Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 73

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986

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and Alice Morash. 2. John Lewis, October 22, 1826; married Elizabeth Corcomb; had Emma, married Simeon Ernst. 3. Stephen, May 25, 1828; married Ellen Publicobee ; had Rufus, Adolphus, Uriah, Jessie and Margaret. 4. Catherine, February 20, 1831 ; died May, 1848. 5. Isaiah, April 19, 1832 ; married Mary E. Munrose ; had George Allen, Edward, Ros- linda and Mary. 6. Anna, October 25, 1834; married William Boehman. 7. Rachel, born April 1, 1836; married Isaiah Cook; had Collin, Dauphinee, Harris, Lois and Lillian Cook. 8. George Caleb, September 17, 1837 ; mentioned below. 9. Elkanah, June 15, 1839 ; married Elizabeth Bullard; had Catherine, Ida, George, Clarence and Everett. 10. George Justin, July 18, 1841 ; died same year. II. Sophia Elizabeth, December 24, 1843 ; married, May 28, 1861, Josiah Hebb; children: i. Ira Scott Hebb, born March 24, 1865, married Susan McFettridge, and had Ira Cecil Hebb; ii. Edgar Hebb, born February 28, 1868; iii. Lydia Maria Hebb, born December 21, 1870; iv. Percival Hebb, born June, 1872, died aged eleven ; v. Ethel Maud Hebb, born April 23, 1873, married, November 29, 1905, Frank E. Robbins, and had George Elliott Robbins, born September 6, 1907, and Florence Ethel Rob- bins, born March 4. 1908: vi. Bertha May Hebb, born July 3, 1876, married (first) Sep- tember 26, 1889, John E. Young, and had John Edward Young, born October 16, 1900, married (second) April 23, 1905, Ernest H. Atkinson, and had Mary E. Atkinson, born April 23, 1906, and Edgar Oliver Atkinson, June 24, 1907.

( III) George Caleb, son of George Lewis Dauphinee, was born at Chester, Nova Scotia, September 17, 1837, and died at Franklin, Massachusetts, April 5. 1906. He received his education in the parish school of his native town, and then worked on his uncle's farm at Mahone Bay for two years. For three sea- sons he drove logs on the Eastern river, work- ing on the farm at other times. At the age of eighteen he went into the shipyard at the basin of La Have river, where he learned the trade of ship-carpenter, serving an apprenticeship of three years. He worked at this trade until 1864, when at the age of twenty-six he shipped as a seaman. After his first voyage he was promoted to first mate, and in 1867 became captain and half owner of a vessel. Three years later his ship was wrecked, all on board, however, being saved. Later he became an owner of the "Eureka," which was also wreck- ed. His next ship was the "Martin." His

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voyages were coastwise from Newfoundland to Boston, up to 1879. At this time he settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He obtained em- ployment in the furniture shop of Philip Dono- hue, 83 Everett street, where he worked for three years as a furniture repairer. He was afterward employed by the Boston & Maine Railroad Company, having charge of the re- pair and woodwork of bridges and railroad stations. He built the buildings of the Dowell Rope Works, at East Boston, and engaged in general carpenter work until he removed to Norfolk, Massachusetts (City Mills), where he settled, and followed his trade for five years. In 1892 he removed to Franklin, Mass- achusetts, and established a business as general contractor, which he followed until his death, April 5, 1906. Among the many contracts which he had were the Crafts residence, Wait's Mill, the Bush Mill, Baltimore Mill, the resi- dence of Edwin Trowbridge, and many other residences in Franklin and Milford. He was a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and of the Golden Cross. In religion he was an Episcopalian, and in politics a Republican. He married (first) Adelaide Ernst, born at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, November 24, 1844, died at Franklin, Massachusetts, of cancer, August 25, 1901, daughter of Gasper and Delia (Greenough) Ernst, of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He married (second) Septem- ber II, 1903, Mrs. Delia (Collins) ( Kennedy) Everett, daughter of Charles and Isabel ( Tier- ney) Collins. There were ten children, all by the first wife. Among them were: I. Delia. 2. George Melville, mentioned below. 3. James Titus, mentioned below. 4. Albert. 5. Arthur, burned to death. 6. Olive Maud, born February 13, 1888; died October II, 1895.

(IV) George Melville, son of George Caleb Dauphinee, was born at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, January 15, 1867. At the age of five he removed with his parents to Port Midwed, where he attended the public schools until the age of seventeen. For a short time he worked on the Oakes farm, at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, and for four years in the brick yard there, and subsequently in the lumber yard of Henry Davison of that place. He then re- mained with a contractor, Mr. Smith, of Bridgewater, for three years, learning the car- penter's trade. He went to Boston and thence to Franklin, Massachusetts, and found employ- ment with Mr. Willet, a contractor, of Wrent- ham. Subsequently he entered the employ of his father, who was then a contractor in Frank-

lin. About 1896 he started in business for himself, doing general contract work, and since 1905 has added the business of plumb- ing to his other work. His place of business is at 19 Depot street, succeeding J. F. Hussey. He has a large and profitable business. Among the many fine residences which he has built are those of E. Waters, at Franklin ; of Will- iam Luscomb, Robert Munroe and Walter Slade, at Plainville. He has also remodeled the paper mills at City Mills, and is the builder of the Kingsbury residence, at Norfolk. He is an enterprising, hard-working man, and has accumulated a comfortable fortune. He built a home for himself on Fales street, which was burned April 3, 1909, but he immediately re- built it. He owns considerable real estate. In religion he is an Episcopalian, although he and his family attend the Congregational church. He is a member of the Society of Pilgrim Fathers. He married, April 30, 1897, at Bos- ton, Eliza Agnes Fisher, born at Montreal, Canada, February 18, 1875, daughter of David and Emma ( Fryer ) Fisher. Her father was an iron moulder by trade. Children: 1. Will- iam John, born October 17, 1882. 2. George David, March 30, 1891.

(IV) James Titus, son of George Caleb Dauphinee, was born at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, October 6, 1871. He attended the public schools at Port Midwed, where his par- ents had removed when he was an infant. He lived five months at Bridgewater, and then went to East Chester, where he worked for his uncle, Lewis Dauphinee, on his farm. In 1885 he came to Boston, Massachusetts, and was employed for nine months in the dry goods store of Jordan, Marsh & Co. After- ward he entered the machine shop of Robinson & Chase, Boston, remaining a year, and attend- ing the Phillips school for five months. He went with his parents to City Mills, worked in the car shop of John Fisher, and later for the City Mills Felt Company for two years. At this time he decided to learn his father's trade, and worked in his employ until 1906, when his father died. Since then he has been in business for himself, and he has erected a number of houses in Franklin and vicinity. In April, 1908, he purchased the Nickerson home- stead of three acres on Central street, where he makes his home. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, at Franklin ; of the New England Order of Protection, and of the Franklin Fire Department. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion an Epis- copalian. He married, November 17, 1894.

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Nellie Maud, daughter of Henry and Minnie (Pendleton) Clark, of Franklin. Children : I. Mildred Adelaide, born March 15, 1895. 2. Clayton James, April 16, 1897. 3. Clarence Norman, June 1, 1899. 4. Minnis Erma, May 16, 1901 ; died December 4, 1902. 5. Bernale Alberta, born July 25, 1903; died November 20, 1903. 6. Bernard Leroy, born March 31, 1906. 7. Shirley Aldace, August 7, 1908.

William Casey, of an ancient and

CASEY prominent family, was a farmer all his active life in county Long- ford, Ireland. He married Esther

Among their children was Owen, mentioned below.

(II) Owen, son of William Casey, was born in county Longford, Ireland, in 1822, and died in 1888, at the age of sixty-six years. The rudiments of an education he obtained in his native parish, and at the age of eighteen he joined the tide of emigration to America. He found employment in the brick kilns of Kings- ley Brothers, Somerville, Massachusetts, and learned the business thoroughly. With his savings he embarked in brick-making on his own account in 1865, at Somerville, and con- tinued for ten years. Then he became a stone mason and builder, contracting for structures in which he used the bluestone from his own quarry, near the Mystic river, and after about five years found sufficient business in the sale of stone from this quarry. He was a shrewd, careful and successful business man. He was a Democrat in politics, and a Roman Catholic in religion. He married, March, 1854, Jane Smith, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, born March 14, 1832, in county Donegal, Ireland, daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Scanlon) Smith. Her father was a mason by trade, re- moving to St. John, New Brunswick, in 1834, and followed his trade there and at Boston and Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he died January 21, 1891, aged ninety years. Her mother, Bridget Scanlon, daughter of Barnard Scanlon, died at Charlestown, November 4, 1905. Mrs. Jane (Smith) Casey's great-uncle, John McLoughlin, was a soldier in the British army, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, settling afterward at Woodstock, New Brunswick, where he received a grant of land from the British government for his military service ; he married Matthieson, who lived to the age of one hundred and two years. Her grandfather was one hundred and one years old when he died. Mrs. Casey came to Boston with her parents when she was ten

years old, and her education was completed in the public schools of that city. Before her marriage she was engaged in the millinery business in Boston. The family moved from Boston to Charlestown after her marriage. Children of Owen and Jane (Smith) Casey : I. William, died aged ten years. 2. Sarah, died aged nine years. 3. Julia A., mentioned below. 4. Annie, died aged seven years. 5. Andrew, was a soldier in the Spanish-Amer- ican war in Cuba, in the regiment of Colonel E. V. Sumner ; lives with his mother and sister at Needham. 6. Frederick F .. 7. Jane, mar- ried Hugh Campbell ; children: Margaret G., Annie, Julia, Mary. 8. Esther, married Alvah Reynolds, of Somerville. 9. William, manager of the Needham Exchange of the New Eng- land Telephone and Telegraph Company ; mar- ried Mary Cashman, of Canton, Massachusetts. IO. Owen L., employed by New England Tele- phone and Telegraph Company.

(III) Julia A. Casey, daughter of Owen Casey, was born in Somerville, February 5, 1859, and was educated there in the public schools, graduating from the high school in the class of 1877. She entered the Training School for Nurses at the Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital, of Boston, in 1879, graduating in 1881. She practiced her profession for the next fourteen years, attending surgical cases for the most part. In the course of her work she went abroad, visiting London, Paris, and southern France. Since 1901 she has been at home caring for her mother and managing the household. The home is on Grant street, Need- ham, near the Park. She bought the place and has planned the architecture and surroundings in simple colonial style. Even the gardens and sun-dial are carried out along strictly old- fashioned lines. Miss Casey likes nothing better than to work in her flower gardens with her own hands. The house is furnished throughout with colonial furniture, some of it being antique and valuable. Altogether it is a picturesque and delightful home, one of the most charming and attractive of its kind in the county. Miss Casey keeps in touch with her profession without practicing, by retain- ing her membership in the Alumnae Associa- tion of Nurses. Uniformly kind and tactful in all her relations, devoted in her care of her mother and brothers, refined in her tastes and of artistic temperament, she is loved and esteemed by all her neighbors and many friends besides her own family circle. Like all the family she is a devoted Catholic in reli- gion.

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The family intended to be LANDERS treated in this place is not one whose American ancestor dates to the colonial period, nor has it an ancestor who fought in the French and Indian wars, nor in the revolution, nor even in the second war with the mother country; but its immi- grant ancestor was of sturdy Irish stock, who came over when about thirty years old, with wife and children, and with the aim and pur- pose of improving the condition of his domes- tic life, for then he was almost without means, and his only capital was a determination to succeed, good health and a strong constitu- tion-possessions that even large wealth can- not always secure.

(I) John Landers was a native of old county Kerry, Ireland, his birthplace alone being evi- dence of the sturdy stock from which he sprung. He was born about 1818, and came to this country in 1848. He settled in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and began life there as a laborer on the construction work of the original dam at South Hadley Falls. From Holyoke he went to Winchester, Virginia, lived there sev- eral years, and died about 1858, when he was about forty years old and in the prime of manhood. In Ireland Mr. Landers married Jane Sullivan, and by her had six children, three of whom were born in Ireland and three after he came to America. Those born in this country were sons Richard and Dennis, and a daughter Johanna, the latter of whom became the wife of John O'Connell.

(II) Dennis J., younger of the two sons of John and Jane (Sullivan) Landers, was born in Winchester, Virginia, April 14, 1853, and during the forty years of his life in Holyoke has come to be recognized as one of the best examples of the purely self-made man of which that famous industrial city can boast. At the time of his father's death he was only about five years old, and just as soon as he was old enough to work it became necessary that he do something to help his mother pro- vide for her little family. Throughout the years of the civil war Mrs. Landers remained in Richmond, and when he was eleven years old Dennis was employed in making bullets and cartridges for use in the Confederate army, and in doing this he was able to earn a little something for the family support. In 1866, when he was thirteen, he came north to Holyoke, where his father first settled on com- ing to this country. There he found work in a factory, and proved an industrious and steady boy. After four years he set out to

learn the trade of a mason, became in good time a practical workman and soon afterward started in business for himself. Whatever he undertook to do was done well, and he was straightforward in every transaction. Thus it was that one finished contract brought another, so that his business increased rapidly and he became prosperous and employed many work- men in the erection of public buildings and factories, to a large number of which he can point with pardonable pride as evidences of his thrift and honest methods. In 1882 he built the greater part of the large building erected for the Parsons Paper Company, the George R. Dickinson Paper Company. In con- nection with his building operations Mr. Landers for many years has carried on a brickyard, which he originally began according to his means and the demands of trade, but now the average annual product of his kilns is more than four and a half million bricks. The yards furnish employment to about thirty- five workmen, in addition to which his contract work requires something like eighty competent masons, bricklayers, tenders and helpers, be- sides teamsters. It will be seen from what has been stated that Mr. Landers has been a very busy man during all these years, and it may be said also that his business life has been rewarded with substantial and deserved suc- cess. In Holyoke he is known as a progressive and public spirited citizen, always taking an earnest interest in whatever measures are pro- posed for the welfare of the city and its people. In 1881 he was elected a member of the board of aldermen, representing ward five, but gen- erally he has not been particularly active in political affairs.

In 1881 Mr. Landers married Mary Cava- naugh, daughter of Thomas and Mary Cava- naugh, of Holyoke. Of their five children two died in infancy. The others are: I. Minnie, born 1882 ; married Martin Millane. 2. Frank, born 1884. 3. John, born 1887. 4. Lena, born in 1891.

William Pollard Cava-

CAVANAUGH naugh was born in Ire- land in 1800, and died in South Boston, Massachusetts, in 1889. He was brought up in his native town where his ancestors had lived for many generations. In 1819 he came to this country, a pioneer among the Irish that flocked to America in the middle of the nineteenth century. He first located in New Bedford, later settled in South Boston, 1834. A few years later he engaged in busi-

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ness as a building mover and pile driver, and later as a general contractor. From a modest beginning he developed a large and profitable business. He was a faithful Roman Catholic and a generous supporter of the parish. He is buried in the Catholic cemetery, in South Boston. He married, in Boston, in 1830, Mar-' garet Alston Russell, who died at the age of forty-six years. Children: I. James V., born April 29, 1831 ; a twin of John; died aged twenty-seven. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. George H., born in Boston, June 16, 1839; resides in Milton, Massachusetts.

(II) John, son of William Pollard Cava- naugh, was born April 29, 1831, in New Bed- ford, Massachusetts. When he was about three years old his parents moved to Boston and he was educated there in the public schools. He learned the trade of mason and later that of carpenter. When he was twenty-one years old he began in business as contractor and builder. He was associated with his father and succeeded him in the building-moving business in South Boston. He has had con- tracts for moving, raising and altering many large buildings in Massachusetts, especially in Boston and vicinity. He had the contract for the moving and altering of the county court house at Taunton, Massachusetts, and a similar contract for the Middlesex county court house at Lowell, Massachusetts. He raised and straightened the Baltic tower, a contract that required the use of a two thousand lifting jack. He had one of the best equipped plants in New England, and his reputation for hand- ling large and difficult operations in his line of work was excelled by no contractor in the country. He practically retired in 1905. He has resided in Braintree since 1868 and built his own residence at 72 Cedar street in 1894. He has built many other residences and build- ings in Boston and vicinity. In later years his son William has been in partnership with him, and he still continues the business, while his younger son Charles is independently en- gaged in the same line of contracting. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never sought public office. In religion he is a Catholic, a member of the Braintree parish. He married (first ) 1854, Mary Phillips, born at South Boston. He married (second) in 1867, Mrs. Hilliard Sweeney, born 1846, in county Cork, Ireland, in the parish of South Bar. Mrs. Sweeney had one child by her first husband, Leander Sweeney, now a lawyer in Boston. Children of Mr. Cavanaughi by his first wife: 1. William, born at Boston, 1855; married and

resides at Meeting House Hill, Dorchester. 2. Elizabeth, born at South Boston; married Humphrey Moynihan. 3. James, born at South Boston ; died 1905. 4. Charles, born at Chelsea ; died 1868. Children of second wife: 5. John T. 6. Albert, died 1890. 7. Frederick, died at age of twenty. 8. Gertrude, died at age of twenty. 9. Stella Frances, died at age of twenty-one. 10. Charles. II. Mabel, died at age of twelve. 12. Arthur. 13. Agnes, married George Garvin. 14. Grace. 15. Child, un- named.

GOETTING Colonel August H. Goetting was born in New York City. In the early eighties he came

to Springfield, Massachusetts, and engaged in the music publishing business, which at the pres- . ent time (1909) is one of the largest houses of its kind in the country. He is largely inter- ested in real estate investments in Springfield, is one of the heaviest taxpayers, stands high in the business and social life, is a member of all the leading social organizations, and in 1886 was one of the committee of fifty ap- pointed to arrange for the two hundred and fif- tieth anniverasy of the settlement of the city.

Colonel Goetting is one of the leading Re- publicans of Massachusetts. As a young man, before leaving his native state, New York, he took an active part in the election of Seth Low to the mayoralty of Brooklyn, and in 1880 was a delegate from New York to the Republican national convention which nomi- nated the late James A. Garfield. his colleagues being Roscoe Conkling and Chester A. Arthur. On taking up his residence in Springfield he was elected a member of the Republican city committee, and during the ill-fated Blaine can- vass served as secretary. In 1889 he succeeded William H. Haile as a member of the state committee, and the regard in which he was held by his political co-workers was demon- strated by the fact that he was placed on the executive committee and was finally appointed to the chairmanship of that committee. Being recognized from the first as a leading spirit, subsequently when it was necessary to raise funds for the national campaign he was made chairman of the finance committee, serving two years, and subsequently was elected chair- man of the Republican state committee, serv- ing six years, during which time the party never suffered defeat. In 1904 he was a dele- gate to the Republican national convention and served on the committee on permanent organization. He was one of the electors-at-

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large in the 1908 election, and the fact that he ran far ahead of his ticket attests the great popularity he enjoys. He was appointed to fill the vacancy on Governor Guild's council, having also been elected to serve as a member of Governor Draper's council, 1909. His mili- ary title comes from service on the staffs of Governor John Q. A. Brackett, Governor Greenhalge and Governor Wolcott. He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artil- lery Company and also of the Old Guard of Massachusetts. He has been president of Inde- pendence Day Association for three years.

MORE This family name is distinctively

Scotch, and has its numerous vari- ants, Lanarkshire alone having the forms of More, Moir, Moore and Muir. Its members have adorned every profession, and have been conspicuous both in civil and military life.

(I) Thomas More, born in Scotland, in 1820, was educated there, and learned the car- penter's trade. In young manhood he came to the United States, locating in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he first worked as a journeyman, and in a few years engaged in business for himself as a contracting builder. Among his most important work were many houses which he built for Willis Phelps, a prominent real estate promoter of Springfield. He also invested wisely in real estate in that city, accumulated considerable means, and held high place in the estimation of the commu- nity, as a man upright and honorable in all his relations, and of unspotted integrity and ster- ling character. He was a member of Trinity Church, and for many years a prominent mem- ber of Hampden Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Springfield. He made a visit to his old home in Scotland. He died February 23, 1891. He married Susan E. Keith, daugh- ter of Jonathan R. Keith, of Belchertown; she died March 8, 1896. Children : I. Charles R., died young. 2. William W., born July 31, 1848 ; see forward. 3. George W., born Octo- ber 26, 1850; married Bertha Hardenbergh ; children : George W., Jr., Elizabeth, and Jeanette ; reside in Brooklyn, New York. 4. Eva S., born August 28, 1852; married Will- iam R. Price, of New York; children: May L., Susan M., and William M., who died aged four years. 5. Charles T., died in Springfield, Massachusetts, November 19, 1894; married Jennie Beckwith ; children: George T., Frank E., Henrietta L., and Blanche I.

(II) William Wallace More, second son

and child of Thomas and Susan E. Keith More, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, July 31, 1848, and died in Boston, January 6, 1899. He was educated in the public schools and received his training for a commercial career in a New York business college. His first engagement was a bookkeeper for King, Norton & Ladd, of Springfield. On arriving at age, in 1869, he became a partner of Samuel Bigelow in the wholesale flour and produce business, with store in Hampden street. In 1875 A. A. Marston was admitted to partner- ship, and these three gentlemen were asso- ciated until 1891, when Mr. Bigelow retired. At the time the Union railroad station was built, the firm moved to its present location on Lyman street. In addition to the business above mentioned, Mr. More was for many years a director of the Springfield Safe De- posit and Trust Company, and of the Chap- man Valve Company, of Indian Orchard, and was also treasurer of the Springfield Board of Trade. As a man of affairs he was able and upright, with a well earned reputation for busi- ness sagacity and exceptional fairness and honesty in all his dealings. He was active as a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, served long as one of the board of trustees, and was at one time president of the Laurel Park Camp Meeting Association. In politics he was a Republican, and for three years (1887-88-89), was a member of the Spring- field common council. He had attained rank in the Masonic order, and was affiliated with Roswell Lee Lodge, Springfield Chapter, Springfield Commandery, and Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree. Until the spring before his death he was in good health, and shared in the activities of social as well as of business life. He was frank, sincere and kindly in disposition, and had many warm friendships. He was a victim of tumor on the brain, for which he was undergoing treatment in Boston at the time of his death.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 73

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 986

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986