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(VIII) Russell Buckman Lovell, fourth child of Ezra Lovell, Jr., (7), was born in Millbury, Massa- chusetts, September 21. 1822. He received a com- mon school education and worked during his youth on his father's farm in his native town. In 1845 he removed to Woodstock, Vermont, where he was engaged with much success in the mills until 1865, when he returned to the old place in Millbury. He has been a citizen of that town for over forty years, and still carries on a considerable business in inarket gardening there. He served the town as overseer of the poor two years and highway surveyor two years. In addition to his farm he has cared for the town hall since 1887. He is a Republican in politics and has been active in the counsels of his party. He is a member of the Unitarian church. He is one of the most active of the men of his age in the vicinity. A vigorous constitution, a well-ordered life and an alert mind have preserved his faculties to a remarkable degree and greatly lengthened his years of activity and usefulness.
He married. May 22, 1846, Lydia Marble, of Ox- ford. She was born in Sutton, November 4. 1820, daughter of Luther and Sophia Marble, of Oxford. Her father was born March 8. 1793. in Charlton, the son of Aaron and Rebecca, descendants of Sam- uel Marble, the immigrant, and of Freegrace Marble, the pioneer settler at Sutton. (See sketch of Marble family, Webster and Worcester.) Children of Rus- sell B. and Lydia Lovell, born in Woodstock, Ver- mont, were: Luther M., born Woodstock. Vermont, June 29, 1847, resides at 4 High street, Worcester ; Fannie, born Woodstock, Vermont, April 1. 1849, married George F. Chase; resides on Miles street, Millhury ; he is a contractor and builder : William R., horn December 7, 1851; Marv L., born August 16, 1854, married Pliny Wood. (See sketch of Mr. Wood.) : Charles E., born October 23. 1856. em- ployed as hookkeeper in the Norcross Brothers Com- pany. Worcester: resides on Sheperd street. Wor- cester : Nellie. born August 3, 1859. married Edward Park and had three children; resides in Millbury.
WARREN FAMILY. John Warren (1). from Nayland, England. came to Boston, with Governor Winthrop in the "Arabella," arriving at Salem, June
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12, 1630, was the emigrant ancestor of Walter War- ren, of Leicester, Massachusetts. From Salem he with the rest of the company went to Charlestown, whence, after a brief stay they moved to Water- town, Massachusetts. He took the freeman's oath there May 18, 1631. He was the John of Watertown who held various town offices.
(11) Daniel Warren, born in England, 1628, came with his father, died in Watertown. He was in the Colonial service; a soldier in King Philip's war; selectman from 1682 to 1698; married, Decem- ber 10, 1650, Mary Barron, and had nine children. (Ill) John Warren, son of Daniel and Mary (Barron) Warren, born March 5, 1665, at Water- town. He married, March 25, 1682-83, Mary Brown. He held various town offices and the rank of ensign in the local military service, and thus became known in the records thereafter as Ensign John. He died at the age of thirty-seven, leaving a widow and three sons.
(IV) John Warren, son of Ensign John and Mary (Brown) Warren, was born .March 15, 1685. He married (first) Sarah Jones; (second) Abigail Livermore; (third) Lydia Bond. He died March 25, 1745. He was known as Deacon John Warren, of Weston. He was also given the title of ensign for military service.
(V) Ebenezer Warren, son of Deacon John and Abigail (Livermore) Warren, was born June 23, 1719. lIe bought three acres of land with a dwell- ing house, bark house, mill-house, beam house, and tanyard of Patrick Watson in Leicester. The land comprises a portion of the farm now or lately owned by Edward Warren. In the deed conveyed the property he is styled of Medford, and the records of that town confirm this point, though it is prob- able that his stay there was not long. He was evidently quite successful in business, as he added largely to his possessions, owning a few years be- fore his death about a hundred acres of land, he- sides his dwelling house and tanyard buildings. He died in 1800 and is buried in Leicester, at the Raw- son cemetery, November 23, 1744. He married Lydia Harrington, of Brookfield, Massachusetts. She died in 1795. The dwelling house originally on the farm was a small house on the south side of the road to Spencer, a short distance east of the road to Paxton. The tanyard was on the opposite side of the road a short distance eastward. About 1780 he built a new house, which was inherited by his son Elijah, and grandson, Henry Elijah Warren, who tore it down about 1860.
Their children were: Ebenezer, born December 27, 1748, died February 13, 1753. Jonathan, Novem- ber 27. 1750. Lydia, December 6, 1752, married, March 31, 1774, Abner Dunbar, born April 9, 1753. Their son, Ebenezer Dunbar, born March 29, 1777, died at the age of one hundred years, October 28, 1877. His centennial was celebrated by four gen- erations, and up to that time not one of his descend- ants had died. He retained his faculties to the last, eating supper with the family the night before his death. He was the grandfather of John D. Clark, Malcolm G. Clark and Mrs. F. A. Blake, of Roch- dale, Massachusetts. (See sketch elsewhere in this work of Malcolm G. Clark of Dunbar pedigree.) Ebenezer, June 9, 1754, settled at Hubbardston, mar- ried Phebe Garfield. Esther, married in 1782 Daniel Newhall, of Brookfield. Massachusetts, resided in Alstead, New Hampshire; had several children. Hannah, married in 1781 Tevi Chilson, settled in Leicester, and. had seven children. Elijah, 1758. Sally, horn in Leicester. married in 1786 Thaddeus Upham, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; had four children.
(VI) Elijah Warren, son of Ebenezer Warren
(5), was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1758. He married (first), March 19, 1781, Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of Amos and Mary Belcher ( Henshaw) Wheeler, of Worcester. She was born May 4, 1763, and died March 30, 1800. He married (second), June 23 (21 in genealogy), 1801, Mary Belcher Wheeler, a sister of his first wife. She was born December 19, 1774, and died August 15, 1851. He died July 18, 1843.
He was a volunteer in the revolutionary army, and was in the battle of White Palins, New York. llis father deeded to him June 5, 1783, for five thousand pounds the homestead and tanyard with buildings, the place bought in 1741. There are later deeds conveying apparently parts of the same premises. In 1797 it seems certain that Elijah and Jonathan bought each a half of the tanyard and together carried on the business thereafter.
Rev. Samuel May wrote of him: "He was a man of great worth and general estimation. The writer of this knew him only in the last five or six years of his life. His old age seemed unusually cheerful. As a citizen and neighbor, he maintained a position of confidence and respect." Mr. May paid a high tribute to the character of the second Mrs. Warren, whom he knew. She was a member of the Unitarian church from the first.
There was an interesting reunion of the eight living children of Elijah Warren, September 17, 1863. The eldest was eighty-one, the youngest fifty- four, and a photograph of the group taken at the time is extremely interesting to their descendants now. It was the only time during their lives that all the children met together under the same roof. Mrs. Bond and Mrs. Chapin travelled over sixteen hundred miles to attend the meeting.
The children of Elijah Warren were: Amos, born July 25, 1782, settled in Woodstock, Vermont, and was a wealthy tanner ; married Sophia Holmes, Mrs. Caroline G. (Shurtleff) Chapman, and Sally Beers. Joseph, born at Leicester, January 8, 1784, married Sally Green, of Brookfield, in ISHI ; he was a tanner in Leicester ; died February 25, 1865. Bet- sey. born in Leicester, October 17, 1785. married Jonathan Bond; had no children; died March 10, 1874. Lydia, born March 29, 178S, unmarried, died January 1, 1870. Mary Wheeler, born May 23, 1790, married Simeon Chapin, horn May 18, 1791. died June 15, 1865: lived in Lisbon, Illinois. Charlotte, born August 8. 1792, married, November 21, 1811, Rufus Fuller, of Easton, Massachusetts. Sarah Hen- shaw, born March 20. 1802, died unmarried June 16, 1823. Catherine Henshaw, born July 21, 1804, died unmarried July 17. 1828. Louisa Amelia, born August 18, 1807, married, August 25, 1830, Amos Dean Wheeler, resided in Brunswick, Maine. last surviving grandchild of Ebenezer Warren. Henry Flijah, born in Leicester, July 4, 1809, married Marv Whittemore, daughter of John and Nancy Howard Whittemore, of Leicester (see sketch of Joseph S. Whittemore and family) ; he died July 5, 1865. Antoinette Frances Tucker, born June 21, 1817. died January 8, 1819.
(VII) Joseph Warren, son of Elijah Warren (6), was horn in Leicester, Massachusetts, January 8, 1784. He married. January 30, 1811, Sally Green. of Brookfield. He lived in Leicester and pursued the occupation of a tanner with his father and also carried on a farm. He was named for General Joseph Warren. He died February 25, 1865. His wife' died February, 1864. He was a genial, kind- hearted man, a good citizen and good neighbor. His children were: 1. Caroline, born November 23, 1811, married Nelson Waite, had nine children. 2. Albert, born September 1. 1813, married (first), May, 1839, Eunice Alden Arnold; (second) Eliza, her sister,
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descendants of John Alden, of Plymouth and the "Mayflower." Manufacturer of card clothing at Lawrence, mayor of the city, died at Warren, Massa- chusetts, January 30, 1889. 3. Leander, born Au- gust 22, 1815, married, May 22. 1842, Sarah A. Bond. daughter of Eber and Minerva (Stetson) Bond, of Leicester; was leather currier in Leicester ; died June 3, 1862. 4. Charles Wheeler, born July 7. 18IS. 5. Eliza, born April 24, 1822, married, December 21, 1853, Franklin Whipple: resided in Worcester, Massachusetts, and has children: Mary Ella, born February 5, 1857; Dora Harriet, Novem- ber 23, 1858, died young; Charles Perley, April S, 1860, died young. 6. Horace, born October 7, 1824, married, October 10, 1849, Mary A. Gleason: lived on the old homestead in Leicester, was a tanner early in life, later a farmer, has five children: Mar- shall Gleason, born March 11, 1851, died March 13, 1851 ; Frederick Horace. May 4, 1852, died June 26, 1886; Francis, March 17. 1854; Julius Edgar, No- vember 27, 1857; Silas Gleason, November 14. 1863. 7. Sarah. born April 5. 1827, married, June, 1849, Charles M. Howe; resided in Marlboro, she died June 2, 1857; children : Ella Elizabeth, born March 5, 1851, died August 14. 1853; Albert Joseph, May 24. 1853: Grace Lilla, September 7, 1854. married, September 19. 1877, Rev. James H. Roberts, of Hart- ford. Connecticut ; Walter, April 13, 1856, married, January, 1881. Susan W. Felton, of Marlboro, re- moved to Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, now living in Marlboro; Sarah Warren, May 16, 1857, died at Worcester. December 31, 1887.
(VIII) Charles Wheeler Warren, son of Joseph Warren (7). was born in Leicester, Massachusetts. July 7, 1818. He married, April 26, 1843, Jane White. He was educated at the public schools of the town and at Leicester Academy. After leaving school he learned the trade of card inaker. After working at his trade for eighteen years he went into business for himself at first with a small capital. making heel stiffeners for shoes. He carried the counters he made and sold them to his customers among the shoe makers in Leicester. Oxford, Spencer. Webster, the Brookfields and other places. By continued effort he built up his trade from year to year until he did a large business in sheet heeling for boots and shoes. His marked characteristic was his integrity in all his business affairs. In politics he was first a Whig, then an Abolitionist and in later years a temperance Republican. He died May 6, 1900, at the age of eighty-two years. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Lei- cester, and made a substantial gift to it before his death which was increased at his request by the heirs of his estate after. his decease.
The children of Charles Wheeler Warren were : I. Albert, born February 14. 1844, married, Decem- ber 24, 1867, Angelia E. Hastings, daughter of Chester and Emily W. Hastings. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and from Yale in 1867; taught in Ripon College. Wisconsin, at Leicester Academy. Spencer high school and Grafton. 'Massachusetts high school, studied theology at Yale, graduating in 1882. or- dained at Mankato, Minnesota. August 31, 1882; in 1882 he was pastor of the Congregational Church at Lake Benton. Minnesota. Since 1885 he has been farming at Lake Benton: has been secre- tary of the state central committee of the- Farmers' Alliance, and engrossing clerk of the house of rep- resentatives. His children are: Walter Chester. horn October 26. 1868, married Emma Keffer. of Des Moines. Iowa: Charles Albert, born June 30, 1872. married Mary A. Greenwood. of Worcester, Massachusetts : Emily Myrtie, horn December 5, 1873, married Henry A. Gould, of Leicester. 2. Ar-
thur Henry, born in Leicester, August 26, 1846, mar- ried Mary McDermott, and has daughter, Addie, born June, 1882. 3. Maria Jane, born November 23, 1849, married Augustus Mlinott. 4. Herbert, born October 29. 1852. educated at Leicester Academy and Harvard Medical School (M. D. 1874) ; was house surgeon at the Boston City Hospital from May, 1873, to July. 1874. In October, 1874, he began to practice medicine in Worcester. 5. Walter, born January 29, 1855. 6. Joseph Alonzo, born March 29. 1857, died November 5, 1858. 7. Addie Josephine, born October 7, 1859, married Dr. Llewellyn E. Harrington, who was killed by accident by fall of a derrick at Pittsford, Vermont, August 1, 1883.
(IX) Walter Warren, son of Charles Wheeler Warren (8), was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, January 29. 1855. He attended the public schools of his native town. At the age of sixteen he left Leicester Academy, where he was a student, and went to work in his father's factory and later be- came a partner under the name of Charles W. Warren & Son. Mr. Warren, Sr. built the house and factory on Pleasant street in 1867, and it was several times enlarged. This business was estab- lished in 1852 in a house on the southeast corner of Main and Rawson streets by Charles W. Warren.
Walter Warren was in the business for thirty years when the business was discontinued. He is the treasurer of the new Leicester Card Clothing Companv, and a trustee of the Leicester Savings Bank. He is a member of the Leicester Club and of the John Nelson Memorial (Congregational) Church, and is a Republican in politics. He married, January 22. 1890, Hannah Jane Lyon, born Novem- ber 15, 1864. daughter of Frederick and Frances ( Lamb) Lyon. Frances Lamb was the daughter of Liberty Lamb. of Rochdale, Massachusetts. They have no children.
(I) John Wheeler, the emigrant ancestor of many of the Wheeler and Warren families of Lei- cester and vicinity, was the progenitor of Walter, Warren, of Leicester. He came in the "Mary and John." March 24. 1633-4, and settled at Salisbury, Massachusetts. He was a proprietor there in 1639. In 1652 he removed to Newbury. Massachusetts. His wife Anne died August 15, 1662. He died in 1670. His will dated March 28, 1668, and proved October 1I, 1670, hequeathes to his son David; sons John and Adam, of Salisbury, England; to son William. if he should come over to this country ; to daughters Mercy. Elizabeth Button and Ann Chase : to Susanna, wife of his son George, and to his children Ephraim and Samuel; to son Roger's children. Mary and Joseph : to daughter Elizabeth's children. Thomas. Mary and Elizabeth ; to daughter- in-law Susanna the land formerly given to her hus- band George on which he built. His son Henry was executor. His son David, who came in the "Con- fidence." April. 1638. aged eleven years, and George Wheeler. of Concord, were among those mentioned in the will.
(II) George Wheeler, son of John Wheeler ( 1), was born in England. He settled in Concord be- fore 1638 and was prominent in town affairs. He was selectman in 1660. He was wealthy, owning land in all sctions of the township. His will was inade January. 1685, and proved June 2, 1687. He married Katharine who died January 2, 1684-5. They had eight children, five of whom were probably born in England. the others in Concord. They were: Thomas, born in England. married Ilannah Harrod. Octoher 10. 1657; Elizabeth. mar- ried Francis Fletcher, October 1, 1656: William, married Hannah Buss, October 30. 1659: Ruth. mar- ried Samuel Hartwell, October 26. 1665: Hannah, married Fletcher; Sarah, born March 30,
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1649, married Francis Dudley, October 26, 1665; John, born March 19. 1642-3, married Sarah Larkin, March 25, 1663-4; Mary, born September 6, 1645, married Eliphalet Fox, October 26, 1665.
(III) Thomas Wheeler. son of George Wheeler (2), was born in England. He married, October 10, 1657, Hannah Harrod (or Harwood as the name is now spelled ). He died December, 1686, and the estate was administered in Boston, September 21, 1687. His children were: Hannah, born October 25, 1658, died August 12, 1659 ; Thomas, born Jan- uary I, 1659-00; John, born September 2, 1661, mar- ried Elizabeth Wells, (See History of Marlboro, Mass. ).
(IV) Thomas Wheeler, son of Thomas Wheeler (3), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, January I, 1659-60. He was known by his title of ensign. He married, November 13, 1695, Sarah Davis, daughter of Lieutenant Simon and Mary ( Blood) Davis. She was born March II, 1665-6, and died August 5, 1728. He died October 2, 1734. Their gravestones are to be seen in the Concord grave- yard. His home was on land he inherited from his father in the east quarter on the Bay road and in- cluding probably the estate since occupied by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Their children were: Thomas, born August 14, 1696; Sarah, December 20, 1697, married, November 25, 1718, Jonathan Hartwell ; Dorcas, March 29, 1700; Hannah, April IQ, 1702; Mary, March 3, 1704, married, December 29, 1725, John Holden.
(\') Thomas Wheeler, son of Thomas Wheeler (4), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, August 14, 1696. He was lieutenant and deacon. He mar- ried (first) Mary Brooks, daughter of Daniel and Ann ( Merriam) Brooks. She was born in Con- cord, March 2. 1699-1700, and died in Worcester, May 18, 1740, aged forty. He married ( second ) Susannah - , and she died in Worcester, Sep- tember 23, 1760, aged fifty-eight. Thomas Wheeler appears to have sold out his lands in the old part of Concord December 13, 1722, and to have removed to the village, which in 1735 was set off and called Acton. He was the first town clerk of Acton, 1735-6, and at the same time member of the board of selectmen.
He removed to Worcester in 1739 or 1740 and was selectman of Worcester, 1743-44-45-49-51-52. He was deacon of the first church (Old South) from January 14, 1748, until his death in 1769. His home in Worcester was on the road to Leicester near the line. About 1762 he went to Hardwick, where three of his sons had settled, and died there January 31, 1769. He was a man of property. His children were: Thomas, born in Concord, Feb - ruary 6, 1722-3, died in Acton, January 14. 1736-7; Mary, born in Concord, July 7, 1726; Daniel, born in Concord, 1728-9; Charles, born February 13, 1730-1, died unmarried at Worcester, June 3, 1761 ; was a physician; Amos, born July, 1733: Nathan, born September 15, 1735: Sarah, born in Acton, January 8, 1736-7; Thomas, born in Acton, March 22, 1738-9.
(VI) Amos Wheeler, son of Thomas Wheeler (5), was born in Acton, then Concord, July, 1733. He married, May 2, 1762. Mary Belcher Henshaw, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Bass) Henshaw. She was born in Boston, June 20, 1739, and died November 20, 1824. He died November 20, 1820. After his marriage as before he lived with his father on the homestead until February 17, 1764, when he bought half the farm and his father went to Hard- wick to live with another son. He was well-to-do in middle life and a man of high standing. About 1700 he was left a cripple by an attack of rheuma- tisin and had to use crutches the remainder of his
life and his farm ran down. In 1814 his son-in- law, Elijah Warren, persuaded him to sell out and live with him in Leicester. His children were: Elizabeth, born May 4, 1763, married Elijah Warren; Amos, August 5, 1764; Mary Belcher, December 19, 1774, married Elijah Warren as his second wife; Charlotte, October 4, 1778, died unmarried at Top- sham, Maine, August 1, 1870.
( VII) Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of Amos Wheeler (6), was born in Worcester, Massachu- setts, May 4, 1763. She married Elijah Warren. (See Warren sketch and Walter Warren of Lei- cester for descendants.)
EDWARD I. COMINS. John Comins (1), the progenitor of Edward I. Comins, of Worcester, was first at Woburn, Massachusetts, as early as 1692. The author of the Cummings genealogy, which in- cludes families of the name under various spelling, mentions this branch and believes that John Comins (I) was of some relation to Isaac Cummings. of Topsfield, Massachusetts, whose son, Abraham Cum- mings, settled in Dunstable, but during the Indian wars lived in Woburn, where John Comins (I ) then lived, Abraham's wife being Sarah Wright. (See history of Dunstable, page 240. See Cummings Memorial, by Reverend George F. Mooar ( 1903).
John Comins (I) was a soldier in the expedition against Canada by Sir William Phipps in 1690. In January, 1709, he bought one hundred and fifty acres of land in Pomfret, Connecticut, and in 1713 was one of the first twenty-three townsmen. In January, 1717, he bought land in Thompson parish, and later on Chestnut Hill, then in Killingly county. In 1719 he came to Oxford, having bought the old mill at the south end of the plain. He is believed to have improved this property and to have raised or re- built the dam at the south end of the plain, as the owners of certain meadows made an agreement, on file at the county court house, to allow him to flow their property from September I, to May I of each year. In 1723 he deeded land on Prospect Hill to his son, Jacob; in 1724 he gave property to his son, Stephen, the lot adjoining Jacob's. He was a man of character and intelligence, and a member of the church at Oxford, Massachusetts. He was chair- man of the board of selectmen, and also the town clerk in 1721-23-24. His wife Mary died 1726. He sold his mill and returned to Thompson, Connecti- cut. While there, in 1728, he proved to be the master workman in hewing and framing timber for the new meeting house. He was styled John, senior, in 1719. He died April, 1751, at the age of eighty- three years. Hence he was born about 1668. His son, Stephen, was associated with him when he had the mill, and returned to Thompson with him. He had eight children by his wife, Mary Lee, born in Woburn according to the records. They were: John, born September 15, 1692; Mary, July 31, 1694; John, July 12, 1696; Katharine, August 31, 1698; Jacob (twin), July 14, 1700; Josiah (twin), July 14, 1700; Stephen, January 12, 1703; James, May 7, 1705.
(II) Jacob Comins, son of John Comins (I), born July 14, 1700, was a housewright by trade. He married, July 27, 1723, Martha Leonard, of Fram- ingham, sister of Colonel Ebenezer Leonard, of Ox- ford. Jacob settled in Oxford. His wife died Sep- tember 17. 1732. He married (second), May 24, 1733, Huldah Coolidge, daughter of Deacon John Coolidge, of Watertown, Massachusetts. She died November 25, 1736. He married (third), February 22, 1737. Elizabeth Eddy. She died April 26, 1749. He married (fourth) (intentions August, 1750) Deborah Hinkley, of Willington, Connecticut. Jacob Comins' first home in Oxford was at the corner of
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Main street and Sutton road. In 1730 he bought a farm on the hill east of the old common. lle sold that after a year or two and removed to the north part of the town. In 1736 he bought the saw mill at the Lamb place, now or lately owned by Na- thaniel E. Taft. He was a soldier in the French war. He bought and sold land in Oxford frequently, but finally settled in what was then the wilderness in Charlton. He died there in 1762. His will was made April 7 and proved May 17, 1762. In it he said: "Though I have no legal title to the land 1 am now living on, yet the housing and fencing and all the labor I have done on it are mine." He be- queathed this property to his sons, Lemuel and Jacob Comins. His children were: Jacob, born September 21, 1724, died December 1, 1745; Will- iam, February 15, 1733 or 1734. settled in Edding- ton. Maine, where various family reunions have been hield; Mindwell, December 11, 1735, married David Brown, of Charlton; Reuben, December 4, 1737; Martha, July 25, 1739 (intentions November I, 1754) married Joseph Laflin, of Charlton; Solomon, Nay 1, 1741, was, at the age of eighteen, in the French war; Lemuel, May 20, 1743, died 1744; Lem- uel. February 21, 1745, settled at South Greene, Maine; Jacob, January 21, 1747, died at Charlton, 1812; Elizabeth, March 14, 1749, married Joseph Dow, resided in New Braintree, Massachusetts.
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