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The early home of the Swanzey Matthews was where T. Fitzgerald now resides. Here lived Solomon, Jolin H. and Levi. They made brick on the farm. Levi removed to Marlboro'. Edwin B., a black- smith, also lives in Marlboro'. James H. has been a hotel keeper in Brattleboro', Vt., and in several towns in Mass. He now resides in Milford, Mass.
BENJAMIN MEAD and his son Benjamin F., farmers and brick-ma- sons, came from Marlow to Keene, thence in 1862 to Swanzey, locat- ing on R. R. Ramsdell, jr., place. Benjamin F. bought his present home in 1884.
JOEL MELLEN came from Fitzwilliam and became an extensive land owner and farmer in Swanzey. His home was the Benjamin Read place, the house on which he built. One Saturday as he was riding from Keene towards home he overtook Rev. Z. S. Barstow, then a young man who had recently been settled in that town, and was walk- ing with umbrella in hand to make an exchange with a neighboring minister on the morrow. Mr. Mellen, not knowing him, asked the stranger to ride, which invitation was gladly accepted. Learning that
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his companion was from Keene, Mr. M. referred to the fact that they had a new minister there. "Ah !" said the Reverend, "How do they like him? What kind of a man is he?" "Well," replied Mr. M., "I haven't heard him myself, but they say he is a regular spouter." The reply was interesting to the future D.D., and the story was often told by him in after years.
JONAS H. MERRIAM, a basket maker, came to this town from Athol, Mass., about 1836, and lived at several places in East Swanzey. He . was fife major nine months in the war of 1812, and stationed at Black Rock. His son William learned the tanner's trade in Swanzey and has since resided in Springfield and Palmer, Mass.
IRUS METCALF, a farmer, died where Hannah Read lives in West- port. John W. has been a hotel keeper in Troy and other places. William H. and Charles N. reside in Winchester. Caleb H. Metcalf was a mechanic and died in a western state.
LAWSON MOORE, son of Lawson, a farmer, lived where his grandson Frank now resides and at other places in town. William Moore died July 12, 1887. He was a farmer and laborer, and probably threshed more grain than any other Swanzey man. Jonas L. is a farmer and broom maker. George H. lived on C. R. Worcester place, removed to California and now with his two sons and a daughter resides there.
FRANCIS MORSE, a manufacturer at West Swanzey many years ago, removed to Keene, thence to Winchester where he still lives.
HENRY MORSE was a noted hotel keeper on the "Jonathan Clark" farm. His son Isaac was a tanner and a prominent man in Winchen- don, Mass.
HENRY2 MORSE was an active man in town affairs, and a hotel keeper on Levi Crouch place.
ANSIL A. MORSE was born in Stoddard, spent his youthful days in Marlow, taught school at the west and is now a farmer and lumber dealer in Swanzey.
ELISHA MUNSELL was a wheelwright and lived on E. A. McFar- land place. His sons, Robert B. and Elisha, live in Keene, the for- mer a manufacturer of sash and blinds, and the latter a wooden-ware manufacturer at Swanzey Factory.
BAXTER MURDOCK and his son Jacob B. lived in Westport on Win- chester line and were millwrights. The son removed to Winchester.
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JESSE W. MURPHY has been a farmer, school teacher and prominent pail manufacturer.
BENJAMIN NADOW, a farmer and teamster.
NATHAN F. NEWELL was born in Richmond, became a machinist, was master workman nine years in a R. R. shop in Worcester. Worked also in Piermont, N. Y., and Bloomington, III. Returned to Richmond in 1866, and came to East Swanzey in 1880. He was a Mason, a member of the Grand Army. and of the order of the Golden Cross. His son, Leonard A., is an employé in the mills.
GEORGE F. NEWELL lives at Swanzey Centre. Has recently pur- chased the G. H. Rockwood place.
CALVIN NEWTON was a farmer in Marlborough, then lived on High street, West Swanzey, and then went to Marlborough again.
RIPLEY NITTROWR, a teamster, hotel keeper, etc., has his home with Mrs. G. W. Alexander. His son, John S., is a teamster and employé in the mills at West Swanzey.
ORRIN F. OAKMAN, when a young man, bought the J. Handy farm and lived there several years. He then removed to his present resi- dence in West Swanzey. His son, Walter F., is an operative in the box shop.
WILLIAM C. OAKMAN went from this town to Iowa and became a prominent farmer and legislator. He has now returned to Swanzey.
The Olcotts were residents of West Swanzey, and except Otis, were well-to-do farmers. Benjamin, James and James H. were residents of the Charles L. Ball place. James H. removed to Illinois.
GEORGE OLIVER was a manager in cotton mills in several places, a farmer on C. L. Lane place and a merchant at East Swanzey.
His son, George W., has been remarkably successful in a pottery establishment in Syracuse, N. Y.
DANIEL OSBORN lived on Mrs. J. D. Hale place. Was a farmer.
The OSGOODS came from Lancaster, Mass., and settled in the south part of the town. Elijah and Oliver removed to Sullivan. Ezekiel located on the Mrs. Twitchell place and was a farmer. Of his chil- dren, Elisha had a store where L. N. Howes now lives; afterwards was a hotel keeper and merchant at Westport where he died. Ros- well S. was a farmer on Josephus Handy place. He subsequently removed to Saxton's river, Vt. Ezekiel and Elliot, sons of Elisha,
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also went to Saxton's river and were merchants and dealers in horses, carriages, etc.
SAMUEL PAGE came from Hudson, and located where his grand- son Leander now lives. Of his sons Ephraim lived on a part of the old homestead, the Alonzo Ballou place ; Major Ezekiel was a prom- inent farmer where his father lived; David was a machinist, lived at Factory Village and other places. Of the third generation Benjamin was prominent as a manufacturer at E. Swanzey and as a merchant and postmaster, etc., at the centre. He was the prime mover in found- ing and building the Mt. Caesar Seminary and Swanzey Academy. Calvin was a speculator, deputy sheriff, etc. Ira and Orlando re- moved to Vienna, New York, and were millers. Ambrose was a tanner, died in New York City. Ezekiel T. was a hotel keeper near Boston, and afterwards went to Omaha, Neb. Meranda operated a hotel in Stowe, Mass. Leander, a reliable farmer, has recently cele- brated his golden wedding on the old homestead. Of the children of the latter, Charles E. is an employé in the mills at W. Swanzey; Henry L. is a meat and provision dealer in Marlboro, and George G. a farmer and teamster on his father's farm.
W. ALEXANDER PALMER is a maker of brush handles in Brooklyn, N. Y., and his brother D. Sanford, a runner for Babbitt's soap : lives in Franklin Park, Mass. Their mother still resides at W. Swanzey.
AMASA PARKER and his son Joshua lived on Lorenzo Ballou place. Of the children of the latter, Joshua removed to Marlboro', Mass., and was a teamster; Benjamin went to Vermont; Eliza was a good school teacher. After her marriage she removed to the west.
LYMAN PARKER was born in Keene but spent most of his life in Swanzey, an active business man, a carpenter, miller and farmer, lived at E. Swanzey and at the Centre. He built and successively occupied the houses where A. B. Read, J. G. Huntley and Geo. W. Draper now reside.
ROSWELL PARKER sold his manufacturing interests at E. Swanzey and removed to Oneida, N. Y.
CARLTON PARKER lived where his widow still resides.
JOSEPH L. was a manufacturer of wooden ware at the Centre and W. Swanzey, also a merchant at the latter place.
BENJAMIN F. lives in Penn. Clarence A. is a pail painter at W. Swanzey.
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DEA. AARON PARSONS came from Palmer, Mass., and located on the farm which has since been successively occupied by his son Josiah and grandson Josiah. Benjamin Parsons the father of Dea. Aaron came to spend his remaining days with his son. All these made farming their principal business. Josialı, the present occupant of the farm, was chairman of the board of selectmen during the war of the Rebel- lion, and with his associates safely engineered our finances through all those trying years.
SILAS PARSONS, son of Aaron, lived on Mrs. A. R. Ballou and M. C. Stone places. He was a celebrated maker of clocks, some of which were so constructed as to play a regular psalm tune on Sunday and secular tunes on other days of the week. He gave largely for Home and Foreign missionary objects, about $20,000 in all.
SILAS PARSONS, JR., was an ingenious mechanic, but delicate in health ; and died in early manhood, Oct. 7, 1839.
DAVID PARSONS was a farmer and carpenter, living most of his manhood on A. S. Whitcomb and D. Parsons places. The latter farm he sold a short time previous to his death. His son, Orlow E., is a resi- dent of W. Swanzey and a box manufacturer.
BENJAMIN PARSONS, of another family, had a tannery a little west of A. S. Whitcomb's.
JACOB PATCH was a laborer at W. Swanzey. His son Lyman is a stove dealer in Fitchburg, Mass.
SILAS B. PARTRIDGE has been a pail and bucket maker botlı at Fac- tory Village and W. Swanzey. Has also been selectman. His sons, S. Emerson and C. Edward, are also manufacturers, the former over- seer in Clark's factory in Marlboro', and the latter in a pail shop in Winchester.
WARREN H. PEASLEY was an operative in the mills at Factory Vil- lage.
WILLARD S. PERHAM has for many years been enployed in Factory Village shops. Was selectman two years.
About 1840 and previous to that time Alexander Perry was a prom- inent farmer on E. W. Handy place.
Another family of PERRYS lived in the southi part of the town. John and Nahum where Walter H. now resides. They were farmers and lumber men. Alpheus owned the place where P. Gunn now lives.
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He was a farmer. His son Edward was a school teacher, farmer, merchant, etc., living at various places in Swanzey. Martin and Jo- seph lived successively on S. Bishop place. Noah is now a prosperous farmer in Richmond. Byron D. also lives in Richmond and George W. in Winchester. Jairus, after leaving Swanzey, spent the rest of his life in Richmond. Oliver B. lives in Keene ; a laborer.
JESSE and BARNABAS C. PETERS were prominent men in Westport, the former a hotel keeper, the latter a tailor, removed to Winchester. Francis R. is a jeweller in Winchester.
JAMES PIERCE was a farmer on W. H. Leonard place. His son, Gen. James Pierce, went with his family to Pennsylvania and identi- fied himself with the coal mining and iron business, and became very wealthy. He died recently and is said to have been a millionaire. Both he and his wife gave largely for religions and educational ob- jects.
WILLIAM PIERCE and his son, Job W., are well-to-do farmers in Missouri.
JOHN PIERCE, a farmer, lived on the P. Hare place.
MIKE G. PLUFF is a teamster and farmer in the eastern part of the town.
JAMES PLUMMER, a laborer living in Westport, came from Win- chester.
SETH POMEROY, son of Seth, lived on Mrs. McFarland place, and his son Benjamin, a laborer, on Mrs. B. Pomeroy place. Nathaniel B. has been a prosperous tanner in Townsend, Vt. David A. was killed in Vermont. Albert is a mechanic in Mass.
REUBEN PORTER was a school teacher, a merchant at the Centre and other localities. Removed to Chesterfield. Francis J. Porter lived at the Centre in steam-mill times and then at West Swanzey. J. Byron is a farmer.
STEPHEN and JOHN POTTER were cloth dressers and farmers at the outlet of Swanzey pond.
EL.BRIDGE G. PRENTICE was a laborer in Westport. Jolın M. is a farmer living on A. Ballou place.
JOSHUA J. PRIME was a farmer and lived on J. L. Winch place. His brother, Josiah, lived in a house that stood in the lot a little east of Joshua's.
JOSIAH PARSONS,
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THOMAS PRIME, a farmer, lived on Frank H. Moore place and spent his last years in Maine.
JOSIAH PRIME, JR., was a carpenter, living in West Swanzey until his removal to Pennsylvania.
GEORGE H. PRIME lives at West Swanzey, an employe of H. D. Thompson.
The QUINNS are employés in the West Swanzey mills.
ABRAHAM RANDALL settled in the east part of Swanzey (now Troy) and then moved to J. W. Murphy place. Asahel, his son, lived there also, and built the house now standing. A large family of his sons remained unmarried with their father till about 1830, when most of them went to Oneida, New York. Roswell was a clothier at E. Swanzey when he removed to the West.
Dr. PAUL RAYMOND was a practising physician at the Centre and died young.
AQUILA RAMSDELL, the ancestor, lived first on Mrs. C. Holbrook place. He then removed to the farm which has since been successively occupied by his son Elisha, grandson Aquila and now by Mrs. Rams- dell and Henry A. They were farmers and carpenters. Capt. James M. Ramsdell removed to Penn.
CHARLES G. RAMSDELL and his son Eugene C. excel as musicians ; the latter standing preeminently high. He resides at Music Hall, Boston, is a dealer in musical instruments and one of the most accomplished band leaders in New England. Richard R., James M., as well as Charles G., are all wooden-ware manufacturers at East Swanzey. Richard R., jr., is both farmer and brick mason. Edgar E. is a watch dealer at West Swanzey. Henry A. is a farmer and clock repairer.
TIMOTHY READ, a shoemaker, the first of the family in Swanzey, located first on Oscar Farr place, remained there a few years when he built a house on the hill about a mile east where he lived the rest of his life. His sons located as follows : Joel, a farmer, on Thomas Naylon's place. John, a shoemaker, on A. G. Read place. Josiah P., a farmer, on Oscar Farr place. Benjamin, a farmer, in Shrews- bury, Vt. Robert, a carpenter in Allegany Co., N. Y. Passing to the next generation, most of the daughters of Joel, as factory opera- tives, acquired a handsome fortune.
Of the sons of John, Abel W., a farmer and mechanic, lived on his father's homestead where also resides his son Albert G.
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Timothy was an extensive farmer in Danby, Vt. A daughter of his was deaf, dumb and blind, but quite intelligent.
John was a hotel keeper in Fitzwilliam. Daniel accumulated quite a fortune as a stone mason, but losing it went to California where he died.
Charles, a cooper, located in Hartford, Conn. Rawson, a carpen- ter, also went to Hartford and became a dealer in furniture, but re- turned to the old homestead.
DEA. WILLIAM READ had his home and died on T. W. Parkinson place. He was a farmer, was fifty-six years clerk of the Congrega- tional society ; was actively engaged in town, church and educational matters. He was for many years a justice of the peace.
DEA. JOSIAH MILES READ has spent most of his manhood near Bos- ton, doing successful business in that city, first as a patentee, manu- facturer and dealer in boot forms, and later as a patentee and dealer in stoves and stove furniture. His home is now in Everett.
HON. BENJAMIN READ, popularly known as "Col. Read," or simply, "The Colonel," has been an extensive farmer, a merchant, lumber dealer, pail manufacturer, school officer and teacher, justice of the peace and town historian. . He has, with the exception of a few years in early manhood, resided in East Swanzey and been identified with the interests of that village. He was one of the first, if not the first, in this town to ally himself with the interests of the Abolition or Lib- erty party, which at that time was anything but popular; and he has ever been actively engaged in political matters. Being a modest man and disliking to speak about himself, this paragraph is written by one of the committee on town history.
EDWIN F. READ, a manufacturer most of his life, has been at differ- ent times a resident of East and West Swanzey, Westport, Keene, Boston and vicinity. Wherever he has lived he has been public spirited, actively engaged in the interests of morality, education, tem- perance, etc. He has been too generous or too confiding in others to get or retain wealth. He now resides with his daughter, Mrs. I. A. Whitcomb, in Somerville, Mass.
GEORGE H. READ was in the sanitary commission during the war, and for many years afterwards in the pension office at Washington. Ile now resides in Baltimore.
JOEL READ, son of William, lived several years on G. W. East- man place, then in Keene an employé on the railroad, and is now in a restaurant in Chicago.
ALBERT B. READ.
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FRANCIS READ is an employé in the railroad shops and resides in Keene.
Of the sons of Benjamin, Albert B. has been merchant and post master in East Swanzey, but now (1892) has purchased a bakery in Winchendon, Mass., and removed thither. Willie F. was an employé in the mills till 1886, when he removed to Fitchburg, Mass., and went into a grocery store. Edwin M. is a grocer in Fitchburg, and Josiah Warren was a teamster but now is in a coal establishment in the same city.
RUFUS AND JOSIAH READ, farmers, lived respectively on Marshall W. Rixford and Mrs. A. Read places in Westport. Of the children of the former, David was a farmer on the old homestead, killed in the woods; Joel was a brick maker in Albany, N. Y .; Josiah an exten- sive farmer in Ill. ; Alanson, a farmer and laborer in Westport ; Henry P. has been pail maker and painter in Westport and Winchester.
ALLEN READ, son of Josiah, was a farmer on his father's place as is also his son George A.
ADONIRAM J. READ was an employe in the Westport Mills.
JOSEPH MASON READ has been an extensive box manufacturer in Westport and Keene. His sons, J. Carlon and George M., are now associated with him in the business.
PETER RICE was a farmer living on Alfred Talbot place.
NELSON W. RICE was a farmer at E. Swanzey ; now resides in Troy. JOHN S. RICE is a teamster at E. Swanzey.
JACOB E. RICH and J. OTIS RICH are pail turners at W. Swanzey.
WYMAN RICHARDSON, the ancestor, located on E. W. Handy place, a farmer, sickle maker, etc. His son Wyman was a blacksmith and lived on L. N. Hewes place. Elkanah was a school teacher and be- came a prominent man in Ohio.
The sons of Wyman were all mechanics and prosperous in business. Wyman, Nathaniel and Luna were machinists in Athol, Mass. Wy- man afterwards removed to Fitchburg, Mass., and died there. Nathan Henry learned the machinist's trade in Athol where he worked about eight years when he was employed by the American Rattan Co. of Fitchburg as superintendent of their works at that place. He contin- ued here during the existence of the company some twenty-five years, when he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., being employed by the Union Rattan Co. of that city. He was very successful in both places, mak-
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ing many improvements, and patenting several inventions which have given him a competency. He now resides in Athol.
WILLIAM CARR BELDING RICHARDSON is now an extensive coal dealer in Chicago.
ERIE, son of Dr. Amos Richardson, lived in the southwest part of Keene on Swanzey line. His son Amos, "the Giant," lived on the ad- joining farm in Swanzey. As an illustration of his great strength the following incident is vouched for as true. At the "raising" of the Baptist meeting house in 1804, on the frame about 20 feet from the ground a stick of timber was placed which was 36 feet long, 8 by 13 inches in the centre and tapering uniformly to each end where it was 8 by 8 inches. It was necessary to turn this stick so that the north end should be at the south. The "Giant" was asked by his compan- ions to assist in the performance. He replied, "Gentlemen please stand aside and I will do it alone." Sampson-like, he bowed himself to the task and accomplished the feat amid the plaudits of the spectators.
His son Capt. Amos lived many years on the old homestead, but as the hill farms were being deserted he abandoned his and removed to the centre of the town there keeping a boarding house, running a store, etc. His son, Lloyd D., has been an employé and manager for railroad companies in New England, in Chicago and now in Arkansas. Most of his brothers, and in fact, many of the descendants of Dr. Amos Richardson were in business connected with railroads, and nearly all have been quite successful. As a family they have been strong and athletic, the sons knowing how to drive a spike with telling effect, or manage any business intrusted to them to the satisfaction of their em- ployers. It is said that one of the daughters would readily take a barrel of cider from the ground and lift it into a cart.
BENJAMIN H. RICHARDSON lived many years on A. B. Dickinson farm, then at Spragueville, a dealer in ice for the Keene market.
GEO. W. RICHARDSON is a farmer, carpenter and ice dealer at W. Swanzey.
WILLIAM RIDER was a manufacturer at Swanzey Factory, and at E. Swanzey. His daughter, Jane C., a very noted somnambulist, was born in this town in 1816. In 1833, she performed in Worcester, Mass., some of the most remarkable somnambulistic feats known to the medical profession.
WILLIAM N. RIPLEY and Charles W., his son, are laborers at E. Swanzey.
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MARSHALL W. RIXFORD came from Winchester and is a farmer in Westport. His brother, Ephraim P., is a stone mason at W. Swanzey. Artemas W. is an employé in the West Swanzey mills.
PATRICK H. and GEORGE ROBBINS are stone masons and contractors at West Swanzey.
MATTHEW ROBLEY, a brick maker, was a deserter from the English army, into which service he had been impressed. He removed to Northfield, Mass.
NATHAN C. ROGERS was a shoemaker living at W. Swanzey. His son, Amasa S., was a farmer on P. Hare place.
JUSTICE ROGERS was a farmer on A. G. Bennett place, but for many years past has lived in Keene.
GEORGE W. ROBINSON, a laborer, lived at West Swanzey.
Rev. ELISHA ROCKWOOD, D.D. (See Chap. V.)
SAMUEL ROCKWOOD came from Fitzwilliam, built the house marked G. H. Rockwood on the map, and which is now owned by G. F. New- ell, a farmer and employé in the mills.
His son, Charles H., lived several years in Troy before locating as a farmer where he now resides. George H. is a school teacher, as were also all his sisters. He fitted for college at Bernardston, Mass., graduated at Dartmouth College, and has taught very successfully the higher grades of school in Jaffrey, Medway, Mass., Portsmouth, North Brookfield, Mass., Marlboro', Mass., and Chicago, IlI.
The RUGG family in Revolutionary times lived near Volney A. Marcy place.
CHARLES L. RUSSELL, of the firm of C. L. Russell & Co., is one of the most extensive pail and bucket manufacturers in Swanzey, or in the county.
He was born in Keene, but the years of his manhood have been spent in West Swanzey, with which village his interests are closely identi- fied. He owns and operates a brick yard in Keene, and is the owner of other real estate in that city. He was formerly an extensive dealer in wood and timber.
JOHN S. SARGEANT spent the first half of his life in Marlboro', the last half in E. Swanzey; a farmer, painter, paper hanger, clock re- pairer, etc. His son, Harvey, resides with his father ; a farmer, mu- sician, etc. Geo. H., son of Harvey, is a store clerk in Greenwich, R. I.
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CALEB SAWYER, a farmer, lived on Ozro T. Thompson place. His son Abijalı, a cooper, on E. Davis' place at Sawyer's Crossing.
Of the sons of the latter, Joshua and Caleb lived on their father's homestead, while Henry resided on G. W. Ellis place-all farmers. Caleb removed with his family to the west.
Joshua B., son of Henry, an able and influential man, was killed on the railroad at Winchendon, Mass.
AMOS SAWYER was an employe in the East Swanzey mills.
DR. ISRAEL SAWYER was a practising physician in town, living on Josephus Handy place.
His son Elijah was for many years a justice of the peace and clerk of the probate court for Cheshire county. He was also for a tune postmaster, and was honored with most of the town offices. He was a leader in the Democratic party and a somewhat noted versifier and writer of poetry. It is supposed he was the author of "Col. Hammond's Ride." He resided at various places in town.
JOSIAH SAWYER was a hotel-keeper at West Keene.
As already stated the early SEAVERS were a race of blacksmiths, the family home being at West Swanzey, on High street, where genera- tion after generation resided. Alfred Seaver was also a tanner and stone mason. Luman W. and Luman B. are wooden-ware manufac- turers in Winchester. The latter has been a blacksmith in W. Swan- zey and Winchester. George A. is a painter at W. Swanzey.
WILLIAM SEBASTIAN was a resident by Sprague's pond. His sons, William and Edward P., are hotel employés in Keene.
ANDREW SHERMAN lived on the hill east of E. Swanzey village. His son Andrew located in Keene. His grandson Timothy also resides there. The latter was formerly a sash and blind maker at Swanzey Factory, but now is in the same business at Marlboro' Depot.
EDWARD R. SIMONDS came from Langdon and lived on S. Davis place. Elmer P. is an employé in the mills.
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