Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 125

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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(I11) Rev. Benjamin Daviese Holin, D. D .. son of Dr. David Hohn, was born in Canton, Morrow county, Ohio, August 21, 1856. Hc attended the public schools of Lexington, Ohio, and the Lexington Male and Female Seminary, now discontinued. He graduated from Wooster University at Wooster. Ohio,

in 1877, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1880, and graduating from the Rochester Theologi- cal seminary in 1882. Colby University con- ferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him. His first pastorate was at the Calvary Baptist Church at Westerly, Rhode Island, where he was installed July 4, 1882. After eight and one-half years with that church, he was called to become the pastor of the Sher- man Avenue Baptist Church at Newark, New Jersey, where he went in February, 1891. He remained in that church, which is now called the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church, for two years. On March 16, 1893, he was ordained as the pastor of the State Street Baptist Church of Springfield, Massachusetts, where he has continued ever since. Rev. Mr. Hohn is a member of the American Baptist Mis- sionary Union, the Massachusetts Bible So- ciety, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity of Woos- ter University, and of the Winthrop Club of Springfield. He married, in Westerly, Rhode Island, November 29, 1888, Harriet Chapman Pendleton. Children : 1. Barbara, born March, [881, a student at the Springfield high school. 2. Pendleton, born 1895.

INSHAW Richard Bates Inshaw was born in England. He came to America about 1830, settling first in New York City, and removed in 1836 to Chicopee, Massachusetts. He was an en- graver and followed this occupation all his life, having been an expert in his line. He married Mary Pool. Children: 1. John, born in Eng- land. 2. Ann, born in England. 3. Richard Bates, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born in New York. 5. Emma, born in New York.

( II) Richard Bates (2), son of Richard Bates (1) Inshaw, was born in New York City, November 14, 1831. When he was five years of age his father removed to Chicopee, Massachusetts, and young Richard B. attended the public schools, graduating from the high school. He learned the engraver's trade from his father, but did not follow it to any ex- tent. He went to New York City as super- intendent for E. P. Needham in his organ factory. In 1889 he returned to Chicopee and engaged in business as a contractor with the Deane Steam Pump Company, of Holy- oke, with which firm he is still connected. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of New York City, and is an attendant at Grace Episcopal Church. He married, May 5, 1874. Hannah Campbell Cutler. born March 10. 1839, daughter of

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Moses and Hannah (Campbell) Cutler, and granddaughter of Peter Y. and Hester (Stew- art) Cutler. Both her father and grandfather were in the oyster business in New York City. Children : 1. Emma, born in New York, Feb- ruary 12, 1875; graduate of Chicopee high school, 1898; married Henry C. Hyde, son of L. C. Hyde, the postmaster of Chicopee ; her husband is engaged in the lumber business with his uncle in Saginaw, Michigan. 2. Richard Bates, born August 6, 1876, died when one and one-half years old. 3. Charles Cutler. born in New York, June 10, 1880; educated in Chicopee public schools, graduating at high school with highest honors; was with Prang Educational Company of Boston and New York from 1899 to 1906, then for one year with Silver, Burdett & Company ; is at present with D. Appleton & Company in the educational de- partment in New York City ; married, October 6, 1904. Arline Whitney Lewis, daughter of Charles Sela Lewis, of Seneca Falls, New York.

JACOBS The family of Jacobs has been identified with the growth and development of the province of Bavaria, Germany, for many years. Many of its members were distinguished and all had a reputation for honesty and reliability.

(I) John Jacobs was born about 1817, in Defierbach-on-the-Rhine, Bavaria, and was a farmer. He was the immigrant ancestor, and came to the United States when a young man. accompanied by his brother Henry and a sister, Mrs. Kiltz. His parents were natives of Ba- varia, and his father served in the German army. Henry Jacobs settled first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and is now retired, and living at Dedham. Mrs. Kiltz died in the prime of life, being accidentally killed by a train at Boyleston station, Jamaica Plain.

John Jacobs learned the trade of machinist in Germany, and in the early fifties settled in Roxbury with his brother Henry, and fol- lowed his trade. His ability as a skilled work- man was soon recognized, and he accepted a position with the Campbell & Whittier Ma- chine Company of Boston. During the civil war he made gun carriages in large numbers for this company, which had a contract to supply the United States government. Mr. Jacobs was with the firm for over eighteen vears, and was so skillful at his trade that it is said he could make anything from a horse- shoe nail to an intricate engine. He lived for a time at South Boston before settling in Rox-

bury, where he died in 1899. In religion he was a Lutheran. He was a prominent Ger- man citizen of Roxbury, an active Republican. and did much to encourage the naturalization of Germans who came to this country to make it their home. He married, in Roxbury, Char- lotte Bleiler, born on the Rhine, in Bavaria, in 1831, died 1880 (see Bleiler family). She came to this country with her brother George in 1849 and resided all the rest of her life in Roxbury. Children : 1. Child, died young. 2. John, born 1853; died April 16, 1881, in St. Louis, Mis- souri, leaving no issue. 3. Jacob, born Sep- tember 19, 1855; died October, 1894, without issue. 4. Charlotte, born 1859; died October 12, 1894; married Peter Reynolds; children : Frank, Kittie, and Lottie Reynolds. 5. Cath- erine, born December, 1868; married John J. Hall, of Brighton, Massachusetts; died No- vember 26, 1898. 6. Julia, born December 18, 1868: died February 1, 1906; married Dr. Timothy J. Murphy, of Roxbury. 7. William (twin), born August 26, 1857 ; a business man of Roxbury, where he now resides on Perkins street, retired ; married Louise Abele, born in Roxbury, in 1860. 8. Elizabeth (twin with William), married Herman Mahr, for many years a prominent chemist, of German birth, who died in Cleveland, Ohio, while engaged with Mr. Brush, the electric light inventor, who regarded him as one of the most efficient men in his profession, and who came all the way to Boston to attend the funeral of his employee : his widow is a successful merchant of Roxbury, owning a large department store ; had children: Herman, Elsie L., Frances C. and Rudolph O. Mahr. 9. Frank, born 1863 ; machinist by trade ; engaged in express busi- ness at 255 Heath street, Roxbury ; married Mary Ditman, and has Frank C., Henry I., Grace M., and Gertrude. 10. Charles, born 1861 ; contractor of Roxbury; married Jane Lally, and has Charles, Frank, Charlotte and Gertrude. 11. Louis H., mentioned below.

( II) Louis H., son of John Jacobs, was born January 22, 1875, in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, and resides at his father's homestead at 9 Walden street, Roxbury. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and learned the trade of plumber. As soon as he was of age he established himself in business and has met with marked success, due to his energy and determination to succeed. In politics he is a Democrat, and he and his family attend the Lutheran church. He married, December 25, 1894, Bertha K. Werner, born in Roxbury, July 23. 1876, daughter of August Werner.

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Children : I. Florence E., born November 27, 1895. 2. Louis H., August 23, 1897. 3. John J., October 26, 1899. 4. Reginald, June 10, 1903. 5. William F., October 25, 1907.

BUCK The Bucks are an old New Eng- land family of still earlier English origin. One of the earliest repre- sentatives of the surname to come to this coun- try was a passenger in the "Increase," 1635, and while the particular family here treated is not presumed to be related to that of the immi- grant of 1635, it may fairly be assumed that both derived their surnames from the same ancient source.

(I) Joseph Buck, with whom our present narrative begins, was born in England, in 1746, and died there in 1824. For thirty years or more he was manager of the Newbold edge- tool works in Sheffield, England, then the world's most famous industrial city in that branch of manufacture.

(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Buck, was born probably in Sheffield, and was brought up to the trade of his father, becoming himself a skilled workman, and spent his entire life in the Newbold shops in that city, having died there at the age of sixty-four years. He mar- ried, April 5, 1825, Elizabeth Taylor, born in Doncaster, England. John, the eldest son, was born in Sheffield, February 20, 1826, came to America in 1850, and for some time was em- ployed in Williamsburg at a wage of less than a dollar a day, but after a time his skill attract- ed the attention of a Mr. Barton, a prominent manufacturer of Rochester, New York, for whom he worked for three years. He then engaged in business on his own account in Newark, New Jersey, but afterward returned to Rochester, and died in that city. Richard, the third son, was born in Sheffield, October I, 1831, came to this county in 1853, and was the last of the three brothers who emigrated from England to America.

(III) Charles, second son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Taylor) Buck, was born in Shef- field, England, March 22, 1829; died at Ster- ling Junction, Massachusetts, of heart failure, August 24, 1905. After receiving an ordinary education he entered the Sheffield edge-tool works and under the direction of his father soon became a master workman in the highest processes of edge-tool manu facture-the grind- ing and polishing. In 1850, having attained his majority, he came with his brother John to America, locating in Rochester, New York, where they were given employment in a ma-

chine shop. In 1853 they established the Buck Brothers Edge Tool Works, for the manu- facture of high-grade cutlery, and their pro- duct at once was recognized as unsurpassed in quality. In the same year they had been joined by their brother Richard, then recently arrived from England, and the three brothers worked in harmony and with remarkable suc- cess, so that the business so increased that it became necessary to enlarge their plant ; hence in 1857 the works were removed to Worces- ter, Massachusetts, and remained in that city until 1864, and then removed to Millbury, Massachusetts, where they are still maintained under the proprietorship of Edwin Wood, and W. L. Proctor, sons-in-law of Richard Buck. In 1872 Charles Buck sold out his interest in the company works and in the following year erected a shop on land purchased by him in 1865, and there established the edge-tool works, the products of which ever afterward bore his name and which were of the very highest quality and yielded him a comfortable fortune. His first consideration was to produce an article of the very best quality, and that principle ever afterward maintained so long as he lived. Every process of manufacture always was under his immediate supervision and oversight, he at times performing some of the work of forging and tempering with his own hands. The extent of his trade was with him a sec- ondary consideration, coming after that of superior mechanical work, and indeed his own conservative disposition always inclined him to preference for a comparatively small market and an appreciative class of customers rather than an enormous output of finished goods of doubtful quality. Until within a very few years of the time of his death Mr. Buck made frequent business trips as far west as Chicago and St. Louis for the sale of his goods, but his chief market was made through large and reliable commission houses in New York, Phil- adelphia, Chicago and other large cities. Mr. Buck was an excellent example of the really self-made man, for his only capital at the be- ginning of his business career was his mechan- ical skili, his industry and his determination to succeed The latter trait in his character. which is only another name for ambition, was his first incentive not only to the effort which led to his remarkable success in material con- cerns, but to his most excellent development of character. Going to his trade in carly youth, his early education necessarily was imperfect, but he found ample compensation for this dis- advantage through close and intelligent read-

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ing, dating from the time when he first settled in Millbury. He took up the works of stand- ard authors and therein gained a fund of in- formation which enabled him to converse on almost any subject of general importance with the freedom and intelligence of a scholar. For nearly fifty years he was an exemplary mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, for sev- eral years its class leader and for fifteen years superintendent of its Sunday school. A Re- publican in political preference, he always was an earnest exponent of the principles of that party, never seeking political preferment and always performing his political duty out of a conscientious appreciation of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. He always was held in high regard in the community in which he lived, and his noble and loveable character is well epitomized by one who knew him very well: "He is a grand old man, self-made, willing to aid anyone in distress, and surely is a model for young men to follow." Mr. Buck lived in unpretentious comfort in a very pleas- ant home, surrounded with ample grounds, and on the same tract stood his shops and other buildings occupied in his business pur- suits.

He married (first) Isabella Munroe, born in Scotland; died in Worcester, August 15, 1855. He married (second) Mary Small, born in England, died in Milbury, Massachusetts, September 1, 1864. He married (third) Maria C. Kendall, a native of Canada, and daughter of Lyman and Hannah Kendall, of Canada. He had three children by his first marriage, one of whom died in infancy. The others are : Elizabeth, wife of Zephery Sharron, now living in Worcester; Isabella, widow of Charles Crossman, and mother of Charles F. Cross- man. Of his children by his second wife, four-Mary, Ernest, Joseph and Martha, now all dead. Four children were born of the mar- riage of Charles Buck and Maria C. Kendall : Charles, died aged three years ; Josephine, mar- ried Fred Ogden, and had two children, only one now living; Julia, married Fred Wheeler, has one child; Edith, who became wife of R. H. Crane, and has two children.

Christian Katzmann was KATZMANN born in Hesse-Nassau, Ger- many, in 1813, and died March II, 1852, in East Boston, Massachu- setts. His parents were respectable Germans, and he was educated to the trade of a wood- turner, cooper and wheelwright. In 1845 he took passage on a sailing vessel at Bremen iv-63

Haven for the United States. Soon after leav- ing the shores of the Fatherland, a tempestu- ous sea arose, and during the terrible buffet- ings of the little craft the captain, first and second mates were lost. The sailors, real men to the core, succeeded in bring the battered vessel with her sorry lot of passengers into New York harbor. They were nearly starved, suffering from lack of water and stricken with disease, some of them hardly able to be gotten ashore. On the same ship came Anna Schuc- hardt, who afterwards married Mr. Katzmann. She was born in Wolfderode, Germany, in September, 1815, and showed her pluck and courage as well as strength of character on the rough passage to the new world, when she cared for the unhappy passengers on board the ship. They went to East Boston, where they were married, and where he carried on his trade of cooper in a sugar refinery. He died in the prime of life, and after her husband's death Mrs. Katzmann returned to Germany. Later she returned to the United States and spent her last years in Boston, where she died in April, 1894, nearly seventy-nine years of age. She and her husband were members of the Evangelical Reformed church. Children : I. Henry, born September 27, 1849, mentioned below. 2. Annie M., born while her mother was in Germany, October 25, 1852; married Henry Dickhaut, born in Hesse, Germany, February 16, 1849, and came while young to America, where he was educated; is a baker by trade and is a prominent man of Roxbury, Massachusetts ; she died in Roxbury, Boston, in August, 1898.

(II) Henry, son of Christian Katzmann, was born in East Boston, September 27, 1849. When about two and a half years of age he went to Germany with his mother and received his education in the public schools of Germany. He learned the trade of his father, but not being satisfied with the profits of the wood- turning business, abandoned the mechanical art and engaged in the trade of barber. He established himself in business in 1871 and is at present located at 1192 Columbus avenue, Boston, where he has been for twenty years. His business has been very prosperous. He purchased and improved considerable property on Chestnut avenue, Jamaica Plain, which proved a good investment. Mr. Katzmann is known for his honesty and upright character, and his pleasing personality and social qualities has made for him a host of friends as well as materially assisted him in business. He mar- ried, in Boston, June 13, 1875, Rosamond C.

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Stoehr, born in Bavaria, October 19, 1856, daughter of Fritz and Helena C. (Gottbrecht) Stoehr. She was brought up and educated in Wolkstedt on the Saale, Saxon, Germany, and came to America about 1867, living first in Balti- more, Maryland, later in Boston. Children : I. Annie H., born April 13, 1876; died Sep- tember 17, 1877. 2. Henry, September 30, 1877; died February 16, 1895. 3. Robert H., November 31, 1879, educated in the public schools and private college, engaged as a ship- ping clerk in Boston, unmarried. 4. Rosa- mond C., Boston, May 17, 1882; educated in the public schools and at the Drexel Home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; married Rev. Louis A. Linn, pastor of the Lutheran church at Spring- field, Massachusetts; no children. Mr. and Mrs. Katzmann are members of the Lutheran church, with their family.

MCCORMICK Much of the labor in vari - ous sections of greater Boston has been accomp- lished by the energy and activity of the Irish race. The mechanical labor required during the last century in Massachusetts has been drawn largely from the bone and sinew of that hardy people. Roscommon county, Ireland, has furnished much of this material, and those sons of Ireland look with pride upon their native soil as being the birthplace of many substantial citizens of this country. The Mc- Cormicks are an old Roscommon family, hav- ing lived there for many years, and while of the middle class were always a thrifty, hard- working people, devoted to the church.

(1) Michael McCormick was born in Ros- common county, Ireland, about one hundred years ago. His people had been in the main farmers, and though their progress was neces- sarily slow, they were always ambitious and progressed with a fair degree of success toward the advancement of themselves and their fam- ilies. In middle life Michael McCormick, hav- ing retired from active labor, went to the United States, where he died a few weeks later at the home of a daughter in Rhode Island. He married Catherine Irving, who like her hus- band was of an ancient Roscommon family. Some years after the death of her husband, she also came to this country and made her home with her daughter, and died when about fifty years of age. Children: 1. Patrick, mar- ried Kate Hambrick; came to America and settled in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where they both died, leaving two children who are now married and live in Jamaica Plain. 2.

Thomas, married Annie Kunniff ; came to the United States and settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where they both died, leaving one child, Annie, who married Welsh, who died in Salem, Massachusetts. 3. Michael, died in Ireland. 4. John, mentioned below. 5. Annie, came to the United States. 6. Mary, lived and died in Ireland. 7. Catherine. 8. Bridget, married William Hill, and is still living, a widow, in Providence, Rhode Island. Other children died young.

(II) John, son of Michael McCormick, was born in county Roscommon, Ireland, in 1840. When he was eleven years old he came to this country with his mother, who died soon after- ward. His father came several years earlier and died before they came. Thus he had to become self-supporting from boyhood. He acquired a common school education and be- came a skillful penman. His long life has been devoted to gardening in its various branches. His healthful out-door life and right living have enabled him at seventy to preserve the vigor and activity of a man in the prime of life. He has been frugal and industrious, investing his savings wiscly in real estate and is the owner of two three-tenement houses, from which he derives a considerable income. His home is in one of them on Brookside avenue, Jamaica Plain. His good judgment and capac- ity for good work have always made him valu- able to his employers and made his life busy and useful in every sense of the word. He has a large circle of friends who appreciate highly his many excellent qualities of heart and mind. He is a devout Catholic, of upright character. In politics he is an independent Democrat, doing the simple duties of citizenship faith- fully. He was one of the founders and faith- ful supporters of the Lady of the Lord's Church, Jamaica Plain.

He married at St. Joseph's Church, Roxbury, February 16, 1863, Winnifred Higgins, born 1840, in Roscommon county, Ireland, daugh- ter of Daniel and Abby (Kelly) Higgins, who lived and died in Ircland. Her brother John and sister Mary were the first of her family to come to this country, settling first in Boston. then in Providence, Rhode Island. Both are now deceased. Another brother, Patrick Hig- gins, came afterward, settled at Jamaica Plain and died there. Mrs. McCormick came at the age of fifteen and has resided since then in Jamaica Plain. She has lived a life of great industry and quiet usefulness, sparing no efforts for the education, comfort and welfare of her children. She has preserved her health

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and strength to a remarkable degree. In relig- ion she is a Catholic, a highly respected and devout member of the Lady of the Lord's Church, of which Rev. Father Lyons is pastor. Children, born at Jamaica Plain: I. Catherine A., married Edward Haley, and lives in Ja- maica Plain, has no children. 2. Abby T., resides with her parents. 3. Mary Anne, re- sides with her parents. 4. John, resides at Plymouth, married Kate McDonald. a native of Nova Scotia : children: Alice A., Thomas A., William P. and Winnie Bella McDonald. 5. Lizzie B., married John Davin, a silversmith. resides at Jamaica Plain ; children : Mary B. and Thomas F. Davin. 6. Michael, unmarried. a plumber by trade, resides with his parents. 7. Carrie, resides with her parents. 8. Agnes. married Joseph Hefflin, who is employed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company : children : Joseph Thomas and John Francis Hefflin. 9. Daniel, resides with his parents, clerk in a mercantile business. IO. William, educated in Boston College, a tin- smith by trade, resides with his parents.

METCALF This name originated in York- shire, England. Tradition says the earliest men of this name were a race of extraordinarily large and strong men. Whittaker's "History of Craven" (a district in Yorkshire) says the name is from the old Saxon "Mechalgh," halgh meaning a tract of land, and the name signifying "Men of Mec's Land." Adam de Medekalf, who lived in Yorkshire in 1278, is a direct descend- ant of Dane Arkefrith, who came to England in 1016 with King Canute from Denmark, and was given a tract of land. Members of the family in America have traced their descent from the present time in a straight line to this Danish ancestor.

(I) Joseph Metcalf was born in Manchester, England, and when a boy came with an aunt to the United States. At the age of fourteen he entered the employ of the Great Western rail- road, which was owned and operated by an English synicate, beginning as an office boy and advanced until he was made treasurer. He left that company to become treasurer of the Farr Alpaca Company, which position is still held by him. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and a Republican. He married Clara Wheeler, daughter of Marshall H. Farr. Chil- dren : 1. Frank H., see forward. 2. Howard F., born in June, 1873 ; married Rose B:, daugh- ter of C. H. and Caroline Haywood. 3. Ger- trude. January 20. 1874.

(II) Frank H., eldest son of Joseph and Clara (Farr) Metcalf, was born October 9. 1868. He attended the public schools of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and later entered the Polytechnic Institute, of Worcester, but was compelled to leave on account of illness; on his recovery, he decided to learn the business in which his father was interested, and began by sorting wool. He next entered the machine department as repair man, and later became assistant agent and assistant treasurer. Mr. Metcalf is a very busy man, but manages to find time to keep in touch with all his interests. and withall is one of the best informed men of his native city as to the Indian lore and early history of the Connecticut Valley. He is president of the Holyoke Valve and Hydrant Company ; vice-president of Mount Holyoke Company ; director of Hadley Falls Bank, and Nichols Company, of Fall River, and director of Taylor-Burt Manufacturing Company. He is a member of the Masonic order, of the Mystic Shrine, the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. May 23, 1894, he married Mabel A. Warner, and they have one child, Katherine A., born Feb- ruary 10, 1895.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 125

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886