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(II) Benjamin Wallis, son of Benjamin Wallis (1), was born at Douglass, Massachusetts, March 4, 1751. He was a farmer at Douglass, where he always lived. He died at Providence from a cold caught while driving a pair of oxen there in midwinter. He married Sarah Thayer, February 17, 1777; she died February 25, 1838. Their children were : Lydia, born February 23, 1778, married E. Macken- tire, died July 28, 1865; Peter, born December 22, 1779. married Hannah Hunt and Lucy Woodbury, died October 29, 1846; Benjamin, born May 28, 1782. married Annie Thayer, died May 28, 1864; Sarah, born July 10. 1785, married Samuel Dudley, died March 1, 1819; Joseph, born September 24, 1788. married Prudence Wallis, died October 1.4. 1857; Moses, born March 17. 1793, died November 14, 1842: Rufus, born February 24. 1797, married Molly Paine, died October 22, 1853.
(III) Rufus Wallis, son of Benjamin Wallis (2), was born at Douglass, Massachusetts, February 24, 1797, died October 22, 1853. He was in war of 1812, enlisting at Oxford. He married Molly Paine, of Uxbridge, who was born April 22, 1802, died iii-5
April 29, 1867. Their children were: Stephen P., born June 26, 1827, died July 21, 1859; Benjamin G., of whom later; Elmira, married Simeon Staples ; Mary A., married Henry Morse.
(IV) Benjamin G. Wallis, son of Rufus Wallis (3), was born at Douglas, October 30, 1828, died October 28, 1890. He was a farmer and resided at Douglass. He married (first Elizabeth G. Paine. May, 1853; she died July, 1861. He married (sec- ond) Amelia J. Moser (or Mosie), December 25, 1862; she died June 26, 1867. He married ( third) Fannie A. ( Metcalf ) Luke, 1872; she died February, 1890. His children were : Charles Henry, born February 25, 1854; Frank G., August 22, 1857; George Herbert. December 21, 1864, died April 21, 1866.
(V) Charles Henry Wallis, son of Benjamin G. Wallis (4), was born at Douglass, February 25, 1854. He was educated in the Douglass schools and at Franklin Academy. He went to work at the age of eighteen. He drove the stage for one year from Manchaug to East Douglass, and then entered a wheelwright shop to learn the trade. He carried on a wheelwright's business in East Douglass and Whitinsville, Massachusetts, until 1879, when he went to Dudley to engage in lumbering and farming there. In 1892 he added to his enterprises a grist mill and in 1899 a saw mill.
He married, May 1, 1878. Emma F. Magee, of Uxbridge, the daughter of Thomas N. and Mary A. (Buffum) Magee. He was a soldier in the civil war, enlisting in the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. He was wounded at Roanoke Island and discharged. He re-enlisted as corporal in a Rhode Island regiment, the Third Rhode Island Cavalry, and was one of the one hundred and ninety-seven drowned through the sinking of the North American in the Gulf of Mexico, December 18, 1864. Thomas Magee, grandfather of Mrs. Wallis, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and died of yellow fever. The children of Charles H. Wallis are: Mary Elizabeth, born May 7, 1879. married Julius A. Meyer, October 26, 1901; Mlabel J., born June 6, 1880, died June 18, 1880; Charles A., born March 14, 1881; Ernest L., born July 11, 1882; Allen L., born March 13, 1885; Walter C., born July 26, 1888.
JAMES DALEY, a prosperous merchant of Uxbridge and an ex-member of the Massachusetts legislature, is a son of Dennis and 'Elizabetli (Dean) Daley, and immigrated with his parents from Ireland in 1847. Settling in Boston Dennis Daley became a railroad contractor and as such was connected with the construction of several important railway lines. Dennis and Elizabeth Daley were the parents of ten children.
James Daley was born in Ireland, April 21, 1841. He was educated in the public schools of New Hampshire and here, after the completion of his studies, he worked on farms and in the mills and learned the shoe making trade, continuing in that line of work until 1871. Some fifty-three years ago he came to Uxbridge, where he entered business as a clerk, and he continued in that capacity for some years, carefully saving the surplus of his earnings and at the same time acquiring a reputation as an honest, industrious man, whose sole purpose was to establish a good name which would in due time serve as a basis for a business venture on his own account. In 1871 he found him- self in a position to realize his long cherished de- sire, and opening a store for the handling of gen- eral merchandise he rapidly advanced in pros- perity. Mr. Daley is still engaged in business and
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is widely and favorably known in Uxbridge and vicinity. For several terms he served as chair- man of the board of selectnien; has represented Uxbridge in the lower branch of the state legis- lature with credit to himself and to the entire sat- isfaction of his constituents; he is a leading spirit in the Democratic party of this locality, with which he has been affiliated continuously from the time of his majority. While a member of the legislature he was on the committee of drainage and reported the bill for the committee which formed the basis on which the city of Worcester disposes of its sew- erage. He is now chairman of the committee which at present is installing the new water supply for Uxbridge. He is a member of the Knights of Co- lumbus, and in his religious faith is a Roman Catholic.
Mr. Daley has been twice married; first in 1867 to Catherine Cunningham, daughter of Michael Cunningham, a native of Ireland, and she died in 1874, leaving no children. In 1876 he married for his second wife Mary Fitzgerald. of Uxbridge, and her death occurred in 1882. Of his second union there were two children: Dennis, who did not live to maturity ; and Benjamin, who is now assisting his father in business; he married Julia Fenton, of Uxbridge, and they have one child, James F. Daley.
OLAUS BERGGREN, of Oxford, Massachu- setts, is a son of Anders Lief, born and lived all his days in Sweden. He married Cristina Carolina Akerlund, and their children were: Maria Katha- rina, Per Johan, Anders Gustav, Olaus, see for- ward: Karl Wilhelm.
Olans Berggren was born in Sweden, August 26, 1866. He had a common school education in his native village. He came to America in 1800. He learned the trade of marble and granite worker and stone mason in the old country, and has followed it for the past twenty-seven years. He established himself in the marble and granite business in Ox- ford in 1896 and has built up a large and pros- perons business. He has done a general contract- ing business. He completed the first sewer in the town of Oxford, and is much interested in grano- lithic work, also sidewalks and all improvements in town. He furnished all the granite on the Charles Larned Memorial Library in Oxford, and has built the most of the monuments in Oxford's cemeteries. He is a Republican in politics and a Baptist in religion. He belongs to the Independent Order of Red Men. He married, in Sweden, 1890. Matilda Johnson, born in Sweden, daughter of Lars Ja Johnson. Their children are: Elin Ma- tilda, born January 2. 1801. student in Becker's Business College ; Annie Victoria, born December 18. 1892, student in Oxford high school: Carl Ric- ard. born October 8. 1895: Charlotte Mary, born February 3, 1904.
VARS FAMILY. George Il. Vars, manager of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Wor- cester, Massachusetts, is a worthy representative in the present generation of a French family whose name was originally spelled "De Vars."
The first' of the family name to come to this country was Lord John De Vars, who took up a tract of land situated near the present town of Westerly, Rhode Island. in 1677 or 1678, purchas- ing the same from the Indians. After securing this land he returned to France for his family, consist- ing of a wife and one son, Isaac. While on the voyage he was either killed or wounded so badly in a duel that death shortly afterward ensued. His wife and son Isaac, the latter a lad of tender years,
located on this land in Rhode Island, and from this son has descended all the members of the Vars family resident in Massachusetts. The old home- stead has never passed out of the Vars family, and has always been and is still occupied by the family. It has been in the possession of the family for one hundred and ninety-five years, and they also hold the original deed of the land. The house, built in 1700, near Westerly, was standing in 1895. George H. Vars, of Worcester, traces his line through the following ancestry :
(I) John De Vars, born in France about 1655, settled in Newport, Rhode Island, about 1685.
(Il) Isaac De Vars, son of John and Mary De Vars, born in France about 1682.
(III) Theodaty Vars, son of Isaac and Rebekah (Larkin) de Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, October 5, 1710.
(IV) Isaac Vars, son of Theodaty and Mary (Dodge) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, October 25, 1733.
(V) Isaac Vars, son of Isaac and Waity (Gard- ner) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, July 6, 1788.
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(VI) George W. Vars, son of Isaac and Han- nah (Saunders) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, 1817. He married Amelia Thompson, and among their children was Charles A. Vars.
(VII) Charles A. Vars, son of George W. and Amelia (Thompson) Vars, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, August 16, 1842. He married Amanda Thompson, and among their children was George H. Vars.
(VIII) George H. Vars, son of Charles A. and Amanda (Thompson) Vars, was born at Charles- town, Rhode Island, August 6, 1865. He was edu- cated at the high schools of Rhode Island and Con- necticut, and when a young man engaged as sales- man in the dry goods business, continuing for sev- eral years. Later in life he embarked in the grocery trade, which he conducted quite successfully for several years, after which he disposed of the same and then directed his attention to life insurance. In 1900 he became the resident manager at Wor- cester for the Equitable Life Association of New York, and later became manager for the Central
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Massachusetts agency c. the State Mutual Life As- surance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. He is serving in the capacity of president of the Under- writers' Association of Massachusetts, and is also an active member of the Worcester Board of Trade, serving on the committee of ways and means. Mr. Vars has advanced in Free Masonry to the thirty- second degree, is a brother in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is highly popular in the social ·circles of Worcester.
In 1891 Mr. Vars was united in marriage to Miss .Jennie Taylor, daughter of Ransford S. and Eliza- beth R. Taylor, of Rhode Island. They have one son, Monroe Taylor Vars, born September 16, 1892. In religious connection the family affiliate with the Universalist Church.
GEORGE FRANKLIN MORSE. Joseph Morse (I). the immigrant ancestor of George Franklin Morse, of Leominster, Massachusetts, born in Eng- land, about 1587, settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, wher he was a proprietor in 1637. He was a planter. His son Joseph, who was also in Ipswich, later of Watertown, came earlier. Joseph (I), married in England. Dorothy - -. His will, dated April 24, 1646, proved September 29, 1646, bequeathed to his wife Dorothy, sons Joseph and John, and daughter Hannah. His children: 1. Joseph, mentioned be- low. 2. John, died 1694-5; married Dinah -; re- sided in Ipswich, Groton and Watertown. 3. Han- nah, married Thomas Newman, June 8, 1665, at Ipswich.
(11) Joseph Morse, son of Joseph Morse (1), born in England, 1610, came to America in ship "Elizabeth," of Ipswich, England, sailing April 30, 1634, and settled finally at Watertown, Massachu- setts. He was then twenty-four years old. In 1636 he was one of the proprietors at Watertown. He died there March 4, 1690, and his estate was admin- istered by his son John. He married Esther, daugh- ter of John and Elizabeth Pierce of Watertown. (See Leominster Pierce families for account of John Pierce.) Children of Joseph and Dorothy Morse : I. Joseph, born April 3, 1637; died 1677, settled at Groton, proprietor. 2. Deacon John, see forward. .3. Jonathan, buried May 12, 1743, at Watertown. 4. Jonathan, born November 7, 1643; died July 31, 1686; town clerk of Groton, etc. 5. Esther, born March 7, 1645-6; married, December 22, 1669, Jona- than Bullard, lived at Watertown. 6. Sarah, mar- ried Timothy Cooper June, 1669, lived at Groton. 7. Jeremiah, died September 27, 1719, at Newton, proprietor of Groton. 8. Isaac, lived at Newton ; wife died 1714.
(III) Deacon John Morse, son of Joseph Morse (2), born in Watertown, February 28, 1639, settled there, was admitted a freeman May 15, 1672, died there July 23, 1702. His estate was administered by his son James. He lived at Lancaster for a time, and was one of the first deacons of Rev. Mr. Amgier's Church. He married Anne, daughter of John Smith, of Lancaster, and (second) Abigail Stearns April 27, 1666; she died October 15, 1690. Children of Deacon John and Anne Morse: I. Lydia, born April 6, 1660. 2. John, born April 7, 1662, probably died young at Lancaster. Children of Deacon John and Abigail: 3. John, born May 10, 1667, died young. 4. James, born November 25, 1668; died 1718; married Abigail Morse. 5. John, mentioned below. 6. Joseph, born August 25, 1671 ; died June 24, 1709, settled at Guilford, Connecticut. 7. Abigail, born December 23, 1673; died March 6. 1673-4. 8. Abigail, born August 6, 1677; died April 13. 1683. 9. Isaac, born January 5, 1677 : died November 24. 1694 at Watertown. 10. Samuel, horn
June 21, 1682. 11. Nathaniel, died March 10, 1729- 30, married Grace Dyer ; second Phebe
(IV) John Morse, son of Deacon John Morse (3), born in Lancaster or Watertown, March 15, 1669-70; resided in Watertown and Needham, Mas- sachusetts ; admitted a freeman June 2, 1699-1700; was living in Needham in 1718. He married, Janu- ary 8, 1689-90, Elizabeth Goodin (Godding), died November 21, 1701. He married (second), Janu- ary 7, 1701-2, Hepsebath Stone. His first wife owned the covenant at the church October 3, 1697. Children of John and Elizabeth Morse : 1. John, baptized October 3, 1697. 2. Susannah, born Janu- ary 5, 1694-5, died at Watertown. 3. Isaac, men- tioned below. 4. William, born November 18, 1699; died, 1752, without issue. Children of John and Hepsebath Morse: 5. Henry, born September 14, 1704; married Mary Follett, and resided in Attle- boro. 6. John, born 1705, died 1767, aged sixty-two years; joined Cambridge Church 1730. 7. Rebecca, horn November 16, 1706. 8. Sarah, born June 3, 1708. 9. Sarah, born October 9, 1712; died March 26, 1714. 10. Elizabeth, baptized October 3, 1697. II. Hepsebath, born February 14, 1702-3. 12. Abi- gail, baptized March 5, 1709-10. 13. Susanna, born October 9, 1712, died March, 1714. 14. Mary, bap- tized June 19, 1715.
(V) Isaac Morse, son of John Morse (4), born in Watertown, February 11, 1696-7, and baptized October 3. 1697; received in the church at Cam- bridge 1737 ; lived for a time at Attleboro. Hle mar- ried Elizabeth Turner ; their children : I. Elisha, born November 2, 1727, died young. 2. Elisha, mentioned below.
(VI) Elisha Morse, son of Isaac Morse (5), born at Needham, November 2, 1741. He was a soldier through the entire revolution. He was a pri- vate in Captain Joseph Morse's company, Colonel Samuel Bullard's regiment, at Lexington, April 19, 1775, and afterward, in Captain James Miller's company, Colonel Jonathan Wood's regiment, later in 1775; in Captain Amos Perry's company, Colonel Haw's regiment, 1778, Rhode Island; in Captain Joshua Fisk's company, Colonel Abner Perry's regi- ment, 1780; was enlisted for three years in the Continental army. He resided at Natick, Massachu- setts. He married, 1762, Jemima Tomblin, born April 6, 1742. Their children, all born at Natick : 1. Mehitable, born June 4, 1763; married Hezekiah Bacon. 2. Lurana, born May 3, 1765; married Levi Sawin of West Dedham. 3. Isaac, born February 3, 1769; married Deborah Cleveland; resided at Need- ham; had thirteen children. 4. Elisha, mentioned below. 5. Arnold, born May 15, 1774; married, April 6, 1792, Sally Hunting (according to the church records), resided at Millbury, Massachu- setts, and Pomfret, Connecticut. 6. Rebecca, born October 1, 1778; married Luther Broad, 1802, and had ten children; resided at Natick. 7. Persis. born April 1, 1780; married Elisha Robbins, who died without issue. S. Reuben, born October 4, 1782, died 1835. 9. Betsey, born October 27, 1786; died about 1801.
(VII) Elisha Morse, son of Elisha Morse (6), horn at Natick, Massachusetts, June 2, 1771; lived for a time in Needham; married Sally More; their children: 1. Arnold, mentioned below. 2. Gardner, horn September 3, 1792, at Needham.
(VIII) Arnold Morse, son of Elisha Morse (7), was born at Needham, March 21, 1791. He had a common school education. He was a farmer, later a paper maker. He resided in Needham, where he was married, then for a time in Dorchester, and finally about 1827 settled in Leominster and fol- lowed the paper making business the rest of his life.
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He married, at Needhanı, December 2, 1810, Jane Giles, both of Needham.
(IX) Gardner Morse, son of Arnold Morse (8), born in Dorchester, now part of Boston, Massachu- setts, 1811. He attended the public schools, and at the age of sixteen removed to Leominster, Massa- chusetts, with his parents, and learned the business of comb making, as most boys of his day in that town had to do. As soon as he had completed his apprenticeship he went into the business of comb manufacture in Leominster, and built up step by step a large and flourishing business in which he was engaged all his active life. His home for more than half a century was in what is still known as the Morse Place, on West street, whither he moved in April, 1836, and where he died October 15, 1894. In 1857 he took into partnership with him his son, George F., and William Booth, and Joseph F. Good- hue (see sketch), under the firm name of G. Morse & Company, which continued until it was incorpor- ated as the Morse Comb Company, the first stock company manufacturing in the town of Leominster. Within the year this company lost its factory by fire, and did not rebuild, but the G. Morse & Com- pany firm continued the business until the begin- ning of the war in 1861. He married, in 1833, Mary Ann Willard, of Sterling, Massachusetts. Their children : 1. Mary C., born 1834. 2. George Frank- lin, mentioned below. 3. Anna M., born 1838. 4. Elizabeth A., born 1842; married J. H. Rice. 5. Henrietta A., born 1844. 6. Charles A., born 1848. 7. Saralı H., born 1850; married C. F. Edgarton, re- sided in Concord, Massachusetts. 8. Albert G., mentioned below.
(X) George Franklin Morse, son of Gardner Morse (9), was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, October 16, 1835, in the house known as the Micah R. Ball place where his father then lived, on West strect. He went to school in old district No. 2, where he then lived, was one of the first pupils admitted to the Leominster high school when it was established, and graduated in 1851 after a four years' course. At the age of sixteen he went to Boston as clerk in the importing establishment of Hill, Burrage & Company, two members of that firm being natives of Leominster-Alvah and Charles H. Burrage. He remained there two years, returning to Leominster to learn the business of comb making in his father's factory, then run under the firm name of G. & A. Morse, spending the years 1855 and 1856 there. In addition to the manufact- ure of combs, G. & A. Morse owned a large general store in Leominster, and George F. Morse kept the books for a year. In 1857 he became a partner in the firm of G. Morse & Company. The firm was succeeded by a corporation known as the Morse Comb Company, referred to already, of which George F. Morse was the secretary.
When the civil war broke out Mr. Morse left his business to enter the army. From 1861 to 1863 he was in the quartermaster's department. In 1862 he joined his regiment in the Third Division, Third Army Corps, then under the command of General Whipple, and remained with it until after the battle of Fredericksburg. After leaving the service and before he returned to Leominster, in partnership with General Augustus Morse he bought the City Hotel property at Annapolis, Maryland. After try- ing the hotel business for a year he gave it up and returned to his native town, where from 1864 to 1868 he was again engaged in the manufacture of combs. Then he tried the hotel business again, as proprietor of the Creighton House, Boston, which he sold out at the end of the year to F. E. Balch, and returned to Leominster. In 1871 he was again
in the comh business, this time adding the sale of horns to the manufacture of them. The firm was still called G. Morse & Company. In the following year he and his brother Albert G. Morse took charge of that department of the business having to do with the buying and selling of horns, under the firm name of G. F. Morse & Company. For the next twelve years they pushed this business with great energy and marked success. The constantly increas- ing demand for horns during these years for the manufacture of combs and jewelry made extensive traveling necessary in order to secure the goods. In 1875 Mr. Morse went to California on a business trip, and in 1880 to Cuba and Mexico. The firm had to seek horns where the cattle industry flour- ishes, and Mr. Morse had travelled all over the continent for the goods used in such large quanti- ties in Leominster for making conibs, etc. Mr. Morse retains an interest in the business but is not active himself in the management. He and his brother erected powder mills at Ralıway, New Jersey, and he remained there until the plant was sold. In 1882 Mr. Morse was elected president of the South Spring Hill Gold Mining Company of Amador, California, and he spent the greater part of that year at the mines. He still holds this office, and has spent many winters is California to look after the property. He is president of the Fitchburg Machine Works, but not active in the management. For many years he was president of the Hecla Powder Company of New York. He is a director of the Leominster Gaslight Company. At the first annual meeting to elect officers of the Wachusett National Bank of Fitchburg he was elected a di- rector, and he has continued in this office to the present time. In politics he is a Republican. He has been a notary public since 1874, when he was at first appointed by Governor Thomas Talbot. He was elected to the governor's council during the ad- ministration of Hon. William E. Russell, continu- in the office with his successor, Governor Wolcott. He has served the town of Leominster as auditor, and in various other offices. He attends the Uni- tarian Church, and gives it his active support. Mr. Morse has been unusually successful in business ; he has been a faithful public servant and in many ways is a model of good citizenship.
He married, in 1859, Mary E., daughter of Nathan and Eliza (Downe) Tufts, of Fitchburg, and their children are: 1. Ralph G., horn 1860; marrier, 1883, Susan F. Colby. 2. Alice A., born 1862; married, 1888, Charles A. Joslin, treasurer of the Leominster Savings Bank; they have two chil- dren-Maud A. and Ralph A. Joslin. 3. Florence T., born 1865; married, 1886, William A. Putnam, and they have one child, Ralph Putnam. 4. Mar- garet D., born 1872; married F. N. Dillon; their children are Frederick N. Dillon, Dorothy Dillon, Katherine Dillon. 5. Mabel W., born 1872; mar- ried Franklin Freeman; their children are Morse Freeman and Gardner W. Freeman.
(X) Albert G. Morse, son of Gardner and Mary Ann (Willard) Morse, was born in Leom- inster, Massachusetts, February 4, 1846. He was educated in the high school of his native town, and upon the completion of his studies went to Wor- cester and entered upon a clerkship in a dry goods store, remaining for a short period of time. He then went to Boston and later to New York, in both of which cities he followed the clerical line in the larger stores, and thereby gained a thorough and complete knowledge of the mercantile business in all its details. He then engaged in the manu- facture of combs with his brother, George F. Morse, under the firm name of G. F. Morse & Company,
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and with his brother built the Hecla Powder Works at Rahway, New Jersey, which they later disposed of to the Duponts, of Wilmington, Delaware. He then established what was known as the Morse Pub- lishing Company of Boston and New York, in the conduct of which he was highly successful, and after conducting the same for a number of years disposed of it, and has since lived a life of retire- ment in his home at Leominster, Massachusetts. He was a director in the Northboro National Bank, in which he rendered valuable service. He was for eight years a member of the school board, and the cause of education has always found in him a stanch supporter and promoter. He is a Repub- lican in politics, and is an earnest worker in behalf of the party whose principles he advocates. He at- tends the Unitarian Church, serving as chairman of the parish committee seven years, and is a charter member of the Royal Arcanum.
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