Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 27

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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Solomon Adams Woods, a dis- WOODS tinguished inventor and manu- facturer of wood-working ma- chinery, was born in Farmington, Maine, Oc- tober 7, 1827. He was a son of Colonel Na- thaniel and Hannah (Adams) Woods, and a descendant on the paternal side of Samuel Woods, one of the first settlers in the region which includes the present towns of Shirley, Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts, and was the ancestor of a numerous line of descendants who in later generations became scattered throughout the New England states, notably Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. Samuel Woods was living in Shirley as early as 1662, and was one of the proprietors of that town, having a grant of eleven acres of land. By his wife Alice, whose family name does not appear, he had six children : I. Thomas, born March 9, 1663 ; Elizabeth, September 17, 1665 ; Nathaniel. March 27, 1667-68; Mary, August

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2, 1670: Abigail, August 19, 1672; Hannah, July 18, 1674. He was a descendant on the maternal side of Captain Samuel Adams, who was a magistrate and representative of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, in its first half century, built the first mills at what is now the great milling centre, Lowell, Massachusetts, and elder brother of Joseph Adams, the an- cestor of the presidential line. His maternal grandfather was Major Solomon Adams, a revolutionary soldier, pioneer surveyor of the Sandy River Valley, and afterwards one of the earliest of cotton manufacturers in this country.

Solomon A. Woods attended the district school, part of the time taught by his father, and later pursued a course in Farmington Academy. But his talents were not scholastic ; on the other hand, he had a great natural love for machinery and tools and devoted many spare moments to their use in a neighboring carriage shop. In the spring of 1847, before he was twenty years of age, he engaged with a local carpenter, who was impressed with his ability, to learn the house building trade. Mas- tering this business, in 1851 he went to Boston with a view of purchasing a steam engine and boiler, together with machinery for the manu- facture of sash, doors and blinds, and erecting a mill in his native town, as he contemplated forming a copartnership with his former em- ployer. That prolonged trip, however, gave him the idea of securing a wider and more varied experience in the city, and resulted in his abandoning the factory enterprise and en- gaging as a journeyman with Solomon S. Gray, who was engaged in the same business in Boston, and this relationship continued from April to December, Mr. Woods then purchasing the business for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, his own earnings, and with a few crude machines started in busi- ness for himself. At about this time Mr. Gray conceived the idea of a machine for planing wood that would not infringe on the then all- powerful Woodworth patents, but because of the lack of capital he was only partially suc- cessful. Mr. Woods, having purchased this mechanical device together with his business, by his ingenuity and skill made the machine practicable. The machine afterward became world famous under the name of the Gray & Woods Planer. It was considered a decided improvement on the Daniels Planer, with which every old time woodworker is familiar, and was particularly acceptable at that time on account of overcoming the Woodworth

patents. This machine was exhibited by Mr. Woods in 1855 at the Smithsonian Institution fair in Washington, where it was awarded a gold medal, the first of many received by Mr. Woods. In 1854 the firm of Gray & Woods was formed for the manufacture of this planer and this copartnership lasted for five years, when Mr. Woods again assumed the interests of Mr. Gray and conducted business on his own account. In 1865 he added to his business the manufacture of the Woodworth planer with the James A. Woodbury patent improve- ments, of which he was the sole licensee. To meet the demands of his growing business, which had by this time become extensive, he erected works in South Boston and established branch houses in New York and Chicago, still, with additions, in existence. In 1873 the busi- ness was incorporated under the style of the S. A. Woods Machine Company, with a paid up capital of $300,000. Of this company Mr. Woods became president. To the successive concerns of Gray & Woods, S. A. Woods and the S. A. Woods Machine Company have been issued more than eighty patents for machines, devices and improvements for the manufac- ture of dressed lumber and moldings. It was this business of which Mr. Woods at the time of his death was the head, though the more ac- tive management of the business had for years been delegated to his son, Frank F. Woods.

It was the inventors and perfectors of woodworking machinery who made possible the thousands-yes, millions-of comfortable homes and the business edifices that are tang- ible evidences of our country's prosperity and wealth. Without them men would still have had places in which to live and to conduct business, but progress would have been slow- er and at much higher cost. Perhaps the most notable service which Mr. Woods ren- dered to the business world, and which en- deared him to the entire woodworking fra- ternity, was in connection with the success- ful defense of the famous patent suit brought by the Woodbury Patent Planing Machine Company against Allen W. Keith for the al- leged infringement of the well known hinged pressure bar or chip breaker. This defense Mr. Woods organized and conducted at a heavy expense in time, energy and money. It is, perhaps, not generally known to the pres- ent generation of planing machine users that the right to employ this familiar device, with- out the payment of exorbitant royalties, was the subject of one of the greatest patent suits in this country, and forms one of the most in-

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teresting chapters in its patent history. To the men who spent their time and money to free the planing machine owners from what threatened to be an oppressive monopoly every credit is due, and it is of interest to re- view the events leading up to this critical period in the history of the planing machine. It seems that in 1848 Joseph P. Woodbury applied for a patent for a yielding pressure bar for planing machines, to act on the stock preceding the cutter head. As yielding pres- sure rolls and flat springs supported by bars had previously been used for the same pur- pose it was rejected by the patent office and in 1852 he withdrew his application, relin- quished his claim to the model and received back a part of his fee, as provided by law. The alleged invention was then abandoned to the public and for over eighteen years no claim was made to it. During this time a bar similar to that claimed by Woodbury was adopted and used by nearly all planing ma- chine manufacturers and hundreds of ma- chines were sold embodying this device. In 1869 an act of congress permitted the taking up of certain rejected applications, and in 1870 Woodbury again applied for a patent up- on this device and on April 29, 1873, it was granted. Thereupon he organized the Wood- bury Patent Planing Machine Company, which immediately put forth its claims to roy- alties on all machines embodying a yielding pressure bar and threatened suit and claims for damages to all who failed to comply. This was practically exacting a tribute from every planing machine owner and operator in the country. Mr. Woods was approached by Mr. Woodbury and a tempting offer was made to him to enlist his co-operation in favor of the new patent. He, however, rejected all advances of this nature, considering them dis- honorable and against the interests of the users of his machines. To defeat these claims several manufacturers of planing machines gathered in New York and, at a meeting over which Mr. Woods presided as chairman, pro- ceeded to organize what was termed the Planing & Molding Machine Manufacturers' Association. By an active campaign through the mails and the press, notifying the planing machine users not to yield to any demands for shop licenses or royalties, the association partially blocked the efforts of the Woodbury company, although many millmen did take out licenses, in order to avoid possible trou- ble. In 1875, however, the Woodbury com- pany, seeing that its demand could not be en-

forced without the backing of a court deci- sion, began suit against Allen W. Keith, a mill operator in Malden, Massachusetts, for alleged infringements and damages. The defense of this suit was immediately taken up by the Planing & Molding Machine Manufac- turers' Association and the case was bitterly contested by both sides. The deposition and testimony of over eighty witnesses were tak- en and extensive experiments were made by Mr. Woods in his factory, establishing the fact that a pressure bar patented by one Bur- nett in England in 1839 accomplished all the results claimed by Woodbury and was its me- chanical equivalent. Mr. Woods was also in- strumental in showing up a sash sticker built in Norwich, Connecticut, by one Alfred An- son, in 1844, embodying all the features of the Woodbury bar. The builder had attempted to obtain patents, but had been unsuccessful long before Woodbury's original application. The machine was found still running with the original pressure bar in it in a Connecticut mill, and was purchased and taken bodily into the court room as one of the exhibits in the case. In view of all this overwhelming testimony the claims of Woodbury were over- thrown and the yielding pressurer bar once more became free to the public. Mill oper- ators were saved the payment of many thou- sands of dollars in royalties yearly, which would have continued through the life of the patent, or until 1890. The entire expense of the litigation on both sides aggregated near- ly $100,000.

Mr. Woods never sought public recognition, but from 1869 to 1871 was a member of the city council of Boston; for 1870-71 he was a director for city of the East Boston ferries, and from 1870 until his death was a trustee of the South Boston Savings Bank and for many years was chairman of its board of inves- tors. From a technical standpoint his career was remarkable, but it was made more note- worthy by his fidelity to the highest business ideals, by the public spirit which he carried into his business life and by his practical phil- anthropy. He was a man who, while de- voted to business, recognized higher claims than those involved in the mere making of money in his vocation. He stood for what we sometimes call old fashioned honesty and in- dependence in his business life. His life his- tory was the outgrowth of hereditary influ- ence, guided by his own high conceptions of personal and business character. He was at time of his death probably the largest manu-

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facturer of wood planing machines in the world.

Mr. Woods married (first) August 21, 1854, Sarah Elizabeth Weathern, of Vienna, Maine, who died in 1862. He married (second) in 1867, Sarah Catherine Watts, of Boston, Mas- sachusetts, who died in 1905. Mr. Woods died suddenly of apoplexy, at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, October 1, 1907. He was survived by three children: Frank F., treasurer and general manager of the com- pany organized by his father; Florence ; and Dr. Frederick Adams Woods, the biologist and author.

(Most of the facts contained in this sketch were taken from the "American Lumberman", a Chicago paper, issue of October 12, 1907).

DAVIS Barnabas Davis, immigrant an- cestor, was born in England and came to New England from Tewksbury, England, on the ship "Blessing" in July, 1635. He gave his age on the ship list as thirty-six years. He settled in Charles- town, Massachusetts, and was in the employ of John and William Woodcock, making sev- eral journeys to Connecticut. The records show that he brought suit against his employ- er for wages in 1640-41. He mentions his father James and brother Reade in England. He deposed April 4, 1659, that he was aged about sixty years. He was a tallow chandler by trade. Elizabeth Davis, perhaps his first wife, was admitted to the church in Charles- town, January 8, 1635. His wife Patience died November 15, 1690, aged eighty-two years. He owned Lovell's Island and consid- erable other real estate. He died at Charles- town, November 28, 1685. Children : I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Barnabas, aged twenty-eight in 1662. 3. Patience. 4. Na- thaniel, aged forty in 1682.

(II) Samuel, son of Barnabas Davis, was born in Charlestown; died December 28, 1699, at Groton. He went to Groton about 1663, but had to return in 1675 on account of King Philip's war with wife and five children. In his will he mentions John, Nathaniel and Sam- uel, and daughters Elizabeth Church, Mary Pratt, Sarah and Patience. Children : I. Elizabeth, born at Charlestown in 1658. 2. Mary, January 21, 1662-63. 3. John, March IO, 1664. 4. Sarah, August 12, 1667. 5. Samuel, January 10, 1669. 6. Barnabas, April 17, 1672. 7. Patience, April 10, 1673. 8. Na- thaniel, mentioned below.

(III) Nathaniel, son of Samuel Davis, was

born about 1675. He married Rose and settled in Groton. Children, born at Gro- ton: I. Joanna, January 26, 1702. 2. Sarah, March 10, 1704. 3. Eleanor, December 2, 1706. 4. Martha, June 4, 1711. 5. Mary, March 8, 1712. 6. Nathaniel, March 12, 1714- 15. 7. Zachariah, March II, 1716-17. 8. Benjamin, mentioned below. 9. Ezekiel, Jan- uary 8, 1723. 10. Elizabeth, August 28, 1724. II. Isaac, May 13, 1727. 12. Eleazer, August 8, 1729.

(IV) Benjamin, son of Benjamin Davis, was born about 1720. He was a farmer at Groton. Children, born at Groton: I. Anna, February 2, 1742. 2. Benjamin, mentioned below. 3. Joseph, March 14, 1746. 4. Joshua, August 30, 1748. 5. David, August 6, 1751. 6. Sarah, May 24, 1754. 7. James, June 22, 1756. 8. Henry, October 1I, 1758. 9. Eliz- abeth, March 10, 1761. 10. Eleazer, Septem- ber 6, 1763. II. Joseph, September 27, 1765.

(V) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (I) Davis, was born April II, 1744. He removed to Stoddard, New Hampshire, in 1772, and is said to have lived for a time at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, a town adjacent to Groton. He lived most of the remainder of his life in the northeast part of the town of Stoddard. He married three times. His third wife died at Stoddard in 1853, aged ninety-four years. Children : Isaac, Benjamin, Susan, Sarah, Nathaniel Friend, mentioned below.

. (VI) Nathaniel Friend, son of Benjamin (2) Davis, was born in Stoddard. He mar- ried Mary Osborn. Among their children was Charles Addison, mentioned below.

(VII) Charles Addison, son of Nathaniel Friend Davis, was born in Stoddard, March II, 1830. He received his education in the district schools, and during his boyhood worked for his father on the homestead. He left home at the age of nineteen and found employment in a sash and blind factory, later for Dalphon Osborn, State street, Cambridge. He learned the trade of piano-maker and for many years was employed in the piano and organ factory of Mason & Hamlin in the man- ufacture of pianos. He married Sarah Moul- ton, of Biddeford, Maine, daughter of Jere- miah and Julia Ann (Strowm) Moulton, granddaughter of Jothan Moulton. Children : I. Charles Edward, born January 27, 1860; president and treasurer of the A. M. Roths- child Company, dry goods, Chicago; married Sadie Gordon : child, Gordon Charles. 2. Mary, July 30, 1865; married Frank Bryant Hawley, foreman of the Forbes Lithographic

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Company of Boston. 3. Frank N., January 24, 1868; sales agent for the Blake Pump Works; resides in Cambridge; children : Helen S., Paul W., Frank H., Norman Eu- gene. 4. Jennie S., March 24, 1870; married Lawrence Pedrick, of Beverly, Massachusetts ; children : Lawrence Davis and Marion Ped- rick.

(For first generation see Thomas Hastings 1). (II) Dr. Thomas (2), son of

HASTINGS Deacon Thomas (I) and Mar- garet (Cheney) Hastings, was born in Watertown July 1, 1652, died in Hat- field, Massachusetts, April 13, 1734. He was made a freeman February 8, 1678, at Hat- field, where he had removed and was a phy- sician for the country round. There was not much business in those days for doctors ; ministers frequently practiced, and bleeding was the remedy for everything; the good housewife also gathered herbs. Dr. Hastings treated in the adoining towns, and drove as far as Springfield, Suffield, Westfield, Enfield and even Brookfield. He found time to keep the neighborhood school. It is worthy of re- mark that in his school girls pursued the same studies as the boys, said to be the first instance of co-education in New England. Some effects of this good seed thus early sown are discoverable in the fact that a Hat- ley woman founded the first woman college in New England, Smith's at Northampton. Dr. Hastings had a still valued at forty shil- lings ; a great many people even ministers had stills and malt-houses to brew their own beer, and they not only brewed it but drank it, and gave freely to the neighbors. Dr. Hastings was a member of the committee of correspondence and safety. He married Anne, daughter of John Hawkes. She died October 25, 1705. He married (second), Mary, daughter of David Burt, of North- ampton. Children of Anne: Margaret, born July 7, 1674; Hannah, January 19, 1677; Thomas, (of whom more anon) ; Hepzibah, April 16, 1682 ; Mehitable, January 23, 1685. John, September 17, 1689. Children by Mary (Burt) Hastings : Silence, February 26, 1707 ; Thankful, May 5, 17II ; Sylvanus, September IO, 1712.

(III) Dr. Thomas (3), eldest son of Dr. Thomas (2) and Anne (Hawkes) Hastings, was born in Hatfield, September 24, 1679, died there April 14, 1728. He succeeded to his father's practice, and was quite celebrated, frequently being called to Boston on profes-

sional visits. He died of slow poison con- tracted in his practice. He married Mary, daughter of John Field, of Hatfield. Chil- dren : Mary, born December 24, 1701 ; Thom- as, November 6, 1702 (died young) ; Mary, July 26, 1704; Anna, October 13, 1706; Dor- othy, July 27, 1709; Thomas, December 12, 1713 (died young) ; Waitstill, January 3, 1714; Tabitha, October 6, 1715 ; Hopestill, April 17, 1718; Dorothy May 7, 1720; Thomas, (of whom more anon) ; Lucy, February 17, 1723.

(IV) Lieutenant Thomas (4), youngest son of Dr. Thomas (3) and Mary (Field) Hast- ings, was born in Hatfield, January 28, 1721, died January 22, 1787. He lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, on the south road near the place of the late Frederick Williams. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph Belden, of Hatfield, and she died July 31, 1801. Chil- dren : Esther, born February I, 1743; Sarah, July 13, 1744; Thomas, May 20, 1746; Anna, April 22, 1748; Waitstill, May 8, 1750; Sam- uel (of whom more anon) ; Sybil, October 14, 1753; Moses, August 31, 1755; Mary, April 24, 1757 (died young) ; Mary, August 12, 1759; Elisha, April 12, 1761; Tabitha and Lucy, March 31, 1765.

(V) Samuel, second son of Lieutenant Thomas (4) and Mary (Belden) Hastings, was born in Amherst, March 6, 1752. He mar- ried, September 15, 1784, Lucy, daughter of Simeon Pomeroy, of Amherst, who was of the family from whom came the Hon. Samuel C. Pomeroy, United States senator from Kansas. After Samuel's death, she married Martin Kellogg, and herself died September 23, 1739. Children : Waitstill, born June 13, 1785 (died young) ; Waitstill, July 24, 1786; Elisha (of whom more anon) ; Samuel.

(VI) Elisha, eldest son of Samuel and Lucy (Pomeroy) Hastings, was born July 31, 1788, died July 18, 1856. He married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin Potwine, who was from John Potwine: Children: Mary, Sam- tel, (of whom more anon), Abigail, Joseph, Henry Elisha, Lucy and Eliza.

(VII) Samuel (2), eldest son of Elisha and Abigail (Potwine) Hastings, was born March 9, 1816, died November 16, 1885. He lived in Amherst and was a toolmaker, working for over forty years for one man. He was a Republican. He married Alvira, daughter of Isaiah Cooley. Children : Elmira, born Feb- ruary 2, 1841, died young; Henry B., Jan- uary 28, 1843, died August 24, 1909, married Mary Ann Lovett, (second) Mary Talcott, May 17, 1883; Willard B., October 9, 1845,

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married Anne Smith ; Lucy E., April 27, 1848, married Clarence Wheaton, both of whom are dead; Herbert A., born November 3, 1850 (of whom more anon); Amelia, March 20, 1853 (died young).

(VIII) Herbert Ashton, third son of Sam- uel and Alvira (Cooley) Hastings, was born in Amherst, November 3, 1850. He attended the public schools of his native town. He was a farmer until twenty-one years of age, then he went to Springfield, Massachusetts, in the employ of George Reynolds, for whom he was foreman. In 1892 he formed a part- nership with H. S. Reynolds, and engaged in landscape gardening, excavating cellars, road-building and sewerage-construction. For nine years he was superintendent of For- est Park. He is a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, American Order of Modern Woodmen. He attends the South Congregational Church. He is a devotee of the rod and gun, and they are his principal recreations. He married Louise Maria Rey- nolds, November 16, 1876.

(For preceding generations see John Wright 1). (V) James Wright, son of Samuel Wright lived on the WRIGHT homestead, and died in 1723. He married, June 18, 1664, Abigail Jess. Children, born at Northampton: I. Abigail, December 7, 1665; died young. 2. Helped, July 2, 1668; died 1745. 3. James, Novem- ber 9, 1670; died 1689. 4. Lydia, March, 1674 ; died young. 5. Samuel, May 16, 1675; removed to Connecticut. 6. Preserved, 1678; mentioned below. 7. Hester, 1684; married Nathaniel Curtis. 8. Jonathan, 1686. 9. Hannah, 1688; died young.

(VI) Preserved, son of James Wright, was born in 1678. He married, in 1709, Sarah Hannum. Children: I. Ephraim, born 1712; mentioned below. 2. Preserved, born 1715, died young. 3. Moses, born 1719. 4. Sarah. 5. Preserved.

(VII) Ephraim, son of Preserved Wright, was born in 1712. He married, about 1745, Miriam Wright. Children: Ephraim, men- tioned below; Esther, Moses, Seth, Miriam, Eunice, Tabitha.

(VIII) Ephraim (2), son of Ephraim (I) Wright, was born in Northampton. He served in the revolution, in Captain Jonathan Wall's company, Colonel Dickinson's regi- ment in August, 1777, on an alarm of August 17, four days. They afterwards guarded Hes- sian prisoners to Springfield, by order of Bri-

gadier General Fellows. He settled in West- hampton in 1773, where he kept a tavern. He married, July 4, 1772, Abigail Lyman. Chil - dren: I. Levi, born August 19, 1773; died January 9, 1825. 2. Preserved, born July 2, 1775; died September 8, 1839. 3. Luther, born April 10, 1777; died May 9, 1846. 4. Charlotte, born May 22, 1779 ; died February 10, 1814. 5. Medad, born June 9, 1781 ; died April 14, 1864. 6. Abigail, born June 13, 1783 ; died December 4, 1844. 7. Zenas, born September 10, 1785; mentioned below. 8. Zadock, born January 24, 1788; died Decem- ber 10, 1844. 9. Marian, born October 31, 1790; died July 10, 1864. 10. Martin, born February 1, 1793 ; died October 21, 1832.

(IX) Zenas, son of Ephraim (2) Wright, was born September 10, 1785, and died No- vember II, 1861, at Westhampton. He mar - ried, in 1811, Patty Clapp, born at West- hampton, October 24, 1791. He was a farm- er. Children: I. Ozro C., born February 3, 1812; died December 9, 1884. 2. Ephraim Monroe, born July 24, 1813; died May 17, 1878. 3. Martin, born August 5, 1815 ; died January 30, 1880. 4. Charles C., born Oc- tober I, 1819; mentioned below. 5. Mary Asenath, born May 5, 1828.

(X) Charles C., son of Zenas Wright, was born in Westhampton, October 1, 1819, and died November 30, 1887. When a young man he taught school and studied law. His occu- pation was farming, and he was a prominent man in the community. In politics he was a Republican, and he held many public offices, serving as county commissioner, town clerk, school committeeman, selectman, and as jus- tice of the peace from 1862 to 1887. He married, August 13, 1846, Jennet L. Taylor, born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, December IO, 1823, daughter of David and Eliza (Bart- lett) Taylor, granddaughter of Seth, and great-granddaughter of Seth Taylor. Chil- dren: I. Austin T., born July 7, 1847 ; died December 9, 1853. 2. Edwin Matson, born October 28, 1848; died May 22, 1849. 3. Henry M., born April 26, 1850. 4. Charles Albert, born February 23, 1852; died Febru- ary 4, 1906. 5. David Taylor, born December 13, 1854; mentioned below. 6. Jennie Eliza, born October 3, 1857. 7. Mary Louise, born September II, 1859. 8. Edward Monroe, born July 30, 1865.

(XI) . David Taylor, son of Charles C. Wright, was born at Agawam, November 13, 1854, and was educated there in the common schools. From 1882 to 1892 he was engaged

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in the grocery business, and from 1893 to 1897 he conducted a retail milk business. He was agent for the American Express Com- pany at Springfield for five years. Since 1897 he has been connected with the Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Company in the manu- facture of gas engines. In politics he is a Re- publican. He was collector of taxes and postmaster of Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. He is a member of the first Church of Christ, Springfield (Congregational). He belongs to no secret societies. He married at Brookfield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1880, Cynthia B. Draper, born in Brookfield, March 13, 1854, daughter of Lyman Jr. and Sarah L. (Oakes) Draper. Her father was a farmer. She had two sisters, Mary J. and Lottie E. Draper. Children: I. Louis Draper, mentioned below. 2. M. Theresa, graduate of Springfield high school and Mount Holyoke College, was a teacher of mathematics in the public schools at Dalton; married Arthur Williams. 3. Charles Lyman, graduated from Technical High School, and is now a draftsman.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 27

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