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sixty-nine years; married Persis and they
had seven children at Petersham : Betsey or Eliza, born April 24, 1797, married, January 1, 1822, Royal Bosworth; John Ward, born May II, 1799, died. 1840; Daniel, born September 12, 1803, married, 1831, Pamelia D. Miles, of Lancaster: Cylindia, born Au- gust 27. 1805, married, May 30, 1844, Levi Russell, of Hadley ; Horace, born November 21, 1807 ; Fanny, born April 1, 1812; Avery Williams, born March 21, 1814. 6. Lemuel, died 1807; married Prudence Gould, 1787, at Leverett, and had two children- Dexter, born May 29, 1789, married, 1814, Achsah Crocker : Polly, born December 17, 1795, married, February 16, 1815, Charles Cooley. 7. Samuel, born 1762, died April II, 1807, aged forty-four years. 8. Joab, died 1812; gave quitclaim deed of his share in his father's estate, February 25. 1811 ; married (intentions May 29, 1776) Lydia Hunt, of Green- wich, Massachusetts, and had three children-Joab, Jr., born February 21, 1782; Lydia, born February 1.4, 1789, married, December 9. 1813, Abiathar Blanchard; Ira, born February 22, 1797.
(V) Abel Stowell, son of John Stowell (4). was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, 1769, died there January 27, 18II, aged forty-two years. He married Rachel Freeman (intentions dated June 7, 1792, daughter of Eli and Mary Freeman, of Hard- wick. She died February 7, 1847, aged seventy- four years, four months and twenty-eight days. He- bought the rights of Asahel, his brother, in 1811; of Prudence, his sister, in 1808; of John, Jr., in 1805, their share in the estate of their father, John Stowell. His children: Horace, born 1798, died at Petersham, September 30, 1803, aged five years, five months and nineteen days; Abel, Jr., born 1806, died July 21, 1807, aged one year and twenty-three days; Clarissa, mentioned in will, married, March 5, 1816,- Simon Dudley; Rufus, see forward; Anna, men- tioned in will as well as the following: Sally ; Polly; Abel, Jr. The last named six had guardians. appointed, being under fourteen years of age, in 1812.
(VI) Captain Rufus Stowell, son of Abel Sto- well (5), was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, in 1796, died there October 12, 1843, aged forty-seven years. He was a farmer. He was active in public affairs and held a commission as captain of the Petersham militia company. Ile married, May 24, 1827, Anna Allen, daughter of Samuel and Anna Allen, of Barre, Massachusetts. She married ( sec- ond), April 15, 1846, Captain Lewis MeNear. Chil- dren of Captain Rufus and Anna Stowell: Henry Rufus, see forward; Mary E., died at the age of eighteen years: Emery Austin, resides in Tully; is associated with his brother in the woodenware business.
(VII) ITenry Rufus Stowell, son of Captain Rufus Stowell (6), was born in Petersham, Massa- chusetts, June 19, 1832. He attended the district schools of his native town and when not in school worked on the farm of his father. At the age of sixteen years, he left home with a pack on his back and went to North Amherst, Massachusetts, where he hired out on a farin for a season. The following year he did farm work in Deerfield. Massachusetts. Then he secured a position as foreman of a mattress factory in Greenfield, which he held until he was twenty years old. He possessed unusual mechanical ability and, observing the needs of the mattress making business, he invented some valuable ma- chinery for mattress manufacturing. He made some of the machines that he had invented for a concern at Lafayette, Indiana. Mr. Stowell next went to Quincy, Illinois, where he was engaged to erect machinery in a cotton factory. He became a partner
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in the business, but after two years was forced by a severe attack of malarial fever to retire. He re- turned to Massachusetts, and soon started in the grocery business at Greenfield. Next he entered the woodenware factory of his wife's uncle, Joseph Pierce, at Tully, Massachusetts, under a contract to work two years and learn the business from top to bottom on a salary of a dollar a day. In a few years he was admitted to partnership and the firm name became Pierce & Stowell. The business pros- pered until 1857 when the financial panic took all his savings. However, he was not discouraged and was soon on his feet. Again he lost all his property by fire, but his credit remained good and he was able to resume business and was soon making money. For many years the firm was Pierce & Stowell, then he continued under his own name until he removed to Athol village. HIe then admitted to partnership Frank C. Warrick, and the firm name has since been Stowell & Warrick. Mr. Warrick has for some years had charge of the de- tails of the business.
On his fiftieth birthday he removed to his pres- ent residence on the beautiful eminence midway be- tween the two villages of Athol and Athol Center, commanding a magnificent view of the valley. Here he expended inany thousand dollars in improving the grounds. His home was the scene of a sensa- tional burglary on Thanksgiving night in 1889. He had a safe in the sitting room, containing securities to the value of nearly fifty thousand dollars, all of which were stolen. To trace the burglars, secure their conviction and recover the property, was the work of thirteen months for Mr. Stowell and doubtless the most trying period of his eventful life.
In 1862, in response to a call from President Lincoln for volunteers, when the quota of Athol lacked eight men, Mr. Stowell, his foreman and four of his men enlisted, and his mill was closed for a year. They went out with Company F, of the Fifty-second Massachusetts Regiment, under Cap- tain Stone, and served in the Louisiana campaign. Only four of the six lived to return home. Mr. Stowell was director of the Miller River National Bank, and trustee, vice-president and member of the board of investment of the Athol Savings Bank. He was a member of Orange Lodge of Free Masons of Athol.
He married Lucina Houghton, who died in less than a year afterward while they were visiting at her home in Petersham. He married (second) Ellen A. Davis, daughter of Jarvis Davis, one of the leading citizens of Royalston, Massachusetts. Children of Henry Rufus and, Ellen A. Stowell : Carrie L., married W. H. Jewell, an attorney-at- law, residing at South Florida, Massachusetts; Bertha L., married E. C. Gaynor, bookkeeper for Stowell & Warrick; Della E.
NORCROSS FAMILY. Jeremiah Norcross (I), the immigrant ancestor of Otis llubbard Norcross, of Winchendon, Massachusetts, was born in Eng- land. He was a proprietor of Cambridge before 1642 and was admitted a freeman in February, 1652. He bought a house and land at Watertown, May, 1649. and became eventually a large proprietor, owning twelve lots besides his homestall, which was situ- ated on the North bank of the Charles river. ]Ie was selectman in 1649. He died in 1657. His will, presented at court October 6, 1657, had been de- clared before he went to England. He bequeathed to wife Adrean; son Nathaniel and his wife Sarah; son Richard and his wife Mary: Mary, wife of his wife's son John Smith; brother's daughter
Anne, wife of Samuel Davis; brother Charles Chad- wick; Sarah, wife of Francis Macy; to grandchil- dren in England. His children who came to Amer- ica were: Richard, sec forward; Rev. Nathaniel, graduate of Catherine llall, Cambridge, England, admitted freeman May 10, 1643, was minister at Lancaster, returned to England.
(II) Richard Norcross, son of Jeremiah Nor- cross (1), was born in England, 1621. He was ad- mitted a freeman May 20, 1653. For twenty years previous to 1681 he was the only school master in Watertown. He taught Latin as well as English and writing and continued as late as 1687. January 6, 1660-1, he was hired by the town for one year for thirty pounds and was allowed two shillings "a head for keeping the dry herd." He married, June 24, 1650, Mary Brooks, who was the mother of his seven children. She died February 24, 1671-72. lle married (second), November 18. 1673, Susanna Shattuck, widow of William Shattuck. She died December 1I, 1686; he died 1709. Children of Rich- ard and Mary Norcross were: Mary, born August 27. 1652, died October 19, 1661; Jeremiah, March 3, 1655, died November 30, 1717; Sarah, December 28, 1657, married, September 23, 1680, Joseph Childs, Jr .; Richard, August 4, 1660, see forward ; Mary, July 10, 1663, married John Stearns; Nathaniel, December 18, 1665, died December 1, 1717; Samuel, May 4, 1771.
(III) Richard Norcross, son of Richard Nor- cross (2), was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, August 4. 1660. He was a school teacher and dur- ing several of the later years of his life lived in Weston, Massachusetts, 'where he probably died. He married, August 10, 1686, Rose Woodward, daughter of John and Abigail ( Benjamin) Woodward. He married (second), August 6, 1695, Hannah Sanders, who died May 14, 1743. Children of Richard and Rose Norcross were: Richard, born De- cember 30, 1687; Samuel, born October 14, 1689, was a soldier in 1690 in the expedition to Canada ; died at Durham, Connecticut, 1724: Abigail, July II, 1692. Children of Richard and Hannah Norcross were: John, December 28, 1696; Hannah, February 16, 1698-99; Joseph, July I, 1701; Jeremiah, see for- ward; George, August 22. 1705; Rose, March 20, 1707-08, "to be called Ruth;" Peter, September 28, 1710, married. 1742, Elizabeth Benjamin ; William, March 14, 1714-5, married at Shrewsbury, November 6, 1741, Lydia Wheeler.
(IV) Jeremiah Norcross, son of Richard Nor- cross (3), was born at Weston, July 2, 1703. He settled in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, where he was frequently chosen to positions of trust. In 1725 he was in Captain Samuel Willard's company in the Indian frontier war. Soon after the drawing of lots in Rindge, New Hampshire, he became one of the proprietors and in 1759 was one of a committee to lay out a road from Ashburnham and another from New Ipswich to the centre of Rindge, but he never resided in Rindge except perhaps the last few years of his life. Ile married at Groton, January 28. 1730-31, Faith Page, born November 6. 1707, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Page, of Groton. Their children: Jabez, born March 10. 1731-32; Mary, January 24, 1733, died from the effects of a fall; Sarah, February 25. 1735-36, married Ephraim Pierce ; Page, April 9, 1738, sergeant in Captain Hale's company of Minute Men : Hannah, November TO. 1741 : Jeremiah, February 21, 1744, see forward; Phebe, January 5. 1745, died September 5, 1766; Elijah, March 7. 1749-50.
(V) Jeremiah Norcross, sixth child of Jeremiah Norcross (4), was born at Lunenburg, Massachu- setts, February 21, 1744. He settled in Rindge
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about the time of his marriage, in 1769. Ilis brother Jabez also settled there. He was a private in Cap- tain Nathan Hale's company of Minute Men who marched to Cambridge on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. In June, 1776, he signed the Declar- ation of Arms to oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United American colonies. He was also in Colonel Enoch Hale's regiment which marched from New Hamp- shire in August, 1778, to join the Continental army in Rhode Island. In 1781 he was on the committee to raise funds for the war and was also constable and tax collector. During an epidemic of spotted fever, he died December 1, 1811. His wife died Jan- uary 5, 1841, aged ninety-one years. He married November 23, 1769, Lucy Chaplin, at Rindge. She was born June 14, 1749, in Rowley, Massachusetts, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Chaplin, who came to Rindge from Atkinson, New Hampshire, early in 1769. Children of Jeremiah and Lucy Norcross were: David, married, March 8, 1795, Lucretia Chaplin; Daniel, see forward; Lucy, married Peter Welton; Sally, married - Farr, of Bradford, Vermont; Phebe, married, March 9, 1795, Luther Darling; Nancy, married, February 6, 1804, John Darling; Jeremiah, Jr., died 1811 of spotted fever. (VI) Captain Daniel Norcross. second child of Jeremiah Norcross (5), was born at Rindge, New Hampshire, March 28, 1781. He acquired the usual education of a farmer's boy at that period and helped his father on the farm. He remained on the homestead, which he owned after his father's deatlı, and was a farmer all his days. He was much respected by his townsmen. He was captain of the Rindge militia company.
lle married ( first) Polly Jones, daughter of Asa Jones. She died July 21, 1834. He married (sec- ond), June 16, 1835, Sally ( Hubbard) Rand, widow of Leonard Rand, and daughter of Deacon Heze- kiah Hubbard. Her father was a farmer. Captain Norcross died at Rindge, August 1, 1858. Children of Captain Daniel and Polly Norcross were: Eliza (twin), born June 25, 1804, died August 20, 1804. Eunice (twin), born June 25, 1804, died 1856; mar- ried, May 17, 1827, George W. Bryant, of Temple- ton, Massachusetts; their children-George E., Ma- rinda, Lucy Ellen, Harriet, Ilenry, Eunice Bryant. Nancy, born January 12, 1806, married, January, 1849. George L. Beals, of Winchendon, Massachu- setts, and they had-Mary L., born November 21, 1827; George L., Jr., born January 11, 1830; Charles L., born May 6, 1835; Nancy E., born April 21, 1837, died 1855; Martha E., born April 14, 1844, died 1857. Daniel, born February 20, 1807. Asa Jones, born February 15, 1800, died September 1, 1810. Lucy, born April 9, 1810, married, May 10, 1838, Addison Hubbard. Asa Jones (twin), born November 23. 1812, died October 1, 1813. Betsey (twin), born November 23, 1812, died April 28, 1843. Jeremiah, born April 25, 1814. Mary M., born August, 1815, died March 8, 1816. Josiah, born July 13, 1817, a physician of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, died South Reading, Massachusetts, January 15, 1866. Joshua, born April 6, 1820. Amasa, born January 26, 1824. Nathan, born July 27, 1826, died July 27, 1828.
( VHI) Joshua Norcross, son of Captain Daniel Norcross (6), was born at Rindge, New Hampshire, April 6, 1820. He attended the public schools of his native town and assisted his father on the farm. When he came of age he left the farm and went to work at Winchendon, driving a team of horses for Amasa Whitney. He remained in this position until 1844, when he returned to his native town and resumed farming with his father on the homestead, which was in the possession of the family over a
century up to 1890, when it was sold by Otis II. Norcross. The farm came into his possession after his father's death and he carried it on until his death, June 25, 1888. He made a specialty of sheep raising. He' attended the Orthodox Congregational Church. In politics he was a Republican, and in his early manhood belonged to the state militia.
}le married, December 4, 1844, Calista K. Cooper, of Alstead, New Hampshire, daughter of Iloratio and Betsey ( Gale) Cooper. Her father was a black- smith. Their children were: Darwin J., born Oc- tober 24, 1846, died July 3, 1869; Herbert H., July 25. 1848; Ilelen M., November 11, 1849, died July 23, 1851; Otis Hubbard, May 8, 1851; Lizzie O. (twin), March 9, 1853; Anna C. (twin), March 9, 1853. Abby Jane, October 6, 1856. The mother of these children died November 7, 1893.
(VII) Otis Hubbard Norcross, fourth child of Joshua Norcross (7), was born at Rindge, New Hampshire. May 8, 1851. He received his education in the public schools, completing his course in the high school at the age of twenty, when he removed to Winchendon, where he learned the trade of mason, of Warren B. Page. After working four years for Mr. Page he returned to Rindge and followed his trade there for nine years. He worked for J. War- ren Wilder at East Rindge and for the Cheshire Improvement Company. Then he went into busi- ness for himself as mason and contractor and con- tined in Rindge until August, 1904, when he came to Winchendon, where he has since then carried on his business as contractor and mason. Mr. Norcross resides on Elm street in a house that he purchased on coming to Winchendon. He attends the Congre- gational Church, In politics he is a Republican ; he has been active in the party organization and has served as delegate to various county conventions. He served the town of Rindge as selectman.
He married, May 25, 1880, Josie T. Wetherbee, of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. She was born Sep- tember 28, 1856, daughter of Marshall and Marinda ( Whittaker) Wetherbee. Children of Otis Hub- bard and Josie E. Norcross were: Ethel Josephine, born September 26, 1881; Anna Lizzie, March I, 1884: Sadie Hart, September 25, 18SS.
Marshall Wetherbee, son of Josiah and Clarissa ( Sawtell) Wetherbee, was born at Rindge. New Hampshire, June 30. 1817. and died at Ashburnham, Massachusetts, June 23, 1901, aged eighty-three years, cleven months and twenty-four days. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town and his early occupation was farming. He removed to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, in 1844, and a year later purchased a livery stable which he successfully conducted until shortly before his last illness, a period of fifty-seven years. He was a very promi- nent man in town affairs and held the office of con- stable and tax collector for many years. He was a deputy sheriff for Worcester county for thirty years and was also a state constable for a time un- der the old state probibitory law, a position that he filled with unusual zeal and success by reason of his own radical total abstinence and prohibition opinions. As the head of the Ashburnham Thief Detecting Society, he did very effective work, and was instrumental in securing the return of many stolen horses and the conviction of the thieves. He had been a justice of the peace since 1869, was se- lectman in 1869, assessor in 1866-74-75-76 and a member of the school committee for three years from 1873. He also served as overseer of the poor.
He was a director of the Ashburnham National Bank during the last ten or twelve years of its existence, and was a trustee of the Gardner Sav- ings Bank.
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Edna I. Tyler.
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He married, October 13, 1842, Marinda Whit- rtaker, daughter of Levi and Eunice Whittaker, of Mason, New Hampshire. She died about two years before Mr. Wetherbee. Seven children were born to them, but only three survive: George M., of Aslı- burnham; Josie Emma, wife of Otis H. Norcross, mentioned above; William H., of Fitchburg, Massa- chusetts.
EDNA IONE (SMITH) TYLER, principal of Tyler's Business College, is the daughter of Rev. Henry Weston Smith, and Lydia Annie (Joslyn) Smith. She was born at South Hadley Falls, Mas- sachusetts, October 20, 1861; married, at Putnam, Connecticut, April 27, 1884, to Erastus D. Tyler. The following year she came to Worcester and be- gan the practice of her profession as stenographer and typewriter, in which she met with signal suc- cess, her early education having given her the neces- sary training and experience.
She was a pupil at the Louisville (Kentucky) high school, and fitted for Vassar College, at Hart- ford, under the tutelage of Professor Harney, but her health failed, and she was compelled to abandon the college course. Believing that every woman should be trained for some occupation, should she be thrown upon her own resources, she studied shorthand and typewriting at the Cincinnati Phono- graphic Institute, of which Ben Pitman was the principal.
When Mrs. Tyler came to Worcester the useful- ness of the typewriter and the stenographer's pen had yet to be demonstrated to business inen of Wor- cester. That the typewriter would be considered an indispensable machine in every office, and that hundreds of girls would be employed as typewriter operators in the city of Worcester alone, was a condition unforeseen at that time by the most sanguine. Soon after Mrs. Tyler opened an office here, a demand for her services as court reporter and typewriter, was soon created, and for four years she was the official reporter of the jury-waived sessions of the superior court. She reported the first Metropolitan Water Board cases on account ·of the taking of land for the reservoir at Clinton and vicinity, and was the official reporter in the Quigley murder case. In 1887 she reported the famous Wilson vs. Moen suit. At present she is the official reporter of inquests for the district courts .of Western Massachusetts: Pittsfield, North Adams, Athol, Gardner, Gilbertville, Uxbridge, Blackstone, Southbridge, Webster, East Brookfield and West- boro. She reports also for the Boston & Maine, the New York. New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Albany Railroad Companies. One feature of her work shows the indomitable spirit which she possesses. Her right hand is disabled, and she was compelled to learn the use of her left hand in her stenography.
Though for sixteen years she had been giving private instructions in stenography, in September. 1900, she opened a school to teach typewriting, stenography, and the branches taught in other busi- ness colleges, which proved such a success that she found it necessary to get larger quarters. She re- tained her office in the State Mutual building, but removed her school to the Day building, where she remained for a year. Again, the increase in the number of students decided her to remove to her present location at the corner of Pleasant and Main streets, and she has twice enlarged her quarters, until she occupies the entire floor of the building. Special attention is paid to English, spelling and punctuation, and to the fitting of pupils for posi- tions in every department of business.
Mrs. Tyler was the first teacher of stenography in the city of Worcester, and that alone is a dis- tinction. Her sister, Mrs. G. Aglae Dudley is as- sociated with her in the business. Mrs. Tyler was for four years, president of the Worcester County Stenographers' Association, and is justly counted as among the best of her profession. Besides her duties in office work and teaching she has found time to write a number of serials, her first effort being a short story for the Worcester Spy.
"A Woman's Malice" was published as a serial in the Boston Globe and the Chicago Ledger. This was followed by the serial, "The Hand of Destiny," published by the same papers. Mrs. Tyler has in her office a framed letter from the Rev. A. Z. Conrad, highly commending this story. She is the author of "Geraldine's Secret," "The Hubbardston Tragedy," "On the Verge of Ruin," and "A Dual Nature," the two latter in serial form by the Chi- cago Ledger. "A Master Mind" is to be published in book form. Another serial from her pen is en- titled "The Honor of Labor."
Rev. Henry Weston Smith (Mrs. Tyler's father), was born at Ellington, Connecticut, January 6, 1827. IIe received his preliminary education at the Elling- ton high school, and afterwards studied divinity at the Theological Seminary. After completing his studies he was ordained, joined the Providence Con- ference and was appointed to the station at Westerly, Rhode Island. He married (first) Ruth Olive Yeo- mans, of Norwich, Connecticut. She died in 1856, aged twenty-seven. He preached in a Connecticut circuit until after his second marriage, when he became a local preacher and did not return to hold a pastorate, although his duties called him to preach in many towns of southern New England. He mar- ried (second) Lydia Annie Joslyn, of Tolland, Con- necticut. at Palmer, Massachusetts, February 23, 1858. He was then preaching at Deerfield, Massa- chusetts. His family lived at Springfield, Massa- chusetts, and South Hadley Falls, while he supplied pulpits in various places and delivered temperance lectures.
In the autumn 1863 he enlisted in the Fifty- second Massachusetts Regiment, and was elected lieutenant of Company H, but waived the appoint- ment in favor of a friend, and was unanimously chosen orderly sergeant. His regiment was en- camped for a few days at Greenfield, Massachu- setts, and afterwards at Jamaica Plains, New York, from which point they embarked on the Illinois for an unknown destination. Off Cape Hatteras they encountered a terrific storm, but the stanch steamer escaped and finally anchored off Galveston, Texas.
The regiment was assigned to General Banks' Department, General Grover's Division, and were sent up the Mississippi to Port Hudson. In the sanguinary battle of Irish Bend he took part, and in many skirmishes, and was under fire from the guns of Port Hudson for days. After the capture of Port Hudson his regiment marched up the Teche country in hot pursuit of the retreating Confederates, and he participated in the forced marches and severe hardships. He was offered a captaincy, but declined, and returned to the North by the "Henry Choteau," the first steamer that made its way up the Mississippi after the river was opened to navigation.
During the war, while he was in the service, Mrs. Smith and her children made their home with her parents, in Tolland, Connecticut.
After the war Mr. Smith resumed his work as a preacher and lecturer, traveled extensively, and was at Chicago at the time of the great fire.
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