History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. I, Part 116

Author: L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Number of Pages: 700

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* The representatives from South Hadley and Granby to the Congress at Water- town, in 1775,-Phineas Smith and Noah Goodman-were directed to carry with them their firearms and ammunition.

+ The committee appointed to collect donations for the Boston sufferers con- sisted of Mrs. Josiah Moody, Joel Church, Reuben Smith, John Gaylord, Abra- ham Day, and John Chandler.

instruction withont consulting with the other Electors, which we have not yet had opportunity to do; we are willing this letter may be communicated to him, whereby he may be acquainted with our Sentiments,

" The question being put whether the foregoing report be accepted, it unani- mously passed in the affirmative ; and thereupon it was ordered that the Same be Entered in the District Book, and that the Town Clerk Transmit a Cuppy thereof, Signed by him, to the Committee of Corispondance in Roston.

"SILUS SMITH, Moderator."

Plain, and plain-spoken indeed, was this, and the logical forerunner of the subsequent determination of the inhabi- tants, June 20, 1776, that it was their mind "that Indepen- dence should be declared."

The following action was taken Nov. 7, 1774: " Voted, that we allow at the rate of two shillings a day for the time spent in training the men that List to go at a minit's warning on any sudden emargancy. Voted, to chuse four men to Inspect the District about Drinking East india tee ;" and on March 6, 1775, it was voted, " that the minit-men train one-half day in a week six weeks from this time, at one shilling each a time, and that the Committe of Corospond be a Committy to form sum mathud for the District to Cumin to for the preventing unnessisary Disorders arising." It was also at the same time

" Resolved, That a Commite of sober, Discreet persons be apointed, whose Imsi- ness shall be to promote Peace, Amity, & good order, and to quiet all disterb- ances that may arise between Neighbour and Neighbour, and to prevent or supress all uprising, tumults, riuts, or mobs among our Inhabitants or in our Neighbouring Tounds (if their assistance shall be askt), and that if any Person or persons of this District sball be moveing, stiring up, or assisting any Tumult- nous, Rientous, or Mobish Company or assembly without first informing such committe and obtaining their aprobation (which is not to be granted but in case of extreme necessity), such person or persons shall be deemed as high offenders against the common Right and Liberties of Englishmen, and shall themselves Forfit and be excluded from the Protechin or assistance of their Neighbours in case they shall need the same in their own defence, and shall for the future be deemed unworthy of any Post, offis, or trust in this District."

The recorded action of the inhabitants, in the following year, concerning the pending issue, is in no sense ambiguous :

"June 20, 1776 .- At a meeting of Inhabitants of South Indley, heMI at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Meeting-Ilonse, then met and made choice of Jabez Kellogg, Moderator to regulate the Imisiness of said meeting; and it ware put to vote whather it ware their minds to Declare Indipendence, and it Past in the affarmative by a Grate majoriti. JABEZ KELLOGG, Moderator."

Prominent among the officers of the Revolution was Ben- jamin Ruggles Woodbridge, son of Rev. John Woodbridge, the second pastor of the church at South Hadley. He was born Oct. 16, 1733; became a man of distinguished wealth and influence, and as a colonel in command of a regiment was early in the field, after the affair at Lexington, at the head of his Minute-Men. He died at the age of eighty-six, March 8, 1819.

The town, through its delegate, Noah Goodman, at the con- vention held in Boston, Jan. 9, 1788, voted for the adoption of the proposed United States Constitution, and in this differed from the neighboring towns of Amherst and Granby, and others in the county of Hampshire.

REBELLION RECORD.

The following enlisted from South Hadley in the infantry of Massachusetts: SECOND REGIMENT.

Charles E. Dix, Robert Goodbeer, Reuben Miles, Frank Otto, Warren A. Root, Abraham Akers, Oloff Benson, John Crosby, William Jones, John Land (or Lard), Thomas Morris, John McGuire, Thomas Moran, Patrick Mark, John O'Niel, Patrick O'Brien, George W. Pierce, William Ryan, George Spear, Francis Smith, Charles Van Meter, Lonis Williams, Harris Wilton, Charles Hix.

FIFTH REGIMENT.

Edward Smith, William Manly.

TENTH REGIMENT.

Morris Brick, Edward Brick, James Hayes, John H. Ilalstend, Oscar Hosmer, Luther Hitchcock, Oliver Mather Keyes, George Porter, Neville Powers, John E. Squiers (sergt.), John Elliot Snow, Alfred II. Tinckham (corp.), Albert S. Witherell, Michael Brew.

ELEVENTH REGIMENT.

Thomas Ingram.

SEVENTEENTII REGIMENT.

Charles Miller.

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NINETEENTH REGIMENT.

l'atrick Cronin.

TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

James Burnham, Iliram W. Forbes.

TWENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT. John llenry, John Kanferhan,

TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

Hornce Akers, Flavius A. Post (corp.), Albert T. Chapin (corp.), Melancthon Il. Day, Francis D. Gleason, Lewis Gleason, Charles B, Hadley (corp.), Carl Lippman, Patrick Murray, William II. Moody, Edwin G. Pierce, R. C. Thorp, William Wardwell, Dexter Burnett, Edwin G. Pierce, Hiram Aldrich, Lyman B. Abbott, Edgar C. Brewster, Henry Smith.

THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT.

Timothy Garvey, Theodore Sedgwick Haven, Jerry Mahoney, Charles L. Moody (sergt.), Harlow Newton, Charles 11. Parker, Dwight B. Taylor, Angustus Oakley (corp.), William Ayres.

THIRTY-FOURTH! REGIMENT.

Peter Banm, Joseph N. Clark (5th sergt.), George M. Coombs, Richard Clark, George D. Haven, Michael Kenney, James Kenney, John Kirkpatrick, William Marshall, Edward Murphy, Charles M. Stebbins, Tracy T. Shum- way, David B. West, Charles II. West, John Wagner, John W. Benway. John Foley, Michael Kennedy, Patrick Moriarty, Peter Armstrong, Ins. Cosgrove, George B. Gillingham, Thomas Leach, Anstin J. Lyman (2d lieut.), George McCoombs, Charles Deland.

THIRTY-SEVENTII REGIMENT.

W. T. Abbott (corp.), Charles Bishop, William H. Cook, T. A. Church (corp.), Ilenry Doebrek, George T. Enderton, Edwin C. Hanks, George L. Mon- tague, Encien Moody, William W. Meservey, Neville Preston, Edmund R. Pearson, Nathan C. Snow, Davis L. Wetmore, Ileber Black, John Lashaway.

FORTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.

Henry A. Clark, Nathaniel II. Ingraham, William F. Ingraham, Josiah Moody, Charles S. Moody, Thomas White.

FORTY-SIXTII REGIMENT.

Joseph Miller, Robert Dillon, James W. Mc Farlane.

FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT.

John P. Beckwith, Charles E. Beuway, Henry M. Blackmer, Edwin W. Ben- nett, Henry E. Bates (corp.), Charles II. Church, William E. Congdon, Eugene M. Clapp, Lowell M. Chandler, Gotlieb Feustel, Philip Gunder- man, Christopher Gunderman, George W. Gordon, Peter Gilligan, War- ren A. Graves, Henry A. Graves, Luther A. Harmon, Wilder F. Haskell (sergt.), John Holihan, Albert D. Judd, Burritt Judd, Thomas Kenney, Thomas Kilmurry, Henry W. Lamb, George V. Nash, Henry Oakley, Ilalsey B. Philbrick (corp.), Conrad Rising, Charles C. Smith, Charles E. Smith, Daniel Sullivan, Henry W. Smith, Joseph Suhanek, Edward Snhauek, Henry B. Thayer, Seth A. Williams (lient.).

FIFTY-FOURTHI REGIMENT.

John Pindeo.

FIFTY-SIXTII REGIMENT.

Lauren Pierce, Edwin G. I'rice.

FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.

James Bonner, Victor Piezette.

REGIMENT NOT GIVEN.

Albert W. Ingraham, Elijah Lyman Moody, Edwin G. Carley (also 4th Art.), James Mason, Terence L. Fox, Henry E. Ballou, Willard Fitch, Lauren Pierce, John Smith.

FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY.

Dennis Curran, Edmund C. Chapin (also 3d Batt, and Ist Cav.), John S. Moul- tou, John Moriarty.

SECOND HEAVY ARTILLERY.

James Boyle.

- HEAVY ARTILLERY.

Thomas Darey, George Cole.

FOURTII ARTILLERY.

Edwin G. Carley.

FIRST CAVALRY.

Henry M. Goddard, James Kinnie, Ilenry W. Smith (lieut.), George Baker, Louis Lafontaine, John Williams.

THIRD CAVALRY.

George Brown. FOURTH CAVALRY.

James R. Crittenden, Tertius Cooley, George A. Hinks, Andrew McElwain, Charles Alphonse, Charles Clark, Jonas Marvin.

TWELFTH CAVALRY.

John C. Fremont, William II. Lambert, Frank White,

MISCELLANEOUS.

NINTII CONNECTICUT INFANTRY.

James Edwards.

ELEVENTH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY.

Henry Bischoff, Bernhardt Herfer, William Holdfuss,

SEVENTII MAINE INFANTRY.

Emery D. Ingraham (master of band), William Smith (band).

EIGHTY-SECOND PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY.

John L. Matthews.

NINTHI NEW YORK BATTERY.

Albert E. Porter.

NEW YORK ARTILLERY.

IIerman l'oppe.

U. S. ARTILLERY.

George C. Duvell.

U. S. REGULAR ARMY.

Jolin Ashburn, John Cara, David Degrand, Hugh Murphy, John Riley, Henry Rooney, Thomas Riley, Thomas Smith, William Schofield.

NECROLOGY.

John Prentiss Beckwith, died on steamer " Illinois," in New York harbor, Dec. 2, 1862.

Henry E. Bates, died in marine hospital, New Orleans, Ang. 16, 1863.

Warren A. Graves, died on board boat, July 27, 1863.

William F. Ingraham, died in hospital at Newbern, N. C., Jan. 24, 1863.

Josiah Moody, died at Newbern, N. C., Jan. 14, 1863.

Jerry Mahoney, killed in battle at Port Hudson.

George Varnom Nash, died at New Orleans, April 25, 1863.

Henry Oakley, died at Mound City, III., Ang. 6, 1863.

Neville Preston, wounded at Spottsylvania Court-House; died at Sickles' hos- pital, May 30, 1804.

Charles C. Smith, died at home, from hardships of army life, Sept. 4, 1863. Conrad Rising, died ; place not stated.

R. C. Thorp, died; place not stated.

Edwin G. Carley, died ; place not stated.

Joseph Miller, taken prisoner ; died at Andersonville, Ga., nbont Sept. 1, 1864.

WOUNDED.

Michael Brew, at Fair Oaks, in head and arm.

T. A. Church, at Petersburg, in head.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

JOSEPH CAREW

was born in Springfield, Mass., Sept. 5, 1807. His father was Joseph Carew of West Springfield (head of Main Street), born in 1773, where he owned and carried on a large farm and tan- nery. Mr. Carew's mother was Laura, daughter of Charles and Laura Bugbee. She was born in Brimfield, Mass., July 19, 1786. Joseph was one of six children,-Frances MI., Lu- eius M., Joseph, Caroline, Laura, and Hannah S. He received an academie education at the Springfield and Monson Aead- emies, being two years at the latter. At the age of seven- teen, in the autumn of 1824, he entered the dry-goods house of Howard & Lathrop, then the leading dealers in Springfield.

Toward & Lathrop during that year built a small mill at South Hadley Falls, Mass., for the purpose of manufae- turing book-, news-, and writing-paper. They also had a general store connected with this mill, and, early in 1825, Mr. Carew was transferred to this store, where he remained until 1830. During that year he was sent on a collecting tour South, and was some six months in Washington, D. C., where he formed the acquaintance of the celebrated " Duff Green," publisher of The Globe, by whom he was introduced to many of the notables of the day in Washington. The Globe was printed on paper made by his employers. Upon his return to South Hadley Falls in July of the same year, he took entire charge of Howard & Lathrop's mill, and con-

MARTIN WAIT BURNETT,

one of the leading citizens of South Hadley, Mass., was born on the 10th day of September, 1814, and is de- scended, in the fourth generation, from David Burnett, who removed from England to America about the year 1700, and settled at Easthampton, Long Island, N. Y. Stephen, his son, was a farmer.

Jonathan, son of Stephen, about the year 1760, changed his place of residence to South Hadley, Mass., settling in Pitchwam, now a part of Granby. He had a family of seven children, viz. : Mehitabel, who married Samuel Smith, Esq., of Granby ; Bela, who resided in Granby, also ; Enoch, whose residence was in Belchertown; and Arza, Stephen,

Jonathan, and Ruth (who married Nathaniel Ingraham), all residents of South Hadley.

Jonathan (2d), son of Jonathan, married Salome Wait, daughter of Martin Wait, Nov. 26, 1805. They had a family of nine children,-David, born Sept. 14, 1807, died at Grand Rapids, Mich., June 26, 1875 ; Sarah, born Dec. 17, 1809, married Erastus Taylor ; Jonathan, born March 3, 1812, died April 15, 1816; Martin Wait (the immediate subject of this notice), born Sept. 10, 1814; Anna, born Feb. 10, 1817, married Albert Walker, died at Utica, N. Y .; Jonathan, born March 20, 1819 ; Jane, born March 22, 1821, married Emerson Gaylord, of Chicopee ;

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M. W. Burnett

Theodore, born June 10, 1823 (deceased) ; and Clara, born April 15, 1828, wife of C. H. Goodman, of Springfield.

Martin W. was married, Sept. 16, 1841, to Lavinia, daughter of Eldad Smith, and granddaughter of Ephraim Smith and Samuel Alvord.

Mr. Burnett has had a family of six children,-Sarah Lavinia, born Sept. 3, 1844, died Sept. 23d, of same year ; Charles Martin, born April 21, 1846, married Alice Gil- more, of Springfield, and has one son, Charles Martin, born June 24, 1873; Eldad Smith, born May 20, 1848, died Aug. 4, 1849; Austin Walde, born March 24, 1852; Adelia Smith, born June 20, 1855, married Joseph Edward Miller, and has one son, Henry Burnett, born Jan. 7, 1879 ;

and Annie Jane, born March 11, 1862. Mr. Burnett, in early life, learned the carpenter's trade, but engaged in the sash, door, and blind business, for J. N. Hastings, in 1835. In 1867 he became a member of the firm of Howard & Gaylord, and is interested to some extent in several of the manufactories of Holyoke and South Hadley Falls. He has been largely connected with town affairs, having been an officer the most of the time for sixteen years. He is also much interested in parish matters, and has been an officer of the Evergreen Cemetery Association since its or- ganization, in 1868. He represented the Fourth Hampshire District in the Legislature of 1878. His record has been that of an upright and useful citizen.

CAPTAIN BROUGHTON ALVORD.

Alexander Alvord was born in Somerset Co., | in South Hadley, Nov. 27, 1751; died in South England, probably about 1620. He was an early Hadley, July 9, 1814, aged sixty-three; married Miriam White. resident of Windsor, Conn., and moved to North- ampton, Mass., about the year 1661, where he died, Oct. 3, 1683; he married Mary Voar, at Windsor, Conn., Oct. 29, 1646.

Thomas Alvord, son of Alexander, was born in Windsor, Conn. ; married Joanna Taylor, at North- ampton, Mass., March 22, 1681.

John Alvord, son of Thomas, was born in North- ampton, Oct. 19, 1685; died at South Hadley, Aug. 10, 1733. He resided at Northampton and South Hadley ; married Dorcas Lyman, March 12, 1733.

Gad Alvord, son of John and Dorcas, was born in 1729; died in Wilmington, Vt .; married Lydia Smith, Nov. 17, 1750.

Samuel Alvord, son of Gad and Lydia, was born

Calvin Alvord, son of Samuel and Miriam, was born Aug. 3, 1779 ; married Mary Brewster, daugh- ter of Jesse Brewster; died Nov. 18, 1857.

Broughton Alvord, son of Calvin and Mary, and whose portrait appears upon this page, was born Jan. 14, 1802, and had two brothers and two sisters, -Calvin, Jesse, Ruby, and Mary Ann, all being dead except Mary Ann, who lives with him, neither of the two sisters having married.

Gad, Samuel, Calvin, and Broughton were all born on the old home farm of John Alvord, in South Hadley.

Mr. Alvord received his early education in the district schools of South Hadley, and commenced his business life as a boatman on the Connecticut

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Brighton Alvoral

River, in 1826; afterward was captain of a boat ; after that became agent and part owner in the trans- portation company, with his headquarters at Hart- ford during the season, passing the winters at home, in South Hadley. In 1846 the company sold their business to the Connecticut River Railroad. Mr. Alvord is the only one of the company living at the present time. He was one of the projectors of the Parsons' Paper Company, organized in 1853; one of the directors from its organization, and a stockholder in the Holyoke Paper Company since 1864. He has been the president of the Valley Paper Company since its organization, in 1866. He is a stockholder in the Third National Bank of Springfield ; the Agawam National Bank ; the First

National Bank of Chicopee ; one of the directors in the Hadley Falls National Bank, and also in various other corporations. Capt. Alvord is a thorough Democrat, voting first for Gen. Jackson at the time of his election.

He has served the town as one of the selectmen for fifteen years, and during the whole time of our civil war was one of the foremost to uphold the government by his position and means. He is held in high esteem by men of all parties for his strict integrity and sound judgment ; and all have united to induce him to take a seat in the Legislature, but to no purpose, as he would not consent to the use of his name, preferring the quiet of home to the excite- ment of political life.

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Moses Montagne

DEACON MOSES MONTAGUE, of South Iladley, is of a dis- tinguished English family, which traces itself back to the time of William the Conqueror. The ancestor of the American branch was Richard Montagne, of Bourney, England, who emigrated to America about 1645. Settled first at Wells, in Maine; thence removed, in 1646, to Boston ; thence, in 1651, to Wethersfield, Conn .; and thence, in 1659, to Hadley, where he died, Dec. 14, 1681, aged fifty-seven. He was married in England, in 1640, to Abigail Downing, of Norwich, England, by whom he had five children, one of whom, John, was born in 1655, and died in Hadley, in 1732. John married, in 1681, Hannah, daughter of Chileab Smith, of Hadley, by whom he had nine children, the fourth of whom, l'eter, was born in 1690, and married, Dec. 15, 1715, Mary Hubbard. He settled in South Iladley, in May, 1719.

In January, 1720, there were one hundred and seventeen names on the list of those who took up their land in South Hadley, and according to that valuation Peter Montague stood third in amount of property, the value of his land being £151 14s. This land has never been out of the Montague family. Peter had nine children, the fifth of whom, Moses, was born Nov. 17, 1724, and died Dec. 18, 1792. He gained the rank of captain in the war of the Revolution. In 1748 he married Sarah Graves, of Sunderland, by whom he had ten children, the tenth of whom, Elijah, was born April 21, 1770, and died Feb. 22, 1843. In 1794 he married Rachel Lyman, of Hadley, by whom he had four children, the second of whom was Moses, the subject of this sketch, born Sept. 8, 1797, and being, as will be observed, the sixth generation of the family living in America. In October, 1820, he married Harriet Smith, a woman highly esteemed in the community for her unobtrusive goodness and moral worth, and most loved by those who knew her best. She died Nov. 1, 1876. Nine years ago they celebrated their " golden wedding," at which were present a great number of friends to extend their congratula- tions, and to express by words and acts their appreciation and approbation of their honorable, useful, and Christian lives.

There are now living five of the ten children born to them,

and thirteen grandchildren. One of the sons, Elliot Mon- tague, has twice represented his district in the General Court, and now holds responsible offices in the town and parish. Another, Col. George L. Montague, received the commissions of first lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the late war of the Rebellion ; was brevetted col- onel for "distinguished gallantry at the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, Va.," and was commander of the 37th Massa- chusetts Infantry during some of the severest campaigns and battles of the " Army of the Potomac."

While Moses Montague was still a youth he became con- vinced of the curse of dram-drinking, which was then the in- variable practice, and was one of the earliest to stoutly protest against it by word and example. Uninfluenced by persuasion, and undeterred by threats, he maintained his aggressive attitude against the evil, and for many years waged an unequal war- fare, with few friends or supporters. But again was proved the truth of the saying, that "one with God is a majority," and at last came the great temperance revival which crowned his hopes with success. He became a member of the church in 1819, was appointed deacon at the age of twenty-five, and has been connected with the Sabbath-school as superintendent or teacher till the present time. He has always been promi- nent in town and church matters, liberal in his subscriptions for good causes, a zealous advocate for good schools and good preaching, and, like the representative Puritan descendant that he is, always aggressive for the right. Of positive and independent habits of thought, he could maintain with good reasons his opinions once formed, and the direct and indirect influence he has exerted upon the community is one not easily measured.

In person, Deacon Montague is about six feet four inches in height, and weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds; and it is noteworthy, as showing the rugged stock from which be sprung, and the result of his own simple, temperate habits of life, that he has never been confined to his bed from sickness a single day of his life, and now, at the age of eighty-three, he is in possession of all bis faculties, and is remarkable for his physical and mental vigor.

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Avram Bruck

HIRAM SMITH. [DECEASED.]

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tinued in this position until the spring of 1847, when this mill and that of D. & J. Ames, adjoining (the first paper- makers in this part of New England), were burned. Io w- ard & Lathrop sustained such severe loss as to cause their failure, and terminate their business at South Hadley Falls.

In 1848, Mr. Carew and others organized the Carew Manu- facturing Company, the number of stockholders being twenty- five. Since then they have been reduced to seven, Mr. Carew having a controlling interest. Ile was elected agent and treasurer, and as such has remained sinee. The mill was burned in 1873, but immediately replaced by a much more costly structure of brick, 150 by 40 feet, with marble facings and trimmings, three stories high, with a two-story wing 50 by 20 feet. The machinery includes five five-hun- dred pound engines, one eighty-inch Fourdrinier machine, and two artesian wells with a capacity of two hundred and forty gallons per minute, being the first artesian wells used for this purpose. Mr. Carew was also one of the first stockholders and directors of the Third National Bank of Springfield.

In 1864 he built and presented to the Church Society the Congregational Church at South Hadley Falls, upon which he expended twenty-five thousand dollars. In 1870 he gave a scholarship to Amherst College, and in 1873 presented five thousand dollars for a lectureship in the Theological Seminary at Hartford, Conn.

Mr. Carew's son Frank was associated with him in business up to the time of his death, which occurred on Aug. 1, 1877. Frank was married, Oct. 22, 1863, to Josephine F., daughter of Abram Hawkins, Esq., and left three children,-Mary F., born June 12, 1866, in Paris, France; George and Frank (twins), born in South Hadley Falls, Mass., Jan. 7, 1870. These three grandchildren are all of Mr. Carew's family left to him, their mother having died Jan. 7, 1870.

Mr. Carew was married, Sept. 24, 1833, to Miss Eliza Ran- dall, daughter of Josiah Randall, Esq., and had only two children,-George Bishop, who was born June 17, 1836, and died June 23d of same year, and Frank, born April 15, 1838. Mrs. Carew died May 7, 1874.

Mr. Carew is still an active and enterprising business-man,

although seventy-two years of age, and always ready to assist every worthy enterprise.

HIRAM SMITH,*

son of Deacon Silas Smith, born Sept. 23, 1793. His mother was Mary, daughter of Eliphaz Moody, of South Hadley Falls, Mass., born Aug. 13, 1796, whom his father married June 2, 1817. Hiram Smith early turned his attention to navigation on the Connecticut River, and by his energy and business ability probably did more than any other person to open up the commerce of the Upper Connectient. This was hetore the days of railroads, when the river was the great highway of commerce in Western Massachusetts. Indeed, so great was his influence at one time, and so far reaching his ideas and plans, that he was universally known on the river as " King Hiram." He was a valuable and useful citizen, and served his town in various offices for many years. He represented South Hadley in the General Court of Massachu- setts. He was frequently called upon to set off widows' dowers, and to administer on the estates of deceased friends, as well as attend to other kinds of public services, being known far and wide as a man of most excellent judgment and of strict in- tegrity. In the latter part of his life he was engaged in farming.

HIRAM SMITH,

son of the above, was born July 24, 1824, and like his father has taken a prominent place as a citizen and business-man in the old town where so many of his ancestors have resided be- fore him. Jan. 19, 1848, he married Harriet S. Coney, niece of Capt. Broughton Alvord, and has had a family of four children, viz., Ellis Dwight, born July 10, 1849, died April 22, 1851; Hattie V. A., born July 11, 1850, died Oct. 10, 1852; J. Belle, born Nov. 22, 1858; and Fred Merwin, born Sept. 18, 1862.

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History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. I, Part 116

Author: L.H. Everts & Co Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts Number of Pages: 700

Author: L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Number of Pages: 700