History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. III, Part 135

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co
Number of Pages: 1278

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20th Reg. Inf. (3 years). C. A .- Michael Hennesey, Mar. 4, '62, Mar. 29, '64, to re-enlist ; Michael Hennesey (('ambridge), Mar. 30, '64, taken prisoner, died Feb. 22, '65, Salisbury, N. C.

Company C. - Albert Reiss, Burgt. (Boston), July 18, 'Gl, wil. at Fred- ericksburg, Va., Feb. 18, '62; Jacob Bender (Boston), July 18, '61, Mar. 6, '63, com, sorgt.

Company F .- James McGuire, Mar. 4, '62, May 28, '62, wounded Fredericksburg, Va.

Company G .-- John Wells, Sept. 19, '64, June 8, '65.

U'nussigned Recruits,-Michael Bradley, Mar. 4, '62 ; James Kennedy, Mar. 4, '62.

21st Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. K .- Mathias lockman, Aug. 29, '62, Ang. 30, '64.

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22d Reg. Inf (3 years), Co. K .- Adoniram J. Smith, Oct. 4, '61, Jan. 31, '63, disability.

23d Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. A .- Elliott S. Reed, Oct. 9, '61, Dec. 2, '63, to re-enlist ; Elliott S. Reed, Dec. 3, '63, July 28, '65.

24th Reg Inf. (3 years), Co. A .-- George H. Warren, Sept. 6, '61, Sept. 6, '64.

25th Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. A .-- Frederick A. Nottage, Oct. 10, '61, Dec. 17, '63, to re-ealist for Hopkinton, July 13, '65.

Company D .-- Martin L. Parmenter (Webster), Oct. 9, '61, Dec. 17, '63, to re-enlist ; Martin L. Parmenter (Webster), llec. 18, '63, July 13, '65.

Company H .- John S. Powers (Framingham), Aug. 14, '62, Jan. 18, '64, to re-enlist ; Joho S. Powers (Framingham) Jan. 19, '64, June 3, '64, killed Cold Harbor, Va.

Unassigned Recruits .- Aaron Rice, Feb. 23, '64, Feb. 26, '64.

26th Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. A .- John H. Balcom, musician (Pepperell), Sept. 2, '61, Dec. 31, 1864, to re-enliet ; Johu !!. Balcom, musician, Jan. 1, '64, Ang. 26, 1865.

29th Reg. Inf. (3 years) Co. H .-- John H. Aldrich, Dec. 16, '61, Oct. 22, 1862, died Long Island, N. Y.

31st Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. K .- Willard W. Watkins, Feb. 4, '62, Feb. 4, 1864, to re-enlist ; Willard W. Watkins, sergt., Feb. 15, '64, Sept. 9, 1865.

32d Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. H .- Augustus A. Coburo, Ist sergt., Jan. 5, '64, Dec. 4, 1864, 2d lieut., disch. at cluse of war ; Albert C. Andrewe, lat sergt., Jan. 5, '64, June 29, 1865, absent, wounded ; Ang A. Coburn, Bergt. (Framingham), Ang. [1], '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-enlist ; William Formean, sergt., Jan. 5, '64, June 29, 1865 ; Albert C. Andrews, corp., Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-enlist ; James L. Bell, corp., July 21, '63, June 29, 1865 ; William Formean, corp., Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-eulist ; Geo. B. Twitebell, corp., Jan. 5, '64, wd Sept. 16, 1864, trans. V. R. C. Mar. 28, 1865 ; Oscar W. West, corp, Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-eolist ; Oscar W. West, corp., Jan. 5, '64, July 11, 1865; Edward F. Whittemore, corp., Jan. 5, '64, May 12, 1864, lost right arm near Spottsylvania, June 3, 1865 ; Willard Aldrich, Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-enlist ; Willard Aldrich, Jan. 5, '64, July 12, 1865 ; William Fitz, Ang. 11, '62; Preston W. Forbush, Aug. 11, '62, assigned to quar. termaster's dept., May 30, 1865 ; David Hennessey, Aug. 11, 62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-enlist ; David Hennessey, Jan. 5, '64. May 23, 1864, pris- ober North Anna River, paroled Nov. 30, 1864, died Adoapolis, Md .; Frank A. Johnson, Aug. 11, '62 ; John Maley, Aug. 11, '62; Andrew J. Perry, Aug. 11, '62, Dec. 18, 1863, trans. V. R. C., Jan. 4, 1864, to re en- list ; Andrew J. Perry, Jan. 6, '64, June 18, 1864, wd. at Petersburg, July 13, 1865 ; Silas §. Seaver, Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, disability ; Geo. B. Twitchell, Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-eulist ; George H. Vose, Aug. 11, '62, May 30, 1865 ; Edward F. Whittemore, Aug. 11, '62, Jan. 4, 1864, to re-eulist ; Samuel G. Wiuch, Aug. 11, '62, May 30, 1865.

33/ Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. ( .- William Bell, Aug. G, '62, Sept. 12, 1863, trans. V. R. C., Sept. 5, 1864, disability ; George Scott, Aug, 6, '62, June 11, 1865.

35th Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. A .- Wm. Il. Frankland, corp., Aug. 9, '62, Oct. 4, 1862, sergt., Nov. 3, 1863, disability.

Company C .- John W. Hodges (Chelsea), Ang. 19, '62, Dec. 13, 1862, killed.

36th Reg. (3 years), Co. F .- Chas. O. Metcalf, musician, Aug. 13, '62, April 30, 1864, disability.

38th Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. K .- William O. Andrews, Aug. 20, '62, Nov. 3, 1863, disability.

59th Reg. Inf. (3 years) Co. B .- Levi Rameden, Jan. 4, '64, wd. Spott- sylvania, Feb. 9, 1865, disability.

Compuny C .- Ahner P. Chase, Jan. 4, '64, Sept. 17, 1862, wd. Antie- tam, Va., April 8, 1865, disability.

65th Reg. Inf. (1 year), Co. E .- Lionel D. Phillips, Sept. 9, '64, Jan. 6, '65.

l'eterun Reserve Corps .- Edward J. Ford, Sept. 20, '64.

Nary (3 years) .- William Sloan, Aug. 19, '64, furnished by J. N. Pike; John Sullivan, Aug. 19, '64, furnished by John Clark; John Wilson, Oct. 20, '64, furnished by Henry Cutler.

8th Marine Reg. Inf. (3 years), Co. A .- Moores R. Adams, Sept., '61, Sept., '64.

5th N. H. Reg. Inf. (9 months) .- Lorenzo Frost, after Ang. 8, '62.

13th N. Y. Cav. (1 year), (b. K .- George T. Higley, Oct. S, '64, trans. 3d Provisional N. Y. Cav. Sept. 21, '65; Wakefield I. Higley, Oct. 8, '64, trans. 3d Pro. N. Y. Cav., died in hosp. Washington, D. C., Sept. 4, '65.

Residing in or Credited to the Quota of Ashland, but Regiment, if any, un- known .- Lorenzo Bolden (colored), Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 3, '64 ; Adol-

phus Burgess (colored), Fort Monroe, l'eb. 6, '65 ; Beuj. Daveuport (colored), Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 3, '64; Herman S. Greenwood, July 12, '63, Dec. 10, '63, disability ; John Harvey, enl. out of town ; Henry W. Jackson; Thomas C. Pond, July 21, '63, disch, for disability ; Wm. II. Pratt, July 21, '63, Sept. 16, '63, disability ; Henry Wellington.

Drafted (3 years) and Furnished Substitutes or Paid Commutation .- Lyman Beck, July 10, '63 ; E. Francie Claflin, July 10, '63 ; Charles Cloyes, July 10, '63 ; Daniel Fenton, July 10, '63; Edwin Perry, July 10, '63 ; Alfred B. Rugg, July 10, '63; Samuel Seaver, July 10, '63 ; Charles H. Tilton, July 10, '63; J. Edward Tiltou, July 10, '63; Jacob Winchester, July 10, '63 ; Curtis B. Young, July 10, '63.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

ALVAH METCALF.

Alvah Metcalf was born in Appleton, Maine, April 12, 1824. He was the eighth in descent from Michael Metcalf, who came from England, and settled in Ded- ham, in 1637. His father was born in Franklin, Mass, but had removed to Maine when a young man, and there his eight children were born and brought up. Alvah was the second child by his mother, Melinda Phillips, of Auburn, Mass .; he is the seventh in direct line from Rev. George Phillips, the first minister in Watertown, Mass., who came to America from England in 1630. His opportunities for an education were few, but he improved what he had. He attended district school only winters, and when there was no school in his own district he went to another near by. In those days a fire-place occupied the greater part of one end of the room, and four-foot logs were rolled in without being split. During the summer of his eighteenth year he worked in Massachusetts, and in the winter of 1845 he ob- tained his last schooling. But his education did not end there. He has always been a great reader, giving especial attention to history and science. Natural Science is his hobby and he never tires of studying the works of the great naturalists. His strong application and his retentive memory have stored his mind with knowledge, so that he may, without doubt, be classed among the best of self-educated men.

While at home in Mane, Mr. Metcalf had worked chiefly at coopering, but at the age of twenty-one he came to Massachusetts. Arriving at Boston in the morning, he at once set out by stage for Franklin, where he was to work during the summer. He reached his destination at night, not having eaten anything since he left the schooner in the morning, for he was afraid that he might want his only remain- ing six-pence for some other purpose. The next two years he spent in a cooper-shop in Smithfield, R. I.

Mr. Metcalf obtained his first experience in wood- working when he was employed by Milton Whiting, in his saw and grist-mill, Unionville, Franklin. Here he worked for seventeen dollars a month, laboring at least fifteen hours a day. The next year 1850, he took charge of the business himself, and hired the mill for four years. In 1855 he hired part of the mill

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belonging to Peter Whiting. The upper part was used for making shoddy and cotton batting, but in the lower story Mr. Metcalf sawed logs and made the boards up into boxes that were used for straw-goods, boots and shoes. Many places in this vicinity were supplied from this mill. In 1856 he bought the Luther Rockwood farm in Holliston for $2600, and moved his family there.

Farming, however, didn't agree with him, or rather lie didn't like farming, so the next year he traded the farm for the mill and house that he now owns in Ash- land. At this time he was worth about $4000.

The original dam at this place was built by John Cloyes about 1835. It was eighteen inches high, and the power obtained was only sufficient to run a turning-lathe and a grind-stone. Later a mortising machine was put in, and sash and blinds were manu- factured. In 1844, Cloyes sold out to Daniel White, who the next year conveyed it to Henry Bacon. In 1847 it came into possession of H. F. Goodale, of Marlboro', who let it to Micah B. Priest, also of Marlboro'. It was with Mr. Priest that Mr. Metcalf exchanged his farm in 1857, and became owner of the mill where he has since carried on the manufacture of boxes, and gradually increased the business.

During the war this mill always had plenty to do, because there was always a supply of lumber on hand, and customers could be sure of prompt attention to their orders.

Adjoining the mill is a small shop where for about five years kegs were made for Emery Mills, then situated in the eastern part of the town. Nearly all of the towns in this vicinity have at one time or another been furnished with boxes, as South Framing- ham, Natick, Holliston and Westboro'. The quality of box furnished has always been first-class, and orders are quickly filled.

In 1870 a new and larger mill was built in place of the old one in such a way that only a few hours were lost in changing from the one to the other. The new mill is 44x61 feet, with two ells each 24 feet square. The attic is used for storing boxes and lumber, the second story is given up to the manufacture of boxes, the ground floor is used chiefly for planing, while in the basement are the water-wheels and the engine, the latter necessary through the increased business. The engine is of twenty-five horse power. A stone boiler-house has been built behind the mill, and a large chimney constructed. Two years ago a stone dam was built in the place of the old wooden one. New and improved machinery has been added, and recently a large tank and automatie sprinklers have been introduced for protection against fire. Over two milion feet of lumber is used annually, and $30,000 worth of boxes were sold. From 1871-75 the manu- facture of flocks was carried on in addition to the box business, while the stones for grinding grain were left out of the new mill.

1850, to Harriet H. Vose, and second, to Harriet M. Makepeace, October 11. 1859. By his first marriage he has three children ; by his second, seven. His services to the town have been many and varied. He has been measurer of firewood, highway surveyor, overseer of the poor, assessor and School Committee. For nine years he was one of the trustees of Wild- wood Cemetery, and on the Board of Selectmen he has served six years. He has been one of the trustees of the Methodist Church since its beginning, having also been one of the building committee. He is also a member of the Masonic Order.

In 1877 he took a trip to California, being gone two months. He visited Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and the Yosemite Valley. The valley is en- tered by two routes from Merced-the Mariposa and Coulterville. Mr. Metcalf went in by one of these routes and came out by the other, traveling over four hundred miles by stage. He was one of a party of eight who, with a guide, took mustangs and rode out to the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. He brought home with him agreat many curiosities, most of them illustrative of his favorite study-natural science These now fill a large cabinet in his home and are with much interest shown to all his guests.

In 1881 he lost a part of his left hand in a planer. It was cut off below the wrist. Being a temperate man the wound soon healed, and in a week he was out to the mill to look after his business. He retains the use of his wrist aud the amount of work he can do, though maimed, is surprising. While on the Board of Selectmen he was zealous in suppressing the liquor traffic.

He bas always been a hard worker and a careful planner. Though he has lost considerably in business accommodations, he has never failed to meet his own obligations, and by personal supervision and strict at- tention to business he has built up the large manufac- tory he now controls.

CHARLES TAFT ALDRICH.

The ancestors of Mr. Aldrich were Englishmen, some of whom came early to America, settling in Rhode Island, near the site of the present enterpris- ing town of Woonsocket. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Isaac Aldrich, one of the pioneers in woolen manufacturing in New England and engaged in it soon after Samuel Slater introduced cotton machinery at Pawtucket.

Charles, son of Isaac, born in Rhode Island in 1815, married Abigail K. Taft, of Uxbridge, in 1842. They had eight children, of whom Charles T. is the oldest, who was born in Millbury, Mass., April 12, 1845. His childhood and youth were passed in com- pany with his brothers and sisters at the home of his parents. When about four years old he met with an accident which resulted in a lameness for life. It

Mr. Metcalf has been twice married-first, May 30, " was thought his lameness would prevent his taking

C. J. Aldrich.

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any part in the business in which many of this fam- ily had been engaged, so that after leaving the gram- mar school he attended the High School with the in- tention of fitting for college. During this stage of preparation for the higher degrees of learning the desire to learn the business of manufacturing fre- quently showed itself. He finally decided to waive the college course and master the details of woolen manufacture. To do so he entered a woolen-mill in which his father, Charles, was a superintendent, and there learned the business, and in 1862 went to Bell- ingham, Mass., and there commenced the manufacture of flannels with his father. 'In this business he was successful until 1868, when the mill was burned, en- tailing much loss. He then went to Kansas with the intention of farming on a large scale, but the great drouth of 1869 put an end to his efforts in this direc- tion. Leaving Kansas, he went into Arkansas and built a flour-mill in the vicinity of "Pea Ridge," a location made memorable by the great battle fought there during the War of the Rebellion. Owing to illness caused by the climate, he returned to New England in 1871, and commenced the manufacture of horse blankets in Worcester. This business was very profitable, owing to his using material that had not been utilized before, and also to the prevalence of the " epizootic " distemper among horses that year, which created an unusual demand. In 1873 Mr. Aldrich settled in Ashland, where he commenced the manu- facture of satinets and blankets for the New York market. This manufacturing seems likely to continue in the family, as his oldest son, Charles T., Jr., is engaged in the same business in a mill in Worcester County, and the other sons are with their father at home. Mr. Aldrich married Emma G., daughter of Smith Aldrich, of Blackstone, in 1864, and from this union there are Charles T. Jr., born July 19, 1866; Henry A., born March 31, 1868; Louis H., born November 4, 1870, and Alice M., born June 11, 1873. Mrs. Aldrich died November 23, 1889, deeply mourned by her family and friends. Mr. Aldrich is a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics. Although interested in public matters, he has avoided political offices and at- tended closely to his business and built up a pretty home and village about his mills. Mr. Aldrich has recently sustained a severe loss in the burning of his mill buildings, October 7, 1890. This water privilege, situated on the Sudbury River, is a very valuable one, and the mills will be rebuilt, unless the city of Bos- ton shall decide to take the water, a project now under discussion.

Mr. Aldrich is a specimen of robust manhood from which the lameness of his childhood does not seem to detract, and belongs to the class of New Englanders known as self-made and successful.

ELIAS GROUT.

The subject of this sketch is a descendant in the sixth generation of Captain John Grout, the famous

miller of Sudbury, who came to this country as early as 1638. His father, Elias, Sr., was born in Medfield, but settled in Sherborn, and in 1801 removed to the south part of Framingham. He served in the Revo- lutionary War, was a "minute-man " from Sherborn in 1775, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill.

Elias, Jr., the youngest son of Elias, Sr., and his wife, Eleanor (Dadmun), was born June 3, 1816. He received a good education at the Framingham and Leicester Academies, and was a successful teacher in the common schools for many years. At the in- corporation of Ashland, in 1846, his farm was in- cluded in the new town, which has honored him with most of the offices within her gift. He was repre- sentative in the Legislature of 1853, selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, school committee for many successive years.

Being raised upon a farm he has ever taken an intelligent interest in agriculture; was president of the Middlesex South Agricultural Society, 1861-62, and a member of the State Board, 1863-65.

Mr. Grout has often been intrusted with public and personal matters, where carefulness, integrity and sound judgment were required. In 1852 he was sent to England by the Jennings Heirs Association, to in- vestigate their claims to the great William Jennings estate there. After a careful inquiry and search of the archives of the Library of the British Museum, Doc- tors' Commons, Chancery Courts, Government State Paper Office, and other sources, he reported to his associates that no claim of real or supposed beirs in America could be sustained-a conclusion fully con- firmed by agents since employed.

In 1865, Mr. Grout was engaged by H. J. Sargent and other heirs of the distinguished James Swan, for- merly of Boston, to go to Charleston, West Virginia, to examine into the legal status of the vast tracts purchased by said Swan in the last century, 1780- 1790. On this trip, in May, 1865, he met a son of the late Josiah Randall, trustee of certain French claimants to these lands, and the following winter he was employed by Mr. Randall, and spent three months exploring the lands in question, and examin- ing the records in some fifteen counties-reporting in writing to Mr. Randall in Philadelphia.

After disposing of his farm, Mr. Grout engaged in the cotton business from 1867 to 1882, with head- quarters at Kingston, N. C. Since then he has enjoyed the quiet of his pleasant home and family. He married Nov. 21, 1839, Harriet Fiske, daughter of Richard and Betsey Fiske, of Framingham, a lady of good education, rare beauty of person and excellence of character. Their children were : Charles Muzzey, born October 24, 1840, lost at sea off Bahama Islands, October 3, 1864; Channing Fiske, born July 24, 1842, married, first, Carrie P. Tilton, second, Sarah Jones; merchant, Ashland; Edgar Follen, born December 24, 1845, owner of cattle ranch, Wyoming ; Mary Rowland, born May 7, 1850, married Samuel

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E. Poole, deceased, of Ashland. She has one son, Charles G. Poole, born June 18, 1870.

CHARLES HENRY TILTON.1

The Tilton family are of English origin, and Abra- ham Tilton was the first to emigrate to America, com- ing with the colony of one hundred and twenty Eng- lish and Scotch families, which arrived in Boston in 1718. John Morse, who was the maternal ancestor of the Tiltons, also came over with this colony. Among this band of sturdy settlers are to be found the names of many who, as pioneer settlers, laid the foundations of what have since become prosperous towns and villages in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. Abraham Tiltou joined his fortunes with that portion of the colony (eighteen families) which settled Hopkinton, and where to this day are to be found worthy representatives of that name. In the fourth generation from Abraham was Leonard, the father of the subject of this sketch. Leonard was born in Hopkinton, October 7, 1800. Catherine H. Morse, the wife of Leonard, was born in Dummerston, Vermont, January 7, 1806. They had six children, the first-born being Charles Henry, who was born November 30, 1829. His parents are both deceased, his father June 11, 1841, and his mother September 13, 1877. When Charles H. was three years old the family moved to Bennington, Vermont, and here he remained until the death of his father. It was here that his school-days were passed, his educational ad- vantages being such as were afforded by the district schools of the Green Mountain State. On the death of his father, who left hut a very limited estate, Charles, whose assistance in the support of the family was needed, left school and with the family removed to that part of Hopkinton now Ashland, where Charles entered a shoe-shop and for a number of years, by prudence and close attention to all details in the manufacture of boots and shoes, not only be- came well-versed in the business, but also became an important factor in the family economy. At the · age of twenty-one, being dissatisfied at the prevailing rate of wages paid to competent and skilled operators, Charles started in a small way for himself, his first ease of boots (which were children's red topped boots) being made from stock supplied on credit by a Boston leather merchant, who was a shrewd observer of young men and knew the value to such, of a kind word and kindly assistance; nor was young Tilton's case the only one where Hon. Lee Claflin gave timely assist- ance by allowing credit to such as could bring the collateral inherent in an honest face. Mr. Tilton was successful in his business undertakings, and gradually worked his way up to an enviable promi- nence in this great New England industry, establish- ing himself in one of the finest and best-appointed

shoe factories in the Commonwealth, it being known all over this section of the country as "the model boot and shoe factory," which was built by him on his own land, of which he had bought some oue hun- dred acres, ereeting thereon some forty dwellings, laying out streets and, with his own hands, setting out shade and fruit trees, thus making it the most beauti- ful section of Ashland. October 1, 1850, Mr. Tilton married Caroline M., daughter of Henry and Myra C. (Coggins) Babcock, who has borne him two ehil- dren-Jennie M., May 23, 1860, and Charles H., Jr., November 30, 1862. Jennie M. was married, May 25, 1888, to Rev. Carey F. Abbott, of Nashua, N. H., and they have one child, Ruth Tilton, born November 26, 1889. In polities Mr. Tilton has been a thorough- going Republicau since that party was first organized. While avoiding political office, he has in town affairs been efficient and useful, being for a number of years on the Board of Selectmen and for four years its chair- man, also a member of the Board of Assessors, justice of the peace, a director in the South Framingham National Bank and president of the Middlesex South Agricultural Society.

He retired from the boot and shoe business in 1886. Mr. Tilton is a lover of the horse, as is also Charles H., Jr., and has some fine specimens in his commo- dious stables at Ashland. Heis also a breeder of fine cattle, and his opinion on matters relating to the breeding and care of stock is quite professional.

As a citizen, Mr. Tilton is upright and law-abiding ; is a contributor to the support of the Congregational Church ; is well-informed on the general topics of the times, and with easy fortunes is taking a good share of that happiness and contentment which should go hand in hand with merited success in one's life work.

J. NEWTON PIKE.

Says an old philosopher, "All men, whatever their condition, who have done anything of value ought to record the history of their lives." Eventful periods occur at rare intervals in the lives of meu the most distinguished, but even in their more retired walks of private life tlrere are few whose lives are not marked by some vicissitudes of fortune, which, however trivial they may seem, are yet sufficient to excite great interest.

The events which give the highest interest to biog- raphy are of a volatile and evanescent nature and are soon forgotten. It is the part of the biographer to collect these passing events and fix them indelibly upon the pages of history, that succeeding genera- tions may know how their predecessors lived, what ideas governed them, what trials and difficulties they encountered and how they overcame them, and even their domestic relations, for all these teach a lesson that will be serviceable by pointing out what paths led to success, and what roads are to be avoided as leading to failure.

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History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. III, Part 135

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co Number of Pages: 1278

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co
Number of Pages: 1278