel, son of Nehemiah Hayden, was born about 1690. He married Priscilla -, and lived at Braintree. Children : I. Child, born October 1, 1714, died October 6 following. 2. Samuel, January 20, 1715-16; married, January 12, 1737-8, Esther Allen. 3. Amy, August 26, 1717, died next month. 4. Christopher, February 18, 1719. 5. Richard, January 22, 1720-1 ; mentioned below. 6. Jere- miah, December 29, 1722. 7. Nehemiah, Janu- ary 3. 1724-5. 8. Nathaniel, February 21, 1725-6. 9. William, October 5, 1727 ; settled in Weymouth apparently.

(XX) Richard, son of Samuel Hayden, was born January 22, 1720-I, at Braintree. Chil- dren : I. Amminidab, born August 26, 1746; mentioned below. 2. Cozbi, November 26, 1749. 3.Asenath, November 1, 1751. 4. Ziba, January 22, 1754. 5. Cyrus, June 13, 1756. 6. Sally (twin). August 28, 1759. 7. Molly (twin), August 28, 1759. 8. Lewis, February 6, 1763; settled in Weymouth.

(XXI) Amminidab, son of Richard Hayden, was born August 26, 1746, at Braintree. He was a soldier in the revolution, corporal in Captain Silas Wild's company, Colonel Benja- min Lincoln's regiment, on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and later in the same year in the regiment of Colonel John Greaton. He was quartermaster of his regiment, commis- sioned August 16, 1776, stationed in the defence of Boston : also quartermaster in Colonel Eben- ezer Freeman's regiment, October, 1776. He married (first) Susanna Thayer, who died before January, 1780: (second) Isabel Down- ing. After the war he settled in Weymouth. Of the children of the second wife, two are recorded at Weymouth: 1. Sarah, born Feb- ruary 6, 1789. 2. Isabel Downing, November 20, 1790. Also : 3. Samuel, born about 1778; married Silence Hollis. 4. Thomas. 5. Nathaniel, mentioned below.

(XXII) Nathaniel, son of Amminidab Hay- den, was born according to the family record October 15, 1780. (The birth is not on the town records of Weymouth). He married, in Braintree. November 26, 1810, Sally Hayden, born at Braintree, June 22, 1793. Children : I. Nathaniel, born November 3, 1811 ; married, November 3, 1836, Harriet N. Stetson ; he died April 12, 1894. 2. Sally, born November 14, 1813 : married, October 6, 1833. James Harris ; she died September 14, 1906. 3. Jonathan, born November 14. 1815; died January 9. 1895 .; married, November 26. 1840, Dolly M.

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Green. 4. Joseph, born January II, 1818, died December 7, 1846. 5. William, born Septem- ber 19, 1819, died January 14, 1854; married, August 9, 1842, Sarah Hamilton. 6. Albert, born June 17, 1823, died February 11, 1825. 7. Henry, born November 14, 1825, died Au- gust 8, 1888; married Mary Richardson. 8. Bartlett. born February 23, 1830, died March 30. 1905. 9. Bryantha Richards, born April 10, 1832, died September 18, 1836. 10. James Alonzo, born April 13, 1834 ; resides with his daughter in Quincy ; married Prudence Rich- ardson. II. Bryantha Richards, born July 13, 1836 : married Thomas J. H. Thayer May 22, 1855 : children : i. Bryantha Etta Thayer, born December 22. 1856, married July 11, 1877, Walter Francis Sanborn (see Sanborn) ; ii. Annie Loveland Thayer, born February 19, 1861 : iii. Clifford J. Thayer, September 24, 1857: iv. Susie Laura Thayer, November I, 1869: v. Ida May Thayer, January 14, 1872; vi. Eva Frances Thayer, September 6, 1879.

FULLER This is one of the class known as occupative surnames, dates from the twelfth century, or later, and has the same signification as Tucker or Walker. "one who thickens and whitens cloth." Various persons named Fuller have won distinction in both England and America. Nicholas Fuller, born 1557, was a distinguished Oriental scholar : another Nicholas Fuller, died 1620. was a prominent lawyer and member of parliament ; Isaac Fuller, died 1672, was a noted painter ; Andrew Fuller, born 1754, was an eminent Baptist minister and writer ; Thomas Fuller, English divine and author, born 1608, was chaplain extraordinary to Charles II., and a prolific writer. A high authority said of him: "Fuller was incomparably the most sensible, the least prejudiced great man of an age that boasted of a galaxy of great men." Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchioness of Ossobi, born 1810. was a prominent teacher, editor and author. Melville W. Fuller, born 1833, distin- guished as a jurist, is now chief justice of the United States.

(I) Edward Fuller, the "Mayflower" immi- grant. son of Robert Fuller, butcher, was bap- tized September 4, 1575, in the parish of Reden- hall. county of Norfolk, England, and died at Plymouth, between January II and April 10, 1621, as we learn from the "Genealogy of Some Descendants of Edward Fuller," by William Hyslap Fuller, from whose work most of the following sketch has been drawn. There is nothing to indicate that he was with the Pil-

grims in Holland, and it seems probable that he joined the others on the arrival of the "Speed- well" in Southampton, England, where the "Mayflower" was awaiting them. His name is the twenty-third on the Compact signed in the cabin of the "Mayflower" just before landing on Cape Cod, in November, 1620. The inclem- ency of the climate, the privations they suffered and the changed conditions under which they were brought, deprived Edward Fuller of his life a few months after he first saw the inhospi- talble shores of New England. He brought with him a wife whose name is unknown, but sometimes called Ann. She died early in 1621, after January IIth. Governor Bradford says : "Edward Fuller and his wife died soon after they came on shore." They left one child Samuel. next mentioned.

(II) Samuel, only son of Edward Fuller and wife, was born about 1612, and came to Plymouth with parents and was left an orphan when about nine years old. The place and time of his birth and baptism are unknown. He died October 31, 1683, O. S., at Barnstable, Massachusetts. He grew up under the care of his uncle, Dr. Samuel Fuller, of Plymouth, also a "Mayflower" Pilgrim. He had three acres at the division of lands in 1623. This land was on the south side of the town brook, "to the woodward," and included what is now Watson's Hill. He was made a freeman in 1634, and settled in Scituate; November 7, 1636, he joined the church there, having a letter of dismissal from the church of Plymouth, of which he had been a member. In the same year he built the fifteenth house in Scituate, on Greenfield street, the first lot abutting on Kent street. He had twenty acres of land on the east of Bellhouse Neck in that town, probably a grant from the town. Rev. Mr. Lothrop and others of Scituate founded the town of Barn- stable, and to that place Samuel Fuller removed between 1641 and 1650, probably about the latter date. March 25, 1650, O: S., Samuel Fuller and wife of Scituate in the government of New Plymouth in New England in America, conveyed to Peter Collymore "one dwelling house and a barn and cow house with sixteen acres of upland and two parcels of marsh land containing twelve acres." With his cousin, Captain Matthew Fuller, Samuel Fuller bought of Secunke. an Indian, so much of Scorton, or Sandy Neck, as lies within the town of Barn- stable. Samuel Fuller also bought meadow of his cousin Matthew that was Major John Free- man's, and meadow of Samuel House, and land on Scorton Hill. He lived in the northwest

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angle of the town, in a secluded spot where few had occasion to pass. He was constable in Scituate in 1641, and a few times was one of a jury or committee to settle difficulties with the Indians. He was the only one of the passengers of the "Mayflower" who settled permanently at Barnstable, and one of the latest survivors of that company. He was buried. if not on his own estate, in the ancient burial place at Lathrop's Hill, in Barnstable, near the site of the first meeting house. His will, dated "the nine and twentyeth Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eighty and three," was proved June 5. 1684, and his inventory dated Novem- ber 14. 1683, amounted to £116 5s. 9d., "the land & housing not prised." Samuel Fuller was married, at Mr. Cudworth's house in Scit- uate, by Captain Miles Standish, magistrate, "on ye fourthe daye of ye weeke," ( April 8-18, 1635) to Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lathrop, of Scituate and. (after 1639) Barnstable. She was baptized September 29. 1614, at Edgerly, county Kent, England, and died between 1658 and 1683. but just when is not known. Chil- dren: Hannah, Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah (died young). Mary, Thomas, Sarah, John, and an infant.

(ITT) Samuel (2), eldest son of Samuel ( I) and Jane (Lathrop) Fuller, was baptized Feb- ruary II, 1637, at Scituate. There is no record of his family on the Barnstable records, and but little is known of him. He probably lived on a portion of his father's estate. An inven- tory of his estate was taken at Barnstable, De- cember 28, 1691, amounting to £98 17s. From this it appears that he had died some time before, and that his widow had lately died, for her estate was settled on the 30th of the same month. The names of his children, given below. are taken from an agreement made at that time, dated December 30, 1601. He mar- ried Anna, daughter of Matthew Fuller. Chil- dren. born at Barnstable: Barnabas, Joseph, Matthew. Benjamin, Desire and Sarah.

(IV) Matthew, third son of Samuel (2) and Anna ( Filler) Fuller, was born abont 1663, at Barnstable, and died at Colchester. before 1744. aged about eighty years. He settled in Colchester about 1712, and was bap- tized at the First Church there. December 12. 1734. "aged about eighty years," says the rec- ord, but there is probably an error as to the age. Ile married, February 25, 1693, Patience, daughter of George and Hannah (Pinson) Young, of Scituate. She was born about 1670,

and died June 25, 1746, at Colchester, leaving a will which is a most useful confirmation of the relationship here stated. In this will, dated February 3, 1743-4, and probated August 6, 1746, she is described as a widow. Children : Anna, Jonathan, Content, Jean, David, Young, Cornelius and Hannah.

(V) Young, third son of Matthew and Patience (Young) Fuller, was born in Barnstable in 1708, and died in Ludlow, June 17. 1796. He removed in 1747 to that part of Windsor, Con- necticut, now Ellington. The earliest deed in which he appears as the grantee is dated Janu- ary 21, 1747-8. He was also the owner of land in Bolton, East Haddam, and elsewhere. In 1767 he removed from Ellington with his eldest son Joshua to Ludlow, Massachusetts, where he died. He and his wife were baptized and admitted to full communion in the Col- chester church, December 24, 1732. He mar- ried, April 23, 1730, at Colchester, Connecticut, Jerusha, daughter of Jonathan and Bridget (Brockway ) Beebe, of East Haddam, Connec- ticut. Children : Joshua, David, Caleb, Jerusha, Lydia and Anne.

(VI) Deacon Joshua, eldest son of Young and Jerusha ( Beebe) Fuller, was born in Col- chester, Connecticut, September 9, 1731, and died October 6, 1810, in Monson, Massachu- setts. When sixteen years of age he removed with his father from Colchester to Ellington, Connecticut, and March II, 1754. his father deeded him a house and farm there. In 1767 he removed to Ludlow, Massachusetts, then a part of Springfield, where he was one of the pioneers and a leading man in church and municipal affairs, and a public official in vari- ous capacities. His last years were spent in Monson with his son Benjamin. He married, January, 1753. Mercy Lathrop, born October 1. 1736, died January 15. 1827, daughter of Solomon and Susannah Lathrop, of Tolland. Children, the first six born in Ellington : Elisha, Solomon Lathrop, Ezekiel, Sarah, Lydia, Ben- jamin, Jonathan Beebe, Mariana and Olive.

(VII) Benjamin, fourth son of Joshua and Mercy (Lathrop) Fuller, born in Ellington, Connecticut, July 23. 1767 died December 8, 1842, in Monson, Massachusetts. He settled in Monson in 1795, and his father and mother removed from Ludlow and spent the later years of their lives with him. He married, Novem- ber IO. 1788, Annis Fuller, born October 1, 1768, in East Haddam, Connecticut, died Sep- tember 3. 1854. in Monson, daughter of Jehiel and Sarah (Day) Fuller, of East Haddam.

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Children : Horace Day, Harriet, Achsah, Ben- jamin. Austin, Sophia (died young), Warren ( died young ), Sophia and Warren.

(VIII) Benjamin (2), second son of Benja- min (I) and Annis ( Fuller ) Fuller, was born in Monson, January 1, 1796, and died in Spring- field, June 6, 1888, aged ninety-two years. He married, March 9, 1823, Cynthia Collins, born in East Windsor, Connecticut, September 12, 1803, died in Springfield, July 25, 1872, daugh- ter of Ebenezer and Azuba (Chapin) Collins, of South Hadley, Massachusetts. Children : Cynthia Collins, Mary E., Henry Lathrop, Mary L., Helen Sophia, Elizabeth Annis and Henrietta.

(IX) Elizabeth Annis, fifth daughter of Ben- jamin and Cynthia (Collins) Fuller, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, April II, 1838, and married December 8, 1869, Richard W. Rice ( see Rice), whom she survives, and now re- sides in Springfield.

Neither record nor tradition has

RICE been found of the place of embark- ation to this country of Edmund Rice, nor is there anything known of the ship he came in or at what place he first arrived. He is first found at Sudbury, Massachusetts, and became the head of a numerous and widely scattered progeny.

(I) Deacon Edmund Rice came from Bark- hamstead. in the county of Hertford, England, and settled in Sudbury, Masachusetts, in 1638 or 1639; as he shared in the three divisions of land in Sudbury, the first of which was made in 1639, he was without doubt a resident there at that time. He first appears in Sudbury with a wife and a family of at least seven children, who came over with him. He was born about 1594 according to a deposition which he made April 3, 1656, giving his age as sixty-two years. He became one of the best known and most influential settlers of Sudbury. He was pro- prietor and selectman in 1639 and was prob- ably there in the early part of the preceding year. His village plot in Sudbury, now Way- land, was laid out in the fall of 1639, and he was one of the first to build a house. The lot was on old North street near the Mill brook. He received his share of the meadow land Sep- tember 4. 1639, April 20, 1640, and November 18. 1640, amounting in all to forty-three and three-fourths acres. He shared also in all the divisions of uplands and common lands until his holdings amounted to two hundred and forty-seven acres. He had eleven acres in the south part of the town between Timber Neck

and Mr. Glover's farm. This lay near the spring and he sold a part of it to Thomas Axtell and a part to Philemon Whale, both of whom built houses there. He sold his home farm to John Moore, September 1, 1642, and September 13 of the same year took a six year lease of the Dunster farm on the west shore of Lake Cochituate. In November, 1643, he bought land of the Widow Axtell between Philemon Whale's place and his own at Rice's Spring. Later he also bought Philemon Whale's house and nine acres of land adjoining his own. These various purchases formed the nucleus of the old Rice homestead, which re- mained in part in the hands of his descendants until a recent date. September 29, 1647, he leased for a term of ten years of President Dunster of Harvard College, guardian for the Glover heirs, what was known as the Glover farm. By the terms of the lease he was to erect a house on the place and a barn fifty feet long. These buildings, it is supposed, were located near Dudley Pond, and on that part of the Glover farm which by an adjustment of the town bounds in 1700 came into the town of Wayland. Edmund Rice bought the Jennison farm of two hundred acres extending from the Dunster farm to the Weston line, and on this tract some of his descendants still live. He and his son bought the Dunster farm, June 24, 1659. Besides these and others grants and purchases he received from the general court fifty acres at Rice's End in 1652, and eighty acres near Beaver Dam in 1659 in Framing- ham. He was on a committee to apportion the meadows, September 4, 1639; selectman, 1639, 1644 and later ; deacon of the church. 1648; and deputy to the general court, 1654. He was one of the original petitioners for the Marl- borough grant in 1656, received a grant there and removed to that town in 1660. He died at Marlborough, May 3, 1663, aged sixty-nine years. The inventory of Edmund Rice, of Marlborough, taken May 15, 1663, by Thomas King, John Woods and John Stone, amounted to £566; house etc., £170 ; another inventory of the same date taken by William Ward, Thomas Loring, John Woods and John Stone enumer- ates property amounting to £743.8.4. Whether these two inventories refer to the same prop- erty or not is uncertain, but as Edmund Rice had property in both Sudbury and Marlborough the inventories mayrefer to different properties. "Tamazine," wife of Edmund Rice, died in Sudbury, June 13, 1654; the record of her death is the only one wherein her name has been found. Edmund Rice married (second)

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March 1, 1655, "Mercie," widow of Thomas Brigham, of Cambridge. She survived Mr. Rice and married (third) William Hunt, of Marlborough, "Oct. or Nov." 1664. She died December 28, 1693. The children of Edmund Rice, the first nine by the first wife, were: Henry, Edward, Thomas, Matthew, Samuel, Joseph, Lydia, Edmund, Benjamin, Ruth and Ann.

(II) Thomas, son of Edmund and Tamazine Rice, was born in England and came to Amer- ica with his parents. He resided in Sudbury and Marlborough, to the latter of which towns he removed about 1764. The births of six of his children are recorded at Sudbury, and the others, younger children, at Marlborough, of which he was a proprietor. He died there No- vember 16, 1681. His wife's baptismal name was Mary. The will of Thomas Rice, dated Novem- ber II, 1681, and proved April 4, 1682. gave to sons Thomas, Peter, Nathaniel and Ephraim, residue to wife Mary, and at her decease to go to "the younger children not mentioned above." My brothers, Henry and Matthew Rice, and Peter King to be overseers of my will, etc. The will of Widow Mary, dated "May 10, in the 8th year (1710) of Queen Anne's reign," was proved April II, 1705, and gave to sons Thomas of Marlborough; Peter, Nathaniel, Ephraim, Gershom, James, Jonas and Elisha, to daughters Mary White, Sarah Adams, Fran- ces Allen and Grace Moore. The children of Thomas, most of whom lived to great age, were Grace (died young), Thomas, Mary, Peter, Nathaniel, Sarah, Ephraim, Gershom, James, Frances, Jonas, Grace and Elisha.

(III) Ephraim, fourth son of Thomas and Mary Rice, was born in Marlborough, April 15, 1665, and died in Sudbury, where for years he was a resident, October 25, 1732. He was a proprietor of Worcester, and had thirty acres of land granted him in that town in 1718, but as far as known he never resided there. His will was made October 20, 1732, and proved November 27, 1732. He married (first) Feb- ruary 22, 1689, Hannah Livermore, born Sep- tember 27. 1670, daughter of John and Han- nah Livermore, of Watertown. She died May 21, 1724. He married (second) March 24, 1725, Mary Noyes, of Sudbury, born at Sud- bury, June 22, 1666, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Darwell) Noyes, of Sudbury, who were married November 12. 1662. She died Janu- ary 11, 1744. Her will dated June 21, 1742, was probated March 12, 1745. The children of Ephraim Rice, all by the first wife, were: Hannah (died young), Ephraim, Mary, Josiah,

Grace, Thomas, Gershom, John, Isaac and Hannah.

(IV) John, fifth son of Ephraim and Han- nah (Livermore) Rice, was born in Sudbury, April 23, 1704, and died in Sudbury, in 1771. At the request of the widow her son, Jonas Rice, was appointed administrator December 24, 1771. John Rice married (first) Sarah Dunton, of Sudbury, November II, 1731. There is no record of her death. He married (sec- ond) November 4, 1741, Anna Sanderson. His third wife's baptismal name was Thankful. He had by his first wife two children, and by the third nine. They were: Anne, Lydia, John, Jonas, Abraham, Amos, Eunice, Lucy, Peter, Joel and Nathan, who is next mentioned.

(V) Nathan, youngest child of John and Thankful Rice, was born in Sudbury, Decem- ber 8, 1760. He first settled at Belchertown, and about 1820 removed to Springfield, where he died May 23, 1838, in his seventy-eighth year. He married Hepzibah Allen, of Con- cord, born December 18, 1763, died at Spring- field, April 8, 1854, in her ninety-first year. Their children were: John, Nathan, William, Nancy and James.

(VI) John (2), eldest son of Nathan and Hepzibah (Allen) Rice, was born March 2, 1782, and resided at Springfield, where he died February 24. 1841. He married Joanna, daugh- ter of David and Joanna ( Moody) Warriner, of Wilbraham. She died November 11, 1840, aged fifty-nine. Their eight children were: Maria J., John W., Mary Ann, William E., Sophia, Charles W., Henry and George W.

(VII) John W., eldest son of John (2) and Joanna (Warriner) Rice, was born in Spring- field, where he died while a comparatively young man. He always lived in Springfield and was a carpenter by trade. He married Mary Stebbins. Her parents owned a consid- crable piece of land in Springfield, of a part of which she became the owner and on it she built the house at 17 Holyoke street. She was a member of the First Church ( Congregational ). The children of John W. and Mary (Stebbins) Rice were: 1. Mary, who died unmarried. 2. Richard W., mentioned below. 3. Lois Steb- bins, who died unmarried. 4. Martha Stebbins, who married Augustus L. Childs, and died March, 1907.

(VTIT) Richard Wells, only son of John W. and Mary (Stebbins) Rice, was born in Springfield, April 13, 1838. His father died when he was but six years old, leaving him, an only son, with his mother and three sisters, one of whom, Mrs. Martha S. Childs, survived

Richard Well, Rice.

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him. He was educated in the public schools, being a pupil in the high school at the age of fourteen, when he went out into the world to begin life for himself. His first employment was in the ticket office of the Boston & Albany railroad where he remained a year. His next service was with the Hampden Insurance Com- pany, and the Five Cents Savings Bank, the business of the two concerns being conducted in the same office. He spent three years there, and following that the same length of time with the Massassoit Insurance Company. Finally, in 1864, he entered the employ of Isaac Mills, coal dealer, and was a clerk for him until 1890, when he had the entire manage- ment of the business, and then purchased an interest in it. On the death of Mr. Mills a few years later he succeeded to the ownership of the entire business which he carried on from that time under his own name. His coal yard, near the corner of Court and Water streets, was the oldest in the city, the original books of the concern showing entries made during the year 1833, and under both Mr. Mills and Mr. Rice the business was carried on with the strictest integrity. In politics Mr. Rice was a staunch Republican, and in religious belief a Congregationalist. He died after an illness of but one week, May I, 1903, and was buried in Springfield cemetery. At a regular quarterly meeting of the trustees of the Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank, July 3, 1903, the follow- ing letter was presented :

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume I, Part 94

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 924