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(IV) Caleb Huntington, son of Lieutenant Sam- utel Huntington (3), was born at Norwich, Febru- ary 8, 1693-94. He settled at Lebanon, where all his children were born. He married, January 28, 1720, Lydia Griswold. horn May 28, 1696. Their children were: Caleb, see forward: Lydia, born April 25, 1724 (twin) ; Elijah (twin), born April 25, 1724: Abner, born March 6, 1726; James, born April 25. 1728: Susanna, born June 23, 1730, mar- ried Anderson Dana, lawyer; Ezekiel, born August 2, 1732: Daniel, born February 3, 1737.
(V) Caleb Huntington, son of Caleb Hunting- ton (4). was born December 9. 1721, at Lebanon, Connecticut. He removed to Ashford, Connecticut,
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probably after 1758. He married, February 6, 1747, Zerviah Case. Their children were: Zebulon, born at Lebanon, December 9, 1747, died April, 1748; Ezra, see forward; Bathsheba, born December 12, 1750; Lydia, born September 9, 1753; Caleb, born 1758, died at Cape Breton, 1845. All but the last were born at Lebanon.
(VI) Ezra Huntington, son of Caleb Huntington (5). was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, March 24, 1749. During the agitation before the revolution he remained loyal to the British government, and when the Whigs prevailed everywhere he and others joined the exodus to Nova Scotia. He settled in the town of Cornwallis, Kings county, Nova Scotia, where he died 1827. He married Hannah Fitch and their children were: Ebenezer, born April 1I, 1780, married, December 31, 1806, Elizabeth Strang, resided in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; Simon, see forward: Ezra. Jr., born December 10, 1789. mar- ried Charlotte Burden; they settled in Cornwallis; he died 1836: Betsey, married John Elliott, and re- sided at Wilmot, Nova Scotia; Rini (Irene ?).
(VIII) Simon Huntington, son of Ezra Hunt- ington (7), was born at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, August 15, 1786. He lived there and died there 1829. He married Henrietta Lockhart. Their chil- dren, all born in Cornwallis, were: Daniel Dixon, born December 31, 1819, see forward; David. born 1824, married Ann Miller and resided at Cornwallis ; John, born 1826, married Sophia Miller and settled at Cornwallis; James, born 1828, resided in Corn- wallis.
(IX) Colonel Daniel Dixon Huntington, son of Simon Huntington (8), was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, December 31. 1819. He followed the sea in his youth and for a time was an overseer of a plantation in Mississippi. He finally returned to Cornwallis. however, and helped his father on the homestead, and followed farming the remainder of his active life. He was prominently identified with the provincial militia and rose to the rank of col- onel. He loved music and was director of the choir of the Baptist Church to which he belonged. He died in Cornwallis, December. 1873. He married Eliza Miller, daughter of Ambrose Miller, a pros- perous farmer of Wilmot, Annapolis county. Nova Scotia. Their children were: Herbert Charles, married Serena Porter, of Cornwallis, and their children are-Maud, Herbert, of Malden, Massa- chusetts: Arthur. Grace. Samuel Arthur, married Lizzie McDonald, of Malden. Louisa Martha, mar- ried George Palmer, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Helen A., married Forest Austin, of Worcester, and they have two sons- Harold and Leonard. Leon- ard C .. unmarried, resides in Washington state. Whitman Morton, see forward.
(X) Whitman Morton Huntington, son of Daniel Dixon Huntington (9), was born in Cold Brook on the old homestead in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, January 15, 1860. His early education was con- cluded in Malden, Massachusetts, whither he went to live when he was thirteen years old. At the age of sixteen he returned to Cornwallis and served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith and wheelwright trades. In 1881, after he reached his majority, he went to Hudson, Massachusetts, but shortly after- wards removed to West Boylston to enter the em- ploy of Deacon Lovell A. Lesure, who was then carrying on a blacksmith shop at Oakdale in that town, and he continued with Mr. Lesure as journey- man until 1900, when he bought the business him- self. He is a skillful mechanic and a successful man of affairs. Mr. Huntington is a naturalized American citizen and votes with the Republicans. He has been constable of the town, and is at the
present time a fire warden and engineer of the fire department. He has frequently served as delegate to various nominating conventions of the Repub- lican party. He is a very earnest temperance advo- cate and has been active in enforcing the laws for the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors. He is a member of the Methodist Church and is a member of the present board of trustees. He is a member of Centennial Lodge, No. 178, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has occupied all the important chairs, and is now a member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. When a young man in Cornwallis he served in the militia.
He married, November 15, 1883, Nellie Baker Chase, daughter of Hanson and Frances (Stevens) Chase, of West Boylston. Her father, Hanson Chase, was a shoemaker by trade; served from 1862 to the end of the civil war in Massachusetts Volun- teer Infantry. Children of Whitman Morton and Nellie Baker Huntington are: Hattie Adeline, born September 22, 1884; Clarence Whitman, April 30, 1890; Raymond Sandal, October 19, 1891.
SPOONER FAMILY. The Spooners of Hard- wick, represented in this work by Stephen Henry Spooner, have been prominent in that town from the time of its incorporation. and branches of the family have sprung up in Barre and other localities. They are the progency of William Spooner, of Plym- outh, and the first of the name to settler in Hard- wiek, went there from old Dartmouth, Bristol coun- ty, this state. Stephen Henry Spooner, of Hard- wick, is a lineal descendant in the eight generation of William, through Samuel (2), Samuel (3), Amaziah (4), Zephaniah (5), Bradford (6), and Alden Bradford (7) Spooner.
William Spooner was residing in Plymouth as early as 1637, and is supposed to have been at that time a minor, as he was serving an apprenticeship. He took the freeman's oath June 6. 1654, and about the year 1660 went from Plymouth to that part of Dartmouth which is now the town of Acushnet, where he died in 1684. Among his notable descend- ants was the Hon. Walter Spooner, a zealous revo- lutionary patriot, and the family is still a promi- nent one in that locality. William Spooner married for his first wife Elizabeth Patridge, who died April 28. 1648, and his second wife, whom he married March 18. 1652, was Hannah, daughter of Joshua Pratt. His children were: John, Sarah, Samuel. Martha, Isaac, Hannah, Mary and Ebenezer.
Samuel Spooner, son of William and Hannah Spooner, was born in Plymouth, January 4, 1655. He was a weaver. He served as constable at Dart- mouth in 1680 and again in 1684, and his death oe- eurred there in 1739. The maiden name of his wife was Experience Wing. She became the mother of eleven children, namely : William, Mary, Samuel, Daniel, Seth, Hannah, Joshop (probably an abbre- viation of Shearsjashub), Anna, Experience, Beulah and Wing.
Samuel Spooner. son of Samuel and Experience Spooner. was born in Dartsmouth, February 4. 1692- 93. He was a life long resident of Dartmouth, and a farmer. He died in 1781. On April 10, 1717. he married Rebecca Weston, who died January 28, 1728, and on March 8. 1729-30, he married for his second wife Deborah, daughter of Isaac Pope. The children of his first union were: Esther. Hannah, Thomas, Zephaniah and Amaziah; those of his sec- ond union were: Elnathan, Abigail and Seth.
Amaziah Spooner, son of Samuel and Rebecca Spooner, was born in Dartmouth, May 15, 1724. He went to Hardwick prior to 1749, and cleared a farm on the north side of the turnpike west of
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Muddy brook. On February 22, 1749-50, he mar- ried Lydia, daughter of Deacon James Fay, and the Spooners of Hardwick and vicinity are their de- scendants. Amaziah died July 8, 1798, and the death of his wife occurred August 10, 1817, at the age of eighty-seven years. Their children were: Thomas, Zephaniah, Lucy, Elizabeth, Lydia, Sam- uel, Charles, Rebecca, Hannah and Seth.
Zephaniah Spooner, son of Amaziah and Lydia Spooner, was born in Hardwick. October 1, 1753. He resided on the homestead farm his entire life, which terminated June 13, 1810. He married Sally Church, November 5, 1789, and was the father of Bradford, Barnabas, Grover and Charles C. The mother died August 30. 1833, aged sixty-eight years.
Bradford Spooner, son of Zephaniah and Sally Spooner, was born in Hardwick, April 5, 1791. He was a farmer and resided on the east side of Muddy brook. He married. November 10, 1821, Arathusa, daughter of Jolin Earl. Her death, which occurred April 7, 1872, at the age of seventy-two years, was followed shortly afterward by that of her husband, who died November I, of the same year. They were the parents of nine children. namely : Sarah Church, Alden Bradford, John F., Harmon C., Caroline E., Henry, Maria, Jane M. and Henry A.
Alden Bradford Spooner, son of Bradford and Arathusa Spooner. was born in Hardwick, Novem- ber 12, 1824. The active period of his life was devoted to agriculture, and he died in Hardwick, December 6, 1900. His first wife, whom he mar- ried January 26, 1858, was Sarah A. Morton, daugh- ter of Phineas Morton. She died at the age of twenty-nine years, December 2 or 3, 1864. leaving one son, Stephen Henry, see forward. On January 7, 1873, he married for his second wife Julia A. Alden, daughter of Captain Pliny Alden.
Henry Albert Spooner, son of Bradford and Arathusa Spooner, was born in Hardwick, July I, 1838. He was educated in the Hardwick public schools, and has always resided upon the homestead farm. In 1861 he enlisted for service in the civil war as a private in Company K, Fourty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was ordered to the Department of the Gulf, and par- ticipated in the memorable Red River expedition under General Banks. As Company K was com- posed chiefly of farmers and mechanics of unusual energy, it was detailed in the construction of forti- fications, pontoon bridges, etc., and at the seige of Port Hudson it performed the daring and ex- ceedingly dangerous task of successfully laying a pontoon bridge in the face of a steady fire from the Conferedate batteries. winning distinction for gallantry in action, and also for the rapidity with which the order was executed. Upon his discharge from the service Mr. Spooner returned to the home- stead and has ever since been engaged in the manu- facture of lumber in connection with farming. For many years he carried on the farm and saw-mill jointly with his brother, Alden B. Spooner, and is now associated with the latter's son, Stephen H. Spooner. In politics he supports the Republican party. His religious affiliations are with the Con- gregational Church. Ile is unmarried.
Stephen Henry Spooner, son of Alden Brad- ford and Sarah A. Spooner, was born at the home- stead in Hardwick, April 1, 1861. His education was begun in the Hardwick public schools, con- tinued at the Brimfield Academy and completed at the Barre high school. Turning his attention to mercantile pursuits, he became a commercial trav- eler, and for a period of eighteen years was en- gaged in selling interior finishes by sample to the retail trade, and in re-decorating public buildings,
banks, etc. He was for a time identified with The Bell-Spooner Baking Company, of Erie, Penn- sylvania, founded by Mr. Spooner. Returning to Hardwick at his father's death, he has ever since been associated with his uncle, Henry Spooner, in carrying on the homestead farm, and also in operat- ing a saw-mill. In politics he acts with the Re- publican party, in the welfare of which he takes a lively interest, and although frequently solicited to accept nomination for public office, business pres- sure has compelled him to decline. He is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Patrons of Husbandry. He attends the Con- gregational Church.
Mr. Spooner married Miss Adelaide Bell, daugh- ter of Emanuel Bell. a farmer of Orangeville, near Toronto, Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Spooner have no children.
CYRUS GALE, a prominent, philanthropic citi- zen of Worcester county, Massachusetts, donor of the Gale public library building to the town of Northboro, Massachusetts, where he resides, is a descendant in the seventh generation from Richard Gale, who came to Massachusetts, doubtless from England, within twenty years of the landing of the Pilgrims. Search for the origin of the family in the past has resulted in a variety of opinions. Some think it to have been of Welsh, and others of Scotch Highland antecedents. From this latter source comes one form of the name-"Gael" or "Gaell." Burke's "Landed Gentry of England" speaks of "the family of Gale" as of importance in Yorkshire, in the early days of the sixteenth cen- tury. There were many New England settlers of this name, among them being Hugh. of Kittery, Maine; Ambrose, of Marblehead; Bartholomew, of Salem : and Edmond of Beverly-the last three are supposed to have been sons of Edmond of Cam- bridge, who died in 1642.
(I) Richard Gale, the founder of the Gale family in this country, purchased nine acres of land at Watertown, in 1640. His will, dated February 25, 1678, and proved in April, 1679, considerately pro- vided that his well-beloved wife should enjoy his "Whole estate, both houses and lands and cattle of all sorts and all his household goods. for her com- fort and maintenance during her natural life," after which he proceeds to designate the manner in which the property shall be divided after her death, among his four children and their heirs. Richard Gale and his wife had children, as follows: Abraham, John, Sarah, wife of Garfield; Mary, married
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(II) Abraham Gale, eldest son of Richard Gale (I), was born in 1643, in Watertown, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. He occupied the old home- stead, situated in what is now Waltham, and was a selectman of Watertown in 1706 and 1718. He died in the latter year. His name in his will is spelled "Gael." He married Sarah. a daughter of Nathan Fiske, of Watertown, and they were the parents of sixteen children, of whom nine lived to maturity and married.
(III) Abraham Gale. Jr., eldest child of Abra- ham (2) and Sarah (Fiske) Gale, was born in 1674. married. December 6. 1699. Rachel, daughter of John and Abigail (Garfield) Parkhurst, and granddaughter of George Parkhurst, one of the pioneer settlers of Watertown, and had children. eight in number.
(IV) Abraham Gale, eldest son of Abraham, Tr. (3) and Rachel (Parkhurst) Gale, was born November 28. 1700. He was a blacksmith by trade and settled in Weston. He married Esther Cun-
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ningham, and they had eight sons and one daughter who grew to maturity. Seven of the sons served in the French and Indian wars, and Abraham, the seventh son, died in the winter of 1757-58 from the effects of wounds received while on the field of battle.
(V) Abijah. Gale, fourthi son of Abraham (4) and Esther (Cunningham) Gale, was born July 25, 1727. , He married (first) Abigail Amsden, by whom he had six children. He married (second) Susannah Allen, of Weston, by whom he had eleven children. Several of these children died young, and some of those who lived to maturity did not marry. Abijah Gale and his family lived at Westboro.
(VI) Cyrus Gale, Sr., sixteenth child of Abijalı (5) and Susannah (Allen) Gale, was born Oc- tober 7, 1785. When still a young man he engaged in business as a grocer and provision dealer, both wholesale and retail, in Boston, Massachusetts. During the war of 1812 he was captain of a com- pany of militia in that city. In 1814 he removed to Northboro and was postmaster there for five years, and for fifty years served as justice of the peace. He engaged in mercantile business in Northboro in 1815. and continued this until 1843. He was a member of the state legislature in 1844, and of Gov- ernor Boutwell's council in 1852. The last years of his life were spent on his farm. His death oc- curred September 10. 1880. Hon. Cyrus Gale was married three times. He married (first) Eliza Davis, sister of Hon. John Davis, United States senator, and had children as follows: Frederick W. born June 22, 1816, married Mary S. Utley, of Boston; Hannah D., born January 14, 1818, mar- ried George Barnes, and died July 15, 1851; Cyrus. born November 25, 1821, dicd February 17, 1822. Mrs. Davis died in 1822. Mr. Gale married (sec- ond) Sarah Patrick, born March 16, 1795. died December 4, 1849, and had children as follows: Cyrus, sec forward; George A., born February 19. 1827, died September 10, 1857: Walter, born No- vember 13, 1833: Susan M., born June 16, 1835, died June 22, 1842. He married (third) Susan G. Holbrook, who died in ISSS. Walter Gale, the youngest of the surviving sons. is a resident of California. He studied law in the office of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Worcester, Massachusetts, later United States senator. During the civil war, Walter Gale served as an officer in the Fifteenth Massachu- setts Infantry, being commissioned second lieuten- ant in January, 1862; captain, October 24 of that year ; and major, July 14, 1864. He was in nine- teen engagements and several skirmishes, was slightly wounded at Antietam, and received two bul- let wounds at Gettysburg. His gallant conduct was highly commended.
(VII) Cyrus Gale, Jr .. eldest surviving son of Cyrus, Sr. (6) and Sarah (Patrick) Gale, was born in Northboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, March 6, 1824. He received his education in the schools of Northboro and Berlin. Massachusetts, and in 1839 entered Amherst Academy. He was still very young when he commenced his business career by working in the general store of his father in Northboro. Here he remained until 1844, when, although not yet twenty-one years of age, he bought out his father's share in the business and estab- lished himself in it. having formed a business part- nership with Henry G. Maynard under the firm name of Gale & Maynard. In 1863 Mr. Gale sold his interest in the business to his brother-in-law, Samuel Wood, his private interests requiring his undivided attention. He had large real estate hold- ings, was actively engaged in forwarding schemes for the public improvement, and devoted much time
to unostentatious works of charity. Desirous of erecting an enduring, costly and attractive monu- men to the memory of his father, and to confer on his town a lasting benefit, he built at an expense of thirty-one thousand dollars, and presented to the town of Northboro, June 8, 1895, the beautiful Gale Public Library. This is a substantial struc- ture of Milford granite, finished in quarter oak, and will he enjoyed by many generations yet to come. Mr. Gale is the principal stockholder of the Northboro National Bank, of which he is still a director and has been for many years. He has been an ardent Republican ever since the organization of that party. In religion he is a Unitarian, having been brought up in the faith under the teachings of the late Rev. Dr. Joseph Allen, an exponent of liberal Christianity of the Channing type. Mr. Gale has for many years been a stanch supporter of the First Congregational Church. In his many trips to the Pacific coast and throughout the United States, Mr. Gale has amassed a vast amount of interesting information, and made a collection of valuable paintings and other works of art, as well as natural curiosities, interesting relics, well-selected books, etc., which mark his home as the abode of refinement and taste.
Mr. Gale married, December 5, 1850, Ellen Maria Hubbard, of Concord, Massachusetts, daughter of Cyrus and Susannalı (Hartwell) Hubbard, and sister of Mrs. Samuel Wood, of Northboro.
HENRY WILCUT HARWOOD. The Har- wood family of Barre, represented in this work by Henry Wilcut and George Nelson Harwood, is descended from an early settler in Sutton, this county. Ilenry W. Harwood, the immediate sub- ject of this sketch, is a son of George and Lucinda (Stetson) Harwood, and grandson of Wilcut Har- wood, a native of Sutton and for many years a prominent farmer of that town. George Harwood was born in Barre, October 24, 1809. When a young man he engaged in farming and lumbering in Barre, purchasing large tracts of wild land from which he hauled the timber to his own saw-mill for manufacture, and in that industry he became very successful. For many years he was associated with his sons and the Harwoods transacted an extensive business. He is now a nonogenarian and has a good prospect of reaching the century mark. He was formerly quite active in civic affairs, serving upon the board of selectmen for a number of years, and from its foundation in 1870 to the present time (1906) he has been a director of the Barre Savings Bank.
Henry Wilcut Harwood was born in Barre, Feb- ruary 17. 1845. He began his education in the district schools and completed it with a course in the higher branches of study at the New Salem Academy. He then became associated with his father and elder brother in the lumber business. For many years this concern was engaged exten- sively in cutting, hauling, manufacturing and marketing lumber, but has now practically with- drawn from business, having accumulated a large fortune. The Harwood brothers have been agri- culturists on a quite extensive scale. Mr. Henry A. Harwood has devoted much of his leisure time to the study of native birds and quadrupeds, and his reputation as a naturalist and taxidermist has extended far beyond the limits of his own com- munity. His collection of native birds, animals and fishes. all of which were mounted by himself in a most able manner, is exceedingly interesting even to the casual observer who is unfamiliar with the finer points of the taxidermist's art, and is no doubt
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one of the most superior private collections in New England. Politically he acts with the Republican party. He is a member of the Unitarian Church. Mr. Harwood is a director of the Barre Library Association and Museum, and on the committee on care of building and grounds.
On April 15, 1874, Mr. Harwood was joined in marriage with Hattie Austin, daughter of Charles and Miranda ( Peck) Austin, of Hubbardston, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Harwood have one son, Charles Austin Harwood, born March 23, 1875, 110W residing in Worcester, bookkeeper for the Bay State Metal Wheel Company.
GEORGE NELSON HARWOOD, one of the most prominent residents of Barre, a son of George and Lucinda (Stetson) Harwood, and a grandson of Wilcut Harwood, of Sutton, was born in Barre, July 15, 1842. He studied preliminarily in the old eleventh district school and completed his educa- tion at the Barre high school. Having acquired a good knowledge of the lumbering business under the direction of his father, he was subsequently for many years associated with the elder Harwood in logging and manufacturing, cutting and hanling timber from their own lands to their sawmill in Barre, where they prepared it for market. At length the senior Harwood gradually withdrew from active participation in the business, leaving it in charge of his sons, who in turn have now practically retired, having amassed a fortune.
Mr. Harwood is a member of the Republican town committee and is frequently chosen a dele- gate to party conventions. He is also prominent in local civic affairs, having served as an assessor for the past eighteen years, as overseer of the poor at different times for a like period, as a selectman for nearly the same period, and as superintendent of highways for many years. He is one of the trustees, auditors and of the investment committee of the Barre Savings Bank, a trustee of the Public Library Association, has served as secretary of the special state committee having charge of the classi- fied insane, and as a trustee of the public institution known as the Gardner Colony of the Mildly Insane, which comprises a large tract of land and several sightly buildings. For upward of a quarter of a century he has been identified with the Patrons of Husbandry and has held all of the important offices in the local grange. In his religious belief he is a Unitarian, and at various times has served upon the parish committee.
On March 22, 1872. Mr. Harwood was united in marriage with Olivia Wheelock, daughter of Horatio Wheelock, of Barre. Mr. and Mrs. Har- wood have one daughter, Ethel, born October 20, 1882. Her early education, which was acquired in Barre and Holyoke. was supplemented with a course of advanced musical culture at the Westfield Acad- emy, to which she has devoted much time. She is now an efficient teacher of pianoforte playing, is chorister at the Unitarian church, and is music teacher in the schools of Oakham, Holland and Wales.
ALFRED H. RICHARDSON. Although native of Hampshire county, this well-known resi- dent of Hardwick belongs to an old Worcester county family. ancestors of which were early settlers in Brookfield. and his great-grandparents, Jonathan and Lydia Richardson, were natives of that town. His grandfather, Willard Richardson, who was born July 12, 1768, died in Southbridge, this county. His parents, Winthrop and Fanny D. (Thompson) Rich-
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