Rural retrospect: a parallel history of Worcester and its Rural Cemetery, Part 27

Author: Tymeson, Mildred McClary
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Worcester, Mass., Albert W. Rice
Number of Pages: 290


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Chandler, Dr. George, 13, 87, 130, 170


Chandler, Elizabeth, 2 Chandler, Family of, 4, 5, 7, 11, 41, 42, 94 Chapin, Henry, 52, 57


Chapin, Lewis, 11 Chase, Anthony B., 6, 7, 27, 43, 55, 79, 133, 135 Chase, Charles A., 133, 135 Chenery, Horace, 52 Churches


All Saints Episcopal, 55 Central Congregational Church, 18, 19, 20 Church of the Unity (Second Unitarian), 55 First Baptist Church, 20 First Unitarian Church, 14, 20, 38, 70 Methodist, 20, 55


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Old South Church, 18, 19 Union Congregational Church, 20, 43, 44 Citizens Bank, 12, 57, 81, 87 City Bank, 52, 54, 81, 87, 105, 111, 112, 113, 130 Civil War, 72-83, 84, 94, 96, 98, 125


Claflin, H. B., 17


Clarke, Dr. Henry, 78, 93 Clark, Jonas G., 96, 146


Clark, Joseph S., 109


Clark University, 96


Coes, Mary, 127


Common, 6, 8, 28, 43, 90, 110


Conant, Levi I., 83


Converse, Myron F., 131-132, 151, 155, 161, 169


Court Hill, 7, 20


Court House, 8, 19, 71, 137, 147


Crompton, George, 49, 80, 116, 154,


Crompton, George, 116, 123, 131, 154, 161, 169


Crompton Loom and Knowles Loom, 100, 120


Crompton, William, 49


Crystal Palace, 43, 44


Currier, Augustus, 105, 169


Curtis, Albert, 44, 52


Curtis and Marble Machine Co., 22


Curtis, Edwin P., 97


Curtis, Family of, 2


Curtis, Philip N., 131, 161, 169


D


Daily Transcript, 58, 105 Dale Hospital, 78-79, 97


Davis, Edward L., 80, 113, 115, 130, 131, 137-138, 146, 169, 170


Davis, Harry Phillips, 145


Davis, Isaac, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20, 26, 34, 51, 54, 58, 65, 67, 80, 90, 91, 97, 115, 137, 169 Davis, John, 5, 10, 11-12, 20, 26, 27, 50, 52, 54, 77, 88, 89, 111, 134 Davis, Mrs. John, 2, 79, 88


Davis, Harry R., 145-146, 170


Dean, Rebekah, 3 Denholm and Mckay Co., 96


Devens, Charles, 74, 75, 76, 87, 100, 113


Dewey, Francis Henshaw, 58, 85, 86, 113, 114-115, 123, 130, 162, 169, 170


Dewey, Francis Henshaw, Junior, 162, 163, 170 Dewey, George T., 115, 121, 130, 140, 161, 169, 170 De Witt, Alexander, 130


Dinsmore, Silas, 58, 105, 169


Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 13-14, 79 Dix, Elijah, 12-13, 14, 108 Dowley, Levi, 47


Draper, James, 132-133, 169 Dunn, Milton, 150


E


Earle, Alice Morse, 127


Earle, Edward, 105, 169


Earle, John Milton, 58


Eaton, Thomas B., 120, 131, 169, 170


Eaton, Thomas E., 83


Ellen Rogers Kennedy Memorial Chapel, 69, 148, 151-153, 159, 164


Elliott, Bamford, 152, 166


Elm Park, 61, 153


F


Fanning, David Hale, 98-100, 146


Farmer, Walter, 152


First National Bank, 81


Fiske, Oliver, 13, 130


Fitton, Rev. James, 15


Fitts, Benaiah, 100


Five Cents Savings Bank, 67, 105, 111, 131


Flagg, Benjamin, 3


Flagg, Elisha, 42


Flagg, Family of, 2, 70


Flagg, Samuel, 6


Forbes, Esther, 132


Forbes, Harriette Merrifield, 50, 132


Forbes, William Trowbridge, 121, 132, 140, 161, 169, 170


Foster, Alfred Dwight, 9, 16, 20


Foster, Calvin, 52, 113, 125


Foster, Dwight, 10, 16, 59


G


Gage, Dr. Homer, 93, 127, 146


Gage, Dr. Thomas Hovey, 78, 93, 146


Gage, Mabel C., 127


Gage, Thomas Hovey, 127, 146


Gale, Frederick W., 65, 85


Gaskill, Francis Almon, 93


Gates, Simon, 11 Ghirardi, Bancroft, 77


Goddard and Rice, 56, 80


Goddard, Benjamin, 23


Goddard, Isaac, 21


Goodnow, Edward A., 77, 81, 146 Gordon, Lyman F., 100


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Goulding, Family of, 2, 62 Granite Row, 17, 18 Graton and Knight, 115 Green, Andrew, 4 Green, Dr. John, 13, 42, 82, 83, 166 Green, Family of, 2, 3, 4, 13, 31, 39, 82, 166 Green Hill, 4 Green, William, 78 Grout, Jonathan, 77 Grout, Willie, 77, 80


H


Hale, Edward Everett, 55, 91 Hamilton, Charles A., 135


Hamilton, James P., 128, 135


Hansen, Elizabeth, 150-151


Hansen, Ernest, 140, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157-158, 159-160, 170 Harris, Clarendon, 16, 67, 86, 87, 105, 166, 169, 170


Harrower, Dr. David, 93 Hawes, Dr. Russell H., 56, 58, 73, 119, 120


Heald Machine Company, 121 Healy, Richard, 95


Heard, Nathan, 11 Henry Goulding and Co., 37 Herman Club, 92


Heywood, Daniel, 3 Heywood, Dr. Benjamin, 13, 52 Heywood, Family of, 2, 4, 41


Heywood, Samuel R., 97


Higgins, John Woodman, 121


Higgins, Katharine Chapin, 126


Higgins, Milton Prince, 83, 121, 126, 146 Higgins, Orlando, 83


Highland Military Academy, 80


Hill, Alonzo, 38 Hill, Benjamin Thomas, 132, 161, 169, 170


Hill, J. Henry, 64, 85, 86, 87, 90, 103, 113, 115, 132, 169, 170 Hoar, George Frisbie, 57, 76, 87, 100, 127, 136 Hoar, Rockwood, 127 Holden, Patrick, 69, 70


Home for the Aged, 73 Horse Railroad Company, 107, 108, 124


Howe and Goddard, 21, 56 Howe, Henry P., 21 Howland, Esther, 56-57


J


Jaques, George, 94, 95, 146 Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, 97, 99, 154, 166


Jennison, Family of, 2, 4, 41 Jennison, Samuel, 12, 34, 87, 88, 170 Jeppson, George, 124 Jillson, Clark, 93


K


Kelley, Frank H., 94 Kendall, Family of, 39


Kendall, Joseph G., 5, 11, 34, 65, 169


Kennedy, Ellen Rogers, 116, 148, 151-153, 154


Kennedy, Walter G. Scott, 153


Kinnicutt, Dr. Roger, 162, 163, 170


Kinnicutt, Family of, 39


Kinnicutt, Francis, 17


Kinnicutt, Lincoln, 130, 162, 169


Kinnicutt, Mrs. Thomas, 2, 40


Kinnicutt, Thomas, 2, 11, 12, 16, 22, 29, 32, 33, 40, 57, 63, 67, 130, 162, 169


Knapp, Dr. Shepherd, 152


Knowlton, John S. C., 54, 91


L


Lincoln, Abraham, 10


Lincoln, Daniel W., 162, 163, 170


Lincoln, Daniel Waldo, 60


Lincoln, Daniel Waldo, 60, 86, 88-89, 90, 91, 105, 114, 129, 169, 170


Lincoln, Edward Winslow, 61


Lincoln, Enoch, 60


Lincoln, Family of, 2, 39, 51, 70, 130, 163, 164-166


Lincoln, George, 60, 104 Lincoln's Grove, 8 Lincoln, John W., 11, 17, 20, 51, 54, 60, 61, 67, 169 Lincoln, Levi, Junior, 2, 4, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18, 33, 34, 38, 41, 42, 51, 52, 53, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 72, 73, 86, 88, 107, 129, 137, 162, 169, 170


Lincoln, Levi, Senior, 2, 8, 10, 11, 60


Lincoln, Levi III, 60


Lincoln, Lucy, 60


Lincoln, Martha Waldo, 2, 10, 60


Lincoln, Mrs. Levi, Junior, 3, 105


Lincoln's Pond, 8


Lincoln, Rebecca, 60


Lincoln Square, 4, 53, 141, 147


Lincoln, Waldo, 120, 129-130, 137, 151, 161, 169, 170


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Lincoln, William, 8, 11, 12, 14, 33, 34, 37, 60, 65-66, 169, 170


Lincoln, William Sever, 78


Logan, Swift, and Brigham Envelope Co., 120 Lovell, John Dana, 105, 133, 151, 169


Lyceum, 26-27, 28, 30


Lynde Brook Dam, 91-92 Lynde, Joseph, 13, 14


M


Maccarty, Rev. Thaddeus, 67


MacInnes, John C., 95


Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co., 114


Marble, Dr. John Oliver, 93, 158


Marsh, Henry A., 105, 169


Masonic Order, 93


Massachusetts Spy, 31, 39, 58, 76, 80, 85, 131, 158 Mechanics Hall, 55, 56, 79, 90, 111, 147, 98


Mechanics National Bank, 18, 55, 81


Meeting House, 5


Meeting House, Mr. Waldo's, 18, 19-20, 70


Memorial Day, 88, 152


Memorial Hospital, The, 73


Merrick, Mrs. Pliny, 2


Merrick, Nancy, 2 Merrick, Pliny, 2, 11, 57, 73, 89, 130


Merrifield, Alpheus, 49


Merrifield, Harriette, 50, 132


Merrifield, William T., 20, 47-50, 52


Messinger, David S., 18, 42, 51


Mill Brook, 8, 21, 23, 90, 95, 100


Miller, Henry W., 2, 4, 16, 17, 54, 67, 84, 86, 135-136, 169


Miller, Mrs. Henry, 2, 4


Moen, Eliza Washburn, 50, 51, 70


Moen, Philip L., 50, 51, 57, 70, 73, 74, 114, 120


Moen, Philip Washburn, 120


Moore, William, 150


Morgan, Charles H., 74


Morgan Construction Company, 121


Mount St. James Seminary, 15 Mutual Fire Society, 26


N


National Aegis, 8, 37, 52, 60, 61


Nelson, Thomas Leverett, 109 Newcomb, Henry K., 66-67, 73, 169, 170 Newton, Family of, 2 Newton, Rebecca Lincoln, 60


Newton, Rejoice, 11, 20, 32, 33, 39, 43, 44, 57, 60, 73


Nichols, Dr. Charles Lemuel, 93, 127 Nichols, Dr. Lemuel Bliss, 93 Nobility Hill, 5, 6, 7, 47, 90, 96, 135 Norcross Brothers, 118-119 Norton Emery Wheel Co., 100, 120-121, 146


O


Odd Fellows Lodge, 93 Old Compound, 5, 10-11 Oread Institute, 44-47, 48, 50, 153


P


Paine, Family of, 2, 39, 66, 70


Paine, Frederick W., 3, 8, 27, 34, 36-37, 66, 67-68, 86, 130, 133, 151, 162, 169


Paine, Mrs. Frederick W., 3, 66


Paine, Nathaniel, 5, 6, 7, 32, 105


Paine, Nathaniel, 105, 113, 115, 130, 137, 169, 170


Paine, Russell, 162, 163, 170


Paine, Timothy, 2, 31


Paine, William, 13


Parker, Dexter F., 78


Parker, Leonard, 60


Parker, Martha Lincoln, 60


Pease, Levi, 24


Perky, Henry D., 46


Perpetual Care, 71, 88, 89, 106, 107, 138, 150, 155-156


Pickett, Josiah, 75, 76, 111


Pine Meadow Cemetery, 28, 30, 110


Pinkerton, Alfred S., 93, 154


Potter, Burton W., 105, 115, 125, 169, 170


Pratt, Charles B., 124


Pratt, Elnathan, 138-139


Pratt, Harrison, 76


Pratt, Henry Salem, 95


Pratt, John, 138-139


Pratt, Sumner, 44, 52


Putnam, Otis E., 95


Q


Quinsigamond Bank, 12, 62, 81, 97 Quinsigamond Iron and Wire Works, 74


R


Railroads, 23-26, 43, 44, 53, 62, 109-110, 112 Railroad Stations, 23, 43, 44, 109-110, 136


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Rice, Albert W., ii, v, 162, 163, 170 Rice Barton Corporation, 21, 80, 83, 97, 163 Rice, Darius, 52 Rice, Family of, 2 Rice, George M., 56, 58, 83 Rice, George M., Junior, 77 Rice, George T., 2, 7, 17, 34, 39, 52, 54, 56, 58, 67, 73, 86, 169 Rice, William E., 74, 100, 105, 131, 162, 169 Rice, William W., 91, 136


Richardson, George W., 5, 11, 54, 85, 86, 87, 91, 111-114, 169 Richardson Manufacturing Co., 97, 131 Riley, R. Sanford, 121


Riley Stoker Corporation, 121


Ripley, John C., 87, 170 Robinson, Thomas B., 89 Rockwood, George I., 161, 170 Rogers, Thomas Moore, 153 Rural Cemetery


By-laws, 33, 34, 107, 139, 156


Charter, 33, 62, 64, 138


Corporation, 33, 36, 40, 64, 71, 106, 140 Crematory, 158-159, 160 Dedication, 37-39 Map of, 35, lining sheets Office, 108, 150, 153-154


S


Salisbury, Family of, 41, 50, 70, 126, 166 Salisbury, Mrs. Stephen, II, 3 Salisbury Pond, 23 Salisbury, Rebecca, 2 Salisbury, Stephen, I, 10


Salisbury, Stephen II, 2, 3, 4, 11, 23, 31, 34, 36, 50, 51, 54, 67, 81, 83, 86, 102-105, 169 Salisbury, Stephen, III, 4, 104-105, 127-128, 129, 146, 169 Sargent, Dr. Joseph, 54, 96, 113 Savage, Dr. Maxwell, 152 Sawyer, William H., 95


Scanlon, Arthur, 159-160 Sessions, George, 44, 162


Sessions, George, 162, 163, 170 Sever, Family of, 2 Shakespeare Club, 92 Sikes, Family of, 39 Sikes' Hotel, 23, 24-25 Sikes, Reuben, 24-25 Sinclair, John E., 83 Slater, Samuel, 118, 119


Smith, George E., 133, 170


Spanish-American War, 121-123, 163


Sprague, Augustus B. R., 75, 76, 125 Stage lines, 24-25, 37


State Lunatic Hospital, 12, 13, 14, 44, 87


State Mutual Life Assurance Co., 67, 114, 118, 130 Stevenson, John, 150


Stobbs, George R., 163, 164, 170 Stockwell, Cyrus, 25


Stockwell, John P., 88 Stoddard, Elijah, 131


Stowell, Family of, 2, 70


Sturgis, Anne Cushing, 3


Sumner, George, 95


Sweetser, Rev. Seth, 70


T


Taylor, Forrest W., 144-145, 151, 154, 161, 170 Taylor, Ransom C., 42-44, 47, 59, 144, 145, 154 Temperance, 10


Thayer, Benjamin D., 78


Thayer, Edward, 97


Thayer, Eli, 44-45, 96


Thayer, John Alden, 45


Thayer, John R., 127


Thomas, Benjamin Franklin, 11, 13, 34, 51-52, 59, 87, 132


Thomas Counting House, 69-70, 71, 88, 138 Thomas, Isaiah, 2, 10, 11, 26, 59, 70-71, 93, 110, 111, 132, 146


Thomas, Mary, 2 Thompson, Charles O., 83


T. K. Earle Manufacturing Co., 98


Tolman, Albert, 21 Tomlinson, Dr. Vincent, 152


Tower, H. N., 56


Trowbridge, Family of, 2, 49 Twichell, Ginery, 25


U


Union Water Meter Co., 100 United States Envelope Co., 119-120 Upham, Freeman, 52 Upham, Roger Freeman, 130-131, 169


V


Vaill, Edward W., 80-81, 105, 169 Verry, George F., 93


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W


Waldo, Betsey, 4, 19-20


Waldo, Daniel, Junior, 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39, 55, 56,


63, 64-65, 88, 135, 146, 150, 161, 166, 169, 170


Waldo, Daniel, Senior, 2, 10, 60


Waldo, Family of, 41, 60


Waldo, Rebecca, 4, 19-20


Waldo, Sally, 4, 19-20


Walker, Joseph H., 97-98


Ward, Artemas, 11, 77


Ward, George H., 75, 76, 77


Ware, A. P., 95


Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Co., 74, 97, 100, 109, 115, 120


Washburn, Elizabeth B. Cheever, 73, 79


Washburn, Charles, 23, 50, 70, 74, 100, 135, 161


Washburn, Charles Francis, 74, 127


Washburn, Charles Grenfill, 100, 119, 127, 135


Washburn, Emory, 5, 10, 16, 26, 57, 58


Washburn, Family of, 39


Washburn, Henry S., 77


Washburn, Ichabod, 5, 11, 20-21, 22-23, 50- 51, 55, 56, 57, 70, 73, 74, 76, 83, 100, 135, 146, 161


Washburn Iron Co., 80, 115


Washburn, Nathan, 80


Washburn, Robert Morris, 135, 170


Wellington, Timothy W., 86-87, 169


Wesby, Joseph S., 93


Wheeler, Charles, 73


Wheeler, Dr. Leonard, 93, 163


Wheeler, Family of, 39


Wheeler, Nathaniel, 163, 170


Wheeler, William A., 22, 51, 54


Wheelock, Jerome, 98


Worcester, Town of, 1, 3, 26, 41, 51


Whitcomb, David, 83


Worcester Wire Company, 100, 105


Whitcomb, George Henry, 146


Whiting, Charles B., 86, 87, 169


Whitney, George C., 57


Wire Goods Company, 100


Witter, Henry M., 112


Wood, Charles Watson, 78


Woodward, Dr. Rufus, 76, 78


Woodward, Dr. Samuel, 13, 22, 87


Worcester Academy, 45, 96-97


Worcester Aqueduct Company, 54


Worcester Art Museum, 127-128, 154


Worcester Association of Mutual Aid in De- tecting Thieves, 26


Worcester Bank and Trust Co., 119


Worcester Bank, The, 4, 12, 20, 62, 65, 67, 81, 87, 105, 119, 133


Worcester City Council, 51, 52


Worcester City Government, 51


Worcester City Hall, 118, 125


Worcester City Hospital, 94, 95, 163


Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co., 124


Worcester Corset Company, 98-100


Worcester County Agricultural Society, 8, 132


Worcester County Historical Society, 26


Worcester County Horticultural Society, 44, 52, 61, 94, 130, 132


Worcester County Institution for Savings, 12, 65, 133


Worcester County Mechanics Association, 55-56


Worcester County Musical Association, 92, 115


Worcester, Early Schools, 14-15, 52, 57


Worcester Fire Department, 26


Worcester Fire Society, 26


Worcester Gas Light Company, 54, 90


Worcester Historical Society, 92


Worcester Light Infantry, 76


Worcester Manual Labor High School, 15, 44, 45


Worcester Memorial Auditorium, 3, 154


Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 6, 26, 36, 67, 131, 135


Worcester Natural History Society, 92


Worcester, Park Commission, 115, 132


Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 50, 73, 83, 146


Worcester Post, Grand Army of the Republic, 77,100


Worcester Pressed Steel Co., 121


Worcester Public Library, 67, 83, 93


Worcester Safe Deposit Co., 83


Worcester Town Hall, 5, 7


Whipple, Robert L., 163, 170


Worcester Trust Company, 119, 130


Whitcomb Envelope Co., 120


Worcester Woman's Club, 92


Workman, Dr. William, 78, 93-94


Workman, Fannie Bullock, 94


World War I, 121-123, 127, 141, 163


World War II, 141-142, 145


Wyman, H. Winfield, 100


Y


Young Men's Rhetorical Society, 93 Y.M.C.A., 92 Y.W.C.A., 92


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The frontispiece of this book was reproduced from a photographic transparency taken by Mr. Ernest Hansen


The chapter heading illustrations, created by Mr. Davis Herron, parallel the history of Worcester and its Rural Cemetery with examples of its architectural development


Pictures of historical interest were made available through the courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society and its President and Director, Mr. Clarence S. Brigham. Photographs of the cemetery today were taken by Mr. Myrton S. Reed


Of this edition, one thousand copies have been designed and printed by Commonwealth Press, Worcester, Massachusetts


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