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(VI) Hon. Daniel Blaisdell, son of Elijah Blais- dell (5), was born January 29, 1762, died 1833. He served in the revolutionary war when very young. He settled in Canaan, New Hampshire, and became one of the most prominent men in the state. He was a lawyer by profession, and served in various positions of honor and trust from the town offices to secretary of state of New Hampshire and member of congress. He married, January 29, 1782, Sarah Springer, of Haverhill. She died June 10, 1839, aged seventy-seven years. They had nine sons and three daughters. Among their children was Par- ritt, see forward.
(VII) Parritt Blaisdell, son of Hon. Daniel Blaisdell (6), was born in Canaan, New Hamp- shire. He settled in Orange, New Hampshire. He was a farmer. He married Rhoda Currier and their children were: Parritt, Jr., see forward; Theophilus, James, Timothy, Guilford, Rhoda, Mary, all of whom are now deceased.
(VIII) Parritt Blaisdell, son of Parritt Blais- dell (7), was born in Orange, New Hampshire, February 5, 1827. After leaving school at the age of thirteen years he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, to serve an apprenticeship with a machinist until he was of age. Having mastered his trade at the age of twenty he went to Salem, Massachusetts, to
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work. In August, 1851, he came to Worcester, Massachusetts, with Wood, Light & Co., and was soon afterward made foreman of his department with an exceptionally large salary. He built a ma- chine shop on Jackson street in 1865 for himself and began to manufacture machinist's tools there. He was a very skillful mechanic and a good busi- ness man, and with tireless energy he pushed his little business to almost immediate success. After the business had largely increased he took as part- ner Jolin P. Jones and later S. E. Hildreth. The business of the Blaisdell firm became very large and the reputation of the house for excellent goods extended to all parts of the country where the goods were sold. His business career was short. After ten years, in which he accumulated a fortune, he died April 14, 1874. The business was continued by the other members of the firm.
He married, November, 1850, Sophia P. Hob- son, of Salem, Massachusetts, a descendant of an old Ipswich family. Having no children of their own, they adopted William A. Blaisdell, who has for many years been a member of the firm of P. Blaisdell & Co., and is now one of the officers of the new corporation which has absorbed the old company. Mr. Blaisdell had strong religious views, was one of the founders of the Church of the Dis- ciples of Christ in Worcester, and was an elder of the Worcester church. He was generous in his gifts to charity. His widow died at her home, Ed- ward street, Worcester, September 2, 1902.
William Alonzo Blaisdell, son of William W. Flagg, adopted son of Parritt Blaisdell, was born October 22, 1862, at Lebanon, New Hampshire. His own father worked for the Concord & Manchester, now the Boston & Maine Railroad between Concord and White River Junction. He died when Will- iam A., his son, was only four years old, and the boy was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Parritt Blais- dell. He had a sister, Lillian Flagg, born 1858. She married Eugene Carby, and has one child, Rol- and Carby, born 1897. They live at Melrose High- lands, Massachusetts. Another sister, Imogene Flagg, born 1856, married George Hartwell, died about 1892 in Boston. William A. Blaisdell was brought up in Worcester and received his education in the public schools and in Hinman's Business Col- lege. He learned the trade of machinist in his father's shop, though he was only twelve years old when his adopted father died. He went west for a year, and on his return accepted a position as foreman for the Morgan Construction Company, remaining there five years. In 1898 he resigned to return to P. Blaisdell & Co. to take charge of his mother's interests in the business. Later he and Charles E. Hildreth bought the interests of Jones and Earle, who were partners in the company.
In 1905 P. Blaisdell & Co. was consolidated with the Whitcomb Manufacturing Company, which makes the same kind of goods. The new corpora- tion is called the Whitcomb, Blaisdell Machine Tool Co. and is organized under the laws of Massachu- setts. The officers of the company are W. A. Whit- comb, president ; Charles E. Hildreth, vice-presi- dent and treasurer ; William A. Blaisdell, director. Mr. Blaisdell has charge of the Blaisdell branch of the company. The company has a first class equip- ment, having a foundry and two machine shops. Bothi were prosperous concerns for many years be- fore consolidation. Mr. Blaisdell has shown husi- ness ability of a high order in the conduct of the business of P. Blaisdell & Co. Since the death of his mother. September 2, 1902, he has taken an active part in the business.
He married Emma E. Hait, of Patchogue, Long
Island, daughter of Calvin Hait, who went from Connecticut to Long Island. They have no chil- dren. They adopted Alice Jeannette Blaisdell, daughter of Mrs. Blaisdell's brother, Lewis Hait. She was born Febraury 12, 1892. He resides at 740 Pleasant street.
POLLOCK FAMILY. Samuel Pollock (1), an- cestor of the Pollock family of Whitinsville, Massa- chusetts, was of Scotch-Irish descent. There were many immigrants of this family before the revolu- tion. Several settled in Pennsylvania and their de- scendants are numerous in that and neighboring states. Governor Pollock, of Pennsylvania, was de- scendant from one of these pioneers, President Polk from another. The name Polk is one form of Pol- lock. In Connecticut many of the family spell the name Poulk. Although the relationship of the various families in this country has not been studied out by the genealogists, there seems to be no doubt that the family had the same origin in the north of Ireland. Presbyterian in religion and Scotch in speech and customs, all the Pollocks among the early settlers were probably related in some degree.
Samuel Pollock was born January 15, 1790. He settled in Thompson, Connecticut, but removed to Burrillville and then Smithfield, Rhode Island, then to Whitinsville in the town of Northbridge, Massa- chusetts. He died in Whitinsville, November 10, 1858. He married Philena Walkup, born in Upton, Massachusetts, August 7, 1791, died in Whitinsville, February 17, 1873, daughter of James Henderson and Susan ( McNamara) Walkup. Her mother was the daughter of John and Ruth (Parkhurst) McNa- mara. John McNamara was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1718, and died in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Au- gust 14, 1801; Ruth Parkhurst was born in Framing- ham, Massachusetts, and died in Upton, Massachu- setts. Susan McNamara, their only child, married (first) Richard Congdon and ( second) James Hen- derson Walkup, of another Scotch-Irish family, who was born in Framingham and died in Coleraine, Mas- sachusetts, at the home of his son, George Walkup. Children of James H. and Susan Walkup were : Joseph, born at Upton, April 20, 1785, settled in New York; Lucy, born in Upton, June 9, 1786, died at Stonington, Connecticut, October 14, 1880; mar- ried Gaius Smith and had five children; Betsey, born in Upton, died in Randolph, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1873; married Willian Haight, who died at Ran- dolph in 1858; Mary R., born at Upton, November 21, 1789, died in Hudson, New Hampshire, October 7, 1858; married, May, 1821, Robert Follett, of Re- hoboth, Massachusetts; Philena, born August 7, 1791, see forward; Ruth, born in Uxbridge, July 13, 1798, married Barton Mowry, March, 1820; he died June 4, 1873-74, and they had four children, Sylvester, Harley, Origen and Rhanaldo Mowry.
Children of Samuel and Philena (Walkup) Pol- lock were: I. Susan Congdon, born in Burrillville, Rhode Island, February 8, 1810, died September 12, 1892. 2. James Madison, born December 2, 1812, see forward. 3. Horace, born October 17, 1814, died in Carthage, New York, August 24, 1859; married Lydia A. Foster, of New York, and she died in Granby, New York, April 17, 1885, having seven children : Martha Jane, born October 6, 1840, mar- ried and lives in Minnesota; James Henry, born in Clayville, New York, July 27. 1845: Charles R., born March 26, 1848, died October 6, 1852; Mary E., born May 1, 1850, married and lived in Mart- ville, New York: Olive A., born in Clayville, New York, June 10, 1852, married and lived in Oswego City, New York; Louisa P., born in Granby, New York, March 26, 1855, died April 17, 1876; Elva A.,
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born in Carthage, New York, November 25, 1857, married and lived in Dexterville, New York. 4. Betsey, born October 10, 1816, died May 10, 1818. 5. Richard C., born February 12, 1819, died in Ux- bridge, December 21, 1843; married Asenath Taft, of Uxbridge, born September 21, 1820, died at Whitinsville, May 18, 1843; had one child, Emma Adelaide, born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, June 1, 1842, married, August 17, 1871, Hudson Smith, of Pomfret, Connecticut. 6. Alexander born in Burrill- ville, Rhode Island, July 12, 1820, died in Whitins- ville, March 15, 1875; married, February 29, 1844, Annie Evans Simmons, of Coventry, Connecticut ; she died August 13, 1889; they had five children- Harriet Augusta, born at Grafton, Massachusetts, August 27, 1847, married Henry W. Leonard, of Worcester, March 12, 1868, had Harry A. Leonard, born in Whitinsville, November 7, 1869; she married ( second) Captain James Emerson, at Biddeford, Maine, May 1, 1874; George Nelson, born in Whit- insville, July 4, 1849, married Eliza A. Turner, of Maine, April 7, 1871, and had four children : Annie Bell, born December 18, 1871; Flora Eliza, born March 1, 1873; George Ambrose, born July 7, 1874, died August 25, 1874; Carrie May, born May 8, 1877, died young; Mary Ella, born in Coventry, Connecti- cut, April 26, 1851, died in Jacksonville, Florida, April 1, 1877; married, June 29, 1867, Stuart R. Graham; Nellie E., born in Uxbridge, December 25, 1859, died March 15, 1860; Willie Lincoln, born in Whitinsville, February 4, 1865, married, June 19, 1895, Louise M. Smith. 7. Mary Ellen born in Smith- field, Rhode Island, July 22, 1823, died in Tolland, Connecticut, May 22, 1889; married Lucius J. Phil- lips, of South Coventry, Connecticut, April 9, 1846, and they have two children-Mary Ellen Phillips, born in Whitinsville, December 12, 1847, married David A. Conant, of Mansfield, Connecticut, Decem- ber 12, 1866, and have one child, Lucius P. Phillips, born at Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts; Alice Matilda, born in Whitinsville, August 19, 1859, mar- ried, February 25, 1889, Dr. Willard Simmons, of Tolland, Connecticut. 8. Henrietta Frost, born in Smithfield, December 10, 1825, died July 29, 1845. 9. Charles Henry, born January 8, 1829, see for- ward. 10. George H. born in Northbridge, Massa- chusetts, December 23, 1831, died February 16. 1832. II. Alphronia Maria, born in Northbridge. June 5, 1833, married, April 16, 1868, Henry Warren Butler, of Pomfret, Connecticut.
(II) James Madison Pollock, son of Samuel Pollock (1), was born in Burrillville, Rhode Island, December 2, . 1812, died in Whitinsville, Massachu- setts, May 5, 1884. He settled in Whitinsville when a young man and lived there nearly fifty years. He had a common school education and spent his early years on a farm. In April, 1831, he went to work for Paul Whitin & Sons as spinner in the old brick mill by the bridge and afterward assisted in start- ing up the new stone mill. Later he entered the machine shop and had charge of setting up the spinning frames, and served his employers faitli- fully and capably in this capacity until 1880, when ill health compelled him to retire from active daily labor. It has been said of him: "Throughout his long life he was kind and generous to all, exercising true Christian charity in its highest and broadest sense. During his last years and especially during the past few months he has quietly and patiently awaited the summons of the Messenger to pass on to the Bourne from which no traveler returns, confident and fully assured that it would be well with him through the sustaining faith of Christ's promises." He married Marcy Bassett Williams, in 1832. She was born in Northbridge, October 21,
1811, and died in Whitinsville, November 3, 1886. Their children : Charles Edward, born April 4, 1833, see foward; Eliza Ann, born October 21, 1835, died February 6, 1841.
(II) Charles Henry Pollock, son of Samuel Pollock (1), was born at Blackstone, Massachusetts, January 8, 1829, died February 20, 1905. He settled in Norwich, Connecticut, and married there Drusilla P. Fletcher, November 6, 1854. He was superintend- ent of the painting department of the mills for forty- five years. In politics he was a Republican. He was a good citizen, a man of quiet, domestic tastes, having the esteem and confidence of his townsmen. The children: Alphonson Borilla, born at Nor- wich, Connecticut, March 5, 1856, died September I, 1856; Susan Maria, born in Norwich, November 7, 1858.
(III) Charles Edward Pollock, son of James Madison Pollock (2), was born in Millbury, Massa- chusetts, April 4, 1833. He removed with his parents when he was only ten weeks old to Whitinsville, attended the public schools there and the Macomber school at Uxbridge, and lived the remainder of his life at Whitinsville. He went to work under his father in the Whitin Machine Works and eventually succeeded him as foreman of the department for setting up spinning frames. For more than forty years he was employed by the company, retiring some four years before his death. During the last years of his life he spent the winters in the south with his wife and daughter. He was a member of the Uxbridge Lodge of Odd Fellows. In politics he was a Republican and served on the board of select- men of Northbridge for several years. Mr. Pollock was esteemed and respected not only by his neigh- bors and friends but by the hundreds of men who worked under him. His was the largest department in the works, and in a concern where the relations of employers and employed have always been close to the ideal he was especially popular. He died suddenly June 19, 1903, from paralysis. He was a man of excellent qualities and sterling character, one of the best citizens of the town.
He married, 1852, Cordelia Sherman Roper, of a famous Worcester county family, which settled at Princeton and Sterling in that county. ( See sketch of Roper family.) (Marcellus Roper of Worcester.) The children: I. Eliza A., born in Whitinsville, February 25, 1855, died November 5, 1902; inarried Charles V. Dudley and had three children, Frances O., Eliza P., Gladys. (See sketch of Charles Virgil Dudley and family. ) 2. Ida Medora, born in Whitins- ville, April 12, 1858, teacher in the public schools. 3. Edith Marion, born in Whitinsville, November 10, 1874, married John O. Nutter (see sketch of the Nutter family).
(III) George Nelson Pollock, son of Alexander Pollock, and grandson of Samuel Pollock (I), was born in Whitinsville, July 4, 1849. He was edu- cated in the public schools and learned the painter's trade. He has followed the painting business suc- cessfully. He is a member of the First Congrega- tional Church and in politics is a Republican.
He married, April 7, 1871, Eliza A. Turner, daughter of Lemuel Turner, of Maine. Their chil- dren : Annie Bell, born December 18, 1871, mar- ried A. D. Monroe, druggist, at Whitinsville, and had one child, Harold, who died aged four years, and another who died in infancy. 2. Flora Eliza. born March 1, 1873, graduate of the Whitinsville high school, took one year course at Becker's Busi- ness College at Worcester, is now assistant teller of the Whitinsville National Bank. 3. George Am- brose, born July 7, 1874, died August 25, 1874. 4. Carrie May, born May 8, 1877, died same year.
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.ALBERT H. WHIPPLE. Matthew Whipple, immigrant ancestor of Albert H. Whipple, of Whit- insville, Massachusetts, lived at Bocking, Essex county, England, where he died about 1618. He bequeathed to his eldest son, Matthew; to his son John and other children, as named below; to this sister, wife of Richard Rathbone. Children : Matthew, see forward. John, born 1605, died June 30, 1669; had a large tract of land at Ipswich in 1639 and was a man of wealth and high standing; admitted freeman May 13, 1640, deputy to the gen- eral court 1640-41-42-45-50 to 1653; deacon and rul- ing elder of the church; clerk of writs in 1642; ancestor of many of the Massachusetts families of this surname. Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Ann, Joan, Amy.
(II) Matthew Whipple, son of Matthew Whip- ple (1), was born in Essex county, England, about 1600. He and his brother, John Whipple, were for many years leading citizens of Ipswich, Massa- chusetts. His home place was near the present First Church, at the corner where Miss Sarah P. Cald- well's house stands (1906). He was on a com- mittee to further trade in 1641 with his brother John, Governor Bradstreet, Mr. Saltonstall, Robert Payne, Captain Denison and Mr. Tuttle, all famous pioneers. They had the care of buoys and beacons in the harbor, of providing salt and cotton, of sow- ing hemp and flax seed. As early as 1638 he and brother owned over two hundred acres of land in the Hamlet, now Hamilton, Massachusetts. He was twice married, his children being by the first wife. He married (second), November 13, 1648, Rose Chute, probably widow of Lionel Chute. His will was made May 7, 1645, before his second mar- riage, at the time of which he made a codicil giv- ing to his wife Rose the estate she had before mar- riage to him and ten pounds beside. The will was proved September 28, 1647. Besides his children he mentioned the elders, Nathaniel Rogers and John Norton. He left a large estate, yet his house, barn and four acres of land was inventoried at the same value as six bullocks that he owned. The inventory, published in Water's Ipswich, indicates that he was military. He had three muskets, three bandoliers, three swords, and two rests, a fowling piece, "cost- lett"-armor, pike and sword, rapier, halberd and bill. His children: John, see forward; Joseph, died 1708-09, had fourteen children; Matthew, married, December 10, 1657, died October 20, 1658; Mary, married Richard Jacob; Anna; Elizabeth, married Jacob Perkins.
(III) Lieutenant John Whipple, son of Matthew Whipple (2), was born in England, about 1632, baptized September 6, 1632, and died at Ipswich, November 22, 1695. He married (first) Sarah - who died June 14, 1658; (second), May 5, 1659. Elizabeth Woodman; (third) Mary Reyner. He was a lieutenant of the Ipswich company, deputy to the general court four years. His will was dated August 15, 1687, and proved December 23, 1695, mentioning the children, as given below: Sarah, married, March 30, 1674, Henry Short, died Decem- ber 28, 1691; John, see forward; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1661, married Jonathan Putnam ; Matthew, born May 29, 1664. died May 28, 1736; Joseph, born September 17, 1665, died December 14, 1729: Mary, born May II, 1667, married Ensign Thomas Jacobs; Hannah; Cyprian, born January 17, 1671; Anna, born October 29, 1675.
(IV) Captain John Whipple, son of John Whipple (3), was born in Ipswich, March 30, 1660, died there June II, 1722. He married (first) Han- nah -, who died October 20, 1701; (second). April 14, 1703, Joanna Potter. Administration on
his estate was granted to his son John, August 28, 1722. The settlement, dated April 3, 1723, was signed by John and his stepmother. The only children : Hannah, born June 30, 1692; John, see forward.
(V) Captain John Whipple, son of Captain John Whipple (4), was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, December 16, 1695, died January 16, 1769. The following children were mentioned in his will: John. William. Samuel. Thomas, born 1753. see for- ward. Benjamin, was an early settler at Dunbarton, New Hampshire; father of Captain Benjamin Whipple, a prominent citizen of Dunbarton; Sam- uel, who lived at l'age's Corners; John, born at Hamilton, January 21, 1789, graduate of Dartmouth, 1812, register of deeds, secretary of New England Fire Insurance Company, county solicitor two terms, married a sister of Hon. Salmon P. Chase. Martha. Elizabeth. Hannah.
(VI) Thomas Whipple, son of Captain John Whipple (5), was born in Ipswich or Hamilton, 1753. He was a farmer. He removed to Dunbarton, New Hampshire, about 1800, and spent the re- mainder of his days there. He married Molly (Dane) Ellingwood, widow of William Ellingwood, whom she married July 17, 1776. He was born January 6, 1749-50, son of Joshua, grandson of William, great-grandson of Benjamin, who was the son of the immigrant, Ralph Ellingwood, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. The children of William and Molly (Dane) Elling- wood were: Mary: Fanny Ellingwood, married Henry Larcom, grandfather of William F. Abbot ; teacher in the Classical high school, Worcester. Molly Dane was born July 6, 1758, died November 10, 1839. Her brother, Nathan Dane (Harvard 1778), was the founder of Dane Hall, Cambridge, one of the famous University buildings, the old Harvard law school. Her lineage: Molly (VI), Daniel (V), John (IV), John (III), John (II), John (I) Dane, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who emigrated from Barkhamstead, England.
Thomas Whipple died at Dunbarton, April 16, 1827, aged seventy-four years. Their children: Bet- sey, born November 9, 1789, died September 21, 1873; married, November 14, 18II, Ezekial Ryder, at Dunbarton. Abigail Dane, born October 9, 1790, died November 3, 1879; married John Bunten. March 30. 1829. Anna Dane, born October 9, 1793. died July 10, 1847; married, March 5. 1814, Bradford Burnham; they were the grandparents of United States Senator Burnham, of New Hampshire, and of Dr. Burnham, of Clark University, Worcester. Sarah, born about 1795, died July 31, 1827; mar- ried, November 11. 1813, Richard Merrill. William Ellingwood, born December, 1797, see forward.
(VII) William Ellingwood Whipple, son of Thomas Whipple (6), was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire, December, 1797, died December 14, 1861. He succeeded to the family homestead and spent his days on the farm at Dunbarton. He married (first), November 23, 1823, Sally Colby; (second), about 1846, Philena Morse ; (third) Asenath Fuller. fle was an Orthodox Congregationalist in religion, as his fathers and forefathers had been. The only child of the second marriage was: Frank, who died in infancy. The children of William E. and Asenath (Fuller) Whipple: Albert H., see for- ward: Frederick, born and settled in the west.
(VIII) Albert H. Whipple, son of William Ell- ingwood Whipple (7), was born on the old Whipple homestead in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, Jan- uary 17. 1853. At the time of his father's death, when he was about twelve, he went with relatives to live in Elyria, Ohio. lle received a common school education in his native town, and in Ohio,
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where he lived five years. He came east and worked for a year in Manchester, New Hampshire, but re- turned to Elyria. Six months later, in 1872, hc came to Whitinsville, Massachusetts, where he has lived ever since. He served his time in an appren- ticeship to learn the machinist's trade in the Whitin Machine Works, and he rose to the position of foreman in the tool department. After working in that department for some five years, he was two years in the planer department. In 1886 he returned to his former position in the tool department and later became the superintendent of the Whitin Ma- chine Works. A skillful mechanic himself, he has been very successful in his management of the em- ployees of this concern. In politics Mr. Whipple is a Republican; in religion a Congregationalist. He married, May 17, 1881, Anna C. Rogers, daughter of James and Harriet Colby, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire. Their children: Earl Rogers, born March 19, 1882, attended the public and high schools, graduating from the latter in 1899; studied at Stam- ford Academy and for a year at Yale College, mem- ber of the class of 1908, University of Pennsylvania. Fred W., December 3, 1866, residing in Denver, Col- orado. Daughter, died in infancy.
ROPER FAMILY. John Roper (1), the emi- grant ancestor of all known members of the Ameri- can Roper family, was, of course, the ancestor of Charles F. Roper of Hopedale, Massachusetts, and his son Walter F. Roper.
The name of Roper has been evolved from a somewhat fantastic origin. The first known an- cestor of the Roper family in England, Musard, probably of Norman descent, was Latinized as Hasculphus. His grandson, William of Miserden, Gloucester county, assumed the title De Rubra Spatlia, or Red Sheath, in the time of Henry 111. This was shortened into one word, Rospeare, and passed through the various stages of Rousper, Rooper, Ropere, and Roper, its present form. Will- iam of the Red Sheath and his Saxon wife, Elnith, were great benefactors ot St. Martin's Priory in Dorn. His son was Adam, of Swacliffe, county Kent, and this was the home of Sir William Roper, husband of Margaret (More) Roper, daughter of Sir Thomas More (1535).
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