Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 111

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 824


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E. and Addie Buck, was born in Worcester, August 31, 1885, married, May 17, 1905, Jessie Evilyn Hub- bard, of Holden.


WELLINGTON FAMILY. Fred W. Welling- ton, of Worcester, comes of the Wellington family, headed by Roger Wellington, a planter, born about 1609, and became one of the early proprietors of Watertown, Massachusetts. He removed from Bos- ton to that place. He has a record at Watertown in 1642. He was admitted as a freeman in 1690. He married Mary, eldest daughter of Dr. Richard, of Charlestown. He died March II, 1698. His will mentions sons : John, Benjamin, Oliver, Palgrave.


To take up the genealogical line of the family let Roger, the planter, born 1609, be known as Roger Wellington (I).


(II) Benjamin Wellington, son of Roger (I), was admitted as a freeman, 1677, and in 1671 was married to Elizabeth Sweetman. He died January 8, 1710.


(III) Benjamin Wellington, son of Benjamin (2), was born January 21, 1676, died at Lexington, November 15, 1738. He married Lydia Brown, and settled in Lexington, Massachusetts, where they were admitted to the church, June 10, 1705. She died May 13, 17II, and he married (second), De- cember 25, 1712, Elizabeth Phelps. She died Jan- uary 7, 1730, aged fifty-four years, and he then mar- ried Mary Whitney. He was for many years one of the most popular men of the town, having been elected as assessor, serving sixteen years ; town clerk, fifteen years; treasurer, three years; and represent- ative, three years. Of his seven children one was:


(IV) Timothy Wellington, son of Benjamin (3), was born July 27, 1719, and died previous to 1760. He married Rebecca Stone, born January 22, 1721, daughter of Jonathan and Chary (Adams) Stone, of Lexington, Massachusetts. They have five chil- dren : Benjamin, born August 7, 1743, married Martha Ball; Chary, born July 12, 1745; Timothy, born April 15, 1747, died April, 1809; Abigail, born March 14, 1749, married, December 29, 1768, Danieal Cotting, of Waltham; Rushman, born September 4, 1751.


(V) Captain Timothy Wellington, son of Tim- othy (4), born April 15, 1747, died April, ISog. He was a member of Captain Parker's company, and on the way to Lexington was taken prisoner, being the first prisoner taken in the revolutionary war. He was paroled, but he stole through the woods and joined his company and fought that day. He married Hannah W. Abbott, May 1, 1776.


(VI) Nehemiah Wellington, son of Timothy (5). was born January 1, 1780, and was the grandfather of General Fred W. Wellington. He married Nancy Stearns, May 16, 1805, a daughter of Joshua Stearns, of Waltham. He died May II, 1857. He served as a representative, 1836-38, assessor, 1840, and se- lectman, 1841. They had nine children: Anna Eliza, born March 2, 1806, died October 3, 1822; Augustus, born January 15, 1807; Hannah Maria, born November 17, 1809, married Samuel Bridge, in 1835; Timothy W., born July 4, 18II, mentioned in the following paragraph; Sullivan, born November 8, 1813; Jonas Clarke, born November 30, 1815, married, October 17, 1839, Harriet Bosworth, of Attleboro; Horatio, born September 6, 1817, mar- ried, December 16, 1841, Mary Bowman Tell; Avis M., born June 27, 1819, married Emory Abbott Mulliken : Joseph A., born June 12, 1812, married Ellen A. Smith.


(VII) Timothy W. Wellington, son of Nehe- miah (6), was born July 4, 1811. He married (first) Susan Ray, November 4, 1835, by whom he had


seven children, four of whom are as follows: Ed- ward W., born September 20, 1840. In the civil war or war of the rebellion he enlisted in 1861 as a private in thie Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- teers, was promoted to lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, served in the Army of the Potomac, but on account of failing health was ' obliged to resign. Frank W., born November 13, 1842. He also enlisted as a private in the same com- pany, same regiment, same date as did his brother Edward; was detailed to the commissary department at Newberne, North Carolina, and served until the close of the war in 1865. George, born April 12, 1847, enlisted (first) in the Forty-second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry, when but seventeen years of age, and went to New Orleans, and (second) in the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, was taken prisoner at Plymouth, North Carolina, and sent to Andersonville prison, where he died the following year. Charles, a twin brother of George, elisted in the navy, serving fifteen months under Admiral Farragut at New Orleans. The mother of these children died April 28, 1847. Mr. Wellington mar- ried (second), September 5, 1848, Augusta Tufts Fiske, daughter of Samuel and Adelia L. Fiske, born December 31, 1822, died at Worcester April 2, 1906, being over eighty-three years of age. By this mar- riage two children were born: Fred W., and Delia Maria, who died September 18, 1871,


being then a bright girl of fourteen years. In 1855 Timothy W. Wellington moved to Worces- ter from Shirley. At the opening of the war of the rebellion he took an active part in sustaining the Union, in addition to sending four sons to the front. He provided at his own expense a hospital at Wor- cester for sick and disabled soldiers, which he sup- ported about five months and dispensed favors to more than sixty soldiers. In 1864 he represented the twenty-seventh Worcester district in the legis- lature. The Worcester Society of Antiquity has many valuable war relics given it by Mr. Welling- ton. He died at Alburgh Springs, Vermont, Au- gust 26, 1884, aged seventy-three years. His widow has since died at Worcester, Massachusetts.


(VIII) General Fred W. Wellington, subject of this memoir, son of Timothy (7), was born May 31, 1851, in Shirley, Massachusetts. The family moved to Worcester in 1855. Fred W. attended the schools of Worcester, also studied two years in France and Germany. Handed down from ancestry, his military likings were strong, and in his youth he was a drummer boy from 1861 to 1865 for the old state guard. In 1868 he took a position in the First National Bank of Worcester as a bookkeeper, remaining until August, 1870, and from that date to 1871 was in charge of the coal yard at Soutli- bridge street, belonging to T. W. Wellington & Company. The following year was spent in the sunny land of California. In April, 1872, he returned and entered into partnership with T. W. Wellington & Company, of which firm he was the junior men- ber, conducting a wholesale and retail coal busi- ness. He continued in that line until May, 1874. At that time he associated himself with James S. Rogers and Arthur A. Goodell, coal merchants, the firm name being J. S. Rogers & Company; in 1876 he became a member of the firm and in 1877 the name of the firm changed to A. A. Goodell & Com- pany, Mr. Rogers retiring. It was on January 1, 1878, that General Wellington leased the coal yard at the corner of Canterbury and Hammond streets and engaged in the wholesale and retail coal trade under the firm name of Fred W. Wellington & Company, and for thirty (30) years he has been the sole owner. In 1880 he purchased the present location, corner of


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Southbridge and Hammond streets, more than twen- ty-nine (29) years, where he has conducted the same business. Among other enterprises with which he is associated is the American Car Sprinkler Com- pany, organized for the purpose of watering streets by electric power, and he has been the president of this company since its organization in 1894. In 1888 he in addition to his other business, accepted the treasurer's position and became general manager of the Arthur C. Wellington Coal Company, where he remained until 1896, when the company was dissolved.


It was in 1882 that General Wellington joined the militia, being elected and receiving his commis- sion as second lieutenant in Battery B, Light Ar- tillery, unattached, First Brigade, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. In January, 1883, he was elected first lieutenant and soon became recognized as a model military man, being very popular with his command. September 29, 1884, he was elected cap- tain, commanding the battery, in which position he served until January 1, 1886, when he was appointed assistant inspector-general on the staff of Governor Ames, with rank of colonel, which position he re- signed in 1889. He was re-appointed to the same position by Governor Brackett in 1890 and 1891, when he again resigned, and in the latter year he enlisted as a private in Battery B, his old command. He was re-appointed as colonel to the same place on the staff of Governor Greenhalge, 1894, and was re-appointed by him in 1895, .(the year of the death of Governor Greenhalge) and he was then appointed by Acting Governor Wolcott, who continued Colonel Wellington in the same position by successive annual re-appointments up to 1900. In January of that year he was appointed commissary general by Gov- ernor Crane, with rank of colonel, and in May of the same year was given the rank of brigadier- general by the legislature. He was continued in the position of commissary general by Governor Crane during 1901-2 and was re-appointed com- missary general by Governor Bates in 1903-04. In the latter year he was placed on the retired list at his own request with rank of brigadier-general. The Wellington Rifles. Company H, Second Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, was named in honor of General Wellington.


Very naturally such a gentleman finds his place of prominence in the civic societies. Among such connections it may be stated that he is a thirty- second degree Mason, being a member of the Bos- ton Consistory. He also belongs to the Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar. In 1892 he was captain-general of that body. Politically he is a Republican, believing that this party best serves the interests of the rank and file of the American people. He served on the Republican State Central Committee in 1887-88-89, and again in 1893-94-95-96. and served as a member of the executive committee from 1887 to 1896.


General Wellington married, September 4, 1883, Lydia A., widow of General Arthur A. Goodell, of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, war of the rebellion.


PLINY MOORE. John Moore (I), of Sudbury, Massachusetts, was the first ancestor of Pliny Moore and probably hundreds of other Worcester men and women. Moore was a proprietor as early as 1640. He was a farmer. His eldest son, John, was also a proprietor of that town, but later made his home in Lancaster and is the progenitor of a large branch of the family, some of whom are in the city and more in the various towns of the county. The wife of John Moore was Elizabeth, daughter of


Philemon Whale. The Whale family came from Colchester, England, where a brother died in 1609. Elizabeth, wife of Philemon, and mother of Mrs. Moore, died April 20, 1647. He married (second) Sarah, widow of Thomas Cakebread, and (third) Elizabeth - , who died November 8, 1688. He died February 22, 1675, leaving his property to his widow and the children of his daughter, Elizabeth Moore. John Moore died in 1674, his will being proved April 7, 1674. His wife Elizabeth died June 6, 1664. Their children were: John, of Lancaster ; William; Lydia, born at Sudbury, June 24, 1643, married (first) Samuel Wright, (second) James Cutler ; Jacob, born at Sudbury, April 28, 1645; Jo- seph; Benjamin; Elizabeth, born January 10, 1649, married Henry Rice; Mary, married Daniel Stone. (11) Jacob Moore, son of John and Elizabeth Moore (I), was born at Sudbury, April 28, 1645. He married Elizabth Loker, May 29, 1667. He was a captain in the Indian wars. He died March 23, 1715-16. Their children as recorded at Sudbury were : Richard, born September 12, 1670, see forward; John, born December 13, 1673; Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 4, 1675; Nathaniel, born June 21, 1678, see forward; Hannah, born July 18, 1680; Jacob, born I680.


(III) Richard Moore, son of Jacob (2) and Elizabeth Moore, was born at Sudbury, September 12, 1670, and resided there, but he seems to have re- sided at Cambridge later in life. He married Mary Their children as recorded at Sudbury were: Sebella, born September 2, 1694; Collins, born October 17, 1698, settled in Worcester (See Wall's History) ; Isaac, born June II, 1700, settled in Worcester; Abijah, born December 22, 1705; Richard, born January 10, 1707-08; Mary, born May 15, 1710; Lydia, baptized March 17, 1712-13.


(IV) Isaac Moore, son of Richard (3) and Mary Moore, was born at Sudbury, June II, 1700. He came to Worcester at an early age with his brother Collins, and Nathaniel, his uncle, his father's youngest brother. (See Nathaniel Moore.) He was a proprietor in 1726. He married Hannah


His children, born and recorded in Worcester, were: Hannah, born March 31, 1725; Thomas, May I, 1727 ; David, October 21, 1729; Jonathan, January IO, 1732; Samuel, May 5, 1736; Phebe, November 28, 1738; John and Isaac, (twins) March II, 1741 ; Mary, May 19, 1743; Sarah, November 9, 1744; Susanna, March 22, 1747.


(III) Nathaniel Moore, son of Jacob (2), was born at Sudbury, June 21, 1678. He married Grace Rice, a sister of Jonas Rice, of Sudbury, who was the first settler of the town of Worcester. Na- thaniel Moore is reckoned as the third settler, com- ing there in 1715, with others of the family, James and Comfort, and Collins and Isaac, sons of his brother Richard. He was a deacon of the church He died November 25, 1761; his wife died 1768, at the age of ninety-four years. (See Sketch of Jonas Rice.) Children of Nathaniel and Grace Moore have many Worcester descendants. They were : Mary, born December 20, 1702; Sarah, July 2, 1704; Henry, January 10, 1705-06; Judith, February 12, 1708; Grace, July 7, 1709-10; Elizabeth, June 23, I7II; Eleanor, February 16, 1713; Nathaniel, Janu- ary 31, 1714-15.


(V) John Moore, son of Isaac (4) and Hannah Moore, was born in Worcester, November 28, 1738. John Moore bought a farm near Tatnuck and built there in 1763 the house which has been occupied since by his descendants. He married, September II. 1760, Esther Bigelow, who lived on a farm near Lake Quinsigamond. Their children were: Will- iam, born April 19, 1761; Lydia, October 7, 1763;


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Matilda, February 5. 1768; Esther, April 26, 1769; Tyler, March 10, 1771; Joshua, November 20, 1772; Willard, October 12, 1775.


(VI) Willard Moore, son of John (5) and Esther Moore, was born October 12, 1775, in the house at Tatnuck in Worcester. He followed farm- ing as a calling, but was an invalid and recluse. He married, January 1, 1798, Mary Curtis, born February 2, 1776. Their children were: Seraph, born December II, 1798; Nathaniel Curtis, October II, 1800; Alexander, October 10, 1802; Sybil, Sep- tember 25. 1804: Peregrine Craig, October 23, 1806; John Bisco, Angust 7, 1809; Winthrop, January 25, 1812; Ephraim Curtis, February 15, 1815; Harrison, May 14, 18IS.


(VII) Nathaniel Curtis Moore, son of Willard (6) and Mary Curtis Moore, was born October 11, 1800, at Tatnuck, Worcester. He lived at home until he was fifteen, then came to Worcester and worked on a farm. He married, December 20, 1825, Sarah Childs, daughter of Moses N. Childs, of Worcester, who lived in the house built in 1763 in which Pliny Moore now lives. Nathaniel was captain of an independent cavalry company of Wor- cester. Sarah (Childs) Moore died January 4, 1832, and left three children: 1. Calvin, born December 1, 1826; he and his wife moved to Jacmel, Hayti, February, 1865, and both died there a few months after. 2. Curtis, born May 30, 1828; he died in Hol- yoke, Massachusetts, April 20, 1902. 3. Luther, born April 9, 1830; he died in Worcester, January 9, 1901. Nathaniel C. Moore married for his second wife, March 13, 1833, Patty Moore, daughter of Jonathan Moore, of Holden. Their children : I. Sarah (now living in lowa), born December 9, 1833. 2. Martha, born May 30, 1835, died October II, 1835. 3. Infant, horn May 20, 1836, died un- named. 4. Seraph, born October 25, 1838, resides with her brother Pliny in Worcester. 5. Eunice, born April 7, 1841, resides in Worcester. 6. Baxter, born November 16, 1842, resides in Dudley, Massa- chusetts. 7. Pliny, born October 7, 1847.


(VIII) Pliny Moore, son of Nathaniel Curtis (7) and Patty Moore, was born at Worcester, Octo- ber 7, 1847, and has lived all his life in the house where he was born. He is one of the best known farmers in Worcester. He belongs to Worcester Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. For twelve years he was secretary of the Chamberlain District Farin- ers' Club, a flourishing and influential organization of Worcester farmers, started in IS73. He has been chairman for many years and is at present the head of the club. He is a member of the Worces- ter Agricultural Society.


(VIII) Baxter Moore, son of Nathaniel C. Moore (7), was born at Worcester, November 16, IS.12. Until nineteen he attended the public schools of the city and Worcester Academy. Then he joined the quartermaster's department of Burnside's Division of the Union army, stationed at Camp Nelson, in Kentucky; subsequently he followed va- rious occupations, part of the time farming, also working at mechanical business for several years until the year 1877, when he bought the Walnut Grove farm, where he now resides. In 1882 he con- ducted the farm at the Highland Military Academy ; in 1883 and 1884 he was farm manager of the Buffum farm in Oxford, Massachusetts, but since 1884 he has run the Walnut Grove farm success- fully. He is a trustee of the Worcester South Agricultural Society, a member of Dudley Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, for six years. He was a member of the Worcester City Guards in the sixties and declined a commission. He is naturally of a


retiring disposition and has taken no active part in politics. He is a Congregationalist.


He married, May 5, 1868, Jennie E. Mayers, daughter of Francis R. and Harriet (Gowen) Mayers, of Worcester. Their children were: Her- bert Francis, born January 22, 1869, died at birth ; Harry Lawton, born December 20, 1872, married, December 9, 1898, Florence A. Bisco, of Worcester ; she died July 8, 1899; Marian Jennie, born Janu- ary 21, 1878, married, November 14, 1899, George L. Penniman, of Dudley, and their children are : George Forest, born October 9, 1900; Earl Anson, born February 28, 1903, died September 6, 1904; and Wesley Moore Penniman, born December 7, 1905.


CHARLES GREENWOOD is city forester of Worcester, which office he has held since 1898, a prominent citizen of the city, to which he removed February 14, 1875, and since April 1, 1886, a resi- dent on the Patch farm, one of the oldest in Wor- cester, was born in the town of Hubbardston, Wor- cester county, Massachusetts, November 21, IS49.


Moses Greenwood, great-grandfather of Charles Greenwood, born in 1752, settled with his two brothers-Abijah and Levi-in the town of Holden. Moses Greenwood married Betsy Dunlap, March 22, 1778: she was born in Cherry Valley, New York, in 1756. When four years of age she was rescued from the Indians, who had murdered her par- ents and burned their dwelling. She died Decem- ber 9, 1826, aged seventy years. She was survived by her husband who passed away at the age of seventy-five years, March 8, 1827. Their children were: I. Ethan A., born May 27, 1779; married Mrs. Caroline Warren, of Roxbury, who died Janu- ary 20, 1875; he died May 3, 1856. He graduated at Dartmouth College, and studied law for a short period of time. He became a successful portrait painter, and proprietor of the New England museum in Boston. He also painted a large silk banner for the military companies of the town. He acquired a large property in Boston and Hubbardston. 2. Aaron, born March 22, 1781 ; married Eliza Thatcher, removed to Pennsylvania and died there in the year 1807. 3. Sally, born May 6, 1783; married Abel Warren, of Northboro, June 4, 1805. Their deaths occurred in the town of Northboro. 4. Moses, born November 4, 1785 (see forward). 5. Betsey, born December 12, 1787; died April 24. 1797. 6. James, born September 4, 1792; married (first) Sally Hunt- ing, March 3, 1814; she died October 17, 1818; mar- ried (second) Betsey Rice, May 1, 1819, removed to Pennsylvania and there died. His children were: Lucy, born December 1, 1814; died at Harford, Pennsylvania; Stephen, born August 23, 1817, died April 22, IS18; and Asa Willard, born November 4, 1819. 7. Cynthia, born October 1, 1794, was drowned May 15, 1808. (Cynthia Greenwood with two other young people went to the mill-pond of Major Greenwood's estate in Hubbardston, built a raft and started to cross the pond, but the raft parted and they were drowned.) 8. Betsey, born May 20, 1799; married Elisha Whittemore.


Moses Greenwood, grandfather of Charles Green- wood, was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, November 4, 1785; died September 26, 1828. He was a prosperous farmer, and owned a sawmill, where he manufactured lumber. On January 9, 1806, he was married to Polly Brown, born in Hubbards- ton, May 16, 1780; died January 14, 1859. Their children were: 1. Lyman, born June 13, 1806; mar- ried Augusta Marean, November 19, 1829, and died October 5. 1880. Their children were: Milo, born


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March 4, 1831; removed South, and died in the war of the rebellion; Moses, born October 9, 1832; mar- ried Adelaide Wright, January 1, 1857; was the father of one child, Helen Mabel, born July 9, 1862, and resided in Cambridge; died in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, in 1904; Ann Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 16, 1834, married Lyman Woodward; Joseph L., born June 10, 1836; removed to Abington; Asa Morrill, born December 22, 1839; married Mary E. Nichols, April 12, 1865; died in Leominster, 1904; Helen A., born May 29, 1843; married James H. Gleason; Mary Alice, born March 21, 1847; mar- ried Thomas B. Grimes; Frank B., born November 25, 1851. 2. Moses, born May 23, 1808; married Adeline Ayers, of North Brookfield, resides in Louisiana. 3. Aaron (see forward). 4. Cynthia, born February 20, 1812, married William Joslin, a farmer of Hubbardston. She died when about seventy years of age, leaving three daughters and two sons.


Aaron Greenwood, father of Charles Green- wood, was born May 23, 1808, in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. He was for many years a selectman of Hubbardston, and for one year represented that town and Templeton in the general court. He removed to Worcester a short time prior to his death, August 3, 1878. On April 14, 1831, he married Ade- line Rice, a native of Hubbardston, daughter of William and Rebecca (Allen) Rice, the former named having been born May 17, 1788, died Novem- ber 13, 1831, and the latter born in 1790, died when eighty-three years of age. Mrs. Adeline Green- wood died in 1883. She was the mother of nine children, as follows: 1. Cella Jane, born February 28, 1832; married Lorenzo Barnes. 2. Sarah Re- becca, born January 5, 1834; married William H. Earle. 3. Lucy Agnes, born January 31, 1836; died April 17, 1843. 4. Charlotte, born May 15, 1838; married George P. Earle. 5. Aaron Holbert, born January 21, 1841, enlisted June 29, 1861, Company D, Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment, wounded at Antietam, September 17, 1862; discharged February 14, 1863; died at Alexandria, Virginia, soon after- ward. 6. George, born May 11, 1843; enlisted Aug- ust 7, 1862, Company I, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment; died of wounds received at Point of Rocks, Virginia, May 10, 1864. 7. Lucy Addie, born April 3, 1845; married William H. Earle, (sec- ond wife). 8. Chester, born June 22, 1847. 9. Charles, born November 21, 1849, (of whom later ).


Charles Greenwood attended the public schools regularly until fourteen years of age, continuing thereafter during the winters for several years. At the age of twenty-two he took up his residence in Fitchburg, and there gained his first experience in market gardening as a means of livelihood, con- tinuing that occupation for two and a half years. On February 14, 1875, he removed to Worcester and, in 1886, purchased the Patch farm, consisting of one hundred and four acres, but subsequently disposed of all but fifteen acres, on which he resides. He was a member of the Worcester common council for two years, and in the spring of 1898 was ap- pointed to his present position of city forester by the board of park commissioners. He is a Repub- lican in politics. He was for two years master, and is now (1906) treasurer, for a term of seven years, to Worcester Grange. He married, December 10, 1873, Ella E. Grimes, daughter of Joseph and Augusta ( Maynard) Grimes, and their children are : Burt W., born March 18, 1881; graduated from the Worcester high school in 1900; and from Harvard University in 1904. Ile is now connected with the Worcester Trust Company, and resides in the fam- ily homestead. Harold J., born May 7, 1884, studied


designing in the Eric Pape school of art, Boston, where he won high honors, being a prize winner in the competition of 1905, and a student of general artistic ability. He resides at home. Mrs. Green- wood is a member of the Union Congregational Church.




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