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Alfred A. Burditt, the youngest son of Nathan, was born June 20, 1827. He went to Worcester County Manual Labor High School. He taught in Lancaster, Shrewsbury and Leominster. February 26, 1849, he opened a drug store in a small building on Church Street, opposite the present Courant office. This was built as a stand for Emory Harris, who did a small business here for a short time. S. P. Hey- wood, dressmaker and milliner, was in this building in 1847 and 1848. The record of Mr. Burditt's first day's business on Church Street was as follows: Confectionery, fourteen cents; medicines, thirty-one cents; fancy goods, forty-four cents; valentines, ten cents; cigars, nine cents. Total, one dollar and eight cents. Profit, fifty-five cents. He married Matilda A. Boynton, June 17, 1849. In October of the same year, he moved into the north store of A. P. Burdett's Block. The first druggist's license for selling liquors in Clintonville was given to A. A. Burditt, January 2, 1850, by the county commissioners. Mr. Burditt erected a block just north of A. P. Burdett's in 1852, where he continued the druggist business. G. F. and S. T. Howard were the builders of this block. His family lived for some time in a tenement above his drug store. He bought the Kellogg estate on the corner of Church and Chestnut Streets, in the hard times of 1857, for four thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. Among Mr. Burditt's clerks were: James Curtis, W. P. White, W. A. Macurda, Edward Winter, W. D. Burdett, O. F. Sawyer, C. C. Burdett. A. P. Boynton, W. L. Boynton, C. L. Woodbury, W. S. Noyes, Burrill Morse and Stephen Todd. For ten years, Mr. Burditt enjoyed a monopoly of the drug business. He
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has been one of the leading members of the Baptist Society. From 1863 to 1866, he was one of the selectmen of the town, and in more recent times he has been on the school commit- tee nine years, and town treasurer one year. He has served in the legislature,. His three sons are all well known citi- zens. Two of them have followed their father's business.
W. A. Macurda, who had previously been a clerk for A. A. Burditt, carried on the drug business for some years in the Greene building which stood where H. A. Burdett's drug store now is. He was subsequently in Fitchburg in the same business. He is now in Watertown in the insurance business. Charles C. Burdett went into this store after the war. He went to Springfield and then to Conway, where he recently died.
There were numerous daguerrean artists who carried on business in this community in early times. Among them were E. H. Amsden, who was at the Bancroft building in IS47; T. W. Russell, who was at the house of William N. Pierce in IS4S, and S. Williams, who had a saloon near the Clinton House. David Chase, who had a stand in a little building on Church Street, near the present position of the Y. M. C. A. rooms, stayed here for a longer time. He was a good musician and the organizer of a brass band. John J. Boynton bought out his business and occupied this building in 1856. It was afterwards moved to Sterling Road. Mr. Boynton followed the business for a short time in the Bur- dett & Fiske building, but went into Greene's brick block as soon as it was completed and carried on business there over thirty years. At first, he had a monopoly and if pictures could be published of all the negatives still in his possession, the community as it existed in war times and the years be- fore and after would be represented. Here are pictures of those who are now dignified citizens, taken in chubby infancy to satisfy a mother's pride. Here are pictures of slim young maidens in the first flush of womanly beauty, which portly
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matrons of to-day would scarcely recognize as their own. Here are pictures of volunteers just about to leave their homes, many of them never to return. Here are pictures of our older citizens, taken that their children might have their portraits, when they had passed away.
John J. Boynton was born in Holden in 1824. His father, Asa Boynton, was a farmer. The boy went to West Boyl- ston to work in a mill when he was eight years old. He worked sixteen hours a day. He came to Clintonville in October, 1847. Although he had never worked as a machin- ist, he had gained some slight acquaintance with the trade, and was employed by J. B. Parker at the Clinton Company's machine shop. He developed such aptitude in the trade that he was chosen to work with E. B. Bigelow in the de- velopment of his new inventions. He thus worked " under lock and key" for months. He wove the first Brussels car- peting on the new looms, and became overseer of the weav- ing room at the Bigelow Carpet Mill. Here he remained until 1856. He was in partnership with his son, L. W. Boyn- ton, about 1870, in the drug business where H. A. Burdett's store now is. His first wife died shortly after he came to Clintonville. He married again in 1849. He built his house at the corner of Church and Prescott Streets, in 1861.
The old school-house, one story in height, which origi- nally stood at the corner of Walnut and Church Streets, after having been moved between the churches and then to Union Street, at last found an abiding place on High Street between G. P. Smith's Block and the Clinton House. Levi H. Carter, who had bought the building, raised it another story in 1858. He lived here and kept a restaurant for many years.
There were two other buildings, both of them private houses, on High Street, between Church and Union, in early times. The Kendall house was built by Dr. P. T. Kendall in 1845. It has now been moved back from the street and is known as the Union House. There were two tenements in
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this building. Among those who lived here were J. B. At- kinson, George H. Kendall, Albert A. Jerauld, Charles G. Stevens, B. R. Smith, Dr. P. T. Kendall, H. C. Greeley and George B. Wooster. Back of the Kendall House was a large orchard. On the south, was another cottage built by Thomas Sawyer soon after the street was laid out. It was occupied by members of the Sawyer family until recent years. It is now used as a laundry.
In 1850, High Street extended only from Water to Union. Between Water and Church Streets, private houses were more numerous than stores. The Prescott house on the west corner of High and Water Streets was then known as the Hoadley place. It was for some years occupied by J. C. Hoadley, engineer, and afterwards by his sister, Mrs. Pease. It is the oldest house on the street. On the east side of the street, was the private house of Levi Greene, a little to the south of the present watering trough. The house now in the corner was built on Main Street and removed hither in the sixties. N. A. Boynton built the house on the north corner of High and Prospect Streets, in 1847. It was sold by him to Simeon Bowman and is now occupied by Charles Bowman, son of Simeon. The house now known as the Howell house was built and occupied by B. F. Howell. For more than two score years it has looked just as it does today. We have already noticed the Wrigley or Otterson and the Wilson Morse cottages, which were built in the fifties.
William N. Peirce, who had before had charge of the bleachery at the Counterpane Mill, built the house now known as the American House by 1848. T. H. Russell had a daguerrean saloon here in December of that year. S. P. ·Heywood, milliner and dressmaker, was here in 1849. In 1850, W. N. Sleeper had a clothing store here. In February, 1854, B. F. and J. F. Howell went into the grocery business in the basement. The upper part of the house was used for tenements.
William N. Peirce was born November 9, 1824. He came
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to Clintonville in 1841, to work for his brother-in-law, Artemas H. Parker, in the bleachery of the Quilt Mill. In time, he became manager of this department. We have already had occasion to notice him as a grocer in Kendall's Block and as proprietor for seven years of the Clinton House. In his later life, he was occupied in taking charge of his real estate. He bought of Alfred Knight the dwell- ing-house which stood south of the American House. In 1851, he had married Mary A. Dickinson. They occupied this dwelling-house until 1887, when it gave place to the Peirce Block. Perhaps, his greatest service to the town lies in this development of real estate, which belongs especially to later history. He was for a long time the treasurer and collector of the Congregationalist Parish, and the prosperous condition of the society is largely due to his financial ability. He died May 11, 1894.
Alfred Knight, a painter from the North Village in Lan- caster, built a house where Peirce Block now stands, as early as 1846. When the present block was built, the house was moved into the back lot. Mr. Knight also had a little . paint shop near his house. He was afterwards the depot- master for many years. He was also in the livery business with his brother in-law, Henry Butterfield, for a time. He was town treasurer and collector during fourteen of the first sixteen years of the town's existence. He was also on the first board of assessors. He was a Unitarian. He spent his last years in Harvard. He died July 30, 1889, at the age of seventy-nine.
H. N. Bigelow built the house now owned by Mrs. S. W. Tyler, in 1845. It was used as a parsonage by Rev. J. M. R. Eaton, and was then sold to Ezra Sawyer, then to Gilbert' Greene and then to S. W. Tyler. There was an attractive garden in the corner where Tyler's Block now stands.
February 13, 1847, Isaac J. Gibson took the paint shop formerly occupied by Mr. Knight. After he had worked in town as a painter for many years, he went to Worcester and
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continued in the same business. He died in the summer of I893. While he was in Clinton, he lived in the long wooden tenement house which was erected at an early date in Ken- dall Court. His brother, Abram J. Gibson, was also a painter. He was for a little while the owner of a stage route. He built the brick block in Pond Court. Another brother of these men, Deacon Wm. II. Gibson, was a shoc- maker, whose house was on the west side of High Street. It is now owned by Gilman Laythe, whose father, Asa Laythe, lived in one tenement of this building while Mr. Gib- son lived in the other. Deacon Gibson had another brother named John, and a sister who married William Goodale. This William Goodale, a native of Marlboro, moved hither from Bolton. He built the Fletcher house by 1845. Here, he resided for many years. He was employed in the Quilt Mill. Deacon Gibson died from the effects of an accident at the railroad crossing near Four Ponds, in 1866. His second wife and his daughter, Mrs. Buss, were also killed here.
June 5, 1847, J. W. Willard advertised the opening of a furniture store in rooms recently fitted up on High Street. Dartt's grocery store is now in the same building. Mr. Wil- lard was also an undertaker. December 8, 1849, he sold out to Benjamin Ring and was afterwards in Cleveland, O. This Mr. Ring had formerly been a Baptist clergyman, and he came hither from Liberty, Maine. His family lived in a tenement in the same building with his store. He continued his business in Clinton in a small way until October, 1857, when he went to New York state. He afterwards lived in Boston for some time. He died in Hudson, May 8, 1875, at the home of his son, Sanford B. Ring. Elliott Jenkins after- wards had a store in this building.
Elisha Brimhall was born March 25, 1825, in the town of Oakham, Mass. He was the only child of Jonas and Caro- line ( Nye) Brimhall. In his early years, he worked on his
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father's farm, but at the age of twenty, he began to learn the carpenter's trade of a neighbor. As we have already noted, he came to this community to work on the construction of the Clinton House. In 1852, we find him in the furniture business on School Street in the house which he had built there. This is now known as the Cummings house, and stands on its original site, south of Howards' stable. He soon bought the lot on the north-west corner of High and Church Streets, and began to erect his brick block there in the spring of 1857. The building, then the largest on High Street, was completed so that Josiah Alexander, the grocer, moved into the south store in February, 1858. Mr. Brim- hall took the north store for his furniture business. The west wing of the building was not constructed until 1869. The part now used as a drug store was built still later, and the Oxford House was remodelled from a dwelling at a quite recent date. The Courant Block, a large tenement block on High Street, and a residence on Prescott Street, also built by him, belonged to a period beyond the limits of this his- tory. Mr. Brimhall continued his furniture business until after the close of the war. He took Lucius Field as a part- ner in January, 1867, and subsequently sold out his share of the business to Henry O. Sawyer, in January, 1872. We shall see him as one of the selectmen during the war. He de- lighted especially to recall an interview which he had in Washington with President Lincoln, whereby he secured a credit of seventy names for the enlistment roll of Clinton and thus saved the town from a draft. In later years, he served the town as treasurer and as representative to the General Court. He was also a state senator for two years. He was a director of the Lancaster National Bank. He died April 9, 1887.
Daniel Haverty erected the building where the Courant Block now stands. C. D. Holton had a jewelry store there in May, 1858. The property, as we have scen, finally passed
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into the hands of Elisha Brimhall. Daniel Haverty also built the W. H. Haskell dwelling-house on Chestnut Street.
Oliver Greene's building is just below the Courant office, on its original site. He lived here, and for a time rented an upper tenement to A. A. Burditt. William A. Downing sold boots and shoes in the same building.
In the little building, which stood where Fitch's Block now stands, N. A. Boynton had a tin and hardware store in 1844. David Holder and his son, William P. Holder, had a shoe store here, and John Fry was in the same business in 1853. This David Holder had been a citizen of the village many years before and had kept a boarding-house at the foot of Church Street in the days of the Lancaster Cotton Manufacturing Company. He then had a little shoe shop near by. When this company sold out, he went to Bolton. Hon. H. S. Nourse says of his work in Bolton: "On a cross road in the south part of Bolton stood a humble cottage with a little unpainted shop close by, wherein lived and delved a Quaker shoemaker by the name of Holder. He was no common cobbler. The exceeding excellence of his work had somehow gained the attention of the wealthier ladies of Lancaster and vicinity, and they soon would wear no work but his." Through Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Sampson Wilder, he sent his work to lady friends of theirs in Cuba and Paris. He was descended from Christopher Holder, who came to Boston in 1656 in the Speedwell. He returned to Clintonville in the forties. His son, William P., also had charge of a stage route to Boston through Worcester in 1854. His son, Frank P., we have noted as a prominent carpet manufacturer.
N. A. Boynton first came to town in 1844. Mr. Boynton soon erected the building now occupied by Charles Bowman and continued the sale of stoves and tinware there. C. J. Boynton was in partnership with him in 1848. After April 2d of this year, N. A. Boynton continued the business alone until April, 1850. After he left Clinton, he went to New
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York, where he established a large and successful business. He is the best known maker of furnaces in America. In 1847, he built the house on the northeast corner of High and Prospect Streets, now occupied by Charles Bowman. Mr. Boynton was a leader in the Mechanics' Total Abstinence Society, while he lived in this community.
Simeon Bowman bought Mr. Boynton's store when he left town. His sons, George and Charles Bowman, took charge of the business in 1851. They dissolved partnership January 16, 1855, and Charles took the store, where he has · since continued. Simeon Bowman was a native of Berlin, and came to Lancaster at the age of twenty-one. He took the blacksmith's shop since occupied by Stephen Turner. He afterwards became a pump-maker. In 1854, Warren and Bowman erected a building on School Street, which was afterwards known as the Clinton Bakery. This, in a changed form, is now owned by Dr. P. T. O'Brien. After a short time, Warren retired from the business and Bowman continued it for two years, and then sold to E. W. Howe. Robert Brooks followed here in 1859. Simeon Bowman went to California in 1856, and died there. Charles Bowman was born in Lancaster, October 23, 1828. He attended school for some time at the Lawrence Academy, in Groton. He has served the town most efficiently as chief engineer of the fire department and as selectman. He has been a lead- ing member of the Unitarian Society.
Whitcomb & Holman had a livery stable where Andrews' stable on Church Street now stands, as early as 1848. Both Nelson Whitcomb and Charles Holman came from Bolton. The former was a selectman of Clinton, and in 1852, the Free Soil candidate for the legislature. This stable had been erected for Augustine F. Houghton some years before, and had been used by J. C. Stiles. Augustine F. Houghton was the son of John P., who did the teaming for the mills. This stable was advertised to be sold, May 19, 1849. It passed through many hands before it came into the possession of
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the present owner, who has held it about a quarter of a cen- tury.
Amos Blood, a painter, now of Sterling, erected the building on Church Street, that has since gone by his name, in the forties. A Mr. Nourse seems to have been a partial owner of this building. I. H. Marshall sold dry goods and groceries here previous to 1847, when he was followed by A. Macullar, who sold clothing. Samuel D. Brigham had a market in the Blood building, in 1847. Charles Ryan had a market here in 1852. J. B. and H. M. Dudley were grocers here in 1853. Mr. Cate, another grocer, subsequently had a store here. There has also been a bakery in this building.
In the spring of 1847, A. H. Peirce, a brother of W. N. Peirce, had a grocery and dry goods store in a house built by him on Church Street. This house is still standing, though in a greatly altered form, and is known as the Kelley house. The business did not succeed and was soon given up, to be renewed in 1849 for a short time. A. H. Woodhad a grocery and clothing store here for a while between these two dates. Miss E. Davis, milliner, had rooms here in 1847, and P. Howes, tailor, in 1848. William Bowman, a baker, had a shop in this Peirce Building in 1853. These are only a few of the many changing tenants of the building, which soon acquired the reputation of being a poor place for business, as no one succeeded here.
The harness shop next to the east was built by William Stearns in 1846, and occupied by him for nearly forty years .* Otis Kendall had a paint shop in the upper story of this block, and was among our best known painters for about half a century.
There was a Union store in a building constructed by the association, on Pleasant Street, near the point where Bur- dett Street meets it. After a short period of unsuccessful
*A further account of William Stearns may be found by aid of the index.
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business the store was abandoned. In the summer of 1848, Charles H. Bridge had a stand here where he sold harnesses and trunks and kept a small variety store. This building was used for tenements and was afterwards burned in 1859. Mr. Bridge moved from the Union building to the brick building on the corner of Church and School Streets. B. F. Brown followed him here as a dealer in harnesses in Novem- ber, 1854. G. K. Houghton & Company opened a market here in 1858. This brick building was erected in the forties. L. Coburn, the negro barber, had his shop here in 1848. L. B. Rollins and F. R. Cook, furniture dealers, were among the many other occupants. The building was purchased by a Mrs. Churchill and descended to her daughter, Mrs. Horace Jewett, and was hence known as the Jewett building.
We have already noted the Cumming's house, Howards' stables and the little building opposite the present Courant office. This completes the list of business buildings on Church and School Streets until recent times.
Charles H. Chace, the son of Alanson,* was born Febru- ary 19, 1826, and has always lived in this community. He received his schooling in District No. 11. He married Car- oline M. Ball of Boylston, April 11, 1850. He followed his father in the family mansion on Prescott Street. He took contracts for making cellars in the early fifties. In 1858, he went into business with William H. Haskell in the store at the corner of High and Union Streets, which had been left vacant by Josiah Alexander, under the firm name of C. H. Chace & Co. They kept the usual variety found in a coun- try store, and also sold meat after the first year. He erected the store building on Mechanic Street in 1861. There was a small structure on this lot when he bought it. When Mr. Chace and Mr. Haskell separated at the end of three years, Mr. Chace took the groceries, and later, the dry goods also.
*Sec Chace family by aid of index.
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Mr. Chace continued business in his new building for many years. He has been a member of the Baptist Society. He has served the town as selectman for three years.
William H. Haskell was born in Rochester, Mass., Octo- ber 20, 1824. He was for a time a clerk in a country store in North Abington. He came to Clinton in 1850, to work for David Haskell, his brother, who was seven years older than he, and who already had a store on Mechanic Street on the lot afterwards occupied by the C. H. Chace building. He soon became his partner. September 5, 1854, David Haskell was the victim of a dreadful accident. He was returning some "patent oil" to a barrel when it took fire from a lantern. The barrel exploded, and the cellar was filled with flame. Mr. Haskell was so badly burned that he died the following day. The home of David Haskell was on Water Street at the brick house built by Asahel Harris. For some over three years, W. H. Haskell continued business alone, but in August, 1858, he advertised groceries and dry goods at the old stand in partnership with D. W. Kilburn. In the same year, C. H. Chace, his brother-in-law, became his partner, but in August, 1861, the partnership was dis- solved, and Mr. Chace kept on with the groceries and Mr. Haskell with the dry goods. Haskell finally sold out the whole business to Chace. He had a store for a little while in the rear of his residence on Chestnut Street. He was, during the closing years of the war, in the grocery business in the basement of Burdett and Fiske's Block on the corner of High and Union Streets. In 1868, he erected the block at the corner of Union and Walnut Streets. Here, he con- tinued business until his death, December 2, 1878. He was a leading member of the Congregational Society of the town.
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