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Edmund W. Norcross was educated in his na- tive place and commenced to farm quite early in life. He has made agriculture a study and followed it throughout life so far. Like his forefathers, he is able to produce abundant crops from the old soil of New England. In politics lie is a Repub-
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lican. He has been the surveyor for his town and is alive to the needs and best interests of his home county. He is connected with the Bap- tist Church of Northiboro. He married, June 12, 1866. Leonora Adelia Bemis, born May 7, 1841, daughter of Elijah and Susan Esther (New- ton) Bemis, both of Southboro. Mr. and
Mrs. Norcross are the parents of the fol- lowing children: Ella Winchester, born in Northi- boro, July 30, 1867, married George H. Felt, of Northboro, and they have four children: Florence E., born May 5, 1897; Mildred L., born July 17, 1900; Charles W., born July 9, 1902; William N., born September 24, 1904. Cora Louise. born May 12, 1870, married John H. Jones, of Pellham, they have one child, Anna Norcross, born November 10. 1895. Stephen Winchester, born at Northboro, June 9, ISSI, married Leona May Robinson, of Hudson, Massachusetts, and they have one child, Lilian Robinson, born June 19, 1906.
SAMUEL BENTON BRAY. a successful dairy- farmer of Rutland and a civil war veteran, was born in West Gloucester, Massachusetts, June 9, 1836. He was educated in the public schools and after the completion of his studies began the activi- ties of life in the grocery business. He subse- quently engaged in the fish business, curing the various kinds of seafoods which he sold in the different centres of trade, and he continued in that line of business until the outbreak of the civil war. The capture of Fort Sumter by the scces- sionists aroused his patriotism, and April 30, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Seventeenthi Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. He participated in various engagements of more or less importance, notably the battle of Goldsboro, North Carolina, and after constant service in the field for a period of three years and three months was honorably discharged in August, 1864. The privation and exposure suffered while in the service so undermined his health that he was for many years afterward unfit for active business pursuits. He was at length induced to try the clear air and high altitude of Rutland, whither he removed permanently in 1887. and purchasing a farm he has ever since been engaged in its cultivation. making a specialty of dairy products. Mr. Bray is a man of positive convictions and a firm adherent to prin- ciples which he believes to be right. His patriotism continues unabated, as does also liis allegiance to the Republican party, which he has supported, prac- tically. ever since its formation, but he has never sought for or held public office. In his religious belief he was formerly a Universalist, but as there is no church of that denomination in Rutland, his family worships with the Congregationalists.
In 1866 Mr. Bray was joined in marriage with Miss Mary E. Friend. daughter of George and Betsey (Ropper) Friend, of Gloucester. Mr. and Mrs. Bray have had four children, namely : Emma F., born in 1867, died in 1870; Herman Davis, born in 1869: Sarah Harris, born in 1871 ; and Oscar Benton, born in 1875. Herman Davis Bray, who assists liis father in farming, is one of the pro- gressive young men of Rutland and takes an active interest in all matters relative to the general wel- fare of the community. In politics he is a Re- publican. He affiliates with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Some years ago he united with the Congregational Church. He married, Novem- ber 1. 1901, Lanra Henderson, daughter of Henderson. of Rutland, this state. His . children are: Winthrop Earlin, born June 17, 1903; and
Harold W., born January 1, 1905, died September 27. 1906. Sarah Harris Bray is now the wife of Ira G. Dudley, of Berlin. Oscar Benton Bray is an electrical engineer in the employ of the Worces- ter Academy.
ELWYN HARTLEY BEMIS, of Northboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, is from the old Bemis family of this county, the members of which outrank almost, if not quite, tlfose of any other name there. He was born at Northboro, June I, 1851. son of Elijah and Julia A. (Newton) Bemis.
Elijah Bemis was born in Southboro, February, ISI3, dicd December 12, 1896. He was a son of Elisha and Sarah Bemis. He was educated at Southboro, Massachusetts, and chose farming for his occupation. He farmed near his birthplace up to 1845, when he moved to Northboro and pur- chased a farm upon which his son, Elwyn H., now lives. For six years he was the superintendent of the town farm in Southboro and in Northboro held the office of school committeeman. In politics he was a Republican. He was an influential man of his day and generation. He married for his first wife Susan Newton, of Southboro, by whom was born the following children: Leonora Adelia, born May 7, 1841, married Edmund W. Norcross ; Adel- bert: Jennie, who became the wife of James V. Goddard. of Marlboro, and they have Elsie, Frank, Joseph, and Roscoe L. For his second wife Mr. Bemis married his first wife's cousin, Julia A. New- ton, by whom he had the following children: Ann R., born August, 1845; Louella, born July, 1847, died aged eighteen years; Leroy, born September, 1849: Elwyn Hartley, see forward: Justin W., Helen G., Emma F., Alice A., Charles R.
Elwyn H. Bemis, of this notice, was educated at Northboro, Massachusetts, commenced farm work for others and later began for himself on the old home place. In politics he is a Republican and has heen overseer of the poor. He was a charter member of the Grange and is a member of the Baptist Church. He married Martha Arabella Todd, of Rowley, daughter of J. Scott and Lucy (Halc) Todd. Their children are as follows : Edith Justina, born at Northboro, November 16. 1879, married E. C. Blair, 1899, and they have one son, Malcom E., born June 22. 1900. Ralph S. and Lucy M. (twins), born March, 1883: Ralph lives at Worcester and Lucy at Fitchburg. Massa- chusetts. Elmer T., born December 7, 1894.
JOHN KILBURN MILLS. of Northboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, whose occupa- tion is that of a farmer, was born at Greenville, New Hampshire. January 14. 1864, son of John K. Mills and wife Elizabeth Holt, of New Hamp- shire.
Jolın K. Mills (father) was born in the city of New York, 1834, died June 2, 1878, a son of Drake Mills. He obtained his education at the public schools of New York, and became a sailor. following whaling on the seas for about eighteen years. In 1840 he was in California, moving from that state to Greenville, New Hampshire, where he settled and purchased a small place. In politics he was a Republican and in religious relations at- tended the Congregational Church. He married Elizabeth Holt, of Nelson, New Hampshire, dangh- ter of Hiram Holt and wife. By this marriage was horn these children: Charles D., Sarah M., John Kilburn. Silas, Mary E., now living at Melrose, Connecticut : and Allen Dean, died in 1874.
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age, accompanied his parents to Athens, Georgia. They remained but a short time, however, and then settled in Nelson. New Hampshire. There he attended school a short time and then moved to Neligh, Nebraska, where he completed his school- ing. He then commenced to railroad, remained at this but a short time, when he removed to North- boro. Massachusetts, and bought the farm on which lie still lives. In politics he is a pronounced Re- publican and has held local office including that of selectman and assessor. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order and the Grange. He is a director in the New England Milk Producers Com- pany. Mr. Mills is a member of the Methodist Church, and an active man in his community. He married Elsie J. Parmentor, of Berlin, Massachu- setts, born April 6, 1864. daughter of Appleton D. and Julia A. (Bancroft) Parmentor.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS KING, of North- boro, Worcester county. Massachusetts, now lead- ing a retired life at his pleasantly situated home in the outskirts of the town, was born at Provi- dence, Rhode Island, August 7, 1872, son of Fred- erick Augustus King and wife Lorania C. (Jones) King. The father was born in Providence, Rhode Island. January 17. 1844, son of William Jones King, who married Lydia Gilbert. F. A. King, Sr., was educated at Providence, Phillips Academy, An- dover and Brown University and completed his education at Amherst College, with the class of 1863. After finishing his college course, he en- gaged in the cotton business with his father, with whom he remained until ISS5, the firm being W. J. King & Sons. He had large interests, including the presidency of the Rhode Island Tool Company, and was a director in several concerns. He was a Republican, and a member of the Protestant Epis- copal Church. He married Lorania C. Jones. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born Janu- ary 10. 1841. daughter of George and Lorania C. E. Hoppin. Mr. and Mrs. King were the parents of two children: Lorania Carrington. born March 2 1871. died January 31, 1904: she married Harry P. Cross. of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and their three children are: Lorania King. Harry and Fran- ces King Cross. Frederick A., see forward.
Frederick Augustus King was educated at Provi- dence. Rhode Island. New York city, and grad- uated from Yale College. June 26. 1895. In April, 1898. he moved to Northboro, Massachusetts, his present home. He married Eliza B. Sherman. of New York city, daughter of Arthur W. and Han- nah (Bucklin) Sherman, the former of New York and the latter of Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. King have two children-Hannah Buck- lin. born at Northboro, Massachusetts. May 18, 1002: Lorania Carrington, born at Northboro, June 28, 1905.
HERBERT R. SAYLES, a prominent repre- sentative of the well-known Uxbridge family of that name, which has long been identified with the woolen manufacturing industry, is a son of the late Richard Sayles and . a grandson of Richard Sayles. Sr. His grandfather, who was a native of Northbridge, this county, moved from that town to Uxbridge about fifty years ago, and resided there for the remainder of his life.
Richard Sayles, Jr., who was born in North- bridge in 1847. accompanied his parents to Ux- bridge when a boy. and after graduating from the Uxbridge high school went to Providence, Rhode
Island, where he began his business career as a bookkeeper. He subsequently engaged in the woolen manufacturing business in Boston, and in 1888 re- turned to Uxbridge, establishing the extensive woolen manufacturing plant which he conducted successfully for the succeeding sixteen years. He died in 1904. He was married in 1873 to Imogene Hopkins, daughter of Stanton and Harriet (John- son) Ilopkins, of Greenwich, Rhode Island. The children of this union are; Herbert R., the prin- cipal subject of this sketch; Stanton H., born in 1876: Arthur E .. born in 1881; and Sarah M., born in 1885. In politics Richard Sayles was a Repub- lican. His fraternal affiliations were with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Unitarian Church.
Herbert R. Sayles was born in Providence, Rhode Island. August 30, 1874. He began his edu- cation in the public schools of Boston, and upon his removal with his parents to Uxbridge he continued his studies at the high school in that town, grad- uating in 1893. He then entered Dean Academy, Franklin. this state, but a serious illness caused him to relinquish his studies, and upon his recovery he took the position of bookkeeper in the office of his father's woolen mill, and is now treasurer of that establishment, which is conducted by his uncle and he. Politically he acts with the Republican party and takes an earnest interest in its welfare. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order. He attends the Unitarian Church.
In 1903 Mr. Sayles was united in marriage with Mary B. Hayward, daughter of William E. Hay- ward, president of the Uxbridge National Bank. One child, Sylvia E., born March 13, 1906.
LOUIS HOOKER RUGGLES, proprietor of Moose Brook Farm. Hardwick, is a son of Elbridge and Mary (Aiken) Ruggles, and a lineal descendant in the ninth generation of Thomas Ruggles, the immigrant, who arrived from England in 1637, set- tling in Roxbury. From Thomas the line of descent is through Samuel (2), Samuel (3), Benjamin (4), Benjamin (5), Lemuel (6), Lemuel (7), and El- bridge (S). The family is one of the oldest in Hardwick and further information relative to its early history will be found in a sketch of "The Ruggles Family." which appears elsewhere in this work. His grandfather, Lemuel Ruggles, who was born about the year 1780. and died Feb- ruary 14. 1840, was a lifelong resident of Hardwick, and a prosperous farmer. He was married in 1818 to Hannah Hooker, of Enfield, Hampshire county, who died December 16. 1877, aged eighty-five years. Their children were: Elbridge, Sally, Emory, Maria and James.
Elbridge Ruggles, father of Louis H. Ruggles, was born at Moose Brook Farm, June 3, 1819. He was reared to farm life at the homestead and suc- ceeded to its ownership in turn. Mary (Aiken) Ruggles, his wife, whom he married in December, 1850. was born in Prescott, Hampshire county. this state. The children of this union were: Mary Theo. dotia, born August 20. 1852: Abbie, June 21, 1854; Frederick Elbridge. September 23, 1856; Amory A., May 26, 1859; Ella Frances, Angust 3, 1863; Louis Hooker, see forward: Gertrude M., February I, 1869; and Nelson Paul, August 29, 1871.
Louis Hooker Ruggles was born at the homestead in Hardwick, where he now resides, November 17, 1866. He studied preliminarily in the public schools of Hardwick, and after completing his education at the Worcester Business College engaged in dairy- farming at the homestead, which he has ever since
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followed with success. Moose Brook Farm, which is an ancient landmark and one of the principal points of interest shown to strangers visiting Hard- wick, is one of the oldest farms in this town, and was included in the original deed given by the sachem of the Nipmuck Indians in 1686 to Samuel Ruggles and others. It has thus far been the birthplace of seven generations of the family, and is therefore prized very highly by its owners. The present residence, which is considerably more than a hundred years old, is a massive structure in the colonial style of architecture, and is in an excellent state of preservation. It contains many valuable relics of antiquity, and prominent among the decora- tions of the front hall are several family deeds and other legal documents dating back to the first half of the eighteenth century. Here too may be seen the Ruggles coat of arms described in the sketch of the Ruggles Family, previously referred to. At the present time Mr. Ruggles is a member of the Republican town committee and a trustee of the Paige Public Library and formerly served upon the board of health. He is active in the work of the Congregational Church, as one of its parish committee, and is a member of the Society.
Mr. Ruggles married, January 12, 1894, May Mit- chell Orcutt, daughter of Dr. A. M. and Mary A. (Knight) Orcutt, of Cummington, Hampshire county, Massachusetts. Dr. Orcutt entered upon the practice of his profession in 1849 in Hardwick, where he con- tinued to practice throughout his life. He died February 11, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Ruggles have had four children. namely; Louis Orcutt, born De- cember 28, 1894; Mary Marguerite, August 15, 1896; Robert Knight, May 24, 1898; and Paull Raymond, March 9, 1901, died March 19, 1901.
WALTER OLIVER ALLEN, of Northboro, Worcester county, Massachusetts, one of the sub- stantial farmers of that section, was born at North- boro, September 28, 1848, son of Silas and Louisa (Fay) Allen. The grandparents were Duty and Betsey (Briggs) Allen, of Maine, and Mansfield, Massachusetts, respectively. Silas Allen, born Sep- tember 19, 1811, moved to Massachusetts when he was abont four years of age; he was educated at Wayland, Massachusetts, and learned the trade of blacksmith, working around from one place to an- other. Later in life he became a farmer, living at Sudbury, and then moved to Northboro. In IS33 he married Louisa Fay. born November 4. 1808, daughter of William Fay, of Northboro, born in 1781, and died September 6, 1860. His wife' was Lydia Babcock, of Northboro, born 1780 and died in 1868.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Allen were the parents of seven children, as follows: I. Joseph Henry, born at Northboro, Massachusetts, May 11, 1835, died August 22, 1867. 2. Mary Louisa, born January 19, 1837. died September 23, 1838. 3. George W., born October 1, 1838, married, 1872, Emma Day, born November 10, 1846. at London, died March 9, 1889. The children of Mr. and George W. Allen were all born in Kansas and are as follows: John W., born September 6, 1874; Arthur Oliver, born De- cember 31, 1875, now deceased; Harry Francis. born September 29, 1877: Lucy Ellen, born February 8, 1881; George Elmer, born May 1, 1883; Mary Louisa, born March 20, 1885. The father of this family, George W. Allen, was a soldier in the civil war: he enlisted at Boston, Massachusetts. Septem- ber 6. 1861, in Company C, Twenty-fourth Massa- chusetts Regiment. He was with General Burn- side on liis Carolina expedition, and was in the fol-
lowing engagements: Roanoke Island; secret ex- position to Columbia; Newbern, North Carolina ; Tranters Creek; Rawles Mills; Kingston. North Carolina ; Whitehall; Goldsboro Ridge; James Island; assault of Fort Wagner; Morris Island; charge of the rifle pits at Fort Wagner; Bermuda Hundred ; Petersburg, Virginia ; Deep Bluff, Virginia; charge of the rifle pits at Deep Bottom River Bottom; Deep Run; Drury's Bluff, Virginia ; and Four Mile Creek. Virginia. In 1870 he moved to Kansas and resided there for nineteen years, and there his children were all born. 4. Mary Augusta, born August 21, 1840, died February 3, 1888; she married George Emerson Rice, of Marlboro, Massa- chusetts, November, 1863, and their children were: Hattie Louisa, born November 25, 1864; Bertha Mabel, born August 28, 1866. married George Dud- ley and they have two children; Walter Ernest, born July 4, 1868, married Carrie Chase, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and they have one child; George Henry, born August 12, 1871, died 1904, married Mary E. Campbell; Edith Allen, born June 16, 1873; Herman Felton, born June 22, 1876, married Edith Hay, of Chelsea. Massachusetts. 5. Harriet Louisa, born December 6, 1844. 6. John Lampson, born July 23, 1846, died 1893: he married, 1887, Esther Eliza Travis, born in Grafton, Massachusetts, June 8, 1853, daughter of Ezra Travis and wife, of Defiance, Ohio; they have two children. 7. Walter Oliver, born September 28, 1848, see forward.
Walter Oliver Allen was educated at Marlboro, where he went with the family in 1852 or 1853. and lived there fourteen years. He then returned to Northboro, where he still resides. After he left school he worked at farming about four years, for other people; his father then purchased a farm, dying a year or two later, when he and his brother, John L. Allen, operated it in company, but for the past sixteen years Walter Oliver has conducted it alone. In politics Mr. Allen is a Republican and has held the office of auditor of his town. He is a member of the Unitarian Church.
OLIVE E. (FAIRBANKS) TIFFANY. The following is the history of the Fairbanks family of Worcester county. Massachusetts, to which Mrs. Olive Elizabeth Tiffany is related.
Mrs. Tiffany's grandfather, Joseph Fairbanks, was born in Harvard, February 19, 1776, died Feb- ruary 6, 1826; he married Betsey, daughter of Dea- con Israel and Hannah (Mead) Whitney, of Har- vard, born May 24. 1782, died April 15, 1844. Their children were; Naham, Nary, Hannah, Joseph, Eliza- beth. Josiah and Abigail.
Joseph, the subject's father, was born at Har- vard, Massachusetts, February 5, ISI0, and there at- tended school until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to Bolton to learn the combmaking trade. He remained there four years and then fol- lowed that line of business at Ogdensburg, New York, where lie had for his partner, Thomas Sam- son, to whom he finally sold his interest and re- turned to Bolton. Here he was in the employ of Silas Haynes, a combmaker. with whom he con- tinned until 1829. Three years later, he, having mar- ried in the meantime, returned to work for Mr. Haynes. continuing until 1835. Moving to North- boro in 1839, he entered the employ of Messrs. Bush & Haynes. combmakers, and remained in the business for thirty-seven years at Northboro. In 1856 he purchased the firm on which he lived. In 1872 his wife died. and four years later he retired from the comb business and followed farm life up to within a few years of his death. Mr. Fair-
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banks cast only one vote in forty years. Abstaining from voting was with Mr. Fairbanks a matter of conscientious religious scruple. The one vote he cast in the forty years was in the interest of the emancipation of the negro from slavery. He left others to make and execute the civil laws under which he lived. Politically he was a Republican, in church matters he was of the Baptist faith, and was a deacon in that church. He afterward be- came a Second Adventist in faith, and was deacon in that church.
He married Lydia Whitney Sawyer, of Harvard, who was born December 4, 1812. She was the daughter of Luther and Achsa (Burnham) Sawyer. The children born to Joseph Fairbanks and wife were: I. Joshua Curtis, born at Bolton, Massa- chusetts, September 11. 1835. died June 8, 1839. 2. Lydia Maria, born in Bolton, Massachusetts, March 13. 1838. 3. Olive Elizabeth (subject), born at Northboro. Massachusetts, November 8. 1840, married Dr. Flavel B. Tiffany, of New York state. They had one son, Flavel B., Jr., born July 29, 1880, died aged fifteen months. Mrs. Tiffany is the author of "Floral Poems," "The Belle of Monterey." "Early Renaissance," "Souvenir of Norseland." etc. 4. Joseph Joshua, born at Northboro, Massachu- setts, January 31, 1843, who married Luvinia Stone, of Northboro, they having children as follows : Emma, married Arthur Morton, of Worcester ; Alice, married Arthur Bliss, of Worcester ; Hellen, married Harry Spencer, of Spencer; Joseph Dana and Arthur, all of whom now live at Worcester. 5. Mary A .. born November 30, 1848, now of North- boro. Joseph Fairbanks (the father) second wife was Hanna K. (Whittaker) Fairbanks, formerly of Bolton. No children.
PAUL NARCISSE LE CLAIR, a representative business man of Southbridge, who has acquitted himself in such a manner as to merit and receive the highest approval of all who have come in con- tact with him, either in business, political or social life is a native of St. Ours, Canada, born August II, 1845. His parents, John F. and Apeline ( De- blois), Le Clair, of Canada, reared a large family of children, as follows: Philomena. Louise. Louis F., Paul N., Pierre M .. Amada, Lucy. Hermine. Jo- seph. Alphonso. M. D., Zotique, and Orize Le Clair.
At the early age of ten years, after completing a common school education in his native town in Canada, Paul N. Le Clair with his father's family in 1856 came to Webster, Massachusetts, and there found his initial employment in a cotton mill. He subsequently served an apprenticeship at the trade of harness maker in North Woodstock, and after following the same in that town removed to Spring- field and there was employed in a harness making business for a period of one year. In 1859 he lo- cated in Southbridge, where he has since resided, opened up a grocery, meat and provision establish- ment under the name of Le Clair & Son, and now (1906) has the satisfaction of finding himself in comfortable circumstances, and at the head of a husiness still flourishing and with bright prospects for the future. He was for a time president of the Dupaul Optical Company and president and treasurer of the Central Optical Company, two of the leading industries of the town and is still one of the directors of the latter, He has been chosen to fill the offices of overseer of the poor, chief of po- lice, and a member of the board of engineers, and he has also been a member of the fire department and its chief for a number of years. He is a mem- ber of Notre Dame Church. He is a firm adher- 111-21
ent of the Democratic party, to which organization he has given his allegiance since attaining his majority.
Mr. Le Clair married, February 17, 1871, Albina Bygoness, of Springfield, daughter of Francois and Julienne Bygoness. Their children are: Elodia, wife of Francois Xavier Lucier, of Putnam, Con- necticut, and mother of two children: Hector and Edgar Lucier; Albina, wife of Alfred Cabana, and they are the parents of one child, Alice Cabana ; Alonzo J., Hector M., Edward E., and Alice Le Clair.
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