Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 144

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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(VII) Levi Knapp, son of Jazaniah Knapp (6), was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, May 13, 1804, and died there June 7, 1888. He married Fidelia Ballou, and they settled in Petersham. Their children were: George, never married; John, en- listed in Company H. Fourth Regiment, Heavy Ar- tillery, August 10, 1864, and was discharged June 17, 1865, at Fort Richardson, Virginia, at the close of the war; he married Mrs. Morgan, widow, re- sides in Petersham: Caroline Elizabeth, married Jerome Lord, of Athol, and has a son, Palmer J. Lord; Mary Jane, born in Petersham, October 19, 1844; Charles Henry, born in Petersham, August 12, 1846; Harry Taft, born in Phillipston, married Mrs. Carrie Adele Jackson, widow, December 31, 1884, and their children were: Grace Adele, born November 25, 1885; Florence Lillian, born Septem- her 26, 1887; Edwin LeRoy, born July 14, 1889; Elsie Mildred, born December 28, 1893; Annie Laura, born September 2, 1897.


(VIII) Mary Jane Knapp, daughter of Levi Knapp (7), was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, October 19, 1844. She married, September 27, 1868, William Henry Damon, then of South Ilampton, Massachusetts, born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, February 10, 1842. When only a year old William H. Damon was taken by his parents to Worthing- ton, Massachusetts, where he lived until he was fourteen. He went to work in a Northampton store, and after remaining there four years went to Spring- field and worked as a clerk in a store until he en- listed in the civil war, remaining in the service for three years. He married (first) Sarah A. Elliott, of Southampton, Massachusetts, March 10, 1866; she died at Springfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1867. Immediately after his marriage to Mary Jane Knapp, Mr. Damon settled in Easthampton, Massa- chusetts, on a farm, and the first four children were born there. After living there for seven years they removed to Northampton and there resided for four years. They then moved to Old Hadley, Massachu- setts, thence to West Brookfield, then to Barre, where they remained three years, then to North


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Brookfield, where they remained one year, and for the past three years has resided at New Braintree, Massachusetts.


The children of William Henry and Mary Jane (Knapp) Damon were: Lillian Augusta, born De- cember 21, 1869, in East Hampton, Massachusetts, died there August 31, 1870; Minnie Jane, born March 6, 1871, married Albert L. Woodis, February II, 1892, in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, where he was born, and they have one child; Annie Augusta, born in Easthampton, July 19, 1873; Charles Henry, born in Easthampton, December 3, 1875; Bennie W., born in Northampton, March 8, 1879; Lizzie Carrie, born in Old Iladley, March 26, 1883.


(VIII) Charles Henry Knapp, son of Levi Knapp (7), was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, August 12, 1846. He was educated in the Petersham schools. After the age of twelve he worked for wages on a farm, and during the school term in the winter he worked for his board. A sample of the work imposed upon young children by . the hard conditions existing as lately as fifty years ago is shown by a story told by Mr. Knapp. The town shoemaker offered him a pair of cowhide boots, when he was only thirteen years old, in payment for sawing four cords of wood for the church. He sawed the wood and secured the boots. It must be said that the shoe business would be very dull, if each pair cost the sawing of a big woodpile like that. That incident showed the determination and grit of the boy. He left Petersham to seek a larger field in Worcester, being then twenty years old. His first employment was in the wood working depart- ment of the Ames Plow Company, and during his two years connection with this company had con- siderable experience in the machinist trade as well as in wood working. For a short time thereafter he worked at his trade in Worcester, and then en- gaged in business for himself as a contractor and builder.


Mr. Knapp performed a large part of the build- ing for H. H. Bigelow at the time when Mr. Bige- low was very actively engaged in building, erecting a block containing seventy-two rooms for him, also the buildings for the dummy railroad which that gentleman constructed to make Lake Quinsigamond accessible to the people of Worcester. Mr. Knapp built the Lakeside Boat Club-house, the Dodge Pa- vilion, and fine residences for Edwin Ames, Louis Dean, Frank Gray, and E. D. Cheney. He also built about forty dwelling houses at Lake View. The larger part of his work has been the construc- tion of dwelling houses in Worcester, he having built ten or twelve yearly, and in all has been the contractor or builder for nearly two hundred houses in the city. He made a specialty, as many other Worcester builders have done, of building houses to sell when he had the opportunity. Mr. Knapp resides at No. 17 Baker street, Worcester, and at- tends to business at his home. He is an attendant of the First Universalist Church. He belongs to the Worcester County Mechanics' Association and to the Worcester Agricultural Society.


Mr. Knapp married (first), April 23, 1874, Eliza- beth S., daughter of Levi Miles, of Hubbardston, Massachusetts. She died in Worcester, November 3, 1895. He married (second), February 3, 1897, Annie Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Merrick Houghton.


John Houghton (1), the emigant ancestor of Mrs. Charles Henry ( Houghton) Knapp, was born in England in 1631. He came to New England in the ship "Abigail" in June, 1635, when he was only four years old. He came from Eaton Bray, Bed-


ford county, England, and may have been born there. He resided in Dedham until after his mar- riage to Beatrix , about 1658-59, and then settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Ilis will was proved in 1684. His cousin, Ralph Houghton, was one of the early settlers in Lancaster, Massachu- setts. It is believed that he was in Lancaster as early as 1652.


(II) Jonas Houghton, son of John Houghton (I), was born in Lancaster (probably) in 1660. He married, February 16, 1681, Mary Berbeame (or Berban), of Woburn, while the family was staying there on account of the Indian troubles. Woburn records say that she was born there and married in Lancaster. After his father's death he settled in Bolton on his father's land on Vaughn's Hill. Jonas Houghton served in Queen Anne's war.


(III) James Houghton, son of Jonas Houghton (2), was born in Woburn or Lancaster, 1700, bap- tized August 3, 1718. He served in the Indian war under Captain John Lovewell and Captain John White in 1724-35. He also had power of attorney to represent Jonathan Parlin, of Concord, who for the same service was to draw land. He sold Jon- athan Parlin's right to Josiah Richardson, October 5, 1733, and his own to William Richardson, of Lancaster, October 30, 1733. His wife Mary is mentioned in the deed. He married, October 8, 1725, Mary Jones, of Concord. He died in Lancas- ter, August 9, 1770.


(IV) Nathaniel Houghton, son of James Hough- ton (3), was born in Lancaster, September 5, 1729. He married Mary - , and they settled in that part of Lancaster, now Sterling, or Bolton, Massa- chusetts. The children of Nathaniel and Mary Houghton were: Nathaniel, born in Lancaster, July 16, 1759; Epliraim, March 28, 1761 ; Stephen, May 8, 1765; Josiah, November 20, 1768; Manasseh, April 18, 1771 ; Mary, November 30, 1773; Tilly, March 20, 1776; Jonas, July 25, 1778.


(V) Manasseh Houghton, son of Nathaniel Houghton (4), was born in Lancaster, April 18, 1771. He settled in Sterling, Massachusetts. The children of Manasseh Houghton were: Nancy, born December 20, 1798; Heman, October 31, 1800; Eunice, December 17, 1802; Manasseh, October 6, 1804; Eli, January 21, 1807; Merrick, December 24, 1809; Susan, April 15, 1811; Torry, July 3, 1813; James, February 18, 1816.


(VI) Merrick Houghton, son of Manasseh Houghton (5), was born in Sterling, December 24, 1809, came to Worcester in 1865 and spent the remainder of his life there. The children of Cap- tain Merrick Houghton were: Mary Caroline, born February 25, 1838; George Merrick, January 20, 1840; Hattie Kendall, April 1, 1842; Annie Eliza- beth, February 19, 1845, aforementioned as the wife of Charles Henry Knapp; Sarah Ensebin, March 21, 1847; and John Lynds, August 23, 1849.


THOMAS ASA SHAW. Abraham Shaw (I), the immigrant ancestor. of Thomas Asa Shaw, of Worcester, came from Halifax, York county, Eng- land and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, before 1636. In that year he signed the famous Dedham Covenant. In the old country he was a clothier and a man of some property. He was a planter at Dedham. When he first came to America he went to Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was a pro- prietor in 1636; his house was burned in October of that year, whereupon he seems to have removed to Dedham, where he was a constable in 1636-37-38. and was admitted a freeman March 9, 1637. He removed to Cambridge and was a town officer there in 1640. He was owner of coal mines in Halifax


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and November 2, 1637, shortly before his death, he received a grant of half the coal and iron he might find in the common lands. He was given a permit to erect a corn mill February 12, 1637. Mary, sup- posed to be his wife, was admitted to the church at Charlestown, July 1, 1646. He died in 1638, and his will, made November of that year, was proved before the end of the year. He mentions Joseph, John, Mary and Martha, his children, and Nicholas Byram, son-in-law. Of the children Joseph removed to Weymouth; John is mentioned below; Mary was born about 1638; Martha born about , Susanna married Nicholas Byram before 1638.


(II) John Shaw, son of Abraham Shaw (I), was born about 1625-30. He married Alice Phillips, of Weymouth, where they settled and where their eleven children were born, viz .: John, about 1655; Elizabeth, February 26, 1656; Abraham, October 10, 1657; Mary, May 24, 1660; Nicholas, March 23, 1662; Joseph, April 15, 1664; Alice, July 6, 1666; Hannah, April 7, 1668; Benjamin, June 16, 1670; Abigail, July 15, 1672; Ebenezer, April 24, 1674.


(III) John Shaw, eldest son of John Shaw (2), was born about 1655, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He married Hannah , and their children, born in Weymouth, were: Hannah, born December 16, 1679, probably died young; Abraham, born Feb- ruary 14, 1685; Hannah, born April 26, 1687; John, born January 20, 1690; Mary, born May 5, 1691; Benjamin, born July 25, 1693, mentioned below.


(IV) Benjamin Shaw, youngest son of John Shaw (3), was born July 25, 1693. The records of him are meagre. He married Hannah Rogers, of Abington. His children: Benjamin, born 1728; William, mentioned below.


(V) William Shaw, son of Benjamin and Han- nah Shaw (4), was born in Abington, February 22, 1730. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade. He removed to the North Parish in 1754 and settled there. He was "an excellent moral and religious character and of very industrious habits." He mar- ried, 1754, Hannah West, who died November 9, 1772. He married (second) Dorcas Smith, June 24, 1773; she died July 23, 1797, aged sixty-four years. He died January 17, 1809, aged seventy-nine years. The children of William and Hannah Shaw were: Hannah, born March 26, 1755; William, born January 14, 1757; Dan, mentioned below; Isaiah, born October 19, 1760, died November 19, 1760; Rhoda, born August I, 1762; Napthali, born June 20, 1764; was a revolutionary soldier; graduated at Dartmouth in 1790; taught school in Boston; studied theology and settled at Kensington, New Hamp- shire, and remained twenty-one years; bought a farm in Bradford, Vermont, near his brother Dan; had four children by wife, Mary Crafts; Betsey, born June 12, 1766; Michael, born September 25, 1768; Patience, born August 28, 1770; Molly, born November 4, 1772. The only child of William and Dorcas was: Abigail, born January 29, 1775.


(VI) Colonel Dan Shaw, third child of Will- iam Shaw (5), was born in Bridgewater, Massa- chusetts, November 15, 1758. He was a tanner and currier by trade. He married in March, 1780, Joanna Perkins, daughter of Deacon Isaac Perkins, of Mid- dleboro, Massachusetts. She was born January 5, 1761. They came immediately to Lyme, New Hamp- shire, to make their home. He established a tannery there, the first in that section, and a bark mill, be- came a leading citizen, was selectman, and held other positions of trust and honor. He had much to do with maintaining the efficiency of the state militia, rose from the ranks to the command of his regi- ment, and was for many years prominent in military circles. To his energy and enterprise is due the


building of the county road from where he lived to Lyme Plain. He joined the orthodox church when sixteen years old and later was deacon. He became liberal in his views later in life, and even published a pamphlet dissenting from doctrine preached by Rev. William Conant, and advocating more liberal views. About 1805 he left Lyme and bought a farm in Bradford, Vermont, his place being on the west side of the River road, where later Amos Clement lived. He preached often in his later years along the lines of universal salvation, and became mor- bidly interested in religion, so much so that it un- dermined his health, mentally and physically. His wife Joanna died at Lyme, November 22, 1803, and he married (second) Mary Bliss. He died at Brad- ford, November 14, 1814, and she married (second) Colonel Freeman, of Hanover, New Hampshire.


The children of Colonel Dan and Joanna Shaw were : Nancy P., born December 16, 1780, married Joshua Balch, of Lyme, June 15, 1800, and died there January 24, 1850; Dan, Jr., born October 13, 1782, died May 4, 1805; Samuel, born November 12, 1784, died March 31, 1803; Joanna, born April 3, 1787, married Abel Kent, Jr., of Lyme, January I, 1806; died November 4, 1856; Asa, mentioned be- low; Abraham Perkins, born June 20, 1813, married Mary Jenkins, daughter of Joseph Jenkins, of Brad- ford, June 20, 1813; they resided at Bradford; he was a cabinet maker; Naphthali, born May 20, 1793, married, January 21, 1817, Hannah Worthern, of Bradford; she died August 16, 1844; he died Sep- teinber 3, 1861; Pollycarpus, born February 25, 1797, went to Indiana; died February 1, 1849; Man- dana, born April 9, 1799, died June 6, 1801, at Lyme.


(VII) Asa Shaw, son of Colonel Dan Shaw (6), was born February 20, 1789. He married Eliza T. Slade, of Hanover, born November 14, ISO1, daugh- ter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Thurston) Slade. Her father was born September 20, 1776, and her mother July 22, 1780, and they were married Feb- ruary 22, 1801. Her mother died November 25, 1801, and her father married (second) Polly Thurs- ton, her mother's sister, February 12, 1807. They had a daughter, Polly Thurston Slade, December 3, 1807, and the mother died September 27, 1808, aged twenty-two years. The grandfather, Samuel Slade, was horn September 15, 1747, married, November 28, 1773, Sarah Durkee, born November 18, 1755, and they had thirteen children: Isaac Davis, born November 30, 1774; Thomas, mentioned ahove ; Esther, born June 13, 1778; Samuel, born October 12, 1780; Sally (twin) born September 16, 1782; Polly, (twin) born September 16, 1782, died Octo- her 4, 1784; Polly, born November 27, 1784; Harry, born May 19, 1787; Becca. born May 19, 1789; Susa, born May 2, 1791; Elizabeth, born August 31, 1793; Eunice, born September 15, 1795; Lavinia, born August 29, 1797, died August 3, 1800.


Asa Shaw was a merchant, senior partner of the firm of Shaw, Hewes & Perkins, of Lyme Plain. Later the firm was Shaw & Churchill. He was the leading citizen of the town for many years; post- master, town clerk for thirty-seven years, a member of the legislature in 1832 and 1833. For more than forty years he was a member of the Congregational church at Lyme, and his life was that of an ex- emplary Christian. He was a Free Mason. He died July 4. 1861, and his widow removed to Wor- cester, where she died at the home of her son. Their children were: Thomas Asa, mentioned below. Eliza, born 1824, died unmarried, 1884, at Lyme.


(VIII) Thomas Asa Shaw, only son of Asa Shaw (7), was born in Lyme, New Hampshire, April 27, 1827. He attended the district schools


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of his native town, and Thetford and Hebron Acad- emies, Vermont. He served in his father's store, and was clerk in a general store in Buffalo, New York, and Newark, Ohio, for several years. In 1864 he came to Ilartford, Connecticut, and established a flour and grain store, which he conducted with marked success for thirty-three years. He had several partners in his early days in business, one after another, but only for a short time, preferring to do business alone. He built up one of the larg- est stores of its kind in that section, and was pru- dent and successful in business. All the years of his business in Hartford he was at 542 Main street, and at a store nearly opposite, near the corner of Trumbull street. He was a Democrat in politics, but never cared for public office. He was devoted to business exclusively, and belonged to no clubs or social orders. He attended the Congregational church, but was not a member. In 1884 he made arrangements to remove his store to Worcester, and he bought his present residence at that time, 24 King street, but decided to remain in Hart- ford, and although he lived in Worcester and had his family here, he continued in business in Hart- ford until December 1, 1897, when he retired and has since lived quietly at his home on King street. He married, October 11, 1865, Marie Persis Bond, daughter of Thomas Bond. ( For her ancestry see the Bond Family, sketch of Oran A. Kelly in this work). Their only child was Dr. Thomas Bond Shaw.


(IX) Dr. Thomas Bond Shaw, only son of Thomas Asa Shaw (8), was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, December 3, 1866. He attended pub- lic and high schools of Hartford, Connecticut, but took his last year and was graduated from the Wor- cester Classical high school in 1886, and was grad- uated at Yale University in 1890. He attended the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891 and 1892, then entered Dartmouth Medical College, where he was graduated in 1893. He re- ceived hospital training in the Roosevelt and other New York city hospitals. In 1894 he was surgeon on a Ward line mail steamer to Cuba and Mexico. For two years (1895-96) he took instruction in the Allgemeine Krankenhaus, Vienna, and the Hotel Dieu, Paris. He located in Worcester, in 1897, open- ing an office at 47 Pleasant street, and has built up an extensive practice, and made for himself an ex- cellent reputation as a physician and surgeon. He is a member of leading professional bodies-the Massachusetts Medical Society, Worcester District Society and American Academy of Medicine, and of the Life Insurance Examiners. He is staff sur- geon of the Second Regiment Infantry, Massachu- setts Volunteer Militia. He is a member of the Union Congregational Church and of its parish. He is a member of the following societies and clubs : Secretary and treasurer of the Yale Alumni Asso- ciation of Central and Western Massachusetts, Dart- mouth College Alumni Association, Alumni Asso- ciation of Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, Han- cock Club, Automobile Club, Tatassit Canoe Club, Commonwealth Club, Uptown Club, Lakeside Boat Club, and Worcester Continentals. Dr. Shaw resides with his parents at 24 King street, Worcester.


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WALTER H. RICHARDSON, D. D. S. Ed- ward Eugene Richardson, father of Walter H. Richardson, and son of Heman Richardson, was born at Holden, Massachusetts, October 23, 1845. He received his education in the common schools of Holden. working on the farm when not in school. He became an attendant in the State Lunatic Asylum, Worcester, where he worked two or three years.


Then he served an apprenticeship in the machinist's trade in the shop of R. Ball & Co., Worcester. He was employed by this firm for about ten years, until it went out of business, when he took a position with the N. A. Lombard concern, corner of Union and School streets, and worked there more than fifteen years. He worked tor Davis & Nelson for two years and for the North Emery Wheel Com- pany about the same length of time. About 1901 he entered the employ of Wehinger & Co., where he remained a year and a half. He then took up farming at the old place in the west part of Hol- den, on Muschopauge street. His father left the farm to him and his brother Isaac, whom he bought out about 1886, and has since carried on the farm there. He attends the Holden Congregational church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a life member of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association of Worcester.


He married, October 1, IS68, Victoria Augusta Bolton, born April 18, 1840, daughter of Ransom and Fidelia (Traverse) Bolton, of Gardner, Massa- chusetts. Her father was a farmer. Their children : Edith August, born April 29, 1869, married, Octo- ber 17, 1888, Joseph Hildreth Hadley, of Princeton, Massachusetts, and they have-Helen Augusta Had- ley, born February 3, 1889; Ruth Hildreth Hadley, born March 15, 1891; Maud Esther Hadley, born November 22, 1895; Edith Richardson Hadley, born January 4, 1897; Alice, born October 5, 1900, died June 24, 1901; Joseplı Hildreth, born July 9, 1903. Elmer Eugene, born June 29, 1872, married, June 15, 1889, Saralı May Keyes and they have-May Eugenie, born December 14, 1900; Arthur Edwin, born May II, 1903; Edward Eugene, born June 18, 1904. Walter Herbert, see forward.


Walter Herbert Richardson, son of Edward Eugene Richardson, was born in Holden, Massa- chusetts, November 22, 1874. His parents moved to Worcester when he was two years old, and he re- ceived his early education there in the public schools. The family returned to Holden to live when he was eleven years old, and he was graduated from the Holden high school. He then took the full course at Hinman's Business College, graduating in 1890. He entered the employ of the Worcester Cor- set Company as bookkeeper and remained two years. He was bookkeeper for the Singer Sewing Ma- chine Company two years. He decided to study dentistry for a profession and entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of D. D. S. In the fall he opened an office at 520 State Mutual building, Worcester, where he practiced for three years. He left to asso- ciate himself with Dr. John F. Adams, at 4 Elm street, where he was located six years. In June, 1906, Dr. Adams retired and Dr. Richardson re- moved from the old office, which was one of the buildings torn down to make way for the new Slater building, to his present quarters at II Elm street. Dr. Richardson enjoys a large and select practice, many of his patients coming from a distance. He resides at 303 Lincoln street, Worcester. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to Quinsigamond Lodge of Free Masons, Worcester, since January 15, 1904; to Eureka Chapter of Royal Arch Masons since May 24, 1904, and to Worcester County Com- mandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, since September 27, 1906: belongs also to Worcester Lodge of Per- fection, fourteenth degree; Goddard Council, Princes of Jerusalem, sixteenth degree; Lawrence Chapter, Rose Croix, eighteenth degree, since February 23, 1905, all Scottish Rite Masonry. He is a member of Tatassit Canoe Club, the Uptown Club, and Leices- ter Country Club. He was a charter member of


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the Worcester Golf Club. He is a member of the National Dental Association, Massachusetts Den- tal Society, the Central District Dental Association, the Northeastern Dental Association, the National Federation of Dentists, While at University of Pennsylvania was a member of the college society. He rowed with the University of Pennsylvania (Freshman Varsity) crew in 1894. Was also a mem- ber of the Huston Club of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania ; of Delta Sigma Delta fraternity, and of the Sophomore Society Theta Nu Epsilon. He was manager in 1895 of the Dental Football Team. He served three years in the Worcester Light Infantry in Company C. Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia.


He married, October 12, 1897, Mary Silence War- ren, born January 24, 1875, daughter of Berthier Warren and Eunice Chace ( Boyden) Warren. (See sketch of the Warren family of Holden.) Their only child is Berthier Warren Richardson, born August 20, 1900.


HERMAN S. HASTINGS was born February 2, 1873, at Berlin, Massachusetts. He is the son of Samuel H. and Harriet ( Barnes) Hastings. His paternal grandfather was Henry Hastings, born and reared at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a farmer. His great-grandfather was Captain Henry Hastings, a soldier in the revolutionary war; also an officer in the militia. He was a man of much means and a prosperous farmer. The maternal grandfather of Herman S. Hastings was Daniel Barnes, an in- fluential farmer in Berlin, Massachusetts, where he spent the better part of his life. The father of Her- man S. was a contractor and builder of much eminence. He had four children: Matilda, mar- ried George H. Hastings; Nettie L., who married R. W. McOrmand; Leo L., Herman S.




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