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8. ASA, b. Oct. 16, 1769. 9. MARTHA, b. Dec. 7, 1771. 10. PATTY, b. June 27, 1778, m. Robert Cunningham.
2-5 JOHN HOLBROOK, (John, John, Thomas, John), b. Aug. 28, 1733, m. Jan. 16, 1758, Abigail Warren (W), b. 1734, d. 1797. Children, 1. JOHN H., b. April 24, 1759. 2. SARAH, b. March 5, 1762. 3. EZRA, b. June 2, 1763.
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MOSES HOLBROOK, (John, John, Thomas, John), b. Sept. 14, 1738, m. Mary Whipple (W), b. May 15, 1738. He d. March 26, 1802. Ch., 1. MOSES, b. Oct. 28, 1761, m. Sally Mellen.
4-7 STEPHEN HOLBROOK, (William, John, John, Thomas, John), b. Oct. 8, 1767, m. May 16, 1798, Sally Goddard (G), b. Aug. 16, 1777, d. Jan. 30, 1822. He d. May 26, 1850. Children,
1. POLLY, b. Aug. 3, 1799, mn. April 13, 1831, Jolin Emerson; they had one son.
2. LEWIS, b. Oct. 16, 1800, m. April 2, 1857, Sophia A. Hall, b. April 15, 1822, s. p.
3. JOSIAH, b. Oct. 18, 1802, m. Jan. 26, 1835, Cynthia Barnes.
4. ASENETH, b. Ang, 1, 1805, m. David Woodward.
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5. WILLIAM, b. July 9, 1807, m. Adaline Pratt.
6. SALLY B., b. Ang. 20, 1809, m. Stephen Harrington.
7. MARTHA P., b. Jan. 19, 1812, d. 1879.
" She married Judson Southland, Esq., in 1856, since which she has presided over the Southland home, commanding the confidence and love of all who were so favored as to come under the influence of that domestic circle. Notably quiet and unobtrusive, abounding in tender sympathy and Christian affection, she devoted herself to the duties of home, church and society, with an earnestness and self-sacrificing spirit few equal, and none surpass. To the children of her beloved husband, by a former wife, she consecrated her never tiring energies, with a devotion seldom evinced by one inexperienced in the tender ties of maternity."-Jamestown ( N. Y. ) Journal.
8. HANNAH G., b. June 12, 1814, m. Orra Goodell.
9. STEPHEN E., b. April 23, 1816, m. Ann Case.
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5-1 | MOSES HOLBROOK, (Moses, John, John, Thomas, John), b. Oct. 28, 1767, m. Jan. 24, 1792, Sally Mellen. He d. Jan. 1, 1808. Children,
7 1. AUSTIN. b. Sept. 27, 1792, m. Martha G. Harrington.
2. ROBERT M., b. May 10, 1794, m. Dec. 17, 1816, Clarissa J. Pierce.
3. PUAH, b. Oct. 2, 1796. 4. SALLY, b. May 6, 1798.
5. MARY W., b. May 6, 1800, d. Oct. 7, 1815.
6. MARTHA, b. March 14, 1802. 7. CANDACE, b. March 4, 1804.
6-5 WILLIAM HOLBROOK, (Stephen, William, John, John, Thomas, Jolın), b. July 9, 1807, m. Nov. 22, 1832, Adaline Pratt, b. 1808. He d. July 4, 1856. Children,
1. EDWARD W., b. Nov. 12, 1833, d. April 5, 1834.
2. ANGELINE E., b. Oct. 28, 1835, m. George M. Smith.
7-1 AUSTIN HOLBROOK, (Moses, Moses, John, John, Thomas, John), h. Sept. 27, 1792, m. Nov. 28, 1816, Martha G. Harrington (H), b. 1795. He res. on the place first improved by his great-grandfather, John, who came from Mendon. He was a highly respected citizen. Children,
1. MARTHA H., b. April 19, 1818, m. Lorenzo Leland, res. in Ottawa, Ill. 12. SARAH C., b. July 29, 1820, d. Jan. 17, 1821.
2. CHARLES A., b. Dec. 6, 1821, m. Sarah W. McNamard, res. Worcester, (see lawyers).
3. GEORGE M., b. Oct. 28, 1823, res. in Chicago, Ill.
4. ANN F., b. Sept. 6, 1825, d. May 5, 1854.
8 5. WILLIAM, b. Dec. 8, 1828, m. Sarah F. Fowler.
6. FREDERICK, b. Oct. 28, 1830, a merchant, res. in Ottawa, Ill.
7. FERDINAND, b. Nov. 21, 1833, res. in Geneseo, Ill.
8. BENJAMIN E., b. May 21, 1835, res. in Worcester.
9. JOHN M., b. March 12, 1838, unm.
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8-5 WILLIAM HOLBROOK, (Austin, Moses, Moses, John, John, Thomas, John), b. Dec. 8, 1828, m. Jan. 6, 1858, Sarah F. Fowler, b. Feb. 7, 1831. Children,
1. FRANK A., b. March 30, 1861. 2. MARCIA F., b. Jan. 6, 1871, d. Sept. 5, 1871.
3. HELEN F., 3 b. Sept. 4, 1872.
4. SUSIE W.,
HOWE.
JOHN HOWE, resided first perhaps at Watertown, and afterwards at Sudbury, where he was in 1639. He was admitted freeman in 1640. He d. in Marlborough, in 1687, and his wife Mary d. about the same time. In 1642, he was selectman in Sudbury, and in 1655, was appointed by the pastor and selectmen "to see to the restraining of youth on the Lord's day." John Howe opened the first public house in the place. About 1670, we find his petition for a renewal of his license.
NEHEMIAH HOW, (Samuel, John), b. in Sudbury, m. Margaret , and had, children,
1 1. JOSHUA, b. Oct. 11, 1716, m. Lydia Robbins.
2. SUBMIT, b. March 4, 1718.
3. CALEB, b. Jan. 30, 1720, d. June 2, 1721.
4. EASTER, b. April 25, 1722. 5. CALEB, b. Dec. 31, 1723.
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6. SARAH, b. July 13, 1725. 7. SAMUEL, b. June 15, 1727. 8. EDWARD, b. May 28, 1728. 9. ABNER, b. Oct. 20, 1731. 10. HANNAH, b. Nov, 29, 1733. 11. MARY, b. April 12, 1735. 12, MARTHA, b. Sept. 16, 1738.
1-1 JOSHUA HOW, (Nehemiab, Samuel, John), b. Oct. 11, 1716, m. July 21, 1735-6, Lydia Robbins. Children,
1. NEHEMIAH, b. Feb. 5, 1736-7. 2. JOSHUA, b. Aug. 1, 1738-9.
STEPHEN HOW, (Benjamin, Benjamin, John, Isaac, John), b. Sept. 13, 1789, m. Patty Stowe.
LEMUEL HOWE, (Luther, Eleazer, Eleazer, John), b. Aug. 26, 1792, m. April 7, 1813, Sally Jones, d. 1878. He d. June 5, 1863.
He was born in Marlborough, and removed to this town in 1828; until his health failed he was engaged in farming. He was a very industrious man, retiring in his disposition, and died greatly respected by his fellow-citizens. Children,
2 1. MARTIN R., b. Aug. 1, 1820, m. Pollina S. Boswortlı.
2. SARAH J., b. Jan. 14, 1822, m. John Rice.
3. SAMUEL W., b. July 19, 1824, d. Sept. 19, 1852.
4. ELIJAH F., b. March 7, 1830, d. Aug. 2, 1831.
3 5. E. FRANK, b. Sept. 19, 1832, m. Frances F. Gates.
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MARTIN R. HOWE, (Lemuel, Luther, Eleazer, Eleazer, Johu), h. Aug. 1, 1820, m. March 16, 1842, Pollina S. Bosworth, b. Oct. 24, 1823. He has been sexton of the First Baptist Church for the past twenty-two years. Children,
4 1. EDWIN A., b. March 6, 1843, m. Alvestie K. Wood.
2. HENRY M., b. Feb. 13, 1845, d. Sept. 19, 1847.
3. EMMA A., b. May 14, 1847, m. Edmond C. Cottle.
4. LOUISA M., b. June 10, 1849, m. William G. Bradley.
5. HATTIE M., b. Dec. 22, 1851, m. Lowell H. Davis.
6. MYRA P., b. Oct. 17, 1855, d. Jan. 17, 1859.
7. FRANK M., b. May 10, 1858.
8. JENNIE F., b. Aug. 26, 1860, d. March 6, 1876.
9. MARY B., b. Dec. 22, 1862. 10. NETTIE B., b. April 11, 1870.
3-5 |REV. E. FRANK HOWE, (Lemuel, Luther, Eleazer, Eleazer, John), b. Sept. 19, 1832, m. 1861, Frances F. Gates. He spent the first eighteen years of his life on his father's farm, assisting him in his farm labors and in his shoemaker's shop. Having an ambition for an education he fitted for college, beginning in his native town and completing his pre- paratory studies at Monson Academy. He entered Yale College in 1855, and graduated in the class of 1859, ranking as third in his class. Dur- ing his collegiate course he taught school for pecuniary assistance. He studied Theology at Yale and Princeton Colleges, and two years after graduation, in 1861, he began preaching in South Canaan, Conn., where he was ordained in 1862, and remained till 1865. He studied with the purpose of becoming a foreign missionary. At this time he made application to the Board of Foreign Missions for an appointment. He was accepted and invited to Boston, for consultation in reference to his destination, when his mother was taken sick, which prevented his going abroad. This year, 1862, he accepted the call to South Canaan. In 1865, he received a call to the First Congregational Church ia
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Terre Haute, Ind., the largest and strongest church of this order in the State. In 1875, his health having failed from overwork, he went abroad for five months. Though improved by the trip, yet when he again resumed regular professional work his old troubles returned, and in July, 1876, he was obliged to resign his charge, not intending to preach again for at least a year. In October of this year, however, he began his labors with the Central Congregational Church, of Newton- ville, where he was installed in December, 1876. He says: "As the greatest honor of my life, I regard the invitation of my native town, as a 'Grafton hoy,' to deliver the oration at her Centennial celebration in 1876." To which excellent address the compiler has been greatly in- debted for much information.
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EDWIN A. HOWE, (Martin R., Lemuel, Luther. Eleazer, Eleazer, John), b. Mar. 6, 1843, m. Mar. 28, 1867, Alvestie K. Wood, b. Jan. 16, 1847. Children,
1. MINNIE G., b. Jan. 22, 1869. 2. MABLE L., b. Feb. 20, 1872.
3. HARRY E., b. Aug. 20, 1874.
MARRIAGES.
John P. How and Mary W. Putnam, Oct. 12, 1830. Adolphus How and Lucretia G. Fairbanks, Dec. 7, 1834.
KEITH.
ROBERT KEITH, born in the County of Caithness, in the northern part of Scotland, during the latter part of the tenth century, was the first member of the Keith family known to authentic history. We may, however, learn from the teachings of ethnology, the early traditions of Scotland, and from the scattered fragments of ancient history, that the ancestors of this well-known Scottish family were a portion of the nomadic race, which, long before the Christian era, migrated from the region lying around the Caspian Sea, moving westward till they finally reached the borders of the Rhine, and settled among the hills of Central Germany. They were known to ancient writers as a tribe of the Suivi, and were generally called the Chatti-a namne signifying war or war- riors.
REV. JAMES KEITH, the ancestor of nearly all the Keiths of New England, and of many others bearing this name in different parts of our country, was born at or near the town of Keith, in the northern part of Scotland, in 1643. He was educated at the Marshal College of Aber- deen, and on completing his collegiate course migrated to America in 1661. On the recommendation of Increase Mather he was called to be the first minister of a company of the citizens of Duxbury, which was formed for the purpose of settling the town of Bridgewater.
SIMEON KEITH, JR., (SImeon, James, Rev. James, Robert), b. in Mendon, May 6, 1742, m. Aug. 3, 1763, Rebecca Leland, d. Aug. 12, 1835. He d. Jan. 3, 1776.
After the death of his father, he resided during his childhood and early youth with his mother, who married for her second husband George Aldrich, of Mendon, from whom Simeon learned the trade of a black- smith. He left his step-father when about eighteen years of age, aud set up business in Northbridge, between Adams Corner and Saunders-
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ville, where he became acquainted with Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Leland, of Grafton, to whom he was married. On the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, he enlisted in a company of volunteers, under Captain Wilkinson, of Sutton, and marched to Roxbury, where, in the exposures of camp life, he took a severe cold resulting in a fever, of which he died January 3, 1776, a soldier in the service of his country. The place of his burial is unknown, but a memorial to his memory has been erected in the Old Cemetery, at Grafton. The inventory of his property, as given by his widow, Rebecca Keith, March 5, 1776, and ap- praised by David Wadsworth, of Grafton, Mark Batcheller, of Sutton, and Jacob Whipple, of Grafton, consisted of-
£
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00
Stock and farm tools, .
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15 10
Iron and blacksmith tools,
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6
6
Saddle, harness, &c.,
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18
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Bedding, &c.,
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1
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Wearing apparel,
3
13
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Total,
£87
15s
ld
Children,
1. SIMEON, b. May 16, 1765, m. Olive Pond. Rev. to Chester, Vt.
2. ROYAL, b. Feb. 23, 1769, m. Deborah Adams.
3. SAMUEL, b. Mar. 13, 1771, m. E. Lathe and M. Ward. Rev. to Ches- ter, Vt.
4. ABIGAIL, b. Apr. 17, 1773, m. Alpheus Deane.
5. REBECCA, b. July 20, 1776, m. Barnabus Sibley.
1-2 ROYAL KEITH, (Simeon, Simeon, James, Rev. James, Robert), b. Feb. 23, 1769, m. Dec. 26, 1797, Deborah Adams, b. Aug. 29, 1777, d. Dec. 13, 1857. He d. Nov. 13, 1857.
Royal Keith, on the decease of his father, was left with few advan- tages of education or opportunities of fortune. A poor soldier's widow, with five children, can do but little for her family beyond meeting the prime necessities of life. The children did all they could to aid their mother in the struggle with fortune -- the girls and two boys remaining at home or working for the neighbors as opportunity offered, while Royal was sent to learn the shoemaker's trade with his uncle, Elijah Stanton, who lived ou Pleasant street, near the Little Blackstone river. In the autumn of 1788, being then nearly of age, he left Stanton and went to Boston, to work for a Mr. Hammond, who kept a custom shoe store near Faneuil Hall. In the spring of 1790, he left Boston and re- turned to Grafton, where he soon commenced the business of manufac- turing shoes for sale in the markets of Boston and Providence. On the 17th of April, 1795, having become well established in business, he pur- chased a house and seven acres of land of William Lamb, on the South road, a few rods from Grafton Common, now the residence of Dr. Thomas T. Griggs.
Royal Keith, of this town, was among the earliest manufacturers in America, of what were called " sale shoes," having commenced soon after the first tariff was laid for the encouragement of American manu- factures. By well directed industry and perseverance he was enabled to reap a share of the great prosperity which resulted from the adoption of the tariffs of 1790 and 1793, the successful establishment of the new constitution, and other important measures of the Republic. The style of goods he began making were very coarse sewed shoes, which were
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A farm and buildings, worth 54
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used by the laboring men around the large towns, or sent to Virginia and the Carolinas for the negroes. The sewed shoe was, in a few years, supplanted by a pegged brogan, similar to those now used. The de- mand for his manufactures was generally very good in the cities of Bos- ton, Providence and New York, as well as in the Southern cities. Dur- ing the embargo of the war of 1815, when transportation by sea was im- possible, he sent an adventure overland in his own team, from Grafton to Richmond, Va., a feat more difficult at that period than to send them across the Continent at the present time. When he first began manu- facturing he packed his goods in flour barrels and old sugar boxes, car- rying them to market with a one-horse team, and returning loaded with leather and other supplies. As his business increased he had his boxes made by the neighboring carpenters, and transported his goods with a two-horse team, which manner of doing business he continued till rail- ways were invented and nearly the present style of doing business had been reached.
It would be a curious history to mark the progress of the shoe and leather business of Massachusetts, from the period of small beginnings, when manufacturers like Royal Keith marketed their few hundred dol- lars' worth of shoes in saddle-bags and one-horse teams, down to the present year, when were shipped from Boston alone over 1.000,000 cases of boots and shoes, indicating a trade for the single State of Massa- chusetts of more than $100,000,000, placing this great business in the front rank of all the manufactures of America, and making Boston the most important boot and shoe mart in the world. It would be curious to note the changes wrought in this business by the introduction of pegs in 1818, the use of machine-turned lasts in 1820, the pegging machine in 1840, the sewing machine in 1850, and the increased use of machinery and steam power in every departinent, till to-day boots and shoes are turned out as freely by the million pairs as they were formerly by the dozen.
Royal Keith was a citizen highly esteemed and respected by all who knew bim, a man of strict integrity and great moral worth. He was temperate and frugal, possessing great powers of physical endurance, good judgment, and a strong intellect, laboring through a long life without knowing what failure or defeat meant. Always modest and unassuming, he never sought preferment, and probably never made a public speech in his life, but his judgment was considered so reliable that he was often chosen umpire among his neighbors, and appealed to for advice. He was several times elected to town offices, and served during the session of 1836 as representative of Grafton, in the General Court of Massachusetts. Children,
1. DEBORAH, b. Mar. 11, 1799, m. Sept. 24, 1821, Orray Taft. Res. Providence, R. I.
2. LOUISA, b. June 15, 1801, m. Daniel Kimball. Res. Boston.
3. GEORGIANNA M., b. Aug. 19, 1803, m. Jonathan S. Fisk (F).
4. CAROLINE, b. Mar. 3, 1806, d. 1806.
5. CLARISSA C., b. Feb. 12, 1807, d. 1812.
6. ROYAL A., b. Dec. 27, 1809, m. Lydia D. Fisher.
2 7. CLARISSA A., b. May 13, 1812, m. Hon. Isaac H. Southwick. Res. Providence, R. I.
8. CHARLES E., b. Feb. 5, 1815. Res. Needham.
9. SARAH C., b. Oct. 15, 1817, m. William A. Wheelock. Res. Oxford.
3 10. HENRY R., b. Jan. 5, 1823, m. Mary A. Leland.
2-6 ROYAL A. KEITH, (Royal, Simeon, Simeon, James, Rev. James, Robert), b. Dec. 27, 1809, m. Sept. 2, 1840, Lydia D. Fisher. Children,
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1. HERBERT F., b. Aug. 19, 1841, unm.
2. EDWARD W., b. April 23, 1843, m. Mary C. Dicks.
3. MOSES A., b. Jan. 23, 1845, m. Sarah A. Redding.
4. SAMUEL W., b. Jan. 23, 1847.
5. CHARLES W., b. April 19, 1849, unm.
6. ELLEN L., b. March 29, 1851, onm.
7. AMELIA T., b. June 27, 1854, unm.
8. JOHN F., b. Nov. 17, 1857, unm.
3-10 HENRY R. KEITH, (Royal, Simeon, Simeon, James, Rev. James, Robert), b. Jan. 5, 1823 m. Dec. 7, 1854, Mary A. Leland (L), b. April 18, 1832, d. July 20, 1878. He d. April, 1865. Children,
1. JOSEPH L., b. May 19, 1857. 2. MARY A., b. May 20, 1862.
4-3 MOSES A. KEITH, (Royal A., Royal, Simeon, Simeon, James, Rev. James, Robert), b. Jan. 23, 1845, m. Jan. 16, 1867, Sarah A. Redding, b. April 23, 1841. Children,
1. LOUISE A , b. Sept. 17, 1867. 2. EMMA C., b. Sept. 15, 1870.
3. ALICE S., b. Dec. 14, 1874. 4. ROYAL, b. July 1, 1879.
KIMBALL.
RICHARD KEMBALL, embarked at Ipswich, Eng., April 10, 1634, and settled in Watertown. The name Kimball now borne by so many families in this country, is undoubtedly a corruption, or variation of Kemball or Kemble, a common name in England. In the Watertown , records it was almost always written Kemball until lately.
CAPT. AARON KIMBALL. b. 1729, m. April 5, 1753, Mary Brooks, b. 1736, d. Aug. 12, 1822. He d. Nov. 20, 1807. Children,
1. SARAH, b. April 10, 1754.
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2. NOAH B., b. May 19, 1756, m. Persis Brighani and Mary Chase.
3. MARY, b. Sept. 15, 1758, d. Oct. 8, 1758.
2 4. AARON. b. June 29, 1760, m. Molly Goulding.
5. ASAL, b. Feb. 20, 1763, m. Feb. 13, 1786, Jerusha Elliott. 6. MARY, b. March 29, 1765. 7. ELIZABETH, b. May 3, 1767.
8. ELIJAH, b. Aug. 13, 1769.
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9. LEONARD, b. June 18, 1772, m. Patty Baird and Anna Elliott. 10. HANNAH, b. Aug. 18, 1781.
1-2 LIEUT. NOAH B. KIMBALL, (Capt. Aaron), b. May 19, 1756, m. 1775, Persis Brigham (B) ; m. 2nd, Dec. 12, 1782, Mary Chase, b. 1755, d. Aug. 8, 1806. He d. Aug. 21, 1806. Children,
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1. OLIVER, b. May 9, 1776, m. Hannah - and Catherine 2. POLLY, b. Ang. 7, 1779. 3. ANNA, b. July 30, 1789.
2-4 AARON KIMBALL, (Capt. Aaron), b. June 29, 1760, m. Oct. 18, 178I, Molly Goulding (G), b. May 3, 1762. He d. Nov. 11, 1843. Children,
1. PATTY, b. Aug. 18, 1782, m. Jonathan Chase, res. in Walpole, N. H. 2. SALLY, b. Sept. 25, 1783, m. Dea. Albert Stone (S).
3. LUCY, b. June 17, 1785, m. Ebenezer Wadsworth and Solomon Hath- . away. She res. in New England Village.
4. POLLY, B. Oct. 29, 1787, m. Benjamin Taft, res. in Northbridge.
5. JOHN, b. June 1, 1790, d.
6. ELIJAH, b. Nov. 1, 1792, m. Eunice White and Mary F. Hapgood.
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7. JOSEPH, b. June 4, 1793, m. Betsey H. Scott, May 11, 1820.
8. HANNAH, b. July 31, 1798, m. Benjamin Green.
9. JOHN, b. June 2, 1801, m. Betsey Brooks, res. in South Braintree.
10. AARON, b. Aug. 24, 1803, m. Sarah R. Grout (G), rev. to Boston. 11. JOSHUA B., b. Feb. 28, 1806, m. Nancy Grout (G).
LEONARD KIMBALL, (Capt. Aaron), b. June 18, 1772, m. Sept. 15, 1793, Patty Baird; m. 2nd, April 19, 1797, Anna Elliott. Ch.,
3-9 5 1. DANIEL, b. Oct. 31, 1794, m. Louisa Kelth.
4-1 CAPT. OLIVER KIMBALL, (Lient. Noah B., Capt. Aaron), h. May 9, 1776, m. Hannah , b. 1787, d. April 29, 1809; m. 2nd, Catherine -, b. 1786, d. Sept. 13, 1819. He d. March 31, 1819. Children,.
1. MARY, b. Feb. 20, 1803.
6 2. NOAH, b. Dec. 10, 1804, m. Martha Warren Brown.
3. HANNAH, b. March 10, 1808.
5-1 DANIEL KIMBALL, (Leonard, Capt. Aaron), b. Oct. 31, 1794, m. Sept. 28, 1825, Louisa Keith (K), b. June 15, 1801. Res. Boston. Children,
1. DANIEL, b. Jan. 22, 1827, m. Adelaide Bachi.
2. LOUISA, b. Oct. 26, 1828, m. Charles H. P. Plympton.
3. GEORGE K., b. March 26, 1831, m. Frances E. Smith.
4. ANNA, b. Dec. 21, 1833, m. Thomas B. Wales, Jr.
5. LAVINA T., b. March 21, 1837, m. Henry C. Snow.
6. HERBERT W., b. Mareh 3, 1840, m. Abby R. B. Kimball.
7. SAMUEL F., b. Sept. 18, 1843. 8. MARY E., b. April 11, 1846.
6-2 NOAH KIMBALL, (Capt. Oliver, Lieut. Noah B., Capt. Aaron), b. Dec. 10, 1804, m. Martha Warren Brown.
In the death of Mr. Kimball, Westborough loses one of her noblest citizens, and there was a universal feeling of sorrow among all who knew him when his death became known. His early life was spent in his native town of Grafton, where he was aetive as partner in the mereantile firm of Wood, Kimball & Co., and until 1837, he was engaged considerably in the manufacture of brogans and boots. He was an active and most devoted friend in the cause of temperance, and always foremost in the promotion of order and good morals. He twice represented Grafton in the Legislature, and at various times was the recipient of marked distinctions and promotion to offices of respon- sibility and trust, always evincing the strictest integrity in all his trusts. Some twenty years since he removed to Westborough, taking the position of superintendent of the old and extensive manufactory of J. B. Kimball & Co., in which offlee he remained till stricken with paralysis some three years sinee. A man ever industrions and active, of decided ability and genius in his business, he commanded the respect and esteem not only of employes and employed, but also the commen- dation of townsmen, neighbors and a large circle of friends. He was that noblest work of God-an honest man ; among the hundreds of men who have been under his charge duriog a long and active business life, not one was ever heard to make complaint of unfair dealing ou bis part. -Westborough Chronotype.
Children,
I. ADELIA D .. b. June 8, 1829, m. John Q. Adams, res. in Westborough. 2. SARAH E., b. Jan. 23, 1831, unm., res. in Westborough.
3. FREDERICK W., b. Feb. 9, 1833, m. Susan F. Innis, res. in West- borough.
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CHARLES E. KIMBALL, by wife Mary K., had, ch., 1. CHARLES E., Jr., b. July 29, 1839, d. Oct. 7, 1839.
KINGSBURY.
BENJAMIN KINGSBURY, (Nathaniel, Benjamin), b. in Dedham, 1776, m. 1798, Sally Brigham (B), b Sept. 12, 1780, d. Aug. 26, 1870.
Benjamin was born in Dedham, Norfolk County. His grandfather Benjamin Kingsbury, settled in Walpole, in 1740, where all his children were horn. His father Nathaniel was adopted by his uncle Nathaniel of Dedham, with whom he remained until 1812-13, when he removed to Medfield, and died in 1846, aged 97 years. He was much.in public life. Nathaniel, the father, was paymaster of a regiment in the revo- lutionary war; a Justice of the Peace for about sixty years.
Benjamin, when about fifteen years of age, went to Boston, and was employed by Whitney & Dorr, in their store, as clerk. When this firm began business in the old store located near the site of the present new Worcester street in Grafton, young Kingsbury came -here as their clerk, and after a short time succeeded them in business. He died when about twenty-three years of age, leaving a widow and one son. He d. Ang., 1799. Ch.,
1. BENJAMIN, Jr., b. March 24, 1799, m. Hannah Stone.
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BENJAMIN KINGSBURY, JR., (Benjamin, Nathaniel, Benjamin), b. March 24, 1799, m. Nov. 16, 1825, Hannah Stone (S), b. May 23, 1804, d. May 27, 1872.
He was born in the old red house which used to stand on the site of Warren Block. His father died when he was but five months old, and the property was sold by an administrator to Jonathan Wheeler, Esq. In early life he went to reside with his grandfather Brigham on Brig- ham Hill, where he remained until 1825, when he purchased some real estate and moved on to it in the spring of that year; here he remained nine years, subsequently residing on the "Sherman Farm " (now Sweeter's) for twelve years. He then purchased one-half of the Centre -. ville mills and privileges, in which he continued for fifteen months, when the property was divided he took the grist and saw-mills, and conducted them sixteen years. The opportunities for education in his youth were very meagre, indeed from six to eight weeks in a year in small districts often taught by incompetent teachers. It was not un- common to have scholars in school that understood the leading branches which were taught well or better then their teachers. "I honestly believe I learnt more from books at home than from teachers in school. I never went to a High School a day in my life at the expense of the town. I went to Leicester Academy, eight weeks, and about the same length of time to Nichols Academy, but at my own charge." He has held many town offices, as many as any one now living In town. He was for a number of years the chairman of the Board of Selectmen and Representative to the Legislature.
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