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Mr. Higgins also founded the Norton Emery Wheel Company, a corporation which has had a phenomenal growth, and is known as the largest manufacturer in its line in the world. The business grew out of a department of F. B. Norton's pottery
business in Worcester. In 1880 the emery wheels of Mr. Norton were in growing demand, and in 1885 the Norton Emery Wheel Company was organized. In 1893 the business of the Grant Corundum Wheel Manufacturing Company of Chester, Massachusetts, was purchased and merged into that of the Norton Company. In addition to the large manufacturing plant at Barbers, the company operates a factory at Niagara Falls for the manufacture of emery and alundum for grinding purposes. Much of the ma- chinery used in the Norton Company factories was devised for them, and is covered by patents of which it is owner. The products of the factories include emery wheels, alundum wheels, and wheels of emery and alundum combined, of all sizes, and for various purposes. In addition, the company manufactures the Norton bench and floor grinding machinery, the Universal tool and cutter grinder, India oil-stones, and the Bath machine indicator. The company received the highest awards at the expositions in Paris, Brussels, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Nashville and St. Louis. Mr. Higgins is also president of this company, and Mr. Alden is treasurer.
Mr. Higgins has for several years been presi- dent of the Manchester Supply Company, wholesale plumbing supplies dealers in Manchester, New Hampshire; president of the new Worcester Pressed Steel Company, of Worcester; and a di- rector in the Mechanics' National Bank. He is deeply interested in scientific, industrial and educa- tional topics, and is a trustee of the Worcester Poly- technic Institute, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Worcester Club. He has during the past few years delivered a number of important addresses before learned societies and educational gatherings upon the sub- ject of industrial education. At the New York meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in December, 1899, he spoke on "The Education of Machinists, Foremen and Mechanical Engineers." The discussion was so animated and the interest aroused so evident, that Mr. Higgins was called upon for another address on the same subject at the next meeting of the society. These addresses are published in the "Proceedings of the Society." In January, 1904, he spoke at Providence, Rhode Island, before the Providence Association of Mechanical Engineers on "Half-Time Trade Schools for the Education of Boys." Considerable news- paper discussion and commendation of his attitude followed. He spoke in Worcester before the Con- gregational Club, April 24, 1005, on "The Relation of Trade Schools to Industrial Education." In 1905 he delivered an address in Boston on "The Promo- tion of Industrial Drawing," and before the con- vention of the National Teachers' Association he gave an address on "Industrial Education from the Standpoint of the Manufacturer." He was the speaker at the commencement exercises of the Newark Technical School, at Newark, New Jersey, May 15, 1905.
Mr. Higgins married, at Manchester, New Hamp- shire, June 15, 1870, Katherine Elizabeth Chapin, daughter of Aldus M. and Catherine (Sawin) Chapin. She is descended from Deacon Samuel Chapin, of Springfield, Massachusetts, who is of record as freeman in 1641. She was educated in the public schools and at Abbot Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, when Miss McKeen was principal. Mrs. Higgins is a member of the Worcester Wom- an's Club, and has served as chairman of the edu- cational committee. She is active in the Woman's Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, and chairman of the committee on boys' work
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in the "Woman's Auxiliary." She is a member of the Piedmont Church, and president of the primary and intermediate Sunday School Union; is also superintendent of the intermediate department of the Piedmont Sunday School, and has always taken an active part in the Sunday school work of that church. A few years ago she had charge of the children's exercises at the state convention of the Congregational Sunday schools at Worcester and later at Haverhill, and in 1905 at Salem. Mrs. Hig- gins is a member of Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chap- ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is vice regent. She is intensely interested in American history and genealogy, and has done much genealogical work on the various families re- lated to her own, and has in preparation a genealogy of the Higgins family. Children of Milton P. and Katherine Elizabeth (Chapin) Higgins are: Aldus Chapin; John Woodman; Katherine Elizabeth, born August 6, 1878; Olive Chapin, born January 7, 1882, graduate of Smith's College, 1904.
(IX) Aldus Chapin Higgins, eldest child of Milton P. and Katherine Elizabeth (Chapin) Hig- gins, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 7, 1872. He attended the public schools, grad- uated from the Worcester high school in 1890, and from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1893. For three years he served as a clerk in the United States patent office in Washington, D. C., meantime studying law and attending law lectures in the National University Law School, and was admitted to the bar of Worcester county in 1896. In the autumn of that year he visited Europe with his parents and sisters, spending eight months abroad. Entering upon practice in Worcester, he shared rooms with John S. Gould, attorney-at-law. IIe was counsel for the Norton Emery Company, and was eventually obliged to devote all his time to the legal business of the companies with which his father is connected. His office is in the factory at Barbers, and he has charge of the alundum depart- ment of the Norton Emery Company. Mr. Higgins is an active Republican. In 1900 he. was chairman of the Republican city committee, and is looked upon as a leader among the young Republicans of the city. He is a member of the Tatnuck Country Club, and of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers. He married, June 6, 1898, Miss Edgenie Brosius, and their children are: Elizabeth. born October 11, 1900, and Milton Prince, born October 29, 1903.
(1X) John Woodman Higgins, second child of Milton P. and Katherine Elizabeth (Chapin) Hig- gins, was born September 1, 1874. He graduated from the Worcester high school in 1893, and from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1896. He was for several years superintendent of the machine shop of the Plunger Elevator Company, and the secretary. September 1. 1904, he became the man- ager of the new Worcester Pressed Steel Company, of which his father is president. A large factory is in course of construction for the company, at Greendale, near the Allen-Higgins Wall Paper fac- tory. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. the Tatnuck Country Club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is active in the Piedmont Church, was former superintendent of the intermediate department of its Sunday school. and is secretary of the Worcester Congregational Club, and secretary of the directors of the Young Men's Christian Association. He married, January 17, 1906, Clara Carter, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Carter, of St. Louis, Missouri. They reside at 184 Highland street, Worcester, Massa- chusetts.
ALBERT W. CHAPIN. Deacon Samuel Chapin (I), of Springfield, Massachusetts, was the emi- grant ancestor of Albert W. Chapin, of Worcester, and in fact all of the name of Chapin that have been traced to this country. He was made a free- man, June 2, 1041; was a town officer in 1643; deacon in the church 1649, conducting the church services part of the time after 1656-7, when there was no minister in town; commissioner 1651-60, and magistrate after October, 1652. He died November II, 1675. His wife Cisily died February 8, 1682. Their children: Japhet, born 1642, married Abilene
,died February 20, 1712; Henry, (see for- ward) ; Catherine, died February 4, 1712; married Samuel Marshfield; David, moved to Boston and left a large family ; Josiah, moved to Braintree ; died September 10, 1726; Sarah, died August 5, 1684; married Rowland Thomas; Hannah, born at Spring- field, December 2, 1644; married, September 27, 1666, John Hitchcock; a daughter, married a Mr. Gilbert, had son, Henry. .
(11) Henry Chapin, son of Samuel (1) and Cisily Chapin of Springfield, married Bethia Cooley, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Cooley of Long- meadow, Massachusetts. Henry died August 15, 1718, his wife died December 11, 1711. He was a prominent representative in the general court, and commanded a merchant ship. He settled in North Springfield in what is now Chicopee. Their children were: Henry, born June 1, 1666, died April 29, 1667; Saralı, born March 3, 1670, died unmarried November 6, 1732; Bethia, born February 19, 1672; llenry, born March 19, 1679, died September 15, 1754; Benjamin, (see forward).
( 1]I) Benjamin Chapin, son of Henry (2) and Bethia Chapin, born February 2, 1682; married, November 9. 1701, Hannah Colton, daughter of Isaac and Mary Colton, of Longmeadow, Massa- chusetts. She died March 5, 1739. He married (second) Joanna, widow of Ebenezer Warriner. Benjamin died March 27, 1756. Joanna died Octo- ber 13, 1764. He was a deacon of the church. Chil- dren were: Hannah, born October 3, 1706, married Benjamin Sikes; Benjamin, born July 17, 1708, mar- ried Anna Howard; Isaac, (see forward) ; Abner, born October 13, 1713, died December 16, 1713; Jacob, born April 18, 1716, died 1717; Bethia, born June 25, 1718, married Philemon Chapin ; Sarah, born October 13, 1720, married, October 31, 1741, Ebenezer Warriner; George, born December 3, 1722, died December 10, 1782; Abigail, born May 26, 1724; Mary, born August IS, 1727. married Stephen Morgan, of Brimfield; Ephraim, born October 29, 1729. died Oceober 12, 1805; Eunice, born October 28, 1732, married Aaron Ferry, of Springfield.
(IV) Isaac Chapin, son of Benjamin (3) and Hannah Chapin, born August 18, 1710; married Experience Warriner, June 29, 1734; died November 22, 1789; she died August 22, 1777. Their children were: Isaac, born March 7, 1735, died at Lake George, December 3, 1755; Martin, born October 6, 1738; William, born August 17, 1740, died young ; Zebulon, (see forward) ; William, born November 7, 1743, died December 3, 1823; Experience, born De- cember 15, 1745. married Reuben Morgan ; Gideon, born April 13. 1748, died August 24, 1788; Mercy, born October 15, 1750, married Joel Day, of West Springfield, died April 9, 1814; Vashti, born Sep- tember 6. 1753, married Soloman Chapin, died at West Springfield, April 8, 1830.
(V) Zebulon Chapin, son of Isaac (4) and Experience Chapin, born at Springfield November 11, 1741 ; married (first) Marcy Cooper ; married (second) January 23, 1777, Lydia Ely ; removed to Chicopee and lately to the mountain at Wilbraham,
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where he settled. Their children were: Zebulon, died aged thirty-three years; Isaac, (see forward) ; died October 8, 1855; Marcy, born October 4, 1779, died October, 1852; Solomon, born July 4, 1781, died September 18, 1787; Matilda, born July 5, 1783; Celia, born August 14. 1785, died May 21, 1789; Solomon and Celia, (twins) born September 20, 1789; Solomon died June 17, 1831; William, born August 2, 1791, died June 6, 1824.
(VI) Isaac Chapin, son of Zebulon (5) and Lydia Chapin, born October 30, 1777; married Jan- uary 13, 1800, Nancy Sibley, of Monson, daughter of Ezra and Nancy Sibley. He settled on a part of his father's farm at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and died there October 8, 1855. Their children were : Orramel, born June 17, 1801 ; Zebulon, born October 10, 1803, died childless August 10, 1855; Juliana, born September 12, 1805, died April 22, 1850; Al- fred E., born December 1, 1807, died at Royalston, New York, November 22, 1857; Daniel F., born September 1, 1812, died August 15, 1813: Daniel E., (see forward) ; William, born June 15, 1817, died unmarried September 10, 1847; Lydia Ann, born Jannary 9, 1820, died September 4, 1840; John M., born October 15, 1821; Isaac N., born April 18, 1826, died June 2, 1859; Solomon, born June 2, 1831.
(VII) Rev. Daniel E. Chapin, son of Isaac (6) and Nancy Chapin, born July 12, 1814; married May 19, 1834, Betsey Hancock, of Wilbraham, daugh- ter of Eliphalet and Lucy Hancock. He was an itinerant preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, stationed first as local preacher at Coleraine, Massa- chusetts. In 1844 he joined the New England Con- ference, and was ordained at Boston May 3. 1846. He had pastorates at Jenksville, Three Rivers, Pal- mer, Beauford, Webster, Worcester, Lowell, East Boston, Westfield, Oxford and Waltham. He rep- resented Worcester in the Legislature in 1855. His health failed and he returned to Worcester where he died May 15, 1871. His wife was a direct de- scendant of the father of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Their children were : Betsey, born September 15, 1835, married, August 4, 1859, Willard W. Fay, of Warren; Lura Savilla, born May 23, 1837, married, April 14, 1858, Charles W. Alden, of Ludlow, Massachusetts ; Lucius D., born November II, 1841, was in civil war; died of wounds received at Spottsylvania, June 17, 1864; Albert W., (see forward) ; Charles Sum- ner, born October 19, 1859.
(VIII) Albert William Chapin, son of the Rev. Daniel E. (7), born January 13, 1844, at Coleraine, Massachusetts. He attended the common schools there until he was sixteen. He then spent a year at the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecti- cut. Failure of eyesight compelled him to give up his study, and about 1863 he came to Worcester and took up bookkeeping for a profession. The same year he went to New York, where he remained for two years; thence to San Francisco where he served as money order clerk part of the time in the post office for seven years. He returned to Worcester and resumed his profession of expert bookkeeper and accountant, and followed this occupation for four- teen years, after which he retired on account of fail- ing eyesight. He is a member of Trinity M. E. Church. In politics he is a Republican. He mar- ried, March 22, 1883, Carile Mary Stone, daughter of Lewis Curtin and Abbie E. Stone. She is a lineal descendant of Jonathan Stone, of Worcester, who was a soldier in the revolution. (See sketch of the Descendants of Simon Stone of Watertown.) They have no children.
CHARLES A. TAFT, deceased, one of the founders and for many years cashier of the Ux- bridge Savings Bank, was a son of Timothy Taft and a grandson of Noah Taft. The Tafts of Ux- bridge are the descendants of Robert Taft, who settled in Mendon considerably more than two hun- dred years ago, and a more detailed account of the latter and his immediate progeny will be found in a sketch of Arthur R. Taft, which appears else- where in this work.
Moses Taft, previously mentioned, was a native of Uxbridge and spent the active period of his life in tilling the soil. Possessing much natural ability, including intellectual attainments of a high order, he participated actively in civic affairs, and was widely known as a forcible public speaker. Ilis son, Timothy Taft, who was a lifelong resident of Ux- bridge, was for many years one of the leading farmers and prominent citizens of that town. Timo- thy married Polly Taft, a relative.
Charles A. Taft, the principal subject of this sketch, was born at the family homestead in Ux- bridge, 1825. He was educated in the public schools and being an apt scholar he acquired such marked proficiency in his studies as to cause his services as a school-master to be much in demand. In his earlier years he divided his -time between educa- tional pursuits and the occupation of tinsmith. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster by President Lin- coln, in which capacity he served continuously and with general satisfaction for twenty-four years. He was one of the founders of the Uxbridge Savings Bank and occupied the responsible position of cashier from the time of its opening until his death. In addition to the above he evinced an earnest in- terest in various other local institutions, being a life trustee of the public library, and he was an active member of the Evangelical church. In 1856 he was chosen representative to the legislature, in which body he rendered valuable services both to his town and state, and he also forwarded the in- terests of public education while a member of the Uxbridge school board. He made it possible for the town of Uxbridge to have its present water sup- ply, and was instrumental in starting the high school of Uxbridge. Politically he acted with the Republi- can party. Mr. Taft was a worthy representative of a type of old-school business men who are fast disappearing from our midst, and his death, which occurred in 1904, caused general regret.
In 1847 he married Sarah Bowen, daughter of Charles Bowen, of Worcester. She died in 1852. Of this union there were two children: Allen B., who is still living; and Emma, who died in 1903. In 1857 he married for his second wife Elizabeth Southwick, daughter of Dr. Moses Southwick, of Millville, Massachusetts. Her death occurred in 1808. The only child of this union is Sarah A .. who occupies the homestead of her late parents and continues the work of charity and benevolence for which they were noted.
CHARLES CALVIN LOWELL. The Lowell family is one of great antiquity and distinction in England. The ancestry of Percival Lowell, the American emigrant of 1639. is traced back in the Lowell line for ten generations. viz. :
(1) William Lowle, of Yardley. in county Wor- cester. married -- Lytleton, and they had children : James. see forward; Andrew. Samuel.
(II) James Lowle, son of William Lowle (I), married - Baskerville, and thev had children : Raffe see forward ; George, Edmond. Andrew.
( III) Raffe Lowle, son of James Lowle (2),
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married -Haselrigg, and they had children: Wal- ter, see forward ; Thomas, Anthony, Sabity.
(IV) Walter Lowle, son of Raffe Lowle. (3), married Joane Russell, and had one son, Richard, see forward.
(V) Richard Lowle, son of Walter Lowle (4), died at Yardley in county Worcester and is there buried with his coat of arms, viz .: Sable, a dexter hand couped at the wrist grasping three pointless darts, one in pale and two in saltire argent. (From the Heralds Visitations of 1573, 1591, 1632.) Richard married Turner, and they had children : Thomas, see forward; Richard, slain at Birming- ham, county Warwick.
(\'1) Thomas Lowle, son of Richard Lowle (5), married Mayhouse, and they had children: John Lowle, see forward; William, Thomas, Roger.
(VII) John Lowle, son of Thomas Lowle (6), died at Clyvedon, Somerset county, England ; mar- ried - Wake, and they had children: John, see forward; Roger, married Joane Gage, daughter and heir of John Gage, of Walton, Somersetshire; an- cestor of the Willing family of Philadelphia.
(VIII) John Lowle, son of John Lowle (7), married Apolyn Leversedge, daughter of Richard; their children were: Richard, see forward; Ed- mond, John.
(IX) Richard Lowle, son of John Lowle (S). married Percival, daughter of Edmond and Elizabeth ( Panthuit ) Percival, of Weston-in-Gor- dano. Edmond was the son of Sir James Percival, born 1468, Knight of the Bath, grandson of Sir John Percival, Lord of Eastbury, Weston-in-Gordano, born 1447, died September 25, 1493. For thirteen gen- erations back of Sir James this very distinguished family has a well authenticated pedigree. The first ancestor was Endes, Sovereign Duke of Brittany. first cousin to Robert. the father of William, the Conqueror. His grandson, Asceline, called also Lupus (the Wolf) was given Weston-in-Gordano and other estates in Somerset county, England; in 1087 he commanded the Norman forces at Mantes, Normandy, and died 1119. The family seat has been at Eastbury and Weston for many centuries. Two of the Percivals in this line, both Richard by name, were famous Crusaders in 1190 and 1191, with Richard I. Another Roger was one of the Barons who compelled King John to sign the Magna Charta. The son of Richard Lowell, named for his wife's family, Percival. is mentioned below.
(X) Percival Lowell, son of Richard Lowle (9), was born in England, 1571, and died in Newbury, Massachusetts, January 8, 1664. He was sixty- eight years of age when he immigrated to America and ninety-three years old when he died. In Eng- land he resided at Kingston, Seymour, England. He and his family had a large mercantile estab- lishment at Bristol, England, under the firm name of Percival Lowle and Co. This firm was com- posed of Percival, his son John, perhaps son Richard, and possibly son-in-law, William Gerrish, who came over with the Lowells and subsequently married Percival Lowell's daughter, Mrs. Joanna Oliver, widow of John Oliver. The Lowell and Percival families were hoth wealthy. Percival Lowell came to Newbury, Massachusetts, where his sons John and Richard had already settled, in 1638-39 from Bristol on the ship "Jonathan," pos- sibly not his first trip, as he was a proprietor of Newbury in 1638. He was a frecholder when the town was incorporated March 17, 1742. Percival wrote a poem on the death of Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts, which was printed on a "broad- side" and generally circulated.
Children of Percival and Rebecca Lowcll were:
John, born in England, 1395. died at Newbury, Massachusetts, July 10, 1647 ; married (first) Mar- garet; married (second), 1639, Elizabeth Goodale, Richard, see forward. Joan, born in England, 1609, died in Newbury, June 14, 1677; married (first), 1639, John Oliver; married (second), in Newbury, April 17, 1644, Captain William Gerrish.
(X1) Richard Lowell, son of Percival Lowell (10), was born in England, 1602, died in Newbury, Massachusetts, August 5, 1682. He married (first), in England, Margaret - -, who died in Newbury, January 27, 1642; married (second), in Newbury, Margaret -, born November 27, 1604; she was living, his widow. 1685-86. Richard settled, accord- ing to Pope, in 1637 in Newbury; according to the genealogy he came with his father on the ship "Jonathan" in 1039. In 1074 he and his wife were members of the Newbury church. He had a free- hold right No. 63 in the upper common. His will is dated June 25, 1681. Children of Richard and Margaret, his first wife, were: Percival, born 1639-40, see forward; Rebecca, born at Newbury, January 27, 1642, died June 1, 1662. Children of Richard and Margaret, his second wife, were: Sam- ttel, born at Newbury, 1644, was in Newbury 1681 and 1686, but probably returned to England to live in 1600; Thomas, born in Newbury, Septem- her 28, 1649, probably died unmarried after 1711. (XII) Percival Lowell, son of Richard Lowell (II), was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, 1639-40. Ile married, in Newbury, Massachusetts, September 7. 1664, Mary Chandler. (See sketch of the Chand- ler family of Worcester). She was the daughter of the immigrants, William and Mary (Fowler) Chandler. Mary received a marriage dower from her father, lot No. 33 in Plumb Island. He con- veyed property to his son Richard to take effect after his ( Percival's) departure for South Caro- lina. He was in Newbury in 1705 and confirmed the deed to Richard. He probably married (sec- ond), in 1709, Sarah ---- , mentioned in deeds that year. Children of Percival and Mary Lowell were: Richard, born December 25, 1668, married, April 8, 1695, Sarah Brown; settled in Rowley: Captain Gideon, see forward; Samttel, born January 13, 1675-76, granted land at Falmouth, Maine, 1728; Edmund. born September 24, 1684, married Abigail Hadlock : Margaret ; Johanna, born about 1690, mar- ried. January 1, 1715, Stephen Fosdick or Hard- wick.
(XIII) Captain Gideon Lowell, son of Percival Lowell (12), was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, September 3. 1672, died in Amesbury, Massachu- setts, before 1753, when his will was executed. He married (first ), at Newbury, July 7, 1692, Miriam ("Mary") Swett, of Newbury. John (III), Stephen (II), John Swett (I).) She was born in Newbury, April 10, 1672, and died in Ames- bury, November 27, 1734. He married (second), in Amesbury, June 4. 1735. Elizabeth Colby. In 1696 he was a cordwainer or shoemaker: in 1706 a mariner or coaster: in 1748 in his will be de- scribes himself as yeoman. He is called captain on the records when his will was proved. He bought land in Amesbury on the Merrimac river of Tawne Clements, January 19, 1718. He sold his land in Newbury in 1719. He was a sea captain, built. owned and sailed his vessels, one a sloop of fifty or sixty tons; his wife often went with him and there is a tradition that their son John was born in South Carolina while the captain and his wife were on a voyage. He had land at Falmouth, Maine, but never moved there. In 1690 he was a soldier in the ill-fated expedition to Canada. "It would seem that he was a very bold and success-
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