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Mr. Paine married Cora I. Lund, daughter of the late Edwin W. and Sarah Lund, of Templeton. Mr. and Mrs. Paine have no children.
THISSELL FAMILY. The earliest records of the Thissell families were obtained from the Bishop of the Church of England ( Protestant Episcopal) in Abbottsburg, county of Dorset, England, by one of the descendants visiting the place for the pur- pose of obtaining the earliest records, and who se- cured the following from the rector of the parish.
(I) Thomas Thistill, or Thistle, buried Decem- ber 6, 1568.
(II) Thomas Thistle, married Edith Rose, 1570.
(III) Thomas Thistle, born 1585, married Joan Hansford, 1615.
(1V) Jeffrey Thistle, horn 1621, married Mary Fearor, 1642.
Jeffrey Thistle, or Thissell (the accepted way of spelling), was the first person by that name known to have come to this country, bringing his son Richard with him, and leaving a daughter Jane in the home place. He was known at Boston and Marblehead as early as 1664-68. His son Richard married Elizabeth Patch, daughter of James and Hannah Patch, and settled in Beverly, Massachu- setts, the town where his wife was born. From this union all persons bearing the name of Thissell, so far as known, have descended, and they are very numerous, being found in nearly every part of the United States. Jeffrey Thissell was a seafaring man, and was lost or died while on a voyage from Tortugas to New England, about the year 1676. The generations from Jeffrey are as follows, viz. :
(I) Richard Thissell and Elizabeth Patch.
(II) Ebenezer Thissell and Hannah Taylor, published December 16, 1716.
(III) Richard Thissell and Mary Mears, second marriage, published September 16, 1752. Richard was married twice, his first wife being Abiah Elling- wood; they had four children, two sons and two daughters. In 1750 he purchased a farm on "Chris- tian Hill," so called, in Dracutt, now Lowell. He moved his family from Beverly to Dracutt, living in a log house which he erected on the premises. His wife died soon after his removal. He then married Mary Mears, of. Tewksbury, Massachusetts, September 16, 1752. They had six children, three sons and three daughters. Four of his sons were in the war of the revolution, viz .: Ebenezer, by his first marriage; John, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill (his name is on the shaft) ; Thomas and Joshua. The father died July 4. 1785.
(IV) Joshua Thissell married Lydia Mears, of Billeria, Massachusetts, September 10, 1786, died March 6, 1836. They had six children, four sons and two daughters.
(V) Joshua Thissell, Jr., born July 15, 1792,
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married Prudence Wood, daugliter of Solomon and Ruth Wood, of Dracutt, February 8, 1821. Her father, Solomon Wood, was in the war of the revolution, and was wounded at the battle of Bun- ker Hill. Joshua Thissell, Jr., had six children, three sons and three daughters. He married twice, his second wife being Mrs. Mehitable Johnson; no issue. He died October 30, 1864.
(VI) Joshua Thissell, eldest son of Joshua . Thissell, Jr., and Prudence ( Wood) Thissell, was born December 11, 1823, in Dracutt (now Lowell ). He was educated in the common schools, attended Centralville Academy for a few terms, the late Benjamin F. Butler being one of his teachers in the academy. He studied. civil engineering with Mr. John Bennett, of Lowell, worked on railroad location and construction, came to Clinton in the spring of 1847, remaining until the fall of the same year, and returned in the summer of 1848, being engaged in doing the engineering and architectural work for the several corporations at the time. He has since conducted the engineering for the town water works and sewerage systems. During his en- tire active career .he has been prominently and use- fully identified with community affairs. He was a member of the board of selectmen for four years, chairman for three years, assessor for three years, road commissioner for three years, and on the board of school committee for the long period of twenty- one years. He is the senior deacon of the Baptist church, and has served as church treasurer for forty-two years. He has served on the cemetery committee for thirty-six years.
November 7, 1849, he married Miss Martha Sarah Brown. Her father, Eliphalet Brown, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was for twenty years over- seer of the Merrimack paint works. Of this mar- riage were born five children. Horace A. Thissell, the only son, is engaged with his father in civil engineering and architecture. Of four daughters, but one is living-Helen A. Thissell, who is first assistant in the Bigelow Library in Clinton. The mother of these children died August 12, 1876. November 29, 1877, Mr. Thissell inarried Miss Mary B. F. Brown, who died October 10, 1895. This marriage was without issue.
(VII) Horace A. Thissell, born in Clinton, May 2, 1858, married Mary Mochler, October 25. 1882; they have four daughters.
EDWARD LUTHER BOWKER, a prominent business man of Templeton, is the eldest son of Luther Bowker, a well known resident of Winchen- don, this state, in his day. Luther Bowker mar- ried Charlotte Maynard, also of Winchendon. They reared a family of three children, namely: Cora, born February 18, 1852; Edward L., the date of whose birth will be recorded presently ; and Albert, born June 14, 1858. Cora is the wife of C. H. Evans, who is a son of Alden Evans, of Royalston, this county, and who will be again referred to. Albert, who died December 24, 1904, is survived by a widow, who was before marriage Kate Bishop, of Templeton.
Edward Luther Bowker was born in Winchen- don, December 11, 1854. His education was ac- quired in the Royalston and Winchendon public schools. When a young inan he went to Templeton and in 1882 he became associated with his brother- in-law, C. H. Evans, in the coal, wood, ice, hay and grain business, under the firm name of Evans and Bowker. For nearly twenty-five years this concern has transacted a large and profitable business, and it is still in a most flourishing condition. Mr. Bowker is an earnest supporter of the Repub-
lican party, and although absolutely free from of- ficial aspirations served tor fifteen years with ability as highway surveyor. He has occupied all of the important offices in the local tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, and also affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his religious belief he is a Baptist.
Mr. Bowker has been twice married. His first wife, who was before marriage Lucy Wood, dangh- ter of George Wood, of Templeton, bore him two children : Floyd, born October 13, 1884; and Lee, who died in early childhood. For his second wife he married Mary Darrah, also of Templeton. The children of the union are: Roy, born May 15, 1893 ; and Ruth, born March 11, 1896. Floyd Bowker, who was employed in his father's concern, is now in the employ of the Jennison Plumbing Company, Fitchburg.
GEORGE EDWARD DAY, of Templeton, is a son of the late Gilman and Bathsheba Day, the former of whom was a son of Daniel Day, who resided in Winchendon, this state, prior to settling in Temple- ton. Bathsheba was a daughter of Asa Hosmer and a member of a well-known family of pioneers. She became the mother of six children, namely: George E., Lucy, Charles, Mary, Henry and Lorey Dwight. Mary and Henry did not live to maturity; Lucy be- came the wife of Hiram Ball; Charles married for his first wife Maria Willard; his second wife was before marriage Maria Reyan, and the maiden name of his third wife was Mary Haloran; he resides in Indianapolis, Indiana; Lorey D. Day is the principal subject of another sketch in this work.
George Edward Day was born in Templeton, December 3, 1829. His early education was ac- quired in the local public schools, and he completed his studies at the New Salem Academy. When a young man he became interested in the lumber business and followed it successfully for a number of years. For the past twenty-seven years he has occupied a responsible position with the well-known chair manufacturing concern of Smith, Day & Com- pany of Templeton. Politically he is a Democrat, hut takes no active part in civic affairs beyond the exercise of his elective privileges.
Mr. Day married Nellie J. Teed, daughter of John B. and Sarah Teed, of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Day have three children, Florence V., born Novem- her 30, 1856, died September 20, 1861 ; Ellen Teed, born May 10, 1858; and Forest J., born September 25, 1862. Ellen T. is the wife of C. W. Brooks, of Winchendon; Forest J., who is superintendent of Smith, Day & Company's chair plant, married Minnie West, of Phillipston; his children are: Ralph, born May 1, 1885; Lillian, born May 31, 1890; and Lester West, born November 18, 1897.
JONATHAN SMITH, an old and honored resi- dent of Clinton, Massachusetts, for twenty years special justice of the second district court, and presi- dent of the Clinton Historical Society and the Weeks Institute, was born in Peterboro, New Hamp- shire, October 2, 1842.
William Smith, great-grandfather of Jonathan Smith, was the progenitor of the family in' New Hampshire, and it was on his homestead that Jona- than was born. William was a member of the first provincial congress of New Hampshire that met at Exeter in 1775, and was one of those who pledged their personal property to sustain the cause of the Colonies against Great Britain. He married and had a son Jonathan.
Jonathan Smith, grandfather of the present Jonathan, and son of William Smith, was a farmer
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by occupation, remaining on the home place and spending his active life in the cultivation of same. In politics he was a Federalist, later a Whig, and for eleven years represented his town in the legisla- ture, and was selectman of his town for many years. He was a deacon of the Unitarian Church. He mar- ried and had a son John, father of Jonathan Smith. Jonathan Smith died at the advanced age of eighty years.
John Smith, like his father and grandfather be- fore him, followed agricultural pursuits. He was a public-spirited, patriotic citizen, served his town as selectman and was also a representative to the general court. He affiliated with the Unitarian Church, of which he was for forty years deacon. His wife was Susan Stearns, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts, and daughter of John Stearns. She bore him seven children, of whom four are living, namely : John, Jonathan, of whom later; Caroline and Jeremiah. John Smith died when he was sev- enty-eight years of age, and his wife passed away at the age of sixty.
Jonathan Smith obtained his literary education in the academy at New Hampton, New Hampshire, and at Dartmouth College, from which celebrated institution he was graduated in 1871. In his boy- hood he went to Keene, New Hampshire, where he learned the printer's trade, and where he was when the civil war broke out. After leaving college he went to Lancaster, New Hampshire, where he taught the Lancaster Academy for a while, and . subsequently became editor of the Coos Republican, in which he was engaged for two years. Deciding to follow the profession of a legal practioner, he read law with the firm of Cross & Burnham, and in 1875 was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. In 1878 he moved to Clinton, Massachusetts, where he has since remained, and where he estab- lished himself in practice, becoming one of the leading and eminent lawyers of Worcester county. A man of indomitable will, unflagging energy, dis- tinguished personality and unusual executive abil- ity, Mr. Smith's career as a lawyer has been one of the most flattering success.
Soon after the great civil war opened Mr. Smith enlisted in the Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers, November 1, 1861, and served for over two years He participated in several hard-fought battles, dis- tinguishing himself for his intrepidity and prompt- itude on the field of action. In 1863 he was dis- charged for disabilities caused by sickness con- tracted in the war, and the following year re-enlisted in the First New Hampshire Cavalry, with which he served until the cessation of hostilities.
Mr. Smith is a stanch supporter of the Republi- can party, and was sent as representative to the leg- islature on his party's ticket, 1886. For three years he was city solicitor of Manchester, in which city he resided 1875-78, and for two years served the town of Clinton as town solicitor. He is at pres- ent special justice of the court which distinguished office he has held for twenty years. He holds mem- bership in the Order of Masons, being past master of Trinity Lodge, F. and A. M .; past high priest of the Clinton Chapter; and past grand king of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts. He is also an enthusiastic member of the Grand Army of the Re- public, and was judge advocate of the department for three years, on the staff of the department com- mander. He is president of the Clinton Historical Society, of which he was one of the founders, and with which he has been connected since its organi- zation, and is also president of Weeks Institute, a trust established under the will of the late George W. Weeks, and organized on the model and for
purposes similar to the Lowell Institute of Boston. In church relations Mr. Smith and his family affili- ate with the Unitarian faith. Ile is chairman of the parish committee of the Unitarian church and for ten years has been president of the Worcester County Conference of Unitarian churches.
Mr. Smith is the author of many valuable works, mostly upon historical subjects, among them being the "History of Old Trinity Lodge," and "The Smith Family History." As a citizen he is held in the greatest regard by his fellow townsmen, and is interested in all enterprises of public benefit, taking great pride in the advancement and growth of the progressive town.
December 13, 1876, Jonathan Smith was united in marriage to Miss Tirzah Dow, daughter of Levi and Hannah (Drake) Dow. Mrs. Smith was the lady principal of the New Ilamption Literary In- stitution, one of the largest academies of the state, located at New Hampton, New Hampshire, for sev- eral years prior to her marriage. Mrs. Smith died in 1881, and in 1886 Mr. Smith took for his second wife Miss Elizabeth C. Stearns, daughter of Will- iam and Mary Ann Stearns, of Clinton, Massachu- setts. Of this marriage one child, Susan D., was born. She is a graduate of Smith College, is un- married and resides at home.
EDWIN BENNETT, an old and valued resi- dent of Hubbardston, Worcester county, Massachu- setts, and for many years extensively engaged in agriculture and lumber dealing there, was born March 30, 1827. He is the son of William and Caty (Follet) Bennett and one of ten children : Addison, Caroline, William, Albert, Mary, Harriet, Adeline, Loren, Edwin and Lucy. He was educated in the common schools of Hubbardston, his native town, and then engaged in the occupation of farm- ing. He is the owner of the largest private tract of land in that section of the state, and for many years was actively engaged in the lumber business. He was enterprising and progressive, and a man of influence in the political and social councils of the community. He was a strong supporter of the Democratic party and filled the office of assessor very acceptably for some terms. He is a member of the Unitarian Church. He has been an invalid for some years, and as his physical strength is leav- ing him, his minds seems to fail proportionately. The kindliness of his nature and his readiness to help those less fortunate than himself gained for him many friends throughout his life.
He married, December 4, 1859, Prudence Eliza- beth Powers, daughter of Robert and Annie (Kendall) Powers, of Oakham, and had children : Chester, married Carry L. Gilbert, of Hubbardston, and has three children; 1da A., born June 9, 1864, married William Herbert Day, died June 2, 1904; Harland, born April 23, 1868, married Abbie Flagg, of Hubbardston, and has two children.
FREELAND S. GLEASON, a well known and prosperous farmer and grain dealer in Hubbardston, Worcester county, Massachusetts, has been a man of prominence and influence in his community for many years in political as well as commercial circles.
Andrew Gleason, father of Freeland Gleason, married Celia Harwood, daughter of Jesse Har- wood, and had children: Jubal Converse, born No- vember 9, 1837; James Harwood, April 22, 1839; Judson, August 20, 1840; Sumner, May 1, 1842; Freeland S., see forward; and Willard, December 2.4, 1846.
Freeman S. Gleason, fifth son and child of
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Andrew and Celia (Harwood) Gleason, was born at Hubbardston, July 18, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of Hubbardston, and at a suitable age commenced the active business of life. He engaged in the cultivation of a farm and the management of a dairy, making a specialty of the products of the latter, and has attained a local rep- utation for their excellence. He has also for many years been extensively engaged as a grain dealer, and has found this a very profitable venture. He is as active and progressive in public as his private affairs, and his counsel is sought and highly valued in the councils of the Republican party, with which he affiliates. He has held the office of selectman for the past three years very creditably. He is a member of the Baptist church and a regular at- tendant there.
He married Eliza J. Brigham, daughter of Law- son Brigham, of Rutland, and had children: . Mabel F., born June 3, 1871, married Henry Howard Roper and had children: Sarah Eunice, born November 24, 1899; Howard Gleason, October 24, 1900; Harold Brigham, February 11, 1902; and Louise, July 24, 1905. Alice E., born February 7, 1873, unmarried and living at home.
THADDEUS ELMER GOULD, deceased, for almost a quarter of a century actively identified with the business interests of West Brookfield and Warren, was born in Holland, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 4, 1847.
He obtained a practical English education in the schools of Holland and Warren, and being thus well equipped for earning his own livelihood was engaged as an employe of the Warren Pump Com- pany at Warren, Massachusetts. Later he engaged in the grain business at West Brookfield, which was established by his father, a practical farmer, and after the death of the latter he succeeded to the business, conducting the same successfully up to the time of his death. He was prominently identi- fied in furthering the interests of all worthy enter- prises of the town, and his intelligence and solid trustworthiness gave him general recognition as one of its most valued and valuable citizens. He was one of the trustees of the bank at Warren, and for a number of years served as vice-president of that institution. He adhered to the doctrines as laid down in the Congregational Church, of which he was a member, and was firm in his advocacy of Republican principles and measures.
Mr. Gould married, September 4, 1872, Fannie Lizzie Amelia Lathe, born in Millbury, Massachu- setts, June 5, 1849, a daughter of Lincoln and Frances (Marble) Lathe, the former named hay- ing been a merchant of Millbury, and the latter a resident of Sutton, and a descendant of an Eng- lish ancestry. Mrs. Gould was educated in the schools of Globe Village and Southbridge, Massa- chusetts. One child was the issue of this marriage, Rose May, born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, April 8, 1882. She attended the Warren high school, and later a college at Ossinning, New York, from which institution she was about to graduate when she was called home on account of the de- plorably tragic death of both father and mother, who lost their lives by an explosion of gas in the house on the evening of February 15, 1902. For more than a year thereafter Rose May Gould car- ried on the grain business which had been conducted by her father, then disposing of it to A. E. Gilbert. She married, April 8, 1905. William Robertson Traill, formerly of Spencer, Massachusetts, now one of the staff of manual training instructors for the
city of Worcester, Massachusetts, a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1900.
DANIEL CURTIS MILES, who has been prom- inently identified with the commercial, financial and educational interests of Worcester county, Massa- chusetts, for many years, is descended from one of the pioneer settlers of the colonies, and is now a resident of Westminster, Worcester county, Massa- chusetts.
(I) Rev. John Myles (as the name was spelled formerly), the founder of the Miles family in America, was born in Wales in 1621, educated at Oxford, and emigrated to New England about 1663 because of religious persecution. He was a Baptist minister, and for many years was pastor of a Bap- tist church founded by him at Swansea, Massachu- setts. The record preserved of him is meager and incomplete. He died in 1683.
(II) John Myles, Jr., son of Rev. John Myles (1), is mentioned at an early date as town clerk of Swansea.
(II1) Samuel Myles, grandson of Elder Myles (1), was born in 168g.
(IV) Daniel Miles, great-grandson of Rev. John Myles (1), removed to Petersham, Massachu- setts, and was the founder of the Worcester county branch of the Miles family. He was a soldier in the war of the revolution and died in 1777.
(V) Joab Miles, son of Daniel Miles (4), was born in 1742, died in 1832. Also fought with bravery in the war of the revolution.
(VI) Daniel Miles, son of Joab Miles (5), was born in 1799. He removed from Petersham to Westminster about 1824 and engaged in farming and lumbering. He was a man of business ability, with a keen understanding of existing conditions, and possessed considerable influence in the com- munity of which he was a public spirited citizen. Ile held the office of selectman for some time, and was an active member of the Baptist Church. The latter part of his life was spent on what was known as the Miles homestead, and there he died in 1875. He married Mary Curtis, born May 10, 1802, died December 16, 1875. She was the eldest daughter of Francis and Mary (Gilbert) Curtis, the mother of Lieutenant-General N. A. Miles, and the aunt of ex-Mayor Curtis, of Boston. Her father was a son of Rev. Philip Curtis, of Sharon, Massachusetts. The children of Daniel and Mary (Curtis) Miles were: Daniel Curtis, see forward. Mary Jane, born June 4, 1831, married Gardner Merriam, of Prince- ton. Ann Maria, born April 15, 1836, married Sam- uel Sprague, of Shirley. Nelson Appleton, born Au- gust 8. 1839, until lately lieutenant-general of the United States Army.
(VII) Daniel Curtis Miles, eldest child of Daniel (6) and Mary (Curtis) Miles, was born on the family homestead, June 1, 1827. His education was obtained in the public, high and private schools of the vicinity, and he then attended Westminster Academy. He taught school for about twelve years in Lancaster, Westminster and Gardner, and his younger brother, Nelson Appleton, who has since became famous, was one of his pupils. He then engaged in farming for a time but gradually changed the scope of his activities, becoming the proprietor of a saw and grist mill and a factory for the pro- duction of chair stock. This factory and the build- ings connected with it were erected through his efforts, and for three years he was associated in bus- iness with Merriam & Holden. He also owned and operated the Westminster and Winchendon baker- ies for three years. His success in these directions
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induced him to enter into a business partnership with Mr. Lombard for the purpose of manufactur- ing various kinds of chairs. They commenced oper- ations under the firm name of Miles & Lombard, and the factory was located at North Westminster. The firm name was later changed to that of Miles & Son, and became one of the most important in- dustries in that section of the town. The busi- ness interests of Mr. Miles were many and varied. He was the main factor in the organization of the Westminster National Bank, of which he was the first president, filling this responsible position from 1875 until 1895, when he resigned. He has been largely interested in real estate trasanctions, and his dealings have been large in southern California and other regions. He has a large interest in a cattle ranch near Miles City, Montana, which city was founded by his son, George M. Miles, and named in honor of General Miles. At the time of the outbreak of the civil war Mr. Miles enlisted, but as his town was only called upon to furnish two men, he was not mustered in. He, however, ac- companied his brother as far as he was permitted to go as a private citizen (Potomac bridge in Washington, D. C.), and twice afterward went to the front to assist his severely wounded brother to a place of safety. He also went to the seat of war to recover the body of his brother-in-law, James Puffer. This he dug from a grave on the field of Gettysburg, and his resting place that night was on the box which contained the remains of the dead soldier, this having been placed in a freight car with fourteen similar boxes. As a public-spirited citizen, Mr. Miles has always borne his full share of responsibilities and duties. He affiliates with the Republican party, and has held the offices of audi- tor, selectman, assessor and collector for the town. He has also served several years as chairman of the school board. He has been president and trustee of the Worcester North Agricultural So- ciety for a number of years. He has been national bank examiner of all the banks of the state outside of Boston. He is a member of the Baptist Church and has been superintendent of the Sunday school for twenty-one years. He has been a member of the Baptist Society for more than sixty years, clerk of the same for sixteen years, and has been president of the Wachusett Baptist Association. He was just- ice of the peace for many years. He has traveled extensively both in this country and in Europe. He married, May 22, 1851, Lucy Ann Puffer, born Au- gust 25, 1828, died February 9, 1869, daughter of James and Lucy (Jones) Puffer. Their children were: I. Mary Josephine, born December 11, 1852. She married Millard M. Parker, of Jay, Maine, born November 27, 1849, son of Cyrus and Harriet (Norton) Parker. He was educated at Kents Hill, Maine, and Wesleyan University, of Connecticut, from which he was graduated in 1875. Taught school in Connecticut and at Holliston, Massachu- setts, then removed to Pasadena, California, which was at that time a village. Later he was appointed trustee of the city that had been incorporated, and was its second mayor, fathering the no-saloon movement. He is now president of the University of Arizona. Their children were: Alice Josephine, born September 26, 1879, died March 18, 1895. George Millard, horn September 22, 1881, has taken his degree of Bachelor of Sciences at the University of Arizona, and that of Bachelor of Arts at Berkeley College. He is now (1906) associated with his uncle in Livingston, Montana. Grace Miles, born February 10, 1883, received the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy at the University of Southern Cali- fornia, and that of Bachelor of Letters at the Uni-
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