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(VI) Benjamin Bullard, son of Colonel Samuel Bullard (5), was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts, May 14, 1773. He settled in Sherborn and married there, March 31, 1796, Persis Babcock, who died August 19, 1809. He married (second) Nancy Dexter, ( third) Harriet (Pond) Farrington, ( fourth) Widow ( Pierce-Daniels) Hines, 18.41. He was a resident of Sherborn and a farmer. His children were: Otis, born August 6, 1797, see for- ward; Ede, born October 8, 1800, died unmarried aged thirty-two; Samuel Dexter, born May 1, 1814, died aged nineteen ; Persis Ann, married Michael Guyrn and resided in Sherborn; Benjamin, died aged five days.
(VII) Otis Bullard, son of Benjamin Bullard (6), was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, August 6. 1797. He married Polly Pierce and resided in Sherborn and Framingham. He was a farmer and knife manufacturer, making knives chiefly for the shoemakers. Their children were: I. Polly Maria, married James Augustus Loker, of Cochituate, in
the town of Wayland, Massachusetts; he survives her at an advanced age. Their children: Granville Loker, resided in Cochituate, and had two chil- dren-Bertha Loker, married J. O. Clifford, of Lenox, Massachusetts; Melville Loker, married and has one child. 2. Theresa Loker, married Willian H. Bent, formerly a large shoc manufacturer of Cochiituate, and they had three children : Elmer E., Millie, Harry, all of whom are married and have children. 3. Ira Otis, born March 31, 1836. (VIII) Ira Otis Bullard, son of Otis Bullard (7), was born in Sherborn, Massachusetts, March 31, 1836. He learned the trade of machinist in his father's shop and succeeded him in the business of making shoe knives in Natick. The heat from the forge affected his health and he was obliged to change his occupation. He engaged in the drug business in Natick under the firm name of Bullard & Jennison. The pharmacy was opposite the Natick Common on Common street. He finally sold out in 1874 and removed to the growing town of Clinton. He has followed his trade of machinist since living in Clinton. He has a repair shop near his house on High street. Of late years he has worked in the winter, spending his summers at his cottage in Cottage City. Mr. Bullard is a Republican but has never been active in politics. He is a life member of Meridian Lodge, Free Masons, of Natick, and a member also of the Clinton Tribe of Red Men. He married Nancy Elizabeth Piper, born July 27, 1843, daughter of Horace Piper, of Sterling, Massa- chusetts. Their children: Otis Horace, sce for- ward; Frank Edwin, born at Sterling, December 19, 1868, see forward.
Ira Otis Bullard has at the present time in his possession an old chair which came over from Eng- land in 1630. It has been handed down and always in the Bullard family, and in his possession since 1858.
(IX) Otis Horace Bullard, son of Ira Otis Bullard (8), was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, September 17, 1867. Ile was educated in the Clin- ton public and high schools. He learned the car- penter's trade of Jeremiah Stnart, of Clinton, a prominent builder. He worked as clerk for a few years in Hosmer's grocery store, Lancaster, a po- sition he gave up on account of illness. For twelve years he has been employed as carpenter in the Lancaster Mills at Clinton. He resides on High street. He is a Republican in politics and a Metho- (list in religion. He married, September 17, 1892, Nina Brown, born in Irasburgh, Vermont, 1870. Their children: Leslie Otis, born January 27, 1896; Marion Olive, born April 2, 1898.
(IX) Frank Edwin Bullard, son of Ira Otis Bullard (S), was born in Sterling, Massachusetts, December 19. 1868. He was educated in the public schools of Clinton and the Bryant & Stratton Busi- ness College of Boston. He was first employed as bookkeeper in a Boston house, then came to the office of the Bigelow Carpet Company, Clinton. He returned to work in Boston after a short time as bookkeeper for O. W. Alden, grocer, Boston. In 1896 he returned to the office of the Bigelow Carpet Company, and became the order clerk, a position he holds at the present time. His home is at 100 East street, Clinton. He is well known in Masonic cir- cles, being at present senior warden of Trinity Lodge of Free Masons, Clinton. He has been through the chairs of Clinton Lodge of Odd Fellows. He is also a member of Clinton Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, Clinton. He is also a member of the local council, Royal Arcanum. He and his family attend the Uni- tarian Church. He married, June 29, 1892,
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Addie J. Fuller, daughter of Asa and Frances (Barnard) Fuller, of Sterling. She was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, formerly Needham, Sep- tember 6, 1867. They have two children: Ida Louise, born April 25, 1896; Frances Elizabeth, August 9, 1898.
HENRY GODDARD, deceased, was one of the most esteemed citizens of Worcester, held in honor as one of its pioneer manufacturers in the wire in- dustry and a man of immaculate character. He was particularly beloved by the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a distinguished representative, be- ing at the time of his death the oldest member of the order in the city of Worcester.
Mr. Goddard was a son of Benjamin Goddard, and was born in Worcester, October 4, 1823. He received a liberal education in the best institutions in the city, and early followed in the parental foot- steps in the choice of a life calling. At the age of twenty-one, in 1844, he entered the factory of the Worcester Wire Company in South Worcester, of which his father was manager, and from the outset gave every evidence of both inberited and acquired mechanical talents. His first work was in the ca- pacity of a wire drawer, and he was advanced suc- cessively until the death of his father, whom he succeeded in charge of the works. He was thus engaged until 1867, when the factory was destroyed by fire, when he was removed the the Grove street mill, returning the following year to the rebuilt South Worcester works. These were closed in 1869, and he was re-transferred to the Grove street fac- tory, in the capacity of foreman of the wire draw- ing and nail department, of which he had charge until his voluntary retirement on account of fail- ing health, in October, 1898, on his seventy-fifthi birthday. He bad then been connected with the works of this one company for the remarkable period of nearly sixty years. Beginning as a young man, he showed from the first such ability that he was marked for speedy advancement, and rose from the ordinary routine of manual drudgery to directing the finest and most skilled operations. A man of inventive turn of mind, he was quick to discern opportunity or improved processes, and some of his devices were placed in practical use, their introduction greatly lessening the expense of pro- duction and working a corresponding increase of product. He became so thoroughly identified with the institution that one of its greatest departments came to be known by his name. His individuality was so impressed upon the entire personnel of the establishment that his retirement was attended with significant demonstrations of respect by all con- nected with it, proprietors, fellow-workmen and subordinates alike.
In the year following his retirement ( 1899) on April 7, Mr. and Mrs. Goddard celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and the occasion was one of the most notable social events of the day. The preparations had been made by their daughter, Mrs. H. E. Ball, of Worcester. The house was beautifully decorated for the occasion with palms, genista and cut flowers, the predominating color in the dining room being yellow. Many out-of-town relatives and friends were present, in addition to a large city throng which numbered the represen- tative men of the Washburn & Moen Company.
Death came to Mr. Goddard with the wearing out of his physical powers, on January 12, 1904, when he was entering upon his eighty-first year, and the warm affection in which he was held was attested by the attendance of a large and deeply
affected assemblage of people of all ranks upon the occasion of the funeral. The services were con- ducted by the Rev. Frank Crane, pastor of Union Congregational Church, and the interment was with Masonic ceremonies, conducted by Worcester Commandery of Knights Templar, the pallbearers being four past eminent commanders of that body. The floral tributes were exceedingly rich, and most significant in design, particularly those from the various bodies of the Masonic fraternity with which the lamented deceased had been affiliated. As was said of him, standing at the head of Worcester Masons, Mr. Goddard occupied a highly honored and deserved place in the fraternity. The oldest surviving past master of Morning Star Lodge, he was the representative of patriarchial Masonry in the heart of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Made a member of Morning Star Lodge on August 4, 1847, he was elected worshipful master in 1852, and was twice successively re-elected. Ma- sonry was then in its infancy in Worcester, and the lodge numbered only about twenty-five mem- bers. He became a charter member of Montacute Lodge at its institution, and then aided in forming a third, Athelstan, and was its first master, in 1866, and elected to the chair again in 1880. He was most excellent high priest of Worcester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, from 1858 to 1864, both years inclusive-a longer period than any other officer of that rank. He was a past master of Hiram Council, Royal and Select Masters, and past eminent con- mander of Worcester Commandery, Knights Temp- Jar. In the larger fields of the Masonic order he was a permanent grand master of the grand lodge of Massachusetts, a member of the grand royal arch chapter of Massachusetts, and of the grand commandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Masonic fraternity of Worcester. He was also a member of Quinsigamond Lodge, Independent Order Odd Fellows, in which he had passed the chairs. He was an attendant of Union Congrega- tional Church, and lived a life of unimpeachable practical Christianity, his religion being of that type which found expression in action rather than in ex- pression. He was an exceptionally generous man. thoughtful of others, and while he frequently and generously contributed to organized benevolences, he was noted for his quiet way of relieving the necessities of his follows by unsought for gifts of money or articles of comfort, and the large body of workmen connected with the same factories with himself were particularly the objects of his regard in these respects.
Mr. Goddard married, April 7, 1849, Miss Eugenia D. C. Ball, a native of Holden, Massachu- setts, and who was residing in Worcester with her parents at the time of her marriage. Of this union were born five children, of whom two, with the mother, are now living: Julius H. Goddard, of To- peka, Kansas; and Willietta, wife of H. E. Ball, of the same city.
WHITCOMB FAMILY OF LUNENBURG. William Whitcomb, grandfather of George Henry Whitcomb, of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was a de- scendant of John Whitcomb, of Dorchester and Scituate, who was born in England and came to New England probably in 1629. He was admitted a freeman June 3, 1652, in the Plymouth colony. He removed to Lancaster about 1652. He died April 6, 1683. A full sketch of his life and many of his descendants will be found elsewhere in this work. Some of his sons remained in Plymouth
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colony, and from one of them is descended Will- iam Whitcomb. All of the name are undoubtedly descended from the same immigrant ancestor.
William Whitcomb was born at or near Ware- ham, Massachusetts, about 1800. His birth is not recorded at Wareham, however. He was a cooper by trade and followed many years this vocation. In 1839 he settled in Brookline, New Hampshire, where for many years he was employed by William Gilson and by Tucker & Stiles. He was also employed in a charcoal kiln at Brookline. He died there March, 1850, on the William Gilson place. He was a Con- gregationalist in religion and a Whig in politics. He was a member of the Brookline militia com- pany. He married Eleanor Hathaway, and their children were: I. William Rufus, who served in the army during the rebellion; married Mary C. Mellen, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and had children-Mary, Lizzie, Albert, Lester and William, all born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. 2. Robert Thomas, born February 19, 1839, mentioned below. 3. Cynthia Eleanor, born at Brookline; married first Samuel Mellen, and (second) Jason Stetson, and has children- William Stetson and Josephine Stetson, born in Whitman, Massachusetts. 4. John Tyler, born in Brookline, New Hampshire, died in Stoneham, Massachusetts; he served in the civil war. 5. Charles Willis, born in Brookline: killed at battle of the Wilderness; but buried in Groton; married Elizabeth Carr of Groton, Massachusetts. 6. Henry Francis, born at Brookline, New Hamp- shire; married Martha Bradford, of Middleboro, Massachusetts, and they have children-Nora, Charles and Lilla May. 7. George Putnam, born at Brookline; married Harriet Harrington of East Templeton, Massachusetts. He had a brother Thomas, born in Wareham and lived in Attleboro, then in Pepperell, and died there. There were other children.
Robert Thomas Whitcomb, son of William Whitcomb, was born at Wareham, Massachusetts, February 19, 1839. He was only six months old when his parents removed to Brookline, New Hamp- shire. He attended the district schools at Brook- line until he was ten years old, when he began to work out, first for Ephraim Gilson, attending school in the winter terms, at Townsend, Massachusetts. After five years there he returned to Brookline, but soon began to learn the shoemaker's trade at Pep- perell in the shop of Fiske Brothers, where he worked two years. He worked five years on the farm of Ralph Jewett, in Pepperell, and then be- gan to learn the cooper's trade of William P. Ben- nett. He worked at this trade nearly eight years for Freeman Tarbell, and then eleven years for the Worcester & Nashua Railroad, in Pepperell, in charge of freight and yard switching. About 1884 he came to Lunenburg and bought the Gov. Bout- well farm in the south part of the town, and con- tinued farming until 1892. He maintained a large herd of dairy cattle and was a successful farmer. He sold out to his son George Henry Whitcomb. with whom he lived some time, but now (1906) is residing in Lunenburg Center. He is a member of the Lunenburg Methodist Episcopal Church, is a trustee and member of the official board. In pol- itics he is a Republican. He married, November 6, 1860, Maria C. Litchfield, who was born No- vember 9, 1840, daughter of Andrew and Cynthia (Blood) Litchfield, of Pepperell, Massachusetts. Her father was a farmer and stone mason, and was a member of the state militia in his younger days. The children: 1. George Henry, horn January 10. 1863, at Pepperell. 2. Annie Maria, born at Pep- perell, married first George Elliott, of Ashby, Massa- iii-4
chusetts, and they have : Clement, Mildred and Otis Elliott; she married (second) Calvin Marden, of Lunenburg, and had Robert Calvin Marden. 3- Jennie Augusta, born at Pepperell.
George Henry Whitcomb, son of Robert Thomas Whitcomb, was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts, January 10, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town, and at the age of sixteen years entered the employ of Leighton Brothers, shoe man- ufacturers, as shipping and packing clerk. When lie came of age he went to Lunenburg and worked there for a time on the farm of Herbert Litchfield and for his father. In 1892 he bought the home- stead of his father. The place is known as the Gov. Boutwell farm, and consists of fifty-three acres of land. He has a large dairy and delivers. milk and dairy products as well as garden stuff to his customers in Fitchburg. The farm is located in one of the most beautiful spots in the state. From his house the scenery in charming. He is. a member of the Lunenburg Methodist Episcopal: Church, one of its trustees, and the superintendent of the Sunday school. He has been president of the Epworth League connected with this church. In politics he is a Republican. He was for twelve years a member of Lunenburg Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. He has belonged to the Milk Dealers" Association. He married, May 7. 1890, Minnie Louise Howard, who was born January 23, 1870, daughter of John F. and Abbie Frances (Whitney) Howard, of Lunenburg. Her father was in the: teaming business ; he was a soldier in the civil war. The children : Howard Robert, born January 16,. 1891. 2. Ralph Lester, born May 19, 1893. 3- Blanche, born December 2, 1895.
DUDLEY FAMILY. The lineage of the Dud- ley family of Mendon, Worcester county, has been traced from Francis Dudley (1), who married Sarah, daughter of George Wheelar, of Concord, October 26, 1665. She died in that town, December 12, 1713. Their children were: Mary, born Feb- ruary 7, 1666; Joseph; John, born March 10, 1674- 75; Benjamin, died March, 1681-82; Samuel, born. June 27, 1682; Sarah, died August 4, 1701; Francis. Francis Dudley (father) was a soldier in King Philip's war.
(II) Samuel, son of Francis Dudley (1), was born in Concord, June 27, 1682. He removed from Concord to Littleton, where he was town clerk in 1716-17, and later took up his residence in Sutton, where he purchased land, May 31, 1726. He mar- ried- (first) Abigail King, November 1, 1704; mar- ried (second) Lydia His children were: Samuel, born July 28, 1705; Francis, December 10, 1706; David, Jonathan and Abigail (triplets), No- vember 4, 1709; Sarah, July 28, 1713; Abigail, Oc- tober 28, 1714; Mary, February 22, 1716; Patty, September 13, 1718; Rogers, August 9, 1720; Paul, September 24, 1721; Charles, December 10, 1722; William, May 28, 1726; Douglass, September 9, 1748.
(III) Jonathan Dudley, one of the triplets, born November 4, 1709, in Concord, died November, 1789. He married, in Sutton, August 18, 1736, Hannalz Putnam. Their children were: Jonathan, born March 22, 1738; Hannah, January 20, 1740, died August 25, 1786; John, August 20, 1743: Prudence, May 4, 1747; Anna, April 9, 1753, married Alpheus Marble; Samuel, January 4, 1755, died November 6, 1775: Peter, January 10, 1758.
(IV) John Dudley, son of Jonathan Dudley (3). born August 20, 1743, married Mary Morse, October 13, 1768. Their children were: John, born October 19, 1769, married Deborah Marble; Joseph,
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September 18, 1773; Sarah, January 22, 1779; James, November 23, 1783. John Dudley died in Sutton, August 25, 1786, and his widow married Solomon Leland, 1791.
(V) Joseph Dudley, son of John Dudley (4), born in Sutton, September 18, 1773, married Abigail Potter, March 25, 1794. She died a widow at Sut- ton, January 7, 1837. Their children were: Judith, born September 25, 1794, married John Blanchard, November 5, 1812; Silas, February I, 1797; Joseph, May 3, 1799.
(VI) Silas Dudley, son of Joseph Dudley (5), born February I, 1797, in Sutton, died November 15, 1882. He was one of those thrifty, highly success- ful farmers of his generation. It was a real pleas- ure to view his tidy, well-kept buildings and broad aeres as you passed his premises, situated on the eastern slope of the beautiful elevation of land on which the village of Mendon, Massachusetts, is located. To this spot he came from Sutton about the year 1835, and there he spent the remainder of his life, leaving the record of an industrious, suc- cessful and respected citizen. He married Char- lotte K. Armsby, of Sutton, February 28, 1829; she died December 7, 1877. Their children were: Ed- ward, see forward; Silas, born 1832, died 1899; Eliza, 1841, died 1844; Mary E., January 24, 1845, married James L. Greenleaf, December 1, 1874.
(VII) Edward Dudley, son of Silas Dudley ((6), was born in Sutton, December 15, 1829, and (came with his parents to Mendon during his child- thood days. Here he grew up, attending the public schools of the town and assisting his father in car- trying on the homestead farm, to which estate he .succeeded, and followed that occupation industri- vously for the remainder of his active life, realizing .a comfortable prosperity. He was a representa- .tive of that admirable type of New England man- :hood whose upright character could not under any circumstances be diverted from its natural channel, and his numerous commendable qualities were sin- cerely appreciated by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. In politics he was an earnest adher- ent to Republican principles and performed his duty as a citizen regularly at the polls, without of- ficial aspirations. He attended the Methodist Church. Edward Dudley died in Mendon, March 9, 190I.
Mr. Dudley married, June 6, 1854, Mary M. Ellis, who survives him. She is a native of Mendon and a daughter of Timothy Ellis, of that town. Three children were born of this marriage: I. Charlotte Armsby, born July 12, 1855, married, May 16, 1876, Erwin Augustus Snow ; children: Lillian Estelle, died in infancy ; Florence Edith, born Jan- mary 19, 1878, married Albert C. Rhodes, June 27, 1900; Bertie Allen, died in infancy ; Edward Dudley, died in infancy; Frederick Augustus, born Sep- tember 22, 1883; Rose Elizabeth, born June 25, 1887 ; Mabel Dudley, born July 16, 1888; Charlotte Armsby, born July 4, 1892. The family reside in Mendon. 2. Silas Armsby, born July 5, 1857, mar- ried ( first), July 15, 1888, Ella F. Prentice, who died February 13, 1892. Their children, Prentice and Mary, died in infancy. He married (second), August 28, 1895, Carrie Van Cott Jordan; children by this marriage: Ruth Marguerite, born October 6, 1898; Edward Armsby, born June 22, 1901 ; Char- lotte, born December 19, 1906. Silas Armsby re- ·sides in southern California, engaged in fruit cult- ure. 3. Mary E., born December 22, 1861, a suc- .cessful teacher in the public schools.
ADAMS FAMILY. No person familiar with the history of Massachusetts but what as they meet
with the family name of Adams recall in their mind the heroic services performed by the various repre- sentatives of this family in all of the numerous struggles attending the life of the colony, the casting off of the bands of tyranny and oppression forged by the mother country, the great movement for national independence and in the formation of a compact that has brought security and harmony to one of the strongest yet most humane nations in the world. It was said of the patriot, Samuel Adams, that he was a man of incorruptible integrity. Governor Hutchinson, in answer to the inquiry why Mr. Adams was not taken off from his opposition by an office, wrote to a friend in England, "such is the obstinacy and inflexible disposition of the man, that he never can be conciliated by any office or gift whatever." That characteristic of integrity and firmness to their own personal convictions still runs in the family, and not infrequently constitutes and points to a safe representative for the people. The branch of this family represented by Mr. Horace Corbett Adams, a native of Mendon, Massa- chusetts, runs from
(1) Henry Adams, who came from Devonshire, England, 1632, and settled in that part of Massachu- setts now Quincy, where he died in 1646. Of his family of eight sons and one daughter, four sons- Henry, Peter, Edward and Jonathan-were among the early settlers of Medfield.
(II) Edward Adams, born in England, settled in Medfield about the year 1652, taking a lot on Bridge street, near the corner of Dale street. His house was burned by the Indians in 1676. He served on the board of selectmen for many years, was com- missioner in 1689 and representative in 1692. He married (first) Lydia Rockwood, who died 1676. He married (second), 1678, Abigail Day, of Ded- ham, who died in 1707. He married (third), 1710, Sarah Taylor. He died in 1716. He was the father of fifteen children.
(III) John Adams, third child of Edward and Lydia (Rockwood) Adams, had a grant of land on the west side of the Charles river, "near the new mill." in 1682. That same year he married Deborah Patridge. He married (second) Susanna Breck, who died 1744. He died 1751. He was the father of thirteen children.
(IV) Obediah Adams, fifth child of John and Deborah ( Patridge) Adams, born in Medfield, 1689, married, April 24, 1716 Christian Sanford, a native of Mendon, daughter of Deacon Thomas Sanford, and lived in West Medway, on west side of Chicken Brook, three-fourths of a mile from the church. They were the parents of ten children. He died November 22, 1765. She died July 21, 1777, in the eightieth year of her age.
(V) Jesse Adams, fifth child of Obedialı and Christian (Sanford) Adams, born September 10, 1727, married. Mareh 30, 1773, Thankful Watkins, and settled in Holliston. He died April 12, 1797. He was a farmer by occupation. He served the town as selectman. His wife was born in 1743 and died January 3, 1797. Their children were: Levi, born October 23, 1773: Abigail, November 20, 1775; Hannah, January 29, 1778, died 1781; Resigned, May 14. 1780, died same day ; David, May 20, 1781, see forward ; Huldah, December 12, 1785.
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