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He married, September 27, 1898, at Fitchburg, Lula May Horton, born May 9, 1877, at Brattleboro, Vermont, daughter of Timothy Frank and Esther Maria (Whitney) Horton. Her father was born August 15, 1849, at Bernardston. Massachusetts, and married, May 29, 1876; her mother was born May 17, 1855, and died June 15, 1883, at Brattle- boro, Vermont. They have one child, Kathryn Hor- ton, born July 25, 1903, at New York city.
(VIII) Albert Franklin Francis, youngest child of Henry M. Francis (7), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. March 6, 1875. He attended the Fitchburg public schools and the Fitchburg high school. He studied architecture in his father's of- fice and gradually became associated with him in business. When the firm of H. M. Francis & Sons was formed in September, 1903, he became one of the partners. He is a Republican in politics and is a member of Aurora Lodge, Free Masons, Thomas Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Jerusalem Com- mandery, Knights Templar, Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine, the Fitchburg Merchants' Association and the Columbian Club of Fitchburg.
He married, June 9, 1898, Edith Martha Perry, born June 9, 1877, at Leominster, died March 26, 1902, at Fitchburg. They had one child, Dorothy, born December 21, 1900, died December 24, 1900.
(VII) Alpheus Kimball Francis, son of Frank- lin Samuel Francis (6), was born at Lunenburg, Massachusetts, June 6, 1844. He received a com- mon school education in his native town, and at the age of fifteen years entered Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, and took the full course of study there. In 1864 he entered A. D. Bell's Commercial School in Boston and took the usual course of study. He went to work at Florence, Massachusetts. at the carpenter's trade and while he was there helped build the town hall. He went to Fitchburg after a short time and was employed by Parkhurst & Aldrich, contractors and builders for two years. About 1870 he started in business on his own account. as contractor and builder. with his headquarters at Lunenburg, and established a lucrative business. He has had the contracts for many dwellings and other buildings in Lunenburg and vicinity. He built the clegant mansion of J. A. Litchfield and three school houses for the town. The remodeling of the Methodist church was given to Mr. Francis to do. He has dealt considerably in real estate both in Lunenburg and Fitchburg, and
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has built many tenement blocks which he owns for investment.
Mr. Francis is a member of the Orthodox Con- gregational Church of Lunenburg and is a member of the parish committee. He has been superintend- ent of the Sunday school for five years. In politics he is a Republican and has often served as dele- gate to Republican nominating conventions. He has been treasurer of the town of Lunenburg for the past ten years. As a man of business and pub- lic affairs, Mr. Francis has stood for many years among the leading men of Fitchburg and Lunenburg.
He married, February 3, 1868, Sarah Rebecca Houghton, born in Boston, April 8, 1847, daughter of Emery and Martha (Howard) Houghton. Their children are: I. Lizzie Kimball. born July 12, 1873, in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, married, September 2, 1896, Ernest Keyes' Proctor, born April 8, 1873. at Lunenburg, and they have one child-Edith Keyes Proctor, horn March II, 1901, at Lunenburg. 2. Sidney Houghton, born October 14, 1877, at Lunenburg, see forward. 3. Edith Jane. born March 24, 1880, in Lunenburg, married, in Lunenburg, August 7, 1900, Edwin Bicknell Stevens, now col- lege editor of the Ohio State University, and they have-Richard Francis Stevens, born June 5, 1902, at Columbus, Ohio; Catherine Bicknell Stevens, born December 14, 1905. at Columbus, Ohio.
(VIII) Sidney Houghton Francis, son of Al- pheus Kimball Francis (7), was born in Lunenburg. Massachusetts, October 14, 1877. He was educated in the public schools and at the Worcester Poly- technic Institute, where he was graduated in 1900. He is employed by Carrieve & Hastings as superin- tendent of their work on New York Public Library. He is unmarried.
LOUIS EDWARD PATTISON. William Thur- man Pattison, father of Louis Edward Pattison, the well known coal and wood dealer of Webster, Mas- sachusetts, was born in London, England, about 1817. He had a common school education in his native city. He went to sca when old enough and came in in 1830 to Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where he made his home for a time. In 1848 he went to Wisconsin, but had to leave that state on account of Indian troubles on what was then the frontier. He lived in Milwaukee for a time, then removed to Chicago, where he died at the early age of thirty- three, leaving a wife and six children. He fell a victim to an epidemic of Asiatic cholera. In re- ligion he was Protestant, being brought up in the Church of England. His wife, Ellen Maria, was born in Nova Scotia.
Louis Edward Pattison, son of William Thur- man Pattison, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 30, 1843. After his father's death in 1850 his mother lived in Boston and the children were educated there. At the age of fifteen he went to work for S. Slater & Son, at Webster. Massachu- setts. He enlisted in the Fifth Massachusetts Bat- tery, Light Artillery, in September, 1861, and went to the front, served the three years of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged in October, 1864. This battery was in the Army of the Potomac, par- ticipated in all its battles, and occupied a prominent position on the second day of the battle of Gettys- burg in Trostle's barnyard and at the rear of Cadori House on the third day.
Mr. Pattison returned to Webster and was again employed in the Slater Mills, remaining in the em- ploy of S. Slater & Son until March, 1877, when he iv-20
started in business for himself, opening in Webster a lumber, wood and coal yard at the location on Pleas- ant street which he has occupied ever since. In a busi- ness way Mr. Pattison forged ahead rapidly and for years he has had the largest business ot this kind between Worcester and Norwich, Connecticut, and known for many years as one of the leading busi- ness men in his section of the county. By shrewd and careful management and constant activity he has acquired a competence, and starting with nothing, is a typical self-made man. His activity has not been confined to his business and mere money get- ting. He has filled a creditable position in the social and political world, and has always done his full duty as a citizen maintaining an interest in the affairs of the nation as well as the town and state. He has been chairman of the board of trus- tees of the Public Library since it was established ; and has been connected with the Fire Department of the town since its organization in 1868, and since May, 1889, he has been the chief engineer. He has also served the town of Webster as auditor and as- sessor. He was chairman of the committee ap- pointed by the town to purchase land for public buildings and was secretary of the committee in charge of the building of the new high school. 11 politics he has been a consistent Republican. He was a charter member of Benjamin Franklin Coun- cil, Royal Arcanum, of Webster Lodge United Workmen. He is a member of Post 61, G. A. R., and has held the office of adjutant. He attends the Universalist Church.
He married, October 26, 1865, at Boston, Massa- chusetts, Annie Gray, a niece of James Simpson, the well known builder of dry docks at Boston, St. Johns, Portland, Brooklyn and League Island har- bors. Their children were: Edwin Holden, born in Webster, Massachusetts, December 6, 1867, edu- cated in the Webster public schools ; graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; married Louisa Barber, of Westboro, Massachusetts, has no children; Arthur Gilles, born in Webster, February 25, 1870, educated in the common schools of his na- tive town and at Becker's Business College of Wor- cester ; married Mabel E. Aldrich, of Webster, and has a daughter, Muriel, born at Webster, September 16, 1894.
George Aldrich (1), of Derbyshire, England, who came to this country November 6, 1631, was the ancestor of Mrs. 'A. G. Pattison, born Mabel Ger- trude Aldrich, of Webster, Massachusetts. He set- tled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, with his wife Katherine, who joined the church at Dorchester about 1636. He was a tailor by trade. In 1640 lie was at Braintree. and in 1663 was among the first settlers of Mendon, Massachusetts. He married, September 3, 1629. Katherine Seald, his second wife, born in 1610, in England. The children of George Aldrich were born at Dorchester and Braintree. He died March 1, 1682. His will was made at Mendon. November 2, 1682, and proved April 26, 1683. His children were: Abel, not traced: Josephi, born June 4, 1635: Mary, born June 16, 1637; Miriam, born June 29, 1639, died young; Experience, born 1041, died young ; John, born April 2, 1644; Sarah, born July 16, 1645, married Bartlett: Peter, born April 4, 1648; Mercy, born 1650, married - Rand- all; Jacob, born February 28, 1652; Martha, born July 7. 1656, married - Dunbar.
(II) Jacob Aldrich. son of George Aldrich (1), born at Braintree, Massachusetts. February 28, 1652; married, November 3, 1675, Huldah Thayer,
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He died October 22, 1692. His children were prob- ably born at Mendon, Massachusetts, as follows : Jacob, May 28, 1676; Abel, January 27, 1677; Seth, July 6, 1679; Huldah, 1680; Rachel, 1682; Sarah, 1683; David, May 23, 1685; Peter, October 17, 1686; John, November 27, 1688; Moses, April 1, 1691; Mercy, February 17, 1692, died 1692; Rachel, December 27, 1694.
(III) Seth Aldrich, son of Jacob Aldrich (2), born at Mendon, Massachusetts, July 6, 1679, died October 15, 1737. Married, September 3, 1700, Deb)- orah Hayward. Their children: Seth, born Sep- tember 19, 1701; Deborah, 1703; Abel, January 16, 1704; William, November 5. 1700; Sarah, 1703; Jacob, July 22, 1710; Samuel, 1712, died young; Noah, 1713, died young; Susannah, 1715; Dinah, 1717; Jonathan, January 2, 1718; Abigail. 1720; Deborah, 1722: Samuel, 1726; Elizabeth, 1729.
(IV) Jacob Aldrich, son of Seth Aldrich (3), born July 22, 1710, married Joanna Bartlett; their children : William, born January 13, 1731-32; Danicl, September 3, 1733: Mary, 1735: Jacob, De- cember 15, 1736; Seth, December 6, 1738; Abigail, 1740; Aaron, July 18, 1742; Joanna, 1743; Deborah, 1745; Jacob, October 16, 1746; Nehemiah, May 20, 1749; Esther, 1750; Asaliel, March 16, 1751-52; Rachel and Ruth, twins, 1754.
(V) Daniel Aldrich, son of Jacob Aldrich (4), was born September 3, 1733. He married ( first), May I, 1755. Tamasin Southwick; (second), Sep- tember 2, 1762, Mary Cook, by whom he had nine children. The eldest of his children, by. his first wife, was Israel.
(V1) Israel Aldrich son of Danicl Aldrich (5), was born April 13, 1756. He married Anselia Ballou, about 1786. She died 1813. Their children were: Daniel, died young: Jonathan, born 1792; George, died young; Israel, born June 3, 1797, mar- ried Sally Porter; Silas, born 1802; Asahel, 1807; also four daughters.
(VII) Israel Aldrich, son of Israel Aldrich (6), was born June 3, 1797, in Thompson, Connecti- cut, where his father lived before him. He was a farmer. He married Sally Porter, of Thompson, Connecticut. He died 1858: she died 1875. Their children were: Nancy, Samuel Porter, see forward ; Jane. Emeritt, Lawson.
( \'111) Samuel Porter Aldrich, son of Israel Aldrichi (7), was born at Thompson, Connecticut, February 24, 1827. He attended the Thompson schools until seventeen, when he went to work on the homestead with his father. He was a farmer until 1868. He came to Webster. Massachusetts, in 1870, and started a coal and wood business, which lie carried on successfully until his death, January 9, 1887. He was tax collector of the town of Web- ster, and declined to run for other offices He was a member of the Baptist Church. He built in 1882, the Music Hall in Webster, the only place of amu-e- ment in the village. He was a man of considerable property, and was highly esteemed by his fellow citi- zens. He married, May 7, 1851, Caroline Elizabeth Raymond, born December 27, 1832, daughter of Orin and Betsey ( Freeman) Raymond, of Dudley, Massachusetts. Their children: Ella Jane, born March 23, 1852, died 1858; George A., born June 12, 1853, died 1800; married Alice Gibson, by whom he had a daughter Minnie Alden Aldrich; infant ; Hiram Elbridge, born 1864. died 1871; Clarence Benton, born 1872, died 1873: Mabel Gertrude, see forward.
(1X) Mabel Gertrude Aldrich, daughter of
Samuel Porter Aldrich (8), was born at Thomp- son, Connecticut, 1874. She married A. G. Patti- son, of Webster.
CROMPTON FAMILY. Ralph Crompton (I) was the English progenitor of the Crompton family of Worcester, Massachusetts. He was born about 1750, and lived in Holcombe, Parish of Bury, Lan- cashire, England. His eldest son was Thomas, mentioned below.
(11) Thomas Crompton, son of Ralph Cromp- ton (I), was born at Holcombe, Parish of Bury, Lancashire, England. He married at Preston, Lan- cashire, England, Mary Dawson, daughter of John and Margaret ( Calvert) Dawson, and granddaughter of Henry Dawson. Margaret Calvert was the daughter of Matthew Calvert of Lancaster, Eng- land. The Dawsons lived in Kendall, Westmore- land, England. The children of Thomas and Mary (Dawson) Crompton I. James, born in Preston, April 15, 1803, settled in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and had children: i. Margaret John- son, resided at Amesbury, Massachusetts ; 11. Thomas, resided at Hartford, Connecticut ; iii. Ellen Johnson, resided in Amesbury ; iv. Ann, unmarried ; v. Rachel, married Tate, resided in Illinois ; vi. James, resided at Windsor Locks; vii. Alice. viii. Mary. 2. Rachel, born in Preston, December 21, 1804; died February 21, 1806. 3. William, born in Preston, September 10, 1806; resided at Windsor Locks, mentioned below. 4. Ellen, born at Holcombe, March 30, ISII, resided in Hartford county, Con- necticut ; married in Ramsbotham, Lancashire, Eng- land, February 23, 1852, James Crompton, who died September 21, 1861, leaving one child, Mary Alice, born at Ramsbotham, December 4, 1853, and died in Pleasant Valley, Connecticut, December 5, 1868. 5. Ralph, born in Holcombe, October 7, 1814. and died in Rochester, Wisconsin, March 18, 1872; mar- ried July 4, 1844, at Prestwich Church, near Bury, Lancashire, England, Margaret Bradley, who was born in Marton, Yorkshire, England, December 12, 1816, the daughter of Thomas Bradley; they had two children: i. Mary Jane, born in Millbury, Massachusetts, November 15, 1845, and settled in Rochester, Wisconsin; ii. Ellen Elizabeth, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, November 17, 1848. 6. Matthew, born in Holcombe, November 19, 1818, died at age of seven months. 7. Margaret, twin sister of Matthew, died aged three months.
(III) William Crompton, son of Thomas Cromp- ton (2), was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, September 10, 1806. At an early age he learned the trade of a machinist, and was superintendent of a cotton mill in Ramsbotham, England. He came to America in 1836, locating in Taunton, Massachu- setts, where he was employed in manufacturing cotton mill machinery, and in the following year invented the loom which bears his name, and which was later perfected by his son. He married in England, May 26, 1828, Sallie Law, who was born in Holcombe, May 22, 1807, and died in Mill- bury, January 30, 1849, the youngest daughter of George and Kitty ( Buckley) Law. Their chil- dren were: I. George, born in Holcombe, March 23. 1820. mentioned below : 2. Elizabeth, born in Holcombe, November 17, 1830, resided in Windsor, Connecticut. 3. Mariana, born in Manchester, Eng- land, November 12, 1832; married Thomas Cromp- ton, resided in Hartford, Connecticut. 4. Catharine, born in Haslingden, England, November 2, 1834, resided at Windsor, Connecticut, unmarried. 5.
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Sarah Anne, born in Holcombe. September 10, 1836; married in Boston, Massachusetts, May IO, 1853. Rev. Reuel Hotchkiss Tuttle, who was born in Old Town, Maine, July 16, 1824; rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Windsor, Con- necticut : and they had five children: i. Annie Elizabeth, born at Hartford, March 13. 1854: ii. Mariana, born at Salisbury, Connecticut, May IO, 1855; iii. Lorine Russell, born in Salisbury July 3. 1858; died there September 24, 1858; iv. Amy Crompton, twin sister of Lorine R., born July 3, 1858, died May 21. 1861; v. Reuel Crompton Tut- tle, born in Windsor, September 24, 1863. 6. William, born in Holcombe, May 1839. died Octo- ber. 1839. 7. William Henry, born in Millbury, June 28, 1845. 8. Thomas Ralph, born in Millbury. December 12, 1848, died August 1849.
(IV) George Crompton. son of William Cropmton (3), was born in Holcombe, Lancashire, England, March 23, 1829, and came to this coun- try when a lad of ten. He had already become familiar with mills and foundries and machine shops of his native town. He inherited a taste for me- chanies, and early developed mechanical skill and genius. He had a mercantile training that was very useful to him in his business life. Before he was of age he was called upon to manage his father's business, with which he was quite familiar. He worked in the Colt Factory when the family was located in Connecticut.
George Crompton laid the real foundation of the Crompton Loom Works in 1851, when, having obtained an extension of his father's patent, he formed a partnership with Merrill E. Furbush, of Philadelphia, to manufacture looms. The firm ol Furbush & Crompton located first in the Merrifield building, where they remained until the great fire of 1854, in which they lost everything. After oc- cupying temporary quarters in the Washburn & Moen wire mill on Grove street, they hired the Red Mill near the foot of Green street. They em- ployed about fifty hands at that time. August I, 1859, Mr. Furbush withdrew and Mr. Crompton continued the business alone. In the year follow- ing he bought the Red Mill property and erected the first of the buildings on the Green street lo- cation of the Crompton Works. William MI. Bick- ford, successor to Phelps & Bickford, who made the Crompton loom on royalty at first, advertised the Crompton loom in 1860, and George Crompton brought suit for infringement of patent. Crompton won his case, and Bickford dying in 1863, his bus- iness ceased, his patterns being bought by Mr. Crompton.
Various improvements whereby the Crompton loom has been made more rapid and productive and brought to its present high state of perfection were made by Mr. Crompton. He took out over a hundred patents in this country alone. A number of patents were also taken out by Horace Wyman, superintendent for many years of the Crompton Works. Seven patents were taken out jointly in the names of Mr. Crompton and Mr. Wyman. In 1865 there was a depression in the loom business on account of the civil war and the lack of cotton. For a time Mr. Compton manufactured gun ma- chinery for the United States and private concerns. In 1863 the demand for woolen goods increased so that he had to enlarge the loom works and devote all his time to making looms. In 1865 he changed the configuration of his father's loom and adopted vertical levers and other devices for operating the
harnesses. In 1867 he exhibited his looms at the Paris Exposition in competition with the manufact- urers of England, France, Saxony, Belgium and Prussia, winning a silver medal for special merits. In ISOS he brought out a new and unique harness motion. styled the horizontal harness motion In 1877 he patented the chain Tappetloom, a new de- parture in harness motion. It is difficult to describe all the changes in the loom as year by year it was brought to a greater degree of perfection. He made the Crompton loom one of the two best looms made. Few of the greatest inventors have done a more beneficent or important life work than George Crompton.
His business incidentally was one of the prin- cipal contributors to the success and prosperity. It was managed always with excellent judgment and rare ability, so that its development has been con- tinuous and uninterrupted. A man of superior business qualifications himself, Mr. Crompton pos- sessed the ability to judge accurately of the at- tainments of others, and surrounded himself with one of the most efficient corps of assistants to be found in any manufacturing establishment. Mr. Crompton was energetic in his business methods, persistent in his attempts to improve what was already good, and determined in huis efforts to keep the Crompton loom where it could compete with any and all rivals. His business integrity and hon- esty were never questioned, and wherever he had business dealings it was accepted without ques- tion that what George Crompton said he would do would surely be done. He was a careful compe- tent manager of financial matters, easily grasping and mastering the details of important and extended transactions, and carrying them through success- fully. It is largely to his efforts that the city has today among its more important industries the Mr. manufacture of carpets as well as looms. Crompton was one of the first to move in this di- rection and with others established the Crompton Carpet Company, being the holder of nearly half the stock. About the time of the panic in 1873, and the failure of one of the stockholders who was also a director, in 1878, after the company had been run several years without satisfactory divi- dends, there was a crisis in the affairs of the com- pany. Mr. Crompton came forward, assumed all the liabilities of the company, and carried the load successfully. The Crompton Carpet Company was dissolved in 1879, but the superintendent Matthew J. Whittall, started in business at that time, and but for the starting of the Crompton enterprise the city would probably never have had the great Whittall carpet mills numbered among its leading industries.
Mr. Crompton's business ability was recognized by election as a director of the Worcester National Bank and of the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Company. He rendered valuable service to the city. He was in the board of aldermen in 1853 and 1864. He was a candidate for mayor in 1871. In the year following he took great interest in the settlement of the sewer assessment cases, and he presented an original plan of settlement for that perplexing work. About the last general public service that he rendered was on the committee on the soldiers' monument. He urged the adoption of the design with enthusiasm, and he gave his time and energy freely to the execution of the plans. The monument was dedicated July 15, 1874. and Mr. Crompton was one of the speakers. The
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monument cost $50,000. of which $15,000 was raised by popular subscription, and much of the credit for the successful work of the committee in charge must be given to him. But his life work was his private business, of which he was properly proud. To its management he gave substantially all his time and energy. Its steady development was en- during evidence of his business sagacity and execu- tive ability.
He died, of Bright's disease, after a year of failing health, on December 29, 1886. Mr. Cromp- ton married, in Hartford, Connecticut, January 9, 1853, Mary Christina Pratt. He always took great satisfaction in his home life. He left a widow and nine children : I. Isabel S. 2. Cora E. 3. Stella S. 4. Georgietta F. (now Mrs. Albert B. Wood). 5. Mary K. 6. Charles. 7. Mildred D. (now Mrs. H. W. Smith). 8. George, president of Crompton Association and treasurer of the Crompton-Thayer Loom Company, 677 Cambridge street. 9. Ran- dolph, president Crompton-Thayer Loom Company. (V) Randolph Crompton, son of George Crompton (4), was born in Worcester, Massachu- setts, July 12, 1874. He attended various private schools in Worcester, and fitted for college at Wor- cester Academy and Fish's School in Worcester. He then spent three years at Harvard University studying with private tutors. In 1895 he returned to Worcester and entered the Crompton loom works to learn the business. His father died in December, 1886, when his sons were too young to take up im- mediately the management of the great business that he had established. Randolph and his two brothers eventually entered the loom business, how- ever, and two of the three have been engaged in it most of the time since they left school. After Ran- dolph had worked in the various departments about two years he assumed his share in the man- agcment of the concern and was elected a director The Crompton Loom Works was consolidated with the Knowles Works in the spring of 1897, and the present Crompton & Knowles Loom Works made a corporation, in control of both plants. Randolph Crompton was the assistant superintendent of the Crompton Works on Green street for the new con- cern, and later was made vice-president of the cor- poration. Three years later the Knowles stock- holders purchased the stock of the Cromptons and took full control of all the properties. Accordingly Mr. Crompton resigned, in 1900.
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