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In 1920, the farm was sold to Everett E. Wheeler, who in 1936 sold to the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation. Mrs. Humes died in Sutton in 1934 in her ninety-fourth year.
The portion of the Central Turnpike which passed through the farm was dis- continued in 1877 and remained closed until 1927 when it was again made a public way.
For many years prior to about 1910 two giant elm trees adorned this place, one standing in front of the house, the other in front of the barn. The former was seven feet in diameter and for several years some of its huge branches were supported by large iron bolts.
The present owners are Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Holm, who live here with their children. Mr. Holm is a graduate of Massachusetts State College at Amherst and has developed a prosperous and growing poultry farm, adding to the build- ing yearly to accommodate the growing business. He serves on the Committee of the Farmers' Home Administration. Mrs. Holm (Ada Kemp), born in Hartford, Conn., is a graduate nurse, receiving her training at the Hartford Hospital. Their children are, Carl Daniel, born Jan. 11, 1939, Timothy C., born Nov. 28, 1942, Ada Emelia, born Apr. 20, 1945 and Mary Anne, born Nov. 3, 1946.
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The house across the street from the former Humes property, now owned by Carolyn Putnam Michelson, was the home of her parents, Ford L. and Mamie Keith Putnam. It had previously been owned by Newell Sherman, who lived here with his son Hiram.
In 1893, Charles Gleason resided here. His wife was Adaline Sherman, sister of Hiram. Mr. Gleason was a butcher. They had two children, Robert, who first married Annie Plympton, second Mamie Lilly, and Cassandra, who married Albert Adams.
When the son was married the house was made into two tenements. The son resided downstairs and Mr. and Mrs. S. Martin Shaw began housekeeping upstairs in 1895. Here their eldest son Ralph was born.
At this time Mr. Gleason was warden at the Town Farm, which position he held for some years. Mrs. Gleason died in 1918. Mr. Gleason lives now in Oakland, Calif. with his daughter Mrs. Adams.
Ford L. Putnam purchased the place from Mr. Gleason. The Putnams had four children: Leslie H. who died at birth; Carolyn (Michelson), born Sept. 4, 1915; Ford L. Jr., born March 4, 1920 and Ralph, born May 31, 1922. Mr. Putnam was a lumberman and away from home much of the time. Mrs. Putnam died in 1929.
After Carolyn's marriage to Elmer H. Michelson in 1935, they took over the property. Their two children are Peter E., born Sept. 17, 1940 and Michael R., born Dec. 4, 1944. Mr. Michelson is employed at the American Steel and Wire Co. in Worcester.
Returning to Putnam Hill Road, the house on the right, at the foot of Putnam Hill, was built by Nathaniel Sibley for Dennis Murphy about 1853. Mr. Murphy was a jeweler. In 1873 the place was sold by Murphy to Nathan Tucker, who, in turn, sold to George Bennett, who lived here with his sons, Nathan and John. Nathan was a shoemaker, working at home and carrying the finished shoes to the factory in Worcester. He was fond of John Barleycorn. One wintry night he imbibed too freely and fell asleep by the roadside. His feet were so badly frozen that amputation was neecssary. This operation was performed at his home by Drs. White and Holbrook of East Douglas.
In 1907 Mrs. Matilda Hayes was residing here. Two years later she exchanged this property for a cottage on Old Mill Road in West Sutton, now owned by Mr. Smith. The new owner became Burton W. Potter, a lawyer, of Rutland. In 1914, Silas LaRose's family moved here when the John Rich house, on the West Sutton road, was destroyed by fire. In 1918 the LaRose family moved away and the place was rented to Clarence Angel, who lived here for two years with his daughter Hazel.
Daniel Cressey and wife, Alice (Clark), purchased the place in 1920. They resided here two years. Mrs. Cressey taught at the Hathaway School until it was closed and then at the Putnam Hill School. Mr. Cressey worked on the State Road.
1922 found new owners living here, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Eames (Marguerite Barnes of West Sutton). They remained two years. When Mr. Eames took over the H. B. Bullard store in West Sutton, they moved into the Bullard tenement, and sold this place to Walter Acker.
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Mr. Acker lived alone. He made many improvements in the property. For a number of years he was watchman at the fire tower beyond the Oxford line. He died in 1939, leaving his estate to his wife, with whom he had not lived for a number of years. It was now occupied by Mrs. Acker's nephew, Charles Barr, his wife and child. Mr. Barr was employed at the mill in Uxbridge. Mrs. Acker sold to Philip Mosezynski, who died a few years later. His widow and two chil- dren, Philip, born Nov. 23, 1944, and Phyllis Anne, born May 1, 1943, still reside here.
In 1888, a little shop stood across the road from Mr. Acker's in the field now owned by the Donaldsons. The Bennetts used it as a cooper shop. It gradually fell to pieces and was removed by the Donaldsons.
The next property south on the hill, was the home of Philie Bennett, sister of Nathan and John. She worked in the B.B. and R. Knight mill in Manchaug and daily walked to her employment. In 1903 her nephew, Edwin Bennett, was living here. He had two daughters, Edwina, now Mrs. Chester Roaf of Manchaug, and Edith. The family later went to live with Mr. Bennett's father, so for a time the place was unoccupied. In 1910, it was sold to Samuel and Betsey Bailden, English people from Providence. Mr. Bailden died in 1917 and Mrs. Bailden in 1918, both victims of the influenza epidemic.
The property then came into the possession of Silas LaRose and his wife (Martha Young). Mr. and Mrs. LaRose had six children: Edith, born in 1907, was married in 1927 to Howard Wilcox of Webster and resides in Atlanta, Georgia; Elinor, born in 1909, was married in 1932 to Russell Brunen; she was graduated from Hahnemann Hospital and is a superintendent of nurses in Arkansas; Dorothy, born in 1911, married in 1937 to Francis Sanborn, resides in Worcester; Robert E., born in 1914, married Helena Levesque of Stafford Springs in 1938, and is now employed at Pratt and Whitney Airplane Factory in Hartford; Mildred, born in 1916, was married in 1936 to Francis Desso of Plattsburg, N. Y., where she resides; David, born in 1920, was married in 1941 to Ann Murano of Worcester.
Mr. LaRose made many improvements in the house. He worked at the Norton Co. for many years, and raised strawberries and raspberries on the home place. He was noted for his fine vegetable garden. The flower garden by the roadside was much admired. He died in 1940. David was employed at Norton's in Worcester. When he entered the Navy the place was rented to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carlson and later sold to Mr. and Mrs. William Levasseur, who still reside there. Mr. Levasseur is foreman at the granite quarry in Uxbridge.
The house, on the brow of the hill, now the home of the Donaldsons, was built in 1816 by Asa Putnam for his son Asa Jr. In 1876 it was owned by Parley Putnam, a descendent of Asa Jr. Parley Putnam's wife was a teacher, Julia Walker, of the family of Walkers, who founded the old Johnie Walker Whiskey Co .- the surviving member of which firm has recently died in Walkersville, Ontario.
Parley and Julia had one child Mary E. W., known as Libby, who married Lovell Putnam. They also brought up Marjory Coggshall, who married George Tyler. Mr. and Mrs. Lovell Putnam lived in Sutton; Mr. and Mrs. Tyler made their home in Worcester.
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In March 1887, William R. Donaldson sold his home, which he had occupied since 1861, to Mrs. Stoddard and purchased this farm of Mrs. Parley Putnam. He with his wife Ann (Rice) and youngest child Everett Wilson, who was born Feb. 23, 1868, moved to the new home.
The house at that time was a one and a half-story cottage with cherry, pear and apple trees in front. Across the road were two barns, one having been built recently by Parley Putnam. William Donaldson and his son operated the farm. Two retail routes were established in Webster and Whitinsville.
On Dec. 19, 1888, Everett Donaldson married Almeda M. Fuller of Torrey- ville. They made their home on the farm. In 1901 Everett Donaldson took over the farm management. The farm, always a good grass producer, enabled him to sell its fine hay to Josiah Lasell for his purebred race horses. In 1904 the house was remodeled and the ell built on.
Everett and Almeda (Fuller) Donaldson had five children: Arthur Walter, born Oct. 15, 1889, the present farm operator; Myrtle Almeda, born April 19, 1986, residing in Worcester where she holds a responsible position in the traffic division of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co .; Gladys Edith, born Jan. 14, 1901, wife of Paul E. Hunton, now of Grafton; Hazel Mae, born June 14, 1904, married to Alfred J. Sweet in 1948, living in Millbury and Ethel Elizabeth, born in March 1907, who lived but four months.
Arthur W. Donaldson married Celia Tilton, a teacher, daughter of Dr. Frank H. Tilton of Boston, July 5, 1911. The young people lived in Worcester where Arthur was employed by Wyman Gordon Co. Two years later, March 1913, they moved to the farm when Arthur entered business with his father. The roof of the cottage house was raised and a five-room apartment made. A dozen cows were kept, the dairy products taken to Whitinsville while Arthur raised vege- tables, wholesaling cauliflower, cabbage and sweet corn in Worcester. In Sept. 1915, William R. Donaldson died; his wife, Ann Rice in June 1919.
When the depression hit Whitinsville the retail route was given up and the milk wholesaled. In 1924 the New England Power Co. brought electricity over the hill, which gave the farmers an opportunity to have lights and running water in homes and barns-street lights were enjoyed for the first time.
In 1930 Arthur W. Donaldson took over the farm management which he continues to do. He greatly increased the herd-producing more milk. The hurri- cane of 1938 destroyed both barns, hen house, garage-all fruit trees and tools -and caused much destruction to the house. Willing hands aided in making for the cattle a temporary shelter, later to be the tool shed. Winter and frost were late, so Arthur dug out the foundation for a new barn, west of the house, which was to be thirty-six feet by seventy feet with cement foundation. He got out logs, had them sawed, planed and matched, then piled up to season for building. By June 1939, the upper part of the barn was ready to receive the hay; in the fall the cattle were housed in a new home with capacity for thirty-two head.
Everett Donaldson died very suddenly in Sept. 1947. Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson also brought up their granddaughter, Joan Morgan, daughter of Hazel. Joan is Mrs. Wayne T. Morgan of Arlington.
The farm is now run by Arthur Donaldson as a dairy farm, it being one of many such farms which still continues to be operated, as formerly, in the dairy
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business. Mr. Donaldson served the town as Auditor, eight years as Selectman and eleven years as Assessor, at present being the Chairman of the Board.
The house on the left side of the street, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Putnam, was erected about 1737, as Edward Putnam, who built it, came to Sutton that year and, according to the Sutton History Vol. I, all of his children except the eldest were born here. There is a tradition in the family that in the early years four brothers occupied the house, each family having one large room and one small room.
The house is very well built. In the upper floors, the sturdy rough-hewn tim- bers are open to view. The floors are made of wide boards; nine boards cover the floor of a room eighteen feet square. There are several workable fireplaces around a large central chimney.
In 1876 this was the home of Peter Holland Putnam and his wife Augusta. All of their children were born here and are mentioned in the first town history, except Hannah Harriet Putnam, born Sept. 26, 1880 and Ford Leslie Putnam, born June 28, 1883. Soon after the birth of this last child Mr. and Mrs. Putnam moved to Minnesota.
Oscar Putnam, Peter's eldest son, and wife Blanche (Putnam) and family moved here in 1885. They resided here seven years. During this time a son Oscar was born, living but a few days; David Nelson was born Oct. 1, 1892.
This same year the Peter Putnams returned from the west and remained on the farm until 1899 when their son Peter Orrin Putnam purchased it. Peter continued to live here until his death Jan. 27, 1903. His widow Augusta lived here for a time, but eventually made her home with her youngest daughter, H. Harriet Wallace, where she died in 1924.
In this home Orrin Putnam's two younger children were born; Lois Beth in 1900, now Mrs. Fred Gifford, and Ruth Wilson in 1902, now Mrs. Robert Hamilton of Worcester. Lizzie Hoyle Putnam, wife of Orrin, died soon after the birth of their youngest child. Mr. Putnam's youngest sister Harriet returned to keep house for her brother and care for the four motherless children.
In 1905 Ford Leslie Putnam married Mamie Keith, twin daughter of G. Andrew and Mary Keith, and went to West Sutton to live.
About 1894, Cora Putnam, Peter Holland Putnam's daughter, who had remained in the west, came east with her new husband William Dermott. Here in 1896 her oldest child Luella was born and a few years later Beulah. Soon after this the Dermott family moved to Virginia where the children still reside.
In 1907, H. Harriet Putnam was married to Clarence E. Wallace and went to the Wallace home in West Sutton to live. Then Phebe, the oldest of Orrin Putnam's children, left high school to keep house for her father. In 1915 she was married to Freeman Rosebrooks of Oxford and went to Rosebrook's farm to reside.
Orrin Earl Putnam, the only son, married Ethel Harvey of Cambridge, where they made their home. Earl died in 1928.
Peter Orrin Putnam married for his second wife in 1915 Julia Putnam Robbins of Sutton Centre. Mrs. Putnam remained on her farm and Orrin on his, where he died July 1, 1940. His oldest daughter Phebe returned to her childhood home to care for her father with unselfish devotion.
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HOME OF DONALD W. PUTNAM
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The Putnams desired to keep the old home in the family. It was first sold to Mr. and Mrs. James Baldwin (Beulah Dermott), and then to her brother William Dermott. For a time a sister of Orrin's, Cora (Dermott) Friend, lived there. In 1949 it was purchased by Donald Putnam, grandson of Peter Holland Putnam, son of Wallace Putnam, and nephew of Peter Orrin Putnam.
Donald Putnam is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Before serv- ing in World War II, he was a teacher in Worcester High Schools. Since living here he has opened a garage in Whitinsville, and is associated with the Stockwell's Dairy. He is on the Sutton Board of Selectmen. Mrs. Putnam was a teacher, a graduate of Framingham Teachers College. They have two daughters, Marcia and Gail. Mrs. Putnam is in charge of the cafeteria at the Sutton Memorial School.
Mr. Putnam has made a tenement upstairs in the house, which was occupied by Mr. Kenneth Stone and family. Mr. Stone was the manual training teacher in the Sutton High School.
Across the road from Donald Putnam's is the home of Mrs. William S. Keeler. This house was formerly owned by Joseph Hall Putnam. It was next owned by Frank Donaldson, who had seven children. It was then owned by Mrs. Clara Bennett Parshley, whose son Louis ran the farm. The land at that time was on both sides of the road with the barn on the east side. On Mrs. Parshley's death the farm was sold and had several different owners until it came into the hands of O. Earl Putnam, son of Peter Orrin Putnam. On Earl's death, his father purchased the place and rented it to different families. The hurricane of 1938 destroyed the barn. Orrin Putnam's heirs sold the house, shed and land on the west side of the road to Mr. and Mrs. William S. Keeler of Sutton Centre in 1943. Mr. Keeler remodeled the house and built a new barn. The Keelers had three children: June, now a graduate of Salter Secretarial School, Worcester; Elizabeth, a Senior at Sutton Memorial School and William S. Jr., a student at Worcester Academy. Mr. Keeler was Treasurer of the Morris Plan in Worcester. He died very suddenly in 1946. Mrs. Keeler was the former Theresa Frieswick of South Sutton. She at present is the Welfare Worker for the town.
Proceeding south and leaving the State Road, you enter Lackey Road. On the right was the farm of 90 acres, bought by Leonard Dodge in 1845 and on which he lived for 50 years. He made most of the ox yokes used in the vicinity. Nellie Dodge, a granddaughter, came into possession of the farm after his death in 1896. It was occupied for a short time by Arthur Davis and then purchased by Edwin A. Keigwin, a machinist, who conducted the farm from his home in Whitinsville where he and Mrs. Keigwin had a boarding house and received from the farm their milk, eggs and vegetables. Mrs. Keigwin was Luella Jones. She was an active member of the General Rufus Putnam Chapter, D.A.R. of Sutton. Mr. Keigwin died here in 1909 and Mrs. Keigwin in 1929.
Wendell P. Jones, a nephew, bought the farm at auction in 1930. He made many changes in the buildings. On August 4, 1936 the two barns burned after being struck by lightning. Mr. Jones rebuilt two modern barns. In 1945 he erected a new cottage near the street which he occupied till 1947 when he moved to Millbury. At one time he was a cattle breeder and acted as boss farmer for his aunt. He also was in the employ of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Millbury and Providence. He married Vina R. Trantor of Millbury. Their
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children were: Alice, wife of Eldridge Paine; Robert and Esther, deceased; Pearl, wife of William White; Putnam, who married Norma Leno; Evelyn, wife of William LaSeau and Nancy Ann.
Mr. Jones sold the cottage house to Mr. Bishop, and he to the present owner, J. H. Ernest Houle, who is connected with the Westinghouse Electric Company.
The farm was sold in 1947 to George Crosier of East Douglas. Mr. Crosier continued to operate it as the Airport Dairy. (At one time a group of citizens had contemplated buying this property and turning it into an airport.) Mr. Crosier is manager of the Putnam, Conn. Woolen Co. In 1949 he sold his stock and milk route and in 1951 the land and barns to Harold and Robert Whittier of West Sutton. Mr. and Mrs. Crosier have remodeled the farm house, making it a very attractive dwelling. They live here with their children, Constance, a high school senior, and Robert in grammar school.
The house on the south side of Lackey Road, now occupied by Edgar Darling Leonard, was built in 1850 by John Peter Stockwell. It was sold in 1862 to Newell Lackey. The original farm had only 72 acres, but Mr. Lackey added several parcels of land, until at one time it contained more than 175 acres. In 1865 he bought 87 acres 84 rods from Sarepta Tourtelot, on the opposite side of the road, and in 1869 he bought from Henry Struthers 141/2 acres of land with the buildings thereon, which adjoined the Tourtelot land.
Mr. Lackey lived in the Struther's house several years. His oldest daughter Susan died there, and his youngest son Ephraim was born and died there also.
During the fall of 1869, with the help of Darius Leonard, Elder Fuller, Leander Putnam and Calvin Eager, Mr. Lackey tore down a small tool shop and erected a large new building, which for many years served as a tool shop and cider mill. The broad flat stones used for the door steps were drawn Nov. 19, 1869 and were very much prized by Mr. Lackey. He made notations about the laying of these steps in a diary which is now in the possession of his grand- daughter, Flora Leonard Chase. The apples at this mill were ground by horse power from the cellar below, where the horse traveled round and round in a circle, winding the old spiral beam which ground the pulp. This building col- lapsed and was torn down in 1922. An old barn belonging to this property was razed about this same time. The Struthers house was burned in 1903.
Asa P. Dodge lived a short time at the Stockwell house, but was not the owner, as stated in the old Town History. When Mr. Dodge bought the place now occupied by the George Crosiers, Mr. Lackey returned to the Stockwell house and remained there until 1888. Due to advancing years and ill health, he urged his only daughter Charlotte E. and her husband Edward D. Leonard to return from Gardner, Mass., and to take over the farm. Mr. Leonard, at that time, was a reed worker in the Heywood and Wakefield Chair Shop of Gardner. Mr. Lackey then returned to the Struthers house and remained there until his death in 1895.
The Stockwell house originally had six small rooms but Mr. Leonard, with the help of his father Darius Leonard, removed some partitions and added about 15 feet to the old ell and made six very comfortable rooms.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard had two daughters, Flora Belle, born in Gardner, Mass., and Edna Marion, born at the Stockwell house. Mrs. Leonard died here in 1906.
Mr. Leonard operated the Lackey farm several years and conducted a small dairy. He was a town assessor and a constable for several years. He and his wife
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were members of the First Baptist Church at West Sutton, and were both ardent workers; he was superintendent of the Sunday School, and later became a deacon. Mrs. Leonard had a large class of boys until failing health compelled her to give it up.
Flora Leonard was married at this house in 1908 to Horatio Chase of Vermont, and two of her children were born here while she and her family occupied the old homestead from 1917 to 1919. There were seven children: Philip, now in Michigan; Harriet; Ralph in the U. S. Army; Roger; Horatio, Jr., Barbara, married in California and Vivian. A former teacher said they were unusual chil- dren, assuming responsibilities in the home at an early age. Mr. Chase is deceased. Mrs. Chase resides in Providence, R. I.
Attorney J. Fred Humes and family occupied the farm for several years and later H. Clifton Batcheller and his son Horace lived here.
In 1936 Edgar D. Leonard, son of Edward D. Leonard and his second wife Arvilla Batchelor, married Annie Katherine Clark, great granddaughter of Peter Holland Putnam, and came here to live. They have one daughter Marjorie Ann, born Jan. 9, 1941 and two sons, Edward Darling, born May 12, 1942, and George Edgar, born Nov. 3, 1943.
(Written by Edna Leonard Ritchie)
Mr. and Mrs. Anson F. Davis lived on the Old Boulster Road, becoming owners of the property in 1934. Their children were Anson I., Gilbert, Lester, Minnie, now Mrs. Claude Willis, and Violet, who married Lyman Rosebrooks.
Mr. Davis has died and his wife, Mrs. Etta Davis, sold the property in 1951. Halfway down the hill, on the right side of the road, from the Leonard place to Sandy Beach, Manchaug, is the gateway and drive leading to the home of Julius Helgesen. Mr. Helgesen bought this land from Edward D. Leonard in 1934, it being a portion of the Sarepta Tourtelot property. One summer the family camped here. The next season a wooden camp was built and now there is an attractive year-round house, surrounded by magnificent trees, with a beauti- ful view of Manchaug pond. The stones for the cellar walls and the front steps were split from the ledges on the lot.
Mr. and Mrs. Helgesen are natives of Norway. Both have been active Salvation Army officers. Mr. Helgesen is now retired. They came to Sutton from Hartford, Conn. They have two children, Bergliot, at home and Birger, who married Louise Leonard.
The frame house on the curve in the Putnam Hill Road, as one descends the hill to Manchaug, was built by Daniel Cressey in 1927. Mr. Cressey was em- ployed on the State Road. He lived here with a housekeeper, a Mrs. Roberts, for about two years. When he was transferred to the northern part of the State, the house was unoccupied for a short time. It was purchased from the bank by Arthur W. Lindberg of Worcester in 1929. The site of this building was origi- nally a part of the Charles Bennett land. Mr. Bennett sold to William Bolster, who, in turn, sold to Cressey.
Mr. Lindberg was employed at the South Works of the American Steel and Wire Co. He had worked there from the age of sixteen, and by faithful, efficient industry he had risen to a position of trust and responsibility as head of the billing department. Mr. and Mrs. Lindberg had three children: a daughter, Mrs.
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Evelyn Rice, living in Worcester; Edward, also employed at the Wire Works in the office division, and Charles. Mrs. Lindberg, a sister of Mrs. Philip Moo of Sutton, passed away in 1937. Edward married Evelyn Anderson of Worcester, Feb. 22, 1940. Mrs. Lindberg's sister Agnes kept house for the family. Mr. Lindberg died in 1941. Charles went to live with his sister in Millbury. The place was then sold to Mrs. George Lavallee and in 1950 to John Barritt of Whitinsville. He resides here with his wife and daughter. Mr. Barritt is employed at the Whitin Machine Shop.
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