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hands are employed on the machines in the shop, and some one hundred and fifty at their homes. Mr. Bliss made a specialty of this hand work on his goods for many years. and was the first to intro- duce the hand crocheted worsted slippers on the market in this country. Alr. Bliss died November 24, 1906, after an illness of only a few days. His comparatively early death was a distinct loss to the community, and a crushing blow to his family. His strongest characteristic was his devotion to his home and his affection for his wife and children. Ile had no desire for club companionship, or social
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life outside lus family circle, and the friends closely connected with it, and all his hours of rest and recreation were passed with his loved ones.
Mr. Bliss attended the Central Church. He was a member of the Board of Trade of Worcester and bore a full share in the promotion of community af- fairs, and was a foremost agent in forwarding every material and moral interest, He was a member of the Worcester Congregational Club, and the Eco- nomic Club. In politics he was a Republican. Begin- ning life humbly, without capital, and unaided by influential friends, Mr. Bliss attained to a posi- tion of honor and usefulness solely through his own ability and the exercise of energy and unconquerable determination. At every stage he faithfully met every requirement with loyalty and devotion, and his advancement Irom time to time came to him as the direct result of his own effort. He was a man of pleasing personality, unassuming in man- ner, and was honored and respected by all who en- joyed his acquaintance.
Mr. Bliss married (first), at Royalston, Massa- chusetts, January 1, 1870, Sarah A. Buffum, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Sarah Buffum, born in Royals- ton, Massachusetts, 1840, died September, 1878. He married February 1, 1882, Elizabeth A. Heywood, of Indianapolis, Indiana, who died March 17, 1884. He married July 14, 1886, Louise M. Lawrence, daughter of Charles S. and Maria (Hervey) Law- rence, of Oxford, Massachusetts. Mrs. Bliss re- sides in the new home on Massachusetts avenue, in Worcester, which is thoroughly furnished with everything needful for the health and comfort of its inmates.
BRIGHAM FAMILY. Thomas Brigham (1), the immigrant ancestor of the Brigham family of Grafton, Massachusetts, was born in England. The Brigham family there is one of the oldest. The name is derived from two Saxon words, brigg or bridge and ham (house). Brigham is the name of a manor in Cumberland county, adjoining Scotland, to which at times it belonged in the early days. The ruins of the old castle of the Barony are to be seen there. It was built of old Roman material centuries ago. As late as 1648, however, it stood a siege of a month. The family historian, Rev. Abner Morse, finds the origin of Thomas Brigham in this manor and his ancestry among the lords of Brigham.
Thomas Brigham embarked from London, Eng- land, for America, April 18, 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen." Hle resided first at Cambridge, then at Watertown. He had a fourteen acre lot at Water- town, bought of John Dogget, in that part annexed to Cambridge, and he built a house in Cambridge on the road to Watertown on Charles river. He lived there until 1648. He was admitted a freeman in 1639. lle was selectman in 1640-42-47, constable from 1030 to 1042. He owned a wind mill. In 1647 the records show that he owned a third of all the swine in the town. He died at Cambridge, Decem- ber 8. 1653. llis will was dated December 7, 1653- 54, and proved October 3, 1654. He bequeathed to his wife Mercy; to children : Thomas, John, Mary, Alannah and Samuel.
Ile married Mercy Hurd, who is said to have emigrated with her sister on account of religious differences in England. She married (second), March 1, 1655, Edmund Rice, by whom he had two daugh- ters. (See Rice l'amily sketch). She married ( third), 1664, William Hunt, of Marlborough. She died December 23, 1603. Children of Thomas and Mercy Brigham were: Thomas, born 1640-41, died November 25, 1717, aged seventy-six years ; John, born March 9, 1044-45, died September 16, 1728,
aged eighty-four years; Hannah, born May 9, 1649, married Samuel Wells; Samuel, born January 12, 1652-53, see forward.
(11) Samuel Brigham, son of Thomas. Brigham (I), was born January 12, 1652-53, died July 24, 1713. He married Elizabeth How, who died July 26, 1739, aged seventy-nine years. She was a daugh- ter of Abraham and Hannah (Ward) Howe. They lived a mile and a quarter east of the old meeting house common, near the Daniel Brigham place in Marlborough, where until lately his descendants lived and conducted the tannery that he established. He became a large landholder. The children : Eliza- beth, born March 24, 1685, married, October 16, 1711, Samuel Robinson; Hepsibah, born January 25, 1686, married, 1719, John Maynard; Samuel, born January 25, 1689, married Abigail Moore; Jedediah, born June 8, 1693, married Bethiah Howe ; Jotham, born December 23, 1695, died November 23, 1759; Timothy. born October 10, 1690, married Martha Johnson; Charles, born December 30, 1700, see forward; Persis, born July 10, 1703; Antipas, born October 16, 1706, died April 23, 1746, un- married.
(111) Charles Brigham, son of Captain Samuel Brigham (2), was born December 30, 1700. He married Mary Peters, of Newport, Rhode Island, born 1716, died February 19, 1797. He removed from Marlborough and made his home at Grafton, of which he was one of the forty proprietors in 1727. He was the founder of the Grafton family of Brig- ham. He was one of the most able and distinguished citizens ; he held the various town offices and was deputy to the general court. He was appointed a magistrate by the royal governor. His homestead was on Brigham hill, lately the country home of William Brigham, his lineal descendant, and the magnificent elms planted by the first settler in 1745 are still living. Charles Brigham died in 1781. The children : Charles, born October 29. 1732, died Jan- uary 20, 1755; Daniel, born April 28, 1735, soldier, died in 1759 in Crown Point expedition; William, born Marchi 26, 1739, see forward; Mary, born De- cember 12, 1740, married Moses Parks; Sarah, born April 19, 1743, married Moses Leland; Anna, born March IS. 1745, married Samuel Harrington and (second) Henry Prentice; Timothy, born November 23, 1747, died February 9, 1748; Persis, born January 4. 1755, married Noah B. Kimball; Elizabeth, mar- ried Nahum Warren.
(IV) William Brigham, son of Charles Brig- ham (3), was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, March 26, 1739. He married, July 21, 1768, Sarah Pren- tice, born 1744, died February 2, 1834. He died of old age in his ninety-fifth year, August 1, 1833. He was an active patriot during the revolution and served on the committee of safety and correspond- ence. Ile inherited the Brigham homestead at Grafton, then comprising nearly all the land on Brigham hill. He was well educated for his day and was offered a commission as justice of the peace, but declined it. In person lie was tall, straight, and very athletic. It is said of him that he was wont "to jump over fences five and six feet high with- out touching hand or foot and when ninety years old had rather walk than ride one or two miles."
Sarah Prentice was the daughter of Rev. Solomon and Sarah (Sartell) Prentice, and she was also very active and energetic. It is related that when her sister Mary's husband died at Hull, Sarah started alone Irom Grafton to visit her, making the trip alone through the forests with one stop over night at Easton. The children : Charles, born July 27, 1769, see forward ; Susannah, born November 27, 1770, married Ephraim Goulding; Solomon, born
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November 26, 1772, married Lucy Adams; Sally, born September 12, 1780, married Benjamin Kings- bury and Jeremiah Flagg; Persis, born August 4, 1786, married Leonard Wheelock.
(V) Captain Charles Brigham, son of William Brigham (4), was born at Grafton, Massachusetts, July 27, 1769; married, October 20, 1797, Susannah Baylies, daughter of Deacon Nicholas and Abigail ( Wood) Baylies, and sister of Hon. Nicholas Bay- lies, Jr., judge of the supreme court .of Vermont. She was born 1778 and died June 10, 1837. He died in 1847. He inherited the Brigham homestead. He was an officer in the militia, fourth sergeant in Cap- tain Jonathan Wheeler's company of foot; second regiment of the second brigade. He was promoted captain. He resigned his commission as captain January 20, 1809. Their children : Colonel Charles, born May 22, 1799, see forward; Susannah B., born February 13, 1802, died March 5, 1804; Susan B., born May 24, 1804, married Dr. Josiah Kittridge ; resided at Nashua, New Hampshire, died at Geneseo, New York, without issue; William, born September 26, 1806, married Margaret A. Brooks ; Nicholas H., born October 2, 1808, married, December 20, 1838, Sarah E. Wood; Solomon, born November 19, 1810, died October 8, 1841, unmarried; Hannah, born Mareh II, 1813, married Rev. Stillman Pratt; Sarah, born May 7, 1815, married Rev. Charles B. Kittridge, died 1871; Luey A., born July 25, 1817, died March, 1893; married Francis Merrifield; Maria C., born June 26, 1820, married W. T. Merrifield, ( see sketch Merrifield Family-Hon. W. T. Forbes) ; Cornelia, born November 17, 1823, mar- ried Calvin Taft, see forward.
(VI) Colonel Charles Brigham, son of Charles Brigham (5), was born in Grafton. Massachusetts, May 22, 1799, married, April 17, 1826, Anna Eliza Brigham, born November 4, 1806, daughter of Cap- tain Pierpont Brigham, of Westboro, Massachusetts. He was a farmer and had a section of the original - Brigham place. He was often employed to survey land, to draw wills, deeds and conduct town busi- ness. He attained the rank of colonel of his regi- ment in the state militia. He was highly respected by his townsmen. He died September 22, 1871 ; his widow died June 15, 1895. His children : Josephine Maria, born August 1, 1827. died November 16, 1853; Ellen Augusta, born June 25. 1829, died Feb- ruary 4, 1832; Charles Pierpont, born July 10, 1831, died February 13, 1832; Sarah Prentice, January 22, 1833, devoted herself largely to charity and mission work : has charge of a book mission in the South, in which Andrew Carnegie is interested; Anna Eliza, born March 6, 1835, died February 4, 1862, married, June I, 1859, Hon. Jonathan H. Wood ; had one daughter Anna Eliza Wood, born January 21, 1862, lives in Boston; Susannah Baylies. born May 24, 1837. married, September 20, 1860, William Frederick Merrifield; resides in Brookline, has no children : Augusta Louisa, born February 7, 1841, unmarried, teaches art in Miss Chamberlain's school, Boston, resides in Grafton with her sister; Mary Ellen, born October 31, 1844, unmarried, resides in Grafton with her sisters, Augusta L. and Sarah P. (VI) William Brigham. son of Charles Brig- ham (5), was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 26, 1806, married, June II. 1840. Margaret A. Brooks, born July 6, 1817. He attended the public schools, fitting for college at Leicester Acad- emy, from which he walked once a week to his home, a distance of twelve miles. He entered Harvard College, where he was a diligent student of good rank and won various appointments at exhi- bitions and commencement. He graduated in the class of 1829 and began to read law with Hon.
George Morey, of Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1832 and soon had a sufficient amount of professional practice. He was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court on motion of Daniel Webster. He was active in public affairs. He was representative to the general court in 1834- 35-36-41-49, a state senator in 1866. He delivered the Centennial address at Grafton, April 29, 1835- He was appointed by Governor Everett in 1836 to compile and edit the laws of Plymouth colony, which were published that year. He was against slavery when anti-slavery men were unpopular. Ile was one of the founders of the Republican party. He resided on the homestead in Grafton in sum- mer, was fond of nature and agriculture, and fre- quently addressed agricultural societies. He had a high reputation in the literary world. He con- tributed book reviews and other articles to the North American Review and the Christian Ex- aminer. His knowledge of the early history of Massachusetts was extensive and accurate. He was a useful and valuable member of the Massachu- setts Historical Society. One notable lecture of his was delivered January 19, 1869, on "New Plymouth and its Relations to Massachusetts," one of a course delivered before the Lowell Institute by members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and pub- lished in a volume called "Massachusetts and Its Early History," a highly creditable work of re- search and insight.
As a lawyer, his practice was large. He was a safe adviser and enjoyed in a high degree the con- fidence and attachment of his clients. Often was he able by his kind, honest, yet plain talk, to dissuade his clients from long and expensive litigation, and he always, when possible, strove to prevent aggra- vating law suits; but when this could not be donc, lie gave the whole power of his legal knowledge to his client's cause. A man of kindly spirit, the friend as well as father of his children, of simple, pleas- ing manners, he yet worked too hard, and at the moment when it seemed possible for him to relax his labors, when he was on the point of relinquish- ing his practice and devoting his attention to the care of the many and large estates in his hands, he was stricken with fatal illness. He died July 9, 1860, and was buried at Mt. Auburn cemetery. In personal appearance he resembled his grandfather : two inches over six feet in height, well knit and finely proportioned. One who knew him says : "Pure, unselfish, just, wise, cautious, yet vigorous, kind and devoted was this man's life."
He married, June 11, 1840, at Hillsboro, Illinois, Margaret Austin Brooks, born July 6, 1817, died at Longwood, February, 1886, daughter of Isaac and Mary Austin Brooks, of Charlestown, Massachu- setts. Their children: William Tufts, see for- ward. Charles B., born January 17, 1845. see for- ward. Edward A., see forward. Mary Brooks, born in Boston, December 26, 1850, married, May 6, 1875, MePherson LeMoyne, of Montreal, Canada, and their children are-Charles LeMoyne, born June 13. 1876, at present located at Hagerman, Idaho ; Margaret Brigham LeMoyne. born in Bolton, Feb- ruary I, 1880. married, April 8, 1905, Strafford Wentworth, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and they have Nancy. born at Newton, February 1, 1906; Edith LeMoyne, born in Boston. April 8. 1882; Henry LeMoyne, born in Boston, January 18, 1884, is with his brother Charles in Idaho; Franees Moseley LeMoyne, born in Longwood, Brookline, Massachusetts, December 15. 1802. Arthur A., born January 6. 1857, sec forward.
( VI) Cornelia Brigham, daughter of Captain
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Charles Brigham (5), was born in Grafton, Massa- chusetts, November 17, 1823. She married Calvin Taft, who was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, now Boston, January 29, 1813, son of Adolphus Taft, of Northbridge, and descendant of Robert Taft, of Mendon ( see sketch of Taft families). He had a common school education. At an early age he went to work as clerk in the country store of Peter Farnum, of Farnumsville, Grafton. He began his business career as a merchant with a small general store at Millbury. Next he had a store at Le- land's Landing on the old canal in Grafton. In 1838, at the age of twenty-five, he sold out his busi- ness and sought a more promising field for business. He opened a general store at Hawkinsville, Georgia. In the course of his daily business he bought and sold cotton and gradually came to make that his chief business. He sold his store and for a quarter of a century enjoyed a large and prosperous busi- ness dealing in cotton. When the civil war broke out his warehouses were full and he lost the greater portion of his stock during the war. Ile came north in 1861 and was in the cotton trade in New York city to the end of the war, when he removed to Worcester. He became interested in the Frank- lin Paper Company at llolyoke and became its first president in 1866. Three years later, when the Albion Paper Company was organized by his son- in-law, James H. Newton, of Holyoke, he became president and was connected with it to the time of his death. His son was the agent and treasurer.
Mr. Taft was one of the founders of the Wor- cester Safe Deposit and Trust Company, which has become the largest and most successful banking house in Worcester, having absorbed in recent years the First National Bank, the Central National Bank, the City National Bank and the Quinsigamond Na- tional Bank, and now known as the Worcester Trust Company. He was a director to the time of his death, which occurred at Worcester, June 17, 1881. He will long be remembered for his public be- quests. He gave five thousand dollars to Piedmont Church ( Congregational ).
He married (first) Susan Wadsworth, daughter of Jonathan and Tabitha ( Warren) Wadsworth, of Farnumsville, Grafton, Massachusetts. He married (second) Eliza Taft, daughter of Zadok and Abi- gail (Bennett) Taft, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. lle married (third) Cornelia Brigham, mentioned above. She survives him, residing at her home, 8 Trowbridge road, Worcester. Children of Calvin and Susan Taft were: William Henry, died in in- fancy ; Jane Amelia, born May 10, 1835, spends much of her time abroad. Children of Calvin and Eliza Taft: Susan Wadsworth, born February 22, 1842, married James H. Newton, born in Hubbards- ton, Massachusetts, January 13, 1832, resides in Holyoke; their. children-Edward Taft Newton, born December 15, 1804, married Alice Winifred Buckland, and they have: Edward Buckland, New- ton, born October 7, 1895, Payson Taft Newton, born October 20, 1900: Roger Newton ; Fred Newton, born February 23. 1866; Eliza Taft Newton, born January 23, 1868, unmarried and lives in Holyoke; James Bertram Newton, born August 11, 1876, mar- ried, October 12. 1904, Roberta Fairford Cowan, of South Hadley, Massachusetts, and they have a son, James Francis Newton. Edward Calvin, born Jan- uary 29, 1846, died June 7, 1807 ; married Catherine Turner Parsons, of Holyoke, Massachusetts. now a resident of New York city: child-Lucretia Parsons, born May IS, 1875, married, October 30, 1807. Will- iam D. Flagg; they reside in Boston.
(VII) William Tufts Brigham, son of William Brigham (6), was born May 24, 1841. He was
fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and. graduated at Harvard University in 1862 with the degree of Master of Arts. He made a special study of botany, and in 1864-65 explored the Hawaiian Islands in company with Horace Mann, and discov- ered many new plants. He was professor of natural sciences at Oahu College, resigning in October, 1865, to continue explorations in China and India. He returned to Massachusetts and in September, 1867, was admitted to the bar. In 1868-69 he was an instructor in botany at Harvard. He served six years on the Boston school board, introduced sys- tematic instruction in drawing in the public schools, and was the chairman of the first committee on drawing of that board. He also introduced in the Boston schools the Sargent method of Anthro- pometry, now in general use in colleges. He re- moved to Honolulu in 1888 to take charge of the museum of Polynesian Ethnology and natural his- tory, founded there by C. R. Bishop, and he is at present the director of that institution. Among his published works are: "Catalogue of Antique Sculpture," "Guatemala, the Land of the Quetzal," "Volcanic Manifestations of New England," "Ha- waiian Feature Work," "Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean," "Stone Implements of Ancient Hawaiians." He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the California Academy of Sciences, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He never married.
(VII) Charles Brooks Brigham, son of William Brigham (6), was born in Boston, January 17, 1845. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1866, and studied anatomy with Professor Jeffries Wyman until November, 1806, when he entered the Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 1870. He became house surgeon to the Boston City Hospital and later studied in Europe. He was appointed in August. 1870, surgeon in chief of the Ambulance Internationale Francoise de l'ecole Forestien de Nancy, a position he held during seven months of the Franco-Prussian war. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President Thiers and re- ceived the Iron Cross from the Emperor of Ger- many in acknowledgment of his services as physician and surgeon. He was also given the cross of the Internationale Society with a diploma for his ex- ceptional services during the war. In 1872 he re- turned from his brilliant career abroad and settled in San Francisco, California, where he practiced the profession of medicine during the remainder of his life. He died there in 1903.
He married, April, 1879, Alice W. Babcock, of San Francisco. Her father was in the trade with China. Mrs. Brigham and her children reside in San Francisco. Their home escaped the recent fire and earthquake, though they lost silverware and other goods in storage in the city. The children ; William and Kate.
(VII) Edward Austin Brigham, son of William Brigham (6), was born February 23, 1846, married, April 5. 1876. Anne De Wolf Bartlett. He attended the public schools of Boston and the Latin school. He began his business career as clerk in the store of George C. Richardson & Company, commission merchants. In 1868 he went to Lewiston, Maine, to learn cotton spinning in the mills. After three years of practical education and hard work, he went to Europe to examine mills and manufacturing. Ile was appointed the agent in this country of William Higgins & Company, manufacturers of cotton ma- chinery, of Manchester, England. In 1875 he was sent by this company to Samnugge, near Calcutta, India, to build and install the machinery in some large cott n mills. Ile was engaged for some years
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in the manufacture of grass carpeting at Minne- apolis, and was for a number of years in successful business in Boston. He is at present residing on the Brigham homestead at Grafton. Children of Ed- ward Austin and Anne Brigham are: Caroline W., born May 21, 1877, died 1879; Margaret, born June 21, 1879; Eleanor, born December 18, 1883.
(VII) Arthur A. Brigham, son of William Brigham (6), was born in Boston, January 8, 1857. He was educated in the Boston Latin School, Chaun- cey Hall School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He acquired a practical knowledge of mill engineering in various mills of New England. He was in business for a time with his brother Edward. At present he is a dealer in mill ma- chinery, Milk street, Boston. Ilis home is in Weston, Massachusetts.
CHIARLES E. CHAFFIN. Robert Chaffin (I), the immigrant ancestor of Charles E. Chaffin, of Worcester, was born in Mere, Wiltshire, England, about 1695. Ile came to America when a young man and settled in Littleton, Massachusetts. He married, April 15, 1719, at Concord, Abigail Davis. His homestead was in Littleton. ' He died in Little- ton early in 1745 and his son John was appointed administrator February 7, 1745. All the other chil- dren were minors.
The children of Robert and Abigail Chaffin were : John, born in Littleton about 1722, of whom later. Robert, Jr., born about 1725, settled in Acton, died 1776; his children were: Robert, carpenter, lived in Acton, administrator ; Hannah, Susanna, Lucy, Sibel, Joseph, Elias, settled in Holden, Ephraim, Simon, Peter, Gladwin, ancestor of the Harvard branch. Samuel, born 1732, settled in Holden and was the progenitor of a large family there and in New Hampshire. He bought land in Holden in 1763, was sergeant in Major Paul Raymond's com- pany in the revolution in 1775. He died November 20, 1810, aged seventy-eight years. He married Saralı Hubbard, daughter of Samuel Hubbard, of Holden, January 3, 1760; she died September 28, 1767, aged twenty-eight years; he married ( second ) Lucy who died February 14, 1822, at Hol- .den, aged eighty-five years. Their children : Samuel, born December 1, 1760, married Abigail Heminway. December 9, 1780; Tilla, (son) born May 14, 1762, married Hannah Myrick, December 15. Nathan, born 1764, died October 16, 1847, aged 1785; eighty-three years, six months, four days; Loel, born January 13, 1766, died November 21, 1843, aged seventy-five years; married Olive Stickney, January 20, 1791; Sarah, born September 8, 1769; Lucy, born April 8, 1772, married, August 30, 1792, Jeduthan Eaton; John, born July 1, 1774, married, September 23, 1801, Betsey Myrick; Jonas, born July 29, 1776, died September 26, 1848, aged seventy- one years; married Jerusha Dodge, August 2, 1801. Timothy, born about 1735, removed to Harvard, Ashburnham and Holden; he sold land to David Chadwick in Holden and removed to Ashburnham in April, 1775; his children: David, Lucy, born in Holden, March 4, 1763, married, February 26, 1784, Roswell Stevens, of Charlemont; Levi, born in Hol- den, May 24, 1765; Molly, born 1769, died May 25, 1776; Miriam, born February 23, 1771; Timothy, born April 22, 1773; John, born August 19, 1775; Sarah, born November 18, 1778. Phebe. Francis. (II) John Chaffin, eldest child of Robert Chaffin (1), was born in Littleton, Massachusetts, about 1722. He settled in Acton, an adjacent town. He married Eleanor He died in 1771 and she "was the administratrix of his estate. In 1762 he was living on the homestead on the road from
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