Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 52

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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(VI) Stephen Lincoln, son of Nathaniel Lin- coln (5), was born at Rehoboth, December 3, 1751, and removed with his father to Braintree, Massa- chusetts, about 1759. He learned the trade of tan- ner and may have been associated in business with his brother Nathaniel. He served in the revolu- tionary war from August 1. 1778, to February, 1779. in the Rhode Island campaign in which General John Sullivan attempted unsuccessfully the siege of Newport.


He married, at Oakham, April 29, 1779, Lydia Foster, daughter of Lieutenant Ebenezer and Han- nah ( Parlin) Foster. He settled at Oakham and built his first . log house on Bogel hill, where sev- eral of his children were born. His father-in-law settled in that vicinity in 1756. Stephen purchased, March 6. 1783, the estate of Silas Hill of ninety- two acres, on which he was then probably living, for two hundred and one pounds. November 9, 1787, he bought another lot of Ala Adams, of Natick, fifty acres adjoining, and in the year fol- lowing purchased twenty-five acres of Ezra Pepper, of New Braintree. also adjoining. April 27, 1790, he bought of Nehemiah Putnam twenty-four acres, part of the farm once of Thomas Bogel. In 1784 he built the large houses till standing on the north side of the road from Rutland to Barre Plains, at the foot of the hill, on the top of which was form- erly the residence of Lieutenant Foster, mentioned above, in which Mrs. Lincoln was born. An ex- cellent picture of the house is to be found in a pamphlet printed about the Lincoln family of Oak- ham. Lincoln built a tannery nearly opposite his house and carried that on in addition to his farm- ing. It is said that he used to hide his money in an old shoe in the chimney of the tannery. He was a member of the Congregational church at Oakham ; was chorister from June, 1779. He was highway surveyor of the town 1780-92-98, fire warden 1784. selectman from 1791 to 1798 inclusive. He was a man of fine physique, large and tall; his wife was small. He died March 16. 1840; his wife died April 8, 1839. and both are buried in the cemetery on the Barre Plains road, two miles northwest of Oakham Centre. There is an error in the age given on his gravestone. . When he died he had sixty- five grandchildren.


Children of Stephen and Lydia were: Abner


F., born February II, 1780, died at North Brook- field, January 31, 1857: married, at Rutland, May 26, 1868, Rebecca Smith, daughter of James and Mary (Browning) Smith, of Rutland, and they had ten children. Hannah, born September 25, 1781, died at Watertown, April 9, 1858; married at Oakham, August 19, 1810, Amos Hunter, son of William Hunter; they had eleven children. Lydia, born at Oakham, March 2, 1784, died there October 26, 1847 ; married, March 15, 1808, Adin Davis, son of Deacon Davis; he was a blacksmith, wheel- wright and farmer; they had ten children. Lucy, born at Oakham, October 23, 1786, died at Saco, Maine, September 22, 1822; married, July 19, 1814, Enoch Goodale, son of David and Dorothy (New- ton) Goodale; he was a publisher and book dealer for twenty years in Saco. Maine; also dealer in paints, oils and drugs; had three wives; four chil- dren. Elizabeth, born September 7, 1788, died in New York city. August 6, 1853; married, at Oak- ham, March 28, 1814, Luther Hunter, son of An- drew and Dolly (Howe). Hunter; they had eight children. Levi, born November 3, 1790, died at Hartford, Connecticut, January 31, 1868; married, at Rutland. July 9, 1816, Malinda Miles, daughter of Barzillai and Sarah (Reed) Miles; was a gold beater by trade; became a noted inventor of card machinery and other devices; they had five chil- dren. Stephen, Jr., born at Oakham. November 29, 1792, died October 25, 1886; married, at Princeton, February 6, 1822, Betsey Brooks, daughter of Jonas and Lydia (Temple) Brooks; married (second), at Oakham, April 2, 1829, Martha Ward Skerry, daughter of Captain Samuel and Content (Ward) Skerry, of Salem; he was a manufacturer of wire- works, was sergeant of Washington Grenadiers and served in the war of 1812; was member of Con- gregational church and superintendent of the Sun- day school ; had two children. Sarah. born May 19, 1795, died March 15, 1851; married, February 2, 1819, Loren Haskill, son of Simeon and Ruth (Haskill) Haskill, of Oakham: he was a shoe manufacturer : they had six children. Justus, see forward. Mary, born December 17, 1799, died un- married at Elizabeth, New Jersey, November 7, 1882. Louisa, born at Oakham, September 3, 1803, died September 18, 1881: married, July 29, 1830, Abram Fay Robinson, son of John and Susanna (Fay) Rohinson; he was a book publisher; they had five children.


(\H) Justus Lincoln, son of Stephen Lincoln (6), was born at Oakham, May 20, 1797, and died at Rutland, November 20, 1875. He settled in Dor- chester, Massachusetts, removing to Worcester in 1827 and to Hartford, Connecticut, 1833. After a short time there and at Oakham he settled in Rut- land. Massachusetts. He learned the trade of gold beater and was afterwards a farmer. He was of a musical temperament and leader of the choir of Old South Church, Boston, and elsewhere.


He married, at Boston, November 24. 1823, Maria Watson, who was born in New York. Au- gust 18. 1700, and died at Rutland, September 28, 1842. Their children were: William Henry, see forward. John Kent, born July 5, 1828, died at Bangor, Maine, May 20, 1887; married, at Bidde- ford, September 4. 1851, Olive F. Dame, daughter of Ivory and Lydia (Stone) Dame, of Saco; she was born at Biddeford, August 26, 1830, resided at Winchester and had three children: Ellen Maria, Mary Emma, and Frederick Dame; he was a den- tist, graduate of the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1862; enlisted 1862; chaplain of Twenty-second Maine: injured by a fall in the war and was unable to continue the ministry afterwards. Maria Louisa,


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born March 17, 1831, married Rufus B. Miles, son of Barzillai and Sally (Tidd) (Reed) Miles, as second wife; he was born at Rutland, October 23, 1809, died October 27, 1891; they had three chil- dren-Charles H., Etta Louise and Arthur L .; Mr. Miles was deacon, selectman, assessor and promi- nent citizen. Albert Watson, born June 2, 1833, resided at 20 Piedmont street, Worcester; married, August 10, 1853, Julia S. Ware, daughter of Archi- bald Hazen and Caroline (Coley) Ware, of Oak- ham; she was born in Brookfield, April 16, 1833, and they have four children-George Hazen, Caro- line Maria, Jane Elizabeth and William Henry. Charles Davis, born December 26, 1836, was in the railroading business; married, at Biddeford. Maine, October 25. 1860, Henrietta Berry, daughter of Will- iam and Olivia (Dudley) Berry; she was born in Lyman, Maine, February 9, 1838, and died at St. Augustine, Florida, May 27, 1866. He was on spe- cial duty in the Department of the South in the civil war for the government: left two children- Fannie Forrester and Hattie Maria.


(VIII) Dr. William Henry Lincoln, son of Jus- tus Lincoln (7), was born in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, August 19, 1825, and died at Millbury, October 14. 1892. His early education was re- ceived in the common schools supplemented by a course at the South Paris Academy, South Paris, Maine. He first studied dentistry and began to practice that profession in Portland, Maine. While there Dr. S. B. Chase encouraged him to study med- icine and gave him the use of his library. He was able to enter Bowdoin Medical School in 1850, and for the next six years he practiced dentistry to pay his way through the medical course. He re- ceived his degree of M. D. in 1856 and at once began to practice medicine at Turner, Maine. In 1859. after the death of his wife, he removed to Hubbardston, Massachusetts, and practiced there until he enlisted May 27, 1862. He was assistant surgeon of the Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, then in the field before Richmond; he be- came surgeon, September. 1863, and served until June 27. 1864. when he was mustered out. He settled in Millbury. Massachusetts, where he en- joyed a large and laborious practice for the re- mainder of his life. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Wor- cester District Medical Society. He was a member of Olive Branch Lodge of Free Masons and was member and officer of several other Masonic bodies. He was a member of George A. Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He was an active member of the Second Congregational Church. Dr. Lin- coln was a man of strong convictions, earnest, blunt and outspoken. He was interested in public affairs and was influential in the Republican party, to which he belonged. As a physician and surgeon he had ability of high order and was eminently suc- cessful in his practice.


He married at Burnswick. Maine, May, 1857, Laura Nudd, daughter of Martin and Martha (Hig- gins) Nudd. She was born at Waterville, Maine, September 12, 1833, died May, 1858. He married (second), at Hubbardston, Massachusetts, August I. 1859, Eunice Ann Read, daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Maynard) Read. of Worcester. She was born in Rutland, February 7. 1837. Children of Dr. William H. and Eunice Ann Lincoln were: Laura Bell, born April 17, 1861, married Frank E. Powers (see sketch of Powers family) : Jacob Read, see forward: Charles Henry, born April 22, 1869, re- sides in Millbury, is assistant librarian in the Con- gressional Library at Washington; married Mary Angell.


(IX) Dr. Jacob Read Lincoln, son of Dr. Will- iam Henry Lincoln (8), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. September 4, 1862. He attended the public and high schools of Millbury, where his father settled after the civil war. He studied medi- cine and was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1888. He received his hospital training in the United States Marine Hospital in Maine, and Boston City Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1889 he came to Millbury, and now enjoys the con- fidence of the members of his profession as well as of his townsmen and patients. He is examining surgeon for the pension department of the United States, a position which requires his presence in Worcester one day each week. He is a member of the Worcester District Medical Society and of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He is interested in town affairs and public questions, and a mem- ber of the board of health. He is a trustee of the Millbury Savings Bank, and a member of its board of investment. He takes an active interest in the Masonic order and is a past master of Olive Branch Lodge.


Dr. Lincoln married, December 5, 1889, Frances Willard Morse. daughter of Charles D. and Anna E. (Willard) Morse, of Millbury, Massachusetts. She was born in Millbury, December 1I, 1865.


PARKIS FAMILY. George Parkis or Park- hurst (1), immigrant ancestor of the Parkis family of Whitinsville, and of Henry W. Parkis, of Lin- wood, Massachusetts, was born in England and was an early settler at Watertown, Massachusetts. He was a yeoman. In 1642 he was one of the proprietors of the town of Watertown. He was admitted a freeman May 10, 1643. He married ( first) Rebecca He married, about 1644. Susanna Simpson, widow of John Simpson, for his second wife. He removed to Boston in 1645, and his wife confirmed deeds of land in 1651 and 1655. June 13, 1655, he sold to John Traine land which had been granted to John Simpson. In 1642 he was proprietor of his homestall and twelve acres besides five other lots in Watertown. October 4, 1645. then of Boston, he sold to John Coolidge and Thomas Hastings a lot of land he had bought of Hugh Mason. December 20, 1648. he sold to Thomas Arnold, his son-in-law, thirty acres of land in Watertown. March 5, 1648-49. he sold to Will- iam Page ten acres near the Great pond. Children of George and Rebecca : George, Jr., born 1618 in Watertown, married Sarah Brown and (second) Mary Phyla ; Phebe, married Thomas Arnold : Jo- senh, see forward: Deborah, married John Smith; Elizabeth, married (first) Emanuel Hilliard and (second) Joseph Murray; Mary, married Rev. Thomas Carter. Children of George and Susanna Parkhurst : Daniel. baptized at Boston, June 10, 1649: Joshua, baptized March 7, 1652: Caleb, bap- tized February 26, 1653-54.


(II) Joseph Parkis (Parkhurst), son of George Parkhurst (1), was born in England, about 1625. He came to Watertown, Massachusetts. with his parents about 1640. He settled in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman in 1600. He married. June 6, 1650, Rebecca Reed, and she died in 1709. Their children: Mary, born August 10. 1657. married Thomas Blodgett: Rebecca, born August 14. 1650: Joseph, Jr .. horn January 12, 1661. see forward: Abigail, born March 14. 1664. married Nathaniel Cumming: Ebenezer, born December 2, 1671. settled in Chelmsford. (See history of Gil- sum. New Hampshire).


(III) Joseph Parkis (Parkhurst). son of Joseph Parkis (2), was born in Chelmsford, Massachu-


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setts, January 12, 1661. He removed from Chelms- ford, Connecticut, to Plainfield, Connecticut, about 1699. He was in Plainfield, February 28, 1704, and sold rights in Killingly in 1708 to Mark Hewlett. He was with Matthias Britton, Ephraim and Isaac Wheeler, Samuel Howe. John Yeomans, at Plain- field in 1706. With him came from Chelmsford Jacob Warren, Edward, Joseph and Benjamin Spaulding. He married Eunice Spaulding. She was born July 12, 1661, died January 19, 1743. He died December 1I, 1720. Their children were : Timothy, born January 14. 1689, died March 3, 1770; married Elizabeth Cady; John, born 1690, died January 10, 1777: Eunice, born June 4, 1692, married Thomas Marsh: Joseph, born August 5, 1605, married (first) Sarah Lawrence, (second) Judith Johnson ; Hannah, born August 25, 1698; Samuel, born April 25, 1701, see forward; Mary, born November 18. 1702, married Thomas Pierce. (IV) Samuel Parkis (Parkhurst), son of Jo- seph Parkis (3), was born in Chelmsford, Massa- chusetts, or Plainfield, Connecticut, April 25, 1701, died at Plainfield, May 22, 1778. He was brought up in Plainfield. He married ( first) Esther Spauld- ing and (second) Mary Hutchins. He had eleven children, among whom were: Job, born April 17. 1740: Lemuel, see forward ; Willard, father of Gould T. Parkhurst, and grandfather of G. H. Parkhurst, lately of North Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York.


(V) Lemuel Parkis (Parkhurst), son of Samuel Parkis (4), was born in Plainfield, Connecticut, about 1740. He was brought up there and edu- cated in the Plainfield schools. He was a soldier in the revolution in the Sixth Company under Cap- tain Waterman Clift, of Plainfield, in 1775, and was probably at the battle of Bunker Hill, being in the service from May 20 to December 15, 1775. The company was raised on the first call for troops April, 1775, and was in the Boston camps in Gen- eral Spencer's brigade under Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons, of New London. Connecticut. He was also a private in Captain Dixon's company, Colonel Sage's third battalion, Wadsworth brigade, raised June, 1776. to re-inforce Washington in New York. He served with his company at New York city and on Long Island and in the battle of White Plains. He enlisted in the Fourth Regiment of the Connecticut line in 1777. He was at Peekskill in 1777, and in Pennsylvania in the fall of 1777 under General MeDougall. He was in the battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, on the left flank of the army and went through the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. He was in Varnum's brigade when it made a brave defense of Fort Miffin on the Delaware. He married Among their chil- dren was Job, born about 1770.


(VI) Job Parkis (Parkhurst), son of Lemuel Parkis (5), was born about 1770. He went to New York when young, but returned to Connecticut. He married (first) Case. They had three children. He married (second) and had three more children. The children: Roxanna, George, settled at Rockville, Connecticut, and had six chil- dren-Josiah, Chauncey, Jenny, William, Priscilla, Annis; Ira. see forward: Chauncey, resided at Sherborn, Chenango county, New York, married Eliza and had daughter Hattie; Annis, married Boice; Lois.


(VII) Ira Parkis (Parkhurst), son of Joh Parkhurst (6), was born in 1806, at Middlefield, Cherry valley, New York. He was a wool sorter by trade. He was brought up on a farm in his native town with two brothers and three sisters. After the death of his mother he lived with his


grandfather Case, a man of decided character and often selected as referee by his neighbors in case of dispute. When a young man Ira removed to Plainfield, Connecticut. He was converted there in a revival of great power under the preaching of Elder Amos Weaver. So great was the public interest at the time that work was suspended in the factory. He is said to have felt and shown the influence of that revival all his life. After he mar- ried at Plainfield and had one child, Silas, he re- moved to Sherborn, Chenango county, New York, but soon returned to Connecticut, removed to Blackstone, then to Wheelock's village in Uxbridge, and was for a long time employed in the old Ux- bridge woolen mills as wool sorter and purchaser. He took charge of a boarding house at North Ux- bridge village until a few years before the war, when he settled on the farm where he died. He reared a family of four sons and three daughters after the old fashion, teaching them self-reliance, how to work and principles of piety, as well as knowledge of books. and the father lived to see in them the ripe fruits of his training. While he resided at Wheelock's his house was open to the minister, and from there his boys regularly walked on Sunday morning to the meeting at North Uxbridge village. Prayer meetings were held at the school house, which was opened for the purpose through his influence. In 1842, when the Baptist church at North Uxbridge was formed, he was elected its first deacon and was one of the first delegates to the association and a member of the first visiting committee.


Through its dark days, when the church had no settled pastor, when the mills were shut down and times hard, he was active in raising funds and securing pulpit supplies. Largely through his en- deavors the church was maintained. It was no unusual thing for him to draw the wood, cut it, and tend the fire at the old hall. For years he had in mind the erection of a church building. and again to his efforts the success of the plan for building the church was due. Of the final debt of $2.800 he contributed a thousand dollars to pay it off. He was a man of positive convictions and many virtues. His influence in the community was far-reaching and uplifting. Through his associa- tions were with Uxbridge people, his house was just over the line in Northbridge. In his business he was an expert judge of wool, and he was re- peatedly sent west by the manufacturers of Ux- bridge to buy wool for their factories. The last few years of his life he spent on his farm.


He married, in 1835, at Plainfield, Connecticut, Emily Lawton, and in 1885 they celebrated their golden wedding. She was born in 1817 and died in February, 1887, and he died six weeks later, aged eighty-one years. The children: Silas Lawton, born February 2, 1836, died at Hamilton, Rhode Island. 1904: wool sorter; married, December 12, 1861. Maria Cushman; Henry W., born September 2, 1838. see forward; Ira H., born August 25, 1840, see forward; Emily A., born February 8, 1844, married, July 4, 1861, George Hall; Mary M., born January 15, 1850, married, August 29, 1883, William C. Wood: Louise, died February 7. 1855: Lewis E., died March 10, 1859: Sarah A., born October 26, 1817, died October 10, 1882; Charles Fremont, born October 20. 1856, see forward.


(VIII) Henry W. Parkis. son of Ira Parkis, the first for many generations who used the ancient form of Parkis in spelling his name, was horn in Uxbridge. Massachusetts. September 2, 1838. He attended the academy. In 1868 he bought a gen- eral store in Slatersville, Rhode Island, and con-


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ducted it until 1901 very successfully. He is a Republican in politics and a Baptist in religion. He is prominent in public affairs. For twenty years he was president of the Slatersville Bank. He mar- ried, November 20, 1861, Mary B. Lackey, born July, 1840. in Sutton, daughter of Amory D. and Lydia (Burden) Lackey, of Sutton. Their chil- dren : Emina, born April 7, 1864: Alice, Novem- ber II, IS71 ; William H., December 6, 1876, lied August 22, 1877. Emma is a graduate of the Woonsocket high school (Rhode Island) in ISS3. Alice attended the Whitinsville high school and the academy at Saxton's River, went to Vassar Col- lege two years and Boston University one year, now with John Hancock Life Insurance Company of Boston.


(VIII) Ira Harrison Parkis, son of Ira Parkis (7), was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, August 25. 1840, and died July 4, 1897. He attended the Uxbridge public schools. He began his mercantile career as clerk in the general store in Whitinsville owned by P. W. Dudley. When the civil war broke out he enlisted in Company H. Fifteenth Regiment. He took part and was wounded in the battle of Antietam. His wound nearly proved fatal. He was in the hospital for months. He was mus- tered out August 6, 1864, as sergeant, a post he was elected to October 19. 1863. After his recovery he was stationed at Lockport, New York. He re- turned after the war and entered partnership with his brother. H. W. Parkis, in the general store at Slatersville, Rhode Island. His children: Herb- ert Ira, born at Walpole, Massachusetts, November, 1866, attended the public schools and graduated from the high school in 1887; he worked with his father until his death; then in the Whitinsville Machine Works and at present is teller in the Whit- insville National Bank :


married Mary R. Tabor, born at Slatersville, 1865, graduate of the Reading (Massachusetts high school, and they have four children-Edith: Chester. deceased ; Helen, and Samuel, deceased. Edmund W., educated at the Slatersville public school and at Woonsocket high school: has three children: Henry H., grad- uate of the University School, Providence. Arthur. Nellie Waterman. Ernest A. Florence E., educated at the Slatersville public and high schools and at Wheaton Academy and Vermont Academy. gradu- ated from the State Normal school at Providence in 1903: taught school at Howard. Rhode Island, one year and at Clarke school, Whitinsville, one year. William L., graduate of Whitinsville high school. 1905, now a post graduate student there.


(VIII) Charles Fremont Parkis, son of Ira Parkis (7), was born at Northbridge, Massachu- setts. October 20, 1856. He was educated in the public and high schools. He began to work for the Taylor & Farley Organ Company, in Wor- cester. In 1874 he went to Toledo, Ohio, as book- keeper for a banking house and remained there about eighteen years. He returned east in 1892 and was substitute bookkeeper in the banks until 1897. when he went to Whitinsville and was ap- pointed teller of the Whitinsville Savings and Whit- insville National Bank, both institutions being in the same offices. He was appointed cashier of the National Bank and treasurer of the Savings Bank in 1901. When the banks were separated under the new law. Mr. Parkis retained his position as cashier of the National Bank.


DR. WILLIAM E. BALMER. William Bal- mer. father of Dr. William E. Balmer, was a promi- nent citizen of Whitinsville. He married Sarah Ray and their children were: Dr. William E., see for-


ward: Robert, born 1876, married. June, 1905, Rachel Rice Kenney; John Thurston, born 1881 ; Ellen Louisa, born 1884. married, June, 1904, Will- iain Sharpe; daughter. died in infancy.


Dr. William E. Balmer, son of William Balmer, was born July 12, 1873. in Whitinsville, in the town of Northbridge, Massachusetts. He was edu- cated there in the public and high schools, at Wil- liston Seminary, where he fitted for college. at Yale University, where he was graduated in 1807. He studied medicine at the Yale Medical School, and graduated in 1901 with the degree of M. D. He was appointed on the staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Boston. He entered general practice in Whitinsville in 1902. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In politics he is a Republican; in religon - a Congregationalist. He has taken the various degrees in Free Masonry, including the Knight Templar and Mystic Shrine, and is well known in Masonic circles.


He married Josephine Auguste Clark, born in Wales, Massachusetts, November 7, 1878. She graduated from the Northbridge high school in 1897. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1901. She taught school one year at Linwood. Massachusetts, and was governess for Chester W. Lasell's children two years. She was the daughter of Barton San- ford and Mary J. E. Clark, of Linwood, Massa- chusetts. Her father was born at Holland, Massa- chusetts, and was christened Sanford Barton Clark : married Mary J. Clark. daughter of Joseph B. and Phebe Ann (Slater) Clark, of Harrisville, Rhode Island. Mrs. Balmer was their only child. Her grandfather was Lervey Clark, son of Moses Clark, horn at Holland, Massachusetts, he married Dorcas Maria Moore and their children were-Sanford Barton, mentioned above: George Briggs, Everett, Charles B. and Alice Clark.




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