Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. IV, Part 81

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 710

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His first business venture followed his attend- ance at an itinerant magic lantern exhibition, in which he was greatly interested. Although his father rather objected to the project he helped him, and his uncle, Hiram Bushong, purchase the neces- sary outfit. The older partner in the show business was advance agent, the younger worked the lantern at the village school houses and other halls on that circuit. When about a hundred miles from home, after two weeks of rather slim business, Bushong's show drew a crowded house and the future looked promising. But during the exhibition a couple of wild and drunken cow boys started in to "shoot up" the show, and before they left the hall the audience had retired in haste, the young show-man was half a mile up the road, every window in the room was

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smashed as well as the magic lantern. There was nothing for the victims of attack to do but to start for home, and even the receipts at the box office disappeared during the melee.

He became interested in photography first when an itinerant photographer visited the town and was induced to show him how to take pictures by the payment of a generous fee. Mr. Bushong took one lesson and was led to believe that he knew enough to go into the business himself. He bought a sec- ond-hand outfit and his father aided him in his am- bition to become a photographer by building for him a small studio. His first customer was the belle of the village whom he invited to have the honor of the first sitting. But the apparatus was defective as well as his knowledge of the camera and of the wet plates used at that time. The young lady spoke her mind freely to the boy photographer when she learned that his camera was out of order. This fail- ure was very disappointing to the young man, but his father soon put him on the right track by sending him to Denton, Texas, where he learned the business in a practical way from Mr. Wetherington, who was located there. After three months of hard work and study Mr. Bushong demonstrated his ability as a photographer so effectively that he was allowed to make all the sittings and was offered a very at- tractive salary to remain in the Wetherington studio but he wished to demonstrate his ability in his na- tive town where his good father had built him the studio. And he did succeed. He enjoyed a thriv- ing business and pleased his patrons. After a few months in partnership with James Gray. a friend of the family, he started out into larger fields, and went from town to town, enjoying a profitable business. At Van Alstyne, Texas, he sold out his interests to his partner and leased a prosperous studio at Mc- Kinney, Texas. When his lease expired, he went to Jefferson, Texas, and managed the Knight studio. In the fall of 1889 he removed to El Paso, Texas, to accept a position as manager and chief operator of the Francis Parker studio at a liberal salary, and a year later he purchased the business. remodeled the studio, and conducted a highly successful and profitable business. While in El Paso he became in- terested in bicycling and was one of the organizers of the Commercial Bicycle Club, which built one of the best three lap tracks in the west at that time. He became president of the association, and gained the reputation of being the fastest amateur rider in that part of the country. He captured the club championship road race between Ysleta and El Paso by winning the race three times in succession.

He visited the World's Fair at Chicago, in 1893, and while there conceived the idea of serving an ap- prenticeship with the leading photographers of the country and of studying art at the same time. He leased his studio at El Paso to Fred J. Feldman and, according to his plans, he was employed in the best photographic studios in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Boston and Worcester, remaining a few months in each city. He took a course in the Chi- cago Art Museum, and on this trip gained an in- valuable experience and developed his artistic abil- ity and technical skill. He was able later to win several first class prizes at the exhibitions of the Photographers' Association of America. He re- turned to El Paso and took Mr. Feldman into part- nership. The firm added a line of photographic supplies and art goods to their business, which proved very successful. Mr. Bushong helped to

organize the Tracy Motor Company for the pur- pose of manufacturing gas engines and was made president of the company, which was re-organized later with more capital under the name of the Pass City Foundry and Machine Company. Four years after his return to El Paso he sold his inter- ests to his partner in the studio, Mr. Feldman, and also sold his stock in the machine company, and in 1900 located in Worcester, Massachusetts. He fitted up a very artistic studio on Elm street, and the ex- cellence of his work soon attracted a generous share of the best business in the city. In 1905 he was vice-president of the New England Photographers' Association and was nominated for president in 1900, but declined the honor. In the same year the building in which his studio was located was torn down to make way for the new Slater Building, and he consolidated his business with that of his chief rival, H. Schervee, 328 Main street, where they now conduct a very large business in photography and handle a most complete line of foreign and domestic art goods and portrait frames.

He married, August 1, 1906, Kathryn Pauline Ryan, daughter of Michael Henry and Pauline (Essig) Ryan. They reside in a house recently pur- chased by Mr. Bushong at 20 Fiske street, Worcester.

THE RICE FAMILY. Edmund Rice (1), im- migrant ancestor of Samantha ( Rice) Bushong, was born in England, coming from Barkhamstead. Hert- fordshire, to Sudbury, Massachusetts, about 1638. He shared in the division of land there in 1639. He was selectman in 1644 and subsequent years, deacon of the Sudbury Church in 1648, and in 1656 one of the thirteen petitioners for the Marlboro grant. His home in Sudbury was in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, east of the Sudbury river meadows. In Marlboro his residence was in the westerly part of the town on the old county road from Marlboro to Northboro in the bend as it passes around the north side of the pond a short distance from the an- cient Williams Tavern. He died May 3, 1663, aged sixty-two years, and was buried at Sudbury. His wife Tamazin died at Sudbury, June 13, 1654. He married (second) Mercy Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham, of Cambridge. (For children and further data of the immigrant, see other sketches of Rice family.)

(II) Edward Rice, son of Edmund Rice (I). was born in Barkhamstead, England, about 1620. He resided at Sudbury, removed to Marlboro in 1664 and was deacon of the church there. He gave his age as forty-seven in 1666. He died August 15, 1712, about ninety-three years old. He deeded half of his form to his son, Edmund Rice, of Sud- bury, the other half to his son, John Rice, of Sud- bury, April 16, 1706. He married (first) Agnes Bent ; (second) Anna -, who died at Marlboro, his widow, June 4. 1713, aged eighty-three. All his children, except the eldest whose birth record has not been found, were by the second wife Anna, the two youngst born at Marlboro and the others at Sudbury. Children: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Lydia, born and died July 30, 1648. 3. Lydia, born December 10, 1649. 4. Edmund, born December 9, 1653, married Joyce Russell. 5. Daniel, born No- vember 8, 1655, married Bethia Ward. 6. Caleb, born February 8, 1657, died April 27, 1658. 7. Jacob, born 1660. 8. Anna, born November 19, 1661, mar- ried Thomas Rice. 9. Dorcas, born January 29, 1664, married Thomas Forbush (or Forbes). 10.

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Benjamin, born December 22, 1666, married Mary Graves. II. Abigail. born May 9. 1671, married Samuel Forbush, of Marlboro.

(III) John Rice, son of Edward Rice (2), was born in Sudbury, about 1647 ; married Tabitha Stone, November 27. 1674, daughter of John and Anna Stone, granddaughter of Deacon Gregory Stone, an immigrant, who died at Cambridge, November 30, 1672, aged eighty-two years (see Stone family ). John Rice lived in what is now Wayland, on the easterly side of the road from Weston to Saxon- ville, and on part of his grandfather Riee's home- stead. He died intestate September 6, 1719, aged about seventy-two years. Children: 1. John, born September 29. 1675, married Elizabeth Clapp. 2. Anna, born August 29, 1678. 3. Deliverance, born August 14. 1681, married John How, Jr. 4. Tabitha, born November 25, 1683. 5. Prudence, born July 26, 1685. 6. Abigail, born November 27, 1687. mar- ried Uriah Wheeler, of Sudbury, a descendant of Resolved White, who came over in the "Mayflower" with his parents. William and Susanna. 7. Captain Edward, born December 23. 1689. 8. Dinah, born February 10, 1691, married Joseph Haynes. 9. Moses, mentioned below. 10. Tamar, born September 29, 1607. married William Morre. II. Captain Aaron, born August 13, 1700, married Hannah Wright.

( IV) Captain Moses Rice, son of Jolin Rice (3), was born in Sudbury, October 27, 1694. mar- ried Sarah King, of Sudbury, November 16, 1719, and removed to Worcester, about 1722. with her brothers, Ezra and Peter King. Rice opened a pub- lic house on the site of one afterwards kept by Captain Ephraim Mower and on which was sub- sequently erected the United States Hotel, the pres- ent site of the Walker Building. He was on garrison duty at Rutland with others from Worcester, in 1724. in Captain Samuel Wright's company. He commanded a company of cavalry while he lived in Worcester. He removed to Rutland about 1742. He purchased two thousand two hundred aeres of land in Charlmont, Massachusetts, April 23, 1743. and finally settled on it. He is said to have been the first town clerk, probably the proprietors' clerk, as the town was incorporated after his death. Being a frontier settlement it was exposed during the French and Indian wars to the ravages of the enemy. June 11, 1755. while Captain Rice was in his field ploughing his corn, the Indians in ambush shot him and at the same time shot and killed outright Phineas Arms, aged twenty-four, who was at work in the field also. The horse at the plow, being frightened, started suddenly and three off his rider. Asa Riee, a grandson of Captain Moses Rice, aged about eight, whom the Indians caught up and car- ried to Canada. Captain Rice being sorely wounded and unable to walk was taken some distance into the adjoining woods where he was tomahawked and scalped. Such as his tragic end ; he was then in the sixty-first year of his age, and the chief man of the township for counsel in peace and in war. Having previously been a prominent man in three towns. two of them old settlements, before he removed to Charlemont. he was there looked upon as the head and father of the settlement, the chief promoter and one of the earliest settlers. He had collected a great amount of historical matter, comprising an account of many interesting events of which he had been a witness, but his manuscripts were destroyed by fire. a sad loss to the family and towns in which he had lived. His wife died about 1788 at the home of her son Aaron. Children, born in Worcester, except the

eldest : 1. Samuel, born at Sudbury, August 10, 1720, married Dorothy Martin. 2. Abigail, born February 20, 1722-23, married James Heaton. 3. Aaron, mentioned below. 4. Dinah, born January 21, 1726-27, married Joseph Stevens. 5. Sylvanus, born January 6, 1728-29. married Esther Nims. 6. Tamar, born June 15, 1732, married John Wells, of Shel- burne. 7. Artemas, born October 22, 1734, married Mary Stevens.

(\') Aaron Rice, son of Captain Moses Rice (4), was born January 31, 1724-25. He married, November 5, 1754, Freedom French, born April 22, 1730. died September. 1809, daughter of Thomas and Joanna French. They were admitted to the Deerfield ( Massachusetts) Church, September. 1756. He was deacon of the Charlemont Church. He was corporal in Captain Burke's company in the French war in 1758. He was a member of the state convention of 1779 to frame a constitution for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, an honor that entitles his descend- ants to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. He died in 1808, aged eighty-four years. Following is the inscription en his grave: "Sacred to the memory of Deacon Aaron Rice and Freedom. his wife: who, having sustained the hardships of an infant frontier settlement in time of war ; having reared a family of eleven children, six of whom lie interred in this ground; and lived together in happy wedlock fifty-four years, departed this life, the first December 2, 18c8, aged 84 years; the other September 15, 1809, aged 79 years.' Children : I.

Sarah, born August 10, 1750. died December 7, 1758. 2. John, born February 2, 1758, married Ruth Rice. 3. Sarah, born November 14. 1759. died April 10. 1783. 4. Anna, born July 10. 1701, died December 9. 1783. 5. Eunice, born July 24. 1763, died Decem- ber 6, 1782. 6. Aaron, mentioned below. 7. Joseph, boru December 8, 1707, married Emblem Comstock. 8. Luke, born November 27. 1769. married Lydia Rice. g. Silas, born October 10, 1771. 10. Free- dom. 11. Child. probably died young.

(VI) Aaron Rice, son of Aaron Rice (5), was born March 23. 1765, in Charlemont. He married. April 16, 1789, Lona Thompson, born January 4. 1771. of Charlemont : removed to Breckville, Cuya- hoga county. Chio, and died there in the fifties, over ninety years of age. Children : I. Eunice, born April 23. 1790, married Ebenezer Rice. 2. Hep- zibath, born May 3. 1792. married Peter Comstock. at Breckville, Ohio, August 21, 1814. 3. Aaron, born N vember 15, 1793, married Jemima Dunsha. 4. Seth, born February 20, 1795: married Candace Edgerton. 5. William, born March 4, 1797, married Ruth Edgerton. 6. Moses, mentioned below. Peter. born June 8, 1803, married Besey Cole. 8. Diantha, born February 9. 1807, died June 12, 1817. 9. Myron, born August 1, 1809, married Maria Cole : resided in Putnam county, Ohio, and had nine children. 10. Jane, born September 23, 1811, mar- ried N. 11. Bagley. 11. Hiram, born June 12, IS14, died November 6, 1814.

(VII ) Moses, son of Aaron Rice (6), was born August 25. 1799. in Putnam county, Ohio, or went there when a young boy with his father's family. He married Amy Dunsha, February 21, 1822. She was born October 6, 1801. They lived in Putnam county. Children: 1. James, mentioned below. 2. Julian, born July 4, 1825. 3. Sarah J., born July 20, 1829. 4. Vialetta, born May 15. 1832. 5. Eunice, born September 6, 1836. 6. Samantha, born July 20, 1841. died in infancy. 7. Wilson, born January 1, 1844. 8. Ilollis, born December 11, 1847.

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(VIII) James Rice, son of Moses Rice (7), was born in Putnam county, Ohio, September 17, 1823. He married Celicia Blodgett, July 21, 1842. They resided at Ottawa, Ohio. He went to California in the early fifties and was thrown from a horse and killed. She married (second) - Jones, who died at Waterloo, Indiana. Children of James and Celicia Rice : 1. Samantha Vialetta, born February 21, 1843, married John Stout Bushong; mentioned above. 2. Minerva, born January 15, 1845, married Benjamin Roberts. 3. Moses, born December 8, 1847. 4. Still- man, born September 12, 1849. 5. Nelson, born Jan- uary 23, 1851, died April, 1851. 6. James H., born September 16, 1852, died August, 1853.

FRANCIS FAMILY. Richard Francis (1), the pioneer ancestor in America of Henry M. Francis, of Fitchburg, was an early settler in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was born in England and was a brick maker by trade. He was one of the pro- prietors of the town of Cambridge and was admitted a freeman there May 13. 1640. He bought a lot of land July 4. 1644. of Nathaniel Sparhawk at the corner of what is now Holmes place. He died March 24. 1686-7, aged about eighty-one years. Ilis wife Alice was administratrix. appointed April 5. 1687. Their children were: Stephen, horn Febru- ary 7. 1644-5; Sarah, December 4. 1646, married John Squires ; John, January 4, 1649-50, of whom later.

(II) John Francis, youngest son of Richard Francis (1), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 4, 1640-50. He married Lydia Cooper, daughter of Deacon John Cooper, January 5, 1687-8. He was also a brick maker and was crippled while working on one of the Harvard College buildings. having his leg broken. His lameness is mentioned in a petition by his brother to the general court in 1676. He died at Medford, where he removed about 1695. The date of his death was January 3. 1727-8. His son John was administrator. The chil-

dren were : John. born October 10. 1688, died young : John, February 17, 1689-90. died at Med- ford, August 31, 1750: Stephen. November 2, 1691 ; Nathaniel, 1693. The preceding were born at Cam- bridge, the following at Medford: Samuel, Febru- ary 17, 1695-6; Anna, November 2. 1697; Joseph, January 5. 1699-1700; Ebenezer, October 3, 1701, died March 23, 1702-3; Lydia, April 20, 1703; Eben- ezer. born March 25 1708.

(III) Nathaniel Francis, fourth child of John Francis (2), was born in Cambridge in 1603. He was brought up in Medford and settled in Charles- town, Massachusetts. He died September 2, 1764, aged seventy-one years. His wife Ann died in Mason, New Hampshire, December 31, 1777, aged seventy-four years. Their children were: Na- thaniel. born January 6, 1732. was a soldier in the revolution ; married Phebe Frost. April 11, 1751;

Beniamin. November 11, 1734 married Lydia Con- verse, of Medford, April 7. 1757; married ( second) Sarah Hall; he was a soldier in the revolution in 1775 and 1777: he settled in Medford: Richard, of whom later: William, baptized February 6, 1737.

(IV) Richard Francis, third child of Nathaniel Francis (3), was born in Medford or Charlestown, Massachusetts. January 2, 1736, and died in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts, in 1705. between April and June. He married Hannah Winship March 20, 1760 Richard deeded his farm of eighty-six acres on Flat hill, Lunenburg, to his son Simon April

6, 1795, and Simon deeded a life interest in this property to the Widow Hannah, his mother. Richard bought his land on Flat hill of Charles Perrin, of Lunenburg (second division, lot 58), November 18, 1778. The first purchase consisted of about fifty- nine acres and he added to the farm by purchase. For several years Richard was living in Dunstable, Massachusetts, and probably some of the children were born there. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion. The children of Richard and Hannah Francis were: Richard, born December 16, 1760; Loring, June 7. 1762; Samuel, August 26, 1764; Daniel. June 25. 1766, died November 5, 1813; Simon, of whom later.

(V) Simon Francis, fifth child of Richard Fran- cis (4), was born in Dunstable, perhaps, Febru- ary 4, 1774, and died at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, May 21, 1819. He married Lucy Brown, who ad- ministered his estate and died at Lunenburg. March 26, 1828. Their son Martin was guardian for the minor children. The children of Simon and Lucy Francis, all born in Lunenburg, were: Martin, born August 25, r807, died December 27, 1832, aged twenty-five years; Samuel (added the name Franklin by act of the legislature when he came of age), born May 22, 1809, of whom later; Try- phena, born April 25, 1811, died at Orleans, Massa- chusetts, August 25, 1886; married Thomas Free- man of Orleans, and they had five children, of whom the only survivor is Mary E. (Freeman) Jones, residing in Wareham; Thomas Freeman died October 26, 1847; Philemon B., horn August 22, 1813, died September 28, 1840; Sullivan Ritter, born April 20, 1816, married, January 24, 1842, Sarah Eliza Hayward, who died May 30, 1845; (second), July 12, 1846, Mary S. Gardner. who died October 22, 1880; (third), April 15. 1877, Anna I. Pelton ; he died September 1, 1901, at Kewanee, Illinois.

(VI) Franklin Samuel Francis. second child of Simon Francis (5), was born in Lunenburg, Massa- chusetts, May 22, 1800. He was baptized Samuel, but he had his name changed after he came of age to Franklin Samuel Francis. He learned the wheelwright's trade and followed that and buying and selling farm lands in Lunenburg and Fitchburg. He married, October 23. 1834. Jane Kimball. daugh- ter of Ephraim and Dorothy (Sawyer) Kimball. Her father was born Janvary 12. 1777, and died November 27, 1853: married. February 24, 1801. Her mother was born March II, 1779, at Fitchburg, and died there April 16. 1837. Her Kimball an- cestors were Frhraim (VII). Deacon Ephraim (VI), Ephraim (V), Ephraim (IV). Thomas (III), Thomas (TI) Richard Kimball (I). (See sketch of General John W. Kimball, who was her first cousin. son of Alpheus, brother of her father, Ephraim. )

The children of Franklin S. and Jane (Kimball) Francis were : Henry M .. of whom later: Ed- mund Sawyer. horn October 15. 1837; Philemon Prown. January 6, 1842: Alpheus Kimball, June 6, 1814. married Sarah Rebecca Houghton: Sidney Prescott. April 25. 1816. died July 20, 1876; mar- ried. December 7. 1870, Hannah Maria Black, who was born January 26, 1848, and died December 3. 1881.

(VI) Sullivan Ritter Francis, son of Simon Francis (5), was born in Lunenburg. Massachu- setts. April 20, 1816 He married (first), January 2. 18.12, Sarah E. Hayward. of Lunenburg. who died May 30, 1845: (second), July 12. 1846. Mary

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S. Gardner, of Bedford, Massachusetts, who died October 22, 1889; (third), April 15, 1877, Anna I. Pelton, of Kewanee, Illinois.

The children of Sullivan R. and Mary S. Fran- cis were: Homer G., born October 14, 1847, died August 2, 1889; Jerome. December 6, 1850, died October 26, 1876; Mary Dana, October 9, 1852, died June 20, 1854; Frederick, January 21, 1856; Madana, May 19, 1859, died June 3, 1860; Albert, January 14. 1861, died April 23, 1862; Louis S., February 4, 1864; Martha, September 8, 1865, died December 30, 1866. The children of Sullivan R. and Anna I. Francis were: Franklin Sullivan, December 6, 1877; Waldo Ritter, September 22, 1879; Gladys Lucy, April 19, 1881.

(VII) Henry Martyn Francis, eldest child of Franklin S. (6) and Jane (Kimball) Francis, was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. June 16, 1836. He attended the public schools there and December 3, 1856, entered the academy at Groton where he pursued his studies for two years. From July 28 to November, 1858, he was an assistant in the sur- veys for the Croton water works which supplies New York city with water. He returned home and took up the study of architectural drawing in the office of Alexander R. Esty, architect, of Boston. From May, 1861, until January, 1864, Mr. Francis followed the trade of carpenter in Lunenburg, West- field, and Florence. March 29, 1864, he became asso- ciated with George M. Harding, architect, of Port- land, Maine. He went to Boston December 16, 1864, to work for George F. Meacham, architect, but a year later returned to Mr. Harding's office in Portland.

He opened his own office as architect in Fitch- bury in June, 1868, and has had a very successful career there. He has built fifty school houses in Fitchburg and throughout New England, and nine- tenths of the public buildings, churches and finer residences in Fitchburg. He was the architect for the Rollstone Congregational church, the Calvinistic Congregational church, First

the Universalist church, the Wallace Free Library and Art Building, the Wallace, Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance, Safety Fund Bank buildings, the Fitchburg Union Railroad Station, the Young Men's Christian As- sociation building of Fitchburg; the residences of James Phillips, of E. F. Belding and O. H. Law- rence ; the Murdock School building in Winchen- don and many other important structures. He is a member and deacon of the Calvinistic Congrega- tional Church, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a director of the Fitchburg National Bank and of the Fidelity Co-operative Bank He is a member of the Fitchburg Historical So- ciety, Board of Trade and of the Fitchburg Board of Health. In politics he is a stanch Republican.

He married, July 16, 1867, Emily Josephine Leighton, daughter of Joel and Betsey (Labree) Leighton. Her father was born April 15, 1790, at Epping, New Hampshire, and died October 25, 1851, at Bloomfield, Maine; married, January 25, 1824. Her mother was born December 15. 1799, at Brent- wood, New Ilampshire, and died July 12, 1864, at Bloomfield, Maine. The children of Henry M. and Emily J. Francis are: Frederick Leighton, of whom later ; Anna Theresa, born February 20, 1872, mar- ried, September 19, 1901, at Fitchburg, Burton San- derson Flagg, and they have two children : Dorothea Kimball, born June 25, 1903; Elizabeth Sanderson, born September 21, 1905. Albert Franklin, of whom later.

(VIII) Frederick Leighton . Francis, son of Henry M. Francis (7), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, February 5, 1870. He attended the public schools of his native town and graduated in 1888 from the Fitchburg high school and in 1892 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has made two trips abroad, July 6 to September 21, 1895, and May 26 to September 13, 1900, for the purpose of observation and study in architecture. He became associated with his father after his grad- uation and worked with him for ten years. In January, 1902, he went into the office of Charles A. Platt, architect and landscape architect, 36 East Twentieth street, New York city, where he worked and studied for two years, returning to Fitchburg August 28, 1903, to become a member of the firm of H. M. Francis & Sons. His brother, Albert F. Francis, also became a partner with their father at the same time, September 2, 1903. It is one of the leading firms of architects in the vicinity. He is a member of the Technology Club of Boston and the Technology Club of New York city.

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Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. IV, Part 81

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 710

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 710