Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 46

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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Dr. Foskett married (first) at North Dana, June 5, 1885, Harriet Ella Linsey, who was there born August 28, 1851, daughter of Silas Foster and Maria ( Hale) Linsey. She died November 28, 1898. Dr. Foskett married (second), November 28, 1903, Miss .Carrie Gilmore, daughter of Henry E. and Sarah E. Gilmore, of Worcester.


CYRUS G. WOOD. Among the men who have made their mark in the business life of Worcester county we find the name of Cyrus Grout Wood. He was born November 16, 1819, in the town of Ux- bridge, Massachusetts, where several generations of his ancestry had spent their lives, leaving be- hind them the indelible impress of their industry, frugality and uprightness. He was the son of Reuben and Sally Grout Wood.


His father, who died in 1857, was an industrious farmer, and young Cyrus passed his early life at work upon the farm and in the mill, for Uxbridge was not only an agricultural town but a manufactur- ing town as well. His early education was ac- quired in attending the schools of his native village. On attaining his majority he took the little sun of money that by patient toil and strict economy he had saved, and after adding to it one hundred dollars borrowed money, started in the sale of boots, shoes and dry goods, following the style of the usual country store, later adding a line of furni- ture, being the first person in the town to embark in that branch of trade. His business grew under his management and proved quite successful. But still it did not fully satisfy huis ambition, and with Charles C. Capron as a partner, he began the making of shoddy, and dealing in woolen waste, etc. After a trial of three years Mr. Wood retired from the firm, leasing a mill in the southern part of the town. and continued in the same line of business. As time went on and success attended his efforts, he added other mills, even as far away as the state of Rhode Island. In the year 1876 Mr. Wood pur- chased the mill at Quinapoxet, in the town of Hol- den, he having had an interest there for two or more years previous to that date, the mill being operated by Wood & Ward. This same year he also purchased the Lovell Woolen Company's mill in Holden, and for many years operated both mills, combining them as one plant. About two hundred hands were employed and over one hundred and twenty-five thousand yards of satinet was manu- factured each month at this plant. In February, 1882, a postoffice was established at Quinapoxet, with Cyrus Grout Wood as postmaster ..


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many obstacles that seemed to stand across his patlıway, there can be no doubt, but by strict fidelity to business, genuine courage, perseverance and nat- ural ability, he overcame them all and at last found himself with a comfortable fortune. Although Mr. Wood was never prominent in politics he was chosen to represent his native town in the legislature in 1854. He was an all round citizen, thoughtful, broadminded, public-spirited and more than an or- dinary reader. Naturally of a quiet disposition, not a leader except in business, there he was at home, and he put his mind and strength into it. He must have approved machinery, and his personal atten- tion was given to every detail in running his plant. Of the welfare of his employees he was ever thought- ful. From experience he knew that by fair and honorable treatment he would gain sympathy and co-operation. In all his dealings with them he ap- plied the principle of doing unto others as you would be done by, and that was the spirit in which he conducted all his business, and as a neighbor and friend his greeting and friendship was of the real old fashioned New England type, genuine in every particular. Labor strikes at his mills were unheard of.


In the spring of 1880 Mr. Wood changed his residence from Uxbridge to Worcester, locating at No. 21 Harvard street, in order to shorten the dis- tance between the home and his factory in Holden, and also to gain the advantages of Worcester schools for the younger members of his family. We have called attention to the fidelity with which Mr. Wood applied himself to business that no branch of it might suffer from neglect, yet he found much time to devote to his family, the associations of which he fully appreciated and of which he was very fond. He also enjoyed the society of men of broad and high aims. In religion he was a Unitarian, and with his family attended the Church of the Unity, where almost from their immediate arrival in Wor- cester they took a prominent part in helping forward the work of the parish. He was a charter member of the Uxbridge Lodge of Odd Fellows, one of the directors of the Citizens' National Bank of Worces- ter, and a member of the Board of Trade, also of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, being very much interested in historical studies, especially the annals of his native town, and when that society passed their field-day at Uxbridge in 1894, no speaker present was more entertaining than Mr. Wood as he recited his early business experiences when a young man in that town. He always deemed it a special pleasure when privileged to visit the home of his boyhood, and once he took his Quinapoxet employees to Uxbridge, where he entertained them throughout the day, pointing out the scenes of his early life and relating to them how step by step he felt his way along amid trials and disappointments, until at last by patient honest toil he had reached the point of success.


Mr. Wood was twice married; first to Lucetta, daughter of Joseph Day, of Uxbridge. who was a manufacturer and much respected citizen of that place. She died in 1854, and he married (second ). in 1858, Mary U. F., daughter of Jonathan F. and Chloe (Holbrook) Southwick. The Southwicks were Quakers, and among the first Quakers of Salem, Massachusetts, and whom Whittier immortal- ized in his poem "Cassandra Southwick."


Mr. Southwick was a son of Royal and Phoebe (Farnum) Southwick of Uxbridge, and in the sixth generation from Lawrence and Cassandra South- wick, who came from Lancashire, England, and settled in Salem. By occupation he was a tanner and currier, a trade which he learned of his father.


Being a prosperous business man, he became a large owner of real estate, including the Ironstone factory property. The old mill having been consumed by fire, he built a new one, and sold the property to Messrs. Fairbanks and Messenger. He also owned the mill below on the same stream, which he sold to J. C. Keith & Co. He was a public-spirited citi- zen, giving special attention to educational matters, in his native town, where he was recognized as one of the substantial and representative men of the place. He was much interested in temperance movements. He married, November 14, 1822, Chloe Holbrook, a most estimable person, a kind and af- fectionate mother to their six children, including Mary Urania Farnum Southwick, born May 31, 1833. The children of Cyrus G. Wood and Mary U. F. Southwick were: 1. John Franklin, married Mary Leonard, resides at Quinapoxet. He and his brother are continuing the business left by their father. Their children are: I. Marion, born October 17. 1897. 2. Ernest Henry, a graduate of Harvard University ; married Adelaide Wyman, and resides at No. 69 West street, Worcester. Their children are : Cyrus W., born January 31, 1900; Austen, born May 25, 1903; Daniel, born September 7, 1904; a daugh- ter, born October 27, 1905. 3. Gertrude S. 4. Sarah Louise. Mr. Wood died at his home in Worcester, March 3, 1898.


The ancestry of this branch of the Wood family we trace as follows :


(I) Thomas Wood, married Ann Hunt, of Ipswich, April 7, 1654, settled in Rowley, Massachu- setts, where he died and was buried, September 12, 1667. She died December 29, 1714. Their children were :. Mary, John, Thomas, Ann, Ruth, Josiah, Elizabeth, Samuel, Elithrop, Solomon, Ebenezer and James.


(II) Solomon, born May 17, 1669, married Mary Haseltine, October 15, 1690. She died February 20, 1749. He died January 13, 1752. For a time their home was in Bradford, Massachusetts, where many if not all of their children were born, after which they removed to that part of Mendon now Uxbridge. Their children were: David, Dorcas, Joshua, Mary, Solomon, James, Ezekiel, Obediah, Daniel and Betsey. (See sketch Pliny W. Wood ancestry.)


(III) Obediah, born May 28, 1709, married Esther Hayward, and settled in Uxbridge. Their children were: I. Warfield, born and died 1733-4- 2. Eliza, born August 4, 1735. 3. Obediah, May 9. 1737. 4. Sarah, August 18, 1739. 5. Esther, August II, 1741. 6. Solomon, May 25, 1744. 7. David, August II, 1748. Both the youngest sons, Solomon and David were soldiers in the revolutionary war.


(1V) David, born August II, 1748, served in the American army and was with Ethan Allen when he demanded the surrender of Ticonderoga. He mar- ried Molly Farnum, and lived in a house he built near his father's home in Uxbridge. Their children were: I. Phebe, born January 8, 1769. 2. Chloe, 1770. 3. Farnum and 4. Keith (twins), born De- cember 22, 1772. 5. Oliver, March 19, 1775. 6. Howard C., born January 3, 1777. 7. Polly, Jan- uary 27, 1779. 8. Eunice, January 4, 1781. 9. Amos, December 23, 1783. 10. Sally, March 15, 1785, drowned. II. Nancy, February 6, 1787. 12. Sally born March 29, 1789, married ( first) Cyrus Grout, who died, and she then married (second) Reuben Wood. 13. Dorinda, born March 6, 1791. 14. David, born November 6, 1792. 15. Clarissa, born December 27, 1797.


KENDALL FAMILY. Prominent among the early representatives of the Kendall family in Eng- land was John Kendall, sheriff of Nottingham, who


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was killed in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, fight- ing in the army of Richard III. Francis Kendall, of a much later generation, was banished to the Barbadoes in the year 1687 by Bloody Judge Jef- freys, for participating in the Monmouth rebellion. He is believed to have been a near relative of Francis Kendall, the emigrant ancestor, who came to America before 1640.


Francis Kendall was the pioneer ancestor of Sanford C. Kendall, Charles D. Kendall, Frederick H. Kendall and John M. Kendall, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and also of other Kendall families in Worcester county. In fact, he is believed to be the common ancestor of all families in America bear- ing this surname. In December, 1658, he deposed that his age was about thirty-eight years. On April 2, 1662, he deposed that his age was about forty- eight years. Possibly the date of his birth was between the two dates indicated by these state- ments, say 1618. He came from England before 1640. With thirty-one others he signed the town orders of Woburn, December 18, 1640. He had been living in Charlestown, of which Woburn was then a part, and where he was a taxpayer in 1645. Ile had a brother, Thomas Kendall, living in Reading. Massa- chusetts, where he was a proprietor, in 1644. Thomas Kendall had ten daughters, and while he doubtless has a large posterity, none are named Kendall in direct line. The father of Thomas and Francis is believed by some writers to be John Kendall.


Francis Kendall married, December 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, daughter of John Tidd. In the record he is called Francis Kendall, alias Miles. There are several explanations of this record. It was common with emigrants to America to take assumed names to avoid vexatious laws, and there is a tra- dition that Kendall left England against the wishes of his family, using the name of Miles until he was settled in this country. His brother Thomas seems not to have used any other name. Francis Kendall was admitted a freeman May 10, 1648. Sewall says of him: "He was a gentleman of great respecta- bility and influence in the place of his residence." He served the town at different times for eighteen years on the board of selectmen, and on important committees, such as those for distributing grants to the pioneers, and on building the meeting house. Ile was tithingman in 1676. He was not entirely in accord with the Puritan church, and was fined for some infraction of church rules about infant baptism, or attendance at communion, or attending meetings of the Anabaptists. He was a miller by trade, and owned a corn mill, which he left to his sons, Samuel and John. Samuel was the ancestor of the Worcester families. John Kendall's grand- son, Amos, also has descendants in Worcester county. This corn mill, at Woburn, has been in the possession of the family down to the present time. The mill now, or lately, on the Kendall place, is one built by Samuel Kendall soon after 1700, and is some distance from the location of the first mill.


He died, in 1708, at the age of eighty-eight, ac- cording to the record, corroborating the affidavit of 1658. His wife Mary died in 1705. His will was dated May 9, 1706. His sons, Thomas and John, were the executors. Children of Francis and Mary (Tidd) Kendall : John, born July 2, 1646; Thomas, January 10, 1648-9; Mary, January 20, 1650-I, married Israel Reed, about 1669; Elizabeth, January 15, 1652-3, married (first) Ephraim Win- ship; (second) James Pierce; Hannah, January 26, 1654-5, married William Green, Jr., as his second wife: Rebecca, March 2, 1657, married Joshua Eaton, December, 1706; Samuel, March 8, 1659;


Jacob, January 25, 1660-1; Abigail, April 6, 1666, married William Reed, May 24, 1686.


(II) Samuel Kendall, son of Francis Kendall (2), born in Woburn, Massachusetts, March 8, 1659-60; married, November 13, 1683, Rebekah, daughter of Isaac Mixer. She died October 25, 1691. He married ( second), March 30, 1692, Mary Locke, daughter of William Locke. He removed to Lancaster, probably in 1742, as he was taxed in Woburn January 28, 1741-2, but not the following years. He was constable and collector in Woburn in 1726-27. He was a carpenter by trade. His will was dated December 6, 1742, and proved 1749. He died in 1749 at the age of ninety years. Children of Samuel and Rebecca (Mixer) Kendall : Samuel, born August 13, 1684, married Prudence


about 1710; Isaac, September 1686, married. Octo- ber 9, 1706, Hannah Walker, settled in Ashford, Connecticut; Joshua, March 14, 1689, married, May 23, 1710, Susanna Harrington, settled in Water- town, Massachusetts, and Ashford, Connecticut ; Re- becca, July 6, 1691, died November 25, 1691. Chil- dren of Samuel and Mary (Locke) Kendall were : Mary, February 3, 1693, died August 14, 1727, un- married; Rebecca, January 26, 1694-5, died July 26, 1791, married Samuel Russell; Abigail, March 31, 1697, married William Nichols, of Reading, January 14, 1720; Ebenezer, May 16, 1700, married Hannah Thompson about 1731; Ruth, April 23, 1703, married Raham Bancroft; Tabitha, born January 22, 1706-7, married Nathan Richards, July 3, 1729, died Novem- ber 25, 1739.


(ITÍ) Samuel Kendall, son of Samuel Kendall (2), born August 13, 1684, at Woburn, Massachu- setts. He settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he died in 1743. His will mentions his wife Pru- dence and three children. Children of Samuel and Prudence were: Samuel. born September 4, 17II ; Rebecca, August 27, 1714; Stephen, March 10, 1717. (IV) Samuel Kendall, son of Samuel Kendall (3), was born in Lancaster (?), Massachusetts, September 4, 1711. He married Phebe Brintain, September 23, 1736. They settled in what is now Sterling, possibly on the homestead of his


father, as Samuel and wife, Phebe, joined


the Chocksett (Sterling) church soon after


the father's death February 1744-5. Chock- sett became the town of Sterling 1781. The church was organized in the December pre- ceding (1744).


Samuel Kendall was in the expedition to Canada, in 1759, under Colonel Oliver Wilder, of Lancaster, as was also his brother, Stephen Kendall. Chil- dren of Samuel and Phebe (Brintain) Kendall, bap- tized in the Chocksett church by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Mellen: Samuel, baptized February 17, 1745; Rebecca, February 17, 1745; Abigail, July 20, 1746; Caleb, May 15, 1748, probably died young; Bar- tholomew, February 18, 1749; Caleb, March 24, 1750; Bartholomew, February 28, 1753; William, October 13, 1754; Phebe, July 3, 1757; Lucy, Feb- ruary 10, 1760; Lucinda, November 14, 1762.


(V) Caleb Kendall, son of Samuel Kendall (4). born in Sterling, then Chocksett, Massachusetts, a part of Lancaster, and baptized March 24, 1750; married (first), December 8, 1773, Priscilla Towns- end, daughter of Joshua Townsend, in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He resided in Shrewsbury several years, and then removed to Ashburnham, where his cousin Amos, son of Francis and grandson of John Kendall, (brother of his great-grandfather Samuel Kendall) was living. He went there some time be- fore 1787. While living at Ashburnham he married ( second) at Lancaster, April 15, 1788, Lucy { Bald- win) Kendall, widow of Thomas Kendall, of Lan-


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caster. In 1792 he removed to Winchendon, Massa- chusetts, but his son Samuel, born in 1792, was bap- tized in Boylston, and the records show that Caleb settled in Boylston in that year, also. Boylston was the north district of Shrewsbury, so he merely re- turned to his old home .. Caleb Kendall was à sol- dier in the revolution. lle was in Captain John Maynard's company and Colonel Job Cushing's regi- inent, which marched August 21, 1777. to Hadley, on the Bennington Alarm. He was also in Captain Inglesby's company, Colonel Cushing's regiment, in1 the Rhode Island campaign. He was also in Cap- tain Ezra Beaman's company in Shrewsbury June 6, 1777. He was a housewright. He bought his home in Shrewsbury of Jotham Flagg, and from time to time other lots. The first deed is dated January 7, 1773. He died 1807. The eleven chil- dren signed the partition deeds September 2, 1807. Lucy, widow of Caleb Kendall, died at Boylston, November 22, 1745, aged eighty-five. Children of Caleb and Priscilla (Townsend) (sketch in Boyls- ton centennial gives her name Savory, but the town records in several places give it Townsend) Ken- dall : Priscilla, born January 20, 1777, at Shrewsbury, married Thaniel' Cutting; Caleb, at Shrewsbury, January 25, 1779, (Holden records say January 27) settled in Holden, Massachusetts, married, June 24, 1803, Dolly Sawyer; Zippora; Joshua, 2d., mar- ried Patty Sawyer; died in Boylston 1813. Children of Caleb and Lucy (Baldwin) Kendall: Lucy, bap- tized June 14, 1789, probably born in Ashburnham, married Joseph Sawyer; David, born March 12, 1791, baptized at Boylston, May 29, 1791; Samuel, born October II, 1792, in Winchendon and recorded there, baptized at Boylston; Hannah, married Phineas Moore; Elmira or Myra, married Jotham Howe; Emily or Emilia, married Jonas Hastings (court papers indicate that she is older than Myra) ; William, married Susan Hartshorn.


(VI) David Kendall, son of Caleb Kendall (5), was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. His father removed to Boylston when he was about a year old, and he resided there most of his life. It has been said of him that "to him manual labor seemed more like a pastime than a task." He married Polly Wellington, April 2, 1812. His wife was also known as Molly. (See John Kendall.) Children of David and Molly (Wellington) Kendall : Elizabeth Temple, born March 19, 1814, married, September 8, 1844, Rev. A. Stowell; Sanford M. (name was originally Joshua and was altered by general court), March 6, 1816; Horace, June 21, 1821, died April 27, 1827; Mary, July 18, 1823, died August 13, 1824; Mary, July 9, 1825, married Fisk B. Temple, March 8, 1848; Horace, August 28, 1827; John, November 6, 1829; Lyman P., February 9, 1832; Sophia Brooks, April 27, 1834, died May 9, 1834; Olive S., May 4, 1836, died August 11, 1839. David Kendall married ( second) at Greenfield, Massachusetts.


(VII) Elizabeth Temple Kendall, daughter of David Kendall (6), born in Boylston, Massachu- setts, March 19, 1814; married, September 8, 1844, Rev. A. Stowell, of Erving, Massachusetts. Their children are: Mary E., born March 28, 1847, died February 9, 1893, unmarried; was a teacher in Bridgewater School for the Blind to the time of her death; S. Louise, born July 10, 1853, married Clinton J. Smith, of Keene, New Hampshire, and they have two children : Ralph and Alice.


(VII) Horace Kendall, son of David Kendall (6), was born in Boylston, Massachusetts, August 28, 1827. He married, April 4, 1854, Sarah A. Maynard, of Boylston, Massachusetts. He married (second) Fanny Buck, of Worcester, January I, 1874. She died August 22, 1881. He married


(third) Hattie S. Hagan, who survives him. He removed to Worcester with his family in 1871, and engaged in the furniture business. He was a well known auctioneer, and prominent merchant in Wor- cester for thirty years. His store was in the Mechanics building. Children of Horace and Sarah A. (May- nard) Kendall: Charles D., November 10, 1854, married Kate E. Lindsay, of Grafton, Massachu- sctts; Sanford Clayton, born in Boylston, October 6, 1856, married Jennie Bruce, December 24, 1877. The only child of Horace and Fanny (Buck) Ken- dall was: Frederick H., born January 20, 1875.


(VIII) Charles David Kendall, son of Horace Kendall (7), was born in Boylston, Massachusetts, November 10, 1854. He attended the district schools of Boylston. In 1871, when his father moved to Worcester, he went to work in the store. In 1880 he went to Grafton to work. In 1888 he returned to Worcester and entered the furniture business, again with his father. After his father's death the three sons were in partnership for a time. San- ford C. Kendall, in 1903, bought the interests of Charles D. and Frederick H. Kendall, and has since carried on the business under the firm name of Kendall Furniture Company. Charles D. and Fred- erick H. bought an interest in the Warren Leather


Goods Company, of Worcester, in July, 1903. The business of this concern is the manufacture of suit cases and traveling bags of every description, and various fancy goods of leather. The company has a large factory at 80 Austin street, employing about two hundred hands. The company was incorporated in 1902 with a capital of thirty thousand dollars. The business was formerly that of J. J. Warren. The present officers of the corporation are: Presi- dent, Thomas T. Hickey, of Shrewsbury; vice- president, Charles D. Kendall; secretary, W. H. Hayden; treasurer, Frederick H. Kendall.


Mr. Kendall is a Congregationalist. In politics he is a Republican. He married Kate Elizabeth Lindsay, of Grafton, June 26, 1884. She was born January 16, 1860, daughter of Ira and Mary (Esta- brook) Lindsay. Her mother was born January 18, 1830, at Princeton, and married, June II, 1857, Ira Lindsay, at Princeton. Children of Ira and Mary ( Estabrook) Lindsay : Ellen F., born May 6, 1858; Kate E., January 16, 1860, married, June 26, 1884, Charles David Kendall; Joseph J., September 21. 1864, married, October 8, 1883.


The children of Charles David and Kate Eliza - beth (Lindsay) Kendall: Horace Clayton, born in Grafton, Massachusetts, September 26, 1885; grad- uate of English high school, Worcester, in 1904; is in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1907; Herbert Lindsay, born in Worcester, June 22, 1889; Charles Donald, born in Worcester, August 14, 1899. Mr. Kendall resides at 5 Barnard road, Worcester.


(VIII) Sanford Clayton Kendall, son of Horace Kendall (7), was born in Boylston, Massachusetts, October 6, 1856. He received a common school edu- cation in his native town. With his parents he re- moved to Worcester in 1871, and went to work in his father's store. He was associated with his father in the furniture and auctioneer business until his death in 1899. The store at 319 Main street is well known to Worcester people, especially to lovers of antiques and colonial furniture. During the last years of his father's life he was manager of the business. After the death of the father, the three sons became partners in the Kendall Furniture Com- pany. In 1902 Mr. Kendall became the sole owner. His two brothers withdrew to enter the Warren Leather Goods Company. Since then Mr. Kendall has conducted the business at the old stand. He has


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been prominent in city affairs. He is a Republican. He was elected to the common council from ward two in 1895, and served until he was elected an alderman. In the council he served on the commit- tees on charities, street lighting, military affairs and the joint special committee on central workshop. In the board of aldermen he was chairman of the committees on charities, and lighting streets, and member of the committees on fire department and ordinances, and of the aldermanic committees on elections and returns. He married, December 24, 1877, Jennie Bruce. They have one child, Clayton. (VIII ) Frederick H. Kendall, son of Horace Kendall (7), was born in Worcester, January 20, 1875. He was educated in the Worcester public schools and at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, where he graduated in 1894 in about a year. He went into the furniture business with his father, and later he became a partner with his two brothers, after their father's death, in the Kendall Furniture Company. He sold his interest in the business in February, 1902, and in the following July bought an interest and became the treasurer of the Warren Leather Goods Company, which was formed to take over the business of the J. J. Warren Company. His brother, Charles D. Kendall, also entered the Warren Leather Goods Company, and is the vice- president. Mr. Kendall is treasurer of the con- cern. He is an attendant of the Congregational church, a member of the Lakeside Boat Club, and a Republican in politics. He married, December 7. 1900, Fanny E. Chambers, daughter of Calvin MI. and Frances ( Keyes) Chambers, of Redwing, Min- nesota. They have a daughter : Eleanor, born April 17, 1904. Mr. Kendall resides at 730 Pleasant street.




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