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"Maintain the peace; maintain it by honest and just neutral- ity; maintain it by seeing to it that no one can attack you with impunity and that the world shall understand it. Be just to all nations; do wrong to none; remember that you are Americans, simply that and nothing more; and then you will have peace, and a peace that is worth having."
At the conclusion of Senator Lodge's address, the Win- chendon choir was again introduced and rendered a selection which elicited a hearty encore, to which the choir responded with a second song, after which came the last number of the program, which consisted in the singing of "America" by the audience led by the band, and the exercises of the afternoon were ended.
CHAPTER XI
OLD ROYALSTON FAMILIES
To one familiar with the old Royalston families and the homesteads formerly occupied by them scattered over these hills and valleys, and as on every side old cellar holes that have not already been obliterated by the hand of time, meet our sight, a feeling of sadness comes over us as our thoughts take us back when Royalston was one of the most important towns of the County.
The old familiar names of Peck, Ballou, Walker, Holman, Cutler, Dexter, Bragg and Woodbury are not on the list of Royalston residents today.
While the descendants of these families have gone out into all parts of this country and in foreign lands, where they have become the leading spirits in the educational, religious and civic life of the Nation, yet wherever they roam there comes stealing over them recollections of the old town, its hills, valleys and streams, with the grand Old Monadnock looking down on all, and there comes to them the thought of Longfellow, when he says:
"Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion,
Nor the march of the encroaching city, Drives an exile
From the hearth of his ancestral homestead.
We may build more splendid habitations,
Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures. But we cannot Buy with gold the old associations."
THE METCALF FAMILY
Among the early settlers of Royalston were members of the Metcalf family, who were prominent in the early history of the town, and whose descendants furnish a long list of men and women who have been prominent in the educational, social and
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business life of the country. The original seat of the family was in Yorkshire, England.
The emigrant ancestor of the Royalston Metcalfs was Michael Metcalf, the Dornix or embroidery weaver, of Norwich, who is supposed to have employed some hundred or more men in his shop in the city of Norwich. The passenger list of em grants with the "John and Dorothy," Master William Andrews of Ipswich, as examined April 8th, 1637, includes Michael Metcalf and Sarah Metcalf, his wife, and eight children. Michael was admitted a freeman at Dedham July 14, 1637; joined the church January, 1639; was Selectman in 1641. His name stands on the committee to "Contrive the frabricke of a new meeting house."
The first Metcalf to appear in Royalston history was Capt. Pelatiah Metcalf from Wrentham, Mass., who settled in the west part of Royalston. He built a saw mill on the site of the mill, later owned by Nathaniel Greeley; established a potash; was an active business man and a prominent citizen. Was Selectman in 1779, '82, '86, '88, '90, '91, and assessor in 1778 and 1794. He was of the sixth generation from Michael Metcalf, and was born June 24, 1744, second child of Pelatiah Metcalf and Hep- zibah Mann. He married June 22, 1770, Lydia Eastey or (Estey) of Thompson, Conn., who was born May 12, 1749, and died 1829. He died Oct. 19, 1807. Of the twelve children born to them eight died young and four lived to grow up. These were: Pelatiah, born July 29, 1780; Isaac, born Feb. 3, 1783; Jacob, born June 7, 1785; Enoch, born Feb. 27, 1792.
Pelatiah Metcalf, M. D., born at Royalston, Mass., July 29, 1780, fifth child of Pelatiah and Lydia (Estey) Metcalf; married Abigail Hawes, who was born Jan. 26, 1786. He settled as a physician in Pawtucket and Woonsocket, R. I., where he died Oct. 26, 1866. His wife, Abigail Hawes, died Jan. 13, 1871. They had two children: Charles Hermon Metcalf, photographer, born Oct. 22, 1822, died unmarried Sept. 23, 1870; Eleanor Amelia Metcalf, born Dec. 26, 1824. She married Nov. 18, 1844, Charles A. Smith of Woonsocket, R. I., who was born Nov. 4, 1820, and died Feb. 23, 1879. They had three children.
Jacob Metcalf, born at Royalston June 7, 1785, seventh child of Pelatiah and Lydia (Estey) Metcalf; married Sept. 15, 1807, Charlotte Prescott, who was born March 12, 1787, and died May 19, 1843. After the death of his first wife, he married,
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April 16, 1845, Nancy A. Thomas, of Winchendon, who was born June 16, 1790. She died Sept. 16, 1847. He married for his third wife, Mary L. Gay of Baldwinville, Mass., Aug. 22, 1848. She was born April 23, 1798. He died April 21, 1859, at the old place, "Under the Hill", where he was born and had lived all his life. His wife, Mary L. Gay, survived him, dying Feb. 11, 1878. Jacob Metcalf and Charlotte (Prescott) had four children.
Pelatiah Metcalf, oldest son of Jacob and Charlotte (Pres- cott) Metcalf, was born in Royalston May 21, 1808. Was a dry goods clerk and merchant in Boston; married June 19, 1834, Olive Forbes, who was born Nov. 16, 1808, the daughter of James Forbes of Royalston. He died Sept. 7th, 1835, leaving no children.
Jonas Prescott Metcalf, second son of Jacob and Charlotte (Prescott) Metcalf, was born at Royalston May 14, 1810; married Oct. 23, 1834, Harriet Jacobs, who was born Jan. 5, 1816, daughter of John Jacobs of Royalston. He died Nov. 1, 1843.
Their children: George Prescott Metcalf, born June 13, 1837, died June 19, 1838. Harlan Pelatiah Metcalf, born at Royalston April 29, 1839, was married Oct. 4, 1859, to Ellen Maria Pierce of Royalston.
Martha Harriet Metcalf, born Dec. 6, 1840, third child of Jonas Prescott and Harriet (Jacobs) Metcalf, married Henry A. Spofford of Fitzwilliam, N. H. They had no children of their own, but adopted Jessie Murdock Metcalf. Mrs. Spofford died Sept. 13, 1895.
Prescott Marius Metcalf, born at Royalston June 1, 1843, fourth child of Jonas Prescott and Harriet (Jacobs) Metcalf, after the war settled in Norfolk, Va., where he was connected with the post office for some years, and afterwards cashier of a bank. He married there Sept. 10, 1863, Elvena Rolland, who was born March 11, 1841, of French parentage. He died March 19, 1890. They had seven children.
Samuel Gregory Metcalf, third son of Jacob and Charlotte (Prescott) Metcalf was born at Royalston, April 1, 1814, and was for many years in partnership with his father in farming and lumber business. He married in 1844, Catherine Louisa Gale of Royalston, who died the same year. In 1850 the partnership with his father was dissolved, and he removed to Worcester. May 20, 1851, he married Sarah King Chaddock, who was born
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May 30, 1821, in Middlebury, Vt., the daughter of Alvin and Sally Chaddock. Samuel G. Metcalf and his new wife moved from Worcester to Leroy, N. Y., where their only son, Henry S. Metcalf, was born July 14, 1853. They moved in 1854 to Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, Ill., where by dealing in real estate he became somewhat wealthy, but in 1868 was prostrated by paralysis, the result of sunstroke. He lived almost helpless and a great sufferer for some fourteen years, dying Oct. 1, 1882.
Henry S. Metcalf, only son of Samuel Gregory Metcalf and Sarah (Chaddock) Metcalf, born July 14, 1853, graduated from Beloit College in 1879, and from Northwestern University Medi- cal School in 1886. While busy as a physician he has always been interested in education, serving several terms as president of the Mt. Carroll, Ill., school board, and for years he has been president of the board of trustees of the Frances Shiner School of the University of Chicago. He died Dec. 15, 1916.
Josiah Kidder Metcalf, fourth and youngest son of Jacob and Charlotte (Prescott) Metcalf, was born at Royalston Aug. 20, 1826. He never married; was a teacher for many years; in 1865 he entered the Christian ministry in the Baptist denomination, where he was very much beloved. His health began to fail in 1877, and he preached his last sermon in April of that year, the sixth anniversary of his settlement. He died Jan. 15, 1878.
Enoch Metcalf, born in Royalston Feb. 27, 1792, was the 11th child of Peletiah and Lydia (Estey) Metcalf. He married Elizabeth Buffum April 13, 1813. He died Feb. 17, 1864. She died Feb. 1, 1883. They had five children: Caleb Buffum Metcalf, born Fed. 13, 1814, at Royalston. Studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, under Samuel Taylor; graduated at Yale College in 1842. Married Aug. 18, 1843, Rosana C. Barnes, sister of A. S. Barnes, the book publisher. He taught in Boston four years, then for ten years the Thomas Street School in Worcester, commencing April 16, 1846. In 1856 he established on Salisbury street, Worcester, his famous Highland Military Academy, over which he presided for thirty-two years, until 1888; then Super- intendent Emeritus. He died July 31, 1891, at Seabright, N. J., the summer home of his daughter. They had two children.
Sarah Metcalf, only daughter of Enoch and Elizabeth (Buffum) Metcalf, was born at Royalston Sept. 3, 1815, married Jan. 28, 1839, Elihu S. Hunt, of Lowell, Mass. She died April 4, 1864. They had four children.
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Isaac Newton Metcalf, second son of Enoch and Elizabeth (Buffum) Metcalf, was børn at Royalston March 8, 1818, removed early to Lowell, Mass. Choir boy at old St. Anne's Church of Lowell, in 1833, when fifteen years old; on account of his extra- ordinary musical ability, was made leader of St. Anne's choir. In 1862 became Musical Director of All Saints Church, Worces- ter; later of St. John's Church, of which he was junior warden. He was teacher of music in the schools of both Lowell and Worcester for many years, and was well-known as a composer of music. Easter Sunday, April 10, 1887, at 9 p. m., in the office of the Worcester Spy, where he was reporting the exercises of the day, he dropped dead, just as he was saying, "What a per- fect Easter Day it has been." He married Nancy Aiken of Lowell, Aug. 6, 1844. They had seven children.
Enoch B. Metcalf, third son of Enoch and Elizabeth (Buffum) Metcalf, was born in Royalston Dec. 14, 1823. Married Nancy Norton of Lowell. Died about 1865. They had two daughters.
Charles Hovey Metcalf, born April 22, 1837. Died Dec. 20, 1857.
Isaac Metcalf, sixth child of Pelatiah Metcalf and Lydia Estey, was born Feb. 3, 1783, in Royalston at the old place, "Under the Hill" now called West Royalston. He acquired some education and was a very successful teacher in Royalston and adjacent towns and in Boston. In 1810 he bought the farm north of Royalston Centre, long known as the Metcalf farm, and later as the Mosman farm. It is now the summer home of his grand-daughter, Miss Edith Ely Metcalf. He was married Nov. 10, 1810, to Lucy Heywood, daughter of Silas and Hannah (Goddard) Heywood. She was born July 10, 1797, and died childless June 29, 1820. Isaac Metcalf married again, March 1, 1821, Anna (Mayo) (Stevens) Rich, widow of Charles Rich of Warwick. She bad been a scholar of his some fifteen years before when he taught school in Warwick. She was the daughter of Wilder Stevens of Warwick and Elizabeth Mayo of Roxbury, and was born March 1, 1787. He died in Boston April 17, 1830. She died in Elyria, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1866. They had four children: Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Joseph Mayo Metcalf, Lucy Heywood Metcalf and Eliab Wight Metcalf.
Isaac Stevens Metcalf, oldest son of Isaac Metcalf and Anna Mayo Stevens Rich, was born Jan. 29, 1822, in Royalston. When a young boy he went with his half brother, Charles W.
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Rich, to Milo, Maine. He was a student in the Bangor High School, 1839 to 1841, after which he taught country schools winters and worked on a farm summers. He entered the sopho- more class in Bowdoin College in 1844, and graduated with his class in 1847. Went directly after college commencement to surveys on the Vermont and Massachusetts R. R., and was engaged in locating the line from Grout's, now Millers Falls, to Greenfield, and laying out the Connecticut River bridge. Later he was civil engineer on the N. H. Central R. R. Went west in the Spring of 1850, by stage over the Hoosac Tunnel Line to Troy, N. Y., down the Hudson to New York City, thence west on the first train over the then opening Erie R. R., stopping at Westfield, N. Y., thence by stage coach to Erie, Pa .; thence by steamboat to Cleveland and Detroit; thence by the very new, and then crude, Michigan Central R. R., across the State to Michigan City, its then terminus. By steam ferry to Chicago, then of some 30,000 inhabitants. On the same steamer came the first locomotive engine ever brought to Chicago, intended to run on a little strap railroad just beginning from Chicago out toward Elgin, perhaps the first railroad out of Chicago. He was given charge of the construction of the second division of the Illinois Central R. R., and had charge of all the money spent, expending over half a million dollars. When the road was com- pleted in 1855 he went to Chicago and handed his books and vouchers to George B. McClellan, then finance clerk in the Chicago office of the railway company, afterwards General McClellan. The chief engineer gave him a letter to the president and direc- tors of the road, saying that he had "done the most work with the least money" of any division engineer on the seven hundred miles of road. He then returned to New England, and after spending a year, settled in Elyria, Ohio, Nov., 1856, and ¡ ¡ made his home there until his death.
j .In Elyria he held many public positions. Was Township Trustee all through the Civil War times, and Colonel of the local Volunteer Militia. He was long a member of the Board of Education and for a time its President; held the offices of Ceme- tery Trustee, County School Examiner and Secretary of the County Agricultural Society. He was for many years clerk, secretary and treasurer of the First Congregational Church and Society, and was elected deacon for life. He was a director of the Savings Deposit Bank from its organization. He married
JACOB METCALF
ISAAC STEVENS METCALF
ELIAB WIGHT METCALF
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July 5, 1852, Antoinette Brigham Putnam, daughter of Rev. John Milton Putnam of Dunbarton, N. H., and Arethusa Brigham of Westboro, Mass. She died in Elyria, Aug. 14, 1875. They had twelve children, He married second, in Elyria, March 25, 1878, Harriet Howes, daughter of William Howes and Elizabeth West, who was born July 17, 1850, at Gatonwood House, Northampton, England. She died, in Elyria Dec. 7, 1894. They had six children. He died in Elyria Feb. 19, 1898, in the house which had been his home since 1857.
The children of Isaac Stevens and Antoinette Brigham (Putnam) Metcalf were:
1 Wilder Stevens Metcalf, born at Milo, Maine, Sept. 10, 1855, graduated Elyria High School, Oberlin College, and Kansas Univ- ersity Law School; colonel of Twentieth Kansas Volunteers in Spanish American War, Brevet Brigadier General, nine years United States pension agent, Topeka, Kansas; member National Militia Board under appointment of secretary of War; President Board of Education and Y. M. C. A .; Director Lawrence National Bank; dealer in Farm loans; resides at Lawrence, Kansas.
2 Charles Rich Metcalf, born in Elyria, Ohio, Aug. 1, 1857. Elyria Public schools; in farm loan business, Lawrence, Kansas.
3 Marion Metcalf, born at Elyria, May 1, 1859, graduated Elyria High School and Wellesley College; teacher Wellesley College and Hampton Institute, Virginia; Parish Visitor First Congregational Church, Oberlin, Ohio, County Board, etc.
4 Anna Mayo Metcalf, born at Elyria July 26, 1862, grad- uated Elyria High School and Oberlin College; married April 30, 1887, to Azariah Smith Root, Librarian Oberlin College. Two children: Francis Metcalf Root, graduated Oberlin College, graduate student in Zoology in Johns Hopkins University; Marion Metcalf Root, class of 1917, Oberlin College.
5 Rev. John Milton Putnam Metcalf, D. D., born Oct. 28, 1864, graduated Elyria Public Schools, Oberlin College, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, University of Berlin, has been pastor of Congregational churches in Wallace, Kansas; St. Louis, Mo .; Professor in Oberlin Theological Seminary; now President of Talladega College, Talladega, Ala. Two chil- dren : Franklin Post Metcalf, graduate Oberlin College, graduate student and instructor in Botany, Cornell University; Robert Wilder Metcalf in Oberlin College.
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6 Rev. Paul Harlan Metcalf, born Elyria, June 25th, 1867, graduated Elyria Public Schools, Oberlin College, Oberlin Theolo- gical Seminary; Y. M. C. A. Secretary and assistant Pastor of Congregational churches in South Bend, Indiana, Grand Rapids, Mich., Des Moines, Iowa, Elyria, Ohio; and social settlement headworker, Youngstown, Ohio. Now Executive Secretary Euclid Avenue Congregational church, Cleveland Ohio. Four children.
7 Grace Ethel Metcalf, born Elyria, Ohio, May 5, 1870, graduated Elyria Public Schools, Oberlin College, married Elyria, Aug. 5, 1895, to Harold Farmer Hall, died Chicago April 23, 1896.
8 Henry Martyn Metcalf, born Elyria Sept. 11, 1871, grad- uated Elyria High School, Oberlin College, and Medical School, University of Pennsylvania. Physician and surgeon Elyria, Ohio. One son.
9 Antoinette Putnam Metcalf, born Elyria Sept. 7, 1875, graduated Elyria High School, Oberlin College; reference libra- rian Oberlin College and Wellesley College.
Children of Isaac Stevens and Harriet (Howes) Metcalf.
1 Ralph Howes Metcalf, born Elyria Jan. 9, 1879. Fitted for College in Elyria High School, died Dec. 10, 1894.
2 Joseph Mayo Metcalf, born in Elyria Oct. 30, 1880, graduated Elyria High school, Oberlin College and Harvard University. Division engineer Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway. Address Muskogee, Okl. Four children:
3 Eliab Wight Metcalf, born Elyria, Dec. 26, 1881, graduated Elyria High School, Kansas University; civil engineer Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroad, address Seattle, Wash- ington.
4 Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Jr., born Elyria, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1883. Graduated Elyria High School, Oberlin College, journalist on editorial staff of Daily Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. One son.
5 Keyes Dewitt Metcalf, born in Elyria, April 13, 1889, graduated Elyria High School, Oberlin College, New York Library School. Now an assistant in New York City Public Library, married Martha Gerrish, June 16, 1914.
6 Thomas Nelson Metcalf, born Elyria. Sept. 21, 1890. Graduated Elyria High School, Oberlin College, graduate student Columbia University, and College of Physicians and
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Surgeons, teacher of physical training Horace Mann School, New York City, football coach Columbia University. Married Helen Waller, Dec. 23, 1915.
Joseph Mayo Metcalf, second son of Isaac Metcalf and Anna M. Stevens Rich, was born at Royalston July 25, 1823. Was educated in the public schools of Milo, Me., and the Boston High School. Taught school and was in business a short time. Died in Milo, Me., Dec. 31, 1850. With slight advantages of education, he was "a thorough scholar, a hero, a Christian gentleman."
Lucy Heywood Metcalf, third child of Isaac Metcalf and Anna M. Stevens Rich, was born at Royalston, May 20, 1825. Was educated in common schools of Milo, Me., and Foxcroft Academy. Taught school. Married at Milo, May 17, 1848, to Samuel Winkley Furber, who was born May 2, 1819. Lived in Bangor, Me. She died in Bangor Aug. 26, 1856. He died at Northfield, Minn., Sept. 19, 1895. They had three children.
Eliab Wight Metcalf, fourth and youngest child of Isaac Metcalf and Anna M. Stevens Rich, was born at Royalston April 18, 1827. The family moved to Boston the same year, and a few years later to Milo, Me. He became a member of the Congregational Church in Milo when nine years old. Taught two schools in Milo in winter of 1844 and 1845, and in April, 1845, just before his 18th birthday, he walked to Bangor, thirty- three miles, and became clerk and bookkeeper in the store of Walter Brown and Son, dealers in general merchandise and lumber. From 1851 till October, 1865, in business for himself in Bangor, lumber, ship chandlery and ship building. During the Civil War went at five different times, at his own expense, in the service of the Christian Commission. After the war in October, 1865, moved with his wife and five children to Elyria, Ohio. He dealt in timber lands in Pennsylvania, Southern Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Having lost a vessel burned by the English built cruiser, Shenandoah, he spent twelve winters in Washington, advocating the theory (which he origi- nated), that the forty-nine marine insurance companies, who claimed many millions of the Geneva Award, were entitled to nothing unless they could show actual loss above war pre- miums received. This theory was finally adopted by Congress, thus making it possible to pay from the Geneva Award for all
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the actual loss caused by the Confederate cruisers for which the losers had received no indemnity, and also for about one- third of the proved losses by the payment of war premiums. As attorney in fact collected for other losers a large number of claims, besides that for his own ship. He carried to a success- ful issue in the Supreme Court of the United States a suit against the city of Watertown, Wis., involving a new and important constitutional question. He was actively interested, both in Maine and Ohio, in temperance legislation, and drafted the County local option bill, which under different names and forms was before the Ohio Legislature for several years and became a law in 1909. It was advocated by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League of which he was one of the founders and in whose support and management he was earnest and untiring. He was trustee of Oberlin College for 19 years till his death. He married April 6, 1853, in Easthampton, Mass., Eliza Maria Ely, born at North Mansfield, Conn., Dec. 9, 1828, daughter of Rev. William Ely and Harriet Whiting. She had taught in Philadelphia and was Principal of the Ladies' Department at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. They had nine children of whom four died in infancy.
Irving Wight Metcalf, oldest son of Eliab Wight and Eliza (Ely) Metcalf, was born Nov. 27, 1855, in Bangor, Me. Educated in Bangor and Elyria public schools. Graduated Oberlin College 1878. One year at Andover Theological Seminary and two years at Oberlin Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1881. Ordained Jan. 31, 1882, as pastor of Eastwood Congre- gational Church, Columbus, Ohio, which he organized and of which he was pastor from Sept. 1881, to May 1889. Organized Central Congregational Church of Dayton, Ohio, and Hough Avenue Congregational Church, Cleveland. Superintendent Congregational City Missionary Society of Cleveland, associate pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, Secretary Board of Ministerial Relief of the Congregational Association of Ohio. In business from 1897. Officer and director of several corporations. Trustee of Oberlin College, Chairman Church Property Committee, National Council of Congregational Churches. Married in Elyria, May 20, 1885, to Flora Belle Mussey, who was born Dec. 15, 1857, daughter of Henry E. and Caroline M. Kendall Mussey. She graduated from Elyria High School, 1875, and Wellesley College, 1881. They have two
ISAAC METCALF HOUSE Now the Summer Home of His Grand-daughter, Miss Edith Ely Metcalf
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OLD METCALF HOUSE "UNDER THE HILL" Oldest House in Royalston
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children, Edith Eastwood, graduate of Wellesley College and Harold Mussey, graduate of Oberlin College.
Edith Ely Metcalf, daughter of Eliab Wight and Eliza (Ely) Metcalf, was born in Bangor, Me., May 18, 1859. Elyria Public Schools, Oberlin College, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1880. Studied at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Herkomer School, Bushey, Herts, England and in Paris. Cataloguer in Newberry Library, Chicago, student Bible Institute, Chicago, Has written several booklets about religious and social work in Chicago, and established in that city a free kindergarten. In 1902 she purchased the farm known for many years as the Mossman farm, formerly the Metcalf farn, which was the home of her grandfather Isaac Metcalf, and the birthplace of her father, in the north part of Royalston. She has made exten- sive improvements on the farm and buildings, and here she spends her summers.
Lucy Heywood Metcalf, daughter of Eliab Wight and Eliza (Ely) Metcalf, born Bangor, Me., March 29, 1857, Elyria Public Schools and Oberlin College. Married Elyria, Nov. 26, 1876 to Rev. Augustus G. Upton, who graduated Elyria Public Schools, Oberlin College and Theological Seminary and was Tutor in Oberlin College, pastor of Congregational churches in Windham and Wakeman, Ohio, Wayne, Michigan, Norwich, N. Y., Denver, Col., and Weiser, Idaho. Supt. New York State Home Mission- ary Society with residence at Syracuse, Librarian Colorado College, Principal of Weiser Academy, Waho. He died in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Nov. 20, 196. Mrs. Upton resides in Colorado Springs. One daughter, Marguerite Edith, graduate Barnard College, married Ernest Brehaut, a professor in Colorado College.
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