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(VI) Stephen Hale, son of Silas Hale (5), was born about 1782, in Athol or Phillipston. He mar- ried (intentions February 7, 1802) Sukey Waldron, of Dover. New Hampshire. Their children, born in Royalston, were: John Waldron, born April 1; 1804, see forward; Eliza, born November 30, 1805, married, June 22, 1820, Abel Manning; Mary Re- becca, born August 24, 1807, married, April 8, 1835, Silas Hale, of Stow: Stephen, Jr., born January 16, 1813, married Mary G. Brooks; Susanna, born June 26, 1815, married William C. Brown; daugh- ter, born April 16, 1821, died next day.
(VII) John Waldron Hale, son of Stephen Hale (6), was born in Royalston, April 1, 1804. He set- tled in Royalston and there married, March 27, 1839, Betsey Evans. Their children, all born in Royalston. were: John Randall, born May 24, 1840, see forward: Charles Silas, born January 30, 1842, died March 7. 1899; Stephen Winn, born January 22, 1844, died January 21, 1889; Samuel Walker, born April 27, 1850, died August 1, 1888, in Ravenna, Nebraska: Emma Jane, born March 14. 1852. died August 2, 1896, buried at Swamp- scott, Massachusetts. She married Walter F. Ellis, and at her decease was survived by her husband, two sons and two daughters.
(VIII) John Randall Hale, son of John Wald- ron Hale (7), was born at" Royalston, Massachu- setts, May 24, 1840, died there March 17, 1905. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. He followed farming with his father in early life and hecame a highly prosperous farmer. He was also a successful auctioneer. He was a Republican in politics, and served the town in vari- ous positions of trust and honor. He was an over- seer of the poor, assessor and for eight years a selectman. He belonged to the Athol Lodge of Odd Fellows. He married, December 23, 1868, Edna Elvira Boynton, daughter of Alfred Boyn- ton. Their child. Alfred R., see forward.
(IX) Alfred Randall Hale, son of John Ran- dall Hale (8), was born in Royalston, Massachu- setts. August 4, 1875. He received his education in the common schools of his native town and at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts.
He began to work on the farm at an early age and has followed farming as a business in his mature years, now at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he has resided since April 1, 1906. He is an active member of the Royalston Congregational Church, and is clerk of the parish: He is active in town affairs and since 1900 has been a member of the school committee. He is a Republican.
He married, June 30, 1902, Carrie Graham, of Richmond, Quebec. Canada, daughter of John Gra- ham. The only child of Alfred Randall and Carrie Hale is Stuart Graham, born September 19, 1894.
LEONARD EZRA TURNER. Ezra Turner, grandfather of Leonard E. Turner, was an indus- trious farmer of Phillipston prior to the introduc- tion of modern agricultural machinery and appli- ances. His son. John Turner, married Sally New- ton, daughter of Edmund Newton, of Phillipston, She became the mother of five sons and one daugh- ter, namely : Charles, Lydia, James, Leonard E., Lysander and Frank.
Leonard Ezra Turner was born in Phillipston, July 11. 1845. After concluding his attendance at the public schools. he turned his attention to mechanical pursuits and was employed in a toy factory for a period of fourteen years. He then established himself as a plumber at Templeton, and in that field of usefulness has met with gratifying success, having built up and maintained a large and lucrative business. He gives his particular atten- tion to the sale and adjustment of windmills, and as the exclusive representative of a prominent western manufacturer of these economical generators of motive power has introduced many of them in this section of the state.
For nearly thirty years Mr. Turner has served with marked efficiency as a member of the fire department of Templeton, serving fourteen ycars as fireman and eight years in the department in Baldwinville. Aside from the natural feeling of satisfaction resulting from the successful efforts to protect property from the ravages of the flames, he has derived inestimable benefit from the strenuous physical exercise which necessarily attends the work. The exciting amusement of the old-fash- ioned "playout," so dear to the heart of all firemen, has been to him the source of much enjoyment. He is well and favorably known among veteran firemen of this and other states, as on various oc- casions he has led his dauntless fire laddies to vic- tory, and at one memorable general muster they outplayed all of their competitors. In addition to his share in more than three thousand dollars in prize money, he possesses numerous badges and he evinces no little pride when exhibiting them to strangers. In politics he is a Republican. He is a prominent member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, having held the principal offices in the local lodge, and he also belongs to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Turner married, February 29, 1864, for his first wife Josephine Norcross, daughter of Ora B. Norcross, of Templeton. She died May 31, 1895. and he subsequently married Eva L. Duck, a native of Prince Edward Island. The children of his first union are: William J., born February 16, 1865, carries on an extensive business in Providence, Rhode Island, as a manufacturer of steam and hot water heating apparatus, is a man of prominence in that city and as such is frequently caricatured in the daily newspapers. He married, January 25, 1893. Nellie E. Lovering, of Putnam, Connecticut. 2. Ora Norcross, born August 5. 1866, resides in East Templeton, married Henrietta Waters, May
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18, 1889, had six children, of whom three survive: Arthur Waters, Bertha Alice and Doris. 3. John L., born April 2, 1870, holds the position of ship- ping manager of the American Radiator Company with headgarters in Boston; he resides in Dor- chester. He married, November 18, 1892, Abbie Fairbanks, of Sterling, this county, and they are the parents of a daughter, Florence Esther. 4. Harry Austin, born February 6, 1874, a plumber in Fall River. married, June 16, 1897, Carrie Ling, and they had two children, one surviving, Dorothy Ling. 5. Josie Ann, born June 16, 1877, died June 15, 1900; she married Elmer Afton Fitch, by whom she had a child, Ralph. 6. Leonard E., Jr., born December 6, 1881, employed as chief engineer in Bishop & Dickenson's extensive manufacturing plant in Templeton. He married, June I, 1904, Albert A. Bragg. 7. Minnie Alice, born December 6, 1883, is employed as bookkeeper in the office of her brother, William J. Turner, in Providence. 8. Ruth Estella, born January 23, 1889, attends the Templeton high school. Mr. Turner had one child, Nettie Eleanor, by his second wife, born May 27, 1901, died September 22, 1901.
ARTHUR ROBERT TAFT. The Taft family of Uxbridge, which is one of the oldest families in that town, was established prior to the separa- tion from Mendon in 1727, and was therefore among the original incorporators. The family is of Scotch origin and found its way to America by the way of Ireland, whither it went in the early days of the Covenanters. Some of its members came to New England about the year 1680, and one of these immigrants, Robert Taft, settled in Men- don. Robert became the progenitor of a numerous posterity, many of whom are still to be found in Mendon, Uxbridge and the neighboring towns. and the various Tafts mentioned in this work are all descended from him.
Arthur Robert Taft is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of Robert Taft, the Mendon settler. and the line of descent is through Robert (2), Israel (3), Jacob (4), John (5) and Robert (6) Taft. John Taft, grandfather of Arthur R., was a prosperous farmer of Uxbridge during the first half of the last century. He married Lucretia Newell and among his children was Robert Taft, Arthur R. Taft's father.
Robert Taft was born in Uxbridge, May, 1819. When a young man he engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods and established a profitable busi- ness, with which he was identified for the re- mainder of his life. He also cultivated a valuable farm and had large real estate interests in Ux- bridge and other localities. His death occurred in 1891. He married Mary Balcom, a native of Doug- las, this county, daughter of Ebenezer and Polly Balcom, of that town.
Arthur Robert Taft, only child of Robert and Mary (Balcom) Taft, was born in Uxbridge. Feb- ruary 19, 1859. He began his education in the public schools of Uxbridge, graduating from the high school in 1876, and completed it at the English and Classical School in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1879 he entered mercantile business in partner- ship with E. B. Hayward under the firm name of Hayward & Taft, but a year or two later he was compelled, on account of his father's feeble health. to withdraw from that concern and he disposed of his interest to his partner. From that time forward until the death of his father he was closely associ- ated with the latter in managing the industrial, agricultural and real estate interests of the elder Taft. He subsequently retired from the manufac-
turing business in order to devote his time exclu- sively to the large investment interests left by his father, and also to the management of the home- stead farm. In addition to his extensive real estate holdings, which includes valuable property in Bos- ton, he is actively identified with the financial and banking interests of Uxbridge, being a director of the Blackstone National Bank, and clerk, vice- president, trustee and a member of the finance committee of the Uxbridge Savings Bank, and was a director and president of the Uxbridge and North- bridge Electric Light Company. Politically he is a Republican. For a number of years he has served as a selectman and also as clerk of the board; has served as moderator at town meetings since 1901, and in 1898 represented Uxbridge in the lower branch of the state legislature with marked ability. He is particularly interested in the Uxbridge Public Library and is a life trustee of that institution.
In September, 1880, Mr. Taft married for his first wife Mary A. Seagrave, daughter of Charles E. and Abigail (Carter) Seagrave. of Uxbridge. She died in 1886, leaving no children. In May, 1889, he married for his second wife Rosa F. George, daughter of Nathan R. and Rosanna (Taft) George, of Mendon. Of this union there was one child who died in infancy.
DANIEL BOWMAN INGALLS, a dentist of note of Clinton. Massachusetts, was born in Sut- ton, Vermont, May 25, 1829. He is the son of James Ingalls, a man of prominence of Vermont, born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, June 24, 1791, and Mary (Cass) Ingalls, born in Lyman, New Hampshire, January 16, 1797, daughter of Jacob and Sallie Cass. Their children were: Mary Ann, born in Lyman, New Hampshire, October 4, 1814, died in Chicopee, Massachusetts, May 23, 1846; Sarah Cass, born in Lyman, February 4, 1817: John Edson, born in Lyman, February 4, 1819, died in Detton, Wisconsin, November 11, 1882; Margaret Jane, born in Lyman, January 3, 1821 ; Adeline Manerva, born in Lyndon, Vermont, April 15, 1823, died in Excelsior, Wisconsin, March 13, 1869;
Mariam Maria, born in Lyndon, July 22. 1827; Daniel Bowman. born in Sutton, Vermont, May 25, 1829; Urania Edesa, born in Sutton, April 10, 1832, died in Sterling. Massachusetts, August 17, 1862; James Monroe, born in Sutton, January 25, 1837, died in Madison, Wisconsin, October II, 1866. Daniel B. Ingalls is grandson of Samuel Ingalls, who was a native of New Hampshire, born in Can- terbury, September 28, 1763. He married Anna Shepherd, born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, February 8, 1767, and they had children, namely : Abigail, born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, March 4, 1787, died May 9, 1788; John, born in Canterbury, May 4, 1789, died in Danville, Ver- mont, June 16, 1792; James, born in Canterbury, June 24. 1791 ; Samuel, born in Danville, Vermont, September 4, 1793. died in Ryegate, Vermont, De- cember 14, 1814; Elizabeth, born in Ryegate, Ver- mont, December 5, 1796; Hannah, born in Ryegate, April 10. 1798: Mary, born in Ryegate. June 28, 1800, died in Canterbury, November 10, 1833: Anna, born in Ryegate. September 3, 1802, died in Rye- gate, December 20, 1854; Morrell, born in Rye- gate, August 13, 1804; Susan, born in Ryegate, July 6. 1806: Abigail, born in Ryegate, April 25, 1808; Jemima, born in Ryegate, July 17, 1811; Nancy, died in Boston, Massachusetts, February 22, 1835.
Daniel Bowman Ingalls obtained his education in the common schools of Connecticut, and on leav- ing the schoolroom learned the trade of a machinist at Norwich. He followed that occupation until
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he was twenty-six years of age, when he entered into the study of dentistry in Clinton, Massachu- setts. He was graduated from the Boston Dental College in 1874, but practiced dentistry in Clinton from 1856 until 1903, when he retired from active life and lives in his pretty home in Clinton, sur- rounded with every comfort. In 1851-52 he was on a trip to California, and on his return associ- ated himself with Jeremiah Fiske, of Clinton, in the dentistry business, and the firm was well known throughout the county.
In polities Mr. Ingalls is a strong Republican. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature for three years; in the house in 1880 and in the senate 1881-82. Served on committees on public health, state house and claims, was chairman of the latter for 1882 and wrote the minority report on the "Shanley" claim for that year. He was a member of the Republican state committee for the second Worcester district for 1895. He is a member of the investment committee of the Clinton Bank, director in the Lancaster National Bank, and president of the Clinton Co-operative Bank. He is a man who is held in high esteem by his fellow townsmen. and is regarded as a shrewd business man. He is a member of Clinton Lodge, F. and A. M. In mat- ters of religion, Mr. Ingalls accords with the doc- trines of the Baptist Church.
Daniel Bowman Ingalls was united in marriage to Rebecca Nelson Randell in Newbuy, Vermont, October 22, 1850. She was born at Newbuy, Ver- mont, January 27, 1830. To this union six children were born: Herbert Clinton, born at Clinton, Massachusetts, May 13, 1854, died May 9, 1870; an infant; Cora Lilian, born at Clinton, Massachu- setts, July 14, 1861, died August 10, 1861; Urania E., born at Clinton, July 6, 1863, died July 9, 1863 ; Helen, born at Clinton, October 16, 1865, died July 18. 1869: Maud Alice, born at Clinton, Massachu- setts, January 16, 1869, died August 8, 1870.
ROBERT KNOX BROWN, whose name car- ries weight in the financial circles of Whitinsville, and who has for many years been thoroughly iden- tified with the best interests of that town, is a grandson of Alexander Brown, who was born in the province of Ulster, Ireland, about in the middle of the seventeenth century, and there passed his entire long life. His wife was Jennie Mellveny. The Browns were known as Scotch-Irish, although family tradition has it that the founders of the race in Ireland went over with the English Protestants instead of with the Scotch settlers. On the maternal side the family was of Scottish origin.
The ancestors of Alexander Brown were in Londonderry during the famous siege of 1689, when the sufferings of the citizens were surpassed only by their fortitude. After the siege was ended by the arrival of relief for the city's heroic de- fenders, the Browns, with the exception of the branch to which Alexander belonged, became separ- ated and were scattered over the British Isles. Eventually they emigrated to the American colonies, and are supposed to have settled in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
John Brown, son of Alexander and Jennie (Mc- Ilveny) Brown, was born in Ireland, and married Sarah McNeil, who was descended, on the maternal side, from the Campbell and Stewart families of Scotland. He also passed his entire long life there on the old homestead. Their children were ten in number. their names being as follows: Rebecca S., now living in her pleasant residence in Whitins- ville, Massachusetts ; Sarah, Mary Ann, Margaret, Elizabeth, wife of Hiram C. Colwell; Matilda,
Robert Knox, of whom later; David, one son, John J., James S., and one who died in infancy. Of these children, Matilda is the wife of Edward Wood and the mother of three children: David, of Des Moines, Iowa; Sarah, wife of Edward Harvey, now of Boston, one son and one daughter; Hiram C., machinist in Whitin Machine Works, Whitins- ville; James S., is a machinist at Whitinsville, and has three children: Rebecca G., Mary J., and Robert K .; all graduates of the Whitinsville high school.
Robert Knox Brown, son of John and Sarah (McNeil) Brown, was born June 22, 1846, in Aghadoe, county Derry, Ireland, and attended the public schools of his native place. At the age of twenty he decided to seek his fortune in the United States, and in 1866 settled in Worcester, where he supplemented his education with a course of study at Howe's (now Hinman's) Business College, an institution in which many of the manufacturers and business men of Worcester county received their early training. In 1867 he became bookkeeper in the Whitin Machine Works at Whitinsville. His usefulness to the Whitins is shown by the fact that for nearly forty years he has been retained in a position of trust and responsibility. He has the entire confidence of his employers, and is at pres- ent the general bookkeeper of the company, having assistants.
He is a trustee of the Whitinsville Savings Bank and a member of its finance committee. For many years he has been a student of finance and bank- ing, the latter having had for him peculiar fasci- nation. The success which has attended the invest- ment of his own surplus funds has caused his ad- vice on the subject of finance to be sought by his friends who have followed it with gratifying re- sults. He has been four years a justice of the peace and fourteen years a notary public, having been appointed by successive governors. In connection with his office as notary he has acquired some knowledge of law as applied to the common affairs of life as well as to the business in which he has been so long engaged. Though not assuming to practice, his counsel has been sought by his friends and has always been freely given without charge. He has never been known to charge soldiers, their widows, or his neighbors for any legal advice or service. He belongs to the I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Republican. He and his wife are mem- bers of the Congregational Church and are greatly interested in its work. He holds the office of senior deacon.
Mr. Brown married Matilda Steele, born in Dublin, Ireland, and is the descendant of Scottish ancestors. They are the parents of six children : Stuart F., born September 10, 1888, graduate of Whitinsville high school, class of 1906, now student in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine : Josiah S., born September 23, 1890, student in Whitinsville high school: Ethel, born July 15. 1892, also a student in Whitinsville high school; Grace May, born May 16. 1895; John Archibald, born April 19, 1898; and Alice, born May 4, 1902.
LAWSON SEAGRAVES. for many years librarian of the Uxbridge Public Library, and a veteran of the civil war, is a son of Lawson A. and Priscilla (Beals) Seagraves, of Uxbridge. His grandfather. Bezaleel Seagraves. was born and reared in Uxbridge, where his active years were spent in tilling the soil, and he was one of the prosperous farmers of his day. . Lawson A. Sea- graves, who was also a native and lifelong resident of Uxbridge, learned the trade of a weaver in a
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woolen mill, and after following that occupation for some years he engaged in farming. He subse- quently returned to the woolen industry as a manu- facturer. Lawson A. and Priscilla (Beals) Sea- graves had a family of six children, namely : Olive, Frank, William, Edgar, Jennie and Lawson.
Lawson Seagraves was born at Uxbridge, Janu- ary 26, 1840. His education was acquired at the public schools of Uxbridge and in Rhode Island. Having learned the trade of machinist he engaged in the manufacture of needles, and although trans- acting a profitable business at the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, he suspended operations in order to join in the defence of the Union. En- listing as a private in Company H, Fifteenth Regi -ยท ment. Massachusetts Volunteers, he participated in the battles of Balls Bluff, Malvern Hill, the Wilder- ness and Antietam, in which latter engagement he was wounded, and he served in the army con- tinuously for three years, acquiring an honorable record for personal bravery and the faithful dis- charge of his duties. Upon his return from the service he resumed his business as a needle manu- facturer and continued it successfully for a period of thirty years. For the past ten years he has de- voted much of his energy to the cultivation of his farm, an excellent piece of agricultural prop- erty situated upon the outskirts of the town, but he still retains his interest in public affairs, with which he has long been identified. For fifteen years he served with marked ability as librarian of the Uxbridge Public Library, but gave that up and now farms. He held the office of overseer of the poor for a number of terms, had charge of the school building and town hall, and in politics is an ardent supporter of the Republican party. He is a member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic.
In 1868 Mr. Seagraves married Mary Fox, of Uxbridge, who died in 1886. The children of this union were: Olive. Willard, Bradford, Mary, Jean, deceased ; Edgar, Chauncey. In 1894 Mr. Seagraves married for his second wife Stella Clark, daugh- ter of Edward Clark, also of Uxbridge.
FRANK SUMNER PARMENTER. Ancestors of the Parmenters were among the founders of New England and the family was identified with the early history of Boston, immigrants of this name having settled there and in Watertown. It is a re- grettable fact that available records relative to their early history are wanting, but such is the case and the writer is unable to trace with accuracy the Worcester county branch of the family back to its original source.
Frank Sumner Parmenter, of Athol, is a son of the late J. Sumner Parmenter, and a grandson of Joseph G. Parmenter. According to the Petersham town records Joseph G. Parmenter and his brother Horatio were prominent residents there in the early part of the last century. Joseph G. Parmenter mar- ried Elvira Clapp, April 4, 1826; a daughter born of this marriage, Elizabeth Parmenter, became the wife of George S. Grosvenor, an educator, and subse- quently a lawyer of Trenton, New Jersey. She died when forty-four years of age. J. Sumner Parmen- ter was born in Petersham, May 7, 1827. Francis C. Parmenter, brother of J. Sumner, was born in Petersham, October 17, 1830; he acquired his early business training in Athol with Messrs. Bassett, Chickering & Company, and later entered the employ of Thorpe & Parmenter, who will be again referred to. He was subsequently for ten years engaged in business for himself in Petersham, but at the ex- piration of that time he returned to Athol and asso-
ciated himself with Lewis Thorpe at Athol Centre, remaining there for two years. For the succeeding five years lie. was in company with his brother, J. S. Parmenter, at Athol Village, and from 1870 to about 1892 was a member of the dry goods firm of Par- menter & Tower, which transacted a profitable busi- ness during its entire existence. Francis C. Par- menter died October 28, 1893. He was a director of the Athol National Bank and at one time its audi- tor, and was interested in several of the local manu- facturing enterprises. As deacon of the Congrega- tional Church and superintendent of its Sunday school he exercised a far-reaching influence in he- half of the moral and religious welfare of the com- munity, and he was also an earnest advocate of the temperance cause. On October 17, 1852. he married Elizabeth J. Goodenough, of Athol. His daughter Stella became the wife of Hon. S. P. Smith ; died in 1905.
J. Sumner Parmenter began the activities of life at the age of fourteen years as a clerk in the gen- eral store of Messrs. Witherell & Hamilton of Petersham, and two years later he moved to Athol, where he entered the employ of Messrs. Thorpe and Simonds in a similar capacity, at the same time being allowed to attend school. His excellence of character and business ability were unusual and in 1848, when he was twenty-one years old, lie became well established in mercantile business as a member of the firm of L. Thorpe, which was subsequently known as Thorpe & Parmenter. After a prosperous existence of seventeen years that partnership was dissolved, and he became associated in business with his brother, Frank C., under the firm name of J. S. and F. C. Parmenter. Upon the latter's withdrawal in 1870, the senior Parmenter admitted his son, Frank S., to partnership and continued in business until 1874, when he retired. Those familiar with his long and honorable mercantile career will un- doubtedly concede without reserve that J. Sumner Parmenter's activities in the commercial, industrial, financial, political and religious interests of Athol equalled and perhaps surpassed those of any other citizen of his day. His untimely death, which oc- curred in the prime of an upright, conscientious life, December 7, 18SI, was the cause of sincere regret, not only by his fellow-townsmen who were familiar with his sterling characteristics from an intimate acquaintance with them, but also by a large num- ber of warm personal friends residing beyond the limits of his immediate sphere of action. He was vice-president of the Athol Savings Bank, clerk of the Miller's River Manufacturing Company, a trus- tee of the Upham Machine Company, and treasurer of the Athol Library Association, and was interested in various other organizations calculated to be of benefit to the town, all of which profited by his sterling integrity and sound judgment. Politically he was a Republican and in addition to serving as town clerk for a period of seven years, he repre- sented his district in the state legislature in 1878. His religious affiliations were with the Congrega- tionalists and he not only acted as a deacon of that church, but officiated as superintendent of the Sun- day school. On June 7, 1848, he married Caroline B. Baker, of Troy, New Hampshire. She became the mother of two sons, Frank S., the immediate sub- ject of this sketch, and William H. Parmenter.
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