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(X) Willis Everett Knowlton, son of Everett William Knowlton (9). was born in Shrewsbury. Massachusetts, September 18, 1857. He received his education in the public schools of his native town. He took up the carpenter's trade, but after following it for a while, accepted a clerkship in the
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Worcester postoffice. After five years he went to the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works as paymaster and timekeeper, but in 1890 left this position to as- sist his father in his business at Shrewsbury, and be was associated with him until the business was sold out in 1901. For the past five years Mr. Knowl- ton has served his native town as collector of taxes. He is a Republican served town committee three years. Member of Grange nine years, was master two years, and overseer five years. He married, 1888, Delia Isabel Newbury, born in Worcester, October 23. 1866, daughter of Albert and Sybil (Johnson) Newbury. Her father was born in Gardner, Massa- chusetts; her mother in Northfield. Mr. Knowlton married (second), October, 1894, Anna S. Howe, born in Shrewsbury, July 31, 1804, daughter of Seth and Catherine (Sumner ) llowe.
(IX) Joseph Henry Knowlton, son of Joseph F. Knowlton (8), was born in Shrewsbury, April 25, 1839. After completing a public school educa- tion, he turned his attention to farming, and is at present (1905) so engaged. Throughout his active career he has acquired a wide reputation for energy, enterprise and sound judgment and these char- acteristics have frequently been displayed to ad- vantage in the development of the resources of his native town. For a period of almost ten years he served as overseer of the poor, having been elected to that office on the Republican ticket, the principles of which party he believes to be for the best form of government. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Grange, in which organization he serves as treasurer. Mr. Knowlton married (first), 1868. Helen W. Lowell, of Holden, Massachusetts, daughter of Oliver and Catharine (Moore) Lowell, and two children were the issue, both of whom died in early life. Mrs. Knowlton died September, 1885. Mr. Knowlton married (sec- ond), 1897, Minnie M. Ross, born in Sterling, Massa- chusetts, 1850, daughter of Nathaniel and Lucia Annrose (Copeland) Ross, the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of Sterling, Massachusetts. There were no children born of the second marriage.
(IX) Walter C. Knowlton, son of Joseph F. Knowlton (8), born in Shrewsbury, July 12, 1860, at- tended public and private school ( Master Rice's ), now engaged in wood and lumber business and farm- ing. Was selectman three years, assessor eight years, and elected to represent nintb Worcester dis- trict in the general court of Massachusetts in 1900. A member of Congregational Church and Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. He married. November 28. 1881, Julia E. Munyan, born May, 1860, daughter or Loring C. and Samaria Munyan; have one child, Ruth E., born Shrewsbury, September 9, 1893.
ELZEAR DEMERS was born in St. Pierre, province of Quebec, Canada, April 19, 1834. He comes of good old French stock. He received his early education in the schools of the little village in which he was born. He worked with his father on the homestead during his youth and grew up strong and sturdy. He left his father's home when a young man and has had a varied expe- rience. He traveled and hunted extensively in the great nortliwest country, and lived three years in Michigan. He worked in an iron foundry and in a brick yard and much of the time was engaged in logging. He was not afraid of the hardest kind of work, and his life in the wilderness was en- livened with many exciting adventures and some narrow escapes from death. He came to Linwood in the town of Uxbridge. Massachusetts, and set- tled there in 1870, and he has been an active and well known citizen of that village ever since. He
has won the respect and confidence of a host of friends and neighbors, and of his numerous chil- dren and grandebildren. He is especially popular among the children. He and his good wife will celebrate their golden wedding September 2, 1906, and preparations have been made to make the day memorable in the family history. Mr. Demers is a clevout Catholic and for some thirty years was a constant attendant of the services at St. Mary's Church in Uxbridge. He is now in the new parish of the Church of the Good Shepherd at the village of Linwood.
He married, September 2, 1856, Mary Roy. Their children: 1. Octave, born June 25, 1857, died November 6, 1893; see forward. 2. Alice, born in Canada, July 22, 1859: married Oliver Rondeau and their children are-Georgiana, Louis, married Celia Johnson and had Alice, Morton and Blanche ; Frederick. Albert, Oliver (twin of Albert) Arthur, Morton, George, Alice Rondeau. 3. Aloidis, born January 10, 1861, married John Bedard and had children-Georgiana. Netta, Melia, Agnes Bedard. 4. Georgiana, born November 29, 1862, married Wil- fred Darcy and had-Melia, Joseph, Vinia, Elsie, and she died December 29, 1886. 5. Delia, born in St. John, June 25, 1864. married Peter Merchant and they have-Frederick. Walter, George, Alice Merchant. 6. Mary, born in St. John, April 2, 1866, married George Merchant and they have chil- dren-Leo and Leonia Merchant. 7. Aloniza, born in St. John, April 22, 1870, married Joseph Roy, resides in Canada, and they have children-Melia, Josepb, George, Louis, Eva Roy. 8. Albert Rudolph, born August 7, 1874, see forward. 9. Victoria, born in Uxbridge, January 22, 1875, married Wilfred Jariad and they have children-Olia, Ritta, Ida Jariad. 10. Emeline, born in Uxbridge, March 20, 1876, married Henry Blaine, September 5. 1898, and they have children-Elsie, Harry, Leon Blaine.
(II) Octave Demers, son of Elzear Demers (I), was born June 25, 1857, and died in Uxbridge, November 6, 1893. He came to America from Can- ada with his parents when he was a boy. lle was ambitious and capable, and acquired the language and customs of his adopted home with unusual facility. He started in business for himself in a modest way, dealing in provisions and mcats. He opened a market in the village of Linwood in Ux- bridge and built up an excellent business, which increased year by year to the time of his death. He was thoroughly upright and honorable, and highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen. He mar- ried Delia Ballard, who survives him. They had 110 children.
(II) Albert Rudolph Demers, son of Elzear Demers (1). was born in Uxbridge, Massachu- setts, August 7. 1874. He attended the public schools, and at the age of twelve began to work for his brother Octave in the market, and when his brother died in 1803 he took charge of the business for the widow. He has shown himself a capable business man and has a promising future ahead of him. He has lost no opportunity to gain education to supplement his schooling. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and active in the good work of the town and church. He is a member of Father Mathew Temperance Society, of the St. Jean's Society and of the St. Jean's Union. He belongs to the Ancient Order of Foresters. He is unmarried.
KENDALL FAMILY. The family to which belongs George Nelson Kendall, of Athol, Massa- chusetts, came originally from town of Kendall, on river Kent, Westmoreland county, England. The
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emigrants to this country were Francis and Deacon Thomas Kendall, who sailed from England under the alias of Miles, again taking the name of Ken- dall on reaching this country. Their father. John Kendall, lived in Cambridge, England, in 1646, and died there in 1660. Francis Kendall is the common ancestor of all the Kendalls in this country, Deacon Thomas having ten daughters but no sons.
Francis Kendall, above mentioned. was in Charlestown, Massachusetts, prior to 1640. He was a large landholder and a miller by occupation. He died in 1708. He married, at Woburn, Massachu- setts, December 24. 1644. Mary Tidd. and their sons, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, were: John, July 2, 1646; Thomas, January 10, 1648; Samuel, March 8. 1050: Jacob, January 25, 1660. John Tidd, Tead, Ted or Teed, embarked May 12, 1637. at Yarmouth. England, aged nineteen, as servant of Samuel Greenfield. of Norwich. Was of Charles- town that year. subscribed there in December. 1640, "Town Orders" for Woburn, taxed at Woburn. 1645. chosen surveyor of fences 1616. His wife Margaret died in 1651. He had second wife Alice, daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and a son John. His daughter Mary was doubtless wife of Francis Kendall.
Thomas Kendall, second son of Francis and Mary (Tidd) Kendall, born January 10, 1648, mar- ried. at Woburn, 1673, Ruth Blogget, daughter of Samuel Blogget. Sr., of Woburn. Ruth Kendall died December 18, 1695. The male children of their family were: Thomas, born May 19, 1677: Samuel, October 29. 1682: Ralph. May 4, 1685; Eleazer, November 16. 1687: Jabez. September 10. 1692. Samuel Blogget. Sr. was born in England, brought by parents to America when one and a half years old. came to Woburn to reside, married Ruth Iggle- den, of Boston. December 13. 1655. He died July 3. 1687, and his widow October 14, 1703.
Thomas Kendall, eldest son of Thomas and Ruth (Blogget) Kendall, born May 19, 1677. mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas Cheever. at Boston, Massachusetts, November 7. 1701. They lived first in Woburn, where four children were born, moving to Lexington about 1710 and to Fram- ingham about 1745. Sarah Kendall died in Fram- ingham. 1761. History of Framingham gives Benja- min, baptized in Lexington, as their first born child. History of Lexington records the birth of three children born before him in Woburn. This dis- crepancy in the Framingham records has misled those who have tried to follow this Kendall line. Their children, born in Woburn, were: Sarah, Sep- tember 7, 1702: Thomas. July 30. 1704; Abigail. August 10, 1706; Benjamin. 1708. Those born in Lexington were: Mary, 1711: Josiah, 1713: Ezekial, 1715: Elizabeth, 1716; Ruth, 1720; Jane, 1722; Elijah and Elisha, 1725. Ezekial Cheever, born in London, England, January 25. 1614. came to Boston in 1637, died in Boston. August 21, 1708. He was famous as master of Boston Latin School, went to New Haven, Connecticut. 1638. thence to Ipswich. Massachusetts. thence to Charlestown. Massachu- setts, and finally in 1671 to Boston, where he resided until his death. Rev. Thomas Cheever, son of Ezekial. born in Ipswich, August 23, 1656, grad- uated in Harvard College. 1677, first pastor of First Church, Chelsea. 1715. died in Chelsea, November 27. 1749. Married Sarah Bill, daughter of James Bill, Sr., of Pullen Point. Sarah Cheever died Jan- uary 30, 1701. Sarah, daughter of Rev. Thomas and Sarah (Bill) Cheever, married, in Boston, No- vember 7, 1701, Thomas Kendall, of the fourth generation.
Thomas Kendall, eldest son of Thomas and
Sarah (Cheever) Kendall, born July 30, 1704, was admitted to church in Lexington, 1726, and bap- tized same date. October 2. He married Mary, daughter of Ephraim Curtis, the famous Indian scout of Sudbury. Massachusetts. Mary was born December 29, 1710, died in Hopkinton, Massachu- setts, 1747. Their children. born in Hopkinton, were: Abner, March 12. 1738; Jonathan, January 20. 1742, see forward: Thomas. April 15, 1745. It is presumed that these children were brought up by their grandmother, Sarah (Cheever) Kendall, of Framingham, both their parents dying during the infancy of the children. Abner is supposed to have gone to Vermont ; Jonathan went to Athol, and Thomas entered Dartmouth College from Framing- ham, 1769-70. Thomas Kendall ( father) was a car- penter. served in French and Indian wars, and died from a wound from his own broad axe, date un- known. Henry Curtis, who came from England in ship "Arebella," landing at Salem and prior to 1637 settled in Watertown. Massachusetts, was one of the original settlers of Sudbury. Married Mary, daughter of Nicholas Gray or, Guy, of Southampton, England, who sailed from England. April 24. 1638, in ship "Confidence." Ephraim Curtis, son of Henry Curtis, born March 31. 1662. married Mary Ston. May 10, 1705. at Sudbury. He was known far and wide as the most famous Indian scout of his times. Mary Curtis, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Ston) Curtis, born December 29. 1710. Sudbury. Massa- chusetts, married Thomas Kendall of the fifth gen- eration.
Jonathan Kendall, second son of Thomas and Mary (Curtis) Kendall, born January 29. 1742, came to Athol and settled on Chestnut Hill, where he built a log house and cleared up a few acres from out the forest, where now stands the old Kendall house. He was a soldier in the war for independence and participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Ticonderoga. He died in 1817. In 1765 he married Annie Oliver, who bore him six children, five daughters and one son.
Rev. Thomas Kendall. A. M., youngest son of Thomas and Mary (Curtis) Kendall, born April 15, 1745. in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, died at New Lebanon. New York. December 5. 1836. He grad- vated from Dartmouth College. 1774. went on a mission to the Caghuawaga Indians of Canada with Levi Frisbie and James Dean, studied divinity with the Rev. Daniel Emerson, of Hollis. New Hamp- shire. served as chaplain of Knox's regiment, AArtillery Continental Troops, revolutionary war, January, 1776. to January, 1777, serving under Colonels Jonathan H. Parsons and Joseph Read. Muster roll dated Mount Independence. November 29. 1776, shows he was last commissioned August I. 1776. appointed by general order of General Gates. Rev. Thomas Kendall was pastor of Con- gregational Church in Kingston, Rhode Island. 1802. dismissed 1818. From 1800 to 1818 his family re- sided on a farm in Millbury. Massachusetts. He married Ruth, daughter of Richard and Anna (Hol- man) Waters. of Sutton. Massachusetts, about 1784- 85. Ruth (Holman) Kendall died July 14, 1818, in Millbury.
Thomas Kendall, Jr .. son of Rev. Thomas and Ruth (Waters) Kendall, married. April 7. 1806. at Oxford. Massachusetts. Olive. daughter of Lemuel and Basheba (Gilbert) Crane, and their children were: Ruth, born March 9, 1809. married George Spencer; John, July 21, 1810, see forward; Edwin, March 11, 1813. married Jane Smith; Adoniram. December 17, 1813. married Mary Mead ; David and Thomas, January 24. 1816. the former married Mary Wolcott and the latter Nancy Smith.
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Thomas Kendall, Jr., father of these children, was a mechanic and scientist, master mechanic of the Dudley Morton factory and Oxford Central Manu- facturing Company, manufacturers of thermometers. barometers and surveyors' compasses. He died at Albany, New York, December 10, 1831, and his wife died June 30, 1818.
John Kendall, eldest son of Thomas and Olive (Crane) Kendall, born July 21, 1810, died May 19, 1892. He married, at Canaan, New York, July 24. 1832, Deborah, daughter of William Thomas and Plebe ( Throop) Avery. He resided in New Lebanon, New York, 1832, Galesburg, Illinois, 1836- 44, Cleveland, Ohio, 1844. returned to New Lebanon, 1847. The New York Times, May 21, 1892, says : "John Kendall, the oldest maker of thermometers in this country, died at his home in New Lebanon on Thursday; he was eighty-three years old, and up to within three weeks of his death was actively engaged in business. Mr. Kendall embarked in the business in 1331 and fifty years ago made some famous instruments for the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C." This line comes down from General Bradford and Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
John Kendall, only son of Jonathan and Annie {Oliver) Kendall, who settled in Athol, Massa- chusetts, was a prominent character in military af- fairs and held the office of captain in the militia. He married Susannah Smith in 1796, and their family consisted of six sons and four daughters, as follows: Jonathan, settled at Orange and was the father of Aral and Sarah Kendall. Stephen, died young. Wyman S., went south and was there en- gaged in peddling saddles and kindred articles ; later he returned to Athol and was engaged in the shoe- making trade for a short time. He married Nancy ยท Galpin and their children are: Alfred, Charles W., Edwin G. and John H. Kendall. Annie, married Joshua Young and died a few days afterwards. Joab, born December 22, 1805, married Louisa Young, of Orwell, Vermont, and their son, Ira Y., was born December 25. 1831. Joab died December 14. 1884. Lydia, married Ezekial Gardner Davis and was the mother of Azor S. Davis. Ozi, see forward. John. married Cynthia Garfield. Maria, married Russell Smith, who was one of the prom- inent manufacturers of Athol. Susannah.
Ozi Kendall, fifth son of John and Susannah (Smith) Kendall, was born in Athol, Massachu- setts, September 13, ISI0, on the old homestead on Chestnut Hill, which his grandfather had cleared up. He was educated in the common schools, which he attended until seventeen years of age. when he went to Worcester and worked in a leather store, later to Templeton, where he learned the shoemak- ing trade with Jonathan Bowker. In 1834 he re- turned to Athol and established himself in a small way in boot making, an industry that developed with him until he outgrew the Main street shop, and a large brick factory was erected in 1874. In January, 1856, his son, George Nelson, was taken into partnership association with him, which rela- tion existed until 1875. under the firm name of O. Kendall & Son, but in 1870 changed to O. Kendall & Co. when his nephew, Ira Y. Kendall, and George "S. Pond, were admitted. This continued until the business was given up in 1887. The year 1884 com- pleted a half century of trade for Mr. Kendall, who then sold out to Ira Y. Kendall and George S. Pond. Politically Mr. Kendall was a Republican. He held several offices of public trust, namely : "Liquor agent for the town for three years, school committeeman several years, trustee of the Athol Savings Bank, represented his district in the state legislature, served on the board of investment for
the bank at Athol, and was prominent in many ways.
Mr. Kendall married Fannie A. Ainsworth, daughter of Samuel Ainsworth, an agriculturist of Petersham, who passed his declining years in Pres- cott. They had two children: George Nelson, see forward. Helen Frances, born at .\thol, July 10, 1841, married Rev. Alonzo Sanderson, of Lynn. Massachusetts, and their son, Howard Kendall Sanderson, died in 1904, aged thirty-nine years ; he married Carrie M. Flanders, of Lynn, and their only child, Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson, was born in Lynn, December 23, 1890. The Kendall family attended the Baptist church for many years, but later transferred their allegiance to the Methodist Church. Ozi Kendall died November 16, 1884.
George Nelson Kendall, only son of Ozi and Fannie A. (Ainsworth) Kendall, was born in Athol, Massachusetts, November 11, 1835. He was edu- cated in the schools near his home. He assisted his father a few years and in 1856 was made a partner with him in the business, and remained eight- een years. He was next for several years book- keeper and proofreader on the Worcester W'est Chronicle. Upon the establishment of the tool manu- facturing business by L. S. Starrett, he entered the latter's employ as bookkeeper. He now leads a retired life. He has been trustee of the Athol Savings Bank more than a quarter of a century and auditor of the same for about the same length of time. At one time he was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, but at this time (1906) his society connections are with the Masonic order at Athol.
Mr. Kendall married, November 26, 1855, Mary C. Simmons, born in Hanover, New Hampshire, October, 1835, daughter of John Simmons and wife of New Hampshire. Mr. Kendall married (sec- ond), June 23, 1896, Eliza Jane Green, widow of Parker C. Green, of Athol, and daughter of John W. Willis, of Paris, Maine. Mrs. Kendall died September 30, 1904.
Howard Kendall Sanderson, nephew of George Nelson Kendall, received his education at various places, completing it at Lynn, Massachusetts. He first took up the printing business, which he con- ducted at Lynn about two years, and was then made a letter carrier. A year later he was made carrier's superintendent of the postoffice at the same place, holding this for several years, when he was ap- pointed assistant postmaster under Colonel Hoyt, and later became the postmaster at Lynn, serving four years. His re-appointment for the office came a few days prior to his decease, December 14, 1904. Before he was thirty years of age, he was a mem- ber of the legislature from Lynn, he being the youngest member from the district. He served two terms in the house and two in the senate and while in the latter was a member of the prison com- mittee.
One of the specialties of his own fancy was the collection of stamps and autographs. While in the Lynn postoffice he began this, and therafter made it a study. He made a number of trips to Europe on this business alone. He collected all of the signatures of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, except two. He also had a letter bearing the signature of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Spain. He was a Mason of advanced standing, and dur- ing his last illness received the thirty-second degree. He was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, and at the time of his death was writing Lynn's revolutionary history. He was a genealogist of considerable note.
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RODNEY M. RICE. Edmund Rice, immigrant ancestor of all the Rice families of Massachusetts, was the progenitor of Rodney M. Rice, late of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The sketch of the Rice families elsewhere in this work gives a complete account of the life and family of the immigrant.
(II) Thomas Rice, son of Edmund Rice (1), settled with his father in Sudbury, Massachusetts, among the first settlers and was with the first settlers also in Marlboro in 1664. Ile died at Marlboro, November 16, 1681. The children of Thomas and Mary Rice: Grace, died at Sudbury, January 3, 1653-54; Thomas, June 30, 1654, see forward; Mary, September 4, 1656; Peter, October 24, 1658; Na- thaniel, January 3, 1660. Sarah. January 15, 1662; Ephraim, April 15, 1665; Gershom, May 9, 1667; James, March 6, 1669; Francis, February 3, 1670-71 ; Jonas, born March 6, 1672-73; Grace, January 15, 1075; Elisha, December 11, 1679.
(III) Thomas Rice, son of Thomas Rice (2), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, June 30, 1654, died at Marlborough, 1747, aged ninety-four years. His wife Mary died at Watertown, whither she went for safety during King Philip's war. He married (second), January 12, 1681-82, Anna Rice, who died at Westboro, Massachusetts, May 2, 1731. He was a prominent citizen. In 1717 he was set off in the territory comprising the town of Westboro. Ile was deputy to the general court from Marlboro. The children of Thomas and Anna Rice, born in Marl- boro: Thomas, born 1683, see forward; Charles, July 7, 1684; Eunice, May 3, 1686; Jason, February 23, 1688; Jedediah, June 10, 1690; Abiel, December II, 1692 (twin), died December 27, 1692; Anna (twin), December 1I, 1692, died December 25, 1692; Ashur, July 6, 1694; Adonijah, August II, 1696; Perez, July 23, 1698; Vashti, March 7, 1700; Beriah, August 20, 1702; Noah, about 1704, married Hannah Warren.
(IV) Thomas Rice, son of Thomas Rice (3), was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, 1683. He married Mary Oakes, of Westborough, July 2, 1722. She had a son, George Oakes, by her second hus- band, Nathaniel Oakes. Rice was her third hus- band. Children: Millicent, born April 15, 1723, married at Marlboro, Edmund Parmenter; Asa, Au- gust 8, 1726, see forward.
(V) Asa Rice, son of Thomas Rice (4), was born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, August 8, 1726. He was a soldier in the French and Indian wars, in the company of Captain Bezaleel Eager, in 1757. He married Elizabeth Livermore, of Northboro, who died February, 1775. Her ancestry : Deacon Jona- than (IV), Jonathan (III), Samuel (II), John Liv- ermore (1), who settled in Watertown, Massachu- setts, in 1634. Asa Rice married ( second ), May 20, 1777, Betsey Taylor. His will was proved May 6, 1778. Children: Katherine, born December 13, 1749; Luther, born about 1755, see forward ; Asenath, married Thaddeus Hastings; Calvin, mar- ried Betty Maynard; Israel; Betty, born June 25, 1778 (posthumous).
(VI) Luther Rice, son of Asa Rice (5), was born about 1755. He was a soldier in the revolu- otion in Captain Wood's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, from Northboro in 1775. He married, 1786, Betsey Beaman, born June 12, 1767. He be- sided at West Boylston, Oakham and lastly at Wor- cester, Massachusetts, where he died November 21. 1818, aged sixty-three years. Ilis widow Betsey died April 16, 1836, in her sixty-ninth year. She was the daughter of Major Ezra Beaman (1736- 1811), whose line was: Jabez (III), John (11), Gamaliel (I), the immigrant. Ile married ( second ) Mary Boylston. The children: Betsey, born No-
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