Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 42

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912

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He married, November 9, 1899, Caroline Stearns Barrett, daughter of Henry Barrett, a prominent citizen of Malden, and Lucy Theodora Gallinean (Stearns) Barrett. Mr. and Mrs. Littlefield have no children.

STODDARD

Farnum Stoddard, father of William Oliver Stod- dard, was born in Peter-

boro, New Hampshire. In early life he lo- cated in Wakefield, and later removed to Reading, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of shoemaker of Jonathan Nichols, a shoe manufacturer, and he followed that occupation throughout the years of his active career. He married Emily Larrabee, a na- tive of Wakefield, Massachusetts, who bore him five children: William Oliver, mentioned below; Zenas; Henry, deceased; George W .; Nancy R., died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard were members of the Congrega- tional church. Mr. Stoddard died in Wake- field at the early age of thirty-six years.

William Oliver Stoddard, son of Farnum and Emily (Larrabee) Stoddard, was born in Malden, Massachusetts, February. 19, 1836. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and when a young man came to Wake- field and learned the trade of shoemaker, which line of industry he made his life work, achieving therein a well deserved success. He was a Universalist in religion, and a Re- publican in politics, and was esteemed by all who had the honor of his acquaintance. His death occurred February 22, 1895. He mar- ried, April 25, 1865, Frances Nichols, born in South Reading, March 21, 1836, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Emerson) Nichols. Their children are: I. Henry Warren, born October 8, 1866; married Ada Edmonds; three children: Helen A., Josephine F., Ada

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H. 2. Frank Emerson, born June 6, 1869; unmarried. 3. Fred. Bertram, born Novem- ber 2, 1871; married Jennie Blythe. 4. Her- bert A., born September 29, 1874; married Hattie Moulton; one child, Ruth E. 5. Wil- liam A., born October 6, 1876; unmarried.

Mrs. Frances (Nichols) Stoddard traces her ancestry to Nicholas de Albioni, alias Nigell or Nicholl, who came to England from Normandy at the time of Edward the Confessor. The next in line of descent was Richard Nichols, who came from England before 1638, when he was admitted a free- man of the town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was a witness before the general court in Ipswich, December 1, 1640, was on the list of Major Denison's subscribers in 1648, and later removed to the neighboring town of Reading. He died at Reading; November 22, 1674. His will was made November 19, 1674, and proved December II, following. His wife Annas was admitted to the church at Reading in 1666; she died in Reading, 1692. Their children were: Mary, Thomas, James, John, Richard, Hannah or Joannah.

James Nichols, son of Richard Nichols, was born July 25, 1658, at Ipswich. He was admitted a freeman in 1691, and was a farmer of Reading. He married, 1682, Mary Poole, probably daughter of Jonathan . and Judith Poole. He died in 1745, aged eighty-seven years, and his wife in 17II. Children: James, Mary, Jonathan, William, Sarah, Ebenezer.

Jonathan Nichols, son of James Nichols, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, 1691. He lived in South Reading. He married, 1716, Phebe Eaton, children: Jonathan, Ben- jamin.

Benjamin Nichols, son of Jonathan Ni- chols, was born at Reading, 1723, and suc- ceeded to the Nichols homestead in South Parish. He married Mary Trow, children: Joseph, Benjamin, Jonathan, Jesse, Mary, Ebenezer.

Ebenezer Nichols, son of Benjamin Ni- chols, was born in Reading, March 14, 1762. Married (first) 1789, Rebecca Howard, of Andover, Massachusetts, and (second) 1790, Betsey Dix. Children: Eben, Betsey, Jona- than, Rebecca, Sally, Jonathan, Rachel, Nan- cy, Daniel, Mary Ellen. Ebenezer was a pri- vate in the company of Captain Cadwalader Ford, Colonel Eleazer Brooks's regiment, 1777-78. He died September 10, 1840.

Jonathan Nichols, son of Ebenezer Ni- chols, was born in Hillsboro, New Hamp- shire, March 4, 1800. He received a com- mon school education in his native town, and

learned the trade of shoemaker. In 1821 he came to Wakefield, Massachusetts, and en- gaged in the manufacture of shoes, which he sold to the surrounding trade, and followed this line of work for many years. He then purchased a tract of land, which he farmed during the summer months, and the remain- ing months of the year he devoted to the man- ufacture of shoes. He was a Whig and later a Republican in politics. In early life he at- tended the Methodist Episcopal church, but later his religious views became more liberal. He died at Wakefield, October 20, 1895. He married Elizabeth Emerson, daughter of James Emerson, of an old Reading family, in 1826. Children : I. Mary E., born August 18, 1827; married David Fairbanks, of Medfield, Massachusetts, four children, only one of whom is living, John, of Wakefield. 2. Han- nibal, born in 1830; married Harriet French; children: Elizabeth, Laura, Arthur, Grace, Eben. 3. Abbie E., married Holman Pope; one child, died in infancy. 4. Frances, aforementioned as the wife of William Oliver Stoddard. 5. Warren, born January 31, 1840; married Ellen French, one child, Le- roy, born November 8, 1873, died January 25, 1893.

The city of Lowell, Massa- MERCIER chusetts, generously invited to its municipality citizens of all nationalities, and offered to industry a premium in steady work, the privilege of citizenship, and a chance to accumulate wealth. Among those who accepted this of- fer and proved the value of the premium, a better example cannot be selected to demon- strate the wisdom of the invitation than Al- aric Mercier, who was born and educated in Canada and lived there up to the time of his majority, as established both by law and cus- toms. He came to Lowell when twenty-two years of age, and worked in the mills from 1854 up to the time he found a better place as packer and shipper in the drug department of .J. C. Ayer & Company's establishment in Lowell. He remained with this company and corporation for twenty-five years. About 1890 he established a business on his own ac- count in manufacturing and selling an at- tractive and palatable preparation of potato chips that found a ready market and he in- vested his profits in real estate in Lowell. He retired from active business in 1904 on reach- ing his seventy-second year of age, having attained a competence in the fifty years he

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had been a resident of the "City of Spindles."

He married, before leaving Canada, Mary Lemere, and they began married life in Low- ell where ten children were born to them. They attended the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Mercier on becoming a citi- zen of the United States affiliated with the Republican party then just formed to take the place of the Free Soil party, which it ab- sorbed. Of the ten children born to them only two were living in 1907. Their eldest son, Henry Mercier, was born in Lowell, 1858, was educated in the public schools. of his native city, and on reaching manhood en- gaged in the hotel and restaurant business in Boston. He was married December 29, 1879, to Melinda Demers, of Canada, and they had three children: Edmond Mercier, born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 24, 1880. Chester Mercier, born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 4, 1885. Ingham Mercier, born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 18, 1893.

STEVENS The Stevenses 'represented in this article are the de- scendants of Colonel Thomas Stevens, of Devonshire, England, who, ac- cording to the records, went to reside in Lon- don early in the seventeenth century. Wil- liam Stevens, son of Colonel Thomas Stevens, was the father of three sons and three daugh- ters, four of whom, Thomas, Cyprian, Richard and Mary, came to New England. Cyprian Stevens emigrated about the year 1660 and settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where in 1671 he married Mary Willard, daughter of Major Simon Willard. Some of his children, including his son Simon, settled in Marlbor- ough, and their descendants are still to be found in that locality.

Daniel Stevens, Sr., a descendant of Cy- prian, was residing in Marlborough prior to the Revolutionary war, and had a son Daniel who weighed more than three hundred pounds. Daniel Stevens, Jr., represented Marlborough in the state legislature and for twenty years acted as a justice of the peace. July 20, 1797, he married Eunice Robinson, of Concord, Massachusetts, who died February 20, 1844, aged sixty-nine years. Daniel and Eunice were the parents of three children : Isaac Temple, Ann Bent and Eunice C. Ann Bent Stevens became the wife of Issacher Dicker- man, and had a family of eleven children.

Isaac Temple Stevens, only son of Daniel and Eunice (Robinson) Stevens, was born in

Marlborough, January 3, 1798. He was mar- ried in his native town, October 17, 1817, to Catherine Felton, who bore him seven sons and six daughters. The eldest son, Daniel Waldo Stevens, was graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1846, studied theol- ogy and entered the ministry.

Levi L. Stevens, son of Isaac T. and Cath- erine (Felton) Stevens, was born in Marlbor- ough, October 22, 1824. Learning the shoe- maker's trade he followed it in Marlborough until 1880, and when his son Oscar establish- ed himself as a dentist he became the latter's assistant. Some fifteen years later he became associated with his son in the manufacture of boxes, and continued in that business until his death, which occurred March 9, 1905. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias. June 30, 1851, he married Ellen Abigail Salis- bury,'and she became the mother of five chil- dren : I. Waldo L., born May 4, 1852. 2. Oscar Herbert, mentioned below. 3. John S., born May 20, 1858. 4. George H., born June 5, 1863. 5. Harriette, born April 13, 1865, became the wife of Edwin F. Simpson. Mrs. Ellen Abigail Stevens died April 21, 1899.

Oscar Herbert Stevens, second son of Levi L. and Ellen Abigail (Salisbury) Stevens, was born in Marlborough, November 16, 1854. He was educated in the Marlborough public schools, and deciding to enter the dental pro- fession he became a student in the office of Dr. S. J. Shaw. After three years of prelim- inary study he entered the Boston Dental College, and immediately following his gradu- ation in 1884 established himself in Marlbor- ough, where he practiced his profession suc- cessfully for a period of twenty years. In 1896 he engaged in the production of boxes, organ- izing for that purpose the O. H. Stevens Man- ufacturing Company, and he is now devoting his attention exclusively to this enterprise, being its treasurer and superintendent.

Mr. Stevens is far advanced in the Ma- sonic Order, affiliating with the United Brethren (Blue) Lodge, Houghton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Trinity Command- ery, Knights Templar, all of Marlborough ; Massachusetts Consistory (Thirty-second de- gree) and Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mys- tic Shrine, Boston. He is a member of the local lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and the Union Club.

In 1885 Mr. Stevens was united in marriage with Charlotte Adelaide Howe, daughter of Hon. Simon H. and Harriette (Brigham) Howe, of Marlborough.

Mrs. Stevens is of the eighth generation in

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descent from Abraham Howe, and of the ninth generation from John Howe, both of whom were among the founders of Marlborough. John Howe was born in England and emi- grated to America when a young man, went to Marlborough from Sudbury in 1657 and was, perhaps, the first white man to locate there. Abraham Howe, who was also an im- migrant from England, went to Marlbor- ough, probably from Roxbury, in 1660, and died there June 30, 1695. In 1657 he married Hannah Ward, daughter of William Ward, and she died November 3, 1717, at the ad- vanced age of ninety-eight years. Their chil- dren were: Daniel, Mary, Joseph, Hannah, Elizabeth, Deborah, Rebecca, Abraham, Sar- ah and Abigail.

Joseph Howe, second son of Abraham and Hannah (Ward) Howe, was born in 1660-61. He was an extensive real estate holder, own- ing land in Watertown, Lancaster and Marl- borough, and among his possessions in the last named town was the Felton grist mill, which was probably the first one erected there. His death occurred in Marlborough, September 4, 1700. He married Dorothy Martin and had a family of six children: Sarah, Eunice, Bethia, Joseph, Abraham and Jedediah.

Abraham Howe, second son of Joseph and Dorothy (Martin) Howe, was born in Marl- borough, March 21, 1698. May 24, 1724, he married. Rachel Rice, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Graves) Rice. She bore him eight children: Eunice, Mary, Persis, Abra- ham, Asa, Abner, Adonijah and Anna.

Asa Howe, second son of Abraham and Rachel (Rice) Howe, was born in Marlbor- ough, November 30, 1733. He was married March 18, 1762, to Rachel Goddard, who was born June 10, 1734, and she became the mother of children: John, Abigail, Miriam, Lucy, Abraham, Esther and Lydia.

Abraham Howe, son of Asa and Rachel (Goddard) Howe, was born in Marlborough, February 22, 1770. He was known as Cap- tain Abraham Howe, having commanded a local militia company, and he died October 2, 1848. His wife, whom he married No- vember 25, 1793, was Elizabeth Wetherbee, of Boxboro, Massachusetts, and she died August 28, 1853, aged seventy-seven. Their children were: Amory, Eliza, Samuel, Abra- ham, Ruth W., Alvin P., Mary Ann, Charles, Harriet, Maria, Matthew H. and Lydia Eliza.

Samuel Howe, second son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Wetherbee) Howe, was born in

Marlborough, March 2, 1800. Learning the cooper's trade he engaged in that business and became very successful, retiring in 1842 with a competency. The remainder of his life was devoted to farming. He possessed an excellent voice and for many years. was a member of the Unitarian Church choir. He married Charlotte Howe, daughter of Jo- seph and Eunice (Howe) Howe, and a direct descendant in the sixth generation of the first Abraham Howe through Joseph (2) and Dorothy (Martin) Howe, Joseph (3) and Ruth (Brigham) Howe, and Joseph (4) and Grace (Rice) Howe. Ruth Brigham was a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Brigham and a descendant of one of the original proprie- tors of Marlborough. Grace Rice, who be- came the wife of the third Joseph Howe, was

a daughter of Simon Rice. The fourth Jo- seph Howe, born March 8, 1775, died Sep- tember 5, 1851; married Eunice Howe, a lineal descendant of John Howe, the emi- grant previously referred to. Samuel and Charlotte Howe were the parents of four children: Charlotte, Clarissa, Lewis A. and Simon Herbert.

Hon. Simon Herbert Howe, youngest child of Samuel and Charlotte (Howe) Howe, was born in Marlborough, December 21, 1835. His education and business train- ing were acquired in his native town. Identi- fying himself with the boot and shoe manu- facturing industry he attained success, organ- izing in 1888 the S. H. Howe Shoe Company, of which he became president. The facilities of this concern were increased rapidly in or- der to meet the large demand for their pro- ducts, and the capacity of their four factories amounts to many thousand pairs of shoes per week. In 1875 Mr. Howe was elected a trustee of the Marlboro Savings Bank and has been its president since 1882. From 1879 to the present time he has been a member of the board of directors in the People's Na- tional Bank, of which he was one of the in- corporators. He has participated in public affairs, holding several important elective of- fices during the period of his activities, and his public services have been unusually effi- cient. January 1, 1857, he married Harriette Brigham, daughter of William Pitt and La- vinia (Baker) Brigham. Of this union there were four children, two of whom are living: Louis Porter, of the S. H. Howe Company; and Charlotte Adelaide, who became the wife of Oscar H. Stevens, as previously stated. Louis Porter Howe married India H. Arn- old, daughter of Lorren Arnold, of Marl-

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borough. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have had three children: Herbert, born April 7, 1888. Oscar Levi, who is no longer living. Louis Waldo, born July 24, 1894.

John Stott was born in Rochdale,

STOTT England, in' 1812. He received a good education in the schools of his native town, and then learned the busi- ness of manufacturing woolen goods, and rose to a responsible position in the mill where he was employed in Rochdale. He came to America in 1856, and located in Lowell, Mas- sachusetts, as superintendent of the Belvidere Woolen Mills, and during the rest of his life occupied that position. He was an active and influential citizen, and commanded the esteem and confidence of all his townsmen. In poli- tics he was an active and efficient worker in the Republican party on the success of which most of the woolen industries depended for many years. He never sought office. He married, in England, Mary Ashworth. Chil- dren : Sarah; George .; Samuel E .; Thomas, mentioned below ; Leah; John; Alice; Charles. (II) Thomas Stott, son of John Stott (I), was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, July 18, 1846. He attended school at An- dover and at Lowell, whither he came with his father in 1856. On finishing his education he entered the Middlesex Mills and learned the woolen manufacturing business from top to bottom. He associated himself with Thomas McGraw & Company of Boston, in the busi- ness of grading wool, and remained in that position until 1871, when he became connect- ed with the Kitson Machine Company of Low- ell. He left this concern to engage in the manufacture of card clothing in partnership with his brother, Samuel E. Stott, and they have been very successful in their business venture. Mr. Stott is a member of Kilwin- ning Lodge of Free Masons, and of the Kirk Street Congregational Church.

He married, October 16, 1873, Emma Kit- son, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Rey- nolds) Kitson, of Lowell. Their only child, Lucy Kitson, born November 5, 1874, mar- ried, September 28, 1898, Charles L. Stover ; their children: i. Marjorie Stover; ii. Rich- ard Kitson Stover; iii. Lucy C. Stover; iv. Charles L. Stover, Jr.

William Sherman, the immi- SHERMAN grant ancestor, was born in England. He came to Ply- mouth in New England about 1630, was taxed in Duxbury as early as 1632, and was a pro-

prietor of that town in 1637, and on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. He re- moved to Marshfield, and was admitted an inhabitant of that town November 13, 1644, and held town offices there. He divided his estate among his sons by deed to Samuel, June 9, 1673, to John, February 5, 1673, and to William, August 15, 1676. He was a yeo- man, or planter. He died October 25, 1679. The inventory of his estate was dated De- cember 30, 1680. He was buried at Marsh- field. He married, in 1638, Prudence Hill. Children: I. John, born 1646, died 1722; one of the first settlers in Rochester, Massa- chusetts, on land purchased by his father ; married March 26, 1712, Sarah Baker. 2. William, mentioned below. 3. Samuel, mar- ried first, Sarah Daggett; second, Han- nah

(II) William Sherman, son of William Sherman (I), was born about 1645, and was a farmer in Marshfield. He was a soldier in King Philip's war, and suffered greatly from exposure. The general court voted twenty pounds for the family on account of his ill- ness. He married Desire Philip, daughter of John. Children: I. Hannah, born February 21, 1668. 2. Elizabeth, born March II, 1670, died 1695. 3. William, born April 19, 1672; mentioned below. 4. Patience, born August 3, 1674. 5. Experience, born September 2, 1678. 6. Ebenezer, born April 21, 1680; died 1759.

(III) William Sherman, son of William Sherman (2), was born in Marshfield, April 19, 1672. He was a farmer at Marshfield and Rochester, Massachusetts. He married, Feb- ruary 3, 1697, Mary White, daughter of Pere- grine White, who was the first white child born in Plymouth. His parents, William and Susanna (Fuller) White, were Pilgrims from Holland, coming in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and all the descendants of William and Mary Sherman are entitled to belong to the May- flower Society. Children: I. Thankful, born April 4, 1699; married, 1726, Robert Atkins. 2. Sarah, born May 8, 1701; married Adam Hall. 3. Mary (twin), born June 6, 1711. 4. Abigail (twin), born June 6, 1711. 5. John, born July 19, 1720. 6. Anthony, born De- cember 21, 1722; mentioned below.

(IV) Anthony Sherman, son of William Sherman (3), was born December 21, 1722. He removed from Rochester to East Bridge- water, Massachusetts, about 1766, and late in life he settled at Tamworth, New Hampshire, with his son. He married Silence Ford, of Marshfield. Children, born at Rochester: I.

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Mary, born 1747; married Eleazer Allen, of Rochester. 2. Hannah, born October 25, 1749; married, 1776, Josiah Newton, and sec- ond, Cushing Mitchell. 3. Jane, born 1751; married, 1773, Eleazer Barrows. 4. Thomas, born April 18, 1754; mentioned below. 5. Lydia, born 1756; married, 1781, Thomas Whitman. 6. Lois, born 1758; married

Blaisdell, of Tamworth, New Hampshire. Children born at Tamworth: 7-8. Ruth and Betty, twins, born 1768; Ruth married Jared White, of Amherst, 1794; Betty married Jo- seph Keith, and (second) Timothy Allen.

(V) Thomas Sherman, son of Anthony Sherman (4), was born at Rochester, Massa- chusetts, April 18, 1754. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Abram Wash- burn's company, Colonel John Cushing's reg- iment, in 1776; also in Captain Nathan Snow's company, of Bridgewater, Colonel Hawe's regiment, in a secret expedition to Rhode Island in 1777. He removed after the revo- lution to Tamworth, New Hampshire, and lived there the remainder of his life. He mar- ried, in 1781, Betsey Keith, daughter of Daniel Keith. Children, born in Bridgewater: I.' Anthony, settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts, 1783. 2. Daniel, born 1785. 3. Thomas, born 1787, to be further mentioned. 4. Lydia. 5. Naomi. 6. Betsey. 7. Martin. 8. Hannah.

(VI) Thomas Sherman, son of Thomas Sherman (5), was born at Bridgewater, March 30, 1787. He was á farmer at North Leba- non, Maine. He married Eleanor Sutherland, and their children were: I. Mary, born No- vember 19, 1819. 2. Sarah, born December 19, 1821. 3. Thomas, January 14, 1823. 4. Naomi Georgianna, December 3, 1825; mar- ried William Augustus Carlisle (see Carlisle sketch). 5. Julia A., born March 6, 1827. 6. Joseph K., born July 23, 1829. 7. George N., born October 15, 1831. 8. Eleanor, born February 10, 1834; married William Augustus Carlisle. 9. Enoch P., born March 18, 1836. IO. John W., born July 11, 1838. The only members of this family now living are Enoch P., who resides on the homestead farm; and Eleanor, now Mrs. William Augustus Car- lisle. The eldest child was born in Miramichi, New Brunswick, and the remainder in Le- banon, Maine.

Stephen Carlisle (I) settled CARLISLE in Blue Hill, Maine, and was a farmer during his ac- tive life, at Limerick, Maine. He married Sarah Chase, and their children were: I.

James, of whom further. 2. Stephen, Jr., 3. Josiah. 4. Elizabeth, married a Gordon. 5 Maria, married a Chase. 6. Sarah, married a Scott.

(II) James Carlisle, son of Stephen and Sarah (Chase) Carlisle, was born in Limerick, Maine. He was a printer by trade, and came to Boston when a young man. He worked in various printing offices in that city, and was printer and pressman on The Liberator, the famous anti-slavery organ of William Lloyd Garrison, from the beginning until its work was done and it ceased to be. He la- bored with the Republican party from the be- ginning of that organization. In religion he was a Congregationalist. He married Jerusha Kennard, descendant of an old family of Kit- tery and Old Eliot, Maine; and (second) Katherine Parks. By his first marriage he had two children: William Augustus, of whom further; and James, who died quite young. By his second marriage he had two children : James, married Frances Clark, and resides in California; and Sarah E., married William B. Hill, and resides in Worcester, Massachusetts.

(III). William Augustus Carlisle, eldest son of James Carlisle, was born October 28, 1820, in Boston, Massachusetts, died in that city, January 8, 1908, in his eighty-eighth year. As a boy he attended the old Mayhew school, and after his school days entered the printing office of his father. He learned the trade 'of painter and glazier, and in 1841, be- ing of age and having completed his appren- ticeship, he entered the employ of Levi Boles & Company, which was succeeded by the firm of E. A. Carlisle, Pope & Company, in Hay- market square, and was continuously with these companies for sixty-six years. Mr. Car- lisle went back and forth from his home to his business twice a day, always walking, which in part aided in keeping him so well and active up to the time of his death. He lived for a time in Monument square, Charlestown, later in Malden, removing from there to his home in Temple street, Boston, where he re- sided many years. He was regarded most highly for his many excellent-traits of char- acter. He was treasurer of the First Free Will Baptist Church in Boston for about twenty- five years, and for about that length of time was also superintendent of its Sunday school. In recent years he had attended the First Methodist Church in Temple street, near his home, and was deeply interested in its work and affairs. He was a Republican in politics. He was a member of Bethlehem Council, Roy-

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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 42

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 912

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 912