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He married, November 5. 1840, Emeline Huntley, who died May 18, 1874. She was the daughter of William and Emeline Huntley, of Marlow, New Hampshire. Her father was a farmer and miller. Children of James and Emeline Barney were : Alfred James, born in Washington, April 28, 1845. died February 26. 1904; married (first) Celia Spaulding, March, 1867; (second) -; he is a physician, residing in St. Louis, and has a child, Agnes L., born May 7, 1868. William Huntley, born Septem- her 30. 1847, married Diskie Sparling, of Acworth, New Hampshire, December 9, 1875, resides at Ac- worth. Luthera C., born December 11, 1848, mar- ried, July 4, 1866, George H. Fletcher; now living at 221 Webster avenue, Providence, Rhode Island. Catherine C., born January 10, 1851, married Luther Wilkins, of Antrim, New Hampshire, and they have one daughter-Edith. Franklin Pierce, born May 23. 1856. see forward.
(VII) Franklin Pierce Barney, son of James Barney (6), was born in Washington, New Hamp- shire, May 23, 1856. He was educated in the com- mon schools of Washington and at the McCollum Academy at Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. At the age of nineteen he went to work for Benjamin Kendall on his farm at Washington, where he re- mained two years, attending school during the win- ter ternis. When he came of age he removed to
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Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he was employed by the Bellows Falls Paper Company for a year. He then went to Gardner, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of chair making, and worked in the chair factories of the Heywoods, Dunns, and Pierces. He remained there until 1885, when he re- moved to Acworth, New Hampshire, and bought a one hundred and sixty acre farm known as the old Houston place. After four years on this farm, he returned to Gardner and worked for five years for Heywood Bros. in the manufacture of chairs. Hle then bought a farm in the eastern part of Gardner (formerly called the Stacy farm), and con- ducted it for twelve years, together with an ex- tensive retail milk business. He then moved to Lunenburg, Massachusetts, having sold his farm, and entered the employ of George N. Proctor and was in charge of his farm for three years. Subse- quently he was in charge of the farm work at the Fitchburg jail for one year. In April, 1906, he purchased the farm of Dr. Wallis, on Lancaster avenue, Lunenburg, where he is now living. As a farmer Mr. Barney is progressive and well posted, and is recognized as a man of sound business judgment, able, energetic and successful.
He is a member of the Baptist denomination in religion. In politics he is an Independent. He be- longs to Mt. Roulstone Lodge, No. 98, Odd Fellows, of Fitchburg, of Pearl Hill Lodge, No. 47, Rebekahs, of Fitchburg, of Gardner Grange, Patrons of Hus- bandry, and of the Massachusetts Cattle Owners' Association.
1-Ie married, November 23, 1880, Minnie Edna Wilbur, daughter of Leprelate and Mary Jane (Searle) Wilbur, of Gardner, Massachusetts. Her father was a painter and decorator, corporal in Company G. Fifty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, during the civil war. The chil- dren of Franklin Pierce and Minnie Edna Barney are : William Alfred, born August 29. 1881. died November 4, 1883; Grover Cleveland, born July 25, 1884, clerk in the Goodrich clothing store, Fitch- burg, resides at home in Lunenburg with his parents.
MANSON DANA HAWS. Edward Haws (I), the immigrant ancestor of Manson D. Haws, was in Dedham. Massachusetts, in 1648, when he was employed to plaster the meeting house. He was a farmer and mason. He married, April 15, 1648, Eliony Lumber. He died June 28, 1686. His will was proved December 17, 1689. He made bequests to his wife Eliony and children: Daniel, Jolin, Na- thaniel. Joseph, Lydia Gay, Hannah Mason, Abigail Vales and Deborah Pond. Their children were: Lydia, born January 26, 1648-9: Mary, born Novem- ber 4. 1650: Daniel, born February 10, 1652-3, mar- ried Aliel Gay, Jannary 23, 1677-8, had a danghter Mary at Dedham : Hannah, born February 1, 1654-5, married John Mason. January 5. 1676-7; Jolin, born December 17, 1656, married Sarah Deering, May 27, 1683, had a family in Dedham: Nathaniel, born August 14, 1660, married Sarah Rocket, widow of Deacon Rocket (Rockwood), May 6, 1718, had eight children recorded in Dedham; Abigail, born Octo- ber 2, 1662; Joseph. born August 9, 1664, married Deborah . and had four children in Dedham ; Deborah, born September 1, 1666.
(II) John Haws, son of Edward Haws (1), was born in Dedham. December 17, 1656. He mar- ried Sarah Deering, May 27, 1683. She was prob- ably daughter of Samuel Deering. of Braintree, Mas- sachusetts. He lived at Dedham. Their children were: Mary, born February 10. 1683-4: Sarah, born 1686; Lidia, born August 22, 1697, married Joseph
Pratt, January 27, 1719-20; Abigail, born February 5, 1699-1700 ; Samuel, married Elizabeth
(III ) Samuel Haws, son of John Haws (2) and Sarah Deering, his wife, owned the covenant and was baptized at the Dedham Church, May 31, 1724- He married Elizabeth - -. Their children were: Zaccheus, born April 20, 1728; Samuel, baptized at Dedham, October 10, 1731; Abigail, born September 24, 1733; a son, born February 18, 1735-6; Deering, born November 7, 1729.
(IV) Zaecheus Haws, son of Samuel Haws (3), was born at Dedham, Massachusetts, April 20, 1728. Ile married Mary Smith, of Roxbury, Massachu- setts, August 17, 1753. He married (second ), De- cember 24, 1767, or March 9, 1768, Subiah Wight, of Dedham. He removed to Sherborn, Massachu- setts. Their children were: Benjamin, born at Dedham, August 30, 1754, married Sarah Leland; Zaccheus, born April 10, 1760; Ichabod, only child born in Sherborn, July 22, 1767.
(V) Benjamin Haws, son of Zaccheus Haws (4). was born at Dedham, August 30, 1754. His parents probably moved from Sherborn to Stoughton- ham. He married, October 14, 1775, Mary Sumner, of Dedham. They settled (?) at Sherborn. He mar- ried (second) Sarah Leland, of Sherborn. He re- moved to Leominster in 1796, and was a manu- facturer of boots and shoes there. He remained in active business until seventy-six years of age. His son Amos continued the business and later his grandson, Manson D. Haws. Their children were: Olive, born April 29, 17So, married Joshua Derby, of Wrentham ; Sarah, born October 28, 1783; Amos, born June 16, 1794.
(VI) Amos Haws, son of Benjamin Haws (5), was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts, June 16, 1794. He married Mary Forbush. He continued his father's boot and shoe business and also conducted liis farm there. Later he operated a grist mill and dealt in flour and grain. He had the military rank of major. His son Manson succeeded to the boot and shoe business. Their children were: Manson D., born August 28, 1817; Stow Forbush, of whom later ; Russell L., born March 22, 1823.
(VII) Manson Dana Haws, son of Amos Haws (6), was born at Leominster, Massachusetts, Au- gust 28, 1817. He is one of the oldest and most successful business men of his native town. He was educated for the most part in the public schools of Leominster. When he was sixteen years old he decided to learn the trade of shoemaker. His father and grandfather had been shoemakers. So he went to Fitchburg, as his father had sold his business, and served a year of his apprenticeship in the shop of Manassa and Jobn Sawyer. He com- pleted his apprenticeship in the shop of James Whittemore in Worcester. In 1838 he was offered the position of superintendent of the shoe depart- ment in the Worcester Insane Asylum, but he de- clined it and worked at his trade in Sterling and Randolph, Massachusetts. In June, 1839, at the re- quest of Bartimus Tenney who had purchased the business of Major Amos Haws, Manson returned to Leominster to begin the manufacture of boots and shoes in the old shop. From June 9, 1839, to November 1, 1885, when he retired, Manson D. Haws continued this business successfully. At first the factory produced both boots and shoes for men and women. After a time the firm made a specialty of ladies shoes, though manufacturing some men's shoes all the while. The shop where be began busi- ness stood nearly opposite his present residence. A new factory was erected in 1850. Two large addi- tions have been made to increase the facilities and provide for steam power.
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Mr. Haws grew up with the modern shoe manu- facturing of New England and experienced many of the changes that his trade has undergone in the past fifty years. He conducted his business alone and sold his own goods. The kind of attention that he gave to his factory is shown by the fact that among his help for forty-six years there was no enforced idleness, and the shop was never shut down except for a brief period on account of alterations when the addition was built. He considered the needs and wishes of his employes when manufac- turing had to be done at a loss, and kept the ma- chinery going just the same. In some ways Mr. Haws set an admirable example to employes. Mr. Haws kept his business within such bounds that he could give it always his own personal attention. In 1885 he retired from business and rented his factory to O. H. Smith.
He has occupied many positions of honor and trust. In 1862 he represented the town in the gen- eral court. For six years he was on the board of selectmen and for three years chairman. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1876. He has often been moderator, a position of high honor in the Massachusetts system of town government. He was active in the movement to provide a proper water supply for the town. He was a member of the committee to select the source of supply and to procure necessary legislation for the town. In financial circles Mr. Haws has been prominent for many years. His well-tested business ability. his knowledge of men and investments have made him one of the financial leaders of Leominster and the vicinity. He was a director of the First National Bank, a trustee and member of the board of invest- ment of the Leominster Savings Bank. In 1875 he was elected a director of the Rollstone National Bank of Fitchburg, a position he has held ever since. He is also trustee of the Worcester North Savings Institution of Fitchburg, a position he has held since 1879, and vice-president at the present time. He has been administrator and executor of many important estates. He is a director of the Fitchburg Street Railway Company. In politics he is a Republican. He recently presented a beautiful chapel to the cemetery at Leominster. It is called the Haws Memorial Chapel. In religious convictions Mr. Haws is a Unitarian of the old school, and has been during all his life an active and in- fluential member of the First Congregational (Uni- tarian) Society of Leominster.
He married, March 5. 1843. Lucy Ann Graham, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts. They have had no children.
(VII) Stow F. Haws, son of Amos Haws (6), early in life learned the chair making business. After his father sold the flour, grain and lumber mill that he bought, he subsequently built (prob- ably) one of the best flour, grain and lumber mills then in North Worcester county, and he educated Stow F. to do work, and have the care of the flour and grain department of that mill. After a term of years his father (because of ill health), desired Stow F. to buy the mills, informing him that all he wanted from him for the mills was his note, probably about $10,000 or $12,000, but great con- scientious caution prevented him from accepting the generous offer. Stow F. subsequently was sta- tion agent at North Leominster for the Fitchburg Railroad Company for a long term of years, and the company never had to pay one dollar for any damage or expense caused by any neglect of duty on his part. His great caution prevented him from ever engaging in anv active business for himself, but he interested himself in his brother's shoe manufac-
turing business, and made himself very useful for a term of years. Stow F. was nominated with Man- son D. by their brother, Russell L., and subsequently appointed by judge of probate, with Manson D., to be an executor and trustee under the will of their brother, Russell L., in 1867: Stow F. kept the record of the executor's account, and of the trustee's account until 1890, in July of which year he died. Stow F. resided on the old homestead estate, and had the care of the same during his lifetime.
(VII) Russell Lorenzo Hawes, son of Amos Haws (6), was born at Leominster, Massachusetts, March 22, 1823, died February 20, 1867, at Nice, France. He was a brother of Manson D. Haws, although he preferred the spelling Hawes. Both the brothers became distinguished men, but in totally different fields of activity. Russell L. began the study of medicine with the family physician at Leominster, attended lectures at Boston and New York, and graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1845. He very soon began the practice of his profession in Worcester, but he developed a genius for mechanical invention that fortunately was developed. His attention was attracted by the paper making machinery in the mills of Goddard, Rice & Co., and he made several valuable improvements and was sent to Europe on business for the firm. After his return he developed the envelope machine. by which the first machine-made envelopes were successfully made. His machine made possible the great envelope industry of which Worcester is an important centre. Dr. Hawes made many other important inventions and improvements in machines. among them the Gaines printing press, a wrygler used in woolen manufacture, a machine for making paper bags and one for printing wall paper. During the latter years of his life he was associated with George T. Rice and Benjamin Bottomly in woolen manufacturing at Cherry Valley. He was one of the original directors of the Worcester Gaslight Company, a director of the Worcester Bank, a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association. He became wealthy from the income of his inventions. He certainly ranks among the greatest mechanical minds of his day. His genius is probably not fully appreciated because his work cannot be understood by the public.
Hannibal Hamlin Houghton, who was an in- ventor of note, says of Dr. Hawes: "It was Dr. Hawes who passed over to me the sewing machine which I perfected. Then came the wonderful ma- chine for making envelopes, which I successfully worked out from the doctor's ideas in the room on the fourth floor of the shop of Goddard, Rice & C., on Union street opposite the present new fire department headquarters." The combination of rare inventive genius with remarkable business ability in a man whose chosen profession is supposed to require neither of these qualities produced all in all one of the great men of Worcester at one of its periods of rapid and important development.
He married, October 5, 1858. at Lowell. Massa- chusetts. Susie A. Fuller, daughter of Elisha and Susan Fuller. They had two daughters and one son.
ISAAC CHENERY RICHARDSON. Samuel Richardson (1), the immigrant ancestor of Isaac Chenery Richardson. of Holden. Massachusetts, was one of the famous three brothers who founded Wo- burn or rather were most prominent among the first settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts. He was born in England about 1610. His name first appears on the records of New England, July 1, 1636, when he
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was elected on a committee at Charlestown to lay out lots of hay land. He and his brother Thomas were granted house lots in that town in 1637. He was admitted to the church, February 18, 1637-38, and a freeman May 2. 1638. He served in the office of highway surveyor, March 17, 1636-37. The record shows that the three brothers Richardson had lots on the Misticke side and above the Ponds ( Malden), April 20, 1638. The three brothers and four others, Edward Convers, Edward Johnson, John Monson and Thomas Graves, were appointed a committee to settle the church and town affairs of what became the town of Woburn, and by virtue of that appoint- ment these men are the founders of the town. The church was constituted August 14, 1642, by the three brothers and three others, and the homes of the Richardson brothers and their descendants, built on the same street, were called Richardson's Row. This street runs north and south and is located in the present town of Winchester, near the Boston & Lowell Railroad, and is now part of Washington street. Samuel's house was near the residence of the late Luther Richardson. He was selectman of Woburn 1644-45-46-50-51. In 1645 he was the largest taxpayer, Captain Edward Johnson being the sec- ond on the list. He died suddenly, intestate, March 23. 1657-58. His family then consisted of four sons and two daughters. The widow and eldest son John administered the estate.
He married Joanna who joined the church at Charlestown, September 9, 1639. Her will was dated June 20, 1666, and was proved 1677. Their children, the first two born at Charlestown, the others at Woburn, were: Mary, baptized February 28. 1637-38, married Thomas Mousall, son of John; Jolın. born November 12, 1639; Hannah. born March 8, 1641-42, died April 8, 1642; Joseph, born July 27, 1643, married Hannah Green; Samuel, Jr., born May 22, 1646, married Martha - and (second) Hannah Kingsbury; Stephen, born August 15, 1649, married Abigail Warren; Thomas, born December 31. 1651, died September 27, 1657; Elizabeth.
(11) Lieutenant John Richardson, son of Sam- uel Richardson (1), was baptized at Charlestown, November 12, 1639, and was doubtless born there the preceding month. He passed his life in Wo- burn as a yeoman or farmer. He was town con- stable in 1675, served in King Philip's war, 1675-76, was admitted freeman 1678, selectman 1690-91-92. He died intestate, January 1, 1696-97. His burial place in Woburn is marked by a gravestone. He married, when less than nineteen years old, Oeto- ber 22, 1658, Elizabeth Bacon, born January 4, 1641-42, aged seventeen, daughter of Michael Bacon, one of the original inhabitants of Woburn. Richard- son married (second), at Cambridge, October 28, 1672, Mary Pierson, daughter of Bartholomew and Ursula Pierson, then of Woburn, late of Water- town. He married (third), June 25, 1689, Margaret Wiling, who died October 28, 1726. Children of John and Joanna Richardson were: John, born Janu- ary 24, 1660, married Susanna Davis; Joseph, born January 3. 1666-67, died February 13, 1697-98, a cripple. Children of John and Mary were: Pierson, born September 22, 1673, married Mary Perrin ; Jacob, born February 15, 1675, see forward; Will- iam, born June 29, 1678, died August 1, 1678. Chil- dren of John and Margaret Richardson: Willing, born August 5. 1692, died March 14, 1704: Job, born April 30, 1696, married Sarah Cleveland.
(III) Jacob Richardson, son of John Richard- son (2), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 15, 1675-76, died August 9, 1763. He settled in Woburn and was a leading citizen. He was selectman in 1734. He married, November 9, 1697,
Hannah Converse, born June 12, 1680, daughter of Major James and Hannah (Carter) Converse, of Woburn. Hannah Carter was born in Woburn, January 19, 1650, daughter of Captain John Carter, one of the seven founders of Woburn in 1641. Jacob Richardson's will was made 1750 and proved 1763. Children: Jacob, born September 3, 1699, married Elizabeth Wyman; Hannah, born April 7, 1701, married Benjamin Belknap, May 19, 1726; Elizabeth, born February 18, 1702-03, married, July 2, 1728, Isaac Richardson; Edward, born March 12, 1704-05, see forward; Esther, born June 25, 1707, married, June 27, 1733, Captain Benjamin Wyman ; Enoch, born May 26, 1709, married Mary Johnson ; Patience, born July 15, 1711, married, April 10, 1744. Thomas Wright; Sarah, born March 9, 1714; James, born April 23, 1716, died July 12, 1716.
(IV) Edward Richardson, son of Jacob Richard- son (3), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, March 12, 1705, died there June 22, 1793, aged eighty-eight years. He resided in Woburn until 1735 or later, and then settled on South street, Reading, an adja- cent town. His will was dated April 17, 1793, and proved September 3, 1793. He married, April 14, 1730, Jerusha Wyman, born at Woburn, July 23, 1712, died April 10, 1782, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hancock) Wyman, of Woburn. Her sister Elizabeth married his brother, Jacob Richard- son. Children: Jeremiah, born August 18, 1731; Barnabas, born March 16, 1733-34, married Rebecca Tidd; the first two were born at Woburn, the fol- lowing at Reading : Zadok, born May 17, 1739, inar- ried Sarah Brooks; Edward, Jr., born August 23, 1743, see forward; Jethro, born June 8, 1747, mar- ried Hannah Richardson
(V) Edward Richardson, son of Edward Richard- son (4), was born at Reading, Massachusetts, Au- gust 25, 1743, died November 17, 1837, aged ninety- four years. He resided in the eastern part of Wo- burn in "Button End." He married, October 6, 1763, Sarah Tidd, born November 8, 1743. daughter of Samuel and Phebe (Sawyer) Tidd, of Woburn. She died December 25, 1821, aged seventy-eight years. Children: Bridget, born February 11, 1764. married Stephen Richardson ; Heman, born January 21. 1766, see forward; Jerusha, born February 14, 1768, married Asa Richardson; Sarah, born April II. 1770, imarried Bartholomew Richardson; Hepsi- bah, born May 4, 1775, married, June 3, 1795, Timothy Wright; Edward, born September 17. 1777. married (first) Hannah Perkins, (second) Lydia Foster; Samuel Tidd, born May 5, 1780, married (first) Esther Richardson and (second) Betsey Carter : Job, born August 17, 1782, married Nancy Richardson; Phebe, born August 27, 1785, mar- ried, May 31, 1808, Luther Parker; Jason, born Au- gust 7, 1788. married Mary Wyman.
(VI) Heman Richardson, son of Edward Rich- ardson (5), was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, January 21. 1766. At the age of twenty-one he settled in Holden, Massachusetts. He was a tanner by trade and was also a farmer. He died at Holden, June 5, 1844, aged seventy-eight years. He bought his tannery of John Watson, December 23, 1789, for one hundred and twenty pounds, including seven- teen acres of land. It was located about half a mile from Holden Centre. His son, Edward Richard- son, sold the tannery in the spring of 1850 to Sam- tel Warren. (See Warren family sketch.) Heman Richardson was prominent. He was selectman of Holden in 1806-07-08-09-10-1I. He married, June 2, 1790, Mary Parker, of Bedford, born June 2, 1772, died April 29. 1830. He married (second) Lydia Davis in 1832. She died in 1852, leaving her property to her brother, Paul Davis. Children
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of Heman and Polly (Mary) Richardson were: Polly, born February 13, 1792, married (first) Daniel Davis and (second) Rufus Fuller; Heman, born November 23, 1793, married Sally Barber and Lydia Davis; Sybel, born August 31, 1796, married, Octo- ber 26, 1820, John Barber, of Benson, Vermont; Roxanna; Samuel, born October 24, 1802; Jolin, born July 15, 1805, married, November 27, 1826. Sarah Chaffin; Edward, born March 27, 1809, see forward; Merrill, born October 4, 18II; Isaac Chenery, born September 28, 1814.
(VII) Edward Richardson, son of Heman Rich- ardson (6), was born in Holden, Massachusetts, March 27, 1809. He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and during his youth worked on his father's farm. At the age of twenty he began to learn the trade of tanner of his father and continued to work with his father in this busi- ness many years. He was employed in the Davis tannery at Holden for about two years. He went into business for himself at South Royalston as the proprietor of a grist mill and saw mill. Then he hired a mill at Rutland and conducted it a year or so. He finally bought a farm in the west part of Holden, known as the old Alonzo Davis place, containing thirty acres. In addition to his farm- ing he was in the lumber business, sometimes on his own account and at others in the employ of Asa and Ira Broad. He died at Holden. He was a Congregationalist in religion. In politics he was a Whig, until the Republican party was organized, after which he voted the Republican ticket. He was highway surveyor of Holden, and in early life was in the militia. He married, November 28, 1831, Mary Ann Burpee, of Templeton, born at Ludlow, Vermont, March 1, 1810. Children: Elmer, born at Templeton, April 21, 1832, died October 19. 1848; Isaac Chenery, born at Holden, September 12, 1841, see forward; Edward Eugene, born at Holden, Octo- ber 23, 1845, married Victoria Bolton, of South- bridge, Massachusetts, and they have two children, Walter, Eugene.
(VIII) Isaac Chenery Richardson, son of Ed- ward Richardson (7), was born in Holden, Massa- chusetts, September 12, 1841. He was brought up on a farm and educated in the common schools like the vast majority of the boys of his day in New England. At the age of fourteen years he went to live with Deacon R. B. Miles, at Rutland, working on the farm and during the winter term attending school until he was eighteen. He remained with Deacon Miles until he came of age. He worked later on the farms of Daniel Wheeler at Rutland and James E. Cheney at Holden. He went to Worcester in 1861 and entered the employ of the State Hos- pital for the Insane, Summer street, first as an at- tendant and later as the head farmer of that insti- tution, remaining there some five years, and four years as gardener and coachman for Major E. P. Halstead, Cedar street, Worcester. The young man then returned to Holden, worked a few years on his father's place and July 12, 1875, bought it of his father and has lived there ever since. He is known as a prosperous farmer and an excellent citi- zen. He is an active member of the Holden Con- gregational Church and has served on the parish committee. In politics he has taken a leading part and has often been sent as a delegate to various nominating conventions of the Republican party, to which he belongs. He was highway surveyor two years. He has also been fire warden of Holden. He is a member of Holden Grange, Patrons of llus- bandry, No. 140, and has been the Master twenty years. He is a member and has been treasurer of
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