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The twenty-five year period which rounded out our munici- pal century was one of the least eventful in our annals. Dur- ing these quiet years the town steadily prospered, increasing in population more than in any other similar period since the
1" Holden May 24, 1742. Voted to make a Rate for killing of black burds Jay burds woodpeckers and Rattel Snaikes : voted that aney that kill aney of these Varmon Shall have Sixpence pr head old Tener."
"Holden, May 14, 1792. Voted for the Town to Give a Bounty of two shillings for Every Crow aney of the Inhabitants of the Town shall Kill for one Year from this Day.
" Voted that every person shall Carry the head of the Crow he Kills to the selectmen and the Selectmen pay the above Bounty therefor."
Town Records. Similar votes appear in 1808 and 1814.
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first, and making a greater proportional gain in manufacturing than during any other period.
In 1822 Rev. Joseph Avery, having almost finished a half century of service, was constrained rather than consented to cease the active duties of the pastorate, which he had so long and so well discharged, though he bore the title and received part of the salary of pastor till he died, two years later. Like his predecessor, he dwelt among this people to the end of his days, and each hill which overlooks the Center is consecrated by the dwelling there of a good minister of Jesus Christ.
October 22d, 1823, Rev. Horatio Bardwell became pastor of the Congregational Church. Ten years later, almost to a day, October 24th, 1833, pressing his second resignation against the wish of his people, in order to engage in work for foreign missions, which he loved so well, he was dismissed from his pastorate, and the same day Rev. William P. Paine was ordained and installed as his successor. Several large revivals marked this period, the most marked being in 1830, when more than two hundred united with the two churches, of which some of you are witnesses. In 1820 stoves were introduced in the old meeting-house. Then, in 1828, it was moved back to its present site and thoroughly repaired, a belfry was added and a bell purchased. With the dismissal of Mr. Bardwell and the coming of Dr. Paine, the relation which from the beginning had subsisted between the town and the Congrega- tional Church was severed, and ecclesiastical doings found no more places in the town records.
During this period the Baptist Church built two meeting- houses. The first was built in 1819 on the site just north of the Damon Memorial, and being found too small was succeeded by the present building in 1838. November 14th, 1836, was held the first town meeting in the new Town Hall, erected at a cost of $4,000.
The schools were greatly helped during this period by the regular visits of a committee of supervision, of which Mr. Bardwell, whose visits are still remembered pleasantly by those who were children then, was chairman as long as he remained
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in town, and then the office passed to Dr. Paine, who discharged its duties for more than thirty years with scarcely a break. On the other hand, about the same time the districts were authorized to manage all their own affairs, and perhaps this complete isolation worked a fully counter-balancing damage.
During the latter part of this quarter-century the question of temperance became a burning issue. Dr. Paine tells us that in 1833 it entered seriously into the choice of a minister, and that public opinion was greatly divided. The preponderance of sentiment was, however, on the side of temperance. In 1835 it was voted, one hundred and fifteen to forty-five, not to license the sale of liquors in town. In 1838, on a quiet summer morning, Philip Edwards, while passing peaceably to his work, was attacked with an axe and butchered by a neighbor who had been crazed by the use of intoxicating liquors. The friends of temperance, led by Dr. Paine, whose printed sermon1 remains as a witness, well used this tremendous argument for temperance. In 1839 the petitioners against the repeal of the
1 " A Sermon Occasioned by the Murder of Philip Edwards. By William P. Paine. Worcester, 1838 "
The text of this discourse was Job xxiv, 14: "The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy." The heads of the discourse were :
" First. An uncommon and important event generally makes a much deeper impression, in the place where it occurs, than anywhere else.
" Secondly. We are taught, by this awful event, the importance of always being prepared for eternity.
" Thirdly. Our sympathy, prayers and assistance, are due to those, whose interest[s] have been especially affected by this melancholy catastrophe.
" Fourthly. It is obvious that the shocking event under consideration was caused by the use of intoxicating liquor.
" Fifthly, that the use of alcoholic liquors, as articles of drink, is dan- gerous.
" Sixthly. Intoxicating liquor ought not to be used as a drink.
" Seventhly. The traffic in intoxicating liquors ought to cease."
The discourse concludes in these words :
" I appeal to you all for the sake of purity and peace and safety-for the sake of injured innocence-for the sake of broken-hearted and affrighted wives, of sorrowing children and suffering families-for the sake of every- thing dear here and hereafter, to do, without delay, all that is practicable to protect yourselves, and your families, and this whole community, from that subtle demon-that demon of perdition-the drink of destruction."
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stringent act of 1838 were one hundred and seventy-four and only eighty-six favored the repeal, while the women, three hundred and fifty-five in number, unanimously petitioned for its retention. The vote on the late prohibitory amendment was one hundred and sixty-one to seventy-nine.
With the year 1841 came the centennial of the town. It was becomingly celebrated May 4th, under the direction of a committee chosen at a citizens' meeting, and the well- remembered exercises have of late been often in the minds and mouths of many of you. A son of the town, later widely known as the Rev. Samuel C. Damon, D. D., of Honolulu, gave the Historical Address, afterwards published with addi- tional matter, and after a dinner served in the Town Hall to three hundred and twenty persons, there was appropriate and interesting speaking.
This mile-stone past, we enter another quiet period in the life of Holden. There was no increase in population, though there was a decided gain in property. The old Congregational Church was all the time led by Dr. Paine. The Baptist Church maintained itself, but attempts to establish Methodist, Adven- tist and Universalist Churches all were unsuccessful.
No public buildings, except school-houses, were built or repaired. In 1854 land was secured for a new burial ground, and August 24th, occurred the formal dedication of the Grove Cemetery, the site of which is by nature fine and rarely suited to its use, and which, by the filial piety of two daughters of Holden, has been beautified with an entrance which eminent authority pronounces unsurpassed in any similar town.
However quiet in home affairs, the period ending in 1866 must yet be a period of glory on account of our share in the Civil War. I need not rehearse the story at large,-how the North was suddenly plunged unprepared into the desperate struggle, and fought for four long years, till at last treasure and blood, poured out without stint, cemented again the Union.
Alike in timeliness and in relative amount of service, Holden stood among the first of all the towns of the Common- wealth. At the first summons, in the very week which was
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ushered in by the cannonade of Fort Sumter, the Holden Rifles enlisted as a company, and Saturday, April 20th, left Worcester for the seat of war, while the women of Holden with hearts distracted by the pain of parting and patriotic pride, gathered Sunday in the Town Hall to work for them. Thirty-one names stand on the records of the town of those who instantly sprang to the defence of the assaulted flag. Long as that flag waves shall the story of the promptness of the Holden Rifles be told to their own honor and the honor of Holden. After three months' service the Rifles returned with ranks unbroken by casualty to receive the enthusiastic public welcome of the town. Many of them quickly re-enlisted for three years, or the war, and many other noble young men with them. For four years, call for soldiers fast followed call, but Holden more than met all demands, and when the war closed this little town of less than two thousand inhabitants had furnished two hundred and four soldiers, four more than her full quota. As in the Revolution, the number of soldiers was more than one in ten of the total population. Eleven had been commissioned officers. Meantime those who remained at home had as nobly carried the financial burdens necessarily imposed. The amount expended by the town in bounties and aid, besides what was repaid by the state, was no less than $8,000.
Upon the marble tablets set in the Town Hall by the Holden Soldiers' Monument Association as a permanent memorial of loyalty, valor and patience unto death, are recorded the names of thirty of our soldiers who were martyrs as well as heroes. They should be read in our hearing to-day : Uriah Bassett, killed ; George T. Bigelow, killed ; H. Erskine Black, died ; Levi Chamberlain, killed ; Edward Clark, died ; Albert Creed, died of wounds ; Elisha G. Davenport, killed ; Henry M. Fales, killed; John Fearing, died of wounds; Charles Gibbs, died ; James W. Goodnow, died in prison ; James W. Haley, died ; John Handley, killed ; Henry M. Holt, died; John R. Houghton, died; Amasa A. Howe, died in prison ; Calvin Hubbard, died in prison ; George T. Johnson,
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died ; Ira J. Kelton, died of wounds ; Lyman E. Keyes, killed ; Frank Lumazette, died of wounds; Harlan P. Moore, died ; George W. Newell, died of wounds; William C. Perry, died ; Michael Riley, killed ; Winslow B. Rogers, died ; John B. Sav- age, died in prison ; George Thurston, died of wounds ; Horace L. Truesdell, died of wounds ; Alfred S. Tucker, died in in prison. Their fellow-soldiers in the Grand Army of the Republic, who honor this occasion with their presence, yearly decorate the graves of those who sleep among their kindred. Be it ours, whenever the mother town counts her jewels, to reckon as the most priceless of all, the steadfast daring of her heroic sons. Let me but add a partial roll of the battles in which some of our heroes fell : Chantilly, Antietam, Cold Harbor, Newbern, Drury's Bluff, Spottsylvania, Welden Rail- road, the Wilderness ! What memories these names evoke ! Need we go further for proof of Holden's worthy share in the suppression of the great Rebellion ? Needs Holden praise indeed, what praise is possible, beyond this, that her citizens and soldiers, to the music of the Union, kept step with Massachusetts ?
The sixth and last period needs no detailed record. It is too familiar to all. In 1871 the Boston, Barre & Gardner Railroad was opened for travel, its building involving the town in heavy indebtedness and yet a necessity to our prosperity, The Massachusetts Central Railroad, after a prolonged struggle with great financial difficulties, has at last been opened as a through line. In 1876 the Town Hall was repaired, enlarged, and made a "Memorial" of our fallen soldiers. The Baptist church was refitted in 1874, and immediately afterward the Congregational church was remodelled. A little later, the honored Dr. Paine, after more than forty-one years of active labors, became " pastor emeritus," and in 1876 he fell asleep, the last of the four pastors who had filled the long period of one hundred and thirty-five years with service of that church and the whole community. The Roman Catholic parish, established early in this period, has already outgrown its first
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church, and just now enters the fine edifice consecrated last Sunday.
The cyclone, which mowed a swath of destruction through the town, passing near the Center, was fortunately attended with no loss of life and comparatively little damage to person or property, but will always be memorable for its power, and for its terrible possibilities.
In respect to schools there has been great progress in the last quarter-century. In 1866 $2, 100 was appropriated, and in 1891 $6,700, Holden standing first of all the municipalities of Worcester County in the percentage of its taxable property devoted to schools, and seventh in the whole Commonwealth. The town that marches in the foremost rank in Massachusetts, marches in the foremost rank in the land. Early in this period, to great advantage, the whole management of the schools was vested in the Town School Committee. The last advance step in administration is the appointment of a superintendent. A High School was established in 1880, from which fully forty have already been graduated. School-houses have been stead- ily improved, that built in Jefferson in 1885 being one in which any country town might justly take pride, but the one ordered to take its place almost before its ashes were cold, being finer yet. The Public Library, founded in 1876 by the Library Association, has been made over to the town, increased by gifts and appropriations to more than three thousand six hundred volumes, which constitute a collection of unusual merit, and, with the reading room, is open free to all citizens more hours weekly than the library of any similar town. Still more, the Library, as well as the High School, has been provided in the "Damon Memorial " with a home which is the pride of our town, and the admiration of all beholders, the gift of our hon- ored friends, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Gale, whose absence to- day we regret.
Looking back now, half a century, we see great prosperity. Our population has increased fifty per cent., and the value of the property in town has doubled, and instead of the twenty paupers reported in 1837, we now report but four. The
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amount, as well as the value, of our farm products has greatly increased. We cultivate two hundred acres more than in 1831, and devote to pasture one thousand acres more, while of our twenty thousand acres, only four hundred and twenty-five belong to abandoned farms. Meantime manufactures have been developing far more rapidly still; while, in 1837 the value of all we made was scarce a hundred thousand dollars in one year, of late it has exceeded half a million dollars.
From the vantage ground of this rapid survey of our history, we may well claim that this town is a type of the true New England town. Holden is a type in the circumstances of its founding, settled as it was for the sake of homes, and incorpo- rated for the sake of church. It is a type alike in the almost purely English descent of its first inhabitants, and in the mixture of race and blood which we now see in our factories and schools, but all now as then in spirit true Americans. It is a type in the steady success of its agricultural interests, and in the parallel development and success of its manufacturing. It is a type of the best of New England in the work of school and library and church. We do honor to what is of greatest worth in the life of Massachusetts, New England, and the United States, when we honor Holden to-day. We take pride in the fact that our town has been the nursery of so many worthy men and women. Let me name only those who from the hill-sides of Holden have gone out to labor in the ministry of Christ : Fisher, Cheney, Marshall, Walker, Manning, Winch, Wheeler, Davis, Howe, Richardson, Foster, Damon, Darling, Bigelow, Holbrook, Hubbard, Perry, Brooks, Johnson, Weeks, Mclaughlin, Baumann, Prendergast, Murphy, and Hamblen. With such a roll in a single department, compute, if you can, the full sum of our contributions to the work of the nation, the world. Not to speak of other lands, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters may be found in a thousand communities in a score of states, and in the success of every one the mother town rejoices to-day.
But Holden has been a home as well as a nursery. It has not exported all its worth. Though change has been so busy
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among us that only twenty homesteads are now in the hands of the families which occupied them at our centennial, yet industry and thrift and intelligence and morality and religion have not departed from among us. To-day those who come back to us, as well as we who abide here, recall the names, the faces, the lives of the noble men and women who have stead- fastly and well wrought in field and mill, in home and hall, in school and church, to make and keep this grand old town. Each heart recalls a different name, but all are worthy. May we not claim, with honest pride, that Holden is still the home of those not unworthy to be heirs of the honorable past which we recount ?
Let us make it so. Holden is still only a foundation. What has been wrought is but preparatory to what shall be wrought. Let us build upon this foundation so well that when the historian of another fifty years, of another hundred and fifty years shall take up his tale, he shall glory in our work as we in the work of our fathers. In the words of Longfellow, with which Dr. Damon closed fifty years ago: "Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart."
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
The Chapter of Personal Notices is not indexed here
Address, Centennial, 5, 52, 53, 59, 413. Address, Sesquicentennial, 75, 393. Adventists, 128, 413. Anniversaries, 51, 61, 73, 103, 105, 346, 353, 355, 386, 388, 389, 391, 392, 413. Area of Town, 2, 8, 42, 363. Articles of Faith, 93, 100, 112, 408.
Band of Hope, 348. Baptist Church, 74, 110, 392, 408, 413. Baptist Society, First, 119, 389. Blizzard, 388. Boundaries of Town, 1, 9, 43. Bounties for killing Vermin, 3, 410. Brick Yard, 201.
Carriage, First, 362. Celebration of Lee's Surrender, 69, 388. Cemeteries, 21, 341, 390, 413. Census of 1760, 360. Chapel, 129, 386. Church Edifices, Baptist, 70, 116, 117, 120,, 121, 200, 391, 392, 411, 415. Church Edifice, Congregation- al, First, 13, 37, 88, 396, 400, 403.
Church Edifice, Congregation- al, Second, 38, 44, 74, 75, 105, 108, 117, 149, 387, 407, 408, 411, 415. Church Edifices, Roman Cath- olic, 70, 123, 124, 389, 390, 415. Clerks, Town, List of, 364. College Graduates, 139. Common, 38, 56, 144, 149, 387, 407. Congregational Church, 17, 23, 45, 74, 88, 392, 397, 399, 403, 406, 408, 411, 413. Congregational Society, 104, 106, 107, 108. Covenants, 89, 90, 93, 100, 101, 114. Cyclone, 69, 389, 416.
Damon Memorial, 116, 141, 143, 390, 411, 416. Death Rate, 340. Deaths, List of, 339. Dinners, Public, 55, 82, 157, 413. Drought, 22, 390.
Earthquake, 23, 392, 403. Expenditures, Town, 16, 17, 22, 24, 29, 38, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 62, 66, 68, 74, 92, 104, 133, 136, 137, 167, 402, 407, 408, 409, 4.14.
Fairs, 69, 195, 349, 353.
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Farmers' and Mechanics' Club,
73, 352, 392. Fast Days, 22, 24, 387, 390, 405.
Flowers, 2.
French Woods, 4, 35.
Funds, Town, II, 22, 44.
Golden Weddings, 335.
Grain, 363.
Grand Army Post, 69, 87, 191, 355, 387, 415. Grange, 349, 386.
Hall, Town, 43, 63, 67, 74, 81, 349, 392, 411, 415.
Hearse, 341.
High School, 137, 143, - 152, 416. Hills, 2. Hotels, 194.
Hymns, 53, 54, 75, 158, 342.
Incorporation, 14, 73, 386, 389, 393, 397. Independence Day, 48, 69, 389, 390. Indians, 8, 10, 394.
Installations, 99, 108, 118, 391. Inventory of Estate of Cyprian Stevens, 399.
Knights Templar, 346, 389.
Land, Allotment of, 12, 392, 395, 396. Land, Employment of, 2, 363, 417. Lectures, 69. Libraries, 15, 56, 140, 143, 145, 147, 152, 391, 392, 416. Lightning, 390. Lime, II, 395. Location of Town, I, 7. Longevity, 335, 339.
Meadows, 358.
Memorial Day, 69, 191. Memorial Services for Wash- ington, 39, 387.
Memorial Tablets, 63, 64, 414. Methodists, 127, 413.
Militia, 62, 163, 165, 169, 173, 407. Mills, Cotton, 47, 203, 205, 206, 208, 409.
Mills, Grist, 31, 47, 208.
Mills, Saw, 31, 47, 208.
Mills, Woolen, 47, 204, 206.
Ministers, 129, 417.
Missionaries, 129.
Money, 392, 408.
Murder, 49, 390, 412.
Music, Church, 39, 47, 94, 108, 118, 121, 408 ..
Negroes, 49, 406. Nondescript Club, 349. Noonhouse, 386.
Ordinations, 17, 24, 88, 92, 103, 110, 115, 117, 119, 391, 392, 403, 407, 41I .
Parsonages, 107, 119, 124. Pastors, 17, 22, 24, 33, 40, 45, 86, 88, 91, 96, 102, 105, 106, 115, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 127, 403, 407, 408, 41I. Paupers, 43, 68, 391, 416.
Petitions, 13, 14, 48, 61, 389, 396, 397, 398, 399, 409, 412. Physicians, 41, 336. Poem, Anniversary, 76. Politics, 48, 61, 384, 409. Population, 22, 29, 360, 407, 409, 410, 413, 416. Postoffices, 197, 387. Pound, 16, 402. Preaching Provided by Town, 14, 16, 47, 56, 149, 402. Prices, List of, 31.
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Proprietors, 9, 12, 356, 391,
392, 394, 395, 396,1397, 400, 401.
Quarry, 2, 144, 150.
Railroads, 4, 66, 69, 71, 196, 389, 391, 415. Rattlesnakes, 3, 410.
Representatives, List of, 382.
Resolutions passed by town, 25, 144, 159, 364, 405. Revivals, 93, 99, 103, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 408, 4II. Rifles, Holden, 62, 86, 157, 173, 388, 390, 414. Roads, 12, 193, 363, 396, 397, 403, 407. Roman Catholic Parish, 74, 123, 415.
Salaries, 17, 24, 33, 46, 92, 98, 408. School Committee, 136, 380, 4II, 416. School Superintendent, 81, 136, 416. School-houses, 22, 38, 68, 133, 136, 137, 138, 143, 145, 388, 389, 408,413, 416. Schools, 16, 17, 22, 38, 56, 81, 132, 149, 360, 380, 402, 403, 407, 408, 411, 416. Selectmen, List of, 366. Settlements, First, 11, 13, 410. Shays' Rebellion, 35, 407. Shoemaking, 48, 209. Sickness, . 23, 338, 387, 391, 404. Sidewalks, 195, 196. Slaves, 49, 406. Society for Detecting Thieves, 345. Soil, 2. Soldiers, 18, 20, 29, 62, 64, 86, 161, 388, 390, 414.
Soldiers' Monument Associa- tion, 63, 69.
Stores, 199. Streams, 3.
Sunday Schools, 109, 117, 122, I28.
Tanneries, 47. Taxes, 14, 16, 22, III, 134, 161, 167, 193, 359, 396, 402, 408.
Telegraph, 71, 197.
Telephone, 71, 197.
Temperance, 48, 347, 391, 412.
Toll House, 193.
Town Meetings, 5, 16, 25, 43, 47, 73, 91, 110, 132, 134, 149, 159, 388, 389, 392, 398, 402, 4II. Treasurers, Town, List of, 365. Trees, 2, 195, 403.
Undertaker, 341. Union Evangelical Society, 129. Universalists, 128, 413.
Valuations, 362, 407, 413, 416. Village Improvement Societies,
195, 349. Villages, 3, 207.
War, French, 18, 161, 391. 404.
War, French and Indian, 20, 161, 404. War of the Revolution, 21, 24, 28, 34, 163, 388, 405, 414. War of 1812, 169.
War, Mexican, 169.
War of the Rebellion, 62, 157, 169, 173, 174, 413. Washington Total Abstinence Society, 49, 347. Women's Christian Temper- ance Union, 348, 391. Women's. Relief Corps, 355, 388.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to Sketches in the Chapter of Personal Notices.
Abbott, Chenery, 52, 169, 194, 346, 350.
Abbott, Eliza Ann, 130.
Abbott, Jarvis, 169, 195. Abbott, John [Ist], 31, 33, 37, 164, 194, 361. Abbott, John [2d], 128.
Abbott, John T., 349.
Abbott, Mrs. John T., 349.
Abbott, Lemuel, 37, 169, 194, 237, 248, 371, 372, 396.
Abbott, Samuel, 112.
Abbott, Simon, 128, 354.
Adams, Aaron, 358.
Adams, John, 336, 349, 354, 378. Ainsworth, Charles H., 127. Aldrich, Frank A., 186.
Aldrich, P. Emory, 158. Allard, Andrew, 164. Allen, Abagail, 279, 280. Allen, Benjamin [Ist], 357, 361. Allen, Benjamin 162.
[2d], 161,
Allen, Betsy, 123. Allen, Dwight D., 186. Allen, George, 103. Allen, James C., 194. Allen, James H., 74, 186. Allen, Jesse, 163, 165, 361. Allen, Joseph, 219. Allen, Lambert, 110. Allen, Leonard, 357. Allen, Mary, 217, 218. Allen, Melvin J., 108, 192, 210. Allen, Nathan, 158.
Allen, Pelatiah, 112. Allen, Willard, 121, 122, 336, 376. Almer, Roxana, 336.
Ames, Joseph S., 210, 337.
Ames, Josephine S., 138, 211. Ames, Lewis, 210.
Andre, Pierre M., 35.
Andrews, Elisha, III, 115, 121, 211, 321. Armington, Alonzo C., 186, 214. Armington, Fannie L., 214. Arınington, Henry C., 186, 214. Armington, May J., 214. Armington, Samuel W., 154, 174, 191, 197, 200, 213, 255, 364, 365, 379, 384. Ashworth & Day, 207. Atherton, - -, 356. Austin, David B., 215. Austin, Herbert E., 138, 140, 216. Austin, Mrs. S. J., 231. Austin, Susie L., 138, 140, 216. Austin, Waldo E. [Ist], 68, 74, 125, 142, 202, 215, 234, 266, 379, 380, 381, 382. Austin, Waldo E. [2d], 216. Avery, Joseph, 24, 33, 37, 39, 40, 46, 47, 48, 85, 86, 92, 93. 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 197, 216, 230, 246, 333, 362, 388, 389, 392, 407, 408, 409, 4II.
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Avery, Mary A., 40, 217, 218. Avery, William, 216.
Babb, Thomas E., 108, 222, 394, 419. Babb, William G., 222.
Babcock, Aaron G., 170, 337.
Bacon, John, 128.
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