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After returning home, he taught in Oakham during the fall and winter, finished his preparation for college under Rev. F. N. Peloubet (then settled over the Congregational Church in Oakham), entered Yale College in September, 1864, and was graduated as Bachelor of Arts in the Class of 1868. After teaching one year in the Chickering Institute in Cincinnati, he was appointed Tutor in Yale College and continued a member of the Yale Faculty for forty years. He was made Assistant Pro- fessor of Latin, in 1871, and Professor, in 1876. In 1884 he was appointed Dean of Yale College by President Porter, and served in that capacity for twenty-five years. He received the degree of Ph.D. at Yale in 1876, and the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union in 1895.
Mr. Wright is a Trustee of the Connecticut College for Women at New London, and of the Hopkins Grammar School at New Haven, and is a member of the Committee on the Civil War Memorial to be erected at Yale.
He was married, July 7, 1874, to Martha Elizabeth Burt, daughter of Alfred E. Burt of Oakham, and has had four chil- dren: Alice Lincoln, born July 13, 1875, in Oakham; Henry Burt, born January 29, 1877, in New Haven; Alfred Parks, born January 5, 1880, in New Haven; Ellsworth, born August 22, 1884, in Oakham.
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Alice received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in 1897, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale in 1901. She is a teacher of English in the State Normal School in New Haven.
Henry was graduated as Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1898, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1903, and is now Assistant Professor of History in Yale College. July 24, 1907, he was married to Josephine Lemira Hayward, daughter of Dr. Joseph Warren Hayward of Taunton, Mass.
Alfred received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1901. He died in New Haven May 20, 1901.
Sabin Aldis Morse.
Mustered in, October 14, 1862. Mustered out, July 27, 1863.
Born in Oakham, August 18, 1827, son of Eliakim and Lucinda (Pond) Morse, and a descendant in the seventh generation from Samuel Morse, who came to New England in 1635, and settled in Dedham in 1637. Eliakim Morse, who was born in Franklin, October 8, 1780, and died in Oakham, March 28, 1872, was son of Moses Morse, who was born June 17, 1739, in Walpole and died April 3, 1790, in Franklin. Lucinda Pond, born July 5, 1787, was daughter of Eli Pond of Franklin, who was born February 19, 1742, married Huldah Hill of Medway, and died May 20, 1802. Eliakim Morse removed from Franklin to West Springfield about 1810 and came to Oakham in 1816. He was a manufacturer of household furniture, and owned a small farm about three-quarters of a mile south of the center village. For several years he used as a fur- niture shop and store a part of the house now owned by Frank S. Conant.
Sabin A. Morse went to Worcester soon after he was twenty- one, and became a salesman in the house of John D. Chollar. In September, 1862, he enlisted, from the city of Worcester, with the Oakham men in Co. F, 51st Mass., and was with the regiment till it was mustered out.
After the war he continued in business in Worcester. He was married April 8, 1851, to Orra W. Edison of Bridgewater, Mass., and had one son, Herbert S. Morse.
Sabin A. Morse died in Worcester, October 15, 1887.
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52d Mass. Infantry.
Wilder Fairbank Haskell.
Mustered in, October II, 1862. Mustered out, August 14, 1863.
Born in Oakham, August 18, 1828. His father, Thomas Haskell, born February 2, 1796, in North Brookfield, was brother of Nelson Haskell, and son of Simeon. Thomas married, April 2, 1821, Maria Pepper, sister of Mrs. Nelson Haskell, and daughter of John Pepper of Ware.
Wilder F. Haskell went in 1842 from Oakham to South Had- ley, where he was living on a farm when the war broke out. He enlisted August 14, 1862, in Co. H, 52d Mass., and was appointed Sergeant. After the war he resided in South Hadley and was a millwright.
July 13, 1856, he was married to Elizabeth A. Crowell, at Barnard, Vt., and had three children: Clarence Crowell, born July 26, 1858; Edith Lucy, born July 1, 1860; Harry Wilder, born July 14, 1867.
Wilder F. Haskell died at South Hadley, December 24, 1894.
Edwin Newton Hunt. Mustered in, October II, 1862. Mustered out, August 14, 1863.
Born in Lee, Mass., December 14, 1835, son of Orsamus and Laura Hunt.
He enlisted in the summer of 1862 from Granby, Mass., in Co. H, 52d Mass. The regiment reached Baton Rouge, Decem- ber 17, where it was encamped till March, took part in the move- ment to Port Hudson, was active in the assault on Port Hudson June 14, and occupied an advanced position in the trenches till the surrender.
After the war Mr. Hunt made his home in Granby till 1873. He then lived two years in Barre, and came to Oakham in 1875, where he lived till his death. He was for several years one of the Assessors of Oakham.
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He was married to Clarinda Crawford, daughter of Samuel and Laurinda (Wilson) Crawford of Oakham and granddaughter of Samuel and Huldah (Berden) Crawford. 'Children :
Edwin Crawford, born December 1, 1879, graduated from Barre High School in 1898, and studied for two years at the Uni- versity of Vermont. August 6, 1913, he was married, in Barre, to Blanche Eugenia Packard, daughter of N. W. Packard of Westboro.
Bessie Newton, born January 6, 1881, graduated from Barre High School in 1898, received the degree of B.A. from Welles- ley College in 1902 and the degree of M.A. from Radcliffe College in 1911; by profession a teacher.
Mr. Hunt died in Oakham, May 31, 1895.
Mrs. Clarinda C. Hunt resides with her daughter at 8 Pine St., Hyde Park, Mass.
4th Mass. Cavalry.
Stephen A. Boyden.
Mustered in, January 6, 1864. Mustered out, November 15, 1865. Address, 235 Pleasant St., Providence, R. I.
Born in what is now the town of Lincoln, R. I., October 13, 1844. His father, Samuel Boyden, was son of Stephen Bullen of Charlton, Mass. Six or seven generations of Bullens are buried in Charlton. Family records run back to King Henry VIII, when one of the line, Anne, became quite famous as the second wife of Henry VIII (Anne Boleyn). Samuel and his brother Adams, for local reasons, took the name of Boyden by act of the Massachusetts Legislature. Stephen Boyden's mother was Caroline Matilda Earle, daughter of Antipas Earle of Leicester. Antipas Earle married Amy A. Chase of Worcester in 1808 and had seven or eight children. After Mr. Earle's death, April 30, 1828, his widow mar- ried N. D. Bond of Oakham, on November 8, 1829. The Boyden children came in 1862 with their father and mother to Oakham. One of the daughters, Ione, became the wife of Mr. A. J. Holden, inventor of the Holden Wood Furnace and founder and first president of the Oakham Village Improvement Society.
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SETII DEAN 36th Mass. Infantry
DANIEL W. DEN 36th Mass. Infantry
CHARLES SUMNER CRAWFORD 4th Mass. Cavalry
GEORGE W. HASKELL Ist Vermont Cavalry
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At a meeting in the old town hall, Stephen A. Boyden enlisted in Co. C, 4th Mass. Cav. The second battalion of this regiment, Companies A, B, C and D, saw active service in South Carolina and Florida, and the first battalion in Virginia. Company E was the first United States company to enter Richmond on the morning of the evacuation by the Confederates. The regiment was united and recruited to its full strength and had its camp in the outskirts of Richmond, the streets of which it patrolled day and night till the regiment was mustered out in November, I865.
After leaving the army, Mr. Boyden lived at the home place in Oakham till August, 1885, when he removed to Providence, R. I., and established a grocery and market.
He was married April 18, 1888, to Harriet A. Buffum, and resides in Providence.
Charles Sumner Crawford.
Mustered in, January 6, 1864. Died in the service.
Born April 10, 1846, in Oakham, son of Capt. Hosea Willis and Caro- line (Gault) Crawford, and brother of Henry Willis Crawford of the 25th Mass., and of John Gault Crawford of the 2d Mich. Cav.
Charles S. Crawford enlisted December 9, 1863, with Stephen Boyden, John Albert Walker, and George E. Reed, at a war meeting held in the old town hall, when his brother, Captain John G. Crawford, and other returned soldiers spoke. He was working in the Lovell shop at the time of his enlistment.
He died at Hilton Head, S. C., August 24, 1864. His diary, continued up to within a few days of his death, is in possession of his brother, O. E. Crawford of Springfield, Mass. Stephen Boyden writes :
"He was a lively and pleasing companion and easily gained the good- will of the commanding officer, Capt. E. B. Staples, and was almost constantly detailed to headquarters as Captain's Aide."
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George Edmund Reed. Mustered in, January 6, 1864. Mustered out, May 12, 1865.
Born in Worcester, September 19, 1834, son of Edmund and Abigail (Stone) Reed. His father was son of Silas and Eleanor Reed, and brother of Rev. Andrew H. Reed who was graduated from Amherst College in 1826. Edmund Reed died October 24, 1835, and his widow, Abigail Reed, married, July 12, 1838, Denny S. Noyes.
In his boyhood, George E. Reed became a sailor. He made voyages in merchant ships to England, France, China, South American countries, and the Sandwich Islands, rounding Cape Horn, and in whaling ships to the Arctic Seas. After fol- lowing the sea for several years he came to his father's native town, where he lived for the remainder of his life, except when he was in the service of the United States in the Civil War. He purchased the place which is still the home of the family, situated at the corner named from him "Reed Corner."
He enlisted December 9, 1863, in Co. C, 4th Mass. Cav., by occupation a shoemaker, age 31, height 5 feet 7, eyes dark, hair brown. At Hilton Head, January 12, 1864, he was trans- ferred to the Navy as an ordinary seaman, and served on the Paul Jones, the John Adams, and the Princeton till the close of the war. After his discharge, he returned to his home in Oakham.
September 9, 1855, he was married to Sara Amanda Williams, daughter of Jerry Holden and Louisa (Tower) Williams. Children, all but one born in Oakham:
George Walter Reed, February 21, 1857, married Alice Louise Singer, December 7, 1881. Children : Alice Louise, born May 31, 1883; Grace May, born June 23, 1885, died August 23, 1888; Ernest George, born February 21, 1888.
Herbert Bent Reed, February 26, 1858, died April 27, 1885.
Fred Edumund Reed, December 22, 1859, married Sara Jewett Parker, March 2, 1883.
Frank Ellsworth Reed, February 21, 1863, married Bertha Florence Amsden, November 28, 1888.
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Eugene Williams Reed, December 14, 1867, married Georgia Lavinia Kent, February 28, 1894.
Arthur Knowlton Reed, August 2, 1873.
Charlie Macullar Reed, February 19, 1876, in Spencer, Mass.
Ben Brigham Reed, June 20, 1877, married Anna Bell Ham, May 20, 1903. Children: Hazel Eleanor, born May 23, 1904; Herbert Merritt, born February 2, 1906.
Bert Shannon Reed, June 20, 1877, married Alice M. Bullard, October 2, 1910. Daughter: Dorothy Arline, born January 3, 1912.
George Edmund Reed died in Oakham, May 14, 1895.
John Albert Walker.
Mustered in, January 6, 1864. Mustered out, November 14, 1865. Address, West Acton, Mass.
Born in Barre, Mass., October 31, 1842, son of John Walker, Jr., and Harriet Ann (Parker) Walker. His father was son of Rev. John Walker, a Baptist minister, who came to Oakham from Barre in 1835 and lived on a farm near Coldbrook, on the old road to Rutland. Rev. John Walker was pastor of the church at Coldbrook for several years, and continued after that to preach in various churches till his death in 1866. Harriet Ann Parker was daughter of David Parker of Barre.
John A. Walker enlisted in December, 1863, in Co. C, 4th Mass. Cav., and served till the close of the war. He has resided since the war in Ayer, Acton, Barre, and Boxboro, Mass. For some years he was a miller, but has lately given his attention wholly to his farm.
He was married, January 27, 1867, to Betsy M. Whitcomb of Boxboro, and has had six children: Martha Jane, born February 27, 1869; Marion Maria, born December 25, 1871; Bertha Luella, born July 21, 1873; Bessie Isora, born July 25, 1881, now Mrs. Veasie, matron of Harvard town farm; Albert Henry, born April 7, 1883; David Parker, born July 27, 1885.
Martha Jane married Burpee Steele. She died April 18, 1911, of pneumonia, survived by her husband and nine children. Her
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son, Russell Steele, aged nineteen, died a few hours before his mother.
2d Mass. Heavy Artillery.
Gardner Milton Dean.
Mustered in, September 2, 1864. Discharged, August 14, 1865. Address, Oakham, Mass.
Born October 23, 1846, in Oakham, son of Luther and Emeline Mariah (Crawford) Dean. He traces back his ancestry through both parents to the first settlers of Oakham, his father, Luther Dean, being a descendant in the third generation of Deacon James Dean, who purchased the Dean farm in 1750 and built on it the first frame house in Oakham. His mother was granddaughter of Capt. John Crawford, whose father, Alexander Crawford, purchased of the Proprietors of Rutland the whole of Lot No. 4. James Dean and Alexander Crawford, with eight others, were the first settlers of the town. Mr. Dean and Mr. Crawford were both officers in the early Presbyterian Church of Oakham.
Gardner M. Dean enlisted in the summer of 1864, at the age of seventeen, in Co. B, 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery, for the town of Dracut. January 17, 1865, he was transferred to Co. D of the 17th Mass. Infantry. He served in Virginia and North Carolina, and was under Sherman in the campaign which terminated in the surrender of General Joe Johnston.
He was a charter member of Co. G, 2d Regt. Mass. Volunteer Militia, formed after the war, and a lifelong member of the Grand Army of the Republic, having served as Adjutant over twenty years, besides holding other offices of trust in the order. He was one of the original members of the E. K. Wilcox Post G. A. R. of Springfield, Mass., his name being twentieth on the record.
After the war, he was for eight years clerk in the dry goods stores of H. M. Bowers and of J. N. Hatch & Co. of Boston. He was later for several years successfully engaged in the mill- ing business in Springfield, Mass. In 1881 he returned to Oakham, having purchased the Adin Bullard farm. This he has enlarged by the purchase of land adjoining, and has made
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a specialty of fruit and dairy products. Mr. Dean has been a very successful town officer, having been Chairman of the Board of Selectmen for several years. In 1907 he was chosen by the town a member of the Building Committee of the Fobes Memorial Library, and was made the Treasurer of the Com- mittee. In 1912 he was Chairman of the Committee on the Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Oakham.
He was married, March 10, 1873, to Charlotte Emily Russell, daughter of Orlando Russell, and has had seven children:
Clarence Edgar, born March 5, 1874, married December 20, 1908, to Gertrude M. Tallis of Bristol, Conn.
Minnie Gertrude, born August 20, 1875, married to Walter A. Woodis, August 19, 1897.
Sidney Irving, born May 4, 1879, married Jessie I. Taylor of Rutland, April 3, 1901, and has three children : Ralph Emerson ; Jessie Mildred; and Sidney Irving, Jr.
Caroline Melvina, born August 12, 1883, married James Packard Fairbank, November 9, 1898, and has one daughter, Marion Corinne, born September 26, 1901.
Three other children, Warren, Mabel, and Emerson, died in early life.
Levi L. Dean.
Mustered in, January 2, 1864. Discharged, September 3, 1865.
Son of Dr. John and Nancy (Parks) Dean, and brother of Amos B. Dean of the 15th Mass., was born in Stonington, Conn., January 21, 1824. His father was son of Deacon James Dean, one of the first ten settlers of Oakham. His mother, Nancy Parks, was born in Mystic, Conn .. February 20, 1796, and died in Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1873.
Levi L. Dean enlisted at the age of forty in Co. H, 2d Mass. Heavy Artillery, from the town of Belchertown, and served till the close of the war.
After the war he resided in Enfield, Mass., where he died in December, 1872, of disease contracted in the service.
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4th Mass. Heavy Artillery.
Alfred Galen Crawford. Mustered in, August 18, 1864. Mustered out, June 17, 1865.
Born March 21, 1847, in Oakham, son of Galen Allen and Alvira (Noyes) Crawford. His father, Galen Allen Crawford, was a son of Alexander and Bethiah (Willis) Crawford. His mother, Alvira Noyes, was daughter of Luther and Azuba (Smith) Noyes.
Alfred G. Crawford enlisted in the summer of 1864 in Co. D, 4th Mass. Heavy Artillery, and was stationed at Arlington. During the greater part of the time of his service he was detailed as a musician.
He returned to Oakham at the close of the war. In the fol- lowing year he located in New York City, where he was employed by the Street Railway Company till 1875, when he went to Australia with his brother, Hiram A. Crawford, who was returning from a visit to America. Soon after his arrival there, he was made inspector of a suburban street railway line running from Melbourne to Richmond, which position he held till his death, in Melbourne, in 1895.
Isaac Newton Monroe. Mustered in, August 22, 1864. Discharged, June 17, 1865. Address, Coldbrook Springs, Mass.
Born August 29, 1836, in Lowell, Mass., son of Joseph and Sarah (Leathers) Monroe. His parents were born in New Hampshire and were of Scotch-Irish descent. His father, Joseph Monroe, died in Chester, Penn., in 1872. His mother died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1909, aged ninety-six years.
I. Newton Monroe enlisted from the city of Worcester, in the summer of 1864, at the age of twenty-seven, in Co. D, 4th Mass., Heavy Artillery, and served till the close of the war.
In September, 1865, he came to Coldbrook, where he has since resided. For several years he followed his occupation of
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powder-keg maker in Coldbrook, and for twenty years he was engaged in mercantile business in Gilbertville.
January 7, 1864, he was married in North Brookfield, Mass., to Harriett Harding, daughter of Alpheus and Catherine (Wheeler) Harding. Children :
Charles Newton Monroe, born March 21, 1865, died October 27, 1898. He was married August 16, 1887, to Catherine Cody. A daughter, Beatrice Monroe, was born October 16, 1893.
Elbert Leroy Monroe, born February 25, 1869, married Sep- tember 4, 1891, to Julia Sullivan. Children: E. Leroy Monroe, born December 28, 1894; Harold N. Monroe, born March 17, 1898; Hazel G. Monroe, born August 25, 1899. Mr. Elbert L. Monroe is a street-car conductor in Dorchester.
Catherine Rowena Monroe, born February 6, 1871, married September 6, 1894, to Edmund Cody of Coldbrook. Children : B. Evelyn Cody, born June 22, 1895; Ralph M. Cody, born November 30, 1899; Ivah C. Cody, born November 23, 1902.
Edmund Cody is a dealer in grain and coal, and has been Overseer of the Poor, and Collector of Taxes for the town of Oakham. He has held all office seats in the Lodges Ancient Order of United Workmen, and Improved Order of Red Men.
IIth Mass. Battery.
James Griswold Shannon.
Mustered in, August 25, 1862. Mustered out, May 29, 1863. Reënlisted, January 2, 1864. Discharged, February 22, 1867.
Born June 17, 1843, in Quincy, Mass., son of James and Lucy (Saville) Shannon.
When the war began he was a druggist's clerk in Boston. He enlisted August 19, 1862, in the IIth Mass. Battery, and served as a private nine months. In January, 1864, he enlisted again in the same battery for a term of three years. August 6, 1864, he was made Hospital Steward, U. S. Army. He served
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in the Hospital Department of the U. S. Army till February, 1867, when he was discharged with the rank of Lieutenant.
In 1867 he entered the Medical School of Harvard Univer- sity, from which he was graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1870. Dr. Shannon came to Oakham June 1, 1870, and estab- lished himself here as a physician. He was much interested in the affairs of the town, and was President of the Soldiers' Union for four years. In October, 1876, he removed to Rutland where he continued the practice of medicine for about twelve years.
November 26, 1872, he was married to Laura E. Morton, daughter of Rev. Alpha Morton, then pastor of the church in Oakham.
Dr. Shannon died in Worcester, Mass., December 29, 1889.
Mrs. Shannon was again married, October 13, 1906, to S. Franklin Keene, and resides in Oxford, Maine.
60th Mass. Infantry.
John E. Stone.
Mustered in, July 20, 1864. Mustered out, November 30, 1864. Address, Oakham, Mass.
Born November 16, 1844, in Oakham, son of Washington and Martha H. (Robinson) Stone, and brother of George W. Stone of the 25th Mass.
He enlisted in the summer of 1864 in Co. F of the 60th Mass. After his discharge he returned to Oakham and purchased in 1879, at Ware Corner, the place formerly occupied by William Ware, which in 1881 he exchanged for the James B. Ware farm, on which he has lived for over thirty years.
He was married at Brattleboro, Vt., January 28, 1879, to Mary Jane Larrabee, daughter of Ira Larrabee of West Halifax, Vt. Children, born in Oakham: Grace M., January 23, 1880, died August 12, 1880; Eva A., April 29, 1881; Ralph E., July 26, 1884, died November 24, 1885; Ira W., March 20, 1887; Frank
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H., November 15, 1894; Gladys M., September 7, 1900; Harold J., January 31, 1909.
Eva A. Stone was married December 8, 1908, to Clayton C. Adams of Oakham, a scientific farmer and dealer in cattle.
William Powers.
Mustered in, July 20, 1864. Mustered out, November 30, 1864.
William Powers was a Westboro boy and was living with Lyman Dean in 1864. He enlisted from Oakham at the age of nineteen in Co. F of the 60th Mass.
6th Unattached Mass. Volunteer Militia. Charles Archibald Ware.
Mustered in, May 4, 1864. Mustered out, August 2, 1864. Address, 33 Queen St., Worcester, Mass.
Born December 18, 1846, in Oakham, son of Archibald H. and Caroline Cutler (Cooley) Ware, and brother of Edward Franklin Ware of Co. F, 15th Mass. His aunt, Lavinia H. Ware, who married Chauncey Colton, was the mother of Nathaniel W. Colton of Co. F, 10th Mass.
Charles A. Ware enlisted in the spring of 1864, from the town of Westboro, in the 6th Unattached Co. Mass. Volunteer Militia. September 2, 1864, he enlisted again, as a contract man in the Government employ, and was released May 4, 1865.
He was married to Almira H. Shedd of North Brookfield, November 30, 1866. Children: Edward Hazen, born May 26, 1872, at Oakham, died September 1, 1878; Robert Elwin, born June 5, 1881, at Oakham.
His wife, Almira H. Ware, died March 20, 1900. May 19, 1900, he was again married to Mrs. Marion F. (Spooner) Dayton, daughter of Andrew Spooner of the 5Ist Mass.
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116th Pennsylvania Infantry.
James W. Caldwell. Mustered in, February 18, 1864. Mustered out, July 14, 1865.
Born in Oakham, February 14, 1836, son of George and Eliza (Parker) Caldwell, and brother of George Lyman Caldwell of the 21st Mass.
James W. Caldwell was in the employ of the Van Amburg circus company, which was traveling in Pennsylvania, when at the age of twenty-eight he enlisted for three years in Co. E of the 116th Penn. Inf. After Caldwell joined the regiment, it went through the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Hatcher's Run, and Petersburg.
When the war was over he came back to his native town, where he worked as a farmer and shoemaker. March 24, 1888, he was married to Mrs. Rachel McLoud of Oakham. He suf- fered much from rheumatism contracted in the army and always used a cane.
Mr. Caldwell died in Oakham, October 18, 1893.
2d Michigan Cavalry.
John Gault Crawford. Mustered in, October 2, 1861. Resigned his commission, March 31, 1863. Address, Manchester, N. H.
Born in Oakham, April 21, 1834, son of Hosea Willis and Caroline (Gault) Crawford, and brother of Henry Willis Crawford of the 25th Mass. Inf., and Charles Sumner Crawford of the 4th Mass. Cav. His father, Hosea Willis Crawford, received in 1833 from Governor Levi Lin- coln a captain's commission in the Massachusetts militia. He was descended from Alexander Crawford, one of the first ten settlers of Oakham, through Capt. John Crawford of the Revolutionary Army.
John G. Crawford's education was obtained chiefly in the public schools of Oakham and North Brookfield, and in the select schools of Oakham. He developed into a strong debater
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by constant practice in the Franklin Literary Society, of which he became President. He also taught successfully in the public schools of Oakham and Wrentham, Mass., and studied law in the office of Martin Gorham in Barre.
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