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Lorey Dwight Day was born in Templeton, Sep- tember 18, 1845. He attended the public schools. including the high school, and after the completion of his studies engaged in the manufacture of chairs. In 1871 he became associated, at Baldwinville, with Charles Elmer Smith and his brother. Charles Day. in establishing the firm of Smith, Day & Company, chair manufacturers, which, from a small beginning, has expanded into large proportions, and at the present time constitutes the principal industrial en- terprise in this section of the county. It has a finely equipped modern plant, employs one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred workmen. and its pro- ducts have acquired a high reputation in the various centers of trade. Mr. Day has devoted his time and energies exclusively to the interests of that con- cern. the flourishing condition of which is in no small measure due to his close attention to busi- ness, and has therefore found it impossible to parti- cipate in civic affairs, although frequently solicited to become a candidate for public office. In politics he is a Republican. His religions affiliations are with the Congregationalists.
Mr. Day married Lilla E. Barrus, daughter of Alonzo Barrus, of Warwick, this state. His children are: Grace, born April 17, 1883; Clarence, born Sep- tember 3. 1886; and Clifford, born October 22, 1891. Grace, a graduate of Wheaton Seminary. Norton, Massachusetts, and of the Wheaton Pianoforte School, Boston, is now a successful music teacher.' Clarence is a student at Norwich University, North- field, Vermont. Clifford is attending the West Tem- pleton high school.
OSCAR P. POND, a successful real estate deal er of Auburn. is a son of the late Otis N. and Amanda ( Stephenson ) Pond, of Oxford, this county. His father, who was a native of Oxford, acquired a good education and was otherwise well equipped for a business career. As a young man he engaged in the manufacture of woolen yarn at Pondville, which was named in honor of the family, and for a number of years transacted successfully an extensive busi- ness, making a special feature of his establishment the fair treatment of his employes, who in return respected him sincerely for his kindly efforts in their behalf. Relinquishing industrial pursuits, he returned to Oxford and devoted the remainder of his life to the buying and selling of real estate. 111 politics he was a Republican, and although ready at all times to assist in forwarding the interests of his party, he never aspired to public office. Otis N. Pond died in 1898. He and his wife were the par- ents of seven children, namely : Laura J., Emily, Ella, Abby, Orlando, Sumner. Oscar P.
Oscar P. Pond was born in Oxford, April 21, 1855. His early education was acquired in the pub- lic schools of Oxford and Auburn, to which latter place he went to reside with his parents when quite young, and he completed his studies in Worcester. Instead of returning to Oxford with his father, he remained in Auburn, where he was engaged in farm- ing for some time, but for the past fifteen years has carried on a profitable business in real estate. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. He attends the Congregational Church and is a member of the advisory board.
In 1882 Mr. Pond married for his first wife Miss Hattie Butler, daughter of and Anna But- ler. of Auburn. She died in 1884, leaving no chil- dren. In 1890 he married for his second wife Miss Anna P. Nichols, daughter of Vernon F. Nichols, of Auburn. The children of this union are: Rachel, Emma and Sumner.
ABEL STOWEL WOLFE, one of the leading and substantial market gardeners of Auburn, Worcester county, Massachusetts, was born October 3, 1853. at Saxton's River, Rockingham county, Ver- mont, the son of Abel and Sarah (Miner) Wolfe. and grandson of William Wolfe, who was the progenitor of the family in this county. He was a native of Germany, a farmer, and in early life came to this county, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of Rockingham county, Vermont. His wife, who was also a native of Germany, bore him five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the sons was Abel, the father of the present Abel S. Wolfe.
Abel Wolfe, Sr., was born in Rockingham county, Vermont, and was by occupation a cattle dealer and drover. He bought fat cattle for the Boston market, and drove them to that city, sometimes every week, and sometimes only once a month. This was before railroads were as numerous as they now are. He was an enterprising, energetic man, and very suc- cessful in his business. He occupied a seat in the state legislature for two sessions. About 1832 he
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married Miss Sarah Miner, of Vermont. and twelve children were born to them, as follows: Abel and William, who died at the ages of eight and nine years, respectively ; Byron, now deceased; Saralı, wife of George W. Read. a farmer of Kansas; John C., also deceased, who was a corporal of infantry in the civil war, and was slightly wounded in the service ; Sophronia, deceased, who was the wife of John Marble, of Nashua; Lydia, who married George W. Ramsay, of Langdon, New Hampshire ; George W., a resident of Texas, on the Gulf coast; Edgar C., who was a cavalryman in the civil war, now resides in Melrose with business in Boston ; Abel Stowel, see forward; Eleazer, a resident of Leicester, Massachusetts ; and Flora, who married Henry Noyes, of Malden, Massachusetts. The death of the father of the above named children oc- curred in Langdon, New Hampshire, when he was seventy-two years of age. His wife passed away in 1863, when she was forty-nine years of age, and she was buried beside him in Saxton's River cemetery.
Abel Stowel Wolfe obtained a common school education, and at the age of thirteen years was bound out on a farm. Four years later he purchased his time for one hundred and fifty dollars, and hired out to a market gardener near Boston, first working by the month and later by the year. He entered the employ of S. R. Payson on the Cushing farm in Belmont, the most noted farm in that locality at that time, and was thus engaged for thirteen years. In 1880 Mr. Wolfe removed to Auburn, where he purchased forty acres of land, and to this has since added one hundred and fifty acres. His is now one of the very successful and well appointed market- garden farms in this section. He has green-houses covering an area of over thirty-four thousand feet or three-quarters of an acre, which is claimed to be the largest area under glass owned by any individual in this part of the state. The crops Mr. Wolfe gives first attention to are lettuce, cucumbers, and dande- lions for midwinter. His market is chiefly in Worcester, but he also makes shipments to New York, Washington and Baltimore. His is the largest market-garden in Auburn and his annual business amounts to several thousands of dollars.
December 15, 1876, Abel Stowel Wolfe was united in marriage to Marietta Putnam, born in Springfield, Montpelier county, Vermont, daughter of Joseph aud Sarah ( Putnam) Putnam. Although having the same name, her parents were not related. Mr. Putnam was a farmer and his death occurred July 9, 1881, when he was seventy-five years of age ; his wife died March 13, 1877, aged sixty-nine. They were buried in Springfield, Vermont. The following were the children born to them: Sarah Ann. Elvira, Morris, Elizabeth, Sylvester, who married Ellen Rollins, and died November 10, 1896; Benjamin, died in 1875, leaving four children; Marietta; George Frank, a resident of Springfield, Vermont, married Lois Rice, and they have 'two children; Simon, married Laura Gould, and they had four children, all of whom reside with their father in Springfield, Vermont; and Vesty Ann, who married Bryant Lockwood, deceased, who was a soldier in the civil war; she resides in Springfield, Vermont. Benjamin Putnam served in the civil war for three years, a member of the Third Regiment of Vermont Infantry, and his brother Sylvester served for nine months near the close of the war.
Mr. and Mrs. Abel S. Wolfe are the parents of two children, namely: Walter Edgar, born May 6. 1879, in Belmont, assists his father in business ; and Harry P., born January 20, 1889.
GEORGE HAVENS MARSH. (1) John Marsh was the emigrant ancestor of George ravens Marsh, of Dudley, Massachusetts. He came in the "Mary and John," May 24, 1633. He was a cordwainer by trade. He settled at Salem and was a proprietor. He drew land January 2, 1637. He married, prob- ably 1635 or 1036, Susannah Skelton, daughter of Rev. Samuel Skelton. She was born 1613 or 1614. He died November 16, 1674. His will was dated March 28, 1672. John Marsh is mentioned in his mother's will. He was the son of John and Grace Marsh, of Branktry, Essex county, England. His father was a clothier. The father's will was proved May 29, 1627; the mother's May 22, 1667. The children of John Marsh (1), all born in Salem, Massachusetts, were: Zachary, baptized April 30, 1637; John, baptized May 9, 1639, died 1669, married Sarah ; Ruth, baptized or born May 5, 1641; Elizabeth, born July 8, 1646; Ezekiel, born or baptized October 29, 1648; Bethiah, born or baptized September 1, 1650; Samuel, born or baptized Octo- ber 2, 1052; Susanna, born or baptized May 7, 1654; Mary, born or baptized September 14, 1056; Jacob, born August 6, 1658; Jacob, baptized April 10, 1659; a daughter, born or baptized June 12, 1664; Benja- min, born about 1661.
(11) Zachary Marsh, son of John Marsh (1), was born at Salem, Massachusetts, and baptized April 30, 1037. He had a farm in Salem in the part now called Peabody. He married, August 15, 1664, Mary Sillsbee, daughter of Henry Sillsbee, of Lynn. He died 1693; she died 1695. He lived and died on the half of his father's farin given him in the will. Their children were: John, born November 26, 1665; Mary, born December 8, 1666; Zachary, born probably 1668; Elizabeth, born or baptized 1670; Jonathan, born April 14, 1672; Ebenezer, born May 28, 1674; Ezekiel, born 1676; Abigail, born 1680; Benjamin, born or baptized November 10, 1687.
( III) Benjamin Marsh, son of Zachary Marsh (2), was born at Salem, Massachusetts, November 10, 1687. He married (first), June 24, 1709. Hannah King. She was born at Salem late in 1714. He sold lands in Lynn, January 24, 1715-16 and became a proprietor and pioneer of the town of Sutton, Massachusetts. He spent the winter of 1716-17 there and his daughter Abigail was the first white
child born in that township. There was a very deep snow that winter during the absence of Marsh from his cabin, and but for food brought by a friendly Indian the little family would have perished before Marsh could have reached his home. The cabin was on the farm which included Crooked pond, now called Singletary lake, in Sutton. Marsh became a prominent figure in the early history of the town. In 1718 he was one of a committee to erect the meeting house; in 1725 he was assessor and select- inan; in 1726 selectman ; in 1728 lieutenant, assessor and selectman; in 1729 town clerk and selectman ; in 1731, when the meeting house seats were assigned, he had the third in importance; he was one of the trustees for the $60,000 land money ; in 1732 he was moderator. He was chosen joint pastor with Thomas Green of the new Baptist Church. He filled this position as minister until his death. He was probably buried in the graveyard on the old farm where he lived. His children were: Benjamin, born at Salem, April 1, 1711; Hannah, born at Salem, December 29, 1713; Elizabeth, born at Salem, January 20, 1714-15; Abigail, born at Sutton, Sep- tember 29, 1718; Mary, born at Sutton, May 30, 1720; Lydia, born at Sutton, October, 1722.
(IV) Benjamin Marsh, son of Benjamin Marsh (3), was born at Salem, Massachusetts, April I,
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1711. He married (first), August 27, 1735, Desire Moulton, of Salem, by whom he had one child. He married (second), January 14, 1742, Rebekah Carriel, who died August 4, 1805. Their children were: Desire, born August 5, 1737, married, April 1, 1755, Zachra Warren; Joshua, born February 21, 1744; Benjamin, born November 9, 1745; Lot, born October 7, 1747; Hannah, born August 27, 1749; Rebekah, born June 14, 1751; Mehitable, born Aug- ust 24, 1753; Hannah, born March 4, 1756; Peter, born June 24, 1760.
(V) Lot Marsh, son of Benjamin Marsh (+). was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, October 7, 1747. He married Abigail Blanchard. He settled in Sut- ton but removed to Dudley, Massachusetts, near the Oxford line, where he died November 25, 1798. His widow married (second), Deacon Ebenezer Humphrey. The children of Lot Marsh were: Abigail, born at Sutton, 1772, inarried John Larned, of Oxford; Mehitable, born at Oxford, 1774, married Joel Wakefield, removed to the Hol- land purchase, New York; Lot, born at Oxford, October II, 1776, married, March 16, 1800, Eleanor Colburn ; he died February 9, 1845; she died Septem- ber 3, 1849, aged sixty-nine years; Joseph, born at Dudley, February 8, 1779; Enoch, born March 25, 1781, at Dudley ; Anne, born April 9, 1783, died May 30, 1848; married Hosea Upham, of Dudley ; Thom- as, born November 23, 1785, married February 4. 1816, Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Nicholls, owned and died on the Lot Marsh homestead, October 4. 1864: Mary, born December 13, 1794, died young; Elizabeth, born April 1, 1799, died young.
(VI) Enoch Marsh, son of Lot Marsh (5), was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, March 25, 1781. He married April 2, 1809, at Oxford, Martha Larned, daughter of John Larned, of Oxford. He settled on part of his father's homestead lot. Their children were: Lydia, born February 2, 1810, at Dudley ; married Russell White; Daniel L., born at Dudley, March 24, 1812, married Sarah M. Cadworth. daughter of James Cudworth; Emeline, born July 17, 1814, married Samuel Nicholls, son of Daniel Nicholls; she died March 27, 1850; John, born Sep- tember 15, 1816, married, November 25, 1840, Sophia Shumway, and later Mary Elizabeth Havens; Lovisa, born September 29, 1819, at Dudley, mar- ried Danforth Burgess, of Thompson, Connecticut ; she died in 1885; Phebe, born February 17, 1822, married Alanson Bixby, of Webster; Truman H., born January 14, 1827, married, June 16, 1852, Sarah M. Shumway, daughter of Lewis Shumway, settled on the homestead at Dudley, where he died Febru- ary 23, ISSI; she died August 15, 1888; Martha, born January 22, 1829, married Marcus Waldron, of Dudley; married (second), Samuel D. Smith, of Charlton.
(VII) John Marsh, son of Enoch Marsh (6), was born on the old homestead at Dudley, Massachu- setts, September 15, 1816. He lived first at Dudley and subsequently at Oxford. He married (first), November 25, 1840, Sophia Shumway, daughter of Edward H. Shumway. He married (second), Mary Elizabeth Havens, of Dudley, who was born October 9, 1824. His children by his first wife were: George, born at Oxford, February, 1842, died Sep- tember 18, 1843: George Havens, born at Oxford, March 18, 1846; Caroline Sophia, born November 26, 1848, married Eugene D. Lecount ; James Henry, born February 9, 1851, married Mary A. Waters ; Mary Jane, born December 25, 1852, married O. D. Baker; John Abel, born May 15, 1857, married Hattie E. Tucker, of Charlton.
(VIII) George Havens Marsh, son of John
Marsh (7), was born at Oxford, Massachusetts, March IS, 1846. He attended the common schools of his native town and later Nichols Academy until he was seventeen. For nine years he taught school in the winter months, working on the farm with his father in the summer seasons. Since then he has been engaged in farming on the place where he now lives. He has been somewhat active in politics and town affairs. He was school committeeman three years and assessor for one year in the town of Dudley. He is a member of the local grange, Pa- trons of Husbandry. He is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church at Webster and one of the trustees. He married, November 1, 1868, Harriet Walker, daughter of Abner C. Walker, of Dudley. She was born October 31, 1850. Their children are : Clinton George, born August 15, 1871; Leon Jolin, born January 31, 1883, a student at Worcester Poly- technic Institute; Ruth May, born May 7, 1885.
(IX) Clinton George, son of George Havens Marsh (8), was born at Dudley, August 15, 1871. He married, December 15, 1898, Martha Fos- kett. daughter of Daniel and Millia ( Davis) Foskett. Daniel Foskett was in Company G, Fifty-first Mas- sachusetts Volunteers, in the civil war. She was born August 19, 1876. Their children are: Russell Foskett, born November 9, 1899; Homer Ellis, born February 9, 1903; Melvin Clinton, born September 16, 1904.
(1X) Ruth May Marsh, daughter of George Havens Marsh (8), was born at Dudley, Massa- chusetts, May 7, 1885. She married Herbert Gran- ville Alton, son of Mrs. E. J. Alton. (See sketch of Alton family).
THOMAS H. SULLIVAN, a prominent lawyer of Worcester, residing in Millbury, is a progressive Irish-American and therefore belongs to a class of sturdy, patriotic citizens who are acquiring honor- able records in various fields of usefulness. He is a son of the late Jeremiah T. and Johanna ( Hor- gan) Sullivan, both of whom immigrated from Ire- land and settled in Millbury nearly fifty years ago.
Jeremiah Thomas Sullivan was born in county Cork in 1838, and belonged to a race or clan whost original abiding place was at Bantry Bay, on the southern coast of Ireland. He attended school in his native place and tilled the soil there until 1860, when he came to the United States, locating in Mill- bury shortly after his arrival. There he learned the mason's trade with a Mr. Foster White, Worcester, and was associated with the latter in a business way for a number of years, when he established himself at Millbury. His industry and thrift enabled him to realize excellent financial returns, and he not only provided his family with a comfortable home, but his circumstances were such as to render it un- necessary for him to labor during his declining years. Politically he was a Republican with inde- pendent proclivities, and was always an enthusiastic advocate and supporter of the public schools. In his religious faith he was a Roman Catholic. Jere- miah T. Sullivan died in 1892. He was married in Millbury to Johanna Horgan, also a native of county Cork, who had preceded him to this country. She became the mother of seven children, namely : Stephen, Julia A., William F., Joseph J., George S., H. Arthur, and Thomas H. Of these the only sur- vivors are George S., H. Arthur and Thomas H., the principal subject of this sketch. Mrs. Johanna Sullivan is still living and resides in Millbury.
Thomas H. Sullivan was born in Millbury, No- vember 12, 1868. He was graduated from the Mill- bury high school in 1885, and immediately began to
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learn the mason's trade with his father. He soon found, however, that this calling was far from being congenial and abandoning the trowel he entered Holy Cross College, Worcester, pursued the regular course and took his degree with the class of 1891. Deciding to enter the legal profession he became a student at the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1894. He was valedictor- ian of his class in high school, graduated with first honors at Holy Cross College, receiving three of the four gold crosses given at commencement as well as being one of the four speakers, and graduated from Boston University Law School with Magna Cum Laude. He was immediately admitted to practice in the courts of this commonwealth. Locating for practice in Worcester, he established himself in the Walker building on Main street, and he is at the present time one of the most popular among the younger members of the Worcester county bar, hav- ing a large and lucrative general law business.
Politically, Mr. Sullivan is an earnest supporter of the Democratic party, and is regarded as a most able and forcible speaker. He is now serving his seventh year upon the Millbury school board and is rendering excellent services in behalf of public edu- cation. In 1904 he was Democratic candidate for district attorney for Worcester county, and though defeated, ran ahead of his ticket. He is a member of several organizations, among which are the Kinkora, Washington and Commonwealth Clubs.
PETER DOLAN, a highly esteemed resident of West Millbury, and one of the representative and substantial farmers thereof, was born on the old Dolan homestead in Queens county, Ireland, in 1831, son of William and Mary (Quinn) Dolan, natives of Queens county, Ireland, whose family consisted of four children. William Dolan ( father) was edu- cated in the schools of his native county, gained a livelihood there by the cultivation of the soil, and his remains were interred there.
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the neighborhood of his home, and in the meantime assisted his father in the labors of the farm, thus acquiring a thorough knowledge of farming in all its details. In 1848, upon attaining the age of seven- teen years, he decided to seck a new home amid new surroundings, and accordingly emigrated to the United States and located in Millbury, Massachu- setts. He at once engaged in farming, and later pur- chased a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, one of the most arable pieces of land in the county, and there he has resided ever since. He is practical and progressive in his methods, his farm is furnish- ed with all the machinery and implements requisite for general farming, and as a natural consequence he has succeeded in his undertaking. Mr. Dolan at- tends the Roman Catholic Church, is a Democrat in politics, and is eminently respected by his neighbors and friends.
Mr. Dolan married, May 14, 1857, Mary Culla- man, daughter of Edward Cullaman, a farmer of Waterford, Ireland, and their children are as fol- lows : William, born 1860, died 1897; Edward H., born 1862, unmarried, resides at home and assists in the labors of the farm; Thomas, born 1865, married Minnie Welch, and they are the parents of three children : John, born 1868, unmarried, resides at home and assists with the work; Mary, born 1869, unmarried; Bridget, born 1873, became the wife of Patrick Ryan, and their family consists of three children ; and Alice, born 1875, became the wife of William Murphy, and two children have been born to them.
JOSIAH PERRY. The student of biography will readily discern the influence of heredity in shaping the career and moulding the character of the gentleman whose name introduces these memoirs. Among the earliest of the English settlers who fled the mother country because of religious persecution was
Ezra Perry, who was born in England in 1625 and was located, as the records show, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, as early as 1644. He married, Feb- ruary 12, 1651, Elizabeth Burgess. Of their chil- dren :
Benjamin Perry, born February 15, 1670, mar- ried, in 1693, Dinah Swift. They lived latterly in Stoughton. One of their children,
Abner Perry, born March 10, 1703, married, May 12, 1726, Joanna Gibbs. They lived for a time at Sandwich, subsequently at Plymouth, and latterly in Stoughton. To them was born, December 19, 1735. in the place last named :
Josiah Perry, whose grandson and namesake is the immediate subject of these memoirs. Loyalty to King George marked the career of this eighteenth century Josiah Perry, the records revealing him as among the English colonial troops during the French and Indian war, serving as a corporal, and in 1757 stationed at Fort Cumberland. He married, April 21, 1763, Mary Hartshorn, and just prior to the in- ception of the war of the revolution, early in 1775, settled on a large tract of land on the Massachusetts- Connecticut line, at and near the present town of Dudley. Massachusetts. This Josiah Perry also rendered some service in the Patriot army during the revolutionary war, and among his collateral rela- tives who subsequently attained distinction in the service of the nation was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the "Battle of Lake Erie," com- monly known as "Perry's Victory," in the war of 1812. Josiah Perry cleared and cultivated a large tract of land, being one of the very successful and leading agriculturists of southern Worcester county.
Joseph Hartshorn Perry was born in Thompson, Connecticut, (now Dudley, Massachusetts), on the farm of his father, which lay then partly in Thomp- son and partly in Dudley-September 5, 1789. He assisted in the cultivation of the homestead farm until 1815. In the latter year he went to Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where he invested a part of his sav- ings in stock of the Rivulet Manufacturing Com- pany, entering into the employment of the concern, whereby he mastered woolen manufacture in all of its details. The plant was unsuccessfully operated, and upon being closed down, young Perry went to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and there found employ- ment in a woolen mill for one year. In the fall of 1825 he returned to his native place, and in partner- ship association with Danforth Upham, Abner Wy- man and Richard Perry, purchased from an older brother, Eliphaz, a few acres of land, including a water privilege. A dam was built, a mill erected, and the manufacture of satinets begun under the firm name of Joseph H. Perry & Company. Fire destroyed the plant in 1857, but new and larger structures were built and work resumed with a larger force and better equipment within the same year. Throughout the life of Joseph H. Perry the business established by him maintained the reputa- tion of being one of the significantly valuable indus- tries of the community.
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