Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. I, Part 49

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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He attends the Congregational church of Holden. He has been active in the Republican party organiza- tion, serving frequently as delegate to the Republi- can state convention and other nominating conven- tions. He was on the Holden school committee from 1862 to 1865 and from 1883 to 1886. He was as- sessor of the town of Holden in 1868-69-87-88. He was a representative to the general court in 1867, and selectman in 1872-73. He has held many other positions of trust and honor. He is a member of the Holden Farmers' and Mechanics' Club. Mr. Warren assisted materially in getting the new electric railroad built from Worcester to Holden and has considerable stock in the company. In business and town affairs for many years Mr. Warren has been a leader: his judgment has been trusted and his busi- ness ability widely recognized. He stands high in the estimation of his townsmen.

He married. May 13, 1869, Marion Elizabeth

Lakin, born June 27, 1845, at Paxton, daughter of George Shipley and Nancy (Hubbard) Lakin. Her father was a manufacturer of boots and shoes at Paxton and was prominent in town affairs, holding many town offices at various times; he died in 1875 and his wife died in 1883. Mrs. Warren was the only surviving child. Mrs. Warren was elected a member . of the Holden school committee in 1887, one of the first women holding this office in Massachusetts, and she has served with great credit to herself and to the distinct advantage of the public schools of the town. The children of Samuel and Marion E. Warren were: Herbert Lakin, born August 24, 1870, graduate of Amberst College, 1895; Arthur Kirke, born December 13, 1871; George Waterman, born December 3, 1882.

(VII) Berthier Warren, son of Waterman Gould- ing Warren (6), was born at Auburn, Massachu- setts, October 22, 1836. He removed to Holden with the family in 1840 and attended the public schools there. Later he was a student at Wilbraham Acad- emy, the Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massa- chusetts, and the Claverack (New York) Academy. Just after the close of the civil war, in 1866. he and his brother Henry purchased a cotton plantation in Leake county, Mississippi, and he lived there for nine years. In 1874 he returned to Holden, went into the tannery business, built the brick tannery and commenced business with his father as a partner under the name of B. Warren & Co., and later took in his brothers, under the firm name of B. & H. W. Warren & Co. Later the two Warren firms were consolidated and the new plant, built by Berthier Warren was used by the new firm of W. G. Warren & Sons. The chief product of the tannery has been card leather for card clothing. Mr. Berthier War- ren was an active and important factor in the busi- ness until his death. He was a man of unusual abit- ity and good judgment, successful in business and devoted to the interests of his firm, yet never a slave of his material interests. He died at his home. 744 Main street, Worcester, February 15, 1905.

He was liberal in his religious views. In politics he was a Republican. While he was in Mississippi he served on the board of registration one year, and was clerk of the chancery court three years. He was interested in town affairs, but never cared for public office. He was a charter member of the Worcester Driving Club, which for several years furnished the main racing events in Worcester. He was a member of the Worcester Agricultural So- ciety, and was a member of the Commonwealth Club. In Holden he organized the Young Men's Club, and he had a strong and wholesome influ- ence on the young men of that town.

Mr. Warren married, September 4, 1871, Eunice Chace Boyden, born June 18, 1841, daughter of Comfort and Silence (Dryden) Boyden, of Holden. Her father was a carpenter and millwright. Chil- dren of Berthier and Eunice Chace ( Boyden) War- ren were: 1. Mary Silence, born January 24, 1875, married, October 12. 1897, Dr. Walter Herbert Rich- ardson, and they have one son, Berthier Warren Richardson, born August 20, 1900. 2. Henry Lester, born April 9, 1880, died April 15, 1881.

(VII) Henry Waterman Warren, son of Water- man Goulding Warren (6), was born in Auburn, Massachusetts, March 18, 1838. He obtained his education in the public schools of Holden, at the Worcester Academy, the State Normal school at Westfield, Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he prepared for college, and at Yale, where he was graduated in the class of 1865, having an oration appointment at the junior examination and at commencement. He taught

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school six months at Nashville, Tennessee. 1866, with his brother Berthier Warren, he went to Leake county, Mississippi, and engaged in busi- ness as a cotton planter. He remained there ten years and was active in public affairs during the trying and difficult period of reconstruction. He was appointed judge of probate of Leake county in 1867 by General Adelbert Ames, acting governor of the state. He was elected a member of the con- stitutional convention of the state, although the whites outnumbered the negroes two to one in that county. He was elected to the legislature in 1870 and 1871, and was speaker of the house of repre- sentatives of the state of Mississippi in 1871. He was the chief clerk of the legislature for four years afterward. He was appointed by Gevernor Powers levee commissioner, whose duty it was to collect and disburse the funds for the payment of the old levee debt and to dispose of the tax lands held by the state for that purpose. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention held at Chi- cago in 1868, when General Grant was first nomi- nated, and also to the national convention at Cin- cinnati in 1876, when General Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated.

He returned to Holden in 1876 and has since then been actively interested in the tannery busi- ness. At present he and his elder brother Samuel are the only surviving partners of the well known firm of W. G. Warren's Sons, tanners. Mr. Warren has shared in the prosperity of the Warren busi- ness for the past thirty years and is one of the prominent men of the state in his line. He has been distinguished in public affairs as well as in business. In 'politics he has been active in the Republican party, a delegate to the various congressional con- ventions and other nominating conventions of the Republican party. He has been constantly called to positions of trust and honor in the town and state. He represented his district in the general court in 1882 and 1885, and served on important committees. He was on the board of overseers of the poor in 1890, has been town treasurer for nine years, was selectman in 1878-79-80-85-1902-03-04, and for several years was chairman of the board, has been water commissioner two years, and super- vised the installation of the Holden water works. Mr. Warren is an active attendant of the Baptist church in Holden and has been on the prudential committee. He has been president of the Holden Village Improvement Society for many years. He is a member of the famous old Skull and Bones Society at Yale, and of the Holden Farmers' and Mechanics' Club. In 1905 he was elected president of the Worcester & Holden Street Railway Com- pany, of which he has been a director from the organization of the company.

He married, November 8, 1877, Dora Louise Howe, born October 23, 1847, daughter of Deacon William and Mary Ann (Jefferson) Howe, of Holden, and granddaughter of Thomas Howe, son of Jotham and Dorothy llowe. Mrs. Warren's father engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods in partnership with Theron E. Ilall at the village now known as Jeffersonville, in Holden, and later with M. V. B. Jefferson, as Howe & Jefferson, which was the name of the firm for twenty-six years. Mr. Howe was deacon of the Baptist church, of which he was a member over sixty years. He was for. eleven years selectman of the town of Holden, and in 1887 was representative to the gen- eral court. (See sketch of Howe family. ) Children of Henry Waterman and Dora Louise Warren are: William Howe, born September 28, 1879, resides at home with his parents; Blanche Louise, born July

II, 18SI, married April 3. 1906, Rev. Alfred Edward Alton, of Rome, New York; Helen Goulding, born November 7, 1883; Waterman Goulding, born No- vember 16, 1890.

INGRAHAM FAMILY. Genealogists begin the record of the Ingraham family with Randolph, the son of Ingel'ram or Ing'ram, who was sheriff of Nottingham and Derby in the reign of Henry 1I (II33-1189), as were his sons, Robert and William.

Robert Ingram, Knight, whose arms are painted at Temple Newsam (or Newsham), England, was of such eminence in the reign of Henry III, that the Prior and Convent of Lenton granted to him a yearly rent out of their lands, in Sheynton and Nottingham, in recognition of his military services in their defense. Temple Newsam, an immense estate, six miles in length and four in width, sit- uated about four and a half miles east of Leeds, England, now called the "Ingram Estate," was first a settlement of Knights Templar in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. After their dispersion, it was granted by Edward III to Sir John Darcy, and descended to Lord Thomas Darcy, who was be- headed by Henry VIII. The estate was then for- feited to the Crown. It was afterward granted by the same monarch (1554) to Mathew, Earl of Len- nox, and here was born his son, Henry Darnley, who later became the husband of Mary, Queen of Scoto. The estate descended to their son, James I of England, and from him to his kinsman, Esme Stuart, Duke of Lennox, from whom it passed to Sir Arthur Ingram, the first of the Lords Viscount Irwin, one of the conditions being that the room in which Lord Darnley was born should remain unaltered. This room is still called the "King's Chamber."

Sir Arthur, who is supposed to have been born about 1570, was celebrated for his valor as a cavalier. He was a near relative of Wentworth, the celebrated Earl of Stafford. He was twice married first to Eleanor, daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby, of the "Red House." Second to Lady Katherine, daughter of Thomas, Lord Viscount Fairfax, of Gilling. Sir Arthur died in 1655. His sons were: Henry and Arthur. (The portraits of Sir Arthur in cavalier costume, of the First Vis- count Irwin in full armor, and of Henry, the second Viscount Irwin in half armor, all nearly full length, were in the collection of the Bishop of California, William Ingraham Kip, DD. LL. D., who died in 1894).

Henry, the eldest son of Sir Arthur Ingram, born between 1595 and 1600, was, at the time of the Restoration, six years after the death of his father. created a Peer of Scotland by Charles II, with the title of Viscount Irwin, by letters patent, dated May 23, 1661, as a recompense to the family for their loyalty. He married Anne, daughter of Mon- tacute, Earl of Manchester, a leader in parliament. The male branch in England, as descended from Sir Henry, the second Viscount Irwin, became ex- tinct with Charles Ingram, ninth Viscount Irwin. who died in 1778. (Burke's Extinct Peerage). His daughter, the Marchioness of Hertford, and Lady William Gordon, successively inherited Temple Newsam, and from them it passed to their sister, Mrs. Hugo Maynell, whose son took the name of Ingram, and his descendants are the present owners of the family estate.

Arthur Ingram, of Barrowby, second son of Sir Arthur, was born between 1595 and 1600. He mar- ried a daughter of Sir John Mallory about 1615; and genealogists agree that from him is descended the Ingraham family in the United States.

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Edward Ingraham, the first of the name to come to America, was born in 1617. At the age of eighteen years, in July, 1635, he sailed in the ship "Blessing," and settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor as early as 1038. His oc- cupation was farming.

Richard Ingram, as he apparently preferred to spell his name, came to America between 1638 and 1642. He settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where in1 1645 he was a proprietor. Some years later he removed to Northampton, Massachusetts, where in 1668, late in life, he married (probably not his first marriage) Joan Rockwell Baker, daughter of Wil- liam Rockwell, and widow of Jeffrey Baker, of Windsor, Connecticut. He contributed a sum at the time of the general subscription for the support of Harvard College, in 1672-3. He died in August, 1683, and his widow died September 16, 1683, both at Northampton, Massachusetts.

Jared Ingraham, who settled first at Boston, also went to Rehoboth, where Richard lived, and had several children born in Swansea, near Rehoboth, between 1665 and 1671. He left descendants in that vicinity.

Since genealogists agree that the Ingraham fam- ily in America are descended from Arthur Ingram, of Barrowby, the second son of Sir Arthur Ingram, it is quite probable that Edward Ingraham, who came to America in 1635, and Richard Ingram, who came between 1638 and 1642, were brothers, and were sons of Arthur of Barrowby. Also that Jared Ingram, of Boston, Rehoboth and Swansea, and John Ingram, of Boston and Hadley, were sons of Richard, as indicated by the fact that they spelled the name Ingram, and were located at various times near Richard.

(I) John Ingram, presumably a son of Richard Ingram, mentioned above, and the pioneer ancestor of Edward Payson Ingraham, was born in England about 1642. He came to New England when a young man, and settled first in Boston, Massachu- setts. He removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, with two others in 1661, and was admitted a freeman in 1863. He was a member of Joseph Kellogg's company of Hadley, under Captain William Turner, and was engaged in the fight at Turner's Falls, during King Philip's war, May 19, 1676. He died June 22, 1722.

He married, in 1664, Elizabeth Gardner, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Gardner, of Hadley, Massa- chusetts. She died November 29, 1684. Their children were: John, born June 29, 1665; Jadiah, August 16, 1668; Samuel, October 8, 1670; Eben- ezer, February 3. 1673; Nathaniel, of whom later; Jonathan, 1676; Elizabeth, May 1, 1679; Abigail, January 12, 1683.

(11) Nathaniel Ingram, fifth son and child of John (I), and Elizabeth (Gardner) Ingram, was born at Hadley, Massachusetts, October 8, 1674. He and his son Nathaniel had a grant of land at South Hadley, which the Ingraham family retained and oc- cupied one hundred and seventy-five years. This land was sold in the spring of 1904.

Nathaniel Ingram married, October 20, 1696, Esther Smith, born March 31, 1674, daughter of Chileab and Hannah (Hitchcock) Smith, of Hadley Massachusetts. Their children were: Esther, born July 23, 1697; Elizabeth, April 6, 1699; Abigail, August 24, 1700; Mercy, April 15, 1702; Ebenezer, November 18, 1703; Nathaniel, of whom later ; Han- nah, April 14, 1711; Jonathan, June 5, 1713; Sarah, October 2. 1717.

(III) Nathaniel Ingram, second son and sixth child of Nathaniel (2) and Esther ( Smith) Ingram,

was born at Hadley, Massachusetts, May 18, 1708. The original house built by him at South Hadley stands today as the ell to the house that his son Nathaniel built in the year 1800.

He married, November II, 1742, Martha Kellogg, born May 21, 1720, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Smith) Kellogg, of Hadley. The children were : Nathaniel, of whom later ; Sarah, born September 18, 1745: Martha. November 23, 1747.

(IV) Nathaniel Ingram, eldest child of Nathaniel (3) and Martha (Kellogg) Ingram, was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 23, 1743. He was a prominent and prosperous citizen of his na- tive town. He was a farmer, and built the house mentioned above on the old Ingram place. He was one of the two largest growers of grain in that vicinity. He was a minute-man, a private in the company of Captain Noah Goodwin, which marched on the alarm at Lexington, April 19, 1775. He was also in Lieutenant Martin White's company, Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment, in the northern de- partment, under General Gates, and marched on the alarm at Bennington. August 17, 1777.

He married, December 12, 1769, Hannah Warren, born August 25, 17.45, died July 8. 1838, daughter of Daniel and Martha (Coolidge) Warren, of Marl- boro, Massachusetts. She was a direct descendant of Richard Warren, the twelfth signer of the compact in the "Mayflower." The children of Nathaniel and Hannah (Warren) Ingram were: Esther, born April 19. 1770; Hannah, February 16, 1772, died March 15, 1797; Ebenezer, November 3, 1774, died February 19, 1844; Martha, February 2, 1777, died October 21, 1869; Nathaniel, of whom later; Esther (second), April 19, 1781; Abigail, July 2, 1784; Artemas, March II, 1787, died 1830; Alpheus, Octo- ber 31, 1789, died June 24, 1862; Warren, October 31, 1792, died May 2, 1839.

(V) Nathaniel Ingram, second son and fifth child of Nathaniel (4) and Hannah (Warren) Ingram, was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, March 26. 1779, and died September 19, 1817. He was a pros- perous farmer and held various town offices in South Hadley.

He married, March 5, 1807, Ruth B. Burnett, born June 27, 1787, died April 14. 1838, daughter of Jonathan and Mehitable (Dickinson) Burnett, of South Hadley. Their children were: Mary, born November 13, 1808, died September 15, 1885; she married, June 7, 1834. Lucius Horton Cowles, who was born December II. 1796, and died April 3. 1869; Dexter, of whom later; Lewis Burnett, May 13. 1813, died September 2, 1846; married, October 28, 1834, Sophia U. Graves, who was born February 24. 1813, and died May 19. 1850; Nathaniel, May IO, 1815, a physician of Pelham, Massachusetts, died January 11, 1840; Ruth, August 2, 1817, died July 7, 1889; married Emery Tilton, who was born April 24. 1817, and died January 1, 1880.

(VI) Dexter Ingraham, second child and eldest son of Nathaniel (5) and Ruth B. (Burnett) In- gram, was born at South Hadley. Massachusetts, April 29, 1810, and died June 9, 1892. His educa- tion was acquired in the common schools of that town. He was but seven years old when his father died. He learned the trade of carpentering, and followed this for a number of years. He also taught singing schools in various places in the Connecticut valley, and was choir director of the old First Church at South Hadley for twenty-seven years. Most of his active years, however, were spent in farming in South Hadley. In religious belief he was a Con- gregationalist, and in politics, first a Free Soil Ad- vocate and later a Republican. He was the first

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Republican representative to the general court from South Hadley, was a selectman, and assessor for a number of years.

He married (first), April 30, 1834, Lucina Ball, who was born January 31, 1810, daughter of Abraham and Martha (Field) Ball, of Amherst, Massachu- setts. Abraham Ball was a farmer, born September 14, 1783, died April 16, 1837. Martha (Field) Ball was born October 6, 1785, died March 3, 1857. Dexter Ingraham married (second), December 25, 1869, Elizabeth M. Butts, of South Hadley, who was born April 30, 1818, and died April 22. 1895. The children of Dexter and Lucina (Ball) Ingraham were : Emery Dexter, of whom later; Albert Welling- ton, of whom later; Nathaniel Hoyt, of whom later ; William Field, of whom later; Mary Lucina, of whom later : Edward Payson, born March 8, 1852, died September 16. 1853.

(VII) Emery Dexter Ingraham, eldest child of Dexter (6) and Lucina (Ball) Ingraham, was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 6, 1835. His education was received in the public schools of the town. He very early displayed marked musical ability, and commenced the study of music under the able tuition of his father. While still a youth he played in the orchestras and bands of the vicinity. At the age of seventeen he was instructor and di- rector of several military bands. As very little music was published in those days, the repertoire of bands was almost wholly manuscript. It was therefore very necessary that the director should have a thorough knowledge of instrumentation, harmony and composi- tion. Previous to the spring of 1859 he moved to Haydenville, Massachusetts, where he assumed the leadership of the band. He soon went to Bath, Maine, where he accepted a position as bookkeeper for a firm of ship builders, and took charge of the Bath band. He enlisted August 22, 1861. as the regimental bandmaster of the Seventh Maine Regi- ment. This regiment was at Baltimore for eight weeks, going thence to Kalaramo Heights, and from there to winter quarters at Lewinsville, Virginia, where it remained until March, 1862. At that time this band together with many others was disbanded. He was discharged in August, 1862, and came to Boston. He enlisted in the navy at Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 13. 1864, receiving his dis- charge August 26, 1865. He then joined the cele- brated P. S. Gilmore Band of Boston, in which he had played for a time before enlisting in the navy. He enlisted in the navy for the second time in April, 1867. and served until March 31, 1868, after which he was again affiliated with the Gilmore Band until 1870, when he became leader of the National Band at Taunton, Massachusetts. He retained this posi- tion for two years. He served various engagements with the Gilmore Band while he was still in the navy, while at Taunton, and from 1872 to 1874, when he came to Worcester to take the leadership of the National Band, his brother Albert having retired. Two years later he was made leader and manager of the organization now known as "Battery B Band" of Worcester. Massachusetts. At that time Colonel Fred W. Wellington was in command of the battery. Few military bands have maintained so high a standard of excellence as this organization, and its engagements have extended throughout New Eng- land, the Middle States, and Canada. Mr. Ingra- ham attends the Piedmont Congregational Church. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the George H. Ward Post, No. 10, Grand Army of the Republic.

He married. June 26. 1856. Martha Jane Preston, who was born at South Hadley, Massachusetts. Sep- tember 14. 1835, daughter of Joel and Mabel ( Smithi)

Preston, of South Hadley. Joel was born Decem- ber 23, 18or, and died September 19, 1883. He was a farmer. Mabel (Smith) Preston was born April 1. 1806, and died October 17, 1869. The children of Emery Dexter and Martha Jane ( Preston) Ingra- ham are: Louis Albert, of whom later; Edward Payson, of whom later.

(VIII) Louis Albert Ingraham, eldest child of Emery Dexter (7) and Martha Jane ( Preston) In- graham, was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts. June 23, 1857, died September 16, 1906. When about six years of age he removed with his parents to Boston, receiving his education in the public schools of that city and in Taunton. He began the study of the piano and cornet while still attending school, and became proficient as a cornetist. Coming to Worcester in 1874, he went to work in the tuning department of the Taylor & Farley Organ Com- pany, having previously served an apprenticeship with his uncle, N. H. Ingraham, in New Haven, Con- necticut. He entered into an engagement with the Vocalion Organ Company, about 1887, and retained this position up to his decease. He was connected with several musical organizations, and was a prom- inent member of the Battery B Band and orchastra, which he joined in 1880.

He married (first) Mary E. Sampson, of Wor- cester. They had one child, Charlena Louise, born March 25, 1880, died April 11, 1888. He married (second) Alice Clapp, of Worcester. They had one child, Nina D., born March 10, 1883, died Septem- ber 7. 1897.

(VIII) Edward Payson Ingraham, second and youngest child of Emery Dexter (7) and Martha Jane ( Preston) Ingraham, was born in Haydenville, Massachusetts, April 27, 1859. At the age of four years he removed with his parents to Boston. He was educated m the public schools of Boston and Taunton. He came to Worcester in 1874 and be- gan his business career as clerk in the Central Na- tional Bank. He was steadily advanced until 1878, when he resigned his position on account of illness. For a time after this he continued the study of music, in which he had been interested since his child- hood, and for the next few years he made the playing and teaching of the piano and violoncello his profession. In 1883 he entered the fire insurance business, associating himself with Edwin G. Field, of Worcester, under the firm name of Field & Ingra- ham. In 1885 he retired from the firm, having bought an interest in the fire insurance agency of Loren C. Parks, and in 1888 he acquired Mr. Parks' in- terest and afterward conducted the business in his own name. He was elected secretary of the Wor- cester Board of Underwriters in 1889, which posi- tion he held in connection with his insurance busi- ness. In 1895 he sold his insurance business to Alexander C. Munroe, of Worcester, and thereafter devoted his entire attention to the interests of the Worcester Board of Underwriters until January I, 1903, when he resigned his position to enter into partnership with Mr. Munroe, the firm name being A. C. Munroe & Ingraham. The agency is one of the largest and best known in Worcester county. Mr. Ingraham is a director of the Home Co-Operative Bank and the Thule Music Hall Association. Mr. Ingraham is a Republican, and a member of the Piedmont Congregational Church and parish. He is also a member of the following organizations : The Congregational Club. Commonwealth Club, and the Worcester County Mechanics Association.

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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 49

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