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(III) Theophilus Cushing, son of Daniel Cush- ing (2). was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, June 17. 1657. He married. December 7, 1689, Mary Thaxter, daughter of John Thaxter. She was one of twelve children, most of whom married Cush- ings. John Thaxter was the son of Thomas Thax- ter, of Hingham, one of the leading citizens, deacon of the church. John Cushing's widow married Daniel Cushing and the two families were very closely united by a number of marriages between the children of John Thaxter and Daniel Cushing. John Thaxter was a captain in the military service against the Dutch. He was selectman eight years and deputy to the general court in 1666. Theophilus Cushing died January 7. 1717. His wife died 1737. They had nine children.
(IV) Captain Abel Cushing, son of Theophilus Cushing (3). was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, October 24, 1606. He married, November 24, 1720, Mary Jacob. He died May 20, 1750.
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(V) Colonel David Cushing, son of Captain Abel Cushing (4), was born in Hingham, Massachu- setts, September 7, 1727. He married, April 9, 1752. Ruth Lincoln. She died July 6, 1761. He married (second) Mabel -, who died August 14, 1798. He died February 15, 1800. Captain David Cush- ing, of Ashburnham, was the son of the first wife. George Russell Cushing, born April 24, 1768, was a son of the second wife. The latter settled in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, where he was promi- nent in public affairs.
' (VI) Captain David Cushing, son of Colonel David Cushing (5), was born in Hingham. Massa- chusetts, July 2, 1754. He married, October 17, 1779, Hannah Cushing, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Leavitt) Cushing. granddaughter of Solomon and Sarah (Loring) Cushing, and great-granddaughter of Matthew and Jael Cushing. She was a sister of the second wife of Colonel Francis Lane, and was born in Hingham, April 26, 1760. Captain Cushing removed from Hingham to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, in 1798. He was inn-holder, tanner and farmer. He resided where Nahum Wood now or lately resided. Captain Cushing was an active and influential citizen and a man of unusual ability. He died May 3, 1827. His wife March 13. 1823. The first seven children were born in Hingham, the youngest only in Ashburnham. They were : Joseph. born January 23, 1781. founder of the farin- ers cabinet of Amherst, New Hampshire, prominent citizen of Baltimore, Maryland : Hannah. June 9, 1783. married Silas Whitney; David, November 7, 1785, married. April 17, 1807. Polly Adams, daugh- ter of John Adams, resided in Walpole, New Hamp- shire ; she died August 15, 1854; Susannah. Novem- ber 7. 1785, married, October 8. 1811, Joseph Jewett, Jr .; Laban, April 29, 1791 : Deborah, September 6. 1793, married Josialı Fletcher, Jr. : Moses. March 20, 1796, resided in Catherine, New York, now Havana. Schuyler county; married. December 25. 1818, Gertrude. daughter of Peter Polley; he died December 29, 1883: Sarah Leavitt, December 7. 1798, married Ephraim May Cunningham, a lawyer, set- tled in Reading, Massachusetts : she died about 1830.
(VII) Laban Cushing, son of Captain David Cushing (6), was born in Hingham, Massachu- setts. April 29. 1791. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. In 1817 he removed to Brooklyn, Pennsyl- vania. and returned to Ashburnham in 1830. He married, April 23, 1811, Nancy Whitney, daughter of Silas Whitney. Laban Cushing died in Ash- burnham, October 17, 1847; his wife died in Fitch- burg. Massachusetts, January 27, 1871. Their chil- dren were: Nancy Whitney, horn June 20, 1813, married John Munroe : Sarah, May 18, 1815, married Samuel Ellis, of Ashburnham; Joseph. October 6, 1817; Laban, born in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, March 22. 1820. resided in Fitchburg; Rebecca A., September 12. 1822, married Isaac D. Ward, who has been selectman. a man of prominence: Susan A., November 13. 1824, married Jonas Corey, a chair manufacturer, resided in Fitchburg many years ; Mary Jane. February 27, 1826. married. May 21, 1844. Gardner P. Hawkins, of Fitchburg: she died December 5, 1874: Charles G., February 16, 1829, married. October 23, 1856, Jane E. Willard, daugh- ter of John Willard; they resided in Fitchburg and Lunenburg: Harriet Maria, August 22. 1831, mar- ried Porter E. Barton: George Russell. September 8, 1835, married Julia Thompson : David M .. Octo- ber II, 1839, married, October 6, 1860, Ellen A.
Foster : Hannah Elizabeth, July 29, 1841, married, December 14. 1859. George S. Doe, of Great Falls, New Hampshire.
(VIII) Joseph Cushing, son of Laban Cushing (7). was born in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania. October 6, 1817. He was a very successful business man in Fitchburg. Early in life he began business on a small scale without capital in the livery business. His stable keeping proved successful and he engaged in the lumber business with David F. MeIntire until 1858, when he started in the flour and grain trade in a store under the American House, Fitchburg Here he laid the foundations of a very extensive trade, and became one of the leading merchants of the town and city of Fitchburg. He bought the stone mill and from time to time enlarged his busi- ness until it amounted to about a million dollars annually. His shipments of grain and flour from the west were sold in Fitchburg and in branch stores that he established in Waltham, Massachu- setts, Winchendon, Massachusetts, Keene, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls, Vermont. The first freight through the Hoosac tunnel was a train of twenty-two cars laden with grain consigned to Mr. Cushing.
He married, July 22, 1841. Elmira Marble, daugh- ter of Stephen Marble. She was born June 26, 1820, and died 1845. He married ( second), Febru- ary 13. 1847, Mary Ann Arnold, who died August 23, 1866. He married (third), 1868, Betsey Cush- ing, daughter of Moses Cushing. She died Sep- tember 23, 1875. He died July 3. 1894. The issue of Joseph and Elmira (Marhle) Cushing was : Mil- ton M., born September 4. 1811, of whom later. The children of Joseph and Mary Ann (Arnold) Cush- ing were : Joseph, died young; Susan E., married Charles P. Dickinson, of Fitchburg, now sole owner of E. M. Dickinson & Co., shoe manufacturing business ; they have five children : Anna Lois, Arnold Cushing, Hilda Whitney, Edward Marsh, Porter Stevens.
(VIII) Laban Cushing, son of Laban Cushing (7), was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, March 22, 1820. He settled in Fitchburg, Massachu- setts. He married, May 31, 1847, Adaline Keyes, daughter of Silas and Julia (Brooks) Keyes, of Princeton, Massachusetts. Their children were: Addie Auretta, born December 5, 1848, married, July 22, 1874, Herbert N. Rugg, son of Captain William S. and Clarissa ( Sawtelle) Rugg, of Rindge, New Hampshire, a wholesale and retail dealer in confectionery in Fitchburg; Eva Joseph- ine, October 1, 1852, married, May 24. 1881, Gran- ville Nutting, of Waltham; Emma Julia, September 10, 1855, married January 27, 1881, Robert M. Jones, son of Henry E. and Lydia H. Jones.
(1X) Milton M. Cushing, son of Joseph Cush- ing (8), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 4. 1844. He attended the public schools of his native place, and later became associated with his father in business. He died at the early age of thirty-four years. May 9. 1879. His father lived until 1894. Since then the business has been con- ducted by his estate, under the old firm name of J. Cushing & Co. He married Ellen Maria Leland, daughter of Henry B. Leland. Their children were: Joseph (twin), 1867, died young; Ethel (twin), 1867. died at the age of eight years; Milton Leland, January 13, 1871; Nellie Maria, January 4, 1873, graduate of Wellesley College; Joseph, September
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4, 1875, died by drowning accident September, 1897, was graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1897; Anna Whitney, November, 1877; Matthew M., February, 1878.
(X) Milton Leland Cushing, son of Milton M. Cushing (9). was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, January 13, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of Fitchburg and in Eastman's Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, New York. He entered the business of his grandfather in 1889. Since the death of Joseph Cushing in 1894 he has managed the business for the estate under the old name of J. Cushing & Co. The Cushing grain and flour business continues to be the leading house in this line in Fitchburg and this section of Massachusetts. Mr. Cushing has won for himself a position of prom- inence among the business men of the city. Ile is a director of the Safety Fund National Bank. Hc served the city as member of the common council in 1905. In politics Mr. Cushing is an independent Democrat. His father and grandfather were both stanch Democrats of the old school. He is a mem- ber of the Park Club.
He married. June 19, 1895, Gertrude Carolyn Brown, daughter of James Brown, of Fitchburg. She was educated at the Northfield Seminary. Their children are: Barbara, born April 23, 1897; Milton Whitney, March 16, 1899; Joseph, November 7, 1901 ; Carolyn, July 4, 1905.
CHARLES G. CUSHING, son of Laban Cushing (7). was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Feb- ruary 16, 1829. He was brought up in Ashburnham and attended school there. He followed the example of his forefathers and became a farmer. He bought the farm he now lives on and has been carrying it on since 1874. He has had the assistance and co- operation of his son for a number of years. They have made it one of the best farms of the com- munity. He lived for a time at Lunenburg also. Mr. Cushing is an earnest Democrat of the old school in politics, but has always refused to become a candidate for office. He is a member of the Ma- sonic order.
He married, October 23. 1856, Jane Elmira Will- ard. daughter of John Willard. Their children were : Martha W., born at Fitchburg, October 13. 1862, died January 22, 1863; John W., April 12, 1864, died August 1. 1864; Charles Willard, Fitchburg. September 4, 1866.
THE WILLARD FAMILY. Simon Willard (1). was the pioneer ancestor of Mrs. Charles G. Cushing, of Fitchburg, mentioned above. Major Simon Willard was baptized at Horsmonden, county Kent, England, April 7. 1605. He came to New England and settled in Cambridge; he was there in 1634, but in the following year removed to Con- cord. Massachusetts. He was a very prominent man. He had a long, honorable and eventful career. and during his long life no one was more distinguished and honored in Concord than he. He was a deputy to the general court in 1636 and 1649. assistant to the governor from 1657 to his death, lieutenant in 1637, captain in 1640 and major, the highest rank at that time, in 1655.
He married ( first) Mary Sharpe, daughter of Henry Sharpe: (second) Elizabeth Dunster. sis- ter of President Dunster of Harvard College : (third) Mary Dunster, cousin of the second wife. Major Willard died April 24, 1676, aged about sixty- eight years. He had sixteen children. of whom the
first wife had six and the second and third wives ten in all. His children were: Elizabeth, married, April 8, 1653, Robert Blood; Josiah; Samuel, born January 31, 1640; Saralı, June 27, 1642; Abovehope, October 30, 1646; Simon, November 23, 1649; Mary, September 7 or 27, 1653, married Cyprian Stevens (sce Stevens Family; Henry June 4, 1655; John, January 12, or February, 1657; Daniel, December 29, 1658; the following were born at Lancaster; Joseph, January 4, 1661 ; Benjamin, 1665; Hannah, October 6, 1666; Jonathan, December 14, 1669; Elizabeth, died young; Dorothy, died young.
(11) Henry Willard, eighth- child of Major Simon Willard (1), born at Concord, Massachu- setts, June 4, 1655, married, July 18, 1674, Mary Lakin. They settled in Groton and Lancaster. His wife died about 1688; he married (second) Dorcas Cutler. Henry Willard died at Lancaster, 1701. The children of Henry and Mary (Lakin) Willard, born at Nonacoicus, were: Henry, April 11, 1675, of whom later; Simon, October 8, 1678; John, September 3, 1682; Mary; Hezekiah; Joseph, 1685; Sarah; the children following were born at Still River ( Lancaster) by the second wife: Samuel, May 31, 1690; James, Josiah, Abigail, Jonathan, Su- sanna, Tabitha.
(111) Henry Willard, son of Henry Willard (2), was born in Groton at Nonacoicus, April II, 1675. Married, July 21, 1698, Abigail Temple ; mar- ried (second ), before 1710. Sarah Nutting. They resided in Lancaster and by change in the town lines in Harvard after 1732. Their children were : Abraham, Henry, of whom later; Mary, Simon, baptized April 24, 1709. The children of Henry and Sarah ( Nutting) Willard were : James, March 2. 1711 ; William, May 24. 1713; Abigail. August 7, 1715; Daniel, June 30, 1717; Sarah, May 31, 1719; Benjamin, April 30, 1721; Lydia, June 21, 1724; Ruth, May 22, 1726.
(IV) Henry Willard, second child of Henry Willard (3), was born about 1700. Married Abi- gail Fairbanks, May 24. 1726. After 1732 they lived in Harvard, where ten of a dozen children were born; he died January 6, 1774. His children were: Henry, born May II, 1727; Abigail, September 6, 1728; Annis, June 20, 1730; Thomas, May II, 1732; Jacob, July 20, 1734; Silas, January 25, 1737 ; John, July 26, 1739 of whom later; Oliver, October 13, 1741 : Simon, October 25. 1743; Mary, February 18, 1745; Oliver, October 13, 1741; Simon, October 25, 1743; Mary, February 18, 1745; Timothy, August 8, 17.48.
(V) Deacon John Willard, son of Henry Willard (4), was born in Harvard, July 26, 1739. He mar- ried, 1765, Sarah Willard, born November 14, 1746, and removed to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, 1768, to live on the Silas Willard farm. He was dea- con of the church from 1772 until 1788, when he resigned on account of ill health. He died July 3, 1793; she died November 18, 1834. Their chil- dren were: John, of whom later; Silas, October 8, 1768; Simon, March 28, 1770; Sarah, Decem- ber 8, 1771; Henry, December 25, 1773; Susanna, January 13, 1776; Abigail, April 17, 1780; Elijah, April 26, 1782; Ezra, October 11, 1784; -, May , 1786.
(V1) John Willard, son of Deacon John Willard (5), married. April 5, 1792, Deborah Wilder, daugh- ter of Calen Wilder. He was a farmer, captain of the militia, selectman and otherwise prominent. He died March 23, 1850, aged eighty-three; she
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died October 24, 1859, aged nearly eighty-six.
Their children were : John, born September 27, 1793; Caleb, March 19, 1796, died at New Orleans, unmarried, December 20, 1819; Deborah, April 13, 1798, died October 15, 1805; Emery, No- vember 24, 1800, married Irene Benjamin; Nelson, February 15, 1803, married Caroline Dwelley ; Eliza- beth W., July 20, 1805, married Josiah Locke; Mer- rick, September 10, 1810, married Levi Rice; Susan, October 1, 1812; Abigail, died March 9, 1837; an infant died May 16, 1816.
(VII) John Willard, son of John Willard (6), was born September 27, 1793, at Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He married, July 4, 1820, Polly Corey, daughter of Stephen Corey. He was a farmer on the homestead now or late of Benjamin E. Wetherbee. John Willard died August 5, 1853; his widow died April 30, 1656. Their children were : Mary Ann, born April 18, 1821, married Franklin B. Stoddard, October 19, 1823; he was son of Charles and Louisa ( Brigham) Stoddard, of Chester, New Hampshire; an infant, August 23, 1823, died Octo- ber 2, 1823; John Merrick, March 24, 1825, died unmarried in 1849; Melinda Corey, March 22, 1828, married Nathaniel Peirce; an infant, died Sep- tember 21, 1830; Jane Elmira. August 6, 1832, mar- ried, October 23, 1856, C. G. Cushing. mentioned above; David E., September 28, 1839, married. June 12, 1876, Francema J. Whitney, daughter of Merrick Willard; had livery stable in Fitchburg.
(VIII) Jane Elmira Willard, daughter of John Willard (7), was born in Ashburnham, August 6, 1832, married Charles G. Cushing, mentioned above.
EDWARD D. THAYER. Thomas Thayer (1), the immigrant ancestor of Edward D. Thayer, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was the progenitor of most of the Thayer families in Worcester. He and his brother, Richard Thayer, are the ancestors of all of this name; they were the two original immi- grants. Richard came shortly after Thomas, both settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, and both were shoemakers. They came from Thornbury, England. Thomas Thayer came to New England before 1639; in that year he had a grant of land at Braintree for nine persons in his family, seventy-six acres in all. He died June 2, 1665. His will is dated June 24, 1664, and proved September 13, 1665. He bequeathed to his wife and children mentioned be- low. The widow died February II, 1672-3. He mar- ried at Thornbury, April 13, 1618, Margery Wheeler, and she survived him. Their children, born at Thornbury, were: I. Thomas, baptized at Thorn- bury, September 15, 1622. 2. Ferdinando, see for- ward. 3. Shadrach, baptized May 10, 1629. 4. Sarah, married. Jonathan Hayward, not named in father's will.
(II) Ferdinando Thayer, second child of Thomas Thayer (1), was born in Thornbury, England, and baptized there April 18, 1625. He married Huldah Hayward, of Braintree. Massachusetts, January 14. 1652. . He lived in Braintree until after his father's death, when he removed to Mendon with a colony from Braintree and Weymouth. He was one of the largest proprietors of the new township; his home- stead was a little south of the present centre of the town on the Providence road. He held many offices of honor and trust. He was a man of wealth according to the standards of his day, and he pro- vided all his sons with farms. Several of them became extensive land owners, and many of the
original Thayer farms in Mendon have never passed out of the family, and are still owned by descend- ants. Six of his children were born in Mendon.
Mendon was first settled in 1662 as a plantation and continued thus until 1667, when it was incor- porated as a town; the settlement was broken up in King Philip's war, most of the families returning to Weymouth and Braintree until the danger had passed. The Thayers probably returned to Men- don in 1680. Ferdinando Thayer died there March 28, 1713. His wife, Huldah, died there September I, 1690. Their children were: Sarah, born May 12, 1654; Huldah, June 16, 1657; Jonathan, March 18, 1658; David, June 20, 1660, died August I, 1674; Naomi January 28, 1662-3. The preceding were born at Braintree, the following at Mendon, Thomas, Samuel, Isaac, Josiah, Ebenezer, Benjamin, David, baptized September 17, 1677, died August 29, 1678.
(III) Captain Thomas Thayer sixth child of Ferdinando Thayer (2), born in Mendon about 1664-5, married, 1688, Mary. Adams, of the Brain- tree Adams family, and settled in Mendon. He was captain of the Mendon company. He died May I, 1738. Their children were: Mary, born Janu- ary 19, 1689; Thomas, January 14, 1694; Samuel, March 28, 1696; Temperance, July 7, 1698; David, February 8, 1701; Elizabeth, March 2, 1703; John, see forward; William, January 22, 1708; Margaret, December 12, 1710; Jemima, February 13, 1712.
(IV) John Thayer, seventh child of Captain Thomas Thayer (3), born in Mendon, September 17, 1706, married (first) Ruhamah Smith, of Bel- lingham, Massachusetts, 1733, and settled in Men- don on land inherited from his father, situated near the present town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. He married (second) Mary Spencer, in 1769. Children of John and Ruhamah Thayer were: Pelatiah (see forward) ; Ruhamah, born January 3, 1742; Desire, October 11, 1745; Robert, November 26, 1747. Children of John and Mary were: Barbara, Febru- ary, 27, 1770; Betsey, April 28, 1773, died 1787.
(V) Pelatiah Thayer, first child of John (4) and Ruhamah Thayer, born October 3, 1739, married (first) Hannah Thayer, daughter of Aaron and Jemima Thayer, of Mendon, May 26, 1763; she died 1790. He was a farmer, and always lived in Men- don. He married (second), after the death of his wife, Hannah, in 1790, Ilannah Blake, March 2, 1793. He died March 23, 1797. The children of Pelatiah and Hannah were: I. Robert, born No- vember 22, 1763, died 1830, unmarried. 2. Artemas, born February 20, 1765. 3. Henry, born Septem- ber 19, 1768; died February 23, 1776. 4. Smith P., born December 15, 1770. 5, Laban, born March 14, 1773. 6. Putnam, born August 15, 1774; died November 14, 1770. 7. Henry (see forward). 8. John, February 20, 1784.
(VI) Henry Thayer, seventh child of Pelatiah Thayer (5), born in Mendon, Massachusetts, No- vember 3, 1777; married Urana Thompson. daugh- ter of Edward Thompson, Esquire, of Mendon, Sep- tember 3, 1800, and resided several years on a por- tion of his ancestor's farm at Mendon; then re- moved to Five Corners, where he kept a hotel and store until his death. He died July 7. 1824, aged forty-seven years; his wife died August 29, 1859, aged eighty years, four months, twenty-eight days. Children of Henry and Urbana Thayer were: Urana, born December 26, 1801 ; Alice, December 1, 1803; Betsey, March 6, 1806, died March 9, 1809;
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Preserved S., May 4, 1808; Henry, October 9, 1810; Sarah, March 21, 1813; Naney Verry, October 16, 1815; Hannah and Harriet (twins), February 7, ISI9; Edward D. (see forward).
(VII) Edward D. Thayer, tenth child of Henry Thayer (6), was born in that part of Mendon, AOW Blackstone, Massachusetts, July 22, 1822. He became one of the most prominent woolen manu- facturers in New England. His father died when he was only two years old, leaving his mother with ten children to care for. In two or three years the family removed to Millville, where there were sev- eral small mills making woolen goods. When Ed- ward wast twelve years of age he went into the mill and learned the trade. He went into business for himself in 1849, in Burrillville, Rhode Island, where he remained for two years, operating a small woolen mill. He then formed a partnership with Moses Buffum and they purchased the estate in the western part of the town of Oxford, since known as Buffumsville, of Charles L. Harding. They began the manufacture of fine black woolen cloth, and the business prospered. In 1855 the partnership expired by limitation, and Mr. Thayer sold out his interest to Mr. Buffum, who with his sons continued the business. In 1860 Mr. Thayer became the agent of the Washington mills at Lawrence, Massachusetts. The company owning these mills had failed once, had never paid the stockholders, and when he took the management had just been through a re-organization. He stayed in Lawrence and ran these mills during the civil war, making large profits for the owners. At the close of the war, in 1865, he came to Worcester and for twenty years was actively engaged in woolen manufacture. His first mill was the Upham mill in Speneer. He was interested in several mills around and in Worcester. The mill operated by Mr. Thayer the longest time was the Bottomly mill at Cherry Valley, where he was located for about twenty years. He retained an interest in business until about 1885, though he had given up active connection with the mill some years previous. He died May 12, 1903. He attended the Church of the Unity and had been a pew-holder there during his residence in Worcester. He married, October 14, 1851, Ellen M. Darling, who died May 16, 1887. Their children were: Albert S. (see forward) ; Edward D. (see forward) ; Ellen Olive (see for- ward ) ; Ernest L. ( see forward).
(VIII) Albert Smith Thayer, eldest child of Edward Davis Thayer (7), was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, January 6, 1854. He was educated in the public schools of Worcester, graduating from the high school in 1871. He went to Harvard Col- lege and was Ivy Orator of his class at graduation in 1875. He graduated from the law school in 1878 and immediately began to practice in New York city, where he has made a specialty of real estate business. His office is at II William street, New York, and his residence in Flushing, Long Island. He married Josephine Ely, of New York city, De- cember 4, 1884, and they have three children : Ellen, born December 15, 1885, student at Bryn Mawr College; Lucy Ely, November 9, 1887, a student in a boarding school; Josephine Ely, August 21, 1889, died January 15, 1898.
(VIII) Edward Darling Thayer, second child of Edward Davis Thayer (7), was born in Worces- ter, June 24, 1856. He fitted in the Worcester high school for the Lawrence scientifie school of Harvard University, and entered before graduation from the
high school, at the age of sixteen. He was grad- nated in 1876 with a degree of C. E. After travel- ing for a time he went into the Slater mill, at Webster, and his father's mill at Cherry Valley, to learn the business. He started in business on his own account in 1879 in the Hunt mill, manufactur- ing satinets. Later he bought the Ashworth & Jones mill, which he still owns and operates, and has added from time to time the Harding mills at East Dedham, where woolen goods are manu- factured; the Worcester Woolen mills ; and he is one of the partners in the Crompton-Thayer Loom works. He has repeated his father's success in the manufacture of woolen goods, and is reckoned among the most substantial manufacturers of Worcester. He is a man of great energy and activ- ity, enterprising and sagacious. He is a director of the Woreester Trust Company and trustee of the Worcester County Institution for Savings. He is a member of no fraternal societies and has never been active in politics. He is a Republican, how- ever, and a member of the Worcester Club, the Commonwealth Club, the Tatnuck Country Club and the Quinsigamond Boat Club. He married, July 10, 1884, Florence Schofield, daughter of James M. and Madilla ( Hoche) Schofield. They have one child: Schofield, born December 12, 1889, now a student at Milton Academy.
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