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Nashoba to the gravel pit. His children, all born in Acton, were all minors at the time of his death. The children: John, Ir., had the homestead. David, of whom later : Jonathan, Molly, Stephen.
(111) David Chaffin, son of John Chaffin (2), was born in Acton, Massachusetts, about 1757. He served in the revolution in Captain David Wheeler's company, Colonel Nixon's regiment, in 1775 and 1770. Ile enlisted in Captain Benjamin Edgell's company, Colonel John Jacob's regiment, in 1778, and was in the Rhode Island campaign. His cousin, David Chaffin, of Ashburnham, was also in the service. Also David Chaffin, of Leominster, men- tioned above. He dieded his land in Acton and Littleton and his rights to the estate of Joseph Brown. Among his children was a son, Leonard, of whom later.
(IV) Leonard Chaffin, son of David Chaffin (3), was born about 1780. He married, November 28, 1805, Betsey Rice, daughter of Solomon and Mary, of whom later. She died September 28, 1826; he died 1826, when all the children were under age.
The children of Leonard and Betsey Chaffin were: Leonard Rice, born December 3, 1806, mar- ried Widow Sarah M. Mayfield, of Illinois; Moses Albert, born June 20, 1809, died in Princeton, Oc- tober 22, 1848; Sarwin, born June 13, 1811, died at Boston, July 17, 1844, unmarried; Edwin, of whom later; Mary, born January 18, 1816, married George W. West, of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1840, and re- sided at Booneville, Missouri; Adelia, born June 4, 1818; Dorcas Maria, born October 18, 1820; John Crowninshield, born April 17, 1823, resided at Newton, Massachusetts, has given a room in the public library and a fund to the city of Newton for poor boys; he married, August 20, 1847, Mary Elizabeth Cole, of Watertown, Massachusetts; Eliza- beth, born March 2, 1826. All these children were born in Princeton.
(V) Edwin Chaffin, fourth child of Leonard Chaffin (4), was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, September 18, 1813. He married Caroline A. Gore, at St. Louis, June 4, 1844. They lived at St. Louis until about 1850, when they removed to Newton, Massachusetts. Three of their children were born in St. Louis and the other two in Newton. The children of Edwin and Caroline A. Chaffin were: Mary A., Caroline A., Charles E., Fannie M., George A.
(VI) Charles E. Chaffin, son of Edwin Chaffin (5), was born, at St. Louis, Missouri, March 7, 1849. He came to Newton with the family when lie was only two years old. He attended the public schools and Fiske's private school at Newton Centre, and Woodbury's at Auburndale in Newton. He began his business career in the store of John C. Chaffin at the corner of State and Washington streets, Boston, owned by his uncle. The concern was established in 1832 by John P. Rice, of Prince- ton, the uncle of John C. Chaffin. The store car- ried men's furnishing goods. Mr. Chaffin was in- terested in this business some twenty-one years and he retired in September, 1883. Owing to poor health he bought a farm in Sherborn, Massachusetts, where he remained until coming to Worcester in 1898. His home is at 7 Shattuck street. He is a Repub- lican, but no office seeker. A member of Melrose Commandery, Golden Cross, of Melrose, Massa- chusetts. He and family are members of the Adams Square Baptist Church, Worcester; he is chairman of the standing committee. He is a honor- ary member of the Corporation of the People's Saving Bank of Worcester.
He married Emma C. Grant, who was born June
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7, 1856, at Portland, Mame, only child of Jonathan and Sarah ( Albee) Grant, granddaughter of Paul M. Grant, a sea captain. The father of Captain Paul Grant was Samuel Grant, son of Joshua, and grand- son of the immigrant, James Grant. The children of Charles E. and Emma C. Chaffin were: Edwin Grant, born in Boston, September 14, 1879, at- tended the public schools, the Sherborn Academy, graduated from Worcester Academy in 1898, Wor- cester Polytechnic Institute 1903, is now instructor in the University School, Cleveland, Ohio, in the departments of mannal training, machinery and foundry; Sarah Gordon, born at Melrose, Massa- chusetts, April 14, 1882, died November 20, 1902, unmarried; Emma Marte, born at Sherborn, Massa- chusetts, October 22, 1885, studied in the public schools, the Worcester high school and Miss Kim- ball's School for Girls, Worcester.
THE RICE FAMILY. Edmund Rice (1), the immigrant ancestor of Charles E. Chaffin, of Wor- cester, through his grandmother, Betsey (Rice ) Chaffin, was one of the pioneer settlers of Sud- bury, Massachusetts. He was born in England in 1594 and was a proprietor and selectman of Sud- bury as early as 1639. He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1642, and was deputy to the general court in 1643. He was deacon of the church in 1648 and served in many positions of trust and honor for the town1. He became a proprietor of Marlborough and settled there. He and his three sons, Thomas, Samuel and Joseph, were among the petitioners for church privileges in Marlborough. He sold land to his sons, Henry and Edward Rice, February 20, 1654. He died in May, 1663. He married in Eng- land Tamazin , who died in Sudbury, June 13, 1654. He married (second) Mercy ( Heard) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham, March I, 1655. The children of Edmund and Tamazin Rice were: Henry, born 1616; Edward, born in Eng- land, of whom later; Thomas, Mathew, Samuel, Joseph, born 1637; Lydia, Daniel, Edmund, Jr., Benjamin, born May 31, 1640. The children of Ed- mund and Mercy Rice were: Ruth, born September 29, 1659; Ann, born November 19, 1661 ; Mary.
(II) Edward Rice, second child of Edmund Rice (I), was born in England in 1618. He married (first) Agnes Bent. They settled in Sudbury, but removed later to Marlborough in 1664 and he became a deacon of the church there. He died August 15, 1712, and his widow Ann died March, 1713, aged eighty-three years. Their two youngest children were born in Marlborough, all the others in Sud- bury. The children: John, born about 1047 ; Lydia, born July 20, 1648, died same day ; Lydia. born De- cember 10, 1649; Edmund, born December 9, 1653, married Joyce Russell; Daniel, born November 8. 1655; Caleb, born February 8, 1657 ; Jacob, of whom later; Anne, born November 19, 1661; Dorcas, born January 29, 1664: Benjamin, born December 22, 1666; Abigail, born May 9, 1671.
(III) Jacob Rice, seventh child of Edward Rice (2), was born in Sudbury, March 1, 1660, and set- tled in Marlborough, where he died October 30, 1746, aged according to his gravestone eighty-six years, eight months and twenty-eight days. His widow Mary died October 6, 1752, aged eighty years. His will was dated May 23, 1741, and proved No- vember 10, 1746. He owned land in Brookfield and Marlborough. Their children: Amos, born Decem- ber 23, 1694; Martha, born July 28, 1696, married Elisha Rice; Abadiah, born November . 13, 1698; Esther, born January 26, 1700; Eunice, born Feb- ruary II, 1702-3, died November II, 1715; Mary, born July 14, 1705, died unmarried February, 1804, aged ninety-nine years; Jacob, born October 3, 1707;
Gershom, of whom later; Bethia, born August 13> 1712.
(IV) Gershom Rice, eighth child of Jacob Rice (3), was born in Marlborough, May 2, 1710. He- married Lydia Barrett, daughter of Thomas Barrett,. of Marlboro. and settled there. He died there Oc- tober II, 1790, in his eighty-first year. She died June 4, 1799, aged eighty-seven years. Their chil- dren : Silas, born August 30, 1739, died August 30, 1742; Ichabod, born June 20, 1741, died August 20, 1742: Solomon, born June 15, 1745, died Feb- ruary 20, 1753; Gershom, born June 15, 1745, died February 20, 1753; Thomas, born November 27, 1747, married Abigail Hapgood; Jonathan, born January 30, 1749, died December 5, 1751 ; Gershom, born July 30, 1755, married Susanna Howe; Solo- mon, of whom later.
(V) Solomon Rice, youngest child of Gershon Rice (4), was born June 13, 1757. He married Mary Binney, who was born September 24, 1759, daughter of John Binney, of Marlboro, who was born in Hull, 1727, and died at New Ipswich, New Hamp- shire, 1784. Rice removed to Princeton, Massa- chusetts, about 1782, and died there September 25, 1794, in his thirty-tighth year. His widow married (second) Deacon Ebenezer Parker, of Princeton, April 30, 1799.
The children of Solomon and Mary Rice were : Betsey, born August 23, 1783, at Princeton, of whom later; John, born September 24, 1786, married Sarah Crowninshield. One child was born to Deacon Ebenezer P. and Mary (Rice) Parker: Aurelius Dwight Parker, born September 23, 1803.
( VI) Betsey Rice, daughter of Solomon Rice (5), was born August 23, 1783, married Leonard. Chaffin, mentioned above, grandfather of Charles. E. Chaffin.
ALBERT A. HEIDMAN. Charles August Heidman, father of Albert A. Heidman, of Gard- ner, Massachusetts, was a native of Germany, and. educated there in the best schools of his day. He- learned the trade of basket making, and when he came of age removed to Gardner, Massachusetts. He died in Gardner. He was a self-made man, in -- dustrious, expert at his trade, trusted thoroughly and highly appreciated by his employers, and re- spected by all who knew him. He married Matilda Ackman, and their children were: Annie, and Albert. A., see forward.
Albert A. Heidman was born in Gardner, Massa- chusetts, September 7, 1880, and received his early education there in the public schools. At an early age he evinced artistic ability and his father de- cided to cultivate his talents, sending him for the purpose to the National Academy of Design in New York city. He made rapid progress in his studies and acquired skill and technique in his art. After completing the course there, he attended the School of Drawing and Painting in Boston and the New York Art College. Mr. Heidman returned to Gard- ner and opened his studio there. He has been oc- cupied largely with magazine illustrations and the critics have been kind in their estimate of his work. He has a promising future in the world of art. In politics he is a Republican. He married, February, 1902, Margaret Young, daughter of Robert and. Kate ( Perry ) Young, of Providence, Rhode Island.
IRA YOUNG KENDALL, of Athol, Worcester county, Massachusetts, recently retired from the lumber business, was born in Athol, December 25,. 1831, the son of Joab Kendall.
Joab Kendall was born at the same place, Decem- ber 22, 1805, and died December 14, 1884. He was
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the son of Captain John and Susan (Smith) Ken- dall. When twenty-one years of age, Joab went to Worcester and remained one year, then returned and purchased a farm at Athol, on Chestnut Hill, near the old homestead, and there he farmed for forty- five years. He came to Athol in October, 1871, and lived in the village, having retired from active life. He was a deacon in the Congregational Church over twenty years. In politics an old line Whig and sub- sequently an ardent Republican. Ile married, Sep- tember 20, 1830, Louisa Young, born in Orwell, Vermont, August 1, ISI0, died October 19, 1898. She was the daughter of Simeon and Polly Hill, and the children born to her were: Mary H., born at Athol, January 21, 1834, died October 17, 1877; she married Reuben Garfield, of Athol; the other child was Ira Young Kendall. (For the history of John Kendall, the grandfather, the reader is referred to the sketch of George N. Kendall, elsewhere in this work. The American ancestor, Jonathan Ken- dall, is also treated in that connection.)
Ira Young Kendall was educated at Athol with one term in the seminary at Brandon, Vermont. He also attended a select school taught by Lyman White at Athol. His first real life work was that of farming and lumbering on Chestnut Hill, and at the same time he mastered the shoemaking trade, which was then a very profitable industry, as modern machinery had not then been introduced. In 1870 he became a partner at Athol with his uncle, Ozi Kendall, in the manufacturing of boots and shoes ; the firm was known as O. Kendall & Co. In 1876 the company bought out the interest held by George N. Kendall, continuing until 1884, with George S. Pond, running under the old firmn name until 1887, when they retired from the business. Ira Y: Ken- dall then engaged in the lumber trade, continuing up to 1903. For about six years he was connected with the lumbering interests of the firm of L. Morse & Son. Mr. Kendall is pre-eminently of the type of citizen whose name stands for progress, and who has given freely of his time, talent and means in the advancement of any and all interests that would conduce to the substantial development of his native town. Po- litically he is a Republican, and in 1887-88 was one of the selectmen and also overseer of the poor. In 1888-89 he was road commissioner, and for a num- ber of years on the Republican town committee. In 1881 he represented Athol and Royalston as a mem- ber of the legislature, serving on the committee on elections. During the civil war he was one of the committee for raising funds for the volunteers. He is prominently connected with the Evangelical Con- gregational Church, having been a deacon since 1879. He was a teacher of one class in the Sunday school for over thirty years.
Mr. Kendall married Ettie Thomas, of Brandon, Vermont, September 6, 1855; she was born in Bran- don, March 5, 1834, daughter of Zebina and Polly ( Holmes) Thomas. The children born to them are: Rollin G., born at Athol, September 11, 1857. died of scarlet fever, February 15, 1870; Warren H., born at Athol, August 15, 1871, died April I, 1890; he was a young man of much promise and died while a student at Cushing Academy, at Ash- burnham.
WILLIAM D. SMITH. Frank Smith father of William D. Smith, the silverware manu- facturer of Gardner, Massachusetts, was born in Thornton, New Hampshire, March 14, 1848, son of Dr. William A. and Susan F. (Durgin) Smith, of Campton, New Hampshire. Frank W. Smith re- ceived his education in the public schools. Before
he was of age he entered the silverware business in the office of his uncle, William B. Durgin, a manu- facturer at Concord, New Hampshire. lle was asso- ciated with his uncle in various positions until he removed to Gardner in 1886. He selected that town for the location of his silverware factory, which he erected on Chestnut street. Ile began to manufacture goods in 1887 with seven employees. The original factory was forty by sixty feet, three stories and basement. Business rapidly grew to the capacity of this factory, and in 1892 it was doubled in size. The factory was equipped with the latest machinery, and the name of Mr. Smith became a synonym for artistic sterling silver goods: He not only had his building designed to meet the requirements of his trade and filled it with costly and delicate machinery, but he took special care to have the expert silver- smiths for the hand work required on the products of the concern. Mr. Smith was very successful in his business, which he continued until the last year of his life, and his shop became one of the standard industries of the town. Mr. Smith was a Repub- lican in politics, but never active in town affairs. He was a member of the Congregational Church at Gardner. He was a prominent Free Mason, having taken the Templar degree, and was past com- mander of Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 46. He was a director of the First National Bank of Gardner and trustee of the Gardner Sav- ings Bank.
He married (first) Eliza Parker, daughter of Dr. David Parker, of Gardner. They had one child, William D., of whom further mention is made. He married (second) Frances S. Heywood, of Gard- ner, daughter of Seth Heywood. (See Heywood family). They had a son, Frank H., born June 24, 1889. Frank W. Smith suffered for two years with heart disease. He died August 2, 1904.
William D. Smith, son of Frank W. Smith, was born at Concord, New Hampshire, December IS, 1876. He attended school in his native town and in Gardner, whither he moved with his parents when he was nine years old. From the Gardner high school he went to Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, where he prepared for college. He was graduated at Harvard University with honors in 1899. He then became associated with his father in the silver manufacturing business. During his father's last illness the management of the business fell to him, and since his father's death he has be- come the proprietor of the silverware business. Un- der his management the works have continued to prosper. The Smith silverware stands among the best made in this country, and the works are among the largest and best known. In politics Mr. Smth is a Republican. He is a member of Gardner Lodge of Free Masons. He succeeded his father as di- rector of the First National Bank of Gardner. He attends the Gardner Congregational Church.
Mr. Smith married, April 24, 1901, Emily W. Ballard, daughter of Howard and Mary ( Heywood) Ballard, of Gardner. Their children are: Janet, born January 8, 1902; Parker, July 15, 1903 ; Eleanor, January 17, 1906.
BIEBERBACH FAMILY. (1). George Bieber- bach, son of Melchior Bieberbach, the youngest of ten children, was born April 24, 1824. in Uffenheim, Bavaria, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 29. 1900. When he was graduated from the public schools of Uffenheim his father, who was a carpenter by trade, apprenticed him to a cooper with a view of making him a brewer event- ually. As an apprentice he had to work after the custom of his times from five in the morning to
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seven at night. He then learned the brewer's trade in the same way and became an expert. On coming of age he entered military service in the Second Bavarian Artillery. He improved his time during furloughs in studying chemistry under Julius Von Liebig, famous for the discovery of the process of making vegetable and meat extracts. Mr. Beiber- bach subsequently went to Frankfort-on-the-Main, where he became engaged to marry Marguerite Onacker, the daughter of a customs house officer there. Becoming involved in political troubles of the time in 18449 and 1850 he was accused of con- spiracy and proscribed. He was on a list of twenty- two who were to be shot if caught. But he was warned of the danger by a friendly customs house officer and made his escape with the aid of friends. He was closely pursued but got over the line into France. Thence he crossed to Holland and remained some weeks until his fiancee could join him. As soon as she came they were married and started for America.
Ile had no difficulty in securing employment in American breweries, for he came at a time when German brewers were in demand in every brewery. His first employment was with the F. & M. Schaffer Brewing Company of New York and thence he went to Boston to work for John Roessle as his head brewer. It was in Boston that Mr. Bieberbach brewed the first lager beer brewed in New England. His knowledge of chemistry enabled him to succeed in brewing lager in the summer months as well as in winter, then considered a great feat by brewers. The difference between lager and ordinary ale was caused, as explained by Mr. Bieberbach, by the difference in time during which the beer was allowed to ferment. Ordinary ale is made by quick fer- mentation, the process being complete in four days. Lager is allowed to ferment slowly for a period of from sixteen to twenty-four days, requiring storage in a cool place, the word lager meaning in German this process of storage, etc.
Mr. Bieberbach came to Worcester in 1867. He leased and for several years kept the old Interna- tional Hotel on Front street, where the Warren block now stands. In 1882 he removed to Summer street and engaged in the wholesale liquor business. in which he was quite successful financially. Ile was also interested in the Worcester Brewing Com- pany, having been a director and president of the corporation. Some time before his death he with- drew both from the brewery and the liquor busi- ness. Hle sold his business to his sons and his son-in-law and they have since that time conducted the business under the name of Bieberbach Bros. & Co., at 113 Summer street. They also manufacture soda water extensively in addition to their wholesale and retail liquor trade. Mr. Bieberbach had an office at the store for some time after he sold out. Mr. Bieberbach's knowledge of English language was acquired by self-education. He spoke no word of the language when he came to America at the age of twenty-eight. In a few years he became an om- nivorous reader in English and commanded a large vocabulary. The latter days of his life were spent in rest and contentment. He enjoyed the comforts of his home and found his greatest happiness in the company of his children and grandchildren. He was a man of ready sympathies and genial tempera- ment and during his life in Worcester made a host of friends.
The child of George and Marguerite (Onaeker) Bieberbach was: George. married Cecelia Daniels. of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He died December 5, 1903, at the age of fifty-one years. The children of George and Cecelia Bieberbach were: George, a
student; Walter D., a Worcester physician; Cecilia 1., a Worcester school teacher. George Bieberbach married ( second) Rasena Rose; she died in 1884; she had three children: 1. Richard, married Isabel Fidt, of Worcester; they have six children. 2. John George, a member of the firm of Bieberbach Bros. & Co., was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, now Boston, March 20, 1855. He was educated in the Worcester public schools. He went into business with his father and has been engaged in the business ever since. He is a Free Mason, an Odd Fellow and belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Frohsinns and Turn Verein. He is unmarried. 3. Elizabeth, mar- ried George E. Sandner, of Worcester, who is a member of the firm of Bieberbach Bros. & Co.
ROSWELL A. SMITH. Nehemiah Smith, in- migrant ancestor of Roswell A. Smith, of Grafton, Massachusetts, was born in England, in 1605, and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, before March 6. 1637-38, when he applied for admission as free- man. He must have been a member of the church there. He married, January 21. 1639-40, Anne Bourne, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bourne. In 1640 he was on a committee to partition land among the proprietors of Marshfield. From there he went to Stratford, Connecticut, as early as 1644, and later to New Haven. In 1651 he was living across Long Island sound on Long Island, but he returned and settled at Peqnot, where August 29, 1652, he had a grant of eight acres of land. The famous old Smith homestead across the river at Smith Lake in Groton was originally twenty acres, granted December 27, 1652, and he began to live there about 1655. He was also one of the original pro- prietors of the town of Norwich, Connecticut, and was at one time the largest land-holder there. He died. 1686, aged eighty-one years; his wife died January 12, 1684, aged seventy, Their children : Sarah, born about 1642; Mary, born about 1642, married Samuel Raymond; Hannah, born 1641; Mercy, born about 1645; Elizabeth, born about 1645, married Deacon Joshua Raymond; Nehemiah, born 1646, see forward; Lydia, born 1647; Ann (perhaps same as Sarah and named Saranne after her mother, whose name appears as Sarah and Ann) ; Mehitable. (11) Nehemiah Smith, son of Nehemiah Smith (I), was born at New Haven, Connecticut. 1646, and was baptized by Rev. John Davenport, the famous pioneer minister. He moved with his father to Poquonoe farm, adjoining Smith Lake. When he was only seventeen he began to carry on the farm in Groton, and his father was living at Nor- wich. He became a leading citizen, was selectman, member of the general assembly in 1669, 1705-07- 16, was a freeman before 1708, member of the First Church of Stonington, sergeant of the military company in 1604 and on committees to fix the boundaries of various towns where disputes had arisen. He was the second town clerk of Groton, from 1707 to 1718. He received a bounty in 1673 for killing five wolves, evidently something of a huntsman. He married, October 24, 1669, Lydia Winchester, daughter of Alexander Winchester, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. His wife died October 24, 1723, in his seventy-eighth year. He married (sec- ond) Elizabeth Haynes, widow. He died August 8, 1727, in his eighty-first year, and was buried in the Poquonoe graveyard at Groton, whenee his re- mains were removed to Smith Lake cemetery in 1888. Their children: Lydia, born October 29, 1670; Nehemiah, born November 14, 1673. see for- ward; Martha, born October 15, 1678: Daniel, born November 29, 1680; Margaret, baptized 1683; Jo-
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sephi, baptized November 7, 1686, at the Stonington church.
(III) Nehemiah Smith, son of Nehemialı Smith (2), was born November 14, 1673, at Poquonoc, on the Smith homestead, Groton, Connecticut. He married, April 22, 1696, Dorothy Wheeler, daughter of Isaac and Martha ( Park) Wheeler, and grand- daughter of Thomas and Mary Wheeler. He joined the first church at New London. He was an honest and highly respected farmer. He lived on the home- stead and also had land at Nowayanck. His will was proved in 1724. He died November 21, 1724, leaving an estate inventoried at over sixteen hun- dred and forty-eight pounds. His wife Dorothy was born December 6, 1679, died May 25, 1736, and was buried at Poquonoc, and re-interred in 1888 in the Smith Lake cemetery. His children : Dorothy, born August 26, 1697, died January 4, 1697-98; Hannah, born February 20, 1699; Elizabeth, born November 17, 1700; Nathan, born September 16, 1702; John, born June 14, 1704, see forward; Will- jam, born May 10, 1706, married twice; Isaac, born December 29, 1707; Mary, born November 16, 1709; Lydia, born January 24, 1712-13; Jabez, born February 7, 1714; Anna, born November 1, 1717; Sarah, born July 14, 1719.
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