Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. III, Part 60

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 772


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(VI) Lewis Marsh, son of Hartshorn Marsh (5), was born at Barre, Massachusetts, October 29, 1779 (See probate records corroborating Holden


record). He attended school in that locality. He was a farmer. A man of great physical strength, which was a family characteristic, he was noted as a wrestler. He died at Barre, August 22. 1851. He married, November 27, 1806, Hannah Stow, born June 15, 1785, died April 28, 1877, daughter of Hiram and Lydia (Brooks) Stow, of Grafton, Massachusetts. She was also a person of unusual strength and it is related that she often lifted a barrel of flour into the wagon unassisted. Their children: 1. Lewis, Jr., born July 5, 1807, sce for- ward. 2. Leonard, born March 21, 1809, died Junie 24, 1900. 3. Louisa, born September 22, 1811, died August 14, 1905; married, April 9, 1835, Samuel Lee, 2d. 4. Lyman Fiske, born February 4, 1814. 5. Levi, born May 16, 1817. 6. Lucy, born Novem- ber 16. 1819. at New Braintree, died December 23, 1904. 7. Luther, born December 29, 1822, at Hard- wick, died October 17. 1862; married, 1849, Lydia Cobb, of Hardwick. 8. Loana, born at Hardwick May 30, 1825. The two last named are recorded at Barre as born at Hardwick, the others all at Barre.


(VI) Thaddeus Marsh, son of Hartshorn Marsh (5), was born at Barre, in 1791, and died there February 24, 1842. He was a farmer. He mar- ried (first) (intentions dated July 16, 1812), at Barre. Eunice Thompson, of Wendell. He mar- ried (second) Mary Wheeler Carroll, born Novem- ber 21, 1796, died May 28, 1887, daughter of Jedu- than and Zerviah Carroll. The only child of the first marriage was Hiram. The only child of the second marriage was Charles Wheeler, born Decem- ber II. 1829, see forward.


(VII) Lewis Marsh, Jr., son of Lewis Marsh (6), was born at Barre, Massachusetts, July 5, 1807. He received a common school education in his native town, going to work when about nine years old for Joseph Robinson at Barre. Later he learned the shoemaker's trade and followed it for some years in Barre and neighboring' towns. He also worked at his trade in Waltham. He was a skillful craftsman when it was a work of art to make a good shoe. He had a general store in Framing- ham and at another time in Barre. He opened a general store in Jeffersonville, town of Holden, in the section called Eagleville, about 1856, and con- tinued there a number of years. He resumed his trade of custom shoe making also. In 1865 he purchased a farm in the western part of Holden and conducted it for eight years in connection with his shoemaking. He sold the farm to Albert Pres- cott, who owned it some eight years. Mr. Marsh remained a tenant on the farm, however, and fin- ally the old place was bought back by his son, Cor- nelius Marsh, and he remained there until his death, October 13, 1895. In politics he was a Whig, later a Republican.


He married, at Barre, February 9, 1835. Lucy Trowbridge Whiting, bort at Barre, September 29, 1814, daughter of Amos and Lydia (Stone) Whit- ing, of Barre. Their children: 1. John Lyman. 2. Abbie Louise, born December 3. 1839, died Sep- tember 25, 1843. 3. Harrison, born June 27, 1844, unmarried. 4. Marrill, born May 5. 1846, died July 3. 1846. 5. Cornelius, born January 29, 1849, see


forward. 6. Sarah Jane, born November 8, 1850, married. April 22, 1868. Franklin J. Ames, of Worcester, and they have children-Emily Frances, horn September 11, 1868, married Albert E. Davis ; Marv Augusta, born November 29, 1869. married Fred J. Arnold and has Vera May, born March 12, 1800: Frederick Everett, born March 20, 1872, mar- ried Bertha J. Corning, of Connecticut, and has


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Everett Francis ; Albert Dwight, born October I. 1875. 7. Norton, married Nettie Coombs, of Worcester.


(VIII) Cornelius Marsh, son of Lewis Marsh (7), was born at Holden, Massachusetts, January 29. 1848. He received his education in the common schools, and worked on the farm with his father until he came of age. In 1870 he entered the em- ploy of the Worcester Insane Asylum as driver of the hospital coach, taking out the inmates for their daily drive for four years. He returned to work on his father's farm for a short time and then found employment in Worcester in the city stables on Salem street, and for seven years was in charge. He then hired the Deacon William Chamberlain farm at Paxton. Two years later he bought the Lilly farm at Oxford, and in connection with his dairy had a milk route in the adjoining town of Webster for a year or more. He exchanged this farm for a place at 76 Piedmont street, Worcester, and became night watchman at the city stables, a place he held some eight years. He exchanged his Piedmont strcet place for property on Fairfield street, which he sold to his brother-in-law. May- nard H. Pettigrew. He then bought the old Winn place in Holden, in the western part of the town on the road to Rutland, where he lived until April, 1906, when he sold his farm and bought a place in Worcester, No. 2 Wendell Terrace, where he now resides. He is a Baptist in religion and a Republican in politics. He has been a member of the Holden Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, No. 140. He married, September 25, 1873, Matilda Abbie Friend, born at Sedgwick, Maine, July 30. 1848, daughter of William Allen and Jane (Joyce) Friend. The children: I. Alice Rose, born October 26, 1874, died April 25, 1876. 2. Inez Evelyn, born September 11, 1876, married, May 16, 1895, Francis Marion Clark, of Spencer, and they have two chil- dren-Walter Ingalls, born October 13. 1896, and Howard Edward, born April 4, 1906. 3. William Lewis, born December 26, 1878, died April 26, 1890. 4. Lucie Emma, born September 15, 1879, resides at home. 5. Annabel, born December 4, 1881. 6. Vin- nie Gertrude, born September 5, 1885. 7. Lincoln Friend, born January 26, 1887, died February 16, 1887. 8. Ethel Rose, born December 20, 1888.


(VII) Charles Wheeler Marsh, son of Thad- deus Marsh (6), was born at Providence, Rhode Island, December 11, 1829. He came with his mother to Worcester when he was an infant. He attended the public schools there and then learned the trade of stone cutter under his uncle, Thomas Lewis, whose shop was then on Waldo street. After a number of years with Mr. Lewis he left to en- gage in business for himself in the same line. He established himself in a shop on Mechanic street. near the Union street bridge of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and continued there for a short time. Owing to the ill health of his wife he decided to try farming and sold his business to Mr. Walker. He bought of the Willis Smith estate a fifty acre farm in the northwest part of the town of Holden near the Rutland line. He also established himself in the stone cutting and monument business in Holden in addition to his farming. He retired from husiness about a year before his death. He died December 3, 1864. He was a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics. He was superin- tendent of his school district.


He married, May 29, 1851. Samantha Mallissa Austin, born at Franklin, Vermont, November 25, 1827, daughter of David Brown and Rebecca (Hunt) Austin. Her father was a farmer and blacksmith. Their children : I. Charles Herbert.


born March 10, 1852, see forward. 2. Frank Ed- ward. born August 31, 1855, married (first) Emma H. Prue, of Holden, and (second) Nellie F. Turner, of Bangor, Maine. 3. George Austin, born July 10, 1868, married Atlanta Tuttle, of Littleton, Massachusetts, and they have five children-Frances Tuttle, born July 21, 1886; Austin Gerry, born Sep- tember 20, 1887; Caroline Laurence, born Novem- ber 1, 1889; George Wallace: Helen. 4. Carrie Rebecca, born February 14, 1861, married Frank L. Howe, of Holden, and they have one child, Mabel Emma, born March 1, 1891.


(VIII) Charles Herbert Marsh, son of Charles Wheeler Marsh (7), was born at Worcester, March 10, 1852. When he was three years old his parents moved to Holden, where he received his early edu- cation in the public schools. His father died when he was only twelve years old and he had to work out on the farm of Daniel Damon, attending school during the winter terms. He returned home after a few years and spent the remainder of his minority helping his mother run the homestead, working out part of the time. Just before he came of age he began to learn the trade of dye maker in the shop of Davis & Reed. For about six years he followed his trade, then he entered partnership with his brother, Frank E. Marsh, and bought the business of Marsh & Pendergast, dealers in meats and pro- visions, Holden. His brother had been senior part- ner in the old firm. The Marsh Brothers began business in 1878


and had a thriving trade for many years. He remained in the firm some time after his brother retired, but gradually de- veloped an ice and coal business that required all his attention. He left the meat business and also sold out his coal business. He remained in the ice business in which he prospered to the time of his death. February 14. 1903. His son, Harry Austin Marsh, succeeded him in business. In addition to the ice business Mr. Marsh did considerable build- ing, moving and teaming. He built a handsome residence in Jefferson about 1888. He was highly respected and enjoyed the fullest confidence of his townsmen. He was a Baptist in religion. In poli- tics he was a Republican and frequently was chosen delegate to the nominating conventions of his party. He was selectman of the town of Holden for six years. He was member of the Holden Grange Patrons of Husbandry.


He married, October 17, 1875, Clara Kendall (Rawson), a daughter by adoption of Edward A. and Mary G. (Sawin) Kendall, of Gardner, Massa- chusetts. Her father was a chairmaker. (The an- cestry of the Gardner family of Kendall is given in this work. Their children: I. Ida Clara, born January 5. 1877, married, April 19, 1902, Jolin P. Neily, of Nova Scotia. and they had one child, Charles Edward, born December 14, 1903. 2. Ed- ward Dexter, born July 30, 1878, clerk in Worces- ter. 3. George Herbert, born January 25, 1880. married, November 26, 1903, Olive Angeline Howe, of Holden. 4. Harry Austin, born November 13, 1881, living at home. 5. Charles Arthur, born Sep- tember 2. 1883, employed in wood-working depart- ment of Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, Worcester. 6. Frank Eugene, born May 18. 1885. 7. Sarah Belle, born July 25, 1886. 8. Carrie Louise, born November 24, 1887. 9. Walter Ashton, born March 15, 1898.


GEORGE B. BUCKINGHAM. Thomas Buck- ingham (1). ancestor of all the American Buck- ingham families, was the progenitor of George B. Buckingham, of Worcester, Massachusetts. He was one of the company to which Eaton and Hopkins,


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two London merchants, and the two ministers, Davenport and Prudden, belonged. This company sailed from London in two vessels, the Hector and the -, and arriver at Boston, in New England. June 26, 1637. They sailed for Quinnipack, now New Haven, March 30, 1638, and arrived, after a fortnight's journey, in April, 1638.


The name of Thomas Buckingham is found under the heading "Names of Planters and Divi- sion of Land according to Estate and Heads of Families." from which it appears that he had at that time four persons in his family, an estate of sixty pounds (his share in the enterprise) and that he received thirteen acres of upland, two and a half acres of the Neck and five of meadow in the first division. In the second division he received twenty acres. His home lot was in Mr. Gregson's quarter on the square now bounded by Chapel, Crown, Church and College streets. It is probably the same lot on which the house stood where Lyman Beecher was born.


Thomas Buckingham removed to Milford, Con- necticut. in 1639. and was one of the company of which Peter Prudden was the pastor, who first settled the town of Milford. The church was or- ganized at New Haven, August 22, 1639, and Thomas Buckingham was one of the seven charter members. He died while on a visit to Boston for the purpose of securing a pastor for the church. 1657. His name is fifth on the list of Free Planters in Milford, November 29, 1639. His home lot, con- sisting of three acres, was a little above the pres- ent location of the Second Congregational Church, to the right, on the corner where the old Bryan house stands (1849), and was then owned by de- scendants on the mother's side. Buckingham drew other land from time to time. His will was made September 19, 1657. He married Hannah in England. She joined the church, February 9, 1639. at New Haven. She bore him five children. He married (second) Ann -, who died at Milford, 1687 (will made March 18, 1686-87). Chil- dren of Thomas and Hannah Buckingham were : I. Hannah, born in England, 1632, married 'Thomas Welch, who was a representative to the Connecti- cut general court in 1665, died in 1681; she had five children and died 1684. 2. Daniel, born in Eng- land, 1636, married Hannah Fowler, daughter of Sergeant William Fowler, and (second) Mrs. Alice Newton. 3. Samuel, see forward. 4. Mary, bap- tized at Milford. March 27, 1643. 5. Thomas, bap- tized November 8, 1646.


(II) Samuel Buckingham, second son of Thomas Buckingham (I), the Puritan, was born in 1641, baptized at Milford. Connecticut, June 13, 1641. He married, December 14. 1663, Sarah Baldwin, daughter of Timothy Baldwin, one of the first set- tlers of Milford. They were admitted to full com- munion in the church at Milford. April 9. 1692. He died March 17. 1699-1700. His will was dated October 6, 1692. It mentions his wife and children. The children of Samuel Buckingham were: I. Sarah, born January 8. 1664. 2. Mary. horn Oc- tober 3. 1666. at Milford, Connecticut, died young. 3. Samuel, horn at Milford, October 7. 1667, died young. 4. Samuel. see forward. 5. Hannah. born March 27, 1670-71, buried May 2, 1671. 6. Thomas. born June 25, 1672. 7. Anna. born June 17, 1674. probably died unmarried. 8. Mary, born March 13, 1676. g. Hester or Esther, born May 4. 1677. no evidence of marriage found. Io. Ruth, baptized May 16, 1681, no evidence of marriage found.


(III) Samuel Buckingham, son of Samuel Buck- ingham (2), was born at Milford. Connecticut. November I, 1668. He was admitted to the church


at Milford, April 9, 1691. He married Sarah , who was admitted to full communion in the church, May 17, 1696. He was one of the pro- prietors of the town of New Milford, Connecticut, although he never moved there. He remained in Milford, where he died, October 29, 1708. The children of Samuel Buckingham were: I. Samuel, see forward. 2. Ebenezer, baptized December 22. 1695. 3. Sarah, born April 4, 1697, married Samuel Baird. 4. Thomas, born 1699, married Mary Wood- ruff, January 9, 1723. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Esther, born February 1, 1701, died unmarried. 7. Nathaniel, born 1702. 8. Mary, born 1703.


(IV) Samuel Buckingham, son of Samuel Buck- ingham (3), was born at Milford, Connecticut, bap- tized there November 21, 1693. He married Silence Clark, May 20. 1714. He settled in Milford, al- though he had land deeded to him in New Milford, there is no evidence that he ever lived there. He died in old Milford, December 29, 1749, aged about fifty-six years. Children of Samuel Buckingham were: I. Sarah, born April 25, 1716, married Fern. 2. Deborah, born March 23. 1718, married Thomas Clark. 3. Abigail, born Novem- her 19, 1720, married Daniel Clark. 4. Ann, born March 16, 1723, married Baird. 5. Samuel, born September 11, 1725, died 1750. 6. Ebenezer, see forward. 7. Esther, born April 17, 1730, mar- ried Jehiel Bryan. 8. Jared, born October 16, 1732. 9. Nathan. 10. Elizabeth, born April II. 1738, died unmarried. 11. Enoch, born December 15, 1741.


(V) Ebenezer Buckingham. son of Samuel Buckingham (4), was born at Milford. Connecticut, December 10, 1727. He married Abigail Andrews, April 10, 1755. He removed from Milford to Ox- ford, Connecticut, as early as 1765, and died there October 6, 1798. Children of Ebenezer Bucking- ham were: 1. Abigail, born June 13. 1760. mar- ried David Candee. 2. Sarah, born March 1, 1762, married Luke Bonnell. 3. Ebenezer, born Novem- ber 28, 1764, married Olive Woodruff. 4. Samuel A .. see forward. 5. Mary, born September 21. 1769, married Lewis, lived and died at Wood- bridge, Connecticut.


(VI) Samuel A. Buckingham, son of Ebenezer Buckingham (5), was born at Oxford, Connecticut, January I, 1768. Married (first) Esther Norton ; she died March 4, 1802. He married (second) Mary Camp, who died December 18, 1815. He had four children by his first wife and two hy the second. The children of Samuel A. Buckingham were: I. Sherman, born October. 1791, at Oxford, Connec- ticut, married Polly Candee. 2. Aurelius, see for- ward. 3. Esther. born April 14, 1796, married Har- vey Beebe. 4. Clark, born April 21, 1797, married Elsey Reynolds. 5. James A .. born April 20, 1809, married Anna Smith. 6. Mary, born May II, 18II, married Frederick Candee.


(VII) Deacon Aurelius Buckingham, son of Samuel A. Buckingham (6), was born at Oxford, Connecticut, November 30, 1793. He married Laura Beebe or Beecher, November 30, 1815. She was born April 16, 1794. They settled at Oxford. where he conducted a farm. He was for a long term of years deacon of the Congregational church there. Children of Deacon Aurelius Buckingham were: I. Philo B., see forward. 2. Harriet Esther, born Sep- tember 3. 1823, married Henry W. Chatfield, April 9, 1841.


(VIII) Colonel Philo B. Buckingham, son of Deacon Aurelius Buckingham (7). was born at Ox- ford. Connecticut. June 6. 1820. He married Sally C. Perkins. Octoher 12, 1842. She was born June T. 1823. Colonel Buckingham began life as a farmer in his native town. During the winter months


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he taught school, from 1840 to 1849. Then he was for twelve years railroad agent, during which he held many other positions of trust and honor in the town of Seymour, where he moved about 1851. He was chairman of the board of school visitors, treasurer of the Savings Bank and was ap- pointed by the supreme court receiver of the Bank of North America, at Seymour, when it failed. He was elected to the state senate from the fifth sena- torial district in 1855. He engaged extensively in manufacturing interests of various kinds, such as copper, silk and car axles.


He was a man of intense patriotism. When the civil war broke out he closed up his business as soon as he could and raised a company of volun- teers, enlisting as a private in the company. He was, however, elected captain by the company and the company entered the service as Company I, Twentieth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, en- listed for three years. Before he received his com- mission as captain, he was appointed major of the regiment, and as major he was mustered into the service. He left the state with the regiment Sep- temiber II, 1862, and went first to Capitol Hill. Thence they proceeded to Arlington Heights. Harpers Ferry, London, Valley of Virginia. to Fair- fax Station, Stafford Court House and Fredericks- burg. He missed the battle of Fredericksburg, however, as his regiment, being attached to the Twelfth Army Corps, was held in reserve during the battle, or rather it was so much delayed in the deep mud that it did not arrive in time for the battle. The regiment marched back to Stafford Court Mouse and he was in camp there until the spring of 1863. He was in the battle of Chancellors- ville, May 1, 2, and 3, 1863, acting as staff officer. He had been detailed as acting inspector-general of the First Division of the Twelfth Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He was in the battle of Gettysburg. July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, serving in the same capacity. He followed Lee's army in its re- treat back to the Rapidan river, where the Union army remained in camp several weeks. During that time he was sick with typhoid fever in the hospital at Washington. In September, 1863, two army corps, to one of which he belonged, were transferred from the Army of the Potomac in Vir- ginia to the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee. They took cars at Bealton Station on the Orange & Alexander Railroad, passed through Washing- ton to the Relay House on the Baltimore & Ohio, through Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, and Dayton, Ohio, to Indianapolis, Indiana, then to Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. They halted at Tullahoma, whence his division was ordered in pursuit of Forrest's cavalry. In the winter of 1863-64 the two army corps were engaged in guard- ing the railroad from Nashville to Chattanooga whence supplies were brought for the camp. He went from there to Atlanta, Georgia. He was then detailed as assistant inspector-general of the Twelfth Army Corps. acting in that capacity until March. 1864. He was then promoted to licutenant-colonel and rejoined his regiment. From that time he had command of his regiment most of the time until September. 1864. He was present with the regiment in the skirmish at Buzzard's Roost near Dalton. Georgia : he was in the two days battle at Resaca ; at the battles at Cassville and of Peach Tree Creek : at the skirmish of Turner's Ferry and at the six weeks siege and the capture of Atlanta, Georgia. He was in command of a brigade by seniority and made the famous march to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah, during which skirmishes occurred al- most daily during the march for thirty-four days.


The army subsisted solely on rice and coffee for seven or eight days. He was with the army in front of Savannah and made the march in com- mand of his regiment. He led his regiment from Savannah through South Carolina and North Caro- lina to Goldborough, and was present at the battles of Silver Run, Averysboro and Bentonville in North Carolina, at the capture of Columbia, South Caro- lina, and at several skirmishes at various places on the march during two months from Savannah to Goldsborough. He was present at the surrender of Johnson's army, forty miles northwest of Releigh, North Carolina, which was about the closing scene of the civil war. He made the march in command of his regiment from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Richmond, Virginia. He was brevetted colonel for gallant conduct during the campaign in Georgia and the Carolinas. He was ordered from Washing- ton to New Haven with his regiment, which was mustered out of the service June 27, 1865.


During his connection with the army he kept an accurate journal and deserves the honor of being historian of the regiment. Many of the chapters and descriptions in the "Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the War," by Crofut & Mor- ris, were written by him. At the close of the war he lectured for several months and established or- ganizations to raise funds for the education of the freedmen and to support teachers in the south. He was superintendent. and agent of the mills of a large chemical manufacturing establishment at New Haven, Connecticut.


Children of Philo B. Buckingham were: I. Franklin, born November 29, 1843, died January 18, 1852. 2. Frederick L., born August 26, 1846. 3. George B., see forward.


(IX) George B. Buckingham, son of Philo B. Buckingham (8), was born at Oxford, Connecticut, March 20, 1848, died June 6, 1906, in Worcester. aged fifty-eight years. He was named Beecher for his grandmother. His parents removed from Oxford to Seymour when he was two years old. He spent his youth in Seymour and New Haven, Connecticut, and attended the public schools there. He supplemented the training of the public schools with a year in Russell's Military School in New Haven. He began his business career in New Haven, where he began at the bottom, and with several business houses learned business principles and methods thoroughly. He was an apt student and quick to learn the important points in busi- ness. At the age of twenty he came to Worcester to work for the Sargent Card Clothing Company. He was full of energy, tact and well fitted for the responsible position. He came to the concern to keep the books, but was soon an important factor in the business. He remained with the Card Cloth- ing Company until he left to associate himself with his father-in-law. Warren McFarland, owner of the Arcade Malleahle Iron Company. From 1873 until 1880, Mr. Buckingham had a third interest in the business. In 18So the entire business came into his hands in consequence of the advanced age and ill- ness of Mr. McFarland, who died four years later.


In 1886 he added to his business by the purchase of the Worcester Malleable Iron Company, which was sold at auction on account of financial diffi- culties. He operated this business in addition to that of the Arcade Malleahle Iron Co., one being his personal property, and half of the other being owned by his wife. where most owners of similar plants have had the property incorporated. The business grew constantly under his ownership, and is counted one of the solid and substantial industries of the city. Mr. Buckingham manufactured "anything that




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