Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 29

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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(VI) Peter Emerson, son of Rev. Joseph Emer- son (5), was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, 1673 and died 1749. He married, November 1I, 1696, Anna Brown, who was born in Reading. 1678, daugh- ter of Captain John and Anna (Fiske) Brown, of Reading. Captain John Brown had married Peter's mother. They resided in the first parish of Read- ing. now South Reading, on the farm inherited from Captain Brown. Peter Emerson was a farmer. The children of Peter and Anna (Brown) Emerson were: Anna, born July 6, 1697, died Au- gust II. 1607; Elizabeth, February 20, 1699; Anna, March 9. 1701, resided in Hollis, New Hampshire ; Brown, April 16, 1704; Lucy, 1706; Saralı, Novem- ber 8, 1708: Jane, March 1I, 1711, resided at Hollis; Mary. December 20, 1713. resided at Salisbury, Massachusetts: Rev. Daniel, May 20. 1716 (see forward), resided in Hollis: Catherine, December 2. 1718.

(VII) Rev. Daniel Emerson, ninth child of Peter Emerson (6), was born at Reading, Massachusetts, May 20, 1716. died at Hollis, New Hampshire, Sep- tember 30, 1801. He married. November 7, 1744, Hannah Emerson, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Moody) Emerson, of Malden, Massachusetts. She was born at Malden, December 3, 1722, died at Hollis, February 28, 1812. They resided at Hollis. Mr. Emerson was graduated at Harvard College, 1739, and immediately prepared himself for the work of the ministry. In 1741 he was called to be the first minister of Hollis. New Hampshire, then the west precinct of Dunstable, Massachusetts. He con- tinued minister until November 27, 1793, when Rev. Eli Smith, who married his granddaughter, was elected as his colleague. In 1755, during the old French war, he was chaplain to the famous rangers of which Robert Rogers and John Stark were the officers. He was considered the ranking officer because of his family arms, bearing three lions. He kept a journal during his service and it has been preserved. He was chaplain again in 1758 in Colonel Hart's regiment. One of his letters to his wife, dated at Crown Point in 1755, was brought to Hollis by his dog, which he had trained for the purpose. He taught school and fitted his students for college. He gave the land on which the meet- ing house was built. He was one of the ablest advo- cates of the "New .Light" doctrine, and for many years was the leading and most influential minister in his section of the country. Professor Churchill

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said of him: "He was a kind of Congregational Bishop in his region." His dwelling house, built and occupied while he was minister in Hollis, is in good repair and habitable. The children of Rev. Daniel and Hannah (Emerson) Emerson were : Hannah, born September 30, 1745; Daniel, Decem- ber 15, 1746 (see forward) ; Mary, September 19, 1748; Peter, November 9, 1749; Lucy, October 29, 1751; Mary, November 14. 1753; Elizabeth, May 5, 1755: Ebenezer. August 14, 1757; Joseph, Septem- ber 28, 1759 (H. C. 1779) ; Ralph, March 4, 1761; Rebecca, July 5. 1762; Samuel, September 6, 1764; William, December 11, 1765.

(VIII) Daniel Emerson, second child of Rev. Daniel Emerson (7), was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, December 15, 1746, died there October 4, 1820. He married, November 17. 1768. Ama Fletcher, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Under- wood) Fletcher. She was born April 7, 1746, died November 22, 1797. They resided at Hollis. He was a leading citizen, the wealthiest taxpayer and deacon of the church. He was one of the eighteen proprietors of New Ipswich, New Hampshire, preached there occasionally and had his tax re- funded for that reason. He was one of the thirty- two proprietors of the New Ipswich Academy in 1787, and was a trustee from the time of its in- corporation in 1789 until his death. In the revolu- tionary war Captain Emerson was active. As a min- ute man he marched at the head of his company for Ticonderoga in 1776, reaching the Connecticut river. He started a second time and reached Cavendish, Vermont. He was captain of the first company in Colonel Nichol's regiment and of the fifth company in Colonel Mooney's regiment. He served in the Rhode Island campaign in 1778-9. He was a member of the governor's council in 1787, and representative to the legislature nineteen terms, 1780-1812. He was coroner and high sheriff of Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, town clerk of Hollis, 1780-81, selectman twelve years, and town treasurer 1774-79 and 1798 and 1799. Mrs. Emer- son inherited besides the Fletcher blood that of Adams and Underwood, founders of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Her father settled in Dunstable when it was a wilderness, and lived there fifty years a prominent and respected citizen. Family · gatherings were held twice yearly until their chil- (Iren and grandchildren numbered ahove sixty in the Fletcher homestead at Dunstable. The chil- dren of Daniel and Ama ( Fletcher) Emerson were : Ama, horn August 20, 1769, died August 4. 1860, married Rev. Eli Smith: Daniel, see forward; Hannah, December 7, 1773: Joseph, October 13, 1777; Ralph, August 18, 1787: Samuel, November 9. 1791; William, November 9. 1791 (twin of pre- ceding ). Daniel Emerson married (second) Han- nah Mosier, widow, who survived him and died August 20, 1831.

(IX) Daniel Emerson, second child of Daniel Emerson (8), was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, July 15, 1771, died at Dartmouth. Massachusetts, November 16, 1808 He married, December 3, 1797. Esther Frothingham, a daughter of Major Benjamin Frothingham. She was born in Charles- town, Massachusetts, 1770. died in Ilollis, New ITampshire, March 14, 1849. They resided at Charlestown, in Maryland. in Virginia, in New Hampshire and at Dartmouth. Mr. Emerson was graduated at Harvard. 1794. He was a student at law with Samnel Dexter. He was a merchant in Charlestown, in Maryland, in Virginia and Hollis. New Hampshire. He sold out to his partner. Bixby, who did not pay the firm's debts as agreed. and he ruined himself in paying them. He was

ordained in 1806 and settled as minister at South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where he remained un- til his death. His widow returned to Hollis and for many years kept the village store, driving to Boston at regular intervals in her own chaise to make purchases. She thus supported and educated her large family. The children of Daniel and Esther (Frothingham) Emerson were: Daniel, born August 8, 1798; Elizabeth, July 29, 1800, died Octo- ber 4, 1870, married, August 26, 1823, William S. Bradbury, resided at Westminster, Massachusetts ; Edward, October 1. 1802, died April 21, 1851, mar- ried, November 13, 1844, Hannah Pierce; resided at Hollis and at Allegan, Michigan : Charles, April 9. 1805, died July 6, 1805; Benjamin Frothingham, see forward; Joseph, September 4, 1808, died July 21, 1885, married (first) Sarah H. Davis, ( second) October 16, 1858, Martha A. Howard, resided at Andover.

(X) Benjamin Frothingham Emerson, fifth child of Daniel Emerson (9), was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, July 3, 1806, died at Nashua, New Hampshire, September 6, 1884. Mr. Emerson entered Dartmouth College in 1826 and studied two years ; he was graduated from Union College in 1830. He attended the law school at Cambridge the next year, then taught school .in the west. He practiced law in Nashua from 1836 to 1873, and was intrusted with the settlement of many of the largest estates of that region. He married, Novem- ber 29, 1842, Elizabeth Kendall, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Thompson) Kendall. She born at Bedford, New Hampshire, October 7, 1812. died at Nashua, September 26, 1870. They resided a Nashua. He married (second), October 9, 1872, Caroline Carlton (Frye) Rankin, widow of James Henry Rankin, and daughter of Samuel and Mary (Hoyt) Frye, of Danville, Vermont, where she was born February 8, 1817. She died March I. 1886. The children of Benjamin Frothingham and Elizabeth (Kendall) Emerson were: Benjamin Kendall, see forward; Charles Edward, born Octo- ber 11, 1846, graduate of the Chandler Scientific School at Hanover, New Hampshire, 1870, a civil engineer of Nashua, New Hampshire.

(XI) Professor Benjamin Kendall Emerson, eldest child of Benjamin Frothingham Emerson (10). was born at Nashua, New Hampshire, Decem- ber 20. 1843. He married, April 2, 1873, Mary An- nette Hopkins, a daughter of Erastus and Charlotte Freylinghuysen (Allen) Hopkins. She was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, April 2, 1848, died at Amherst, Massachusetts, July 31, 1897. They resided at Amherst. Mr. Emerson was graduated valedictor- ian of the class of 1865 of Amherst College. He studied at Göttingen and took his Ph. D. there in 1869. He was assistant in the German geological survey in 1869 and made geological studies in Swit- zerland, Saxony. Bohemia and Norway. He became professor of geology and zoology at Amherst College in 1870. He is the author of the genealogy, The Emerson Family, an excellent work. He is a mem- ber of the German Geological Society, the Ap- palachian Club, the American Philosophical So- ciety. the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Naturalists of Eastern United States. the National Geographic Society. He was vice- president in 1896 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vice-president in 1897 of the Geological Congress at St. Petersburg, first vice-president in 1898 of the Geological Society of America, assistant geologist of the United States Geological Survey since 1887 and is now geologist (1905). ITe is the author of monograph xxvii. United States Geological Survey, entitled : Geology

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of Old Hampshire county or Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties, in Massachusetts. He wrote bulletin No. 126, United States Geological Survey, entitled : A Mineral Lexicon of Franklin, Hamp- shire and Hampden counties, in Massachusetts. He wrote the United States Geological Survey bulletin, entitled : The Geology of Southwestern Berkshire, and also the United States geological survey folios, which contain geological maps and descriptions of Eastern Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden and Worcester counties in Massachusetts. He has written many articles for the scientific journals.

Mrs. Emerson's father was the Hon. and Rev. Erastus Hopkins, of an ancestry noted in the New England ministry. Her great-great-grandmother was Esther Edwards, sister of Rev. Jonathan Ed- · wards. Her grandfather on her mother's side was Rev. William Allen, D. D., president of the ephemeral Dartmouth University and later of Bowdoin College. She was also descended from Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. from Rev. Thomas Allen, of Pittsfield, the re- nowned "fighting parson" of the American revolu- tion, and also in the eighth generation from Wil- liam Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth colony. Of her the Springfield Republican, August 6, 1897, said :

"The college circle at Amherst feels itself sadly stricken by the recent unlooked for death of Mrs. Annette Hopkins Emerson, wife of Professor B. K. Emerson. Her life seemed so abounding in health and joyousness that her friends cannot realize that it is ended. It was Mrs. Emerson's rare and happy fortune to radiate sunlight in the world through her bright and fervent personality. None who came within the range of its influence failed to feel its cheering effect. Nor was its characteristic merely negative loveliness. There was a fire, a sparkle, an intellectual stimulus in Mrs. Emerson's pres- ence and conversation that were fairly exhilirating. So elever and charming and genuine a woman did not fail to receive recognition as a leader in the social life of Northampton, which became her home after marriage. Though her attention was largely occupied in her later years by the absorbing do- mestie interests which belong to the rearing of a large family, she kept well in touch with the pro- gress of the intellectual world. She had a decided literary interest and could herself write brightly and forcefully when occasion offered. She had hoped to go with her husband to the congress of geologists at St. Petersburg this summer, and had planned to describe her experiences and impres- sions in letters to the Republican and other jour- nals; but slie was obliged to forego this great pleasure. It is hard to submit to the termination of a life so strong, so rich, so healthful; but solace and inspiration come with the thought of its ac- complishment, its wholesome and helpful influence."

The children of Professor Benjamin Kendall and Mary Annette (Hopkins) Emerson were: Char- lotte Freylinghuysen, born January 3, 1874, graduate of Smith College; (Benjamin) Kendall, see for- ward: Edward Hopkins, born September 18, 1877, graduate of Amherst, 1899; Annette Hopkins, born September 3. 1879; Malleville Wheelock, born August 28, 1887; Caroline Dwight, born March 14, 1891.

(XII) Dr. Benjamin Kendall Emerson or Kendall Emerson, as he is known, having dropped his first name, son of Professor Benjamin Kendall Emerson (II), was born in Northampton, Massa- chusetts, June 27, 1875. He attended the public schools of Amherst in early life. He entered Am- herst College in 1893 and graduated in 1897. He

is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa of Amherst. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1901, and after some hospital practice settled in Worcester and began the practice of his profession, in which he has made good progress and has ac- quired an excellent practice. He married, October I, 1903, Josephine Devereux Sewall, born in Water- town, New York, October 14, 1875. She is a grad- uate of Smith College, 1897. They have one child, Sewall, born at Worcester, October 13, 1904. They reside at 72 West street, Worcester. Dr. Emerson's office is on Pearl street.

HENRY H. STOWE. John Stowe or Stow (1), was the progenitor in New England of Henry H. Stowe, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He came with his wife Elizabeth and six children in one of Win- throp's companies and settled in Roxbury, Massachu- setts. He arrived May 7, 1634. The children were Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Nathaniel, Samnel and Thankful. He was admitted a freeman September 3. 1634. He was a proprietor of the colony and a delegate to the general court in 1639. He was elected in 1638 a member of the Ancient and Honor- able Artillery Company.

He married Elizabeth Biggs, daughter of Mrs. Rachel Biggs, who came to Dorchester in 1635 with her daughter, - Foster. The Foster and Stowe children received valuable legacies from their uncles, John and Smalhope Biggs, of Cranbrook and Maidstone, Kent county, England. His wife, Eliza- beth, a very godly woman, was buried August 24, 1636. All his children were probably born in Eng- land. They were: Thomas, resided at Concord, Massachusetts, and Middletown, Connecticut. Eliza- beth, married Henry Archer. John. Samuel, born about 1620, graduated from Harvard College in 1645, the second class to graduate, the year 1644 having no graduates. (The Harvard quinquennial catalogue states that he had the A. M. degree. There had been but thirteen graduates before he had his degree. There were seven graduates in 1645.) He was a clergyman at Middletown, Connecticut. He died in 1704. Nathaniel, resided at Ipswich, was born according to a deposition he took there in 1622. Thankful, married Jolin Pierpoint, of Rox- bury, Massachusetts.

(II) Thomas Stowe, son of John Stowe (I), was born in England, probably Lincoln or Middle- sex county, where the families of Stowe were numer- ous about 1610. He was in Concord, Massachusetts, before 1640, and had a family of at least three children. Samuel, Thomas and Nathaniel. He and his brother Nathaniel owned six hundred acres of land between Fairhaven Pond and the Sudbury Line. Thomas Stowe sold his rights in 1660 to Thomas Gobble and David Dam, he having moved to Con- necticut. He probably left Concord about 1650 and moved to Middletown, then part of Hartford, Con- necticut. The town of Stow, Massachusetts, was near Marlboro and Sudbury where this land of the Stowe brothers was located, but the Stowe family seems to have had no part in establishing the town. It was incorporated in May, 1683, but the history shows no Stowe active as a pioneer. In fact the whole family seems to have been in Con- necticut about this time, and the Stowes do not appear as of the town of Stow until much later. Still the town was probably named in some way for a member of the family or by a friend of the Stowes.

The children of Thomas Stowe were: Samuel who became the progenitor of the Marlboro and Stow families after his return to Massachusetts;

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Nathaniel ; Thomas, born 1650, settled in Middle- town, Connecticut.

(III) . Samuel Stowe, son of Thomas Stowe (2), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, before his father went to Middletown, Connecticut, probably about 1648. He was a soldier in King Philip's war. Immediately afterward he became interested in the new settlement at Marlboro. His name is on a petition for the plantation in 1677 and he was prob- ably there some months before, perhaps directly after peace was established and the settlers in towns like Sudbury and Marlboro were able to work their plantations once more. In 1684 he bought of Waban and James Atehuit, two Indians of Natick, Massachusetts, for six pounds in money and six pounds in eorn-twenty acres of land in Marl- boro. He was also one of the proprietors of the Ockoocangansett plantation purchased by the In- dians. He was prominent as a proprietor and citizen of the new town.

His children were: Samuel, born May 2, 1680, married, December 19, 1704, Sarah Snow ; Thomas, born December 27, 1682, married, January 20, 1713, Hannah Johnson ; Mary, born July 18, 1685, married, June 13, 1706, Jonathan Morse; Thankful, born October 8, 1687, married, March 29, 1710, Samuel Stevens ; Rachel, born February 21, 1690, married, December 14. 1715, Luke Rice; John, born March 30, 1696, married, April 25, 1722, Elizabeth Brig- ham. All three sons left large families of children and have numerous descendants in Marlboro and central Massachusetts.

(IV) Thomas Stowe, son of Samuel Stowe (3). was born probably at Marlboro (where it was recorded), December 27, 1782. He married, Jan- uary 20, 1713, Hannah Johnson, daughter of Will- iam and Hannah Johnson. She died June 15, 1789. He died August 28. 1765. His will proved October 8, 1765, mentions his sons Benjamin, Thomas, Sam- uel, Stephen and David and Experience Newton, deceased : also son Josiah who is required to pro- vide for the support of his mother, Hannah.

Their children were: Comfort, born July 16, 1716, died 1716: Thomas, born September 8, 1717, died 1717: Benjamin, born August 25, 1718; David, born October 14, 1719, died young ; Thomas, born October 15, 1720, married, June 3, 1752, Elizabeth Newton ; Charles, born December 31. 1721, died young; Sam- nel. born December 26, 1723, married, April 28. 1748. Rebecca Howe: Stephen, born December 15. 1724, married, May 23, 1753, Abigail Smith : Josiah, born December 8, 1725, died young ; Hannah, born December 9, 1726, died young ; Experience, born February 24, 1728, married -- Newton; David, born April 29, 1729: Josiah. born July 5, 1730, mar- ried, 1760, Ruth Howe; Hannah, born September 8, 1731 ; Sabella, born September 4, 1732, died 1752; Silas, born October 20, 1734. All the sixteen chil- dren seem to have been by one wife, an unusual fam- ily even for those prolific days. She was evidently over ninety, the mother, when she died.

(V) Stephen Stowe, son of Thomas Stowe (4). was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, December 15, 1724. He married, May 23, 1753, Abigail Smith. Two of their children were born at Marlboro. They removed to Stow, Massachusetts, probably about 1758, where for several generations their descendants lived. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war.

Their children were: Lydia, born in Marlboro, March 24, 1754: Silas, born in Marlboro, April 26. 1756: Ichabod, born about 1758 (and others prob- ably) on the old homestead in Stow, Massachusetts.

(VI) Ichabod Stowe, son of Stephen Stowe (5). was born in Stow, Massachusetts, 1759. He married Ruth Whitney, November 29, 1781. He was a soldier

in the revolutionary war. He settled in Stow. and conducted the old farm. He had a son Moses and other children, namely: Ichabod, Abraham, Levi, Luke.

(VII) Moses Stowe, son of Ichabod Stowe (6), was born on the old Stowe homestead at Stow, Massachusetts, in 1803. He died in Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1883. He attended the schools in Stow. He went to work first on the old farm, but later decided to learn the wheelwright's trade. He followed this business all his active life. He set- tled in Laneaster where he spent his last years. In politics he was originally an "old line Whig" and was deeply interested in his party, for which he worked earnestly and faithfully. He married Eliza W. Jones, January 1, 1829. They had two children : Franklin, born October 16, 1829, died September 23, 18.17: and Henry H., born March 29, 1841.

(VIII) Henry H. Stowe, son of Moses Stowe (7). was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, March 29, 1841. He was educated there in the public schools and then for a time worked at the wheel- wright's trade with his father. He succeeded to his father's business and conducted it successfully. He was able to retire a few years ago and enjoy life quietly and comfortably at his pleasant home in Lancaster,- Massachusetts. Mr. Stowe bas always taken an interest in political affairs and at times has been an active worker in the Republican party. He has been overseer of the poor of Lancaster for several years. He belongs to the local branch of the Red Men and is active in the order. He is an active member of the Lancaster Unitarian church. As a conservative but successful man in his own business, as a man of high personal character, of simple manly virtues he has the respect and con- fidence of his neighbors. He married in 1863, Lydia A. Robbins, of Ashby. Massachusetts. Their chil- dren are: Mabel G., born at Lancaster, Massachu- setts. December, 1873, resides at home: Cora R., born at Lancaster, August 29. 1877, stenographer for Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company, 14I Milk street, Boston, Massachusetts.

JOHN HENRY COES, a retired business man of Worcester, Massachusetts, formerly serving in the capacity of treasurer of the Coes Wrench Com- pany, one of the leading industrial enterprises of that eity, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, September 25. 1840. a son of Aury Gates and Nancy ( Maynard) Coes, grandson of Daniel and Roxana or Roxalana (Gates) Coes, and great-grandson of John Coes, who settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, prior to the revolutionary war. So far as is known all the Coes in this country are descended from this John Coes and his wife Rebecca. John Coes died in Worcester, June 24, 1827, aged seventy- nine years.

Daniel Coes (grandfather) was born on his father's farm in Massachusetts, in that part of Wor- cester formerly known as New Worcester, Decem- ber 19, 1776, was reared thereon, and died January 26. 1838. He married, October 26, 1808, Roxana ( Roxalany or Roxalana) Gates, and their children were : Sally, born February 22, IS10, died February 16. 1832: Loring. born April 22, 1812: Albert, born September 20. 1813, died February 13, 1837; Aury Gates, born January 22, 1816. The Gates family is mentioned at length hereinafter.

Aury Gates Coes (father) was born in Wor- cester, Massachusetts, January 22, 1816, and died December 2. 1875. Among the firms for which he worked during his early life was that of Kimball & Fuller, makers of woolen machinery, and in 1836 Anry Gates and his brother Loring purchased the

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business, forming the copartnership of L. & A. G. Coes. Aury Gates Coes also took an active part in politics, wielding a potent influence in behalf of the principles of the Republican party. During the years 1870-71 he served in the house of repre- sentatives, and was a member of several important committees. He was an active and leading member of the Union Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Nancy Maynard, born 1815. died December 1, 1842, who bore him one child, John Henry, mentioned at length hereinafter. He married (second ) May 29, 1845, Anna S. Cutting, who bore him two children: Anna Rebecca, born March 25, 1847; and Frederick Lewis, born Janu- ary 9, 1849. He married (third) Mrs. Lucy Gib- son, nee Wyman. a widow, born in Fitchburg, who bore him two daughters: Estella, born September 25, 1858, died in Dresden, January 3, 1883, unmarried ; and Mary, born March 24, 1861; she is a graduate of Radcliffe College, class of . 1887, and received the degree of Master of Arts from the same institu- tion in 1897. She was assistant to the secretary of the college from 1888 to 1894, and from the latter year to the present time (1905) has served in the capacity of secretary. Mr. Coes married (fourth) Abigail Winch, no issue.

John Henry Coes, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, received his elementary educa- tion in the public schools of Worcester, to which city his parents removed from Springfield during his early lifetime. The knowledge thus acquired was supplemented by attendance at Leicester Acad- emy and Wilbraham Academy. He began the prac- tical duties of life by entering the office of the fırın of L. & A. G. Coes, manufacturers of wrenches. his father and uncle comprising the company, and there mastered every detail of the business. When the partnership between Loring and Aury Gates Coes was dissolved in 1869. the latter formed the firm of A. G. Coes & Company, admitting his son John Henry to partnership, and continued the manu- facture of wrenches in Worcester. This connec- tion continued until the death of the senior mem- ber of the firm, December 2. 1875, after which the business was carried on under the same firm name by John H. Coes and his brother, Frederick L. Coes. In 1888 the firm of A. G. Coes & Co. and that of Loring Coes & Co. were incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts with a capitalization of $100,000, as the Coes Wrench Company, and its of- ficers were: Loring Coes, president : John H. Coes, treasurer : Frederick L. Coes, clerk. In 1902 the two brothers-John H. and Frederick L .- sold their stock and interest in the company to their uncle, Loring Coes, and retired from the business.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 29

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

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