Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. III, Part 16

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 772


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(VIII) James Moore Farnum, son of Daniel Farnum (7). was born in Northbridge, Massachu- setts. April IT, 1822. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Northbridge and at Macomber Acad- emy. Uxbridge, and Bolton Academy. Bolton, Mas- sachusetts. While in school he worked on his father's farm and learned to make shoes as farmers' sons usually did in those days. He spent his active years in farming and lumbering. He dealt in cran- berries which he grew extensively. He was one of the leading farmers and men of affairs of Ux- bridge. He was a prominent Republican. Was elected representative to the general court in 1889 and served his town with credit to himself and his constituents ; was selectman for several years ; mem-


ber of the school committee; trustee of the Uxbridge Savings Bank : several years president of the Black- stone Valley Agricultural Society; president of the Creamery Company of Uxbridge. He was a mem- ber of the Second Congregational Church. He was an active member and for many years the treasurer of the Solomon Temple Lodge of Free Masons, of Uxbridge. He was distinctly a gentleman of the old school, courtly, polite, considerate of others, up- right and straightforward.


He married, May 26, 1847, Ophelia Stoddard, daughter of Lot Stoddard, of Medway, Massachu- setts. Their children: I. Alice, born May 28. 1849, married, January 1I, 1871, Charles W. Ellison and their children were: Minnie Farnum Ellison, born October 7, 1873, died January 18, 1874; Elizabeth Clark Ellison, born August 5. 1876, died August 13, 1882; Alice Mary Ellison, born March 4, 1883; Edith Ellison, born 1884. 2. Daniel Stoddard, born April 4, 1855. married Flora Lily Baily, April 6, 1881; their children: Clarence Stoddard, born No- vember 30. 1882: Royal, born June 11, 1884: Willis Herbert, born July 23, 1898. 3. James Herbert, born August 15. 1857, married, August 11. 1886, Emma Jane Jefferson; no issue. 4. Sarah Joanna, born July 20, 1860, married. January 11, 1882, Frank J. Hamilton, a very prominent citizen of Uxbridge ; their only child-Mary Westcott Hamilton, born September 14, 1883, married, June 29, 1905, Walter Garfield Brown, civil engineer, now residing in Brooklyn, New York.


(VII) Mowry Farnum, son of David Farnum (6), was born at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 23, 1799. He was educated in the district schools of Uxbridge, and when a young man learned the trade of wool sorter there. He followed this trade several years. About 1823 he went to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and entered business with George Wall in the manufacture of woolen goods at South Fitchburg, continuing until about 1826, but met with reverses. He then returned to Grafton and built the Peter Farnum mill which he operated in the manufacture of woolens for fifteen years. He sold the business to Waterman Fisher and bought the Jonathan Whipple farm on the road to Grafton Center. After about five years of farming there, he moved to Millbury and in partnership with Jonathan Wheeler hired the Singletary mill at Bra- mansville of Frank Tenney, of Boston. This was twice burned but rebuilt. In 1854, when it was last burned, he closed out his interests and removed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he began the manufact- ure of plows, and later was in the hotel business with his son, Charles W. Farnum.


He was mayor of the city of Cedar Rapids for six years at the time of the civil war, and was one of the organizers of the Union League. Those were the times when political feeling ran high, men were divided in opposing camps in Iowa, as in Kansas and Missouri, and it took a determined ef- fort such as that made in Cedar Rapids to preserve the state for the Union. Mr. Farnum was elected county judge, a position he held until his death in March, 1868. Ile was reared a Quaker, but in later years was a Unitarian. In early life he was a Whig. later a Republican. He was a charter member of Solomon Temple Lodge of Masons at Uxbridge, and a member of Tyrian Royal Arch Chapter of Millbury. During the civil war he was a member of the local militia, the Home Guards of Cedar Rapids, lowa.


He married, at Fitchburg, Evelina Johnson Gib- son, daughter of Leonard Gibson, of Fitchburg and: Westminster, Massachusetts. Their children, all


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born in Grafton, Masachusetts, were: Charles Will- ard. born June 14, 1826, see forward. George South- wick, born January 16, 1828, married Alice Taft, of Millbury, and had George Gardner Taft; David Gibson, born March 9, 1830, married Fannie Dodd, of Worcester: Henry Clay, born June 12, 1832, died in Lincoln, Nebraska; Daniel Webster, born June 26, 1834; Evelina Jane, born September 2, 1836, married Wellington W. Higley, of Cedar Rapids, and they have: Charles Wellington, William, Jes- sie. Sarah Ellen, born April 26, 1828, married John Bishop, of Cedar Rapids, and they have: Dwight, George, Daniel, Nora, Mattie. John Davis, born February 22, 1841 ; Mary Augusta, born December 8, 1843, died March 25, 1846.


(VIII) Charles Willard Farnum, son of Mowry Farnum (7), was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, June 14, 1826, in the village known as Farnums- ville. He received his education in the common schools of Farnumsville, in the Grafton high school and in Leicester Academy, from which he graduated in 1845. He worked with his father on the home- stead for four or five years and worked in his. father's cotton mill, in which he became an over- seer in 1845. This mill was at Bramanville, in Mill- bury, and later Mr. Farnum became the superintend- ent. In 1854, when the mill was burned, he ac- cepted a position as overseer of weaving in the Cordis' mill in Millbury Center, where he remained a year. He then removed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was in the hotel business with his father two years. He returned to Worcester and took up rail- roading for an occupation. He began as locomotive engineer on the Norwich & Worcester Railroad. After a year he took a similar position on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, residing at Easton, Penn- sylvania. He was passenger engineer on the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad a year and then accepted a position in a railroad supply establish- ment. He returned east and was an engineer on the Providence & Worcester Railroad during the civil war, and for twenty years afterward, living mean- while at Valley Falls, Rhode Island ; Worcester and Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On account of ill health he left the railroad business and bought a farm in the east part of the town of Uxbridge of Henry Taft, July 17, 1877. He sold it March 28, 1879, to John Bacon and in the following year engaged in the retail grocery business in Worcester in part- nership with J. W. Day. They bought the store of George Rogers, Pleasant street. This business was closed out and later he opened another store on his own account on Main street, near School street, where he was located two years. In 1883 he accepted the position of master mechanic of the Fisher Manufacturing Company at Fisherville, Mas- sachusetts. After eight years there and one year as engineer on the Grafton & Upton Railroad, he re- turned to Uxbridge to become master mechanic for the Capron Woolen Company. March 12, 1895, he bought of Jane Bacon his original farm of thirty- two years acres at Uxbridge and conducted it tin- til 1905, when he sold it and has since lived in Ux- bridge Center, having retired from active business. Mr. Farnum is a Unitarian in religion, a Republi- can in politics. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 10, of Masons, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and of the Pawtucket Royal Arch Chapter, No. 4. Hc was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and of the Worcester City Guards.


He married, January 30, 1850, Frances Eugenia Benchley, born at Grafton, Massachusetts, May 26, 1828, died August 7, 1861, daughter of James Healey and Nancy Hemenway ( Allen) Benchley, of Mill- bury. Their children ; Isabel, born December 3,


1852, died August 29. 1853: Charles Mowry, born July 27, 1861, see forward.


( ]X) Charles Mowry Farnum. son of Charles Willard Farnum (8), was born at Worcester, July 27, 1861. lle began his education in the old Salem street primary grades, subsequently going to Syca- more street school and later to the Woodland street grammar school, from which he graduated in the class of 1878, entering the Classical high school in the fall, remaining but a short time. He worked for a few months as clerk in the carpet house of J. S. Pinkham in the old Continental Hall. Then he began the study of dentistry in the office of Dr. C. Frank Bliven, Elm street, but after a year he was obliged by ill health to discontinue study. In the fall of ISSo he entered the employ of S. R. Leland & Son, music house, where he was sheet music clerk for several years, then manager of the band instrument department and traveling salesman for New England. He remained in the employ of this firm until April, 1895, when he accepted a position with the M. B. Lamb house as piano salesman. April 13, 1903, he became piano salesman of Seth Richards & Co., where he remained until October 1, 1905, when he accepted a position in the genea- logical department of the Lewis Publishing Company of New York and Chicago, a position he now holds.


He is a member of Piedmont Congregational Church. In politics he is a Republican. He was made a member of Montacute Lodge of Masons, May 27, 1895, and served as worshipful master of that lodge in 1904 and 1905. He was made a member of Eureka Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, November 12, 1895, and held office in that body. He received his Cryptic degrees in Hiram Council of "Royal and Select Masters, December 26, 1895, and was made a member of Worcester County Com- mandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, September 30, 1896. He was made a member of Lawrence Chap- ter, Rose Croix, Scottish Rite, Eighteenth degree, March 20, 1897. He is also a member of Worces- ter Council, No. 12, Royal Arcanun.


He married, September 15, 1885, Georgianna Logan Weir, born at Worcester, September 4, 1864, daughter of George and Agnes (Young) Weir, of Worcester, natives of Renfrewshire, Scotland. They have no children,


DANIELS FAMILY. Robert Daniels (1), the immigrant ancestor of the Daniels family at Mendon and vicinity, was born in England about 1590. He deposed June 26, 1652, that he was sixty years of age and upwards. He died July 6, 1655. He was an carly settler at Watertown, Massachusetts, and was a proprietor of the town in 1636. He was a husbandman. He removed to Cambridge in 1636, but was again in Watertown. freeman March 14, 1638-39. He was of Water- He was admitted a town October 7, 1651, when he sold to Edward Garfield six acres of land on the hither plain. He sold six acres to John Whitney December 22, 1651, also on the hither plain. Shortly before his death he was excused from training, April, 1655, being then over sixty years old. He was in Cambridge again after 1651. He was a town officer in Cam- bridge. His wife Elizabeth died October 2, 1643. He married, May 2, 1654, Reana Andrew, widow of William Andrew. His will was dated July 3, 1655. and was proved October 2, 1653. He bequeathed to his widow Reana the estate she had when they married and other property. He named five chil- dren, as below, also his cousin, Anna Newcomen. the widow married (third) Edmund Frost. Chil- dren of Robert and Elizabeth Daniels were: Eliza- beth, married Thomas Fanning; Samuel, settled on


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Bogistow pond, Medfield, married Mercy Grant, of Watertown, and had five children; died 1695: Joseph, of whom later; Sarah, married William Cheney ; Mary, born September 2, 1642, married. 1660, Sampson Frary, who was slain at Deerfield in 1704 by Indians; Thomas, buried September 6,


(II) Joseph Daniels, son of Robert Daniels (I). was born about 1640 in Watertown or Cambridge. Massachusetts. He died in 1715. He was one of the early settlers of Medfield, Massachusetts, was townsman there in 1662 and signed the agreement with other settlers. His home was on the Bogistow brook, southeast of Richardson's mills, where the late Paul Daniels lived. A settler was killed by the Indians on this farm during King Philip's war. Joseph Daniels had various grants on the west side of the river. His house was burned by the Indians in 1676 during the war, and he was one of the Med- field petitioners to the general court for relief after the war. He was selectman of Medfield three years. In 1700 he kept the school in the west side of the town.


He married (first), November 16, 1665, Mary Fairbanks, daughter of George Fairbanks, of Sher- born. She died 1682. He married (second) Rachel Sheffield, who died 1687. He married (third) Lydia Allen, widow of James Allen. Children of Joseph and Mary Daniels were: Joseph, Jr., born September 23, 1666, settled in Medfield; Mary, born July 4, 1669; her son Henry lived to be ninety-nine years old; Samuel, born October 20, 1671; Mehita- ble, born July 10, 1674, died 1686; Ebenezer, born April 24, 1677, married, 1701, Elizabeth Partridge ; married (second), 1707, Mary Harding; Elizabeth, born March 9, 1679, married, 1705, Joseph Mason ; married (second), 1730, John Draper, of Dedham ; Jeremiah, born March 17, 1680, died June, 1680 ; Eleazer, born March 9, 1681, of whom later. Chil- dren of Joseph and Rachel Daniels: Jeremiah. born 1684, married, 1713, Hannah Partridge ; Rachel, born 1686; Zechariah, born 1687, died young.


(III) Eleazer Daniels, son of Joseph Daniels (2), was born March 9, 1681. He settled in Mendon and drew various lands there. He became a large land-holder. He deeded swamp lands in Mendon, October 8, 1727, "received from my honored uncle: William Holbrook," situated at Chestnut hill near Hop brook to Thomas Thayer. He deeded to his ""well beloved son Joseph for parental love, good- "will and natural affection" the eleventh lot in the country gore on the Leicester line May 13, 1746. He deeded other lands to his son David and had ap- parently disposed of his real estate before death. "The name of his wife does not appear upon any of the deeds examined. His two sons were: Jo- seph, mentioned in deeds; David, of whom later.


(IV) David Daniels, son Eleazer Daniels (3), was born about 1710 and came to Mendon with his parents. His father deeded to him three hundred acres of land December 28, 1743, and also three hundred acres in Mendon April 14, 1755. The lat- ter tract of land was bounded on land of Benjamin Wheelock and Aaron Thayer. He divided his land in his will dated September 15, 1775, and filed June. 1776. To Darius Daniels he gave some money and much land, including a section of the homestead, eighty acres on the Rehoboth road, twenty-one acres on the west side of the Rehoboth road and another lot of eighty acres. To Moses he gave land on Mill river on the Rehoboth road and part of the homestead. To David he gave the section of the farm on the south and also other pieces of land in Mendon. Seth Kelley, his son-in-law, was the executor.


He married Huldah . ,who made her will December 9, 1794, naming therein all the children, ten in number, though Huldah was deceased. This will was filed July 2, 1799, and she probably died in June. The children of David and Huldah Daniels were: Darius, of whom later; David, liad chil- dren-Simon, Libbeus (son), Amos, Tyler, Smith, Samuel, Adams, Polly, Olive, married - Ald- rich. Moses, Clotilda, married - Baker; Ruth, married Jonathan Wheelock; (second) - Sta- ples; Molly, married Seth Kelley; Chloe, married Davenport ; Mercy, married -Wiliams; Ma- tilda, married -Gould; Huldah, married Penniman ; (second) Death.


(V) Darius Daniels, son of David Daniels (4), was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, about 1740. He died in IS32, aged ninety-two years, at Mendon. His estate was administered by John Fowler, ap- pointed May 26, 1832, when his only surviving chil- dren appeared to be according to probate records : Nathan, of whom later; Adolphus, born October 1, 1778, at Mendon; married Alsey, who was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, January 12. 1785, daughter of Ezekiel Fowler (see sketch of Fowler family) and they had eleven children; Joseph, a prominent citizen of Mendon. There were eight other children. all by the first wife, Ruth Aldrich. The second wife was Mary. Darius died at the age of ninety-two from the results of a fall and was buried in the cemetery between Uxbridge and Mendon given by the Aldrich family. Nine of the eleven children grew to maturity.


(VI) Nathan Daniels, son of Darius Daniels (5), was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, December 12, 1769, and died there October 5, 1839. He made his will September 20, 1838, and it was allowed May 28, 1839. He married Sarah Hilliard, who was born 1760 and died May 1, 1814. The children were: Hester (Kittery), born April 9, 1797, married Jacob Aldrich (see will) ; Bathsheba, born April 19. 1800, married Esek Pitts. mentioned in will; Sarah, born August 5, 1801, died January 18, 1827; Silence, born July 22, 1804, died November 26, 1804; Mar- cena, son born October 31, 1807, mentioned in will; Absalom, born April 16, 1809, died September 20, 1854, mentioned in father's will; married March 9, 1829, R. Southwick; Christopher, born March 10, IS10, of whom later; Margenia, born October I, ISII.


(VII) Christopher Daniels, son of Nathan Daniels (6), was born in Mendon, March 10, 1810. He was educated in the common schools of his na- tive town, and was brought up on the farm. He worked also in the straw shop and learned the trade of shoemaker. After the custom of the farmers of Massachusetts in his day he worked at his trades in winter and farmed in the summer. He was active in town affairs and was a leading citizen for many years. He was assessor and selectman of Mendon and was elected to various other positions of trust responsibility by his townsmen. In later years he was a Republican in politics and greatly interested in public questions. As a farmer he was excep- tionally successful. He had a good dairy farm and sold butter. milk and produce in the markets of the vicinity. He was uniformly prosperous. He was a member of the Society of Friends.


He married, June 9. 1839, Mary A. Southwick, of Blackstone. Their children: 1. Minerva, born June 20, 1840, died 1895. 2. Sarah. born September 15, 1842, married, April 4, 1865, Charles Henry and they have children-Andrew, born January 22, 1867 ; Darius, born October 7, 1869. died January 8, 1902 ; married Susan M. Brown, January 31. 1894, and had Susan, born January 26, 1895; Charles A.


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Henry, born March 18, 1873. 3. Nathan George, bori 1845, died 1895; was a splendid type of the New England farmer, of high character, good judgment, cheerful temperament; influential in town affairs; died in the prime of life, aged forty- five years, unmarried.


JOSEPH DE MARCO was born in Brindisi di Montagna, Italy, January 1, 1873. He is thie son of Francesco De Marco and Carmela Volpe. He was one of twelve children, nine sons and three daugh- ters. One of the brothers and Joseph came to America. Achille De Marco came to this country in 1882; died here February 12, 1903. Joseph is the only son living; seven died in infancy.


Joseph De Marco landed at New York city June 17, 1887, and June 19, 1887, he arrived in Wor- cester. He was educated in the schools of his na- tive town in Italy, and left a technical school to come to this country. He went to work first for L. J. Zahoni, the caterer, in Worcester, where his brother who came before him, was then employed. By close study and intense application he mastered the English language so thoroughly in three years that he became the interpreter for the Worcester county courts. From 1890 to 1894 lie held this re- sponsible position, and became well known to the lawyers and public men of the county. In 1897 he went into business for himself. He started his present business as banker and ticket agent for the Italian people. His office is at 130 Shrewsbury street, Worcester. He is a leader among the Ital- ians of this section and his office is a sort of in- telligence bureau and exchange for all Italian speak- ing people.


In 1807 he was appointed notary public by Gov- ernor Woger Wolcott, and has since been re-ap- pointed. In 1898 he enlisted in Company H, Massa- ·chusetts Volunteers, for the war with Spain. After the war he returned to Worcester and resumed his business. In 1901 he was appointed justice of the peace by Governor Bates. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias.


He married Rosina Grazietta Laraia. Their children, born in Worcester are : Achille, born 1896; Frank, born 1901 ; John, born 1902. They reside together with Rose, the widow of his brother, Achille De Marco, at 150 Bloomingdale road, Worcester.


PATRICK FRANCIS BOYLE, son of Patrick and Anna (Small) Boyle, and grandson of John Boyle, was born in Milford, Massachusetts, March :8, 1872. He removed to Worcester with his parents when he was one year old, and was educated there in the public schools. His father was a shoemaker by trade; was born in Ireland and came to America in the fifties. He worked in various shoe factories, finally starting in business for himself as the pro- prietor of a shoe store, Millbury street, Worcester, where he was in successful business many years.


Patrick F. Boyle began his business career after leaving school as clerk in the meat and grocery store of J. E. Lawton, Worcester. He also worked in the market of Henry Brothers, Worcester. In 1902 he entered the hotel business, purchasing Hotel 'Somerset, corner of Summer and Belmont streets, Worcester. He has conducted the hotel under the name of P. F. Boyle & Company very successfully. It was one of the larger hotels of the city, and is .centrally located opposite Lincoln Square station of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Mr. Boyle is a Roman Catholic in religion, a member of St. Anne's parish, Worcester. He is independent in politics.


He belongs to the Worcester 'Aerie of the Order of Eagles.


He married, June 26, 1894, Margaret Harrahy, daughter of John and Maria (Henry) Harrahy, of Worcester. Lawrence Henry, father of Maria (Henry) Harrahy, resides on Dartmouth street, Worcester. Mr. Boyle's grandmother, Anna Small, is also living, so his children have the unusual ad- vantages of having two great-grandparents living. Mrs. Small has just turned the century mark and enjoys every faculty and best of health; she resides at Grafton, Massachusetts. The Small family came to Worcester in 1844 from Connaught, Ireland, and has been prominent in Worcester for the past sixty years. Children of Patrick F. and Margaret Boyle : John H., born at Worcester, October 1, 1895; Rena Lillian, born at Worcester, May 20, '1902; Frank Henry, born April 26, 1904.


FRANK DANIEL TUCKER was born at Charl- ton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, June 4, 1852. He is the son of Daniel H. Tucker, a farmer and lumber dealer at Charlton, who died in January, 1904, aged eighty-nine years. The grandfather of Frank D. Tucker was Jonas Tucker, of Charlton, whose children were: Mary Rich and Daniel Har- wood Tucker. Daniel H. Tucker's children were: Jonas W., who settled at Downer's Grove, Illinois, in the seventies; Mary L., married Jason West, Iiv- ing at Oxford: Julia S., married A. R. Jones, liv- ing in West Somerville; Frank D., see forward ; Harriet A., married J. Abel Marsh, West Somer- ville; Sarah A., married George A. Lamb, of Spen- cer, died about 1891; Martha A., married H. D. Aldrich, West Somerville ; Charles H., married Mary Hammond, of Webster; George N., married Maud Parsons, on the old Charlton homestead; Ellen L., married John Hammond.


Frank Daniel Tucker, whose name heads this memoir, was educated at the common schools of Charlton and Dudley. He remained at home on his father's farm until thirty years of age, and he em- barked in general merchandise business at Rochdale in 1887. During that year he was made postmaster and still holds the office. He is director and treas- urer of the Rochdale Hall Comporation and a lead- ing business factor of the place. Politically Mr. Tucker is a supporter of the principles of the Demo- cratic party, and in his church connection is an at- tendant of the Baptist denomination.


January 2, 1878, he married Mary Augusta Bul- lard, daughter of Joseplı Bullard, of West Sutton. Mrs. Tucker's grandfather was Dr. Artemas Bul- lard, of West Sutton. His daughter was the wife of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The children all at- tended college except Joseph. There were four Con- gregational ministers in the family. The old his- torie homestead belongs to Henry B. Bullard, and Frank D. Tucker highly prizes the fine picture of this house. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Tucker is brightened by the presence of three children, liv- ing: Fred L., born June 15, 1883; George D., July 6, 1888; Celia F., October 28. 1894. The sons are both associated with their father in the store which he conducts at Rochdale.




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