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Children of John and Deborah Adams were: Edward. born January. 13. 1682; John. Jr., born in Medway, December 22, 1684. settled on the home- stead of his grandfather in Medfield; Daniel, born January 12, 1686; Eleazer, born September 22, 1687, was a prominent man in West Medway: Obadiah, born January 20, 1689: Jonathan, born 1692, settled on the homestead in Medway. The children of John and Susanna Adams were: Thomas (see forward) ; Susanna, born July 30, 1697; Jeremiah, born July 13. 1600. settled in Brookfield: Abraham, born All- gust 1, 1701, settled in Brookfield : Bethia, born June 2. 1702; Phineas, born May 19, 1705: Hannah, born March 29. 1707: Esther, born November 15. 1708. (IV) Thomas Adams, seventh child of John Adams (3). born in Medway, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary II, 1695-6, married October 26. 1720, Abigail Fisher, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel (Fair- banks ) Fisher. She was probably born in 1701. He settled in Ashford. Connecticut, going thither from Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1737; died in Am- herst, near Leverett. 1743-5. Children were: Isaiah, born in Ashford. Connecticut, 1726. died in Amherst, Massachusetts, 1810, unmarried. aged eighty-four years ; Asa, born in Ashford, April 4. 1729. a pioneer settler of Shutesbury, Massachusetts; died there aged ninety-eight years: Nathan, born at Ashford. July 1. 1731, died young : John, born in Ashford, 1732: lived in Amherst and Rowe, Massachusetts : Abner (see forward) : Nathan, born in Ashford, May 16, 1736: was soldier in French and Indian war. 1757: settled in Sunderland; Elizabeth, born in Amherst. Massachusetts ; married Bezaleel Wilder, Sr., of Shutesbury.
(V) Abner Adams, fifth child of Thomas Adams (4). born in Ashford, Connecticut, Anguist 10, 1733 : married May 9. 1754. Dorothy Murray, daughter of General William and Hannah (Dickinson) Murray, of Amherst, born August II, 1729: died in Marlboro, Vermont. January 16. 1800. He was in Amherst until 1702, but removed to Marlboro, Vermont, be- fore 1795: died there after a long illness which af-
fected his mind, 1828-9. He was a private in Cap- tain Noah Dickinson's company, Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment in 1777. and marched to New Providence. Children were : Dorothy, born in North Amherst, Massachusetts, baptized April 10, 1757; settled in Pittsfield. Monroe county, New York ; Thomas (see forward) ; Naomi, born in North Am- herst, October 17, 1759: David, born in North Am- herst, was a soldier in the revolution; Reuben, born in North Amherst, July 8, 1770. fell into a well and died in Genesee county, New York, unmarried.
(VI) Thomas Adams, second child of Abner Adams (5), born in North Amherst, Massachusetts, October 21, 1758: married, 1783, Lucy Perkins, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, December 1, 1757; died in Marlboro, Vermont, January 26, 1854-6. He was a soldier in the revolution. He settled in Marlboro, Vermont, in 1795. Late in life he removed to Halifax, Vermont, with his son-in-law Isaac Worden, and died there April 14, 1858, aged ninety-nine years. Children were: David, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, May 22. 1785, married. Octo- ber 22, 1807, Susan Warren, daughter of Captain Jonathan Warren ; Zebina, born in Amherst, August I, 1787, married Clarissa Wheeler; Sally, born in Amherst, June or August 17. 1790, married Jona- than Warren; Chester ( see forward) ; Roswell, born in Marlboro, Vermont, December 27, 1795, died from a fall at Watertown, New York, June 28. 1817, unmarried : Orinda. born in Marlboro. December 27, 1797-1800, married Captain Isaac Worden, of Halifax, Vermont.
(VII) Chester Adams, fourth child of Thomas Adams (6), born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 14, 1793; imarried June. 1824, Lana Spear, of Wilmington. Vermont, daughter of Francis B. Spear ; she died June 22, 1858, aged sixty-one years. He died January 22, 1852. He was a prosperous farmer at Marlboro, Vermont. Children, all born at Marl- boro, Vermont, were: 1. Samuel, born January 29. 1826. died February 7. 1826. 2. Francis Chester, born March 24. 1829. died November. 1905, married Mrs. Hannah ( King) Powers; resided at Newfane. Vermont, and had two children : Herbert, married Mrs. Worden, and they have two children; Nellie, married Leslie Stratton, and has two children. 3. Lana Marana, born September IS. 1830, married. November 20, 1851, Alonzo H. Brewer, of Benning- tou, Vermont, had two children. 4. Infant, died September 8. 1832. 5. Lucy Ann, born December 3. 1833. married. November 15. 1856. James Bennett, of Brattleboro. Vermont; had two boys. 6. Winthrop Hart, born August 21, 1836, married, Sep- tember 17, 1858, Mary Ann Eames, daughter of John Eames, of Dover, Vermont: has one daughter who married Charles Jones ; resided at Brattleboro. Ver- mont. since 1870. 7. Holland Joseph (see forward).
(VIII) Holland Joseph Adams, seventh and youngest child of Chester Adams (7), was born in Marlboro, Vermont, October II. 1839. He received his early education in the common schools of his native town. He left school at the age of thirteen, and for six years worked on the farm at home. He then settled on a farm at Dover, Vermont, where he remained until 1867. He removed to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1870, and took charge of the farm of J. B. Fisher for a year. After another year in Fitchburg. working for Joseph Cushion, dealer in flour and grain, he removed to Worcester and started in business for himself, manufacturing trunks, April, 1872, under the firm name of Brown & Adams. After two years he went into the fruit business with Sam- tel Burbank, and later became a partner in the firm of Hiram H. Ames & Company, dealers in furniture, remaining two years. He then withdrew
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and purchased the confectionery business of Eugene C. Akers at 506 Main street, where the Clark-Sawyer Company is now located. Three years afterward he removed to Front street and later to his present loca-, tion 24 Pleasant street. He has for a number of years made a specialty of ice cream for the trade. He is the largest manufacturer of ice cream in the city. He provides ices and ice cream for parties, fairs, and families as well as in wholesale quantities to other dealers. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Universalist church and of Anchoria Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Naomi Lodge of the Rebekahs. He resides at 4 Dewey street, Wor- cester. He married Mariama Asquith Knight, daugh- ter of John and Diana (Brown) Knight, December 31, 1866. Her father lived at Dover, Vermont. Their children are: I. Emma Adelia, born at Worcester, June 25. 1871. married, February 6, 1890. Charles Augustus Piper, of Worcester, and they have two children : Carl Adams, born April 15. 1891 ; Ray- mond Hendrick, born August 9. 1896. 2. Charles Holland, born in Worcester, August II. 1875, mar- ried Ella L. Green, of Colbrooke, Massachusetts, and they have: Chester Green, born May 28, 1894.
JOHN T. BRIERLY, son of James and Hannah Brierly (horn Barrett), was born at Millbury. Massa- chusetts. James Brierly was a cotton manufacturer at Millbury. John T. Brierly received his early education in the Millbury schools. After graduating from the high school he went into his father's cotton mill to learn the business. But finding that the dust in the cotton seriously affected his health he gave up his intention to follow cotton manufacturing. He accepted a position as bookkeeper in the woolen mill of Ashworth & Jones at Valley Falls, in Worcester, near the Leicester line, and found there an appor- tunity to learn the business. He put on jumper and overalls and worked in the mill, beginning at the job of wool-sorting, working in every department in the mill. ending with the cloth finishing depart- ment. He left Ashworth & Jones to take a position as superintendent of the Brick City mill in Cherry Valley owned by Edward D. Thayer. Two years later Sumner Pratt & Company made him a very favorable proposition to come to them in the ma- chinery supply business at 22 Front street. He ac- cepted the offer and has since been identified with that business. It was established in 1847, by Sum- ner Pratt. Mr. Pratt was born in Oxford, Massa- chusetts, September 30, 1809. He came to Wor- cester in 1843, transferring the machinery from Woonsocket to a mill in New Worcester, and manu- factured cotton thread, finally selling the business to Albert Curtis in 1845, and soon afterward start- ing the business of selling cotton and woolen ma- chinery and mill supplies. The store at 22 Front street was established in 1847, and the business grad- ually extended to reach manufacturers in distant parts of the country. When Mr. Brierly went to the business it was of large proportions and very profitable. Mr. Pratt died January 6, 1887. The present head of the firm. William H. Crawford, went to work for Mr. Pratt in 1860. In 1870 Mr. Crawford was taken into partnership by Mr. Pratt with his sons Frederick S. and Edward Pratt. Ed- ward Pratt died later. A few years before his death Mr. Sumner Pratt retired from the business.
The firm of Sumner Pratt & Company became Crawford & Company in 1898. The partners were, and at present are, William H. Crawford and John T. Brierly. Crawford & Company had spacious stores at 17 Mechanic street until March 17, 1005, when the fire in the Crompton building compelled them to vacate. The firm located in May, 1905, at 673 Main
street, where they have a very large and well stocked store.
Mr. Brierly is also a partner in the Whitaker Reed Company. With Charles A. Geer he owns and manages this industry. The Whitaker Reed Com- pany was established in 1869 by John Whitaker, who was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, July 5, 1839. His father was a silk printer in that city. In 1849 his father went to California to dig gold and was never heard from. The boy was thrown upon his own resources when very young. He was sent to Worcester to school. He learned the ma- chinist's trade at Brown's shop on Mechanic street. As soon as he was thirty years of age he began the manufacture of loom-reeds on his own account, and continued in this business until his death. He was very successful and made a fortune in the busi- ness. He died March 3, 1897. The Whitaker reeds are adapted to all varieties of looms, cotton, woolen and wire cloth, and are made of the finest steel. The Whitaker shop was at 184 Front street, and con- tinued there until the founder's death. The adminis- trator of his estate sold the business to John Mc- Intosh, who continued in the same shop until 1900, when he sold out to Mr. Brierly and Mr. Geer. Before Mr. Whitaker began to make reeds they were produced by hand labor. He applied machinery to the manufacture of reeds and kept constantly making improvements in the process. The present company has maintained the high standards that he established, and manifested the same spirit of progress. The shops were moved to 84 Austin street a few years ago, and larger quarters secured. Mr. Geer came to Worcester from Connecticut, where he had worked in a woolen mill and acquired a practical knowl- edge of the machinery used, and the needs of the manufacturers. Besides the reeds the firm makes ring travelers for cotton, woolen and worsted mills. The manufacture of these rings is a unique industry in Worcester. The work is done at the Whitaker Reed Company shops.
Mr. Brierly is a member of Anchoria Lodge, Independent Order Odd Fellows; Regulus Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Pilgrim Congregational Church; also one of the directors of the Worcester Collateral Loan Association.
WALTER SCOTT CHASE. Joseph Chase (1), great-grandfather of Walter Scott Chase, of Wor- cester, was born on Cape Cod and lived there all his life. He was a farmer. Ile was descended from Aquila Chase, mariner, who was at Hampton, Massa- chusetts, in 1640, and removed to Newbury, Massa- chusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1616. He was born in England about 1618; died December 27, 1670. His widow Anne married (second) June 14, 1672. Daniel Mussilway. She died April 21, 1687. The second generation of the Chase family settled in the Plymouth Colony towns and has left a numerous posterity on Cape Cod and vicinity.
Joseph Chase married Isabelle Thomas, of New- port. Rhode Island. She was niece (or cousin) of General John Thomas, one of the first four generals commanding under Washington. He was born at Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1725. He was a prac -. ticing physician and surgeon, and was the surgeon for the provincial army sent to Nova Scotia in 1746. He was on General Shirley's medical staff in 1747, and 1759 colonel of a provincial regiment. He commanded a regiment under Generals Amherst and Haviland in 1760 in the capture of Montreal. Colonel Thomas was one of the most active Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts before the revolution. He was appointed brigadier-general by Congress in 1775. He commanded a brigade at the siege of
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Boston. After the evacuation he was sent to take command of the American troops in Canada. He joined the army before Quebec, May I, 1776, but fell a victim to smallpox a month later. He died at Chamblay, June 2, 1776.
(11) John Chase, son of Joseph Chase (1), was born at Douglas, Massachusetts, in 1804. He was engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods from 1835 to the time of his death in 1871. By his wife, Elizabeth, who was a native of Pascoag, he had three children: Oscar F .; Mariette; Frederick T. (III) Oscar Francis Chase, son of John Chase (2), married Catherine Brown Howard. He was a woolen manufacturer in Dudley, North Oxford and Wilsonville, Connecticut. He made his home in later years at Webster, Massachusetts. They had one son Walter Scott Chase, born in Thompson, Connecticut.
(IV) Walter Scott Chase, son of Oscar Francis Chase (3), was educated in the public schools and then went to work in the woolen mills of John Chase & Sons, established by his grandfather at Wilsonville, Connecticut, at North Oxford and Web- ster, Massachusetts. These mills have since been incorporated with the American Woolen Company. Mr. Chase left the woolen mill to learn the trade of steam fitting, and he studied the subject of heat- ing and lighting houses in a scientific way. He has become an expert in his business. He makes a specialty of heating apparatus, high or low pressure steam, and hot water heaters. He installs ventilat- ing machinery and steam power plants; also gas- piping, bronzing and pipe covering. He has been engaged in the business for twenty years. His head- quarters are at 10 Westfield street, Worcester. He had the contract for the residence of Dr. George E. Adams, corner of Stafford and Ludlow street; for the residence of W. E. Turple, at 919 Pleasant street ; Albert E. Sanders at 19 Alvarado avenue; M. H. Pettigrew at 3 Fairfield street ; some twenty houses for J. B. Scrimgeour, the real estate dealer ; four for James H. Howland, real estate dealer ; for John D. Cummings, foreman for Crompton & Knowles, at 5 Woodbine street; for George War- den, at Auburn, Massachusetts; for the shop of George L. Brownell, Union street; for the Coes Wrench shops to heat with exhaust steam without back pressure on the engine.
He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Anchoria Lodge. Mr. Chase has studied six years in the International Correspond- ence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, an institu- tion that has all the time some fifteen hundred stu- dents in Worcester county, studying engineering of the various trades for which technical knowledge is required. He married Stella Maud Buckley, of North Grosvenordale, Connecticut. They have two sons: Walter Minot, born May 12, 1889, and Hyram Howard, born June 16, 1905.
(III) Frederick T. Chase, son of John Chase (2), was born at Pascoag, Rhode Island, November 22, 1844. He was educated in the schools of his native town. In 1860 he came to Webster, Massachusetts, with his parents. He went into the woolen mill of his father at Webster and learned the business thoroughly. His brother Oscar F. and he became associated with his father and owned several mills under the firm name of John Chase & Sons. After his father's death he acquired the business and became sole proprietor. In 1879 he found it necessary to enlarge the mill, and later made fur- ther additions until it had three times its original capacity. The mill eventually was sold to the American Woolen Company. Mr. Chase had always been. interested in politics. He was a Republican
and had repeatedly served the town as selectman. He was chairman of the board for five years. He rep- resented his district in the general court in 1876, and was chairman of the committee on manu- factures. He was a member of the Webster Lodge of Free Masons, of the Worcester County Com- mandery, and has taken all the degrees of the Scottish Rite. He attended the Universalist church ; he died January 16, 1898. He married Jennie S. Alton, daughter of S. and Emby Alton. His chil- dren were: John F., Frederick T., Jr., Bessie F.
ELEAZER D. JORJORIAN. The emigrants from Europe in the last half century have been largely from countries where English was an un- known tongue. Most of the emigrants have been deficient in early education, so that they have been seriously handicapped in learning the language of this country. Under the circumstances the Ameri- canizing of the emigrants of recent years has pro- ceeded with amazing rapidity and most gratifying completeness. The American government has no more loyal supporters, no more conservative and sincere citizens than men from Italy, Russia, Syria, Hungary, and the Scandinavian countries which have sent such a numerous and excellent colony to Worcester.
Among the business men of foreign birth Eleazer D. Jorjorian is one of the best examples of success won in a new country, against all obstacles that for- tune seemed to have put in his way. He was born in Turkey in the state of Harpoot. He was the son of Stephen and Margaret (Tashjgaian) Jor- jorian. His father and ancestors were tillers of the soil. He was born August 24, 1870, and is still a young man at the beginning of a promising busi- ness career. He came to this country in 1888 and immediately took advantage of the Worcester even- ing schools to get a knowledge of English, and some general education. While he was studying at night he was working by day in the electro-type foundry of A. B. Brunell. Besides making electro-types Mr. Brunell also did all kinds of electro-plating. Mr. Jorjorian was in the employ of Mr. Brunell for several years and learned his trade thoroughly. He could have had no better opportunity, nor served under no better craftsman. He was ambitious to be something more than a skillful mechanic and operative, and made the most of his opportunities. He left Worcester to work in the largest silver plating shops in the country, at New Britain, Con- necticut. He worked later in the silver manufactur- ing concerns at Meriden and at Hartford, for four or five years. He gained a varied experience in all branches of his trade. He returned to Worcester in 1894, to start his own shop at 13 Mechanic street. He sold out this business and bought out J. N. Massoit's business on Hermon street, known as the Acme Plating Company. In 1897 he changed the name of the business to The New Acme Plating Company, and in 1904 he removed his shop to 54 Hermon street, where he has been conducting a prosperous and growing business. His company does all kinds of electro-plating and has a large de- mand for its work from the varied manufacturing industries of Worcester. In fact the product of Mr. Jorjorian's shop goes all over the world in connection with the machinery produced in Wor- cester. He has been a careful and prudent business man. He has acquired considerable property, some of which is invested in Worcester real estate. He owns the block on Beacon and on Wellington streets, and two other tenement houses on Beacon street.
Mr. Jorjorian takes an active interest in public
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affairs and is a leader among the Turkish people in this community. His influence as a good citizen has often been used in political campaigns. He married, August 7, 1897, Zabelle M. Thomanjero, in Worcester. His wife is also a native of Turkey, daughter of Th. and Yacsa Thomanjero. They have one son : Leon E., born in Worcester.
SCOTT THEODORE PIERCE. Thomas Pierce (1), immigrant ancestor of Scott Theodore Pierce, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1583-84. Many of the descendants of Thomas Pierce spell the surname Peirce, although the pro- nunciation is uniformly purse in Massachusetts. The genealogy of the family gives as the coat of arms: Three ravens rising, sable. Fesse hummette. Crest. Dove with olive branch in beak. Motto: "Dixit et Fecit."
Thomas Pierce came from England in 1633 or 1634 with his wife Elizabeth and settled in Charles- town, Massachusetts. His wife Elizabeth was ad- mitted to the church January 10, 1634, and he was admitted February 21, 1634-35. He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. He was one of the twenty- one commissioners appointed September 27, 1642, "to see that salt peter heaps were made by the farm- ers of the colony." He removed to Woburn and ยท was a proprietor there in 1643 and was elected to town offices. His wife Elizabeth was born in Eng- fand, 1595-96. She stated her age as seventy-one in 1667. He died October 7, 1666. His will was dated November 7, 1665, aged about eighty-two years. He bequeathed to wife Elizabeth, grandchildren Mary Bridge and Elizabeth Jeffs 110W dwelling with him; to all grandchildren; to Harvard College. The widow deposed to the inventory March 22, 1666-67, aged seventy-one years. The children : Jobn, mariner. admitted to church at Charlestown, 1652; Samuel, married Mary -; Thomas, Jr., see forward ; Robert, married, February 18, 1657, Sarah Eyre; Mary, married Peter Jeffs and had Elizabeth ; Eliza- beth, married Randall and Nichols ; Persis, married William Bridge and had child Mary; married (second) John Harrison; she was ad- mitted to the church at Charlestown November 30, 1643; Abigail, born June 17, 1639.
(II) Thomas Pierce, Jr., son of Thomas Pierce (1), was born in England in 1608; married, May 6, 1635, Elizabeth Cole, who died March 5, 1688. He died November 6, 1683. They resided in Charles- town in the part now Woburn. He is called ser- geant in the records, indicating military prominence. He was the progenitor of President Franklin Pierce, viz .: Franklin (VII), Benjamin (VI), Benjamin (V). Stephen (IV), Stephen (III), Thomas (II). Thomas (I). Sergeant Thomas Pierce was admitted to the Charlestown Church February 21, 1634. He was an inhabitant of Woburn as early as 1643. He was selectman in 1660, and served on the committee to divide the common lands. He was one of the "Right Proprietors" elected March 28, 1667, and also of the committee of the general court appointed 1668 to divide lands, etc. The children : Abigail, born August 17, 1639; Jobn, March 7, 1643, mar- ried, July 5, 1663, Deborah Converse ; Thomas, June 21, 1645, married, 1680, Rachel Bacon; Elizabeth, December 25, 1646, married, November 9, 1666, Thomas Whittemore, and died March Io, 1670; Jo- seph, September 22, 1646, died February 27, 1649; Stephen, July 16, 1651, married, November 18, 1676, Tabitha Parker; Samuel, February 20, 1654, died October 27. 1655: Samuel, April 7, 1656, see for- ward: William, March 20, 1658, married, April 8, 1690, Abigail Sommers, nee Warren; James, May 7, 1659, married Elizabeth Kendall; Abigail, Novem-
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20, 1660, married February 18, 1684, George Reed, Jr .; Benjamin, married Mary Reed.
(III) Samuel Pierce, son of Thomas Pierce (2), was born April 7, 1656, at Woburn, Massachu- setts. He married, December 9, 1680, Lydia Bacon, who was born March 6, 1656, and died December 5, 1717. They resided at Woburn, where he died July 5, 1721. His son Samuel, Jr., was appointed administrator of the estate July 28, 1721. The agree- ment to settle the estate was signed July 17, 1721, by Peter Waite as guardian of his two children, by Hannah P., by Tabitha P., by Isaac, Timothy and Abraham Hill. The children, born at Woburn, were : Samuel, Jr., see forward; Lydia, born March 25, 1683, married Tomothy Snow; Joseph, born March 28, 1685, died young; Isaac, born March 22, 1687, married Grace Tucker, May 5. 1708; Abi- gail, born February 27, 1689, married May 22, 1718, Peter White; Sarah, born June 22, 1691. married Peter Waite; Ruth, born February 14, 1693. mar- ried Abraham Hill; Tabitha, born August 28, 1797, died September 30, 1797; Tabitha, born March IO, 1700.
(IV) Samuel Pierce, son of Samuel Pierce (3), was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, November 25, 1681. He resided at Wilmington and Woburn, Massachusetts, and Mansfield, Connecticut. He mar- ried, June 14, 1705, Abigail Johnson, died March 16, 1787. The children: Samuel, born June 3, 1706, married Abigail -; Josiah, born July 13, 1708, married Miriam Cook; Abigail, born February 28, 1711, married Zephaniah Wyman; Esther, born February 7. 1715, married Shubael ; Seth, born November 30, 1716, married Elizabeth Nye; Enoch, born March 22, 1719, married Mary Mason.
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