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Mining was a subject on which he spent much time and study, and in Pennsyl- vania, Maryland and Vermont mines and quarries of his opening are now in successful operation. The last few years of his life were spent in geological surveys for minerals in the Western States. He was early an anti-slavery man and an efficient worker in the temperance cause, of earnest and sincere pur- pose and upright life. He m. (1) Clara P. Adams, m. (2) Caroline M. Rogers, m. (3) Elizabeth Greenough of Boston, he d. 26 Feb., 1869, at Galesburg, Ill. . Children by first m. : HENRY M., b. 14 July, 1823, m. Ellen M. Thayer, d. 28 March, 1868, she resided at Boston, had ch., all d. young; ch. by second m. : ISAAC R., b. 30 Sept., 1829, m. (1) May, 1853, Selina M. Parkhurst of Worcester, where they settled and had Henry P., b. Nov., 1854, graduated at Amherst, lawyer in Boston; Frank W., b. 1858, residence, Boston; he m. (2) April, 1878, Mary C. Green of Boston, residence, South Boston, had ch .; CHARLES W., b. 1831, has been twice m., residence, Chicago, had ch .; CARO- LINE P .; b. 1833 or 1834, at Philadelphia, lived at Worcester, went in 1858 or 1859 to Constantinople as a teacher for A. B. C. F. M., m. Rev. W. Williams at Diarbekir, travelled 600 miles on mule back, the first Frank to make the journey, she d. 1862; ch. by third m .: ELIZABETH G., b. 27 July, 1839, at Ox., residence, New York; WILLIAM G., b. 4 Oct., 1841, at Ox., residence, New York city, where he was a merchant, and clerk and treasurer of the Bay State Granite Co. of Rockport, he m. in 1868, and d. 1 Jan., 1881, at New York; one son.
BARDWELL, ROBERT, b. in London 1647, came to Massachusetts in 1670, was in the Narragansett fight, Dec., 1675, and in that at Turner's Falls 1676, was sent in 1675 as bearer of despatches from Boston to the military, forces at Hadley, m. 29 Nov., 1676, Mary, dau. of William Gull, and settled at Hatfield, where he was a hatter, he d. 1726, they had 11 ch., the fifth being JOHN, b. 28 Aug., 1687, who was father of JOSEPH (b. 1713, d. 1791), with whom he removed about 1732 to Belchertown; JOSEPH had 6 chil., the third being ELIJAH, who removed about 1803 from Belchertown to Goshen, Mass., he had 10 ch., all b. at B., HORATIO, the sixth, was b. 3 Nov., 1788, m. 11 July, 1815, Rachel, dau. of Simeon Forbush of Andover, he d. 5 May, 1866, she d. 22 Dec., 1876, aged 90, both at Ox.
" HORATIO BARDWELL,"1 a name fraught with fragrant memories, repre- senting one honored, beloved and revered. With characteristic modesty he left no written memorial of himself, and of his life the only record is the works which follow. He was born in Belchertown, Nov. 3, 1788, the third son of Elijah and Sarah Bardwell, who were widely known as pious people. In 1803 the family removed to Goshen, a small town, offering small induce- ment to a farmer for gaining a livelihood. The reasons for the removal were later given by one of the daughters : "We came because there were here so many godly people and a good minister."
As a farmer's son Horatio was known as a kind, dutiful, virtuons youth, of winning manners, whom everybody loved. He was industrious and accustomed to hard labor on the farm, but this was no hindrance to the progress of the " kingdom within." The chief end of man was frequently the all-absorbing theme in the field and in the house, workingmen at their nooning would ex- haust the hour in religious conversation and prayer was always in season, and
1 This sketch, so far as it relates to Mr. Bard-
written by his niece, Mrs. Sophia D. Whaley. well's earlier years and missionary labor, was
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at times a power was felt which made the unseen the real. These early ex- periences he long years afterwards spoke of reverently.
In May, 1808, at the age of nineteen, he united with the church, and soon after began a course of study preparatory to the ministry. During the year previous his elder sister, Rhoda, was married to Rev. Wm. Fisher, who assumed the charge of fitting his new brother-in-law for the theological semi- nary. In 1811 young Bardwell went to Andover, and there he breathed an atmosphere perfumed with the same piety which had pervaded his hillside home. Adoniram Judson had graduated here the year before, leaving the impress of his spirit upon the seminary. Here was James Richards from Williams College, who for two years had labored there, promoting a spirit of missions among the students. Mills, Nott, Hall and other kindred spirits were also in the seminary, and with Newell had formed the resolution to spend their lives in Pagan lands if Providence should open the way. Mr. Bardwell soon became warmly interested and gave himself heartily to the movement. Before going to Andover his father had died, and the question arose "What would the mother say to his plans?" He expected her refusal. At his next visit home he cautiously unfolded the subject and asked her counsel; great was his surprise when she with uplifted hands said, " Horatio, that is what I have been praying for." He returned to his studies with no cloud of doubt. At the completion of his course he was licensed to preach by the Haverhill Association in 1814, and also received from Dartmouth College the degree of A.M.
A new consideration now presented itself, a helpmeet was needed. With other students he had held religious meetings in different parts of Andover, and in one of these neighborhoods had become acquainted with a young lady, an only child, who had but recently declined a proposal to accompany Mr. Newell as a missionary's wife. Being aware of this fact he had little courage to make advances. But those school-house meetings had won a place for him in the maiden's heart, and one day she surprised her mother by saying, " Mother, you was not willing I should go with Mr. Newell, but if that young Mr. Bardwell asks me you need not object, for I shall go."
On 21 June, 1815, Mr. Bardwell was ordained a missionary of the Ameri- can Board. On 11 July he was married to Miss Rachel Forbush, the young lady alluded to, and in October, following, sailed for Bombay in com- pany with Richards, his brother-in-law, Poor, Meigs and Warren. He was located at Bombay, where he labored until his health was so impaired that a council of physicians advised his removal from the climate as the only means of saving his life. He was carried on board ship in Jan., 1822, when very feeble, and the autumn following reached his native land, having been absent about six years. After a partial recovery, in 1823 he was installed pastor at Holden, as colleague with Rev. Mr. Avery, who died in less than a year. Here he labored successfully until 1832, when the Board again desired his services in Bombay, but a council of ministers decided that in view of his former experience such a measure was unadvisable. He, however, entered the service of the Board as agent for the New England States, which position he filled until 1836, when in March he received a call to Oxford, and was installed 8 June, 1836.
Dr. Sweetser in his obituary notice says : "His pastorate was eminently a successful one, marked by the numbers received into the church, as well as by the savor of a spiritual piety attending his preaching .. . . He left a pre-
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cious memory and his words and his example will long continue to animate and cheer those who enjoyed his friendship and his instructions. . .. The keynote of his entire life and character is found in his consecration to the work of missions. It was then an untried experiment, and demanded single- ness of purpose, firmness of faith and heroic self-denial. Honored and beloved as a missionary, he was not less honored and beloved as a pastor. He was regarded as a man singularly unselfish, free from all self-compla- cency, always ready to do, and always ready to yield; never shrinking from service and never obtruding himself, always courteous, affable and genial, always a man, a Christian always." In the pulpit he was easy and attrac- tive; earnest and often eloquent, his sermons being generally of the hor- tative rather than the philosophical type.
He was an intimate friend of Dr. John Nelson of Leicester, and in 1827, while at Holden, was chosen a trustee of Leicester Academy, in which institu- tion he took much interest, and for many years continued his connection therewith. In 1857 he received from Amherst College the honorary degree of D.D. He resigned his pastorate 20 July, 1862, but continued to preach as a supply for several months afterward.
Personally he was a little above the average size, of an erect and digni- fied bearing, with a pleasing and genial expression of countenance and a court- eous manner, rarely seen, which bespoke the refinement and sincerity of his character. An accomplished lady of Boston met him on a certain occasion, and being impressed by his suavity remarked to a friend that such a bearing would grace any court in Europe. He was esteemed by all classes of the community, and for many years was chairman of the School Committee and had almost the entire supervision of the schools of the town.
In 1837 he purchased of Capt. Stearns DeWitt 25 acres of land on the west side of the main street near the church, upon which the next year he erected a dwelling in which he spent his subsequent years. On the evening of Thursday, 3 May, 1866, fire was discovered in his barn, which was con- nected by other out-buildings with his house. Hoping to save his favorite horse he ventured through the flames to rescue him but failed in the attempt, and returned severely burned. These injuries, with the shock which his nervous system received, resulted in his death at the house of his son Edward W. on the Saturday following, 5 May, 1866, at the age of 78 years. At a meeting of citizens of Oxford in Sanford Hall on Saturday, May 5, 1866, it was " Resolved, that we bear our cheerful testimony to those exalted per- sonal qualities that have endeared the deceased to us all during a residence among us of over a quarter of a century ; to that gentleness of nature, and benevolence of heart which made him for so many years a welcome visitor at our firesides, a sympathising friend in our afflictions and everywhere the Christian gentleman and agreeable companion." His widow survived him more than ten years and died at the same place at 90 years of age.
Children : HORATIO F., b. 1816, d. 1817 ; LUCY R., b. 1817, d. 1819; HORATIO F., b. 14 April, 1819, at Bombay, graduated 1840 at Amherst College, studied and practiced law at York, Pa., and later was a civil engineer, and in the late war was in the Confederate service, residence, 1888, Burkeville, Va., he m. (1) 19 Aug., 1841, Jennette M. Rix of Royalton, Vt., she d. 30 May, 1844, m. (2) 5 May, 1846, Susan Durkee of York, Pa., m. (3) 29 May, 1859, Louisa Burke of Burkeville, Va., no ch. living; EDWARD W., b. and d. 1821; SIMEON F., b. 13 May, 1822, m. 16 March, 1843, Almira E. Plummer of Andover, where
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they settled; farmer and prominent citizen, representative and other higher town offices, he d. 8 July, 1881; ch. Francelia J., b. 2 Sept., 1845, d. 14 Aug., 1867; Elizabeth H., b. 2 Oct., 1849, m. 2 June, 1871, Sidney Hill of Stoneham ; Simeon F., b. 9 May, 1857; Annis C., b. 19 Nov., 1858; HENRY M., b. and d. 1824; JAMES R. and EDWARD W., b. 11 Sept., 1825, JAMES R., m. 23 June, 1850, E. T. Shower of Manchester, Md., studied and practiced medicine at Manchester, and was surgeon of a Md. Regt. in the late war, he d. 29 May, 1870, at Manchester; they had Charles S., b. and d. 1851; George S., b. 28 Aug., 1852, m. 3 Feb., 1870(?), Mary E. Lynch of Baltimore; Horatio J., b. 20 July, 1854, m. 6 April, 1877, Laura E. McFarland of Cincinnati, O .; EDWARD W., m. 12 Dec., 1848, Elizabeth C., dau. of Amos Thompson, town clerk, Justice of the Peace, chorister; had William E., b. 3 Sept., 1849, m. 14 Nov., 1871, Isabel H., dau. of Chas. A. Sigourney, and had Georgiana, b. 8 Aug., 1872; Louise C., b. 4 July, 1857, m. 24 June, 1879, George S., son of Nathaniel Eddy; ELIZABETH F., b. 4 Aug., 1827, m. 8 May, 1856, Rev. Henry Wickes, b. 11 Feb., 1821, at Jamaica, L. I., graduated at Marietta College 1848, studied at Yale Theological Seminary and at Andover, settled at Princeton, Mass., Guilford and Deep River, Conn., and at Brighton and Alden in western New York, residence, Rochester, N. Y .; they had Robert B., b. 3 Aug., 1857, at Guilford, graduated 1878 at the University at Rochester, studied law and is in practice at Rochester; Alice H., b. 1 Aug., 1859; Laura W., b. 28 Oct., 1861 ; Henry Van Wyck, b. 2 May, 1864, last three b. at Deep River; WILLIAM H., b. 5 Feb., 1830, at Holden, d. 8 Nov., 1848, at Lowell, of hydrophobia, in peculiarly painful circumstances, unm.
BARNARD, JOSHUA, son of Isaac of Sutton(?), b. 4 Dec., 1734, m. 5 Sept., 1754, Abigail Hazeltine, owned land in south part of town, H. 49, sold 1780, was constable 1783. . . . Children, b. at Sutton : LUCY, 1756; ABIGAIL, 1759; JOSHUA, 1761; ABIGAIL, 1763, m. 8 Sept., 1785, Daniel Kingsbury; SOLOMON, 1765; ELI, 1767; JOHN, 1770; SILAS, 1772; ALPHA, 1774; STEPHEN, b. 16 May, 1776, at Ox.
2. JOSHUA, son of Joshua (1), m. intentions 28 Oct., 1786, Sarah Green of Leicester, bought in 1785 the Hagburn estate, H. 205, in 1790 he was of Townshend, Vt. ; a Joshua Barnard resided at Leicester in 1798. . . . Child : ISAAC GREEN, b. 27 Sept., 1787, at Ox.
BARNES, JOHN, blacksmith, b. about 1737, at Boston, soldier in the French war from Ox.
REV. ALFRED, and Sarah Merrill of Nashville, N. H., m. intentions 26 Oct., 1844.
JOHN, aged 25, d. 21 Dec., 1851.
SAMUEL, aged 76, of Dudley, d. 30 March, 1861.
MELVINA, dau. of Franklin F., aged 33, d. 11 Feb., 1885.
WILLIAM G., son of William G., aged 82, d. 24 Sept., 1887.
BARRETT, THOMAS, Woodstock, and Elizabeth Smith of South Gore, m. 13 Feb., 1782.
CORLISS, and Esther Ide of South Gore, m. intentions 22 Nov., 1829.
Wife of Elder, aged 31, d. 5 Jan., 1831.
JOSEPH, and Ann D. Wicker, m. 30 Dec., 1833.
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BARROWS, WILLIAM, of Worcester, and Achsah P. Coit, m. 13 Oct., 1840; had JEMIMA, d. 19 Sept., 1843.
BARRY, GEORGE, and Jane Lafrenia, m. intentions 30 Nov., 1848.
BARSTOW (Sumner and family wrote Bastow), SUMNER, son of Job who was b. about 1755, and was 1776 of Upton, saddler, that year bought land in southeast part of Sutton, sold 1779 [resided then at Sutton] and removed to Uxbridge, he m. Silence, dau. of Daniel Sumner of Mendon, now Milford.1 From the inscription on the gravestone of Sumner Barstow and the fact of his father's residence in Sutton, as above given, it seems probable that Sutton was his birthplace. He spent his youth in Uxbridge, fitted for col- lege with Rev. John Crane of Northbridge, was graduated 1802 at Brown University and in 1804 was in trade at Sutton in partnership with Amasa Braman, and in 1806 with Braman and Daniel Hovey under the name Braman, Barstow & Hovey. He studied law with Estes Howe, Esq., of Sutton and was admitted to Worcester bar March, 1811. At about this time he m. Tamar, dau. of Elder Samuel Waters of Sutton, and there opened a law office, continu- ing until 1823, when he removed to Oxford to take the cashiership of the Bank. He continued for a year or more law business here in partnership with Ira Barton. About 1811 he received from Gen. Jonathan Davis the appointment of Brigade Inspector with the rank of Major, and was long known under this title. In 1824 he was a candidate for representative to Congress. In his profession he was successful; in 1817 built the commodious house at Sutton, recently owned by James Phelps; but the law was not to his taste, and often when opportunity for business presented, in disregard of his own interests, he advised his clients to compromise rather than to litigate. The routine of the cashiership suited him better, and with faithfulness and care he dis- charged its duties until his active life closed. He had superior natural abili- ties, was suave and modest in manner, a lover of literature, possessed a dis- position of extreme amiability, an unquestioned integrity, a sincere Christian faith and was a marked example of noble manhood. He d. 29 Dec., 1845, aged 68, she d. 22 March, 1871, aged 84, hoth at Ox. . . . Children : EMILY L., d. 5 Jan., 1830, aged 18; OSCAR F., b. and d. Jan., 1814; JULIUS S., was graduated 1835 at Amherst, entered Harvard Medical School 1836, M.D. 1838, Vermont Medical College, d. 24 Dec., 1839, aged 24, unm .; M. ELIZABETH, a person of superior talents and acquirements, many years a teacher of the higher branches in New England and the South, d. 2 Dec., 1866, aged 47; ADELA A., b. 1820, m. 19 July, 1843, Dexter, son of Smith Tafft of Charlton, b. 1814, residence, California, where he became wealthy, he d. 23 Sept., 1873, at San Francisco, she has resided many years in Europe, now in New York city ; they had Sumner B., d. young ; Loleta Frances, m. Jan., 1874, Joseph W. Coffin, settled at Providence, R. I., removed to New York, where they, 1890, reside; they had Loleta, Sarah, Joseph Wilber.
SAMUEL,2 b. 23 Sept., 1781, at Killingly, Conn., tanner, came to Ox. before Oct., 1806, in 1809 bought the tannery near the north common, resided here about 12 years, returned to Killingly, where he d. 14 June, 1825, he m. Senea
1 The will of Daniel Sumner mentions his dau. Silence Barstow. In 1784 Job and Silence Bar- stow of Uxbridge deeded to Darius Sumner land in Mendon, west of Charles River, bequeathed to
said Silence by her father.
2 The history of Hanover gives facts of this family. The original name was Burstow; emi- grated from Yorkshire, Eng.
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Leach. . .. Children : SUKEY, b. and d. 1805, at Killingly ; WILLIAM, b. 17 Oct., 1806, at Ox., d. 1829, at Killingly ; EBENEZER L., b. 6 May, 1808, at Ox., in 1887 resided at Chestnut Hill, Killingly, deacon, highly esteemed; LAURA, b. 7 Oct., 1820, at Killingly, where she d. 11 Sept., 1886.
BARTHOLOMEW, NELSON. Although but a few years a resident of the town is worthy to be named as among its most honored citizens. He was b. 29 Dec., 1835, at Hardwick, son of Adolphus, the son of Samuel, formerly of Woodstock, Conn., entered Yale College in July, 1852, without conditions, and was graduated in 1856 with honors, studied law one year with Hon. Charles Brimblecom at Barre, entered the Harvard Law School in Aug., 1857, continuing until Jan., 1858, when he was admitted to practice in all the courts of the Commonwealth. He opened an office in Oxford in the summer of 1858, keeping up his interest in and study of the classics as well as practice in com- position, in which he excelled. He was fond of society and was a most agree- able companion, fond of a joke, but always considerate of the feelings of others. In his profession he did not push for business, but carefully and wisely advised his clients and was contented to abide his day for professional distinction.
When the war broke out he was at once eager to go, and so informed his father, who, having a conviction that he would break down under the strain, tried, but in vain, to dissuade him. Having decided for himself he used his influence with others and did much to raise the Oxford company, and no doubt would have been elected its captain but that another older and familiar with the drill was available, whose election he urged and himself accepted the place of lieutenant. In the service he was faithful and efficient. Col. Devens had no officer in the whole line whom he loved and respected more. His regiment left camp at Worcester on 8 Aug., 1861, and about the 26th he was taken ill with malarial fever, on the march from Kalorama to Poolesville. His brother, Andrew J. Bartholomew, to whom we are indebted for the main facts of this sketch, writes : "Col. Devens sent me a dispatch requesting me to come on, I started at once, reached Washington Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning in company with Gen. Laruder and staff started for Pooles- ville. That afternoon as dusk came on, our party being in want of water, we called at a house a little retired from the highway where we were kindly received, and while we were refreshing ourselves heard the boys in camp break out with 'John Brown's body,' etc. I inquired, 'Is that from the camp?' 'Yes,' was the reply. I asked ' What regiment?' The answer came, ' The Fifteenth Massachusetts.' I said, 'That is the camp I am going to, I have a very sick brother I am going to see.' 'Who is he?' said the lady. I replied, 'Lieut. Bartholomew of Company E.' 'He is sick here in this house,' was the response. 'My husband, Doctor Bruce, has charge of his case, but you cannot see him to-night, he is too ill.' Well, I saw him in the morning, and a fearfully sick man he was. He recuperated a little but did not materially improve and to save his life it was decided he must be removed. Plans were made to leave the last of October, but the twenty-first of that month brought us the defeat of Ball's Bluff and the sad details of the fight brought him down with a relapse. He was as much mortified as if he had been there, and sank back into his bed, as we thought, to die, but the surgeons revived him so that about the first of November we started northward. We reached Washington the first day, where we stopped two days and then pro- ceeded to Philadelphia, where we stopped at the La Pierre House, one of the
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quietest in the city. I shall never forget the dignity and tenderness with which Col. Devens assumed the command of the little squad of physicians and attendants on board the train for my brother's care, or how his orders were obeyed when we stopped at the station, how gently he carried his head to the sick bed, and after summoning the best surgeon in Philadelphia stood anxiously over him till consciousness returned and he was able to speak again. Then with tearful eyes and a 'Good-bye my dear fellow,' he left for Massachusetts."
Medical skill and kind nursing did not avail. He continued to decline and on Thanksgiving Day, 21 Nov., 1861, he died, " and a pure and noble life, and one full of promise was closed."
The following appeared soon after his decease in a local newspaper :---
" The writer well remembers, in conversation soon after the capitulation of Sumter, how stern and decided was the language of the young lawyer in re- gard to that suicidal right-secession. We can all talk against treason, but my friend soon resolved to buckle on the armor of battle and fight it down. It is not my province to speak of his efforts in the organization of the Oxford company. I will say, however, that Lieut. Bartholomew was the life and soul of the company in its formation. The citizens of Oxford can bear em- phatic testimony to the zeal, devotion and labor of their fellow-townsman in rallying the men under the banner of Capt. Watson. He was a true type of the New England soldier."
BARTLETT, PHINEHAS T., b. 18 April, 1797, son of Artemas and Priscilla, and grandson of Isaac, all of Holden, m. 26 Oct., 1824, Louisa, dau. of Tilly Chaffin of H., clerk in the store of Col. Samuel Damon at H., bought 1832 with Col. Damon the Rockdale mill at North Ox., where he was agent until 1845, next was in business at optical instrument and spectacle making with Henry M. Paine at Texas Village, returned 1846 to Holden and soon removed to Springfield, where he managed bridge building for Stone & Harris, removed 1853 to Knoxville, Tenn., thence soon to Warren, O., where he was in clothing trade till 1861, returned to Springfield, engaged in roofing until 1868. After his w. d. he resided with his daughters at Shoreham, Vt., and Toledo, O., where he d. April, 1873, she d. Jan., 1868, at Springfield. He was much respected and was successful while in manufacturing at Ox. . . . Children, b. at Holden: MARY L., b. Nov., 1825, m. Archibald C., son of Rufus Harris; SARAH M., b. 1827, d. 1829; AUGUSTA M., b. 13 Jan., 1838, at Ox., m. 22 Aug., 1866, Adams U. Young, residence, Toledo, no ch .; JOHN P., b. 1840, d. 1845; EDWARD P., b. 1842, d. 1845; EMMA F., b. 20 Feb., 1844, m. 9 Sept., 1868, Burr Rigby, residence, Toledo; they had Frank B., 1871; Grace M., 1876; Howard M., 1878 : CAROLINE E., b. 2 Aug., 1846, m. 3 Nov., 1868, Joseph C. Kitching, residence, Toledo; they had Charles A., 1875; Caroline L., 1878; Frank A., 1882.
ZEPHANIAH, of Cumberland, R. I., removed about 1795 to Thompson, Conn .; ASA, his son, b. 9 Feb., 1810, entered Slater's Woolen Mill at 12 years of age, continuing until his decease 1885, m. Matilda, dau. of Samuel Kings- bury, and had Edwin, Amos, Harriet.
2. EDWIN, son of Asa, b. 25 Oct., 1833, at Webster, learned wool sorting, went at 21 into a wool store in Philadelphia, in 1856 began as bookkeeper at West Fitchburg, continuing until 1861, when he came to Ox. as accountant, after two years became superintendent for Chamberlin & Burrough, 1865 bought a half interest in the concern and with Burrough continued till 1870, when O. F. Chase became a partner. In 1874 the firm became Chase & Bart- lett, continuing until 1880, when they dissolved, and in the division of
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