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Mr. Harris used to sell his own goods in New York, and he always knew the market in which he was interested.
He invested largely and wisely in real estate. He was active in the effort to get the Worcester & Nashua Railroad built and owned a large block of the stock. In 1857 he was by far the largest taxpayer of Clinton, being taxed on over fifty thousand dollars. In 1838 he was one of the select- men of Lancaster. He was on the prudential com- mittee of his school district in 1847. He was a leader in the movement to incorporate Clinton, and · he became the first town treasurer and was again elected to that office in 1855. He was an ardent temperance man and built the hall in the building on High street now occupied by C. W. Field for the Sons of Temperance, then a very strong and growing order. He was a Unitarian in religion and was a liberal supporter of the new church in Clinton. "Next to the Bigelows." writes the his- torian of Clinton, "Sidney Harris is the most im- portant figure in the industrial life of Clintonville. He won this position by his love of work, his in- tegrity, his sound judgment in matters of business, his enterprise, his public spirit and his service in behalf of education, temperance and religion." After his death, November 21, 1861, his sons con- tinued the business under the title of Sidncy Harris & Sons, a title which was never changed as long as the shops remained under their control.
He married. 1829, Sally Kilburn, daughter of Daniel and Rachel (McIntosh) Kilburn, of Lunen- burg, Massachusetts. the ceremony being performed in Lancaster hy Rev. Nathaniel Thayer. D. D. She died March 9, 1872; he died November 21, 1861. Their children: Edwin, born December 7, 1829, died December 27, 1829; Almira Jane, born June 6, 1831, died September 22, 1847; Christopher Thayer, born March 22, 1833, died March 20, 1854; Edwin Algernon, born May 31, 1837. see forward ; George Sidney, born March 13, 1839, died April 28, 1867, see forward.
(VII) Eliza Plimpton, daughter of Betsey (Harris) Plimpton (6), married Levi Harris and resides on Water street. Clinton. Levi Harris was horn in Lunenburg in 1805. He learned comb mak- ing of Gardner Pollard and worked at his trade in Leominster, and later at one of the Lowe shops in Clintonville. He lived in the Lawrence house until 1844, when he became the owner of the Daniel Harris homestead. Ile was a "quiet, honest, able citizen, one who always attended strictly to his own business." He was a Unitarian in religion. He died October 13, 1883. He was one of the original members of the First Unitarian Church of Clinton.
(VII) Emory Harris, Jr., son of Emory Harris (6), was born in that part of Lancaster now in- cluded in Clinton, June 11. 1830 He acquired a good education in the public schools. When not in school he worked on the farm of his father. He started for himself in the coaching and ex+ press husiness. For twenty-six years he owned a line of railroad carriages. For a time after the opening of the Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg Rail- road he served as conductor. He was also a farmer. He remained in active life in his business until his death, April 7, 1874. He and his family at- tended the Unitarian Church. He was a Repuhli- can in politics. He was a popular and progressive citizen. He married in Boston, November 11. 1850, Eliza Sheple, daughter of Danford and Eliza J. Sheple. She was born in Boston, January 13. 1828.
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Their only child was a daughter, Hattie E., born May 3. 1861. Mrs. Harris died September 17, 1899. (VII) Edwin Algernon Harris, son of Sidney Harris (6), was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, May 31, 1837, in the old homestead. He attended the public schools and for some time Josiah Bride's famous school at Berlin and then took a business course at a school in Worcester. The boyhood of Edwin A. Harris was passed at school and in his father's workshops, so that when he came to years of manhood he was thoroughly prepared to assume the responsibility of the business which was re- linquished by his father ount of failing health. Upon the death of the latter the business passed into the hands of Edwin A. and George S., but the subsequent death of George S. threw the entire responsibility upon Edwin A. Throughout these changes the business was conducted under the firm name of S. Harris & Sons. From the beginning Mr. Harris was remarkably successful, and under his vigorous efforts the works rapidly increased in size and capacity, until they became the largest comb works in the United States. He was a practical believer in industry and all that it can do, and the large measure of success he achieved was the direct result of his own ambi- tion and effort. He was one of the first projectors and supporters of the Agricultural Branch Rail- road, and the town of Clinton is greatly indebted to him for the successful culmination of this import- ant enterprise. He was one of the directors of the First National Bank of Clinton, and as such ren- dered valuable service. He was an active member and liberal supporter of the Unitarian Church, this being the faith in which he was reared
Mr. Harris married, December 28, 1858. Adeline K. Damon, daughter of William and Adeline Kim- ball Damon, the former named a son of John and Lucy (Swain) Damon, and the latter the widow of Henry W. Calkins, of Keene, New Hampshire. John Damon (grandfather) was a native of West- minster, Massachusetts. William Damon ( father) was a resident of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. To this union was born Herbert Christopher. April 28, 1862, died June 24, 1863: and Flora Kate, July 20. 1865, died January 6, 1883. The death of Edwin A. Harris, May 28, 1875, while in the prime of life, was mourned by a large number of friends, particularly by the residents of the village which bore his name. He remains were interred in Woodlawn cemetery.
(VII) George Sidney Harris, son of Sidney Harris (6), was born March 13, 1839. He at- tended the public schools of his native town. At an early age he began to work in his father's comb factory, and on account of their father's ill health George and Edwin, his brother, were in business before they reached their maturity. While the father was still living, the large addition to the shops was made in 1860 under the direction of the two brothers. At that time the firm employed fifty hands. By the conditions of the father's will, his widow had control of the homestead and shops, but she leased the latter to the sons and the busi- ness was continued under the old name, Sidney Harris & Sons. In May, 1862, the firm undertook the manufacture of paper bags on a large scale, but soon abandoned this branch and confined its attention to horn goods. The staple product was the common varieties of combs, but at a later date date fancy combs were produced. For a time also
horn buckles and horn chains were made. The product was sold through commission merchants. George S. Harris died April 28, 1867, and after that the business was conducted by the surviving partner for eight years, when he too died and the property was sold to a joint stock company. After six years Mrs. Edwin A. Harris bought the con- cern, continued it under the corporate title in a smaller way, but finally sold out to the Lancaster mills and the business ceased.
The home of George S. Harris was in the house he bought of Absalom Lord, recently owned by Mrs. David Haskell. George was never very strong and was inclined to work beyond his strength. In 1865 he was one of the selectmen of Clinton. He took up his father's mantle in the temperance move- inent and was an active worker in the society of Good Templars. In later life he attended the Con- gregational Church. He married Ellen M. Damon, who survived him. Their children : George S. and Helen J.
CHARLES EDWIN SEAGRAVE. John Sea- grave (1), the immigrant ancestor of Charles Ed- win Seagrave, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, is be- lieved to have been a native of Leicestershire, Eng- land. The ancestry of the English family has been traced in that county and vicinity back to the year A. D. 519. The ancient coat of arms of the family is: Sa. with fesse het. three wheat sheaves, or. Crest. A dexter hand holding a palm branch ppr. He married in England Sarah - -, who died at an advanced age in 1786. He died on the voyage to America or just before his widow and four children sailed. The widow and four children landed in Boston about 1725 and settled there. After the daughter Mary married, the mother and other daughter lived with her until the siege of Boston, when they went to Uxbridge. She prob- ably returned after Evacuation and was there late in 1776, when she was appointed administratrix of her married daughter's estate. She spent her last years in Uxbridge, living with her son, Captain Seagrave. Children of John and Sarah Seagrave were: 1. Edward, born in England about 1722, of whom later: John, born in England, 1724: Sarah, born 1728, died .June 30, 1802, unmarried; Mary, baptized March 25, 1732, in Christ Church. Salem street. Boston: married Captain John Dorrington ; she died December 13, 1776.
(II) Captain Edward Seagrave, son of John Seagrave (1), was born in England, 1722, and died in Uxbridge, May 18, 1793. When a young lad he was bound out to Joseph Taft, of Uxbridge, and as he grew to manhood Seagrave became a leading citizen. He had risen to the rank of lieu- tenant of the company of Minute Men in Ux- bridge, commanded by Captain Samuel Read. and marched with his company on the Lexington Alarm April 19, 1775. He was commissioned captain Sep- tember 25, 1775, in Colonel Read's regiment (Twentieth Foot) of Massachusetts, enlisted for eight months. In 1778 he was captain of the Ninth Company. Third Worcester Regiment, and later in the year was in the Rhode Island campaign under Colonel Wade. He served in the battle of White Plains in 1776 and won a charge when a retreat had been ordered. His gallantry there brought to him the offer of a colonel's commission, which he declined. He was an honorahle man. brave and patriotic officer, trust and loyal friend
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of the colonies. His house was handed down to Bezaleel Taft and then to IIenry G. Taft, grand- so11. He was a well-to-do farmer of Uxbridge.
He married, January 6, 1757, Lois White, daugh- ter of Joseph and Judith White, of Uxbridge. Their children: John, born November 6, 1757, married Sarah Dorrington ; Lois, November 5, 1759, inarried Orin Keyes, of Uxbridge; she died March 8, 1819; Joseph, December 26, 1761, married (first) Anna Fletcher, (second) Nancy Brown; Mary, April 16, 1764, died 1777, aged thirteen vears ; Bezaleel, December 14, 1766, married, February 19, 1789, ; (second) Jemima Aldrich, December, 1706; died January 29, 1762; Sarah, December 31, 1768, married Joel Bolster, who resided at Upton, Massachusetts, and Guilford, Vermont; Caleb, March 14, 1771, married Eunice Wood; Josiah, October 14, 1773, married Lois Taft. December 25, 1798; Edward, November 9, 1776, died July 31, 1797; Olive, April 17, 1779, married S. Sprague and B. French; Samuel, February 3, 1782, married, September 13, 1804, Betsey Murdock.
(III) John Seagrave, son of Captain Edward Seagrave (2), was born in Uxbridge, Massachu- setts, November 6, 1757, and died there February 3, 1842. He was also a soldier in the revolution, a fifer in Captain Caleb Whitney's company, Col- onel Benjamin Hawes' regiment, in 1778, and served in the Rhode Island campaign. He was also in Captain Benjamin Farrar's company, Colonel Benjamin Hawes' regiment in 1777. He was prosperous farmer, large land owner and cattle dealer and his homestead is now in the very centre of the village of Uxbridge. He married Sarah Dorrington, who was born April 7, 1755, died Sep- tember 19, 1831. Their children: Polly, born De- cember 8, 1779, married James Rawson, of Ux- bridge; Dorrington, September 25, 1781, married Jerusha Scott ; John, December 1, 1783, of whom later ; Sally, 1785, died young; Bezaleel, November 30, 1787, married Lucy Taft, of Uxbridge, born April 24. 1795; ' married (second) Mrs. Emily (Taft) Chapin; Sally, 1790, died December 17, 1806; Harriet, February 28, 1792, married Joseph Aldrich : Daniel, November 2, 1795, married Mary WVeld.
(IV) John Seagrave, son of John Seagrave (3), was horn in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, December I, 1783. He settled in Uxbridge and was-a pros- perous farmer. He died October 14, 1836. He married, March 21, 1805, Mary Scott, of Belling- ham, horn February 5, 1784, daughter of Saul B. and Celia ( Ballon) Scott. Their children: Caro- line, born January 31, 1806, married Crinkler Scrib- ner ; she died May 22, 1876: John, born January 20. 1808. married, February 12, 1834, at Cumber- land, Rhode Island, Almena Ross, born at Thomp- son, Connecticut, April 28. 1812: Saul Scott, born March 3, ISIo, married, April 2, 1833, Mary Al- mira Tyler, of Uxbridge: Selissa Scott, born April II, 1812, married, October 26, 1847, Dr. Adam Perry and had two children: William Henry, born January 6, 1815, married. April 3. 1844, Elizabeth Wheelock, of Uxbridge: Edward Foster, born Au- gust 13, 1817. married, October 30. 183S, Sarah Ross, of Thompson, Connecticut, who was born February 12. 1816; James Carter, born April 14, 1821, married, March 4, 1750, Elizabeth Clark, born March, 1820, and died September 17. 1758; Charles Edwin, born Octoher I, 1835, of whom later.
(V) Charles Edwin Seagrave, son of John Sea-
grave (4), was born at Uxbridge, October 1, 1825. He attended the district schools there and com- pleted his early education at Uxbridge Academy, where he studied under that noted teacher Dr. Joshua Macomber. While pursuing his studies he found time to assist his widowed mother carry on the farm and worked for other farms at times. When he was eighteen he went to work in a scythe factory remaining one year. Then he and his brother, William H. Seagrave, opened a general store at Millville. Charles E. Seagrave withdrew from the firm, and for twenty-five years following engaged in lumbering and farming. He then went to Uxbridge and engaged in the furniture and hard- ware business from 1870 to 1875, with a store in the building at present occupied by Daley Brothers on Mendon street. After five years he sold his store to Henry S. and Eugene S. Farnum, and gave all his attention to the undertaking business, which he established some years before in Ux- bridge, remaining in the business until his son, Augustus C. Seagrave, was able to take charge. Since he retired from business he has given his at- tention entirely to his farming.
Alr. Seagrave has been elected to many positions of honor and trust. He was coroner and overseer of the poor for a number of years and for a long period was a selectman. While cattle inspector of the town Mr. Seagrave gained a wide acquaintance in the county. He continued to hold this office until a few years ago, when he retired on account of his age. He had the confidence and good will of the whole community. In 1880 he was elected to represent his district in the general court. May I, 1893, he was elected president of the Uxbridge Savings Bank, and has remained at the head of that institution to the present time His grandson, Charles A. Barton, is treasurer (see his sketch). Mr. Seagrave is a director of the Blackstone Na- tional Bank of Uxbridge and one of the largest stockholders. Early in life he joined the Evan- gelical Congregational Church in Uxbridge, and he has always taken an active part in the church and Sunday school work. In 1858 Mr. Seagrave joined Solomon's Temple Lodge 'of Free Masons, of which he is still a member.
At the age of eighty Mr. Seagrave is still in full enjoyment of his health and faculties. He has an excellent physique and seems to have many years of usefulness ahead of him. He has heen for many years one of the leading and most in- fluential citizens of the town, one of the selfmade men of his generation, in whom his townsmen take special pride. The place whereon he now resides was bought of Sullivan Thayer in 1854. His father's farm was the old Seagrave homestead, on the east side of Mumford river.
Charles Edwin Seagrave married at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, May 31, 1848, Abigail Carter. born at Pawtucket. June 12, 1824, daughter of Cephas and Margaret ( Murphv) Carter. His wife died January 10. 1804, and he married (second), Janu- ary 7. 1897, Mrs. Clara Viall. of Providence, Rhode Island, his present wife. The children of Charles Edwin and Abigail Seagrave were: I. Edwin Carter, born February IS. IS49. died December 9, 1849. 2. Margaret Melvina, born December 20, 1850, died July 3, 1900; married Charles A. Barton, November 1, 1871; he died March 12. 1877, leav- ing Charles A., born October 1. 1874; Elizabeth S., born October 7, 1876. 3. Charles Scott, born Au-
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gust 9, 1852, in Uxbridge, married Abbie F. Cad- well, August 1, 1874; now living in Slatersville, Rhode Island, he has served thirty-one years as cashier of Slatersville Bank. 4. Mary Adams, born April 15, 1858, in Uxbridge, married, September 1, 1880, Arthur R. Taft, of Uxbridge. 5. Anne, born October 17, 1859, died October 18, 1859. 6. Au- gustus C. S., born July 20, 1868, at Uxbridge, suc- ceeded his father in the undertaking business, Ux- bridge, also proprietor of a livery stable there.
LEONARD WHEELER, M. D. The family of which Dr. Leonard Wheeler, of Worcester, Massachusetts, is a representative, was found in this country by Thomas Wheeler (1), born in Bed- fordshire, England, 1620, came to America about 1640 and settled in a part of Concord which is now included in Lincoln. He was a farmer, a Puritan and held the title of sergeant in 1642. He was married twice and the names of his wives were Sarah Meriam and Sarah (Beers) Stearns.
(11) John Wheeler, second son of Thomas Wheeler, born 1655, married Sarah Stearns, daugh- ter of his step-mother.
(III) Thomas Wheeler, third son of John and Saralı (Stearns) Wheeler, born 1692, died 1750. He married, 1721, Mary Monroe.
(IV) Edmund Wheeler, son of Thomas and Mary (Monroe) Wheeler, born March 4, 1731, died June, 1805. He was in service at Cambridge, 1775, and at Ticonderoga, 1776, and was paid for one- third part of a three years' service in the Conti- nental army. He married, June 26, 1756, Eunice Monroe.
(V) Thomas Wheeler, son of Edmund and Eunice (Monroe) Wheeler, born at Lincoln, Oc- tober 17, 1758, died January, 1841. He married March 22, 1788. Mary Hoar.
(VI) Abel Wheeler, son of Thomas and Mary (Hoar) Wheeler, born at Lincoln, October 3. 1790, died October, 1868. His education was acquired in the common schools and under the Rev. Dr. Charles Stearns. Hc left Lincoln when about twenty years old, taught school in Norfolk, Vir- ginia : White Plains, New York: and later in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, returning to the farm in 1838 on account of his health. He resided in Lincoln during the last thirty years of his life. He and his brother Leonard, born February 18, 1789, died unmarried at Lexington, Kentucky, May, 1864, were the first, as far as known, to leave the farm for other work. Abel Wheeler was a leader in forming the Unitarian Church in Lincoln in 1842, and he was largely instrumental in establishing a high school in the same town in 1852. He served as chairman of selectmen for a number of years, and was a member of the school committee for a long period of time. He was a Whig and Repub- lican in politics.
Abel Wheeler married, 1833, Charlotte Bemis, who traces his ancestry to Joseph Bemis, born 1619, died August 7, 1684. He was in Watertown as early as 1640 and was a selectman 1648-72-75. His wife, Sarah Bemis, died about 1712. His son, John Bemis, born August, 1659, died October 24, 1732. He married Mary Harrington, who died Sep- tember 8, 1716. Their son, John Bemis, Jr., born October 6, 1686, married, April 2, 1713, Anna Liver- more, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Bridge) Livermore. Their son, Abraham Bemis, born De- cember 27, 1717, married, May II, 1749, Susanna iv-26
Flagg, who died December 27, 1766. Their son' Amos Bemis, born October 6, 1700, married, Feb- ruary 2, 1792, Susan Fish. Their son, Deacon Amos Bemis, Jr., was the father of Charlotte ( Bemis) Wheeler.
(VII) Leonard Wheeler, son of Abel and Char- lotte (Bemis) Wheeler, was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts, August 31, 1845. Hc attended the Lincoln public schools up to 1860; Phillips Exeter Academy, 1860-1863; Harvard College, 1863-1866, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1866; Harvard Medical School, 1866-1869; Massachusetts General Hospital, 1869-1870, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1870, and studied in Vienna and Breslau from 1870 to 1872. He came to Worcester, Massachusetts, in July, 1872, as superintendent of City Hospital and served to November, 1874. He was visiting physician at City Hospital from 1872 to 1888; obstetrician at City Hospital from 1888 to 1906; surgeon at Memorial Hospital from 1888 to 1900; consulting surgeon at St. Vincent's Hos- pital, 1894, and trustee of Massachusetts State Hos- pital at Foxborough, 1905. His family has at- tended the Unitarian Church since the beginning of that movement. He is a member of various clubs and medical societies, and a Republican in politics, but cast his vote for Grover Cleveland.
Dr. Wheeler married, at Worcester, November 23. 1897, Elizabeth Bancroft Cheever, a daughter of Henry Theodore and Jane (Tyler) Cheever, the former named having been a minister in New York, Jewett City, Connecticut, and Worcester, Massa- chusetts. Mrs. Dr. Wheeler attended the high, school and Smith. College, from which latter in- stitution she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1885. Their children, born at Worcester, Massachusetts, are: Bancroft Cheever, born June 6, 1899; Leonard, Jr., July 20, 1901 ; Eunice, Sep~ temiber 25, 1903; Nathaniel, June 20, 1906.
EDMUND O. BACON, for more than thirty- five years deputy sheriff of Worcester county, a veteran of the civil war and one of the most effic- ient civil officers in the commonwealth, was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, November 4, 1832. His father, who entered the woolen manufacturing industry as a pioneer, was for many years identi- fied with the business interests of Woonsocket.
Edmund O. Bacon was educated in the public schools of his native town, and acquired his initial training for active life in his father's woolen mill. He subsequently entered mercantile pursuits as a traveling salesman for Sumner Pratt, of Wor- cester, but shortly afterwards returned to the tex- tile manufacturing field as superintendent of a woolen mill in Winchendon, this county. Desirous of learning the carding branch of the business, he accordingly entered a woolen mill in Blackstone, but he eventually withdrew permanently from that industry and engaged in the livery business in Blackstone. The secession of the slave-holding states in 1861 caused him to consider his private interests as secondary to the threatened disruption of the Union. and in a true spirit of patriotism enlisted in Company K, Fifty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, under Colonel A. B. R. Sprague. He served with distinction in the civil war until honorably discharged and mustercd out. Returning . to Blackstone he resumed the livery business, and followed it until 1869, when he re- ceived his first appointment as deputy sheriff from
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'Sheriff Knowlton. He was subsequently re-ap- pointed in turn by Sheriffs Sprague, Nye and Chamberlain, receiving his last appointment in the autumn of 1904.
In 1881 he established his residence in Uxbridge, where, in connection with his regular occupation, he held the position of probation officer in that district for a period of five years, or until it became apparent that the duties of one office conflicted with those of the other, when he resigned, prefer- ring to remain in the service of the county. In the performance of his duties he seemed to have had a total disregard for the meaning of the words fear and fail. It was his destiny to trail and appre- hend many desperate characters, and in every in- stance when called upon to arrest a criminal he was never known to relinquish the pursuit until the offender was captured and brought to justice. General Sprague, his commander in the army and afterwards his superior in the county service, once said that he did not know a more efficient officer for all kinds of duty than Edmund O. Bacon. He was often compared to General Nelson A. Miles in fearlessness and desire to do his duty, no matter what the consequences might be, and he never allowed the possibility of danger to interfere with the execution of his official acts. During his long residence in Uxbridge he entered with spirit into the social life of the town. His neighbors and fel- low-townsmen were familiar with his past life, took an interest in his official work and respected him for his manly courage, moral stability and other estimable qualities. He was a member of Black- stone Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and of St. Elmo (Royal Arch) Chapter of Whitinsville ; ·of Uxbridge Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows: and a comrade of H. H. Legg Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in all of which he took an active interest, and was dearly beloved by his associates. He was one of the best known men in Worcester county, and his death, which occurred suddenly on April 27, 1905, at his home in Ux- bridge, was the result of a serious affection of the heart.
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