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(IX) Edgar Asa Bates was born in Brooklyn and was educated in the public schools of that city. After the conclusion of his studies he became con- nected with his father's business in New York, and from 1887 to 1906 was identified with the elder Bates' factory in Webster, having worked his way forward to the position of manager. In 1905 he married Evelyn Trull, of Woburn, Massachusetts, and now resides in New York city.
ALANSON P. ROBBINS. (I) William Rob- bins, the first known American ancestor of Alan- son P. Robbins, was born about 1655, probably in New England, though his parents are not known. He was probably of Scotch parents. He lived in Reading, Massachusetts, when a young man, and in 1680 married there Priscilla Jones or Gowing, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Brock) Gow- ing.
He and others of Reading and the towns in the east part of Massachusetts took part in the move- ment against the Nipmuck Indians in the vicinity of Webster and Douglas, Massachusetts, where his descendants afterward lived, and about the lakes near the Connecticut and Rhode Island lines in King Philip's war. For their services the soldiers were given a tract of land or township eight miles square and he received a grant for his share. He located after the war at Lynn-end, now Lynnfield, Massachusetts, but removed later to Dedham, Massa- chusetts, "Mill Dividend." later called Walpole. where many of his descendants have lived. He died in Walpole, August 18, 1725, and his wife also at
Walpole, March 5, 1745. The following list of chil- dren may be incomplete: Elizabeth, born 1680; William, born at Reading, 1681, died at Walpole, January 7, 1769; had a son William at Dedham, Massachusetts, 1704, who married Hannah Clap, born 1679. died 1761; John, mentioned below; Ebe- nezer, born May 19, 1691, at Dedham; Ezekiel, born February 26, 1693-4, at Dedham; Mary, married, at Walpole, Joseph Morse, December 26, 1727.
(Il) John Robbins, son of William Robbins (I), was born about 1685. He married, April 4, 1709, Hannah Clark, daughter of Joseph Clark, of Med- field, an adjacent town to Walpole, where he had been brought up. They settled for a time in Med- field, where three of their children were born, and then about 1712 settled in Attleboro, Massachusetts, where he spent the remainder of his life. As heir of his father-in-law he had land in New Medfield, later called Sturbridge. While he was at Medfield Mehitable Robbins, perhaps his sister, married, Oc- tober 4, 1715. Timothy Morse, and Benoni Robbins died there March 31, 1730-1. John Robbins deeded land in Sturbridge to Hinsdale Clark in 1742 and later to his two sons, Ichabod and Benjamin, who made their home in Sturbridge.
The children of Jolin and Hannah Robbins were: Hannah, born in Medfield, May 16, 1709; Priscilla, born in Medfield, September 12, 1710: John, born October 4, 1712; Benjamin, mentioned below : Icha- bod, received a deed from father and mother of ninety-nine acres of land in Sturbridge, Lot No. 47, second division, April 10, 1759. The land was bought by John Robbins of the other heirs of Cap- tain Joseph Clark, of Medfield.
(III) Benjamin Robbins (usually spelled with one "B"), son of John Robbins (2), was born about 1720, probably in Attleboro, Massachusetts. He set- tled in Sturbridge on a farm granted originally to his mother's father, Captain Joseph Clark. of Med- field, and given to him by his parents by deed dated December 30. 1746, and again by deed in 1753 of more land in Sturbridge. He died in Sturbridge in 1793 and his will mentions his wife Elizabeth; six children ; his grandsons, Asa and Rufus, sons of Rufus, deceased; his grandsons, Asa and Crispus Harwood. He was a soldier in the revolution from Douglas, a private in Captain Edward Seagraves' company, Colonel Joseph Read's (twentieth) regi- ment ; also in Captain Samuel Lamb's company, Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment in 1778 on the Rhode Island alarm and probably other service. The children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Rob- bins: John; Ezekiel, mentioned below; Hannah, married - Clark ; Sarah : Esther, married- Mckinstry ; Priscilla, married - Perry ; Rufus, died about 1777, leaving sons Asa and Rufus, who had guardians appointed in Worcester county; a daughter who married Harwood.
(IV) Ezekiel Robbins. son of Benjamin Rob- bins (3), was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, ahout 1755-60 and settled there. Among his chil- dren was Daniel I., born in Sturbridge, 1794.
(V) Daniel I. Robbins, son of Ezekial Robbins (4), was born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in 1794. He married Mary D. Clemence, who was born in what is now Southbridge in 1796. He settled in Charlton, Massachusetts, where some of his chil- dren were born. The children of Daniel I. and Mary D. Robbins were: Daniel S., born 1819; Henry M., horn 1822: Peter C., mentioned below ; Chloe A., born 1829; Rosetta H., born 1832; Elliot H., born 1836.
(VI) Peter C. Robbins, son of Daniel I. Rob- bins (5), was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, in IS25. He was educated in the common schools and
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learned the trade of carpenter. He married Susan A. Barrett, of Charlton. He is living at Charlton, The children of Peter C. and Susan A. Robbins were: 1. Emily, married Charles H. Prince, of Charlton; 2. Lorenzo; 3. Caroline, married Cheney Pike, of Charlton, and they have one son, Everett E. Pike; 4. Alonzo E., born July 27, 1863, married Bessie Riggs, who was born in England; they have two sons: Claude and Alfred; they reside in Charl- ton; 5. Alanson P., twin of Alonzo E., mentioned below ; 6. Gertrude.
(VII) Alanson P. Robbins, son of Peter C. Rob- bins (6), was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, July 27, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town. He worked one year in Ackers & Taylor's mill at Charlton. At the age of eighteen he began to learn the trade of carpenter with his father. After two years he went to work for a Mr. Tripp, of Spencer, a carpenter and builder, who had the contract for the big shoe factory at Medway, Massachusetts. He also worked for Mr. Tripp on the Southbridge Congregational Church. He worked for a time in 1884 and 1885 for M. L. Hall. He then worked for a period of eight years for George Kingston, builder and contractor. After working for a time for William Thompson he started in busi- ness for himself, and for the first year had a part- ner and the firm name was Robbins & Dines. Since that year he has been in business alone. Among the buildings he has built are: The Hartshorn houses on May and June streets; residences of A. H. An- thony and Miss Gardner, May street; residence of WV. E. Dodge, Freeland street; of Jerome C. Field, Richmond Heights; of P. M. Pfaffman, Main street ; of A. A. Gordan, Jr., Montvale; of E. H. Carroll, Rutland Terrace; of Frank Harrington, Montvale; the office building of the American Optical Com- pany at Lonsdale, Rhode Island. He rebuilt and made over the residence of Channing Wells at Southbridge. He built the residence of B. W. Childs on Westland street; of W. E. Turple, Pleasant street; of George H. Ward, Pleasant street ; of A. P. Howarth, Oxford, Massachusetts; of J. C. Field, Richmond Heights. He built a house and a stable for Dr. J. T. Cronin, Holden street; residence of Edwin Bartlett, Oxford; and for A. W. Stafford. He built a mill for Andrew Howarth and son at Rochdale, Massachusetts, three hundred and seventy- two feet long and eighty-six feet wide, two stories high and constructed of brick, cement and steel. Ile rebuilt the firm's old mill and built forty tene- ments for residence for the firm's employees. He built an addition to the Edwin Bartlett Company's mill at North Oxford, Massachusetts. Mr. Rob- bins's office is at 452 Main street, Worcester.
He is a member of the various Masonic bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree and is well known among the Masons of this section. He is a director of the Builders Exchange and of the General Contractors Association. He is a mem- ber of the Board of Trade.
He married, July 13, 1886, Mattie I. Acker, daughter of Elbridge and Mary (Gray) Acker, of Charlton, Massachusetts. Their children : Ralph A .. born October 7. 1888; Gordon Harlow, born October 21, 1901, died July 26, 1904; and Elizabeth R., born December 19, 1903.
CALVIN DEWITT PAIGE. In all prosperous communities there are individuals who take the initiative in all measures looking toward the general good, and who can be confidently relied upon to wisely, judiciously and conservatively rise to any emergency. Such men are almost invariably those whose private interests are large and diverse and
impose the most taxing duties, and not infrequently they are incumbents of offices involving the gravest responsibilities and which they discharge with ef- ficiency and integrity. There seems indeed no limit to the capacity for mental effort of men of this character, the backbone of our national business and social fabric, and of this type is the gentleman whose name forms the caption for this narrative.
Ancestrally he is a product of one of those early English settlers who preferred the perils of a savage infested wilderness to the endurance of religious persecution, and who numbered among his posterity those who early rose in revolt against British tyranny, and were foundationally responsible for the chain of great commonwealths which constitute the greatest of nations.
The history of Hardwick, Massachusetts, reveals especial historic interest attaching to the Paige fam- ily, several of the later generations of which have been residents of Southbridge.
(I) Timothy Paige, who was a prominent agri- culturist of Hardwick in the colonial period, held numerous public offices; he was an officer in the patriot army during the war of the revolution, being captain of a company of militia which he led to Ben- nington in August, 1777, and to West Point in 1780.
(II) Timothy Paige was a conspicuous man in public matters, serving as a representative to the general court seventeen years successively, from 1805 to 1821, and a delegate to the constitutional con- vention in 1820. He was a member of the com- pany of "minute-men" who marched to Cambridge upon the Lexington alarm, and served for short periods several times during the revolution. He died October 21, 1821.
(III) Timothy Paige was a lawyer of good stand- ing in his profession, and of much literary taste. He was the first town clerk of Southbridge. He won enviable repute as a poet, and his poems were published as written in the public journals and bore the signature of "Jacques." The last poem he wrote was published in the Massachusetts Spy shortly after his death, November 17, 1822, entitled "Farewell to Summer."
(IV) Calvin A. Paige was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, June 7, 1820, son of Timothy (3) and Cynthia (Ammidown) Paige. His parents died when he was but eight years of age, and after their decease he made his home in the family of his guardian, Dr. Samuel Hartwell. At thirteen he entered the employ of Messrs. Plimpton and Lane, as a clerk in their store in Southbridge. Two years later he went to Northfield, Vermont, where for about two years he was employed in the store of Charles Paine, afterwards governor of Vermont, and president of the Vermont Central Railroad Com- pany. At the expiration of this period of time he returned to Southbridge and was employed until 1843 in the store of John Seabury & Co., then one of the principal business enterprises of that town. In 1844 he became clerk and bookkeeper in the employ of the Dresser Manufacturing Com- pany, and later was also practically the managing and business agent of the company, conducting its affairs safely and prudently, and with profit to its owners. He became an owner of the stock of the company, and after the mill was destroyed by fire in 1870 sold the mill-site and water-power to the Central Mills Company, of which his son is now the head.
Calvin A. Paige was earnest and influential in promoting town enterprises and improvements, and uniformly advocated what ever tended to these re- sults. He sustained the plan adopted to establish
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the public library, and usually advocated the laying out and grading of new streets, the building of sidewalks, the lighting of streets and the intro- duction of electric street lights, and was one of the most influential workers in obtaining the town hall building. In 1850 he was commissioned a notary public by Governor Briggs. He was a leading mem- ber of the town committee to oppose the division of the town before the legislature of 1854, and one of its most zealous and effective workers in defeat- ing that project. During the rebellion he was ap- pointed United States enrolling officer for the town, and in 1883, by Governor Long, commissioner to qualify civil officers, and was elected a member of the house in the legislature of 1863. Ile was a Republican in politics.
On May 9, 1843. Mr. Paige married Mercy Dresser, of Charlton, daughter of Harvey Dresser, by whom he had two children: Mary E., born April 7. 1846, died September 2, 1848; and Calvin DeWitt Paige, of whom later. Mr. Paige married for his second wife Ellen Jane Scholfield, of Dudley, February 20, 1856, by whom he had one son, Frank S., born May 18, 1857, died April, 1891.
Calvin DeWitt Paige, only son of Calvin A. Paige, was born May 20, 1848, in Southbridge, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools and obtained his initial business training under his father. He has been for a number of years treasurer and general manager of the Central Mills Com- pany, operating a leading cotton manufacturing in- dustry of Southbridge established in 1863. He is president of the Johnson-Colburn Company, which conducts the leading department store of South- bridge. He has been since 1898 president of the Southbridge Savings Bank, a strong financial in- stitution, incorporated in 1848. He is president also of the Southbridge Water Supply Company and the Worcester South Agricultural Society. He is a director of the Southbridge National Bank, the Southbridge Gas and Electric Company and a trustee of Nichols Academy. He was one of the prime movers in establishing and building the Southbridge and Sturbridge Electric Street Railway, and served as president of the company which operated it from its incorporation until the absorption of the prop- erty by the New Haven system.
Mr. Paige is a Republican of the stalwart type and has given freely of his time, talent and means towards the advancement of his party's interests in town, county, commonwealth and nation. He was chairman of Southbridge's board of selectmen in 1894-1895, member of the legislature in 1878, as- sistant secretary of the Republican state committee for three years, and for two years chairman of its finance committee, presidential elector for the state of Massachusetts in 1904. He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention, which at Chicago in 1884 nominated James G. Blaine for the presi- dency. He has long been considered one of the most available men of his district for congressional honors. a position which he would grace by virtue of his ability as a public speaker, and to which he could bring to bear rare business acumen and a ready grasn of broad public questions. He is as well a clear, forceful writer and has contributed frequently to current journalistic and magazine literature He is a member of the Home Market Republican Club and of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association. That Mr. Paige has proved abundantly equal to the responsibilities of his multifarious trusts is current history and sufficiently demonstrates his value as a citizen. It is only fair to add that he is ever in the forefront of those who generously contribute to all worthy benevolent and beneficent
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enterprises. He has been since early manhood a member of every important special committee ap- pointed in Southbridge for contemplated expendi- tures for public purposes. and many of the most attractive and substantial improvements have been in large measure due to his indefatigable individual efforts.
Mr. Paige married, October 21, 1873, Ida Frances Edwards, daughter of John and Mary E. (Irwin) Edwards, of Southbridge. Two children were the issue of this marriage: Mary Dresser, born No- vember 16, 1874, died October 8, 1895: and John E., born November 30, 1878. The family home in Main- street and the country place at Sturbridge are among the especially attractive residences of the locality.
Jolın E. Paige, son of Calvin D. Paige, attended the Hopkinson Preparatory School of Boston, from which he was graduated in 1897, and then entered Harvard College, graduated therefrom in 1901. He . then became connected with the Central Mills Com- pany, and at present (1905) is serving as assistant treasurer. He is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second' degree, and a member of the Southbridge Club. Ile is a trustee of the Southbridge Savings Bank, a director of the Southbridge National Bank, and of the Masonic Building Association, and a Republi- can in politics. On May 20, 1902, John E. Paige married Sarah C. Chapin, daughter of Francis L. and Sarah (Lawton) Chapin, and their children are : Harvey Dresser, born October 29, 1903, and Calvin: De Witt, born January 20, 1905, died September 9,. 1905.
JOHN SMITH. Robert Smith (1), the immi- grant ancestor of John Smith, of Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts, was born in England, 1623 or 1626, and was settled in Boxford, Massachusetts, before 1661. He was a rather quiet man and mentioned on the public records only to show that he was friendly to progress and the advancement of the settlement. He seems to have led an uneventful but blameless life, and died August 30, 1693, leaving an estate valued at about two hundred pounds. He left no will; his son Samuel was appointed administrator October 3, 1698. He married Mary and their chil- dren were: Phebe, born August 26, 1661; Ephraim, October 29, 1663, ancestor of Prophet Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Sect-the Latter Day Saints; Samuel, January 26, 1666; Amy, August 16, 1668; Sarah, June 25, 1670, died August 28,. 1673; Nathaniel, September 7, 1672; Jacob, see for- ward; Mariah, December 18, 1677.
(II) Jacob Smith, son of Robert Smith (I),. was born at Boxford, Massachusetts, January 26, 1674. He settled in Boxford and his children were all born there. He was a farmer. He married Re- becca Symonds. Their children were: Rebecca, born January 30, 1707-08, married, January 28, 1729-30, John Dorman; Jacob, see forward; Joseph, born May 23, 1713, married Sarah Warren, sister of Kezialı, who married his brother Jacob, of whom later ; Keziah, born April 30, 1716, married, August 5, 1736, Jacob Baker; Moses, born June 13, 1718; Ruth, born September 21, 1721; Nathaniel, born. August 5, 1724.
(II) Jacob Smith, Jr., son of Jacob Smith (2),. was born at Boxford, Massachusetts, October 20, 1709. He and his brother, Joseph Smith, married the Warren sisters, of Weston, and both settled in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. In 1746 he was living in Worcester and most of his children were born in that town, according to the records. When Keziah was baptized in Shrewsbury, 1746, the residence of the parents was given as Worcester. Jacob Smith
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married at Weston, Massachusetts, November 23, 1738, Keziah Warren, of that town. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Sarah ( Whitney ) Warren. Jonathan was born April 26, 1688, married, Novem- ber. 1712; was the son of Ensign John Warren and wife, Mary Brown, of Watertown. They were mar- ried March 22, 1682-83, and John was born March 5, 1665-06. The father of Ensign John Warren was Damel Warren, who married, December 10, 1650. Mary Barron; he was born 1628, the son of the immigrant, John Warren, who came over in 1030 and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. Keziah ( Warren) Smith owned the covenant in the Shrewsbury church in 1739, and the records state that she "had owned it at Weston when she dwelt there." The children of Jacob and Keziah Smith
were: Ruth, born at Worcester, September 16, 1739; Jacob, baptized March 29, 1741, born at Wor- · cester, March 17, 1741, died young; Joel, born at Worcester, August 19, 1743; Keziah, born at Wor- cester, November 10, 1745, baptized at Shrewsbury ; Jonathan Warren, see forward; Solomon, born March 18, 1749-50, recorded at Worcester; Joseph, born at Worcester, June 2, 1752; Ithamar, born Sep- tember 6, 1754: Levi (twin), born March 28, 1757; Simeon, (twin) born March 28, 1757; Jacob, born November 9, 1760.
(IV) Jonathan Warren Smith, son of Jacob Smith (3), was born at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. February 26, 1748. He removed from Shrewsbury 10 Westminster, where he bought Lot No. 115 in the second division, now known as the Nathan Wood place on Br.gg Hill, and built the first house on it. Ile removed to Hubbardston during the revolu- tionary war and lived there the remainder of his life. Three of his children were recorded in West- minster and the date of removal was about 1780. He was a soldier in the revolution from Westminster in Captain Jonathan Gates' company of Ashburn- ham, an adjacent town, Colonel John Whitcomb's regiment, on the Lexington alarm. Later in 1775 he was corporal in Captain David Wilder's company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's regiment. Some of the other service ascribed to Jonathan Smith-a multitude of whom served in the army-may belong to Jonathan Warren Smith. Ile married Catherine Keyes, who died March 20, 1845, at Hubbardston, aged ninety- seven years, five months. Their children were : Alice, born at Westminster, March 14. 1775, married Timothy Parker; Joel, see forward; Sophia, born at Westminster, December 30, 1778, died April 3, 1795 : Lucy, born at Hubbardston, March 1, 1781, died August 6. 1786; Asa, born May 3, 1783, died Septem- her 2. 1786; Catherine, born January 16, 1786, mar- ried Clark Witt; Betsey, born May 29, 1788, died March 10, 1846; Ira, born January 25, 1791, died August 19, 1814.
(\) Joel Smith, son of Jonathan Warren Smith (4), and grandfather of John Smith, of Lunenburg, was born at Westminster, Massachusetts, March 21, 1777. He was a young child when the family re- moved to Hubbardston, where he was brought up and educated. He lived three miles southwest of the middle town of Hubbardston, owning a fine hun- dred-acre farm for which he paid only seven dollars an acre. He followed farming as an occupation all his life. He was a member of the Orthodox Church quid was a Whig in politics. He trained in the state militia. He married Hannah Clark and their children, all born in Hubbardston, were: Emery, see forward; Almira, born June 28, 1806, married Joshua Flagg; Emmons, born April 15, 1810, married Catherine How, April 15, 1835; married (second), January 20, 1842, Mary W. Davis; Lucy, born De- ceniber 27, 1813, married Oliver Clark; married
(second) John M. Bradshaw; Ira, born December 24, 1815, married Abigail Pratt, of Rindge, New Hampshire; Jonas, born September 24, 1817, re- moved to Connecticut and died in Kentucky, 1876; Asa, born October 10, 1820, married Lucy Temple, of Shrewsbury, died on his way home from Cali- fornia in 1854: Levi, born June 8, 1824, resided in Paxton, married (second) Sarah ( Mason) Brooks; Catherine, born October 9, 1826, married Franklin Rockwood and resided at Brookline, New Hamp- shire.
( V1) Emery Smith, son of Joel Smith (5), was born at Hubbardston, Massachusetts, August 12, 1804. He received the education common to the farmer boy of those days and remained on his father's farm until he was of age, when he left honte and found employment in Worcester as a brick- maker. After a year or two he returned to his native town and took up the trade of cooper in connection with farm work. He made barrels for rum and beef. Later in life he worked at the carpenter's trade, and many of the bridges on the Fitchburg Railroad were built by him. He also erected a num- ber of houses, some of which he built for himself and sold. He prospered in the building business. About 1827 he removed to Lunenburg and lived there the remainder of his life. He died November 25, 1877. He was a Universalist in religion and was connected with the choir of the church for many years. He was a good singer and skillful player of the bass viol and clarinet. He played the bass viol in the church when it was the custom, and he played the clarinet in the village band. In politics Mr. Smith was a Democrat.
He married, October 27, 1825, at Hubbardston, Phebe Flagg, born September 17, 1801, daughter of Levi and Ruth ( Austin) Flagg. Her father was born at Worcester, November 15, 1795, died October 25, 1847 ; he was a farmer and blacksmith, and served on the Hubbardston school committee. Her mother was born October 21, 1768, died March 18, 1848. The children were: John, born at Hubbardston, January 12, 1827, see forward; Lucy, born at Lunen- burg, January 24, 1831, married Stephen Adams, June 2, 1849, and settled at Townsend, having no issue.
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