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STEPHEN KIBBE EDWARDS, a well known resident of the town of Southbridge, where he has resided throughout the entire period of his life- time, is one of three children born to William and Catherine (Wardwell) Edwards, the others being Frank (now deceased), and Kate Edwards, now of Chicago, Illinois. William Edwards ( father) was a native of Southbridge, where he was actively en- gaged in the flour and grain business, a son of Jacob Edwards, of Southbridge, who followed the quiet but useful calling of agriculture.
Stephen K. Edwards was born March 1, 1845. He acquired a practical education in the common schools of the town, and later pursued advanced studies at Dudley and Williston Academies. He then engaged in the flour and grain business with his father under the firm name of William Edwards & Son, and this connection continued until 1891. At the present time (1906) he is devoting his at- tention exclusively to farming, and the neat and thrifty appearance of his property indicates that he is a man of ability, with practical and progressive ideas. The esteem in which he is held by his fel- low-citizens is evidenced by the fact that he was chosen to serve in public office as a member of the board of selectmen and on the board of as- sessors. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Royal Arcanum, and Southbridge Club, and a Democrat in politics.
November 30, 1871, Mr. Edwards married Mary C. Dresser, of Southbridge, daughter of Chester A. and Mary C. (Bartlett) Dresser, the former named having been born in Southbridge, Massa- chusetts, September 2, 1818, and the latter being a native of Petersburg, Virginia. Four children were the issue of this union: William, born Sep- tember 23, 1876. married Genevieve Hyde, and after her death married Lucy B. Wilkinson, of Memphis, Tennessee, where Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards reside. Jacob Bartlett, born July 10, 1879, died January 4, 1902. Wardwell Marcy, born April 7, 1882. Rockwood Spurr, born September 18, 1889.
ANDREW JACKSON BARTHOLOMEW, de- ceased, a man of rare intellectual attainments, for many years a leading member of the Worcester County bar, was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, October 1, 1832, and died at his home in South- bridge, Massachusetts, July 17, 1899. His parents
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were Adolphus and Lydia (Nye) Bartholomew, whose family consisted of two other children, name- ly : Harriet and Nelson.
His educational advantages were obtained in the common schools of Hardwick and Leicester Acad- emy, also Yale College, being a member of the fam- ous class of 1856 that sent forth such men as Justice Brewer, Justice Brown, Chauncey M. Depew, and others who have made an equally brilliant record for themselves along various lines. Between the time that he left Leicester Academy and entered Yale Coi- lege he taught school in Hardwick and Brookfield, thus obtaining the necessary means for the contin- uance of his studies. He began the study of law with William W. Rice and the late Judge Nelson, and completed his course at Harvard Law School. After passing a successful competitive examination he was admitted to the bar of Worcester county in 1858, and at once established an office for the active practice of his profession. He was a man of reserve power, forceful and eloquent in appeal, and the inter- est of his clients was carefully guarded. He was a member of the legislature in 1872-73, a member of the state senate in 1874-5, and judge of the district court of South Worcester up to the time of his de- cease. He was an attendant of the Baptist Church, and a staunch and loyal supporter of the principles of Republicanism.
. Mr. Bartholomew married, May 15, 1862, Ellen J. Trow, daughter of Israel C. and Esther H. (Mar- cy) Trow, and grandniece of Governor Marcy. Their children are: Nina C., born May 25, 1863, be- came the wife of George C. Winter, of Southbridge, and one child was born to them, Pauline Winter. Edith Lydia, born July 18, 1870, became the wife of Fred Hill, of Southbridge, and their children are: Ruth, Lydia and Nina. Nellie Grace, born March 30, 1875, became the wife of Lester A. Newell, of Denver, Colorado. Andrew Marcy, born May 18, 1876. Gardner Trow, born December 28, 1882.
JOHN A. HALL, born in Southbridge, Massi- chusetts, July 27, 1869, is a son of John and Mar- garct (McVey) Hall. of Southbridge, and a de- scendant on the paternal side of an old and honored Scotch family, his grandfather having been a na- tive of Scotland. John Hall was for many years superintendent of the print works at Southbridge. His family consisted of nine children: Lillie R., Frank R., Alice, Gertrude, Frederick G., Clarence A., Ernest, Irving, and John A. Hall.
John A. Hall completed his education in the high school, Southbridge. He devoted the subsequent two years to pattern engraving work, then (1888) entered the Southbridge National Bank, with which he was connected four years, resigning in order to accept the position of treasurer of the South bridge Savings Bank, in which capacity he is still (1906) serving. His business training. habits and experience have set him apart as especially qualified and acceptable for the discharge of the duties of such offices as town treasurer and town auditor, in which capacities he has served with efficiency and integrity, holding the former for more than ten years and the latter for two years. He is a director of the Southbridge National Bank, Southbridge Gas Company, and Merchants' National Bank, of Worcester. He was receiver of the Worcester and Southbridge Street Railroad up to the time of its absorption by the New Haven system. He is a mem- ber of the Evangelical Free Church of Globe Vil- lage: a member of the Masonic fraternity, attain- ing the thirty-second degree; a Knight Templar; a member of the Knights of Pythias; a member of
the Southbridge Club, and a member of the Tatnuck Club of Worcester. He was one of the original members of Company K, Sixth Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia, and his political alle- giance is given to the candidates of the Republican party.
Mr. Hall married, February 5, 1895, Ethelind W., daughter of Albert W. and Jennie (Mckinstry) Martin, the former named being assistant general superintendent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. John O. Mckinstry, father of Mrs. Jennic (Mckinstry) Martin, was the first child born after the incorporation of Southbridge as a town. Their children are: Howard, born Decem- ber 15, 1895; Eleanor, born September II, 1897; and Herman, born September 16, 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Martin were former residents of Southbridge, now of Boston, Massachusetts.
GARDNER MILTON DEAN. The Dean fam- ily, of which Gardner Milton Dean, of Oakham, Massachusetts, is a worthy representative in the. present generation. derives its name from the Latin word Decanus (from Decem, ten), which denotes the chief of ten, one set over ten persons, e. g., over ten soldiers, over ten monks. This word is in Spanish Dean, in Old French Dean or Dien, and in Norman and English Dean, and was used, even as early as the middle ages, of ecclesiastical offices next 'in dignity to that of a bishop. When King Alfred of England, ten centuries ago, ordered sur- names to be added to Christian names, and estab- lished family names; it was natural that the name Dean would abound as a surname, e. g .. James de Dean. Prominent among these Deans was Robert de Dene, butler to Edward the Confessor, about 1050; Henry Dene, Archbishop of Canterbury, some two hundred years later; Sir Richard Deane, mayor of London, 1629; Admiral Deane, 1653; Sir Anthony Dean, comptroller of the navy; James Dean, a wealthy English merchant, died 1603; Moses Dean, about 1600, "in the vicinity of Taunton, England, where the Deans had lived for centuries."
The members of this family trace their origin to ancestors who founded a nation in the face of difficulties and dangers which would have de- terred those of less heroic mould. Among the Plym- outh settlers, arriving November. 1621, in the sec- ond vessel, the "Fortune," were Rachel Dean, prob- ably a widow, and Stephen Dean, who in 1632 set up the first "corn mill" in Plymouth colony, and at his death was survived by three daughters. In 1637 two brothers. John and Walter Dean, sons of William Dean, of Chard, left their home in Chard, twelve miles from Taunton, Somerset county, England, for the new world, ar- riving in Boston, Massachusetts, from whence they proceeded to Dorchester, and after a residence of one year there went to Taunton, Massachusetts, and there took the freeman's oath. December 4, 1638.
John Dean, above mentioned, was born in Eng- land about 1600, died in 1660, Alice his wife sur- viving him. Among his children were John, Thomas, Israel. Isaac, Nathaniel and Elizabeth. Deacon Wal- ter Dean, also above mentioned, was born in Chard, England, between 1615 and 1617, died about the year 1693. He was a tanner by occupation, served as selectman of Taunton, Massachusetts, for eight years, and also held other town offices. His wife, Eleanor (Cogan or Strong) Dean, a native of Taun- ton, England, bore him several children, among whom were Joseph, Ezra, Benjamin, Lydia, Mary and James. James, son of Walter and Eleanor settled in Stonington, Connecticut, married Sarah,
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(laughter of John and Sarah Tisdale, of Dux- bury; his will was the first probated in Stonington county.
James Dean, son of James and Sarah (Tisdale) Dean, married Sarah Packer and lived in Stoning- ton. Connecticut, had a large family of children.
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James Dean, son of James and Sarah ( Packer ) Dean, came from Stonington to Rutland at a date unknown, and there bought of James and Rachel Henderson ninety-two acres of land for the sum of three hundred and ten pounds English money ; also of the same eleven acres of upland. so states the Worcester county registry of deeds. He probably died in Rutland or Oakham. His wife's name is unknown.
Deacon James Dean, Rutland and Oakham, Mas- sachusetts, was a descendant of Walter Dean, of Chard, England, through James, son of James Dean, who was a son of the James who settled in Stoning- ton as above referred to. Deacon James and Will- iam Dean were relatives. William Dean, who was a hatter of Rutland. Massachusetts, was a son of Elijah, who, before he came to Rutland, where his death occurred, was a jail keeper in Taunton, over three decades, and was a de- scendant of Walter Dean, of Chard, England. Walter Dean married Eleanor Cogan and the line of descent is as follows: James, married Sarah Tisdale: James, married Sarah Packer, later Pack- ard: James, married -: James, married Esther Partridge: James, married Azubah Sargeant : James, married Keziah Hyde: James, married Francelia Walker: James, married Charlotte Newton. Each one was the eldest child James.
Deacon James Dean married Agnes McIntire. born in Rutland, Massachusetts .. December 22. 1719. daughter of John and Grace McIntire, of Rutland. The ceremony was performed July 16, 1747. and they were one of the nine families who were the first settlers of Oakham, which till its settlement and incorporation was a part of Rutland. Tradition says it was named Oakham in remembrance of Oak- ham, in Rutland county, England, from the vicinity of which a large emigration came to the Massachu- setts bay colony. James Dean settled in the south part, on or near the old Indian trail leading from Rutland to North Brookfield. and the house built by him was standing until May, 1893, being then over one hundred years old, when it was destroyed by fire. He was an earnest Christian man, and served as deacon in the old Presbyterian Church from its organization, August 28, 1767, till it was reorganized as Congregational, June 23, 1773. He served in several campaigns in the revolutionary war, and for several years performed the duties of selectman and assessor for the town of Oakham. Agnes (McIntire) Dean died April 21, 1776, aged fifty-six years. There is no record of her having any children. James Dean married (second). May 25. 1777, Sarah Hardy, of Brookfield. who died June 24, 1786, aged fifty-one years. There is no record of her having any children. James Dean married (third) July 16, 1787, Esther Partridge, of Oakham, who bore him four children: James, , sce forward. John, married Nancy Parks, of Mystic, Connecticut, and lived at Stonington, Connecticut. and at Worcester and Oakham. Massachusetts. Silas and Lucy. James Dean died February 9. 1812. and was buried with his first and second wives in the churchyard in the centre of the town .. Esther, his widow, after his death married John Sargent, of Oakham, formerly of Hubbardston.
James Dean, eldest son of Deacon James and Esther (Partridge) Dean. was horn in Oakham, Massachusetts, June 23, 1788. He married, Novem- Vol. 3.
ber 15, 1806, Azubah Sargent, born in Spencer, daughter of Jolin Sargent, who was mentioned above as having married the widow of James Dean. Their children were: James, Luther, who died in early life: Edmund, Luther (2), Mary, Asa A., Sarah E., Lurana, Harriet, Persis A., Lyman and Lewis. Azubalı (Sargent) )Dean, died February 12, 1860, aged seventy-four years ; James Dean survived her several years, passing away August 28, 1868, aged eighty years. The remains of both were interred in the south cemetery in Oakham.
John Dean, second son of Deacon James and Esther ( Partridge ) Dean, was born in Oakham, No- vember 3. 1789. He went when a young man among relatives at Stonington, Connecticut, and there mar- ried, February 2, 1819, Nancy Parks, of Mystic, Connecticut, and lived in Stonington and had chil- dren born there, afterwards lived in Oakham and died there January 3, 1860, aged seventy years.
Silas, third son of Deacon James and Esther Dean, was born in Oakham, July 20, 1791: mar- ried, September 9, 1810, Pamelia Whitaker, of Oak- ham, and lived in Middletown, Norfolk county, Canada, and died there.
Luther Dean, fourth son of James and Azubah ( Sargent) Dean, was born in Oakham, Massachu- setts, June 20, 1814. He married September 29, 1842, Emeline M. Crawford, of Oakham, Massachu- setts, daughter of Alexander Crawford, a descendant of Aaron Crawford, who emigrated from the parish of Cappy. county of Tyrone, Ireland, in the year 713. Mr. and Mrs. Dean resided in Oakham. Their children were: Emory L., who died in early life. Gardner Milton, referred to hereinafter. Helen Francelia, born in Oakham, August 9, 1848, mar- ried William Warren Russell, son of Orlando and Fanny Russell, of Oakham, August 26, 1869. and lived in Oakham. Their children were : Willie
Leland, born October 7, 1873, died July 8, 1877; Frank Rice and Fayette Dean, twins, born Decem- ber II, 1876: Alma Geneva and Althea Elnora, twins, born October 2, 1883. Estella Jane, born in Oak- ham, January 11, 1851, married Samuel B. Max- well, of North Brookfield, April 2, 1871. He died March 9, 1872. After his death she married Ros- well H. Babcock, of North Brookfield, April 12, 1877. Their children were: Frank Clifton, died in infancy ; and Ethel Josephine. Emeline Josephine, born in Oakham, May 23, 1857, married William Allen Nye, son of David H. and Maria Gleason Nye, of Oakham. December 21, 1880, and resided in Oakham. The mother of these children, Emeline M. (Crawford) Dean, died November 16, 1880, aged sixty-six years.
Gardner Milton Dean. second son of Luther and Emeline M. (Crawford) Dean, was born in Oakham, Massachusetts, October 23, 1846. He was attending the common schools of Oakham at the outbreak of the civil war, and while still a student in the school, at the age of seventeen years, enlisted in Company B. Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Following this short initial service was transferred to Company D, Seventeenth Massachn- setts Volunteer Infantry, serving under Generals Sherman, Foster, and Butler, in Virginia and North Carolina. He was continually in action of various kinds, and among the important battles in which he participated were those of Kingston, Wise's Forks and Goldsboro, and he was in the last cam- paign previous to the surrender of General Joe Johnston's army to General W. T. Sherman. After his return to civil life Mr. Dean became a clerk in a dry goods store in Boston, Massachusetts, and served in that capacity for a period of almost eight years. He then returned to his native town, Oak-
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ham, and turned his attention to farming, but this proving too quiet and monotonous an occupation after his adventurous life, he abandoned the same and removed to Springfield. Massachusetts, where he engaged in the milling business. After con- ducting this enterprise successfully for a number of years, he disposed of the same and returned to Oakham, where he has since resided. He resides on a well enltivated and productive farm, and makes a specialty of fruit and dairy products, which being of a superior quality find a ready market and good prices. Mr. Dean bears a full share in the pro- motion of community interests, and enjoys a reputa- tion for strictest integrity and uprightness. Mr. Dean has served since 1904 as selectman of Oak- ham, is a member of Springfield Post, Grand Army of the Republic. is a Republican and a member of the Congregational Church.
Mr. Dean married, March 10, 1873. Charlotte Emily Russell, born January 19, 1844, daughter of Orlando and Fanny (Simpson) Russell, of Oak- ham. Their children are: Clarence Edgar, born March 5, 1874, married Nina Fessenden, of Barre, and resides in Springfield, Massachusetts. Minnie Gertrude. born August 20, 1875, married Walter A. Woodis, of Oakham. Warren Eugene, born Sep- tember 7, 1876, died in early life. Sidney Irving, born May 4, 1879, married Jessie I. Taylor, of Rutland, and they are the parents of three children. Mabel Josephine, born October 31. 1880, died in early life. 'Caroline Melvina, born August 12, 1883. married James P. Fairbanks, of Oakham, and they are the parents of one child. Emerson Arthur, born February 19. 1885, died in early life. Mrs. Char- lotte E .. (Russell) Dean, who faithfully performed the duties of wife and mother, died February 16, 18Q4. To Gardner Milton Dean's researches the publishers of this work are indebted for some of the genealogical matter herein contained.
ISAAC PERKINS HYDE, JR. The death of Isaac P. Hyde, Jr., October 21, 1897, removed from the town of Southbridge, Massachusetts, one of its most public-spirited and influential citizens, a man of reserve power, whose sagacity and foresight brought to him success throughout the active years of his business career. He was born in Stafford, Connecticut, 1833, a son of Isaac P. and Maria (Gould) Hyde, and grandson of - Hyde, of Stafford. Isaac P. Hyde, Sr., was a native of Stafford, Connecticut, and his wife of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and their children were as follows : Martha, Isaac P., Jennie, Eliza, Harriet, and a twin brother of the last named who died in childhood.
After completing a common school education in his native town, Stafford, Isaac P. Hyde. Jr., came to Southbridge, Massachusetts, and became a ma- chinist on a very fine class of work. Later he went to Providence, Rhode Island. where he remained ten years, during which time he was engaged in the manufacture of watch machinery. He then lo- cated in Rockville, Connecticut, but after a resi- dence of one year returned to Providence, where he resumed his trade of machinist; five years there- after .he returned to Southbridge, Massachusetts, where after three years employment by Theo- dore Harrington he entered upon the manufacture of the famous Hyde knives, known all over the civilized world, under the name of I. P. Hyde, continuing the same successfully until his death. He was a director in the Southbridge National Bank, filled a similar position in the Southbridge Gas & Electric Company, was a member of the school and library committees, and a Democrat in politics. He be-
longed to the Masonic fraternity and of the thirty- second degree Knight Templars.
On August 21, 1853, Mr. Hyde married Eliza Foster, daughter of William and Eunice (Dart) Foster, of South Windsor, Massachusetts. Mr. Foster was a farmer by occupation.
THOMAS STOWE EATON. This family of Eatons have descended through the following line. . of ancestry.
(I) Jonas Eaton, who was a settler in Middle- sex county. Massachusetts, located at Cowdry's Hill-a part of old Reading-now Wakefield. He became a leading man of his town and was select- man in 1650-62-70-73. He obtained a good fortune by being a wise tiller of the soil. He died Febru- ary 24, 1674. leaving an estate valued at seven hun- dred and fifty pounds sterling. Of his nine chil- dren many became prominent in the affairs of New England.
(II) Joshua Eaton married and among his chil- dren was a son named Joshua.
(III) Joshua Eaton, son of Joshua (2), had a son known as Captain Thomas Eaton.
(IV) Captain Thomas Eaton, son of Joshua (3), was the great-grandfather of Joseph and Thomas S. Eaton. Captain Thomas was the original owner of the homestead in Auburn. He never resided there himself, but willed the farm to his son Jonas. It bears date, September 9, 1773, the con- sideration being four hundred and twenty-six pounds sterling and thirteen shillings. Captain Eaton married Lydia Pierce, of Watertown, Massa- chusetts, who bore him three children : Thomas, Jonas and Elizabeth.
(V) Jonas Eaton, son of Captain Thomas (+). was born January 22, 1757, and in 1785, in the prime of life, he came on horseback through a trackless wilderness and forest land to take possession of one hundred acres, now included in the homestead. He cleared the land and farmed successfully until his death. He reared a family of seven children. The three eldest-Thomas, William and Joseph-died in 1796, all within two weeks of dysentery. The other children born later were: Elizabeth, Thomas, William and Sarah. Elizabeth married Captain Nathaniel Stone, and lived to an advanced age. Sarah died at the age of twenty-one years. William and Thomas carried on the home farm in com- pany for many years, and also owned other prop- erty in the town.
(VI) Thomas Eaton, son of Jonas (5), born November 28, 1799, died February 20, 1876. On January 25, 1826, he married Hannah, daughter of Aaron and Hannah Greenwood Pierce, of Sutton. She was one of a family of eight children, of whom six grew to mature years and two lived to be very old. Sally, wife of Paul Chase, died at the age of ninety-four years, and Mary, widow of Calvin Temple, died January 4, 1903, aged ninety-six years. Thomas and Hannah Eaton reared a family of four children: Daniel T., born April 10, 1830; Thomas S., July 2, 1832; Lydia Adelia, July 24, 1834, died Au- gust 30. 1865; and Joseph P., November 7, 1839.
(\'TI) Hon. Thomas Stowe Eaton, son of Thomas (6), was born in Auburn, Massachusetts, July 2, 1832, a descendant of a remote Scotch an- cestry. He was reared to farm labor on his father's farm, and attended the common schools until four- teen years of age, when he entered Nichol's Academy at Dudley. He subsequently became a student at the Worcester Academy. From eighteen to twenty years of age he was in poor health, on account of over- work. When about twenty years of age he began.
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work as a house carpenter, with his cousin, and Jater he worked at the sash and blind business at Worcester and Millbury. Later still he worked as a finisher of passenger coaches, but, believing his health demanded outdoor, free-air work, he aban- doned his trade and establishing himself in the dairy business, starting a milk route in the city of Worces- ter. In this he has been remarkably successful. He sold his own milk product, also much obtained from outside parties. The quality of his milk and the obliging manner of the "driver" has enabled him to continue on the same route for many years. but he has now retired from active work. During the summer of 1861 he took an extended trip on the sea in a coasting vessel, which proved good for his failing health. Politically Mr. Eaton is a Republican. For almost fifteen years he served as selectman of his town, during which time he gen- erally served in the capacity of presiding officer of the board. In 1884 he represented his district in the legislature. He has also been a member of the school committee.
In the autumn of 1861 Mr. Eaton was married to Martha M., daughter of John and Lavina (Stone) Blood, of Charlton. Mrs. Eaton's grandfather was of Scotch blood, and an early settler. at Charlton. Her grandmother was Esther, daughter of Daniel Boyden. Mrs. Eaton's mother died in middle life, and her husband. a leading spirit of the town, mar- ried the second time. He died in Worcester, aged seventy-five years. The children of John Blood were : Albert. Henry, Mary E., wife of Charles Har- rington, of Worcester ; Martha M .. wife of Thomas S. Eaton; Emily, wife of Julius Knight, of Worces- ter ; and John W. H., of Keokuk, Iowa.
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