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for some time anterior to the building of their house of worship, held meetings at " Palmer's Ilall," under the minis- tration of the pastors of the church at Northampton, who served them occasionally in a missionary capacity. Their lot on Pleasant Street was purchased in 1869, and the church building-of wood-erected during 1870-71. Its dedication took place June 25th in the latter year.
Rev. Francis Brennan became the first resident pastor, and served until the spring of 1878, a period of six years, when, on account of continued ill health, he returned to Ireland, his early home.
The church has now no settled pastor, but is again under the care of the church at Northampton, and served by Rev. Father Barry, of that parish.
CEMETERIES.
There are three cemeteries in Amherst, all of which are owned by the town. The old cemetery, laid out for the " east inhabitants" in 1780, as mentioned previously, is situated in what was formerly the west highway, west of the lot then owned by Nathaniel Church, and at first contained one acre and twenty rods of land. This cemetery, to which several acres have been added, is situated a short distance north of the present common at Amherst Centre, and east of Pleasant Street, which is about four rods in width, all that remains of the original forty rods known as the "West Ilighway," separating the first and second divisions.
The cemetery at North Amherst contains three acres.
The cemetery at South Amherst contains about the same.
The compiler of the foregoing history of Amherst gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness to many of her citizens for valuable assistance and information, generously supplied. To Samuel C. Carter-so long the honored keeper of the town's valuable records, and still their watchful custodian-thanks are due for special courtesies extended, officially and otherwise ; to Messrs. Henry M. McCloud and John E. Williams, of the Amherst Record, for ready counsel and many favors ; to Prof. William S. Tyler and Prof. William S. Clark, for important documents and information ; to Prof. II. H. Goodell, for the loan of invaluable papers pertaining to the French-and-Indian and Revolutionary wars; and to Messrs. Edward A. Thomas, E. F. Cook, M. N. Spear, Dr. H. J. Cate, and others, for aid in various ways.
Chief among the authorities consulted were Prof. Tyler's " History of Amherst College," Dr. Ilolland's "History of Western Massachusetts," and M. F. Dickinson's " Ilistorical Address," pamphlet.
REBELLION RECORD.
The following soldiers, residents of Amherst, enlisted in the army of the United States at the period of the Rebellion. Their record shows that they participated quite as actively and efficiently as any soldiers engaged during that trying period, and suffered proportionately with the bravest and best :
Adams, Sylvester H., 21st Mass. Allen, Benjamin Potwine, 14th Mass. Ball, John D., 10th, 37th, and 20th Mass.
Ball, Nelson Roderick, 10th Mass. Ball, Henry C., 15th Mass.
Barton, Austin, 21st Mass. Bulio, Charles C., 27th Mass. Bulio, Levi M., 27th Mass.
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Baker, Charles K., 27th Mass. Barton, Charles 11., 27th Muss. Bardwell, Henry J., 27th Mass. Boltwood, Edmund, 2d corp., 27th Mass. Baker, Asel, 27th Mass. Baker, Peter, 27th Mass. Baker, Ezra, 27th Mass, Bolster, Frank E., 27th Mass. Barton, Morrison, 14th Mass, Bowman, James, 27th Mass. Bowman, Henry, 20th Mass, Boynton, Henry E., 14th Mass. Butterfiell, Francis, Ist Mass. Beston, John, 37th Mass. Beston, Patrick, 37th Mass. Barrows, Ashley W., 27th Mass. Bell, Frederick R., 37th Mass. Bartlett, Lewis A., 52d Mass. Bartlett, Milo A., 52d Mass. Barton, George H., 521 Mass, Bell, George 11., 52d Mass. Baker, James A., corp., 5211 Mass. Bliss, William L., 52d Mass. Cook, Benjamin 0., 10th Mass. Clark, William S., major, 21st Mass.
Cates, Albert, 27th M.88. Cutter, Ptolemy P., 29th Mass. Cushman, John E., 27th Mass. Cressman, Barton, 27th Mass. Coy, Henry, 11th, 9th, and 32d Mass. Cook, Austin, 101h Mass. Cooke, George E., 37th Mass. Cook, Willand S., 37th Mass. Cowls, Watson W., 52d Mass. Clapp, Charles, 52d Mass. Calahan, Edward, 52d Mass. Calahan, Jeremiah, 52d Mass. Dunakin, Charles, 10th Mass .; Ist U. S. Dickinson, Francis Howard, 15th Mass. Douglass, Henry F., 21st Mass. Dennison, Ami R., Ist lient , 27th Mass.
Dickinson, Baxter E., 3d sergt., 27th Mass. Dickinson, Chester, Jr., 27th Mass. Dickinson, David L., 14th Mass. Dickinson, Levi P., 37th Mass. Dickinson, Willard R., 27th Mhass. Dickinson, Francis E., 21st, 36th, and 56th Mass. Dickinson, George, 52d Mass. Draper, George A., 27th Mass. Dickinson, Amariah, 52d Mass. Dickinson, John W., 52d Mass. Edson, Levi, 27th Mass. Fisher, Ilomer L., 31st Mass. Fisher, George L., 31st Mass. Fish, Francis W., 37th Mass. Fahey, William, 37th Mass. Franklin, Benjamin R., 37th Mass. Fales, William B., 52d Mass. Fish, Nelson D. B L., asst. surg., 27th Mass. Finemore, Charles A , colored, 54th Mass. Goodell, Charles L., 21xt Mass. Grover, Joseph, 27th Mass. Graves, William 0., 37th Mass. Guun, Charles, 57th Mass. Gray, Edward P., 1st Mass. Cav.
Gunn, Cephas W., 21 sergt., 52d Muss. Glazier, John A., 37th Mass. Hastings, Willard D., 27th Mass. Hawley, Henry E., 27th Muss. Ilaskell, Lewis R., Hancock's Corps. Hopkins, William J., 27th Mass, Hobart, George Martin, 27th Mass. Hawes, James F., 27th Mass. Hastings, Ilenry B., 27th Mass. Hills, Nehemiah D., 27th Muss. Howland, John W., Ist Mass. Cav. Hastings, Joseph C., 52d Mass. Ilowes, George E., 3d sergt., 52.1 Mas4. Howes, Charles O., 52d Mass. Iloklen, Freeman L., 52d Mass. Hay wouil, Charles E., 52d Mass. Hardaker, Jumes, 52d Mass. Haling, Horace, 52d Mass. Hubbard, Henry, 52dl Muss. Henderson, Thomas, surgeen's mate, Laurens Hospital. Johnson, Eli II., 27th Mass.
Johnson, Ebenezer M., 10th Mass. Johnson, William F., 53d Mass. Johnson, Silas 0., 52d Mass.
Johnson, Dwight H., 52d Mass. Jennings, William 11. II., 54th Mass. Kellogg, Charles F., 2d and 57th Mass. Kellogg, James B., 27th Mass. Kellogg, Justin P., 2d lient., 52d Mass. Kellogg, B. Franklin, 52d Mass. Kellogg, Albert HI., musician, 37th Mass.
Lincoln, Rufus B., 2d fient., 37th Mass. ; pro, te col. Leggett, John A., 37h Mass. Lovett, Murray B., 10th Mass. Loomis, Richard B., 21st Mass. Lovett, Wheaton, 27th Mass. Latham, William W., 27th Mass. Miles, Marcus T. C., 20th Mass. Manley, Edward W., 27th Mass. Miles, Reuben, 12th Conn. Munsel, Charles E., 37th Mass. Maloney, Michael, 52d Mass. Mathews, Charles, 31st Mass. Mathews, Francis J., 34th Mass, Newell, George W., 21st Mass.
Putnam, George, 10th Mass. Plumb, Henry, 21st Mass.
Parsons, John D., 27th Mass. ; pro. to corp. Prince, Henry B., 27th Mass. ; pro. to corp.
Preston, James A., 27th Mass. Potwine, Edwin H., 27th Mass. Preston, Simeon E , 27th Mass. ; pro. to corp. Packard, Henry Clay, 27th Mass. Pierce, James A., 14th Mass. Percival, Erasmus Wm., 14th Mass .; pro. to corp.
Parmenter, George II., 53d Mass.
Rust, Jacob L., 27th Mass.
Roberts, Albert, 52d Mass.
Roberts, Norman, 52dl Mass. Roberts, George H., 520 Mass. Rolph, Edward M., 521 Mass, Stanley, Edward H., 10th Mass. ; pro. to corp.
Scott, George W., 21st Mass.
Stearns, A. Frazier, Ist lient., 2Ist Mass .; acting adjt.
Sloan, Timothy W, capt., 27th Mass. Skinner, Leander, Ist sergt., 27th Mass .; pro. to 2d lient., Ist lieut., and capt. Skinner, Linnens C, musician, 27th Mass. Skinner, Lyman W., musician, 27th Mass. Stearns, John, 27th Mass.
Sloun, George W., 4th cerp., 27th Mass,
Salois, Michael, 27th Mass.
Spaulding, Charles B., 27th Mass.
Sears, Hemy, 27th Mass.
Storrs, Charles L., 2d sergt., 27th Mass .; pro. to Ist sergt. and capt.
Shea, Patrick, 31st Mass.
Smith, Charles V., corp., 28th Mass .; pro. to lient, and to capt. Shouls, John, 27th Mass, Spear, George I'., 52d Mass. Spear, Asa Adams, 24 lient., 52d Mass.
Storrs, Samuel J., capt., 52d Mass. ; pro, to lient .- col. Smith, Charles C., 52d Mass.
Smith, William J., 37th Mass. Sanderson, James K., 37th Mass.
Spelman, Timothy, 37th Matss. Sandling, John, 37th Mass. Thayer, Josiah, 10th Mass,
Thayer, Lyman R., 27th Mass.
Tufts, George Ii., 27th Mass.
Tyler, Mason W., lieut., 37th Mass. ; pro, to capt., maj., lieut .- col., and col. Talt, Ethan A., 37th Mass, Thayer, Samuel M., 37th Mass. Turner, Charles F., 37th Mass, Taylor, Joseph K., 37th Mass. Toole, Patrick O., 52d Mass. Thompson, James, 54th Mass. Vinton, Medad, 27th Mass. White, William Henry, 21st Wass. Williams, Solomon II., 27th Mass. Welch, Farrell, 2Ist Mass. Woodworth, Rev. Chas. L., chaplain, 27th Mass. Williams, B. Hartley, Ist Muss, Cav. Wilson, Robert, 52d Mass.
Wheeleck, James II., 52d Mass. Wheelock, John P. West, 52d Mass. White, Joho, 52d Mass,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ilorton, Wesley W., Ist Mass. Art. Smith, Francis B., Ist Mass. Art. Hleald, Charles A., 32d Mass, Church, Spencer, Jr., 9th and 32d Mass. Hervey, Eugene 1'., 27th Muss. Spear, James W., 27th Mass. Russell, Dwight, 27th Mass. Sears, Arthur, 27th Mass, King, Warren F., 27th Mass. Mollett, Charles D., 27th Mass. Phelps, Lyman D., 21st Mass. Kelsey, Ezra, 27th Mass. Connor, Cornelius O., 27th Mass.
Connor, John, 37th Mass. Bestin, Dennis, 37th Mass,
Dickinson, Henry Clay, 29th II. A. Ufford, Andrew J., Ist Mass, Cav. Hobart, William E., 1st Mass. Cav.
Shattuck, George W., Ist Mass. Cav, Bolio, Cephas B.
COLORED,
Freeman, Samuel, bugler, 5th Mass. Cav.
Jennings, Willianı, 54th Mass.
Jennings, Francis N., 54th Mass.
Jackson, Jarvis, 5th Mass. Cav. Jackson, Windsor, 5th Mass. Cav.
Paxton, Howard E., 5th Mass. Cav. Solomon, Joseph 1., 5th Mass. Cav. Sugland, Lorenzo, 5th Mass. Cav. Thompson, John, 5th Mass. Cav.
Thompson, Christopher, 5th Mass. Cav.
Thompson, Henry, 5th Mass. Cav. Thompson, Charles, 5th Mass. Cav.
The following enlisted in the Navy. None appear to have been residents of Amherst except the first three :
Cutter, Wm. V., " Merrimack."
Miles, Wm. B., " Bricknell."
Newell, Henry L., "Osspre."
Adams, Elwaid H., " Wachusett."
Beman, Frank S.
Boynton, Charles P. Chal!iner, William.
Colter, James A. Doyle, Michael, Jr., " Rhode Island."
Fitzsimmons, John. Gleason, Thomas,
Indsen, Jolın.
Hay, Sumuel. Keefe, Thomas, " John Adams."
Lawry, Uranus, "Constellation."
Lear, John. McCallum, Patrick.
McGinley, Charles, Nelson, Jolın, "Sabine."
Pierce, James. Scott, Stephen C., "Circassian."
White, Cornelius.
The following is a list of non-residents enlisted at Amherst in the several regiments of infantry :
Adams, Charles B, Ist N. Y. Vols.
Bowman, Alansford, 20th Mass.
Bowman, Truman, 52dl Mass. Brown, Perez R., 52d Mass.
Burns, Joseph, 52d Mass.
Cooley, George B., 44th III.
Cooley, Henry M., sergt., 14th Conn.
Dyer, Peter, 27th Mass. Gilman, Ai, 2d Mass. Cav.
Hanks, Edward C., 37th Mass.
Hoyt, Francis A., Ist Mass. Art.
Homes, J. F., 27th Mass. Hitchcock, Henry, 2d Mass, Cav.
Ilowe, Joseph, 2d Mass. Cav. Johnson, Martin Silas, 53d Mass. Kane, James, 20th Mass. Latham, Alonzo W., 18th Mass.
McCloud, Henry M., 12th Conn. Moody, Lyman E., Ist Mich. Sharpshooters. Montagne, George L., capt., 37th Mass .; pre. to maj., and again to lient .- col,
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Prouty, Edward U., 10th Mass. Rose, T. C., 27th Mass. Russell, Chas. F., 3d III. Cav. White, Samuel, 5th Wis. Jackson, Sandford, 54th Mass.
The following were obtained by payment of extra bonnties :
Kelly, James, 16th Mass. H. Art. Rush, John, Vet. Res. Corps. Richards, Joseph, 21st Mass. Allen, Asa P., 4th Mass. Cav. Casson, Henry, 4th Mass. Cav. Flanders, Moses L., 21-t Mass. MeSweeny, Dennis, 4th Mass. Cav. Gleason, Arthur, 4th Mass. Cav. Kelly, James, 4th Mass. Cav. Henry, James.
Rand, Ebenezer, 35th Mass. Riley, Charles, 21st Mass.
Murphy, Thomas F., 2d Mass. II. Art. Tierney, Charles, 2d Mass. Cav. Kendell, Henry C., 21st Mass. Welch, Rodman, 2dl Mass. II. Art. Williamson, William, 5th Mass. Cav. Richards, Samuel W., 4th Mass. Cav. Hillis, John, 21 Mass. Il. Art. Westcott, Stephen K., IIth Mass. llack, Robert, 2d Mass. HI. Art. Hefferan, Willian, 35th Mass. Wood, Frank, 13th Vet. Res. Corps. Moran, John, 10th Vet. Res. Corps. McGuirck, Bernard, 13th Vet. Rus. Corps. Witherell, David, 13th: Vet. Res. Corps. Manning, John, Vet. Res, Corps. Waters, Charles, 5th Mass. Cav. Turner, Charles, 5th Mass. Cav. Dow, Charles, 21 Mass. Cav. Cannon, Owen, 19th Mass. Burke, Sammel II., Cav. Bat. Wilson, Joseph, 4th Mass. C'av. Smith, Charles, 4th Mass, Cav. Kennedy, John, 13th Mass. Bat. Stankoff, Nicholas, 13th Mass, Bat. Bryant, James W., Vet. Res. Corps. Scott, Munroe. Spealock, Charles. Allen, George.
Drowns, Henry. Gough, Caleb. Powell, James. Taylor, John.
Pierce, Edwin H1., Ist Mass. Cav. Tuuman, John, 19th Mass. Schatz, Frederick, 19th Mass. Russell, Thomas, sub. Lyons, Edward, sub. Haggerty, William, sub.
Mead, Charles, sub.
Cooper, James, sub. Quiner, Peter, snb.
Tyler, Jahn, 19th Mass., sub. Carr, John, sub. Perkins, William, sulı,
Martin, Frank, sub.
Moore, James, sul. Sherburne, Samuel, snb.
Moran, Thomas, 20th Mass., snb.
Slocum, Robert, 19th Mass., sub. Lyous, Edward, sub.
Jones, Grorge, sub.
Pierce, Charles, 19th Mass., sub.
Johnson, Peter, sub. Burns, William, sub.
Champlin, Jason, 54th Mass., sub.
Total of enlistments in the Army. 352
Total of enlistments in the Navy. 22
374
Of these 11 were killed, 15 died of wounds, and 32 died of disease; 33 others were wounded. Total, 93.
NECROLOGY.
The following soldiers were mortally wounded or killed in the service: Herry C. Ball, Austin Barton, Levi M. Bolio, Charles K. Baker, Henry Bowman, Henry C. Boynton, Ptolemy P. Cutter, George E. Cooke, Francis II. Dick- inson. David L. Dickinson, George A. Draper, Levi Edson, Martin S. Johnson, William W. Latham, George Putnam, Edward T Prouty, George W. Scott, Frazier A. Stearns, Charles V. Smith, James K. Sanderson, Jos'ah Thayer, Juseph K. Taylor, James W. Spear, Charles D. Mollett, Jason Champlin, Samuel C. White.
The following died of disease contracted in ser- vice: Charles B. Adams, Sylvester HI. Adams, Benjamin P. Allen, Morrison Barton, Milo A. Bartlett, George Dickinson, John W. Dickin- son, Joseph Grover, Murray B. Lovett, Alonzo W. Latham, Reuben Miles, Edward W. Manley, Marcus T. C. Miles, Henry Plumb, Norman Roberts, Edward H. Stanley, Lyman W. Skin- ner, George W. Sloan, Charles C. Smith, Ethan A. Taft, Robert Wilson, John P. W. Wheelock, John Thompson, Jarvis Jackson, Spencer Church, Engene P. Ilovey, Arthur Sear-, Lv- man D. Phelps, Ezra Kelsey, Cephas B. Bolio, Sanford Jackson, Henry Thompson.
WOUNDED.
The following were wounded while in service: Charles II. Barton, Nelson R. Ball, Edmund Boltwood, James Bowman, John Beston, l'at- rick Beston, Frederick R. Bell, John E. Cash- mian (lost an arm), Henry Coy, George B. Conley, Chester Dickinson, Jr., Baxter E. Dick- inson, John A. Glazier, Henry E. Hawley, William J. Hopkins, Ebenezer M. Johnson, Charles F. Kellogg. Rufus P. Lincoln, James A Preston, Simon E. Preston, James A. Pierce, Jacob L. Rust, Charles B. Spaulding, Ilenry Scars, John Sholes (lost a leg), William J. Smith, John Sandling, Timothy Spellman, Mason W. Tyler, Charles T. Turner, Medad Vinton, Solomon H. Williams, Dwight Russell, Lewis R. Haskell, Henry Win. White.
MILITARY EXPENSES.
Expenses of the town in 1861 $535.17
Expenses of individuals, 1861 566.50
Expenses ot the town, 1862. 8,256,00
Expenses of Wm. A. Stearns, Esq. 875.00
Expenses of the town in 1863, 61.25
Expenses of drafted men for substitutes in 1863-64. 14,275 00
Expenses of the town in 1864,
11,738.85
Expenses of individuals, 1864. 8,063,00
Expenses of the town in 1865. 406.00
Interest on the "State Aid" 1,360.50
Deduct amount received from State to 846,237.27
egnalize bounties.
1,641.27
$44,596 00
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
HON. EDWARD DICKINSON, LL.D.,
was born in Amherst, Hampshire Co., Mass., Jan. 1, 1803. His ancestors lived in Hadley (of which Amherst was formerly a part) as early as 1657, the year in which Hadley was settled. His father was Hon. Samnel Fowler Dickinson, one of the eon- spieuous founders of Amherst College, and a leading lawyer of his day and locality. Preparing for college at home, he entered Amherst at the age of sixteen, where he remained one year. The three last years of his college course were spent at Yale, when he graduated, among the first of his class, in 1823. For the two succeeding years he read law with his father, and then spent a year in the then famous Northampton law-school, under Profs. E. H. Mills, Judge Samuel Howe, and J. H. Ashmun. In 1826 he opened a law-office at Amherst, and continued in the practice of his profession from that time till his death, nearly half a century.
The first publie position which he filled was treasurer of Amherst College, to which responsible office he was elected in 1835, and which he held from that time till 1874, when he re- signed, and was succeeded by his son, W. A. Diekinson, its present incumbent. He entered upon the duties of this office at a time when the college was comparatively weak and its financial resources much embarrassed, and even its perpetuity a matter of uncertainty. The fact that, during his adminis- tration, the property of the college grew from something like one hundred thousand dollars to over a million, abundantly
attests the financial ability and skill with which it was handled.
The Springfield Republican, in an obituary notice, says of him, " No man ever watched or tended his own child or his own property with more anxious, personal, jealous care than he did the institution he has so long and so ably served."
In 1838 and 1839, and again in 1874, his town chose him a member of the House of Representatives. In 1842 and 1843 his county sent him to the Senate ; in 1845-46, he was a mem- ber of the Governor's council, Gov. Briggs being the chief magistrate ; and in the years 1853 and 1855 he was member of Congress from the district then made up chiefly of Ilampshire and Hampden Counties, nominated and elected by the Whig party. Mr. Dickinson was keenly alive to everything which looked to the prosperity of his native town.
Of his part in securing for Amherst her first railroad, the New London and Northern, the Amherst Record says : " Every- thing that talent, vigor, and indomitable perseverance could do he did, and it is no reflection npon his co-laborers to say that to his influence, taet, and energy are we mainly indebted for the accomplishment of the work."
From the close of his term in Congress, Mr. Dickinson re- tired from publie lite, except in the instance of his last elee- tion to the Honse of Representatives in 1874, and it was owing to the deep interest he took in securing to his town all the advantages of the construction of the Massachusetts Central
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Railroad that he consented to serve it again in the Legislature. On the morning of the 16th of June, 1874, he made a speech in the House on a bill appropriating three million dollars for perfecting the Troy and Greenfield line of road, the main pur- pose of which was to guard the interests of the Massachusetts Central. Soon after, feeling a premonition of illness, he re- tired to his rooms at the Tremont Hotel, where about one o'clock he was stricken with apoplexy, and died in a few hours. In the death of Mr. Dickinson the town of Amherst and her college fost emphatically one of their best and most devoted friends. Of his character, to quote again from the Springfield Republican : " In his State, and particularly in its western section, he has long ranked among the few 'first citizens,' honored for his years and public services, respected for his sterling good sense and independence of character, re- vered for his spotless integrity and patriotic self-sacrifice to public duty, beloved even by all who came near to him for the simple truthfulness and chivalric tenderness that lay deep and broad in the base of his nature. JIe has left an example of service as a public-spirited citizen and faithful official that both in quality and quantity should alone make him an his- toric character in Massachusetts. He was indeed a New Eng- land Chevalier Bayard, without fear and without reproach. He possessed and exhibited that rarest and yet most needed of all qualities in these days of cowardly conformity and base complaisance,-the courage of his convictions. This was the essence of his life. This is his noblest bequest to his com- munity and his State."
In 1863, Amherst conferred upon him the honorary title of LL.D. For many years he was an active member of the First Congregational Church of Amherst.
The surviving members of his family are an aged wife, a sister of Mr. Albert Norcross, of Monson, and the late Lorin M. Norcross, of Boston ; a son, W. A. Dickinson, a lawyer, and, as before mentioned, the successor of his father as treas- urer of Amherst College; two daughters; a brother, William, who resides in Worcester, and is engaged in the banking busi- ness ; and a sister, the wife of the Rev. Asa Bullard, Secretary of the Congregational Publication Society, and a resident of Cambridgeport.
WAITSTILL DICKINSON
was born in Amherst, Hampshire Co., March 19, 1814. IIis grandfather, Waitstill Dickinson, settled at an early day in South Amherst, on the place now occupied by George Shaw, and here both his father and Waitstill Dickinson were born. ITis father, Oliver Dickinson, was thrice married. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth, he had six children, viz., Mary, Waitstill, Moses, Josiah, William, and Elizabeth. By bis second wife he had nine children, as follows : Clarissa, Martha, George, Lucretia, Mary, Emily, Webster, Clarissa (2d), and Charles. By his third wife he had no children. All hut Josiah and Charles were married and raised families. Mary, Moses, Elizabeth, George, Charles, and Lucretia are deceased. Waitstill, Josiah, Emily, and Martha, widow of Charles Haywood, are residents of Amherst. From the time he was old enough to work Waitstill Dickinson was em- ployed on his father's farm, receiving only a common-school education. When fourteen years old he drove a four-horse team to Boston, and followed the business of teaming for the most part till he was twenty-one years of age.
Ile was married, April 20, 1837, to Mercy J. Dickinson, daughter of Enos and Joanna Dickinson, of Amherst. Mrs.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, April 7, 1816. They have eleven children, as follows :
Lyman Enos, born Aug. 9, 1839. Died March 26, 1843. Joanna Thankful, born Feb. 17, 1841. An invalid for fourteen years, occasioned by being thrown from a wagon. Living at home. Henry Clay, born Feb. 14, 1843. A soldier in the late war. Married Nellie Andrews. Three children, viz., Stella F., Isadore L., and Katie I. Employed in the store with his father. Julia L., born May 3, 1844. Died Aug. 29, 1868. Dwight E., born Jan. 21, 1846. Married Henrietta Bolter.
Wantsill Dickinson
One child,-Walter. A farmer in Amherst. Lucy M., born Oct. 22, 1847. Living at home. Edward M., born Oct. 14, 1849. Married Bell Schofield. One child,-Grace E. Clerk in grocery-store in Hartford, Conn. Daniel Webster, born Dec. 6, 1851. Married Jennie Prince. Employed in a store at Rocky Hill, Conn. George Washington, born July 16, 1854. Married Ella Shumway. A farmer in Sunderland. Sidney Oliver, born Sept. 19, 1858. Clerk in post-office at Amherst. Robert Martin, born July 12, 1860. Living at home.
Mr. Dickinson followed teaming four years after marriage. In 1842 commenced merchandising on a small scale in South Amherst, and continued in that business for six years. Ile carried on a farm the next seven years. From that time to the present he has kept a grocery-store in South Amherst, oc- cupying his present " red-brick" store since 1863.
Mr. Dickinson has served as selectman and overseer of the poor seven years, and assessor five years ; also school director for a number of years. Postmaster at South Amherst six years from 1844, and from 1866 to the present time. Elected a Representative to the Legislature in 1849. In politics he is Republican. Though not a member of any church, a regular attendant upon, and contributor to, the support of the Congre- gational Church of South Amherst.
Ezze Ingram
EZRA INGRAM was born in Amherst, Hampshire Co., Mass., Sept. 1, 1799. The family descended in a direct line from 1st, John Ingram, who was born in England about 1642; emi- grated to this country, and was one of the early settlers in the town of Hadley. Ile died June 22, 1722. 2d. John Ingram, who married Mehitable, daughter of John Dickin- son, by whom he raised a family of eleven children. When advanced in years he removed to North Amherst, where hedied. 3d. John Ingram, married Lydia, daughter of Samuel Bolt- wood, by whom he bad six children. Died in Amherst, Nov. 11, 1737. 4th. John Ingram, married, Feb. 9, 1758, Thankful Rose, by whom he had seven children. Died Aug. 30, 1809. 5th. Ebenezer Ingram, born July 8, 1760, in Amherst ; mar- ried, May 20, 1789, Esther Rood, by whom he had nine children, as follows, in the order of their birth : Dencey, Peter, Abigail, Esther, Ezra, Naomi, Lucy, Ellen A., and John P., -three sons and six daughters.
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