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(X) Arthur Sherwood Van Ostrand, son of Henry Van Ostrand (9), was born at Rock City Falls, New York, May 1, 1876. He moved with his parents to Millbury, Massachusetts, in October, 1883. He attended the public sehools and was grad- nated from the Millbury high school. He attended the English high school of Worcester and Becker's Business College there. He entered the Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute in 1895, was graduated as a chemist in 1899, was president of the class and wrote his class prophecy. He entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company at Braddock, Penn-
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sylvania, in the following October. He made a
specialty of chemistry and since 1901 he has been employed as chief chemist for the Braeburn Fine Tool Steel Company at Braeburn, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Delta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon of the Polytechnic Institute. He joined the Benevolent Protective Order Elks, No. 577. at Wil- kinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1801. He married, July 27, 1904. Effie May Cheney, of Hudson, Massa- chusetts, born at Clinton, December 23, 1876, daugh- ter of Levi Raymond and Mary Elizabeth ( Billing- ton) Cheney, descendant of John Cheney, who came from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1635.
EBEN DRAPER BANCROFT. John Bancroft (I), the immigrant ancestor of Eben Draper Ban- croft, of Hopedale, Massachusetts, came to America in 1032 and died very soon after. His widow Jane had land assigned to her in Lynn in 1638, though she was living there as early as 1632. Children of John and Jane Bancroft were: John, Thomas, see forward.
(II) Lieutenant Thomas Bancroft, son of John Bancroft (1), was born in England about 1622 and probably came to Lynn with his parents in early life. He was a townsman of Dedham in 1648 and built his house near the Beaver dam. He removed to Reading about 1653 and settled in the west parish. In 1655 he hired a farm of 500 acres from Samuel Bennett. The farm was in that part of Lynn now Saugus, three of four miles south of Reading, where he attended church. He had no part apparently in the common lands of Reading and may never have lived in that town. In 1670 Lieutenant Bancroft bought seventy acres of land in Lynnfield, Massa- chusetts, three miles easterly from the Reading church, which he continued to attend. He died at Lynn. August 19, 1691, and the inventory of his estate, filed November 24, 1691, by his son Ebenezer shows land at Reading as well as at Lynn, etc. An agreement of division was filed later signed by the widow, Elizabeth, sons Thomas, John and Ebenezer ; Joseph Brown, who married the daughter Elizabeth Bancroft, and Sarah Bancroft, the youngest daugh- ter, then unmarried. His widow Elizabeth died May 1, 17II.
He married, March 31, 1647, Alice Bacon, daugh- ter of Michael Bacon. She died March 29, 1648. He married (second), July 15, 1648, Elizabeth Met- calf, (daughter of Michael and Sarah Metcalf), who was admitted to the Dedham Church, December 14, 1651, and joined that of Reading, being dismissed from Dedham, November 22, 1669. The only child of Lieutenant Thomas and Alice Bancroft was: Thomas, born and died in 1648. The children of Lieutenant Thomas and Elizabeth Bancroft were: Thomas, born about 1649; Elizabeth, born and died 1650; John, born February 3. 1651-52; Elizabeth, born at Reading, December 7, 1653, married Joseph Brown; Sarah, born 1660, died 166; Raham, born 1662, died 1683; Sarah, born 1665, married John Woodward; Ebenezer, born 1667; Mary, born 1670, died unmarried 1691.
(III) Deacon Thomas Bancroft, son of Lieu- tenant Thomas Bancroft (2), was born about 1649 at Reading or Lynn. He was lieutenant in King Philip's war in 1675-76, and was for several years selectman of the town of Reading. He built the fourth house in the West Parish of the town and lived there. It was near what is called the Abraham Temple place. The place is known as the old Ban- croft farm. He married, 1673, Sarah Poole, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Judith Poole. Children of Deacon Thomas and Sarah Bancroft were : Thomas, born 1673; Jonathan born and died 1675; Sarah,
born 1676, married Abraham Bryant; Mehitable, born 1678, married Parker: Jonathan, born
1681, married Sarah -, died 1702; Rahum, born
1688, married Parker, Samuel, born 1691, died 1692; Samuel, see forward; Elizabeth, born 1696, married, 1713, John Lamson.
(IV) Captain Samuel Bancroft, ninth child of Deacon Thomas Bancroft (3), was born in Read- ing in 1693. He was captain of the military com- pany, captain in French war, 1755, selectman, deputy to the general court. He died 1772, aged seventy- nine years. He married (first), 1713, Sarah Lam- son, daugliter of Samuel and Mary (Nichols) Lam- son. She died 1733, aged forty-three years. He married (second), 1733, Sarah Leathe. He married (third) Mehitable Fitch. Children of Captain Sam- uel and Sarah Bancroft were: Samuel, born 1715; William, 1717; Edmund, 1718, died 1740; Nathaniel, 1720; Sarah, 1722; Jacob, 1723; Jeremiah, 1725; Caleb, 1731.
(V) Samuel Bancroft, Jr., son of Samuel Ban- croft (4), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, 1715. He was deacon of the church, justice of the peace, selectman, and deputy to the general court. He died 1782, aged sixty-seven years; his widow died 1813, aged ninety-eight years. Samuel Ban- croft married, 1735, Lydia Parker, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Parker. Children of Sam- uel and Lydia Bancroft were: Samuel, horn 1736, see forward; Lydia, born 1738, married, 1761, Z. Johnson of Andover; Sarah born 1740, married, 1761, Daniel Howe, of Andover; Mary, born 1742, married, 1765, Reverend Francis Lovejoy, a descend- ant of the martyr Lovejoy; they settled in Maine or New York ; Mehitable, born 1744, married, 1767, John Nicholls; Elizabeth, born 1746, married, 1769, Nathaniel Cheve; Ann, born 1749; Edmund, born 1751, married, 1770, Sarah Pool. Caleb, born 1753, married, 1776, Susan Fay ; Rev. Aaron, minister, at Worcester, father of George Bancroft, the historian; Lucy, born 1758, married, 1780, Dr. Joseph Gray.
(V1) Samuel Bancroft, eldest child of Samuel Bancroft (5), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, in 1736. He lived at Medway, Massachusetts, and for a time at Marblehead. He was not in sympathy with the revolution in the colonies and removed to Nova Scotia, where he became a judge. He mar- ried Sarah Holt, of Andover, in 1758. Among their children were: Samuel, born about 1760, see for- ward; John, removed to Medway, Massachusetts.
(V11) Samuel Bancroft, son of Samuel Ban- croft (6), born about 1760, married Mary Warren, of Marblehead, March 20, 1781, had one son Samuel, see forward. Samuel Bancroft ( VII) was reported to have died at sea.
(VIII) Samuel Bancroft, only son of Samuel Bancroft (7), was born in Reading, Massachusetts, March 2, 1784. He was in the navy in the second war against Great Britain and was taken prisoner and confined in the infamous Dartmoor prison to the irreparable loss of his health. He died at West Medway, in 1844, aged sixty years. He moved from Marblehead to Uxbridge. Like his father he followed the sea. He married, January 15, 1807, Mary Bubier, of Marblehead, born January 12, 1786, died at West Medway, April 8, 1873, aged eighty- seven years. Their children: Mary, born 1807, died 1836; married Waterman Hopkins; Helen B., born 1809, died 1896; married Phineas Boyle; Elizabeth M., born 1810, died 1894; married Eliakim Adams; Samuel, born 1812, died 1879: married (first) Abigail Fairbanks, ( second) Mary E. Rog- ers, (third ) Eliza Paine; John B., born 1817, died 1874: married (first) Amy Fisk, (second) Harriet Bowcher; Caroline M., born 1817, married Albert
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Paine; Louisa A., born 1820, married Albert W. Fink; Joseph B., see forward; Tabitha, born 1824, died 1825; William M., born 1826, married Sara J. Stanley.
(IX) Joseph Bubier Bancroft, one of the ten children of Samuel Bancroft (8), was born in Ux- bridge, October 3, 1821. His educational opportuni- ties were limited to the somewhat primitive public school system then in vogue, but his superior mental faculties enabled him to make use of these meagre advantages. At an early age he went to work in one of the mills of the neighborhood, but having a decided preference for mechanical pursuits, subse- quently served an apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, and his natural ingenuity enabled him to thor- oughly master that calling in an unsually short period. For various lengths of time he was en- ployed as a journeyman in Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Putnam, Connecticut; and in Medway, Slat- ersville. Uxbridge, Whitinsville and Worcester, Massachusetts. Joining the Hopedale Community in 1846, he became connected with the Hopedale Ma- chine Company when the operative force of that con- cern consisted of three men. This force was gradu- ally increased as business advanced in prosperity, and the concern eventually came into the hands of Messrs. Thwing and Bancroft. Shortly afterward Mr. Bancroft entered into partnership with Messrs. Eben and George Draper, and for some years was in charge of the cotton machinery department of the Draper works. Soon after the close of the civil war, General William F. Draper entered the firm and Mr. Bancroft took the responsible position of general superintendent of the entire Draper plant, which increased in magnitude until its regular vol- ume of business necessitated the steady employment of three thousand five hundred employees. Some years ago he retired from the active superintend- ency, retaining, however, a continued interest in the works, of which he is now the vice-president, and although he lias become an octogenarian lie possesses the agility and mental vigor of a much younger man. In addition to the Draper Company he is interested in other business enterprises, being president of the Milford Gaslight Company and a director of the Home National Bank.
Prior to the separation of Hopedale from Mil- ford (1886), he participated actively in the civic affairs of Milford, being for a number of years chairman of the board of selectmen, and in 1864 represented his district in the lower branch of the state legislature, serving upon the committee 011 engrossed bills. No man possessed a larger share of the public confidence than Mr. Bancroft. After the incorporation of Hopedale, he was chairman of the new board of selectmen, of the road commission- ers and of the overseers of the poor. In politics he is a Republican, and has frequently been chosen a delegate to party conventions. In early manhood he joined the Masonic fraternity and is well ad- vanced in that order, being a member of Mont- gomery Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mount Lebanon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Milford Commandery, Knights Templar. He has always taken an active interest in church affairs and for many years was an officer of the Unitarian parish.
Mr. Bancroft married, September 11, 1844, Sylvia Willard Thwing. born in Uxbridge, June 26, 1824, daughter of Benjamin and Anna ( Mowry) Thwing. Of this union there were ten children, namely : Eben Draper, Charles Eugene, Minerva Louise, William, Walter. Anna Minerva, Mary Gertrude, Charles Frederick, Lilla J. and Lura Belle. Eben Draper, born August 27, 1847, married Lelia Coburn and has two children : Alice and Joseph. Charles
Eugene, born 1849, died in infancy, Minerva Louise, William and Walter (triplets), born in 1851, died in infancy. Anna Minerva, born February 9, 1853, was for several years engaged in educational pur- suits, teaching in the high schools of Hopkinton, Fairhaven and Milford. She is deeply interested in literature and a member of educational and lit- erary clubs in Hopedale, Milford, Worcester and Boston. Mary Gertrude, born December 2, 1856, wife of Walter P. Winsor, president of the First National Bank of New Bedford, Massachusetts, one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Fairhaven. They have four children: Walter P., Jr., Anna Bancroft, married, October 10, 1905, Carl C. Shippee, of New York; Bancroft and Allen Pell- ington Winsor. Charles Frederick, born April 30, 1861, died September 14, 1868. Lilla Jo, born Au- gust 25, 1863, graduated from the Greenfield Acad- emy and taught in the Hopedale high school for some time. She married Howard W. Bracken, as- sistant superintendent of the Draper Company. Lura Belle, born December 27, 1865, was educated in the schools of Milford, Prospect Hill school, Green- field and Art School of Boston. She married Charles M. Day, general superintendent of the Draper Company; he was for several years chair- man of the board of selectmen, secretary of the town board of streets and highways, Hopedale, and held other positions of honor and trust. He died Febru- ary 21, 1903. Mrs. Sylvia W. Bancroft died April 20, 1898, and her memory has been fittingly perpet- uated by a handsome memorial library, erected and presented to the town by her husband.
Eben Draper Bancroft, eldest child of Joseph Bubier Bancroft, was born in Hopedale, Massachu- setts, August 27, 1847. He was educated in the public schools of Milford, and in a private school in Providence, where he took a course in civil en- gineering, expecting to make that his life work. He was, however, called to Hopedale to take charge of accounts in the office of his uncles, E. D. and G. Draper. Later was elected a director and made as- sistant treasurer of the Hopedale Machine Company, one of the several corporations merged later into the Draper Company. At the time of the consolidation he was elected a director and made purchasing agent, manager of the company's offices, and assistant clerk of the corporation, and at the present time is still occupying said positions. He was for many years treasurer of the Glasgo Yarn Mills Company of Glasgo, Connecticut, large manufacturers of fine yarns for thread and knitting trade. Also of the Glasgo Thread Mill of Worcester, and of the Hope- dale Elastic Goods Company of Hopedale, all of which positions he held until the business was dis-
posed of, as in the case of the two first mentioned corporations, or the corporation dissolved and the the property sold to make room for the expansion of Draper Company, as in the case of the last named industry. He was for years and is now a director of the Milford Water Company, and treasurer of the town of Hopedale since its incorporation in 1886. He was for a short time treasurer and manager of the American Architect, a well known architectural paper, and for several years auditor of the accounts of the Shaw Stocking Company of Lowell, Massa- chusetts.
Mr. Bancroft is a member of the Unitarian . Church, and treasurer of the Hopedale Unitarian Parish. He has also been active in politics, and is one of the influential Republicans in his section of the state. Has served on various committees and as delegate to conventions since becoming of age. Has been active in management of various sena- torial campaigns in his district, and was manager of
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the two successful campaigns of his kinsman, Gen- eral Draper, when he sought congressional honors. He is a well known Free Mason, a member of Montgomery Lodge, Mt. Lebanon Chapter, and Mil- ford Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he was for two years a very active commander, his service in this direction making him a member of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar.
He married, September 9, 1874, Lelia Coburn, born September 14, 18446, daughter of Alonzo and Eliza Curtis Jones Coburn. Their children are : Alice Coburn, born at Hopedale, July 3, 1876; Jo- seph Bubier, born at Hopedale, February 26, 1880, a graduate of Harvard University, class of 1903, and now assistant treasurer of the Portland Iron & Steel Company rolling mill at Portland, Maine.
JAMES BUTTERICK. The late James Butter- ick, for many years a prosperous citizen of the town of Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, was a descendant in a direct line of one of the old Colonial families of the state of Massachusetts, the earliest known ancestor being William Butterick, one of the founders of Concord. The an- cestors in order of generation were William, John. John. Francis, Jonathan and Francis, father of James Butterick. One of the descendants of William Butterick was Major John Butterick, who commanded the Minute Men who drove back the British troops at Concord Bridge, April 19, 1775.
Jonathan Butterick, grandfather of James But- terick, was born in Groton, Middlesex county, Mas- sachusetts, in 1750. He married, in 1772, Hannah Sawyer, of Lancaster, a descendant of John Pres- cott, one of the founders of Lancaster, and among his children was a son, Francis.
Francis Butterick, son of Jonathan and Hannah (Sawyer) Butterick, was born Tune 4, 1778. He was a well known carpenter and builder of Sterl- ing in his day, and married Ruhamah Buss, born January 20, 1786. This marriage was solemnized April 4, 1810, and they had children : John, Francis, Ruhamah M., Jonathan Sawyer, James, George and Ebenezer.
James Butterick, fourth son and fifth child of Francis and Ruhamah (Buss) Butterick, was born in Sterling, Worcester county, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 23, 1819. He received his education in his native town. He early realized the importance of the chair manufacturing industry and started a bus- iness in West Sterling which he operated very suc- cessfully for a number of years. He later engaged in business in Clinton, in the same county, then a new and rapidly growing manufacturing town. His business ability enabled him to attain prosperity, and for many years he was at the head of an exten- sive provision establishment. Like many members of the Butterick family he was possessed of unusual business acumen and foresight. and was interested to his advantage in many enterprises. He finally withdrew from active business life on account of poor health and retired to his farm in Sterling, to the cultivation of which he henceforth devoted his time and attention. In his younger years his politi- cal affiliations were with the Democratic party, but upon the outbreak of the civil war he became an adherent of the Republican party, and from that time gave it his support. He attended the Univer- salist Church at an early age but subsequently at- tended the Unitarian Church.
August 13. 1843, he married Elizabeth H. Roper, daughter of Henry and Betsey Roper, of Sterling, who died September 20, 1860. The children of this marriage are Mary Frances, married Charles T. Os- good, of Sterling; Luella, married H. M. Haywood,
of Sterling, and Jane, died in infancy. December 24, 1861, he married Mary A. Rugg, daughter of Luther W. and Mary (Hager) Rugg. Two daugh- ters were born of this marriage; Grace Ruhamah, married Henry A. Macgowan, of Worcester, and Carrie Rice, died in infancy. James Butterick died January 27, 1895, at the age of seventy-five. His widow, Mrs. Mary A. Butterick, still resides at the Butterick homestead in Sterling, Massachusetts.
LYMAN NICHOLS FAIRBANKS. Jonathan Fairbanks (1), the immigrant ancestor of Lyman Nichols Fairbanks, of Westboro, Massachusetts, was born in Sowerby, in the West Riding of York- shire, England, before 1600. He is named in the will of George Fairbanks, of Sowerby, in Halifax, Eng- land, under date of May 28, 1650. (See N. E. Reg. VII, 303.) Jonathan Fairbanks came with his fam- ily to New England in 1633 and, after living three years in Boston, settled in Dedham, being one of the pioneer settlers there. He signed the famous Ded- ham covenant. His house, built between 1636 and 1654, is the oldest house in the country that has been continuously occupied by the builder and his descendants to the present day. The Fairbanks As- sociation has bought the old place and has taken steps to preserve it indefinitely.
He died December 5, 1668, and his will was proved January 26, following. It mentions his chil- dren, as given below. He married Grace Lee in England. She died December 28. 1673, or May 19, 1676. Their children were : John, born in Eng- land, died November 13, 1684; George, died Janu- ary 10, 1682-83; Mary, born April 18, 1622, mar- ried Michael Metcalf and had five children; Susan, married, October 12, 1647, Ralph Day, of Dedham, and had six children; Jonas, killed by the Indians, see forward; Jonathan, died January 28, 1711-12.
(II) Jonas Fairbanks, son of Jonathan Fair- banks (I), was born in England and came to Amer- ica with his parents and settled first in Dedham, where he was one of the signers of the Covenant March 7, 1659, and was called one of the "Fathers of the Town." He removed to Lancaster in 1657. He was a carpenter as well as a farmer. In 1652 he was in court charged with wearing "Great Boots" before he was worth 200 pounds, contrary to the sumptuary regulations and statutes in such cases made and provided. This law was passed in 1651. Fairbanks was found guilty and fined. If all his descendants had to pay fines for wearing "great boots," not even the distinguished descendant from Indiana, the vice-president of the United States, would escape the penalty, except on the ground that he had over 200 pounds saved up. Jonas Fair- banks was killed by the Indians, February 10, 1676, when King Philip himself and one thousand five hundred braves attacked the town of Lancaster. Fifty or more were massacred and others taken pris- oners. Jonas Fairbanks and his son Joshua were among the victims.
He married, May 28, 1658, Lydia Prescott, daughter of John Prescott, who also came from Sowerby, Parish Halifax, England. She was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, August 15, 1641. After her husband was killed she married (second) Ellis Barron, of Watertown, later of Groton and Lancaster. The children of Jonas and Lydia Fair- banks were: Marie, born June 20, 1659; Joshua, born April 6, 1661, killed by the Indians, February 10, 1676; Grace, born November 15, 1663; Jonathan, born October 7, 1666, see forward; Hasadiah, born February 28, 1668, married John Moore, of Con- cord, January 1, 1698; Jabez, born January 8, 1670- 71; Jonas, born May 6, 1673, was of Watertown,
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1695-96, when he sold to brother Jabez land form- erly of their father; died September 13, 1697, and was buried in brother Jonathan's lot.
(III) Captain Jabez Fairbanks, son of Jonas Fairbanks (2), was born at Lancaster, January S, 1670-71, and he resided there, except when driven away by Indian wars, until he died March 2, 1758, aged eighty-seven years (reported eighty-four years on gravestone). He was a very efficient soldier and officer in the Indian wars and "was no doubt in- cited to heroic exploits by the massacre of his father and brother in 1676 and his only surviving brother in 1697. During the raid on the town of Lancaster in 1697, when his brother Jonathan was slain with one of his children, Captain Fairbanks was the means of saving a garrison and perhaps many lives including that of his little son, probably Joseph. The Indians killed twenty-one persons, wounded two and carried off as captive six, of whom five were returned later, including the wife of his brother Jonathan. In the year 1700 he received grants of land on both sides of Dane's brook above Thomas Sawyer's sawmill. This site became the home of the Fairbanks family of Lancaster for more than a century. Captain Fairbanks was deputy to the gen- eral court in 1714-21-22-23.
He married Mary Wilder, daughter of Thomas and Mary ( Houghton) Wilder. She died Febru- ary 21, 1718, aged forty-three years. He married (second), March 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb, who died May II, 1755, aged eighty years, seven months. Children of Captain and Mary Fairbanks were: Joseph, born 1693; Jabez, Elizabeth, married, De- cember 24, 1718, Deliverance Brown; Jonas, Thomas, Abigail, married Major Henry Willard, of Ash- burnham, descendant of Major Simon Willard, the famous pioneer settler; Jonathan, see forward ; Grace, baptized February 27, 1712, married, March 27, 1733; Joshua, born 1714, baptized March 28, 1714; Anna, born 1716, baptized November 18, mar- ried, April 5, 1738, Simon Butler and had twelve children.
(IV) Jonathan Fairbanks, son of Jabez Fair- banks (3), was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, and baptized June 18, 1710, and settled in his native town. He died 1798, aged eighty-nine years. His will was filed August 20, 1798. IIe made bequests to wife Subinit; sons Lemuel, Seth, William and daughter Rebecca Morse. Jonathan married (first), April 8, 1735, Thankful Sawyer, who died March, 1882. He married (second), December 2, 1784, in Sterling, and she died January 30, 1799. Children of Jonathan and Thankful Fairbanks were: William, born March 2, 1736, was killed by French and In- dians, September 8, 1755, at Lake George; was drummer in the service; Jabez, born March 2, 1738; Jonathan, born January 25, 1740, died September 14, 1741; Jonathan, born January 29, 1743, died October 19, 1747; Joshua, born February 23, 1746, died October 21, 1747 ; Jonathan, born May 18, 1748, died December 14, 1750; Lemuel, born May 8, 1751; Thankful, born July 12, 1753, married William Brooks; Seth, born December 7, 1755, see forward ; William, born March 7, 1759; Rebecca, born June 20, 1761, married - Moore.
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