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Jesse, born in 1859, married, August 8, 1893, Annie M. Luce; children: i. Herbert Luce, born May 4, 1895; ii. Gertrude N., born March 31, 1897. 7. Elizabeth, married Orin West, of Strafford, Vermont, had one child, Leon N., deceased. 8. Eliza Jane, born No- vember 17, 1862, married, November 17, 1887, J. W. Newman, of Boston ; no children. 9. Walter Kittridge, born November 20, 1863, mentioned below. 10. Emma Reed, born June 3, 1866, married October 15, 1891, Alfred F. Waite, of Medford, Massachusetts ; child, Al- den H. Waite, born December 22, 1892.
(XVII) Walter Kittridge Hutchinson, son of Thomas Kittridge (16), was born at Arl- ington, Massachusetts, November 20, 1863, and was educated there in the public schools. When he was eighteen he began to lay the foundation of future success by retailing the produce from his father's gardens from house to house, and continued in this business until twenty-four years old, when he entered the employ of W. E. Smith in the Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. A year later he left to engage in business on his own account. He bought a wagon and retailed the produce from his father's farm, buying and selling all kinds of fruits and vegetables also, and butter, eggs, cheese and poultry. His trade steadily in- creased and he was able two years later to buy the grocery establishment of Thomas H. Rus- sell at the Center. His business flourished. In order to facilitate his business he opened a branch store at Arlington Heights, September 22, 1900, and November 1, 1901, removed the original store to its present location in the Associates Block. He has one of the largest and finest grocery and provision stores in the county. Each department is a model of its kind. The store is equipped with all the latest and best devices and fixtures, forming a strik- ing contrast in appearance and methods with the old store. In February, 1907, he opened another branch store, located on Church street. Winchester. He has a farm of forty acres at Arlington Heights which he leases, and twen- ty acres adjoining, formerly owned by his father, and two acres at his homestead on Massachusetts avenue, sixty-two acres in all of fine tillage land. He is a very successful market gardener and supplies his stores with all kinds of produce and fruits. His surplus goes to the Boston market. He was president of the Boston Wholesale Grocery Company for three years, a Massachusetts corporation, one of the largest buying syndicates in New England. Mr. Hutchinson originated the bill
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which prohibits the sale of liquor in any gro- cery store or provision store in the state, and is known as the Hutchinson bill. In the last legislature it failed to pass but will doubtless be introduced again. He attends the Unitar- ian church; is a Republican in politics; and member of the Menotomy Council, Royal Ar- canum, the Boston City Club, the Young Men's Club, the Boston Fruit and Produce Association, the Boston Retail Grocers Asso- ciation. He is a director of the Massachusetts State Association of Retail Grocers.
He married, August 16, 1890, Fannie Wy- and Desmond, born December 17, 1871, daughter of Dennis Gerald and Eliza Olden (Conklin) Desmond, of Brooklyn, New York. Children : I. John Gouveneuer, born July 20, 1891. 2. Walter Kittridge, Jr., born January 8, 1895. 3. Edward Hooker, born November 18, 1898. 4. Frank Hubbard, born May 22, I904. 5. Charles Frederick, born June 13, 1906.
WARD The Ward family has an ancient and distinguished English his- tory. The records extend back to the days of Ward, a captain who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror. The first of the family to assume an addition- al name, so far as we know, was William de la Ward who resided in Chester, England, in 1175. The Wards of Yorkshire spread grad- ually over the adjoining counties and the sim- ilarity of their arms indicate a common origin, probably in Yorkshire. The arms are: Azure, a cross baton, or. Crest, a wolf's head, erased.
(I) William Ward, the immigrant ances- tor, was born in England in 1603, probably in Yorkshire. He came to New England before 1639 when he was living in Sudbury, Massa- chusetts. He was admitted a freeman May IO, 1643, was a deputy to the general court in 1644, and was for a number of years chair- man of the board of selectmen in Sudbury and commissioner to end small causes, appointed by the general court. He and eight others were the original petitioners for the grant of land on which Marlborough was founded. As originally laid out the town included not only the present city of Marlborough but West- borough, Southborough and Northborough. Ward moved thither in 1660, the year that the town was incorporated. He deposed October 4, 1664, that he was sixty-one years old. He had a fifty acre house lot on the south side of the road nearly opposite the meeting house.
He was elected deacon of the church. His lands finally extended westward to what is called Belcher's pond, near which was built the tavern of his son-in-law, Abraham Wil- liams, who married his eldest daughter. He suffered with the other settlers great priva- tion and loss during King Philip's war. One son was slain, his buildings burnt and cattle killed.
He died August 10, 1687. His will was dated April 6, 1686. He bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth ; to children John, Increase ; to the children of his sons Richard and Eleazer, deceased; to his son-in-law, Abraham Wil- liams; to all his children by former wife and present wife. The widow died December 9, 1700, in her eighty-seventh year. Children: I. John, born about 1626, married Hannah Jackson. 2. Joanna, born 1628; married Ab- raham Williams. 3. Obadiah, born 1632, married Mary Richard, born 1635, married Mary Moore. 5. Deborah, born 1637, married John Johnson. 6. Hannah, born 1639, married Abraham How. '7. Wil- liam, born January 22, 1640, died young. 8. Samuel, born September 24, 1641, mentioned below. 9. Elizabeth, born April 14, 1643. 10. Increase, born February 22, 1644, married Record. II. Hopestill, born February 24, 1646, married James Woods. 12. William, born February 12, 1648-49, married Hannah Eames. 13. Eleazer, born 1657, married Hannah Rice. 14. Bethia, born 1658, married Daniel Rice.
(II) Samuel Ward, son of William Ward (I), was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, September 24, 1641, and died 1729. He was a farmer in Marlborough. His will dated May 22, 1727, said he "was well stricken in years and crazy in body, but of perfect mind and memory." The will was contested December 19, 1729, by all his children and heirs except Samuel, to whom he gave the most, on the ground that he was crazy in mind as well as body when he made the will. The heirs finally settled the case out of court. He married, June 6, 1667, Sarah How, of Marlboro, daughter of John How. She was born Sep- tember 25, 1644, and died August II, 1707; married (second) Elizabeth -, who sur-
vived him. Children : I. Sarah, born April 22, 1668. 2. Joseph, born 1670, married Abiah Wheelock. 3. Elizabeth, born March, 1672, married Nathaniel Hapgood, September 6, 1695; resided in Stow; son of Shadrach and Elizabeth (Treadway) Hapgood. Her father was killed at Brookfield, August 2,
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1675, by the Indians. 4. Mary, born 1676, married Caleb Rice. 5. Samuel, born March, 1678, mentioned below. 6. Bethia, born May 25, 1681, died unmarried, 1857; a lace maker by trade. 7. Daniel, born 1687, died April 13, 1700, aged thirteen years.
(III) Samuel Ward, son of Samuel Ward (2), was born in March, 1678, and died at Marlborough, February 27, 1737-38, aged six- ty years. He married Mary , who died January 17, 1758. They resided in Marlbor- ough. Children born there: I. Ephraim, born June 26, 1705, married Susanna Weeks. 2. Absalom, born September 20, 1706, mentioned below. 3. Tamar, born February II, 1708, died unmarried in Marlborough. 4. Usley, born August 23, 17II, married Nathan Pres- cott, of Marlborough, March 30, 1736. 6. Uriah, born August 2, 1716, married Sarah Oaks. 7. Benjamin, born November 10, 1719, married Mary Oaks.
(IV) Absalom Ward, son of Samuel Ward (3), was born September 20, 1706. He and his brothers and sisters signed an agreement in settlement of the estate of their father Sam- uel, a copy of which is recorded at Worcester. It provides for an equal partnership in the cedar swamps of the deceased located in West- borough and was signed by Ephraim and Ab- salom Ward, of Southborough ; Samuel, Uriah and Benjamin Ward, of Marlborough, dated November 1, 1743. Absalom lived at South- borough and died there, a farmer. He mar- ried, December 4, 1740, Mary Wilkinson, at Southborough. She died February 22, 1793. He died January 21, 1788. His will provides for his wife Mary "a good maintenance ; to be carried to meeting and to visit her friends and relatives as she shall choose ; also wherewithal to treat others when they come to visit her in like manner; to be performed by my son Erasmus." Among other articles willed to son Samuel was a "claret-coloured jacket." Erasmus had the homestead and paid the other legacies. The will was dated June 26, 1777. Children : I. Rhoda, born July 20, 1742, mar- ried Jabez Newton, December 21, 1769; re- sided at Southborough. 2. Lucy, born Octo- ber 17, 1744, married Ezekiel Newton, (3), May 13, 1772; (second) John Fessendon, of Westborough. 3. Molly, born April 20, 1746, married Bezaleel Newton, December 20, 1769, and settled in Ashfield, Massachusetts; (sec- ond) Damon. 4. Samuel, born Janu- ary I, 1747-48, settled at Cooperstown, New York. 5. Abigail, born December 15, 1749, married, September II, 1776, Josiah Bridges.
6. Erasmus, born March 29, 1752, mentioned below.
(V) Erasmus Ward, son of Absalom Ward (4), was born at Southborough, Massachu- setts, March 29, 1752, and died there February 17, 1834. He was a soldier in the Revolution at the time of the Lexington Alarm, in Cap- tain Josiah Fay's company, Colonel Artemas Ward's regiment: the Southborough minute- men. He had the homestead and residue of his father's estate and lived all his life at Southborough. He deeded his real estate be- fore his death and made no will. Larkin New- ton administered his estate in 1834. He deed- ed April 26, 1813, half of his ninety acre homestead where he lived to his son Hollis. The farm was on the road to Concord. He deeded also on the same date a lot of twenty acres on a small brook adjoining land of Jo- seph Richardson and of Lemuel Chamberlain. The homestead had for neighbors at that time Pierpont Brigham, Abner Brigham and Brigham Fay. The frequency of the name Brigham, Fay and Newton in the records of Southborough is remarkable. The population seems to be composed chiefly of these fam- ilies and their relations. The other half of the homestead was conveyed to Peter Fay, March 9, 1816. Erasmus deeded to Oliver Jewett, of Bolton, the north part of a farm in South- borough, containing thirty-eight acres, sixty- four rods, adjoining land of Silas Brigham, by deed dated June II, 1817. Erasmus and Han- nah Ward deeded April 26, 1813, to their son, Putnam Ward, a farm of thirty-five acres where he was living at the time-bought by Erasmus of William Flagg, September 20, 1809. Erasmus Ward married, December 24, 1782, Hannah Chamberlain, who was born in 1760, died January 28, 1834, aged seventy- four years. Their children: I. Putnam, born January II, 1786, mentioned below. 2. Hol- lis, born October 28, 1788, married, March 4, 1815, Mersylvia Jewett, of Bolton. 3. Syl- vester, born August II, 1791, died November 29, 1838; unmarried. 4. Avery, born June 28, 1794, married, July 26, 1814, Jane May- nard. 5. Artemas, born December 28, 1799, died unmarried at Boston. 6. Hannah, born June 5, 1802, married, October 14, 1827, Moses Wyman; resided in Charlestown; no children.
(VI) Putnam Ward, son of Erasmus Ward (5), was born at Southborough, January II, 1786. He had a farm given him by his father and resided there most of his active life. He married, January 23, 1809, Betsey Johnson,
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who was born at Southborough, March 17, 1787, daughter of Joseph and Charlotte John- son, of Southborough. Children: I. Horace, born at Southborough, February 25, 1810, mentioned below. 2. Charlotte, born at South- borough, March 29, 1817, married, June 3, 1842, Thomas Denneke; children: i. John Denneke, born April 2, 1843; ii. William Den- neke, November 29, 1845; iii. Josephine Den- neke, March 23, 1847. 3. Catherine (twin), born March 29, 1817, married, February 2, 1842, Charles Warren, of Westborough; chil- dren : i. Son, died September 9, 1843 ; ii. Char- lotte E. Warren, born October 19, 1844; iii. Catherine Elizabeth Warren, October 17, 1848. 4. Clarissa, living in 1850. 5. Eliza, living in 1850.
(VII) Horace Ward, son of Putnam Ward (6), was born at Southborough, February 25, 1810. His education was received in the com- mon schools of his native town. He worked on the farm of his father until he left home to learn the trade of carpenter at Southbridge, Massachusetts. After working there as journeyman for several years he removed to Framingham, Massachusetts, where he work- ed for the town and other employers. While he was in Framingham he set out the trees around the common, and they are now grown to large proportions and present a very attrac- tive appearance. He was always interested in floriculture and horticulture. He went to Lowell from Framingham and continued his business as carpenter, and many of the cor- poration houses were built by him; he had many contracts in that city. He went next to Boston where he resided in the Fort Hill dis- trict and continued his business as carpenter and builder. He located finally at Woburn. He had the contract for the old General Thompson tannery, and among the finest structures on which he worked were the resi- dences of Peter C. Brooks at Medford and of Joseph Nickerson at Jamaica Plain, also many of the fine residences of Woburn and vicinity, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Medford. He lived two years at Bedford on the Robert Bird farm, which he bought. He sold it to Thomas Ryan at the end of that time, however, and returned to Woburn. He built the tannery and residence of John Cummings, of Woburn, and then took charge of all the alterations and repairs in the property of Mr. Cummings. Owing to failing health Mr. Ward made a trip to Colorado, but died there August 29, 1877. He was buried at Woburn. He was a member of the Woburn Congregational church. In
politics he was a Republican. At the time of the Civil war he was a member of the Wo- burn militia company. He married, October 13, 1835, at Acton, Massachusetts, Mary Hap- good Billings, of Acton, daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca (Hapgood) Billings, of Acton. She was born March 3, 18II. Jonathan Bil- lings was a clock-maker. Children: I. Mary Elizabeth, born at Acton, October II, 1840, died at Woburn, March 13, 1880. 2. Emily Sophia, born September 10, 1841, died of con- sumption at Woburn, March II, 1876; school teacher in Woburn public schools. 3. William Horace, born April 9, 1855, mentioned below. (VIII) William Horace Ward, son of Horace Ward (7), was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, April 9, 1855. He received his education in the public schools, supple- mented by a course in Warren Academy in Woburn. He worked at the carpenter's trade with his father when not in school, but he preferred the business of florist and was em- ployed in the greenhouses of John Cummings, of Woburn, for ten years, finally being placed in charge of the business of his employer. In 1878 he entered the coal and wood business at Marlborough with his cousin, Charles F. Rob- inson, under the firm name of Robinson & Ward. The business proved successful and increased rapidly. At the end of eight years he sold his interests to his partner and bought the J. H. Rogers property at Montvale in Wo- burn and started in the florist business. At first he had only one greenhouse sixty feet in length; his business has- prospered and re- quired greater facilities until at present he has six large greenhouses equipped with the latest improvements and having an area of fifteen thousand square feet of glass. He has also bought more land and his residence and build- ings are among the most desirable and attrac- tive in the eastern part of the city. In his business he makes a specialty of carnations and of tomatoes, finding an excellent market in Boston. At one time Mr. Ward was inter- ested in the cultivation of oranges in Florida. Mr. Ward has an attractive personality and enjoys the esteem of many friends and the confidence and respect of all his townsmen. He is a member of the Congregational church at Woburn. In politics he is a Republican and has been delegate to conventions of his party. He is well known in Masonic circles, being a member of Mount Horeb Lodge of Free Masons. He is also a member of Baldwin Council, No. 125, Royal Arcanum; of the
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Florists' Club of Boston and formerly of the Misawum Club of Woburn.
He married, November 24, 1887, Sarah Louise Proctor, who was born at Marlbor- ough, May 1, 1856, the daughter of Thomas W. and Mary Brown (Dennis) Proctor, of Marlborough. Her father was a shoemaker by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Ward have no chil- dren.
General Edward Goddard, of GODDARD Norfolk, Essex county, Eng- land, a farmer and the pos- sessor of a good estate, sided with the Parlia- mentary forces under Oliver Cromwell in the great civil strife which resulted in the trial and execution of Charles I., in 1649. His house was destroyed and his substance plundered by a party of Royalists, and this misfortune is said to have caused his death. He was the father of nine sons and three daughters, and the Goddards mentioned in this article are undoubtedly descended from him through his son William.
William Goddard, seventh son of General Edward, is also given the title of general in the old records. He married Elizabeth Miles, and came to New England in 1665, for the purpose of collecting a debt, but being favorably im- pressed with the country he decided to remain, and settling at Watertown, Massachusetts, he died there in 1691.
Moses Goddard, a descendant of General William, and probably a son of Nathan God- dard, was a native of Springfield, Massachu- setts. He learned the tanner's trade, and early in life went to western New York, and during the war of 1812-15 served as a soldier on the frontier of that state. He operated a tannery in Barre, New York, for a few years, but about 1837 removed to Porter, Niagara coun- ty, and settled upon a farm of one hundred and fifty acres. He raised large crops of wheat and other products, as well as cattle, sheep and horses, and was a very successful farmer. Aside from his legitimate calling his activities were confined principally to religious matters, and he was a prominent member of the Porter Baptist Church, contributing liber- ally toward its support. In politics he was a Whig. He was married in Middlebury, Ver- mont, to Deborah Peebles.
Squires Billings Goddard, son of Moses and Deborah (Peebles) Goddard, was born in Barre, New York, March 28, 1833. At the age of four years he removed with his parents
to Porter, where he was reared and educated. He assisted his father in farming until seven- teen years old, when he went to Niagara Falls and for two years was collector of ferries. He next became ticket agent for the Sandusky line of steamers on Lake Erie, going later to the Cleveland line in the same capacity, and was finally appointed ticket agent at Niagara Falls for the New York Central railroad, re- taining that position four years. Leaving the railway service he engaged in the grain busi- ness at Toronto, Ontario, but a year later re- turned to New York state and became cashier of the Lockport National Bank. Resigning that position, he went to California, and ac- quiring an interest in the Cutting Packing Company of San Francisco, packers of fish, fruit, etc., he remained upon the Pacific coast about twelve years. Disposing of his business interest in 1872 he came to New England, and after residing in Woburn for a year, went to New York city, where he became a special partner in the packing house of V. H. Dudley & Company for the specified time of two years, during which he travelled abroad. His pack- ing interests in the metropolis having expired by limitation, he again retired from business, but in 1882 he returned to Woburn, where he established himself in the insurance business, also having office quarters in Boston, and in 1894 admitted his son, Ralph F., to partner- ship, under the firm name of S. B. Goddard & Son. Some time since he withdrew from active participation in the business, still retaining his interest however, and lived in retirement at Woburn. He died January 22, 1908.
Mr. Goddard served as vice-president of the Woburn Co-operative Bank, as director of the First National and the Woburn National banks, and as a trustee of the Woburn Five Cents Savings Bank. In politics he acted independently, and during the first two years of the Woburn city government served on the board of aldermen. He was made a Master Mason in Niagara Frontier Lodge, Niagara Falls, was exalted in Ames Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Lockport, and knighted in Gen- esee Commandery, Knights Templar, of that city. He was a member of the Towanda and the Meshawum clubs of Woburn. In his reli- gious belief he was a Unitarian. On October 21, 1865, Mr. Goddard was married, in San Francisco, to Miss Cynthia Bucklin Frost, who was born April 15, 1838, daughter of Walter and Esther ( Ingraham) Frost, of Boston. She became the mother of three sons: Walter Frost Goddard, born July 16, 1866, died Au-
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gust II, 1867; Frank Cutting Goddard, born March 10, 1869; and Ralph Frost Goddard, who will be again referred to.
Mrs. Cynthia Bucklin Frost Goddard is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of Edmund Frost, an early English immigrant through Ephraim (2), Edmund (3), Gideon (4), Walter (5) and Walter (6). Edmund Frost was a passenger in the ship "Good Hope" from Ipswich, England, in 1635, and settled in Cambridge, where he was made a freeman in 1636. He was a close personal friend of the Rev. Thomas Shepard, whom he had known in England, and he became ruling elder in the church of which that clergyman was pastor. He bought and sold property in Cambridge, and it is thought that he finally settled on the north side of Kirkland street, near what is now Divinity Hall avenue, where his descendants resided for at least two hun- dred years. He died July 12, 1672. His first wife, Thomasine, who accompanied him from England, died in Cambridge, and prior to 1669 he married widow Reana Daniel, who survived him. By wife Thomasine he had John, Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, James, Mary and Ephraim. (N. B .- Savage says that he had other children by wife Mary).
Ephraim Frost, sixth son and seventh child of Edmund and Thomasine Frost, was born at Cambridge in 1646 or '47, and died January 2, 1717-18. The Christian name of his wife was Hepzibah, and his children were: Mary, Edmund, Ephraim, Thomas, Ebenezer and Sarah.
Edmund Frost, second child and eldest son of Ephraim and Hepzibah Frost, was born in Cambridge, March 14, 1679-80, died Novem- ber 6, 1752. He was a shoemaker by trade, and occupied the homestead on Kirkland street. He married Hannah Cooper, daughter of Deacon Samuel Cooper, and she died May 15, 1767, aged eighty-three years. Their chil- dren were: Hannah, Elizabeth, Edmund, Ste- phen, Jonathan and Gideon.
Gideon Frost, youngest child of Edmund and Hannah (Cooper) Frost, was born in Cambridge, and baptized June 14, 1724. He was a blacksmith. He acquired possession of the Kirkland street homestead by purchasing the interests of the other heirs, and about 1763 removed to a house on the easterly side of North avenue, nearly opposite Linnaen street, in North Cambridge. For twenty years he was a deacon of the Congregational church. January 18, 1753, he married Sarah Ireland. He died January 30, 1803, and his wife died
July 1, 1805, aged seventy-six years. Their children were: Sarah, Gideon, John, Eliza- beth, Walter, Martha and William.
Walter Frost, third son and fifth child of Gideon and Sarah (Ireland) Frost, was born in Cambridge, August 29, 1766. He was a tanner. His residence was on the eastern side of North avenue (now Massachusetts avenue) near the railroad bridge, and stood on the estate recently owned by Ozias Morse. This property passed out of his hands in 1807, and he probably removed from Cambridge that year. His death occurred in Haverhill, Mass- achusetts, April 20, 1818. He was married June 21, 1792, to Martha Tufts, of Charles- town, and had a family of seven children: Martha (who died young), John, Walter, Martha, Sarah Ann, Gideon and Samuel T. The mother of these children died July 30, 1805, aged thirty-two years.
Walter (2) Frost, second son and third child of Walter and Martha (Tufts) Frost, was born in Cambridge, February 2, 1796. It was his intention to pursue a collegiate course, but suspended his preparatory studies at the age of sixteen years in order to enlist for ser- vice in the war of 1812-15, and his regiment was engaged in erecting the fortifications at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. Upon leaving the army he relinquished his college aspira- tions at the advice of his uncle, who was his guardian, and at the latter's suggestion he learned the carriage-maker's trade, serving an apprenticeship of seven years. He subse- quently established himself as a carriage- maker in Boston, where for many years he transacted an extensive business, having a large domestic demand for his products and also exporting them to Cuba. Thomas God- dard and Thomas Hall, both of whom became celebrated carriage-makers, served their ap- prenticeship in his factory, which was located in the rear of the present City Hall. His resi- dence in the same locality afterwards became the site of the famous Boston Museum, and is now occupied by the Kimball Building. In 1845 Mr. Frost retired from business with a comfortable competency, and purchasing the present Frost homestead in Pleasant street, Woburn, he resided there for the rest of his life, which terminated March 28, 1867. While residing in Boston he served as a captain in the state militia. After removing to Woburn he was instrumental in organizing the Unita- rian Church, of which he became a deacon. In politics he was originally a Whig, but later acted with the Republican party, and in addi-
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