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(III) Samuel Goodnow, Jr., son of Samuel Goodnow (2), was born in Marlboro, November 30, 1675, and died about 1720. He and his family fell in the division of the town within the limits of Westboro, and the birth of Thomas Goodnow, one of his children, is recorded in Westboro as well as Marlboro. He married Sarah -, and their children were: I. David, horn February 26, 1704; married Martha Bennett ; lived at Westboro. 2. Jonathan, mentioned below. 3. Thomas. born at Marlboro, or Westboro. May 18. 1709; married April 17. 1734. Persis Rice, lived at Westboro. 4. Mary, born April 5, 1712.
(IV) Jonathan Goodnow, son of Samuel Good- now (3). was born at Marlboro, July 16, 1706. His home fell within the limits of the town of West- boro, which was set off from Marlboro, November 18. 1717. He married February 20, 1727, at Marl- boro. Lydia Rice. who died December 4, 1747. . He removed to Marlboro in 1740, and died there Sep- tember 25, 1803, according to Hudson's history, nearly a hundred years old. Of his children the first six are recorded as born at Westboro, the other three are given in the Marlboro records. The chil- dren were: I. Ithamar, born April 14, 1728. 2. Lydia. December 21. 1729. 3. Mary, November 25, 1732. 4. Jonathan, January 5, 1734-5: died August 21, 1737, at Westboro. 5. Levi, born April 21, 1737, mentioned below. 6. Ebenezer. April 24, 1739. 7. Surviah, June 10, 1742. 8. Tabitha, June 27, 1744; married April 10, 1761, Zebadiah Wallis. 9. Sub- mit, horn December 3. 1747: died March 6, 1748.
(V) Levi Goodnow, son of Jonathan Goodnow (4), was horn April 21, 1737, in Westboro. His parents belonged to the Marlboro Church, and he was of Marlboro when he married, June 8. 1762, Milicent Keyes, daughter of James Keyes. She was
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born June 16. 1741, at Shrewsbury, and they were married there. The intentions were dated April 9, 1762. They settled first in Shrewsbury. He is said to have served in the French and Indian wars. About 1770 he removed to Guilford, Vermont. Ile was sergeant in the company of Captain Ichabod Dexter, Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge, and was at Cambridge in June and July, 1775, and was doubt- less in the battle of Bunker Hill. His residence during 1775 and 1776 was given as Guilford, and his record is given in the Massachusetts rolls. In 1777 and 1778 he appears on the Vermont rolls first as Captain Levi Goodnow, in command of a com- pany of rangers in the regiment of Colonel Samuel Herrick, raised by the state of Vermont (so-called). A payroll of his company dated September 3, 1778, is preserved. His last service was in Captain John Pratt's company, Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's battalion, in the Vermont service. The council of safety of the state of Vermont appointed a com- mittee August 22, 1778, to settle Captain Levi Good- enough's pay roll for service in Lieutenant-colonel Samuel Herrick's regiment of rangers for the year 1777. The state records also show that the council of safety directed Captain William Fitch, Septem- ber 6, 1777, to deliver to Captain Levi Goodenough two sides of leather out of Marshes Fatts. What that entry means is puzzling. but it shows that Levi Goodnow was a captain in the service of the embryo state of Vermont. Captain Goodnow settled later in Derby, Vermont. The children of Levi and Mili- cent Goodnow, born in Shrewsbury were: 1. Elmer, horn January 27, 1765 (January 26 in private rec- ords) mentioned below. 2. James Keyes, baptized April 19, 1767. 3. Jonas, baptized October 25, 1768. There were probably other children born in Ver- mont.
(VI) Elmer Goodnow, son of Levi Goodnow (5), or Levy as the name was usually spelled by the family, was born in Shrewsbury, January 27, 1764, and died at New Salem, May 6. 1849. He removed with his father to Guilford, Vermont, and thence to Derby, Vermont. He came to Sterling. Massachusetts, lived a while at Boylston, and finally settled in New Salem, Massachusetts. He married Mrs. Sarah (Sawyer) Wilder. daughter of Amos and Mary (Rugg) Sawyer. His wife was born at Lancaster, Massachusetts, June 7, 1769, and died at New Salem, Massachusetts, December 23, 1834. The children of Elmer and Sarah Goodnow were: 1. William Holland, mentioned below. 2. Isaac, born at Sterling, July 18, 1794; his daughter, Ellen Goodnow, resides at Willington, Massachusetts. 3. Elmer, Jr., born at Boylston, Massachusetts, June 18, 1796; his son, Wilson Warren Goodnow, re- sides at Guilford, Vermont. 4. Mahala, born at Boylston, May 23, 1799; married - Morse, and has a son, Marshall Morse. 5. Emerson, born at New Salem, Massachusetts, July 14, 1802, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, born at New Salem, November 23, 1805. 7. Mary Ann, born May 26, 1808.
(VII) Emerson Goodnow, son of Elmer Good- now (6), was born at New Salem, Massachusetts, July 14, 1802, and died there June 14, 1881. He married, January 5, 1831, at Athol, Massachusetts, Harriet Haven, daughter of John and Rachel ( Sar- gent) Haven. She was born at New Salem, March 26, 1811, and died at Orange. Massachusetts. April 3, 1886. The children of Emerson and Harriet Goodnow were all born in New Salem, viz. : I. Emily, born June 18, 1832; died at Orange, Janu-
ary II, 1892; married Sumner Cummings, October 31, 1850, at Athol; he was born at New Salem, December 7, 1825, died January 29, 1881, there, son of Brown Cummings. 2. Martha, born October 14, 1835, died at Athol, December 5, 1898; married, March 30, 1852, at Athol, Lock Hart Wrisley, son of Justus Smith Wrisley ; he was born at Gill, Mas- sachusetts, August 2, 1825, and died at New Salem, June 28, 1867; she married ( second), June 22, 1881, Albert G. Moulton, who was born at Lyman, New Hampshire, March 20, 1813, and died at Athol, September 6, 1889. 3. Oselo, born April 3, 1838, died at Northfield, Massachusetts, May 21, 1903; married at Orange, January 1, 1869, Dolly Avis Williams, daughter of Hollis Williams; she was born at Montague, Massachusetts, September 16, 1840; their children: Ozro Ventrice, born January 1, 1860; Osro Oselo, born July 27, 1861. 4. Samuel, born June 14, 1843, died at Northampton, Massa- chusetts, August 20. 1883; married at Montague, Mary Eleanor Maynard, born at Leverett, Massa- chusetts, October 7, 1850, daughter of Joseph Bart- let Maynard; their child: Samuel Ethan Allen, born at Montague; June 27, 1873. 5. Mary (trip- let), born September 13, 1845; died at Greenfield, Massachusetts, September 29. 1882; married at New Salem, May 26, 1869, George Leonard Perry, born at Scituate, Massachusetts, son of Leonard Perry ; their child : Bertha Alena Perry, born at Deer- field, Massachusetts, January 6, 1871. 6. Maria (triplet), born September 13, 1845; died at New Salem, April 20, 1897 ; married at Vernon, Vermont, September 1I, 1870, Prentice Maynard Peirce, born at New Salem, September 18, 1845, son of Frederick and Ermina (Merriam) Peirce; their children : Luna Maria Peirce, born at New Salem, December 28, 1874; Mary Ardella Peirce, born at New Salem, October 12, 1881. 7. Mahala (triplet), born Sep- tember 13, 1845; died at Orange, October 7, 1890; married at Orange, March 26, 1872, Amos Leonard Williams, born at Montague, March 3, 1832, son of John and Cordelia (Wilmoth) Williams; their only child : Rachel Kathleen, born at Orange, June 7, 1880, died there February 17, 1899. S. John Emer- son Goodnow, born March 23, 1850; married at New Salem, December 8, 1872, Emma Louise Kent- field, born at Montague, March 6, 1864, died there August 6, 1873, daughter of Henry Kentfield; mar- ried (second), at Brattleboro, Vermont, January 6, 1875, Celia Frances Sulloway, born at Stoughton, Massachusetts, July 7. 1848, daughter of Benjamin Webster and Elvira Eliza (Trask) Sulloway, and they have one child, Delilah Harriet, born at Mon- tague, May 8, 1881; Mr. Goodnow is a dealer in provisions at Athol.
(VII) William Holland Goodnow, son of Elmer Goodnow (6), was born at Sterling, Massachu- setts, February 13, 1792. He was educated in the common schools and learned the trade of mason. He moved to Montague, Massachusetts, where he bought the Antipas Steward farm, and owned and cultivated it for a period of twenty years, when he removed to Leverett, Massachusetts, after selling his Montague farm to good advantage to Samuel Bald- win, of Shelburne Falls. He settled on a farin which he purchased in Leverett, and lived there the rest of his days. In 1812 he belonged to a com- pany of militia enlisted in the service, but they saw no active fighting. In religion he was an Orthodox and in politics a Republican. He married Priscilla Mann, daugther of Thomas Mann, of Petersham, Mas-
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sachusetts. Her father was a lumberman, and had a saw mill in addition to running his farm. The children of William Holland and Priscilla Goodnow were: I. Julia, born at New Salem, married Daniel Andrews, of New Salem, and had one child, Horace Andrews, who married Lizzie Wheelock, of Gard- ner; they have one child, Albert Andrews. 2. Alice Mann, born at New Salem, married Daniel Andrews, of New Salem, and they have two children: Sam- uel Andrews; Horace Andrews. 3. Samuel IIol- land, died at age of twenty-one years. 4. Augustus Warren, lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts; mar- ried Susan White, of Coleraine, Massachusetts. 6. Sarah Elizabeth, married Hollis Wilbur, of Athol, and they have one son, Henry Wilbur. 7. Nancy Alcesta, married Samuel Everett, of Leverett. S. Amos Walter, born September 20, 1833, mentioned below.
(IX) Amos Walter Goodnow, son of William Holland Goodnow (8), was born at New Salem, September 20, 1833. His parents removed to Mon- tague when he was an infant, and he received his early education in the common schools of that town, working at the same time on his father's farm. At the age of twenty years he left home and went to work at Ashburnham, in the chair manu- factory of Winchester Brothers. After working there for three years he took a similar position in the factory of Corey & Bancroft, at Windham Great Falls, Maine, where he remained about a year. Then he returned to his old home in Mon- tague, and assisted his father on the homestead for a time, and then returned to work for the Winchester concern at Ashburnham. About this time his father sold out at Montague and bought another farm at Leverett, and Amos helped his father for a year and a half, when his father died and he succeeded to the farm. Soon afterward he sold the place at Leverett to Peter Hobart, and removed to Gardner to work at liis trade. He en- listed, August 14, 1862, in Company F, Fifty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, from Leverett, and went into camp at Greenfield. He went with his regi- ment to New Orleans, and was at the siege of Port Hudson, and took part in the battles of Indian Bend and Donaldsville. He was mustered out August 14, 1863, and returned to Leverett, and went soon afterward to Gardner and entered the employ of Heywood Brothers, chair manufacturers. This is one of the largest concerns in the business. Mr. Goodnow was with this firm nearly twenty years. In 1893 he decided to go back to farming again, and bought his present farm at Lunenburg. It is a productive and attractively situated place of about twenty-two acres. His son, Luie W. Goodnow, as- sists him in conducting the farm.
In religion Mr. Goodnow is a member of the Orthodox Church (Congregational). In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of Farragut Post, No. 116, G. A. R., of Gardner, Massachusetts. He commands the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens wherever he has lived, and is counted a man of influence among his neighbors though his manner is quiet and his tastes domestic. He mar- ried Sophia Avery, who was born in Brookline, New Hampshire, and died in Lunenburg, daughter of Amos and Lydia ( Evans) Avery. Her father was a farmer. The children of Amos Walter and Sophia Goodnow were: I. Ida May, born at Ashburnham. 2. Etta Julia, born at Leverett, married Edward Williams, of Gardner, and they have four children :
Albert, Everett, Irving, Mary. 3. Luie Walter, born at Gardner; married Lizzie Hill, of Middletown, Connecticut, and had two children, Grace and Winifred.
WHITE FAMILY. The White family of Winch- endon, Worcester county, Massachusetts, of which William Walker White, of the city of Worcester. is a prominent representative, trace their lineage to Thomas White (1), who died in 1664. He ap- peared as a citizen of Charlestown, Massachusetts, clothed with the office of constable in the year 1659 .. By his wife Susanna, who died March 6, 1686-87, aged eighty-nine years, had children : Thomas, Jolin, Mary and Sarah.
(II) Thomas White, the eldest child, born 1636, married November 17, 1663, Mary Frothing- ham, daughter of William Frothingham, of York- shire, England, born April 1, 1638, died September 30, 1716. They had Thomas, born 1664; William, 1667; Samuel, 1669; and Elizabeth, 1671.
(III) Thomas White, born 1664, married Sarah Rand, daughter of Sergeant Thomas Rand, of Charlestown. She was born August 15, 1666, died April 17, 1749. Their children were: Thomas, born 1685; Samuel, 1690; Sarah, 1692; John, Au- gust 22, 1695; Hannah, 1698; Mary, 1701; Rebecca, December 1, 1704; Abigail, 1708.
(IV) John White, born August 22, 1695, mar- ried, January 24, 1728, Sybilla Buckminster, daugh- ter of Colonel Joseph Buckminster, from Scotland. Mr. White was a carpenter by trade, and settled first in Framingham, where his five eldest children were born. About 1848 he purchased the lot num- ber sixty-eight in the town of Spencer and removed there, where he died August 20, 1778. His wife died October 23, 1794, aged eighty-eight. Their children were: John, born October 17, 1728; Thomas, July 27, 1731; Rebecca, February 5, 1734; Sarah, June 22, 1737; Sybilla, October 29, 1741 ; Rand, October 15, 1751.
(V) Thomas White, born July 27, 1731, mar- ried in Spencer, December 30, 1756, Abigail, daugh- ter of Deacon John Muzzy. Mr. White was a farmer and blacksmith, and died in Spencer, Febru- ary 25, 1822. His wife died September 21, 1811. aged seventy-two. Their children were: Thomas, born November 24, 1757; Thaddeus, July 16, 1759; Benjamin, August 8, 1764; Joel, May 3, 1766; Sib- billah, February 13, 1768; Nancy, May 25, 1769; Jonah, April 20, 1771; Elizabeth, July 1, 1774; Amos, February 6, 1776; John Bradshaw, February I, 1778.
(VI) Thomas White, born November 24, 1757, married Hannah Estabrook, and settled in West Boylston. He as well as his brother Thaddeus, were soldiers in the revolutionary war and each was granted a pension for their services, Thomas hav- ing been placed on the pension roll May 29, 1818. Their children were: Polly, born May 23, 1786; Nancy, October 15, 1789; Joseph, see forward; Han- nah, February, 1794; Thomas, June 5, 1796; Eben- ezer, June 13, 1798.
(VII) Joseph White, born January 24, 1792, in Boylston, Massachusetts ; married, in 1817, Matilda, daughter of Simon and Persis Davis, of Paxton. Massachusetts. She was born in that town Septem- ber 24. 1796. Mr. White was a man possessed of unusual mechanical powers and business qualities. At the age of eighteen he set up in West Boylston a factory for the manufacture of wire, employing
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eighteen hands; two years later, in 1812, he in- troduced the manufacture of cotton yarns, and a little later cotton wares, being among the earliest in the country to manufacture cotton goods, an in- dustry which became his life-work, accumulating thereby a competency which passed to his children. and in addition he endowed them with some of his personal qualities which enabled them to continue the work so well established and prosecute it even to a more successful issue. Their children, horn in West Boylston, were : Nelson Davis, born July 24. 1818; Persis Arminda, January II, 1820; Windsor Newton, March 4. 1823; Hannah Mandana, June 27, 1825: Joseph Estabrook, June 29, 1832; Francis Wayland. October 26, 1834.
(VIII) Windsor Newton White, second son of Deacon Joseph White, and father of William Walker White, was born March 4. 1823. He attended the common schools of West Boylston, his native town, and then took a course of study at the Academy of Suffield. Connecticut. He then entered the employ of his father, later taking an interest in the manu- facture of cotton fabrics at Oakdale, Massachusetts, the firm being known as the West Boylston Manu- facturing Company. Here he continued to labor until 1861, at which time he owned a controlling interest. He sold his interest there and removed to Winchendon, entering into copartnership with his brothers. Nelson D. and Francis W. White, in the cotton manufacture, and after continuing in the business three years, owing to poor health, he re- tired from active life, and died in 1871. He was a generous supporter of the Baptist church, and held the office of deacon, as well as many minor positions in the Church. In politics he was a Republican, and was a representative to the Massachusetts legislature from West Boylston and Winchendon, and served as selectman and assessor for several years. He married Miriam, daughter of Joel and Deidamia (Stone ) Walker, in August, 1844. Their children were : Joseph, Mandana, William Walker,
Thomas. Emma Arminda, Joseph Estahrook and John Addison.
(IX) William Walker White, second son of Windsor Newton White, and grandson of Joseph White (7). was born in Winchendon, Massachu- setts, April 7, 1849. Previous to the age of four- teen, he received his primary education in the schools of his native town. He then entered the New Hampton Institute at Fairfax. Vermont. com- pleting a course there, and at the age of sixteen re- turned to Winchendon. entering the employ of Bax- ter D. Whitney, manufacturer of woodworking ma- chinery, where he remained two years. He then entered the employ of the Whitin Machine Com- pany in Whitinsville, where he completed the trade of a machinist. From here he went to the machine shop of the Slater Company in East Webster, where at the age of nineteen he was given charge of that department. having thirteen men under his direc- tion. In 1878 he removed to East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and for one year had charge of the White Brothers' mill. From there he went to Fitchburg and took charge of one of the depart- ments of the Union Machine Company. In 1881 he accepted a position with the Rodney Hunt Machine Company of Orange, Massachusetts, as general superintendent, and remained with that company during the rebuilding of their plant. His next ob- jective point was the city of Worcester, where he engaged with the Holyoke Machine Company, and
after being in their employ in the shop for six months was promoted to selling agent, and on the re- tirement of Mr. Charles Ranlet was made agent of this Worcester shop, including his former duties as salesman. On the retirement of Mr. Charles R. Hol- man, in 1901, the financial part of the Worcester branch of the company also devolved upon Mr. White. January 17, 1906, he was chosen a director and president of the company. Mr. White attends the Baptist Church, and is a Republican in politics. He has never been identified with any other affairs outside of business and his home.
He married, December 23, 1871, Jennie V. Moore, daughter of Dexter M. and Mary E. (Dodge) Moore, of Webster, Massachusetts. She was born June 18, 1853. Her father was a veteran of the civil war, serving in Company H, Fifty-third Massa- chusetts Regiment ; he was also a mechanic and mill operator. William Walker and Jennie V. ( Moore) White had one son, William Dexter White, born August 24, 1876, who is associated with his father in business. He married, September 16, 1902, Edith G. Bliss, of Worcester, daughter of George R. Bliss.
CHARLES E. WALLACE. Ralph Wallace (I), the immigrant ancestor of Charles E. Wallace, post- master of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was one of the first settlers of this name in America. He came from London in the ship "Abigail" in 1635 with his son, George Wallace. He was probably a widower, and he left very little trace on the records of his life in America. He gave his age as forty, which would make his year of birth 1595. His son's age was given as fifteen. Wallace is a Scotch name and most of the families of New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts are from Scotch-Irish settlers who came between the years 1718 and 1750.
(11) George Wallace, only known son of Ralph Wallace (I), was born in 1620 and came with his father on the ship "Abigail" in 1635 from London. In December, 1656, he was of Rumney Marsh, now Chelsea, then part of Boston. He probably died young or returned to England. He was called "gen- tleman" on the records, indicating high social stand- ing at that time. Savage presumes that he was the father of George Wallace, of Portsmouth.
(III) George Wallace, probably son of George Wallace (2), settled in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire. He was born about 1650, and married, No- vember 18, 1686, Ann Shortridge, daughter of Rich- ard Shortridge, at Portsmouth. He served on the grand jury in Portsmouth in 1686. He was tith- ing man in 1676 at Portsmouth. Possibly it was his father who was tithingman. His home was near Sagamore creek. He had a son William, born about 1690, of whom later.
(IV) William Wallace, son of George Wallace (3), was born in Portsmouth or vicinity about 1690. He settled in Greenland, which was set off of Ports- mouth in 1703. He was on the tax list in Green- fand in 1723, and he signed the petition to be an- nexed to Massachusetts in 1739. He married Martha -, who was baptized when about thirty years old, in 1726. Their children were born in Greenland, New Hampshire, viz .: George, had son born in 1750; Samuel, had son born 1741; Jeane, baptized 1716; Nathaniel, baptized 1723; Nathaniel, baptized 1724; Martha, baptized 1725; William of whom later; Abigail, baptized 1737.
(V) Captain William Wallace, son of William
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Wallace (4), was born in Greenland or Portsmouth in 1728. He settled in Greenland, and may have moved to Raby late in life. He was a captain of a Greenland company in the revolution and fought in the battle of Bennington. Among his children were: John, baptized in 1751; Matthew, of whom later.
(VI) Matthew Wallace, the grandfather of Charles E. Wallace, of Fitchburg, was the son of Captain William Wallace (5), if family history is correct. He was a farmer in Brookline, New Hampshire, all his active life. A grandson has a sword said to have belonged to Captain William Wallace. There is an absence of records to estab- lish this absolutely, a common thing in New Hamp- shire towns. Matthew Wallace married about 1800, Betsey McIntosh, of Scotch descent. Their chil- dren : James, . Betsey, Clorinda, Jane, David, of whom later; William, Waldo.
(VII) David Wallace, son of Matthew Wallace (6), was born in Brookline, New Hampshire. Au- gust 15, 1814, and died in Fitchburg, November 26, 1891. He learned the trade of carpenter, and when a young man came to Lunenburg, Massachu- setts. In 1846 lie removed to Clintonville, now Clinton, Massachusetts, where he lived many years. He became a contractor and builder there and dur- ing the period of greatest development was one of the leading builders of Clinton. He had the con- tract for the Baptist church, for the tower on the Congregational church, for the old Methodist par- sonage and for the Unitarian church. He built the parsonage originally for his own residence and he lived in it for a time before he sold it to the Meth- odist society. He left Clinton before the civil war and made his home in Fitchburg, where his brother, Waldo Wallace, conducted a foundry. He had a shop at the rear of 5 Main street, where a number of manufacturing industries are now located, and he made patterns and furniture. He was a skill- ful pattern maker and cabinet maker. He was se- lectman of Clinton in 1857 and 1858. He loved music and after 1850 for many years was chorister of the First Baptist Church of Clinton. He was one of the fire engineers of Clinton and for many years foreman of old Torrent Engine Company, No. I.
He married ( first), in Nashua, New Hampshire, 1838, Sarah Ann Smith, daughter of John and Saralı (McDonald) Smith, of Brookline, formerly Raby, New Hampshire. Their first four children were born while they were living in Lunenburg, the re- mainder in Clinton. She died in Clinton, June 16, 1862. He married (second), in 1867, the sister of his first wife, Catherine Smith, who was born at Brookline, New Hampshire, August 19, 1824, and is living at present at 27 Cottage square, Fitchburg.
The children of David and Saralı Ann Wallace were: Cleora A., born September, 1839, at Lunen- burg, died September 1, 1848, at Clintonville ; Martha Ardelia, born August 3, 1841, married Henry Bowman, resides at Idaho Springs, Colorado; David Orlando, born May 27, 1843, died at Florence, South Carolina, February 4, 1865, he was a cor- poral in Company C, Fifteenth Regiment, and was taken prisoner first at Ball's Bluff, was exchanged and taken again at Petersburg, June 22, 1864; he was the only Clinton man who fell a victim to Confederate prison life: Kate Augusta, born April 17, 1845, married Frank C. Gill, resides at Rock- ford, Illinois; Charles E., of whom later; George Washington, born July 4, 1849, at Clinton, living
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