Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 114

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732

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(V) Ephraim Allen, son of Ephraim Allen (4), was born October 24, 1731. He settled for a time in what is now Boylston, then removed and lo- cated at Petersham. He owned the mill built in Boylston by the Henderys on Buek brook and since owned by Joseph Toner and others. He had a strong and musical voice and for many years, seated in the front gallery, he led the sacred psalmnody of the sanctuary. He married, July 12, 1757, at Shrewsbury, Huldalı ( Maynard) Chestnut, of Shrewsbury, daugh- ter of Elisha Maynard. Children of Ephraim and Huldah Allen were: Elijah, born March 3, 1758; Hannah, born January 10, 1760; Ephraim, born April 9, 1763. see forward; Elisha, born May 7, 1765, at Shrewsbury; Abner, born December 1, 1767, set- tled at Palmer: Cynthia, born January 17, 1770; Huldah, born May 3, 1772; Samuel, baptized Octo- ber 26, 1777, settled at Westfield, New York, father of Anthony B. and Richard L. Allen, the founders of the American Agriculturist.

(\']) Ephraim Alen, son of Ephraim Allen (5), was born at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, now Boyls- ton, April 9, 1763. He was brought up at Peter- sham and Rutland. lIe settled in Hubbardston, where his children were born and where he died about 1819. Ifis farm was in the north part of Hubbardston and is now or was lately owned by descendants. Ile was prominent in town affairs in Hubbardston, a seleetman in 1798-99-1800-09-10-12- 13. He was representative in the general court 1812- 13. Ile was a member of the convention that drafted the state constitution in 1820. He was a man of

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high character and strong religious faith. He was a member of the Unitarian Church. He was a sol- dier in the revolution, in Captain Nathaniel Wright's company, Colonel Luke Drury's regiment, in 1781. He married (first) Lydia Warren, of Northbor- ough. who died February 7, 1827. He married ( sec- ond) Mrs. Elizabeth (Howard) IIolden, widow. She died December 8, 1845, aged eighty-four years. Children of Ephraim and Lydia Allen, all horn at Hubbardston, were: Asa, born April 18, 1788, mar- ried Lydia Adams; Rebecca, born January 1I, 1790, baptized at Rutland, married William Rice; Levi, see forward; John, born September 14, 1793, died November 14, 1863; Roxa, born October 30, 1795, died January 15, 1818; Breck, born April 9, 1798, married Sally Derby, December 15, 1824; Lucy, born June 23, 1800, died February 22, 1823; Lydia, born September 14, 1802, married John Whitney, of Westminster ; Harriet, born October 23, 1801, died January 13, 1827; Willard, born December 25, 1806, married Alona B. Hubhard, of Holden; Sumner, born April 17, 1810, died March 7, 1816.

(VII) Levi Allen, son of Ephraim Allen (6), was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, November 27, 1791, died July 1, 1872, aged eighty years, at Westminster, Massachusetts. He received the usual common school education at Hubbardston. He started in life as a farmer in partnership with his brother Breck, on part of their father's farm. In 1838 he sold out to his brother and removed to Westminster, where he bought of John Dunn the original Josiah Jackson place, Lot No. 92, in the north part of the town near the Gardner line. He bought more land from time to time and increased his farm to one hundred and twenty acres with much woodland. He was one of the pioneers at grafting, and he was very successful in getting excellent fruit from the numerous wild apple trees, etc. He also cut stock from his timber for the chair fac- tories of the town. While in Hubbardston he trained with the militia. In politics he was a Whig, later a Republican, and was a selectman of Hub- bardston several years. He was in early life a Unitarian, but later joined the Universalist Church, and was elected a deacon. He was a man of ster- ling worth and exemplary life. A supporter of anti- slavery and temperance movements, active in re- ligious and charitable work.

He married, March, 1818, Isabella Mann, who died February 14, 1864, aged sixty-nine years. She was the daughter of Ebenezer and Mary ( Bullard) Mann. (Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Allen are printed in the history of Westminster.) Their chil- dren are: Roxa, born June 27, 1818, married Solon Raymond; Darius M., born May 14, 1822, married Ruth Pollard, October 25, 1849, and she died at Westminster; he married (second) Sophia Ober ; removed to Ohio and later to Douglassville, Georgia, where he died in 1903; Lyman, see forward; Ad- ·dison, born September 20, 1833, died March 20, 1834.

(VIII) Lyman Allen, son of Levi Allen (7). was born in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, January 15, 1826. He attended the public schools there, but removed with his parents to Westminster when he was twelve years old and also attended the public schools in Westminster and the Westminster Acad- ·emy. He then learned the chairmaker's trade, and. after ten years spent in this line of work in West- minster, Jamestown, New York, Columbus and De- catur, Georgia, and Hopedale, Massachusetts, he went to Meeker county, Minnesota, where he farmed for seven years, owning one hundred and sixty acres. After the Indian massacre of 1862, which drove many of the settlers in that state from their

homes. he returned to Westminster to take charge of his father's farm. Spent twenty-seven years there, then removed to Lunenburg, Massachusetts, where he is still engaged in farming. Mr. Allen was active in public affairs in Westminster. He is a Republican in politics. As moderator of town meet- ings on many occasions, the town history says of him: "He has displayed much ability and tact, as well as good knowledge of parliamentary usage." He was selectman of Westminster twelve years, and assessor for the same period of time. Ile has fre- quently served as delegate to Republican nominat- ing conventions. Ile is a member of the Uni- versalist Church and was leader of the choir in the Westminster church. He was a member of the Ellicott Lodge of Odd Fellows at Jamestown, New York, and during its first two years president of the Westminster Mechanics' and Farmers' Asso- ciation.

He married, November IS, 1855, at Hopedale, Angeline Chapman, horn December 2, 1830, daugh- ter of Charles and Nancy (Bailey ) Chapman, of New London, Connecticut. Her father was a ship- builder and storekeeper. The children of Lyman and Angeline Allen are: Charles Levi, born at Union Grove, Minnesota, August 30, 1857, see for- ward; Lillian, born at Union Grove, Minnesota, June 1, 1862, died December 9, 1864.

(1X) Charles Levi Allen, son of Lyman Allen (8), was born at Union Grove, Minnesota, August 30. 1857. He was educated in the public schools of Westminster, Massachusetts, and in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated m 1879 as a mechanical engineer, in which line he has since been employed. Is now (1906) superintendent of a large machine shop in Providence, Rhode Island. He married, October 23, 1883, Mary O. Hutchins, of Templeton, Massachusetts. Their chil- dren are: 1. Roy Hutchins, born September 3, 1884, graduated from the Boston Institute of Technology as a mining engineer in June, 1905, is now (1906) in Mexico. 2. Mabel Lillian, born November 20, 1885, a student at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. 3. John Edwards, born November 18, 1892.

MANSFIELD FAMILY. Richard Mansfield was the immigrant ancestor of Edward Alexander Mansfield, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. One of the first settlers of New Haven, Connecticut, ancestor of about all of that surname in the state, New York, and several southern and western states, came from Exeter, Devonshire, England, in 1639, when New Haven was known as Quinnipiac. He bought his homestead of James Marshall, of Exeter, Eng- land. It was situated on the northwest corner of what is now Elm and Church street, extending from near Temple street easterly and round the corner northerly to . a point near the present Wall street. He owned another lot on State street, nearly op- posite the county bank building. In the schedule of the first planters in 1641 lie is rated at four hun- dred pounds, thirty acres in the first division, six acres in the Neck, twenty-two acres of meadow, and eighty-eight acres in the second division. About this time he established his large farm and built his dwelling house and farm buildings at a place called East Farms in the second division, some four miles and a half out, on the present New Haven road, where he lived until his death, Jan- uary 10, 1655. Mansfield took the oath of fidelity July 1, 1644.

His wife's name was Gillian. After his death she married (second), 1657, Alexander Field and lived in New Haven; he died in 1666 and she then

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went to live with her son, Moses Mansfield, whose homestead occupied the large lot corner of Elm and Church streets, formerly his father's. The dwelling house fronted on Elm street. She died in 1669. Children of Richard and Gillian were: Jo- seph, probably born in England in 1636, was admitted a freeman February 8, 1657, inherited his father's homestead in what is now the town of Hamden, ad- joining New Haven; married Mary -; died November 15, 1692. Moses, see forward.

(II) Moses Mansfield, son of Richard Mansfield (1), was born in 1639. He was admitted a free- inan May 1, 1660, and died October 3, 1703. He was a major in the military service of the colony, and that was the highest rank in the colonial troops, and Major Mansfield fought in King Philip's war. The town of Mansfield, Connecticut, was named in his honor. On the present site of the town he de- feated the Indians in battle. He was a member of the general court or assembly forty-eight sessions. The court met twice a year or oftener. He was also judge of the probate court and of the county court. He owned and occupied as his homestead the corner of the present Elm and Church streets, formerly owned by his father. He sold a lot for a minister's house January 6, 1684. With three others he under- took to build a saw mill at Pine brook by Sperry's gap under the west rock. He was moderator of the town meeting 1702 and at divers other times. He and Sergeant John Ball inherited the property of Widow Ellen Glover December 23, 1697. In 1697 he was a committee of the Hopkins' grammar school fund. He deeded several pieces of land to his son Moses, Jr., October 26, 1702.

He married, May 5, 1664, Mercy Glover, daughter of Henry Glover, an early settler and prominent man. He married (second) Abigail Yale, daughter of Thomas and Mary Yale. She was born May 5, 1660, died February 28, 1709, in her forty-ninth year. She was buried in the graveyard in New Haven and his "monumental table" is still in good state of preservation. The children: Abigail, born February 7, 1664, married John Atwater, September 13, 1682; Mercy, born April 2, 1667, married, 1691, John Thompson, son of John and grandson of the first settler, Anthony Thompson; Hannah, born March 1I, 1669, married Gershom Brown, about 1795; Samuel, born December 31, 1671, graduated at Harvard College in 1690, followed John Davenport as teacher in charge of the Hopkins grammar school ; Moses, born August 15, 1674, married Margaret Prout, daughter of John Prout, he was a leading citizen ; Sarah, born June 14, 1677, married William Rhodes, January 1, 1698; Richard, born July 20, 1680, died August 7, 1681; Bathshua, born January 1, 1682, married, January 22, 1705, Joseph Chap- man; Jonathan, born February 15, 1686, see for- ward.

(III) Deacon Jonathan Mansfield, son of Moses Mansfield (2), was born at New Haven, Connecticut, February 15, 1686, baptized March 21, 1686. He joined the New Haven church under Rev. James Pierpont, August 28, 1709. His homestead was part of the original Mansfield lot on Elm street, which extended from near the present Temple street to Church street. He was an active and enterprising man. His name appears on the land records in fifty-six deeds, and in the court and town records thirty-nine times. He served on many important committees, was moderator of town meetings, and was a successful and prosperous farmer. His will is dated October 1, 1767, and he left a very good estate for his day-fourteen hundred and ninety-three pounds. In August, 1710, the general court met at his house, and the same year he was paid for at-

tending the court as constable. He was an ensigir in the military company.

He married, June 1, 1708, Sarah Alling, daughter of John Alling and Susannah Coe, daughter of Robert Coe, of Stratford, Connecticut. The inscrip- tion on his monument, removed from the ancient cemetery to the Grove Street cemetery, Cedar ave- nue, College lot, reads: "Here lyeth intered the- body of the Worshipful John Alling, assistant, who. died March 25th, 1717, aged 76 years." He was. the son of Rodger Alling, one of the English emi- grants who settled in New Haven in 1639, became a deacon and treasurer of the jurisdiction. Jonathan. Mansfield's wife died May 4, 1765, aged eighty years. Her gravestone in the Grove Street cemetery, Syca- more avenue, No. 28, is inscribed: "Here lyes. intered the body of Mrs. Sarah Mansfield, the vertuous consort of deacon Jonathan Mansfield, who having faithfully in her place served God and his. people to a good old age, fell asleep May 4, 1765, aged 80."

He married (second), May 13, 1766, at New- Haven, Abigail Dorman, widow of Ebenezer Dor- man, and daughter of James and Abigail ( Bennet) Bishop. She was born September I, 1707, married. Ebenezer Dorman, August 26, 1731. Mansfield's second wife joined the church August 9, 1747, and died 1798. Jonathan Mansfield died January IO, 1775, almost eighty-nine years old. The children : Moses, born May 5, 1709, married Anna Mary Kierstead, May 17, 1734, of a wealthy Dutch family of New York; married (second) Rachel Ward, Feb- ruary 17, 1748; graduated at Yale College, 1730. Moses, born January 27, 1711, died young. Susan- nah, born December 9, 1712, married, December 23, 1736, Samuel Mansfield, only child of Ebenezer, born January 28, 1711, and died in 1750; she married (second) John Stone, of Millbury. Sarah, born May 2, 1715, married, February 21, 1739, Captain Thomas Wilmot, descendant of Benjamin Wilmot, a first settler. Stephen, born November 14, 1716, see forward. Nathan, born November 15, 1718, mar- ried, 1745, Deborah Dayton. Lois, born April 27,. 1721, married, January 9, 1746, Abraham Bradley; married (second) Josiah Woodhouse, of England; married (third) John Watts. Richard, born Octo- ber I, 1723, married, October 10, 1751, Anna Hull, master of Hopkins grammar school; deacon (D. D. Y'ale 1792) famous clergyman.

(111) Stephen Mansfield, son of Deacon Jona- than Mansfield (2), was born in New Haven, No- vember 14, 1716. He married, December 31, 1746, Hannah Beach, of Wallingford. He died July 15,. 1774; she died September 20, 1797, aged sixty-seven years. He was an enterprising sea captain and en- gaged many years extensively in the West India trade. His home was on the northeast corner of Chapel and State streets and huis store was adjacent to it. He and three others were appointed a com- mittee for the improvement of common and undi- vided lands, for six pounds apiece, of land lying east of his lot. He was a vestryman of Trinity Church in 1765 and later. He was a very prominent citizen in his day. Children, all born in New Haven : Hannah, born November 17, 1747, married, July 5, 1767, William Douglas; was prominent in the revo- Intion, rising to the rank of colonel; born at Plainfield, Connecticut, January 27, 1742, and died. May 28, 1777; she survived him forty-eight years, dying May 22, 1825. Stephen, born September, 1750, died August 25, 1751. Stephen, born July 31, 1753, died August 14. 1756. John, born April 11, 1756, died November 5, 1766. Jared, born May 23, 1759, married in New Haven, March 2, 1800, Elizabeth, Phipps, daughter of David; graduate of Yale;

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master of Friends School in Philadelphia ; appointed captain in the engineer corps and stationed at West Point; became surveyor general of the United States; professor at West Point fourteen years. Henry, born February 1, 1762, see forward. Sarah, born 1765, married, 1784, James Sisson, of Newport, Rhode Island. Grace, born 1770, married, October 15, 1785, Peter Totten, and their son Joseph G. fought in the war of 1812 and attained the rank of general; he served also in the Mexican war.

(V) Henry Mansfield, son of Stephen Mans- field (4), was born in New Haven, Connecticut, Feb- ruary I, 1762. He was engaged for many years in the West India trade. He built one of the finest residences of his day in New Haven on the east side of State street, near Chapel street. Most of the house is now or was lately standing. He made his home in the West Indies much of the time and died there . in 1805. The last deed that he made is dated shortly before his death, May 10, 1805, at West End, Island of St. Croix, West Indies, to William MeCracken and William MeCracken, Jr., a quarter part of his pew in Trinity Church.

He married Mary Fenno, of Middletown, Con- necticut, August 3, 1785, when she was only four months over eighteen years old. She died January 14, 1825, aged fifty-eight years, and is buried in the Mortimer cemetery at Middletown. She was the daughter of Ephraim Fenno, of that town, and was born April 3, 1767. The children. I. Henry Stephen, born at New Haven, May 26, 1786, see forward. 2. John Fenno, born January 9, 1788, set- tled early at Cincinnati, Ohio; captain in war of 1812. 3. Mary Grace Caroline, born June 4, 1792, married David Wade, of Cincinnati, Ohio, dis- tinguished as lawyer and jurist; she died April 16, 1825. 4. Grace Totten, born February 13, 1799, in St. Croix, Frederickstead, West End, West Indies, (Danish territory), married Elias Parker, of New Haven; she died March 10, 1878, at Middletown, Connecticut. 5. Hannah Fenno, born in St. Croix, February 24, 1801, died unmarried at Middletown about 1872. 6. General Joseph King Fenno, born in New Haven, December 22, 1803, married, Sep- tember 25, 1838, Louisa Maria Mather; graduated at West Point with high honors in 1822, second in a class of forty, and youngest; appointed brevet sec- ond lieutenant of engineers; first lieutenant March, 1832; captain July, 1838, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war was made chief engineer of the army commanded by Major General Taylor in 1846 and 1847; distinguished in the defense of Fort Brown and brevetted major for his services; again dis- tinguished himself at Monterey and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and later colonel for services in the battle of Buena Vista, February 23, 1847; Colonel Mansfield was appointed inspector general with full rank as colonel and continued in this posi- tion until May 14, 1861, when he became a brigadier general in the regular army; for twenty years he was erecting fortifications along the coast; he was placed in command of the forces to defend Wash- ington; was fatally wounded in the battle of Antie- tam, September 17, 1862, and died the next day. ("He died at his post. with all his honors on, his eyes not dimmed nor his natural force abated. He stepped from the high wave of earthly honor into the sun-wrought chariot of light immortal. His name will go down the coming ages of our national history, commemorated with Wolf and Williams and Warren who fell in the earlier struggles of our na- tional history.") ,

(VI) Henry Stephen Mansfield, son of Henry Mansfield (5), was born in New Haven, May 26, 1786, He was educated in Colchester Academy. At

an early age he removed to Providence, Rhode Island, and secured a position with Brown, Ives & Company. After a short time he came to Slaters- ville, Rhode Island, and was for several years book- keeper for Almy, Brown & Slater. He organized a. bank there under the name of Farmers' and Manu- facturers' Bank, afterwards the Village Bank of Slatersville. He continued in the position of cashier from 1818 to August, 1839, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry S. Mansfield, Jr., He equipped and conducted the first line of coaches from Provi- dence to Worcester and he built the first road from Slatersville to Millville. He was in partnership with Newton Darling in the manufacture of scythes and built up a large and prosperous business. In the panic of 1847, through his generous help of others, he lost all his fortune, though he managed to meet every obligation. He was prominent in town and church affairs at Slatersville and was universally re- spected. Broken in spirit after the panic he went to New York, where he died March 26, 1851. He was one of the first members of Solomon's Temple Lodge of Free Masons of Uxbridge, joining in 1818.

He married, November ISII, Elizabeth Buffum, of Smithfield, Rhode Island, daughter of Joshua Buffum. Their children: 1. John Fenno, born May 8, 1813, died October 2, 1817. 2. Eliza- beth Buffum, born April 8, 1816, inarried, May 15, 1839, Parley Hammond, and lived at Smithfield, where she died September 25, 1863; had two chil- dren, Henry B. Hammond, born February 18, 1840, railroad president and lawyer ; Walter Hammond,. has one son, Parley Mansfield Hammond, born Au- gust 21, 1874, of Baltimore, Maryland. 3. Henry Stephen, Jr., born April 1I, 1818, see forward. 4. John Fenno, born September 8, 1820, at Smithfield, married, June 1, 1847, Fanny E. Batchelder. 5. Mary Sabra, born October 29, 1822, died September 20, 1823. 6. Joseph King Fenno, born October 26, 1824, at Slatersville, married, October, 1852, Eliza- beth Andrews, daughter of James; she died at Candor, Tioga county, New York, July 25, 1878; he married (second), November 18, 1880, Annie E. Maffit and lives at Rahway, New Jersey. 7. Jared, born September, 1827, at Slatersville, married, Au- gust 30, 1851, Harriet Ayer, who died October 20, 1866; he died in West Newton, October 29. 1879, aged fifty-two years. 8. William, born November 3, 1829, at Slatersville, married, July 4. 1857, Sally Ann Burt, born June 3, 1838, in Province. 9. Mary S., born November 26, 1831, in Slatersville, resides in the family homestead at Slatersville.

(VII) Henry Stephen Mansfield, son of Henry Stephen Mansfield (6), was born in Slatersville, town of Smithfield, Rhode Island, April 11, 1818. He was educated there in the public schools. At the age of twenty he went to live with his uncle, General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, at Charlestown, South Carolina, in the capacity of private secretary and bookkeeper. He assisted in the construction of Fort Pulaski, of which General Mansfield was the engineer in charge. After his return north he had charge of a hardware store in Worcester for a time, but not liking trade, he returned to his home and Slatersville, and was elected cashier of the bank to succeed his father, whose varied business interests caused him to withdraw from the management of the bank that he had founded. He evinced marked ability as a financier and was one of the most dis- creet and successful of bankers. The bank secured a charter as a national bank and is still a prosperous institution. He left Slatersville to take a more lucrative position in Providence, but, after a short time, returned to Slatersville to take charge of his

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fathers' business, manufacturing scythes. In 1847, during the panic, his father lost his fortune through endorsing notes for friends. The son returned to the homestead after the failure and started the busi- ness of raising fancy fruits and vegetables in hot houses.

Ile was a man of attractive personality and high character, prominent in town affairs. He held many positions of trust and responsibility. He was active in the church of which he was a member, and it was mainly through his efforts that St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Millville was built. His wife was equally interested and prominent in the church. She was from early youth until the time of her death a member of the choir. The memory of both is asso- ciated with the church which they loved. He died June 25, 1884.

He married, September 12, 1844, Emily Farnum, daughter of Darius D. Farnum. She died July 31, 1883. Their children, born at Smithfield, Rhode Island, and at Millville, in the town of Blackstone. were: Henry F., born June 13, 1845, at Smithfield, married Delia Hayward, daughter of William Hay- ward; graduate of Brown University; superintend- ent of mills at Utica, New York; has no children. Emily, born January 18, 1847, married Isaac C. Bates, of Providence, Rhode Island, she died Sep- tember, 1905, the result of an accident; had no issne. Albert Thayer, born May 31, 1848, in Mill- ville, married, May 14, 1879, Mary Warren, of Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts; resides in Providence, Rhode Island; have no issue. Edward Alexander, born June 16, 1859, see forward.

(VIII) Edward Alexander Mansfield, son of Henry Stephen Mansfield, Jr. (7), was born in Mill- ville, town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, June 16, #859. He attended the public schools there and also the Friends School at Providence. He went to work on the old homestead, helping his father when he was nineteen years of age. They were pioneers in the business of raising hot-house fruits, plants and vegetables in that vicinity, and they built up an ex- tensive and successful business. The son finally de- cided to try manufacturing and learned to weave in the mill of Booth & Kidd. He worked at Hyde Park in the large mill of Robert Blakie. From there he came to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and designed patterns in the New Privilege Mill and later in the Harris Mill in that city. His next change was to accept a position with D. W. Taft as designer and pattern maker, and he worked there until the mill was sold to the Calumet Woolen Company. He went west in 1884 and settled in Swan, Wyoming "Territory, with the intention of remaining, but in 1885 he returned to Uxbridge to take the position of superintendent of the Calumet Woolen Company's Calumet Mill. In 1884 the Calumet Company bought the Hecla Mill, and in 1892 he was put in charge of it. He held this place until May 1, 1906, when the company was dissolved. The Hecla Mill was then bonght by the American Woolen Company and Mr. Mansfield was engaged as agent, his present position. "The mill has been remodeled under his supervision from top to bottom, the old machinery replaced by new and the plant operated in the manufacture of fine yarns. Mr. Mansfield is a leader among the younger mill agents and manufacturers of New England. He has the advantage of a thorough prac- tical knowledge of his business, executive ability and the financial foresight needed in all industries and mercantile enterprises. His relations with the employees in his mill are exceedingly pleasant. Every workman knows that Mr. Mansfield believes in the Roosevelt creed of giving a square deal to every man.

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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. II, Part 114

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 732

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732