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For several years the firm name has been H. E. Remington & Co .. and Mr. Remington is the sole owner of the business formerly done under the name of Cummings & Remington. He deals in paper by wholesale, Fitchburg heing a paper manufactur- ing centre, and conducts a book binderv. In the retail department at 356 Main street the firm carries
a fine line of stationery, blank books of its own manufacture and makes printing and engraving of all kinds a specialty. The store also has in stock wrapping paper, paper bags, cotton batting, wooden- ware, brooms, brushes, envelopes, etc. Mr. Reming- ton has won a leading place for himself among the younger merchants of the city. He is a Republican in politics.
He married, June 23, 1890, Ida McMaster, who was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, August I, 1862, the daughter of Livy and Esther ( Wheeler) McMaster, of Fitchburg. They have no children.
FREDERICK E. FARWELL. Richard Farwell (I), believed to be the ancestor of the American einigrant, Henry Farwell, one of the pioneers at Concord, Massachusetts. and therefore a progenitor of Frederick E. Farwell, of Fitchburg, Massachu- setts, was born in England. He married about 1280 the daughter and heiress of Elias de Rillestone, and brought that estate and others into the family. These continued in the family until about 1500, when they passed through an heiress to the family of Radcliff. although some portion of the estate remains to this day in a Farwell branch bearing the same arms and claiming descent from Richard Farwell. About the time the estates passed to the Radcliffes Simon Farwell migrated from Yorkshire to Somersetshire and built at Bishop Hall near Taunton the manor house on which is carved the Farwell arms, quar- tered with de Rillestone and others.
(I) Simon Farwell, mentioned above, of Hill- Bishop, died 1545; married Julia Clark.
(II) Simon Farwell, son of Simon Farwell (1), of Hill-Bishop, married Dorothy Dyer, heiress of Sir James Dyer, speaker of the house of commons and judge; she died 1580. Their children: Simon, John, of Holbrook; George of whom later ; Richard, Christopher, founder of the Devonshire branch of the family; and four daughters.
(III) George Farwell, son of Simon Farwell (2), was born in 1533 and died in 1609; married Philippa Parker, daughter of John Parker. She died in 1620. They lived at Hill-Bishop. Their children : Sir George, Knight of Hill-Bishop, of whom later ; Elizabeth, Sir John, Arthur.
(IV) Sir George Farwell, knight, of Hill- Bishop, died in 1647. He married Lady Mary Sey- mour, daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, and brought into the family royal Plantagenet blood. They had twenty children, some of whom were: Thomas, John, of whom later ; George, Nathaniel, Edmund, James.
(V) John Farwell, son of George Farwell (4), married Dorothy Routh, daughter of Sir John Routh. Their children: Henry, of whom later; John.
(VI) Henry Farwell, believed to be the son of John Farwell, of Ilill-Bishop, England, was one of the first settlers of Concord, Massachusetts, and is ancestor of most of this surname in America. In this connection it is interesting to note that Mr. Thomas Farwell was in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1643, where he made a contract with his servant, James Bishop. Note the name Bishop which may have been derived from the place where the Far- wells lived in England, Hill-Bishop. Henry was admitted a freeman, May 14. 1638-9. He served on important committees for the proprietors and the town. He removed to Chelmsford, Massachusetts, an adjoining town. His will was made July 12,
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1670, just before his death. The inventory of his estate was filed August 5 following. He married Olive Their children were : John, boru at Concord about married
1639, (first) Sarah Wheeler, (second) Sarah Fisk; Mary, born Deeem- ber 26, 1640, married John Bates; Joseph, of whom later; Olive married, October 30, 1668, at Chelms- ford, Benjamin Spaulding; Elizabeth, married Wilkins.
(VII) Joseph Farwell, son of Henry Farwell (6), was born in Concord, Massachusetts, February 20, 1642. He removed with his father to Chelms- ford. About 1699 he bought the Waldo farm in Dunstable, Massachusetts, part of which he deeded to his son, Henry Farwell, in 1702. He settled there in 1699 and was selectman in 1701-02-05-10. He was highway surveyor in 1706. His will was dated November 13, 1711, and he died December 31, 1722. He was deacon of the church.
He married, December 25, 1666, Hannah Learned, who was born in Woburn, August 24, 1649, the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Stearns) Learned. Her father was born in England, son of William and Judith Learned, who came from England to Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1632. Her mother was the daughter of Isaac and Mary Stearns, who settled in Watertown in 1630. The children of Jo- seph and Hannah Farwell were: Hannah, born January 20, 1667-8; Joseph, of whom later; Eliza- beth, born June 9, 1672, married, January, 1693, John Richardson; Henry, born December 18, 1674, mar- ried Susannah Richardson; Isaac, born Chelmsford, removed from Milford to Mansfield, Connecticut ; Sarah, born September 2, 1683; John, born June 15, 1686; William, born January 21, 1688, settled in Groton, Massachusetts; Oliver, born 1689, killed by the Indians ; Olive, born November, 1692.
(VIII) Joseph Farwell, Jr., eldest son and sec- ond child of Joseph Farwell (7), was born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts, July 24, 1670. He re- moved to Groton, where he died August 21, 1740, aged seventy years. He married at Chelmsford, Hannah Coburn. Their children were: Joseph, born August 5, 1696, of whom later; Thomas, born at Chelmsford, October 11, 1698, died December 16, 1731; married, December 24, 1723, Elizabeth Pierce. The following children were born at Groton: Han- nah, born May 6, 1701, died May II, 1762; Eliza- beth, born December 31, 1703; Edward, born July 12, 1706; Mary born February 5, 1709; John, born June 23, 1711 ; Samuel,, born January 14, 1714; Dan- iel, born May 20, 1717; Sarah, born February 26, 1721.
(1X) Joseph Farwell, eldest child of Joseph Farwell (8), was born in Chelmsford, Massachu- setts, August 5, 1696. He married Mary Gilson, December 14, 1719. She was born February 8, 1703, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Gilson. He settled in Groton and was elected deacon there June 29, 1750. He served on important committees for the town in 1754 and 1784. He was a prominent and influential citizen. The children of Joseph and Mary Farwell, all born at Groton, were: Anna, born February 20, 1721, married, November II, 1741, Josiah Brown; Isaac, born March 16. 16, 1722, died IO,
May 1740; Joseph, born September 20, 1725,
died August 27, 1758: Jonathan, of whom later; Thomas, born July 30, 1733, died February 20, 1825, at Washington, New Hampshire; Oliver, born June 24, 1735; Mary, born
September 4, 1738; Susanna, born August 8, 1742, married John Cheney, of Groton.
(X) Jonathan Farwell, fourth child of Joseph Farwell (9), was born at Groton, Massachusetts, May 15, 1736. He married Eunice He died at Charlestown, New Hampshire, November 29, 1761, although he lived most of his life at Groton. The two children of Jonathan and Eunice Farwell, both born in Groton, were: Joseph, born August 26, 1759; Leonard, of whom later.
(X1) Leonard Farwell, younger son of Jonathan Farwell (IQ), was born in Groton, October 2, 1760. He settled in Lancaster. Late in life he removed to New York state. He deeded his property in Lan- caster to his children August 1, 1818. Those named in the deeds were Joseph 2d, Benjamin, Levi and Betsey. He was then at Hoosick, Renssalaer county, He died at Milton, Saratoga county, October 19, 1822, aged sixty-two years. His wife Sarah died at Lancaster, May 31, 1809, aged sixty-one years. He was a soldier in the revolution from Groton in Cap- tain Luke Wilder's company. Colonel Samuel Den- ny's ( Second) Regiment, and served at Claverack, New York. He bought land at Lancaster of Dr. Isaac Hurd, of Concord, and others in 1787-8.
He married, March 4, 1781, Sarah Merriam, who was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1749, ac- cording to the records of Lancaster and in 1759 according to her gravestone, which says that she died May 30, 1809, in her fifty-first year. The children of Leonard and Sarah Farwell were: Sally, born February 6, 178 ;; Joseph, born July 6, 1789; Benja- min, born January 13, 1792; Levi, of whom later ; Betsey, born July 23, 1799.
( X11) Levi Farwell, son of Leonard Farwell (II ), was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, May 22, 1794. He resided in Lancaster and was a very prom- inent citizen. In polities he was an old line Whig. He was selectman, assessor and held other positions of trust and honor. He died in 1862, at Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he lived during the latter part of his life.
He married, November 27, 1823, Luey Batchel- der Willard, daughter of Daniel Willard, of Har- vard, Massachusetts. The children of Levi and Lucy B. Farwell, all born in Lancaster, were; Frances Maria, born December 30, 1827, died August 30, 1830; Eliza Willard, born September 21, 1829, of whom later; Augusta M., of whom later; Daniel Willard, of whom later; Francis Marion, born Sep- tember 1, 1834; Mary A. R., of whom later; Levi Dan, of whom later; Lovey Melissa, born October 17, 1843; Frederick E., of whom later.
(XIII) Eliza Willard Farwell, daughter of Levi Farwell (12), was born in Lancaster, September 21, 1829, married, May 8, 1855, Joseph H. Goodale, who was born January 13, 1827. The children of Joseph H. and Eliza W. Goodale were: 1. Marion A .. born July 2, 1856. 2. Wilfred A., born April 20, 1861, married, October 23, 1889, Mabelle Parker, and their children are: Raymond P., born May 14, 1891 ; Louis F., born March 8, 1893; Austin, born April 8, 1894; Nina M., born October 17, 1899. 3. Arthur J., born November 17. 1865, married, January 1, 1890, and their five children are: Orville A., born February 2, 1891 ; Grace, born November IO, 1892; Florence I., born March 12, 1894; Helen C., born January 21, 1901 ; Carlton D., born Febru- ary 20, 1906. 4. Mabel H., born March 19. 1870. (XIII) Augusta M. Farwell, daughter of Levi
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Farwell (12), was born in Lancaster, July 1, 1831, married, November 2, 1854, Alpheus R. Willard, who was born April 17, 1831. Their only child is Roland Willard, born October 31, 1868.
(XIII) Mary A. R. Farwell, daughter of Levi Farwell (12), was born in Lancaster, January 10, 1838; married, May 31, 1859, George S. Thompson, who was born December 1, 1830. Their children are: George F., born December 25, 1862; Mary A., born December 4, 1865; Nettie G., born June 10, 1868.
(XIII) Levi Dan Farwell, son of Levi Farwell (12), born at Lancaster, February 11, 1842; married, December 25, 1867, Christiana Cunningham, who was born Angust 8, 1842. Their children are : 1. Al- bert (twin), born November 5, 1868, married Annie Nixon, December 24, 1900; Annie Nixon was born November 28, 1868. 2. Herbert C. (twin), born No- vember 5, 1868; married, May 29, 1901, Mabel H. Goodale; their children are: Willard G., born Jan- uary 4, 1903; Elizabeth, born May 30, 1904; Hugh C., born October 7, 1905. 3. Bessie E., born Febru- ary 12, 1871; married, April 10, 1890, William A. Fuller, who was born September 24, 1867; their two children are: John F., born January 29, 1891; Beat- rice L., born February 2, 1893. 4. Ethel L., born August 5, 1876.
( XIII) Frederick E. Farwell, youngest child of Levi Farwell ( 12), was born at Lancaster, July 12, 1849. He attended the public schools of his native town and could have gone to college, but he pre- ferred business and at an early age went to work in tht furniture factory of Merriam & Hall at Leomin- ster. At the age of eighteen he went to Fitchburg to work for A. A. Beckwith & Company, lumber dealers, and held å responsible position with this concern for seventeen years. Mr. Farwell was gift- ed with mechanical ability and acquired skill as a machinist as well as at wood-working. He devoted his spare hours to devising machinery, and in 1888 secured a valuable patent on a new saw table. He de- cided to manufacture his machine himself and start- ed in a small building on Newton Lane. In addition to the construction of his saw tables, he began to make and sell engines, boilers and wood-working machinery and to rebuild second-hand machines taken in trade. He soon developed a prosperous bus- iness which outgrew the original quarters. He bought the property a. the rear of 5 Main street and added from time to time to the buildings ac- cording to the growth of his own business and that of his tenants. At present he has three large build- ings, one of which is forty by one hundred feet, three story and basement ; another'forty by seventy- two feet, three story and basement; and the third thirty by sixty feet, three story and basement, with ell twenty-five by fifty-two feet. He has also just built a new factory there for his own use forty-five by eighty feet, part of which is two stories high. Among the concerns located there are the C. H. Cowdrey Machine Company; the Penniman Com- pany, manufacturers of piano case trusses ; the Moss- man Novelty Wood Turning Company; Tenney & Merriam, pattern makers; E. H. Whittemore. maker of paper boxes; the American Comb Company ; the Fitchburg Plating Works; the Star Laundry.
Since his beginning with the saw table Mr. Far- well has continued to invent useful machinery. He makes a specialty of working out ideas and plans for inventors, and of supplying the needs of manu- facturers who are devising new machinery for their
factories. He has taken out fourteen patents. Among the more valuable of these is a machine to cut the aperture in a window frame for the weights to be put in, an edging saw for joining long boards, and a quick-acting vice. Mr. Farwell has devoted all his time practically to business. He is a Repub- lican but never cared to hold office. He is a charter member of Nashua Tribe of Red Men. He attends the Episcopal Church and has sung in the choir there.
He married, December 24, 1870, Elvira Taft, who was born November 24, 1843, daughter of Harvey and Susan Taft, of Townsend, Vermont. Their children are: 1. Helen A., born November 16, 1871, married George Warner. of Fitchburg, and they have one child, Dorothy, born April 14, 1904; Ada T., born November 30, 1875 : married, October, 1897, Ernest Gilson, and they have one child, Willard Farwell Gilson, born in Fitchburg, March 5, 1899.
CHARLES B. SMITH. The father of Charles B. Smith, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was Charles WV. Smith, a farmer in Paxton and later a mechanic in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married (first) Abigail Crocker, and ( second ) Marietta Whitney, of Worcester, who survives him, and resides at 31 Clin- ton street, the family home for many years. The children of Charles W. and Abigail ( Crocker ) Smith were : Sarah, died at the age of eighteen years; Ade- line, married Albert Lackey, of Worcester ; Mary, married Herbert Rice, of Worcester ; she is the pro- prietor of the Bellmar Hotel and a very successful and competent business woman of Worcester; Mat- tie, married Edward M. Rockwell, of Leominster, and they have one daughter, Mrs. William Holman, of Leominster, whose husband is of the F. A. Whit- ney Carriage Company ; Charles B., of whom later.
Charles Bradley Smith, son of Charles W. Smith, was born at Paxton, Massachusetts, March 9, 1857. When he was six years old he removed with his fath- er to Worcester, where he received his education in the public schools and at the Classical high school. At the age of seventeen he passed the entrance ex- aminations for Harvard, but he did not enter. In October, 1874, he went to Fitchburg to work in the textile plant of Rockwell & Phillips, where he re- mained two years. He then went with Mr. Rock- well to Leominster, where a similar business had been established, Mr. Rockwell withdrawing from the Fitchburg firm. Mr. Smith remained with the new concern two years. He went into business for himself in partnership with Mr. Converse under the firm name of Smith & Converse with a mill at North Weare, New Hampshire, in 1879, and continued for three years. The firm was dissolved and Mr. Smith returned to Fitchburg and entered the employ of James Phillips, Jr., formerly of the firm of Rockwell & Phillips, where he worked for eleven years as a designer. The company was called the Fitchburg Worsted Company. In January, 1894, he and Charles T. Crocker formed the Star Worsted Company and Mr. Smith became treasurer of the corporation, a position he has occupied to the present time. He is a director of the Safety Fund National Bank of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Mr. Smith resides in apartments in the John- sonia Hotel, Fitchburg. He is a member of Christ's Church ( Episcopal) and since 1894 has been treas- urer of the parish. He is a Republican in politics. He has been on the Fitchburg school board since 1806; was an alderman of the city of Fitchburg in
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1902 and was a representative to the general court in 1905. He is active in the field of state politics as well as at home, and is a member of the Massa- chusetts Republican Club of Boston and of the Home Market Club. He belongs to Mt. Roulstone Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 98, of Fitchburg, and to the Park Club, o f which he was president for two years.
He married, December 26, 1882, Mary I. Tilton, born September 4, 1857, daughter of Emery and Ruth (Ingraham) Tilton, of Leominster. IIer father was a hotel keeper and superintendent of Leominster water department. Their children are: Florence May, born at Leominster, October 4, 1883; Katha- rine, born at Leominster, March 1, 1892.
GEORGE PRESTON GRANT, JR. Christopher Grant (1), the immigrant ancestor of George Pres- ton Grant, Jr., of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born in England in 1608 and came to Watertown in the Massachusetts Bay colony of New England about 1634. He was a proprietor that year. He was a glazier by trade and was employed in the con- struction of the first building for Harvard College. In 1644 he settled in the northeast corner of the town near the eastern border. According to a deposition that he made April 6, 1658, stating his age as forty- eight years, he was born in 1610, but there is reason to believe that 1608 is correct. He died September 6, 1685, and his estate was administered by his sons, Christopher, Caleb and Joseph. The daughters, Sarah Seaverns and Mary Smith, deposed, after the death of their mother, January 19, 1691-72.
The children of Christopher and Mary Grant were: Abigail, born February 6, 1634-5, married Roger Rose; Joshua, born June II, 1637, had a son Joshua who died June 19, 1677, and the father was administrator ; Caleb, born September 8, 1640; Ben- jamin, of whom later. The children of Christopher and Sarah Grant were: Sarah, born February I, 1643-4, married, February 23, 1666, Samuel Seaverns ; Joseph, born September 27, 1646, settled in Water- town; Mary, married, February 27, 1668, Dan- iel Smith; Mercy, married, May 10, 1671, Samuel Daniels; Christopher, born 1649.
(II) Benjamin Grant, fourth child of Christo- pher Grant (1), was born in Watertown, Massa- chusetts, September 6, 1644. He settled in Water- town, but was in New London in 1664. His occupa- tion there was mariner. He married Mary Beck- with, daughter of Matthew Beckwith, and removed to Lyme, Connecticut, where he died 1670. His children were brought up by relatives in Watertown, Massachusetts. Among them were: Benjamin, Jr., of whom later ; Ambrose, settled in Marblehead.
(III) Benjamin Grant, Jr., son of Benjamin Grant (2), was born in Lyme, Connecticut, about 1670. He married, September 14, 1692, at Medfield, Massachusetts, Priscilla Morse, daughter of Joseph and Priscilla Morse. He sold the land he received from his father's estate at Watertown in 1693 to Roger Rose, of Piscataqua, seventeen acres, etc., and then doubtless settled in Kennebunk, removing later to Marblehead, where his brother lived. He was a weaver by trade. The children of Benjamin and Priscilla Grant were: Priscilla, born at Medfield, November 16, 1693; Benjamin, born at Watertown, October 16, 1695; Joshua, born at Watertown, De- cember 16, 1697; Joseph, born January 6, 1700, of Cumberland, Rhode Island, later ; Priscilla, born De- cember 20, 1701 ; Deborah, born November 9 or De-
cember 15. (baptism) 1703; John, born 1705, baptized August 26, 1705; Mary, born February 16, 1706-7; Thomas, born at Marblehead, baptized April 25, 1708; Annette, born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, June 15. 1712; Ebenezer. born September 3, 1714. ( See Dedham Register, 1896, for further data).
(IV) Benjamin Grant, son of Benjamin Grant (3), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 16, 1695. He settled at Cumberland, Rhode Is- land, where his father and most of the family also resided. He died there in 1781. He married Dor- othy Their children were: Betty, born 1725; Benjamin, born March 17, 1728; Christopher, born 1730; Asa, born 1732; Lucy, born 1734; Dor- othy, born 1737; Michael, born 1738; Aaron, born 1743.
(V) Benjamin Grant, son of Benjamin Grant (4), was born March 17, 1728, at Cumberland, Rhode Island. He lived there and at the neighboring town of Wrentham, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Day's company, Colonel John Daggett's regiment, in 1778; he was also in Lieutenant Asa Bellews' company, Major Seth Bullard's regiment, in 1700 in the Rhode Island campaigns. He married, October 6, 1766, Susanna Lane. Their children were: David, of whom later; Olive, born March 16, 1769, died March 2, 1793; Asa, married Elizabeth Park, daughter of Samuel Park, February 14. 1809, and settled in Douglas, Massachusetts; Louis, born May 30, 1774; Jesse, born November 20, 1776.
(VI) David Grant, son of Benjamin Grant (5), was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, October 6, 1768. He married, November 7, 1793, Rachel Han- cock. Their children were: Preston, born May 21, 1796; Lyman, born April 24, 1799; Milton, born Oc- tober 21, 1800; Charlotte.
(VII) Preston Grant, son of David Grant (6), was born in Cumberland or Smithfield, Rhode Is- land, May 21, 1796. He settled in that part of Smithfield now the town of Lincoln. He married Miranda Gage, daughter of Captain Anthony Gage, January 4, 1823, in Providence, at the Chocolate mills near Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Their children were: Minerva; George Preston, of whom later; Erastus C., married, October 9, 1849, at North Providence, Rhode Island, Lucy Stone.
( VIII) George Preston Grant, son of Preston Grant (7), was born in that part of Smithfield call- ed Central Falls, in 1844. He was educated in the common schools and went to work, when a boy, in the mills of Greene & Daniels at Central Falls. This mill was known also as the Morse & Jenks mill. The privilege was bought in 1839 by Charles Morse, John Morse and George F. Jenks and they built a mill, a part of which was occupied by them for the manufacture of cotton cloth, a part by H. N. Ingra- . ham for the manufacture of spools and bobbins. Mr. Grant left the mill to enlist in Company H., Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers, with the rank of first corporal during the civil war. After his en- listment expired he returned to work for Greene & Daniels. After a few years he left Central Falls and engaged in business in Worcester on his own ac- count, but a year later, after the death of S. T. Mal- lory, who for many years was the superintendent of the Greene & Daniels mill, he was called upon to take this responsible position, though he was hardly twenty-five years old. In that year, 1869, the firm had just been established in a fine new plant at Paw- tucket. In 1876 the junior partner, General Horace
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Daniels, died, and in the following year the business was incorporated as the Greene & Daniels Manufac- turing Company. When the founder of the firm, B. F. Greene, died in 1886, Mr. Grant was elected treas- urer of the company. For many years he was the active manager of the mills. His success in the dual capacity of superintendent and treasurer was gener- ally regarded as evidence of unusual ability in tex- tile circles. It was Mr. Grant's policy always to keep his plant fully abreast of the times, even when that meant constant sacrifice of machinery during the period of rapid development of textile machinery. He succeeded in this way in holding trade during the bad seasons when mill owners generally suffered. Within a period of fifteen years the machinery of the concern was entirely changed, the output after the change being thread, cotton yarn, twine, etc. After a period of thirty-six years with this company, Mr. Grant retired in May, 1895. His resignation was received with sorrow, not only by the directors and stockholders, but by the overseers, foremen and hands. The overseers expressed their esteem for him by giving him a handsome diamond stud. He traveled in Europe with his wife in 1895 and spent the winter following in Florida. He died August 8, 1896.
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