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ANDREW GRAY WEEKS, SR.
ANDREW GRAY
WEEKS was eighth in descent from George Weekes, who came to this
country from Devonshire, England, in 1635, and was, five years
later, admitted freeman at Dorchester. He was a man of unusual
culture and quickly made his mark. At various times - notably in
1645, in 1647, and in 1648 he was one of the seven selectmen. He was
a surveyor and was frequently called upon to use his special
knowledge in laying out roads and boundaries. He was one of the
three trustees of the estate of Edward Bullock, who on returning to
England made special provision for his wife and children.
George
Weekes was a firm advocate of free education and he was among those
who conveyed to the town Thompson's Island in Boston Harbor for the
benefit of the schools. He owned considerable real estate. It is
supposed that his domicile was situated on the corner of Harvard and
School Streets. After his death at the very end of 1650, his wife,
who was Jane Clapp, married the widower, Jonas Humphrey and died in
August, 1668.
George Weekes had four children, three of them born
in England. The second son, Ammiel, died in Dorchester in April,
1679, at the age of forty-six. The last twenty-two years of his life
he was a freeman and landowner. Like his father, he was a surveyor
and for several years he served on the committee for establishing
town lines. He was constable in 1673. His wife is supposed to have
been Elizabeth Aspinwall and they had ten children. Their third son,
Ebenezer, was a tailor by trade and was married to Deliverance
Sumner. He had a smaller family and fewer letters in his name, for
like the rest of his brothers, he spelt the family name, - which,
indeed appears in early records in a dozen different forms, in the
way it has since been maintained, as Weeks.
His oldest son,
William, emigrated to Maine. After residing for a time on the Island
of Chebeague in Casco Bay, he removed in 1744 to the "Neck" in
Falmouth and died there in 1749-50, at the age of sixty, leaving
considerable land in what is now the city of Portland, which was set
off from Falmouth in 1786. His wife was Sarah Tukey, whom he may
have met when visiting his parents, for she was of Dorchester. The
eldest of their five children, also named William, settled in the
place now known as Cumberland and married Rebecca Tuttle. Their
youngest son, Nathaniel W., married Rachel (Prince) Sweetzer, who
died in 1843, reputed to be ninety-six years old, and lived in
Falmouth. Several of their children apparently engaged in seafaring
for one died in the West Indies and another, imprisoned by the
Spanish authorities, died in Honduras, both of them at the early age
of twenty-three. Still another, the third son, died also in the West
Indies when only eighteen. Their fourth son, Ezra, was born in 1790,
in North Yarmouth, and died at the age of seventy-eight in Roxbury,
Massachusetts. He was an innkeeper and had a large family, four sons
and four daughters.
Andrew Gray Weeks, the fourth child and
second son of Ezra Weeks, and his wife, Hannah (Merrill) Weeks, was
born June 11, 1823, at Cumberland Centre, Maine. He died at his
summer residence, Guilford, Vermont, June 26, 1903. He received his
education in the public schools of Portland. Of his own initiative,
he went to Boston at the age of sixteen and found employment in the
apothecary shop of Frederick Brown where he remained for two years.
He then spent ten years in the employment of Smith & Fowle, in
that time gaining a very thorough acquaintance with the needs of the
trade. In 1851 he formed a co-partnership with Warren B. Potter and
engaged in the wholesale manufacture and sale of drugs in Boston. He
was a practical and level-headed business man and as he concentrated
his energies he ultimately won remarkable success. He was seldom
found absent from his post of duty and even after the firm was
changed to a corporation, he still remained in full charge of its
affairs. He was frequently offered positions of public trust, but he
modestly preferred to remain in private life rather than win honor
through publicity. Mr. Weeks was a member of the Mayflower Society,
being eighth in descent from Elder William Brewster.
He was a
member of the Vestry and Warden for seventeen years of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church and deeply interested in its welfare, and a
director of the Theological Library of Boston. He was also a
director of the Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance Company of
Providence and of a number of banks and other corporations. He had
great confidence in the growth of Boston and he invested his large
fortune in the purchase of real estate. The soundness of his
judgment was proved by the increase in the value of his holdings.
Some of them trebled in value within a few years.
In September,
1847, he married Harriet Pitts Pierce, of Boston, a descendant of
Col. Daniel Pierce of Newbury. She was a woman of rare culture and
refinement, possessing a trained mind and beautiful soul, brave in
trial, diligent in effort. She filled her children with inspiration
for better things, for righteousness, education, character. Mr. and
Mrs. Weeks had four children : - Harriet Emma, died in infancy;
Warren Bailey Potter, born May 3, 1858, married December 8, 1885,
Gertrude Carruth Washburn, daughter of Miles Washburn of Boston;
Andrew Gray, his father's second son and namesake, born October 2,
1861, succeeded his father in the Weeks & Potter Company. He
married October 10, 1883, Alice Standish Taber, of New Bedford;
Harriet Pitts, born February 24, 1865, married June 1, 1887, S. Reed
Anthony, who was one of the leading bankers of Boston.
Mr. Weeks
in early life, found the tasks connected with a farm favorable for
his health and useful for discipline. He always retained a love for
country life and he possessed a fine residence in Guilford, Vermont.
He was fond of reading and always remembered with affectionate
gratitude the instruction and precepts of his admirable mother, who
was his ideal. The Bible, Scott, Dickens, standard books of
biography and history were his favorite reading. He was a Republican
in politics and Episcopalian in religious faith. There was no one in
the communities where his interests lay, more highly respected and
loved. He was regarded as the pattern of a high-minded and
noble-hearted merchant.
ANDREW
GRAY WEEKS
ANDREW GRAY WEEKS was born on Essex Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, October 2, 1861, the son of Andrew Gray
Weeks, who was born June 11, 1823, and died June 26, 1903, who
married Harriet Pierce; and the grandson of Ezra Weeks, born June 3,
1790, and died March 16, 1868, who married Hannah Merrill, and of
Charles Pierce, born June 26, 1795, and died May 22, 1869, who
married Harriet Pitts.
The ancestor of the American branch of
this Weeks family was George Weekes, who is said to have descended
from Robert Le Wrey who was a citizen of England, 1135, and as this
name implies was doubtless of Norman extraction. George Weekes was
of Devonshire, England, where he married Jane Clapp, sister of
Captain Roger Clapp of later New England fame, and had three
children, with whom he immigrated to New England in 1635, and
settled at Dorchester, where he took an active part in civic
affairs, lived an honorable and useful life and left a good estate
as an evidence of his industry. His descendants have largely
followed in his footsteps and have been men of thrift and of good
citizenship.
Andrew Gray Weeks, Junior, was reared in the midst
of city life, but he inherited a love for rural objects, notably
that of natural history, which found its expressions in mature
years. He had the benefit of a mother's religious training in moral
and spiritual things, so much needed and important in the formative
period of a boy's life. He began his boyhood school life in Miss
Beck's School on River Street, Boston, going thence to the Chauncy
Hall School where he remained from 1871 to 1879 in which last year
he entered Harvard College which he left in 1882, having the degree
of A.B. as of 1883 conferred upon him in 1908. Immediately after
graduation he entered his father's wholesale drug store as clerk. He
had a natural predilection for the study of medicine, but in
deference to his father's wishes, it seemed best that he should
enter upon and continue the occupation so well established. He was
with the Weeks & Potter Company from 1882 to 1901, laterly as
Vice President and Treasurer; also Trustee of the Weeks Real Estate
Trust, and a director of the Maple Springs Company.
Mr. Weeks has
taken time from his business cares to devote to authorship in the
production of several small, but valuable works, namely:
"Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera Unknown to Science," 117
pages, forty-five colored plates, Boston, 1905; followed by a second
volume of thirty-seven pages, twenty-one colored plates, Boston,
1911. "A History of the Class of 1878, Chauncy Hall School,"
thirty-one pages, Boston, 1901, besides Magazine Articles.
Mr.
Weeks is very social in his habits and is a member of many clubs
including the Union, Art, Boston, Athletic, Algonquin, Country, New
England Kennel, Harvard, Clubs of Boston, Calumet and Harvard Clubs
of New York, Travellers' Club of London, Tuna Club of California,
the Triton Club of Quebec, besides numerous scientific societies. He
was a member of the Board of Governors of the Puritan Club for two
terms, Associate in Entomology of Harvard University, 1904; also
1911-1914; member of the Council of the Boston Society of Natural
History one term, and Secretary of the Chauncy Hall School Class of
1878 for many years.
Mr. Weeks believes in obtaining full value
from his spare time which he devotes to fishing, tramps through
woodlands, and the careful study of nature generally. On his many
rural excursions he has made special study of Diurnal Lepidoptera
and has made a collection of 30,000 specimens, a most remarkable
instance of persevering endeavor for the benefit of the naturalist,
thus furnishing a worthy example which many other men of means and
leisure would do well to follow.
Andrew G. Weeks married, October
10, 1883, Alice S., daughter of Edward S. and Emily H. (Allen)
Taber, granddaughter of Frederick S. and Mary P. (Howland) Allen,
and of Joseph and Deborah (Smith) Taber, a descendant from Phillip
Taber who came to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1634. Three children
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Weeks : Allen Taber Weeks, born 1884,
now Secretary and Treasurer of the Acushnet Process Company,
Rosamond Pierce Weeks, born 1887, now Mrs. Edgar C. Rust and Kenneth
Weeks, born 1889, a resident of Paris.
WARREN BAILEY POTTER WEEKS
WARREN BAILEY
POTTER WEEKS, was born in Boston, May 3, 1858. He is the son of
Andrew G. Weeks, a leading wholesale druggist of Boston, and Harriet
Pitts (Pierce) Weeks. George Weekes, the first of the family in
America, came from England in 1635 to Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Warren B. P. Weeks after attending the public schools graduated from
St. Marks School, Southborough, Massachusetts, and from Harvard
University in class of 1881, with degree of A.B.
In 1882 he began
his business life as a clerk in the International Trust Company of
Boston, remaining with that corporation until 1887, when he entered
the real estate and insurance business, making a specialty of
business property in Boston and manufacturing property. The
management and care of prominent estates has taken a great deal of
his time.
Since 1905 he has served as trustee of the Weeks Real
Estate Trust of Boston, also has been a director in the Boston Real
Estate Exchange.
In religious belief he is a Unitarian and he is
a member of the Arlington Street Church of Boston.
He is also the
owner of several cranberry bogs, and a stockholder and treasurer of
one of the large cranberry companies.
Mr. Weeks is also fond of
yachting, having had for a number of years an auxiliary forty-foot
sloop, the Atricilla.
Mr. Weeks is a member of the Union,
Algonquin and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Country Club of
Brookline, the Country Club of North Andover, Essex County Club of
Manchester, Tihonet Club of Wareham, the Eastern and New York Yacht
Clubs, and the Harvard and University Clubs of New York
City.
December 8, 1885, he married Gertrude Carruth Washburn,
daughter of Miles and Sarah H. (Carruth) Washburn. He has one son,
Miles Washburn Weeks, who is an insurance broker associated with
O'Brion, Russell & Co., of Boston, and who was married January
20, 1912, to Lois Richards Frost, daughter of George Alpheus Frost
of West Newton. A granddaughter, Lois Wheeler Weeks, was born April
13, 1913.
FRED WILLIAMS
WELLINGTON
FRED WILLIAMS WELLINGTON was born at Shirley,
Massachusetts, May 31, 1851. The son of Timothy W. Wellington and
Augusta Tufts (Fiske) Wellington. The Wellington family in this
country, trace their descent from Roger Wellington who was one of
the early settlers of Watertown, where he was admitted a freeman in
1690. Captain Timothy Wellington, the great-grandfather of Fred W.
Wellington, was a member of Captain Parker's Company who, on his way
to Lexington was taken prisoner, being the first prisoner taken in
Revolutionary War. He was paroled, but stole through the woods and
joined his company and fought that day.
Timothy W. Wellington,
the father of Fred W., removed to Worcester in 1855, and during the
Civil War was active in sustaining the Union Cause, providing a
hospital at his own expense for the wounded. Fred W. Wellington
inherited from his ancestry a strong military leaning and at an
early age became a drummer boy for the old state guard.
He
attended the public schools of Worcester, and studied two years in
France and Germany. In 1868 he commenced his business life in the
First National Bank of Worcester as Bookkeeper, remaining until
1870, when he was in charge for a year of the Coal Yard on
Southbridge Street, of T. W. Wellington & Company. The following
year he passed in California.
Returning to Worcester in 1872 he
became a partner in the T. W. Wellington Company, conducting a
wholesale and retail coal business. In 1874 he joined with James S.
Rogers and Arthur A. Goodell in establishing the firm of J. S.
Rogers & Company, coal merchants. In 1877 the name was changed
to A. A. Goodell & Company. In 1878 Fred W. Wellington leased
the yards at Canterbury and Hammond Streets and the firm of Fred W.
Wellington & Company became a well-known factor in the business
life of Worcester. In 1880 he became the owner of the location at
Southbridge and Hammond Streets, where he has ever since continued
his business.
In 1894 he was one of the organizers and has been
President, from that time, of the American Car Sprinkler Company,
which was a pioneer in the sprinkling of streets by electric power
and whose cars are now a familiar sight on the streets of many of
the principal cities of this country.
In 1892 Fred W. Wellington
joined the Massachusetts Militia and was elected Second Lieutenant
of Battery B, Light Artillery, Unattached First Brigade. In 1883 he
was elected First Lieutenant and soon became a recognized authority
on military affairs and was very popular with those under his
command. In 1884 he was elected Captain and served until 1886. He
was appointed Assistant Inspector General on the Staff of Governor
Ames, with rank of Colonel, resigning in 1889. Governor Greenhalge
re-appointed him to the same place on his staff in 1894 and he was
continued by successive annual re-appointment up to 1900, when he
was appointed Commissary General by Governor Crane for
1901-2,
and by Governor Bates for 1903-4; in the latter year, at
his own request, he was placed on the retired list, with rank of
Brigadier General. The Wellington Rifles Company H. Second Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, was named in honor of General
Wellington.
He has been an active member of the Masonic
Fraternity, a thirty-second degree Mason, affiliated with several
Masonic bodies of Worcester, and in Worcester Commandery of Knights
Templar he served as Captain. He has been a zealous worker in the
Republican party of whose principles he has been a firm believer. He
served on the Republican State Central Committee from 1887 to 1889
and 1893 to 1896, and a member of the Executive Committee from 1887
to 1896.
September 4, 1883, he married Mrs. Lydia A. Goodell,
widow of General Arthur A. Goodell of the 36th Massachusetts
Regiment. By all who knew him the death of this good and useful man
was mourned as a personal loss. The large assembly of prominent
people at his funeral to honor the departed shows the high esteem in
which he was held.
GEORGE
ELLIOT WELLINGTON
GEORGE ELLIOT WELLINGTON was born at
Rutland, Massachusetts, January 8, 1853. He died January 14, 1913.
He was the son of John A. Wellington and Mercy R. (Francis)
Wellington.
On his maternal side he was related, through the Ball
family, to George Washington.
His youthful days were passed in
his native town. In 1864, at the age of thirteen, on the removal of
his parents to Fitchburg, he entered the public schools of that
town. On the completion of his school days, he entered the employ of
the Fitchburg Lumber Company and learned the Carpenter's trade and
occupied positions of responsibility with the Beckwith Lumber
Company and the Mial Davis Lumber Company. He was Superintendent for
C. A. Priest Lumber Company from 1890-1902, and foreman for
Nathaniel Varney from 1905 until 1911. He was an expert workman,
thoroughly familiar with every branch of the contracting work and
gave considerable attention to planning and architectural-
lines.
In 1911 he was elected Instructor of Manual Training
Department of the Fitchburg High School, and retained this position
during his life.
He was a member of the Fire Department for many
years, serving from fireman to his election by the City Government
as Assistant Chief and clerk from 1889 to 1894.
He was connected
with the Massachusetts Militia in Company ? (Fitchburg Fusileers) of
the Sixth Regiment, serving for several years as corporal.
In
Oddfellowship he was a prominent member and was a Past Noble Grand
of Mount Roulstone Lodge, Past Chief Patriarch of King David
Encampment, in which latter organization he was Treasurer for one
year, also a member of Canton Hebron, Patriarchs Militant. He was a
member of the Fitchburg Board of Trade and Merchants' Association
and was greatly interested in the temperance movement.
He was a
Republican; a member of the Common Council of the City of Fitchburg
in 1898, and a ward officer for many years. He was connected with
the First Parish Unitarian Church.
He married July 25, 1883,
Eunice H. Goddard, daughter of George and Minerva B. (Perry)
Goddard, and a descendant from Edward Goddard, who came from Norfolk
City, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630. Their children
are Elliot Goddard Wellington and Ray Nelson Wellington.
Mr.
Wellington was a man of great natural energy of character. He was
calm and quiet, had great reserve force and yet beneath it all there
was an immense power of vital energy. He was tender and
affectionate, in his family a loving husband, a devoted father, a
genial and reliable friend whom to know was to respect. His life is
the example of a self-made man.
ALBERT BATCHELLER WELLS
ALBERT
BATCHELLER WELLS was born at Southbridge, Massachusetts, November
19, 1872. He is a descendant of the ancient Lincolnshire family of
De Wells and his earliest Pilgrim ancestor, Thomas Wells, came to
this country in 1636 from Colchester, England. His
great-great-grandfather Wells served in the Revolutionary War and
his great-grandfather, according to family tradition, was a captain
in the Continental Army. His grandfather, John Ward Wells, died in
his seventy-eighth year, about a fortnight before the grandson was
born. His father, George W. Wells, who was born April 15, 1846, and
who died September 30, 1912, was engaged in manufacturing and had
achieved great success as president of the American Optical Company,
his special characteristics having been executive ability and skill
in organization. His mother was Mary E., the daughter of John and
Emily E. (Mason) McGregory, and her influence was very decided in
forming his character. On his father's side he was connected with
the distinguished Cheney family. He was sent to the Rutgers College
Preparatory School and after a year and a half at Rutgers College he
removed to Harvard where he spent an equally brief period, not
remaining to take his degree. He had been early taught to perform
certain home tasks, though these in no way interfered with his
school duties, which he has always regarded as the principal
formative influences of his life. When he left college it was to
enter the establishment of which his father was president and
treasurer. Satisfied to commence at the lowest round, he took his
place as bench hand in the lens-grinding plant of the American
Optical Company, October 1, 1891, just prior to his nineteenth
birthday. This experience leads him to declare that "Young America
should learn early that to be a success work is necessary and that
in no other way can genuine success be attained."
This success
has come to him in abundant measure. He has found stimulus and
pleasure in meeting with his fellow men.
In religious affiliation
he is a Baptist and in politics a life-long Republican.
Although
deeply interested in the affairs and problems of his home town, he
has never aspired to political office nor connected himself in any
way prominently with local partisan politics.
It is particularly
significant that in co-operation with his two brothers, Channing M.
and J. Cheney Wells, he has led a pioneer movement in the East for
conservation and re-forestration. His work has been practically
commenced by the planting of over three thousand acres with more
than a million pine trees, for the benefit of generations to come.
He has also been particularly active in the development of apple
culture in Massachusetts, having made a special study of this
subject which has already been productive of substantial results and
unusually successful.
Mr. Wells' work has always been
significantly marked by his progressiveness in large affairs. As
treasurer of the American Optical Company he has been instrumental
in the rebuilding of their entire plant, having seventeen acres of
floor area, within a period of ten years. The present plant for
which Mr. Wells is largely responsible, is considered one of the
most thoroughly up-to-date and efficient industrial properties in
New England and stands in the forefront among the great commercial
enterprises of the nation.
Other local enterprises in Southbridge
besides the American Optical Company enjoy the benefit of his
counsel and influence He is president and a director in the
Southbridge National Bank, a director in the Southbridge Water
Supply Company, the Central Mills Company and the Peoples' National
Bank of Marlboro.
In April, 1900, he was married to Ethel,
daughter of a prominent architect, the late Daniel H. and Margaret
(Sherman) Burnham, and he has one son, George Burnham Wells. His
home is in Southbridge.
JOSEPH
CUTLER WHITNEY
The career of Joseph Cutler Whitney of Boston
exemplifies certain traits which are of interest and value as
factors in the development of American life. To relate the college
man to business life without destroying the college spirit or the
conditions of business success has seemed difficult and the effort
has been very generally discouraged. And yet there has been no more
desirable consummation than to bring about in a rational way this
union of the academic and the practical.
In the story of the life
of Mr. Whitney it appears that he at least was able to win success
in the business world without loosing his hold upon the comradeship
of his classmates or shutting himself out of the fruitful fields of
intellectual refreshment.
That he achieved, lends zest to the
story of his life, which began in Boston, December 7, 1856, and was
continued within the limits of Greater Boston until his death, July
18, 1911.
If we would trace to the beginnings the characteristics
of Mr. Whitney we shall find their sources reaching back through a
New England and English ancestry honorable and strong. Fifteen years
after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the English family of
Whitney settled in Watertown, having come from London. Joined with
this family name by marriage were others equally distinguished in
the formative period of Massachusetts, such as Pratt and Bordman.
His father, Henry Austin Whitney, was born October 6, 1826, and was
married to Mary Francis Lawrence. He was a man of business standing
in the community, being president of the Suffolk National Bank and
president of the Boston and Providence Railroad. But he was more
than a business man; he was a lover of books and became a collector,
especially of the works of Milton and those pertaining to the great
writer. He was also a student of genealogy.
It is but natural,
therefore, that the son should have combined the tastes of the
scholar and the practical man, and it is found that the training of
the best schools did not separate the mind of Joseph Cutler Whitney
from real life, but rather so enriched his whole nature that he was
enabled to beautify the commonplace with the resources of the
furnished mind. He was educated at Dixwell's and Hopkinson's private
preparatory schools, and in 1878 graduated from Harvard College with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was the secretary of his class,
and in 1903 his class presented him with a loving cup in
appreciation of his efficient services.
While one of his
strongest traits was love of home, he did not neglect the public
duties of the citizen. He was the chairman of the Republican Town
Committee of Milton, and served as Selectman, Overseer of the Poor,
Surveyor of Highways, and Trustee of the Public Library for
twenty-three years. He was a member of the Institute, A. D. and
Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard College, the Boston Exchange Club,
Tennis and Racquet and Country Clubs. For his recreation he turned
to the open, and found in practical farming and in golf a keen
satisfaction.
In religious faith he was a Unitarian, connected
with the historic King's Chapel, where his funeral services were
conducted.
He was married, November 9, 1882, to Georgiana,
daughter of George and Annie (Upton) Hayward and granddaughter of
Charles and Elinor (Dorr) Hayward and of George and Ann (Hussey)
Upton and a descendant of William and Margery (Thayer), who came
from England to Braintree in 1640. Three sons were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Whitney: Henry Lawrence, graduate of Harvard, 1910; George
Hayward, in Harvard University, and Robert Upton, in Noble and
Greenough's Preparatory School (1912).
In the earnest and active
life of Mr. Whitney there is disclosed a type of the true American:
in self-respect commanding respect; utilizing all his advantages to
his own strengthening, that he might the better serve the age in
which he lived, his is a life which becomes an inspiration to and an
example of American manhood. Speaking of Mr. Whitney, his classmate
Mr. Henry Wheeler said:
"He was decided in his opinions, and so
honest, frank and fearless in expressing them that his friends and
acquaintances never had any doubts where he stood on any question.
These qualities, together with his keen personal interest in the
welfare of those about him, won for him the love and respect of his
associates. He was especially devoted to the members of his college
class. He followed their lives with attention, was beloved by them
all, and his loss has been deeply felt at the class reunions that
have taken place since his death."
ALBERT LAFAYETTE WILBUR
ALBERT
LAFAYETTE WILBUR was born May 1, 1847, in the river town of
Westmoreland, New Hampshire, the son of George Seaman Wilbur and
Lucy Maria ( Checkering) Wilbur. His grandfather, Eliphalet Wilbur,
was born in Raynham, Massachusetts, March 20, 1785, and died in
1841, in Keene, New Hampshire. His grandparents on the maternal side
were Alvin and Abigail (Sylvester) Chickering. The Chickering
ancestors came early from England to this country. The progenitor of
the Wilbur family was Samuel Wildbore, as he then spelled the name,
who emigrated from England and came to Boston in 1633. His wife, Ann
Bradford, daughter of Thomas Bradford, came from Doncaster in
Yorkshire, the neighborhood from which Samuel himself came. They
settled in Raynham, Massachusetts. Samuel Wildbore was a man of
considerable wealth for those days, who built and put in operation
the first Iron Foundry established in New England, which proved of
great advantage to the settlers in his vicinity. He was made freeman
in Boston in 1633 and with his wife Ann, was admitted to the church
in December of the same year.
The father of Albert L. Wilbur was
born in March, 1818, and died in October, 1878. His occupation was
that of a shoemaker. He was noted in his community as a man of honor
and industry. His mother was a woman of strong character who exerted
an influence for good on her son's life.
Albert L. Wilbur began
early to form the commendable habit of reading useful literature and
by this means gathered valuable knowledge for future use. He
attended the common schools of his town and finished his education
at the Randolph High School.
Mr. Wilbur began as an office boy
with E. S. Conant in Boston, where he had an opportunity to learn
something of business methods, and of the ways of the financial
world. Later he became a commercial traveler for the firm of C. W.
White & Company of Boston. Success in this venture paved the way
in rapid succession for the attainment of higher and more profitable
positions.
He is President of Wilbur Theatre Company ; Treasurer
Wilbur Shubert Theatrical Company ; President of the Maumee
Theatrical Company; Vice-president of the United States Amusement
Company; Director of the Brooklyn Majestic Company, Bijou Theatre
Company, Pittsburgh, and National Amusement Company. These
institutions owe much to his counsel and advice.
HENRY AUGUSTUS WILLIS
HENRY AUGUSTUS
WILLIS, for over three score years identified with the banking
interests of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born November 26,
1830.
George Willis, his emigrant ancestor was born in England in
1602 and came to America and settled in New Towne (Cambridge) in
1626.
The Willis family were largely represented among the early
settlers of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colonies.
George
Willis was an extensive landholder in Cambridge, Brookline,
Billerica and vicinity. His homestead in Cambridge being on the West
side of the Common, not far from the site of the old elm tree
afterwards known as the Washington Elm, where General George
Washington assumed command of the Continental Army. George Willis
was a representative to the General Court in 1638 and died in 1690
at the age of eighty-eight.
Roger Willis, son of George Willis,
was born in Cambridge in 1640. He was one of the pioneers of Sudbury
and settled in the northwest part of the town and west of Willis
pond and Willis Hill. His descendants have been very numerous in
that locality. Samuel Willis, second child of Roger Willis was born
in Sudbury in 1675. He was a farmer and died in Sudbury in
1758.
Joseph Willis, son of Samuel Willis was born in Sudbury in
1712. He served as a soldier in the Colonial forces against the
French and Indians in the Second Regiment of Foot. Hopestill Willis,
son of Joseph and Thankful Willis, born in Sudbury in 1747, was a
soldier of the Revolution, a Minute Man in Captain Nixon's Company
which marched from Sudbury to Concord April 19, 1775, and pursued
the British retreating from the Old North Bridge. He also served as
Lieutenant in Captain Wheeler's Company, Colonel Reed's Regiment, in
the Saratoga campaign.
Samuel Willis, youngest son of Hopestill
and Olive (Smith) Willis, was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, June
20, 1792. When a young man he left his native town and learned the
business of Woolen Manufacture. In 1822 Samuel Willis removed to
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and with Abial J. Towne purchased the
brick cotton mill in the then center of the village of Fitchburg,
and founded the Fitchburg Woolen Mill.
Samuel Willis was a
successful business man and active force in the public affairs of
the growing town of Fitchburg. He held several town offices and was
Representative to the General Court in 1838, just 200 years after
his emigrant ancestor George Willis was Representative from
Cambridge. Samuel Willis was an earnest advocate of the introduction
of railroads and gave his hearty support to the efforts of Alvah
Crocker to connect Fitchburg with Boston, but he did not live to see
the realization of his hopes in the opening of the Fitchburg
railroad. He died in 1843 at the early age of fifty-one
years.
Henry Augustus Willis, son of Samuel and Cynthia Meriam
Willis, was at the early age of twelve left without his natural
protector, but he had the great advantage of the advice and counsel
of an unusually strong and forceful mother, who directed the
building up of his intellectual life and of his moral and sterling
character. His boyhood home was in the house, standing on land now
covered by the Fitchburg Savings Bank Building. He attended the
public schools of his native town, supplemented by terms at the
Fitchburg Academy and the Lawrence Academy at Groton, Massachusetts,
where he prepared for active commercial life. After spending a year
on a farm for the development of an already strong constitution, in
1852 he entered the Rollstone Bank in Fitchburg as a clerk and
commenced a connection of active service with that institution which
was to cover a period of fifty-four years.
The history of the
Rollstone Bank and Rollstone National Bank, to which Mr. Willis gave
so many of the best years of his life, is the record of honorable
dealings and good financial management. The bank started business
November 24, 1849, in a stone building on the present site of the
Rollstone building with Moses Wood as President and Lewis H.
Bradford, Cashier. Mr. Bradford resigned in 1856 and was succeeded
by William B. Wood who held the office for fifteen months and was
succeeded by Henry A. Willis as Cashier.
After a very successful
career of sixteen years it completed its first period, by becoming a
National Bank on the 8th of March, 1865, with Moses Wood as
President and Henry A. Willis as Cashier. Mr. Wood died in 1869 and
was succeeded by Alvah Crocker, as President. Mr. Crocker resigned
in 1873 and was succeeded by Henry A. Willis. In 1904 a change in
the law governing savings banks required the severance of all
connection between National Banks, and Savings Banks. Mr. Willis
desired to retain the treasurership of the Worcester North Savings
Institution. He resigned the presidency of the National Bank in
January, 1904, having served actively in that office for thirty-one
years. He remained one of the directors, being elected chairman of
the board, and retained the office until the liquidation of the
National Bank in 1906 and its re-organization as the Fitchburg Safe
Deposit and Trust Company - of which Mr. Willis was elected
chairman, of the Board of Directors.
The Worcester North Savings
Institution of Fitchburg was established June 13, 1868. Henry A.
Willis was elected its first treasurer and retained that office
until January, 1912, when he resigned to accept the presidency of
the institution which office he now holds.
In the Civil War Mr.
Willis served in the Fifty-third Regiment of Massachusetts
Volunteers, which was largely recruited from Fitchburg and the
neighboring towns in August and September, 1862. Mr. Willis was on
the relief committee of the town of Fitchburg for the soldiers in
1861 and is the last surviving member of the committee appointed in
1866 to erect the soldiers' monument. After the Civil War, Mr.
Willis served in the State Militia on the staff of General R. E.
Chamberlain with the rank of Captain.
Mr. Willis was elected a
representative to the Legislature in 1866. He has been a Justice of
the Peace from 1861 to the present time. In 1873, upon the
organization of the City Government of Fitchburg he was elected the
first president of the Common Council. In 1874 he was elected City
Treasurer and served for seventeen years. In 1891 and for several
years he was Vice-president of the Fitchburg Board of Trade.
He
is a member of E. V. Sumner, Post 19 Grand Army of the Republic.
Member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Companion of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion and a member of the Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution. In 1863 Mr. Willis was appointed a member
of the Board of Trustees of the Fitchburg Public Library and in 1892
was elected Chairman of the board. The annual report for the
Trustees to the City Government for the year ending November 30,
1912, contains the following: -
"'The President of this board
this fall completes a half century of continuous service as a
trustee of this library. It is a conspicuous service for any man to
render, either in single or joint capacities in the community of his
residence. Apart from any reference to its value and scope, which
would be hard to define, it is less important to note the fact
alone, than to refer to it, because of its value as an inspiration
to citizens of public spirit, to give disinterested service in such
ways as each best may. Mr. Willis has been not only a worker for the
library as a trustee and director of its destinies and advancing its
many utilities, but he has also been a discriminating benefactor to
the institution in ways that have been from time to time duly
acknowledged." He has been a generous
contributor to the Art
treasures of the library and the prosperity and growth of the
library has been very near to his heart.
The Fitchburg and
Leominster Street Railway was incorporated in 1886 and Henry A.
Willis was elected its first president and served from 1886 to 1909.
He was one of the original Board of Trustees of the Burbank Hospital
from 1890. In 1912 Mr. Willis who had served continuously as
treasurer from the incorporation declined reelection. The records of
the board record a rising vote of thanks expressing "the deep
appreciation felt by the board of trustees for the long and faithful
service rendered by Mr. Willis as treasurer of the hospital, given
often to the detriment of his private interests, but always
willingly and to the great advantage of the hospital."
Mr. Willis
was a charter member of the Fay Club, serving as Vice-president in
1881 and 1882 and as president in 1886. He was one of the organizers
of the Fitchburg Historical Society in 1892 and its first President,
holding the office for ten years, and has since remained a member of
the executive committee. He has shown an active interest at all
times in the work of the Society, and his generous liberality in a
large measure made possible the fine library building erected by the
society in 1911.
In the midst of a life full of activities, Mr.
Willis has yet found time for much valuable literary work. He is the
author of "Fitchburg in the War of the Rebellion," (1866) and the
"History of the 53d Massachusetts Regiment," (1889) and several
interesting papers published in the volumes of the Fitchburg
Historical Society. "The Early Days of Railroads in Fitchburg"
(1892), "The Division of the Worcester County" (1897), "The Birth of
Fitchburg; its First Settlers and Their Homes with Map;" (1897).
This detailed history of every family living within the town limits
at the time of its incorporation in 1764, with the accompanying map,
prepared under Mr. Willis' direction showing the exact location of
every homestead of the scattered little colony, which started the
new town, is a valuable addition to our historical literature and
shows a great amount of painstaking study and research. The original
map now hanging on the walls of the Fitchburg Historical Society
Library is one of the great points of interest to the
visitors.
In August, 1868, the Atlantic Monthly contained an
interesting article from the pen of Henry A. Willis entitled "A
Remarkable Case of Physical Phenomena," detailing certain strange
and unexplained occurrences, happening to Fitchburg at that time. He
has also contributed many timely and interesting articles on local
affairs to the local press. His acquaintance with prominent men has
been very extensive and his mind a treasure house of accurate and
reliable information of men and events which have come within his
observation.
For so many years, one of the financial leaders in a
large manufacturing center, his advice and judgment have been much
referred to. He has been connected with many enterprises for the
development and growth of his native town and has given freely his
efforts, influence and financial assistance in diversifying and
enlarging its industries. For several years Mr. Willis was treasurer
of the Burleigh Rock Drill Company of Fitchburg. The invention of
this first successful power drill by Fitchburg enterprise made
possible the completion of the Hoosac Tunnel. Hon. George S.
Boutwell in his reminiscences says of this invention: - "The
downfall of silver has not been due to any legislation in America or
Europe, nor to any decree or despotic power in Asia, but to the
inventive faculties of one Charles Burleigh of Fitchburg,
Massachusetts, the inventor of the power drill. It is to him the
world is indebted for a new application of force, by which mountains
are penetrated and mining in all its forms is carried on at
one-fourth of its former cost."
Mr. Willis never married but from
the age of twenty-one he has maintained a comfortable home for
himself, his widowed mother and other members of the family.
Possessed of a competence, he has liberally contributed to public
and private charities. Without ostentation he has assisted many a
young man ambitious to obtain an education and given a helping hand
in many cases known only to himself and the recipient.
He enjoys
travel and has crossed the Atlantic five trips abroad for the
purpose of study, rest and recreation.
In view of the long
business experience of Mr. Willis, the following lines written by
him expressly for the readers of this work are worthy of the
thoughtful consideration of all young people.
"First, Good habits
and regular living with proper companionship; second, reading and
study, not only during school hours and college days, but continuous
throughout life; third, decide upon your vocation before twenty
years of age; fourth, early interest and participation in public
affairs; fifth, keep out of speculation and live strictly within
your means; devote your entire energies to your legitimate business
or profession, and always strive to be the courteous gentleman,
intensely loyal to your friends, your home, and your country. Be a
manly man."
SAMUEL HOBART
WINKLEY
REVEREND SAMUEL HOBART WINKLEY was born in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 5, 1819, and died in Dublin in the
same state, August l, 1911.
His father, John (born August 11,
1789; died September 28, 1826), was the son of Francis and Martha
(Brown) Winkley. He followed the sea for many years and commanded
the privateer "Fox" 1812-1814, and was actively engaged in the war
of that period.
His mother, Jane Stevens (Hobart) Winkley (born
August 31, 1787; died December 6, 1877), was the daughter of Colonel
Samuel Bradstreet and Mary (Hill) Hobart. She was the granddaughter
of Samuel Hobart, of Exeter, New Hampshire, a man eminent for his
patriotism and statesmanship no less than for his admirable military
career.
The American ancestor, Samuel Winkley, of Winkley Hall,
Lancashire, England, landed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 9,
1680. He had been a Justice of the Peace in England. His vessel, the
sloop "Sarah and Hannah," was impressed in 1707 to convey troops to
Port Royal. Captain Winkley was a shipbuilder and merchant. A tract
of land, of one hundred acres, in Berwick, Maine, was given to him
for gallant conduct in rescuing white prisoners from the Indians at
Lake Winnepesaukee.
His son, Captain Francis Winkley, was
aid-de-camp to Sir William Pepperell at the capture of Louisburg,
June 17, 1745. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Hobart Winkley was a
very active and vigorous boy and became interested in religion as
early as when eight years of age. He was also early of a very
philanthropic disposition. For a number of years he was faithful to
all the means of grace in the church of his fathers, the North
Congregational Church in his native town. He earnestly sought by
them the experience of conversion, then specially emphasized, and
which he was taught to believe was instantaneous or certainly
conscious. At a revival, when fourteen years of age, he made up his
mind that another form of conversion or religious experience was
necessary to him. He decided, therefore, to dedicate himself to the
worship and service of God, and presenting himself to the Church,
was admitted.
At the age of fifteen he entered upon a business
career, to which he expected to devote his life. He came to Boston
as a clerk in a retail drygoods store, and afterwards was a salesman
in a wholesale house. While in this employ a few years were spent in
Providence, Rhode Island, and Portland, Maine.
On returning to
Boston, he was employed in another store of similar character, until
at twenty-one years of age this firm set him up in business for
himself in Providence, Rhode Island. He claimed that to this
business career he owed very much.
When about nineteen years of
age, his theological views greatly changed, and although he did not
immediately leave the church of which he was a member, he became
greatly interested in Unitarian ideas, and especially in the
religious and philanthropic work which this church was carrying on
in Boston and other cities for people without church connections or
needing friendly aid. This was known as a "Ministry at Large," and
it so interested this young business man that he resolved to fit
himself for it.
Accordingly, he entered the Harvard Divinity
School at Cambridge, from which he was graduated in 1846. He
immediately accepted a call to Pitts Street Chapel, Boston, one of
the Ministry at Large Chapels under the supervision of the
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in that city, and thenceforward
devoted his life with unswerving fidelity to this work. In 1865 he
received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard
University.
After laboring twenty-four years at this Chapel,
changes in the neighborhood made it expedient to move to a new
locality, and forty thousand dollars was raised by Mr. Winkley for
this purpose. This was sufficient, added to the proceeds of the sale
of the Pitts Street property, to purchase land and erect the Chapel
in Bulfinch Place, to which the work was transferred in January,
1870. Here Mr. Winkley continued as the active minister until 1896,
rounding out fifty years of service. He then resigned, and for
fifteen years continued to perform as pastor emeritus such services
as his strength would allow. Thus his ministry covered sixty-five
years.
His message to everyone, rich or poor, learned or
ignorant, was the same, the gospel message of Faith and Hope and
Love. It was his delight to minister, both as preacher and pastor,
but above all as friend, and to lead his people to a happier and a
higher life. In this his success was far beyond that of most
ministers. Few have been so loved. He was called "Bishop of all
souls." Upon a tablet erected in his memory are these words: "Little
children came to him as to a father and he taught them. The Spirit
of Christ abode in him and was a well-spring of joy. A multitude
whom no man can number arise and call him blessed."
His interest
in the religious training of the young led him to write many Sunday
School Question Books, which had a wide use. He was a member of the
Boston School Committee for a number of years in the sixties and
seventies. He was a loyal citizen, and a Republican in politics at
the time of the Civil War. Governor Andrew advised him not to enlist
as he could do more for the cause at home.
He had a keen sense of
humor and was full of good cheer. He enjoyed life and found great
pleasure in taking long walks and climbing mountains, as well as in
riding and driving. His ideal was "to treat self well, to care for
others as for other selves, and to sustain right relations to God."
This was the higher life. His thought of a practical religion was
expressed as follows:
"The man who is a child of God, who is
interested in Him, does not forget it behind the counter, in his
business, or anywhere else. Jesus would be Jesus no matter what he
was doing or where he was. When he was a carpenter, he was one of
the best of carpenters you could ask for. When he was with the
people he was one of their brethren."
He was a member, and for
many years chaplain, of St. John's Lodge of Masons; a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution; of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science; of the American Unitarian Association
and of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union.
He married first,
November 3, 1840, Clarinda, daughter of David and Betsey (Richmond)
Andrews, and second, August 13, 1849, Martha Wellington, daughter of
William and Martha (Wellington) Parker. Seven children were born to
him, of whom there remain Frank Hobart Winkley, Martha Parker Suter
and Hobart William Winkley.
WILLIAM ELLIS WOOD
WILLIAM ELLIS WOOD
was born in what is now Arlington, and was then West Cambridge,
Massachusetts, January 27, 1852.
Josiah Wood, 1st, who was born
in England in 1629, came to New England in 1650, a stalwart young
man, just of age, and full of the nerve and resolution that were
needed in conquering the new and rugged country of his adoption.
This young man settled in Charlestown, immediately identifying
himself with the church that was first organized under the Puritan
form, and buying the common's right of the new town. He was one of
the early settlers of this new-made foundation, which was only the
same age as himself, having been organized, and the Indian name
"Mishawun" changed to Charlestown, in 1629. This rugged pioneer
gained property, became a landed proprietor, and married Lydia Bacon
on October 28, 1657. She became a congenial worker with him in
family and church, which she joined June 29, 1662. They had three
sons, the eldest of whom, born in the August after his mother's
admission to the church, came in the line of this succession. The
mother died November 25, 1712, aged seventy-four years, and was
buried in Charlestown, where her gravestone still stands.
This
son, Josiah Wood, 2nd, was born in Charlestown in July, 1662, grew
up in his native town and became an active citizen, - identified
with every local interest. The record of this family has been kept
with singular accuracy and with close attention to details. This
Josiah Wood married on December 13, 1686, Abigail Bacon of
Billerica, when she was twenty years of age, - her father having
deeded to his son-in-law all his property in real estate, specifying
his mansion in Woburn. On his marriage, Mr. Wood moved to his new
property and became a citizen of Woburn. There he died, March 9,
1740, his wife following him three years later. To them was born a
son, named for his father, Josiah, 3rd, August 31, 1687, who lived
in Woburn, married Ruth Peabody of his native town, and there he
died, January 4, 1753, his wife having died the year
before.
Solomon Wood was their son, born in Woburn, February 23,
1722. He was a manufacturer and a man of substance. He married
Martha, daughter of Seth Johnson. Their son, Edward Wood, was born
May 10, 1756, at Woburn, and grew up to absorb the spirit of liberty
and patriotism. He early enlisted as a private in the Continental
army, serving in 1775, 1777 and 1780, and was made a Revolutionary
Pensioner in 1820. He married twice, but the son who was in the line
of our story was Leonard Wood, born in 1796 of the first wife, who
was Ann Skilton, and who was married March 7, 1782.
William
Thorning, father of the grandmother of William ?. Wood, Mary
(Thorning) Wood, was in the first skirmishes with the British on
their retreat from Concord, April 19, 1775; Hezekiah Wyman, of
"White Horse" Revolutionary fame, connected with Mr. Wood's mother's
line; and his grandfather, Ellis Gray Blake, father of Sophia
(Blake) Wood, who was a member of the Boston City Guards many years
previous to 1828, and who was connected with the early newspapers of
Boston and later with the Boston Journal. Many of the relatives
descended from the old family lines of Wood, Blake, Wyman, Thorning
and Crosby have filled most honorable positions in political and
business life.
Leonard Wood married, September 10, 1823, Mary
Thorning, and their oldest son was William Thorning Wood, the father
of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Burlington,
Massachusetts, June 20, 1824, but was taken to Lexington when very
young and was reared and educated in the common school of that town,
his parents residing on the Thorning farm. In 1841 he was
apprenticed to Abner P. Wyman of West Cambridge, now Arlington, son
of Samuel Wyman, who was a manufacturer of tools for the harvesting
of ice, and the young man bought Mr. Wyman's business in 1845. With
the aid of his younger brother Cyrus, who was for a while his
partner, and in spite of fire and other deterrents, built up a large
business in his line.
William T. Wood combined with his business
both vocal and instrumental music, playing the violin and piano, and
rendering musical service in both church and Sunday School. He was
long leader of the choir of the Arlington Baptist Church, of which
he was both member and acting deacon. He held the office of Clerk of
the Baptist Society for many years, and was in both the music and
standing committees. He married, October 17, 1850, Sophia Matilda
Blake.
William Ellis Wood was their oldest son, and inherited
from his parents their religious tendencies and high moral
standards, and from his father an intense love for music. Playing
the piano and violin at eight years of age under the instruction of
his father, he specialized in 1867 for a while on the piano and
organ under the best teachers of Boston, -Howard, Tracy and Whitney,
-and in harmony and composition with Professor Baker. He was a
member of the Handel & Haydn Society, with the tenor voices,
from 1868 to 1872. For the chorus of the Boston Peace Jubilees of
1869 and of 1872 he was pianist for the rehearsals of the Arlington
Section, Prof. S. P. Prentiss being the local conductor. During his
early youth he sang alto and tenor in the Arlington Baptist Church
Choir; and in May, 1868, when sixteen years of age, he became
organist at the Arlington Orthodox Congregational Church, and was
appointed director the following year. He has been organist and
director at the First Baptist Church of Arlington since 1868, which
position he still holds.
After his father's death in 1871, the
young man of nineteen years assumed the business of manufacture with
his Uncle Cyrus, and a new era was introduced. The firm struck out,
and by correspondence, personal solicitation, and extensive travel
through the United States and Canada, established agencies for the
sale of ice-tools, and even across the ocean built up a large and
profitable trade.
After a partnership with his uncle for
twenty-five years (Cyrus Wood died in 1896), the relationship was
continued with the letter's son, William B. Wood. In 1905, with a
business then employing 100 men, the firm was consolidated with the
Hudson, New York, firm of Gifford Brothers, manufacturers of
ice-handling machinery. Thus the tools for cutting and the machinery
for housing ice were brought together; and to the Arlington,
Massachusetts, tool manufactory was added the machinery factory of
Hudson, New York, when the new firm of Gifford-Wood Company was
established, of which Mr. William E. Wood was made President. In
1911, new and larger buildings were erected at Hudson, New York, for
the manufacture of all branches of the business at one
location.
Mr. Wood followed his father in earnest work for the
Baptist Church and Sunday School, in which he succeeded to the.
offices held by his father. He was Superintendent of the Sunday
School in 1872 and at later periods, and was made life Deacon of the
Church in 1885. His work in public life has been earnest and
unselfish. He gave recognized assistance in 1884 and 1885 to the
Monument Committee by raising the final $6000 required for the
soldiers' monument in his native town of Arlington. He is Trustee of
the Pratt School Fund; Trustee of the Eldridge Farmer, Robbins'
Library Memorial Fund, and several kindred Funds; and was a member
of the School Committee of Arlington, 1882-1888. He was President of
the Massachusetts Ice Dealers' Association the year of 1909-10, and
belongs to Ice Dealers', Producers' and Manufacturers' Associations
in many States. He is also a member of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce. He still holds, in the vigor of middle age, the love of
all who are brought into contact with him.
Mr. Wood was married,
May 7, 1874, to Susan Tileston Freeman, daughter of John Doane and
Elizabeth (Brown) Freeman. She was born at North Bridgton, Maine,
January 23, 1851; and there have been born to them nine children,
seven of whom are living, five of them married, to each of whom
children have been born.
The seven living children are as
follows: - John Freeman Wood, twin, born 1876, Harvard, 1898,
married Louise Jacobus, 1906 ; William Thorning Wood, twin, born
1876, Cambridge Manual Training School, 1896, unmarried; Ellis Gray
Wood, born 1877, Massachusetts Institution of Technology, married
first Margaret True, 1904, second Ora Blair, 1910; Harold Blake
Wood, born 1879, Massachusetts Institution of Technology, married
Annabel Parker, 1903; Helen C. Wood, twin, born 1881, Vassar, 1904,
married Dunbar F. Carpenter, 1909; Annie W. Wood, twin, born 1881,
Vassar, 1904, married James Nowell, 1907 ; Oliver W. Wood, born
1892, Arlington High School, 1912, unmarried.
Throughout his
married life, which began when he was twenty-two years of age, he
has had the incalculable assistance of a most devoted wife,
possessed of unusual qualifications for bestowing upon her children
the blessings of judicious direction.
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