USA > Massachusetts > Worcester County > Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. III > Part 93
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111
cember 22, 1849, daughter of Mark Farrell, of Hills- boro, New Hampshire, and Anne Wilson, his wife, who was born in New Ipswich. Mr. and Mrs. Dean have one son, Edwin L., who was born in Shrewsbury, December 25, 1873, and now lives in Northboro, Massachusetts.
James L. Dean, eldest son and child of James and Keziah Stearns (Hyde) Dean, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. March 22, 1835. He was educated in Worcester Academy and Amherst Col- lege, and afterward for some time was a teacher in both public and select schools. Later on he went to Cleveland, Ohio, and was a shoemaker, and on returning to Shrewsbury he was first a farmer, then a shoemaker and school teacher. While thus em- ployed he still maintained a farm and now he is a farmer. His has been an active life, accompanied with much hard work, but it has been made a suc- cess, and three score years and ten finds him in comfortable circumstances and enjoying the respect of his neighbors and follow townsmen. He is a man of understanding. a careful student of public measures and can freely discuss all questions of public concern. He is a Democrat and has served as member of the school committec and also as assessor, having held the latter office nine years.
Mr. Dean married Francelia Walker, born March II, 1839. Their children are as follows: James L .. born February 4, 1868. married Charlotte New- ton (now deceased), of Shrewsbury, and had one child. Rhoda Dean. Charles Everett, born in Shrewsbury, November 27. 1869, married, in 1902, Mary L. Harlow, of Shrewsbury, daughter of Addi- son Harlow and Abbie Wheelock, his wife, both of Shrewsbury. They have one child, Everett Addi- son Dean, born in Shrewsbury, April 17. 1905. Harriet Eva, born August 20, 1872, married Fred O. Newton, of Shrewsbury. Lorenzo, born July 5. 1876.
NEWELL SYKES BEEBE, of Athol, Worces- ter county. Massachusetts, is a retired hotel man, of considerable prominence. He was born in Wilbra- ham, Massachusetts, March 28. 1843, son of Ansel Beebe. Jr., and Mary Ann (Wheeler) Bcebe. The father was born in Munson. Massachusetts, May 28. 1809, the son of Ansel Beebe, who married a Miss Newell,
Ansel Beebe, Jr., received a common school edu- cation at Munson, and for some time was a farmer. but later took up the manufacture of satinette, as one of the operators in a large mill in his home town. He worked up to the position of foreman or superintendent of the mills, starting as a spinner. He held this place up to' within four years of his death, which occurred June 5, 1865. He was a Re- publican in politics and had been an old line Whig. He was of the Methodist Episcopal Church faith. He married, March 7. 1832. Mary Ann Wheeler, born April 4. 1815, died February 22. 1867. She was the daughter of Dr. Calvin H. Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Beebe had the following children: Mary Eliza, born December 25, 1833, married Charles C. Webber. and they had one child, Clara; Mary Eliza died April 14. 1904. Lewis Sykes, born Octo- ber 17. 1835, died May 3. 1840. Warren Wheeler, born December 10, 1837, died May 28, 1865. Sarah Elvira. born January 30, 1839, died July 1, 1857. Newell Sykes, born March 28, 1843. Josephine A., born September 30. 1845, died February 14. 1884. Georgiana, born February 6, 1848, died June 20, 1872, married John Larkin, of Minneapolis, Minne- sota. and had one child-Grace. Ella Francena, born with her twin sister, Emma Rosella, January
BUSTUN PUBLIC
Hawell. & Bull
333
WORCESTER COUNTY
16, 1852; Ella F. diced August 19, 1862, and Emma R., February 3, 1899. The last named married Charles Travis. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The other five children died in infancy.
Newell Sykes Beebe was educated in the schools of Munson, Massachusetts, including the academy. His first work was with his father, who was the superintendent of the satinette mills. At times he worked there until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was employed in the armory for about two years at filing different parts of small arms, by the piece. In 1863, he enlisted from Meriden, Connecticut, as a member of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, being mustered out at Hartford, Connecticut, Sep- tember, 1865. For one year after the service in the army, he was employed in a hat factory at Munson, bleaching hats. He then went to Amherst, Mass- achusetts, where he clerked at the Union Hotel for seven years. He then purchased the Amherst House, which he successfully operated for five years. He was then burned out, after which he went to the West Point Hotel at Cranston, on the Hudson, over which he had charge in the steward's depart- ment for six summers, during which period he was employed by the New York proprietors, at the New York Hotel, Broadway, during the winters. His next hotel experience was in Georgia, where he had charge of the steward's department of a hotel for nine winters, and during the corresponding sum- mers was at the Arverne Hotel on Long Island. He also was at the New Glen House, Gorham, New Hampshire, for four seasons. He operated in New Jersey several seasons, then went to Long Beach and there worked in the Long Beach Hotel for eight summers and winters, then to Tampa Bay, Florida. and was employed in various hotels in the south and in New York city. Since 1904 he has been retired from active duties and lives at Athol, which has been his home since 1887. Mr. Beebe is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Knights of Py- thias, and the Poquaig Club, Athol. In politics he is independent.
He married, July 7, 1866, Mary E. Arnold, born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Barnard Arnold; she died September 2, 1877, aged thirty-one years. For his second wife Mr. Beebe married Florence E. Davis, born at Athol, Massachusetts, November 19, 1855. daughter of Asa S. Davis and wife. By this marriage one child was born, Grace, who died June 21, 1881, aged eight days.
SUMNER STOCKWELL, of Shrewsbury, Worcester county, Massachusetts, is one of the best farmers of that county and owns one of the finest farms in that part of the state. The farm itself was bought by Mr. Stockwell's father in 1849, and has been owned in the family nearly sixty years and to- day it is better than when Moses Stockwell pur- chased it. The land might have "run out" and be- come unproductive, but under the practical manage- ment of its owner its productiveness has been main- tained.
Moses Stockwell, father of Summer Stockwell, was born in the town of Westboro, and descended from an old Massachusetts family whose settlement in New England dated to the time of the Colony. Moses Stockwell was born June 29, 1786. His father was Daniel Stockwell and his mother was Rebecca Warner. She also came of an old Mass- achusetts family. When Moses Stockwell moved away from Westboro he located first at Fitzwilliam, in New Hampshire, and from there soon went to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he lived twelve years
and was a farmer. In 1849 he brought his family to Shrewsbury, where he bought the farm he oc- cupied until his death. It then came into possession of his son. Moses Stockwell died about 1861. He married Relief Houghton, of Clinton, Massachu- setts. They had five children: Warren, born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire; Ellen, married Cyrus Dalrymple, of Grafton, and died leaving four chil- dren; John, married Emma Southwick, of West- boro; Seth, born in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, married Sarah Kendall and now lives in Grafton; Sumner, born in Grafton and now lives in Shrews- bury.
Sumner Stockwell, the youngest of the children just mentioned, was born in the town of Grafton, Massachusetts, November 2, 1837, and was brought up to farm work. In 1849 he came with his father's family to Shrewsbury and has since lived in that town, as has been told in a preceding paragraph. On the death of his father he succeeded him on the farm. He has taken a prominent part in town affairs and is a Democrat in politics. In Shrewsbury he has held the town offices of road commissioner, over- seer of the poor, highway commissioner and select- man, having held the latter office six years. He is an Odd Fellow, member of the Grange, and attends the services of the Unitarian Church.
On May 12, 1863, Sumner Stockwell married Charlotte H. Rice, born in Shrewsbury, November 13, 1841, daughter of Joseph Rice and Catherine Harrington, his wife, both natives of Shrewsbury, Five children have been born of this marriage; Maria Louise, born in Shrewsbury, September 1, 1865; Lizzie E., born in Shrewsbury, November 10, 1869; Fred R., born in Shrewsbury, June 1, 1874, died December 1, 1896; Harry S., born in Shrews- bury, March 9, 1875; Stella C., born in Shrewsbury, November 9, 1884.
JOSEPH PETER GAMACHE, a practical farmer of Shrewsbury, Worcester county, Massachu- setts, for the last twenty years, was born at St. Gregoire, Province of Quebec, Canada, December 22, 1859. His young life was spent in the vicinity of his native place, and at the age of twenty-three years he removed with his father (Edward Gamache, born at St. Gregoire, Province of Quebec, in 1822, married Olivine Franchette) to Slatersville, Rhode Island, where young Joseph found work in a cotton mill. Four years later he came to Shrewsbury, in Worcester county, Massachusetts, where he was em- ployed to work on the farm of his cousin, Peter Gamache. Mr. Gamache is an industrious and provident farmer and from early manhood has made his own way in life. It was his custom during boy- hood to work on the farm during the summer months, and to work for his board and attend school during the winter. In this way he succeeded in gaining a good common school education.
On October 26, 1886, Joseph Peter Gamache mar- ried Annie C. Burdett, of Worcester, Massachusetts, born December 2, 1865, daughter of Lewis F. Bur- dett, a native of Switzerland, and Olive Smith, his wife, who was born at St. Pierre, Province of Quebec. Children of Joseph Peter and Annie C. (Burdett) Gamache: Olive, born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, March 31, 1888; Ula, born in Worces- ter, Massachusetts, September 6, 1890; Irene, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 15, 1892.
THE ROBINSON FAMILY now being con- sidered was established in Westboro by Austin A. Robinson, who is a native of Houlton, Maine. His father, Elbridge Robinson, who was also born in.
334
WORCESTER COUNTY
Houlton, was the son of one of the pioneer settlers in Aroostook county. Maine, going there when the present flourishing town of Houlton was in the heart of a dense wilderness, traversed only by In- dian hunters and early lumber prospectors. El- bridge Robinson was a farmer and spent his entire life in Aroostook county, which, from a lumber producing district has developed into one of the greatest potato-growing sections in the world. He married Grace George, daughter of a Houlton pioneer, and had a family of ten children.
Austin A. Robinson, son of Elbridge and Grace (George) Robinson, was born in Houlton. July 25, 1833. The primitive district school system then in vogue was his only means of obtaining an education, and he attended school during the winter season, his summers being spent in working upon the farm. He subsequently became a clerk in a country store and still later was employed as a straw bleacher. He came to Westboro for the first time when he was nineteen years old, and for a number of years it was his cus- tom to work as a farm assistant there during the summer, and pass his winters as a straw worker in Houlton. He at length became the owner of a large farm in Westboro, and for some years has resided permanently in that town, giving his attention to general farming, in addition to which he has an ex- tensive dairy, producing large quantites of milk an- nually. Politically he favors the Republican party. In 1862 Mr. Robinson was joined in marriage with Miss Angeline M. Goodwin, daughter of Sam- uel and Mary (Bryant) Goodwin, of Searsmont, Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had a family of seven children, namely: Alden A., Annie R., Minnie C., Mary E., Grace L., Charles E., and Laura E. Alden A. married for his first wife Nellie Young, who bore him one child, and of his union with Mary Parker, his second wife, there are two children. Annie R. married Edward Layton and has one child. Minnie C. married Alexander Perrin, two children. Mary E. is the wife of Ernest Walk- up, and has two children. Grace L. married George H. Day. Charles E. did not live to maturity. Laura E. is the wife of IIerbert West, one child.
CLARK FAMILY. Frank Dexter Clark, of Hardwick. Worcester county, Massachusetts, is a farmer. He comes of a substantial old Massachu- setts family, and his father and his grandfather and their families have lived in Harwick and been prom- inent factors in the history of that old town for many years.
Stillman Clark, grandfather of Frank Dexter Clark, was born February 6, 1793. His wife was Sophronia Amidon, who died October 12, 1840, and who also was a descendant of an old New England family of that name.
Charles Stillman Clark. son of Stillman and Sophronia ( Amidon) Clark, and father of Frank Dexter Clark, was born in the town of Hardwick, June 19, 1823, died there February 28, 1894. He was a farmer, a man of good report among his townsmen, a member of the Congregational Church Society, and in his political views a Republican. December 14, 1856, Mr. Clark married Sarah Will- iams Newcomb, of Hardwick. She was born Octo- ber 15, 1834. daughter of Joseph Newcomb and Alma Dexter, his wife, of llardwick. Children of Charles Stillinan Clark and Sarah Williams New- comb : Charles Laman, born in Hardwick, November 4, 1857, died May 6, 1858. George Stillman, born in Hardwick, June 30, 1859, married, April 16. 1890, Elizabeth Wheeler of Springfield, and had four children: Irene Elizabeth, born March 19, 1892;
Ruth Emma and Rachel May (twins), born March 5. 1894; Sarah Eleanor, born December 5, 1897. Frederick William, born in Hardwick. October 13, 1862. married, November 19, 1895, Annie L. Brown- ing and has one son, Frederick Browning Clark, born December 6, 1903. Frank Dexter, born in Hard- wick, October 11, 1868, married, October 20, 1903, Gertrude E. Sawyer. Mary Sophronia, born in Hardwick, November 15, 1871 ; for three years su- pervisor of drawing in the public schools of Hard- wick, Barre and Petersham.
Frederick William Clark, third son and child of Charles Stillman and Sarah Williams (Newcomb ) Clark, was born in the town of Hardwick, October 13. 1862, and was educated in the public schools of that town and at Hitchcock Academy in Brim- field, Hampden county, Massachusetts. After leav- ing the academy he returned home and for about three years worked on his father's farm, then for seven or eight years was in the employ of a tea and coffee 'mercantile house in Worcester. Later on he worked one year with John Dean putting in hy- draulic elevators, then returned to the tea and coffee business and afterward went back to the old home farm. In 1895 he purchased the farm on which he now lives in Hardwick. Mr. Clark is a Republican in politics and for four years was town auditor of Hardwick. Ile is a member of Hardwick Grange. attends the Congregational Church, and at one time was a member of Anchoria Lodge, I. O. O. F.
He married, November 19, 1895, Annie L. Brown- ing, of Somerville, Massachusetts. She was born in Worcester, April 10, 1865. daughter of . James Eliner Browning and Sarah E. Lawrence, his wife. One child has been born of this marriage-Frederick Browning Clark, born December 13, 1903, died when three days old.
Frank Dexter Clark, fourth child and youngest son of Charles Stillman and Sarah Williams (New- comb) Clark, is a native of the town of Hardwick, and was born October II. 1868. He was educated in the town public schools and Hitchcock Academy in Brimfield, and after leaving school worked on the farm with his father from 1885 to 1894, when his father died. Since that time he has managed the farm with good success. He is a prudent, thorough business man and has an extensive acquaintance in his community.
On the 20th of October, 1893, Mr. Clark married Gertrude E. Sawyer, born November 10, 1879, a daugliter of Lindley M. and Ellen R. (Dickey) Saw- yer, respectively, of North Ware and Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have no children.
THE HOWE FAMILY. Cheselton Romanzo Howe, father of Sherman Howe, of Shrewsbury, and of Edward Romanzo Howe, of Worcester, was born in Jamaica, Vermont, January 6, 1823, died there January 10, 1866. He was educated in the dis- trict schools of his native town. He went to work first on a farm and finally bought a sınall farm. In IS60 he bought a larger farm and conducted it about five years. At one time he had a saw mill. For many years he was sexton of the church in addition to his farming, which he followed all his life.
He married, December 17, 1847, Emma Ann Rice, of Wardsboro. Vermont, daughter of Ephraim and Betsey (Maynard) Rice, both of Jamaica. She died December 20, 1877. Their children: Eudora Edna, born at Jamaica, October I, 1849, died Octo- ber 2, 1849. Emma Janette, born July 25, 1852, died May, 1903; she married (second) Frank Henry White, of Wardsboro, and had four children, of
1
Frank & Clark
335
WORCESTER COUNTY
whom two, Edith and Setlı White, are living. Cheselton Eugene, b ru September 28, 1854, died September 28, 1854. Edward Romanzo, born Jan- uary 10, 1857 : see forward. Sherman K., born No- vember 15. 1805; see forward.
Edward Romanzo Howe, son of Cheselton Ro- manzo Howe, was born in Jamaica, Vermont, Jan- nary 10, 1857. At the age of nine he removed to Wardsboro, where he attended school until he was titeen years old. He then attended the Leland Gray Seminary at Townsend, Vermont, for a term and a half. lle worked on his mother's farm until he came of age, when he began to work in a saw mill and was engaged until 1902 in lumbering and log- ging. For the past three, years he has been in the Icaming and trucking business in Worcester. He married Nettie S. Morse, born February 16, 1864, at Jamaica, daughter of Abiel and Juliet ( Ramsdell ) Morse. They had one child: Emma Jessie, born at Wardsboro. Vermont, November 19, 1884, educated one year at Leland Gray Seminary, then Post's Busi- ness College at Worcester, Massachusetts, one year, now engaged at Brewer's drug store, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Sherman R. Howe, son of Cheselton Romanzo Howe, was born in Jamaica, Vermont, November 15. 1865. He worked on his father's farm and at- tended the district schools in his boyhood. He left home at the age of fifteen years and located at Graf- ton, Massachusetts, where he attended school, work- ing in the meantime on a farm there. He attendtd Hinman's Business College. He bought a farm in Grafton and established a milk route and a dairy. ln IS89 he removed to the neighboring town of Shrewsbury, where he bought a farm on which he has lived since then. He married, 1892, Minnie Rice, born in Shrewsbury, July 18, 1870, daughter of John F. Rice, of Rutland, Massachusetts, and his wife. Caroline Newton, of Shrewsbury. Their children : Edith, born July 8, 1893, died April, 1895; Franklin Edward, July 20, 1895; Fred Ashley, July 12. 1898; Sherman Raymond, September 7, 1900; Harold Rice, May 22, 1905; daughter, November 8, 1906.
EDWIN HAYWARD WOOD. Jeremiah Wood (I). immigrant ancestor of the Wood family of Lit- tleton and Boxborough, Massachusetts, was born probably in England, May, 1678. He lived in Stow, Massachusetts, and Lyme, Connecticut, his last years being spent in Littleton, Massachusetts. He was called of Marlborough, May 2, 1705. He was in Stow. 1710 10 1716, and after that in Littleton, but it is possible that his residence was not changed, the t. wn lines being changed instead. He was a weaver by trade, though of course a yeoman in this coun- try. He was constable, collector and selectman, and for some years the treasurer of Littleton. A part of the estate he bought of the town of Littleton, Jan- hary 13. 1717, is still in the possession of his de- scendants.
He married, March 29, 1709, Dorothy Bennett. Her grandfather, Henry Champion, was born in England, 1611. came to Saybrook, Connecticut, where he was one of the first settlers ; removed to Lyine, Connecticut, where his family has been very promi- ment. His daughter, Sarah Champion, married Henry Bennett, December 9, 1673, and their daugh- ter Dorothy was the wife of Jeremiah Wood. She was born at Lyme, May 19, 1688, died July 17, 1752. Jeremiah Wood died July 15, 1730, and both were buried at Littleton. Their children: Sarah, born .April 18, 1710; Elizabeth, October 14, 1711; Joseph, May 22, 1713; Luce, March 4, 1715; Benet or Ben-
nett, Marchi 15, 1717, ancestor of most of the family at Boxborough, died April 28, 1797; Jolin, February 3, 1719; - Jeremiah, December I, 1721: Sarah, Feb- ruary 7, 1724; Jonathan, August 3, 1727; Eliphalet, July 19, 1729.
Joseplı Wood, son of Jeremiah Wood (1), was born in Stow, Massachusetts, May 22, 1713, married Grace Whittemore, of Concord, Massachusetts, daughter of Benjamin and Esther ( Brooks) Whitte- more, and sister of Rev. Aaron Whittemore, for many years minister at Suncook, now Pembroke, New Hampshire. Joseph Wood first settled at Lit- tleton, where his first child was born. He lived at Suncook for a time. His widow married, January 14, 1745, Ephraim Stow, of Concord. The children : Benjamin, born September 17, 1734; Aaron, 1739, see forward; Grace, born at Concord, December I, 1741.
(III) Aaron Wood, son of Joseph Wood (2), was born in Suncock, New Hampshire, 1739, but was raised in Concord or Littleton, Massachusetts. He settled in Pepperell, an adjacent town, on land bought of Jonas Wheeler, of Concord. He had been living at Bedford. He was a blacksmith by trade. He married Rebeckah Wheeler. Their chil- dren : Rebecca, born June 13, 1764; Lucy, March 22, 1766; Halah, April 12, 1768; Lydia, February 23, 1770; Grace, March 24, 1772; Hepzibah, April 24, 1774; Aaron, May 30, 1776; Susanna, April 29, 1778; Benjamin, August 22, 1780, see forward; Joseph, September 19, 1782; Hannah, September 19, 1782; Sarah, August 14, 1786.
(IV) Benjamin Wood, son of Aaron Wood (3), was born August 22, 1780. He married and among his children was Lowell, see forward.
(V) Lowell Wood, son of Benjamin Wood (4), was born in Boxboro, Massachusetts. He was a farmer by occupation, and during the course of his active life lived in several different towns. He be- gan farming first in his home town of Boxboro, and moved thence to Bolton, later to Lancaster and from there to West Action, where he lived until his death, March 9, 1863. Lowell Wood married Tabitha Hay- ward, daughter of Deacon Benjamin Hayward, of West Acton. She died in 1879, aged seventy-nine years, and left two children: Lowell F., born in West Acton, May 5, 1826, married Louise Hosmer, of West Acton, and had one child, Frank L. Wood. He was born in April, 1853, married Jennie -
and has one son, a physician of New York. Edwin Hayward, born in Bolton, June 5, 1829, see forward.
(V1) Edwin Hayward Wood, younger son and child of Lowell Wood (5) and Tabitha Hayward, was born in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts, June 5, 1829. went to school in West Acton and made his start in business in the city of Worcester, where he worked for Daniel Taintor for forty dollars a year and board while serving his apprenticeship. He afterward continued in Mr. Taintor's employ nearly seventeen years, and then worked between five and six years for the Sargent Card Clothing Company. While working for this company Mr. Wood travelled for his employers about three years of the time and sold the product of the factory to the trade. He then began work for the Harvard & Quincy Ma- chine Company of Boston and was connected with that corporation in one capacity and another for thirty years, at first as a practical mechanic in building ma- chines and finally as member of the company with an interest in the business. Mr. Wood is now re- tired from active business life, and has earned rest and the enjoyment of the honest accumulations of many years of hard work. He came to live in Shrewsbury in 1902. He has been a Free and Ac-
336
WORCESTER COUNTY
cepted Mason since 1866, when he was initiated in the Blue Lodge. In 1870 he was made a Knight Templar. In politics he is a Republican.
He married (first), in 1853, Calista M. Johnson, born in Worcester, November 7, 1834, daughter of Abiał Johnson. One child was born of this mar- riage-Herbert Edwin Wood, born in Worcester, January 9, 1854, died March 19, 1857. His second wife was Kate Maria Haywood, with whom he mar- ried June 19, 1862. She was born in Worcester, August 28, 1842, died February 2, 1906, daughter of Reuben Brown Haywood and Margaret Rutherford, his wife. Of this marriage two children were born: Frederick Crosby, born in Worcester, January 3, 1870, now living in Shrewsbury; Bessie Rutherford, born in Worcester, September 2, 1884.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.