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(VII) Dyer Upham, son of Nehemiah Upham (6), was born in Killingly, Connecticut, November 25, 1795. He married Esther Arnold, March 19. 1820. She died in Thompson, Connecticut, Sep- tember 7, 1824. He married (second), November 20, 1827, Cynthia Arnold, who died in Thompson, February 13, 1875. He was a farmer living at Thompson, and died at his son Dyer's house Janu- ary 17, 1885, in Thompson, Connecticut .. The chil- dren of Dyer and Esther were: George Preston, 'born June 25, 1821, in Hampton, Connecticut, mar- ried Mercy T. Morris; Dyer Arnold, born August 7. 1824, married Lucy Stone, and lived in Thomp- son.
(VIII) Dyer Arnold Upham, son of Dyer Up- ham (7), was born in Thompson, Connecticut, Au-
gust 7, 1824. He married. November 11, 1849, Lucy Stone, daughter of Reuben Stone, who was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, November 10, 1829, and died in Thompson, August 3, 1885. He was a farmer and store keeper, living at Thompson. He is now living at Wilsonville, Connecticut (1905). The children of Dyer Arnold and Lucy Upham were : Leroy J., born March 23. 1851, in Thomp- son, married, August 16, 1877, Nora Janette Jos- lin; Earl Hammond, born January 14, 1855, in Thompson, married, November 14, 1883, Alice M. Hall, living at Providence, Rhode Island, 1889, had no children then; Burton Stone, born March 27, 1870, in Thompson, living there 1889.
(IX) LeRoy Jean Upham, son of Dyer Arnold Upham (8), was born at Thompson, Connecticut, March 23, 1851. He attended the Thompson schools, . the Nichols Academy at Dudley, Massa- chusetts. and the Woodstock Academy at Wood- stock, Connecticut. Being stricken with typhoid fever he had to withdraw from school at the age of eighteen. The next year he accepted a position as teacher in the Thompson schools and continued there for four years. Then he taught for four years at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. After eight years experience as a public school teacher he left to enter business with his uncle, Robert Humphrey, dealing in hides, etc., at Webster, Massachusetts. The success of Mr. Upham in business places him . in the front rank of prominent men in Webster. He has taken an active part in town affairs in Webster, and has been town clerk and overseer of the poor since 1890. The length of his term of office in a town of rather variable political choice and principles shows his political strength and personal popularity among his townsmen. He is the official clerk of all the town boards. He is a member of the local lodge of Odd Fellows and has served it as secretary for fourteen years. He is a trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank of Webster, He is a member of the Universalist Church. He married, August 16, 1877, Nettie Joslin, daughter of John and Caroline Joslin, who was born August 11, 1856. They have no children.
FRANK W. POTTER, one of the most pro- . gressive among the younger generations of farmers in New Braintree, went there from North Brook- field in his youth and has ever since been identified with the agricultural interests of that town. He is the son of the late Robert Potter and a lineal descendant in the ninth generation of Nicholas Potter, an early resident of Lynn, Massachusetts. From Nicholas the line of descent is through Robert, Sr., Robert, Jr., Ephraim, Theophilus, Silas, John and Robert.
Nocholas Potter was residing in Lynn, Massa- chusetts, in 1651, and was employed in the iron works there. In 1660 he removed to Salem, where, according to the records, he followed the trade of a bricklayer. His will was made October 10, 1677 ; his death occurred the 18th, and an inventory of his estate was taken the 25th of that month and year. Whether he was the immigrant ancestor of this family or not cannot be ascertained. The Chris- tian name of his first wife was Emma (Savage says Mary). It is quite probable that his second wife was Alice, daughter of Thomas Weeks, of Salem, who died January 26, 1659. and he afterward mar- ried Mary Gedney, also of Salem, daughter of John Gedney. His children, some of whom were born in Lynn and others in Salem, were: Hannah, Mary, Samuel, Robert. Eliza. Sarah, Lydia, Bethia, Samuel (2). Lydia (2), Benjamin and Joseph.
Robert Potter, son of Nicholas Potter, resided
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in Lynn and was a carpenter. He married for his second wife Ruth Driver, and as there seems to be no record of his former marriage in Lynn, it is quite probable that he married his first wife in some other town. His children were: Samuel (of his first union), Robert, Nathaniel, John, Elizabeth, Elizabeth (2), Ruth, Joseph, Benjamin and Samuel (2). The list of the children of Robert, Sr. is as authentic as can be obtained from records which are exceedingly vague.
His son Robert Potter the next in line of de- scent, who also resided in Lynn, married Martha Hall, January 9, 1682, and had Ephraim, Martha and probably other children.
Ephraim Potter, son of Robert, Jr., and Martha Potter. was born in Lynn, February 5, 1683. He settled in Marlboro, Massachusetts, in or prior to 1708, which was the year of his marriage. The maiden name of his wife was Sarah Witt, and his children were: Mary, Martha, Joseph, Ephraim, Sarah, Theophilus, and Elizabeth, all of whom were born in Marlboro.
Theophilus Potter, son of Ephraim Potter, was born in Marlboro, January 26, 1725. He settled in Brookfield at the age of about thirty years, and resided there until his death, which occurred Sep- tember 13, 1814, when he was nearly ninety years old. In 1748 he married Lois Walker, of Sudbury. She became the mother of twelve children, four of whom were born in Marlboro, and the others were natives of Brookfield. Their names were: Silas, Ephraim, Barnabas, Hannah, Thomas, Abigail, Lois, Thaddeus, Esther, Elizabeth, Luke and Aaron.
Silas Potter, son of Theophilus Potter, was born in Marlboro, June 17, 1749. He learned the trade of a gunsmith and followed it during the active years of his life, which terminated in North Brookfield, September 30, 1828. He married, Feb- ruary 3, 1775, Tabitha Harvey. Their children, all of whom were born in North Brookfield, were: Silas, Betsey, John, Achsah, Silas (2), Edmund, Nahum. and Polly. The' parental desire to rear a son Silas seems to have been contrary to the decree of destiny, as both children of that name died in childhood, and Betsey also died young.
John Potter, second son of Silas Potter, and the grandfather of Frank W. Potter, was born in North Brookfield, September 23, 1780. Early in the last century he went to Bakersfield, Vermont, and re- sided there until his death. On December 25, 1808, he married Sarah Hunter, of New Braintree, and had a family of twelve children, namely: Achsah, Rhoda, Silas, Aaron, Dolly, John Hunter, Edward, Robert, Robina, Betsey. Persis and Royal. Royal Potter served with an Illinois regiment in the civil war. and subsequently settled in Iowa.
Robert Potter, fifth son of John Potter, and Frank W. Potter's father, was born in Bakersfield. He resided in North Brookfield for some years, but in 1883 removed to a farm in New Braintree, and died in Fairfield, Vermont. The maiden name of his first wife was Caroline Stone, and of this union there is one son, Eliot Potter, who is residing in Royalston, this county. His second wife, whom he married in 1866, was Addie A. Smith. She bore him but one son. Frank W. After the death of Mr. Potter she married for her second husband a Mr. Thrasher.
After concluding his attendance at the North Brookfield public schools, Frank W. Potter ac- companied his parents to New Braintree when nine- teen vears old, and began the activities of life by assisting his father in farming. Succeeding to the ownership of the property after his father's death, 'he has ever since carried on general farming wit !:
prosperous results, and is keenly alive to the ad- vantages obtainable by the application of improved agricultural methods and appliances. He is actively interested in the work of the Patrons of Husbandry and is past master of the local grange, having oc- cupied all of the subordinate chairs in that body. Politically he acts with the Republican party. In his religious belief he is a Congregationalist. Mr. Potter married Sadie Goodfield, daughter of Will- iam Goodfield, of Gilbertville, this county.
MRS. CAROLINE ELIZABETH MANNING, nee Woods, widow of Theodore Manning, and a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is the daughter of the late Charles and Sarah Church (Spooner) Woods, of Barre, the former of whom was a son of Isaac Woods, of New Braintree. On the ma- ternal side she is of the eighth generation of descent from Wiliam Spooner, great-grandfather of Ama- ziah Spooner, who came from Dartmouth to Worces- ter about the middle of the eighteenth century and was one of the early settlers in Hardwick after its incorporation.
William Spooner, who was in all probability the first of that name in America, was a resident and an apprentice of Plymouth in 1637. In 1654 he was admitted a freeman, and some six years later went to reside in that part of Dartmouth which, two hundred years later, was incorporated as the town ofAcushmet. His first wife was Elizabeth Part- ridge, who died at Plymouth, April 28, 1648, leaving one son, John. March 18, 1652, he married for his second wife Hannah Pratt, daughter of Joshua Pratt. She became the mother of eight children, namely : Sarah, Samuel, Martha, William, Isaac, Hannah, Mercy, and Ebenezer. William Spooner, Sr., died in 1684. The line of descent to his great- grandson, Amaziah, the Hardwick settler, is through Samuel (2), and Samuel Spooner (3).
Samuel Spooner, son of William Spooner, was born in Plymouth, January 4, 1655, and died in Dartmouth in 1739. In 1680 he served as constable and was again chosen for that office in 1684. His wife was before marriage Experience Wing, and his children were: William, Mary, Samuel, Daniel, Seth, Hannah, Joshop, whose name was probably Shear-jashub; Anna, Experience, Beulah and Wing.
Samuel Spooner, son of Samuel and Experience Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, February 4, 1692-3, and died in 1781. His marriage to Rebecca Weston, his first wife, took place April 10, 1717, and she died January 28, 1728-29. He was married the second time March 8, 1729-30, to Deborah, daughter of Isaac Pope. His first wife was the mother of Esther, Hannah, Thomas. Zephaniah and Amaziah. The children of his second union were: Elnathan, Abigail and Seth.
Amaziah Spooner, son of Samuel and Rebecca Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, May 15, 1724. Shortly after attaining his majority he wandered from the family fold and acquired possession of a tract of wild land in Hardwick, located west of Muddy brook, on the northerly side of the old turnpike. This property he cleared and improved for agricultural purposes, and resided there for the remainder of his life, which terminated July S. 1798. He was married in Hardwick, February 22, 1749-50, to Lydia Fay, daughter of Deacon James Fay. She was eighty-seven years old at the time of her death, which occurred August 10, 1817. Amaziah and Lydia Spooner were the parents of ten children, namely: Thomas, Zephaniah, Lucy, Elizabeth. Lydia, Samuel, Charles, Rebecca, Han- nah and Seth.
Zephaniah Spooner, son of Amaziah Spooner,
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was born in Ilardwick, October I, 1753. He was Mrs. Manning's great-grandfather and resided upon the homestead farm until his death, which occurred when he was fifty-six years old, June 13, 1810. Zephaniah Spooner was one of the company of minute-men organized by Captain Samuel Billings, Jr. When the first blow was struck, April 19, 1775, he enlisted a company of fifty-nine men, fifty-seven of them Hardwick men, to serve eight months from May 4, 1775. He belonged to Captain Timothy Paige's company, Colonel John Rand's regiment of Massachusetts militia. This company was raised for three months and did duty at West Point, New York; commenced service July 5, 1780; con- sisted of one hundred and two men, thirty of them Hardwick men. Sally (Church) Spooner, his wife, whom he married November 5, 1789, became the mother of Bradford, Barnabas, Grover and Charles C. Sally, the mother, died August 30, 1833, aged sixty-eight years.
Bradford Spooner, son of Zephaniah Spooner, was born at the homestead in Hardwick, April 5, 1791. He was a prosperous farmer and resided on the east side on Muddy brook. On November 30. 1821, he married Arathusa Earl, daughter of John Earl. She became the mother of nine children, namely: Sarah Church, born November 18, 1822; Alden Bradford, born November 12, 1824; John F., born in 1826, died December 26, 1873; Harmon C. baptized May II, 1829; Caroline E., born about the year 1830; Henry, born in 1832, died February 19, 1834: Maria, born in 1835, died May 22, 1836; Jane, M., born about the year 1839; and Henry Albert, born July 1. 1840. Alden Bradford Spooner mar- ried for his first wife Sarah A. Morton, and for his second Julia A. Alden. Caroline E. became the wife of George R. Paige. Jane M. married A. Lyman Barr, of New Braintree. Bradford Spooner died November I, 1872, surviving his wife, whose death occurred April 7, of the same year, at the age of seventy-two years. Sketches of Stephen Henry, son of Alden Bradford, Timothy H. and Henry A. Spooner, will be found elsewhere in this work.
Sarah Church Spooner was married August I, 1851. to Charles Woods, of Barre. The children of this union are: Caroline Elizabeth. of whom later : Charles B. and John G. Woods, both of whom are residents of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Caroline Elizabeth Woods was born in Barre, August 6, 1852. Her preliminary studies were pur- sued in the Hardwick public schools, from which she entered the Oread Institute, Worcester, with the class of 1872. In January, 1875. she was united in marriage with Theodore Manning who was at that time a resident of Worcester.
Theodore Manning was born in Paxton, this county. October 14, 1844. His father was David Manning and his mother was before marriage Lucy Grosvenor. His business training was acquired in Worcester and he was connected with the S. R. Heywood shoe manufacturing establishment for some time. He subsequently became a member of the firm of Manning Brothers. Worcester. Some years later he organized the Manning Shoe and Rubber Company of Boston, which transacted a large and profitable business. In politics he was a Republican. His religious affiliations were with the Congregationalists. and he was one of the original members of Plymouth Parish, Worcester, which was organized in 1869. He died in Worces- ter, April 28, 1898.
Mrs. Manning is still residing in Newton. She is the mother of eight children, all of whom are living, namely: Frederick Theodore, born Decem- her 25, 1877: Charles Arthur, born December 7,
1879; Grace Woods, born September 5, 1881; Flor- ence Elizabeth, born January 23, 1884; David Ralph, born September 28, 1885; Robert Henry, born Au- gust 25, 1887; Harold Grosvenor, born July 11, 1889; and Clarence William, born June 2, 1892. Frederick T. and Charles A. Manning are conduct- ing a large retail boot and shoe establishment in Bucyrus, Ohio. The others are residing with their mother in Newton, and the sons, with the exception of the youngest, are engaged in mercantile pursuits in or near Boston.
GEORGE RUSSELL MARBLE. Samuel Marble (I), the emigrant ancestor of the late · George Russell Marble, of Webster, Massachu- setts, came to America before 1660, probably from Scotland, though there seems to be nothing but tradition to indicate whether he was from England, Scotland, or Wales. He was a bricklayer by trade, and Joseph Marble, who was a settler in Andover at about the same time and may have been a brother, was listed as a mason. Both married in Andover, though Samuel appears to have had a wife when he came. His son Samuel was born in 1660. His twins, Job and Rebecca, were born in 1695 of the second marriage.
Samuel married, November 26, 1675, Rebecca Andrews, of Andover, Massachusetts. He took the freeman's oath February 1I, 1678. The children of Samuel Marble by his two marriages were: Samuel, born 1660; Enoch; Freegrace; Noah, set- tled in Andover; Daniel; Job (twin), born 1695; Rebecca (twin), born 1695.
(II) Freegrace Marble, son of Samuel Marble (I), born in Andover, Massachusetts, about 1699, died in Sutton, April 21, 1799, aged about one hun- dred. He was among the first settlers of Sut- ton, and his marriage is said to have been the first in the new town. He married Mary Sibley. He was a mason, like his father, and is said to have worked on the construction of the old State House on Washington and State streets, Boston. He was on a committee in 1741 to enlarge the capacity of the meeting house; was on the committee in 1718 ap- pointed to build the first meeting house; in 1725 was on a committee in charge of the school lot; in 1728 was on a committee to treat with Mr. David Hall to supply the pulpit. His old homestead is that lately occupied by Rufus Harback. Freegrace Mar- ble is buried in a graveyard on his homestead near the house lately occupied by Ezra P. Marble. The children of Freegrace and Mary (Sibley) Marble were: Mary, born April 4, 1721; Samuel, born April 27, 1723; Enoch, born November 25, 1726; Rebecca, born March 10, 1729; Malachi, born Sep- tember 25, 1736.
(III) Malachi Marble, son of Freegrace Mar- hle (2), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 25, 1736. He married (second), April 26, 1786, Abigail Keyes. He built the present house on the Marble place about 1788. The children of Malachi Marble were: Andrew, born November 17, 1761; Mary, February 24, 1763; Moses, February 2, 1765 ; Lydia, October 18, 1767; Simon, April 29, 1769; De- borah, March 15, 1771; Hannah, July 10, 1774; Peter, February 15, 1776; Simeon, November 5, 1777; Ezra, February 25, 1780; Sukey, April 28, 1787 : Cyrus, January 3, 1789.
(IV) Andrew Marble, son of Malachi Marble (3), was born November 17, 1761, at Sutton, Massa- chusetts. He married Sarah Harback, July 28, 1789. Andrew settled on part of the original farm of Freegrace Marble, his grandfather. The chil- dren of Andrew and Sarah (Harback) were: Sally Harback, born November 17, 1790; Simon L., Octo-
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ber 5, 1792; John Stillman, September 2, 1794; Royal Tyler, March 13, 1797; Mary H .. June 2, 1798, drowned May 29, 1822; Hannah Greenwood, Novem- ber 27, 1799, drowned May 29, 1822; Jonas Russell, January 7, 1803, died same day; Simeon Russell, November 5, 1807.
(V) Simeon Russell Marble, son of Andrew Marble (4), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, November 5, 1807. He married Carolyn Brown. He was a wheelwright and carriage maker. The chil- dren of Simeon Russell and Carolyn (Brown) Marble were: Carolyn Louise, born in Sutton, April, 1844, married Charles Bacon, of Worcester, resides at 124 Beacon street; has children : Wil- liam, the cashier of the American Steel & Wire Co., Worcester; Elizabeth, resides with her parents in Worcester; Frederick, employed by the Brown Manufacturing Company, Providence. George Rus- sell, of whom later. William Irving, born in Sut- ton, September, 1848, was with B. A. Corbin & Sons Company for years; has been postmaster of Webster for eight years; married Emma Chase, of Webster.
(VI) George Russell Marble, son of Simeon Russell Marble (5), was born December 2, 1846, in Sutton, Massachusetts. He was but ten years old when his father died, and he came to Webster to live with Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Corbin. Mrs. Corbin was his aunt. He attended the district schools of his native town and of Webster, also attended Dudley Academy. After graduating from the academy he went to work in his uncle's shop and learned the business in all the departments. About 1876 he became the superintendent, a position he filled to the satisfaction of the firm and the em- ployes up to the hour of his death. When the business was incorporated in 1898 he was made president of the company. For many years he was the active head of the manufacturing business, buy- ing the stock and selling the product as well as superintending the manufacture. The Corbin shoe factory is well known in Worcester county and among all shoe manufacturers and dealers of the country. Three hundred hands are employed there, and it is one of the largest industries of the town.
He died suddenly of heart disease in the Adams House, Boston, September 10, 1901, while in the prime of life. His death practically ended the con- nection of the original owners of the business with the company. Chester C. Corbin, who was treas- urer of the company, was in Europe at the time of Mr. Marble's death. He came home immediately, but was not in good health and in December sold his stock, together with that of Mr. Marble, which he had purchased of the latter's estate, to Parning & Lapham, who have since conducted the business under the old name. Mr. Corbin died March 14, 1903, also of heart disease, in the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. James E. Maguire, who was secretary of the corporation, remains with the company and continues in charge of the books.
Mr. Marble was a sterling Republican, and gave freely of his time and money in the interests of the Republican party. He was for many years chair- man of the Republican town committee. He was often called upon to serve at the various conven- tions, county, congressional and state. In 1900 he represented his congressional district at the Repub- lican national convention at Philadelphia. He was a member of the Republican state committee. The resolutions of that committee express briefly the standing of Mr. Marble among those who knew him best : "With sincere mourning and common sor- row, the Republican State Committee feels the loss that has come to them in the death of George R.
Marble. They found in him a co-worker, both wise and zealous, in service strong and in judgment sound. Active and loyal, fearless and clean, fair alike to friend and foe, they have lost one of their strongest members, and a man, who by deed as well as by word, has deserved much and well of his party in the state." Mr. Marble served the town as assessor. He was an associate member of the Nathaniel Lyon Post, G. A. R.
Mr. Marble was gifted with great executive ability. He was equally successful in business and in politics, in handling men and accomplishing his purposes. The affairs of the Corbin shop were al- ways well regulated and the discipline was good, yet he was well liked. No man in Webster ever had more friends, and the number embraced htis em- ployes generally. He was one of the best busi- ness men the town has ever known. His friends ascribe his early death to over-work. He should have been spared a score of years at his desk. The Webster Times said of him: "George R. Mar- ble was a citizen we all have been proud of, and his sudden death means a great loss to the community."
He married Ellen Cornelia Waters, daughter of Reuben Waters, Jr., of Sutton. Her father was a scythe manufacturer. Her grandfather, Reuben Waters, Sr., also lived in Sutton. The only child of George Russell Marble was May Marble, born March 5, 1876. She is a graduate of the Webster high school and of Mrs. Hayes' School, Marl- borough street, Boston. She is living at home with her mother in Webster, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM ROSCOE SPOONER, town clerk of Barre, is a son of the late Marcus E. Spooner, and a descendant in the eighth generation of Wil- liam Spooner, of Plymouth and Dartmouth, through the latter's son John. From William (1), the line of descent is through John (2), John (3), Benjamin (4), Eleazer (5), Andrew (6), and Marcus E. (7).
William Spooner was an apprentice in Plymouthi in 1637, and became a freeman there June 6, 1654. His first wife, who was before marriage Elizabeth Partridge, died April 28, 1648, and on March 18, 1652, he married Hannah Pratt, daughter of Joshua Pratt. About the year 1660 he removed from Plym- outh to Dartmouth, locating in that part of the town which was afterward set off as Acushnet, and he died there in 1684. According to the records William (1) Spooner was the father of nine chil- dren, namely : John, Sarah, Samuel, Martha, Wil- liam, Isaac, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer.
John Spooner, son of William and Elizabeth (Partridge) Spooner, was born in Plymouth in or prior to 1648, and lived to be at least eighty-five years old, as he was residing in Dartmouth as late as the year 1733. He served as surveyor of high- ways for the years 1686, 1699 and 1700; as a mem- ber of the town council in 1690, as a grand juror in 1702, and was elected representative to the gen- eral court, May 18, 1710. There is no existing rec- ord of the date of his marriage or the name of his wife, but his children, born between the years 1668 and 1699, were: John, William, Jonathan, Eliza- beth, Eleanor, Phoebe, Nathan, Rebecca, Deboralı and Barnabas.
John Spooner, son of Jolin Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, July 2, 1668, and died some time be- tween March 4 and April 12, 1728. His will was dated March 4 of that year. His name frequently appears in the Dartmouth records in connection with town offices, but owing to the fact of his being contemporaneous with his father, who was also prominent in civic affairs, it is impossible to dis- tinguish officially between the senior and the junior
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