Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 50

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732

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(II) Joseph Joslin, fourth child of Israel and Sarah Joslin (1), was born in Killingly, Connecti- cut, May 14, 1726. He married, April 18, 1754, Mary Adams. They settled in Thompson on the home- stead. He was a farmer. He died at East Thomp-

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son, Connecticut, November 26, 1809. His wife Mary died there May 22, 18II. Children of Joseph and Mary (Adams) Joslin were: Jessie, born March 22, 1755; John, February 9, 1757; Joseph, see forward; Mary, June 5, 1761; Samuel, July 2, 1763; Eunice, April 24, 1766; a son, born and died May 12, 1768; Amasa, May 31, 1769; Darius, July 29, 1771; a daughter, born and died March 24, 1775; Abel, July 6, 1778.

(III) Joseph Joslin, third child of Joseph Joslin (2), was born in East Thompson, Connecticut, April 9, 1759. He cared for his father in his old age as his farmer had cared for his grandfather. He inherited the homestead. He was a man of marked ability, and it is due to the fact that he kept a journal which has been preserved that much family history is known. In August, 1777, when he went to defend Newport with his company against the British fleet, he began the diary which was kept carefully up to the time of his death in August, 1843. He was active in politics, and in 1827 and 1828 represented his district in the general assem- bly of Connecticut. He was a magistrate and set- tled many estates. He was chairman of the school committee, selectman and held various other posi- tions of honor and trust. He left written records of the Joslin, Adams and Bayley families and other valuable historical matter. He married Lydia Buck- lin, of Smithfield, Rhode Island, October 14, 1783. He died August 1, 1843; she died September, 1831. Their children were: Junia, see forward; Amy, born 1785, died 1801; Arthur F., born October 6, 1788, died 1843.

(IV) Juma Joslin, eldest son of Joseph Joslin (3), was born in East Thompson, Connecticut, in 1784. He married, March 10, 1806, Martha Coats, of East Thompson, Connecticut. They settled in East Thompson where their children were born. He died at East Thompson, February 22, 1857; she died April 1, 1871. Their children were: Edwin, born March 10, 1807; Amy, March 16, 1809; Albro, May 13, 1810; Liffalla, January 1, 1812; Damon Andre, October 3, 1814; George Davis, April 2, 1817; Lydia Bucklin, December 9, 1818; Joseph N., see forward ; Junia S., November 27, 1823; Sylvanus B., January 23, 1825; Ansel S., January 21, 1827; Lucius M., April 16, 1828; Lyman M., January 10, 1830.

.(V) Joseph Napoleon Joslin, eighth child of Junia Joslin (4), was born in East Thompson, Con- necticut, March 23, 1821. He was educated in the district schools of Thompson. He was a shoemaker by trade. In 1857 he left shoemaking and went into the trucking business, which he carried on until 1895. He settled in Millbury, Massachusetts, in 1838, and for many years was one of the prominent mem- bers of the Baptist church there. He married, at Millbury, Massachusetts, 1842, Margaret Baker Pierce, daughter of William Pierce, a hatter by trade, who died in Sterling, Massachusetts. Her mother was Polly Gould Richardson, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, a descendant of the Richardson fam- ily of Woburn, ( see Richardson family) and daugh- ter of Royal and Comfort (Fuller) Richardson, of Attleboro. She was born 1819 and died 1866. He married (second) Abby Collier, of Maine, May 7, 1868, and had three children. Among the children of Joseph N. and Margaret Baker ( Pierce) Joslin were: Sumner Richardson, see forward; Warren Pierce, born January 16, 1848, died July 12, 1848; Mary Jane, born June 3, 1850, died September 2, 1850.

(VI) Sumner Richardson Joslin, son of Joseph Napoleon Joslin (5), was born in Millbury, Massa- chusetts, November 25, 1846. He was educated in the public schools of Millbury and Worcester. He

was a market man and butcher until 18So. Then he took a position in the wire mill of Washburn & Moen, Worcester, and was foreman in the Grove street works until 1893. At that time he retired to a farm which he purchased in Rochdale, near the line between Oxford and Leicester, about a mile from the Rochdale railroad station. He has always been a Baptist in religion. He was one of the constitu- ent members of the Adams Square Baptist Church of Worcester, and was one of the first deacons. He is at present a member of the North Oxford Baptist church. He is a stanch Republican, but has never cared for public office. He is a veteran of the civil war. He enlisted, August 15, 1864, in the First Battalion Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Vol- unteers. He was mustered out of service July 3, 1865. He enlisted in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Tenth Regiment Infantry, in 1873, and was chosen corporal, sergeant and first lieutenant of Company H, Sixth Infantry. He was discharged from the last named company in 1881. He is a Free Mason, not affiliated at present. He is a Knight of the Golden Cross and of the Grand Army. He was commander of Nathaniel Lyon Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1878 and 1879, and adjutant in 1880 and 1881.

He married, at Sutton, Massachusetts, December 22, 1868, Charlotte A. Perry, daughter of William and Eunice Perry. Their children are: I. Carrie Augusta, born in Millbury, Massachusetts, August 20, 1870, married H. Scott Stockwell, of Sutton, April 26, 1906. 2. Emma Margaret, born in Mill- bury, September 21, 1871, married, April 30, 1891, R. E. Chapin, dealer in groceries and provisions, formerly of Worcester, now of Springfield, Massa- chusetts. Their children are: Pearl M. Chapin, born in Worcester, May 20, 1893; Sumner R. Chapin, born September 16, 1894, at Worcester; Charlotte M. Chapin, born May II, 1901, at Colorado Springs, Colorado. 3. Harry Sumner, born in Webster, April 14, 1876, educated in the public schools of Worcester, railway postal clerk; married, June 24, 1903, Alberta White, of Glendale, Rhode Island, and they have one child, Doris May Joslin, born May 12, 1905. 4. Arthur Bachelor, born in Worcester, Janu- ary 30, 1878, educated in the public schools of Wor- cester, clerk at the Worcester County Institution for Savings, Foster street, Worcester; married, May 14, 1903, Katharine Royal, of South Paris, Maine, and they have had children. Elizabeth Joslin, born Feb- ruary 21, 1905, died next day; Dorothy Christine, July 29, 1906. 5. Willie Perry, born in Webster, July 9, 1880, died in Worcester, December 14, 1885. 6. Edmund Joseph, born in Worcester, April 4, 1883, educated in the Worcester schools, now railway . postal clerk between Boston and Albany; married, December 12, 1905, Mary E. Brown, of Leicester, Massachusetts.

GEORGE H. CUTTING. Richard Cutting (1) was the emigrant ancestor of George H. Cutting, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and of all, it is believed, of the families of that name in this country. John Cutting and William Cutting, who were in the colo- nies before 1640, seem to have left no male descend- ants of the present day. They may have been relatives of Richard Cutting. John was settled first at Water- town before 1636. He resided at Newbury in 1638 and was a proprietor and town officer there. He removed to Charlestown, where he bought a house and land in 1648. He was master of the ship "Ad- vent," which made many voyages to and from Eng- land. He died at Newbury, November 20, 1659, leaving daughters, Judith, Sarah and Mary, and no sons. William Cutting came to Ipswich in the "Eliza-

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beth of Ipswich" on the same boat with Richard April 30, 1634. He is supposed to have been an elder brother of Richard Cutting, but little is known about him.

Richard Cutting was born in England, 1623, and came to America in the "Elizabeth of Ipswich," sailing April 30, 1634, when only eleven years old. He was in charge of Henry Kimball, who came with his family to Watertown, Massachusetts, and set- tled. It does not appear what relation Cutting was to the Kimball family, if any. Richard Cutting re- mained at Watertown when he grew up. He bought house and land there January 16, 1646-7. He mar- ried Sarah -. He died March 21, 1695-6. His will mentions his sons Zechariah and James ; daugh- ters Susan Newcomb ( Nucum) and Lydia Spring ; grandchildren John Cutting and Elizabeth Barnard. His wife Sarah died November 4, 1685, aged sixty years. Richard Cutting was a wheelwright by trade, but doubtless was also a farmer. He was admitted a freeman in Watertown, Massachusetts, April 18, 1690.

The children of Richard and Sarah Cutting were: 1. James, born January 26, 1648. 2. John, married, February 9, 1672, Susan Harrington, eldest child of Robert Harrington. He died April 21, 1690. His widow married Eliezer Beers, who died December 5, 1691, and she married (third), January 2, 1704-5, Peter Cloyes, of Framingham. The chil- dren of John Cutting were: Susan, born June 4, 1673; Sarah, born 1675, married, February 22, 1703-04, John Whitney; Mary, born November 29, 1677; Elizabeth, born 1678. married, August 15, 1701, Amos Waight, and had three children; John, born March 10, 1679, died November 20, 1760; Robert, born October 15, 1683; George, born April 26, 1686. 3. Susanna, married, June 2, 1672, Peter Newcomb, of Braintree. 4. Sarah, born September 2, 1661, married, March 5 1683, John Barnard, Jr., died May 6, 1694. 5. Lydia, born September 1, 1666, married Henry Spring. 6. Zechariah, may have been the eldest.

(II) James Cutting, son of Richard Cutting (I), was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, Jan- mary 26, 1657-8. He married, June 16, 1679, Hannah Cutler (or Collier), perhaps daughter of James Collar. He settled at Watertown. His children were: I. James, born March 20, 1679-So, had by wife Dorothy a daughter Hannah, born March 21, 1704. 2. Richard, born December 10, 1683. 3. Thomas, born November 10, 1685, settled at Sudbury ; mar- ried, December 10, 1706, Mary Nobles, and had : Mary, born July 18, 1707; Abigail, born September 1, 1709; Dinah, born at Sudbury, June 21, 1718, mar- ried, October, 1740, William Briscoe. 4 and 5. Jon- athan and David (twins), born January 12, 1687-8 -- Jonathan died May 29, 1754-David married, October 13. 1712, Elizabeth Wales. 6. Hezekiah.

(1Il) Hezekiah Cutting, son of James Cutting (2), born February 17, 1688-9, married, March 24, 1713-14, Mary Hagar and had in Sudbury; Will- iam, born March 14, 1713-14, died young; William, born December 20, 1715-16; Mary, born October 6, 1717, married Jonas Richardson; Isaac, baptized at Waltham, May 3, 1730, aged a few days.

(IV) Isaac Cutting, son of Hezekiah Cutting (3), was born probably in Sudbury, possibly in Con- necticut, but baptized in Waltham, Massachusetts, when a few days old, May 3, 1730. Unless lleze- kiah had more children after leaving Sudbury, he was the youngest. David Cutting, brother of Heze- kiah, and probably others of the family went to Connecticut. David was in Killingly. The family settled at Hebron, Connecticut, where Isaac Cut- ling probably raised his family. The records of the

family while in Connecticut are scanty and vague and almost all of the facts about Isaac Cutting are from family records. He married Eleanor How- ard, of Lynn, Massachusetts, January 21, 1754. Their children were: Hezekiah, born June 7, 1755; Keziah, born July 9, 1757; Zebedee, born October 18, 1759; Susanna, born September 18, 1761, died 1792; Isaac, born June 22, 1704, died February, 1815; Bela, born February 4, 1766, died February, 1856; Eleanor, born September, 1770; Polly, born November 16, 1772; Lucy, born May 30, 1775, died at age of twenty-three.

(V) Bela Cutting, son of Isaac Cutting (4), was born probably at Hebron, Connecticut, February 4, 1764. He died at Lyme, New Hampshire, Feb- ruary, 1856. He married Lydia Beach Rood about 1790. She was born October 13, 1770, died Novem- ber 17, 1843, at Lyme, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of James Rood, who was born at Hebron, Connecticut, May 10, 1730, died 1811, and Lydia Beach, who was born at New Haven, Con- necticut, 1733, died 1797, married about 1764.

The children of James and Lydia ( Beach ) Rood were Zecharialı, born March 12, 1765, died 1851 ; Azariah, born January 21, 1767; Lydia Beach, born October 13, 1770, died 1848; Rachel, born April 22, 1772, died 1850. The history of Lyme, New Hampshire, says: "When the Cutting families first came to Lyme is uncertain. It is said that four brothers, Colonel Zebedee, Bela (mis-spelled Billa), Isaac and Lathrop (the fourth son's name was Hezekiah) came about the same time. Zebedee's name was on the list of fifty petitioners in Lyme for a ferry. (It appears that the other sons were under age but probably in Lyme with their par- ents at the time). He settled east of the Post road on the road running north and south about half way up the hill. His three brothers settled near him. They probably came from Hebron, Connecti- cut. Colonel Zebedee Cutting was a noted horseman, always owning a stable full of fine horses. He married Phebe Strong and they reared a large family. Dudley Cutting, son of Zebedee, was born May 10, 1796, married Mary Bixby; Horace, son of Zebedee, married Sophronia Dimick and reared five sons and five daughters. The sons were Adolphus D., Ezra F., Henry P., Alfred and Clark T. Cutting. Ezra F., son of Horace, now owns and occupies the farm bought by his father about 1840 on Road No. 17. He married Fannie P. Mead and their children were: Henry P., Frank, Ada M., Annie B., and Edd. M. Clark T. Cutting, son of Horace, was for twenty-five years in the dry goods business in Lowell, Massachusetts.

(V) Isaac Cutting, son of Isaac Cutting (4), and brother of Zebedee and Bela (V), one of the first named brothers, was twice married and reared a large family. His son, Isaac, married Achsah Allen. The oldest son of Isaac and Achsah, David, was born in 1817. In 1818 they moved to Vermont and later to Canada, where they brought up three sons and two daughters. After the death of Isaac his two sons, David and Hollis A., with their fam- ilies, and sisters, Eliza Townsend and Rachel Dim- ick, widows, returned later to Lyme.

(V) Bela Cutting settled in Lyme, New Hamp- shire. The children of Bela and Lydia Beach Cut- ting were: I. Chester, born at Lyme, New Hamp- shire, married Sarah Dodge. 2. Amos, married Elizabeth Lothrop, of Boston. He was a stone mason and worked on the light house at Cohasset and on the bridge at White River, Vermont. He was killed at the Winooski bridge, which fell during construction in 1848. He had two children : Levi, and Lizzie, who married Frank Barker. 3. Clark,

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married Mary ,had one child, Hattie P., who

married Tucker, and lives at Thetford, Ver- mont. 4. Lydia, married William Smith. 5. Susan,

died in infancy. 6. Susan, married Wood- ward. 7. William, the eldest son, it is said, mar- ried Alvira It is said that he was an ec-

centric man. He was a stone mason. He took charge of a farm for two old ladies and after they died his brothers built him a small house, where he lived for the remainder of his life. 8. Hiram, married Harriet N. Chapin. 9. James. 10. Mary.

(VI) Hiram Cutting, son of Bela Cutting (5), was born at Lyme, New Hampshire, April 1, 1800. He married Harriet Newell Chapin. She died in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 17, 1890. He settled in Lyme, where his eldest children were born, later removing to Newport, Vermont, where he died in 1873. The children of Hiram Cutting were : I. George Hiram, born August 17, 1837, mar- ried Vamelia Houston, daughter of James Houston, had one son, George Bradley. 2. Amos Porter, born September 13, 1839. 3. James Rood, born September 30, 1841, married Josephine Scott, of Newport, Vermont. 4. Charles Henry, born about 1843, died 1854. 5. Ella Jane, born December 23, 1854, married Herbert Russell Wheeler, in Worces- ter, Massachusetts, May 6, 1886. They reside in Worcester. They have no children.

(VII) George H. . Cutting, son of Hiram Cut- ting (6), was born August 17, 1837, at Lyme, New Hampshire, on the old Cutting homestead on Cut- ting Hill. When he was quite young his father left the farm at Lyme and removed to a new loca- tion at Newport, Vermont. Though never very successful in accumulating money Hiram Cutting was an able mechanic, such as New England alone could produce. He drove an eight-horse team be- tween Quincy and Boston. He shod his own horses and ironed his own sleds. He began to farm after he was married at thirty-five. He never confined himself strictly to farming. He framed houses for his neighbors and ironed their wagons and sleds. His mechanical skill was called upon often by the . pioneers in Vermont with whom he went to New- port. Perhaps the art of doing things was inherited by George Cutting from his father and other an- cestors. He did not like farming. He did more farming than schooling in his youth on the New- port farm. The old district school offered few ad- vantages. Here he learned to read and write and "Cipher." That was about all, but he was a per- sistent reader and early in youth formed a habit of reading at every opportunity. There are few men in his business with a better education along the technical lines necessary for success in constructing buildings.

But he did not break loose from the farm at once. He "worked out" a year at Coventry for Loren Soper, whose farm was about two miles from the Cutting home. At seventeen he went to work at Derby, Vermont, for William Norris, a carpenter, and learned the trade in seven months. He told his father that he was not born to be a farmer and the father consented to have him follow the trade he had learned. He worked two years at the carpenter's trade in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The next two years he spent in the sash and blind factory of Orrin L. Stevens at St. Johnsbury. Here he had excellent mechanical training and mastered the art of wood working in its finer branches. After he left the Stevens factory he worked for John D. Chase, who manufactured mill machinery. One of his first positions was to set up some mills at Troy, Vermont, for Kay, Aiken & Smalley. This firm did

a general business. They had saw mills, shingle mills, flour inills, an extensive plant.

Amos Porter Cutting was already in Worcester when George H. Cutting came in 1803. Amos went from Vermont to Springfield, whence in 1862 he came to Worcester. The two brothers worked first for Russ & Eddy, whose wood-working shop was on Cypress street. After about two years in this estab- lishment George H. Cutting was obliged to give up his position on account of poor health. He went back to Troy, Vermont, and opened a shop where he built carriages, wagons, sleighs, sleds and all kinds of vehicles. In less than two years, how- ever, he found his health so far restored that he left Troy and closed out his business there to be- come superintendent of the extensive interests of William S. White, of Hartford, Connecticut. He had charge of a brick yard, a lumber mill, a grist mill and a general business dealing in lumber and builders' finish. He remained in this position for nine years. When he left Mr. White in 1877 he came to Worcester to take a vacation. After rest- ing for six or eight weeks he took charge of the completion of a contract which had been interrupted by the death of the contractor, building the First Congregational Church on Colony street, Meriden, Connecticut.

In 1878, when the church was completed, he re- turned to Worcester and entered into partnership with J. W. Bishop as contractors and builders. Mr. Bishop had been carrying on a small business as contractor and builder in Worcester. The new firm opened their headquarters in an office on Central street, Worcester. The firm was very successful and soon was among the largest builders in this part of the state. They constructed hundreds of buildings of every description, not only in Worces- ter but in all sections of the country. They had large contracts at Providence. Some of the large buildings in Worcester built by this firm were the Pilgram Church, Old South Church, the Public Library Extension and the Armory.

In 1893 the firm of Cutting & Bishop was dis- solved, each of the two partners becoming the head of a great and successful business. Excepting only the Norcross business this firm and the succeeding business that each established have been the most succesful in this section of New England. Mr. Bishop organized the J. W. Bishop Company, which has headquarters on Foster street, Worcester. Mr. Cutting organized the firm of Cutting, Bardwell & Co. His partners were Everett J. Bardwell, Burton C. Fiske and William W. Carter. Among the large contracts of Cutting, Bardwell & Co. were the con- struction of the Y. M. C. A. building at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. the Leominster Town Hall, Uni- tarian Church, Leominster Bank building, four large mills at Ludlow, Massachusetts, for the Lud- low Company and handsome private residences in Boston for Mr. Hubbard of the Ludlow Com- pany on Commonwealth avenue and for Mr. Hubbard of the company on Bay State road, in all amounting to over a million dollars, the Grosvenordale cotton mills, extensive brick buildings at Grosvenordale, Connecticut. Cut- ting. Bardwell & Co. constructed the hydrant system at Grosvenordale, Connecticut. They built the Medford high school building, one of the modern school buildings in Boston, many buildings for the Boston Wharf Co., the magnificent plant of the Nor- wood Press, established by Grafton Cushing at Nor- wood, Massachusetts, the new Pearl Street Baptist Church at Hartford, Connecticut, on Farmington avenue.

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In 1900 Mr. Bardwell sold his interests in the firm to his partners. Mr. Bardwell went to Boston and became connected with the firm of H. P. Cum- mings & Co. George B. Cutting, son of the senior partner, entered the firm. Mr. Fiske and Mr. Car- ter remained in the firm. The name of the firm was changed to G. H. Cutting & Co. In the past five years the business of the firm has been greater than ever. In the spring of 1900 Mr. Cutting went south to begin the erection of a series of cotton mills and they have achieved unusual success in this new field. He built first at Gainesville, Georgia, one of the largest cotton mills in the south. It is known as the Pacolet No. 4 and has a capacity of 60,000 spindles. Besides the brick mill buildings he erected one hundred and eighty tenement houses, all of which were double houses, having two six-room tenements in each tenement. The buildings form a village in themselves just outside the city limits of Gainesville, near the New Holland Spring. The firm had the contract next for the Gainesville cotton mills about two miles from the Pacolet mills. Here a modern brick mill with a capacity of thirty thou- sand spindles was erected, besides which the com- pany erected eighty houses for employees. Mr. Cut- ting took personal charge of this southern work. He built a large new mill at Abbeville, South Caro- lina, then a mill with a capacity of thirty thousand spindles at Greenville, South Carolina. This is known as the Woodside mill and the company had also seventy-five houses built by G. H. Cutting & Co. Mr. Cutting constructed the famous Gluck mill of the Anderson Cotton Mill Company, at Anderson, South Carolina. This mill has a capacity of thirty thousand spindles and is a new departure in mill construction in that it is only one story high.

The handsome plant built at Gainesville for the cotton company was wrecked by a cyclone June 7, 1903, and Mr. Cutting had the contract to restore the buildings. Two stories had been entirely de- stroyed. A freshet and cloudburst brought disaster July 9th in the same year to the Pacolet mills. Two mills were washed out, dams destroyed and ware- houses swept away. He restored the dam, rebuilt mill No. 3 and is now building on the site of mill No. I a forty thousand spindle mill, one hundred and seven by five hundred feet. The damage done at Pacolet by that cloudburst amounted in less than an hour to one million, five hundred thousand dollars.

Among other buildings not mentioned that this firm built in the south is the new Baptist church at Spartanburg, South Carolina, said to be the finest church in the state. It is of yellow brick, trimmed with brown-stone.

The firm has been carrying on an equally large business in the north. They built the Weymouth, Massachusetts, Public Library. They have built two large buildings at Quincy for the Fore River Ship Building Co., one an erecting room one story high, sixty by two hundred feet, the other a large galvanizing room. They had the contract and built the power plant for the Worcester & Southbridge Railroad at Charlton, Massachusetts. They con- structed new quarters for the woolen mills of Dex- ter & Son at Newport, New Hampshire, replacing those built eighty years before. They are now building three large mills at Ludlow, Massa- dence at Hudson, Massachusetts, for ex-Con-

chusetts, for the Ludlow Associates, a resi- gressman Apsley, spacious addition to the Grafton flax works, ten tenement houses and store house at Barre, Massachusetts, for Wiley & Co. in connection with their carding plant, a thirty thousand dollar summer house and seventeen thou-

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 50

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 732

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732