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5. Jonathan Shepardson, son of (Jonathan4), was born in Attleboro, in January, 1734-5. He married Miriam, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Carpenter) Follett. In 1768 the family moved to Templeton, Mass., and in 1790 to Royalston, being the first members of the Shepardson family to make this town their home. They both died the same day, Dec. 3, 1804.
He settled on the farm long known as the Tandy farm now owned by W. D. Graves. He had ten children, all of whom were married previous to the removal to Royalston. He left his place to his son John. Another son Isaac, settled on a farm nearly opposite the place known as the Bemis place.
6. Daniel Shepardson, son of (Jonathan5) settled on the place now owned and occupied by his grandson, Luke B. Shepardson, this place having been owned by the Shepard- son family more than a hundred years. He was born Oct. 6, 1775. He was a farmer, and married Sept. 9, 1801 Prudence, daughter of David and Elizabeth Cook. She died June 24, 1858, aged seventy-eight, and he died May 5, 1856, aged eighty. They had ten children: Jonathan, born Nov. 23, 1802; Pruda, born Aug. 12, 1804, married William Moore of Montague, Feb. 6, 1826, died June 26, 1877; Lity, born April 19, 1806, died June 5, 1820; Eliza, born April 4, 1808, married Charles Moore, March 9, 1829; David Cook, born May 31, 1810, died Sept. 7, 1813; Millie, born March 25, 1812, married George Moore of Athol, and died 1893; Daniel, born July 27, 1813; David Cook, born October, 1815; John, born April 12, 1820; Eri, born Sept. 10, 1821.
Jonathan Shepardson, oldest child of Daniel and Prudence Shepardson, was born in Royalston, Nov. 23, 1802. He was well educated for a man of his time, and spent a number of years of his early manhood teaching school, at which he had marked success, and especially with schools which were hard to discipline. After he was married he made his home
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at the foot of Doane hill on the place now owned and oc- cupied by Stephen Frye. He went into the lumber business, sawing board from logs with the old-fashioned, up and down saw. After the death of his wife he made his home with his daughter until Jan. 18, 1875, when he passed away at the age of 72 years and 2 months. He left behind him a record of a true, earnest, upright, Christian man, loved and respected by all who knew him. He married Nancy Jaseph of Warwick, March 29, 1825, and to them were born seven sons and one daughter: Quincy Adams, born Feb. 14, 1826; Lucius Frank- lin, born Dec. 24, 1828; Joseph Henry, born Dec. 31, 1831; Jonathan, born Oct. 11, 1835, and died Oct. 12, 1837; Mary Caroline, born June 3, 1837, she married Luke Emel Bemis, March 22, 1857, and died Jan. 30, 1906.
Lucius Franklin Shepardson, second son of Jonathan and Nancy (Jaseph) Shepardson was born Dec. 24, 1828. His education was received in the common schools of Royalston, at Shelburne Falls Academy, and Waterville College, now Colby University, Maine.
He married Maria L. Gage of Phillipston, Mass., in 1858; she died in October, 1877. They had one son, Frank L. Shepardson. He married, second, Miss Fannie Knight at Greenfield, Mass., Oct. 12, 1885; there were no children by his second wife. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church of Princeton, Me., in 1860, and was a Baptist minister for forty-four years. He died in East Westmoreland, N. H., Feb. 5, 1908.
About 1863 he went to Stamford, Vt. The churches of which he was pastor were: Warwick, Mass., 1864-1867; Three Rivers, Mass., 1867-1874; Rehoboth, Mass., 1874-1878; South Newfane, Vt., 1880-1882; West Wardsboro, Vt., 1884- 1886; Passumpsic, Vt., 1887-1889; Norton, Mass., 1889-1893; Chesham, N. H., 1893-1897; East Westmoreland, N. H., 1897- 1904. Lucius Franklin Shepardson died at East Westmore- land, N. H., Feb. 5, 1908. His widow lives in Troy, N. H.
Frank Lucius Shepardson, son of Lucius Franklin and Maria (Gage) Shepardson, was born at Princeton, Me., April 10, 1861. His preliminary education was received at the High School in Providence, R. I .; was graduated from Brown University in 1883. Taught in private school, Cumberland, Md., 1883- 84, on faculty of Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass.,
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1884-96, acting principal of Worcester Academy 1894-95, and principal of Colgate Academy, Hamilton, N. Y., 1896-1912. Since 1912 has been Treasurer of Colgate University and Associate Professor of Greek in the same institution. Traveled in Europe in the summers of 1887-1900 and 1912. Married in June, 1888 at Worcester to Miss Sarah Whidden, daughter of Charles R. Whidden of Calais, Me. They have two children. Joseph Henry Shepardson, third son of Jonathan and Nancy (Jaseph) Shepardson, was born in West Royalston, Dec. 31, 1831. His education was received at Shelburne Falls Academy and Waterville College, now Colby University, Maine. After graduating he taught school in Rahway, N. J. and then attended a theological seminary in Northern Vermont, where he pursued his studies. His first preaching was in the home church at West Royalston, and at Royalston Centre. He then supplied the Baptist Church at Cold Brook Springs (Barre), where he found his wife Martha Henry, whom he married in Warwick, Mass., Oct. 17, 1865. He then went to Princeton, Me., where he was ordained Dec. 3, 1865, and was pastor of a Baptist Church for a year. His wife died April 24, 1869, in her 31st year.
Soon after, at the solicitation of Rev. Amory Gale, who was State Missionary of the State of Minnesota for the Baptist denomination, he went to Minnesota where he be- came one of the Baptist missionaries, having charge of one or two counties. He located his home on a government home- stead in what was then known as Pleasant Valley. People came in rapidly from European nations, and a town was organized called Becker, of which Mr. Shepardson was made clerk, which office he held for thirty-eight years. He was also elected judge, which office he held for twenty-five years, when he resigned. He was for fifteen years pastor of the Baptist church of the town. He was married, second, to Ellen Rand, a school-teacher from Alton, Me., March 4, 1870. She died April 2, 1908.
He exchanged his farm for village property, and has re- signed all business to rest the remainder of his life. He is now (1915) in his 84th year, and as he says in a letter, "young as a chicken just hatched."
Daniel Shepardson, third son of Daniel and Prudence Cook Shepardson, was born in Royalston, July 27, 1813. He
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was the first of the family to attend college, spending two years at Amherst College and two years at Brown University. Was member of Alpha Delta Phi. Did not graduate, but received honorary degree of Master of Arts from Granville College (now Denison University) in 1846, and same degree from Brown University in 1853, also the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) in 1872. Moved to Ohio in 1841, traveling by stage to Albany, thence by packet boat on the Erie Canal thirteen days and nights to Buffalo, thence six more days by lake and Ohio Canal to Newark, Licking County. Was a Baptist minister in Zanesville, Cincinnati, Cheviot and Piqua; principal of Woodward High School, Cincinnati, 1855-1862, and for sixteen years a member of Board of Examiners and Inspectors of Schools in that city; principal of the Young Ladies' Institute, Granville, Ohio, 1868-1887, and founder of Shepardson College, the women's department of Denison University. Member of Board of Trustees of Denison University, 1843-1860 and 1880-1889. He died in Granville, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1899. He married Feb. 13, 1841, in Sandisfield, Mass., Harriet S. Wilcox, who died in Newark, Ohio, August, 1841; married, second, Dec. 1, 1842, Harriet Bestor Beard of Zanesville, Ohio, who died in Cincinnati, June 9, 1853; married, third, June 18, 1854, Eliza Ann, daughter of James Rogers and Hannah (Mulloy) Smart, who was born March 21, 1835, in Orange, Meigs County, Ohio.
He had twelve children of whom four died in infancy, the others were: Harriet Julia Shepardson, born April 29, 1852; married Feb. 1, 1876, James Murdock of Oneida, Ill .; she died March 9, 1879. Two children.
Mary Ella Shepardson, born May 3, 1856; married Oct. 28, 1882, Hiram Sterling Pomeroy of Sommers, Conn. He was a physician and resided in Boston. They had six children. Mrs. Pomeroy was the author of "Love's Crucible," a striking novel of much spiritual power. She died suddenly of heart failure at her home in Boston, before the book had come from the press.
Eliza Davis Shepardson, born Oct. 26, 1858, married Oct. 26, 1881, Charles Allen Marsh of Chicago, Ill .; she died April 22, 1889. They had four children.
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Johannah Shepardson, born Jan. 3, 1860, married Dec. 12, 1883, Francis Wilthorne of Granville, Ohio. They reside in Norfolk, Va., and have five children.
Francis Wayland Shepardson, born Oct. 15, 1862, was gradu- ated at Denison University in 1882, married Sept. 3, 1884, Cora Lenore Whitcomb of Clinton, Ind .; Professor of American History in the University of Chicago; has one son.
George Defrees Shepardson, born Nov. 20, 1864, was graduated at Denison University in 1885; married Aug. 31, 1892, Harriet King of King's Mills, Ohio; instructor in Cornell University in 1890-1; traveled in Europe in 1880 and 1905; Professor of Electrical Engineering in University of Minnesota since 1891; has one daughter.
Daniel Shepardson, born Dec. 1, 1868; he was graduated from Denison University, and before he was twenty-two years of age won the degree of PhD. at Yale. After travel in Europe, a theological course of study and several years' teaching of Hebrew, Arabic and English Bible in the American Institute of Sacred Literature, he entered the gospel ministry. He had been preaching only a few months when he suffered paralysis of his limbs, but he continued his work of preaching and teaching from one end of the United States to the other, and became known as the "Wheel-Chair Evangelist." He was regarded as one of the foremost Bible expositors of the day, and ranked with the most popular speakers at the Northfield summer conferences founded by Dwight L. Moody; he married Aug. 27, 1895, Mary Belle Smith of Newark, Ohio; he died Nov. 25, 1905, in Honolulu, H. I.
John Ernest Shepardson, born Oct. 26, 1877, was graduated at Denison University, and is now Instructor in Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; he is married and has one daughter and a son.
The four sons of Daniel Shepardson who grew up grad- uated from Denison University, Granville, Ohio; and of these, Daniel and Francis received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University, and George the same degree from Harvard University.
David Cook Shepardson, fourth son of Daniel and Prudence (Cook) Shepardson, was born Oct. 2, 1815. He married Emily Grout of Warwick, Oct. 26, 1835, and lived the most of his life after he was grown up in Warwick, Mass., where he
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was a farmer and also owned a sawmill and was engaged in the lumber business more or less. He had six children, four boys and two girls, all of whom are dead with the excep- tion of one son, Andrew Shepardson, who lives in Warwick.
Rev. John Shepardson, fifth son of Daniel6 and Prudence Shepardson, was born in Royalston, April 12, 1820. He was baptized at West Royalston by Rev. Thomas Marshall in 1831, ordained as a Baptist minister at New Salem and Prescott in June, 1842, served that church as pastor from 1842 to 1849, the church at Petersham, 1849 to 1872, Wales, 1872 to 1876, Greenfield, 1876 to 1878, supplied at Norton, 1887 to 1889, and died at Taunton, Dec. 14, 1889.
Of his early days he wrote as follows: "My parents were of the Puritanic type fully believing that Sunday was the Lord's Day, and that it was their duty to worship God in his sanctuary on that day, and although being five miles from church, all must go. As their family was large, consisting of six sons and four daughters, some must necessarily walk, but none were excused from going."
He commenced to teach when 13 years old, his first school consisting of 40 scholars, several of whom were over 21 years of age, yet he held it under strict discipline, and carried it through with marked success. The pay was $14 a month, and board round. As teacher his work was important, and continued at intervals for 38 years. He managed the Oread Institute at Worcester, from 1864 to 1866 and saved it from threatened collapse; founded the Highland Institute in Peter- sham, a school of high grade, which he managed in addition to his church work from 1866 to 1872. As a preacher he had unusual gifts; as a pastor he was assiduous in labor, wise in counsel, tender and sympathetic in feeling, and all his pastorates were eminently successful.
He was married in June, 1842 to Miss Maria A. Chamber- lain of New Salem, the wedding taking place on the morning of his ordination. She was a most estimable lady, who, to the highest qualities of the wife and the mother, added rare tact and ability as a helper in pastoral work. They had two children: Adeliza F., born Aug. 16, 1844 and Ella S., born June 29, 1847. The former married Willard T. Leonard, A. M., March 18, 1863. They have three children: Florence E., Annie M. (Mrs Ernest Baldwin) and Mabel L.
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Ella S. Shepardson married Rev. Francis E. Tower of Petersham, Nov. 30, 1868. They have three children: Ralph W., Maude H. (Mrs. J. H. Peck) and Ethel E. Mr. Tower is pastor of a Baptist church in Albany, N. Y. Mrs. John Shepardson died Aug. 4, 1873, and he was married, second, Aug. 18, 1874.
Eri Shepardson, youngest child of Daniel and Prudence (Cook) Shepardson, was born in Royalston, Sept. 10, 1821. He remained on the old homestead and was engaged in farm- ing and lumbering. He was a prominent member of the Baptist church at West Royalston, and was trustee of the Bullock fund for that church. He was treasurer of Star Lodge of Masons of Athol for twenty-five years in succession. He married Elvira S. Bemis, Jan. 5, 1843. They had six children: John, Daniel, Edmund C., Susan Steele, Luke B. and Delia M.
John, born Dec. 27, 1843, enlisted in the Civil War in the Thirty-sixth Mass. Regiment, and was killed in action June 17, 1864.
Daniel Shepardson, son of Eri and Elvira (Bemis) Shepard- son, was born Oct. 29, 1844. His education was received in the Royalston schools and at Highland Institute, Petersham, and Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass. He did not graduate from either of these institutions, but did graduate from Newton Theological Institute. He preached for seven years in Hancock, Mass., and then for a number of years in towns in New York State. He married Emma Wylie of Hancock, Mass., in June, 1876, and died in that town Dec. 17, 1908.
Edmund C. Shepardson, third son of Eri and Elvira (Bemis) Shepardson, was born at Royalston, Dec. 2, 1847. His education was received at the district school in Royalston. He was named Cincinattus, but not liking that name, Feb. 1, 1870, he had his name changed to Edmund C. Shepardson. When twenty-one years of age he went to Orange to work in the New Home Sewing Machine shops. He went to Athol in 1882, and went to work in the machine shop of C. F. Rich- ardson, where L. S. Starrett was then having his tools made, and when Mr. Starrett opened a shop of his own Mr. Shepard- son went with him, and was employed there until his death. For many years he was superintendent of the plant, but
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during the later years of his life was an inspector. He was actively interested in politics and was for a number of years chairman of the Republican town committee. He served with credit in the Massachusetts Legislature for the years of 1902 and 1903. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Star Lodge, Union Royal Arch Chapter and Athol Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he was Eminent Commander, and was Master of Star Lodge. He was also a member of the Odd Fellows, serving as Noble Grand of Tully Lodge, and was a charter member of Banner Rebekah Lodge. He was married Jan. 3, 1874 to Emma Louise Turner, daughter of John and Elmira (Emery) Turner of Orange. He died Oct. 30, 1910 and was buried in Orange
Susan Steele Shepardson, oldest daughter of Eri and Elvira Shepardson, was born Nov. 15, 1849. She was a well-known school-teacher for several years, and married Luther E. Stewart April 10, 1878, by whom she had three children. Mr. Stewart died in September, 1914, and Mrs. Stewart resides in Royalston.
Luke B. Shepardson, youngest son of Eri and Elvira Shepardson, was born Sept. 9, 1851, of whom a sketch appears in the chapter on Town Government.
Delia M. Shepardson, youngest child of Eri and Elvira Shepardson, was born July 3, 1853. She married A. B. Wood in Royalston, Nov. 6, 1872, by whom she had three children, one having been born in Royalston and two in Putney, Vt. She was married, second, in Royalston, July 2, 1891, to George W. Smith, by whom she had one child, born in East Long- meadow.
THE NICHOLS FAMILY
The Royalston Memorial says, "Henry, Isaac and William Nichols from Sutton, had early settlements in town." Henry, who was known as "Landlord Nichols," took up the farm formerly known as the C. H. Maxam farm and later owned by Deacon Henry Wood, where he kept a public house. Hav- ing lost his wife in 1781, he married Aug. 8, 1782, Mrs. Mehitable Gale, widow of Isaac Gale, and subsequently settling his son Henry on the home place, removed to the
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"Mill lot" and carried on the mills, near the "falls." He settled his son Elijah on this place.
Elijah Nichols was born July 25, 1770, at Oxford. He built a house north of the falls at the corner of the roads, and afterwards built upon the Common north of the Lee place, where he died in 1856 at the age of 83 years. He married Mrs. Asenath Fairbanks of Royalston, Oct. 16, 1827. Their children were: John Hubbard Church and Joseph Town. John H. C. Nichols was born Aug. 22, 1828, and was killed by lightning when he was sixteen years old.
Joseph Towne Nichols, son of Elijah and Asenath (Fair- banks) Nichols, was born in Royalston, Feb. 8, 1832. He married April 7, 1858, Martha G. Turner, daughter of Leonard and Mary P. Turner of Phillipston. They were married by Rev. E. W. Bullard in the Nichols homestead on Royal- ston Common, now the home of Dr. Frank W. Adams, and directly across the street from the residence which was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols until his death.
In 1908 they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, and this occasion was one of the most enjoyable social events in the history of Royalston. In 1861 Mr. Nichols enlisted in Co. I, 25th Mass. Regiment Volunteers, where he served three years; he was then transferred to Co. A, 55th Infantry. At the close of the war, he was a first lieutenant and had a fine record as a brave soldier, serving his country with exemplary fidelity and great courage. After the war, he learned the undertaking business in Fitchburg, and was the Royalston undertaker until he retired from active business a few years ago. During his residence in Royalston, he has filled every town office. He was Chairman of the Selectmen for nine years (during which time the town enjoyed a low tax rate and great prosperity); he filled every office with ability and good judgment.
Mr. and Mrs. Nichols had five children, one of whom, Jessie Wilder Nichols, died while her father was at the front serving his country, and the other four are now living. Leonard is Shipping Commissioner for the Port of Providence, R. I., and Frederic C., Treasurer of the Fitchburg Savings Bank. Sketches of them appear in another chapter. Mary Louise is wife of S. Weston Wheeler of New York, and they
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have two children, Sidney W. and Ruth; Agnes is wife of Cornelius Quinlan of Athol; they have one daughter, Marjorie.
Iscac Nichols, one of the first settlers, settled south of his brother Henry on the place long known as the Francis Chase place. He organized with the Congregational Church in 1766; was chosen deacon in 1781; and removed to Croydon, N. H., about 1790. His son Isaac is one of those who are claimed as the first-born of Royalston. The names of nine children of Isaac and Dorcas Nichols appear on the records, of whom six give the dates of baptism only. Ammi Nichols, son of Deacon Isaac Nichols was born in Royalston, Aug. 10, 1781. Although he was graduated at no college he obtained a good education, passed through a regular course of theological study under the instruction of Rev. Asa Burton, D.D., of Thetford, Vt., and was in the ministry for more than sixty years. He was one of the vice-presidents at the Centennial celebration. The Deacon Nichols' place, after his removal from town was owned a few years by David, son of "Landlord Nichols," and was then sold to Abraham Eddy.
William Nichols, the third of the first Nichols settlers, bought the place settled by Bezaleal Barton, and carried on both the farm and the mill on the Lawrence, west of his home. He went by the name of "Miller Nichols." When customers needed him at the mill they rang a bell suspended upon the premises, the signal for "Miller Nichols" to leave his farm duties, and attend to the callers under the hill.
THE ESTABROOKS
One of the most prominent families of Royalston for nearly three-quarters of a century was the Estabrook family. Joseph Estabrook, the first of the family connected with Royalston history was born in Holden, Mass., Aug. 1, 1770. He probably came to Royalston in the closing years of the eighteenth century and was for many years a prominent merchant and dealer in cattle. He was Royalston's first post- master, was Town Clerk in 1804, '05, '08, '09 and 1810, Selec- man seven years, between 1803 and 1816, and Representative to the General Court for eight years, between 1809 and 1825, and State Senator in 1828. In his later years he became a
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noted grazier and cattle dealer, having hundreds of oxen and other cattle feeding in the pastures of Royalston and sur- rounding towns. One of his pastures in the west part of the town was sold for $3600, and it was said that the herd's grass was so high in this pasture that you could not see the oxen feeding there. It was said that at one time Joseph Estabrook of Royalston and Samuel Sweetzer of Athol con- trolled the Brighton market.
Governor Bullock in his Centennial Address described him as "Esquire Joseph Estabrook, our first postmaster, our first gentleman, our first Senator, to my perceptions blending the old and new school of manners, who began as a trader and adopted in later years the pleasant vocation of a grazier, having a genius for noble cattle as quick and intuitive as Daniel Webster ever possessed, whose blood, whether remain- ing here or transfused in honorable connections in other places, honors the parent stock." He died 1829.
He was married three times. First to Polly Holman of Sterling, May 3, 1801, second to Ruth Greenwood, June 17, 1810 and third to Mrs. Hannah Reed, Oct. 28, 1818. His children were: Mary, born 1807, Joseph, born April 16, 1811 and Maria, born April 29, 1813. Ruth, his second wife, died Sept. 16, 1814 in her 38th year.
Joseph Estabrook, son of Joseph and Ruth (Greenwood) Estabrook, born April 16, 1811, was also a merchant in Royalston and manufactured palm leaf hats. He went to Worcester, where he was in mercantile business for a while with George C. Richardson, after which he returned to Royalston, which was his home until his death in 1882. He was Town Treasurer in 1840, Assessor in 1840 and 1841 and Representative to the General Court in 1857. He married Harriet M. Mirick of Princeton, Mass., Feb. 24, 1840.
They had four children all born in Royalston: Harriet, born in 1842 and died in 1860; Joseph P., born in 1846, married Harriet E. Heywood, September, 1880, and is now living in Cambridge; Maria C., born 1848 and died in 1863; and Elizabeth C., born in 1867, and now living in Arlington, Mass.
Mary H. Estabrook, daughter of Hon. Joseph and Polly (Holman) Estabrook, was born in Royalston in 1807. She married Hon. Isaac Davis of Worcester in 1829. He was one of the most distinguished members of the Worcester County
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Bar, was twice elected to the State Senate, was a member of the Governor's Council, three times Mayor of Worcester, three times the Democratic candidate for Governor of Massa- chusetts, and was offered by President Pierce the position of Assistant Treasurer of the United States. They had ten children, four sons and six daughters. One of the sons, Edward Livingston Davis, was Mayor of Worcester in 1874. Mrs. Davis died in 1875 and Isaac Davis in 1883.
Maria Estabrook, daughter of Hon. Joseph and Ruth (Greenwood) Estabrook, born in Royalston, April 29, 1813, married Edwin Conant, a prominent citizen of Worcester, in October, 1833. They had two daughters.
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