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Mary Barrett, who was educated at Holyoke Seminary, was a teacher in Cleveland, Ohio; she married Benjamin Luden, M. D., and resided at Savannah, Ga.
The town has furnished the following lawyers: Henry T. Grout, LL. D. , who practised in Philadelphia, Pa., where he d. in 1886. He was the youngest son of Rev. Jonathan Grout. Finishing his education at Hamil- ton, N. Y., he at first engaged in mercantile business at Grafton, where he was Postmaster until he left. He later located in Philadelphia where he studied law in the office of Judge Kelly, and was in partnership with him for some years after being admitted to the bar. He was a staunch Democrat, and at one time when the city was largely Democratic he was urged to accept the nomination for Mayor of the city, but he declined, preferring to continue in the practice of his profession. For several years he was City Solicitor for the District of Pennsylvania.
Hezekiah Ryland Warriner, after teaching for a number of years, studied law with Mr. Grout and became a Philadelphia lawyer with fair promise of high standing in his profession. He died suddenly at a young age in 1873. He was honored with an A. M. degree by Amherst College.
Charles Dodge, a graduate of Williams College, became a leading lawyer in Toledo, Ohio, where he died in 1891. Samuel T. Field, a grad- uate of Williams College, studied law in Greenfield and settled in Shel- burne Falls. He was District Attorney for Hampshire and Franklin Cos. Wesson E. Mansfield was admitted to the bar and practised in Shelburne Falls.
Phineas L. Page studied law with Hon. Ensign H. Kellog in Pittsfield, where he was admitted to the bar in 1844. He spent most of his profes- sional life in Pittsfield. For about twelve years he was Judge of the Po- lice Court. In the latter part of his life he resided at Ann Arbor, Mich. His brother, Joel S. Page, graduated from Williams and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He was associated with his brother in Pittsfield un- til 1857, when he went to Chicago where he continued to practice law until his death in 1883. Another brother, I.B. Page, entered Williams in 1842, but died the following year.
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Lyman G. Hunt was a builder at Puebla, Col., and later at Leadville, Col. The following was taken from the "Leadville Chronicle" of his day: "There is no one today who commands a more enviable identity with the career of this young giant metropolis than Mr. L. G. Hunt, the pioneer scale man, whose handiwork is visible upon every thoroughfare in the city, and whose name embodies all the attributes that are noble. His business operations have always been stamped with honesty, and no transaction has gone without the broad seal of integrity. Coming here from the east in an early day ---- , Mr. Hunt engaged in the scale busi- ness, being the authorized representative of the Fairbanks Scales Co. of Chicago .... At his works may be seen every size and pattern of their in- vention of scales, and business men. ... will do well to visit Mr. Hunt be- fore supplying their houses with permanent fixtures."
Clark R. Griggs went to live with an uncle, Waldo Griggs, at Brim- field when eight yrs. of age. After receiving his education, he preached for a term of years at Westboro for the Adventists. He became a rail- road contractor in the West and built several railroads. He was ranked among the millionaires of his day, and had an office in N. Y. C. His res- idence was said to have cost $75, 000. During the Civil War he was "post sutler" at Memphis, Tenn., being appointed by the Governor.
Andrew J. Griggs learned the trade of making matches at the shop of H. E. Pierce in Charlemont, afterwards conducting the business at Wil- liamsburg and at Pittsburg, Pa. Later he was a real estate broker at Chicago, Ill.
Lyman F. Griggs graduated from Medical College in Philadelphia, located at Ware, d. soon after.
Charles R. Griggs became a shoe manufacturer at Westboro.
Newell Hunt, oldest son of Elisha and Louisa M. Hunt, went to Mem- phis, Tenn., in 1863 in the employ of his uncle, Clark R. Griggs, and remained with him until the close of the Civil War. Then with his brother, Lyman G. Hunt, he engaged in the manufacture of matches at Chicago, Ill., where he remained until the great fire of 1871, when their factory. was burned. Then he became a dairyman at Kenosha, Wis., later at Diamond Lake, Ill., "having the milk of 300 cows, or 10, 000 lbs. a day to make into butter and cheese."
Justin Bliss Warriner, oldest son of Hezekiah Warriner, married Laura Alfreda, dau. of Samuel T. Grout. He graduated from Penn. Med- ical College and commenced the practise of medicine at Burlington, N. J., in 1848. He died of Asiatic cholera on July 14th, 1849, after having had the remarkable success of not losing a patient from that disease, although he had treated an average of forty cases a day. People living in that part of Burlington called Beverly long remembered the panic caused by his death, as they had such confidence in his skill that even cholera had lost its terror. He died upon the very day of the birth of his son,
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Justin B., who died at the age of two years. The epitaph on the stone which marks the grave of the child in Doane Cem., reads: "Born at tne very hour the grave was closing over his father, he was a child on whom were centered many hope's and prayers. "
The following was taken from a newspaper clipping which was writ- ten after Dr. Warriner's death by one of his childhood friends, Rufus Taylor, also a native of Hawley, who became a Congregational minister in N. J. and Philadelphia, Pa. : "The writer has been to the grave of a Hawley boy and kept an eye to it for quite a number of years ... So early was his young and promising life cut short by death. We had been school- boys together in Hawley. But our paths had diverged and we had not met since our schooldays. ... Recently I met two men who remembered him. From one of them facts were gleaned: "This place, Beverly, N. J. was then in its infancy. There were hardly more than two hundred people here. Bliss, as we called him, seemed disposed to cast in his lot with the few who were here. The cholera was then in the country, but we know of no other who died of it here." My informer was then sick, and the young doctor was attending him. He called in the evening, said he was not well, but would be back in the morning. But in the morning he was dead. He had scarcely been there more than two months. "
Dr. Henry A. Warriner, youngest son of Hezekiah Warriner, gradu- ated from Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio, spent a year studying in Germany, and then returned to fill a professorship in Antioch College, Ohio. At the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted in the Union Army, with other teachers and many students, and was assigned the charge of the Western division of Sanitary stores. After the war he spent some years in literary work, mostly in Deerfield, and represented that district in the Legislature. He left Deerfield to teach in Plymouth, where he died suddenly in Nov., 1871.
Thomas Lawrence Longley, son of Thomas Longley, b. Feb. 15, 1821, went in 1843 to Dakota to assist his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Riggs, in establishing a new missionary station. Soon after reach- ing there he was drowned while bathing in the river. This sudden death was a great loss to the town. His parting injunction to a cousin to "do good and be good" had been his own motto.
Joseph G. Longley, youngest son of Thomas Longley, attenued Ober- lin College, Ohio, came home for a visit and remained on account of his father's poor health. After teaching some years, during which time he was a member of the School Committee in Hawley, he enlisted in the army, was a Ist Lieut. in the Ist Mass. colored regiment. His health failing, he was discharged. He was employed by the American Mission- ary Assoc. as Supt. of Schools among the Freedmen of North Carolina. He later graduated from the Theological Seminary at Auburn, N. Y .. He d. soon after, May 4,1871, at Greenville, Ill.
Mrs. Lucretia (Longley) Cooley d. at Marysville, Cal., in 1881, where
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she had resided with her sons seven years following the death of her hus- band in So. Deerfield.
Mary Ann Longley, dau. of Thomas Longley, m. Rev. Stephen R. Riggs in 1837, spent 32 years with her husband in the Dakotas working to civilize and Christianize the natives, and in caring for and educating her eight children. She d. Mar. 22,1869. Her husband wrote a book, "Mary & I', which told of their experiences. One of their sons visited the East in the autumn of 1886, lecturing in the interests of the cause in which his parents had been engaged. During his travels he visited Haw- ley.
Henrietta Arms Longley, youngest dau. of Thomas Longley, was ed- ucated at So. Hadley Seminary, taught at Mauch Chuck, Pa., d. in 1850 at the age of 24 yrs.
Jonas King, son of Jonas and Abigail (Leonard) King, was imbued with an unlimited ambition for an education. His parents being extremely re- ligious, they were able to give him a desire to live a good life, though they could not furnish him with the means to procure an education. He walked to Plainfield to attend the Hallock school, the nearest to his home, where Rev. Moses Hallock, Plainfield's first pastor, was the teacher. Rev. Hallock helped Mr. King prepare for Williams College. At the age of twenty-one, having taught in the local schools for some time, he walk- ed to Williamstown to enter his Freshman year. Being without funds to continue, he made application to two distinguished gentlemen to lend him $200. or $300. to help him along. He reported: "One of them gave me a dollar, with which I bought a hymn book by which to remember him, the other gave me afewkind words." The following spring he made one more effort to borrow money, but after a tiresome journey, having in his pos- session a letter of recommendation, he was "repulsed with rage". In some manner he managed his finances and received a B. A. degree in 1816. He graduated from Theological Seminary at Andover on July 6, 1819. Lack of funds made him go on a mission for six weeks to South Brim- field, where he became interested in becoming a missionary.
In 1819 kev. Mr. King was elected Professor in Amherst College and he went to Paris to study Arabic with the celebrated DeSacy. Soon after, the Rev. Levi Parsons, missionary to Palestine, died and Dr. King was asked to go in his place, with Pliny Fisk, to the missionary field in Pal- estine. Being troubled about the welfare of his parents, he asked the ad- vice of an American gentleman in Paris. This friend said, "Go and I will be a son to your aged parents." It was found that $1500. was needed for him to go. The American friend gave him $300., with the names of four friends in Europe to whom he could apply for the remaining $1200. The money was sent by return mail and Mr. King prepared to depart for Palestine.
The American friend wrote to Mr. and Mrs. King from time to time, enclosing some token of regard "from their affectionate son" The next
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year he returned to America and in the spring of 1824 he procured a team at Northampton, filled the wagon with groceries and drove the twenty- five miles to the King nome in Hawley. He appeared in disguise, obsten- sibly stopping to warm, recognizing in them the features of their son. Soon he directed his conversation in such a way as to let them know who he was. This interview was the only one ever held between them and to the aged parents it was like a visit from their son.
In 1828 Mr. King became a missionary to Greece and for several years he was the U. S. Consul there. In 1865 he made his last visit to America, at which time he preached once in his native town, and was the object of marked attention elsewhere in this country. He married a Greek girl and had six daus. and one son, all of whom spent their lives in Greece. He was received by the Royalty of Greece, and died there May 22, 1869, a wealthy man.
The spot where he is buried in Athens is in a retired corner, shaded by cypress and pepper trees, enclosed by an iron railing, supported at the corners by stone pillars. Over it is erected a white marble sarcoph- agus monument, said to be the gift of an affectionate daughter. on which is the following inscription:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JONAS KING, D. D.
"He was born at Hawley, Mass., U.S. A. July 29, 1792. He labored for four years as a missionary in Palestine, and for upwards of forty years as a missionary in Greece, and died in Athens, May 22, 1869 in the 77th year of his age.
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness."
2 Tim. 4:7, 8."
Wnen Mr. King was a student at Halifax, Vt., it was the custom for students to chop the good they used, but Jonas preferred studying to chopping. When necessity obliged him to perform the task, another stud- ent placed this satire upon his door:
"Mirabile dictu, marcy on us Lament. the fate of poor King Jonas; Who from his high exalted station Wields the axe for recreation. " *
Josiah H. Hunt attended Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H., and graduated from Amherst College. After teaching for twenty - one years in Clinton and Gloucester, he became a real estate broker at Topeka, Kan. He had a successful business, in the interests of which he made two trips East annually.
Dwight Smith was a bank employee at Pittsfield, Joseph Smith was a tradesman at Pittsfield.
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Nelson and Henry Joy formerly kept a boarding house in Washington, D. C. Among their patrons were Senator Wilson one year, Senator Dawes for six years, and several Congressmen. Their brother-in-law, Hiram King, was connected with them in the hotel business; he also owned a ho- tel at Saratoga, N. Y. Nelson Joy was a messenger at the U. S. Capitol for thirteen years and for eleven years Henry Joy was connected with the Gov. book-bindery. They later resided together at Shel. Falls.
Abner T. Longley was for twenty years one of the chief officers in the Agricultural Dept. at Washington, D. C. His wife, Abigail King, was also a native of Hawley.
Henry A. Longley left Hawley in 1836 and resided at Northampton. Some of his early life was spent in teaching, and for nearly thirty years he was Sheriff of Hampshire Co., the first term by appointment, the other terms by election, and was always a popular official.
Chalmers P. Longley was a musical composer in Boston.
Samuel Door Lascombe was a businessman at Milwaukee, Wis., lived in fine style on one of the main avenues of the city, was taxed for $100, 000.
Capt. Ebenezer Maynard was in the mercantile business at Shel. Falls.
George D. Crittenden resided at Shelburne Falls, a dealer in lumber, he made a specialty of white beech timber for planes. He served two terms as one of the Franklin Co. Commissioners. As a politician he was an ardent temperance worker, was a candidate for Representative on the Prohibition ticket. In Sh. Falls there is a school, also a street, named for him.
Pindar Field Cooley resided at Pittsfield, was a travelling salesman. He was possessed of a very clever business ability, a pleasing address, and his general "make up" was indicative of the live Yankee.
John H. Larrabee was a Hawley soldier, in the old 10th Mass. Reg. He later resided in the West.
Mrs. Olive (Crittenden) Robinson is a homemaker, an active citizen of her town, and a writer. An article, "Forgotten Clockmaker" was published in Antique Magazine, Aug., 1944. It refers to her ancestor, Simeon Crittenden, who was a clock maker. See "Biographical Sketches." She also wrote an article concerning an early silhouette artist and used silhouettes of Simeon Crittenden, David (his son) and Eunice Nash Crit- tenden, wife of David, as illustrations, published in Antique Magazine, Aug., 1942. Included in her writings, of interest to people of Hawley, are an article concerning charcoal burning, an early industry in Haw- ley with a picture of the cone-shaped stone kiln which was in the center of Hawley, and an article concerning an early stencil artist. She has in
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her possession a desk-secretary which was the property of Simeon Crit- tenden Jr. . formerly the property of Oliver Edgerton. of Hawley. At the time Simeon .Tr. bought the house of Oliver Edgerton in 1831 or 1832, there was a large cherry desk-secretary which Oliver left in the house. It be- came the property of Simeon, used by him for the rest of his life, later descending to his son, Charles, and then to his granddaughters, Olive Adella Cooley and Clara Cooley Thorington, daus. of Olive Crittenden Cooley. At their deaths it became the property of Mrs. Robinson and has been restored to its original condition. According to Wallace Nut- ting's 'Treasury of Furniture,' it dates to about 1760. It has nearly all original brasses intact. An article, with photographs, concerning this desk-secretary has been published by Mrs. Robinson. She says: "It is a very handsome piece but tall and heavy, so it is not hard to understand why Oliver Edgerton did not take it to Ohio with him. "
Arthur F. Eldridge is an architect with offices in North Adams. He resides in Shelburne Falls. He was appointed architect member of the School Building Commission by Gov. of Mass., Robert F. Bradford. This Commission was to administer the new act authorizing distribution of funds to encourage and assist in the construction of modern school buildings. Mr. Eldridge graduated from Syracuse School of Architecture in 1923, worked with a Syracuse architectural firm until opening his own office in North Adams in 1935.
Deane E. Eldridge, his brother, is Director of Industrial Arts in the public schools of Plymouth. He is a graduate of Fitchburg State Teachers College, holding a B.S. Degree in Ed. He has become especially inter - ested in the construction and restoration of antique furniture and has had several magazine articles published on the subject of "Period Furniture and Its Restoration. "
The following was written May 1, 1947 in Attleboro, Mass., telling of plans for a memorial to be built in memory of the late Dr. Joshua W. Clark, b. July 24, 1870 at Hawley:
"A volunteer group of men and women met at Mayor O'Neil's office yesterday to formally begin a project to provide a hospital memorial for the late Dr. Joshua W. Clarke. Following is a statement of its purpose:
"To give lasting recognition to the community's appreciation of the long and useful life of Dr. Clarke, whose death on Mar. 27,1947, in his 76th year, ended a professional career of 45 years, it is proposed to raise a memorial fund to be spent on the maternity ward of Sturdy Mem- orial Hospital, of which he was one of the incorporators in 1910. The plan is to raise a fund of $10, 059. 00, one dollar for each of the 10, 059 babies whom Dr. Clarke brought into the world during his long and brilliant professional career.
"Known by all and esteemed by all, as a doctor and as a citizen, a lasting memorial to him should be created in the hospital to which he gave so much and thus the example of his devoted life should be main-
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vained and revered through the years to come. .. "
Some of the Congregation clergymen from the town have been as fol- lows:
Rev. Urbane Hitchcock, graduating from Williams College in 1806, was ordamed to the ministry at Dover, Vt., in 1808. One of the early ministers at Hawley, he was dismissed Feb. 13,1813.
Rev. Pindar Field, b. May 1, 1794 in Sunderland, removed to Hawley in 1795, graduated from Amherst in 1822, licensed to preach in 1824. Served in New York State.
Rev. Isaac Oakes, graduated from Williams in 1820, ordained at Sal- em in 1823, served in New York State.
Rev. Thomas H. Wood, b. 1772 .at Bozrah, Ct., removed to Hawley 1775, graduated from Williams in 1799, licensed to preach in 1803. He d. at Halifax, Vt., in 1846, having been pastor there since 1805.
Rev. Marshall L. Farnsworth b. 1799 at Hawley, graduated from Un- ion in 1825, was a pastor at Elmira. N. Y. for 3 yrs. , d. at Danby, N. Y., in 1838.
Rev. Oliver A. Taylor, b. Aug. 18, 1801 at Yarmouth, removed to Haw- ley in 1803. At the age of twenty he started to walk five hundred miles to enter Alleghany College, Pa. , but graduated from Union in 1825, stud- ied at Andover, installed as pastor at Manchester in 1839. He ranked high as a scholar, esp. in Oriental literature and Bibical science. He acquired one of the largest and pest German libraries in this country, which after his death was donated to Amherst College by his brothers, His brother Timothy wrote a memoir of him. He d. Dec. 18, 1851 at Man- chester.
Rev. Timothy A. Taylor graduated from Amherst in 1835 and from Andover in 1838. He was installed at Slatersville, R. I., Jan. 23,1839. He was a writer for religious papers and had several volumes published. He d. Mar. 2,1858.
Rev. Rufus Taylor, D. D., graduated from Amherst in 1837 and from Princeton in 1840. He was ordained as pastor in Shrewsbury, N. J., Nov. 10, 1840, dismissed Mar. 31,1852. He was installed in Manchester as successor to his brother Oliver, May 6,1852. After remaining there several yrs., he held pastorates in Hightstown, Bordentown and So. Amboy, N. J., and for ten yrs. was Dist. Secretary of the Am. and Foreign Christian Union, whose office was in Phila. He received an A. M. from Princeton and D. D. from Lafayette. He wrote several publica- tions, among them a memoir to his mother, entitled "Cottage Piety Ex- emplified". He later resided at Beverly, N. J. See sketch under "Justin B. Warriner" in 'Natives Abroad'.
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Rev. Jermiah Taylor, D.D., graduated from Amherst in 1843, and from Princeton in 1847. He was installed in Wenham, Oct. 27,1847. He held patorates at Danielsonville and Middletown, Ct. , and Providence, R.I. He was Secretary of the R. I. Home Missionary Society for a no. of yrs, later was Dist. Sect. of the Am. Tract Society, whose office was at Boston. He resided at Brookline. These four Taylors were brothers.
Rev. Alvah C. Page graduated from Amherst in 1829, was ordained as an evangelist at Charlemont in 1831. He preached in Mass. , N. H., and N. Y.
Rev. Thomas A. Hall, b. Sept. 2,1813, graduated from Williams in 1838 and was ordained in Dalton, June 16, 1841.
Rev. Oramel W. Cooley graduated from Williams in 1841, was li- censed as a Congregational minister on Nov. 12, 1845, ordained as pas- tor at Dover, May 4,1848, where he remained for two yrs. He then re- movedto the West where the remainder of his life was spent in preach- ing and teaching in Wis. , Iowa and ill. With his wife he built schools after the model of Holyoke Seminary, of which she was an early graduate. He d. at Glenwood, Ill. , May 6, 1888.
Rev. Foster Lilley, b. June 6, 1812 at Hawley, graduated from Wil- liams in 1838, licensed in 1840, and settled in New York State.
Rev. Alfred Longley graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, was li- censedi. 1845, preached in northern Ohio, and d. Mar. 16, 1851 at Cha- tham Centre, Ohio.
Rev. Moses M. Longley, brother of Alfred, studied at Amherst, grad- uated from Oberlin in 1842, was ordained an evangelist May 29,1846, at Guilford, Ohio. He was a member of the Mass. Legislature for one yr. He settled at Bloomington, Ill.
Rev. Elijah Harmon graduated from Amherst in 1861, and trom Hart- ford Theological Seminary I 1867, was ordained at Winchester, N. H., Oct. 17, 1867. He was installed at Wilmington, Mass., Dec. 15,1885. He was a Civil War Veteran. He was a Congregational clergyman in Win- chester, N. H., Wilmington and Randolph, Vt.
As Methodist ministers, Hawley has furnished the following: Judah Crosby, Silas Leonard and Proctor Marsh. Three natives of the town have served as Advent ministers: Rufus Starks, b. Mar. 21, 1812, Clark R. Griggs and Dennis Sears. The last six were not graduates, but were licensed.
The following Hawley ladies married ministers or doctor's: Angeline, dau. of Otis Longley, n .. Dr. Ashley, a Michigan clergyman. Mary Bassett, an early graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, was a prominent teacher in Ohio for a no. of yrs. Sne m. Dr. Benjamin M. Ludden, M.D. .
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of East Lynn, Ill.
Three of the daus. of Theophilus Crosby m. clergymen, viz. : Saph- ronia m. Rev. James McKee and lived at Cairo, Ga. Sarah m. Rev. Mr. Hodge and lived in Oregon. Phebe m. Rev. Mr. Crawford and lived . at Solon. Ind.
Henry Martyn Seymour, son of Rev. Henry Seymour, was for yrs. connected with the Springfield Union. He d. suddenly in 1876 at Hadley, where he had gone with his bride of one month, for Thanksgiving. His age was 28.
Horace Dwight Seymour, son of Rev. Henry Seymour was assoc. with his brother in Brooklyn, N. Y. Died at Hadley, March 19, 1886, aged 24 yrs.
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