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I. Gracia, h. Jan. 14, 1830; m. Emerson E. Brown.
II. Elizabeth, b. June 19, 1834; m. Enos K. Adams.
III. William, b. Feb. 22, 1836; d.
IV. Isadore, b. May 11, 1841; m. Eugene S. Taylor.
V. Jane O., b. Feb. 26, 1843 ; m. Curtis M. Ball.
VI. Sophia L., b. March 12, 1845; m. Edward D. Wright. (See Wright.)
BENJAMIN ALDRICH came to Springfield from Westmoreland, N. H., in 1786, and located on the farm now owned by Thomas Merritt, where he d., aged 63 years. His wife was Susan Woodward, and they had five ch. :
I. Benjamin, m. Hannah Coggswell, and lived on the homestead with his parents. He was a quiet, industrious man of strictly tem- perate habits, and lived to be 94 years old. Ch. :
1. Sally. 5. Susan.
2. George.
6. Hannah.
3. William. 7. Benjamin F.
4. Joshua H.
II. Ezekiel.
III. Susan.
IV. Orpha.
V. Polly.
NATHANIEL W. ANDREWS, son of John and Marion (Watson) Andrews, was b. in the city of Dublin, Ireland, May 25, 1838. He came to Perkinsville, Vt., in 1856, and in 1858 moved to Springfield and began work in the office of Ellis, Britton & Eaton, manufacturers of children's carriages and toys. He has continued in the office of this company through all its changes, except two years of 1862 and 1863, which he spent in Ireland. He is now the book- keeper of the Vermont Novelty Works Company, and a stockholder in the company. He m. in Dublin, July 6. 1863, Cathleen M. Payne, who was b. in Tralee, county of Kerry, Ireland. Ch. :
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I. J. W. Roland Andrews, b. in Springfield, Oct. 7, 1864; m. Augusta L. Hannaway ; she d. in Springfield.
REV. SELAII ROOT ARMS was b. at Deerfield, Mass., Feb. 21, 1789. IIe graduated from Williams College and from Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained. at Cavendish, Vt., in 1822. He was pastor of the Congre- gational Church at Grafton, Vt., from 1825 to 1831, then at Livingstonville, N. Y., until 1835. He then went to Windham, Vt., where he was pastor until 1849, when he came to Springfield and bought the farm now owned by his son, Henry M. Arms. He continued to preach as a supply iu various places until his death, Nov. 7, 1867. He m. Eliza Ames, b. Feb. 21, 1799, daughter of Nathan Ames of Chelmsford, Mass. Ch .:
I. William, b.in Graf- ton, Feb. 7, 1826.
II. Maria, b. in Graf- tou, Vt., Aug. 7, 1827; d. May 5, 1892.
III. Eliza, b. in Graf. ton, Dec. 28, 1828 ; m. John Mosely of Springfield, Mass.
IV. George, b. in Graf- ton, Dec. 12, 1829 ; in business in New York.
V. Fannie, b. in Wind- ham, Jan. 14, 1832 ; m. Daniel God- dard, who d. Feb. 10, 1894.
VI. Emily, b. iu Wind- ham, Nov. 15, 1833; d. Sept. 29, 1834.
HENRY M. ARMS.
VII. Emily Maxwell, b. at Livingstonville, N. Y., May 12' 1835 ; d. at Spring- field, Mass., Feb. 4, 1864.
VIII. Nathan P., b. at Windham, July 2, 1837; d. at Springfield, Oct. 13, 1859.
IX. Ebenezer Burgess, b. at Windham, March 13, 1839. He enlisted in the army, Aug. 12, 1862; d. Oct. 28, 1862.
X. Henry Martyn, b. in Windboro, Aug. 17, 1840. In 1871 he went to New Mexico, and for ten years was there engaged in stock raising. In 1881 he returned to Springfield, and has since lived on the homestead. He is extensively engaged in farming, and prominent
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in business and political affairs. He represented Springfield in the Legislature in 1884, and was superintendent of the dairy exhibit of Vermont at the World's Fair at Chicago. He has been president of the Vermont Dairymen's Association for several years; is a member of the Vermont Board of Agriculture, and president of the National Congress of Dairymen, established at Cleveland, O., in 1894. He m., May 31, 1865, Sarah Jane Closson, daughter of Judge Henry and Emily (Whitney) Closson of Springfield. Ch. :
1. Jessie Closson, b. Sept. 22, 1866; m. Arthur Whitcomb.
2. Burdette Loomis, b. Sept. 27, 1869.
3. George Eben, b. April 14, 1871.
XI. Ellen, b. at Windham,
. Vt., April 7, 1842; teacher at Hilo, Sand- wich Islands; d. at Springfield.
CLINTON W. BAILEY, b. Aug. 8, 1860; m. Kate M., daughter of John Orrin and Mary M. (Sleeper) (Bailey) Walker. He res. on the Orrin Walker farm. Ch .:
I. Lena M., b. July 30, . 1883.
II. Chauncey H., b. Sept. 13, 1889.
III. Annie Eva, b. Nov. 3, 1891; d. Dec. 1, 1894.
REV. GEORGE W. BAILEY, son of Bradbury and Agnes (Marshall) Bailey, was born in Weare, N. H., in 1816. He removed from Weare with his parents when very young, and was educated at the academies at Cavendish and Chester, Vt., and the Union Scientific and Mili- 1 REV. GEO. W. BAILEY. tary Academy at Unity, N. H., then in charge of A. A. Miner, since a noted clergyman of Boston. Mr. Bailey commenced preaching in 1839; was licensed and ordained by the Universalist de- nomination in 1840; settled first in Springfield, Vt., from 1841 to 1847; then in East Randolph, Vt., from 1848 to 1851; in Lebanon, N. H., from 1851 to 1866; in Morrisville, Vt., from 1866 to 1876; since which time he has lived in Springfield without a pastoral charge. He has been honored by an clection as representative to the New Hampshire Legislature in 1864 and
SOON SALINE ED.BUTTON
J. P. Ball
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1865, and to the Vermont Legislature in the years 1872 and 1873. He lias been superintendent of schools for about fifteen years in the different towns where he has lived. The historian of the old church in Lebanon, N. H., where he was settled about fifteen years, writes of Mr. Bailey in the follow- ing language : " He possessed a well-cultivated mind, wrote excellent sermons, and delivered them in a calm and impressive manner. He was also remark- able for his order and adaptation in all his services, and as a man and a preacher he stands among the first of the denomination." Mr. Bailey m. Ist, Martha B. Dow of Lowell, Mass. ; 2d, Mrs. Hannah H. Brown of Spring- field. Ch. :
I. George Byron, b. in Springfield in 1842.
WILLARD BAILEY, son of Christopher and Hepzibah (Haywood) Bailey, was b. in Topsham, Vt., April 11, 1826; m. Lucia M. Allbe, daughter of Obadiah and Lephe (Greene) Allbe.
SQUIRE. BAKER, son of Squire and Fanny (Torrey) Baker, b. at Windham, Vt., May 19, 1828. Was for some years owner of Springfield staging; now engaged in farming. He m. March 11, 1857, Charlotte M. Piper, daughter of Perry B. and Sarah A. (Haywood) Piper. Ch. :
I. Ida A., b. Dec. 25, 1858 ; m. Albert A. Maguire. Ch. :
1. Mabel.
2. George.
II. Inez L., b. Sept. 15, 1863 ; m. June 27, 1888, Fred R. Nichols.
CURTIS M. BALL, son of Mark aud Elizabeth Ball, was b. at Athens, Vt., July 8, 1843; served in the Civil War in Co. I, 12th Regiment Vermont Volun- teers; m. Aug. 12, 1872, Jane Allbe, daughter of William H. and Lucretia (Johnson) Allbe; res. iu Springfield.
FRANKLIN P. BALL, sou of Abraham and Hannah (Edwards) Ball, b. in Athens, Vt., May 2, 1829; came to Springfield in 1851, and engaged in the manufacture of scythe snaths, and continued in the business, with various partners and different firms, until the shops were burned in 1882, when he moved the business to Bellows Falls, where he is still carrying it on under the firm name of Derby & Ball. During the thirty years that Mr. Ball was in Springfield he was active in all enterprises to promote the public good. He was a member aud one of the principal supporters of the Methodist Church, a trustee of the Wesleyan Seminary, and was largely instrumental in securing a fund for the Public Library, having at all times the respect and confidence of his associates and the community. He was a representative of this town in the State Legislature in 1866 and 1867; representative from Rockingham in 1888, and in 1892 was senator from Windham County. He m. May 23, 1852, Margaret L. Wilson of Cambridgeport, Vt., who d. Jan. 2, 1855. He m. 2d, July 21, 1857, Elizabeth Meacham, daughter of Asa Meacham of Springfield. Ch. :
I. Margaret E., b. July 3, 1861 ; m. Nov. 30, 1881, Herbert D. Ryder, who graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1876, and was principal of the Springfield High School for several years, and later of the High School at Bellows Falls six years. He studied law
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with J. W. Pierce of Springfield, was admitted to Windsor County Bar in 1880, and is now in the practice of his profession at Bel- lows Falls. Ch. :
1. Jessie E., b. Feb. 18, 1884.
2. Margaret S., b. April 26, 1885.
3. Helen W., b. June 27, 1887.
4. Charlotte D., b. Sept. 4, 1889.
II. George F., b. Aug. 10, 1863; engaged in insurance business at Bellows Falls.
III. Everett M., b. Dec. 15, 1864; graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in the class of 1886, and was appointed Pro- fessor of Rhetoric and Natural Science in St. Augustine College, California. He d. at Benicia, Cal., March 20, 1888.
IV. Winnie E., b. Oct. 3, 1867; m. Dec. 27, 1894, Rev. J. Narramore.
JAMES S. BALCH, son of Clark and Sabrina (Sheldon) Balch, was b. March 28, 1853, at Chester, Vt .; m. Dec. 12, 1871, Ella P. Perry, daughter of Jarius C. and Sarah (Bigelow) Perry. Ch. :
I. Clarence J., b. Oct. 20, 1876.
II. Elmer F., b. March 14, 1881.
III. Mabel E., b. Jan. 14, 1883.
IV. Maitland J., b. April 17, 1884.
JENNISON BARNARD, born at Worcester, Mass., May 1, 1773, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Gould) Barnard, and grandson of Dea. Isaac Barnard, who was born in Watertown, Mass., and later settled in Grafton, then Sutton, and finally in 1770 in Worcester, where he was buried, in 1788, in a churchyard which, some fifty years ago, had its stones laid flat, was levelled, graded, aud mapped, and by vote of the town made iuto a park or common, near the centre of the city. Said Jennison came to Springfield with Lewis R. Morris, who was an intimate friend, to investigate land of which Morris had recently be- come possessed. They were so pleased with the location and the soil that they decided to locate here, aud selected lands which two squatters from Edinburgh, Scotland, had improved, beiug parts of the present Barnard and Miller farm, and the Morris farm. About forty acres had been cleared, and a log-house erected northwest of Open Ridge place, with a barn where the present saw shed stands. Morris and Barnard agreed to decide which should have the hill farm and which the meadow, by tossing a copper. The hill farm fell to Barnard, and then included all of the south end of the Miller farm. Apple-trees grown by the Scotchmen, from seeds brought across the sea, are still standing.
Jennison Barnard located here about 1790. Soon after he erected the old Barnard house, which was burned on the night of April 10, 1889. This was an old-fashioned mansion, built in a most substantial mauner, by Dea. Hawkins. It had three large chimney stacks of brick made on the farm, with large open fireplaces on every floor. After the fire the family removed to the house called Open Ridge place, erected by E. Wellman Barnard, 2d, in 1875, 1876, where they now reside. He married Nov. 23, 1796, Lucy, daughter of Levi Nichols. Ch. :
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OPEN RIDGE PLACE.
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I. Lucius, b. Sept. 19, 1797 ; d. Oct. 16, 1856 ; m. 1820 Abigail Holman, who d. July 19, 1874. Ch. :
1. George, b. Feb. 23, 1821; d. Feb. 22, 1882.
2. Mary, b. June 6, 1822; d. 1824.
3. Frederick G., b. Dec. 7, 1823; member of the 16th] Vermont Regiment Volunteers; now in Soldiers' Home, Bennington, Vt. (1895.)
4. Isaac E., b. Aug. 22, 1825; d. March 10, 1875.
5. Lucy Maria, b. Oct. 17, 1827; m. Felix E. Myers. Ch. :
(1). Georgianna C., b. Oct 5, 1848; m. Elmer Hewett.
WILLIAM C. BARNARD.
(2). Edward Holman, b. July 19, 1850.
(3). Emma Arvilla, b. June 12, 1852; m. Calvin Rice. Ch. :
[1]. Eddie, ( twins.1 [2]. Ellie,
(4). Ella Minerva, b. Oct. 20, 1854; m. 1st, Charles Young. Ch. :
[1]. Alice, b. March 31, 1872.
[2]. Walter, b. Feb. 14, 1877 ; d. Sept. 12, 1883. She m. 2d, Joseph Parison. Ch. :
[3]. John, b. Oct. 8, 1880.
[4]. Edgar, b. Aug. 16, 1883.
[5]. Earl, b. Oct. 9, 1886.
(5). Henry Albert, b. Nov. 13, 1856.
(6). Edgar Alexander, b. June 25, 1859; m. Hattie Browning.
(7). George W., b. Sept.
17, 1861.
(8). Franklin G., b. March 8, 1864.
(9). Robert William, b. May 20, 1871.
6. John P. W., b. Sept. 12, 1829; m. April 8, 1852, Calista S. Davis.
7. Levi H, b. Nov. 8., 1831 ; m. Nov. 8, 1854, Mary Ann Sears.
8. Abbie, b. Sept. 24, 1833; m. John Langworth.
9. Juliette, b. Jan. 10, 1836 ; d. in infancy.
10. William C., b. Jan. 6, 1838 ; m. Annie L. Chase. He was one of the men sent out by Eli Thayer, of Worcester, Mass., in 1856, to protect Kansas
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from " border ruffians " and make her a free State. He was there through the struggle, and was wounded in the contest. In 1860 he was in business in Richmond, Va., and was pressed into the Confederate Army, but escaped and came North. He located in Worcester, Mass., in 1869, and built up the village of Barnardville, so called. He mann- factures asphalt emery wheels, which he invented, and for which he has patents. He also has several other patents. He has published a work on the art of designing and manufacturing woollen cloth. Ch. : (1). Annie Chase, a student in Wellesley College.
(2). John Evarts.
(3). Edward Macy.
11. Sarah E., b. Jan. 2, 1840; in. William M. Sears.
12. Sylvanns, b. Feb. 3, 1842 ; member of 7th Verinont Regiment Volunteers, wounded at Baton Rouge; d. Nov. 4, 1862, in Marine Hospital at New Orleans.
13. Antis, b. Feb. 16, 1845.
Six of the sons of Lncins, namely, George, Frederick, Isaac, John, Levi, and Sylvanus were volunteer soldiers in the Union Army, and all except Sylvanus, who died of fever at New Orleans in 1862, served through the war. Isaac died in 1875 from disease cansed by exposure in the army.
II. George Gonld, b. Oct. 12,
1799; d. Feb. 12, 1893. He lived on the Bragg place four years, then purchased the Dr. Cobb farm (France place), where he lived eight years. He then re- moved to Manchester, where he owned a large farm and a tract of mountain land and a marble quarry in Dor- set, and was a very suc- cessful farmer. He bnilt the brook road from Enreka to the village, receiving therefor dollar a rod. The last years of his life were passed on the farm where he was born, and here he died at the age of ninety-three years, having retained his ac- tivity both of body and mind up to a short time before his death. He
GEORGE G. BARNARD.
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was a man of a very genial disposition and social qualities, possessed of a ready wit and beloved by all who knew him, who affectionately called him " Uncle George." He m. April 14, 1824, Mary, daughter of Dea. Hawkins. Ch. :
1. George Nichols, b. May 16, 1825 ; d. July 28, 1848.
2. John Jennison, b. Dec. 23, 1827; res. in St. Albans.
3. Gates Hawkins, b. Oct. 18, 1834; res. in New York City.
III. Heury, b. Sept. 10, 1801; d. Nov. 17, 1873. At the age of fourteeu Harry, as he was called, went to live with his uncle, Jouathan Steele of Elizabethtown, N. Y. Later he attended the Eureka School, famous for educating so many prominent meu, aud after- wards recited to Rev. Robinsou Smiley, aud attended the Chester Academy. With a taste for reading, he acquired, after his school days were over, a mastery of history and mathematics, together with a fund of general information. While still a boy he was placed iu the store of his uncle, Solon Lovell, at Charlestown, N. H., aud afterwards he was clerk for aud then partner of Nathau Wheeler of Grafton.
In 1833 he spent some time in travelling by horseback and stage in the then new States of Ohio and Illinois, visiting Chicago when it was about the size of North Springfield. The fever aud ague driving him East, he engaged at Troy, N. Y., in the grain aud flour business, as one of the firm of Baruard, Stedman & Sheldon. About 1845 he returned to town to remain. He ran the paper mill aud became interested in real estate. He was largely iustrumeutal in founding the National Bank in 1863, and contributed largely to its success. He was its first president, which position he held until 1869, aud again from 1873 until his death. He carried iu per- son the $100,000 government bouds to Washington to be deposited iu the treasury, and brought back the currency for circulation. He lost all his property in the pauic of 1837, but died with a hand- some competeuce. He m. Ist, Dec. 15, 1830, Abby Hall of Grafton, who d. March, 1833. Ch. :
1. Sarah, b. Oct. 1, 1831; d. Jau. 6, 1853.
2. Heury, b. Dec. 20, 1832; d. April 7, 1833.
He m. 2d, Eliza, daughter of Isaac and Harriet (Johnson) Fisher. Ch. :
3 and 4. Twins ; d. at birth.
5. Henry B., a. iu infaucy.
6. Mary Eliza, b. April 1, 1851; res. at Grand Rapids, Mich.
7. Alice Glover, b. Oct. 3, 1853; m. Sept. 2, 1882, George H. Davis, who is established in the furniture business at Grand Rapids, Mich. Ch. :
(1). Henry Barnard, b. Sept. 2, 1888.
(2). Howard Barnard, b. Sept. 2, 1888, and died.
(3). - , b. May 4, 1894.
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8. Henry F., b. Jau. 21, 1857. He graduated from the Hampton, N. H., Institute, and later from the law department of the University of Michigan. He is uow a lawyer and largely inter- ested in real estate at Deuver, Col. He m. Sept. 2, 1891, Eugenia Buffum of Omaha, Neb. Ch .:
(1). Henry Elliott, b. July 11, 1892.
IV. Isaac, b. April 15, 1804; d. Nov. 28, 1805.
V. John Jennison, b. Nov. 18, 1806; d. April 25, 1870. He fitted for college, and entered the classical department of the Uuiver- sity of Vermont in the fall of 1825, intending to fit for the ministry. Ill health obliged him to leave col- lege before the completion of his course, and he en- gaged in fishing on Cape Cod for a change of climate. About 1834 he went to Michigan and en- gaged in farming on the site of the city of Kala- mazoo. He taught the first school in that town, and after the death of his first wife he returned to Spring- field and lived on the home- stead and on the Lewis place (now C. H. Hub- bard's farm). He after- wards bought what is now the home of Amos Belk- nap, where he d. He was man of reserved and studi- ous habits, and was much respected. He m. 1st, 1836, Lydia & Woodburn. HENRY F. BARNARD. Ch. :
1. John S., b. Dec. 15, 1838. He learned the blacksmith's trade and worked with George Kimball. Later he went to Newbern, N. C., and is now located at Austin, Tex., where he is engaged in stock raising and real-estate operations. He is unmarried.
2. Julia Lawrence, b. Dec. 2, 1810. She is well kuown as a success- ful teacher, and now res. at Grand Rapids, Mich.
3. William, b. April 13, 1842. After learning farming with his uncle, Levi N., at the homestead, he started out to seek his fortune. He first engaged with A. J. Fullam as a canvasser in the stencil business in the early sixties. Soon after he struck out for himself, and worked among the soldiers' camps of the West.
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After many variations of fortune he went to St. Louis, where he established himself in the engraving business, in which he was highly successful. For some years he has been engaged in the real-estate business as builder and renter, and is possessed of many valuable locations in the city of his adoption, where he has probably made the largest fortune of any one who ever went out from this town. He m. Oct. 8, 1866, Donna Bell Hurd of Indianapolis, Ind., who d. Dec. 8, 1893. Ch. :
(1). William Lawrence, b. November, 1867; m. Katharine Knight of St. Louis.
(2). Pierce Butler, b. May 26, 1870. A teacher and newspaper writer.
(3). John JJennison, b. August, 1875; d. March 26, 1876.
(4). Robert Hunter, b. July 21, 1877.
VI. Levi Nichols, b. Aug. 23, 1809. He lived and worked on the home- stead until about 1835, when he went to Michigan and made invest- ments in government lands. On his return he and his brother Solon farmed on the homestead until 1847, when he went to Cor- nish, N. H., and resided there some four years, when he returned to the home farm, where he now resides. He has always been a hard-working and practical farmer, an expert with all the tools used on a farm, and has retained great activity up to his present age of 85 years. There were few men who could mow as smooth and wide a swath and keep up with him when 80 years of age.
In early life he taught school on the Common and other schools in town. He has always been a great reader and well versed in passing events. He was one of the founders of the First National Bank, it being at his suggestion that his brother Henry first made the initiatory movement for the establishment of the same, he hav- ing received private information and a draft of the new banking law from his friend, James Brooks, chairman of the Committee of Finance of the National House of Representatives. The applica- tion was said to be the first sent from Vermont and the second in the United States. Hc m. July 19, 1849, Eliza, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Cotton) Wellman of Cornish, N. H., and grand-daughter of the Rev. James Wellman, D. D., the first settled minister of the towns of Windsor and of Cornish, N. H., and who was previously the first pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Sutton (now Millbury), Mass.
Mrs. Barnard who died here on the same night and in the same house as George G., at the age of 84 years, was a woman of sterling quali- ties, and won for herself the highest respect of all who knew her. Ch. :
1. Isaac Wellman, b. at Cornish, Sept. 10, 1852, and whose name was changed by an act of the Legislature of 1878 to Eleroy Well- man Barnard, 2d. Concerning him the general catalogue and sup- plement of Kimball Union Academy has the following : " K. U. A. 1866-70, lectures at Dartmouth College, 1871, correspondent of
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New York paper, special correspondent for Boston Daily News and member of the educational party to Europe and the World's Universal Exposition at Vicuna in 1873. Correspondent and travel- ler for city paper in 1873-75; stationed at Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876; Vermont manager of the Boston Evening Star, 1878-83; special correspondent and manager for the New York Daily Graphic, and occasional correspondent and farming, 1885-90. During this period Mr. Barnard has visited many. lands and taken part in many notable gatherings. His vivid description of the condition of Paris after the great siege was extensively quoted."
VII. Lucy Maria, b. March 6, 1812; d. Jan. 15, 1852 ; m. Oct. 7, 1835, Dea. Ashbel Steele. (See Steele.)
VIII. Frederick, b. Feb. 14, 1815; res. at Syca- more, Ill .; m. 1st, Susan, daughter of David Brown, who d. 1861 ; m. 2d, Am- anda M. Cotton. Ch. :
1. Hattie, b. June 27, 1865.
IX. Solon, b. Sept. 14, 1817 ; d. Sept. 11, 1849 ;. m. Sept. 28, 1842, Abby Davis, who m. Aug. 23, 1854, Dea. Perry Haskell of Ascutney- ville. Ch .:
1. Emma E., b. May, 1846; d. Feb. 14, 1854.
JONATHAN BARNARD came here with his son Jennison and lived with him until his death in 1820. He FRANKLIN BARNEY. fell while walking through a ryefield, and being old and very feeble was unable to rise, and died there. It was many days and only after a protracted organized search by the neighbors that his body was found.
FRANKLIN BARNEY, son of Jeffrey A. and Harriet (Ewing) Barney, was b. in Shrewsbury, Oct. 20, 1829. His father was a farmer, and he lived on a farm until twenty years of age, receiving only what education the common schools afforded. He then engaged in quarrying granite for abutments and piers for railroad bridges. In the fall of 1850 he aprenticed himself to Orin
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Taylor of Clarendon Springs to learn the trade of marble worker. Later he worked for Chester Dunkley of Claremont, N. H., and other marble workers. In 1861 he bought the business iu Springfield of Henry Harlow, and has con- tinued it until the present time, having been successful in every way. He m. Nancy A. Rogers of Springfield. Ch. :
I. Jeffrey Rolla, engaged in the shoddy business at Claremont, N. H.
II. Franklin, Jr., b. Jan. 7, 1860; learned the marble worker's trade with his father; is now electrical engineer and superintendent of Springfield Electric Light Works. He m. Sept. 5, 1882, Julia Hayes, daughter of Dennis and Mary Hayes of Ludlow. Ch. :
1. Daniel Rogers, b. Sept. 24, 1883.
2. Frank Millard, b. Aug. 15, 1885.
3. Phyllis May, b. July 19, 1892.
III. Lund Rogers, m. Kate Wood.
IV. May Louisa, m. Herbert Pond, of the firm of Pond, Gridley & Co., hardware merchants; res. in Springfield.
V. Jennie Tower, b. April-1, 1875.
AARON BARRETT was b. iu Ludlow, but came to Springfield about 1850. He lived in a secluded place on what is known as " Scrabble " Brook, on the road leading to Parker Hill. He used to dig gold from this brook, and was often seen upon the streets and at public gatherings exhibiting specimens of " Springfield gold," sometimes selling a fine specimen for a good price. Gold has been found in this brook in small quantities by others, but Mr. Barrett, by his fabulous tales, would be supposed to hold the key to the largest deposits. He died Sept. 18, 1888. His wife was Susan Graves, who d. Feb. 13, 1875. Ch .:
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