Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 48

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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Wadsworth. The name is spelled also Deadman and Dedman.

(II) Samuel Dadmun, son of Samuel Dadmun (I), was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, about 1715. He settled in Framingham near Stone's Mills and died in 1794. In 1761 he bought of Hezekiah Stone fifty acres on Square Meadow brook, afterwards called also Dadmun brook, and this farm has been known since then as the Dadmun place. He was sergeant in a company of militia under the command of Captain Henry Emmes in the French and Indian war, 1757. He married Lois Pratt, born June 7, 1726, died 1808, daughter of Daniel Pratt (IV), granddaughter of Thomas Pratt (III), of Watertown and Framingham, great- graddaughter of Thomas Pratt (II), of Sudbury, son of Thomas Pratt (I), the immigrant. Children of Samuel and Lois Pratt were: Nathan, born March 7, 1742, died young; Daniel, March 27. 1744; Nathan, see forward; Timothy, baptized March 25, 1750; Martha, born in Framingham, bap- tized March 25, 1752, died unmarried July 26, 1833; Elijah, baptized October 19, 1755; Samuel, mar- ried. October, 1757, Dorcas Stone, of Framingham, settled in Princeton and died 1821 in Templeton ; Jonathan; Lois, baptized May 20, 1764, inarried Isaac How, of Framingham; Susannah, born Feb- ruarv 5, 1769, married Ezra Belcher.

(III) Nathan Dadmun, son of Samuel Dad- mun (2), was born at Framingham, Massachusetts. June 16, 1747. He lived on the Lemuel Jones farm, in that part of Framingham now Ashland. He died February 16, 1827. He was a soldier in the revolution, a minute man of Captain Simon Edgell's company on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. His brother Elijah also marched to Concord and Lexington. Nathan also served later under Cap- tain Edgell, in 1776, marching to Ticonderoga. He was a corporal and his company was in Colonel Samitel Brewer's regiment. He married Hannah Sanger, daughter of David Sanger. She died Nov- ember 19, 1821. Their children were: Joseph, born May 14. 1774: Jeduthan, December 23, 1775,

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see forward ; Eleanor, March 18, 1777, married Elias Grout; Sarah, January 10, 1779, married Eli Eames, of Holliston; Hannah, January 11, 1781, married William Clark; Bathsheba, December 26, 1782, mar- ried, July 14, 1807, Jacob Prescott of Westford, Massachusetts; Nathan, March 29, 1785, married Barrodell Jackson; Mary, March 31, 1787, married John Clark.

(IV) Jeduthan Dadmun, son of Nathan Dad- mun (3), was born in that part of Framingham now Ashland, December 23, 1775. Most of the family lived in that locality. He bought in 1804 a house and seven acres of land north of his father's farm, and he also was a farmer. He died February 14, 1825. He married, December 18, 1801, Lois Jones, daughter of Nathaniel Alden Jones, grand- daughter of Anthony Jones, who resided in Hop- kinton, but was of Framingham in 1796. Nathaniel Alden Jones married Lois Chapin in 1770 and lived in the Parson Swift house in Framingham. His father was Colonel John Jones. Anthony Jones married Elizabeth Alden, daughter of Nathaniel Alden, a lineal descendant of John Alden, who came over in the "Mayflower." Hence all the Dadmuns of Worcester, descended as noted below, are eligible for the Mayflower Society. Colonel John Jones re- moved to Framingham from Boston in 1715, was a cordwainer by trade, justice of the peace, town officer, owned slaves-James, Tom and Bacchus. He married, May 12, 1713, Elizabeth Simpson, daughter of Samuel Simpson. Lois (Jones) Dad- inun died April 14, 1822. Children of Jeduthan and Lois Dadmun were: Louisa, born June 18, 1802, married Abijah Claflin; Jolin Jones, Octo- ber 23, 1804; Henry J., January 10, 1807, married, February 22, 1832, Esther G. Allard, settled in Ashland and died there November 13, 1879; Han- nah J., May 8, 1809; Elizabetli S., November 25, 1811, married Bradford Belknap; Sarah, July 5, 1814; Jeduthan, October 13, 1816, see forward; Lucy A. P., July 21, 1819; Izanna E., December 23, 1821.

(V) Jeduthan Dadmun, Jr., son of Jeduthan Dadının (4), was born at Ashland, Massachusetts, October 13, 1816. He was brought up on his father's farm until he was ten, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade of shoemaker in Hopkinton. He had the usual common school education of that period. When he came of age he went to Wor- cester and obtained a position in a general store, where he worked for several years. He left Wor- cester to take a position in Holliston at his trade of shoemaker for the custom trade. After five or six years he removed to Lunenburg and worked two years there at his trade. About 1855 he was appointed agent of a union grocery store at Grafton, and he remained in charge of this concern for the stockholders until 1863, when the store was de- stroyed by fire. He then went into business for himself as a grocer in Grafton, remaining for a year or two. He then started a grocery store in Springfield, Massachusetts, in company with Henry E. Putnam, under the firm name of Dadmun & Putnam, located on State street. From there he went to Boston and worked at his trade of shoe- maker for a number of years. His last years were spent in Worcester, where he made his home with his son, William S. Dadmun, and died September 21, 1884. In religion Mr. Dadmun was a Unitar- ian and in politics a Republican. He married, September 29, 1839, Lucy Davis, born at Rutland, Massachusetts, September 24, 1811, daughter of Isaac and Betsey ( Rice) Davis, of Rutland. She died January 14, 1878. Her father Isaac was a blacksmith and farmer. The children of Jeduthan

and Lucy ( Davis) Dadmun were: I. George Ly- Inan, born July, 29, 1840, at Holden, died at East Winthrop, Mame, April 4, 1842. 2. Frances, boris August 21, 1842 at Worcester, died September 18, 1843. 3. Frank Jones, born January 3, 1844, at Wor- cester, died September 4, 1898; married (first) October 9, 1867, Mary E. Dudley, of Sutton, born January 22, 1847, died January 13, 1878, and they have one child. Mary Florence, born July 31, 1868, who married William E. Hartwell, of Providence, Rhode Island. Frank Jones married (second) October 14, 1880, Mary E. Chase, of Sutton, born November 17, 1853, died June 24, 1906, and they have one child, Frank Abram, born born May 3, 1882. 4. Hiram Davis, born February 5. 1846, at Wor- cester, died April 10, 1902; married January 14, 1867, Emily F. Gardner, of Worcester, and they have one child, Harry Lincoln, who married Anna Howe, of Worcester. 5. William Slocomb, born at Holliston, August 20, 1848, married December 31, 1868, Lydia P. Lathrop, resides in Worcester. 6. Lucy Ellen, born at Holliston, February 9, 1850. 7. Georgianna Frances, born April 4, 1852, married February 24, 1875, Arthur J. Marble, of Worcester, and they have one child, Georgie Alice, who mar- ried (first) Anson Blenus and (second ) J. William Patstone.

Isaac Davis, father of Mrs. Jeduthan Dadmun, mentioned above, was born November 16, 1779. probably at Rutland, where many of his family lived, all descendants of Dolor Davis (see sketch of Davis family elsewhere in this work). He was of Rutland when he married, May 8, 1803, Betsey Rice, born November 25. 1781, daughter of Jolin and Lydia Rice. Her father, John Rice was born November 7, 1745, son of Captain Edward Rice and descendant of the immigrant, Edmund Rice, of Sudbury, Massachusetts. (See sketch of various Rice families). Betsey (Rice) Davis died at Rut- land, December 10, 1824, aged forty-three years, fifteen days. Isaac Davis was a blacksmith by trade, a farmer and handy at various other trades. He bought land in Rutland with John Rice, Jr., his brother-in-law, November, 1808, and April, 1809. He bought land of Benjamin Rice in Rutland, June 22, 1809. He bought, November 10, 1805, of Silas and Lydia Merrill, in Rutland, a tract of three- fourths of a mile. He sold land to Taylor Esta- brook, November 2, 1808. Ile was master of Thomp- son Lodge of Free Masons, Rutland. He died March 26, 1833, aged fifty-three years, five months and ten days. His will dated April 19, 1832, was disapproved May 1, 1833, and his son Lyman was appointed administrator May 27, 1833. Rufus Put- nam was the guardian of his children after the death of their grandmother, Lydia Rice, in 1825, until he resigned April 8, 1836.

The children were: Mary, born September 25, 1803, died at Worcester August II, 1852; John, born August 27, 1805, died at West Rutland, aged sixty- seven years, seven months and thirteen days; Eliza, born August 1, 1807, died July 11, 1836; Lyman, born November 28, 1809, died June 29, 1834; Lucy, born September 24. ISII, died Jan- uary 14, 1878; married Jeduthan Dadmun, who died September 21, 1884. mentioned above; Hiram, born August 27, 1813, died December 20, 1814; Hiram, born January 4, 1815, died November 6, 1846; James, born September 8, 1817, died April 9. 1860; Sarah, born June 8, 1818, died February 10, 1905 : Charles, born February 22, 1820, killed in civil war: George, born September 12, 1823, killed in civil war.

(V1) William Slocomb Dadmun, son of Jedu- than (5), was born at Holliston, Massachusetts,

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August 20, 1848. At the age of five years lie moved with his parents to Lunenburg, where they lived for some time, removing thence to Grafton, where he received liis education in the common schools. He left the high school before graduating and re- moved with his father to Springfield, where for several months he worked in his father's grocery store. He worked a year in the dry goods store of L. J. Holt, and then went to Worcester, Massa- chusetts, to work in the store of Simeon Clapp later Clapp & Haven, and later died and Mr. C. Haven bought the store and Mr. Dadmun remained with the new proprietor for six years. He left this con- cern to start in business for himself. In partnership with James H. Howland, he was the senior mem- ber of the firm of Dadmun & Howland, dealers in shoes, etc. At the end of two years Mr. Dadmun's brother Frank J. Dadmun, bought the interests of Mr. Howland and the name of the firm for two years was Dadmun Brothers. Then the firmi was dissolved and William S. Dadmun entered the em- ploy of J. O. Bemis, shoe dealer, Worcester. Twenty months later he started in the shoe business again, under his own name, at 349 Main street. After two years Henry E. Putnam was admitted a part- ner and the firm name became Dadmun & Putnam. Charles H. Heywood represented Mr. Putnam's in- terests in the business. When the business was moved to the basement of the old city hall, Mr. Heywood was admitted as a partner and the firm name became Dadmun, Heywood & Company. When the city hall was torn down, after the new building was erected. the firm removed to its present loca- tion, 520 Main street. In the meantime the Put- nam interests had been acquired by the other part- ners and the firm name changed to Dadmun & Hey- wood. The present store is very prosperous and gives evidence of constant growth. It is one of the most spacious and best appointed in the city.

Mr. Dadmun attends the First Universalist church. He is a Republican in politics. He is one of the most prominent Free Masons of the city. He was made a Master Mason in Athelstan Lodge, June 1, 1870, 'received his Royal Arch degree in Eureka Chapter, April 9, 1872, received the Cryptic degree in Hiram Council, June 12, 1873, received his Templar degree in Worcester County Commandery, September 4. 1874, and has been the recorder with- out interruption since 1876. a period of thirty years. He is a member of the Scottish Rite bodies up to the Eighteenth degree, and trustee of Masonic frå- ternity. He is a member of Aletheia Grotto, Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets; and the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, of which he was a trustee for three years. He is a director of the Home Co-operative Bank.

He married, December 31, 1868, Lydia Lathrop, of Worcester. She was born April 1, 1845, daugh- ter of Samuel and Julia Ann ( Wheelock) Lathrop. Their children are: Alice Gertrude, born Decem- ber 9, 1869, died November 29. 1871 ; Wilton Wells, born December 27, 1872, married Alice W. Gifford, of Worcester, and they have one child-Chester Gifford, born September 5, 1897; Walter Robbins, born August 23, 1878.

WARREN FAMILY. Peter Warren (I), the immigrant ancestor of Waterman G. Warren and his family, of Holden, Massachusetts, was proba- bly born in England. No connection can be estab- lished between him and John Warren, of Water- town, who came over in 1630, and he was cer- tainly not son of John Warren as one writer states. Neither can any relationship be shown between Peter and Abraham Warren, who settled in Salem

in 1635; with Arthur Warren, who settled in Wey- mouth before 1637; with Richard Warren, who came on the "Mayflower" in 1620. There were other early settlers of the name, and the Warren families were numerous at an early date. The name is an- cient and distinguished also in England, where all these early immigrants were born. In fact the family dates back to a Baron of the name who came over with William the Conqueror, and fought in the bat- tle of Hastings in 1066. He was high in the con- fidence of the king and was one of two guardians left in charge of England when William returned to Normandy for a visit. William, the Earl of Warren, held the fief of Warrenne and many sur- names were adopted from the locality, so that per- haps not all of the family are descended from the Earl." The place of birth of Peter Warren is un- known and his English ancestry untraced. He was born in 1628, and bought land in Boston, March 8, 1659, of Thomas Atkinson. He was a . seafar- ing man. The nature of his business prevented him from figuring much in public records or hold- ing publice office.

He married (first) Saralı Tucker, of Dorchester, daughter of Robert Tucker, August 1, 1660. He married (second) Hannah - and (third) Esther Woodward. Children of Peter and Sarah Warren were : John, born September 8, 1661; Joseph, February 19, 1663, father of Joseph who was the father of General Joseph Warren, of Bunker Hill fame; Benjamin, July 25, 1665; Elizabeth, Janu- ary 4, 1667; Robert, December 14, 1670; Ebenezer, February 1, 1672-73, see forward; Peter, born and died 1675; Peter, April 20, 1676. Children of Peter and Hannah Warren were: Hannah, May 19, 1680; Mary, November 25, 1683; Robert, December 27. 1864.

(II) Ebenezer Warren, son of Peter Warren (I), was born in Boston, February II, 1672. He settled in that part of Dorchester, now Milton, Massachusetts, a section now of Boston. He mar- ried, June 2, 1697, Mary Ryder, of Milton. Their children, all born at Milton, were : Mary, born June 9, 1700; Ebenezer, March 30 1702, see forward ; Elizabeth, June 1, 1704; Jonathan, March 9, 1706; Hannah, August 11, 1708. Their are no further records of. children at Milton and none of the chil- dren settled in Milton.

(III) Ebenezer Warren, Jr., son of Ebenezer Warren (2), was born at Milton, Massachusetts, formerly Dorchester, and now Boston, March 30, 1702. He settled in Medford and removed thence to Leicester in 1744, when he bought the tannery now or lately owned by Edward Warren. He paid one hundred and twelve pounds, ten shillings. Be- sides the tannery he bought with it a house, bark- house, mill-house, beam-house and land. The house was a primitive affair and he built a good house in 1780. The homestead descended to his son Elijah whose son Henry Elijah took down the old house in 1860. Ebenezer died in Leicester in 1800. He married Lydia Harrington, of Brookfield. She died 1795. Their children were: I. Lydia, born Novem- ber 24, 1746, died August 7, 1748. 2. Ebenezer, born December 27, 1748, died February 13, 1753. 3. Jona- than. born November 27, 1750. see forward. 4. Lydia, born December 6. 1752, married, March 31, 1774, Abner Dunbar. born April 9, 1753, whose son Ebenezer was born March 29. 1777. and died Octo- ber 28, 1877, over one hundred years old, the grand- father of John D. Clark, Malcolm G. Clark and Mrs. F. A. Blake, of Rochdale. (See Clark sketch). 5. Ebenezer, born June 9. 1754. 6. Esther, married, 1782. Daniel Newhall, of Brookfield; resided at Al- stead, New Hampshire, and had children-John,

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Sally and others. 7. Hannah, married. 1781, Levi Chilson; resided in Leicester and had children -- Lydia, Warren, Edward, Humes, Ebenezer, Samuel, Basineth. 8. Elijah, born 1758. 9. Sally, married, 1786, Thaddeus Upham, of Watertown, and they had-Lewis (or Lois), Otis, Mary, Sally Upham ..

(IV) Jonathan Warren, son of Ebenezer War- ren (3), was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, No- vember 27. 1750. He married (first), January 3, 1775, Martha Bemia, of Spencer, Massachusetts. In 1796 his wife fell in a faint into the fireplace, con- taining a large bed of burning tanbark, and was fatally burned. He married (second) Lucy How, who died June II, 1831. He resided where Horace Warren lately lived, and a portion of his house is part of the present structure. In 1797 he bought a half interest in the old tanyard with his brother Elijah. He died January 26, 1827.

The children of Jonathan and Martha Warren were: Sally, born August 13. 1775, married John Beers; Joshua, July 25, 1777. settled in Vermont; Samuel, July 31, 1779, see forward ; Jonathan, De- cember 2. 1782; Polly, June 16, 1785, died 1800; Persis, March 5. 1788, married, April 1, 1818, Aaron Sibley ; died June 24, 1819, having one child, War- ren Sibley, born February 19, 1819, resided at Au- burn; Amasa, born November 16, 1790: Jesse Smith, March 18, 1794. Children of Jonathan and Lucy Warren were: Eliza, born February 16, 1799, mar- ried - Parker; Sarah, March 1I, 1801, married Curtis.

(V) Samuel Warren, son of Jonathan Warren (4), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, September 10, 1779. He was a tanner by trade. He settled in Auburn, Massachusetts, a town adjoining Leicester and Worcester, and became a prominent citizen there. He was a very active and zealous Baptist in religion. He was baptized in 1810, joined the church in 1814. He and his father-in-law erected the meet- ing house on their farm, then a church was organized at Auburn and a pastor settled. Samuel Warren was deacon of the church at the time of his death, September 10, 1832. He married, 1806, Sally Gould- ing. daughter of Captain Jonah Goulding. Their children, all born at Auburn, were: Waterman Gould- ing, born May 16, 1807, see forward ; Elbridge Gerry, March 27, 1810; Jonah Goulding. September 11, 1812; Samuel, October 31, 1816; John, November 27, 1819; Sarah Jane, April 10, 1825, died March 26, 1843; George, December 9. 1831.

Captain Jonah Goulding was born November 25. 1753, son of Colonel John Goulding, who re- sided in the northeast part of Grafton and was a tanner by trade. Late in life he was excessively corpulent. He was a soldier in the revolution from Grafton, under Captain Luke Drury and General WVard in 1775. He was conspicuous in "Shays Rc- bellion" after the revolution and commanded a company under Shays; led his men to Worcester and helped prevent Judge Artemas Ward from open- ing court. He was imprisoned after the collapse of the rebellion "forty days and forty nights," ac- cording to his own account of it, and was, of course, in serious danger of hanging. But the participants in the rebellion escaped with light punishments. the grievous conditions making leniency the wisest course. Captain Goulding was an honored and re- spected citizen ; returned to the militia and served faithfully. rising to the rank of colonel in com- mand of his regiment. Colonel John Goulding mar- ried (first), February 22, 1753. Lucy Brooks, born September 30, 1733. Colonel Jonah Goulding mar- ried (first). April, 1777. Grace Knowlton, daughter of Jonah Knowlton. He married (second) Widow Saralı Leland.

(VI) Waterman Goulding Warren, son of Dea- con Samuel Warren (5), was born on the Warren homestead in that part of the town of Ward (now Auburn) known as West Auburn, May 16, 1807. He was the eldest of six sons. The opportunities for schooling in his day were very limited. He attended the old district school for a few weeks during the winter term. In summer he worked on his father's farm and in the tannery. He learned the trade of tanner. He was twenty-five years old when his father died in 1832, and he inherited the tannery which Jonah Goulding bought of Nathaniel Southworth when he moved from Grafton to Au- burn. Mr. Warren conducted the tanning business with varying success until 1839, when he removed to Holden and entered partnership with his brother Samuel in the tannery which John P. Maynard built about 1825, at Eagleville, then called Brick City, in the year 1840. The partnership was dissolved in the spring of 1850, when Waterman G. Warren bought the Edward Richardson tannery. This tan- nery with seventeen acres of land was sold by John Watson to Heman Richardson, December 23, 1789, for one hundred and twenty pounds sterling. It is located a half mile from Holden Centre. The exact date of the building of the tanyard is un- known. The old tannery was enlarged and greatly improved, and the business successfully conducted by Mr. Warren alone and later in partnership with his son Samuel, for a quarter of a century.

In 1874, while continuing the business at the old stand in partnership with his eldest son Samuel, Mr. Warren formed a new firm with his son Berthier as partner, under the name of B. Warren & Co., and this firm commenced business in the brick tannery near Holden Centre built by Berthier Warren. This new tannery, in its character and equipment, its facilities for producing the kind of leather which is its specialty, card Jeather, probably is unsurpassed ' by any in the state. In 1882 the two firms became one : Samuel Warren, Berthier Warren and H. W. Warren all became partners with their father under the firm name of W. G. Warren & Sons, and a prosperous business was conducted by this firm until the death of the senior partner and father, August 7. 1886. at the age of seventy-nine years. During these years there had been a steady growth of busi- ness from the tanning of about fifteen hundred sides of leather in 1845 to twenty thousand in 1886. After Mr. Warren's death the business was continued by his three sons under the firm name of W. G. War- ren's Sons.

One who knew Mr. Warren well has written : "He was a devoted husband and father, kind-hearted and charitable. A man of good common sense, sound judgment and strictest integrity, and enjoyed the fullest confidence of all in his business and other relations. He had marked peculiarities and his strong personality impressed itself upon all with whom he came in contact. He was the relentless foe of the liquor traffic. The cause of temperance and all the moral reforms of his day received from him a liberal and hearty support. In his early life, in the palmy days of slavery, he was an Abolitionist, a follower of Gerritt Smith. Garrison and Phillips. He boldly proclaimed his sentiments in favor of liberty for the oppressed, when such action meant hardship, scorn and persecution (such was the unpopularity of the abolition movement even in New England). After the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law, he was zealous and active in all movements in behalf of the fugitive, and made his home on a place of refuge for the bondmen, a station on the Underground Rail- road to freedom-thus earning the honor due to those who have the courage of their convictions, and

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the daring of their duty." In his later years he was a stanch Republican. He and his wife were both attendant and active and liberal supporters of the Baptist church of Holden.

He married, April 22, 1830, Mary Eddy, born February 7. 1806, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hart) Eddy, of Auburn. Her father was a farmer. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1880. Mrs Warren died September 3, 1887. The children of Waterman Goulding and Mary (Eddy) Warren were: I. Ann Eliza, born February 13, 1831, mar- ried Rev. Lester Williams, of Holden, who was born at West Springfield, Massachusetts, July 24, 1823, now deceased: she resides in Holden; their only child was Waterman Lester Williams, born August 10, 1867, graduate of Amherst College, 1891. 2. Susan Ellen, born at Auburn, Massachusetts, May 27, 1833, resides at Holden, unmarried. 3. Samuel, born at Auburn, October 15, 1834, see forward. 4. Berthier, born October 22, 1836, married Eunice Boyden, of Holden, see forward. 5. Henry Water- man, born March IS, 1838, see forward.

(VII) Samuel Warren, son of Waterman Gould- ing Warren (6), was born at Auburn, Massachusetts, October 15, 1834. He was five years old when the family removed to Holden. He attended the public schools of Holden, various private schools, Worcester Academy and graduated in 1858 from the State Normal school at Westfield, Massachusetts. He then became associated with his father in the tanning business, and in 1867 was taken in partner- ship under the firm name of W. G. Warren & Son. At the end of ten years the tannery was sold to Michael McLoughlin, a former employee of the firm, who died not long after starting in business. The plant was bought back by the Warrens from McLoughlin's widow. When the business was sold to McLoughlin in 1881, the two firms of which Waterman G. Warren was the head became one and all three sons were members under the name of W. G. Warren & Sons. Since the death of their father the three sons have been in business under the firm name of W. G. Warren's Sons and have been very successful. Mr. Samuel Warren, the head of the firm, has done his full share to maintain the high standing of the firm and develop its business. Berthicr Warren died in February, 1905, and his share was purchased by the surviving members of the firm, which continues under the same name. Of late much of the leather produced in the Warren tannery has been made for Howard Brothers of Worcester for the manufacture of card clothing, etc. The hides used in the tannery came principally from Ohio and the west. After his father's death Samuel bought out the other heirs in 1888 and became the owner of the homestead.

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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 48

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