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WILLIAM A. CRAFTS was born in Roxbury, Mass., in 1819, graduated at Harvard College in 1840, and soon after being admitted to the bar opened an office in Grafton, but after a few months removed to Boston. Was president of the Common Council of Roxbury three years, and represented that city in the Legislature in 1853, 1854 and 1861. Was assistant clerk of the House of Representatives for several years, and has been clerk of the Board of Railroad Com- missioners since its first establishment in 1869. Has given some attention to journalism, and is the author of a con- temporaneous " History of the Southern Rebellion," and of " Pioneers in the Settlement of America," both published as illustrated serials.
WILLIAM F. SLOCUM. One of Grafton's prominent and valuable men was Mr. Sloeum, who was born at Tolland, Mass., Jannary 31st, 1822 ; the eldest son of Oliver E. and Polly Slocum.
He was admitted to the Bar in Berkshire County, Octo- ber, 1846, and commenced the practice of law at Grafton in the following December, and continued in practice there until 1866, when he formed a co-partnership with Hon. H. B. Staples, present District-Attorney for Worcester County. They opened an office in Boston, but Mr. S. continued his residence in Grafton until 1869, when he removed to New- ton, Mass.
About this time he became associated in business with a new firm, composed of Mr. Staples and F. P. Goulding,
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Esq., of Worcester, where the business was carried on in the name of Staples & Goulding, and in Boston, under the name of Slocum & Staples. This arrangement continued until 1871, when this firm dissolved, Mr. Slocum taking the Boston business and Staples & Goulding the business of the firm in Worcester.
In October of 1871, Mr. Slocum's oldest son, Winfield S. Slocum, was admitted to the bar, and immediately became associated with him in business, under the firm name of W. F. & W. S. Slocum, and their present place of business is at 328 Washington street, Boston.
While in Grafton, Mr. S. had a large practice from most of the towns in the southeasterly part of Worcester County, and was engaged in very many of the most important cases in that section.
The reports of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Conrt of the State show that he argued quite a number of cases be- fore the full bench, in many of which important questions of law and practice were discussed and settled. Many of the decisions resulting from these will remain very valuable in the courts. Mr. S. united marked ability with the most thorough preparation of his cases, before going into court.
He represented the town very ably in the Legislature, in 1861, and was on the school committee for a number of years; and was also on the Board of Selectmen, and served at times as chairman of both boards.
Mr. Slocum's excellent judgment, together with his inde- pendence of action and his sterling integrity of character, made him one of the very valuable citizens in all of the in- terests of the town.
Mr. Slocum gave his sons a liberal education, sending three of them through Amherst College. His second son, Edward T., is practising law at Lee, Mass., and his third son, William F., Jr., is a clergyman, and settled over the Union Amesbury and Salisbury Congregational Church.
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His youngest son, Henry O., died at Newtonville, at the age of twenty-three, in 1878.
COL. JOSEPH A. TITUS was born in Leicester, January 21, 1838. In 1854, at the age of sixteen years, he removed to Grafton, and lived with Hon. E. B. Bigelow, working for E. B. Bigelow & Co., in the boot business. He remained in Grafton three years and a half, and then attended the Leicester Academy a year and a half, finishing his prepara- tion for college.
He then entered Amherst College in the year 1859, and was graduated in 1863. In 1862, August 20th, he enlisted and served in the Forty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and served for the term of nine months.
During his college course he taught the Centre Distriet school in Shrewsbury, and after his term of service in the Forty-second Regiment he taught school one winter in North Brookfield ; then taught the High School in Leicester for two years, except for five months in the autumn of 1864, when he was again in military life, holding the commission of 2nd and 1st lieutenant in Company F, Sixtieth Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteers. After his term of teach- ing in Leicester, he removed to Worcester and commenced the study of law; was admitted to practice in January, 1868, and opened an office in Worcester, where he now re- sides. Since he has been in Worcester he has been in the Massachusetts militia, as captain of the Worcester City Guards, for about four years. Afterwards served as Assist- ant Inspector-General and Assistant Adjutant-General, on the staff of Brigadier-General Robert H. Chamberlain, commanding Third Brigade, M. V. M.
In 1873, served as a member of the House of Represen- tatives in Massachusetts Legislature.
For about five years was Associate Justice of the Munici- pal Court of Worcester ; until the organization of the pres- ent Central District Court.
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JOHN MCILVENE was born January 27th, 1850, at Glaser ton, near Wigton, Scotland. Came to the United States in 1856 ; was edneated in the public schools of East Abington (now Rockland), Mass. While preparing for admission to the bar, taught school about four years with a good degree of success.
Read law under direction of J. B. Harris and F. F. Fay, of Athol, and L. W. Pierce, of Winchendon, and was ad- mitted to the bar at Worcester, at the December term of the Superior Court, in 1875. Commeneed practice at Spen eer, where, after a short time, he suffered the loss by fire of his library, etc. Then removed to this town in January, 1876, where he has since resided.
Physicians.
DR. WILLIAM LAMB.
DR. JOSEPH WOOD ; see Genealogy.
DELANO PIERCE, M. D .; see Genealogy.
THOMAS T. GRIGGS, M. D .; see Genealogy.
HENRY PARKER, M. D., son of William Parker, was born in Worcester, in 1786. Studied with Dr. Eaton, of Dudley, and Dr. Green, of Worcester, and attended medical lectures in Boston.
Commenced praetiee in 1811, in Grafton, and continued there about forty-six years, when he removed to Worcester. Dr. Parker married first, Catharine, daughter of Lemnnel Davis, Esq., of Holden; second, Maria W. Norris, of Salem.
Dr. WILLIAM THORNTON, the son of Stephen and Philena Thornton, was born in Gloucester, R. I. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Maine, and settled in New England Village about 1830, where he resided in the practice of his profession until his death, in 1862.
WATSON E. RICE, M. D., was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., December 15th, 1846, the son of Rev. Gardner Riee. He
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fitted for college under his father, and then followed the profession of teaching for .four years. Subsequently, be- ginning the study of medicine under Dr. W. F. Breakey, of Ann Arbor, Mich., he entered the University of Miehi- gan in September, 1869, and was graduated from that insti- tution March 27th, 1872, and settled at New England Vil- lage June 14th, 1872. Was married June 23rd, 1875, to Emma F. Pierce.
F. A. JEWETT, M. D., son of Dea. Henry Jewett, of Pep- perell, Mass., and brother of Dr. H. A. Jewett, Rev. J. E. B. Jewett and .Charles F. Jewett, was born September 6th, 1824, the third of the four brothers. After a series of years spent in his preparatory studies, teaching, and in con- nection with Dr. N. Cutter's Insane Asylum in Pepperell, he entered the medical department of Harvard University, from which he graduated March 1st, 1852.
Soon after graduating he commenced the practice of med- icine in Abington, Plymouth County, Mass., where he con- tinned for seven years, when he removed to Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Mass., where he continned for eleven years, when he removed to Grafton, where he now is located in the practice of his profession.
After being in practice two years, he married Harriet C., daughter of Dea. Joseph Torrey, of South Weymouth.
The physician at present residing in Saundersville, is FORD KENDRICK, M. D. He was born March 10, 1851, in Rowe, Mass., where he spent the first twenty years of his life. In 1872, his father, H. A. Kendriek, removed to Sut- ton. He then began the study of medicine with Dr. G. C. Webber, of Millbury, and after pursuing courses of study at the Medical School of Maine, and the medical depart- ment of the University of the City of New York, graduated at the latter college in the spring of 1876. He began prac- tice in West Warren, and remained there until June, 1877, when he removed to Saundersville.
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The resident physicians in Farnumsville, are Drs. W. B. MAXWELL and THOMAS WILLMOT. The former was born in Wells, Me., October 18, 1848. He was prepared for college at New Ipswich, N. H., and was graduated from the classical department of Dartmouth College in 1873. Pursued the study of medicine under C. P. Frost, of Hanover, N. H., professor of medicine in Dartmouth College, and graduated from this department in June, 1876. He attended past- graduates' course at Harvard Medical College, with hospital practice in 1876 and 1877. He located here in September, 1877. Married April 16, 1878, Mary E. Taylor, of New Ipswich, N. H., and resides in a house which he has re- cently erected just north of the Dr. Whittemore house.
Dr. THOMAS K. WHITTEMORE was born in Temple, Frank- lin County, Me., February 7, 1838, and was at his death thirty-nine years of age. He learned the carpenter's trade with his uncle in East Douglas, serving with him three years, and after completing his apprenticeship his health failed, and he removed to Uxbridge and studied medicine with Dr. Bennett for four years. He then entered Bellevue Medical College, New York, where he remained for two years, and was graduated in February, 1863. The following spring he began to practice medicine in Farnumsville, taking the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Levi Rawson. He gained a large practice, and was considered a very skillful physician and surgeon, and one who was greatly respected by the poor people. His sudden death cast a gloom over the com- munity in which he moved. The funeral was largely at- tended, and it was estimated that fully seven hundred per- sons were in attendance.
Dr. LEVI RAWSON ; see Genealogy.
THOMAS WILLMOT, M. D., one of the physicians at Far- numsville, was born at Tardebigg, in the County of War- wick, England, March 11th, 1826, the seventh son of Wil- liam and Elizabeth Willmot. From childhood he had a
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leaning towards the medical profession, and was in conse- quence bronght up and educated in accordance with his tastes. He remained under private tutors at home till eight years old, and was then sent to the celebrated board- ing school of Little Compton, where he remained for five years. He then went to King Edward's school at Chipping Norton for two years ; then went as an apprentice to Dr. Goodall and served five years with him, previous to his re- moval to the University of London, in which he remained nearly ten years, when he emigrated to British America. In 1864 he was elected a member of the Nova Scotia Medi- cal Society ; in 1867 received the royal commission as Health Officer for the Strait of Canso; in 1872 was commissioned Coroner and Justice of the Peace for the County of Inver- ness, Nova Scotia ; in 1875 was elected a Fellow of Massa- chusetts Medical Society, and removed to Farnumsville, where he has since resided.
DR. W. O. HARDY, homoeopathic physician here, is a native of Nelson, Cheshire County, N. H. He attended the common and high schools of his native place, then grad- uated from the Concord Commercial College, and connected himself with a wholesale grocery house at Boston, where he remained a number of years. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Putnam, of Boston, and studied prepara- tory to entering a medical college. Matriculated at the Boston University School of Medicine, took the complete graded course of three years, and graduated with the class of '79. Came to Grafton on the 1st of April, 1879.
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College Graduates.
OTIS H. ADAMS,
graduated Williams College, 1879
REV. SETH J. AXTELL, Jr.,
Brown University,
1864*
WALTER I. BIGELOW, .6
Yale College,
1877*
ARTHUR GARDNER BISCOE,
Amherst,
1862*
THOMAS DWIGHT BISCOE,
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1863
REV. GEORGE STREET BISCOE,
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1857*
JOHN FOSTER BISCOE,
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1874
WALTER STANLEY BISCOE, 66
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1874
ARTHUR A. BRIGHAM,
Institute of Technology.
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CHARLES B. BRIGHAM, M. D., .. Harvard University, 1862*
EDWARD A. BRIGHAM,
Boston Latin School. t
HON. WILLIAM BRIGHAM,
Harvard University, · 1829*
WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM,
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1862*
FREDERIC A. BALCOM,
Williams College,
1878
The son of Madison A. and Rebecca F. (Cook) Balcom, born January 26, 1853. Removed to West Millbury ; attended Millbury High School. Afterwards returned to Grafton; took preparatory course at Grafton High School. Studied at Williams College four years, graduating July 3, 1878. Entered the Yale Divinity School September 12, 1878, at which place he is at present pursuing his studies.
ELMER I. BALCOM, graduated Williams College. +
The son of Madison A. and Rebecca F. (Cook) Balcom, born in Graf- ton, Mass., December 22, 1856. Prepared for college in Grafton High School. Entered Williams College in September, 1876, in which institution he studied for three years. He is expecting to enter soon upon a course of study for the medical profession.
CHANDLER FLAGG, M. D., graduated
Brown University, 1803*
BENJAMIN FLAGG, M. D.,
? *
REV. S. BENJAMIN FLAGG,
Brown University, 1850*
AUGUSTUS FORBUSH,
Antioch College. + *
CAPT. WILLIAM C. FORBUSH,
West Point M. A.1 1868*
JOHN M. CASE,
Yale College,
1827+
EDSON C. CHICK,
JOHN S. CHICK,
STEPHEN CUTLER,
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Brown University.
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R. I. College,
1795*
ANDREW JAMES COPP,
Yale
1869
He was born May 26, 1846; traveled extensively thereafter; studied law, but immediately after being admitted to practice went into the iron business, and is superintendent of the Phoenix Furance and Iron
* Refer to Genealogy. t Entered college, but did not graduate. ? Uncertain. 1 West Point Military Academy.
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Mine, at Millerton, N. Y. He was married to Carrie Bostwick, of Salisbury, Conn., in 1878, and has one son.
WILLIAM A. COPP, graduated Yale College, 1869* He was born November 30, 1843. His father was Andrew J. Copp, son of William Copp, a descendant of William Copp, who came from London in the "Blessing," in 1635. Copp's Hill, Boston, was part of his farm. He married Harriet A. Eddy, one of the Eddy family of Auburn, Mass. The Eddy's also came from England, and were among the first settlers of Auburn. His parents moved from Auburn to New England Village in 1851, when his father purchased the residence now occupied by his widow. The father was in the 32d Massachusetts regi- ment. He died and was buried on Antietam battle-field.
William A. was in Company E, of Grafton, 51st Massachusetts regi- ment. He graduated at Yale College in 1869. He rowed upon the Yale University crews at Worcester, in '66, '67, '68 and '69, pulling stroke in '67, and starboard stroke the other three, being the first to row four years.
He was regarded as an excellent gymnast and participated in the annual exhibitions at Yale gymnasium. He took a first prize, junior year, in the annual prize debate; and second prize, senior year. He was admitted to practice law in New York City, after a course in Colum- bia College Law School, in 1870, and has since devoted himself continu- ously to the practice of the law in that city. Was married to Emily Maltby, of New Haven, Conn., in 1872, and has a son and daughter. Has held no office and sought none.
HANSON L. REED,
graduated
Amherst College, 1848*
WILLIAM REED,
ASA E. STRATTON,
Brown University, 1873*
EDWARD T. SLOCUM,
Amherst College.
*
WILLIAM F. SLOCUM,
REV. WILLIAM S. SLOCUM, Jr.,
REV. WILLIAM B. SMITH,
Harvard Divinity School.
ELHANAN W. WHEELER,
Harvard University. *
ARTEMAS WHEELER,
Dartmouth College, 1817*
GEORGE KERR, = Edinburgh University, Scotland.
He received the rudiments of a Latin and Greek education at the Grafton High School, and fitted for college under Rev. P. Y. Smith and F. M. McGarry, A. M. Entered Edinburgh University, November 1, 1876, and after studying one year, went to Heidelberg, Germany, where he spent a year and a half, chiefly in pursuing the study of the German language. He returned to Edinburgh in October, 1878, whence he will graduate in April, 1880.
* Refer to Genealogy. t Entered college, but did not graduate.
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HENRY BROWN, entered Williams College, 1875+
WALTER S. BOSWORTH, graduated Colby University, 1880
He was born here, and fitted for college at the High School.
JOHN GOULDING, graduated Yale College, 1821*
JUNAL HARRINGTON,
Brown University,
1825*
GEORGE K. NICHOLS, M. D.,
University of Pennsylvania. *
REV. E. FRANK HOWE,
Yale College, 1859*
F. P. GOULDING,
Dartmouth College, 1863*
EDWARD KINGSBURY,
Harvard University, 1875*
REV. JOHN LELAND,
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HON. PHINEAS W. LELAND, 66
Brown University.
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IRA LELAND,
1833*
COL. CYRUS LELAND, Jr.,
Harvard University. + *
THOMAS T. GRIGGS, M. D.,
Harvard Medical School, 1849*
REV. HENRY A. MILES,
Brown University, 1829*
ARTHUR D. MCCLELLAN,
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REV. JOSEPH MERRIAM, 66
HERSEY GOODWIN PALFREY,
Harvard University, 1860
He was born in Grafton, October 9, 1839. Prepared for College at Phillips, Exeter, Academy. Graduated at Harvard University, 1860. In the war of the Rebellion, entered as a private, August, 1862, the 13th Massachusetts Regiment. January, 1864, was detailed to civil service in the Adjutant General's Office, Washington. In April, 1864, received a Captain's commission, and went to Louisiana. Was placed on Gen. Granger's staff as Assistant Engineer. Was in the trenches before Mobile when intelligence of the end of the war was received. Engaged in the business of civil engineering. Married Mary Durfee Lovejoy, of Bradford, Mass. Is at present employed in a government survey of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
REV. JOSIAH PRENTICE, graduated Dartmouth College, 1795* LEVI RAWSON, M. D., = Brown University, 1825*
REV. HEZEKIAH TAYLOR,
Harvard 1770
He was born in Grafton, November 28, 1748; graduated at Harvard in 1770, and was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Newfane, Vt., June 30, 1774. The church was organized the day of his settlement, and at that time there were but fourteen families in the town, and the church consisted of only nine members. He died August 23, 1814. He was possessed of a firm and vigorous constitution, of great endurance, an indomitable will, and a resolution unshaken by the care of his flock and the labor and hardship incident to the early settle- ment of the town. Possessing habits of great industry, with a liberal education, and a disposition of great kindness and benevolence toward
* Refer to Genealogy. t Entered college, but did not graduate. ? Uncertain.
* 1819*
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all with whom he was connected, he faithfully ministered to the spirit- ual and temporal wants of his people. Of an exceedingly genial tem- perament, overflowing with wit and humor, he was the delight and ornament of the social circle. His efforts and example contributed eminently to the happiness and prosperity of the early inhabitants of Newfane.
He married March 31, 1774, Sarah Frost, b. May 24, 1751, d. March 3, 1840. They had seven children. Their eldest, Hollis, b. May 20, 1775, d. in Rotterdam, Holland, August 14, 1793.
LUCIUS P. MERRIAM, graduated
Amherst College,
1873*
JESSIE FRANCES SMITH,
Vassar 1880
She entered the preparatory department of Vassar College in the fall of 1874, having previously attended the schools of Grafton and the city of Newton. She is now (June, 1879) a member of the class of '80, and a senior literary editor of the Vassar Miscellany.
WILLIAM H. WHITE,
graduated
Amherst College,
1867*
ALICE M. WING,
Vassar ¥
1878*
ABBIE M. WHITE,
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Cornell
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JOSEPH WHIPPLE,
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Harvard University,
1765>
FRANK W. WOOD,
Amherst A. C.2
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EDWARD R. WHITE,
Technical Institute,
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GEORGE H. WHITE,
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LIEUT. GEORGE M. WHEELER,
West Point M. A.1
1866*
JOHN C. WORCESTER,
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Colby University,
1881*
JOSEPH WILLARD,
Harvard University,
1765*
CHARLES A. WHEELER,
Amherst A. C.2
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* Refer to Genealogy. ¡ Entered college, but did not graduate.
1 West Point Military Academy. 2 Amherst Agricultural College.
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HISTORY OF GRAFTON.
By Colleges.
Amherst College, Mass. 12
Amherst Agricultural College, Mass. 2
Antioch College, Ohio
1
Latin School, Boston 1
Brown University, Providence, R. I. 12
Cornell College, New York
1
Colby University, Maine
2
Dartmouth College, N. H. .
3 Edinburgh University, Scotland 1
Technical Institute, Worcester 2
Harvard University, Mass. 10
Harvard Medical School, Mass. 1
Harvard Divinity School, Mass. 1
University of Pennsylvania, Penn. 1
Vassar College, New York 2
West Point Military Academy, New York . 2
Williams College, Mass. . 4
Institute of Technology, Mass.
1
Yale College, Conn. .
6
Rhode Island College
1
Total
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CHAPTER NINTH.
CONTENTS :
Hassanamisco House .- The old grocery store .- The Green Store .- Arti- cles of agreement between Wheeler and Warren .- Lovell Stow building .- Old Half-way House .- Harry Wood's law office .- Dr. Joseph Wood's property .- The old Distillery .- Knox house .- The Forbush house .- Rev. Solomon Prentice house .- The " Fly Mar- ket."-Dr. Lamb's barn .- Elijah Bruce house .- Charles Prentice house .- John Bennett, the hatter; his house and shop .- Dexter house .- Residence of Rev. John Miles .- Bruce farm .- Dr. Grout house .- Dea. Merriam, 2nd, farm .- James Whipple farm .- Benja- min Leland property .- Kittville .- Capt. Moses Roberts' house .- Joel Taft house .- Benjamin Thurston house. - The David Forbush, John Thurston, Abner Stow, Moses Harrington, Aaron Brigham, Charles Clapp, Otis Adams, Thomas Axtell, Dea. James Whipple, John Whipple, Ephraim Sherman, Samuel Leland, Samuel Miner and Daniel Axtell houses, et als.
THIS chapter is devoted to sketches of a few of the older buildings in the town ; when built; who by ; and the several occupants. Much matter will undoubtedly be overlooked, as the compiler has relicd mainly on the infor- mation of the older inhabitants, but is nevertheless as accu- rate as could be obtained.
The hotel in the centre of the town, now known as the Grafton House, and formerly as the Hassanamisco House, was built nearly seventy-five years ago by Samuel Wood, Sen. At his decease the property passed into the hands of his son, Hon. Samuel Wood, who disposed of it in February,
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1826, to Lovell Baker, Sen. He owned the property nearly thirty-one years. In 1857, after his death, the property passed into the control of his son, Lovell Baker, the present owner. The real estate now owned by Mr. Baker in this town, includes the hotel, barn, two houses and three shops, all on the east side of the Park ; the Arcade and Cheney house, on the west side. The following is a partial list of the several occupants :- Samuel Wood, Hon. Samuel Wood, Nahum Andrews, Lovell Baker, Franklin Harrington, Timo- thy Wheelock, Jonathan Busden, Almon Adams, Green & Leonard, Ebenezer Aldrich, James H. Cheney, Charles O. Chamberlin, Reuben Eames, Reuben Monroe,_ Evans, Tyler Harrington, - McIntire, Horatio Cogswell, - Judd, - Hunt, Collins Hathon, F. M. Marble, George C. Newton, George Bundy, and Mr. Bowles, the present occupant.
Jeremiah Barstow was one of the original forty proprie- tors who purchased the land of the Indians. He is the only one in the original deed who was not styled husbandman ; his occupation was that of a trader. He came here in 1733-34, from Marlborough, where he had resided. He had been a miller, and owned the mills and all the land now covered by the village of Feltonville, in that town. He sold this property to Robert Bayard. He kept store here in a very small one-story building, which stood on land between the "Green store " and the old red house, which latter building stood on the site of Warren Block. When the Green store was built, in 1806, this store was taken down. There was a well in the old store, and when the new Wor- cester road was laid out the well was exactly in the centre of the road. When Jonathan Wheeler, Jr., and John War- ren first began business they occupied this old store, and purchased the stock of the heirs of Benjamin Kingsbury, Sen., who had a few years before this bought out Whitney & Dorr, who came here from Boston about 1790.
The "Green store," so-called from the color with which
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it was first, and for years continued to be painted, was erected by Jonathan Wheeler, Jr., better known as Squire Wheeler, abont 1806. At that time the firm was Wheeler & Warren (Jonathan Wheeler, Jr., and John Warren).
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