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For a portion of the year 1864 he was overseer of the State Reform School at Westboro'. In December of the same year he went to Kenosha, Wis., and occupied the position of teller, temporarily (in the absence of the regular officer), in the First National Bank of that place, remaining there till April, 1865. For one month he was overseer of Dr. Allport's fruit farm in Michigan ; wages, $25 per month. In May, 1865, he was book-keeper for the Kenosha Coal Company, in La Salle, IN. About July of the same year he again filled the position of teller in the bank at Kenosha, remaining there till September. He then went to New York City, and was connected for two years with the house of Clement, Hawkes & Maynard, cutlery manufacturers, the first year as book-keeper and cashier, the last year as traveling salesman. In October, 1867, he went to Selma, Ala., and filled the position of treasurer of the Cahaw ba Coal Company. In August, 1869, he received the appoint- ment of deputy collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. In September, 1872, he came to Turner's Falls, and assisted in the organization of the Crocker National Bank, and was cashier and treasurer of the Crocker Savings Institution, in that place, up to Nov. 1, 1874. For one year of the same time he was treasurer of the Montague Paper Company.
artlett
JOSEPH FREELAND BARTLETT was born in Ware, Mass., July 25, 1843, the sixth child of Marshall J. and Abigail J. Bartlett. Sanl Bartlett, his great- grandfather, moved from Rhode Island and settled in Enfield, Mass., where Gideon P. Bartlett, his grand- father, was born. His father was also born there. His father, after marriage, settled in Ware, where he followed the trade of a harness-maker. Ile died, while on a visit at Amherst, Oct. 10, 1876.
His mother was a daughter of Isaiah Warren, a descendant of Gen. Joseph Warren. She died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Ald- rich, in Greenfield, Sept. 10, 1876. For eight years previous to their death his parents made their home with their son, J. F. Bartlett, at Turner's Falls.
Mr. Bartlett received his education in the common schools of Belchertown and Wilbraham. At the age of seventeen he enlisted as private in the 10th Massachusetts Infantry, and served for three years as private and non-commissioned officer in that regi- ment. He then received the commission of second lieutenant, and was transferred to the 37th Massa- chusetts, with which he remained until June, 1865, when he was transferred to the 20th Massachusetts, a regiment made up of what was left of the old 20th and remnants of other regiments, with the purpose of engaging in service on the plains. At this time he received the commission of first lieu- tenant. He was in Mcclellan's Peninsular cam- paign, in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and in many engage- ments in Gen. Grant's march upon Richmond. He was also with Gen. Sheridan in his campaign of the Shenandoah Valley. He received a number of slight wounds, and was wounded severely at the battle of the Wilderness, having his thigh-bone shattered. He was mustered ont at Washington, Ang. 28, 1865.
For four years after leaving the army he was su- perintendent of the plating department of Hayden, Geer & Co.'s Brass-Factory, at Haydenville, Mass. In 1878 he moved to Turner's Falls, and opened a trade in glass, paints, and wall paper, in which busi- ness he is still engaged.
Mr. Bartlett has taken an active interest in all mat- ters looking to the prosperity and growth of Turner's Falls. For four years past he has served as select- man, overseer of the poor, and assessor of the town of Montagne. He was elected a member of the General Court in 1878, and served on the committee of military affairs. He is vice-president, and mem- ber of the finance committee, of the Crocker Institu- tion for Savings.
Mr. Bartlett is emphatically a self-made man, and in the conduet of his own and the public business has shown rare tact and good judgment.
He was married, June 8, 1868, to Orinda Aldrich, daughter of Nathaniel and Nancy Aldrich, of Bel- ehertown, Mass. Mrs. Bartlett was born there, Oct. 1, 1843. They have one child,-Ida.
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Since that time he has occupied the position of treasurer and general manager of the John Russell Cutlery Company, making his headquarters during the years 1875 and 1876 in New York City. Since then, and at the present time, at Tur- ner's Falls.
Mr. Oakman was married, March 17, 1868, to Sarah E. Clark, daughter of William H. and Sarah ( Hilton) Clark, of Exeter, N. 1]. They have one child, Anna C., born in Selma, Ala., Jan. 4, 1869. Mrs. Oakman was born in Exeter, N. H., March 28, 1840. She was educated in the schools of Exeter.
GEORGE E. MARSHALL
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was born in Lunenburg, Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. 16, 1832, the eldest child of Zachariah and Caroline Marshall. ITis an- cestors came from England and settled in Newburyport, Mass. ITis grandfather, Samuel Marshall, was born there, and was the first of the family who settled in Lunenburg. llis father was born in the latter place in 1808. lle moved with his family to Kansas, and was among the first settlers of that State. The family remained there about twenty years. At the present time he makes his home with his son, George E., at Turner's Falls. Ilis wife's maiden name was Putnam, a daughter of Samuel and llannah Putnam, a branch of the Putnam family of Revolutionary fame. She died at Groton, Mass., in 1852. George E. Marshall received his education at the Lawrence Academy, of Groton, to which place his father removed when he was ten years of age. Rev. James Means was principal of the academy at that time. Ilis father being a paper manu- facturer, George E. became early interested in that branch of industry, and at the age of twenty had acquired a thorough knowledge of the business as carried on at that day. At that time, in company with S. E. Crocker, a son of Emmons Crocker, of Fitchburg, and a brother of the late Alva Crocker of the same place, he went to Nashville, Tenn., where for eight months he was employed in the paper-mill of W. S. Whiteman. Returning East, he engaged as foreman in a new paper-mill at Lawrence, Mass., owned by Crocker, Briggs & Co., where he remained about four years. He was next em- ployed as manager of the paper-mills of C. P. Markle & Sons, situated on the Youghiogheny River, in West Newton, Pa.,
about thirty miles from Pittsburg. He was there three years. lle then went to Louisville, Ky., where he superintended the fitting up of Bremaker, Moore & Co.'s paper-mills of that city. These mills were the pioneer works in the West for the manufacture of super-calender book-papers. Though manu- facturing a superior quality of paper, they were at first obliged to seek an Eastern market. After the Western buyers made the discovery that they were purchasing in New York City goods manufactured near at home, upon which they were pay- ing two unnecessary freights, it changed the " order of things," and thereafter the firm found ready market for their products in the West.
Mr. Marshall superintended the construction for the same parties, in the town of Laurel, Ind., on the Whitewater River, a mill for the manufacture of chemical wood and straw pulp, which was also the first of its class built in the West. He re- mained with Bremaker, Moore & Co. eight years. In 1871, through the solicitation of Col. Alva Crocker, founder of Turner's Falls, and president of the Montague Paper Com- pany in that place, Mr. Marshall was induced to take charge of the erection and fitting up of their mill, and has been its manager ever since. Ile was elected treasurer of the company January, 1875.
During his long experience as a paper-manufacturer Mr. Marshall has added many improvements, and has taken out quite a number of patents covering processes for producing chemical and mechanically-prepared pulps for paper, and improvements in paper-machinery. A gentleman who has known Mr. Marshall for years, and is well posted as to his ability as a paper-manufacturer, said to the writer, " Mr Marshall will make more and better paper out of a given amount of stock than any man living." It will surely be not overstating it to say that he enjoys a reputation in his specialty second to none in the country. Since he has been a resident of Turner's Falls he has taken an active interest in all mat- ters which affected its prosperity and growth, and has con- tributed liberally of his means toward the building up and sustaining its public institutions.
He was united in marriage, Oct. 4, 1858, to Lydia Farwell, daughter of John 11. and Catharine Farwell, of Ischua, Cat- taraugus Co., N. Y. They have no children living.
ORANGE.
GEOGRAPHICAL.
ORANGE, the fourth in population of the towns of Franklin, lies on the eastern border of the county, and is bounded on the north by the town of Warwick and the county of Worces- ter, on the south by the town of New Salem, on the east by Worcester County, and on the west by Warwick, Wendell, and Erving.
The taxable area of the town comprises 20,297 acres, and it measures in length about fifteen miles from northeast to southwest, varying in width from three to ten miles.
The Fitchburg Railroad, following the course of Miller's River, enters the town on the west, and crosses it in a south- east direction.
NATURAL FEATURES,
Besides Miller's River, which crosses the town at Orange Centre and divides that village, there are other streams, such as Tully River and Cheney Brook in the east, Orcott and Moss Brooks in the west, and Gulf, Shingle Swamp, and Red Brooks in the south, all of which furnish good water-power. In the east there is a large pond at Furnace village, and
Packard Pond at Fryville, both of which have outlets into Tully River. North Pond, in the south, has an area of 78 acres, and is the head-spring of Swift River.
The most important elevation in the town is Big Tully Mountain, in the northeast. There are also numerous other eminenees, as Pitt's llill, Fall Ilill, Beach Hill, and Chestnut ITill. The surface of the town is generally mountainous, ex- cept in the southeast corner, although there is comparatively little woodland. In the rocky regions, gneiss and granite are found in abundance.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The history of the early settlement of the tract now eni- braced within the limits of Orange properly forms a part of the history of the early settlements in the towns of Athol, Royalston, and Warwick, since Orange was constructed mainly from portions of those towns.
Settlements upon the traet before 1750 were made to a very limited extent, and not freely until after 1762. In the latter- named year, Jacob Hutchins located on the eastern part of a
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grant of land including 325 acres, and lying on the west line of Athol (then Paquage). This grant was issued by the Gen- eral Court to Rev. Benjamin Ruggles, of Middleboro', in 1752, and, becoming in Mareh, 1762, a portion of Athol, was, in 1783, included in the district of Orange.
Ezekiel Wallingford is said to have located as early as 1747, and was not long afterward killed by Indians.
Ichabod Dexter, of Rochester, Mass., bought the right to Wallingford's land, and lived upon it many years, but event- ually sold it and removed to Warwick.
His brother Benjamin settled in 1769, upon what is now known as the Jesse Worrick farin. Subsequently he changed his location to the east end of the Ruggles grant, upon what is now known as the Dexter and Davis farms, which are still held in part by his grandehildren, Amasa Dexter and Syl- vester Davis. It is related that upon Benjamin Dexter's set- tlement, there was no house between his and the Connecticut River. Dexter was a large farmer, an extensive dealer in land, and one of the earliest selectmen of the district. Ile married Hannah Stone, of Rutland, in 1769, and of their nine children, four settled in Orange and became parents of large families.
Near him settled Samuel Ruggles in 1780, and Lemuel Rug- gles in 1786.
In 1770, Joseph Metcalf, of Milford, purchased of John Erving a traet of five hundred acres lying east of Fall Hill. That truet includes now the farms of Willard Foskett, Shu- bael Briggs, Abraham Putnam, Harvey Goddard, Francis Field, and portions of the farms of Albert Foskett, Aaron Trim, the Widow Johnson, E. P. Foster, and Wilson Whee- ler. He probably settled in 1770, and built a house upon the place now occupied by Shubael Briggs, Mr. Metcalf was a prominent man in these parts for forty years or more; was a leading farmer, a justice of the peace, a land surveyor much in demand, and a member of the court of Sessions for Hamp- shire County. He was John Erving's land-agent as well as land-agent for Erving's heirs, and made in 1788 a detailed survey and plan of the Erving grant. In his latter years he met with business reverses, and died poor.
Seth Ellis settled about 1784, on the west side of the Tully Meadows in the northeast, on the place still known as the " Ellis farm."
Ebenezer Foskett settled in 1777, on the farm now called the Loren Shaw place in the northeast.
The " Goodell place," in the northeast part of the town, was occupied by Zina Goodell in 1787, and is now owned by one of his great-grandchildren.
Nathan Goddard, of Shrewsbury, bought a large tract of land in the northeast, at the head of Tully Meadows, where he carried on a thriving business with a public-house, a tan- nery, and a saw-mill. Nearly all the Goddards now in Orange are his descendants.
The Cheneys now living in Orange are descendants of Ebenezer and Nathaniel Cheney of Milford. They settled about 1780. Ebenezer was the father of twenty children, and died in 1828. Nathaniel removed, in 1802, to Wardsboro', Vt.
David and William Legg were from Milford about 1780, and located near the centre of the fract, at what has since been known as the Legg Meadow.
Thomas Lord (a son of Dr. Joseph Lord, the first proprie- tor's clerk of Athol) took up a farm, in 1781, near the school- house in school-district No. 6. Ile died there in 1810.
Elisha Johnson located in the extreme north in 1776; Jona- than Jones on West Brook, near the centre, in 1785; and near North Orange, previous to that time, there were other settlers, including Savel Metcalf, Joseph French, with his sons Jo- seph and Jacob, Job Macomber, Elisha White, Daniel Thayer, Jonathan Jones, Jr., Samuel and Asa Aldrich, Samuel Briggs, and Solomon Johnson. They called the place of their first settlement Goshen.
The earliest settlement near what is now Orange Centre was
probably that of Lewis Barker, who took up a farm in 1791, on the cast part of Hastings grant, east of what is now Orange centre.
In 1791 the actual settlers, as shown by the records, were Abner Morton, Asa Aldrich, Asa Lord, Benj. Dexter, Daniel Thayer, Daniel Davidson, Levi Chapin, Ebenezer Petty, Elisha White, Joseph Lord, Joseph French, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones, Jr., Samuel Ruggles, Solomon Johnson, Samuel Knowles, Zephaniah Smith, Thomas Stow, David Legg, David Cheney, Joseph Metcalf, Job Macomber, Jacob French, Joshua Hill, Joel Thayer, Michael Malone, Nathan Cheney, Perez Richmond, Savel Metealf, Silas Metcalf, Samuel Briggs, Samuel Pitts, William Legg, W. Mills, W. Tolly, Zadock Haywood, Job Macomber, Jr., Alex. Whee- lock, Ebenezer Atwood, Ebenezer Cheney, Ebenezer Foskett, Widow Demon, Elijah Ball, Elisha Johnson, Edward Ward, Ilananiah Temple, Hezekiah Coller, John Ilill, David Ilill, Jacob Briggs, John Forister, Asa Heminway, John Battle, James Mills, Levi Cheney, Moses and Nathaniel Cheney, Na- than Goddard, Jr., Samuel Coller, Timothy Wheelock, Uriah Coller, Uriah Coller, Jr., Wm. Stearns, Win. Gould, Zina Goodell, John Beals, Abiel Sadler, Benjamin Mayo, Ben- jamin Wood, David Bullock, Ellis Whitney, Jonathan God- dard, Hezekiah Goddard, Jonathan Ward, John Cutting, Justin Cady, Jonah Ford, Joseph Dean, Jason Harrington, Jonathan Houghton, James Foster, Jeduthan Holden, Ma- son Goddard, Nehemiah Ward, Shadrach Baker, Silas Mar- ble, Timothy Peters, Wm. Lord, Wm. Lord, Jr., Preston Lord, Solomon Gates, Jonathan Woodward, Oliver Chapin, M. Higgins, Samuel leminway, Jabez Whitney, Nathaniel Stearns, John Emerson, Eben and Asa Goddard, Martin Ste- vens, Oliver Esty, Seth Thompson, Asa Albee, John Stow, Nathan Goddard, Phineas Hammond, Seth Woodward, Amos Woodward. John and Nathan Ellis, Sylvanus Ward, Witt Fuller, Daniel Harrington, Moses and Seth Ellis, Nathaniel Woodcock.
Of the descendants of the early settlers now residing in Orange, mention may be made of the Goddards, Forresters, Woodwards, Dexters, Mortons, Frenchs, Joneses, Briggses, Lords, Johnsons, Smiths, Cheneys, Atwoods, Fosketts, Wards, Temples, Battles, Mayos, Harringtons, Albees, Davises, and Eddys.
NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS.
In December, 1783, the district raised £30 to defray neces- sary charges. At the same time arrangements were made to obtain a training-field. In 1784, £50 were raised for the pur- pose of reopening the highways, and the rates for labor fixed at 3s. per day for men, Is. 6d. for oxen, 9d. for a cart, and Is. for a plow. The first pound was the yard of Benjamin Mayo, which was in 1784 improved for the purpose. The mills first mentioned in the district records were Metcalf's, Goddard's, and Woodward's mills.
In 1795, Mr. Forister agreed in open town-meeting "to ereet bars, and to let people pass through his pasture in the winter season." At that time the selectmen were instructed to purchase a burying-eloth for the distriet, and that the cloth should be kept at Lieut. Atwood's. It was also ordered that " the assessor do abate ' the Friends" proportion of taxes for said cloth." In April, 1795, the assessors were instructed to make the taxes agreeable to a late aet of the General Court for introducing the dollar and its parts for the money of account. In the following May the distriet discussed the subject of procuring a hearse for publie use, but, as far as the records indicate, the hearse was not purchased uutil 1810. The dis- triet refused in 1806 to raise any money for the support of the poor that year.
Katy, daughter of Amos Woodward, born February, 1784, was probably the first person born in the district ; and the first couple married were William Crosbee and Mary Higgins, who were united in wedlock May, 1784.
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The first dam across Miller's River, at Orange, was prob- ably construeted by James Holmes, of New Salem, in 1790. In that year he ereeted a saw- and grist-mill ou the Orange side, and, after operating the establishment until 1800, sold out to Ahaz und Timothy Thayer, who in turn disposed of the mills to Maj. Joseph Putnam. Charles Sears, of Greenwich, set up a clothiers'-works in Orange in 1798, and in this enter- prise he was succeeded by Ezra Heminway, Otis Butterworth, David Young, and others. Levi Thurston, who began the manufacture of seythes in 1803, was the first to introduce the tilt-hammer in Orange. Simeon Boyden, of Northfield, started a carding-machine in 1804; Abner and Jacob Whitney began the manufacture of palm-leaf hats in 1805; and in 1811, Benjamin Stow opened a wagon-factory.
It may be remarked as a singular circumstance, in view of the fact that Western Massachusetts towns were generally indifferent as to tendering voluntary service in the war of 1812, that in November of that year Orange offered a bounty of $12 per man for volunteers.
There are now living in the town three survivors of that war,-Philip Martin, Enter Clark, and Ebenezer Barker,- but neither of them entered the service from Orange.
Nathan Goddard and Benjamin Mayo were probably the first storekeepers at North Orange, one Foster the first black- smith, and Paddock and Barton among the early doctors. David Goddard, Humphrey Mellen, and Benjamin Mayo are said to have been the earliest hotel-keepers. . They kept, so it is related, taverns at what is now North Orange, and all at the same time, so that the region must have been in those early days a popular one for taverns. The buildings in which these taverns were kept are still standing at North Orange. The hotel at Orange Centre, called the Putnam Hotel, was built in 1801, by Ahaz Thayer.
In 1837 a large tract of land south of Miller's River, and embracing the northern portion of New Salem, as well as the eastern portion of Erving's grant, was annexed to Orange. This was done for the purpose of bringing South Orange nearer the centre of the town ; for it was in that year that, owing to the important growth of South Orange, the seat of town government was removed to that village from Orange (now North Orange), and a town-hall built there. Before the annexation referred to, Miller's River was the southern boundary of the town. In 1845 the name of Orange vil- lage, the place of early settlement, was changed to North Orange, and that of South Orange to Orange Centrc.
By the side of the highway, south of North Orange and near the old burying-ground, a stone has been erected to mark the spot where Mrs. Wheelock, an aged resident of Orange, was killed in 1820 by being thrown from her carriage.
EARLY ROADS.
Roads were accepted, March, 1784, as follows: one from Warwick line, near the top of Fall Hill, to the road near Metcalf's mills; one from Miller's River northeasterly, on the lands of John Erving, to the road near Ruggles' house ; one beginning on the north side of the road, through the farms of Abner Morton and Benjamin Dexter, and then through the lands of Samuel Aldrich and Thomas Lord to the saw-mill dam, and so on to the county road; one from Ebenezer Goddard's dwelling-house to Woodward's mills. 1
In 1785 the roads accepted were: one from Justin Cady's house, south and west to the county road; one beginning at Jason Herrington's house, and running to the old road near Cady's land; one from Ebenezer Demond's house to the Warwick line, on Samnel Pitt's land. In 1785 the district joined with New Salem in building a bridge over Miller's River. The highway of the Fifth Massachusetts Turnpike Corporation, established in 1799, passed from Northfield, through Warwick and Orange, to Athol.
POST-OFFICES.
The first post-office was established at what is now North Orange in 1816. Lyman llarrington was the first postmaster, and he was succeeded by Pynson Blake, Josiah Wheelock, Parly Barton, Davis Goddard, llillel Baker, and N. L. John- son, the present incumbent. A post-office was established at Miller's Bridge-afterward South Orange, now Orange Cen- tre-in 1823, when Thomas Cobb was appointed postmaster. llis successors have been John R. Whipple, Otis Brooks, Davis Goddard, and Geo. A. Whipple. Mr. Goddard, the present postmaster, has held the office since 1861. Of Mr. Cobb, the first postmaster at Orange Centre,-Miller's Bridge, -it may be observed that the office receipts the first quar- ter were thirty-one cents, and his commissions eight cents.
ORGANIZATION.
Oct. 15, 1783, the southeasterly part of the town of War- wick, and a tract of land called Ervingshire, lying on the north side of Miller's River, in the county of Hampshire, the northwesterly part of the town of Athol, and the south- westerly part of the town of Royalston, in the county of Worcester, were joined by aet of the Legislature, and erected into a separate district by the name of Orange. The aet was passed on the petition of the inhabitants of the traets above referred to, who represented to the court the difficulties they labored under " in their present situation, " and apprehended themselves, moreover, to be of sufficient numbers and ability to deserve the granting of their petition.
The boundaries designated for the new district were as fol- lows : Beginning on the west line of the town of Athol, at Miller's River ; thence on the said line to the road that leads from Ruggles' farms to West Hill, so called ; thenee bounding on the said road, including the same, to the county road lead- ing from Athol to Warwick; thence easterly on the said road to the south line of Sherebiah Baker's land ; thence on the said south line, and to extend the same course, to Tully River; thenee northerly on the east branch of the said Tully River Lo Royalston line; thenee east on the said Royalston line to the southeast corner of lot No. 23; thence northerly on the east line of the same lot and lot 22, dividing lot No. 26; thence westerly on the south end of lot 20; thenee northerly on the east line of lot No. 6; thenee westerly on the north line of the same lot ; thence northerly on the west side of lot No. 9; thenee westerly on the south line of lot No. 11 to the west line of the said town of Royalston ; thence northerly on the said town-line to the northeast corner of lot No. 45, in the second division in Warwick ; then westerly on the north line of the same lot to the northwest corner thereof ; thence southerly to the northeast corner of lot 41 ; thence westerly to the north- west corner of the same lot ; thence southerly to the northeast corner of lot 34, to the northwest corner of the same; thence southeast to the northeast corner of lot 24; thence south to the northeast corner of lot 15; thenee south, including lot 13, to Warwick south line; thence south, ten degrees west, across the land of John Erving, Esq., to Miller's River ; thence east- erly on Miller's River to the bounds first mentioned.
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