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(VI) Reuben Tatman, son of John (5), born October, 1795, married Mary Ann Wiser. Their children were: I. Levi. 2.' Henry. 3. Reuben James. 4. Mary Jane. 5. Martha Ann.
(VII) Sarahı Tatman, daughter of John (6), born January 15, 1826, married James Sullivan in 1850. He was born December 20, 1825, in Ireland, and came to Worcester with his parents. He was an office boy for Daniel Webster in Boston before his folks came to Worcester. He died August II, 1859. Their children were: Julia Emma. Frederick Tatman. 3. William Lincoln. 4. Albert Butler. She married (second ) Rufus Nichols Mer- riam, A. M., (Dartmouth College), and the names of her children were legally changed to Merriam.
(VII) Charles Tatman, son of John (o), born
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February 19, 1830, married, November 28, 1856, Elmira Ann Wiggin. Their children were : I. Henry Wilmar. 2. Emily May. 3. Charles Herbert. 4. Lucy Maria. 5. Cora Lelia. 6. Charles Nelson. 7. Elmer Archie.
(V]1) John Augustus Tatman, son of John (6), born October 24, 1836, married (first), 1869, Delia Johnson, of Northfield. She died in June, 1876, and he married ( second), July 25, 1878, in Putnam, Connecticut, Sarah F. Carpenter, who died January 14, 1883. He married ( third), in 1885, Harriet E. Holmes, of Sturbridge. He was executor of his father's estate and lived on a portion of the home- stead lot. He was foreman in Washburn & Moen's Mill at Quinsigamond. He is a deacon of Plymouth Congregational Church.
( VII) Samuel Davis Tatman, son of John '(6), was born June 24, 1841. He was a soldier in the civil war, stationed at Ft. Warren. He is a machin- ist by trade. He married, November 26, 1862, Eliza- beth Wiggins, sister of Elmira A., his brother's wife. Their children were: 1. Alice Alberta. 2. Sarah L.
(VII) Olive Tatman, daughter of Daniel Tat- man (6), born June 24, 1816; married October 2, 1846, Joseph Prouty, of Spencer, and had: 1. Frank Tatman Prouty. 2. John Rufus Prouty.
(VII) David Dudley Tatman, son of Daniel (6), born April 14, 1819, served as clerk in a dry goods store in Worcester a number of years, but finally went to Rhode Island in the employ of Governor Ladd, whom he accompanied to Europe on busi- ness. In 1890 he accepted a position with a large dry goods establishment at Indianapolis. He mar- ried Jane Hunt Yeomans. They had one child, Raymond, prominent in mercantile business in New York city.
(VII ) Rufus Daniel Tatman, son of Daniel (6), born December 22, 1834, married ( first) Alice Par- tridge Willard, who died December 20, 1863, without issue; married ( second) his first wife's sister, Su- sannah Elizabeth Willard, born in Worcester, 1846, and their children were: 1. Marion Elizabeth. 2. Edna Louise, died April 29, 1877, and he married another sister, Ellen Lucinda Willard.
(V]]) Levi Tatman, son of Reuben (6), born April 30, 1826, married, November 1, 1864, Lucy Gates. Ile died August 19, 1881. Their children were: I, Gilbert Henry. 2. Lewis James. These sons are now living in Groton, Massachusetts.
(VII) Reuben James Tatman, son of Reuben (6), was born February 29, 1836, in Worcester, at the old family homestead in Quinsigamond. His father was a prosperous farmer, highly respected in the community, and among other positions of honor was on the Worcester school committee. James, as he was always called by his family and friends, was brought up on a farm. He received his education in the public schools and at Eaton's Commercial College in Worcester. In 1857 he entered the Wash- burn wire mills at Quinsigamond, near his home, and learned the trade of wire drawer. At the age of twenty-two he accepted a position as bookkeeper and clerk in the freight office of the Boston & Worcester Railroad Company in Boston, where he continued for four years. lle then returned to the employ of Charles Washburn & Son as bookkeeper at the wire works. In 1863 he married Susan Maria, daughter of Charles Taylor of Northbridge, From 1863 to 1865 he was associated with his broth- er-in-law, Ransom C. Taylor, at Taunton, and later for two years, at Poughkeepsie, New York. He
then returned to his native city and entered partner- ship with Burbank Brothers under the name of Burbank, Tatman & Company and carried on a large wholesale trade in fruits, vegetables and produce at I Allen Court for ten years. In 1877 he served as assessor for the city, and in the year following was elected secretary of the First National Fire Insurance Company of Worcester, of which Hon. Charles B. Pratt was president. After ten years in this office he was elected vice-president and treas- urer, a position he held until the company sold its business to the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. He associated himself with George A. Park in the business of general insurance, and the agency of his firm was remarkably successful. He had served as president of the Worcester Board of Fire Underwriters.
Mr. Tatman was one of the leaders of the Re- publican party for many years. In 1882 and 1883 he was in the Board of Aldermen representing Ward Eight, being elected on the Citizens' ticket. He served on the finance committee. He was ten- dered a renomination the next year by both parties, but declined, and he has repeatedly declined to run for mayor, even when all parties were ready to give him the nomination. He was one of the most prom- inent and active Masons in the city, a member of all the Masonic bodies of both the York Rite and the Scottish Rite to the Thirty-second degree. He has been worshipful master of Montacute Lodge and eminent commander of Worcester County Com- mandery, and for over twenty years was treasurer of the commandery. He is also treasurer of the Lawrence Chapter of Rose Croix, and a member of the board of trustees of the Masonic fraternity. He was for many years trustee of the Worcester County Mechanics' Association. His death, July 8, 1904, came suddenly, the result of an attack of indi- gestion followed by heart failure. He had always been in the best of health and seemed to be at the prime of life. He loved nature, and was very fond of piscatorial and all outdoor sports. He loved his native city and took an extraordinary interest in municipal affairs. He was recognized generally as one of the ablest men in business life. He was well balanced, a man of inflexible integrity and broad sympathies. He made friends easily and com- manded universal respect and esteem among his neighbors and associates.
Ile married Susan Alaria Taylor, sister of Ran- som C. Taylor, of Worcester, daughter of Charles and Susan (Butler) Taylor, of Northbridge. She survives him. They had two children: I. Mary Elizabeth (8), who married Wright S. Prior, for- merly street commissioner of the city of Worcester, now in business there, and have several children. 2. Charles Taylor, born December 16. 1871. (See sketchı. )
(VHl) Martha Ann Tatman, daughter of Reuben Tatman (6), born November 6, 1838; married David Johnson, Jr. Their children are. I. Carrie J. 2. Ida. 3. William A. 4. David Albert. 5. Reuben Tatman. 6. Frederick Ìl.
Charles Taylor Tatman, son of R. James (7). and Susan M. (Taylor) Tatman, was born in Worcester. December 16. 1871. His youth was spent in Worcester. He attended the public schools of the city, and in 1889 graduated from the Worcester High School. He was president of his class. He entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but after two years there, entered Harvard Law School,
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where after taking the full three years' course he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1894. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and entered immediately on the practice of law. He had an office in the Walker building, but in 1903 he moved to the new part of the Central Exchange Building. Harrison W. Bowker, an attorney, shares his offices in the present location. Mr. Tatman has built up a practice of importance, having practiced in all the State courts, the district courts of the United States and also the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Tatman has had a political career of unusual credit. He has always taken an interest in politics, and was chairman of the Republican City Commit- tee in 1898. In the following year he was elected representative to the General Court from Ward Eight. He served in the legislatures of 1899 and 1900. In his first term he was on the committee 011 insurance and the committee on probate and insoly- ency. In the second term he was on the committee on insurance and also on a special committee to investigate the Metropolitan Water Board, where "he did his most important legislative work. He was, in consequence of the investigation, the author of a law permitting every workman engaged in public employment the right to board, trade and lodge wherever and with whomsoever he chooses. This law makes the padrone system unlawful in this state.
He married, August 28, 1901, Anna C. Svedberg, daughter of Anders and Christina Svedberg. 1Iis wife and her parents were born in Orebro, Sweden. Mr. and Mrs. Tatman are naturally interested in Sweden, and while abroad in 1905 paid a visit to to the home of Mrs. Tatman's ancestors, as well as to Norway, Denmark and Russia. They have been much interested in travel, and have journeyed ex- tensively in this country, in addition to their several European trips.
Mr. Tatman has taken all the degrees in Masonry in the York Rite and to the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He belongs to Monta- . cute Lodge, the Council and Commandery. He served three years in the Wellington Rifles, Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He has been a prominent member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon college fraternity. He is an officer of the Sons of the American Revolution, and has been an officer of the State Society. He has been a member of the American Numismatic and Archeological Society and of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. He has written several monographs on numismatics, and has a valuable collection of coins. He is a member of the Worcester Club, the Tatassit Canoe Club, the University Club of Boston, and attends the Church of the Unity ( Unitarian) in Worcester.
Mr. Tatman was elected from Ward Eight as a Republican and served as a member of the Worces- ter Board of Aldermen in 1906, being chairman of the committees on claims, legislative matters, and military affairs.
CHARLOTTE M. LAMSON. Thomas Kil- bourne (1) was the emigrant ancestor of Mrs. Charlotte Maria Lamson, of Oxford. He was born in the parish of Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire. Eng- land, where he was baptized May 8, 1578. He was a member of the Church of England and warden of his parish church in 1632. He married Frances They had eight children before they emi- grated to New England. Some of them preceded
their parents as pioncers in the new country. He and his wife came in 1635 with the younger chil- dren. They embarked April 15, 1635, at London for New England : Thomas, aged fifty-five; Frances, aged fifty ; Margaret, aged twenty-three; Lydia, aged twenty-two; Marie, aged sixteen; Frances, aged twelve, and they settled in Wethersfield, Con- necticut, where he died before 1639. His wife died 1650 and the records show that her estate was ap- praised at three hundred and forty-nine pounds. eight shillings, four pence. The family has a coat of arms in England.
The children of Thomas and Frances were: 1. Margaret, born at Wood Ditton, England, 1607. baptized September 23, 1607, came to New England on the ship "Increase," Captain Robert Lea, master, with her father and the others. She married Rich- ard Law, then of Wethersfield, Connecticut, but later one of the first settlers of Stamford, Connecti- cut. He was a representative to the general court, magistrate, and commissioner under the New Haven colony. He had three children. 2. Thomas, bap- tized at Wood Ditton, England, November 30, 1609, came to New England, April, 1634, on the ship "Elizabeth" from Ipswich with his wife Elizabeth. He may have returned to England on the death of his father, before 1639, as there appears to be no further record of him. 3. George, born in Wood Ditton, England, baptized February 12, 1612. 4. Elizabeth, baptized at Wood Ditton, May 12, 1614, remained in England, never emigrating. 5. lydia, baptized at Wood Ditton, England, July 14, 1610, came also to Wethersfield, Connecticut, with the family in 1635, married Robert Howard, of Windsor, Connecticut ; had five children, died 1684. 6. Mary, born at Wood Ditton, England, 1619, came with the others on the "Increase" in 1635, married John Root, Sr., of Farmington, Connecticut. They were mem- bers of the Farmington Church in 1079. He died August, 1684. 7. Frances, baptized at Wood Ditton, England, September 4, 1621, came with the others of the family on the "Increase" in 1635; married Thomas Ufford. He came from England, embark- ing June 22, 1632, was admitted a freeman March 4, 1632-3. He was one of the founders of Spring- field, Massachusetts, in 1636, and settled at Strat- ford, Connecticut, where he served the town as selectman. His wife died 1682. 8. John, born at Wood Ditton, England, baptized there September 29, 1624, came with the others of the family in the "Increase" in 1635, when he was a lad of ten. At the age of twenty-three he was tax collector of Wethersfield, Connecticut. He represented the town in general court in 1660, was selectman of that town eleven years. He was a sergeant in King Philip's war. He married. 1650, Naomi, who died October I, 1659, having had three children, John, Thomas and Naomi. He married (second) Sarah Bronson, daughter of John Bronson, of Farmington, by whom he had Ebenezer, Sarah, George, Mary, Joseph and Abraham. He died April 9, 1703, aged about sev- enty-nine years. Sarah died December 4, 1711, aged about seventy years.
(II) George Kilbourne, son of Thomas Kilbourne (I), was born in Wood Ditton, England, and baptized there February 12, 1612. He came to New England and settled at Roxbury as early as 1638, probably some years earlier when he emigrated. I11 1640 he was admitted a freeman of Rowley, Massachusetts, and there he lived the remainder of his days. He married Elizabeth Their children were:
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I. Mary, born at Rowley, May 3, 1649. 2. Joseph, born at Rowley, March 2, 1652, married Mary Trum- ble, May 30, 1678, and had seven children, Joseph, Ann, Joseph, George, Mary, Elizabeth, and Abigail. He died March 5, 1722-3, aged seventy years. 3. Jacob, born at Rowley, Massachusetts, December 1, 1054, was soldier in the Indian war in 1680, pub- lished to be married to Dorcas Harris, September S, 1716. 4. Samuel, born at Rowley, January 9, 1656-7, married Mary Foster, November 12, 1682, liad six children : Hannah, Samuel, David, Maria, Jedediah, and Eliphalet. He died April 22, 1722, at Ipswich. 5. Isaac, born January 26, 1059, married Mary Che- ney, July 24, 1684, had five children: Elizabeth, Martha, Mary, John, Isaac, died December 19, 1713, deaf and dumb from birth. 6. Elizabeth, born at Rowley, February 1, 1663.
(III) Samuel Kilbourne, son of George Kil- bourne (2), was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, January 9, 1656-7. He married Mary Foster No- vember 12, 1682. lle died April 22, 1722. He was a farmer, settled at Rowley, Massachusetts, where he always lived. The children of Samuel and Mary ( Foster) Kilbourne were: I. Hannah, born at Row- ley, October 2, 1683, married Josiah Clark, April 5, 1701. 2. Samuel, born at Rowley, July 20, 1687, married Mary Lovell, December 7, 1734, died at Rowley, August 14, 1761, aged seventy-five years, and of his children, Hepzibah, Richard, Eliphalet, Mary, died young, and Mary and George grew to maturity. 3. David, born at Rowley, March 12, 1689, married Elizabeth Fiske, of Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, January 25, 1724; she died April 17, 1730; he married (second) Ruth Fiske, of Andover, No- vember 5, 1731; children: David, David, Jonathan, David, Ruth, Samuel, William, Lydia, Ruth, Sam- uel. He removed to Lunenburg in 1765 and died there, 1775, at the age of eighty-seven years. 4. Maria, born at Rowley, July 21, 1696, died Septem- ber 24, 1710. 5. Jedediah, born at Rowley, April 20, 1699, married Susannah Fiske, of Ipswich, March 22, 1724, died February 4, 1759, aged sixty years ; his wife died September 27, 1764. 6. Dr. Eliphalet, born at Rowley, 1706, married Jane Frazer, widow of Nathan Frazer, and daughter of Mark Prime, 1745. Dr. Eliphalet Kilbourne died June 4, 1752. llis only daughter, Jane, born April 15, 1746, mar- ried Rev. Samuel Williams, LL. D., of Bradford, Massachusetts, and Rutland Vermont, May 5, 1768. Hon. Charles Kilbourne Williams, son of Rev. Dr. Samuel and Jane (Kilbourne) Williams, was gov- ernor of the state and chief justice of Vermont.
(IV) Jedediah Kilbourne, son of Samuel Kil- bourne (3), was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, April 20, 1699. He married Susannah Fiske, of Ips- wich, March 22, 1724. He died February 4, 1759, aged sixty years. His wife, Susannah, died Septem- ber 27, 1706. Their children were born at Rowley, where they settled, lived and died. The children of Jedediah Kilbourne were : I. Jedediah, born at Rowley, married Jlannah Platts, of Rowley, No- vember 4, 1749, removed to Boscawen, New Ilamp- shire, thence to Henniker, New Ilampshire, where he died 1820; had eight children: Nathan, Eliphalet, Lucy, Merey, Hannah, Jedediah, Nathaniel and Su- san. 2. Sampson, of whom later.
(V) Sampson Kilbourne, son of Jedediah Kil- bourne (4), was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, about 1723. He married Rebecca Pickard, April 15. 1749. They settled at Rowley, where he died May 28, 1761, at the age of thirty-three years. The children of Sampson and Rebecca were: I. Paul, born at Rowley, April 29, 1750, was in revolutionary
war, married Mehitable Nelson, February 7, 1773, died at Rowley, September 10, 1782. 2. Huldalı, born at Rowley, September 1, 1753. 3. Captain John, of whom later. 4. Rebecca, born at Rowley, January 16, 1760. Her nephew John says she married Todd.
(VI) Captain John Kilbourne, son of Sampson Kilbourne (5), was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, June 28, 1755. When twenty-one years old he en- tered the Continental army and remained in the service for six years. He was at the storming of Stony Point and was in other important engage- ments and battles of the revolutionary war. He married, January, 1780, Mary Howe, of Ipswich, who was born June 28, 1755. They settled at North- wood, New Hampshire, but remained there only a few years. They removed to Brighton, Maine, where he died September 8, 1842, in his eighty-eightlı year. Their children were: I. Rebecca, born February 25, 1781, married Stephen Ingalls, of Harrison, Maine, July 21, 1801, and had six children: Mary K., Ezra T., Ruth A., Huldah C., Abigail and Elizabeth W. 2. Colonel John, born November 16, 1782. 3. Mary, died young. 4. Enos, born January 1, 1785, went to sea, never heard from since 1809. 5. Captain Will- iam, born January 16, 1787, married Betsey Senter, February 10, 1808, and had thirteen children: Enos Leander Walton, Thomas Dresser, Jacob Van Rens- selaer, Jesse Gibbs, William Tombs, Samuel Farns- worth, Helen D., Eliza A. and five who died young; resided at Bridgton, Maine. 6. Jacob, born April 5, 1789, died July 2, 1820. 7. Lieutenant Ebenezer, born December 20, 1791, married Lydia G. Ingalls, 1818, had six children. 8. Huldah, born 1794, married Alfred Ingalls, January 7, 1818, had five children : Huldah, Nathan, Amanda, John Kilbourne, Abby. 9. Paul, born April 5, 1797, died September 23, 1798. (VII) Colonel John Kilbourne, son of Captain John Kilbourne (6), was born at Bridgton, Maine, November 16, 1782. He received his title for serv- ice in the state militia of Maine. He married, Feb- ruary 22, 1808, Mary Barker, of Andover, Massa- chusetts. They had eleven children. November 2, 1843, he wrote a letter to the author of the Kilbourne Genealogy relating to the family, published in the book. He settled at Bridgton, Maine. His sons were: Hannibal Milton, born 1809, unmarried 1843, resided then at Hampton. New Brunswick; John, born March 22, 1812, of whom later; Jacob Barker, born 1820, died 1822; Robert Andrews, born 1822; Charles Otis, born 1824.
(VIII) John Kilbourne, son of Colonel John Kilbourne (7), was born at Bridgton, Maine, March 22. 1812. He learned the carpenter's trade and set- tled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He resided in Cambridgeport, where he became prominent builder and contractor. He married Clara Cross, of Waterford, Maine, born December 6, 1811, and their three children were born at Bridgton, Maine : I. George Albert, born Angust 7, 1840, married Mel- vina Morrison. of Bridgton: a daughter born to them is deceased. He was a soldier in the civil war in a Wisconsin regiment and was killed in the battle of Murfreesboro. Tennessee, in 1865. 2. Henry Har- rison born April 17. 1842, married Ellen Gabriel, who bore him two children, Clara Cross Kilbourne, and Harry Kilbourne, now deceased ; he died April, 1896. 3. Charlotte Maria, born November 18, 1855.
(1X) Charlotte Maria Kilbourne, daughter of John Kilbourne (8), was born, November 18, 1855, at Bridgton, Maine, where she received her edtica- tion. She married ( first) William B. Cushman, who was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, October 31,
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1856, son of Elkanah Cushman. He was a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School. He took a three year course at Harvard College and graduated from the Bowdoin Medical School. He began to practice in Cumberland, Maine, and in ISSI came to Oxford, Massachusetts, and practiced his profession there. Dr. Cushman was a member of Oxford Lodge, 1. O. O. F., and went through all the offices in the Ma- sonic lodge except that of master. He was a mem- ber of the Oxford Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. For many years he was a member of the Oxford school committee. He was a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society and examiner for various life insurance companies. He died February 25, 1897. The children of Dr. William B. and Char- lotte Maria Cushman were: George Melcher, born February 22, 1882; Harold William, born November 21, 1890. Mrs. Cushman married (second) Horace Lucius Lamson, of Oxford, Massachusetts. He was one of three children of Horace Lamson, of Oxford, grandson of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Lamson, and great-grandson of Ebenezer and Ruth Lamson. all of Oxford, Massachusetts. He was born at Oxford, October 18, 1854. They have no children.
HOGG FAMILY. The genealogical record of this family in America begins with Henry Hogg, a wealthy linen manufacturer, born in Scotland, who came to this country the last century and settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. His son William Hogg (2), a stanch Presbyterian, came to Philadelphia when a young man, and there engaged in the manufacture of shawls and kindred woolen fabrics. In 1832 he began to make carpets, which industry was then in its infancy in this country. Many of the great carpet factories of Philadelphia were founded by and through men who worked as skilled men under Mr. Hogg.
William Hogg, son of William (2), was born in Philadelphia, in 1820, and died June 8, 1883. He married Catherine L. Horner, by whom five chil- dren were born, William James being the only son.
William James Hogg, born in Philadelphia, June 5, 1851, received his education at Dr. Faire's private school, in his native city, and at Lafaytte College, Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1872 he was taken into partnership with his father, the style of the firm be- ing the Oxford Mills. In 1879 he came to Worces- ter, Massachusetts, and in company with his father purchased the Crompton Carpet Company's plant. The name was changed to the Worcester Carpet Company, later the name being William James Hogg & Company. William James Hogg still retained his interest in the Philadelphia company until 1882, when he withdrew and bought out his father's in- terest at Worcester, he becoming sole proprietor. In 1883 he erected a complete new mill, enlarging the weaving capacity of the mills one-third, and in 1881 he added to the plant the factories known as the "Pakachoag Mills," which plant was purchased from George Crompton, whose spinning-mill had burned. In 1885 this plant was further enlarged by a spacious wing. The product of these immense car- pet mills is "Wilton" and "Body Brussels" of the most superior grades, which find ready sale through- out the entire country. From five to seven hundred operatives are employed, for the most part skilled workmen. The past decade their rug trade alone has been of great proportions. They have sale offices in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Omaha. The power which drives the vast mod- ern machinery of this plant was much increased and
improved by the purchase of the Stillwater Pond and dam.
As was his father before him, William James has been a large investor in real estate holdings in way of building lots, in the southwestern part of Worces- ter, where he has erected many modern houses, opened up and improved streets, etc. Early in the nineties hie purchased a summer residence for his own use the famous "Ilillside Farm"-once the home of the world-wide known temperance reformer, John B. Gough. This place, with the many historic sur- roundings, has been greatly improved by Mr. Hogg. Here he has been a successful raiser of pure bred Jersey cattle. In 1897-8 Mr. Hogg completed a beau- tiful mansion at the corner of Elm and Ashland streets.
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