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He was m. to Mrs. Anna Cooper Kellogg, above alluded to, dr. of James and Ruth (Clark) Cooper of Corning, N.Y .; cer. at Corning, July 12, 1860, by Rev. Charles Morton. No report of chn. given me.
DENNETT, WINBURN RUSSELL, son of Winburn and Sarah (Frost) Dennett,
b. North Berwick, Me., Nov. 1, 1824; pattern-maker; m. Martha Durgin, dr. of Charles and Jane (Cram) Durgin, b. Berwick, Me., July 8, 1831; cer. April 15, 1849, by Rev. John Davis of Dover, N.H. Issue :-
BLANCH, b. So. Berwick, Me., March 15, 1852; d. Feb. 14, 1858.
ALMA, b. Lawrence, Mass., Oct. 25, 1854; d. Jan. 6, 1858.
WINBURN, b. Lawrence, Mass., July 5, 1856; d. Dec. 18, 1857.
CLARA ESTELLE, b. Manchester, N.H., July 1, 1860; m. Harlan H. Hart, Nov. 23, 1879.
PERLEY, b. Manchester, N.H., 1863; d. Oct. 24, 1865.
LILLA, b. Hopedale, March 26, 1868.
MORTIMER SHERMAN, b. Hopedale, June 18, 1871.
WINBURN, b. Hopedale, July 27, 1873; d. Sept. 5, 1873.
Reputable family. Mr. Dennett is an ingenious, industrious, faithful workman in his line of business, and commands good compensation. He has a comfortable homestead in Berwick, Me., to which he can retire with his family at pleasure. He has been at Hopedale since July 6, 1865.
DESPEAUX. I find this name spelled on our records in various ways, - Despair, Desper, Disper, Dispeau, and Despeaux. This last is the most recent. It is said to be warranted by a genealogical pamphlet somewhere extant, which claims to give, on good authority, the original French family name in this orthography. I have never seen the pamphlet, but some of the descendants have; and so I conform.
DESPEAUX, EDWARD, reputed to have been an only child; b. Chelsea, Nov. 23, 1740; m. Elizabeth Hunting, b. Sept. 24, 1747; cer. Feb. 9, 1763. Their chn .:-
HANNAII, b. Aug. 11, 1764.
JOSEPH, b. Feb. 19, 1766; m. and set. in Grafton.
MARY, b. Dec. 17, 1767.
BETSEY, b. Nov. 2, 1769; m. Amos Merrifield, Leicester, Vt., Feb. 12, 1795. ABIGAIL, b. June 29, 1771 ; m. Nathaniel Kimball, Medway, May 29, 1794. SARAH, b. March 27, 1776; d. soon after birth.
SARAH, b. Nov. 14, 1777; d. soon after birth.
SALLY, b. Feb. 7, 1779; d. soon after birth.
JASON, b. Aug. 1, 1780; m. Rebecca North, April 17, 1808.1
JOHN, b. June 6, 1782; m. Rachel Ball, July 5, 1807.
JESSE, b. Feb. 28, 1784; m. Anna Pond, Holl., Sept. 10, 1807.
PHEBE, b. Feb. 4, 1786; m. Henry Leland of Sherborn.
JAMES, b. May 25, 1789; m. Anna Cheney of Ward. LOIS, b. June 25, 1793.
This family were among the multitude warned out of town under the pauperphobia panic of 1791. He was then styled cordwainer, and it is not told whence he came. But, like most others of the warned-out, he came to stay, and did stay, with most of his chn. He dwelt many yrs., as a tenant, in an old domicile that stood just east of William Miller's hot-house, a little out from Cedar St., in the near vicinity of Pine-grove Cemetery. He was an industrious,
1 Jason lived to be an old man, and d. childless. He claimed to have read the Bible through in course 7 times, and to have walked 10,000 miles.
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frugal man, frequently in needy circumstances, and withal quite orthodox in his religious notions. He had a great abhorrence of Universalism, though often a recipient of favors from Noah Wiswall, one of its earliest professors in this town. It is reported that Wiswall donated to Despeaux a load of firewood on a certain occasion, that Parson Frost made Despeaux a pastoral call the next day, and that, during the call, Despeaux made a complimentary reference to Wiswall in these words: "Parson Frost, don't you think! the good Lord sent me a nice load of wood yesterday by the hand of the Devil." He d. at his dr. Kimball's in Medway, Feb. 23, 1822. Mrs. Elizabeth, at the same kind home, d. March 2 immediately ensuing.
DESPEAUX, JESSE 2 (Edward 1), b., I presume, Mil., Feb. 28, 1784; m. Anna
Pond, dr. of Aaron and Silence (Underwood) Pond, b. in Holl., Aug. 3, 1789; cer. in Mil., Sept. 10, 1807, by Samuel Jones, Esq. Their chn .:-
JOSEPH, b. Mil., March 12, 1808; m. Lavina Adams, Feb. 18, 1830; also 2d and 3d wives.
SILENCE, b. Mil., June 22, 1810; m. Henry Leland, Dec. 11, 1832.
VAN RENSSELLAER, b. Mil., Sept. 30, 1812; m. Catherine Goodnow; res. on an island in Lake Erie.
BETSEY, b. Mil., Sept. 14, 1814; m. Alford Angel, July 3, 1836.
EDWARD, b. Mil., April 17, 1817; unfortunate, blind, etc. ; res. in our asylum. ANNA, b. Mil., 1819; m., 1st, Hiram Gould; 2d, Reuben H. Cook; both d. JESSE, Jun., b. Mil., May 5, 1821; m. Mary R. Reed of Acton, Sept. 11, 1842. SALLY or SARAH, b. Mil., April 10, 1826; m. Orrin Sweet of Mil.
SAMUEL, b. Mil., May 16, 1828; m. Mary Knight of Acton; res. Boston. NAMELESS INFT., b. Mil., Sept., 1831; d. Nov. 2, a. 7 weeks.
Mr. Despeaux, the hus. and fr., d. of small-pox in this town, June 31, 1837, a. 53 yrs. Mrs. Anna, his wid., d. July 11, 1871, in her 83d yr. All their chn. survive, excepting Silence, and the youngest, that d. in early infancy. Joseph res. in Medway; also Betsey, now a wid .; Van Renssellaer, on a small island in Lake Erie; Edward, in our asylum; Anna, the 2d time a wid., in Boston ; Jesse, in Upton; Sarah, Mrs. Orrin Sweet, in town; and Samuel, in Boston. Jesse is so near us, and so often among us, that I give his family record.
DESPEAUX, JESSE, Jun.3 (Jesse,2 Edward1), b. in Mil., May 5, 1821; m. Mary R. Reed, Sept. 11, 1842. Issue : -
JESSE GARDNER, b. Sept. 19, 1844.
OREN TRASK, b. Oct. 11, 1847.
LUCY ANNA, b. Sept. 13, 1850; d. Sept. 13, 1851.
JOHN WILLIAM, b. July 11, 1853; d. July 14, 1854.
An industrious, enterprising, worthy family. They res. in Upton, but are well known in Mil.
DEWEY, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, Esq., son of Hon. Charles Augustus and Mrs. Caroline H. (Clinton) Dewey, b. Northampton, Dec. 29, 1830; m. Marietta N. Thayer, dr. of Alexander White Thayer and Marietta (Dustan), his wf., b. in Worcester, June 22, 1847; cer. Mil., March 12, 1867, by Rev. George G. Jones. Issue : -
MARIA THAYER, b. Aug. 8, 1872.
Mr. D. is judge of our Worcester Co. South-east District Court. He has a distinguished ptge. and ancestry, his fr. having just retired from the bench of our State Supreme Court, and his mr. being of corresponding social rank. His wf., too, has the ancestral honor of being a descendant of the celebrated Hannah Dustan of Haverhill, whose captivity among the Indians was so thrillingly nar-
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rated in olden times. I expected Judge Dewey to have given me the outline of his story as a scholar, lawyer, etc .; but either through modesty, misapprehen- sion of my wishes, or my neglect to urge the matter, I find myself unable to specify any particulars of his graduation, admission to the bar, etc. Of his appointment to his judgeship, etc., something may be found in Chap. XVI., "Succession of Civil Officers, etc." - head, "Police Court." He has res. in town some 15 yrs., I think; has rendered various official services to his fellow- citizens, and eminent ones on the school board.
DEWING, JOHN, pedigree, birth-date, etc., not ascertained; m. Patience Sum- ner, dr. of James and Mary (Bigelow) Sumner, b. Nov. 2, 1756; cer. Sept. 21, 1780, by Rev. A. Frost. Their chn. :-
PENELOPE, b. Feb. 1, 1781; m. Jonathan Bowker, date not found.
DANIEL, b. March 5, 1784; d. Feb. 2, 1796, a. 12 yrs.
POLLY, b. Aug. 3, 1787.
JAMES, b. March 28, 1791.
HANNAH, b. Oct. 8, 1794.
ABIGAIL, b. July 26, 1797.
The fr. d. in Hop., Sept. 11, 1833.
Our records are barren in respect to this family beyond the above data. What became of the mr. and chn. I have yet to learn. I think they must have taken up their abode outside our municipal limits.
DEWING, FRANK, clerk, appears in Directories, 1872, '75, '78, '80.
DEWING, DWIGHT C., bootmaker, appears in Directories, 1878, '80.
Frank Dewing, above named, now res. in Hopedale, as clerk in the employ of George Draper & Sons. He m. Sarah Frances Cummings, dr. of Dr. Royal Cummings, and Sarah (Carpenter) Cummings, his wf., b. in Northbridge, Aug. 16, 1848; cer. Jan. 1, 1872. They have 1 child.
Doubtless others of this name have been transient dwellers among us.
DEWNER, ANDREW, was the slave of the first Josiah Ball. A friend in Boston
made him a present of Andrew when a babe only 4 weeks old. If the reader will turn to the family record of Ball, under the proper head, he will find two versions of the traditional story about how he came by Andrew, - how he brought him home from Boston a young babe, how his wf. was frightened at the outcry of a black baby on her bed, how Andrew grew up a trusty slave, was made free at 21 yrs. of age, exchanged his freedom-horse for a wf. named Rose in Marlboro' (formerly including Westboro'), and was comfortably settled by Ball on a little homestead, where he raised up a family, lived and died. I knew him in his old age, dwelling in his humble No. Purchase home. But I cannot give, with any accuracy, his birth-date, or the particulars of his marriage to Rose. They had several chn., concern- ing whom I can tell only the little that has reached me. They had certainly 2 sons and 3 drs .; viz., -
JUDITII, prob. eldest, b. March 2, 1768; m. Luke Smith as her 2d hus .; the 1st not known.
DINAH, birth-date not found; m. George Smith, Grafton, 1792.
ACIISA, birth-date not found; m. Pero Gardner, Wrentham, 1793; d. Feb. 12, 1803.
ANDREW, birth-date not found; went off to sea, and never returned.
HENRY, birth-date not found; went to sea, but finally d. in Boston.
I get no clew to the name of Judith's 1st hus. Her 2d was of Boston, and d., leaving her in widowhood. She ultimately found support in our town asy-
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lum, where she d. April 19, 1872, at the remarkable age of over 104 yrs. Andrew is supposed to have been sold as a slave in Georgia by a villanous sea-captain under whom he went to sea. Mr. Lewis Cobb, when out in Georgia, recognized him in a slave-gang, but could not speak with him.1 Henry followed the seas, but finally d. in Boston. Dinah and hus. moved to Boston, and prob. d. there. She had a son who came up to Mil., and d. with his gd. parents in 1820. When and where Achsa and her hus. d., I get no information. Andrew, the fr., d at his home in No. Purchase in 1825. Mrs. Rose went to live with her chn. in Boston. She was carefully assisted to get there in safety by Mrs. Luther Haven. She d. there a few yrs. later. I am indebted for several of the foregoing facts to my friends Elias Whitney and Isaac C. Haven. If the record of this family is imperfect on earth, I have no doubt it is complete in heaven.
DICKINSON, Dr. GIDEON3 (Capt. John D.,2 Gideon 1), b. Williamston, Vt.,
date not given; mr.'s maiden name Chloe Hatch; m. Martha L. Knox, Boston, dr. of Charles H. and Harriet (Crockett) Knox, birth-date not given; cer. Boston, 1859, by Rey. George H. Hepworth. Issue :- MAUD, b. Boston, April 23, 1866.
Dr. D.'s gd. frs., on both the paternal and maternal sides, were Revolution- ary soldiers, were in the battle of Bennington, fought through the entire war, and were pensioners in old age till death. So he has live patriotic and martial blood running in his veins, which he does not allow to stagnate. He left home at the a. of 16 yrs., went to Goffstown, N.H., and there worked and attended school 2 yrs., thus fitting himself to be a teacher. Thence he came to Mil., entered the office of Dr. Francis Leland, and studied medicine and pharmacy. After spending several yrs. as a student with Dr. Leland, and sundry private teachers of Greek, Latin, and French, he went, in 1855, to Paris, where he at- tended lectures in the Medical College, and also academic courses in the Sorbonne and College of France. He then travelled several months on the continent, and in England and Scotland, returned to Mil. in 1857, and has since success- fully practised both medicine and dentistry, having offices here and in Boston. He cultivates his literary taste with assiduity, and not only admires fine poetry, but has printed several productions of his own muse. Principal among these is one published in pamphlet-form, entitled "A Hundred Years; or, Milford's First Centennial. In Three Cantos." 1880. Several other effusions, of simi- lar vim and merit, appeared, during 1880, in "The Boston Traveller."
DIX, JAMES, pedigree untraced; m. Submit Fairbank of Holl., pedigree un- traced; cer. March 19, 1771, by Rev. A. Frost. Had 1 child bap. here by Mr. Frost; viz., MOLLY, Nov. 12, 1775. No further traced.
DIXON, WARREN, and Polly, had born to them, -
HOSEA, b. May 3, 1797.
DIXON, MARVIN, and Mary, are credited also with 1 birth, - LEWIS, b. Feb. 28, 1796.
Whence these Dixons came, and whither they went, I learn not.
DIXON, THOMAS, and Bertha, res. some yrs. ago in Hopedale, and had several chn .; but I can give only the names of 2 that died there; viz., -
THOMAS ALEXANDER, d. Oct. 12, 1866, a. 3 yrs. and 10 mos.
1 Since writing the foregoing, my friend Alfred Bragg, who claims to be better informed, says that Andrew, jun., was sold into slavery in Cuba, W.I .; that Ezekiel Madden of Milford, who traded more or less in Cuba, and who knew Andrew well, saw him there in slavery; and that, having come home and procured the necessary legal documents to secure Andrew's freedom, he died on his passage back to Cuba. So the kidnapped victim was left to his fate.
Vau Civckwow Boston
George Oraper
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WALTER B., d. April 4, 1867, a. 2 yrs. and 6 mos.
Mrs. Bertha, the wf. and mr., d. at Whitinsville, whither the family had removed, June 13, 1874, a. 33 yrs. Her remains were brought to Hopedale for burial.
DOVE, CHARLES, son of John and Elizabeth, b. in Bubwith, Eng., Oct. 15, 1822; m., 1st, Elizabeth Humphrey, dr. of Richard and Catherine (Thomas) Humphrey, b. Chester, Eng., March 4, 1822; cer. Manchester Cathedral, Eng., July 21, 1849, by Rev. Mr. Johnson. Issue : -
CHARLES WILLIAM, b. Manchester, Eng., Sept. 1, 1851.
Mrs. Elizabeth d. in Mil., Sept. 22, 1868. The hus. m., 2d, Helen Maria Safford, dr. of Hiram and Ruby (Jumper) Safford, b. Dexter, Me., Oct. 22, 1838; cer. at Chelsea, Mass., March 16, 1878, by Rev. John T. Burrill. Issue :-
CHARLOTTE ALICE, b. Mil., Jan. 9, 1879.
Reputable people, industrially, civilly, and religiously. Mr. D. has res. in Mil. about 27 yrs. He is by occupation a boot-packer.
DRAPER. The Drapers are among our comparatively modern inhabitants, but they are also among the ancients of the Commonwealth. There were prob. several early immigrants of this name from Eng. unrelated to each other by family ties. The following is the substance of a document left by Ira Draper of Saugus at his death. I received it from his son, George Draper of Hopedale, and present a faithful digest of its essential data :-
THOMAS DRAPER1 was of Heptontill Parish, Halifax Vicarage, Yorkshire, Eng.
JAMES DRAPER 2 was of Heptontill Parish, Halifax Vicarage; d. July, 1691, a. 75 yrs. His wf. Miriam, dr. of Gideon Stansfield, or Standfast, d. Jan., 1697, a. 77.
So deposed John Draper of Dedham, under oath, at Roxbury, April 28, 1742.
JAMES DRAPER,3 supposed son of James,2 d. April 30, 1698, and Abigail, his supposed wf., Oct. 25, 1721; he a. 44, she 59 yrs.
Taken from gravestones in Roxbury.
JAMES DRAPER 4 d. April 24, 1768, a. 77. Dedham gravestones.
This James m. Rachel Aldis, May 2, 1716. He m., 2d, Abigail Child, Nov. 12, 1719. Their chn. : -
JAMES DRAPER,5 son of James 4 and Abigail Child, b. Sept. 22, 1720; d. March, 1781.
ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 12, 1721.
JOHN, b. June 16, 1723; d. Nov. 8, 1748.
JOSHUA, b. Dec. 25, 1724.
JOSIAH, b. April 3, 1726; d. Aug. 18, same yr.
JOSIAH, b. Sept. 12, 1727; d. Sept., 1795.
RACHEL, b. June 30, 1729.
MARY, b. Sept. 24, 1731.
ABIJAH, b. July 17, 1733; d. Nov. 18, 1734.
ABIJAH, 2d, b. July 11, 1735; d. Feb. 13, 1737.
ABIJAH, 3d, b. May 10, 1737; d. May 1, 1780.
SAMUEL, b. Dec. 5, 1740; d. Nov. 29, 1750.
DRAPER, ABIJAH 6 (James,5 James,4 James,3 James,2 Thomas 1), b. May 10, 1737; m. Alice, dr. of John and Elizabeth Eaton, who was b. Jan. 31, 1741, and d. Jan. 22, 1777; cer. April 8, 1762. Their chn .: -
ABIJAH, b. June 21, 1763; d. Dec. 16, 1774.
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IRA, b. Dec. 29, 1764; twice m .; d. Jan. 22, 1848.
RUFUS, b. Nov. 12, 1766; d. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 15, 1788.
JAMES, b. April 14, 1769.
ALICE, b. April 13, 1771; m. Ebenezer Daggett; d. New Boston, N.H., a. 81 yrs.
ABIJAH, 2d, b. Sept. 22, 1778; m. Desire Metcalf, March 25, 1778; d. March 26, 1836. Mrs. Desire d. 1815, a. 69 yrs.
LENDAMINE, b. March 30, 1780; d. Oct., 1823.
DRAPER, IRA7 (Abijah,6 James.5 James,4 James," James,2 Thomas 1), b. Dec.
29, 1764; m., 1st, Lydia, dr. of Lemuel and Rebecca Richards, b. Jan. 21, 1768; cer. May 31, 1786. - Their chn. : -
JAMES, b. May 28, 1787; res. in Wayland, and d. there a few yrs. ago.
IRA, Jun., b. Jan. 4. 1789; d. June, 1845.
RUFUS, b. Aug. 30, 1790; d. Sept. 4, same yr.
A DAUGHTER, b. Aug. 7, 1791.
A SON, b. Dec. 17, 1793.
LUCY C., b. June 17, 1797; d. Sept. 15, 1800.
RUFUS FOSTER, b. July 12, 1800; m. Polly Hemenway ; d. Oct. 13, 1841.
ABIJAH, 1st, b. Jan. 5, 1802; d. Oct. 4, same yr.
ABIJAH, 2d, b. Nov. 15, 1803; d. Dec. 21, 1828.
A DAUGHTER, b. Dec. 1, 1807.
Mrs. Lydia d. Sept. 11, 1811. The hus. m., 2d, her sister, Abigail Rich- ards, b. Sept. 12, 1782; cer. March 19, 1812. Their chn .: -
EBENEZER DAGGETT, b. June 14, 1813; m., 1st, Anna Thwing, Sept. 11, 1834; 2d, M. P. Boynton, 1872.
LYDIA, b. March 31, 1815; m. John Edmands; d. April 4, 1847.
GEORGE, b. Aug. 16, 1817; m. Hannah B. Thwing, March 6, 1839.
ABIGAIL, b. Oct. 24, 1819; m. William W. Cook; d. July 22, 1847.
LEMUEL, RICHARDS, b. Dec. 1, 1823; m. Lydia M. Mansfield.
LUCY R., b. Dec. 22, 1826; d. July, 1827.
Mrs. Abigail d. March 3, 1847. The hus. and fr. d. Jan. 22, 1848, a. over 84 yrs. He was a man of large natural intelligence, mechanical ingenuity, and progressive thought. I shall formulate the family records of only such chn. and descendants as have dwelt in this town.
DRAPER, EBENEZER DAGGETT8 (Ira,7 Abijah,6 James,5 James,4 James,8 James,2 Thomas 1), b. Weston, June 14, 1813; m., 1st, Anna Thwing, dr. of Benjamin and Anna (Mowry) Thwing, b. Uxbridge, Dec. 23, 1814; cer. Sept. 11, 1834, by Rev. Samuel Clarke, minister of Ux. This couple had no chn. of their own loins, but several by adoption; viz. : -
IDA ANNA, b. July 12, 1828; d. July 12, 1833, at Hopedale.
MARY ANNA, b. Aug. 15, 1852; res. in Boston; unm.
CHARLES HENRY EATON, b. Aug. 15, 1852. He was a son of Rev. Henry A. Eaton, once pastor of the Pearl St. Universalist Society in this town. His parents d., leaving him and a sister orphans. They were kindly cared for several yrs. at Hopedale, in the family of Ichabod Davis. At the age of 14 yrs. he was adopted by E. D. and Anna T. Draper, without change of name, and carried through a thorough course of liberal education. He grad. at Tufts College in 1875, and in its divinity class of 1877. He was immediately sought for by several societies as their pastor, and soon set. over the Universalist Ch. and society at Palmer. There he officiated with great acceptance and success till recently called to the pastorship of the
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Church of the Divine Paternity in New York City, as successor to the cele- brated Dr. Chapin.
Ebenezer D. Draper, and Anna, his wf., became religiously interested in my ministry while I was pastor of the First Ch. in Mendon. They then res. in Ux., but were constant attendants and communicants. Afterwards they moved to Saugus. When I projected the Community at Hopedale, they heartily en- tered into the undertaking, became original members, joined myself and family there, about the first of April, 1842, in the "Old House," and were main pil- lars in the institution until its decadence; he being some yrs. its president, next in succession to myself. After he and his bro. George decided on the disso- lution of its unitary financial and industrial organization, in 1856, they com- bined their accumulated capital, and prosecuted their business, with augment- ing success, through a series of years; but at length E. D. embarked in the American Steam Fire-proof Safe Co. in Boston. Meantime Mrs. Anna became the suffering victim of an incurable cancerous affection on the breast, from which she d. Jan. 30, 1870, universally beloved and lamented. Her hus. almost immediately afterward moved to Boston, soon disposing of his property here, and investing it largely in the new enterprise. This proved unsuccessful, and swallowed up much of his capital; but he bore his adversities with cominend- able resignation, and fell back on religious consolation. Subsequently he formed a second marriage connection, uniting with Mrs. Mary (Parker) Boynton; cer. Oct. 18, 1872, by Rev. Lewis L. Briggs. The union seems to be a happy one, and they are living in comfortable circumstances at Boston Highlands. Mr. Draper will long be remembered for the numerous and liberal donations he dis- pensed in the days of his prosperity.
DRAPER, GEORGE& (Ira,7 Abijah, 6 James,5 James, 4 James,3 James,2 Thomas 1),
b. Weston, Aug. 16, 1817; m. Hannah Brown Thwing, dr. of Benjamin and Anna (Mowry) Thwing, b. Uxbridge, Jan. 1, 1817; cer. March 6, 1839, by the writer. Their chn. :-
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, b. Lowell, April 9, 1842; of the firm "George Draper & Sons."
GEORGIANA T., b. Lowell, June 30, 1844; d. July 23, 1844.
HELEN L., b. Lowell, July 11, 1845; d. Aug. 10, 1847.
FRANCES EUDORA, b. Ware, July 26, 1847; m. Charles H. Colburn, Feb. 20, 1868.
A SON, b. Ware, Dec. 15, 1850; stillborn, or lived too briefly for a name.
HANNAH THWING, b. Ware, April 11, 1853; m. Edward Louis Osgood, Bos- ton, Jan. 20, 1881.
GEORGE ALBERT, b. Hopedale, Nov. 4, 1855; of the firm of "George Dra- per & Sons."
EBEN SUMNER, b. Hopedale, June 17, 1858; of the firm "George Draper & Sons."
George Draper began the world with an empty purse, but was richly endowed with mechanical genius, ambitious enterprise, shrewd intelligence, sound business judgment, and indomitable persistency of purpose. With these, and the faithful co-operation of a wf. rich in all the qualities necessary to match and complement his own, he has successfully risen to wealth and dis- tinction. He is still vigorously pushing his fortune, finding abundant oppor- tunities to dispense liberally to public and private charities from the treasury of his large accumulations; and he has the high satisfaction of seeing his chil- dren well launched on the same sea of prosperous social and business enter-
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prise. He and his family are too well and extensively known to justify further description. See his likeness, in its place.
DRAPER, LEMUEL RICHARDS 8 (Ira,7 Abijah, 6 James,5 James,4 James, 3 James,2 Thomas1), b. Dec. 1, 1823; m. Lydia M. Mansfield, dr. of David and Esther (Williams) Mansfield, b. Lynnfield, Dec. 5, 1824; cer. Lynnfield, Jan. 1, 1845, by Rev. Mr. Rice. Their chn. : -
EDWARD MANSFIELD, b. Saugns, April 10, 1846; d. Sept. 9, 1848.
ANNETTA LOUISE, b. Saugus, Sept. 28, 1847; m. Jonas Hale Carter, Berlin, Nov. 30, 1871.
OSCAR EUGENE, b. Mil., April 12, 1850; m. Emma L. Hunt, Oct. 12, 1869; and a 2d wf.
EVA RICHARDS, b. Worcester, Aug. 31, 1854 ; a successful public-school teacher.
MINNIE ELIZA, b. Hopedale, March 1, 1857; d. Jan. 12, 1860.
WILLIAM LEMUEL, b. Hopedale, Ang. 29, 1861; res. No. Brookfield.
Lemnel and family have res. in Saugus, Lynnfield, Worcester, Milford, and No. Brookfield. He is an active business man; has superintended various establishments and job contracts, and, with his companion, struggled resolutely against adversity into his present comfortable situation. He has been less for- tunate in pecuniary accumulation than some of his brothers, but has occupied responsible managemental positions, and filled up life with industrial enterprise. DRAPER, GEN. WILLIAM FRANKLIN 9 (George,8 Ira,7 Abijah, 6 James,5 James, 4
James, 3 James,2 Thomas 1), b. Lowell, April 9, 1842; m. Lydia D. W. Joy, dr. of David T. and Lydia D. (Bunker) Warren, adopted dr. of Hon. David and Charlotte A. Joy, b. Brattleboro', Vt., Aug. 31, 1843; cer. in Hopedale, Sept. 15, 1862, by the writer. Their chn. : -
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, Jun., b. Hopedale, Dec. 17, 1865.
GEORGE OTIS, b. Hopedale, July 14, 1867.
EDITH, b. Hopedale, Feb. 18, 1874.
ARTHUR JOY, b. Hopedale, April 28, 1875.
CLARE HILL, b. Hopedale, Oct. 4, 1876.
It will be seen in the chapter on the War-Record, that, at the opening of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a private in Co. B, Regt. 25, Mass. Vols. Such was his ability and gallantry that he rose through the various official grades to Lieut. Col. Commandant, and, at the close of the war, was breveted Brig. Gen. He was m. to his accomplished wf. in the 2d yr. of the great conflict, and she visited him at three several times while he was out in the service, - the third time to min- ister to him when bitterly suffering from his dangerous wound in Washington Hospital. That wound was received in the battle of the Wilderness, and was caused by a minie-ball, which had to be extracted from his left shoulder, under the blade, near the spine. The missile is preserved. Its damaging effects will doubtless remain through life. Immediately after the war he went into suc- cessful business with his father in the manufacture of cotton and woollen machinery. In 1873 he and his wf. made the tour of Europe. They are now on the flood-tide of prosperity, raising up a promising family of chn., and uni- versally respected for the urbanity of their manners, as well as their solid worth and their successful career in life.
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