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(II) Stephen Bryant, fourth child of Stephen Bryant (I), was born at Plymouth, February 2, 1658. He settled in Plymouth and left scarcely any record of his existence except the births of his children. He married Mehitable Their children were: I. Stephen, born May 1, 1684. 2. David, born February 10, 1687. 3. William, born February 22, 1691-92. 4. Hannah. 5. Ichabod, see forward. 6. Timothy, born August 25, 1702.
(III) Ichabod Bryant, fifth child of Stephen Bryant (2), was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, July 5, 1699. He was the ancestor of William Cul- len Bryant, the poet, through his son Philip, and grandson Peter, father of William Cullen Bryant. Ichabod Bryant lived in Raynham and went from there to North Bridgewater at a time when the soil was thought to be unfit for cultivation, about 1745. He died at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, No- vember 22, 1759. He married Ruth Staples, who died May 27, 1777, aged seventy-five years. Their children, born at Raynham or Middleboro, were: I. Philip, married, 1757, Silence Harwood. 2. Nathan, died unmarried. 3. Seth, married, Febru- ary 7, 1765, Elizabeth French. 4. Job, see forward. 5. Gamaliel, settled in New Bedford. 6. Phebc, married Henry Howard. 7. Ruth, married Holmes. S. Sarah, married, 1750, Francis Cook. 9. Anna, married Robinson. 10. Prudence, died unmarried.
(IV) Job Bryant, fourth child of Ichabod Bryant (3), was born in Bridgewater or the neigh- boring town of Raynham, Massachusetts, about 1742, He was a blacksmith by trade and also a farmer. He was a soldier in the revolution. He was a private in Captain Josiah Hayden's company of Minute Men from Bridgewater at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He was in the same com- pany under General John Thomas later in the year. He was ensign in the Tenth Company, Plymouth County Regiment, in the service at Roxbury, prob- ably in 1775-76, the records not being dated. He served a year or more in the Continental army, and was in the service again at the time of the Bed- ford alarm. He lived in Bridgewater and his chil- dren were all born there. He married, May 3, 1764, Mary Turner. Their children were: I. Anna, born November 12, 1764, married, 1787, Abiel Phillips, of Easton. 2. Nathan, born September 15, 1766, married Sarah Jordan. 3. Calvin, born De- cember 16, 1768, married Rebecca Morse. 4. Job Staples, born July 19, 1772, married, 1793, Lovice Pratt. 5. Thirza, born October 4, 1774, married, 1791, Manassah Dickerman. 6. Oliver, born De- cember 21, 1774, married Nabby Ames, daughter of Timothy Ames, 1804. 7. Clement, see forward. 8. David. 9. Samuel. 10. Asa, married Mehitable and Betsey Snow, sisters. 11. Harriet, married David Dunbar, Jr.
(V) Clement Bryant, seventh child of Job Bryant (4), was born about 1785, at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was educated in that town. He learned the trade of blacksmith with his father and followed that trade throughout the active years of his life. He left Bridgewater about 1805 and went to Athol, Massachusetts, where he established him- self in business and had a shop. Previous to the war of 1812, he removed to Greenbush, New York, where he worked at his trade. From that town he enlisted in the war of 1812, and after his death his
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widow received a pension and a grant of one hun- dred and sixty acres of land, which she sold to good advantage. He was a Baptist in religion and a Whig in politics. He died in 1837. He married, at Athol, 1805, Rachel Wheeler, born May 8, 1788, died April 19, ISSI, daughter of Zacchens Wheeler. Her father was a farmer and mill owner, and her mother was a descendant of the Leland family of Massa- chusetts. Children of Clement and Rachel ( Wheeler) Bryant were: Royal, Mercy, George Quincy Adams, see forward; Mary Ann, Richard, Silence, Jonathan, Calvin Turner, see forward; Rachel.
(VI) George Quincy Adams Bryant, son of Clement Bryant (5), was born at North Orange, Massachusetts, January 9, 1819. He removed with the family to Athol, Massachusetts, attended the common schools there and also those in Crofts- bury, Vermont, for two terms. At the age of twelve he went to work for his uncle, Jonathan Wheeler, on a farm, remaining there until about fifteen years of age, when he began an apprenticeship in the manufacture of tubs, pails, boot and shoe boxes with his uncle. He worked as a journeyman in the same factory until 1843, when he came to Winchendon and engaged in the business of house painting and decorating. In 1856 he took his brother, Calvin Turner Bryant, into partnership .and they enjoyed a large and prosperous business until 1860, when they engaged in the grocery business and were as- sociated together as partners in that business until the junior member of the firm died July 14, 1906, a period of forty-six years. Since his brother's death, George Q. A. Bryant has continued the busi- ness with the aid of his son-in-law. The partner- ship of the brothers was exemplary in every respect, they having the utmost confidence, respect and af- fection for each other. Both seemed well adapted to the business and the utmost harmony of purpose and action existed. At the present writing (1906) Mr. Bryant is, with one exception, the oldest active business man in town. His firm is the oldest one in continuous business in this section of the county. The two brothers stood as monuments of integrity and honesty, as well as of business success. They had the respect and confidence of everybody, and their influence and example in the business life of the town have always been for the best.
Mr. Bryant enlisted in Company H, Fifty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in the civil war as a private, was mustered in September 2, 1862, and was promoted to the rank of third ser- geant. He was in the expedition of General N. P. Banks at New Orleans, and was also at Port Ilud- son. He was mustered out September 2, 1863, on account of illness. After his return from the ser- vice, he took a much needed rest until the following year, when he returned to the grocery business, above mentioned, which his brother had conducted during his absence. Mr. Bryant is the oldest mem- ber of the First Baptist Church, of which he has been treasurer for a period of fifty years and deacon for twenty-five years. He is also the oldest member of Gilman C. Parker Post, No. 153, Grand Army of the Republic, and carries the cane that is in turn presented to the oldest member. He has been quar- termaster, chaplain and commander of his post, has represented it on the department commander's staff and attended many encampments.
He married, October, 1842, Louise A. Roby, daughter of Moody Roby, of Peru, Vermont, who followed farming as an occupation, and who died at Manchester, Vermont, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. George Q. A. Bryant celebrated their golden wedding, 1892, and he was presented with a magnificent gold-headed
cane. Mrs. Bryant died at Winchendon, Massa- chusetts, June 20, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant had no children. They adopted Finette Miller, daughter of Mary Ann (Bryant) Miller, a sister of Mlr. Bryant. The children of Thomas and Mary Ann (Bryant) Miller: I. Joseph, a furniture dealer, cabinet maker and farmer in Athol. 2. Albert, a hotel keeper of, high repute in Athol. 3. Finette, mentioned above, married, March 17, 1874, John WV. Barnes, of Westminster, Massachusetts, who has heen with the firm of Bryant Brothers, grocers, for thirty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes had one child, Fanny Bryant Barnes, born 1876, died Decem- ber 15, 1900.
(VI) Calvin Turner Bryant, eighth child of Clement Bryant (5), was born at Athol, Massachu- setts, June II, 1830. He received his education up to the age of fourteen in his native town, and when not in school worked for his uncle, Jonathan Wheeler, in his chair factory. In the spring of 1848 he went to Worcester and worked for a year in the restaurant of George Geer, and when the business was sold to Mr. Underwood he continued with him for a time, subsequently purchasing the restaurant from him. At the expiration of six months he sold it to good advantage, and later started another res- taurant on Front street under the firm name of Bryant & Page. A year later he abandoned this business and went to work as a burnisher in the Allen & Thurber pistol shops.
He caught the gold fever and went to California in 1851, and during the four years he remained there accumulated considerable money. In the spring of 1856 he made another western trip, including lowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas. He was in Law- rence, Kansas, during the Border Ruffian distur- bances. In September of 1856 he returned to Massa- chusetts and engaged in business as a house painter in Winchendon. He went to Pike's Peak at the time of the discovery of gold in 1859, but his trip was a failure, and he joined a party of prospectors who decided to go to California, a journey of twenty- two hundred miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, to the gold fields, in ox teams. He remained in Cali- fornia a year, and then returned to Winchendon, Massachusetts, and resumed the house painting busi- ness, which he conducted there until 1860, when he and his brother, George Q. A. Bryant, engaged in the grocery business. This venture proved profit- able and Mr. Bryant was active in the business until his death, July 14, 1906, a period of forty-six years.
The Bryant Brothers were recognized as among the most substantial merchants of the town. In 1857 Calvin T. Bryant erected the building in which the business has since been carried on. In 1861 he built his residence on Pleasant street, wherein he resided until his death. He was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Winchendon. In politics he was a Republican, took an active part in conventions and in party affairs, and acted in the capacity of overseer of the poor of the town for several years. He was a director of the Winchen- don Co-Operative Bank from its incorporation until his death. He was thoroughly identified with the business and social life of the town, and was one of the best known and most highly esteemed citi- zens. His death was due to apoplexy and came al- most without warning ; he was able to conduct busi- ness up to within a few hours of his death. During his funeral all the business places of the town were closed as a last token of respect. Interment was in the family lot in Riverside cemetery, Winchendon.
He married, October 9, 1860, Almeda Dexter, of Royalston, born January 2, 1830, daughter of Ebenezer Wheeler and Cynthia ( Walker) Dexter.
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Mr. Dexter was born March 24, 1780, died 1860; he was a farmer and mill owner, and held many public offices in the town of Royalston. His wife was born December 19, 1799, died May, 1870. Children of . Calvin Turner and Almeda (Dexter) Bryant : I. Flora Almeda, born November 21, 1861, teacher in Winchendon public schools. 2. Waldo Calvin, born December 17, 1863, see forward.
(VII) Waldo Calvin Bryant, son of Calvin Turner Bryant (6), was born at Winchendon, Massachusetts, December 17, 1863. He attended the public schools of his native town. At the age of fourteen he started to learn the machinist trade at the shops of Baxter D. Whitney, Winchendon, by working during his school vacations. At the age of sixteen, after finishing his course of study at the grammar school, he entered Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, preparing for the Worcester Poly- technic Institute in one year. He was graduated in 1884, at the age of twenty, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He immediately entered the employ of the Thomson-Houston Electric Com- pany in their expert department at Lynn, Massa- chusetts. He remained there one month and was transferred to Bridgeport, Connecticut, as assistant to George Cutter, to operate the local electric light plant, remaining there until the spring of 1885, when the local company took charge of the plant, and he went to Waterbury to take a similar position with the Waterbury Electric Light Company. He re- mained in Waterbury until October, 1888, when, hav- ing invented the Bryant Push and Pull Switch dur- ing the summer of that year, he came to Bridgeport and started in the business of making electric light supplies under the name of The Bryant Electric Company.
His parents pledged the old homestead in Win- chendon and thus raised a thousand dollars, which they loaned him to help him start and that sum rep- resented his entire capital. He took out several patents on electric lighting devices and continued their manufacture in a small way until 1889, when he incorporated the Bryant Electric Company in July, 1889, with a capital stock of five thousand dollars, of which three was paid in. The business grew from this time to its present proportions with a capitalization of two million, five hundred thous- and dollars. Mr. Bryant is president, treasurer, general manager and director of the concern. He is also director of the Bridgeport National Bank, trustee of the Bridgeport Savings Bank and director of the Siemon Hard Rubber Company. He is a mem- ber of the Union League Club of New York City, Lawyers' Club of New York, American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Seaside Club, Country Yacht Club, University Club of Bridgeport and the Union League Club of New Haven, Connecticut.
He married, April 6, 1887, Ida Gerald, of New London, Connecticut, and they have two children : 1. Waldo Gerald, horn July 30, 1891. 2. Doris, born March 26, 1902.
PEIRCE FAMILY. John Peirce (1) was the immigrant ancestor of Mrs. Almira (Peirce) Jolin- son, of Milford, Massachusetts. His home in Eng- land was in Norwich, Norfolk county. He was a weaver by trade. He was forty-nine years old April 8, 1637, when with his wife Elizabeth, aged thirty-six, and children John, Barbara, Judith and Elizabeth, they passed the examination to go to New England. They had a servant, John Gedney. He was admitted a freeman, March, 1637-8, at Watertown, where he made his home and where many of his descendants have lived. He died there August 19, 1661. His will was dated March 7,
1657-58, and proved October 1, 1661, bequeathing to his wife Elizabeth and son Anthony and the "rest of his children." The widow died March 12, 1666, aged about seventy-nine years. Her will names children: Anthony, Robert, John, Esther Morse and Mary Coldham; granddaughters: Esther and Mary Ball, children of her daughter Elizabeth; John, son of Anthony; Judah, daughter (sic) of Robert. Children of John and Elizabeth Peirce were: 1. Anthony, born in England, 1609. 2. Esther, married, 1636, Joseph Morse, Jr. 3. Mary, married Clement Coldham. 4. Robert, born about 1620, married, Mary Knight. 5. John. 6. Barbara. 7. Elizabeth, married, 1643, John Ball, Jr. 8. Judith, married, January 30, 1644-5, Francis Wyman.
(II) Anthony Peirce, son of John Peirce (1), was born in England, 1609, and was admitted a freeman, September 3, 1634, at Watertown. He is the progenitor of practically all of this surname in the section about Watertown, Waltham, Lex- ington and Weston. His homestall was in the north side of the road from Cambridge to Water- town, west of John Stowers lot, where the par- sonage was located later, occupied by Rev. Mr. Angier and other ministers. The Peirce homestead was owned afterward by Anthony's sons, Joseph and Benjamin. He married (first) Sarah
who died 1633. Married (second), Ann who died January 20, 1682-3. He died May 9, 1678. His will was dated September 6, 1671. Their chil- dren were: I. John; married Ruth Bishop. 2. Mary, born October 20, 1633. 3. Mary, born 1636, married Ralph Read. 4. Jacob, born September 15, 1637. 5. Daniel, see forward. 6. Martha, born April 24, 1641. 7. Joseph, admitted freeman, April 18, 1670. 8. Benjamin, born 1649, admitted free- man, April 18, 1690. 9. Judith, born July 18, 1650.
(III) Daniel Peirce, fifth child of Abrahanı Peirce (2), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, January 1, 1639-40. He married Elizabeth
born 1642. They settled in Groton, Massachusetts, where five of their children were born. They re- turned to Watertown about 1681. He owned the covenant in the Watertown Church, January 16, 1686-7, and his wife Elizabeth and three children were baptized. His will was made February 22, 1723, and presented to the court, April 19, 1723; it names his wife Elizabeth, sons Daniel, Ephraim, Joseph; daughter Abigail, unmarried; daugliters Hannah Smith, Mary Scripter, Elizabeth Mixter. Children of Daniel and Elizabeth Peirce were: I. Elizabeth, born at Groton, May 16, 1665. 2. Daniel, born November 28, 1666. 3. John, born August 18, 1668. 4. Ephraim, born October 15, 1673. 5. Joseph, born May 2, 1675. 6. Joseph, see forward. 7. Abigial, born January 3, 1681-2. 8. Hannalı, bap- tized January 16, 1686-7. 9. Benjamin, baptized January 16, 1686-7. 10. Mary.
(IV) Joseph Peirce, sixth child of Daniel Peirce (3), was born about 1678. He married, De- cember 30, 1698, Mary Warren, daughter of Cap- tain John Warren; she was born May 25, 1675. He was selectman of Waltham in 1738-39-42. He died there in 1747. Children of Joseph and Mary ( War- ren) Peirce were. I. Isaac, see forward. 2. Mary, born February 28, 1702-03. 3. Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 23, 1703-04. 4. Sarah, born September II, 1705. 5. Lydia, born March 11, 1706-07. 6. Eunice, born February 11, 1708-09. 7. Grace, born April 27, 1711. 8. Prudence, born August 2, 1713. 9. Lois, born January 21, 1715-16. 10. Ruhamah, born January 12, 1717-18.
(V) Isaac Peirce, eldest son of Joseph Peirce (4), was born in Waltham, September 19, 1700. He married, September 7, 1722, Susanna Bemis, per-
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haps the daughter of Ephraim Bemis. They lived in Waltham and Lexington. He was selectman of Waltham in 1744-45-53. Children of Isaac and Susanna (Bemis) Peirce, born in Lexington, were : I. Josiah, see forward. 2. Joseph, born November 23, 1724, married Ruth White and settled in Wo- burn, Massachusetts. 3. Abijah, born May 23, 1727, captain. 4. Abijah, born August 12, 1729. 5. Susannah, born May 22, 1732. 6. Mary, born June 22, 1735. 7. Isaac, born March 24, 1738, removed to Waltham.
(VI) Josiah Peirce, eldest child of Isaac Peirce (5), was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. February 13, 1723. He married Sarah Gale, March 14, 1744; she was born November 30, 1726. They settled in Worcester where, March 7, 1774, he was elected one of three commissioners of the town "to take into consideration the acts of the British parlia- ment for raising revenues for the colonies." In May of the same year he reported instructions to the general court by order of the town. Prior to the war and during the struggle with Great Britain, he was one of the most important and influential citi- zens of Worcester. He had sixteen children, of whom fourteen were living at the time of his death in 1806; he had also seventy-seven grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren living. Chil- I. dren of Josiah and Sarah (Gale) Peirce were : Jolını, born October 12, 1745. 2. Oliver, born March 12, 1746. 3. Susanna, born October 2, 1747. 4 Sarah, born July 26, 1750. 5. Josiah, born May 7, 1752. 6. Mary, born April 20, 1754, died April 22, 1754. 7. Molly, born December 15, 1755, married, November 21, 1776, Daniel Heywood. 8. Joseph, born March 6, 1757. 9. Lydia, born November 28, 1759. 10. Levi, see forward. II. Azubah, born Sep- tember 25, 1762. 12. Byfield, born January 30, 1764. 13. Abijah, born September 22, 1765. 14. Joel, born August 27, 1767. 15. Hannah, born January 27, 1770. 16. Jervis, born November 8, 1771. All the foregoing were born in Worcester. Three of the sons were revolutionary soldiers.
(VII) Levi Peirce, tenth child of Josiah Peirce (6), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 15, 1761. He became an enrolled soldier at Worcester at the age of seventeen years and ren- dered material aid to his country as a sergeant dur- ing the latter part of the revolutionary war. He was a member of Morning Star Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Worcester, and a surveyor by profession. He married, April 9, 1789, Persis Robinson, of Lex- ington, and settled in West Boylston, which ad- joins Worcester. He died there December 27, 1833. His wife, Persis (Robinson) Peirce, was born in Lexington, January 25, 1767, died in West Boylston, February 14, 1838. Their children were: I. John, born June 23, 1790, married Martha Buck. 2. Nancy, born August 15, 1792, married Samuel Dorrison. 3. Levi, born October 14, 1794, married (first) Polly Merriam ; married (second), Mrs. Roxanna Wilcox. 4. Josiah, born September 13, 1796, married Sally Merriam and Mrs. Hannah Walker. 5. Almira, see forward. 6. Ezra B., born February 7, 1807, married, September 14, 1834, Mary S. Bigelow. 7. Persis, born August 11, 1809, married Amory Pol- lard.
Persis (Robinson) Peirce, wife of Levi Peirce, was the youngest child of James and Margaret Robinson, and a descendant of William Robinson, of Cambridge. William Robinson (1), the emi- grant, was born in England about 1640. He was a settler in Cambridge in 1678, but had lived before that at Watertown and Concord. He died 1695-6. Children of William and Elizabeth Robinson were: I. Elizabeth. 2. Hannah (Ann), born at Concord,
July 13, 1671, died at Cambridge, 1672. 3. William, born July 10, 1673, at Concord. 4. Mercy, born August 7, 1676, at Concord. 5. David, born May 23, 1678. 6 and 7. Samuel and Jonathan, twins, born April 20, 16So.
Jonathan Robinson (2), son of William Robin- son, the emigrant, and grandfather of Persis (Rob- inson) Peirce, mentioned above, was born April 20, 1780, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died in 1753. He was a weaver by trade, and settled in Lexington. The Lexington history gives his birth at 1682. He married, June 19, 1706, Ruth Morse, born April 15, 1684, died April 25, 1759, and their children were : I. Jonathan, born February 25, 1706-07. 2. Ruth, born January 29, 1708-09. 3. Abigail, born February 4, 1710-II. 4. James, born August 30, 1715. 5. Lydia, born August 29, 1718. 6. Hannah, born January 8, 1720-21.
James Robinson (3), son of Jonathan Robinson, and father of Persis (Robinson) Peirce, was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, August 30, 1715, and died there August 12, 1774. He had two wives and eleven children. Three of his sons, Joseph, Asa and James, were in the revolutionary war.
(VIII) Almira Peirce, daughter of Levi Peirce (7), was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, June 24, 1804, died at Milford, December 25, 1905. She was a woman of wonderful character and abil- ities. She lived to the extreme age of one hundred and one years, six months and one day, and except for partial blindness and slight deafness, died in the possession of all her faculties. She was beloved and reverenced by all. The portrait in this work was taken in November, 1904, when she was one hundred years and five months old. She was the oldest mem- ber of the Woman's Relief Corps in the United States, being a member of Major E. F. Fletcher Corps, No. 72, of Milford, Massachusetts, also a "Real Daughter" of Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chap- ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and a member of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revo- lution, of Washington, D. C. She married, at West Boylston, July 6, 1826, Captain Nathaniel Johnson, of Leominster, born August 6, 1799, died at Clinton, May 8, 1884. Captain Johnson was a prominent citizen, being captain for many years of of the Lancaster Artillery Company and later the Leominster Artillery Company. He was also an expert comb maker. Children of Captain Nathaniel and Almira (Peirce) Johnson were: 1. Lieutenant James Nathaniel, born June 20, 1828, at Leominster, served with honor throughout the civil war, retain- ing with badly broken health, and never recovered from his disabilities; he died at Clinton, Massachu- setts, August 17, 1875. 2. Charles Ezra, born at Leominster, August 30, 1830. 3. Mary Stone, born at Lancaster, August 13, 1832. 4. Joseph Peirce, born at Lancaster, August 25, 1834, see forward. 5. Almira Peirce, born at Lancaster, March 28, 1844, married David Henry Hayter, see forward.
David Henry Hayter, deputy sheriff of Worcester, Massachusetts, was born in Elgin, Province of Quebec, April 10, 1845, second son of Jesse and Margaret (Henry) Hayter. His father, a native of England, was a carpenter by trade, and later in life carried on farming. His mother was a native cf Scotland, as she, as well as her husband, is now deceased. David H. Hayter was educated in the public schools of his native town. At the age of fifteen years he began to learn the trade of printer, and soon after finishing his apprenticeship was a compositor in the offices of the Burlington (Ver- mont) Free Press and Times, working his way for- ward to the position of foreman of the composing
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room of the Free Press. In the year 1865 he he- came connected with the Clinton ( Massachusetts , Courant, and served in the different departments of that journal until 1875, when he entirely relinquished the newspaper business for official life. Mr. Hayter was elected truant officer by the selectmen of Clin- ton, Massachusetts, in 1876, and served in that capacity for three years, and as constable and police officer of the town until 1885, when in June of that year he was appointed a member of the State Dis- trict Police by Governor Robinson and assigned to the detective department of that force. He was re-appointed in 1888, and transferred to Worcester. In January, 1893, he was appointed a deputy sheriff by Sheriff Chamberlain, which position he honorably held until his death. Mr. Hayter was a member of Trinity Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Clinton ; Clinton Royal Arch Chapter; Worcester County Command- ery, K. T., and all the Scottish Rite bodies in Worcester; Massachusetts Consistory, and Aleppo Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Boston; he was also a member of Stella Chapter, No 3, Order of the Eastern Star, of Worcester; an honorary member of Clara Barton Chapter, No. 63, O. E. S., of Ox- ford; a member of Gesang Verein Frohsinn, and an honorary member of the Worcester Continentals. Thoroughly upright and honorable in all his deal- ings with his fellow mortals, of a remarkably genial and social nature, responding generously to all who needed aid from his purse or his strong arm, he was a nobleman in the truest sense of the word. He died in Worcester, February 2, 1905, of tumor on the brain, after an illness of six weeks. His body lies buried in the family lot in Pine Grove ceme- tery, Milford, Massachusetts. On December 25, 1871, Mr. Hayter married Mira Peirce Johnson, second daughter of Captain Nathaniel Johnson, of Clinton.
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