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MERRITT DANIEL ALDRICH, a well-to-do farmer of Charlton City, is a son of Hosea Aldrich and grandson of Timothy Aldrich, of Upton, this county. His great-grandfather was also named Timothy Aldrich. Timothy Aldrich, of Upton, grandfather of Merritt D. Aldrich, was born May 2, 1771, died in 1844; married, May 31, 1792, Mary Butler, born August 11, 1775, daugh- ter of Ebenezer and Thankful (Curtis) Butler, the former of whom died January 24, 1805. Ebenezer and Thankful (Curtis) Butler were married Feb- iruary 8, 1774.
Hosea Aldrich, father of Merritt D. Aldrich, was born in Upton, July 1, 1794. He was a farmer and resided for a time in Willington, Connecticut, from whence he removed to Charlton. Worcester county, Massachusetts. On November 9, 1817, he married Mary Eliza Clements. Hosea and Mary E. Aldrich were the parents of three sons, namely : Dwight Monroe, born in Willington, October 26, 1830; Merritt D., see forward ; and Hezekiah, who served as a soldier in the civil war and died in Andersonville prison. Dwight Monroe Aldrich, who located at Charlton City in 1848 and followed the shoemaker's trade there for fifteen years, is now residing upon a farm. He married, December 11, 1853. Hannah Draper Hammond, of Charlton City, born August 28. 1828, daughter of Levi and Re- becca ( Williams) Hammond. Mrs. Hannah D. Aldrich died April 28, 1903. She was the mother of three children: Harry, born in 1857, died in 1900; Emily Maria, born December 31, 18 -; and Mary Louise Aldrich, born October 7. 1868. Emily Maria married, December 31. 1883, Clarence Gor- ton. of Providence, Rhode Island, son of Burrows and Mercy Ann (Arnold) Gorton. Mary Louise Aldrich is unmarried.
Merritt Daniel Aldrich was born in Willington, October 30, 1832. He attended the public schools of his native town until eleven years old, when he went to Tolland to find employment as a farm hand. He subsequently worked in a rake factory and was still later employed for a year at pegging shoes. About the year 1862 lie settled in Charlton City and established a woolen mill in 1880. which he continued to conduct for eighteen years in con- junction with general farming, to which he has been exclusively devoted since 1898 with satisfac- tory financial results. The mill interests were sold by Mr. Aldrich to Messrs. James, Thomas and Robert Ashworth, who are operating the plant under the name of the Aldrich Manufacturing Company. In 1857 Mr. Aldrich married Ellen Mandana Dow, daughter of Joseph H. and Elizabeth (Fiske) Dow, the former of whom was a native of New Hamp- shire. Of this union there are two children, namely : Roscoe Hilton Aldrich, born at Charlton in 1859 ; and Adelina, born at Charlton City in 1869. Roscoe H. Aldrich, a graduate of Worcester School of Technology, married Mary and their chil-
dren are: Hilton, Howard, Ruth, Harriet and Henry. Adelina Aldrich, graduate of Wellesley, is now teaching in Cambridge.
DAVID E. TAYLOR. William Taylor (I) was the emigrant ancestor of David E. Taylor, of Dud- ley, Massachusetts. He settled at Concord, Massa- chusetts, before 1649, and probably before 1640. He may have come with James Taylor, who is sup- posed to be his brother.
James Taylor married, October 19, 1641, Isabel Tompkins. His children were: Henry, born and died 1648; (by wife Elizabeth the following) Sam- uel, born June 21, 1656; Thomas, born and died 1659. James Taylor was probably older than Will- iam. James was born, according to his affidavit, in 1607. His wife Isabel was born 1615. She died at Concord, January 22, 1690.
William Taylor married Mary Meriam. He died at Concord, Mass, December 6, 1696. She died December 10, 1699. He had lot No. 14, one hundred and seventeen acres on the East Bedford road. The children of William and Mary Taylor were: I. Mary, born February 19, 1649-50. 2. John, born October 19, 1653, married, March 26, 1678. Eunice Woolen.
Their children were : Eunice, Mary, married Nathaniel Merriam ; Rebecca, married Joseph Bacon; David, married Ruth Jones ; Jonathan, married Mary Jones. 3. Samuel, born July 3, 1655, died July 16, 1655. 4. Abraham, born November 14, 1656, at Concord. 5. Isaac, born March 5, 1659. 6. Jacob, born May 8, 1662, settled, it is believed, in Grafton and founded a branch of the Taylor family there. 7. Joseph, born at Con- cord. April 7, 1665, went to Grafton with his brother Jacob and settled there.
(II) Abraham Taylor, son of William Taylor (1), was born at Concord. Massachusetts, Novem- ber 14, 1656. He married Mary Whittaker, De- cember 16, 1681. She died February 16. 1756, at the age of ninety-three years, eleven months. He was a farmer and lived all his life at Concord, Massachusetts. The thirteen children of Abraham and Mary ( Whittaker) Taylor as recorded at Con- cord were: Abraham, born at Concord, January II, 1682-83, died young: Ebenezer, born at Concord, April 30, 1688; Elizabeth, born at Concord. August 7, 1690; Mary born at Concord, March 15, 1691-92; Jonathan, born at Concord, August 10, 1694; Sarah, born at Concord, October 13, 1696; David, born at Concord, January 31, 1698: Benjamin, born at Con- cord. April 18, 1699; Nathaniel, born at Concord, February 9, 1701-02: Daniel, born at Concord, March 22, 1703-04; Abraham, born at Concord, April 4, 1707; Timothy, born March 5, 1705, died March 28, 1705; Samuel, born at Concord, October I, 1708. (III) Ebenezer Taylor, son of Abraham Taylor (2), was born at Concord. Massachusetts, January II, 1682. He married Deborah who was born 1687 and died June 25. 1753. He settled in Lancaster, now Sterling, Massachusetts. Their chil- dren were: John, born at Concord, July 20, 1720; Nathan, November 19, 1722; Ebenezer, October 31, 1725: Abraham, Concord, August 21, 1729.
(IV) Ebenezer Taylor. son of Ebenezer Taylor (3), was born at Concord. Massachusetts, October 31, 1725. He settled in Lancaster, now Sterling, but probably went to Vermont with some of his children late in life. He married Mary Houghton, March 9, 1749. Their children were: Ebenezer, born at Lancaster, 1749; Nathaniel, born at Lancaster. October 15. 1756: Elnathan, born at Lan- caster, October 7. 1769.
(V) Elnathan Taylor. son of Ebenezer Taylor (4), was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, now
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Sterling, October 7, 1769. He settled in Vermont at Readsboro. This town was named for John Read and was granted by the governor of New York first in 1764 and settled April 4. 1770. The Taylors probably came about ISIo, perhaps earlier. Among the children of Elnathan Taylor was El- nathan, father of David E. Taylor, of Dudley.
(VI) Elnathan Taylor, son of Elnathan Taylor (5), was born at Readsboro, Vermont, July 14, ISIO. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. He learned the trade of carpenter. He was reared on his father's farm and he too was a farmer as well as carpenter. He married (first) Mary ( Polly) Decker, who bore him three children : William, Lucretia and Martha Ann. He married (second) Leah Killmer, of New York, born July 8, 1815. The children of this marriage were : David E., born in Aneram, New York, July 29, 1838. Maryette, born in Charlemont, Massachu- setts, April 15, 1840. John Nelson, born January 14, 1842, in Red Rock, New York. Harlow, born in Austerlitz, New York, January 25, 1843, died March 25, 1853. Edwin C., born in Chester, Ver- mont. May 5, 1844. Harman N., born July 19, 1846. Dewitt C., born April 3, 1848. Rod- ney II., born June 23, 1850, living in Charlton, Massachusetts. Emma J., born in Austerlitz, New York, March 27, 1853, married David F. Adams. Delia V., born in Austerlitz, New York, April 29, 1856, married Henry Garvey, resides in Chatham, New York. Celia Augusta, born in Austerlitz, New York, May 20, 1860, married George Hamlin, lives in Winstead, Connecticut.
(VII) David E. Taylor, son of Elnathan Taylor (6), was born at Ancram, New York, in 1838. He received his education there in the common schools and in the Spencer Academy at Austerlitz, New York. He studied mechanical engineering. He sold some of his inventions to advantage and was able to retire from active business with a competence. He purchased a stock farm at Dudley. Massachu- setts, which he has developed and improved until it is one of the finest in that section. He has some of the best Jersey cattle in the country and is known everywhere among breeders for the excel- lence of his stock. Mr. Taylor has taken advantage of his opportunities to travel extensively, and he has made the most of his travel to study the sub- jeet of fancy cattle and other matters in which he is interested. He is a Republican, but rather inde- pendent in politics. He is a very active member of the Methodist Church and a liberal contributor to various charities. Mr. Taylor is much respected by the people of Dudley.
He married, November 26, 1857, Almira Capen. Their children are: I. Addie Viola, born at Aus- terlitz, New York, March 27. 1860, married George Elliot, of North Grosvenordale. 2. Cora Idella, born at West Stafford, Connecticut, December I, 1862, married Solon Smith, of Sturbridge. 3. Lilla Etta, born at Irving, Massachusetts. June 18, 1868, married Frank Knickerbocker, of Bristol, Con- necticut.
HENRY CLARK PUTNAM for many years a successful box manufacturer of Charlton Centre, is a son of the late Russell Putnam, of Sutton, this county, and belongs to one of the oldest families of that town. He is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation of John Putnam (I), who was born in Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire, England, about the year 1580, emigrated to Massachusetts Bay in 1634, settling in Salem village. now Danvers, where he was admitted a freeman in 1640; his death occurred there in 1663. The christian name of his
wife was Priscilla and her maiden surname was probably Gould. His three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel and John, accompanied him to New England and settled in Salem village.
(II) Nathaniel Putnam, second son of John and Priscilla Putnam, was baptized in Aston Abbotts, October 11, 1619. From 1634 until his death, which occurred July 23, 1700, he resided in Salem village, where he served as constable for some time, and in 1690-91 lie was a delegate to the general court. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson, daughter of Richard and Alice Hutchinson.
(III) Captain Benjamin Putnam, son of Na- thaniel Putnam, was born in Salem village. Decem- ber 24, 1664. Prior to the incorporation of Sutton he went there as a pioneer and established the Worcester county branch of the Putnam family, a distinguished member of which was General Rufus Putnam (1738-1824), an able officer and engineer, and a cousin of General Israel Putnam. Captain Benjamin Putnam acquired his military title in the colonial militia. During the witcheraft delusion of 1692 tlie Putnams of Salem village suffered from its effects in common with most of the families in that neighborhood, although none of them were subjected to the extreme penalty, and local history records the fact that one Ann Putnam, a young girl, was among those supposed to be secretly afflicted. Captain Benjamin Putnam died in Sutton in 1715. On August 25, 1686, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Putnam.
(IV) Cornelius Putnam, son of Captain Benja- min Putnam was born in Sutton, September 3, 1702, and resided there his entire life, which terminated in 1761. He was also in the colonial service. For his second wife he married Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, widow of William Perkins. She was born April
18, 1734, daughter of Nelson.
(V) Bartholomew Putnam, son of Cornelius Putnamn, was born in Sutton, April 21, 1745. He married Mary Putnam, born in 1750, daughter of Edward Putnam. Her death occurred in 1796.
(VI) Bartholomew Putnam, son of Bartholomew Putnam, was born in Sutton, July 13, 1774, died there July 25, 1811. He married, September 4, 1801, Hannah Sibley. She was born May 22, 1784, daugh- ter of Tarrant and Hannah ( Putnam) Sibley. She died June 9, 1827.
(VII) Russell Putnam, son of Bartholomew Putnam, was born in Sutton, February 3, 1802. He married Adeline Buss, and had a family of nine children, namely : Russell, Jr., Lucian, Silas, Leon- ard, Hanry C., John, Hannah, Mary and Sarah. Russell Putnam, Sr., died in 1884, surviving his wife, whose death occurred in 1872.
(VIII) Henry Clark Putnam, son of Russell Putnam, was born in Sutton, March 7, 1837. When .he was two years old his parents moved to Charl- ton and he acquired his education in the public schools of that town. He began the activities of life as a teamster, subsequently entered a box fac- tory, and after becoming thoroughly conversant with that industry engaged in business upon his own account. He is now one of the leading box manu- facturers in Worcester county, owning and operat- ing an extensive factory at Charlton Centre, and has long occupied a position of prominence among the substantial business men of that locality. Po- litically he acts with the Republican party. For four years he served with ability as a member of the board of selectmen, and was overseer of the poor for the same length of time.
Mr. Putnam has been three times married. His first wife was before marriage Sarah Williams, daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Towne) Will-
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iams, of Charlton. His second wife was Sarah L. Nichols, daughter of Harvey and Clementine (Towne) Nichols, and for his third wife he mar- ried her sister, Paulina Bemis Nichols. The chil- dren of his first union are: Charles, Myron R., Evna Sarah, Millie J., William, and A. Frederick. The others are: Hattie L., and Howard M. Myron R., who died in 1896, married Carrie Horne, daugh- ter of William D. Horne, and is survived by his widow and two children-Bertha and Ruby. Evna Sarah is the wife of Edward A. Lamb. Millie J., born April 10, 1863, was in 1884 joined in marriage with George A. Waldron. son of Lucius and Lois Anna (Darling) Waldron, the former of whom was a soldier in the civil war and died of pneumonia in a military hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Waldron have had seven children, namely: Harriet Anna, born November 22, 1885; Minnie, born July 10. 1887; Myron Henry. born December 28, 1888, died in infancy; Carrie Louisa, born June 8, 1890; Hen- rietta Evna, born January 15. 1892; Marion Alice, born February 6, 1894; and Russell Darling, born May 29, 1896. William Putnam, fifth child of Henry C., married Mary Beard. Hattie L. is un- married. Frederick A. married Mary Elizabeth Howe and has two children, Florence and Nellie. The family attend the Universalist Church.
JOHN STEVENS COOKE, a prominent resi- dent of North Brookfield, and a veteran of the civil war, inherited his patriotism and capacity for the military service, his great-grandfathers on both sides having served as soldiers in the war for national independence. The Cooke family is of early colonial origin, and John S. Cooke's imme- diate ancestors settled in Maine prior to the separa- tion of that state from Massachusetts. His great- grandfather, James Cooke, who served as a private in the Continental army during the revolutionary war, resided in Hingham, Massachusetts, and his grandfather, also named James Cooke, went from that town to Topsham, Maine, as a pioneer.
Joseph Hall Cooke, father of John S. Cooke, was born in Topsham, November 1, 1802. His death, which was untimely, occurred May 30, 1839, some four months prior to the birth of his son. On December 14, 1823, he married Roxanna Haskell, a granddaughter of Captain Bildad Arnold, of Dux- bury, Massachusetts, who served as a minute man in the revolutionary war, and was also a member of the committee of public safety.
Born in New Gloucester, Maine. October 7. 1839. John Stevens Cooke was deprived of the guiding hand of a father, and was therefore wholly depen- dent upon his mother for support and education during his boyhood. He attended school in Bruns- wick and Saco, Maine, and while still a youth learned the shoemaker's trade. He, however, soon abandoned that calling in order to accept a clerk- ship in a country store, and while serving in that capacity he spent his leisure time in studying law. He finally relinquished mercantile pursuits and went to Groton Junction, Massachusetts, where for a time he devoted his attention exclusively to his legal preparations, but the breaking out of the civil war aroused his inherent patriotism to such an extent as to cause him to lay aside his Blackstone and re- spond to President Lincoln's urgent call for troops to preserve the integrity of the Union. He was ac- cepted and enrolled April 15. 1861. as a member of the famous Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Voluin- teer Infantry, which four days later was violently attacked by Confederate sympathizers while passing through the streets of Baltimore. He remained with the Sixth until the expiration of the three
months' term of service for which he had enlisted, being promoted to the rank of sergeant while quartered in the senate chamber in Washington. Re-enlisting in the Twenty-sixth Regiment at Camp Cameron. Cambridge, September 25, 1861, he was commissioned first lieutenant, was subsequently ap- pointed acting adjutant at New Orleans, and still later served as judge advocate and regimental quartermaster. While serving with his regiment in the Shenandoah Valley he received a captain's com- mission dated December 4. 1864; was judge advo- cate of the district of Savannah, Georgia, in 1865; and was mustered out with his regiment in that city on August 26th of the same year, having pre- viously been honored with the commissions of brevet major and brevet lieutenant-colonel of United States Volunteers. Among the most notable engagements in which he participated were the capture of forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana, in April, 1862; the battles of La Fourche Crossing, June 21, 1863; Opequan Creek, Virginia. September 19, 1864; Fisher's Hill, September 22, 1864: and Cedar Creek, October 19, of that year, where Sheridan saved the Federal army from defeat by his timely arrival from Winchester.
Upon his return from the army he found em- ployment as a surveyor, and after following that occupation for a time took a position in a general store at Groton. In 1872 he removed to North Brookfield, where he was similarly employed for about three years, and on December I, 1875, entered the employ of the E. and A. H. Batcheller Com- pany, shoe manufacturers. For several years or until the recent closing of the factory he occupied the position of paymaster, and is still in the em- ploy of the Batchellers, being engaged at the pres- ent time in settling their accounts. In connection with the above he holds the responsible position of collector and accountant for the board of water commissioners. In politics Mr. Cooke is a Repub- lican, and for a period of five years served with ability as a member of the school board. He is president and treasurer of the board of trustees of the Haston Library, and has, when occasion de- manded, emphasized his interest in other local public institutions. He is a Master Mason. be- longing to the local Blue Lodge; is a comrade of Ezra Batcheller Post. No. 51, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he has been commander for seven years; and is a member of the Loyal Legion.
On May 7, 1864, Mr. Cooke married Sarah Frances Eaton, daughter of Joel W. Eaton, of Stoddard, New Hampshire. The maiden name of her mother was Indiana Green, and she was a native of Pepperell, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Cooke have three children, namely: Henry Arnold. M. D .. born in Groton. August 26, 1866; Helen Fair, ' born in North Brookfield. July 10, 1872: and Marion Frances Eaton, born in North Brookfield, April 10, 1878.
Henry Arnold Cooke, M. D., who was gradu- ated from Amherst College in 1889 and from the Harvard University Medical School in 1896, mar- ried Helen West. of New York city, and has two children: Stuart Pullman West and Gordon Alden Cooke. Helen F. Cooke, who is a graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1896, was for some years teacher of Greek in the high school, East Orange, New Jersey. Marion F. E. Cooke was graduated from Wellesley College in 1901 and was up to 1906 secretary of the State Normal school in Cortland. New York. Mr. John Stevens Cooke is a com- municant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was one of the original members of Christ Memorial Church, North Brookfield. Mrs. Cooke and daugh-
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ters belong to the First Congregational Church, North Brookfield.
MARCELLUS H. HEYWOOD, of Sterling, late clerk of the board of selectmen, is a son of Joseph P. Heywood, the latter of Fitzwilliam, New Hamp- shire. Joseph P. Heywood was born in Fitzwilliam, and married Emeline Eunice Stuart, daughter of Benjamin Stuart, of Sterling.
Marcellus Heywood was born in Sterling, Au- gust 10, 1847, and acquired his education in the public schools. When a young man he engaged in farming in his native town, and possessing the requisite amount of energy and natural ability, has succeeded in making agriculture a profitable occupa- tion. Politically he is a Democrat. His interest and activity in local civic affairs is proving ex- ceedingly beneficial to the community, and in addi- tion, having been a member of the board of select- men, he has served as clerk of that body with. marked ability for two years. His religious affilia- tions are with the Unitarian Church.
Mr. Heywood married. December 21, 1871, Luella Buttrick, daughter of James Buttrick, of Sterling, and a lineal descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, the Mayflower Pilgrims. Mr. and Mrs. Heywood have four children : Mabel Florence, Carrie Emeline, Marion G., and Pearl L. Mabel Florence is the wife of Herbert Arnold, of East Princeton, and has three children. Carrie Emeline married Edgar Burpee, of Sterling. and they have three children. Marion G. is the wife of S. Carlton Smith, and resides in Sterling. Pearl L. resides at home.
MOSES HARRY WILDER. The Wilders of Sterling are the descendants of Thomas Wilder, the immigrant, who arrived in Massachusetts front England early in the Colonial period, and was ad- mitted a freeman at Charlestown in 1651. In 1659 he settled in Lancaster, this county, where he died in 1667. One of his descendants was an early set- tler in Sterling and established a branch of the family in that town. Thomas Wilder, the immi- grant, was the progenitor of a numerous posterity, many of whom have attained local distinction and some of them have acquired a national reputation.
Moses Harry Wilder is a son of Fauson Wilder and a grandson of Jonathan Wilder, both of whom were natives of Sterling. Jonathan Wilder was in his day a prosperous farmer and prominent resident of Sterling. holding all of the important town of- fices, including that of overseer of the poor, in which capacity he served for a period of twenty- seven years. So implicit was the confidence of the general community in his integrity and judgment that he was selected as an arbiter to settle all questions in dispute among the neighboring farmers, and his decisions were not only regarded as im- partial and judicious, but were invariably accepted as final, thus preventing the inconvenience and ex- pense of litigation in the civil courts. He was also intrusted with the settlement of their estates. The maiden name of his wife was Betsey Roper.
Fauson Wilder, whose birth took place Sep- tember 25. 1824, visited some of the western states for five years when a young man, but returned to Sterling and devoted the active period of his life to farming at the homestead. He married Mary Beaman, a descendant of Gamaliel Beaman, who was the first white man to settle in Sterling, locating there in 1720, and also of Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England. Fauson Wilder and his wife Mary reared a family of six children, namely: Fred Ellery, Moses Harry. Har- riet, Sarah Jane, Josephine B. and Herbert Sawyer
Wilder. The sons are all represented in this work. Mrs. Mary Wilder is still living and resides with her son, Moses H. Wilder.
Moses Harry Wilder was born in Sterling, June 8. 1861. After concluding his attendence at the public schools he engaged in agricultural pursuits, first as an assistant, and he continued in that capacity for a number of years, or until he had saved a sum of money sufficient to purchase a farm. Some eighteen years ago he acquired possession of his present property, which is admirably located, and he has ever since devoted his energies to the dairy industry and the cultivation of fruit. Mr. Wilder is unmarried. His happiness is greatly en- hanced by the presence in his household of his aged mother, and also of his sister, who superin- tends his domestic affairs. Politically he is a Re- publican. He attends the Unitarian Church.
CALVIN L. STOCKWELL, for more than thirty years an extensive dairy-farmer and fruit- grower of Sterling, is a native of Worcester coun- ty, son of the late Avery Stockwell, of Fitchburg. Avery Stockwell, who died February 14, 1887, was the father of five children, namely: Fannie Alice, Nellie Martha, William A., Calvin L. and another child, the third born, who died in early childhood. William A. died at the age of sixteen years.
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